Please find enclosed below information about a session on Polish
corpora at the Practical Applications in Language and Computers 2007
conference. More information about PALC 2007 can be found at
http://palc.ia.uni.lodz.pl/.
Regards,
Adam P.
-- Adam Przepiorkowski http://nlp.ipipan.waw.pl/ ----- Linguistic Engineering Group http://korpus.pl/ ------------- the IPI PAN Corpus of Polish----------------------------------------------------------------------------
First circular and call for papers PALC 2007: Practical Applications in Language and Computers 19-22 April 2007, University of Łódź, Poland
Theme session:
TOWARDS A LARGE REFERENCE CORPUS OF POLISH
Convenor: Adam Przepiórkowski (Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences)
The aim of this thematic session of the 6th international conference on Practical Applications in Language and Computers is to bring together researchers working on Polish corpora and to review the possibility of increasing the interoperability between these resources.
The following topics are within the scope of the session (the list is not meant to be exhaustive):
. Development and maintenance of Polish corpora; . Measures of representativeness of Polish corpora; . Linguistic, structural and metadata annotation of Polish corpora; . Interoperability between various Polish corpora; . Tools for managing and querying Polish corpora; . Web as a Polish corpus.
This session will also include a report on efforts aiming at the creation of a large reference corpus of Polish, recently undertaken by a number of institutions (including the PWN Publisher, PELCRA at the University of Łódź and the Institute of Computer Science at the Polish Academy of Sciences).
The official languages of the session will be English and Polish. One-page abstracts of submissions (including references), in English or in Polish, should be sent to adamp@ipipan.waw.pl by 31 January, 2007, preferably as a PDF attachment (other acceptable formats: plain text in UTF-8 or one of ISO- 8859 encodings, Word for Windows). Notification of acceptance will be sent by 15 February 2007. Please, give your affiliation, postal address and phone/fax numbers. A selection of papers will be published by Peter Lang: Frankfurt am Main.
Dr Adam Przepiórkowski Institute of Computer Science Polish Academy of Sciences ul. Ordona 21 01-237 Warszawa, Poland
email: adamp@ipipan.waw.pl phone: +48 22 8362841 fax: +48 22 8376564
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