First CfP for the 8th Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics (LDL-2022): Revisiting a Decade of Linguistic Linked Open Data (co-located with LREC 2022)

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*8th Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics *

*(LDL-2022) *

*Revisiting a Decade of Linguistic Linked Open Data*

24 June 2022, Marseille, France. Co-located with LREC 2022

Workshop page: http://ldl2022.linguistic-lod.org/

Submission page: https://www.softconf.com/lrec2022/LDL/ 
<https://www.softconf.com/lrec2022/LDL/>

Contact: ldl2022@linguistic-lod.org <mailto:ldl2022@linguistic-lod.org>

Since its inception, the workshop series on Linked Data in Linguistics 
(LDL) established itself as the main venue for discussing how Linked 
Open Data (LOD) and semantic web technologies can be used for 
processing, analysing, publishing, and managing linguistic data. This 
includes the fields of natural language processing (NLP), language 
resources (LRs), lexicography and digital humanities (DH), and has been 
leading to the development of *linguistic data science as *a new area of 
study. The LDL workshop series has contributed greatly to the 
development of the *Linguistic Linked Open Data (LLOD) *cloud and the 
development of best practices for publishing and accessing language 
resources and providing language technology services on the web. Most 
notably, this includes community standards such as the NLP Interchange 
Format (NIF), the OntoLex-Lemon model of the W3C Community Group 
/Ontology-Lexica,/ and numerous domain-specific adaptations and 
extensions that these models have had an influence on.

In addition, there are an increasing number of national, European, and 
international research projects that build on LLOD technology. These 
will contribute to its further development and will help ensure the 
success of this workshop and a high attendance rate. The 10th 
anniversary edition of the LDL can count on the support of the COST 
action “NexusLinguarum: European Network for Web-centered Linguistic 
Data Science”, as well as two Horizon 2020 projects. Firstly, the 
/Prêt-à-LLOD/ project, which is making linguistic linked open data 
ready-to-use, and, secondly, the /ELEXIS/ project on building a 
lexicographic infrastructure.

*Motivation and Topics of Interest***

The LDL workshop series invites presentations of algorithms, 
methodologies, experiments, tools, use cases, descriptions of ongoing or 
planned research projects as well as position papers regarding the 
creation, support, publication or application of linguistic data 
collections and their linking with other resources. Descriptions of such 
data, and in particular, its uses in research (linguistics, lexicology, 
DH) and technology (natural language processing, lexicography, 
localization) are also welcome.

Additionally, the 10th anniversary edition of LDL will specifically 
welcome contributions and position papers that reflect on the impact, 
prospects, requirements, or challenges encountered with the application 
of LLOD technology to research problems and industrial applications in 
the past decade. This includes experiences in the development, usage or 
limitations of existing and emerging standards as well as the 
application and adaptation of vocabularies for novel applications and 
domains, as well as contributions that look towards the future of LLOD 
technologies and applications for academic and industrial research.

We invite contributions focusing on, but not restricted to the following 
aspects of creating and managing Linked LRs:

 1. Infrastructure for building & managing linked LRs
     1. Vocabularies, standards and best practices
     2. Tools for creating and curating LL(O)D resources
     3. Approaches for creating linked LRs
 2. LLOD technology and methodology
     1. Methodologies for linked language resource development
     2. Leveraging knowledge graphs and machine learning
     3. Linking resources across languages and domains
 3. LLOD applications in different communities of practice, e.g., using
     1. LLOD to facilitate NLP and language technology applications,
     2. LLOD for quantitative and qualitative linguistic research,
     3. LLOD for lexicography, philologies and other branches of the
        humanities
 4. Future directions and critical reflection
     1. Bringing LLOD to the end user: Building and using the technical
        ecosystem
     2. Ethical, legal, social and scientific aspects of Linguistic
        Linked Open Data
     3. Achieving FAIRness for language resources and NLP tools

Projects in their early stages that seek advice from the broader LLOD 
community are very welcome, especially if addressing fields still 
underrepresented in the LLOD cloud, such as the study of /low resource 
languages/ or matters of /multimodality/.

*Important Dates*

April 8, 2022: submission (https://www.softconf.com/lrec2022/LDL/)
May 3, 2022: notification
May 23, 2022: camera-ready
June 24, 2022: workshop, Marseille (France)

*Organizing Committee*

  * Thierry Declerck (DFKI GmbH, Saarland Informatics Campus)
  * John P. McCrae (National University of Ireland Galway)
  * Elena Montiel (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
  * Christian Chiarcos (Goethe University Frankfurt)
  * Maxim Ionov (Goethe University Frankfurt)

*Programme Committee***

  * Sina Ahmadi (NUI Galway, Ireland)
  * Paul Buitelaar (Insight, Ireland)
  * Sara Carvalho (University of Aveiro, Portugal)
  * Nicoletta Calzolari (ILC-CNR, Italy)
  * Milan Dojchinovski (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech
    Republic)
  * Agata Filipowska (Poznan University of Economics, Poland)
  * Francesca Frontini (ILC-CNR, Italy)
  * Jeff Good (University at Buffalo, USA)
  * Yoshihiko Hayashi (Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan)
  * Eero Hyvönen (Aalto University, Finland)
  * Fahad Khan (ILC-CNR, Italy)
  * Chaya Liebeskind (Jerusalem College of Technology, Israel)
  * Gerard de Melo (HPI/Universität Potsdam, Germany)
  * Steve Moran (University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland)
  * Verginica Mititelu (Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence
    of the Romanian Academy, Romania)R
  * Roberto Navigli (“La Sapienza” Università di Roma, Italy)
  * Sebastian Nordhoff (Language Science Press, Berlin, Germany)
  * Petya Osenova (IICT-BAS, Bulgaria)

  * Ana Ostroški Anić (Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics,
    Croatia)
  * Antonio Pareja-Lora (Universidad de Alcalá de Henares)
  * Felix Sasaki (SAP, Germany)

  * Andrea Schalley (Karlstad University, Sweden)
  * Gilles Sérasset (University Grenoble Alpes, France)
  * Milena Slavcheva (IICT-BAS, Bulgaria)
  * Ranka Stankovic (University of Belgrade, Serbia)
  * Armando Stellato (University of Rome, Tor Vergata, Italy)
  * Andrius Utka (Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania)


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Thierry Declerck
Senior Consultant at DFKI GmbH, Multilinguality and Language Technology
Stuhlsatzenhausweg, 3
D-66123 Saarbruecken
Phone: +49 681 / 857 75-53 58
Fax: +49 681 / 857 75-53 38
email:declerck@dfki.de

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