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CCURL 2018 <br>
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Collaboration and Computing for Under-Resourced Languages <br>
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"Sustaining knowledge diversity in the digital age" <br>
<br>
a Workshop to be held as part of the 11th edition of the
Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2018) at
the Phoenix Seagaia Resort in Miyazaki (Japan) <br>
<br>
3RD CALL FOR PAPERS <br>
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Date: 12 May 2018 <br>
Web site: <a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/AdYuC0YZJpC66zQ4cO4ALQ?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 <br>
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WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVE <br>
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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. 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 underresourced
(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. <br>
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TOPICS OF INTEREST <br>
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We solicit papers and posters related to the following
non-exclusive topics: <br>
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* models and methods for the development of language resources
for representing traditional knowledge; <br>
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* experiences about forms of collaboration among research,
industry and local communities; <br>
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* involvement of speakers' communities and ethical issues
related to knowledge protection; <br>
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* replicability of experiences; <br>
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* use of knowledge resources for cultural heritage
preservation and education; <br>
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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; <br>
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* innovative data collection and data annotation
methodologies; <br>
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* semantic and semantic web technologies for representing
indigenous knowledge systems in indigenous languages. <br>
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SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION <br>
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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/wrJ0CgZolKFVVJKNS74xCt?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). The formatting template must be strictly adhered to and
deadlines met. <br>
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IMPORTANT DATES <br>
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* Paper submission deadline: 13 January 2018 <br>
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* Notification of acceptance: 14 February 2018 <br>
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* Camera-ready paper: 7 March 2018 <br>
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* Workshop date: 12 May 2018 <br>
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IDENTIFY, DESCRIBE AND SHARE YOUR LRS! <br>
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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. <br>
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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/p7ywCjZroMFpp0DAUj6cIU?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. <br>
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ORGANISING COMMITTEE <br>
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Laurent Besacier, LIG-IMAG, France <br>
Laurette Pretorius, University of South Africa, South Africa <br>
Claudia Soria, CNR-ILC, Italy <br>
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The Workshop is endorsed by SIGUL, a joint ELRA-ISCA Special
Interest Group on Under-resourced Languages (<a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/21-FCk8vpKsmmvA4UNdLYP?domain=elra.info" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">http://www.elra.info/en/sig/sigul/</a>).
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PROGRAMME COMMITTEE <br>
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Tunde Adegbola, African Languages Technology Initiative,
Nigeria <br>
Gilles Adda, LIMSI/IMMI CNRS, France <br>
Shyam Agrawal, KIIT Group of Colleges, India <br>
Amir Aharoni, Wikimedia Foundation <br>
Antti Arppe, University of Alberta, Canada <br>
Victoria Arranz, ELRA/ELDA, France <br>
Martin Benjamin, the Kamusi Project, Switzerland <br>
Laurent Besacier, LIG-IMAG, France <br>
Bruce Birch, The Minjilang Endangered Languages Publications
Project, Australia <br>
Steven Bird, Charles Darwin University, Australia <br>
Luong Chi-Mai, IOIT, Vietnam <br>
Khalid Choukri, ELRA/ELDA, France <br>
Chris Cieri, LDC, USA <br>
Thierry Declerck, DFKI, Germany <br>
Sebastian Drude, The Vigdis International Centre for
Multilingualism and Intercultural <br>
Understanding, Iceland <br>
Vera Ferreira, CIDLeS - Interdisciplinary Centre for Social
and Language Documentation, Portugal <br>
Mikel Forcada, Universitat d'Alacant, Spain <br>
Dafydd Gibbon, Bielefeld University, Germany <br>
Tatjana Gornostaja, Tilde, Latvia <br>
John Judge, ADAPT DCU, Ireland <br>
Andras Kornai, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary <br>
Joseph Mariani, LIMSI-CNRS, France <br>
Yohei Murakami, Kyoto University, Japan <br>
Satoshi Nakamura, NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY,
Japan <br>
Girish Nath Jha, JNU, India <br>
Guy de Pauw, Textgain, Belgium <br>
Laurette Pretorius, University of South Africa, South Africa <br>
Sakriani Sakti, NAIST, Japan <br>
Kevin Scannell, Saint Louis University, Missouri, USA <br>
Claudia Soria, CNR-ILC, Italy <br>
Oliver Stegen, SIL International, USA <br>
Francis Tyers, Moscow Higher School of Economics, Russia <br>
Trond Trosterud, Arctic University of Norway <br>
Kadri Vider, University of Tartu, Estonia <br>
Eveline Wandl-Vogt, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria <br>
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<div class="moz-txt-sig"><span class="moz-txt-tag">-- <br>
</span>Claudia Soria <br>
Researcher <br>
Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "A. Zampolli" <br>
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche <br>
Via Moruzzi 1 <br>
56124 Pisa <br>
Italy <br>
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Tel. +39 050 3153166 <br>
Skype clausor </div>
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