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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Second Call for Papers<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Workshop on Adaptation
of language resources and tools for closely related languages and language
variants<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-GB">- associated with
RANLP 2013-<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-GB"><br></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-GB">12-13 September 2013,
Hissar, Bulgaria</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-GB"><br></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-GB">http://c-phil.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/view/Main/RANLPLangVar2013</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-GB"><br></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB">Recent initiatives in language technology have
lead to the development of at least minimal language processing kits for all
official European languages. This is a
big step towards automatic processing and /or extraction of information
especially from official documents produced within the European Union. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB">Apart from those official languages, a large
number of dialects or closely related variants are in use, more and more not
only as spoken colloquial languages but also in written media. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB">Building language resources and tools is a costly
enterprise and one can benefit from similarities among languages to reduce the
effort in constructing LRs. One should be, however, aware also of the
discrepancies which are often visible not only at the lexical level. Examples
could be different variants of Spanish in Latin America, German spoken in
Austria and Switzerland, French – in France and Belgium, Dutch – in the
Netherlands and Flemish in Belgium, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB">Less attention has been paid up to now to the
development of LRs for such languages. This has a major impact on promoting
language technology at the educational level, using information processing
methods in all-day communication, social media, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB">This workshop intends to draw attention on
issues mentioned above by bringing together scientists working with less
resourced language variants and producing a roadmap of existing technologies
and still existing gaps. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB">We encourage submission of original,
unpublished work related, but not restricted to the following topics:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="square">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-GB">Adaptation of monolingual tools
for close languages and language variants<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-GB">Case studies of using LRs and
tools for standard languages on documents in language variants<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-GB">Machine translation among
closely related languages<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-GB">Evaluation of LRs and tools for
language variants and close languages<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-GB">Linguistic issues in adaptation
of LRs and tools (e.g. semantic discrepancies, lexical gaps, false
friends)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB">Submissions have to be done through the
conference tool, at <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://www.softconf.com/ranlp13/RANLPLangVar2013/user/scmd.cgi?scmd=submitPaperCustom&pageid=0">https://www.softconf.com/ranlp13/RANLPLangVar2013/user/scmd.cgi?scmd=submitPaperCustom&pageid=0</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB">We will perform a blind review, therefore
please ensure that you remove all possible indications to the authors of the
paper.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB">Papers should have a maximum length of 8 pages
and should follow the formatting style of the main RANLP conference
(http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2013/submissions.php#styles) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Important Dates<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;
margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:11.0pt 36.0pt;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-GB">Paper Submission: 24 July 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;
margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:11.0pt 36.0pt;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-GB">Notification of Acceptance: 9 August 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;
margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:11.0pt 36.0pt;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-GB">Submission of final papers: 16 August 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;
margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:11.0pt 36.0pt;
mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Organisers</span></b><span lang="EN-GB">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB">Petya Osenova (University of Sofia and
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)</span><span style="font-family:"MS Mincho";
mso-bidi-font-family:"MS Mincho";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">
</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB">Milena Slavcheva (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
and EC Joint Research Centre)</span><span style="font-family:"MS Mincho";
mso-bidi-font-family:"MS Mincho";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">
</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB">Cristina Vertan (University of Hamburg)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;tab-stops:11.0pt 36.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;tab-stops:11.0pt 36.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Programme Committee<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;tab-stops:11.0pt 36.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><b><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></b></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0cm" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0.1pt; margin-bottom: 0.1pt; text-align: justify; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span lang="EN-GB">Laura Alonso y Alemany (University of Cordoba, Argentina)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0.1pt; margin-bottom: 0.1pt; text-align: justify; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span lang="EN-GB">César Antonio Aguilar (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago
de Chile, Chile)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0.1pt; margin-bottom: 0.1pt; text-align: justify; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span lang="EN-GB">Antonio Branco (University of Lisbon)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0.1pt; margin-bottom: 0.1pt; text-align: justify; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span lang="EN-GB">Gerhard Budin (University of Vienna, Austria)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0.1pt; margin-bottom: 0.1pt; text-align: justify; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span lang="EN-GB">Jose Castaño (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;tab-stops:list 36.0pt"><span lang="NL">Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerpen,
Belgium)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0.1pt; margin-bottom: 0.1pt; text-align: justify; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span lang="EN-GB">Tomaz Erjavec (Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0.1pt; margin-bottom: 0.1pt; text-align: justify; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span lang="EN-GB">Maria Gavrilidou (ILSP, Greece);<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0.1pt; margin-bottom: 0.1pt; text-align: justify; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span lang="EN-GB">Walther v. Hahn (University of Hamburg, Germany)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0.1pt; margin-bottom: 0.1pt; text-align: justify; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span lang="EN-GB">Susane Jekat (ZHAW, Winterthur, Switzerland)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0.1pt; margin-bottom: 0.1pt; text-align: justify; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span lang="EN-GB">Cvetana Krstev (University of Belgrade)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0.1pt; margin-bottom: 0.1pt; text-align: justify; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span lang="EN-GB">Vladislav Kubon (Charles University Prague, Czech Republic)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0.1pt; margin-bottom: 0.1pt; text-align: justify; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span lang="EN-GB">John Nerbone (University of Groningen, the Netherlands)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0.1pt; margin-bottom: 0.1pt; text-align: justify; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span lang="EN-GB">Petya Osenova (University of Sofia, Bulgaria and Bulgarian Academy
of Sciences)<o:p></o:p></span>(co-chair)</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0.1pt; margin-bottom: 0.1pt; text-align: justify; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span lang="EN-GB">Stelios Piperidis (ILSP, Greece)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0.1pt; margin-bottom: 0.1pt; text-align: justify; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span lang="EN-GB">Laurent Romary (INRIA, France)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0.1pt; margin-bottom: 0.1pt; text-align: justify; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span lang="EN-GB">Maciej Ogrodniczuk (IPAN, Polish Academy of Sciences)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0.1pt; margin-bottom: 0.1pt; text-align: justify; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span lang="EN-GB">Kiril Simov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0.1pt; margin-bottom: 0.1pt; text-align: justify; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span lang="EN-GB">Milena Slavcheva (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and EC Joint
Research Centre)<o:p></o:p></span>(co-chair)</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0.1pt; margin-bottom: 0.1pt; text-align: justify; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span lang="EN-GB">Daniel Stein (University of Hamburg, Germany)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0.1pt; margin-bottom: 0.1pt; text-align: justify; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span lang="EN-GB">Marco Tadic (University of Zagreb, Croatia) ;<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0.1pt; margin-bottom: 0.1pt; text-align: justify; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span lang="EN-GB">Cristina Vertan (University of Hamburg, Germany) (co-chair)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0.1pt; margin-bottom: 0.1pt; text-align: justify; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span lang="EN-GB">Dusko Vitas (University of Belgrade, Serbia)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0.1pt; margin-bottom: 0.1pt; text-align: justify; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span lang="EN-GB">Kalliopi Zervanou (University of Tilburg, the Netherlands)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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