ELKL 2016 - 4th Endangered and Lesser-known Languages Conference

While there has been a huge movement towards technology development for major Indian languages (owing to the huge governmental funding and lately huge business interest of certain private companies), there has been hardly any systematic, concerted efforts towards the development of language technologies for the lesser-known languages of the country. However, with the recent surge towards documentation and digitisation of endangered languages (again owing to the governmental funding recently made available through huge projects and schemes including those of CIIL and UGC), a large, structured, parallel, digital collection of speech data with its transcription and the deep part-of-speech and morphological marking of a large number of languages is being made available. It need not be mentioned that this huge resource is not only useful for the description of these languages but could also prove to be of immense value for the development of language technologies.
We solicit papers discussing original and unpublished research related to, but not limited to, the following sub-themes under the special theme.
Use of language archives and products of documentation for the development of language technologies.
Development of resources for these languages - corpus, machine-readable dictionaries, treebanks, WordNets and others
Creation and conversion of resources using the principles of Linked Open Data
Basic technologies - POS Tagger, Morphological Analyser, Syntactic Parsers
Applications - Spell and grammar checkers, transcription and input tools, Text-to-Speech, Automatic Speech Recognition, automatic text classification, machine translation.
Like previous editions of the conference, original and unpublished papers is also solicited in the other areas of research in endangered and lesser-known languages.
Description of Indian endangered and lesser-known languages - phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics
Typological, Areal and Historical Descriptions
Language Documentation
Dictionaries of Indian endangered languages
Language Archiving - best practices and methods
Multilingualism, language shift, language maintenance and language death
Language attitude and Language Revitalization
Language policy, language planning and language endangerment
FIeld reports
Ethical, legal and practical issues in language documentation of endangered and lesser-known languages in India and their solution
Biocultural and Linguistic Diversity of India