Call for Papers

Call for Papers

The goal of this workshop is to encourage and provide a venue for research on novel incentives to supplement LR collection based traditionally on monetary compensation. By increasing the range of incentives offered we can increase the diversity of LRs available by reaching speaker groups that have been previously inaccessible and by enabling work on languages and topics that are not currently among any funder’s priorities.

Because linguistic innovation is effectively limitless, relying upon a limited resource, monetary compensation, to generate the data needed to document the world’s languages in all their situations of use is certain to fall short. Instead the community of language resource developers and users must develop and employ incentives that scale beyond the budget of 3- or 5-year programs. While a few innovative efforts employ novel incentives, they remain uncommon in our field even while they grow among social media providers.

Topics

In order to continue and expand the discussion on novel incentives this workshop will invite contributions on related topics including:

· projects that use alternate or novel incentives

· characteristics and performance of populations attracted by novel incentives

· modifications of the data collection and annotation tasking and workflows to accommodate new workforces, including the now familiar crowdsourcing approaches

· techniques for integrating the results of novel incentives, workforces and workflows into research

· legal and ethical issues related to novel incentive models

· other topics relevant to novel incentives in data collection from people

The workshop will also consider papers that discuss data collection efforts employing monetary compensation provided they compare to alternate incentives or address the issues of tasking, workflow or exploiting the results of the new workforce.

Presenting authors of Best Paper Employing LanguageARC and Best Student Paper will receive travel assistance to present during this workshop at LREC.

Submissions

We will accept papers between 4 and 8 pages excluding references. Accepted workshop papers will be published as workshop proceedings along with the main conference papers. Papers must follow the LREC 2022 style sheet and author’s kit templates. Papers are to be submitted via the workshop START page.

Important Dates

- submission deadline: April 8, 2022 April 15, 2022

- notification of acceptance: April 28, 2022

- deadline for camera-ready versions: May 23, 2022

Identify, Describe and Share your LRs!

• Describing your LRs in the LRE Map is now a normal practice in the submission procedure of LREC (introduced in 2010 and adopted by other conferences). To continue the efforts initiated at LREC 2014 about “Sharing LRs” (data, tools, web-services, etc.), authors will have the possibility, when submitting a paper, to upload LRs in a special LREC repository. This effort of sharing LRs, linked to the LRE Map for their description, may become a new “regular” feature for conferences in our field, thus contributing to creating a common repository where everyone can deposit and share data.

• As scientific work requires accurate citations of referenced work so as to allow the community to understand the whole context and also replicate the experiments conducted by other researchers, LREC 2022 endorses the need to uniquely Identify LRs through the use of the International Standard Language Resource Number (ISLRN, www.islrn.org), a Persistent Unique Identifier to be assigned to each Language Resource. The assignment of ISLRNs to LRs cited in LREC papers will be offered at submission time.