[Corpora-List] CFP: IJCNLP2011 Workshop on Language Resources, Technology and Services in the Sharing Paradigm

Tue Mar 29 10:15:40 UTC 2011

*Call for Papers*/*

Workshop on Language Resources, Technology and Services in the Sharing 
Paradigm*/
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November 12, 2011*
*At IJCNLP2011 (http://www.ijcnlp2011.org/) *
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_The Context _

Some of the current major initiatives in the area of language resources 
-- FLaReNet (http://www.flarenet.eu/), Language Grid 
(http://langrid.nict.go.jp/en/index.html) and META-SHARE 
(www.meta-share.org, www.meta-net.eu) -- have agreed to organise a joint 
workshop on infrastructural issues that are critical in the age of data 
sharing and open data, to discuss state of the art, international 
cooperation, future strategies and priorities, road-mapping.

It is an achievement, and an opportunity for our field, that recently a 
number of strategic-infrastructural initiatives have been started all 
over the world. This is also a sign that funding agencies recognise the 
strategic value of our field and the importance of helping a coherent 
growth also through a number of coordinated actions. Some of
these initiatives, two European and an Asian, have agreed to join forces 
to foster a debate that may lead to future coordinated actions all over 
the world.

FLaReNet aims at providing recommendations for future initiatives in the 
field of Language Resources and Technologies: we are aware that it is 
important to discuss future policy and priorities not only on the 
European scene, but also in a worldwide context. This is true both when 
we try to highlight future directions of research, and -- even more -- 
when we analyse which infrastructural initiatives are needed. The growth 
of the field should be complemented by common efforts that try to look 
for synergies and to overcome fragmentation.

The Language Grid aims at constructing a multilingual service 
infrastructure on the Internet that allows users to share language 
services such as online dictionaries, bilingual corpora, and machine 
translations, and create new language services by combining existing 
services to support intercultural collaboration. The Language Grid is
operated by Kyoto and Bangkok operation centers in a federated fashion. 
More than 110 language services are registered and shared by 140 groups 
in 18 countries.

META-SHARE aims to build an open, integrated, secure and interoperable 
exchange facility for language resources (data and tools) for the Human 
Language Technologies domain and other applicative domains (e.g., 
digital libraries, cognitive systems, robotics, etc) where language 
plays a critical role. It aims to act as an infrastructure that will 
enable language resources documentation, cataloguing, uploading and 
storage, downloading and exchange, aiming to support a resources economy 
at large.

Cooperation is an issue that needs to be prepared. This joint strategic 
Workshop plans to continue a discussion, started on several occasions in 
the last years, on the usefulness and the interest of promoting 
international cooperation among various initiatives and communities 
around the world, within and around the field of Language
Resources and Technologies.

_Topic and Content_

The three organising projects will contribute with reports on their 
activities aiming at boosting a constructive and fruitful debate. In 
particular,

    * FLaReNet will bring in its final recommendations and priorities
      deriving from the various events it organised, summarised in the
      FLaReNet Blueprint of actions and infrastructures
      (http://www.flarenet.eu/sites/default/files/D8.2b.pdf).

    * The Language Grid proposes a service-oriented language
      infrastructure that shifts from language resources to language
      services, and institutional design for operating the
      infrastructure in a federated fashion
      (http://servicegrid.net/en/index.html).

    *   META-SHARE will present the principles underlying its design and
      governance model, its proposed architecture for language resources
      sharing and collaborative building as well as the technical and
      legal instruments supporting its operation.

The Workshop aims at addressing (some of the) technological, market and 
policy challenges posed by the "sharing and openness paradigm", the 
major role that language resources can play and the consequences of this 
paradigm on language resources themselves.
Examples of topics and issues to be addressed are:

    * Sharing Language Resources and Language Technologies
    * Need for global information on Language Resources and Language
      Technologies: relevant initiatives in the various regions/countries
    * Interoperability and Reusability
    * Linguistic web services and language applications development
    * Metadata and Cataloguing
    * Legal issues
    * Infrastructures, policies, gaps and critical areas
    * Common roadmap and strategies: local, regional, international
      frameworks
    * International cooperation, models for collaboration and agreements
      on joint initiatives

The proposed Workshop will be a place where colleagues interested on 
infrastructural initiatives get together to discuss and promote 
collaboration actions.
This should also lead to discussing the modalities of how to organise 
the cooperation among various initiatives.

We think that organising this workshop in Thailand we can attract 
participation of many Asian initiatives and can lead to fruitful 
collaboration between Asian and other international initiatives.

_Important dates_
Deadline for paper submissions:     May 20, 2011
Notification of paper acceptance:    July 1, 2011
Camera-ready copies due (firm):      July 22, 2011

_Workshop Chairs_
Nicoletta Calzolari  (ILC-CNR, Pisa, Italy)
Toru Ishida  (Kyoto University, Japan)
Stelios Piperidis  (ILSP, Athens, Greece)
Virach Sornlertlamvanich (NECTEC, Thailand)

_Scientific Committee _
Sophia Ananiadou
Nuria Bel
Emily Bender
Steven Bird
Nicoletta Calzolari
Thatsanee Charoenporn
Key-Sun Choi
Khalid Choukri
Chris Cieri
Yoshihiko Hayashi
Chu-Ren Huang
Nancy Ide
Hitoshi Isahara
Toru Ishida
Steven Krauwer
Joseph Mariani
Monica Monachini
Yohei Murakami
Jan Odijk
Stelios Piperidis
James Pustejovsky
Claudia Soria
Virach Sornlertlamvanich
Thepchai Supnithi
Take Tokunaga
Dan Tufis
Kiyotaka Uchimoto
Hans Uszkoreit
Peter Wittenburg

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