32.1551, Calls: Computational Linguistics, Text/Corpus Linguistics / Language Resources and Evaluation (Jrnl)

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Subject: 32.1551, Calls:  Computational Linguistics, Text/Corpus Linguistics / Language Resources and Evaluation (Jrnl)

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Date: Tue, 04 May 2021 20:34:25
From: John McCrae [john at mccr.ae]
Subject: Computational Linguistics, Text/Corpus Linguistics / Language Resources and Evaluation (Jrnl)

 
Full Title: Language Resources and Evaluation 


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

Call Deadline: 06-Sep-2021 

Call for Papers:

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) is an important agenda across every
field in the world. Language as a major part of communication should be
inclusive and treat everyone equally. A large internet community that uses
language technology has a direct impact on people across the globe. EDI are
crucial to make everyone valued and include, so it is necessary to build
language technology that serves this purpose. Our special issue focuses on
bringing together research into inclusivity of gender, racial, sexual
orientation, persons with disability, and other minorities in language
technologies with the aim to build and use datasets addressing the concerns of
EDI.

The broader objective of special issue will be
- To investigate challenges related to language resource creation for EDI.
- To promote research in inclusive language technology.
- To adopt and adapt appropriate language technology models to suit EDI.
- To provide opportunities for researchers from the language technology
community from around the world to collaborate with other researchers to
identify and bring possible solutions
to challenges of EDI.

Our special issue theme is to be more inclusive and bring researchers to make
language technology of more inclusive nature. We hope that through these
engagements we can develop language technology tools to be more inclusive of
everyone including marginalized people.

Our main theme in this special issue is to bring equality, diversity, and
inclusivity in language technologies. We invite researchers and practitioners
to submit papers reporting on these issues and datasets to avoid these issues.
We also encourage qualitative studies related to these issues and how
to avoid them. Our special issue welcomes theoretical and practical paper
submissions on any languages that contribute to research in Equality,
Diversity and Inclusion. We will particularly encourage studies that address
either practical application or improving resources.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Corpus development to include EDI
- Gender inclusivity in language technology
- LGBT inclusivity in language technology
- Racial inclusivity in language technology
- Persons with disability inclusivity in language technology
- Unconscious bias and how to avoid them in language technologies
- Tackling rumors and fake news about gender, racial, and LGBT minorities.
- Tackling discrimination against gender, racial, and LGBT minorities.

More at https://www.springer.com/journal/10579/updates/19066618




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