Background, Motivation and Aims

Linguistic infrastructures are being established or reinforced as part of the rapidly evolving information and communication society. Various standards have been developed as a part of this infrastructure, including Eagles, ISLE, CES, ATE, OLIF, TEI, TDCnet, MPEG7, Dublin Core, RDF, TBX, Topic Maps, OIL, etc. However, despite these efforts, no set of standards to support the creation and use of language resources has achieved formal approval by the international community.

At the same time, efforts to develop standards for different areas of language-based work vary considerably in the degree to which they are accepted and used, and in some areas no commonality exists at all. As a result, there is an increasingly urgent need for new standardization, as well as recognition of existing de facto standards by establishing them as International Standards.

This workshop is intended to bring together members of the language engineering community who are working on or concerned with establishing broad-based, internationally sanctioned standards that can support the full range of language processing applications in today's environment. We aim particularly to bring together those working in different topic and/or application areas, in order to foster communication and collaboration, and determine the common and different standardization needs for each.

A committee of the International Standards Organization (ISO/TC 37/SC 4) has recently been formed to promote the development of language engineering applications in multilingual environments. The proposed work of this committee will be described at the workshop and participation from the community will be solicited. A kick-off meeting for the committee will also be held in conjunction with the workshop.

Topics of Interest

Submissions are invited on the following topics:

• Management of linguistic data in various formats (e.g., speech data, written text corpora, grammar, terminological data, general language lexical corpora, lexicon, multi-modal resources, etc.).
• Standards for text corpora, lexica, ontologies and terminologies that are typical instances of language resources to be used for language and knowledge engineering.
• Algorithms for preparing, processing and managing the information and knowledge needed by computers as well as humans, in both monolingual and multilingual environments.
• Appropriate methodology, methodology standards, software tools, and the respective standards for data modeling, mark-up, conversion, interoperability, interchange, evaluation, validation, quality management, etc. in order to accomplish information communication management as well as knowledge processing through terminology and language resources.
• Standards or future possible standards in the areas that include computational linguistics, terminology management, computerized lexicography, language engineering and knowledge engineering like:
  • Methodology for preparing, recording, processing and reusing terminology and other language resources.
  • Tools for representing, managing and accessing knowledge communicated by linguistic data and knowledge with different degree of complexity.
  • Language resource management with a strong language engineering component.
  • Standards that are crucial for the software agent, description of multimedia contents, and other related international standard activities like MPEG.

Submissions

Papers for workshop contributions should not exceed four pages (excluding references) in English and in single column format. An additional title page should include the title, author(s), affiliation(s), contact email address, postal address, telephone, fax and URL as well as five keywords.

Submission should be sent by email, in Postscript, PDF or Word format to: lrec@korterm.kaist.ac.k before 25th January 2002.

Demonstration of software or language resource management tools will be considered as well. Please send a two-page outline by February 25th.

Authors are encouraged to send a brief email indicating their intention to submit a paper or to participate in the workshop.

Important Dates

Workshop Organizers

Programme Committee