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The 8th Workshop on Asian Language Resources (ALR8) is organized under the Asian Language Resources Committee (ALRC) of Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (AFNLP) to chart and catalogue the status of Asian Language Resources, investigate and discuss the problems related to the standards and specification on creating and sharing various levels of language resources, promote a dialogue between developers and users of various language resources in order to address any gaps in language resources and practical applications, nurture collaboration in their development and use, and provide opportunity for researchers from Asia to collaborate with researchers in other regions. The workshop will be held in conjunction with The 23rd Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2010).

Relevant topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

Infrastructure for constructing and sharing language resources Meta data for resource classification and discovery Exchange and annotation schemata Exchange formats Standards or specifications for language resources Standards or specifications for content management Analysis Text corpora, speech corpora Systems Lexica Grammars

Ontologies Language resources for basic NLP tasks (such as word segmentation, named entity recognition, syntactic analysis, semantic analysis, discourse analysis, speech recognition , speech synthesis, etc.) Language Resources for HLT applications (such as information retrieval, information extraction, question answering, machine translation, speech translation, etc.) Strategies and priorities for EU-US and Asian cooperation Licensing and copyright issues

Important Dates

June 10, 2010     Paper Submission Deadline
June 30, 2010      Notification of Acceptance
July 10, 2010       Camera Ready Papers
Aug 21-22, 2010   Workshop Dates

Submission Information

Submissions would be through an online system, soon available at the workshop website (www.crulp.org/ALR8). The papers must not exceed 8 pages, including references and appendices. The paper format will be same as required for the main conference (see http://www.coling-2010.org/SubmissionGuideline.htm )

Further Information

Contact Sarmad Hussain – sarmad.hussain@nu.edu.pk, or visit www.crulp.org/ALR8

Organizing Committee

Sarmad Hussain (Chair) – CRULP, NUCES, Pakistan
Hammam Riza (co-chair) - IPTEKnet-BPPT, Indonesia
Virach Sornlertlamvanich (co-chair) - NECTEC, Thailand