Call for Papers

1st Joint SLTU (Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced languages) and

CCURL (Collaboration and Computing for Under-Resourced Languages) Workshop

http://www.ilc.cnr.it/sltu-ccurl_2020/

1st Call for Papers

Date: 11-12 May, 2020. To be held as part of the 12th edition of the Language

Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), at the Palais du Pharo, Marseille,

France.

Endorsed by SIGUL (http://www.elra.info/en/sig/sigul/) , ELRA and ISCA (to be

confirmed)

Invited speakers

Alan Black, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Teresa Lynn, ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University, Ireland

Tutorials

On May 10th, SLTU-CCURL is pleased to offer two tutorials (held at Université Aixmarseille,

near the LREC venue).

T1: Jan Trmal, John Hopkins University (building ASR systems using the Kaldi

toolkit)

T2: Achim Rabus, University of Freiburg (Using Transkribus in training models for

less-resourced languages) title to be confirmed

More details will be announced on the workshop web page.

Attendance to tutorials will be free of charge but registration will be required for

organisational purposes (and number of attendees will be limited to 25 per

tutorial).

Workshop description and objectives

The first joint SLTU-CCURL workshop will be held on May 11-12 2020 in Marseille,

France, during LREC2020. Organized by SIGUL, a joint Special Interest Group of the

European Language Resources Association (ELRA) and of the International Speech

Communication Association (ISCA), this joint workshop will gather researchers

working on speech processing and NLP for less resourced languages.

We solicit papers and posters related to all areas of NLP , speech and

computational linguistics, as well as those at the intersection with digital

humanities and documentary linguistics, provided that they address lessresourced

languages.

Example topics are the following:

-Language resource development, acquisition and representation

-Linguistic theories, corpus development and resources

-Linguistic and cognitive studies

-Unsupervised discovery of linguistic units

-Code switched lexical modeling

-Multi-lingual and cross-lingual (spoken, text) language processing

-Speech-to-text, text-to-speech and speech-to-speech processing

-Machine translation and dialogue systems

-NLP and speech technologies for under-resourced languages

The intention of this joint SLTU-CCURL workshop is not only to provide a forum for

the presentation of research, but also to offer a venue where researchers in

different disciplines and varied backgrounds can fruitfully explore new areas of

intellectual and practical development while honoring their common interest of

sustaining less-resourced languages.

We will have both oral presentation sessions and poster sessions. The decision on

whether a presentation will be an oral or poster one will be taken by the

Organizing Committee on the advice of the Program Committee, taking into

account the subject matter and how that might be best conveyed. Oral and poster

presentations will not be distinguished in the Proceedings.

Submission and Publication

● Papers need to address less-resourced languages. They can contain an

analysis and insight into existing methods and problems; a description of

resources; an overview of the literature or of the current initiatives, or a

combination of the above. Authors must declare if part of the paper contains

material previously published elsewhere.

● Prospective authors are invited to submit full-length papers of 8 pages

(references excluded), strictly complying with the LREC stylesheet (https://

lrec2020.lrec-conf.org/en/submission2020/authors-kit/). Papers should be

submitted in PDF unprotected format to the workshop START page (URL will

be provided in due time).

● Each submission will be reviewed by three programme committee members.

In compliance with the LREC rules, papers must not be anonymized. Authors must

declare if part of the paper contains material previously published elsewhere.

● Accepted papers will be presented either as oral presentations or posters

and will be published in the workshop proceedings.

● The formatting template must be strictly adhered to and deadlines met.

Important dates

February 14, 2020 Paper submission deadline

March 13, 2020 Paper notification of acceptance

April 2, 2020 Camera-ready papers due

May 11-12, 2020 Workshop

Identify, Describe and Share your LRs!

● Describing your LRs in the LRE Map is now a normal practice in the

submission procedure of LREC (introduced in 2010 and adopted by other

conferences). To continue the efforts initiated at LREC 2014 about “Sharing

LRs” (data, tools, web-services, etc.), authors will have the possibility,

when submitting a paper, to upload LRs in a special LREC repository. This

effort of sharing LRs, linked to the LRE Map for their description, may

become a new “regular” feature for conferences in our field, thus

contributing to creating a common repository where everyone can deposit

and share data.

● As scientific work requires accurate citations of referenced work so as to

allow the community to understand the whole context and also replicate

the experiments conducted by other researchers, LREC 2020 endorses the

need to uniquely Identify LRs through the use of the International Standard

Language Resource Number (ISLRN, www.islrn.org), a Persistent Unique

Identifier to be assigned to each Language Resource. The assignment of

ISLRNs to LRs cited in LREC papers will be offered at submission time.

Workshop chairs

Dorothee Beermann, NTNU, Norway

Laurent Besacier, LIG-Univ. Grenoble Alpes, France

Sakriani Sakti, NAIST, Japan

Claudia Soria, CNR-ILC, Italy

Programme Committee

● Adrian Doyle (Galway University, Ireland) TBC

● Alexey Karpov (SPIIRAS, Russian Federation)

● Alexis Palmer (University of North Texas, USA)

● Amita Dev (BPIBS, India) TBC

● Amir Aharoni (Wikimedia Foundation)

● Andras Kornai (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary)

● Angelo Mario Del Grosso (CNR-ILC, Italy)

● Antti Arppe (University of Alberta, Canada) TBC

● Anupam Shukla (IIITM, India)

● Ayu Purwarianti (ITB, Indonesia) TBC

● Bruce Birch (The Minjilang Endangered Languages Publications Project,

Australia) TBC

● Bruce Robertson (Mount Allison University, Canada) TBC

● Charl Van Heerden (SPbSU, Russian Federation) TBC

● Chiu Yu Tseng (ILAS, Taiwan) TBC

● Chris Cieri (LDC, USA) TBC

● Clara Rivera (Google) TBC

● Dafydd Gibbon (Bielefeld University, Germany)

● Delyth Prys (Bangor University, UK)

● Dewi Bryn Jones (Bangor University, UK)

● Dirk Van Compernolle (KU Leuven, Belgium) TBC

● Dorothee Beermann (NTNU, Norway)

● Emily Prud'hommeaux (Boston College, USA) TBC

● Emmanuel Dupoux (EHESS-ENS, France) TBC

● Federico Boschetti (CNR-ILC, Italy)

● Francis Tyers (Moscow Higher School of Economics, Russia)

● Gerard Bailly (GIPSA Lab, CNRS) TBC

● Gilles Adda (LIMSI/IMMI CNRS, France) TBC

● Hemant Patil (DA-IICT, India)

● Jeff Good (University at Buffalo, USA)

● John Judge (ADAPT DCU, Ireland)

● Jordan Lachler (University of Alberta, Canada) TBC

● Joseph Mariani (LIMSI-CNRS, France) TBC

● Karunesh Arora (C-DAC, NOIDA, India) TBC

● Kepa Sarasola (University of the Basque Country, Spain) TBC

● Kevin Scannell (Saint Louis University, Missouri, USA)

● Klara Ceberio (Elhuyar, Spain)

● Lane Schwartz (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

● Laurent Besacier (LIG-IMAG, France)

● Lori Lamel (LIMSI, France) TBC

● Luong Chi-Mai (IOIT, Vietnam) TBC

● Maite Melero (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain)

● Mans Hulden (University of Colorado Boulder, USA) TBC

● Maxim Romanov TBC

● Miikka Silfverberg (University of Helsinki, Finland)

● Mikel Forcada (Universitat d’Alacant, Spain)

● Mirna Adriani (UI, Indonesia) TBC

● Mohammad A. M. Abushariah (The University of Jordan, Jordan)

● Nick Thieberger (University of Melbourne / ARC Centre of Excellence for the

Dynamics of Language, Australia)

● Omar Farooq (AMU, India)

● Pedro Moreno (Google, USA) TBC

● Pradip K Das (IIT, India)

● Richard Sproat (Google, USA) TBC

● Clara Rivera (Google) TBC

● Sakriani Sakti (NAIST, Japan)

● Satoshi Nakamura (NAIST, Japan)

● Sebastian Stüker (KIT, Germany)

● Shyam S Agrawal (KIIT, India)

● Sin Horng Chen (NCTU, Taiwan)

● Steven Bird (Charles Darwin University, Australia) TBC

● Tan Tien Ping (USM, Malaysia) TBC

● Tanja Schultz (Uni-Bremen, Germany)

● Thang Vu (Uni-Stuttgart, Germany) TBC

● Teresa Lynn (ADAPT Centre, Ireland)

● Trond Trosterud (Tromsø University, Norway)

● Tunde Adegbola (African Languages Technology Initiative, Nigeria)

● Uwe Springmann (Würzburg University, Germany) TBC

● Vera Ferreira (CIDLeS - Interdisciplinary Centre for Social and Language

Documentation, Portugal)

● Win Pa Pa (UCS Yangon, Myanmar)

● Xavier Anguera (Telefonica, Spain) TBC

● Yoshinori Sagisaka (Waseda University, Japan) TBC

! Zuraida Mohd Don (UPSI, Indonesia) TBC

Contact

Laurent.Besacier@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr

claudia.soria@ilc.cnr.it