--- title: "Workshop on Computation and Written Language @ LREC 2023" description: "Workshop on Computation and Written Language @ LREC 2023 — accepted papers: 1 paper in the Elamur Research library (Toronto…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cawl/2023/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cawl/2023/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [venues](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/) / [Workshop on Computation and Written…](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cawl/) / 2023 # Workshop on Computation and Written Language @ LREC 2023 — accepted papers Workshop on Computation and Written Language @ LREC 2023 is the 2023 edition of the Workshop on Computation and Written Language @ LREC, held in Toronto, Canada, July 2023 (publisher: European Language Resources Association (ELRA)). The ACL Anthology lists 12 papers of it; our library holds 1 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions. 📍 Toronto, [Canada](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/canada/) · 🗓 July 2023 [**12** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**1** work in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cawl/2023/#works) · [**9** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cawl/2023/#works) ## Most cited papers By their OpenAlex citations; a paper with our summary links to its page here, the others to the original. 1. **[Lenient Evaluation of Japanese Speech Recognition: Modeling Naturally Occurring Spelling Inconsistency ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.cawl-1.8/)**Shigeki Karita, Richard Sproat, Haruko Ishikawa*5 citations* 2. **[Pronunciation Ambiguities in Japanese Kanji ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.cawl-1.7/)**Wen Zhang*3 citations* 3. **[Disambiguating Numeral Sequences to Decipher Ancient Accounting Corpora ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.cawl-1.9/)**Logan Born, M. Willis Monroe, Kathryn Kelley et al.*2 citations* 4. **[Exploring the Impact of Transliteration on NLP Performance: Treating Maltese as an Arabic Dialect](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/micallef-2023-exploring-impact-transliteration-nlp-performance/)**Kurt Micallef, Fadhl Eryani, Nizar Habash et al.*2 citations · our summary* 5. **[Learning the Character Inventories of Undeciphered Scripts Using Unsupervised Deep Clustering ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.cawl-1.11/)**Logan Born, M. Willis Monroe, Kathryn Kelley et al.*2 citations* 6. **[Myths about Writing Systems in Speech & Language Technology ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.cawl-1.1/)**Kyle Gorman, Richard Sproat*2 citations* 7. **[Preserving the Authenticity of Handwritten Learner Language: Annotation Guidelines for Creating Transcripts Retaining Orthographic Features ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.cawl-1.3/)**Christian Gold, Ronja Laarmann-quante, Torsten Zesch*2 citations* 8. **[A Mutual Information-based Approach to Quantifying Logography in Japanese and Sumerian ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.cawl-1.12/)**Noah Hermalin*1 citation* 9. **[Distinguishing Romanized Hindi from Romanized Urdu ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.cawl-1.5/)**Elizabeth Nielsen, Christo Kirov, Brian Roark*1 citation* ## All accepted papers (12) The most cited first; 1 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original. 1. **[Lenient Evaluation of Japanese Speech Recognition: Modeling Naturally Occurring Spelling Inconsistency ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.cawl-1.8/)**Shigeki Karita, Richard Sproat, Haruko Ishikawa*5 citations* 2. **[Pronunciation Ambiguities in Japanese Kanji ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.cawl-1.7/)**Wen Zhang*3 citations* 3. **[Disambiguating Numeral Sequences to Decipher Ancient Accounting Corpora ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.cawl-1.9/)**Logan Born, M. Willis Monroe, Kathryn Kelley et al.*2 citations* 4. **[Exploring the Impact of Transliteration on NLP Performance: Treating Maltese as an Arabic Dialect](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/micallef-2023-exploring-impact-transliteration-nlp-performance/)**Kurt Micallef, Fadhl Eryani, Nizar Habash et al.*2 citations · our summary* 5. **[Learning the Character Inventories of Undeciphered Scripts Using Unsupervised Deep Clustering ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.cawl-1.11/)**Logan Born, M. Willis Monroe, Kathryn Kelley et al.*2 citations* 6. **[Myths about Writing Systems in Speech & Language Technology ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.cawl-1.1/)**Kyle Gorman, Richard Sproat*2 citations* 7. **[Preserving the Authenticity of Handwritten Learner Language: Annotation Guidelines for Creating Transcripts Retaining Orthographic Features ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.cawl-1.3/)**Christian Gold, Ronja Laarmann-quante, Torsten Zesch*2 citations* 8. **[A Mutual Information-based Approach to Quantifying Logography in Japanese and Sumerian ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.cawl-1.12/)**Noah Hermalin*1 citation* 9. **[Distinguishing Romanized Hindi from Romanized Urdu ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.cawl-1.5/)**Elizabeth Nielsen, Christo Kirov, Brian Roark*1 citation* 10. **[Back-Transliteration of English Loanwords in Japanese ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.cawl-1.6/)**Yuying Ren 11. **[Decipherment of Lost Ancient Scripts as Combinatorial Optimisation Using Coupled Simulated Annealing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.cawl-1.10/)**Fabio Tamburini 12. **[The Hidden Folk: Linguistic Properties Encoded in Multilingual Contextual Character Representations ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.cawl-1.2/)**Manex Agirrezabal, Sidsel Boldsen, Nora Hollenstein ## Papers with our summary in our library (1) The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's). 1. **[Exploring the Impact of Transliteration on NLP Performance: Treating Maltese as an Arabic Dialect](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/micallef-2023-exploring-impact-transliteration-nlp-performance/) [Workshop on Computation and Written Language @ LREC](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cawl/)**Kurt Micallef, Fadhl Eryani, Nizar Habash, et al.*2023 · 9 citations* ## Top topics Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. [Semitic languages (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) ## Fields [Arts and Humanities (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) ## Top authors Authors with a page who published here most often: their works here, and the citations of those works. [🧑‍🔬**Claudia Borg**1 work here · 9 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/claudia-borg/) · [🧑‍🔬**Fadhl Eryani**1 work here · 9 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fadhl-eryani/) · [🧑‍🔬**Houda Bouamor**1 work here · 9 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/houda-bouamor/) · [🧑‍🔬**Kurt Micallef**1 work here · 9 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kurt-micallef/) · [🧑‍🔬**Nizar Habash**1 work here · 9 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nizar-habash/) ## Top institutions Institutions on the bylines of its works here, by the number of works. [🎓**New York University Abu Dhabi** Abu Dhabi · United Arab Emirates 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/new-york-university-abu-dhabi/) · [🎓**University of Malta** Msida · Malta 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-malta/) · [🎓**Carnegie Mellon University Qatar** Doha · Qatar 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university-qatar/) · [🎓**Carnegie Mellon University** Pittsburgh · United States 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/) · [🎓**University of Tübingen** Tübingen · Germany 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-tubingen/) Place and dates from the event's site or the ACL Anthology; works and citations from OpenAlex and our library. - [next → Workshop on Computation and Written Language @ LREC 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cawl/2026/) - [↑ back to Workshop on Computation and Written Language @ LREC](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cawl/)