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font-size: 14px;" lang="x-unicode">Collaboration and Computing for
Under-Resourced Languages - Sustaining knowledge diversity in the
digital age (CCURL 2018)
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1st Call for Papers
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Date: 12 May, 2018. To be held as part of the 11th edition of the
Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), at the
Phoenix Seagaia Resort, Miyazaki, Japan.
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Website: <a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/9OVEB1S5n3d7IJ?domain=ilc.cnr.it" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">http://www.ilc.cnr.it/ccurl2018</a>
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Submission deadline: 13 January 2018
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<b class="moz-txt-star"><span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span>Workshop
Description and Objective<span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span></b>
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The third CCURL Workshop, entitled “Sustaining knowledge diversity
in the digital age”, will take place on Saturday, 12 May 2018 in
Miyazaki, Japan, in conjunction with LREC 2018. This workshop aims
at gathering together academics, industrial researchers, knowledge
experts, digital language resource and technology providers,
software developers, but also language activists and community
representatives in order to identify the current capacity for and
the difficulties in creating and sustaining the digital
representation of traditional knowledge.
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The diversity of cultures is a distinctive footprint of the way
humans have been coping with the environment over time; unique
visions of the world and knowledge are expressed by indigenous
languages. Preservation and sharing of the traditional knowledge
encoded by languages is being increasingly recognised as a step
towards a sustainable and durable interaction of mankind with the
environment. However, as language diversity is decreasing, the
maintenance and transmission of such knowledge is at risk. Digital
language resources can help avoid the disappearance of diverse
knowledge systems, ensure their preservation and transmission, and
foster their cross-fertilisation. The vast majority of this
knowledge is poorly represented in digital form (only four out of
the 522 indigenous languages of Latin America are represented by
Wikipedia projects, for example). Moreover, as this knowledge is
encoded in under-resourced (minority, endangered or minoritised)
languages, specific methods and models of resource development are
required to circumvent the problems affecting low-resourced
languages, such as low investments, data sparsity, fragmentation
of efforts, speaker communities’ lack of involvement, to cite just
a few. Specific problems arise as well: low digital literacy, the
issue of community ownership and control over content, or the need
to include audio and video to accommodate languages that are
unwritten or having no orthography standard.
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<b class="moz-txt-star"><span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span>Topics
of Interest<span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span></b>
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We solicit papers and posters related to the following
non-exclusive topics:
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- models and methods for the development of language resources for
representing traditional knowledge
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- experiences about forms of collaboration among research,
industry and local communities
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- involvement of speakers’ communities and ethical issues related
to knowledge protection
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- replicability of experiences
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- use of knowledge resources for cultural heritage preservation
and education
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- use of video and audio as complementary or alternative ways to
writing in order to accommodate languages not spoken or with
unstable orthographies
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- innovative data collection and data annotation methodologies
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- semantic and semantic web technologies for representing
indigenous knowledge systems in indigenous languages.
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<b class="moz-txt-star"><span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span>Submission
and Publication<span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span></b>
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We accept submission of long papers (up to 8 pages), short papers
(up to 4 pages) and poster papers (up to 4 pages) to be presented
as a long or short oral presentation at the workshop. The papers
of the workshop will be published in online proceedings.
Papers
are expected to address the workshop main theme. They can contain
an analysis and insight into existing methods and problems; a
description of resources; an overview of the literature or of the
current initiatives, or a combination of the above. Authors must
declare if part of the paper contains material previously
published elsewhere.
Each submission will be reviewed by three
programme committee members. In compliance with the LREC rules,
papers must not be anonymized.
Papers should be formatted
according to the stylesheet provided by LREC 2018 (<a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/lqm9Bzfv763JCn?domain=lrec2018.lrec-conf.org" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">http://lrec2018.lrec-conf.org/en/submission/authors-kit/</a>)
and should not exceed 8 pages, including references and
appendices. Papers should be submitted in PDF unprotected format
to the workshop START page (URL will be provided in due time).
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The formatting template must be strictly adhered to and deadlines
met.
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<b class="moz-txt-star"><span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span>Important
Dates<span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span></b>
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- Paper submission deadline: 13 January 2018
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- Notification of acceptance: 14 February 2018
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- Camera-ready paper: 7 March 2018
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- Workshop date: 12 May 2018
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*Identify, Describe and Share your LRs!*
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- Describing your LRs in the LRE Map is now a normal practice in
the submission procedure of LREC (introduced in 2010 and adopted
by other conferences). To continue the efforts initiated at LREC
2014 about “Sharing LRs” (data, tools, web-services, etc.),
authors will have the possibility, when submitting a paper, to
upload LRs in a special LREC repository. This effort of sharing
LRs, linked to the LRE Map for their description, may become a new
“regular” feature for conferences in our field, thus contributing
to creating a common repository where everyone can deposit and
share data.
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- As scientific work requires accurate citations of referenced
work so as to allow the community to understand the whole context
and also replicate the experiments conducted by other researchers,
LREC 2018 endorses the need to uniquely Identify LRs through the
use of the International Standard Language Resource Number (ISLRN,
<a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/z4n0BMSZQGOzfW?domain=islrn.org" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated">www.islrn.org</a>),
a Persistent Unique Identifier to be assigned to each Language
Resource. The assignment of ISLRNs to LRs cited in LREC papers
will be offered at submission time.
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Organising Committee*
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- Laurent Besacier, LIG-IMAG, France
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- Laurette Pretorius, University of South Africa, South Africa
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- Claudia Soria, CNR-ILC, Italy
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The Workshop is endorsed by SIGUL, the joint ELRA-ISCA Special
Interest Group on under-resourced languages (<a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/rNKkB3tv0goXCV?domain=elra.info" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">http://www.elra.info/en/sig/sigul/</a>)
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Programme Committee
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- Tunde Adegbola, African Languages Technology Initiative, Nigeria
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- Gilles Adda, LIMSI/IMMI CNRS, France
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- Shyam Agrawal, KIIT Group of Colleges, India
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- Antti Arppe, University of Alberta, Canada
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- Victoria Arranz, ELRA/ELDA, France
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- Martin Benjamin, the Kamusi Project, Switzerland
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- Laurent Besacier, LIG-IMAG, France
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- Bruce Birch, The Minjilang Endangered Languages Publications
Project, Australia
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- Steven Bird, Charles Darwin University, Australia
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- Luong Chi-Mai, IOIT, Vietnam
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- Khalid Choukri, ELRA/ELDA, France
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- Chris Cieri, LDC, USA
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- Thierry Declerck, DFKI, Germany
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- Sebastian Drude, The Vigdís International Centre for
Multilingualism and Intercultural Understanding, Iceland
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- Vera Ferreira, CIDLeS - Interdisciplinary Centre for Social and
Language Documentation, Portugal
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- Mikel Forcada, Universitat d’Alacant, Spain
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- Dafydd Gibbon, Bielefeld University, Germany
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- Tatjana Gornostaja, Tilde, Latvia
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- John Judge, ADAPT DCU, Ireland
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- Andras Kornai, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
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- Joseph Mariani, LIMSI-CNRS, France
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- Yohei Murakami, Kyoto University, Japan
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- Satoshi Nakamura, NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY,
Japan
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- Girish Nath Jha, JNU, India
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- Guy de Pauw, Textgain, Belgium
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- Laurette Pretorius, University of South Africa, South Africa
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- Sakriani Sakti, NAIST, Japan
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- Kevin Scannell, Saint Louis University, Missouri, USA
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- Claudia Soria, CNR-ILC, Italy
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- Oliver Stegen, SIL International, USA
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- Francis Tyers, Moscow Higher School of Economics, Russia
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- Trond Trosterud, Tromsø University, Norway
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- Kadri Vider, University of Tartu, Estonia
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- Eveline Wandl-Vogt, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria
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<div class="moz-txt-sig"><span class="moz-txt-tag">-- <br>
</span>Claudia Soria
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Researcher
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Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "A. Zampolli"
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Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
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Via Moruzzi 1
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56124 Pisa
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Italy
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Tel. +39 050 3153166
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Skype clausor
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Claudia Soria
Researcher
Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "A. Zampolli"
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
Via Moruzzi 1
56124 Pisa
Italy
Tel. +39 050 3153166
Skype clausor</pre>
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