27.237, Calls: Comp Ling/Slovenia

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LINGUIST List: Vol-27-237. Wed Jan 13 2016. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 27.237, Calls: Comp Ling/Slovenia

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Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2016 10:26:59
From: Katie Kindle [kindle at ldc.upenn.edu]
Subject: Language Resources and Evaluation Conference

Full Title: Language Resources and Evaluation Conference 
Short Title: LREC2016 

Date: 23-May-2016 - 28-May-2016
Location: Portorož, Slovenia 
Contact Person: Hélène Mazo
Meeting Email: lrec at elda.org

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 06-Feb-2016 

Meeting Description:

ELRA is glad to announce the 10th edition of LREC, organised with the support
of a wide range of international organisations.

Conference Aims:

LREC is the major event on Language Resources (LRs) and Evaluation for Human
Language Technologies (HLT). LREC aims to provide an overview of the
state-of-the-art, explore new R&D directions and emerging trends, exchange
information regarding LRs and their applications, evaluation methodologies and
tools, on-going and planned activities, industrial uses and needs,
requirements coming from e-science and e-society, with respect both to policy
issues and to scientific/technological and organisational ones.

LREC provides a unique forum for researchers, industrials and funding agencies
from across a wide spectrum of areas to discuss problems and opportunities,
find new synergies and promote initiatives for international cooperation, in
support of investigations in language sciences, progress in language
technologies (LT) and development of corresponding products, services and
applications, and standards.

The LREC Conference has become a major event in the field of language
engineering, and constitutes a milestone in the life of Human Language
Technologies (HLT). It is organised by ELRA biennially with the support of
institutions and organisations involved in HLT, and brings together a large
number of people working and interested in HLT.

Programme:

The Scientific Programme will include invited talks, oral presentations,
poster and demo presentations, and panels, in addition to a keynote address by
the winner of the Antonio Zampolli Prize.

2nd Call for Papers:

Novel Incentives for Collecting Linguistic Data and Annotation from People:
types, implementation, tasking requirements, workflow and results

This first workshop on novel incentives in linguistic data collection will be
held in conjunction with the Tenth International Conference on Language
Resources and Evaluation (LREC2016) in Portoroz, Slovenia during the afternoon
of 28 May 2016 at the Conference venue, the Grand Hotel Bernardin Conference
Center.

The workshop site is:
https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/communications/workshops/lrec-2016-workshop.

Workshop Motivation:

Despite more than two decades of effort from many research groups and several
large data centers worldwide, the supply of LRs falls far short of need even
in the languages with the greatest number of speakers, controlling the largest
shares of the world economy. The MetaNet White Paper series demonstrates that
no language, not even English, has the complete complement of resources needed
to build the HLTs that the market craves. For languages with less
international recognition, resources are scarce, fragmentary or absent. Recent
programs such as DARPA LORELEI recognize and attempt to address this gap but
even they will provide only core resources for a few dozen languages, a small
proportion of the 7000 currently in use worldwide.

Because linguistic innovation is effectively limitless, relying upon a limited
resource, monetary compensation, to generate the data needed to document the
world’s language is certain to fall short. Instead the community of language
resource developers and users must develop and employ incentives that scale
beyond the budget of a 3- or 5-year program. While a few innovative efforts
employ novel incentives, they remain uncommon in our field even while they
grow among social media providers. Unfortunately, HLT communities cannot rely
on contributions from social media providers. As the past few years have
shown, several of the largest are unable to share their resources in the way
that our research programs need and, in any case, their data are not always
matched to our research questions.

Topics of Interest:

- Descriptions of projects that use the alternate incentives listed above or
others
- Modifications of the data collection and annotation tasking or workflow to
accommodate a new workforce, including crowdsourcing
- Techniques for exploiting the results of alternate incentives and novel
workflows

The workshop will also accept papers that discuss data collection efforts
employing monetary compensation provided they compare to alternate incentives
or address the issues of tasking, workflow in exploiting the results of the
new workforce.

We call for long (8 pages) and short (4 pages) on the aforementioned topics,
with particular focus on alternate incentives used in collecting linguistic
data and annotation, modifications to tasking and workflow and new techniques
for exploiting the resulting data. 

Submissions:

For more information including the latest dates and to submit an abstract,
please visit the workshop site at:
https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/communications/workshops/lrec-2016-
workshop.

Dates:

Paper Proposals Submitted: 6 February 2016
Notification of Accepted Papers: 4 March 2016
Final Papers Submitted: 2 April 2016

Program Committee: 

Christopher Cieri*
Chris Callison-Burch*
Nick Campbell*
Maxine Eskenazi*
Massimo Poesio*
Stephanie Strassel
Jonathan Wright
(* denotes Organizing Committee members)

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