January 2023 - Corpora

BIONLP 2023 and Shared Tasks @ ACL 2023 FIRST CFP update
by ddemner＠gmail.com 12 Jan '23

12 Jan '23

BIONLP 2023 and Shared Tasks @ ACL 2023 https://aclweb.org/aclwiki/BioNLP_Workshop#SHARED_TASKS_2023 WORKSHOP OVERVIEW AND SCOPE The BioNLP workshop associated with the ACL SIGBIOMED special interest group has established itself as the primary venue for presenting foundational research in language processing for the biological and medical domains. The workshop is running every year since 2002 and continues getting stronger. BioNLP welcomes and encourages work on languages other than English, and inclusion and diversity. BioNLP truly encompasses the breadth of the domain and brings together researchers in bio- and clinical NLP from all over the world. The workshop will continue presenting work on a broad and interesting range of topics in NLP. The interest to biomedical language has broadened significantly due to the COVID-19 pandemic and continues to grow: as access to information becomes easier and more people generate and access health-related text, it becomes clearer that only language technologies can enable and support adequate use of the biomedical text. BioNLP 2023 will be particularly interested in language processing that supports DEIA (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility). The work on detection and mitigation of bias and misinformation continues to be of interest. Research in languages other than English, particularly, under-represented languages, and health disparities are always of interest to BioNLP. Other active areas of research include, but are not limited to: Tangible results of biomedical language processing applications; Entity identification and normalization (linking) for a broad range of semantic categories; Extraction of complex relations and events; Discourse analysis; Anaphora/coreference resolution; Text mining / Literature based discovery; Summarization; Τext simplification; Question Answering; Resources and strategies for system testing and evaluation; Infrastructures and pre-trained language models for biomedical NLP (Processing and annotation platforms); Development of synthetic data & data augmentation; Translating NLP research into practice; Getting reproducible results. SHARED TASKS 2023 Shared Tasks on Summarization of Clinical Notes and Scientific Articles The first task focuses on Clinical Text. Task 1A. Problem List Summarization Automatically summarizing patients’ main problems from the daily care notes in the electronic health record can help mitigate information and cognitive overload for clinicians and provide augmented intelligence via computerized diagnostic decision support at the bedside. The task of Problem List Summarization aims to generate a list of diagnoses and problems in a patient’s daily care plan using input from the provider’s progress notes during hospitalization.This task aims to promote NLP model development for downstream applications in diagnostic decision support systems that could improve efficiency and reduce diagnostic errors in hospitals. This task will contain 768 hospital daily progress notes and 2783 diagnoses in the training set, and a new set of 300 daily progress notes will be annotated by physicians as the test set. The annotation methods and annotation quality have previously been reported here. The goal of this shared task is to attract future research efforts in building NLP models for real-world decision support applications, where a system generating relevant and accurate diagnoses will assist the healthcare providers’ decision-making process and improve the quality of care for patients. Shared Task 1A Registration: https://forms.gle/yp6TKD66G8KGpweN9 Please join our Google discussion group for the important update: https://groups.google.com/g/bionlp2023problemsumm Important Dates: Registration Started: January 13th, 2023 Releasing of training and validation data: January 13th, 2023 Releasing of test data: April 13th, 2023 System submission deadline: April 20th, 2023 System papers due date: May 4th, 2023 Notification of acceptance: June 1st, 2023 Camera-ready system papers due: June 13th, 2023 BioNLP Workshop Date: July 13th or 14th, 2023 Task 1A Organizers: Majid Afshar, Department of Medicine University of Wisconsin - Madison. Yanjun Gao, University of Wisconsin Madison. Dmitriy Dligach, Department of Computer Science at Loyola University Chicago. Timothy Miller, Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Task 1B. Radiology report summarization Radiology report summarization is a growing area of research. Given the Findings and/or Background sections of a radiology report, the goal is to generate a summary (called an Impression section) that highlights the key observations and conclusions of the radiology study. The research area of radiology report summarization currently faces an important limitation: most research is carried out on chest X-rays. To palliate these limitations, we propose two datasets: A shared summarization task that includes six different modalities and anatomies, totalling 79,779 samples, based on the MIMIC-III database. A shared summarization task on chest x-ray radiology reports with images and a brand new out-of-domain test-set from Stanford. SEE MORE at: https://vilmedic.app/misc/bionlp23/sharedtask Task 1B Organizers: Jean-Benoit Delbrouck, Stanford University. Maya Varma, Stanford University. Task 2. Lay Summarization of Biomedical Research Articles Biomedical publications contain the latest research on prominent health-related topics, ranging from common illnesses to global pandemics. This can often result in their content being of interest to a wide variety of audiences including researchers, medical professionals, journalists, and even members of the public. However, the highly technical and specialist language used within such articles typically makes it difficult for non-expert audiences to understand their contents. Abstractive summarization models can be used to generate a concise summary of an article, capturing its salient point using words and sentences that aren’t used in the original text. As such, these models have the potential to help broaden access to highly technical documents when trained to generate summaries that are more readable, containing more background information and less technical terminology (i.e., a “lay summary”). This shared task surrounds the abstractive summarization of biomedical research articles, with an emphasis on controllability and catering to non-expert audiences. Through this task, we aim to help foster increased research interest in controllable summarization that helps broaden access to technical texts and progress toward more usable abstractive summarization models in the biomedical domain. For more information, see: Main site: https://biolaysumm.org/ CodaLab page - subtask 1: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/9541 CodaLab page - subtask 2: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/9544 Detailed descriptions of the motivation, the tasks, and the data are also published in: Goldsack, T., Zhang, Z., Lin, C., Scarton, C.. Making Science Simple: Corpora for the Lay Summarisation of Scientific Literature. EMNLP 2022. Luo, Z., Xie, Q., Ananiadou, S.. Readability Controllable Biomedical Document Summarization. EMNLP 2022 Findings. Task 2 Organizers: Chenghua Lin, Deputy Director of Research and Innovation in the Computer Science Department, University of Sheffield. Sophia Ananiadou, Turing Fellow, Director of the National Centre for Text Mining and Deputy Director of the Institute of Data Science and AI at the University of Manchester. Carolina Scarton, Computer Science Department at the University of Sheffield. Qianqian Xie, National Centre for Text Mining (NaCTeM). Tomas Goldsack, University of Sheffield. Zheheng Luo, the University of Manchester. Zhihao Zhang, Beihang University. Organizers Dina Demner-Fushman, US National Library of Medicine Kevin Bretonnel Cohen, University of Colorado School of Medicine Sophia Ananiadou, National Centre for Text Mining and University of Manchester, UK Jun-ichi Tsujii, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan

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CFP: *Sem 2023
by Alexis Palmer 12 Jan '23

12 Jan '23

*SEM 2023 Call for Papers *SEM brings together researchers interested in the semantics of natural languages and its computational modeling. The conference embraces data-driven, neural, and probabilistic approaches, as well as symbolic approaches and everything in between; practical applications and resources as well as theoretical contributions are welcome. The long-term goal of *SEM is to provide a stable forum for the growing number of NLP researchers working on all aspects of semantics of (many and diverse!) natural languages. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Lexical semantics and word representations * Compositional semantics and sentence representations * Statistical, machine learning and deep learning methods for semantics * Multilingual and cross-lingual semantics * Word sense disambiguation and induction * Semantic parsing; syntax-semantics interface * Frame semantics and semantic role labeling * Textual inference, entailment and question answering * Formal approaches to semantics * Extraction of events and causal and temporal relations * Entity linking; pronouns and coreference * Discourse, pragmatics, and dialogue * Machine reading * Extra-propositional aspects of meaning * Multiword and idiomatic expressions * Metaphor, irony, and humor * Knowledge mining and acquisition * Common sense reasoning * Language generation * Semantics in NLP applications: sentiment analysis, abusive language detection, summarization, fact-checking, etc. * Multidisciplinary research on semantics * Grounding and multimodal semantics * Human semantic processing * Semantic annotation, evaluation, and resources * Ethical aspects and bias in semantic representations We encourage authors to think about the ethical aspects of their work, and to address and discuss all ethical questions and implications relevant to their research. STARSEM values reproducibility and particularly welcomes submissions that adhere to the reproducibility guidelines as specified here<https://folk.idi.ntnu.no/odderik/reproducibility_guidelines.pdf>. Important dates Anonymity period begins: February 18 2023, AoE Paper submission deadline: March 18 2023, AoE Commitment deadline for ARR-reviewed papers: April 16 2023, AoE Notification of acceptance: May 12 2023 STARSEM conference: July 13-14 2023 Submission instructions Submissions must describe unpublished work and be written in English. We solicit both long and short papers. Please note that double submission of papers will need to be notified at submission. Long papers describe original research and may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references. Final versions of long papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account. Short papers describe original focused research and may consist of up to four (4) pages, plus unlimited pages for references. Upon acceptance, short papers will be given five (5) content pages in the proceedings. Authors are encouraged to use this additional page to address reviewers comments in their final versions. Submissions should follow the ACL 2023 formatting requirements<https://2023.aclweb.org/calls/style_and_formatting/>. Submission link: Softconf link TBA Organisers General Chair: Mohammad Taher Pilehvar, Tehran Institute for Advanced Studies Program Chairs: Jose Camacho-Collados, Cardiff University Alexis Palmer, University of Colorado Boulder Anonymity period To protect the integrity of double-blind review and ensure that submissions are reviewed fairly, we adopt the rules and guidelines for ACL conferences. The following rules and guidelines make reference to the anonymity period, which runs from 1 month before the submission deadline (starting February 18, 2023 11:59PM UTC-12:00) up to the date when your paper is either accepted, rejected (May 12, 2023), or withdrawn. * You may not make a non-anonymized version of your paper available online to the general community (for example, via a preprint server) during the anonymity period. By a version of a paper we understand another paper having essentially the same scientific content but possibly differing in minor details (including title and structure) and/or in length (e.g., an abstract is a version of the paper that it summarizes). * If you have posted a non-anonymized version of your paper online before the start of the anonymity period, you may submit an anonymized version to the conference. The submitted version must not refer to the non-anonymized version, and you must inform the program chair(s) that a non-anonymized version exists. * You may not update the non-anonymized version during the anonymity period, and we ask you not to advertise it on social media or take other actions that would further compromise double-blind reviewing during the anonymity period. * Note that, while you are not prohibited from making a non-anonymous version available online before the start of the anonymity period, this does make double-blind reviewing more difficult to maintain, and we therefore encourage you to wait until the end of the anonymity period if possible. Alternatively, you may consider submitting your work to the Computational Linguistics journal, which does not require anonymization and has a track for “short” (i.e., conference-length) papers. Website Further information can be found online at: https://sites.google.com/view/starsem2023 ======================================================================== Alexis Palmer Assistant Professor Department of Linguistics University of Colorado Boulder alexis.palmer(a)colorado.edu<mailto:alexis.palmer@colorado.edu> 303-735-0418

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Call for papers: NLP4Disability: The first Workshop on Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Disability @ PETRA 2023
by Hend Al-Khalifa 12 Jan '23

12 Jan '23

*NLP4Disability: Call for Papers * *The First Workshop on Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Disability @ PETRA 2023 <http://www.petrae.org/>*. July 5-7, 2023. CORFU ISLAND, GREECE Website: https://nlp4disability.github.io/ *Topics of interest* This workshop will explore how natural language processing can be used to improve the lives of people with disabilities. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Automatic identification of disabilities from text - Development of accessible natural language interfaces - Generating alternative text descriptions of images for people with visual impairments - Improving automatic speech recognition for people with hearing impairments - Accessible natural language interfaces - Assistive technologies for people with disabilities - Computational linguistics for people with disabilities - Language processing for people with disabilities - Text processing for people with disabilities - NLP Bias Against Disabled People *Important Dates* Workshop paper submission deadline: *March 10, 2023* Review Period: March 11 - April 07, 2023 Notification date: April 10, 2023 Camera-Ready: April 30, 2023 *Publications* All accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings and will be published with the *ACM Digital Library as part of the ACM ICPS program*. Also, Authors of selected papers will also be invited to submit an extended and improved version to a Special Issue published in Nafath newsletter (ISSN: 2789-9144) indexed in DOAJ and Google Scholar ( https://nafath.mada.org.qa). *Workshop Organizers* - *Hend Al-Khalifa*. Faculty at the Information Technology Department, College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia - *Zainab AlMeraj*. Faculty at the Information Science Department, College of Life Sciences, Kuwait University, Kuwait - *Achraf Othman*. Mada Center, Qatar - *Dena Al-Thani*. College of Science and Engineering, Hamad bin Khalifa University, Qatar -- Hend S. Al-Khalifa, PhD Professor Information Technology Department CCIS, King Saud University Saudi Arabia, Riyadh Website: http://fac.ksu.edu.sa/hendk Research: http://iwan.ksu.edu.sa/ <http://iwan.ksu.edu.sa/>

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CFP: FICTA-2023, Cardiff Metropolitan University, United Kingdom || Springer SIST Series (Scopus Indexed) || Paper Submission Deadline: 20 January 2023
by Sandeep Sengar 12 Jan '23

12 Jan '23

Dear Researchers, We are happy to inform you that the Eleventh International Conference on Frontiers of Intelligent Computing: Theory and Applications (FICTA-2023) will be organized by Cardiff Metropolitan University, United Kingdom. We invite you to participate in FICTA-2023: https://ficta.co.uk/ on 11-12 April 2023, being organized in a hybrid mode. Publication: All FICTA 2023 registered and presented papers will be published in conference proceedings by Springer-Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies (SIST) Series (https://www.springer.com/series/8767). Topics of interest: Submissions of quality papers are expected in all areas of research and application in intelligent computing, refer call for papers at https://ficta.co.uk/call-for-papers. For any queries related to the conference you may feel free to e-mail: FICTA2023(a)cardiffmet.ac.uk Thank you -- Warm Regards, *Sandeep Singh Sengar*, Lecturer in Computer Science Cluster Leader Computer Vision / Image Processing Cardiff Metropolitan University, Cardiff, UK CF5 2YB *-------------------------------------------------------------------------------* *Email: SSSengar(a)cardiffmet.ac.uk <SSSengar(a)cardiffmet.ac.uk>* *Web: **https://sites.google.com/view/sandeepsengar <https://sites.google.com/view/sandeepsengar>*

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Call for Papers: Association for Computers & Humanities virtual conference, June 2023
by heather froehlich 12 Jan '23

12 Jan '23

Dear all, (with apologies for cross-posting) The Association for Computers in the Humanities (ACH) invites proposals for their virtual conference to take place this summer; I've copied the basic details below. They are very interested in proposals that have a multilingual angle (see below) and are wide-ranging in their interests (again, see below) A note that membership to the Association is rather affordable ($40) and brings the overall registration for the conference down to $50 (a total of $90). The student membership price is $25. https://ach.org/membership/ *ACH 2023 CFP (https://ach2023.ach.org/en/cfp/ <https://ach2023.ach.org/en/cfp/)>) *Deadline: February 1st, 2023, 11:59:59 PM in GMT -12 Submit a proposal: ACH 2023 Conftool <https://www.conftool.pro/ach2023/> The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) will hold ACH 2023, a virtual conference, from June 29-July 1, 2023. *Conference Focus* ACH 2023 is guided by our commitments to equity and justice. The conference recognizes that digital humanities scholarship is inextricably sociopolitical. Therefore, we have chosen to forgo a theme to emphasize the inherent sociopolitical nature of the work and encourage all proposal writers to explicitly address the sociopolitical stakes of their work. ACH 2023 prioritizes proposals that focus on social justice in multiple contexts: anti-racist work, Indigenous studies, cultural and critical ethnic studies, intersectional feminism, postcolonial and decolonial studies, disability studies, and queer studies. We also prioritize proposals that explicitly address multilingualism in digital humanities, which is itself a matter of social justice. Examples of topics include: multilingual metadata, linked open data, preservation and dissemination of endangered languages, OCR for non-Latin scripts, methods for right-to-left languages, tools and interfaces for multilingual digital humanities, multilingual pedagogies, and multilingual corpora. *Conference Scope* Areas of digital humanities scholarship that are relevant to the conference include but are not limited to: - Digital and computational approaches to humanistic research and pedagogy - Digital cultural heritage - Digital surveillance - Environmental humanities & climate justice - Digital humanities tools and infrastructures - Digital librarianship - Digital media, art, literature, history, music, film, and games - Digital public humanities - Humanistic and ethical approaches to data science and data visualization - Humanistic research on digital objects and cultures - Humanities knowledge infrastructures - Labor and organization in digital humanities - Physical computing - Resource creation, curation, and engagement - Use of digital technologies to write, publish, and review scholarship As a conference committed to cross-disciplinary engagement, ACH 2023 welcomes interdisciplinary proposals. We are also especially interested in receiving proposals from participants with a range of expertise and a variety of roles, including alt-ac positions, employment outside of higher education, and graduate and undergraduate students. We further invite proposals from participants who are newcomers to digital humanities. best wishes, Heather -- Dr Heather Froehlich w // http://hfroehli.ch t // @heatherfro

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Temporary position in English Linguistics for one year at W2 level
by Robert Fuchs 12 Jan '23

12 Jan '23

Dear all The University of Hamburg is looking for a candidate to fill a position in English linguistics (incl. corpus linguistics) for one year, starting in April 2023. The teaching load is 9 hours per week (i.e. nine 'hours' of 45 minutes). The position is remunerated at W2 level, which is very competitive. The ad for the position is in German, but applications in English are welcome. The deadline is very soon - if you need more time, please contact my colleague Peter Siemund (see contacts under the link below): https://www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangebote/ausschreibung.html?jobID=e2e0e1d… Best wishes Robert -- Prof. Dr. Robert Fuchs (JP) | Department of English Language and Literature/Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik | University of Hamburg | Überseering 35, 22297 Hamburg, Germany | Room 07076 | https://uni-hamburg.academia.edu/RobertFuchs <https://uni-hamburg.academia.edu/RobertFuchs> | https://sites.google.com/view/rflinguistics/ <https://sites.google.com/view/rflinguistics/> Mailing list on varieties of English/World Englishes/ENL-ESL-EFL. Subscribe here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/var-eng/join <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/var-eng/join> Are you a non-native speaker of English? Please help us by taking this short survey on when and how you use the English language: https://lamapoll.de/englishusageofnonnativespeakers-1/ <https://lamapoll.de/englishusageofnonnativespeakers-1/>

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Free Lancaster Summer Schools - applications open
by Brezina, Vaclav 12 Jan '23

12 Jan '23

Dear all, We are organising Free summer schools in Corpus linguistics at Lancaster University, UK from 26 to 30 June 2023. This is just before the CL2023 conference, also in Lancaster (https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/cl2023 ). This year, the summer schools will be held as an in-person event on the Lancaster University campus. We offer the following two summer schools to choose from: * Corpus linguistics for the analysis of language, discourse and society * Corpus linguistics for language learning, teaching and testing More info & applications: http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/corpussummerschools/ Best, Vaclav Professor Vaclav Brezina Professor in Corpus Linguistics Department of Linguistics and English Language ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Lancaster University Lancaster, LA1 4YD Office: County South, room C05 T: +44 (0)1524 510828 [8ED5AC37]@vaclavbrezina [B213DA5D]<http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/arts-and-social-sciences/about-us/people/vaclav-…>

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New positions at Language Technologies Unit at BSC-CNS
by Montserrat Marimon 12 Jan '23

12 Jan '23

The Language Technologies Unit at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) invites applications for the following 6 positions: - Deep Learning Engineer for Language Technologies (RE1): https://www.bsc.es/join-us/job-opportunities/1123lstmre1 - Deep Learning Engineer for Language Technologies (RE2): https://www.bsc.es/join-us/job-opportunities/1423lstmre <https://www.bsc.es/join-us/job-opportunities/1423lstmre2> - <https://www.bsc.es/join-us/job-opportunities/1423lstmre2>Machine Translation Engineer (RE1): https://www.bsc.es/join-us/job-opportunities/1023lstmre1 - Machine Translation Engineer (RE2): https://www.bsc.es/join-us/job-opportunities/1323lstmre <https://www.bsc.es/join-us/job-opportunities/1323lstmre2> - <https://www.bsc.es/join-us/job-opportunities/1323lstmre2>Data Engineer for Language and Translation Technologies (RE1): https://www.bsc.es/join-us/job-opportunities/923lstmre1 - Data Engineer for Language and Translation Technologies (RE2): https://www.bsc.es/join-us/job-opportunities/1223lstmre2 We offer: - Full-time contracts, a highly stimulating environment with state-of-the-art infrastructure, flexible working hours, extensive training plan, tickets restaurant, private health insurance, and full support for relocation procedures. - A competitive salary commensurate with the qualifications and experience of the candidate and according to the cost of living in Barcelona. - Open-ended contract due to technical and scientific activities linked to the project and budget duration About BSC and the Language Technologies Unit The Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) is the leading supercomputing center in Spain. It houses MareNostrum, one of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe, and is a hosting member of the PRACE European distributed supercomputing infrastructure. The mission of BSC is to research, develop and manage information technologies in order to facilitate scientific progress. BSC combines HPC service provision and R&D into both computer and computational science (life, earth and engineering sciences) under one roof, and currently has over 770 staff from 55 countries. The Language Technologies Unit at BSC has extensive experience in several NLP areas, such as massive language model building, biomedical text mining, machine translation and unsupervised learning for under-resourced languages and domains. It has been entrusted by the Spanish and the Catalan governments with the mission to develop essential open-source resources and technologies for Spanish and Catalan languages. In connection with this, the LT Unit is currently in charge of two flagship projects at the national and regional level: the Spanish National Language Technology Plan, funded by the Spanish Secretariat of Digitalisation and Artificial Intelligence, and the AINA project, aimed at developing AI resources for Catalan, funded by the Catalan Digitalisation Department. In addition, the Unit participates in various EU-funded international projects. -- *Montserrat Marimon* Language Technologies Unit -⁠ Life Sciences BSC-CNS

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First Call for Participation - EXIST 2023: sEXism Identification in Social neTworks @ CLEF
by JORGE AMANDO CARRILLO DE ALBORNOZ CUADRADO 12 Jan '23

12 Jan '23

Please, consider participating and/or forwarding to colleagues and groups. ****We apologize for multiple postings of this e-mail**** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Participation ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- First Call for Participation EXIST 2023 at CLEF 2023 Task: EXIST 2023: sEXism Identification in Social neTworks Website: http://nlp.uned.es/exist2023/ EXIST is a series of scientific events and shared tasks on sexism identification in social networks that aims to capture sexism in a broad sense, from explicit misogyny to other subtle expressions that involve implicit sexist behaviours (EXIST 2021, EXIST 2022). The third edition of the EXIST shared task will be held as a Lab at CLEF 2023, which will take place on September 18-21, 2023, in the Centre for Research & Technology Hellas (CERTH), Thessaloniki, Greece. Social Networks are the main platforms for social complaint, activism and expression of opinions and personal views in general. Movements like #MeTwoo, #8M or #Time’sUp have spread rapidly. Under the umbrella of social networks, many women all around the world have reported abuses, discriminations and other sexist experiences suffered in real life. Social networks are also contributing to the transmission of sexism and other disrespectful and hateful behaviours. In this context, automatic tools not only may help to detect and alert against sexist behaviours and discourses, but also to estimate how often sexist and abusive situations are found in social media platforms, what forms of sexism are more frequent and how sexism is expressed in these media. Given the success of the tasks, EXIST 2023 is a follow up of the tasks addressed in previous years, while facing yet a new challenge: the identification of the intention of the author of the sexist message. Additionally, the main novelty will be the adoption of the “learning with disagreements” paradigm for the development of the dataset and for the evaluation of the systems. The adoption of this paradigm along with our effort to control bias in the annotations will allow us to evaluate whether including the different views and sensibilities of the annotators contributes to the development of more accurate and fairer NLP systems. Participants will be asked to classify tweets (in English and Spanish) according to the following three tasks: TASK 1 - Sexism Identification: a binary classification where systems have to decide whether or not a given text (tweets) contains sexist expressions or behaviours (i.e., it is sexist itself, describes a sexist situation or criticizes a sexist behaviour). TASK 2 - Source Intention: for the tweets that have been classified as sexist, the second task aims to classify each tweet according to the intention of the person who wrote it. We propose a ternary classification task: (i) direct sexist message, (ii) reported sexist message and (iii) judgemental message. TASK 3 - Sexism Categorization: once a message has been classified as sexist, the third task aims to categorize the message in different types of sexism (according to the categorization proposed by experts and that takes into account the different facets of women that are undermined). In particular, each sexist tweet must be categorized in one or more of the following categories: (i) Ideological and inequality, (ii) Stereotyping and dominance, (iii) Objectification, (iv) Sexual violence and (v) Misogyny and non-sexual violence. Although we recommend to participate in all subtasks, participants are allowed to participate just in one of them. During the training phase, the task organizers will provide to the participants the manually-annotated EXIST 2023 dataset. For the evaluation of the teams, the unlabelled test data will be released. We encourage participation from both academic institutions and industrial organizations. We invite the participants to register for the lab at CLEF 2023 Labs Registration site (http://clef2023-labs-registration.dei.unipd.it/registrationForm.php). Upon registration participants will receive information about how to join the Google Group about the EXIST 2023 shared task. Important Dates: * 14 November 2022: Registration open. * 13 February 2023: Training set available. * 27 March 2023: Development set available. * 10 April 2023: Test set available. * 28 April 2023: Registration closes. * 10 May 2023: Runs submission due. * 26 May 2023: Results notification. * 5 June 2023: Submission of Working Notes by participants. * 23 June 2023: Notification of acceptance (peer-reviews). * 7 July 2023: Camera-ready participant papers due. * 18-21 September 2023: EXIST 2023 at CLEF Conference. **Note: All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth").** Organizers: Laura Plaza, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) Jorge Carrillo-de-Albornoz, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) Roser Morante, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) Enrique Amigó, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) Julio Gonzalo, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) Damiano Spina, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) Paolo Rosso, Universitat Politècnica de Valencia (UPV) Contact: Contact the organizers by writing to: jcalbornoz(a)lsi.uned.es Website: http://nlp.uned.es/exist2023/ [http://nlp.uned.es/exist2023/images/icon_hu9683616acaba39c3cdd30865f1cf9d69…]<http://nlp.uned.es/exist2023/> EXIST 2023 - nlp.uned.es<http://nlp.uned.es/exist2023/> We will carry out a “hard evaluation” and a “soft evaluation”. Hard evaluation: the hard evaluation will assume that a single label is provided by the systems for every example in the dataset.; Soft evaluation: the soft evaluation is intended to measure the ability of the model to capture disagreements, by considering the distribution of labels in the output as a soft label and ... nlp.uned.es AVISO LEGAL. Este mensaje puede contener información reservada y confidencial. Si usted no es el destinatario no está autorizado a copiar, reproducir o distribuir este mensaje ni su contenido. Si ha recibido este mensaje por error, le rogamos que lo notifique al remitente. Le informamos de que sus datos personales, que puedan constar en este mensaje, serán tratados en calidad de responsable de tratamiento por la UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA (UNED) c/ Bravo Murillo, 38, 28015-MADRID-, con la finalidad de mantener el contacto con usted. 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CFP: Constraint Grammar Workshop at NoDaLiDa 2023 - Thórshavn
by Eckhard Bick 11 Jan '23

11 Jan '23

============================================================================= CONSTRAINT GRAMMAR WORKSHOP - CALL FOR PAPERS Constraint Grammar - Methods, Tools and Applications in conjunction with NoDaLiDa 2023, Thórshavn, Faroe Islands, May 22, 2023 https://visl.sdu.dk/nodalida2023.html ============================================================================= This workshop on practical and theoretical aspects of CG will be co-located with NoDaLiDa 2023 in Thórshavn. The new edition of the workshop continues the tradition of CG workshops at NoDaLiDa, which started in 2005. Apart from the traditional field of corpus-oriented tagging and parsing, Constraint Grammar continues to inspire applicational work, providing a robust NLP backbone in end user-oriented systems in various areas of language technology, such as spell and grammar checking, comma correction, ICALL, machine translation, lexicography and others. We therefore envision workshop contributions both regarding basic grammatical research and corpus linguistics on the one hand, and CG-based applications on the other hand. Constraint Grammar has always elicited a strong interest from researchers working on less-resourced languages, such as the Sami languages, Greenlandic, Faroese, Tibetan and the Celtic languages, for which we explicitly invite both finished and ongoing work. Finally, there will be room for methodological contributions on the CG formalism itself regarding either its expressive power or improvements in compiler implementation. CALL FOR ABSTRACTS We invite contributions concerning CG grammars for various languages or CG systems used in tools and applications. Research reports from fields relevant to the CG framework on the input side - such as finite-state analyzers, ontologies etc. - are also welcome. Finally, we are hoping for methodological contributions and experiments exploiting advances in expressive power in the most widely used CG compiler, CG-3. As usual, we encourage short papers on ongoing work. The workshop will be organized as a half-day workshop with both full and short papers. Contributions will be reviewed anonymously, and the papers will be published in the NoDaLiDa 2023 workshop proceedings. We invite extended abstracts, approximately 1500 words (for an 8 page full paper) or 750 words (for a 4 page short paper) - additional pages with bibliographic references not included. Final full versions of accepted papers can be submitted after the workshop, and will be published in the NEALT Proceedings Series by Linköping University Electronic Press. IMPORTANT DATES Monday, April 10, 2023: Submission of abstracts Monday, April 17, 2023: Notification of acceptance Monday, May 22, 2023: Workshop (NoDaLiDa main conference May 23-24) Monday, June 26, 2023: Submission of camera-ready full manuscripts SUBMISSION FORMATS All submissions must follow the NoDaLiDa 2023 style files, which are available for LaTeX (preferred) and MS Word and can be retrieved from the following address: https://www.nodalida2023.fo/authorkit-nodalida23 Submissions must be anonymous, i.e. not reveal author(s) on the title page or through self-references. Abstracts (1500 words for full papers and 750 words for short papers, excluding bibliography) must be submitted digitally, in PDF, and uploaded through the on-line conference system. Abstract submissions that violate either of these requirements will be returned without review. SUBMISSION MANAGEMENT Submissions to the conference must be uploaded electronically, obeying the above requirements and no later than (end of day, world-wide): Monday, April 10, 2023 NoDaLiDa 2023 utilizes the OpenReview conference management system for submission, reviewing, and preparation of proceedings. Submission for the conference can be made at: https://openreview.net/group?id=NoDaLiDa/2023/Workshop/CG-MTA ORGANIZERS * Eckhard Bick, bick(a)sdu.dk, University of Southern Denmark * Tino Didriksen, tinod(a)sdu.dk, GrammarSoft ApS & University of Southern Denmark * Kristin Hagen, kristin.hagen(a)iln.uio.no, University of Oslo * Kaili Müürisep, kaili.muurisep(a)ut.ee, University of Tartu * Trond Trosterud, trond.trosterud(a)uit.no, University of Tromsø. * Linda Wiechetek, linda.wiechetek(a)uit.no, University of Tromsø -- Eckhard Bick, cand.med., dr.phil. University of Southern Denmark e-mail: eckhard.bick(a)gmail.com web: http://beta.visl.sdu.dk

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