<div dir="ltr">***** Apologies for cross-posting *****<br><br>Call for papers<br><div><br>The
purpose of the Second International Workshop on Computational
Linguistics for Uralic Languages is to bring together researchers
working on computational approaches to working with these languages. We
accept papers and tutorial proposals working on the following languages:
Finnish, Hungarian, Estonian, Voru, Setu, the Sámi languages, Komi
(Zyrian, Permyak), Mordvin (Erzya, Moksha), Mari (Hill, Meadow), Udmurt,
Nenets (Tundra, Forest), Enets (Tundra, Forest), Nganasan, Selkup,
Mansi, Khanty, Veps, Karelian, Ingrian (Izhorian), Votic, Livonian,
Ludic, Kven and other related languages.<br><br>All Uralic languages
exhibit rich morphological structure, which makes processing them
challenging for state-of-the-art computational linguistic approaches,
the majority also suffer from a lack of resources and many are
endangered.<br><br>Research papers should be original, substantial and
unpublished research, that can describe work-in-progress systems,
frameworks, standards and evaluation schemes. Demos and tutorials will
present systems and standards towards the goal of interoperability and
unification of different projects, applications and research groups.
Appropriate topics include (but are not limited to):<br><br>Parsers, analysers and processing pipelines of Uralic languages<br>Lexical databases, electronic dictionaries<br>Finished
end-user applications aimed at Uralic languages, such as spelling or
grammar checkers, machine translation or speech processing<br>Evaluation methods and gold standards, tagged corpora, treebanks<br>Reports on language-independent or unsupervised methods as applied to Uralic languages<br>Surveys and review articles on subjects related to computational linguistics for one or more Uralic languages<br>Any work that aims at combining efforts and reducing duplication of work<br>How to elicit activity from the language community, agitation campaigns, games with a purpose<br><br>To
maximise the possibility of reproducibility, replication and reuse, we
particularly encourage submissions which present free/open-source
language resources and make use of free/open-source software.<br><br>One
of the aims of this gathering is to avoid unnecessary duplicated work
in field of Uralistics by establishing connections and interoperability
standards between researchers and research groups working at different
sites. We have also identified a serious lack of gold standards and
evaluation metrics for all Uralic languages including those with
national support, any work towards better resources in these fields will
be greatly appreciated.<br><br>The invited talk will be given by András Kornai.<br><br>Important Dates<br><br>1st July 2015: Call-for-papers announced<br>DEADLINE EXTENSION!<br>NEW DEADLINES:<br>15th November 2015: Paper submission deadline<br>10th December 2015: Paper notification<br>31st December 2015: Camera-ready deadline<br><br>20th January 2016: Workshop held in Szeged, Hungary<br><br>Submission of papers<br><br>Language of submission: Submissions should be made in English or Russian with an optional abstract in Finnish.<br><br>Submission
format: There are multiple submission types: research papers and
demonstrations and tutorials. Research papers should be up to 10 pages
in length excluding references, the descriptions for demonstrations and
tutorials up to 5 pages. Submissions should be formatted using LaTeX
default article style with b5paper option. Citations should be managed
with bibtex and e.g., unsrt bibliography style. Linguistic glosses
should follow Leipzig glossing rules and use expex LaTeX package (make
sure to update expex regularly as it is developed actively). Preferred
LaTeX version is XeLaTeX and therefore you should use UTF-8 encoded
Unicode in your sources rather than TeX encoded characters where
possible. You will find the workshop template <a href="http://rgai.inf.u-szeged.hu/project/iwclul/siwclul.tar.gz" target="_blank">here</a> (LaTeX) and <a href="http://rgai.inf.u-szeged.hu/project/iwclul/template_SIWCLUL.odt" target="_blank">here</a> (odt) .<br><br>Publication
venue: Proceedings of the workshop will be published open-access in the
repository of the University of Szeged. Authors of outstanding papers
will be invited by the editorial board of the Acta Linguistica Hungarica
to submit their work to be published, subject to further extension and
review, in a special issue of the journal.<br><br>Conflicts of interest:
The reviewing process will not be anonymous, authors should state in
their submission all conflicts of interest with programme committee. The
members of programme committee are expected to state their conflicts of
interest during review bidding. If the programme committee finds
themselves unable to review some of the submissions, external reviewers
may be used.<br><br>Double submission: To maximise the impact of work in
the field of computational linguistics for the Uralic languages we are
open to the possibility of double submission, or submission of work
which has been partially published elsewhere. Any double submission
should however be reported to the programme committee at the time of
submission. In the advent of double acceptance the authors should choose
in which venue to publish.<br><br>Submission website: Submissions can be made here using the EasyChair conference management system.<br><br>Organisers<br><br>Tommi A. Pirinen, Dublin City University<br>Francis M. Tyers, UiT Norgga árktalaš universitehta<br>Eszter Simon, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Institute for Linguistics<br>Veronika Vincze, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Group on Artificial Intelligence<br>Ágoston Nagy, University of Szeged<br>Csilla Horváth, University of Szeged<br><br>Programme committee<br><br>Timofey Aleksandrovich Arkhangelsky, Natsional'ny Issledovadel'sky Universitet "Vysshaya shkola ekonomiki"<br>Lars Borin, Göteborgs universitet<br>János Csirik, Szegedi Tudományegyetem<br>Mark Fishel, Tartu ülikool<br>Mikel L. Forcada, Universitat d'Alacant<br>Mans Hulden, University of Colorado at Boulder<br>Heiki-Jaan Kaalep, Tartu ülikool<br>Tommi A. Pirinen, Dublin City University<br>Aarne Ranta, Chalmers tekniska högskola<br>Michael Rießler, University of Freiburg<br>Eszter Simon, MTA Nyelvtudományi Intézet<br>Trond Trosterud, UiT Norgga árktalaš universitehta<br>Francis M. Tyers, UiT Norgga árktalaš universitehta<br>Veronika Vincze, Szegedi Tudományegyetem<br><br>Contact<br><br>Any questions should be directed to the organising committee on <a href="mailto:iwclul-2016@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">iwclul-2016@googlegroups.com</a>.<br></div><div>For further details see the <a href="http://rgai.inf.u-szeged.hu/iwclul2016" target="_blank">website</a> of the event. <br></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">ESZTER SIMON<br>Research Fellow<br>Research Institute for Linguistics<br>Hungarian Academy of Sciences<br>H-1068 Budapest, Benczúr u. 33.<br>Tel./Fax. +36 1 321 4830/ 129<br><a href="mailto:simon.eszter@nytud.mta.hu" target="_blank">simon.eszter@nytud.mta.hu</a></div></div>
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