ELSE-IF 2019: 1st European Language Services - Industry Forum Gartenhalle / Convention Center Karlsruhe, Germany, September 9, 2019 |
Conference website | http://www.pret-a-llod.eu/else-if19/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=elseif2019 |
Abstract registration deadline | July 9, 2019 |
Submission deadline | July 15, 2019 |
Language technologies increasingly rely on large amounts of data. Better access and usage of language resources will enable the provision of multilingual solutions that will support the emerging Digital Single Market in Europe. However data is rarely ‘ready-to-use’ and language technology specialists spend over 80% of their time on cleaning, organizing and collecting datasets. Reducing this effort promises huge cost savings for all sectors where language technologies are required.
We invite submissions to the first European Language Services Industry Forum, to be held in Karlsruhe, Germany in September 2019. This forum aims at bringing together, on the one hand, researchers from across disciplines concerned with the use of language data,the development of language methods and implementation of language service and, on the other hand, the industries consuming those data and services.
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:
- Full papers describing applications of technologies and methods to solve real-life problems. 6 pages max.
- Short papers describing position statement, use case description, or a system demo. 4 pages max.
- Lightning papers. 1 page.
The submissions are accepted in .pdf format following the IEEE templates: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html
We welcome submissions that address industry relevant use cases and/or methodologies. We expect every submission to address some industry-relevant aspects of the language technology stack.
We welcome submissions on the topics listed below, but not limited to these topics.
List of Topics
- Language Services
- Question answering and semantic search
- Text analytics on Big Data
- Semantic content management
- Computer-aided Language Learning
- Natural language interfaces to (Big) Data
- Knowledge-based NLP
- Language Data
- Language data construction and acquisition
- Language data annotation
- Language data portals and metadata about language data
- Organizational and infrastructural management of language data
- Multilingual, multimedia and multimodal language data
- Evaluation, provenance and quality of language data
- Usability, validation and visualization of language data
- Standards and interoperability of language data
- Legal aspects of publishing language data
- Typological databases
- Under-resourced languages
- Knowledge Graphs
- Linguistic Linked Data and Multilingual Semantic Web
- Ontologies, terminology, wordnets and lexical resources
- Information and knowledge extraction (taxonomy extraction, ontology learning)
- Data, information and knowledge integration across languages
- (Cross-lingual) Ontology Alignment
- Entity linking and relatedness
- Linked Data profiling
- Knowledge representation and reasoning
Review and Evaluation Criteria
Each submission will be reviewed by several PC members. The reviewing process is single-blind. Papers will be evaluated according to the following criteria:
- Industry relevance
- Originality, novelty, and innovativeness
- Impact of results
- Soundness of the evaluation
- Proper comparison to related work
- Clarity and quality of writing
At least one author of each accepted paper must register to present the paper at the conference.
Presentation format
There will be 3 different time slots:
- 20 minutes
- 15 minutes
- 5 minutes
Authors of demo papers are invited to give a demo of the respective system.
There will be a separate dedicated area where the participants can demonstrate their demos (without big screens), hold a discussion, exchange opinions.
Accepted full and short papers will be published at CEUR-WS.org.
Invited Speakers
- Georg Rehm (DFKI)
- Luc Meertens (CrossLang NV)
Venue
The conference will be held in will take place at the Gartenhalle / Convention Center Karlsruhe, co-located with SEMANTiCS 2019 https://2019.semantics.cc/
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to artem.revenko@semantic-web.com