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.
Submissions are invited on the following topics:
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.
Submission Deadline | 25th February 2002 |
Notification of acceptance | 20th March 2002 |
Submission of camera-ready final version | 12th April 2002 |
Conference Date | 28th May 2002 |
Laurent Romary | Laboratoire Loria (France) |
Christian Galinski | InfoTerm (Austria) |
Nancy Ide | Vassar College (USA) |
Key-Sun Choi | KAIST, Korterm (Korea) |
Antonio Zampolli | CNRS, Pisa (Italy) |
Nancy Ide | Vassar College (USA) |
Nicoletta Calzolari | CNRS, Pisa (Italy) |
Gerhard Heyer | Leipzig University (Germany) |
Gerhard Budin | University of Vienna (Austria) |
Klaus-Dirk Schmitz | Fachhochschule Koeln (Germany) |
Sue-Ellen Wright | Kent State University (USA) |
Yeon-Bae Kim | Human Science Division, NHK (Japan) |
Koiti Hasida | Cyber Assist Research Center, Tokyo (Japan) |
Benjamin Tsou | City University of Hong Kong |
Churen Huang | Academia Sinica (Taiwan) |
Junfeng Hu | Peking University (China) |
Shiwen Yu | Peking University (China) |
Virach Sornlertlamvanich | NECTEC (Thailand) |
Isahara Hitoshi | CRL (Japan) |
Tokunaga Takenobu | TIT (Japan) |
Key-Sun Choi | KORTERM, KAIST (Korea) |
Jong-Hyeok Lee | Postech (Korea) |
Christian Galinski | Infoterm (Austria) |
Laurent Romary | Laboratoire Loria (France) |
Fang Qing | CNIS (China) |
Yuzuru Fujiwara | National Center for Industrial Information, Tokyo (Japan) |
Takehiro Sioda | NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute (Japan) |