Topics
We welcome papers dealing with one or more of the following topics.
- Language 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;
- 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.
Submissions
Submissions should be formatted according to the RANLP template and submitted in PDF format through START. Papers should contain maximum 10 pages (8 pages of content + 2 pages for references). The review process will be double-blind.
Accepted papers will be published in the LT4VarDial workshop proceedings and available through the ACL Anthology.
We strongly recommend you to prepare your manuscript using LaTeX.
Important Dates
- Submission deadline:
June 26th, 2015July 10th, 2015 - Acceptance notification:
July 25th, 2015August 3rd, 2015 - Camera-ready versions:
August 9th, 2015August 14th, 2015 - Workshop: September 10th, 2015