January 2023 - Corpora

ICAME44 deadline extended to 10 February 2023
by Bertus van Rooy 18 Jan '23

18 Jan '23

The 44th annual conference of the International Computer Archive for Modern and Medieval English (ICAME) is hosted by the North-West University in Vanderbijlpark, South Africa, from 17 to 21 May 2023. EXTENDED DEADLINE There is an extended deadline for participants who still want to submit abstracts: 10 February 2023. Those participants will be informed of the outcome of the review process by 28 February 2023. All participants who submitted already will still be informed of the decision by 31 January 2023. CONFERENCE DETAILS The conference format will be hybrid, with on-site and on-line participation possible. The conference theme is “English going places, corpora crossing spaces”. Participants are invited to reflect on how the diffusion of English across spaces – physical, virtual or metaphorical – contributes to shape the language. KEYNOTES SPEAKERS Alexandra Esimaje “Challenges of doing corpus linguistics in Africa” Sylviane Granger “Learner corpus research: Some food for thought” Haidee Kotze “Protean invisibilities: A corpus-based perspective on the role of translation in language variation and change in global Englishes” Christiane Meierkord “Corpora crossing disciplinary borders: ICE Uganda meets sociolinguistics, anthropology and ethnography” Mike Scott “News Downloads and Text Coverage: Case Studies in Relevance” SUBMISSIONS All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. Submission is done on the EasyChair platform via the following link: https://www.easychair.org/cfp/ICAME44 The following paper categories are welcome: • Full papers (20 minutes presentation, 10 minutes discussion) describing the findings of new research projects involving the study of the English language by means of corpora. • Work-in-Progress reports (10 minutes presentation, 5 minutes discussion) describing ongoing projects prior to final results. • Posters describing new ideas or new findings. Proposals of 300-400 words, excluding references, should clearly indicate the problem, method and anticipated/provisional results. VENUE The conference will be held in Vanderbijlpark, South Africa, at the Emerald Resort. The resort simultaneously provides the venue and accommodation. It is about 95km away from OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg. Other details, including the registration details, is provided or will be added soon to the conference website: https://humanities.nwu.ac.za/languages/ICAME44 CONTACT All questions about submissions or the conference should be emailed to the conference organiser, Bertus van Rooy, using e-mail address a.j.vanrooy(a)uva.nl

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Dialogue and Discourse: Submissions for issue 14:1
by Yonatan Ginzburg 18 Jan '23

18 Jan '23

It is our pleasure to announce the first call for submissions for the next issue of the journal Dialogue and Discourse. Submissions are invited on all topics in the formal, computational, or psycholinguistic study of dialogue and discourse. Submissions received by February 15, 2023 will be considered for the next regular issue. Later submissions will be slated for the next available issue. Dialogue and Discourse (D&D http://www.dialogue-and-discourse.org/) is the first peer-reviewed free open access journal dedicated exclusively to work that deals with language "beyond the sentence". The journal adopts an interdisciplinary perspective, accepting work from Linguistics, Computer Science, Psychology, Sociology, Philosophy, and other associated fields with an interest in formally, technically, empirically or experimentally rigorous approaches. Descriptive papers should make a substantial theoretical contribution to be considered. We are committed to ensuring the highest editorial standards and rigorous peer-review of all submissions, while granting open access to all interested readers. D&D has published regular issues every year since 2010, and occasionally special issues on common topics. As of December 2022, D&D has published 107 papers, and the journal's h-index is 27. D&D is endorsed by ACL SIGdial, ACL SemDial, and AMLaP. D&D is indexed by Scopus and the European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Submissions are made via the online submission system at http://www.dialogue-and-discourse.org/submission.shtml. Authors are required to indicate if a submission is an extended version of one or more previously published conference papers (to which we would expect substantial additions); simultaneous submission to another venue is prohibited. Submissions will undergo rigorous peer-review. Once accepted and finalized, papers will appear online immediately, as part of the current issue. Selected papers will furthermore be offered the opportunity to present a poster at the following SIGDIAL Conference. Dialogue and Discourse Editors Issue Editor: Jonathan Ginzburg (Volume 14, Issue 1) Ryuichiro Higashinaka (Volume 13, Issue 2) Editor In Chief: Barbara Di Eugenio, University of Illinois at Chicago, United States Associate Editors: Vera Demberg, Saarland University, Germany Kallirroi Georgila, University of Southern California, United States Jonathan Ginzburg, Université Paris-Cité, France Pat Healey, Queen Mary University London, United Kingdom Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Nagoya University, Japan Junyi Jessy Li, University of Texas at Austin, United States Massimo Poesio, Queen Mary University London, United Kingdom Manfred Stede, University of Potsdam, Germany David R. Traum, University of Southern California, United States Amir Zeldes, Georgetown University, United States Full editorial board at: http://www.dialogue-and-discourse.org/editors.shtml

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CfP: 5th Workshop on Research in Computational Linguistic Typology and Multilingual NLP (SIGTYP @EACL)
by Beinborn, L.M. (Lisa) 17 Jan '23

17 Jan '23

We are inviting your submissions to the 5th Workshop on Research in Computational Linguistic Typology and Multilingual NLP (SIGTYP 2023) which will be held at EACL 2023 (May 2 or 6, 2023 Dubrovnik, Croatia). The submission deadline is February 13. For more information, see details below or refer to: https://sigtyp.github.io/workshop.html. This year’s edition will include a shared task on “Cognate and Derivative Detection for Low-Resourced Languages", more details about the shared task can be found here: https://github.com/sigtyp/ST2023. We are looking forward to your contributions. Best regards, Lisa Beinborn (on behalf of the SIGTYP organization committee) Workshop description The aim of the 5th edition of SIGTYP workshop is to act as a platform and a forum for the exchange of information between typology-related research, multilingual NLP, and other research areas that can lead to the development of truly multilingual NLP methods. The workshop is specifically aimed at raising awareness of linguistic typology and its potential in supporting and widening the global reach of multilingual NLP, as well as at introducing computational approaches to linguistic typology. It will foster research and discussion on open problems, not only within the active community working on cross- and multilingual NLP but also by inviting input from leading researchers in linguistic typology. In 2023, we would like to continue following this direction of research with a special focus on bringing technology to foster documentation of under-described languages. SIGTYP is the first dedicated venue for typology-related research and its integration into multilingual NLP. Appropriate topics include (but are not limited to) the following as they relate to the areas of the workshop: : * Integration of typological features in language transfer and joint multilingual learning. In addition to established techniques such as “selective sharing”, are there alternative ways to encode heterogeneous external knowledge in machine learning algorithms? * Development of unified taxonomy and resources. Building universal databases and models to facilitate understanding and processing of diverse languages. * Automatic inference of typological features. The pros and cons of existing techniques (e.g. heuristics derived from morphosyntactic annotation, propagation from features of other languages, supervised Bayesian and neural models) and discussion on emerging ones. * Typology and interpretability. The use of typological knowledge for interpretation of hidden representations of multilingual neural models, multilingual data generation and selection, and typological annotation of texts. * Improvement and completion of typological databases. Combining linguistic knowledge and automatic data-driven methods towards the joint goal of improving the knowledge on cross-linguistic variation and universals. * Linguistic diversity and universals. Challenges of cross-lingual annotation. Which linguistic phenomena or categories should be considered universal? How should they be annotated? * Bringing technology to document under-described languages. Improving model performance and documentation of under-resourced languages using typological databases, multilingual models, and data from high-resource languages. * Cognate and Derivative Detection for Low-Resourced Languages. Important Dates (all deadlines are 23:59 AoE) — February 13, 2023: Paper submission deadline — March 13, 2023: Notification of acceptance — March 27, 2023: Camera-ready deadline — May 2 or 6, 2023: Workshop Submissions We invite both extended abstract submissions (non-archival) and general paper submissions (archival). The accepted submissions will be presented at the workshop, providing new insights and ideas. Extended abstracts should describe already published work or work in progress and should not exceed two (2) pages. This way, we will not discourage researchers from preferring main conference proceedings, at the same time ensuring that interesting and thought-provoking research is presented at the workshop. For general (archival) submissions we accept both long and short papers. Short papers should not exceed four (4) pages, long papers should not exceed eight (8) pages papers. Unlimited additional pages are allowed for the references section in all submission types. Submissions should be anonymous, without authors or an acknowledgment section; self-citations should appear in the third person. Submissions must follow the EACL 2023 stylesheet https://2023.eacl.org/calls/styles/; both long and short paper submissions must follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings. All submissions must be in PDF format. Contributions should be submitted via OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2023/Workshop/SIGTYP Shared Task This year’s edition will include a shared task on “Cognate and Derivative Detection for Low-Resourced Languages", more details can be found here: https://github.com/sigtyp/ST2023. Organizing Committee Koustava Goswami, Alexey Sorokin, Ritesh Kumar, Andrey Shcherbakov, Edoardo M. Ponti, Saliha Muradoğlu, Lisa Beinborn, Ryan Cotterell, Kat Vylomova Anti-harassment policy The workshop follows the ACL anti-harassment policy: https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Anti-Harassment_Policy Contact For any inquiries regarding the workshop, please send an email to the Organizing Committee at sigtyp(a)gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lisa Beinborn Assistant Professor for Natural Language Processing Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam https://beinborn.eu/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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First CFP: LoResMT 2023 at EACL 2023
by Atul K. Ojha 17 Jan '23

17 Jan '23

The Sixth Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT 2023) https://www.loresmt.org/ @ EACL 2023 (May 2–6, 2023) Valamar Lacroma Dubrovnik Hotel, Iva Dulčića 34, 20000, Dubrovnik, Croatia TIMELINE Paper due: February 13, 2023 (Monday) at 23:59 (Anywhere on Earth) Notification of acceptance: March 13, 2023 (Monday) Camera-ready papers due: March 27, 2023 (Monday) Conference dates: May 2-6, 2023 SCOPE Based on the success of past low-resource machine translation (MT) workshops at AMTA 2018 (https://amtaweb.org/), MT Summit 2019 ( https://www.mtsummit2019.com), AACL-IJCNLP 2020 (http://aacl2020.org/), AMTA 2021, COLING 2022, we introduce the Sixth Workshop. The workshop provides a discussion panel for researchers working on MT systems/methods for low-resource and under-represented languages in general. We would like to help review/overview the state of MT for low-resource languages and define the most important directions. We also solicit papers dedicated to supplementary NLP tools that are used in any language and especially in low-resource languages. Overview papers of these NLP tools are very welcome. It will be beneficial if the evaluations of these tools in research papers include their impact on the quality of MT output. TOPICS We are highly interested in (1) original research papers, (2) review/opinion papers, and (3) online systems on the topics below; however, we welcome all novel ideas that cover research on low-resource languages. - COVID-related corpora, their translations and corresponding NLP/MT systems - Neural machine translation for low-resource languages - Work that presents online systems for practical use by native speakers - Word tokenizers/de-tokenizers for specific languages - Word/morpheme segmenters for specific languages - Alignment/Re-ordering tools for specific language pairs - Use of morphology analyzers and/or morpheme segmenters in MT - Multilingual/cross-lingual NLP tools for MT - Corpora creation and curation technologies for low-resource languages - Review of available parallel corpora for low-resource languages - Research and review papers of MT methods for low-resource languages - MT systems/methods (e.g. rule-based, SMT, NMT) for low-resource languages - Pivot MT for low-resource languages - Zero-shot MT for low-resource languages - Fast building of MT systems for low-resource languages - Re-usability of existing MT systems for low-resource languages - Machine translation for language preservation SUBMISSION INFORMATION We are soliciting two types of submissions: (1) research, review, and position papers and (2) system demonstration papers. For research, review and position papers, the length of each paper should be at least four (4) and not exceed eight (8) pages, plus unlimited pages for references. For system demonstration papers, the limit is four (4) pages. Submissions should be formatted according to the official EACL 2023 style templates (LaTeX, Word, Overleaf). Accepted papers will be published online in the EACL 2023 proceedings and will be presented at the conference. Submissions must be anonymized and should be done using the official conference management system (which will be available in the following weeks). Scientific papers that have been or will be submitted to other venues must be declared as such and must be withdrawn from the other venues if accepted and published at LoResMT. The review will be double-blind. We would like to encourage authors to cite papers written in ANY language that are related to the topics, as long as both original bibliographic items and their corresponding English translations are provided. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE (LISTED ALPHABETICALLY) Atul Kr. Ojha, University of Galway & Panlingua Language Processing LLP Chao-Hong Liu, Potamu Research Ltd Ekaterina Vylomova, University of Melbourne, Australia Jade Abbott, Retro Rabbit Jonathan Washington, Swarthmore College Nathaniel Oco, National University (Philippines) Tommi A Pirinen, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø Valentin Malykh, Huawei Noah’s Ark lab and Kazan Federal University Varvara Logacheva, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology Xiaobing Zhao, Minzu University of China PROGRAM COMMITTEE (LISTED ALPHABETICALLY) Alberto Poncelas, Rakuten, Singapore Alina Karakanta, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Amirhossein Tebbifakhr, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Anna Currey, Amazon Web Services Aswarth Abhilash Dara, Amazon Arturo Oncevay, University of Edinburgh Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, University of Galway Beatrice Savold, University of Trento Bogdan Babych, Heidelberg University Constantine Lignos, Brandeis University, USA Daan van Esch, Google Diptesh Kanojia, University of Surrey, UK Duygu Ataman, University of Zurich Eleni Metheniti, CLLE-CNRS and IRIT-CNRS Francis Tyers, Indiana University Kalika Bali, MSRI Bangalore, India Koel Dutta Chowdhury, Saarland University (Germany) Jade Abbott, Retro Rabbit Jasper Kyle Catapang, University of the Philippines John P. McCrae, DSI, Univerity of Galway Kevin Patrick Scannell, Saint Louis University Liangyou Li, Noah’s Ark Lab, Huawei Technologies Maria Art Antonette Clariño, University of the Philippines Los Baños Majid Latifi, University of York, York, UK Mathias Müller, University of Zurich Monojit Choudhury, Microsoft Turing Rico Sennrich, University of Zurich Sangjee Dondrub, Qinghai Normal University Santanu Pal, WIPRO AI Sardana Ivanova, University of Helsinki Shantipriya Parida, Silo AI Sunit Bhattacharya, Charles University Surafel Melaku Lakew, Amazon AI CONTACT Please email loresmt(a)googlegroups.com if you have any questions/comments/suggestions. Thanks, Atul

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SemEval Task on Visual Word Sense Disambiguation (Visual-WSD): Evaluation starts!
by Jose Camacho Collados 17 Jan '23

17 Jan '23

Welcome to the SemEval 2023 Shared Task on Visual Word Sense Disambiguation (Visual-WSD)! Task description: Given a target word, some limited textual context and a set of candidate images, the task is to select the image which corresponds to the intended meaning of the target word. Test data now available! Test data is now available for English, Italian and Farsi. The evaluation period has started and the deadline for submissions is January 31st. Task website: https://raganato.github.io/vwsd/ Codalab competition: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/8190 Important dates: * Sample data ready: 1 August 2022 * Training data ready: 18 October 2022 * Evaluation period starts (test set released): 13 January 2023 * Evaluation period ends: 31 January 2023 * Workshop paper submission deadline: February 2023 (tentative) * SemEval workshop: 13-14 July 2023 (co-located with ACL 2023 in Toronto, Canada) We encourage many different types of submissions in our shared task. In terms of data, participants are allowed to use (if they wish) the training/trial data set we provide, pretrained vision and language models, as well as other sources of training data (participants will be asked to explain in detail their data sources). In terms of methodology, we would like to encourage novel and exciting research ideas. We encourage contributions from the following areas (not limited to): * computer vision, * natural language processing, * vision and language, * (multi-modal) representation learning, * cognitive sciences, * machine learning, * neuro-symbolic learning/reasoning. Best submissions will be ranked not only in terms of leaderboard performance, but also based on the idea, methodology and analysis. In other words, creative and original research is encouraged! Task organizers: * Alessandro Raganato (Department of Informatics, Systems, and Communication, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy) * Iacer Calixto (Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) * Jose Camacho-Collados (School of Computer Science and Informatics, Cardiff University, United Kingdom) * Asahi Ushio (School of Computer Science and Informatics, Cardiff University, United Kingdom) * Mohammad Taher Pilehvar (Tehran Institute for Advanced Studies, Iran) -- Jose Camacho Collados http://www.josecamachocollados.com<http://www.josecamachocollados.com/>

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The 30th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar
by Winckel, Elodie 17 Jan '23

17 Jan '23

_Submission Deadline: 24-Feb-2023_ The *30th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar* will be held in a hybrid format on 07 July - 08 July 2023 at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the venue of the LSA Linguistic Institute 2023. Abstracts are invited that address linguistic, foundational, or computational issues relating to or in the spirit of the framework of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. **Conference Format** The HPSG 2023 conference will be a two-day main conference (07 July - 08 July), which will be followed by a one-day (09 July) workshop on ellipsis (Experimental and Corpus-based Approaches to Ellipsis), which will be announced separately. **Invited speakers** Emily Bender Jean-Pierre König **Submissions** We invite anonymous submissions to the main HPSG Conference: Papers should be 4 pages long, + 1 page for data, figures & references. They should be submitted in PDF format. The submissions should not include the authors’ names, and authors are asked to avoid self-references. Please specify whether you intend to present your paper in person, online, or haven’t decided yet. All abstracts should be submitted in via Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hpsg2023 All abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by at least two reviewers. Accepted papers are expected to give a 30-minute presentation. Additionally, 10 minutes are reserved for discussion. A call for contributions to the proceedings will be issued after the Conference. Proceedings of previous conferences are available at: https://proceedings.hpsg.xyz/issue/archive. **Important Dates** Abstract submission deadline: 24 February 2023 (anywhere on earth) Notifications of acceptance: 17 April 2023 Conference proceedings submission: 15 October 2023 **Venue** The HPSG 2023 Conference will take place at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the venue of the LSA Linguistic Institute. **Local Organizing Committee Chairs** Gabriela Bîlbîie (University of Bucharest) Fabiola Henri (University at Buffalo) **Program Committee Chair** Elodie Winckel (Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg) **Contact information** For general questions, please contact the Program Committee Chair Elodie Winckel (hpsg2023(a)easychair.org). For questions about the logistics of the conference, please contact the local organizers (Gabriela Bîlbîie and Fabiola Henri) at hpsg2023(a)gmail.com.

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Free online workshops on Language techology tools at ELG platform: Microservices.
by Tiina Lindh-Knuutila 17 Jan '23

17 Jan '23

Dear colleagues, [please pass along this email to any interested parties] We are pleased to invite you to the final online workshops <https://www.lingsoft.fi/en/microservices-your-service-workshops> of our European project "Microservices at Your Service: Bridging the Gap Between NLP Research and Industry” <https://www.lingsoft.fi/en/microservices-at-your-service-bridging-gap-betwe…>, co-financed by Connecting Europe Facility. <https://ec.europa.eu/inea/en/connecting-europe-facility/cef-telecom/2020-eu…> Our project addresses the objective of the "Collaborative Language Tools Projects" call, which makes the natural language processing (NLP) tools accessible for a wider audience through the ELG <https://www.european-language-grid.eu/> (European Language Grid) repository. Specifically, we have made available speech and language technology tools created for Icelandic, Faroese, Norwegian, Finnish, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Northern Sami, Swedish, Spanish, Portuguese, Galician, Basque, Catalan and Valencian languages. As the main result of the project, we would like to share knowledge about these tools with you, researchers and software/service developers, so that you can benefit from them in your research and service development. In parallel, we can enhance the visibility of the research institutions that developed them. With this objective in mind, we would like to invite you to participate in free online workshops: - Microservices general workshop will give a general overview of the project, present the European Language Grid platform and some selected tools. - on January 20 at 10:00 am CET (11:00 AM EET) - Registration at https://forms.gle/6HzBLhU8NAcguTA67 - Four local workshops – which will introduce our project and the European Language Grid Platform, show demos and demonstrate use cases for these tools, concentrating on tools for that area. - Estonia, January 27, 10 EET (In Estonian) - Finland, January 24, 13 EET - Iberia, January 25, 10 CET - Iceland, February 1, 9 GMT - The registration links for the local workshops can be found on our workshop website https://www.lingsoft.fi/en/microservices-your-service-workshops A link to the workshops will be sent to the registered participants by email before the selected date. If you are unable to attend, the video recording of the workshop will be available after the workshop. The project has already hosted two workshops geared towards researchers and providers of NLP tools. The first one, the Docker and API workshop, was a hands-on workshop on how researchers can easily share their tools by means of Docker and an API. The second one, ELG, a Bridge for NLP Development, introduced the ELG platform in more detail including guidelines on how developers can get their tools there. You can find recordings of these workshops at our workshop website. Thank you very much for your time, we look forward to hearing from you. Sincerely, Tiina Lindh-Knuutila, project manager -- Lingsoft® Tiina Lindh-Knuutila (D.Sc. Tech) | Solution Architect +358 50 344 9153 | tiina.lindh-knuutila(a)lingsoft.fi Lingsoft Language Services Oy | www.lingsoft.fi Kauppiaskatu 5, FI-20100 Turku | Eteläranta 10, FI-00130 Helsinki | Mäster Samuelsgatan 36, SE-11157, Stockholm Lingsoft Language Management - Translation - Localisation - Subtitling - Transcription - Speech Solutions - Reader's and Writer's Tools - Language Analysis - E-books

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Final Call for papers and Deadline Extension: Explainable AI in Natural Language Processing
by Somnath Banerjee 17 Jan '23

17 Jan '23

Dear Colleagues, Due to many requests and expressed interest, the submission deadline has been extended. The new deadline for abstract submission is now 14 February 2023. *** Apologies for cross-posting *** Call for papers: Explainable AI in Natural Language Processing Traditional Natural Language Processing (NLP) models (e.g., decision trees, Markov models, etc.) have primarily been based on techniques that are inherently interpretable models, referred to as white-box techniques. However, in recent years, NLP models have employed advanced neural approaches along with language embedding features. Using these advanced approaches, mostly referred to as black-box techniques, the NLP models have yielded state-of-art performance. Nonetheless, the level of interpretability (e.g., how the model arrives at its results) has reduced significantly. This obfuscated interpretability not only lowers the end users’ trust in the NLP models but also makes it challenging for the developers to debug or improve by analyzing the models for further improvement. Therefore, nowadays, researchers in the NLP community are giving significant attention to the emerging field called Explainable AI (XAI) to tackle the obfuscated complexity of AI systems for trust and improvement. Apart from academia, organizations and companies also have launched high-funding projects such as DARPA XAI, People +AI Research (PAIR), etc. As XAI is still a growing field, there is plenty of room for innovation to improve the explainability of NLP systems. In recent works, explainable NLP models have captured linguistic knowledge of neural networks, explain predictions, stress-test models via challenge sets or adversarial examples, and interpret language embeddings. The goal of this Research Topic is to better understand the present status of the XAI in NLP by identifying: new dimensions for a better explanation, evaluation techniques used to measure the quality of explanations, approaches or developments of new software toolkits to explain XAI in NLP, and transparent deep learning models for different NLP task. The scope of this Research Topic covers (but is not restricted to) the following topics: • Survey of XAI in NLP in general or any particular NLP task such as NER, QA, Sentiment analysis, social media (SocialNLP), etc. • Explainable Neural models in Machine Translation • Explainable Neural models in Named Entity Recognition • Explainable Neural models in Question Answering • Explainable Neural models in Sentiment Analysis • Explainable Neural models in Opinion Mining • Explainable Neural models in SocialNLP • Evaluation techniques used to measure the quality of explanations • Tools for explaining explainability • Resources related to XAI in the context of NLP The Research Topic welcomes contributions toward interpretable models for efficient solutions to NLP research problems that explain the explainability of the proposed model using suitable explainability technique(s) (e.g., example-driven, provenance, feature importance, induction, surrogate models, etc.), visualization technique(s) (e.g., raw examples, saliency, raw declarative, etc.), and other aspects. Software toolkits or approaches that can help users express explainability to their models and ML pipelines are also welcome. The full Call for Papers is available at https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/48440/explainable-ai-in-natural… Impact of the publication: https://www.frontiersin.org/about/impact The current deadlines are: * Abstract Deadline:14 February 2023 * Manuscript Deadline: 14 April 2023, This is a mandatory deadline for your full manuscript submission. However, we can accommodate personal extensions on a case-by-case basis. Guest Editors: Somnath Banerjee (University of Tartu, somnath.banerjee(a)ut.ee) David Tomás (University of Alicante, dtomas(a)dlsi.ua.es) Somnath Banerjee Lecturer, Institute of Computer Science, University of Tartu, Narva mnt 18, room 3063 51009 Tartu, ESTONIA webpage: http://www.ut.ee//~somnath/

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[SEBD 2023] Doctoral Consortium - Call for Papers
by Stefano Marchesin 17 Jan '23

17 Jan '23

[APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE POSTINGS] SEBD 2023 Doctoral Consortium - Call for Papers ================================================= Important dates Doctoral Consortium Submission Deadline: Friday, March 31, 2023 (AoE) Papers Notification: Wednesday, April 26, 2023 (AoE) Camera-Ready Submission Deadline: Thursday, June 01, 2023 (AoE) Doctoral Consortium Day: Sunday, July 02, 2023 Submission Link: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/SEBD2023/ ================================================= The SEBD 2023 Doctoral Consortium will take place in a dedicated session during the 31st Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems (SEBD 2023), Galzignano Terme, Padova (Italy), July 02-05, 2023, http://sebd2023.dei.unipd.it/. The goal is to provide a forum for PhD candidates to present their ongoing research and receive feedback from renowned and experienced members of the research community. The Consortium fosters a collaborative environment, encouraging constructive discussions and sharing of ideas. It will be an excellent opportunity for developing person-to-person networks to the benefit of the PhD students in their future careers – as well as of the community. Submissions from students who are in the early stages of their research should provide a clear description of the problem to be addressed and the planned methodology. Submissions from students who are in the middle or final stages of their PhD research should clearly indicate the contributions made to date and future work directions. Each doctoral symposium paper must be single-authored by a current PhD student or a PhD student who submitted the thesis between September and December 2022. The paper should be written in English and must be 6-7 pages long, including selected references. Submissions must be formatted in PDF, prepared in CEUR-ART Column 1 Style (http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip), and submitted electronically via the submission system: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/SEBD2023/ Submissions will be reviewed by the Doctoral Consortium Program Committee (appointed by the Doctoral Consortium Chairs). All papers will be reviewed with respect to the overall presentation quality, the potential for the future impact of the research on the field, and the expected benefit to the other doctoral students attending the conference. The accepted papers will be published as part of the SEBD 2023 proceedings on WS-CEUR.org and indexed in Scopus, DBLP and Google Scholar. ================================================= Topics The SEBD Symposium and its Doctoral Consortium cover a broad range of topics, including traditional database management, as well as new challenges for data management in any possible domain. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to) the following ones: - Big Data and Smart Computing; - Data integration, Heterogeneous and Federated DBMS; - Data mining, knowledge discovery, information extraction, and machine learning; - Data visualization; - Data warehousing; - Distributed and parallel databases; - Grid, peer-to-peer databases, and Cloud Computing; - Incompleteness, inconsistency, and other aspects of data quality; - Uncertainty in databases; - Ethical problems posed by Big Data Analysis; - Keyword-based and natural language access to structured, semistructured, and unstructured data; - Knowledge representation and reasoning; - Ontology-based data management; - Privacy, security and trust management; - Query processing and optimization, approximate query answering; - Real-time, embedded, sensor, and mobile databases; - Scientific and Statistical Databases; - Semantic Web and Open Linked data; - Social networks and Graph databases; - Transaction and workflow management, interoperability and Web services. ================================================= Contact For any questions regarding Doctoral Consortium submissions, please email the Doctoral Consortium Chairs: - Letizia Tanca (letizia.tanca(a)polimi.it) - Stefano Marchesin (stefano.marchesin(a)unipd.it) -- Stefano Marchesin, PhD Postdoctoral Researcher Information Management Systems (IMS) Group Department of Information Engineering University of Padua Via Gradenigo 6/a, 35131 Padua, Italy Home page: http://www.dei.unipd.it/~marches1/

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Call-for-papers: 2nd ACM Int. Workshop on Multimedia AI against Disinformation @ ACM ICMR 2023
by Bogdan Ionescu 16 Jan '23

16 Jan '23

[Apologies for multiple postings] 2nd ACM International Workshop on Multimedia AI against Disinformation MAD'23 ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval ICMR'23 Thessaloniki, Greece, June 12-15, 2023 https://mad2023.idmt.fraunhofer.de/ https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=icmr20230 *** Call for papers *** * Paper submission due: February 28, 2023 * Acceptance notification: March 31, 2023 * Camera-ready papers due: April 20, 2023 * Workshop @ACM ICMR 2023: June 12, 2023 (TBD) Modern communication does not rely anymore solely on classic media like newspapers or television, but rather takes place over social networks, in real-time, and with live interactions among users. The speedup in the amount of information available, however, also led to an increased amount and quality of misleading content, disinformation and propaganda Conversely, the fight against disinformation, in which news agencies and NGOs (among others) take part on a daily basis to avoid the risk of citizens' opinions being distorted, became even more crucial and demanding, especially for what concerns sensitive topics such as politics, health and religion. Disinformation campaigns are leveraging, among others, market-ready AI-based tools for content creation and modification: hyper-realistic visual, speech, textual and video content have emerged under the collective name of “deepfakes”, undermining the perceived credibility of media content. It is, therefore, even more crucial to counter these advances by devising new analysis tools able to detect the presence of synthetic and manipulated content, accessible to journalists and fact-checkers, robust and trustworthy, and possibly based on AI to reach greater performance. Future multimedia disinformation detection research relies on the combination of different modalities and on the adoption of the latest advances of deep learning approaches and architectures. These raise new challenges and questions that need to be addressed in order to reduce the effects of disinformation campaigns. The workshop, in its second edition, welcomes contributions related to different aspects of AI-powered disinformation detection, analysis and mitigation. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Disinformation detection in multimedia content (e.g., video, audio, texts, images) - Multimodal verification methods - Synthetic and manipulated media detection - Multimedia forensics - Disinformation spread and effects in social media - Analysis of disinformation campaigns in societally-sensitive domains - Robustness of media verification against adversarial attacks and real-world complexities - Fairness and non-discrimination of disinformation detection in multimedia content - Explaining disinformation /disinformation detection technologies for non-expert users - Temporal and cultural aspects of disinformation - Dataset sharing and governance in AI for disinformation - Datasets for disinformation detection and multimedia verification - Open resources, e.g., datasets, software tools - Multimedia verification systems and applications - System fusion, ensembling and late fusion techniques - Benchmarking and evaluation frameworks *** Submission guidelines *** When preparing your submission, please adhere strictly to the ACM ICMR 2023 instructions, to ensure the appropriateness of the reviewing process and inclusion in the ACM Digital Library proceedings. The instructions are available here https://icmr2023.org/paper-submissions/. *** Organizing committee *** Luca Cuccovillo, Fraunhofer IDMT, Germany Bogdan Ionescu, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania Giorgos Kordopatis-Zilos, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Thessaloniki, Greece Symeon Papadopoulos, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Thessaloniki, Greece Adrian Popescu, CEA LIST, Saclay, France The workshop is supported under the H2020 project AI4Media “A European Excellence Centre for Media, Society and Democracy” https://www.ai4media.eu/, and the Horizon Europe project vera.ai “VERification Assisted by Artificial Intelligence” https://www.veraai.eu/. On behalf of the organizers, Bogdan Ionescu https://www.aimultimedialab.ro/

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