28.2467, Calls: Applied Ling, Comp Ling, Socioling/Argentina

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Subject: 28.2467, Calls: Applied Ling, Comp Ling, Socioling/Argentina

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Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2017 15:18:00
From: Carolina Gallardo [cgallardo at eui.upm.es]
Subject: First World Conference on Technology, Education and Multilinguism

 
Full Title: First World Conference on Technology, Education and Multilinguism 
Short Title: TECLIN17 

Date: 04-Dec-2017 - 08-Dec-2017
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina 
Contact Person: Carolina Gallardo
Meeting Email: organization at teclin17.org
Web Site: http://www.teclin17.org 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Jul-2017 

Meeting Description:

The First World Conference on Technology, Education and Multilingualism
(TECLIN17) is organized by the UNESCO Chair TECLIN, in collaboration with Dail
Software and the Technical University of Madrid (UPM). 

The main objective of TECLIN17 is to debate and propose guidelines to set out
how linguistic planning, technology, and educational practices can help to
articulate plurilingual societies and to foster the inclusion of minorized
language in the current societies.  Under these premises, this conference will
explore the solutions that information technologies can offer to multilingual
societies for enhancing educational contexts and facilitating information
access.


Call for Papers:

Topic Areas:
The thematic organization of the congress revolves around three pillars:
multilingualism, technology and education. Targeted topics include but are not
limited to: 

Multilingual Societies:
- Language planning policies
- Legal frameworks for minority languages
- Protection tools (UNESCO initiatives, European charter of regional
languages)
- Social aspects of coexistence in multilingual societies
- Minorized languages and languages of immigration
- Minority languages in the fields of health, security and justice.
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR MULTILINGUISM
- NLP, linguistic engineering and digital divide.
- Creation and development of corpora
- Creation of dictionaries and lexical resources
- Natural language generation
- Automatic Summarization
- Software localization
- IT for multilingual content management
- Models for content representation
- Syntactic and semantic parsing
- Annotation of semantic roles
- Discourse relations and structure
- Paraphrase and textual implication
- Models for controlled language
- Systems and models for question answering
- Multilingual processing, machine translation and computer-assisted
translation
- Information retrieval and extraction
- Opinion mining of opinions and sentiment analysis
- Polarized lexicons and resources
- Knowledge Extraction from social networks
- Tools for NLP tasks and applications
- Evaluation methodologies and metrics for NLP systems
- Machine learning for NLP

Education in the Plurilingual Society
- Experiences, programs, lessons learned, and considerations.
- Promoting primary education in mother tongue
- Teaching of indigenous languages (coexistence with the mainstream),
bilingual and multilingual
- Content-Based Language Instruction (CBI)
- Content and language integrated learning (CLIL)
- Immersion programs in indigenous languages
- Models of linguistic immersion in education encouraging additive
bilingualism.
- Creation of identity (silenced voices, transmission of local and indigenous
knowledge)
- Content in the curriculum: towards universal content or content localization
- Training of trainers at the pedagogical, linguistic and technological level 
- Applications for language teaching
- Technologies in the teaching of languages for the revitalization of
indigenous languages
- Use of ICT in early childhood education

Program Committee:
Multilingual Societies Area Chair:  Ane Ortega Etcheverry, Escuela
Universitaria de Magisterio Begoñako Andra Mari (España) 
Information technologies for multilingualism Area Chair:  Igor Boguslavsky,
Technical University of Madrid (Spain)  
Education in the plurilingual society Area Chair: Juan María Segura,
Asociación Iberoamericana de Educación Combinada (Argentina) 

Submission of Papers:

Authors can submit their proposals on both theoretical and practical
approaches related to any topic of the conference. Proposals must correspond
to unpublished original work. Authors can submit their work in any of the
following forms: 
- Regular Papers (8 pages max)
- Position papers ( 4 pages max)
Complete information on paper submission can be found at www.teclin17.org.
All accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings, in
electronic edition under an ISBN reference.




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