You can now register for our workshop (and LREC).
The detailed Workshop Program is now available.
You can now register for our workshop (and LREC).
The detailed Workshop Program is now available.
Paper submission is handled through the START system.
Formatting guidelines and templates are now available.
On this site you'll find information on our workshop, New Challenges for NLP Frameworks, which was co-located with LREC 2010 in Valletta, Malta.
Contact us in case you'd like additional information.
New: Deadline extended to February 26.
Final Call for Papers
New Challenges for NLP Frameworks, a workshop at LREC 2010
22 May 2010, La Valleta, Malta
Natural language processing frameworks like GATE and UIMA have significantly changed the way NLP applications are designed, developed, and deployed. Features such as component-based design, test-driven development, and resource meta-descriptions now routinely provide higher robustness, better reusability, faster deployment, and improved scalability. They have become the staple of both NLP research and industrial application, fostering a new generation of NLP users and developers.
Nevertheless, after more than a decade of the current generation of NLP frameworks, the NLP research and application landscape is shifting. This brings new challenges to both the developers of NLP frameworks and their users. Driving forces include in particular:
This workshop will provide a venue for reporting ongoing work in the context of NLP frameworks, such as UIMA, GATE, and other related systems. Principal themes include:
The workshop aims to bring together developers and users of NLP frameworks from different perspectives, in order to elicit new requirements, feature successful solutions, and exchange successful patterns of NLP engineering. In particular, perspectives from the following user groups are welcome:
We solicit the following types of publications:
Note that the PC may suggest reassignment of a paper into a different category depending on its contribution.
Your submission must be formatted according to LREC's authoring guidelines.
Submission will be handled through the START system. When submitting a paper from the START page, 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. For further information on this new initiative, please refer to the LREC 2010 Map of Language Resources.
February 19 26, 2010 (2nd extended) - Deadline for workshop paper
March 8 12, 2010 - Notification of acceptance
March 18, 2010 - Camera-ready papers due
May 22, 2010 - Workshop in Malta
René Witte, Concordia University, Montréal
Hamish Cunningham, University of Sheffield
Jon Patrick, University of Sydney
Elena Beisswanger, University of Jena
Ekaterina Buyko, University of Jena
Udo Hahn, University of Jena
Karin Verspoor, University of Colorado Denver
Anni R. Coden, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Aaron Kaplan (Xerox, France)
Adam Funk (Uni. Sheffield)
Angus Roberts (Uni. Sheffield)
Anni R. Coden (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)
Claude Roux (Xerox Research Labs)
Diana Inkpen (Uni Ottawa)
Diana Maynard (Uni. Sheffield)
Dietmar Rösner (Uni. Magdeburg)
Dragan Gasevic (Uni. Athabasca)
Ekaterina Buyko (Uni. Jena)
Elena Beisswanger (Uni. Jena)
Epaminondas Kapetanios (Uni Westminster)
Eric W. Brown (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)
Graham Wilcock (Uni. Helsinki)
Guergana K. Savova (Mayo Clinic)
Hamish Cunningham (Uni. Sheffield)
Horacio Saggion (Uni. Sheffield)
Iryna Gurevych (Uni. Darmstadt)
Jian Su (I2R, Singapore)
Jochen Leidner (Thomson Reuters)
Jon Patrick (Uni. Sydney)
Juergen Rilling (Concordia Uni, Montréal)
Kalina Bontcheva (Uni. Sheffield)
Karin Verspoor (Uni. Colorado)
Katrin Tomanek (Uni. Jena)
Kevin B. Cohen (U. Colorado School of Medicine/MITRE)
Leila Kosseim (Concordia Uni., Montréal)
Leo Ferres (Uni. of Concepcion)
Marc Light (Thomson Corp. R&D)
Michael Tanenblatt (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)
Nancy Ide (Vassar College)
Nicolas Hernandez (Uni. Nantes)
Philip V. Ogren (Uni. Colorado)
Ralf Krestel (L3S Research Center, Hannover)
René Witte (Concordia Uni., Montréal)
Richard Eckart de Castilho (Uni. Darmstadt)
Sameer Pradhan (BBN)
Stefan Geißler (TEMIS GmbH)
Steven Bethard (Stanford Uni.)
Thilo Götz (IBM Germany)
Udo Hahn (Uni. Jena)
Valentin Tablan (Uni. Sheffield)
Yoshinobu Kano (Uni. Tokyo, Tsujii Lab)
Yuntao Zhang (Shanghai Jiaotong Uni.)