30.818, Calls: Computational Linguistics/France

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LINGUIST List: Vol-30-818. Wed Feb 20 2019. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 30.818, Calls: Computational Linguistics/France

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Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2019 23:57:56
From: Sara Goggi [sara.goggi at ilc.cnr.it]
Subject: Language Resources and Evaluation Conference

 
Full Title: Language Resources and Evaluation Conference 
Short Title: LREC 2020 

Date: 11-May-2020 - 16-May-2020
Location: Marseille, France 
Contact Person: Nicoletta Calzolari
Meeting Email: glottolo at ilc.cnr.it
Web Site: http://lrec2020.lrec-conf.org 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 25-Nov-2019 

Meeting Description:

LREC is the major event on Language Resources (LRs) and Evaluation for Human
Language Technologies (HLT). LREC aims to provide an overview of the
state-of-the-art, explore new R&D directions and emerging trends, exchange
information regarding LRs and their applications, evaluation methodologies and
tools, on-going and planned activities, industrial uses and needs,
requirements coming from e-science and e-society, with respect both to policy
issues as well as to scientific/technological and organisational ones.

LREC provides a unique forum for researchers, industrials and funding agencies
from across a wide spectrum of areas to discuss issues and opportunities, find
new synergies and promote initiatives for international cooperation, in
support of investigations in language sciences, progress in language
technologies (LT) and development of corresponding products, services and
applications, and standards.


Call for Papers:

LREC 2020 First Call for Papers

Palais du Pharo
Marseille, France

Main Conference: 13-14-15 MAY 2020
Workshops and Tutorials: 11-12-16 MAY 2020

Conference website: https://lrec2020.lrec-conf.org/

The European Language Resources Association (ELRA) is glad to announce the
12th edition of LREC, organised with the support of national and international
organisations among which AFCP, AILC, ATALA, CLARIN, ILCB, LDC, ....

Conference Topics:
 
Issues in the design, construction and use of LRs: text, speech, sign,
gesture, image, in single or multimodal/multimedia data
- Guidelines, standards, best practices and models for LRs interoperability 
- Methodologies and tools for LRs construction and annotation
- Methodologies and tools for extraction and acquisition of knowledge
- Ontologies, terminology and knowledge representation
- LRs and Semantic Web (including Linked Data, Knowledge Graphs, etc.)
- LRs and Crowdsourcing
- Metadata for LRs and semantic/content mark-up
- Exploitation of LRs in systems and applications 
- Sign language, multimedia information and multimodal communication 
- LRs in systems and applications such as: information extraction, information
retrieval, audio-visual and multimedia search, speech dictation, meeting
transcription, Computer-Aided Language Learning, training and education,
mobile communication, machine translation, speech translation, summarisation,
semantic search, text mining, inferencing, reasoning, sentiment
analysis/opinion mining, etc.
- Interfaces: (speech-based) dialogue systems, natural language and
multimodal/multisensory interactions, voice-activated services, etc.
- Use of (multilingual) LRs in various fields of application like
e-government, e-participation, e-culture, e-health, mobile applications,
digital humanities, social sciences, etc.
- Industrial LRs requirements 
- User needs, LT for accessibility
LRs in the age of deep neural networks
- Semi-supervised, weakly-supervised and unsupervised machine learning
approaches
- Representation Learning for language 
- Techniques for (semi-)automatically generating training data
- Cross-language NLP & Cross-domain NLP with reduction of human effort 
Issues in LT evaluation
- LT evaluation methodologies, protocols and measures 
- Validation and quality assurance of LRs
- Benchmarking of systems and products
- Usability evaluation of HLT-based user interfaces and dialogue systems
- User satisfaction evaluation
General issues regarding LRs & Evaluation
- International and national activities, projects and initiatives 
- Priorities, perspectives, strategies in national and international policies
for LRs
- Multilingual issues, language coverage and diversity, less-resourced
languages
- Open, linked and shared data and tools, open and collaborative architectures
- Replicability and reproducibility issues
- Organisational, economical, ethical and legal issues

LREC 2020 Hot Topics:

- Less Resourced and Endangered Languages
- Language and the Brain
- Machine/Deep Learning

Submissions and Dates:

Submission of oral and poster (or poster+demo) papers: 25 November 2019
- LREC2020 asks for full papers from 4 pages to 8 pages (plus more pages for
references if needed), which must strictly follow the LREC stylesheet which
will be available on the conference website. Papers must be submitted through
the LREC2020 submission platform (it uses START from Softconf) and will be
peer-reviewed. 
Submission of proposals for workshops, tutorials and panels: 24 October 2019
- Proposals should be submitted via an online form on the LREC website and
will be reviewed by the Programme Committee.




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