ALR 2018 - The 13th Workshop on Asian Language Resources

This 13th workshop on Asian Language Resources, annexed to the 11th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2018), focuses on language resources for Asian region, which has more than 2,200 spoken languages. There are now increasing efforts to build multi-lingual, multi-modal language resources, with varying levels of annotations, through manual, semi-automatic and automatic approaches, as the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) spreads across the region. Correspondingly, the development of practical applications on these language resources has also been rapidly growing. The workshop on Asian Language Resources is a series aiming to forge a better coordination and collaboration among researchers on these languages, and the Natural Language Processing (NLP) community, in general to develop common frameworks and processes for this purpose.
To achieve these goals, the workshop calls for original and unpublished technical, strategy, policy and survey papers concerning, but not limited to, the following topics of Asian languages:
Text corpora, speech corpora, corpora in other modalities or media (such as video for sign languages or affective computing)
Lexicons, grammars, machine-readable dictionaries, domain specific terminology
Ontologies, knowledge representation, semantic web technologies
Infrastructure for constructing and sharing language resources
Exchange and annotation schemata, exchange formats
Standards or specifications for language resources and content management
Language resources for basic NLP tasks (word segmentation, named entity recognition, syntactic analysis, semantic analysis, discourse analysis, speech recognition, speech synthesis, etc.)
Language resources for Human Language Technology (HLT) applications (such as text generation, information retrieval, information extraction, question answering, machine translation, speech translation, reasoning, affective computing, etc.)
Strategies and priorities for cooperation and collaboration
Licensing and copyright issues
LRE Map
Identify, Describe and Share your LRs!
Describing your language resources (LRs) in the LRE Map (Language Resources and Evaluation Map) is now a normal practice in the submission procedure of LREC (introduced in 2010 and adopted by other conferences). To continue the efforts initiated at LREC 2014 about “Sharing LRs” (data, tools, web-services, etc.), authors of the workshop on Asian Language Resources will have the possibility, when submitting a paper, to upload LRs in a special LREC repository. This effort of sharing LRs, linked to the LRE Map for their description, may become a new “regular” feature for conferences in our field, thus contributing to creating a common repository where everyone can deposit and share data.
As scientific work requires accurate citations of referenced work so as to allow the community to understand the whole context and also replicate the experiments conducted by other researchers, LREC 2018 and collocated workshop endorse the need to uniquely Identify LRs through the use of the International Standard Language Resource Number (ISLRN), a Persistent Unique Identifier to be assigned to each Language Resource. The assignment of ISLRNs to LRs cited in the papers will be offered at submission time.
Committee
Chair
Kiyoaki Shirai (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
Co-Chair
Olivia Kwong (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Karthika Vijayan (National University of Singapore)
Program Committee
Masayuki Asahara (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics)
Minhwa Chung (Seoul National University)
Koiti Hasida (The University of Tokyo)
Sarmad Hussain (Center for Language Engineering, Al-Khwarizmi Institute of Computer Science, University of Engineering & Technology Lahore)
Hansaem Kim (Yonsei University)
Mamoru Komachi (Tokyo Metropolitan University)
Binyang Li (University of International Relations, Beijing)
Lianfang Liu (Guangxi Computing Center)
Wang Lei (Institute for Infocomm Research)
Masnizah Mohd (Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia)
Hammam Riza (Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology)
Rachel Edita Roxas (National University Philippines)
Minoru Sasaki (Ibaraki University)
Kazutaka Shimada (Kyushu Institute of Technology)
Sanghoun Song (Incheon National University)
Virach Sornlertlamvanich (Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology, Thammasat University)
Takenobu Tokunaga (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Masao Utiyama (National Institute of Information and Communications Technology)
Derek Fai Wong (University of Macau)