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<p class="title">FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
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<p class="title">Workshop on “Collaboration and Computing for
Under-Resourced Languages in the Linked Open Data Era” (CCURL
2014) <br>
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<p class="title">Full-day Workshop organised in conjunction with the
LREC 2014 Conference (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://lrec2014.lrec-conf.org/en/">http://lrec2014.lrec-conf.org/en/</a>)
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26 May 2014 Reykjavík, Iceland
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<p class="context">MOTIVATIONS and TOPICS<br>
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<p class="context">Under-resourced languages suffer from a chronic
lack of available resources (human-, financial-, time- and
data-wise), and of the fragmentation of efforts in resource
development. This often leads to small resources only usable for
limited purposes or developed in isolation without much connection
with other resources and initiatives. The benefits of reusability,
accessibility and data sustainability are, more often than not,
out of the reach of such languages.</p>
<p class="context">Yet, these languages are those that could most
profit from emergent collaborative approaches and technologies for
language resource development. Given the high cost of language
resource production, and given the fact that in many cases it is
impossible to avoid the manual construction of resources (e.g. if
accurate models are requested or if there is to be reliable
evaluation) it is worth considering the power of social and
collaborative media to build resources, especially for those
languages where there are no or limited language resources built
by experts yet.</p>
<p class="context">Collaborative, Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 / Semantic Web
methods and methodologies for data collection, annotation and
sharing seem particularly well-suited for collecting the data
needed for the development of language technology applications for
under-resourced languages. Indeed, the collaborative accumulation
and creation of data appears to be the best and most practicable
way to achieve better and faster language coverage and in purely
economic terms could well deliver a higher return on investment
than expected. Moreover, it is a good way to approach a small
population of speakers who live in remote countries, or are
scattered in diaspora all over the world.</p>
<p class="context">The workshop aims at gathering together
professionals involved with language resources for under-resourced
languages. The expectation is that both academic researchers and
industry practitioners will participate.</p>
<p class="context">Some specific questions that the workshop will
aim to answer include the following: </p>
<ul>
<li class="context">How can collaborative approaches and
technologies be fruitfully applied to the development and
sharing of resources for under-resourced languages?</li>
<li class="context">How can small language resources be re-used
efficiently and effectively, reach larger audiences and be
integrated into applications?</li>
<li class="context">How can they be stored, exposed and accessed
by end users and applications?</li>
<li class="context">How can research on such languages benefit
from semantic and semantic web technologies, and specifically
the Linked Data framework?</li>
</ul>
<p class="context">We invite papers reporting on collaborative
methodologies for the development of language resources for
under-resourced languages, the processes involved, as well as on
issues relating to their usability, e.g. design guidelines,
standards for building and sharing resources, storage and exchange
formats, interoperability issues, etc.</p>
<p class="context">We therefore specifically encourage submissions
about: </p>
<ul>
<li class="context">Experiences in the creation of Linked Open
Data and/or Linguistic Linked Open Data for under-resourced
languages;</li>
<li class="context">Using existing Linked Open Data knowledge
resources such as DBpedia, Freebase, YAGO, Lexvo, schema.org,
etc. in semantics-driven approaches to resource development for
under-resourced languages;</li>
<li class="context">Scaling existing language resource
infrastructures to thousands of languages;</li>
<li class="context">Crowd-sourcing of linguistic data and
annotations;</li>
<li class="context">Collaborative bootstrapping of language
resources and language technologies (LRTs) for under-resourced
languages from existing LRTs for better-resourced languages;</li>
<li class="context">Mining the web and social media for linguistic
data;</li>
<li class="context">Developing and/or using language-independent
software frameworks for under-resourced languages and other
collaborations across language groups;</li>
<li class="context">Ethical, sociological and practical issues in
collaborative approaches and technologies;</li>
<li class="context">Usability of existing infrastructures for the
development of collaboratively created resources.</li>
</ul>
<p class="context">SUBMISSIONS</p>
<p class="context">Papers must describe original unpublished work,
either completed or in progress.</p>
<p class="context">Each submission will be reviewed by three
programme committee members. The paper review will be blind, so
papers should not include authors' names and affiliations.</p>
<p class="context">Accepted papers will be presented either as oral
presentations or posters and will be published in the workshop
proceedings.</p>
<p class="context">Papers should be formatted according to the
stylesheet provided on the LREC 2014 website and should not exceed
8 pages, including references and appendices. Papers should be
submitted in PDF unprotected format to the <a
href="https://www.softconf.com/lrec2014/CCURL/" class="links">workshop
START page</a>.</p>
<p class="context">When submitting a paper from the START page,
authors will be asked to provide essential information about
resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards,
evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described
in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA
encourages all LREC authors to share the described LRs (data,
tools, services, etc.), to enable their reuse, replicability of
experiments, including evaluation ones, etc. For further
information, please refer to this <a
href="http://lrec2014.lrec-conf.org/en/calls-for-papers/lrec-2014-special-highlight/"
class="links">URL</a>.</p>
<p class="context">IMPORTANT DATES</p>
<ul>
<li class="context">6 February 2014: Paper submission deadline</li>
<li class="context">10 March 2014: Notification of acceptance</li>
<li class="context">26 March 2014: Camera-ready papers due</li>
<li class="context">26 May 2014: Workshop</li>
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<p class="context">ORGANISING COMMITTEE</p>
<ul>
<li class="context">Laurette Pretorius - University of South
Africa, South Africa</li>
<li class="context">Claudia Soria - CNR-ILC, Italy</li>
<li class="context">Eveline Wandl-Vogt - Austrian Academy of
Sciences, ICLTT, Austria</li>
<li class="context">Thierry Declerck - DFKI GmbH, Language
Technology Lab, Germany</li>
<li class="context">Kevin Scannell - St. Louis University, USA</li>
<li class="context">Joseph Mariani - LIMSI-CNRS & IMMI, France</li>
</ul>
<p class="context">PROGRAMME COMMITTEE (tbc)</p>
<ul>
<li class="context">Vladimir Alexiev - Ontotext AD, Bulgaria</li>
<li class="context">Deborah W. Anderson - University of Berkeley,
Linguistics, USA</li>
<li class="context">Sabine Bartsch - Technische Universität
Darmstadt, Germany</li>
<li class="context">Delphine Bernhard - LILPA, Strasbourg
University, France</li>
<li class="context">Bruce Birch - The Minjilang Endangered
Languages Publications Project, Australia</li>
<li class="context">Paul Buitelaar - DERI, Galway, Ireland</li>
<li class="context">Peter Bouda - CIDLeS - Interdisciplinary
Centre for Social and Language Documentation, Portugal</li>
<li class="context">Steve Cassidy - Macquarie University,
Australia</li>
<li class="context">Christian Chiarcos - University of Potsdam,
Germany</li>
<li class="context">Katrien Depuydt - Instituut voor Nederlandse
Lexicologie, The Netherlands</li>
<li class="context">Vera Ferreira - CIDLeS - Interdisciplinary
Centre for Social and Language Documentation, Portugal</li>
<li class="context">Claudia Garad - wikimedia.AT, Austria</li>
<li class="context">Dafydd Gibbon - Bielefeld University, Germany</li>
<li class="context">Gregory Grefenstette - Exalead, Paris, France</li>
<li class="context">Oddrun Gronvik - Instituut for lingvistike og
nordiske studier, University of Oslo, Norway</li>
<li class="context">Yoshihiko Hayashi - University of Osaka, Japan</li>
<li class="context">Dominic Jones - Trinity College Dublin,
Ireland</li>
<li class="context">Daniel Kaufman - Endangered Language Alliance,
USA</li>
<li class="context">Andras Kornai - Hungarian Academy of Sciences,
Hungary</li>
<li class="context">Simon Krek - Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia</li>
<li class="context">Tobias Kuhn - ETH, Zurich, Switzerland</li>
<li class="context">Gerard de Melo - University of California at
Berkeley, USA</li>
<li class="context">Brent Miller - The LINGUIST List, USA</li>
<li class="context">Leonel Ruiz Miyares - Centro de Linguistica
Aplicada (CLA), Cuba</li>
<li class="context">Karlheinz Mörth - Austrian Academy of
Sciences, ICLTT, Austria</li>
<li class="context">Steven Moran - University of Washington, USA</li>
<li class="context">Roberto Navigli - Universita degli Studi di
Roma "La Sapienza", Italy</li>
<li class="context">Kellen Parker - National Tsing Hua University,
China</li>
<li class="context">Patrick Paroubek - LIMSI-CNRS, France</li>
<li class="context">Maria Pilar Perea i Sabater - Universitat de
Barcelona, Spain</li>
<li class="context">Ulrich Schäfer - DFKI GmbH, Germany</li>
<li class="context">Caroline Sporleder - Universität Trier,
Germany</li>
<li class="context">Nick Thieberger - University of Melbourne,
Australia</li>
<li class="context">Piek Vossen - VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands</li>
<li class="context">Marianne Vergez-Couret - Toulouse University,
France</li>
<li class="context">Michael Zock - LIF-CNRS, France</li>
<li class="context">Carlo Zoli - Smallcodes S.r.L., Italy</li>
</ul>
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