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*Submission deadline extended to 21 January 2018*
CCURL 2018
Collaboration and Computing for Under-Resourced Languages
"Sustaining knowledge diversity in the digital age"
a Workshop to be held as part of the 11th edition of the
Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2018) at
the Phoenix Seagaia Resort in Miyazaki (Japan)
3RD CALL FOR PAPERS
Date: 12 May 2018
Web site:
http://www.ilc.cnr.it/ccurl2018
NEW Submission deadline: 21 January 2018
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVE
The third CCURL Workshop, entitled "Sustaining knowledge
diversity in the digital age", will take place on Saturday,
12 May 2018 in Miyazaki, Japan, in conjunction with LREC
2018. This workshop aims at gathering together academics,
industrial researchers, knowledge experts, digital language
resource and technology providers, software developers, but
also language activists and community representatives in
order to identify the current capacity for and the
difficulties in creating and sustaining the digital
representation of traditional knowledge. The diversity of
cultures is a distinctive footprint of the way humans have
been coping with the environment over time; unique visions
of the world and knowledge are expressed by indigenous
languages. Preservation and sharing of the traditional
knowledge encoded by languages is being increasingly
recognised as a step towards a sustainable and durable
interaction of mankind with the environment. However, as
language diversity is decreasing, the maintenance and
transmission of such knowledge is at risk. Digital language
resources can help avoid the disappearance of diverse
knowledge systems, ensure their preservation and
transmission, and foster their cross-fertilisation. The vast
majority of this knowledge is poorly represented in digital
form (only four out of the 522 indigenous languages of Latin
America are represented by Wikipedia projects, for example).
Moreover, as this knowledge is encoded in underresourced
(minority, endangered or minoritised) languages, specific
methods and models of resource development are required to
circumvent the problems affecting low-resourced languages,
such as low investments, data sparsity, fragmentation of
efforts, speaker communities" lack of involvement, to cite
just a few. Specific problems arise as well: low digital
literacy, the issue of community ownership and control over
content, or the need to include audio and video to
accommodate languages that are unwritten or having no
orthography standard.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
We solicit papers and posters related to the following
non-exclusive topics:
* models and methods for the development of language
resources for representing traditional knowledge;
* experiences about forms of collaboration among research,
industry and local communities;
* involvement of speakers' communities and ethical issues
related to knowledge protection;
* replicability of experiences;
* use of knowledge resources for cultural heritage
preservation and education;
* use of video and audio as complementary or alternative
ways to writing in order to accommodate languages not spoken
or with unstable orthographies;
* innovative data collection and data annotation
methodologies;
* semantic and semantic web technologies for representing
indigenous knowledge systems in indigenous languages.
SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
We accept submission of long papers (up to 8 pages), short
papers (up to 4 pages) and poster papers (up to 4 pages) to
be presented as a long or short oral presentation at the
workshop. The papers of the workshop will be published in
online proceedings. Papers are expected to address the
workshop main theme. They can contain an analysis and
insight into existing methods and problems; a description of
resources; an overview of the literature or of the current
initiatives, or a combination of the above. Authors must
declare if part of the paper contains material previously
published elsewhere. Each submission will be reviewed by
three programme committee members. In compliance with the
LREC rules, papers must not be anonymized. Papers should
be formatted according to the stylesheet provided by LREC
2018 (
http://lrec2018.lrec-conf.org/en/submission/authors-kit/)
and should not exceed 8 pages, including references and
appendices. Papers should be submitted in PDF unprotected
format to the workshop START page (URL will be provided in
due time). The formatting template must be strictly adhered
to and deadlines met.
IMPORTANT DATES
* NEW Paper submission deadline: 21 January 2018
* Notification of acceptance: 14 February 2018
* Camera-ready paper: 7 March 2018
* Workshop date: 12 May 2018
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 2018 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.
ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Laurent Besacier, LIG-IMAG, France
Laurette Pretorius, University of South Africa, South Africa
Claudia Soria, CNR-ILC, Italy
The Workshop is endorsed by SIGUL, a joint ELRA-ISCA Special
Interest Group on Under-resourced Languages (
http://www.elra.info/en/sig/sigul/).
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Tunde Adegbola, African Languages Technology Initiative,
Nigeria
Gilles Adda, LIMSI/IMMI CNRS, France
Shyam Agrawal, KIIT Group of Colleges, India
Amir Aharoni, Wikimedia Foundation
Antti Arppe, University of Alberta, Canada
Victoria Arranz, ELRA/ELDA, France
Martin Benjamin, the Kamusi Project, Switzerland
Laurent Besacier, LIG-IMAG, France
Bruce Birch, The Minjilang Endangered Languages Publications
Project, Australia
Steven Bird, Charles Darwin University, Australia
Luong Chi-Mai, IOIT, Vietnam
Khalid Choukri, ELRA/ELDA, France
Chris Cieri, LDC, USA
Thierry Declerck, DFKI, Germany
Sebastian Drude, The Vigdis International Centre for
Multilingualism and Intercultural
Understanding, Iceland
Vera Ferreira, CIDLeS - Interdisciplinary Centre for Social
and Language Documentation, Portugal
Mikel Forcada, Universitat d'Alacant, Spain
Dafydd Gibbon, Bielefeld University, Germany
Tatjana Gornostaja, Tilde, Latvia
John Judge, ADAPT DCU, Ireland
Andras Kornai, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
Joseph Mariani, LIMSI-CNRS, France
Yohei Murakami, Kyoto University, Japan
Satoshi Nakamura, NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY,
Japan
Girish Nath Jha, JNU, India
Guy de Pauw, Textgain, Belgium
Laurette Pretorius, University of South Africa, South Africa
Sakriani Sakti, NAIST, Japan
Kevin Scannell, Saint Louis University, Missouri, USA
Claudia Soria, CNR-ILC, Italy
Oliver Stegen, SIL International, USA
Francis Tyers, Moscow Higher School of Economics, Russia
Trond Trosterud, Arctic University of Norway
Kadri Vider, University of Tartu, Estonia
Eveline Wandl-Vogt, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria
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