October 2022 - Corpora

SwissText 2023 - Call for paper
by Sokhn Maria 24 Oct '22

24 Oct '22

SwissText 2023, Call for papers We invite you to submit a contribution to the 8th edition of SwissText (SwissText 2023<https://www.swisstext.org/>) that will take place in Neuchâtel at HES-SO // HE Arc Campus venue details<https://www.he-arc.ch/en/he-arc-en/neuchatel-campus/> from 12 to 15 June 2023. SwissText is an annual conference that brings together text analytics experts from industry and academia. Swisstext is organised jointly by Swiss Association for Natural Language Processing (SwissNLP), the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Western Switzerland (HES-SO // HE-Arc) and the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) with the support of the Swiss Innovation Agency (Innosuisse) and several industrial sponsors. The conference will feature the following tracks: Applied track, Regular Track and Junior Track. Please see the attached document for the call for paper details. Important Dates : Submission deadline: March 15, 2023 (23:59 CEST) Author notification: May 01, 2023 Conference: June 12-15, 2023 Camera-ready version due: July 15, 2023 Kind Regards, Maria Sokhn -- General Chairs: Prof. Dr. Hatem Ghorbel (HES-SO // HE-Arc), Prof. Dr. Mark Cieliebak Mark (ZHAW) Program Chair: Prof. Dr. Maria Sokhn (HES-SO // HE-Arc) Workshops Chair: Dr. Emmanuel De Salis (HES-SO // HE-Arc)

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First Call for Tutorial Proposals: EACL/ACL/EMNLP 2023
by Devamanyu Hazarika 24 Oct '22

24 Oct '22

Overview *The European Chapter of the ACL (EACL), the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), and the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) invite proposals for tutorials to be held in conjunction with EACL 2023, ACL 2023, and EMNLP 2023. We seek proposals in all areas of computational linguistics, broadly conceived to include related disciplines.We invite proposals for two types of tutorials: 1. Cutting-edge: tutorials that cover advances in newly emerging areas not previously covered in any ACL/EMNLP/EACL/NAACL-HLT/AACL/COLING related tutorial (see the list of tutorials <https://shorturl.at/dkIMP> in the past 4 years). 2. Introductory: tutorials that provide introductions to related fields that are potentially relevant for the computational linguistics community (e.g., linguistics, bioinformatics, machine learning techniques). In both cases, the aim of a tutorial is primarily to help understand a scientific problem, its tractability, and its theoretical and practical implications. Presentations of particular technological solutions or systems are welcome, provided that they serve as illustrations of broader scientific considerations.Tutorials will be held at one of the following conference venues: - EACL 2023, to be held in Dubrovnik, Croatia (hybrid), on May 2-6, 2023.- ACL 2023, to be held in Toronto, Canada (hybrid), on July 9-14, 2023.- EMNLP 2023, to be held in Singapore, data TBD, 2023. *Fee Waiving *Up to 3 instructors per tutorial can have their registration fees waived for the main conference and any subset of co-located tutorials and workshops.* Diversity And Inclusion *To foster a really inclusive culture in our field, we particularly encourage submissions from members of underrepresented groups in computational linguistics, i.e., researchers from any demographic or geographic minority, researchers with disabilities, among others. The overall diversity of the tutorial organizers and potential audience will be taken into account to ensure that the conference program is varied and balanced. Tutorial proposals should describe and will be evaluated according to how the tutorial contributes to topics promoting diversity (e.g., working on minority languages, developing NLP for good), participation diversity (e.g., coordinating with social affinity groups, providing subsidies, making a promotional plan for the tutorial), and representation diversity among tutorial presenters. For more information or advice, organizers may consult resources such as the BIG directory <http://www.winlp.org/big-directory/>, Black in AI <https://blackinai.github.io/#/membership>, {Dis}ability in AI <https://elesa.github.io/ability_in_AI/>, Indigenous AI <https://www.indigenous-ai.net/>, LatinX in AI <https://lxai.app/PUBLIC-DIRECTORY>, Masakhane <https://www.masakhane.io/>, 500 Queer Scientists <https://500queerscientists.com/>, and Women-in-ML’s director <https://wimlworkshop.org/sh_projects/directory/>y. <https://2022.naacl.org/committees/diversity-inclusion/> * Submission Details *Proposals should use the ACL paper submission format. Authors can download <https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files> the LaTeX or Word template or use the Overleaf template <https://www.overleaf.com/read/crtcwgxzjskr>. Proposals should not exceed 4 pages of content (plus unlimited pages for references), should be submitted as PDF documents, and should contain the following: 1. A title and authors, affiliations, and contact information.2. A brief description of the tutorial content and its relevance to the computational linguistics community. 3. Type of the tutorial: introductory vs. cutting-edge. 4. Briefly describe the target audience and any expected prerequisite background the audience should be aware of. Specification of any prerequisites for the attendees. Here are some examples:- Math: e.g., “Understand derivatives and integrals as found in introductory calculus”- Linguistics: e.g., “Be able to parse and generate text with dependency grammars”- Machine Learning: e.g., “Understand ‘classical’ supervised methods such as SVM and perceptron”- Other areas: e.g., “Familiarity with word2vec”- Programming or other tools: e.g., “Knowledge of Pytorch and Unix command line tools”5. An outline of the tutorial structure content and how it will be covered in a three-hour slot. In exceptional cases six-hour tutorial slots are available. These time limits do not include coffee breaks, e.g., a three-hour tutorial in fact occupies a 3.5-hour slot, and a six-hour tutorial occupies a 7-hour slot.6. Explain how the tutorial includes other people’s work. We recommend that the tutorial covers work by the presenters as well as by other researchers. The submission should explain how this breadth is ensured. Tutorials should not be “self-invited talks”.7. Diversity considerations, e.g., use of multilingual data, indications of how the described methods scale up to various languages or domains, participation of both senior and junior instructors, demographic and geographical diversity of the instructors, plans for how to diversify audience participation, etc.8. Reading list. Work that you expect the audience to read before the tutorial can be indicated by an asterisk. Recommended papers should provide breadth of authorship and include work by other authors, and work from other disciplines is welcome if relevant. 9. For each tutorial presenter, a one-paragraph statement of their research interests and areas of expertise for the tutorial topic, as well as experience in instructing an international audience.10. An estimate of the audience size for the tutorial. If the same or a similar tutorial has been given before, include information on where any previous version of the tutorial was given and how many attendees the tutorial attracted.11. A note specifying which venue(s) (EACL/ACL/EMNLP) would be acceptable and/or preferable. Include a description of any constraints that might make the tutorial compatible with only one of these events, logistically, thematically, or otherwise.12. A description of special requirements for technical equipment.13. We intend to make tutorial presentation materials publically available (e.g., tutorial slides, captioned video recording, as well as software, data, or other resources as applicable) in the ACL Anthology. If any of your tutorial materials cannot be shared, please explain. 14. An ethics statement that discusses ethical considerations related to the topics of the tutorial. 15. OPTIONAL: We welcome proposals on special conference themes. If your tutorial proposal aligns with the special theme of a conference, then please explain. 16. OPTIONAL: We invite tutorial instructors to include pedagogical material that the audience can bring into classrooms or similar spaces of discussion, to bring attention to the tutorial topic (e.g., a hands-on exercise, discussion questions, a demo, or an assignment). If you would like to provide this, then please explain. Tutorial proposals should be submitted online using the softconf system at the following link: https://softconf.com/n/acl-tutorials2023 <https://softconf.com/n/acl-tutorials2023>. Proposals will be reviewed jointly by the Tutorial Co-Chairs of the conferences and by a group of external experts.* Evaluation Criteria *Each tutorial proposal will be evaluated according to its clarity and preparedness, novelty or timely character of the topic, instructors’ experience, likely audience interest, open access of the tutorial instructional material, and diversity and inclusion.* Tutorial Instructor Responsibilities *Accepted tutorial presenters will be notified by February 3rd, 2023. They must then provide abstracts of their tutorials for inclusion in the conference registration material by the specific conference deadlines. The description should be in two formats: (a) an ASCII version that can be included in email announcements and published on the conference website, and (b) a PDF version for inclusion in the electronic proceedings (detailed instructions will be provided). Tutorial speakers must provide tutorial materials (e.g., slides, relevant list of papers) at least one month prior to the date of the tutorial conditioned on the final venue. The final submitted tutorial materials must minimally include copies of the course slides and a bibliography for the material covered in the tutorial. After the conference, the presenters will be invited to update their slides in the ACL Anthology (if needed).* Important Dates *EACL/ACL/EMNLP 2023 shared dates for tutorial proposals: - Submission deadline for tutorial proposals: December 1st, 2022 - Notification of acceptance: February 3rd, 2023- Camera-ready for proposals: Feb 17th 2023- Tutorial slides + abstract + bibliography + any other materials: one month prior to the date of the tutorial* Tutorial Chairs * ACL - Siva Reddy, McGill University and Mila- Yun-Nung (Vivian) Chen, National Taiwan University - Margot Mieskes, University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt EACL - Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, University of Rome "Tor Vergata"- TBA EMNLP - TBA* Contact Please send inquiries concerning EACL/ACL/EMNLP 2023 tutorials to cl23-tutorial-chairs(a)googlegroups.com

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Joint Call for Workshop Proposals: EACL / ACL / EMNLP 2023
by Devamanyu Hazarika 24 Oct '22

24 Oct '22

The Association for Computational Linguistics invites proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with EACL 2023, ACL 2023, or EMNLP 2023. We solicit proposals in all areas of computational linguistics, broadly conceived to include related disciplines such as linguistics, speech, information retrieval, and multimodal processing. Workshops will be held at one of the following conference venues: - EACL 2023 (The 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics) will be a hybrid conference, and physically held in Dubrovnik, Croatia, from 2 to 6 of May 2023. https://2023.eacl.org/ - ACL 2023 (The 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics) will take place in Toronto, Canada (and a hybrid conference) from July 9th to July 14th, 2023. https://2023.aclweb.org/ <https://2022.aclweb.org/> - EMNLP 2023 (The 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing) TBA The workshop co-chairs will work together to assign workshops to the three conferences. They will take into account location preferences and technical constraints provided by the workshop proposers. === Important Dates === - Proposal Submission Deadline: November 15, 2022 - Notification of Acceptance: December 14, 2022 === Submission Information === Proposals should be submitted as PDF documents. Note that submissions should be ready to be turned into a Call for Papers to the workshop within one week of notification. The proposals should be at most two pages for the main proposal and at most two additional pages for information about the organizers, program committee, and references. Thus, the whole proposal should not be more than four pages long. The two pages for the main proposal must include: - A title and a brief description of the workshop topic and content. - A list of invited speakers, if applicable, with an indication of which ones have already agreed and which are indicative, and sources of funding for the speakers. - An estimate of the number of attendees. - Depending on the global situation of COVID-19, some conferences might take place only virtually. We request submissions to contain a brief discussion on measures planned to make sure a workshop is successful and productive in case of a virtual-only attendance. - A description of any shared tasks associated with the workshop, and estimate of the number of participants. - A description of special requirements and technical needs. - The preferred venue(s) (EACL / ACL / EMNLP), if any, and description of any constraints (e.g., if the workshop is compatible with only one of these events, logistically, thematically or otherwise) - If the workshop has been held before, a note specifying where previous workshops were held, how many submissions the workshop received, how many papers were accepted (also specify if they were not regular papers, e.g., shared task system description papers), and how many attendees the workshop attracted. Note that the only financial support available to workshops is a single free workshop registration for an invited speaker. The workshop organizers must bear all other costs independently. The two pages for information about organizers, program committee, and references must include: - The names, affiliations, and email addresses of the organizers, with a brief statement (2-5 sentences) of their research interests, areas of expertise, and experience in organizing workshops and related events. - A list of Program Committee members, with an indication of which members have already agreed. Organizers should do their best to estimate the number of submissions (especially for recurring workshops) in order to (a) ensure a sufficient number of reviewers so that each paper receives 3 reviews, and (b) anticipate that no one is committed to reviewing more than 3 papers. This practice is likely to ensure on-time and thoughtful reviews. - An indication whether the workshop will consider papers submitted through ACL Rolling Review (ARR); an indication whether the workshop will use OpenReview as a platform (both to take papers from ARR and for their own review); whether the workshop will only use START as a platform, and will not use ARR. In making this choice, please pay careful attention to the ARR deadlines and conference notifications. - References The proposals should be submitted no later than November 15, 2022, 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”). Submission is electronic at the following link: https://softconf.com/n/acl-workshops2023. The workshop proposals will be evaluated according to their originality and impact, and the quality of the organizing team and Programme Committee. === Diversity and Inclusion === The proposals should describe the ways in which the workshop will support diversity in NLP. We suggest organizers consider the following points, while developing the proposal: - Contribution to academic diversity: The proposals could explain how the subject matter of the workshop will contribute to the diversity of the field, e.g. use of multilingual data, indications of how the described methods scale up to various languages or domains, accessibility of resources, supporting underrepresented communities of NLP and so on. - Diversifying representation: Following the WiNLP ( http://www.winlp.org/winlp-2020-workshop/ [6]) initiative, we recognize the current problems of demographic imbalance in the field. Therefore, we particularly encourage submissions including members of under-represented groups in computational linguistics. The proposals should describe how their selection of invited speakers, panelists, organizers, and program committee promotes diverse representation (for example, considering underrepresented demographics based on gender, ethnicity, nationality, and so on). We also suggest including speakers and panelists, who have not appeared as a keynote speaker or panelist in recent conferences. - Diversifying participation: The proposals could describe how the call-for-papers and outreach will encourage people from marginalized groups to attend and submit to the workshop. Some examples include providing mentoring, subsidies, coordinating with affinity groups, diversifying the selection of papers and so on. === Workshop Organizer Responsibilities === The organizers of the accepted proposals will be responsible for publicizing and running the workshop, including reviewing submissions, producing the camera-ready workshop proceedings, organizing the meeting days, and playing their part to ensure that all participants are aware of ACL’s anti-harassment policy. It is crucial that organizers commit to all deadlines. In particular, failure to produce the camera-ready proceedings on time will lead to the exclusion of the workshop from the unified proceedings and author indexes. Workshop organizers cannot accept submissions for publication that will be (or have been) published elsewhere, although they are free to set their own policies on simultaneous submission and review. Since the conferences will occur at different times, the timelines for the submission and reviewing of workshop papers, and the preparation of camera-ready copies, will be different for each conference. Suggested timelines for each of the conferences are given below. The workshop organizers should not deviate from this schedule unless absolutely necessary, and with explicit agreement from the relevant Workshop Chairs. The ACL has a set of policies on workshops. You can find the ACL’s general policies on workshops, the financial policy for workshops, and the financial policy for SIG workshops at: http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Conference_Handbook === Timeline for the 2023 Workshops === EACL: First Call for Workshop Papers: January 9, 2023 Second Call for Workshop Papers: January 30, 2023 Workshop Paper Due Date: February 13, 2023 Notification of Acceptance: March 13, 2023 Camera-ready papers due: March 27, 2023 Workshop Dates: May 2 and 6, 2023 ACL: First Call for Workshop Papers: January 10, 2023 Second Call for Workshop Papers: February 10, 2023 Direct paper submission deadline: April 24, 2023 Notification of acceptance: May 22, 2023 Camera-ready paper due: June 6, 2023 Pre-recorded video due: June 12, 2023 Deadline for workshop organizers to deliver proceedings to the publication chair: June 12, 2023 Workshops: July 13-14, 2023 EMNLP: Information not available yet === EACL / ACL / EMNLP Workshop Co-Chairs === EACL: Zeerak Talat, Simon Fraser University Antonio Toral, University of Groningen ACL: Eduardo Blanco, University of Arizona Yang Feng, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Annie Louis, Google Research EMNLP: TBA Contact: workshop-chairs-2023(a)googlegroups.com

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Invitation to join SIGHUM
by Sara Tonelli 24 Oct '22

24 Oct '22

The SIGHUM group (ACL Special Interest Group on Language Technologies for the Socio-Economic Sciences and Humanities) was constituted in 2012 as one of the ACL special interest groups. SIGHUM groups together researchers interested in computational linguistics applications in all aspects of digital humanities and provides a forum for communication between ACL researchers and other digital humanities communities and organisations. In July 2022, we (Barbara McGillivray, Sara Tonelli and Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb) joined SIGHUM’s board. If you’re passionate about digital humanities, computational humanities and related fields and want to stay informed about opportunities to contribute to the group, activities, call for papers, job opportunities etc. within the community, please join our group here: https://groups.google.com/g/sighum <https://groups.google.com/g/sighum>. Early-career researchers and PhD students are particularly encouraged to join. After this round of subscriptions, at the end of October we will be sending our members a survey to shape the group’s strategy so make sure you sign up in the next week if you want to take part! Barbara, Sara and Stefania. -- -- Le informazioni contenute nella presente comunicazione sono di natura privata e come tali sono da considerarsi riservate ed indirizzate esclusivamente ai destinatari indicati e per le finalità strettamente legate al relativo contenuto. Se avete ricevuto questo messaggio per errore, vi preghiamo di eliminarlo e di inviare una comunicazione all’indirizzo e-mail del mittente. -- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material.

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2nd conference call for LTC 2023 (extended deadline)
by Patrick Paroubek 22 Oct '22

22 Oct '22

10th LANGUAGE AND TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE: Human Language Technologies as a Challenge for Computer Science and Linguistics, April 21-23, 2023, Poznań, Poland (LTC 2023) 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS VENUE: April 21-23, 2023 in Poznań, Poland. IMPORTANT DATES/DEADLINES: * Deadline for submission of papers for review: November 14, 2022 (extended dealine) * Acceptance/Refusal notification: December 14, 2022 * Deadline for submission of final versions of accepted papers: January 9, 2023 * Conference: April 21-23, 2023 WEB SITE: http://ltc.amu.edu.pl/ The Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Poland) and the Adam Mickiewicz University Foundation organize the 10th LTC on April 21-23, 2023. Following the tradition of the past events, it is supported by ELRA, FlaReNet and META-NET. Since 2005 LTC is organized every two years as the “Language & Technology Conference: Human Language Technologies as a Challenge for Computer Science and Linguistics”. Started 27 years ago, the conference find its origin in the Language and Technology Awareness Days, a meeting organized in 1995 with the assistance of the European Commission (DG XIII), with among the key speakers: Antonio Zampolli (Italy), Dafydd Gibbon (Germany), Dan Tufiş (Romania) and Orest Kossak (Ukraina). The conference addresses to researchers, advanced and beginning students, as well as all other people interested in the new advances at the borderline between computer science, human language industries and linguistics. CONFERENCE TOPICS LTC 2023 welcomes the submission of original unpublished papers on various aspects of Human Language Technology of both theoretical and practical importance including: * AI-oriented studies of human language competence * communicative intelligence * computational semantics * computer modeling of language competence * corpora-based methods in language engineering * electronic language resources and tools * formalization of natural languages * HLT related policies * HLT standards and best practices * HLTs as support for e-learning * HLTs as support for foreign language teaching * HLTs as support in solving Homeland Security problems (technology applications and legal aspects) * human-machine NL interfaces * knowledge representation * language-specific computational challenges for HLTs (especially for languages other than English) * legal issues connected with HLTs (problems and challenges) * Logic Programming in Natural Language Processing * methodological issues in HLT * neural networks in language engineering * NL applications in robotics * NL understanding by computers * NL user modeling * NLP methods in cyber-criminality detection and prevention * paralinguistic phenomena in Natural Language Processing * parsing and other forms of NL processing * question answering * sentiment, opinion and emotion analysis * socio-political aspects of HLTs * speech processing * system prototype presentations * technological aspects of nonverbal linguistics * text-based information retrieval and extraction * tools and methodologies for developing multilingual systems * translation enhancement tools * validation in all areas of HLTs * visionary papers in the field of HLT * WordNet-like ontologies ---PAPER SUBMISSION The conference accepts papers in English only. Papers (5 formatted pages in the conference format) are due by November 14, 2022 (midnight, any time zone) and should not disclose the author(s) in any manner. In order to facilitate submission we have decided to reduce the formatting requirements as much as possible at the submission stage. All submissions are to be made electronically via the LTC 2023 web submission system (EasyChair). Paper templates are available at http://www.ltc.amu.edu.pl (Paper Submission section). PUBLICATION POLICY Acceptance will be based on the reviewers' assessments (blind peer review by tree experts). The accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings (hard and electronic copy, with ISBN number). The abstracts of the accepted contributions will also be made available via the conference page (during its lifetime). Publication requires full electronic registration and payment of the conference fee (full registration) by at least one co-authors in the due time (dates will be presented at the conference site). One registration fee entitles publication of one paper. Since 2005 until now, post-conference volumes with substantially extended versions of selected conference papers were published. Since 2007 these post-conference monographs were published in the Springer Verlag series Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. We intend to continue this tradition. Papers will be selected based on reviewers’ reports among the best evaluated papers of general interest with new innovative results. Preference will be given to papers providing significant content extension with respect to the paper presented at the conference. More details will be provided via the LTC23 web site. AWARDS FOR BEST STUDENT PAPERS Special awards will be granted to the best student (status at the date of paper submission). The majoritarian student contribution to the paper must be confirmed by all paper co-authors in a written form. More details will be provided at the LTC website. To find information out about the winners at previous conferences please visit www.ltc.amu.edu.pl. ACCOMPANYING EVENTS Please do not hesitate to contact us with new suggestions and ideas concerning accompanying events (workshops, exhibits, panels, etc.). Suggestions, ideas and observations may be addressed directly to the LTC Chairs (vetulani(a)amu.edu.pl and pap(a)limsi.fr (cc to ltc23(a)amu.edu.pl and marta.witkowska(a)amu.edu.pl). LANGUAGE: The conference language is English. Contacts: Zygmunt Vetulani (vetulani(a)amu.edu.pl) and Patrick Paroubek (pap(a)lisn.fr) (LTC23 Co-chairs), Marta Witkowska (LTC23 Secretary) (marta.witkowska(a)amu.edu.pl) MORE ABOUT THE CONFERENCE at the LTC23 website: http://www.ltc.amu.edu.pl *) City of Poznań: https://www.poznan.pl/mim/en/

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Multiple faculty positions at Purdue University’s School of Languages and Cultures (SLC) in the College of Liberal Arts
by Goldwasser, Dan 21 Oct '22

21 Oct '22

Purdue University’s School of Languages and Cultures (SLC) in the College of Liberal Arts (CLA) is seeking two computational linguists specializing in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) with an emphasis on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and/or Natural Language Processing (NLP) and machine learning for an academic year appointment at the Assistant Professor level (tenure track). These faculty members will hold 100% appointments in SLC and will also be affiliated with the Department of Linguistics in the School of Interdisciplinary Studies. The successful candidates will develop and/or lead a nationally recognized research program and will work together to develop a curriculum in AI and SLA. The faculty holding this position will also create and disseminate relevant knowledge through student instruction and research. They will teach courses at all levels, both in English and in one of the languages housed in SLC, and are expected to contribute to both undergraduate and graduate student mentorship. More information and link to apply: https://careers.purdue.edu/job/West-Lafayette-Professor-Assistant-IN-47906/…

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NoDaLiDa 2023: Call for Papers - 24rd Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics
by Mark Fišel 21 Oct '22

21 Oct '22

24rd Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa 2023) May 22 - May 24, 2023 in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands https://www.nodalida2023.fo/ CALL FOR PAPERS The Northern European Association for Language Technology (NEALT) invites submissions to its bi-annual conference on human language and speech technologies. NoDaLiDa 2023 will be held between Monday, May 22 and Wednesday, May 24, 2023 in Norðurlandahúsið - The Nordic House in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands. SUBMISSIONS NoDaLiDa addresses all aspects of natural language processing, speech recognition and synthesis and computational linguistics, including work in closely-related neighboring disciplines (such as, for example, machine learning, linguistics or psychology) that is sufficiently formalized or applied to bear relevance to speech and language technologies. We invite paper submissions of three types: * 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; and * demonstration papers on software or resource demonstrations, e.g. of systems, interfaces, infrastructures, data collections, or annotations. We particularly encourage the submission of papers on completed or on-going work, where the first author is a Master or PhD student. This should be indicated at submission time. Papers accepted for presentation at the conference will be included in the NoDaLiDa 2023 proceedings, which are published as part of the NEALT Proceedings Series by Linköping University Electronic Press and in the ACL Anthology. SCHEDULE * Monday, January 30, 2023: Submission of Papers * Monday, March 20, 2023: Notification of Acceptance * Monday, April 17, 2023: Camera-Ready Manuscripts * Monday, May 22, 2023: Pre-Conference Workshops * Tuesday and Wednesday, May 23-24, 2023: Main Conference SUBMISSION FORMATS All submissions must follow the NoDaLiDa 2023 style files, which are available for LaTeX (preferred) and MS Word and can be retrieved from the conference homepage. Submissions must be anonymous, i.e. not reveal author(s) on the title page or through self-references. Papers must be submitted digitally, in PDF, and uploaded through the on-line conference system. Paper submissions that violate either of these requirements will be returned without review. The page limits for submissions are: up to eight pages for regular papers, and up to four pages for short papers and demo papers. For all three submission types, these page limits do not include additional pages with bibliographic references. DOUBLE SUBMISSION and PRE-PUBLICATION Papers that have been or will be submitted to other venues must indicate this at submission time, and must be withdrawn from the other venues if accepted to NoDALiDa 2023. Authors of papers accepted for presentation at NoDALiDa must notify the program chairs by the camera-ready deadline as to whether the paper will be presented. We will not accept for publication or presentation the papers that overlap significantly in content or results with papers that will be (or have been) published elsewhere. NoDaLiDA follows the ACL policy on anonymization and anonymity period for non-anonymous pre-prints. The anonymity period for NoDaLiDa 2023 is from January 1, 2023. SUBMISSION MANAGEMENT Submissions to the conference must be uploaded electronically, obeying the above requirements and no later than (end of day, anywhere on the world): Monday, January 30, 2023. NoDaLiDa 2023 uses the OpenReview conference management system for submission, reviewing, and preparation of proceedings. General Chair * Mark Fishel, University of Tartu, Estonia To inquire about the submission and reviewing process or the scientific programme of the conference, please email ‘nodalida2023-pc(a)googlegroups.xn--com-to0a. Local Chairs * Iben Nyholm Debess, University of the Faroe Islands (chair) * Bergur Djurhuus Hansen, University of the Faroe Islands (co-chair) * Peter Juel Henrichsen, Danish Language Council (co-chair) For all practical inquiries, please email ‘nodalida2023-loc(a)googlegroups.xn--com-to0a. Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/NoDaLiDa

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Fully-funded NLP PhD position in pragmatic program generation at Saarland University -- Deadline Oct 30, 2022
by Sebastian Schuster 21 Oct '22

21 Oct '22

We invite applications for one PhD student position in pragmatic program generation. The goal of the PhD project is to develop and evaluate methods that can automatically turn natural language descriptions of what a program should do into executable computer code, with a special focus on dealing with ambiguities and lack of detail in the natural language descriptions. The position, to be established in the group "Computer Science and Computational Linguistics" (Prof. Vera Demberg <https://www.uni-saarland.de/lehrstuhl/demberg.html>), is part of a collaboration with the Software Engineering Group <https://www.se.cs.uni-saarland.de/> of Prof. Sven Apel and the Machine Teaching Group <https://machineteaching.mpi-sws.org/> of Dr. Adish Singla at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS). Candidates for this position should have a master's degree in computational linguistics, computer science or a related discipline. Experience with machine learning including deep learning is expected. The research will be conducted in English. Dates: Application deadline: October 30, 2022 Start date: Spring 2023 (start date flexible) The expected duration of the PhD is 3 years, the position is paid according to 75% TV-L E13, see also https://oeffentlicher-dienst.info/c/t/rechner/tv-l/west?id=tv-l-2020&matrix… <https://oeffentlicher-dienst.info/c/t/rechner/tv-l/west?id=tv-l-2020&matrix…>. The job does not come with any teaching obligation. You can however choose to participate in teaching activities (tutoring or co-teaching). Applicants are requested to submit their application, including a cover letter that specifies why you would like to work on this topic and what qualifies you for it, an academic CV, a list of academic publications (if applicable), your MSc thesis (or a current draft), copies of academic degree certificates and names of two potential references. Saarland University <https://www.uni-saarland.de/en/home.html> is one of the leading centres for computational linguistics and computer science in Europe, and offers a dynamic and stimulating research environment. It is famous for its interdisciplinary research in language, translation, computation and cognition. The group is affiliated with both the Department of Computer Science <https://www.uni-saarland.de/fachrichtung/informatik.html> and with the Department of Language Science and Technology <https://www.lst.uni-saarland.de/>. The Department of Language Science and Technology organizes about 100 research staff in ten research groups in the fields of computational linguistics, psycholinguistics, speech processing, and corpus linguistics. Both departments are part of the Saarland Informatics Campus <https://saarland-informatics-campus.de/en>, which brings together 800 researchers and 2000 students from 81 countries. We collaborate closely with the university's Department of Computer Science, the Max Planck Institute for Informatics <https://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/home/>, the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems <https://www.mpi-sws.org/>, and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence <https://www.dfki.de/en/web/> (DFKI). Our researchers and students come from all over the world, and our primary working language is English. Saarland University is an equal opportunity employer. Applications of women are strongly encouraged; applications of disabled persons will be given preferential treatment to those of other candidates with equal qualifications. Applications should be sent via email directly to Prof. Vera Demberg (vera(a)coli.uni-saarland.de <mailto:vera@coli.uni-saarland.de>coli.uni-saarland.de <>).

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Job-Research Assistant- Natural Language Processing -University of Galway-reg
by Bharathi Raja Asoka Chakravarthi 21 Oct '22

21 Oct '22

*Research Assistant* *Natural Language Processing and Linked Data* *School of Computer Science and Data Science Institute* *Ref. No. University of Galway 272-22* Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates for a full-time, fixed-term position as a Research Assistant with the School of Computer Science and Data Science Institute at the National University of Ireland, Galway. This position is funded by SFI Insight Research Centre for Data Analytics and Fidelity Investments and is available from 1 November 2022 to contract end date of 30 October 2023. The School of Computer Science is ambitious and growing, and we invite the new appointees to contribute to this together with us. The vision of the School of Computer Science is to build a strong and sustainable learning environment with world-recognised research that informs high-quality undergraduate and postgraduate teaching that is inclusive and relevant to the needs of our stakeholders and society in general. The School of Computer Science was initially established in 1991 as the Information Technology Discipline, and became a School in 2019, recognising its growth and significance. DSI incorporates the University of Galway node of the nationwide Insight Centre for Data Analytics. DSI hosts more than 100 staff and has established itself as a top player worldwide in the areas of Semantic Web and Linked Data. It has successfully implemented a research strategy around the goal of “Enabling Networked Knowledge”, which aims at capitalizing on knowledge as the fuel for the digital service economy, by linking information and exploiting the resulting knowledge graphs as the basis for economic productivity. The institute performs fundamental and applied research in a range of research areas to enable this, including data streams and sensor networks, knowledge discovery, natural language processing, social semantics and social network analysis, among others. Research outcomes are applied in use cases across a range of domains, including eGovernment, financial services, manufacturing, eHealth and Life Sciences. School of Computer Science - University of Galway <https://www.universityofgalway.ie/science-engineering/school-of-computer-sc…> *https://www.insight-centre.org/* <https://www.insight-centre.org/> *Job Description:* This research assistant position is in the area of Inclusive language detection, and will focus on the combination of existing natural language processing and linked data technologies. This work will build on the definition of inclusive language provided in the Fidelity report “Inclusion Guide: Language, Accessibility and more”. In addition, we will investigate open benchmarks. The successful candidate supports the activities of the project through provision of research and administrative assistance and will work under the direction of the Project Leaders Dr Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi and Dr. John McCrae. The School of Computer Science and Data Science Institute (DSI) at University of Galway is inviting applications for the position of research assistant for 1 year in the context of the SFI Insight Research Centre for Data Analytics. *Duties:* *Research * · Actively participate as a member of a research team and assist an individual research leader or team to conduct a particular study (or group of studies). · To provide assistance in conducting research activities, including planning, organizing, conducting, and communicating research studies within the overall scope of a research project. · To coordinate and perform a variety of independent tasks and team activities involved in the collection, analysis, documentation and some interpretation of information/results. · Conduct literature and database searches and interpret and present the findings of the literature searches as appropriate. · Assist in analysis and interpretation of results of own research. *Write up & Disseminate* · Write up results from own research activity (e.g. as project report) for review by PI, including preparing technical reports, conclusions and recommendations. · Contribute to the publication of findings. · Provide input into the research project’s dissemination, in whatever form (report, papers, chapters, book) as directed by the PI/project leader. Authorship should be decided in line with guidelines such as the Vancouver Protocol, or similar authorship guidelines as appropriate. · Present on research progress and outcomes e.g. to bodies supervising research; steering groups; other team members, as agreed with the PI/project leader. · Should write at least workshop level papers. *Management* · Work under the direction of the Principal Investigator/Project Leader. Plan and manage own day-to-day research activity within this framework & direction. · Provide guidance as required to any support staff and/or research students assisting with the research project, as agreed with the Principal Investigator/Grant holder. · To perform other related duties incidental to the work described herein. · Where appropriate provide advice and / or assistance to support staff, research students. *Qualifications/Skills required: * *Essential Requirements: * · MSc in Natural Language Processing, Computer Science or Linguistics · Experience with natural language processing, linked data or related technologies · Excellent understanding of experimental design and scientific methodologies · Strong command of oral and written English · Good programming skills and evidence of previously completed software projects *Desirable Requirements: * · Strong knowledge of language technology for equality, diversity, and inclusion · Knowledge of debiasing techniques in NLP task · Knowledge of gender inclusive languages · Programming experience with deep learning in Python · Strong publication record · Track record of contribution to open source projects. *Employment permit restrictions apply for this category of post * *Salary: *€27,380 to €31,050 per annum, per annum pro rata for shorter and/or part-time contracts (public sector pay policy rules pertaining to new entrants will apply *Start date*: Position is available from November 2022 *Continuing Professional Development/Training*: Further information on research and working at University of Galway is available on Research at University of Galway <http://www.nuigalway.ie/our-research/> Researchers at University of Galway are encouraged to avail of a range of training and development opportunities designed to support their personal career development plans. University of Galway provides continuing professional development supports for all researchers seeking to build their own career pathways either within or beyond academia. Researchers are encouraged to engage with our Researcher Development Centre (RDC) upon commencing employment - see https://www.universityofgalway.ie/rdc/ for further information. For information on moving to Ireland please see www.euraxess.ie Further information about the School of Computer Science and Data Science Institute is available at School of Computer Science - University of Galway <https://www.universityofgalway.ie/science-engineering/school-of-computer-sc…> https://www.universityofgalway.ie/dsi/ *NB*: Gárda vetting is a requirement for this post *To Apply:* Applications to include a covering letter, CV, and the contact details of three referees should be sent, via e-mail (in word or PDF only) to Dr. Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi ( bharathiraja.asokachakravarthi(a)universityofgalway.ie) and Dr. John P. McCrae, (john.mccrae(a)universityofgalway.ie) Please put reference number *University of Galway 272-22 *in subject line of e-mail application. *Closing date for receipt of applications is 5.00 pm 28th October 2022* We reserve the right to re-advertise or extend the closing date for this post. University of Galway is an equal opportunities employer. All positions are recruited in line with Open, Transparent, Merit (OTM) and Competency based recruitment with regards, Dr. Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Assistant Professor / Lecturer-above-the-bar School of Computer Science, University of Galway, Ireland Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, Data Science Institute, University of Galway, Ireland E-mail: bharathiraja.akr(a)gmail.com , bharathiraja.asokachakravarthi(a)universityofgalway.ie Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=irCl028AAAAJ&hl=en

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Second Call for Papers: Construction Grammars and NLP (CxGs+NLP) Workshop
by Harish Tayyar Madabushi 21 Oct '22

21 Oct '22

Apologies for cross-posting We are delighted to announce the First Construction Grammars and NLP (CxGs+NLP) Workshop as part of the Georgetown University Round Table and invite long and short papers submissions to the workshop. Please join the workshop’s Google Group for the latest updates and to post any questions you might have: https://groups.google.com/g/cxgsnlp-workshop All accepted papers will be included in the CxGs + NLP 2023 proceedings volume, which will be part of the ACL Anthology. Revised paper submission deadline: 15th November 2022 Second Call for Papers: Construction Grammars and NLP (CxGs+NLP) Workshop September 2022 | Claire Bonial & Harish Tayyar Madabushi Event Notification Type: Call for Papers Abbreviated Title: CxGs + NLP Website: https://sites.google.com/view/cxgsnlpworkshop Half-day workshop as part of Georgetown University Round Table (GURT), 9-12 March 2023 Location: Washington DC Contact: Please join the workshop’s Google Group for the latest updates and to post any questions you might have: https://groups.google.com/g/cxgsnlp-workshop Contact: Claire Bonial (U.S. Army Research Lab) Harish Tayyar Madabushi (University of Bath) Construction Grammar (CxG) approaches recognize all levels of linguistic structure as contributing meaning, which makes them a powerful tool for considering a wide variety of linguistic problems, from determining parts-of-speech to aspectual properties. How we look at these problems has an impact on a variety of related NLP and NLU applications, including parsing, question-answering and interactive information extraction, machine translation, language grounding in robotics, etc. For many applications in the traditional NLP pipeline, existing assumptions that meaning is tied to individual lexical items and composed according to rules leave some language phenomena unaccounted for. CxGs offer theoretical solutions to such phenomena and have made headway in the development of computational resources such as constructicons, but there is more to do in fruitfully bringing CxG theories to NLP applications. Similarly, recent advances in NLP, driven in large part by the introduction of pre-trained language models, have led to the development of computational methods independent of a linguistic grounding. Although there exists work in attempting to understand the cognitive and linguistic feasibility of these models, such work remains in its infancy. Given this dichotomy between the recent direction of NLP research and the closely related field of CxGs, we are excited to announce the CxGs + NLP workshop, aimed at bringing together researchers in the fields of Natural Language Processing and Construction Grammar so as to jump-start, what we believe is, an important conversation between these two complementary, yet currently disparate fields. Our aim is to bring together theoretical and computational researchers interested in CxG approaches and encourage topics examining how theoretical research can inform computational approaches and applications, whether existing or needed in the future. Thus, we invite original research papers from a range of topics, including but not limited to: - Theory and Linguistics - Formalisms for construction grammar - Natural Language Understanding (NLU) - Opinion pieces on the interplay between CxGs and NLP - Constructions and Language Models (BERTology) - Constructicons and corpora annotated for construction grammar - Construction grammar learning and adaptation - Applications In addition to the presentation of papers at the intersection of CxGs and NLP, we will have invited speakers discussing the relation between these fields from different perspectives. The workshop will also include a discussion consisting of experts from both fields discussing possible synergies between the two fields. Venue: The Georgetown University Round Table on Linguistics (GURT) is a peer-reviewed annual linguistics conference held continuously since 1949 at Georgetown University in Washington DC, with topics and co-located events varying from year to year. Under an overarching theme of ‘Computational and Corpus Linguistics’, GURT 2023 will feature four events, which are workshops or conferences focused on computational and corpus approaches to syntax but also covering theoretical issues: Universal Dependency Workshop (UDW), Depling, Treebanks and Linguistic Theory (TLT), and CxGs+NLP. All talks from all events will take place in a single (non-parallel) plenary session, with the papers from one event being presented contiguously. The goal of co-locating these events to promote cross-fertilization of ideas across subcommunities. Proceedings will be published separately for each event, and will be available in the ACL Anthology. Please see the GURT website here: https://gurt.georgetown.edu/ In order to support rich discussions and networking with minimal overhead and cost, GURT will be primarily an in-person event; we will, however, accommodate a limited number of live/synchronous remote presentations, prioritizing those with circumstances that prevent travel. University policies regarding COVID safety will be in force during the event. Georgetown University is located in a historic neighborhood in the heart of the nation’s capital. The city is a premier tourist destination, and the region is served by Reagan National (DCA), Dulles (IAD), and Baltimore-Washington (BWI) airports. Important dates: - Workshop papers due: 1 November 2022 15th November 2022 (Extended) - Notification of acceptance: 9 January 2023 - Camera-ready papers due: 28 January 2023 - Workshop date: half day TBD in the period of 9-12 March 2023 All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h ("anywhere on Earth"). Submissions We accept two types of submissions, long papers and short papers, following the ACL policy on submission, review, and citation: https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Policies_for_Submissio… All papers accepted for presentation at the workshop will be included in the CxGs + NLP 2023 proceedings volume, which will be part of the ACL Anthology. Additionally, non-archival short papers will be considered for acceptance into the workshop as in-person poster presentations only; these should be submitted by email directly to the organizers for review as opposed to submission through the EasyChair conference website and will not undergo double-blind review. Long papers may consist of up to eight (8) pages of main content; short papers may consist of up to four (4) pages of main content; and final versions will be given one additional page of content so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account. Limits on main content do not apply to references or (optional) ethics statements. After the references, the submission may include appendices for supplementary content not necessary for evaluating the contributions of the paper (reviewers will not be required to review the appendices). Submissions should be sent in electronic forms, using the EasyChair conference management system: https://openreview.net/group?id=georgetown.edu/GURT/2023/Conference Submissions are open to all, and are to be submitted anonymously. All papers will be refereed through a double-blind peer review process with final acceptance decisions made by the workshop organizers. Submissions may be selected for publication in a GURT venue other than CxGs + NLP at the discretion of the organizers. Paper Submission and Templates: Submission is electronic, using the EasyChair conference management system. Both long and short papers must follow the ACL two-column format, using the supplied official style files: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files Please do not modify these style files, nor should you use templates designed for other conferences. Double submission policy: We will accept submissions that have been or will be submitted elsewhere, but require that the authors notify us, including information on where else they are submitting. We also require that authors withdraw work that will be published elsewhere (no double publication). Submissions that violate these requirements will be rejected without review. Instructions For Double-Blind Review: As reviewing will be double blind, papers must not include authors’ names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references or links (such as github) that reveal the author’s identity, e.g., “We previously showed (Smith, 1991) …” must be avoided. Instead, use citations such as “Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) …” Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. Papers should not refer, for further detail, to documents that are not available to the reviewers. For example, do not omit or redact important citation information to preserve anonymity. Instead, use third person or named reference to this work, as described above (“Smith showed” rather than “we showed”). If important citations are not available to reviewers (e.g., awaiting publication), these paper/s should be anonymised and included in the appendix. They can then be referenced from the submission without compromising anonymity. Papers may be accompanied by a resource (software and/or data) described in the paper, but these resources should also be anonymized. More information about the workshop can be found on the CxGs+NLP website: https://sites.google.com/view/cxgsnlpworkshop

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