Corpora: CFP: LREC Workshop on International Standards for Terminology and Language Resource Management

[Nancy Ide]

                      Call For Papers

                         Workshop on
                 International Standards for
Terminology and Language Resource Management

          http://korterm.kaist.ac.kr/lrec2002/
          Las Palmas, Canary Islands - Spain
                         28 May 2002

                     in association with
                          LREC2002
         Main Conference: 29-30-31 May 2002


Important Dates

- Submission Deadline: 25 February 2002
- Notification of acceptance: 20 March 2002
- Submission of camera-ready final version: 12 April 2002
- Workshop: 28 May 2002


BACKGROUND AND MOTIVATION

Linguistic resource infrastructures are being established or
reinforced as part of the rapidly evolving information and
communication society. Various standards have been developed as a
part of this infrastructure, including Eagles, ISLE, XCES, MATE,
OLIF, TEI, TDCnet, MPEG7, Dublin Core, RDF, TBX, Topic Maps,
OIL, etc. However, despite these efforts, no set of standards to
support the creation and use of language resources has achieved
formal approval by the international community.

At the same time, the outcome of efforts to develop standards for
different areas of language-based work vary considerably in the
degree to which they are accepted and used, and in some areas no
commonality exists at all. As a result, there is an increasingly urgent
need for harmonization, as well as recognition of existing de facto
standards by establishing them as International Standards.

AIM
This workshop is intended to bring together members of the
language engineering community who are working on or concerned
with establishing broad-based, internationally sanctioned standards
that can support the full range of language processing applications in
today's environment. We aim particularly to bring together those
working in different topic and/or application areas, in order to foster
communication and collaboration, and determine the common and
different standardization needs for each. In this connection the
increasing need for the combinability and interoperability of
language resources with other kinds of knowledge representations
has to be addressed.

A sub-committee of the International Standards Organization
(ISO/TC 37/SC 4) has recently been formed to promote the
development of language engineering applications in multilingual
(and multimedia) environments. The proposed work of this
committee will be described at the workshop and participation from
the community will be solicited. A kick-off meeting for the
committee will also be held in conjunction with the workshop.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Submissions are invited on the following topics:

- Management of linguistic data in various formats (e.g., speech data,
   written text corpora, grammar, terminological data, general language
   lexical corpora, lexicon, multi-modal resources, etc.).
- Standards for text corpora, lexica, ontologies and terminologies that
   are typical instances of language resources to be used for language
   and knowledge engineering.
- Algorithms for preparing, processing and managing the information
   and knowledge needed by computers as well as humans, in both
   monolingual and multilingual environments.
- Appropriate methodology, methodology standards, software tools,
   and the respective standards for data modeling, mark-up, conversion,
   interoperability, interchange, evaluation, validation, quality
   management, etc. in order to accomplish information communication
   management as well as knowledge processing through terminology
   and language resources.
- Standards or future possible standards in the areas that include
   computational linguistics, terminology management, computerized
   lexicography, language engineering and knowledge engineering like
- Methodology for preparing, recording, processing and reusing
   terminology and other language resources;
- Methods and tools for net-based distributed cooperative
   preparation of language resources and other kinds of knowledge
   representation;
- Tools for representing, managing and accessing knowledge
   communicated by linguistic data and knowledge with different
    degrees of complexity;
- Language resource management with a strong language
   engineering component;
- Standards that are crucial for software agents, description of
   multimedia contents, and other related international standard
   activities like MPEG.

SUBMISSIONS

Papers for workshop contributions should not exceed four pages
(excluding references) in English and in single column format. An
additional title page should include the title, author(s),
affiliation(s),
contact email address, postal address, telephone, fax and URL as
well as five keywords.

Submissions should be sent by email, in Postscript, PDF or Word
format to:

                lrec at korterm.kaist.ac.kr

to arrive by 25 February 2002.

Demonstrations of software or language resource management tools
will be considered as well. Please send a two-page outline by
February 25.

Authors are encouraged to send a brief email indicating their
intention to submit a paper or participate in the workshop.


WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS

Laurent Romary, Laboratoire Loria, France
Christian Galinski, InfoTerm, Austria
Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA
Key-Sun Choi, KAIST, Korterm, Korea

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Gerhard Budin, University of Vienna, Austria
Nicoletta Calzolari, CNRS, Pisa, Italy
Key-Sun Choi, KORTERM, KAIST, Korea
Yuzuru Fujiwara, National Center for Industrial Information, Tokyo, Japan
Christian Galinski, Infoterm, Austria
Koiti Hasida, Cyber Assist Research Center, Tokyo, Japan
Gerhard Heyer, Leipzig University, Germany
Isahara Hitoshi, CRL, Japan
Junfeng Hu, Peking University, China
Churen Huang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA
Yeon-Bae Kim, Human Science Division, NHK, Japan
Jong-Hyeok Lee, Postech, Korea
Fang Qing, CNIS, China
Laurent Romary, Laboratoire Loria, France
Klaus-Dirk Schmitz, Fachhochschule Koeln, Germany
Takehiro Sioda, NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, Japan
Virach Sornlertlamvanich, NECTEC, Thailand
Tokunaga Takenobu, TIT, Japan
Benjamin Tsou, City University of Hong Kong
Sue-Ellen Wright, Kent State University, USA
Shiwen Yu, Peking University, China
Antonio Zampolli, CNRS, Pisa, Italy