[Corpora-List] 1st CFP: LREC 2010 Workshop: Multilingual resources and tools for Central and (South-)Eastern European languages

[Milena Slavcheva]

Appologies for multiple postings

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

Workshop on "EXPLOITATION OF MULTILINGUAL RESOURCES AND TOOLS FOR  
CENTRAL AND (SOUTH-) EASTERN EUROPEAN LANGUAGES"

23rd May 2010, La Valleta, Malta

organised in conjunction with LREC 2010 Conference (17-23 May 2010, La Valleta, Malta)

http://www.c-phil.uni-hamburg.de/view/Main/LrecWorkshop2010

Papers submission deadline: 7th March 2010

The reconciliation of differences in the availability of language  resources and tools for more intensively and less intensively spoken  
languages has been the main concern of  several European initiatives. Central and (South-) Eastern European languages can be the subject of  
a case study in that respect: integration of diverse languages into a broad language community.

The main result of these initiatives was the increased production of  language resources and especially language technology tools for  
Central, Eastern and Southern European languages in recent years. While monolingual systems have achieved performances comparable to  
those for intensively studied languages, still a lot of work has to be invested in multilingual tools for applications such as machine  
translation or cross-lingual information retrieval.  At least three major issues have critical influence on the performance of such systems:

- the availability of the appropriate quantities of data for training and evaluation
- the analysis of structural linguistic differences among languages so as to be able to improve statistical methods with targeted linguistic  
knowledge;
- the availability of knowledge bases for incorporation into language processing systems.

The identification of key aspects of linguistic modelling and resource supply for multilingual technologies involving Central, Eastern and  
Southern European languages can have impact not only on the local improvement of such systems but also on the overall development of  
multilingual technologies. The same holds for well established or emerging linguistic knowledge representation frameworks, which can  
only benefit from embedding components for Central, Eastern and Southern European languages.

We are looking for submission of original, unpublished work related to Central and (South-)Eastern European languages in the following areas:

- Automatic identification of comparable or parallel corpora
- Extraction of linguistic knowledge from comparable or parallel corpora
- Improvement of statistical methods with knowledge extracted from comparable or parallel corpora
- Domain adaptation of statistical methods in multilingual context
- Multilingual systems involving Central, Eastern and Southern European languages
- Production, management and interfacing of knowledge bases including Central, Eastern and Southern European languages
- Machine translation for Central, Eastern and Southern European languages

A special section of the workshop will be dedicated to machine translation issues and a special call for participation will be issued  
respectively at the beginning of January. The registered participants for this section will receive a set of English texts and they will be  
asked to translate them by means of existing on-line or other in-house MT tools.  They will be asked to analyse criteria like syntactic  
/semantic correctness, intelligibility of the translations, as well as to distinguish typical and repetitive mistakes at morphological  
/syntactic, and semantic level.

Accepted papers will be published in workshop proceedings. We also intend to publish revised versions of the papers in a volume in LINCOM  
Series. Demonstrations of existing systems are also wellcome.

Submission Details

Submissions have to be made through the START system of the main LREC conference under
  https://www.softconf.com/lrec2010/MultiLR2010/ .
Contributors should submit a PDF file no longer than 10 DIN-A4 pages. The formatting details should follow the LREC conference formatting  
details. Papers will be blind reviewed by minimum 3 members of the Programme Committee.

When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e.  
also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your  
research. For further information on this new iniative, please refer to:
http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2010/?LREC2010-Map-of-Language-Resources.

Important Dates

- Deadline for paper submission: 7th March  2010
- Notification of acceptance / rejection:  25th March 2010
- Submission of final papers: 10th April 2010
- Workshop: 23rd May 2010

Organising Committee

- Stelios Piperidis, ILSP, Natural Language and Knowledge Extraction Department, Athens Greece
- Milena Slavcheva, Bulgarian Academy of Science, Institute for Parallel Processing, Linguistic Modeling Department, Sofia, Bulgaria
- Cristina Vertan, University of Hamburg, Arbeitsstelle "Computerphilologie", Hamburg, Germany

Programme Committee

Galja Angelova(IPP, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
Bogdan Babych (Centre for Translation Studies, Leeds, UK)
Damir Cavar (University of Zadar, Croatia)
Tomaz Erjavec (Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia)
Maria Gavrilidou (ILSP, Athens, Greece)
Walther von Hahn (University of Hamburg, Germany)
Cvetana Krstev (University of Belgrade, Serbia)
Vladislav Kubon (Charles University, Prague)
Petya Osenova (University of Sofia, Bulgaria)
Stelios Piperidis (ILSP, Athens, Greece)
Gabor Proszeky (Morphologic, Hungary)
Adam Przepiorkowski (IPAN, Polish Academy of Sciences)
Milena Slavcheva (IPP, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
Kiril Simov (IPP, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
Dan Tufis (Romanian Academy of Sciences)
Cristina Vertan (University of Hamburg, Germany)
Dusko Vitas (University of Belgrade, Serbia)

Contact

For further questions please see the web page of the workshop at:  
http://www.c-phil.uni-hamburg.de/view/Main/LrecWorkshop2010
or contact Dr. Cristina Vertan under:
cristina DOT vertan AT uni-hamburg DOT de
tel: +4940428384767

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Milena Slavcheva

Linguistic Modeling Department
Institute for Parallel Processing
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
25A, Acad. Georgi Bonchev St.
1113 Sofia, Bulgaria

phone: (+359) 2 979 2812
e-mail: milena at lml.bas.bg
URL:  http://lml.bas.bg/~milena

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