25.1494, Calls: Computational Linguistics/Ireland

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Subject: 25.1494, Calls: Computational Linguistics/Ireland

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Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 13:31:48
From: Manfred Stede [stede at uni-potsdam.de]
Subject: 8th Linguistic Annotation Workshop

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Full Title: 8th Linguistic Annotation Workshop 
Short Title: LAW VIII 2014 

Date: 23-Aug-2014 - 24-Aug-2014
Location: Dublin, Ireland 
Contact Person: Manfred Stede
Meeting Email: stede at uni-potsdam.de
Web Site: http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/acl-lab/law2014 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 02-May-2014 

Meeting Description:

Linguistic annotation of natural language corpora is the backbone of supervised methods for statistical natural language processing. It also provides valuable data for evaluation of both rule-based and supervised systems and can help formalize and study linguistic phenomena.

The LAW workshop, this year co-located with the COLING conference in Dublin, provides a forum for presentation and discussion of innovative research on all aspects of linguistic annotation, including creation/evaluation of annotation schemes, methods for automatic and manual annotation, use and evaluation of annotation software and frameworks, representation of linguistic data and annotations, etc.

Call for Papers:

We welcome submissions of long (8 pages) and short (4 pages) papers, posters, and demonstrations, relating to any aspect of linguistic annotation, including:

(a) Annotation procedures:
- Innovative automated and manual strategies for annotation
- Machine learning and knowledge-based methods for automation of corpus annotation
- Creation, maintenance, and interactive exploration of annotation structures and annotated data

(b) Annotation evaluation:
- Inter-annotator agreement and other evaluation metrics and strategies
- Qualitative evaluation of linguistic representation

(c) Annotation access and use:
- Representation formats/structures for merged annotations of different phenomena, and means to explore/manipulate them
- Linguistic considerations for merging annotations of distinct phenomena

(d) Annotation guidelines and standards:
- Best practices for annotation procedures and/or development and documentation of annotation schemes
- Interoperability of annotation formats and/or frameworks among different systems as well as different tasks, frameworks, modalities, and languages

(e) Annotation software and frameworks:
- Development, evaluation and/or innovative use of annotation software frameworks

(f) Annotation schemes:
- New and innovative annotation schemes
- Comparison of annotation schemes

Workshop Theme:

This year, we in particular welcome contributions that address the workshop theme: The good, the bad, and the perfect: How good does annotation need to be?

It has been said that the perfect is the enemy of the good. This may be true for some machine learning applications where a small amount of rough annotation gives good results, but it also may be used to justify low quality annotation or give higher priority or higher amounts of funding to machine learning than to human annotation.

We solicit evidence for and against 'The perfect is the enemy of the good'.

In favor of high quality annotation, Manning (2011) suggests that the largest opportunity for improvement in part-of-speech tagging lies in improving the tag set and the accuracy of annotation. (But he also suggests that perfect annotation of words into discrete lexical categories is not possible because some words do not fall cleanly into one category.) Reidsma and Carletta (2008) advocate caution in deciding how good annotation needs to be. They show that low agreement among annotators may not be harmful to machine learning as long as the disagreements are random, whereas disagreements that follow patterns can lead machine learning astray even when agreement among annotators is high. In a related vein, Min and Grishman (2012) show that it can be more cost-effective for machine learning to have lots of single-pass less-accurate annotation, than a smaller amount of more-accurate adjudicated annotation. Finally, one recent trend focuses on coarse-grained annotation schemes (McDonald et al., 2013; Petrov et al., 2013; Schneider et al., 2013) to speed up annotation and/or benefit cross-lingual training. Coarse-grained annotation schemes are attractive because they are easy to learn, but are they suitable for all applications?

(References: see worskhop website)

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