Construction and Exploitation of Sign Language Corpora DEADLINE EXTENDED TO FEB 5TH

[Thomas Hanke]

Dear SLLING-L subscribers,

meeting various requests to allow submissions being a couple of days  
late, we have now officially extended the deadline to Feb 5th.

Best regards,

the workshop organising committee (Onno Crasborn, Eleni Efthimiou,  
Thomas Hanke, Ernst Thoutenhoofd, Inge Zwitserlood)

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Call for papers

Construction and Exploitation of Sign Language Corpora
(Third Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages)
6th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)
Marrakech, Morocco, June 1st, 2008

Abstracts are invited for a one-day workshop on sign language corpora  
to take place following the 2008 LREC conference on June 1st, 2008.  
Recent technological developments allow sign language researchers to  
create relatively large video corpora of sign language use that were  
unimaginable ten years ago. Several national projects are currently  
underway, and more are planned. This workshop aims to share  
experiences from current and past efforts: what are the technical  
problems that were encountered and the solutions created, what are  
the linguistic decisions taken?

At the same time, the workshop shall also look into the future: How  
can we establish standards for linguistic tagging and metadata, avoid  
reinventing the wheel, but instead add sign language specifics to  
well-established or emerging best practices from the general LR  
community? How can we work towards (semi-) automatic annotation by  
computer recognition from video?

We invite abstracts for 20-minutes papers or posters (with or without  
demonstrations) on the following topics:

* Experiences in building sign language corpora
* Proposals for standards for linguistic annotation or for metadata  
descriptions
* Experiences from linguistic research using corpora
* Use of corpora in teaching and eLearning contexts
* Use of (parallel) corpora in interpreting and translation studies
* Language documentation and long-term accessibility for sign  
language data
* Video compression and streaming for sign language
* Tool development
* Lexicon construction
* Linking corpora and lexicons
* Computer recognition of sign language
* Steps towards automatic annotation of sign language
Short papers of both paper presentations and posters (4-6 pages) of  
this workshop will be published as workshop proceedings that are  
included in the conference package.

Please send your abstract (max. 500 words) by email to lrec2008 (at)  
sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de not later than Feb 5th, 2008. In your mail,  
please indicate your preference for the presentation format: oral/ 
signed paper, poster, or poster & demo.

Workshop web site with more details and links to the main conference:  
http://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/lrec2008/
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