The 9th International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages (IWCLUL 2024) will be organized by ACL SIGUR. The proceedings of the event will be published in the ACL anthology. The workshop will take place in November 28-29, 2024 in Helsinki, Finland at Metropolia University of Applied Sciences.

https://acl-sigur.github.io/iwclul2024.html

Submission deadline: October 20, 2024

Registration/publication fees: 0€!

We solicit original and unpublished work related to NLP methods for Uralic languages, including multilingual methods that include at least one Uralic language (e.g. Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian etc). Appropriate topics include (but are not limited to):

- Multilingual approaches in NLP presenting work on at least one Uralic language
- Parsers, analysers and processing pipelines of Uralic languages
- Lexical databases, electronic dictionaries
- Finished end-user applications aimed at Uralic languages, such as spelling or grammar checkers, machine translation or speech processing
- Evaluation methods and gold standards, tagged corpora, treebanks
- Reports on language-independent or unsupervised methods as applied to Uralic languages
- Surveys and review articles on subjects related to computational linguistics for one or more Uralic languages
- Any work that aims at combining efforts and reducing duplication of work
- How to elicit activity from the language community, agitation campaigns, games with a purpose

Short papers can be up to 4 pages in length (5 for camera-ready version). Short papers can report on work in progress or a more targeted contribution such as software or partial results.
Long papers can be up to 8 pages in length (9 for camera-ready version). Long papers should report on previously unpublished, completed, original work.

Lightning talks submitted as 750-word abstracts. Lightning talks are suited for discussing ideas or presenting work in progress. The abstracts will be published in a lightning proceedings on Zenodo.

All submission formats can have an unlimited number of pages for references. All submissions must follow the ACL stylesheet.

The submissions must be anonymous, and they will be peer-reviewed by our program committee. The peer review is double blinded. Papers must be submitted using the conference submission system by the deadline. At least one of the authors of an accepted paper must attend the event and present their paper.

Accepted papers (short and long) will be published in the joint proceedings that will appear in the ACL Anthology. Accepted papers will also be given an additional page to address the reviewers’ comments. The length of a camera-ready submission can then be 5 pages for a short paper and 9 for a long paper with an unlimited number of pages for references.

Important dates:
- Paper submission (full and short): October 20, 2024
- Notification of acceptance: November 3, 2024
- Camera ready deadline: November 10, 2024
- Registration deadline: November 10, 2024
- Workshop: November 28-29, 2024