TOPICS

Given that LREC takes place for the first time in Asia, this year’s special theme is Comparable Corpora for Asian Languages. But we solicit contributions also on all other topics related to comparable corpora, including but not limited to the following:

Building Comparable Corpora:

 

• Human translations
• Automatic and semi-automatic methods
• Methods to mine parallel and non-parallel corpora from the Web
• Tools and criteria to evaluate the comparability of corpora
• Parallel vs non-parallel corpora, monolingual corpora
• Rare and minority languages, across language families
• Multi-media/multi-modal comparable corpora

Applications of comparable corpora:

 

• Human translations
• Language learning
• Cross-language information retrieval & document categorization
• Bilingual projections
• Machine translation
• Writing assistance
• Machine learning techniques using comparable corpora

Mining from Comparable Corpora:

 

• Cross-language distributional semantics
• Extraction of parallel segments or paraphrases from comparable corpora
• Extraction of bilingual and multilingual translations of single words and multi-word expressions, proper names, named entities, etc., from comparable corpora

 

IMPORTANT DATES

SUBMISSION INFORMATION

Please follow the style sheet and templates provided for the main conference at http://lrec2018.lrec-_conf.org/en/submission/authors-_kit/. Papers should be submitted as a PDF file at http://softconf.com/lrec2018/BUCC2018/. Submissions must describe original and unpublished work and range from four (4) to eight (8) pages including references.

Reviewing will be double blind, so the papers should not reveal the authors’ identity. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings.

Double submission policy: Parallel submission to other meetings or publications is possible but must be immediately notified to the workshop organizers.

For further information, please contact Serge Sharoff <S (dot) Sharoff (at) leeds (dot) ac (dot) uk>