Another piece of news beginning to show up on other mailing lists. Sorry for the cross posting to those who have received it multiple times. While this is a reasonable change in focus, I'll miss the old CHum, I must say. There were interesting markup articles every couple of issues (including, for example, one on metre last year and one in the latest issue on an "intertextual" tag and using multiple dtds). -dan

*************************************************** LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION ***************************************************

Editors-in-chief: Nancy Ide, Department of Computer Science, Vassar College, USA Nicoletta Calzolari, Isitiuto di Linguistica Computazionale, CNR, Italy

Published by Springer (formerly Kluwer Academic Publishers and Springer Verlag)

We are pleased to announce that as of Volume 39 for 2005, Computers and the Humanities will be changing its name to Language Resources and Evaluation.

Language Resources and Evaluation is the first publication devoted to the creation, annotation, and exploitation of language resources for use in language processing applications, corpus linguistics and linguistic studies generally, as well as evaluation of language processing methods and results. These areas have seen a dramatic increase in activity over the past decade, as evidenced by the growing attendance at the four Language Resources and Evaluation Conferences (LREC) held since 1998.

Language resources include language data and descriptions in machine readable form used to assist and augment language processing applications and linguistic studies, such as written or spoken corpora and lexica, multimodal resources, grammars, terminology or domain specific databases and dictionaries, ontologies, multimedia databases, etc., as well as basic software tools for their acquisition, preparation, annotation, management, customization, and use. Evaluation of language resources concerns assessing the state-of-the-art for a given technology, comparing different approaches to a given problem, assessing the availability of resources and technologies for a given application, benchmarking, and assessing system usability and user satisfaction.

Articles are solicited on the following topics:

Design, construction and use of Language Resources (LRs): · Guidelines, standards, specifications, models, and best practices for LRs, · Methods, tools and procedures for the acquisition, creation, annotation, management, access, distribution and use of LRs · Methods for the extraction and acquisition of knowledge (e.g. terms, lexical information, language modeling data) from LRs · Organizational and legal issues in the construction, distribution, access and use of LRs · Availability and use of generic vs. task/domain specific LRs · Monolingual and multilingual LRs · Multimedia and multimodal LRs and integration of various media and modalities (speech, vision, language) · Documentation and archiving of languages, including minority and endangered languages, · Ontologies and knowledge representation · Tools and methodologies for terminology and ontology building, term extraction, and creation of specialized dictionaries · LRs for linguistic research in human-machine communication · Exploitation of LRs in different types of applications (information extraction, information retrieval, speech dictation, translation, summarization, web services, semantic web, etc.), · Exploitation of LRs in different types of interfaces (dialog systems, natural language and multimodal/multisensorial interactions, etc.) · Metadata descriptions of LRs · Open architectures for LRs

Human Language Technologies Evaluation: · Evaluation, validation, quality assurance of LRs · Evaluation methodologies, protocols and measures · Benchmarking of systems, resources for benchmarking and evaluation, blackbox, glassbox and diagnostic evaluation of systems · Evaluation in written language processing (document production and management, text retrieval, terminology extraction, message understanding, text alignment, machine translation, morphosyntactic tagging, parsing, semantic tagging, word sense disambiguation, text understanding, summarization, question answering, etc.) · Evaluation in spoken language processing (speech recognition and understanding, voice dictation, oral dialog, speech synthesis, speech coding, speaker and language recognition, spoken translation, etc.) · Evaluation of multimedia document retrieval and search systems (including detection, indexing, filtering, alert, question answering, etc) · Evaluation of multimodal systems · Moving from evaluation to standardization

Language Resources and Evaluation is the official journal of the European Language Resources Association (ELRA), sponsor of the bi-annual LREC conference. The first number of LRE in 2005 will be a special issue dedicated to the memory of Antonio Zampolli.

For information about this new title, aims and scope, manuscript submission, and subscription, please contact the publisher:

Mrs. Jolanda Voogd, Associate Publishing Editor Humanities Unit - Linguistics Springer P.O. Box 17, 3300 AA Dordrecht, The Netherlands

Telephone: +31-(0)78 - 6576116 (direct) Fax: +31-(0)78 - 6576350 E-mail: Jolanda.Voogd@springer-sbm.com