[Corpora-List] 1st CfP - LREC2010 Workshop: Supporting eLearning with Language Resources and Semantic Data

[Eline Westerhout]

[Apologies for cross-postings]

*Call for Papers *

Workshop on
*Supporting eLearning with Language Resources and Semantic Data *

To be held in conjunction with the 7th International
Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2010)

*22 May 2010, Mediterranean Conference Centre, Valletta, Malta*

<http://workshops.elda.org/lrslm2010/>http://www.lt4el.eu/ws_elearning.php
 *Deadline for submission: 15 February 2010*


*Description *
Language resources are of crucial importance not only for research and
development in language and speech technology but also for eLearning
applications. In addition, the increasingly availability of semantically
interpreted data in the WEB 3.0 is creating a huge impact in semantic
technology. Social media applications such as Delicious, Flickr, YouTube,
and Facebook, provide us with data in the form of tags and interactions
among users. We believe that the exploitation of semantic data (emerging
both from the Semantic Web and from social media) and language resources
will drive the next generation eLearning platforms. The integration of these
technologies within eLearning applications should also facilitate access to
learning material in developing economies.

The workshop aims at bringing together computational linguists, language
resources developers, knowledge engineers, social media researchers and
researchers involved in technology-enhanced learning as well as developers
of eLearning material, ePublishers and eLearning practitioners. It will
provide a forum for interaction among members of different research
communities, and a means for attendees to increase their knowledge and
understanding of the potential of language resources in eLearning. We will
especially target eLearning practitioners in the Mediterranean Partner
Countries.


*Topics*
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

   - Relevance of language resources, semantic data (i.e. ontologies, social
   media data) and tools in eLearning;
   - Use of social media applications and social networks in enhancing
   eLearning;
   - Methods to link semantic description of learning objects to semantic
   web data;
   - Ontology Design in the eLearning domain;
   - Different methods of employing  LRs such as written and spoken corpora,
   grammars, lexicons, and linguistic databases in eLearning;
   - Use of multilingual language resources in facilitating knowledge
   exchange within eLearning applications;
   - Use of language and speech technology for improvement of  language
   learning applications;
   - Use of language and speech technology to provide feedback in eLearning
   applications;
   - Exploitation of semantic data and language resources for the
   development of intelligent functionalities in eLearning systems;
   - Collaborative development of semantic data describing learning objects;
   - Methods to re-use linked data in the development of learning objects;
   - eLearning applications enhanced with language technology tools and
   semantic data in facilitating education access in Mediterranean partner
   countries.


*Submissions*
Abstracts should be 5 pages long and submitted through the START Conference
Manager submission site: https://www.softconf.com/lrec2010/E-learning2010/

Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings and should
adhere to the style sheet.

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 initiative, please refer to
http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2010/?LREC2010-Map-of-Language-Resources.


*Important dates *
Submission of abstracts: 15 February 2010
Notification of acceptance: 22 March 2010
Final version for the proceedings: 28 March 2010
Workshop: 22 May 2010


*Organizing Committee*
Paola Monachesi, University of Malta and Utrecht University
Alfio Massimiliano Gliozzo, ISTC-CNR
Eline Westerhout, Utrecht University
*

Programme Committee*
 Claudio Baldassarre (Open University)
Roberto Basili (University of Rome Tor Vergata)
Eva Blomqvist (ISTC –CNR)
Antonio Branco (University of Lisbon)
Dan Cristea (University of Iaşi)
Ernesto William De Luca (TU Berlin)
 Philippe Dessus (Univ. Pierre-Mendès-France, Grenoble)
Claudio Giuliano (FBK-irst)
Wolfgang Greller (Open University of the Netherlands)
Alessio Gugliotta (Innova spa)
Jamil Itmazi (Palestine Ahliya University)
Susanne Jekat (Zürich Winterthur Hochschule)
Vladislav Kubon (Charles University Prague)
Lothar Lemnitzer (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften)
Stefanie Lindstaedt (Know-Center, Graz)
Angelo Marco Luccini (INSEAD)
Manuele Manente (JOGroup)
Dunja Mladenic (J. Stefan Institute)
Mattew Montebello (University of Malta)
Jad Najjar (WU Vienna)
Valentina Presutti, STLab  (ISTC – CNR)
Adam Przepiorkowski (Polish Academy of Sciences)
Mike Rosner (University of Malta)
Doaa Samy (Cairo University)
Khaled Shaalan (Cairo University)
Kiril Simov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
Stefan Trausan-Matu (University of Bucarest)
Cristina Vertan (University of Hamburg)
Fridolin Wild (Open University)
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