29.443, Calls: Comp Ling, Socioling, Text/Corpus Ling/USA

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Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2018 18:29:04
From: Marcos Zampieri [marcos.zampieri at uni-saarland.de]
Subject: 5th Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects

 Full Title: 5th Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects 
Short Title: VarDial 

Date: 20-Aug-2018 - 21-Aug-2018
Location: Santa Fe, USA 
Contact Person: Marcos Zampieri
Meeting Email: m.zampieri at wlv.ac.uk
Web Site: http://alt.qcri.org/vardial2018/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 18-May-2018 

Meeting Description:

VarDial is a well-established series of workshops promoting a forum for
scholars working on a range of topics related to the study of diatopic
linguistic variation from a computational perspective.

Previous editions were the first VarDial 2014 workshop co-located with COLING,
the joint workshop LT4VarDial 2015 co-located with RANLP, VarDial 2016
co-located with COLING, and VarDial 2017 co-located with EACL.

See the URL for more information: http://alt.qcri.org/vardial2018/


Call for Papers:

VarDial - Fifth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects
VarDial 2018: http://alt.qcri.org/vardial2018/

Co-located with COLING 2018, in VarDial we anticipate discussion on
computational methods and on language resources for closely related languages,
language varieties and dialects. Corpus-driven studies on different degrees of
linguistic variation such as lexicon and grammar is another topic of interest.

Together with the VarDial workshop we are organizing the second edition of the
VarDial Evaluation Campaign with five shared tasks
(http://alt.qcri.org/vardial2018/index.php?id=campaign). 

Topics:

We welcome papers dealing with one or more of the following topics:

- Language resources and tools for similar languages, varieties and dialects
- Adaptation of tools (taggers, parsers) for similar languages, varieties and
dialects
- Evaluation of language resources and tools when applied to language
varieties
- Reusability of language resources in NLP applications (e.g., for machine
translation, POS tagging, syntactic parsing, etc.)
- Corpus-driven studies in dialectology and language variation
- Computational approaches to the study of mutual intelligibility between
dialects and similar languages;
- Automatic identification of lexical variation
- Automatic classification of language varieties
- Text similarity and adaptation between language varieties
- Linguistic issues in the adaptation of language resources and tools (e.g.,
semantic discrepancies, lexical gaps, false friends)
- Machine translation between closely related languages, language varieties
and dialects

 Submissions

Submissions should be formatted according to the COLING 2018 guidelines and
submitted on START. More information soon.

We strongly recommend you to prepare your manuscript using LaTeX.

Important Dates:

Submission Deadline: May 18, 2018
Acceptance Notification: June 20, 2018
Camera-ready versions: June 30, 2018
Workshop: August 20 or 21, 2018

Organizers:

Preslav Nakov (Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU, Qatar)
Marcos Zampieri (University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom)
Nikola Ljubešić (Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia and University of Zagreb,
Croatia)
Jörg Tiedemann (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Shervin Malmasi (Harvard Medical School, United States)
Ahmed Ali (Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU, Qatar)



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