Workshop on NLP Applications to Field Linguistics Call for Papers 2027 Shared Task Field Matters 2027 Field Matters 2026 Field Matters 2025 Field Matters 2024 Field Matters 2023 Field Matters 2022
Field linguistics plays a crucial role in the development of linguistic theory and universal language modelling, as it provides uncontested, the only way to obtain structural data about the rapidly diminishing diversity of natural languages.
The Field Matters workshop aims to bring together the urgent needs of field linguists and the vast community of NLP practitioners, developing up-to-date NLP tools for easier, faster, more reliable data collection and annotation.
The workshop will take place at EACL 2027.
EACL 2027 will be held in Athens, Greece, from March 9–14, 2027.
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Éric Le Ferrand
(University at Buffalo,
ericlefe@buffalo.edu)
is a post-doctoral researcher. His main point of interest is speech recognition for under-resourced languages and language documentation. His current research project is about the exploration of modern speech recognition methods applied to Creole languages. He built linguistic fieldwork expertise during his PhD, deploying speech recognition-based transcription tools in Australian Aboriginal Country.
Elena Klyachko
(
elenaklyachko@gmail.com)
is an independent researcher, whose main points of interest are Tungusic languages, which she has been studying during her fieldwork, as well as low-resource NLP. She co-organized the SIGMORPHON 2020-2021 shared tasks on morphological reinflection, LowResourceEval 2019, 2021 shared tasks on NLP for field linguistic data and SigTyp 2021 shared task on under-resourced languages ASR.
Shu Okabe
(Technische Universität München,
first.last@tum.de)
is a post-doctoral researcher at the Technical University of Munich (Germany). His current research interest is in creating models for low to very low-resource languages for language communities. His PhD topic focused on Computational Language Documentation to create tools to assist field and documentary linguists in their annotation process.
Oleg Serikov
(Palisade Research,
oleg.serikov@palisaderesearch.org)
is a research team lead at Palisade Research. Previously, Oleg consulted KAUST on building Arabic NLP stack, with focus on evaluation principles. He completed his PhD in Computational Linguistics at the School of Linguistics, HSE University. He works on under-resourced speech and language modeling and evaluation, and supervises projects on NLP for fieldwork. He co-organized SIGTYP 2021 and LowResourceEval 2021 shared tasks on under-resourced languages ASR, as well as previous iterations of SIGTYP and Field Matters workshops.
Ekaterina Voloshina
(University of Gothenburg, Chalmers University of Technology,
ekaterina.voloshina@chalmers.se)
is a PhD candidate in computer science at University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology. Her research interests are mainly computational and quantitative approaches to language description and modelling.
Karina Sheifer
(UC Santa Barbara,
sheifer@ucsb.edu)
is a PhD student specializing in low-resource Indigenous languages, including Turkic, Tungusic, Finnic, Chukotko-Kamchatkan, Basque and Mixtec languages. She has extensive experience in Siberian fieldwork and language documentation, including work with Evenki and Even, Haka and Sakha. Her current research in NLP focuses on transfer learning for closely related low-resource languages and on computational approaches to morphologically complex languages.
We invite both archival and non-archival submissions. Archival submissions should be either 4- or 8-pages long. Non-archival submissions are 2-page abstracts that could present already published work or work in progress.
Dual submissions with the main conference are allowed, but authors must declare dual submission by entering the paper’s main conference submission id. The reviews for the submission for the main conference will be automatically forwarded to the workshop and taken into consideration when your paper is evaluated. Authors of dual-submission papers accepted to the main conference should retract them from the workshop by February 1 (TBC).
Papers posted to preprint servers such as arXiv can be submitted without any restrictions on when they were posted.
Authors of accepted archival papers should upload the final version of their paper to the submission system by the camera-ready deadline. Authors may use one extra page to address reviewer comments, for a total of five or nine pages (for short and long papers, respectively).
Field Matters 2027 adheres to the ACL Anti-Harassment Policy.
We encourage diversity in all forms. Workshop organizers make it their top priority the freedom of thought and expression, as well as respectful scientific debate. On behalf of the organizing team, we are committed to the principles of gender and sociodemographic diversity and are guided by these principles in the consideration of the workshop team, including the selection of invited speakers and PC.