The Third Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP 2023)
Second Call for Papers
The Third Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP) will be co-located with the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2023 https://2023.aclweb.org/), which is scheduled to be held in Toronto, Canada, between July 9-14, 2023.
The goal of the workshop is to encourage and increase the visibility of work on the Indigenous languages of the Americas. It aims to encourage research on NLP, computational linguistics, corpus linguistics and speech for Indigenous languages, to connect researchers and professionals from underrepresented communities and native speakers of endangered languages with the ACL community, and, more generally, to promote machine learning approaches suitable for low-resource languages.
We invite the submission of
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Long papers (8 pages) and short papers (4 pages) on substantial, original, and unpublished research -
Non-archival extended abstracts (2 pages), technical reports (8 pages), and work which has been presented at other venues (in the format of the original publication)
Submissions do not need to describe work on native languages directly, as long as it is clear why those can benefit from the described approaches. Areas of interest include but are not limited to:
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Creation of datasets for NLP applications -
Incorporation of external knowledge into neural systems -
Linguistic typology and the use of typological features for NLP -
Transfer learning, meta-learning, and active learning -
Weakly supervised, semi-supervised, and unsupervised learning -
Machine translation of low-resource languages -
Morphology and phonology of low-resource languages -
NLP applications for Indigenous languages of the Americas
Important dates:
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Start of the anonymity period: March 15, 2023 -
Submission deadline: April 15, 2023 -
Notification of acceptance: May 15, 2023 -
Camera ready papers due: May 26, 2023 -
Workshop: July 14, 2023
All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h (anywhere on earth).
Link to submission portal:
https://softconf.com/acl2023/AmericasNLP2023/
The workshop also includes:
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A machine translation shared task on truly low-resource languages -
A mentoring program to support students and newcomers from underrepresented communities (application form: https://forms.gle/afBWauDfDQijXHTy9)
We also have a diverse set of invited speakers, focused on bridging the gap between linguists, NLP, and machine learning research!
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Steven Bird (linguistics; ethics) -
Angela Fan (NLP; machine translation) -
Kristine Stenzel (field linguistics; American Indigenous languages)
Organizing Committee
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Manuel Mager, AWS AI Labs -
Arturo Oncevay, University of Edinburgh -
Enora Rice, University of Colorado Boulder -
Abteen Ebrahimi, University of Colorado Boulder -
Shruti Rijhwani, Google Research -
Alexis Palmer, University of Colorado Boulder -
Katharina Kann, University of Colorado Boulder
More information and contact information can be found at http://turing.iimas.unam.mx/americasnlp/.