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1) Subject: Workshop on Language Resources and Evaluation for Religioius
Texts at LREC
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Date: 26 Jan 2014
From: Majdi Sawalha <sawalha.majdi at gmail.com>
Subject: Workshop on Language Resources and Evaluation for Religioius Texts
at LREC
*2nd Workshop on Language Resources and Evaluation for Religious Texts
(LRE-Rel2)*
*31st May 2014 (afternoon session): Harpa Conference Center, Reykjavik,
Iceland*
*http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/arabic/lre-rel2.html
<http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/arabic/lre-rel2.html> *
*First Call for Papers: *
After a successful launch at *LREC 2012*, we are organising a second
workshop on *Language Resources and Evaluation for Religious Texts* hosted
by *LREC 2014* in Reykjavik, Iceland. This is an inclusive workshop title,
aimed at researchers with a generic interest in religious texts to raise
awareness of different perspectives and practices, and to identify some
common themes. Our first workshop attracted a range of scholarship,
particularly on Arabic and Islamic Studies, and this year we are keen to
extend this range to canonical texts from other languages and religions -
Christian, Jewish, Sikh, Buddhist, and other - and, given the Icelandic
venue, to iconic texts from historical religions such as *The Prose
Edda*of Norse mythology. We are also keen to foster inter-faith corpus
studies,
tracing similarities as well as differences in religious texts, where this
genre includes: the faith-defining religious canon; authoritative
interpretations and commentary; sermons, liturgy, prayers, poetry, and
lyrics.
*Workshop Attendance:*
Prospective authors should note that attendance at the workshop is
necessary for their paper to be published in the workshop proceedings,
though for papers with multiple authors, only one author will be required
to attend. Therefore, prospective authors are strongly encouraged to check
the *LREC* website and other sources for information on visa restrictions,
and likely travel and hotel costs.
*Workshop Topics:*
Submissions are invited for (but not limited to) the following topics:
· measuring semantic relatedness between multiple religious texts and
corpora from different religions;
· analysis of ceremonial, liturgical, and ritual speech; recitation
styles; speech decorum; discourse analysis for religious texts;
· formulaic language and multi-word expressions in religious texts;
· suitability of modal and other logic types for knowledge
representation and inference in religious texts;
· issues in, and evaluation of, machine translation in religious
texts;
· text-mining, stylometry, and authorship attribution for religious
texts;
· corpus query languages and tools for exploring religious corpora;
· dictionaries, thesaurai, Wordnet, and ontologies for religious
texts;
· (new) corpora and rich and novel annotation schemes for religious
texts;
· annotation and analysis of religious metaphor;
· genre analysis for religious texts;
· application in other disciplines (*e.g.* theology, classics,
philosophy, literature) of computer-mediated methods for analysing
religious texts.
*Important Dates: *
19.02.2014 Deadline for paper submissions
05.03.2014 Notification of acceptance
21.03.2014 Camera-ready copies due from authors
06.04.2014 LREC deadline for camera-ready copy of Workshop
Proceedings
31.05.2014 LRE-Rel2 Workshop (afternoon session)
*Submission of Papers:*
Please submit your papers via the LRE-Rel2 submission page in LREC's START
Manager. The URL for this is:
*https://www.softconf.com/lrec2014/LRE-Rel2/*<
https://outlook.leeds.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?C=5380a2d1c21d423d9bcb62e0b3e2e5cd&URL=https%3a%2f%2fwww.softconf.com%2flrec2014%2fLRE-Rel2%2f
>Authors
should follow LREC guidelines for length of papers, and are advised
to use the LREC template for paper submissions. This template will be
published by LREC in due course. In the meantime, authors can use the LREC
2012 template: *http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2014/?Authors-Kit
<http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2014/?Authors-Kit>*
*Request from LREC Organisers:*
"...When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to
provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also
technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the
work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover,
ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the described LRs (data, tools,
services, etc.), to enable their reuse, replicability of experiments,
including evaluation ones, etc..."
*LRE-Rel2 Organising Committee: *
Eric Atwell and Claire Brierley: Computing, University of Leeds, LEEDS, LS2
9JT, UK
E.S.Atwell at leeds.ac.uk; C.Brierley at leeds.ac.uk
Majdi Sawalha and Bassam Hammo: Computer Information Systems, University of
Jordan, AMMAN 11942, Jordan
sawalha.majdi at leeds.ac.uk;
*LRE-Rel2 Programme Committee (provisional): *
Eric Atwell, School of Computing, University of Leeds, UK
Claire Brierley, School of Computing, University of Leeds, UK
Majdi Sawalha, Computer Information Systems, University of Jordan, Jordan
Bassam Hammo, Computer Information Systems, University of Jordan, Jordan
Sane Yagi, Department of Linguistics, University of Jordan, Jordan
Dag Haug, Department of Philosophy, History of Art and Ideas, University of
Oslo, Norway
Moshe Koppel, Department of Computer Science, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
*Nils Reiter:* Department of Computational Linguistics, Heidelberg
University, Germany
Andrew Wilson, Department of Linguistics and English Language, University
of Lancaster, UK
Claudia Resch, Institute for Corpus Linguistics and Text Technology,
Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria
Nadeem Obaid, Computer Information Systems, University of Jordan, Jordan
Muhammad A.M. Abushariah, Computer Information Systems, University of
Jordan, Jordan
Mortaza Rezaee, Islamic College, London, UK
Janet Watson, Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies, and Linguistics and
Phonetics, University of Leeds, UK
John Lee, Halliday Centre for Intelligent Applications of Language Studies,
City University of Hong Kong, (HK)
Mohamed Menacer, Taibah University, Saudi Arabia
Deryle Lonsdale, Department of Linguistics and English Language, Brigham
Young University, US
Bob MacDonald, Research and Development, Anthony Macauley Associates, Canada
Kais Dukes, School of Computing, University of Leeds, UK
Aida Mustapha, Department of Computer Science and Information Technology,
Putra University, Malaysia
Liviu Dinu, Centre for Computational Linguistics, University of Bucharest,
Romania
Behrooz Minaei, School of Computer Engineering, Iran University of Science
and Technology, Iran
Gurpreet Singh, Centre for Language and Communication Studies, Trinity
College Dublin, Ireland
*Azzeddine Mazroui,* Mathematics and Computer Science, Mohammed 1st
University, Morocco
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Majdi Sawalha,
*Assistant professor,* Computer Information Systems Department, King
Abdullah II School of Information Technology, The UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN,
Amman, Jordan.
*Visiting Researcher,* Language research group, I-AIBS Institute for
Artificial Intelligence and Biological Systems, School of Computing,
Faculty of Engineering, UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS, Leeds LS2 9JT, England.
Web site: http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/sawalha
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