27.204, Calls: Comp Ling, Text/Corpus Ling/Slovenia

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LINGUIST List: Vol-27-204. Tue Jan 12 2016. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 27.204, Calls: Comp Ling, Text/Corpus Ling/Slovenia

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Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 12:12:02
From: Annette Hautli-Janisz [annette.hautli at uni-konstanz.de]
Subject: The 2nd VisLR Workshop at LREC 2016

Full Title: The 2nd VisLR Workshop at LREC 2016 
Short Title: VisLR II @LREC 20116 

Date: 23-May-2016 - 23-May-2016
Location: Portorož, Slovenia 
Contact Person: lrec. vislr
Meeting Email: lrec.vislr at gmail.com
Web Site: http://www.eurac.edu/vislr_2016 

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

Call Deadline: 07-Feb-2016 

Meeting Description:

The 2nd Workshop on Visualization as added value in the development, use and
evaluation of lexical resources (VisLR II) aims at providing a follow-up forum
to the successful first VisLR workshop at LREC 2014, which addresses
visualization designers and users from computational and linguistic domains
likewise. We invite submissions on research demonstrating the development, use
and evaluation of visualization techniqes, with a particular focus on
representing the multidimensional characteristics of language in order to
arrive at ever more sophisticated visual language tools. This  includes work
applying existing visualization techniques to language  resources as well as
research on new visualization techniques that are specifically targeted to the
needs of language resources. Particular consideration is given to papers
aiming at the interoperability of the described visualization techniques.

Workshop organizers: 

Menna El-Assady (University of Konstanz)
Annette Hautli-Janisz (University of Konstanz)
Verena Lyding (EURAC research Bolzano/Bozen)

2nd Call for Papers:

The 2nd Workshop on Visualization as added value in the development, use and
evaluation of language resources (VisLR II)

Monday, 23 May 2016, morning session

Portorož, Slovenia

As a specialized subfield of information visualization, the visualization of
language continues to face particular challenges: Language data is complex,
only partly structured and, as with todays language resources, comes in large
quantities. Moreover, due to the variety of data types, from textual  data to
spoken or signed language data, the challenges for visualization are
necessarily varied. The overall challenge lies in breaking down the
multidimensionality into intuitive visual features that enable an at-a-glance
overview of the data. The second edition of the workshop therefore aims at
advancing the field of linguistic visualization by particularly focusing on
more advanced visualization techniques that represent the complexity of
language and that contribute to resolving them. 

We invite submissions on research demonstrating the development, use and
evaluation of visualization techniqes, with a particular focus on representing
the multidimensional characteristics of language in order to arrive at ever
more sophisticated visual language tools. This  includes work applying
existing visualization techniques to language  resources as well as research
on new visualization techniques that are specifically targeted to the needs of
language resources. Particular consideration is given to papers aiming at the
interoperability of the described visualization techniques. 

Topics include, but are not limited to: 

- Innovative visualization techniques for language data, in particular
language resources
- Challenges for visualizing different types of data, in particular spoken and
signed language data
- Resource validation and enhancement using visualization
- Interactive visualizations as interfaces for analysis
- Visualizations for enhancing human involvement and feedback loops for NLP
(crowdsourcing)
- Interactive visualizations for (facilitating) the understanding and tuning
of algorithms operating on language resources
- New infrastructures for language data visualization; visualization
components
- Evaluation of visualization techniques
- User requirements towards visualization techniques
- Strategies and issues for open distribution
- Visualizations for the eHumanities

Submissions:

Papers must describe original (completed or in progress) and unpublished work.
We invite long papers (8 pages, including references). Submission is done via
START: https://www.softconf.com/lrec2016/VisLRII/.

Style guidelines for the camera-ready papers will be provided on the main
conference page (http://lrec2016.lrec-conf.org). We recommend to make use of
these templates also for your initial submission.  

Important Dates:

Paper submission deadline: 7 February 2016
Notification of acceptance: 10 March 2016
Camera-ready versions due: 24 March 2016
Workshop date: 23 May 2016 (morning session)

Contact:

lrec.vislr at gmail.com
www.eurac.edu/vislr_2016

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