[Corpora-List] CfP - LREC Workshop on Language Resource and Language Technology Standards -- state of the art, emerging needs, and future developments

[Declerck]

LREC Workshop

*Language Resource and Language Technology Standards -- state of the 
art, emerging needs, and future developments*

Location: Mediterrenian Conference Centre, La Valetta (Malta)

Date: 18. May, 2010


  1^st Call for papers


      Background

In the last 10 years, several standardisation initiatives within W3C, 
ISO and the TEI have produced a portfolio of standards and more are in 
an early state of discussion. They will directly impact the way language 
resources are and will further be developed. This trend has in turn led 
to significant enhancements in the interoperability of tools for 
creating and managing language resources, and to a better understanding 
of the issues involved in ensuring that such resources remain usable in 
the long term. In this context, the main initiators of these 
standardisation initiatives, with the endorsement of the major 
infrastructural projects in language resources and humanities (CLARIN, 
Dariah, FLaReNet) are joining efforts to organise a one-day workshop 
providing a forum for the wider language resource community in order to

o provide feedback on their experience with respect to ongoing 
standard­isation activities

o express priorities and proposals for future standardisation activities

The results of this workshop will be taken as a basis for publication as 
a special issue of the LRE journal on the theme of standardisation for 
language resources, combining a comprehensive presentation of the field 
together with concrete applications of existing standards.


      Workshop aim

The workshop invites papers on existing, emerging, and future needs and 
requirements concerning standards and best practices in all areas of 
Language Resources and Tools (LRT), including corpus linguistics, 
translation and localization, terminology management, service oriented 
infrastructures etc. Presentations may focus on practical experiences 
using existing standards in real-world projects, or identify areas in 
which such standards are currently lacking but urgently needed. Papers 
should illustrate the challenges when applying standards to solving 
practical tasks.


      Workshop topics

Standards and best practices for language resources and tools --- Papers 
can address one or several of the following issues:

· Assessment of an existing standard and its implementation in a 
specific applicative context;

· Critical review of one of several standards (coherence of underlying 
models and technical specifications based on practical insights);

· Presentation of projects (corpora, lexica, etc) implementing 
international standards;

· Issues in using international standards for interoperability in the 
development of tools;

· Proposal of a new standard based on existing best practices or recent 
community developments;

· Position paper on further needs for standardisation in the domain of 
language resources based on concrete project requirements;

· Position paper concerning standardising policies within eHumanities 
infrastructures.


      Invited Speakers

To be announced at the workshop web-site 
(http://www.clarin.eu/events/lrt-standards-workshop).


      Deadlines

Submission of extended abstract (1 page): 19. February, 2010

Acceptance information: 12. March, 2010

Final Camera-ready Paper Submission: 19. March, 2010

Workshop: 18. May 2010


      Submission Information

For the submission please use the START LREC Conference Manager under

https://www.softconf.com/lrec2010/LRLTS2010/.

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 
<imap://thde00@ox6.dfki.de:143/fetch%3EUID%3E/INBOX%3E327617>."


      Organizing committee

Gerhard Budin, Center for Translation Studies, University of Vienna

Laurent Romary, INRIA & HUB-IDSL

Thierry Declerck, DFKI GmbH

Peter Wittenburg, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen


      Scientific committee

Nuria Bel, UPF, Barcelona

Gerhard Budin, Center for Translation Studies, University of Vienna

Harry Bunt, Tilburg University

Lou Burnard, TGE-ADONIS (CNRS) and TEI

Nicoletta Calzolari, Instituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR, Pisa

Eric de la Clergerie, Team Alpage at INRIA

Key-Sun Choi, Kaist

Thierry Declerck, DFKI GmbH

Gil Francopoulo, Tagmatica

Erhard Hinrichs, University of Tübingen

Nancy Ide, Vassar College

Marc Kemps-Snijders, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen

Maria Gavrilidou, ILSP, Athens

Stelios Piperidis, ILSP, Athens

James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University

Laurent Romary, INRIA & HUB-IDSL

Florian Schiel, BAS, Munich

Dan Tufis, RACAI, Bucharest

Menzo Windhouwer, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen

Sue-Ellen Wright, Institute for Applied Linguistics, Kent State University

Andreas Witt, Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim

Peter Wittenburg, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen

-- 
Thierry Declerck,
Senior Consultant at DFKI GmbH, Language Technology Lab
Stuhlsatzenhausweg, 3
D-66123 Saarbruecken
Tel: +49 (0)681 302 5358
Fax: +49 (0)681 302 5338
email: declerck at dfki.de

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Prof. Dr. h.c. Hans A. Aukes

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