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Call for Paper: Industry Track @ LREC 2020
LREC Industry Track will take place within LREC 2020 in Marseille,
France, May 11-16, 2020
The European Language Resource Association (ELRA, www.elra.info) is glad
to announce the 12th edition of LREC, organized with the support of
international associations and a number of industrial partners and
supporters.
Since the first LREC held in Granada in 1998, LREC has become the major
event on Language Resources (LRs) and Evaluation for Language
Technologies (LT) with over 1200 attendees from all over the world. LREC
provides a unique forum for researchers, industrials and funding
agencies from across a wide spectrum of areas to discuss problems and
opportunities, find new synergies and promote initiatives for
international cooperation, in support to investigations in language
sciences, progress and innovation in language technologies and
development of corresponding products, services and applications, and
standards.
For the second time and as a hot LREC 2020 topic, an industry track will
take place during the main conference (May 13-15, 2020).
*Track Description*
Human language technologies have become increasingly important parts of
our lives. These technologies have emerged from decades of
collaborations between academic and industrial research organizations
often with financial and research support from the public sector;
collaborations are made possible by the unique strengths of both
communities and a set of shared practices (algorithms, evaluation
methods, datasets, and the like). But despite this, there are
substantial differences between research in academic and industrial
settings.
In contrast to academic research: industrial speech and language
technologies may pose unique challenges of scale; language resources
from industry may demand different algorithms or evaluation
methodologies than in academic settings; and the practices of academic
and industrial settings may converge on distinct methods for the same
problem; industrial systems and practices may pose ethical challenges
not necessarily present in academic settings.
*Topics of Interest*
Topics include but not limited to:
1. Industrial systems
For this topic, we welcome submissions which discuss industrial systems.
They may describe technical innovations which are enabled by the
industrial setting, or they may describe the implementation of a
deployed industrial system. We also welcome submissions which discuss
failures to replicate "state-of-the-art" performance when provided with
the affordances of an industrial setting. Finally, we also welcome
opinion papers which discuss similarities and differences between
academic and industrial practices for system development and evaluation,
or which consider ethical issues specific to systems deployed at
industry scale.
2. Tools and platforms for data collection
Data collected in an industry setting may pose specific technical,
legal, and ethical challenges not normally encountered in academic
settings. The infrastructure within which developers in industry operate
can provide tremendous advantages, but also unique challenges. There can
be significant differences in the context of a tool's operator or a data
platform's customer in industry vs. academic applications. Platforms may
be globally distributed, and the scale itself of the data and of the
deployment of industry technologies can add significant complexity,
which may demand innovative approaches. Industry developers may also
face special problems in defining users, their orientation to their
tasks, and what constitutes a successful interaction from the standpoint
of the user and of data acquisition efforts. We welcome submissions
which discuss industrial tools and platforms used to collect data.
3. Human computation in industry
Industrial language technologies depend on machine learning methods,
which in turn require large, diverse collections of labeled data
collected from humans for rapid iterative development and refinement. We
welcome submissions which discuss issues in experimental design for
human computation, the challenges of quality, diversity, and
representation in crowdsourcing, and ethical issues posed by data
collection via crowdsourcing and outsourcing.
4. Less-resourced languages
One goal for this year's LREC is to strengthen connections with the
Mediterranean speech and language communities, in particular for the
less resourced languages. These cover a large number of languages, with
associated varieties (European languages, varieties of Semitic
languages, indigenous languages, spoken-only languages, etc.). Therefore
we welcome submissions which discuss industrial resources and
technologies specific to the challenges posed by such languages.
5. Spoken languages and dialects
We are particularly interested in work which describes industrial
resources and technologies for spoken languages, non-standard dialects,
and therefore we welcome submissions which focus on these topics,
especially those submissions which contrast spoken and written
language—or standard and non-standard
language—resources and technologies.
*Submission*
We encourage submissions of papers for oral or poster presentation.
Papers should follow the LREC stylesheet. The working language of the
track is English. Submitted papers must be written and delivered in
English and be up to 4 pages in length.
Submission page: https://www.softconf.com/lrec2020/IndustryTrack/.
*Identify, Describe and Share your LRs!*
Describing your language resources (LRs) in the LRE Map is now a normal
practice in the submission procedure of LREC (introduced in 2010 and
adopted by other conferences). This LREC feature is available to
submissions within this track and highly recommended. To continue the
efforts initiated at LREC 2014 about “Sharing LRs” (data, tools,
web-services, etc.), authors will have the possibility, when submitting
a paper, to upload LRs in a special LREC repository. This effort of
sharing LRs, linked to the LRE Map for their description, may become a
new “regular” feature for conferences in our field, thus contributing to
creating a common repository where everyone can deposit and share data.
As scientific work requires accurate citations of referenced work so as
to allow the community to understand the whole context and also
replicate the experiments conducted by other researchers, LREC 2020
endorses the need to uniquely Identify LRs through the use of the
International Standard Language Resource Number (ISLRN, www.islrn.org ),
a Persistent Unique Identifier to be assigned to each LR. The assignment
of ISLRNs to LRs cited in LREC papers will be offered at submission time.
*Important Dates/Deadlines*
● Paper submission: 28 February 2020
● Notification of acceptance: 13 March 2020
● Camera-ready paper: 03 April 2020
● Track Date: to be defined (13-15 May 2020)
Organizing Committee
● tbd
Contact: Khalid Choukri at [email protected]
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