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LREC 2018, 11th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation -
Phoenix Seagaia Resort, Miyazaki, Japan
7-12 May 2018
Main Conference: 9-10-11 May 2018
Workshops and Tutorials: 7-8 & 12 May 2018
Conference web site: http://lrec2018.lrec-conf.org/en/
Twitter: @LREC2018
*SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS*
The European Language Resource Association (ELRA) is glad to announce
the 11th edition of LREC, organised with the support of international
organisations – many from Asia: the Asian Federation of Natural Language
Processing (AFNLP), Oriental COCOSDA, the Association of Natural
Language Processing - Japan, the Chinese Information Processing Society
of China, the Linguistic Data Consortium, the Artificial Intelligence
Association of Thailand, the Korean Society for Language and
Information, the Korean Special Interest Group of Human and Cognitive
Language Technology, ...
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, communicate on-going and planned activities, identify
industrial uses and needs, and address requirements from e-science and
e-society, with respect to scientific, technology, policy and
organisational issues.
For this edition, which celebrates its 20th anniversary, LREC goes East
in order to support a stronger interaction and synergy with the Asian
NLP community and to help promoting Asian Language Resources and
Language Technologies.
LREC provides a unique forum for researchers, industrials and funding
agencies from a wide spectrum of related disciplines 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 (LTs) and development of
corresponding products,
services and applications, and standards.
CONFERENCE TOPICS
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
* 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, web services, 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
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 2018 HOT TOPICS
Asian Language Resources
Special attention will be devoted to highlight the wide variety of
initiatives for the creation, use and evaluation of Asian Language
Resources and Technologies. Special attention will be paid to
Less-Resourced Languages in the Asian area, including (local) Sign
Languages.
International Contribution to Olympics 2020
LREC 2018 would like to promote all LTs that would support better
interactions and communications between the Olympics 2020 visitors and
the local hosts. This involves all speech- and text-based computer
interactions, speech/sign to speech/sign translations, human-human
communications mediated by computers, etc. Assessment of the above
mentioned technologies is also an important area within LREC 2018.
Language Resources in the Online World
In a time in which more and more (language) data are generated, either
by human beings or by machines, and directly streamed, the question
arises how LRs and LTs can cope with this development. A first challenge
is to address and to provide for correctives to hate speeches,
cyberbullying, fake news, etc. Can LT provide means to process and
respond in a timely manner to such language data streamed in a huge
amount at high speed? In this context, language technologists have to
intensify cooperation with humanities, especially social and political
sciences, psychology but also economics, and more.
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.
*SUBMISSIONS AND DATES*
General submission page: http://lrec2018.lrec-conf.org/en/submission/
Submission of extended abstracts for oral and poster (or poster+demo)
papers: 25 September 2017
LREC 2018 asks for a 3 to 4 pages (references excluded) extended
abstract which must strictly follow the LREC stylesheet. Extended
abstracts must be submitted through START @
https://www.softconf.com/lrec2018/main/ and will be peer-reviewed.
Submissions are NOT anonymous.
Submission of proposals for panels, workshops and tutorials: 25
September 2017
Workshop and Tutorial Proposals must be submitted online @
http://lrec2018.lrec-conf.org/en/submission/ and will be reviewed by the
Programme Committee.
PROCEEDINGS
The Proceedings will include both oral and poster papers, in the same
format. Final papers will range from 4 to 8 pages, with no difference in
quality between shorter and longer submissions.
There is also 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. The importance of LREC in Natural Language Processing is
reflected by the H5-Index citation ranking in Google Scholar: LREC is
ranked 3rd among Computational Linguistics conferences. In addition,
since 2010, LREC Proceedings are included in the Thomson Reuters
Conference Proceedings Citation Index.
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Nicoletta Calzolari – CNR, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale
“Antonio Zampolli”, Pisa - Italy (Conference chair)
Khalid Choukri – ELRA, Paris - France
Christopher Cieri – Linguistic Data Consortium, Philadelphia - USA
Thierry Declerck – DFKI GmbH, Saarbrücken - Germany
Koiti Hasida – The University of Tokyo, Tokyo - Japan
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
Takenobu Tokunaga – Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo – Japan
CONFERENCE EDITORIAL COMMITTEE
Sara Goggi, CNR, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale “Antonio
Zampolli”, Pisa, Italy
Hélène Mazo, ELDA/ELRA, Paris, France
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