Overview
This 12th Workshop on Asian Language Resources, held on December 12, 2016, at Osaka International Convention Center, annexed to COLING 2016, focuses on language resources for Asian region, which has more than 2,200 spoken languages. There are now increasing efforts to build multi-lingual, multi-modal language resources, with varying levels of annotations, through manual, semi-automatic and automatic approaches, as the use of ICT spreads across the region. Correspondingly, the development of practical applications of these language resources has also been rapidly advancing. The ALR workshop series aims to forge a better coordination and collaboration among researchers on these languages and in the NLP community in general, to develop common frameworks and processes for promoting these activities. This year's workshop collaborates with ISO/TC 37/SC 4, which develops international standards for "Language Resources Management", and ELRA, which is campaigning LRE map, in order to integrate efforts to develop an Asian language resource map.
To achieve these goals, the workshop calls for original and unpublished technical, strategy, policy and survey papers concerning, but not limited to, the following topics:
Text corpora, speech corpora, corpora in other modalities or media (such as video for sign languages or affective computing)
Lexicons, grammars, machine-readable dictionaries, domain specific terminology
Ontologies, knowledge representation, semantic web technologies
Infrastructure for constructing and sharing language resources
Exchange and annotation schemata, exchange formats
Standards or specifications for language resources and content management
Language resources for basic NLP tasks (word segmentation, named entity recognition, syntactic analysis, semantic analysis, discourse analysis, speech recognition, speech synthesis, etc.)
Language Resources for HLT applications (such as text generation, information retrieval, information extraction, question answering, machine translation, speech translation, reasoning, affective computing, etc.)
Strategies and priorities for cooperation and collaboration
Licensing and copyright issues
Program
Monday, December 12, 2016
Proceedings
A PDF version of the proceedings is available: view the proceedings / download the proceedings.
Paper Submissions
Please follow COLING 2016 INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS except that the relevant dates for this workshop are listed below and the START system entrance for uploading your papers is https://www.softconf.com/coling2016/ALR12/.
Important Dates
2016-09-28: paper submission deadline (extended)2016-10-16: notification of acceptance or rejection2016-10-30: camera-ready copies due2016-12-12: ALR12 Workshop atCOLING 2016
Co-Chairs
Koiti Hasida: Chair, Asian Language Resource Committee (ALRC), AFNLP / President, GSK / The University of Tokyo
Kam-Fai Wong: President, AFNLP / The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Nicoletta Calzolari: President, ELRA / CNR
Key-Sun Choi: Secretary, ISO/TC 37/SC 4 (language resource management standards) / KAIST
Past Workshops
ALR11 Workshop(proceedings) at IJCNLP 2013 (Nagoya, Japan)
ALR10 Workshop(proceedings) at COLING 2012 (Mumbai, India)
ALR9 Workshop(proceedings) at IJCNLP 2011 (Chiang Mai, Thailand)
ALR8 Workshop (proceedings) at COLING 2010 (Beijing, China)
ALR7 Workshop (proceedings) at IJCNLP 2009 (Suntec City, Singapore)
ALR6 workshop (proceedings) at IJCNLP 2008 (Hyderabad, India)