Workshop on Algorithms and Resources for Modelling of Dialects and Language Varieties
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Deadline: April 22, 2011 | Date: July 01, 2011
Venue/Country: Scotland, U.K.
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Workshop on Algorithms and Resources for Modelling ofDialects and Language VarietiesWe invite submissions to the First Workshop on Algorithms and Resources forModelling of Dialects and Language Varieties. The workshop will be held inconjunction with EMNLP 2011 on July 31, in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. It willconsist of one day of oral presentations and poster sessions.Conference URL: http://www.ofai.at/~dialects2011/General InformationThe currently prevailing statistical paradigm has made possible majorachievements in many areas of natural language processing. But since themethods employed critically depend on the availability of large trainingcorpora, the applicability of these methods is generally limited to majorlanguages / standard varieties, to the exclusion of dialects or varietiesthat substantially differ from the standard.The crucial obstacle is scarcity of data. Most important of all, substantialcorpora of language varieties or dialects are rare. Moreover, authoritativeorthographic conventions usually do not exist. As a result, the notation ofwritten texts can vary widely and there are no obvious conventions for theannotation of speech corpora.This situation calls for novel approaches, methods and techniques to overcomeor circumvent the problem of data scarcity, but also to enhance andstrengthen the standing that language varieties and dialects have in naturallanguage processing technologies as well as in interaction technologies thatbuild upon the former.While there will be a clear focus on machine learning applied to the beforementioned problems, this workshop aims at gathering researchers withexpertise in various disciplines.Topics* Machine learning algorithms operating in the regime of data scarcity* Bootstrapping and active learning schemes for principled acquisition,annotation or generation of training data* Methods to acquire resources by exploiting the proximity between varietiesand standard language* Issues of orthography and annotation* Machine translation between language varieties or dialects* Speech synthesis of dialects with limited corpora* Interaction technologies dealing with social identity in speech and text* Novel approaches transcending the paradigm of statistical modellingProgress in the above listed topics requires an interdisciplinary approach:machine learning, machine translation, speech synthesis, automatic speechrecognition but also linguistics and interaction technologies will have tocontribute. We invite researchers with a genuine interest in modelling oflanguage varieties and the advancement of natural language processing in thisarea.Important Dates* Paper submission deadline: April 22, 2011* Acceptance notification: May 20, 2011* Camera-ready copy due: June 3, 2011* Workshop meeting: July 31, 2011All deadlines refer to 11:59pm Samoa time (UTC/GMT -11 hours)SubmissionsWe invite high-quality submissions on original, unpublished work in areasrelating to the aforementioned topics. Both significant theoretical advancesand descriptions of successful practical systems involving processing orgeneration of language varieties are welcome. Submission of work that is onlyincremental in nature or describes minor progress is explicitly discouraged.Two paper categories will be distinguished:* Long papers are expected to report on contributions of lasting value andwill be presented orally in the plenary session of the workshop. Submissionsshould not exceed a length of 9 pages, excluding references.* Short papers are ideally suited for exciting new work that is not yet matureenough for a long paper, but has substantial merit. The work will bepresented during the poster session and - depending on the type of work - asystem demonstration can be given. The length of short papers is restrictedto 4 pages, excluding references.Reviewing will be double-blind, so please ensure your submission is properlyanonymized. In particular, the paper should not reveal the authors'identities or include acknowledgments or references to project names,websites, software or such that might give away the identity.Submissions should follow the two-column format of the ACL 2011 proceedings.The official style files can be obtained athttp://www.acl2011.org/call.shtml. Submission will be handled using the STARTsystem. Papers must be uploaded until April 22; detailed information will bemade available at a later stage.Policy regarding submission to multiple workshops/conferences: It isacceptable to submit the same paper to another workshop or conference.However, in this case we request that you inform the organizers in a separatee-mail in advance, such that we know the paper might be withdrawn. Inaddition, if you do decide to withdraw, we request that you notify us by May26th, at the very latest.CommitteeOrganizing Comittee* Jeremy Jancsary - Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence* Friedrich Neubarth - Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence* Harald Trost - Section for AI, Medical University of Vienna, AustriaProgram Comittee* Gérard Bailly - Speech & Cognition department, CNRS Grenoble, France* Nick Campbell - CLCS, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland* Martine Grice - IfL, Phonetik Köln, Germany* Gholamreza Haffari - BC Cancer Research Center, Vancouver, Canada* Inmaculada Hernaez Rioja - Univ. of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Spain* Philipp Koehn - ILCC, Univ. of Edinburgh, UK* Michael Pucher - ftw, Vienna, Austria* Milan Rusko - SAS, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia* Kevin Scannell - Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Saint LouisUniversity, USA* Yves Scherrer - LATL, Université de Genève, Switzerland* Beat Siebenhaar - Institut für Germanistik, Univ. of Leipzig, Germany
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