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*Apologies for cross-postings!* *4th Endangered and Lesser-known Languages Conference (ELKL – 4)* ** *Language Resources and Technologies for Endangered and Lesser-known Languages* *Department of Linguistics, K.M.I., Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar University, Agra* *25 - 27 February, 2016* *website*: http://elkl4.kmiagra.in *email*: linguistics....@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Second Announcement, Call for Papers and Call for Tutorials* -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Department of Linguistics, K.M. Institute of Hindi and Linguistics, Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar University, Agra, is going to host the 4th Endangered and Lesser-known Languages Conference (ELKL - 4) from 25 - 27 February, 2016. This year's special theme is '*Language Resources and Technologies for Endangered and Lesser-known Languages*'. *============================================== Invited Tutorials =============================================* *The conference will feature the following invited tutorials (other tutorials and invited lectures to be announced in due course of time)* - Full-Day *Tutorial* on *'Language Technologies for Documentation of Spoken Aspect of Endangered and Lesser-known Languages' *by *Prof. Peri Bhaskararao*, IIIT – Hyderabad - Full-Day *Tutorial* on *'Grammatical Categories' *by *Prof. Ayesha Kidwai*, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi - Full-Day *Tutorial* on* 'Language Archiving' *by* Prof. Peter Austin *(to be confirmed) - Full-Day *Tutorial* on *'FieldWorks Language Explorer (FLEx) *(resource person to be confirmed) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Call for Papers* We solicit papers discussing original and unpublished research related to, but not limited to, the following areas of research in relation to the endangered and lesser-known languages. - *Corpus Development* - *Spell and Grammar Checker* - *Use of language archives for language technology development* - *Treebanks* - *Transcription and Input Tools* - *Technology for language documentation and archiving* - *WordNets* - *Text-to-Speech Systems* - *Role of technology in language revitalisation* - *Lexicons* - *Automatic Speech Recognition* - *Case Studies on use of language technologies for documentation* - *POS Tagger* - *Automatic Summarisation* - *Case Studies on use of language technologies for revitalisation* - *Morphological Analyser* - *E-learning / language teaching tools* - *Language Technologies and Language Endangerment* - *Syntactic Parsers* - *Machine Translation* In addition to this, like previous editions of the conference, original and unpublished papers are also solicited in the other areas of research in endangered and lesser-known languages. which include, but not limited to, the following. - *Phonetics* - *Multilingualism* - *Language Documentation* - *Phonology* - *Language Shift* - *Language Archiving – best practices and methods* - *Morphology* - *Language Maintenance* - *Language policy, language planning and language endangerment* - *Syntax* - *Language Death* - *Ethical and Legal Issues in Language Documentation* - *Semantics* - *Language Attitude* - *Practical Issues in Language Documentation and Archiving* - *Pragmatics* - *Language Revitalisation* - *Lexicography and Dictionary Development* - *Field Reports* - *Biocultural and Linguistic Diversity* - *Typological, Areal and Historical Descriptions* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Call for Tutorials* Proposals for full-day (8 hours) or half-day (4 hours) relevant pre-conference tutorials on 25th February, 2016 is solicited from the interested individuals, team or organisations. Tentative areas of tutorial may include, but not limited to - *Recent technologies, softwares, frameworks helpful in language documentation and /or description* - *Tools and techniques of language documentation* - *Tools and techniques of language archiving* - *Frameworks and APIs for language technology development, especially those of endangered and lesser-known languages* - *Theoretical Issues in language description* *Important Dates* Last Date for Abstract Submission (*Extended Deadline*) *25** September, 2015* Last Date for Tutorial Proposal Submission (*Extended Deadline*) *1**5 October, 2015 * Final Notification of Acceptance *30 November, 2015* Full Paper Submission *31 December, 2015 * Registration for Paper presenters *20 January, 2016 * Early registration and Registration for Tutorials *5 February, 2016 * Conference Dates *25 - 27 February, 2016* *Submission* *For Oral/Poster Presentation* Abstracts (written in English) of *750 - 1500* words (excluding references and data) in pdf format is to be uploaded by *2**5 September, 2015* using the EasyChair system at *https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=elkl4 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=elkl4>*. *Abstracts should be completely anonymised and anything pointing to the author(s) of the abstract should be completely removed. * *One author can submit a maximum of two abstracts, one single-authored and one co-authored.* *Proposal for Pre-conference Tutorials* Proposals (written in English) in *maximum 2000 words* (excluding the references, if any, and CV of the resource persons) in .pdf format is to be uploaded by *1**5 October, 2015* using the EasyChair system at *https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=elkl4 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=elkl4>* *The .odt/.doc/.docx templates for proposal submission could be downloaded from the website and used for preparing and submitting the proposals.* *One resource person can submit one and only one tutorial proposal. (S)he could be the single resource person of that proposal or one of the members of a team of resource persons.* *Important - While submitting the abstract please mention in the title that it is a tutorial proposal. Please write the title in this format - "Tutorial Proposal - Title of the Proposal".* *Best regards,* *ELKL - 4 Team*
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