lrec 2008 language resources and evaluation conferences
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LREC 2008 Language Resources and Evaluation Conferences. May 26 – 30, 2008 Marrakech, Morocco. Nemrava Jan, KIZI. LREC in numbers. 6th edition of LREC (started in 1998, held every two years) First outside Europe More than 600 papers (papers+posters) More than 1000 participants. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
May 26 – 30, 2008
Marrakech, Morocco
LREC 2008 Language Resources and Evaluation
Conferences
Nemrava Jan, KIZI
LREC in numbers
• 6th edition of LREC (started in 1998, held every two years)
• First outside Europe
• More than 600 papers (papers+posters)
• More than 1000 participants
UEP contribution
• OntoImage Workshop organized by DFKI– http://www.dfki.de/~declerck/ontoimage.html– 2nd Workshop on Language Resources for Content-
Based Image Retrieval
• Presentation of the work in WP5.4– Text Mining Support for Semantic Indexing and
Analysis of A/V Streams
• Main focus on combining textual descriptions and low-level visual features (colour, texture, etc.) of the images (Content Based Image Retrieval)
Interesting Talks at OntoImage
• Simone Santini (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid )– Context-based Retrieval as an Alternative to
Document Annotation
• Taha Osman (Nottingham Trent University)– Semantic-based Expansion of Image Retrieval
Queries
Main conference
• 3 days, more than 600 papers (900 submissions)
• 4 oral and 1 poster sessions in parallel• Keynote speech: Ricardo Baeza Yates:
The Web as a Semantic Source– VP of Research for Europe and Latin America
• Lectures: From ASR on Khmer language to Wikis
Interesting Talks
• Ondřej Bojar, Miroslav Janíček, Zdeněk žabokrtský, Pavel Češka and Peter Beňa: CzEng 0.7: Parallel Corpus with Community-Supplied Translations
• Satoshi Sekine - Extended Named Entity Ontology with Attribute Information
• Torsten Zesch, Christof Müller and Iryna Gurevych: Extracting Lexical Semantic Knowledge from Wikipedia and Wiktionary
• Mari Carmen Suárez-Figueroa and Asunción Gómez-Pérez: Towards a Glossary of Activities in the Ontology Engineering Field
• Jordi Atserias, Hugo Zaragoza, Massimiliano Ciaramita and Giuseppe Attardi: Semantically Annotated Snapshot of the English Wikipedia
• Alessandra Potrich and Emanuele Pianta: L-ISA: Learning Domain Specific Isa-Relations from the Web
That’s all, folks … They just brought a coke!