May 26 – 30, 2008

Marrakech, Morocco

LREC 2008 Language Resources and Evaluation

Conferences

Nemrava Jan, KIZI

LREC in numbers

• 6th edition of LREC (started in 1998, held every two years)

• First outside Europe

• More than 600 papers (papers+posters)

• More than 1000 participants

UEP contribution

• OntoImage Workshop organized by DFKI– http://www.dfki.de/~declerck/ontoimage.html– 2nd Workshop on Language Resources for Content-

Based Image Retrieval

• Presentation of the work in WP5.4– Text Mining Support for Semantic Indexing and

Analysis of A/V Streams

• Main focus on combining textual descriptions and low-level visual features (colour, texture, etc.) of the images (Content Based Image Retrieval)

Interesting Talks at OntoImage

• Simone Santini (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid )– Context-based Retrieval as an Alternative to

Document Annotation

• Taha Osman (Nottingham Trent University)– Semantic-based Expansion of Image Retrieval

Queries

Main conference

• 3 days, more than 600 papers (900 submissions)

• 4 oral and 1 poster sessions in parallel• Keynote speech: Ricardo Baeza Yates:

The Web as a Semantic Source– VP of Research for Europe and Latin America

• Lectures: From ASR on Khmer language to Wikis

Interesting Talks

• Ondřej Bojar, Miroslav Janíček, Zdeněk žabokrtský, Pavel Češka and Peter Beňa: CzEng 0.7: Parallel Corpus with Community-Supplied Translations

• Satoshi Sekine - Extended Named Entity Ontology with Attribute Information

• Torsten Zesch, Christof Müller and Iryna Gurevych: Extracting Lexical Semantic Knowledge from Wikipedia and Wiktionary

• Mari Carmen Suárez-Figueroa and Asunción Gómez-Pérez: Towards a Glossary of Activities in the Ontology Engineering Field

• Jordi Atserias, Hugo Zaragoza, Massimiliano Ciaramita and Giuseppe Attardi: Semantically Annotated Snapshot of the English Wikipedia

• Alessandra Potrich and Emanuele Pianta: L-ISA: Learning Domain Specific Isa-Relations from the Web

That’s all, folks … They just brought a coke!