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font-size: 14px;" lang="x-unicode">[Apologies for multiple
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*Submission deadline extended to 21 January 2018*<br>
<br>
CCURL 2018 <br>
<br>
Collaboration and Computing for Under-Resourced Languages
<br>
<br>
"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>
<br>
Date: 12 May 2018 <br>
Web site: <a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/ojzPCyoNK5U94n1QcNp6-d?domain=ilc.cnr.it" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">http://www.ilc.cnr.it/ccurl2018</a>
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NEW Submission deadline: 21 January 2018 <br>
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WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVE <br>
<br>
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>
<br>
TOPICS OF INTEREST <br>
<br>
We solicit papers and posters related to the following
non-exclusive topics: <br>
<br>
* models and methods for the development of language
resources for representing traditional knowledge; <br>
<br>
* experiences about forms of collaboration among research,
industry and local communities; <br>
<br>
* involvement of speakers' communities and ethical issues
related to knowledge protection; <br>
<br>
* replicability of experiences; <br>
<br>
* use of knowledge resources for cultural heritage
preservation and education; <br>
<br>
* use of video and audio as complementary or alternative
ways to writing in order to accommodate languages not
spoken or with unstable orthographies; <br>
<br>
* innovative data collection and data annotation
methodologies; <br>
<br>
* semantic and semantic web technologies for representing
indigenous knowledge systems in indigenous languages. <br>
<br>
SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION <br>
<br>
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/zQVXCzvOL5hJrL1ycwmGK9?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>
<br>
IMPORTANT DATES <br>
<br>
* NEW Paper submission deadline: 21 January 2018 <br>
<br>
* Notification of acceptance: 14 February 2018 <br>
<br>
* Camera-ready paper: 7 March 2018 <br>
<br>
* Workshop date: 12 May 2018 <br>
<br>
IDENTIFY, DESCRIBE AND SHARE YOUR LRS! <br>
<br>
* 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>
<br>
* 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/wEbKCANZ0oh7RYQPu2k5lh?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>
<br>
ORGANISING COMMITTEE <br>
<br>
Laurent Besacier, LIG-IMAG, France <br>
Laurette Pretorius, University of South Africa, South
Africa <br>
Claudia Soria, CNR-ILC, Italy <br>
<br>
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/IYwXCBNZkphEnoGkurwq_x?domain=elra.info" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">http://www.elra.info/en/sig/sigul/</a>).
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PROGRAMME COMMITTEE <br>
<br>
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
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">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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