CONFERENCE TOPICS
The following non-exhaustive list gives some examples of topics which could be addressed by papers submitted to the Conference:
Issues in the design, construction and use of Language Resources (LR)
- Guidelines, standards, specifications, models and best practices for LR
- Methods, tools, procedures for the acquisition, creation, management, access, distribution, use of LR
- Organisational issues in the construction, distribution and use of LR
- Legal aspects and problems in the construction, access and use of LR
- Availability and use of generic vs. task/domain specific LR
- Methods for the extraction and acquisition of knowledge (e.g. terms, lexical information, language modelling) from LR
- Monolingual and multilingual LR
- Multimodal and multimedia LR
- Integration of various modalities in LR (speech, vision, language)
- Documentation and archiving of languages, including minority and endangered languages
- Ontological aspects of creation and use of LR
- LR for psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic research in human-machine communication
- Exploitation of LR in different types of applications (information extraction, information retrieval, vocal and multisensorial interfaces, translation, summarisation, www services, etc.)
- Industrial LR requirements and community's response
- Industrial production of LR
- Industrial use of LR
- Analysis of user needs for LR
- Internet-accessible metadata descriptions of LR
- Mechanisms of LR distribution and marketing
- Economics of LR
Issues in Human Language Technologies evaluation
- Evaluation, validation, quality assurance of LR
- Benchmarking of systems and products; resources for benchmarking and evaluation
- Evaluation in written language processing (text retrieval, terminology extraction, message understanding, text alignment, machine translation, morphosyntactic tagging, parsing, semantic tagging, word sense disambiguation, text understanding, summarization, localization, etc.)
- Evaluation in spoken language processing (speech recognition and understanding, voice dictation, oral dialog, speech synthesis, speech coding, speaker and language recognition, spoken translation, etc.)
- Evaluation of document processing (document recognition, on-line and off-line machine and hand-written character recognition, etc.)
- Evaluation of (multimedia) document retrieval and search systems (including detection, indexing, filtering, alert, question answering, etc)
- Evaluation of multimodal systems
- Qualitative and perceptive evaluation
- Evaluation of products and applications, benchmarking
- Blackbox, glassbox and diagnostic evaluation of systems
- Situated evaluation of applications
- Evaluation methodologies, protocols and measures
- From evaluation to standardisation of LR
General issues
- National and international activities and projects
- LR and the needs/opportunities of the emerging multimedia cultural industry
- Priorities, perspectives, strategies in the field of LR national and international policies
- Needs, possibilities, forms, initiatives of/for international cooperation
- Open architectures for LR