Issues in the design, construction and use of LRs: text, speech, sign, gesture, image, in single or multimodal/multimedia data

• 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 (including Linked Data, Knowledge Graphs, etc.)
• LRs and Crowdsourcing
• Metadata for LRs and semantic/content mark-up

Exploitation of LRs in systems and applications

• Sign language, multimedia information and multimodal communication
• LRs in systems and applications such as: information extraction, information retrieval, audio-visual and multimedia search, speech dictation, meeting transcription, Computer-Aided Language Learning, training and education, mobile communication, machine translation, speech translation, summarisation, semantic search, text mining, inferencing, reasoning, sentiment analysis/opinion mining, etc.
• Interfaces: (speech-based) dialogue systems, natural language and multimodal/multisensory interactions, voice-activated services, etc.
• Use of (multilingual) LRs in various fields of application like e-government, e-participation, e-culture, e-health, mobile applications, digital humanities, social sciences, etc.
• Industrial LRs requirements
• User needs, LT for accessibility

LRs in the age of deep neural networks

• Semi-supervised, weakly-supervised and unsupervised machine learning approaches
• Representation Learning for language
• Techniques for (semi-)automatically generating training data
• Cross-language NLP & Cross-domain NLP with reduction of human effort

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 initiatives
• 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
• Replicability and reproducibility issues
• Organisational, economical, ethical and legal issues