Call for Papers

Call for Papers

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. philogenetic methods, historical dialects).

Submission Information

We invite submissions of up to 9 pages of content plus bibliography.

Submissions should be formatted according to the COLING 2020 guidelines and submitted in PDF format. Submissions should be uploaded on START. We strongly recommend you to prepare your manuscript using LaTeX.

The review process will be double-blind.

Important Dates

  • Submission deadline: August 7, 2020 August 17, 2020 (extended)

  • Notification of acceptance: September 25, 2020 October 5, 2020

  • Camera-ready papers due: October 15, 2020 October 20, 2020

  • VarDial Workshop at COLING 2020: December 13, 2020