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and the LREC Programme Committee are very pleased to announce
that the LREC 2012 Proceedings have been accepted for inclusion
in the Conference Proceedings Citation Index of Thomson
Reuters. The CPCI is searchable through the<span
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of Science</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>platform
and will provide authors with with unprecedented recognition. <br>
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LREC 2010 proceedings are currently under review, and chances
that they will be accepted are high! Once published, the
proceedings of LREC 2014 will be submitted for inclusion in the
CPCI.</strong></p>
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word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">ELRA is glad
to announce the 9th edition of LREC, organised with the support of
a wide range of international organisations.</p>
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AIMS</strong><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.</p>
<p class="Style34" style="font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
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word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">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.</p>
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TOPICS</p>
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word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><strong>Issues
in the design, construction and use of LRs: text, speech,
multimodality</strong><br>
* Guidelines, standards, best practices and models for LRs
interoperability<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><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<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
* LRs and Crowdsourcing<br>
* Metadata for LRs and semantic/content mark-up<br>
<strong>Exploitation of LRs in systems and applications<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong><br>
<span class="Style40">* Sign language, multimedia information and
multimodal communication<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><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.</span><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>
<span class="Style42" style="font-weight: bold;">Issues in LT
evaluation</span><br>
* LT evaluation methodologies, protocols and measures<span
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* 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>
<span class="Style42" style="font-weight: bold;">General issues
regarding LRs & Evaluation</span><br>
* International and national activities, projects and
collaboration<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><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<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
* Organisational, economical, ethical and legal issues.</p>
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class="Style48" style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">LREC
2014 HOT TOPICS</span></p>
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class="Style40"></span><span class="Style44" style="font-weight:
bold;">Big Data, Linked Open Data, LRs and HLT</span><br>
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<p class="Style34" style="font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
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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.</p>
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class="Style44" style="font-weight: bold;">LRs in the
Collaborative Age</span><br>
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word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">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.<span
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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?<span
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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?</p>
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class="Style45"><strong>LREC 2014 SPECIAL HIGHLIGHT</strong><br>
</span><span class="Style45"><strong>Share your LRs!</strong></span><br>
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<p class="Style34" style="font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
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word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">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, …<span
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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.</p>
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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.</p>
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AND DATES</strong><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 @<strong><a
href="https://www.softconf.com/lrec2014/main/">
https://www.softconf.com/lrec2014/main/</a></strong><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and will be peer-reviewed.</p>
<p class="Style34" style="font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
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proposals for panels, workshops and tutorials: 15 October 2013<br>
Proposals should be submitted via an online form on the LREC
website (<strong>click Submission from the Home page</strong>) and
will be reviewed by the Programme Committee.</p>
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The Proceedings will include both oral and poster papers, in the
same format.</p>
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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.</p>
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Book of Abstracts will be printed.</p>
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PROGRAMME COMMITTEE<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong><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<span
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Stelios Piperidis – Athena Research Center/ILSP, Athens - Greece<br>
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News on:</b><br>
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