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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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