[Corpora-List] Second CFP: Workshop on Adaptation of Language Resources and Tools for Closely Related Languages, Bulgaria

[Petya Osenova]

Second Call for Papers

Workshop on Adaptation
of language resources and tools for closely related languages and language
variants

- associated with
RANLP 2013-


12-13 September 2013,
Hissar, Bulgaria 


http://c-phil.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/view/Main/RANLPLangVar2013


Recent initiatives in language technology have
lead to the development of at least minimal language processing kits for all
official European languages.  This is a
big step towards automatic processing and /or extraction of information
especially from official documents produced within the European Union. 

Apart from those official languages, a large
number of dialects or closely related variants are in use, more and more not
only as spoken colloquial languages but also in written media. 

Building language resources and tools is a costly
enterprise and one can benefit from similarities among languages to reduce the
effort in constructing LRs. One should be, however, aware also of the
discrepancies which are often visible not only at the lexical level. Examples
could be different variants of Spanish in Latin America, German spoken in
Austria and Switzerland, French – in France and Belgium, Dutch – in the
Netherlands and Flemish in Belgium, etc.

Less attention has been paid up to now to the
development of LRs for such languages. This has a major impact on promoting
language technology at the educational level, using information processing
methods in all-day communication, social media, etc.

This workshop intends to draw attention on
issues mentioned above by bringing together scientists working with less
resourced language variants and producing a roadmap of existing technologies
and still existing gaps. 

We encourage submission of original,
unpublished work related, but not restricted to the following topics:


 Adaptation of monolingual tools
     for close languages and language variants
 Case studies of using LRs and
     tools for standard languages on documents in language variants
 Machine translation among
     closely related languages
 Evaluation of LRs and tools for
     language variants and close languages
 Linguistic issues in adaptation
     of LRs and tools (e.g. semantic discrepancies, lexical gaps, false
     friends)


 

Submissions have to be done through the
conference tool, at 

https://www.softconf.com/ranlp13/RANLPLangVar2013/user/scmd.cgi?scmd=submitPaperCustom&pageid=0

We will perform a blind review, therefore
please ensure that you remove all possible indications to the authors of the
paper.

Papers should have a maximum length of 8 pages
and should follow the formatting style of the main RANLP conference
(http://lml.bas.bg/ranlp2013/submissions.php#styles) 

 

Important Dates

Paper Submission: 24 July 2013

Notification of Acceptance: 9 August 2013

Submission of final papers: 16 August 2013

 

Organisers 


Petya Osenova (University of Sofia and
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)


Milena Slavcheva (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
and EC Joint Research Centre)


Cristina Vertan (University of Hamburg)

 

Programme Committee

 


 Laura Alonso y Alemany (University of Cordoba, Argentina)
 César Antonio Aguilar (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago
     de Chile, Chile)
 Antonio Branco (University of Lisbon)
 Gerhard Budin (University of Vienna, Austria)
 Jose Castaño (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina)
 Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerpen,
     Belgium)
 Tomaz Erjavec (Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia)
 Maria Gavrilidou (ILSP, Greece);
 Walther v. Hahn (University of Hamburg, Germany)
 Susane Jekat (ZHAW, Winterthur, Switzerland)
 Cvetana Krstev (University of Belgrade)
 Vladislav Kubon (Charles University Prague, Czech Republic)
 John Nerbone (University of Groningen, the Netherlands)
 Petya Osenova (University of Sofia, Bulgaria and Bulgarian Academy
     of Sciences)(co-chair)
 Stelios Piperidis (ILSP, Greece)
 Laurent Romary (INRIA, France)
 Maciej Ogrodniczuk (IPAN, Polish Academy of Sciences)
 Kiril Simov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
 Milena Slavcheva (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and EC Joint
     Research Centre)(co-chair)
 Daniel Stein (University of Hamburg, Germany)
 Marco Tadic (University of Zagreb, Croatia) ;
 Cristina Vertan (University of Hamburg, Germany) (co-chair)
 Dusko Vitas (University of Belgrade, Serbia)
 Kalliopi Zervanou (University of Tilburg, the Netherlands)
 		 	   		  
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