Apologies for cross-postings ============== Last Call for Papers
1st Joint SLTU (Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced languages) and CCURL (Collaboration and Computing for Under-Resourced Languages) Workshop
SLTU-CCURL 2020 is endorsed by SIGUL, ELRA and ISCA.
Date: 11-12 May 2020 Venue: Palais du Pharo, Marseille, France Website: http://sltu-ccurl-2020.ilc.cnr.it Submission Deadline: 14 February 2020 - no extension will be granted Submission page: https://www.softconf.com/lrec2020/SLTUCCURL2020/ ==============
Workshop Description and Objectives
The first joint SLTU-CCURL workshop, organized by SIGUL, a joint Special Interest Group of the European Language Resources Association (ELRA) and of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), will gather researchers working on speech processing and NLP for less-resourced languages. We solicit papers and posters related to all areas of NLP , speech and computational linguistics, as well as those at the intersection with digital humanities and documentary linguistics, provided that they address less-resourced languages.
The intention of this joint SLTU-CCURL workshop is not only to provide a forum for the presentation of research, but also to 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 of interest
Topics include but are not limited to:
-Language resource development, acquisition and representation -Linguistic theories, corpus development and resources -Linguistic and cognitive studies -Unsupervised discovery of linguistic units -Code switched lexical modeling -Multi-lingual and cross-lingual (spoken, text) language processing -Speech-to-text, text-to-speech and speech-to-speech processing -Machine translation and dialogue systems -NLP and speech technologies for under-resourced languages
Submission & Publication
Papers need to address less-resourced languages. They can contain an analysis and insight into existing methods and problems; a description of resources; an overview of the literature or of current initiatives, or a combination of the above. Authors must declare if part of the paper contains material previously published elsewhere.
We accept submission of long papers (up to 8 pages, to be presented as long presentations) and short papers (up to 4 pages, to be presented as posters or demos). The program committee reserves the right to decide whether a paper submitted as a long paper is better suited for a poster presentation. Page limits exclude references.
The papers of the workshop will be published in online proceedings.
Papers must strictly comply with the LREC stylesheet (https://lrec2020.lrec-conf.org/en/submission2020/authors-kit/) and be submitted in PDF unprotected format.
Submission page: https://www.softconf.com/lrec2020/SLTUCCURL2020/
Each submission will be reviewed by three programme committee members. In compliance with the LREC rules, papers must not be anonymized.
Important Dates
- Paper submission deadline: 14 February 2020 - Notification of acceptance: 13 March 2020 - Camera-ready paper: 2 April 2020 - Workshop date: 11-12 May 2020
Invited speakers
Alan Black, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Teresa Lynn, ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University, Ireland
Tutorials
On May 10th, SLTU-CCURL is pleased to offer two tutorials (held at Université Aix-Marseille, near the LREC venue).
T1: Jan Trmal, John Hopkins University: Building ASR systems using the Kaldi toolkit T2: Achim Rabus, University of Freiburg : Introduction to Handwritten Text Recognition with Transkribus
More details will be announced on the workshop web page.
Attendance to tutorials will be free of charge but registration will be required for organisational purposes (and number of attendees will be limited to 25 per tutorial).
Organizing Committee * Dorothee Beermann, NTNU, Norway * Laurent Besacier, LIG-Univ. Grenoble Alpes, France * Sakriani Sakti, NAIST, Japan * Claudia Soria, CNR-ILC, Italy
To contact the organizers, please mail Claudia.soria@ilc.cnr.it or Laurent.Besacier@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr (Subject: [SLTUCCURL@LREC2020]).
Programme Committee
Adrian Doyle (University of Galway, Ireland) Alexey Karpov (SPIIRAS, Russian Federation) Alexis Palmer (University of North Texas, USA) Amita Dev (IGDTUW, India) Amir Aharoni (Wikimedia Foundation) Andras Kornai (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary) Angelo Mario Del Grosso (CNR-ILC, Italy) Antti Arppe (University of Alberta, Canada) Anupam Shukla (IIITM, India) Charl Van Heerden (Saigen, South Africa) Daan Van Esch (Google) Dafydd Gibbon (Bielefeld University, Germany) Delyth Prys (Bangor University, UK) Dewi Bryn Jones (Bangor University, UK) Dorothee Beermann (NTNU, Norway) Emily Le Chen (University of Illinois, USA) Federico Boschetti (CNR-ILC, Italy) Francis Tyers (Moscow Higher School of Economics, Russia) Gerard Bailly (GIPSA Lab, CNRS) Gilles Adda (LIMSI/IMMI CNRS, France) Hemant Patil (DA-IICT, India) Jeff Good (University at Buffalo, USA) John Judge (ADAPT DCU, Ireland) Jonas Fromseier Mortensen (Google) Jordan Lachler (University of Alberta, Canada) Joseph Mariani (LIMSI-CNRS, France) Kepa Sarasola (University of the Basque Country, Spain) Kevin Scannell (Saint Louis University, Missouri, USA) Klara Ceberio (Elhuyar, Spain) Lane Schwartz (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) Laurent Besacier (LIG-IMAG, France) Maite Melero (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain) Miikka Silfverberg (University of Helsinki, Finland) Mikel Forcada (Universitat d’Alacant, Spain) Mohammad A. M. Abushariah (The University of Jordan, Jordan) Nick Thieberger (University of Melbourne / ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language, Australia) Omar Farooq (AMU, India) Pierric Sans (Google) Pradip K Das (IIT, India) Sakriani Sakti (NAIST, Japan) Satoshi Nakamura (NAIST, Japan) Sebastian Stüker (KIT, Germany) Shyam S Agrawal (KIIT, India) Steven Bird (Charles Darwin University, Australia) Tanja Schultz (Uni-Bremen, Germany) Thang Vu (Uni-Stuttgart, Germany) Teresa Lynn (ADAPT Centre, Ireland) Trond Trosterud (Tromsø University, Norway) Tunde Adegbola (African Languages Technology Initiative, Nigeria) Vera Ferreira (CIDLeS - Interdisciplinary Centre for Social and Language Documentation, Portugal) Win Pa Pa (UCS Yangon, Myanmar)
Acknowledgments
The 1st joint SLTU-CCURL Workshop is endorsed by SIGUL (http://www.elra.info/en/sig/sigul/), ISCA (https://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/), and SIGEL and sponsored by Google.
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(Apologies for possible cross-posting) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd CALL FOR PAPERS CLEOPATRA 2020 1st International Workshop on Cross-lingual Event-centric Open Analytics in conjunction with Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2020)
May 31st or June 1st 2020, Heraklion, Crete, Greece More Info: http://cleopatra-workshop.l3s.uni-hannover.de/index.php/cfp/ http://cleopatra-workshop.l3s.uni-hannover.de/index.php/cfp/ -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Aim and Scope:
The modern society faces an unprecedented number of events that impact countries, communities and economies around the globe, across language, country and community borders. Recent examples include sudden or unexpected events such as terrorist attacks, political shake-ups such as Brexit as well as longer ongoing and evolving topics such as the migration crisis in Europe that regularly spawn events of global importance affecting local communities. These developments result in a vast amount of event-centric, multilingual information available from heterogeneously sources on the Web, in the Web of Data, within Knowledge Graphs, in social media, inside Web archives and in the news sources. Such event-centric information differs across sources, languages and communities, potentially reflecting community-specific aspects, opinions, sentiments and bias.
The theme of the CLEOPATRA workshop - event-centric multilingual analytics - includes a variety of interdisciplinary challenges related to analysis, interaction with and interpretation of vast amounts of event-centric textual, semantic and visual information in multiple languages originating from different communities. The objective of the workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in the development of methods for analysing event-centric multilingual information.
We are interested in approaches for extracting, validating, contextualizing and interlinking of event-related information. We aim to discuss technologies addressing the use of knowledge graphs in conjunction with NLP methods and visual analytics aiming to analyse event-centric information in multiple languages as well as developing novel methods for user interaction with multilingual information.
Topics of Interest:
The topics of interest of CLEOPATRA 2020 include the aspects related to processing multilingual event-centric information along the entire processing pipeline, starting with information extraction, through enrichment and user interaction to event analytics:
* Event extraction, co-reference and linking * Relation extraction and linking * NLP methods and tools for low-resource languages * Sentiment analysis * Fact verification, especially in connection with events * Knowledge graph population * Event representation in knowledge graphs * Vocabularies for events * Image-text relations for event analysis * Event-centric Question Answering * User interaction with multilingual data * Human computation methods for multilingual data * Propagation of event-centric information * Language-specific bias * Use of knowledge graphs in event analytics * Use of knowledge graphs in cross-lingual and cross-cultural analytics * Visualization techniques for event analysis * Case studies for cross-lingual / cross-cultural event-centric analytics
Submission Guidelines:
We welcome the following types of contributions. Short (up to 6 pages) and full (up to 15 pages) research papers Poster abstracts and system demonstrations should not exceed 4 pages All submissions must be written in English and must be formatted according to the Springer LNCS proceedings style. Each submission will be reviewed by at least 3 members of the PC. Papers will be evaluated according to their significance, originality, technical content, style, clarity, and relevance to the workshop. Submit your contributions electronically in PDF format via the Easychair system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cleopatra2020 https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cleopatra2020
Important Dates:
Workshop paper submissions due: February 28, 2020 March 6, 2020 Workshop paper notifications due: March 27, 2020 Camera-ready versions due: April 10, 2020 Publication of workshop proceedings: May 2020 Cleopatra Workshop Day: May 31 or June 1 2020
Organizing Committee:
* Elena Demidova, L3S Research Center, Germany * Sherzod Hakimov, TIB, Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, Germany * Jane Winters, School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK * Marko Tadic, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Croatia
Programme Committee:
* Ralph Ewerth, TIB, Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology * Marko Grobelnik, Josef Stefan Institute * Simon Gottschalk, L3S Research Center * Nikola Tulechki, Ontotext AD * Daniel Gomes, Portuguese Web Archive * Eric Mueller-Budack, TIB, Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology * Philipp Tiedt, VICO Research & Consulting GmbH * Christian Dirschl, Wolters Kluwer Deutschland * Basil Ell, University of Oslo * Eddy Maddalena, Southampton University
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