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SIGUL Newsletter #6
by Claudia Soria 03 May '19

03 May '19

Dear SIGUL Members, the sixth 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 *Deadline extension* The third WiNLP (“Widening NLP”) Workshop, in conjunction with ACL 2019 Florence, Italy, 28 July 2019 http://www.winlp.org/winlp-2019-workshop/ Extended submission deadline: 5 May 2019 *Job announcement* The Expression team of the IRISA lab (France) is opening a 18-month postdoctoral position on speech synthesis and natural language processing for the Breton language, starting as soon as possible. Detailed missions are: * Development of NLP and TTS modules for Breton: * Phonetization, grapheme-to-phoneme conversion * Text normalization * POS tagging and chunking * Adaptation of the team’s TTS engine. This includes the use of machine learning techniques. Profile / skills : * PhD in natural language processing, speech processing or machine learning * Good academic and publication records * Good communication skills. The detailed description in and here : http://www.irisa.fr/fr/page/text-speech-and-natural-language-processing-bre… *Call for papers* The 2nd Workshop on Technologies for MT of Low Resource Languages (LoResMT 2019) The Helix, DCU, Dublin, August 20, 2019 https://sites.google.com/view/loresmt/ @ MT Summit XVII Call for Papers: https://easychair.org/cfp/LoResMT2019 Submission due on "May 24, 2019" (Abstract on "May 17"): https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=loresmt2019 -------- 22nd Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa) University of Turku, Turku, Finland, September 30 - October 2, 2019 http://www.nodalida2019.org <http://www.nodalida2019.org/> Submission deadline: May 31, 2019 -------- 1st International Workshop on Semantic Web for Historical and Legacy Linguistic and Lexicographic Data Auckland, New Zealand, October 26-27, 2019 https://www.computing.dcu.ie/~rhaque/workshop/index.html Submission deadline: Friday, June 28 – 23:59 EST (New York City Time) [ Current EST ] *************************** *Call for participation* ******************************** *Call for proposals* Facebook is pleased to announce the call for research proposals in natural language processing and machine translation. Grants will be awarded in three areas: - Computationally Efficient Natural Language Processing https://research.fb.com/programs/research-awards/proposals/computational... [1] - Neural Machine Translation for Low Resource Languages https://research.fb.com/programs/research-awards/proposals/neural-machin... [2] - Robust Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing https://research.fb.com/programs/research-awards/proposals/robust-deep-l... [3] Awards will be made in amounts up to $80,000 per proposal, for projects up to one year in duration, beginning in August 2019. Applications close May 31, 2019, 11:59 PST. Please visit the corresponding links above for further details on each area. Questions can be emailed to academicrelations(a)fb.com [4]. Read more: https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/facebook-call-research-proposals-natu… [1]https://research.fb.com/programs/research-awards/proposals/computationall… [2]https://research.fb.com/programs/research-awards/proposals/neural-machine… [3]https://research.fb.com/programs/research-awards/proposals/robust-deep-le… [4] mailto:academicrelations@fb.com ************************* *Miscellaneous* The article "Rediscovering 15 Years of Discoveries in Language Resources and Evaluation: The LREC Anthology Analysis”, published first at LREC 2014 on the occasion of the LREC 15th anniversary, has been extended to the production and analysis of the NLP4NLP corpus containing close to 65,000 articles published in major conferences and journals in speech and language processing over 50 years (1965-2015) on various aspects (publication, collaboration, citation, innovation, plagiarism,...). The results of those analyses have recently been assembled in a series of two papers published in a special issue on "Mining Scientific Papers: NLP-enhanced Bibliometrics" of the "Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics" journal : https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frma.2018.00036/full https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frma.2018.00037/full *************************** In the framework of the World Summit on Information Society 2019, a panel session "ICT4ALL: Indigenous languages Matter for Peace, Innovation, and Development" organized by UNESCO in the framework of the International Year of Indigenous Languages (IYIL 2019) took place on April 10. Moderator: Irmgarda Kasinskaite-Buddeberg (UNESCO), Panelists: Eirik Larsen (Sami Parliament, Norway), Joseph Mariani (LIMSI-CNRS, France), Emily Taylor (Oxford Information Labs, UK), Rebecka Forsgren (WIPO, Geneva). The recording is available at : https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/forum/2019/Agenda/RemoteParticipation/259 -- 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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information about ISCA Board Election 2019
by Laurent Besacier 06 Apr '19

06 Apr '19

Dear all, For those of you who are current members of the ISCA, I would like to mention the ISCA Board Election 2019 being held at this time. I myself am a candidate in order to raise the issue of under resourced languages as an important topic in the association's activities. Thank you in advance for your support. Sincerely 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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Call for participation: Workshop on "Digital Humanities to Preserve Knowledge and Cultural Heritage: Collaborate, Compute, Share and Visualize"
by Claudia Soria 03 Apr '19

03 Apr '19

FYI Call for participation: Workshop on "Digital Humanities to Preserve Knowledge and Cultural Heritage: Collaborate, Compute, Share and Visualize" 15 April 2019 Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA Workshop URL: https://francestanford.stanford.edu/events/upcoming-conferences Program URL: https://francestanford.stanford.edu/sites/francestanford/files/media/file/D… -- 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 #5
by Claudia Soria 29 Mar '19

29 Mar '19

Dear SIGUL Members, the fifth 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 ****************** *Call for papers* - 2nd Workshop on Technologies for MT of Low Resource Languages (LoResMT 2019) The Helix, DCU, Dublin, August 20, 2019 https://sites.google.com/view/loresmt/ @ MT Summit 2019 (https://www.mtsummit2019.com/) - 6th International Sanskrit Computational Linguistics Symposium (6th ISCLS) Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, West Bengal, India -- 721302 October 23-25, 2019 Website: https://iscls.github.io/ - The First Workshop on NLP Solutions for Under Resourced Languages (NSURL 2019), 11 and 12 September 2019 co-located with ICNLSP 2019 endorsed by SIGUL http://nsurl.org <http://nsurl.org/> Important dates: Submission deadline: 30 June 2019 Notification due: 22 July 2019 Camera-ready paper due: 12 August 2019 *Call for proposals* - NAACL Emerging Regions Fund Deadline: 30 April 2019 (midnight PST) for events to take place between June 2019 and June 2020 ================================================== The goal of the NAACL Emerging Regions fund is to assist the creation of a larger and more cohesive Computational Linguistics community in Latin America, and to enhance more regional interactions among students and researchers anywhere in the Americas. NAACL recognizes that each region has specific needs and concerns, and so we are open to a wide range of possible proposals, subject to the constraint that these awards are intended to support individuals, institutions, or events located in the Americas, and to support travel within the Americas. NAACL will not support travel to or from locations outside of the Americas, and in general travel should be limited to a specific region in the Americas. Examples of proposals that might help to build community could include financial support for regional conferences or workshops, or providing financial or material support for Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics classes at colleges and universities in Latin America. In addition, NAACL has a long tradition of supporting student participation in conferences, summer schools, and NLP/CL competitions, and would give high priority to such efforts in Latin America or at regional events in the Americas. Note that this fund is not intended to support student travel to the NAACL HLT conference, as there is a separate fund available for the purpose. Proposals will be evaluated by a committee consisting of members of the NAACL Executive Board. If you have any questions about this CFP please send them to naaclerf(a)googlegroups.com . Please submit proposals using the online form: https://goo.gl/forms/r7yimKklNtuafZVJ3 *Miscellaneous* DataScientia DataScientia - a soon-to-be-established not-for-profit organization whose ultimate aim is the creation of a grass-roots community centered around the development and dissemination of a unitary knowledge-driven understanding of the people’s diversity, as it is represented by the data in the Internet. DataScientia is being nurtured by the University of Trento, Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, in collaboration with a few founding partners. You can read the DataScientia Manifesto here: http://datascientia.disi.unitn.it/manifesto/ -- 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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Extended deadline: 6th Workshop on less-resourced languages (LRL 2019); Poznan, Poland, 19 May 2019
by Claudia Soria 18 Mar '19

18 Mar '19

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 *Extended submission deadline: 26 March 2019* http://www.ilc.cnr.it/lrl2019/LRL2019-Workshop_3rd-Call-for-Papers.pdf http://www.ilc.cnr.it/lrl2019/ 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 - ICALP2019: Nancy, 16-17 October 2019 - an event endorsed by SIGUL
by Claudia Soria 18 Mar '19

18 Mar '19

***The 7th International Conference on Arabic Language Processing ICALP2019 (ex CITALA)*. The International Conference on Arabic Language Processing ICALP2019 (ex CITALA) is aimed to be one of the most important and leading conference on Arabic NLP (https://icalp2019.loria.fr). ICALP2019 is the 7th edition (information about the previous editions are mentioned at: ICALP2017), all branches of NLP related to Arabic or Semitic languages are welcomed. Arabic spoken or text language processing are the main kernel of ICALP2019. The conference will emphasize on all the approaches from theoretical models to industrial applications. ICALP2019 will be held at Loria (University of Lorraine), which is situated in Nancy on the east part of France near the border of Luxembourg and Germany. We look forward to welcome you to a scientifically inspiring event and we hope that ICALP2019 will be a highly positive scientific experience for all the participants. Two keynote speakers *Dr Mona Diab* (Department of Computer Science, George Washington University) and *Dr Albert Gatt *(Institute of Linguistics and Language Technology, University of Malta.) will share their expertise with the aim of exposing participants to a wide spectrum of research and applications, to foster cross-pollination of research ideas and interests in Arabic Language Processing and related applications. As in the previous year (ICALP – CITALA 2017), we aim, for accepted papers, to be published by Springer. All the submitted papers will be reviewed by three experts from the domain. Only the 30% best papers will be selected to be published by Springer. Participants are invited to submit original communications in all the areas of Arabic NLP. Few topics of the conference are given below. List of Topics * Arabic dialect processing * Automatic speech recognition * Building ontologies * Code Switching phenomena * Comparative Linguistic Studies * Cross-Language Applications * Deep Learning for Arabic applications * Digital Humanities * End-to-End DNN * Generation and Analysis * Human Machine-Dialogue * Information retrieval on Social Networks * Linguistic Resources for Arabic NLP Applications * Machine Translation * Multi-Word Term Extraction * Named Entity Recognition * Opining Mining and Sentiment Analysis * Optical Character Recognition * Paraphrasing and Textual Entailment * Question/Answering Systems * Semitic languages * Spell-check and automatic corrections * Study of Linguistic Phenomena * Text Categorization and Clustering * Text Summarization * Word Sense Disambiguation Committees Program Committee * *Ahmed Ali *(Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI)) * *Mohamed Afify (*Microsoft, Cairo, Egypt) * *Hassina Aliane* (Centre de Recherche sur l’Information Scientifique et Technique , Algeria) * *Frédéric Béchet* (Aix Marseille Université – LIF, France) * *Almoataz Bellahal-Said* (Cairo University, Egypt) * *Laurent Besacier* (University of Grenoble, France) * *Karim Bouzoubaa* (EMI, UM5, Rabat, Morocco) * *Violetta Cavalli-Sforza* (Al Akhawayn University, Morocco) * *Khalid Choukri* (ELDA, European Language Resource Association, France) * *Kareem Darwish* (Qatar Computing Research Institute) * *Joseph Di Martino* (Loria – University of Lorraine, France) * *Mona Diab* (George Washington university, USA) * *Mahmoud El-Haj* (School of Computing and Communications Lancaster University, UK) * *Yannick Estève* (LIUM University of Maine, France) * *Nada Ghneim*, Higher Institute for Applied Science and Technology, Damascu * *Ahmed Guessoum* (University of Science and Technology Houari Boumediene, Algeria) * *Hatem Haddad* (Department of Computer & Decision Engineering, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) * *Kais Haddar* (Faculté des sciences de Sfax, Tunisia) * *Yannis Haralambous* (Institut Mines-Télécom & UMR CNRS 6285 Lab-STICC, Brest, France) * *Salima Harrat* (Ecole Normale Supérieure Bouzaréah, Algiers, Algeria) * *Mustafa Jarrar* (Birzeit University- Sina Institute, Palestine) * *Denis Jouvet* (Loria University of Lorraine, France) * *David Langlois* (Loria University of Lorraine, France) * *Yves Lepage* (University of Waseda, Japan) * *Karima Meftouh* (University of Annaba, Algeria) * *Farid Meziane* (University of Salford, Manchester, UK) * *Vito Pirreli* (Institute for Computational Linguistics CNR, Pisa Italy) * *Violaine Prince* (LIRMM, Montepelier, France) * *Allan Ramsay* (School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK) * *Horacio Rodríguez* (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona – Spain) * *Paolo Rosso* (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain) * *Motaz Saad* (University Islamic of Gaza, Palestine) * *Fatiha Sadat* (University du Québec à Montréal, Canada) * *Nasredine Semmar* (CEA Saclay Nano-INNOV, France) * *Khaled Shaalan* (The British University, United Arab Emirates) * *Olivier Siohan* (Google, USA) * *Kamel Smaili* (Loria University of Lorraine, France) * *Adnan Yahya* (Birzeit University, Palestine) * *Abdella Yousfi* (Mohammed V university, Morocco) * *Wajdi Zaghouani* (Carnegie Mellon University Qatar) * *Imed Zitouni* (Microsoft Research, USA) Organizing committee * *Karima Abidi* (Student management) * *Olivia Brenner* (Communication) * *Joseph Di Martino* (Special Event) * *David Langlois* ( Publication and Logistic management) * *Mohamed-Amine Menacer* (Website designer) Invited Speakers * *Dr Mona Diab* ( Department of Computer Science <http://www.cs.gwu.edu/>, George Washington University (GW) <http://www.gwu.edu/> ) * *Dr Albert Gatt* ( Institute of Linguistics and Language Technology <http://www.um.edu.mt/linguistics/>, University of Malta <http://www.um.edu.mt/> ) Publication ICALP2019 (CITALA) proceedings aim to be published by Springer *Important**Dates* * Submission portal opens *April 30, 2019* * Final paper submission deadline *May 31, 2019* * Acceptance/rejection notification *July 15, 2019* * Camera ready*July 31, 2019 * * Registration open*August 25, 2019* * Conference*16-17 October, 2019* Venue The conference will be held in Nancy (East of France) near the borders of Germany, Luxembourg and Belgium. It will be held at Loria ( Laboratoire lorrain de recherche en informatique et ses applications). Contact smaili(a)loria.fr -- 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 #4
by Claudia Soria 15 Mar '19

15 Mar '19

Dear SIGUL Members, the fourth 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 ****************** *Calls for papers* The First Workshop on NLP Solutions for Under Resourced Languages (NSURL 2019), 11 and 12 September 2019 co-located with ICNLSP 2019 endorsed by SIGUL http://nsurl.org <http://nsurl.org/> Important dates: Submission deadline: 30 June 2019 Notification due: 22 July 2019 Camera-ready paper due: 12 August 2019 - 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. *Extended paper submission deadline: 26 March 2019* Invited speaker: Delyth Prys, Head of the Language Technologies Unit, Bangor University, Wales, UK -- 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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2nd Call for Papers: 6th Workshop on less-resourced languages (LRL 2019); Poznan, Poland, 19 May 2019
by Claudia Soria 04 Mar '19

04 Mar '19

LRL 2019, Poznan, Poland, co-located with LTC http://www.ilc.cnr.it/lrl2019/ 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. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Gilles Adda (LIMSI-CNRS, France) Dorothee Beermann (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway) Delphine Bernhard (LILPA, Strasbourg University, France) Laurent Besacier (Université Joseph Fourier, France) Nicoletta Calzolari (CNR-ILC, Italy) Jeremy Evas (Cardiff University, Wales, UK) Mikel Forcada (Universitat d’Alacant, Spain) Dafydd Gibbon (Universität Bielefeld, Germany) Steven Krauwer (CLARIN, the Netherlands) Anne-Laure Ligozat (ENSIIE / LIMSI-CNRS, France) Girish Nath Jha (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India) Michael Maxwell (University of Maryland, CASL, USA) Joseph Mariani (LIMSI-CNRS, France) Maite Melero (UPF, Catalonia, Spain) Alice Millour (Université Paris-Sorbonne, France) Stelios Piperidis (ILSP, Greece) Laurette Pretorius (University of South Africa, South Africa) Gábor Prószéky (Magyar Tudományos Akadémia, Hungary) Georg Rehm (DFKI, Germany) Sakriani Sakti (NAIST, Japan) Kepa Sarasola Gabiola (Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, Spain) Kevin Scannell (St. Louis University, USA) Virach Sornlertlamvanich (Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology (SIIT), Thammasat University, Thailand) Marko Tadic (University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Croatia) Nick Thieberger (University of Melbourne / ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language, Australia) Menzo Windhouwer (Meertens Institute, KNAW, the Netherlands) 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 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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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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