We are looking for a PhD candidate in the areas of Natural Language
Processing (NLP), Conversational AI and Multilingual NLP.
Application Deadline: 2 October 2022
Job description:
This 4-year salaried PhD position is embedded in the project “Low-Resource
Chat-based Conversational Intelligence (LESSEN <http://lessen-project.nl/>),
funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). The project’s consortium brings
together a diverse set of academic researchers and industrial stakeholders
aimed at developing safe and transparent chat-based conversational AI
agents, based on state-of-the-art neural architectures.
In this context, the selected PhD candidate will work on
multilinguality-related challenges and opportunities, with the goal of
improving conversational agents under data scarcity conditions. Besides
enabling knowledge sharing among high- and low-resource languages and
language variants, the project aims at empowering chatbots to handle
code-switching utterances, which are common in many communities.
Qualifications:
We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic student with a Master
degree in computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, computer
science, information science, or related areas.
Machine learning skills are mandatory; experience with training and/or
designing neural networks for language processing tasks is strongly
desired; experience in conversational systems is a plus. Furthermore, an
excellent knowledge of English and good academic writing skills are
essential.
Organisation:
The PhD candidate will be based at the Centre for Language and Cognition of
the University of Groningen (CLCG) and will collaborate with other
researchers from the Lessen project. The research will be carried out in
the context of the Computational Linguistics group (
https://www.rug.nl/research/clcg/research/cl/) of the CLCG research
institute.
Application Deadline: 2 October 2022
Start date: 1 January 2023
Find all details and apply here:
https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-0…
For questions you can contact:
Dr A. Bisazza, a.bisazza(a)rug.nl
Please do NOT use the e-mail address above for applications.
Please first check if your question is already answered at the application
link
<https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-0…>
.
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Arianna Bisazza
Assistant Professor
University of Groningen
http://www.cs.rug.nl/~bisazza
Registration is now open for the 26th Annual Conference of the
Foundation for Endangered Languages, to be held at the University of New
Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 02-04 November 2022.
The theme of this year’s conference is:
Community ownership of language education for endangered language
revitalization
Invited speakers:
Joel Isaak, Kenaitze Indian Trip, Kenai, Alaska
“Teaching Dena'ina Literacy Through Culture”
Melvatha Chee, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico
“The Documentation of Indigenous Child speech and Child-Directed Speech”
Conference web page here:
https://www.ogmios.org/conferences/2022/index.php
Register for the conference here:
https://vonweber.nl/fel/registration_form.html
Registration for the conference is required for both in-person and
online attendance.
In-person registration will close October 15, 2022.
Remote registration will remain open throughout the conference.
Local organizers Siri Tuttle and Wafa Hozien of Navajo Technical
University will welcome participants on a first-day trip out of
the city to Crownpoint, New Mexico, the home of Navajo Tech. To
join this field trip, and to participate in a special conference
dinner, registrants may sign up using this Google form:
https://forms.gle/D7Mb8cCgHCV4ZKJp8
The costs of both events are included in the conference
registration fee.
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_______________________________________________________________________
Steven Krauwer, CLARIN/FEL/ELSNET/UiLOTS, Utrecht, NL, s.krauwer(a)uu.nl
Dear colleagues,
On behalf of the organizing committee for the *1st International Multimodal
Communication Symposium (MMSYM)*, we hope this message finds you well.
We are writing to inform you that the* abstract submission deadline* has
been extended until *October 7th*. Please find the Call for Papers below.
______________________________________
*Third Call for Papers: 1st International Multimodal Communication
Symposium 2023*
***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*: October 7, 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)
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Please feel free to share the call with your colleagues/networks.
Best wishes,
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*The MMSYM 2023 Organizing Committee*
*Website*: mmsym.org
*Email*: mmsym2023(a)gmail.com
*Twitter*: @MMSYM2023 <https://twitter.com/mmsym2023>
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*The MMSYM 2023 Organizing Committee*
*Website*: mmsym.org
*Email*: mmsym2023(a)gmail.com
*Twitter*: @MMSYM2023 <https://twitter.com/mmsym2023>
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*The MMSYM 2023 Organizing Committee*
*Website*: mmsym.org
*Email*: mmsym2023(a)gmail.com
*Twitter*: @MMSYM2023 <https://twitter.com/mmsym2023>
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*The MMSYM 2023 Organizing Committee*
*Website*: mmsym.org
*Email*: mmsym2023(a)gmail.com
*Twitter*: @MMSYM2023 <https://twitter.com/mmsym2023>
The Department of Linguistics at Montclair State University invites
candidates to apply for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in
Computational Linguistics
position starting on September 1, 2023.
[The position is open until filled.* Applications received by November 1
will receive fullest consideration.]*
Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Linguistics, with a primary
specialization in computational linguistics. We seek candidates who are
active researchers in a core linguistics area that complements existing
departmental strengths. The successful candidate will play an important
role in the continued development of our programs in computational linguistics
at the graduate and undergraduate levels that prepare students for careers
in industry as well as academia. The new faculty will be expected to teach
undergraduate and graduate courses, have an active research agenda, and
participate in graduate mentoring and student advisement. Willingness to
provide service to the department, university and the larger professional
community is also required. Demonstrated ability in grant seeking/writing
is a plus.
Link to submit your application: https://montclair
.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/JobOpportunities/details/Assistant-Professor-of-Linguistics--
Computational-Linguistics_R1002553
Further information about the department and the research interests of its
faculty is available at http://www.montclair.edu/chss/linguistics/
COLLEGE/SCHOOL AND DEPARTMENT DESCRIPTIONS
The Linguistics Department at Montclair State, housed within the College of
Humanities and Social Sciences, offers a wide variety of graduate and
undergraduate programs including B.A. in Linguistics, M.A. in Applied
Linguistics, and M.S. in Computational Linguistics (jointly with Computer
Science). The undergraduate concentrations include ASL/English
Interpreting, TESL, and Language Engineering. We also offer Graduate
Certificates in Teaching English as a Second Language, Teaching English to
Speakers of Other Languages, and Computational Linguistics. The
Montclair State
Linguistics Department faculty are all actively engaged in research.
THE UNIVERSITY
Montclair State University is a nationally recognized R2 research doctoral
institution that empowers students, faculty, and researchers to rise above
their own expectations. Building on a distinguished history dating back to
1908, the University today has 10 colleges and schools that serve 21,000
undergraduate and graduate students with more than 300 doctoral, master’s
and baccalaureate programs. Situated on a beautiful, 252-acre suburban
campus just 12 miles from New York City, Montclair State welcomes a diverse
population of students, many of whom are first generation, and delivers the
instructional and research resources of a large public university in a
supportive and sophisticated academic environment.
QUALIFICATIONS
Earned Ph.D. in Linguistics or related discipline required at the time of
appointment. Evidence of successful teaching experience at the
undergraduate and graduate levels and an active research agenda in
computational linguistics.
DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION STATEMENT
Montclair State University is committed to establishing and maintaining a
diverse campus community that is representative of the State of New Jersey
through inclusive excellence and equal opportunity. Montclair State
University's commitment to access and equity is designed to prepare each
graduate to thrive as a global citizen. As an affirmative action, equal
opportunity institution we are working to support a campus-wide agenda to
foster a community that both values and promotes the varied voices of our
students, faculty, and staff. The University encourages candidates to apply
who will contribute to the cultural tapestry of MSU and who value teaching
a diverse student population, many of whom are first generation students.
SALARY RANGE Commensurate with experience
STARTING DATE September 1, 2023
REQUIRED MATERIALS:
· Cover letter, curriculum vitae, research and teaching statements,
and representative publications, which can be uploaded during the
application process.
· 3 letters of recommendation, which can be sent to: lingsearch2022@
montclair.edu
APPLY BY: The position is open until filled.* Applications received by
November 1 will receive fullest consideration.*
You can contact the chair of the search committee, Dr. Jonathan Howell,
with questions on the position at lingsearch2022(a)montclair.edu.
AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY/AFFIRMATIVE ACTION INSTITUTION
The Department of Quantitative Theory & Methods at Emory University invites
applications for a tenured or tenure-track faculty member with a
specialization in quantitative methods of humanities research to begin fall
2023.
We seek an exceptional, active researcher in any humanities discipline (or
allied field, such as information studies or computer science) with strong
interdisciplinary experience. The successful applicant will teach courses
in quantitative methods and their applications in their discipline at both
the undergraduate and graduate levels. We are especially interested in
applicants with expertise in computational text analysis, computational
image/audio/video analysis, humanities data analysis, and/or cultural
analytics. The position is fully funded 9-month tenure-track, and open with
respect to rank. The teaching load is competitive. A Ph.D. is required by
time of appointment.
QTM is a new and rapidly growing interdisciplinary department at Emory with
faculty from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds including biology,
computer science, economics, English, operations research, political
science, public health, sociology, and statistics. The successful candidate
must demonstrate excellence (or the promise of excellence) in research and
teaching, as well as a strong ability to teach and mentor a diverse student
body. The successful candidate will also demonstrate an interest in
contributing to QTM’s intellectual mission. For a full list of ECAS faculty
responsibilities, see:
http://college.emory.edu/faculty/documents/faculty/faculty-responsibilities…
For every search, diversifying our faculty is of primary importance. Emory
has a diverse student body and values both vision and experience that will
foster an inclusive learning environment. All faculty applicants will be
required to complete a brief statement describing their experience and
vision regarding the teaching and mentorship of students of diverse
backgrounds. In addition to this statement, a complete application will
also consist of a cover letter, curriculum vitae, research statement,
teaching portfolio, writing sample of 20-25 pages, graduate transcript, and
three letters of recommendation. Review begins October 1, 2022.
Applications received by November 1, 2022 will receive full consideration.
To apply for this position, please submit all materials through the
following link. https://apply.interfolio.com/112362.
best wishes,
Heather Froehlich
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Dr Heather Froehlich
w // http://hfroehli.ch
t // @heatherfro
Dear all,
The NEH-funded Legal Literacies for Text Data Mining, Cross-Border (LLTDM-X)
<https://update.lib.berkeley.edu/2022/08/16/uc-berkeley-library-and-internet…>
team
seeks to compensate *10 U.S.-based* (living or working in U.S.) humanities
and social sciences researchers with up to $800 stipends for discussing the
legal and ethical issues they face or will face when conducting their
cross-border text and data mining research.
The project has previously created guidance around copyright, licensing,
privacy, and ethical issues for the U.S.
<https://berkeley.pressbooks.pub/buildinglltdm/> TDM (used broadly here-
inclusive of any and all corpus and NLP projects) get more complicated,
especially surroudning legal and ethical issues including but not limited
to:
+ the materials you want to mine are housed in a foreign jurisdiction / are
subject to foreign licensing or law,
+ the human subjects you are studying or who created the content you are
studying reside in another country, or
+ the colleagues with whom you’re collaborating are abroad, and you are not
sure whose law applies or what’s allowed.
Their next steps are focused on corpora that are held or created beyond the
U.S. border or that you access via foreign license agreements, as well as
in collaboration with colleagues around the world on cross-border TDM
projects. Participation in this roundtable will contribute to a Springtime
NEH institute focused on cross-border text and data mining initiatives.
Please see full details of how to apply to participate here, including an
assessment guideline:
https://buildinglltdm.org/2022/09/26/seeking-text-data-mining-researchers-f…
.
best wishes,
Heather Froehlich
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Dr Heather Froehlich
w // http://hfroehli.ch
t // @heatherfro
Call for Abstracts for the 2024 *International Journal of English for
Academic Purposes *Special Issue
*Corpora and English for Academic Purposes *
Guest Editor: Eniko Csomay
The goal of the special issue is to offer an overview of the latest
developments and innovations in the study of language in the academia with
special emphasis on using corpora. The special issue welcomes studies from
· all academic levels (primary/elementary, secondary, and tertiary
including undergraduate and graduate)
· all spoken and written registers as they relate to the academic
context (e.g., TED talk language in training teaching associates, classroom
discourse, student writing, academic prose, etc.)
· all educational contexts where English is the medium of
instruction (EMI), and
· all research paradigms including corpus-driven, corpus-based,
corpus-informed qualitative/quantitative methods including analyses of
written texts, transcribed oral texts, and/or multimodal corpora.
The journal makes all articles open access (free of charge) and all
submissions go through a double blind review by experts in the field.
Articles for this special issue are solicited by submission as well as by
invitation.
Suggested topics include but are not limited to
· university classroom discourse
· language use within and across disciplines
· student writing at the university (whether in the classroom or
under testing conditions)
· the language of content-based instruction in
Ø dual language schools and/or immersion programs (e.g., high school)
Ø tertiary education (university, vocational school)
· the language of EMI contexts
· multimodal corpora
· language training for teaching associates
· the use of corpora with young learners
· international perspectives on academic language use
Abstracts should describe empirical studies and include implications.
Full-length articles will be 7,000 words including references and
appendices.
Please send a max. 600-word abstract without author(s) names. On a separate
sheet, include each author’s name, title of the article, affiliation,
mailing address, e-mail address, telephone number, and a 50-word
biographical statement.
The deadline for abstracts is October 25, 2022. Please send abstracts and
inquiries to the guest editor, Eniko Csomay at ecsomay(a)sdsu.edu.
*Timeline:*
September 25, 2022 Call for Papers
October 25, 2022 Submission of abstracts
November 5, 2022 Invitation to submit to special issue
(based on abstracts and invitations)
May 1, 2023 Manuscript submission
June 10, 2023 Completion of first round of review
August 1, 2023 Revised manuscript submission (based
on first round of reviews)
September 10, 2023 Completion of second round of reviews
November 1, 2023 Final submission
November 15, 2023 Manuscripts to be sent to the publisher to
work with authors on proofs
March 2024 Publication
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Eniko Csomay <https://linguistics.sdsu.edu/people/csomay>, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Linguistics and Asian/Middle Eastern Languages
<http://linguistics.sdsu.edu/>
San Diego State University
San Diego, CA 92182-7727
Office phone: (+1) 619.594.3377
Graduate advisor (2021-2024)
Senator, Academic Senate, California State University (ASCSU
<http://www.calstate.edu/AcadSen/>) (2018-2024)
Chair, General Education Advisory Committee (GEAC
<https://www.calstate.edu/csu-system/administration/academic-and-student-aff…>),
ASCSU (2022-2023)
Vice Chair, General Education Advisory Committee (GEAC
<https://www.calstate.edu/csu-system/administration/academic-and-student-aff…>),
ASCSU (2020-2022)
Member, Academic Affairs Committee (AA
<https://www.calstate.edu/csu-system/faculty-staff/academic-senate/Pages/Aca…>),
ASCSU (2019-2023)
Co-editor of *The Routledge Handbook of Corpora and English Language
Teaching and Learning*
<https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Corpora-in-English-Lang…>
Co-editor for Journal of Corpora and Discourse Studies
<https://jcads.cardiffuniversitypress.org/>
Editorial Board member for Journal of English for Academic Purposes
<https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-english-for-academic-purpo…>
,
English for Specific Purposes
<https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/english-for-specific-purposes>,
International
Journal of English for Academic Purposes
<https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journals/id/94/>
Associate Dean, (SDSU) College of Arts and Letters <http://cal.sdsu.edu>
(2009-2016)
President, Fulbright Alumni Association, San Diego Chapter (2013-2018)
English Language Specialist (2009 Morocco, 2015 Hungary, 2022 Taiwan)
Fulbright Scholar (1995-1996)
British Council Fellow (1992-1993)
Soros-Oxford Fellow (1990-1991)
We are glad to invite you to participate in the SemEval-2023 Shared Task 3 on detecting the genre, the framing, and the persuasion techniques in online news.
The main drive behind this task is to foster development of methods and tools to support the analysis of online media content in order to understand what makes a text persuasive: which writing style is used, what key aspects are highlighted, and which persuasion techniques are used to influence the reader.
The data used for for this task is made of articles collected from 2020 to mid 2022, they revolve around a range of widely discussed topics such as COVID-19, climate change, abortion, migration, the Russo-Ukrainian war, and local elections.
The data presents several novelties: it is multilabel, multilingual, uses an updated taxonomy of persuassion techniques and covers complementary dimensions of what makes a text persuasive.
Are you interested in using AI systems to analyse political speech, media bias or rhetorics? Then you should not miss this task!!!
URL
https://propaganda.math.unipd.it/semeval2023task3/
TASKS
We offer three subtasks on news articles in six languages (English, French, German, Italian, Polish, and Russian).
Subtask 1: NEWS GENRE CATEGORISATION
Given a news article, determine whether it is an opinion piece, aims at objective news reporting, or is a satire piece.
This is a multi-class task at article-level.
Subtask 2: NEWS FRAME CATEGORISATION
Given a news article, identify the generic frames used in the article.
This is a multi-class task at article-level.
Subtask 3: PERSUASION TECHNIQUE DETECTION
Given a news article, identify the persuasion techniques in each paragraph.
This is a multi-label task at paragraph level.
PARTICIPATION & EVALUATION
The participants may take part in any number of subtask-language pairs (even just one), and may train their systems using
the data for all languages (in a multilingual setup).
To promote the development of language-agnostic solutions, there will be also two "surprise" languages for which we will release only test data for evaluation purposes.
IMPORTANT DATES
23 September 2022: Registration opens
23 September 2022: Release of the first batch of the training\development set (next batches will follow regularly).
12 January 2023: Release of the test set
22 January 2023: Test submission site closes
February 2023: Paper Submission Deadline
March 2023: Notification to authors
April 2023: Camera ready papers due
Summer 2023: SemEval 2023 workshop
TASK ORGANIZERS
Giovanni Da San Martino, Preslav Nakov, Jakub Piskorski, Nicolas Stefanovitch
Location: Cardiff, UK
Deadline for applications: 17th October 2022
Start date: 1st January 2023 (or later)
Duration: 30 months
Keywords: learning & reasoning, natural language processing, commonsense reasoning
Details about the post
Applications are invited for a Research Associate post in the Cardiff University School of Computer Science & Informatics, to work on the EPSRC Open Fellowship project ReStoRe (Reasoning about Structured Story Representations), which is focused on story-level language understanding. The overall aim of this project is to develop methods for learning graph-structured representations of stories. For this post, the specific focus will be on developing common sense reasoning strategies, based on graph neural networks, to fill the gap between what is explicitly stated in a story and what a human reader would infer by “reading between the lines”. More details about the post and instructions on how to apply are available here:
https://krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search/home/HomeWithPreLoad?partner…
Background about the ReStoRe project
When we read a story as a human, we build up a mental model of what is described. Such mental models are crucial for reading comprehension. They allow us to relate the story to our earlier experiences, to make inferences that require combining information from different sentences, and to interpret ambiguous sentences correctly. Crucially, mental models capture more information than what is literally mentioned in the story. They are representations of the situations that are described, rather than the text itself, and they are constructed by combining the story text with our commonsense understanding of how the world works.
The field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) has made rapid progress in the last few years, but the focus has largely been on sentence-level representations. Stories, such as news articles, social media posts or medical case reports, are essentially modelled as collections of sentences. As a result, current systems struggle with the ambiguity of language, since the correct interpretation of a word or sentence can often only be inferred by taking its broader story context into account. They are also severely limited in their ability to solve problems where information from different sentences needs to be combined. As a final example, current systems struggle to identify correspondences between related stories (e.g. different news articles about the same event), especially if they are written from a different perspective.
To address these fundamental challenges, we need a method to learn story-level representations that can act as an analogue to mental models. Intuitively, there are two steps involved in learning such story representations: first we need to model what is literally mentioned in the story, and then we need some form of commonsense reasoning to fill in the gaps. In practice, however, these two steps are closely interrelated: interpreting what is mentioned in the story requires a model of the story context, but constructing this model requires an interpretation of what is mentioned.
The solution that is proposed in this fellowship is based on representations called story graphs. These story graphs encode the events that occur, the entities involved, and the relationships that hold between these entities and events. A story can then be viewed as an incomplete specification of a story graph, similar to how a symbolic knowledge base corresponds to an incomplete specification of a possible world. The proposed framework will allow us to reason about textual information in a principled way. It will lead to significant improvements in NLP tasks where a commonsense understanding is required of the situations that are described, or where information from multiple sentences or documents needs to be combined. It will furthermore enable a step change in applications that directly rely on structured text representations, such as situational understanding, information retrieval systems for the legal, medical and news domains, and tools for inferring business insights from news stories and social media feeds.
CFP - SIGIR Forum - December 2022 Edition
=====================================
Dear Colleague
We invite you to submit your contribution to the upcoming December 2022
Edition of the SIGIR Forum, the official newsletter of the ACM Special
Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR). The SIGIR Forum consists
of two issues (June, December). It serves as a medium for disseminating general
information and opinions on matters of interest to the IR community,
conference and workshop reports, papers and book reviews, and Ph.D.
dissertation abstracts.
*** Call for Contributions for the December 2022 issue ***
We invite contributions to the following categories, including:
- Reports of IR-related conferences and workshops: Reports from the
chairpersons of IR-related workshops (such as the satellite workshops of
SIGIR, JCDL, or CIKM, or other workshops such as NTCIR, INEX) or IR-related
conferences other than SIGIR (such as ECIR, HLT, CHIIR, SPIRE, or TREC);
- Papers from IR-related invited talks which are not published in full in
the relevant conference proceedings;
- Papers describing new public infrastructures for IR research, such as
in-depth descriptions of newly available test collections, newly available
open-source or public domain IR software of particular relevance, new
evaluation campaigns, etc.;
- Papers about funding initiatives, industry trends, connections between
research and industry, legal issues that are of potential interest to the
IR community at large;
- Any paper that, while of general interest to the IR community, is
non-technical, and because of this would be unsuitable for publication in
technical publishing forums such as the SIGIR Annual Conference;
- Book reviews, bibliographies of general interest to the IR community;
- Abstracts of recently published Ph.D. theses of interest to the general
IR community.
Note: Unless specifically stated, contents of the SIGIR Forum do not
represent the official position of SIGIR or ACM. Contributions to the Forum
are unrefereed papers unless otherwise indicated. The editorial board may
desk-reject papers if they are out of scope. From June 2020 onwards, the
SIGIR Forum newsletter is continuing only online.
*** Important dates for the December 2022 Edition ***
- 11 November 2022: Deadline for contributions
- December 2022: Online publication
*** Submission Instructions ***
Kindly see http://sigir.org/forum/ for details on previous issues,
template, and submission instructions and checklist.
For inquiries about contributions, please contact the editors at
editors_SIGIR(a)acm.org
Tirthankar Ghosal (UFAL, Charles University, Prague)
Josiane Mothe (IRIT, Univ. de Toulouse)
Julián Urbano (Delft University of Technology)
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Tirthankar Ghosal
Researcher at UFAL, Charles University, CZ
https://member.acm.org/~tghosal
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