[iva] Final Call: Legal and Ethical Issues Workshop @LREC 2020 Call for Papers

[Ingo Siegert]

*CALL FOR PAPERS*

*Legal and Ethical Issues Workshop*

*LREC 2020 Workshop*



Final Extended Deadline for 1500-2000 words abstract submission: 25. 
April 2020

*Ethics and Legal Issues are topics that have long been addressed at 
LREC. *This year, to better respond to the needs of the international 
language resources community, a single workshop will aim at tackling 
*Legal and Ethical Issues in Language Resources*with a particular focus 
on trying to build bridges between legality and technology.

The scope of the Legal and Ethical Issues Workshop spans the entire 
processing pipeline from resource collection and annotation to system 
development and applications within Artificial Intelligence and Machine 
Learning. The workshop will include expert presentations on the recent 
changes in the legal framework concerning Language Resources. In 
addition, updates from research infrastructures in the EU and US are 
expected as well as original research by lawyers and scholars working in 
the field of language technology.

*Topics of interest*include:

   *    Privacy and data protection
   *    Ethics in multimodal, sensorial data collection
   *    Ethics in annotation (crowd-sourced) of private data
   *    Copyright and other intellectual property rights
   *    Public Sector Information
   *    Open Science Policies
   *    Industry 4.0 and Language Resources Technologies
   *    Legal and technical Issues around anonymisation
   *    Transparency and explicability in Machine Learning
   *    Ethics in Affective, Behavioral, and Social Computing
   *    Nudging and manipulation with machines
   *    Human-machine interaction for vulnerable populations
   *    Freedom of information

*SUBMISSIONS*

1500-2000 words extended abstracts (by 16 March 2020) are needed at first 
for submission. The full papers will be published as workshop 
proceedings along with the LREC main conference by ELRA. For these, the 
instructions of LREC need to be followed. The abstracts are to be 
submitted via the START conference system:
https://www.softconf.com/lrec2020/Legal2020/