Third International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages (IWCLUL2017) and ACL SIGUR meeting
23–24th January, 2017, St. Petersburg, Russia
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Research papers should be original, substantial and unpublished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. In this year's
edition we particularly encourage researchers of minority Uralic
languages in Russia to participate.
Important Dates
* 3nd July 2016: Call-for papers announced
* 1st October 2016: Second Call-for papers announced
* 1st November 2016: Paper submission deadline
* 1st December 2016: Paper notification
* 14th December 2016: Camera-ready deadline
* 23–24th January 2017: Workshop held in St. Petersburg
Submission of papers
Language of submission: Submissions should be made in English or
Russian with optional additional abstract(s) in Uralic language(s).
Submission format: There are multiple submission types: long and
short research papers, and software 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 preferably 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.
If you do not have access to LaTeX text processign system, please
contact us for alternative templates and instructions.
Paper submissions can be made here (tba)[1] using the
EasyChair conference management system.
Publication venue: Will be announced later
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
Registration: Information coming later
To register for the workshop please fill out [8]this form. The registration fee is will be announced later. For participants in the Russian Federation and ... can participate with reduced fares of 0 € in the case that the fee would be prohibitive factor for participation.
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 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.
Invited speaker
* Heiki-Jaan Kaalep, Tartu ülikool
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
Programme committee
to be announced
Contact
Any questions should be directed to the organising committee at [10]
__________________________________________________________________ [1] http://easuchair.org [8] http://goo.gl/forms/2p7WKZ6KJwQhMk743 [10] iwclul at groups.google.com or iwclul at googlegroups.com or see google
groups -> iwclul organisers
-- Doktor Tommi A Pirinen <http://www.computing.dcu.ie/~tpirinen/>. Computational Linguist, Universität Hamburg, Hamburger Zentrum für Sprachkorpora <http://corpora.uni-hamburg.de/>. President of ACL SIGUR SIG for Uralic languages <http://gtweb.uit.no/sigur/>.