VarDial 2023

Description

VarDial 2023 will be co-located with EACL 2023 and take place on May 5th, 2023, in Dubrovnik, Croatia.

VarDial 2023 is organized as a hybrid workshop with on-site and remote participation options.

With VarDial 2023, we will organize an evaluation campaign with one to three shared tasks. More information is available on the dedicated page.

VarDial is a well-established series of workshops promoting a forum for scholars working on various topics related to the study of diatopic language variation from a computational perspective.

The workshop 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 welcome papers dealing with diachronic language variation (e.g., phylogenetic methods and historical dialects). 

Papers presented at the past editions of VarDial focused on machine translation between closely related languages and language varieties, the adaptation of POS taggers and parsers for similar languages and language varieties, compilation of corpora, spelling normalization, computational approaches to the study of mutual intelligibility, and the automatic identification of similar languages and dialects.