35.2155, Calls: Challenges for Computer-Assisted Language Comparison (Workshop at ICHL 27)

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Subject: 35.2155, Calls: Challenges for Computer-Assisted Language Comparison (Workshop at ICHL 27)

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Date: 30-Jul-2024
From: Frederic Blum [frederic_blum at eva.mpg.de]
Subject: Challenges for Computer-Assisted Language Comparison (Workshop at ICHL 27)


Full Title: Challenges for Computer-Assisted Language Comparison
(Workshop at ICHL 27)

Date: 18-Aug-2025 - 22-Aug-2025
Location: Santiago de Chile, Chile
Contact Person: Frederic Blum
Meeting Email: ichl25 at calclab.org
Web Site: https://calclab.org/events/ichl27/

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics;
Historical Linguistics

Call Deadline: 30-Sep-2024

Meeting Description:

Thematic workshop at the ICHL 27, to be held in Santiago de Chile in
August 2025

Call for Papers:

In contrast to purely computational approaches in historical
linguistics that try to do without human annotation, computer-assisted
language comparison aims to reconcile computational and classical
approaches in historical language comparison by providing interactive
workflows in which data are passed back and forth between humans and
machines (List 2017). Computational approaches are mostly employed to
preprocess linguistic data, while interfaces then allow experts to
refine and correct computational annotation.
While some workflows and tools have been published that illustrate the
benefits of computer-assisted as opposed to purely computer-based or
purely manual approaches in historical linguistics (Wu et al. 2020;
Hill and List 2017; Segerer and Flavier 2015; Starostin 2000), there
remain many tasks in historical linguistics where computational and
computer-assisted approaches are lacking so far. These include, for
example, semantic reconstruction (Urban 2015), phonological
reconstruction (Anttila 1972), and sound law induction and the
establishment of relative chronologies (Fortson 2014).

For the workshop that will — pending final evaluation — be organized
as part of the 27th International Conference on Historical Linguistics
in Santiago de Chile (18-22 August, 2025), we invite contributions
from both classical and computational linguistics who present open
problems and potential solutions in historical language comparison
that have so far not been addressed sufficiently in computer-assisted
approaches. Our hope is that we find a good mix of contributions in
which classical linguists present problems that cannot be addressed by
computational approaches and illustrate how they solve them manually,
while we also hope for contributions by computational linguists who
share recently developed workflows that can be applied to data in
historical linguistics.

DETAILS:
Those interested in contributing to the workshop are kindly asked to
send an abstract in the form to ichl25 at calclab.org attaching the
abstract in the form of a DOCX document with an accompanying PDF, in
anonymized form, providing your name and affiliation in the email. We
will then review the contributions with an internal team of reviewers
and inform all who submitted an abstract until 30 of September 2024
about the outcome. In case of success, the workshop will be held at
the ICHL conference in Santiago de Chile.

When submitting your abstract in DOCX form, please make sure that the
abstract has no more than 800 words in length, excluding references
(see also the official ICHL requirements for details at
https://ichl27santiago.cl/about-us/). Abstracts can be submitted in
English and Spanish.



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