The 6th Workshop on Research in Computational Linguistic Typology and Multilingual NLP (SIGTYP 2024)

To be held at EACL 2024 (March 22, 2024 Malta)

We are inviting submissions of EACL Findings papers looking for a presentation slot.

We are also inviting submissions of papers that were rejected or withdrawn from EACL.

_EACL Findings papers looking for a presentation slot:_ Submit by February 1st here: https://forms.gle/bm4HDxgyyr13HZN29

_Papers rejected or withdrawn from EACL:_ Submit by January 26th here: https://forms.gle/hke7StTEvVW3bzdF7 Acceptance decisions will be made based on the existing ARR reviews. Authors will be notified by February 1st, 2024.

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The 6th Workshop on Research in Computational Linguistic Typology and Multilingual NLP (SIGTYP 2024)

To be held at EACL 2024 (March 22, 2024 Malta)

Website: https://sigtyp.github.io/ Submission website: https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2024/Workshop/SIGTYP https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2024/Workshop/SIGTYP

We invite submissions to the 6th edition of the SIGTYP workshop on Research in Computational Linguistic Typology and Multilingual NLP, to be held at EACL 2024 on March 22, 2024.

Workshop description

The aim of the 6th edition of SIGTYP workshop is to act as a platform and a forum for the exchange of information between typology-related research, multilingual NLP, and other research areas that can lead to the development of truly multilingual NLP methods. The workshop is specifically aimed at raising awareness of linguistic typology and its potential in supporting and widening the global reach of multilingual NLP, as well as at introducing computational approaches to linguistic typology. It will foster research and discussion on open problems, not only within the active community working on cross- and multilingual NLP but also inviting input from leading researchers in linguistic typology. Our workshop will serve as a platform to enable fruitful discussions. In 2024, we additionally focus on bridging the gap between cross-linguistic and universal annotation, models, and technology.

SIGTYP is the first dedicated venue for typology-related research and its integration in multilingual NLP. Appropriate topics include (but are not limited to) the following as they relate to the areas of the workshop:

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Integration of typological features in language transfer and joint multilingual learning. In addition to established techniques such as “selective sharing”, are there alternative ways to encoding heterogeneous external knowledge in machine learning algorithms?

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Development of unified taxonomy and resources. Building universal databases and models to facilitate understanding and processing of diverse languages.

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Automatic inference of typological features. The pros and cons of existing techniques (e.g. heuristics derived from morphosyntactic annotation, propagation from features of other languages, supervised Bayesian and neural models) and discussion on emerging ones.

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Typology and interpretability. The use of typological knowledge for interpretation of hidden representations of multilingual neural models, multilingual data generation and selection, and typological annotation of texts.

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Improvement and completion of typological databases. Combining linguistic knowledge and automatic data-driven methods towards the joint goal of improving the knowledge on cross-linguistic variation and universals.

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Linguistic diversity and universals. Challenges of cross-lingual annotation. Which linguistic phenomena or categories should be considered universal? How should they be annotated?

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Language-specific studies to support or contradict universals.

Framing a study on 1-3 languages that would shed more light on common linguistic structures and properties.

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Extra topics also include: generation of constructed languages, universals in diachronic languages changes, information-theoretic approaches to typology, automated approaches to etymology.

Important Dates (all deadlines are 23:59 AoE)

— December 25, 2023:  Paper submission deadline (submissions via OpenReview)

— January 17, 2023: Deadline for submitting ARR submissions that were rejected or withdrawn from EACL

— January 20, 2024:  Notification of acceptance

— January 30, 2024:  Camera-ready deadline

— March 21 or 22, 2024:  Workshop

*Shared Task*

In 2024, SIGTYP is hosting a Word Embedding Evaluation for Ancient and Historical Languages. More details can be found here: https://sigtyp.github.io/st2024.html.

Organizing Committee

Michael Hahn, Rena Gao,  Saliha Muradoglu, Yulia Otmakhova,  Andreas Shcherbakov, Oleg Serikov, Jinrui Yang,  Alexey Sorokin, Priya Rani,  Ritesh Kumar, Ryan Cotterell,  Edoardo M. Ponti, Kat Vylomova

Anti-harassment policy

The workshop follows the ACL anti-harassment policy: https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Anti-Harassment_Policy https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Anti-Harassment_Policy.

Contact

For any inquiries regarding the workshop, please send an email to the Organizing Committee at sigtyp@gmail.com