[Lingtyp] 2nd CfP: Partnerships in Practice - Special Theme Session at ComputEL-5 (@ ACL-2022)

[Antti Arppe]

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                      Special Theme Session:
                     PARTNERSHIPS IN PRACTICE
                        In conjunction with
                      ComputEL-5 at ACL-2022
                          May 26/27, 2022


                  SECOND CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS


*Important Updates/Reminders*

   * *Submission link and instructions below*
   * *Submission DL is 15 March 2022 (Anywhere on Earth)*


The theme for this Special Session at ComputEL-5 is *"Partnerships in 
Practice"*.  The goal of this Special Theme Session is to increase our 
shared understanding of how best to work together across disciplinary 
and cultural boundaries to support community goals for language 
revitalization.

We invite presentations that address two broad topics: (1) Lessons 
Learned from Existing Partnerships and (2) Solicitations for Future 
Partnerships.

1. Presentations that describe existing partnerships between language 
communities, documentary linguists and computational linguists. We 
encourage submissions which address questions such as:

  a. how did the team members meet and come to work together?

  b. what projects have you worked on, and what tools and resources have
     you created?

  c. how have those tools and resources benefitted community efforts at
     language maintenance and revitalization?

  d. what are some challenges (logistical, technical, interdisciplinary,
     intercultural) that you encountered, and how did you address them?

  e. how have you balanced the needs and priorities of different team
     members through the lifespan of the project?

  f. what lessons have you learned that might benefit other similar
     collaborations?

2. Presentations that describe a project between a language community 
and a documentary linguist, where they have identified a need for 
assistance from a computational linguist.  We encourage submissions 
which address questions such as:

  a. how did the project come about and what are its goals?

  b. what tools or resources, if any, has the team been able to produce
     so far?

  c. what other tools or resources do you wish to create, and what
     challenges are you facing in creating them?

  d. how do you see that the project might benefit from assistance from a
     computationally-oriented linguist?

In addition to the presentations in this Special Theme Session, we will 
also be incorporating time in the conference schedule for structured 
group discussions on these topics.


SUBMISSIONS TO THE SPECIAL THEME SESSION – DL 15 MARCH 2022

Please submit anonymous abstracts of up to 1500 words, excluding references.

Submissions with participation from community members are strongly 
encouraged.

The deadline for submissions is *March 15, 2022 (Anywhere on Earth)*. 
Please recall that submission to the Special Theme Session is *separate* 
from the main ComputEL-5 workshop. For submissions, please use ARR via 
the following link:

https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2022/Workshop/ComputEL_Special_Session 


*IMPORTANT! Please do note that submitting via ARR requires registering, 
which takes 12 hours to become activated – so do not leave your 
registration (and submission) until the very last minute!*

Notification of acceptance will be sent out by April 1, 2022.

All authors of papers in the Special Theme Session will be invited to 
contribute to a follow-up paper that synthesizes the findings of the 
Session.


IMPORTANT DATES:

*15-March-2022    Deadline for submission of abstracts*

1-April-2022      Notification of acceptance

26 / 27 May-2022  Special Theme Session / Workshop


ABOUT COMPUTEL:

The ComputEL-5 workshop focuses on the use of computational methods in 
the study, support, and revitalization of endangered languages. The 
primary aim of the workshop is to continue narrowing the gap between 
computational linguists interested in methods for endangered languages, 
field linguists documenting these languages, and the language 
communities who are striving to maintain their languages.

ComputEL-5 will be co-located with the 60th Annual Meeting of the 
Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2022) in Dublin, Ireland 
(www.2022.aclweb.org).


SPECIAL THEME SESSION FORMAT/VENUE AND THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Our current intention is for ComputEL-5 to take place in person 
following the main conference hosted in Dublin. The special theme 
session as well as the workshop will be a virtual/in-person hybrid 
event. Ability to attend the special theme session / workshop in person 
will not affect consideration of submissions.


ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Sarah Moeller (University of Florida)
Antonios Anastasopoulos (George Mason University)
Antti Arppe (University of Alberta)
Aditi Chaudhary (Carnegie Mellon University)
Atticus Harrigan (University of Alberta)
Josh Holden (University of Alberta)
Jordan Lachler (University of Alberta)
Alexis Palmer (University of Colorado Boulder)
Shruti Rijhwani (Carnegie Mellon University)
Lane Schwartz (University of Illinois)


CONTACT - WEBSITE AND EMAIL

For further information, please consult our website:

https://computel-workshop.org/special-theme-session-partnerships-in-practice/

or email us at:

computel.workshop at gmail.com

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