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LREC 2020, 12th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation -
Palais du Pharo, Marseille, France
11-16 May 2020
Main Conference: 13-14-15 May 2020
Workshops and Tutorials: 11-12 & 16 May 2020
Conference web site: https://lrec2020.lrec-conf.org/
Twitter: @LREC2020
*FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS*
The European Language Resources Association (ELRA) is glad to announce
the 12th edition of LREC, organised with the support of national and
international organisations among which AFCP, AILC, ATALA, CLARIN, ILCB,
LDC, ...
*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 as well as 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 issues 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**
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**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 (including Linked Data, Knowledge Graphs,
etc.)
* 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, 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
*LRs in the age of deep neural networks*
* Semi-supervised, weakly-supervised and unsupervised machine
learning approaches
* Representation Learning for language
* Techniques for (semi-)automatically generating training data
* Cross-language NLP & Cross-domain NLP with reduction of human
effort
*
**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 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 2020 HOT TOPICS*
/*Less Resourced and Endangered Languages*/
Special attention will be devoted to less resourced and endangered
languages: it is expected that LREC2020 makes room to activities carried
out to support indigenous languages, building on the United
Nations/UNESCO International Year of Indigenous Languages being
celebrated in 2019.
/*Language and the Brain*/
Studying the neural basis of language helps in understanding both
language processing and the brain mechanisms. LREC2020 will encourage
all submissions addressing language and the brain. Among possible
subtopics, submissions could focus on new datasets and resources
(neuroimaging, controlled corpora, lexicons, etc.), methods aiming at
new multimodal experimentations (e.g. EEG in virtual reality), language
processing applications (e.g. brain decoding, brain-computer
interfaces), etc.
/*Machine/Deep Learning*/
The availability of LRs is a key element of the development of high
quality Human Language Technologies based on AI/Machine Learning
approaches, and LREC is the best place to get access to this data, in
many languages and for many domains. In addition to submissions
addressing ML issues based on large quantities of data, those applied to
languages for which only small, noisy or sparse data exist are also most
welcomed.
*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.
*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 and a Reproducibility Track:
for these there will be separate Calls.
*SUBMISSIONS AND DATES*
*Submission of oral and poster (or poster+demo) papers: 25 November 2019*
LREC2020 asks for _full papers from 4 pages to 8 pages_ (plus more
pages for references if needed) , which must strictly follow the LREC
stylesheet which will be available on the conference website. Papers
must be submitted through the LREC2020 submission platform (it uses
START from Softconf) and will be peer-reviewed.
*Submission of proposals for workshops, tutorials and panels: 24 October
2019*
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.
LREC 2010, LREC 2012 and LREC 2014 Proceedings are included in the
Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index. The other
editions are being processed.
LREC Proceedings are indexed in Scopus (Elsevier).
Substantially extended versions of papers selected by reviewers as the
most appropriate will be considered for publication in a special issue
of the Language Resources and Evaluation Journal published by Springer
(a SCI-indexed journal).
*CONFERENCE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE*
Nicoletta Calzolari – CNR, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale
“Antonio Zampolli”, Pisa - Italy (Conference chair)
Frédéric Béchet – LIS-CNRS, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille- France
Philippe Blache – CNRS & Aix-Marseille University, Marseille- France
Christopher Cieri – Linguistic Data Consortium, Philadelphia - USA
Khalid Choukri – ELRA, Paris - France
Thierry Declerck – DFKI GmbH, Saarbrücken - Germany
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
*CONFERENCE EDITORIAL COMMITTEE*
Sara Goggi – CNR, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale “Antonio
Zampolli”, Pisa - Italy
Hélène Mazo – ELDA/ELRA, Paris - France
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