SLRTNLP 2008
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Post LREC-2008 Workshop: Sustainability of Language Resources and Tools for Natural Language Processing
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| Dates | May 31, 2008 (iCal) - May 31, 2008 |
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| Location: | Marrakech, Morocco |
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| Submissions: | Feb 15, 2008 |
| Notification: | Mar 18, 2008 |
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Call for Papers
Post LREC-2008 Workshop:
Sustainability of Language Resources and Tools
for Natural Language Processing
Marrakech, Morocco
Saturday, 31 May 2008
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Sustainability of Language Resources and Tools for Natural Language Processing
One of the problems in Natural Language Processing and related fields is that
the sustainability of language resources (e.g., corpora) and of language technology
tools (e.g. annotation or query tools) are neglected on a regular basis.
This results in, for example, tools whose algorithms and data structures are poorly
documented and whose area of application is evident only to the people who
built the software. Similar issues arise with regard to language resources:
often, these are tailored to the needs of an individual application or of
a project with a very specific research question. When the project is finished it
becomes next to impossible (especially for third parties) to gain access to the
resource that may have taken several months or even years to create.
The very complex question of how to ensure or maybe even guarantee
sustainability is related to several key issues spanning a broad spectrum
across several closely related fields: in the area of language documentation,
seven dimensions of portability (content, format, discovery, access, citation,
preservation, rights) have been suggested. Another area of research is
primarily concerned with annotation technology, especially the problem of
building generic annotation frameworks as well as representing several
different layers of linguistic annotation referring to one specific set of
primary data by means of standoff annotation. Closely related work deals with
the standardisation of annotation frameworks, especially with regard to the
level of impact a specific linguistic theory has on their vocabularies and
markup grammars. A last area concerns the fostering of sustainability through specific
Software Engineering processes for Computational Linguistics and Natural Language
Processing tools, applications and resources. At the moment, we are not aware
of previous work in this latter field.
Providing sustainability for linguistic tools and language resources becomes
increasingly important for the research community. Nowadays, this is also
acknowledged by funding organisations -- they often encourage research
projects to make sure that language resources will still be accessible and
(re-)usable in ten, 15, or 20 years time.
The problem of ensuring sustainability is a multi-faceted one and depends on
several individual subtasks. At least one of these tasks should
be addressed by contributions to this workshop. The topics of interest include
but are not limited to:
- Archiving linguistic data and resources
- Annotation technology, e.g., generic corpus annotation frameworks; the
relationship of linguistic theories to corpus annotation; metadata
annotation schemes, and related tools and applications
- Reusability of treebanks, e.g., annotations according to one specific
linguistic framework should be applicable to NLP tasks that are based on
different linguistic paradigms
- Sustainability in Software Engineering for Computational Linguistics
- Copyright issues, e.g., legal restrictions, copyright of web pages (for
example, in a web as corpus approach), software patents, intellectual
property, national and international issues etc.
- Privacy protection, e.g., automatic anonymisation of language data
- Sustainability, maintenance, and adaptability of NLP applications and tools,
e.g., to new domains, to new linguistic resources, or even to new
linguistic frameworks or theories
- Querying linguistic data, e.g., the usability and adaptability of query
interfaces or query toolboxes
- Usability and acceptance of NLP software, e.g., corpus query interfaces
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
Submissions should not exceed ten (10) pages, including references. We
strongly recommend the use of the LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word
document template that will be made available on the LREC Conference
Web site. A description of the required format will be made available to
those who are unable to make direct use of these style files.
Submission will be electronic. The only accepted format for submitted
papers is Adobe PDF. The papers must be submitted no later than
15th February 2008. Papers submitted after that time will not be
reviewed. For details of the submission procedure, please consult the
submission webpage reachable via the workshop website.
Questions regarding the submission procedure should be directed to
andreas.witt(a)uni-tuebingen.de
IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for submission of Papers : 15th February 2008
Notification of Acceptance : 18th March 2008
Deadline for final paper submission: 2nd April 2008
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Lou Burnard, Oxford University
Khalid Choukri, ELRA/ELDA
Georg Rehm, Tübingen University
Thomas Schmidt, University of Hamburg
Andreas Witt, Tübingen University
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
o Helen Aristar-Dry, Eastern Michigan University, USA
o Jeannine Beeken, Instituut voor Nederlandse Lexicologie, The Netherlands
o Jean Carletta, University of Edinburgh, School of Informatics, UK
o Dan Cristea, University of Iasi, Romania
o Stefanie Dipper, Bochum University, Germany
o Jost Gippert, Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany
o Erhard Hinrichs, Tübingen University, Germany
o Marc Kupietz, Institut für Deutsche Sprache Mannheim, Germany
o Sandra Kübler, Indiana University, Computational Linguistics, USA
o D. Terence Langendoen, NSF, USA
o Joakim Nivre, Växjö University & Uppsala University, Sweden
o Massimo Poesio, University of Trento, Italy
o Kiril Ribarov, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic
o Laurent Romary, Max-Planck Digital Library, Germany
o Hinrich Schuetze, Stuttgart University, Germany
o Serge Sharoff, University of Leeds, UK
o Gary F. Simons, SIL International, USA
o Manfred Stede, Potsdam University, Germany
o Simone Teufel, University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory, UK
o Peter Wittenburg, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
o Martin Wynne, Oxford Text Archive, UK
o Heike Zinsmeister, Heidelberg University, Germany
This CfP was obtained from WikiCFP
Facts about "SLRTNLP 2008"
| Acronym | SLRTNLP 2008 + |
| End date | May 31, 2008 + |
| Event type | Workshop + |
| Has coordinates | 31° 37' 33", -7° 59' 21"Latitude: 31.625825 Longitude: -7.9891611111111 + |
| Has location city | Marrakech + |
| Has location country | Category:Morocco + |
| IsA | Event + |
| Notification | March 18, 2008 + |
| Start date | May 31, 2008 + |
| Submission deadline | February 15, 2008 + |
| Title | Post LREC-2008 Workshop: Sustainability of Language Resources and Tools for Natural Language Processing + |
