CLARIN at LREC-COLING 2024

General Information

Date 

• Lingotto Conference Centre, Torino, Italy

About

LREC is the major event on Language Resources (LRs) and Evaluation for Human Language Technologies (HLT). The conference provides an overview of the state-of-the-art regarding LRs and their applications. Participants can exchange information, discuss methodologies, industrial use cases and requirements coming from e-science and e-society, with respect to scientific and technological issues as well as policy and organisational ones.

CLARIN-related activities at LREC-COLING 2024

Contributions to the Main Conference

Workshops

ParlaCLARIN IV Workshop  – organised by CLARIN ERIC

Monday 20 May, from 9:00 to 18:00

The ParlaCLARIN IV workshop at LREC-COLING 2024 will focus on the topic of ‘Creating, Analysing, and Increasing Accessibility of Parliamentary Corpora’. Parliamentary (language) data serves as a communication channel between elected political representatives and members of society, thus reflecting socio-politically relevant information. The development of accessible, comprehensive and well-annotated parliamentary corpora is crucial for a number of disciplines, such as political science, sociology, history, and (socio)linguistics. The workshop will bring together developers, curators and researchers of regional, national and international parliamentary debates from across diverse disciplines in the humanities and social sciences.

Holocaust Testimonies as Language Resources – co-organised by Isuri Anuradha, Ingo Frommholz, Francesca Frontini, Martin Wynne, Ruslan Mitkov, Paul Rayson, Alistair Plum

Holocaust testimonies serve as a bridge between survivors and history’s darkest chapters, providing a connection to the profound experiences of the past. Testimonies stand as the primary source of information that describe the Holocaust, offering first-hand accounts and personal narratives of those who experienced it. The majority of testimonies are captured in an oral format, as survivors vividly explain and share their personal experiences and observations from that time period. Transforming Holocaust testimonies into a machine-processable digital format can be a difficult task owing to the unstructured nature of the text. The creation of accessible, comprehensive, and well-annotated Holocaust testimony collections is of paramount importance to our society. These collections empower researchers and historians to validate the accuracy of socially and historically significant information, enabling them to share critical insights and trends derived from these data. This workshop will investigate a number of ways in which techniques and tools from natural language processing and corpus linguistics can contribute to the exploration, analysis, dissemination and preservation of Holocaust testimonies.

2nd International Workshop Towards Digital Language Equality (TDLE): Focusing on Sustainability – co-organised by Federico Gaspari, Joss Moorkens, Itziar Aldabe, Begoña Altuna, Aritz Farwell, Stelios Piperidis, Georg Rehm and German Rigau

The 2nd International Workshop Towards Digital Language Equality (TDLE): Focusing on Sustainability will be held as a half-day hybrid event co-located with LREC-COLING 2024 at the Lingotto Conference Centre in Turin, Italy, on the afternoon of Saturday 25th May 2024. At least one author of accepted papers is expected to attend the workshop in person at the conference venue to give the presentation face-to-face. Regular participants who are not presenting papers may attend online. Please note that it is possible to attend the 2nd International TDLE Workshop without attending or registering for the main conference.

The Fifth Workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages – RAIL – co-organised by Rooweither Mabuya, Muzi Matfunjwa, Mmasibidi Setaka, Menno van Zaanen

The fifth Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) workshop will be co-located with LREC-COLING 2024 in Lingotto Conference Centre, Torino, Italy on 25 May 2024. The RAIL workshop is an interdisciplinary platform for researchers working on resources (data collections, tools, etc.) specifically targeted towards African indigenous languages. In particular, it aims to create the conditions for the emergence of a scientific community of practice that focuses on data, as well as computational linguistic tools specifically designed for or applied to indigenous languages found in Africa.
 

Oral and Poster Presentations

Contributions to Co-Allocated Events

Oral and Poster Presentations at Co-allocated Workshops

• Attitudes in Diplomatic Speeches: Introducing the CoDipA UNSC 1.0 (Mariia Anisimova and S ̆ ́arka Zik ́anov ́a; Accepted at Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA))

• 9:10 - 10:30 Parliamentary Discourse Research in Political Science: Literature Review (Jure Skubic and Darja Fišer; Accepted at Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA))
• 9:10 - 10:30 Bulgarian ParlaMint 4.0 corpus as a testset for Part-of-speech tagging and Named Entity Recognition (Petya Osenova and Kiril Simov; Accepted at ParlaCLARIN IV)
• 9:10-10:30, Gender, Speech, and Representation in the Galician Parliament: An Analysis Based on the ParlaMint-ES-

  General Assembly

  Dataset (Vladu, Adina / Elisa Fernández Rei / Carmen Magariños / Noelia García Díaz; at ParlaCLARIN IV)
• 14:00 - 14:20 Investigating Multilinguality in the Plenary Sessions of the Parliament of Finland with Automatic Language Identification ( Tommi Jauhiainen, Jussi Piitulainen, Erik Axelson, Ute Dieckmann, Mietta Lennes, Jyrki Niemi, Jack Rueter and Krister Lindén;  Accepted at ParlaCLARIN IV)
• 16:30 - 17:45 Multilingual Power and Ideology identification in the Parliament: a reference dataset and simple baselines (Çağrı Çöltekin, Matyáš Kopp, Meden Katja, Vaidas Morkevicius, Nikola Ljubešić and Tomaž Erjavec; Accepted at ParlaCLARIN IV)
• 16:30 - 17:45 ParlaMint Ngram viewer: Multilingual Comparative Diachronic Search Across 26 Parliaments ( Asher de Jong, Taja Kuzman, Maik Larooij and Maarten Marx; Accepted at ParlaCLARIN IV)

• ParlaMint in TEITOK (Maarten Janssen and Matyáš Kopp;Accepted at ParlaCLARIN IV)

• 16:30 - 17:45 Government and Opposition in Danish Parliamentary Debates (Costanza Navarretta and Dorte H. Hansen; Accepted at ParlaCLARIN IV)
• 16:30 - 17:45  Investigating Political Ideologies through the Greek ParlaMint corpus (Maria Gavriilidou, Dimitris Gkoumas, Stelios Piperidis and Prokopis Prokopidis
• 11:20 - 11:40 Improving Language Coverage on HeLI-OTS (Tommi Jauhiainen and Krister Lindén; Accepted at SIGUL 2024 workshop)
• 11:30 - 13:00 Less is Enough: Less-Resourced Multilingual AMR Parsing (Bram Vanroy; Accepted at Interoperable Semantic Annotation (ISA))
• 15:30-15:45 Exploring aspect-based sentiment analysis methodologies for literary-historical research purposes (Tess Dejaeghere, Els Lefever, Pranaydeep Singh and Julie Birkholz; Accepted at LT4HALA workshop)
• 15:45-16:00 Early Modern Dutch Comedies and Farces in the Spotlight: Introducing EmDComF and its Emotion Framework (Florian Debaene, Kornee van der Haven and Veronique Hos; Accepted at LT4HALA workshop)
• 16:50 - 17:10 At the Crossroad of Cuneiform and NLP: Challenges for Fine-grained Part-of-speech Tagging (Gustav Ryberg Smidt, Els Lefever and Katrien De Graef; Accepted at DH and Cultural Heritage)

• Quality and Quantity of Machine Translation References for Automatic Metrics 
  (Vilém Zouhar and Ondřej Bojar; Accepted at Workshop on Human Evaluation of NLP Systems)
• 11:40-12:00 Uncovering Social Changes of the Basque Speaking Twitter Community During COVID-19 Pandemic (Joseba Fernandez de Landa, Iker García-Ferrero, Ander Salaberria and Jon Ander Campos; Accepted at SIGUL 2024 workshop)
• Evaluating Summarization Models: investigating the impact of education and language proficiency on reproducibility (Mateusz Lango, Patricia Schmidtova, Simone Balloccu and Ondrej Dusek; Accepted at Workshop on Human Evaluation of NLP Systems)
• 17:00-17:15 The Simplification of the Language of Public Administration: The Case of Ombudsman Institutions (Gabriel Gonzalez-Delgado and Borja Navarro-Colorado; Accepted at DeTermIt)
• The 5th International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations

Keynote Speaker

What Is Not in the Archives": Early Holocaust Testimony as Research Data ( Michal Frankl; Invited at Holocaust Testimonies as Language Resources)

Saturday 25 May

• 12:15-12:40, Adapting Nine Traditional Text Readability Measures into Sesotho (Johannes Sibeko and Menno van Zaanen)
• FZZG at WILDRE-7: Fine-tuning Pre-trained Models for Code-mixed, Less-resourced Sentiment Analysis (Gaurish Thakkar, Marko Tadić, Nives Mikelić Preradović; Accepted at WILDRE, 7th Workshop on Indian Language Data: Resources and Evaluation)
• 15:00-15:30, Which Domains, Tasks and Languages are in the Focus of NLP Research on the Languages of Europe? (Diego Alves, Marko Tadić, Georg Rehm; Accepted at  2nd International Workshop Towards Digital Language Equality (TDLE): Focusing on Sustainability)

Keynote Speaker

• Using Universal Dependencies for testing hypotheses about communicative efficiency (Natalia Levshina; Invited at Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and Universal Dependencies (MWE-UD 2024))