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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=IT link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=Default><span lang=EN-US>**<span class=apple-style-span>Apologies for cross-posting**</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=Default><b><span lang=EN-US>Workshop on Language Resources, Technology and Services in the Sharing Paradigm</span></b><span lang=EN-US> – November 12, 2011 at IJCNLP 2011 (Chiang Mai, Thailand) (</span><a href="http://www.flarenet.eu/?q=LRTS-Sharing_Workshop_at_IJCNLP2011"><span lang=EN-US>http://www.flarenet.eu/?q=LRTS-Sharing_Workshop_at_IJCNLP2011</span></a><span lang=EN-US>)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Call for Papers <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>**** DEADLINE EXTENSION : June 27, 2011 ****<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=Default style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US>Some of the current major initiatives in the area of language resources – FLaReNet (<a href="http://www.flarenet.eu/">http://www.flarenet.eu/</a>), Language Grid (<a href="http://langrid.nict.go.jp/en/index.html">http://langrid.nict.go.jp/en/index.html</a>) and META-SHARE (<a href="http://www.meta-share.org">www.meta-share.org</a>, <a href="http://www.meta-net.eu">www.meta-net.eu</a>) – have agreed to organize a joint workshop on infrastructural issues that are critical in the age of data sharing and open data, to discuss state of the art, international cooperation, future strategies and priorities, road-mapping. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Cooperation is an issue that needs to be prepared. This joint strategic Workshop plans to continue a discussion, started on several occasions in the last years, on the usefulness and the interest of promoting international cooperation among various initiatives and communities around the world, within and around the field of Language Resources and Technologies.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The Workshop aims at addressing (some of the) technological, market and policy challenges posed by the “sharing and openness paradigm”, the major role that language resources can play and the consequences of this paradigm on language resources themselves. Examples of topics and issues to be addressed are: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:.45pt;margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US>Sharing Language Resources and Language Technologies <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:.45pt;margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US>Need for global information on Language Resources and Language Technologies: relevant initiatives in the various regions/countries <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:.45pt;margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US>Interoperability and Reusability <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:.45pt;margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US>Linguistic web services and language applications development <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:.45pt;margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US>Metadata and Cataloguing <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:.45pt;margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US>Legal issues <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:.45pt;margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US>Infrastructures, policies, gaps and critical areas <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:.45pt;margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US>Common roadmap and strategies: local, regional, international frameworks <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span lang=EN-US>International cooperation, models for collaboration and agreements on joint initiatives <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=Default><b><i><span lang=EN-US>Submission Information<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=Default><b><i><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=Default style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US>Paper submissions to LRTS Sharing Workshop must follow and conform to the official IJCNLP 2011 Style guidelines (</span><a href="http://www.ijcnlp2011.org/ijcnlp2011/front/show/paper-submission"><span lang=EN-US>http://www.ijcnlp2011.org/ijcnlp2011/front/show/paper-submission</span></a><span lang=EN-US>) and they must be electronic, in PDF format.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default><span lang=EN-US>Submission site: </span><a href="https://www.softconf.com/ijcnlp2011/Flar-Lgrid-Meta/" target="_blank"><span lang=EN-US>https://www.softconf.com/ijcnlp2011/Flar-Lgrid-Meta/</span></a><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default><b><i><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=Default><b><i><span lang=EN-US>Important dates </span></i></b><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default><span lang=EN-US>Deadline for paper submissions June 27, 2011 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default><span lang=EN-US>Notification of paper acceptance July 29, 2011<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default><span lang=EN-US>Camera-ready copies due (firm) August 19, 2011<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default><b><i><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=Default><b><i>Workshop Chairs </i></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Nicoletta Calzolari (ILC-CNR, Pisa, Italy)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Toru Ishida (Kyoto University, Japan) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Stelios Piperidis (ILSP, Athens, Greece) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Virach Sornlertlamvanich (NECTEC, Thailand) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>