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ICGL 2008 : The First International Conference on Global Interoperability for Language Resources | |||||||||||||
Link: http://icgl.ctl.cityu.edu.hk/ | |||||||||||||
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Call For Papers | |||||||||||||
Mission
Language resources, including not only corpora but also lexicons, knowledge bases and ontologies, grammars, etc. support the development of language processing applications that are increasingly important to the global society. Substantial effort has been devoted to the creation of such resources for the world's major languages over the past decades, and new projects are developing similar resources for less widely-used languages. Some standards and best practices have emerged for representing and linking language corpora and annotations, efforts such as "Global WordNet" and the development of framenets in multiple languages seek to create and link specific lexical and semantic resources across languages, and there are efforts to integrate such resources into general ontologies such as SUMO. As the need for cross-lingual studies and applications grows, it is increasingly important to develop resources in the world's languages that can be compared and linked, used and analyzed with common software, and that contain linguistic information for the same or comparable phenomena. We envision the eventual development of a 'global web' of language resources, wherein, for example, linguistically-annotated corpora in multiple languages are inter-linked via the use of common categories, or categories that are mapped to one another; resources such as wordnets and framenets are linked not only to versions in different languages, but also to each other; and common representations enable analysis and use of resources in different languages and of different types within available systems. Paper submissions are invited on (but not limited to) the following topics: 1. multi-lingual and/or multi-modal language resources, with focus on the mechanisms enabling interoperability; 2. support for multi-linguality and multi-modality in systems/frameworks for resource creation, annotation, use, and access; 3. existing and proposed standards for language resources, including standards for linguistic annotations at any and all linguistics levels; 4. systems, frameworks, and architectures to support the development and exploitation of interoperable language resources; 5. evaluation of existing resources, systems, and/or standards in terms of support for interoperability; 6. harmonization, integration, and/or linking of language resources, including corpora, wordnets, framenets, ontologies, etc.; 7. web-based technologies for resource interoperability, inter-linkage, and access; 8. ontologies for language resources, especially for support of multi-linguality, multi-culturality, and multi-modality. Programme Committee Eric Atwell, Leeds University, UK Harry Bunt, the University of Tilburg, the Netherlands Bran Bogureav, IBM, USA Nicoletta Calzolari, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy Key-Sun Choi, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea Khalid Choukri, Evaluations and Language Resources Distribution Agency, France Chris Cieri, Linguistic Data Consortium, USA Arienne Dwyer, University of Kansas, USA Alex Chengyu Fang, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR Christiane Fellbaum, Princeton University, USA Charles Fillmore, International Computer Science Institute, UC Berkeley, USA Sadaoki Furui, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Eva Hajicova, Charles University, Czech Republic Erhard Hinrichs, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany Mark Huckvale, University College London, UK Nancy Ide, Vassar College, USA Hitoshi Isahara, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan Toru Ishida, Kyoto University, Japan Kiyong Lee, Korea University, South Korea Duo Li, Peking University, China Inderjeet Mani, Georgetown University, USA Srini Narayanan, International Computer Science Institute, UC Berkeley, USA Adam Pease, Articulate Software, USA Sameer Pradhan, BBN Technologies, USA James Pustejovsky, Brandeis University, USA Laurent Romary, Max-Planck Digital Library, Germany Vasile Rus, the University of Memphis, USA Pavel Smrz, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic Maosong Sun, Tsinghua University, China Takenobu Tokunaga, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Piek Vossen, Vrije University, the Netherlands Jonathan Webster, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR Peter Wittenburg, Max-Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, the Netherlands Yihua Zhang, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China All submissions to the conference must be made before midnight, 31 August 2007. Submissions should be no longer than 8 pages in length and should conform to the ACL 2007 guidelines at http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/acl2007/styles/ All submissions must be in PDF format. Reviewing is blind and we therefore ask that you do not include information in the body of the paper that might reveal the identity of the authors. References to past work of the authors can be cited as "XXXX, 2007". A separate page, including the title of the paper, author names, affiliations, and email, together with an abstract of no more than 300 words should be submitted separately, also in PDF format. Submissions are handled electronically through the START conference management system. To submit your paper, go to: http://icgl08.cs.vassar.edu/start/www/ICGL08/submit.html |
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