Dear apertiumers we have made a tentative programme for our workshop and would like to invite everyone to participate. The tentative programme is:
Programme Day 1 9:00 Registration 9:30 Invited talk 10:00 10:30 poster boasters 11:00 Coffee + posters 11:30 12:00 Tracking Typological Traits of Uralic Languages in Distributed Language Representations 12:30 New Baseline in Automatic Speech Recognition for Northern Sámi 13:00 Initial Experiments in Data-Driven Morphological Analysis for Finnish 13:30 Towards an open-source universal-dependency treebank for Erzya 14:00 Lunch (self-paid) 14:30 15:00 Utilization of Nganasan digital resources: a statistical approach to vowel harmony 15:30 Parallel Forms in Estonian Finite State Morphology 16:00 Extracting inflectional class assignment in Pite Saami: Nouns, verbs and those pesky adjectives 16:30 Analysing Finnish with word lists: the DDI approach to morphology revisited 17:00 Coffee + posters 17:30 SIGUR AGM 18:00 20:00(?) Social dinner (self-paid) Day 2 Programme TBD, see link[1] *) Following posters will be presented in poster session: – Development of an Open Source Natural Language Generation Tool for Finnish – Guessing lexicon entries using finite-state methods – Dependency Parsing of Code-Switching Data with Cross-Lingual Feature Representations – Sound-aligned corpus of Udmurt dialectal texts – A Finnish News Corpus for Named Entity Recognition – Building a Finnish SOM-based ontology concept tagger and harvester – Automatic Generation of Wiktionary Entries for Finno-Ugric Minority Languages subject to change. The workshop is held in Helsinki on 8th–9th of January and further, up-to-date information will be on the workshop homepage <http://blogs.helsinki.fi/language-technology/iwclul-2018/>. Below is the original CfP: On Sun, 1 Oct 2017 18:41:14 +0200 Flammie Pirinen <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear apertiumers, > > there's still some uralic languages missing apertium pairs! Please > submit your resources to us. Take a note of new LaTeX stylesheets here > [1]. Deadline coming up in less than two months > > [1] > <https://github.com/acl-sigur/iwclul-latex/releases/tag/iwclul-2018> > > 2017-07-11, Tommi A Pirinen sanoi: > > > [Apologies if you receive multiple copies] > > > > > > IWCLUL 2018 > > > > Fourth International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for > > Uralic Languages. Organised by ACL SIGUR (and University of > > Helsinki). 8th–9th January, 2018, Helsinki, Finland > > > > Proceedings > > > > The final proceedings version will be available in the ACL SIGUR > > section of ACL anthology. > > > > Programme > > > > Venue > > > > IFRAME: > > [32]https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=!1m23!1m12!1m3!1d3969.01943584 > > 4875!2d24.944677599313007!3d60.172295027492524!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i10 > > 24!2i768!4f13.1!4m8!3e0!4m5!1s0x46920bcdfff32299%3A0xf6985b0dab152f59!2 > > sFabianinkatu+39%2C+Helsinki!3m2!1d60.1722951!2d24.9490657!4m0!5e0!3m2! > > 1sen!2sfi!4v1499073364347 > > > > Unioninkatu 40 (Metsätalo) > > Helsingin yliopisto > > Helsinki, Finland > > > > Registration > > > > To register for the workshop please fill out registration form. > > NB: there is an optional 50 euro fee for participation that will be > > used to cover running costs. > > > > Invited speaker > > > > Filip Ginter > > > > 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 continue our tradition of > > particularly encouraging researchers of minority Uralic languages > > in Russia to participate. > > <[33]http://acl-sigur.github.io/matrix.html> > > > > > > Important dates > > > > * 3rd July 2017: Call for papers announced > > * 1st October 2017 2nd call for papers > > * 14th November 2017: Paper submission deadline > > * 6th December 2017: Paper notification > > * 23rd December 2017: Camera-ready deadline > > * ?? January 2018: Fill in the registration form > > * 8th–9th January 2018: Workshop held in Helsinki > > > > Submission of papers > > > > Language of submission: Submissions should be made in English or > > Russian with an obligatory abstract in at least one of the 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 processing system, please > > contact us for alternative templates and instructions. > > > > Submissions can be made here using the [34]EasyChair conference > > management system. > > > > Publication venue: Proceedings of the workshop will be published > > open-access in ACL anthology, SIG proceedings for SIGUR > > > > 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. > > > > > > > > -- > > Doktor Tommi A Pirinen, Computational Linguist, > > <https://flammie.github.io/purplemonkeydishwasher/>, Universität > > Hamburg, Hamburger Zentrum für Sprachkorpora <http://hzsk.de>. > > CLARIN-D Entwickler. President of ACL SIGUR SIG for Uralic > > languages <http://gtweb.uit.no/sigur/>. > > I tend to follow inline-posting style in desktop e-mail messages. > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > > _______________________________________________ > > Apertium-uralic mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/apertium-uralic > > -- Doktor Tommi A Pirinen, Computational Linguist, <https://flammie.github.io/purplemonkeydishwasher/>, Universität Hamburg, Hamburger Zentrum für Sprachkorpora <http://hzsk.de>. CLARIN-D Entwickler. President of ACL SIGUR SIG for Uralic languages <http://gtweb.uit.no/sigur/>. 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