[Lingtyp] Partnerships in Practice - Special Theme Session at ComputEL-7

[Antti Arppe]

[Apologies for cross-postings]
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS - PARTNERSHIPS IN PRACTICE AT COMPUTEL-7

In addition to the regular programming, we will be hosting again at the 
7th ComputEL workshop a special theme session discussion at the 
workshop. The theme for this Special Session is “Partnerships in 
Practice”. The goal of this Special 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:
* How did the team members meet and come to work together?
* What projects have you worked on, and what tools and resources have 
you created?
* How have those tools and resources benefitted community efforts at 
language maintenance and revitalization?
* What are some challenges (logistical, technical, interdisciplinary, 
intercultural) that you encountered, and how did you address them?
* How have you balanced the needs and priorities of different team 
members through the lifespan of the project?
* 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:
* How did the project come about and what are its goals?
* What tools or resources, if any, has the team been able to produce so far?
* What other tools or resources do you wish to create, and what 
challenges are you facing in creating them?
* How do you see that the project might benefit from assistance from a 
computationally oriented linguist?

Submissions with participation from community members are strongly 
encouraged.

SUBMISSIONS TO THE SPECIAL THEME SESSION

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

Submissions are to be made through SoftConf, via the following link 
(among the submission options, please choose Extended abstract as the 
submission type and Special Session Only as the preferrred session):

https://softconf.com/eacl2024/Computel-7/

The deadline for submissions is January 15, 2024 (Anywhere on Earth).

Alternatively, you may indicate that your full paper or extended 
abstract submitted to the regular workshop can be considered for 
inclusion in the Special Session.

Notification of acceptance to the Special Session will be sent out by 
January 29, 2024.

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 January 2024	Deadline for submission of abstracts
29 January 2024	Notification of acceptance
21 and 22 March 2024	Workshop and Special Theme Session

CONTACT AND MORE INFORMATION

The organizers of the Special Theme Session can be reached by: 
computel.workshop at gmail.com. For further information, please consult our 
website:

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

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Antti Arppe - Ph.D (General Linguistics), M.Sc. (Engineering)
Associate Professor of Quantitative Linguistics
Director, Alberta Language Technology Lab (ALTLab)
Project Director, 21st Century Tools for Indigenous Languages (21C)
Past President, ACL SIG for Endangered Languages (SIGEL)
Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta
E-mail: arppe at ualberta.ca, antti.arppe at iki.fi
WWW: www.ualberta.ca/~arppe, altlab.artsrn.ualberta.ca
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