31.3708, Calls: Slavic; Comp Ling/Ukraine

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Subject: 31.3708, Calls: Slavic; Comp Ling/Ukraine

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Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2020 20:46:09
From: Roman Yangarber [Roman.Yangarber at cs.helsinki.fi]
Subject: 8th Workshop on Balto-Slavic Natural Language Processing

 
Full Title: 8th Workshop on Balto-Slavic Natural Language Processing 
Short Title: BSNLP 

Date: 19-Apr-2021 - 19-Apr-2021
Location: Kyiv, Ukraine 
Contact Person: Roman Yangarber
Meeting Email: Roman.Yangarber at cs.helsinki.fi
Web Site: http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/call-for-papers.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Language Family(ies): Slavic Subgroup 

Call Deadline: 01-Feb-2021 

Meeting Description:

The 8th edition of the BSNLP Workshop at EACL
Sponsored by SIGSLAV: the ACL Special Interest Group on Slavic NLP.

The goal of this Workshop is to bring together researchers from academia and
industry working on NLP for Balto-Slavic languages. In particular, the
Workshop aims to stimulate research and foster the creation of tools and
resources for these languages. The Workshop will provide a forum for
exchanging ideas, discussing current problems, and making the available
resources more widely known.


Call for Papers: 

IMPORTANT DATES:
First Call for papers: 27 November 2020
Second Call for papers: 18 December 2020
Submission deadline: 1 February 2021
Notification of acceptance: 18 February 2021
Camera-ready papers due: 1 March 2021
Workshop: 19 or 20 April 2021

THEME and MOTIVATION: 
The languages from the Balto-Slavic group play an important role due to their
diverse cultural heritage and widespread use — with over 400 million speakers
worldwide. The current political and economic developments in Central and
Eastern Europe bring Balto-Slavic societies and languages into focus in terms
of rapid technological advancement and expanding consumer markets.

This year, we are especially glad to have an opportunity to organize BSNLP in
a Slavic-speaking country.

The linguistic phenomena specific to the Balto-Slavic languages — such as rich
morphological inflection and free word order — make the construction of NLP
tools for these languages a challenging and intriguing task.

The goal of this Workshop is to bring together researchers from academia and
industry working on NLP for Balto-Slavic languages. In particular, the
Workshop aims to stimulate research and foster the creation of tools and
resources for these languages. The Workshop will provide a forum for
exchanging ideas, discussing current problems, and making the available
resources more widely known. One fascinating aspect of this language group is
the striking structural similarity, as well as an easily recognizable core
vocabulary and inflectional inventory spanning the entire group of languages —
despite a lack of mutual intelligibility — which creates a special environment
in which researchers can appreciate the shared problems and solutions, and
communicate naturally. 

This Workshop continues the proud tradition established by the 7 previous
BSNLP Workshops.

This Workshop addresses Natural Language Processing (NLP) for the Balto-Slavic
languages. The NLP tasks in urgent need of attention include:
- morphological analysis and generation,
- morphosyntactic tagging,
- syntactic and semantic parsing,
- lexical semantics,
- named-entity recognition,
- text normalisation and processing non-standard language
- coreference resolution,
- information extraction,
- question answering,
- information retrieval,
- text summarization,
- machine translation,
- development of linguistic resources,
- disinformation detection,
- fact verification.

SHARED TASK: 
This year's BSNLP features the 3rd edition of the Shared Task on Multilingual
Named Entity Recognition in Slavic languages, in recognizing mentions of named
entities in Web documents in Slavic languages, lemmatization, and
cross-language matching. The shared task covers Bulgarian, Czech, Polish,
Russian, Slovene, and Ukrainian.

Information about the Shared Task, as well as training data, is available on
the Workshop web page.

SUBMISSION: 
Please see the workshop page at:
http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/call-for-papers.html




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