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Final CfP 5th workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL) @ LREC-COLING
by Menno Van Zaanen 13 Feb '24

13 Feb '24

The fifth workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL) Colocated with LREC-COLING 2024 https://bit.ly/rail2024 Conference dates: 20-25 May 2024 Workshop date: 25 May 2024 Venue: Lingotto Conference Centre, Torino (Italy) The fifth RAIL workshop website: https://bit.ly/rail2024 LREC-COLING 2024 website: https://lrec-coling-2024.org/ Submission website: https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/rail2024/ The fifth Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) workshop will be co-located with LREC-COLING 2024 in Lingotto Conference Centre, Torino, Italy on 25 May 2024. The RAIL workshop is an interdisciplinary platform for researchers working on resources (data collections, tools, etc.) specifically targeted towards African indigenous languages. In particular, it aims to create the conditions for the emergence of a scientific community of practice that focuses on data, as well as computational linguistic tools specifically designed for or applied to indigenous languages found in Africa. Many African languages are under-resourced while only a few of them are somewhat better resourced. These languages often share interesting properties such as writing systems, or tone, making them different from most high-resourced languages. From a computational perspective, these languages lack enough corpora to undertake high level development of Human Language Technologies (HLT) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools, which in turn impedes the development of African languages in these areas. During previous workshops, it has become clear that the problems and solutions presented are not only applicable to African languages but are also relevant to many other low-resource languages. Because these languages share similar challenges, this workshop provides researchers with opportunities to work collaboratively on issues of language resource development and learn from each other. The RAIL workshop has several aims. First, the workshop brings together researchers who work on African indigenous languages, forming a community of practice for people working on indigenous languages. Second, the workshop aims to reveal currently unknown or unpublished existing resources (corpora, NLP tools, and applications), resulting in a better overview of the current state-of-the-art, and also allows for discussions on novel, desired resources for future research in this area. Third, it enhances sharing of knowledge on the development of low-resource languages. Finally, it enables discussions on how to improve the quality as well as availability of the resources. The workshop has “Creating resources for less-resourced languages” as its theme, but submissions on any topic related to properties of African indigenous languages (including non-African languages) may be accepted. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to) the following: * Digital representations of linguistic structures * Descriptions of corpora or other data sets of African indigenous languages * Building resources for (under resourced) African indigenous languages * Developing and using African indigenous languages in the digital age * Effectiveness of digital technologies for the development of African indigenous languages * Revealing unknown or unpublished existing resources for African indigenous languages * Developing desired resources for African indigenous languages * Improving quality, availability and accessibility of African indigenous language resources Submission requirements: We invite papers on original, unpublished work related to the topics of the workshop. Submissions, presenting completed work, may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content for a long submission and up to four (4) pages of content for a short submission plus additional pages of references. The final camera-ready version of accepted long papers are allowed one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers’ feedback can be incorporated. Papers should be formatted according to the LREC-COLING style sheet (https://lrec-coling-2024.org/authors-kit/), which is provided on the LREC-COLING 2024 website (https://lrec-coling-2024.org/). Reviewing is double-blind, so make sure to anonymise your submission (e.g., do not provide author names, affiliations, project names, etc.) Limit the amount of self citations (anonymised citations should not be used). The RAIL workshop follows the LREC-COLING submission requirements. Please submit papers in PDF format to the START account (https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/rail2024/). Accepted papers will be published in proceedings linked to the LREC-COLING conference. Important dates: Submission deadline: 23 February 2024 Date of notification: 15 March 2024 Camera ready deadline: 29 March 2024 RAIL workshop: 25 May 2024 Organising Committee Rooweither Mabuya, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Muzi Matfunjwa, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Mmasibidi Setaka, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Menno van Zaanen, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa -- Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za Professor in Digital Humanities South African Centre for Digital Language Resources https://www.sadilar.org [NWU Celebrations] ________________________________ NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT: http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. 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3rd CfP 5th workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL) @ LREC-COLING
by Menno Van Zaanen 26 Jan '24

26 Jan '24

The fifth workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL) Colocated with LREC-COLING 2024 https://bit.ly/rail2024 New: deadline and article submission type Conference dates: 20-25 May 2024 Workshop date: 25 May 2024 Venue: Lingotto Conference Centre, Torino (Italy) The fifth RAIL workshop website: https://bit.ly/rail2024 LREC-COLING 2024 website: https://lrec-coling-2024.org/ Submission website: https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/rail2024/ The fifth Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) workshop will be co-located with LREC-COLING 2024 in Lingotto Conference Centre, Torino, Italy on 25 May 2024. The RAIL workshop is an interdisciplinary platform for researchers working on resources (data collections, tools, etc.) specifically targeted towards African indigenous languages. In particular, it aims to create the conditions for the emergence of a scientific community of practice that focuses on data, as well as computational linguistic tools specifically designed for or applied to indigenous languages found in Africa. Many African languages are under-resourced while only a few of them are somewhat better resourced. These languages often share interesting properties such as writing systems, or tone, making them different from most high-resourced languages. From a computational perspective, these languages lack enough corpora to undertake high level development of Human Language Technologies (HLT) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools, which in turn impedes the development of African languages in these areas. During previous workshops, it has become clear that the problems and solutions presented are not only applicable to African languages but are also relevant to many other low-resource languages. Because these languages share similar challenges, this workshop provides researchers with opportunities to work collaboratively on issues of language resource development and learn from each other. The RAIL workshop has several aims. First, the workshop brings together researchers who work on African indigenous languages, forming a community of practice for people working on indigenous languages. Second, the workshop aims to reveal currently unknown or unpublished existing resources (corpora, NLP tools, and applications), resulting in a better overview of the current state-of-the-art, and also allows for discussions on novel, desired resources for future research in this area. Third, it enhances sharing of knowledge on the development of low-resource languages. Finally, it enables discussions on how to improve the quality as well as availability of the resources. The workshop has “Creating resources for less-resourced languages” as its theme, but submissions on any topic related to properties of African indigenous languages (including non-African languages) may be accepted. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to) the following: * Digital representations of linguistic structures * Descriptions of corpora or other data sets of African indigenous languages * Building resources for (under resourced) African indigenous languages * Developing and using African indigenous languages in the digital age * Effectiveness of digital technologies for the development of African indigenous languages * Revealing unknown or unpublished existing resources for African indigenous languages * Developing desired resources for African indigenous languages * Improving quality, availability and accessibility of African indigenous language resources Submission requirements: We invite papers on original, unpublished work related to the topics of the workshop. Submissions, presenting completed work, may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content for a long submission and up to four (4) pages of content for a short submission plus additional pages of references. The final camera-ready version of accepted long papers are allowed one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers’ feedback can be incorporated. Papers should be formatted according to the LREC-COLING style sheet (https://lrec-coling-2024.org/authors-kit/), which is provided on the LREC-COLING 2024 website (https://lrec-coling-2024.org/). Reviewing is double-blind, so make sure to anonymise your submission (e.g., do not provide author names, affiliations, project names, etc.) Limit the amount of self citations (anonymised citations should not be used). The RAIL workshop follows the LREC-COLING submission requirements. Please submit papers in PDF format to the START account (https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/rail2024/). Accepted papers will be published in proceedings linked to the LREC-COLING conference. Important dates: Submission deadline: 23 February 2024 Date of notification: 15 March 2024 Camera ready deadline: 29 March 2024 RAIL workshop: 25 May 2024 Organising Committee Rooweither Mabuya, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Muzi Matfunjwa, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Mmasibidi Setaka, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Menno van Zaanen, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa -- Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za<mailto:menno.vanzaanen@nwu.ac.za> Professor in Digital Humanities South African Centre for Digital Language Resources https://www.sadilar.org<https://www.sadilar.org/> ________________________________ NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT: http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. 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Second CfP: 2nd Workshop on Resources and Technologies for Indigenous, Endangered and Lesser-resourced Languages in Eurasia (EURALI)
by Atul K. Ojha 24 Jan '24

24 Jan '24

Apologies for cross-posting -------------------------------------- 2nd Workshop on Resources and Technologies for Indigenous, Endangered and Lesser-resourced Languages in Eurasia (EURALI) @ LREC-COLING 2024 Date: 25 May, 2024 Venue: *Lingotto Conference Centre - Torino (Italia)* Main website: https://sites.google.com/view/eurali/ <https://sites.google.com/view/eurali/> LREC-COLING 2024 website: https://lrec-coling-2024.org/ *Submission website:* https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/eurali2024/ —————————————————————————————————— Workshop overview and objectives This workshop will focus on the development of language technology resources and tools for indigenous, endangered and lesser-resourced languages on the Eurasian continent. In a media-centric world where language technology allows people to break cultural and language barriers, it is important that speakers of endangered and indigenous languages can be empowered to use this technology to continue to share their knowledge and culture with the world. With the hope of bridging this gap, the goal of this workshop is to increase visibility and promote research for lesser-resourced and under-represented languages in Europe and Asia. Through collaboration between NLP researchers, language experts and linguists working for the benefit of endangered languages in these communities, we aim to create language technology resources that will help to preserve and revive these languages for future generations. Furthermore, the workshop aims to promote the emergence of new methods that benefit linguists, for instance for automation of analysis and validation processes, field linguists, the facilitation of data collection and analysis processes, and computational linguists by developing new techniques necessary for linguistic analysis, development of supervised or weakly supervised methods for the analysis of poorly written or undocumented languages. The main objective of the workshop is to create basic resources and develop tools for Eurasiatic languages, including but not limited to the following topics: - identifying languages and variants spoken in these regions - creation of language resources and applications, e.g. sentiment analysis, named entity recognition, and syntactic parsing - standardization for endangered languages - automatic identification and classification of lexical variation and language varieties - adaptation of fundamental NLP tools for these languages, e.g., morphological analysis, taggers and parsers - reusability of language resources in NLP applications, e.g. machine translation, and POS tagging - machine translation between closely related languages - evaluation of language resources and tools when applied to lesser-resourced languages in the same language families - corpora, resources, and tools for closely related languages - linguistic and textual similarities among languages in Eurasia - digitalization of endangered languages - challenges in the creation of language resources and tools from linguistic perspectives (which includes any perspective formal theory) Submissions We are seeking submissions in the following categories: Full papers: 8 pages+unlimited references Short papers (work in progress): 4 pages+unlimited references Posters (innovative ideas/proposals, a research idea of students): 4 pages+unlimited references Demo (of working online/standalone systems): 2 pages Papers must describe original, completed or in progress, and unpublished work. The accepted papers will be given up for full/short paper and poster in the workshop proceedings and will be presented as an oral presentation or poster. Papers should be formatted according to the LREC-COLING style sheet ( https://lrec-coling-2024.org/authors-kit/), which is provided on the LREC-COLING 2024 website(https://lrec-coling-2024.org/). Please submit papers in PDF format to the START account ( https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/eurali2024/). For further information on this initiative, please refer to https://sites.google.com/view/eurali/. Important Dates (tentative) February 23, 2024: Paper submissions due March 22, 2024: Paper notification of acceptance May 25, 2024: Workshop Workshop Chairs Atul Kr. Ojha, Sina Ahmadi, Chao-Hong Liu, Potamu Research Ltd, Dublin (Ireland) John P. McCrae, University of Galway, Galway (Ireland) Theodorus Fransen, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan (Italy) Silvie Cinkovà, Charles University, Prague (Czech Republic) Programme Committee (to be updated) Abigail Walsh, Dublin City University, Dublin (Ireland) Aiala Rosá, Universidad de la República - Uruguay, Montevideo (Uruguay) Aryaman Arora, Stanford University, Stanford, California (USA) A. Seza Doğruöz, Ghent University, Ghent (Belgium) Alina Karakanta, University of Leiden, Leiden (Netherlands) Alina Wróblewska, Institute of Computer Science, Jana Kazimierza, Warszawa (Poland) Akanksha Bansal, Panlingua, Delhi (India) Atul Kr. Ojha, University of Galway, Galway (Ireland) & Panlingua, (India) Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, University of Galway, Galway (Ireland) Bogdan Babych, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg (Germany) Çağrı Çöltekin, University of Tübingen, Tübingen (Germany) Chao-Hong Liu, Potamu Research Ltd, Dublin (Ireland) Chihiro Taguchi, the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame (USA) Daan van Esch, Google, Amsterdam (Netherlands) Daniel Zeman, Charles University, Prague (Czech Republic) Deepak Alok, IIT-Delhi, Delhi (India) Dorothee Beermann, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trøndelag (Norway) Esha Banerjee, J.P. Morgan, Bengaluru (India) Ekaterina Vylomova, University of Melbourne, Melbourne (Australia) George Rehm, GmbH, Berlin (Germany) Hiwa Asadpour, Goethe University, Frankfurt (Germany) Jamal Abdul Nasir, University of Galway, Galway (Ireland) Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University, (Sweden) John P. McCrae, University of Galway, (Ireland) John E. Ortega, New York University (USA) Jonathan Washington, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore (USA) Joseph Mariani, LIMSI-CNRS, Pairs (France) Kaja Dobrovoljc, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana (Slovenia) Khalid Choukri, ELDA/ELRA, Paris (France) Luke D. Gessler, University of Colorado at Boulder (USA) Maitrey Mehta, University of Utah, Utah (USA) Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, UCLouvainCollège Léon Durpiez, (Belgium) Olesea Caftanatov, Vladimir Andrunachievici Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, Chişinău (Moldova) Ranka Stanković, University of Belgrade, Belgrade (Serbia) Rico Sennrich, University of Zurich, Zurich (Switzerland) Ritesh Kumar, Agra University, Agra (India) Rute Costa, the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Lisbon (Portugal) Saliha Muradoglu, Australian National University, Canberra (Australia) Sarah Moeller, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (USA) Silvie Cinkovà, Charles University, Prague (Czech Republic) Sina Ahmadi, George Mason University, (USA) Stella Markantonatou, Athena RC, Athens (Greece) Sourabrata Mukherjee, Charles University, Prague (Czech Republic) Theodorus Fransen, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan (Italy) Valentin Malykh, MTS AI / ITMO University Verginica Barbu Mititelu, Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Bucharest (Romania) Victoria Bobicev, University of Moldova, Chișinău (Moldova) Voula Giouli, Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Athens (Greece)

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Shared Task on Code-mixed Less-resourced Sentiment Analysis for Indo-Aryan Languages
by Atul K. Ojha 18 Jan '24

18 Jan '24

Code-mixing, the dynamic interplay of multiple languages within a single discourse, is a widespread linguistic phenomenon observed in multilingual societies. Code-mixing is particularly intriguing when observed in closely related languages. We invite you to participate in our shared task at the WILDRE workshop, which is co-located with LREC-COLING 2024. This shared task addresses the complexities of code-mixed data from less-resourced similar languages for sentiment analysis. We will provide annotated data for the following code-mixed languages: 1. Magahi-Hindi-English 2. Bangla-English-Hindi 3. Hindi-English The evaluation will be in two different Tracks: *A. Track 1:* Given training and validation data to determine the comment's polarity (positive, negative, neutral or mixed) in the same code-mixed setting. 1. Hindi-English 2. Magahi-Hindi-English 3. Bangla-English 4. Combined all the language pairs (1+2+3) *B. Track 2:* Given unlabelled test data for the code-mixed Maithili language (Maithi-Hindi-English), leverage any or all of the available training datasets in Track 1 to determine the sentiment of a comment in the target language. Important Links: - Registration Link <https://forms.gle/HVRK1W1hHqBwtgpu6> - WILDRE Workshop Link <http://sanskrit.jnu.ac.in/conf/wildre7/index.jsp> - GitHub <https://github.com/wildre-workshop/wildre-7_code-mixed-sentiment-analysis> Important Dates: - Dec 22, 2023: Registration - Jan 10, 2024: Train and Validation Data set Release [to get the data, please register] - Feb 15, 2024: Test Set Release - Feb 23, 2024: System Submission Due - Feb 29, 2024: System Results - March 15, 2024: System Description Paper Due - March 28, 2024: Paper notification of acceptance

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Second Call for Participation- IWSLT 2024
by Atul K. Ojha 16 Jan '24

16 Jan '24

Apologies for cross-posting. ---------------------------------------- *The International Conference on Spoken Language Translation* *21st IWSLT 2024 – **Second** Call for Participation* *August 15-16, 2024 – Bangkok, Thailand* *http://iwslt.org <http://iwslt.org/>* The International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT) is the premier annual conference for all aspects of Spoken Language Translation. Every year, the conference organizes and sponsors open evaluation campaigns around key challenges in simultaneous and consecutive translation, under real-time/low latency or offline conditions and under low-resource or multilingual constraints. System descriptions and results from participants’ systems and scientific papers related to key algorithmic advances and best practices are presented. IWSLT is the venue of the SIGSLTs, the Special Interest Group on Spoken Language Translation of ACL, ISCA and ELRA. With a track record of 20 years, IWSLT benchmarks and proceedings serve as reference for all researchers and practitioners working on speech translation and related fields. The 21st edition of IWSLT <https://iwslt.org/2024/> will be run as an *ELRA/ACL* event and co-located with ACL 2024 <https://2024.aclweb.org/> on August 15-16, 2024. It will be run as a hybrid event. Important Dates January 15, 2024: Release of shared task training and dev data April 01-15, 2024: Evaluation period April 29, 2024: Paper submission due (all papers) June 4, 2024: Notification of acceptance June 24, 2024: Camera-ready paper due July 22, 2024: Pre-recorded video due August 15-16, 2024: Conference Evaluation The IWSLT 2024 features shared tasks <https://iwslt.org/2024/#shared-tasks> that address the following focus areas: - Speech-to-speech track - Simultaneous track - Subtitling track - Offline track - Dubbing track - Low-resource track - Indic track Training, development and test data for each shared task will be prepared and released by the respective organizers (for further information on this initiative, please refer to the website <https://iwslt.org/2024/>). Participants will receive instructions about how to submit their runs. In addition, participants have the opportunity to present their work through a system paper that will be published in the ACL Proceedings. Conference IWSLT also invites submissions of scientific papers to be published in the ACL Proceedings and presented either in oral or poster format. The conference selects high-quality, original contributions on theoretical and practical issues of spoken language translation research, technologies and applications. For further information on this initiative, please refer to the website <https://iwslt.org/2024/#paper-submission> Contact Please send an email to iwslt-evaluation-campaign(a)googlegroups.com if you have any questions related to the shared tasks. Thanks, Marine, Marcello, Alex, Jan, Sebastian, Elizabeth, Atul (IWSLT organisers)

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2nd CfP 5th workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL) @ LREC-COLING
by Menno Van Zaanen 16 Jan '24

16 Jan '24

The fifth workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL) Colocated with LREC-COLING 2024 https://bit.ly/rail2024 Conference dates: 20-25 May 2024 Workshop date: 25 May 2024 Venue: Lingotto Conference Centre, Torino (Italy) The fifth RAIL workshop website: https://bit.ly/rail2024 LREC-COLING 2024 website: https://lrec-coling-2024.org/ Submission website: https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/rail2024/ The fifth Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) workshop will be co-located with LREC-COLING 2024 in Lingotto Conference Centre, Torino, Italy on 25 May 2024. The RAIL workshop is an interdisciplinary platform for researchers working on resources (data collections, tools, etc.) specifically targeted towards African indigenous languages. In particular, it aims to create the conditions for the emergence of a scientific community of practice that focuses on data, as well as computational linguistic tools specifically designed for or applied to indigenous languages found in Africa. Many African languages are under-resourced while only a few of them are somewhat better resourced. These languages often share interesting properties such as writing systems, or tone, making them different from most high-resourced languages. From a computational perspective, these languages lack enough corpora to undertake high level development of Human Language Technologies (HLT) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools, which in turn impedes the development of African languages in these areas. During previous workshops, it has become clear that the problems and solutions presented are not only applicable to African languages but are also relevant to many other low-resource languages. Because these languages share similar challenges, this workshop provides researchers with opportunities to work collaboratively on issues of language resource development and learn from each other. The RAIL workshop has several aims. First, the workshop brings together researchers who work on African indigenous languages, forming a community of practice for people working on indigenous languages. Second, the workshop aims to reveal currently unknown or unpublished existing resources (corpora, NLP tools, and applications), resulting in a better overview of the current state-of-the-art, and also allows for discussions on novel, desired resources for future research in this area. Third, it enhances sharing of knowledge on the development of low-resource languages. Finally, it enables discussions on how to improve the quality as well as availability of the resources. The workshop has “Creating resources for less-resourced languages” as its theme, but submissions on any topic related to properties of African indigenous languages (including non-African languages) may be accepted. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to) the following: * Digital representations of linguistic structures * Descriptions of corpora or other data sets of African indigenous languages * Building resources for (under resourced) African indigenous languages * Developing and using African indigenous languages in the digital age * Effectiveness of digital technologies for the development of African indigenous languages * Revealing unknown or unpublished existing resources for African indigenous languages * Developing desired resources for African indigenous languages * Improving quality, availability and accessibility of African indigenous language resources Submission requirements: We invite papers on original, unpublished work related to the topics of the workshop. Submissions, presenting completed work, may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content plus additional pages of references. The final camera-ready version of accepted long papers are allowed one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers’ feedback can be incorporated. Papers should be formatted according to the LREC- COLING style sheet (https://lrec-coling-2024.org/authors-kit/), which is provided on the LREC-COLING 2024 website (https://lrec-coling-2024.org/). Reviewing is double-blind, so make sure to anonymise your submission (e.g., do not provide author names, affiliations, project names, etc.) Limit the amount of self citations (anonymised citations should not be used). The RAIL workshop follows the LREC-COLING submission requirements. Please submit papers in PDF format to the START account (https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/rail2024/). Accepted papers will be published in proceedings linked to the LREC-COLING conference. Important dates: Submission deadline: 16 February 2024 Date of notification: 15 March 2024 Camera ready deadline: 29 March 2024 RAIL workshop: 25 May 2024 Organising Committee Rooweither Mabuya, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Muzi Matfunjwa, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Mmasibidi Setaka, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Menno van Zaanen, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa -- Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za Professor in Digital Humanities South African Centre for Digital Language Resources https://www.sadilar.org ________________________________ NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT: http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. 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by Pranaydeep Singh 12 Jan '24

12 Jan '24

Hello everyone, My name is Pranay and I am a PhD candidate in my final year at the Language & Translation Technology Team at Ghent University, Belgium. My area of research is efficient language modelling for low-resourced languages, and I have worked on various digital humanities projects as well, Assisting with technical expertise for ancient languages such as Byzantine Greek and CUNE-IIIFORM. (Google scholar link<https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=8KSmDe4AAAAJ&hl=en>) I would like to request to join SIGUL, since my work is highly related to the research interests of the group. I have also previously published and attended at the SIGUL workshop co-located with LREC’22 in Marseille, and will be attending the SIGUL workshop at LREC-COLING’24 as well. Look forward to hearing from you. Best Regards, Pranaydeep Singh Doctoral Candidate Language & Translation Technology Team, Ghent University

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Second Call for Papers - International Conference ‘New Trends in Translation and Technology’ (NeTTT’2024)
by t.ranasinghe＠aston.ac.uk 08 Jan '24

08 Jan '24

International Conference ‘New Trends in Translation and Technology’ (NeTTT’2024) Varna, Bulgaria, 3-6 July 2024 Second Call for Papers The conference The second edition of the forthcoming International Conference ‘New Trends in Translation and Technology’ (NeTTT’2024) will take place in Varna, Bulgaria, 3-6 July 2024. The objective of the conference is (i) to bridge the gap between academia and industry in the field of translation and interpreting by bringing together academics in linguistics, translation studies, machine translation and natural language processing, developers, practitioners, language service providers and vendors who work on or are interested in different aspects of technology for translation and interpreting, and (ii) to be a distinctive event for discussing the latest developments and practices. NeTTT’2024 invites all professionals who would like to learn about the new trends, present the latest work or/and share their experience in the field, and who would like to establish business and research contacts, collaborations and new ventures. The conference will take the form of presentations (peer-reviewed research and user presentations, keynote speeches), and posters; it will also feature panel discussions. The accepted papers will be published as open-access conference e-proceedings. Conference topics Contributions are invited on any topic related to latest technology and practices in machine translation, translation, subtitling, localisation and interpreting. NeTTT’2024 will feature a Special Theme Track "Future of Translation Technology in the Era of LLMs and Generative AI". The conference topics include but are not limited to: CAT tools - Translation Memory (TM) systems - NLP and MT for translation memory systems - Terminology extraction tools - Localisation tools Machine Translation - Latest developments in Neural Machine Translation - MT for under-resourced languages - MT with low computing resources - Multimodal MT - Integration of MT in TM systems - Resources for MT Technologies for MT deployment - MT evaluation techniques, metrics and evaluation results - Human evaluations of MT output - Evaluating MT in a real-world setting - Quality estimation for MT - Domain adaptation Translation Studies - Corpus-based studies applied to translation - Corpora and resources for translation - Translationese - Cognitive effort and eye-tracking experiments in translation Interpreting studies - Corpus-based studies applied to interpreting - Corpora and resources for interpreting - Interpretese - Resources for interpreting and interpreting technology applications - Cognitive effort and eye-tracking experiments in interpreting Interpreting technology - Machine interpreting - Computer-aided interpreting - NLP for dialogue interpreting - Development of NLP based applications for communication in public service settings (healthcare, education, law, emergency services) Emerging Areas in Translation and Interpreting - MT and translation tools for literary texts and creative texts - MT for social media and real-time conversations - Sign language recognition and translation Subtitling - NLP and MT for subtitling - Latest technology for subtitling User needs - Analysis of translators’ and interpreters’ needs in terms of translation and interpreting technology - User requirements for interpreting and translation tools - Incorporating human knowledge into translation and interpreting technology - What existing translators’ (including subtitlers’) and interpreters’ tools do not offer - User requirements for electronic resources for translators and interpreters - Translation and interpreting workflows in larger organisations and the tools for translation and interpreting employed The business of translation and interpreting - Translation workflow and management - Technology adoption by translators and industry - Setting up translation /interpreting / language provider company Teaching translation and interpreting - Teaching Machine Translation - Teaching translation technology - Teaching interpreting technology - Latest AI developments in the syllabi of translation and interpreting curricula Ethical issues in translation and technology - Bias and fairness in MT - Privacy and security in cloud MT systems - Transparency and explainability of MT systems - Environmental impact on MT systems Special Theme Track - Future of Translation Technology in the Era of LLMs and Generative AI We are excited to share that NeTTT’2024 will have a special theme with the goal of stimulating discussion around Large Language Models, Generative AI and the Future of Translation and Interpreting Technology. While the new generation of Large Language Models such as CHATGPT and LLAMA showcase remarkable advancements in language generation and understanding, we find ourselves in uncharted territory when it comes to their performance on various Translation and Interpreting Technology tasks with regards to fairness, interpretability, ethics and transparency. The theme track invites studies on how LLMs perform on Translation and Interpreting Technology tasks and applications, and what this means for the future of the field. The possible topics of discussion include (but are not limited to) the following: - Changes in the translators and interpreters’ professions in the new AI era especially as a result of the latest developments in LLMSs and Generative AI - Generative AI and translation - Generative AI and interpreting - Augmenting machine translation systems with generative AI - Domain and terminology adaptation with Large Language Models - Literary translation with Large Language Models - Improving Machine Translation Quality with Contextual Prompts in Large Language Models - Prompt engineering for translation - Generative AI for professional translation - Generative AI for professional interpreting We anticipate having a special session on this theme at the conference. Submissions and publication NETTT’2024 invites the following types of submissions: User papers – for industry and practitioners. References to related work are optional. Allowed paper length: between 1 and 4 pages. Academic submissions, in three different categories (have to follow formatting requirements, references to related work are required): • (academic) full papers – describing original completed research. Allowed paper length: maximum 12 pages + unlimited references. • (academic) work-in-progress papers/posters – describing work in progress, late breaking research, papers at a more conceptual stage, and other types of papers that do not fit in the ‘full’ papers category. Allowed paper length: maximum 7 pages + unlimited references. • (academic) demo papers – describing working systems. Allowed paper length: maximum 5 pages + unlimited references. In addition to the papers, the authors will be expected to demonstrate the systems at the workshop. The conference will not consider and evaluate abstracts only. Each submission will be reviewed by three members of the Programme Committee. Submission is organised via Softconf START conference management system at https://softconf.com/n/nettt2024. For submitting the papers, we invite the authors to comply with the Springer format, following the templates: • LaTeX, • Overleaf, • Word. The accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and made available online on the conference website. Authors of accepted papers will receive guidelines regarding how to produce camera-ready versions of their papers. The final version of the accepted papers will be published in e-proceedings with assigned ISBN and DOI. All accepted papers will be included in the conference e-proceedings which will be available at the conference website. Schedule Submission deadline: 31 March 2024 Notification: 5 June 2024 Final version due: 20 June 2024 All deadlines are valid for 23.59 Anywhere on Earth. Venue The conference will take place at Conference Hotel Cherno More, Varna, situated only 200 m away from the fine sandy Black Sea beach. Further information and contact details Registration will open on 15 January 2024. The follow-up calls will list keynote speakers and members of the programme committee once confirmed. The conference website is https://nettt-conference.com and will be updated on a regular basis. For further information, please contact us at nettt2024(a)nettt-conference.com

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[2nd call] SIGTYP 2024 Shared Task on Word Embedding Evaluation for Ancient and Historical Languages
by Oksana Dereza 04 Jan '24

04 Jan '24

Dear colleagues, [apologies for cross-posting] We would like to remind you that this year SIGTYP is hosting a Shared Task on Word Embedding Evaluation for Ancient and Historical Language: https://github.com/sigtyp/ST2024/ Test data has been released, and CodaLab competitions are up and running, so we encourage you to register if you still haven't! There is still a week before the deadline. :) *Summary* In recent years, sets of downstream tasks called benchmarks have become a very popular, if not default, method to evaluate general-purpose word and sentence embeddings. Starting with decaNLP (McCann et al., 2018) and SentEval (Conneau & Kiela, 2018), multitask benchmarks for NLU keep appearing and improving every year. However, even the largest multilingual benchmarks, such as XGLUE, XTREME, XTREME-R or XTREME-UP (Hu et al., 2020; Liang et al., 2020; Ruder et al., 2021, 2023), only include modern languages. When it comes to ancient and historical languages, scholars mostly adapt/translate intrinsic evaluation datasets from modern languages or create their own diagnostic tests. We argue that there is a need for a universal evaluation benchmark for embeddings learned from ancient and historical language data and view this shared task as a proving ground for it. The shared task involves solving the following problems for 12+ ancient and historical languages that belong to 4 language families and use 6 different scripts. Participants will be invited to describe their system in a paper for the SIGTYP workshop proceedings. The task organizers will write an overview paper that describes the task and summarizes the different approaches taken, and analyzes their results. *Subtasks* For subtask A, participants are not allowed to use any additional data; however, they can reduce and balance provided training datasets if they see fit. For subtask B, participants are allowed to use any additional data in any language, including pre-trained embeddings and LLMs. A. Constrained 1. POS-tagging 2. Full morphological annotation 3. Lemmatisation B. Unconstrained 1. POS-tagging 2. Detailed morphological annotation 3. Lemmatisation 4. Filling the gaps - Word-level - Character-level *Important links* - *Registration form* <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdINgMfzzZGIZ-uBVQhvyndB6yeaaj-wT7…> - Detailed description, incl. submission format: https://github.com/ sigtyp/ST2024 <https://github.com/sigtyp/ST2024> - Constrained subtask on CodaLab: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/16822 - Unconstrained subtask on CodaLab: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/16818 *Important dates* *05 Nov 2023*: Release of training and validation data *02 Jan 2024*: Release of test data - * 09 Jan 2024:* Submission of results for Phase 1 of the Constrained Subtask - * 12 Jan 2024:* Submission of results for Phase 2 of the Constrained Subtask and for the Unconstrained Subtask *13 Jan 2024*: Notification of results *20 Jan 2024*: Submission of shared task papers *27 Jan 2024*: Notification of acceptance to authors *03 Feb 2024*: Camera-ready *15 Mar 2024*: Video recordings due *21/22 Mar 2024*: SIGTYP workshop Kind regards, Oksana and the organisers' team -- [image: https://nuig.insight-centre.org/] <https://www.insight-centre.org/> Oksana Dereza | PhD student on the Cardamom <http://cardamom.insight-centre.org/> project | Unit for Linguistic Data | Insight Centre for Data Analytics | Data Science Institute | University of Galway Oksana Dereza | Iarrthóir PhD ar thionscadal Cardamom <http://cardamom.insight-centre.org/> | An tAonad um Shonraí Teangeolaíocha | Insight, Ionad na hAnailísíochta Sonraí | Institiúid Eolaíochta Sonraí | Ollscoil na Gaillimhe

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CFP: The 3rd Annual Meeting of the ELRA-ISCA Special Interest Group on Under-resourced Languages (SIGUL2024)
by Claudia Soria 19 Dec '23

19 Dec '23

** *CFP: The3rd Annual Meeting of the ELRA-ISCA Special Interest Group on Under-resourced Languages (SIGUL2024)* * * Workshop website (under construction): https://sigul-2024.ilc.cnr.it <https://sigul-2024.ilc.cnr.it/> * When: Monday and Tuesday, May 20th-21st, 2024 * Where: Torino, Italy (co-located with LREC-COLING 2024) * Deadline for submissions: February 26th, 2024 * Paper submission link: https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/sigul2024/ <https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/sigul2024/> * Deadline for camera-ready papers: April 5th, 2024 The 3rd Annual Meeting of the ELRA <http://www.elra.info/>/ISCA <https://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/index.php>Special Interest Group on Under-Resourced Languages <http://www.elra.info/en/sig/sigul/>(SIGUL2024) will provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of cutting-edge research in language processing for under-resourced languages by academic and industry researchers. Following the long-standing series of previous meetings, the SIGUL workshop will also offer a venue where researchers in different disciplines and from varied backgrounds can fruitfully explore new areas of intellectual and practical development while honoring their common interest of sustaining less-resourced languages. We invite contributions (regular long papers of 8 pages or short papers of 4 pages) targeting any of the following - non-exhaustive - list of topics: * Processing any under-resourced languages (covering less-resourced, under-resourced, endangered, minority, and minoritized languages) * Cognitive and linguistic studies of under-resourced languages * Fast resources acquisition: text and speech corpora, parallel texts, dictionaries, grammars, and language models * Zero and few-shot methodologies and self-supervised learning in language and speech technologies * Cross-lingual and multilingual acoustic and lexical modeling * Speech recognition and synthesis for under-resourced languages and dialects * Machine translation and speech-to-speech translation * Spoken dialogue systems * Applications of language technologies for under-resourced languages * Large language models and under-resourced languages * Special topic: o Text and speech resources and technologies for the languages of Italy Special Session on languages of Italy and language technologies Italy is known for its linguistic diversity that reflects its long and varied history. To celebrate it, SIGUL2024 will provide a special session or forum for researchers interested in developing language resources and technologies for the many languages of Italy (regional, minority, or heritage languages, including those of the neighboring countries). Submissions Authors can choose among three paper categories: * Regular long papers – up to eight (8) pages maximum*, presenting substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. * Short papers – up to four (4) pages*, describing work-in-progress projects in the early stage of development, new resources, negative results, system demonstrations, and early-career/student work. * Position papers – up to eight (8) pages*, for reflective considerations of methodological, best practice, and institutional issues (e.g., ethics, data ownership, speakers’ community involvement, de-colonizing approaches). The above page limits exclude any number of additional pages that may be needed for references. The form of the presentation may be oral or poster, whereas in the proceedings there is no difference between the accepted papers. Submission is NOT anonymous and the official LREC-COLING 2024 format must be adopted. Each paper will be reviewed by three independent reviewers. Invited speakers TBA Important Dates • 26 February 2024: submission due • 18 March 2024: reviews due • 22 March 2024: notifications to authors • 5 April 2024: camera-ready (PDF) due Identify, Describe and Share your LRs! When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC-COLING authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones). Workshop Organizers Maite Melero, Sakriani Sakti, Claudia Soria Program Committee * Mohammad A. M. Abushariah (The University of Jordan, Jordan) * Manex Agirrezabal (University of Copenhagen – Center for Sprogteknologi | Center for Language Technology, Denmark) * Shyam S. Agrawal (KIIT, Gurugram ,India) * Begoña Altuna (HiTZ Center - Ixa, Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea | University of the Basque Country, Spain) * Antti Arppe (University of Alberta, Canada) * Martin Benjamin (Kamusi Project International) * Delphine Bernhard (Université de Strasbourg, LiLPa, France) * Steven Bird (Charles Darwin University, Australia) * Claudia Borg (University of Malta) * Matt Coler (University of Groningen, Campus Fryslân, The Netherlands) * Dan Cristea (Romanian Academy, Romania) * Pradip Kumar Das (IIT Guwahati, India) * A. Seza Doğruöz (Universiteit Gent, België | Ghent University, Belgium) * Stefano Ghazzali (Language Technologies Unit Bangor University Prifysgol Bangor | Bangor University, Bangor, Gwynedd) * Itziar Gonzalez-Dios (HiTZ Basque Center for Language Technologies - Ixa, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU) * Lars Hellan (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway) * Mélanie Jouitteau (IKER, CNRS, France) * Richard Littauer (unaffiliated) * Teresa Lynn (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, United Arab Emirates) * Nina Markl (University of Essex, UK) * Maite Melero (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Espanya | Spain) * Peter Mihajlik (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary) * Win Pa Pa (UCS Yangon, Myanmar) * Sandy Ritchie (Google Research) * Sakriani Sakti (JAIST, Japan) * Claudia Soria (CNR-ILC, Italia | Italy) * Daan Van Esch (Google Research) * Menno van Zaanen (South African Centre for Digital Language Resources, South Africa) * Jenifer Vega Rodriguez (GIPSA-lab, Université Grenoble Alpes, France) * Marcely Zanon Boito (NAVER Labs Europe, France) Contact claudia.soria[AT]ilc.cnr.it Please, write “SIGUL2024” in the subject of your e-mail. * -- facebook <https://www.facebook.com/CNRsocialFB> twitter <https://twitter.com/CNRsocial_> instagram <https://www.instagram.com/cnrsocial/> linkedin <https://www.linkedin.com/company/283032> Claudia Soria CNR, ISTITUTO DI LINGUISTICA COMPUTAZIONALE "ANTONIO ZAMPOLLI" claudia.soria(a)ilc.cnr.it Tel. 0503153166 Via Giuseppe Moruzzi, 1, 56124 – Pisa www.ilc.cnr.it *www.cnr.it* <http://www.cnr.it/> Devolvi il 5×1000 al CNR CF 80054330586

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Partnerships in Practice - Special Theme Session at ComputEL-7
by Antti Arppe 18 Dec '23

18 Dec '23

Dear everyone, ----- CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - PARTNERSHIPS IN PRACTICE AT COMPUTEL-7 In addition to the regular programming, we will be hosting again at the 7th ComputEL workshop a special theme session discussion at the workshop. The theme for this Special Session is “Partnerships in Practice”. The goal of this Special Session is to increase our shared understanding of how best to work together across disciplinary and cultural boundaries to support community goals for language revitalization. We invite presentations that address two broad topics: (1) Lessons Learned from Existing Partnerships and (2) Solicitations for Future Partnerships. 1. Presentations that describe existing partnerships between language communities, documentary linguists and computational linguists. We encourage submissions which address questions such as: * How did the team members meet and come to work together? * What projects have you worked on, and what tools and resources have you created? * How have those tools and resources benefitted community efforts at language maintenance and revitalization? * What are some challenges (logistical, technical, interdisciplinary, intercultural) that you encountered, and how did you address them? * How have you balanced the needs and priorities of different team members through the lifespan of the project? * What lessons have you learned that might benefit other similar collaborations 2. Presentations that describe a project between a language community and a documentary linguist, where they have identified a need for assistance from a computational linguist. We encourage submissions which address questions such as: * How did the project come about and what are its goals? * What tools or resources, if any, has the team been able to produce so far? * What other tools or resources do you wish to create, and what challenges are you facing in creating them? * How do you see that the project might benefit from assistance from a computationally oriented linguist? Submissions with participation from community members are strongly encouraged. SUBMISSIONS TO THE SPECIAL THEME SESSION Please submit anonymous extended abstracts of up to 1500 words, excluding references. Submissions are to be made through SoftConf, via the following link (among the submission options, please choose Extended abstract as the submission type and Special Session Only as the preferrred session): https://softconf.com/eacl2024/Computel-7/ The deadline for submissions is January 15, 2024 (Anywhere on Earth). Alternatively, you may indicate that your full paper or extended abstract submitted to the regular workshop can be considered for inclusion in the Special Session. Notification of acceptance to the Special Session will be sent out by January 29, 2024. All authors of papers in the Special Theme Session will be invited to contribute to a follow-up paper that synthesizes the findings of the Session. IMPORTANT DATES 15 January 2024 Deadline for submission of abstracts 29 January 2024 Notification of acceptance 21 and 22 March 2024 Workshop and Special Theme Session CONTACT AND MORE INFORMATION The organizers of the Special Theme Session can be reached by: computel.workshop(a)gmail.com. For further information, please consult our website: https://computel-workshop.org/special-theme-session-partnerships-in-practic… -- ====================================================================== Antti Arppe - Ph.D (General Linguistics), M.Sc. (Engineering) Associate Professor of Quantitative Linguistics Director, Alberta Language Technology Lab (ALTLab) Project Director, 21st Century Tools for Indigenous Languages (21C) Past President, ACL SIG for Endangered Languages (SIGEL) Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta E-mail: arppe(a)ualberta.ca, antti.arppe(a)iki.fi WWW: www.ualberta.ca/~arppe, altlab.artsrn.ualberta.ca Mānahtu ina rēdûti ihza ummânūti ihannaq - dulum ugulak úmun ingul ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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CfP 5th workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL) @ LREC-COLING
by Menno Van Zaanen 14 Dec '23

14 Dec '23

First call for papers The fifth workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL) Colocated with LREC-COLING 2024 https://bit.ly/rail2024 Conference dates: 20-25 May 2024 Workshop date: 25 May 2024 Venue: Lingotto Conference Centre, Torino (Italy) The fifth RAIL workshop website: https://bit.ly/rail2024 LREC-COLING 2024 website: https://lrec-coling-2024.org/ The fifth Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) workshop will be co-located with LREC-COLING 2024 in Lingotto Conference Centre, Torino, Italy on 25 May 2024. The RAIL workshop is an interdisciplinary platform for researchers working on resources (data collections, tools, etc.) specifically targeted towards African indigenous languages. In particular, it aims to create the conditions for the emergence of a scientific community of practice that focuses on data, as well as computational linguistic tools specifically designed for or applied to indigenous languages found in Africa. Many African languages are under-resourced while only a few of them are somewhat better resourced. These languages often share interesting properties such as writing systems, or tone, making them different from most high-resourced languages. From a computational perspective, these languages lack enough corpora to undertake high level development of Human Language Technologies (HLT) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools, which in turn impedes the development of African languages in these areas. During previous workshops, it has become clear that the problems and solutions presented are not only applicable to African languages but are also relevant to many other low-resource languages. Because these languages share similar challenges, this workshop provides researchers with opportunities to work collaboratively on issues of language resource development and learn from each other. The RAIL workshop has several aims. First, the workshop brings together researchers who work on African indigenous languages, forming a community of practice for people working on indigenous languages. Second, the workshop aims to reveal currently unknown or unpublished existing resources (corpora, NLP tools, and applications), resulting in a better overview of the current state-of-the-art, and also allows for discussions on novel, desired resources for future research in this area. Third, it enhances sharing of knowledge on the development of low-resource languages. Finally, it enables discussions on how to improve the quality as well as availability of the resources. The workshop has “Creating resources for less-resourced languages” as its theme, but submissions on any topic related to properties of African indigenous languages (including non-African languages) may be accepted. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to) the following: * Digital representations of linguistic structures * Descriptions of corpora or other data sets of African indigenous languages * Building resources for (under resourced) African indigenous languages * Developing and using African indigenous languages in the digital age * Effectiveness of digital technologies for the development of African indigenous languages * Revealing unknown or unpublished existing resources for African indigenous languages * Developing desired resources for African indigenous languages * Improving quality, availability and accessibility of African indigenous language resources Submission requirements: We invite papers on original, unpublished work related to the topics of the workshop. Submissions, presenting completed work, may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content plus additional pages of references. The final camera-ready version of accepted long papers are allowed one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers’ feedback can be incorporated. Papers should be formatted according to the LREC- COLING style sheet (https://lrec-coling-2024.org/authors-kit/), which is provided on the LREC-COLING 2024 website (https://lrec-coling-2024.org/). Reviewing is double-blind, so make sure to anonymise your submission (e.g., do not provide author names, affiliations, project names, etc.) Limit the amount of self citations (anonymised citations should not be used). The RAIL workshop follows the LREC-COLING submission requirements. Please submit papers in PDF format to the START account (the submission link will be available soon). Accepted papers will be published in proceedings linked to the LREC-COLING conference. Important dates: Submission deadline: 16 February 2024 Date of notification: 15 March 2024 Camera ready deadline: 29 March 2024 RAIL workshop: 25 May 2024 Organising Committee Rooweither Mabuya, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Muzi Matfunjwa, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Mmasibidi Setaka, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Menno van Zaanen, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa -- Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za Professor in Digital Humanities South African Centre for Digital Language Resources https://www.sadilar.org ________________________________ NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT: http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. 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PROPOR24 Deadline extension + last call for demos.
by Iria de Dios Flores 11 Dec '23

11 Dec '23

The PROPOR 2024 demonstration program committee invites submissions for demonstrations. Following the spirit of previous PROPOR editions, the demonstration track aims at bringing together academia and industry, creating a forum where more than written or spoken descriptions of research are available. Thus, demos should allow attendees to try and test them during their presentation in a dedicated session that will provide a more informal and interactive setting. Products, systems, or tools are examples of acceptable demos. Both early-research prototypes and mature systems may also be considered. *Important dates:* Demos Submission: January 10 2024 Notification of acceptance or rejection: February 21 2024 Camera-ready demo paper: February 28 2024 Conference: March 14 and 15 2024 *Topics:* The areas of interest include all topics related to theoretical and applied issues of written and spoken Portuguese and Galician, such as, but not limited to, the same topics as for the conference paper submission: Natural language processing tasks (e.g. parsing, word sense disambiguation, coreference resolution) Natural language processing applications (e.g. question answering, subtitling, summarization, sentiment analysis) Natural language generation Information extraction and information retrieval Speech technologies (e.g. spoken language generation, speech and speaker recognition, spoken language understanding) Speech applications (e.g. spoken language interfaces, dialogue systems, speech-to-speech translation) Resources, standardization and evaluation (e.g. corpora, ontologies, lexicons, grammars) NLP-oriented linguistic description or theoretical analysis Distributional semantics and language modeling Portuguese language varieties and dialect processing (including the language varieties of Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Galicia, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé, and Principe) Multilingual studies, methods, applications, and resources including Portuguese/Galician The systems may be of the following kinds: Natural Language Processing systems or system components Application systems using language technology components Software tools for computational linguistics research Software for demonstration or evaluation Development tools *Submissions:* Submissions should consist of a non-anonymous brief description document of up to three pages of content, including references. Developers must outline the main characteristics of their system/product/tool, provide sufficient details to allow its evaluation, and give information on how they plan to demonstrate it. Developers are encouraged to focus their description on the relevance of the computational processing component of Portuguese or Galician in the proposed system. Submissions should be written in English. At submission time, only PDF format is accepted. For the final versions, authors of accepted papers will be given one extra content page to take the reviews into account. Authors of accepted papers will be requested to send the source files for the production of the proceedings. Submissions must be sent via EasyChair ( https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=propor2024) — please select the track: PROPOR2024 Demo Paper. All submitted papers must conform to the official ACL style guidelines. ACL provides style files for LaTeX and Microsoft Word that meet these requirements. They can be found at: LaTeX styelesheet: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files/tree/master/latex MS Word stylesheet: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files/tree/master/word Publication: Accepted demo papers are expected to be published by ACL as a volume in ACL Anthology (https://aclanthology.org/) as part of the PROPOR 2024 proceedings. They will be available online. To ensure publication, at least one author of each accepted paper must complete an adequate registration for PROPOR 2024 by the early registration deadline. *Presentation format:* Accepted demos will be presented at a designated demo session with an optional accompanying poster. Developers should make sure they could run their demos properly. Thus, it is the authors’ responsibility to provide the necessary technical conditions (i.e. equipment) for the demo at the conference. Note that the local organizers will not provide any hardware or software. Free high-speed Internet access will be available. There will be a best demo award for the best-presented project. Further details on the date, time, and instructions of the demonstration session(s) will be determined and provided at a later date. *Demo chairs:* Marlo Souza (Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil) Iria de-Dios-Flores (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain) -- *Iria de-Dios-Flores (PhD)* *https://sites.google.com/view/iriadediosflores/ <https://sites.google.com/view/iriadediosflores/>*

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Call for Papers MM4SG@WebConf 2024
by Surendrabikram Thapa 07 Dec '23

07 Dec '23

Hello everyone, We are organizing the 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 𝐨𝐧 𝐌𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐀𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐆𝐨𝐨𝐝 (𝐌𝐌𝟒𝐒𝐆) co-located with the WebConf 2024 (A* Conference). We invite original contributions on a wide range of topics related to multimodal content analysis for social good with a focus on computational linguistics, including, but not limited to: ⦿ 𝐌𝐌𝟒𝐒𝐆: Hate, Troll, Cyberbullying, Scams and Abuse Detection ⦿ 𝐌𝐌𝟒𝐒𝐆: Fake News, Misinformation, Rumor and Event Detection ⦿ 𝐌𝐌𝟒𝐒𝐆: Multimodal Sentiment Analysis ⦿ 𝐌𝐌𝟒𝐒𝐆: Disaster Response and Crisis Management in the Web ⦿ 𝐌𝐌𝟒𝐒𝐆: Multimodal Healthcare applications using Web data ⦿ 𝐌𝐌𝟒𝐒𝐆: Multimodal content analysis for sustainable development goals (SDGs) ⦿ 𝐌𝐌𝟒𝐒𝐆: New Datasets for Multimodal Content Analysis on the internet ⦿ 𝐌𝐌𝟒𝐒𝐆: Multimodal content generation and analysis ⦿ 𝐌𝐌𝟒𝐒𝐆: Large Language Models for Multimodal Model Content Analysis on the internet ⦿ 𝐌𝐌𝟒𝐒𝐆: Foundation Models for Multimodal Content Analysis on the internet ⦿ 𝐌𝐌𝟒𝐒𝐆: Socially Responsible Multimodal Content Analysis: Fairness, Bias, Accountability, and Transparency Website: https://lnkd.in/eA3Xaa2m Submit Paper: https://lnkd.in/eyy_DCBN If you have any questions, kindly email: surendrabikram [at] vt [dot] com We appreciate your support. Best Regards, Workshop Chairs First International Workshop on Multimodal Content Analysis for Social Good (MM4SG)

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Call for participation: Shared Task on Word Embedding Evaluation for Ancient and Historical Languages (SIGTYP @ EACL)
by Oksana Dereza 10 Nov '23

10 Nov '23

Dear colleagues, [Apologies for cross-posting] In 2024, SIGTYP is hosting a *Shared Task on Word Embedding Evaluation for Ancient and Historical Languages*: https://sigtyp.github.io/st2024.html The workshop will be co-located with EACL. *Summary* In recent years, sets of downstream tasks called benchmarks have become a very popular, if not default, method to evaluate general-purpose word and sentence embeddings. Starting with decaNLP (McCann et al., 2018) and SentEval (Conneau & Kiela, 2018), multitask benchmarks for NLU keep appearing and improving every year. However, even the largest multilingual benchmarks, such as XGLUE, XTREME, XTREME-R or XTREME-UP (Hu et al., 2020; Liang et al., 2020; Ruder et al., 2021, 2023), only include modern languages. When it comes to ancient and historical languages, scholars mostly adapt/translate intrinsic evaluation datasets from modern languages or create their own diagnostic tests. We argue that there is a need for a universal evaluation benchmark for embeddings learned from ancient and historical language data and view this shared task as a proving ground for it. The shared task involves solving the following problems for 12+ ancient and historical languages that belong to 4 language families and use 6 different scripts. Participants will be invited to describe their system in a paper for the SIGTYP workshop proceedings. The task organisers will write an overview paper that describes the task and summarises the different approaches taken, and analyses their results. *Subtasks* For subtask A, participants are not allowed to use any additional data; however, they can reduce and balance provided training datasets if they see fit. For subtask B, participants are allowed to use any additional data in any language, including pre-trained embeddings and LLMs. A. Constrained 1. POS-tagging 2. Full morphological annotation 3. Lemmatisation B. Unconstrained 1. POS-tagging 2. Full morphological annotation 3. Lemmatisation 4. Filling the gaps - Word-level - Character-level *Data* For tasks 1-3, we use Universal Dependencies v. 2.12 data (Zeman et al., 2023) in 11 ancient and historical languages, complemented by 5 Old Hungarian codices from the MGTSZ website (HAS Research Institute for Linguistics, 2018) that are annotated to the same standard as the corpora available through UD. For task 4, we add historical Irish data from CELT (Ó Corráin et al., 1997), Corpas Stairiúil na Gaeilge (Acadamh Ríoga na hÉireann, 2017), and digital editions of the St. Gall glosses (Bauer et al., 2017) and the Würzburg glosses (Doyle, 2018) as a case study of how performance may vary on different historical stages of the same language. We set the upper temporal boundary to 1700 CE and do not include texts created later than this date in our dataset. List of languages: - Ancient Greek - Ancient Hebrew - Classical Chinese - Coptic - Gothic - Classical, Late & Medieval Latin - Medieval Icelandic - Old Church Slavonic - Old East Slavic - Old French - Old Hungarian - Old, Middle & Early Modern Irish - Vedic Sanskrit *Important dates* *05 Nov 2023*: Release of training and validation data *02 Jan 2024*: Release of test data *08 Jan 2024*: Submission of the systems *13 Jan 2024*: Notification of results *20 Jan 2024*: Submission of shared task papers *27 Jan 2024*: Notification of acceptance to authors *03 Feb 2024*: Camera-ready *15 Mar 2024*: Video recordings due *21/22 Mar 2024*: SIGTYP workshop *Important links* - *Registration form* <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdINgMfzzZGIZ-uBVQhvyndB6yeaaj-wT7…> - Data + detailed description: https://github.com/sigtyp/ST2024 *Task organisers* - Oksana Dereza, Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, Data Science Institute, University of Galway - Priya Rani, SFI Centre for Research and Training in AI, Data Science Institute, University of Galway - Atul Kr. Ojha, Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, Data Science Institute, University of Galway - Adrian Doyle, Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, Data Science Institute, University of Galway - Pádraic Moran, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Moore Institute, University of Galway - John P. McCrae, Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, Data Science Institute, University of Galway *Contact details* - Oksana: oksana.dereza(a)insight-centre.org - Priya: priya.rani(a)insight-centre.org Best wishes, Oksana and the organisers -- [image: https://nuig.insight-centre.org/] <https://www.insight-centre.org/> Oksana Dereza | PhD student on the Cardamom <http://cardamom.insight-centre.org/> project | Unit for Linguistic Data | Insight Centre for Data Analytics | Data Science Institute | University of Galway Oksana Dereza | Iarrthóir PhD ar thionscadal Cardamom <http://cardamom.insight-centre.org/> | An tAonad um Shonraí Teangeolaíocha | Insight, Ionad na hAnailísíochta Sonraí | Institiúid Eolaíochta Sonraí | Ollscoil na Gaillimhe

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First Call for Papers - NeTTT’2024
by Tharindu Ranasinghe 10 Nov '23

10 Nov '23

International Conference ‘New Trends in Translation and Technology’ (NeTTT’2024) Varna, Bulgaria, 4-7 July 2024 First Call for Papers The conference The second edition of the forthcoming International Conference ‘New Trends in Translation and Technology’ (NeTTT’2024) will take place in Varna, Bulgaria, 4-7 July 2024. The objective of the conference is (i) to bridge the gap between academia and industry in the field of translation and interpreting by bringing together academics in linguistics, translation studies, machine translation and natural language processing, developers, practitioners, language service providers and vendors who work on or are interested in different aspects of technology for translation and interpreting, and (ii) to be a distinctive event for discussing the latest developments and practices. NeTTT’2024 invites all professionals who would like to learn about the new trends, present the latest work or/and share their experience in the field, and who would like to establish business and research contacts, collaborations and new ventures. The conference will take the form of presentations (peer-reviewed research and user presentations, keynote speeches), and posters; it will also feature panel discussions. The accepted papers will be published as open-access conference e-proceedings. Conference topics Contributions are invited on any topic related to latest technology and practices in machine translation, translation, subtitling, localisation and interpreting. NeTTT’2024 will feature a Special Theme Track "Future of Translation Technology in the Era of LLMs and Generative AI". The conference topics include but are not limited to: CAT tools * Translation Memory (TM) systems * NLP and MT for translation memory systems * Terminology extraction tools * Localisation tools Machine Translation * Latest developments in Neural Machine Translation * MT for under-resourced languages * MT with low computing resources * Multimodal MT * Integration of MT in TM systems * Resources for MT Technologies for MT deployment * MT evaluation techniques, metrics and evaluation results * Human evaluations of MT output * Evaluating MT in a real-world setting * Quality estimation for MT * Domain adaptation Translation Studies * Corpus-based studies applied to translation * Corpora and resources for translation * Translationese * Cognitive effort and eye-tracking experiments in translation Interpreting studies * Corpus-based studies applied to interpreting * Corpora and resources for interpreting * Interpretationese * Resources for interpreting and interpreting technology applications * Cognitive effort and eye-tracking experiments in interpreting Interpreting technology * Machine interpreting * Computer-aided interpreting * NLP for dialogue interpreting * Development of NLP based applications for communication in public service settings (healthcare, education, law, emergency services) Emerging Areas in Translation and Interpreting * MT and translation tools for literary texts and creative texts * MT for social media and real-time conversations * Sign language recognition and translation Subtitling * NLP and MT for subtitling * Latest technology for subtitling User needs * Analysis of translators’ and interpreters’ needs in terms of translation and interpreting technology * User requirements for interpreting and translation tools * Incorporating human knowledge into translation and interpreting technology * What existing translators’ (including subtitlers’) and interpreters’ tools do not offer * User requirements for electronic resources for translators and interpreters * Translation and interpreting workflows in larger organisations and the tools for translation and interpreting employed The business of translation and interpreting * Translation workflow and management * Technology adoption by translators and industry * Setting up translation /interpreting / language provider company Teaching translation and interpreting * Teaching Machine Translation * Teaching translation technology * Teaching interpreting technology * Latest AI developments in the syllabi of translation and interpreting curricula Ethical issues in translation and technology * Bias and fairness in MT * Privacy and security in cloud MT systems * Transparency and explainability of MT systems * Environmental impact on MT systems Special Theme Track - Future of Translation Technology in the Era of LLMs and Generative AI We are excited to share that NeTTT’2024 will have a special theme with the goal of stimulating discussion around Large Language Models, Generative AI and the Future of Translation and Interpreting Technology. While the new generation of Large Language Models such as CHATGPT and LLAMA showcase remarkable advancements in language generation and understanding, we find ourselves in uncharted territory when it comes to their performance on various Translation and Interpreting Technology tasks with regards to fairness, interpretability, ethics and transparency. The theme track invites studies on how LLMs perform on Translation and Interpreting Technology tasks and applications, and what this means for the future of the field. The possible topics of discussion include (but are not limited to) the following: * Changes in the translators and interpreters’ professions in the new AI era especially as a result of the latest developments in LLMSs and Generative AI * Generative AI and translation * Generative AI and interpreting * Augmenting machine translation systems with generative AI * Domain and terminology adaptation with Large Language Models * Literary translation with Large Language Models * Improving Machine Translation Quality with Contextual Prompts in Large Language Models * Prompt engineering for translation * Generative AI for professional translation * Generative AI for professional interpreting We anticipate having a special session on this theme at the conference. Submissions and publication NETTT’2024 invites the following types of submissions: User papers – for industry and practitioners. References to related work are optional. Allowed paper length: between 1 and 4 pages. Academic submissions, in three different categories (have to follow formatting requirements, references to related work are required): * (academic) full papers – describing original completed research. Allowed paper length: maximum 8 pages + 2 for references. * (academic) work-in-progress papers/posters – describing work in progress, late breaking research, papers at a more conceptual stage, and other types of papers that do not fit in the ‘full’ papers category. Allowed paper length: maximum 6 pages + 2 for references. * (academic) demo papers – describing working systems. Allowed paper length: maximum 4 pages + 2 for references. In addition to the papers, the authors will be expected to demonstrate the systems at the workshop. The submission will be electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system which will be available at the conference website soon. The follow up calls will provide more further submission details. Each submission will be reviewed by three members of the Programme Committee. The final version of the accepted papers will be published in e-proceedings with assigned ISBN and DOI. All accepted papers will be included in the conference e-proceedings which will be available at the conference. Schedule Submission deadline: 31 March 2024 Notification: 5 June 2024 Final version due: 20 June 2024 Venue The conference will take place at Conference Hotel Cherno More<https://www.chernomorebg.com/en/conference-centre.html>, Varna, situated only 200 m away from the fine sandy Black Sea beach. Further information and contact details The second call for papers is expected in December 2023 and registration will be open as from January 2024. The follow-up calls will list keynote speakers, conference chairs and members of the programme committee once confirmed. The conference website is https://nettt-conference.com and will be updated on a regular basis. For further information, please contact us at nettt2024(a)nettt-conference.com

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Call for Papers and Shared Task Participation [CASE @ EACL 2024]
by Surendrabikram Thapa 06 Nov '23

06 Nov '23

Dear All, CASE 2024 will be held at EACL 2024. Call for papers: https://emw.ku.edu.tr/case-2024/ We are organizing two shared tasks. Please register and participate. We have multimodal hate speech event detection as well and it is a nice opportunity for those who could not submit last time. *Climate Activism Stance and Hate Event Detection Shared Task at CASE 2024* *Task Description: *Hate speech detection and stance detection are some of the most important aspects of event identification during climate change activism events. In the case of hate speech detection, the event is the occurrence of hate speech, the entity is the target of the hate speech, and the relationship is the connection between the two. The hate speech event has targets to which hate is directed. Identification of targets is an important task within hate speech event detection. Additionally, stance event detection is an important part of assessing the dynamics of protests and activisms for climate change. This helps to understand whether the activist movements and protests are being supported or opposed. This task will have three subtasks (i) Hate speech identification (ii) Targets of Hate Speech Identification (iii) Stance Detection. *Codalab Link: *https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/16206 *Registration: *In order to register for the shared task, please send a request in codalab. The organizers will approve requests on a daily basis. *GitHub Page: *https://github.com/therealthapa/case2024-climate *Shared task on Multimodal Hate Speech Event Detection at CASE 2024* *Task Description: *Hate speech detection is one of the most important aspects of event identification during political events like invasions. In the case of hate speech detection, the event is the occurrence of hate speech, the entity is the target of the hate speech, and the relationship is the connection between the two. Since multimodal content is widely prevalent across the internet, the detection of hate speech in text-embedded images is very important. Given a text-embedded image in the context of the Russia-Ukraine crisis, this task aims to automatically identify hate speech and its targets. This task will have two subtasks (i) Hate speech identification (ii) Targets of Hate Speech Identification. *Codalab Link: *https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/16203 *Codalab Link to Multimodal Hate Speech Event Detection Shared Task at CASE 2023:* https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/13087 *Registration: *In order to register for the shared task, please send a request in codalab. The organizers will approve requests on a daily basis. *GitHub Page: *https://github.com/therealthapa/case2024-multimodal-hate Best Regards, Surendrabikram Thapa Research Faculty Virginia Tech, USA

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SIGUL2023 Proceedings now available on the ISCA Archive
by Claudia Soria 02 Nov '23

02 Nov '23

Dear Members of the SIGUL list, we are happy to announce that the proceedings of the SIGUL 2023 Workshop in Dublin are now available on the ISCA archive. https://doi.org/10.21437/SIGUL.2023 All the best Claudia Soria, Maite Melero, Sakriani Sakti -- Ricercatrice Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "A. Zampolli" Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Pisa -- Researcher "A. Zampolli" Institute for Computational Linguistics National Research Council Pisa, Italy

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Recherche d'opportunités
by Kouarata Guy noel 31 Oct '23

31 Oct '23

Bonjour Laurent ; J’espère que monmessage vous trouve en pleine forme et que tout va bien pour vous. Quant à moi,mon contrat avec l’université de Gand en Belgique prend fin le 20 décembre 2023.Je suis donc en quête d’autres opportunités d’emploi ou de recherche postdoc.Aussi vous prie-je de ne pas hésiter de m’informer si vous en connaissez une. Je me suis pris unpeu tard pour cette année, mais je souhaiterais aussi monter un projet derecherche avec vous. Depuis de 2020, j'ai pu créer une base de données FLEX avec 6500 entrées pour la langueMbochi avec plusieurs phrases illustratives (au moins 13000 phrases). Je medemandais si après avoir enregistrer toute ces données en audio (avecLiG-Aikuma), nous pouvons arriver à élaborer un outil qui permettra de fairedes recherche vocales en mbochi vers le français ou en français vers le mbochi.Ou de trouver des images à partir de la recherche vocale en mbochi. C’est lavision de profane que je souhaiterais discuter avec vous. Vous remerciant d’avancepour votre réaction, je vous prie de passer une excellente journée. Cordialement, Guy Kouarata

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CFP - Advanced Language Processing School (ALPS) 2024
by Laurent Besacier 01 Oct '23

01 Oct '23

FIRST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Advanced Language Processing School (ALPS) 2024 April, 1-5 2024 Aussois (French Alps) We are pleased to announce the 4th edition of ALPS - the Advanced NLP School to be held in the French Alps in April. This school targets advanced research students in Natural Language Processing and related fields and brings together world leading experts and motivated students. The programme comprises lectures, poster presentations, practical lab sessions and nature activities - the venue is located near a National Park. Important Dates Oct 1st: Application deadline Nov 1st 2023: acceptance notification Jan 1st 2024: registration deadline April 1st 2024: Start of School Confirmed speakers so far: - Kyunghyun Cho (New York University) - Sara Hooker (Cohere) - André Martins (IT Lisboa) - Barbara Plank (LMU Munich) - Titouan Parcollet (Cambridge University) Website and online application: https://alps.imag.fr/ <http://alps.imag.fr/> Questions: alps(a)univ-grenoble-alpes.fr

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2nd Call for Demonstrations PROPOR 2024 - 16th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese
by Iria de Dios Flores 15 Sep '23

15 Sep '23

[Apologies for cross-postings] ******************************************************** *2nd Call for Demonstrations* PROPOR 2024: 16th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (Santiago de Compostela - Galicia) March 14th & 15th 2024 https://propor2024.citius.gal/ ******************************************************** The PROPOR 2024 demonstration program committee invites submissions for demonstrations. Following the spirit of previous PROPOR editions, the demonstration track aims at bringing together academia and industry, creating a forum where more than written or spoken descriptions of research are available. Thus, demos should allow attendees to try and test them during their presentation in a dedicated session that will provide a more informal and interactive setting. Products, systems, or tools are examples of acceptable demos. Both early-research prototypes and mature systems may also be considered. Demos Submission: December 10 2023 Notification of acceptance or rejection: January 21 2024 Camera-ready demo paper: January 28 2024 Conference: March 14 and 15 2024 *Topics:* The areas of interest include all topics related to theoretical and applied issues of written and spoken Portuguese and Galician, such as, but not limited to, the same topics as for the conference paper submission: - Natural language processing tasks (e.g. parsing, word sense disambiguation, coreference resolution) - Natural language processing applications (e.g. question answering, subtitling, summarization, sentiment analysis) - Natural language generation - Information extraction and information retrieval - Speech technologies (e.g. spoken language generation, speech and speaker recognition, spoken language understanding) - Speech applications (e.g. spoken language interfaces, dialogue systems, speech-to-speech translation) - Resources, standardization and evaluation (e.g. corpora, ontologies, lexicons, grammars) - NLP-oriented linguistic description or theoretical analysis - Distributional semantics and language modeling - Portuguese language varieties and dialect processing (including the language varieties of Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Galicia, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé, and Principe) - Multilingual studies, methods, applications, and resources including Portuguese/Galician The systems may be of the following kinds: - Natural Language Processing systems or system components - Application systems using language technology components - Software tools for computational linguistics research - Software for demonstration or evaluation - Development tools *Submissions:* Submissions should consist of a non-anonymous brief description document of up to *three pages of content, including references*. Developers must outline the main characteristics of their system/product/tool, provide sufficient details to allow its evaluation, and give information on how they plan to demonstrate it. Developers are encouraged to focus their description on the relevance of the computational processing component of Portuguese or Galician in the proposed system. Submissions should be written in English. At submission time, only PDF format is accepted. For the final versions, authors of accepted papers will be given one extra content page to take the reviews into account. Authors of accepted papers will be requested to send the source files for the production of the proceedings. Submissions must be sent via EasyChair ( https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=propor2024) — please select the track: *PROPOR2024 Demo Paper*. All submitted papers must conform to the official ACL style guidelines. ACL provides style files for LaTeX and Microsoft Word that meet these requirements. They can be found at: LaTeX stylesheet: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files/tree/master/latex MS Word stylesheet: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files/tree/master/word The URL for paper submission will be available soon. *Publication:* Accepted demo papers are expected to be published by ACL as a volume in ACL Anthology (https://aclanthology.org/) as part of the PROPOR 2024 proceedings. They will be available online. To ensure publication, at least one author of each accepted paper must complete an adequate registration for PROPOR 2024 by the early registration deadline. *Presentation format:* Accepted demos will be presented at a designated demo session with an optional accompanying poster. Developers should make sure they could run their demos properly. Thus, it is the authors’ responsibility to provide the necessary technical conditions (i.e. equipment) for the demo at the conference. Note that the local organizers will not provide any hardware or software. Free high-speed Internet access will be available. There will be a best demo award for the best-presented project. Further details on the date, time, and instructions of the demonstration session(s) will be determined and provided at a later date. *Demo chairs:* Marlo Souza (Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil) Iria de-Dios-Flores (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain) -- *Iria de-Dios-Flores (PhD)* *https://sites.google.com/view/iriadediosflores/ <https://sites.google.com/view/iriadediosflores/>*

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Funding opportunity for research organization and SMEs – development and application of deep models for extended reality
by Laurent Besacier 16 Aug '23

16 Aug '23

Hi I hope this email finds you in good spirit. Our Horizon Europe project, UTTER (https://he-utter.eu <https://he-utter.eu/>), invites project proposals from research organizations and SMEs to develop and/or pilot applications of large pretrained language models with a focus on enabling human-human and human-machine interaction. Successful applications will receive up to € 60 000 each, and run for 6-9 months. The call closes on October 15, 2023. Please check the call documentation (available from the link below) for details on eligibility criteria and the (very simple) application procedure: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/oppor… <https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/oppor…> If you have any inquiries or need further details, please feel free to reach out to: • Wilker Aziz: w.ferreiraaziz(a)uva.nl • Vlad Niculae: v.niculae(a)uva.nl • Maryam Hashemi Shabestari: m.hashemishabestari(a)uva.nl We encourage you to share this call with anyone else who might be interested in making the most of this funding opportunity. Best regards, L

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Join online to SIGUL 2023 (August 18-20, 2023)
by Sakriani Sakti 08 Aug '23

08 Aug '23

Dear SIGUL Members, Hope this finds you well! Next week, we will hold the 2nd Annual Meeting of the ELRA/ISCA Special Interest Group on Under-Resourced Languages (SIGUL 2023) on August 18-20, 2023, in Dublin, Ireland. You may find the program here: https://sigul-2023.ilc.cnr.it/programme/ --> I also attached the pdf version in this email. As in tradition of the previous SIGUL event, it features a number of distinguished keynote speakers, technical oral and poster sessions, and panel discussions. This time we'll have three-panel discussions on (1) Inclusion, Diversity, and Sovereignty, (2) the Role of Local Communities & Policy/Support, and (3) UL and Education. The whole program will be held in hybrid. So in case you are interested in joining online, you may register here: https://sigul-2023.ilc.cnr.it/registration-form/ --> It is only 100 Euro for regular and 50 Euro for students Or, in case you cannot join but would like to communicate your voice related to the panel topics, you may email us. Looking forward to seeing many of you in the discussion! Thank you. Sincerely yours, Sakriani Sakti

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Third call for papers DHASA Conference 2023 Extended deadlines
by Menno Van Zaanen 07 Aug '23

07 Aug '23

Third call for papers DHASA Conference 2023 Extended deadlines https://dh2023.digitalhumanities.org.za/ Note extended deadlines Theme: "Digital Humanities for Inclusion" The Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa (DHASA) is pleased to announce its fourth conference, focusing on the theme "Digital Humanities for Inclusion." In a region where the field of Digital Humanities is still relatively underdeveloped, this conference aims to address this gap and foster growth and collaboration in the field. The conference offers an opportunity for researchers interested in showcasing their work in the broad field of Digital Humanities to come together. By doing so, the conference provides a comprehensive overview of the current state-of-the-art in Digital Humanities, particularly within the Southern Africa region. As such, we welcome submissions related to Digital Humanities research conducted by individuals from Southern Africa or research focused on the geographical area of Southern Africa. Furthermore, the conference serves as a platform for information sharing and networking among researchers passionate about Digital Humanities. By bringing together experts working on Digital Humanities in Southern Africa or with a focus on Southern Africa, we aim to promote collaboration and facilitate further research in this dynamic field. In addition to the main conference, affiliated workshops and tutorials will be organized, providing researchers with valuable insights into novel technologies and tools. These supplementary events are designed for researchers interested in specific aspects of Digital Humanities or seeking practical information to enter or advance their knowledge in the field. The DHASA conference welcomes interdisciplinary contributions from researchers in various domains of Digital Humanities, including, but not limited to, language, literature, visual art, performance and theatre studies, media studies, music, history, sociology, psychology, language technologies, library studies, philosophy, methodologies, software and computation, and more. Our goal is to cultivate an inclusive scientific community of practice within Digital Humanities. Suggested topics include the following: * Digital archives and the preservation of marginalized voices; * Intersectionality and the digital humanities: exploring the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and class in digital research and activism; * Activism and social change through digital media: how digital humanities tools and methodologies can be used to promote inclusion; * Engaging marginalized communities in the creation and use of digital tools and resources; * Exploring the role of digital humanities in decolonizing knowledge and promoting indigenous perspectives; * The ethics of data collection and analysis in digital humanities research related; * The role of digital humanities in promoting inclusive and equitable pedagogy; * Digital humanities and inclusion in the context of global perspectives and international collaborations; * Critical approaches to digital humanities and inclusion: examining the limitations and possibilities of digital tools and methodologies in promoting inclusion; and * Collaborative digital humanities projects with non-profit organizations, community groups, and cultural institutions; * Any other digital humanities-related topic that serves the Southern African community. Submission Guidelines The DHASA conference 2023 asks for three types of submissions: * Long papers: Authors may submit long papers consisting of a maximum of 8 content pages and unlimited pages for references and appendix. The final versions of accepted long papers will be granted an additional page (up to 9 pages) to incorporate reviewers' comments. * Short papers: Authors may submit short papers with a maximum of 5 content pages and unlimited pages for references and appendix. The final versions of accepted short papers will be allowed an extra page (up to 6 pages) to accommodate reviewers' comments. Short papers accepted for the conference will be presented as posters. * Abstracts: Authors can submit abstracts of 250-300 words. Note that before submitting your contribution, you are required to submit an abstract before the abstract submission deadline. This holds for *all* submissions. The actual submission will need to be submitted before the submission deadline. More information on the submission process can be found on the submission page: https://dh2023.digitalhumanities.org.za/submission/ We particularly encourage student submissions where the first author is a student. All accepted long and short paper submissions that are presented at the conference will be published in the Journal of Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa, see https://upjournals.up.ac.za/index.php/dhasa. In addition, the abstracts of the full papers and the lightning talks will be published in a book of abstracts before the conference. Important dates Abstract submission deadline: *22 August 2023* Submission deadline: *29 August 2023* Date of notification: 30 September 2023 Camera-ready copy deadline: 6 November 2023 Conference: 27 November 2023 - 1 December 2023 Conference format: Face-to-face Conference venue: Nelson Mandela University, Eastern Cape South Africa NOTE: Non-presenting delegates have the option to attend online. Co-located events Several co-located events are currently being prepared, including workshops and tutorials. These will be updated on the conference website. Organizing Committee * Johannes Sibeko, Nelson Mandela University * Aby Louw, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research * Alan Murdoch, Nelson Mandela University * Amanda du Preez, University of Pretoria * Andiswa Bukula, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources * Andiswa Mvanyashe, Nelson Mandela University * Avashna Govender, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research * Gabby Dlamini, Nelson Mandela University * Ilana Wilken, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research * Jonathan van der Walt, Nelson Mandela University * Laurette Marais, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research * Mukhtar Raban, Nelson Mandela University * Nomfundo Khumalo, Nelson Mandela University * Menno Van Zaanen, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources -- Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za Professor in Digital Humanities South African Centre for Digital Language Resources https://www.sadilar.org ________________________________ NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT: http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. 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Third call for papers DHASA Conference 2023
by Menno Van Zaanen 27 Jul '23

27 Jul '23

Third call for papers DHASA Conference 2023 https://dh2023.digitalhumanities.org.za/ Theme: "Digital Humanities for Inclusion" The Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa (DHASA) is pleased to announce its fourth conference, focusing on the theme "Digital Humanities for Inclusion." In a region where the field of Digital Humanities is still relatively underdeveloped, this conference aims to address this gap and foster growth and collaboration in the field. The conference offers an opportunity for researchers interested in showcasing their work in the broad field of Digital Humanities to come together. By doing so, the conference provides a comprehensive overview of the current state-of-the-art in Digital Humanities, particularly within the Southern Africa region. As such, we welcome submissions related to Digital Humanities research conducted by individuals from Southern Africa or research focused on the geographical area of Southern Africa. Furthermore, the conference serves as a platform for information sharing and networking among researchers passionate about Digital Humanities. By bringing together experts working on Digital Humanities in Southern Africa or with a focus on Southern Africa, we aim to promote collaboration and facilitate further research in this dynamic field. In addition to the main conference, affiliated workshops and tutorials will be organized, providing researchers with valuable insights into novel technologies and tools. These supplementary events are designed for researchers interested in specific aspects of Digital Humanities or seeking practical information to enter or advance their knowledge in the field. The DHASA conference welcomes interdisciplinary contributions from researchers in various domains of Digital Humanities, including, but not limited to, language, literature, visual art, performance and theatre studies, media studies, music, history, sociology, psychology, language technologies, library studies, philosophy, methodologies, software and computation, and more. Our goal is to cultivate an inclusive scientific community of practice within Digital Humanities. Suggested topics include the following: * Digital archives and the preservation of marginalized voices; * Intersectionality and the digital humanities: exploring the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and class in digital research and activism; * Activism and social change through digital media: how digital humanities tools and methodologies can be used to promote inclusion; * Engaging marginalized communities in the creation and use of digital tools and resources; * Exploring the role of digital humanities in decolonizing knowledge and promoting indigenous perspectives; * The ethics of data collection and analysis in digital humanities research related; * The role of digital humanities in promoting inclusive and equitable pedagogy; * Digital humanities and inclusion in the context of global perspectives and international collaborations; * Critical approaches to digital humanities and inclusion: examining the limitations and possibilities of digital tools and methodologies in promoting inclusion; and * Collaborative digital humanities projects with non-profit organizations, community groups, and cultural institutions; * Any other digital humanities-related topic that serves the Southern African community. Submission Guidelines The DHASA conference 2023 asks for three types of submissions: * Long papers: Authors may submit long papers consisting of a maximum of 8 content pages and unlimited pages for references and appendix. The final versions of accepted long papers will be granted an additional page (up to 9 pages) to incorporate reviewers' comments. * Short papers: Authors may submit short papers with a maximum of 5 content pages and unlimited pages for references and appendix. The final versions of accepted short papers will be allowed an extra page (up to 6 pages) to accommodate reviewers' comments. Short papers accepted for the conference will be presented as posters. * Abstracts: Authors can submit abstracts of 250-300 words. Note that before submitting your contribution, you are required to submit an abstract before the abstract submission deadline. This holds for *all* submissions. The actual submission will need to be submitted before the submission deadline. More information on the submission process can be found on the submission page: https://dh2023.digitalhumanities.org.za/submission/ We particularly encourage student submissions where the first author is a student. All accepted long and short paper submissions that are presented at the conference will be published in the Journal of Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa, see https://upjournals.up.ac.za/index.php/dhasa. In addition, the abstracts of the full papers and the lightning talks will be published in a book of abstracts before the conference. Important dates Abstract submission deadline: 8 August 2023 Ful paper submission deadline: 15 August 2023 Date of notification: 30 September 2023 Camera-ready copy deadline: 6 November 2023 Conference: 27 November 2023 - 1 December 2023 Conference format: Face-to-face Conference venue: Nelson Mandela University, Eastern Cape South Africa NOTE: Non-presenting delegates have the option to attend online. Co-located events Several co-located events are currently being prepared. These will be updated on the conference website. Organizing Committee * Johannes Sibeko, Nelson Mandela University * Aby Louw, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research * Alan Murdoch, Nelson Mandela University * Amanda du Preez, University of Pretoria * Andiswa Bukula, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources * Andiswa Mvanyashe, Nelson Mandela University * Avashna Govender, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research * Gabby Dlamini, Nelson Mandela University * Ilana Wilken, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research * Jonathan van der Walt, Nelson Mandela University * Laurette Marais, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research * Mukhtar Raban, Nelson Mandela University * Nomfundo Khumalo, Nelson Mandela University * Menno Van Zaanen, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources -- Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za Professor in Digital Humanities South African Centre for Digital Language Resources https://www.sadilar.org ________________________________ NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT: http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. 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