19.323 new publication: Language Resources and Evaluation

               Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 19, No. 323.
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   [1] From: Nancy Ide <ide_at_cs.vassar.edu> (36)
         Subject: Language Resources and Evaluation: Special Inaugural
                 Issue

   [2] From: Nancy Ide <ide_at_cs.vassar.edu> (51)
         Subject: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Language Resources and
                 Evaluation

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         Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 07:45:09 +0100
         From: Nancy Ide <ide_at_cs.vassar.edu>
         Subject: Language Resources and Evaluation: Special Inaugural Issue

               ***** JUST PUBLISHED *****

                Special Inaugural Issue

            LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION

Nancy Ide and Nicoletta Calzolari, Co-Editors-in-Chief

                Volume 39**, Number 1

                       Springer

         Available online at <http://www.springerlink.com>www.springerlink.com

Language Resources and Evaluation is the first publication devoted to
the acquisition, creation, annotation, and use of language resources,
together with methods for evaluation of resources, technologies, and
applications. The special inaugural issue is dedicated to the memory
of Antonio Zampolli, who pioneered efforts to develop and use
language resources to enhance language processing.

The second issue of LRE, to appear shortly, will be a special on
Advanced Issues in Question Answering, edited by James Pustejovsky
and Janyce Wiebe.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Introduction to the Special Inaugural Issue -- Nancy Ide and
Nicoletta Calzolari

European Language Resources Association: Background, Recent
Developments, and Future Perspectives -- ente Maegaard, Khalid
Choukri, Nicoletta Calzolari,Jan Odijk

Some of My Best Friends are Linguists -- Frederick Jelinek

Developing Language Technologies with the Support of Language
Resources and Evaluation Programs -- Joseph Mariani

Accuracy and Suitability: New Challenges for Evaluation -- Margaret King

Can We Talk? Methods for Evaluation and Training of Spoken Dialogue
Systems -- Marilyn Walker

Thesaurus or Logical Ontology: Which One Do We Need for Text Mining?
-- Junichi Tsujii and Sophia Ananiadou

Hybrid Architectures for Machine Translation Systems -- Gregor Thurmair

Getting to the Heart of the Matter: Speech as the Expression of
Affect Rather Than Just Text or Language -- Nick Campbell

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**The volume series numbers for LRE have been retained from the
journal Computers and the Humanities, which LRE replaces.

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         Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 07:45:44 +0100
         From: Nancy Ide <ide_at_cs.vassar.edu>
         Subject: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Language Resources and Evaluation

LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION

Published by Springer

Editors-in-chief:

    Nancy Ide, Department of Computer Science, Vassar College, USA

    Nicoletta Calzolari, Isitiuto di Linguistica Computazionale, CNR,
Italy

Language Resources and Evaluation is the first publication devoted to
the acquisition, creation, annotation, management, and use of
language resources, together with methods for their evaluation.
Language resources include language data and descriptions used to
assist and augment language processing applications, such as written
or spoken corpora and lexica, multimodal resources, grammars,
terminology or domain specific databases and dictionaries,
ontologies, multimedia databases, etc., as well as tools for their
acquisition, preparation, annotation, management, customization, and
use. Evaluation of language resources involves=20
assessment the state- of-the-art for a given=20
technology, comparison of approaches,
validation of results, benchmarking, and assessment of system
usability and user satisfaction.

The journal editors are soliciting submissions on any of the
following topics:

=B7 Methods, tools, and procedures for the creation and
annotation of mono- and multi-lingual language resources

=B7 Methods for knowledge extraction and acquisition

=B7 Guidelines, standards, models, and best practices

=B7 Multimedia and multimodal language resources, and their
integration

=B7 Ontologies and knowledge representation

=B7 Exploitation of language resources to enhance language
processing applications and sub-tasks

=B7 Language resources in the context of the Semantic Web

=B7 Language resources metadata

=B7 Evaluation methodologies, protocols and measures

=B7 Resources for benchmarking and evaluation, blackbox, glassbox
and diagnostic evaluation

Language Resources and Evaluation is the official journal of the
European Language Resources Association (ELRA),=20
sponsor of the bi- annual LREC conference.

All submissions are now made on-line! For=20
information, see http:// www.springeronline.com/=20
(go to Linguistics > Computational
Linguistics) or contact the publisher:

Mrs. Jolanda Voogd, Associate Publishing Editor

Humanities Unit - Linguistics

Springer

P.O. Box 17, 3300 AA Dordrecht,

The Netherlands

Telephone: +31-(0)78 - 6576116 (direct)

Fax: +31-(0)78 - 6576350

E-mail: Jolanda.Voogd_at_springer-sbm.com
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