Dear SIGUL Members,
the second issue of the SIGUL Newsletter is out.
The SIGUL Newsletter intends to
be a bi-weekly report on issues broadly related to the topics of
language resources and tools for less-resourced languages.
Your feedback will be welcome.
Claudia Soria
SIGUL Co-chair
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*Calls
for Papers*
- The 6th LTC Workshop on Less-Resourced Languages (LRL 2019),
May 19, Poznan, Poland
In conjunction with LTC’19, the 9th Language and Technology
Conference
Endorsed by SIGUL, the ELRA-ISCA SIG on less-resourced
languages (http://www.elra.info/en/sig/sigul/).
The LRL Call for Papers is attached.
*Paper submission deadline: 20 March 2019*
Invited speaker: Delyth Prys, Head of the Language
Technologies Unit, Bangor University, Wales, UK
- VarDial - Sixth Workshop on
NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects
VarDial 2019:
https://sites.google.com/view/vardial2019
Co-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, the third edition of the
VarDial Evaluation Campaign with five shared tasks is being
organized:
https://sites.google.com/view/vardial2019/campaign
*Call for participation*
- The time schedule for the 17th International Conference on
Minority Languages (ICML XVII) is now online. With over 150
participants already, flying in from all over the world, this
edition will be (again) incredibly interesting! You can find the
schedules and all other information on
https://icml.eu/.
The conference is taking place 22-24 May 2019 and you can combine
it with LRL 2019 in Poznan the week before for a full immersion in
minority and less-resourced languages!
*Software development*
Are you interested in beta-testing LangSaver, a new iOS workflow
for recording and organizing language materials? Mitch Nesbitt is
looking for language workers and linguists to try it out and give
feedback. Check out the GitHub page at
https://github.com/mtchnsbtt/langsave
!
*Funding opportunities*
- Google grants Wikimedia 3.1 M$ for addressing minority
languages. See also :
https://www.socialbeat.in/blog/kpmg-google-study-on-regional-content/
*Useful resources*
- Endangered Alphabets Atlas:
https://www.endangeredalphabets.net
*Miscellaneous*
- Planet Word, the museum where
language comes to life.
The museum plans to open in
Washington D.C., in late 2019. Visitors will engage in activities
that make words and language exciting with delightful programming
and playful, interactive exhibits.
https://www.planetwordmuseum.org/welcome
- Can you identify the world's languages from an audio clip?
NameThatLanguage is a game that tests your skill at recognizing
spoken languages. See how many points you can score while
assisting language research.
https://namethatlanguage.org
- On January 28, Joseph Mariani, Honorary President of ELRA, gave
an overview of Language Technologies available to support the
digital use of #IndigenousLanguages and their preservation. He
also introduced LT4All a conference which could tackle those issue
in the framework of UNESCO International Year Of Indigenous
Languages,
https://en.iyil2019.org/official-global-launch-event-of-the-2019-international-year-of-indigenous-languages/
- LREC2020: the twelfth edition
of LREC will take place in Marseille (France) on May 11-16, 2020
(
http://www.elra.info/en/lrec/). Updates on Twitter account
@LREC2020
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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