08:30 - 09:30 Welcome coffee
9:30 - 10:15 Session 1: Introduction and expectations
- Welcome and Introduction to the meeting
- Introduction of the participants and their organizations (history, core activities)
- Revision and Adoption of the agenda
10:15 - 11:00 Session 2: Review of current initiatives, coordination & harmonization
- Long term planning of major conferences (ACL, COLING, LREC, IJCNLP, EACL, .., .., ..) per region
- How to work out a list of major eventsHow to avoid overlap/clashes between our conferences?
- Mutually agreed conference discounts across associations?
- Participation in Digital Humanities Conferences
- Reuniting Computational Linguistics / Language Resources and Digital Humanities (because we need each other and because borders are becoming more and more obsolete / an obstacle to our work)
- Adoption of the LRE Map (Discovery of Language Resources through a community involvement) as a regular feature in our conferences? (already happening in practice in most of them)
11:00 - 11:20 Coffee break
11:20 - 12:30 Session 3: Language Resource Identification and Citation
- Introduction of the ISLRN (International Standard Language Resource Number) by ELRA, LDC, Oriental COCOSDA
- Citation of Language Resources 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 16:00 Session 3: Sharing Language Resources
- Sharing of Language Resources related to scientific papers (favoring replicability of research results), example from LREC2014
- Legal Issues … need to move towards common licensing schemas?
- International Copyright exception for R&D in Human Language Technologies
- Is it possible / desirable to think of some type of “impact factor” for LRs?
16:00 - 16:20 Coffee break
16:20 - 18:00 Session 4: Wrap up, Conclusions, Common Declaration and follow-up
- ConclusionsDrafting of a joint declaration to stress the need for cooperation and the first results (Paris Declaration)
- Next steps