URL: https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/abjad/ [1]
Submission URL: https://softconf.com/coling2025/AbjadNLP25/ [2]
AbjadNLP 2025 aims to advance innovation in Natural Language Processing
(NLP) for languages using the Arabic script, focusing on Abjad and Ajami
languages. These languages represent a significant segment of the global
linguistic mosaic, spanning numerous countries and regions. By focusing
on these languages, we aim to enhance the versatility and adaptability
of NLP models and applications, fostering multilingualism and
multiculturalism in NLP research. This workshop will address the unique
challenges and solutions associated with these languages, promoting
inclusive and equitable advancements in NLP.
Ajami languages, representing a myriad of African languages that have
adopted the Arabic script, span at least 43 distinct languages,
including Hausa, Fulfulde, Mandingo, Swahili, Wolof, Kanuri, and
Tamazight. The combined number of speakers of these languages is
estimated to exceed 200 million within Africa alone. Although Abjad has
been traditionally associated with Semitic languages such as Arabic,
Hebrew and Syriac, it has been adopted for writing by many other
language communities as in Perso-Arabic scripts used in Persian, Urdu,
Pashto, Sorani Kurdish, Azeri Turkish, Sindhi, and Uyghur, with a
collective estimated speaker population exceeding 500 million.
Altogether, these languages represent an approximate global aggregate of
1 billion speakers.
We invite submissions on the following topics:
Core Technologies: morphological analysis, disambiguation, tokenisation,
POS tagging, named entity detection, chunking, parsing, semantic role
labelling, sentiment analysis, language modelling, etc.
Applications: machine translation, speech recognition, speech synthesis,
optical character recognition, assistive technologies, social media,
etc.
Resources and Tools: dictionaries, annotated data, corpora, orthography
descriptions, font technology, glyph rendering, text input
methodologies, spell-checking, speech-to-text solutions, BLARK
descriptions, open access corpora.
Cultural and Sociolinguistic Considerations: text processing,
transliteration challenges, and solutions, cultural contexts in NLP
applications.
Submission Guidelines:
We follow the COLING 2025 standards for submission format and
guidelines. Submissions should conform to the following types:
Long papers: Up to eight (8) pages, presenting substantial, original,
completed, and unpublished work.
Short papers: Up to four (4) pages, describing a small focused
contribution, negative results, system demonstrations, etc.
Key Dates:
1st Call for Papers Announcement: 16 July 2024
2nd Call for Papers Announcement: 16 August 2024
Paper Submission Deadline: 15 November 2024
Notification of Paper Acceptance: 6 December 2024
Camera-ready Paper Deadline: 13 December 2024
Workshop Date: 19 or 20 January 2025
Organising Committee:
General Chair:
- Mo El-Haj, Lancaster University
Programme Chairs:
- Hugh Paterson III, Collaborative Scholar
- Saad Ezzini, Lancaster University
- Ignatius Ezeani, Lancaster University
Review Committee:
- Manum Hayat Khan, University of La Rioja
- Muhammad Sharjeel, COMSATS University Islamabad
Publication Chair:
- Sina Ahmadi, University of Zurich
Publicity Chairs:
- Cynthia Amol, Maseno University
- Amal Haddad Haddad, University of Granada
- Jaleh Delfani, University of Surrey
Advisory Committee:
- Ruslan Mitkov, Lancaster University
- Paul Rayson, Lancaster University
Links:
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