[Corpora-List] Switzerland: Coling 2004 Workshop CFP: Multilingual Linguistic Resources

[Gilles Serasset]

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                            Call for Papers

                         COLING-2004 Workshop:

                  Multilingual Linguistic Resources

                Geneva Switzerland    28 August 2004

                       http://mlr2004.imag.fr/
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WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

In an ever expanding information society, most information systems are  
now facing the "multilingual challenge". Lexical resources play an  
essential role in these information systems. Such lexical resources  
need to provide information on many languages in a common framework and  
should be (re)usable in many applications (for automatic or human use).

Many centers have been involved in national, european and international  
projects dedicated to building harmonized language resources and  
creating expertise in the maintenance and further development of  
standardized linguistic data. These resources include dictionaries,  
lexicons, thesauri, wordnets, and annotated corpora developed along the  
lines of best practices and recommendations. However, since the late  
90's most efforts in scaling up these resources remain the  
responsibility of the local authorities, usually, with very low funding  
(if any) and few opportunities for academic recognition of this work.  
Hence, it is not surprising that many of the resource holders and  
developers have become reluctant to give free access to the latest  
resources. It is therefore currently rather unclear what the actual  
status is of these language resources.

The goal of this workshop is to study problems involved in the  
development/management/reuse  of lexical resources in a multilingual  
context. Moreover, this workshop will provide a forum  for reviewing  
the state of language resources. The workshop is meant to bring to the  
international community qualitative and quantitative information about  
the most recent  developments in the area of linguistic resources and  
their use in applications.

As the workshop takes place in Europe, special attention will be given  
to submissions  on resources for European languages (especially Central  
and Eastern European languages),  but submission of innovative  
developments involving any language will be welcome.

The intent of the workshop is not only to review academic developments  
but also to hear from industry, how these resources are used in new  
technology developments and what the current needs are in the field.  
Presentations, project notes and position papers are welcome.

WORKSHOP TOPICS
  Authors of papers on multilingual linguistic ressources are encouraged  
to apply. Papers could be on - but not limited to - any of the  
following topics:
	• 	 models for language/application-independent linguistic data
	• 	linguistic data acquisition and maintenance
	• 	building multilingual linguistic resources
	• 	lexical architectures to link data between languages
	• 	use of linguistic resources for applications in a multilingual  
context
	• 	reuse of existing lexical resources in a specific multilingual  
application
	• 	human use of lexical resources in a multilingual context
	• 	quality evaluation and standardization

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Papers should be original, previously unpublished work. They should  
emphasize completed work rather than intended work. Papers that are  
being submitted to other conferences must reflect this fact on the  
title page.

As the reviw process will not be blind, papers should contain the names  
and affiliations of authors.

Submissions must be electronic only, and should consist of full papers  
of max. 8 pages (inclusive of references, tables, figures and  
equations), project notes and position papers should not exceed 4  
pages. Authors should follow  COLING 2004 formatting guidelines,  
available at:  
http://www.issco.unige.ch/coling2004/coling2004downloads.html.

All submissions should be made through the MLR2004 workshop web site's  
submission form (url: http://mlr2004.imag.fr/). Submissions should  
consist in a single PDF file. Before submitting your document, please,  
verify that all non-standard fonts are correctly embedded in your PDF  
document (you can verify it by disabling the "Use Local Font" option  
when viewing you PDF document using Adobe Reader).

  Formatting requirements for the final version of accepted papers will  
be posted as soon as they become available.

IMPORTANT DATES
  Deadline for submission of Papers:  May 7th 2004
  Notification of Acceptance:  June 2nd 2004
  Deadline for final paper submission:  June 16th 2004
  Workshop:  August 28th 2004

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Gilles Sérasset, GETA-CLIPS, IMAG, Université Joseph Fourier- Grenoble  
I, France
Susan Armstrong, ISSCO, Université de Genève, Suisse
Christian Boitet, GETA-CLIPS, IMAG, Université Joseph Fourier- Grenoble  
I, France
Andrei Popescu-Belis, ISSCO, Université de Genève, Suisse
Dan Tufis, RACAI, University of Bucharest, Romania

  PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Gilles Sérasset GETA CLIPS-IMAG, Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble  
I, France (chair)
Susan Armstrong ISSCO, Université de Genève, Switzerland
Pushpak Battacharya IIT, Mumbai, India
Igor Boguslavski IITP, Moscow, Russia
Christian Boitet GETA CLIPS-IMAG, Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble  
I, France
Pierrette Bouillon ISSCO, Université de Genève, Switzerland
Jim Breen  Monash University, Australia
Nicoletta Calzolari CNR, Pisa, Italy
Dan Cristea University Al.I.Cuza Iasi, Romania
Patrick Drouin OLST, University of Montreal,Canada
Sanae Fujita NTT, Kyoto, Japan
Ulrich Heid IMS-CL, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Hitoshi Isahara  CRL, Nara, Japan
Kyo Kageura NII, Tokyo, Japan
Chuah Choy Kim  USM, Penang, Malaisie
Mathieu Mangeot NII, Tokyo, Japan
Alain Polguère OLST, University of Montreal,Canada
Andrei Popescu-belis ISSCO, Université de Genève, Switzerland
Jean Senellart SYSTRAN, France
Mandel Shi Xiamen University, China
Virach Sornlertlamvanich CRL Asia, NECTEC, Bangkok, Thailand
Pr. Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii Tokyo University, Japan
Philippe Thoiron CRTT, Université de Lyon 2, France
Dan Tufis RACAI, Uni Bucharest, Romania
Michael Zock LIMSI, Paris, France


CONTACT
mlr2004 at imag.fr


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Gilles Sérasset
GETA-CLIPS-IMAG (UJF, INPG & CNRS)
BP 53 - F-38041 Grenoble Cedex 9
Phone: +33 4 76 51 43 80
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