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On 2 February 2010 15:30, Mikel L. Forcada <[email protected]> wrote: > Call for Papers > > 7th SaLTMiL Workshop on > "Creation and use of basic lexical resources for less-resourced > languages" > > A half-day workshop at LREC 2010 > Sunday May 23, 2010, morning. > Mediterranean Conference Center, Valetta, Malta > > > SALTMIL: http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/saltmil/ > > LREC 2010: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2010/ > > Call For Papers: http://www.computing.dcu.ie/~mforcada/saltmil2010.html > > Paper submission: https://www.softconf.com/lrec2010/SALTMIL2010/ > > Papers are invited for the above half-day workshop, in the format > outlined below. Most submitted papers will be presented in poster > form, though some authors may be invited to present in lecture format. > > > > > Context and focus > > The 7th International Workshop of the ISCA Special Interest Group on > Speech and Language Technology for Minority Languages (SaLTMiL: see > http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/saltmil), will be held in Malta, on a date > between May 17 and May 23, 2010 to be announced, as part of the 2010 > International Language Resources and Evaluation Conference > (LREC). Entitled "Creation and use of basic lexical resources for > less-resourced languages", the workshop is intended to continue the > series of SALTMIL/LREC workshops on computational language resources > for minority languages, held in Granada (1998), Athens (2000), Las > Palmas de Gran Canaria (2002), Lisbon (2004), Genoa (2006) and > Marrakech (2008). The Malta 2010 workshop aims to share information on > tools and best practice, so that isolated researchers will not need to > start from scratch. An important aspect will be the forming of > personal contacts, which can minimize duplication of effort. There > will be a balance between presentations of existing language > resources, and more general presentations designed to give background > information needed by all researchers. > > The workshop will begin with presentations from invited speakers, > including the following: > > * Xabier Artola. University of the Basque Country. "LEXKIT: a > framework for the creation and use of basic lexical resources for > less-resourced languages" > > * Marc Kemps-Snijders. LAT team at the Max Planck Institute at > Nijmegen. "ELAN and RELISH project" > > Then two of the contributed papers will be presented. > > After the break, talks will be followed by a poster session featuring > the remaining contributed papers. > > > > Topics > > Papers are invited which include (but are not limited to) the > following issues in the area of the creation and use of basic lexical > resources for less-resourced languages: > > * What problems emerge when faced with creating lexical resources for > languages having different linguistic features from the major > languages? > > * When using corpus-based methods to create lexical resources, which > techniques should be promoted in order to get the maximum yield from > sparse training data? > > * What standards will enable researchers to share and create tools and > techniques for lexical resources across several different languages? > > * Which tools are easily re-useable across several unrelated > languages? What are the existing resources for such languages, and > which software tools have been found useful? > > * How can lexical resources be created when a language does not yet > have a widely accepted standard written form, or when it has several > competing standards? > > Organisers > > * Mikel L. Forcada: Machine Translation Group, School of Computing, > Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland > > * Kepa Sarasola: Dept. of Computer Languages, University of the Basque > Country > > * Francis M. Tyers, Departament de Llenguatges i Sistemes Informàtics, > Universitat d'Alacant, Spain > > * Briony Williams: Language Technologies Unit, Bangor University, > Wales, UK > > > > Programme committee > > Briony Williams: Bangor University, Wales, UK > > Mikel L. Forcada: Dublin City University, Ireland > > Kepa Sarasola: University of the Basque Country > > Francis M. Tyers: Universitat d'Alacant, Spain > > Trond Trosterud, Universitetet i Tromsø, Norway > > Núria Bel, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain > > Kevin Scannell, Saint Louis University, USA > > Hrafn Loftsson, University of Reykjavik > > Felipe Sánchez-Martínez, Universitat d'Alacant > > > > Submissions > > We expect short papers of max 6,000 words (up to 6 pages) describing > research addressing one of the above topics, to be submitted as PDF > documents by using the LREC2010 START conference management system > (URL: https://www.softconf.com/lrec2010/SALTMIL2010/). > > Submissions should be anonymized. When submitting a paper, from the > START page you will be asked to provide essential information about > resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, > evaluation kits, etc.) that either have been used for the work > described in the paper or are a new result of your research. The Map > will be disclosed at LREC, where some event(s) will be organised > around this idea. For further information on this new iniative, please > refer to > http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2010/?LREC2010-Map-of-Language-Resources. > All contributions (including invited papers) will be included in the > workshop proceedings (CD). They will also be published on the SALTMIL > website. > > Submissions of papers should follow the same style as the papers for > the main LREC conference (an Author’s Kit made of specific guidelines > and downloadable templates will be published on the conference web > site in due time). Simultaneous submission to the workshop and the > LREC conference is permitted. > > > Important dates > > 28 February 2010 Deadline for submission > > 19 March 2010 Notification > > 31 March 2010 Final version > > 23 May 2010 Workshop > > > Registration > > Registration details will be announced in due course > > > > > Mikel L. Forcada <[email protected]> > Dept. 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