VarDial 2024, the eleventh workshop on NLP for similar languages, varieties and dialects, will be held in conjunction with NAACL in Mexico City, on June 20/21, 2024.
The paper submission deadline is extended to March 17, 2024 (AoE).
We welcome papers dealing with one or more of the following topics: - Corpora, resources, and tools for similar languages, varieties and dialects; - Adaptation of tools (taggers, parsers) for similar languages, varieties and dialects; - Evaluation of language resources and tools when applied to language varieties; - Reusability of language resources in NLP applications (e.g., for machine translation, POS tagging, syntactic parsing, etc.); - Corpus-driven studies in dialectology and language variation; - Computational approaches to mutual intelligibility between dialects and similar languages; - Automatic identification of lexical variation; - Automatic classification of language varieties; - Text similarity and adaptation between language varieties; - Linguistic issues in the adaptation of language resources and tools (e.g., semantic discrepancies, lexical gaps, false friends); - Machine translation between closely related languages, language varieties and dialects. In addition to the topics listed above, we also welcome papers dealing with diachronic language variation (e.g. phylogenetic methods, historical dialects).
Important dates: - Extended paper submission deadline: March 17 (AoE) - Commitment deadline for pre-reviewed papers: April 7 - Notification of acceptance: April 14 - Camera-ready papers due: April 24 - Workshop date: June 20/21
Details: https://sites.google.com/view/vardial-2024/call-for-papers