LRL 2017: The 5th Workshop "Language Technology for Less Resourced Languages" Poznań, Poland, November 17-19, 2017 |
Conference website | http://ltc.amu.edu.pl/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ltlrlworkshop17 |
Abstract registration deadline | September 25, 2017 |
Submission deadline | September 25, 2017 |
Theme and Motivation
The rapid growth of language technology has created a new challenge for many languages of the world today. While for some, this can take the shape of a positive competition among the stakeholders, for others it can push them further down in the race towards endangerment and extinction. The LT-LRL Workshop is an attempt to bring together all stakeholders, users, developers, researchers, language activists, policy makers on a single platform and discuss how resources, policies, standards could be developed for these languages so that they can develop technologies to enable themselves in the digital age. We will particularly welcome contributions addressing the following issues:
(1) LRL: charting the field - what do we know about currently available LTs for LRLs? What is the current status of language technologies and use of LRLs in the digital and social media environments? How to draw a comprehensive and accurate picture and create a roadmap for future? Who are the actors to be involved? What is the experience of researchers and developers?
(2) LRL: Resource development - how are the LRLs dealing with a resource crunch, creation and related issues of standards, IDEs, and platforms, funding, usability, sharing etc? What are the perceptions and roles of various stakeholders including the governments, industry and language communities? What are the additional challenges posed by multi-lingual societies? What are the language preservation strategies for LRLs in the digital age?
(3) LRL: technology development - challenges in the development of specific enabling technologies for LRLs at language, speech, and multimodal levels. How are these technologies used in areas such as communication, education, entertainment, health, administration? governance etc?
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submissions due: Sept 25, 2017 (No further extension)
Paper notification of acceptance: Oct 16, 2017
Camera-ready papers due: Oct 23, 2017
Workshop: November 17-19, 2017
Submission Guidelines
We accept two types of anonymized submissions: (a) full papers and (b) posters. The conference accepts papers in English only. Papers (5 pages in the conference format) are due by September 5, 2017 (midnight, anytime zone) and should not disclose the author(s) in any manner. In order to facilitate submission, we have decided to reduce the formatting requirements as much as possible at this stage. Please, however, do observe the following:
- Accepted fonts for texts are Times Roman, Times New Roman. Courier is recommended for program listings. Character size for the main text should be 10 points, with 11 points leading (line spacing).
- Text should be presented in 2 columns, 8,42 cm each with 0,95 cm between columns (gutter).
- The accepted document size is 5 pages formatted according to (1) and (2) above.
- The paper must be submitted as a PDF document, together with an editable source in MS Word or Latex. (Please no other formats.)
The Word template (ELRA/LREC based format) is available here.
The Latex template (ELRA/LREC based format) is available here.
All submissions are to be made electronically via the LTC'17 web submission system on (EasyChair)
Committees
Program Committee
- Girish Nath Jha, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
- Claudia Soria, Institute for Computational Linguistics, Italy
- Zygmunt Vetulani (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland)
Organizing committee
- Girish Nath Jha, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
- Claudia Soria, Institute for Computational Linguistics, Italy
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to Prof. Girish Nath Jha (girishjha@jnu.ac.in)