21.264, Calls: Computational Ling/Malta

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Date: 14-Jan-2010
From: Núria Bel < nuria.bel at upf.edu >
Subject: Methods for the Automatic Acquisition of Language
 

	
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Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 13:17:59
From: Núria Bel [nuria.bel at upf.edu]
Subject: Methods for the Automatic Acquisition of Language

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Full Title: Methods for the Automatic Acquisition of Language 
Short Title: LREC 2010 Acquisition Workshop 

Date: 23-May-2010 - 23-May-2010
Location: Valletta, Malta 
Contact Person: Núria Bel
Meeting Email: nuria.bel at upf.edu
Web Site: http://www.flarenet.eu/?q=LREC2010_Acquisition_Workshop 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 26-Feb-2010 

Meeting Description:

While methods for the Automatic Production of Language Resources are being 
described in scientific papers, the proposed techniques and their results are 
somehow unrelated because the lack of a common forum where to share experiences
and to compare results. 

First Call for Papers

Workshop on Methods for the Automatic Acquisition of Language Resources and
their evaluation methods

To be held in conjunction with the 7th International Language Resources and 
Evaluation Conference (LREC 2010) 
23 May 2010, Mediterranean Conference Center, Valletta, Malta
http://www.flarenet.eu/?q=LREC2010_Acquisition_Workshop/

Deadline for submission: 26 February 2010

FlaReNet Working Group on 'Methods for the automatic construction and 
processing of Language Resources' in cooperation with FP7 projects: ACCURAT 
(Analysis and Evaluation of Comparable Corpora for Under Resourced Areas of 
Machine Translation), PANACEA (Platform for Automatic, Normalized Annotation 
and Cost-Effective Acquisition of Language Resources for Human Language 
Technologies) and TTC (Terminology Extraction, Translation Tools and Comparable 
Corpora) organizes this LREC workshop whose aim is to be the beginning of a 
series of meetings that will be an enduring forum where researchers in the field
can exchange information and compare results. 

The two main objectives of the workshop are:

- First, to start the compilation of information about current initiatives and
available and proved applications for the automatic acquisition of Language
Resources and, 
- Second, to start the creation of common materials for the evaluation and
comparison of the results of these methods and techniques. 

This first workshop is organized in a series of presentation talks and an open
poster session. For the open poster session, the organizers welcome
contributions related to the techniques and applications of the automatic
acquisition and production of language resources and their evaluation in one of
the following areas:

- Automatic extraction and pre-processing of corpus
- Alignment techniques for parallel and comparable corpus
- Bilingual dictionaries extraction, including terminological resources
- Lexical Information Acquisition
- Tree-bank automatic building
- Grammar induction
- Automatic acquisition of multimodal resources
- Automatic acquisition of sign languages

Poster papers (in the LREC format available at the conference web page and that 
should not be longer than 6 pages , references included) may describe past 
evaluation exercises as well as work in progress.

Important Dates
Deadline for submission: 26 February 2010
Notification of acceptance: 18 March 2010
Final version due: 25 March 2010
Workshop: 23 May 2010

Submission Procedure
Submission will be electronic using START paper submission software at the 
following link 
https://www.softconf.com/lrec2010/FLaReNetAcquisition2010/ 

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 
http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2010/?LREC2010-Map-of-Language-Resources

Workshop Organizing Committee
Núria Bel
Universitat Pompeu Fabra - IULA
Barcelona, Spain

Béatrice Daille 
Université de Nantes
Nantes, France

Andrejs Vasiljevs
Tilde - www.tilde.com
Riga, Latvia 

Confirmed Program Committee Members to date: 
Gregor Thurmair
Linguatec
Munich, Germany

Adeline Nazarenko 
LIPN - The Computer Science Lab of the Paris-Nord University
Paris, France

Anne Vilnat 
LIMSI - Lab. d'Informatique Mécanique et Sciences de l'Ingénieur. Orsay Cedex, 
France

Eric de la Clergerie 
INRIA - I. National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique France

Montserrat Marimon
Universitat de Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain

Victoria Arranz
ELDA - Evaluations and Language resources Distribution Agency
Paris, France

Valeria Quochi
ILC-CNR, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale
Pisa, Italy

Nicoletta Calzolari 
ILC-CNR, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale
Pisa, Italy

Prokopis Prokopidis
ILSP - Institute for Language Speech Processing
Athens, Greece

Stelios Piperidis 
ILSP - Institute for Language Speech Processing
Athens, Greece

Nancy Ide
Vassar College - Department of Computer Science
New York, USA

Anna Korhonen 
University of Cambridge - Natural Language and Information Processing (NLIP) 
Group
Cambridge, United Kingdom

Contact Person: Núria Bel - nuria.bel at upf.edu





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