Conf: LREC 2004 workshop: Workshop on the Amazing Utility of Parallel and Comparable Corpora

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Workshop on the Amazing Utility of Parallel and Comparable Corpora

"The Re-Use of Parallel and Comparable Corpora including Translation
Memories for Applications such as Machine Translation, Knowledge
Structuring and  Multilingual Information Browsing"


Lisbon, Portugal, 25 May 2004

LREC 2004 Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation

Extension of Deadline for Call for Papers


Workshop description and aim:

Parallel and comparable corpora, including translation memories, contain

a large amount of information for translation, multilingual lexicon
building and multilingual knowledge structuring. In human language
technology these resources can be used for multiple applications in
speech or text processing.

This workshop addresses the versality and utility of parallel and
comparable corpora in the expanding and multilingual space of the
internet.

It aims at exchanging ideas concerning all aspects of re-usability of
parallel and comparable corpora including translation memories for
applications such as machine translation, knowledge structuring,
multilingual information browsing and so on.


Abstract submission:

We invite submission of abstracts on the topics below. Abstracts should
be approximately 600 words. Abstracts outlining live demonstrations are
encouraged. Submissions should be sent before 16 February 2004 by email
as attachments in doc, rtf, or plain text, to the contact person, Anna
Samiotou esteam at otenet.gr, with the words 'LREC2004 Workshop on the
Amazing Utility of Parallel and Comparable Corpora' in the subject
heading.

Notification of acceptance will be made on or before the 8 March 2004,
together with any comments from reviewers from revision.


Workshop topics:

- re-use of parallel and comparable corpora including translation
memories for:
o machine translation
o knowledge structuring
o multilingual information browsing
o speech multilingual applications
- re-usability of generic vs task/domain specific existing parallel and
comparable corpora
- building language resourses for new applications from existing ones
- methods for the extraction and acquisition of knowledge (e.g. terms,
lexical information) from existing parallel and comparable corpora for
re-using purposes in new applications
- methods for identifying comparable corpora on the web
- methods for quantifying comparability


Organising Committee:

Dr. Lambros Kranias, Chief Technical Manager ESTeam AB, Greece/Sweden
Dr. Nicoletta Calzolari, Director, Istituto di Linguistica
Computazionale del CNR, Italy
Dr. Gregor Thurmair, R&D Manager Linguatec, Germany
Dr. Yorick Wilks, Professor, University of Sheffield, UK
Dr. Eduard Hovy, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern
California, USA
Gudrun Magnusdottir, Managing Director ESTeam AB, Greece/Sweden
Anna Samiotou, R&D Manager ESTeam AB, Greece/Sweden
Dr. Khalid Choukri,  CEO ELDA/ELRA


Important Dates:

Extended Deadline for submissions:  1 March 2004
Notification of acceptance: 8 March 2004
Deadline final paper: 22 March 2004
Workshop date: full day 25 May 2004





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