** Deadline extended to March 17th, 23:59 AoE **
Call for Papers: VarDial 2024 - Eleventh Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects
VarDial 2024: https://sites.google.com/view/vardial-2024/home
We are planning to organize shared tasks together with VarDial 2024 in similar manner to the previous editions of the workshop. The website will be updated with shared task information as soon as they are confirmed. Please check the website for more details.
Co-located with NAACL 2024 at VarDial, we anticipate a discussion on computational methods and language resources for closely related languages, language varieties, and dialects.
We welcome papers dealing with one or more of the following topics:
- Corpora, resources, and tools for similar languages, varieties, and dialects;
- Adaptation of tools (taggers, parsers) for similar languages, varieties, and dialects;
- Evaluation of language resources and tools when applied to language varieties;
- Reusability of language resources in NLP applications (e.g., for machine translation, POS tagging, syntactic parsing, etc.);
- Corpus-driven studies in dialectology and language variation;
- Computational approaches to the study of mutual intelligibility between dialects and similar languages;
- Automatic identification of lexical variation;
- Automatic classification of language varieties;
- Text similarity and adaptation between language varieties;
- Linguistic issues in the adaptation of language resources and tools (e.g., semantic discrepancies, lexical gaps, false friends);
- Machine translation between closely related languages, language varieties, and dialects.
In addition to the topics listed above, we welcome papers dealing with diachronic language variation (e.g., phylogenetic methods and historical dialects).
Instructions for Authors
Submissions should be formatted according to the NAACL template and submitted in PDF format. The review process will be double-blind. More information and links will be on the website.
Important Dates
Submission deadline: March 17, 2024 (anywhere on earth)
Commitment deadline for pre-reviewed papers: April 7, 2024
Notification of acceptance: April 14, 2024
Camera-ready papers due: April 24, 2024
VarDial Workshop at NAACL 2024: June 21 or 22, 2024 - the exact date of the workshop to be announced
Organizers
Yves Scherrer - University of Oslo (Norway)
Tommi Jauhiainen - University of Helsinki (Finland)
Nikola Ljubešić - Jožef Stefan Institute (Slovenia) and University of Zagreb (Croatia)
Preslav Nakov - Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (UAE)
Jörg Tiedemann - University of Helsinki (Finland)
Marcos Zampieri - George Mason University (USA)
Contact: yves.scherrer@ifi.uio.no or tommi.jauhiainen@helsinki.fi