The LREC Workshops Map

The LREC Workshops Map Roberto Bartolini, Sara Goggi, Monica Monachini, Gabriella Pardelli Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR “Antonio Zampolli” Via Giuseppe Moruzzi 1 – 56124 Pisa, Italy {roberto.bartolini, sara.goggi, monica.monachini, gabriella pardelli}@ilc.cnr.it Abstract The aim of this work is to present an overview of the research presented at the LREC workshops over the years 1998-2016 with the aim to shed light on the community represented by workshop participants in terms of country of origin, type of affiliation, gender. There has been also an effort towards the identification of the major topics dealt with as well as of the terminological variations noticed in this time span. Data has been retrieved from the portal of the European Language Resources Association (ELRA) which organizes the conference and the resulting corpus made up of workshops titles and of the related presentations has then been processed using a term extraction tool developed at ILC-CNR. Keywords: corpus creation, terminology, LREC 1. Introduction Over the years the increasing availability of online open access documentation has permitted to gather information for various types of analysis. For this work we decided to retrieve the information about all workshops organized as satellite events of the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC) in its ten editions (1998-2016): data has been retrieved from the portal of the European Language Resources Association (ELRA) which organizes the conference. The aim is to monitor the research in the field of Language Resources (LRs) and Language Technology (LT) presented at LREC workshops and describe the thematic and terminological trend over these 18 years. In the introductory pages to the Proceedings of LREC 2000, Antonio Zampolli wrote: “The workshops, whose Proceedings are published in separate volumes, have contributed greatly to the scientific relevance of the Conference, both for the quality of the work and the choice of topics.” (Zampolli, 2000). During the ten editions of the conference its satellite workshops have witnessed the participation of 6039 researchers from both academy and industry, coming from all continents. This heterogeneity results in a authorship which is composite for country, affiliation, sector and also gender; as for the latter, the female representation is relevant, as well as the percentage of single authors. 2. Some Remarks on Topics The topics dealt with and the papers related to these topics are the focus of the work: we created a corpus (WS- CORPUS) made of the titles of all the workshops and their related papers presented at LREC since 1998. In ten editions of the conference 206 workshops have been organized around the most varied subjects, some of them as single events but many ended up constituting a “series” over the years. The workshop on Sign Language, for example, has been organized at LREC since 2004 by the same researchers; while a workshop on the so-called “minority/less- resourced/under-resourced” languages1 is always present at LREC but the organizing teams have been different over this time span: in the first Granada edition a workshop was organized by researchers working on the development …

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