Corpora: LREC workshop call
Svetlana Sheremetyeva (lana@crl.nmsu.edu)
Mon, 12 Jan 1998 12:14:49 -0700 (MST)
> Call for Participation
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> A Workshop on Minimizing the Effort
> for Language Resource Acquisition
> Granada, Spain, 26 May, 1998
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> in conjunction with
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> The First International Conference
> on Language Resources and Evaluation
>
> Granada, Spain, 28-30, May 1998
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> An applied NLP system must produce adequate results and must be made deployable
> within reasonable time. Gathering and acquiring language resources to build an
> application system is very time-consuming, and it is imperative to find ways of
> speeding up acquisition of high quality, useful static knowledge sources such
> as a variety of grammars, lexicons, corpora, etc. Viability of avoiding massive
> resource acquisition, if possible, must also be carefully considered.
>
> Resource acquisition should include methods, based both on sound theoretical
> principles and practical experience, of deciding, among other things, on the
> amount of knowledge one *really* needs for a given application. Increasing the
> size of knowledge sources or their number and variety does not necessarily lead
> to a commensurate improvement of output quality in an application, though a
> correlation between the two certainly exists, but it definitely needs to much
> increased costs.
>
> No matter how large the acquired resources are and how many of them have been
> acquired, there will always remain a residue of language processing problems
> which can be tackled only by foregoing the requirement of full automation
> and involving expensive semi-automatic or even manual acquisition. It becomes
> imperative, therefore, to assess when the static knowledge source acquisition
> is NO LONGER PROFITABLE. Thus, in a system for interactive authoring and
> automatic generation of patent claim texts, the lexical knowledge base can be
> restricted to a lexicon of domain-related verbs marked for subcategorization
> (as the nominals are provided interactively by the author).
>
> The proposed workshop will be devoted to ANY TECHNOLOGICAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE
> FACET OF ECONOMY OF ACQUISITION EFFORT.
>
> The technological issues to be discussed at the conference include, BUT ARE NOT
> LIMITED TO:
>
> - minimization of effort in acquiring monolingual and multilingual text corpora;
> - minimization of effort in acquiring computational lexicons, including
> phonological, morphological, syntactic, semantic and other (including
> application-specific) information;
> - minimization of effort in acquisition of resources for the support of
> corpus-based language engineering methods;
> - minimization of effort in acquiring grammatical coverage of languages and
> sublanguages ;
> - methods of determining levels of reusability of existing language resources;
> - balancing the needs of the application and the grain size of language
> description;
> - minimization of effort through balancing automatic and interactive methods of
> knowledge acquisition;
> - evaluation of potential utility of resources to applications;
>
> We particularly encourage reports about actual practical large-scale
> resource acquisition efforts in which economy of effort has been a conscious
> choice.
>
> Organizing Committee:
>
> Svetlana Sheremetyeva, NMSU CRL, USA (Chair)
> Eduard Hovy, USC ISI, USA
> Bernardo Magnini, IRST, Italy
> Sergei Nirenburg, NMSU CRL, USA
> Victor Raskin, Purdue University, USA
> Frederique Segonde, Xerox Research Centre Europe, France
> Leo Wanner, University of Stuttgart, Germany
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> SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
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> Papers should not exceed 4000 words or 10 pages. Presentations will be
> selected on the basis of a review of papers and project reports.
>
> SUBMISSION MODE
>
> Each submission should include a title page containing the title, author(s),
> affiliation(s), submitting author's mailing address, telephone number, fax
> number and e-mail address.
>
> The authors may submit three hard copies OR submit ELECTRONICALLY in
> postscript form to:
>
> Svetlana Sheremetyeva
> Computing Research Laboratory
> New Mexico State University, USA
> Box30001/Dept.3CRL/Las Cruces
> New Mexico 88003-8001
> lana@crl.nmsu.edu
>
> Receipt of submissions will be acknowledged.
>
> IMPORTANT DATES
>
> Thursday, February 19, 1998 Submissions due
> Monday, March, 16 1998 Acceptances and rejections sent to authors
> Friday, April 10 1998 Final papers due
> Tuesday, May 26, 1998 Workshop date
>
> Registration for the workshop will be:
>
> 10,000 pesetas for those not attending LREC
> 5,000 pesetas for those attending LREC
>
> These fees will include a coffee break and the proceedings of the workshop.
>
> Participation in the workshop will be limited by the venue. Requests for
> participation will be processed on the first come first served basis.
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