Call for Papers: VarDial 2025 - Twelfth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects
VarDial 2025: https://sites.google.com/view/vardial-2025/home
Co-located with COLING 2025, VarDial deals with computational methods and language resources for closely related languages, language varieties, and dialects.
We welcome papers dealing with one or more of the following topics:
- Corpora, 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;
- Computational approaches to mutual intelligibility between dialects and similar languages;
- 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.
In addition to the topics listed above, we also welcome papers dealing with diachronic language variation (e.g. phylogenetic methods, historical dialects).
Timeline
Publication of call for papers: Tuesday, August 6th, 2024
Paper submission deadline: Tuesday, November 12th, 2024
Notification of acceptance: Monday, November 25th, 2024
Commitment deadline for pre-reviewed papers: TBD
Camera-ready papers due: Friday, December 13th, 2024
Workshop date: Sunday, January 19th, 2025
Submission information
We invite submissions of up to 8 pages of content, plus up to one page for ethical considerations and/or limitations, plus unlimited pages of references. We also welcome shorter contributions, but we do not make an explicit distinction between long and short papers. For shared task system description papers, we recommend a length of 4-5 pages of content.
Detailed submission guidelines available on the COLING 2025 website. All submissions must use the official COLING templates. Contributions must be submitted to Softconf: https://softconf.com/coling2025/VarDial25/
It will also be possible to submit rejected COLING main conference papers to VarDial 2025. Instructions on committing such papers to VarDial will be provided here at a later date.
Call for Shared Task Participation
As part of VarDial 2025, we are organizing a shared task on dialect identification and slot and intent detection for Norwegian varieties (NorSID). For further information and instructions for participants, please visit the shared task page:
https://sites.google.com/view/vardial-2025/shared-tasks
Important dates:
- Training and development set release: October 7, 2024
- Test set release: November 4, 2024
- Submissions due: November 15, 2024
- Paper submission deadline: November 25, 2024
- Notification of acceptance: December 5, 2024
- Camera-ready papers due: December 13, 2024
Organizers
Yves Scherrer - University of Oslo (Norway)
Tommi Jauhiainen - University of Helsinki (Finland)
Nikola Ljubešić - Jožef Stefan Institute (Slovenia) and University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
Preslav Nakov - Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (UAE)
Jörg Tiedemann - University of Helsinki (Finland)
Marcos Zampieri - George Mason University (USA)