[RNLD] Call for Papers: All Together Now? Computational Modeling of Polysynthetic Languages, a workshop co-located with COLING 2018

[Andrew Tanner]

Dear list,

Just passing on a request to share this call for papers for a polysynthesis
workshop in Santa Fe in August.

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*Request for Papers*



*All Together Now?  Computational Modeling of Polysynthetic Languages*

*25-26 August, 2018, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA*

*Co-located with COLING 2018 *http://coling2018.org/

*http://languagescience.umd.edu/poly <http://languagescience.umd.edu/poly>*



Polysynthetic languages are languages where words typically consist of many
morphemes, each with independent meaning. Polysynthetic languages occur all
over the world. In particular, the Indigenous languages of the Americas are
polysynthetic, as well as many languages of Australia, Siberia and New
Guinea.



This workshop aims to bring together specialists in language technology and
linguists on one hand with language practitioners and revitalization
experts on the other. Our goal is to foster an informed dialogue about
these languages with contributions from all workshop attendees, so that
polysynthetic languages can benefit from most recent advances of language
technology, in a way that is helpful, productive and addresses immediate
needs of the language communities. The workshop has been planned around
COLING to ensure that computational advances for these complex languages
both draws on the knowledge of related communities and contributes to their
needs.



We seek two types of contribution:

(1) original research papers which present results of linguistic and
computational linguistic analysis;

(2)  experience papers which present issues such as educational needs,
policy processes or practical applications.

The former type of paper follows the expected academic requirements for
research papers; the latter is more experiential so could, by definition,
be of a different nature from the typical conference paper.  Submitters
will be asked to categorize their papers as either type (1) or (2) or both,
which will then drive the selection of reviewers.  This will ensure that
all papers are reviewed fairly.



*Important Dates:* We will have two opportunities for submissions. For
those not submitting to the main COLING conference, relevant dates are:

- Workshop pre-submission deadline: May 1, 2018

- Notification: May 30, 2018

- Camera-ready submission deadline: June 30, 2018

For those who might also submit to the main conference, dates established
by COLING organizers are:

- Workshop submission deadline: May 25, 2018

- Notification: June 20, 2018

- Camera-ready submission deadline: June 30, 2018

Note that this very short deadline for authors means that pre-submissions
from those authors who are not impacted by the main conference will be
accepted earlier.

*More Information:  *http://languagescience.umd.edu/poly



*Workshop Organizers:*

Primary organizer: Judith L. Klavans, Army Research Laboratory

Co-organizers (alphabetically listed):

Anna Kazantseva, National Research Council of Canada

Roland Kuhn, National Research Council of Canada

Stephen LaRocca, Army Research Laboratory

Jeffrey Micher, Army Research Laboratory and Carnegie Mellon University

Maria Polinsky, University of Maryland

Omer Preminger, University of Maryland

Clare Voss, Army Research Laboratory



*Program Committee:*



Antti Arppe, U. Alberta

David Harrison, Swarthmore College

 Jeffrey Micher, ARL

Mark Baker, Rutgers University

Gary Holton, UHawai'i-Mānoa

Marianne Mithun, UCSB

Steven Bird, Charles Darwin U

Marianne Ignace, Simon Fraser U

Timothy Montler, U N Texas

Aaron Broadwell,  U of Florida

Roland Kuhn, NRC (Canada)

 Rachel Nordlinger, U Melbourne

David Chiang, U Notre Dame

 Stephen LaRocca, ARL

Boyan Onyshkevych, DARPA

Lauren Clemens, SUNY Albany

Lori Levin, CMU

Maria Polinsky, UMd

Richard Compton,  U de Québec à Montréal

Gina-Anne Levow, U Wash

Omer Preminger, UMd

 Christopher Cox, Carleton U

Patrick Littell, CMU, NRC (Canada)

Carl Rubino, IARPA

Amy Dahlstrom, U of Chicago

Alexa Little - 7000 Languages

Lane Schwartz, UIUC

Henry Davis, U British Columbia

Jordan Lachler, U of Alberta

 Richard Sproat, Google

Jeff Good, SUNY  at Buffalo

Mitch Marcus, U of Penn

 Clare Voss, ARL

 Nizar Habash, NYU Abu Dabi

Michael Maxwell, CASL-UMd

Michelle Yuan, MIT
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