Workshop at NoDaLiDa, Oslo, May 22, 2013
CALL FOR PAPERS
Goal, Audience and Topics
The workshop will be a forum for presenting and discussing language research infrastructure activities in Northern Europe including the Baltic countries. Recent years have seen a number of large-scale national and international initiatives and projects such as CLARIN, DASISH, EUDAT, META-NORD, INESS, etc. These are aimed at promoting access to big data and enabling eScience in the area of linguistics, language studies, philology and related fields. Some of these activities have already booked preliminary results suitable for dissemination, while others are in the planning or initial implementation stages and want to exchange ideas, learn from each other’s experiences and synchronize activities. The Nordic dimension is deemed important in order to overcome local limitations, to stimulate regional cooperation, to secure interoperability, to build on previous Nordic research and to exploit common eInfrastructure solutions. The primary target audience of the workshop consists of everybody who is involved in the planning, implementation, population, operation, support or exploitation of language research infrastructure. Participants in relevant ongoing initiatives and projects as well as their user groups in Northern Europe and the Baltics are especially invited to participate.
We call for contributions that address topics including but not limited to the following:
- linguistic web services, tool chaining and workflows
- innovative user interfaces to language resources
- cooperative linguistic annotation and documentation tools
- advances in search, filtering, mapping and mashups of language data
- data categories, pids and metadata for language materials
- ‘enhanced’ publications, citation and linking of language data to publications
- catalogues, repositories, archiving and curation of language data
- access, licensing, privacy and other legal, ethical and commercial aspects
- national and international networking and eInfrastructure initiatives
Submission format and procedure
The programme is planned to have plenary oral presentations and a poster and demo session.
- Long papers (up to sixteen pages incl. bibliography) are invited for the oral presentation of important innovative results and in depth overviews of the state of the art.
- Short papers (up to ten pages incl. bibliography) are invited for the oral presentation of important ongoing work with tentative results.
- Demonstrations are very welcome, and must be submitted in the form of a short paper (up to ten pages incl. bibliography).
- Posters are also invited, and must be submitted in the form of a short paper (up to ten pages incl. bibliography).
All contributions should be submitted as papers formatted according to the NoDaLiDa author instructions. Submissions must be anonymous, i.e. not reveal author(s) on the title page or through self-references. Papers must be submitted in PDF and uploaded through the on-line conference system (remember to choose the correct Workshop track). The deadline for submissions was Monday, March 18, 2013 (23:59 CET). The selection of papers is expected by April 15 and final versions of papers will be due on May 2, 2013.
Organization
Program committee chairs:
- Koenraad De Smedt (Bergen), contact person
- Bente Maegaard (København)
- Lars Borin (Göteborg)
- Krister Lindén (Helsinki)
- Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson (Reykjavik)
- Kadri Vider (Tartu)
Program committee members:
- Jürgen Wedekind
- Inguna Skadiņa
- Bolette Pedersen
- Lene Offersgaard
- Costanza Navarretta
- Kadri Muischnek
- Krista Liin
- Steven Krauwer
- Kimmo Koskenniemi
- Sigrun Helgadóttir
- Karin Friberg Heppin
- Hanne Fersøe
- Daan Broeder
- Gerlof Bouma
- Kristín Bjarnadóttir
The workshop has the support of CLARINO, DK-CLARIN and FIN-CLARIN.
Practical details and registration will be announced later in cooperation with the NoDaLiDa 2013 local organization.