Corpora: ACL-2001 Workshop on Sharing Tools & Rescources for Research & Education CFP

[Priscilla Rasmussen]

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS

ACL/EACL Workshop on

Sharing Tools and Resources
for Research and Education

Co-organised by ELSNET


Toulouse, Saturday 7th July 2001


BACKGROUND:

At a workshop at ACL 2000 in Hong Kong dedicated to Infrastructures
for Global Collaboration there was an agreement between the main
professional organisations in NLP and Speech (ACL and ISCA), and
ELSNET, and the other meeting participants, that it would be useful to
aim at a broadly supported, joint repository or catalogue for
tools and materials for the language and speech communities.

An ELSNET-sponsored workshop on educational issues held at EACL99
concluded that certain non-transient infrastructures needed to be
instigated to raise the public perception of educational issues in
NLP. It also concluded that a repository of shared materials,
appropriately indexed for educational usage, would be a useful point
of departure.

This workshop will build on the consensus reached at these previous
workshops. There will be two clear foci: one upon instruments for
sharing tools and resources in general that addresses practical
problems, and the other upon the technological and infrastructural
issues surrounding the educational uses of repositories.

Good examples of existing initiatives in this area are among others
the ACL Natural Language Software Registry (hosted at DFKI,
http://registry.dfki.de) which was set up as a repository for tools
for the distinct fields of Human Language Techology (HLT), the
ELRA/ELDA, LDC, TELRI and Elsnet resources catalogues and repositories
(http://www.icp.inpg.fr/ELRA/, http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/,

http://www.telri.de and http://www.elsnet.org/resources.html), OLAC (a
worldwide network of language archives at www.language-archives.org),
and
JEWELS (http://www.elsnet.org/jewels), an as-yet incomplete EU
funded website for educational materials in Language and Speech.

A third theme concerns how to build upon existing initiatives as
sources of data or inspiration.

AIM AND SCOPE OF THE WORKSHOP:

The main goal of the workshop is to discuss methods for the
improvement and extension of existing repositories; the educational
uses of repositories; the closer interlinking between different kinds
of repositories (tools and resources); global infrastructures for the
achievement of joint actions.  However, we expect the scope of the
workshop to be much wider than that, as the issues addressed are of
general interest to everybody who believes that sharing tools and
resources is essential for the progress of research and education in
our field.

Contributions of papers and demonstrations are solicited that address
the above themes.  The following list of topics is suggestive rather
than exhaustive:

* Repositories versus catalogues

* Mechanisms and infrastructures for sharing and describing content
* Repository management
* Standards for exchange, description, and annotation
* Metadata descriptions
* Quality assessment
* Structure and content of an NLP/CL repository
* Tools and materials for NLP/CL education
* Web-based teaching methods for NLP/CL


SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS FOR PAPERS

* Electronic submissions only (PostScript, Word, or PDF), following the
  appropriate ACL latex style or Microsoft Word style. Submissions
  should not exceed eight (8) pages, including references. You can
  download the appropriate style or template files using the following
  link: http://acl2001.dfki.de/style/. In case of problems with the
  submission format, please contact one of the co-chairs.

* Submissions to either co-chair (mros at cs.um.edu.mt and
  declerck at dfki.de). All submissions will be acknowledged.


* Please provide a list of keywords in the separate header page and
  indicate the best fitting subtopic(s) from the above list.


SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS FOR DEMONSTRATIONS

* Demos may be submitted with or without an accompanying
  paper.

* Please write a 2-page description of the demo and send
  to either co-chair. Please let us know about special hardware
  requirements over and above the standard PC + beamer without
  internet access provided by default


CONFIRMED COMMITTEE MEMBERS

- Thierry Declerck (DFKI) Co-chair (Repository) declerck at dfki.de
- Mike Rosner (Malta) Co-chair (Education) mros at cs.um.edu.mt

- Steven Bird (U. Penn)
- Bill Black (UMIST) (UMIST, Manchester, UK) wjb at co.umist.ac.uk
- Gosse Bouma gosse at let.rug.nl (University of Groningen)
- Koenraad de Smedt desmedt at uib.no (University of Bergen)
- Claire Gardent (CNRS, Nancy) claire.gardent at loria.fr
- Steven Krauwer (Utrecht University) steven.krauwer at elsnet.org
- Donna Harman (NIST)
- Julia Hirschberg (ATT, ISCA)
- Jun'ichi Tsujii (Tokyo)
- Andy Way (Dublin City University) away at compapp.dcu.ie


DEADLINES

  * Submission Deadline:    6th April 2001
  * Notification Date:      27th April 2001
  * Camera ready copy due:  16th May 2001



PROVISIONAL WEBSITE http://www.cs.um.edu.mt/~mros/toulouse


FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT

Michael Rosner
email: mros at cs.um.edu.mt

Thierry Duclerc
email: declerck at dfki.de