[Corpora-List] FinalCfP: EMNLP'2014 workshop on LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY FOR CLOSELY-RE=?utf-8?Q?=E2=80=8BLATED_LANGUAGES_ANDLANGUAG=E2=80=8BE_?=VARIANTS

[Preslav Nakov]

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LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY FOR CLOSELY-RELATED LANGUAGES AND
LANGUAGE VARIANTS

Workshop associated with EMNL 2014

29 October 2014, Doha, QATAR

http://emnlp2014.org/workshops/LT4CloseLang/call.html

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MOTIVATION

Recent initiatives in language technology have lead to the development of
at least minimal language processing toolkits for all EU-official
languages, as well as for languages with a large number of speakers
worldwide such as Chinese and Arabic. This is a big step towards
the automatic processing and/or extraction of information, especially from
official documents and newspapers, where the standard, literary language is
used.

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

Building language resources and tools from scratch is expensive, but the
efforts can often be reduced by making use of pre-existing resources and
tools for related, resource-richer languages.  Examples of language
variants include the different variants of Spanish in Latin
America, the Arabic dialects in North Africa and the Middle East, German in
Germany, Austria and Switzerland, French in France and in Belgium, Dutch in
the Netherlands and Flemish in Belgium, etc. Examples of pairs of related
languages include Swedish-Norwegian,
Bulgarian-Macedonian, Serbian-Bosnian, Spanish-Catalan, Russian-Ukrainian,
Irish-Gaelic Scottish, Malay-Indonesian, Turkish?Azerbaijani,
Mandarin-Cantonese, Hindi?Urdu, and many other.

This workshop intends to bring together specialists working on
LT-Applications dealing with various related language pairs, discuss novel
approaches in exploring language closeness, and raise attention on this
particular topic. A previous version of this workshop was organised at
RANLP 2013 and showed a great interest from communities worldwide as well
as the
necessity for further activities.

SUBMISSION

We are looking for original unpublished work related (but not limited to)
following topics
- Adaptation of monolingual tools for closely-related languages and
language variants
- Case studies of using language resources and tools for standard languages
on documents
in language variants
- Machine translation among closely related languages
- Evaluation of language resources and tools for language variants and close
languages.
Linguistic issues in adaptation of language resources and tools (e.g.,
semantic discrepancies, lexical gaps, false friends)

Submission should be done using START:

https://www.softconf.com/emnlp2014/LT4CloseLang14

Papers should be up to 9 pages long and should follow the formatting
instructions for EMNLP'2014 under:
http://emnlp2014.org/submissions.html

IMPORTANT DEADLINES
Submission deadline: July 26, 2014, 11:59 p.m. PST
Acceptance/rejection notification: August 26, 2014
Camera-ready deadline: September 12, 2014, 11:59 p.m. PST
Workshop: October 25 or 29, 2014

ORGANISING COMMITTEE

Preslav Nakov, Qatar Computing Research Institute
Petya Osenova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Cristina Vertan, University of Hamburg

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Laura Alonso y Alemany (Univeristy of Cordoba, Argentina)
César Antonio Aguilar (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago
de Chile, Chile)
José Castaño (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina)
David Chiang (University of Southern California, USA)
 Marta Costa-Jussà (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)
Walter Daelemans (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
Kareem Darwish (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar)
Tomaz Erjavec (Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia)
Maria Gavrilidou (ILSP, Greece)
Francisco Guzman (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar)
Barry Haddow (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Nizar Habash (Columbia University, USA)
Walther v. Hahn (University of Hamburg,Germany)
Francisco Guzman Herrera (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar)
Cvetana Krstev (University of Belgrade, Serbia)
Vladislav Kubon (Charles University Prague, Czech Republic)
Thang Luong Minh (Stanford university, USA)
John Nerbonne (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
Graham Neubig (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
Kemal Oflazer (Carnegie-Mellon University, Qatar)
Maciej Ogrodniczuk (IPAN, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)
Slav Petrov (Google, New York, USA)
Stefan Riezler (University of Heidelberg, Germany)
Laurent Romary (INRIA, France)
Hassan Sajjad (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar)
Kiril Simov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
Milena Slavcheva (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
Marco Tadic (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
Jörg Tiedemann (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Dusko Vitas (University of Belgrade, Serbia)
Stephan Vogel (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar)
Pidong Wang (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Taro Watanabe (NICT, Japan)
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