*2nd Workshop on Resources and Technologies for Indigenous, Endangered and Lesser-resourced Languages in Eurasia (EURALI) @ LREC-COLING 2024*

Date: 20-25 May, 2024

Venue: Lingotto Conference Centre - Torino (Italia)

Main website: https://sites.google.com/view/eurali/

LREC-COLING 2024 website: https://lrec-coling-2024.org/

Submission website: https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/eurali2024/

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*Workshop overview and objectives*

This workshop will focus on the development of language technology resources and tools for indigenous, endangered and lesser-resourced languages on the Eurasian continent.

In a media-centric world where language technology allows people to break cultural and language barriers, it is important that speakers of endangered and indigenous languages can be empowered to use this technology to continue to share their knowledge and culture with the world. With the hope of bridging this gap, the goal of this workshop is to increase visibility and promote research for lesser-resourced and under-represented languages in Europe and Asia. Through collaboration between NLP researchers, language experts and linguists working for the benefit of endangered languages in these communities, we aim to create language technology resources that will help to preserve and revive these languages for future generations. Furthermore, the workshop aims to promote the emergence of new methods that benefit linguists (e.g. automating analysis and validation processes), field linguists (facilitating data collection and analysis processes), and computational linguists (developing new techniques necessary for linguistic analysis, development of supervised or weakly supervised methods for the analysis of poorly written or undocumented languages).

The main objective of the workshop is to create basic resources and develop tools for Eurasiatic languages, including but not limited to the following topics:

- identifying languages and variants spoken in these regions
- creation of language resources and applications, e.g. sentiment analysis, named entity recognition, and syntactic parsing
- standardization for endangered languages
- automatic identification and classification of lexical variation and language varieties
- adaptation of fundamental NLP tools for these languages, e.g., morphological analysis, taggers and parsers
- reusability of language resources in NLP applications, e.g. machine translation, and POS tagging
- machine translation between closely related languages
- evaluation of language resources and tools when applied to lesser-resourced languages in the same language families
- corpora, resources, and tools for closely related languages
- linguistic and textual similarities among languages in Eurasia
- digitalization of endangered languages
- challenges in the creation of language resources and tools from linguistic perspectives (which includes any perspective formal theory)


*Submissions*

We are seeking submissions in the following categories:

- Full papers: 8 pages+unlimited references
- Short papers (work in progress): 4 pages+unlimited references
- Posters (innovative ideas/proposals, a research idea of students): 4 pages+unlimited references
- Demo (of working online/standalone systems): 2 pages

Papers must describe original, completed or in progress, and unpublished work. The accepted papers will be given up for full/short paper and poster in the workshop proceedings and will be presented as an oral presentation or poster.

Papers should be formatted according to the LREC-COLING style sheet (https://lrec-coling-2024.org/authors-kit/), which is provided on the LREC-COLING 2024 website (https://lrec-coling-2024.org/). Please submit papers in PDF format to the START account (https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/eurali2024/).  For further information on this initiative, please refer to https://sites.google.com/view/eurali/.


*Important Dates*

March 04, 2024: Paper submissions due [extended deadline]

Olesea Caftanatov, Vladimir Andrunachievici Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, Chişinău (Moldova)

Ranka Stanković, University of Belgrade, Belgrade (Serbia)

Rico Sennrich, University of Zurich, Zurich (Switzerland)

Ritesh Kumar, Agra University, Agra (India)

Rute Costa, the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Lisbon (Portugal)

Saliha Muradoglu, Australian National University, Canberra (Australia)

Sarah Moeller, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (USA)

Silvie Cinkovà, Charles University, Prague (Czech Republic)

Sina Ahmadi, George Mason University, (USA)

Stella Markantonatou, Athena RC, Athens (Greece)

Sourabrata Mukherjee, Charles University, Prague (Czech Republic)

Theodorus Fransen, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan (Italy)

Valentin Malykh, MTS AI / ITMO University

Verginica Barbu Mititelu, Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Bucharest (Romania)

Victoria Bobicev, University of Moldova, Chișinău (Moldova)

Voula Giouli, Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Athens (Greece)