<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class=""> ****** CALL FOR PAPERS ******</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class=""> The Third International Workshop on Worldwide Language Service Infrastructure (WLSI-3) </font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class=""> and </font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class=""> The Second Workshop on Open Infrastructures and Analysis Frameworks for Human Language Technologies (OIAF4HLT-2)</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class=""> Co-located with COLING2016</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class=""> December 12th, 2016 </font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class=""> Osaka International Convention Center (OICC), Osaka, Japan</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class=""> <a href="http://langrid.org/wlsi-oiaf4hlt-2016" class="">http://langrid.org/wlsi-oiaf4hlt-2016</a></font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class="">Language technologies and tools (hereafter called language resources) increasingly require sophisticated infrastructures </font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class="">to share, deploy as services, and combine to support research, development, innovation and collaboration. To address this </font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class="">need, several infrastructures have been recently established, including the Language Grid, the Language Application (LAPPS) </font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class="">Grid, META-SHARE, DKPro, and CLARIN’s Weblicht. While these infrastructures allow users to develop applications using deployed </font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class="">language resources/services, users are typically restricted to tools and resources available through a single infrastructure </font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class="">due to a lack of interoperability. The lack of interoperability among infrastructures has led to duplicated software development </font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class="">efforts as well as redundancy among efforts to manage language resource access, handle licensing concerns, etc.</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class="">WLSI-3/OIAF4HLT-2 focuses on the technological and institutional challenges that impact an effort to construct a worldwide </font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class="">interoperable language service infrastructure. It aims to bring together members of the NLP community, including operators </font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class="">of language service infrastructures, but also resource users, developers, and providers, in order to explore and discuss </font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class="">the requirements and desiderata for NLP infrastructures, as well as the opportunities and challenges for enabling interoperable </font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class="">communication among existing infrastructures. The combination of two previously successful workshops addressing NLP infrastructure </font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class="">development and interoperability reflects the recognition of the need for a global effort to achieve mutual interoperability </font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class="">among tools and platforms.</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class="">[Topics of Interest] </font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class="">This workshop invites papers on all aspects of development and use of NLP infrastructure, especially but not limited to:</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Sharing language resources and language technologies as services</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Metadata for language resources and services</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Interoperability and reusability of language services</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Workflows and pipelines for language service composition</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Language services and language applications development</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Metadata and cataloguing</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Legal issues and operational issues of language service infrastructure</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• International cooperation and sustainable collaboration on joint initiatives</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class="">[Paper Submission]</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class="">Paper submissions for WLSI-3 and OIAF4HLT-2 will be handled by the START system. Before submitting your paper please ensure you have </font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class="">read the Instructions for Authors and that your paper uses the prescribed style files. To submit your work, please use the submission </font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class="">page at <a href="https://www.softconf.com/coling2016/WLSI3nOIAF2" class="">https://www.softconf.com/coling2016/WLSI3nOIAF2</a></font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class="">[Important Dates]</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class="">Submission deadline: September 25th, 2016 (23:59 GMT+9)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class="">Author notification: October 16th, 2016</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class="">Camera ready due by Authors: October 30th, 2016 (23:59 GMT+9)</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class="">[Organizers]</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Yohei Murakami (Kyoto University, Japan)</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Donghui Lin (Kyoto University, Japan)</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Nancy Ide (Vassar College, USA)</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• James Pustejovsky (Brandeis University, USA)</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class="">[Program Committee]</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Mirna Adriani (University of Indonesia, Indonesia)</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Mairehaba Aili (Xinjiang University, China)</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Nuria Bel (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Kalina Bontcheva (University of Sheffield, UK)</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Nicoletta Calzolari (CNR-ILC, Italy)</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Richard Eckart de Castilho (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany)</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Christopher Cieri (LDC, USA)</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Khalid Choukri (ELDA, France)</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Riccardo Del Gratta (CNR-ILC, Italy)</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Luca Dini (Holmes Semantic Solutions, France)</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Zhiqiang Gao (Southeast University, China)</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Jens Grivolla (GLiCom, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Hitoshi Isahara (Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan)</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Toru Ishida (Kyoto University, Japan)</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Yoshinobu Kano (Shizuoka University, Japan)</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Monica Monachini (CNR-ILC, Italy)</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Weinila Mushajiang (Xinjiang University, China)</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Masayuki Otani (Kyoto University, Japan)</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Stelios Piperidis (ILSP, Greece)</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Vu Hai Quan (University of Natural Sciences, Vietnam National University, Vietnam)</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Virach Sornlertlamvanich (SIIT, Thailand)</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>• Andrejs Vasiljevs (Tilde, Latvia)</font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Monaco" size="3" class="">For more information regarding the program, please contact <a href="mailto:wlsi-oiaf4hlt-2016@langrid.org" class="">wlsi-oiaf4hlt-2016@langrid.org</a></font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>