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

06 Apr '19

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

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

03 Apr '19

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

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SIGUL Newsletter #5
by Claudia Soria 29 Mar '19

29 Mar '19

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

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

18 Mar '19

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

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

18 Mar '19

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

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SIGUL Newsletter #4
by Claudia Soria 15 Mar '19

15 Mar '19

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

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

04 Mar '19

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

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

01 Mar '19

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

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SIGUL Newsletter #3
by Claudia Soria 01 Mar '19

01 Mar '19

Dear SIGUL Members, the third SIGUL Newsletter is out. The SIGUL Newsletter intends to be a bi-weekly report on issues related to the topics of language resources and tools for less-resourced languages. Your feedback will be welcome. Claudia Soria SIGUL Co-chair SIGUL is the ELRA-ISCA Special Interest Group on Less-Resourced Languages ****************** *Access to Knowledge* A 3-day international conference on "Sanskrit and Other Indian Languages Technology" (SOIL-Tech) (http://sanskrit.jnu.ac.in/conf/soiltech1/index-en.jsp) took place at JNU (Delhi, India) on 15-17 Feb 2019. The conference was the opportunity to release White Papers for each Indian scheduled languages. On this occasion, Georg Rehm (DFKI) gave an Invited Talk on the META-NET White Papers series, which can be obtained at: https://www.slideshare.net/georgrehm/the-preparation-impact-and-future-of-t… *Calls for Papers* - The 6th LTC Workshop on Less-Resourced Languages (LRL 2019), May 19, Poznan, Poland In conjunction with LTC’19, the 9th Language and Technology Conference Endorsed by SIGUL, the ELRA-ISCA SIG on less-resourced languages (http://www.elra.info/en/sig/sigul/). The LRL Call for Papers is attached. *Paper submission deadline: 20 March 2019* Invited speaker: Delyth Prys, Head of the Language Technologies Unit, Bangor University, Wales, UK - The 4th Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP 2019), August 1, 2019 in Florence, Italy. The workshop is collocated with ACL 2019. Associated with the workshop will be a shared task on Arabic dialect identification: MADAR Shared Task: Arabic Fine-Grained Dialect Identification Workshop Paper Due Date: April 26, 2019 - Call for Abstracts, Papers & Participants - Also within LTC 2019, a Workshop on “Turkic and other Agglutinative Languages as a Challenge for Language Industry” (TALC 2019) - Workshop on Data for the wellbeing of most vulnerable https://sites.google.com/site/dataforvulnerable19/ June 11, 2019 in Munich, Germany * Submissions due: March 25 * *Call for participation* - The time schedule for the 17th International Conference on Minority Languages (ICML XVII) is now online. With over 150 participants already, flying in from all over the world, this edition will be (again) incredibly interesting! You can find the schedules and all other information on https://icml.eu/. The conference is taking place 22-24 May 2019 and you can combine it with LRL 2019 in Poznan the week before for a full immersion in minority and less-resourced languages! *Upcoming events* - The Endangered Languages Project is partnering with the Language Documentation Training Center (LDTC) to offer a FREE webinar series on language documentation, running from January 26 through March 16! Sign up using this form, and join the Facebook group to participate. - The 6th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC6) will take place at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa from February 28-March 3, 2019. This year’s theme is “Connecting Communities, Languages and Technology”. More than 500 attendees from around the world will come together to share their work documenting and revitalizing languages, especially through the use of technology. All materials and talks will be made available through the ICLDC website. *Miscellaneous* - What International Mother Language Day Means for Indian Languages While India's major languages have transitioned well to the digital realm, smaller local languages still have a long way to go. Read more at: https://thewire.in/tech/what-international-mother-language-day-means-for-in… - How Indigenous Millennials Are Using Tech to Save Their Dying Languages Decades of oppression and forced assimilation have led to the steep decline of Indigenous languages. Now tech-savvy young people are fighting to preserve their culture. Read more at: https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/d3zpjx/how-indigenous-millennials-ar… -- Claudia Soria Researcher Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "A. Zampolli" Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Via Moruzzi 1 56124 Pisa Italy Tel. +39 050 3153166 Skype clausor

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SIGUL Newsletter #2
by Claudia Soria 14 Feb '19

14 Feb '19

Dear SIGUL Members, the second issue of the SIGUL Newsletter is out. The SIGUL Newsletter intends to be a bi-weekly report on issues broadly related to the topics of language resources and tools for less-resourced languages. Your feedback will be welcome. Claudia Soria SIGUL Co-chair ****************** *Calls for Papers* - The 6th LTC Workshop on Less-Resourced Languages (LRL 2019), May 19, Poznan, Poland In conjunction with LTC’19, the 9th Language and Technology Conference Endorsed by SIGUL, the ELRA-ISCA SIG on less-resourced languages (http://www.elra.info/en/sig/sigul/). The LRL Call for Papers is attached. *Paper submission deadline: 20 March 2019* Invited speaker: Delyth Prys, Head of the Language Technologies Unit, Bangor University, Wales, UK - VarDial - Sixth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects VarDial 2019: https://sites.google.com/view/vardial2019 Co-located with NAACL 2019 in Minneapolis USA, at VarDial we anticipate discussion on computational methods and on language resources for closely related languages, language varieties and dialects. Together with the VarDial workshop, the third edition of the VarDial Evaluation Campaign with five shared tasks is being organized: https://sites.google.com/view/vardial2019/campaign - IYIL2019 Global Call for Research Papers, deadline extended to 15 March 2019: https://en.iyil2019.org/newsletter/deadline-extended-iyil2019-global-call-f… * * **Call for participation** - The time schedule for the 17th International Conference on Minority Languages (ICML XVII) is now online. With over 150 participants already, flying in from all over the world, this edition will be (again) incredibly interesting! You can find the schedules and all other information on https://icml.eu/. The conference is taking place 22-24 May 2019 and you can combine it with LRL 2019 in Poznan the week before for a full immersion in minority and less-resourced languages! **Software development** Are you interested in beta-testing LangSaver, a new iOS workflow for recording and organizing language materials? Mitch Nesbitt is looking for language workers and linguists to try it out and give feedback. Check out the GitHub page at https://github.com/mtchnsbtt/langsave ! **Funding opportunities** - Google grants Wikimedia 3.1 M$ for addressing minority languages. See also : https://www.socialbeat.in/blog/kpmg-google-study-on-regional-content/ **Useful resources** - Endangered Alphabets Atlas: https://www.endangeredalphabets.net **Miscellaneous** - Planet Word, the museum where language comes to life. The museum plans to open in Washington D.C., in late 2019. Visitors will engage in activities that make words and language exciting with delightful programming and playful, interactive exhibits. https://www.planetwordmuseum.org/welcome - Can you identify the world's languages from an audio clip? NameThatLanguage is a game that tests your skill at recognizing spoken languages. See how many points you can score while assisting language research. https://namethatlanguage.org - On January 28, Joseph Mariani, Honorary President of ELRA, gave an overview of Language Technologies available to support the digital use of #IndigenousLanguages and their preservation. He also introduced LT4All a conference which could tackle those issue in the framework of UNESCO International Year Of Indigenous Languages, https://en.iyil2019.org/official-global-launch-event-of-the-2019-internatio… - LREC2020: the twelfth edition of LREC will take place in Marseille (France) on May 11-16, 2020 (http://www.elra.info/en/lrec/). Updates on Twitter account @LREC2020 -- Claudia Soria Researcher Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "A. Zampolli" Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Via Moruzzi 1 56124 Pisa Italy Tel. +39 050 3153166 Skype clausor

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