LINGUIST List 23.102 Thu Jan 05 2012 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.     Nancy Ide , Collaborative Resource Development and Delivery Message 1: Collaborative Resource Development and Delivery Date: 02-Jan-2012 From: Nancy Ide <idecs.vassar.edu> Subject: Collaborative Resource Development and Delivery E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Collaborative Resource Development and Delivery Date: 27-May-2012 - 27-May-2012 Location: Istanbul, Turkey Contact Person: Nancy Ide Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Web Site: http://www.anc.org/Collaborative_Resource_Development Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics Call Deadline: 15-Feb-2012 Meeting Description: To answer the growing need and lower the costs of resource creation and enhancement, there is a movement within the community toward collaborative resource development, including collaborative corpus annotation and collective creation/enhancement of lexical resources and knowledge bases. Collaborative development encompasses both engaging the community in annotation and development of common resources, as well as crowd-sourcing and similar solutions. Call for Papers: This workshop seeks contributions in all dimensions of collaborative resource development and delivery, with a specific focus on case studies and lessons learned. We invite submissions that address but are not limited to the following topics: - Web services and platforms for collaborative resource development and distribution - Crowd sourcing for resource development, including studies of efficacy - Strategies and issues for open resource distribution - Evaluation of collaboratively developed resources - Position papers outlining issues and proposing solutions for community-based collaborative resource development and/or delivery Special Session: The workshop will include a special session devoted to means and considerations for community-based linguistic annotation, with a special emphasis on the Manually Annotated Sub-Corpus (MASC) (http://www.anc.org/MASC). We invite submissions to this session on the following topics: - Position papers concerning any aspect of collaborative resource development, including means to get the community fully invested in such efforts - Case studies describing collaborative development efforts, including assessment of what works and what doesn't - Results obtained using collaboratively developed resources - The role of standards and best practices in collaboratively developed resources and contributed annotations Special consideration will be given to contributions that have used MASC data in a way that highlights the benefits of community-based annotation. Submission: Submissions may be long papers or short papers, following the formatting guidelines for submissions to the main conference given at: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012 All submissions should be made using the START system: https://www.softconf.com/lrec2012/CollaborativeDev2012 Submitters will be asked to provide relevant information about resources used for or resulting from the work described in their papers to the LRE Map (http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012/?LREMap) and to contribute to the Language Library initiative. Important Dates: Submissions due: February 15, 2012 Acceptance notification to authors: March 15, 2012 Camera ready due: April 1, 2012 Workshop: May 27, 2012 Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 05-Jan-2012       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.