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

18 Jan '18

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

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

12 Jan '18

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

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joint ISCA-ELRA Special Interest Group on Under-resourced Languages (SIGUL) .... BOARD Elections
by sigul＠list.elra.info 08 Jan '18

08 Jan '18

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Election of the SIGUL Board ... 3 Positions
by sigul＠list.elra.info 22 Dec '17

22 Dec '17

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FYI: Fourth International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages, 8th–9th January, 2018, Helsinki, Finland.
by sigul＠list.elra.info 15 Dec '17

15 Dec '17

Dear members of SIGUL, for your information, the programme of the fourth International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages (8–9 January 2018, Helsinki, Finland) is now available. http://blogs.helsinki.fi/language-technology/iwclul-2018/ All the 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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1st CFP SLTU 2018 - India - 29-31 August 2018 (Satellite of Interspeech 2018)
by sigul＠list.elra.info 29 Nov '17

29 Nov '17

>> 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. >> >> >> 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. >> >> 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 >> >> Tutorials on NMT, ASR and TTS, as well as a new TTS challenge will be announced soon…. >> >> > > > ------------------------ > 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 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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Reminder about the ELRA/ISCA SIG on Less Resourced Languages
by sigul＠list.elra.info 27 Nov '17

27 Nov '17

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SIGUL BOARD ELECTIONS
by sigul＠list.elra.info 24 Nov '17

24 Nov '17

Hello, I forward you an email from Khalid Choukri, in charge of supervising these elections for the SIGUL commitee ... Please read, this concerns SIGUL board election process… Best, L >> Dear All, >> >> The joint ISCA-ELRA Special Interest Group on Under-resourced Languages (SIGUL) has been created earlier in 2017. >> SIGUL intends to bring together a number of professionals involved in the development of language resources and technologies for under-resourced languages (see more on http://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/index.php/sigs?layout=edit&id=198 <http://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/index.php/sigs?layout=edit&id=198>). >> >> You are receiving this e-mail because you have been involved in pre-SIGUL events (SLTU, CCURL, others) and your email address has been put on the sigul(a)list.elra.info <mailto:sigul@list.elra.info> mailing-list, which contains approximately 300 members. This newly created mailing-list will work as a newsletter service, which means only moderators can post to it. Subscriptions are subject to prior approval, and the subscribers list is private (the archives will be public). >> >> A provisional board was created to cope with the coming events organized by the SIG (current board persons are: Claudia Soria, Laurent Besacier and Sakriani Sakti). However, to respect ISCA by-laws on SIGs, it is now time to organize elections for the board. According to the ISCA website, the elected members of the SIG shall consist of a chairperson, a co-chair and a secretary (see board duties in the Appendix below). All elected officers shall be members in good standing with the SIGUL organization and parent organizations (ELRA and ISCA). The term of all elected board members of the SIG shall be 2 years. They may be re-elected but consecutive appointments are limited to four consecutive terms. >> >> The SIGUL election will follow the schedule below. >> >> - Call for candidates (from now to December 7th) : if you want to be a candidate, please send a message to choukri(a)elda.org <mailto:choukri@elda.org> before Dec 7th with a short bio and a statement/manifesto that explains why you want to be an elected member of SIGUL board >> >> - Electronic Voting (between December 7th and December 21st) : a specific email will be sent with explanations on how to vote and information on the candidates (you will be allowed to vote for 3 candidates maximum, since there are 3 slots in the board). >> >> -After December 21st : announcement of results >> >> We hope you will take an active part to this election and we are looking forward to see you during coming SIGUL events (CCURL during LREC 2018 and SLTU as a satellite workshop of Interspeech 2018). see http://www.ilc.cnr.it/en/content/ccurl-2018 <http://www.ilc.cnr.it/en/content/ccurl-2018> and http://www.mica.edu.vn/sltu2018/ <http://www.mica.edu.vn/sltu2018/> >> >> Best Regards >> >> Khalid Choukri, in charge of supervising these elections for the SIGUL commitee >> >> Appendix 1: board members’ duties >> >> The duties of the chair and co-chair persons shall be: >> >> - To have executive authority over actions and activities of the SIG. >> - To mutually support the chairperson duties, including acting as a surrogate at meetings when one cannot attend >> - To prepare a joint annual written report on the activities of the SIG for presentation to the parent organisations. >> - To act as Liaison Representative to one of the parent organization (ELRA or ISCA) >> - To supervise the organization of SIGUL events (CCURL, SLTU, others). >> >> The duties of the secretary shall be: >> >> - To maintain a membership list for the SIG.To maintain documents stating the aims of the group and the names and affiliations of the current board members, suitable for sending to prospective members and other inquirers. >> - To maintain other records related to SIG activities, including but not limited to annual reports, records of sponsored and endorsed events, and recordings of presentations at the different SIG events. >> - To assist the chair and co-chair in organizing SIGUL events (CCURL, SLTU, others). >> -To represent the SIG when chair and co-chair cannot attend meetings "If you want to unsubscribe from the list please reply to <laurent.besacier(a)imag.fr> or Claudia Soria <claudia.soria(a)ilc.cnr.it>." ------------------------ 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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test of the SIGUL List
by sigul＠list.elra.info 22 Nov '17

22 Nov '17

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1st CfP: 3rd Workshop on Collaboration and Computing for Under-Resourced Languages - Sustaining knowledge diversity in the digital age (CCURL 2018) @ LREC 2018
by sigul＠list.elra.info 17 Nov '17

17 Nov '17

Dear SIGUL Members, it is our pleasure to distribute the first call for papers of the third CCURL workshop, the first one endorsed by SIGUL. The workshop will take place on May 12, after LREC 2018, in Miyazaki, Japan. The deadline for submission is January 13. CCURL2018 is on Twitter: @*CCURL_2018* <https://twitter.com/CCURL_2018> Best wishes, Claudia Soria and Laurent Besacier ************************ [Apologies for multiple postings] CCURL 2018 Collaboration and Computing for Under-Resourced Languages "Sustaining knowledge diversity in the digital age" a Workshop to be held as part of the 11th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2018) at the Phoenix Seagaia Resort in Miyazaki (Japan) 1ST CALL FOR PAPERS Date: 12 May 2018 Web site: http://www.ilc.cnr.it/ccurl2018 Submission deadline: 13 January 2018 WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVE The third CCURL Workshop, entitled "Sustaining knowledge diversity in the digital age", will take place on Saturday, 12 May 2018 in Miyazaki, Japan, in conjunction with LREC 2018. This workshop aims at gathering together academics, industrial researchers, knowledge experts, digital language resource and technology providers, software developers, but also language activists and community representatives in order to identify the current capacity for and the difficulties in creating and sustaining the digital representation of traditional knowledge. The diversity of cultures is a distinctive footprint of the way humans have been coping with the environment over time; unique visions of the world and knowledge are expressed by indigenous languages. Preservation and sharing of the traditional knowledge encoded by languages is being increasingly recognised as a step towards a sustainable and durable interaction of mankind with the environment. However, as language diversity is decreasing, the maintenance and transmission of such knowledge is at risk. Digital language resources can help avoid the disappearance of diverse knowledge systems, ensure their preservation and transmission, and foster their cross-fertilisation. The vast majority of this knowledge is poorly represented in digital form (only four out of the 522 indigenous languages of Latin America are represented by Wikipedia projects, for example). Moreover, as this knowledge is encoded in underresourced (minority, endangered or minoritised) languages, specific methods and models of resource development are required to circumvent the problems affecting low-resourced languages, such as low investments, data sparsity, fragmentation of efforts, speaker communities" lack of involvement, to cite just a few. Specific problems arise as well: low digital literacy, the issue of community ownership and control over content, or the need to include audio and video to accommodate languages that are unwritten or having no orthography standard. TOPICS OF INTEREST We solicit papers and posters related to the following non-exclusive topics: * models and methods for the development of language resources for representing traditional knowledge; * experiences about forms of collaboration among research, industry and local communities; * involvement of speakers' communities and ethical issues related to knowledge protection; * replicability of experiences; * use of knowledge resources for cultural heritage preservation and education; * use of video and audio as complementary or alternative ways to writing in order to accommodate languages not spoken or with unstable orthographies; * innovative data collection and data annotation methodologies; * semantic and semantic web technologies for representing indigenous knowledge systems in indigenous languages. SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION We accept submission of long papers (up to 8 pages), short papers (up to 4 pages) and poster papers (up to 4 pages) to be presented as a long or short oral presentation at the workshop. The papers of the workshop will be published in online proceedings. Papers are expected to address the workshop main theme. They can contain an analysis and insight into existing methods and problems; a description of resources; an overview of the literature or of the current initiatives, or a combination of the above. Authors must declare if part of the paper contains material previously published elsewhere. Each submission will be reviewed by three programme committee members. In compliance with the LREC rules, papers must not be anonymized. Papers should be formatted according to the stylesheet provided by LREC 2018 (http://lrec2018.lrec-conf.org/en/submission/authors-kit/) and should not exceed 8 pages, including references and appendices. Papers should be submitted in PDF unprotected format to the workshop START page (URL will be provided in due time). The formatting template must be strictly adhered to and deadlines met. IMPORTANT DATES * Paper submission deadline: 13 January 2018 * Notification of acceptance: 14 February 2018 * Camera-ready paper: 7 March 2018 * Workshop date: 12 May 2018 IDENTIFY, DESCRIBE AND SHARE YOUR LRS! * Describing your LRs in the LRE Map is now a normal practice in the submission procedure of LREC (introduced in 2010 and adopted by other conferences). To continue the efforts initiated at LREC 2014 about "Sharing LRs" (data, tools, web-services, etc.), authors will have the possibility, when submitting a paper, to upload LRs in a special LREC repository. This effort of sharing LRs, linked to the LRE Map for their description, may become a new "regular" feature for conferences in our field, thus contributing to creating a common repository where everyone can deposit and share data. * As scientific work requires accurate citations of referenced work so as to allow the community to understand the whole context and also replicate the experiments conducted by other researchers, LREC 2018 endorses the need to uniquely Identify LRs through the use of the International Standard Language Resource Number (ISLRN, www.islrn.org), a Persistent Unique Identifier to be assigned to each Language Resource. The assignment of ISLRNs to LRs cited in LREC papers will be offered at submission time. ORGANISING COMMITTEE * Laurent Besacier, LIG-IMAG, France * Laurette Pretorius, University of South Africa, South Africa * Claudia Soria, CNR-ILC, Italy The Workshop is endorsed by SIGUL, a joint ELRA-ISCA Special Interest Group on Under-resourced Languages (http://www.elra.info/en/sig/sigul/). PROGRAMME COMMITTEE * Tunde Adegbola, African Languages Technology Initiative, Nigeria * Gilles Adda, LIMSI/IMMI CNRS, France * Shyam Agrawal, KIIT Group of Colleges, India * Antti Arppe, University of Alberta, Canada * Victoria Arranz, ELRA/ELDA, France * Martin Benjamin, the Kamusi Project, Switzerland * Laurent Besacier, LIG-IMAG, France * Bruce Birch, The Minjilang Endangered Languages Publications Project, Australia * Steven Bird, Charles Darwin University, Australia * Luong Chi-Mai, IOIT, Vietnam * Khalid Choukri, ELRA/ELDA, France * Chris Cieri, LDC, USA * Thierry Declerck, DFKI, Germany * Sebastian Drude, The Vigdis International Centre for Multilingualism and Intercultural Understanding, Iceland * Vera Ferreira, CIDLeS - Interdisciplinary Centre for Social and Language Documentation, Portugal * Mikel Forcada, Universitat d'Alacant, Spain * Dafydd Gibbon, Bielefeld University, Germany * Tatjana Gornostaja, Tilde, Latvia * John Judge, ADAPT DCU, Ireland * Andras Kornai, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary * Joseph Mariani, LIMSI-CNRS, France * Yohei Murakami, Kyoto University, Japan * Satoshi Nakamura, NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, Japan * Girish Nath Jha, JNU, India * Guy de Pauw, Textgain, Belgium * Laurette Pretorius, University of South Africa, South Africa * Sakriani Sakti, NAIST, Japan * Kevin Scannell, Saint Louis University, Missouri, USA * Claudia Soria, CNR-ILC, Italy * Oliver Stegen, SIL International, USA * Francis Tyers, Moscow Higher School of Economics, Russia * Trond Trosterud, Arctic University of Norway * Kadri Vider, University of Tartu, Estonia * Eveline Wandl-Vogt, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria -- Claudia Soria Researcher Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "A. Zampolli" Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Via Moruzzi 1 56124 Pisa Italy Tel. +39 050 3153166 Skype clausor

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Welcome to SIGUL mailing list
by sigul＠list.elra.info 16 Nov '17

16 Nov '17

Dear All, The joint ISCA-ELRA Special Interest Group on Under-resourced Languages (SIGUL) has been created earlier in 2017. SIGUL intends to bring together a number of professionals involved in the development of language resources and technologies for under-resourced languages (see more on http://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/index.php/sigs?layout=edit&id=198). You are receiving this e-mail because you have been involved in pre-SIGUL events (SLTU, CCURL, others) and your email address has been put on the sigul(a)list.elra.info mailing-list, which contains approximately 300 members. This newly created mailing-list will work as a newsletter service, which means only moderators can post to it. Subscriptions are subject to prior approval, and the subscribers list is private (the archives will be public). This email is the first sent to the mailing list. Another one about SIGUL board elections will follow soon. Best Laurent Besacier ------------------------ 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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