CfP: Second International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages
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Call for papers
The purpose of the Second International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages is to bring together researchers working on computational approaches to working with these languages. We accept papers and tutorial proposals working on the following languages: Finnish, Hungarian, Estonian, Voru, Setu, the Sámi languages, Komi (Zyrian, Permyak), Mordvin (Erzya, Moksha), Mari (Hill, Meadow), Udmurt, Nenets (Tundra, Forest), Enets (Tundra, Forest), Nganasan, Selkup, Mansi, Khanty, Veps, Karelian, Ingrian (Izhorian), Votic, Livonian, Ludic, Kven 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Research papers should be original, substantial and unpublished research, that can describe work-in-progress systems, frameworks, standards and evaluation schemes.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.
The invited talk will be given by András Kornai.
Important Dates
1st July 2015: Call-for papers announced
2nd November 2015: Paper submission deadline
2nd December 2015: Paper notification
20th December 2015: Camera-ready deadline
20th January 2016: Workshop held in Szeged, Hungary
Submission of papers
Language of submission: Submissions should be made in English or Russian with an optional abstract in Finnish.
Submission format: There are multiple submission types: research papers and demonstrations and tutorials. Research papers should be up to 10 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. Submissions can be made here using the EasyChair conference management system.
Publication venue: Proceedings of the workshop will be published open-access in the repository of the University of Szeged. Authors of outstanding papers will be invited by the editorial board of the Acta Linguistica Hungarica to submit their work to be published, subject to further extension and review, in a special issue of the journal.
Conflicts of interest: The reviewing process will not be anonymous, authors should state in their submission all conflicts of interest with programme committee. The members of programme committee are 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 used.
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 Study and Information Centre of the University of Szeged, Hungary (http://www.u-szeged.hu/tik).
The Centre gives place to national and international conferences, university and business meetings, cultural and charity programmes, such as exhibitions or concerts as well as to receptions and banquets. The capacity of the Centre can take up to 1,300 persons at the same time, as it has a Congress Hall enough for 685 persons, 3 Lecture Halls, 3 Seminar Rooms, a Video Conference Room, and an Exhibition Area. Main technical apparatus available for each room include:
Built-in projector
Laptop
Sound amplifier
Mobile screen (180x240 cm)
Overhead projector
Mobile whiteboard (90x180 cm)
The whole building is air-conditioned and suitable for disabled people.
Travel
Participants from outside the European Union may require a visa to visit Hungary. If you require an invitation letter confirming your participation, please get in contact with the organising committee.
There are regular flight connections from all major cities of the world to Budapest, Ferihegy Airport. A large number of cheap flights are also available from several European cities to Budapest.
There is a convenient InterCity train connection between Budapest and Szeged. The train station can easily be reached from the airport by bus no. 200. Buses to the Ferihegy train station run approx. every 15 minutes and the ride takes about 10 minutes. InterCity trains run every hour from 6am till 9pm.
Accommodation
Hotels may be 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, Dublin City University
Francis M. Tyers, UiT Norgga árktalaš universitehta
Eszter Simon, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Institute for Linguistics
Veronika Vincze, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Group on Artificial Intelligence
Ágoston Nagy, University of Szeged
Csilla Horváth, University of Szeged
Programme committee
Tommi A. Pirinen, Dublin City University
Eszter Simon, MTA Nyelvtudományi Intézet
Francis M. Tyers, UiT Norgga árktalaš universitehta
Veronika Vincze, Szegedi Tudományegyetem
to be expanded
Contact
Any questions should be directed to the organising committee on iwclu...@googlegroups.com.
--
ESZTER SIMON
Research Fellow
Research Institute for Linguistics
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
H-1068 Budapest, Benczúr u. 33.
Tel./Fax. +36 1 321 4830/ 129
simon....@nytud.mta.hu
The purpose of the Second International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages is to bring together researchers working on computational approaches to working with these languages. We accept papers and tutorial proposals working on the following languages: Finnish, Hungarian, Estonian, Voru, Setu, the Sámi languages, Komi (Zyrian, Permyak), Mordvin (Erzya, Moksha), Mari (Hill, Meadow), Udmurt, Nenets (Tundra, Forest), Enets (Tundra, Forest), Nganasan, Selkup, Mansi, Khanty, Veps, Karelian, Ingrian (Izhorian), Votic, Livonian, Ludic, Kven 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.
The invited talk will be given by András Kornai.
Important Dates
1st July 2015: Call-for papers announced
2nd November 2015: Paper submission deadline
2nd December 2015: Paper notification
20th December 2015: Camera-ready deadline
20th January 2016: Workshop held in Szeged, Hungary
Submission of papers
Language of submission: Submissions should be made in English or Russian with an optional abstract in Finnish.
Submission format: There are multiple submission types: research papers and demonstrations and tutorials. Research papers should be up to 10 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. Submissions can be made here using the EasyChair conference management system.
Publication venue: Proceedings of the workshop will be published open-access in the repository of the University of Szeged. Authors of outstanding papers will be invited by the editorial board of the Acta Linguistica Hungarica to submit their work to be published, subject to further extension and review, in a special issue of the journal.
Conflicts of interest: The reviewing process will not be anonymous, authors should state in their submission all conflicts of interest with programme committee. The members of programme committee are 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 used.
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 Study and Information Centre of the University of Szeged, Hungary (http://www.u-szeged.hu/tik).
The Centre gives place to national and international conferences, university and business meetings, cultural and charity programmes, such as exhibitions or concerts as well as to receptions and banquets. The capacity of the Centre can take up to 1,300 persons at the same time, as it has a Congress Hall enough for 685 persons, 3 Lecture Halls, 3 Seminar Rooms, a Video Conference Room, and an Exhibition Area. Main technical apparatus available for each room include:
Built-in projector
Laptop
Sound amplifier
Mobile screen (180x240 cm)
Overhead projector
Mobile whiteboard (90x180 cm)
The whole building is air-conditioned and suitable for disabled people.
Travel
Participants from outside the European Union may require a visa to visit Hungary. If you require an invitation letter confirming your participation, please get in contact with the organising committee.
There are regular flight connections from all major cities of the world to Budapest, Ferihegy Airport. A large number of cheap flights are also available from several European cities to Budapest.
There is a convenient InterCity train connection between Budapest and Szeged. The train station can easily be reached from the airport by bus no. 200. Buses to the Ferihegy train station run approx. every 15 minutes and the ride takes about 10 minutes. InterCity trains run every hour from 6am till 9pm.
Accommodation
Hotels may be 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, Dublin City University
Francis M. Tyers, UiT Norgga árktalaš universitehta
Eszter Simon, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Institute for Linguistics
Veronika Vincze, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Group on Artificial Intelligence
Ágoston Nagy, University of Szeged
Csilla Horváth, University of Szeged
Programme committee
Tommi A. Pirinen, Dublin City University
Eszter Simon, MTA Nyelvtudományi Intézet
Francis M. Tyers, UiT Norgga árktalaš universitehta
Veronika Vincze, Szegedi Tudományegyetem
to be expanded
Contact
Any questions should be directed to the organising committee on iwclu...@googlegroups.com.
--
ESZTER SIMON
Research Fellow
Research Institute for Linguistics
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
H-1068 Budapest, Benczúr u. 33.
Tel./Fax. +36 1 321 4830/ 129
simon....@nytud.mta.hu
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