33.1282, Calls: Computational Linguistics, Text/Corpus Linguistics/France
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Subject: 33.1282, Calls: Computational Linguistics, Text/Corpus Linguistics/France
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Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2022 14:39:10
From: Sandra Kuebler [skuebler at indiana.edu]
Subject: The Sixteenth Linguistic Annotation Workshop
Full Title: The Sixteenth Linguistic Annotation Workshop
Short Title: LAW XVI
Date: 24-Jun-2022 - 24-Jun-2022
Location: Marseille, France
Contact Person: Sandra Kuebler
Meeting Email: skuebler at indiana.edu
Web Site: https://cemantix.org/workshop/law/xvi/
Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics
Call Deadline: 15-Apr-2022
Meeting Description:
1 Introduction
Linguistic annotation of natural language corpora is the backbone of
supervised methods of statistical natural language processing, as well as
other types of corpus-based research.
The Sixteenth LAW (LAW XVI) will provide a forum for presentation and
discussion of innovative research on all aspects of linguistic annotation,
including creation/evaluation of annotation schemes, methods for automatic and
manual annotation, use and evaluation of annotation software and frameworks,
representation of linguistic data and annotations, etc.
As in the past, the LAW will provide a forum for annotation researchers to
work towards standardization, best practices, and interoperability of
annotation information and software.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
1.1 Annotation procedures
* Innovative automated and manual strategies for annotation
* Machine learning and knowledge-based methods for automation of corpus
annotation
* Creation, maintenance, and interactive exploration of annotation structures
and annotated data
1.2 Annotation evaluation
* Inter-annotator agreement and other evaluation metrics and strategies
* Qualitative evaluation of linguistic representation
1.3 Annotation access and use
* Representation formats/structures for merged annotations of different
phenomena, and means to explore/manipulate them
* Linguistic considerations for merging annotations of distinct phenomena
1.4 Annotation guidelines and standards
* Best practices for annotation procedures
* Development and documentation of annotation schemes
* Interoperability of annotation formats and/or frameworks among different
systems as well as different tasks, frameworks,
modalities, and languages
1.5 Annotation software and frameworks
* Development, evaluation and/or innovative use of annotation software
frameworks
1.6 Annotation schemes
* New and innovative annotation schemes
* Comparison of annotation schemes
2 Special theme for LAW XVI
The special theme for LAW (XVI) is ''The Impact of Multimodal Language
Understanding on Annotation Practices and Representations.''
Recent years have seen rapid improvements in performance of machine learning
models across multiple modalities of communication such as text, speech,
images, video, gestures, etc. Improvements in unsupervised representation and
learning have resulted in state of the art models needing less manually
annotated data for training.
However, the need for high quality, manual annotations for capturing and
integrating multiple layers of information surrogates across various signals,
including linguistic, is unlikely to go away. On the contrary, annotation
practices, guidelines and representations will need to be adapted, extended,
to address the challenges brought about by a richer landscape of phenomena.
Historically these communities have existed as separate islands, and have
crafted solutions that satisfy local research and application needs. The
evolution of next generation, situated language understanding systems is
likely to create a greater demand on the availability, and ease of use of such
multimodal annotations and frameworks. We solicit papers addressing the gamut
of issues brought into light by this emerging area of research.
Articles can range from those analyzing the state of existing representations,
approaches, methods, etc. to those providing ideas, or full-fledged solutions
to tools and/or models which could facilitate the integration and search over
data and annotations spanning multiple modalities.
Deadline extended to April 15, 2022 (AoE)
We invite submissions of long (8 pages) and short (4 pages) papers, posters,
and demonstrations relating to any aspect of the linguistic annotation,
including but not limited to the topics described above.
Identify, Describe and Share your LRs!
Describing your LRs in the LRE Map is now a normal practice in the submission
procedure of LREC (introduced in 2010 and adopted by other conferences). To
continue the efforts initiated at LREC 2014 about “Sharing LRs” (data, tools,
web-services, etc.), authors will have the possibility, when submitting a
paper, to upload LRs in a special LREC repository. This effort of sharing LRs,
linked to the LRE Map for their description, may become a new “regular”
feature for conferences in our field, thus contributing to creating a common
repository where everyone can deposit and share data. As scientific work
requires accurate citations of referenced work so as to allow the community to
understand the whole context and also replicate the experiments conducted by
other researchers, LREC 2022 endorses the need to uniquely Identify LRs
through the use of the International Standard Language Resource Number (ISLRN,
www.islrn.org), a Persistent Unique Identifier to be assigned to each Language
Resource. The assignment of ISLRNs to LRs cited in LREC papers will be offered
at submission time.
Important Dates
April 15, 2022 -- Papers Due
May 2, 2022 -- Notification of acceptance
May 23, 2022 -- Camera ready final version due
June 24, 2022 -- LAW Workshop, Marseille, France
Submissions
Long paper submissions are limited to 8 pages in length plus references. Short
papers, posters and demo descriptions are limited to 4 pages plus references.
Format requirements are the same as for full papers of LREC 2022 for
guidelines and style files.
(https://lrec2022.lrec-conf.org/en/submission2022/submission-guidelines)
Submissions should be made at the LAW-XVI portal
(https://www.softconf.com/lrec2022/LAW-XVI)
Reviewing
The reviewing of the papers will be double blind. The paper should not include
the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-citations and other
references (e.g. to projects, corpora, or software) that could reveal the
author's identity should be avoided. For example, instead of ''We previously
showed (Smith, 1991) …'', write ''Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) …''.
Program Committee Co‐Chairs
Sameer Pradhan (University of Pennsylvania and cemantix.org, USA)
Sandra Kübler (Indiana University, USA)
Ines Rehbein (University of Mannheim, Germany)
Amir Zeldes (Georgetown University, USA)
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