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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dear subscribers,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The deadline for paper submissions to IWCLUL 2025 in Joensuu was extended to Sunday this week, see
<a href="https://acl-sigur.github.io/iwclul2025.html">https://acl-sigur.github.io/iwclul2025.html</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">I also want to inform you about the pre-conference Workshop on
</span><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal">“Resources and Tools for Computational Work on Karelian and Other Small Uralic Languages”</span></strong><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal">,
scheduled </span></strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Wed, Dec 10<sup>th</sup><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>14-18. As with IWCLUL, there is no participation fee<strong><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">.
</span></strong></span><strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;color:black;font-weight:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">This workshop brings together linguists – with or without a computational background – to discuss effective strategies for building resources (spoken and written corpora, taggers, parsers, learner applications,
etc.) for languages such as Karelian, which currently lag far behind in language technological development.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Participants are invited to share their own ongoing work through short, informal position papers or presentations, or to join simply for the discussions.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;font-variant-caps:normal;orphans:auto;text-align:start;widows:auto;word-spacing:0px">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">No abstract submission is required, but please submit your preliminary title as a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Lightning Talk</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>via
the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="https://acl-sigur.github.io/iwclul2025.html" target="_new" title="Original URL:
https://acl-sigur.github.io/iwclul2025.html
Click to follow link."><span style="color:#0086F0">conference
page</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">. (</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">When filling out the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdAHO3owk8fgFb4d4nK7fcqpBMgcpUhB7EyvzIxGlDFetH7kg/viewform" target="_new" title="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fforms%2Fd%2Fe%2F1FAIpQLSdAHO3owk8fgFb4d4nK7fcqpBMgcpUhB7EyvzIxGlDFetH7kg%2Fviewform&data=05%7C02%7Cmichael.riessler%40uef.fi%7C1d98b63d9eac4c878f3608de0fac8c83%7C87879f2e7"><span style="color:#0086F0">submission
form</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">please add<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><strong><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">“Karelian
workshop”</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>in the field for<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><em><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Lightning talks</span></em>.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">)
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Note that there is no strict deadline for proposing topics to this workshop.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Michael Rießler<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Professor of General Linguistics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">University of Eastern Finland<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://uefconnect.uef.fi/henkilo/michael.riessler/"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0563C1;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">https://uefconnect.uef.fi/henkilo/michael.riessler/</span></a></p>
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