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<p class="MsoNormal"><big><big><b><span lang="IT">LREC 2008 - 6th
Language Resources and Evaluation Conference</span></b></big></big></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT"><big><big><b><o:p> </o:p>SECOND
CALL FOR PAPERS</b></big></big><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT"><o:p> <br>
</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT">Palais des Congrès Mansour
Eddahbi, MARRAKECH
- MOROCCO<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT"><o:p></o:p>MAIN CONFERENCE:
28-29-30 MAY 2008<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<span lang="IT">WORKSHOPS and TUTORIALS: 26-27 MAY and 31 MAY-
1 JUNE 2008<o:p></o:p></span><br>
<span lang="IT">Conference web site:
<a href="http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/">http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/<o:p></o:p></a></span><a
href="http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/"><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></a>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">The sixth international conference on Language
Resources and Evaluation (LREC) will be organised in 2008 by ELRA in
cooperation with a wide range of international associations and
organisations, including
AAMT, AMTA, ACL, ALTA, COCOSDA and Oriental COCOSDA, EACL, EAMT,
ELSNET,
EURALEX, GWA, IAMT, KnowledgeWeb, LDC, NEMLAR Network, SIGLEX, TEI,
Technolangue
French Program, WRITE and with major national and international
organisations
including the European Commission - <span style="">Information
Society and Media</span>, <span style="">Unit E.2 “</span>Content
and Knowledge”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style=""><span
style="" lang="EN-GB">CONFERENCE AIMS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p>In 10 years - the first LREC was held in </span><st1:City><st1:place><span
style="" lang="EN-GB">Granada</span></st1:place></st1:City><span
style="" lang="EN-GB"> in 1998 - LREC has become the major
event on Language Resources (LRs) and Evaluation for Human Language
Technologies
(HLT). The aim of LREC is 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,
ongoing and planned activities, industrial uses and needs, requirements
coming
from the e-society, both with respect to policy issues and to
technological and
organisational ones.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p>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 to investigations in language
sciences, progress in language technologies and development of
corresponding
products, services and applications, and standards.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span><br>
<b style=""><span style="" lang="EN-GB">CONFERENCE TOPICS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p>Issues in the design, construction and use of
Language Resources (LRs): text, speech, multimodality<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p><br>
- Guidelines, standards, specifications, models
and best practices for LRs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">- Methodologies and tools for LRs construction
and annotation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">- Methodologies and tools for the extraction
and acquisition of knowledge<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">- Ontologies and knowledge representation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">- Terminology<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">- Integration between (multilingual) LRs,
ontologies and Semantic Web technologies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">- Metadata descriptions of LRs and metadata for
semantic/content markup<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">Exploitation of LRs in different types of
systems and applications<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">- For: information extraction, information
retrieval, speech dictation, mobile communication, machine translation,
summarisation, web services, semantic search, text mining, inferencing,
reasoning, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">- In different types of interfaces:
(speech-based) dialogue systems, natural language and
multimodal/multisensorial
interactions, voice activated services, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">- Communication with neighbouring fields of
applications, e.g. e-government, e-culture, e-health, e-participation,
mobile
applications, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">- Industrial LRs requirements, user needs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">Issues in Human Language Technologies
evaluation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">- HLT Evaluation methodologies, protocols and
measures<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">- Validation, quality assurance, evaluation of
LRs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">- Benchmarking of systems and products<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">- Usability evaluation of HLT-based user
interfaces, interactions and dialogue systems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">- Usability and user satisfaction evaluation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">General issues regarding LRs & Evaluation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">- National and international activities and
projects<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">- Priorities, perspectives, strategies in
national and international policies for LRs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">- Open architectures<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">- Organisational, economical and legal issues<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB"><o:p> <br>
</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style=""><u><span
style="" lang="EN-GB">Special Highlights<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p><br>
LREC targets the integration of different types
of LRs - spoken, written, and other modalities - and of the respective
communities. To this end, LREC encourages submissions covering issues
which are
common to different types of LRs and language technologies.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p><br>
LRs are currently developed and deployed in a
much wider range of applications and domains. LREC 2008 recognises the
need to
encompass all those data that interact with language resources in an
attempt to
model more complex human processes and develop more complex systems,
and
encourages submissions on topics such as:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">- Multimodal and multimedia systems, for
Human-Machine interfaces, Human-Human interactions, and content
processing <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">- Resources for modelling language-related
cognitive processes, including emotions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">- Interaction/Association of language and
perception data, also for robotic systems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span><b style=""><span style="" lang="EN-GB">PROGRAMME<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p><br>
The Scientific Programme will include invited
talks, oral presentations, poster and demo presentations, and panels.</span><br>
<b style=""><span style="" lang="EN-GB">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.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB"><o:p> <br>
</o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style=""><span
style="" lang="EN-GB">ABSTRACT SUBMISSION<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">On-line submission form for abstracts is now
available: please go to the “Abstract submission” section on the
LREC2008 web
site (<a href="http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/-Home-.html">http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008</a>)
and follow the procedure instructions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">Submitted abstracts of papers for oral and
poster or demo presentations <b style="">must</b>
consist of about 1500-2000 words.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="" lang="EN-GB">WORKSHOPS,
TUTORIALS AND PANELS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Submission
of workshop,
tutorial and panel proposals</span></b><span style="" lang="EN-GB">
should be made by e-mail to the following e-mail
address: </span><span class="eudoraheader"><span
style="font-family: Wingdings;" lang="EN-GB"><span style=""><span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="ltr"><span
class="eudoraheader"><span lang="IT"><a
href="mailto:lrec@lrec-conf.org">lrec@lrec-conf.org </a></span></span></span><span
style="" lang="EN-GB"></span><span class="eudoraheader"><span lang="IT"><o:p></o:p></span></span>and
will be reviewed by the Programme
Committee.<o:p></o:p></p>
<span style="" lang="EN-GB"></span>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style=""><span
style="" lang="EN-GB">Proposals
for workshops and tutorials</span></b><span style="" lang="EN-GB">
should be no longer than three pages, and
include:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style=""><span
style="" lang="EN-GB">For workshops</span></b><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">: <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="circle">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">The title<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">A brief technical description of the specific technical
issues that the workshop will address<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">The reasons why the workshop is of interest <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">The names and affiliations, postal addresses, phone and
fax numbers, email and web site addresses of the organising committee,
which should consist of at least three people knowledgeable in the
field, coming from different institutions<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">The name and the e-mail address of the member of the
workshop organising committee designated as the contact person<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">The desirable duration of the workshop (half day or full
day)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">A summary of the intended call for participation<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">An estimate of the approximate audience size<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">A list of audio-visual or technical requirements and any
special room requirements<o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">The workshop proposers
will be responsible for the organisational aspects (e.g. workshop call
preparation and distribution, review of papers, notification of
acceptance,
assembling of the workshop proceedings using the ELRA specifications,
etc.).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style=""><span
style="" lang="EN-GB">For tutorials</span></b><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">: <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="circle">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">The title<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">A brief technical description of the tutorial content<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">The reasons why the tutorial is of interest<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">The names and affiliations, postal addresses, phone and
fax numbers, email and web site addresses of the tutorial speakers,
with brief descriptions of their technical background<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">The name and e-mail address of one tutorial speaker
designated as the contact person<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">The duration of the tutorial (half day is the expected
usual length)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">An estimate of the approximate audience size<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">A list of audio-visual or technical requirements and any
special room requirements<o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">The tutorial proposers
will be responsible for the organisational aspects (e.g. assembling of
the
tutorial material, etc.).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> <br>
</o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Proposals
for panels</span></b><span style="" lang="EN-GB"> should contain the
following information:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="" lang="EN-GB">The title<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">A brief technical description of the specific technical
issues that the panel will address<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">The reasons why the panel is of interest<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Name of
the panel organiser/s; affiliation and postal address; phone and fax
numbers; e-mail address; web site address<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="" lang="EN-GB">The name
and the e-mail address of the designated contact person</span><span
style="" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style=""><span
style="" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p><br>
IMPORTANT DATES<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-left: 14.2pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0cm;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: Symbol;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="">·<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="ltr"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">Submission of proposals for panels, workshops and
tutorials: </span></span><st1:date month="10" day="31" year="2007"><b
style=""><span style="" lang="EN-GB">31 October 2007</span></b></st1:date><span
style="" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-left: 14.2pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0cm;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: Symbol;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="">·<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="ltr"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">Submission of proposals for oral and poster/demo papers: </span></span><st1:date
month="10" day="31" year="2007"><b style=""><span style="" lang="EN-GB">31
October 2007</span></b></st1:date><b style=""><span style=""
lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-left: 14.2pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0cm;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: Symbol;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="">·<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="ltr"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">Notification of acceptance of panels, workshops
and tutorials proposals:<b style=""> </b></span></span><st1:date
month="11" day="22" year="2007"><b style=""><span style="" lang="EN-GB">22
November 2007</span></b></st1:date><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-left: 14.2pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0cm;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: Symbol;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="">·<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="ltr"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">Notification of acceptance of oral papers,
posters: </span></span><st1:date month="2" day="4" year="2008"><b
style=""><span style="" lang="EN-GB">4 February 2008</span></b></st1:date><span
style="" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-left: 14.2pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0cm;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: Symbol;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="">·<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="ltr"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">Final version of papers for the proceedings: <b style=""><span
style=""> </span></b></span></span><st1:date month="3" day="25"
year="2008"><b style=""><span style="" lang="EN-GB">25 March 2008</span></b></st1:date><span
style="" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-left: 14.2pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0cm;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: Symbol;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="">·<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="ltr"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">Conference<b style="">:
28-30 May 2008</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-left: 14.2pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0cm;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-family: Symbol;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="">·<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="ltr"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">Pre-conference workshops and tutorials: <b style="">26
and 27 May 2008</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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lang="EN-GB">Post-conference workshops and tutorials: <b style="">31
May and </b></span></span><st1:date month="6" day="1" year="2008"><b
style=""><span style="" lang="EN-GB">1 June 2008</span></b></st1:date><b
style=""><span style="" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style=""><span
style="font-variant: small-caps;" lang="EN-GB">CONSORTIA AND PROJECT
MEETINGS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">Consortia or projects
wishing to take this opportunity for organising meetings should contact
well in
advance the organisers at the following e-mail address:
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:lrec@lrec-conf.org">lrec@lrec-conf.org</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<span style="" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span> <br>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style=""><span
style="" lang="EN-GB">PROCEEDINGS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">The Proceedings on CD will include both oral and
poster papers, in the same format. In addition a Book of Abstracts will
be
printed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style=""><span
lang="IT">CONFERENCE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="IT">Nicoletta
Calzolari, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR, </span><st1:place><st1:City><span
style="" lang="EN-GB">Pisa</span></st1:City><span style="" lang="EN-GB">,
</span><st1:country-region><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Italy</span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span
style="" lang="EN-GB"> (Conference chair)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">Khalid Choukri, ELRA, </span><st1:place><st1:City><span
style="" lang="EN-GB">Paris</span></st1:City><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">, </span><st1:country-region><span style="" lang="EN-GB">France</span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span
style="" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">Bente Maegaard, CST, </span><st1:place><st1:City><span
style="" lang="EN-GB">University of Copenhagen</span></st1:City><span
style="" lang="EN-GB">, </span><st1:country-region><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">Denmark</span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span
style="" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">Joseph Mariani, LIMSI-CNRS, </span><st1:place><st1:City><span
style="" lang="EN-GB">Orsay</span></st1:City><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">, </span><st1:country-region><span style="" lang="EN-GB">France</span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span
style="" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">Jan Odijk, Nuance Communications International,
</span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="" lang="EN-GB">Belgium</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span
style="" lang="EN-GB"> and UIL-OTS, </span><st1:City><st1:place><span
style="" lang="EN-GB">Utrecht</span></st1:place></st1:City><span
style="" lang="EN-GB">, The </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span
style="" lang="EN-GB">Netherlands</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span
style="" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">Stelios Piperidis, Institute for Language and
Speech Processing (ILSP), </span><st1:place><st1:City><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">Athens</span></st1:City><span style="" lang="EN-GB">, </span><st1:country-region><span
style="" lang="EN-GB">Greece</span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span
style="" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="IT">Daniel
Tapias,
Telefónica Móviles España, Madrid, Spain</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style=""
lang="EN-GB">The composition of the committees as well as
instructions and addresses for registration and accommodation in
Marrakech will
be detailed on the conference website at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/">http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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