29.50, Calls: Computational Linguistics, Text/Corpus Linguistics/Japan

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Subject: 29.50, Calls: Computational Linguistics, Text/Corpus Linguistics/Japan

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Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2018 15:10:59
From: Annette Hautli-Janisz [annette.hautli at uni-konstanz.de]
Subject: 3rd Workshop on Visualization as Added Value in the Development, Use and Evaluation of Language Resources

Full Title: 3rd Workshop on Visualization as Added Value in the Development, Use and Evaluation of Language Resources 
Short Title: VisLR III 

Date: 12-May-2018 - 12-May-2018
Location: Miyazaki, Japan 
Contact Person: LREC VISLR
Meeting Email: lrec.vislr at gmail.com
Web Site: http://vislr.dbvis.de 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 12-Jan-2018 

Meeting Description:

This workshop provides a relevant forum for the scientific exchange between
experts in information visualization design and its users from computational
and linguistic domains likewise. It connects to the successful past VisLR
workshops at LREC 2014 and 2016, the first dedicated visualization events
within the LREC community.

While “traditional” language resources, ranging from multi-layered treebanks
to linked ontologies, encode complex linguistic information, data analysis in
the online world faces yet another set of challenges: Data is generated around
the clock, comes in huge quantities and reflects events in the digital world
in real-time. With this type of data at hand, we need to think about novel
ways of visually encoding properties of language, not only to respond to
certain trends such as hate speeches and cyberbullying, but also to
investigate the development of language in a more general manner.

Visualization offers new methods for processing and analysing online data, and
as such, the workshop fits squarely into this year’s hot topic ‘LRs in the
Online World’. VisLR III also promotes LREC’s general objectives of bringing
together related disciplines. We particularly reach out to disciplines
starting to use language resources and visualization to develop their own
research agendas, such as the social sciences.

Motivation and topics of interest:

Notable concern with specialized visualizations for language data has started
to emerge around ten years ago. Ever since, its development has steadily
progressed within the different communities and domains connected to it:
Linguistics and corpus linguistics (DGfS workshop 2013, Herrenhäuser Symposium
2014, AVML 2016), corpus linguistics and NLP (EACL workshop 2012, ACL 2014,
QueryVis 2015) and information visualization (EuroVis 2016 and 2017 tracks,
VAST & InfoVis 2017 tracks). By now, it gains attention from different
viewpoints, and the application of visualization techniques to various use
cases is becoming ever more agile.

However, works in language visualization (LangVis) still remain very much
domain-driven. The parallel and mainly isolated pursuit of LangVis
developments within the different communities has prevented methods,
techniques and objectives from being properly integrated into LangVis-specific
approaches, principles and techniques. In fact, LangVis has greatly matured in
terms of its visibility and community, while its genuine interdisciplinary
potential is still not fully exploited.

2nd Call for Papers:

The third edition of the workshop therefore specifically aims at addressing
the interdisciplinary challenges for the field of language visualization by
inviting statement and discussion papers on the objectives and requirements
for language visualization, challenges related to representing the complexity
of language, as well as analyses of scope and prerequisites of particular
visualization techniques. The second focus is intended to serve as a uniting
element between disciplines and lies on visualization methods that are
particularly designed to deal with online data.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

- Statement and discussion papers on issues specific to language
visualization, for instance user requirements towards visualization
techniques, strategies and issues for open distribution
- Technical papers on the scope and prerequisites of visualization techniques
with regard to characteristics of language data
- Innovative visualization techniques for language data, in particular online
resources
- Visualizations for enhancing human involvement and feedback loops for NLP
(crowdsourcing)
- New infrastructures for language data visualization and visualization
components
- Evaluation of visualization techniques

Papers must describe original (completed or in progress) and unpublished work.
We invite long papers (8 pages, including references).

Submission is done via START: https://www.softconf.com/lrec2018/VisLR3

Style guidelines for the camera-ready papers are provided on the main
conference page: http://lrec2018.lrec-conf.org/en/submission/authors-kit/

We recommend to make use of these templates also for your initial submission.

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