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[Eleni Efthimiou]

         Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
                                                    (LREC-2000)
                                                  Athens, Greece

            Pre-Conference Workshop Announcement and Call for Participation
LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND TOOLS IN EDUCATIONAL APPLICATIONS
                                   May 30, 2000 (morning session)

                             http://www.ilsp.gr/lrec/educreslrec.html.



WORKSHOP SCOPE AND AIMS

The key concepts for Language Resource infrastructure have been Reusability
and Standardization. In NLP, where the requirement not only for large scale
lexicons but also for large scale corpora has been established, they have
both found fruitful ground.
The emerging multimedia cultural industry has established new needs and use
conditions of Language Resources in respect to industrial production.
The constant increase of demand for electronic educational tools and aids
either in the INTERNET/INTRANET or in the CD-ROM environment raises the
question of whether language resources and tools developed for the Human
Language Technology (HLT) sector may be (re)used also for educational
application purposes.
LREC-2000 focuses in many respects on the importance of this new multimedia
cultural industry and the connection between industrial production and use
of Language Resources and Tools.
The workshop aims at bringing together specialists from the areas of
language engineering and multimedia technologies with experience in CALL
(Computer Aided Language Learning). Issues related to innovative and
reflective approaches in the exploitation, integration and evaluation of
language resources in CALL will be addressed.


TOPICS

Papers are invited in the following topics:
- Internet/Intranet and CD-ROM applications demanding HLT tools
- Distance learning applications
- Integration of language resources in multimedia educational environments
- Evaluation of language resources for educational applications
- Development of language tools based on language resources
- Legal aspects and problems in the access and use of available language
resources
- Customization of language resources for multimedia educational products
- Electronic books and HLT tools


SUBMISSION

Submissions should address one or more of the listed topics. Descriptions
of planned or existing tools are acceptable, but they should be situated in
the larger context of the issues the workshop addresses.
A maximally 1000 word abstract in English should be submitted to Eleni
Efthimiou by e-mail at "<mailto:eleni_e at ilsp.gr>eleni_e at ilsp.gr" in
poscript or rtf format with the indication "LREC WORKSHOP SUBMISSION" in
the subject line. Each submission should include title; author(s);
affiliation(s); and contact author's e-mail address, postal address,
telephone and fax numbers.
Final papers should not exceed 6 pages.
Final paper style format will be announced by LREC on 2 February 2000 and
will also be available at http://www.ilsp.gr/lrec/educreslrec.html.
Audio-visual or other technical requirements must be indicated by the
authors.


IMPORTANT DATES

March 1, 2000 : Submissions due
March 15, 2000 : Results transmitted to authors
April 15, 2000 : Final papers due
May 30, 2000 : Workshop


ORGANISING COMMITTEE

Khurshid Ahmad, Department of Artificial Intelligence Computing, School of
Electronic Eng., IT and Mathematics, University of Surrey.
Eleni Efthimiou, Department of Educational Technologies, ILSP-Institute for
language and Speech Processing.
Maria Poulou-Tzevelekou, University of Athens and ILSP-Institute for
Language and Speech Processing.


LREC2000 CONFERENCE INFORMATION

31 May - 2 June 2000, Athens, Greece
General information about the main conference is at:
<http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/lrec2000.html>http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/l
rec2000.html

Specific queries about the conference should be directed to:
LREC Secretariat
Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP)
6, Artemidos & Epidavrou Str.
15125 Marousi
Athens
GREECE
Tel: +301 6800959
Fax: +301 6854270
e-mail: <mailto:LREC2000 at ilsp.gr>LREC2000 at ilsp.gr