CALL FOR PAPERS Legal and Ethical Issues Workshop LREC 2018 Workshop, 8 May 2018 (afternoon session) Miyazaki, Japan Deadline for 1500-2000 words abstract submission: 16 March 2018 Ethics and Legal Issues are topics that have long been addressed at LREC. This year, to
better respond to the needs of the international language resources community, a single workshop will deal with Legal and Ethical Issues in Language Resources. The scope of the Legal and Ethical Issues Workshop spans the entire processing pipeline
from resource collection and annotation to system development and applications within Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. The workshop will include expert presentations on the recent changes in the legal framework concerning Language Resources. In
addition, updates from research infrastructures in the EU and US are expected as well as original research by lawyers and scholars working in the field of language technology. Topics of interest include: - Privacy and data protection - Ethics in multimodal, sensorial data collection - Ethics in annotation (crowd-sourced) of private data - Copyright and other intellectual property rights - Public Sector Information - Open Science Policies - Industry 4.0 and Language Resources Technologies - Transparency and explicability in Machine Learning - Ethics in Affective,
Behavioral, and Social Computing - Nudging and manipulation with machines - Human-machine interaction for vulnerable populations -
Freedom of information Papers pertaining to Asian law and/or comparative law are particularly welcome this year. SUBMISSIONS AND DATES 1500-2000 words extended abstracts (by 16 March 2018) are needed at first for submission.
The full papers will be published as workshop proceedings along with the LREC main conference by ELRA. For these, the instructions of LREC need to be followed. The abstracts are to be submitted via the START conference system:
https://www.softconf.com/lrec2018/Legal/ - Deadline for submission of extended abstracts: 16 March 2018 - Notification of acceptance: 30 March 2018 - Submission of final version of accepted papers: 25 Avril 2018 - Workshop session: 8 May 2018
ORGANIZERS: - Gilles Adda -- LIMSI-CNRS/University Paris-Saclay, France - Khalid Choukri – ELRA, Paris, France - Laurence Devillers -- LIMSI-CNRS/Paris-Sorbonne
University, France - Pawel
Kamocki – ELDA, Paris, France - Erik
Ketzan – Birkbeck, University of London, UK - Joseph Mariani -- LIMSI-CNRS/University Paris-Saclay, France - Stelios
Piperidis – Athena Research Center/ILSP, Athens, Greece - Björn Schuller -- Imperial College London, UK / University of Augsburg, Germany -
Prodromos Tsiavos -- Athena Research
Center/ILSP, Athens, Greece - Andreas Witt - University of Cologne, Digital
Humanities; Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim, Germany For more information, please contact Pawel
Kamocki (kamocki@xxxxxxxx) |