September 2022 - Corpora

Monday 19 September: Free online course (MOOC) in CL starts
by Brezina, Vaclav 14 Sep '22

14 Sep '22

Dear all, We are really excited to be offering the highly-successful free online course (MOOC) in Corpus linguistics: 'Corpus Linguistics: Method, Analysis, Interpretation'. This anniversary tenth run of the course starts on 19 September 2022 and runs for eight weeks. If you are interested, you can register now for free at https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/corpus-linguistics by clicking on 'Join today'. As every year, we have included brand new features to the course keeping you up to date with new developments in the field. I hope to see you on the course! Best, Vaclav **Special offer - £500 off Lancaster tuition fees** If you decide to study the free MOOC, or if you actively participated and completed the course within the last three years, you are eligible to apply for our MOOC entry route to Lancaster University's MA (2 years, online) or Postgraduate Certificate (1 year, online). You can still apply for the 2022 start. By doing so, you will not take the first core module of the programme, Fundamentals of Corpus Linguistics, but will be expected to submit two written assessments, in January of year 1, using the knowledge you developed through the MOOC. This entry route has a fee discount of £500, which will be deducted from the first year of your fees. MA https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/postgraduate-courses/corpus-… PG Certificate https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/postgraduate-courses/corpus-… Professor Vaclav Brezina Professor in Corpus Linguistics Department of Linguistics and English Language ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Lancaster University Lancaster, LA1 4YD Office: County South, room C05 T: +44 (0)1524 510828 [cid:image001.png@01D8C82C.E9592780]@vaclavbrezina [cid:image002.png@01D8C82C.E9592780]<http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/arts-and-social-sciences/about-us/people/vaclav-…>

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Open call for tenders - Corpus collection + Use case study for a technology-based scientific translation service
by susanna.fiorini＠operas-eu.org 14 Sep '22

14 Sep '22

***Translations & Open Science calls for tenders*** The OPERAS Research Infrastructure launches a series of calls for tenders in order to lay the foundation of a technology-based scientific translation service to foster multilingualism in scholarly communication and thus help to remove language barriers according to Open Science principles. The first two calls are now open (submission deadline: 7 October 2022) 1. Mapping and collection of scientific bilingual corpora: identifying, collecting and preparing corpora of bilingual scientific texts which will serve as training dataset for specialised translation engines, source data for terminology extraction, and translation memory creation Link to call 1: https://www.operas-eu.org/mapping-and-collection-of-scientific-bilingual-co… 2. Use case study for a technology-based scientific translation service: drafting an overview of the current translation practices and challenges in scholarly communication and defining the use cases of a technology-based scientific translation service (expected users and usage scenarios, features, quality requirements, editorial and technical workflows) Link to call 2: https://www.operas-eu.org/use-case-study-for-a-technology-based-scientific-… Please note that two additional calls will be released in the coming months in the following areas: Machine translation output evaluation and Roadmap and budget projections. For any information about ongoing and future calls, please feel free to contact Susanna Fiorini at susanna.fiorini(a)operas-eu.org

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Full-time Assistant Professor position in Natural Language Processing at FI MU Brno - deadline Sep 30
by Ales Horak 14 Sep '22

14 Sep '22

We would like to draw your attention to currently open call for full-time academic position of Assistant Professor in the field of Natural Language Processing at the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic. https://www.muni.cz/en/about-us/careers/vacancies/70340 Assistant Professor Position in Natural Language Processing Department Department of Machine Learning and Data Processing – Faculty of Informatics Deadline 30 Sep 2022 Start date By mutual agreement. The Dean of the Faculty of Informatics MU invites applications for a position of Assistant Professor in Natural Language Processing, with the Department of Machine Learning and Data Processing. This position is aimed to strengthen the work of the Natural Language Processing Centre (NLP Centre - https://nlp.fi.muni.cz/) at the Faculty of Informatics. NLP Centre conducts basic and applied research in all areas of text and speech analysis and knowledge engineering with applications in data analysis projects (often in cooperation with industrial partners) and education of future language and data analysts. Besides research and education, the abilities to work with a team of graduate students on research targeting top NLP conferences and to engage undergraduate and graduate students in both educational and research exercises are crucial. Job description key points - Active international cooperation, in research and education. - Involvement in teaching in the natural language processing area. - Supervision of Master/Bachelor theses and consultancy or co-supervision of PhDs. - Involvement in expanding industrial cooperation in the natural language processing area. Requirements - PhD in Informatics or related discipline. - Passion for problem solving and desire for continuous improvement in teaching skills. - Existing track record in both education and research in natural language processing. - Expert knowledge in (several) areas covered by courses: - PA153 Natural Language Processing https://is.muni.cz/course/fi/PA153 - IA161 Natural Language Processing in Practice https://is.muni.cz/course/fi/IA161 - PA164 Machine learning and natural language processing https://is.muni.cz/course/fi/PA164 - PA154 Language Modeling https://is.muni.cz/course/fi/PA154 - PV061 Machine Translation https://is.muni.cz/course/fi/PV061 - PV277 Programming Applications for Social Robots https://is.muni.cz/course/fi/PV277 - PA156 Dialogue Systems https://is.muni.cz/course/fi/PA156 - IB047 Introduction to Corpus Linguistics and Computer Lexicography https://is.muni.cz/course/fi/IB047 - Practical involvement in the development phase of software project(s) with ability to demonstrate tools developed and showcase data analyses performed. - Dynamic, flexible personality, able to work well in teams. - Languages – fluent English (both spoken and written), other language(s) welcome. - Experience from other countries than Czech & Slovak republics (at least half a year). Desired skills and achievements - Experience with research achievements published at the top NLP conferences or best journals publishing NLP research results. - Ability to work well in interdisciplinary teams. - Successfully defended Bachelor and/or Master theses supervised. - Experience with research project team leadership is an advantage. - Open-source projects development and maintenance. Other information The starting salary for this Assistant Professor position is 76,500 CZK, and with the progress in this tenure-track position can in no more than 3 years be modified based on the level of involvement in research and educational projects. Applicants should submit - CV; - degree documents; - summary of work experience, publication and teaching activities and involvement in research grants; - cover letter explaining your interest in the position and the IT area; - title and abstract of a lecture that can be presented as a part of the application process; - names and contacts of three professional and language referees. Please submit your application, including all required documents, preferably online via the MU e-application at Vacancies | Masaryk University (muni.cz) In case this way of submission would not be possible, we also accept a paper application with a declaration of the reason for the such submission. Any queries regarding the submission shall be sent to: pers(a)fi.muni.cz. Queries regarding the position as such can be addressed to assoc. prof. Ales Horak: hales(a)fi.muni.cz. Further information is available Masaryk University at https://www.muni.cz/en Brno at https://www.gotobrno.cz/en/ -- Ales Horak Faculty of Informatics Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic

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Free virtual panel discussion: The Oxford Dictionary of African American English in the making
by OEDUK 14 Sep '22

14 Sep '22

[apologies for cross-posting] Free virtual panel discussion: The Oxford Dictionary of African American English in the making When: 22nd September 2022; 18:00 BST (UTC +1) / 13:00 EDT (UTC -4)<https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/edt> / 10:00 PDT (UTC -7)<https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/pdt> Oxford Languages and Harvard University's Hutchins Center for African & African American Research have partnered for a three-year research project, whose aim is to compile the Oxford Dictionary of African American English (ODAAE). The project is spearheaded by Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Editor-in-Chief), Director of the Center and Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard, and is funded in part by grants from the Mellon and Wagner Foundations. Join some project team members for a panel discussion covering: * Project overview and aims * Where we are now * Why we are compiling ODAAE * The socio-linguistic importance of African American English * Q&A - bring your questions to the panellists or send them in advance to oed.uk(a)oup.com<mailto:oed.uk@oup.com> Book your place: http://tiny.cc/ODAAE-ML With kind regards, The OED Team

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CoCo4MT: Friday, Sept 16 @ AMTA - Program Available
by John Ortega 13 Sep '22

13 Sep '22

-- Apologies in advance for cross-posting -- CoCo4MT @ AMTA 2022 is only a few days away! The First Workshop on Corpus Generation and Corpus Augmentation for Machine Translation (CoCo4MT) focuses on the topic of creating and augmenting training corpora for low-resource languages and machine translation. The CoCo4MT program is now available and we are happy to present an all-star line-up of presentations and speakers. Registration is still available on the AMTA website: https://web.cvent.com/event/ebca84a9-fd92-4186-a248-e4eda76bdf5e/summary The program and other details about the workshop can be found on the website: https://sites.google.com/view/coco4mt Here are some of of the incredible guest keynote speakers: Jörg Tiedemann - Collecting data, training models and distributing both – the OPUS way Graham Neubig - Unlocking Resources for Under-resourced Languages Ankur Parikh - A Multilingual View of Unsupervised Machine Translation Julia Kreutzer - Tackling Low-Resource Machine Translation with Participation, Data and Scale Maria Nadejde - Formality Control for Machine Translation We will also have a panel discussion on low-resource language corpora and more with Marine Carpuat and Kenneth Ward Church and one surprise guest. See you there!

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Save the date: eLex 2023, 27–29 June 2023
by Ondřej Matuška 13 Sep '22

13 Sep '22

The eighth biennial conference *eLex 2023* electronic lexicography in the 21st century will be held in Brno, Czech Republic, 27–29 June 2023. The topic of this conference is: Invisible lexicography. Save the date and follow the conference on the website, Twitter and Facebook to get updates. More information will be provided in the next couple of days. https://elex.link/elex2023 https://twitter.com/elex_conference www.facebook.com/elexconference We are looking forward to meeting you in Brno. Ondřej Matuška (on behalf of the eLex 2023 organising committee)

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[Job opening] Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at Cardiff University
by Jose Camacho Collados 13 Sep '22

13 Sep '22

Dear all, The School of Computer Science and Informatics at Cardiff University (Wales, United Kingdom) is now recruiting for 14 posts at the levels of Lecturer (~Assistant Prof) or Senior Lecturer (~Associate Prof) in several areas of Computer Science, with Natural Language Processing (NLP) being one of the priority areas. Further details can be found here: * Lecturer* (Teaching & Research): https://krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search/home/HomeWithPreLoad?partner… * Senior Lecturer* (Teaching & Research): https://krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search/home/HomeWithPreLoad?partner… The application deadline is Friday, 7 October 2022. More about our Cardiff NLP group can be found here: https://cardiffnlp.github.io/ Best, Jose -- Jose Camacho Collados http://www.josecamachocollados.com<http://www.josecamachocollados.com/>

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Postdoctoral position: Research associate in AI and text analytics for digital community collections
by Riza theresa Batista-navarro 13 Sep '22

13 Sep '22

The University of Manchester invites applications for a post-doctoral Research Associate in AI and text analytics to work on an AHRC-funded multi-disciplinary research project "Our Heritage, Our Stories: Linking and searching community-generated digital content to develop the people's national collection". The project, part of the Towards a National Collection: Opening UK Heritage to the World (TaNC) programme, will develop cutting-edge approaches for scalable search, linking and discoverability across community-generated digital content (CGDC) and the national collections of The National Archives (TNA). The successful candidate will focus on developing natural language processing-based methods for automated extraction and semantic enrichment of CGDC metadata from disparate collection descriptions, and will build associated knowledge graphs to enable complex representations and search. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced and enthusiastic researcher to join a multi-disciplinary team to work with real-world community data and demonstrate the potential of AI in making previously unfindable and unlinkable CGDC, discoverable within the national collection, while respecting and embracing its complexity and diversity. Based in the Department of Computer Science at Manchester, the post will be closely linked to the Emerging Technologies Research team at TNA and researchers in digital humanities, archives, history and linguistics at the Universities of Manchester and Glasgow, and will collaborate with leading UK heritage organisations, including Tate, the British Museum, the National Libraries of Scotland and Wales, the National Lottery Heritage Fund, the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, and a network of smaller regional and local heritage organisations holding digital content created by and relating to communities. Further details can be found at https://www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/displayjob.aspx?jobid=23281 How to apply: Applications are to be submitted online at https://www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/displayjob.aspx?jobid=23281 Deadline for applications: 27 September 2022

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Second Call for Papers: 1st International Multimodal Communication Symposium 2023
by Multimodal Communication Symposium 12 Sep '22

12 Sep '22

Dear colleagues, Could you please help distribute the information below regarding the 2nd CFP? Thank you very much in advance! ------------------------------------------------ ***With apologies for multiple postings*** We are delighted to announce that the *1st International Multimodal Communication Symposium (MMSYM 2023)*, which will take place in Barcelona in April 2023 (27th-28th), has just issued a Call for Papers. The abstract submissions are now open. *Call for Papers: MMSYM 2023* *1st International Multimodal Communication Symposium, April 27-28 2023, Barcelona* The *1st International Multimodal Communication Symposium (**MMSYM 2023)* will be held from Thursday 27th to Friday 28th April 2023 at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Catalonia. *MMSYM 2023* follows up on a tradition established by the Swedish Symposia on Multimodal Communication held from 1997 until 2000, and continued by the Nordic Symposia on Multimodal Communication held from 2003 to 2012. Since 2013, the symposium has acquired a broader European dimension, with editions held in Malta (2013), Tartu (2014), Dublin (2015), Copenhagen (2016), Bielefeld (2017), and Leuven (2019). To acknowledge its international ambition, this year, the symposium in Barcelona has updated its name to *1st International Multimodal Communication Symposium*. The symposium is locally organized at Universitat Pompeu Fabra with the support of the research groups collaborating within the GEHM network (GEstures and Head Movements in Language, https://cst.ku.dk/english/projects/gestures-and-head-movements-in-language-…), whose goal is to foster research into the way hand gestures and head movements interact with speech in face-to-face and human-computer multimodal communication. We welcome works aimed at exploring different approaches to multimodal communication, including research on multimodality in human communication and/or in human-computer interaction. In addition, this year’s symposium has a particular interest in three main research themes: 1) the language-specific characteristics of gesture-speech interaction 2) multimodal prominence 3) the conceptual and statistical modelling of multimodal contributions, with particular regard to head movements and the use of gaze. Therefore, we particularly encourage contributions dealing with––but not limited to––the three topics described above. The symposium will feature *keynote talks* by three confirmed invited speakers: - *Alan Cienki*, Professor of Language Use & Cognition and English Linguistics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Website: https://research.vu.nl/en/persons/alan-cienki - *Jelena Krivokapić*, Associate Professor in Linguistics, University of Michigan. Website: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/jelenakrivokapic/ - *Catherine Pelachaud*, Director of Research, Institute of Intelligent Systems and Robotics, Campus Pierre et Marie Curie, Sorbonne Université. Website: https://www.isir.upmc.fr/personnel/pelachaud/ *Abstract submission guidelines* 1) Abstracts should be written in English and should not exceed 2 A4 pages (max. 700 words) including examples, figures and references. The format should comply with the MS Word model provided *here*: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Eyi9laqglihk7OmfFWv8QsEd1jqzYjIi/edit?r… 2) Add at least three keywords to your submission. 3) Abstracts should be *anonymous* and submitted in pdf format. All references to authors should be omitted for purposes of blind review. 4) Authors may submit one abstract as first author and up to three abstracts as a co-author. Please use our *EasyChair* website for abstract submissions: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mmsym2023 Abstracts received after the deadline will not be considered. Accepted abstracts will be allocated as either oral talk or poster presentation, and will be published in the book of abstracts. *Abstract submission*: September 30, 2022 *Notification of acceptance*: approximately December 15, 2022 For more information, please visit the symposium website at http://mmsym.org/ If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us at mmsym2023(a)gmail.com *Local organizing committee:* Pilar Prieto (coordinator) Florence Baills Júlia Florit-Pons Celia Gorba Sara Muñoz Mariia Pronina Patrick Rohrer Ïo Valls Ingrid Vilà-Giménez Xiaotong Xi Ting Yao Yuan Zhang *Program committee:* Patrizia Paggio (coordinator, University of Copenhagen) Jens Edlund (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm) Marianne Gullberg (Lund University) David House (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm) Maria Koutsombogera (Trinity College Dublin) Pilar Prieto (ICREA-Universitat Pompeu Fabra) Carl Vogel (Trinity College Dublin) Margaret Zellers (Kiel University) ------------------------------------------------ Please feel free to share the call with your colleagues/networks. Best wishes, The MMSYM 2023 Organizing Committee -- *The MMSYM 2023 Organizing Committee* *Website*: mmsym.org *Email*: mmsym2023(a)gmail.com *Twitter*: @MMSYM2023 <https://twitter.com/mmsym2023>

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conference call for LTC 2023
by pap 12 Sep '22

12 Sep '22

Dear manager of the corpora mailing list, could you please post the following call for paper. In advance, thank you for you help. Patrick Paroubek LISN - CNRS - U. Paris-Saclay ----- 10th LANGUAGE AND TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE: Human Language Technologies as a Challenge for Computer Science and Linguistics, April 21-23, 2023, Poznań, Poland (LTC 2023) CALL FOR PAPERS VENUE: April 21-23, 2023 in Poznań, Poland. IMPORTANT DATES/DEADLINES: * Deadline for submission of papers for review: October 22, 2022 * Acceptance/Refusal notification: November 30, 2022 * Deadline for submission of final versions of accepted papers: December 28, 2022 * Conference: April 21-23, 2023 WEB SITE: http://ltc.amu.edu.pl/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Poland) and the Adam Mickiewicz University Foundation organize the 10th LTC on April 21-23, 2023. Following the tradition of the past events, it is supported by ELRA, FlaReNet and META-NET. Since 2005 LTC is organized every two years as the “Language & Technology Conference: Human Language Technologies as a Challenge for Computer Science and Linguistics”. Started 27 years ago, the conference find its origin in the Language and Technology Awareness Days, a meeting organized in 1995 with the assistance of the European Commission (DG XIII), with among the key speakers: Antonio Zampolli (Italy), Dafydd Gibbon (Germany), Dan Tufiş (Romania) and Orest Kossak (Ukraina). The conference welcomes researchers, advanced and beginning students, as well as all other people interested in the new advances at the borderline between computer science, human language industries and linguistics. CONFERENCE TOPICS LTC 2023 welcomes the submission of original unpublished papers on various aspects of Human Language Technology of both theoretical and practical importance: * AI-oriented studies of human language competence * communicative intelligence * computational semantics * computer modeling of language competence * corpora-based methods in language engineering * electronic language resources and tools * formalization of natural languages * HLT related policies * HLT standards and best practices * HLTs as support for e-learning * HLTs as support for foreign language teaching * HLTs as support in solving Homeland Security problems (technology applications and legal aspects) * knowledge representation * language-specific computational challenges for HLTs (especially for languages other than English) * legal issues connected with HLTs (problems and challenges) * Logic Programming in Natural Language Processing * human- machine NL interfaces * methodological issues in HLT * neural networks in language engineering * NL applications in robotics * NL understanding by computers * NL user modeling * NLP methods in cyber-criminality detection and prevention * paralinguistic phenomena in Natural Language Processing * parsing and other forms of NL processing * question answering * sentiment, opinion and emotion analysis * socio-political aspects of HLTs * speech processing * system prototype presentations * technological aspects of nonverbal linguistics * text-based information retrieval and extraction * tools and methodologies for developing multilingual systems * translation enhancement tools * validation in all areas of HLTs * visionary papers in the field of HLT * WordNet-like ontologies PAPER SUBMISSION The conference accepts papers in English only. Papers (5 formatted pages in the conference format) are due by October 22, 2022 (midnight, any time zone) and should not disclose the author(s) in any manner. In order to facilitate submission we have decided to reduce the formatting requirements as much as possible at the submission stage. All submissions are to be made electronically via the LTC 2023 web submission system (EasyChair). Paper templates will be available soon at http://www.ltc.amu.edu.pl (Paper Submission section). PUBLICATION POLICY Acceptance will be based on the reviewers' assessments (blind peer review by tree experts). The accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings (hard and electronic copy, with ISBN number). The abstracts of the accepted contributions will also be made available via the conference page (during its lifetime). Publication requires full electronic registration and payment of the conference fee (full registration) by at least one co-authors in the due time (dates will be presented at the conference site). One registration fee entitles publication of one paper. Since 2005 until now, post-conference volumes with substantially extended versions of selected conference papers were published. Since 2007 these post-conference monographs were published in the Springer Verlag series Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. We intend to continue this tradition. Papers will be selected based on reviewers’ reports among the best evaluated papers of general interest with new innovative results. Preference will be given to papers providing significant content extension with respect to the paper presented at the conference. More details will be provided via the LTC23 web site. AWARDS FOR BEST STUDENT PAPERS Special awards will be granted to the best student (status at the date of paper submission). The majoritarian student contribution to the paper must be confirmed by all paper co-authors in a written form. More details will be provided at the LTC website. To find information out about the winners at previous conferences please visit www.ltc.amu.edu.pl. ACCOMPANYING EVENTS Please do not hesitate to contact us with new suggestions and ideas concerning . We are open to suggestions concerning accompanying events (workshops, exhibits, panels, etc). Suggestions, ideas and observations may be addressed directly to ltc23(a)amu.edu.pl or to the LTC23 Chairs via email (cc marta.witkowska(a)amu.edu.pl). LANGUAGE: The conference language is English. Contacts: Zygmunt Vetulani (vetulani(a)amu.edu.pl) and Patrick Paroubek (pap(a)lisn.fr) (LTC23 Cochairs), Marta Witkowska (LTC23 Secretary) (marta.witkowska(a)amu.edu.pl) MORE ABOUT THE CONFERENCE at the LTC23 website: http://www.ltc.amu.edu.pl *) City of Poznań: https://www.poznan.pl/mim/en/ -----

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