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MORE INFO SOON DUE TO COVID-19: Language Resources & Evaluation Conference, 11-16 May 2020, Marseille

The European Language Resources Association is happy to invite you to participate in the 12th Edition of its Language Resources and Evaluation Conference. The Conference, Workshops and Tutorials will be held at the Palais du Pharo during the week of 11 to 16 May 2020.

  • Main Conference: 13-14-15 May 2020
  • Workshops and Tutorials: 11-12-16 May 2020

Important dates

Submission of conference papers, workshops, tutorials and panels

  • Submission of proposals for panels, workshops and tutorials: Extended to 31 October 2019
  • Submission of proposals for oral and poster/demo papers: Extended to 2 December 2019
  • Notification of acceptance for oral and poster/demo papers: 13 February 2020
  • Final Submission of accepted oral and poster/demo papers: 6 March 2020

Conference & Workshops

  • Conference: 13-14-15 May, 2020
  • Pre-conference workshops and tutorials: 11 and 12 May 2020
  • Post-conference workshops and tutorials: 16 May 2020
  • Welcome Reception: 13 May 2020
  • Gala Dinner: 15 May 2020

Conference topics

Issues in the design, construction and use of LRs: text, speech, sign, gesture, image, in single or multimodal/multimedia data

  • Guidelines, standards, best practices and models for LRs interoperability
  •   Methodologies and tools for LRs construction and annotation
  •   Methodologies and tools for extraction and acquisition of knowledge
  •   Ontologies, terminology and knowledge representation
  •   LRs and Semantic Web (including Linked Data, Knowledge Graphs, etc.)
  •   LRs and Crowdsourcing
  •   Metadata for LRs and semantic/content mark-up

Exploitation of LRs in systems and applications

  •  Sign language, multimedia information and multimodal communication
  •  LRs in systems and applications such as: information extraction, information retrieval, audio-visual and multimedia search, speech dictation, meeting transcription, Computer Aided Language Learning, training and education, mobile communication, machine translation, speech translation, summarisation, semantic search, text mining, inferencing, reasoning, sentiment analysis/opinion mining, etc.
  •  Interfaces: (speech-based) dialogue systems, natural language and multimodal/multisensory interactions, voice-activated services, etc.
  •  Use of (multilingual) LRs in various fields of application like e-government, e-participation, e-culture, e-health, mobile applications, digital humanities, social sciences, etc.
  •  Industrial LRs requirements
  •  User needs, LT for accessibility

LRs in the age of deep neural networks

  •  Semi-supervised, weakly-supervised and unsupervised machine learning approaches
  •  Representation Learning for language
  •  Techniques for (semi-)automatically generating training data
  •  Cross-language NLP & Cross-domain NLP with reduction of human effort

Issues in LT evaluation

  •  LT evaluation methodologies, protocols and measures
  •  Validation and quality assurance of LRs
  •  Benchmarking of systems and products
  •  Usability evaluation of HLT-based user interfaces and dialogue systems
  •  User satisfaction evaluation

General issues regarding LRs & Evaluation

  •   International and national activities, projects and initiatives
  •   Priorities, perspectives, strategies in national and international policies for LRs
  •   Multilingual issues, language coverage and diversity, less-resourced languages
  •   Open, linked and shared data and tools, open and collaborative architectures
  •   Replicability and reproducibility issues
  •   Organisational, economical, ethical and legal issues

About LREC

Since the first LREC held in Granada in 1998, LREC has become the major event on Language Resources (LRs) and Evaluation for Language Technologies (LT). The aim of LREC is to provide an overview of the state-of-the-art, explore new R&D directions and emerging trends, exchange information regarding LRs and their applications, evaluation methodologies and tools, ongoing and planned activities, industrial uses and needs, requirements coming from the e-society, both with respect to policy issues and to technological and organisational ones.

LREC provides a unique forum for researchers, industrials and funding agencies from across a wide spectrum of areas to discuss problems and opportunities, find new synergies and promote initiatives for international cooperation, in support to investigations in language sciences, progress and innovation in language technologies and development of corresponding products, services and applications, and standards.

LREC Organizers

Conference details

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11/05/2020 - 16/05/2020
All Day

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Dighumlab

Secretariat
Digital Humanities Lab Denmark

Aarhus University
Jens Chr. Skous Vej 4
DK-8000 Aarhus C

info@dighumlab.org

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