Welcome to DialRes-LREC26

Workshop on Dialects in NLP — A Resource Perspective

Description

DialRes-LREC26 will be collocated with the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), to be held in Palma de Mallorca (Spain).

DialRes-LREC26 focuses on the challenges and opportunities in dialectal NLP from a resource perspective; it seeks to bring together researchers from linguistics, computational linguistics, digital humanities, and related areas to share work on the creation, documentation, and exploitation of dialectal resources.

Workshop Topics

  • Development and evaluation of dialectal oral and textual resources
  • Orthographic normalisation and homogenisation
  • Dialects vs. standard language varieties in annotation frameworks
  • Cross-lingual transfer and model adaptation
  • Resource scalability issues and techniques
  • LLMs in dialectal resource development
  • Resources for/and applications supporting dialect revitalisation and preservation
  • Dialectal studies and teaching from a resource perspective
  • Working on dialect resources: academic, financial, legal, societal issues
  • Enabling dialect communities to develop resources

Contact

To contact the organisers: dialres-lres26@googlegroups.com

Endorsements The workshop is endorsed by UniDive COST Action CA21167 and Archimedes Athena R.C.

Workshop Organizers

  • Antonios Anastasopoulos, George Mason University and Archimedes/Athena RC, antonis@gmu.edu
  • Stella Markantonatou, ILSP and Archimedes/Athena RC, marks@athenarc.gr
  • Angela Ralli, University of Patras and Archimedes/Athena RC, ralli@upatras.gr
  • Marcos Zampieri, George Mason University, mzampier@gmu.edu
  • Stavros Bompolas, Archimedes/Athena RC, s.bompolas@athenarc.gr
  • Vivian Stamou, Archimedes/Athena RC, vivianstamou@gmail.com