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*LREC 2016 - 10th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation*
*Grand Hotel Bernardin, PORTOROŽ, SLOVENIA*
*23-28 May 2016*
*MAIN CONFERENCE: 25-26-27 MAY 2016*
*WORKSHOPS and TUTORIALS: 23-24-28 MAY 2016*
*Conference web site: lrec-conf.org/lrec2016/lrec2016.htm*
*Twitter: @LREC2016*
*FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS*
ELRA is glad to announce the 10th edition of LREC, organised with the
support of a wide range of international organisations.
CONFERENCE AIMS
LREC is the major event on Language Resources (LRs) and Evaluation for
Human Language Technologies (HLT). LREC aims 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, on-going and planned activities, industrial
uses and needs, requirements coming from e-science and e-society, with
respect both to policy issues and to scientific/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 of investigations in language
sciences, progress in language technologies (LT) and development of
corresponding products, services and applications, and standards.
CONFERENCE TOPICS
Issues in the design, construction and use of 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 extraction and acquisition of knowledge
• Ontologies, terminology and knowledge representation
• LRs and Semantic Web
• LRs and Crowdsourcing
• Metadata for LRs and semantic/content mark-up
• Best practices in the use of LR citations
Exploitation of LRs in systems and applications
• Multimedia information and multimodal communication, including Sign
Languages
• LRs in systems and applications such as: information extraction,
information retrieval, audio-visual and multimedia search, speech
dictation, audio-visual transcriptions and annotations, computer aided
language learning, training and education, mobile communication, machine
translation, speech translation, summarisation, semantic search, text
mining and analytics, inferencing, reasoning, sentiment analysis, etc.
• Interfaces: (speech-based) dialogue systems, natural language and
multimodal/multisensorial multi-sensory interactions, voice-activated
services, etc.
• Use of (multilingual) LRs in various fields of application like
e-commerce, e-government, e-culture, e-health, e-participation, mobile
applications, digital humanities, Digital Service Infrastructures, etc.
• Industrial LRs requirements, user needs
Issues in LT evaluation
• LT evaluation methodologies, protocols and measures
• Validation and quality assurance of LRs
• Benchmarking of systems and products
• Usability evaluation of HLT-based user interfaces and dialogue systems
• User satisfaction evaluation
General issues regarding LRs & Evaluation
• International and national activities, projects and collaboration
• Priorities, perspectives, strategies in national and international
policies for LRs
• Multilingual issues, language coverage and diversity,
less-resourced languages
• Open, linked and shared data and tools, open and collaborative
architectures
• Organisational, economical, ethical and legal issues.
LREC 2016 HOT TOPICS
LRs for Actionable Knowledge
Important information to support a range of applications is hidden in
Big Data. Automated content analytics is needed for the interpretation
of the data and their context, so that it is accurately understood and
can be integrated and used in applications. Content analytics makes use
of various technologies, like semantic search, keyword suggestions,
clustering, classification, etc. What is the role of LRs in such
correlation of digital content and context? Can for example relations
between LRs and Knowledge Graphs for entity linking, disambiguation,
reasoning, etc. support the generation of actionable knowledge in Big
Data analytics?
More generally we would like to bring to discussion all issues related
to LRs and evaluation means for semantic processing in the Big Data
environment.
LRs for Interaction with Devices
There is a growing interest in adapting and improving Natural Language
Processing for providing intelligent language interfaces to all kind of
devices that are connected to the Internet (of Things), and also to
robots, sensors and the like. We encourage investigating how to relate
LRs in this communication set-up with data that are in principle of a
non-linguistic nature. How to improve multilingual and multimodal
generation of information from sensors, robots and in general from
structured data in the Internet of Things? How can LRs optimally be
designed and used in this (bi-directional) interaction? How to combine
language and sensor streams in multilingual and multimodal virtual worlds?
Are there new or past approaches to Human-Machine dialogue offering
easily adaptable solutions, so that we need “only” to upgrade them to
the enormously increased quantity of data and number of interconnected
devices?
LREC 2016 HIGHLIGHT
Identify, Describe and Share your LRs!
Describing your LRs in the LRE Map is now a normal practice in the
submission procedure of LREC (introduced in 2010 and adopted by other
conferences).
To continue the efforts initiated at LREC 2014 about “Sharing LRs”
(data, tools, web-services, etc.), authors will have the possibility,
when submitting a paper, to upload LRs in a special LREC repository.
This effort of sharing LRs, linked to the LRE Map for their description,
may become a new “regular” feature for conferences in our field, thus
contributing to creating a common repository where everyone can deposit
and share data.
As scientific work requires accurate citations of referenced work so as
to allow the community to understand the whole context and also
replicate the experiments conducted by other researchers, LREC 2016
endorses the need to uniquely Identify LRs through the use of the
International Standard Language Resource Number (ISLRN, www.islrn.org),
a Persistent Unique Identifier to be assigned to each Language Resource.
The assignment of ISLRNs to LRs cited in LREC papers will be offered at
submission time.
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.
SUBMISSIONS AND DATES
Submission of proposals for oral and poster (or poster+demo) papers: 15
October 2015
• Abstracts should consist of about 1500-2000 words, will be
submitted through START and will be peer-reviewed.
Submission of proposals for panels, workshops and tutorials: 15 October 2015
• Proposals should be submitted via an online form on the LREC
website and will be reviewed by the Programme Committee.
PROCEEDINGS
The Proceedings will include both oral and poster papers, in the same
format.
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.
In addition a Book of Abstracts will be printed.
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
Marko Grobelnik - Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana - Slovenia
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
CONFERENCE EDITORIAL COMMITTEE
IN ADDITION TO THE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:
Sara Goggi, ILC-CNR, Pisa, Italy
Hélène Mazo, ELDA/ELRA, Paris, France
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