31.183, Calls: Applied Ling, Clinical Ling, Comp Ling, Lang Doc, Text/Corpus Ling / France

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Subject: 31.183, Calls: Applied Ling, Clinical Ling, Comp Ling, Lang Doc, Text/Corpus Ling / France

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Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 15:08:44
From: James Fiumara [jfiumara at gmail.com]
Subject: Citizen Linguistics in Language Resource Development

 
Full Title: Citizen Linguistics in Language Resource Development 
Short Title: CLLRD 2020 

Date: 16-May-2020 - 16-May-2020
Location: Marseille, France 
Contact Person: James Fiumara
Meeting Email: jfiumara at ldc.upenn.edu
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/view/cllrd-2020/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Clinical Linguistics; Computational Linguistics; Language Documentation; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 17-Feb-2020 

Meeting Description:

The Citizen Linguistics in Language Resource Development workshop will be held
at LREC 2020 on Saturday May 16, 2020, morning session. The workshop will
provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to explore and discuss the
issues, advantages and challenges of using Citizen Linguistics as a method for
the creation of language resources. Additionally, the workshop will introduce
LanguageARC, a new Citizen Linguistics web portal for collecting language data
and judgements. 

Call For Papers: https://sites.google.com/view/cllrd-2020/


Call for Papers:

Notwithstanding advances in data collection and processing, language related
research, education and technology development continue to suffer from
inadequate supply of Language Resources. To supplement traditional LR
development, which typically relies upon top down support from some government
or private foundation, Citizen Linguistics (the Citizen Science of Language)
changes the incentive model to attract a new workforce which in turn requires
a different kind of workflow. Incentives to Citizen Linguists may include the
opportunities to learn and develop new skills; to socialize, compete and earn
status or recognition; to document their language and promote their culture
and, most importantly, to contribute directly to research and indirectly to a
greater cause or social good. By offering human contributors sustained access
to appropriate opportunities, activities, and incentives, we can enhance LR
development well beyond what traditional direct funding alone can produce.
However, along with these new incentives and workflows come new challenges
whose solutions are relevant even to expert (paid) annotation.

The goal of this hybrid workshop/tutorial is two-fold. First is to provide a
forum for researchers and practitioners to explore and discuss the issues,
advantages and challenges of using Citizen Linguistics as a method for the
creation of language resources. Second is to introduce LanguageARC, a new
Citizen Linguistics web portal for collecting language data and judgements. 

Topics:

There will be two sessions at the workshop. For the first session, papers are
welcome on any topic related to Citizen Linguistics in the development of
Language Resources including: 
- case studies
- language specific challenges
- incentive models
- workforce recruitment, training and evaluation
- task design, granularity and assignment
- workflow and ordering
- response evaluation and aggregation
- the preparation of language resources from raw results and their use in
research and in developing and evaluating HLTs

For the second session, papers are welcome on any topic related specifically
to the use of LanguageARC.org to create tasks that collect language data for
research and development. Presenting authors of Best Papers Employing
LanguageARC will receive travel subsidies to present during this workshop at
LREC. The second session will also include a brief tutorial on LanguageARC for
new or potential users. By the end of the tutorial, attendees will be fully
capable of implementing their data collection or annotation project via
LanguageARC. 
 
Submissions:

We will accept papers between 4 and 8 pages excluding references. Accepted
workshop papers will be published as workshop proceedings along with the main
conference papers. Papers must follow the LREC 2020 style sheet and author’s
kit templates. Papers are to be submitted via the workshop START page
https://www.softconf.com/lrec2020/CLLRD2020/).
 
Important Dates

- submission deadline: February 17, 2020 
- notification of acceptance: March 12, 2020 
- deadline for camera-ready versions: April 2, 2020




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