[open-linguistics] CFP: 4th Workshop on Indian Language Data: Resources and Evaluation (WILDRE-4) under LREC 2018.

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*4th Workshop on Indian Language Data: Resources and Evaluation (WILDRE-4)*
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Date: Saturday, 12th May 2018
*Venue: *Phoenix Seagaia Resort, Miyazaki, Japan (Organized under LREC 2018
(07-12 May 2018)

*Website:*
*Main website* - http://sanskrit.jnu.ac.in/conf/wildre4
*Submit papers on* - http://www.softconf.com/lrec2018/WILDRE/
*LREC website*: http://lrec2018.lrec-conf.org/en/
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WILDRE – the 4th workshop on Indian Language Data: Resources and Evaluation
is being organized in Miyazaki, Japan on 12h May 2018 under the LREC
platform.  India has a huge linguistic diversity and has seen concerted
efforts from the Indian government and industry towards developing language
resources. European Language Resource Association (ELRA) and its associate
organizations have been very active and successful in addressing the
challenges and opportunities related to language resource creation and
evaluation. It is therefore a great opportunity for resource creators of
Indian languages to showcase their work on this platform and also to
interact and learn from those involved in similar initiatives all over the
world. The broader objectives of the WILDRE will be
To map the status of Indian Language Resources
To investigate challenges related to creating and sharing various levels of
language resources
To promote a dialogue between language resource developers and users
To provide opportunity for researchers from India to collaborate with
researchers from other parts of the world

*DATES*
January 02, 2018* Paper submissions due*
February 15, 2018* aper notification of acceptance*
March 01, 2018 Camera-ready papers due
May 12, 2018* Workshop*

*SUBMISSIONS*
Papers must describe original, completed or in progress, and unpublished
work. Each submission will be reviewed by three program committee members.
Accepted papers will be given up to 10 pages (for full papers) 5 pages (for
short papers and posters) in the workshop proceedings, and will be
presented oral presentation or poster.
Papers should be formatted according to the LREC style-sheet, which is
provided on the LREC 2018 website (http://lrec2018.lrec-conf.org
/en/submission/authors-kit/). Please submit papers in PDF format to the
LREC website.

We are seeking submissions in the following category

   - Full papers (10 pages)
   - Short papers (work in progress – 5 pages)
   - Posters (innovative ideas/proposals, research proposal of students)
   - Demo (of working online/standalone systems)

WILDRE-4 will have a special focus on Demos of Indian Language Technology.
In the past few years, as more resources have been developed and made
available, there has been an increased activity in developing usable
technology using these. WILDRE-4 would like to encourage and widen the Demo
track to allow the community to showcase their demos and have mutually
beneficial interactions with each other as well as resource developers.
WILRE-4 will invite technical, policy and position paper submissions on the
following topics related to Indian Language Resources:
Digital Humanities, heritage computing
Corpora -  text, speech, multimodal, methodologies, annotation and tools
Lexicons and Machine-readable dictionaries
Ontologies, Grammars
Language resources for basic NLP, IR, Machine Translation and Speech
Technology tasks, tools and Infrastructure for constructing and sharing
language resources
Standards or specifications for language resources  applications
Licensing and copyright issues
Both submission and review processes handled electronically. The review
process will be *double-blind.* The workshop website will provide the
submission guidelines and the link for the electronic submission.
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. Moreover,
ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the described LRs (data, tools,
services, etc.), to enable their reuse, replicability of experiments,
including evaluation ones, etc.
For further information on this initiative, please refer to
http://lrec2018.lrec-conf.org/en/

*Conference Chairs*
Girish Nath Jha, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Kalika Bali, Microsoft Research India Lab, Bangalore, India
Sobha L, AU-KBC, Anna University, Chennai, India

*Program Committee (to be updated)*
1. Bogdan Babych, University of Leeds, UK
2. Claudia Soria, CNR-ILC, Italy
3. Dafydd Gibbon, Universität Bielefeld, Germany
4. Dipti Mishra Sharma, IIIT, Hyderabad
5. Diwakr Mishra, EZDI, Ahmedabad
6. Dorothee Beermann, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
7. Elizabeth Sherley, IITM-Kerala, Trivandrum
8. Esha Banerjee, Google, USA
9. Eveline Wandl-Vogt, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria
10. Georg Rehm, DFKI, Germany
11. Girish Nath Jha, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
12. Hans Uszkoreit, DFKI, Berlin
13. Jan Odijk, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
14. Jolanta Bachan, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland
15. Joseph Mariani, LIMSI-CNRS, France
16. Jyoti D. Pawar, Goa University
17. Kalika Bali, MSRI, Bangalore
18. Khalid Choukri, ELRA, France
19. Lars Hellan, NTNU, Norway
20. Marko Tadic, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Croatia
21. Massimo Monaglia, University of Florence, Italy
22. Monojit Choudhary, MSRI Bangalore
23. Narayan Choudhary, CIIL, Mysore
24. Nicoletta Calzolari, ILC-CNR, Pisa, Italy
25. Niladri Shekhar Dash, ISI Kolkata
26. Panchanan Mohanty, University of Hyderabad
27. Pinky Nainwani, Optimum Pvt.Ltd, Bangalore
28. Pushpak Bhattacharya, Director, IIT Patna
29. Ritesh Kumar, Agra University
30. S S Aggarwal, KIIT, Gurgaon, India
31. Sachin Kumar, CDAC-Pune
32. Shivaji Bandhopadhyay, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
33. Sobha L, AU-KBC Research Centre, Anna University
34. Stelios Piperidis, ILSP, Greece
35. Subhash Chandra, Delhi University
36. Swaran Lata, Head, TDIL, MCIT, Govt. of India
37. Vishal Goyal, Punjabi University Patiala
38. Zygmunt Vetulani, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland

*Workshop contact:*
Atul Kr. Ojha, Sr. NLP Research Engineer, MTEP project @JNU
shashwatup9k at gmail.com

Thanks and regards,
Atul
On behalf of the Organizing Committee
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