January 2023 - Corpora

Research Associate in natural language processing
by truss003＠gold.ac.uk 19 Jan '23

19 Jan '23

Job advertisement Goldsmiths, University of London is seeking to appoint a fixed-term part-time research associate with enthusiasm for discourse analysis and expertise in natural language processing and/or corpus linguistics. This role is part of a research project developed at the Department of Computing in collaboration with the linguistics team from the Department of English and Creative Writing. The project aims to capture and analyse the “public conversation” around the ongoing energy crisis. This issue has become the nexus for important social debates around pivotal issues like climate change, as well as the distribution of economic burdens, equality, risk and sustainability. A study of public debates around the energy crisis can help us understand the complex intersection of discourses around fossil fuels, climate change, sustainability and social justice. As part of this interdisciplinary project, you will work with linguists and computer scientists at Goldsmiths to combine expertise in NLP and corpus linguistics with expertise in qualitative discourse analysis. You will be expected to develop, implement, and apply novel algorithms to online media content. This will involve appropriate NLP techniques, such as entity recognition, semantic role labelling, topic modelling and sentiment analysis. You should have a strong background in software development, ideally in a research environment or another area related to rapid prototyping and innovation. Closing date: 10-Feb-2023 Interested? For further details and to apply visit: https://jobs.gold.ac.uk/vacancy/research-associate-strategic-research-fund-… For more information or for an informal discussion please contact Dr Tony Russell-Rose (t.russell-rose(a)gold.ac.uk) or Dr Geri Popova (g.popova(a)gold.ac.uk). Kind Regards, Tony ============================== Dr Tony Russell-Rose FBCS CITP CEng Reader in Computer Science Goldsmiths, University of London Email: T.Russell-Rose(a)gold.ac.uk ==============================

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4-year-PhD Position Santiago de Compostela
by Corpus Pages 19 Jan '23

19 Jan '23

*4-year PhD position in Corpus Linguistics * The Department of English and German Philology of the University of Santiago de Compostela invites applications for a 4 -year PhD position in Corpus Linguistics for the project, funded by the Spanish National Research Agency (AEI): *PACORES, Spanish Parallel Corpora *(PID2021-125313OB-I00). The doctoral research will be focused on different tasks of Natural Language Processing in multilingual contexts. *Application deadline: 26/01/2023* More information about this call: Ayudas para contratos predoctorales para la formación de doctores 2022 <https://www.aei.gob.es/en/announcements/announcements-finder/ayudas-contrat…> (Grants for pre-doctoral contracts for PhDs 2022) More information on the specific project: i.doval(a)usc.es *Requirements* Experience in the use of a programming language (e.g. Python) Knowledge of natural language processing tasks, ideally with previous experience in multilingual text processing.

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ICMI 2023 Call for Workshops
by Gualtiero Volpe 19 Jan '23

19 Jan '23

25th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (9-13 October 2023) ICMI 2023 Call for Workshops : https://icmi.acm.org/2023/call-for-workshops/ The International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2023) will be held in Paris on October 9-13, 2023. ICMI is the premier international conference for multidisciplinary research on multimodal human-human and human-computer interaction analysis, interface design, and system development. ICMI has developed a tradition of hosting workshops in conjunction with the main conference to foster discourse on new research, technologies, social science models, and applications. Examples of recent workshops include: * Media Analytics for Societal Trends * International Workshop on Automated Assessment of Pain (AAP) * Multi-sensorial Approaches to Human-Food Interaction * Multimodal e-Coaches * Modeling Cognitive Processes from Multimodal Data * Multimodal Analyses enabling Artificial Agents in Human-Machine Interaction * Investigating Social Interactions with Artificial Agents * Insights on Group & Team Dynamics * Face and Gesture Analysis for Health Informatics * Generation and Evaluation of Non-verbal Behaviour for Embodied Agents * Bridging Social Sciences and AI for Understanding Child Behavior We are seeking workshop proposals on emerging research areas related to the main conference topics, and those that focus on multi-disciplinary research. We would also strongly encourage workshops that will include a diverse set of keynote speakers (factors to consider include: gender, ethnic background, institutions, years of experience, geography, etc.). The content of accepted workshops is under the control of the workshop organizers. Workshops may be half-day or one-day in duration. Workshop organizers will be expected to manage the workshop content, solicit submissions, be present to moderate the discussion and panels, invite experts in the domain, conduct the reviewing process, and maintain a website for the workshop. Workshop papers will be indexed by ACM Digital Library in an adjunct proceeding, and a short workshop summary by the organizers will be published in the main conference proceedings. Submission Prospective workshop organizers are invited to submit proposals in PDF format (Max. 3 pages). Please email proposals to the workshop chairs: Giovanna Varni and Theodora Chaspari (icmi2023-workshop-chairs(a)acm.org <mailto:icmi2023-workshop-chairs@acm.org> ). The proposal should include the following: * Workshop title * List of organizers including affiliation, email address, and short biographies * Workshop motivation, expected outcomes and impact * Tentative list of keynote speakers * Workshop format (by invitation only, call for papers, etc.), anticipated number of talks/posters, workshop duration (half-day or full-day) including tentative program * Planned advertisement means, website hosting, and estimated participation * Paper review procedure (single/double-blind, internal/external, solicited/invited-only, pool of reviewers, etc.) * Paper submission and acceptance deadlines * Special space and equipment requests, if any Important dates Workshop proposal submission February 5, 2023 Notification of acceptance February 17, 2023 Workshop papers due July 23, 2023 Workshop dates 9-13 October 2023

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CFP: Field Matters 2023 - The Second Workshop on NLP Applications to Field Linguistics
by fieldmattersworkshop＠gmail.com 18 Jan '23

18 Jan '23

Dear colleagues, We are happy to announce that The Second Workshop on NLP Applications to Field Linguistics (Field Matters 2023) will take place at EACL 2023 on May 2-6 in Dubrovnik, Croatia (online participants are also welcomed). 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. We accept papers on the following topics: - Application of NLP to field linguistics workflow; - Transfer learning for under-resourced language processing; - The use of fieldwork data to build NLP systems; - Modeling morphology and syntax of typologically diverse languages in the low-resource setting; - Speech processing for under-resourced languages; - Computational analysis of field linguistics datasets; - Using technology for preserving culture via language; - Improving ways of interaction with Indigenous communities; - Machine-readable field linguistic datasets. Submission deadline is February 13. You can find more information on the submission process and format requirements on our website (https://field-matters.github.io/cfp2023). Subscribe to our Twitter (https://twitter.com/field_matters) to follow the updates. If you have any questions, feel free to ask them! Best regards, Anna Postnikova Field Matters workshop organizing committee fieldmattersworkshop(a)gmail.com

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AfricaNLP Workshop collocated with ICLR 2023
by Tunde Ajayi 18 Jan '23

18 Jan '23

Dear all, Sorry if you have received this before. This is a call for participation at the AfricaNLP Workshop collocated with ICLR 2023. =========================== 📢 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 📢 =========================== The 4th AfricaNLP workshop is co-located with ICLR 2023 in Rwanda. We are happy to receive your submissions on 3rd February 2023, AoE deadline. The theme for the 2023 Workshop is *African NLP in the Era of Large Language Models.* For the Workshop, we will accept extended abstracts (up to two pages) and full papers (up to 8 pages) with unlimited references and appendices. Accepted submissions will be eligible for oral or poster presentation and may opt-in to be published in arXiv proceedings. In addition, we are offering mentorship to newcomers in NLP research areas in both the technical aspects (e.g training a model) and academic paper writing. Please, register to be a mentee or a mentor using this Google form <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSckT2FbNccoqSnRUjlBXEMtmuxWjZbr7bW…> . *Important Dates* ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission Deadline: 3rd February, 2023 (AoE) Acceptance Notifications: 3rd March, 2023 (AoE) Camera-ready: In-view Workshop date: 5th May, 2023 in Kigali, Rwanda & Virtual For further information and sponsorship, please visit the workshop website <https://sites.google.com/view/africanlp2023/home> ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Best regards, Tunde Ajayi For: Organising Committee

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Call for submissions: Workshop on Individual Differences in Pragmatics and Discourse (IndiPRAG)
by Jia Loy 18 Jan '23

18 Jan '23

[With apologies for cross-posting] We are pleased to announce that submissions for the Workshop on Individual Differences in Pragmatics and Discourse (IndiPRAG) are now open. Submission deadline: 1st May 2023 Notification date: 5th June 2023 Workshop dates: 18th September (all day) and 19th September (morning) 2023 Workshop venue: Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany (the workshop is collocated with XPRAG in Paris, 20th-23rd September) ** Call for submissions: Experimental research in pragmatics and discourse processing has consistently found that not all comprehenders behave the same: while some seem to draw rich pragmatic inferences, others respond in a way that is more consistent with a literal interpretation (Fairchild & Papafragou, 2021; Mayn & Demberg, 2022). Similarly for discourse inference, experiments have found differences with respect to the sensitivity to discourse cues and the readiness for discourse predictions between participants (Scholman, Demberg & Sanders, 2020; Tskhovrebova, Zufferey & Gygax, 2022). This workshop aims to bring together researchers interested in exploring individual differences at the level of pragmatics and discourse, as well as methods for relating those differences to cognitive properties, and approaches for modelling the mechanism driving the individual differences effects. IndiPRAG Workshop invites submissions of abstracts addressing the following questions: - To what extent do pragmatic processing and discourse inferences differ between individuals? - How consistent are interpretation biases across different types of pragmatic implicatures? - What individual difference measures are particularly suitable for measuring IDs related to pragmatic processing? - How can we computationally model individual differences in discourse and pragmatics? - What statistical methods are best suited to identifying latent groups of participants and relating ID measures to task performance? ** Formatting guidelines: The abstracts must not exceed 1000 words for the text (excl. captions), 10000 characters for references, 2 figures. Abstracts should be submitted in PDF format, with 2.54 cm margins on all sides and 12 point font size, single-spaced. Please indicate up to three appropriate keywords for your abstract, which will be used for session planning. Abstracts must be written in English and should include a title but no information revealing the author(s). Submissions should be handed in via easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=indiprag2023 ** We will have invited talks by: Kirsten Abbot-Smith, University of Kent Morton Christiansen, Cornell University Craig Hedge, Aston University Petra Hendriks, University of Groningen Antje Meyer & Florian Hintz, MPI for Psycholinguistics Nijmegen ** IndiPRAG is being organised by: Vera Demberg, Jia Loy, Alexandra Mayn, Dongqi Pu, Margarita Ryzhova, Merel Scholman, Sebastian Schuster You can contact us at: indiprag(a)lst.uni-saarland.de

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2nd CfP: SEMANTiCS 2023 EU || Sep 20 - 22, 2023 || Leipzig, Germany
by Maribel Acosta & Silvio Peroni 18 Jan '23

18 Jan '23

==== SEMANTiCS - 19th International Conference on Semantic Systems Leipzig, Germany September 20 - 22, 2023 https://2023-eu.semantics.cc/ ==== The Research and Innovation track at SEMANTiCS 2023 EU welcomes papers on novel scientific research and/or innovations relevant to the topics of the conference. Submissions must be original and must not have been submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers must follow the guidelines given in the author instructions, including references and optional appendices. Each submission will be reviewed by several PC members who will assess it based on its innovativeness, technical merits, and effectiveness at solving real problems. SEMANTiCS 2023 especially invites contributions that target the following main topics, sub-topics in the context of semantic-based research and systems as well as applicative domains. = Topics of Interest = * Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Web Semantics & Linked (Open) Data * Enterprise Knowledge Graphs, Graph Data Management * Machine Learning Techniques for/using Knowledge Graphs (e.g. reinforcement learning, deep learning, data mining and knowledge discovery) * Knowledge Management (e.g. acquisition, capture, extraction, authoring, integration, publication) * Terminology, Thesaurus & Ontology Management * Reasoning, Rules, and Policies * Natural Language Processing for/using Knowledge Graphs (e.g. entity linking and resolution using target knowledge such as Wikidata and DBpedia, foundation models) * Crowdsourcing for/using Knowledge Graphs * Data Quality Management and Assurance * Mathematical Foundation of Knowledge-aware AI * Multimodal Knowledge Graphs * Semantics in Data Science * Semantics in Blockchain environments * Trust, Data Privacy, and Security with Semantic Technologies * Economics of Data, Data Services, and Data Ecosystems * IoT and Stream Processing * Conversational AI and Dialogue Systems * Provenance and Data Change Tracking * Semantic Interoperability (via mapping, crosswalks, standards, etc.) Special Sub-Topics: * Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage * LegalTech, AI Safety, Explainable and Interoperable AI * Decentralized and/or Federated Knowledge Graphs Application of Semantically Enriched and AI-Based Approaches: * Knowledge Graphs in Bioinformatics and Medical AI * Clinical Use Case of AI-based Approaches * AI for Environmental Challenges * Semantics in Scholarly Communication and Open Research Knowledge Graphs * AI and LOD within GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) institutions = Important Dates = * Abstract Submission Deadline: May 09, 2023 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) * Paper Submission Deadline: May 16, 2023 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) * Notification of Acceptance: June 20, 2023 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) * Camera-Ready Paper: July 04, 2023 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) Submission via Easychair on https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sem23 = Author Guidelines and Submission = * The Research and Innovation Track welcomes long and short papers. Long papers should have 12-15 pages of content (excluding references) and short papers of a maximum length of 6 pages of content (excluding references). Since references are excluded from page counting, it is fine to have one or more additional pages for references if they are relevant to the study submitted. * Submissions should follow the guidelines of IOS Press. Details are available at https://www.iospress.com/book-article-instructions. * Abstract submission for all papers is a strict requirement. To facilitate bidding, we strongly suggest the authors submit structured abstracts. * All papers and abstracts have to be submitted electronically via EasyChair. * Submissions must be in English. * Submissions must be anonymous; the reviewing process is double-blind, but reviewers will be able to disclose their identities if they wish, by signing their reviews. * Accepted papers will be published in open access proceedings by IOS Press, and the text of all the reviews (excluding the scores) of all the accepted papers will be posted on the conference website and will be archived on Zenodo as publicly available material. * At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper. * All authors are strongly suggested to provide optional links to code, materials, and datasets during the submission process - we will have specific optional fields in the EasyChair submission form - the review process will take these into account when provided. To anonymise resources for the reviewing process, authors can use services like Anonymous GitHub or figshare/Zenodo as described here. * The Research and Innovation Track will not accept papers that, at the time of submission, are under review or have already been published in or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. * All authors will have the opportunity to provide an ORKG comparison in the Open Research Knowledge Graph (https://orkg.org) during the submission process - we will have a specific optional field in the EasyChair submission form. = Review and Evaluation Criteria = Each submission will be reviewed by several Programme Committee members. The reviewing process is double-blind. However, reviewers can disclose their identity by signing their reviews and/or adding one of their persistent identifiers (e.g. their ORCID). The text of all the reviews (excluding the scores) of all the accepted papers will be posted on the conference website with the basic bibliographic metadata of the reviewed submission (i.e. title and authors), and it will be archived on Zenodo as publicly available material. All the signed reviews of the accepted papers will be licensed using a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC-BY, the copyright holder will be the reviewer), except the anonymous ones that will be released in CC0. Papers submitted to this track will be evaluated according to the following criteria: * Appropriateness * Originality, novelty, and innovativeness * Impact of results * Soundness of the evaluation * Proper comparison to related work * Clarity and quality of writing * Reproducibility of results and resources For details please go to: https://2023-eu.semantics.cc/ We are looking forward to your contribution! Maribel Acosta & Silvio Peroni Research and Innovation Track Chairs

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ESU Call for hosting proposals
by Europaeische Sommeruniversitaet-Kulturen und Technologien 18 Jan '23

18 Jan '23

THE EUROPEAN SUMMER UNIVERSITY IN DIGITAL HUMANITIES, hosted by the University of Leipzig from 2009 to 2022, is NOW ACCEPTING BIDS FROM NEW EUROPEAN HOSTS FOR 2023 AND BEYOND. The ESU offers instructional opportunities for students and practitioners in the digital humanities to pursue a wide range of quantitative and qualitative methods in a collective working environment that includes cultural outings, communal meals and significant participant interaction. Taught by a network of outstanding international scholars and guided by a scientific committee which embeds its activities within a broader alliance of digital humanities organizations and centers, the ESU is multilingual and multicultural in its outlook. The ESU welcomes all, regardless of nationality, gender, religion, race, sexual expression, or technical level, through a peer reviewed application process and robust financial support for students. It is our hope that future iterations of the European Summer University will continue to reflect the broad curricular range of those past by fostering and further developing its community and leveraging the wealth of its excellent existing instructor pool and creating new instructional opportunities. For more information on past iterations of the ESU, its courses, and its participants, potential hosts may refer to https://esu.fdhl.info/ and https://esu.culintec.de/. INTERESTED INSTITUTIONS MAY EXPRESS THEIR INTEREST BY PROVIDING MATERIALS OUTLINED IN THE HTTPS://FORMS.GLE/KR7MQV7FWM5CDTFW6 SUBMISSION FORM BY FEBRUARY 20, 2023. All submissions will be reviewed by the ESU Evaluative Committee: Alejandro Bia, Peter Bell, Jason Boyd, Elisabeth Burr (ex-officio), Carol Chiodo, Gimena Delrio Riande, Simone Rebora, Peter Robinson, Ray Siemens, Toma Tasovac, Giovanni Vitale, and David Joseph Wrisley. FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSAL: https://forms.gle/Kr7mqv7fWM5cdtfw6">https://forms.gle/Kr7mqv7fWM5cdtfw6 CAROL CHIODO, Ph.D. Librarian for Collections and Digital Scholarship | Americas, Europe, and Oceania Division (AEOD) carol_chiodo(a)harvard.edu | profile --> ORCID orcid.org/0000-0002-6424-3445[1] HARVARD LIBRARY Champions of curiosity for the betterment of the world library.harvard.edu Links: ------ [1] http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6424-3445

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Bilingual Writers and Corpus Analysis
by David Palfreyman 18 Jan '23

18 Jan '23

Dear all, Just published by Routledge: "Bilingual Writers and Corpus Analysis<https://www.routledge.com/Bilingual-Writers-and-Corpus-Analysis/Palfreyman-…>" (Palfreyman & Habash, 2022) presents issues and specific findings in the recently developing field of bilingual writer corpora. The book discusses in depth one of the first examples of a bilingual writer corpus: the Zayed Arabic-English Bilingual Undergraduate Corpus (http://www.zaebuc.org<http://www.zaebuc.org/>), which includes writing by hundreds of students in both their languages, with additional information about individual writers and texts. The book takes the reader through the design and use of such a corpus, and illustrates the potential of this type of corpus with detailed studies, showing how assessment, vocabulary, and discourse work across two very different languages. Specific research questions addressed in this book include: 1. How can we compare writers' proficiency between their L1 and L2, especially when the two languages are typologically very different? 2. Does the writing of male and female bilingual writers differ semantically (in each of their languages)? 3. How can a writer's range of vocabulary be measured across her languages, and how are such measurements related to other measures of linguistic proficiency? 4. How does writers' collocational competence differ between their languages? 5. How does writers' educational background (EMI or non-EMI) relate to their use of metadiscursive expressions in their two languages? 6. Do writers deploy similar metaphors when writing about the same topic in their L1 and in their L2? 7. How could bilingual writer corpora be used to further research on second language acquisition? https://www.routledge.com/Bilingual-Writers-and-Corpus-Analysis/Palfreyman-… <http://www.zu.ac.ae> [cid:ZU_198aa1f1-1bdd-4bb9-af2e-c61bdd92f8ae.gif] David Palfreyman Assistant Chair College of Humanities and Social Sciences ديفيد بالفريمان الرئيس المساعد كلية العلوم الإنسانية والإجتماعية [cid:NBLogoEmail_71bc8110-a145-41cd-abb5-5375f9a19c23.gif] P.O. Box 19282 Dubai, U.A.E | T:+971 4 402 1312 | M: w w w . z u . a c . a e<http://www.zu.ac.ae> ________________________________ Disclaimer: This e-mail and the files(s) attached to it are confidential and belong to the intended receiver (unit) only. In case you are not the intended receiver of this letter, or if you have received it by mistake, please advise the sender and delete it along with its attached file(s) from your system immediately. You do not have the right to copy, print or distribute this e-mail or any part thereof, or to release its contents to any other party whatsoever, except with prior approval from the sender. If you violate the above, you will be legally accountable.

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[1st Call] Call for Workshop & Tutorial Proposals SEMANTiCS 2023
by Jennifer D'Souza 18 Jan '23

18 Jan '23

SEMANTiCS 2023 is a major venue for research and industrial innovation and features a workshop and tutorial program addressing the diverse practical interests of its audience. This program is intended to offer a rich diversity of topics to conference attendees and local participants seeking to pick up new skills and stay up-to-date regarding the latest developments in the community. We encourage submissions of proposals on all topics in the general areas of SEMANTiCS 2023 and proposals bridging or introducing new perspectives in these areas. Workshops and tutorials may incorporate panel discussions, lightning talks, meetings, networking or hands-on sessions, hackathons and other practical formats where applicable. Rooms for business or project meetings are available upon request as well. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Web Semantics & Linked (Open) Data - Enterprise Knowledge Graphs, Graph Data Management and Deep Semantics - Machine Learning & Deep Learning Techniques - Semantic Information Management & Knowledge Integration - Terminology, Thesaurus & Ontology Management - Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery - Reasoning, Rules and Policies - Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics - Social and Human aspects of Semantic Web - Data Quality Management and Assurance - Explainable Artificial Intelligence - Semantics in Data Science - Semantics of Blockchain & Distributed Ledger Technologies - Trust, Data Privacy, and Security with Semantic Technologies - Economics of Data, Data Services and Data Ecosystems - Applications of Semantic Web technologies in domains such as law, medicine, life sciences, digital humanities, mobility and smart cities, etc. We especially invite contributions that illustrate the applicability of the topics mentioned above for industrial purposes and/or illustrate the business relevance of their contribution for specific industries. Workshop proposals on *emerging themes* for the topics listed above are encouraged. Detailed Call for Workshops and Tutorials: https://2023-eu.semantics.cc/page/cfp_ws Workshops Deadline: March 07, 2023 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) Notification of acceptance: March 14, 2023 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) Tutorials Deadline: June 06, 2023 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) Notification of acceptance: June 20, 2023 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) *Submission via Easychair on https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sem23 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sem23>* *We are looking forward to your contribution!* Jennifer D’Souza, TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, Germany Anisa Rula, University of Brescia, Italy *Workshop & Tutorial Chairs*

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