Dear SIGUL Members,

with this message we wish to inaugurate a bi-weekly newsletter that will report on issues related to the topics of language resources and tools for less-resourced languages.

Your feedback will be welcome.

Claudia Soria

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*Reports*

- Please find enclosed the Technology and Welsh Language Conference Report 2019, Friday, 25th January, 2019

*Calls for Papers*

- The PULiiMA 2019 – Indigenous Languages & Technology Conference, scheduled to take place in Darwin, Australia on August 19-22, 2019 has launched its open call for presenters. The submission deadline is February 9, 2019.

- In the framework of the campaign for 2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages, UNESCO announced a call for research papers, with one of the key topic areas being “Technology, digital activism, and artificial intelligence (e.g. language technology).” The call is available at the link below: https://en.unesco.org/feedback/call-research-papers-within-context-2019-inte... Deadline 1 March 2019

*Publications*

- Digiglot Newsletter https://globalvoices.org/2019/01/31/digiglot-newsletter-welsh-language-rock-... The DigiGlot Newsletter is a bi-weekly collaborative newsletter that reports on how indigenous, minority, and endangered language communities are adopting and adapting technology to increase the digital presence of their languages, and in the process changing the internet landscape by increasing linguistic diversity online. Subscribe at https://globalvoices.us2.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=9307106bf78cc186e924ad9...

-  The special issue of the TAL journal on under-resourced languages has just been published online: http://atala.org/content/traitement-automatique-des-langues-peu-dot%C3%A9es