[Corpora-List] CFP: First Workshop on Code-Switching Data Collocated with EMNLP

[Thamar Solorio]

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Call for Papers: First Workshop on Code-Switching Data Collocated with EMNLP
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Code-switching (CS) is the phenomenon by which multilingual speakers switch back and forth between their common languages in written or spoken communication. CS is typically present on the inter sentential, intra sentential (mixing of words from multiple languages in the same utterance) and even morphological (mixing of morphemes) levels. CS presents serious challenges for language technologies, including parsing, Machine Translation (MT), automatic speech recognition (ASR), information retrieval (IR) and extraction (IE), and semantic processing. Traditional techniques trained for one language quickly break down when there is input mixed in from another. Even for problems that are considered solved, such as language identification, or part of speech tagging, performance will degrade at a rate proportional to the amount and level of mixed-language present.

The workshop invites contributions from researchers working in NLP approaches for the analysis and/processing of mixed-language data especially with a focus on intra sentential code switching. Topics of relevance to the workshop will include the following:

* Development of linguistic resources to support research on code switched data
* NLP approaches for language identification in code switched data
* NLP techniques for the syntactic analysis of code switched data
* Domain/dialect/genre adaptation techniques applied to code switched data processing
* Language modeling approaches to code switch data processing
* Crowdsourcing approaches for the annotation of code switched data
* Machine translation approaches for code switched data
* Position papers discussing the challenges of code switched data to NLP techniques
* Methods for improving ASR in code switched data
* Survey papers of NLP research for code switched data
* Sociolinguistic aspects of code switching
* Sociopragmatic aspects of code switching


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Important Dates 
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Workshop papers due: July 25, 2014
Notification for Workshop papers: August 26, 2014 
Camera ready paper submission deadline: September 12, 2014 

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Workshop Organizers 
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Mona Diab, GWU 
Pascale Fung, HKUST  
Julia Hirschberg, Columbia University  
Thamar Solorio, UAB 

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Program Committee
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Steven Abney, University of Michigan
Laura Alonso i Alemany, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
Rakesh Bhatt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Elabbas Benmamoun, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Agnes Bolonyia, NC State University
Barbara Bullock, University of Texas at Austin
Suzanne Dikker, New York University
Yang Liu, University of Texas at Dallas
Aravind Joshi, University of Pennsylvania
Ben King, University of Michigan
Raymond Mooney, University of Texas at Austin
Chilin Shih, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jacqueline Toribio, University of Texas at Austin
Omar Zaidan, Johns Hopkins University
Rabih Zbib, BBN Technologies
Owen Rambow, Columbia University
Constantine Lignos , University of Pennsylvania
Cecilia Montes-Alcala, Georgia Institute of Technology
Nizar Habash, Columbia University
Mitchell P. Marcus, University of Pennsylvania
Yves Scherrer, Université de Genève
Borja Navarro Colorado, Universidad de Alicante
Björn Gambäck, Norwegian Universities of Science and Technology
Amitava Das, University of North Texas


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Workshop Information 
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Website: http://emnlp2014.org/workshops/CodeSwitch/call.html 

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