29.3093, Calls: Computational Linguistics/Estonia

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Subject: 29.3093, Calls: Computational Linguistics/Estonia

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Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2018 16:29:20
From: Tommi Pirinen [tommi.antero.pirinen at uni-hamburg.de]
Subject: Fifth International Workshop for Computational Linguistics of Uralic Languages

 
Full Title: Fifth International Workshop for Computational Linguistics of Uralic Languages 
Short Title: IWCLUL2019 

Date: 07-Jan-2019 - 08-Jan-2019
Location: Tartu, Estonia 
Contact Person: Tommi Pirinen
Meeting Email: iwclul at googlegroups.com
Web Site: https://sisu.ut.ee/iwclul2019 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Language Family(ies): Uralic 

Call Deadline: 09-Nov-2018 

Meeting Description:

The purpose of the conference series International Workshop on Computational
Linguistics for Uralic Languages is to bring together researchers working on
computational approaches to working with these languages. We accept long and
short papers as well as tutorial proposals working on the following languages:

Finnish, Hungarian, Estonian, Võro, the Sámi languages, Komi (Zyrian,
Permyak), Mordvin (Erzya, Moksha), Mari (Hill, Meadow), Udmurt, Nenets
(Tundra, Forest), Enets, Nganasan, Selkup, Mansi, Khanty, Veps, Karelian
(Olonets), Karelian, Ingrian (Izhorian), Votic, Livonian, Ludic, and other
related languages.

All Uralic languages exhibit rich morphological structure, which makes
processing them challenging for state-of-the-art computational linguistic
approaches, the majority also suffer from a lack of resources and many are
endangered.


Call for Papers:

All Uralic languages exhibit rich morphological structure, which makes
processing them challenging for state-of-the-art computational linguistic
approaches, the majority also suffer from a lack of resources and many are
endangered.

Research papers should be original, substantial and unpublished research, that
can describe work-in-progress systems, frameworks, standards and evaluation
schemes. Demos and tutorials will present systems and standards towards the
goal of interoperability and unification of different projects, applications
and research groups Appropriate topics include (but are not limited to):

- Parsers, analysers and processing pipelines of Uralic languages
- Lexical databases, electronic dictionaries
- Finished end-user applications aimed at Uralic languages, such as spelling
or grammar checkers, machine translation or speech processing
- Evaluation methods and gold standards, tagged corpora, treebanks
- Reports on language-independent or unsupervised methods as applied to Uralic
languages
- Surveys and review articles on subjects related to computational linguistics
for one or more Uralic languages
- Any work that aims at combining efforts and reducing duplication of work
- How to elicit activity from the language community, agitation campaigns,
games with a purpose

To maximise the possibility of reproducibility, replication and reuse, we
particularly encourage submissions which present free/open-source language
resources and make use of free/open-source software.  One of the aims of this
gathering is to avoid unnecessary duplicated work in field of Uralistics by
establishing connections and interoperability standards between researchers
and research groups working at different sites. We have also identified a
serious lack of gold standards and evaluation metrics for all Uralic languages
including those with national support, any work towards better resources in
these fields will be greatly appreciated.

In this year’s edition, we encourage people to present comparative evaluations
of different NLP methods as applied to Uralic languages. With all the buzz
round neural and deep-learning methods: Are they applicable to Uralic
languages, which in general have very little training data --- even
monolingual data --- and also richer morphology than the more widely treated
Indo-European languages.

Abstract Submission:

Via Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwclul2019




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