BUCC, 6th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora
Co-located with ACL 2013
Sofia, Bulgaria
8 August 2013
Extended deadline for papers: 3 May 2013
http://comparable.limsi.fr/bucc2013/
Submission: https://www.softconf.com/acl2013/BUCC2013/
Invited Speaker: Hinrich Schütze, University of Munich
TOPICS
The special theme for this edition is terminology mining, which featured in a number of submissions in the past years, and this time it will serve as the highlighted theme for the workshop.
In addition to this special theme, we solicit contributions including but not limited to other relevant topics:
Building Comparable Corpora:
- Human translations
- Automatic and semi-automatic methods
- Methods to mine parallel and non-parallel corpora from the Web
- Tools and criteria to evaluate the comparability of corpora
- Parallel vs non-parallel corpora, monolingual corpora
- Rare and minority languages
- Across language families
- Multi-media/multi-modal comparable corpora
Applications of comparable corpora:
- Human translations
- Language learning
- Cross-language information retrieval & document categorization
- Bilingual projections
- Machine translation
- Writing assistance
Mining from Comparable Corpora:
- Extraction of parallel segments or paraphrases from comparable corpora
- Extraction of bilingual and multilingual translations of single words and multi-word expressions; proper names, named entities, etc.
IMPORTANT DATES
3 May 2013
Extended deadline for submission
24 May 013
Notification of acceptance
7 June 2013
Camera-ready deadline
8 August 2013
Workshop
SUBMISSION INFORMATION
Submissions should follow the ACL 2013 length and formatting requirements for long papers of maximum eight (8) pages of content plus two (2) extra pages for references, found at http://www.acl2013.org/call.html. They should be
submitted as PDF documents to the following address:
https://www.softconf.com/acl2013/BUCC2013/
Papers will be blind reviewed by at least two members of the Program Committee. Therefore, authors’ names and affiliations should not appear in the paper. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings.
Authors may submit the same paper at several meetings, but a paper published at this workshop cannot also be published elsewhere. In case of double submission, the authors must notify the workshop organizers in a separate e-mail, so we know that the paper might be withdrawn depending on the
results at some other meeting. However, after notification authors will be asked to make a final decision.
For further information, please contact
Serge Sharoff mailto:s(erase_dot)sharoff(erase_at)leeds(erase_dot)ac(erase_dot)uk
3 May 2013 Extended deadline for submission 24 May 013 Notification of acceptance 7 June 2013 Camera-ready deadline 8 August 2013 Workshop
SUBMISSION INFORMATION
Submissions should follow the ACL 2013 length and formatting requirements for long papers of maximum eight (8) pages of content plus two (2) extra pages for references, found at http://www.acl2013.org/call.html. They should be
submitted as PDF documents to the following address:
https://www.softconf.com/acl2013/BUCC2013/
Papers will be blind reviewed by at least two members of the Program Committee. Therefore, authors’ names and affiliations should not appear in the paper. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings.
Authors may submit the same paper at several meetings, but a paper published at this workshop cannot also be published elsewhere. In case of double submission, the authors must notify the workshop organizers in a separate e-mail, so we know that the paper might be withdrawn depending on the
results at some other meeting. However, after notification authors will be asked to make a final decision.
For further information, please contact
Serge Sharoff mailto:s(erase_dot)sharoff(erase_at)leeds(erase_dot)ac(erase_dot)uk