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CALL FOR PAPERS (now closed)

Abstracts are invited for a one-day workshop on sign language corpora to take place following the 2008 LREC conference on June 1st, 2008. Recent technological developments allow sign language researchers to create relatively large video corpora of sign language use that were unimaginable ten years ago. Several national projects are currently underway, and more are planned. This workshop aims to share experiences from current and past efforts: what are the technical problems that were encountered and the solutions created, what are the linguistic decisions taken?

At the same time, the workshop shall also look into the future: How can we establish standards for linguistic tagging and metadata, avoid reinventing the wheel, but instead add sign language specifics to well-established or emerging best practices from the general LR community? How can we work towards (semi-) automatic annotation by computer recognition from video?

We invite abstracts for 20-minutes papers or posters (with or without demonstrations) on the following topics:

• Experiences in building sign language corpora
• Proposals for standards for linguistic annotation or for metadata descriptions
• Experiences from linguistic research using corpora
• Use of corpora in teaching and eLearning contexts
• Use of (parallel) corpora in interpreting and translation studies
• Language documentation and long-term accessibility for sign language data
• Video compression and streaming for sign language
• Tool development
• Lexicon construction
• Linking corpora and lexicons
• Computer recognition of sign language
• Steps towards automatic annotation of sign language

Short papers of both paper presentations and posters (4-6 pages) of this workshop will be published as workshop proceedings that are included in the conference package.

Please send your abstract (max. 500 words) by email to lrec2008 (at) sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de not later than Feb 1st, 2008 DEADLINE EXTENDED TO Feb 5th, 2008. In your mail, please indicate your preference for the presentation format: oral/signed paper, poster, or poster & demo.