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Fwd: [ln] Appel: Fifth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial)
by sigul＠list.elra.info 24 Jan '18

24 Jan '18

FYI -------- Messaggio Inoltrato -------- Oggetto: [ln] Appel: Fifth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial) Data: Tue, 23 Jan 2018 20:35:50 +0100 Mittente: Thierry Hamon <hamon(a)limsi.fr> Rispondi-a: ln(a)cines.fr, Thierry Hamon <hamon(a)limsi.fr> A: ln(a)cines.fr Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 17:55:54 +0100 From: Marcos Zampieri <marcos.zampieri(a)uni-saarland.de> Message-ID: <20180118175554.Horde.DIufy7dRlvLTiVghhIOsCY9(a)webmail.uni-saarland.de> X-url: http://alt.qcri.org/vardial2018/ X-url: http://alt.qcri.org/vardial2018/index.php?id=campaign Call for Papers VarDial - Fifth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects VarDial 2018: http://alt.qcri.org/vardial2018/ Co-located with COLING 2018, in VarDial we anticipate discussion on computational methods and on language resources for closely related languages, language varieties and dialects. Corpus-driven studies on different degrees of linguistic variation such as lexicon and grammar is another topic of interest. Together with the VarDial workshop we are organizing the second edition of the VarDial Evaluation Campaign with five shared tasks (http://alt.qcri.org/vardial2018/index.php?id=campaign). Registration is now open and the training data will be released in March. Topics We welcome papers dealing with one or more of the following topics: - Language 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 the study of 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. Instruction for Authors Submissions should be formatted according to the COLING template and submitted in PDF format. The review process will be double-blind. Important Dates Submission Deadline: May 18, 2018 Acceptance Notification: June 20, 2018 Camera-ready versions: June 30, 2018 Workshop: August 20 or 21, 2018 Program Committee Željko Agić (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Cesar Aguilar (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Chile) Laura Alonso y Alemany (University of Cordoba, Argentina) Jorge Baptista (University of Algarve and INESC-ID, Portugal) Eckhard Bick (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark) Johannes Bjerva (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Francis Bond (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Aoife Cahill (Educational Testing Service, United States) David Chiang (University of Notre Dame, United States) Paul Cook (University of New Brunswick, Canada) Marta Costa-Jussà (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain) Jon Dehdari (Think Big Analytics, United States) Liviu Dinu (University of Bucharest, Romania) Stefanie Dipper (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany) Sascha Diwersy (University of Montpellier, France) Mark Dras (Macquire University, Australia) Tomaž Erjavec (Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia) Mikel L. Forcada (Universitat d'Alacant, Spain) Binyam Gebrekidan Gebre (Phillips Research, The Netherlands) Cyril Goutte (National Research Council, Canada) Nizar Habash (New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE) Chu-Ren Huang (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong) Jeremy Jancsary (Nuance Communications, Austria) Lung-Hao Lee (National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan) Marco Lui (Rome2Rio Ltd., Australia) Teresa Lynn (Dublin City University, Ireland) John Nerbonne (University of Groningen, Netherlands and University of Freiburg, Germany) Kemal Oflazer (Carnegie-Mellon University in Qatar, Qatar) Maciej Ogrodniczuk (IPAN, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland) Petya Osenova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria) Santanu Pal (Saarland University, Germany) Barbara Plank (Unviersity of Groningen, The Netherlands) Francisco Rangel (Autoritas Consulting, Spain) Taraka Rama (University of Oslo, Norway) Reinhard Rapp (University of Mainz, Germany and University of Aix-Marsaille, France) Paolo Rosso (Technical University of Valencia, Spain) Fatiha Sadat (Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Canada) Tanja Samardžić (University of Zurich, Switzerland) Felipe Sánchez Martínez (Universitat d'Alacant, Spain) Kevin Scannell (Saint Louis University, United States) Yves Scherrer (University of Helsinki, Finland) Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds, United Kingdom) Kiril Simov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria) Milena Slavcheva (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria) Marco Tadić (University of Zagreb, Croatia) Liling Tan (Rakuten Institute of Technology, Singapore) Elke Teich (Saarland University, Germany) Joel Tetreault (Grammarly, United States) Francis Tyers (Higher School of Economics, Russia) Duško Vitas (University of Belgrade, Serbia) Taro Watanabe (Google Inc., Japan) Pidong Wang (Machine Zone Inc., United States) Organizers Preslav Nakov (Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU, Qatar) Marcos Zampieri (University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom) Nikola Ljubešić (Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia and University of Zagreb, Croatia) Jörg Tiedemann (University of Helsinki, Finland) Shervin Malmasi (Harvard Medical School, United States) Ahmed Ali (Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU, Qatar) Contact Workshop: vardialworkshop(at)gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel <LN(a)cines.fr> Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/article.php3?id_article=48 English version : Archives : http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ln.html http://liste.cines.fr/info/ln La liste LN est parrainee par l'ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) Information et adhesion : http://www.atala.org/ ATALA décline toute responsabilité concernant le contenu des messages diffusés sur la liste LN -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Conf: Workshop on Computational Methods for Endangered Language Documentation and Description, February 1st-2nd, 2018, Paris
by sigul＠list.elra.info 18 Jan '18

18 Jan '18

FYI *** Workshop: Computational Methods for Endangered Language Documentation and Description *** http://lattice.cnrs.fr/cmld/index.html *** The number of seats is limited. Registration is mandatory (see below). *** February 1st-2nd, 2018 Ecole Normale Supérieure, 45 rue d’Ulm, 75005 Paris France * Organizers: Thierry Poibeau (Lattice) Michael Rießler (University of Bielefeld & The Freiburg Research Group in Saami Studies) Niko Partanen (Lattice & The Freiburg Research Group in Saami Studies) Benjamin Fagard (Lattice). * Overview This workshop aims at examining the application of specific methods from Natural Language Processing in order to analyze data from endangered and low-resource languages from Northern Eurasia and other parts of the world. The workshop defines language technologies in a very broad sense and therefore includes also computational methods for signal processing in general, as such technologies can be applied effectively to the work with text corpora linked to multimedia data. Invited speakers include Joakim Nivre (Uppsala), Francis Tyers (Moscow), Laurent Besacier (Grenoble), Trond Tosterud (Tromsø), Svetlana Toldova (Moscow), Olga Majewska (Cambridge) and Jargal Badagarov (Ulan-Ude). The programme is now available online (http://lattice.cnrs.fr/cmld/program.html) as well as the list of posters (http://lattice.cnrs.fr/cmld/posters.html). There will be ample time for discussion, as the workshop is also an opportunity to foster collaborations. * Registration The event is free but it is necessary to register in advance. In order to register, please send an email with your name and affiliation to: nikotapiopartanen(a)gmail.com . Participants with talk or poster are automatically registered, but do not hesitate to contact us if there are any questions. Please come with an ID card, passport or other proof of identity *** The number of seats is limited. Registration is mandatory. *** * Acknowledgements This work has received support of TransferS (laboratoire d’excellence, program “Investissements d’avenir” ANR-10-IDEX-0001-02 PSL* and ANR-10-LABX-0099). This workshoop is held in coordination with the CNRS-funded programme PRC n° 1052 : Analyse systématique du groupe nominal dans les langues finno-ougriennes : continuité référentielle et codage de la structure informationnelle de l’énoncé.

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Fwd: CCURL 2018 @ LREC 2018: Extended deadline (21/01/2018)
by sigul＠list.elra.info 12 Jan '18

12 Jan '18

> Début du message réexpédié : > > De: Claudia Soria <claudia.soria(a)ilc.cnr.it> > Objet: CCURL 2018 @ LREC 2018: Extended deadline (21/01/2018) > Date: 12 janvier 2018 10:41:20 UTC+1 > À: "Pretorius, Laurette" <Pretol(a)unisa.ac.za>, Laurent Besacier <laurent.besacier(a)imag.fr>, Tunde Adegbola <taintransit(a)hotmail.com>, Gilles ADDA <gadda(a)limsi.fr>, "dr.shyamsagrawal(a)gmail.com" <dr.shyamsagrawal(a)gmail.com>, Antti Arppe <arppe(a)ualberta.ca>, Victoria Arranz <arranz(a)elda.org>, "Benjamin, Martin" <martin(a)kamusi.org>, Bruce Birch <bruce.birch(a)anu.edu.au>, Steven Bird <stevenbird1(a)gmail.com>, Luong Chi Mai <lcmai(a)ioit.ac.vn>, Khalid CHOUKRI <choukri(a)elda.org>, "Cieri, Christopher M" <ccieri(a)ldc.upenn.edu>, "thierry.declerck(a)dfki.de" <thierry.declerck(a)dfki.de>, Sebastian Drude <sdrude(a)hi.is>, Vera Ferreira <vferreira(a)cidles.eu>, Mikel Forcada <mlf(a)dlsi.ua.es>, Dafydd Gibbon <gibbon(a)uni-bielefeld.de>, Tatjana Gornostaja <tatjana.gornostaja(a)Tilde.lv>, John Judge <john.judge(a)adaptcentre.ie>, Andras Kornai <andras(a)kornai.com>, Joseph Mariani <Joseph.Mariani(a)limsi.fr>, Yohei Murakami <yohei(a)i.kyoto-u.ac.jp>, "s-nakamura(a)is.naist.jp" <s-nakamura(a)is.naist.jp>, Girish Nath Jha <girishjha(a)gmail.com>, Guy De Pauw <guy(a)textgain.com>, Sakriani Sakti <ssakti(a)is.naist.jp>, Kevin Scannell <kscanne(a)gmail.com>, Oliver Stegen <oliver_stegen(a)sil.org>, Tyers Francis Morton <ftyers(a)prompsit.com>, Trosterud Trond <trond.trosterud(a)uit.no>, Kadri Vider <kadri.vider(a)ut.ee>, "Eveline.Wandl-Vogt(a)oeaw.ac.at" <Eveline.Wandl-Vogt(a)oeaw.ac.at> > > > > [Apologies for multiple postings] > > *Submission deadline extended to 21 January 2018* > > CCURL 2018 > > Collaboration and Computing for Under-Resourced Languages > > "Sustaining knowledge diversity in the digital age" > > a Workshop to be held as part of the 11th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2018) at the Phoenix Seagaia Resort in Miyazaki (Japan) > > 3RD CALL FOR PAPERS > > Date: 12 May 2018 > Web site: http://www.ilc.cnr.it/ccurl2018 <http://www.ilc.cnr.it/ccurl2018> > NEW Submission deadline: 21 January 2018 > > WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVE > > The third CCURL Workshop, entitled "Sustaining knowledge diversity in the digital age", will take place on Saturday, 12 May 2018 in Miyazaki, Japan, in conjunction with LREC 2018. This workshop aims at gathering together academics, industrial researchers, knowledge experts, digital language resource and technology providers, software developers, but also language activists and community representatives in order to identify the current capacity for and the difficulties in creating and sustaining the digital representation of traditional knowledge. The diversity of cultures is a distinctive footprint of the way humans have been coping with the environment over time; unique visions of the world and knowledge are expressed by indigenous languages. Preservation and sharing of the traditional knowledge encoded by languages is being increasingly recognised as a step towards a sustainable and durable interaction of mankind with the environment. However, as language diversity is decreasing, the maintenance and transmission of such knowledge is at risk. Digital language resources can help avoid the disappearance of diverse knowledge systems, ensure their preservation and transmission, and foster their cross-fertilisation. The vast majority of this knowledge is poorly represented in digital form (only four out of the 522 indigenous languages of Latin America are represented by Wikipedia projects, for example). Moreover, as this knowledge is encoded in underresourced (minority, endangered or minoritised) languages, specific methods and models of resource development are required to circumvent the problems affecting low-resourced languages, such as low investments, data sparsity, fragmentation of efforts, speaker communities" lack of involvement, to cite just a few. Specific problems arise as well: low digital literacy, the issue of community ownership and control over content, or the need to include audio and video to accommodate languages that are unwritten or having no orthography standard. > > TOPICS OF INTEREST > > We solicit papers and posters related to the following non-exclusive topics: > > * models and methods for the development of language resources for representing traditional knowledge; > > * experiences about forms of collaboration among research, industry and local communities; > > * involvement of speakers' communities and ethical issues related to knowledge protection; > > * replicability of experiences; > > * use of knowledge resources for cultural heritage preservation and education; > > * use of video and audio as complementary or alternative ways to writing in order to accommodate languages not spoken or with unstable orthographies; > > * innovative data collection and data annotation methodologies; > > * semantic and semantic web technologies for representing indigenous knowledge systems in indigenous languages. > > SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION > > We accept submission of long papers (up to 8 pages), short papers (up to 4 pages) and poster papers (up to 4 pages) to be presented as a long or short oral presentation at the workshop. The papers of the workshop will be published in online proceedings. Papers are expected to address the workshop main theme. They can contain an analysis and insight into existing methods and problems; a description of resources; an overview of the literature or of the current initiatives, or a combination of the above. Authors must declare if part of the paper contains material previously published elsewhere. Each submission will be reviewed by three programme committee members. In compliance with the LREC rules, papers must not be anonymized. Papers should be formatted according to the stylesheet provided by LREC 2018 (http://lrec2018.lrec-conf.org/en/submission/authors-kit/ <http://lrec2018.lrec-conf.org/en/submission/authors-kit/>) and should not exceed 8 pages, including references and appendices. Papers should be submitted in PDF unprotected format to the workshop START page (URL will be provided in due time). The formatting template must be strictly adhered to and deadlines met. > > IMPORTANT DATES > > * NEW Paper submission deadline: 21 January 2018 > > * Notification of acceptance: 14 February 2018 > > * Camera-ready paper: 7 March 2018 > > * Workshop date: 12 May 2018 > > IDENTIFY, DESCRIBE AND SHARE YOUR LRS! > > * Describing your LRs in the LRE Map is now a normal practice in the submission procedure of LREC (introduced in 2010 and adopted by other conferences). To continue the efforts initiated at LREC 2014 about "Sharing LRs" (data, tools, web-services, etc.), authors will have the possibility, when submitting a paper, to upload LRs in a special LREC repository. This effort of sharing LRs, linked to the LRE Map for their description, may become a new "regular" feature for conferences in our field, thus contributing to creating a common repository where everyone can deposit and share data. > > * As scientific work requires accurate citations of referenced work so as to allow the community to understand the whole context and also replicate the experiments conducted by other researchers, LREC 2018 endorses the need to uniquely Identify LRs through the use of the International Standard Language Resource Number (ISLRN, www.islrn.org <http://www.islrn.org/>), a Persistent Unique Identifier to be assigned to each Language Resource. The assignment of ISLRNs to LRs cited in LREC papers will be offered at submission time. > > ORGANISING COMMITTEE > > Laurent Besacier, LIG-IMAG, France > Laurette Pretorius, University of South Africa, South Africa > Claudia Soria, CNR-ILC, Italy > > The Workshop is endorsed by SIGUL, a joint ELRA-ISCA Special Interest Group on Under-resourced Languages (http://www.elra.info/en/sig/sigul/ <http://www.elra.info/en/sig/sigul/>). > > PROGRAMME COMMITTEE > > Tunde Adegbola, African Languages Technology Initiative, Nigeria > Gilles Adda, LIMSI/IMMI CNRS, France > Shyam Agrawal, KIIT Group of Colleges, India > Amir Aharoni, Wikimedia Foundation > Antti Arppe, University of Alberta, Canada > Victoria Arranz, ELRA/ELDA, France > Martin Benjamin, the Kamusi Project, Switzerland > Laurent Besacier, LIG-IMAG, France > Bruce Birch, The Minjilang Endangered Languages Publications Project, Australia > Steven Bird, Charles Darwin University, Australia > Luong Chi-Mai, IOIT, Vietnam > Khalid Choukri, ELRA/ELDA, France > Chris Cieri, LDC, USA > Thierry Declerck, DFKI, Germany > Sebastian Drude, The Vigdis International Centre for Multilingualism and Intercultural > Understanding, Iceland > Vera Ferreira, CIDLeS - Interdisciplinary Centre for Social and Language Documentation, Portugal > Mikel Forcada, Universitat d'Alacant, Spain > Dafydd Gibbon, Bielefeld University, Germany > Tatjana Gornostaja, Tilde, Latvia > John Judge, ADAPT DCU, Ireland > Andras Kornai, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary > Joseph Mariani, LIMSI-CNRS, France > Yohei Murakami, Kyoto University, Japan > Satoshi Nakamura, NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, Japan > Girish Nath Jha, JNU, India > Guy de Pauw, Textgain, Belgium > Laurette Pretorius, University of South Africa, South Africa > Sakriani Sakti, NAIST, Japan > Kevin Scannell, Saint Louis University, Missouri, USA > Claudia Soria, CNR-ILC, Italy > Oliver Stegen, SIL International, USA > Francis Tyers, Moscow Higher School of Economics, Russia > Trond Trosterud, Arctic University of Norway > Kadri Vider, University of Tartu, Estonia > Eveline Wandl-Vogt, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria > > > -- > Claudia Soria > Researcher > Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "A. Zampolli" > Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche > Via Moruzzi 1 > 56124 Pisa > Italy > > Tel. +39 050 3153166 > Skype clausor ------------------------ Laurent Besacier Professeur à l'Univ. Grenoble Alpes (UGA) Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble (LIG) Membre Junior de l'Institut Universitaire de France (IUF 2012-2017) laurent.besacier(a)imag.fr Responsable équipe GETALP du LIG Directeur de l'école doctorale (ED) MSTII ------------------------- !! Nouvelles coordonnées !!: LIG Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble Bâtiment IMAG 700 avenue Centrale Domaine Universitaire - 38401 St Martin d'Hères Pour tout contact concernant ED MSTII: passer par ed-mstii(a)univ-grenoble-alpes.fr <mailto:ed-mstii@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr> Nouveau tel: 0457421454 --------------------------

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