21.1003, Calls: Computational Ling/Malta

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Subject: 21.1003, Calls: Computational Ling/Malta

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Date: 01-Mar-2010
From: Nuria Bel < nuria.bel at upf.edu >
Subject: Methods for the Automatic Acquisition of Language Resources and their Evaluation Methods

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Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:45:33
From: Nuria Bel [nuria.bel at upf.edu]
Subject: Methods for the Automatic Acquisition of Language Resources and their Evaluation Methods

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Full Title: Methods for the Automatic Acquisition of Language Resources and their Evaluation Methods 
Short Title: LREC 2010 Acquisition Workshop 

Date: 23-May-2010 - 23-May-2010
Location: Valletta, Malta 
Contact Person: Núria Bel
Meeting Email: nuria.bel at upf.edu
Web Site: http://www.flarenet.eu/?q=LREC2010_Acquisition_Workshop 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 05-Mar-2010 

Meeting Description:

Workshop on Methods for the Automatic Acquisition of Language Resources and their Evaluation Methods

To be held in conjunction with the 7th International Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2010) 23 May 2010, Mediterranean Conference Center, Valletta, Malta 

http://www.flarenet.eu/?q=LREC2010_Acquisition_Workshop 

Call for Papers:

Deadline for submissions has been extented to 5th March 2010.

Workshop on Methods for the Automatic Acquisition of Language Resources and their Evaluation Methods

Invited Keynote Speakers

-Kara Warburton
Delegate at ISO TC37, LISA and Manager of Terminology at IBM
-Julio Gonzalo
UNED group in Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval

To be held in conjunction with the 7th International Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2010) 23 May 2010, Mediterranean Conference Center, Valletta, Malta

http://www.flarenet.eu/?q=LREC2010_Acquisition_Workshop

Extended Deadline for submission: 5th March 2010

While methods for the Automatic Production of Language Resources are being described in scientific papers, the proposed techniques and their results are somehow unrelated because the lack of a common forum where to share experiences and to compare results.

FlaReNet Working Group on "Methods for the automatic construction and processing of Language Resources" in cooperation with FP7 projects: ACCURAT (Analysis and Evaluation of Comparable Corpora for Under Resourced Areas of Machine Translation), PANACEA (Platform for Automatic, Normalized Annotation and Cost-Effective Acquisition of Language Resources for Human Language Technologies) and TTC (Terminology Extraction, Translation Tools and Comparable Corpora) organizes this LREC workshop whose aim is to be the beginning of a series of meetings that will be an enduring forum where researchers in the field can exchange information and compare results. 

The two main objectives of the workshop are:

-First, to start the compilation of information about current initiatives and available and proved applications for the automatic acquisition of Language Resources and, 
-Second, to start the creation of common materials for the evaluation and comparison of the results of these methods and techniques. 

This first workshop is organized in a series of presentation talks and an open poster session. For the open poster session, the organizers welcome contributions related to the techniques and applications of the automatic acquisition and production of language resources and their evaluation in one of the following areas:

-Automatic extraction and pre-processing of corpus
-Alignment techniques for parallel and comparable corpus
-Bilingual dictionaries extraction, including terminological resources
-Lexical Information Acquisition
-Tree-bank automatic building
-Grammar induction
-Automatic acquisition of multimodal resources
-Automatic acquisition of sign languages

Poster papers (in the LREC format available at the conference web page and that should not be longer than 6 pages, references included) may describe past evaluation exercises as well as work in progress. 

Keynote Speakers:

The confirmed keynote speakers are Julio Gonzalo, UNED group in Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval and Kara Warburton, Canadian delegate at ISO TC37, Elected chair of the Terminology Special Interest group for LISA and Manager of Terminology at IBM.

Gonzalo is a member of the nlp.uned.es research group, where he conducts research on the application of Language Engineering to Multilingual Information Access problems and in particular in the development of evaluation metrics and methodologies. He has been involved in the coordination of CLEF (the international evaluation campaign for Multilingual Information Access applications) and WePS (Web People Search evaluation campaign).

Warburton is head of terminology development for IBM and is a recognized expert in terminology management. Elected chair of the LISA Terminology SIG, she is currently the project leader for the TBX submission to ISO and member of the ISO Terminology committee.

Important Dates:

New Deadline for Submissions: <b>5th March 2010</b>
Deadline for submission: 26 February 2010
Notification of acceptance: 18 March 2010
Final version due: 25 March 2010
Workshop: 23 May 2010

Submission Procedure:

Submission will be electronic using START paper submission software at the following link:

https://www.softconf.com/lrec2010/FLaReNetAcquisition2010/ 

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

Author's Kit and Template:

Authors are requested to format their manuscripts according to the guidelines specified in specified style sheet at the following link: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2010/Author-s-Kit-and-Templates.html. Papers which do not adhere to this format will NOT be accepted for publication in the Conference Proceedings.

Workshop Organizing Committee:

Núria Bel
Universitat Pompeu Fabra - IULA
Barcelona, Spain

Béatrice Daille 
Université de Nantes
Nantes, France

Andrejs Vasiljevs
Tilde - www.tilde.com
Riga, Latvia 

Confirmed Program Committee Members to date: 

Gregor Thurmair
Linguatec
Munich, Germany

Adeline Nazarenko
LIPN - The Computer Science Lab of the Paris-Nord University
Paris, France

Anne Vilnat
LIMSI - Lab. d'Informatique Mécanique et Sciences de l'Ingénieur. Orsay Cedex, France

Eric de la Clergerie
INRIA - I. National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique France

Montserrat Marimon
Universitat de Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain

Victoria Arranz
ELDA - Evaluations and Language resources Distribution Agency
Paris, France

Valeria Quochi
ILC-CNR, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale
Pisa, Italy

Nicoletta Calzolari
ILC-CNR, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale
Pisa, Italy

Prokopis Prokopidis
ILSP - Institute for Language Speech Processing
Athens, Greece

Stelios Piperidis
ILSP - Institute for Language Speech Processing
Athens, Greece

Nancy Ide
Vassar College - Department of Computer Science
New York, USA

Anna Korhonen	
University of Cambridge - Natural Language and Information Processing (NLIP) 
Group 
Cambridge, United Kingdom

Contact Person:

Núria Bel - nuria.bel at upf.edu

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