34.212, Calls: African; Applied Ling, Comp Ling, Discipline of Ling, Text/Corpus Ling/Croatia

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Subject: 34.212, Calls: African; Applied Ling, Comp Ling, Discipline of Ling, Text/Corpus Ling/Croatia

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Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2023 06:14:57
From: Menno van Zaanen [menno.vanzaanen at nwu.ac.za]
Subject: Fourth Workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language

 
Full Title: Fourth Workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language 
Short Title: RAIL 

Date: 02-May-2023 - 06-May-2023
Location: Dubrovnik, Croatia 
Contact Person: Menno van Zaanen
Meeting Email: menno.vanzaanen at nwu.ac.za
Web Site: https://bit.ly/rail2023 

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

Language Family(ies): African Unclassified 

Call Deadline: 13-Feb-2023 

Meeting Description:

Fourth Workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language


Call for Papers:

The 4th RAIL (Resources for African Indigenous Languages) workshop will be
co-located with EACL 2023 in Dubrovnik, Croatia. The Resources for African
Indigenous Languages (RAIL) workshop is an interdisciplinary platform for
researchers working on resources (data collections, tools, etc.) specifically
targeted towards African indigenous languages. In particular, it aims to
create the conditions for the emergence of a scientific community of practice
that focuses on data, as well as computational linguistic tools specifically
designed for or applied to indigenous languages found in Africa.

Previous workshops showed that the presented problems (and solutions) are not
only applicable to African languages. Many issues are also relevant to other
low-resource languages, such as different scripts and properties like tone. As
such, these languages share similar challenges. This allows for researchers
working on these languages with such properties (including non-African
languages) to learn from each other, especially on issues pertaining to
language resource development.

The RAIL workshop has several aims. First, it brings together researchers
working on African indigenous languages, forming a community of practice for
people working on indigenous languages. Second, the workshop aims to reveal
currently unknown or unpublished existing resources (corpora, NLP tools, and
applications), resulting in a better overview of the current state-of-the-art,
and also allows for discussions on novel, desired resources for future
research in this area. Third, it enhances sharing of knowledge on the
development of low-resource languages. Finally, it enables discussions on how
to improve the quality as well as availability of the resources.

The workshop has “Impact of impairments on language resources” as its theme,
but submissions on any topic related to properties of African indigenous
languages (including non-African languages) may be accepted. Suggested topics
include (but are not limited to) the following:
Digital representations of linguistic structures
Descriptions of corpora or other data sets of African indigenous languages
Building resources for (under resourced) African indigenous languages
Developing and using African indigenous languages in the digital age
Effectiveness of digital technologies for the development of African
indigenous languages
Revealing unknown or unpublished existing resources for African indigenous
languages
Developing desired resources for African indigenous languages
Improving quality, availability and accessibility of African indigenous
language resources

Submission requirements:
We invite papers on original, unpublished work related to the topics of the
workshop. Submissions, presenting completed work, may consist of up to eight
(8) pages of content plus additional pages of references. The final
camera-ready version of accepted long papers are allowed one additional page
of content (so up to 9 pages) so that reviewers’ feedback can be incorporated.
Submissions need to use the EACL stylesheets. These can be found at
https://2023.eacl.org/calls/styles. Submission is electronic in PDF through
the START system (link will be provided once available). Reviewing is
double-blind, so make sure to anonymize your submission (e.g., do not provide
author names, affiliations, project names, etc.) Limit the amount of self
citations (anonymized citations should not be used). Accepted papers will be
published in the ACL workshop proceedings.

Important dates:
Submission deadline 13 February 2023
Date of notification 13 March 2023
Camera ready deadline 27 March 2023
RAIL workshop 2 or 6 May 2023

Organising Committee
Rooweither Mabuya, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
(SADiLaR), South Africa
Don Mthobela, Cam Foundation
Mmasibidi Setaka, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
(SADiLaR), South Africa
Menno van Zaanen, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
(SADiLaR), South Africa




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