21.32, Calls: Computational Ling, Text/Corpus Ling/Malta

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Date: 22-Dec-2009
From: Reinhard Rapp < reinhard.rapp at urv.cat >
Subject: 3rd Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora

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Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 12:19:11
From: Reinhard Rapp [reinhard.rapp at urv.cat]
Subject: 3rd Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora

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Full Title: 3rd Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora 
Short Title: 3rd BUCC 

Date: 22-May-2010 - 22-May-2010
Location: La Valletta, Malta 
Contact Person: Reinhard Rapp
Meeting Email: reinhard.rapp at urv.cat
Web Site: http://www.fb06.uni-mainz.de/lk/bucc2010 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 19-Feb-2010 

Meeting Description:

Third Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora
Applications of Parallel and Comparable Corpora in Natural Language Engineering
and the Humanities

We are inviting submissions for the third edition of the Workshop on Building
and Using Comparable Corpora. Comparable corpora are collections of documents
that are comparable in content and form in various degrees and dimensions. This
definition includes many types of parallel and non-parallel multilingual
corpora, but also sets of monolingual corpora that are used for comparative
purposes.

By bringing together researchers from several disciplines, including natural
language engineering and the humanities, the workshop aims at showing the full
breadth of research on comparable corpora. 

1st Call for Papers

LREC 2010 post-conference workshop, 22 May 2010
Mediterranean Conference Centre, La Valletta, Malta
Deadline for submissions: February 19, 2010
http://www.fb06.uni-mainz.de/lk/bucc2010

We are inviting submissions for the third edition of the Workshop on Building
and Using Comparable Corpora. Comparable corpora are collections of documents
that are comparable in content and form in various degrees and dimensions. This
definition includes many types of parallel and non-parallel multilingual
corpora, but also sets of monolingual corpora that are used for comparative
purposes.

By bringing together researchers from several disciplines, including natural
language engineering and the humanities, the workshop aims at showing the full
breadth of research on comparable corpora.

We solicit contributions on a range of topics, including but not limited to:

Building Comparable Corpora
- Automatic and semi-automatic methods
- Methods to mine parallel and non-parallel corpora from the Web
- Tools and criteria to evaluate the comparability of corpora
- Parallel vs non-parallel corpora, monolingual corpora
- Rare and minority languages
- Comparisons across language families
- Multi-media/multi-modal comparable corpora

Applications of Comparable Corpora
- Human translations
- Language learning
- Cross-language information retrieval & document categorization
- Bilingual projections
- (Statistical) machine translation
- Writing assistance

Mining from Comparable Corpora
- Extraction of parallel segments or paraphrases from comparable corpora
- Extraction of bilingual and multilingual translations of single words and
multi-word expressions, proper names, named entities, etc.

Important Dates
February 19, 2010  Deadline for paper submissions
March 12, 2010  Notification of acceptance
March 22, 2010  Camera-ready copies due
May 22, 2010  Workshop

Invited Speaker
Adam Kilgarriff (Lexical Computing Ltd)

Workshop Co-chairs
Reinhard Rapp (University of Tarragona, Spain)
Pierre Zweigenbaum (LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France)
Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds, UK)

Programme Committee
Srinivas Bangalore (AT&T Labs, USA)
Caroline Barrière (National Research Council Canada)
Chris Biemann (Microsoft / Powerset, San Francisco, USA)
Lynne Bowker  (University of Ottawa, Canada)
Hervé Déjean (Xerox Research Centre Europe, Grenoble, France)
Andreas Eisele (DFKI Saarbrücken, Germany)
Éric Gaussier (Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France)
Gregory Grefenstette  (Exalead, Paris, France)
Pascale Fung (Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, China)
Silvia Hansen-Schirra (University of Mainz, Germany)
Hitoshi Isahara (NICT, Tokyo, Japan)
Kyo Kageura (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Min-Yen Kan (National University of Singapore)
Natalie Kübler (Université Paris Diderot, France)
Adam Kilgarriff (Lexical Computing Ltd, UK)
Philippe Langlais (Université de Montréal, Canada)
Emmanuel Morin (Université de Nantes, France)
Tony McEnery (Lancaster University, UK)
Dragos Stefan Munteanu (Language Weaver Inc., USA)
Carol Peters (ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy)
Reinhard Rapp (University of Tarragona, Spain)
Sujith Ravi (ISI, University of Southern California, USA)
Serge Sharoff  (University of Leeds, UK)
Michel Simard (National Research Council Canada)
Richard Sproat (OGI School of Science and Technology, USA)
Michael Zock (LIF, CNRS Marseille, France)
Pierre Zweigenbaum (LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France)

Submissions
Papers of no more than 10 pages and following the LREC conference formatting
details should be submitted as a PDF file via the START conference manager at
https://www.softconf.com/lrec2010/BUCC2010/
Papers will be blind reviewed by at least two members of the Programme
Committee. Therefore, authors' names and affiliations should not appear in the
paper. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings.

This year, when submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to
participate in a survey on the use of language resources by providing essential
information about the 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 the research.
For further information on this new iniative, please refer to
http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2010/?LREC2010-Map-of-Language-Resources.

Further Information
If you have questions, please consult the workshop website at
http://www.fb06.uni-mainz.de/lk/bucc2010  or contact
Reinhard Rapp at reinhardrapp at gmx.de

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