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Subject: 27.3324, Calls: Computational Linguistics, Sociolinguistics/USA

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Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 12:45:29
From: Mona Diab [mtdiab at gwu.edu]
Subject: EMNLP 2016 2nd Workshop on Computational Approaches to Linguistic Code Switching

 
Full Title: EMNLP 2016 2nd Workshop on Computational Approaches to Linguistic Code Switching 
Short Title: CALCS 

Date: 01-Nov-2016 - 01-Nov-2016
Location: Austin, Texas, USA 
Contact Person: Mona Diab
Meeting Email: mtdiab at gwu.edu
Web Site: http://care4lang1.seas.gwu.edu/cs2/call.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 21-Aug-2016 

Meeting Description:

Computational Approaches to Linguistic Code Switching is co-located with EMNLP
2016.

Code-switching (CS) is the phenomenon by which multilingual speakers switch
back and forth between their common languages in written or spoken
communication. CS is typically present on the inter sentential, intra
sentential (mixing of words from multiple languages in the same utterance) and
even morphological (mixing of morphemes) levels. CS presents serious
challenges for language technologies, including parsing, Machine Translation
(MT), automatic speech recognition (ASR), information retrieval (IR) and
extraction (IE), and semantic processing. Traditional techniques trained for
one language quickly break down when there is input mixed in from another.
Even for problems that are considered solved, such as language identification,
or part of speech tagging, performance will degrade at a rate proportional to
the amount and level of mixed-language present.

Invited Speakers:

Monojit Choudhury, Microsoft Research Lab India
Kalika Bali, Microsoft Research Lab India

Shared Task: 

Apart from regular papers, we will also be featuring a shared task on code
switch point identification

Please check website http://care4lang1.seas.gwu.edu/cs2/call.html for more
details
 
Workshop Organizers:

Mona Diab, GWU 
Pascale Fung, HKUST  
Julia Hirschberg, Columbia University  
Thamar Solorio, UH


Call for Papers:

The workshop invites contributions from researchers working in NLP approaches
for the analysis and/processing of mixed-language data especially with a focus
on intra sentential code switching. Topics of relevance to the workshop will
include the following:

- Development of linguistic resources to support research on code switched
data
- NLP approaches for language identification in code switched data
- NLP techniques for the syntactic analysis of code switched data
- Domain/dialect/genre adaptation techniques applied to code switched data
processing
- Language modeling approaches to code switch data processing
- Crowdsourcing approaches for the annotation of code switched data
- Machine translation approaches for code switched data
- Position papers discussing the challenges of code switched data to NLP
techniques
- Methods for improving ASR in code switched data
- Survey papers of NLP research for code switched data
- Sociolinguistic aspects of code switching
- Sociopragmatic aspects of code switching

Important Dates:
 
Workshop papers due: August 21, 11:59pm PDT
Notification for Workshop papers: September 11  
Camera ready paper submission: September 26




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