November 2022 - Corpora

2nd CfP: "Semantic, artificial and computational interaction studies: Towards a behavioromics of multimodal communication"
by Andy Lücking 08 Nov '22

08 Nov '22

*Apologies for cross-posting* 2nd Call for papers HCI International 2023 Session: "Semantic, artificial and computational interaction studies: Towards a behavioromics of multimodal communication" Manual gestures, facial expressions, head movements, shrugs, laughter, body orientation, speech, pauses: they all contribute to constituting what is called "multimodal interaction". Aiming at natural (for humans) interfaces, the field of HCI paid attention to this social fact early on. It is also a vital topic in conversation analysis and cognitive science and begins to percolate to theoretical linguistics and (formal) semantics. Simultaneously, due to the digital turn, work on multimodal communication is expanded by data analytics, that is, statistical means to describe the form of communication. However, while conjoint in investigating a common empirical domain, there is little exchange between these fields. This session aims at bringing these branches together. Potential goals are to delineate experimental studies, computational methods, resource building, and exploration to integrate symbolic, statistical, laboratory, field, and corpus-based approaches -- a joint methodological endeavor that might be called "behavioromics." The session is open, but not restrcted, to topics such as the following: - dialogue semantics and dialogue systems - (big) gesture data - multimodal interaction data - creation and exploitation of multimodal corpora - virtual reality avatars as experimental setting - cross-modal tracking - data-based multimodal analysis - detecting multimodal ensembles or gestalts - automatic annotation of everything beyond written text - representation schemes for multimodal communication We want to emphasize that conceptual contributions are highly welcome! The conference session aims at providing a platform for bringing together semanticists, computer scientists and researchers from related fields that deal with multimodal interaction. We all work on virtually the same topic but from different angles, but there are way to few opportunities to get in touch. But exchange and seeing what others are doing is crucial to approach the above-outlined, methodological, empirical and theoretical challenges. The conference session will take place *virtually* in conjunction with HCI International 2023 (https://2023.hci.international/). Full papers will be published as part of the conference proceedings by Springer. *If you want to contribute, please send a message to Andy Lücking (luecking(a)em.uni-frankfurt.de).* Important dates: - December 04, 2022: upload abstract - Notification of review outcome: 20 December 2022 - February 14, 2023: full paper is due - 23-28 July 2023: HCI International conference (virtual) Session organizers: Cornelia Ebert (https://www.linguistik-in-frankfurt.de/personal/cornelia-ebert/) Andy Lücking (https://www.texttechnologylab.org/team/andy-luecking/; http://www.llf.cnrs.fr/en/Gens/L%C3%BCcking) Alexander Mehler (https://www.texttechnologylab.org/team/alexander-mehler/)

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Final Call for Papers: Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT)
by Kilian Evang 08 Nov '22

08 Nov '22

The 21st International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories – FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS Submission link: https://openreview.net/group?id=georgetown.edu/GURT/2023/Conference Submission deadline (extended): Nov 15th, 2022 Invited speakers announced (scroll down) The 21st International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT) will bring together developers and users of linguistically annotated natural language corpora and take place during the week of March 9th–12th, 2023 in Washington D.C. on the campus of Georgetown University as part of GURT 2023. 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 is to promote cross-fertilization of ideas across subcommunities. Proceedings will be published separately for each event, and will be available in the ACL Anthology. 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. GURT INVITED SPEAKERS - Jonathan Dunn, University of Canterbury, New Zealand (CxGs+NLP) - Guy Perrier, Loria, France (Depling) - Joan Bresnan, Stanford University, USA (TLT) - Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University, Sweden (UDW) SUBMISSION INFORMATION TLT addresses all aspects of treebank design, development, and use. As ‘treebanks’ we consider any pairing of natural language data (spoken, signed, or written) with annotations of linguistic structure at various levels of analysis, including, e.g., morpho-phonology, syntax, semantics, and discourse. Annotations can take any form (including trees or general graphs), but they should be encoded in a way that enables computational processing. Reflections on the design of linguistic annotations, methodology studies, resource announcements or updates, annotation or conversion tool development, or reports on treebank usage are but some examples of the types of papers we anticipate for TLT. Papers should describe original work; they should emphasize completed work rather than intended 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, and interest to the attendees. We invite paper submissions in two distinct tracks: - long 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. All papers accepted for presentation at the workshop will be included in the TLT 2023 proceedings volume, which will be part of the ACL Anthology. Long papers may consist of up to 8 pages of content (excluding references and appendices). Short papers may consist of up to 4 pages of content (excluding references and appendices). Accepted papers will be given an additional page to address reviewer comments. All submissions should follow the two-column format and the ACL style guidelines. We strongly recommend the use of the LaTeX style files, OpenDocument, or Microsoft Word templates created for ACL: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files All papers must be anonymous, i.e., not reveal author(s) on the title page or through self-references. So, e.g., “We previously showed (Smith, 2020) …”, should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as “Smith (2020) previously showed …”. Papers must be submitted digitally, in PDF, and uploaded through the on-line conference system: https://openreview.net/group?id=georgetown.edu/GURT/2023/Conference 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. 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 TLT at the discretion of the organizers. IMPORTANT DATES Long and short paper submission deadlines: November 15th, 2022 Reviews Due: December 17th, 2022 Notification of acceptance: January 11th, 2023 Final version of papers due: February 1st, 2023 GURT2023: March 9th-12th, 2023 TLT WORKSHOP CHAIRS Daniel Dakota, Indiana University Kilian Evang, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf Sandra Kübler, Indiana University Lori Levin, Carnegie Mellon University Contact: ddakota(a)iu.edu Website: https://cl.indiana.edu/tlt2023 GURT Website: https://gurt.georgetown.edu/

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Nodalida 2023: Call for workshop proposals
by Mark Fišel 08 Nov '22

08 Nov '22

24th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NoDaLiDa) May 22 - 24, 2023, Tórshavn, Faroe Islands https://www.nodalida2023.fo CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS The Northern European Association for Language Technology (NEALT) invites proposals for workshops at its bi-annual conference on human language and speech technologies. NoDaLiDa 2023 will be held between May 22 and 24, 2023 in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands. NoDaLiDa addresses all aspects of natural language processing, speech processing 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 proposals for workshops, to be held on Monday, May 22, 2023, immediately preceding the main conference. Workshops can be either scheduled for a full day (morning and afternoon) or for half a day. Workshop proposals can be submitted in free-text form, anytime before Friday, December 2, 2022 by email to ‘nodalida2023-workshops(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:nodalida2023-workshops@googlegroups.com>’. Workshop proposals must include adequate information on at least the following aspects: - proposed workshop title - topic and goals of the workshop - target group and estimated attendance - workshop organizer(s) and contact(s) - mode of organization and program design SCHEDULE * Friday, December 2, 2022: Submission of workshop proposals * Friday, December 16, 2022: Notification of workshop selection * Monday, March 20, 2023: Recommended workshop paper submission deadline * Monday, May 1, 2023: Camera-ready workshop papers due * Monday, May 22, 2023: Pre-conference workshops Organizers of accepted proposals will be responsible for publicizing and running the workshop, including sending out calls for papers, reviewing submissions, producing the camera ready workshop proceedings, and organizing the meeting days. SELECTION The assessment and selection of workshop proposals will be made by the NoDaLiDa 2023 Workshop Chairs. To inquire about the workshop submission process or any practical aspect about the organization of workshops, please email ‘nodalida2023-workshops(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:nodalida2023-workshops@googlegroups.com>’. Looking forward to your workshop proposals which will help make Nodalida 2023 a success!

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BrPoliCorpus: Brazilian Political Corpus
by Rodrigo Esteves de Lima Lopes 08 Nov '22

08 Nov '22

Dear Colleagues, I hope this email finds you well. I just started a new project called *BrPoliCorpus: Brazilian Political Corpus*. My objective is to make available, as an R Data Package, a corpus of political documents in Brazilian Portuguese. Currently, the package has only a dataset, *InauguralSpeeches*, which includes all Brazilian President’s Inaugural Speeches since 1889. The package and the installation instructions are available here <https: All the best, //github.com/rll307/BrPoliCorpus>. All the best, Rodrigo --- Dr. Rodrigo Esteves de Lima-Lopes Associate Professor University of Campinas Department of Applied Linguistics

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Deadline extended -- Fully-funded NLP PhD position in pragmatic program generation at Saarland University (Deadline Nov 13, 2022)
by Sebastian Schuster 08 Nov '22

08 Nov '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. DEADLINE FOR THIS CALL HAS BEEN EXTENDED (NOV 13TH)! 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 (exceptional candidates with a 4-year bachelor’s degree may also be considered). Experience with machine learning including deep learning is expected. The research will be conducted in English. Dates: Application deadline: November 13, 2022 (Late applications maybe considered but for full consideration, please apply by this date.) 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 another writing sample), 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>vera@ <mailto:vera@coli.uni-saarland.de>coli.uni-saarland.de <>).

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CFP: FICTA-2023, Cardiff Metropolitan University, United Kingdom || Springer SIST Series (Scopus Indexed) || Paper Submission Deadline: 10 December 2022
by Sandeep Sengar 08 Nov '22

08 Nov '22

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

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Postdoctoral Research Assistant on social data science and online harms at QMUL, London, UK
by Arkaitz Zubiaga 08 Nov '22

08 Nov '22

Applications are invited to join world-leading researchers to work on social data science and online harms in our Social Data Science lab (http://sds.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/), based at the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, QMUL (http://eecs.qmul.ac.uk/). The position will involve exploring large-scale social media datasets to understand how people behave during major life transitions; devising novel methodologies to automatically target support for people during such transitions; exploring how this can be offered in a privacy-centric fashion. The role is part of AP4L project (https://ap4l.github.io/), alongside the Universities of Surrey, Cambridge, Strathclyde, and Edinburgh. The closing date for applications is 4th December 2022. Interviews are expected to be held shortly thereafter. For more details on the post and the team, please check the following links: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CUU622/research-assistant-or-postdoctoral-resear… Ignacio Castro (https://icastro.info/) Gareth Tyson (https://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~tysong/) Arkaitz Zubiaga (http://www.zubiaga.org/)

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[Extended deadline] Workshop proposal to SLE: Questions in monologic discourse
by Amália Mendes 07 Nov '22

07 Nov '22

New deadline : 15 November 2022 *** Apologies for cross-posting *** Call for papers: Workshop proposal: Questions in monologic discourse Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE) Conference 2023 – National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece Date: 29 August – 1 September 2023 Workshop convenors: Agnès Celle Université Paris Cité, Amália Mendes Universidade de Lisboa Contact persons: Agnès Celle, Amália Mendes agnes.celle(a)u-paris.fr<mailto:agnes.celle@u-paris.fr> amaliamendes(a)letras.ulisboa.pt<mailto:amaliamendes@letras.ulisboa.pt> Website: <https://societaslinguistica.eu/meetings> https://societaslinguistica.eu/sle2023/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2022/10/Q… Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics, Pragmatics Important dates: Call deadline: 05 November 2022 Extended deadline : 15 November 2022 Notification of abstract acceptance / rejection from the workshop convenors: 20 November 2022 Notification of acceptance / rejection of the workshop proposal: 15 December 2022 If accepted: Full abstract submission deadline: 15 January 2023 Notification of acceptance / rejection : 31 March 2023 Submission: Abstracts (max 300 words in both word and pdf format) are invited for papers that investigate questions in speeches and narratives involving only one speaker (or writer), such as lectures and didactic discourse, podcasts, TED talks etc. Abstracts are submitted by email to the workshop convenors. Workshop description: This workshop is devoted to questions in monologic discourse. Recent years have witnessed a flurry of research on questions from various theoretical perspectives. This trend coincides with a renewed interest in dialogue and interaction, where questions play a pivotal role. Indeed, questions have a significant impact on conversation. In Conversational Analysis, questions are viewed as a turn-taking trigger (Sacks, Schegloff, and Jefferson 1974) that shapes the organisation of social interaction. Question-answer relations are represented through adjacency pairs which structurally involve utterances that are produced by at least two speech participants (Schegloff 2007). Questions are used to request information or confirmation, and also to initiate repair. The study of questions in conversation suggests that interaction is biased towards cooperative responses (Stivers 2010). In formal semantics, it has been proposed to conceive of dialogue as a gameboard (Ginzburg 2012) or as a Table (Farkas 2020) where questions under discussion, i.e. unresolved issues, are processed. Once a question is answered, issues that awaited resolution are removed from the Table and propositions can be part of the common ground. The addressee's reactions are crucial to evaluate both the acceptance of the speaker's assertions and the nature of the update induced by the speaker's questions. An important pragmatic assumption is that the speaker ignores the answer and that the addressee knows it. When questions are used in contexts that diverge from this default assumption, they are considered to be non-canonical. While non-canonical questions are well documented, questions in monologic discourse have not been explored in connection with the discursive environment and the discourse genre they belong to. Because the context suspends the speaker's ignorance assumption, some semanticists have analysed such questions as self-addressed questions. But the status of the addressee is unclear and it has been referred to as a « second virtual » speaker (Grésillon and Lebrave 1984). According to Farkas (2020), in the case of a question that is part of a speech given on television, the addressee is the television audience even if the question is analysed as self-addressed. According to Eckardt & Disselkamp (2019), however, the audience is regarded as bystanders while the addressee coincides with the speaker: (1) How does a solar eclipse arise ? (Eckardt and Disselkamp 2019) The aim of the workshop is to revisit such questions from various theoretical perspectives. The goal of communication may not be limited to face to face information exchange. The workshop will focus on questions in communication settings where they cannot be answered face to face by an addressee. How commitments can be synchronised when the range of addressees and / or mediated communication restrict the possibility of response is an open question. This raises issues concerning the discursive function of questions and their definition, as most recent approaches tend to characterise questions from a dialogic perspective. What is the status of questions that are not intended to be answered by an addressee? As the speaker keeps the turn, he/she remains the sole source of information and how the addressee's information state is updated cannot be checked. Commitments may thus be predicted to be independent (Gunlogson (2008); Bhadra (2020)). Nonetheless, the speaker constantly anticipates upcoming discursive issues by foreseeing the addressee's knowledge state. The question is, how can the speaker steer the common ground to a new knowledge state without any response from an addressee? Does the absence of addressee response modify the nature of questions? Does it make them more vital to monologic discourse? In this respect, the frequency of direct questions has been associated with a greater degree of speaker control over discourse, and there is a great deal of cross-linguistic variation (Celle (2009); Fløttum et al.(2006)), which will be further investigated in the workshop. Can monologic discourse be defined as a genre on the basis of the lack of interaction? To what extent is dialogism simulated by questions in monologic discourse (Bakhtine 1984) ? Does monologic discourse favour certain interrogatives (open vs. closed interrogatives, independent vs. embedded interrogatives, sluices etc.) and certain discursive relations between questions and their responses? Do monologic questions have a « textual » function in terms of topic-comment organisation and textual progression (Grésillon and Lebrave 1984) ? One of the goals of the workshop is to foster dialogue between linguists who have carried out annotation from a discourse coherence perspective and those who have annotated questions from a dialogic perspective, possibly incorporating multimodal cues. It is believed that the study of questions in monologic discourse can benefit from the insights of both perspectives. Coherence based models (such as Segmented Discourse Representation Theory, see Muller et al. (2012) or Penn Discourse TreeBank, see Prasad et al. (2017), Prasad et al. (2019)) originally intended for narrative text can accommodate questions. For instance, the corpus STAC, a corpus of dialogues, annotates Question Answer pairs in the SDRT framework (Asher et al. 2016), whereas in the third version of the PDTB, questions answered by the writer are annotated as hypophora (Webber et al. 2019), similarly to the annotation of TED Talks transcripts in the TED-MDB (Zeyrek et al. 2019). Vice versa, how questions are annotated in QUD based models (see Westera et al. (2020); Westera & Rohde (2019); Riester et al. (2018)) in terms of information-structure (focus vs. topic) and in terms of relevance, may uncover their discursive contribution.

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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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Call for paper-MMLow-ICON 2022 -reg
by Shardul Suryawanshi 07 Nov '22

07 Nov '22

*Paper Submission Deadline Extended* to Nov 15 *WORKSHOP ON MULTIMODAL MACHINE LEARNING IN LOW-RESOURCE LANGUAGES at ICON 2022 <https://lcs2.in/ICON-2022/>* *Link: *https://sites.google.com/view/mmlow-icon2022/home?authuser=0 In recent years, the exploitation of the potential of big data has resulted in significant advancements in a variety of Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing applications. However, the majority of tasks addressed thus far have been primarily visual in nature due to the unbalanced availability of labelled samples across modalities (e.g., there are numerous large labelled datasets for images but few for audio or IMU-based classification), resulting in a large performance gap when algorithms are trained separately. With its origins in audio-visual speech recognition and, more recently, in language and vision projects such as image and video captioning, multimodal machine learning is a thriving multidisciplinary research field that addresses several of artificial intelligence's (AI) original goals by integrating and modelling multiple communicative modalities, including linguistic, acoustic, and visual messages. Due to the variability of the data and the frequently observed dependency between modalities, this study subject presents some particular problems for machine learning researchers. Because the majority of this hateful content is in regional languages, they easily slip past online surveillance algorithms that are designed to target articles written in resource-rich languages like English. As a result, low-resource regional languages in Asia, Africa, Europe, and South America face a shortage of tools, benchmark datasets, and machine learning approaches. This workshop aims to bring together members of the machine learning and multimodal data fusion fields in regional languages. We anticipate contributions that hate speech and emotional analysis in multimodality include video, audio, text, drawings, and synthetic material in regional language. This workshop's objective is to advance scientific study in the broad field of multimodal interaction, techniques, and systems, emphasising important trends and difficulties in regional languages, with a goal of developing a roadmap for future research and commercial success. We invite submissions on topics that include, but are not limited to, the following: - Multimodal Sentiment Analysis in regional languages - Hate content video detection in regional languages - Trolling and Offensive post detection in Memes - Multimodal data fusion and data representation for hate speech detection in regional language - Multimodal hate speech benchmark datasets and evaluations in regional languages - Multimodal fake news in regional languages - Data collection and annotation methodologies for safer social media in low-resourced languages - Content moderation strategies in regional languages - Cybersecurity and social media in regional languages *Important Dates:* *Paper Submission Deadline: * Nov 14, 2022 *Paper Acceptance Notification: **Nov 15, 2022 * *Camera-ready Submission Deadline: * Dec 01, 2022 *Workshop*: Dec 15, 2022 Thanks & Regards, MMLow Organizers

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Corpora November 2022