2nd CfP: IWCLUL 2017

[Tommi Pirinen]

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Third International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages

23th January, 2017, St. Petersburg, Russia

Programme

The programme will be available

Venue

The workshop will be held in TBA room in Russia in St. Petersburg.

Registration

To register for the workshop please fill out registration form. NB: the registration fees will be announced later.

Invited speaker

Accepted papers

Tutorials

Call for papers

The purpose of the conference series International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages is to bring together researchers working on computational approaches to working with these languages. We accept long and short papers as well as tutorial proposals working on the following languages: Finnish, Hungarian, Estonian, Võro, the Sámi languages, Komi (Zyrian, Permyak), Mordvin (Erzya, Moksha), Mari (Hill, Meadow), Udmurt, Nenets (Tundra, Forest), Enets, Nganasan, Selkup, Mansi, Khanty, Veps, Karelian (Olonets), Karelian, Ingrian (Izhorian), Votic, Livonian, Ludic, and other related languages.

All Uralic languages exhibit rich morphological structure, which makes processing them challenging for state-of-the-art computational linguistic approaches, the majority also suffer from a lack of resources and many are endangered.

Research papers should be original, substantial and unpublished research, that can describe work-in-progress systems, frameworks, standards and evaluation schemes. Demos and tutorials will present systems and standards towards the goal of interoperability and unification of different projects, applications and research groups Appropriate topics include (but are not limited to):

Parsers, analysers and processing pipelines of Uralic languages

Lexical databases, electronic dictionaries

Finished end-user applications aimed at Uralic languages, such as spelling or grammar checkers, machine translation or speech processing

Evaluation methods and gold standards, tagged corpora, treebanks

Reports on language-independent or unsupervised methods as applied to Uralic languages

Surveys and review articles on subjects related to computational linguistics for one or more Uralic languages

Any work that aims at combining efforts and reducing duplication of work

How to elicit activity from the language community, agitation campaigns, games with a purpose

To maximise the possibility of reproducibility, replication and reuse, we particularly encourage submissions which present free/open-source language resources and make use of free/open-source software.

One of the aims of this gathering is to avoid unnecessary duplicated work in field of Uralistics by establishing connections and interoperability standards between researchers and research groups working at different sites. We have also identified a serious lack of gold standards and evaluation metrics for all Uralic languages including those with national support, any work towards better resources in these fields will be greatly appreciated. To further these goals we propose to start discussions on forming an ACL special interest group (or similar) on Uralistics at the event. In this year’s edition we particularly encourage researchers of minority Uralic languages in Russia to participate.

Important Dates

3rd July 2016: Call for papers announced

1st October 2016 2nd call for papers

1st November 2016: Paper submission deadline

1st December 2016: Paper notification

14th December 2016: Camera-ready deadline

23th–24rd January 2017: Workshop held in St. Petersburg

Submission of papers

Language of submission: Submissions should be made in English or Russian with optional abstract(s) in Uralic Language(s).

Submission format: There are multiple submission types: long and short research papers, and demonstrations and tutorials. Research papers should be up to 18 pages in length excluding references, the descriptions for demonstrations and tutorials up to 5 pages. Submissions should be formatted using LaTeX default article style with b5paper option. Citations should be managed with bibtex and e.g., unsrt bibliography style. Linguistic glosses should follow Leipzig glossing rules and use expex LaTeX package (make sure to update expex regularly as it is developed actively). Preferred LaTeX version is XeLaTeX and therefore you should use UTF-8 encoded Unicode in your sources rather than TeX encoded characters where possible. You will find the workshop template here (also in zip format templates).

If you do not have access to LaTeX text processign system, please contact us for alternative templates and instructions.

Submissions can be made here using the EasyChair conference management system.

Publication venue: Proceedings of the workshop will be published open-access in ACL anthology, SIG proceedings for SIGUR (new)

Conflicts of interest: The reviewing process will be anonymous (double-blind peer review) and authors should state in their submission all conflicts of interest with members of the programme committee. Members of the programme committee are also expected to state their conflicts of interest during review bidding. If the programme committee finds themselves unable to review some of the submissions, external reviewers may be called.

Double submission: To maximise the impact of work in the field of computational linguistics for the Uralic languages we are open to the possibility of double submission, or submission of work which has been partially published elsewhere. Any double submission should however be reported to the programme committee at the time of submission. In the advent of double acceptance the authors should choose in which venue to publish.

Venue

The workshop will be held at The Norwegian University Centre in St. Petersburg

To register for the workshop please fill out registration form. NB: the registration fees will be announced later.

Travel

Participants from outside Russia area may require a visa to visit Russia. If you require an invitation letter confirming your participation, please get in contact with the local organising committee.

A small number of travel stipends will be available for authors of accepted papers. After submitting your paper please contact the organising committee to request consideration.

Accommodation

Hotels maybe found through your preferred online hotel price comparison site. If you have any questions about accommodation, please feel free to contact the organisers.

Organisers

Tommi A. Pirinen, Universität Hamburg

Francis M. Tyers, UiT Norgga árktalaš universitehta

Trond Trosterud, UiT Norgga árktalaš universitehta

Local organisers

Илья Сергеевич Николаев, Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет

Michael Rießler, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg

Марина Федина, Centre of Innovative Language Technology, Komi Republican Academy of State Service and Administration

Programme committee

Tommi A. Pirinen, Universität Hamburg

Francis M. Tyers, UiT Norgga árktalaš universitehta

Michael Rießler, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg

Veronika Vincze, Szegedi tudományegyetem

Mans Hulden, University of Colodaro in Boulder

Eszter Simon, Magyar tudományos akadémia

Contact

Any questions should be directed to the organising committee on iwc...@googlegroups.com.