35.439, Calls: Second Workshop on Computation and Written Language (CAWL 2024)

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Subject: 35.439, Calls: Second Workshop on Computation and Written Language (CAWL 2024)

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Date: 07-Feb-2024
From: RICHARD SPROAT [rws at xoba.com]
Subject: Second Workshop on Computation and Written Language (CAWL 2024)


Full Title: Second Workshop on Computation and Written Language (CAWL
2024)
Short Title: CAWL 2024

Date: 21-May-2024 - 21-May-2024
Location: Torino, Italy
Contact Person: Kyle Gorman
Meeting Email: cawl.workshop.2024 at gmail.com
Web Site: https://sigwrit.org/workshops/cawl2024/

Linguistic Field(s): Writing Systems

Call Deadline: 22-Feb-2024

Meeting Description:

Most work on NLP focuses on language in its canonical written form.
This has often led researchers to ignore the differences between
written and spoken language or, worse, to conflate the two. Instances
of conflation are statements like “Chinese is a logographic language"
or “Persian is a right-to-left language", variants of which can be
found frequently in the ACL anthology. These statements confuse
properties of the language with properties of its writing system.
Ignoring differences between written and spoken language leads, among
other things, to conflating different words that are spelled the same
(e.g., English bass), or treating as different, words that have
multiple spellings (e.g., Japanese umai ‘tasty’, which can be written
旨い, うまい, ウマい, or 美味い).

Furthermore, methods for dealing with written language issues (e.g.,
various kinds of normalization or conversion) or for recognizing text
input (e.g. OCR & handwriting recognition or text entry methods) are
often regarded as precursors to NLP rather than as fundamental parts
of the enterprise, despite the fact that most NLP methods rely
centrally on representations derived from text rather than (spoken)
language. This general lack of consideration of writing has led to
much of the research on such topics to largely appear outside of ACL
venues, in conferences or journals of neighboring fields such as
speech technology (e.g., text normalization) or human-computer
interaction (e.g., text entry).

Invited Speaker: Nizar Habash (NYU Abu Dhabi)

CAWL 2024 will feature a special theme for workshop submissions:
Writing Systems of Africa. Stay tuned for the first call-for-papers.

Call-for-papers: https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/call-papers-sec
ond-workshop-computation-and-written-language-cawl-2024

Call for Papers:

This workshop will bring together researchers who are interested in
the relationship between written and spoken language, the properties
of written language, the ways in which writing systems encode
language, and applications specifically focused on characteristics of
writing systems. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

- Text entry

- Text tokenization

- Disambiguation of abbreviations and homographs

- Grapheme-to-phoneme conversion, transliteration, and diacritization

- Text normalization for speech and for processing "informal" genres
of text

- Computational study of literary devices involving writing systems,
such as eye dialect

- Information-theoretic and machine-learning approaches to
decipherment

- Methods for specialized text genres, e.g., clinical notes

- Optical character (incl. handwriting) recognition and historical
document processing

- Orthographic representation for unwritten languages

- Spelling error detection and correction

- Script normalization and encoding

- Writing system typology and its relevance to speech and language
processing

Papers will be presented at the workshop and archived in the ACL
Anthology.



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