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font-size: 14px;" lang="x-unicode">CCURL II - Towards an Alliance
for Digital Language Diversity
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.ilc.cnr.it/ccurl2016">http://www.ilc.cnr.it/ccurl2016</a>
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The second CCURL Workshop “Towards an Alliance for Digital
Language Diversity” will be held on May 23, 2016, at LREC 2016 in
Portorož, Slovenia. The workshop intends to bring together a wide
variety of people (academics, industrial researchers, digital
language-resource and technology providers, researchers and
professionals in language learning and digital language planning,
software developers, and language activists) sharing the aim of
building a community devoted to the development of language
resources and technologies (LRTs) for under-resourced languages,
and actively engaged in defining an agenda for an Alliance for
Digital Language Diversity.
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We solicit papers pertaining to digital language diversity,
including but not limited to:
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• Digital infrastructure, including LRTs: Addressing issues
about, for example, gaps, quantity, quality, availability,
suitability, reusability, sustainability, maintainability, usage
rights;
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• LRT research and development: Experiences in the development
of LRTs for under-resourced languages; use and usability of
minority languages in social media;
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• Domain-specific resources and applications for and in
under-resourced languages: Domains may include education (e.g.
e-books), entertainment, publishing, government, commerce,
finance, and many others;
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• Policies, guidelines and best practices for the development
of digital language diversity;
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• Advocacy and digital language planning;
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• Digital cultural diversity through digital language
diversity;
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• New methods towards digital language diversity, including
semantic web technologies as well as open data and
free/open-source and other open innovation approaches, such as
open science commons;
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• Significance and implications of digital language diversity
for the Internet of things.
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Papers should contain original, substantial and unpublished
research addressing any of the topics above. In order to encourage
participation of policy makers, language activists, and grassroots
speakers’ associations, position papers or project descriptions
are also welcome, to be presented during a dedicated session of
the workshop.
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SUBMISSIONS
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● Papers must describe original unpublished work, either
completed or in progress;
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● Each submission will be reviewed by three programme committee
members. In accordance with LREC policy, papers are not required
to be anonymous;
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● Accepted papers will be presented either as oral
presentations or posters and will be published in the workshop
proceedings;
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● Papers should be formatted according to the stylesheet
provided on the LREC 2016 website and should not exceed 8 pages,
including references and appendices. Papers should be submitted in
PDF unprotected format to the workshop START page (URL will be
provided in due time).
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DATES
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February 7, 2016 Paper submissions due
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March 7, 2016 Paper notification of acceptance
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April 3, 2016 Camera-ready papers due
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May 23, 2016 Workshop
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IDENTIFY, DESCRIBE AND SHARE YOUR LANGUAGE RESOURCES!
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● 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.
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● 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 2016 endorses the need to uniquely identify LRs through the
use of the International Standard Language Resource Number (ISLRN,
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.islrn.org">www.islrn.org</a>),
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.
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ORGANISING COMMITTEE
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Laurette Pretorius - University of South Africa, South Africa
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Claudia Soria - CNR-ILC, Italy
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Eveline Wandl-Vogt - ACDH, Österreichische Akademie der
Wissenschaften/Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria
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Thierry Declerck - DFKI GmbH, Language Technology Lab, Germany
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Kevin Scannell - St. Louis University, USA
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Joseph Mariani - LIMSI/IMMI CNRS, France
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PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
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Gilles Adda, LIMSI/IMMI CNRS, France
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Tunde Adegbola, African Languages Technology Initiative, Nigeria
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Amir Aharoni, Language Engineering Team, Wikimedia Foundation, USA
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Birna Arnbjörnsdottir, University of Iceland, Iceland
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Eduardo Avila, Rising Voices, Bolivia
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Martin Benjamin, the Kamusi Project, Switzerland
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Delphine Bernhard, LiLPa, Université de Strasbourg, LiLPA, France
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Paul Bilbao Sarria, Euskararen Gizarte Erakundeen KONTSEILUA,
Spain
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Bruce Birch, Australian National University, Australia
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Vicent Climent Ferrando, NPLD, Belgium
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Daniel Cunliffe, Prifysgol De Cymru/University of South Wales,
School of Computing and Mathematics, UK
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Nicole Dolowy-Rybinska, Polska Akademia Nauk/Polish Academy of
Sciences, Poland
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Vera Ferreira, CIDLeS, Portugal
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Mikel Forcada, Universitat d’Alacant, Spain
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Maik Gibson, SIL International, UK
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Tatjana Gornostaja, Tilde, Latvia
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Tjerd de Graaf, De Fryske Akademy, the Netherlands
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Thibault Grouas, Délégation Générale à la langue française et aux
langues de France, France
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Auður Hauksdóttir, Vigdís Finnbogadóttir Institute of Foreign
Languages, Iceland
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Peter Juel Henrichsen, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
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Davyth Hicks, ELEN, France
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Kristiina Jokinen, Helsingin Yliopisto/University of Helsinki,
Finland
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John Judge, ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University, Ireland
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Andras Kornai, Magyar Tudományos Akadémia/Hungarian Academy of
Sciences, Hungary
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Steven Krauwer, CLARIN, The Netherlands
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Viola Krebs, ICVolunteers, Switzerland
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Steven Moran, Universität Zürich, Switzerland
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Gilvan Müller de Oliveira, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina,
Brasil
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Silvia Pareti, Google Inc., Italy
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Daniel Pimienta, MAAYA
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Steve Renals, University of Edinburgh, UK
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Kepa Sarasola Gabiola, Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea/University of
the Basque Country, Spain
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Felix Sasaki, DFKI GmbH and W3C fellow, Germany
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Mandana Seyfeddinipur, SOAS, University of London, UK
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Virach Sornlertlamvanich, Sirindhorn International Institute of
Technology/Thammasat University, Thailand
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Ferran Suay, Universitat de València, Spain
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Jörg Tiedemann, Uppsala Universitet, Sweden
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Francis M. Tyers, Norges Arktiske Universitet, Norway
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<div class="moz-txt-sig"><span class="moz-txt-tag">-- <br>
</span>Claudia Soria
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Researcher
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Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "A. Zampolli"
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Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
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Via Moruzzi 1
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56124 Pisa
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Italy
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Tel. +39 050 3153166
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Skype clausor
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Claudia Soria
Researcher
Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "A. Zampolli"
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
Via Moruzzi 1
56124 Pisa
Italy
Tel. +39 050 3153166
Skype clausor</pre>
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