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LREC 2008 Language Resources and Evaluation Conferences

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.

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LREC 2008 Language Resources and Evaluation Conferences

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  1. LREC 2008Language Resources and Evaluation Conferences May 26 – 30, 2008 Marrakech, Morocco Nemrava Jan, KIZI

  2. 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

  3. 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)

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. That’s all, folks … They just brought a coke!

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