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*LREC 2018**, **11th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation**-
**Phoenix Seagaia Resort**, **Miyazaki, Japan***
**7-12 *May 2018*
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**Main Conference: 9-10-11 May 2018**
**Workshops and Tutorials: 7-8 & 12 May 2018**
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Conference web site: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2018/lrec2018.htm
Twitter: @LREC2018
*FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS**
*The European Language Resource Association (ELRA) is glad to announce
the 11th edition of LREC, organised with the support of international
organisations – many from Asia: the Asian Federation of Natural Language
Processing (AFNLP), Oriental COCOSDA, the Association of Natural
Language Processing - Japan, the Chinese Information Processing Society
of China, the Linguistic Data Consortium, ...
*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, communicate on-going and planned activities,
identify industrial uses and needs, and address requirements from
e-science and e-society, with respect to scientific, technology, policy
and organisational issues.
For this edition, LREC goes East in order to support a stronger
interaction and synergy with the Asian NLP community and to help
promoting Asian Language Resources and Language Technologies.
LREC provides a unique forum for researchers, industrials and funding
agencies from a wide spectrum of related disciplines to discuss issues
and opportunities, find new synergies and promote initiatives for
international cooperation, in support of investigations in language
sciences, progress in language technologies (LTs) and development of
corresponding products, services and applications, and standards.
*CONFERENCE TOPICS *
*Issues in the design, construction and use of LRs: text, speech, sign,
gesture, image, in single or multimodal/multimedia data *
* 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
*Exploitation of LRs in 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, sentiment analysis/opinion mining, etc.
* Interfaces: (speech-based) dialogue systems, natural language and
multimodal/multisensory interactions, voice-activated services, etc.
* Use of (multilingual) LRs in various fields of application like
e-government, e-participation, e-culture, e-health, mobile applications,
digital humanities, social sciences, etc.
* Industrial LRs requirements
* User needs, LT for accessibility
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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
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**General issues regarding LRs & Evaluation*
* International and national activities, projects and initiatives
* 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
* Replicability and reproducibility issues
* Organisational, economical, ethical and legal issues
*LREC 2018 HOT TOPICS **
**Asian Language Resources*
Special attention will be devoted to highlight the wide variety of
initiatives for the creation, use and evaluation of Asian Language
Resources and Technologies. Special attention will be paid to
Less-Resourced Languages in the Asian area, including (local) Sign
Languages.
*International Contribution to Olympics 2020*
LREC 2018 would like to promote all LTs that would support better
interactions and communications between the Olympics 2020 visitors and
the local hosts. This involves all speech- and text-based computer
interactions, speech/sign to speech/sign translations, human-human
communications mediated by computers, etc. Assessment of the above
mentioned technologies is also an important area within LREC 2018.
*Language Resources in the Online World*
In a time in which more and more (language) data are generated, either
by human beings or by machines, and directly streamed, the question
arises how LRs and LTs can cope with this development. A first challenge
is to address and to provide for correctives to hate speeches,
cyberbullying, fake news, etc. Can LT provide means to process and
respond in a timely manner to such language data streamed in a huge
amount at high speed? In this context, language technologists have to
intensify cooperation with humanities, especially social and political
sciences, psychology but also economics, and more.
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**DESCRIBE AND SHARE YOUR LRs! *
In addition to describing your LRs in the LRE Map – now a normal step in
the submission procedure of many conferences – LREC recognises the
importance of sharing resources and making them available to the community.
When submitting a paper, you will be offered the possibility to share
your LRs (data, tools, web-services, etc.), uploading them in a special
LREC repository set up by ELRA. Your LRs will be made available to all
LREC participants before the conference, to be re-used, compared,
analysed. This effort of sharing LRs, linked to the LRE Map for their
description, contributes to creating a common repository where everyone
can deposit and share data.
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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.
We will also organise an Industrial Track.
*SUBMISSIONS AND DATES*
Submission of proposals for oral and poster (or poster+demo) papers:
*September 25, 2017*
* LREC2018 asks for extended abstracts of no less than 3000 words
(references excluded), which must strictly follow the LREC stylesheet
which will be available on the conference website. Extended abstracts
should be submitted through START and will be peer-reviewed.
Submission of proposals for panels, workshops and tutorials: *September
25, 2017*
* Proposals should be submitted via an online form on the LREC website
and will be reviewed by the Programme Committee.
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PROCEEDINGS*
The Proceedings will include both oral and poster papers, in the same
format. Final papers will range from 4 to 8 pages, with no difference in
quality between shorter and longer submissions.
There is also 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.
The importance of LREC in Natural Language Processing is reflected by
the H5-Index citation ranking in Google Scholar
<http://ow.ly/r57X308nyve>: LREC is ranked 3rd among Computational
Linguistics conferences. In addition, since 2010, LREC Proceedings are
included in the Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index
<http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/>.
*CONFERENCE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE *
Nicoletta Calzolari – CNR, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale
“Antonio Zampolli”, Pisa - Italy (Conference chair)
Khalid Choukri – ELRA, Paris - France
Christopher Cieri – Linguistic Data Consortium, Philadelphia - USA
Thierry Declerck – DFKI GmbH, Saarbrücken - Germany
Koiti Hasida – The University of Tokyo, Tokyo - Japan
Hitoshi Isahara – Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi - Japan
Bente Maegaard – Centre for Language Technology, University of
Copenhagen, Copenhagen - Denmark
Joseph Mariani – LIMSI-CNRS, 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
Takenobu Tokunaga – Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo – Japan
*CONFERENCE EDITORIAL COMMITTEE *
Sara Goggi, CNR, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale “Antonio
Zampolli”, Pisa, Italy
Hélène Mazo, ELDA/ELRA, Paris, France
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