Motivation and Aims

This workshop is devoted to the presentation and discussion of novel approaches addressing the multilinguality issue using Interlinguas. Among these, the Universal Networking Language (UNL) is the base of the current UNL system promoted by the United Nations University to eliminate the linguistic barriers in Internet. It will be explicitly considered, given its novelty and scarce dissemination in the academic circles. The language UNL can support multilingual services in Internet. The UNL System, as other Interlinguas, has an indubitable application to all the existing systems in the activities of E-Business. The introduction of multilingüality in any other system is almost a model case of added value services.

UNL is a concept of support system for multilingual applications in Internet. In this moment the UNL system has the main components already developed. However, many questions arise from the actual state of the applications that involve many theoretical issues about interlinguas, methodologies, evaluation of these systems, multilingual lexicons, language generation, semantic knowledge representation, and many others that we estimate can be of interest for the scientific community but also because the current UNL organisation needs the critics, opinions, and criteria from the researchers in this field out of the UNL organisation. This will be also the first time where the interested people will discuss the UNL openly. Our intention promoting this workshop is to enrich our background and also to disseminate the deep knowledge of the UNL.

Topics of Interest

The workshop will be open to:

• Classical issues involving Interlinguas, such us multilingual generation, interlingua-based MT systems.
• New issues related to novel applications (other than classical MT), of the interlingua information dissemination, retrieval and extraction based on interlingua representations, creation of multilingual documents and their integration into Internet-based dissemination systems.
• Exploitation issues considering the interlingua representations and interlingua lexicons as linguistic resources that can be be integrated into NLP systems. Conversely, existing resources can be incorporated into interlingua systems.

The Workshop seeks original papers in all aspects of the Interlinguas, but specially in UNL. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, classical issues and novel applications:

• Experiences about the "Universal Networking Language" Interlingua, and others.
• Multilingual applications and services.
• Interlingua-based MT approaches and systems.
• Multilingual generation.
• Internet-based multilingual information dissemination.
• Applications of NLP systems.
• Applications of interlinguas, other than MT.
• Multilingual Information Retrieval and Information Extraction.
• Multilingual documents.
• Interlingual Linguistic Resources.

Scientific Committee

Workshop Organisers

Submissions

Abstracts for workshop contributions have to be between 600 and 800 words.
Each submission should include a title pagethat should state: the title; author(s); affiliation(s); and contact author's e-mail address, as well as postal address, telephone and fax numbers.
Submission is to be sent by email in ASCII file format to Edmundo Tovar.
The Scientific Committee will review abstracts. The final version of the accepted papers should be no longer than 4,000 words. Formatting instructions for the final full version of papers will be sent to authors after notification of acceptance.
All the papers accepted will be published in the workshop proceedings by the LREC Local Organising Committee. A selection of the accepted papers will be invited to an oral presentation in the workshop program.

Preleminary Agenda

Important dates

Workshop Registration Fees

• If you are not attending LREC: 70 EURO
• If you are attending LREC: 45 Euro

All attendees will receive a copy of the workshop proceedings.