DravidianLangTech-2021 welcomes theoretical and practical paper submission on any Dravidian languages (Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Telugu, Tulu, Allar,  Aranadan,  Attapadya,   Kurumba,  Badaga,  Beary,  Betta Kurumba,   Bharia,  Bishavan,  Brahui,  Chenchu,  Duruwa,  Eravallan,  Gondi,  Holiya,  Irula,  Jeseri,  Kadar,  Kaikadi,  Kalanadi,  Kanikkaran,  Khiwar,  Kodava,  Kolami,  Konda,  Koraga,  Kota,  Koya,  Kurambhag Paharia, Kui,  Kumbaran,  Kunduvadi,  Kurichiya,  Kurukh,  Kurumba,  Kuvi,  Madiya,  Mala Malasar,  Malankuravan,  Malapandaram,  Malasar,  Malto,  Manda,  Muduga,  Mullu Kurumba, Muria, Muthuvan, Naiki, Ollari, Paliyan, Paniya, Pardhan, Pathiya, Pattapu, Pengo, Ravula, Sholaga, Thachanadan, Toda, Wayanad Chetti, and Yerukala) that contributes to research in language processing, speech technologies or resources for the same. We will particularly encourage studies that address either practical application or improving resources for a given language in the field.

We invite submissions on topics that include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Code-mixing/ Code-switching
• Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics
• Computer-assisted language learning (CALL)
• Corpus development, tools, analysis and evaluation
• COVID-19 alert, NLP Applications for Emergency Situations and Crisis Management 
• Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion
• Fake New, Spam, and Rumor Detection
• Hate speech detection and Offensive Language Detection
• Lexicons and Machine-readable dictionaries
• Linguistic Theories, Phonology, Morphological analysis, Syntax and Semantics
• Machine Translation, Sentiment Analysis, and Text summarization
• Multimodal Analysis
• Speech technology and Automatic Speech Recognition

Mentoring:We will follow the ACL SRW mentoring program, since English is not the first language of many of the participating researchers. “The goal of the pre-submission mentor-ship program is to improve the quality of writing and presentation of the researcher's work, not to criticize the work itself. Participation is optional but encouraged. Pre-submission mentor-ship is not anonymous” similar to ACL SRW. Pre-submission paper due : Jan 8, 2021

 

Submission:

Papers must describe original, completed / in progress and unpublished work. Each submission will be reviewed by three program committee members. Accepted papers will be given up to 8 pages (for full papers), 4 pages (for short papers and posters) in the workshop proceedings, and will be presented as oral paper or poster. Papers should be formatted according to the EACL 2021 style-sheet, which is provided on the website (https://2021.eacl.org/). You can find the EACL-2021 LaTeX template here or download the zip file. Please submit papers in PDF format.

Submission can be made through this link.

We are seeking submissions under the following category 

• Full papers (8 pages)  
• Short papers (work in progress, innovative ideas/proposals, research proposal of students: : 4 page)  
• Demo (of working online/standalone systems: : 4 page) 

Email: dravidianlangtech@gmail.com and bharathiraja.akr@gmail.com