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CALL FOR PAPER<br>
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Workshop on Web Services and Processing Pipelines in HLT: Tool
Evaluation, LR Production and Validation<br>
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To be held in conjunction with the 7th International Language Resources
and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2010)<br>
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17-18 May 2010, Mediterranean Conference Center, Valletta, Malta<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://workshops.elda.org/wspp2010/">http://workshops.elda.org/wspp2010/</a><br>
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<big><big><b>Extended deadline for submission: 7 March 2010</b></big></big><br>
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Workshop Description<br>
With the emergence of large e-infrastructures and the widespread
adoption of the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) paradigm, more and
more language technology is being made available through web services.
Extending such services to linguistic processing pipelines, tool
evaluation or LR production and validation involves considering both
the methodologies and technical aspects specific to the application
domains.<br>
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Distributed architectures such as web services allow communication and
data exchange between applications. They are a suitable instrument for
automatic, less often semi-automatic, tool evaluation as well as
resource production processes both for practical and conceptual
reasons. At a practical level, web services support quick results,
centralised data storage, remote access etc.; at a conceptual level,
they allow for the combination of more than one processing components
that may be located on different sites. Such processing pipelines are
set up to tackle a particular analysis task. To support these, new
techniques have to be developed that organise well-established
practices into workflows and support the exchange of data by standards
and open tool architectures.<br>
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The workshop focuses on current uses and best practices for the
deployment of web services and web interfaces in the HLT domain,
including processing pipelines, LR production and validation, and
evaluation of tools. It highlights relevant aspects for the integration
of linguistic or evaluation web services within infrastructures (e.g.
authorisation and authentication, service registries) and
infrastructural requirements (e.g. interface harmonisation, metadata
generation). The workshop also aims at demonstrating different
approaches on how to combine linguistic web services into a composite
web service.<br>
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The expected outcome of the workshop is a comparison of the practices
in architectures and processing pipelines that people build and
discussion of the issues involved. Topics of interest include, but are
not limited to:<br>
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Technical aspects: approaches, protocols, management of huge
amounts of data, data structures and formats, performance, manual
components (e.g. annotation or evaluation), composition and
configuration, interoperability, security, monitoring and recovery
strategies, standardisation of APIs, tools and frameworks supporting
HLT services deployment, architectures. <br>
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Scientific aspects: influence of web services on evaluation or
resource production, meta-evaluation / validation of architectures,
annotation agreements, needs for tools evaluation and resource
production, status of the data produced.<br>
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Commercial aspects: licensing, privacy, advertising, brokering,
business possibilities, challenges, exploitation of the resulting data.
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Chairing Committee<br>
Núria Bel (Institut Universitari de Lingüística Aplicada, Universitat
Pompeu Fabra, Spain)<br>
Olivier Hamon (Evaluations and Language resources Distribution Agency
(ELDA)<br>
Elke Teich (Technische Universität Darmstadt)<br>
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Organising Committee<br>
Peter Fankhauser (L3S Hannover, Germany)<br>
Maria Gavrilidou (Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Greece)<br>
Gerhard Heyer (Department of Natural Language Processing, University of
Leipzig, Germany)<br>
Zdravko Kacic (University of Maribor, Faculty of Electrical Engineering
and Computer Science, Slovenia)<br>
Mark Kemps-Snijders (MPI, the Netherlands)<br>
Andreas Witt (IDS Mannheim, Germany)<br>
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Programme Committee<br>
Sophia Ananiadou (School of Computer Science, University of Manchester,
England)<br>
Victoria Arranz (ELDA, France)<br>
Volker Boehlke (University of Leipzig, DE)<br>
Gaël de Chalendar (CEA, France)<br>
Key-Sun Choi (KAIST, Korea)<br>
Dan Cristea (University of Iasis, Romania)<br>
Thierry Declerck (DFKI, Germany)<br>
Christoph Draxler (LMU München, Germany)<br>
Nicola Ferro (University of Padua, Italy)<br>
Riccardo del Grata (ILC, Italy)<br>
Iryna Gurevych (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany)<br>
Yoshihiko Hayashi (Osaka University, Japan)<br>
Nicolas Hernandez (Université de Nantes, France)<br>
Radu Ion (Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Romanian
Academy, Romania)<br>
Yoshinobu Kano (University of Tokyo, Japan)<br>
Yohei Murakami (NICT, Japan)<br>
Jan Odijk (University of Utrecht, the Netherlands)<br>
Patrick Paroubek (LIMSI, France)<br>
Kay Peterson (NIST, U.S.A.)<br>
Maciej Piasecki (Instytut Informatyki Stosowanej, Poland)<br>
Mark Przybocki (NIST, U.S.A.)<br>
Matej Rojc (University of Maribor, Slovenia)<br>
Felix Sasaki (W3C / FH Potsdam, Germany)<br>
Junichi Tsujii (University of Tokyo, Japan)<br>
Dan Tufis (RACAI, Romania)<br>
Karin Verspoor (University of Colorado, U.S.A.)<br>
Graham Wilcock (University of Helsinki, Finland)<br>
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Important dates<br>
Extended deadline for submission: Sunday 7 March 2010<br>
Notification of acceptance: Tuesday 23 March 2010<br>
Final version due: Wednesday 31 March 2010<br>
Workshop : 17-18 May 2010<br>
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Submission Format<br>
Full papers up to 8 pages should be formatted according to LREC 2010
guidelines and be submitted through the online submission form
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.softconf.com/lrec2010/WebServices2010/">https://www.softconf.com/lrec2010/WebServices2010/</a>) on START. For
further queries, please contact Olivier Hamon at hamon_at_elda_dot_org.
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When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to
provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e.
also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been
used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your
research. For further information on this new initiative, please refer
to
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2010/?LREC2010-Map-of-Language-Resources">http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2010/?LREC2010-Map-of-Language-Resources</a>.<br>
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