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****We apologize if you receive multiple copies**** ****PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY**** ****CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS**** FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION GRANADA, SPAIN, 28-30 MAY 1998 Hosted by THE UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA Departamento de Traducción e Interpretación Departamento de Electrónica y Tecnología de Computadores With the support of DG-XIII of the European Commission and Fundación Banco Central-Hispano (Spain) The First International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation has been initiated by ELRA and is organized in cooperation with other Associations and Consortia, including ACL, ALLC, COCOSDA, EAFT, EAGLES, EDR, ELSNET, ESCA, EURALEX, FRANCIL, LDC, PAROLE, TELRI, etc., and with major national and international organizations, including the European Commission - DG XIII, ARPA, NSF, the IC/863 Project (China), the ICSP Permanent Committee (Korea) and the Japanese Project for International Coordination in Corpora, Assessment and Labeling. Cooperation and support from other institutions are currently being sought. CONFERENCE AIMS In the framework of the Information Society, the pervasive character of language technologies and their relevance to practically all the fields of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) has been widely recognized. Two issues are currently considered particularly relevant: the availability of language resources and the methods for the evaluation of resources, technologies and products. Substantial mutual benefits can be expected from addressing these issues through international cooperation. The term language resources (LR) refers to sets of language data and descriptions in machine readable form, used specifically for building and evaluating natural language and speech algorithms or systems, for the software localization industries and language services, for language enabled information and communication services, for electronic commerce, electronic publishing, language studies, subject-area specialists and end users. Examples of linguistic resources are written and spoken corpora, computational lexicons, grammars, terminology databases, basic software tools for the acquisition, preparation, collection, management, customization and use of these and other resources. The relevance of evaluation in Language Engineering is increasingly recognized. This involves assessment of the state-of-the-art for a given technology, measuring the progress achieved within a program, comparing different approaches to a given problem and choosing the best solution, knowing its advantages and drawbacks, assessment of the availability of technologies for a given application, product benchmarking, and assessment of the user satisfaction. Language engineering and research and development in language technologies has driven important advances in the recent past in various aspects of both written and spoken language processing. Although the evaluation paradigm has been studied and used in large national and international programs, including the US ARPA HLT program, EU Language Engineering projects, the Francophone Aupelf-Uref program and others, particularly in the localization industry (LISA and LRC), it is still subject to substantial unresolved basic research problems. The aim of this Conference is to provide an overview of the state-of-the-art, discuss problems and opportunities, exchange information regarding ongoing and planned activities, language resources and their applications, discuss evaluation methodologies and demonstrate evaluation tools, explore possibilities and promote initiatives for international cooperation in the areas mentioned above. CONFERENCE TOPICS The following non-exhaustive list gives some examples of topics which could be addressed by papers submitted to the Conference: Issues in the design, construction and use of Languages Resources (LR) (theoretical & best practice) Guidelines, standards, specifications, models for LR. Organizational issues in the construction, distribution and use of LR Methods, tools, procedures for the acquisition, creation, management, access, distribution, use of LR Legal aspects and problems in the construction, access and use of LR Availability and use of generic vs. task/domain specific LR Methods for the extraction and acquisition of knowledge (e.g., terms, lexical information, language modeling) from LR Monolingual vs. multilingual LR LR and the needs/opportunities of the emerging multimedia cultural industry Industrial production of LR Integration of various modalities in LR (speech, vision, language) Exploitation of LRs in different types of applications (language technology, information retrieval, vocal interfaces, electronic commerce, etc.) Industrial LR requirements and the community's response Analysis of user needs for LR Mechanisms of LR distribution and marketing Economics of LRs Issues in Human Language Technologies evaluation Evaluation, validation, quality assurance of LR Benchmarking of systems and products; resources for benchmarking and evaluation Evaluation in written language processing (text retrieval, terminology extraction, message understanding, text alignment, machine translation, morphosyntactic tagging, parsing, semantic tagging, text understanding, summarization, localization, etc.) Evaluation in spoken language processing (speech recognition and understanding, voice dictation, oral dialog, speech synthesis, speech coding, speaker and language recognition, etc.) Evaluation of document processing (document recognition, on-line and off-line machine and handwritten character recognition, etc.) Evaluation of (multimedia) document retrieval and search systems Evaluation of multimodal systems Qualitative and perceptive evaluation Evaluation of products and applications Blackbox, glassbox and diagnostic evaluation of systems Situated evaluation of applications Evaluation methodologies, protocols and measures General issues National and international activities and projects LR and the needs/opportunities of the emerging multimedia cultural industry Priorities, perspectives, strategies in the field of LR national and international policies Needs, possibilities, forms, initiatives of/for international cooperation PROGRAM The Scientific Program will include invited talks, presentations of accepted papers, poster sessions, referenced demonstrations, and panels. FORMAT FOR SUBMISSION Submission of summaries for proposed papers and posters should consist of about 800 words. Demonstration of LR and related tools will be reviewed as well. Please send an outline of about 400 words. If a demo is connected to a paper, please attach the outline to the paper summary. A limited number of panels is foreseen. Proposals are welcomed and will be reviewed. Please send a brief description, including an outline of the intended structure (topic, organizer, panel moderator (if different), tentative list of panelists). All the submissions should include a separate title page, providing the following information: the type of proposal (paper, poster, demo, paper plus demo, panel); the title to be printed in the program of the Conference; names and affiliations of the authors or proposers; the full address of the first author (or a contact person), including phone, fax, email, URL; the required facilities (overhead projector, data display; other hardware, platforms, communications); and 5 keywords. ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION Electronic submission should be in ASCII file format. This file should be sent to: lrec@ilc.pi.cnr.it Attn: Antonio Zampolli - LREC SUBMISSION IN HARD COPY You may also submit hard copies. Please send five hard copies to: Antonio Zampolli - LREC Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR via della Faggiola, 32 56126, Pisa, ITALY IMPORTANT DATES Submission of proposals for papers, posters, referenced demos, panels and workshops: 1 December 1997 Notification of acceptance of workshop and panels proposals: 20 December 1997 Notification of acceptance of papers, posters and referenced demos: 15 February 1998 Final version of the paper: 20 April 1998 The accepted papers will be included in the Conference Proceedings. Conference dates: 28-30 May 1998 LANGUAGE RESOURCES, SYSTEMS AND PRODUCTS DEMONSTRATIONS Internet connections and various computer platforms and facilities will be available at the Conference site. In addition to referenced demos concerning LR and related tools, it will be possible to run unreferenced demos of language engineering products, systems and tools . Those interested should contact the organiser of the demonstrations, Antonio Rubio, directly. WORKSHOPS May 27 will be dedicated to Pre-Conference Workshops. How to propose a workshop: Proposals for workshops should be two to three pages in length and should contain: - A brief technical description of the specific technical issues that the workshop will address - The reasons why the workshop is of interest this time. - The names, postal address, phone and fax numbers and email addresses of the Workshop Organising Committee, which should consist of at least three people knowledgeable in the field but not all at the same institution. - The name of one member of the Workshop Organising Committee who is designated as the contact person. - A schedule for organising the workshop and a preliminary agenda. - A summary of the intended workshop Call for Participation. - A list of audio-visual or technical requirements and any special room requirements. The workshop proposers will be responsible for the organizational aspects (e.g. Workshop Call preparation and distribution, review of papers, notification of acceptance, etc.). Further details will be sent to the proposers. CONSORTIA AND PROJECT MEETINGS Consortia or projects wishing to take this opportunity for organizing meetings, should contact the Conference Secretariat for assistance in arranging meeting facilities. VENUE Granada has lived under and been influenced by many cultures: Iberian, Roman and then Jewish and Islamic. It was the last "piece" in the making of modern day Spain, thereby opening the way to the discovery of America and to the embrace of European and American cultures. Granada has remained a cultural center and has lost little of its original splendor providing a perfect environment for humanities and arts. Granada lies at the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountains, in the Autonomous Region of Andalusia. It has a wonderful climate, with over 2795 hours of sunshine (average max. temperature 23 C, min. 8 C). CONFERENCE ADDRESSES The Conference Chair is Antonio Zampolli (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR and President of ELRA). Antonio Zampolli - LREC Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR via della Faggiola, 32 56126 Pisa, ITALY +39 50 560 481 tel. +39 50 555 013 fax pisa@ilc.pi.cnr.it The Secretariat of the Conference, who will provide general information on the Conference, is: LREC Secretariat Facultad de Traducción e Interpretación Dpto. de Traducción e Interpretación C/ Puentezuelas, 55 18002 Granada, SPAIN +34 58 24 41 00 tel. +34 58 24 41 04 fax reli98@goliat.ugr.es The demonstration organizer is Prof. Antonio Rubio: Antonio J. Rubio Ayuso - LREC Grupo de Investigación Procesamiento de Señales y Comunicaciones Dpto. Electrónica y Tecnología de Computadores Universidad de Granada 18071 Granada, SPAIN +34 58 24 31 93 tel. +34 58 24 32 30 fax rubio@hal.ugr.es Information on travel, accommodation and general information on Granada can be obtained from: Carmen CANO El Corte Inglés C/ Arabial, 97, 1 18003 Granada, SPAIN +34 58 28 26 12 tel. +34 58 20 30 90 fax REGISTRATION FEES, PAYMENT, SOCIAL EVENTS The registration fees will be 25.000 pesetas (about 150 ECU) per participant, with reduced fees of 20.000 pesetas (about 120 ECU) for early registration by March 1, 1998, and 12.000 pesetas (about 70 ECU) for students. The fees cover the following services: a copy of the proceedings, welcome reception, social events, coffee breaks and refreshments. Advance registration payment can be made using the Registration Form included at the end of the Announcement. Registration fees can be paid on-site in cash, using pesetas. A social dinner, as well as a visit to Granada and an entertainment show, will be organized. For accompanying persons, the social dinner will be 6.000 pesetas (about 35 ECU). CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE Harald Hoege, Siemens, Munich, Germany Bente Maegaard, CST, Copenhagen, Denmark Joseph Mariani, LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France Angel Martin Municio, President of the Real Academia de Ciencias, Madrid, Spain Antonio Zampolli, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, Pisa, Italy INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE Souguil Ann, Seoul National University, Korea Roberto Cencioni, Commission of the EU, DGXIII, Luxembourg Feng Zhiwei, The State Language Commission of China, Beijing, China Hiroya Fujisaki, Science University of Tokyo, Japan Lynette Hirschman, The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, Massachusetts, USA Bernard Quemada, Conseil Supérieur de la Langue Française (Premiere Ministre), Paris, France Allen Sears, ARPA, Washington, D.C., USA Gary Strong, NSF, Washington, D.C., USA Piet G.J. Van Sterkenburg, International Permanent Committee of Linguists, Leiden, The Netherlands Jialu Zhang, Academia Sinica, Institute of Acoustics, Beijing, China SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Niels Ole Bernsen, Odense University, Denmark Robin Bonthrone, Fry & Bonthrone Partnerschaft, Language Consultancy Services, Mainz-Kastel, Germany Louis Boves, SPEX (Center for Speech Processing Expertise), Leidschendam, The Netherlands Maria Teresa Cabré, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain Nicoletta Calzolari, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, Pisa, Italy Nick Campbell, ATR, Kyoto, Japan George Carayannis, Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Athens, Greece Giuseppe Castagneri, CSELT, Torino, Italy Khalid Choukri, ELRA, Paris, France Ron Cole, OGI, Portland, Oregon, USA Christian Delcourt, BELTEXT-Université de Liège, Belgium Pamela-Blanchard Faber, University of Granada, Spain Christian Fluhr, CEA, Gif-sur-Yvette, France Christian Galinski, Infoterm (International Information Centre for Terminology), Wien, Austria Robert Gaizauskas, University of Sheffield, UK Dafydd Gibbon, Universität Bielefeld, Germany Annelise Grinsted, Handelshøjskole Syd, Kolding, Denmark Ralph Grishman, New York University, New York, USA Eva Hajicova, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic Ulrich Heid, Universität Stuttgart, Germany Eduard Hovy, USC Information Sciences Institute, Marina del Rey, California, USA Nancy Ide, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, USA Shuichi Itahashi, University of Tsukuba, Japan Norbert Kalfon, CL Servicios Lingüísticos S.A., Madrid, Spain Margaret King, ISSCO, Geneva, Switzerland Steven Krauwer, ELSNET Coordinator, Utrecht, The Netherlands Geoffrey Leech, Lancaster University, UK Mark Libermann, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA Joaquim Llisterri, Instituto Cervantes, Madrid, Spain Jock McNaught, UMIST, Manchester, UK J. Bruce Millar, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia Roger Moore, Defense Research Agency, Worchester, UK Sergei Nirenburg, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, USA Ole Norling-Christensen, DSL, Copenhagen, Denmark Brian Oakley, IT World Consultancy, London, UK David S. Pallett, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA Louis Pols, Amsterdam University, The Netherlands Antonio Rubio, University of Granada, Spain Antonio Sanfilippo, SHARP Laboratories of Europe, Oxford, UK Thomas Schneider, Munich, Germany Harold Short, King's College London, UK Herman J.M. Steeneken, TNO Human Factors Research Institute, Soesterberg, The Netherlands Wolfgang Teubert, Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim, Germany Hans G. Tillmann, Institut für Phonetik und Sprachliche Kommunikation der Universität München, Germany Giovanni Varile, Commission of the EU, DGXIII, Luxembourg Victor Zue, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA LOCAL COMMITTEE Lorenzo Morillas Cuevas, Rector of the University of Granada, Spain Angel Martín Municio, President of the Real Academia de Ciencias, Madrid, Spain Rosa Castro Prieto, Dept. of Translation and Interpreting, University of Granada, Spain Antonio J. Rubio, Dept. of Electronics and Computer Technology, University of Granada, Spain Presentación Padilla Benítez, Dept. of Translation and Interpreting, University of Granada, Spain Natividad Gallardo San Salvador, Dept. of Translation and Interpreting, University of Granada, Spain ELRA For more information about ELRA (the European Language Resources Association), please contact: Khalid Choukri, ELRA CEO 87, avenue d’Italie 75013 PARIS, FRANCE Tel: +33 1 45 86 53 00 - Fax: +33 1 45 86 44 88 E-mail: elra@calva.net Web: http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ PARTICIPATION AND REGISTRATION FORMS FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION GRANADA, SPAIN, 28-30 MAY 1998 E-MAIL OR FAX TO: LREC Secretariat Facultad de Traducción e Interpretación Dpto. de Traducción e Interpretación C/ Puentezuelas, 55 18002 GRANADA, SPAIN +34 58 24 41 00 tel. +34 58 24 41 04 fax reli98@goliat.ugr.es Name: ________________________________________________ Affiliation: ________________________________________________ Address: ________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ City: ________________________________________________ State/Province: ________________________________________________ Country: ________________________________________________ Postal/Zip Code: ________________________________________________ Phone: ________________________________________________ Fax: ________________________________________________ E-mail: ________________________________________________ Web: ________________________________________________ I intend to: ______ attend the conference as a ____ full participant ____ student (If you are paying the registration fees now, please complete payment form below) ______ submit a paper Tentative title or topic: ____________________________________________________________ ______ propose a demo Short description: ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ______ propose the organization of a workshop/panel Topic: ____________________________________________________________ Short description: ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ REGISTRATION PAYMENT FORM REGISTRATION FEES Full participant* By March 1, 1998 20.000 pesetas (about 120 ECU) After March 1, 1998 25.000 pesetas (about 150 ECU) sub total: __________ Student* 12.000 pesetas (about 70 ECU) sub total: __________ Social Dinner for accompanying persons 6.000 pesetas (about 35 ECU) sub total: __________ Total: __________ * Registration fees include one copy of the proceedings, welcome reception, social events, coffee breaks and refreshments. METHOD OF PAYMENT You may pay by credit card (VISA, MasterCard or Eurocard only; we cannot accept American Express, Diners Club, etc.). You may also pay by Banker’s Cheque, bank transfer or by Eurocheque. All payments must be in Spanish pesetas. If payment is by Banker’s Cheque, bank transfer or by Eurocheque, please send it by regular mail. If payment is by credit card, it may be faxed. Please DO NOT e-mail credit card numbers, as we cannot guarantee the security of our e-mail system, and because we require signatures. Please indicate (X) one of the following four payment options: ____ I enclose a Banker’s Cheque in Spanish pesetas payable to "First International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation". ____ I have transferred the full fees by bank transfer to your account at: Banco Central Hispano, c/ Recogidas, 13, 18002 Granada. Account Name: First International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Account Number: 0049 - 0372 - 18 - 2210856078. 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MAIL OR FAX TO: LREC Secretariat Facultad de Traducción e Interpretación Dpto. de Traducción e Interpretación C/ Puentezuelas, 55 18002 GRANADA, SPAIN reli98@goliat.ugr.es +34 58 24 41 04 fax +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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