SIGUL March 2022

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[1st Call for Papers] ELRA/ISCA Special Interest Group on Under-Resourced Languages - SIGUL 2022 Workshop
by Maite Melero 07 Mar '22

07 Mar '22

****Apologies for cross-postings**** ***Please help disseminate**** 1st Call for Papers SIGUL 2022 Workshop <https://sigul-2022.ilc.cnr.it/> a post-Conference Workshop of LREC 2022 Marseille (FR), 24-25 June 2022 The 1st Annual Meeting of the ELRA/ISCA Special Interest Group on Under-Resourced Languages (SIGUL 2022) will provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of cutting-edge research in text and speech processing for under-resourced languages by academic and industry researchers. SIGUL 2022 will carry on the tradition of the CCURL-SLTU (Collaboration and Computing for Under-Resourced Languages – Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced languages) Workshop Series, which has been organised since 2008 and, as LREC Workshops, since 2014. As usual, this Workshop spans the research interest areas of less-resourced, under-resourced, endangered, minority and minoritized languages. Since this year LREC includes a track dedicated specifically to endangered and less-resourced languages, the workshop aims to be a venue for networking and discussion as much as for scientific debate. Over the last years, research in NLP for less-resourced languages has taken momentum. The multiplication of research interest makes it even more necessary for the community that revolves around less-resourced languages to find opportunities for aggregation and discussion. Following the long-standing series of previous meetings, the SIGUL venue will provide a forum for the presentation of cutting edge research in NLP, MT and Speech Technologies for under-resourced languages to both academic and industry researchers, and also to offer a venue where researchers in different disciplines and from varied backgrounds can fruitfully explore new areas of intellectual and practical development while honouring their common interest of sustaining less-resourced languages. Topics include but are not limited to: - General research on under-resourced languages. - Transfer-learning techniques for under-resourced languages (use of multilingual, pretrained models, unsupervised, semi-supervised, zero-shot, few-shot training,...) in NLP, MT and Speech technologies. - We also invite position papers on methodological, ethical, or institutional issues Instructions for submission can be found here <https://sigul-2022.ilc.cnr.it/submission/> Important Dates - Paper submission deadline: 11 April 2022 - Notification of acceptance: 3 May 2022 - Camera-ready paper: 23 May 2022 - Workshop date: 24-25 June 2022 Organizing Committee - Maite Melero - Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, Spain - Sakriani Sakti - NAIST, Japan - Claudia Soria - CNR-ILC, Italy To contact the organisers, please mail sigul2022(a)ilc.cnr.it (Subject: [SIGUL2022]).

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Presentation of the Linguapax Review on Language Technologies and Language Diversity on March 9th 6pm CET
by Claudia Soria 01 Mar '22

01 Mar '22

To kick off the International Decade of Indigenous Languages 2022-32, Linguapax will present the 2021 Linguapax Review special issue on Language Technologies and Language Diversity The event will take place online on 9 March 2022, at 6 pm CET, via Zoom. During the presentation, authors of the 2021 Linguapax Review will participate in a live debate. We are proud to be joined by: Andras Kornai <https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAAAB31oBkjnx7uquXtV7tM7-w2lGSsKxbdw>, advisor at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and author of "Digital Language Death" Daniel Pimienta <https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAABDoo8BjE6560HaeAmfgcrAOHIqHATliMg>, mathematician, head of the Observatory of Linguistic and Cultural Diversity on the Internet Tunde Adegbola <https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAABR2W0B-E35vkfUZzAJdeTL_awNeQq0oDM>, scientist, musician, engineer, linguist and culture activist, founder of African Languages Technology Initiative (Alt-i) Roland Kuhn, <https://nrc.canada.ca/en/corporate/contact-us/nrc-directory-science-profess…>PRO at National Research Council Canada and leader of the Indigenous Languages Technology project Eddie Avila <https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAABGd_8BCQSXFxlgDkk4uf8jWhru9V_AbUA>, director of Rising Voices, an initiative to support peer networks of indigenous language digital activists in Latin America Subhashish P. <https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAANsOmkB2pSPSzrrS0zGo0pKhFCGXY8I80s> Panigrahi, National Geographic Explorer and documentary filmmaker, founder of OpenSpeaks, a project for documenting indigenous and endangered languages The debate will be moderated by Maite Melero <https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAAK3E2UBEPSieDYF2HzmjZpjuAL1A-7E5tQ>, coordinator of the special issue, and will address questions such as : Why should we - all of us - care about linguistic diversity? Are new technologies a threat or an opportunity for endangered languages? What are the keys for effective language digital activism? We will open this interesting debate to the audience. Participation is free but registration is required: at: https://lnkd.in/eZMf-QcV <https://lnkd.in/eZMf-QcV>

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