Call for Papers - Deadline Extended VarDial - Sixth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects
VarDial 2019: https://sites.google.com/view/vardial2019 Following requests, the deadline for submissions has been extended to March 11. Co-located with NAACL 2019 in Minneapolis USA, at VarDial we anticipate discussion on computational methods and on language resources for closely related languages, language varieties and dialects. Together with the VarDial workshop we are organizing the third edition of the VarDial Evaluation Campaign with five shared tasks: https://sites.google.com/view/vardial2019/campaign Topics We welcome papers dealing with one or more of the following topics: - Language resources and tools for similar languages, varieties and dialects; - Adaptation of tools (taggers, parsers) for similar languages, varieties and dialects; - Evaluation of language resources and tools when applied to language varieties; - Reusability of language resources in NLP applications (e.g., for machine translation, POS tagging, syntactic parsing, etc.); - Corpus-driven studies in dialectology and language variation; - Computational approaches to the study of mutual intelligibility between dialects and similar languages; - Automatic identification of lexical variation; - Automatic classification of language varieties; - Text similarity and adaptation between language varieties; - Linguistic issues in the adaptation of language resources and tools (e.g., semantic discrepancies, lexical gaps, false friends); - Machine translation between closely related languages, language varieties and dialects. In addition to the topics listed above, we also welcome papers dealing with diachronic language variation (e.g. philogenetic methods, historical dialects). Instruction for Authors Submissions should be formatted according to the NAACL template and submitted in PDF format. The review process will be double-blind. Important Dates Submission deadline: March 11, 2019 (extended) Notification of acceptance: April 2, 2019 Camera-ready papers due: April 10, 2019 VarDial Workshop at NAACL 2019: June 7, 2019 Program Committee Željko Agić (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Cesar Aguilar (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Chile) Laura Alonso y Alemany (University of Cordoba, Argentina) Jorge Baptista (University of Algarve and INESC-ID, Portugal) Eckhard Bick (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark) Johannes Bjerva (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Francis Bond (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Aoife Cahill (Educational Testing Service, United States) David Chiang (University of Notre Dame, United States) Paul Cook (University of New Brunswick, Canada) Marta Costa-Jussà (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain) Jon Dehdari (Think Big Analytics, United States) Liviu Dinu (University of Bucharest, Romania) Stefanie Dipper (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany) Sascha Diwersy (University of Montpellier, France) Mark Dras (Macquarie University, Australia) Tomaž Erjavec (Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia) Pablo Gamallo (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain) Binyam Gebrekidan Gebre (Phillips Research, The Netherlands) Cyril Goutte (National Research Council, Canada) Nizar Habash (New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE) Chu-Ren Huang (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong) Radu Ionescu (University of Bucharest, Romania) Jeremy Jancsary (Nuance Communications, Austria) Tommi Jauhiainen (University of Helsinki, Finland) Lung-Hao Lee (National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan) John Nerbonne (University of Groningen, Netherlands and University of Freiburg, Germany) Kemal Oflazer (Carnegie-Mellon University in Qatar, Qatar) Maciej Ogrodniczuk (IPAN, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland) Petya Osenova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria) Santanu Pal (Saarland University, Germany) Barbara Plank (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Francisco Rangel (Autoritas Consulting, Spain) Taraka Rama (University of Oslo, Norway) Reinhard Rapp (University of Mainz, Germany and University of Aix-Marsaille, France) Paolo Rosso (Technical University of Valencia, Spain) Fatiha Sadat (Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Canada) Tanja Samardžić (University of Zurich, Switzerland) Felipe Sánchez Martínez (Universitat d'Alacant, Spain) Kevin Scannell (Saint Louis University, United States) Yves Scherrer (University of Helsinki, Finland) Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds, United Kingdom) Kiril Simov (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria) Milena Slavcheva (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria) Marco Tadić (University of Zagreb, Croatia) Liling Tan (Rakuten Institute of Technology, Singapore) Joel Tetreault (Grammarly, United States) Francis Tyers (Indiana University, United States) Taro Watanabe (Google Inc., Japan) Pidong Wang (Machine Zone Inc., United States) Organizers Marcos Zampieri (University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom) Preslav Nakov (Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU, Qatar) Shervin Malmasi (Amazon, United States) Nikola Ljubešić (Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia and University of Zagreb, Croatia) Jörg Tiedemann (University of Helsinki, Finland) Ahmed Ali (Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU, Qatar) Contact: vardialworkshop(at)gmail.com ----- Dr. Marcos Zampieri Research Group in Computational Linguistics University of Wolverhampton, UK http://mzampieri.com/index.html _______________________________________________ Mt-list site list Mt-list@eamt.org http://lists.eamt.org/mailman/listinfo/mt-list
