August 2022 - Corpora

18-month Postdoc position on Natural Language Processing
by Jose Camacho Collados 21 Aug '22

21 Aug '22

Start date: Early 2023 (flexible) Closing date: 4 September 2022 Duration: Up to 18 months Applications are invited for a postdoctoral research post at Cardiff University’s School of Computer Science & Informatics in the context of a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship led by Jose Camacho Collados. The project is titled “Unsupervised background knowledge for multilingual language understanding”. The project largely deals with language understanding, with a focus on improving Natural Language Processing (NLP) models as to be more interpretable, capture relational and commonsense knowledge, and enhance multilinguality. The successful candidate will be integrated in the Cardiff NLP Group<https://cardiffnlp.github.io/post/> of Cardiff University. For overseas applicants, the successful candidate will be eligible for a Global Talent Visa. More information: For instructions on how to apply and more information, please go to the following website: https://krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search/Home/HomeWithPreLoad?partner… For more details about the position, please contact Jose Camacho Collados (camachocolladosj(a)cardiff.ac.uk). -- Jose Camacho Collados http://www.josecamachocollados.com<http://www.josecamachocollados.com/>

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2nd Call for Abstracts - North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics - Fifth Annual Meeting (NARNiHS 2023)
by Lauersdorf, Mark R. 20 Aug '22

20 Aug '22

***** 2nd Call for Abstracts ***** NARNiHS 2023 ***** North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics ***** Fifth Annual Meeting Despite the recent relaxation of global pandemic travel policies, travel concerns remain for many communities as of the summer of 2022. In light of these concerns, and in response to the positive feedback we have received concerning our recent all-online events, our NARNiHS 2023 Annual Meeting will once again be taking place as a **free, entirely online event**. This presents a great opportunity for scholars in historical sociolinguistics from all over the world to participate as presenters and/or attendees without the limitations imposed by international travel. We encourage our fellow historical sociolinguists and scholars from related fields from our global scholarly community (in addition to North America) to join us online for our Fifth Annual Meeting. ==> Abstract submission deadline: Monday, 19 September 2022, 11:59 PM US Eastern Time. Please see our call for abstracts below and send us your latest work in historical sociolinguistics! ----- Call for Abstracts -----. The North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics (NARNiHS) is accepting abstracts for its Fifth Annual Meeting (NARNiHS 2023), to take place Wednesday, January 4 - Sunday, January 8, 2023. Since NARNiHS is a Sister Society of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), NARNiHS 2023 will partially overlap with the LSA 2023 Annual Meeting. The NARNiHS 2023 Annual Meeting, however, will be organized independently from the LSA Annual Meeting. ==> Deadline for receipt of abstracts: Monday, 19 September 2022, 11:59 PM US Eastern Time. * Late abstracts will not be considered *. NARNiHS welcomes abstracts in all areas of historical sociolinguistics, which is understood as the application/development of sociolinguistic theories, models, and methods for the study of historical language variation and change over time, or more broadly, the study of the interaction of language and society in historical periods and from historical perspectives. Thus, a wide range of linguistic areas, subdisciplines, and methodologies easily find their place within the field, and we encourage submission of abstracts that reflect this broad scope. Abstracts will be accepted for 20-minute presentations to be delivered "live" through an online video-conferencing platform. *** Abstracts will be evaluated on the following criteria ***. - explicit discussion of which theoretical frameworks, methodological protocols, and analytical strategies are being applied or critiqued; - sufficient (if brief) presentation of data sources and examples to allow reviewers a clear understanding of the scope and claims of the research; - clear articulation of how the research advances knowledge in the field of historical sociolinguistics. Abstracts should also be anonymized to allow for blind peer review. Failure to adhere to these criteria will increase the likelihood of non-acceptance. *** General Requirements ***. 1) Abstracts must be submitted electronically, using the following link: http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/5THnarnihs2023 . 2) Authors may submit a maximum of two abstracts: one single-author abstract and one co-authored abstract. 3) After an abstract has been submitted, no changes of author, title, or wording of the abstract, other than those due to typographical errors, are permitted. If accepted, authors will be contacted for a final version for the abstract booklet. 4) Papers must be delivered as projected in the abstract or represent bona fide developments of the same research. 5) Authors are expected to attend the conference and present their own papers. 6) Presentations will be delivered via a video-conferencing platform, most likely Zoom. Technical details and instructions regarding the platform for our NARNiHS Annual Meeting will be sent to authors in due time. 7) After acceptance, authors will be given an option to have their live presentation recorded during the meeting and archived for future online viewing. *** Abstract Format Guidelines ***. 1) Abstracts must be submitted in PDF format. 2) Abstracts must fit on one standard 8.5x11 inch page, with margins no smaller than 1 inch and a font style and size no smaller than Times New Roman 12 point. All additional content (visualizations, trees, tables, figures, captions, examples, and references) must fit on a single (1) additional page. No exceptions to these requirements are allowed. 3) Anonymize your abstract. We realize that sometimes it is not possible to attain complete anonymity, but there is a difference between "inability to anonymize completely" (due to the nature of the research) and "careless non-anonymizing" (for example: "In Jones 2021, I describe..."). In addition, be sure to anonymize your PDF file (you may do so in Adobe Acrobat Reader by clicking on "File", then "Properties", removing your name if it appears in the "Author" line of the "Description" tab, and re-saving before submitting it). Please be aware that abstract file names might not be automatically anonymized by the system; do not use your name (e.g. Smith_Abstract.pdf) when saving your abstract in PDF format, rather, use non-identifying information (e.g. HistSoc4Lyfe_NARNiHS.pdf). Your name should only appear in the online form accompanying your abstract submission. Papers that are not sufficiently anonymized wherever possible (whether in the text of the abstract or in the metadata of the digital file) risk being rejected. Contact us at NARNiHistSoc(a)gmail.com with any questions.

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ECIR’23: Call for Workshop Proposals
by Ricardo Campos 19 Aug '22

19 Aug '22

*** Apologies for cross-posting *** ++ CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS ++ **************************************************************************** 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval April 2nd – 6th April 2023 – Dublin, Ireland Website: https://ecir2023.org/ **************************************************************************** ++ Important Dates ++ - Submission deadline: September 19th, 2022 - Acceptance Notification Date: October 9th, 2022 - Workshops day: April 2nd, 2023 ++ Overview ++ ECIR 2023 workshops provide a platform for presenting novel ideas and research results in emerging areas in IR in a more focused and interactive way than the conference itself. Workshops can be either a half-day (3.30 hours plus breaks) or a full day (7 hours plus breaks) and are to be onsite. At least one organizer is expected to attend the workshop. ++ List of Topics ++ ECIR 2023 encourages the submission of workshops on the theory, experimentation, and practice of retrieval, representation, management, and usage of textual, visual, audio, and multi-modal information, but proposals aligned with other topics of IR (namely those identified in the general call for papers) are highly welcome as well. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to: * User aspects, including information interaction, contextualisation, personalisation, simulation, characterisation, and behaviours. * System and foundational aspects, including retrieval models and architectures, content analysis and classification, recommendation algorithms, query processing and ranking, efficiency and scalability. * Machine learning, deep learning, neural IR, natural language processing, as applied to textual, visual, audio, and multi-modal information. * Applications such as web search, recommender systems, web and social media apps, domain-specific search, enterprise search, novel interfaces to search tools, intelligent search, academic search, and conversational agents. * Evaluation research, including new measures and novel methods for measuring and evaluating systems, datasets, users, and/or applications. * Cross-disciplinary workshops, including IR and other domains such as NLP, data science, etc., are also particularly welcome. ++ Submission Guidelines ++ Workshop proposals should contain the following information: * Title and abstract of the workshop; * Motivation and relevance to ECIR; * Workshop goals/objectives and overall vision, coupled with desired outcomes; * Format and Structure, in particular duration of the workshop (full-day or half-day workshop); mention to the type of papers (e.g., full papers, demo papers, negative papers, etc); type of presentation (e.g., oral; poster, etc); and proceedings (e.g., CEUR; Special Issue, etc); planned activities, the tentative schedule of events etc.; resources needed to deliver the workshop (e.g., poster boards, etc); * Intended audience, including number of expected participants and how they will be selected/invited; * List of organisers with a brief bio of each with respect to the content of the workshop; * Names of potential programme committee members, invited speakers; etc * Indicate if the workshop is related to or follows on from another workshop; if so, please, identify which conference it was previously held at, the past attendance and outcomes, and why another workshop is needed; * Any other relevant information to support your proposal. Workshop proposals should be prepared using Springer proceedings templates to be found on Springer webpage (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…<https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…)>), with a maximum length of 8 pages. All proposals should be submitted electronically through the conference submission system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecir23) and must be in English. Workshop proposals will be reviewed by the ECIR 2023 workshop committee based on the quality of their proposal, covered topics, relationship to ECIR and likelihood to attract participants. Final decisions will be made by the ECIR workshop co-chairs. ++ Workshop Chairs ++ Ricardo Campos, Polytechnic Institute of Tomar and INESC TEC, Portugal Gianmaria Silvello, University of Padua, Italy ++ Contacts ++ For further information, please contact the ECIR 2023 Workshop chairs by email to ecir2023-workshop(a)easychair.org<mailto:ecir2023-workshop@easychair.org>

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Call for journal submissions: NEJLT
by Leon Derczynski 19 Aug '22

19 Aug '22

CALL FOR PAPERS The Northern European Journal of Language Technology (NEJLT) invites submissions of excellent research papers and letters on language technology. NEJLT is a global journal that publishes peer-reviewed language technology and computational linguistics research on all languages, indexed in the ACL Anthology. https://www.nejlt.org What's special about NEJLT? * Re-use reviews: We welcome revised manuscripts submitted with prior reviews to a fast-track review process. * Customised review: Specify a "type" for your paper at submission, that determines how your paper is reviewed * "Letter" format submission: Comments, positions, letters, or small experiments also welcomed as very short articles * Free to submit, free to publish, free to read ### SUBMISSION TYPES NEJLT accepts (1) full articles, and (2) letters. (1) Full articles are to be given a subtype. The types available at NEJLT are: * Computationally-aided linguistic analysis * NLP engineering experiment paper * Reproduction paper * Resource paper * Position paper * Survey Paper Other works are welcome - contact the editor. (2) NEJLT Letters on computational linguistics and natural language processing should be around 1000 words long, and are given a special, dedicated review process. More information about submission types and information for authors is at: https://www.nejlt.org/authorinfo/ ### SCOPE NEJLT invites manuscripts from anywhere in the world that present excellent research in the field of language technology and natural language processing. Work on all languages is welcome. * Language focus: * Global; no specific focus. Research on all and any languages is invited. * Topics of interest: including but not limited to * Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics * Computational Social Science and Social Media * Dialogue and Interactive Systems * Discourse and Pragmatics * Ethics and NLP * Generation of language * Green NLP * Information Extraction * Information Retrieval and Text Mining * Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP * Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond * Theory and Formalism in NLP (Linguistic and Mathematical) * Machine Learning for NLP * Machine Translation * NLP Applications * Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation * Question Answering * Resources and Evaluation * Semantics: Lexical * Semantics: Sentence Level * Semantics: Textual Inference and Other Areas of Semantics * Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining * Speech and Multimodality * Summarization * Syntax: Tagging, Chunking and Parsing * Works focusing on Northern European languages are encouraged, with the same requirements of excellence The editor-in-chief of NEJLT is appointed by the North European Association for Language Technology. This geographical connection gives the journal its name, though the journal itself does not have a Northern European language focus. More on NEJLT's scope is at: https://www.nejlt.org/ ### REVIEWING NEJLT is committed to rapid and fair reviewing. NEJLT strives to preserve anonymity throughout the review process. The journal also invites revised resubmissions from select events, including the reviews from those events, including ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, EACL, AACL, and NeurIPS. For details, see: https://www.nejlt.org/review/ ### ABOUT THE JOURNAL NEJLT publishes in the field of language technology, i.e. Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, and related topics. Research focused on any natural language is invited. NEJLT invites both journal articles and academic letters, and has a multi-iteration reviewing process, where revisions are a possibility. The reviewing philosophy of the journal is to minimise reviewing biases, and also to provide constructive, helpful feedback during the review process. NEJLT is a global journal with global focus. The journal’s publisher is located in Northern Europe, hence its name, and supports the journal without charge, enabling open access publication with no costs. NEJLT is indexed by many publication indexing services, and ranked by many national bibliographic ranking systems. NEJLT accepts submissions continuously all year round. More at: https://www.nejlt.org/about/ ### ORGANIZATION * Editor-in-Chief: * Leon Derczynski, ITU Copenhagen; ld(a)itu.dk * Editorial board: * Isabelle Augenstein, University of Copenhagen * Nikolaos Aletras, University of Sheffield * Rachel Bawden, INRIA, Paris * Emily M. Bender, University of Washington * Miryam de Lhoneux, University of Copenhagen * Nicoletta Calzolari, Institute for Computational Linguistics, NRC Italy * Manuel Ciosici, University of Southern California ISI * Yang Feng, Chinese Academy of Sciences * Eva Hajičová, Charles University * Marco Kuhlmann, Linköping University * Yuji Matsumoto, NAIST/Riken AIP * Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University * Ellie Pavlick, Brown University * Verena Rieser, Heriot Watt University * Vered Shwartz, Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) * Thamar Solorio, University of Houston * Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh * Jörg Tiedemann, University of Helsinki * Bonnie Webber, Universty of Edinburgh NEJLT's editorial team is detailed at: https://www.nejlt.org/team/ ### PUBLICATION AND OPEN ACCESS The ACL Anthology has accepted future inclusion of articles published in NEJLT. NEJLT is full open access. This means that accepted papers may be downloaded directly from the web and will not be charged for. There are also no fees for submitting or for publishing. There are no plans to collect fees at any point in the future at any part of the NEJLT process. Papers are published under the CC-BY 4.0 license. This means that NEJLT is an Open Access Gold journal. The journal is published by Linköping University press. The editor-in-chief of NEJLT is appointed by the North European Association for Language Technology. This geographical connection gives the journal its name, though the journal itself does not have a Northern European language focus. More details on NEJLT policies at: https://www.nejlt.org/policies/ ### CONTACT Please, see www.nejlt.org for further information. We look forward to seeing your manuscripts.

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Last weekend of CFP - SIMBig 2022, 8 KS - Peru (AI, Data Science, NLP, ML)
by Juan Antonio Lossio-Ventura 19 Aug '22

19 Aug '22

> [Apologies for cross-posting] > > -> Last Weekend to Submit Your Paper to SIMBig 2022 > > ================================================================= > LAST WEEKEND of CALL FOR PAPERS - SIMBig 2022 > ================================================================= > > SIMBig 2022 - 9th International Conference on Information Management and Big Data > Where: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, PERU > When: November 16 - 18, 2022 > Website: http://simbig.org/SIMBig2022/ <http://simbig.org/SIMBig2022/> > > ================================================================= > > OVERVIEW > ---------------------------------- > > SIMBig 2022 seeks to present new methods of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data Science, and related fields, for analyzing, managing, and extracting insights and patterns from large volumes of data. > > > KEYNOTE SPEAKERS > ------------- > > Leman Akoglu, Carnegie Mellon University, USA > Jiang Bian, University of Florida, USA > Rich Caruana, Microsoft, USA > Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Amazon Alexa AI, USA > Monica Lam, Stanford University, USA > Wang-Chiew Tan, Facebook AI, USA > Andrew Tomkins, Google, USA > Bin Yu, University of California, Berkeley, USA > > IMPORTANT DATES > ------------- > > August 05, 2022 August 19, 2022 --> Papers submission deadline > September 09, 2022 September 17, 2022 ---> Notification of acceptance > October 07, 2022 --> Camera-ready versions > November 16 - 18, 2022 --> Conference held in Lima, Peru > > PUBLICATION AND TRAVEL AWARDS > ------------- > > All accepted papers of SIMBig 2022 (tracks including) will be published with Springer CCIS Series <https://www.springer.com/series/7899>. > > > The best 8-10 papers of SIMBig 2022 (tracks including) will be selected to submit an extension to be published with the Springer SN Computer Science Journal. <https://www.springer.com/journal/42979> > Thanks to the support of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) <http://naacl.org/>, SIMBig 2022 will offer 4 student travel awards for the best papers. > > > > TOPICS OF INTEREST > ------------- > > SIMBig 2022 has a broad scope. We invite contributions on theory and practice, including but not limited to the following technical areas: > > Artificial Intelligence > Data Science > Machine Learning > Natural Language Processing > Semantic Web > Healthcare Informatics > Biomedical Informatics > Data Privacy and Security > Information Retrieval > Ontologies and Knowledge Representation > Social Networks and Social Web > Information Visualization > OLAP and Business intelligence > Data-driven Software Engineering > > SPECIAL TRACKS > ------------- > > SIMBig 2022 proposes three special tracks in addition to the main conference: > > ANLP <https://simbig.org/SIMBig2022/en/anlp.html> - Applied Natural Language Processing > DISE <https://simbig.org/SIMBig2022/en/dise.html> - Data-drIven Software Engineering > SNMAM <https://simbig.org/SIMBig2022/en/snmam.html> - Social Network and Media Analysis and Mining > > CONTACT > ------------- > > SIMBig 2022 General Chairs > > Juan Antonio Lossio-Ventura, National Institutes of Health, USA (juan.lossio(a)nih.gov <mailto:juan.lossio@nih.gov>) > Hugo Alatrista-Salas, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Peru (halatrista(a)pucp.pe <mailto:halatrista@pucp.pe>) >

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LAST call for papers: ICNLSP 2022, 5th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing, 16, 17 December2022
by Mourad Abbas 19 Aug '22

19 Aug '22

*ICNLSP 2022: LAST call for papers* Dear all, We are delighted to announce that ICNLSP 2022 <https://www.icnlsp.org/2022welcome/>, the 5*th* edition of the International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing, hosted by DataScientia (University of Trento) <http://datascientia.disi.unitn.it/events/> for the third time, will be held online, on 16-17 December 2022. *Important dates* *Submission deadline*: *30 August 2022* *Notification of acceptance*: *31 October 2022* *Camera-ready paper due*: *20 November 2022* *Conference dates*: *16, 17 Decemberber 2022* *Publication* 1- All accepted papers will be published in ACL Anthology, and indexed in DBLP. 2- Selected papers will be published in Signals and Communication Technology (Springer) (https://www.springer.com/series/4748), indexed by Scopus and zbMATH. *Keynote speakers* 1. *Eric Laporte*, *Gustave Eiffel University*, *France.* 2.* Jan Niehues*, *University of Maastricht*, *Netherlands.* 3. *Ahmed Ali*, *Qatar Computing Research Institute*, *Qatar*. *Workshop: NSURL 2022* The workshop on NLP Solutions for Under Resourced Languages NSURL <http://nsurl.org> will be held with ICNLSP 2022 <https://www.icnlsp.org/2022welcome/>. The workshop aim to be a forum for solving NLP tasks concerning Arabic and its dialects and also under-resourced languages as African, Persian, etc. We look forward to welcome you to ICNLSP 2022 <https://www.icnlsp.org/2022welcome/> that will be an opportunity to get acquainted with the latest research in the field of natural language and speech processing, hoping that it will be successful with your active participation. *Contact* icnlsp2022(a)easychair.org

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University Assistant (Postdoc) in Lexicography at Innsbruck University
by Laura Giacomini 18 Aug '22

18 Aug '22

Dear List member, The Institute of Translation Studies at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, is looking to appoint a University Assistant (Postdoc) in Multilingual (specialised) lexicography. The deadline for application is August 26th. All details (German and English) and the link for applying are at https://lfuonline.uibk.ac.at/public/karriereportal.details?asg_id_in=12939 Informal enquiries can be sent to Laura.Giacomini(a)uibk.ac.at Best wishes, Laura Giacomini

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PhD and Postdoc positions at CIS/LMU Munich in NLP and Deep Learning
by Barbara Plank 18 Aug '22

18 Aug '22

The Center for Information and Language Processing (CIS) at LMU Munich has several fully-funded positions in Natural Language Processing and Deep Learning available in the groups of Barbara Plank and Hinrich Schütze. Application deadline: September 8th, 2022 Details and application: https://www.cis.lmu.de/web/jobs2022.html

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Tenure-track Lecturer positions at CIS/LMU Munich in Computational Linguistics and NLP
by Barbara Plank 18 Aug '22

18 Aug '22

The Center for Information and Language Processing (CIS) at LMU Munich (co-directed by Barbara Plank and Hinrich Schütze) has two open tenure-track lecturer positions (Akademische/r Rat/Raetin auf Lebenszeit) in computational linguistics / natural language processing. Application deadline: September 30th, 2022 Details and application: https://www.cis.lmu.de/web/arpositions2022.html

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Survey Study on Sign Language Computation using Machine Learning  
by Hal Daume 18 Aug '22

18 Aug '22

Hello! We are a team of researchers from MSR New England and New York. We are seeking participants (aged 18 or older) who have experience in machine learning or are interested in applying machine learning to developing computational models for signed languages for a survey study. The purpose of this project is to explore how machine learning practitioners can better build machine learning models for sign language computation (e.g., recognition/translation). We want to understand your general motivations in working with machine learning problems and expected challenges when newly working with sign language data and tasks. Please know that sign language knowledge or sign language computation experience is NOT required to participate in this project. The survey can be found at https://forms.office.com/r/7LPnkdTFLN<https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fforms.off…> along with a consent form for further details. For every submission of the survey, $10 will be donated to LEAD-K (Language Equity and Acquisition for Deaf Kids), up to the first 50 submissions. The survey receives one submission per person. Once you agree to consent, you will be directed to the survey questions. It will take about 30 minutes to answer the questions, including your experience in machine learning and sign language computation (if any), understanding of sign language culture, and demographics such as your age or education level.  Your responses will be anonymous, unless you choose to provide your name and email address for future contact where you will be invited to participate in a paid study to collaborate with American Sign Language experts. Your name and email address will never be shared outside of the research team. Please complete the survey by Tuesday, 8/23 and feel free to forward this to other colleagues who may be interested! Thank you so much for your consideration! Rie Kamikubo, Danielle Bragg, Alex Lu, Hal Daumé III

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