SIGUL February 2019

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SIGUL Newsletter #2
by Claudia Soria 14 Feb '19

14 Feb '19

Dear SIGUL Members, the second issue of the SIGUL Newsletter is out. The SIGUL Newsletter intends to be a bi-weekly report on issues broadly related to the topics of language resources and tools for less-resourced languages. Your feedback will be welcome. Claudia Soria SIGUL Co-chair ****************** *Calls for Papers* - The 6th LTC Workshop on Less-Resourced Languages (LRL 2019), May 19, Poznan, Poland In conjunction with LTC’19, the 9th Language and Technology Conference Endorsed by SIGUL, the ELRA-ISCA SIG on less-resourced languages (http://www.elra.info/en/sig/sigul/). The LRL Call for Papers is attached. *Paper submission deadline: 20 March 2019* Invited speaker: Delyth Prys, Head of the Language Technologies Unit, Bangor University, Wales, UK - VarDial - Sixth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects VarDial 2019: https://sites.google.com/view/vardial2019 Co-located with NAACL 2019 in Minneapolis USA, at VarDial we anticipate discussion on computational methods and on language resources for closely related languages, language varieties and dialects. Together with the VarDial workshop, the third edition of the VarDial Evaluation Campaign with five shared tasks is being organized: https://sites.google.com/view/vardial2019/campaign - IYIL2019 Global Call for Research Papers, deadline extended to 15 March 2019: https://en.iyil2019.org/newsletter/deadline-extended-iyil2019-global-call-f… * * **Call for participation** - The time schedule for the 17th International Conference on Minority Languages (ICML XVII) is now online. With over 150 participants already, flying in from all over the world, this edition will be (again) incredibly interesting! You can find the schedules and all other information on https://icml.eu/. The conference is taking place 22-24 May 2019 and you can combine it with LRL 2019 in Poznan the week before for a full immersion in minority and less-resourced languages! **Software development** Are you interested in beta-testing LangSaver, a new iOS workflow for recording and organizing language materials? Mitch Nesbitt is looking for language workers and linguists to try it out and give feedback. Check out the GitHub page at https://github.com/mtchnsbtt/langsave ! **Funding opportunities** - Google grants Wikimedia 3.1 M$ for addressing minority languages. See also : https://www.socialbeat.in/blog/kpmg-google-study-on-regional-content/ **Useful resources** - Endangered Alphabets Atlas: https://www.endangeredalphabets.net **Miscellaneous** - Planet Word, the museum where language comes to life. The museum plans to open in Washington D.C., in late 2019. Visitors will engage in activities that make words and language exciting with delightful programming and playful, interactive exhibits. https://www.planetwordmuseum.org/welcome - Can you identify the world's languages from an audio clip? NameThatLanguage is a game that tests your skill at recognizing spoken languages. See how many points you can score while assisting language research. https://namethatlanguage.org - On January 28, Joseph Mariani, Honorary President of ELRA, gave an overview of Language Technologies available to support the digital use of #IndigenousLanguages and their preservation. He also introduced LT4All a conference which could tackle those issue in the framework of UNESCO International Year Of Indigenous Languages, https://en.iyil2019.org/official-global-launch-event-of-the-2019-internatio… - LREC2020: the twelfth edition of LREC will take place in Marseille (France) on May 11-16, 2020 (http://www.elra.info/en/lrec/). Updates on Twitter account @LREC2020 -- 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

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Call for Papers: 6th Workshop on less-resourced languages (LRL 2019); Poznan, Poland, 19 May 2019
by Claudia Soria 13 Feb '19

13 Feb '19

LRL 2019, Poznan, co-located with LTC The 6th LTC Workshop on Less-Resourced Languages (LRL 2019), May 19, Poznan, Poland In conjunction with LTC’19, the 9th Language and Technology Conference CONFERENCE CHAIRS Dorothee Beermann (Norway), Laurent Besacier (France) and Claudia Soria (Italy) *Paper submission deadline: 20 March 2019* WORKSHOP TOPICS We invite original papers that address the particular needs and requirements of less-resourced languages. We in particular welcome papers on the computational processing of less resourced languages addressing the following topics. We also welcome papers on language revitalisation and literary development. Induction of multilingual resources for LRL Morphological Paradigm Learning for LRL Corpus building for LRL Dialect processing for LRL Spoken language processing for LRL Code Switching in LRL Deep Learning for LRL Computer-aided work with LRL Information retrieval on Social Networks for LRL Linguistic Resources for LRL Spell-check and automatic corrections for LRL Descriptive Studies on LRL Community approaches to revitalisation and literary development IMPORTANT DATES/DEADLINES * Deadline for submission of papers for review: 20 March 2019 * Acceptance/Refusal notification: 2 April 2019 * Deadline for submission of final versions of accepted papers: 15 April 2019 * Workshop: 19 May 2019 PAPER SUBMISSION The conference accepts papers in English only. Papers (5 formatted pages in the conference format) are due by March 20, 2019 (midnight, any time zone) and should not disclose the authorship in any manner. In order to facilitate submission we have decided to reduce the formatting requirements as much as possible at this stage. Please, have a look at www.ltc.amu.edu.pl (Paper Submission section). Papers must be submitted through EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?key=83901713.4PPnVqMiHylJDYBz Important Notice: Make sure to include the keyword ‘’LRLWorkshop’’among the paper’s keywords. A copy of the submitted paper must also be sent to claudia.soria(a)ilc.cnr.it, indicating ‘’RL19 Workshop submission’’as the subject of the mail. PUBLICATION POLICY Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings (hard copy, with ISBN number) and on CD-ROM. Publication requires full electronic registration and payment of the conference fee (full registration) by at least one of the co-authors in due time (dates will be presented at the conference site). One registration fee entitles publication of one paper. Proceedings will be published by Wydawnictwo Nauka i Innowacje sp. z o.o. indexed by Polish Ministry of Higher Education. FEES and REGISTRATION LRL is an integral part of the LTC. Fees and payment procedures are the same for general LTC and workshop participants, and they cover participation in the general LTC program. Notice: the workshop is free for participants registered to the general LTC. Single registration covers only one paper presentation (general LTC or workshops) (cf. the Publication Policy section in case of more than one submitted paper). REGISTRATION Only electronic registration will be possible. Details will be published at www.ltc.amu.edu.pl. OTHER Please note that remaining important information on the workshop and the general conference is or will be provided at the workshop web site http://www.ilc.cnr.it/lrl2019/submissions.htm (under preparation) and at the conference site www.ltc.amu.edu.pl. CONTACT Claudia Soria claudia.soria(a)ilc.cnr.it -- 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

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Call for Papers: Information Special Issue “Computational Linguistics for Low-Resource Languages”
by Claudia Soria 07 Feb '19

07 Feb '19

Special Issue "Computational Linguistics for Low-Resource Languages" A special issue of Information (ISSN 2078-2489). Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2019 https://www.mdpi.com/journal/information/special_issues/Low-Resource_Langua… -- 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

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SIGUL Newsletter #1
by Claudia Soria 01 Feb '19

01 Feb '19

Dear SIGUL Members, with this message we wish to inaugurate a bi-weekly newsletter that will report on issues related to the topics of language resources and tools for less-resourced languages. Your feedback will be welcome. Claudia Soria ****************** *Reports* - Please find enclosed the Technology and Welsh Language Conference Report 2019, Friday, 25th January, 2019 *Calls for Papers* - The PULiiMA 2019 – Indigenous Languages & Technology Conference, scheduled to take place in Darwin, Australia on August 19-22, 2019 has launched its open call for presenters. The submission deadline is February 9, 2019. - In the framework of the campaign for 2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages, UNESCO announced a call for research papers, with one of the key topic areas being “Technology, digital activism, and artificial intelligence (e.g. language technology).” The call is available at the link below: https://en.unesco.org/feedback/call-research-papers-within-context-2019-int… Deadline 1 March 2019 *Publications* - Digiglot Newsletter https://globalvoices.org/2019/01/31/digiglot-newsletter-welsh-language-rock… The DigiGlot Newsletter is a bi-weekly collaborative newsletter that reports on how indigenous, minority, and endangered language communities are adopting and adapting technology to increase the digital presence of their languages, and in the process changing the internet landscape by increasing linguistic diversity online. Subscribe at https://globalvoices.us2.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=9307106bf78cc186e924ad… - The special issue of the TAL journal on under-resourced languages has just been published online: http://atala.org/content/traitement-automatique-des-langues-peu-dot%C3%A9es -- 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

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