October 2022 - Corpora

Journal of Biomedical Informatics (JBI) Special Issue on Semantics-enabled Biomedical Literature Analytics
by Halil Kilicoglu 07 Nov '22

07 Nov '22

*** Apologies for cross-posting *** Call for Papers: Semantics-enabled Biomedical Literature Analytics This Special Issue aims to highlight the development of novel informatics methods for *retrieval, indexing, and analysis of biomedical literature, focusing on semantics-based techniques*. We invite researchers working in biomedical informatics, knowledge representation/ontologies, information retrieval, natural language processing, artificial intelligence/machine learning, data mining, and other related areas to submit clear and detailed descriptions of their novel methodological results. The topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Knowledge representation and semantics for biomedical literature retrieval - Biomedical ontologies in search - Biomedical knowledge source integration - Biomedical knowledge graph construction and embeddings - Knowledge graphs in biomedical search - Semantic knowledge in biomedical literature classification and ranking - Biomedical information extraction - Entity linking and semantic annotation in biomedical texts - Literature-based knowledge discovery - Semantics for biomedical knowledge synthesis and systematic literature review All submitted papers must be original and will go through a rigorous peer-review process with at least two reviewers. Papers previously published in conference proceedings will not be considered. JBI’s editorial policy will be strictly followed by special issue reviewers. Note in particular that JBI emphasizes the publication of papers that introduce innovative and generalizable methods of interest to the informatics community. Specific applications can be described to motivate the methodology being introduced, but papers that focus solely on a specific application are not suitable for JBI. *Submission Guidelines* Authors must submit their papers via the online Editorial Manager (EES) at <http://ees.elsevier.com/jbi>https://www.editorialmanager.com/jbi <https://ees.elsevier.com/jbi>. Authors should select “Semantics-enabled Biomedical Literature Analytics” as their submission category and note in a cover letter that their submission is for the “*Special Issue on Semantics-enabled Biomedical Literature Analytics.*” If the manuscript is not intended as an original research paper, the cover letter should also specify if it is, rather, a *Methodological Review, Commentary, or Special Communication*. Authors should make sure to place their work in the context of human-focused biomedical research or health care, and to review carefully the relevant literature. JBI’s editorial policy, and the types of articles that the journal publishes, are outlined under *Aims and Scope *on the journal home page at https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-biomedical-informatics <https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-biomedical-informatics>(click on “View full Aims and Scope” for details). All submissions should follow the guidelines for authors at <https://www.elsevier.com/journals/journal-ofbiomedical-%20informatics/1532-…>*https://www.elsevier.com/journals/journal-ofbiomedical- informatics/1532-0464/guide-for-authors <https://www.elsevier.com/journals/journal-ofbiomedical-%20informatics/1532-…>*, including format and manuscript structure. *Important Dates* Deadline for submissions: November 15, 2022 First-round review decisions: January 15, 2023 Deadline for revision submissions: February 15, 2023 Notification of final decisions: April 15, 2023 The full Call for Papers is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbi.2022.104134. Please direct any questions regarding the special issue to Dr. Halil Kilicoglu (halil(a)illinois.edu). *Guest Editors:* Halil Kilicoglu (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, halil(a)illinois.edu ) Faezeh Ensan (Ryerson University, fensan(a)ryerson.ca) Bridget McInnes (Virginia Commonwealth University, bmtinnes(a)vcu.edu) Lucy Lu Wang (University of Washington/Allen Institute for AI, lucylw(a)uw.edu ) --Halil *HALIL KILICOGLU* *Associate Professor* School of Information Sciences University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign halil(a)illinois.edu https://ischool.illinois.edu/people/halil-kilicoglu

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MBR023_ROME -Call for Papers
by Computational Philosophy Lab 31 Oct '22

31 Oct '22

Apologies for Multiple Postings CALL FOR PAPERS: DEADLINE January 10th, 2023 To unsubscribe please contact cp-lab(a)unipv.it Proceedings will be published by Springer (Series "SAPERE" http://www.springer.com/series/10087) Selected technical papers will be published in a special issue of an international Journal ************************************************************************** MODEL-BASED REASONING, ABDUCTIVE COGNITION, CREATIVITY Inferences & Models in Science, Logic, Language, and Technology Chairs: Emiliano Ippoliti, Lorenzo Magnani, Selene Arfini June 7-9 2023 – Rome, Italy Department of Philosophy, Sapienza University of Rome Villa Mirafiori – Via Carlo Fea 2, 00161 Roma Rooms: II, VI, X (Seventh International MBR Conference) WEB SITE: http://www.mbr023rome.com/ *************************************************************************** MBR COMMUNITY WEB SITE http://www.unipv.it/webphilos_lab/cpl2/ *************************************************************************** IMPORTANT DATES Submission of extended abstracts........January 10th, 2023 Notification of acceptance...................February 20th, 2023 Registration at discounted price..........before March 10th, 2023 Conference...........................................June 7th-9th, 2023 Submission of final papers ....................September 30th, 2023 ******************************************************************************** Organization: - University of Pavia, Department of Humanities, Philosophy Section - Department of Philosophy, Sapienza University of Rome - Italian Society of Logic and Philosophy of Science (SILFS) GENERAL INFORMATION The International Conference ‘MODEL-BASED REASONING, ABDUCTIVE COGNITION, CREATIVITY. Inferences & Models in Science, Logic, Language, and Technology’ will be held at Sapienza University of Rome https://web.uniroma1.it/dip_filosofia/en/node/6157, from Wednesday 7th to Friday 9th of June 2023. The conference is organized by the Department of Humanities, Philosophy Section and Computational Philosophy Lab of the University of Pavia and the Department of Philosophy of Sapienza University of Rome. THe conference site will be at Villa Mirafiori https://turismoroma.it/en/places/villa-mirafiori, where the Departent of Philosophy is located. PROGRAM The conference will explore the logical, epistemological, and cognitive aspects of the modeling practices employed in science, technology, and cognitive science, including logical and computational models of such practices. We solicit papers that examine the model-based reasoning from philosophical, logical, epistemological, historical, sociological, psychological, or computational perspectives. The conference will also cover the impact of model-based reasoning to enhance human cognitive skills— mental, hybrid, manipulative, etc. SUBMISSIONS OF EXTENDED ABSTRACT AND SYMPOSIA PROPOSALS Presentation Proposal To take part in the conference, authors must submit an extended abstract of approximately 1000-1500 words by JANUARY 10th, 2023. It must be in .doc, .rtf, or LaTeX. If you use LaTex, Bibtex is preferred. Here is the LATEX template, and the Word template. The extended abstract must also contain a 300-word abstract for the conference web site/booklet. Please send it to the co-chair Lorenzo Magnani lmagnani(a)unipv.it. Symposia Proposal (intended for approx. 4-5 participants) Please send a 2-page symposium proposal by JANUARY 10th, 2023 to the co-chair Emiliano Ippoliti emi.ippoliti(a)gmail.com. All submitted extended abstracts will be reviewed. The precise format of the conference will be decided once the revision process is completed. We expect approximately 60/80 contributed presentations. Reviewed proposals will be scored as follows: Accepted for half-hour presentation; Accepted for poster session; Rejected After the conference, all the authors of accepted proposals are entitled to submit a complete paper for the proceedings to be sent to Lorenzo Magnani, lmagnani(a)unipv.it See also CONFERENCE WEB SITE: http://www.mbr023rome.com/ PROCEEDINGS Papers should be previously unpublished, written in English, and formatted in either LaTeX or DOC, with a maximum of 20 pages. If you use LATEX, BIBTEX is preferred. Please send the files to Lorenzo Magnani lmagnani(a)unipv.itMBR Final date for submissions is September 30th, 2023. Proceedings will be published by Springer (SAPERE series, http://www.springer.com/series/10087). Moreover, an additional subset of papers will be invited for inclusion (again following further review) in one or two special issues of the Logic Journal of IGPL or another of the well-known international journals that have already published papers from MBR98, MBR01, MBR04, MBR06_CHINA, MBR09_BRAZIL, MBR012:ITALY; MBR015_ITALY, MBR018_SPAIN. RELEVANT RESEARCH AREAS We call for papers in the following areas: - General theoretical and cognitive issues in model-based reasoning - Models as fictions, distortions, credible worlds - Creative reasoning - Models and games of make-believe - Ontology of models - Affordances, artifacts, and model-based reasoning - Brain, neuroscience, and model-based reasoning - Abduction - Abduction, morality, and violence - Abduction and secrecy - Logical analyses related to model-based reasoning - Inferences, interaction and duality in logic and language - Visual, spatial, imagistic modeling and reasoning - Simulative modeling - Surrogative reasoning - The role of diagrammatic reasoning - Computational models of visual and simulative reasoning - Causal and counterfactual reasoning in model construction - Visual analogy - Thought experiments - Manipulative reasoning - Distributed model-based reasoning - Distributed cognition, embodiment, and model-based reasoning - Models of rationality and inference patterns in decision making - Model-based reasoning in scientific discovery and conceptual change - Model-based reasoning and ethics - Model-based reasoning and finance - Model-based reasoning and economics - Model-based reasoning and history of philosophy - Model-based reasoning and semiotics - Model-based reasoning in scientific explanation - Model-based medical diagnosis - Model-based reasoning in engineering and robotics - Model-based reasoning and technological artifacts - Model-based reasoning and knowledge management - Model-based reasoning and information technology - The role of models in scientific and technological thinking - Model-based reasoning and learning - Model-based reasoning and language INVITED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Marco BUZZONI, Department of Humanities, University of Macerata, ITALY Samantha COPELAND, Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, TU Delft, THE NETHERLANDS David DANKS, Department of Philosophy and Data Science, University of California, San Diego, USA Edoardo DATTERI, "Riccardo Massa" Department of Human Sciences for Education, Univeristy of Milan-Bicocca, ITALY Mireille HILDEBRANDT, Law Science Technology and Society - Faculty of Law and Criminology, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, BELGIUM Lorenzo MAGNANI, Department of Humanities, University of Pavia, ITALY Ángel NEPOMUCENO FERNÁNDEZ, Department of Philosophy, University of Seville, SPAIN Thomas ORMEROD, School of Psychology, University of Sussex, UNITED KINDOM Frederik STJERNFELT, , Department of Communication and Psychology, Aalborg University, DENMARK REGISTRATION FEES, METHOD OF PAYMENT, AND ACCOMMODATION See Conference Web Site: http://www.mbr023rome.com/ PROGRAM CHAIRS: - Emiliano IPPOLITI, Department of Philosophy, University of Rome La Sapienza, Via Carlo Fea 2, 00161, Rome, ITALY (emiliano.ippoliti(a)uniroma1.it) - Lorenzo MAGNANI, Director, Computational Philosophy Laboratory http://www-9.unipv.it/webphilos_lab/wordpress/, Department of Humanities, Philosophy Section, University of Pavia, Piazza Botta 6, 27100 Pavia, ITALY (lmagnani(a)unipv.it) - Selene ARFINI, Department of Humanities, Philosophy Section, University of Pavia, Piazza Botta 6, 27100 Pavia, ITALY (selene.arfini(a)unipv.it) SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE - Atocha ALISEDA LLERA, Instituto de Investigaciones Filosoficas, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, MEXICO - Francesco AMIGONI, Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione, e Bioingegneria, Politecnico di Milano, ITALY - Maria Cristina AMORETTI, Center for Philosophy of Health and Disease, Philosophy Section, University of Genoa, ITALY - Selene ARFINI, Department of Humanities, Philosophy Section, University of Pavia, ITALY - Fabio BACCHINI, Department of Architecture, Design and Urban Planning, University of Sassari, ITALY - Marta BERTOLASO, Institute of Philosophy of Scientific and Technological Practice, Università Campus Bio-Medico, ITALY - Otavio BUENO, Department of Philosophy, University of Miami, USA - Marco BUZZONI, Department of Humanities, University of Macerata, ITALY - Cristina BARÉS GÓMEZ, Department of Logic, Philosophy and Philosophy of Science, Sevilla University, SPAIN - Walter CARNIELLI, Department of Philosophy, State University of Campinas, BRAZIL - Massimiliano CARRARA, FISPPA Department, University of Padua, ITALY - Claudia CASADIO, Department of Languages, Literature and Modern Cultures, University of Chieti-Pescara, ITALY - Gustavo CEVOLANI, MoMiLab Research Unit, IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, ITALY - Sanjay CHANDRASEKHARAN, Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, INDIA - Daniele CHIFFI, Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione, e Bioingegneria, Politecnico di Milano, ITALY - Samantha COPELAND, Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, TU Delft, THE NETHERLANDS - Cesare COZZO, Department of Philosophy, Sapienza University of Rome, ITALY - Marcello D'AGOSTINO, Department of Philosophy, University of Milan, ITALY - Sara DELLANTONIO, Department of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences, University of Trento, ITALY - Edoardo DATTERI, "Riccardo Massa" Department of Human Sciences for Education, Univeristy of Milan-Bicocca, ITALY - Gordana DODIG-CRNKOVIC, Division of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Mälardalen University, SWEDEN - Maria Giulia DONDERO, Département de Langues et Littératures Romanes, University of Liège, BELGIUM - Vincenzo FANO, Department of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Urbino, ITALY - Matthieu FONTAINE, Department of Philosophy, Logics, and Philosophy of Science, University of Seville, SPAIN - Roman FRIGG, Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, London School of Economics and Political Science, UNITED KINGDOM - Axel GELFERT, Institute of History and Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Literature, Technical University of Berlin, GERMANY - Valeria GIARDINO, Institut Jean Nicod, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, FRANCE - Roberto GIUNTINI, Department of Pedagogy, Psychological Sciences and Philosophy, University of Cagliari, ITALY - Vlad GLAVEANU, School of Psychology, Dublin City University, IRELAND - Nathalie GONTIER, Centro de Filosofia das Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, PORTUGAL - Pierluigi GRAZIANI, Department of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Urbino, ITALY - Marcello GUARINI, Department of Philosophy, University of Windsor, CANADA - Ricardo GUDWIN, the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, State University of Campinas, BRAZIL - Emiliano IPPOLITI, Department of Philosophy, Sapienza University of Rome, ITALY - Decio KRAUSE, Graduate Program in Logic and Metaphysics, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, BRAZIL - Antonio LEDDA, Department of Pedagogy, Psychological Sciences and Philosophy, University of Cagliari, ITALY - Ping LI, Department of Philosophy, Sun Yat-sen University, CHINA - Angelo LOULA, Department of Exact Sciences, State University of Feira de Santana, BRAZIL - Lorenzo MAGNANI, Department of Humanities, Philosophy Section, University of Pavia, ITALY - Fabio MINAZZI, Department of Theoretical and Applied sciences, University of Insubria, ITALY - Gerard MINNAMEIER, Department of Business ethics and business education, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, GERMANY - Ángel NEPOMUCENO FERNÁNDEZ, Department of Philosophy, University of Seville, SPAIN - Thomas ORMEROD, School of Psychology, University of Sussex, UNITED KINDOM - Woosuk PARK, Humanities & Social Sciences, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, SOUTH KOREA - Paolo PETRICCA, Department of Languages, Literature and Modern Cultures, University of Chieti-Pescara, ITALY - Claudio PIZZI, Department of Economics, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, ITALY - Alessio PLEBE, Department of Cognitive Science, Education and Cultural Studies, University of Messina, ITALY - Demetris PORTIDES, Department of Classics and Philosophy, University of Cyprus, CYPRUS - Joao QUEIROZ, Institute of Arts and Design, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, BRAZIL - Shahid RAHMAN, U.F.R. de Philosophie, University of Lille 3, FRANCE - Wendy ROSS, School of Psychology, London Metropolitan University, UNITED KINDOM - Flavia SANTOIANNI, Department of Humanities. Federico II University of Naples, ITALY - Viola SCHIAFFONATI, Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione, e Bioingegneria, Politecnico di Milano, ITALY - Francisco J. SALGUERO LAMILLAR, Department of Spanish Languages, Linguistics and Literature Theory, University of Seville, SPAIN - Alger SANS PINILLOS, Department of Humanities, Philosophy Section, University of Pavia, ITALY - Gerhard SCHURZ, Institute for Philosophy, University of Duesseldorf, GERMANY - Nora Alejandrina SCHWARTZ, Faculty of Economics, Universidad de Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA - Sonja SMETS, Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS - Adam TOON, Department of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology, University of Exeter, UNITED KINGDOM - Paul THAGARD, Department of Philosophy, University of Waterloo, CANADA - Fernando R. VELÁZQUEZ-QUESADA, Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen, NORWAY - Riccardo VIALE, Department of Economics, Management and Statistics, University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan, ITALY - John WOODS, Department of Philosophy, University of British Columbia, CANADA The Conference is sponsored by UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA, Departimento di Studi Umanistici, Pavia, ITALY UNIVERSITY OF ROME "SAPIENZA", Dipartimento di Filosofia, Rome, ITALY, MUR (Ministero dell'Università e della Ricerca), Rome, ITALY SILFS, The Italian Society for Logic and the Philosophy of Science LOCAL ORGANIZATION COORDINATOR Emiliano Ippoliti <emiliano.ippoliti(a)uniroma1.it> HOW TO REACH Villa Mirafiori (Department of Philosophy, Sapienza University of Rome) From Termini Train Station Go to Piazza dei Cinquecento and take the 90 bus (direction: Labia) for four stops (get off at Nomentana/Xxi Aprile). The bus takes about 15 minutes. From Fiumicino (Leonardo da Vinci) Airport Take the Leonardo Express train to Roma Termini. It takes 35 minutes. From Termini Station, take the 90 bus (see above). Address: Department of Philosophy Sapienza University of Rome Villa Mirafiori – Via Carlo Fea 2, 00161 Roma PREVIOUS MBR CONFERENCES, BOOKS, AND SPECIAL ISSUES OF INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS The conference builds on the topics and traditions of the previous eight MBR conferences: - ‘Model-Based Reasoning in Scientific Discovery’, MBR'98 - ‘Model-Based Reasoning: Scientific Discovery, Technological Innovation, and Values’, MBR'01 - ‘Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Engineering: Abduction, Visualization, and Simulation’ MBR'04 - ‘Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Medicine’, MBR06_CHINA; - ‘Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology. Abduction, Logic, and Computational Discovery’, MBR09_BRAZIL; - ‘Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology. Theoretical and Cognitive Issues’, MBR12_ITALY - ‘Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology. Models and Inferences: Logical, Epistemological, and Cognitive Issues’, MBR15_ITALY - ‘Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technlogy. Inferential Models for Logic, Language, Cognition and Computation’, MBR018_SPAIN The volumes from these conferences are: - L. Magnani, N. J. Nersessian, and P. Thagard (eds.) (1999), Model-Based Reasoning in Scientific Discovery, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York. http://www.wkap.nl/prod/b/0-306-46292-3 (Chinese edition, translated and edited by Q. Yu and T. Wang, China Science and Technology Press, Beijing, 2000). - L. Magnani and N. J. Nersessian (eds.) (2002), Model-Based Reasoning. Science, Technology, Values, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York. http://www.wkap.nl/prod/b/0-306-47244-9 - L. Magnani, N. J. Nersessian, and C. Pizzi (eds.) (2002), Logical and Computational Aspects of Model-Based Reasoning, Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht. http://www.wkap.nl/prod/b/1-4020-0791-4 - P. Li, X. Chen, Z. Zhang, and H. Zhang (eds.)(2004), Science, Cognition, and Consciousness, JiangXi People's Press, Nanchang, China. - L. Magnani and Li. Ping (eds.) (2006), Philosophical Investigations from a Perspective of Cognition, Guangdong People's Publishing House, Guangzhou, (published in Chinese). - L. Magnani (2006) (ed.), Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Engineering. Cognitive Science, Epistemology, Logic, College Publications, London. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Model-Based-Reasoning-Science-Engineering/dp/190498… - L. Magnani and P. Li (eds.) (2007), Model-Based Reasoning in Science, Technology, and Medicine, Series "Studies in Computational Intelligence", Vol. 64, Springer, Berlin/New York. http://www.springer.com/engineering/book/978-3-540-71985-4 - L. Magnani, W. Carnielli, C. Pizzi (eds.) (2010) Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology Abduction, Logic, and Computational Discovery, Series "Studies in Computational Intelligence", Vol. 314, Springer, Heidelberg/Berlin. http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783642152221 - L. Magnani (ed.) (2014) Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology. Theoretical and Cognitive Issues, Series "Sapere", Vol. 8, Springer, Heidelberg/Berlin. http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783642374272 - L. Magnani and C. Casadio (eds.) (2016), Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology. Logical, Epistemological, and Cognitive Issues, Springer, Switzerland, Series "Sapere" http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319389820 - A. Nepomuceno, L. Magnani, F. Salguero, C. Barés and M. Fontaine (eds.) (2019), Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology - Inferential Models for Logic, Language, Cognition and Computation, Springer, Cham, Switzerland. Selected papers from the previous conferences have also been published in international journals such as Philosophia, Foundations of Science, Logic Journal of the IGPL. A recent HANDBOOK based on research by the MBR community is: L. Magnani, T. Bertolotti (eds.) (2017) Springer Handbook of Model-Based Science, Springer, Switzerland http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319305257 A forthcoming HANDBOOK research by the MBR community is: L. Magnani (ed.) ‘Handbook of abductive cognition’, Springer, Switzerland (https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-3-030-68436-5).

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2nd CFP: 7th International Conference on Dependency Linguistics (Depling 2023)
by François Lareau 31 Oct '22

31 Oct '22

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS DEPLING 2023, WASHINGTON DC, MARCH 9-12, 2023 Depling (https://depling.org) is a bi-annual conference dedicated to dependency-based approaches in linguistics and natural language processing. Dependencies, directed labeled graph structures representing hierarchical relations between morphemes, words or semantic units, have now become the standard representation of syntactic resources and NLP technologies. Depling has become the central event for people discussing the linguistic significance of these structures, their theoretical and formal foundations, their processing, and their use in NLP tools. VENUE This year, Depling will be part of the Georgetown University Round Table on Linguistics (GURT, https://gurt.georgetown.edu) in Washington DC on March 9-12, 2023, together with UDW, TLT, and CxGs+NLP, in the spirit of previous SyntaxFests (https://syntaxfest.github.io). Talks will take place in plenary sessions to promote cross-fertilization of ideas across subcommunities. TOPICS OF INTEREST Depling addresses the use of dependency trees and related formal representations (such as DAGs) to represent linguistic structure. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * The use of dependency structures in theoretical linguistics * Historical and epistemological foundations of dependency grammar * The use of dependency structures in corpus development * The use of dependency structures in lexicography * The use of dependency structures in computational linguistics * The relation between dependency-based grammar and other fields of science INVITED SPEAKER Guy Perrier, LORIA/Université de Lorraine (Emeritus) SUBMISSION DETAILS We invite paper submissions in two distinct tracks: * regular papers on substantial, original, and unpublished research, including empirical evaluation results, where appropriate; * short papers on smaller, focused contributions, work in progress, negative results, surveys, or opinion pieces. Papers must be submitted in PDF via OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=georgetown.edu/GURT/2023/Conference Regular papers may consist of up to 8 pages (excluding references and appendices). Short papers may consist of up to 4 pages (excluding references and appendices). Accepted papers will be given an additional page to address reviewer comments. Papers should describe original work; they should emphasize completed work and should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance and relevance to the conference. All submissions should follow the two-column format and the ACL style. https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files Proceedings will be published in the ACL Anthology and will include both long and short papers. For more information, read our detailed call for papers here: https://gurt.georgetown.edu/gurt-2023/depling-call-for-papers/ IMPORTANT DATES * November 15, 2022: submission deadline (long and short papers) * January 11, 2023: notification of acceptance * February 1, 2023: camera-ready papers due * March 9–12, 2023: conference DEPLING CHAIRS François Lareau, Université de Montréal Owen Rambow, Stony Brook University Contact: depling2023(a)depling.org

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2-year postdoc in NLP/data science
by Nina Tahmasebi 31 Oct '22

31 Oct '22

Dear colleagues, We are hiring a second postdoc! Do you have a lot of drive and are interested in getting engaged in a vibrant, new research field with the chance to work with some of the best in the field? We are announcing one or more 2-year postdoc positions in identification and analysis of lexical semantic change using computational models applied to diachronic texts. Application deadline November 15! Our languages change over time. As a consequence, words may look the same, but have different meanings at different points in time, a phenomenon called lexical semantic change (LSC). To facilitate interpretation, search, and analysis of old texts, we build computational methods for automatic detection and characterization of LSC from large amounts of text. Our outputs will be used by the lexicographic R&D unit that compiles the Swedish Academy dictionaries, as well as by researchers from the humanities and social sciences that include textual analysis as a central methodological component. We are looking for a researcher with a phd in a relevant area (for example, language technology/natural language processing, computer science, complex systems, mathematics, linguistics with experience in computational methods, or informational sciences). The Change is Key! program and the Towards Computational Lexical Semantic Change Detection research project offer a vibrant research environment for this exciting and rapidly growing cutting-edge research field in NLP. There is a unique opportunity to contribute to the field of LSC, but also to humanities and social sciences through our active collaboration with international researchers in historical linguistics, analytical sociology, gender studies, conceptual history, and literary studies. Come join us! https://web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/1035/job?site=7&lang=UK&validator=9b89… -- Nina N. Tahmasebi, Associate Professor Språkbanken • Change is Key! +46 (0) 31 786 6953 nina.tahmasebi(a)gu.se http://spraakbanken.gu.se/eng/personal/nina https://changeiskey.org/ https://languagechange.org/ http://tahmasebi.se/ https://gu-se.zoom.us/my/ninatahmasebi “If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it” -Albert Einstein.

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Recruiting graduate and undergraduate summer research interns for Data-Driven Accessibility at Microsoft Research
by Hal Daume 31 Oct '22

31 Oct '22

Dear corpora readers: We -- Danielle Bragg, Alex Lu, and Hal Daumé III -- are looking to hire research interns to work on data-driven accessibility research projects, alongside leading researchers and engineers in the field. We are recruiting both graduate research interns and undergraduate research interns for Summer 2023. (ASL recruitment video: https://youtu.be/Gb-8CTpKxhU.) Our team takes a human-centered and data-driven approach to advancing the state of accessible technologies. Recent work has focused on data collection methods, sign language modeling, understanding concerns and perspectives of user communities, and building novel apps and experiences. You can learn more about some of the team’s recent efforts at the data-driven accessibility systems page <https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/data-driven-accessibility-…>. These positions sit within Microsoft Research New York City, with opportunities to collaborate with Microsoft Research New England and others across the company. Our team is highly interdisciplinary and offers the opportunity to interact with diverse researchers. For graduate students, please apply (short research statement and two letters) at the Research Intern Portal <https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/job/1483492/Research-Intern-Data-Driven…> . For undergraduate students, please apply to the MSR Undergraduate Research Internship and mention one or more of us by name (CV, 2-3 reference letters, and two essays) at the Undergraduate Research Intern Portal <https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/academic-program/undergraduate-res…> . Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form <https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/accommodationrequest>. Sincerely, Danielle Bragg, Alex Lu, and Hal Daumé III

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CFP: AAAI-2023 Workshop On Multimodal AI For Financial Forecasting
by puneetm＠umd.edu 31 Oct '22

31 Oct '22

Call for Paper: AAAI-2023 Workshop On Multimodal AI For Financial Forecasting Venue: AAAI 2023 Location: Washington DC, USA Workshop Date: Monday, 13 February 2023 Submission deadline: December 23, 2022 Submission Site: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=muffinaaai2023 Workshop Website: https://muffin-aaai23.github.io/ Abbreviated Title: Muffin-AAAI2023 Contact Email: muffin-aaai23(a)googlegroups.com Primary Contact: Puneet Mathur Overview Financial forecasting is an essential task that helps investors make sound investment decisions and wealth creation. With increasing public interest in trading stocks, cryptocurrencies, bonds, commodities, currencies, crypto coins and non-fungible tokens (NFTs), there have been several attempts to utilize unstructured data for financial forecasting. Unparalleled advances in multimodal deep learning have made it possible to utilize multimedia such as textual reports, news articles, streaming video content, audio conference calls, user social media posts, customer web searches, etc for identifying profit creation opportunities in the market. E.g., how can we leverage new and better information to predict movements in stocks and cryptocurrencies well before others? However, there are several hurdles towards realizing this goal - (1) large volumes of chaotic data, (2) combining text, audio, video, social media posts, and other modalities is non-trivial, (3) long context of media spanning multiple hours, days or even months, (4) user sentiment and media hype-driven stock/crypto price movement and volatility, (5) difficulties with traditional statistical methods (6) misinformation and non-interpretability of financial systems leading to massive losses and bankruptcies. At the AAAI-2023 Workshop on Multimodal AI for Financial Forecasting (Muffin@AAAI2023), we aim to bring together researchers from natural language processing, computer vision, speech recognition, machine learning, statistics, and quantitative trading communities to expand research on the intersection of AI and financial time series forecasting. We will also organize 2 shared tasks in this workshop – (1) Stock Price and Volatility Prediction post-Monetary Conference Calls and (2) Cryptocurrency Bubble Detection. This workshop will hold a research track and a shared task track. The research track aims to explore recent advances and challenges of multimodal AI for finance. As this topic is an inherently multi-modal subject, researchers from artificial intelligence, computer vision, speech processing, natural language processing, data mining, statistics, optimization, and other fields are invited to submit papers on recent advances, resources, tools, and challenges on the broad theme of Multimodal AI for finance. The topics of the workshop include but are not limited to the following: Transformer models / Self-supervised / Transfer Learning on Financial Data Machine Learning for Finance Natural Language Processing and Speech Applications for Finance Conversational dialogue modeling for Financial Conference Calls Social media and User NLP for Finance Entity extraction and linking, Named-entity recognition, information extraction, relationship extraction, and ontology learning in financial documents Financial Document Processing Multi-modal financial knowledge discovery Financial Event detection from Multimedia Visual-linguistic learning for financial video analysis Video understanding (human behavior cognition, topic mining, facial expression detection, emotion detection, deception detection, gait and posture analysis, etc.) Data annotation, acquisition, augmentation, and feature engineering, for financial/time-series analysis Bias analysis and mitigation in financial models and data Statistical Modeling for Time Series Forecasting Interpretability and explainability for financial AI models Privacy-preserving AI for finance All papers will be double-blind peer-reviewed. Muffin workshop accepts both long papers and short papers: Short Paper: Up to 4 pages of content including the references. Upon acceptance, the authors are provided with 1 more page to address the reviewer's comments. Long Paper: Up to 8 pages of content including the references. Upon acceptance, the authors are provided with 1 more page to address the reviewer's comments. Shared Task Track: Participants are invited to take part in shared tasks: (1) Financial Prediction from Conference Call Videos and (2) Cryptocurrency Bubble Detection. Participants are invited to submit a system paper of 4-8 pages of content including the references. Important Dates Paper submission deadline: December 23, 2022 Acceptance notification: January 5, 2023 Camera-ready submission: January 15, 2023 Muffin workshop at AAAI 2023: Feb 13, 2022 All deadlines are “anywhere on earth” (UTC-12) About the Shared Task The Multimodal AI for Finance Forecasting (Muffin) workshop will host two shared tasks on challenging multimodal financial forecasting problems using artificial intelligence. Follow this link for details on shared tasks: https://muffin-aaai23.github.io/shared_task.html Task-1: Financial Prediction from Conference Call Videos Monetary policy calls (MPC) provide important insights into the actions taken by a country’s central bank on economic goals related to inflation, employment, prices, and interest rates. Investors and analysts critically analyze these video calls to forecast prices of the stock market, treasury bonds, gold, and currency exchange rates post the conference call. Prior works in the NLP literature have looked at what is being said during press conferences although there is a greater need to focus on how it is being said. The use of multimodal (visual+textual+audio) input to answer this question has been largely limited. Non-verbal behavioral cues from conference videos such as eye movements, facial expressions, postures, gaits, the complexity of language, vocal tone, and facial expressions of the speakers may reflect emotions that subjects may not express through words and have been found to be strongly correlated with enhanced trading activities in the financial markets. Interpreting and extracting information from financial conference calls reveals difficult challenges such as (1) Gap in current multimodal AI methods for simultaneously leveraging visual, vocal, and verbal modalities; (2) Long length of videos (50min to 1 hour) with multi-page text transcripts (3) Need to explore few-shot, semi-supervised, and self-supervised methods due to limited training data; (4) Large variability in conference calls across geographies due to different speakers, demographics, and economic conditions causing unintended bias. To this end, we curated a dataset of video conference calls from 2009 to 2022 released by central banks of 6 major English-speaking economies - USA, Canada, European Union, United Kingdom, New Zealand, and South Africa. The data has been processed to extract video frames, audio recordings, and utterance-aligned text transcripts. The task is to predict the volatility and price movement of stock market indices, gold, currency exchange rates, and bond prices T days after a conference call. We provide a cumulative of 25K data points split across training/development/testing for experimentation. Relevant research paper: [1] MONOPOLY: Financial Prediction from MONetary POLicY Conference Videos Using Multimodal Cues Task 2: Cryptocurrency Bubble Detection on Social Media Cryptocurrency trading presents a new investment opportunity for maximizing profits. The rising ubiquity of speculative trading of cryptocurrencies over social media leads to rapid escalation and crash of price in a short period of time, also called bubbles, causing investment losses and bankruptcy. These crypto bubbles are strongly tied to user sentiment and social media usage as opposed to conventional value-driven stocks and equities. Such financial bubbles are often a result of social media hype and the intensity of contagion among users, rendering both conventional statistical models and contemporary ML models weak as they are not built to deal with large volumes of unstructured, user-generated text on social media. In order to identify and safeguard against such bubbles, we formulate the CryptoBubbles Detection Challenge - a novel multi-span prediction task over future days of time series price data for crypto assets. We have curated a dataset of the 50 most traded crypto coins by volume from the top 9 crypto exchanges such as Binance, Gatio, etc to obtain a time series of prices for 450+ crypto assets over five years accompanied by over 2.4 million related tweets. Relevant research paper: [2] Cryptocurrency Bubble Detection: A New Stock Market Dataset, Financial Task & Hyperbolic Models

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Call for Workshops and Tutorials at the Fourth Biennial Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge, LDK 2023
by Ana Ostroški Anić 30 Oct '22

30 Oct '22

[apologies for cross-posting] ============== Call for Workshops and Tutorials @ Fourth Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK2023) Date: 13 September 2023 (Workshop/Tutorials day), 14–15 September 2023 (Main Conference) Location: Vienna, Austria Website: http://2023.ldk-conf.org Submission Deadline: 19 December 2022 Submissions via: EasyChair ============== We are inviting proposals for workshops and tutorials to be held on September 13, 2023 in conjunction with the fourth biennial conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK 2023) in Vienna, Austria. Building upon the success of the previous events held in Galway, Ireland in 2017, in Leipzig, Germany in 2019, and in Zaragoza, Spain in 2021, this conference will bring together researchers from across disciplines concerned with the acquisition, curation and use of language data in the context of data science and knowledge-based applications. Proposal submission We welcome workshop and tutorial proposals that are of relevance to the topics listed below. Submissions should be consistent with the main conference formatting guidelines and be 3–5 pages in length, plus unlimited pages for appendices. The decision on acceptance or rejection of a workshop proposal will be made on the basis of the overall quality of the proposal and its appeal to linguistics and knowledge-based communities. Other factors, such as overlap with other workshop proposals, or issues regarding logistics, will also be taken into account when making the final decision. Submissions should include the following details: 1. Title of the workshop or tutorial 2. List of organisers or tutorial presenters: List the names, affiliations, home page links, and provide short (one paragraph) biographies for all workshop organisers or tutorial presenters. 3. List of topics: For workshops, provide a list of topics of relevance to the workshop. For tutorials, provide a detailed outline of the topics that will be covered. 4. Detailed description: Provide a 200-word summary that motivates and describes the list of topics in further detail. 5. Past workshops or tutorials: Describe any previous editions of the same workshop or tutorial, along with an estimated size of the audience. 6. Format: Describe the proposed format for the event (physical/virtual). For instance, for workshops, describe the envisioned mix, i.e. invited talks, submitted paper presentations, poster sessions, panels, or demo sessions. For tutorials, describe to what extent the tutorial will consist of slide presentations vs. practical hands-on training. 7. Expected audience: Describe the expected size and composition of the audience. 8. Duration: Indicate if the workshop or tutorial is planned to last half a day (4h) or a full day (8h). 9. Technical requirements: List any special requirements, such as audio-visual equipment, poster boards, etc. 10. Committee members: For workshops, if available, provide a preliminary list of people who have agreed to serve as program committee members. 11. References: List relevant publications. Accepted workshops will be required to prepare a workshop website containing their call for papers and detailed information about the workshop organisation and timelines. Language: All submissions must be written in English. Proposals should be submitted via EasyChair at: https://easychair.org/cfp/LDK2023WP. Each proposal will be reviewed by the workshop and tutorial chairs and relevant members of the organising committee of LDK2023, and ranked based on the overall quality of the proposal and the workshop’s fit to the conference as detailed below. In particular, workshops should address research topics that satisfy each of the following criteria: 1. The topic proposed by the workshops should fall in the general scope of LDK2023. 2. The workshop’s target should be clear and anchor a specific technology, problem or application. 3. The aim of the workshop is to attract a broad community of interested individuals. 4. The format of the workshop can invite various types of contributions (oral and poster presentations) and can be accommodated in online/hybrid settings. 5. Workshop proposals on emerging topics are encouraged. Topics: 1. Fundamental technical and theoretical problems of language data / linked data and knowledge graphs. 2. Applications of language data and semantic web technologies in domains such as law, medicine, life science, digital humanities, mobility and smart cities, etc. 3. Research areas that have been largely neglected or underrepresented in language data and semantic web studies. 4. Other research areas relevant to language data and semantic web research (such as data science, artificial intelligence, big data analytics, human-computer interaction, natural language processing, and information retrieval). 5. New emerging topics. We encourage diversity in the organising and program committee: from different institutions and the presence of young researchers and PhD students. At least one of the organisers should be registered to LDK2023. All organisers (presenters) of accepted workshops are expected to: 1. Have their own (open) reviewing process and take care of their publicity (e.g., website, timelines, and call for papers). 2. Workshop organisers will be asked to: 1. Attend LDK2023 in person (at least one organiser). 2. Closely cooperate with the Workshop Chairs to finalise all organisational details. Workshop and tutorial chairs: - Ana Ostroški Anić – Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics - Blerina Spahiu – University of Milano-Bicocca Important Dates: 19 Dec 22 Proposal submission deadline 16 Jan 23 Notification of accepted proposals 6 Feb 2023 Workshop website and CfP published 19 May 23 Suggested deadline for workshop paper submissions 16 June 23 Suggested deadline for notification for workshop paper submissions 30 June 23 Camera-ready submission deadline 13 September 2023 Workshop and tutorial day 14–15 September 2023 Main conference All deadlines refer to anywhere-on-earth time. Ana Ostroški Anić and Blerina Spahiu (Workshop and Tutorial Chairs)

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Call for Papers: The First Workshop on Context-aware NLP in eHealth, ICON 2022, India
by Mohammed Hasanuzzaman 29 Oct '22

29 Oct '22

Dear List members, WNLPe-Health 2022 - the first Workshop on Context-aware NLP in eHealth will be held at IIIT Delhi, India on December 15th, 2022 in conjunction with 19th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON 2022) . It is currently recognised that as much as 30% of the world’s stored data is produced by the healthcare sector. However, this ‘data-rich’ sector does not currently explore data to the full potential which may allow the development of much more individual and person-centred AI technologies. For example, by combining ubiquitous data with user-generated and publicly available data, AI algorithms can guide and inform citizens about risk modifying behaviors in an appropriate context. Context can be defined as “any information that can be used to characterize the situation of an entity. An entity is a person, place, or object that is considered relevant for the interaction between a user and an application, including the user and applications themselves.” The goal of this workshop is to provide a unique platform to bring together researchers and practitioners in healthcare informatics working with health-related data, especially textual data, and facilitate close interaction among students, scholars, and industry professionals on eHealth language processing tasks. In particular, we are interested in works that advance state-of-the-art NLP and ML techniques for eHealth domains by incorporating more contextual knowledge in order to make models explainable, trustable and robust in changing situations. We are interested in research on novel approaches, works in progress, comparative analyses of tools, and advancing state-of-the-art work in eHealth NLP methods, tools, and applications. Relevant topics for the workshop include, but are not limited to, the following areas: - Modelling of healthcare text in classical NLP tasks (tagging, chunking, parsing, entity identification, relation extraction, coreference, summarization, etc.) for under-resourced languages. - Person-centred NLP applications for eHealth including early risk prediction. - Algorithm for Context Data reasoning. - Context sensitive recommendations to individual citizens and patients. - Integration of structured and unstructured resources for health applications. - Domain adaptation techniques for clinical data. - Medical terminologies and ontologies. - Interpretability and analysis of NLP models for healthcare applications. - Processing clinical literature and trial reports. - Bayesian modelling and feature selection techniques for high-dimensional healthcare data. - Multimodal learning for decision support systems: Ubiquitous data, public databases, user generated content (in combination with wearable sensor technology). Full paper submissions are limited to 8 pages, while short paper submissions should be less than 4 pages (including bibliography). For more information: https://sites.google.com/view/wnlpe-health2022/submissions Important Dates Paper submission deadline: 20th November, 2022 (23:59 Hawaii Standard Time) Notification of acceptance: 26th November, 2022 Camera ready copy deadline: 1st December, 2022 Workshop date: 15th December, 2022 Best regards, Mohammed <https://sites.google.com/view/wnlpe-health2022/submissions#h.jxoic3mpxg99> Important Dates Paper submission deadline: 20th November, 2022 (23:59 Hawaii Standard Time) Notification of acceptance: 26th November, 2022 Camera ready copy deadline: 1st December, 2022 Workshop date: 15th December, 2022 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Dr. Mohammed Hasanuzzaman, Lecturer, Munster Technological University <https://www.mtu.ie/> * *Funded Investigator, ADAPT Centre- <https://www.adaptcentre.ie/> A <https://www.adaptcentre.ie/>* World-Leading SFI Research Centre <https://www.adaptcentre.ie/> *Member, Lero, the SFI Research Centre for Software <https://lero.ie/>**C**hercheur Associé*, GREYC UMR CNRS 6072 Research Centre, France <https://www.greyc.fr/en/home/> *Associate Editor:** IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, Nature Scientific Reports, IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, ACM TALLIP, PLOS ONE, Computer Speech and Language* Dept. of CS Munster Technological University Bishopstown campus Cork e: mohammed.hasanuzzaman(a)adaptcentre.ie <email(a)adaptcentre.ie>/ Ireland https://mohammedhasanuzzaman.github.io/ [image: Mailtrack] <https://mailtrack.io?utm_source=gmail&utm_medium=signature&utm_campaign=sig…> Sender notified by Mailtrack <https://mailtrack.io?utm_source=gmail&utm_medium=signature&utm_campaign=sig…> 29/10/22, 02:19:47

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Internship at GETALP-LIG-UGA - 5/6 months : Context-Aware Neural Machine Translation Evaluation
by Emmanuelle Esperança-Rodier 28 Oct '22

28 Oct '22

Dear colleagues, Please find hereafter an internship proposal. Feel free to transfer it to your M2 students. Kind regards ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The LIG (Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble) proposes the following Master 2 level internship: Title: Context-Aware Neural Machine Translation Evaluation Description: Context-Aware Neural Machine Translation (CA-NMT) [Tiedemann and Scherrer, 2017; Laubli et al., 2018; Miculicich et al., 2018; Maruf et al., 2019; Zheng et al., 2020; Ma et al. 2021; Lupo et al., 2022] is currently one of the main research axes in NLP, with strong impact on both academic and company research. CA-NMT systems are evaluated with both "average-quality-measuring" metrics such as BLEU [Papineni et al., 2002], and dedicated contrastive test suites [Voita et al., 2019; Muller&Rios 2018; Lopes et al., 2020]. The latter have been designed to measure specifically to which degree CA-NMT systems are able to exploit context while scoring sentences to be translated in context. Indeed the average translation quality measured by BLEU has been shown inadequate in this respect [Lupo et al., 2022]. When evaluating models with contrastive test suites however, models are only asked to score sentences and not to translate them. The ability of models to use context is thus only implicitly evaluated. With the work planned in this internship we would like to make a step ahead in the evaluation of CA-NMT systems. The idea is to exploit annotated data like those already used for [Muller&Rios 2018; Lopes et al., 2020] to explicitly involve discourse phenomena, such like coreferences and anaphora, in the evaluation procedure of CA-NMT models. Such evaluation procedure will allow possibly to design more accurate and adequate evaluation measures for "discourse-phenomena-aware" CA-NMT systems. Practical Aspects: In this internship the student will use Machine Learning and Deep Learning tools to automatically annotate parallel data (at least English-French, but possibly also English-German and other language pairs) used for NMT with discourse phenomena, as well as Neural Machine Translation tools for automatically generating translations that will be used for CA-NMT evaluation. Based on the annotation of discourse phenomena, we will design an adequate evaluation metric for CA-NMT systems, taking into account the capability of the system to exploit discourse phenomena. Finally, the evaluation metric will be tested by evaluating CA-NMT systems already available or trained from scratch at LIG by the student. Profile: Master 2 student level in computer science or NLP Interested in Natural Language Processing and Deep Learning approaches Skills in machine learning for probabilistic models Computer science skills: Python programming. Some knowledge of deep learning libraries such like Pytorch (Fairseq would be a plus). Data manipulation and annotation The internship may last from 5 up to 6 months, it will take place at LIG laboratory, GETALP team (http://lig-getalp.imag.fr/ <http://lig-getalp.imag.fr/>), starting from January/February 2022. The student will be tutored by Marco Dinarelli (http://www.marcodinarelli.it <http://www.marcodinarelli.it/>), andEmmanuelle Esperança-Rodier (https://lig-membres.imag.fr/esperane/ <https://lig-membres.imag.fr/esperane/>) Interested candidates must send a CV and a motivation letter to (both adresses) marco.dinarelli(a)univ-grenoble-alpes.fr <mailto:marco.dinarelli@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr>, Emmanuelle.Esperanca-Rodier(a)univ-grenoble-alpes.fr <mailto:Emmanuelle.Esperanca-Rodier@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr>. [Tiedemann and Scherrer, 2017] Neural ma- chine translation with extended context. Workshop on Discourse in Machine Translation 2017. [Laubli et al., 2018] Has machine translation achieved human parity? a case for document-level evaluation. EMNLP 2018. [Miculicich et al. 2018] Document-level neural machine translation with hierarchical attention networks. EMNLP 2018. [Maruf et al., 2019] Selective attention for context-aware neural machine translation. NAACL 2019. [Zheng et al., 2020] Towards Making the Most of Context in Neural Machine Translation. IJCAI 2020. [Ma et al., 2021] A Comparison of Approaches to Document-level Machine Translation. arXiv pre-print 2021. [Lupo et al., 2022] Divide and Rule: Effective Pre-Training for Context-Aware Multi-Encoder Translation Models. ACL 2022. [Papineni et al., 2022] Bleu: a method for automatic eval- uation of machine translation. ACL 2002. [Voita et al., 2019] "When a good translation is wrong in context: Context-aware machine translation improves on deixis, ellipsis, and lexical cohesion". ACL 2019. [Muller&Rios 2018] "A large-scale test set for the evaluation of context-aware pronoun translation in neural machine translation." CMT 2018 [Lopes et al., 2020] "Document-level neural MT: A systematic comparison". EAMT 2020 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________ Emmanuelle Esperança-Rodier Enseignante-Chercheuse en Linguistique Informatique (Section 7) Maîtresse de Conférences - Hors Classe UMR 5217 - LIG (Laboratoire d’Informatique de Grenoble) GETALP (Groupe d’Étude en Traduction Automatique/Traitement Automatisé des Langues et de la Parole) Bâtiment IMAG - 700 avenue Centrale - Domaine Universitaire de Saint-Martin-d’Hères 04 57 42 14 92 Service des Langues UGA Coordinatrice des enseignements d’anglais pour la composante IM2AG - Mathématiques

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Internship offer (with PhD opportunity), LS2N, Nantes, France. Diving into neural language models for improving discourse analysis tasks
by Nicolas HERNANDEZ 28 Oct '22

28 Oct '22

* Title: Diving into neural language models for improving discourse analysis tasks * Keywords: Neural Language Models, Discourse analysis, Argumentative structure, Probing, Transfer Learning * Supervisors: Nicolas.Hernandez(a)univ-nantes.fr and Laura.Monceaux(a)univ-nantes.fr * Location: TALN@LS2N, Nantes, France - https://taln-ls2n.github.io * Starting date: Jan-2023 (flexible) ~6 months * Opportunity: to pursue a PhD in the Lexhnology ANR project https://www.ls2n.fr/stage-these/diving-into-neural-language-models-for-impr… # MISSION Fine-tuning a pre-trained language model has become the de facto standard for handling natural language processing tasks. Since many of these tasks are dealing with discourse and dialogue structures (e.g. conversational agent, summarization, dialogue acts recognition, argumentation mining), it is crucial to understand how such information is captured by the language models and to study how to intervene on the learning of this type of information: what is learned, what is missing, how to add it, how to keep the useful information in a fine-tuned, distilled, pruned or quantized model... The internship mission will be defined in this context, collaboratively with the candidate. One possibility would be to start by probing the language models on discourse analysis tasks. We wish the successful candidate to pursue a PhD on the subject in the Lexhnology project. * A. Rogers, O. Kovaleva, and A. Rumshisky. A Primer in BERTology: What We Know About How BERT Works. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL), 8:842–866. 2020. * V. Araujo, A. Villa, M. Mendoza, M.-F. Moens, and A. Soto, “Augmenting BERT-style Models with Predictive Coding to Improve Discourse-level Representations,” In EMNLP, Nov. 2021. * M. Lukasik, B. Dadachev, G. Simões, & K. Papineni, Text Segmentation by Cross Segment Attention, In Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 4707–4716, November 16–20, 2020. * L. Huber, C. Memmadi, M. Dargnat, and Y. Toussaint. Do sentence embeddings capture discourse properties of sentences from scientific abstracts ? In the First ACL Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse, 86–95, 2020. * F. Koto, J. H. Lau, and T. Baldwin. Discourse Probing of Pretrained Language Models. In Proceedings of the 20th Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), Mexico (virtual), 2021 # THE LEXHNOLOGY PROJECT Lexhnology is a project funded by the French National Agency (ANR). It will start on January 2, 2023 for a period of 42 months. Given the growing extraterritoriality of American law, this domestic law is increasingly impacting other countries' jurisdiction. It is of prime importance that second-language (L2) users of legal English be able to analyze case law. Teaching the argumentative structure to L2 learners is a widely accepted method in languages for specific purposes (LSP) L2 teaching/learning and may help learners understand the legally-binding rationale behind judicial decisions. Despite this context, consensus about the linguistic definition of the communicative functions, also known as moves, in case law does not yet exist. In addition, no Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques are currently able to automatically identify moves in case law. Finally, the effectiveness of making moves explicit to L2 learners has not been measured experimentally. To answer these questions, Lexhnology will take an innovative interdisciplinary approach – linguistic, NLP, LSP teaching/learning. The project is the joint collaboration of four laboratories, namely LS2N, CRINI, LAIRDIL and ATILF. # APPLICATION The successful candidate is expected to: * Have/Prepare a Master Degree (or equivalent) in Natural Language Processing, Computer Sciences, Computational Linguistics or Data sciences, * Have a excellent background in deep learning and more generally machine learning, * Have strong programming skills (software dev. and python) * Have good verbal communication and writing skills (in French/English) * Have facility with teamwork as well as working autonomously * Be dynamic and curious We look forward to receiving your meaningful online application including: * a letter of motivation * a CV * contacts for two references

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