Bibliographie
1st INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON
LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY PLATFORMS (IWLTP 2020)
16 May 2020 – Marseille, France – co-located with LREC 2020
SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
Deadline for Submissions : 21 February 2020
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With the increasing number of platforms, grids and infrastructures in
the wider area of Language Technologies (LT), NLP, NLU, speech
(including conversational agents), interaction and language-centric AI,
there is also a growing need for sharing experiences, approaches and
best practices to learn and benefit from the work of others and also,
practically, to start a collaboration towards platform interoperability.
The workshop addresses all smaller and larger language grids,
language-related infrastructures, platform initiatives (including
general and domain-specific) as well as collaborative research projects
that touch upon one or more of the topics mentioned below, both in
Europe and world-wide. The objective is to assemble representatives of
these initiatives and all interested parties to exchange and discuss
observations, experiences, solutions, best practices as well as current
and future challenges. The workshop also addresses the issue of
fragmentation in the Language Technology landscape. Instead of “platform
islands” that simply exist side by side, possibly even competing with
each other, we want to invite all relevant and interested initiatives to
discuss how their platforms can be made interoperable and how they can
interact with one another to create synergies towards a productive LT
platform ecosystem.
The long-term vision of platform interoperability has several
prerequisites including technical requirements that need to be
addressed, for example, through the use of common standards, but also
community-related aspects that need to be addressed and strengthened
through open discussions and further joint development. Both aspects are
covered by this workshop.
Context and Motivation
The EU project European Language Grid (ELG ; 2019-2021) is creating a
platform that will provide thousands of data sets and hundreds of LT
services. ELG aims to promote technologies tailored to all European
languages and cultures, adapted to their social and economic needs.
At the same time, there are several established platforms or
infrastructure-related initiatives as well as emerging new ones, both on
the international European but also on the national level as well as on
other continents. Some of the initiatives are more language-related and
have a strong industry focus, others are mainly
research-oriented. Moreover, there are digital public service
initiatives or platforms in which language is only one aspect of many.
With all these established and emerging initiatives, there is a risk of
even stronger fragmentation in the Language Technology field, which is
already highly fragmented, at least in Europe. Our approach is to bring
these initiatives together to discuss ways not only of preventing
further fragmentation but, crucially, of reversing it. This will only be
possible if interoperability and mutual data exchange is ensured and if
metadata formats and technical requirements are compatible, among
various other aspects.
We invite authors to submit contributions on the current situation of
their platform-related projects or initiatives (including technical,
governance, community, uptake, interoperability, social aspects). We
especially invite all relevant international or national grid, platform
or infrastructure projects to participate in the workshop actively with
a contribution.
Invited Keynote
Nancy Ide (Vassar College, USA) : Towards a Global Language Grid –
Challenges and Opportunities
Topics of Interest
In the list of topics below, the term “Language Technology (LT)”
comprises Natural Language Processing, Natural Language Understanding,
all types of speech and conversational technologies, as well as
language-centric AI and general AI. The term “platform” includes notions
such as, among others, infrastructures, frameworks, clouds etc.
* LT platforms : architectures and approaches (including commercial and
non-commercial ; national and international ; domain-specific and
general purpose ; all countries, regions and continents)
* LT platform interoperability : standards, APIs, workflows, as well as
the exchange of services, models, data and metadata
* Data and metadata exchange formats and harvesting (including
taxonomies, ontologies and other forms of semantic descriptions of
repository records)
* Operational and legal policies as well as government structures for LT
platforms (GDPR, data management, billing, business models)
* (Cloud-based) containerisation and virtualisation technologies for LT
platforms
* Training, re-training and adaption of models ; connecting data sets,
tools and machine learning frameworks
* LT platforms and challenges regarding the availability of CPU/GPU
resources
* From (general or domain-specific) AI platforms and (general or
domain-specific) LT platforms and back again
* Community-related aspects of LT platforms
We invite contributions on the topics mentioned above or any related
topics of interest.
Important Dates
* Deadline for paper submissions : 21 February 2020
* Notification of acceptance : 13 March 2020
* Final version of accepted papers : 03 April 2020
* Final programme and online proceedings : 24 April 2020
* Workshop : 16 May 2020 (afternoon)
Submission
Please submit your papers at **
https://dfki.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a842e387863a751300a0ce0cb&id=82676af43d&e=0e441fff1c
before the deadline of 21 February 2020. Accepted papers will be
presented as oral presentations or as posters. All accepted papers will
be published in the workshop proceedings. In addition, the organisers
consider preparing a journal special issue or a book publication with
selected papers of the workshop.
Papers should be formatted according to the stylesheet availabile on the
LREC 2020 website and should not exceed 8 pages, excluding references
and appendices. Papers should be submitted in PDF format through the URL
mentioned above.
When submitting a paper, authors will be asked to provide essential
information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e., also technologies,
standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work
described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover,
ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the described LRs (data,
tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of
experiments (including evaluation ones).
Organizing Committee
Georg Rehm (DFKI)
Kalina Bontcheva (USFD)
Khalid Choukri (ELDA)
Jan Hajic (CUNI)
Stelios Piperidis (ILSP)
Andrejs Vasiljevs (Tilde)
Contact : Georg Rehm – georg.rehm@dfki.de
Programme Committee (pending availability)
Albina Auksoriūtė (Institute of the Lithuanian Language, Lithuania)
Núria Bel (University Pompeu Fabra, Spain)
Kalina Bontcheva (University of Sheffield, UK)
Hervé Bourlard (Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland)
António Branco (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Gerhard Budin (University Vienna, Austria)
Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
Jens Edlund (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
Radovan Garabik (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia)
Maria Gavriilidou (ILSP, R.C. "Athena", Greece)
José Manuel Gómez Pérez (Expert System Iberia, Spain)
Jan Hajic (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic)
Fryni Kakoyianni Doa (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
Cvetana Krstev (Belgrade University, Serbia)
Svetla Koeva (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria)
Simon Krek (Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia)
Krister Linden (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Bernardo Magnini (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy)
Jan Odijk (Universiteit Utrecht, Netherlands)
Maciej Ogrodniczuk (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)
Christoph Prinz (Sail Labs, Austria ; LT Innovate, Belgium)
Eric Ras (Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology)
Georg Rehm (DFKI, Germany)
Eirikur Rögnvaldsson (University of Iceland)
Michael Rosner (University of Malta)
Bolette Sandford Pedersen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Inguna Skadina (Science, University of Latvia)
Koenraad De Smedt (University of Bergen, Norway)
Marko Tadic (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
Dan Tufiș (Romanian Academy of Sciences, Romania)
Tamás Váradi (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary)
Phillippe Wacker (LT Innovate, Belgium)
Andy Way (Dublin City University, Ireland)
François Yvon (CNRS – LIMSI, France)
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