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Call for Papers
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Slav-NLP: The9thWorkshoponNLP for Slavic languages http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/
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6 May 2023
co-located with EACL 2023 https://2023.eacl.org/
http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/ http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/
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Paper Submission Deadline: *5 March 2023*
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WORKSHOPDESCRIPTION
The 9th edition of the SNLP Workshop at EACL https://2023.eacl.org/Sponsored by SIGSLAV: the ACL Special Interest Group on Slavic NLP
The languages from the Slavic group play an important role due to their diverse cultural heritage and widespread use — with over 400 million speakers worldwide. The current political and economic developments in Central and Eastern Europe bring Slavic societies and languages into focus in terms of rapid technological advancement and expanding consumer markets.
Research on theoretical and applied topics in the context of Slavic languages is still lagging in the community. Linguistic phenomena that are common to Slavic languages — rich morphology, free word order, etc. — make NLP for these languages a challenging task. Slavic NLP gathers researchers from academia and industry. It aims to stimulate research in Slavic NLP, and to foster the creation of tools and resources. The Workshops provides a forum for exchange of ideas and experience, discussing current challenges, and making the available resources widely-known. The structural similarity, as well as the easily recognizable core vocabulary and inflectional inventory spanning this entire large language group creates a special environment, where researchers can appreciate the shared problems and communicate naturally — despite the lack of mutual intelligibility.This year, we are especially glad to have an opportunity to organize Slav NLP in a Slavic-speaking country.
This Workshop addresses Natural Language Processing (NLP) for the Slavic languages. The NLP tasks in urgent need of attention include:
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language modeling
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morphological analysis and generation,
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syntactic and semantic parsing,
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lexical semantics,
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named-entity recognition,
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text normalisation and processing non-standard language
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coreference resolution,
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information extraction,
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question answering,
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text summarization,
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machine translation,
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development of linguistic resources,
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text classification
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disinformation detection,
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fact verification.
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sentiment analysis
This Workshop continues the proud tradition established by the 8 previous BSNLP Workshops.
IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission deadline: *05 March 2023*
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Notification of acceptance: *26 March 2023*
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Camera-ready papers due: *03 April 2023*
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Workshop: *5 or 6 May 2023*
SHARED TASK
This year's SNLP features the 4th editionof the Shared Task on Multilingual Named Entity Recognition: recognizing mentions of named entities in Web documents, lemmatization, and cross-lingual matching in Slavic languages. The shared task covers:
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Czech,
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Polish,
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Russian.
Information about the Shared Task and training data is available on the Workshop web page
SUBMISSION INFORMATION
At the Workshop Web page: bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/call-for-papers.html
Contact email address: bsnlp@cs.helsinki.fi
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