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First call for papers: ICNLSP 2019, 3rd International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing, Italy
by Abbas Mourad 01 Mar '19

01 Mar '19

Dear colleagues, We are glad to announce ICNLSP 2019 , the third edition of the International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing, which will be held on September 12th, 13th 2019 at the University of Trento , Italy. ICNLSP 2015 and ICNLSP 2018 are indexed in DBLP, and published in Elsevier and IEEExplore respectively. ICNLSP aims to attract contributions related to natural language and speech processing in basic theories and applications as well. Regular and posters sessions will be organized, in addition to keynotes presented by senior international researchers. This year, a workshop on NLP solutions for under-resourced languages will be held with ICNLSP.Authors are invited to present their work relevant to the topics of the conference.The following list includes the topics of ICNLSP 2019 but not limited to:Signal processing, acoustic modeling Architecture of speech recognition system Deep learning for speech recognition Analysis of speech Paralinguistics in Speech and Language Pathological speech and language Speech coding Speech comprehension Summarization Speech Translation Speech synthesis Speaker and language identification Phonetics, phonology and prosody Cognition and natural language processing Text categorization Sentiment analysis and opinion mining Computational Social Web Arabic dialects processing Under-resourced languages: tools and corpora New language models Arabic OCR Lexical semantics and knowledge representation Requirements engineering and NLP NLP tools for software requirements and engineering Knowledge fundamentals Knowledge management systems Information extraction Data mining and information retrieval Machine translation Submission Papers must be submitted via the online paper submission system Easychair.https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icnlsp2019Each submitted paper will be reviewed by three program committee members. Workshop The workshop on NLP Solutions for Under Resourced Languages NSURL 2019 will be held with ICNLSP 2019. Important datesSubmission deadline: 30 April 2019Notification of acceptance: 15 June 2019Camera-ready paper due: 10 July 2019Conference dates: 12, 13 September 2019 Chairs:Dr. Mourad AbbasDr. Abed Alhakim Freihat Contact:icnlsp2019@easychair.org Dr. Mourad Abbas Research director Computational Linguistics Department, Director Chairman of CRSTDLA Scientific councilAlgiers, ALgeria http://sites.google.com/site/mouradabbas9

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SIGUL Newsletter #3
by Claudia Soria 01 Mar '19

01 Mar '19

Dear SIGUL Members, the third SIGUL Newsletter is out. The SIGUL Newsletter intends to be a bi-weekly report on issues related to the topics of language resources and tools for less-resourced languages. Your feedback will be welcome. Claudia Soria SIGUL Co-chair SIGUL is the ELRA-ISCA Special Interest Group on Less-Resourced Languages ****************** *Access to Knowledge* A 3-day international conference on "Sanskrit and Other Indian Languages Technology" (SOIL-Tech) (http://sanskrit.jnu.ac.in/conf/soiltech1/index-en.jsp) took place at JNU (Delhi, India) on 15-17 Feb 2019. The conference was the opportunity to release White Papers for each Indian scheduled languages. On this occasion, Georg Rehm (DFKI) gave an Invited Talk on the META-NET White Papers series, which can be obtained at: https://www.slideshare.net/georgrehm/the-preparation-impact-and-future-of-t… *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 - The 4th Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP 2019), August 1, 2019 in Florence, Italy. The workshop is collocated with ACL 2019. Associated with the workshop will be a shared task on Arabic dialect identification: MADAR Shared Task: Arabic Fine-Grained Dialect Identification Workshop Paper Due Date: April 26, 2019 - Call for Abstracts, Papers & Participants - Also within LTC 2019, a Workshop on “Turkic and other Agglutinative Languages as a Challenge for Language Industry” (TALC 2019) - Workshop on Data for the wellbeing of most vulnerable https://sites.google.com/site/dataforvulnerable19/ June 11, 2019 in Munich, Germany * Submissions due: March 25 * *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! *Upcoming events* - The Endangered Languages Project is partnering with the Language Documentation Training Center (LDTC) to offer a FREE webinar series on language documentation, running from January 26 through March 16! Sign up using this form, and join the Facebook group to participate. - The 6th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC6) will take place at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa from February 28-March 3, 2019. This year’s theme is “Connecting Communities, Languages and Technology”. More than 500 attendees from around the world will come together to share their work documenting and revitalizing languages, especially through the use of technology. All materials and talks will be made available through the ICLDC website. *Miscellaneous* - What International Mother Language Day Means for Indian Languages While India's major languages have transitioned well to the digital realm, smaller local languages still have a long way to go. Read more at: https://thewire.in/tech/what-international-mother-language-day-means-for-in… - How Indigenous Millennials Are Using Tech to Save Their Dying Languages Decades of oppression and forced assimilation have led to the steep decline of Indigenous languages. Now tech-savvy young people are fighting to preserve their culture. Read more at: https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/d3zpjx/how-indigenous-millennials-ar… -- 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 #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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UNESCO's Call for Research Papers in the framework of IYIL 2019
by Claudia Soria 18 Jan '19

18 Jan '19

Dear SIG-UL members, I'd like to bring to your attention that in the framework of the campaign for 2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages, UNESCO announced a call for research papers <https://en.unesco.org/feedback/call-research-papers-within-context-2019-int…>, 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 Claudia -- 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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Fwd: [ln] Call: Sixth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects
by Laurent Besacier 17 Jan '19

17 Jan '19

> > > > Call for Papers > 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 we are organizing the third edition of the > VarDial Evaluation Campaign with five shared tasks: > https://sites.google.com/view/vardial2019/campaign > > 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. > > In addition to the topics listed above, we also welcome papers dealing > with diachronic language variation (e.g. philogenetic methods, > historical dialects). > > Instruction for Authors > > Submissions should be formatted according to the NAACL template and > submitted in PDF format. The review process will be double-blind. > > Important Dates > > Submission deadline: March 1, 2019 > Notification of acceptance: March 27, 2019 > Camera-ready papers due: April 5, 2019 > VarDial Workshop at NAACL 2019: June 7, 2019 > > 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 (Macquarie University, Australia) > Tomaž Erjavec (Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia) > Pablo Gamallo (University of Santiago de Compostela, 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) > Radu Ionescu (University of Bucharest, Romania) > Jeremy Jancsary (Nuance Communications, Austria) > Tommi Jauhiainen (University of Helsinki, Finland) > Lung-Hao Lee (National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan) > 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 (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) > 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) > Joel Tetreault (Grammarly, United States) > Francis Tyers (Indiana University, United States) > Taro Watanabe (Google Inc., Japan) > Pidong Wang (Machine Zone Inc., United States) > > Organizers > > Marcos Zampieri (University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom) > Preslav Nakov (Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU, Qatar) > Shervin Malmasi (Amazon, United States) > Nikola Ljubešić (Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia and University of Zagreb, Croatia) > Jörg Tiedemann (University of Helsinki, Finland) > Ahmed Ali (Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU, Qatar) > > Contact: vardialworkshop(at)gmail.com > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Message diffuse par la liste Langage Naturel <LN(a)cines.fr> > Informations, abonnement : http://www.atala.org/liste_ln > Archives : https://liste.cines.fr/arc/ln/ > > Désabonnement : envoyer le message "unsubscribe LN" a sympa(a)cines.fr > > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------ 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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Fwd: [SIGUL-Board] Fwd: Official launch event of the 2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages
by Laurent Besacier 15 Jan '19

15 Jan '19

FYI best L > -------- Message transféré -------- > Sujet : Official launch event of the 2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages > Date : Mon, 14 Jan 2019 18:07:50 +0100 > De : ELRA ELDA Information <info(a)elda.org> <mailto:info@elda.org> > > [Apologies for cross-postings] > > Held under the theme “Indigenous languages matter for sustainable development, peace building and reconciliation”, this official launch event of the 2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages is taking place at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris on January 28, 2019. > > More information on the official launch event: https://en.unesco.org/events/official-launch-event-2019-international-year-… <https://en.unesco.org/events/official-launch-event-2019-international-year-…> > More on IYIL2019: https://en.iyil2019.org/ <https://en.iyil2019.org/> > > _______________________________________________ > SIGUL-Board mailing list > SIGUL-Board(a)list.elra.info > http://list.elra.info/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sigul-board ------------------------ 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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Announcing the Zero Resource Speech Challenge 2019
by Laurent Besacier 17 Dec '18

17 Dec '18

Dear All, Zero Resource Speech Challenge 2019 is open (deadline 15.3.2019). Details and registration at http://www.zerospeech.com/2019 <http://www.zerospeech.com/2019>. Aim is to build a speech synthesizer without text or phonetic labels (TTS without T). Inspiration is taken from infants who learn to talk before they read or write. See more details below. Best Laurent > Début du message réexpédié : > > De: Emmanuel Dupoux <emmanuel.dupoux(a)gmail.com <mailto:emmanuel.dupoux@gmail.com>> > Objet: Announcing the Zero Resource Speech Challenge 2019! > Date: 15 décembre 2018 16:05:27 UTC+1 > À: zerospeech2019(a)gmail.com <mailto:zerospeech2019@gmail.com> > Cc: Juan Manuel Benjumea <jubenjum(a)gmail.com <mailto:jubenjum@gmail.com>>, Ewan Dunbar <ewan.dunbar(a)gmail.com <mailto:ewan.dunbar@gmail.com>>, Sakriani Sakti <ssakti(a)is.naist.jp <mailto:ssakti@is.naist.jp>>, lucas ondel <lucas.ondel(a)gmail.com <mailto:lucas.ondel@gmail.com>>, Mathieu Bernard <mmathieubernardd(a)gmail.com <mailto:mmathieubernardd@gmail.com>>, julien karadayi <julien.karadayi(a)gmail.com <mailto:julien.karadayi@gmail.com>>, Robin Algayres <rb.algayres(a)orange.fr <mailto:rb.algayres@orange.fr>>, Xuan Nga Cao <ngafrance(a)gmail.com <mailto:ngafrance@gmail.com>>, Laurent Besacier <laurent.besacier(a)univ-grenoble-alpes.fr <mailto:laurent.besacier@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr>> > > Zero Resource Speech Challenge 2019: TTS without T > > Dear Colleague, > > We have the pleasure to announce the new iteration of the Zero Ressource Speech Challenge, which is submitted to Interspeech 2019. Its aim is to build a speech synthesizer without any text or phonetic labels (hence Text to Speech without T). We takes inspiration from young infants who learn to talk before they learn to read or write. Here, the task is to discover a pseudo-text (a sub-word symbolic representation internal to the machine), from raw speech, without any labels, and to use these discovered units to resynthesize new utterances in a target voice. > > The Challenge is now open (deadline March 15, 2019). Details and registration at http://www.zerospeech.com/2019 <http://www.zerospeech.com/2019>. > > The organizers > Dunbar, E., Algayres, R., Benjumea, J., Karadayi, J., Cao, X-N., Bernard, M., Ondel, L., Besacier, L., Sakti, S., & Dupoux, E. > > Note: The Challenge is a continuation of the 'sub-word unit discovery' task of previous ZeroSpeech challenges, and is open to everyone (including participants concentrating solely on sub-word unit discovery or solely on synthesis, as well as participants building complete end-to-end systems). > > -- > **************************************** > Emmanuel Dupoux > Directeur d'Etudes à l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales > Research Scientist Facebook AI Research > www.lscp.net/persons/dupoux <http://www.lscp.net/persons/dupoux> > > Equipe Cognitive Machine Learning > EHESS - ENS - CNRS - INRIA > 29 rue d'Ulm, Paris 75005, France > www.syntheticlearner.net <http://www.syntheticlearner.net/> ------------------------ 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 <mailto:laurent.besacier@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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Introducing the Digital Language Survival Kit
by Claudia Soria 19 Nov '18

19 Nov '18

Dear SIGUL list members, I am happy to share with you the Digital Language Survival Kit. This is one of the results issued by the Digital Language Diversity Project. The project lasted three years and had the issue of digital diversity and vitality at its core. The kit is a collection of recommendations for improving the digital vitality of a language, namely its use and usability on the web and through digital devices. It presupposes some kind of assessment of the current status of digital vitality and is a reasoned guide of resources, examples, success stories and best practice to encourage language activists, practitioners, professionals, but also simple language speakers to take action and initiate some steps for supporting any language, but especially minority or endangered ones, in the digital era. You can download the Digital Language Survival Kit from here: http://wp.dldp.eu/digital-language-survival-kits/ Your comments and suggestions would be welcome. Do not hesitate to get in touch with the Kit's authors at dldp(a)dldp.eu All the best, Claudia Soria -- 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 registration
by Joseph Mariani 27 Oct '18

27 Oct '18

We tried to register to the SIGUL list during the ELRA Board meeting, but we failed with the following message : > La connexion n’est pas sécurisée > > Les propriétaires de list.elra.info ont mal configuré leur site web. > Pour éviter que vos données ne soient dérobées, Firefox ne s’est pas > connecté à ce site web. The same with Chrome. Can you fix it ? Thanks, Joseph -- Joseph MARIANI Directeur de Recherche Émérite LIMSI-CNRS Rue John von Neumann Campus Universitaire d'Orsay Batiment 508 91405 ORSAY Cedex (France) Tel: +33 1 69 15 78 56 Email: Joseph.Mariani(a)limsi.fr Web LIMSI: http://www.limsi.fr/ Web IMMI: http://immi.cnrs.fr/

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ICPHS 2019 SPECIAL SESSION on Computational Approaches for Documenting and Analyzing Oral Languages
by Laurent Besacier 25 Jul '18

25 Jul '18

>> >> Presentation >> >> http://lig-getalp.imag.fr/icphs-2019-special-session/ <http://lig-getalp.imag.fr/icphs-2019-special-session/> >> The special session Computational Approaches for Documenting and Analyzing Oral Languages welcomes submissions presenting innovative speech data collection methods and/or assistance for linguists and communities of speakers: methods and tools that facilitate collection, transcription and translation of primary language data. Oral languages is understood here as referring to spoken vernacular languages which depend on oral transmission, including endangered languages and (typically low-prestige) regional varieties of major languages. >> >> The special session intends to provide up-to-date information to an audience of phoneticians about developments in machine learning that make it increasingly feasible to automate segmentation, alignment or labelling of audio recordings, even in less-documented languages. A methodological goal is to help establish the field of Computational Language Documentation and contribute to its close association with the phonetic sciences. Computational Language Documentation needs to build on the insights gained through phonetic research; conversely, research in phonetics stands to gain much from the availability of abundant and reliable data on a wider range of languages. >> >> Papers will be submited directly to the conference by December 4th and will then be evaluated according to the standard ICPhS review process [see here <https://www.icphs2019.org/call-for-papers/>]. Accepted papers will be allocated either to this special session or a general session. When submitting you can specify if you want to be considered for this special session. >> >> >> Organizers >> Laurent Besacier – LIG UGA (France) >> Alexis Michaud – LACITO CNRS (France) >> Martine Adda-Decker – LPP CNRS (France) >> Gilles Adda – LIMSI CNRS (France) >> Steven Bird – CDU (Australia) >> Graham Neubig – CMU (USA) >> François Pellegrino – DDL CNRS (France) >> Sakriani Sakti – NAIST (Japan) >> Mark Van de Velde – LLACAN CNRS (France) >> >> Endorsement >> >> This special session is endorsed by SIGUL <http://www.elra.info/en/sig/sigul/> (Joint ELRA and ISCA Special Interest Group on Under-resourced Languages) >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------ >> 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 <mailto:laurent.besacier@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 >> -------------------------- >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > ------------------------ > 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 <mailto:laurent.besacier@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 > -------------------------- > > > > > > > > > ------------------------ 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 <mailto:laurent.besacier@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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ComputEL-3: Call for Papers
by Claudia Soria 02 Jul '18

02 Jul '18

FYI Best, Claudia ************ COMPUTEL-3 Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages CfP: https://computel-workshop.org/computel/computel-3/call-for-papers/ The ComputEL-3 workshop will focus on the use of computational methods in the study, support, and revitalization of endangered languages. The primary aim of the workshop is to continue narrowing the gap between computational linguists interested in working on methods for endangered languages, field linguists working on documenting these languages, and the language communities who are striving to maintain their languages. We take seriously the goal of reaching all relevant communities. To support this goal, ComputEL-3 aims to alternate between co-location with computational linguistics conferences and with language documentation conferences. ComputEL-3 will take place on 26-27 February 2019, immediately preceding the 6th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC6). Papers are invited which explore the interface and intersection of computational linguistics, documentary linguistics, and community-based language revitalization efforts. The committee encourages submissions which: (i) examine the use of specific methods in the analysis of data from low-resource languages, with a focus on endangered languages, or propose new methods for analysis of such data, (ii) propose new models for the collection, management, and deployment of data in endangered language settings, or (iii) consider what concrete steps are required to allow for a more fruitful interaction between computer scientists, documentary linguists, and language communities. The intention of the workshop is not merely to allow for the presentation of research on these topics, but also to continue building a network of computational linguists, documentary linguists, and community language activists who are able to effectively join together to serve their common interests. PRESENTATIONS We will have both oral plaftorm presentation sessions and a Poster session. The decision on whether a presentation will be a platform or poster one will be taken by the Organizing Committee on the advice of the Program Committee, taking into account the subject matter and how that might be best conveyed. Platform and poster presentations will not be distinguished in the Proceedings. SUBMISSIONS In line with our goal of reaching different academic communities, we offer two different modes of submission under two different tracks: (a) linguistic community perspective and (b) academic perspective. The selected mode/track of submission does not influence likelihood of acceptance. Camera-ready versions will have the same length ranges for both submission tracks, according to the original Submission Format (see Submission Formats and Proceedings below). Submissions must be uploaded via TBD/ComputEL-3 no later than October 15, 2018, 11:59PM (UTC-11, time zone of American Samoa). Please indicate clearly which of the two modes (Extended abstract or Full short/long paper) you are submitting to. All submissions must be anonymous and will be peer-reviewed by the Scientific Committee. Notification of acceptance will be sent out by November 12, 2018. Submission formats A. Extended abstract: Please submit anonymous abstracts of up to 1500 words. B. Full paper (short or long): Please submit (anonymously) either long papers (max. 8 pages plus references) or short papers (max. 4 pages plus references) according to the style and formatting guidelines provided in the CompuEL-3 Style Files (which have template files for both LaTeX and Microsoft Word). Authors will be allowed one extra page for the final version. PROCEEDINGS Authors whose presentations are selected for the conference will be eligible to submit their papers for online publication via the open-access ACL Anthology. Full and short papers will be allotted 1 additional page (altogether 5 and 9 pages) excluding references. Extended abstracts will be alloted 5 pages (according to the short paper format), excluding references. Proceedings papers should be revised and improved versions of the material content that was submitted for, and which has undergone, review. Extensions should concern responses to reviewer comments and the addition of further relevant details and clarifications, but not entirely new, unreviewed content. In particular, extended abstracts cannot be turned into full-length 9-page long papers. Camera-ready versions of the articles will be due on January 21, 2019. FUNDING We anticipate being able to support travel costs in some cases for students whose papers are accepted as well as scholars from lower income countries. Please contact the organizers at computel.workshop(a)gmail.com for further information. IMPORTANT DATES Mon 15-Oct-2018 Deadline for submission of short/long full papers or short abstracts Mon 12-Nov-2018 Notification of acceptance Mon 21-Jan-2019 Deadline for camera-ready versions of papers Tue-Wed 26-27-Feb-2019 Workshop Contact — website and email For further information, please consult our website: computel-workshop.org/computel-3/ or email us at: computel.workshop(a)gmail.com ----- -- 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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SLTU Workshop: Submission Deadline Extended till June 22d !
by Laurent Besacier 13 Jun '18

13 Jun '18

Dear All, The SLTU Workshop submission deadline has been extended ! The Website will be updated soon with the following information: Full Paper Submission: 15 June, 2018 22 June, 2018 (Extended) Revised Paper Submission: 29 June, 2018 (No change allowed in Abstract/Author list/Paper title) Paper Acceptance Notification: 17 July, 2018 Camera Ready Paper submission: 24 July, 2018 Early Registration: 31 July, 2018 Paper Registration Closes: 14 August, 2018 Workshop Dates: 29-31 August, 2018 ------------------------ 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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SLTU 2018 - India - 29-31 August 2018 (Satellite of Interspeech 2018) - submission website now online
by sigul＠list.elra.info 07 Jun '18

07 Jun '18

Hi, FYI, SLTU 2018 submission website is now online ! http://www.mica.edu.vn/sltu2018/index.php?pid=l12 best Claudia -- 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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All Together Now? Computational Modeling of Polysynthetic Languages 25-26 August, 2018, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA Co-located with COLING 2018
by sigul＠list.elra.info 23 May '18

23 May '18

FYI. Call for Papers */_All Together Now? Computational Modeling of Polysynthetic Languages_/*/25-26 August, 2018, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA//Co-located with COLING 2018http://coling2018.org///http://languagescience.umd.edu/poly/ Polysynthetic languages are languages where words typically consist of many morphemes, each with independent meaning. Polysynthetic languages occur all over the world. In particular, the Indigenous languages of the Americas are polysynthetic, as well as many languages of Australia, Siberia and New Guinea. This workshop aims to bring together specialists in language technology and linguists on one hand with language practitioners and revitalization experts on the other. Our goal is to foster an informed dialogue about these languages with contributions from all workshop attendees, so that polysynthetic languages can benefit from most recent advances of language technology, in a way that is helpful, productive and addresses immediate needs of the language communities. The workshop has been planned around COLING to ensure that computational advances for these complex languages both draws on the knowledge of related communities and contributes to their needs. We seek two types of contribution: (1) original research papers which present results of linguistic and computational linguistic analysis; (2) experience papers which present issues such as educational needs, policy processes or practical applications. The former type of paper follows the expected academic requirements for research papers; the latter is more experiential so could, by definition, be of a different nature from the typical conference paper. Submitters will be asked to categorize their papers as either type (1) or (2) or both, which will then drive the selection of reviewers. This will ensure that all papers are reviewed fairly. *Important Dates:*We will have two opportunities for submissions. For those not submitting to the main COLING conference, relevant dates are: - Workshop pre-submission deadline: May 1, 2018 - Notification: May 30, 2018 - Camera-ready submission deadline: June 30, 2018 For those who might also submit to the main conference, dates established by COLING organizers are: - Workshop submission deadline: May 25, 2018 - Notification: June 20, 2018 - Camera-ready submission deadline: June 30, 2018 Note that this very short deadline for authors means that pre-submissions from those authors who are not impacted by the main conference will be accepted earlier. *More Information:*http://languagescience.umd.edu/poly *_Workshop Organizers:_* Primary organizer: Judith L. Klavans, Army Research Laboratory Co-organizers (alphabetically listed): Anna Kazantseva, National Research Council of Canada Roland Kuhn, National Research Council of Canada Steven LaRocca, Army Research Laboratory Jeffrey Micher, Army Research Laboratory and Carnegie Mellon University Maria Polinsky, University of Maryland Omer Preminger, University of Maryland Clare Voss, Army Research Laboratory -- 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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Fwd: Extended deadline, May 25: Special Issue of the TAL Journal on "NLP for Under-Resourced Languages" (59:3)
by sigul＠list.elra.info 18 May '18

18 May '18

> Début du message réexpédié : > > De: dbernhard(a)unistra.fr > Objet: Extended deadline, May 25: Special Issue of the TAL Journal on "NLP for Under-Resourced Languages" (59:3) > Date: 18 mai 2018 11:05:08 UTC+2 > À: Laurent Besacier <laurent.besacier(a)univ-grenoble-alpes.fr> > > **The new submission deadline is: May 25, 2018** > > Call for Papers, Special Issue of the TAL Journal on "NLP for Under-Resourced Languages" > > Appel à contributions, numéro spécial de la revue TAL "Traitement automatique des langues peu dotées" > > tal-59-3.sciencesconf.org > > (see French version below) > > > NLP for Under-Resourced Languages > > Until recently, most of the research work in Natural Language Processing > (NLP) has been focused on a few well-described languages with many > speakers. The lack of interest for other "under-resourced" languages and > language varieties can be accounted for by a variety of reasons: lack of > funding, of human resources, of appropriate technology, of complete and > precise linguistic descriptions, of academic recognition by the > scientific community, etc. Under-resourced languages nevertheless pose > important scientific challenges, which open avenues of progress for NLP > in general. First, at a time when state-of-the-art methods usually > require large amounts of annotated data, work on under-resourced > languages often imposes methods able to deal with small-sized datasets > (small data). Second, given the difficulty of finding resources such as > lexicons or corpora, the collected datasets are often very heterogeneous > with respect to the time, space or domain parameters, e.g. corpora of > texts corresponding to different geolinguistic varieties and different > topics at different time points. This also often involves dealing with > variation in the writing, due either to an evolution of spelling > standards in time or also to the lack of spelling standards for > languages or language varieties which are mostly oral and only seldom > written. Third, NLP for under-resourced languages tends to be carried > out in isolated or sparse research groups, and the resulting products > are often in different formats and standards. Discovering, accessing, > and making those resources interoperable so that they can be reused can > become a challenge in itself. When dealing with under-resourced > languages, issues of interoperability of data and metadata become of > crucial importance for combining and re-using the few resources and > tools that might be available. > > The goal of this issue of Traitement Automatique des Langues (TAL) is to > give an overview of current research on NLP for under-resourced > languages from all over the world, encompassing a large variety of tasks. > > Authors are invited to submit original papers on all aspects of NLP for > under-resourced languages, in particular regarding, but not limited to, > the following issues and tasks: > > - Methods for the acquisition, collection and elicitation of resources > and annotations (e.g., OCR, crowdsourcing, etc.), for textual or spoken data > - Spelling normalisation and character-level models for spelling variation > - Projection of annotations from closely-related languages and > cross-lingual models > - Methods to deal with data sparsity, low quality issues and > out-of-vocabulary words > - Language and language variety identification, in particular for short > texts and mixed language texts with code-switching > - Computer-assisted language learning and writing aids (spelling > correction, predictive text and word completion) > - Issues related to reusability of NLP tools, techniques and resources > for languages other than those originally targeted, with special concern > for interoperability and reusability of resources and tools > - Computational approaches for under-resourced and endangered languages > documentation > > We also invite authors to provide a short but accurate description of > the languages or language varieties under study, focusing both on their > linguistic and sociolinguistic characteristics: > > - Brief history, location of current speakers ; > - Main linguistic properties (morphology, syntax) and language family ; > - Writing system ; > - Vitality, approximate number of speakers, and contexts of use. > > IMPORTANT DATES > > - Submission deadline : May 25, 2018 > - Notification to authors after the first review: July 16, 2018 > - Notification to authors after the second review: September 30, 2018 > - Final version: November 30, 2018 > - Publication: January 2019 > > THE JOURNAL > > TAL (Traitement Automatique des Langues / Natural Language Processing) > is an international journal published by ATALA (French Association for > Natural Language Processing, http://www.atala.org) since 1960 with the > support of CNRS. It is now published online, with an immediate open > access to published papers, and annual print on demand. This does not > change its editorial and reviewing process. > > LANGUAGE > > Manuscripts may be submitted in English or French. French-speaking > authors are requested to submit their contributions in French. > > SUBMISSION FORMAT > > Papers must be between 20 and 25 pages. Authors should contact the > editors for a derogation on the length. > > Authors who intend to submit a paper are encouraged to upload their > contribution via the menu "Paper submission" (PDF format). To do so, > they will need to have an account on the sciencesconf platform. To > create an account, go to the site http://www.sciencesconf.org and click > on "create account" next to the "Connect" button at the top of the page. > To submit, come back to the page http://tal-59-3.sciencesconf.org/, > connect to your account and upload your submission. > > From now on, TAL will perform double-blind review: it is thus necessary > to anonymise the manuscript and the name of the pdf file. > > Style sheets are available for download on the Web site of the journal: > http://old.atala.org/English-style-files > > ************************************************************************ > French Version > ************************************************************************ > > Jusqu'à récemment, la plupart des travaux de recherche en Traitement > Automatique des Langues (TAL) se sont concentrés sur quelques langues > bien décrites et ayant de nombreux locuteurs. Le manque d'intérêt pour > d'autres langues et variétés linguistiques «sous-dotées» peut > s'expliquer par différentes raisons : manque de financement, de > ressources humaines, de technologie appropriée, de descriptions > linguistiques complètes et précises, de reconnaissance académique par la > communauté scientifique, etc. Les langues sous-dotées posent néanmoins > d'importants défis scientifiques qui ouvrent des pistes de progrès pour > le TAL en général. Premièrement, à une époque où les méthodes de l'état > de l'art nécessitent généralement de grandes quantités de données > annotées, le travail sur des langues sous-dotées impose souvent des > méthodes capables de traiter des jeux de données de petite taille (small > data). Deuxièmement, compte tenu des difficultés à trouver des > ressources telles que des lexiques ou des corpus, les données collectées > sont souvent très hétérogènes et correspondent à différentes époques, > aires linguistiques ou domaines, par exemple des corpus de textes > intégrant différentes variétés géolinguistiques et portant sur > différents sujets à différentes époques. Cette hétérogénéité implique > aussi souvent des variations dans la graphie, dues soit à une évolution > des normes orthographiques dans le temps, soit à l'absence de normes > orthographiques pour les langues ou les variétés linguistiques qui sont > essentiellement orales et rarement écrites. Troisièmement, les travaux > de TAL pour les langues sous-dotées ont tendance à être réalisés dans > des groupes de recherche isolés ou dispersés, et les ressources > produites utilisent souvent des formats et des normes différents. > Trouver ces ressources, y accéder et les rendre interopérables pour > qu'elles puissent être réutilisées peut devenir un défi en soi. Quand il > s'agit de langues sous-dotées, les questions d'interopérabilité des > données et des métadonnées deviennent d'une importance cruciale pour > combiner et réutiliser les quelques ressources et outils qui pourraient > être disponibles. > > L'objectif de ce numéro de Traitement Automatique des Langues (TAL) est > de donner un aperçu de la recherche actuelle sur le TAL pour les langues > sous-dotées du monde entier, englobant une grande variété de tâches. > > Les auteurs sont invités à soumettre des documents originaux sur tous > les aspects du TAL pour les langues sous-dotées, en particulier en ce > qui concerne, mais sans s'y limiter, les questions et tâches suivantes : > > - Méthodes d'acquisition et de collecte de ressources et d'annotations > (p. ex. OCR, crowdsourcing, etc.) pour les données orales et écrites > - Normalisation orthographique et modèles basés sur les caractères pour > gérer la variation orthographique > - Projection d'annotations à partir de langues proches et modèles > multilingues > - Méthodes pour traiter le manque de données, les problèmes de qualité > et les mots hors-vocabulaire > - Identification de la langue et des variétés, en particulier pour les > textes courts et les textes en plusieurs langues avec alternance codique > - Apprentissage des langues assisté par ordinateur et outils d'aide à > l'écriture (correction orthographique, clavier prédictif et complétion > de mots) > - Problèmes liés à la réutilisation des outils, techniques et ressources > du TAL pour des langues autres que celles initialement ciblées, avec un > intérêt particulier pour l'interopérabilité et la réutilisabilité des > ressources et des outils > - Approches informatisées pour la documentation des langues sous-dotées > et en danger > > Nous invitons également les auteurs à fournir une description courte > mais précise des langues ou des variétés linguistiques étudiées, en > mettant l'accent à la fois sur leurs caractéristiques linguistiques et > sociolinguistiques : > > - Bref historique, localisation des locuteurs actuels ; > - Principales propriétés linguistiques (morphologie, syntaxe) et famille > de langues ; > - Système d'écriture ; > - Vitalité, nombre approximatif de locuteurs et contextes d'utilisation. > > DATES IMPORTANTES > > - Date limite de soumission : 25 mai 2018 > - Notification aux auteurs, première relecture : 16 juillet 2018 > - Notification aux auteurs, seconde relecture : 30 septembre 2018 > - Version finale : 30 novembre 2018 > - Publication : janvier 2019 > > LA REVUE > > La revue TAL (Traitement Automatique des Langues) est une revue > internationale éditée depuis 1960 par l’ATALA (Association pour le > Traitement Automatique des Langues) avec le concours du CNRS. Elle est > maintenant publiée en format électronique, avec accès gratuit immédiat > aux articles publiés, et impression annuelle à la demande. Cela ne > change aucunement son processus de relecture et de sélection. > > LANGUE > > Les articles sont écrits en français ou en anglais. Les soumissions en > anglais ne sont acceptées qu'en cas de présence d'au moins un auteur non > francophone. > > FORMAT DE LA SOUMISSION > > Les articles doivent faire entre 20 et 25 pages. Les auteurs doivent > contacter les rédacteurs pour obtenir une dérogation sur la longueur. > > Les chercheurs ayant l’intention de soumettre une contribution sont > invités à déposer leur article en cliquant sur le menu "Soumission d’un > article" (format PDF). Pour cela, si ce n’est déjà fait, s’inscrire sur > le site http://www.sciencesconf.org (en haut à gauche, "créer un > compte"), puis revenir sur la page http://tal-59-3.sciencesconf.org/, se > connecter et effectuer le dépôt. > > La revue TAL a un processus de relecture en double-aveugle. Merci > d’anonymiser votre article et le nom du fichier. > > Les feuilles de style sont disponibles en ligne sur le site de la revue > : http://old.atala.org/Instructions-aux-auteurs-feuilles ------------------------ 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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2d CFP SLTU 2018 - India - 29-31 August 2018 (Satellite of Interspeech 2018)
by sigul＠list.elra.info 11 May '18

11 May '18

> Dear all, > > The 6th international workshop on spoken language technologies for under-resourced languages (SLTU'18) will be held in Gurugram, India on 29-31 August 2018 > > The workshop on spoken language technologies for under- resourced languages is the sixth in a series of even-year SLTU workshops. Five previous workshops were successfully organized: SLTU'16 in Yogyakarta (Indonesia), SLTU'14 in St. Petersburg (Russia), SLTU'12 in Cape Town (South Africa), SLTU'10 in Penang (Malaysia) and SLTU'08 in Hanoi (Vietnam). > > There are more than 6000 languages in the world and only few are well represented digitally. India alone, with a country of 780 spoken languages and 86 different scripts that reflect its incredible diversity, has lost around 250 languages in the last 50 years and many more are at the verge of getting extinct. A major focus of this workshop is on Indo-European and Sino-Tibetan languages, but study on other under resourced languages are also encouraged. The workshop is being planned as a satellite workshop to INTERSPEECH 2018 and it is endorsed by SIGUL <http://www.elra.info/en/sig/sigul/> (a joint ISCA-ELRA Special Interest Group on Under-resourced Languages). > > Contact: kiit.sltu2018(a)gmail.com <mailto:kiit.sltu2018@gmail.com> Website: http://www.mica.edu.vn/sltu2018 <http://www.mica.edu.vn/sltu2018> > > Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length papers up to 4 pages for technical content (including figures, tables, etc) plus one additional page containing only references before June 15th (submission page with paper templates will be updated soon) > > NEW INFORMATION > -Tutorials: 2 tutorials on ASR and NMT will be given - see http://www.mica.edu.vn/sltu2018/index.php?pid=23 <http://www.mica.edu.vn/sltu2018/index.php?pid=23> > -Keynotes: 2 keynotes speeches will be given by Pushpak Bhattacharyya (IITP) and Emmanuel Dupoux (EHESS) - see http://www.mica.edu.vn/sltu2018/index.php?pid=l5 <http://www.mica.edu.vn/sltu2018/index.php?pid=l5> > > Areas/Topics > q Language resource development, acquisition and representation > q Linguistic theories, Corpus Development and Resources > q Linguistic and cognitive studies > q Unsupervised discovery of linguistic units > q Code switched lexical modelling > q Multi-lingual and cross-lingual spoken language processing > q Speech-to-text, text-to-speech and speech-to-speech processing > q Machine translation and dialogue systems > q Application of spoken language technologies for under-resourced languages. > > Important Dates > q Full Paper Submission: 15th June, 2018 > q Acceptance Notification: 10th July, 2018 > q Camera Ready Papers: 17th July, 2018 > q Early Registration: 24th July, 2018 > q Workshop Dates: 29-31st August, 2018 > > > ------------------------ > 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 <mailto:laurent.besacier@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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First Call: 6th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation
by sigul＠list.elra.info 03 May '18

03 May '18

FYI Claudia (Apologies for cross-posting) 6th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation: Connecting Communities, Languages & Technology February 28-March 3, 2019 Hawai‘i Imin International Conference Center Honolulu, Hawai‘i USA http://icldc6.icldc-hawaii.org <http://icldc6.icldc-hawaii.org/> Over the past two decades endangered language documentation and conservation has (re)emerged as a distinct subfield of linguistics with its own methodology and theoretical underpinnings. This reemergence has occurred in parallel with a dramatic technological evolution which has put advanced computing tools in the hands of language documenters and those striving to reclaim and maintain endangered languages. Moreover, technology is also changing traditional user roles, blurring the lines between linguist, speaker, and activist by providing increased access to information. Digital tools have the power to greatly accelerate the language work, but the digital realm also brings new challenges for endangered languages, which sometimes struggle to thrive in a digitally-mediated world. At ICLDC 2019 we propose to initiate a dialogue which will lead to improved connections between communities, languages, and technologies. We specifically aim to bring together three groups which have not always worked closely together, namely: linguists, language communities, and technology developers. The conference program will feature Keynote talks, Talk Story and Workshop sessions, papers, and posters. New for 2019 is the Technology Showcase, a networking opportunity which will bring together technology developers and language community members. An optional Hilo Field Study (on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi) to visit Hawaiian language revitalization programs in action will take place immediately after the conference (March 4-5). The 3rd Workshop on Computational Methods for Endangered Languages (ComputEL-3) will take place in Honolulu immediately preceding the conference (February 26-27). We have two separate Calls for Proposals, which are now officially open: * Workshops and Talk Story sessions <https://icldc6.weebly.com/cfp-workshops.html>(https://icldc6.weebly.com/cfp-workshops.html)*- deadline June 30, 2018* * General sessions (Papers, Posters, Technology Showcase <https://icldc6.weebly.com/cfp-general.html>(https://icldc6.weebly.com/cfp-general.html) - *deadline August 31, 2018* For details about each Call for Proposals type and its requirements and timelines, please see the Call for Proposals section <https://icldc6.weebly.com/call-for-proposals.html>(https://icldc6.weebly.com/call-for-proposals.html) of our conference website. We look forward to your submissions and participation at the conference!

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FEL XXII (2018) Conference, Endangered Languages and the Land: Mapping Landscapes of Multilingualism, Reykjavík, 23-25 August 2018
by sigul＠list.elra.info 10 Apr '18

10 Apr '18

FYI http://www.ogmios.org/conferences/2018/index.php?t=1&cn=ZmxleGlibGVfcmVjcw%… Claudia -- 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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Fwd: [SIGLEX] ACL 2018 Workshop on Deep Learning Approaches for Low-Resource Natural Language Processing (DeepLo)
by sigul＠list.elra.info 09 Apr '18

09 Apr '18

FYI. Claudia -------- Messaggio Inoltrato -------- Oggetto: [SIGLEX] ACL 2018 Workshop on Deep Learning Approaches for Low-Resource Natural Language Processing (DeepLo) Data: Fri, 6 Apr 2018 12:56:07 +0000 (UTC) Mittente: Bahar Salehi <baharsalehi(a)gmail.com> A: Claudia Soria <claudia.soria(a)ilc.cnr.it> The 1st Workshop on Deep Learning Approaches for Low- Resource Natural Language Processing (DeepLo) Workshop at the Annual Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Melbourne, Australia https://sites.google.com/view/deeplo18/home WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION Natural Language Processing is being revolutionized by deep learning with neural networks. However, deep learning requires large amounts of annotated data, and its advantage over traditional statistical methods typically diminishes when such data is not available; for example, SMT continues to outperform NMT in many bilingually resource- poor scenarios. Large amounts of annotated data do not exist for for many low-resource languages, and for high- resource languages it can be difficult to find linguistically annotated data of sufficient size and quality to allow neural methods to excel. This workshop aims to bring together researchers from the NLP and ML communities who work on learning with neural methods when there is not enough data for those methods to succeed out-of-the-box. WORKSHOP TOPICS Transfer learning Multi-task learning Semi-supervised learning Dual learning Unsupervised learning Active learning Generative adversarial networks Bandit learning Domain adaptation Decipherment or zero-shot learning Language projections Universal representations and interlinguas Low resource structured prediction IMPORTANT DATES All submission deadlines are at 11:59 p.m. Anywhere on Earth (UTC-12) Paper submission: April 8, 2018 (extended deadline) Notification of acceptance: May 7, 2018 Camera-ready submission: May 28, 2018 Workshop date: July 19, 2018 SUBMISSION Submissions consist of up to eight pages of content; there is no limit on the number of pages for references. Authors can also submit extended abstracts of up to eight pages of content. Extended abstracts will not be included in the proceedings. Thus, your work will retain the status of being unpublished and later submission at another venue (e.g., a journal) is not precluded. Likewise, you are free to re-present work that has been previously published elsewhere. We anticipate most papers and extended abstracts to be presented a posters, with only a few selected for oral presentation. Please submit your paper using START: https://www.softconf.com/acl2018/DLNLPLR/ ORGANIZERS Gholamreza Haffari, Monash University Colin Cherry, Google Research George Foster, Google Research Shahram Khadivi, eBay Research Bahar Salehi, Melbourne University ===================================================================== SIGLEX Special Interest Group on the Lexicon SIGLEX Homepage: siglex.org Webmaster: preslav.nakov(a)gmail.com SIGLEX Message Center: alt.qcri.org/siglex/messctr.php =====================================================================

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Second Call for Papers, Special Issue of the TAL Journal on "NLP for Under-Resourced Languages" (59:3)
by sigul＠list.elra.info 04 Apr '18

04 Apr '18

Second Call for Papers, Special Issue of the TAL Journal on "NLP for Under-Resourced Languages" Appel à contributions, numéro spécial de la revue TAL "Traitement automatique des langues peu dotées" tal-59-3.sciencesconf.org (see French version below) NLP for Under-Resourced Languages Until recently, most of the research work in Natural Language Processing (NLP) has been focused on a few well-described languages with many speakers. The lack of interest for other "under-resourced" languages and language varieties can be accounted for by a variety of reasons: lack of funding, of human resources, of appropriate technology, of complete and precise linguistic descriptions, of academic recognition by the scientific community, etc. Under-resourced languages nevertheless pose important scientific challenges, which open avenues of progress for NLP in general. First, at a time when state-of-the-art methods usually require large amounts of annotated data, work on under-resourced languages often imposes methods able to deal with small-sized datasets (small data). Second, given the difficulty of finding resources such as lexicons or corpora, the collected datasets are often very heterogeneous with respect to the time, space or domain parameters, e.g. corpora of texts corresponding to different geolinguistic varieties and different topics at different time points. This also often involves dealing with variation in the writing, due either to an evolution of spelling standards in time or also to the lack of spelling standards for languages or language varieties which are mostly oral and only seldom written. Third, NLP for under-resourced languages tends to be carried out in isolated or sparse research groups, and the resulting products are often in different formats and standards. Discovering, accessing, and making those resources interoperable so that they can be reused can become a challenge in itself. When dealing with under-resourced languages, issues of interoperability of data and metadata become of crucial importance for combining and re-using the few resources and tools that might be available. The goal of this issue of Traitement Automatique des Langues (TAL) is to give an overview of current research on NLP for under-resourced languages from all over the world, encompassing a large variety of tasks. Authors are invited to submit original papers on all aspects of NLP for under-resourced languages, in particular regarding, but not limited to, the following issues and tasks: - Methods for the acquisition, collection and elicitation of resources and annotations (e.g., OCR, crowdsourcing, etc.), for textual or spoken data - Spelling normalisation and character-level models for spelling variation - Projection of annotations from closely-related languages and cross-lingual models - Methods to deal with data sparsity, low quality issues and out-of-vocabulary words - Language and language variety identification, in particular for short texts and mixed language texts with code-switching - Computer-assisted language learning and writing aids (spelling correction, predictive text and word completion) - Issues related to reusability of NLP tools, techniques and resources for languages other than those originally targeted, with special concern for interoperability and reusability of resources and tools - Computational approaches for under-resourced and endangered languages documentation We also invite authors to provide a short but accurate description of the languages or language varieties under study, focusing both on their linguistic and sociolinguistic characteristics: - Brief history, location of current speakers ; - Main linguistic properties (morphology, syntax) and language family ; - Writing system ; - Vitality, approximate number of speakers, and contexts of use. IMPORTANT DATES - Submission deadline : May 15, 2018 - Notification to authors after the first review: July 16, 2018 - Notification to authors after the second review: September 30, 2018 - Final version: November 30, 2018 - Publication: January 2019 THE JOURNAL TAL (Traitement Automatique des Langues / Natural Language Processing) is an international journal published by ATALA (French Association for Natural Language Processing, http://www.atala.org) since 1960 with the support of CNRS. It is now published online, with an immediate open access to published papers, and annual print on demand. This does not change its editorial and reviewing process. LANGUAGE Manuscripts may be submitted in English or French. French-speaking authors are requested to submit their contributions in French. SUBMISSION FORMAT Papers must be between 20 and 25 pages. Authors should contact the editors for a derogation on the length. Authors who intend to submit a paper are encouraged to upload their contribution via the menu "Paper submission" (PDF format). To do so, they will need to have an account on the sciencesconf platform. To create an account, go to the site http://www.sciencesconf.org and click on "create account" next to the "Connect" button at the top of the page. To submit, come back to the page http://tal-59-3.sciencesconf.org/, connect to your account and upload your submission. From now on, TAL will perform double-blind review: it is thus necessary to anonymise the manuscript and the name of the pdf file. Style sheets are available for download on the Web site of the journal: http://old.atala.org/English-style-files ************************************************************************ French Version ************************************************************************ Jusqu'à récemment, la plupart des travaux de recherche en Traitement Automatique des Langues (TAL) se sont concentrés sur quelques langues bien décrites et ayant de nombreux locuteurs. Le manque d'intérêt pour d'autres langues et variétés linguistiques «sous-dotées» peut s'expliquer par différentes raisons : manque de financement, de ressources humaines, de technologie appropriée, de descriptions linguistiques complètes et précises, de reconnaissance académique par la communauté scientifique, etc. Les langues sous-dotées posent néanmoins d'importants défis scientifiques qui ouvrent des pistes de progrès pour le TAL en général. Premièrement, à une époque où les méthodes de l'état de l'art nécessitent généralement de grandes quantités de données annotées, le travail sur des langues sous-dotées impose souvent des méthodes capables de traiter des jeux de données de petite taille (small data). Deuxièmement, compte tenu des difficultés à trouver des ressources telles que des lexiques ou des corpus, les données collectées sont souvent très hétérogènes et correspondent à différentes époques, aires linguistiques ou domaines, par exemple des corpus de textes intégrant différentes variétés géolinguistiques et portant sur différents sujets à différentes époques. Cette hétérogénéité implique aussi souvent des variations dans la graphie, dues soit à une évolution des normes orthographiques dans le temps, soit à l'absence de normes orthographiques pour les langues ou les variétés linguistiques qui sont essentiellement orales et rarement écrites. Troisièmement, les travaux de TAL pour les langues sous-dotées ont tendance à être réalisés dans des groupes de recherche isolés ou dispersés, et les ressources produites utilisent souvent des formats et des normes différents. Trouver ces ressources, y accéder et les rendre interopérables pour qu'elles puissent être réutilisées peut devenir un défi en soi. Quand il s'agit de langues sous-dotées, les questions d'interopérabilité des données et des métadonnées deviennent d'une importance cruciale pour combiner et réutiliser les quelques ressources et outils qui pourraient être disponibles. L'objectif de ce numéro de Traitement Automatique des Langues (TAL) est de donner un aperçu de la recherche actuelle sur le TAL pour les langues sous-dotées du monde entier, englobant une grande variété de tâches. Les auteurs sont invités à soumettre des documents originaux sur tous les aspects du TAL pour les langues sous-dotées, en particulier en ce qui concerne, mais sans s'y limiter, les questions et tâches suivantes : - Méthodes d'acquisition et de collecte de ressources et d'annotations (p. ex. OCR, crowdsourcing, etc.) pour les données orales et écrites - Normalisation orthographique et modèles basés sur les caractères pour gérer la variation orthographique - Projection d'annotations à partir de langues proches et modèles multilingues - Méthodes pour traiter le manque de données, les problèmes de qualité et les mots hors-vocabulaire - Identification de la langue et des variétés, en particulier pour les textes courts et les textes en plusieurs langues avec alternance codique - Apprentissage des langues assisté par ordinateur et outils d'aide à l'écriture (correction orthographique, clavier prédictif et complétion de mots) - Problèmes liés à la réutilisation des outils, techniques et ressources du TAL pour des langues autres que celles initialement ciblées, avec un intérêt particulier pour l'interopérabilité et la réutilisabilité des ressources et des outils - Approches informatisées pour la documentation des langues sous-dotées et en danger Nous invitons également les auteurs à fournir une description courte mais précise des langues ou des variétés linguistiques étudiées, en mettant l'accent à la fois sur leurs caractéristiques linguistiques et sociolinguistiques : - Bref historique, localisation des locuteurs actuels ; - Principales propriétés linguistiques (morphologie, syntaxe) et famille de langues ; - Système d'écriture ; - Vitalité, nombre approximatif de locuteurs et contextes d'utilisation. DATES IMPORTANTES - Date limite de soumission : 15 mai 2018 - Notification aux auteurs, première relecture : 16 juillet 2018 - Notification aux auteurs, seconde relecture : 30 septembre 2018 - Version finale : 30 novembre 2018 - Publication : janvier 2019 LA REVUE La revue TAL (Traitement Automatique des Langues) est une revue internationale éditée depuis 1960 par l’ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) avec le concours du CNRS. Elle est maintenant publiée en format électronique, avec accès gratuit immédiat aux articles publiés, et impression annuelle à la demande. Cela ne change aucunement son processus de relecture et de sélection. LANGUE Les articles sont écrits en français ou en anglais. Les soumissions en anglais ne sont acceptées qu'en cas de présence d'au moins un auteur non francophone. FORMAT DE LA SOUMISSION Les articles doivent faire entre 20 et 25 pages. Les auteurs doivent contacter les rédacteurs pour obtenir une dérogation sur la longueur. Les chercheurs ayant l’intention de soumettre une contribution sont invités à déposer leur article en cliquant sur le menu "Soumission d’un article" (format PDF). Pour cela, si ce n’est déjà fait, s’inscrire sur le site http://www.sciencesconf.org (en haut à gauche, "créer un compte"), puis revenir sur la page http://tal-59-3.sciencesconf.org/, se connecter et effectuer le dépôt. La revue TAL a un processus de relecture en double-aveugle. Merci d’anonymiser votre article et le nom du fichier. Les feuilles de style sont disponibles en ligne sur le site de la revue : http://old.atala.org/Instructions-aux-auteurs-feuilles -- 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 -- 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, special issue of the TAL journal on "NLP for Under-Resourced Languages" (59:3)
by sigul＠list.elra.info 12 Feb '18

12 Feb '18

Call for papers, special issue of the TAL journal on "NLP for Under-Resourced Languages" Appel à contributions, numéro spécial de la revue TAL "Traitement automatique des langues peu dotées" tal-59-3.sciencesconf.org (see French version below) NLP for Under-Resourced Languages Until recently, most of the research work in Natural Language Processing (NLP) has been focused on a few well-described languages with many speakers. The lack of interest for other "under-resourced" languages and language varieties can be accounted for by a variety of reasons: lack of funding, of human resources, of appropriate technology, of complete and precise linguistic descriptions, of academic recognition by the scientific community, etc. Under-resourced languages nevertheless pose important scientific challenges, which open avenues of progress for NLP in general. First, at a time when state-of-the-art methods usually require large amounts of annotated data, work on under-resourced languages often imposes methods able to deal with small-sized datasets (small data). Second, given the difficulty of finding resources such as lexicons or corpora, the collected datasets are often very heterogeneous with respect to the time, space or domain parameters, e.g. corpora of texts corresponding to different geolinguistic varieties and different topics at different time points. This also often involves dealing with variation in the writing, due either to an evolution of spelling standards in time or also to the lack of spelling standards for languages or language varieties which are mostly oral and only seldom written. Third, NLP for under-resourced languages tends to be carried out in isolated or sparse research groups, and the resulting products are often in different formats and standards. Discovering, accessing, and making those resources interoperable so that they can be reused can become a challenge in itself. When dealing with under-resourced languages, issues of interoperability of data and metadata become of crucial importance for combining and re-using the few resources and tools that might be available. The goal of this issue of Traitement Automatique des Langues (TAL) is to give an overview of current research on NLP for under-resourced languages from all over the world, encompassing a large variety of tasks. Authors are invited to submit original papers on all aspects of NLP for under-resourced languages, in particular regarding, but not limited to, the following issues and tasks: - Methods for the acquisition, collection and elicitation of resources and annotations (e.g., OCR, crowdsourcing, etc.), for textual or spoken data - Spelling normalisation and character-level models for spelling variation - Projection of annotations from closely-related languages and cross-lingual models - Methods to deal with data sparsity, low quality issues and out-of-vocabulary words - Language and language variety identification, in particular for short texts and mixed language texts with code-switching - Computer-assisted language learning and writing aids (spelling correction, predictive text and word completion) - Issues related to reusability of NLP tools, techniques and resources for languages other than those originally targeted, with special concern for interoperability and reusability of resources and tools - Computational approaches for under-resourced and endangered languages documentation We also invite authors to provide a short but accurate description of the languages or language varieties under study, focusing both on their linguistic and sociolinguistic characteristics: - Brief history, location of current speakers ; - Main linguistic properties (morphology, syntax) and language family ; - Writing system ; - Vitality, approximate number of speakers, and contexts of use. IMPORTANT DATES - Submission deadline : May 15, 2018 - Notification to authors after the first review: July 16, 2018 - Notification to authors after the second review: September 30, 2018 - Final version: November 30, 2018 - Publication: January 2019 THE JOURNAL TAL (Traitement Automatique des Langues / Natural Language Processing) is an international journal published by ATALA (French Association for Natural Language Processing, http://www.atala.org) since 1960 with the support of CNRS. It is now published online, with an immediate open access to published papers, and annual print on demand. This does not change its editorial and reviewing process. LANGUAGE Manuscripts may be submitted in English or French. French-speaking authors are requested to submit their contributions in French. SUBMISSION FORMAT Papers must be between 20 and 25 pages. Authors should contact the editors for a derogation on the length. Authors who intend to submit a paper are encouraged to upload their contribution via the menu "Paper submission" (PDF format). To do so, they will need to have an account on the sciencesconf platform. To create an account, go to the site http://www.sciencesconf.org and click on "create account" next to the "Connect" button at the top of the page. To submit, come back to the page http://tal-59-3.sciencesconf.org/, connect to your account and upload your submission. From now on, TAL will perform double-blind review: it is thus necessary to anonymise the manuscript and the name of the pdf file. Style sheets are available for download on the Web site of the journal: http://www.atala.org/content/instruction-authors-style-files-0 ************************************************************************ French Version ************************************************************************ Jusqu'à récemment, la plupart des travaux de recherche en Traitement Automatique des Langues (TAL) se sont concentrés sur quelques langues bien décrites et ayant de nombreux locuteurs. Le manque d'intérêt pour d'autres langues et variétés linguistiques «sous-dotées» peut s'expliquer par différentes raisons : manque de financement, de ressources humaines, de technologie appropriée, de descriptions linguistiques complètes et précises, de reconnaissance académique par la communauté scientifique, etc. Les langues sous-dotées posent néanmoins d'importants défis scientifiques qui ouvrent des pistes de progrès pour le TAL en général. Premièrement, à une époque où les méthodes de l'état de l'art nécessitent généralement de grandes quantités de données annotées, le travail sur des langues sous-dotées impose souvent des méthodes capables de traiter des jeux de données de petite taille (small data). Deuxièmement, compte tenu des difficultés à trouver des ressources telles que des lexiques ou des corpus, les données collectées sont souvent très hétérogènes et correspondent à différentes époques, aires linguistiques ou domaines, par exemple des corpus de textes intégrant différentes variétés géolinguistiques et portant sur différents sujets à différentes époques. Cette hétérogénéité implique aussi souvent des variations dans la graphie, dues soit à une évolution des normes orthographiques dans le temps, soit à l'absence de normes orthographiques pour les langues ou les variétés linguistiques qui sont essentiellement orales et rarement écrites. Troisièmement, les travaux de TAL pour les langues sous-dotées ont tendance à être réalisés dans des groupes de recherche isolés ou dispersés, et les ressources produites utilisent souvent des formats et des normes différents. Trouver ces ressources, y accéder et les rendre interopérables pour qu'elles puissent être réutilisées peut devenir un défi en soi. Quand il s'agit de langues sous-dotées, les questions d'interopérabilité des données et des métadonnées deviennent d'une importance cruciale pour combiner et réutiliser les quelques ressources et outils qui pourraient être disponibles. L'objectif de ce numéro de Traitement Automatique des Langues (TAL) est de donner un aperçu de la recherche actuelle sur le TAL pour les langues sous-dotées du monde entier, englobant une grande variété de tâches. Les auteurs sont invités à soumettre des documents originaux sur tous les aspects du TAL pour les langues sous-dotées, en particulier en ce qui concerne, mais sans s'y limiter, les questions et tâches suivantes : - Méthodes d'acquisition et de collecte de ressources et d'annotations (p. ex. OCR, crowdsourcing, etc.) pour les données orales et écrites - Normalisation orthographique et modèles basés sur les caractères pour gérer la variation orthographique - Projection d'annotations à partir de langues proches et modèles multilingues - Méthodes pour traiter le manque de données, les problèmes de qualité et les mots hors-vocabulaire - Identification de la langue et des variétés, en particulier pour les textes courts et les textes en plusieurs langues avec alternance codique - Apprentissage des langues assisté par ordinateur et outils d'aide à l'écriture (correction orthographique, clavier prédictif et complétion de mots) - Problèmes liés à la réutilisation des outils, techniques et ressources du TAL pour des langues autres que celles initialement ciblées, avec un intérêt particulier pour l'interopérabilité et la réutilisabilité des ressources et des outils - Approches informatisées pour la documentation des langues sous-dotées et en danger Nous invitons également les auteurs à fournir une description courte mais précise des langues ou des variétés linguistiques étudiées, en mettant l'accent à la fois sur leurs caractéristiques linguistiques et sociolinguistiques : - Bref historique, localisation des locuteurs actuels ; - Principales propriétés linguistiques (morphologie, syntaxe) et famille de langues ; - Système d'écriture ; - Vitalité, nombre approximatif de locuteurs et contextes d'utilisation. DATES IMPORTANTES - Date limite de soumission : 15 mai 2018 - Notification aux auteurs, première relecture : 16 juillet 2018 - Notification aux auteurs, seconde relecture : 30 septembre 2018 - Version finale : 30 novembre 2018 - Publication : janvier 2019 LA REVUE La revue TAL (Traitement Automatique des Langues) est une revue internationale éditée depuis 1960 par l’ATALA (Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues) avec le concours du CNRS. Elle est maintenant publiée en format électronique, avec accès gratuit immédiat aux articles publiés, et impression annuelle à la demande. Cela ne change aucunement son processus de relecture et de sélection. LANGUE Les articles sont écrits en français ou en anglais. Les soumissions en anglais ne sont acceptées qu'en cas de présence d'au moins un auteur non francophone. FORMAT DE LA SOUMISSION Les articles doivent faire entre 20 et 25 pages. Les auteurs doivent contacter les rédacteurs pour obtenir une dérogation sur la longueur. Les chercheurs ayant l’intention de soumettre une contribution sont invités à déposer leur article en cliquant sur le menu "Soumission d’un article" (format PDF). Pour cela, si ce n’est déjà fait, s’inscrire sur le site http://www.sciencesconf.org (en haut à gauche, "créer un compte"), puis revenir sur la page http://tal-59-3.sciencesconf.org/, se connecter et effectuer le dépôt. La revue TAL a un processus de relecture en double-aveugle. Merci d’anonymiser votre article et le nom du fichier. Les feuilles de style sont disponibles en ligne sur le site de la revue : http://www.atala.org/content/instructions-aux-auteurs-feuilles-de-style-0 -- 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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Fwd: [ln] Appel: Fifth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects (VarDial)
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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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