36.27, Second Workshop on Ancient Language Processing

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Subject: 36.27, Second Workshop on Ancient Language Processing

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Date: 08-Jan-2025
From: Bin Li [libin.njnu at gmail.com]
Subject: Second Workshop on Ancient Language Processing


Full Title: Second Workshop on Ancient Language Processing
Short Title: ALP2025

Date: 03-May-2025 - 03-May-2025
Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
Contact Person: Bin Li
Meeting Email: libin.njnu at gmail.com
Web Site: https://www.ancientnlp.com/alp2025/

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Applied Linguistics;
Computational Linguistics; Historical Linguistics

Call Deadline: 04-Feb-2025

Meeting Description:
Ancient languages contain rich human historical and cultural wealth.
So far there has been some good advancement in applying language
technologies to ancient languages such as Sumerian, Akkadian, Latin,
Ancient Greek and Ancient Chinese, especially in the construction of
digital language resources and resources to facilitate automatic
analysis. The workshop on Ancient Language Processing aims to focus
specifically on ancient languages and scripts from the emergence of
writing in Mesopotamia and Egypt c. 3000 BCE to the entire world up
till 800 AD. We wish to provide a recognized forum to further advance
this subfield of NLP, where researchers and practitioners can meet and
discuss their latest work, and exchange ideas in addressing shared
epigraphical challenges in language processing across various ancient
languages, such as non-Latin and non-alphabetic scripts,
Right-to-Left, transliteration conventions and fragmentary texts. In
addition, we propose two shared tasks: EvaCun, focusing on using LLMs
for Cuneiforms, and EvaHan, addressing Named Entity Recoganition for
Ancient Chinese. These tasks aim to provide an opportunity to tackle
the unique challenges of ancient language processing.
Languages of interest include, but are not limited to:
Mesopotamia: Sumerian, Akkadian
Iran: Elamite, old and middle Persian
Levant: Eblaite, Amorite, Aramaic (incl. Mandaic and Syriac), Ancient
Hebrew, Phynician, Ugaritic
Anatolia: Hittite, Luwian and minor Anatolian languages
Egypt: Ancient Egyptian, Coptic
Mediterranean: Linear A and B, Ancient Greek, Latin
Arabia: Ancient North Arabian, old Arabic
India: Sanskrit, Eastern Panjabi, Pali
China: Literary Chinese, Tibetan
Mesoamerica: Mayan
Japan: Old Japanese
Call For Papers
Papers and contributions are encouraged for any work related to
Natural Language Processing of Ancient Languages. Topics of interest
include, but are not limited to:
Charset (Unicode)
Input method (transliteration and transcription)
Tokenization (word segmentation)
Morphological analysis (both inflectional and derivational)
Philological issues in NLP
Linguistic Linked Data supporting NLP
Syntactic analysis
Semantic analysis
Machine translation
Pre-trained models
Deep learning based NLP
Multi-lingual comparison for NLP purposes
Data mining
Knowledge extraction
Language varieties and dialects
NLP issues in the analysis of broken texts and uncertain readings
Minimal computing in NLP
We welcome three types of submissions:
Long papers (full papers) that describe original and unpublished work
in any topic area of the workshop. A long paper is limited to 8 pages
for content, with unlimited number of pages for references.
Short papers (posters) that describe either work in progress or a
research proposal. They may also be in the style of a position paper
that surveys and criticizes existing literature. Short papers must
include clear directions for future research. Submissions of this type
are limited to 4 pages for content, with unlimited number of pages for
references.
Please also note the following:
All submissions must follow the ACL two-column format, using the
official ACL style templates, which are available from here
(https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files, Latex and Word). Please
submit your papers in PDF format.
The review for long and short papers will be double-blind. Please do
not include any self-identifying information in the submission. This
includes anonymizing the already-published work by removing
acknowledgments, self-citations, etc. We do not run a double blinded
review on tech report papers. Your paper must not be anonymous.
For papers accepted as a full paper, please follow the format
requirement for long papers. For papers accepted as a poster and a
tech report, please follow the format requirement for short papers.
Papers that do not follow the required format may not be able to
include the final proceedings.
All the accepted papers will be included in the ACL Anthology.
Submission:
Papers may be submitted to ALP 2025 via
https://softconf.com/naacl2025/alp2025/



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