[Apologies for cross-postings]
CALL FOR PAPERS FOR THE
SECOND INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP TOWARDS DIGITAL LANGUAGE EQUALITY (TDLE):
FOCUSING ON SUSTAINABILITY
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co-located with LREC-COLING 2024, Saturday 25th May 2024, Turin (Italy)
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https://european-language-equality.eu/tdle-2024/
1 DESCRIPTION AND AIMS OF THE WORKSHOP
The key aim of this half-day workshop co-located with LREC-COLING 2024
(https://lrec-coling-2024.org/), to be held in Turin (Italy) on Saturday
25th May 2024, is to discuss and promote the importance of
sustainability in the design, development, creation, use, distribution
and sharing of language data, resources, platforms, infrastructures,
tools and technologies, with the intention of achieving Digital Language
Equality (DLE). While some important work has recently addressed these
crucial areas (e.g. Fort and Couillault, 2016; Hessenthaler et al.,
2022; Ramesh et al., 2023; Castilho et al., forthcoming), the relevant
contributions seem to be as yet unsystematic and relatively isolated.
The workshop intends to provide an inclusive forum to encourage in-depth
debate and facilitate collaborations to promote the sustainability of
resources and technologies in any (combination of) languages, in support
of multilingualism and of the overarching goal of DLE.
_The sustainability of language resources and technologies is key to
enabling multilingualism and digital language equality in the age of
Artificial Intelligence._
2 TOPICS OF INTEREST
The _Second International Workshop_ _Towards Digital Language Equality
(TDLE) _focuses on sustainability in relation to the design,
development, creation, use, distribution and sharing of language data,
resources, platforms, infrastructures, tools and technologies, with a
view to promoting the broader goal of Digital Language Equality (DLE).
The concept of DLE has been firmly established in relation to all
languages of Europe (Rehm and Way, 2023), and has the potential to also
benefit other languages throughout the world, to support the prosperity
of the respective communities at a time of impressive - but as yet very
unevenly distributed and severely imbalanced - progress in
language-centric Artificial Intelligence (AI), e.g. through large
language models (LLMs). The workshop places particular emphasis on
multilingualism and on leveling up digital support for languages,
domains and applications that have so far been underserved, and wishes
to explore ways to develop policies and funding streams to work towards
sustainability in connection with DLE, especially in support of
regional, minority and territorial languages.
To this end, recognizing that the sustainability of Language Resources
and Technologies (LRTs) is key to enabling multilingualism and DLE in
the age of AI, topics of particular interest for the workshop on which
we invite original contributions covering any (combination of) languages
include, but are not limited to, the following:
* research on the factors affecting DLE and the sustainability of
LRTs;
* best practices, case studies and validated guidelines related to the
design, implementation and improvement of sustainability of written,
oral/spoken, signed and/or multimodal LRTs (including LLMs),
particularly in support of DLE;
* how multilingual LLM technology can support DLE;
* retrospectively assessing the sustainability of legacy LRTs, and
future-proofing new LRTs in the interest of DLE;
* analyzing the costs and benefits of foregrounding sustainability for
LRTs;
* the role of metadata, accompanying documentation and licenses in
showing and improving the sustainability of LRTs;
* sustainability, fairness and accessibility (e.g. for users with
physical or cognitive disabilities, limited computing resources and
connectivity) of platforms and infrastructures hosting, distributing and
sharing LRTs in the interest of DLE;
* how current data and computing access inequality is affecting DLE
(in particular regarding LLMs);
* ecological sustainability and environmental fairness of developing
and deploying state-of-the-art LRTs, e.g. LLMs with regard to energy
consumption, global warming and climate change;
* developing data and parameter efficient methods to train or adapt
language models to new languages;
* how to evaluate, measure, compare and improve the sustainability of
LRTs;
* establishing benchmarks and protocols to ensure the sustainability
of LRTs;
* how to avoid the potential dangers of developing and using _un_fair
and _un_sustainable LRTs, e.g. for malicious, ill-intentioned or harmful
purposes;
* ethical, legal, cultural and/or socio-economic implications of
(ignoring) fairness and sustainability of LRTs;
* developing and implementing forward-looking policies to promote
fairness and long-term sustainability of LRTs to achieve DLE;
* education and training needs and experiences in relation to
promoting fairness and sustainability of LRTs and ways to raise broad
awareness of DLE and related topics, e.g. among the general public,
policy- and decision-makers.
Given this wide-ranging and inclusive remit, the workshop intends to
bring together developers, creators, vendors, distributors, brokers,
users, evaluators and researchers of written, oral/spoken, signed and/or
multimodal LRTs in any (combination of) languages.
3 BACKGROUND AND FIRST TDLE WORKSHOP HELD IN 2022
The second 2024 edition of the workshop builds on the success of the
first _Towards Digital Language Equality (TDLE) workshop_,[1] that was
held at LREC 2022 in Marseille (France) on 20 June 2022, and whose
accepted papers were published in a dedicated volume of proceedings,
Aldabe et al. (2022).[2]
Following this well-received inaugural workshop held in June 2022, the
second event in the series will be co-located with LREC-COLING 2024 in
Turin (Italy) on Saturday 25th May 2024, and will focus specifically on
the highly relevant topic of the sustainability of LRTs in connection
with multilingualism and DLE.
4 SUBMISSIONS
Up-to-date information on the workshop, including materials for authors,
guidelines, templates, stylesheet and key dates can be found at the
dedicated website https://european-language-equality.eu/tdle-2024/. To
contact the organizing committee of the workshop directly, you can email
[email protected].
Papers submitted to the workshop should be completely anonymous for
double-blind peer review, written in English, and prepared using the
official LREC-COLING 2024 author's kit and submission
stylesheet/template available at
https://lrec-coling-2024.org/authors-kit/. The submissions to the
workshop should not exceed 8 pages, excluding references, and be saved
in unprotected PDF format. Papers should be submitted no later than 23
February 2024 through the START submission management system available
at https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/tdle2024/.
The workshop seeks original papers, i.e. it does not accept submissions
that have been, or will be, published elsewhere. The workshop allows
simultaneous submissions, and in these cases the authors should clearly
indicate in the manuscript to which other conference, workshop or venue
they have submitted the paper for review. Each paper submitted to the
workshop will receive three double-blind peer reviews. Papers accepted
for presentation will be included in the proceedings of the workshop.
In light of the LREC-COLING 2024 Map and the "Share your LRs!"
initiative, when submitting their papers through the START system
authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources
(in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits,
etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a
new result of their research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC-COLING
authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to
enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including
evaluation ones).
5 KEY DATES
Paper submission deadline: 23 February 2024
Notification of acceptance: 19 March 2024
Camera-ready papers due: 8 April 2024
Half-day workshop date: Saturday, 25th May 2024
6 WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS
* Itziar Aldabe (HiTZ Basque Center for Language Technology - Ixa,
University of the Basque Country, Spain)
* Begoña Altuna (HiTZ Basque Center for Language Technology - Ixa,
University of the Basque Country, Spain)
* Aritz Farwell (HiTZ Basque Center for Language Technology - Ixa,
University of the Basque Country, Spain)
* Federico Gaspari (University of Naples "Federico II", Italy & ADAPT
Centre, Dublin City University, Ireland - co-chair)
* Joss Moorkens (School of Applied Language & Intercultural
Studies/ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University, Ireland - co-chair)
* Stelios Piperidis (Institute of Language and Speech Processing,
Athena Research and Innovation Center in Information, Communication and
Knowledge Technologies, Greece)
* Georg Rehm (Speech and Language Technology Lab, Deutsches
Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz, Germany)
* German Rigau (HiTZ Basque Center for Language Technology - Ixa,
University of the Basque Country, Spain)
7 PROGRAM COMMITTEE
* Antonios Anastasopoulos (GMU, USA)
* Anya Belz (ADAPT, DCU, Ireland)
* Steven Bird (CDU, Australia)
* Fred Blain (Uni. Tilburg, Netherlands)
* Franco Cutugno (Uni. Naples "Federico II", Italy)
* Bessie Dendrinos (NKUA, Greece & ECSPM, Denmark)
* Félix do Carmo (Uni. Surrey, UK)
* Annika Grützner-Zahn (DFKI, Germany)
* Ana Guerberof-Arenas (Uni. Groningen, Netherlands)
* Davyth Hicks (ELEN, Belgium)
* Monja Jannet (ADAPT, DCU, Ireland)
* John Judge (ADAPT, DCU, Ireland)
* Dorothy Kenny (SALIS/CTTS/ADAPT, DCU, Ireland)
* Sabine Kirchmeier (EFNIL, Luxembourg)
* Teresa Lynn (MBZUAI, United Arab Emirates)
* Maite Melero (BSC, Spain)
* Helena Moniz (Uni. Lisbon, Portugal & EAMT)
* Johanna Monti (UniOR, Italy)
* Rachele Raus (UniBO, Italy)
* Wessel Reijers (Uni. Paderborn, Germany)
* Celia Rico Pérez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
* Dimitar Shterionov (TU, Netherlands)
* Carlos S. C. Teixeira (IOTA Localisation Services & Uni. Rovira i
Virgili, Spain)
* Antonio Toral ( Groningen, Netherlands)
* Vincent Vandeghinste (Instituut voor de Nederlandse Taal,
Netherlands & KU Leuven, Belgium)
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Itziar Aldabe, Begoña Altuna, Aritz Farwell and German Rigau, editors.
2022. _Proceedings of the Workshop Towards Digital Language Equality
(TDLE)_ [1]. European Language Resources Association, Marseille, France.
Sheila Castilho, Federico Gaspari, Joss Moorkens, Maja Popović and
Antonio Toral, editors. Forthcoming. _Journal of Specialised
Translation_ [2]. Special Issue n. 41 on "Translation Automation and
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Karën Fort and Alain Couillault, 2016. "Yes, We Care! Results of the
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Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
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Marius Hessenthaler, Emma Strubell, Dirk Hovy and Anne Lauscher, 2022.
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[1] https://european-language-equality.eu/tdle-2022/
[2]
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[1] https://aclanthology.org/2022.tdle-1.pdf
[2] https://www.jostrans.org/
[3] https://aclanthology.org/L16-1252.pdf
[4] https://aclanthology.org/volumes/L16-1/
[5] https://aclanthology.org/2022.emnlp-main.533.pdf
[6] https://aclanthology.org/volumes/2022.emnlp-main/
[7]
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0077056
[8] https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-eacl.157.pdf
[9] https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-eacl.pdf
[10] https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-28819-7
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