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Phoenix Seagaia Resort
\nMiyazaki, Japan<\/p>\n
MAIN CONFERENCE: 9-10-11 MAY 2018
\nWORKSHOPS and TUTORIALS: 7-8 & 12 MAY 2018<\/p>\n
FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
\nThe European Language Resource Association (ELRA) is glad to announce the 11th edition of LREC, organised with the support of international organisations \u2013 many from Asia: the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (AFNLP), Oriental COCOSDA, the Association of Natural Language Processing – Japan, the Chinese Information Processing Society of China, the Linguistic Data Consortium, …<\/p>\n
CONFERENCE AIMS<\/p>\n
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, communicate on-going and planned activities, identify industrial uses and needs, and address requirements from e-science and e-society, with respect to scientific, technology, policy and organisational issues.<\/p>\n
For this edition, LREC goes East in order to support a stronger interaction and synergy with the Asian NLP community and to help promoting Asian Language Resources and Language Technologies.<\/p>\n
LREC provides a unique forum for researchers, industrials and funding agencies from a wide spectrum of related disciplines to discuss issues 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.<\/p>\n
CONFERENCE TOPICS<\/p>\n
Issues in the design, construction and use of LRs: text, speech, sign, gesture, image, in single or multimodal\/multimedia data<\/p>\n
Guidelines, standards, best practices and models for LRs interoperability
\nMethodologies and tools for LRs construction and annotation
\nMethodologies and tools for extraction and acquisition of knowledge
\nOntologies, terminology and knowledge representation
\nLRs and Semantic Web
\nLRs and Crowdsourcing
\nMetadata for LRs and semantic\/content mark-up
\nExploitation of LRs in systems and applications
\nSign language, multimedia information and multimodal communication
\nLRs 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, sentiment analysis\/opinion mining, etc.
\nInterfaces: (speech-based) dialogue systems, natural language and multimodal\/multisensory interactions, voice-activated services, etc.
\nUse of (multilingual) LRs in various fields of application like e-government, e-participation, e-culture, e-health, mobile applications, digital humanities, social sciences, etc.
\nIndustrial LRs requirements
\nUser needs, LT for accessibility
\nIssues in LT evaluation
\nLT evaluation methodologies, protocols and measures
\nValidation and quality assurance of LRs
\nBenchmarking of systems and products
\nUsability evaluation of HLT-based user interfaces and dialogue systems
\nUser satisfaction evaluation
\nGeneral issues regarding LRs & Evaluation
\nInternational and national activities, projects and initiatives
\nPriorities, perspectives, strategies in national and international policies for LRs
\nMultilingual issues, language coverage and diversity, less-resourced languages
\nOpen, linked and shared data and tools, open and collaborative architectures
\nReplicability and reproducibility issues
\nOrganisational, economical, ethical and legal issues<\/p>\n