26.5564, Calls: Computational Ling/Slovenia

[The LINGUIST List via LINGUIST]

LINGUIST List: Vol-26-5564. Tue Dec 15 2015. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 26.5564, Calls: Computational Ling/Slovenia

Moderators: linguist at linguistlist.org (Damir Cavar, Malgorzata E. Cavar)
Reviews: reviews at linguistlist.org (Anthony Aristar, Helen Aristar-Dry, Sara Couture)
Homepage: http://linguistlist.org

*****************    LINGUIST List Support    *****************

                LINGUIST List has 25th birthday!

                 Thank you all for your support!

            2015 end of year and holiday season fund drive:

Please support the LL editors and operation with a donation at:
              http://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/

      Thank you for your continuous support of The LINGUIST List!
               We wish you all a Happy New Year 2016!

Editor for this issue: Ashley Parker <ashley at linguistlist.org>
================================================================


Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 11:52:36
From: Richard Eckart de Castilho [eckart at ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de]
Subject: Workshop on Cross-Platform Text Mining and NLP Interop

 
Full Title: Workshop on Cross-Platform Text Mining and NLP Interop 
Short Title: INTEROP2016 

Date: 23-May-2016 - 23-May-2016
Location: Portorož, Slovenia 
Contact Person: Richard Eckart de Castilho
Meeting Email: eckart at ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de
Web Site: http://interop2016.github.io 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 19-Feb-2016 

Meeting Description:

Recent years have witnessed an upsurge in the quantity of available digital research data, offering new insights and opportunities for improved understanding. Following advances in Natural Language Processing (NLP), Text and data mining (TDM) is emerging as an invaluable tool for harnessing the power of structured and unstructured content and data. Hidden and new knowledge can be discovered by using TDM at multiple levels and in multiple dimensions. However, text mining and NLP solutions are not easy to discover and use, nor are they easy to combine for end users.

Multiple efforts are being undertaken world-wide to create TDM and NLP platforms. These platforms are targeted at specific research communities, typically researchers in a particular location, e.g. OpenMinTeD, CLARIN (Europe), ALVEO (Australia), or LAPPS (USA). All of these platforms face similar problems in the following areas: discovery of content and analytics capabilities, integration of knowledge resources, legal and licensing aspects, data representation, and analytics workflow specification and execution.

The goal of cross-platform interoperability raises many problems. At the level of content, metadata, language resources, and text annotations, we use different data representations and vocabularies. At the level of workflows, there is no uniform process model that allows platforms to smoothly interact. The licensing status of content, resources, analytics, and of the output created by a combination of such licenses is difficult to determine and there is currently no way to reliably exchange such information between platforms. User identity management is often tightly coupled to the licensing requirements and likewise an impediment for cross-platform interoperability.

Call for Papers: 

Workshop topics include but are not limited to:

- cross-repository discovery of content, language resources, and analytics
- uniform access to content repositories or heterogeneous data sources (content, knowledge)
- extraction of textual content from heterogeneous sources
- orchestration of analytics workflows composed from analytics from different sources
- orchestration of cross-platform analytics workflows
- linking knowledge sources and uniformly accessing them from analytics workflows
- annotation schema design best practices
- mapping and transformation between annotation schemata
- dynamic deployment of analytics to computing resources
- machine-interpretable representation of legal and licensing metadata
- policy making for TDM for an international open research environment and open access publishing

The workshop is planned as an open-space event in which the workshop participants host and participate in discussions related to the topics of interest.

Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop in the form of a 5 minute lightning talk and included in the workshop proceedings.

During the workshop, the author is expected to host or co-host a discussion group. We plan to align the topics of the discussion groups with the topics of the authors submissions. The hosts will take minutes which are to be aggregated into a report after the workshop.

For more information, please see: http://interop2016.github.io

Important dates

- Submission: February 19, 2016
- Notification: March 4, 2016​
- Camera ready: March 25, 2016
- Workshop: ​Monday, 23 May 2016​

LREC initiative: Identify, Describe and Share your LR! -- More information on the LREC webpage




------------------------------------------------------------------------------

*****************    LINGUIST List Support    *****************
          2015 end of year and holiday season fund drive:
Please support the LL editors and operation with a donation at:
            http://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/
 


----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-26-5564	
----------------------------------------------------------