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let.uu.nl>**FINAL CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS** ACL/EACL2001 Workshop on Sharing Tools and Resources for Research and Education Co-organised by ELSNET Toulouse, Saturday 7th July 2001 BACKGROUND: At a workshop at ACL 2000 in Hong Kong dedicated to Infrastructures for Global Collaboration there was an agreement between the main professional organisations in NLP and Speech (ACL and ISCA), and ELSNET, and the other meeting participants, that it would be useful to aim at a broadly supported, joint repository or catalogue for tools and materials for the language and speech communities. An ELSNET-sponsored workshop on educational issues held at EACL99 concluded that certain non-transient infrastructures needed to be instigated to raise the public perception of educational issues in NLP. It also concluded that a repository of shared materials, appropriately indexed for educational usage, would be a useful point of departure. This workshop will build on the consensus reached at these previous workshops. There will be two clear foci: one upon instruments for sharing tools and resources in general that addresses practical problems, and the other upon the technological and infrastructural issues surrounding the educational uses of repositories. Good examples of existing initiatives in this area are among others the ACL Natural Language Software Registry (hosted at DFKI, registry.dfki.de) which was set up as a repository for tools for the distinct fields of Human Language Techology (HLT), the ELRA/ELDA, LDC, TELRI and Elsnet resources catalogues and repositories (http://www.icp.inpg.fr/ELRA, http://www.ldc.upenn.edu, http://www.telri.de and http://www.elsnet.org/resources.html), OLAC (a worldwide network of language archives at http://www.language-archives.org), and JEWELS (http://www.elsnet.org/jewels), an as-yet incomplete EU funded website for educational materials in Language and Speech. A third theme concerns how to build upon existing initiatives as sources of data or inspiration. AIM AND SCOPE OF THE WORKSHOP: The main goal of the workshop is to discuss methods for the improvement and extension of existing repositories; the educational uses of repositories; the closer interlinking between different kinds of repositories (tools and resources); global infrastructures for the achievement of joint actions. However, we expect the scope of the workshop to be much wider than that, as the issues addressed are of general interest to everybody who believes that sharing tools and resources is essential for the progress of research and education in our field. Contributions of papers and demonstrations are solicited that address the above themes. The following list of topics is suggestive rather than exhaustive: * Repositories versus catalogues * Mechanisms and infrastructures for sharing and describing content * Repository management * Standards for exchange, description, and annotation * Metadata descriptions * Quality assessment * Structure and content of an NLP/CL repository * Tools and materials for NLP/CL education * Web-based teaching methods for NLP/CL SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS FOR PAPERS * Electronic submissions only (PostScript, Word, or PDF), following the appropriate ACL latex style or Microsoft Word style. Submissions should not exceed eight (8) pages, including references. You can download the appropriate style or template files using the following link: acl2001.dfki.de/style. In case of problems with the submission format, please contact one of the co-chairs. * Submissions to either co-chair (Mike Rosner and Thierry Declerck). All submissions will be acknowledged. * Please provide a list of keywords in the separate header page and indicate the best fitting subtopic(s) from the above list. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS FOR DEMONSTRATIONS * Demos may be submitted with or without an accompanying paper. * Please write a 2-page description of the demo and send to either co-chair. Please let us know about special hardware requirements over and above the standard PC + beamer without internet access provided by default CONFIRMED COMMITTEE MEMBERS - Thierry Declerck (DFKI) Co-chair (Repository) declerckMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
durham.ac.uk>THE FOURTH DURHAM POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCE IN THEORETICAL AND APPLIED LINGUISTICS Saturday, 9th June 2001 PLENARY WORKSHOP SPEAKERS Dr. Kersti B�rjars - University of Manchester Lexical Functional Grammar Professor David Little - University of Dublin, Trinity College Learner Autonomy in the Classroom 2ND CALL FOR PAPERS We are pleased to announce the Fourth Durham Postgraduate Conference in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at the University of Durham on Saturday 9th June 2001. The purpose of the conference is to provide postgraduates with an opportunity to present their research. Abstract guidelines - Send 4 camera-ready copies of your abstract (3 without and one with your name and affiliation) - Length: maximum one A4 page; 1.5 spacing; all margins: 3cm - Font: Times New Roman 12pt; Title, author's name, affiliation: 14pt bold and centred - Paper submissions preferred, e-mail submissions accepted (only as attached file as a Word document) Accepted papers will be allotted 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for discussion. Speakers will also be invited to submit their paper for publication in the Durham Working Papers in Linguistics. Abstracts addressed to Lieve Van Espen (lieve.van-espenMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue