August 2022 - Corpora

Tenure track position computational linguistics - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
by Fokkens, A.S. (Antske) 10 Aug '22

10 Aug '22

We're Hiring! An Assistant Professor on a Tenure-Track Position at CLTL Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Applications by 9 September 2022 (timezone CEST!) https://workingat.vu.nl/ad/tenure-track-assistant-professor-computational-l… Full description: We are looking for a passionate researcher who is eager to train a new generation of students in Natural Language Processing and Text Mining and to join us in resolving many mysteries of language modeling, understanding and generation. Do you have a background in computational linguistics and/or text mining? Do you enjoy teaching and are you interested in research where Natural Language Processing (NLP) is applied in various domains? Would you like to work in an enthusiastic, multidisciplinary team of NLP researchers? Then please, do apply for this position at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Location: AMSTERDAM FTE: 0.8 - 1 Position: Assistant Professor JOB DESCRIPTION As an Assistant Professor you will be teaching in our BA and MA programs for Natural Language Processing and Text Mining as well as the MSc program in Artificial Intelligence. You are also expected to do research, collaborate in projects, and submit your own research proposals. Your duties * teach courses in Natural Language Processing * supervise MA theses * research in Natural Language Processing * (co)-supervise PhD students REQUIREMENTS * PhD in computational linguistics or a PhD in computer science with specialization in computational linguistics * knowledge of and experience with the latest methods in NLP * experience in teaching on the topic of NLP at University level * solid publication record WHAT ARE WE OFFERING? We offer a tenure-track position at the level of Assistant Professor for the duration of 5 years starting 1 December 2022. Tenure can be achieved if the faculty criteria for Assistant Professor are fulfilled. For the duration of the tenure track, performance will be evaluated in terms of teaching, publication record, attempts to acquire research funding either individually or in consortia, academic service and valorisation. On full-time basis the remuneration amounts to a minimum gross monthly salary of €2,960 (scale 10) and a maximum €5,439 (scale 11), 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. 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 * contribution to commuting expenses * optional model for designing a personalized benefits package ABOUT VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT AMSTERDAM The ambition of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is clear: to contribute to a better world through outstanding education and ground-breaking research. We strive to be a university where personal development and commitment to society play a leading role. A university where people from different disciplines and backgrounds collaborate to achieve innovations and to generate new knowledge. Our teaching and research encompass the entire spectrum of academic endeavor – from the humanities, the social sciences and the natural sciences through to the life sciences and the medical sciences. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is home to more than 30,000 students. We employ over 5,500 individuals. The VU campus is easily accessible and located in the heart of Amsterdam’s Zuidas district, a truly inspiring environment for teaching and research. Diversity We are an inclusive university community. Diversity is one of our most important values. We believe that engaging in international activities and welcoming students and staff from a wide variety of backgrounds enhances the quality of our education and research. We are always looking for people who can enrich our world with their own unique perspectives and experiences. Faculty of Humanities The Faculty of Humanities links a number of fields of study: Language, Literature and Communication, Art & Culture, History, Antiquities and Philosophy. Our teaching and research focus on current societal and scientific themes: from artificial intelligence to visual culture, from urbanization to the history of slavery, from ‘fake news’ in journalism to communication in organizations. We strive to ensure small group sizes. Innovative education and interdisciplinary research are our hallmarks. Working at the Faculty of Humanities means making a real contribution to the quality of leading education and research in an inspiring and personal work and study climate. We employ more than 350 staff members, and we are home to around 2,000 students. About the department The Computational Linguistics and Text Mining Lab (CLTL) at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is one of the leading groups in the area of multilingual language understanding, language modeling and resources and human-robot communication. Check out our website at: www.cltl.nl<http://www.cltl.nl/> for more details about our research and teaching. APPLICATION Are you interested in this position? Please apply via the application button and upload your curriculum vitae and cover letter until 9 September 2022. A first round of job interviews are planned for the second half of September, when possible please take that into account when applying for the position. Applications received by e-mail will not be processed. Vacancy questions If you have any questions regarding this vacancy, you may contact: Name: Piek Vossen and/or Antske Fokkens Position: Full Professors E-mail: piek.vossen(a)vu.nl<mailto:piek.vossen@vu.nl> / antske.fokkens(a)vu.nl<mailto:antske.fokkens@vu.nl> Telephone: +31 20 59 86457 No agencies -- prof. dr. Antske Fokkens Computational Linguistics & Text Mining Lab, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Algorithms, Geometry & Applications, Eindhoven University of Technology

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Open NLP and AI jobs at DFKI in Berlin
by Georg Rehm 09 Aug '22

09 Aug '22

Dear colleagues, we have a number of open jobs in various exciting AI and NLP projects (OpenGPT-X, NFDI4DataScience, DataBri-X) at DFKI in Berlin: 1/5 OpenGPT-X: Researcher (m/f/d) – language models and language modelling – https://jobs.dfki.de/ausschreibung/researcher-m-w-d-%C2%A0language-models-4… 2/5 OpenGPT-X: Researcher or software engineer (m/f/d) – Gaia-X and infrastructure (especially European Language Grid) – https://jobs.dfki.de/ausschreibung/researcher-m-w-d-oder-softwareengineer-m… 3/5 and 4/5 NFDI4DataScience and AI: Researcher (m/f/d) – NLP and research data infrastructure – https://jobs.dfki.de/ausschreibung/researcher-m-w-d-%C2%A0nfdi4datascience-… 5/5 DataBri-X: Researcher (m/f/d) – Language Technology, NLP and Data – https://jobs.dfki.de/ausschreibung/researcher-m-w-d-%C2%A0language-and-data… The application deadline for all vacancies is 26 August. Please circulate this message to any colleagues or friends who could be interested in one of the roles. Many thanks! In case of questions, I'm happy to help, of course. Best regards, Georg -- *Prof. Dr. Georg Rehm <http://georg-re.hm/>* Principal Researcher and Research Fellow [image: DFKI] <http://www.dfki.de/> DFKI GmbH <http://www.dfki.de/>, Alt-Moabit 91c, 10559 Berlin, Germany Phone: +49 30 23895-1833 georg.rehm(a)dfki.de Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz GmbH Firmensitz: Trippstadter Strasse 122, D-67663 Kaiserslautern Geschäftsführung: Prof. Dr. Antonio Krüger (Vorsitzender), Helmut Ditzer Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Dr. Gabriël Clemens Amtsgericht Kaiserslautern, HRB 2313

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[FinNLP-2022@EMNLP] Second Call for Paper and Shared Task Participants
by CHUNG-CHI CHEN 09 Aug '22

09 Aug '22

Dear colleagues, We want to share one piece of news (ERAI shared task' English dataset is released) and remind the deadline of FinNLP-2022@EMNLP: https://sites.google.com/nlg.csie.ntu.edu.tw/finnlp-2022-emnlp/home *(1) Evaluating the Rationales of Amateur Investors (ERAI) Shared Task*The goal of ERAI is to sort out the opinions that would lead to higher maximal potential profit (MPP) and lower maximal loss (ML). We focus on amateur investors' opinions, and pay attention to two settings: (1) Pairwise Comparison and (2) Unsupervised Ranking. The posts are written in Chinese, and *we also provide the translated version in English*. Thus, even if you are not familiar with Chinese, you can also join us. Registration Form: https://forms.gle/noHYdwxr1ymh36S58 *(2) FinNLP-2022 Main Track* We invite submissions of research papers on all topics related to NLP for Financial Technology (FinTech) applications. Besides, one of our goals of this workshop is to foster collaboration between researchers and developers from computational linguistics and finance and economic areas. Original studies reporting joint work are therefore especially encouraged. We offer USD$500 to the *Best Paper Award *winner. Submission *Deadline: Sep 7*, 2022 (https://softconf.com/emnlp2022/FinNLP/) Looking forward to meeting you soon at FinNLP@EMNLP-2022. Best Regards, FinNLP Organizers FinNLP-2022: The 4th Workshop on Financial Technology and Natural Language Processing EMNLP @ Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre Abu Dhabi, UAE, December 8, 2022 Conference website https://sites.google.com/nlg.csie.ntu.edu.tw/finnlp-2022-emnlp/home Submission deadline September 7, 2022 *FinNLP has become a twice-a-year workshop since 2022.* In H1, it keeps in conjunction with IJCAI; in H2, it starts to colocated with EMNLP. The aim of this workshop is to provide a forum where international participants share knowledge on applying NLP to the FinTech domain. Recently, analyzing documents related to finance and economics has attracted much attention in the AI community. In the financial field, FinTech is a new industry that focuses on improving financial activity with technology. Thus, in order to bridge the gap between the NLP research and the financial applications, we organize FinNLP workshop series. One of the expected accomplishments of FinNLP is to introduce insights from the financial domain to the NLP community. With the sharing of the researchers in FinNLP, the challenging problems of blending FinTech and NLP will be identified, and the future research direction will be shaped. That can broaden the scope of this interdisciplinary research area. Submission Guidelines All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome: - *Long Paper:* May consist of up to 8 pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references and appendix. - *Short Paper and Demo Paper: *May consist of up to 4 pages of content, plus unlimited references and appendix. List of Topics We invite submissions of research papers on all topics related to NLP for Financial Technology (FinTech) applications. Besides, one of our goals of this workshop is to foster collaboration between researchers and developers from computational linguistics and finance and economic areas. Original studies reporting joint work are therefore especially encouraged. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Text-based Market Provisioning - NLP-based Investment Management - Crowdfunding Analysis with Text Data - Text-oriented Customer Preference Analysis - Insurance Application with Textual Information - NLP-based Know Your Customer (KYC) Approach - Applications or Systems for FinTech with NLP Methods CommitteesProgram Committee - Hiroki Sakaji - The University of Tokyo - Emmanuele Chersoni - The Hong Kong Polytechnic University - Kiyoshi Izumi - The University of Tokyo - Pablo Duboue - Textualization Software Ltd. - Juyeon Kang - Fortia Financial Solutions - Paulo Alves - Católica Porto Business School - Luciano Del Corro - Microsoft Research - Chuan-Ju Wang - Academia Sinica - Ismail El Maarouf - Imprevicible - Damir Cavar - Indiana University Organizing Committee <http://cjchen.nlpfin.com/> - <http://cjchen.nlpfin.com/> <http://cjchen.nlpfin.com/>Chung-Chi Chen <http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fnlg.csie.ntu.edu.tw%2F~cjchen%2F&s…> - Artificial Intelligence Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan - Hen-Hsen Huang <http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fnlg.csie.ntu.edu.tw%2F~hhhuang%2F&…> - Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan - Hiroya Takamura <http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lr.pi.titech.ac.jp%2F~takamura…> - Artificial Intelligence Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan - Hsin-Hsi Chen <http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fnlg.csie.ntu.edu.tw%2Fadvisor.php&…> - Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Venue The conference will be held in conjunction with EMNLP-2022 on December 8, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Contact All questions about submissions should be emailed to finnlp(a)nlg.csie.ntu.edu.tw

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Fifth Workshop on NLP for Internet Freedom (NLP4IF): extended deadline; corrected url
by Anna Feldman 08 Aug '22

08 Aug '22

Corrected URL: COLING 2022 Fifth Workshop on NLP for Internet Freedom (NLP4IF): Censorship, Disinformation, and Propaganda Workshop website: http://www.netcopia.net/nlp4if/ Co-located with COLING-2022, Oct 12-17, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea *Submission deadline: August 18, 2022 (23:59 PM Pacific Standard Time)* NLP4IF (http://www.netcopia.net/nlp4if/ is dedicated to NLP methods that potentially contribute (either positively or negatively) to the free flow of information on the Internet, or to our understanding of the issues that arise in this area. We hope that our workshop will have a transformative impact on society by getting closer to achieving Internet freedom in countries where accessing and sharing of information are strictly controlled by censorship. The topics of interest include (but are not limited) to the following: Censorship detection: detecting deleted or edited text; detecting blocked keywords/banned terms; Censorship circumvention techniques: linguistically inspired countermeasure for Internet censorship such as keyword substitution, expanding coverage of existing banned terms, text paraphrasing, linguistic steganography, generating information morphs etc.; Identification of propaganda at different granularity levels: text fragment, document, and full website Detection of self-censorship; Identifying potentially censorable content; Disinformation/Misinformation detection: fake news, fake accounts, rumor detection, etc.; Identification of hate speech and offensive language (Comparative) analysis of the language of propagandistic and biased texts Automatic generation of persuasive content Automatic debiasing of news content Tools to facilitate the flagging, either automatic or manual, of propaganda and bias in social media Automatic detection of coordinated propaganda campaigns such as the use of social bots, botnets, and water armies Analysis of diffusion and consumption of propagandistic, hyperpartisan, and extremely biased content in social media Techniques to empirically measure Internet censorship across communication platforms; Investigations on covert linguistic communication and its limits; Identity and private information detection; Passive and targeted surveillance techniques; Ethics in NLP; “Walled gardens”, personalization and fragmentation of the online public space; Multiple submission policy: papers that are under review in another COLING workshop at the time of submission will not be considered. Submission page: https://www.softconf.com/coling2022/NLP4IF Formatting requirements: https://coling2022.org/Submission Important Dates * Submission deadline: August 18, 2022 (23:59 PM Pacific Standard Time) * Camera-ready papers due: September 5, 2022 * Workshop: co-located with COLING-2022, October 12-17, 2022

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Fifth Workshop on NLP for Internet Freedom (NLP4IF): extended deadline
by Anna Feldman 08 Aug '22

08 Aug '22

COLING 2022 Fifth Workshop on NLP for Internet Freedom (NLP4IF): Censorship, Disinformation, and Propaganda Workshop website: http://netsci.montclair.edu/nlp4if/ Co-located with COLING-2022, Oct 12-17, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea *Submission deadline: August 18, 2022 (23:59 PM Pacific Standard Time)* NLP4IF (http://netsci.montclair.edu/nlp4if/ is dedicated to NLP methods that potentially contribute (either positively or negatively) to the free flow of information on the Internet, or to our understanding of the issues that arise in this area. We hope that our workshop will have a transformative impact on society by getting closer to achieving Internet freedom in countries where accessing and sharing of information are strictly controlled by censorship. The topics of interest include (but are not limited) to the following: Censorship detection: detecting deleted or edited text; detecting blocked keywords/banned terms; Censorship circumvention techniques: linguistically inspired countermeasure for Internet censorship such as keyword substitution, expanding coverage of existing banned terms, text paraphrasing, linguistic steganography, generating information morphs etc.; Identification of propaganda at different granularity levels: text fragment, document, and full website Detection of self-censorship; Identifying potentially censorable content; Disinformation/Misinformation detection: fake news, fake accounts, rumor detection, etc.; Identification of hate speech and offensive language (Comparative) analysis of the language of propagandistic and biased texts Automatic generation of persuasive content Automatic debiasing of news content Tools to facilitate the flagging, either automatic or manual, of propaganda and bias in social media Automatic detection of coordinated propaganda campaigns such as the use of social bots, botnets, and water armies Analysis of diffusion and consumption of propagandistic, hyperpartisan, and extremely biased content in social media Techniques to empirically measure Internet censorship across communication platforms; Investigations on covert linguistic communication and its limits; Identity and private information detection; Passive and targeted surveillance techniques; Ethics in NLP; “Walled gardens”, personalization and fragmentation of the online public space; Multiple submission policy: papers that are under review in another COLING workshop at the time of submission will not be considered. Submission page: https://www.softconf.com/coling2022/NLP4IF Formatting requirements: https://coling2022.org/Submission Important Dates * Submission deadline: August 18, 2022 (23:59 PM Pacific Standard Time) * Camera-ready papers due: September 5, 2022 * Workshop: co-located with COLING-2022, October 12-17, 2022

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Natural Legal Language Processing (NLLP) Workshop @ EMNLP 2022 - Call for Papers
by danielpr＠gmail.com 08 Aug '22

08 Aug '22

Workshop on Natural Legal Language Processing (NLLP) 2022 8 December 2022 Abu Dhabi, UAE & Online Collocated with EMNLP 2022 Website: http://nllpw.org/workshop - Twitter: @nllpworkshop - Contact: nllp.chairs(a)gmail.com Sponsors: Bloomberg and LBox Following the success of the first three editions of the NLLP workshop (NAACL 2019, KDD 2020, EMNLP 2021), we aim to bring researchers and practitioners from NLP, machine learning and other artificial intelligence disciplines together with legal practitioners and researchers. = Topics = We welcome all submissions describing original work with one or more of the following contribution types: Applications of NLP to legal tasks including, but not limited to: - Legal Citation Resolution - Case Outcome Analysis and Prediction - Models of Legal Reasoning - E-Discovery - Lexical and other Data Resources for the Legal Domain - Bias and Privacy Experimental results using and adapting NLP methods for legal data including: - Classification - Information Retrieval - Anomaly Detection - Clustering - Knowledge Base Population - Multimedia Search - Link Analysis - Entity Recognition and Disambiguation - Training and Using Embeddings - Parsing - Dialogue and Discourse Analysis - Text Summarization and Generation - Relation and Event Extraction - Anaphora Resolution - Question Answering - Query Understanding - Combining Text with Structured data Tasks: - Description of new legal tasks for NLP - Structured overviews of a specific task with the goal of identifying new areas for research - Position papers presenting new visions, challenges and changes to existing research practices Resources: - Creation of curated and/or annotated data sets that can be publicly released and used by the community to advance the field Demos: - Descriptions of systems which use NLP technologies for legal text Industrial Research: - Industrial applications - Papers describing research on proprietary data Interdisciplinary Position Papers: - Legal and socio-legal analyses relating to the role NLP can play in the legal field - Critical reflections on the legality and ethics of data collection and processing practices = Submissions = We accept papers reporting original (unpublished) research of two types: - Long papers (max 8 pages + references) - Short papers (max 4 pages + references) To submit a paper, please access the submission link: https://softconf.com/emnlp2022/NLLP Conference proceedings will be published on the ACL Anthology (https://aclanthology.org/). = Non-archival option = The authors have the option of submitting previously unpublished research as non-archival, meaning that only the abstract will be published in the conference proceedings. We expect these submissions to describe the same quality of work as archival submissions. These will be reviewed following the same procedure as archival submissions. This option accommodates publication of the work or a superset at a later date in a conference or journal which does not allow previously archived work and to encourage presentation and feedback on mature, yet unpublished work. Non-archival submissions should adhere to the same formatting and length constraints as archival submissions. = Dual Submission and Pre-print Policy = Papers that have been or will be submitted to workshops, conferences or journals during the review period must indicate so at submission time. Authors of papers accepted for presentation at the NLLP workshop 2022 must notify the organizers by the camera-ready deadline as to whether the paper will be presented or withdrawn. If the preliminary version of a paper was posted in arXiv, the authors should NOT mention it as their own paper in the submission. Papers that violate the double-blind review requirements will be desk rejected. Exception: Submissions with the non-archival option are excepted from these requirements. = ACL Rolling Review Submissions = Our workshop also welcomes submissions from ACL Rolling Review or ARR (https://aclrollingreview.org/). Authors of any papers that are submitted to ARR and have their meta review ready may submit their papers and reviews for consideration for the workshop until 15 October 2022. This should include submissions to ARR for the 1 September deadline. = Double-Blind reviewing = The review process is double-blind. Submitted papers must not include author names and affiliations and they must be written in a way so that they do not break the double-blind reviewing process. If the preliminary version of a paper was posted in arXiv, the authors should NOT mention it as their own paper in the submission. Papers that violate the double-blind review requirements will be desk rejected. = Submission Style & Format Guidelines = Paper submissions must use the official ACL style templates, which are available here (https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files) (Latex and Word). Please follow the paper formatting guidelines general to "*ACL" conferences available (https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html) Authors may not modify these style files or use templates designed for other conferences. Submissions that do not conform to the required styles, including paper size, margin width, and font size restrictions, will be rejected without review. All long, short and theme papers must follow the ACL Author Guidelines (https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Author_Guidelines) = Important Dates = Submission deadline: 26 September 2022 Notification: 12 October 2022 ARR Commitment deadline: 15 October 2022 Camera ready: 26 October 2022 Workshop: 8 December 2020 All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h. = Presentation = Presentation format and schedule will be announced before the camera-ready deadline. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the NLLP 2022 by the registration deadline in order for the submission to be published in the proceedings. = Organizing Committee = Nikolaos Aletras ― University of Sheffield Leslie Barrett ― Bloomberg Law Ilias Chalkidis ― University of Copenhagen Catalina Goanta ― Utrecht University Daniel Preotiuc-Pietro ― Bloomberg

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Job: Research Associate – Natural Language Processing @ UCREL, Lancaster
by Rayson, Paul 08 Aug '22

08 Aug '22

School of Computing and Communications Salary: £29,619 to £34,308 Closing Date: Friday 26 August 2022 Interview Date: To be confirmed Reference: 0809-22 https://hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=0809-22 The School of Computing and Communications (SCC) within Lancaster University’s Faculty of Science and Technology, is seeking to appoint a Research Associate (RA) to work on two connected research projects on Natural Language Processing (NLP) for the Welsh language. FreeTxt/TestunRhydd (https://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/freetxt/) is funded by the AHRC as a follow-on funding for impact and engagement project. Thesawrws (https://corcencc.org/thesawrws/) is funded by the Welsh Government and will use word embeddings and other NLP techniques to create an open-access, freely-available online thesaurus of contemporary Welsh. Working together with project partners at Cardiff University (led by Dr Dawn Knight as PI), and stakeholders in the FreeTxt/TestunRhydd project advisory group (National Trust Wales, Cadw, National Museum Wales), the RA will continue the co-design, development and implementation of a well documented and thoroughly tested Streamlit web-based software prototype for supporting bilingual free-text survey and questionnaire data analysis. While a range of sophisticated digital tools for the analysis of text-based data are already available, particularly for researchers working in academia, in marketing and public relations contexts etc., many of the digital resources used are not necessarily affordable, quick and easy to use, and/or accessible to non-expert users. Specifically, these tools currently do not fully support the task of systematically processing free-text responses in Welsh. The FreeTxt/TestunRhydd project aims to bridge this gap between quantitative and qualitative forms of survey data by building the novel FreeTxt toolkit which is designed to support the analysis and visualisation of multiple forms of open-ended, free-text data in both English and Welsh. In the Thesawrws project, the RA will work on developing an open-access, freely available online thesaurus of the Welsh language, for Welsh speakers and learners alike. The RA’s work will draw on pre-existing word embeddings to find related words, and the CorCenCC project Welsh semantic tagger and human evaluators to refine the similarities to enhance this resource. For the language user, this represents a valuable resource which goes beyond traditional thesauri and it will be available publicly as a fully bilingual, user-friendly website, released via the main CorCenCC project website (http://www.corcencc.org/). The RA will be part of an internationally recognised centre of expertise for corpus-based natural language processing (UCREL), and will work directly with Professor Paul Rayson and Dr Mo El-Haj in SCC. For more details, please see the associated job description and person specification for this position. Potential candidates can also make informal enquiries to Professor Paul Rayson (p.rayson(a)lancaster.ac.uk<mailto:p.rayson@lancaster.ac.uk>) and Dr Mo El-Haj (m.el-haj(a)lancaster.ac.uk<mailto:m.el-haj@lancaster.ac.uk>). This is a full-time position expected to start in September 2022, and the RA will join on an indefinite contract, however the role remains contingent on external funding, which for this position which for this position ends 10th March 2023. Lancaster University are committed to family-friendly and flexible working policies on an individual basis. The School is also an Athena Swan Bronze Award holder, driving good employment practice and initiatives to address gender inequalities in Computing higher education and research. We welcome applications from people in all diversity groups. -- Paul Rayson Director of UCREL and Professor of Natural Language Processing Group Lead (SCC Data Science) School of Computing and Communications, InfoLab21, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK. Web: http://www.research.lancs.ac.uk/portal/en/people/Paul-Rayson/ Tel: +44 1524 510357 Contact me on Teams<https://teams.microsoft.com/l/chat/0/0?users=p.rayson@lancaster.ac.uk>

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Workshop Participation Opportunity/Call for Abstracts - Finance & NLP
by caitlin＠theiainsights.com 08 Aug '22

08 Aug '22

We are hosting a workshop at the Automated Knowledge Base Construction (AKBC) 2022 Conference. This is a non-archival event and we welcome work in progress/published works. Call for Abstracts We encourage submissions of abstracts relevant to knowledge graphs, NLP, and broader financial/economics research that could benefit from the use of KGs or NLP. These submissions may be previously published papers, new research, or works in progress. Accepted submissions may be asked to present their research at a presentation, lighting talk, or panel during the conference. For more information on the conference, please visit our website. Formatting guidelines Length between ½ - 1 page (not including references) PDF, Word, or Text file Include all authors Submit your abstract at https://finance-at-akbc.bubbleapps.io/submit Topics include but are not limited to Using KGs to represent relationships among companies and industries Automatic new industry and theme detection Identifying and representing supply chains Data sources and annotation for KGs in finance and economics Economic value of the data produced by KGs Knowledge graph entity hierarchy induction Combining numerical and semantic information in KGs Bootstrap KGs from public data sources other than Wikipedia Committee Members Dr. Ye Tian (University College London, Theia Insights) Ben Jones (Nasdaq) Dr. Gaurav Singh (Binance) Dr. Migael Strydom (Theia Insights) Dr. Pranava Madhyastha (City University of London) Ioannis Dourats (Meta) Dr. Lemin Wu (Theia Insights) Pietro Lesci (University of Cambridge) Nathan Burton (Theia Insights) Caitlin Walsh (Theia Insights) If you have any questions, please contact caitlin(a)theiainsights.com.

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HiT-IT’2023: First announcement
by Caro Quintana, Rocío I. 08 Aug '22

08 Aug '22

HiT-IT’2023 (HiT-IT conference: Human-informed Translation and Interpreting Technology) Naples, Italy, 6-8 July 2023 First announcement The conference We are pleased to announce the first Conference on Human-Informed Translation and Interpreting Technology. HiT-IT 2023 is a follow-up of the successful HiT-IT workshops, which took place in Varna, Bulgaria in parallel to the international conferences RANLP 2017 and RANLP 2019. The conference will take place on Naples, Italy, 6-8 July, 2023. HiT-IT seeks to act as a meeting point for (and invites) researchers working in translation and interpreting technologies, practicing technology-minded translators and interpreters, companies and freelancers providing services in translation and interpreting as well as companies developing tools for translators and interpreters. In addition to the accepted papers for presentation, HiT-IT will feature invited talks by prominent experts as well as presentations and panels hosted by practitioners. Human translation and interpreting as well as Machine Translation (MT) (including Automatic Speech Translation) aim to solve the same problem (i.e. facilitate communication between different languages) but in most cases obtain different results. While human translation so far is largely preferred by businesses and individuals in terms of quality, it requires high cognitive efforts and a lot of time. MT is much faster and can process large amounts of textual data in no time, but its results have obvious shortcomings for the average human. However, the quality of MT has been improving and MT now is part of the standard pipeline for many professional translators and CAT tools. Translation Technology (TT) has the objective of speeding up and easing the translation process, and more specifically, of assisting human translators. The emerging field of Interpreting Technology seeks to support the work of interpreters too. TT relies heavily on methods developed in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) (and Computational linguistics). Typical examples are Computer-Assisted Translation (CAT) tools, electronic dictionaries, concordancers, spell-checkers, terminological databases, terminology extraction tools, translation memories, partial machine translation of template documents, speech recognition systems for automatic subtitling, to name just a few. However, quite often these tools do not address the actual needs of translation and interpreting professionals. In turn, the NLP and MT make use of the knowledge and expertise of professional translators and interpreters in order to build and improve models for automatic translation – e.g. by using parallel aligned human translations and speech interpretation corpora for machine learning, human evaluation of machine translation outputs and human annotations. Most of the existing conferences are either focused too much on the automatic side of translation or concentrate largely on translators’ and interpreters’ professions. HiT-IT seeks to fill in this gap by allowing the discussion, the scientific comparison, and the mutual enrichment of professionals from both fields. HiT-IT 2023 addresses the development of translation tools and the experience translators and interpreters have with these tools as well as the development of machine translation engines, incorporating human (translators and interpreters’) expertise. The conference also offers a discussion forum and publishing opportunity for professionals from the human translation and interpreting fields (e.g. translators including subtitlers, interpreters, respeakers, researchers in translation and interpreting studies) and for researchers and developers working on translation and interpreting technology and machine translation. The idea behind this conference attendees to hear the other side’s position and to voice their opinions on how to make translation technologies closer to what would be accepted by large audiences, by incorporating human expertise into them. We expect contributions to the following topics: TOPICS We invite papers on the following four main themes, however submissions on related themes/topics will also be considered. Both theoretical ideas and practical applications are welcome. Position papers promoting new ideas, challenging the current status of the fields and proposing how to take them forward are also encouraged. User needs: * analysis of translators’ and interpreters’ needs in terms of translation and interpreting technology * user requirements for interpreting and translation tools * incorporating human knowledge into translation and interpreting technology * what existing translators’ (including subtitlers’) and interpreters’ tools do not offer * user requirements for electronic resources for translators and interpreters * translation and interpreting workflows in larger organisations and the tools for translation and interpreting employed Existing methods and resources * latest developments in translation and interpreting technology * electronic resources for translators and interpreters * annotation of corpora for translation and interpreting technology * crowdsourcing techniques for creating resources for translation and interpreting * latest advances in pre-editing and post-editing of machine translation * human-informed (semi-)automatic generation of interlingual subtitles * technology for subtitling Evaluation * (human) evaluation of translation and interpreting technology * crowdsourcing techniques for evaluating translation and interpreting * evaluation of discourse and other linguistic phenomena in (machine) translation and interpreting * evaluation of existing resources for translators and interpreters * human evaluation of neural machine translation Other * position papers discussing how machine translation should be improved to incorporate translators’/interpreters’ expertise * translation and interpreting technologies’ impact on the market * comparison between human and machine translation * changes in the translators and interpreters’ professions in the new technology era especially as a result of the latest developments in Neural Machine Translation Besides the above topics, submissions from industry and practitioners could discuss: distinctive work experience, ongoing practical work, in-house procedures or software, in-house processing pipelines, technology needs, managing a translation (technology) company, interpreters in the technology era, IP issues or any topic related to their professional activities in the field of (technology for) translation and interpreting, etc. SUBMISSIONS User papers – for industry and practitioners. References to related work are optional. Allowed paper length: between 1 and 4 pages (without references). Academic submissions, in three different categories (have to follow formatting requirements, references to related work are required): * (academic) full papers – describing original completed research. Allowed paper length: maximum 8 pages (without references). * (academic) work-in-progress papers – describing work in progress, late breaking research, papers at a more conceptual stage, and other types of papers that do not fit in the ‘full’ papers category. Allowed paper length: maximum 6 pages (without references). * (academic) demo papers – describing working systems. Allowed paper length: maximum 4 pages (without references). In addition to the papers, the authors will be expected to demonstrate the systems at the conference. Organisation HiT-IT is organised by the University of Wolverhampton, the University of Surrey (United Kingdom), the University of Malaga (Spain), and the University of Naples L ’Orientale (Italy), and the Association of Computational Linguistics (Bulgaria). Conference Chairs Gloria Corpas Pastor (University of Malaga), Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton), Johanna Monti (University of Naples L’Orientale), Constantin Orasan (University of Surrey) Venue The conference will take place at the Palazzo del Mediterraneo, University of Naples, https://www.unior.it/ateneo/253/1/palazzo-del-mediterraneo.html Further information Further information and updates will be made available on the conference website http://hit-it-conference.org/. The Organising Committee can be reached by email on 2023(a)hit-it-conference.org<mailto:2023@hit-it-conference.org>.

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CfP: Third Conference on Computational Humanities Research Dec 12-14, 2022
by Melvin Wevers 08 Aug '22

08 Aug '22

In the arts and humanities, the use of computational, statistical, and mathematical approaches has considerably increased in recent years. This research is characterized by the use of formal methods and the construction of explicit, computational models. This includes quantitative, statistical approaches, but also more generally computational methods for processing and analyzing data, as well as theoretical reflections on these approaches. Despite the undeniable growth of this research area, many scholars still struggle to find suitable research-oriented venues to present and publish computational work that does not lose sight of traditional modes of inquiry in the arts and humanities. This is the scholarly niche that the CHR conference aims to fill. More precisely, the conference aims at 1. Building a community of scholars working on humanities research questions relying on a wide range of computational and quantitative approaches to humanities data in all its forms. We consider this community to be complementary to the digital humanities landscape. 2. Promoting good practices through sharing “research stories”. Such good practices may include, for instance, the publication of code and data in order to support transparency and replication of studies; pre-registering research design to present theoretical justification, hypotheses, and proposed statistical analysis; or a redesign of the reviewing process for interdisciplinary studies that rely on computational approaches to answer questions relevant to the humanities. Topics of interest We invite original research papers from a wide range of topics, including -- but not limited to -- the following: - Applications of statistical methods (machine learning) to process, enrich and analyse humanities and cultural heritage data; - Hypothesis-driven humanities research; - Development of empirical methods for humanities research; - Modeling bias, uncertainty, and conflicting interpretation in the humanities; - Evaluation methods and development of standards; - Statistical evaluation of categorization / periodization; - Explanatory models for humanities research; - Theories for quantitative methods and computational humanities approaches; - Translation and transfer of methods from other disciplines, approaches to bridge humanistic and statistical interpretations. To gain further insight into paper topics, please also refer to the proceedings of CHR2020<http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2723/> and CHR2021<http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2989/>. Venue The 2022 edition of the Computational Humanities Research conference will be hosted by the University of Antwerp, Belgium. The conference will be a hybrid event with an option to attend in person at the beautiful Monastery of the Grauwzusters<https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/about-uantwerp/campuses/catering-conventionhal…> in Antwerp, virtually, or a combination of the two. More details will follow soon. Important dates - Submission deadline: September 2, 2022 - Notification to authors: October 18, 2022 - Final papers ready: November 1, 2022 - Conference: December 12 - December 14, 2022 Submission types Long Papers: up to 5000 words (ca. 10 pages, references, abstract and tables/illustrations excluded). Long papers report on completed, original and unpublished results. Brevity of argument is preferred. We welcome the use of appendices or other supplementary information. Short Papers: up to 3000 words (ca. 6 pages references, abstract and tables/illustrations excluded). Short papers report on focussed contributions, and may present work in progress. Posters: For poster presentations we ask you to submit an abstract describing your work in about 750 words (references excluded). Posters are well suited to present new or early stage research, for a corpus or database description, or for detailed technical explanations and clarifications. Perhaps needless to say given the R in CHR, but posters must also describe actual research. Posters will not be published in the proceedings, but they will be added to the website of CHR. Overleaf has a word count functionality, or you can use the TexCount<https://app.uio.no/ifi/texcount/> application. Submission instructions and review process Submissions should be written in English and must be formatted according to the CHR latex template<https://github.com/cohure/CHR2022-website/raw/main/data/chr2022_latex_templ…> (see instructions on the forum to get you started here<https://discourse.computational-humanities-research.org/t/chr-latex-instruc…>.) Submissions are to be submitted anonymously. All submissions will be refereed through a double-blind peer review process by at least three reviewers with final acceptance decisions made by the Programme Chairs. Papers and posters should be submitted as PDF documents via the Easychair<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=chr2022> conference management system. At least one author of each accepted submission must register to the conference and present the paper or poster. Accepted papers will be submitted for publication online via the CEUR-WS<http://ceur-ws.org/> Proceedings publication service. Instructions for paper anonymisation Any information which might help identify authors should be anonymized. To this end, please: 1. do not include authors' names and affiliations; 2. use placeholders for code and data repositories, e.g. https://anonymous.4open.science/, https://zenodo.org/record/xxxxx; 3. do not mention self-references in a way that can reveal the author's identity, e.g. do not use "We previously demonstrated (Smith, 2002)" but "Smith (2022) previously demonstrated"; 4. leave acknowledgements blank. Anonymity period The anonymity period runs until the notification of acceptance (October 18, 2022). Preprints can be published after this date. Questions? Contact the organizers: info(a)computational-humanities-research.org<mailto:info@computational-humanities-research.org> or drop us a line on the discourse forum<https://discourse.computational-humanities-research.org>.

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2024

2023

2022

Corpora August 2022