WSPP2010 Workshop

Programme

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

Monday May 17, 2010

14:30–14:45	Introduction
14:45–15:30	Invited talk: Graham Wilcock Linguistic Processing Pipelines: Problems and Solutions
15:30–16:00	Linguistic Processing Chains as Web Services: Initial Linguistic Considerations Maciej Ogrodniczuk and Adam Przepiórkowski
16:00–16:30	Coffee break
16:30–17:00	An Infrastructure for More Reliable Corpus Analysis Kerstin Eckart, Kurt Eberle and Ulrich Heid
17:00–17:30	The TANL Pipeline Giuseppe Attardi, Stefano Dei Rossi and Maria Simi

Tuesday May 18, 2010

09:30–10:00	Text Handling as a Web Service for the IULA Processing Pipeline Hector Martinez, Jorge Vivaldi and Marta Villegas
10:00–10:30	A Generic Chaining Algorithm for NLP Webservices Volker Boehlke
10:30–11:00	Coffee break
11:00–11:30	A Graphical Interface for Computing and Distributing NLP Flows Ionut Cristian Pistol, Andrei Arusoaie, Andrei Vasiliu and Adrian Iftene
11:30–12:00	Corpora by Web Services Adam Kilgarriff
12:00–12:30	An Open Service Framework for Next Generation Localisation David Lewis, Stephen Curran, Dominic Jones, John Moran, Kevin Feeney
12:30–13:00	Discussion
13:00–14:30	Lunch break
14:30–15:00	Invited talk: Nancy Ide A Web Service for Customized Corpus Delivery
15:00–15:30	Web Communication Protocols for Coordinating the Modules of AnHitz, a Basque-Speaking Virtual 3D Expert on Science and Technology Igor Leturia, Arantza del Pozo, David Oyarzun, Urtza Iturraspe, Xabier Arregi, Kepa Sarasola, Arantza Diaz de Ilarraza, Eva Navas, Igor Odriozola and Iñaki Sainz
15:30–16:00	Utilizing Web Service Technology to Create Danish Arabic Language Resources Mossab Al-Hunaity
16:00–16:30	Coffee break
16:30–17:00	Technology-Neutral Machine Translation with an Abstracted Technology Stack Joachim Van den Bogaert
17:00–17:30	Wrap-up & discussion

Main Conference

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The Workshop on Web Services and Processing Pipelines in HLT (Tool Evaluation, LR Production and Validation) is held in conjunction with the LREC 2010 conference organised by ELRA. - Main Conference / ouvert_rubrique

Call for Papers

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With the emergence of large e-infrastructures and the widespread adoption of the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) paradigm, more and more language technology is being made available through web services. Extending such services to linguistic processing pipelines, tool evaluation or LR production and validation involves considering both the methodologies and technical aspects specific to the application domains.

Distributed architectures such as web services allow communication and data exchange between applications. They are a suitable instrument for automatic, less often semi-automatic, tool evaluation as well as resource production processes both for practical and conceptual reasons. At a practical level, web services support quick results, centralised data storage, remote access etc.; at a conceptual level, they allow for the combination of more than one processing components that may be located on different sites. Such processing pipelines are set up to tackle a particular analysis task. To support these, new techniques have to be developed that organise well-established practices into workflows and support the exchange of data by standards and open tool architectures.

The workshop focuses on current uses and best practices for the deployment of web services and web interfaces in the HLT domain, including processing pipelines, LR production and validation, and evaluation of tools. It highlights relevant aspects for the integration of linguistic or evaluation web services within infrastructures (e.g. authorisation and authentication, service registries) and infrastructural requirements (e.g. interface harmonisation, metadata generation). The workshop also aims at demonstrating different approaches on how to combine linguistic web services into a composite web service.

The expected outcome of the workshop is a comparison of the practices in architectures and processing pipelines that people build and discussion of the issues involved. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Technical aspects: approaches, protocols, management of huge amounts of data, data structures and formats, performance, manual components (e.g. annotation or evaluation), composition and configuration, interoperability, security, monitoring and recovery strategies, standardisation of APIs, tools and frameworks supporting HLT services deployment, architectures.

Scientific aspects: influence of web services on evaluation or resource production, meta-evaluation / validation of architectures, annotation agreements, needs for tools evaluation and resource production, status of the data produced.

Commercial aspects: licensing, privacy, advertising, brokering, business possibilities, challenges, exploitation of the resulting data.

Submissions

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Full papers up to 8 pages should be formatted according to LREC 2010 guidelines and be submitted through the online submission form on START.

The templates for paper are published on the LREC web site

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/?LREC2010-Map-of-Language-Resources

Important Dates

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Deadline for submission: Sunday 7 March 2010 Notification of acceptance: Tuesday 23 March 2010 Final version due: Wednesday 31 March 2010 Workshop : 17-18 May 2010 - Important Dates / ouvert_rubrique

Committees

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Chairing Committee

Núria Bel (Institut Universitari de Lingüística Aplicada, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)
Olivier Hamon (Evaluations and Language resources Distribution Agency (ELDA))
Elke Teich (Technische Universität Darmstadt)

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Contact

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For further queries, please contact Olivier Hamon at hamon_at_elda_dot_org. - Contact / ouvert_rubrique