Call for Papers: Construction and Exploitation of Sign Language Corpora

[Thomas Hanke]

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. 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
* Language documentation and long-term accessibility for sign  
language data
* 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.

Important dates:
Deadline for abstracts (max. 500 words): February 1st, 2008
Notification of acceptance: February 15, 2008
Submission of short paper: March 25, 2008
Workshop: June 1st, 2008

Organising committee:
Onno Crasborn, Radboud University Nijmegen NL
Eleni Efthimiou, Institute for Language and Speech Processing GR
Thomas Hanke, University of Hamburg DE
Ernst Thoutenhoofd, Virtual Knowledge Studio NL
Inge Zwitserlood, Radboud University Nijmegen NL

Additional Programme Committee Members: Penny Boyes Braem, Zürich CH;  
Annelies Braffort, Orsay FR;
Patrice Dalle, Toulouse FR; Evita Fotinea, Athens GR; Jens Heßmann,  
Magdeburg DE; Trevor Johnston,
Sydney AU; Lorraine Leeson, Dublin IE; Antônio Carlos da Rocha Costa,  
Pelotas BR (tbc); Adam
Schembri, London GB; Graham Turner, Edinburgh GB; Meike Vaupel,  
Zwickau DE; Chiara Vettori,
Bolzano IT

Contact: lrec2008 at sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de
Abstracts submission address: lrec2008 at sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de
Workshop web site: www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/lrec2008/


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