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Sujet : [SIGUL] CfP 4th workshop on Resources for African Indigenous
Language (RAIL) @ EACL
Date : Mon, 16 Jan 2023 07:15:38 +0000
De : Menno Van Zaanen via SIGUL <[email protected]>
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Pour : [email protected] <[email protected]>
First call for papers
Fourth workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL)
https://bit.ly/rail2023
The 4rd RAIL (Resources for African Indigenous Languages) workshop will
be co-located with EACL 2023 in Dubrovnik, Croatia. The Resources for
African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) workshop is an interdisciplinary
platform for researchers working on resources (data collections, tools,
etc.) specifically targeted towards African indigenous languages. In
particular, it aims to create the conditions for the emergence of a
scientific community of practice that focuses on data, as well as
computational linguistic tools specifically designed for or applied to
indigenous languages found in Africa.
Previous workshops showed that the presented problems (and solutions)
are not only applicable to African languages. Many issues are also
relevant to other low-resource languages, such as different scripts and
properties like tone. As such, these languages share similar challenges.
This allows for researchers working on these languages with such
properties (including non-African languages) to learn from each
other, especially on issues pertaining to language resource development.
The RAIL workshop has several aims. First, it brings together
researchers working on African indigenous languages, forming a community
of practice for people working on indigenous languages.
Second, the workshop aims to reveal currently unknown or unpublished
existing resources (corpora, NLP tools, and applications), resulting in
a better overview of the current state-of-the-art, and also allows for
discussions on novel, desired resources for future research in this
area. Third, it enhances sharing of knowledge on the development of
low-resource languages. Finally, it enables discussions on how to
improve the quality as well as availability of the resources.
The workshop has “Impact of impairments on language resources” as its
theme, but submissions on any topic related to properties of African
indigenous languages (including non-African languages) may be accepted.
Suggested topics include (but are not limited to) the following:
* Digital representations of linguistic structures
* Descriptions of corpora or other data sets of African indigenous
languages
* Building resources for (under resourced) African indigenous languages
* Developing and using African indigenous languages in the digital age
* Effectiveness of digital technologies for the development of African
indigenous languages
* Revealing unknown or unpublished existing resources for African
indigenous languages
* Developing desired resources for African indigenous languages
* Improving quality, availability and accessibility of African
indigenous language resources
Submission requirements:
We invite papers on original, unpublished work related to the topics of
the workshop. Submissions, presenting completed work, may consist of up
to eight (8) pages of content plus additional pages of references. The
final camera-ready version of accepted long papers are allowed one
additional page of content (so up to 9 pages) so that reviewers’
feedback can be incorporated.
Submissions need to use the EACL stylesheets. These can be found at
https://2023.eacl.org/calls/styles.
Submission is electronic in PDF through the START system (link will be
provided once available).
Reviewing is double-blind, so make sure to anonymize your submission
(e.g., do not provide author names, affiliations, project names, etc.)
Limit the amount of self citations (anonymized citations should not be
used). Accepted papers will be published in the ACL workshop proceedings.
Important dates:
* Submission deadline 13 February 2023
* Date of notification 13 March 2023
* Camera ready deadline 27 March 2023
* RAIL workshop 2 or 6 May 2023
Organising Committee
* Rooweither Mabuya, South African Centre for Digital Language
Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa
* Don Mthobela, Cam Foundation
* Mmasibidi Setaka, South African Centre for Digital Language
Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa
* Menno van Zaanen, South African Centre for Digital Language
Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa
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Prof Menno van Zaanen [email protected]
Professor in Digital Humanities
South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
https://www.sadilar.org
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