Linguapax
Language Technology for a Multilingual Europe
Date: 27-Sep-2011 - 27-Sep-2011
Location: Hamburg, Germany
Contact Person: Andreas Witt
Web Site: http://tinyurl.com/43zb8z4
Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
Call Deadline: 15-May-2011
Meeting Description:
The workshop aims at bringing various groups together who are concerned with the broad topic of 'Language Technology for a Multilingual Europe'. This encompasses on the one hand representatives
from research and development in the field of language technologies and on the other hand users from quite diverse areas. Two examples of the application of language technology is (automatic / machine) translation, and processing of texts from the humanities with methods from language technology, like automatic topic indexing, text mining, integrating numerous texts and additional information across languages, etc.
These kinds of application areas and research and development in language technology have in common that they rely on resources (lexica, corpora, grammars, ontologies etc.), or that they produce these resources. A multilingual Europe, being supported by language technology, is only possible if an adequate, interoperable infrastructure of resources, including the related tooling, is available for all European languages.
In addition it is necessary that the aforementioned and other communities of developers and users of language technology stand as one, homogeneous community. Only in this way it will be possible to assure the long term political acceptance of the topic 'language technology' in Europe.
Call for Papers:
The workshop aims at bringing research and development from academia and industry together, to discuss the aforementioned technical and political rerequisites for language technology in Europe. Submissions may touch on the following or other aspects of this overall topic:
- Research and development of language technology in various areas
(Human Language Technology, ICT, eHumanities, etc.)
- Infrastructure for resources in language technology
- Prerequisites for interoperability of language technology based applications
- Language technology and standardization
- 'Political perspectives' about requirements and the usefulness of
language technology, from the perspective of research, industry and
various user communities
Submissions:
The evaluation of abstracts for posters will be anonymous. Hence, the authors should not be mentioned directly in the abstract. Submissions for system demonstrations need not to be anonymous.
Length and format: max. 2 pages in 11pt (without references), in PDF format
Abstracts should be submitted via the GSCL conference system: http://www.exmaralda.org/gscl (category in the system: choose the entry for the workshop lt-europe).
Important Dates:
Deadline for submission of abstracts: May 15th 2011
Notification of acceptance: June 15th 2011
Workshop: September 27th, the Tuesday before the GSCL conference
Programme Committee:
- Aljoscha Burchardt, DFKI
- Kurt Eberle, Lingenio
- Josef van Genabith, Dublin City University / Centre for Next
Generation Localisation (CNGL)
- Ulrich Heid, Universität Hildesheim
- Jonas Kuhn, IMS Stuttgart
- Christian Lieske, SAP
- Henning Lobin, Universität Gießen
- Georg Rehm, DFKI
- Felix Sasaki, DFKI
- Uta Seewald-Heeg, Hochschule Anhalt
- Daniel Stein, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
- Elke Teich, Universität Saarbrücken
- Andreas Witt, Institut für Deutsche Sprache Mannheim
Organizing Committee:
- Georg Rehm, DFKI
- Felix Sasaki, DFKI
- Daniel Stein, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
- Andreas Witt, Institut für Deutsche Sprache Mannheim