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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Language Resources and Evaluation (LRE) Journal (Ed. Springer)
Special Issue on Language Technology Platforms
Deadline for Submissions: 31 August 2021
Guest Editors
Georg Rehm (DFKI – main contact)
Stelios Piperidis (ILSP)
Kalina Bontcheva (USFD)
Khalid Choukri (ELDA)
Jan Hajic (CUNI)
Website of the call:https://www.european-language-grid.eu/lre-si-ltp/
<https://www.european-language-grid.eu/lre-si-ltp/>
Introduction and Context
Submissions are invited for papers to a special issue of the journal
“Language Resources and Evaluation” on Language Technology platforms.
With the increasing number of platforms, grids and infrastructures in
the wider area of Language Technologies (LT), NLP, NLU, speech
(including conversational agents and personal assistants), interaction
and language-centric AI, there is a growing need for sharing
experiences, approaches and best practices eventually to learn and
benefit from the work of others and also, practically, to start a
collaboration towards LT platform interoperability.
This LRE Journal Special Issue aims to address all smaller and larger
language grids, language-related infrastructures and platforms
(including general and domain-specific) as well as research projects
that touch upon one or more of the topics mentioned below, both in
Europe and world-wide. With its origin in the 1st International Workshop
on Language Technology Platforms
<https://www.european-language-grid.eu/iwltp-2020/>(IWLTP 2020), the
goal of this LRE Journal Special Issue is to assemble submissions from
representatives of relevant initiatives and interested parties to
present their observations, experiences, solutions, best practices as
well as current and future challenges. The LRE Journal Special Issue
also addresses the aspect of fragmentation in the Language Technology
landscape, especially in Europe. Instead of “platform islands” that
simply co-exist side by side, possibly even competing with each other,
we want to foster the discussion how our platforms can be made
interoperable and how they can interact with one another to create
synergies towards a productive LT platform ecosystem.
The long-term vision of platform interoperability has several
prerequisites including technical requirements that need to be
addressed, for example, through the use of common standards, but also
community-related aspects that need to be addressed and strengthened
through open discussions and further joint development. Both aspects are
covered by this LRE Special Issue.
Topics of Interest
In the list of topics below, the term “Language Technology (LT)”
comprises Natural Language Processing (NLP), Natural Language
Understanding (NLU), all types of speech and conversational
technologies, as well as language-centric AI and also general AI. The
term “platform” includes notions such as, among others, infrastructures,
frameworks, clouds etc.
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LT platforms: architectures and approaches (including commercial and
non-commercial; national and international; domain-specific and
general purpose; all countries, regions and continents)
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LT platform interoperability: standards, APIs, workflows, as well as
the exchange of services, models, data and metadata
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Data and metadata exchange formats and harvesting (including
taxonomies, ontologies and other forms of semantic descriptions of
repository records)
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Operational and legal policies as well as governance structures for
LT platforms (GDPR, data management, licensing, user authentication
and authorisation, billing, business models, ethical considerations)
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Means by which one can address the problem and challenge of
accessing language data and LT software that is not entirely free to
use.
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(Cloud-based) containerisation and virtualisation technologies for
LT platforms
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Training, re-training, (up/down)scaling and adaptation of models;
connecting data sets, tools and machine learning frameworks
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LT platforms and challenges regarding the availability of CPU/GPU
resources, practical issues in load balancing, bandwidth
(re)allocation and regulation, power consumption
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From (general or domain-specific) AI platforms and (general or
domain-specific) LT platforms and back again
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Community-related aspects of LT platforms
We invite contributions on the topics mentioned above or on related
topics of interest. We also invite authors to submit contributions on
the current situation of their platform-related projects or initiatives
(including technical, governance, community, uptake, interoperability,
social and legal aspects). We especially invite all relevant
international or national grid, platform, cloud or infrastructure
projects to submit contributions.
Important Dates
Call for papers issued: March 2021
Submissions due: 31 August 2021
Author notification: January 2022
Final manuscripts submitted: mid 2022
Types of Papers
FULL-LENGTH PAPERS should describe original, substantive research
results involving any aspect of the creation, use, or evaluation of
language resources, or provide a detailed description of a new and
substantial major resource. In the latter case, the submission should
provide a detailed description of the methods used to create and
evaluate the resource and provide a comparison with similar resources,
where appropriate. Full-length submissions are typically 18-25 pages in
length.
SURVEY ARTICLES provide a comprehensive overview of some area or
substantial resource relevant to the LRE readership. Survey articles
should be written with an eye toward providing an entry point for those
who work in the field but not familiar with the particular area or
resource, including context, history, and comprehensive references.
Survey articles follow the same format as full-length papers.
PROJECT NOTES may describe significant interim research or resource
development results, or provide a description of software, standards,
minor resources, or projects that are of interest to the journal's
readership. Project notes are typically 8-10 pages in length, but no
minimum or maximum length is required.
SQUIBS provide a forum for expressing an opinion on topics of interest
to the LRE readership. We are especially interested in articles that
provide a perspective and/or consider solutions or ways forward for
issues of current interest to the field. Squibs are typically 6-8 pages
in length.
Manuscript Submission
Submission of a manuscript implies: that the work described has not been
published before; that it is not under consideration for publication
anywhere else; that its publication has been approved by all co-authors,
if any, as well as by the responsible authorities – tacitly or
explicitly – at the institute where the work has been carried out. The
publisher will not be held legally responsible should there be any
claims for compensation.
Permissions
Authors wishing to include figures, tables, or text passages that have
already been published elsewhere are required to obtain permission from
the copyright owner(s) for both the print and online format and to
include evidence that such permission has been granted when submitting
their papers. Any material received without such evidence will be
assumed to originate from the authors.
Online Submission
Please go to
https://www.springer.com/journal/10579/submission-guidelines
<https://www.springer.com/journal/10579/submission-guidelines>and follow
the hyperlink “Submit manuscript” on the right and upload all of your
manuscript files following the instructions given on the screen (please
use the article type “S.I.: LTP”, for “Special Issue: Language
Technology Platforms”).
Please ensure you provide all relevant editable source files. Failing to
submit these source files might cause unnecessary delays in the review
and production process.
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