1st CfP LREC 2010 Workshop on Supporting e-learning with language resources and semantic data

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Workshop on Supporting e-learning with language resources and semantic data

 

Date: 22/5/2010

 

To take place within the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference

(LREC 2010) Valletta, Malta http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2010/

 

 

*Background*

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Language resources are of crucial importance not only for research and 
development in language and speech technology but also for eLearning 
applications. In addition, the increasingly availability of semantically 
interpreted data in the WEB 3.0 is creating a huge impact in semantic 
technology.  Social media applications such as Delicious, Flikr, You 
tube, Facebook, provide us with data in the form of tags and 
interactions among users. We believe that the exploitation of semantic 
data (emerging both from the Semantic Web and from social media) and 
language resources will drive the next generation eLearning platforms. 
The integration of these technologies within eLearning applications 
should also facilitate access to learning material in developing economies.

 

The workshop aims at bringing together computational linguists, language 
resources developers, knowledge engineers, social media researchers and 
researchers involved in technology-enhanced learning as well as 
developers of eLearning material, ePublishers and eLearning 
practitioners. It will provide a forum for interaction among members of 
different research communities, and a means for attendees to increase 
their knowledge and understanding of the potential of language resources 
in eLearning. We will especially target eLearning practitioners in the 
Mediterranean Partner Countries.

 

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

 

1.·    Relevance of language resources, semantic data (i.e. ontologies, 
social media data) and tools in eLearning;

·         Use of social media applications and social networks in 
enhancing eLearning;

·         Methods to link semantic description of learning objects to 
semantic web data;

·         Ontology Design in the eLearning domain;

2.·    Different methods of employing  LRs such as written and spoken 
corpora, grammars, lexicons, and linguistic databases in eLearning;

3.·    Use of multilingual language resources in facilitating knowledge 
exchange within eLearning applications;

4.·    Use of language and speech technology for improvement of  
language learning applications;

·         Use of language and speech technology to provide feedback in 
eLearning applications;

·         Exploitation of semantic data and language resources for the 
development of intelligent functionalities in eLearning systems;

·         Collaborative development of semantic data describing learning 
objects;

·         Methods to re-use linked data in the development of learning 
objects;

·         eLearning applications enhanced with language technology tools 
and semantic data in facilitating education access in Mediterranean 
partner countries.

 

 

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*Submissions*

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Abstracts should be 5 pages long and submitted through the START 
Conference Manager submission site: 
https://www.softconf.com/lrec2010/E-learning2010/

Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings and should 
adhere to the style sheet.

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.lrec-conf.org/lrec2010/?LREC2010-Map-of-Language-Resources

 

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*Important dates*

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/_Submission of abstracts: _//_15 February 2010_//__/

/_Notification of acceptance: _//_22 March 2010_//__/

/_Final version for the proceedings: _//_28 March 2010_//__/

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*Organisers *

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Paola Monachesi, University of Malta and Utrecht University

Alfio Massimiliano Gliozzo, ISTC-CNR

Eline Westerhout ,Utrecht University

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      Programme Committee

Claudio Baldassarre (Open University)

Roberto Basili (University of Rome Tor Vergata)

Eva Blomqvist (ISTC --CNR)

Antonio Branco (University of Lisbon)

Dan Cristea (University of Ias,i)

Ernesto William De Luca (TU Berlin)

Philippe Dessus (Univ. Pierre-Mendès-France, Grenoble)

Claudio Giuliano (FBK-irst)

Wolfgang Greller (Open University of the Netherlands)

Alessio Gugliotta (Innova spa)

Jamil Itmazi (Palestine Ahliya University)

Susanne Jekat (Zürich Winterthur Hochschule)

Vladislav Kubon (Charles University Prague)

Lothar Lemnitzer (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften)

Stefanie Lindstaedt (Know-Center, Graz)

Angelo Marco Luccini (INSEAD)

Manuele Manente (JOGroup)

Dunja Mladenic (J. Stefan Institute)

Mattew Montebello (University of Malta)

Jad Najjar (WU Vienna)

Valentina Presutti, STLab  (ISTC -- CNR)

Adam Przepiorkowski (Polish Academy of Sciences)

Mike Rosner (University of Malta)

Doaa Samy (Cairo University)

Khaled Shaalan (Cairo University)

Kiril Simov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)

Stefan Trausan-Matu (University of Bucarest)

Cristina Vertan (University of Hamburg)

Fridolin Wild (Open University)

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