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<big><b>LREC 2014 - 9th Conference on Language Resources and
Evaluation</b><b><br>
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FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS<br>
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Harpa Conference Center, REYKJAVIK, ICELAND<br>
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MAIN CONFERENCE: 28-29-30 MAY 2014<br>
WORKSHOPS and TUTORIALS: 26-27-31 MAY 2014<br>
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Conference web site: http//www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2014<br>
Follow us on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/LREC2014"
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ELRA is glad to announce the 9th edition of LREC, organised with the
support of a wide range of international organisations.<br>
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<b>CONFERENCE AIMS</b><br>
LREC is the major event on Language Resources (LRs) and Evaluation
for Human Language Technologies (HLT). LREC aims to provide an
overview of the state-of-the-art, explore new R&D directions and
emerging trends, exchange information regarding LRs and their
applications, evaluation methodologies and tools, on-going and
planned activities, industrial uses and needs, requirements coming
from e-science and e-society, with respect both to policy issues and
to scientific/technological and organisational ones. <br>
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LREC provides a unique forum for researchers, industrials and
funding agencies from across a wide spectrum of areas to discuss
problems and opportunities, find new synergies and promote
initiatives for international cooperation, in support of
investigations in language sciences, progress in language
technologies (LT) and development of corresponding products,
services and applications, and standards.<br>
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<b>CONFERENCE TOPICS</b><br>
<b>Issues in the design, construction and use of LRs: text, speech,
multimodality</b><br>
* Guidelines, standards, best practices and models for LRs
interoperability <br>
* Methodologies and tools for LRs construction and annotation<br>
* Methodologies and tools for extraction and acquisition of
knowledge<br>
* Ontologies, terminology and knowledge representation<br>
* LRs and Semantic Web <br>
* LRs and Crowdsourcing<br>
* Metadata for LRs and semantic/content mark-up<br>
<b>Exploitation of LRs in systems and applications </b><br>
Sign language, multimedia information and multimodal communication <br>
LRs in systems and applications such as: information extraction,
information retrieval, audio-visual and multimedia search, speech
dictation, meeting transcription, Computer Aided Language Learning,
training and education, mobile communication, machine translation,
speech translation, summarisation, web services, semantic search,
text mining, inferencing, reasoning, etc.<br>
* Interfaces: (speech-based) dialogue systems, natural language and
multimodal/multisensorial interactions, voice-activated services,
etc.<br>
* Use of (multilingual) LRs in various fields of application like
e-government, e-culture, e-health, e-participation, mobile
applications, digital humanities, etc.<br>
* Industrial LRs requirements, user needs<br>
<b>Issues in LT evaluation</b><br>
* LT evaluation methodologies, protocols and measures <br>
* Validation and quality assurance of LRs<br>
* Benchmarking of systems and products<br>
* Usability evaluation of HLT-based user interfaces and dialogue
systems<br>
* User satisfaction evaluation<br>
<b>General issues regarding LRs & Evaluation</b><br>
International and national activities, projects and collaboration <br>
Priorities, perspectives, strategies in national and international
policies for LRs<br>
Multilingual issues, language coverage and diversity, less-resourced
languages<br>
Open, linked and shared data and tools, open and collaborative
architectures <br>
Organisational, economical, ethical and legal issues. <br>
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<b>LREC 2014 HOT TOPICS</b><br>
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<b>Big Data, Linked Open Data, LRs and HLT</b><br>
The ever-increasing quantities of large and complex digital
datasets, structured or unstructured, multilingual, multimodal or
multimedia, pose new challenges but at the same time open up new
opportunities for HLT and related fields. Ubiquitous data and
information capturing devices, social media and networks, the web at
large with its big data/knowledge bases and other information
capturing/aggregating/publishing platforms are providing useful
information and/or knowledge for a wide range of LT applications. <br>
LREC 2014 puts a strong emphasis on the synergies of the big Linked
Open Data and LRs/LT communities and their complementarity in
cracking LT problems and developing useful applications and
services.<br>
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<b>LRs in the Collaborative Age</b><br>
The amount of collaboratively generated and used language data is
constantly increasing and it is therefore time to open a wide
discussion on such LRs at LREC. There is a need to discuss the types
of LRs that can be collaboratively generated and used. <br>
Are lexicons, dictionaries, corpora, ontologies (of language data),
grammars, tagsets, data categories, all possible fields in which a
collaborative approach can be applied? Can collaboratively generated
LRs be standardised/harmonised? And how can quality control be
applied to collaboratively generated LRs? How can a collaborative
approach ensure that less-resourced languages receive the same
digital dignity as mainstream languages? <br>
There is also a need to discuss legal aspects related to
collaboratively generated LRs. And last but not least: are there
different types of collaborative approaches, or is the Wikimedia
style the best approach to collaborative generation and use of LRs?<br>
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<b>LREC 2014 SPECIAL HIGHLIGHT</b><br>
<b>Share your LRs!</b><br>
In addition to describing your LRs in the LRE Map – now a normal
step in the submission procedure of many conferences – LREC 2014
recognises that the time is ripe to launch another important
initiative, the LREC Repository of shared LRs!<br>
When submitting a paper, you will be offered the possibility to
share your LRs (data, tools, web-services, etc.), uploading them in
a special LREC META-SHARE repository set up by ELRA.<br>
Your LRs will be made available to all LREC participants before the
conference, to be re-used, compared, analysed, … <br>
This effort of sharing LRs, linked to the LRE Map for their
description, may become a new “regular” feature for conferences in
our field, thus contributing to creating a common repository where
everyone can deposit and share data. <br>
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<b>PROGRAMME</b><br>
The Scientific Programme will include invited talks, oral
presentations, poster and demo presentations, and panels, in
addition to a keynote address by the winner of the Antonio Zampolli
Prize. <br>
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<b>SUBMISSIONS AND DATES</b><br>
Submission of proposals for oral and poster (or poster+demo) papers:
15 October 2013<br>
Abstracts should consist of about 1500-2000 words, will be submitted
through START and will be peer-reviewed. <br>
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Submission of proposals for panels, workshops and tutorials: 15
October 2013<br>
Proposals should be submitted via an online form on the LREC website
and will be reviewed by the Programme Committee.<br>
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</b><b>PROCEEDINGS</b><br>
The Proceedings will include both oral and poster papers, in the
same format.<br>
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There is no difference in quality between oral and poster
presentations. Only the appropriateness of the type of communication
(more or less interactive) to the content of the paper will be
considered.<br>
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In addition a Book of Abstracts will be printed.<br>
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<b>CONFERENCE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE </b><br>
Nicoletta Calzolari – CNR, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale
“Antonio Zampolli”, Pisa - Italy (Conference chair)<br>
Khalid Choukri – ELRA, Paris - France<br>
Thierry Declerck – DFKI GmbH, Saarbrücken - Germany<br>
Hrafn Loftsson – School of Computer Science, Reykjavík University -
Iceland<br>
Bente Maegaard – CST, University of Copenhagen - Denmark<br>
Joseph Mariani – LIMSI-CNRS & IMMI, Orsay - France<br>
Asuncion Moreno – Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona -
Spain<br>
Jan Odijk – UIL-OTS, Utrecht - The Netherlands <br>
Stelios Piperidis – Athena Research Center/ILSP, Athens - Greece
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