Corpora: EXTENDED DEADLINE: Workshop on Asian Resources and International Standardization

[Alessandro Lenci]

             ********************* EXTENDED DEADLINE ****************

                         ----- NEW DEADLINE: MAY 10th -----


                      COLING 2002 Post-Conference Workshop

                   The 3rd Workshop on Asian Language Resources
                                       and
                           International Standardization

                                 Center of Academia
                          Activities, Academia Sinica Taipei,
                               Taiwan August 31, 2002

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 - International Institute of Information Technology
Hyderabad (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)
* Antonio Zampolli - Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale ? CNR
(Italy)


SCHEDULE

Paper submission due   *** NEW DATE!! ***

** May 10, 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.


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).