The Second Workshop on NLP Applications to Field Linguistics

Dear colleagues,

We are happy to announce that The Second Workshop on NLP Applications to Field Linguistics (Field Matters 2023) will take place at EACL 2023 on May 2-6 in Dubrovnik, Croatia (online participants are also welcomed). The Field matters workshop aims to bring together the urgent needs of field linguists and the vast community of NLP practitioners, developing up-to-date NLP tools for easier, faster, more reliable data collection and annotation.

We accept papers on the following topics:

– Application of NLP to field linguistics workflow;

– Transfer learning for under-resourced language processing;

– The use of fieldwork data to build NLP systems;

– Modeling morphology and syntax of typologically diverse languages in the low-resource setting;

– Speech processing for under-resourced languages;

– Computational analysis of field linguistics datasets;

– Using technology for preserving culture via language;

– Improving ways of interaction with Indigenous communities;

– Machine-readable field linguistic datasets.

Submission deadline is February 13.

You can find more information on the submission process and format requirements on our website (https://field-matters.github.io/cfp2023).

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If you have any questions, feel free to ask them!