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CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on Language Resources: From Storyboard to
Sustainability and LR Lifecycle Management To be held in conjunction with
the 7th International Language
Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2010) 23 May 2010, Mediterranean Conference Centre,
Valletta, Malta http://workshops.elda.org/lrslm2010/ Extended
deadline for submission: 1 March 2010 Description The life of a language resource (LR),
from its mere conception and drafting to its adult phases of active
exploitation
by the HLT community, varies considerably. Ensuring that language
resources be a
part of a sustainable and endurable living process represents a
multi-faceted
challenge that certainly calls for well-planned anti-neglecting actions
to be
put into action by the different actors participating in the process.
Clearing
all IPR issues, exploiting best practices at specification and
production time are
just a few samples of such actions. Sustainability and lifecycle
management issues
are thus concepts that should be addressed before endeavouring into any
serious
LR production. When thinking of long-term LRs a
number of aspects come to our minds which do not always succeed to be
taken
into account before development. Some of these aspects are usability,
accessibility,
interoperability and scalability, which inevitably call for
a long
list of neglected points that would need to be taken into account at a
very
early stage of development. Looking further into the portability
and scalability
of a language resource, a number of dimensions should be taken into
account to
ensure that a language resource reaches its adult life in an active and
productive way. An aspect that is often neglected is
the accessibility and thus secured reusability of a
language
resource. Institutions such as ELRA (European Language resources
Association) and
LDC (Linguistic Data Consortium), at a European and American level,
respectively, as well as BAS (Bavarian Archive for Speech Signals) and
TST-Centrale (Flemish-Dutch Human Language Technology Agency), at a
language-specific level, have worked on these aspects for a large
number of
years. Through their different activities, they have successfully
implemented a
sharing policy which allows different users to gain access to already
existing
resources. Other
emerging programmes such as CLARIN
(Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure) are also
looking into
these aspects. Nevertheless,
many resources still follow development without a long-term
accessibility plan
into place which makes impossible to gain access once the resource is
finished.
This accessibility plan should consider issues such as ownership
rights, licensing,
types of use, aiming for a wide community from the very beginning. This
accessibility plan calls for an optimal co-operation between all actors
(LR
users, financing bodies, owners, developers and organisations) so that
issues
related to the life of a LR are well established, roles and actors are
clearly
identified within the cycle and best practices are defined towards the
management of the entire LR lifecycle. We are aware, though, that these
above-presented ideas are but a take-off for discussion. It is at this
point
that we would like to invite the community to participate in this
workshop and
share with us their views on these and other relevant issues of
concern. A
fruitful discussion could lead us to finding new mechanisms to support
perpetuating language resources, and may lead us towards a
sustainability model
that guarantees an appropriate and well-defined LR storyboard and
lifecycle
management plan in the future. Among the many issues and topics that
may be presented and discussed during this workshop, we would like to
already suggest
the following: -
Which fields require LRs and which are their respective
needs? -
What needs to be part of a LR storyboard? What points are
we missing in
its design? -
General specifications vs. detailed specifications and
design -
Annotation frameworks and layers: interoperable at all? -
Should creation and provision of LRs be included in
higher education
curriculae? -
How to plan for scalable resources? -
Language Resource maintenance and improvement: feasible? -
Sharing language resources: how to bear this in mind and
implement it?
Logistics of the sharing: online vs. offline -
Centralised vs. decentralised, and national vs.
international management
and maintenance of LRs -
What happens when users create updated or derived LRs? -
Sharing language resources: legal issues concerned -
Sharing language resources: pricing issues concerned,
commercial vs.
non-commercial use -
Do LR actors work in a synchronised manner? -
What should be the roles of the different actors? -
What are the business models and arrangements for IPRs? -
Self-supporting vs. subsidised LR organisations -
Other general problems faced by the community We solicit papers that address these
questions and other related issues relevant to the workshop. Workshop Programme
and Audience Addressed This full-day workshop aims to
address all those involved with language resources at some point of
their
research/work (LR users, producers, ...) and all those with an interest
in the
different aspects involved, whether universities, companies or funding
agencies
of some nature. It aims to be a meeting and discussion point for the so
many
bottlenecks surrounding the life of a resource and which remain to be
addressed
with a sustainability plan. The workshop features two invited
talks, opening the morning and afternoon sessions, submitted papers,
and will
conclude with a round table to brainstorm on the issues raised during
the
presentations and the individual discussions. This round table will be
run by a
number of experts already experienced in some of the highlighted
problems and
in open discussion with the workshop participants. In short, this
workshop will
result in a plan of action towards a sustainability and lifecycle
management plan
to implement. Invited Speakers To be announced on the workshop web
site. Organising
Committee Victoria Arranz (ELDA - Evaluations and Language resources Distribution Agency / ELRA - European Language resources Association, France) Khalid Choukri ( Christopher Cieri (LDC - Linguistic Data
Consortium, USA) Laura van Eerten
(Flemish-Dutch HLT Agency, Instituut voor Nederlandse Lexicologie, The
Netherlands) Stelios Piperidis (ILSP – Institute
for Language and Speech Processing / ELRA - European Language resources
Association, Remco van Veenendaal (Flemish-Dutch HLT Agency, Instituut
voor Nederlandse
Lexicologie, The Netherlands) Programme
Committee Núria Bel
(Institut Universitari de Lingüística Aplicada, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain) Nicoletta
Calzolari (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR (ILC-CNR) –
Italy) Jean
Carletta (Human Communication Research Centre, Catia Cucchiarini
(Nederlandse Taalunie, The Netherlands) Christoph
Draxler (Bavarian Archive for Speech Signals, Nancy Ide
(Department of Computer Science, Steven
Krauwer (UiL OTS, Asunción Moreno
(Universitat
Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain) Dirk Roorda
(Data Archiving and Networked Services, The Ineke
Schuurman (Centre for Computational Linguistics, Claudia Soria
(Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR (ILC-CNR) – Italy) Stephanie
M. Strassel (Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC), Andreas Witt (IDS
Mannheim, Germany) Peter
Wittenburg (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Important dates Deadline
for abstracts: Monday 1 March 2010 Notification
to Authors: Friday 19 March 2010 Submission
of Final Version: Wednesday 31 March 2010 Workshop: Sunday
23 May 2010 Submission Abstracts should be no longer than 1500
words and should be submitted in PDF format through the online
submission form
on START (https://www.softconf.com/lrec2010/Sustainability2010/).
For further queries, please contact Victoria Arranz at [email protected] or Laura van Eerten
at [email protected]. When submitting a paper through the
START page, authors will be kindly asked to provide relevant
information about the
resources that have been used for the work described in their paper or
that are
the outcome of their 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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