ELRA         and the LREC Programme Committee are very pleased to announce         that the LREC 2012 Proceedings have been accepted for inclusion         in the Conference Proceedings Citation Index of Thomson         Reuters. The CPCI is searchable through the Web           of Science platform         and will provide authors with with unprecedented recognition.                  LREC 2010 proceedings are currently under review, and chances         that they will be accepted are high! Once published, the         proceedings of LREC 2014 will be submitted for inclusion in the         CPCI.

ELRA is glad       to announce the 9th edition of LREC, organised with the support of       a wide range of international organisations.

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, on-going and       planned activities, industrial uses and needs, requirements coming       from e-science and e-society, with respect both to policy issues       and to scientific/technological and organisational ones.

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 of investigations in       language sciences, progress in language technologies (LT) and       development of corresponding products, services and applications,       and standards.

CONFERENCE       TOPICS

Issues         in the design, construction and use of LRs: text, speech,         multimodality       * 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,         etc.       * Interfaces: (speech-based) dialogue systems, natural language       and multimodal/multisensorial interactions, voice-activated       services, etc.       * Use of (multilingual) LRs in various fields of application like       e-government, e-culture, e-health, e-participation, mobile       applications, digital humanities, etc.       * Industrial LRs requirements, user needs       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       collaboration        * 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        * Organisational, economical, ethical and legal issues.

LREC         2014 HOT TOPICS

Big Data, Linked Open Data, LRs and HLT    

The       ever-increasing quantities of large and complex digital datasets,       structured or unstructured, multilingual, multimodal or       multimedia, pose new challenges but at the same time open up new       opportunities for HLT and related fields. Ubiquitous data and       information capturing devices, social media and networks, the web       at large with its big data / knowledge bases and other information       capturing / aggregating / publishing platforms are providing       useful information and/or knowledge for a wide range of LT       applications.         LREC 2014 puts a strong emphasis on the synergies of the big       Linked Open Data and LRs/LT communities and their complementarity       in cracking LT problems and developing useful applications and       services.

LRs in the         Collaborative Age    

The amount of       collaboratively generated and used language data is constantly       increasing and it is therefore time to open a wide discussion on       such LRs at LREC. There is a need to discuss the types of LRs that       can be collaboratively generated and used.        Are lexicons, dictionaries, corpora, ontologies (of language       data), grammars, tagsets, data categories, all possible fields in       which a collaborative approach can be applied? Can collaboratively       generated LRs be standardised/harmonised? And how can quality       control be applied to collaboratively generated LRs? How can a       collaborative approach ensure that less-resourced languages       receive the same digital dignity as mainstream languages?        There is also a need to discuss legal aspects related to       collaboratively generated LRs. And last but not least: are there       different types of collaborative approaches, or is the Wikimedia       style the best approach to collaborative generation and use of       LRs?

LREC 2014 SPECIAL HIGHLIGHT       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 2014 recognises       that the time is ripe to launch another important initiative, the       LREC Repository of shared LRs!       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 META-SHARE 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, 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.

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.

SUBMISSIONS         AND DATES       Submission of proposals for oral and poster (or poster+demo)       papers: 15 October 2013       Abstracts should consist of about 1500-2000 words, will be       submitted through START @           https://www.softconf.com/lrec2014/main/ and will be peer-reviewed.

Submission of       proposals for panels, workshops and tutorials: 15 October 2013       Proposals should be submitted via an online form on the LREC       website (click Submission from the Home page) and       will be reviewed by the Programme Committee.

PROCEEDINGS       The Proceedings will include both oral and poster papers, in the       same format.

There is 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.

In addition a       Book of Abstracts will be printed.

CONFERENCE         PROGRAMME COMMITTEE        Nicoletta Calzolari – CNR, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale       “Antonio Zampolli”, Pisa - Italy (Conference chair)       Khalid Choukri – ELRA, Paris - France       Thierry Declerck – DFKI GmbH, Saarbrücken - Germany       Hrafn Loftsson – School of Computer Science, Reykjavík University       - Iceland       Bente Maegaard – CST, University of Copenhagen - Denmark       Joseph Mariani – LIMSI-CNRS & IMMI, 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    

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