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CoCo-FLaRE: Reinforcing International Collaboration on Language
Resources and Evaluation<br>
A joint COCOSDA – FLaReNet Workshop at LREC 2012<br>
Saturday, May 26th, 2012<br>
CALL for PARTICIPATION<br>
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Language Resources and Evaluation are gathering more and more
momentum, with the increasing success of the LREC conference and
of the LRE journal, and with new program initiatives flourishing
in Europe (FLaReNet, META-SHARE, CLARIN, etc.), as well as in
other parts of the world (TDIL, NHN, Language GRID, ALAGIN, BOLT,
SILT etc.).<br>
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COCOSDA, the Coordinating Committee on Speech Databases and Speech
I/O Systems Assessment, paved the way with its pioneering creation
in 1991 to serve the international speech processing community.<br>
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Since then, COCOSDA continues to gather the international speech
community under its informal umbrella, while the European
initiatives extend their scope to language in general, through
ELRA and LREC, and Oriental COCOSDA fosters spoken language
resources with an increasing participation of Asian countries in
its annual conferences. This 2012 workshop will be the occasion to
share views on ways to reinforce<br>
international collaboration in the field of Language Resources and
Evaluation at a time when data sharing is coming to the forefront
of science, in many different areas such as biology, astrophysics,
humanities, etc.<br>
The workshop will comprise two parts: a morning session
specifically devoted to spoken language resources and evaluation,
organized by COCOSDA, and an afternoon session enlarging the scope
to speech & language in general. A final discussion will aim
at proposing new measures to increase and improve international
collaboration and coordination, in order to foster Language
Resources and Evaluation.<br>
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The workshop is open to all interested parties at no charge, but
registration is mandatory. Those wishing to contribute topics at
the workshop are invited to contact the organizers by March 15th.<br>
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Organizers:<br>
- Nicoletta Calzolari (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:glottolo@ilc.cnr.it">glottolo@ilc.cnr.it</a>) (Co-Chair)<br>
- Dafydd Gibbon (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:gibbon@uni-bielefeld.de">gibbon@uni-bielefeld.de</a>) (Co-Chair)<br>
- Nick Campbell (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:nick@tcd.ie">nick@tcd.ie</a>)<br>
- Khalid Choukri (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:choukri@elda.org">choukri@elda.org</a>)<br>
- Joseph Mariani (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Joseph.Mariani@limsi.fr">Joseph.Mariani@limsi.fr</a>)<br>
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Morning session<br>
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"COCOSDA: New developments in multimodal resources and assessment"<br>
This session will consist of regional and topical reports, with
discussion, by COCOSDA members and invited presenters. A central
push forward in multimodal speech research has come from the
increasing amount of work on the languages of smaller speech
communities, resulting in large amounts of new data from
typologically very different languages with very different sound
inventories, prosody, grammar, and speech dialogue conventions.<br>
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Tentative Schedule:<br>
Introduction (D. Gibbon)<br>
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Part 1: Topical reports with a special emphasis on resources and
evaluation for :<br>
· speech interaction with robotic and virtual agents,<br>
· types of multimodal systems,<br>
· types of mobile systems,<br>
· under-resourced languages.<br>
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Coffee break<br>
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Part 2: Regional reports<br>
Presentations will summarize regional developments in Africa, the
Americas, Asia, Europe, and Oceania in current major topic areas.
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Part 3: Information exchange and discussion<br>
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Lunch Break<br>
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Afternoon session<br>
“International collaboration and coordination on Language
Resources and Evaluation”<br>
This session will be devoted to the various aspects of
international collaboration on Language Resources and Evaluation
such as:<br>
· Charting the field<br>
· Ensuring the best possible language coverage<br>
· Fostering language resources<br>
· Sharing language resources<br>
· Identifying and tracking the resources<br>
· Recognizing the merits of LR producers and LT evaluators<br>
· Networking the community, etc.<br>
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It will rely on the activities conducted in this area in various
part of the world, including the recent conclusions and
recommendations of the FLaReNet project.<br>
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Tentative Schedule:<br>
Introduction (N. Calzolari)<br>
Part 1: Information and Instruments<br>
· Charting the field<br>
LRE Map and Language Matrices, FLaReNet International Wiki survey
and National<br>
Contact Points, META-NET Language White Papers and Tables, ...<br>
· Ensuring the best possible language coverage<br>
Highlights of National Programs on LR, Endangered and local
languages, ...<br>
· Sharing Resources<br>
META-SHARE, Language Grid, NSF policy, the Language Library, ...<br>
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Coffee break<br>
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Part 2: Actions<br>
· Fostering language resources<br>
The FLaReNet Strategic Language Resource Agenda<br>
· Identifying and tracking resources<br>
The new ISLRN initiative<br>
· Recognizing the merits of LR producers and LT evaluators<br>
Towards a Language Resource Impact Factor?<br>
· Networking the community<br>
The LRE Forum<br>
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Part 3: General discussion: The way forward</small>
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