Workshop on Resources and Technologies for Indigenous, Endangered and Lesser-resourced Languages in Eurasia (EURALI)

Date: Monday, June 20, 2022

Venue: Palais du Pharo, Marseille (France) (organised @ LREC 2022 (June 20-25, 2022))

Main website: https://sites.google.com/view/eurali/

LREC website: https://lrec2022.lrec-conf.org/en/

————————————————————————————————————————

Workshop overview

The EURALI workshop focuses on the development of language technology resources and tools for the indigenous, endangered and lesser-resource languages in the Eurasia continent.

In a media-centric world where language technology allows people to break cultural and language barriers, it is important that speakers of endangered and indigenous languages can be empowered to use these technologies to share their knowledge and culture with the world. With the aim of bridging this gap, the goal of this workshop is to increase visibility and promote research for lesser-resourced and underrepresented language communities in Europe and Asia. Through collaboration between NLP researchers, language experts and linguists working for endangered languages in these communities, we aim to create language technology resources that will help to preserve and revive these languages for future generations. Furthermore, the workshop aims to promote the emergence of new methods that benefit linguists, for instance for automation of analysis and validation processes, field linguists, for instance, the facilitation of data collection and analysis processes, and computational linguists by developing new techniques necessary for linguistic analysis, development of supervised or weakly-supervised methods for the analysis of poorly written or undocumented languages.

The objective of the workshop is to create basic resources and develop tools for Eurasiatic languages, including but not limited to the following topics:

• identifying languages and variants spoken in these regions

• creating language resources and applications, e.g., sentiment analysis, named entity recognition, and syntactic parsing

• standardization for endangered languages

• automatic identification and classification of lexical variation and language varieties

• adaptation of fundamental NLP tools for these languages, e.g., morphological analysis, taggers and parsers

• reusability of language resources in NLP applications, e.g., machine translation, POS tagging.

• machine translation between closely related languages

• evaluation of language resources and tools when applied to lesser-resourced languages in the same language families

• corpora, resources, and tools for close related languages

• linguistic and textual similarities among languages in Eurasia

• digitization of endangered languages

• challenges in the creation of language resources and tools from linguistics perspectives

• Linguistics for poorly spoken or undocumented languages

Submissions

We are seeking submissions under the following category:

Full papers: 8 pages+unlimited reference

Short papers (work in progress): 4 pages+unlimited reference

Posters (innovative ideas/proposals, a research idea of students) : 4 pages+unlimited reference

Demo (of working online/standalone systems): 2 pages

Papers must describe original, completed or in progress, and unpublished work. Each submission will be reviewed by three program committee members. The accepted papers will be given up for full/short paper and poster in the workshop proceedings and will be presented as an oral presentation or poster.

Papers should be formatted according to the LREC style-sheet, which is provided on the LREC 2022 website (https://lrec2022.lrec-conf.org/en/submission2022/authors-kit/). Please submit papers in PDF format at the START account (https://www.softconf.com/lrec2022/EURALI/).

For further information on this initiative, please refer to https://sites.google.com/view/eurali/.

Important Dates

April 08, 2022: Paper submissions due

May 03, 2022: Paper notification of acceptance

May 23, 2022: Camera-ready papers due

June 20, 2022: Workshop


Workshop Chair:

Atul Kr. Ojha, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland & Panlingua Language Processing LLP

Sina Ahmadi, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland

Chao-Hong Liu, Potamu Research Ltd, Ireland

John P. McCrae, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland


Programme Committee (to be updated):

Agata Savary, University of Paris-Saclay, France

Alina Karakanta, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) / University of Trento

Akanksha Bansal, Panlingua Language Processing LLP

Atul Kr. Ojha, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland & Panlingua Language Processing LLP

Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland

Bogdan Babych, Heidelberg University, Germany

Chao-Hong Liu, Potamu Research Ltd

Daan van Esch, Google

Deepak Alok, Panlingua Language Processing LLP

Esha Banerjee, Google, USA

Ekaterina Vylomova, University of Melbourne, Australia

Graham Neubig*, CMU, USA

George Rehm, DFKI GmbH, Germany

Jonathan Washington, Swarthmore College, USA

John P. McCrae, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland

Joseph Mariani, LIMSI-CNRS, France

Khalid Choukri, ELDA/ELRA, France

Nicoletta Calzolari, CNR-ILC, Italy

Ritesh Kumar, Agra University, India

Rico Sennrich, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Sina Ahmadi, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland

Sunipa Dev, University of California, Los Angeles

Daniel Zeman, Charles University, Prague