27.2848, Calls: Uralic, Computational Ling/Russia

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Subject: 27.2848, Calls: Uralic, Computational Ling/Russia

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Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2016 12:58:58
From: Tommi Pirinen [tommi.antero.pirinen at uni-hamburg.de]
Subject: International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages

 
Full Title: International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages 
Short Title: IWCLUL2017 

Date: 23-Jan-2017 - 24-Jan-2017
Location: St. Petersburg, Russia 
Contact Person: Tommi Pirinen
Meeting Email: iwclul at googlegroups.com
Web Site: http://gtweb.uit.no/iwclul2017 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Language Family(ies): Uralic 

Call Deadline: 01-Nov-2016 

Meeting Description:

Third International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages
(IWCLUL2017) and ACL SIGUR meeting 
http://gtweb.uit.no/iwclul2017 
23–24 January, 2017, St. Petersburg, Russia 

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



Call for Papers: 

We accept long and short papers as well as 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.

Research papers should be original, substantial and unpublished research, that
can describe work-in-progress systems, frameworks, standards and evaluation
schemes. Demos and 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 
- Reports on language-independent or unsupervised methods as applied to Uralic
languages 
- Surveys and review articles on subjects related to computational linguistics
for one or more Uralic languages 
- 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 

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. 

One of the aims of this gathering is to avoid unnecessary duplicated work in
field of Uralistics by establishing connections and interoperability standards
between researchers and research groups working at different sites. We have
also identified a serious lack of gold standards and evaluation metrics for
all Uralic languages including those with national support, any work towards
better resources in these fields will be greatly appreciated. In this year's
edition we particularly encourage researchers of minority Uralic languages in
Russia to participate.




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