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***FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS***<br>
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LREC 2012<br>
8th ELRA Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation<br>
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Istanbul Convention & Exhibition Centre (ICEC, Lütfi Kirdar
Centre) ISTANBUL, TURKEY<br>
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MAIN CONFERENCE: 23-24-25 MAY 2012<br>
WORKSHOPS and TUTORIALS: 21-22 MAY and 26-27 MAY 2012<br>
Conference web site: http//www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012/lrec2012.htm<br>
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The eighth international conference on Language Resources and
Evaluation (LREC) will be organised in 2012 by ELRA with the support
of a wide range of international associations and organisations.<br>
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CONFERENCE AIMS<br>
Since the first LREC held in Granada in 1998, LREC has become the
major event on Language Resources (LRs) and Evaluation for Language
Technologies (LT).<br>
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.<br>
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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 and innovation in
language technologies and development of corresponding products,
services and applications, and standards.<br>
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CONFERENCE TOPICS<br>
Issues in the design, construction and use of Language Resources
(LRs): text, speech, multimodality<br>
• Guidelines, standards, best practices and models for LRs
interoperability<br>
• Methodologies and tools for LRs construction and annotation<br>
• Methodologies and tools for the extraction and acquisition of
knowledge<br>
• Ontologies and knowledge representation<br>
• Terminology<br>
• Integration between (multilingual) LRs, ontologies and Semantic
Web technologies<br>
• Integration between (multilingual) LRs and multimedia
technologies<br>
• Metadata descriptions of LRs and metadata for semantic/content
markup<br>
Exploitation of LRs in different types of systems and applications<br>
• Sign language, multimedia information and multimodal
communication<br>
• LRs in systems and applications such as: information
extraction, information retrieval, audio-visual and multimedia
search, speech dictation, meeting transcription, Computer Aided
Language Learning, training and education, mobile communication,
machine translation, speech translation, summarisation, web
services, semantic search, text mining, inferencing, reasoning, etc.<br>
• Different types of interfaces: (speech-based) dialogue systems,
natural language and multimodal/multisensorial interactions, voice
activated services, etc.<br>
• Use of (multilingual) LRs in various fields of application,
like e-government, e-culture, e-health, e-participation, mobile
applications, etc.<br>
• Industrial LRs requirements, user needs<br>
Issues in Language Technologies evaluation<br>
• LT Evaluation methodologies, protocols and measures<br>
• Validation, quality assurance, evaluation of LRs<br>
• Benchmarking of systems and products<br>
• Usability evaluation of LT-based user interfaces, interactions
and dialogue systems<br>
• Usability and user satisfaction evaluation<br>
General issues regarding LRs & Evaluation<br>
• National and international activities and projects<br>
• International collaboration and co-operation<br>
• Multilingual issues<br>
• Priorities, perspectives, strategies in national and
international policies for LRs<br>
• Language coverage and diversity, Less Resourced languages,
Endangered languages<br>
• Open, linked and shared data and tools, Open and collaborative
architectures<br>
• Organisational, economical, ethical and legal issues<br>
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Hot Topic: Speech & Multimodal Resources<br>
Speech and Multimodal Resources are the special topics for LREC
2012, and submissions dedicated to these modalities are encouraged!
Also papers integrating speech and/or multimodal with written
resources are particularly welcome.<br>
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Special Highlight: Contribute to building the LREC Language Library!<br>
After the success of the LRE Map introduced in LREC 2010 – now used
in many Conferences as a normal step in the submission procedure –
LREC 2012 recognises that time is ripe to launch another important
initiative, the LREC Language Library!<br>
The LREC Language Library will also be a collaborative enterprise of
the LREC Community, an important contribution to the community-built
Open Resource Infrastructure.<br>
ELRA will prepare an LREC Repository, part of the META-SHARE
network, hosting a number of resources on all modalities (speech,
text, images, etc.) in as many languages as possible. When
submitting a paper, you will be invited to process some pieces of
this data, in the appropriate language(s) for you, in one or more of
the possible dimensions that your submission addresses (e.g. POS-tag
the data, extract/annotate named entities, annotate temporal
information, disambiguate word senses, transcribe audio, etc.) and
put the processed data back in the LREC Repository.<br>
The processed data will be made available to all the LREC
participants before the conference, to be compared and analysed, and
at LREC we will organise some event around them with your help!<br>
This collaborative work on annotation/transcription/extraction/…
over the same data and on a large number of processing dimensions
will set the ground for a large Language Library, linked to the LRE
Map for the description of the data, where everyone can
deposit/create processed data of any sort – all our “knowledge”
about language.<br>
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PROGRAMME<br>
The Scientific Programme will include invited talks, oral
presentations, poster and demo presentations, and panels, in
addition to a keynote address by the winner of the Antonio Zampolli
Prize.<br>
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As usual, 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.<br>
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SUBMISSIONS AND DATES<br>
Submitted abstracts of papers for oral and poster or demo
presentations should consist of about 1500-2000 words.<br>
* Submission of proposals for oral and poster/demo papers: 15
October 2011<br>
Proposals for panels, workshops and tutorials will be reviewed by
the Programme Committee.<br>
* Submission of proposals for panels, workshops and tutorials:
15 October 2011<br>
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PROCEEDINGS<br>
The Proceedings will include both oral and poster papers, in the
same format.<br>
In addition a Book of Abstracts will be printed.<br>
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CONFERENCE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE<br>
Nicoletta Calzolari – CNR, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale
“Antonio Zampolli”, Pisa – Italy (Conference chair)<br>
Khalid Choukri – ELRA, Paris – France<br>
Thierry Declerck – DFKI GmbH, Saarbrücken – Germany<br>
Mehmet Ugur Dogan – TÜBITAK-BILGEM, SLTC, Kocaeli – Turkey<br>
Bente Maegaard – CST, University of Copenhagen – Denmark<br>
Joseph Mariani – LIMSI-CNRS & IMMI, Orsay – France<br>
Asuncion Moreno – Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona –
Spain<br>
Jan Odijk – UIL-OTS, Utrecht – The Netherlands<br>
Stelios Piperidis – Athena Research Center/ILSP, Athens – Greece<br>
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