32.1487, Calls: Comp Ling/Thailand

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LINGUIST List: Vol-32-1487. Thu Apr 29 2021. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 32.1487, Calls: Comp Ling/Thailand

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Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2021 14:16:50
From: Haim Dubossarsky [hd423 at cam.ac.uk]
Subject: 2nd International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change 2021 (ACL 2021)

Full Title: 2nd International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change 2021 (ACL 2021) 
Short Title: LChange 2021 

Date: 05-Aug-2021 - 06-Aug-2021
Location: Bangkok, Thailand 
Contact Person: Yang Xu
Meeting Email: yangxu at cs.toronto.edu
Web Site: https://languagechange.org/events/2021-acl-lchange/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 03-May-2021 

Meeting Description:

2nd International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language
Change 2021 (LChange’21)
Co-located with ACL 2021, to be held in Bangkok, on August 5-6, 2021

Human language changes over time, driven by the dual needs of adapting to
ongoing sociocultural and technological development in the world and
facilitating efficient communication. In particular, novel words are coined or
borrowed from other languages, while obsolete words slide into obscurity.
Similarly, words may acquire novel meanings or lose existing meanings. This
workshop explores these phenomena by bringing to bear state-of-the-art
computational methodologies, theories and digital text resources on exploring
the time-varying nature of human language.

Although there exists rich empirical work on language change from historical
linguistics, sociolinguistics and cognitive linguistics, computational
approaches to the problem of language change particularly how word forms and
meanings evolve have only begun to take shape over the past decade or so, with
exemplary work on semantic change and lexical replacement. The motivation has
long been related to search, and understanding in diachronic archives. The
emergence of long-term and large-scale digital corpora was the prerequisite
and has resulted in a slightly different set of problems for this strand of
study than have traditionally been studied in historical linguistics. As an
example, studies of lexical replacement have largely focused on named entity
change (names of e.g., countries and people that change over time) because of
the large effect these name changes have for temporal information retrieval.

The workshop builds upon its first iteration in 2019, where we received
over 50 submissions and had over 65 attendees. Just like the first one, the
second LChange workshop will be co-located with ACL 2021, and, pending on the
situation, a hybrid event with possible online participation.

Second Call for Papers: 

** DEADLINE EXTENDED to May 3**

Human language changes over time, driven by the dual needs for adapting to
sociocultural and technological development and facilitating efficient
communication. As a result, for example, some words may acquire novel meanings
or lose existing meanings; novel words may be coined or borrowed from other
languages, while obsolete words slide into obscurity. This workshop builds on
its first edition that featured over 50 submissions and 65 attendees. The
goals are to 1) present cutting-edge research on computational approaches to
historical language change with the primary focus on digital text corpora, and
2) build and strengthen the community of interdisciplinary scholars on
historical language change.

*Important Dates*
 - May 3, 2021: Paper submission
 - May 28, 2021: Notification of acceptance
 - June 7, 2021: Camera-ready papers due
 - August 5-6, 2021: Workshop date

*Keynote Talks*
We will have two keynotes:
Alexander Koplenig (Leibniz-Institute for the German Language in Mannheim)
Title of talk: Two challenges we face when analyzing diachronic corpora

and

Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm (Stockholm University) and Tatiana Nikitina (LLACAN –
“Languages and cultures of Africa”, CNRS)
Title of talk: Linguisticdiversity as a testing ground for the study of
semantic change

*Submissions*
We accept two types of submissions via SoftConf, long papers, and short papers
all following the ACL2021 style, and the ACL submission policy.

Long papers may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus unlimited
references, short papers may consist of up to four (4) pages of content; final
versions will be given one additional page of content so that reviewers'
comments can be taken into account. Submissions should be sent in electronic
forms, using the Softconf START conference management system. The submission
site will be announced on the workshop page once available.

We invite original research papers from a wide range of topics, including but
not limited to:
* Novel methods for detecting diachronic semantic change and lexical
replacement
* Automatic discovery and quantitative evaluation of laws of language change
* Computational theories and generative models of language change
* Sense-aware (semantic) change analysis
* Diachronic word sense disambiguation
* Novel methods for diachronic analysis of low-resource languages
* Novel methods for diachronic linguistic data visualization
* Novel applications and implications of language change detection
* Quantification of sociocultural influences on language change
* Cross-linguistic, phylogenetic, and developmental approaches to language
change
* Novel datasets for cross-linguistic and diachronic analyses of language

Submissions are open to all, and are to be submitted anonymously. All papers
will be refereed through a double-blind peer review process by at least three
reviewers with final acceptance decisions made by the workshop organizers.

The workshop is scheduled to last for one day, either August 5 or 6. Contact
us at PC-ACLws2021 at languagechange.org if you have any questions.

*Workshop organizers*
Nina Tahmasebi, University of Gothenburg
Adam Jatowt, University of Innsbruck
Yang Xu, University of Toronto
Simon Hengchen, University of Gothenburg
Syrielle Montariol, University Paris-Saclay
Haim Dubossarsky, University of Cambridge

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