text_combined: workshop announcement call papers distributing accessing linguistic resources workshop immediately first international conference language resources evaluation lrec may 27 1998 granada spain http www icp grenet fr elra conflre html short description workshop discuss ways increase efficacy linguistic resource distribution programmatic access work towards definition new method tasks based distributed processing objectoriented modelling deployment www organizers yorick wilks hamish cunningham wim peters remi zajac workshop scope aims general reuse nlp data resources lexicons corpora exceeded algorithmic resources lemmatisers parsers however still two barriers data resource reuse 1 resource representation syntax corresponding programmatic access mode e g sql celex c prolog wordnet sgml bnc 2 resources must generally installed locally usable course precisely happens operating systems supported etc varies case case consequences 1 although resources share structure common lexicons organised around words example commonality wasted comes using new resource developer learn everything afresh time work seeks investigate exploit commonalities resources e g link several lexicons ontology first build layer access routines top resources example wish taskbased evaluation lexicons measuring relative performance information extraction system different instantiations lexical resource might end writing code translate several different resources sql sgml consequence 2 way try buy way examine data resource suitability needs licencing correspondingly way resource provider expose limitted access products advertising purposes gain revenue piecemeal supply sections resource workshop discuss ways overcome barriers proposers discuss new method distributing accessing language resources involving development common programmatic model various resources types implemented corba idl java along distributed server nonlocal access model designed part gate project general architecture text engineering http www dcs shef ac uk research groups nlp gate goes provisional title active creole server creole collection reusable objects language engineering currently creole supports algortihmic objects extended data objects common model language data resources would set inheritance hierarchies making forest set graphs top hierarchies would general abstractions resources e g lexicons words leaves would data items specific individual resources programmatic access would available levels allowing developer select appropriate level commonality application note although exciting element work could provide algorithms dynamically merge common resources e g connect wordnet celex suggesting initially develop anything substantively new simply improve access existing resources new standards initiative way build previous initiatives course production common model fully expressed subtleties resources would large undertaking believe done incrementally useful results stage early versions stop decomposing object structure resources fairly high level leaving developer handle data structures native resources leaves forest still substantial benefit uniform access higher level strucures draft program committee yorick wilks hamish cunningham wim peters remi zajac roberta catizone paola velardi maria teresa pazienza louise guthrie roberto basili bran boguraev sergei nirenburg james pustejowsky ralph grishman christiane fellbaum paper submission formatting guidelines papers exceed 4000 words 10 pages hard copies three hard copies sent gill callaghan fao yorick wilks dept computer science university sheffield regent court 211 portobello st sheffield s1 4dp uk electronic submission electronic submission allowed poscript html ftp site available demand authors send info email yorick wilks even submit paper form electronic submission accompanied plain ascii text name name first author title title paper pages number pages files name file also submitted electronically note anything like add keys keywords email email first author abstr abstract paper important dates paper submission deadline hard copy electronic february 15th 1998 paper notification april 1st camera ready papers due may 1st dalr workshop may 27st