May 26

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LREC 2008 Language Resources and Evaluation
Conferences

• May 26 30, 2008
• Marrakech, Morocco

Nemrava Jan, KIZI
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LREC in numbers

• 6th edition of LREC (started in 1998, held every
  two years)
• First outside Europe
• More than 600 papers (papersposters)
• More than 1000 participants

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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)

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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

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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

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Interesting Talks

• Ondrej Bojar, Miroslav Janícek, Zdenek
  žabokrtský, Pavel Ceška and Peter Bena 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

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Thats all, folks They just brought a coke!