22.1534, Calls: Computational Linguistics/Germany

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Subject: 22.1534, Calls: Computational Linguistics/Germany

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Date: 04-Apr-2011
From: Andreas Witt [witt at ids-mannheim.de]
Subject: Language Technology for a Multilingual Europe

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Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2011 12:03:37
From: Andreas Witt [witt at ids-mannheim.de]
Subject: Language Technology for a Multilingual Europe

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Full Title: Language Technology for a Multilingual Europe 
Short Title: lt-europe 

Date: 27-Sep-2011 - 27-Sep-2011
Location: Hamburg, Germany 
Contact Person: Andreas Witt
Meeting Email: witt at ids-mannheim.de
Web Site: http://tinyurl.com/43zb8z4 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-May-2011 

Meeting Description:

The workshop aims at bringing various groups together who are concerned with the broad topic of 'Language Technology for a Multilingual Europe'. This encompasses on the one hand representatives from research and development in the field of language technologies and on the other hand users from quite diverse areas. Two examples of the application of language technology is (automatic / machine) translation, and processing of texts from the humanities with methods from language technology, like automatic topic indexing, text mining, integrating numerous texts and additional information across languages, etc.

These kinds of application areas and research and development in language technology have in common that they rely on resources (lexica, corpora, grammars, ontologies etc.), or that they produce these resources. A multilingual Europe, being supported by language technology, is only possible if an adequate, interoperable infrastructure of resources, including the related tooling, is available for all European languages.

In addition it is necessary that the aforementioned and other communities of developers and users of language technology stand as one, homogeneous community. Only in this way it will be possible to assure the long term political acceptance of the topic 'language technology' in Europe. 

Call for Papers:

The workshop aims at bringing research and development from academia and industry together, to discuss the aforementioned technical and political prerequisites for language technology in Europe. Submissions may touch on the following or other aspects of this overall topic:

- Research and development of language technology in various areas (Human Language Technology, ICT, eHumanities, etc.)
- Infrastructure for resources in language technology
- Prerequisites for interoperability of language technology based applications
- Language technology and standardization
- 'Political perspectives' about requirements and the usefulness of language technology, from the perspective of research, industry and various user communities

Submissions:

The evaluation of abstracts for posters will be anonymous. Hence, the authors should not be mentioned directly in the abstract. Submissions for system demonstrations need not to be anonymous.

Length and format: max. 2 pages in 11pt (without references), in PDF format

Abstracts should be submitted via the GSCL conference system: http://www.exmaralda.org/gscl (category in the system: choose the entry for the workshop lt-europe).

Important Dates:

Deadline for submission of abstracts: May 15th 2011
Notification of acceptance: June 15th 2011
Workshop: September 27th, the Tuesday before the GSCL conference

Programme Committee:

- Aljoscha Burchardt, DFKI
- Kurt Eberle, Lingenio
- Josef van Genabith, Dublin City University / Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL)
- Ulrich Heid, Universität Hildesheim
- Jonas Kuhn, IMS Stuttgart
- Christian Lieske, SAP
- Henning Lobin, Universität Gießen
- Georg Rehm, DFKI
- Felix Sasaki, DFKI
- Uta Seewald-Heeg, Hochschule Anhalt
- Daniel Stein, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
- Elke Teich, Universität Saarbrücken
- Andreas Witt, Institut für Deutsche Sprache Mannheim

Organizing Committee:

- Georg Rehm, DFKI
- Felix Sasaki, DFKI
- Daniel Stein, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
- Andreas Witt, Institut für Deutsche Sprache Mannheim

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