Call For Papers

Tue Feb 21 19:08:10 UTC 2006

2ND CALL FOR PAPERS (20 February, 2006)
Resource-Scarce Language Engineering
http://altiplano.emich.edu/resource_scarce/
31 July - 4 August, 2006

organized as part of the
European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information
ESSLLI 2006 http://esslli2006.lcc.uma.es/
31 July - 11 August, 2006 in Málaga

Workshop Organizer:
   Edward Garrett <egarrett at emich.edu>

Workshop Purpose:
   This workshop will bring together scientists from academia and
   industry, as well as advanced PhD students, to present and discuss
   research on the theoretical and practical challenges of engineering
   resource-scarce languages. We intend to provide an inclusive forum
   for exchanging ideas on a broad range of topics in areas represented
   by ESSLLI, including basic text processing, speech analysis, and
   machine translation.

Workshop Topics:
   Seen through one lens, "resource-scarce languages" are languages
   for which few digital resources exist; and thus, languages whose
   computerization poses unique challenges. Through another lens,
   "resource-scarce languages" are languages with limited financial,
   political, and legal resources, languages that lack the clout or
   global importance of the world's major languages.

   In spite of these challenges, resource-scarce languages and
   their speakers are not being ignored. Individuals, governments,
   and companies alike are busy developing technologies and tools
   to support such languages. They are driven by a variety of
   motivations - from the desire among academics and community
   activists to preserve or revitalize endangered or threatened
   languages - to the desire by governments to promote minority
   languages - to the need by other governments to detect hostile
   chatter in diverse tongues - to the strategy of some companies to
   enhance their stature in emerging markets such as China and
   South America.

   Recognizing the above trend, this workshop will serve as a forum
   for the discussion of academic and industrial research on resource-
   scarce language engineering. Possible topics include but are not
   limited to:

     - multilingual text processing and the Unicode Standard
     - machine translation and speech recognition with minimal
       training data
     - rapid portability of existing language technologies to new  
languages
     - the use of multilingual resources for monolingual annotation
     - the annotation of new language data on the basis of knowledge
       of related languages
     - coping with data of inconsistent or uneven quality or coverage

   In addition, there will be a shared task on a specific resource-
   scarce language - Tibetan (details to be announced separately).

Submission Details:
   Authors are invited to submit a paper describing completed work
   in the area of the workshop. Each submission will be read by at least
   two members of the program committee, and will be evaluated
   according to its scientific merit, its relevance to the workshop, and
   the degree to which its ideas are expressed fully yet concisely.
   Submissions of any length will be accepted, but acceptable formats
   are limited to postscript and pdf. Papers sent in other formats  
will be
   subject to immediate disposal. Please send your submission  
electronically
   to <egarrett at emich.edu> by the deadline listed below. Accepted
   papers will appear in the workshop proceedings published by ESSLLI.

Workshop Format:
   This workshop is part of ESSLLI and is open to all ESSLLI
   participants.  It will consist of five 90-minute sessions held over
   five consecutive days in the first week of ESSLLI.  There will be
   at least 2-3 slots for paper presentation and discussion plus one
   invited talk per session. On the first day the workshop organizer
   will give a general introduction to the topic.

Invited Speakers:
   Tom Emerson, Basis Technology Corporation
   John Goldsmith, University of Chicago
   Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas
   Richard Sproat, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
   Cathy Wissink, Microsoft Corporation

Workshop Programme Committee:
   Deborah Anderson, University of California, Berkeley
   Emily Bender, University of Washington
   Steven Bird, University of Melbourne
   Alan W. Black, Carnegie Mellon University
   Sean Fulop, California State University, Fresno
   Andrew Hardie, Lancaster University
   Baden Hughes, University of Melbourne
   William Lewis, University of Washington
   Steven Loomis, IBM
   Joel Martin, National Research Council, Canada
   Mike Maxwell, University of Maryland
   Tony McEnery, Lancaster University
   Manuela Noske, Microsoft Corporation
   Charles Schafer, Johns Hopkins University
   Tanja Schultz, Carnegie Mellon University

Important Dates:
   Submissions        : April 7, 2006
   Notification       : April 28, 2006
   Full paper deadline: May 19, 2006
   Final program        : June 30, 2006
   Workshop Dates     : July 31 - August 4, 2006

Local Arrangements:
   All workshop participants including the presenters will be
   required to register for ESSLLI.  The registration fee for
   authors presenting a paper will correspond to the early
   student/workshop speaker registration fee.  Moreover, a number
   of additional fee waiver grants might be made available by
   the local organizing committee on a competitive basis and
   workshop participants are eligible to apply for those.

   There will be no reimbursement for travel costs or accommodation.
   Workshop speakers who have difficulty in finding funding
   should contact the local organizing committee to ask for the
   possibilities of a grant.

Further Information:
   About the workshop: http://altiplano.emich.edu/resource_scarce/
   About ESSLLI: http://esslli2006.lcc.uma.es/
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INRIA Lorraine

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