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With regard to the following:
On Wed, 6 Oct 1999 15:13:28 Briony Williams <briony at cstr.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
>Subject: Welcome to the new SALTMIL SIG!
>The start of the new academic year sees the start of the SALTMIL Special
>Interest Group within ESCA (now ISCA). This group (for "Speech and
>Language Technology for Minority Languages") has now been approved, and
>can begin activities, as follows.
<snip>
>3) Proposal for a one-day workshop
>A one-day workshop will be proposed to the organisers of the second LREC
>conference in Athens. If accepted, this will be similar to the first
>one-day workshop at the first LREC in Granada, May 1998.
Please note that the submission deadline is soon approaching.
***** REMINDER: CALL FOR PAPERS *******
The European Language Resources Association (ELRA), the Institute
for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP, Athens, Greece), and
the National Technical University of Athens, Greece are
pleased to
announce:
The 2nd International Conference on Language Resources and
Evaluation
(LREC2000)
(The detailed announcement is available on the web at:
http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/lrec2000.html)
Location: Athens, Greece
Dates: 31 May - 2 June 2000
The Second International Conference on
Language Resources and
Evaluation has been initiated by ELRA and is
organised in cooperation
with other Associations and Consortia,
including ACL, ALLC, COCOSDA,
ORIENTAL COCOSDA, EAFT, EAGLES, EDR, ELSNET,
ESCA,
EURALEX, FRANCIL, LDC, PAROLE, TELRI, etc.,
and with major
national and international organisations,
including the European
Commission - DG XIII, ARPA, NSF, the IC/863
HTRDP Project (China),
the National Natural Science Foundation of
China, the ICSP
Permanent Committee (Korea), The Natural
Language Technical
committee of JEIDA (Japan), and the
Japanese Project for
International Coordination in Corpora,
Assessment and Labelling.
Cooperation and support from other
institutions is currently being
sought.
CONFERENCE AIMS
In the framework of the Information
Society, the pervasive character
of human language technologies (HLT)
and their relevance to all
the fields of Information Society
Technologies (IST) has been
widely recognised.
Two issues are currently considered
to be particularly relevant:
1) the availability of language
resources and
2) the methods for the evaluation
of resources, technologies and
products.
Substantial mutual benefits
can be expected from addressing
these issues through international
cooperation.
The term language resources (LR)
refers to sets of language
data and descriptions in machine
readable form, used specifically
for building and evaluating
natural language and speech
algorithms
or systems, for software
localisation industries and
language
services, for language enabled
information and communication
services, for electronic
commerce, electronic publishing,
language
studies, subject-area
specialists and end users.
Examples of language resources
are written and spoken corpora,
computational lexica,
grammars, terminology databases,
and
basic software tools for the
acquisition, preparation,
collection,
management, customisation and
use of these and other
resources.
The relevance of evaluation for Language Engineering is increasingly
recognised. This involves assessment of the state of the art for a
given technology, measuring the progress achieved within a
programme, comparing different approaches to a given problem and
choosing the best solution, knowing its advantages and drawbacks,
assessment of the availability of technologies for a given
application,
product benchmarking, and
assessment of user satisfaction.
Language engineering and R&D
in language technologies have
made important advances in
the recent past in various
aspects of
both written and spoken
language processing. Although
the evaluation
paradigm has been studied
and used in large national and
international
programmes, including the US
ARPA HLT programme, the EU LE
programme Francophone
Aupelf-Uref programme and
others, and in the
localisation industry (LISA
and LRC), it is still subject
to substantial
unresolved basic research
problems.
The aim of this conference
is to provide an overview of
the state of
the art, to discuss
problems and opportunities,
and to exchange
information regarding
ongoing and planned
activities, language
resources and their
applications. We also
intend to discuss
evaluation methodologies
and demonstrate evaluation
tools, and
explore possibilities and
promote initiatives for
international
cooperation in the areas
mentioned above.
CONFERENCE TOPICS
The following
non-exhaustive list
gives some examples of
topics
which could be
addressed by papers
submitted to LREC2000:
I. Issues in the
design, construction
and use of Languages
Resources (LR)
(theoretical & best
practice):
* Guidelines,
standards,
specifications,
and models for LR
*
Organisational
issues in the
construction,
distribution, and
use of LR
*
Methods, tools,
procedures for
the acquisition,
creation,
annotation,
management,
access,
distribution, and
use of LR
* Legal
aspects and
problems in the
construction,
access, and
use of LR
*
Availability and
use of generic
vs. task/domain
specific LR
* Methods for
the extraction
and acquisition
of knowledge
(e.g. terms,
lexical
information,
language
modelling) from
LR
* Monolingual
and multilingual
LR
* Multimodal
and multimedia LR
* LR and the
needs/opportunities
of the emerging
multimedia
cultural
industry
* Industrial
production and
use of LR
* Integration
of various
modalities in LR
(spoken, visual,
gestual,
textual)
*
Exploitation of
LR in different
types of
applications
(language
technology,
information
retrieval, vocal
interfaces,
electronic
commerce,
etc.)
* Industrial
LR requirements
and the
community's
response
* Analysis of
user needs for LR
* Mechanisms
of LR
distribution and
marketing
* Economics of
LR
*
Customisation and
use of LR
* Research
issues relevant
for LR
II. Issues in
Human Language
Technologies
evaluation:
*
Evaluation,
validation,
quality
assurance
of LR
*
Benchmarking
of systems
and
products;
resources
for
benchmarking
and
evaluation
*
Evaluation
in written
language
processing
(text
retrieval,
terminology
extraction,
message
understanding,
text
alignment,
machine
translation,
morphosyntactic
tagging,
parsing,
semantic
tagging,
word sense
disambiguation,
text
understanding,
summarisation,
localisation,
etc.)
*
Evaluation
in spoken
language
processing
(speech
recognition
and
understanding,
voice
dictation,
oral
dialog,
speech
synthesis,
speech
coding,
speaker
and
language
recognition,
etc.)
*
Evaluation
of
document
processing
(document
recognition,
on-line
and
off-line
machine
and
hand-written
character
recognition,
etc.)
*
Evaluation
of
(multimedia)
document
retrieval
and search
systems
*
Evaluation
of
multimodal
systems
*
Qualitative
and
perceptive
evaluation
*
Evaluation
of
products
and
applications
*
Blackbox,
glassbox
and
diagnostic
evaluation
of systems
*
Situated
evaluation
of
applications
*
Evaluation
methodologies,
protocols
and mtific
* From evaluation to standardisation of LR
* Research issues relevant to evaluation
III. General issues:
* National and international activities and projects
* LR and the needs/opportunities of the emerging multimedia
cultural industry
* Priorities, perspectives, strategies in the field of
* LR national
and international policies
* Needs, possibilities, forms, initiatives of/for
* international
cooperation
The Scientific Programme will include invited talks,
presentations of
accepted papers, poster sessions, referenced
demonstrations and panels.
Pre-Conference Workshops will be organized on the 29th
and 30th of
May and post-Conference Workshops on the 3rd and 4th
of June 2000.
Please consult the conference Web site
(http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/lrec2000.html) for
complete
information about submission guidelines, contact
people, submission
dates, various conference committees and members,
and other
general information.
IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER
* 20 NOVEMBER 1999:
Submission of proposals for papers,
posters, referenced demos,
panels and workshops
* 10 DECEMBER 1999:
Notification of acceptance of
workshop and panel proposals
* 2 FEBRUARY 2000:
Notification of acceptance of
papers, posters, referenced demos
* 2 APRIL 2000:
Final version of the articles for
the proceedings
* 31 MAY - 2 JUNE 2000:
Conference
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Nicoletta Calzolari, Istituto
di Linguistica Computazionale,
Pisa, Italy
George Carayannis, Institute
for Language and Speech
Processing,
Athens, Greece
Khalid Choukri, ELRA,
Paris, France
Harald HÂge, Siemens, Munich,
Germany
Bente Maegaard, CST,
Copenhagen, Denmark
Joseph Mariani, LIMSI-CNRS,
Orsay, France
Antonio Zampolli, University
of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
(Conference chair)
For general information about
the conference, please
contact:
LREC Secretariat:
Ms. Despina Scutari
Institute for Language
and Speech Processing
(ILSP)
6, Artemidos & Epidavrou
Str.
15125 Marousi, Athens,
GREECE
Tel: +301 6800959 ; Fax:
+301 6854270
e-mail: LREC2000 at ilsp.gr
LREC2000 website:
http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/lrec2000.html
For general
information about
ELRA, please
contact:
Khalid CHOUKRI
55-57 Rue
Brillat-Savarin
75013 Paris
FRANCE
Tel. +33 1 43
13 33 33 -
Fax. +33 1 43
13 33 30
e-mail:
choukri at elda.fr
http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html
=================================================
Jeff ALLEN -
Technical
Manager/Directeur
Technique
European
Language
Resources
Association
(ELRA) &
European
Language
resources -
Distribution
Agency (ELDA)
(Agence
Europe'enne
de
Distribution
des
Ressources
Linguistiques)
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Brillat-Savarin
75013 Paris
FRANCE
Tel: (+33)
1.43.13.33.33
- Fax: (+33)
1.43.13.33.30
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