[RNLD List] 2nd CFP: SIGUL2023 Workshop

Tue May 9 12:18:11 UTC 2023

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2nd Call for Papers

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SIGUL 2023 Workshop <https://sigul-2023.ilc.cnr.it>

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Co-located with Interspeech 2023 <https://www.interspeech2023.org>

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Dublin, Ireland, 18-20 August 2023

The 2nd Annual Meeting of the ELRA <http://www.elra.info/>/ISCA 
<https://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/index.php>Special Interest Group on 
Under-Resourced Languages <http://www.elra.info/en/sig/sigul/>(SIGUL 
2023) provides a forum for the presentation and discussion of 
cutting-edge research in text and speech processing for under-resourced 
languages by academic and industry researchers. SIGUL 2023 carries on 
the tradition of the SIGUL and the CCURL-SLTU (Collaboration and 
Computing for Under-Resourced Languages – Spoken Language Technologies 
for Under-resourced languages) Workshop Series, which has been organized 
since 2008 and, as LREC Workshops, since 2014. As usual, this workshop 
will span the research interest areas of less-resourced, 
under-resourced, endangered, minority, and minoritized languages.

Special Features

This year, the workshop will be marked with three special events:

(1) Special Session in Celtic Language Technology (August 18)

SIGUL 2023 will provide a special session or forum for researchers 
interested in developing language technologies for Celtic languages.

(2) Joint Session with SlaTE 2023 (August 19)

SIGUL 2023 will have a joint session with The 9th Workshop on Speech and 
Language Technology in Education (SlaTE 2023 
<https://sites.google.com/view/slate2023>). The goal is to accelerate 
the development of spoken language technology for under-resourced 
languages through education.

(3) Social outing and dinner near Dublin (optional on August 20)

Invited Speakers

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    Subhashish Panigrahi, O Foundation and Law for All Initiative:
    Reclaiming Our Voices - Imagining Community-Led Ai/Ml Practices

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    Delyth Prys, Language Technologies Unit, Canolfan Bedwyr: TBA

Workshop Topics

Following the long-standing series of previous meetings, the SIGUL venue 
will provide a forum for the presentation of cutting-edge research in 
natural language processing and spoken language processing for 
under-resourced languages to both academic and industry researchers and 
also offer a venue where researchers in different disciplines and from 
varied backgrounds can fruitfully explore new areas of intellectual and 
practical development while honoring their common interest of sustaining 
less-resourced languages.

Topics include but are not limited to:

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    Processing any under-resourced languages (covering less-resourced,
    under-resourced, endangered, minority, and minoritized languages)

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    Cognitive and linguistic studies of under-resourced languages

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    Fast resources acquisition: text and speech corpora, parallel texts,
    dictionaries, grammars, and language models

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    Zero-resource speech technologies and self-supervised learning

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    Cross-lingual and multilingual acoustic and lexical modeling

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    Speech recognition and synthesis for under-resourced languages and
    dialects

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    Machine translation and spoken dialogue systems

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    Applications of spoken language technologies for under-resourced
    languages

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    Special topic:

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        Celtic language technology

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        Spoken language technologies for under-resourced languages via
        education

We also welcome various typologies of papers:

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    research papers;

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    position papers for reflective considerations of methodological,
    best practice, institutional issues (e.g., ethics, data ownership,
    speakers’ community involvement, de-colonizing approaches);

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    research posters for work-in-progress projects in the early stage of
    development or description of new resources;

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    demo papers, and early-career/student papers, to be submitted as
    extended abstracts and presented as posters.

Instructions for Submission

Prospective authors are invited to submit 
<https://softconf.com/n/sigul2023/>their contributions according to the 
following guidelines.

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    Research and position papers: a maximum of 5 pages with the 5th page
    reserved exclusively for references.

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    Demo papers, and early-career/student papers: a maximum of three
    pages with the 3rd page reserved for references.

Both types of submissions must conform to the Interspeech format 
<https://www.interspeech2023.org/author-resources/>defined in the paper 
preparation guidelines as instructed in the author’s kit 
<https://www.interspeech2023.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/INTERSPEECH_2023_Paper_Kit.zip>on 
the Interspeech webpage. Papers do not need to be anonymous. Authors 
must declare that their contributions are original and that they have 
not submitted their papers elsewhere for publication.

Important Dates

- Paper submission deadline: 28 May 2023

- Notification of acceptance: 2 July 2023

- Camera-ready paper: 21 July 2023

- Workshop date: 18-20 August 2023

Outline of the Program

SIGUL 2023 will continue the tradition of the previous SIGUL event that 
features a number of distinguished keynote speakers, technical oral and 
poster sessions, and panel discussions to discuss a better future for 
under-resourced languages and under-resourced communities.

Full list of organizers SIGUL Board

Sakriani Sakti (JAIST, Japan)

Claudia Soria (CNR-ILC, Italy)

Maite Melero (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain)

SIGUL 2023 Organizers

Kolawole Adebayo (ADAPT, Ireland)

Ailbhe Ní Chasaide (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)

Brian Davis (ADAPT, Ireland)

John Judge (ADAPT, Ireland)

Maite Melero (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain)

Sakriani Sakti (JAIST, Japan)

Claudia Soria (CNR-ILC, Italy)

SIGUL 2023 Program Committee

Gilles Adda (LIMSI/IMMI-CNRS, France)

Manex Agirrezabal (University of Copenhagen – Center for Sprogteknologi 
| Center for Language Technology, Denmark)

Shyam S. Agrawal (KIIT, India)

Begona Altuna (Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea | University of the Basque 
Country, Spain)

Steven Bird (Charles Darwin University, Australia)

Matt Coler (University of Groningen, Campus Fryslân, The Netherlands)

Pradip K. Das (IIT, India)

Iria De Dios Flores ( Centro Singular de Investigación en Tecnoloxías 
Intelixentes, Spain)

A. Seza Doğruöz (Universiteit Gent, België | Ghent University, Belgium)

Stefano Ghazzali (Prifysgol Bangor | Bangor University, Bangor, Gwynedd)

Jeff Good (University at Buffalo, USA)

Kristiina Jokinen (AIRC [Artificial Intelligence Research Center], AIST 
Tokyo Waterfront, Japan)

Laurent Kevers (Università di Corsica Pasquale Paoli, France)

Teresa Lynn (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, 
United Arab Emirates)

Joseph Mariani (LIMSI-CNRS, France)

Maite Melero (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Espanya | Spain)

Win Pa Pa (UCS Yangon, Myanmar)

Delyth Prys (Prifysgol Bangor | Bangor University, Bangor, Gwynedd)

Carlos Ramisch (Université Marseille, France)

Sakriani Sakti (JAIST, Japan)

Claudia Soria (CNR-ILC, Italia | Italy)

Trond Trosterud (Norges Arktiske Universitet | The Arctic University of 
Norway)

Acknowledgments

SIGUL is a joint Special Interest Group of the ELRA Language Resources 
Association (ELRA) and of the International Speech Communication 
Association (ISCA). The SIGUL 2023 workshop has been organized with the 
help of the local organizers of Interspeech 2023 and Slate 2023. This 
edition has been sponsored by Google and endorsed by Linguapax 
International.

Contact

To contact the organizers, please mail sigul2023 at ml.jaist.ac.jp 
<mailto:sigul2023 at ml.jaist.ac.jp>(Subject: [SIGUL2023]).

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Researcher
Cnr-Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale “Antonio Zampolli”
Via Moruzzi 1
56124 Pisa
Italy

Tel. +39 050 3153166
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