29.1441, Calls: Comp Ling, Lang Documentation, Morphology, Text/Corpus Ling, Typology/USA

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Subject: 29.1441, Calls: Comp Ling, Lang Documentation, Morphology, Text/Corpus Ling, Typology/USA

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Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2018 18:28:54
From: Clare Voss [clare.r.voss.civ at mail.mil]
Subject: All Together Now? Computational Modeling of Polysynthetic Languages

Full Title: All Together Now? Computational Modeling of Polysynthetic Languages 
Short Title: Poly-2018 

Date: 25-Aug-2018 - 25-Aug-2018
Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA 
Contact Person: Judith Klavans
Meeting Email: jklavans at umd.edu
Web Site: http://languagescience.umd.edu/poly 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Language Documentation; Morphology; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Typology 

Call Deadline: 25-May-2018 

Meeting Description:

COLING 2018 Workshop

All Together Now? Computational Modeling of Polysynthetic Languages
Co-located with COLING 2018 http://coling2018.org/

Polysynthetic languages are languages where words typically consist of many
morphemes, each with independent meaning. Polysynthetic languages occur all
over the world. In particular, the Indigenous languages of the Americas are
polysynthetic, as well as many languages of Australia, Siberia and New Guinea.

This workshop aims to bring together specialists in language technology and
linguists on one hand with language practitioners and revitalization experts
on the other. Our goal is to foster an informed dialogue about these languages
with contributions from all workshop attendees, so that polysynthetic
languages can benefit from most recent advances of language technology, in a
way that is helpful, productive and addresses immediate needs of the language
communities. The workshop has been planned around
COLING to ensure that computational advances for these complex languages both
draws on the knowledge of related communities and contributes to their needs.

Invited Speaker:

Brian Maracle (Owennatekha, Turtle Clan, Mohawk), founder of, head of, and
teacher at the Onkwawenna Kentyohkwa Mohawk-language  immersion school on the
Six Nations Reserve near Brantford, Ontario. Brian Maracle has been a
language activist for nearly 25 years and has developed, published materials
and taught adults and children.  He left a lucrative career to return to the
reservation of his youth. 

His 1993 book Back on the Rez: Finding the Way Home (Penguin) documents his
path back and his struggles to understand meetings held in Kanyen'kéha (the
Mohawk language).  These experiences led to his ground-breaking work in
language revitalization.

Call for Papers:

All Together Now? Computational Modeling of Polysynthetic Languages
http://languagescience.umd.edu/poly
25 August, 2018, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Co-located with COLING 2018 http://coling2018.org/

This workshop aims to bring together specialists in language technology and
linguists on one hand with language practitioners and revitalization experts
on the other. Our goal is to foster an informed dialogue about these languages
with contributions from all workshop attendees, so that polysynthetic
languages can benefit from most recent advances of language technology, in a
way that is helpful, productive and addresses immediate needs of the language
communities. The workshop has been planned around COLING to ensure that
computational advances for these complex languages both draws on the knowledge
of related communities and contributes to their needs.

We seek two types of contribution:

(1) original research papers which present results of linguistic and
computational linguistic analysis
(2) experience papers which present issues such as educational needs, policy
processes or practical applications

The former type of paper follows the expected academic requirements for
research papers; the latter is more experiential so could, by definition, be
of a different nature from the typical conference paper. Submitters will be
asked to categorize their papers as either type (1) or (2) or both, which will
then drive the selection of reviewers. This will ensure that all papers are
reviewed fairly.

Important Dates:

We will have two opportunities for submissions. 

For those who are not submitting to the main COLING conference, relevant dates
are:

- Workshop ''pre-submission'' deadline: May 1, 2018
- Notification: May 30, 2018
- Camera-ready submission deadline: June 30, 2018

For those who might also submit to the main conference, dates established by
COLING organizers are:

- Workshop submission deadline: May 25, 2018 
- Notification: June 20, 2018
- Camera-ready submission deadline: June 30, 2018

Note that this very short deadline for authors means that ''pre-submissions''
from those authors who are not impacted by the main conference will be
accepted earlier.

For more information, including information on the submission process, visit
http://languagescience.umd.edu/node/3191 .

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