State Educational Institution of Higher Education
"The Komi Republican Academy of State Service and Administration"
State Autonomous Institution of the Komi Republic
"The House of Friendship of Peoples of the Komi Republic"
The ACL Special Interest Group on Uralic Languages (ACL SIGUR)
Dear Colleagues!
We invite you to participate in the international scientific conference Electronic writing of the peoples of the Russian Federation 2021 & IWCLUL 2021. The conference is held in the year of the 100th anniversary of the Komi Republic. The conference will take place on September 23–25, 2021 in Syktyvkar (Komi Republic, Russia) in the Komi Republican Academy of State Service and Administration.
The conference is organized with the support of the Government of the Komi Republic.
A wide range of topical issues in the field of language technologies and computational linguistics of the languages of the peoples of the Russian Federation will be addressed during the conference. The main goal of the conference is the cooperation of researchers working on computational approaches to the languages of the peoples of the Russian Federation.
The main areas of the conference:
The conference includes plenary and thematic sessions. In addition, presentations of finished products, thematic platforms and master classes in certain areas are planned.
The working languages of the conference are Komi, Russian, and English.
All scholars and specialists whose field of research interests is related to theoretical, methodological and applied issues of language technologies and computational linguistics of the languages of the peoples of the Russian Federation, are invited to participate in the conference.
Applications for participation in the conference are accepted in the Registration section of the conference website or by e-mail (conference@krags.ru) until 15.05.2021.
When submitting a paper, you have to choose one of the two tracks: ACL publication or Elibrary publication. The former involves double-blind peer review and certain constraints. Publication in both tracks is free of charge.
As a summary of the conference, a collection of papers will be published, placed in full-text format in the bibliographic database of scientific publications of Russian scientists ELIBRARY.ru (RSCI). The paper can be submitted later than the application for participation; the deadline for submission is 01.09.2021.
The organizing committee of the conference has the right to refuse to publish a paper that does not match the areas of the conference or/and was formatted in violation of the requirements for the submission of materials.
As is customary in IWCLUL, we also prepare conference proceedings as a publication indexed in the ACL Anthology. Papers for the ACL proceedings have to be submitted before the application deadline (15.05.2021) through easychair (see link on the registration page). The papers will undergo double-blind peer review. Each paper must meet the following criteria:
Remote technologies will be widely used during the conference. Therefore, participation in the conference can be taken in full-time, part-time and remote form - in the mode of a video conference. It is planned to organize online broadcasts of conference events on the conference website.
In the case of deterioration of the epidemiological situation in the Komi Republic, the conference may be held in a remote format.
Tkachev Sergey Alekseevich, Vice-Rector of the Educational and Scientific Activities of the State Educational Institution of Higher Education "The Komi Republican Academy of State Service and Administration". Tel.: +79128636268. E-mail: stkachev111@gmail.com.
Fedina Marina Serafimovna, Head of the Center for Innovative Language Technologies of the House of Friendship of the Peoples of the Komi Republic. Tel.: +79505671528. E-mail: m-fedina@mail.ru.