Workshop on Digital Technologies and Indigenous Languages

Call for papers

We invite papers related to the indigenous languages of Latin America. This involves any topic at the intersection of computational linguistics, documentary linguistics, and language revitalization/conservation efforts by communities, as well as linguistic technologies, modeling, linguistic data collection, and other data-related topics.

We encourage the submission of work that:

1. Examine the use of specific methods in the analysis of Latin American indigenous language data, with a focus on endangered languages, or propose new methods for analyzing such data;
2. Propose new models for data collection, management and application in indigenous language contexts;
3. Consider what concrete steps are needed to facilitate more fruitful interaction between computer scientists, documentary linguists, and language communities;
4. Discuss the evolution and operation of collaborations between language communities, documentary linguists and/or computational linguists in the development of language technology for language revitalization efforts.

The presentation of papers by indigenous researchers or with the participation of members of indigenous communities is also strongly encouraged.

The organizers may offer financial support (flight and accommodation) to the authors of some presentations, based on economic and diversity considerations.

 

Shipments / Evaluation

Papers (extended abstracts) should be half a page in length (and a maximum of 1 page).
Submissions should be in plain PDF format and should include:
- Title
- Author, Affiliation, and contact e-mail address.
- Extended abstract
Submissions should be sent to the Workshop email address(workshop.TIL@gmail.com) by November 20, 2023 (at 24 hrs). All submissions will be evaluated by the Scientific Committee and a notification email will be sent on December 1, 2023 regarding acceptance or not.

Important dates and location