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SLTU-CCURL2020 Proceedings now online!
by Claudia Soria 18 May '20

18 May '20

Dear SIGUL list members, we are very happy to announce that the SLTU-CCURL2020 Proceedings are available online: https://lrec2020.lrec-conf.org/media/proceedings/Workshops/Books/SLTUCCURLb… <https://lrec2020.lrec-conf.org/media/proceedings/Workshops/Books/SLTUCCURLb…> This year, LREC2020 would have featured an extraordinary event: the first joint SLTU-CCURL2020 Workshop, which was planned as a two-day workshop, with 54 papers accepted either as oral and poster presentations. The workshop program was enriched by two tutorials and two keynote speeches. We will miss the presentations, the discussions and the overall stimulating environment very deeply. We are thankful to ELRA and ISCA for their support to the workshop, to our Google sponsor and to the 60 experts of the Program Committee, who worked tirelessly in order to help us to select the best papers representing a wide perspective over NLP, speech and computational linguistics addressing less-resource languages. Looking forward to better times when we will be able to meet in person again, we hope that you will find these workshop proceedings relevant and stimulating for your own research. With our best wishes, Claudia Soria, Laurent Besacier, Dorothee Beermann, and Sakriani Sakti

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[2003.07082] Stanza: A Python Natural Language Processing Toolkit for Many Human Languages
by Laurent Besacier 17 Mar '20

17 Mar '20

hi i thought some of you might be interested by this online paper best laurent ==== > > https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.07082 <https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.07082> > > Stanza: A Python Natural Language Processing Toolkit for Many Human Languages > > (Submitted on 16 Mar 2020) > We introduce Stanza, an open-source Python natural language processing toolkit supporting 66 human languages. Compared to existing widely used toolkits, Stanza features a language-agnostic fully neural pipeline for text analysis, including tokenization, multi-word token expansion, lemmatization, part-of-speech and morphological feature tagging, dependency parsing, and named entity recognition. We have trained Stanza on a total of 112 datasets, including the Universal Dependencies treebanks and other multilingual corpora, and show that the same neural architecture generalizes well and achieves competitive performance on all languages tested. Additionally, Stanza includes a native Python interface to the widely used Java Stanford CoreNLP software, which further extends its functionalities to cover other tasks such as coreference resolution and relation extraction. Source code, documentation, and pretrained models for 66 languages are available at this https URL <https://stanfordnlp.github.io/stanza>.

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Information about SLTU-CCURL 2020
by Laurent Besacier 17 Mar '20

17 Mar '20

Dear All, As a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic LREC has been suspended. As a satellite event SLTU-CCURL 2020 is thereby also suspended. We, as workshop organizers, will adhere to the policy and decisions that will be taken by the LREC 2020 organizers. The Workshop Proceedings will be published as planned in early May. Acceptance notifications will be sent out by Wednesday, 18 March. The SLTU/CCURL 2020 Organizers

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Last CfP: 1st Joint SLTU-CCURL Workshop @ LREC2020
by Claudia Soria 02 Mar '20

02 Mar '20

Apologies for cross-postings ============== Last Call for Papers 1st Joint SLTU (Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced languages) and CCURL (Collaboration and Computing for Under-Resourced Languages) Workshop SLTU-CCURL 2020 is endorsed by SIGUL, ELRA and ISCA. Date: 11-12 May 2020 Venue: Palais du Pharo, Marseille, France Website: http://sltu-ccurl-2020.ilc.cnr.it Submission Deadline: 14 February 2020 - no extension will be granted Submission page: https://www.softconf.com/lrec2020/SLTUCCURL2020/ ============== Workshop Description and Objectives The first joint SLTU-CCURL workshop, organized by SIGUL, a joint Special Interest Group of the European Language Resources Association (ELRA) and of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), will gather researchers working on speech processing and NLP for less-resourced languages. We solicit papers and posters related to all areas of NLP , speech and computational linguistics, as well as those at the intersection with digital humanities and documentary linguistics, provided that they address less-resourced languages. The intention of this joint SLTU-CCURL workshop is not only to provide a forum for the presentation of research, but also to offer a venue where researchers in different disciplines and from varied backgrounds can fruitfully explore new areas of intellectual and practical development while honoring their common interest of sustaining less-resourced languages. Topics of interest Topics include but are not limited to: -Language resource development, acquisition and representation -Linguistic theories, corpus development and resources -Linguistic and cognitive studies -Unsupervised discovery of linguistic units -Code switched lexical modeling -Multi-lingual and cross-lingual (spoken, text) language processing -Speech-to-text, text-to-speech and speech-to-speech processing -Machine translation and dialogue systems -NLP and speech technologies for under-resourced languages Submission & Publication Papers need to address less-resourced languages. They can contain an analysis and insight into existing methods and problems; a description of resources; an overview of the literature or of current initiatives, or a combination of the above. Authors must declare if part of the paper contains material previously published elsewhere. We accept submission of long papers (up to 8 pages, to be presented as long presentations) and short papers (up to 4 pages, to be presented as posters or demos). The program committee reserves the right to decide whether a paper submitted as a long paper is better suited for a poster presentation. Page limits exclude references. The papers of the workshop will be published in online proceedings. Papers must strictly comply with the LREC stylesheet (https://lrec2020.lrec-conf.org/en/submission2020/authors-kit/) and be submitted in PDF unprotected format. Submission page: https://www.softconf.com/lrec2020/SLTUCCURL2020/ Each submission will be reviewed by three programme committee members. In compliance with the LREC rules, papers must not be anonymized. Important Dates - Paper submission deadline: 14 February 2020 - Notification of acceptance: 13 March 2020 - Camera-ready paper: 2 April 2020 - Workshop date: 11-12 May 2020 Invited speakers Alan Black, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Teresa Lynn, ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University, Ireland Tutorials On May 10th, SLTU-CCURL is pleased to offer two tutorials (held at Université Aix-Marseille, near the LREC venue). T1: Jan Trmal, John Hopkins University: Building ASR systems using the Kaldi toolkit T2: Achim Rabus, University of Freiburg : Introduction to Handwritten Text Recognition with Transkribus More details will be announced on the workshop web page. Attendance to tutorials will be free of charge but registration will be required for organisational purposes (and number of attendees will be limited to 25 per tutorial). Organizing Committee * Dorothee Beermann, NTNU, Norway   * Laurent Besacier, LIG-Univ. Grenoble Alpes, France  * Sakriani Sakti, NAIST, Japan  * Claudia Soria, CNR-ILC, Italy  To contact the organizers, please mail Claudia.soria(a)ilc.cnr.it or Laurent.Besacier(a)univ-grenoble-alpes.fr (Subject: [SLTUCCURL@LREC2020]). Programme Committee Adrian Doyle (University of Galway, Ireland) Alexey Karpov (SPIIRAS, Russian Federation) Alexis Palmer (University of North Texas, USA) Amita Dev (IGDTUW, India) Amir Aharoni (Wikimedia Foundation) Andras Kornai (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary) Angelo Mario Del Grosso (CNR-ILC, Italy) Antti Arppe (University of Alberta, Canada) Anupam Shukla (IIITM, India) Charl Van Heerden (Saigen, South Africa) Daan Van Esch (Google) Dafydd Gibbon (Bielefeld University, Germany) Delyth Prys (Bangor University, UK) Dewi Bryn Jones (Bangor University, UK) Dorothee Beermann (NTNU, Norway) Emily Le Chen (University of Illinois, USA) Federico Boschetti (CNR-ILC, Italy) Francis Tyers (Moscow Higher School of Economics, Russia) Gerard Bailly (GIPSA Lab, CNRS) Gilles Adda (LIMSI/IMMI CNRS, France) Hemant Patil (DA-IICT, India) Jeff Good (University at Buffalo, USA) John Judge (ADAPT DCU, Ireland) Jonas Fromseier Mortensen (Google) Jordan Lachler (University of Alberta, Canada) Joseph Mariani (LIMSI-CNRS, France) Kepa Sarasola (University of the Basque Country, Spain) Kevin Scannell (Saint Louis University, Missouri, USA) Klara Ceberio (Elhuyar, Spain) Lane Schwartz (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) Laurent Besacier (LIG-IMAG, France) Maite Melero (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain) Miikka Silfverberg (University of Helsinki, Finland) Mikel Forcada (Universitat d’Alacant, Spain) Mohammad A. M. Abushariah (The University of Jordan, Jordan) Nick Thieberger (University of Melbourne / ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language, Australia) Omar Farooq (AMU, India) Pierric Sans (Google) Pradip K Das (IIT, India) Sakriani Sakti (NAIST, Japan) Satoshi Nakamura (NAIST, Japan) Sebastian Stüker (KIT, Germany) Shyam S Agrawal (KIIT, India) Steven Bird (Charles Darwin University, Australia) Tanja Schultz (Uni-Bremen, Germany) Thang Vu (Uni-Stuttgart, Germany) Teresa Lynn (ADAPT Centre, Ireland) Trond Trosterud (Tromsø University, Norway) Tunde Adegbola (African Languages Technology Initiative, Nigeria) Vera Ferreira (CIDLeS - Interdisciplinary Centre for Social and Language Documentation, Portugal) Win Pa Pa (UCS Yangon, Myanmar) Acknowledgments The 1st joint SLTU-CCURL Workshop is endorsed by SIGUL (http://www.elra.info/en/sig/sigul/), ISCA (https://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/), and SIGEL and sponsored by Google. Identify, Describe and Share your LRs! Describing your LRs in the LRE Map is now a normal practice in the submission procedure of LREC (introduced in 2010 and adopted by other conferences). To continue the efforts initiated at LREC 2014 about “Sharing LRs” (data, tools, web-services, etc.), authors will have the possibility, when submitting a paper, to upload LRs in a special LREC repository. This effort of sharing LRs, linked to the LRE Map for their description, may become a new “regular” feature for conferences in our field. This will contribute to creating a common repository where everyone can deposit and share data. As scientific work requires accurate citations of referenced work so as to allow the community to understand the whole context and also to allow the replication of the experiments conducted by other researchers, LREC 2020 endorses the need to uniquely Identify LRs through the use of the International Standard Language Resource Number (ISLRN, www.islrn.org), a Persistent Unique Identifier to be assigned to each Language Resource. The assignment of ISLRNs to LRs cited in LREC papers will be offered at submission time. -- Claudia Soria Researcher Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "A. Zampolli" Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Via Moruzzi 1 56124 Pisa Italy Tel. +39 050 3153166 Skype clausor

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CFP Deadline Extended to February 24, 2020 for Citizen Linguistics in Language Resource Development at LREC 2020
by Cieri, Christopher M 12 Feb '20

12 Feb '20

*CFP Deadline Extended to February 24, 2020* 2nd Call For Papers: The Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) will host the workshop "Citizen Linguistics in Language Resource Development" (CLLRD 2020) at LREC 2020 in Marseille, France, on May 16, 2020. Full details and CFP: https://sites.google.com/view/cllrd-2020/ Description Notwithstanding advances in data collection and processing, language related research, education and technology development continue to suffer from inadequate supply of Language Resources. To supplement traditional LR development, which typically relies upon top down support from some government or private foundation, Citizen Linguistics (the Citizen Science of Language) changes the incentive model to attract a new workforce which in turn requires a different kind of workflow. Incentives to Citizen Linguists may include the opportunities to learn and develop new skills; to socialize, compete and earn status or recognition; to document their language and promote their culture and, most importantly, to contribute directly to research and indirectly to a greater cause or social good. By offering human contributors sustained access to appropriate opportunities, activities, and incentives, we can enhance LR development well beyond what traditional direct funding alone can produce. However, along with these new incentives and workflows come new challenges whose solutions are relevant even to expert (paid) annotation. The goal of this hybrid workshop/tutorial is two-fold. First is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to explore and discuss the issues, advantages and challenges of using Citizen Linguistics as a method for the creation of language resources. Second is to introduce LanguageARC<https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Flanguagearc.com&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=…>, a new Citizen Linguistics web portal for collecting language data and judgements. Topics There will be two sessions at the workshop. For the first session, papers are welcome on any topic related to Citizen Linguistics in the development of Language Resources including: · case studies · language specific challenges · incentive models · workforce recruitment, training and evaluation · task design, granularity and assignment · workflow and ordering · response evaluation and aggregation · the preparation of language resources from raw results and their use in research and in developing and evaluating HLTs. For the second session, papers are welcome on any topic related specifically to the use of LanguageARC.org<http://LanguageARC.org> to create tasks that collect language data for research and development. Presenting authors of Best Papers Employing LanguageARC will receive travel subsidies to present during this workshop at LREC. The second session will also include a brief tutorial on LanguageARC for new or potential users. By the end of the tutorial, attendees will be fully capable of implementing their data collection or annotation project via LanguageARC. Submissions We will accept papers between 4 and 8 pages excluding references. Accepted workshop papers will be published as workshop proceedings along with the main conference papers. Papers must follow the LREC 2020 style sheet<https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Flrec2020.lrec-conf.org%2Fen%2Fsu…> and author’s kit<https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Flrec2020.lrec-conf.org%2Fen%2Fsu…> templates. Papers are to be submitted via the workshop START page<https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.softconf.com%2Flrec2020%2FCL…>. Important Dates - submission deadline: February 24, 2020 - notification of acceptance: March 12, 2020 - deadline for camera-ready versions: April 2, 2020 Identify, Describe and Share your LRs! * Describing your LRs in the LRE Map is now a normal practice in the submission procedure of LREC (introduced in 2010 and adopted by other conferences). To continue the efforts initiated at LREC 2014 about “Sharing LRs” (data, tools, web-services, etc.), authors will have the possibility, when submitting a paper, to upload LRs in a special LREC repository. This effort of sharing LRs, linked to the LRE Map for their description, may become a new “regular” feature for conferences in our field, thus contributing to creating a common repository where everyone can deposit and share data. * As scientific work requires accurate citations of referenced work so as to allow the community to understand the whole context and also replicate the experiments conducted by other researchers, LREC 2020 endorses the need to uniquely Identify LRs through the use of the International Standard Language Resource Number (ISLRN, www.islrn.org<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.islrn.org%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=A…>), a Persistent Unique Identifier to be assigned to each Language Resource. The assignment of ISLRNs to LRs cited in LREC papers will be offered at submission time. For more information please visit the workshop website (https://sites.google.com/view/cllrd-2020/) or contact James Fiumara: jfiumara AT ldc.upenn.edu<http://ldc.upenn.edu> The organizing committee, Chris Callison-Burch, University of Pennsylvania Christopher Cieri, Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania James Fiumara, Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania Mark Liberman, Linguistic Data Consortium, University of Pennsylvania Chris — Christopher Cieri Executive Director, Linguistic Data Consortium and Adjunct Associate Professor of Linguistics University of Pennsylvania 3600 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA. 19104 p: 215-573-5489, f: 215-573-2175, mailto:ccieri@ldc.upenn.edu

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SPECOM-2020 FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
by Claudia Soria 11 Feb '20

11 Feb '20

********************************************************* SPECOM-2020 FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS ********************************************************* 22nd International Conference on Speech and Computer (SPECOM-2020) Venue: St. Petersburg, Russia, October 06-10, 2020 Web: http://www.specom.nw.ru/2020 ORGANIZERS The conference is organized by the St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPIIRAS, St. Petersburg, Russia) in cooperation with Moscow State Linguistic University (MSLU, Moscow, Russia). CONFERENCE TOPICS SPECOM attracts researchers, linguists and engineers working in the following areas of speech science, speech technology, natural language processing, human-computer interaction: Affective computing Audio-visual speech processing Corpus linguistics Computational paralinguistics Deep learning for audio processing Feature extraction Forensic speech investigations Human-machine interaction Language identification Multichannel signal processing Multimedia processing Multimodal analysis and synthesis Sign language processing Speaker recognition Speech and language resources Speech analytics and audio mining Speech and voice disorders Speech-based applications Speech driving systems in robotics Speech enhancement Speech perception Speech recognition and understanding Speech synthesis Speech translation systems Spoken dialogue systems Spoken language processing Text mining and sentiment analysis Virtual and augmented reality Voice assistants SATELLITE EVENT 5th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Robotics ICR-2020: http://www.specom.nw.ru/icr2020 OFFICIAL LANGUAGE The official language of the event is English. However, papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged. FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE The conference program will include presentation of invited talks, oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Authors are invited to submit full papers of 6-10 pages formatted in the Springer LNCS style. Each paper will be reviewed by at least three independent reviewers (single-blind), and accepted papers will be presented either orally or as posters. Papers submitted to SPECOM must not be under review by any other conference or publication during the SPECOM review cycle, and must not be previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the on-line submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=specom2020 PROCEEDINGS SPECOM Proceedings will be published by Springer as a book in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI/LNCS) series listed in all major international citation databases. SPECOM Proceedings are included in the list of forthcoming proceedings for October 2020. IMPORTANT DATES May 26, 2020 ............ Submission of full papers July 03, 2020 ........... Notification of acceptance July 17, 2020 .......... Camera-ready papers and early registration October 06-10, 2020 ..... Conference dates GENERAL CHAIRS Alexey Karpov - SPIIRAS, Russia Rodmonga Potapova - MSLU, Russia CONTACTS All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to: SPECOM-2020 Secretariat: E-mails: specom(a)iias.spb.su SPECOM-2020 web-site: www.specom.nw.ru/2020 -- Claudia Soria Researcher Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "A. Zampolli" Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Via Moruzzi 1 56124 Pisa Italy Tel. +39 050 3153166 Skype clausor

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Fwd: ZeroSpeech 2020 - release of the evaluation code and submission protocol
by Laurent Besacier 09 Feb '20

09 Feb '20

> Début du message réexpédié : > > De: zerospeech 2020 <zerospeech2020(a)gmail.com <mailto:zerospeech2020@gmail.com>> > Objet: ZeroSpeech 2020 - release of the evaluation code and submission protocol > Date: 7 février 2020 à 22:21:48 UTC+1 > > > Dear all, > > We have updated our website <http://zerospeech.com/2020/index.html> with the evaluation code and submission protocol for the ZeroResource Speech Challenge 2020. Please see both the overview page and the detailed instructions, which include new submission formats and software tools. > > Please also download the updated versions of the datasets, even if you have downloaded them already. As indicated, the training data is the same, but new test files have been added submission. You will need to register as challenge participants to get a password. > > Thanks very much for your continuing interest, > > Best regards, > > The ZRC Team > -- > http://zerospeech.com/ <http://zerospeech.com/>

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2d CFP: 1st Joint SLTU (Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced languages) and CCURL (Collaboration and Computing for Under-Resourced Languages) Workshop
by Laurent Besacier 05 Feb '20

05 Feb '20

Apologies for cross-postings ============== 2nd Call for Papers 1st Joint SLTU (Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced languages) and CCURL (Collaboration and Computing for Under-Resourced Languages) Workshop Date: 11-12 May 2020 Venue: Palais du Pharo, Marseille, France Website: http://sltu-ccurl-2020.ilc.cnr.it <http://sltu-ccurl-2020.ilc.cnr.it/> Submission Deadline: 14 February 2020 Submission page: https://www.softconf.com/lrec2020/SLTUCCURL2020/ ============== Workshop Description and Objectives The first joint SLTU-CCURL workshop, organized by SIGUL, a joint Special Interest Group of the European Language Resources Association (ELRA) and of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), will gather researchers working on speech processing and NLP for less-resourced languages. We solicit papers and posters related to all areas of NLP , speech and computational linguistics, as well as those at the intersection with digital humanities and documentary linguistics, provided that they address less-resourced languages. The intention of this joint SLTU-CCURL workshop is not only to provide a forum for the presentation of research, but also to offer a venue where researchers in different disciplines and from varied backgrounds can fruitfully explore new areas of intellectual and practical development while honoring their common interest of sustaining less-resourced languages. Topics of interest Topics include but are not limited to: -Language resource development, acquisition and representation -Linguistic theories, corpus development and resources -Linguistic and cognitive studies -Unsupervised discovery of linguistic units -Code switched lexical modeling -Multi-lingual and cross-lingual (spoken, text) language processing -Speech-to-text, text-to-speech and speech-to-speech processing -Machine translation and dialogue systems -NLP and speech technologies for under-resourced languages Submission & Publication Papers need to address less-resourced languages. They can contain an analysis and insight into existing methods and problems; a description of resources; an overview of the literature or of current initiatives, or a combination of the above. Authors must declare if part of the paper contains material previously published elsewhere. We accept submission of long papers (up to 8 pages, to be presented as long presentations) and short papers (up to 4 pages, to be presented as posters or demos). The program committee reserves the right to decide whether a paper submitted as a long paper is better suited for a poster presentation. Page limits exclude references. The papers of the workshop will be published in online proceedings. Papers must strictly comply with the LREC stylesheet (https://lrec2020.lrec-conf.org/en/submission2020/authors-kit/) and be submitted in PDF unprotected format. Submission page: https://www.softconf.com/lrec2020/SLTUCCURL2020/ Each submission will be reviewed by three programme committee members. In compliance with the LREC rules, papers must not be anonymized. Important Dates - Paper submission deadline: 14 February 2020 - Notification of acceptance: 13 March 2020 - Camera-ready paper: 2 April 2020 - Workshop date: 11-12 May 2020 Invited speakers Alan Black, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Teresa Lynn, ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University, Ireland Tutorials On May 10th, SLTU-CCURL is pleased to offer two tutorials (held at Université Aix-Marseille, near the LREC venue). T1: Jan Trmal & Sanjeev Khudanpur, John Hopkins University: Building ASR systems using the Kaldi toolkit T2: Achim Rabus, University of Freiburg : Introduction to Handwritten Text Recognition with Transkribus More details will be announced on the workshop web page. Attendance to tutorials will be free of charge but registration will be required for organisational purposes (and number of attendees will be limited to 25 per tutorial). Organizing Committee Dorothee Beermann, NTNU, Norway Laurent Besacier, LIG-Univ. Grenoble Alpes, France Sakriani Sakti, NAIST, Japan Claudia Soria, CNR-ILC, Italy To contact the organizers, please mail Claudia.soria(a)ilc.cnr.it or Laurent.Besacier(a)univ-grenoble-alpes.fr (Subject: [SLTUCCURL@LREC2020]). Programme Committee Adrian Doyle (University of Galway, Ireland) Alexey Karpov (SPIIRAS, Russian Federation) Alexis Palmer (University of North Texas, USA) Amita Dev (IGDTUW, India) Amir Aharoni (Wikimedia Foundation) Andras Kornai (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary) Angelo Mario Del Grosso (CNR-ILC, Italy) Antti Arppe (University of Alberta, Canada) Anupam Shukla (IIITM, India) Charl Van Heerden (Saigen, South Africa) Daan Van Esch (Google) Dafydd Gibbon (Bielefeld University, Germany) Delyth Prys (Bangor University, UK) Dewi Bryn Jones (Bangor University, UK) Dorothee Beermann (NTNU, Norway) Emily Le Chen (University of Illinois, USA) Federico Boschetti (CNR-ILC, Italy) Francis Tyers (Moscow Higher School of Economics, Russia) Gerard Bailly (GIPSA Lab, CNRS) Gilles Adda (LIMSI/IMMI CNRS, France) Hemant Patil (DA-IICT, India) Jeff Good (University at Buffalo, USA) John Judge (ADAPT DCU, Ireland) Jonas Fromseier Mortensen (Google) Jordan Lachler (University of Alberta, Canada) Joseph Mariani (LIMSI-CNRS, France) Kepa Sarasola (University of the Basque Country, Spain) Kevin Scannell (Saint Louis University, Missouri, USA) Klara Ceberio (Elhuyar, Spain) Lane Schwartz (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) Laurent Besacier (LIG-IMAG, France) Maite Melero (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain) Miikka Silfverberg (University of Helsinki, Finland) Mikel Forcada (Universitat d’Alacant, Spain) Mohammad A. M. Abushariah (The University of Jordan, Jordan) Nick Thieberger (University of Melbourne / ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language, Australia) Omar Farooq (AMU, India) Pierric Sans (Google) Pradip K Das (IIT, India) Sakriani Sakti (NAIST, Japan) Satoshi Nakamura (NAIST, Japan) Sebastian Stüker (KIT, Germany) Shyam S Agrawal (KIIT, India) Sin Horng Chen (NCTU, Taiwan) Steven Bird (Charles Darwin University, Australia) Tanja Schultz (Uni-Bremen, Germany) Thang Vu (Uni-Stuttgart, Germany) Teresa Lynn (ADAPT Centre, Ireland) Trond Trosterud (Tromsø University, Norway) Tunde Adegbola (African Languages Technology Initiative, Nigeria) Vera Ferreira (CIDLeS - Interdisciplinary Centre for Social and Language Documentation, Portugal) Win Pa Pa (UCS Yangon, Myanmar) Acknowledgments The 1st joint SLTU-CCURL Workshop is endorsed by SIGUL (http://www.elra.info/en/sig/sigul/), ISCA (https://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/), and SIGEL and sponsored by Google. Identify, Describe and Share your LRs! Describing your LRs in the LRE Map is now a normal practice in the submission procedure of LREC (introduced in 2010 and adopted by other conferences). To continue the efforts initiated at LREC 2014 about “Sharing LRs” (data, tools, web-services, etc.), authors will have the possibility, when submitting a paper, to upload LRs in a special LREC repository. This effort of sharing LRs, linked to the LRE Map for their description, may become a new “regular” feature for conferences in our field. This will contribute to creating a common repository where everyone can deposit and share data. As scientific work requires accurate citations of referenced work so as to allow the community to understand the whole context and also to allow the replication of the experiments conducted by other researchers, LREC 2020 endorses the need to uniquely Identify LRs through the use of the International Standard Language Resource Number (ISLRN, www.islrn.org <http://www.islrn.org/>), a Persistent Unique Identifier to be assigned to each Language Resource. The assignment of ISLRNs to LRs cited in LREC papers will be offered at submission time.

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CFP: 1st Joint SLTU (Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced languages) and CCURL (Collaboration and Computing for Under-Resourced Languages) Workshop
by Claudia Soria 16 Dec '19

16 Dec '19

Apologies for cross-postings ============== 1st Call for Papers 1st Joint SLTU (Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced languages) and CCURL (Collaboration and Computing for Under-Resourced Languages) Workshop Date: 11-22 May 2020 Venue: Palais du Pharo, Marseille, France Website: http://sltu-ccurl-2020.ilc.cnr.it Submission Deadline: 14 February 2020 Submission page: will be announced by 20 December 2020 ============== Workshop Description and Objectives The first joint SLTU-CCURL workshop, organized by SIGUL, a joint Special Interest Group of the European Language Resources Association (ELRA) and of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), will gather researchers working on speech processing and NLP for less-resourced languages. We solicit papers and posters related to all areas of NLP , speech and computational linguistics, as well as those at the intersection with digital humanities and documentary linguistics, provided that they address less-resourced languages. The intention of this joint SLTU-CCURL workshop is not only to provide a forum for the presentation of research, but also to offer a venue where researchers in different disciplines and from varied backgrounds can fruitfully explore new areas of intellectual and practical development while honoring their common interest of sustaining less-resourced languages. Topics of interest Topics include but are not limited to: - Language resource development, acquisition and representation - Linguistic theories, corpus development and resources - Linguistic and cognitive studies - Unsupervised discovery of linguistic units - Code switched lexical modeling - Multi-lingual and cross-lingual (spoken, text) language processing - Speech-to-text, text-to-speech and speech-to-speech processing - Machine translation and dialogue systems - NLP and speech technologies for under-resourced languages Submission & Publication Papers need to address less-resourced languages. They can contain an analysis and insight into existing methods and problems; a description of resources; an overview of the literature or of current initiatives, or a combination of the above. Authors must declare if part of the paper contains material previously published elsewhere. We accept submission of long papers (up to 8 pages, to be presented as long presentations) and short papers (up to 4 pages, to be presented as posters or demos). The program committee reserves the right to decide whether a paper submitted as a long paper is better suited for a poster presentation. Page limits exclude references. The papers of the workshop will be published in online proceedings. Papers must strictly comply with the LREC stylesheet (https://lrec2020.lrec-conf.org/en/submission2020/authors-kit/) and be submitted in PDF unprotected format. Submission page: will be announced on the website by 20 December 2020. Each submission will be reviewed by three programme committee members. In compliance with the LREC rules, papers must not be anonymized. Important Dates - Paper submission deadline: 14 February 2020 - Notification of acceptance: 13 March 2020 - Camera-ready paper: 2 April 2020 - Workshop date: 11-12 May 2020 Invited speakers Alan Black, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Teresa Lynn, ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University, Ireland Tutorials On May 10th, SLTU-CCURL is pleased to offer two tutorials (held at Université Aix-marseille, near the LREC venue). T1: Jan Trmal, John Hopkins University: Building ASR systems using the Kaldi toolkit T2: Achim Rabus, University of Freiburg : Introduction to Handwritten Text Recognition with Transkribus More details will be announced on the workshop web page. Attendance to tutorials will be free of charge but registration will be required for organisational purposes (and number of attendees will be limited to 25 per tutorial). Organizing Committee * Dorothee Beermann, NTNU, Norway  * Laurent Besacier, LIG-Univ. Grenoble Alpes, France  * Sakriani Sakti, NAIST, Japan  * Claudia Soria, CNR-ILC, Italy  To contact the organizers, please mail Claudia.soria(a)ilc.cnr.it or Laurent.Besacier(a)univ-grenoble-alpes.fr (Subject: [SLTUCCURL@LREC2020]). Programme Committee Adrian Doyle (Galway University, Ireland) TBC Alexey Karpov (SPIIRAS, Russian Federation) Alexis Palmer (University of North Texas, USA) Amita Dev (IGDTUW, India) Amir Aharoni (Wikimedia Foundation) Andras Kornai (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary) Angelo Mario Del Grosso (CNR-ILC, Italy) Antti Arppe (University of Alberta, Canada)Â Anupam Shukla (IIITM, India) Ayu Purwarianti (ITB, Indonesia) TBC Bruce Birch (The Minjilang Endangered Languages Publications Project, Australia) TBC Bruce Robertson (Mount Allison University, Canada) TBC Charl Van Heerden (SPbSU, Russian Federation) TBC Chiu Yu Tseng (ILAS, Taiwan) TBC Chris Cieri (LDC, USA) TBC Clara Rivera (Google) TBC Daan Van Esch (Google) Dafydd Gibbon (Bielefeld University, Germany) Delyth Prys (Bangor University, UK) Dewi Bryn Jones (Bangor University, UK) Dirk Van Compernolle (KU Leuven, Belgium) TBC Dorothee Beermann (NTNU, Norway) Emily Le Chen (University of Illinois, USA) Emily Prud'hommeaux (Boston College, USA) TBC Emmanuel Dupoux (EHESS-ENS, France) TBC Federico Boschetti (CNR-ILC, Italy) Francis Tyers (Moscow Higher School of Economics, Russia) Gerard Bailly (GIPSA Lab, CNRS) TBC Gilles Adda (LIMSI/IMMI CNRS, France) Hemant Patil (DA-IICT, India) Jeff Good (University at Buffalo, USA) John Judge (ADAPT DCU, Ireland) Jonas Fromseier Mortensen (Google) Jordan Lachler (University of Alberta, Canada) TBC Joseph Mariani (LIMSI-CNRS, France) Karunesh Arora (C-DAC, NOIDA, India) TBC Kepa Sarasola (University of the Basque Country, Spain) Kevin Scannell (Saint Louis University, Missouri, USA) Klara Ceberio (Elhuyar, Spain) Lane Schwartz (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) Laurent Besacier (LIG-IMAG, France) Lori Lamel (LIMSI, France) TBC Luong Chi-Mai (IOIT, Vietnam) TBC Maite Melero (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain) Mans Hulden (University of Colorado Boulder, USA) TBC Miikka Silfverberg (University of Helsinki, Finland) Mikel Forcada (Universitat d’Alacant, Spain) Mirna Adriani (UI, Indonesia) TBC Mohammad A. M. Abushariah (The University of Jordan, Jordan) Nick Thieberger (University of Melbourne / ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language, Australia) Omar Farooq (AMU, India) Pierric Sans (Google) TBC Pradip K Das (IIT, India) Sakriani Sakti (NAIST, Japan) Satoshi Nakamura (NAIST, Japan) Sebastian Stüker (KIT, Germany) Shyam S Agrawal (KIIT, India) Sin Horng Chen (NCTU, Taiwan) Steven Bird (Charles Darwin University, Australia) Tan Tien Ping (USM, Malaysia) TBC Tanja Schultz (Uni-Bremen, Germany) Thang Vu (Uni-Stuttgart, Germany) Teresa Lynn (ADAPT Centre, Ireland) Trond Trosterud (Tromsø University, Norway) Tunde Adegbola (African Languages Technology Initiative, Nigeria) Vera Ferreira (CIDLeS - Interdisciplinary Centre for Social and Language Documentation, Portugal) Win Pa Pa (UCS Yangon, Myanmar) Xavier Anguera (Telefonica, Spain) TBC Yoshinori Sagisaka (Waseda University, Japan) TBC Zuraida Mohd Don (UPSI, Indonesia) TBC Identify, Describe and Share your LRs! Describing your LRs in the LRE Map is now a normal practice in the submission procedure of LREC (introduced in 2010 and adopted by other conferences). To continue the efforts initiated at LREC 2014 about “Sharing LRs” (data, tools, web-services, etc.), authors will have the possibility, when submitting a paper, to upload LRs in a special LREC repository. This effort of sharing LRs, linked to the LRE Map for their description, may become a new “regular” feature for conferences in our field. This will contribute to creating a common repository where everyone can deposit and share data. As scientific work requires accurate citations of referenced work so as to allow the community to understand the whole context and also to allow the replication of the experiments conducted by other researchers, LREC 2020 endorses the need to uniquely Identify LRs through the use of the International Standard Language Resource Number (ISLRN, www.islrn.org), a Persistent Unique Identifier to be assigned to each Language Resource. The assignment of ISLRNs to LRs cited in LREC papers will be offered at submission time. -- Claudia Soria Researcher Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "A. Zampolli" Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Via Moruzzi 1 56124 Pisa Italy Tel. +39 050 3153166 Skype clausor

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Fwd: [ilat] Graduate student positions in Indigenous languages and technology
by Claudia Soria 11 Dec '19

11 Dec '19

FYI. -------- Messaggio Inoltrato -------- Oggetto: [ilat] Graduate student positions in Indigenous languages and technology Data: Tue, 10 Dec 2019 02:56:54 +0100 Mittente: Antti Arppe <arppe(a)ualberta.ca> Rispondi-a: ilat(a)list.arizona.edu A: ILAT(a)list.arizona.edu CC: 21st Century Tools for Indigenous Languages <21ct4il(a)gmail.com>, Antti Arppe <arppe(a)ualberta.ca> Dear colleagues, We'd appreciate if you shared the posting below on our graduate student positions through your networks. Also, if you know of students who'd be interested in the creation of language technological resources and in Indigenous languages, we'd be most happy if they applied. ---- LEVEL: MA / PhD SPECIALTY AREAS: Morphology; Phonetics; Computational Linguistics; Language Documentation; Text/Corpus Linguistics, Indigenous Languages; Language Revitalization DESCRIPTION: The Alberta Language Technology Lab (ALTLab) in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Alberta is offering two graduate student positions at the PhD (4 years) or MA (2 years) level in its graduate program, beginning in September 2020 within the research project: 21st Century Tools for Indigenous Languages, funded by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Partnership Grant in 2019 – 2026. For more information, see our Partnership website: http://altlab.artsrn.ualberta.ca/21c. This partnership is hosted by the Alberta Language Technology Lab (ALTLab) and is led by Dr. Antti Arppe (Associate Professor & Partnership Director). We are developing language technological models, tools, and resources for Indigenous languages in Canada, starting with Plains Cree (Algonquian) and Tsuut’ina (Dene), and plan to continue and expand work in other languages. These tools and resources include: intelligent electronic dictionaries, linguistically analyzed collections of spoken and written texts, spell-checkers, language learning and practice tools, and word form analyzers and generators, all created in collaboration with Indigenous communities in order to facilitate and support the use of their languages in all spheres of life by community members. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Alongside studies in the Department’s graduate program, the graduate student will be expected to: * support the development or maintenance of our current or future projects within ALTLab for our partnering communities. * conduct research that falls within the purview of ALTLab research interests on either the languages of our partners and/or another indigenous language (see our list of past publications from our ALTLab team and a full list of potential research topics.) THESE POSITIONS REQUIRE: a keen interest in North American Indigenous languages; * a Bachelor's or Master’s degree in a relevant field; and * meeting the general entrance requirements to the Department’s graduate program (http://www.linguistics.ualberta.ca/Graduate/Admissions.aspx) WE WILL PREFER CANDIDATES WITH: * experience in and knowledge of the phonetics/phonology and/or morphosyntax of Indigenous languages (North American Indigenous languages, in particular Plains Cree or other Algonquian language); and/or * experience in computational linguistics and natural language processing (e.g. finite-state transducers, speech technology); and/or * interest or experience in language documentation, language revitalization, and language learning. WE OFFER: * an opportunity to personally contribute to the practical retention of linguistic diversity; * opportunities for well-rounded, comprehensive training in empirical research methods in field linguistics, psycholinguistics and corpus linguistics as well as in language technology; and * a chance to participate in an international SSHRC funded Partnership involving collaboration with 27 researchers from 14 different partner organizations world-wide including leading research centers in the development of language technology and research on indigenous languages. HOW TO APPLY: To apply, send by email to our Partnership office (21ct4il(a)gmail.ca, Attn: Dr. Antti Arppe, ref: PhD 2020) the following: 1. a brief statement of research interests and relevant background; 2. curriculum vitae (including possible publications and presentations); 3. transcripts of university studies (electronic copies will do); and 4. at least two confidential academic letters of reference delivered directly to Dr. Antti Arppe (arppe(a)ualberta.ca) by the referees. We will start considering applications at the end of December 2019. These positions are open until filled, but we urge applications to be submitted by Friday Jan 3, 2020, in order to meet the Linguistics departmental regular graduate application deadline on Friday, Jan 10, 2020. These positions are for a start in September 2020. For further information, please consult the the project website: http://altlab.artsrn.ualberta.ca/21c and contact our Partnership office (21ct4il(a)gmail.com, attn: Antti Arppe). APPLICATIONS DEADLINE: 03-Jan-2020 MORE INFORMATION/UPDATES: http://altlab.artsrn.ualberta.ca/call-for-phd-student-applications-deadline… CONTACT INFORMATION: Partnership office 21ct4il(a)gmail.com -- ====================================================================== 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) Chair, Canadian Initiative for Nordic Studies (CINS) 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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(during LREC 2020) CFP 1st Joint SLTU (Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced languages) and CCURL (Collaboration and Computing for Under-Resourced Languages) Workshop
by Laurent Besacier 06 Dec '19

06 Dec '19

Call for Papers 1st Joint SLTU (Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced languages) and CCURL (Collaboration and Computing for Under-Resourced Languages) Workshop http://www.ilc.cnr.it/sltu-ccurl_2020/ <http://www.ilc.cnr.it/sltu-ccurl_2020/> 1st Call for Papers Date: 11-12 May, 2020. To be held as part of the 12th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), at the Palais du Pharo, Marseille, France. Endorsed by SIGUL (http://www.elra.info/en/sig/sigul/ <http://www.elra.info/en/sig/sigul/>) , ELRA and ISCA (to be confirmed) Invited speakers Alan Black, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Teresa Lynn, ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University, Ireland Tutorials On May 10th, SLTU-CCURL is pleased to offer two tutorials (held at Université Aix- marseille, near the LREC venue). T1: Jan Trmal, John Hopkins University (building ASR systems using the Kaldi toolkit) T2: Achim Rabus, University of Freiburg (Using Transkribus in training models for less-resourced languages) title to be confirmed More details will be announced on the workshop web page. Attendance to tutorials will be free of charge but registration will be required for organisational purposes (and number of attendees will be limited to 25 per tutorial).    Workshop description and objectives   The first joint SLTU-CCURL workshop will be held on May 11-12 2020 in Marseille, France, during LREC2020. Organized by SIGUL, a joint Special Interest Group of the European Language Resources Association (ELRA) and of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), this joint workshop will gather researchers working on speech processing and NLP for less resourced languages. We solicit papers and posters related to all areas of NLP , speech and computational linguistics, as well as those at the intersection with digital humanities and documentary linguistics, provided that they address less- resourced languages. Example topics are the following: -Language resource development, acquisition and representation -Linguistic theories, corpus development and resources -Linguistic and cognitive studies -Unsupervised discovery of linguistic units -Code switched lexical modeling -Multi-lingual and cross-lingual (spoken, text) language processing -Speech-to-text, text-to-speech and speech-to-speech processing -Machine translation and dialogue systems -NLP and speech technologies for under-resourced languages The intention of this joint SLTU-CCURL workshop is not only to provide a forum for the presentation of research, but also to offer a venue where researchers in different disciplines and varied backgrounds can fruitfully explore new areas of intellectual and practical development while honoring their common interest of sustaining less-resourced languages. We will have both oral presentation sessions and poster sessions. The decision on whether a presentation will be an oral or poster one will be taken by the Organizing Committee on the advice of the Program Committee, taking into account the subject matter and how that might be best conveyed. Oral and poster presentations will not be distinguished in the Proceedings. Submission and Publication   ● Papers need to address less-resourced languages. They can contain an analysis and insight into existing methods and problems; a description of resources; an overview of the literature or of the current initiatives, or a combination of the above. Authors must declare if part of the paper contains material previously published elsewhere. ● Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length papers of 8 pages (references excluded), strictly complying with the LREC stylesheet (https:// lrec2020.lrec-conf.org/en/submission2020/authors-kit/ <http://lrec2020.lrec-conf.org/en/submission2020/authors-kit/>). Papers should be submitted in PDF unprotected format to the workshop START page (URL will be provided in due time). ● Each submission will be reviewed by three programme committee members. In compliance with the LREC rules, papers must not be anonymized. Authors must declare if part of the paper contains material previously published elsewhere.    ● Accepted papers will be presented either as oral presentations or posters and will be published in the workshop proceedings.  ● The formatting template must be strictly adhered to and deadlines met.     Important dates    February 14, 2020 Paper submission deadline  March 13, 2020 Paper notification of acceptance April 2, 2020 Camera-ready papers due   May 11-12, 2020 Workshop Identify, Describe and Share your LRs! ● Describing your LRs in the LRE Map is now a normal practice in the submission procedure of LREC (introduced in 2010 and adopted by other conferences). To continue the efforts initiated at LREC 2014 about “Sharing LRs” (data, tools, web-services, etc.), authors will have the possibility, when submitting a paper, to upload LRs in a special LREC repository. This effort of sharing LRs, linked to the LRE Map for their description, may become a new “regular” feature for conferences in our field, thus contributing to creating a common repository where everyone can deposit and share data. ● As scientific work requires accurate citations of referenced work so as to allow the community to understand the whole context and also replicate the experiments conducted by other researchers, LREC 2020 endorses the need to uniquely Identify LRs through the use of the International Standard Language Resource Number (ISLRN, www.islrn.org <http://www.islrn.org/>), a Persistent Unique Identifier to be assigned to each Language Resource. The assignment of ISLRNs to LRs cited in LREC papers will be offered at submission time.   Workshop chairs   Dorothee Beermann, NTNU, Norway Laurent Besacier, LIG-Univ. Grenoble Alpes, France Sakriani Sakti, NAIST, Japan Claudia Soria, CNR-ILC, Italy    Programme Committee  ● Adrian Doyle (Galway University, Ireland) TBC ● Alexey Karpov (SPIIRAS, Russian Federation) ● Alexis Palmer (University of North Texas, USA) ● Amita Dev (BPIBS, India) TBC ● Amir Aharoni (Wikimedia Foundation) ● Andras Kornai (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary) ● Angelo Mario Del Grosso (CNR-ILC, Italy) ● Antti Arppe (University of Alberta, Canada) TBC ● Anupam Shukla (IIITM, India) ● Ayu Purwarianti (ITB, Indonesia) TBC ● Bruce Birch (The Minjilang Endangered Languages Publications Project, Australia) TBC ● Bruce Robertson (Mount Allison University, Canada) TBC ● Charl Van Heerden (SPbSU, Russian Federation) TBC ● Chiu Yu Tseng (ILAS, Taiwan) TBC ● Chris Cieri (LDC, USA) TBC ● Clara Rivera (Google) TBC ● Dafydd Gibbon (Bielefeld University, Germany) ● Delyth Prys (Bangor University, UK) ● Dewi Bryn Jones (Bangor University, UK) ● Dirk Van Compernolle (KU Leuven, Belgium) TBC ● Dorothee Beermann (NTNU, Norway) ● Emily Prud'hommeaux (Boston College, USA) TBC ● Emmanuel Dupoux (EHESS-ENS, France) TBC ● Federico Boschetti (CNR-ILC, Italy) ● Francis Tyers (Moscow Higher School of Economics, Russia) ● Gerard Bailly (GIPSA Lab, CNRS) TBC ● Gilles Adda (LIMSI/IMMI CNRS, France) TBC ● Hemant Patil (DA-IICT, India) ● Jeff Good (University at Buffalo, USA) ● John Judge (ADAPT DCU, Ireland) ● Jordan Lachler (University of Alberta, Canada) TBC ● Joseph Mariani (LIMSI-CNRS, France) TBC ● Karunesh Arora (C-DAC, NOIDA, India) TBC ● Kepa Sarasola (University of the Basque Country, Spain) TBC ● Kevin Scannell (Saint Louis University, Missouri, USA) ● Klara Ceberio (Elhuyar, Spain) ● Lane Schwartz (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) ● Laurent Besacier (LIG-IMAG, France) ● Lori Lamel (LIMSI, France) TBC ● Luong Chi-Mai (IOIT, Vietnam) TBC ● Maite Melero (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain) ● Mans Hulden (University of Colorado Boulder, USA) TBC ● Maxim Romanov TBC ● Miikka Silfverberg (University of Helsinki, Finland) ● Mikel Forcada (Universitat d’Alacant, Spain) ● Mirna Adriani (UI, Indonesia) TBC ● Mohammad A. M. Abushariah (The University of Jordan, Jordan) ● Nick Thieberger (University of Melbourne / ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language, Australia) ● Omar Farooq (AMU, India) ● Pedro Moreno (Google, USA) TBC ● Pradip K Das (IIT, India) ● Richard Sproat (Google, USA) TBC ● Clara Rivera (Google) TBC ● Sakriani Sakti (NAIST, Japan) ● Satoshi Nakamura (NAIST, Japan) ● Sebastian Stüker (KIT, Germany) ● Shyam S Agrawal (KIIT, India) ● Sin Horng Chen (NCTU, Taiwan) ● Steven Bird (Charles Darwin University, Australia) TBC ● Tan Tien Ping (USM, Malaysia) TBC ● Tanja Schultz (Uni-Bremen, Germany) ● Thang Vu (Uni-Stuttgart, Germany) TBC ● Teresa Lynn (ADAPT Centre, Ireland) ● Trond Trosterud (Tromsø University, Norway) ● Tunde Adegbola (African Languages Technology Initiative, Nigeria) ● Uwe Springmann (Würzburg University, Germany) TBC ● Vera Ferreira (CIDLeS - Interdisciplinary Centre for Social and Language Documentation, Portugal) ● Win Pa Pa (UCS Yangon, Myanmar) ● Xavier Anguera (Telefonica, Spain) TBC ● Yoshinori Sagisaka (Waseda University, Japan) TBC - Zuraida Mohd Don (UPSI, Indonesia) TBC  Contact claudia.soria(a)ilc.cnr.it <mailto:claudia.soria@ilc.cnr.it> Laurent.Besacier(a)univ-grenoble-alpes.fr <mailto:Laurent.Besacier@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr>

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[CFP-Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities] Special Issue on "Collecting, Preserving and Disseminating Endangered Cultural Heritage for New Understandings Through Multilingual Approaches"
by Amel Fraisse 19 Sep '19

19 Sep '19

Dear Colleagues, The recent DH workshop <https://francestanford.stanford.edu/sites/francestanford/files/media/file/D…> (Workshop program) <https://francestanford.stanford.edu/sites/francestanford/files/media/file/D…> held at Stanford University (April 9, 2019) has shown how, as Digital Humanities continues to gain momentum, the field is intersecting with an ever-widening range of disciplines including Natural Language Processing, Library and Information Science, History, Literature, and Translation Studies to name only a few. The growth of these fields within DH enables us to break new scientific ground. For example, the existing reservoir of public domain translations of literary texts, once tracked and digitalized, provides a new wealth of resources to sustain knowledge diversity, preserve our cultural heritage and help us map the global circulation and reception of information and texts. In the wake of this workshop, the Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities will publish a special issue "Collecting, Preserving and Disseminating Endangered Cultural Heritage for New Understandings Through Multilingual Approaches" featuring a selection of papers from the workshop and is opening up to additional contributions presenting recent research that aims at collecting, preserving, and dissiminating endangered knowledge and cultural heritage for new understandings through multilingual approaches. We welcome submissions including but not limited to the following topics: Knowledge circulation and organization in a translational context Digital Humanities, crowdsourcing and digital libraries Digital Humanties and the circulation of translated literary texts Natural Language Processing to preserve knowledge diversity and cultural heritage Collecting and aligning translated texts in and for under-resourced languages Multilingual corpora and their circulation Open data, open access and data preservation Collaboration and computing for endangered knowledge Ethics and data privacy issues in a global context More information about submission : https://jdmdh.episciences.org/page/collecting-preserving-and-disseminating-… <https://jdmdh.episciences.org/page/collecting-preserving-and-disseminating-…> Amel Fraisse, Ronald Jenn and Shelley Fisher Fishkin <applewebdata://060E0A9B-8B96-4A98-B8D1-3B313F034C36> Amel Fraisse Maitre de Conférences Université de Lille - Département SID - Laboratoire Gériico Amel.fraisse(a)univ-lille.fr <mailto:prenom.nom@univ-lille.fr> | https://pro.univ-lille.fr/amel-fraisse/ <https://pro.univ-lille.fr/amel-fraisse/> Bât. 2 - bureau B2.467 Domaine Universitaire de Pont de Bois - Villeneuve d'Ascq T. +33 (0)3 20 41 61 53

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preliminary announcement of the 1st Joint SLTU (Spoken Language Technologies for Under- resourced languages) and CCURL (Collaboration and Computing for Under-Resourced Languages) Workshop in May 2020
by Laurent Besacier 16 Sep '19

16 Sep '19

Dear SIGUL members Please find attached a preliminary announcement of the 1st Joint SLTU (Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced languages) and CCURL (Collaboration and Computing for Under-Resourced Languages) Workshop. It will be held in Marseille, France – May 10th-12th 2020 (as a LREC workshop*) *subject to acceptance by LREC Workshop committee Submission deadline is January 31st 2020. A web site will be set up soon... Best regards Dorothee Beermann, Laurent Besacier, Claudia Soria and Sakriani Sakti (Workshop co-chairs)

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International Conference on Language Technologies for All (LT4All) - UNESCO Headquarters in Paris on December 5-6, 2019.
by Laurent Besacier 25 Jul '19

25 Jul '19

Dear SIGUL members Here is a preliminary announcement on the LT4All event that may be of interest for some of you. More soon on this mailing-list (you can also check their Web site) Best Laurent Besacier ======= International Conference on Language Technologies for All (LT4All) Enabling Linguistic Diversity and Multilingualism Worldwide in the framework of the International Year of Indigenous Languages – IYIL 2019 will take place at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris on December 5-6, 2019. https://lt4all.elra.info/ <https://lt4all.elra.info/>

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CLEOPATRA project - two PhD positions open @ University of Zagreb
by Marko Tadić 11 Jun '19

11 Jun '19

*** Only few days left *** Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb (FFZG) hires two (2) Early Stage Researchers (ESRs – PhD position) to join the CLEOPATRA project (Marie Skłodowska-Curie ITN, www.cleopatra-project.eu) in the areas of natural language processing for under-resourced languages and cross-lingual sentiment detection. ESRs will be appointed starting in July 2019. Further information is available here: http://dokumenti.ffzg.unizg.hr/natjecaji/2019/05/15/raspis-natjecaja-doktor… Please, share this information with your students who might be interested in offered positions. -- Marko Tadić, professor University of Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Department of Linguistics Ivana Lučića 3 HR-10000 Zagreb Croatia t: +385 1 4092 066 f: +385 1 6156 879 w: hnk.ffzg.hr/mt/ <http://hnk.ffzg.hr/mt/> s: marko__tadic

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META-FORUM 2019: 8/9 Oct. 2019 – save the date!
by Georg Rehm 17 May '19

17 May '19

Dear colleagues, with this email we’d like to inform you about the date and location of this year’s META-NET conference and the opportunities how to participate actively: META-FORUM 2019: Introducing the European Language Grid 8/9 October, 2019 – Brussels, Belgium (BluePoint Conference Centre) Please save the date! META-FORUM 2019 is organised by the new EU project European Language Grid (ELG). Details about the project are available on https://www.european-language-grid.eu <https://www.european-language-grid.eu/>. Submit programme suggestions While the website of META-FORUM 2019 is still under development, we’d already now like to invite you to participate in the event and also to propose relevant content, presentations, sessions etc. If there’s a certain topic or speaker that you’d like to see at META-FORUM 2019, please let us know. Invitation to participate in the project and initiative expo Furthermore, we’re organising an expo again at this year’s META-FORUM 2019. We want to showcase current projects, especially EU projects and European initiatives from the area of Language Technology, Artificial Intelligence and related fields. Larger regional or national projects are also welcome to showcase their activities. We can provide either a table with chairs or space for a roll-up or poster so that projects and initiatives can present themselves. Please note that the availability of expo booths is limited – if you’re interested, please get in touch as soon as possible. Participation is free of charge Participation (including expo booths) is, as usual, free of charge. The registration form will be available on the website very soon. In the meantime, if you want to actively participate, please don’t hesitate to get in touch via email to my colleague Katrin Marheinecke (cc:) and me. Look forward to seeing you in Brussels in October! Best regards, Georg -- Dr. Georg Rehm <http://georg-re.hm/> Principal Researcher and Research Fellow <http://www.dfki.de/> DFKI GmbH <http://www.dfki.de/>, Alt-Moabit 91c, 10559 Berlin, Germany Phone: +49 30 23895-1833 – Fax: -1810 – Mobile: +49 173 2735829 georg.rehm(a)dfki.de Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz GmbH Firmensitz: Trippstadter Strasse 122, D-67663 Kaiserslautern Geschäftsführung: Prof. Dr. Jana Köhler (Vorsitzende), Dr. Walter Olthoff Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Prof. Dr. h.c. Hans A. Aukes Amtsgericht Kaiserslautern, HRB 2313

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SIGUL Newsletter no. 7
by Claudia Soria 17 May '19

17 May '19

** *Dear SIGUL Members,* * we are pleased to share with you the seventh SIGUL Newsletter. The SIGUL Newsletter is a bi-weekly report on issues related to the topics of language resources and tools for less-resourced languages. Your feedback will be welcome. Claudia Soria SIGUL Co-chair SIGUL is the ELRA-ISCA Special Interest Group on Under-Resourced Languages * *Calls for papers* ICALP2019 (ex CITALA) submission deadline is approaching (May 31, 2019). The International Conference on Arabic Language Processing ICALP2019 (ex CITALA) is aimed to be one of the most important and leading conference on Arabic NLP (https://icalp2019.loria.fr). ICALP2019 is the 7th edition (information about the previous editions are mentioned at: ICALP2017), all branches of NLP related to Arabic or Semitic languages are welcomed. Arabic spoken or text language processing are the main kernel of ICALP2019. The conference will emphasize on all the approaches from theoretical models to industrial applications. ICALP2019 will be held at Loria (University of Lorraine), which is situated in Nancy on the east part of France near the border of Luxembourg and Germany. We look forward to welcome you to a scientifically inspiring event and we hope that ICALP2019 will be a highly positive scientific experience for all the participants. Two keynote speakers *Dr Mona Diab* (Department of Computer Science, George Washington University) and *Dr Albert Gatt *(Institute of Linguistics and Language Technology, University of Malta.) will share their expertise with the aim of exposing participants to a wide spectrum of research and applications, to foster cross-pollination of research ideas and interests in Arabic Language Processing and related applications. As in the previous year (ICALP – CITALA 2017), we aim, for accepted papers, to be published by Springer. All the submitted papers will be reviewed by three experts from the domain. Only the 30% best papers will be selected to be published by Springer. Participants are invited to submit original communications in all the areas of Arabic NLP. Few topics of the conference are given below. *Thanks to the Google's sponsoring two scholarships (including the Flight ticket, the accomodation and the registration fees) are proposed to Phd or Master students to attend the conference. A short CV and a motivation letter are requested to apply to this scholarship (please contact icalp2019(a)inria.fr) * List of Topics * Arabic dialect processing * Automatic speech recognition * Building ontologies * Code Switching phenomena * Comparative Linguistic Studies * Cross-Language Applications * Deep Learning for Arabic applications * Digital Humanities * End-to-End DNN * Generation and Analysis * Human Machine-Dialogue * Information retrieval on Social Networks * Linguistic Resources for Arabic NLP Applications * Machine Translation * Multi-Word Term Extraction * Named Entity Recognition * Opining Mining and Sentiment Analysis * Optical Character Recognition * Paraphrasing and Textual Entailment * Question/Answering Systems * Semitic languages * Spell-check and automatic corrections * Study of Linguistic Phenomena * Text Categorization and Clustering * Text Summarization * Word Sense Disambiguation Committees Program Committee * *Ahmed Ali *(Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI)) * *Mohamed Afify (*Microsoft, Cairo, Egypt) * *Hassina Aliane* (Centre de Recherche sur l’Information Scientifique et Technique , Algeria) * *Frédéric Béchet* (Aix Marseille Université - LIF, France) * *Almoataz Bellahal-Said* (Cairo University, Egypt) * *Laurent Besacier* (University of Grenoble, France) * *Karim Bouzoubaa* (EMI, UM5, Rabat, Morocco) * *Violetta Cavalli-Sforza* (Al Akhawayn University, Morocco) * *Khalid Choukri* (ELDA, European Language Resource Association, France) * *Kareem Darwish* (Qatar Computing Research Institute) * *Joseph Di Martino* (Loria - University of Lorraine, France) * *Mona Diab* (George Washington university, USA) * *Abdelhamid El Jihad* (IERA, UMS, Rabat, Morocco) * *Mahmoud El-Haj* (School of Computing and Communications Lancaster University, UK) * *Yannick Estève* (LIUM University of Maine, France) * *Albert Gatt* ( Institute of Linguistics and Language Technology, University of Malta) * *Nada Ghneim (*Higher Institute for Applied Science and Technology, Damascu) * *Ahmed Guessoum* (University of Science and Technology Houari Boumediene, Algeria) * *Hatem Haddad* (Department of Computer & Decision Engineering, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) * *Kais Haddar* (Faculté des sciences de Sfax, Tunisia) * *Abdelfetah Hamdani* (IERA, UMS, rabat, Morocco) * *Yannis Haralambous* (Institut Mines-Télécom & UMR CNRS 6285 Lab-STICC, Brest, France) * *Salima Harrat* (Ecole Normale Supérieure Bouzaréah, Algiers, Algeria) * *Mark Hasegawa-Johnson* (University of Illinois, USA) * *Mustafa Jarrar* (Birzeit University- Sina Institute, Palestine) * *Denis Jouvet* (Loria University of Lorraine, France) * *Abdelmonaime Lachkar* (ENSA, USMBA, Fez, Morocco) * *David Langlois* (Loria University of Lorraine, France) * *Abdelhak Lakhouaja* (UMP, Oujda, Morocco) * *Azzedine Lazrek* (UCA, Marrakech, Morocco) * *Yves Lepage* (University of Waseda, Japan) * *Azzedine Mazroui* (UMP, Oujda, Morocco) * *Karima Meftouh* (University of Annaba, Algeria) * *Farid Meziane* (University of Salford, Manchester, UK) * *Vito Pirrelli* (Institute for Computational Linguistics CNR, Pisa Italy) * *Violaine Prince* (LIRMM, Montepelier, France) * *Allan Ramsay* (School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK) * *Horacio Rodríguez* (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona - Spain) * *Paolo Rosso* (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain) * *Motaz Saad* (University Islamic of Gaza, Palestine) * *Fatiha Sadat* (University du Québec à Montréal, Canada) * *Khaled Shaalan* (The British University, United Arab Emirates) * *Olivier Siohan* (Google, USA) * *Kamel Smaili* (Loria University of Lorraine, France) * *Adnan Yahya* (Birzeit University, Palestine) * *Abdella Yousfi* (Mohammed V university, Morocco) * *Wajdi Zaghouani* (Carnegie Mellon University Qatar) * *Imed Zitouni* (Microsoft Research, USA) Organizing committee * *Karima Abidi* (Student management) * *Olivia Brenner* (Communication) * *Joseph Di Martino* (Special Event) * *David Langlois* ( Publication and Logistic management) * *Mohamed-Amine Menacer* (Website designer) Invited Speakers * *Dr Mona Diab* ( Department of Computer Science <http://www.cs.gwu.edu/>, George Washington University (GW) <http://www.gwu.edu/> ) * *Dr Albert Gatt* ( Institute of Linguistics and Language Technology <http://www.um.edu.mt/linguistics/>, University of Malta <http://www.um.edu.mt/> ) Publication ICALP2019 (CITALA) proceedings aim to be published by Springer *Important**Dates* * Submission portal opens *April 30, 2019* * Final paper submission deadline *May 31, 2019* * Acceptance/rejection notification *July 15, 2019* * Camera ready*July 31, 2019 * * Registration open*August 25, 2019* * Conference*16-17 October, 2019* Venue The conference will be held in Nancy (East of France) near the borders of Germany, Luxembourg and Belgium. It will be held at Loria ( Laboratoire lorrain de recherche en informatique et ses applications). Contact smaili(a)loria.fr -------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------- The 2nd Workshop on Technologies for MT of Low Resource Languages (LoResMT 2019) The Helix, DCU, Dublin, August 20, 2019 https://sites.google.com/view/loresmt/ @ MT Summit XVII ---------------------------------------------------- BRIEF 1. Call for Papers: https://easychair.org/cfp/LoResMT2019 Submission due on "May 24, 2019" (Abstract on "May 17"): https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=loresmt2019 2. Shared Tasks on MT for Bhojpuri, Magahi, Sindhi, and Latvian (<> English) *Registration open. Training, Development sets available upon registration!* Participants please register by sending email to loresmt(a)googlegroups.com <mailto:loresmt@googlegroups.com> with Team name, members (emails and affiliations) information. Timeline: May 03, 2019: Release of training data June 04, 2019: Release of test data June 11, 2019: Submission of the systems June 16, 2019: Notification of results June 25, 2019: Submission of shared task papers 3. Prof Xiaobing Zhao et al. will give an invited talk on "Building Cross-Lingual Knowledge Base for Low Resource Languages in China" 4. Please find below the proceeding and slides of LoResMT 2018. Works on several low resource languages, e.g. Filipino, Finnish, Irish, Latvian, Mongolian, Quechua, Tibetan, and Uyghur, are presented. https://amtaweb.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/AMTA_2018_Workshop_Proceedin… https://sites.google.com/view/loresmt-2018/ SCOPES Machine translation (MT) technologies have been improved significantly in the last two decades, with the developments on phrased-based statistical MT (SMT) and recently the neural MT (NMT). However, most of these methods rely on the availability of large parallel data (millions to tens of millions sentence pairs) in the training, which are resources that do not exist in many language pairs. In addition, MT methods still rely on a few natural language processing (NLP) tools to help pre-process human generated texts in the forms that are required as input for these methods, and/or post-process the output in proper textual forms in target languages. In many MT systems, the performance of these tools has great impacts on the quality of the resulting translation. These NLP tools include, but not limited to, several kinds of word tokenizers/de-tokenizers, word segmenters, morphology analyzers, etc. The workshop solicits papers on MT systems/methods for low resource languages in general. We also solicit papers dedicated to these supplementary NLP tools that are used in any language and especially in low resource languages. We would like to have an overview of research on MT for low resource languages and these NLP tools from our community. TOPICS We solicit original research papers, review papers, and position papers on MT research for low resource languages in the workshop. Multilingual and/or cross-lingual NLP tools for low resource languages are especially welcome. Topics of the workshop include but are not limited to: - Research and review papers of pre-processing and/or post-processing NLP tools for MT - Position papers on the development of pre-processing and/or post-processing tools for MT - Word tokenizers/de-tokenizers for specific languages - Word/morpheme segmenters for specific languages - Alignment/Re-ordering tools for specific language pairs - Use of morphology analyzers and/or morpheme segmenters in MT - Multilingual/cross-lingual NLP tools for MT - Re-usability of existing NLP tools for low resource languages - Corpora creation and curation technologies for low resource languages - Review of available parallel corpora for low resource languages - Research and review papers of MT methods for low resource languages - MT systems/methods (e.g. rule-based, SMT, NMT) for low resource languages - Pivot MT for low resource languages - Zero-shot MT for low resource languages - Fast building of MT systems for low resource languages - Re-usability of existing MT systems for low resource languages - Machine translation for language preservation SUBMISSION INFORMATION Workshop papers should adhere to MT Summit 2019 style guide (LaTeX, OpenOffice, Word). https://www.mtsummit2019.com/submissions Submission deadline: "May 24, 2019" (Abstract on "May 17"). https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=loresmt2019 There are two types of submissions in the workshop. For research, review and position papers, the length of each paper should be at least four (4) and not exceed eight (8) pages, plus unlimited pages for references. More pages would be allowed as long as it could be justified. The review will be double-blinded. For non-archival system demonstration abstracts, the limit is four (4) pages. The review will be single-blind. We would like to encourage authors to cite papers written in ANY language that are related to the topics, as long as both original bibliographic items and their corresponding English translations are provided. IMPORTANT DATES March 19, 2019: Call for papers April 19, 2019: 2nd Call for papers May 24, 2019: Submission deadline of workshop papers June 21, 2019: Notification of acceptance July 12, 2019: Camera-ready papers due July 19, 2019: Workshop proceeding on-line August 21, 2019: LoResMT workshop ORGANIZERS (listed alphabetically) Alina Karakanta FBK-Fondazione Bruno Kessler Atul Kr. Ojha Panlingua Language Processing LLP/Jawaharlal Nehru University Chao-Hong Liu ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University Jonathan Washington Swarthmore College Nathaniel Oco National University (Philippines) Surafel Melaku Lakew FBK-Fondazione Bruno Kessler Valentin Malykh Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology Varvara Logacheva Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology Xiaobing Zhao Minzu University of China CONTACT chaohong.liu(a)adaptcentre.ie <mailto:chaohong.liu@adaptcentre.ie> LoResMT @ MT Summit 2019 https://sites.google.com/view/loresmt/ LoResMT @ AMTA 2018 https://sites.google.com/view/loresmt-2018/ -- Claudia Soria Researcher Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "A. Zampolli" Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Via Moruzzi 1 56124 Pisa Italy Tel. +39 050 3153166 Skype clausor

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SIGUL Newsletter #6
by Claudia Soria 03 May '19

03 May '19

Dear SIGUL Members, the sixth SIGUL Newsletter is out. The SIGUL Newsletter intends to be a bi-weekly report on issues related to the topics of language resources and tools for less-resourced languages. Your feedback will be welcome. Claudia Soria SIGUL Co-chair SIGUL is the ELRA-ISCA Special Interest Group on Less-Resourced Languages *Deadline extension* The third WiNLP (“Widening NLP”) Workshop, in conjunction with ACL 2019 Florence, Italy, 28 July 2019 http://www.winlp.org/winlp-2019-workshop/ Extended submission deadline: 5 May 2019 *Job announcement* The Expression team of the IRISA lab (France) is opening a 18-month postdoctoral position on speech synthesis and natural language processing for the Breton language, starting as soon as possible. Detailed missions are: * Development of NLP and TTS modules for Breton: * Phonetization, grapheme-to-phoneme conversion * Text normalization * POS tagging and chunking * Adaptation of the team’s TTS engine. This includes the use of machine learning techniques. Profile / skills : * PhD in natural language processing, speech processing or machine learning * Good academic and publication records * Good communication skills. The detailed description in and here : http://www.irisa.fr/fr/page/text-speech-and-natural-language-processing-bre… *Call for papers* The 2nd Workshop on Technologies for MT of Low Resource Languages (LoResMT 2019) The Helix, DCU, Dublin, August 20, 2019 https://sites.google.com/view/loresmt/ @ MT Summit XVII Call for Papers: https://easychair.org/cfp/LoResMT2019 Submission due on "May 24, 2019" (Abstract on "May 17"): https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=loresmt2019 -------- 22nd Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa) University of Turku, Turku, Finland, September 30 - October 2, 2019 http://www.nodalida2019.org <http://www.nodalida2019.org/> Submission deadline: May 31, 2019 -------- 1st International Workshop on Semantic Web for Historical and Legacy Linguistic and Lexicographic Data Auckland, New Zealand, October 26-27, 2019 https://www.computing.dcu.ie/~rhaque/workshop/index.html Submission deadline: Friday, June 28 – 23:59 EST (New York City Time) [ Current EST ] *************************** *Call for participation* ******************************** *Call for proposals* Facebook is pleased to announce the call for research proposals in natural language processing and machine translation. Grants will be awarded in three areas: - Computationally Efficient Natural Language Processing https://research.fb.com/programs/research-awards/proposals/computational... [1] - Neural Machine Translation for Low Resource Languages https://research.fb.com/programs/research-awards/proposals/neural-machin... [2] - Robust Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing https://research.fb.com/programs/research-awards/proposals/robust-deep-l... [3] Awards will be made in amounts up to $80,000 per proposal, for projects up to one year in duration, beginning in August 2019. Applications close May 31, 2019, 11:59 PST. Please visit the corresponding links above for further details on each area. Questions can be emailed to academicrelations(a)fb.com [4]. Read more: https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/facebook-call-research-proposals-natu… [1]https://research.fb.com/programs/research-awards/proposals/computationall… [2]https://research.fb.com/programs/research-awards/proposals/neural-machine… [3]https://research.fb.com/programs/research-awards/proposals/robust-deep-le… [4] mailto:academicrelations@fb.com ************************* *Miscellaneous* The article "Rediscovering 15 Years of Discoveries in Language Resources and Evaluation: The LREC Anthology Analysis”, published first at LREC 2014 on the occasion of the LREC 15th anniversary, has been extended to the production and analysis of the NLP4NLP corpus containing close to 65,000 articles published in major conferences and journals in speech and language processing over 50 years (1965-2015) on various aspects (publication, collaboration, citation, innovation, plagiarism,...). The results of those analyses have recently been assembled in a series of two papers published in a special issue on "Mining Scientific Papers: NLP-enhanced Bibliometrics" of the "Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics" journal : https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frma.2018.00036/full https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frma.2018.00037/full *************************** In the framework of the World Summit on Information Society 2019, a panel session "ICT4ALL: Indigenous languages Matter for Peace, Innovation, and Development" organized by UNESCO in the framework of the International Year of Indigenous Languages (IYIL 2019) took place on April 10. Moderator: Irmgarda Kasinskaite-Buddeberg (UNESCO), Panelists: Eirik Larsen (Sami Parliament, Norway), Joseph Mariani (LIMSI-CNRS, France), Emily Taylor (Oxford Information Labs, UK), Rebecka Forsgren (WIPO, Geneva). The recording is available at : https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/forum/2019/Agenda/RemoteParticipation/259 -- Claudia Soria Researcher Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "A. Zampolli" Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Via Moruzzi 1 56124 Pisa Italy Tel. +39 050 3153166 Skype clausor

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information about ISCA Board Election 2019
by Laurent Besacier 06 Apr '19

06 Apr '19

Dear all, For those of you who are current members of the ISCA, I would like to mention the ISCA Board Election 2019 being held at this time. I myself am a candidate in order to raise the issue of under resourced languages as an important topic in the association's activities. Thank you in advance for your support. Sincerely Laurent Besacier ------------------------ Laurent Besacier Professeur à l'Univ. Grenoble Alpes (UGA) Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble (LIG) Membre Junior de l'Institut Universitaire de France (IUF 2012-2017) laurent.besacier(a)imag.fr Responsable équipe GETALP du LIG Directeur de l'école doctorale (ED) MSTII ------------------------- !! Nouvelles coordonnées !!: LIG Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble Bâtiment IMAG 700 avenue Centrale Domaine Universitaire - 38401 St Martin d'Hères Pour tout contact concernant ED MSTII: passer par ed-mstii(a)univ-grenoble-alpes.fr <mailto:ed-mstii@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr> Nouveau tel: 0457421454 --------------------------

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Call for participation: Workshop on "Digital Humanities to Preserve Knowledge and Cultural Heritage: Collaborate, Compute, Share and Visualize"
by Claudia Soria 03 Apr '19

03 Apr '19

FYI Call for participation: Workshop on "Digital Humanities to Preserve Knowledge and Cultural Heritage: Collaborate, Compute, Share and Visualize" 15 April 2019 Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA Workshop URL: https://francestanford.stanford.edu/events/upcoming-conferences Program URL: https://francestanford.stanford.edu/sites/francestanford/files/media/file/D… -- Claudia Soria Researcher Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "A. Zampolli" Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Via Moruzzi 1 56124 Pisa Italy Tel. +39 050 3153166 Skype clausor

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SIGUL Newsletter #5
by Claudia Soria 29 Mar '19

29 Mar '19

Dear SIGUL Members, the fifth SIGUL Newsletter is out. The SIGUL Newsletter intends to be a bi-weekly report on issues related to the topics of language resources and tools for less-resourced languages. Your feedback will be welcome. Claudia Soria SIGUL Co-chair SIGUL is the ELRA-ISCA Special Interest Group on Less-Resourced Languages ****************** *Call for papers* - 2nd Workshop on Technologies for MT of Low Resource Languages (LoResMT 2019) The Helix, DCU, Dublin, August 20, 2019 https://sites.google.com/view/loresmt/ @ MT Summit 2019 (https://www.mtsummit2019.com/) - 6th International Sanskrit Computational Linguistics Symposium (6th ISCLS) Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, West Bengal, India -- 721302 October 23-25, 2019 Website: https://iscls.github.io/ - The First Workshop on NLP Solutions for Under Resourced Languages (NSURL 2019), 11 and 12 September 2019 co-located with ICNLSP 2019 endorsed by SIGUL http://nsurl.org <http://nsurl.org/> Important dates: Submission deadline: 30 June 2019 Notification due: 22 July 2019 Camera-ready paper due: 12 August 2019 *Call for proposals* - NAACL Emerging Regions Fund Deadline: 30 April 2019 (midnight PST) for events to take place between June 2019 and June 2020 ================================================== The goal of the NAACL Emerging Regions fund is to assist the creation of a larger and more cohesive Computational Linguistics community in Latin America, and to enhance more regional interactions among students and researchers anywhere in the Americas. NAACL recognizes that each region has specific needs and concerns, and so we are open to a wide range of possible proposals, subject to the constraint that these awards are intended to support individuals, institutions, or events located in the Americas, and to support travel within the Americas. NAACL will not support travel to or from locations outside of the Americas, and in general travel should be limited to a specific region in the Americas. Examples of proposals that might help to build community could include financial support for regional conferences or workshops, or providing financial or material support for Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics classes at colleges and universities in Latin America. In addition, NAACL has a long tradition of supporting student participation in conferences, summer schools, and NLP/CL competitions, and would give high priority to such efforts in Latin America or at regional events in the Americas. Note that this fund is not intended to support student travel to the NAACL HLT conference, as there is a separate fund available for the purpose. Proposals will be evaluated by a committee consisting of members of the NAACL Executive Board. If you have any questions about this CFP please send them to naaclerf(a)googlegroups.com . Please submit proposals using the online form: https://goo.gl/forms/r7yimKklNtuafZVJ3 *Miscellaneous* DataScientia DataScientia - a soon-to-be-established not-for-profit organization whose ultimate aim is the creation of a grass-roots community centered around the development and dissemination of a unitary knowledge-driven understanding of the people’s diversity, as it is represented by the data in the Internet. DataScientia is being nurtured by the University of Trento, Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, in collaboration with a few founding partners. You can read the DataScientia Manifesto here: http://datascientia.disi.unitn.it/manifesto/ -- Claudia Soria Researcher Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "A. Zampolli" Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Via Moruzzi 1 56124 Pisa Italy Tel. +39 050 3153166 Skype clausor

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Extended deadline: 6th Workshop on less-resourced languages (LRL 2019); Poznan, Poland, 19 May 2019
by Claudia Soria 18 Mar '19

18 Mar '19

The 6th LTC Workshop on Less-Resourced Languages (LRL 2019), May 19, Poznan, Poland In conjunction with LTC’19, the 9th Language and Technology Conference *Extended submission deadline: 26 March 2019* http://www.ilc.cnr.it/lrl2019/LRL2019-Workshop_3rd-Call-for-Papers.pdf http://www.ilc.cnr.it/lrl2019/ CONTACT Claudia Soria claudia.soria(a)ilc.cnr.it -- Claudia Soria Researcher Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "A. Zampolli" Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Via Moruzzi 1 56124 Pisa Italy Tel. +39 050 3153166 Skype clausor

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Call for papers - ICALP2019: Nancy, 16-17 October 2019 - an event endorsed by SIGUL
by Claudia Soria 18 Mar '19

18 Mar '19

***The 7th International Conference on Arabic Language Processing ICALP2019 (ex CITALA)*. The International Conference on Arabic Language Processing ICALP2019 (ex CITALA) is aimed to be one of the most important and leading conference on Arabic NLP (https://icalp2019.loria.fr). ICALP2019 is the 7th edition (information about the previous editions are mentioned at: ICALP2017), all branches of NLP related to Arabic or Semitic languages are welcomed. Arabic spoken or text language processing are the main kernel of ICALP2019. The conference will emphasize on all the approaches from theoretical models to industrial applications. ICALP2019 will be held at Loria (University of Lorraine), which is situated in Nancy on the east part of France near the border of Luxembourg and Germany. We look forward to welcome you to a scientifically inspiring event and we hope that ICALP2019 will be a highly positive scientific experience for all the participants. Two keynote speakers *Dr Mona Diab* (Department of Computer Science, George Washington University) and *Dr Albert Gatt *(Institute of Linguistics and Language Technology, University of Malta.) will share their expertise with the aim of exposing participants to a wide spectrum of research and applications, to foster cross-pollination of research ideas and interests in Arabic Language Processing and related applications. As in the previous year (ICALP – CITALA 2017), we aim, for accepted papers, to be published by Springer. All the submitted papers will be reviewed by three experts from the domain. Only the 30% best papers will be selected to be published by Springer. Participants are invited to submit original communications in all the areas of Arabic NLP. Few topics of the conference are given below. List of Topics * Arabic dialect processing * Automatic speech recognition * Building ontologies * Code Switching phenomena * Comparative Linguistic Studies * Cross-Language Applications * Deep Learning for Arabic applications * Digital Humanities * End-to-End DNN * Generation and Analysis * Human Machine-Dialogue * Information retrieval on Social Networks * Linguistic Resources for Arabic NLP Applications * Machine Translation * Multi-Word Term Extraction * Named Entity Recognition * Opining Mining and Sentiment Analysis * Optical Character Recognition * Paraphrasing and Textual Entailment * Question/Answering Systems * Semitic languages * Spell-check and automatic corrections * Study of Linguistic Phenomena * Text Categorization and Clustering * Text Summarization * Word Sense Disambiguation Committees Program Committee * *Ahmed Ali *(Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI)) * *Mohamed Afify (*Microsoft, Cairo, Egypt) * *Hassina Aliane* (Centre de Recherche sur l’Information Scientifique et Technique , Algeria) * *Frédéric Béchet* (Aix Marseille Université – LIF, France) * *Almoataz Bellahal-Said* (Cairo University, Egypt) * *Laurent Besacier* (University of Grenoble, France) * *Karim Bouzoubaa* (EMI, UM5, Rabat, Morocco) * *Violetta Cavalli-Sforza* (Al Akhawayn University, Morocco) * *Khalid Choukri* (ELDA, European Language Resource Association, France) * *Kareem Darwish* (Qatar Computing Research Institute) * *Joseph Di Martino* (Loria – University of Lorraine, France) * *Mona Diab* (George Washington university, USA) * *Mahmoud El-Haj* (School of Computing and Communications Lancaster University, UK) * *Yannick Estève* (LIUM University of Maine, France) * *Nada Ghneim*, Higher Institute for Applied Science and Technology, Damascu * *Ahmed Guessoum* (University of Science and Technology Houari Boumediene, Algeria) * *Hatem Haddad* (Department of Computer & Decision Engineering, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) * *Kais Haddar* (Faculté des sciences de Sfax, Tunisia) * *Yannis Haralambous* (Institut Mines-Télécom & UMR CNRS 6285 Lab-STICC, Brest, France) * *Salima Harrat* (Ecole Normale Supérieure Bouzaréah, Algiers, Algeria) * *Mustafa Jarrar* (Birzeit University- Sina Institute, Palestine) * *Denis Jouvet* (Loria University of Lorraine, France) * *David Langlois* (Loria University of Lorraine, France) * *Yves Lepage* (University of Waseda, Japan) * *Karima Meftouh* (University of Annaba, Algeria) * *Farid Meziane* (University of Salford, Manchester, UK) * *Vito Pirreli* (Institute for Computational Linguistics CNR, Pisa Italy) * *Violaine Prince* (LIRMM, Montepelier, France) * *Allan Ramsay* (School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK) * *Horacio Rodríguez* (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona – Spain) * *Paolo Rosso* (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain) * *Motaz Saad* (University Islamic of Gaza, Palestine) * *Fatiha Sadat* (University du Québec à Montréal, Canada) * *Nasredine Semmar* (CEA Saclay Nano-INNOV, France) * *Khaled Shaalan* (The British University, United Arab Emirates) * *Olivier Siohan* (Google, USA) * *Kamel Smaili* (Loria University of Lorraine, France) * *Adnan Yahya* (Birzeit University, Palestine) * *Abdella Yousfi* (Mohammed V university, Morocco) * *Wajdi Zaghouani* (Carnegie Mellon University Qatar) * *Imed Zitouni* (Microsoft Research, USA) Organizing committee * *Karima Abidi* (Student management) * *Olivia Brenner* (Communication) * *Joseph Di Martino* (Special Event) * *David Langlois* ( Publication and Logistic management) * *Mohamed-Amine Menacer* (Website designer) Invited Speakers * *Dr Mona Diab* ( Department of Computer Science <http://www.cs.gwu.edu/>, George Washington University (GW) <http://www.gwu.edu/> ) * *Dr Albert Gatt* ( Institute of Linguistics and Language Technology <http://www.um.edu.mt/linguistics/>, University of Malta <http://www.um.edu.mt/> ) Publication ICALP2019 (CITALA) proceedings aim to be published by Springer *Important**Dates* * Submission portal opens *April 30, 2019* * Final paper submission deadline *May 31, 2019* * Acceptance/rejection notification *July 15, 2019* * Camera ready*July 31, 2019 * * Registration open*August 25, 2019* * Conference*16-17 October, 2019* Venue The conference will be held in Nancy (East of France) near the borders of Germany, Luxembourg and Belgium. It will be held at Loria ( Laboratoire lorrain de recherche en informatique et ses applications). Contact smaili(a)loria.fr -- Claudia Soria Researcher Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "A. Zampolli" Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Via Moruzzi 1 56124 Pisa Italy Tel. +39 050 3153166 Skype clausor

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SIGUL Newsletter #4
by Claudia Soria 15 Mar '19

15 Mar '19

Dear SIGUL Members, the fourth SIGUL Newsletter is out. The SIGUL Newsletter intends to be a bi-weekly report on issues related to the topics of language resources and tools for less-resourced languages. Your feedback will be welcome. Claudia Soria SIGUL Co-chair SIGUL is the ELRA-ISCA Special Interest Group on Less-Resourced Languages ****************** *Calls for papers* The First Workshop on NLP Solutions for Under Resourced Languages (NSURL 2019), 11 and 12 September 2019 co-located with ICNLSP 2019 endorsed by SIGUL http://nsurl.org <http://nsurl.org/> Important dates: Submission deadline: 30 June 2019 Notification due: 22 July 2019 Camera-ready paper due: 12 August 2019 - The 6th LTC Workshop on Less-Resourced Languages (LRL 2019), May 19, Poznan, Poland In conjunction with LTC’19, the 9th Language and Technology Conference Endorsed by SIGUL, the ELRA-ISCA SIG on less-resourced languages (http://www.elra.info/en/sig/sigul/). The LRL Call for Papers is attached. *Extended paper submission deadline: 26 March 2019* Invited speaker: Delyth Prys, Head of the Language Technologies Unit, Bangor University, Wales, UK -- Claudia Soria Researcher Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "A. Zampolli" Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Via Moruzzi 1 56124 Pisa Italy Tel. +39 050 3153166 Skype clausor

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2nd Call for Papers: 6th Workshop on less-resourced languages (LRL 2019); Poznan, Poland, 19 May 2019
by Claudia Soria 04 Mar '19

04 Mar '19

LRL 2019, Poznan, Poland, co-located with LTC http://www.ilc.cnr.it/lrl2019/ The 6th LTC Workshop on Less-Resourced Languages (LRL 2019), May 19, Poznan, Poland In conjunction with LTC’19, the 9th Language and Technology Conference CONFERENCE CHAIRS Dorothee Beermann (Norway), Laurent Besacier (France) and Claudia Soria (Italy) *Paper submission deadline: 20 March 2019* WORKSHOP TOPICS We invite original papers that address the particular needs and requirements of less-resourced languages. We in particular welcome papers on the computational processing of less resourced languages addressing the following topics. We also welcome papers on language revitalisation and literary development. Induction of multilingual resources for LRL Morphological Paradigm Learning for LRL Corpus building for LRL Dialect processing for LRL Spoken language processing for LRL Code Switching in LRL Deep Learning for LRL Computer-aided work with LRL Information retrieval on Social Networks for LRL Linguistic Resources for LRL Spell-check and automatic corrections for LRL Descriptive Studies on LRL Community approaches to revitalisation and literary development IMPORTANT DATES/DEADLINES * Deadline for submission of papers for review: 20 March 2019 * Acceptance/Refusal notification: 2 April 2019 * Deadline for submission of final versions of accepted papers: 15 April 2019 * Workshop: 19 May 2019 PAPER SUBMISSION The conference accepts papers in English only. Papers (5 formatted pages in the conference format) are due by March 20, 2019 (midnight, any time zone) and should not disclose the authorship in any manner. In order to facilitate submission we have decided to reduce the formatting requirements as much as possible at this stage. Please, have a look at www.ltc.amu.edu.pl (Paper Submission section). Papers must be submitted through EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?key=83901713.4PPnVqMiHylJDYBz Important Notice: Make sure to include the keyword ‘’LRLWorkshop’’among the paper’s keywords. A copy of the submitted paper must also be sent to claudia.soria(a)ilc.cnr.it, indicating ‘’RL19 Workshop submission’’as the subject of the mail. PUBLICATION POLICY Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings (hard copy, with ISBN number) and on CD-ROM. Publication requires full electronic registration and payment of the conference fee (full registration) by at least one of the co-authors in due time (dates will be presented at the conference site). One registration fee entitles publication of one paper. Proceedings will be published by Wydawnictwo Nauka i Innowacje sp. z o.o. indexed by Polish Ministry of Higher Education. FEES and REGISTRATION LRL is an integral part of the LTC. Fees and payment procedures are the same for general LTC and workshop participants, and they cover participation in the general LTC program. Notice: the workshop is free for participants registered to the general LTC. Single registration covers only one paper presentation (general LTC or workshops) (cf. the Publication Policy section in case of more than one submitted paper). REGISTRATION Only electronic registration will be possible. Details will be published at www.ltc.amu.edu.pl. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Gilles Adda (LIMSI-CNRS, France) Dorothee Beermann (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway) Delphine Bernhard (LILPA, Strasbourg University, France) Laurent Besacier (Université Joseph Fourier, France) Nicoletta Calzolari (CNR-ILC, Italy) Jeremy Evas (Cardiff University, Wales, UK) Mikel Forcada (Universitat d’Alacant, Spain) Dafydd Gibbon (Universität Bielefeld, Germany) Steven Krauwer (CLARIN, the Netherlands) Anne-Laure Ligozat (ENSIIE / LIMSI-CNRS, France) Girish Nath Jha (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India) Michael Maxwell (University of Maryland, CASL, USA) Joseph Mariani (LIMSI-CNRS, France) Maite Melero (UPF, Catalonia, Spain) Alice Millour (Université Paris-Sorbonne, France) Stelios Piperidis (ILSP, Greece) Laurette Pretorius (University of South Africa, South Africa) Gábor Prószéky (Magyar Tudományos Akadémia, Hungary) Georg Rehm (DFKI, Germany) Sakriani Sakti (NAIST, Japan) Kepa Sarasola Gabiola (Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, Spain) Kevin Scannell (St. Louis University, USA) Virach Sornlertlamvanich (Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology (SIIT), Thammasat University, Thailand) Marko Tadic (University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Croatia) Nick Thieberger (University of Melbourne / ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language, Australia) Menzo Windhouwer (Meertens Institute, KNAW, the Netherlands) OTHER Please note that remaining important information on the workshop and the general conference is or will be provided at the workshop web site http://www.ilc.cnr.it/lrl2019/submissions.htm and at the conference site www.ltc.amu.edu.pl. CONTACT Claudia Soria claudia.soria(a)ilc.cnr.it -- Claudia Soria Researcher Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "A. Zampolli" Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Via Moruzzi 1 56124 Pisa Italy Tel. +39 050 3153166 Skype clausor

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