lrec 3rd conference announcement 3rd conference announcement reminder - reduced registration fee if you register by march 9 , 1998 first international conference on language resources and evaluation granada , spain , 28-30 may 1998 hosted by the university of granada departamento de traduccion e interpretacion departamento de electronica y tecnologia de computadores with the support of dg-xiii of the european commission and fundacion banco central - hispano ( spain ) the first international conference on language resources and evaluation has been initiated by elra and is organized in cooperation with other associations and consortia , including ach , acl , allc , cocosda , eaft , eagles , edr , elsnet , esca , euralex , francil , ldc , parole , telri , etc . , and with major national and international organizations , including the european commission - dg xiii , arpa , nsf , the ic / 863 project ( china ) , the icsp permanent committee ( korea ) and the japanese project for international coordination in corpora , assessment and labeling . the conference will focus on the following issues : the availability of language resources and the methods for the evaluation of resources , technologies and products , for written and spoken language . substantial mutual benefits can be expected from addressing issues like these through international co-operation . the aim of this conference is to provide an overview of the state-of - the-art , discuss problems and opportunities , exchange information regarding ongoing and planned activities , language resources and their applications , discuss evaluation methodologies and demonstrate evaluation tools , explore possibilities and promote initiativ \ 254s for international co-operation . provisional list of accepted papers ( about 220 ) may be found at our website http : / / ceres . ugr . es / ~ rubio / elra . html or via e-mail by sending a request for list of provisional papers to lrec @ ilc . pi . cnr . it provisional list of panels to be held at lrec 1 . panel of the funding agencies : members of the major agencies funding research and development in language engineering ( ec , arpa , nsf , etc ) will discuss priorities and perspectives for international cooperation . 2 . lexical semantic standards for information systems : the panel will discuss guidelines for the standardization of lexical encoding with specific reference to requirements for machine translation and information systems . 3 . industrial and r&d use of language resources : users and providers of language resources , from industrial companies and from the public research sector , will discuss the priorities and the economical aspects of producing , distributing and using language resources , and the importance of their availability . keynote speakers at lrec the program committee will invite keynote speakers to discuss the major aspects of language resources and evaluation . the provisional list will be circulated at a later date . pre and post conference workshop information pre - conference workshops , may 26 and 27 there are 8 half day workshops , to be held may 26 and 27 with two in parallel during the morning session and two in parallel during the afternoon session . 1 . linguistic coreference workshop 26 may 1998 morning session http : / / ceres . ugr . es / ~ rubio / elra / coreference . html contact : sara j . shelton , us department of defense , ft . meade , maryland , usa sjshelt @ afterlife . ncsc . mil , tel + 301-688 - 0301 , fax + 301-688 - 0338 2 . adapting lexical and corpus resources to sublanguages and applications 26 may 1998 morning session http : / / ceres . ugr . es / ~ rubio / elra / adapting . html contact : paola velardi , dipartimento di scienza dell ' informazione , rome , italy velardi @ dsi . uniroma1 . it , tel 39 - ( 0 ) 6-49918356 , fax + 39 - ( 0 ) 6-8541842 8841964 3 . minimising the effort for language resource acquisition 26 may 1998 afternoon session http : / / ceres . ugr . es / ~ rubio / elra / minimizing . html contact : svetlana sheremetyeva , computing research laboratory , las cruces , new mexico , usa lana @ crl . nmsu . edu , tel + 505 646 5466 , fax + 505 646 6218 4 . the evaluation of parsing systems 26 may 1998 afternoon session http : / / ceres . ugr . es / ~ rubio / elra / parsing . html contact : john carroll , university of sussex , brighton , uk john . carroll @ cogs . susx . ac . uk , tel ( + 44 / 0 ) 1273 678564 , fax ( + 44 / 0 ) 1273671320 5 . towards an open european evaluation infrastructure for nl and speech 27 may 1998 morning session http : / / ceres . ugr . es / ~ rubio / elra / towards . html contact : steven krauwer , elsnet , utrecht , nl steven . krauwer @ let . ruu . nl , tel + 31 30 253 6050 , fax + 31 30 253 6000 6 . language resources for european minority languages 27 may 1998 morning session http : / / ceres . ugr . es / ~ rubio / elra / minority . html contact : briony williams , briony @ cstr . ed . ac . uk 7 . speech database development for central and eastern european languages 27 may 1998 afternoon session http : / / ceres . ugr . es / ~ rubio / elra / speech . html contact : peter roach , university of reading , uk p . j . roach @ reading . ac . uk , tel ( 44 ) 118 9318138 , fax ( 44 ) 118 9753365 8 . distributing and accessing linguistic resources 27 may 1998 afternoon session http : / / ceres . ugr . es / ~ rubio / elra / distributing . html contact : yorick wilks , university of sheffield , uk yorick @ dcs . shef . ac . uk , tel + 44 114 222 1814 , fax + 44 114 278 0972 post conference workshop , 31 may - 1 june " translingual information management : current levels and future abilities " contact : nancy ide , vassar college , poughkeepsie , ny , usa ide @ cs . vassar . edu , tel : ( + 1 914 ) 437 5988 , fax : ( + 1 914 ) 437 7498 this workshop is by invitation only . if you are interested in participating , please contact nancy ide directly . visit our website or request via e-mail for the full calls for participation of the workshops http : / / ceres . ugr . es / ~ rubio / elra . html lrec @ ilc . pi . cnr . it registration information for lrec and pre and post conference workshops conference the registration fees will be 25 . 000 pesetas ( about 150 ecu ) per participant , with reduced fees of 20 . 000 pesetas ( about 120 ecu ) for early registration by march 9 , 1998 , and 12 . 000 pesetas ( about 70 ecu ) for students . the fees cover the following services : a copy of the proceedings , a social dinner , coffee breaks and refreshments . for accompanying persons , the social dinner will be 6 . 000 pesetas ( about 35 ecu ) . pre conference workshops pre conference workshops are 5 , 000 pesetas each for those attending lrec and 10 , 000 pesetas each for those not attending lrec , and include a copy of the proceedings of the workshop and a coffee break . post conference workshop the 2 - 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