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SaLTMiL 2010 : 7th SaLTMiL Workshop on Creation and use of basic lexical resources for less-resourced languages

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Link: http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/saltmil/
 
When May 23, 2010 - May 23, 2010
Where Valetta, Malta
Submission Deadline Mar 4, 2010
Notification Due Mar 19, 2010
Final Version Due Mar 31, 2010
Categories    NLP
 

Call For Papers

Call for Papers

7th SaLTMiL Workshop on
"Creation and use of basic lexical resources for less-resourced languages"

A half-day workshop at LREC 2010
Sunday May 23, 2010, morning.
Mediterranean Conference Center, Valetta, Malta


SALTMIL: http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/saltmil/

LREC 2010: http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2010/

Call For Papers: http://www.computing.dcu.ie/~mforcada/saltmil2010.html

Paper submission: https://www.softconf.com/lrec2010/SALTMIL2010/

Papers are invited for the above half-day workshop, in the format outlined
below. Most submitted papers will be presented in poster form, though some
authors may be invited to present in lecture format.


Context and focus
-------------------------
The 7th International Workshop of the ISCA Special Interest Group on Speech
and Language Technology for Minority Languages (SaLTMiL: see
http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/saltmil), will be held in Malta, on a date between May
17 and May 23, 2010 to be announced, as part of the 2010 International
Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC). Entitled "Creation and
use of basic lexical resources for less-resourced languages", the workshop
is intended to continue the series of SALTMIL/LREC workshops on
computational language resources for minority languages, held in Granada
(1998), Athens (2000), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (2002), Lisbon (2004),
Genoa (2006) and Marrakech (2008). The Malta 2010 workshop aims to share
information on tools and best practice, so that isolated researchers will
not need to start from scratch. An important aspect will be the forming of
personal contacts, which can minimize duplication of effort. There will be a
balance between presentations of existing language resources, and more
general presentations designed to give background information needed by all
researchers.

The workshop will begin with presentations from invited speakers, including
the following:

* Antton Gurrutxaga and Igor Leturia. Elhuyar Foundation.
"Exploiting the Internet to build language resources for less resourced languages"

* Marc Kemps-Snijders. LAT team at the Max Planck Institute at
Nijmegen. "ELAN and RELISH project"

Then two of the contributed papers will be presented.

After the break, talks will be followed by a poster session featuring the
remaining contributed papers.


Topics
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Papers are invited which include (but are not limited to) the following
issues in the area of the creation and use of basic lexical resources for
less-resourced languages:

* What problems emerge when faced with creating lexical resources for
languages having different linguistic features from the major
languages?

* When using corpus-based methods to create lexical resources, which
techniques should be promoted in order to get the maximum yield from
sparse training data?

* What standards will enable researchers to share and create tools and
techniques for lexical resources across several different languages?

* Which tools are easily re-useable across several unrelated
languages? What are the existing resources for such languages, and
which software tools have been found useful?

* How can lexical resources be created when a language does not yet
have a widely accepted standard written form, or when it has several
competing standards?


Organisers
---------------
* Mikel L. Forcada: Machine Translation Group, School of Computing,
Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland
* Kepa Sarasola: Dept. of Computer Languages, University of the Basque
Country
* Francis M. Tyers, Departament de Llenguatges i Sistemes Informàtics,
Universitat d'Alacant, Spain
* Briony Williams: Language Technologies Unit, Bangor University,
Wales, UK


Programme committee
------------------------------
Briony Williams: Bangor University, Wales, UK
Mikel L. Forcada: Dublin City University, Ireland
Kepa Sarasola: University of the Basque Country
Francis M. Tyers: Universitat d'Alacant, Spain
Trond Trosterud, Universitetet i Tromsø, Norway
Núria Bel, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
Kevin Scannell, Saint Louis University, USA
Hrafn Loftsson, University of Reykjavik
Felipe Sánchez-Martínez, Universitat d'Alacant
Iñaki Alegria: University of the Basque Country
Lars Borin, Göteborgs Universitet


Submissions
-----------------
We expect short papers of max 6,000 words (up to 6 pages) describing
research addressing one of the above topics, to be submitted as PDF
documents by using the LREC2010 START conference management system (URL:
https://www.softconf.com/lrec2010/SALTMIL2010/).

Submissions should be anonymized. When submitting a paper, from the START
page you will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in
a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.)
that either have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new
result of your research. The Map will be disclosed at LREC, where some
event(s) will be organised around this idea. For further information on this
new iniative, please refer to
http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2010/?LREC2010-Map-of-Language-Resources. All
contributions (including invited papers) will be included in the workshop
proceedings (CD). They will also be published on the SALTMIL website.

Submissions of papers should follow the same style as the papers for the
main LREC conference (an Author's Kit made of specific guidelines and
downloadable templates will be published on the conference web site in due
time). Simultaneous submission to the workshop and the LREC conference is
permitted.


Important dates
---------------------
NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE: MARCH 4, 2010.
19 March 2010 Notification
31 March 2010 Final version
23 May 2010 Workshop


Registration
-----------------
Registration details will be announced in due course

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