CALL FOR PAPERS
Towards a Roadmap for Multimodal Language Resources and Evaluation
An ELSNET workshop at LREC 2002
Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain
June 2, 2002
Aim of the workshop:
The aim of the proposed workshop is to bring together key players in
the field of resources and evaluation in order to make a first step
towards the creation of a broadly supported Roadmap for Language
Resources, i.e. a broadly supported view on the longer, medium and
shorter term needs and priorities. This activity should be seen in the
context of ELSNET's other roadmapping activities, which aim at
developing a technological roadmap for the whole field of Human
Language Technologies.
The purpose of such roadmaps is to give the R&D community an
instrument to identify opportunities for concertation of their
activities and better exploitation of possible synergies between
players all over the world.
Scope of this workshop:
As there is no standard model for roadmaps for resources and
evaluation available, we will narrow the scope of this roadmapping
workshop to a specific sub-area: Multimodal Language Resources and
Evaluation. This will make our discussions more focused and concrete,
and it will also allow us to exploit the fact that this workshop will
take place the day after the workshop dedicated to Multimodal
Resources and Evaluation of Multimodal Systems (MREMS) in general.
Topics to be addressed will include:
* Summary of roadmap-relevant issues discussed at the MREMS workshop
the day before (e.g. challenges)
* Identification of key issues, their interdependencies, priorities,
strategies, infrastructures
* Discussion of appropriate models for the creation and presentation
of roadmaps (e.g. extrapolation, Delphi methods, timelines,
scenarios, consensus creation)
* Creation of a first preliminary roadmap for multimodal resources
and evaluation
* Definition of further steps
Format of the workshop:
It will be a full-day workshop, with a morning session from 8:30 to
13:00 and an afternoon session from 14:30 to 19:00. The workshop is
not intended to be a mini-conference, but as a real workshop aiming at
a concrete result that should pave the way for further development of
the resources roadmap. Sessions may include invited talks, a small
number of refereed presentations, panel sessions, small working groups
addressing specific questions.
Intended input:
For this workshop we need forward-looking (position) papers that aim
at identifying or interconnecting key issues and resources, major
challenges, and strategies to reach our goals, as well as papers
addressing meta issues (i.e. what is a roadmap, how to reach
consensus, etc).
Intended output:
A draft roadmap report that can be published on the web in order to
elicit feedback, and in order to serve as an example for the creation
of roadmaps for other subareas.
Submission details:
Submissions must be in English, no more than 4 pages long and in
single column format. Submissions should be sent electronically in
plain text, MS Word or PDF to steven.krauwer@elsnet.org.
Calendar:
* Submission deadline: 20 February 2002
* Notification: 8 March
* Camera ready papers due: 2 April
* Workshop date: 2 June
Registration:
The regsitration fee for the workshop is 90 EURO for conference
participants and 140 EURO for others. The fee includes two coffee
breaks and the proceedings of the workshop.
URLs:
* Workshop: http://www.elsnet.org/roadmap-lrec2002.html
* Conference: http://www.lrec-conf.org
Core Programme Committee:
* Steven Krauwer (ELSNET / Utrecht University)
* Hans Uszkoreit (DFKI Saarbruecken)
* Antonio Zampolli (Univ of Pisa)
* Joseph Mariani (LIMSI, Paris)
* Ulrich Heid (IMS Stuttgart)
* Khalid Choukri (ELDA Paris)
* Mark Maybury (MITRE)
Contact point:
Steven Krauwer, ELSNET coordinator,
UiL-OTS, Trans 10, 3512 JK Utrecht, NL
phone: +31 30 253 6050,
fax: +31 30 253 6000,
email: s.krauwer@elsnet.org
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