29.3322, Calls: Computational Linguistics, Language Documentation/USA

[The LINGUIST List]

LINGUIST List: Vol-29-3322. Wed Aug 29 2018. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 29.3322, Calls: Computational Linguistics, Language Documentation/USA

Moderator: linguist at linguistlist.org (Malgorzata E. Cavar)
Reviews: reviews at linguistlist.org (Helen Aristar-Dry, Robert Coté)
Homepage: https://linguistlist.org

Please support the LL editors and operation with a donation at:
           https://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/

Editor for this issue: Everett Green <everett at linguistlist.org>
================================================================


Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2018 22:17:21
From: Bradley McDonnell [mcdonn at hawaii.edu]
Subject: International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation

 
Full Title: International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation 
Short Title: ICLDC 

Date: 28-Feb-2019 - 03-Mar-2019
Location: Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, USA 
Contact Person: Jim Yoshioka
Meeting Email: icldc at hawaii.edu
Web Site: http://icldc6.icldc-hawaii.org 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Language Documentation 

Call Deadline: 31-Aug-2018 

Meeting Description:

The Department of Linguistics and the National Foreign Language Resource
Center at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa are pleased to announce the 6th
International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation: Connecting
Communities, Languages & Technology.

Over the past two decades endangered language documentation and conservation
has (re)emerged as a distinct subfield of linguistics with its own methodology
and theoretical underpinnings. This reemergence has occurred in parallel with
a dramatic technological evolution which has put advanced computing tools in
the hands of language documenters and those striving to reclaim and maintain
endangered languages. Moreover, technology is also changing traditional user
roles, blurring the lines between linguist, speaker, and activist by providing
increased access to information. Digital tools have the power to greatly
accelerate the language work, but the digital realm also brings new challenges
for endangered languages, which sometimes struggle to thrive in a
digitally-mediated world.

At ICLDC 2019 we propose to initiate a dialogue which will lead to improved
connections between communities, languages, and technologies. We specifically
aim to bring together three groups which have not always worked closely
together, namely: linguists, language communities, and technology developers. 

The conference program will feature Keynote talks, Talk Story and Workshop
sessions, papers, and posters. New for 2019 is the Technology Showcase, a
networking opportunity which will bring together technology developers and
language community members. An optional Hilo Field Study (on the Big Island of
Hawaiʻi) to visit Hawaiian language revitalization programs in action will
take place immediately after the conference (March 4-5). The 3rd Workshop on
Computational Methods for Endangered Languages (ComputEL-3) will take place in
Honolulu immediately preceding the conference (February 26-27).


2nd Call for Presentations:

(https://icldc6.weebly.com/cfp-general.html)

While we especially welcome abstracts that address the conference theme,
''Connecting Communities, Languages & Technology'', we also welcome abstracts
on other subjects in language documentation and conservation, which may
include but are not limited to:

- Connecting communities, languages & technology
- Archiving matters
- Assessing success in documentation and revitalization strategies
- Community experiences of revitalization
- Data management
- Ethical issues
- Language planning
- Lexicography and grammar design
- Methods of assessing ethnolinguistic vitality
- Orthography design
- Teaching/learning small languages
- Topics in areal language documentation
- Training in documentation methods - beyond the university

EasyChair Submission Link:

https://easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?key=76757262.5I9IOEmF5hZzyT7Z

Presentation Formats:

Papers will be allowed 20 minutes for presentation with 10 minutes of question
time.

Posters will be on display throughout the day of presentation. Poster
presentations will run during the lunch period. Poster presentations are
recommended for authors who wish to present smaller, more specific topics or
descriptions of particular projects. 

Technology Showcase is a new feature to be introduced at ICLDC 2019, which is
a networking event for developers, linguists, and community members involved
in creating, repurposing, or otherwise utilizing a wide variety of
technologies for language work to interact in an informal, hands-on session.
During this 2-3 hour event on Friday, March 1, developers will be given space
to exhibit their tools and products, and conference participants will have the
opportunity to freely circulate and interact with the technologies and
developers. The Technology Showcase will provide an opportunity for
face-to-face contact and hopefully lead to productive collaborations--both
between developers and communities, and also between developers and between
communities who might not be aware of others working on similar efforts. We
are soliciting developers (broadly defined) to submit proposals that outline
the tool that they have developed, which include but are not limited to
software, apps, web technologies, repurposed uses of software, novel scripts.

For detailed information on preparing and submitting abstracts, see the full
call for papers: https://icldc6.weebly.com/cfp-general.html

NOTE: There is a separate call for proposals for Workshop and Talk Story
sessions (https://icldc6.weebly.com/cfp-workshops.html).




------------------------------------------------------------------------------

*****************    LINGUIST List Support    *****************
Please support the LL editors and operation with a donation at:

              The IU Foundation Crowd Funding site:
       https://iufoundation.fundly.com/the-linguist-list

               The LINGUIST List FundDrive Page:
            https://funddrive.linguistlist.org/donate/
 


----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-29-3322	
----------------------------------------------------------