LREC 2012 Workshop 'Best Practices for Speech Corpora in Linguistic Research'

Workshop

The Workshop "Best Practices for Speech Corpora in Linguistic Research" was held on May 21, 2012, 14:00-19:00 as part of the 2012 LREC Conference at the Lütfi Kirdar Istanbul Exhibition and Congress Centre in Istanbul.

It addressed the question of best practices for the design, creation and dissemination of speech corpora in linguistic disciplines like conversation analysis, dialectology, sociolinguistics, pragmatics and discourse analysis. The aim was to take stock of current initiatives, see how their approaches to speech data processing differ or overlap, and find out where and how a potential for coordination of efforts and standardisation exists.

Proceedings

The workshop proceedings are now available.

Timeline

December 12, 2011 - Call for Papers (N.B.: The DEADLINE for submitting papers has been EXTENDED to 19 FEBRUARY 2012)
December 21, 2011 - Submissions (abstracts of 1500 - 2000 words) can be done through the START system at the LREC conference website.
February 19, 2012 - Deadline for submitting abstracts
March 19, 2012 - Notification of acceptance
April 04, 2012 - Deadline for submitting final papers
May 21, 2012 - Workshop

Organizers

Michael Haugh (Griffith University, Australia)
Şükriye Ruhi (Middle Eastern Technical University, Ankara, Turkey)
Thomas Schmidt (Institute for the German Language, Mannheim, Germany)
Kai Wörner (Hamburg Centre for Language Corpora, Germany)

Program committee Yeşim Aksan (Mersin University) | Dawn Archer (University of Central Lancashire) | Steve Cassidy (Macquarie University, Sydney) | Chris Christie (Loughborough University) | Arnulf Deppermann (Institute for the German Language, Mannheim) | Ulrike Gut (University of Münster) | Iris Hendrickx (Linguistics Center of the University of Lisboa) | Alper Kanak (Turkish Science and Technology Institute – TÜBİTAK) | Kemal Oflazer (Carnegie Mellon at Qatar) | Antonio Pareja-Lora (ILSA-UCM / ATLAS-UNED) | Petr Pořízka (Univerzita Palackého) | Jesus Romero-Trillo (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid) | Yvan Rose (Memorial University of Newfoundland) | Martina Schrader-Kniffki (University of Bremen) | Deniz Zeyrek (Middle East Technical University) |