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{{Event
|Acronym=LREC 2018
|Title=11th Edition of its Language Resources and Evaluation Conference.
|Series=LREC
|Type=Conference
|Field=Lanuage Evaluation
|Start date=2018/05/07
|End date=2018/05/12
|Twitter account=@lrec2018
|City=Miyazaki
|Country=Japan
|Submission deadline=2018/02/15
|Paper deadline=2018/02/15
|Poster deadline=2017/10/02
|Workshop deadline=2017/10/02
|Notification=2017/12/20
|Submitting link=https://www.softconf.com/lrec2018/main/
|Has coordinator=Antonio Zampolli,
|has general chair=Nicoletta Calzolari,
|Has PC member=Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Christopher Cieri, Thierry Declerck, Koiti Hasida, Hitoshi Isahara, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis, Takenobu Tokunaga,
}}
''Since the first LREC held in Granada in 1998, LREC has become the major event on Language Resources (LRs) and Evaluation for Language Technologies (LT). The aim of LREC is to provide an overview of the state-of-the-art, explore new R&D directions and emerging trends, exchange information regarding LRs and their applications, evaluation methodologies and tools, ongoing and planned activities, industrial uses and needs, requirements coming from the e-society, both with respect to policy issues and to technological and organisational ones.

LREC provides a unique forum for researchers, industrials and funding agencies from across a wide spectrum of areas to discuss problems and opportunities, find new synergies and promote initiatives for international cooperation, in support to investigations in language sciences, progress and innovation in language technologies and development of corresponding products, services and applications, and standards.''

==Topics==
===Issues in the design, construction and use of LRs: text, speech, sign, gesture, image, in single or multimodal/multimedia data===
Guidelines, standards, best practices and models for LRs interoperability
Methodologies and tools for LRs construction and annotation
Methodologies and tools for extraction and acquisition of knowledge
Ontologies, terminology and knowledge representation
LRs and Semantic Web
LRs and Crowdsourcing
Metadata for LRs and semantic/content mark-up

===Exploitation of LRs in systems and applications===
Sign language, multimedia information and multimodal communication
LRs in systems and applications such as: information extraction, information retrieval, audio-visual and multimedia search, speech dictation, meeting transcription, Computer Aided Language Learning, training and education, mobile communication, machine translation, speech translation, summarisation, web services, semantic search, text mining, inferencing, reasoning, sentiment analysis/opinion mining, etc.
Interfaces: (speech-based) dialogue systems, natural language and multimodal/multisensory interactions, voice-activated services, etc.
Use of (multilingual) LRs in various fields of application like e-government, e-participation, e-culture, e-health, mobile applications, digital humanities, social sciences, etc.
Industrial LRs requirements
User needs, LT for accessibility

===Issues in LT evaluation===
LT evaluation methodologies, protocols and measures
Validation and quality assurance of LRs
Benchmarking of systems and products
Usability evaluation of HLT-based user interfaces and dialogue systems
User satisfaction evaluation

===General issues regarding LRs & Evaluation===
International and national activities, projects and initiatives
Priorities, perspectives, strategies in national and international policies for LRs
Multilingual issues, language coverage and diversity, less-resourced languages
Open, linked and shared data and tools, open and collaborative architectures
Replicability and reproducibility issues
Organisational, economical, ethical and legal issues
==Submissions==

==Important Dates==
2 October 2017: Submission of proposals for oral and poster papers
2 October 2017: Submission of proposals for panels, workshops and tutorials
25 October 2017: Notification of acceptance of workshops and tutorials
20 December 2017: Notification of acceptance of conference papers
15 February 2018: Final Submission of accepted papers
9 March 2018: Submission of workshop proceedings
7-8 May 2018: Pre-conference Workshops & Tutorials
9-10-11 May 2018: Main Conference
12 May 2018: Workshops & Tutorials

==Committees==
* General Co-Chairs
** [[has general chair::Nicoletta Calzolari]], CNR, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale “Antonio Zampolli”, Pisa, Italy

* Program Committee Members
** [[has PC member::Nicoletta Calzolari]], CNR, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale “Antonio Zampolli”, Pisa, Italy
** [[has PC member::Khalid Choukri]], ELRA, Paris, France
** [[has PC member::Christopher Cieri]], LDC, Philadelphia, USA
** [[has PC member::Thierry Declerck]], DFKI GmbH, Saarbrücken, Germany
** [[has PC member::Koiti Hasida]], The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
** [[has PC member::Hitoshi Isahara]], Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi, Japan
** [[has PC member::Bente Maegaard]], CST, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
** [[has PC member::Joseph Mariani]], LIMSI-CNRS & IMMI, Orsay, France
** [[has PC member::Asuncion Moreno]], Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
** [[has PC member::Jan Odijk]], UIL-OTS, Utrecht, The Netherlands
** [[has PC member::Stelios Piperidis]], Athena Research Center/ILSP, Athens, Greece
** [[has PC member::Takenobu Tokunaga]], Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
Acronym	LREC 2018 +
End date	May 12, 2018 +
Event in series	LREC +
Event type	Conference +
Has PC member	Nicoletta Calzolari +, Khalid Choukri +, Christopher Cieri +, Thierry Declerck +, Koiti Hasida +, Hitoshi Isahara +, Bente Maegaard +, Joseph Mariani +, Asuncion Moreno +, Jan Odijk +, Stelios Piperidis + and Takenobu Tokunaga +
Has Submitting link	https://www.softconf.com/lrec2018/main/ +
Has coordinates	31° 54' 27", 131° 25' 13"Latitude: 31.907633333333 Longitude: 131.42040277778 +
Has coordinator	Antonio Zampolli +
Has general chair	Nicoletta Calzolari +
Has location city	Miyazaki +
Has location country	Category:Japan +
Has twitter	@lrec2018 +
IsA	Event +
Notification	December 20, 2017 +
Paper deadline	February 15, 2018 +
Poster deadline	October 2, 2017 +
Start date	May 7, 2018 +
Submission deadline	February 15, 2018 +
Title	11th Edition of its Language Resources and Evaluation Conference. +
Workshop deadline	October 2, 2017 +