Corpora: DEADLINE EXTENSION/Final CFP: ACL-2001 Workshop on Sharing Tools & Resources for Research & Education

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                           FINAL CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
                       ***DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 22nd APRIL***
                             ACL/EACL2001 Workshop on
               Sharing Tools and Resources for Research and Education

                              Co-organised by ELSNET
                         Toulouse, Saturday 7th July 2001

    BACKGROUND:

       At a workshop at ACL 2000 in Hong Kong dedicated to Infrastructures
       for Global Collaboration there was an agreement between the main
       professional organisations in NLP and Speech (ACL and ISCA), and
       ELSNET, and the other meeting participants, that it would be useful to
       aim at a broadly supported, joint repository or catalogue for tools
       and materials for the language and speech communities.
       
       An ELSNET-sponsored workshop on educational issues held at EACL99
       concluded that certain non-transient infrastructures needed to be
       instigated to raise the public perception of educational issues in
       NLP. It also concluded that a repository of shared materials,
       appropriately indexed for educational usage, would be a useful point
       of departure.
       
       This workshop will build on the consensus reached at these previous
       workshops. There will be two clear foci: one upon instruments for
       sharing tools and resources in general that addresses practical
       problems, and the other upon the technological and infrastructural
       issues surrounding the educational uses of repositories.
       
       Good examples of existing initiatives in this area are among others
       the ACL Natural Language Software Registry (hosted at DFKI,
       registry.dfki.de) which was set up as a repository for tools for the
       distinct fields of Human Language Techology (HLT), the ELRA/ELDA, LDC,
       TELRI and Elsnet resources catalogues and repositories
       (www.icp.inpg.fr/ELRA, www.ldc.upenn.edu, www.telri.de and
       www.elsnet.org/resources.html), OLAC (a worldwide network of language
       archives at www.language-archives.org), and JEWELS
       (www.elsnet.org/jewels), an as-yet incomplete EU funded website for
       educational materials in Language and Speech.
       
       A third theme concerns how to build upon existing initiatives as
       sources of data or inspiration.
       
    AIM AND SCOPE OF THE WORKSHOP:

       The main goal of the workshop is to discuss methods for the
       improvement and extension of existing repositories; the educational
       uses of repositories; the closer interlinking between different kinds
       of repositories (tools and resources); global infrastructures for the
       achievement of joint actions. However, we expect the scope of the
       workshop to be much wider than that, as the issues addressed are of
       general interest to everybody who believes that sharing tools and
       resources is essential for the progress of research and education in
       our field.
       
       Contributions of papers and demonstrations are solicited that address
       the above themes. The following list of topics is suggestive rather
       than exhaustive:
         * Repositories versus catalogues
         * Mechanisms and infrastructures for sharing and describing content
         * Repository management
         * Standards for exchange, description, and annotation
         * Metadata descriptions
         * Quality assessment
         * Structure and content of an NLP/CL repository
         * Tools and materials for NLP/CL education
         * Web-based teaching methods for NLP/CL
           
    SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS FOR PAPERS

         * Electronic submissions only (PostScript, Word, or PDF), following
           the appropriate ACL latex style or Microsoft Word style.
           Submissions should not exceed eight (8) pages, including
           references. You can download the appropriate style or template
           files using the following link: acl2001.dfki.de/style. In case of
           problems with the submission format, please contact one of the
           co-chairs.
         * Submissions to either co-chair (Mike Rosner and Thierry Declerck).
           All submissions will be acknowledged.
         * Please provide a list of keywords in the separate header page and
           indicate the best fitting subtopic(s) from the above list.
           
    SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS FOR DEMONSTRATIONS

         * Demos may be submitted with or without an accompanying paper.
         * Please write a 2-page description of the demo and send to either
           co-chair. Please let us know about special hardware requirements
           over and above the standard PC + beamer without internet access
           provided by default
           
    CONFIRMED COMMITTEE MEMBERS

       - Thierry Declerck (DFKI) Co-chair (Repository) declerck@dfki.de
       - Mike Rosner (Malta) Co-chair (Education) mros@cs.um.edu.mt
       - Steven Krauwer (Utrecht University) Co-chair s.krauwer@elsnet.org
       - Steven Bird (U. Penn) sb@unagi.cis.upenn.edu
       - Bill Black (UMIST) (UMIST, Manchester, UK) wjb@co.umist.ac.uk
       - Gosse Bouma (University of Groningen) gosse@let.rug.nl
       - Koenraad de Smedt (University of Bergen) desmedt@uib.no
       - Claire Gardent (CNRS, Nancy) claire.gardent@loria.fr
       - Donna Harman (NIST) donna.harman@nist.gov
       - Julia Hirschberg (ATT, ISCA) julia@research.att.com
       - Jun'ichi Tsujii (Tokyo) tsujii@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp
       - Andy Way (Dublin City University) away@compapp.dcu.ie
       - Antonio Zampolli (Univ. of Pisa), pisa@ilc.pi.cnr.it
       
    DEADLINES

         * Submission Deadline: 22nd April 2001
         * Notification Date: 4th May 2001
         * Camera ready copy due: 16th May 2001

    WORKSHOP URL

         http://www.elsnet.org/acl2001-tools.html

    FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT

       Michael Rosner mros@cs.um.edu.mt
       Thierry Declerck declerck@dfki.de

    Michael Rosner Internet: mros@cs.um.edu.mt
    Head, Dept. Computer Science and AI Telephone: +356 32 90 25 05
    University of Malta Secretary: +356 32 90 25 19
    Msida, MALTA Fax: +356 32 05 39



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