<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco"> </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco"> SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco"> LREC Workshop </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco"> ***********************************************</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco"> Collaborative Resource Development and Delivery </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco"> ***********************************************</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco"> Lütfi Kirdar Istanbul Exhibition and Congress Centre</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco"> Istanbul, Turkey </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco"> May 27, 2012 </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco"> <a href="http://www.anc.org/Collaborative_Resource_Development">http://www.anc.org/Collaborative_Resource_Development</a></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">To answer the growing need and lower the costs of resource creation and enhancement, </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">there is a movement within the community toward collaborative resource development, </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">including collaborative corpus annotation and collective creation/enhancement of </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">lexical resources and knowledge bases. Collaborative development encompasses both</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">engaging the community in annotation and development of common resources, as</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">well as crowd-sourcing and similar solutions.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">This workshop seeks contributions in all dimensions of collaborative resource</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">development and delivery, with a specific focus on case studies and lessons</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">learned. We invite submissions that address but are not limited to the following</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">topics: </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco"> - Web services and platforms for collaborative resource development and</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco"> distribution; </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco"> - Crowd sourcing for resource development, including studies of efficacy; </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco"> - Strategies and issues for open resource distribution; </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco"> - Evaluation of collaboratively developed resources; </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco"> - Position papers outlining issues and proposing solutions for community-based </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco"> collaborative resource development and/or delivery.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">---------------</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">Special Session</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">---------------</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">The workshop will include a special session devoted to means and considerations</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">for community-based linguistic annotation, with a special emphasis on the</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">Manually Annotated Sub-Corpus (MASC) (<a href="http://www.anc.org/MASC">http://www.anc.org/MASC</a>). We invite</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">submissions to this session on the following topics: </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco"> - position papers concerning any aspect of collaborative resource development, </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco"> including means to get the community fully invested in such efforts; </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco"> - case studies describing collaborative development efforts, including assessment </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco"> of what works and what doesn't; </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco"> - results obtained using collaboratively developed resources; </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco"> - the role of standards and best practices in collaboratively developed resources </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco"> and contributed annotations.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">Special consideration will be given to contributions that have used MASC data in</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">a way that highlights the benefits of community-based annotation.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">----------------------</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">Submission Information</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">----------------------</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">Submissions may be long papers or short papers, following the formatting</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">guidelines for submissions to the main conference given at</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco"><a href="http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012/">http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012/</a>. All submissions should be made using the</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">START system at <a href="https://www.softconf.com/lrec2012/CollaborativeDev2012/">https://www.softconf.com/lrec2012/CollaborativeDev2012/</a>.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">Submitters will be asked to provide relevant information about resources used </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">for or resulting from the work described in their papers to the LRE Map </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">(<a href="http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2102/?LREMap">http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2102/?LREMap</a>) and to contribute to the </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">Language Library initiative.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">---------------</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">Important Dates</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">---------------</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">Submissions due: February 15, 2012 </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">Acceptance notification to authors: March 15, 2012</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">Camera ready due: April 1, 2012 </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">Workshop: May 27, 2012</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">-------------------</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">Workshop Organizers</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">------------------- </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">Collin Baker, ICSI/UC Berkeley, USA </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">Christiane Fellbaum, Princeton University, USA </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">Rebecca Passonneau, Columbia University, USA</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">CONTACT: <a href="mailto:collaboration-workshop@anc.org">collaboration-workshop@anc.org</a></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">-----------------</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">Program Committee</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">-----------------</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">Nicoletta Calzolari, ILC/CNR, Italy </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">Bob Carpenter, Alias I,Inc., USA</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">Chris Cieri, LDC, University of Pennsylvania, USA</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">Mona Diab, Columbia University, USA</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">Bill Dolan, Microsoft Corp., USA</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">Christiane Fellbaum, Princeton University, USA</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">Dan Flickinger, Stanford University, USA</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">Terry Langendoen, University of Arizona, USA</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">Rebecca Passonneau, Columbia University, USA</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">Massimo Poesio, University of Trento, Italy </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">Sameer Pradhan, BBN Technologies, USA</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University, USA</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">Owen Rambow, Columbia University, USA</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco">Manfred Stede, Universitat Potsdam, Germany</font></div><div><br></div></body></html>