CfP: IWCLUL 2021

[acl-sigur]

Dear ACL SIGUR group,

I know some of you may have been wondering if anything has been going on with the SIG. I apologise for lack of communication on my part, the things have been more or less unsure and we have all been busy with other things as well. Now our colleagues at Syktyvkar have started organisation for an event that includes an IWCLUL component, it will be more or less IWCLUL business as usual, with remote participation option. You can find details here: https://conference.krags.ru/sites/default/files/First%20call%20for%20papers_0.html. The CfP I have also copied under:

ELECTRONIC WRITING OF THE PEOPLES OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION 2021 & IWCLUL 2021First call for papers

Dear Colleagues!

We invite you to participate in the international scientific conference Electronic writing of the peoples of the Russian Federation 2021 & IWCLUL 2021. The conference is held in the year of the 100th anniversary of the Komi Republic. The conference will take place on September 23–25, 2021 in Syktyvkar (Komi Republic, Russia) in the Komi Republican Academy of State Service and Administration.

The conference is organized with the support of the Government of the Komi Republic.

A wide range of topical issues in the field of language technologies and computational linguistics of the languages of the peoples of the Russian Federation will be addressed during the conference. The main goal of the conference is the cooperation of researchers working on computational approaches to the languages of the peoples of the Russian Federation.

The main areas of the conference:

• standardization of alphabets and keyboard layouts;
• font support for electronic writing;
• electronic dictionaries and encyclopedias;
• electronic libraries;
• parsers, analyzers and technologies of stream processing of requests;
• ready-made applications for end users (spelling and grammar checkers, machine translation or speech processing, etc.);
• electronic educational resources;
• language corpora;
• evaluation methods and standards, morphological and syntactic annotation of corpora;
• the functioning of the languages in social media;
• language documentation;
• neural networks;
• ways to stimulate the activity of the language community;
• regulatory support for electronic writing of languages, etc.

The conference includes plenary and thematic sessions. In addition, presentations of finished products, thematic platforms and master classes in certain areas are planned.

The working languages of the conference are Komi, Russian, and English.

All scholars and specialists whose field of research interests is related to theoretical, methodological and applied issues of language technologies and computational linguistics of the languages of the peoples of the Russian Federation, are invited to participate in the conference.

Applications for participation in the conference are accepted in the Registration section of the conference website or by e-mail (confe...@krags.ru) until 15.05.2021.

[acl-sigur]

Dear all,
Due to popular request we have decided to extend the deadline by 10 days.

[Michael Rießler]

Dear all,

I have been absent from this list for a while and from computational linguistics in general. But I want to come back. 

At one point there was the idea to arrange a conference at UEF in Joensuu. What about 2025? I can be the main responsible and will try to find some money to cover the basic expenses, including the costs to invite one keynote speaker.

Joensuu can be reached easily (and relatively cheaply) by train from Helsinki, but there are also daily flights from Helsinki. The University of Eastern Finland is known for research and teaching of Karelian language. There is also a long tradition of (computational) speech research. I'm co-responsible for an MA program in " Linguistic Data Science", where I every year have one or two students writing a thesis on some smaller or endangered language.

Early October would be the perfect time for me personally, but this is negotiable. 

What do you think in general? If we agree, I want to publish the first announcement before the summer 2024.

Best,

Micha

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Michael Rießler

Professor of General Linguistics

University of Eastern Finland

https://uefconnect.uef.fi/henkilo/michael.riessler/

[Flammie]

(iow email lists are too hard to use in 2024 ;-)

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Lähettäjä: Flammie <fffl...@gmail.com>
Date: pe 19. huhtik. 2024 klo 14.36
Subject: Re: IWCLUL in Joensuu?
To: Michael Rießler <m.rie...@gmail.com>

Hi,

thanks for the suggestion, in connection with previous IWCLUL we had a planning session where we also though of potential venues for upcoming events: proposing workshops in conjunction with *ACL and CIFU. To me all possibilities sound great and I am grateful for volunteering so far. But I would like to hear the rest of the boards' and members' opinions?  Is email list A good way to discuss, should we have an open teams/zoom/other conference call on a specific point in time to settle this?

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[Niko Partanen]

Hi!

I think someone already had discussed with CIFU organizers that co-organizing with that would be possible. Of course it's also always possible to have a separate IWCLUL and some more practical and general session or event in CIFU. CIFU is in Tartu August 18–23 2025, so if there is something larger, then there should probably be enough space between the two in any case. The same autumn sounds a bit too full already.

One problem we've had, as we discussed, is that IWCLUL is not getting that many good submissions when it is organized, and I think we assumed one reason must be that there are just so many very highly valued ACL conferences that attract the submissions from more computational linguistics oriented researchers. So this is also something to think about, how IWCLUL is advertised and what kinds of audiences we want to get interested in it. 

However, concerning Joensuu, I think Micha's suggestion is extremely welcome and good, and in the end there is nothing more important here than someone actually wanting to do something. So the idea is very much appreciated. I would be totally fine in not having anything in CIFU and then having IWCLUL later in Joensuu. One option could also be to have more approachable and hands-on demo session in CIFU, where maybe some last minute chances of offering extended abstracts to IWCLUL could also still be possible. I think in the end we are interested in getting the general audience working on Uralic languages more involved and better informed about computational linguistics, so something like this would not be in waste anyway.

We had that kind of an event in the last CIFU, so I think the bare minimum would be that if something like that is happening there next year, then some of us should be involved at least so much that we can say that was also an ACL SIGUR event of some sort. We are in any case trying to revive a very dead animal here, so even small things like this can be important.

Best,

Niko

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[Mika Hämäläinen]

Hi,

Does anyone know who has been in talks with the CIFU organizers? The last thing we want is two IWCLULs happening in the same year. I think that co-locating with a bigger event is better because it has so much advertising value for its co-located workshops. 

We haven't planned an IWCLUL for this year yet, so maybe IWCLUL could take place in Joensuu this year? 

Anyway, the problem isn't just not getting enough good submissions, the problem is not getting enough submissions to begin with. So whenever IWCLUL is organized next, I would like all ACL SIGUR members to submit a paper or at least encourage their students to submit a paper. Last year we even had an option for submitting very short lighting talks, but still we got very few IWCLUL submissions. Without NLP4DH, we wouldn't even have got enough IWCLUL submissions to organize a workshop. 

- Mika 

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[Niko Partanen]

I don't know if there have been any concrete talks, I haven't had at least. Probably it's already too late for CIFU in any case, as their workshop calls were earlier I think.

Also in general his year may already be bit late, as getting funding etc. needs quite a lot of time. 

Best,

Niko

[Flammie]

The only communications with CIFU organiser I have seen were on this list in Christmas time, nothing concrete further than that.

[Jack Rueter]

Wasn't there something from Heiki-Jaan Kaalep?

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[Jack Rueter]

That was minutes to the business meeting from the beginning of December last year.

[Michael Rießler]

Dear all,

I'm glad that this discussion is now going.

I agree that co-organising with CIFU in Tartu in August 2025 is the best option. Therefore, I withdraw my offer for hosting IWCLUL in Joensuu in 2025.

We have DigHum24 in Joensuu in December 2024 and I can offer to improvise the organisation of one IWCLUL connected to this occasion, if the Board agrees on this. Please tell me soon.

However, my original idea was a true conference with some money (which I'll find)  to organise a proper call for papers, interesting keynotes, and social programs, like 2-3 days.

Best,

Micha

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[Heiki-Jaan Kaalep]

Dear all,

Thanks to Michael I understood that I failed to cc to others the mail I sent to Jack on Monday:

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Jack is right, I said in Dec that IWCLUL could be in Tartu 2025, connected with CIFU, but nothing more concrete after that has happened. At the moment, it would be possible to have it as a co-located workshop, as the list of CIFU workshops is closed by now.

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So, I am not sure that Michael should hurry to withdraw his suggestion.

Sorry to add to the mess.

Best,

Heiki

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[Mika Hämäläinen]

Hi all,

Let's make some decisions. How about Micha organizes IWCLUL in 2025 in Joensuu because CIFU seems to be a question mark for now.

We can have IWCLUL 2024 in Helsinki at Metropolia UAS in December, for example. 

If nobody has any better ideas, let's proceed with this plan. 

- Mika 

On Wed, 24 Apr 2024, 11.13 Joshua Wilbur, <joshua...@ut.ee> wrote:

Hi all,

I just talked to Gerson Klumpp, one of the main organizers of CIFU, and he confirmed that indeed it is too late to add another workshop or symposium to CIFU because the program is already completely full from Monday through Friday. But he understands the synergy effect of having IWCLUL take place around CIFU, and would be willing to include IWCLUL in the CIFU program as a kind of affiliated event. But he also stressed that the CIFU venue is basically already booked fully, and the organizers already have enough to do as is, so we would have to organize IWCLUL on our own, including finding our own venue (that was the case of course anyway). 

Just to keep in mind when planning: CIFU starts with a small warming up on Sunday evening, then takes place all day every day from Monday morning through Friday evening, and Saturday is reserved for excursions. 

Best

Josh

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