Co-located with COLING 2025, VarDial deals with computational methods and language resources for closely related languages, language varieties, and dialects. VarDial will be held on Sunday, January 19th, 2025. https://sites.google.com/view/vardial-2025/home

1. Call for Shared Task Participation

As part of VarDial 2025, we are organizing a shared task on dialect identification and slot and intent detection for Norwegian varieties (NorSID). For further information and instructions for participants, please visit the shared task page: https://sites.google.com/view/vardial-2025/shared-tasks

Important dates: - Training and development set release: October 7, 2024 - Test set release: November 4, 2024 - Submissions due: November 15, 2024 - Paper submission deadline: November 25, 2024 - Notification of acceptance: December 5, 2024 - Camera-ready papers due: December 13, 2024

2. Call for Workshop Papers

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: - Paper submission deadline: Tuesday, November 5th, 2024 - Notification of acceptance: Monday, November 25th, 2024 - Commitment deadline for pre-reviewed papers: TBD - Camera-ready papers due: Friday, December 13th, 2024

Detailed submission guidelines available on the COLING 2025 website. All submissions must use the official COLING templates. Contributions must be submitted to Softconf: https://softconf.com/coling2025/VarDial25/

Further information about submission is available on the workshop site: https://sites.google.com/view/vardial-2025/call-for-papers

Organizers

Yves Scherrer - University of Oslo (Norway) Tommi Jauhiainen - University of Helsinki (Finland) Nikola Ljubešić - Jožef Stefan Institute (Slovenia) and University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) Preslav Nakov - Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (UAE) Jörg Tiedemann - University of Helsinki (Finland) Marcos Zampieri - George Mason University (USA)