1st CfP - LREC2010 Workshop: Web Services and Processing Pipelines in HLT: Tool Evaluation, LR Production and Validation

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CALL FOR PAPER

Workshop on

Web Services and Processing Pipelines in HLT: Tool Evaluation, LR 
Production and Validation

To be held in conjunction with the 7th International Language Resources 
and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2010)

17­18 May 2010, Mediterranean Conference Center, Valletta, Malta

_http://workshops.elda.org/wspp2010/ 
<https://www.softconf.com/lrec2010/WebServices2010/>_

/Deadline for submission: 22 February 2010 /

Workshop Description

With the emergence of large e­infrastructures and the widespread 
adoption of the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) paradigm, more and 
more language technology is being made available through web services. 
Extending such services to linguistic processing pipelines, tool 
evaluation or LR production and validation involves considering both the 
methodologies and technical aspects specific to the application domains.

Distributed architectures such as web services allow communication and 
data exchange between 
applications. They are a suitable instrument for automatic, less often semi­automatic, tool evaluation 
as well as resource production processes both for practical and 
conceptual reasons. At a practical level, web services support quick 
results, centralised data storage, remote access etc.; at a conceptual 
level, they allow for the combination of more than one processing 
components that may be located on different sites. Such processing 
pipelines are set up to tackle a particular analysis task. To support 
these, new techniques have to be developed that organise 
well­established practices into 
workflows and support the exchange of data by standards and open tool architectures. 


The workshop focuses on current uses and best practices for the 
deployment of web services and web interfaces in the HLT domain, 
including processing pipelines, LR production and validation, and 
evaluation of tools. It highlights relevant aspects for the integration 
of linguistic or evaluation web services within infrastructures (e.g. 
authorisation and authentication, service registries) and 
infrastructural requirements (e.g. interface harmonisation, metadata 
generation). The workshop also aims at demonstrating different 
approaches on how to combine linguistic web services into a 
composite web service.

The expected outcome of the workshop is a comparison of the practices in 
architectures and processing pipelines that people build and discussion 
of the issues involved. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- /Technical aspects/: approaches, protocols, management of huge amounts 
of data, data structures and formats, performance, manual components 
(e.g. annotation or evaluation), composition and configuration, 
interoperability, security, monitoring and recovery strategies, 
standardisation of APIs, tools and frameworks supporting HLT services deployment, architectures. 

- Scientifi/c aspects/: influence of web services on evaluation or 
resource production, meta­evaluation / validation of architectures, 
annotation agreements, needs for tools evaluation and 
resource production, status of the data produced.

- /Commercial aspects/: licensing, privacy, advertising, brokering, 
business possibilities, challenges, exploitation of the resulting data.

Chairing Committee

Núria Bel (Institut Universitari de Lingüística Aplicada, 
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)
Olivier Hamon (Evaluations and Language resources Distribution Agency (ELDA)
Elke Teich (Technische Universität Darmstadt)

Organising Committee

Peter Fankhauser (L3S Hannover, Germany)
Maria Gavrilidou (Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Greece)
Gerhard Heyer (Department of Natural Language Processing, University of /Leipzig,/  Germany)
Zdravko Kacic (University of Maribor, Faculty of Electrical Engineering 
and Computer Science, Slovenia)
Mark Kemps­Snijders (MPI, the Netherlands)
Andreas Witt (IDS Mannheim, Germany)

Programme Committee

Sophia Ananiadou (School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, England)
Victoria Arranz (ELDA, France)
Volker Boehlke (University of Leipzig, DE)
Gaël de Chalendar (CEA, France)
Key­Sun Choi (KAIST, Korea)
Dan Cristea (University of Iasis, Romania)
Thierry Declerck (DFKI, Germany)
Christoph Draxler (LMU München, Germany)
Nicola Ferro (University of Padua, Italy)
Riccardo del Grata (ILC, Italy)
Iryna Gurevych (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany)
Yoshihiko Hayashi (Osaka University, Japan)
Nicolas Hernandez (Université de Nantes, France)
Radu Ion (Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Romanian Academy, Romania)
Yoshinobu Kano (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Yohei Murakami (NICT, Japan)
Jan Odijk (University of Utrecht, the Netherlands)
Patrick Paroubek (LIMSI, France)
Kay Peterson (NIST, U.S.A.)
Maciej Piasecki (Instytut Informatyki Stosowanej, Poland)
Mark Przybocki (NIST, U.S.A.)
Matej Rojc (University of Maribor, Slovenia)
Felix Sasaki (W3C / FH Potsdam, Germany)
Junichi Tsujii (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Dan Tufis (RACAI, Romania)
Karin Verspoor (University of Colorado, U.S.A.)
Graham Wilcock (University of Helsinki, Finland)

Important dates

Deadline for submission: Monday 22 February 2010
Notification of acceptance: Monday 15 March 2010
Final version due: Tuesday 23 March 2010
Workshop : 17­18 May 2010

Submission Format

Full papers up to 8 pages should be formatted according to LREC 2010 
guidelines and be submitted through the online submission form 
(https://www.softconf.com/lrec2010/WebServices2010/)  on 
START. For further queries, please contact Olivier Hamon at hamon_at_elda_dot_org. 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.lrec­conf.org/lrec2010/? 
<http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2010/?LREC2010-Map-of-Language-Resources>_LREC2010­Map­of­Language­Resources. 
<http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2010/?LREC2010-Map-of-Language-Resources>
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