[A12n-Collab] CFP: Multilingual Specialized Language Resources (at LREC 2008)

["Don Osborn" <dzo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

FYI, this item from Linguist List was seen on lgpolicy-list. Specific
references (corpora, termilology) may be of interest to some, and the
context is multilingual. (A couple of past LREC-related events have been
noted on this list or A12n-forum - see links at end.)


Multilingual Specialized Language Resources

Date: 26-May-2008 - 26-May-2008
Location: Marrakech, Morocco
Contact Person: Marie-Claude L'Homme
Meeting Email: mc.lhomme@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Web Site: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/IMG/ws/Multilingual.pdf

Call Deadline: 10-Feb-2008

Meeting Description

Workshop on Multilingual and Comparative Perspectives in Specialized
Language Resources
26 May 2008 (Afternoon session)
To take place within the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC
2008)
Marrakech, Morocco
http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/

Workshop on Multilingual and Comparative Perspectives in Specialized
Language Resources
26 May 2008 (Afternoon session)
To take place within the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC
2008)
Marrakech, Morocco
http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/

Organizers

Béatrice Daille LINA-CNRS, Université de Nantes
Kyo Kageura, Library and Information Science, University of Tokyo
Marie-Claude L'Homme, Observatoire de linguistique Sens-Texte, Université de
Montréal

Background

We are currently witnessing an increasing interest in multilingualism in
many different fields including IR (CLEF: Cross language Evaluation Forum,
annual), summarization (DUC), semantic aspects (SemEval 2007 Task 1:
Evaluating WSD on Cross-Language Information Retrieval), textual corpora,
etc. Although issues related to multilingualism have been debated in
different workshops (as those listed above), they are often considered from
a computational perspective and for specific applications. Seldom have
multilingual resources and the different problems related to their
development and modelling have been considered as such.

Also, the importance of assessing the quality of language resources is
increasingly recognized as far as monolingual resources and tasks are
concerned.

Regarding specialized language resources the usual emphasis put on scale is
gradually shifting towards a concern about quality of corpora and language
resources. Also, as we start emphasizing the need to assess the quality of
multilingual resources, a set of new issues arises, such as quality
criteria, more detailed classification of factors that apply to monolingual
as well as multilingual resources, typologies of specialized corpora,
terminological characteristics that may appear in a language but not in
another. There is an acute need for addressing these issues and to explore
multilingual and comparative approaches in specialized language resources.
These approaches will come from different fields, including - but not
limited to - linguistics, terminology, information science and computational
linguistics.

This workshop aims at bringing together experts from different backgrounds
concerned by the acquisition and modelling of multilingual specialized
information. The workshop will provide an opportunity to share experience on
multilingual and comparative approaches to the processing of specialized
information. It will also be a forum for discussing issues of a more
fundamental nature.

Topics

* Equivalence in specialized resources and specialized corpora;
* Multilingual and comparative approaches to the processing of specialized
corpora;
* Corpus-based approaches to multilingual modelling of terminological data;
* Multilingual resources for terminology processing;
* Linguistic evidence for multilingual NLP such as identification of
cognates, transliteration, morphological evidence, etc.
* Comparative approaches to terminological variation and semantic
relationships;
* Comparative approaches to discourse analysis;
* Comparative and multilingual approaches to document characterization;
* Modelling of multilingual data in ontologies or other terminological
resources;
* Evaluation of multilingual resources and methods for acquiring them.

Submissions

Abstracts should be 5 pages long and sent in PDF format to Marie-Claude
L'Homme (mc.lhomme@xxxxxxxxxxxx). Authors are requested to send an
anonymized version of their abstract. Accepted papers will be published in
the workshop proceedings and should adhere to the stylesheet that will be
adopted for the LREC Proceedings (to be announced later on the conference
web site).

Important Dates

Submission of abstracts: 10 February 2008
Notification of acceptance: 10 March 2008
Final version for the proceedings: 12 April 2008

Scientific Committee

Marc van Campenhoudt (Université de Bruxelles, Belgium)
John Humbley (Université Paris-Diderot, Paris)
Oliver Kraif (Université Stendhal Grenoble 3, Grenoble, France)
Olivia Kwong (City University of Hong Kong, China)
Kyung Soon Lee (Chonbuk National University, Korea)
Jorge Antonio Leoni de Leon (University of Geneva)
Jeanine Lilleng (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)
Emmanuel Morin (LINA; Université de Nantes, France)
Margaret Rogers (University of Surrey, UK)
Gilles Serasset (University of Grenoble, France)
Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds, UK)
Monique Slodzian (ERTIM-INALCO, Paris)
Rita Temmerman (Erasmushogeschool Brussel)
Takehiro Utsuro (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
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Leo Wanner (Pompeu Fabra University, Spain)
Pierre Zweigenbaum (LIMSI-CNRS, Paris)

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FYI, previous LREC notices on A12n lists (both re events connected with LREC
2006: Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation,
Genoa, Italy, 24-26 May 2006):

"Strategies for developing machine translation for minority languages" Sat,
11 Feb 2006 
http://lists.kabissa.org/lists/archives/public/a12n-collaboration/msg00887.h
tml

"3rd Int'l Wkshp on Lang. Resources for Translation Work, Research &
Training" Mon, 13 Feb 2006
http://lists.kabissa.org/lists/archives/public/a12n-forum/msg00446.html