[Lingtyp] Challenges for Computer-Assisted Language Comparison (Workshop at ICHL 27)

[Frederic Blum]

Dear LingTyp community,

We are looking forward for submissions to our workshop "Challenges for 
Computer-Assisted Language Comparison (Workshop at ICHL 27)", to be held 
at the ICHL 27 in Chile next year. Please send us your submissions until 
30.09.2024 at ichl25 at calclab.org. You can find more information in the 
attached abstract as well as here: https://ichl27santiago.cl/about-us/


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In contrast to purely computational approaches in historical linguistics 
that try to do without human annotation, computer-assisted language 
comparison aims to reconcile computational and classical approaches in 
historical language comparison by providing interactive workflows in 
which data are passed back and forth between humans and machines (List 
2017). Computational approaches are mostly employed to preprocess 
linguistic data, while interfaces then allow experts to refine and 
correct computational annotation.

While some workflows and tools have been published that illustrate the 
benefits of computer-assisted as opposed to purely computer-based or 
purely manual approaches in historical linguistics (Wu et al. 2020; Hill 
and List 2017; Segerer and Flavier 2015; Starostin 2000), there remain 
many tasks in historical linguistics where computational and 
computer-assisted approaches are lacking so far. These include, for 
example, /semantic reconstruction/ (Urban 2015), /phonological 
reconstruction/ (Anttila 1972), and /sound law induction/ and the 
establishment of /relative chronologies/ (Fortson 2014).

For the workshop that will — pending final evaluation — be organized as 
part of the 27^th International Conference on Historical Linguistics in 
Santiago de Chile (18-22 August, 2025), we invite contributions from 
both classical and computational linguistics who present open problems 
and potential solutions in historical language comparison that have so 
far not been addressed sufficiently in computer-assisted approaches. Our 
hope is that we find a good mix of contributions in which classical 
linguists present problems that cannot be addressed by computational 
approaches and illustrate how they solve them manually, while we also 
hope for contributions by computational linguists who share recently 
developed workflows that can be applied to data in historical linguistics.


          DETAILS

Those interested in contributing to the workshop are kindly asked to 
send an abstract in the form to ichl25 at calclab.orgattaching the abstract 
in the form of a DOCX document with an accompanying PDF, in anonymized 
form, providing your name and affiliation in the email. We will then 
review the contributions with an internal team of reviewers and inform 
all who submitted an abstract until *30 of September 2024* about the 
outcome. In case of success, the workshop will be held at the ICHL 
conference in Santiago de Chile.

When submittin gyour abstract in DOCX form, please make sure that the 
abstract has no more than 800 words in length, excluding references (see 
also the official ICHL requirements for details at 
https://ichl27santiago.cl/about-us/). Abstracts can be submitted in 
English and Spanish.
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