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The Fourth Workshop on Speech, Vision, and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages -(DravidianLangTech-2024) at EACL 2024

Link: https://sites.google.com/view/dravidianlangtech-2024/home

The development of technology increases our internet use, and most of the global languages have adapted themselves to the digital era. However, there are many regional, under-resourced languages that face challenges as they still lack developments in language technology. One such language family is the Dravidian family of languages. Dravidian languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dravidian_languages are primarily spoken in south India and Sri Lanka. Pockets of speakers are found in Nepal, Pakistan, Malaysia, other parts of India and elsewhere in the world. The Dravidian languages, which are 4,500 years old and spoken by millions of speakers, are under-resourced in speech and natural language processing. The Dravidian languages are divided into four groups: South, South-Central, Central, and North groups. Dravidian morphology is agglutinating and exclusively suffixal. Syntactically, Dravidian languages are head-final and left-branching. They are free-constituent order languages. To improve access to and production of information for monolingual speakers of Dravidian languages, it is necessary to have speech and language technologies. The aim of these workshops is to save the Dravidian languages from extinction in technology. This is the first workshop on speech and language technologies for Dravidian languages.

The broader objectives of DravidianLangTech-2024 will be

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To investigate challenges related to speech and language resource creation for Dravidian languages. -

To promote research in speech and language technology in Dravidian languages. -

To adopt appropriate language technology models which suit Dravidian languages. -

To provide opportunities for researchers from the Dravidian language community from around the world to collaborate with other researchers.

Our workshop theme focuses on being more inclusive and providing a platform for researchers to create Language Technologies (LT) of a more inclusive nature. We hope that through these engagements we can develop LT tools to be more inclusive of everyone, including marginalized people.

Call for Papers

DravidianLangTech-2024 welcomes theoretical and practical paper submission on any Dravidian languages (Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Telugu, Tulu, Allar, Aranadan, Attapadya, Kurumba, Badaga, Beary, Betta Kurumba, Bharia, Bishavan, Brahui, Chenchu, Duruwa, Eravallan, Gondi, Holiya, Irula, Jeseri, Kadar, Kaikadi, Kalanadi, Kanikkaran, Khiwar, Kodava, Kolami, Konda, Koraga, Kota, Koya, Kurambhag Paharia, Kui, Kumbaran, Kunduvadi, Kurichiya, Kurukh, Kurumba, Kuvi, Madiya, Mala Malasar, Malankuravan, Malapandaram, Malasar, Malto, Manda, Muduga, Mullu Kurumba, Muria, Muthuvan, Naiki, Ollari, Paliyan, Paniya, Pardhan, Pathiya, Pattapu, Pengo, Ravula, Sholaga, Thachanadan, Toda, Wayanad Chetti, and Yerukala) that contributes to research in language processing, speech technologies or resources for the same. We will particularly encourage studies that address either practical application or improving resources for a given language in the field.

We invite submissions on topics that include, but are not limited to, the following:

- Code-mixing/ Code-switching - Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics - Computer-assisted language learning (CALL) - Corpus development, tools, analysis and evaluation - COVID-19 alert, NLP Applications for Emergency Situations and Crisis Management - Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion - Fake New, Spam, and Rumor Detection - Hate speech detection and Offensive Language Detection - Lexicons and Machine-readable dictionaries - Linguistic Theories, Phonology, Morphological analysis, Syntax and Semantics - Machine Translation, Sentiment Analysis, and Text summarization - Multimodal Analysis- Image Captioning and Video Captioning - Speech technology and Automatic Speech Recognition

Important dates

- Workshop paper due: *December 12, 2023* - Direct Submission deadline (pre-reviewed ARR & main conference): January 17, 2024 -

Notification of acceptance: January 15, 2024 -

Camera-ready papers due: January 25 2024 -

Workshop dates: March 21-22, 2024

*Organizers*

- Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi https://www.universityofgalway.ie/our-research/people/computer-science/bharathirajaasokachakravarthi/, School of Computer Science, University of Galway, Ireland - Ruba Priyadharshini https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=QD-mJd4AAAAJ&hl=en, Gandhigram Rural Institute-Deemed to be University, India - Anand Kumar M https://infotech.nitk.ac.in/faculty/anand-kumar-m, Department of Information Technology, National Institute of Technology Karnataka Surathkal, India. - Sajeetha Thavareesan https://fsc.esn.ac.lk/computing/academic-staff/s-thavareesan, Department of Computing ,Faculty of Science, Eastern University, Sri Lanka. - Elizabeth Sherly https://duk.ac.in/personnel/dr-elizabeth-sherly/, Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management-Kerala, India. - Rajeswari Natarajan https://www.sastra.edu/staffprofiles/schools/src.php?staff_id=C754, Srinivasa Ramanujan Centre, Department of Computer Science, SASTRA University, India. - Manikandan Ravikiran https://manikandan-ravikiran.github.io/, Hitachi India Pvt Ltd.

Submission Link: https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2024/Workshop/DravidianLangTec...

with regards, Dr. Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Assistant Professor / Lecturer-above-the-bar School of Computer Science, University of Galway, Ireland Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, Data Science Institute, University of Galway, Ireland E-mail: bharathiraja.akr@gmail.com , bharathi.raja@universityofgalway.ie bharathiraja.asokachakravarthi@universityofgalway.ie Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=irCl028AAAAJ&hl=en Website: https://www.universityofgalway.ie/our-research/people/bharathirajaasokachakr...