Universality, diversity and idiosyncrasy
in language technology
CA21167 COST Action

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====== Call for abstracts, UniDive 2nd general meeting, University of Naples L’Orientale, Italy, 7-9 February 2024 ======

[[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:2nd_unidive_general_meeting|second general meeting]] of the action will take place on **February 7-9, 2024** at the **University of Naples L’Orientale** in Italy. We invite UniDive WG members to submit abstract proposals related to the scientific program of the WGs. 

Proposals may describe diverse types of contributions, according to 3 different tracks:  
  * Planned work
  * Work in progress
  * Complete work, also previously published 

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 [[https://www.overleaf.com/read/yqbpxcbjmjjw|Overleaf 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 will be announced soon.

The submission link is: https://openreview.net/group?id=UniDive/2024/General_Meeting

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 Memorandum of Understanding),
  * clarity
  * diversity of the languages covered by the workshop program
The selected proposals will be presented at the 2nd UniDive general meeting as posters and/or oral presentations.

At least one author per selected proposal will be reimbursed for their travel and stay. 

==== Important dates ====
  * 26 October 2023:		Call for abstracts
  * 24 November 2023:		Submission deadline
  * 15 December 2023:		Notification of acceptance
  * 20 December 2023:		Communication of the names of the presenters
  * 12 January 2024:		Final versions of abstracts
  * 7-9 February 2024:		UniDive 2nd 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 Chairs ====
  * Victoria Bobicev, Technical University of Moldova (Moldova)
  * Johanna Monti, University of Naples L’Orientale (Italy)
  * Ranka Stanković, University of Belgrade (Serbia)

==== Program Committee ==== 
For the Naples UniDive workshop, we wish an inclusive and diverse Program Committee. 
Anyone who feels competent in any domain of UniDive can join the Program Committee as a **reviewer**.
To volunteer, please, fill in [[https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdRzCwU5xn5y1pMmG08qdEcpKz_7ueeWGobqnOjpdVhaODIpA/viewform|this form]] no later than the **19th of November 2023**. 
The abstract review period will be: **27 November-10 December**. We expect **no more than 3-4 abstracts** of **two pages** each per reviewer.
Obviously, the more reviewers we recruit, the lower the reviewing charge.