23.819, Calls: Discipline of Linguistics/Turkey

Sat Feb 18 15:08:13 UTC 2012

LINGUIST List: Vol-23-819. Sat Feb 18 2012. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 23.819, Calls: Discipline of Linguistics/Turkey

Moderators: Anthony Aristar, Eastern Michigan U <aristar at linguistlist.org>
            Helen Aristar-Dry, Eastern Michigan U <hdry at linguistlist.org>

Reviews: Veronika Drake, U of Wisconsin-Madison
Monica Macaulay, U of Wisconsin-Madison
Rajiv Rao, U of Wisconsin-Madison
Joseph Salmons, U of Wisconsin-Madison
Anja Wanner, U of Wisconsin-Madison
       <reviews at linguistlist.org>

Homepage: http://linguistlist.org

The LINGUIST List is funded by Eastern Michigan University,
and donations from subscribers and publishers.

Editor for this issue: Alison Zaharee <alison at linguistlist.org>
================================================================  

LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature:  
Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility 
designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process 
abstracts online.  Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, 
and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, 
submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3!

===========================Directory==============================  

1)
Date: 17-Feb-2012
From: Thorsten Trippel [thorsten.trippel at uni-tuebingen.de]
Subject: Workshop on Describing Language Resources with Metadata

-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 10:06:52
From: Thorsten Trippel [thorsten.trippel at uni-tuebingen.de]
Subject: Workshop on Describing Language Resources with Metadata

E-mail this message to a friend:
http://linguistlist.org/issues/emailmessage/verification.cfm?iss=23-819.html&submissionid=4541018&topicid=3&msgnumber=1

Full Title: Workshop on Describing Language Resources with Metadata 

Date: 22-May-2012 - 22-May-2012
Location: Istanbul, Turkey 
Contact Person: Thorsten Trippel
Meeting Email: thorsten.trippel at uni-tuebingen.de
Web Site: http://workshops.elda.org/metadata2012/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Discipline of Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 24-Feb-2012 

Meeting Description:

Workshop on Describing Language Resources with Metadata: Towards Flexibility and Interoperability in the Documentation of Language Resources
To be held in conjunction with the 8th International Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2012)
22 May 2012
Lütfi Kirdar Istanbul Exhibition and Congress Centre, Istanbul, Turkey
http://workshops.elda.org/metadata2012/

The description of Language Resources (LRs) continues to be a crucial point in the life cycle of LRs, and more particularly, in their sustainable exchange. This has been so for a number of repositories or LR distribution centres in place (ELRA, GSK, LDC, OLAC, TST-Centrale, BAS, among others), who house LR catalogues following some proprietary metadata schema. A number of projects and initiatives have also focused these past few years in the sharing of LRs (ENABLER, CLARIN, FLaReNet, PANACEA, META-SHARE), for example for Language Technology (LT).

Based on these initiatives a consensus emerges that shows a number of requirements for standardized metadata:

1. There should be a common publication channel for the LR descriptions in the world.
2. This channel allows users to carry out easy and efficient LR data discovery and possible subsequent retrieval of LRs.
3. Expert knowledge is required to create the data model for the metadata description.
4. Subject matter experts (both researchers and LR/LT providers and developers) are required to provide the content for the data model.
5. The data model needs to be clear, expressive, flexible, customizable and interoperable.
6. Metadata have to provide for different user groups, ranging from providers to consumers (both individuals and organisations). This applies both to the information contained in the metadata and the supporting tool infrastructure for creating, maintaining, distributing, harvesting and searching the metadata.

Currently several initiatives focus on metadata. From the realm of work done within initiatives like ENABLER and CLARIN descended the Component MetaData Infrastructure (CMDI, ISO TC 37 SC 4 work item for ISO 24622), which allows the combination of standard data categories (for example from ISO 12620, isocat.org) to components, which are combined into metadata profiles. Early versions of this model have been operational in repositories such as ELRA's, which complied with the work done within INTERA. FLaReNet, as the result of a permanent and cyclical consultation, has issued a set of main recommendations where a global infrastructure of uniform and interoperable metadata sets appear among the Top Priorities for the field of LRs.  For use within HLT, META-SHARE provides a fully-fledged schema for the description of LRs, in the framework of the component model, covering all the current resource types and media types of use, in all the stages of a resource's life-cycle. Our aim is to learn from one another's experiences and plans in this area.

Making resources available for others and putting this to a second use in other projects has never been more widely accepted as a sensible efficient way to avoid a waste of efforts and resources. However, when it comes to the details, there is still a vast number of problems. This workshop will be a forum to address issues and challenges in the concrete work with metadata for LRs, not restricted to a single initiative for archiving LRs.

The current state of the art for metadata provision allows for a very flexible approach, catering for the needs of different archives and communities, referring to common data category registries that describe the meaning of a data category at least to authors of metadata. Component models for metadata provisions are for example used by CLARIN and META-SHARE, but there is also an increased flexibility in other metadata schemas such as Dublin Core, which is usually not seen as appropriate for meaningful description of language resources. 

Call for Papers:

Extended deadline for submission: 24 February 2012

Topics of interest are:

1. Infrastructures for creating components and profiles for metadata
2. Editing and creating metadata
3. Porting legacy metadata
4. Metadata as a resource
5. Maintenance of metadata
6. Classification of language resources
7. Providing metadata concepts
8. Creating components and profiles
9. Services harvesting and interpreting metadata
10. Experience from the large LR data center catalogues: LDC, ELRA, BAS, and how to interoperate with them
11. Controlled vocabularies, terminology and metadata description
12. Formal models for metadata representation and standardized models of serialisation
13. Customization and reuse of metadata schemas
14. Plans or experiences with emerging metadata infrastructures as for example from CLARIN & META-SHARE
15. Experiences with the Component based metadata infrastructures
16. Integration and conversion of multiple repositories: experiences from META-SHARE, CESAR, METANET4U and META-NORD, etc.
17. Standardization issues for metadata

We invite submissions for full papers and system demonstrations that address these questions and other related issues relevant to the workshop.

Workshop Programme and Audience Addressed:

This full-day workshop aims at bringing together technology oriented working groups on metadata modeling or schema creation and both researchers and producers creating metadata in the course of their work. Those interested to use metadata in their projects should get the insights and come out with a clear idea of how to either describe their LRs or convert their schema. Those who have developed recently a model can share their experience, and those who have specific concerns with interoperability of metadata schemas as developed by the various initiatives can open the discussion in search for joint solutions.

Tools and the tool infrastructures should also be part of the discussion given that the initiatives provide also editors, mappings, search interfaces, component and profile registries.

Submission:

Authors should use the START system accessible from https://www.softconf.com/lrec2012/Metadata2012 and the LREC author's kit for submitting a two-column article of 4 to 8 pages.

For further queries, please contact Victoria Arranz at arranz at elda.org or Thorsten Trippel at thorsten.trippel at uni-tuebingen.de.

When submitting a paper through START, authors will be kindly asked to provide relevant information about the resources that have been used for the work described in their paper or that are the outcome of their research. For further information on this initiative, please refer to http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012/?LRE-Map-2012. Authors will also be asked to contribute to the Language Library, the new initiative of LREC2012.

Important Dates:

Submission of full papers: Friday 24 February 2012
Notification of acceptance of papers and demonstrations: Thursday 22 March 2012
Submission of final version: Saturday 31 March 2012
Final programme available: Friday 13 April 2012
Workshop: Tuesday 22 May 2012

Organising Committee:

Victoria Arranz (ELDA/ELRA, Paris, France, arranz at elda.org)
Daan Broeder (MPI, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, daan.broeder at mpi.nl)
Bertrand Gaiffe (ATILF, Nancy, France, Bertrand.Gaiffe at atilf.fr)
Maria Gavrilidou (Athena Research and Innovation Center, Athens, Greece, maria at ilsp.athena-innovation.gr)
Monica Monachini, (CNR-ILC, Pisa, Italy, monica.monachini at ilc.cnr.it)
Thorsten Trippel (University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, thorsten.trippel at uni-tuebingen.de)

Programme Committee:

Helen Aristar-Dry (Eastern Michigan University, USA)
Núria Bel (UPF, Barcelona, Spain)
Antonio Branco, (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Lars Borin (Språkbanken, Sweden)
Khalid Choukri (ELDA/ELRA, Paris, France)
Thierry Declerck (DFKI, Germany)
Matej Durco (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria)
Gil Francopoulo (CNRS-LIMSI-IMMI + TAGMATICA, Paris, France)
Francesca Frontini (CNR-ILC, Pisa, Italy)
Erhard Hinrichs (Univerität Tübingen, Germany)
Penny Labropoulou (ILSP-Athena, Athens, Greece)
Valérie Mapelli (ELDA/ELRA, Paris, France)
Jan Odijk (Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Elena Pierazzo (Kings College, London, UK)
Laurent Romary (INRIA, France)
Mike Rosner (University of Malta, Malta)
Andreas Witt (IDS, Germany)
Peter Wittenburg (MPI, The Netherlands)
Tamás Varadi (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary)
Marta Villegas (UPF, Barcelona, Spain)
Sue Ellen Wright (Kent State University, USA)

-----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-23-819	
----------------------------------------------------------