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[1] From: Menno Van Zaanen <Menno.VanZaanen@nwu.ac.za>
Subject: Final CfP 5th workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL) @ LREC-COLING (117)
[2] From: Anna Sofia Lippolis - annasofia.lippolis@studio.unibo.it <annasofia.lippolis@studio.unibo.it>
Subject: Call for proposals: Texts, Languages, and Communities - TEI 2024 (51)
[3] From: Jouni Tuominen <jouni.tuominen@helsinki.fi>
Subject: Save the date: Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon #DHH24 15.-24.5.2024 (26)
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Date: 2024-02-22 14:00:20+00:00
From: Menno Van Zaanen <Menno.VanZaanen@nwu.ac.za>
Subject: Final CfP 5th workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL) @ LREC-COLING
EXTENDED DEADLINE (28 February 2024)
The fifth workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL)
Colocated with LREC-COLING 2024
https://bit.ly/rail2024
New: extended deadline
Conference dates: 20-25 May 2024
Workshop date: 25 May 2024
Venue: Lingotto Conference Centre, Torino (Italy)
The fifth RAIL workshop website: https://bit.ly/rail2024
LREC-COLING 2024 website: https://lrec-coling-2024.org/
Submission website: https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/rail2024/
The fifth Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) workshop
will be co-located with LREC-COLING 2024 in Lingotto Conference Centre,
Torino, Italy on 25 May 2024. The RAIL workshop is an interdisciplinary
platform for researchers working on resources (data collections, tools,
etc.) specifically targeted towards African indigenous languages. In
particular, it aims to create the conditions for the emergence of a
scientific community of practice that focuses on data, as well as
computational linguistic tools specifically designed for or applied to
indigenous languages found in Africa.
Many African languages are under-resourced while only a few of them are
somewhat better resourced. These languages often share interesting
properties such as writing systems, or tone, making them different from
most high-resourced languages. From a computational perspective, these
languages lack enough corpora to undertake high level development of
Human Language Technologies (HLT) and Natural Language Processing (NLP)
tools, which in turn impedes the development of African languages in
these areas. During previous workshops, it has become clear that the
problems and solutions presented are not only applicable to African
languages but are also relevant to many other low-resource languages.
Because these languages share similar challenges, this workshop
provides researchers with opportunities to work collaboratively on
issues of language resource development and learn from each other.
The RAIL workshop has several aims. First, the workshop brings together
researchers who work on African indigenous languages, forming a
community of practice for people working on indigenous languages.
Second, the workshop aims to reveal currently unknown or unpublished
existing resources (corpora, NLP tools, and applications), resulting in
a better overview of the current state-of-the-art, and also allows for
discussions on novel, desired resources for future research in this
area. Third, it enhances sharing of knowledge on the development of
low-resource languages. Finally, it enables discussions on how to
improve the quality as well as availability of the resources.
The workshop has “Creating resources for less-resourced languages” as
its theme, but submissions on any topic related to properties of
African indigenous languages (including non-African languages) may be
accepted. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to) the
following:
Digital representations of linguistic structures
Descriptions of corpora or other data sets of African indigenous
languages
Building resources for (under resourced) African indigenous languages
Developing and using African indigenous languages in the digital age
Effectiveness of digital technologies for the development of African
indigenous languages
Revealing unknown or unpublished existing resources for African
indigenous languages
Developing desired resources for African indigenous languages
Improving quality, availability and accessibility of African indigenous
language resources
Submission requirements:
We invite papers on original, unpublished work related to the topics of
the workshop. Submissions, presenting completed work, may consist of up
to eight (8) pages of content for a long submission and up to four (4)
pages of content for a short submission plus additional pages of
references. The final camera-ready version of accepted long papers are
allowed one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that
reviewers’ feedback can be incorporated. Papers should be formatted
according to the LREC-COLING style sheet
(https://lrec-coling-2024.org/authors-kit/), which is provided on the
LREC-COLING 2024 website (https://lrec-coling-2024.org/). Reviewing is
double-blind, so make sure to anonymise your submission (e.g., do not
provide author names, affiliations, project names, etc.) Limit the
amount of self citations (anonymised citations should not be used). The
RAIL workshop follows the LREC-COLING submission requirements.
Please submit papers in PDF format to the START account
(https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/rail2024/). Accepted papers will
be published in proceedings linked to the LREC-COLING conference.
Important dates:
Submission deadline: 28 February 2024 (AoE)
Date of notification: 15 March 2024
Camera ready deadline: 29 March 2024
RAIL workshop: 25 May 2024
Organising Committee
Rooweither Mabuya, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
(SADiLaR), South Africa
Muzi Matfunjwa, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
(SADiLaR), South Africa
Mmasibidi Setaka, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
(SADiLaR), South Africa
Menno van Zaanen, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
(SADiLaR), South Africa
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Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen@nwu.ac.za
Professor in Digital Humanities
South African Centre for Digital Language Resources
https://www.sadilar.org
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Date: 2024-02-22 12:49:52+00:00
From: Anna Sofia Lippolis - annasofia.lippolis@studio.unibo.it <annasofia.lippolis@studio.unibo.it>
Subject: Call for proposals: Texts, Languages, and Communities - TEI 2024
The Program Committee is pleased to announce its call for proposals for the 24th
annual Conference and Members’ Meeting of the Text Encoding Initiative
Consortium (TEI), which will be held October 9-11, 2024 (Wed-Fri), at the
Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires, Argentina; with pre-conference workshops
October 7–8 (Mon-Tue).
This year’s theme is Texts, languages, and communities.
The TEI is one of the initiatives that has managed to endure over time and build
an active community of users and practitioners inside and outside the Digital
Humanities field. While for many years it gathered a predominantly English-
speaking community, numerous projects —especially those related to digital
editing— emerged during the very early days of the TEI in Spanish-speaking
countries, bringing together scholars from Spain and Latin America. This
conference aims at highlighting the global outreach of the TEI together with its
local adaptations.
Proposals must be submitted online via ConfTool:
https://www.conftool.pro/tei2024.
More information: https://tei2024.tei-c.org/
Contact: hdlabconicet@gmail.com<mailto:hdlabconicet@gmail.com>
Save the dates and spread the word!
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Está abierta la convocatoria para participar del Vigésimo Cuarto Congreso Anual
y Reunión de Miembros del Consorcio de la Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), que se
llevará a cabo del 9 al 11 de octubre de 2024 (miércoles a viernes), en la
Universidad del Salvador, ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina; con talleres pre-
congreso del 7 al 8 de octubre (lunes a martes).
El tema de este año es Textos, lenguas y comunidades.
La TEI es una de las iniciativas que ha logrado perdurar en el tiempo y
construir una comunidad activa de usuarios dentro y fuera del campo de las
Humanidades Digitales. Si bien durante muchos años reunió predominantemente a
una comunidad anglófona, numerosos proyectos —especialmente aquellos
relacionados con la edición digital— surgieron ya desde los primeros días de la
TEI en países de habla hispana, convocando así a interesados de España y América
Latina. Este congreso tiene como objetivo destacar el alcance global de la TEI
junto con sus adaptaciones locales.
Las propuestas deben enviarse en línea a través de ConfTool:
https://www.conftool.pro/tei2024.
Más información: https://tei2024.tei-c.org/
Contacto: hdlabconicet@gmail.com<mailto:hdlabconicet@gmail.com>
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Date: 2024-02-22 08:38:43+00:00
From: Jouni Tuominen <jouni.tuominen@helsinki.fi>
Subject: Save the date: Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon #DHH24 15.-24.5.2024
Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon #DHH24 15.-24.5.2024
http://heldig.fi/dhh24
Mamma mia, here we go again!
Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon #DHH24 will be organised
15.-24.5.2024 as CLARIN and DARIAH international summer school. The
event will be organized as an in-person hackathon.
Participation to #DHH24 is free to all accepted participants. In
addition, we will have bursaries for travel and lodging.
5 ECTS credits may be gained from participating in the hackathon for
students in University of Helsinki and other universities.
Application schedule for #DHH24:
* 13.3.-12.4.2024 Application period
* 16.4.2024 Applicants informed of acceptance
* 16.-23.4.2024 Registration to #DHH24 for accepted participants
* 15.-24.5.2024 #DHH24 hackathon in Helsinki
Further information about hackathon themes, data and team leaders will
follow in due course.
Save the date and spread the word!
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