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).
Publication of call for papers: December 20th, 2023
Paper submission deadline: Extended to March 17th (AoE) March 10th, 2024
Commitment deadline for pre-reviewed papers: Extended to April 10th (AoE) April 7th, 2024
Notification of acceptance: April 14th 18th, 2024
Camera-ready papers due: April 24th 28th, 2024
Workshop date: June 20th, 2024 (there will be options for remote participation)
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 ARR site. All submissions must use the official ACL templates. Contributions must be submitted to Softconf: https://softconf.com/naacl2024/VarDial2024/.
VarDial 2024 also accepts pre-reviewed ARR papers as well as papers accepted into NAACL Findings. It will also be possible to submit rejected NAACL papers to VarDial. Instructions on committing such papers to VarDial will be provided here at a later date.