<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Dear Colleagues, <br></div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><br></div><div>This is just a reminder about the special issue on Tibetan NLP and other Himalayan Languages for <i>Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing</i> (TALLIP). The deadline is 1 November. In some cases I understand people will need more time, and if this is the case, please just write me directly (as some have already done). <br></div><div><br></div><div>very best, <br></div><div>Nathan<br></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 10:26 PM Nathan Hill <<a href="mailto:nh36@soas.ac.uk">nh36@soas.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Colleagues, <br></div><div><br></div><div>It is my pleasure to announce this call for papers for articles on Natural Language Processing for Tibetan and other Himalayan Languages for a special issue of <i>Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing</i> (TALLIP). <br></div><div><br></div><div>Deadline: 1 November 2019, <br></div><div>Submit online at -- <a href="https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tallip" target="_blank">https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tallip</a></div><div></div><div><br>
Tibetan is a language as old as English and wish a comparably rich literary tradition; it is spoken by circa 6 million people both inside and outside of China. Tibetan NLP began relatively recently, but great progress has been made recently, which research teams working in China, the US, the UK, and India. However, the research of these teams<br>
is spread very thinly among venues in Tibetan studies, linguistics, NLP, and computer science. The needs of these various audiences has often meant that the published versions of research have not been able<br>
to include all of the information that allows for replicability. As a venue focused specifically on underresourced Asian languages TALLIP provides the perfect place to showcase the progress being made in Tibetan NLP. This special issue will consolidate the progress made so far, and showcase the most recently developments.<br>
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The special issue encourages submissions on all aspects of Tibetan NLP (OCR, tokenization, word breaking, chunking, parsing, topic modeling, information extraction, speech synthesis,etc.). <br></div><div><br></div><div style="margin-left:40px"><i>Guest Editorial Board</i></div><div style="margin-left:40px">Nathan Hill (SOAS, University of London)<br></div><div><div style="margin-left:40px">Long Congjun (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)<br></div><div style="margin-left:40px">Kurt Keutzer (UC Berkeley)</div><div style="margin-left:40px">Andrew
Hardie (Lancaster)</div></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><br>--</div><div>Dr Nathan W. Hill<br>Reader in Tibetan and Historical Linguistics<br>Head of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures</div><div>UK Director, London Confucius Institute</div><div>Departmental Research Coordinator</div><div>Unit of Assessment Coordinator, Linguistics<br></div><div>SOAS, University of London<br>Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG, UK<br>Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4512<br>Room 396<br>--<br>Profile -- <a href="http://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff46254.php" target="_blank">http://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff46254.php</a><br>Tibetan Studies at SOAS -- <a href="http://www.soas.ac.uk/cia/tibetanstudies/" target="_blank">http://www.soas.ac.uk/cia/tibetanstudies/</a><br>--</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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