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<p class="CM4" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span
style="color: black;">CALL FOR PAPER <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="CM1" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span
style="color: black;">Workshop on <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="CM4" style="text-align: center; line-height: 14.65pt;"
align="center"><span style="color: black;">Web Services and Processing Pipelines in HLT:
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black;">Tool Evaluation, LR
Production and Validation <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="CM4" style="text-align: center; line-height: 13.3pt;"
align="center"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black;">To be
held in conjunction with the 7th International
Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2010) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="CM4" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span
style="color: black;">1718 May 2010, Mediterranean Conference Center, Valletta, Malta
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="CM4" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><u><span
style="color: black;"><a
href="https://www.softconf.com/lrec2010/WebServices2010/"><span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 127);">http://workshops.elda.org/wspp2010/ </span></a></span></u><span
style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="CM1" style="margin-bottom: 28.75pt; text-align: center;"
align="center"><i><span style="color: black;">Deadline for submission: 22 February 2010
</span></i><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default" style="text-align: justify;"><span
style="font-size: 14pt;">Workshop Description <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="CM4" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 14.55pt;"><span
style="color: black;">With
the emergence of large einfrastructures and the widespread adoption of
the
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) paradigm, more and more language
technology
is being made available through web services. Extending such services
to linguistic
processing pipelines, tool evaluation or LR production and validation
involves
considering both the methodologies and technical aspects
specific to the application domains. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="CM4" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 14.55pt;"><span
style="color: black;">Distributed
architectures such as web services allow communication and data
exchange
between
applications. They are a suitable instrument for automatic, less often semiautomatic, tool evaluation
as well as resource production processes both for practical and
conceptual
reasons. At a practical level, web services support quick results,
centralised
data storage, remote access etc.; at a conceptual level, they allow for
the
combination of more than one processing components that may be located
on
different sites. Such processing pipelines are set
up to tackle a particular analysis task. To support these, new
techniques have to be developed that organise wellestablished
practices into
workflows and support the exchange of data by standards and open tool architectures.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="CM4" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 14.55pt;"><span
style="color: black;">The
workshop focuses on current uses and best practices for the deployment
of web
services and web interfaces in the HLT domain, including processing
pipelines,
LR production and validation, and evaluation of tools. It highlights
relevant
aspects for the integration of linguistic or evaluation web services
within
infrastructures (e.g. authorisation and authentication, service
registries) and
infrastructural requirements (e.g. interface harmonisation, metadata
generation).
The workshop also aims at demonstrating different approaches on how to
combine
linguistic web services into a composite web service. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="CM4" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 14.55pt;"><span
style="color: black;">The
expected outcome of the workshop is a comparison of the practices in
architectures and processing pipelines that people build and discussion
of the
issues involved. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="CM2" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;">−
<i>Technical
aspects</i>: approaches, protocols, management of huge amounts of data,
data
structures and formats, performance, manual components (e.g. annotation
or
evaluation), composition and configuration, interoperability, security,
monitoring and recovery strategies,
standardisation of APIs, tools and frameworks supporting HLT services deployment, architectures. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="CM4" style="line-height: 14.55pt;"><span style="color: black;">−
Scientifi<i>c aspects</i>: influence of web
services on evaluation or resource production, metaevaluation /
validation of
architectures, annotation agreements, needs for tools evaluation and
resource production, status of the data produced.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="CM4" style="line-height: 14.55pt;"><span style="color: black;">−
<i>Commercial aspects</i>: licensing,
privacy, advertising, brokering, business possibilities,
challenges, exploitation of the resulting data. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Chairing Committee <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="CM3" style="margin-bottom: 18.15pt;"><span
style="color: black;">Núria Bel (Institut Universitari de Lingüística Aplicada,
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)<br>
Olivier Hamon (Evaluations and Language resources Distribution Agency (ELDA)<br>
Elke Teich (Technische Universität Darmstadt)<br style="">
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<p class="Default"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Organising Committee <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="CM4" style="line-height: 14.55pt;"><span style="color: black;">Peter Fankhauser (L3S Hannover, Germany)<br>
Maria Gavrilidou (Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Greece)<br>
Gerhard Heyer (Department of Natural Language Processing, University of <i>Leipzig,</i> Germany)<br>
Zdravko Kacic (University of Maribor, Faculty of Electrical Engineering
and
Computer Science, Slovenia)<br>
Mark KempsSnijders (MPI, the Netherlands)<br>
Andreas Witt (IDS Mannheim, Germany)<br style="">
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<p class="Default"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Programme Committee <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="CM3"><span style="color: black;">Sophia Ananiadou (School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, England)<br>
Victoria Arranz (ELDA, France)<br>
Volker Boehlke (University of Leipzig, DE)<br>
Gaël de Chalendar (CEA, France)<br>
KeySun Choi (KAIST, Korea)<br>
Dan Cristea (University of Iasis, Romania)<br>
Thierry Declerck (DFKI, Germany)<br>
Christoph Draxler (LMU München, Germany)<br>
Nicola Ferro (University of Padua, Italy)<br>
Riccardo del Grata (ILC, Italy)<br>
Iryna Gurevych (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany)<br>
Yoshihiko Hayashi (Osaka University, Japan)<br>
Nicolas Hernandez (Université de Nantes, France)<br>
Radu Ion (Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Romanian Academy, Romania)<br>
Yoshinobu Kano (University of Tokyo, Japan)<br>
Yohei Murakami (NICT, Japan)<br>
Jan Odijk (University of Utrecht, the Netherlands)<br>
Patrick Paroubek (LIMSI, France)<br>
Kay Peterson (NIST, U.S.A.)<br>
Maciej Piasecki (Instytut Informatyki Stosowanej, Poland)<br>
Mark Przybocki (NIST, U.S.A.)<br>
Matej Rojc (University of Maribor, Slovenia)<br>
Felix Sasaki (W3C / FH Potsdam, Germany)<br>
Junichi Tsujii (University of Tokyo, Japan)<br>
Dan Tufis (RACAI, Romania)<br>
Karin Verspoor (University of Colorado, U.S.A.)<br>
Graham Wilcock (University of Helsinki, Finland)<br style="">
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<p class="Default"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Important dates <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="CM4" style="margin-right: 231.9pt; line-height: 14.55pt;"><span
style="color: black;">Deadline for submission: Monday 22 February 2010
<br>
Notification of acceptance: Monday 15 March 2010
<br>
Final version due: Tuesday 23 March 2010
<br>
Workshop : 1718 May 2010 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Submission Format <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<span style="color: black;">Full
papers up to 8 pages should be formatted according to LREC 2010
guidelines and
be submitted through the online submission form <a
href="https://www.softconf.com/lrec2010/WebServices2010/"><span
style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">(</span><span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 127); text-decoration: none;">https://www.softconf.com/lrec2010/WebServices2010/</span><span
style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">) </span></a><span
style=""> </span>on
START. For further queries, please contact Olivier Hamon at hamon_at_elda_dot_org. 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. For
further
information on this new initiative, please refer to <u><a
href="http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2010/?LREC2010-Map-of-Language-Resources"><span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 127);">http://www.lrecconf.org/lrec2010/? </span></a></u><a
href="http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2010/?LREC2010-Map-of-Language-Resources"><span
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 127);">LREC2010MapofLanguageResources</span><span
style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">.</span></a></span>
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