<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>============================================================</div><div><b>SECOND CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS </b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>THE LAW CHALLENGE</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>A Special Session of The 6th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (The LAW VI)</b></div><div>Held in conjunction with ACL 2012</div><div>July 12-13, 2012</div><div>Jeju, Republic of Korea </div><div><a href="http://faculty.washington.edu/fxia/LAWVI/challenge.html">http://faculty.washington.edu/fxia/LAWVI/challenge.html</a> </div><div><br></div><div><b>Winner's travel support provided by The US National Science Foundation (NSF) </b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Submission deadline : 18 March 2012</b></div><div>=============================================================</div><div> </div><div>LAW VI will include a special "challenge" session, sponsored by the US National Science </div><div>Foundation (IIS 0948101 Content of Linguistic Annotation: Standards and Practices (CLASP)) </div><div>and the ACL Special Interest Group on Annotation (ACL SIGANN). The goals of the challenge </div><div>are to promote the use and collaborative development of open, shared resources, and to </div><div>identify and promote best practices for annotation interoperability. </div><div> </div><div>Submissions to the session will be evaluated by members of the LAW program committee. </div><div>Based on their recommendations, one paper will receive an award of up to US $2500 to cover </div><div>the author's (or authors') travel expenses, including air fare, local ground transportation, </div><div>hotel for one or two nights, and workshop registration. All papers accepted for the session </div><div>will be presented and included in the LAW VI proceedings. </div><div><br></div><div>Evaluation criteria will include (but are not necessarily limited to) the following : </div><div><br></div><div>* innovative use of linguistic information from different annotation layers</div><div>* demonstrable interoperability with at least one other annotation scheme or format </div><div> developed by others</div><div>* quality of the annotated resource in terms of scheme design, documentation, tool support, etc.</div><div>* open availability of developed resources for community use</div><div>* usability and reusability of the annotation scheme or annotated resource</div><div>* outstanding contribution to the development of annotation best practices </div><div><br></div><div>We invite long paper submissions describing original, innovative projects involving linguistic </div><div>annotations that reflect the state-of-the-art in best practice for annotation development, </div><div>creation, and/or use. Papers must follow the deadlines and format for LAW submissions, described </div><div>at <a href="http://faculty.washington.edu/fxia/LAWVI">http://faculty.washington.edu/fxia/LAWVI</a>. Where possible, submissions should describe projects </div><div>that involve freely available, standard shared resources (e.g., MASC: <a href="http://www.anc.org/MASC/">http://www.anc.org/MASC/</a> </div><div>for English). If appropriate, submitters should also register their annotation categories with ISOCat </div><div>(<a href="http://www.isocat.org">http://www.isocat.org</a>) or make similar efforts to provide detailed information for such categories </div><div>that can be referenced by others. In the case of MASC, all new annotations or derived data should </div><div>be subsequently contributed for free use by the entire community.</div><div><b><span style="color: black; "><br></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: black; ">Important
dates</span></b></div><div>Submission deadline
: 18 March 2012</div><div>Acceptance Notification<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">: 15 April, 2012</span></div><div>Camera ready deadline : 30 April 2012</div>
<!--EndFragment--><div> </div><div>For more information about the goals of the NSF-sponsored CLASP workshop held in November 2009, </div><div>please see the CLASP workshop report at <a href="http://cims.nyu.edu/~meyers/SIGANN-wiki/wiki/index.php/File:FinalClasp.pdf">http://cims.nyu.edu/~meyers/SIGANN-wiki/wiki/index.php/File:FinalClasp.pdf</a></div></body></html>