35.450, Calls: The Third Workshop on NLP Applications to Field Linguistics

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Subject: 35.450, Calls: The Third Workshop on NLP Applications to Field Linguistics

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Date: 07-Feb-2024
From: Anna Postnikova [anna.postn90 at gmail.com]
Subject: The Third Workshop on NLP Applications to Field Linguistics

Full Title: The Third Workshop on NLP Applications to Field
Linguistics
Short Title: Field Matters 2024

Date: 16-Aug-2024 - 16-Aug-2024
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Contact Person: Anna Postnikova
Meeting Email: fieldmattersworkshop at gmail.com
Web Site: https://field-matters.github.io/

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 17-May-2024

Meeting Description:

Field linguistics plays a crucial role in the development of
linguistic theory and universal language modelling, as it provides
uncontested, the only way to obtain structural data about the rapidly
diminishing diversity of natural languages.

The Field matters workshop aims to bring together the urgent needs of
field linguists and the vast community of NLP practitioners,
developing up-to-date NLP tools for easier, faster, more reliable data
collection and annotation.

Call for Papers:

The Third Workshop on NLP Applications to Field Linguistics - Field
Matters 2024

Field linguistics plays a crucial role in the development of
linguistic theory and universal language modeling, as it provides
uncontested, the only way to obtain structural data about the rapidly
diminishing diversity of natural languages.

The Field matters workshop aims to bring together the urgent needs of
field linguists and the vast community of NLP practitioners,
developing up-to-date NLP tools for easier, faster, more reliable data
collection and annotation.

This year we are adding a special track dedicated to the indigenous
languages of Thailand and South-East Asia. We encourage you to submit
theses on this topic, although general submissions are also welcomed.

We are particularly interested in the following topics:
- Application of NLP to field linguistics workflow;
- The impact, benefits and harms of NLP-assisted fieldwork;
- Transfer learning for under-resourced language processing;
- The use of fieldwork data to build NLP systems;
- Modeling morphology and syntax of typologically diverse languages in
the low resource setting;
- Speech processing for under-resourced languages;
- Machine-readable field linguistic datasets and computational
analysis of field linguistics datasets;
- Using technology to preserve culture via language;
- Improving ways of interaction with Indigenous communities;
- Special track: Indigenous languages of Thailand and South-East Asia.

We accept three types of papers:
- non-archival submissions: abstracts (2-page) or papers (up to
8-page) that can present already published work or work in progress
(note that we accept non-archival submissions even after the main
deadline);
- short archival submissions: 4-page papers that present new work;
- long archival submissions: 8-page papers that present new work.
The special track submissions can be either long or short and either
archival or non-archival.

We offer the following ways of presenting the papers:
- the main section;
- poster sections.
- The way a paper will be presented will be determined during the
review process.

All submissions should be anonymized. We are subjected to the ACL
Anonymity Policy. ACL changed its policy for review and citation, and
no anonymity period will be required.

Dual submissions with the main conference are allowed, but authors
must declare dual submission by entering the paper’s main conference
submission id. The reviews for the submission for the main conference
will be automatically forwarded to the workshop and taken into
consideration when your paper is evaluated. Authors of dual-submission
papers accepted to the main conference should retract them from the
workshop by.

Papers posted to preprint servers such as arxiv can be submitted
without any restrictions on when they were posted.

The workshop will run its own review process, and papers can be
submitted directly to the workshop via OpenReview (https://openreview.
net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2024/Workshop/Field_Matters).

The workshop will take place at ACL 2024 (https://2024.aclweb.org/).
Both papers and abstracts must follow the ACL 2024 format
(https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files). Please do not modify
these style files.

Workshop website: https://field-matters.github.io/2024
Contact Email: fieldmattersworkshop at gmail.com

Organizers:
- Oleg Serikov (KAUST, HSE University)
- Elena Klyachko (HSE University)
- Francis Tyers (Indiana University)
- Ekaterina Vylomova (University of Melbourne)
- Éric Le Ferrand (Boston College)
- Saliha Muradoğlu (The Australian National University (ANU))
- Ekaterina Voloshina (Independent Researcher)
- Anna Postnikova (Independent Researcher)

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