30.548, Calls: Comp Ling, Lang Documentation, Phonetics, Phonology, Socioling/Austria

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Subject: 30.548, Calls: Comp Ling, Lang Documentation, Phonetics, Phonology, Socioling/Austria

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Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2019 18:20:59
From: Barbara Schuppler [b.schuppler at tugraz.at]
Subject: Satellite Workshop at Interspeech 2019, Graz, Austria: Pluricentric Languages in Speech Technology

 
Full Title: Satellite Workshop at Interspeech 2019, Graz, Austria: Pluricentric Languages in Speech Technology 

Date: 13-Sep-2019 - 14-Sep-2019
Location: Graz, Austria 
Contact Person: Barbara Schuppler
Meeting Email: b.schuppler at tugraz.at
Web Site: http://www.pluricentriclanguages.org/ndv-interspeech-workshop-graz-2019/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Language Documentation; Phonetics; Phonology; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 05-Apr-2019 

Meeting Description:

Pluricentric languages (PLCLs) are a common type among the languages of the
world. Presently 43 languages have been identified to belong to this category.
These languages are being used in at least two nations having an official
function there and forming national varieties of their own with specific
linguistic and pragmatic features. In addition to the variation on the level
of national standard varieties, there is also so called “second level
variation” on a regional and local level that is often being used in diglossic
speech situations where code switching is a salient feature with two or more
varieties being used within the same utterance. The amount of linguistic
variation in pluricentric languages is considerable and poses a challenge for
speech recognition in particular and human language technology in general.

The motivation for this sattelite workshop is the observation that
pluricentric languages have mainly been described linguistically but not
sufficiently been dealt with in the field of speech technology. This is
particularly the case with the so-called “non-dominant varieties”. This
sattelite workshop focuses on PLCLs specific topics such as the development of
methods for creating resources (e.g., how to elicitate code switching, how to
develop annotation tools that are variant-independent), novel statistical
methods for speech and language technology needed to deal with small data sets
(e.g., OOV handling in language modeling), speech synthesis for non-dominant
varieties, and how to use speech technology to aid quantitative
sociolinguistic studies.


Call for Papers:

We ask for original Abstracts of 400-600 words, which will be peer-reviewed
and published as a Book of Abstracts online. 

Abstracts should be sent to: rudolf.muhr at uni-graz.at
(Call is open from 01 February - 05 April 2019)

A special issue of a major journal will be later published containing
peer-reviewed substantially extended versions of the abstracts accepted to the
conference.

For the full CfP visit:
http://www.pluricentriclanguages.org/ndv-interspeech-workshop-graz-2019/




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