workshop at LREC

[Paola Monachesi]

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FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS

International Workshop on

LANGUAGE RESOURCES: INTEGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT IN E-LEARNING AND IN
TEACHING COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS.

http://nats-wiki.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~cri/lrecwp04/index.html

Centro Cultural de Belem, LISBON, Portugal, 24th May 2004

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In association with
4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION LREC 2004
http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2004/index.php
Main conference 26-27 May 2004



MOTIVATION
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Language resources (LRs) are of crucial importance not only for research and
development in language and speech technology but also for teaching
purposes.
E-learning added a new dimension to the usability of language resources and
made them interesting outside the area of computational linguistics.

This one-day workshop will focus on the integration of LRs in the
educational
process and the relation between LRs and e-learning. Special attention will
be
dedicated to the use of LRs in the curriculum of computational linguistics.
Its goal is four-fold:

1. to provide a forum for presentation, discussion and case
collections of the use of LRs in in Linguistics and Computational
Linguistics;
2. to discuss the additional skills acquired by the students when
   using or developing LRs (e.g. how to acquire standards);
3. to discuss how the competence built up in the development of LRs
   could be used for creating better interfaces for educational
   material;
4. to discuss how LRs could be included in electronic scientific
   handbooks, which are crucial for hands-on experience in e-learning.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

a. necessity of LRs in the curriculum;
b. types of LRs used in the curriculum;
c. integration of LRs in the curriculum;
d. format and storage of LRs;
e. access to and distribution of multilingual LRs for different purposes
(e.g. Machine Translation, E-learning lessons, scientific manuals or
electronic handbooks)

The workshop will bring together (computational) linguists, LRs developers,
developers of e-learning material, e-publishers and teachers. It will
provide
a forum for interaction among members of possibly disparate research
communities, and a means for attendees to increase their knowledge and
understanding of the potential of LRs in teaching computational linguistics
and e-learning.

The workshop will feature also a panel discussing longer-term activities
such
as a mailing list, an archive of educational materials based on LRs, etc.
However the main goal of this workshop would be laying the groundwork for
further professional collaboration in integrating LRs within different types
of e-learning.

Important dates
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Abstract Submissions: February 1st, 2004
Notification of Acceptance: February 28th, 2004
Final Versions: April 1st, 2004
Workshop: May 24th, 2004


Submissions
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The workshop will consist of paper presentation, demos and panel
discussions.

Abstracts for workshop contributions should not exceed two A4 pages for
paper
presentation and one A4 page for demo presentation. Each submission should
show: the title; author(s); affiliation(s); and contact author's e-mail
address, as well as postal address, telephone and fax numbers.

Submissions are to be sent by email  to Cristina Vertan
(cri at nats.informatik.uni-hamburg.de), in plain text or PDF format.

The final version of the accepted papers should not be longer than 6 pages.
Instructions for formatting and presentation of the final version will be
sent
to authors upon notification of acceptance.

Proceedings of the workshop will be printed by the LREC Local Organizing
Committee.


TIME SCHEDULE and REGISTRATION FEE
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The workshop will consist of a morning session and an afternoon session. The
afternoon session will end with a panel discussion.

For this full-day Workshop, the registration fee is 100 EURO for LREC
Conference participants and 170 EURO for other participants. These fees will
include coffee breaks and the Proceedings of the workshop.


Organizing Committee
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Paola Monachesi, University of Utrecht, Paola.Monachesi at let.uu.nl
Cristina Vertan, University of Hamburg, cri at nats.informatik.uni-hamburg.de
Walther von Hahn, University of Hamburg, vhahn at nats.informatik.uni-hamburg.de
Susanne Jekat, Zuerich University of Applied Sciences Winterthur, jes at zhwin.ch