<br>This might be of interest ....(forward from Rudy Troike)<br><br>----- Forwarded message from <a href="mailto:Carlos.Areces@loria.fr">Carlos.Areces@loria.fr</a> -----<br> Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 17:01:37 +0100<br> From: Carlos Areces <
<a href="mailto:Carlos.Areces@loria.fr">Carlos.Areces@loria.fr</a>><br>Reply-To: Carlos Areces <<a href="mailto:Carlos.Areces@loria.fr">Carlos.Areces@loria.fr</a>><br> Subject: CFP: Resource-Scarce Language Engineering
<br> To: <a href="mailto:Carlos.Areces@loria.fr">Carlos.Areces@loria.fr</a><br><br>2ND CALL FOR PAPERS (20 February, 2006)<br>Resource-Scarce Language Engineering<br><a href="http://altiplano.emich.edu/resource_scarce/">
http://altiplano.emich.edu/resource_scarce/</a><br>31 July - 4 August, 2006<br><br>organized as part of the<br>European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information<br>ESSLLI 2006 <a href="http://esslli2006.lcc.uma.es/">
http://esslli2006.lcc.uma.es/</a><br>31 July - 11 August, 2006 in Málaga<br><br>Workshop Organizer:<br> Edward Garrett <<a href="mailto:egarrett@emich.edu">egarrett@emich.edu</a>><br><br>Workshop Purpose:<br> This workshop will bring together scientists from academia and
<br> industry, as well as advanced PhD students, to present and discuss<br> research on the theoretical and practical challenges of engineering<br> resource-scarce languages. We intend to provide an inclusive forum<br>
for exchanging ideas on a broad range of topics in areas represented<br> by ESSLLI, including basic text processing, speech analysis, and<br> machine translation.<br><br>Workshop Topics:<br> Seen through one lens, "resource-scarce languages" are languages
<br> for which few digital resources exist; and thus, languages whose<br> computerization poses unique challenges. Through another lens,<br> "resource-scarce languages" are languages with limited financial,<br>
political, and legal resources, languages that lack the clout or<br> global importance of the world's major languages.<br><br> In spite of these challenges, resource-scarce languages and<br> their speakers are not being ignored. Individuals, governments,
<br> and companies alike are busy developing technologies and tools<br> to support such languages. They are driven by a variety of<br> motivations - from the desire among academics and community<br> activists to preserve or revitalize endangered or threatened
<br> languages - to the desire by governments to promote minority<br> languages - to the need by other governments to detect hostile<br> chatter in diverse tongues - to the strategy of some companies to<br> enhance their stature in emerging markets such as China and
<br> South America.<br><br> Recognizing the above trend, this workshop will serve as a forum<br> for the discussion of academic and industrial research on resource-<br> scarce language engineering. Possible topics include but are not
<br> limited to:<br><br> - multilingual text processing and the Unicode Standard<br> - machine translation and speech recognition with minimal<br> training data<br> - rapid portability of existing language technologies to new languages
<br> - the use of multilingual resources for monolingual annotation<br> - the annotation of new language data on the basis of knowledge<br> of related languages<br> - coping with data of inconsistent or uneven quality or coverage
<br><br> In addition, there will be a shared task on a specific resource-<br> scarce language - Tibetan (details to be announced separately).<br><br>Submission Details:<br> Authors are invited to submit a paper describing completed work
<br> in the area of the workshop. Each submission will be read by at least<br> two members of the program committee, and will be evaluated<br> according to its scientific merit, its relevance to the workshop, and<br> the degree to which its ideas are expressed fully yet concisely.
<br> Submissions of any length will be accepted, but acceptable formats<br> are limited to postscript and pdf. Papers sent in other formats will be<br> subject to immediate disposal. Please send your submission electronically
<br> to <<a href="mailto:egarrett@emich.edu">egarrett@emich.edu</a>> by the deadline listed below. Accepted<br> papers will appear in the workshop proceedings published by ESSLLI.<br><br>Workshop Format:<br> This workshop is part of ESSLLI and is open to all ESSLLI
<br> participants. It will consist of five 90-minute sessions held over<br> five consecutive days in the first week of ESSLLI. There will be<br> at least 2-3 slots for paper presentation and discussion plus one<br> invited talk per session. On the first day the workshop organizer
<br> will give a general introduction to the topic.<br><br>Invited Speakers:<br> Tom Emerson, Basis Technology Corporation<br> John Goldsmith, University of Chicago<br> Rada Mihalcea, University of North Texas<br> Richard Sproat, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
<br> Cathy Wissink, Microsoft Corporation<br><br>Workshop Programme Committee:<br> Deborah Anderson, University of California, Berkeley<br> Emily Bender, University of Washington<br> Steven Bird, University of Melbourne
<br> Alan W. Black, Carnegie Mellon University<br> Sean Fulop, California State University, Fresno<br> Andrew Hardie, Lancaster University<br> Baden Hughes, University of Melbourne<br> William Lewis, University of Washington
<br> Steven Loomis, IBM<br> Joel Martin, National Research Council, Canada<br> Mike Maxwell, University of Maryland<br> Tony McEnery, Lancaster University<br> Manuela Noske, Microsoft Corporation<br> Charles Schafer, Johns Hopkins University
<br> Tanja Schultz, Carnegie Mellon University<br><br>Important Dates:<br> Submissions : April 7, 2006<br> Notification : April 28, 2006<br> Full paper deadline: May 19, 2006<br> Final program : June 30, 2006
<br> Workshop Dates : July 31 - August 4, 2006<br><br>Local Arrangements:<br> All workshop participants including the presenters will be<br> required to register for ESSLLI. The registration fee for<br> authors presenting a paper will correspond to the early
<br> student/workshop speaker registration fee. Moreover, a number<br> of additional fee waiver grants might be made available by<br> the local organizing committee on a competitive basis and<br> workshop participants are eligible to apply for those.
<br><br> There will be no reimbursement for travel costs or accommodation.<br> Workshop speakers who have difficulty in finding funding<br> should contact the local organizing committee to ask for the<br> possibilities of a grant.
<br><br>Further Information:<br> About the workshop: <a href="http://altiplano.emich.edu/resource_scarce/">http://altiplano.emich.edu/resource_scarce/</a><br> About ESSLLI: <a href="http://esslli2006.lcc.uma.es/">http://esslli2006.lcc.uma.es/
</a><br>--<br>Carlos Eduardo Areces<br>INRIA Lorraine<br><br>INRIA Lorraine. 615, rue du Jardin Botanique<br>54602 Villers les Nancy Cedex, France<br>phone : +33 (0)3 83 58 17 90<br>fax : +33 (0)3 83 41 30 79<br>e-mail :
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