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LREC 2012 Workshop 'Best Practices for Speech Corpora in Linguistic Research' |
Call for Papers
December 12, 2011
Please note that the DEADLINE for submitting papers has been EXTENDED to 19 FEBRUARY 2012
This half-day-workshop addresses 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 is 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.
Largely in parallel to the speech technology community, linguists from such diverse fields as
conversation analysis, dialectology, sociolinguistics, pragmatics and discourse analysis have,
in the last ten years or so, intensified their efforts to build up (or curate) larger collections of
spoken language data. Undoubtedly, methods, tools, standards and workflows developed
for corpora used in speech technology often serve as a starting point and a source of
inspiration for the practices evolving in the linguistic research community. Conversely, the
spoken language corpora developed for linguistic research can certainly also be valuable for
the development or evaluation of speech technology. Yet it would be an oversimplification
to say that speech technology data and spoken language data in linguistic research are
merely two variants of the same category of language resources. Too distinct are the
scholarly traditions, the research interests and the institutional circumstances that
determine the designs of the respective corpora and the practices chosen to build, use and
disseminate the resulting data.
The aim of this workshop is therefore to look at speech corpora from a decidedly linguistic
perspective. We want to bring together linguists, tool developers and corpus specialists who
develop and work with authentic spoken language corpora and discuss their different
approaches to corpus design, transcription and annotation, metadata management and data
dissemination. A desirable outcome of the workshop would be a better understanding of
- best practices for speech corpora in conversation analysis, dialectology, sociolinguistics,
pragmatics and discourse analysis,
- possible routes to standardising data models, formats and workflows for spoken
language data in linguistic research
- ways of linking up trends in speech technology corpora with corresponding work in the
linguistics communities
Topics of interest include:
- speech corpus designs and corpus stratification schemes
- metadata descriptions of speakers and communications
- legal issues in creating, using and publishing speech corpora for linguistic research
- transcription and annotation tools for authentic speech data
- use of automatic methods for tagging, annotating authentic speech data
- transcription conventions in conversation analysis, dialectology, sociolinguistics,
pragmatics and discourse analysis
- corpus management systems for speech corpora
- workflows and processing chains for speech corpora in linguistic research
- data models and data formats for transcription and annotation data
- standardization issues for speech corpora in linguistic research
- dissemination platforms for speech corpora
- integration of speech corpora from linguistic research into digital infrastructures
Organizing committee
- 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)
- John Du Bois (University of California, Santa Barbara)
- 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)
- Jochen Rehbein (Middle East Technical University)
- 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)
Submission instructions
- Submitted abstracts of papers for oral and poster or demo presentations should consist of
about 1500-2000 words. Please submit papers electronically using START submission software
at
https://www.softconf.com/lrec2012/SpeechCorpora2012/
- When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential
information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation
kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of
your research. For further information on this new initiative, please refer to
www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012/?LRE-Map-2012
Dates
- Workshop date: 21 May 2012, 14:30-19:30
- Extended Deadline for submission of abstracts:
6 February 2012 19 February 2012
- Pre-conference workshops and tutorials: 21 and 22 May 2012
- Post-conference workshops and tutorials: 26 and 27 May 2012
- Main conference: 23-25 May 2012
Further Information
Please check this page regularly for up-to-date information on the workshop.
