WORKSHOP SCOPE AND AIMS
The key concepts for Language Resource infrastructure have been Reusability
and Standardization. In NLP, where the requirement not only for large scale
lexicons but also for large scale corpora has been established, they have
both found fruitful ground.
The emerging multimedia cultural industry has established new needs
and use conditions of Language Resources in respect to industrial production.
The constant increase of demand for electronic educational tools and
aids either in the INTERNET/INTRANET or in the CD-ROM environment raises
the question of whether language resources and tools developed for the
Human Language Technology (HLT) sector may be (re)used also for educational
application purposes.
LREC-2000 focuses in many respects on the importance of this new multimedia
cultural industry and the connection between industrial production and
use of Language Resources and Tools.
The workshop aims at bringing together specialists from the areas of
language engineering and multimedia technologies with experience in CALL
(Computer Aided Language Learning). Issues related to innovative and reflective
approaches in the exploitation, integration and evaluation of language
resources in CALL will be addressed.
TOPICS
Papers are invited in the following topics:
- Internet/Intranet and CD-ROM applications demanding HLT tools
- Distance learning applications
- Integration of language resources in multimedia educational environments
- Evaluation of language resources for educational applications
- Development of language tools based on language resources
- Legal aspects and problems in the access and use of available language
resources
- Customization of language resources for multimedia educational products
- Electronic books and HLT tools
SUBMISSION
Submissions should address one or more of the listed topics. Descriptions
of planned or existing tools are acceptable, but they should be situated
in the larger context of the issues the workshop addresses.
A maximally 1000 word abstract in English should be submitted to Eleni
Efthimiou by e-mail at "<mailto:eleni_e@ilsp.gr>eleni_e@ilsp.gr" in
poscript or rtf format with the indication "LREC WORKSHOP SUBMISSION" in
the subject line. Each submission should include title; author(s); affiliation(s);
and contact author's e-mail address, postal address, telephone and fax
numbers.
Final papers should not exceed 6 pages.
Final paper style format will be announced by LREC on 2 February 2000
and will also be available at http://www.ilsp.gr/lrec/educreslrec.html.
Audio-visual or other technical requirements must be indicated by the
authors.
IMPORTANT DATES
March 1, 2000 : Submissions due
March 15, 2000 : Results transmitted to authors
April 15, 2000 : Final papers due
May 30, 2000 : Workshop
ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Khurshid Ahmad, Department of Artificial Intelligence Computing,
School of Electronic Eng., IT and Mathematics, University of Surrey.
Eleni Efthimiou, Department of Educational Technologies, ILSP-Institute
for language and Speech Processing.
Maria Poulou-Tzevelekou, University of Athens and ILSP-Institute
for Language and Speech Processing.
<http://www.elda.fr/lrec2000.html>http://www.elda.fr/lrec2000.html Specific queries about the conference should be directed to:
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