Field Matters 2026 workshop program

Information

Place: Rabat, Morocco (& online)
Date & time: March 29, 2026 (Sunday afternoon session; 14:00 – 17:30)
Room: Salle Les Oudayas (Level 2 - Stairs Required)

Schedule

14:00-14:10 Welcome

14:10-14:30 Oral 1: Linguistically Informed Tokenization Improves ASR for Underresourced Languages Massimo Marie Daul, Alessio Tosolini and Claire Bowern

14:30-14:50 Oral 2: Short-form verbal arts as a speech data resource in the field Matthew Faytak, Tianle Yang, Pius Wuchu Akumbu, Ivo Forghema Njuasi and Éric Le Ferrand

14:50-15:30 Keynote presentation: Automated glossing for language documentation: Historical perspective, state of the art, and the importance of the user – Alexis Palmer

Slides

15:30-16:30 Poster session:

• What NLP Gets Wrong About Contact: Implications for Field Linguistic Evidence Manodyna K H
• Hybrid Neural-LLM Pipeline for Morphological Glossing in Endangered Language Documentation: A Case Study of Jungar Tuvan Siyu Liang, Talant Mawkanuli and Gina-Anne Levow
• The order of subject, object and verb in Tatyshly Udmurt Daria Belova and Irina Khomchenkova

15:30-16:00 Coffee break

16:30-16:40 Buffer time

16:40-17:00: Oral 3: Quantitative Lect Description: A Case Study of Lemko from the Field Data of 1920s-1930s (online) Ilia Afanasev

17:00-17:20 Oral 4: Automated Quality Control for Language Documentation: Detecting Phonotactic Inconsistencies in a Kokborok Wordlist Kellen Parker van Dam and Abishek Stephen

17:20-17:30: Final remarks

17:30 The End