[NLP2RDF] CFP: WLSI-3/OIAF4HLT-2

[Nancy Ide]

                                       ******  CALL FOR PAPERS  ******

               The Third International Workshop on Worldwide Language Service Infrastructure (WLSI-3) 
                                                    and 
    The Second Workshop on Open Infrastructures and Analysis Frameworks for Human Language Technologies (OIAF4HLT-2)
                                          Co-located with COLING2016
                                              December 12th, 2016 
                             Osaka International Convention Center (OICC), Osaka, Japan
                                      http://langrid.org/wlsi-oiaf4hlt-2016

Language technologies and tools (hereafter called language resources) increasingly require sophisticated infrastructures 
to share, deploy as services, and combine to support research, development, innovation and collaboration. To address this 
need, several infrastructures have been recently established, including the Language Grid, the Language Application (LAPPS) 
Grid, META-SHARE, DKPro, and CLARIN’s Weblicht. While these infrastructures allow users to develop applications using deployed 
language resources/services, users are typically restricted to tools and resources available through a single infrastructure 
due to a lack of interoperability. The lack of interoperability among infrastructures has led to duplicated software development 
efforts as well as redundancy among efforts to manage language resource access, handle licensing concerns, etc.

WLSI-3/OIAF4HLT-2 focuses on the technological and institutional challenges that impact an effort to construct a worldwide 
interoperable language service infrastructure. It aims to bring together members of the NLP community, including operators 
of language service infrastructures, but also resource users, developers, and providers, in order to explore and discuss 
the requirements and desiderata for NLP infrastructures, as well as the opportunities and challenges for enabling interoperable 
communication among existing infrastructures. The combination of two previously successful workshops addressing NLP infrastructure 
development and interoperability reflects the recognition of the need for a global effort to achieve mutual interoperability 
among tools and platforms.

[Topics of Interest] 

This workshop invites papers on all aspects of development and use of NLP infrastructure, especially but not limited to:
	• Sharing language resources and language technologies as services
	• Metadata for language resources and services
	• Interoperability and reusability of language services
	• Workflows and pipelines for language service composition
	• Language services and language applications development
	• Metadata and cataloguing
	• Legal issues and operational issues of language service infrastructure
	• International cooperation and sustainable collaboration on joint initiatives

[Paper Submission]

Paper submissions for WLSI-3 and OIAF4HLT-2 will be handled by the START system. Before submitting your paper please ensure you have 
read the Instructions for Authors and that your paper uses the prescribed style files. To submit your work, please use the submission 
page at https://www.softconf.com/coling2016/WLSI3nOIAF2

[Important Dates]

Submission deadline: September 25th, 2016 (23:59 GMT+9)	
Author notification: October 16th, 2016
Camera ready due by Authors: October 30th, 2016 (23:59 GMT+9)

[Organizers]

	• Yohei Murakami (Kyoto University, Japan)
	• Donghui Lin (Kyoto University, Japan)
	• Nancy Ide (Vassar College, USA)
	• James Pustejovsky (Brandeis University, USA)

[Program Committee]

	• Mirna Adriani (University of Indonesia, Indonesia)
	• Mairehaba Aili (Xinjiang University, China)
	• Nuria Bel (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)
	• Kalina Bontcheva (University of Sheffield, UK)
	• Nicoletta Calzolari (CNR-ILC, Italy)
	• Richard Eckart de Castilho (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany)
	• Christopher Cieri (LDC, USA)
	• Khalid Choukri (ELDA, France)
	• Riccardo Del Gratta (CNR-ILC, Italy)
	• Luca Dini (Holmes Semantic Solutions, France)
	• Zhiqiang Gao (Southeast University, China)
	• Jens Grivolla (GLiCom, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)
	• Hitoshi Isahara (Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan)
	• Toru Ishida (Kyoto University, Japan)
	• Yoshinobu Kano (Shizuoka University, Japan)
	• Monica Monachini (CNR-ILC, Italy)
	• Weinila Mushajiang (Xinjiang University, China)
	• Masayuki Otani (Kyoto University, Japan)
	• Stelios Piperidis (ILSP, Greece)
	• Vu Hai Quan (University of Natural Sciences, Vietnam National University, Vietnam)
	• Virach Sornlertlamvanich (SIIT, Thailand)
	• Andrejs Vasiljevs (Tilde, Latvia)

For more information regarding the program, please contact wlsi-oiaf4hlt-2016 at langrid.org

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