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imag.fr>FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on MULTILINGUAL LINGUISTIC RESSOURCES MLR2004 August 28th, 2004 To be held in conjunction with COLING 2004 Geneva, Switzerland [ http://mlr2004.imag.fr/ ] ** PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED: May 11th 2004 ** WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION - ------------------ In an ever expanding information society, most information systems are now facing the "multilingual challenge". Lexical resources play an essential role in these information systems. Such lexical resources need to provide information on many languages in a common framework and should be (re)usable in many applications (for automatic or human use). Many centers have been involved in national, european and international projects dedicated to building harmonized language resources and creating expertise in the maintenance and further development of standardized linguistic data. These resources include dictionaries, lexicons, thesauri, wordnets, and annotated corpora developed along the lines of best practices and recommendations. However, since the late 90's most efforts in scaling up these resources remain the responsibility of the local authorities, usually, with very low funding (if any) and few opportunities for academic recognition of this work. Hence, it is not surprising that many of the resource holders and developers have become reluctant to give free access to the latest resources. It is therefore currently rather unclear what the actual status is of these language resources. The goal of this workshop is to study problems involved in the development/management/reuse of lexical resources in a multilingual context. Moreover, this workshop will provide a forum for reviewing the state of language resources. The workshop is meant to bring to the international community qualitative and quantitative information about the most recent developments in the area of linguistic resources and their use in applications. As the workshop takes place in Europe, special attention will be given to submissions on resources for European languages (especially Central and Eastern European languages), but submission of innovative developments involving any language will be welcome. The intent of the workshop is not only to review academic developments but also to hear from industry, how these resources are used in new technology developments and what the current needs are in the field. Presentations, project notes and position papers are welcome. WORKSHOP TOPICS - ------------- Authors of papers on multilingual linguistic ressources are encouraged to apply. Papers could be on - but not limited to - any of the following topics: - models for language/application-independent linguistic data - linguistic data acquisition and maintenance - building multilingual linguistic resources - lexical architectures to link data between languages - use of linguistic resources for applications in a multilingual context - reuse of existing lexical resources in a specific multilingual application - human use of lexical resources in a multilingual context - quality evaluation and standardization SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS - --------------------- Papers should be original, hence report on previously unpublished work. They should emphasize completed rather than intended work. Papers submitted to other conferences must reflect this fact on the title page. As the review process will not be blind, papers should contain the names and affiliations of authors. Submissions must be electronic only, and should consist of full papers of max. 8 pages (inclusive of references, tables, figures and equations). Project notes and position papers should not exceed 4 pages. Authors should follow the COLING 2004 formating guidelines, available at: http://www.issco.unige.ch/coling2004/coling2004downloads.html. All submissions should be made through the MLR2004 workshop web site's submission form (http://mlr2004.imag.fr/). They should consist of a single PDF file. Before submitting your document, please verify that all non-standard fonts are correctly embedded in your PDF document (you can do this by disabling the "Use Local Font" option when viewing you PDF document with Adobe Reader). Formating requirements for the final version of accepted papers will be posted as soon as they become available. IMPORTANT DATES - ------------- Deadline for submission of Papers: May 11th 2004 Notification of Acceptance: June 5th 2004 Deadline for final paper submission: June 16th 2004 Workshop: August 28th 2004 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE - ------------------ Gilles S�rasset, GETA-CLIPS, IMAG, Universit� Joseph Fourier- Grenoble I, France Susan Armstrong, ISSCO, Universit� de Gen�ve, Suisse Christian Boitet, GETA-CLIPS, IMAG, Universit� Joseph Fourier- Grenoble I, France Andrei Popescu-Belis, ISSCO, Universit� de Gen�ve, Suisse Dan Tufis, RACAI, University of Bucharest, Romania PROGRAM COMMITTEE - --------------- Gilles S�rasset, GETA CLIPS-IMAG, Universit� Joseph Fourier - Grenoble I, France (chair) Susan Armstrong, ISSCO, Universit� de Gen�ve, Switzerland Pushpak Battacharya, IIT, Mumbai, India Igor Boguslavski, IITP, Moscow, Russia Christian Boitet, GETA CLIPS-IMAG, Universit� Joseph Fourier - Grenoble I, France Pierrette Bouillon, ISSCO, Universit� de Gen�ve, Switzerland Jim Breen Monash, University, Australia Nicoletta Calzolari, CNR, Pisa, Italy Dan Cristea, University Al.I.Cuza Iasi, Romania Patrick Drouin, OLST, University of Montreal,Canada Sanae Fujita, NTT, Kyoto, Japan Ulrich Heid, IMS-CL, University of Stuttgart, Germany Hitoshi Isahara, CRL, Nara, Japan Kyo Kageura, NII, Tokyo, Japan Chuah Choy Kim, USM, Penang, Malaisie Mathieu Mangeot, NII, Tokyo, Japan Alain Polgu�re, OLST, University of Montreal,Canada Andrei Popescu-belis, ISSCO, Universit� de Gen�ve, Switzerland Jean Senellart, SYSTRAN, France Mandel Shi, Xiamen University, China Virach Sornlertlamvanich, Thai Computational Linguistics Laboratory, CRL, Thailand Pr. Kumiko Tanaka-Ishii, Tokyo University, Japan Philippe Thoiron, CRTT, Universit� de Lyon 2, France Dan Tufis, RACAI, Uni Bucharest, Romania Michael Zock, LIMSI, Orsay, France CONTACT - ----- mlr2004Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue
limsi.fr>!! Extended deadline: May 7th 2004 !! Post-Coling workshop, Geneva Enhancing and using electronic dictionaries Michael Zock (Limsi, CNRS) & Patrick St. Dizier (Irit, CNRS) Introduction A dictionary is a vital component of any natural language processing system. Its modern, digital form has considerable potential, especially if it is extended and built in a way compatible with the needs and habits of the average language user. There are many ways to make an electronic dictionary useful for people in their daily tasks of processing language. One could assist 1. reading and writing: adding a transliterator and a morphological generator/parser to a dictionary would put the needed information at the distance of a mouse click. Imagine someone trying to look up the meaning (or translation) of a word in a script he can't read. 2. language learning: combining dictionaries with a parametrizable flashcard system and a goal-driven exercice generator could help the memorization and automation of words and basic syntactic patterns. In such a system choosing a goal would trigger syntactic templates, filling the latter with words would yield (simple) sentences. 3. lexical access (navigation): structuring the dictionary in a similar way as the human mind, i.e. building an associative network akin to WordNet, but with many more links in particular at the syntagmatic axis, could assist the writer not only in finding new ideas (brainstorming), but also the word he is looking for. Within this framework, word access amounts to entering and navigating in a huge, associative network. To build such a tool one could extract associations from an encyclopedia, label and add them as links to a resource like WordNet. As one can see, there are numerous ways to enhance dictionaries. While the new hardware offers many, sometimes surprising opportunities for novel uses, seizing them requires some rethinking. This is the goal of this one-day workshop. In particular, we'd like to discuss interesting extensions and enhancements of electronic dictionaries. For example, one could consider merging different, thesaurus-like dictionaries and see what kind of conceptual and navigational aids might be added to support the language user: what are his needs, what information is he looking for? Actually, a focus shift might be necessary to move from the data (content and size of the dictionary) to their organisation and access. As, what is a huge dictionary good for, if one cannot find the word one is looking for? Target audience The aim of this workshop is to bring together leading researchers involved in the building of electronic dictionaries to discuss modifications of existing resources in line with the users' needs (i.e. how to capitalize on the advantages of the digital form). Given the breadth of the questions, we welcome reports on work from many perspectives, including, but not limited, to linguistics, computer science, psycholinguistics, language learning, and ergonomics. We request that each contribution addresses computational aspects. Topics We would like to invite papers addressing any of the following issues : type of information to be stored in the dictionary representation and structuring (indexing) of the data; management, visualization and useability of the data; access (aids for navigation, interface, strategies); acquisition of lexical data (corpus); possibilities for editing entries (annotation, updating); integration (combination of the dictionary with other ressources, writer's workbench); uses of dictionaries by people (learning/teaching; writing) and by machines (NLP). Submission instructions Papers should be original, hence report on previously unpublished work. Papers simultaneously submitted to other conferences should reflect this fact on the title page. As the review process will not be blind, papers should contain the names and affiliations of authors. Submissions must be electronic only, and should consist of full papers of max. 8 pages (inclusive of references, tables, figures and equations). Project notes and position papers should not exceed 4 pages. Authors should follow the http://www.issco.unige.ch/coling2004/ COLING 2004 formating guidelines, available at: http://www.issco.unige.ch/coling2004/coling2004downloads.html All submissions should be made by email to the following address zockMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue