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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Apologies for multiple postings<BR>Please
distribute to colleagues</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial> 5th WORKSHOP ON BUILDING AND USING
COMPARABLE CORPORA</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial> Language Resources for Machine
Translation<BR> in Less-Resourced Languages and Domains</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial> Co-located with LREC 2012<BR> Lütfi
Kirdar Istanbul Exhibition and Congress Centre<BR> Saturday, 26 May
2012</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial> DEADLINE FOR PAPERS: 15 February
2012</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial> <A
href="http://hnk.ffzg.hr/5bucc2012">http://hnk.ffzg.hr/5bucc2012</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial> Endorsed by<BR> * ACL SIGWAC
(Special Interest Group on Web as Corpus)<BR> * FLaReNet (Fostering
Language Resources Network)<BR> * META-NET (Multilingual Europe
Technology Alliance)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial> INVITED SESSION ON PROJECTS INVOLVING
COMPARABLE CORPORA:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial> * ACCURAT - Inguna Skadina (<A
href="http://www.accurat-project.eu/">http://www.accurat-project.eu/</A>)<BR>
* LetsMT! - Andrejs Vasiljevs (<A
href="https://www.letsmt.eu/">https://www.letsmt.eu/</A>)<BR> *
PANACEA - Nuría Bel (<A
href="http://panacea-lr.eu/">http://panacea-lr.eu/</A>)<BR> *
PRESEMT - Adam Kilgarriff (<A
href="http://www.presemt.eu/">http://www.presemt.eu/</A>)<BR> * TTC
- Béatrice Daille (<A
href="http://www.ttc-project.eu/">http://www.ttc-project.eu/</A>)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>MOTIVATION</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>In the language engineering and the linguistics
communities,<BR>research in comparable corpora has been motivated by two
main<BR>reasons. In language engineering, it is chiefly motivated by the<BR>need
to use comparable corpora as training data for statistical<BR>NLP applications
such as statistical machine translation or<BR>cross-lingual retrieval. In
linguistics, on the other hand,<BR>comparable corpora are of interest in
themselves by making<BR>possible inter-linguistic discoveries and comparisons.
It is<BR>generally accepted in both communities that comparable corpora<BR>are
documents in one or several languages that are comparable in<BR>content and form
in various degrees and dimensions. We believe<BR>that the linguistic definitions
and observations related to<BR>comparable corpora can improve methods to mine
such corpora for<BR>applications of statistical NLP. As such, it is of great
interest<BR>to bring together builders and users of such corpora.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>The scarcity of parallel corpora has motivated
research concerning<BR>the use of comparable corpora: pairs of monolingual
corpora selected<BR>according to the same set of criteria, but in different
languages<BR>or language varieties. Non-parallel yet comparable corpora
overcome<BR>the two limitations of parallel corpora, since sources for
original,<BR>monolingual texts are much more abundant than translated
texts.<BR>However, because of their nature, mining translations in
comparable<BR>corpora is much more challenging than in parallel corpora.
What<BR>constitutes a good comparable corpus, for a given task or per
se,<BR>also requires specific attention: while the definition of a
parallel<BR>corpus is fairly straightforward, building a non-parallel
corpus<BR>requires control over the selection of source texts in both
languages.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Parallel corpora are a key resource as training
data for statistical<BR>machine translation, and for building or extending
bilingual lexicons<BR>and terminologies. However, beyond a few language pairs
such as English-<BR>French or English-Chinese and a few contexts such as
parliamentary debates<BR>or legal texts, they remain a scarce resource, despite
the creation of<BR>automated methods to collect parallel corpora from the Web.
To exemplify<BR>such issues in a practical setting, this year's special focus
will be on</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial> Language Resources for Machine
Translation<BR> in Less-Resourced Languages and Domains</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>with the aim of overcoming the shortage of parallel
resources<BR>when building MT systems for less-resourced languages and
domains,<BR>particularly by usage of comparable corpora for finding parallel
data<BR>within and by reaching out for "hidden" parallel data. Lack of
sufficient<BR>language resources for many language pairs and domains is
currently one<BR>of the major obstacles in further advancement of machine
translation.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><BR>TOPICS</DIV>
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<DIV>We solicit contributions including but not limited to the following
topics:</DIV>
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<DIV>Topics related to the special theme:</DIV>
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<DIV>* comparable corpora use in MT<BR>* comparable corpora processing
tools/kits for MT<BR>* parallel corpora usage<BR>* parallel corpora processing
tools/platforms<BR>* MT for less-resourced languages<BR>* MT for less-resourced
domains<BR>* open source SMT systems (Moses, etc.)<BR>* publicly available
SMT</DIV>
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<DIV>Building Comparable Corpora:</DIV>
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<DIV> * Human translations<BR> * Automatic and semi-automatic
methods<BR> * Methods to mine parallel and non-parallel corpora from the
Web<BR> * Tools and criteria to evaluate the comparability of
corpora<BR> * Parallel vs non-parallel corpora, monolingual
corpora<BR> * Rare and minority languages<BR> * Across language
families<BR> * Multi-media/multi-modal comparable corpora</DIV>
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<DIV>Applications of comparable corpora:</DIV>
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<DIV> * Human translations<BR> * Language learning<BR> *
Cross-language information retrieval & document categorization<BR> *
Bilingual projections<BR> * Machine translation<BR> * Writing
assistance</DIV>
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<DIV>Mining from Comparable Corpora:</DIV>
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<DIV> * Extraction of parallel segments or paraphrases from
comparable<BR> corpora<BR> * Extraction of bilingual and
multilingual translations of single<BR> words and multi-word
expressions; proper names, named entities,<BR> etc.</DIV>
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<DIV><BR>IMPORTANT DATES (TENTATIVE)</DIV>
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<DIV> 15 February 2012 Deadline for submission of full
papers<BR> 10 March 2012 Notification
of acceptance<BR> 20 March 2012
Camera-ready papers due<BR> 26 May
2012 Workshop date</DIV>
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<DIV><BR>SUBMISSION INFORMATION</DIV>
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<DIV>Papers should follow the LREC main conference formatting details (to
be<BR>announced on the conference website <A
href="http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012/">http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012/</A>)<BR>and
should be submitted as a PDF-file of no more than ten pages via the<BR>START
workshop manager: <A
href="https://www.softconf.com/lrec2012/BUCC2012/">https://www.softconf.com/lrec2012/BUCC2012/</A><BR>Reviewing
will be double blind, so the papers should not reveal the<BR>authors' identity.
Accepted papers will be published in the workshop<BR>proceedings.</DIV>
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<DIV>Double submission policy: Parallel submission to other meetings
or<BR>publications are possible but must be immediately notified to
the<BR>workshop organizers.</DIV>
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<DIV>When submitting a paper through the START page, authors will be asked<BR>to
provide information about the resources that have been used for the
work<BR>described in their paper or are an outcome of their research. For
details on<BR>this initiative, please refer to <A
href="http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012/?LRE-Map-2012">http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012/?LRE-Map-2012</A>.<BR>Authors
will also be asked to contribute to the Language Library, the new<BR>initiative
of LREC 2012.</DIV>
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<DIV>For further information, please contact<BR> Reinhard Rapp
reinhardrapp (at) gmx (dot) de<BR> or Marko Tadic marko.tadic (at)
ffzg (dot) hr</DIV>
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<DIV><BR>ORGANISERS</DIV>
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<DIV> Reinhard Rapp, Universities of Mainz (Germany) and Leeds
(UK)<BR> Marko Tadic, University of Zagreb (Croatia)<BR> Serge
Sharoff, University of Leeds (UK)<BR> Andrejs Vasiljevs, Tilde SIA, Riga
(Latvia)<BR> Pierre Zweigenbaum, LIMSI, CNRS, Orsay, and ERTIM, INALCO,
Paris (France)</DIV>
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<DIV><BR>SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE</DIV>
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<DIV>* Srinivas Bangalore (AT&T Labs, USA)<BR>* Caroline Barrière (National
Research Council Canada)<BR>* Chris Biemann (Microsoft / Powerset, San
Francisco, USA)<BR>* Lynne Bowker (University of Ottawa, Canada)<BR>* Hervé
Déjean (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble, France)<BR>* Andreas Eisele
(DFKI, Saarbrücken, Germany)<BR>* Rob Gaizauskas (University of Sheffield,
UK)<BR>* Éric Gaussier (Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France)<BR>* Nikos
Glaros (ILSP, Athens, Greece)<BR>* Gregory Grefenstette (Exalead/Dassault
Systemes, Paris, France)<BR>* Silvia Hansen-Schirra (University of Mainz,
Germany)<BR>* Kyo Kageura (University of Tokyo, Japan)<BR>* Adam Kilgarriff
(Lexical Computing Ltd, UK)<BR>* Natalie Kübler (Université Paris Diderot,
France)<BR>* Philippe Langlais (Université de Montréal, Canada)<BR>* Tony
McEnery (Lancaster University, UK)<BR>* Emmanuel Morin (Université de Nantes,
France)<BR>* Dragos Stefan Munteanu (Language Weaver Inc., USA)<BR>* Lene
Offersgaard (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)<BR>* Reinhard Rapp (Universities
of Mainz, Germany, and Leeds, UK)<BR>* Sujith Ravi (Yahoo! Research, Santa
Clara, CA, USA)<BR>* Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds, UK)<BR>* Michel Simard
(National Research Council Canada)<BR>* Inguna Skadina (Tilde, Riga,
Latvia)<BR>* Monique Slodzian (INALCO, Paris, France)<BR>* Benjamin Tsou (The
Hong Kong Institute of Education, China)<BR>* Dan Tufis (Romanian Academy,
Bucharest, Romania)<BR>* Justin Washtell (University of Leeds, UK)<BR>* Oliver
Wilson (University of Edinburgh, UK)<BR>* Michael Zock (LIF, CNRS Marseille,
France)<BR>* Pierre Zweigenbaum (LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay,
France)<BR></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>