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free online school on language acquisition - deadline very soon!
by Alex CRISTIA 26 Jun '23

26 Jun '23

Dear colleagues, Please help me advertise this fantastic initiative: The deadline for the registration for the* Truly global /L+/ summer/winter school on language acquisition *has been extended to *Wednesday, June 28*. *WEBSITE:* https://www.lplusschool.org/home <https://secure-web.cisco.com/1EsthogkssKcMZ4BGak2ZuDoG41JSNOTyzuYswf89uIUyJ…> *LINK FOR REGISTRATION:* https://www.lplusschool.org/registration <https://secure-web.cisco.com/16oSOwaK0sWoH-QSteq8cku0EXp01kZYErx8KKQRKYGxIE…> *WHEN: **14 -18 August 2023* (online) at three different time zones: 1. UTC+8 (Asia/Oceania time), 2. UTC (Africa/Europe time), 3. UTC-4 (The Americas time). *AIM:* The second truly global /L+/ summer/winter school on language acquisition aims to promote knowledge about language acquisition and establish a global network of collaboration between researchers and students. Students will have the opportunity to learn about current theories and controversies in first language acquisition, as well as about basic experimental and analytical methods to implement in their research studies. *MOTIVATION: *Although the ability to use language is universal in human cultures, there is a long-standing debate as to whether language develops in similar ways or whether it varies across populations and, if so, why. This debate would benefit from more studies including a variety of languages. However, less than 5% of published studies deal with acquisition in non-European languages. This gap is exacerbated by the fact that many talented students, teachers and researchers in underrepresented areas do not have access to specialist literature, research equipment, or international collaborative networks. The online /L+/ International summer/winter school on language acquisition aims at contributing to reducing this gap. *TUITION: *Participation in the /L+/ school is *free of charge.* *WHO CAN PARTICIPATE: *Students at all levels (BA – PhD) and early career researchers from all regions, but *particularly Sub-Saharan Africa, South and Southeast Asia, and South and Central America*, are encouraged to participate. There are no prerequisites in terms of specific knowledge or skills. Deaf and hard-of-hearing students are encouraged to apply, as we will try our best to provide International Sign Language interpreters in as many streams as possible. All the lectures are subtitled and closed captions can be provided during the tutorials and discussions. *TOPICS: *The lecture topics are organized into four different streams: 1. Phonological development 2. Lexical development 3. Morphosyntactic development 4. Effects of the environment on development Each stream will consist of five 45-minute lectures that will be taught by instructors with extensive expertise in theory and methods in these different subfields of language acquisition. Each lecture will also be followed by live discussion sessions with experts in the field. *STRUCTURE: *The activities will develop in an online format that will combine synchronous (live) and asynchronous (pre-recorded) events in order to encourage the participation of students and researchers in their time zone. When registering, participants will be asked to choose two streams. However, everyone is welcome to attend more than two streams, if desired. Participants will also be able to take part in live practical sessions and networking events. Additionally, several universities will provide venues for local hubs <https://secure-web.cisco.com/1kNHDoBmXxb1x00NsBhlgwz11u6rxbciRAlQRH1xi-meDM…>, where participants can go and attend the online events together. More information about the schedule and local hubs can be found on our website <https://secure-web.cisco.com/1UQreG48iVDVwd2505Sir3mQvdOi4-TPP2LWHVjRQgV4Ma…> . *QUESTIONS?* *FAQ: *https://www.lplusschool.org/contact/faq <https://secure-web.cisco.com/1mO6vWu9QaDq7tM6akNnDWcBay0I-OK3nttXA6g6pTnLH8…> *CONTACT: *contact(a)lplusschool.org We are looking forward to your registration! Best wishes, The Organization Team ------ Aireen Barrios Arnuco (De La Salle University, Philippines) Alejandra Raisman (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico) Alejandra Sadaniowski (Universidad Católica de las Misiones, Argentina) Alma Luz Rodriguez Lazaro (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico) Alvin Wei Ming Tan (Stanford University, U.S.A.) Amanda Cristina Freitas (University of Campinas, Brazil) Andrew Ssemata (Makerere University, Uganda) Belén Troncoso-Acosta (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile) Bhuvana Narasimhan (University of Colorado Boulder, U.S.A.) Bolanle Elizabeth Arokoyo (University of Ilorin, Nigeria) Brenda Muñoz (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico) Caroline Hendy (Australian National University, Australia) Caroline Rowland (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Netherlands) Chamarrita Farkas Klein (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile) Daniel Pereira Alves (Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil) Don Louie De Castro (University of the Philippines Manila) Elisabetta Latorre (University of Trento, Italy) Eva Huber (University of Zurich, Switzerland) Fei Ting Woon (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Hiromasa Kotera (University of Potsdam, Germany) Janina Vargas (Universidad del País Vasco, Spain) Jens Roeser (Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom) Lahari Chatterjee (University of Potsdam, Germany) Lawrence Mwangi Nduati (Aga Khan University, Kenya) Lerato Sefoloshe (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa) Leticia Schiavon Kolberg (Université Paris Cité, France) Line Kippe (University of Douala, Cameroon) Lloeden Lois Cabacungan (University of the Philippines Manila) Lorena Molina-Arcia (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), México ) Magdalena Krysztofiak (University of Warsaw, Poland) Marc Hullebus (University of Potsdam, Germany) Michelle White (University of Oslo, Norway; Stellenbosch University, South Africa) Nancy Estévez Pérez (Cuban Neurosciences Center) Naomi Havron (University of Haifa, Israel) Natalia Arias Trejo (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico) Natalia Gagarina (Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Germany) Natalie Boll-Avetisyan (University of Potsdam, Germany) Nurtimhar Shahaji (Western Mindanao State University) Paul Okyere Omane (University of Potsdam, Germany; Macquarie University, Australia) Paulina Aravena-Bravo (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile) Paulina Meza Rubio (Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, Mexico) Ramona Kunene-Nicolas (University of Witswatersrand, South Africa) Rebecca Dufie Forson (University of Ghana, Ghana) Rodolphe Prosper Mah (University of Douala, Cameroon) Rodrigo Dal Ben (Ambrose University, Canada) Ronel Laranjo (University of the Philippines Diliman) Rowena Garcia (University of Potsdam, Germany; Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Netherlands; University of the Philippines Manila) Silvia Benavides-Varela (University of Padova, Italy) Verónica García-Castro (Universidad de Costa Rica) Wendy Amoako (University of Alberta, Canada) --------------------------------------------------------------- Alex (Alejandrina) Cristia Researcher, CNRS Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique 29, rue d'Ulm, 75005, Paris, FRANCE My site: www.acristia.org --------------------------------------------------------------- If you donate, ask me about effective charities <https://effectivealtruism.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=52b028e7f799cca…>. / Si vous faites des dons, posez-moi des questions sur le don efficace <https://www.altruismeefficacefrance.org/guide-don-efficace-1/>.

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Re: Call for Papers: IEEE ACM/TASLP Special Issue on Speech & Language Technologies for Low-Resource Languages
by Sadat, Fatiha 30 May '23

30 May '23

Hello, is the call for submission to this special issue still available or cancelled ? "Call for Papers: IEEE ACM/TASLP Special Issue on Speech & Language Technologies for Low-Resource Languages" Thanks. ________________________________ From: Joseph Mariani via SIGUL <sigul(a)list.elra.info> Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2023 5:46 AM To: sigul(a)list.elra.info <sigul(a)list.elra.info> Subject: [SIGUL] Fwd: Call for Papers: IEEE ACM/TASLP Special Issue on Speech & Language Technologies for Low-Resource Languages [SPS_Logo_KO_RGB (1)] CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing (TASLP) TASLP Special Issue on Speech & Language Technologies for Low-Resource Languages Submit Your Manuscript <https://czqvL04.na1.hubspotlinks.com/Ctc/T8+113/czqvL04/VVqS0B3s16ytW55j9JS…> Speech and language processing is a multi-disciplinary research area that focuses on various aspects of natural language processing and computational linguistics. Speech and language technologies deal with the study of methods and tools to develop innovative paradigms for processing human languages (speech and writing) that can be recognized by machines. Thanks to the incredible advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques that effectively interpret speech and textual sources. In general, speech technologies include a series of artificial intelligence algorithms that enables the computer system to produce, analyze, modify, and respond to human speech and texts. It establishes a more natural interaction between humans and computers as well as the translation between all human languages with effective analysis of text and speech. These techniques have significant applications in computational linguistics, natural language processing, computer science, mathematics, speech processing, machine learning, and acoustics. Another important application of this technology is the machine translation of text and voice. There exists a huge gap between speech and language processing in low-resource languages as they have lesser computational resources. With the ability to access vast computational sources from various digital sources, we can resolve numerous language processing problems in real time with enhanced user experience and productivity measures. Speech and language processing technologies for low-resource languages are still in their infancy. Research in this stream will enhance the likelihood of these languages becoming an active part of our life, as their importance is paramount. Furthermore, the societal shift towards digital media along with spectacular advances in digital media along with processing power, computational storage, and software capabilities with a vision of transferring low-resource computing language resources into efficient computing models. This special issue aims to explore the language and speech processing technologies to novel computational models for processing speech, text, and language. The novel and innovative solutions focus on content production, knowledge management, and natural communication of low-resource languages. We welcome researchers and practitioners working in speech and language processing to present their novel and innovative research contributions for this special section. Topics of Interest * Artificial intelligence-assisted speech & language technologies for low-resource languages * Pragmatics for low-resource languages * Emerging trends in knowledge representation for low-resource languages * Machine translation for low-resource language processing * Automatic speech recognition & speech technology for low-resource languages * Sentiment & statistical analysis for low-resource languages * Multimodal analysis for low-resource languages * Augment mining for low-resource language processing * Text summarization & speech synthesis * Sentence-level semantics for speech recognition * Information retrieval & extraction of low-resource languages Submission Guidelines Manuscripts should be submitted through the Manuscript Central system<https://czqvL04.na1.hubspotlinks.com/Ctc/T8+113/czqvL04/VVqS0B3s16ytW55j9JS…>. 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CfP Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa conference 2023
by Menno Van Zaanen 29 May '23

29 May '23

First call for papers DHASA Conference 2024 https://dh2023.digitalhumanities.org.za/ Theme: "Digital Humanities for Inclusion" The Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa (DHASA) is pleased to announce its fourth conference, focusing on the theme "Digital Humanities for Inclusion." In a region where the field of Digital Humanities is still relatively underdeveloped, this conference aims to address this gap and foster growth and collaboration in the field. The conference offers an opportunity for researchers interested in showcasing their work in the broad field of Digital Humanities to come together. By doing so, the conference provides a comprehensive overview of the current state-of-the-art in Digital Humanities, particularly within the Southern Africa region. As such, we welcome submissions related to Digital Humanities research conducted by individuals from Southern Africa or research focused on the geographical area of Southern Africa. Furthermore, the conference serves as a platform for information sharing and networking among researchers passionate about Digital Humanities. By bringing together experts working on Digital Humanities in Southern Africa or with a focus on Southern Africa, we aim to promote collaboration and facilitate further research in this dynamic field. In addition to the main conference, affiliated workshops and tutorials will be organized, providing researchers with valuable insights into novel technologies and tools. These supplementary events are designed for researchers interested in specific aspects of Digital Humanities or seeking practical information to enter or advance their knowledge in the field. The DHASA conference welcomes interdisciplinary contributions from researchers in various domains of Digital Humanities, including, but not limited to, language, literature, visual art, performance and theatre studies, media studies, music, history, sociology, psychology, language technologies, library studies, philosophy, methodologies, software and computation, and more. Our goal is to cultivate an inclusive scientific community of practice within Digital Humanities. Suggested topics include the following: * Digital archives and the preservation of marginalized voices; * Intersectionality and the digital humanities: exploring the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and class in digital research and activism; * Activism and social change through digital media: how digital humanities tools and methodologies can be used to promote inclusion; * Engaging marginalized communities in the creation and use of digital tools and resources; * Exploring the role of digital humanities in decolonizing knowledge and promoting indigenous perspectives; * The ethics of data collection and analysis in digital humanities research related; * The role of digital humanities in promoting inclusive and equitable pedagogy; * Digital humanities and inclusion in the context of global perspectives and international collaborations; * Critical approaches to digital humanities and inclusion: examining the limitations and possibilities of digital tools and methodologies in promoting inclusion; and * Collaborative digital humanities projects with non-profit organizations, community groups, and cultural institutions; * Any other digital humanities-related topic that serves the Southern African community. Submission Guidelines The DHASA conference 2023 asks for three types of submissions: * Long papers: Authors may submit long papers consisting of a maximum of 8 content pages and unlimited pages for references and appendix. The final versions of accepted long papers will be granted an additional page (up to 9 pages) to incorporate reviewers' comments. * Short papers: Authors may submit short papers with a maximum of 5 content pages and unlimited pages for references and appendix. The final versions of accepted short papers will be allowed an extra page (up to 6 pages) to accommodate reviewers' comments. Short papers accepted for the conference will be presented as posters. * Abstracts: Authors can submit abstracts of 250-300 words. We particularly encourage student submissions where the first author is a student. All accepted long and short paper submissions that are presented at the conference will be published in the Journal of Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa, see https://upjournals.up.ac.za/index.php/dhasa. In addition, the abstracts of the full papers and the lightning talks will be published in a book of abstracts before the conference. Important dates Submission deadline: 15 August 2023 Date of notification: 30 September 2023 Camera-ready copy deadline: 6 November 2023 Conference: 27 November 2023 - 1 December 2023 Conference format: Face-to-face Conference venue: Nelson Mandela University, Eastern Cape South Africa NOTE: Non-presenting delegates have the option to attend online. Co-located events Several co-located events are currently being prepared, including workshops and tutorials. These will be updated on the conference website. Organizing Committee * Johannes Sibeko, Nelson Mandela University * Aby Louw, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research * Alan Murdoch, Nelson Mandela University * Amanda du Preez, University of Pretoria * Andiswa Bukula, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources * Andiswa Mvanyashe, Nelson Mandela University * Avashna Govender, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research * Gabby Dlamini, Nelson Mandela University * Ilana Wilken, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research * Jonathan van der Walt, Nelson Mandela University * Laurette Marais, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research * Mukhtar Raban, Nelson Mandela University * Nomfundo Khumalo, Nelson Mandela University * Menno Van Zaanen, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources -- Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za Professor in Digital Humanities South African Centre for Digital Language Resources https://www.sadilar.org ________________________________ NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT: http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. 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Fwd: Potential Interesting Topic (ML-SUPERB) for SIGUL
by Maite Melero 22 May '23

22 May '23

Dear all, We would like to share with you about an exciting initiative called ML-SUPERB. The SUPERB team is organizing a multilingual speech self-supervised learning challenge. This year, they're introducing a new language track, which encourages participants to submit their spoken language resources (i.e., speech data with transcription). In this track, participants will have the opportunity to test some common speech self-supervised models on their languages and submit related data to the challenge. This data will be used to evaluate the self-supervised models' submissions as a "hidden set." With their agreement, the data will also be included in future versions of the ML-SUPERB benchmark for further research. For more information about the challenge, you may visit our website at https://multilingual.superbbenchmark.org/. Specifically, you can find details about the new language track at https://multilingual.superbbenchmark.org/challenge-asru2023/challenge_overv… . On Behalf of ML-SUPERB Organizers

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Shared Task on Multimodal Hate Event Detection [RANLP 2023 (ACL)]
by Surendrabikram Thapa 10 May '23

10 May '23

Hi All, We are organizing a shared task on Multimodal Hate Speech Event Detection in the 2023 CASE workshop (Proceedings to be published in ACL Anthology). Codalab: https://lnkd.in/eZWVAYW2 Please find the details of the shared task: https://lnkd.in/ePRXjjvA Training & Validation data available: May 1, 2023 Test data available: Jun 15, 2023 Test Start: Jun 15, 2023 Test End: Jun 30, 2023 System Description Paper Submissions Due: Jul 10, 2023 Notification to Authors After Review: Aug 5, 2023 Camera-ready Submission: Aug 25, 2023 Workshop Details: https://lnkd.in/e-8uNhYB Please share it in your network and help us to gain more participation. We will also invite novel submissions to the special issue in a journal. Best Regards, Surendrabikram Thapa

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2nd CFP: SIGUL2023 Workshop
by Claudia Soria 09 May '23

09 May '23

** ****Apologies for cross-postings***** * ********Please help disseminate**** 2nd Call for Papers * SIGUL 2023 Workshop <https://sigul-2023.ilc.cnr.it> * Co-located with Interspeech 2023 <https://www.interspeech2023.org> ** Dublin, Ireland, 18-20 August 2023 The 2nd Annual Meeting of the ELRA <http://www.elra.info/>/ISCA <https://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/index.php>Special Interest Group on Under-Resourced Languages <http://www.elra.info/en/sig/sigul/>(SIGUL 2023) provides a forum for the presentation and discussion of cutting-edge research in text and speech processing for under-resourced languages by academic and industry researchers. SIGUL 2023 carries on the tradition of the SIGUL and the CCURL-SLTU (Collaboration and Computing for Under-Resourced Languages – Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced languages) Workshop Series, which has been organized since 2008 and, as LREC Workshops, since 2014. As usual, this workshop will span the research interest areas of less-resourced, under-resourced, endangered, minority, and minoritized languages. Special Features This year, the workshop will be marked with three special events: (1) Special Session in Celtic Language Technology (August 18) SIGUL 2023 will provide a special session or forum for researchers interested in developing language technologies for Celtic languages. (2) Joint Session with SlaTE 2023 (August 19) SIGUL 2023 will have a joint session with The 9th Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SlaTE 2023 <https://sites.google.com/view/slate2023>). The goal is to accelerate the development of spoken language technology for under-resourced languages through education. (3) Social outing and dinner near Dublin (optional on August 20) Invited Speakers * Subhashish Panigrahi, O Foundation and Law for All Initiative: Reclaiming Our Voices - Imagining Community-Led Ai/Ml Practices * Delyth Prys, Language Technologies Unit, Canolfan Bedwyr: TBA Workshop Topics Following the long-standing series of previous meetings, the SIGUL venue will provide a forum for the presentation of cutting-edge research in natural language processing and spoken language processing for under-resourced languages to both academic and industry researchers and also offer a venue where researchers in different disciplines and from varied backgrounds can fruitfully explore new areas of intellectual and practical development while honoring their common interest of sustaining less-resourced languages. Topics include but are not limited to: * Processing any under-resourced languages (covering less-resourced, under-resourced, endangered, minority, and minoritized languages) * Cognitive and linguistic studies of under-resourced languages * Fast resources acquisition: text and speech corpora, parallel texts, dictionaries, grammars, and language models * Zero-resource speech technologies and self-supervised learning * Cross-lingual and multilingual acoustic and lexical modeling * Speech recognition and synthesis for under-resourced languages and dialects * Machine translation and spoken dialogue systems * Applications of spoken language technologies for under-resourced languages * Special topic: o Celtic language technology o Spoken language technologies for under-resourced languages via education We also welcome various typologies of papers: * research papers; * position papers for reflective considerations of methodological, best practice, institutional issues (e.g., ethics, data ownership, speakers’ community involvement, de-colonizing approaches); * research posters for work-in-progress projects in the early stage of development or description of new resources; * demo papers, and early-career/student papers, to be submitted as extended abstracts and presented as posters. Instructions for Submission Prospective authors are invited to submit <https://softconf.com/n/sigul2023/>their contributions according to the following guidelines. * Research and position papers: a maximum of 5 pages with the 5th page reserved exclusively for references. * Demo papers, and early-career/student papers: a maximum of three pages with the 3rd page reserved for references. Both types of submissions must conform to the Interspeech format <https://www.interspeech2023.org/author-resources/>defined in the paper preparation guidelines as instructed in the author’s kit <https://www.interspeech2023.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/INTERSPEECH_2023…>on the Interspeech webpage. Papers do not need to be anonymous. Authors must declare that their contributions are original and that they have not submitted their papers elsewhere for publication. Important Dates - Paper submission deadline: 28 May 2023 - Notification of acceptance: 2 July 2023 - Camera-ready paper: 21 July 2023 - Workshop date: 18-20 August 2023 Outline of the Program SIGUL 2023 will continue the tradition of the previous SIGUL event that features a number of distinguished keynote speakers, technical oral and poster sessions, and panel discussions to discuss a better future for under-resourced languages and under-resourced communities. Full list of organizers SIGUL Board Sakriani Sakti (JAIST, Japan) Claudia Soria (CNR-ILC, Italy) Maite Melero (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain) SIGUL 2023 Organizers Kolawole Adebayo (ADAPT, Ireland) Ailbhe Ní Chasaide (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) Brian Davis (ADAPT, Ireland) John Judge (ADAPT, Ireland) Maite Melero (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain) Sakriani Sakti (JAIST, Japan) Claudia Soria (CNR-ILC, Italy) SIGUL 2023 Program Committee Gilles Adda (LIMSI/IMMI-CNRS, France) Manex Agirrezabal (University of Copenhagen – Center for Sprogteknologi | Center for Language Technology, Denmark) Shyam S. Agrawal (KIIT, India) Begona Altuna (Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea | University of the Basque Country, Spain) Steven Bird (Charles Darwin University, Australia) Matt Coler (University of Groningen, Campus Fryslân, The Netherlands) Pradip K. Das (IIT, India) Iria De Dios Flores ( Centro Singular de Investigación en Tecnoloxías Intelixentes, Spain) A. Seza Doğruöz (Universiteit Gent, België | Ghent University, Belgium) Stefano Ghazzali (Prifysgol Bangor | Bangor University, Bangor, Gwynedd) Jeff Good (University at Buffalo, USA) Kristiina Jokinen (AIRC [Artificial Intelligence Research Center], AIST Tokyo Waterfront, Japan) Laurent Kevers (Università di Corsica Pasquale Paoli, France) Teresa Lynn (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, United Arab Emirates) Joseph Mariani (LIMSI-CNRS, France) Maite Melero (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Espanya | Spain) Win Pa Pa (UCS Yangon, Myanmar) Delyth Prys (Prifysgol Bangor | Bangor University, Bangor, Gwynedd) Carlos Ramisch (Université Marseille, France) Sakriani Sakti (JAIST, Japan) Claudia Soria (CNR-ILC, Italia | Italy) Trond Trosterud (Norges Arktiske Universitet | The Arctic University of Norway) Acknowledgments SIGUL is a joint Special Interest Group of the ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) and of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA). The SIGUL 2023 workshop has been organized with the help of the local organizers of Interspeech 2023 and Slate 2023. This edition has been sponsored by Google and endorsed by Linguapax International. Contact To contact the organizers, please mail sigul2023(a)ml.jaist.ac.jp <mailto:sigul2023@ml.jaist.ac.jp>(Subject: [SIGUL2023]). * -- Claudia Soria Researcher Cnr-Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale “Antonio Zampolli” Via Moruzzi 1 56124 Pisa Italy Tel. +39 050 3153166 Skype clausor

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AT4SLL at EAMT 2023: Deadline extension to April, 24th 2023
by Fred Blain 14 Apr '23

14 Apr '23

Workshop on Automatic Translation for Signed and Spoken Languages ***** The submission deadline for AT4SLL has been extended to April, 24th 2023 ***** SCOPE According to the World Federation of the Deaf (WFD) over 70 million people are deaf and communicate primarily via Sign Language (SL). Currently, human interpreters are the main medium for sign-to-spoken, spoken-to-sign and sign-to-sign language translation. The availability and cost of these professionals is often a limiting factor in communication between signers and non-signers. Machine Translation (MT) is a core technique for reducing language barriers for spoken languages. Although MT has come a long way since its inception in the 1950s, it still has a long way to go to successfully cater to all communication needs and users. When it comes to the deaf and hard of hearing communities, MT is in its infancy. The complexity of the task to automatically translate between SLs or sign and spoken languages, requires a multidisciplinary approach. The rapid technological and methodological advances in deep learning, and in AI in general, that we see in the last decade, have not only improved MT, recognition of image, video and audio signals, the understanding of language, the synthesis of life-like 3D avatars, etc., but have also led to the fusion of interdisciplinary research innovations that lays the foundation of automated translation services between sign and spoken languages. This one-day workshop aims to be a venue for presenting and discussing (complete, ongoing or future) research on automatic translation between sign and spoken languages and bring together researchers, practitioners, interpreters and innovators working in related fields. We are delighted to confirm that two interpreters for English<>International Sign (IS) will be present during the event, to make it as inclusive as possible to anyone who wishes to participate. Theme of the workshop: Data is one of the key factors for the success of today’s AI, including language and translation models for sign and spoken languages. However, when it comes to SL, MT and Natural Language Processing, we face problems related to small volumes of (parallel) data, low veracity in terms of origin of annotations (deaf or hearing interpreters), non-standardized annotations (e.g. glosses differ across corpora), video quality or recording setting, and others. The theme of this edition of the workshop is Sign language parallel data – challenges, solutions and resolutions. The AT4SSL workshop aims to open a (guided) discussion between participants about current challenges, innovations and future developments related to the automatic translation between sign and spoken languages. To this extent, AT4SSL will host a moderated round table around the following three topics: (i) quality of recognition and synthesis models and user-expectations; (ii) co-creation -- deaf, hearing and hard-of-hearing people joining forces towards a common goal and (iii) sign-to-spoken and spoken-to-sign translation technology in media. TOPICS This workshop aims to focus on the following topics. However, submissions related to the general topic of automatic translation between signed and spoken languages that deviate from these topics are also welcome: * Data: resources, collection and curation, challenges, processing, data life cycle * Use-cases, applications * Ethics, privacy and policies * Sign language linguistics * Machine translation (with a focus on signed-to-signed, signed-to-spoken or spoken-to-signed language translation) * Natural language processing * Interpreting of sign and spoken languages * Image and video recognition (for the purpose of sign language recognition) * 3D avatar and virtual signers synthesis * Usability and challenges of current methods and methodologies * Sign language in the media SUBMISSION FORMAT Two types of submissions are going to be accepted for the AT4SSL workshop: * Research, review, position and application papers Unpublished papers that present original, completed work. The length of each paper should be at least four (4) and maximum eight (8) pages, with unlimited pages for references. * Extended abstracts Extended abstracts should present original, ongoing work or innovative ideas. The length of each extended abstract is four (4) pages, with unlimited pages for references. Both papers should be formatted according to the official EAMT 2023 style templates (LaTex<https://events.tuni.fi/uploads/2022/12/ee35fd56-latex_template.zip>. Overleaf<https://www.overleaf.com/read/mkjbkppndvxw>, MS Word<https://events.tuni.fi/uploads/2022/12/edd598d2-eamt23.docx>, Libre/Open Office<https://events.tuni.fi/uploads/2022/12/ece98f81-eamt23.odt>, PDF<https://events.tuni.fi/uploads/2022/12/6e89772e-eamt23.pdf>). Accepted papers and extended abstracts will be published in the EAMT 2023 proceedings and will be presented at the conference. SUBMISSION POLICY * Submissions must be anonymized. * Papers and extended abstracts should be submitted using EASY Chair<https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=at4ssl2023>. * Work that has been or is planned to be submitted to other venues must be declared as such. Upon acceptance at AT4SSL, it must be withdrawn from the other venues. * The review will be double-blind. IMPORTANT DATES: * First call for papers: 13-March-2023 * Second call for papers: 31-March-2023 * Submission deadline: 14-April-2023 24-April-2023 (Extended!) * Review process: between 25-April-2023 and 05-May-2023 * Acceptance notification: 12-May-2023 * Camera ready submission: 01-June-2023 * Submission of material for interpreters: 06-June-2023 * Programme will be finalised by: 01-June-2023 * Workshop date: 15-June-2023 ORGANISATION COMMITTEE: Dimitar Shterionov (TiU) Mirella De Sisto (TiU) Mathias Muller (UZH) Davy Van Landuyt (EUD) Rehana Omardeen (EUD) Shaun O’Boyle (DCU) Annelies Braffort (Paris-Saclay University) Floris Roelofsen (UvA) Frédéric Blain (TiU) Bram Vanroy (KU Leuven; UGent) Eleftherios Avramidis (DFKI) INTERPRETING: We will provide English to International Sign (IS) interpreting during the workshop. FOR CONTACTS: Dimitar Shterionov, workshop chair: d.shterionov(a)tilburguniversity.edu Registration will be handled by the EAMT2023 conference. (To be announced)

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CfP Journal of Open Humanities Data
by Menno Van Zaanen 12 Apr '23

12 Apr '23

[https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/6pUIP3BR24AzmruTUlFA4sluufOwqVuTMxj0nXD7y…] Call for Papers for 2023 The Journal of Open Humanities Data (JOHD)<https://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/> features peer-reviewed publications describing humanities research objects with high potential for reuse. These might include curated resources like (annotated) linguistic corpora, ontologies, and lexicons, as well as databases, maps, atlases, linked data objects, and other data sets created with qualitative, quantitative, or computational methods. We are currently inviting submissions of two varieties: 1. Short data papers contain a concise description of a humanities research object with high reuse potential. These are short (1000 words) highly structured narratives. A data paper does not replace a traditional research article, but rather complements it. 2. Full length research papers discuss and illustrate methods, challenges, and limitations in humanities research data creation, collection, management, access, processing, or analysis. These are intended to be longer narratives (3,000 - 5,000 words), which give authors the ability to contribute to a broader discussion regarding the creation of research objects or methods. Humanities subjects of interest to the JOHD include, but are not limited to Art History, Classics, History, Linguistics, Literature, Modern Languages, Music and musicology, Philosophy, Religious Studies, etc. Research that crosses one or more of these traditional disciplinary boundaries is highly encouraged. Authors are encouraged to publish their data in recommended repositories<https://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/about/#repo>. More information about the submission process<https://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/about/submissions>, editorial policies<https://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/about/editorialpolicies/> and archiving<https://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/about/> is available on the journal’s web pages. JOHD provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. We accept online submissions via our journal website. See Author Guidelines <https://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/about/submissions/> for further information. Alternatively, please contact the editor<https://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/contact/> if you are unsure as to whether your research is suitable for submission to the journal. Authors remain the copyright holders and grant third parties the right to use, reproduce, and share the article according to the Creative Commons<http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/> licence agreement. -- Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za Professor in Digital Humanities South African Centre for Digital Language Resources https://www.sadilar.org ________________________________ NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT: http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorised review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you have received the e-mail by mistake, please contact the sender or reply e-mail and delete the e-mail and its attachments (where appropriate) from your system. ________________________________

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SIGUL2023 Workshop - 1st call for papers
by Claudia Soria 06 Apr '23

06 Apr '23

** ****Apologies for cross-postings***** * ********Please help disseminate**** 1st Call for Papers SIGUL 2023 Workshop <https://sigul-2023.ilc.cnr.it> Co-located with Interspeech 2023 <https://www.interspeech2023.org/> Dublin, Ireland, 18-20 August 2023 The 2nd Annual Meeting of the ELRA <http://www.elra.info/>/ISCA <https://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/index.php>Special Interest Group on Under-Resourced Languages <http://www.elra.info/en/sig/sigul/>(SIGUL 2023) provides a forum for the presentation and discussion of cutting-edge research in text and speech processing for under-resourced languages by academic and industry researchers. SIGUL 2023 carries on the tradition of the SIGUL and the CCURL-SLTU (Collaboration and Computing for Under-Resourced Languages – Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced languages) Workshop Series, which has been organized since 2008 and, as LREC Workshops, since 2014. As usual, this Workshop will span the research interest areas of less-resourced, under-resourced, endangered, minority, and minoritized languages. *Workshop website*: https://sigul-2023.ilc.cnr.it Special Features This year, the workshop will be marked with three special events: (1) Special Session in Celtic Language Technology (August 18) SIGUL 2023 will provide a special session or forum for researchers interested in developing language technologies for Celtic languages. (2) Joint Session with SlaTE 2023 (August 19) SIGUL 2023 will have a joint session with The 9th Workshop on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SlaTE 2023 <https://sites.google.com/view/slate2023>). The goal is to accelerate the development of spoken language technology for under-resourced languages through education. (3) Social outing and dinner near Dublin (optional on August 20) Workshop Topics Following the long-standing series of previous meetings, the SIGUL venue will provide a forum for the presentation of cutting-edge research in natural language processing and spoken language processing for under-resourced languages to both academic and industry researchers and also offer a venue where researchers in different disciplines and from varied backgrounds can fruitfully explore new areas of intellectual and practical development while honoring their common interest of sustaining less-resourced languages. Topics include but are not limited to: * Processing any under-resourced languages (covering less-resourced, under-resourced, endangered, minority, and minoritized languages) * Cognitive and linguistic studies of under-resourced languages * Fast resources acquisition: text and speech corpora, parallel texts, dictionaries, grammars, and language models * Zero-resource speech technologies and self-supervised learning * Cross-lingual and multilingual acoustic and lexical modeling * Speech recognition and synthesis for under-resourced languages and dialects * Machine translation and spoken dialogue systems * Applications of spoken language technologies for under-resourced languages * Special topic: o Celtic language technology o Spoken language technologies for under-resourced languages via education We also welcome various typologies of papers: * research papers; * position papers for reflective considerations of methodological, best practice, institutional issues (e.g., ethics, data ownership, speakers’ community involvement, de-colonizing approaches); * research posters for work-in-progress projects in the early stage of development or description of new resources; * demo papers, and early-career/student papers, to be submitted as extended abstracts and presented as posters. Instructions for submission Prospective authors are invited to submit their contributions according to the following guidelines. * Research and position papers and posters: a maximum of 5 pages with the 5th page reserved exclusively for references. * Demo papers, and early-career/student papers: a maximum of three pages with the 3rd page reserved for references. Both types of submissions must conform to the Interspeech format <https://www.interspeech2023.org/author-resources/>defined in the paper preparation guidelines as instructed in the author’s kit <https://www.interspeech2023.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/INTERSPEECH_2023…>on the Interspeech webpage. Papers do not need to be anonymous. Authors must declare that their contributions are original and that they have not submitted their papers elsewhere for publication. Important Dates - Paper submission deadline: 28 May 2023 - Notification of acceptance: 2 July 2023 - Camera-ready paper: 21 July 2023 - Workshop date: 18-20 August 2023 Outline of the Program SIGUL 2023 will continue the tradition of the previous SIGUL event <https://sigul-2022.ilc.cnr.it> that features a number of distinguished keynote speakers, technical oral and poster sessions, and panel discussions to discuss a better future for under-resourced languages and under-resourced communities. Full list of organizers SIGUL Board Sakriani Sakti (JAIST, Japan) Claudia Soria (CNR-ILC, Italy) Maite Melero (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain) SIGUL 2023 Organizers Kolawole Adebayo (ADAPT, Ireland) Ailbhe Ní Chasaide (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) Brian Davis (ADAPT, Ireland) John Judge (ADAPT, Ireland) Maite Melero (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain) Sakriani Sakti (JAIST, Japan) Claudia Soria (CNR-ILC, Italy) To contact the organizers, please mail sigul2023(a)ml.jaist.ac.jp <mailto:sigul2023@ml.jaist.ac.jp>(Subject: [SIGUL2023]). * -- Claudia Soria Researcher Cnr-Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale “Antonio Zampolli” Via Moruzzi 1 56124 Pisa Italy Tel. +39 050 3153166 Skype clausor

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AT4SSL2023 - Second Call For Papers
by Fred Blain 03 Apr '23

03 Apr '23

Second International Workshop on Automatic Translation for Signed and Spoken Languages (AT4SSL2023 @EAMT2023) Second Call For Papers https://sites.google.com/tilburguniversity.edu/at4ssl2023/ ****** Apologies for cross -posting ****** SCOPE According to the World Federation of the Deaf (WFD) over 70 million people are deaf and communicate primarily via Sign Language (SL). Currently, human interpreters are the main medium for sign-to-spoken, spoken-to-sign and sign-to-sign language translation. The availability and cost of these professionals is often a limiting factor in communication between signers and non-signers. Machine Translation (MT) is a core technique for reducing language barriers for spoken languages. Although MT has come a long way since its inception in the 1950s, it still has a long way to go to successfully cater to all communication needs and users. When it comes to the deaf and hard of hearing communities, MT is in its infancy. The complexity of the task to automatically translate between SLs or sign and spoken languages, requires a multidisciplinary approach (Bragg et al., 2019)<https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3308561.3353774>. The rapid technological and methodological advances in deep learning, and in AI in general, that we see in the last decade, have not only improved MT, recognition of image, video and audio signals, the understanding of language, the synthesis of life-like 3D avatars, etc., but have also led to the fusion of interdisciplinary research innovations that lays the foundation of automated translation services between sign and spoken languages. This one-day workshop aims to be a venue for presenting and discussing (complete, ongoing or future) research on automatic translation between sign and spoken languages and bring together researchers, practitioners, interpreters and innovators working in related fields. We are delighted to confirm that two interpreters for English<>International Sign (IS) will be present during the event, to make it as inclusive as possible to anyone who wishes to participate. Theme of the workshop: Data is one of the key factors for the success of today’s AI, including language and translation models for sign and spoken languages. However, when it comes to SL, MT and Natural Language Processing, we face problems related to small volumes of (parallel) data, large veracity in terms of origin of annotations (deaf or hearing interpreters), non-standardized annotations (e.g. glosses differ across corpora), video quality or recording setting, and others. The theme of this edition of the workshop is Sign language parallel data – challenges, solutions and resolutions. The AT4SSL workshop aims to open a (guided) discussion between participants about current challenges, innovations and future developments related to the automatic translation between sign and spoken languages. To this extent, AT4SSL will host a moderated round table around the following three topics: (i) quality of recognition and synthesis models and user-expectations; (ii) co-creation -- deaf, hearing and hard-of-hearing people joining forces towards a common goal and (iii) sign-to-spoken and spoken-to-sign translation technology in media. TOPICS This workshop aims to focus on the following topics. However, submissions related to the general topic of automatic translation between signed and spoken languages that deviate from these topics are also welcome: * Data: resources, collection and curation, challenges, processing, data life cycle * Use-cases, applications * Ethics, privacy and policies * Sign language linguistics * Machine translation (with a focus on signed-to-signed, signed-to-spoken or spoken-to-signed language translation) * Natural language processing * Interpreting of sign and spoken languages * Image and video recognition (for the purpose of sign language recognition) * 3D avatar and virtual signers synthesis * Usability and challenges of current methods and methodologies * Sign language in the media SUBMISSION FORMAT Two types of submissions are going to be accepted for the AT4SSL workshop: * Research, review, position and application papers Unpublished papers that present original, completed work. The length of each paper should be at least four (4) and maximum eight (8) pages, with unlimited pages for references. * Extended abstracts Extended abstracts should present original, ongoing work or innovative ideas. The length of each extended abstract is four (4) pages, with unlimited pages for references. Both papers should be formatted according to the official EAMT 2023 style templates (LaTex<https://events.tuni.fi/uploads/2022/12/ee35fd56-latex_template.zip>. Overleaf<https://www.overleaf.com/read/mkjbkppndvxw>, MS Word<https://events.tuni.fi/uploads/2022/12/edd598d2-eamt23.docx>, Libre/Open Office<https://events.tuni.fi/uploads/2022/12/ece98f81-eamt23.odt>, PDF<https://events.tuni.fi/uploads/2022/12/6e89772e-eamt23.pdf>). Accepted papers and extended abstracts will be published in the EAMT 2023 proceedings and will be presented at the conference. SUBMISSION POLICY * Submissions must be anonymized. * Papers and extended abstracts should be submitted using EASY Chair<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eamt2023>. * Work that has been or is planned to be submitted to other venues must be declared as such. Upon acceptance at AT4SSL, it must be withdrawn from the other venues. * The review will be double-blind. IMPORTANT DATES: * First call for papers: 13-March-2023 * Second call for papers: 3-April-2023 * Submission deadline: 14-April-2023 * Review process: between 17-April-2023 and 05-May-2023 * Acceptance notification: 12-May-2023 * Camera ready submission: 01-June-2023 * Submission of material for interpreters: 06-June-2023 * Programme will be finalised by: 01-June-2023 * Workshop date: 15-June-2023 ORGANISATION COMMITTEE: Dimitar Shterionov (TiU) Mirella De Sisto (TiU) Mathias Muller (UZH) Davy Van Landuyt (EUD) Rehana Omardeen (EUD) Shaun O’Boyle (DCU) Annelies Braffort (Paris-Saclay University) Floris Roelofsen (UvA) Frédéric Blain (TiU) Bram Vanroy (KU Leuven; UGent) Eleftherios Avramidis (DFKI) FOR CONTACTS: Dimitar Shterionov, workshop chair: d.shterionov(a)tilburguniversity.edu Registration will be handled by the EAMT2023 conference. (To be announced)

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