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unidui.uni-duisburg.de>SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS ASSOCIATION FOR LITERARY AND LINGUISTIC COMPUTING ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTERS AND THE HUMANITIES JOINT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ALLC/ACH 2000 JULY 21-25, 2000 UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW, SCOTLAND, UK. ALLC/ACH 2000 invites submissions of between 1000 and 1500 words on any aspect of humanities computing, broadly defined as the common ground between computing methodologies and problems in humanities research and teaching. We welcome submissions in any area of the humanities, including interdisciplinary work. Appropriate discipline areas include, but are not limited to, languages and literature, history, philosophy, music, art, film studies, linguistics, anthropology, archaeology, creative writing, and cultural studies.We particularly encourage submissions from new media and multimedia studies and from disciplines such as library science, linguistics and other social sciences, where these overlap significantly with the humanities. Other areas of interest include the creation and use of digital resources, and the application to humanities data of techniques developed in such fields as information science and the physical sciences and engineering, including neural networks and image processing. Successful proposals might, for instance, focus on: - new computational tools and approaches to research in humanities disciplines; - traditional applications of computing in the humanities, including (but not limited to) text encoding, hypertext, text corpora, computational lexicography, statistical models, and text analysis; - applications to the digital arts, especially projects and installations that feature technical research of potential interest to humanities scholars; - information design in relation to the academic humanities, including visualization, simulation, and modelling; - pedagogical applications within the humanities; - the institutional role of humanities computing within the academy, including research and teaching in the subject and collegial support for these activities in other fields. PhD students are encouraged to submit proposals. Those describing finished research may be submitted as papers. Ongoing dissertation research may be submitted as poster proposals. See below for details. Those interested in seeing the type of paper the committee is looking for can consult the abstracts of papers at previous conferences: University of Bergen, Norway - http://www.hd.uib.no/allc-ach96.html , Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada - http://www.qucis.queensu.ca/achallc97/ , Lajos Kossuth University, Debrecen, Hungary - http://lingua.arts.klte.hu/allcach98/ , University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA - http://www.iath.virginia.edu/ach-allc.99/ . Students and young scholars should also read the note on bursaries later in this document. Papers may be given in English, French, and German, but to facilitate the reviewing process we ask that proposals for papers in a language other than English are submitted with an English translation. The deadline for submissions of paper/session proposals is 15 NOVEMBER 1999. The deadline for submissions of poster/demo proposals is 15 JANUARY 2000. FORMAT OF PROPOSALS Proposals may be of four types: papers, posters, software demonstrations, and sessions. The type of submission should be specified in the header of the proposal. PAPERS Proposals for papers (1000-1500 words) should describe completed research which has given rise to substantial results. Individual papers will be allocated 30 minutes for presentation, including questions. Proposals should describe original work. Those that concentrate on the development of new computing methodologies should make clear how the methodologies are applied to research and/or teaching in the humanities, and should include some critical assessment of the application of those methodologies in the humanities. Those that concentrate on a particular application in the humanities should cite traditional as well as computer-based approaches to the problem and should include some critical assessment of the computing methodologies used. All proposals should include conclusions and references to important sources. Those describing the creation or use of digital resources should follow these guidelines as far as possible. POSTERS AND DEMONSTRATIONS Poster presentations and software and project demonstrations (either stand-alone or in conjunction with poster presentations) are designed to give researchers an opportunity to present late- breaking results, significant work in progress, well-defined problems, or research that is best communicated in conversational mode. By definition, poster presentations are less formal and more interactive than a standard talk. Poster presenters have the opportunity to exchange ideas one-on-one with attendees and to discuss their work in detail with those most deeply interested in the same topic. Each presenter is provided with about 2 square metres of board space to display their work. They may also provide handouts with examples or more detailed information. Posters will remain on display throughout the conference, but a block of time separate from paper sessions will be assigned when presenters should be prepared to explain their work and answer questions. Specific times will also be assigned for software or project demonstrations. The format for proposals for posters and software demonstrations are the same as those for regular papers. Proposals for software or project demonstrations should indicate the type of hardware that would be required if the proposal is accepted. SESSIONS Sessions (90 minutes) take the form of either: (a) Three papers. The session organizer should submit a 500-word statement describing the session topic, include abstracts of 1000- 1500 words for each paper, and indicate that each author is willing to participate in the session; or (b) A panel of four to six speakers. The panel organizer should submit an abstract of 1000-1500 words describing the panel topic, how it will be organized, the names of all the speakers, and an indication that each speaker is willing to participate in the session. The deadline for session proposals is the same as for proposals for papers. FORMAT OF SUBMISSIONS All submissions must be sent electronically. Please pay particular attention to the format given below. Submissions which do not conform to this format will be returned to the authors for reformatting, or may not be considered if they arrive very close to the deadline. All submissions should begin with the following information: TYPE OF PROPOSAL: paper, poster, session or software demonstration. TITLE: title of paper or session KEYWORDS: three keywords (maximum) describing the main contents of the paper or session If submitting a session proposal, give the following information for each paper: TITLE: title of paper KEYWORDS: three keywords (maximum) describing the main contents of the paper AUTHOR: name of first author AFFILIATION: of first author E-MAIL: of first author If submitting a paper proposal, give the following information: AUTHOR: name of first author AFFILIATION: of first author E-MAIL: of first author AUTHOR: name of second author (repeat these three headings as necessary) AFFILIATION: of second author E-MAIL: of second author CONTACT ADDRESS: full postal address of first author or contact person for session proposals FAX NUMBER: of first author PHONE NUMBER: of first author Proposals should take the form of ASCII or ISO-8859/1 files. Where necessary, a header should indicate the combinations of ASCII characters used to represent characters outside the ASCII or ISO 8859/1 range. Notes, if needed, should take the form of endnotes rather than footnotes. Submissions should be entered into the online form on the web page at: http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/allcach2k/ or sent to: allcach2kMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
cs.rutgers.edu>Please note that the submission deadline is soon approaching. ***** REMINDER: CALL FOR PAPERS ******* The European Language Resources Association (ELRA), the Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP, Athens, Greece), and the National Technical University of Athens, Greece are pleased to announce: The 2nd International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC2000) The detailed announcement is available on the web at: http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/lrec2000.html Location: Athens, Greece Dates: 31 May - 2 June 2000 The Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation has been initiated by ELRA and is organised in cooperation with other Associations and Consortia, including ACL, ALLC, COCOSDA, ORIENTAL COCOSDA, EAFT, EAGLES, EDR, ELSNET, ESCA, EURALEX, FRANCIL, LDC, PAROLE, TELRI, etc., and with major national and international organisations, including the European Commission - DG XIII, ARPA, NSF, the IC/863 HTRDP Project (China), the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the ICSP Permanent Committee (Korea), The Natural Language Technical committee of JEIDA (Japan), and the Japanese Project for International Coordination in Corpora, Assessment and Labelling. Cooperation and support from other institutions is currently being sought. CONFERENCE AIMS In the framework of the Information Society, the pervasive character of human language technologies (HLT) and their relevance to all the fields of Information Society Technologies (IST) has been widely recognised. Two issues are currently considered to be particularly relevant: 1) the availability of language resources and 2) the methods for the evaluation of resources, technologies and products. Substantial mutual benefits can be expected from addressing these issues through international cooperation. The term language resources (LR) refers to sets of language data and descriptions in machine readable form, used specifically for building and evaluating natural language and speech algorithms or systems, for software localisation industries and language services, for language enabled information and communication services, for electronic commerce, electronic publishing, language studies, subject-area specialists and end users. Examples of language resources are written and spoken corpora, computational lexica, grammars, terminology databases, and basic software tools for the acquisition, preparation, collection, management, customisation and use of these and other resources. The relevance of evaluation for Language Engineering is increasingly recognised. This involves assessment of the state of the art for a given technology, measuring the progress achieved within a programme, comparing different approaches to a given problem and choosing the best solution, knowing its advantages and drawbacks, assessment of the availability of technologies for a given application, product benchmarking, and assessment of user satisfaction. Language engineering and R&D in language technologies have made important advances in the recent past in various aspects of both written and spoken language processing. Although the evaluation paradigm has been studied and used in large national and international programmes, including the US ARPA HLT programme, the EU LE programme Francophone Aupelf-Uref programme and others, and in the localisation industry (LISA and LRC), it is still subject to substantial unresolved basic research problems. The aim of this conference is to provide an overview of the state of the art, to discuss problems and opportunities, and to exchange information regarding ongoing and planned activities, language resources and their applications. We also intend to discuss evaluation methodologies and demonstrate evaluation tools, and explore possibilities and promote initiatives for international cooperation in the areas mentioned above. CONFERENCE TOPICS The following non-exhaustive list gives some examples of topics which could be addressed by papers submitted to LREC2000: I. Issues in the design, construction and use of Languages Resources (LR) (theoretical & best practice): * Guidelines, standards, specifications, and models for LR * Organisational issues in the construction, distribution, and use of LR * Methods, tools, procedures for the acquisition, creation, annotation, management, access, distribution, and use of LR * Legal aspects and problems in the construction, access, and use of LR * Availability and use of generic vs. task/domain specific LR * Methods for the extraction and acquisition of knowledge (e.g. terms, lexical information, language modelling) from LR * Monolingual and multilingual LR * Multimodal and multimedia LR * LR and the needs/opportunities of the emerging multimedia cultural industry * Industrial production and use of LR * Integration of various modalities in LR (spoken, visual, gestual, textual) * Exploitation of LR in different types of applications (language technology, information retrieval, vocal interfaces, electronic commerce, etc.) * Industrial LR requirements and the community's response * Analysis of user needs for LR * Mechanisms of LR distribution and marketing * Economics of LR * Customisation and use of LR * Research issues relevant for LR II. Issues in Human Language Technologies evaluation: * Evaluation, validation, quality assurance of LR * Benchmarking of systems and products; resources for benchmarking and evaluation * Evaluation in written language processing (text retrieval, terminology extraction, message understanding, text alignment, machine translation, morphosyntactic tagging, parsing, semantic tagging, word sense disambiguation, text understanding, summarisation, localisation, etc.) * Evaluation in spoken language processing (speech recognition and understanding, voice dictation, oral dialog, speech synthesis, speech coding, speaker and language recognition, etc.) * Evaluation of document processing (document recognition, on-line and off-line machine and hand-written character recognition, etc.) * Evaluation of (multimedia) document retrieval and search systems * Evaluation of multimodal systems * Qualitative and perceptive evaluation * Evaluation of products and applications * Blackbox, glassbox and diagnostic evaluation of systems * Situated evaluation of applications * Evaluation methodologies, protocols and measures * From evaluation to standardisation of LR * Research issues relevant to evaluation III. General issues: * National and international activities and projects * LR and the needs/opportunities of the emerging multimedia cultural industry * Priorities, perspectives, strategies in the field of LR national and international policies * Needs, possibilities, forms, initiatives of/for international cooperation The Scientific Programme will include invited talks, presentations of accepted papers, poster sessions, referenced demonstrations and panels. Pre-Conference Workshops will be organized on the 29th and 30th of May and post-Conference Workshops on the 3rd and 4th of June 2000. Please consult the conference Web site http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/lrec2000.html for complete information about submission guidelines, contact people, submission dates, various conference committees and members, and other general information. IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER * 20 NOVEMBER 1999: Submission of proposals for papers, posters, referenced demos, panels and workshops * 10 DECEMBER 1999: Notification of acceptance of workshop and panel proposals * 2 FEBRUARY 2000: Notification of acceptance of papers, posters, referenced demos * 2 APRIL 2000: Final version of the articles for the proceedings * 31 MAY - 2 JUNE 2000: Conference CONFERENCE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Nicoletta Calzolari, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, Pisa, Italy George Carayannis, Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Athens, Greece Khalid Choukri, ELRA, Paris, France Harald H=F6ge, Siemens, Munich, Germany Bente Maegaard, CST, Copenhagen, Denmark Joseph Mariani, LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France Antonio Zampolli, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy (Conference chair) For general information about the conference, please contact: LREC Secretariat: Ms. Despina Scutari Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP) 6, Artemidos & Epidavrou Str. 15125 Marousi, Athens, GREECE Tel: +301 6800959 ; Fax: +301 6854270 e-mail: LREC2000Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue