On June 24-25, 2022, EASIER representatives attended the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation – LREC 2022. In addition to presenting several papers, the EASIER consortium members were involved in the organization of two workshops, one dedicated to sign language translation and avatar technology and the second one covering the subject of sign language processing.
The 7th Workshop on Sign Language Translation and Avatar Technology (SLTAT): The Junction of the Visual & the Textual
This half-day workshop, organized jointly by EASIER and SignON was held on June 24, 2022, in a hybrid mode. Among the 19 accepted submissions, nine were authored by authors associated with EASIER. The workshop gathered over 72 participants from around the world.
The 10th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Multilingual Sign Language Resources
This full-day workshop was held on June 25, 2022, in a hybrid mode. Among the 35 accepted submissions, five were related to the activities performed within EASIER. Similar to SLTAT, the workshop saw large participation and involvement of the EASIER partners, also in the event’s organizing committee. The workshop gathered 77 participants from around the world (on-site attendees from across Europe, Israel, Korea, Australia, the US and Canada, and remote participants from South America and Iran.)
About LREC
LREC is a major event on Language Resources (LRs) and Evaluation for Human Language Technologies (HLT) that aims to provide an overview of the state-of-the-art, explore new R&D directions and emerging trends, exchange information regarding LRs and their applications, evaluation methodologies and tools, ongoing and planned activities, industrial uses and needs, requirements coming from e-science and e-society, with respect to both scientific/technological issues and policy and organisational ones.
LREC provides a unique forum for researchers, industrials, and funding agencies from across a wide spectrum of areas to discuss issues and opportunities, find new synergies, and promote initiatives for international cooperation, in support of investigations in language sciences, progress in language technologies (LT) and development of corresponding products, services, applications, and standards.
