LRSLM2010 Workshop

Submissions

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Abstracts should be no longer than 1500 words and should be submitted in PDF format through the online submission form on START (https://www.softconf.com/lrec2010/Sustainability2010/).

Submissions should follow the same style sheet as for the main LREC conference. This will be published on the main conference web site in due time.

When submitting a paper through the START page, authors will be kindly asked to provide relevant information about the resources that have been used for the work described in their paper or that are the outcome of their research. For further information on this new initiative, please refer to http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2010/?....

Programme

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The final proceedings of the workshop are available on the LREC 2010 website

Sunday May 23, 2010

09:00 - 09:15	Welcome and Introduction Victoria Arranz and Laura van Eerten, ELDA-ELRA, France and TST-Centrale, The Netherlands
09:15 - 10:00	Invited talk: Sustainability for Open-Access Language Resources Mark Liberman, LDC, USA
10:00 - 10:30	The Flemish-Dutch HLT Agency: a Comprehensive Approach to Language Resources Lifecycle Management & Sustainability for the Dutch Language Remco van Veenendaal, Laura van Eerten and Catia Cucchiarini, TST-Centrale and Dutch Language Union, The Netherlands
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30	Creating and Maintaining Language Resources: the Main Guidelines of the Victoria Project Lionel Nicolas, Miguel Angel Molinero Alvarez, Benoît Sagot, Nieves Fernández Formoso and Vanesa Vidal Castro, UNSA & CNRS, France, Universidade da Coruña, Spain, Université Paris 7, France and Universidade de Vigo, Spain
11:30 - 12:00	Laundry Symbols and License Management - Practical Considerations for the Distribution of LRs based on Experiences from CLARIN Ville Oksanen, Krister Lindén and Hanna Westerlund, Aalto University and University of Helsinki, Finland
12:00 - 13:30	Poster session: Resource Lifecycle Management: Changing Cultures Peter Wittenburg, Jacquelijn Ringersma, Paul Trilsbeek, Willem Elbers and Daan Broeder, MPI for Psycholinguistics, The Netherlands The Open-Content Text Corpus project Piotr Bański and Beata Wójtowicz, University of Warsaw, Poland Very Large Language Resources? At our Finger! Dan Cristea, University of Iasi, Romania Standardization as a Means to Sustainability Michael Maxwell, University of Maryland, USA The TEI and the NCP: the Model and its Application Piotr Bański and Adam Przepiórkowski, University of Warsaw and Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
13:30 - 14:30	Lunch break
14:30 - 15:00	The German Reference Corpus: New developments Building on Almost 50 Years of Experience Marc Kupietz, Oliver Schonefeld and Andreas Witt, Institute for the German Language, Germany
15-00 - 15:30	Sustaining a Corpus for Spoken Turkish Discourse: Accessibility and Corpus Management Issues Şükriye Ruhi, Betil Eröz-Tuğa, Çiler Hatipoğlu, Hale Işık-Güler, M. Güneş Can Acar, Kerem Eryılmaz, Hümeyra Can, Özlem Karakaş, Derya Çokal Karadaş, Middle East Technical University, Ankara University and Hacettepe University, Turkey
15:30 - 16:00	The BAsic Metadata DEScription (BAMDES) and TheHarvestingDay.eu: Towards Sustainability and Visibility of LRT Carla Parra, Marta Villegas and Núria Bel, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
16:00 - 16:30	Coffee break
16:30 - 18:00	Panel Discussion Moderator: Steven Krauwer, UiL-OTS, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Panelists: Nicoletta Calzolari (ILC-CNR, Italy) Khalid Choukri (ELRA/ELDA, France) Christopher Cieri (LDC, USA) Nancy Ide (Dep. Computer Science, Vassar College, USA) Andreas Witt (IDS Mannheim, Germany)
18:00	Closing

Main Conference

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The Workshop on Language Resources: From Storyboard to Sustainability and LR Lifecycle Management is held in conjunction with the LREC 2010 conference organised by ELRA. - Main Conference / ouvert_rubrique

Important Dates

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Deadline for abstracts: Monday 22 February 2010 Notification to Authors: Wednesday 17 March 2010 Submission of Final Version: Friday 9 April 2010 Workshop: 23 May 2010 - Important Dates / ouvert_rubrique

Contact

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For further queries, please contact Victoria Arranz at arranz@elda.org or Laura van Eerten at laura.vaneerten@inl.nl. - Contact / ouvert_rubrique

Committees

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Organising Committee

Victoria Arranz (Evaluations and Language resources Distribution Agency (ELDA) / European Language resources Association (ELRA), France)
Khalid Choukri (ELDA - Evaluations and Language resources Distribution Agency / ELRA - European Language resources Association, France)
Christopher Cieri (LDC - Linguistic Data Consortium, USA)
Laura van Eerten (Flemish-Dutch HLT Agency, Instituut voor Nederlandse Lexicologie, The Netherlands)
Bente Maegaard (CST, University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Stelios Piperidis (ILSP – Institute for Language and Speech Processing / ELRA - European Language resources Association, France)
Remco van Veenendaal (Flemish-Dutch HLT Agency, Instituut voor Nederlandse Lexicologie, The Netherlands)

Programme Committee

Núria Bel (Institut Universitari de Lingüística Aplicada, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)
Nicoletta Calzolari (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR (ILC-CNR) – Italy)
Jean Carletta (Human Communication Research Centre, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, UK)
Catia Cucchiarini (Nederlandse Taalunie, The Netherlands)
Christoph Draxler (Bavarian Archive for Speech Signals, Institute of Phonetics and Speech Processing (BAS), Germany)
Maria Gavrilidou (Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP), Greece)
Nancy Ide (Department of Computer Science, Vassar College, USA)
Steven Krauwer (UiL OTS, Utretch University, The Netherlands)
Asunción Moreno (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain)
Dirk Roorda (Data Archiving and Networked Services, The Netherlands)
Ineke Schuurman (Centre for Computational Linguistics, Catholic University Leuven, Belgium)
Claudia Soria (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR (ILC-CNR) – Italy)
Stephanie M. Strassel (Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC), USA)
Andreas Witt (IDS Mannheim, Germany)
Peter Wittenburg (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Netherlands)

Call for Papers

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The life of a language resource (LR), from its mere conception and drafting to its adult phases of active exploitation by the HLT community, varies considerably. Ensuring that language resources be a part of a sustainable and endurable living process represents a multi-faceted challenge that certainly calls for well-planned anti-neglecting actions to be put into action by the different actors participating in the process. Clearing all IPR issues, exploiting best practices at specification and production time are just a few samples of such actions. Sustainability and lifecycle management issues are thus concepts that should be addressed before endeavouring into any serious LR production.

When thinking of long-term LRs a number of aspects come to our minds which do not always succeed to be taken into account before development. Some of these aspects are usability, accessibility, interoperability and scalability, which inevitably call for a long list of neglected points that would need to be taken into account at a very early stage of development. Looking further into the portability and scalability of a language resource, a number of dimensions should be taken into account to ensure that a language resource reaches its adult life in an active and productive way.

An aspect that is often neglected is the accessibility and thus secured reusability of a language resource. Institutions such as ELRA (European Language resources Association) and LDC (Linguistic Data Consortium), at a European and American level, respectively, as well as BAS (Bavarian Archive for Speech Signals) and TST-Centrale (Flemish-Dutch Human Language Technology Agency), at a language-specific level, have worked on these aspects for a large number of years. Through their different activities, they have successfully implemented a sharing policy which allows different users to gain access to already existing resources. Other emerging programmes such as CLARIN (Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure) are also looking into these aspects. Nevertheless, many resources still follow development without a long-term accessibility plan into place which makes impossible to gain access once the resource is finished. This accessibility plan should consider issues such as ownership rights, licensing, types of use, aiming for a wide community from the very beginning. This accessibility plan calls for an optimal co-operation between all actors (LR users, financing bodies, owners, developers and organisations) so that issues related to the life of a LR are well established, roles and actors are clearly identified within the cycle and best practices are defined towards the management of the entire LR lifecycle.

We are aware, though, that these above-presented ideas are but a take-off for discussion. It is at this point that we would like to invite the community to participate in this workshop and share with us their views on these and other relevant issues of concern. A fruitful discussion could lead us to finding new mechanisms to support perpetuating language resources, and may lead us towards a sustainability model that guarantees an appropriate and well-defined LR storyboard and lifecycle management plan in the future.

Among the many issues and topics that may be presented and discussed during this workshop, we would like to already suggest the following:

Which fields require LRs and which are their respective needs?
What needs to be part of a LR storyboard? What points are we missing in its design?
General specifications vs. detailed specifications and design
Annotation frameworks and layers: interoperable at all?
Should creation and provision of LRs be included in higher education curriculae?
How to plan for scalable resources?
Language Resource maintenance and improvement: feasible?
Sharing language resources: how to bear this in mind and implement it? Logistics of the sharing: online vs. offline
Centralised vs. decentralised, and national vs. international management and maintenance of LRs
What happens when users create updated or derived LRs?
Sharing language resources: legal issues concerned
Sharing language resources: pricing issues concerned, commercial vs. non-commercial use
Do LR actors work in a synchronised manner?
What should be the roles of the different actors?
What are the business models and arrangements for IPRs?
Self-supporting vs. subsidised LR organisations
Other general problems faced by the community

We solicit papers that address these questions and other related issues relevant to the workshop.

Audience addressed

This full-day workshop aims to address all those involved with language resources at some point of their research/work (LR users, producers, ...) and all those with an interest in the different aspects involved, whether universities, companies or funding agencies of some nature. It aims to be a meeting and discussion point for the so many bottlenecks surrounding the life of a resource and which remain to be addressed with a sustainability plan.

The workshop features two invited talks, opening the morning and afternoon sessions, submitted papers, and will conclude with a round table to brainstorm on the issues raised during the presentations and the individual discussions. This round table will be run by a number of experts already experienced in some of the highlighted problems and in open discussion with the workshop participants. In short, this workshop will result in a plan of action towards a sustainability and lifecycle management plan to implement.

Invited Speaker

Mark Liberman, LDC (Linguistic Data Consortium), USA.