30.214, Calls: Computational Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Text/Corpus Linguistics/USA

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LINGUIST List: Vol-30-214. Tue Jan 15 2019. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 30.214, Calls: Computational Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Text/Corpus Linguistics/USA

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Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 00:02:10
From: Marcos Zampieri [m.zampieri at wlv.ac.uk]
Subject: Sixth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects

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

Date: 07-Jun-2019 - 07-Jun-2019
Location: Minneapolis, USA 
Contact Person: Marcos Zampieri
Meeting Email: vardialworkshop at gmail.com
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/view/vardial2019 

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

Call Deadline: 01-Mar-2019 

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
language variation from a computational perspective.

Previous editions of the workshop were VarDial 2018 co-located with COLING,
VarDial 2017 co-located with EACL, VarDial 2016 co-located with COLING,
LT4VarDial 2015 co-located with RANLP, and VarDial 2014 co-located with
COLING.

The workshop deals with computational methods and language resources for
closely related languages, language varieties, and dialects. We welcome papers
dealing with one or more of the following topics:

- Corpora, 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.

In addition to the topics listed above, we also welcome papers dealing with
diachronic language variation (e.g. philogenetic methods, historical
dialects). 

Papers presented at the past editions of VarDial focused on machine
translation between closely related languages and language varieties,
adaptation of POS taggers and parsers for similar languages and language
varieties, compilation of corpora, spelling normalization, computational
approaches to the study of mutual intelligibility, and the automatic
identification of similar languages and dialects.


Call for Papers:

Submissions:

We invite submissions of up to 8 pages plus bibliography. 

Submissions should be formatted according to the NAACL 2019 guidelines and
submitted in PDF format.  Submissions should be uploaded on START. The link to
the system will be included soon. 

We strongly recommend you to prepare your manuscript using LaTeX.  

The review process will be double-blind.

For the full call for papers visit: 

https://sites.google.com/view/vardial2019/CfP

Important Dates:

Submission deadline: March 1, 2019
Notification of acceptance: March 27, 2019
Camera-ready papers due: April 5, 2019
VarDial Workshop at NAACL 2019: June 7, 2019




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