26.4140, Calls: Uralic, Computational Linguistics/Hungary

Fri Sep 18 19:44:44 UTC 2015

LINGUIST List: Vol-26-4140. Fri Sep 18 2015. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 26.4140, Calls: Uralic, Computational Linguistics/Hungary

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Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 15:44:38
From: Eszter Simon [simon.eszter at nytud.mta.hu]
Subject: 2nd International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages

Full Title: 2nd International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages 
Short Title: SIWCLUL 

Date: 20-Jan-2016 - 20-Jan-2016
Location: Szeged, Hungary 
Contact Person: Eszter Simon
Meeting Email: iwclul-2016 at googlegroups.com
Web Site: http://rgai.inf.u-szeged.hu/iwclul2016 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Language Family(ies): Uralic 

Call Deadline: 02-Nov-2015 

Meeting Description:

The purpose of the Second International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages is to bring together researchers working on computational approaches to working with these languages.

All Uralic languages exhibit rich morphological structure, which makes processing them challenging for state-of-the-art computational linguistic approaches, the majority also suffer from a lack of resources and many are endangered.

The invited talk will be given by András Kornai.

2nd Call for Papers:

We solicit proposals for tutorials for presentation at the Second International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages. 

We accept tutorial proposals working on the following languages: Finnish, Hungarian, Estonian, Võro, the Sámi languages, Komi (Zyrian, Permyak), Mordvin (Erzya, Moksha), Mari (Hill, Meadow), Udmurt, Nenets (Tundra, Forest), Enets, Nganasan, Selkup, Mansi, Khanty, Veps, Karelian (Olonets), Karelian, Ingrian (Izhorian), Votic, Livonian, Ludic, and other related languages.

Tutorials will present systems and standards towards the goal of interoperability and unification of different projects, applications and research groups. Appropriate topics include (but are not limited to):

Parsers, analysers and processing pipelines of Uralic languages
Lexical databases, electronic dictionaries
Finished end-user applications aimed at Uralic languages, such as spelling or grammar checkers, machine translation or speech processing
Evaluation methods and gold standards, tagged corpora, treebanks
Any work that aims at combining efforts and reducing duplication of work
How to elicit activity from the language community, agitation campaigns, games with a purpose

Since the majority of Uralic languages suffer from a lack of resources and many are endangered, topics considering language documentation, audio and video recording and processing, corpus development, annotations, lexicography, metadata, archiving, and ethics
with regard to endangered languages are also welcome. 

To maximise the possibility of reproducibility, replication and reuse, we particularly encourage submissions which present free/open-source language resources and make use of free/open-source software.

We plan to make one or two tutorial(s), each lasting one and a half hour. 

The tutorial proposal should describe concisely the content, importance and timeliness of the tutorial. It should contain the following sections: 

1. Title of the tutorial; 
2. Outline of the tutorial; 
3. The tutorial speaker(s) and the topics they will cover in the tutorial; 
4. Brief CVs for each tutorial speaker (no more than 300 words per person); 
5. Importance and timeliness of the tutorial; 
6. Previous lecture and tutorial experience of the tutorial speaker(s).

Submitted tutorial proposal should not exceed five pages and it should be submitted in one all-in-one PDF file. The deadline for submissions is 2 November 2015. The proposal document should be sent to the organising committee to iwclul-2016 at googlegroups.com. 

If you have any questions, please contact the organisers on iwclul-2016 at googlegroups.com.

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