LINGUIST List 22.2876 Wed Jul 13 2011 Calls: Computational Linguistics/Turkey Editor for this issue: Alison Zaharee <alisonlinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.     Hélène Mazo , Language Resources and Evaluation Conference Message 1: Language Resources and Evaluation Conference Date: 12-Jul-2011 From: Hélène Mazo <mazoelda.org> Subject: Language Resources and Evaluation Conference E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Language Resources and Evaluation Conference Short Title: LREC 2012 Date: 21-May-2012 - 27-May-2012 Location: Istanbul, Turkey Contact Person: Hélène Mazo Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Web Site: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012 Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics Call Deadline: 15-Oct-2011 Meeting Description: LREC 2012 8th ELRA Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation Istanbul Convention & Exhibition Centre (ICEC, Lütfi Kirdar Centre) Istanbul, Turkey Conference web site: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012 The 8th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference will take place in Istanbul (Turkey) at the ICEC Lütfi Kirdar Centre. The aim of LREC is to provide an overview of the state-of-the-art, explore new R&D directions and emerging trends, exchange information regarding LRs and their applications, evaluation methodologies and tools, ongoing and planned activities, industrial uses and needs, requirements coming from the e-society, both with respect to policy issues and to technological and organisational ones. LREC provides a unique forum for researchers, industrials and funding agencies from across a wide spectrum of areas to discuss problems and opportunities, find new synergies and promote initiatives for international cooperation, in support to investigations in language sciences, progress and innovation in language technologies and development of corresponding products, services and applications, and standards. The International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation is organised by ELRA biennially with the support of institutions and organisations involved in Human Language Technology. Pre-Conference Workshops & Tutorials: May 21-22, 2012 Main Conference: May 23-24-25, 2012 Post-Conference Workshops & Tutorials: May 26-27, 2012 Call for Papers: Conference Topics: Issues in the Design, Construction and Use of Language Resources (LRs): Text, Speech, Multimodality: - Guidelines, standards, best practices and models for LRs interoperability - Methodologies and tools for LRs construction and annotation - Methodologies and tools for the extraction and acquisition of knowledge - Ontologies and knowledge representation - Terminology - Integration between (multilingual) LRs, ontologies and Semantic Web technologies - Integration between (multilingual) LRs and multimedia technologies - Metadata descriptions of LRs and metadata for semantic/content markup Exploitation of LRs in Different Types of Systems and Applications: - Sign language, multimedia information and multimodal communication - LRs in systems and applications such as: information extraction, information retrieval, audio-visual and multimedia search, speech dictation, meeting transcription, Computer Aided Language Learning, training and education, mobile communication, machine translation, speech translation, summarisation, web services, semantic search, text mining, inferencing, reasoning, etc. - Different types of interfaces: (speech-based) dialogue systems, natural language and multimodal/multisensorial interactions, voice activated services, etc. - Use of (multilingual) LRs in various fields of application, like e-government, e-culture, e-health, e-participation, mobile applications, etc. - Industrial LRs requirements, user needs Issues in Language Technologies Evaluation: - LT Evaluation methodologies, protocols and measures - Validation, quality assurance, evaluation of LRs - Benchmarking of systems and products - Usability evaluation of LT-based user interfaces, interactions and dialogue systems - Usability and user satisfaction evaluation General Issues Regarding LRs & Evaluation: - National and international activities and projects - International collaboration and co-operation - Multilingual issues - Priorities, perspectives, strategies in national and international policies for LRs - Language coverage and diversity, less resourced languages, endangered languages - Open, linked and shared data and tools, Open and collaborative architectures - Organisational, economical, ethical and legal issues Hot Topic: Speech & Multimodal Resources Speech and Multimodal Resources are the special topics for LREC 2012, and submissions dedicated to these modalities are encouraged. Also papers integrating speech and/or multimodal with written resources are particularly welcome. Programme: The Scientific Programme will include invited talks, oral presentations, poster and demo presentations, and panels, in addition to a keynote address by the winner of the Antonio Zampolli Prize. As usual, there is no difference in quality between oral and poster presentations. Only the appropriateness of the type of communication (more or less interactive) to the content of the paper will be considered. Submissions and Dates: Submitted abstracts of papers for oral and poster or demo presentations should consist of about 1500-2000 words. Submission of proposals for oral and poster/demo papers: 15 October 2011 Proposals for panels, workshops and tutorials will be reviewed by the Programme Committee. Submission of proposals for panels, workshops and tutorials: 15 October 2011 Proceedings: The Proceedings will include both oral and poster papers, in the same format. In addition a Book of Abstracts will be printed. Special Highlight: Contribute to Building the LREC Language Library After the success of the LRE Map introduced in LREC 2010 - now used in many Conferences as a normal step in the submission procedure – LREC 2012 recognises that time is ripe to launch another important initiative, the LREC Language Library! The LREC Language Library will also be a collaborative enterprise of the LREC Community, an important contribution to the community-built Open Resource Infrastructure. ELRA will prepare an LREC Repository, part of the META-SHARE network, hosting a number of resources on all modalities (speech, text, images, etc.) in as many languages as possible. When submitting a paper, you will be invited to process some pieces of this data, in the appropriate language(s) for you, in one or more of the possible dimensions that your submission addresses (e.g. POS-tag the data, extract/annotate named entities, annotate temporal information, disambiguate word senses, transcribe audio, etc.) and put the processed data back in the LREC Repository. The processed data will be made available to all the LREC participants before the conference, to be compared and analysed, and at LREC we will organise some event around them with your help! This collaborative work on annotation/transcription/extraction/etc. over the same data and on a large number of processing dimensions will set the ground for a large Language Library, linked to the LRE Map for the description of the data, where everyone can deposit/create processed data of any sort – all our 'knowledge' about language. Conference Programme Committee: Nicoletta Calzolari - CNR, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale 'Antonio Zampolli', Pisa - Italy (Conference chair) Khalid Choukri - ELRA, Paris - France Thierry Declerck - DFKI GmbH, Saarbrücken - Germany Mehmet Ugur Dogan - TÜBITAK-BILGEM, SLTC, Kocaeli - Turkey Bente Maegaard - CST, University of Copenhagen - Denmark Joseph Mariani - LIMSI-CNRS & IMMI, Orsay - France Asuncion Moreno - Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona - Spain Jan Odijk - UIL-OTS, Utrecht - The Netherlands Stelios Piperidis - Athena Research Center/ILSP, Athens - Greece Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 13-Jul-2011       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.