| | First Workshop on Language Resources and Technologies for Turkic Languages
May 21, 2012 (afternoon session)
First Call for Papers
Turkic languages (Turkish, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Kazakh, Tatar, Uzbek and many others) are spoken as native languages by more than 150 million people all around the world. Turkic languages have complex agglutinative morphology with very productive inflectional and derivational processes leading to a very large vocabulary size. They also have a very free constituent order with almost no formal constraints. Furthermore, due to various historical and social reasons these languages have employed a wide-variety of writing systems and still do so. These aspects bring numerous challenges to computational processing of these languages in tasks such as language modeling, parsing, statistical machine translation, speech-to-speech translation, etc. Time is now ripe to focus on the development of language resources and computational processing techniques for these languages to bring their status up to par with more studied languages in the context of speech and language processing.
We are pleased to invite you to the 'First Workshop on Language Resources and Technologies for Turkic Languages' to be held during LREC 2012 in Istanbul. This half-day workshop will be the first attempt to bring together the researchers, commercial interests and other stakeholders actively involved in developing and using speech and language technologies for Turkic languages. The workshop invites submission of papers on original and unpublished research on all aspects of speech and language technologies for Turkic languages. Selected contributions will be presented as short-oral presentations or posters. Topics include but are not limited to:
• Morphological and Syntactic Analysis for Turkic languages
• Novel language modeling techniques for Turkic languages
• Development and adaptation of language and speech resources for Turkic languages
• Machine translation into/from/between Turkic languages
• Challenges for speech recognition and generation for Turkic languages
Submission Information
Submissions must describe original and unpublished work. Each submission will be judged on its originality, technical content, and relevance to the workshop. Contributions accompanied by language resources and datasets that are described in the paper are particularly encouraged. Paper submissions up to 4 pages (excluding references) must conform to the official LREC 2012 style guidelines (will be distributed soon on the LREC website). Submissions should be in PDF format and submitted through the START online submission system https://www.softconf.com/lrec2012/TurkicLanguage2012/. Since the reviewing will not be blind, submissions must include the authors' names and affiliations. Double submissions to other conferences are not allowed. More information on the submission procedure will be available in the next call of the papers.
When submitting a paper through the START page, authors will be kindly asked to provide relevant information about the resources that have been used for the work described in their paper or that are the outcome of their research. For further information on this initiative, please refer to http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2012/?LRE-Map-2012. Authors will also be asked to contribute to the Language Library, the new initiative of LREC2012.
Important Dates
Paper submission deadline: February 27, 2012
Notification of acceptance: March 19, 2012
Camera-ready submission deadline: March 30, 2012
Workshop: May 21, 2012 (afternoon session)
Organizing Committee
Kemal Oflazer, Carnegie Mellon University - Qatar
Mehmed Özkan, Boğaziçi University
Mehmet Uğur Doğan, TÜBİTAK-BİLGEM
Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Microsoft
Alper Kanak, TÜBİTAK-BİLGEM
İlknur Durgar El-Kahlout, TÜBİTAK-BİLGEM
Şeniz Demir, TÜBİTAK-BİLGEM
Yücel Bicil, TÜBİTAK-BİLGEM
Program Committee
Adil Alpkoçak, Dokuz Eylül University
Ahmet Cüneyd Tantuğ, İstanbul Technical University
Arzucan Özgür, Boğaziçi University
Atakan Kurt, Fatih University
Banu Diri, Yıldız Technical University
Barış Bozkurt, Bahçeşehir University
Bilge Say, Middle East Technical University
Cem Bozşahin, Middle East Technical University
Cemil Demir, TÜBİTAK-BİLGEM
Cenk Demiroğlu, Özyeğin University
Coşkun Mermer, TÜBİTAK-BİLGEM
Deniz Yüret, Koç University
Deniz Zeyrek, Middle East Technical University
Ebru Arısoy, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Engin Erzin, Koç University
Erdem Ünal, TÜBİTAK-BİLGEM
Fatma Canan Pembe, TÜBİTAK-BİLGEM
Gülşen Cebiroğlu Eryiğit, İstanbul Technical University
Levent Arslan, Boğaziçi University
Mehmet Fatih Amasyalı, Yıldız Technical University
Murat Can Ganiz, Doğuş University
Murat Saraçlar, Google - Boğaziçi University
Oğuzhan Külekçi, TÜBİTAK-BİLGEM
Özlem Çetinoğlu, University of Stuttgart
Ruken Cakici, Middle East Technical University
Selçuk Köprü, Teknoloji Yazılımevi
Şükriye Ruhi, Middle East Technical University
Tunga Güngör, Boğaziçi University
Ümit Güz, Işık University
Yeşim Aksan, Mersin University
Yusuf Ziya Işık, TÜBİTAK-BİLGEM
Sponsor
The workshop is being supported by the European Commission FP7-REGPOT-2008-1 project (#229861) MULTISAUND (MULTilingualism Integrated to Speech and Audio UNDerstanding) - 'Improvement of interactive and secure language and speech processing potential of TUBITAK-UEKAE for an increased multilingual capability in ERA'.
Contact Information
Please contact Mehmet Uğur Doğan (mugur@uekae.tubitak.gov.tr) or İlknur Durgar El-Kahlout (idurgar@uekae.tubitak.gov.tr) for any further inquiries. |
