[Corpora-List] Call for Papers: Tenth Workshop on Asian Language Resources (ALR10) at COLING 2012

[Ruvan Weerasinghe]

The 10th Workshop on Asian Language Resources (ALR10) in conjunction with COLING 2012 in Mumbai, India 

Organized by 
Asian Languages Resources Committee (ALRC) 
Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (AFNLP) 

December 8-9, 2012 

http://www.cle.org.pk/alr10/ 

The 10th Workshop on Asian Language Resources focuses on language resources for Asian region, with more than 2200 spoken languages. There are now increasing efforts to build multi-lingual, multi-modal language resources, with varying levels of annotations, through manual, semi-automatic and automatic approaches, as the use of ICTs spreads across the region. Correspondingly, the development of practical applications on these language resources has also been rapidly growing. The workshops on ALR is a series aim to forge a better coordination and collaboration among researchers on these languages, and the NLP community, in general to develop common frameworks and processes for this purpose. 

To achieve these goals, the workshop calls for original and unpublished technical, strategy, policy and survey papers concerning, but not limited to, the following topics: 

- Text corpora, speech corpora, corpora in other modalities or media (such as video for sign languages or affective computing) 
- Lexicons, grammars, machine-readable dictionaries, domain specific terminology 
- Ontologies, knowledge representation, semantic web technologies 
- Infrastructure for constructing and sharing language resources 
- Exchange and annotation schemata, exchange formats 
- Standards or specifications for language resources and content management 
- Language resources for basic NLP tasks (word segmentation, named entity recognition, syntactic analysis, semantic analysis, discourse analysis, speech recognition, speech synthesis, etc.) 
- Language Resources for HLT applications (such as text generation, information retrieval, information extraction, question answering, machine translation, speech translation, reasoning, affective computing, etc.) 
- Strategies and priorities for cooperation and collaboration 
- Licensing and copyright issues 


Important Dates 

- September 30, 2012 Deadline for paper submissions 
- October 31, 2012 Notification of paper acceptance 
- November 15, 2012 Camera-ready copies due (firm) 
- December 8-9, 2012 ALR10 Workshop at COLING 2012 


Program Committee 

Abid Khan, Univ. of Peshawar, Pakistan 
Chai Wutiwiwatchai - NECTEC, Thailand 
Dipti Misra Sharma, IIIT, Hyderabad, India 
Francis Bond, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 
Haizhou Li - I2R, Singapore 
Key-Sun Choi - KAIST, Korea 
Kiyoaki Shirai - JAIST, Japan 
Miriam Butt – Univ. of Konstanz, Germany 
Mirna Adriani – Univ. of Indonesia, Indonesia 
Rajeev Sangal, IIIT Hyderabad, India 
Takenobu Tokunaga - Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan 
Ruli Marunung – Univ. of Indonesia, Indonesia 
Steven Bird – University of Melbourne, Australia 
Reinhard Schaler – Localization Research Centre, University of Limerick, Ireland 
Virach Sornlertlamvanich - NECTEC, Thailand 
Sarmad Hussain – CLE-KICS, UET Lahore, Pakistan 
Rachel Edita O. Roxas – De La Salle University, Philippines 
Ruvan Weerasinghe - University of Colombo, School of Computing, Sri Lanka 


Organizing Committee 

Ruvan Weerasinghe (Chair) – LTRL, UCSC, Sri Lanka 
Rachel Edita O. Roxas (Co-Chair) - De La Salle University, Philippines 
Virach Sornlertlamvanich (Co-Chair) – NECTEC, Thailand; AFNLP 
Sarmad Hussain (Co-Chair) – CLE, KICS-UET, Pakistan; ALRC Chair of AFNLP 


Organizer 

Asian Language Resource Committee (ALRC), Asian Federation of NLP (AFNLP, www.afnlp.org) 

Contact person 

Chair: 

Dr. Ruvan Weerasinghe 
University of Colombo School of Computing 
Colombo 00700, SRI LANKA 
Email: arw at ucsc.cmb.ac.lk 
Phone: +94 112158953; Fax: +94112587239 
Web: http://www.ucsc.lk 


Co-Chair and ALRC, AFNLP Liaison: 

Dr. Sarmad Hussain 
Professor and Head 
Center for Language Engineering 
Al-Khawarizmi Institute of Computer Science 
University of Engineering and Technology 
Lahore, PAKISTAN 
Email: sarmad.hussain at kics.edu.pk 
Web: www.CLE.org.pk 


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