[Corpora-List] DEADLINE EXTENDED: IBEREVAL 1st Workshop on Evaluation of Human Language Technologies for modern iberian languages (SEPLN 2010)

[Borja Navarro Colorado]

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DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JUNE 21 2010

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IBEREVAL 2010: 1st Workshop on Evaluation of Human Language Technologies
for modern iberian languages 
September 6-7, 2010
In conjunction with SEPLN 2010 Valencia, Spain
Webpage: http://gplsi.dlsi.ua.es/congresos/ibereval10/
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LAST CALL FOR PAPERS - DEADLINE EXTENDED TO **JUNE 21**
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DESCRIPTION

With the aim of encouraging and promoting the development of Human
Language Technologies (HLT) for modern iberian languages, the goal of
this workshop is creating a discussion forum about different aspects
regarding the evaluation of Natural Language Processing systems,
emphasizing the main problems that modern iberian languages implied:
Spanish, Catalan, Basque, Galician and Portuguese. 

The implementation of this type of systems requires a deep evaluation
and validation of them. In order to validate the HLT, similar evaluation
methods must exists for similar applications, in order to compare them
straightforwardly. 

Besides, most tasks of HLT, as summarization and automatic translation,
does not have a unique valid solution, but more than one can be
accepted. Therefore, the evaluation methods required must be clear and
adjusted to the system goals. 

Following the line of other workshops focused in the evaluation of HLT
systems, this IBEREVAL I workshop is presented as a discussion forum
about the evaluation of systems working with modern iberian languages,
with the aim of discovering the interests and necessities of the
scientific community, dealing with the problems that evaluation implies,
and promoting the creation of evaluation resources and training corpus
for HLT systems working on these languages. 


TOPICS OF INTEREST
 
This IBEREVAL I workshop will bring together researchers, academic
institutions and companies working on the development of HLT systems and
their evaluation, participating through submissions regarding issues
such as: 

Development of evaluation resources over different HLT modules and
applications:
 
      * creation of gold-standard corpus for iberian languages (Catalan,
        Basque, Galician, Portuguese and Spanish); Part of Speech
        tagging; syntactic parsing; semantic interpretation; anaphora
        resolution; information retrieval and extraction;
        summarization; machine translation, etc. 
      * Evaluation metrics for the different HLT modules and
        applications. 
      * General modules of evaluation: direct and indirect evaluation. 
      * Development of testing, supervision and evaluation frameworks
        for HLT systems. 
      * Manual, supervised and semi-supervised evaluation. 
      * Creation and development of evaluation standards.


IMPORTANT DATES
 
Paper submission deadline:
June 21, 2010 (extended)
Acceptance Notification:
July 15, 2010
Camera Ready Copy:
July 31, 2010
Workshop:
September 6-7, 2010

SUBMISSIONS

Submitted papers can be written in English or Spanish, and must not
exceed the length of 4 pages with SEPLN format. Author guides can be
found in: 

        http://www.sepln.org/revistaSEPLN/Instrevista.php?lang=en 

Authors must focused in the relevant aspects of the submissions.

Submissions must be sent to borja at dlsi.ua.es.

All submissions will be double-blind peer-reviewed by two reviewers. The
initial manuscript submission should not include acknowledgements,
authors' names or their affiliations. The program committee will be
responsible for the final decision about acceptance of papers submitted
to the workshop. All accepted papers will be included in the workshop
working notes. Extended/revised versions of contributions will be
ellectronically published as CEUR workshop proceedings
(http://CEUR-WS.org). At least one author must be registered at the
workshop for each accepted paper. 


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Chair: Patricio Martínez-Barco (University of Alicante) 

Program Committee Members: 
      * Eneko Aguirre (EHU) 
      * Anabela Barreiro (U. Porto) 
      * Víctor Díaz (U. Sevilla) 
      * Xavier Gómez-Guinovart (U. Vigo) 
      * Julio Gonzalo (UNED)
      * Fernando Llopis (U. Alicante) 
      * M. Antonia Martí (U. Barcelona) 
      * Paloma Martínez (U. Carlos III) 
      * Manuel Montes (INAOE, Mexico) 
      * Lidia Moreno (UPV) 
      * German Rigau (EHU) 
      * Horacio Rodríguez (UPC) 
      * Paolo Rosso (UPV) 
      * Alfonso Ureña (U. Jaén) 
      * Felisa Verdejo (UNED) 


CONTACT:

Borja Navarro-Colorado
Dept. of Software and Computing Systems
University of Alicante, Spain
Email: borja at dlsi.ua.es


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