lrec workshop 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 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 masive 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 proposed workshop devoted technological administrative facet economy acquisition effort 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 particularly encourage reports actual practical largescale resource acquisition efforts economy effort conscious choice organizing 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 submission papers papers exceed 4000 words 10 pages presentations selected basis review papers project reports submission mode submission include title page containing title author affiliation submitting author mailing address telephone number fax number email address authors may submit three hard copies submit electronically postscript form svetlana sheremetyeva computing research laboratory new mexico state university usa box30001 dept 3crl las cruces new mexico 880038001 lana crl nmsu edu receipt submissions acknowledged important dates thursday february 19 1998 submissions due monday march 16 1998 acceptances rejections friday april 10 1998 final papers due tuesday may 26 1998 workshop date registration workshop 10 000 pesetas attending lrec 5 000 pesetas attending lrec fees include coffee break proceedings workshop participation workshop limited venue requests participation processed first come first served basis