Corpora: COLING 2002 - THE THIRD WORKSHOP ON ASIAN LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND INTERNATIONAL STANDARDIZATION

[Alessandro Lenci]

                     COLING 2002 Post-Conference Workshop


                 THE THIRD WORKSHOP ON ASIAN LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND
                          INTERNATIONAL STANDARDIZATION


                  Center of Academia Activities, Academia Sinica
                                Taipei, Taiwan

                                August 31, 2002

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DESCRIPTION
Language resources play an important role in recent corpus-based natural
language processing research. A lot of effort has been focused on compiling
various kinds of language resources, particularly in the US and European
countries. In addition, standards represent a necessary step to consolidate
technological achievements in this sector, to enhance and foster the
exchange of know-how between research and industry, and to define
infrastructures for the re-use and sharing of existing language resources
through the specification of common formats and frameworks. Since 1993 the
Commission of the European Union has been actively supporting the
standardization process in human language technology, in particular by
sponsoring the EAGLES initiative. This activity has extended to the
framework of the EU-US International Research Co-operation, supported by
NSF and the European Union (
http://lingue.ilc.pi.cnr.it/EAGLES96/isle/ISLE_Home_Page.htm).

Compared to English and many European languages the availability and
accessibility of Asian language resources is still limited. Moreover, there
is more diversity of Asian languages from viewpoints of character sets and
grammatical properties. Because of these peculiarities, Asian languages do
not always fit with the existing linguistic resource standardization
frameworks.

We have held two workshops on the same topic, the first was in January of
2001 at Tokyo on invited basis and the second was in conjunction with the
6th Natural Language Processing Pacific Rim Symposium (NLPRS 2001) in
November of 2001 at Tokyo (
http://tokunaga-www.cs.titech.ac.jp/~take/LRA/index.html). In this third
workshop, we would like to put emphasis on standardization of Asian
language resources, and to provide a chance to discuss research results and
the possibilities of international collaboration on the development of
Asian language resources in the future. The workshop also aims to introduce
the status of Asian language resources to researchers in other regions.

We invite papers on all topics related to language resources, in particular
Asian language resources and their development including, but not limited to:

* Text corpora
* Machine-readable dictionaries
* Lexicons
* Grammars
* Exchange and annotation schemata
* Infrastructure for constructing and sharing language resources
* Exchange formats
* Best practices for creating and disseminating language resources
* Metadata for resource classification and discovery
* Strategies and priorities for EU-US and Asian cooperation
* Standards for language resources (lexicons, corpora, ontologies, etc.)
* Lexical standards and multilinguality
* Standards for content management
* Standards and applications
* Standards and evaluation


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

* Nicoletta Calzolari (co-chair) - Istituto di Linguistica
Computazionale  CNR, Pisa (Italy)
* Key-Sun Choi (co-chair) - Korea Advanced Institute of Science and
Technology (Korea)
* Asanee Kawtrakul (co-chair) - Kasetsart University (Thailand)
* Alessandro Lenci (co-chair) - Dipartimento di Linguistica - Universita di
Pisa (Italy)
* Tokunaga Takenobu (co-chair) - Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan)
* Steven Bird - University of Pennsylvania (US)
* Nuria Bel - GILCUB (Spain)
* Ehara Terumasa - NHK (Japan)
* Christiane Fellbaum - Princeton University (USA)
* Ralph Grishman - New York University (USA)
* Chu-Ren Huang - Academia Sinica (Taiwan)
* Hammam Riza - BPPT (Indonesia)
* Kurohashi Sadao - University of Tokyo (Japan)
* Martha Palmer - University of Pennsylvania (USA)
* Hae-Chang Rim - Korea University (Korea)
* Rajeev Sangal - Indian Institute of Information Technology (India)
* Shirai Kiyoaki - Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Tecchnology (Japan)
* Virach Sornlertlamvanich - NECTEC (Thailand)
* Gregor Thurmair - SAIL Labs (Munich)
* Benjamin Tsou - City University of HongKong (China)
* Antonnio Zampolli - Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale ? CNR (Italy)


SCHEDULE
Paper submission due
April 30, 2002

Notification of acceptance
June 7, 2002

Deadline for camera-ready papers
June 29, 2002

Workshop date
August 31, 2002


VENUE
Center of Academia Activities, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.


WORKSHOP WEBPAGE:
http://tokunaga-www.cs.titech.ac.jp/~take/alris/index.html


SUBMISSION FORMAT AND INSTRUCTIONS
A paper no more than 8 pages long should be sent via E-mail in the PDF
format with all non-ASCII fonts embedded, no later than April 30, 2002 to
Alessandro Lenci (alessandro.lenci at ilc.cnr.it). After acceptance
notification, the authors are requested to make a camera-ready no more than
8 pages long, and in the format prescribed by COLING 2002. Please see
http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/ to get style sheet. The camera-ready
should be sent electronically in the PDF format with all non-ASCII fonts
embedded, no later than June 29, 2002 to Tokunaga Takenobu (
take at cl.cs.titech.ac.jp).




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