28.82, Calls: Computational Linguistics, Text/Corpus Linguistics/Spain

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Subject: 28.82, Calls: Computational Linguistics, Text/Corpus Linguistics/Spain

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Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2017 18:34:09
From: Marcos Zampieri [marcos.zampieri at uni-saarland.de]
Subject: 4th Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects

 
Full Title: 4th Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects 
Short Title: VarDial 

Date: 03-Apr-2017 - 03-Apr-2017
Location: Valencia, Spain 
Contact Person: Marcos Zampieri
Meeting Email: marcos.zampieri at uni-saarland.de
Web Site: http://ttg.uni-saarland.de/vardial2017/index.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 16-Jan-2017 

Meeting Description:

VarDial is a well-established series of workshops promoting a forum for
scholars working on a range of topics related to the study of linguistic
variation.

Previous editions were the first VarDial 2014 workshop co-located with COLING,
the joint workshop LT4VarDial 2015 co-located with RANLP, and VarDial 2016
co-located with COLING. In 2017 VarDial will be co-located with EACL 2017 in
Valencia, Spain.

The workshop provides a forum for scholars working on a range of topics
related to the study of linguistic variation. We anticipate discussion on
computational methods and on language resources for closely related languages
and language variants. Corpus-driven exploitation of different degrees of
linguistic variation such as lexicon and grammar is another topic of interest.

Papers presented at the previous editions of VarDial focused on: machine
translation between closely related languages, adaptation of POS taggers and
parsers for similar languages and language varieties, compilation of corpora
for language varieties, spelling normalization, and finally the discrimination
or identification of similar languages and dialects.

Examples of language varieties include pluricentric languages like English,
Spanish, French or Portuguese and examples of pairs of related languages
include Swedish-Norwegian, Bulgarian-Macedonian, Serbian-Bosnian,
Russian-Ukrainian, Irish-Gaelic Scottish, Malay-Indonesian,
Turkish–Azerbaijani, Mandarin-Cantonese, Hindi–Urdu, and many other.


Call for Papers:

Topics:

We welcome papers dealing with one or more of the following topics. 

- Language resources and tools for similar languages, varieties and dialects
- Adaptation of tools (taggers, parsers) for similar languages, varieties and
dialects
- Evaluation of language resources and tools when applied to language
varieties
- Reusability of language resources in NLP applications (e.g., for machine
translation, POS tagging, syntactic parsing, etc.)
- Corpus-driven studies in dialectology and language variation
- Automatic identification of lexical variation
- Automatic classification of language varieties
- Text similarity and adaptation between language varieties
- Linguistic issues in the adaptation of language resources and tools (e.g.,
semantic discrepancies, lexical gaps, false friends)
- Machine translation between closely related languages, language varieties
and dialects.

Submissions:

Submissions should be formatted according to the EACL template
(http://eacl2017.org/images/site/eacl-2017-template.zip). Papers should
contain maximum 10 pages (8 pages of content + 2 pages of references). The
review process will be double-blind.

We strongly recommend you to prepare your manuscript using LaTeX.

Submissions should be uploaded on START
(https://www.softconf.com/eacl2017/vardial2017/).

Dates:

Submission Deadline: January 16, 2017
Acceptance Notification: February 11, 2017
Camera-ready versions: February 21, 2017
Workshop: April 3, 2017




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