November 2022 - Corpora

Get your PhD @ the UT Austin iSchool (applications due Dec. 1)
by Matt Lease 21 Nov '22

21 Nov '22

The University of Texas at Austin's School of Information (iSchool) is seeking talented students to join our Ph.D. Program in Fall 2023! *December 1st is the deadline for fall 2023 admissions. *Late applications may be submitted but are not guaranteed equal consideration. - https://www.ischool.utexas.edu/programs/phd-admissions - Recorded information session: https://youtu.be/_9OJ-uGo-Cg We are a top-ranked PhD program committed to making a difference in the world through high-impact research <https://www.ischool.utexas.edu/research>. We seek to engage the best and brightest people who thrive on challenges to join our Ph.D. program for cutting-edge research to benefit the world and its people. Our research seeks to harness the massive scale and value of information, discover the principles and processes to manage it, and leverage information to enhance human lives. We seek to design information management solutions that are accessible, useful, usable, and sustainable. To increase scientific understanding of the role and impact of information in all human endeavors, we study problems and develop solutions for better information design, management, organization, preservation, and retrieval. Please see https://www.ischool.utexas.edu/research/research-areas. The study of information extends beyond any existing field. Our world-class, interdisciplinary faculty <https://www.ischool.utexas.edu/people/ischool-faculty-staff-students> spans a wide range of expertise, from computer science, psychology, and industrial engineering to communications, science & technology studies, and more. We seek students who can see beyond current approaches to problems, who recognize that information transcends boundaries, and who are comfortable crossing disciplines in search of answers. Our school has a strong tradition of fully financially supporting our doctoral students through a combination of Fellowships, Research Assistantships, and Teaching Assistantships. Our support packages are competitive, including tuition, health insurance, and a stipend sufficient to live comfortably in Austin. Beyond our top-ranked international graduate program, UT Austin is one of the world's premier research universities and is located in one of the USA's sunniest and most vibrant cities in which to live and work: - http://www.utexas.edu/about/overview - http://www.utexas.edu/campus-life/life-in-austin - https://www.austintexas.org/things-to-do/ Our university’s motto is not only that "What Starts Here Changes the World" <https://www.utexas.edu/>, but also that "What Starts Here Starts with YOU". We hope that you will embrace the opportunity and challenge that our PhD program offers and join us in conducting high-impact research that truly changes the world. We look forward to your application! For any questions about admissions to our doctoral program, please contact us at graduateadmit(a)ischool.utexas.edu. -- Matt Lease Professor School of Information University of Texas at Austin Voice: (512) 471-9350 · Fax: (512) 471-3971 · Office: UTA 5.536 http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~ml

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FOIS 2023: Call for Papers
by Selja Seppälä 20 Nov '22

20 Nov '22

*** Apologies for cross-posting *** Call for papers: FOIS 2023 13th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2023), July 17-20, 2023 (Sherbrooke, QC, Canada) and Sept 18-20, 2023 (Online) http://fois2023.griis.ca For any questions, please email: fois2023(a)gmail.com Definition and scope The FOIS conference is a meeting point for all researchers with an interest in formal ontology. Formal ontology is the systematic study of the types of entities and relations making up the domains of interest represented in modern information systems. The conference encourages submission of high quality, not previously published results on both theoretical issues and practical advancements. FOIS 2023 will have distinct tracks for foundational issues, ontology applications and methods, and domain ontologies. FOIS aims to be a nexus of interdisciplinary research and communication for researchers from many domains engaging with formal ontology. Common application areas include conceptual modeling, database design, knowledge engineering and management, software engineering, organizational modeling, artificial intelligence, robotics, computational linguistics, the life sciences, bioinformatics and scientific research in general, geographic information science, information retrieval, library and information science, as well as the Semantic Web. FOIS is the flagship conference of the International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA: http://iaoa.org/), which is a non-profit organization promoting interdisciplinary research and international collaboration in formal ontology. Important dates • Paper submission deadline: 31 January 2023 • Author rebuttal period: March 24-31, 2023 (tentative) • Notifications: April 10, 2023 (tentative) • Camera-ready papers: May 1, 2023 • Onsite conference: July 17-20, 2023 • Virtual conference: week of September 18, 2023 The submission deadline for workshops will be after the notifications to allow authors to submit a revised version of rejected papers to any of the conference workshops if the paper topics are appropriate for this workshop. Location FOIS 2023 will consist of a physical meeting and a virtual meeting: • An in-person only meeting in Sherbrooke, Quebec from July 17 to 21, 2023 that will be very much like a traditional conference with keynotes, regular talks, workshops and tutorials and plenty of social and networking opportunities. This part will not have a remote participation option, but we plan on recording selected talks (e.g. keynotes). • This will be followed by an online part to be held from September 18 to 20, 2023 that offers an opportunity for presentation and discussion of additional papers that were not presented at the physical meeting in Sherbrooke. Submissions FOIS 2023 seeks three types of full-length (14 pages) high-quality papers on a wide range of topics: • Foundational papers address content-related ontological issues, their formal representation, and their relevance to some aspect of information systems. • Application and Methods papers address novel systems, methods, and tools related to building, evaluating, or using ontologies, emphasizing the impact of ontology contents. • Domain ontology papers describe a novel ontology for a specific realm of interest, clarifying ontological choices against requirements and foundational theory, and showing ontology use. Please refer to the Submissions Instructions (coming soon) for more details. As usual, the FOIS proceedings will be published by IOS Press. Topics of interest Areas of particular interest to FOIS include the following: Foundational Issues • Kinds of entities: particulars/universals, continuants/occurrents, abstracta/concreta, dependent entities/independent entities, natural objects/artifacts, events/processes • Formal relations: parthood, identity, connection, dependence, constitution, causality, subsumption, instantiation • Vagueness and granularity • Space, time, and change Methodological issues • Top-level vs. domain-specific ontologies • Role of reference ontologies • Ontology similarity, integration, alignment, matching and entity reconciliation • Ontology modularity, patterns, and contextuality • Ontology evaluation, quality, reuse, adaptation, and evolution • Ontology compliance with FAIR principles • Formal comparison among ontologies • Relationship between conceptual modeling and ontologies • Relationship with cognition, language, semantics, and context • Connections between knowledge graphs and ontologies • Methodological issues in the applications of ontologies • Social issues, such as trust or bias, with respect to ontologies Applications • Technical applications of ontologies, such as • Semantic Web • Other areas of AI (Machine Learning, Explainable AI, Rules) • Qualitative modeling • Systems applications of ontologies, such as • Ontology-driven information systems design • Ontology-based data access • Knowledge management • Information retrieval • Computational linguistics • Metadata management • Domain applications of ontologies, such as • Ontologies for business modeling • Ontologies for particular scientific disciplines (biology, chemistry, geography, physics, geoscience, cognitive sciences, linguistics, etc.) • Ontologies for engineering: shape, form and function, artifacts, manufacturing, design, architecture, etc. • Ontologies for the humanities: arts, cultural studies, history, literature, philosophy, etc. • Ontologies for the social sciences: economics, law, political science, anthropology, archeology, etc. • Ontologies for Open Science and dataset sharing Domain-specific ontologies • Ontology of physical reality (matter, space, time, motion, etc.) • Ontology of biological reality (organisms, genes, proteins, cells, etc.) • Ontology of mental reality and agency (beliefs, intentions, emotions, perceptions, cognition, etc.) • Ontology of artifacts, functions, capacities and roles • Ontology of social reality (institutions, organizations, norms, social relationships, artistic expressions, etc.) Conference Organization General Chair: Antony Galton, University of Exeter, UK PC Chairs: Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, IRIT-CNRS Toulouse, France Torsten Hahmann, University of Maine, USA Local Organization Chair: Jean-François Ethier, University of Sherbrooke, Canada Online Chair: Cassia Trojahn, IRIT Université Toulouse 2, France Workshop and Tutorial Chairs: Megan Katsumi, University of Toronto, Canada Emilio Sanfilippo, ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy Early Career Chairs: Antoine Zimmermann, École des Mines de Saint-Étienne (EMSE), France Guendalina Righetti, Free University Bozen/Bolzano, Italy Demo & Showcase Chairs: Sergio de Cesare, University of Westminster, UK TBA Publicity Chairs: Lucia Gomez Alvarez, TU Dresden, Germany Selja Seppälä, University College Cork, Ireland

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NooJ2023_Call for papers
by abartulo＠unizd.hr 20 Nov '22

20 Nov '22

NooJ 2023: Call for papers Conference URL: https://conference.unizd.hr/noojconference/ ********************************************************************************* The 17th NooJ International Conference 2023 Zadar, Croatia May, 31st – June, 2nd 2023 ********************************************************************************* The University of Zadar (Department of Classical Philology and Department of Information Sciences), in cooperation with the Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinaires et Transculturelles (C.R.I.T.) from the Université de Franche-Comté (Besançon) and the NooJ association are organizing the 17th NooJ International Conference 2023 to be held from May 31st to June 2nd, 2023 in Zadar (Croatia). NooJ annual conferences give NooJ users the opportunity to meet and share their experience as developers, researchers and teachers; to present the latest linguistic resources, Digital Humanities experiments and NLP applications developed with NooJ; to offer researchers and graduate students a tutorial to help them parse corpora and build NLP applications with NooJ. ABOUT NOOJ ******************** NooJ is a linguistic development environment software as well as a corpus processor. NooJ provides linguists with tools to develop dictionaries, Regular Grammars, Context-Free Grammars, Context-Sensitive Grammars, as well as their graphical equivalents, to formalize various linguistic phenomena. NooJ’s multi-layer approach allows linguists to accumulate elementary descriptions across different linguistic levels. NooJ is used as a corpus processor in the Digital Humanities as it allows researchers in the Social sciences to apply sophisticated queries to large corpora in real time, annotate texts automatically and perform various statistical analyses. NooJ’s linguistic engine has been integrated into various NLP applications that perform automatic semantic annotation, Named Entities Recognition, Information extraction, Paraphrase Generation, Business Intelligence, Machine Translator, Web Semantics. NooJ is a free open-source software promoted by the METASHARE European programme. It can run on Windows (C# .NET), macOS, LINUX and UNIX (Java). Its new engine and its source “RA” can be downloaded from GitLab and runs natively on Windows, macOS and LINUX. TOPICS OF INTEREST ******************** * Linguistic Resources: Typography, Spelling, Syllabification, Phonemic and Prosodic Transcription, Morphology, Lexical Analysis, Local Syntax, Structural Syntax, Transformational Analysis, Paraphrase Generation, Semantic Annotations, Semantic Analysis. * Digital Humanities: Corpus Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Literature Studies, Second-Language Teaching, Narrative content analysis, Corpus processing for the Social Sciences. * Natural Language Processing Applications: Business Intelligence, Text Mining, Text Generation. Language Teaching Software, Automatic Paraphrasing, Machine Translation, etc. SUBMISSIONS ******************** We invite the submission of abstracts in English until January 15th, 2023. Abstracts should be between 300 and 600 words and submitted via Easy Abstract: http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/nooj2023. The scientific committee will review all proposals and authors will be given notice of acceptance of their papers no later than March 1st, 2023. All papers must be original and cannot simultaneously be presented to another journal or conference. IMPORTANT DATES ******************** Abstract submission: January 15th, 2023 Notification of acceptance: March 1st, 2023 Camera-ready abstract submission: March 20th, 2023 Early Registration: until April 15th, 2023 Selected papers submission: September 13th, 2023 POST-PROCEEDINGS ******************** A selection of the papers presented at the NooJ 2023 will be published by Springer Verlag in their CCIS Series. Deadline for submission of full camera-ready papers is September 13th, 2023. Meeting Location: Zadar, Croatia Contact Information: Linda Mijić nooj2023conf(a)gmail.com Meeting Dates: May 31st, 2023 to June 2nd, 2023 Abstract Submission Information: Abstracts can be submitted from November 11th, 2022 until January 15th, 2023.

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Arabic NLP Research Assistant or Post-Doctoral Associate Opening in Camel Lab
by Nizar Habash 19 Nov '22

19 Nov '22

We are hiring in Camel Lab at New York University Abu Dhabi! We are looking for research assistants or postdocs who are interested in Arabic Natural Language Processing. Research Assistant apply here: http://apply.interfolio.com/111550 <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__apply.interfolio.com_11…> Post-Doctoral Associate apply here: http://apply.interfolio.com/117800 <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__apply.interfolio.com_11…> Camel Lab website: http://www.camel-lab.com/ <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.camel-2Dlab.com_&d=…> Camel Lab publications: http://scholar.camel-lab.com/ <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__scholar.camel-2Dlab.com…> If you are attending EMNLP 2022 in Abu Dhabi, visit our booth (with New York University Abu Dhabi). -- Nizar Habash Professor of Computer Science New York University Abu Dhabi

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2nd CfP: 10th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-10)
by Marc Kupietz 18 Nov '22

18 Nov '22

2nd call for papers: ICLC-10 The Leibniz Institute for the German Language in Mannheim is pleased to announce the 10th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-10). The conference will take place in Mannheim, Germany, from 18 to 21 July 2023. The aim of the ICLC conference series, running since 1998, is to encourage fine-grained cross-linguistic research comprising two or more languages from a broad range of theoretical and methodological perspectives. ICLC brings together researchers from different linguistic subfields (and neighboring disciplines) to continue the (interdisciplinary) dialog on comparing languages, to foster the development of an international community, to discuss the state of the art, and to advance possible new areas of cross-linguistic research. Contrastive Linguistics as a linguistic subfield has had a checkered history, but comparative and contrastive work has always been and continues to be an important part of linguistic research. New impulses for comparative and contrastive work include the increasing availability of multilingual corpora or comparative work drawing on naturalistic interaction data. At this anniversary edition of ICLC, we want to provide a stage for the presentation of such new work, and reflect the past, current and future developments of contrastive research in linguistics. We invite contributions addressing (meta)theoretical, methodological or empirical issues, such as (but not limited to) the following: * Comparison of phenomena in two or more languages addressing topics from any area and level of linguistic analysis, including lexicon, phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax and morphosyntax, semantics, pragmatics as well as matters such as register and socio- cultural context * The state of the art and recent advances in contrastive linguistic research * The aims, objectives and scope of contrastive linguistic research * The status of contrastive research within linguistic studies and its relationship with neighbouring or complementary approaches such as historical, typological, micro-variationist, intercultural and contact linguistics * The link between contrastive studies and fields of applied linguistics such as foreign language teaching and learning, translation studies and corpus linguistics * Potentials and limits of theoretical frameworks in relation to contrastive analysis (e.g., functional, cognitive, interactional, generative, constructional approaches) * Theoretical and theoretical-methodological issues (comparability, incommensurability, the socio-cultural context, tertia comparationis, language universals) * Empirical and data-related methodological issues (parallel / translation corpora, comparable corpora, learner corpora, multimodal corpora, naturalistic data of face-to-face interaction, psycho- and neurolinguistic experiments, surveys) * The significance of the contrastive perspective for language- specific description on the one hand and for cross-linguistic generalizations and the development of linguistic theory on the other hand Some of these issues will be addressed by five invited keynote speakers. Keynote speakers are: * Artemis Alexiadou (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Leibniz-Centre for General Linguistics, Germany) * Jenny Audring (Leiden University, The Netherlands) * Elwys De Stefani (University of Heidelberg, Germany, and KU Leuven, Belgium) * Martin Haspelmath (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Germany) * Hilde Hasselgård (University of Oslo, Norway) The conference will include a poster session. The conference language will be English. Following the conference, all participants will be offered the possibility to submit their contribution for publication in a volume of selected conference papers. Submission of AbstractsWe invite submissions for 20-minute oral presentations (plus 10 minutes for discussion) or poster presentations. Abstracts should formulate a clear research question and include a description of the methods, results and conclusions. All submissions will be reviewed anonymously by at least two reviewers. All submissions must be in English, fully anonymous, and no longer than one page (12 point Times New Roman), with up to one additional page for data, figures and references. Abstracts must be submitted via the EasyChair system through the following submission web page https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iclc10 Important Dates * 16.01.2023: Deadline for abstract submission * 31.03.2023: Notification of acceptance * 14.04.2023: Confirmation of participation * 18.07.2023: Arrival, Registration, Get-together * 19.-21.07.2023: Conference Conference Web Sitehttps://iclc10.ids-mannheim.de Organizing CommitteeBeata Trawinski (Chair) Marc Kupietz Kristel Proost Jörg Zinken _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE from this page: http://mailman.uib.no/options/corpora Corpora mailing list Corpora(a)uib.no https://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora

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Turing Workshop on AI Education 10.1.23: Call for Participation
by Eric Atwell 18 Nov '22

18 Nov '22

‘AI, Data Science and Text Analytics Resources for Education’ Turing workshop 2023 - call for participation We are excited to announce the AI, Data Science and Text Analytics Resources for Education Turing workshop 2023 at University of Leeds on Tuesday the 10th of January 2023, sponsored by the Alan Turing Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. The workshop will bring together researchers and educators in universities and industry to learn about AI, Data Science and Text Analytics education. It will be a hybrid workshop, offering options to participate in person at Leeds, or online via Zoom. Participants are invited to give a presentation on a topic related to their field of research for advanced postgraduate-level studies with the aim to collate these resources into an open-access teaching and learning repository. For instance, your presentation can demonstrate how to build a chatbot or how to use BERT models…etc. OR you can overview an existing set of relevant teaching materials that could be shared for online teaching in AI/DS/TA. The deadline for submitting the details of your presentation is Friday the 9th of December 2022. If you are interested, please send Dr Noorhan Abbas (n.h.abbas(a)leeds.ac.uk<mailto:n.h.abbas@leeds.ac.uk>) a word document that lists the following: - Title of your presentation - Author/s - An abstract (100 words) - Affiliations - Duration of the presentation (10 or 15 minutes) There are two £100 prizes for the best two presentations. Thank you very much, Nora Dr Noorhan Abbas Research/Teaching Fellow School of Computing University of Leeds

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Cambridge NLE - Special Issue - "Natural Language Processing Applications for Low-Resource Languages"
by Sivaji Bandyopadhyay 18 Nov '22

18 Nov '22

Dear Colleagues and Friends, We welcome submissions to the special issue of the Cambridge University Press journal <https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/natural-language-engineering>Natural Language Engineering <https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/natural-language-engineering> on Natural Language Processing Application on Low-Resource Languages. *Cambridge NLE - Special Issue* *Natural Language Processing Applications for Low-Resource Languages* *The deadline for submissions is November 30, 2022.* *Call for Papers* We welcome papers dealing with one or more of the following topics: ● *Machine Translation for Low-Resource Languages* ● *Caption Generation for Low-Resource Languages* ● *POS Tagging on Low-Resource Languages* ● *Optical character recognition and generation of Low-Resource Languages.* ● *Chatbot assistant for Low-Resource Languages* ● *Speech/Language recognition* ● *Regional music identification and classification* ● *Textual Entailment of Low-Resource Languages* ● *Face-to-Face Translation of Low-Resource Languages* ● *News/Social media analysis* ● *Text prediction and suggestion* ● *Sentiment analysis* ● *Text classification* *Important Dates* *Deadline for submissions*: November 30, 2022 *First-round author notification*: Between March 30, 2023 and April 30, 2023 *Submission of revised versions*: Between June 30, 2023 and July 30, 2023 *Second-round author notification (final)*: Between August 30, 2023 and September 30, 2023 *Camera-ready versions*: Between Oct 01, 2023 and Oct 30, 2023 *Submissions* Instructions for preparing your manuscript for the *Journal of Natural Language Engineering* are available <https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/natural-language-engineering/inform…> here <https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/natural-language-engineering/inform…> . Please submit your article through the NLE <https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/nle>manuscript submission system <https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/nle>. When submitting your manuscript, please select *Natural Language Processing Applications for Low-Resource Languages *in the field *Special Issue Designation.* *Guest Editors* *Dr. Partha Pakray, National Institute of Technology Silchar* *Prof. Alexander Gelbukh, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico City, Mexico* *Prof. Sivaji Bandyopadhyay, National Institute of Technology Silchar* Yours Cordially, Professor Sivaji Bandyopadhyay Guest Editor Director, National Institute of Technology(NIT) Silchar (Assam) Professor, Computer Science and Engineering Department NIT Silchar (Assam) Professor, Computer Science and Engineering Department (on lien) Jadavpur University, Kolkata - 700032 INDIA

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NLP acceleration: Two complementary onsite courses on Deep Learning and NLP
by eneko agirre 17 Nov '22

17 Nov '22

*Natural Language Processing acceleration: foundations and applications** **Two complementary courses on Deep Learning and NLP* January and February, 2023. San Sebastian, Spain ONSITE ATTENDANCE ONLY HANDS-ON, YOU LEARN TO IMPLEMENT THE MODELS http://ixa.eus/NLPacceleration Deep Learning neural network models have been successfully applied to natural language processing, and are now changing radically how we interact with machines (Siri, Alexa, machine translation or the Google search engine). Large Language Models are at the core of these developments, and are being used to crack "languages" in other disciplines, ranging from programming languages (Copilot) to proteins (AlphaFold) and gene sequences (GenSLM). You can take either one or both courses: Deep Learning for NLP <https://ixa.eus/dl4nlp> (January 9th to 27th, 35 hours, 14 evenings. 11th edition): This course introduces in detail the machinery that makes Deep Learning work for NLP, including the latest transformers and large language models like GPT, BERT and T5. It also covers the use of prompts for zero-shot and few-shot learning, as well as multimodal text-image models like DALL-E. The course combines theoretical and practical hands-on classes. Attendants will be able to understand the internal working of the models, and implement them nearly from scratch in Tensorflow. The aim is to allow attendees to acquire the ability to understand, modify and apply current and future Deep Learning models to NLP and other areas. Introduction to LT Applications <https://ixa.eus/iltapp> (July 11th to 15th, 20 hours, 5 afternoons. 3rd edition): This course introduces the main techniques to build applications, and apply them to core Language Technology applications such us Opinion Mining, Named Entity Recognition, Fake News Detection or Question Answering. The course will have a practical focus, learning to use readily available LT toolkits (Spacy, Flair, etc.). The aim is to allow attendees to acquire the required autonomy to apply LT technologies to target applications. *Registration* has to be done for each course, see respective websites. Note that you only need to pay the insurance for one of the courses.

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Postdoc: Developing Text Mining methodologies for Public Health and behavior, needs and suggestions of professionals and citizens
by Kunneman, F.A. (Florian) 17 Nov '22

17 Nov '22

Do you have a PhD in Computational Linguistics or related? Would you like to develop text mining methodology, and improve the public health research, policy advice and communication of RIVM? Please apply at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU). Location: AMSTERDAM/BILTHOVEN FTE: 0.8 - 1 Job description The project you are working on as a postdoctoral researcher, is part of a research project funded by the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM). Our goal is to use text mining methodologies to enable systematic insight in suggestions from citizens and professionals on specific RIVM themes. You work partly at the Social AI research group at VU, and partly at the National Coordination Centre for Communicable Disease Control (LCI) of RIVM. We offer you the opportunity to further develop your research skills, with a rich data infrastructure and the relevant expertise and guidance in the group. You get to apply Natural Language Processing (NLP) in practical use cases of RIVM, including end user evaluations. Every day RIVM receives hundreds of questions, comments and suggestions of citizens and professionals about the various topics that RIVM deals with. These many questions, comments and suggestions have the potential to provide RIVM with relevant societal feedback loops to better adapt its work to societal needs. As a postdoctoral researcher on this project, you set out to develop and validate text mining methodology, both supervised and unsupervised. Your methodologies are applicable to different data sources (including Social Media and internal platforms), themes and user groups (e.g.: citizens and health professionals). The predictions need to be presented in a suitable way to the envisioned end users: researchers, policy makers, medical doctors and communication experts at RIVM. These methods may target attitudes, beliefs, sentiments, needs, suggestions and experiences of professionals and citizens. At the end of the project, a multidisciplinary RIVM team may use them to support and enhance RIVM research, policy advice and communication. We also intend to publish our research results in international peer-reviewed (open access) journals. Your duties * doing high-quality application-oriented research and publish this research in international conferences with a focus on NLP * contributing to text mining education for staff members at RIVM * developing (re-)usable text mining code and tools Requirements * you hold, or will soon hold, a PhD degree in data science, computer science, artificial intelligence, information retrieval, computational linguistics, or a related field * you have experience with applying Natural Language Processing * you have a strong research potential, preferably evidenced by publications * you have an interest in the application domain, i.e., public health and health communication * you are proactive and a good communicator; creative and engaged * you have the ability to work independently and in a team * you can work together well with project members that have different expertise * you are a fluent speaker / writer of English What are we offering? A challenging position in a socially involved organization. On full-time basis the remuneration amounts to a minimum gross monthly salary of €2,960 (scale 10) and a maximum €4,670 (scale 10), depending on your education and experience. The job profile is based on the university job ranking system and is vacant for at least 0.8 FTE. The appointment will initially be for 1 year. After a satisfactory evaluation of the initial appointment, the contract will be extended for a total duration of 2.5 years Additionally, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam offers excellent fringe benefits and various schemes and regulations to promote a good work/life balance, such as: * a maximum of 41 days of annual leave based on full-time employment * 8% holiday allowance and 8.3% end-of-year bonus * solid pension scheme (ABP) * contribution to commuting expenses * optional model for designing a personalized benefits package You will have a (physical) workplace both at RIVM (in Bilthoven) and at Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. Application Are you interested in this position? Please apply via https://workingat.vu.nl/ad/postdoctoral-research-position-developing-text-m… and upload your curriculum vitae and cover letter until 07/12/2022. Florian Kunneman Assistant Professor at the department of Computer Science | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam AI Master Thesis coordinator Working days: Mo, Tu, Th, Fr Room 11A85 (NU Building) | T: +31.20.59 84452 | M: +31.6.33726175 fkunneman.github.io

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CFP: Advanced Robotics Special Issue on Multimodal Processing and Robotics for Dialogue Systems
by Ryuichiro Higashinaka 17 Nov '22

17 Nov '22

Dear all, It is my great pleasure to announce that we have a special issue on "Multimodal Processing and Robotics for Dialogue Systems" in the journal of Advanced Robotics (Taylor & Francis). Please consider submitting your original paper to this special issue. The deadline is 31 Jan. 2023. https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/advanced-robotics-multimo… https://www.rsj.or.jp/content/files/pub/ar/CFP/CFP_37_21.pdf I would also appreciate it if you could help distribute the CFP and encourage your colleagues to make submissions. Best regards, Ryuichiro Higashinaka on behalf of guest editors ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// [Call for Papers] Advanced Robotics Special Issue on Multimodal Processing and Robotics for Dialogue Systems Co-Editors: Prof. David Traum (University of Southern California, USA) Prof. Gabriel Skantze (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) Prof. Hiromitsu Nishizaki (University of Yamanashi, Japan) Prof. Ryuichiro Higashinaka (Nagoya University, Japan) Dr. Takashi Minato (RIKEN/ATR, Japan) Prof. Takayuki Nagai (Osaka University, Japan) Publication in Vol. 37, Issue 21 (Nov 2023) SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 31 Jan 2023 In recent years, as seen in smart speakers such as Google Home and Amazon Alexa, there has been remarkable progress in spoken dialogue systems technology to converse with users with human-like utterances. In the future, such dialogue systems are expected to support our daily activities in various ways. However, dialogue in daily activities is more complex than that with smart speakers; even with current spoken dialogue technology, it is still difficult to maintain a successful dialogue in various situations. For example, in customer service through dialogue, it is necessary for operators to respond appropriately to the different ways of speaking and requests of various customers. In such cases, we humans can switch the speaking manner depending on the type of customer, and we can successfully perform the dialogue by not only using our voice but also our gaze and facial expressions. This type of human-like interaction is far from possible with the existing spoken dialogue systems. Humanoid robots have the possibility to realize such an interaction, because they can recognize not only the user's voice but also facial expressions and gestures using various sensors, and can express themselves in various ways such as gestures and facial expressions using their bodies. Their many means of expressions have the potential to successfully continue dialogue in a manner different from conventional dialogue systems. The combination of such robots and dialogue systems can greatly expand the possibilities of dialogue systems, while at the same time, providing a variety of new challenges. Various research and development efforts are currently underway to address these new challenges, including "dialogue robot competition" at IROS2022. In this special issue, we invite a wide range of papers on multimodal dialogue systems and dialogue robots, their applications, and fundamental research. Prospective contributed papers are invited to cover, but are not limited to, the following topics on multimodal dialogue systems and robots: *Spoken dialogue processing *Multimodal processing *Speech recognition *Text-to-speech *Emotion recognition *Motion generation *Facial expression generation *System architecture *Natural language processing *Knowledge representation *Benchmarking *Evaluation method *Ethics *Dialogue systems and robots for competition Submission: The full-length manuscript (either PDF file or MS word file) should be sent by 31st Jan 2023 to the office of Advanced Robotics, the Robotics Society of Japan through the on-line submission system of the journal (https://www.rsj.or.jp/AR/submission). Sample manuscript templates and detailed instructions for authors are available at the website of the journal.

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