Call for Papers
VarDial - Sixth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and
Dialects
VarDial 2019:
https://sites.google.com/view/vardial2019Co-located with NAACL 2019 in Minneapolis USA, at VarDial we anticipate
discussion on computational methods and on language resources for
closely related languages, language varieties and dialects. Together
with the VarDial workshop we are organizing the third edition of the
VarDial Evaluation Campaign with five shared tasks:
https://sites.google.com/view/vardial2019/campaignTopics
We welcome papers dealing with one or more of the following topics:
- Language resources and tools for similar languages, varieties and
dialects;
- Adaptation of tools (taggers, parsers) for similar languages,
varieties and dialects;
- Evaluation of language resources and tools when applied to language
varieties;
- Reusability of language resources in NLP applications (e.g., for
machine translation, POS tagging, syntactic parsing, etc.);
- Corpus-driven studies in dialectology and language variation;
- Computational approaches to the study of mutual intelligibility
between dialects and similar languages;
- Automatic identification of lexical variation;
- Automatic classification of language varieties;
- Text similarity and adaptation between language varieties;
- Linguistic issues in the adaptation of language resources and tools
(e.g., semantic discrepancies, lexical gaps, false friends);
- Machine translation between closely related languages, language
varieties and dialects.
In addition to the topics listed above, we also welcome papers dealing
with diachronic language variation (e.g. philogenetic methods,
historical dialects).
Instruction for Authors
Submissions should be formatted according to the NAACL template and
submitted in PDF format. The review process will be double-blind.
Important Dates
Submission deadline: March 1, 2019
Notification of acceptance: March 27, 2019
Camera-ready papers due: April 5, 2019
VarDial Workshop at NAACL 2019: June 7, 2019
Program Committee
Željko Agić (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Cesar Aguilar (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Chile)
Laura Alonso y Alemany (University of Cordoba, Argentina)
Jorge Baptista (University of Algarve and INESC-ID, Portugal)
Eckhard Bick (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)
Johannes Bjerva (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Francis Bond (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Aoife Cahill (Educational Testing Service, United States)
David Chiang (University of Notre Dame, United States)
Paul Cook (University of New Brunswick, Canada)
Marta Costa-Jussà (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)
Jon Dehdari (Think Big Analytics, United States)
Liviu Dinu (University of Bucharest, Romania)
Stefanie Dipper (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany)
Sascha Diwersy (University of Montpellier, France)
Mark Dras (Macquarie University, Australia)
Tomaž Erjavec (Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia)
Pablo Gamallo (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
Binyam Gebrekidan Gebre (Phillips Research, The Netherlands)
Cyril Goutte (National Research Council, Canada)
Nizar Habash (New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE)
Chu-Ren Huang (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)
Radu Ionescu (University of Bucharest, Romania)
Jeremy Jancsary (Nuance Communications, Austria)
Tommi Jauhiainen (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Lung-Hao Lee (National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan)
John Nerbonne (University of Groningen, Netherlands and University of Freiburg, Germany)
Kemal Oflazer (Carnegie-Mellon University in Qatar, Qatar)
Maciej Ogrodniczuk (IPAN, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)
Petya Osenova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria)
Santanu Pal (Saarland University, Germany)
Barbara Plank (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Francisco Rangel (Autoritas Consulting, Spain)
Taraka Rama (University of Oslo, Norway)
Reinhard Rapp (University of Mainz, Germany and University of Aix-Marsaille, France)
Paolo Rosso (Technical University of Valencia, Spain)
Fatiha Sadat (Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Canada)
Tanja Samardžić (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Felipe Sánchez Martínez (Universitat d'Alacant, Spain)
Kevin Scannell (Saint Louis University, United States)
Yves Scherrer (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds, United Kingdom)
Kiril Simov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria)
Milena Slavcheva (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria)
Marco Tadić (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
Liling Tan (Rakuten Institute of Technology, Singapore)
Joel Tetreault (Grammarly, United States)
Francis Tyers (Indiana University, United States)
Taro Watanabe (Google Inc., Japan)
Pidong Wang (Machine Zone Inc., United States)
Organizers
Marcos Zampieri (University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom)
Preslav Nakov (Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU, Qatar)
Shervin Malmasi (Amazon, United States)
Nikola Ljubešić (Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia and University of Zagreb, Croatia)
Jörg Tiedemann (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Ahmed Ali (Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU, Qatar)
Contact: vardialworkshop(at)gmail.com
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