FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS ---------------------

The First Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Turkic Languages (SIGTURK) August 15-16 2024, Bangkok (Co-located with ACL)

INTRODUCTION

We present the first edition of the SIGTURK Workshop representing the annual meeting of the ACL Special Interest Group on Turkic Languages, which aims to provide a new venue that will promote studies on computational linguistics in Turkic languages. Our main objective is to bring together an interdisciplinary community of researchers working on different aspects of natural language processing (NLP) models and corpora in Turkic languages, providing the recently growing number of researchers working on the topic with a means of communication and an opportunity to present their work and exchange ideas.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

We welcome submissions on, but not limited to, the following topics:

* Computational linguistics: models of all aspects of linguistics in Turkic languages (e.g., semantics, syntax, lexicon, morphology)

* Systems: Case studies on the construction of NLP systems for Turkic languages

* Evaluation: Understanding the applicability of current NLP methods in Turkic languages

* Metrics: New metrics and measures for evaluating NLP systems suitable to Turkic languages

* Learning from sparse data: Novel methods for learning from small or sparse data in Turkic languages

* Resources: Datasets, benchmarks, and software libraries for NLP models in Turkic languages

IMPORTANT DATES

* First call for papers: February 9, 2024 (Friday) * Paper submission deadline: May 31, 2024 (Friday) * Notification of acceptance: June 16, 2024 (Monday) * Camera-ready submission deadline: July 1, 2024 (Monday) * Workshop dates: August 15-16 (Thursday - Friday)

Note: All deadlines are 11:59 pm UTC -12h (“anywhere on Earth”).

CONTACT INFORMATION

* Email: workshop@sigturk.com * Submission Portal: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2024/Workshop/SIGTURK * Official Website: https://sigturk.com/workshop

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Research papers

We invite all potential participants to submit their novel research contributions in the related fields as long papers following the ACL 2024 long paper format (anonymized with 8 pages excluding the references, and an additional page for the camera-ready versions for the accepted papers). All accepted research papers will be published as part of our workshop proceedings and will be presented either through oral presentations or poster sessions. Our research paper track will accept submissions through our own submission system available at https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2024/Workshop/SIGTURK.

Extended abstracts

Besides long paper submissions, we also invite previously published or ongoing and incomplete research contributions to our non-archival extended abstract track. All extended abstracts can use the same EMNLP template with a 2-page limit, excluding the bibliography. Extended abstracts can be submitted to the workshop submission system using the link: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2024/Workshop/SIGTURK.

"HACK TOGETHER" PROGRAMMING EVENT

In addition to the workshop itself, the second day will be devoted to a full-day collaborative hybrid programming event "Hack Together". Our goal is to demonstrate the SIGTURK NLP library and interested parties can contribute to the integration of new NLP methods and models into the SIGTURK pipeline. The SIGTURK infrastructure can be found at https://github.com/sigturk. Findings of the event will be combined into a system demonstration paper.

INVITED SPEAKERS

Kemal Oflazer, Carnegie Mellon University

MORE INFORMATION

For further details and updates, please visit our workshop website: https://sigturk.com/workshop

ORGANIZERS

Duygu Ataman, New York University

Deniz Zeyrek Bozşahin, Middle East Technical University

Mehmet Oguz Derin

Sardana Ivanova, University of Helsinki

Abdullatif Köksal, LMU Munich

Jonne Sälevä, Brandeis University