27.2, Calls: Computational Ling/Slovenia

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LINGUIST List: Vol-27-2. Mon Jan 04 2016. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 27.2, Calls: Computational Ling/Slovenia

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Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2016 12:14:49
From: Reinhard Rapp [reinhardrapp at gmx.de]
Subject: 9th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora

Full Title: 9th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora 
Short Title: BUCC 2016 

Date: 23-May-2016 - 23-May-2016
Location: Portorož, Slovenia 
Contact Person: Reinhard Rapp
Meeting Email: reinhardrapp at gmx.de
Web Site: https://comparable.limsi.fr/bucc2016/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 10-Feb-2016 

Meeting Description:

9th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora 
Special Topic: Continuous Vector Space Models and Comparable Corpora
Shared Task: Identifying Parallel Sentences in Comparable Corpora

https://comparable.limsi.fr/bucc2016/

Monday, May 23, 2016

Co-located with LREC 2016, Portorož, Slovenia

Motivation:

In the language engineering and the linguistics communities, research on comparable corpora has been motivated by two main reasons. In
language engineering, on the one hand, it is chiefly motivated by the need to use comparable corpora as training data for statistical Natural Language Processing applications such as statistical machine translation or cross-lingual retrieval. In linguistics, on the other hand, comparable corpora are of interest in themselves by making possible inter-linguistic discoveries and comparisons. It is generally accepted in both communities that comparable corpora are documents in one or several languages that are comparable in content and form in various degrees and dimensions. We believe that the linguistic definitions and observations related to comparable corpora can improve methods to mine such corpora for applications of statistical NLP. As such, it is of great interest to bring together builders and users of such corpora.

Shared Task:

There will be a shared task on ''Identifying Parallel Sentences in Comparable Corpora'' whose details will be described on the workshop website (URL see above).

Organisers: 

Reinhard Rapp, University of Mainz (Germany)
Pierre Zweigenbaum, LIMSI, CNRS, Orsay (France)
Serge Sharoff, University of Leeds (UK)

Call for Papers:

Important Dates: 

February 10, 2016: Deadline for submission of full papers
March 10, 2016: Notification of acceptance
March 25, 2016: Camera-ready papers due
May 23, 2016: Workshop date

Submission Information:

Papers should follow the LREC main conference formatting details (to be announced on the conference website http://lrec2016.lrec-conf.org/en/ ) and should be submitted as a PDF-file via the START workshop manager at

https://www.softconf.com/lrec2016/BUCC2016/

Contributions can be short or long papers. Short paper submission must describe original and unpublished work without exceeding six (6)
pages. Characteristics of short papers include: a small, focused contribution; work in progress; a negative result; an opinion piece; an interesting application nugget. Long paper submissions must describe substantial, original, completed and unpublished work without exceeding ten (10) pages.

Reviewing will be double blind, so the papers should not reveal the authors' identity. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings.

Further Information:

Reinhard Rapp: reinhardrapp at gmx.de

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