Issues in the design, construction and use of LRs: text, speech, multimodality

• Guidelines, standards, best practices and models for LRs interoperability
• Methodologies and tools for LRs construction and annotation
• Methodologies and tools for extraction and acquisition of knowledge
• Ontologies, terminology and knowledge representation
• LRs and Semantic Web
• LRs and Crowdsourcing
• Metadata for LRs and semantic/content mark-up
• Best practices in the use of LR citations

Exploitation of LRs in systems and applications

• Multimedia information and multimodal communication , including Sign Languages
• LRs in systems and applications such as: information extraction, information retrieval, audio-visual and multimedia search, speech dictation, audio-visual transcriptions and annotations, computer aided language learning, training and education, mobile communication, machine translation, speech translation, summarisation, semantic search, text mining and analytics, inferencing, reasoning, sentiment analysis, etc.
• Interfaces: (speech-based) dialogue systems, natural language and multimodal/multi-sensory interactions, voice-activated services, etc.
• Use of (multilingual) LRs in various fields of application like e-commerce, e-government, e-culture, e-health, e-participation, mobile applications, digital humanities, Digital Service Infrastructures, etc.
• Industrial LRs requirements, user needs

Issues in LT evaluation

• LT evaluation methodologies, protocols and measures
• Validation and quality assurance of LRs
• Benchmarking of systems and products
• Usability evaluation of HLT-based user interfaces and dialogue systems
• User satisfaction evaluation

General issues regarding LRs & Evaluation

• International and national activities, projects and collaboration
• Priorities, perspectives, strategies in national and international policies for LRs
• Multilingual issues, language coverage and diversity, less-resourced languages
• Open, linked and shared data and tools, open and collaborative architectures
• Organisational, economical, ethical and legal issues.