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CALL
FOR PAPER Workshop on Web
Services and Processing Pipelines in HLT: Tool Evaluation, LR Production
and Validation To
be held in conjunction with the 7th International Language Resources
and
Evaluation Conference (LREC 2010) 17-18 May 2010, Mediterranean Conference Center,
Valletta, Malta http://workshops.elda.org/wspp2010/ Extended
deadline for submission: 26 February 2010 Workshop Description With the emergence of large e-infrastructures and the widespread adoption of the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) paradigm, more and more language technology is being made available through web services. Extending such services to linguistic processing pipelines, tool evaluation or LR production and validation involves considering both the methodologies and technical aspects specific to the application domains. Distributed architectures such as web services allow communication and data exchange between applications. They are a suitable instrument for automatic, less often semi-automatic, tool evaluation as well as resource production processes both for practical and conceptual reasons. At a practical level, web services support quick results, centralised data storage, remote access etc.; at a conceptual level, they allow for the combination of more than one processing components that may be located on different sites. Such processing pipelines are set up to tackle a particular analysis task. To support these, new techniques have to be developed that organise well-established practices into workflows and support the exchange of data by standards and open tool architectures. The workshop focuses on current uses and best practices for the deployment of web services and web interfaces in the HLT domain, including processing pipelines, LR production and validation, and evaluation of tools. It highlights relevant aspects for the integration of linguistic or evaluation web services within infrastructures (e.g. authorisation and authentication, service registries) and infrastructural requirements (e.g. interface harmonisation, metadata generation). The workshop also aims at demonstrating different approaches on how to combine linguistic web services into a composite web service. The expected outcome of the workshop is a comparison of the practices in architectures and processing pipelines that people build and discussion of the issues involved. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Technical aspects: approaches, protocols, management of huge amounts of data, data structures and formats, performance, manual components (e.g. annotation or evaluation), composition and configuration, interoperability, security, monitoring and recovery strategies, standardisation of APIs, tools and frameworks supporting HLT services deployment, architectures. - Scientific aspects: influence of web services on evaluation or resource production, meta-evaluation / validation of architectures, annotation agreements, needs for tools evaluation and resource production, status of the data produced. - Commercial aspects: licensing, privacy, advertising, brokering, business possibilities, challenges, exploitation of the resulting data. Chairing Committee Núria Bel (Institut Universitari de Lingüística Aplicada, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain) Olivier
Hamon (Evaluations
and Language resources Distribution Agency (ELDA) Elke
Teich (Technische Universität Darmstadt) Organising Committee Peter Fankhauser (L3S Hannover, Germany) Maria Gavrilidou (Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Greece) Gerhard Heyer (Department of Natural Language Processing, University of Leipzig, Germany) Zdravko
Kacic (University of Maribor, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and
Computer
Science, Slovenia) Mark
Kemps-Snijders (MPI, the Netherlands) Andreas
Witt (IDS Mannheim, Germany) Programme Committee Sophia Ananiadou (School of
Computer Science,
University of Manchester, England) Victoria Arranz (ELDA, France) Volker Boehlke (University of Leipzig, DE) Gaël de Chalendar (CEA, France) Key-Sun Choi (KAIST, Korea) Dan Cristea (University of Iasis, Romania) Thierry Declerck (DFKI, Germany) Christoph Draxler (LMU München, Germany) Nicola Ferro (University of Padua, Italy) Riccardo del
Grata (ILC, Italy) Iryna Gurevych (Technische
Universität Darmstadt, Germany) Yoshihiko Hayashi (Osaka University,
Japan) Nicolas Hernandez (Université de Nantes,
France) Radu Ion (Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Romanian Academy, Romania) Yoshinobu Kano (University of Tokyo,
Japan) Yohei Murakami (NICT, Japan) Jan Odijk (University of Utrecht, the Netherlands) Patrick Paroubek (LIMSI, France) Kay Peterson (NIST, U.S.A.) Maciej Piasecki (Instytut Informatyki
Stosowanej, Poland) Mark Przybocki (NIST, U.S.A.) Matej Rojc (University of Maribor, Slovenia) Felix Sasaki (W3C / FH Potsdam, Germany) Junichi Tsujii (University of Tokyo,
Japan) Dan Tufis (RACAI, Romania) Karin Verspoor (University of
Colorado, U.S.A.) Graham Wilcock (University of
Helsinki, Finland)
Important dates Extended deadline for submission: Friday 26 February 2010 Notification of acceptance: Thursday 18 March 2010 Final version due: Thursday 25 March 2010 Workshop : 17-18 May 2010 Submission Format Full papers up to 8 pages should be formatted according to LREC 2010 guidelines and be submitted through the online submission form (https://www.softconf.com/lrec2010/WebServices2010/) on START. For further queries, please contact Olivier Hamon at hamon_at_elda_dot_org. When submitting
a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential
information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies,
standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work
described in
the paper or are a new result of your research. For further information
on this
new initiative, please refer to http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2010/?LREC2010-Map-of-Language-Resources. |
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