<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Claudia Soria</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:claudia.soria@ilc.cnr.it">claudia.soria@ilc.cnr.it</a>></span><br>Date: 25 November 2014 at 01:04<br>Subject: [RNLD] Deadline extension - LRE Journal Special Issue: “Under-resourced Languages, Collaborative,Approaches and Linked Open Data: Resources, Methods and Applications”<br>To: <a href="mailto:r-n-l-d@lists.unimelb.edu.au">r-n-l-d@lists.unimelb.edu.au</a><br>Cc: "laure >> Pretorius, Laurette" <<a href="mailto:Pretol@unisa.ac.za">Pretol@unisa.ac.za</a>><br><br><br><br>
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**Apologies for multiple postings**<br>
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LRE Journal Special Issue: “Under-resourced Languages, Collaborative<br>
Approaches and Linked Open Data: Resources, Methods and Applications”<br>
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Final Call for Papers<br>
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CfP URL:<a href="http://www.ilc.cnr.it/ccurl2014/LRE-Journal_Special-Issue_Final-Call-for-Papers.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.ilc.cnr.it/<u></u>ccurl2014/LRE-Journal_Special-<u></u>Issue_Final-Call-for-Papers.<u></u>pdf</a><br>
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*NEW SUBMISSION DATE*: December 15, 2014<br>
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SUBMISSION DETAILS<br>
Please submit your articles<br>
athttp://<a href="http://www.editorialmanager.com/lrev/default.asp" target="_blank">www.editorialmanager.<u></u>com/lrev/default.asp</a><br>
Make sure to select “S.I. : Under-resourced languages” when asked to<br>
provide the article type.<br>
For this special issue we invite full papers that are typically 18-25<br>
pages in length.<br>
Detailed format instructions are available<br>
here:<a href="http://www.springer.com/education+%26+language/linguistics/journal/10579?detailsPage=pltci_1060319" target="_blank">http://www.springer.com/<u></u>education+%26+language/<u></u>linguistics/journal/10579?<u></u>detailsPage=pltci_1060319</a><br>
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OTHER IMPORTANT DATES<br>
Preliminary decisions to authors: March 30, 2015<br>
Submission of revised manuscripts: May 31, 2015<br>
Final decisions to authors: October 15, 2015<br>
Final versions from authors: December 1, 2015<br>
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GUEST EDITORS<br>
Laurette Pretorius - University of South Africa, South Africa (pretol AT<br>
unisa DOT ac DOT ac)<br>
Claudia Soria - CNR-ILC, Italy (claudia.soria AT ilc DOT cnr DOT it)<br>
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS<br>
Under-resourced languages are generally described as languages that<br>
suffer from a chronic lack of available resources, from human,<br>
financial, and time resources to linguistic ones (language data and<br>
language technology), and often also experience the fragmentation of<br>
efforts in resource development. This situation is exacerbated by the<br>
realization that as technology progresses and the demand for localised<br>
languages services over digital devices increases, the divide between<br>
adequately- and under-resourced languages keeps widening. Given that<br>
most of the world’s almost 7000 languages are not adequately resourced,<br>
much work needs to be done in order to support their existence in the<br>
digital age.<br>
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Although the destiny of a language is primarily determined by its native<br>
speakers and broader cultural context, the technological development of<br>
an under-resourced language offers such a language a strategic<br>
opportunity to have the same “digital dignity”, “digital identity” and<br>
“digital longevity” as large, well-developed languages on the Web.<br>
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The Linked (Open) Data framework and the emerging Linguistic Linked<br>
(Open) Data infrastructure offer novel opportunities for under-resourced<br>
languages. On the one hand, Linked Data offers ways of exposing existing<br>
high quality, albeit small, language resources in the Semantic Web and,<br>
on the other hand, allows for the development of new state-of-the-art<br>
resources without necessarily having to rely on the availability of<br>
sophisticated language processing support.<br>
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This special issue arises from the imperative to maintain cultural and<br>
language diversity and from the basic right of all communities,<br>
languages, and cultures to be “first class citizens” in an age driven by<br>
information, knowledge and understanding. In this spirit, this special<br>
issue focuses on three strategic approaches to augment the development<br>
of resources for under-resourced languages to achieve a level<br>
potentially comparable to well-resourced, technologically advanced<br>
languages, viz. a) using the crowd and collaborative platforms; b) using<br>
technologies of interoperability with well-developed languages; and c)<br>
using Semantic Web technologies and, more specifically, Linked Data.<br>
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We invite original contributions, not published before and not under<br>
consideration for publication elsewhere, that address one or more of the<br>
following questions by means of one or more of the three approaches<br>
mentioned above:<br>
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• How can collaborative approaches and technologies be fruitfully<br>
applied to the accelerated development and sharing of high quality<br>
resources for under-resourced languages?<br>
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• How can such resources be best stored, exposed and accessed by end<br>
users and applications?<br>
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• How can small language resources be re-used efficiently and<br>
effectively, reach larger audiences and be integrated into applications?<br>
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• How can multilingual and cross-lingual interoperability of language<br>
resources, methods and applications be supported, also between languages<br>
that belong to different language families?<br>
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• How can existing language resource infrastructures be scaled to<br>
thousands of languages?<br>
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• How can research on and resource development for under-resourced<br>
languages benefit from current advances in semantic and semantic web<br>
technologies, and specifically the Linked Data framework?<br>
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SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE<br>
Sabine Bartsch, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany<br>
Delphine Bernhard, LILPA, Strasbourg University, France<br>
Peter Bouda, CIDLeS - Interdisciplinary Centre for Social and Language<br>
Documentation, Portugal<br>
Paul Buitelaar, Insight, National University of Ireland, Galway<br>
Steve Cassidy, Macquarie University, Australia<br>
Christian Chiarcos, Frankfurt University, Germany<br>
Philipp Cimiano, Bielefeld University, Germany<br>
Thierry Declerck, DFKI GmbH, Language Technology Lab, Germany<br>
Mikel Forcada, University of Alicante, Spain<br>
Dafydd Gibbon, Bielefeld University, Germany<br>
Yoshihiko Hayashi, Graduate School of Language and Culture, Osaka<br>
University, Japan<br>
Sebastian Hellmann, Leipzig University, Germany<br>
Simon Krek, Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia<br>
Tobias Kuhn, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland<br>
Joseph Mariani, LIMSI-CNRS & IMMI, France<br>
John McCrae, Bielefeld University, Germany<br>
Steven Moran, Universität Zürich, Switzerland<br>
Kellen Parker, National Tsing Hua University, China<br>
Patrick Paroubek, LIMSI-CNRS, France<br>
Taher Pilehvar, “La Sapienza” Rome University, Italy<br>
Maria Pilar Perea i Sabater, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain<br>
Laurette Pretorius, University of South Africa, South Africa<br>
Leonel Ruiz Miyares, Centro de Linguistica Aplicada (CLA), Cuba<br>
Kevin Scannell, St. Louis University, USA<br>
Ulrich Schäfer, Technical University of Applied Sciences Amberg-Weiden,<br>
Bavaria, Germany<br>
Claudia Soria, CNR-ILC, Italy<br>
Nick Thieberger, University of Melbourne, Australia<br>
Eveline Wandl-Vogt, Austrian Academy of Sciences, ICLTT, Austria<br>
Michael Zock, LIF-CNRS, France<br>
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