The workshop will solicit original and ongoing research contributions related to the theme, which includes but are not limited to:

• Theoretical and applied linguistic research for multilinguality and minority languages

• Text encoding theory and transcoding techniques

• Resource construction, such as multilingual corpora and corpora for minority languages

• Speech, lexical, syntactic, semantic analytics for multiple languages or minority languages

• Cross-language adaptation for natural language processing

• Multi-language, cross-language and minority language processing methods and applications in machine translation, speech recognition, information retrieval etc.

• Evaluation metrics for multi-language, cross-language and minority language processing

• Multi-language, cross-language and minority language processing for social media and user generated content

• Deep learning and expressions for multi-language processing

• Minority languages in emergency responses and security/disaster management

• Multi-language or cross-language named entity recognition, entity relation extraction and event extraction

• Multi-language or cross-language linked data or knowledge graph

• Multi-language or cross-language anaphora resolution and discourse analysis

• Multi-language or cross-language sentiment analysis

• Multi-language or cross-language text classification and generation

• Transliteration and machine translation