Dear SIGUL Members,

the fifth SIGUL Newsletter is out.

The SIGUL Newsletter intends to be a bi-weekly report on issues related to the topics of language resources and tools for less-resourced languages.

Your feedback will be welcome.

Claudia Soria

SIGUL Co-chair

SIGUL is the ELRA-ISCA Special Interest Group on Less-Resourced Languages

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*Call for papers*

- 2nd Workshop on Technologies for MT of Low Resource Languages (LoResMT 2019)

The Helix, DCU, Dublin, August 20, 2019

https://sites.google.com/view/loresmt/

@ MT Summit 2019 (https://www.mtsummit2019.com/)

- 6th International Sanskrit Computational Linguistics Symposium (6th ISCLS)

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, West Bengal, India -- 721302

October 23-25, 2019

Website: https://iscls.github.io/

- The First Workshop on NLP Solutions for Under Resourced Languages

(NSURL 2019), 11 and 12 September 2019

co-located with ICNLSP 2019

endorsed by SIGUL

http://nsurl.org http://nsurl.org/

Important dates:

Submission deadline: 30 June 2019

Notification due: 22 July 2019

Camera-ready paper due: 12 August 2019

*Call for proposals*

- NAACL Emerging Regions Fund

Deadline:

30 April 2019 (midnight PST) for events to take place between June 2019 and

June 2020

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The goal of the NAACL Emerging Regions fund is to assist the creation of a

larger and more cohesive Computational Linguistics community in Latin

America, and to enhance more regional interactions among students and

researchers anywhere in the Americas.

NAACL recognizes that each region has specific needs and concerns, and so we

are open to a wide range of possible proposals, subject to the constraint

that these awards are intended to support individuals, institutions, or

events located in the Americas, and to support travel within the Americas.

NAACL will not support travel to or from locations outside of the Americas,

and in general travel should be limited to a specific region in the Americas.

Examples of proposals that might help to build community could include

financial support for regional conferences or workshops, or providing

financial or material support for Natural Language Processing and

Computational Linguistics classes at colleges and universities in Latin

America. In addition, NAACL has a long tradition of supporting student

participation in conferences, summer schools, and NLP/CL competitions, and

would give high priority to such efforts in Latin America or at regional

events in the Americas. Note that this fund is not intended to support

student travel to the NAACL HLT conference, as there is a separate fund

available for the purpose.

Proposals will be evaluated by a committee consisting of members of the NAACL

Executive Board.

If you have any questions about this CFP please send them to

naaclerf@googlegroups.com .

Please submit proposals using the online form:

https://goo.gl/forms/r7yimKklNtuafZVJ3

*Miscellaneous*

DataScientia

DataScientia - a soon-to-be-established not-for-profit organization whose ultimate aim is the creation of a grass-roots community centered around the development and dissemination of a unitary knowledge-driven understanding of the people’s diversity, as it is represented by the data in the Internet.

DataScientia is being nurtured by the University of Trento, Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, in collaboration with a few founding partners.

You can read the DataScientia Manifesto here: http://datascientia.disi.unitn.it/manifesto/