Topics

Topics include, but are not limited to:

• processing of any under-resourced language (covering less-resourced, under-resourced, endangered, minority, and minoritized languages);
• cognitive and linguistic studies of under-resourced languages;
• fast resources acquisition: text and speech corpora, parallel texts, dictionaries, grammars, and language models;
• zero resource speech technologies and self-supervised learning;
• cross-lingual and multi-lingual acoustic and lexical modeling;
• speech recognition and synthesis for under-resourced languages and dialects;
• machine translation and spoken dialogue systems;
• applications of spoken language technologies for under-resourced languages;
• special topics:
  • Celtic language technology;
  • spoken language technologies for under-resourced languages via education.

We also welcome various typologies of papers:

• research papers;
• position papers for reflective considerations of methodological, best practice, institutional issues (e.g., ethics, data ownership, speakers’ community involvement, de-colonizing approaches);
• research posters for work-in-progress projects in the early stage of development or description of new resources;
• demo papers, and early-career/student papers, to be submitted as extended abstracts and presented as posters.