| | Collaborative Resource Development and Delivery
Lütfi Kirdar Istanbul Exhibition and Congress Centre
Istanbul, Turkey
May 27, 2012
http://www.anc.org/Collaborative_Resource_Development
A confluence of needs and activities points to a new emphasis in computational linguistics to address lexical, propositional, and discourse semantics through corpora. A few examples are: - the demand for high quality linguistic annotations of corpora representing a wide range of phenomena, especially at the semantic level, to support machine learning and computational linguistics
research in general; - the demand for high quality annotated corpora representing a broad range of genres that are flexible and extensible as need demands; - the demand for high quality lexical and semantic resources to incorporate into the annotation process, and for the annotation process to produce; - the need for easy-to-use, open access to all of these resources for
everyone.
Such resources can be very costly to produce, due to the need for manual creation or validation to ensure quality. Therefore, to answer the growing need and lower the costs of resource creation and enhancement, there is a movement within the community toward collaborative resource development, including collaborative corpus annotation and collective reation/enhancement of lexical resources and knowledge bases. Collaborative development encompasses both engaging the community in annotation and development of common resources, as well as crowd-sourcing and similar solutions.
Technological advances now enable development of web-based environments for collaborative annotation and enhancement of language resources, including annotated corpora, lexicons, and others; and platforms to support web services that deliver data, annotations, and other resources as well as high-quality automated linguistic annotations of language data. At the same time,
crowdsourcing is being explored as a viable means of producing high quality resources. Given the recent advancements in technology plus novel methods to collect manually annotated data, it is important to develop new methods of quality control, hopefully ones that permit rapid acquisition and sharing of resources.
This workshop seeks contributions in all dimensions of collaborative resource development and delivery, with a specific focus on case studies and lessons learned. We invite submissions that address but are not limited to the following topics:
- Web services and platforms for collaborative resource development and distribution;
- Crowd sourcing for resource development, including studies of efficacy;
- Strategies and issues for open resource distribution;
- Evaluation of collaboratively developed resources;
- Position papers outlining issues and proposing solutions for community-based collaborative resource development and/or delivery.
Special session
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The workshop will include a special session devoted to means and considerations for community-based linguistic annotation, with a special emphasis on the
Manually Annotated Sub-Corpus (MASC) (http://www.anc.org/MASC). We invite submissions to this session on the following topics:
- position papers concerning any aspect of collaborative resource development, including means to get the community fully invested in such efforts;
- case studies describing collaborative development efforts, including assessment of what works and what doesn't;
- results obtained using collaboratively developed resources;
- the role of standards and best practices in collaboratively developed resources and contributed annotations.
Special consideration will be given to contributions that have used MASC data in a way that highlights the benefits of community-based annotation.
Submission information
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Submissions may be long papers or short papers, following the formatting guidelines for submissions to the main conference given at
http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012/. All submissions should be made using the START system at https://www.softconf.com/lrec2012/CollaborativeDev2012/.
Important Dates
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Submissions due: February 15, 2012
Acceptance notification to authors: March 15, 2012
Camera ready due: April 1, 2012
Workshop: May 27, 2012
Workshop organizers
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Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA
Collin Baker, ICSI/UC Berkeley, USA
Christiane Fellbaum, Princeton University, USA
Rebecca Passonneau, Columbia University, USA
Contact: collaboration-workshop@anc.org
Program Committee Members (tentative)
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Collin Baker, ICSI/UC Berkeley, USA
Jason Baldridge, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Jordan Boyd-Graber, University of Maryland, USA
Nicoletta Calzolari, ILC/CNR, Italy
Bob Carpenter, Alias I,Inc., USA
Chris Cieri, LDC, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Mona Diab, Columbia University, USA
Bill Dolan, Microsoft Corp., USA
Christiane Fellbaum, Princeton University, USA
Dan Flickinger, Stanford University, USA
Terry Langendoen, University of Arizona, USA
Eric Nyberg, Carnegie-Mellon University, USA
Rebecca Passonneau, Columbia University, USA
Massimo Poesio, University of Trento, Italy
Sameer Pradhan, BBN Technologies, USA
James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University, USA
Owen Rambow, Columbia University, USA
Manfred Stede, Universitat Potsdam, Germany |
