--- Forwarded Message from Magali Duclaux <[log in to unmask]> --- >Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2001 16:51:49 +0200 >To: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask] >From: Magali Duclaux <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: LREC2002: First Announcement and Call for Papers ------------------ [Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement] We are pleased to announce: LREC2002 First Announcement and Call for Papers ********************************************************* THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION ********************************************************* Las Palmas, Canary Islands - Spain Main conference: 29-30-31 MAY 2002 Workshops: 27-28 MAY and 1-2 JUNE 2002 With support of TELEFONICA Foundation (of Spain) and support sought from the Commission of the EU and other institutions. The Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation is organised by ELRA in cooperation with other Associations and Consortia, including ACL, AFNLPA, ALLC, CLASS, COCOSDA, ORIENTAL COCOSDA, EAFT, EAGLES/ISLE, ELSNET, ENABLER, EURALEX, FRANCIL, ISCA, LDC, ONTOWEB, PAROLE, etc., and with major national and international organisations, including the Commission of the EU Information Society DG, DARPA, NSF, and the Japanese Project for International Co-ordination of East-Asian Spoken Language Resources and Evaluation. Co-operation with other organisations is currently being sought. CONFERENCE AIMS In the framework of the Information Society, the pervasive character of Human Language Technologies (HLT) and their relevance to practically all the fields of Information Society Technologies (IST) has been widely recognised. Two issues are considered particularly relevant: the availability of language resources and the methods for the evaluation of resources, technologies, products and applications. Substantial mutual benefits can be expected from addressing these issues through international cooperation. The term language resources (LR) refers to sets of language data and descriptions in machine readable form, used e.g. for: building and evaluating natural language, speech and multimodal algorithms or systems, software localisation industries and language services, language enabled information and communication services, natural interactivity, knowledge management, electronic commerce, electronic publishing, language studies, subject-area specialists and end users. Examples of linguistic resources are written, spoken and multimodal corpora and lexica, grammars, terminology databases, multimedia databases, basic software tools for the acquisition, preparation, collection, management, customisation and use of these and other resources. The relevance of evaluation for Language Technologies is increasingly recognised. This involves assessment of the state-of-the-art for a given technology, measuring the progress achieved within a pro- gramme, comparing different approaches to a given problem and choosing the best solution, knowing its advantages and dis- advantages, assessment of the availability of technologies for a given application, product benchmarking, and assessment of sys- tem usability and user satisfaction. In the recent past, language engineering and research and development in language technologies have led to important advances in various aspects of written, spoken and multimodal language processing. Although the evaluation paradigm has been studied and used in large national and international programmes, including the US DARPA HLT programme, the EU HLT programme under FP5-IST, the Francophone AUF programme and others, particularly in the localisation industry (LISA and LRC), it is still subject to substantial unsolved basic research problems. The European 6th Framework program (FP6), planned for a start in 2003, includes multilingual and multisensorial communication as one of the major R&D issue, and the evaluation of technologies appears as a specific item in the Integrated Project instrument presentation. The aim of this Conference is to provide an overview of the state-of-the-art, discuss problems and opportunities, exchange information regarding language resources, their applications, ongoing and planned activities, industrial use and requirements, discuss evaluation methodologies and demonstrate evaluation tools, explore possibilities and promote initiatives for international cooperation in the areas mentioned above. CONFERENCE TOPICS The following non-exhaustive list gives some examples of topics which could be addressed by papers submitted to the Conference: Issues in the design, construction and use of Language Resources (LR) · Guidelines, standards, specifications, models and best practices for LR · Methods, tools, procedures for the acquisition, creation, management, access, distribution, use of LR · Organisational issues in the construction, distribution and use of LR · Legal aspects and problems in the construction, access and use of LR · Availability and use of generic vs. task/domain specific LR · Methods for the extraction and acquisition of knowledge (e.g. terms, lexical information, language modelling) from LR · Monolingual and multilingual LR · Multimodal and multimedia LR · Integration of various modalities in LR (speech, vision, language) · Documentation and archiving of languages, including minority and endangered languages · Ontological aspects of creation and use of LR · LR for psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic research in human-machine communication · Exploitation of LR in different types of applications (information extraction, information retrieval, vocal and multisensorial interfaces, translation, summarisation, www services, etc.) · Industrial LR requirements and community's response · Industrial production of LR · Industrial use of LR · Analysis of user needs for LR · Internet-accessible metadata descriptions of LR · Mechanisms of LR distribution and marketing · Economics of LR Issues in Human Language Technologies evaluation · Evaluation, validation, quality assurance of LR · Benchmarking of systems and products; resources for benchmarking and evaluation · Evaluation in written language processing (text retrieval, terminology extraction, message understanding, text alignment, machine translation, morphosyntactic tagging, parsing, semantic tagging, word sense disambiguation, text understanding, summarization, localization, etc.) · Evaluation in spoken language processing (speech recognition and understanding, voice dictation, oral dialog, speech synthesis, speech coding, speaker and language recognition, spoken translation, etc.) · Evaluation of document processing (document recognition, on-line and off-line machine and hand-written character recognition, etc.) · Evaluation of (multimedia) document retrieval and search systems (including detection, indexing, filtering, alert, question answering, etc) · Evaluation of multimodal systems · Qualitative and perceptive evaluation · Evaluation of products and applications, benchmarking · Blackbox, glassbox and diagnostic evaluation of systems · Situated evaluation of applications · Evaluation methodologies, protocols and measures · From evaluation to standardisation of LR General issues · National and international activities and projects · LR and the needs/opportunities of the emerging multimedia cultural industry · Priorities, perspectives, strategies in the field of LR national and international policies · Needs, possibilities, forms, initiatives of/for international cooperation · Open architectures for LR PROGRAM The Scientific Program will include invited talks, presentations of oral papers, poster sessions, referenced demonstrations and panels. A special workshop will be organised on National Projects in LR and evaluation. FORMAT FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION Submitted abstracts of papers for oral and posters presentations should consist of about 800 words. Demonstrations of LR and related tools will be reviewed as well. Please send an outline of about 400 words. If a demo is connected to a paper, please attach the outline to the paper abstract. A limited number of panels and workshops is foreseen. Proposals are welcome and will be reviewed. For panels please send a brief description, including an outline of the intended structure (topic, organiser, panel moderator , tentative list of panelists). For workshops, see below. All submissions should include a separate title page, providing the following information: type of proposal (paper for oral presentation, paper for poster presentation, demo, paper plus demo, panel); the title to be printed in the programme of the Conference; names and affiliations of the authors or proposers; the full address of the first author (or a contact person), including phone, fax, email, URL; the required facilities for presentation (overhead projector, data display; other hardware, platforms, communications); and 5 keywords. All submissions will be reviewed by the Scientific Committee that will be announced within the second call. Electronic submission Electronic submission of abstracts should be in ASCII file format. This file should be sent to: [log in to unmask] Attn: Antonio Zampolli - LREC chairman Submission in hard copy You may also submit hard copies. Please send five hard copies to: Antonio Zampolli LREC Chairman Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR Area della Ricerca di Pisa, Via G. Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa - ITALY Exhibits: An exhibit area will also be made available at LREC2002. This is open to companies and projects wishing to promote, present and demonstrate their language resources and evaluation products and prototypes to a wide range of experts and representatives from all over the world who will be participating at the conference. Please note that the exhibits of LR are different from system demonstrations. The exhibits will run in parallel with the Conference for 3 days and the exhibit hall will be located near the general conference rooms. For more information, please contact the ELDA office at: [log in to unmask] LREC98, in Granada, had 197 papers and posters presented, with about 510 registered participants from 38 different countries from all continents. Among these, the largest group came from Spain (81 participants), followed by France (75), USA (73), Germany (47), UK (43) and Italy (41). Registered participants belonged to over 325 different organisations. LREC2000, in Athens, had 129 oral papers and 152 posters presented, with more than 600 participants from 51 different countries from all continents. Among these, the largest group came from Greece (117), followed by USA (70), France (59), Germany (45), UK (43), Japan (35) and Italy (29). Registered participants belonged to 319 different organisations. We anticipate a similar number of participants in LREC2002. We therefore expect the exhibits at LREC2002 to have a large audience. IMPORTANT DATES · Submission of proposals for oral and poster papers, referenced demos, panels and workshops: 20 NOVEMBER 2001 · Notification of acceptance of workshop and panel proposals: 10 DECEMBER 2001 · Notification of acceptance of oral papers, posters, referenced demos: 2 FEBRUARY 2002 · Final versions for the Proceedings: 2 APRIL 2002 · Conference: 29-30-31 MAY 2002 · Pre Conference Workshops: 27-28 MAY 2002 · Post Conference Workshops: 1-2 JUNE 2002 Conference Proceedings will include both oral and poster papers. Internet connections and various computer platforms and facilities will be available at the Conference site. In addition to referenced demos concerning LR and related tools, it will be possible to run unreferenced demos of language engineering products, systems and tools. Those interested should contact the organiser of the demonstrations (see details on www.lrec-conf.org). WORKSHOPS Pre-Conference Workshops will be organised on the 27 and 28 of May 2002,and post-Conference Workshops on the 1 and 2 of June 2002. Proposals for workshops should be sent to: Antonio Zampolli (see address above), be no longer than three pages and contain: · A brief technical description of the specific technical issues that the workshop will address. · The reasons why the workshop is of interest this time. · The names, postal addresses, phone and fax numbers and email addresses of the Workshop Organising Committee, which should consist of at least three people knowledgeable in the field coming from different institutions. · The name of the member of the Workshop Organising Committee designated as the contact person. · A time schedule of the workshop and a preliminary agenda. · A summary of the intended workshop Call for Participation. · A list of audio-visual or technical requirements and any special room requirements. The workshop proposers will be responsible for the organisational aspects (e.g. Workshop Call preparation and distribution, review of papers, notification of acceptance, etc.). Further details will be sent to the proposers. Proceedings will be printed for each workshop. CONSORTIA AND PROJECT MEETINGS Consortia or projects wishing to take this opportunity for organising meetings, should contact the Conference Secretariat for assistance in arranging meeting facilities. CONFERENCE REGISTRATION FEES Before 28 February 2002 Standard 240EURO Participant from member organisations of ELRA 190 EURO Student 100 EURO After 28 February 2002 Standard 280 EURO Participant from member organisations of ELRA 230 EURO Student 120 EURO On site Standard 300 EURO Participant from member organisations of ELRA 250 EURO Student 130 EURO The fees cover the following services: a copy of the proceedings, welcome reception, conference dinner, coffee-breaks and refreshments. WORKSHOPS REGISTRATION FEES The duration of a workshop can range from a half day to two full days. The participation fees for each half day will be: 45 EURO for Conference participants 70 EURO for the others The fees cover the following services: a copy of the proceedings of the attended workshop, coffee-breaks and refreshments. CONFERENCE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Nicoletta Calzolari, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, Pisa, Italy Khalid Choukri, ELRA, Paris, France Bente Maegaard, CST, Copenhagen, Denmark Joseph Mariani, LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France Angel Martin Municio, President of the Real Academia de Ciencias, Madrid, Spain Daniel Tapias, TELEFONICA I+D, Madrid, Spain Antonio Zampolli, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, Pisa, Italy (Conference chair) INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE Sture Allen, professor, former permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, Sweden Souguil Ann, Seoul National University, Korea Georges Carayannis, Institute for Language and Speech processing, Athens, Greece Roberto Cencioni, Commission of the EU, Information Society DG, Luxembourg Zhiwei Feng , The State Language Commission of China, Beijing, China Hiroya Fujisaki, Science University of Tokyo, Japan Mark Maybury, MITRE Corporation, Boston, USA Bernard Quemada, Conseil Supérieur de la Langue Française, Paris, France Gary Strong, NSF, Washington D.C., USA Piet G.J. Van Sterkenburg, International Permanent Committee of Linguists, Leiden, The Netherlands Giovanni Battista Varile, Commission of the EU, Information Society DG, Luxembourg Charles Wayne, DARPA, Washington D.C., USA The composition of the Local Committee as well as instructions and addresses for registration and accommodation will be detailed in the www.lrec-conf.org and will be announced in the Second Call for Papers to be issued at the end of July. ELRA For more information about ELRA (the European Language Resources Association), please contact: Khalid Choukri, ELRA CEO 55-57 Rue Brillat-Savarin, 75013 PARIS, FRANCE Tel: + 33 1 43 13 33 33 Fax: + 33 1 43 13 33 30 E-mail: [log in to unmask] Web: http://www.elda.fr/