31.231, Calls: Computational Linguistics/France

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Subject: 31.231, Calls: Computational Linguistics/France

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Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2020 01:11:52
From: Menno van Zaanen [menno.vanzaanen at nwu.ac.za]
Subject: First Workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language

 
Full Title: First workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language 
Short Title: RAIL 

Date: 16-May-2020 - 16-May-2020
Location: Marseille, France 
Contact Person: Menno van Zaanen
Meeting Email: menno.vanzaanen at nwu.ac.za
Web Site: http://bit.ly/sadilar_rail2020 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 16-Feb-2020 

Meeting Description:

First workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL)

The South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR) is
organizing a workshop in the field of African Indigenous Language Resources.
This workshop aims to bring together researchers who are interested in
showcasing their research and thereby boosting the field of African indigenous
languages. This provides an overview of the current state-of-the-art and
emphasizes availability of African indigenous language resources, including
both data and tools. Additionally, it allows for information sharing among
researchers interested in African indigenous languages as well as starting
discussions on improving the quality and availability of the resources.  Many
African indigenous languages currently have no or very limited resources
available and, additionally, they are often structurally quite different from
more well-resourced languages, requiring the development and use of
specialized techniques.  By bringing together researchers from different
fields (e.g., (computational) linguistics, sociolinguistics, language
technology) to discuss the development of language resources for African
indigenous languages, we hope to boost research in this field.

The Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) workshop is an
interdisciplinary platform for researchers working on resources (data
collections, tools, etc.) specifically targeted towards African indigenous
languages.  It aims to create the conditions for the emergence of a scientific
community of practice that focuses on data, as well as tools, specifically
designed for or applied to indigenous languages found in Africa. With the
UNESCO supported International Year of Indigenous Languages, there is
currently much interest in indigenous languages.  The Permanent Forum on
Indigenous Issues mentioned that ''40 percent of the estimated 6,700 languages
spoken around the world were in danger of disappearing'' and the ''languages
represent complex systems of knowledge and communication and should be
recognized as a strategic national resource for development, peace building
and reconciliation.'' As such, the workshop falls within one of the hot topic
areas of this year's conference: ''Less Resourced and Endangered Languages''.

Organizing Committee:

Rooweither Mabuya
Phathutshedzo Ramukhadi
Mmasibidi Setaka
Valencia Wagner
Menno van Zaanen
South African centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa


Call for Papers:

Suggested topics include the following:
- Computational linguistics for African indigenous languages
- Descriptions of corpora or other data sets of African indigenous languages
- Building resources for (under resourced) African indigenous languages
- Developing and using African indigenous languages in the digital age
- Effectiveness of digital technologies for the development of African
indigenous languages
- Revealing unknown or unpublished existing resources for African indigenous
languages
- Developing desired resources for African indigenous languages
- Improving quality, availability and accessibility of African indigenous
language resources

Submission Guidelines:

RAIL 2020 asks for full papers from 4 pages to 8 pages (plus more pages for
references if needed), which must strictly follow the LREC stylesheet
(https://lrec2020.lrec-conf.org/en/submission2020/authors-kit/) which will be
available on the conference website. Papers must be submitted through START 
(https://www.softconf.com/lrec2020/RAIL2020/) and will be peer-reviewed. 

Important Dates:

Submission deadline: 16 February 2020
Date of notification: 13 March 2020
Camera ready copy deadline: 2 April 2020
Workshop at conference: Morning session, 16 May 2020




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