28.5236, Calls: Comp Ling, Discipline of Ling/Japan

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Subject: 28.5236, Calls: Comp Ling, Discipline of Ling/Japan

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Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 14:52:09
From: Maria Eskevich [maria.eskevich at gmail.com]
Subject: ParlaCLARIN - LREC2018 workshop on creating and using parliamentary corpora

 
Full Title: ParlaCLARIN - LREC2018 workshop on creating and using parliamentary corpora 
Short Title: ParlaCLARIN 

Date: 07-May-2018 - 07-May-2018
Location: Miyazaki, Japan 
Contact Person: Darja Fišer
Meeting Email: clarin at clarin.eu
Web Site: https://www.clarin.eu/ParlaCLARIN 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Discipline of Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 10-Jan-2018 

Meeting Description:

Parliamentary data is a major source of socially relevant content. It is
available in ever larger quantities, is multilingual, accompanied by rich
metadata, and has the distinguishing characteristic that it spoken language
produced in controlled circumstances that has been traditionally transcribed
but now increasingly released also in audio and video formats. All those
factors in combination require solutions related to its archiving,
structuring, synchronization, visualization, querying and analysis.
Furthermore, adequate approaches to its exploitation also have to take into
account the need of researchers from vastly different Humanities and Social
Sciences fields, such as political sciences, sociology, history, and
psychology.

An inspiring CLARIN-PLUS cross-disciplinary workshop “Working with
parliamentary records”  [1] that was held in Sofia, Bulgaria, in Spring 2017,
and a comprehensive overview of a multitude of the existing parliamentary
resources within the CLARIN infrastructure [2] clearly indicated a need for
better harmonization, interoperability and comparability of the resources and
tools relevant for the study of parliamentary discussions and decisions, not
only in Europe but worldwide.

This workshop aims to bring together researchers interested in compiling,
annotating, structuring, linking and visualising parliamentary records that
are suitable for research in a wide range of disciplines in the Humanities and
Social Sciences. We invite unpublished original work focusing on the
collection, analysis and processing of parliamentary records.


2nd Call for Papers:

Due to Freedom of Information Acts that are supported by the United Nations
and set in place in over 100 countries worldwide, parliamentary debates are
being increasingly easy to obtain, and have always been of interest to
researchers from a wide range fields in Humanities and Social Sciences both
for the potential influence of their content, and the specificities of the
formalized, often persuasive and emotional language use in this context. As a
consequence, there are many initiatives, on the national and international
levels, that aim at compiling and analysing parliamentary data. Recent
CLARIN-PLUS survey on parliament data has identified over 20 corpora of
parliamentary records, with over half of them being available within the
CLARIN infrastructure.

Given the maturity, variety, and potential of this type of language data as
well as the rich metadata it is complemented with, it is urgent to gather
researchers both from the side of those producing parliamentary corpora and
making them available, as well as those making use of them for linguistic,
historical, political, sociological etc. research in order to share methods
and approaches of compiling, annotating and exploring them in order to achieve
harmonization of the compiled resources, and to ensure current and future
comparability of research on national datasets as well as promote
transnational analyses.

Topics include but are not limited to:

- Creation and annotation of parliamentary data in textual and/or spoken
format
- Annotation standards and best practices for parliamentary corpora
-  Accessibility, querying and visualisation of parliamentary data
-  Text analytics, semantic processing and linking of parliamentary data
- Parliamentary corpora and multilinguality
- Studies based on parliamentary corpora

Submission & Publication

We accept submission of long papers (up to 8 pages), short papers (up to 4
pages) and demo papers (up to 4 pages) to be presented as a long or short oral
presentation at the workshop. The papers of the workshop will be published in
online proceedings.

Submission page: https://www.softconf.com/lrec2018/ParlaCLARIN2018/

Important Dates

- Paper submission deadline: 10 January 2018
- Notification of acceptance: 12 February 2018
- Camera-ready paper: 26 February 2018
- Workshop date: 7 May 2018

Organizing Committee

- Darja Fiser, University of Ljubljana, Jožef Stefan Institute
- Franciska de Jong, CLARIN ERIC
- Maria Eskevich, CLARIN ERIC

The workshop is supported by the CLARIN research infrastructure.
To contact the organizers, please mail clarin at clarin.eu (Subject:
[ParlaCLARIN at LREC2018]).




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