====== Call for abstracts, UniDive 1st general meeting, Paris-Saclay, 16-17 March 2023 ======

[[https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA21167/|UniDive]] is a COST action, i.e. a scientific network,  dedicated to universality, diversity and idiosyncrasy in language technology. It is structured around 4 Working Groups:
  * WG1: Corpus annotation
  * WG2: Lexicon-corpus interface
  * WG3: Multilingual and cross-lingual language technology
  * WG4: Quantifying and promoting diversity

The [[meetings:general_meetings:1st_unidive_general_meeting|first general meeting]] of the action will take place on **March 16-17, 2023** at **Paris-Saclay University** in France. We invite UniDive WG members to submit abstract proposals related to the scientific program of the WGs. 

Proposals may describe diverse **types of contributions**: consolidated research, ongoing work, recently published or submitted work, (collaborative) project ideas, theoretical models, research questions, empirical results, negative results, resource and tool descriptions, etc. 

A proposal should be **anonymous**, written in English and submitted in pdf only. It should include (on the title page) the list of the **relevant WGs**. It should not exceed **2 pages**, including figures and tables (bibliographic references may go beyond the 2-page limit). If **linguistic examples** from languages other than English are included, those should be glossed and translated into English, and an **extra half page** is allowed for this purpose.

For the sake of uniformity and easing the reviewers’ effort, we encourage authors to use the Overleaf [[https://www.overleaf.com/read/yqbpxcbjmjjw|Latex template]]. 
Other formats (not necessarily Latex-based) can also be used, provided that they conform to the following specifications: A4 paper, 11pt font, 1in margins. 

The submission link is: 
https://openreview.net/group?id=UniDive/2023/General_Meeting_1

The reviewing process is **double-blind**. The selection of proposals will be done by UniDive Program Committee according to the following criteria: 
  * relevance to UniDive and the work program of its Working Groups (see pp. 18-20 of the [[https://e-services.cost.eu/files/domain_files/CA/Action_CA21167/mou/CA21167-e.pdf|Memorandum of Understanding]]),
  * clarity
  * diversity of the languages covered by the workshop program
The selected proposals will be presented at the 1st UniDive general meeting as posters and/or oral presentations.

At least one author per selected proposal will be reimbursed for their travel and stay. 
The co-authors of the selected abstracts should inform the meeting organizers by **February 17** at latest who will be the presenter to be reimbursed. 

==== Important dates ====
  * 2 Feb 2023:		abstract submission deadline
  * 16 Feb 2023:		notification of acceptance
  * 17 Feb 2023:		the presenters of the selected posters apply for grants (via a link sent with the notification)
  * 17-21 Feb 2023:		selection of the participants to be reimbursed
  * 22 Feb 2023:		sending out official e-cost invitations to the participants selected for reimbursement 
  * 27 Feb 2023:		final versions of abstracts
  * 28 Feb 2023:		deadline for booking the recommended hotel with a discount rate
  * 16-17 March 2023:	UniDive 1st general meeting
The time zone for all deadlines is **Anywhere on Earth** (UTC-12). Due to the tight schedule, no extension of the submission deadline is foreseen.

==== Program Committee ====
  * Verginica Barbu Mititelu, Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Romania) 
  * Vladimír Benko, Comenius University in Bratislava (Slovakia)
  * Gosse Bouma, University of Groningen (Netherlands)
  * Olesea Caftanatov, Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science (Moldova)
  * Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium)
  * Cagri Coltekin, University of Tuebingen, Germany
  * Peter Dirix, KU Leuven (Belgium)
  * Kaja Dobrovoljc, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
  * A. S. Dogruoz, Ghent University (Belgium)
  * Gülşen Eryiğit, Istanbul Technical University (Turkey)
  * Kilian Evang, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (Germany)
  * Radovan Garabík, Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Sciences (Slovakia)
  * Paraskevi Giouli, Athena Research Center (Greece)
  * Bruno Guillaume, INRIA (France)
  * Tunga Gungor, Bogazici University (Turkey)
  * Harald Hammarström, Uppsala University (Sweden)
  * Sylvain Kahane, Université Paris Nanterre (France)
  * **(co-chair)** Atul Kumar Ojha, University of Galway (Ireland)
  * Murathan Kurfalı, Stockholm University (Sweden)
  * Teresa Lynn, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (United Arab Emirates)
  * Styliani Markantonatou, Athena Research Center (Greece)
  * Nurit Melnik, The Open University (Israel)
  * Kadri Muischnek, University of Tartu (Estonia)
  * **(co-chair)** Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University (Sweden)
  * Roberto Navigli, Sapienza University of Rome (Italy)
  * Petya Osenova, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" (Bulgaria)
  * Prokopis Prokopidis, Athena Research Center (Greece)
  * **(co-chair)** Carlos Ramisch, Aix-Marseille University (France)
  * **(co-chair)** Agata Savary, Paris-Saclay University (France)
  * Emmanuel Schang, Université d'Orléans (France)
  * Kiril Ivanov Simov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (Bulgaria)
  * Aline Villavicencio, University of Sheffield (United Kingdom)
  * Veronika Vincze, University of Szeged (Hungary)
  * Abigail Walsh, Dublin City University (Ireland)
  * Alina Wróblewska, Polish Academy of Sciences (Poland)
  * Daniel Zeman, Charles University (Czechia)