THE THIRD WORKSHOP ON ASIAN LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND INTERNATIONAL STANDARDIZATION
Center of Academia Activities, Academia Sinica
Taipei, Taiwan
August 31, 2002
COLING 2002 Post-Conference Workshop
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DESCRIPTION
Language resources play an important role in recent corpus-based natural language processing research. A lot of effort has been focused on compiling various kinds of language resources, particularly in the US and European countries. In addition, standards represent a necessary step to consolidate technological achievements in this sector, to enhance and foster the exchange of know-how between research and industry, and to define infrastructures for the re-use and sharing of existing language resources through the specification of common formats and frameworks. Since 1993 the Commission of the European Union has been actively supporting the standardization process in human language technology, in particular by sponsoring the EAGLES initiative. This activity has extended to the framework of the EU-US International Research Co-operation, supported by NSF and the European Union (http://lingue.ilc.pi.cnr.it/EAGLES96/isle/ISLE_Home_Page.htm).
Compared to English and many European languages the availability and accessibility of Asian language resources is still limited. Moreover, there is more diversity of Asian languages from viewpoints of character sets and grammatical properties. Because of these peculiarities, Asian languages do not always fit with the existing linguistic resource standardization frameworks.
We have held two workshops on the same topic, the first was in January of 2001 at Tokyo on invited basis and the second was in conjunction with the 6th Natural Language Processing Pacific Rim Symposium (NLPRS 2001) in November of 2001 at Tokyo (http://tokunaga-www.cs.titech.ac.jp/~take/LRA/index.html). In this third workshop, we would like to put emphasis on standardization of Asian language resources, and to provide a chance to discuss research results and the possibilities of international collaboration on the development of Asian language resources in the future. The workshop also aims to introduce the status of Asian language resources to researchers in other regions.
We invite papers on all topics related to language resources, in particular Asian language resources and their development including, but not limited to:
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Text corpora |
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Machine-readable dictionaries |
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Lexicons |
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Grammars |
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Exchange and annotation schemata |
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Infrastructure for constructing and sharing language resources |
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Exchange formats |
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Best practices for creating and disseminating language resources |
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Metadata for resource classification and discovery |
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Strategies and priorities for EU-US and Asian cooperation |
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Standards for language resources (lexicons, corpora, ontologies, etc.) |
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Lexical standards and multilinguality |
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Standards for content management |
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Standards and applications |
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Standards and evaluation |
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Nicoletta Calzolari (co-chair) - Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale CNR, Pisa (Italy) |
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Key-Sun Choi (co-chair) - Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Korea) |
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Asanee Kawtrakul (co-chair) - Kasetsart University (Thailand) |
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Alessandro Lenci (co-chair) - Dipartimento di Linguistica - Universita di Pisa (Italy) |
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Tokunaga Takenobu (co-chair) - Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan) |
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Steven Bird - University of Pennsylvania (US) |
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Nuria Bel - GILCUB (Spain) |
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Ehara Terumasa - NHK (Japan) |
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Christiane Fellbaum - Princeton University (USA) |
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Ralph Grishman - New York University (USA) |
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Chu-Ren Huang - Academia Sinica (Taiwan) |
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Hammam Riza - BPPT (Indonesia) |
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Kurohashi Sadao - University of Tokyo (Japan) |
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Martha Palmer - University of Pennsylvania (USA) |
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Hae-Chang Rim - Korea University (Korea) |
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Rajeev Sangal - Indian Institute of Information Technology (India) |
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Shirai Kiyoaki - Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Tecchnology (Japan) |
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Virach Sornlertlamvanich - NECTEC (Thailand) |
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Gregor Thurmair - SAIL Labs (Munich) |
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Benjamin Tsou - City University of HongKong (China) |
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Antonnio Zampolli - Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale ? CNR (Italy) |
SCHEDULE
Paper submission due: April 30, 2002
Notification of acceptance: June 7, 2002
Deadline for camera-ready papers: June 29, 2002
Workshop date: August 31, 2002
VENUE
Center of Academia Activities, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
WORKSHOP WEBPAGE:
http://tokunaga-www.cs.titech.ac.jp/~take/alris/index.html
SUBMISSION FORMAT AND INSTRUCTIONS
A paper no more than 8 pages long should be sent via E-mail in the PDF format
with all non-ASCII fonts embedded, no later than April 30, 2002 to Alessandro
Lenci (alessandro.lenci@ilc.cnr.it).
After acceptance notification, the authors are requested to make a camera-ready
no more than 8 pages long, and in the format prescribed by COLING 2002. Please
see http://www.coling2002.sinica.edu.tw/
to get style sheet. The
camera-ready should be sent electronically in the PDF format with all non-ASCII fonts embedded, no later than June 29, 2002 to Tokunaga Takenobu ( take@cl.cs.titech.ac.jp).