minimizing effort language resource acquisition call participation workshop minimizing effort language resource acquisition granada spain 26 may 1998 conjunction first international conference language resources evaluation granada spain 2830 may 1998 see http ceres ugr es rubio elra html details register workshop devoted technological administrative facet economy acquisition effort tentative program svetlana sheremetyeva organizer 0 introduction sheremetyeva full papers 1 reusing swedish language processing resources svensk f olsson b gamback eriksson 2 cost effective approach multilingual lexicon acquisition e viegas nirenburg b onyshkevych v raskin 3 speeding building new ontologies using bilingual dictionaries l griot 4 matching resource acquisition work needs application nirenburg r zajac 5 minimization strategies neurotran n koncar pawlowski sipka v sipka 6 refining bi lingual mrd using corpus based tool j cowie general discussion workshop scope aims applied nlp system must produce adequate results must made deployable within reasonable time gathering acquiring language resources build application system timeconsuming imperative find ways speeding acquisition high quality useful static knowledge sources variety grammars lexicons corpora etc viability avoiding massive resource acquisition possible must also carefully considered resource acquisition include methods based sound theoretical principles practical experience deciding among things amount knowledge one really needs given application increasing size knowledge sources number variety necessarily lead commensurate improvement output quality application though correlation two certainly exists definitely needs much increased costs matter large acquired resources many acquired always remain residue language processing problems tackled foregoing requirement full automation involving expensive semiautomatic even manual acquisition becomes imperative therefore assess static knowledge source acquisition longer profitable thus system interactive authoring automatic generation patent claim texts lexical knowledge base restricted lexicon domainrelated verbs marked subcategorization nominals provided interactively author technological issues discussed conference include limited minimization effort acquiring monolingual multilingual text corpora minimization effort acquiring computational lexicons including phonological morphological syntactic semantic including applicationspecific information minimization effort acquisition resources support corpusbased language engineering methods minimization effort acquiring grammatical coverage languages sublanguages methods determining levels reusability existing language resources balancing needs application grain size language description minimization effort balancing automatic interactive methods knowledge acquisition evaluation potential utility resources applications program committee svetlana sheremetyeva nmsu crl usa chair eduard hovy usc isi usa bernardo magnini irst italy sergei nirenburg nmsu crl usa victor raskin purdue university usa frederique segonde xerox research centre europe france leo wanner university stuttgart germany