January 2023 - Corpora

1 PhD position in neural language generation
by Vera Demberg 27 Jan '23

27 Jan '23

*1 PhD-Position in Neural Language Generation * We invite applications for one PhD student position in data-to-text natural language generation in a low resource context. The goal of the project is to develop methods that generalize well to settings where little training data for the domain of interest is available. The position, to be established in thegroup "Computer Science and Computational Linguistics" (Prof. Vera Demberg) <https://www.uni-saarland.de/lehrstuhl/demberg.html>, is part of the E2 project of DFG-funded transregional collaborative research center on perspicuous computing, CPEC <https://www.perspicuous-computing.science/>. There will also be the opportunity to closely collaborate with researchers working on the DFG-fundedCollaborative Research Center on Information Density and Linguistic Encoding <http://www.sfb1102.uni-saarland.de/>(SFB 1102) <http://www.sfb1102.uni-saarland.de/>. Candidates for this position should have a master's degree in computational linguistics, computer science or a related discipline. Experience with machine learning including deep learning is expected; background and previous experience in natural language processing is also expected. The research will be conducted in English. Dates: *application deadline: Feb 15, 2023* start date: spring or summer 2023 The expected duration of the PhD is 3.5 years, the position is paid according to 75% TV-L E13, see alsohttps://oeffentlicher-dienst.info/c/t/rechner/tv-l/west?id=tv-l-2020&matrix=12 <https://oeffentlicher-dienst.info/c/t/rechner/tv-l/west?id=tv-l-2020&matrix…>. The job does not come with any teaching obligation. You can however choose to participate in teaching activities (tutoring or co-teaching). Applicants are requested to submit their application, including a cover letter that specifies why you would like to work on this topic and what qualifies you for it, an academic CV, a list of academic publications, your MSc thesis (or a current draft), copies of academic degree certificates and names of two potential references. Please also include a 2-page research proposal in your application which outlines how you would approach the topic (choose one topic among multitask learning, domain adaptation or connective generation for discourse coherence). Saarland University <https://www.uni-saarland.de/en/home.html> is one of the leading centres for computational linguistics and computer science in Europe, and offers a dynamic and stimulating research environment. It is famous for its interdisciplinary research in language, translation, computation and cognition. The group is affiliated with both theDepartment of Computer Science <https://www.uni-saarland.de/fachrichtung/informatik.html>and with the Department of Language Science and Technology <https://www.lst.uni-saarland.de/>. The Department of Language Science and Technology organizes about 100 research staff in ten research groups in the fields of computational linguistics, psycholinguistics, speech processing, and corpus linguistics. Both departments are part of the Saarland Informatics Campus <https://saarland-informatics-campus.de/en>, which brings together 800 researchers and 2000 students from 81 countries. We collaborate closely with the university's Department of Computer Science, the Max Planck Institute for Informatics <https://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/home/>, the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems <https://www.mpi-sws.org/>, and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence <https://www.dfki.de/en/web/> (DFKI). Our researchers and students come from all over the world, and our primary working language is English. Saarland University is an equal opportunity employer. Applications of women are strongly encouraged; applications of disabled persons will be given preferential treatment to those of other candidates with equal qualifications. Applications should be sent via email directly to Prof. Vera Demberg (vera(at)coli.uni-saarland.de), quoting opening number W2229.

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Call for Participation - VarDial Evaluation Campaign 2023
by Jauhiainen, Tommi S 27 Jan '23

27 Jan '23

Call for Participation - VarDial Evaluation Campaign 2023 Within the scope of the tenth VarDial workshop, co-located with EACL 2023, we are organizing an evaluation campaign on similar languages, varieties and dialects with three shared tasks. To participate and to receive the training data please fill the registration form on the workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/vardial-2023/shared-tasks We are organizing the following tasks this year (please check the website for more information): 1. SID for low-resource language varieties (SID4LR) This task is Slot and Intent Detection (SID) for low-resource language varieties. Slot detection is a span labeling task, intent detection a classification task. The test set will contain Swiss German (GSW), South Tyrolean (DE-ST), and Neapolitan (NAP). This shared task seeks to answer the following question: How can we best do zero-shot transfer to low-resource language varieties without standard orthography? The training data consists of the xSID-0.4 corpus, containing data from Snips and Facebook. The original training data is in English, but we also provide automatic translations of the training data into German, Italian and other languages (the projected nmt-transfer data from van der Goot et al., 2021). Participants are allowed to use other data to train on, as long as it is not annotated for SID in the target languages. Participants are not required to submit systems for both tasks, it is also possible to only participate in one of the two tasks, intent detection (classification) or slot detection (span labeling). The systems will be evaluated with the span F1 score for slots and accuracy for intents as the main evaluation metric as is standard for these tasks. Participants may also submit systems for a subset of the three target languages. 2. Discriminating Between Similar Languages - True Labels (DSL-TL) Discriminating between similar languages (e.g., Croatian and Serbian) and language varieties (e.g., Brazilian and European Portuguese) has been a popular topic at VarDial since its first edition. The DSL shared tasks organized in 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017 have addressed this issue by providing participants with the DSL Corpus Collection (DSLCC), a collection of journalistic texts containing texts written in multiple similar languages and language varieties. The DSLCC was compiled under the assumption that each instance's gold label is determined by where the text is retrieved from. While this is a straightforward (and mostly accurate) practical assumption, previous research has shown the limitations of this problem formulation as some texts may present no linguistic marker that allows systems or native speakers to discriminate between two very similar languages or language varieties. We tackle this important limitation by introducing the DSL True Labels (DSL-TL) task. DSL-TL will provide participants with a human-annotated DSL dataset. A sub-set of nearly 13,000 sentences were retrieved from the DSLCC and annotated by multiple native speakers of the included language and varieties included, namely English (American and British), Portuguese (Brazilian and European), Spanish (Argentinian and Peninsular). To the best of our knowledge this is the first dataset of its kind opening exciting new avenues for language identification research. 3. Discriminating Between Similar Languages - Speech (DSL-S) In the DSL-S 2023 shared task, participants use training and development sets from the Mozilla Common Voice (CV) to develop a language identifier for speech. The nine languages selected for the task come from four different subgroups of Indo-European or Uralic language families. The test data used in this task is the Common Voice test data for the nine languages. The participants are asked not to evaluate their systems themselves nor in any other way investigate the test data before the shared task results have been published. The total amount of unpacked speech data is around 15 gigabytes. Only the .mp3 files from the test set must be used when generating the results. The metadata concerning the test audio files, including their transcriptions, must not be used. This task is audio only. The 9-way classification task is divided into two separate tracks. Only the training and development data in the Common Voice dataset are allowed in the closed track, and no other data must be used. This prohibition includes systems and models trained (unsupervised or supervised) on any other data. On the open track, the use of any openly available (available to any possible shared task participant) datasets and models not including or trained on the Mozilla Common Voice test set is allowed. Dates Training set release: January 23, 2023 Test set release: February 6, 2023 Submissions due: February 17, 2023 Paper submission deadline: February 27, 2023 Notification of acceptance: March 13, 2023 Camera-ready papers due: March 27, 2023 Of course, VarDial also accepts research papers focusing on computational methods and language resources for closely related languages, language varieties, and dialects. The full call for papers can be found here: https://sites.google.com/view/vardial-2023/call-for-papers Contact: yves.scherrer(a)helsinki.fi<mailto:yves.scherrer@helsinki.fi> or tommi.jauhiainen(a)helsinki.fi<mailto:tommi.jauhiainen@helsinki.fi>

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Ukrainian NLP Workshop @ EACL 2023: Second CFP
by Mariana Romanyshyn 27 Jan '23

27 Jan '23

*The Second Ukrainian Natural Language Processing Workshop (UNLP 2023)* <https://unlp.org.ua/> *Update: *the submission link can be found at https://softconf.com/eacl2023/UNLP/. *Call For Papers* UNLP 2023 <https://unlp.org.ua/call-for-papers/> will be held online in conjunction with the EACL 2023 conference in May 2023. The workshop will bring together academics, researchers, and practitioners in the fields of Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics who work with the Ukrainian language or do cross-Slavic research that can be applied to the Ukrainian language. The workshop will facilitate developments in the processing of the Ukrainian language, as well as provide a platform for discussion and sharing of ideas, encourage collaboration between different research groups, and improve the visibility of the Ukrainian research community. Topics of interest lie in the area of Ukrainian NLP and Computational Linguistics and include, but are not limited to, the following tasks: - morphosyntactic tagging, - named-entity recognition, - syntactic and semantic parsing, - coreference resolution, - information extraction and text mining, - automated question answering and information retrieval, - language modelling and natural language generation, - grammatical error correction, - text summarization, - machine translation, - sentiment analysis, - argument mining, - disinformation detection and fact verification, - development of language resources and evaluation methods, - speech recognition and generation, - knowledge representation and computational pragmatics, - computational semantics, - computational methods for phonology, - cross-Slavic models, - Ukrainian NLP in interaction with other artificial intelligence technologies. *Shared Task* The Second UNLP features the first *Shared Task in Grammatical Error Correction for Ukrainian*. The Shared Task focuses on correction of grammatical errors and disfluencies, and we see this shared task as an opportunity to facilitate research of GEC for Slavic languages. You can find more details on the web page of the Shared Task <https://unlp.org.ua/shared-task/>. *Important dates* December 22, 2023 — First call for workshop papers January 9, 2023 — Second call for workshop papers February 13, 2023 — Workshop paper due March 13, 2023 — Notification of acceptance March 27, 2023 — Camera-ready papers due May 5 or 6, 2023 — Workshop dates *Keynote speakers* Mona Diab <https://www.linkedin.com/in/mona-diab-55946614/>, The George Washington University, US Gulnara Muratova <https://www.linkedin.com/in/gulnara-muratova-0206/>, QIRI`M YOUNG, Ukraine *Submissions* The workshop will provide Grammarly Premium to all authors. To request Grammarly Premium, please submit the form on the website <https://unlp.org.ua/>. UNLP invites submissions of completed and ongoing projects. Submissions describing resources or solutions that have been made available to the wider public are strongly encouraged. The workshop will also accept papers with negative results. We invite two types of submissions: long and short papers. Long papers should describe original, unpublished and completed work. The short papers may describe work in progress, small focused contributions, system demonstrations, new linguistic resources, or experiments based on existing software and resources. All submissions will be judged on correctness, novelty, technical strength, clarity of presentation, usability, and significance/relevance to the Workshop. Every submission will be reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee. Paper review will be blind. The papers must not include the authors’ names and affiliations. Self-citations and other references that reveal the authors’ identity must be avoided. Long papers should follow the two-column format of EACL 2023 proceedings not exceeding eight (8) pages of content plus two (2) pages for references. Short paper submissions should follow the same format, and should not exceed five (5) pages for content plus two (2) pages for references. All submissions must conform to the official style guidelines of EACL 2023 <https://unlp.org.ua/call-for-papers/#:~:text=style%20guidelines%20of%20EACL…> contained in the style files and must be in PDF. Camera-ready versions of accepted papers must be provided both in LaTeX and PDF format. *Workshop Organizers* Andrii Hlybovets, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine Oleksii Ignatenko, Ukrainian Catholic University, Ukraine Oleksii Molchanovskii, Ukrainian Catholic University, Ukraine Mariana Romanyshyn, Grammarly, Ukraine Oleksii Syvokon, Microsoft, Ukraine *Program Committee* Andrii Babii, Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics, Ukraine Andrii Liubonko, Grammarly, Ukraine Anna Rogers, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Artem Chernodub, Grammarly, Ukraine Bogdan Babych, Heidelberg University, Germany Bogdana Oliynyk, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine Bohdan Kolchygin, Shelf, Ukraine Dmytro Karamshuk, Meta, UK Dmytro Sytnyk, Institute of Mathematics NAS, Ukraine Galyna Kriukova, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine Igor Samokhin, Grammarly, Ukraine Iuliia Makogon, Semantrum, Ukraine Julia Rogushina, Institute of Software Systems NAS, Ukraine Kostiantyn Omelianchuk, Grammarly, Ukraine Maksym Tarnavskyi, Shelf, Poland Mariana Romanyshyn, Grammarly, Ukraine Natalia Grabar, CNRS, Université de Lille, France Natalia Kocyba, Samsung Research Poland, Poland Nataliia Cheilytko, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany Oleksandr Marchenko, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine Oleksandr Skurzhanskyi, Grammarly, Ukraine Oleksii Turuta, Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics, Ukraine Olena Siruk, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria Olga Kanishcheva, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany Ruslan Chorney, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine Serhii Havrylov, University of Edinburgh, UK Svitlana Galeshchuk, Université Paris Dauphine, BNP Paribas, France Taras Lehinevych, Amazon, Ireland Taras Shevchenko, Proxet (Giphy project), Ukraine Tatjana Scheffler, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany Thierry Hamon, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, LIMSI & Université Sorbonne, France Veronika Solopova, FU Berlin, Germany Volodymyr Taranukha, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine Vsevolod Dyomkin, Projector, Ukraine Yevhen Kupriianov, National Technical University “Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute”, Ukraine *Contact* Email: info(a)unlp.org.ua. Website: https://unlp.org.ua/. Twitter: https://twitter.com/UNLP_workshop. Telegram: https://t.me/UNLP_workshop.

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2nd CfP 4th workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL) @ EACL
by Menno Van Zaanen 27 Jan '23

27 Jan '23

Second call for papers Fourth workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL) https://bit.ly/rail2023 The 4th RAIL (Resources for African Indigenous* Languages) workshop will be co-located with EACL 2023 in Dubrovnik, Croatia. The Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) workshop is an interdisciplinary platform for researchers working on resources (data collections, tools, etc.) specifically targeted towards African indigenous languages. In particular, it aims to create the conditions for the emergence of a scientific community of practice that focuses on data, as well as computational linguistic tools specifically designed for or applied to indigenous languages found in Africa. Previous workshops showed that the presented problems (and solutions) are not only applicable to African languages. Many issues are also relevant to other low-resource languages, such as different scripts and properties like tone. As such, these languages share similar challenges. This allows for researchers working on these languages with such properties (including non-African languages) to learn from each other, especially on issues pertaining to language resource development. The RAIL workshop has several aims. First, it brings together researchers working on African indigenous languages, forming a community of practice for people working on indigenous languages. Second, the workshop aims to reveal currently unknown or unpublished existing resources (corpora, NLP tools, and applications), resulting in a better overview of the current state-of-the-art, and also allows for discussions on novel, desired resources for future research in this area. Third, it enhances sharing of knowledge on the development of low-resource languages. Finally, it enables discussions on how to improve the quality as well as availability of the resources. The workshop has “Impact of impairments on language resources” as its theme, but submissions on any topic related to properties of African indigenous languages (including non-African languages) may be accepted. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to) the following: Digital representations of linguistic structures Descriptions of corpora or other data sets of African indigenous languages Building resources for (under resourced) African indigenous languages Developing and using African indigenous languages in the digital age Effectiveness of digital technologies for the development of African indigenous languages Revealing unknown or unpublished existing resources for African indigenous languages Developing desired resources for African indigenous languages Improving quality, availability and accessibility of African indigenous language resources *: The term indigenous languages used in the RAIL workshop is intended to refer to non-colonial languages (in this case those used in Africa). In no way is this term used to cause any harm or discomfort to anyone. Many of these languages were or are still marginalised, and the aim of the workshop is to bring attention to the creation, curation, and development of resources for these languages in Africa. Submission requirements: We invite papers on original, unpublished work related to the topics of the workshop. Submissions, presenting completed work, may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content plus additional pages of references. The final camera-ready version of accepted long papers are allowed one additional page of content (so up to 9 pages) so that reviewers’ feedback can be incorporated. Submissions need to use the EACL stylesheets. These can be found at https://2023.eacl.org/calls/styles. Submission is electronic in PDF through the START system (link will be provided once available). Reviewing is double-blind, so make sure to anonymize your submission (e.g., do not provide author names, affiliations, project names, etc.) Limit the amount of self citations (anonymized citations should not be used). Accepted papers will be published in the ACL workshop proceedings. Please make sure you also go through the responsible NLP checklist (https://aclrollingreview.org/responsibleNLPresearch/). Also, submissions should have a section titled “Limitations” (as described in the stylesheets). Authors are also encouraged to include an explicit ethics statement. Important dates: Submission deadline 13 February 2023 Date of notification 13 March 2023 Camera ready deadline 27 March 2023 RAIL workshop 5 or 6 May 2023 Organising Committee Rooweither Mabuya, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Don Mthobela, Cam Foundation Mmasibidi Setaka, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Menno van Zaanen, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa -- Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za Professor in Digital Humanities South African Centre for Digital Language Resources https://www.sadilar.org ________________________________ NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT: http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorised review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. 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CFP CODI 4th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse
by Amir Zeldes 26 Jan '23

26 Jan '23

*apologies for cross-postings* � CODI, 4th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse � 2023-07-13–14 - ACL 2023 - Toronto, Canada � ** Submission deadline: April 24th, 2023 ** � Aims and scope � The last ten years have seen a dramatic improvement in the ability of NLP systems to understand and produce words and sentences. This development has created a renewed interest in discourse phenomena as researchers move towards the processing of long-form text and conversations. There is a surge of activity in discourse parsing, coherence models, text summarization, corpora for discourse level reading comprehension, and discourse related/aided representation learning, to name a few, but the problems in computational approaches to discourse are still substantial. At this juncture, we have organized three Workshops on Computational Approaches to Discourse (CODI) at EMNLP 2020, EMNLP 2021 and COLING 2022 to bring together discourse experts and upcoming researchers. These workshops have catalyzed work to improve the speed and knowledge needed to solve such problems and have served as a forum for the discussion of suitable datasets and reliable evaluation methods. � The previous workshops on discourse in machine translation (DiscoMT), linking lexical, sentential and discourse semantics (LSDSem), discourse structure in natural language generation (DSNNLG), discourse relation parsing and treebanking (DISRPT) and coreference (CORBON/CRAC), have shown that there is considerable interest and success in bringing together the community working on specific problems in discourse. We believe that the discourse community will also benefit from a general forum where work ranging from corpus development/analysis to computational models, and evaluation is discussed, and desiderata can be drawn for future progress. � The 4th CODI workshop is planned as a 2 day event which brings together different subcommunities. It will feature invited talks and regular papers on the first day. The second day will be dedicated to shared tasks and special sessions which focus on the issues mentioned above. After a first successful iteration in 2019 and 2021 the shared task on Discourse Relation Parsing and Treebanking (DISRPT) will be held again in 2023, with three tasks: discourse segmentation, discourse connective identification and discourse relation classification, including new datasets and languages. For more information on the shared task see: � <https://sites.google.com/view/disrpt2023/> https://sites.google.com/view/disrpt2023/ � � Topics of interest � We welcome symbolic and probabilistic approaches, corpus development and analysis, as well as machine and deep learning approaches to discourse. We appreciate theoretical contributions as well as practical applications, including demos of systems and tools. The goal of the workshop is to provide a forum for the community of NLP researchers working on all aspects of discourse. � Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: � * discourse structure � * discourse connectives � * discourse relations � * annotation tools and schemes for discourse phenomena � * corpora annotated with discourse phenomena � * discourse parsing � * cross-lingual discourse processing � * cross-domain discourse processing � * anaphora and coreference resolution � * event coreference � * argument mining � * coherence modeling � * discourse and semantics � * discourse in applications such as machine translation, summarization, etc. � * evaluation methodology for discourse processing � � Submissions � � We solicit four categories of papers: regular workshop papers, demos, shared task papers and extended abstracts. Only regular workshop papers, shared task papers and demos will be included in the proceedings as archival publications. � � Regular papers must describe original unpublished research. Long papers may consist of up to 8 pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references. � � Short papers can be up to 4 pages, plus unlimited pages for references. � � Demo submissions may describe systems, tools, visualizations, etc., and may consist of up to 4 pages, plus unlimited pages for references. � � Each submission can contain unlimited pages for Appendices but the paper submissions need to remain fully self-contained, as these supplementary materials are completely optional, and reviewers are not even asked to review them. Accepted long, short, and demo papers will be presented orally. � � Extended abstracts can describe work in progress or those already published elsewhere. These may be two pages long (without references). Extended abstracts are non-archival. They will be presented orally, and included in the workshop program and handbook, but will not appear in the workshop proceedings. � Double submission of papers is allowed but will need to be indicated at submission. � � Submission website � All submissions must be anonymous and follow the ACL 2023 formatting instructions described here: <https://2023.aclweb.org/calls/style_and_formatting/> https://2023.aclweb.org/calls/style_and_formatting/ � � Please submit your workshop papers at <https://www.softconf.com/acl2023/CODI2023> https://www.softconf.com/acl2023/CODI2023 Shared task papers should be submitted to the links specified on the shared task pages. � Important dates * 2023-04-24: CODI papers due * 2023-05-22: Notification of acceptance * 2023-06-06: Camera ready deadline for main conference and CODI * 2023-07-13 – 2022-07-14: CODI workshop � All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h ("anywhere on Earth"). � Invited Speakers � * Yufang Hou, IBM Research � * Giuseppe Carenini, University of British Columbia � � Organizers * Chloé Braud, CNRS-IRIT * Christian Hardmeier, IT University of Copenhagen and Uppsala University * Jessy Li, University of Texas, Austin * Sharid Loáiciga, University of Gothenburg * Michael Strube, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies * Amir Zeldes, Georgetown University To contact the organizers, please send an email to: codi-workshop(a)googlegroups.com <mailto:codi-workshop@googlegroups.com> � � �

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Open (tenure-track) Positions at the Department of Computer Science (DCC), University of Chile
by Felipe Bravo 26 Jan '23

26 Jan '23

The Department of Computer Science (DCC) at the University of Chile <https://www.dcc.uchile.cl> is offering 2 full-time permanent positions to carry out research and teaching at both undergraduate and graduate level. As assistant professors in tenure-track positions, candidates are expected to develop a strong and competitive research program. *Details and application link (in Spanish) can be found at: https://concurso-academico.uchile.cl/ <https://concurso-academico.uchile.cl/> (look for code FM2202). The application deadline is March 1st, 2023.* *Candidates* Candidates should be pursuing internationally recognized research in the following areas (one position per area is offered): - Theoretical Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence - Software Engineering - Computer Security and Privacy - Networking Successful candidates are expected to complement the existing strengths of the Department and its current activities. Candidates must hold a Ph.D. degree and must have demonstrated excellence in research and scholarship within the field of interest. Successful candidates will be expected to: • move to Chile (if currently living elsewhere), • establish and lead their own research team, • develop innovative research at the highest international standards, • deliver high quality teaching, • supervise undergraduate, master and PhD students, • obtain competitive research funding from external funding bodies, • write and speak English fluently, and • develop a good command of Spanish within 1 year of appointment. *The Department of Computer Science (DCC)* The DCC is the leading Computer Science Department in Chile, and one of the most prominent in Latin America. It pioneered the use of Unix and the adoption of the Internet in Chile. Today it has 21 full-time professors, where 8 come from Argentina, Uruguay, France, Ireland, and Peru. They carry out research** at ** at the highest level, publishing around 100 articles per year in international conferences and journals. The department is responsible for teaching Computer Science, with about 600 undergraduate, 80 MSc and 40 PhD students majoring in Computer Science. For further information, please contact Prof. Gonzalo Navarro ( gnavarro(a)dcc.uchile.cl). *CENIA and IMFD* Many academics at DCC form part of two well-funded research centers in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence: the National Center for Artificial Intelligence Research (CENIA) (Funded by Programa Centros Basales, ANID, Chile) and the Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data (IMFD) (Funded by Programa Milenio, ANID, Chile). Joining DCC will provide the possibility to cooperate with these centers. https://comunicaciones.dcc.uchile.cl/news/650-llamado-a-concurso-academico-…

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CfP. Workshop on Lexicography and CEFR at eLex 2023
by kris.heylen＠ivdnt.org 26 Jan '23

26 Jan '23

Workshop URL: https://elex.link/elex2023/workshop-on-lexicography-and-cefr/ INTRODUCTION The workshop ‘Lexicography and CEFR: Linking lexicographic resources and language proficiency levels’ will be held in conjunction with eLex 2023 in Brno, Czech Republic, on June 29 afternoon, in hybrid mode. The focus is lexicographic projects connected with the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). CEFR is a generally established international standard for describing language proficiency, and CEFR-graded resources have been developed for many languages in Europe. However, incorporating their information is still not a common practice in modern lexicography for most languages, notably except for two English dictionaries for advanced learners (Cambridge and Oxford). Moreover, there are substantial unsolved issues, such as inconsistencies in vocabulary size per level between languages; no, or limited, sense disambiguation in CEFR resources; words from a higher CEFR level in definitions and example sentences; and limited collaboration among the related fields of lexicography, language acquisition, and linguistic linked data. The main objectives are to examine approaches and methods used for linking lexicographic data and language proficiency levels and to discuss strategies for more convergence between lexicographic resources with CEFR-based language learning programs. TOPICS The workshop will feature an overview by the organizers as well as invited talks. In addition, we invite submissions for papers (20 minutes, plus discussion) on the following topics: • the creation of CEFR-graded lexicographic resources • the implementation of vocabulary and grammar profiles in lexicographic resources • the creation of crosslingual concept-based CEFR resources • the use of lexicographic resources for creating language proficiency-level learning applications and tools • the use of CEFR-graded lexicographic resources in CALL • the linking of lexicographic resources to CEFR-graded vocabularies • data collection for creating CEFR-graded lexicographic resources SUBMISSION AND DATES Abstracts including 300-500 words should be submitted by February 15, 2023 via Indico [https://indico.elex.link/event/1/]. Please choose the ‘cefr’ track when submitting your abstract. Notification of acceptance will be made by February 22. The authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit a full paper for the eLex 2023 Proceedings (indexed by SCOPUS). Paper submissions will be due by March 31 and acceptance notification will be made by April 15, 2023. ORGANIZERS AND CONTACT Kris Heylen. Dutch Language Institute Jelena Kallas. Institute of the Estonian Language (jelena.kallas(a)eki.ee) Ilan Kernerman. Lexicala by K Dictionaries Carole Tiberius. Dutch Language Institute (carole.tiberius(a)ivdnt.org) xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Following this workshop at eLex, a related workshop ‘Linking Lexicographic and Language Learning Resources’ (4LR 2023) will be held in conjunction with LDK 2023 – the fourth conference on Language, Data and Knowledge – on September 13 in Vienna, Austria. 4LR will emphasize the linked data and knowledge management methodologies and technologies for linking lexicography and language learning in general. The call for papers will be published in February 2023.

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Full-time Postdoc in Germany (Framing, Fake News, Opinion Analysis) for 2 years
by Charlie 26 Jan '23

26 Jan '23

We are hiring in the CAISA Lab! (https://caisa-lab.github.io/team/, https://twitter.com/CaisaLab) The position is part of the BMBF project "Dynamically Social Natural Language Processing for Online Discourse Analysis" ( https://caisa-lab.github.io/projects/). In this project we develop novel representation methods for users + language + network, to model the stance framing as well as the perception of opinionated statements in a personalized manner. The position is available for 2 years starting asap, with the foreseen salary of E13-3 100% (about 3k Eur net/month, health and social insurance included). Fluent scientific English is necessary, German not required. Relevant experience in the field (e.g. some of: argument mining, computational social science, misinformation analysis, discourse modeling) is expected, as well as an ability to work independently and support more junior researchers. Apply here until Jan 29th: https://stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/f66a7770882c529633774957a… Or contact lucie.flek(a)uni-marburg.de for more information.

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Call for Submission of Extended Abstracts CLARIN2023
by Gorgaini, E. (Elisa) 26 Jan '23

26 Jan '23

Call for Submission of Extended Abstracts CLARIN Annual Conference 2023 CLARIN ERIC is pleased to announce the CLARIN Annual Conference 2023<https://www.clarin.eu/event/2023/clarin-annual-conference-2023> and calls for the submission of extended abstracts. CLARIN is the European research infrastructure that makes digital language resources available to scholars, researchers, students and citizen-scientists from a wide range of disciplines, coordinates the collection of language resources and tools, and offers advanced tools to explore, exploit, annotate, analyse or combine such datasets, regardless of their location. Submission deadline: 14 April 2023 ________________________________ Location After the successful hybrid edition of 2022, we plan to repeat the same format in 2023. The CLARIN Conference 2023 will be a face-to-face event, which will also be fully accessible virtually. The conference will take place in the historic city of Leuven, Belgium, at the heritage campus of the Irish College<https://www.irishcollegeleuven.eu/>. The event will be hosted and organised by CLARIN ERIC, in collaboration with KU Leuven, <https://www.kuleuven.be/english/about-kuleuven/> CLARIN-BE <https://clarin-be.ivdnt.org/> and the Instituut voor Nederlandse Taal<http://www.ivdnt.org>. ________________________________ Important Dates * 23 January 2023: First call published on CLARIN website, disseminated, and submission system open * 14 April 2023: Submission deadline * 30 June 2023: Notification of acceptance * 4 September 2023: Camera-ready version deadline * 16-18 October 2023: CLARIN Annual Conference ________________________________ Conference Aims The CLARIN Annual Conference is organised for the wider Humanities and Social Sciences (SSH) community in order to exchange experiences and best practices in working with the CLARIN infrastructure and to share plans for future developments. The programme will cover a range of topics, including the design, construction and operation of the CLARIN infrastructure, the data, tools and services that it contains or should contain, its actual use by researchers, teachers or interested parties, its relation to other infrastructures and projects, and the CLARIN Knowledge Infrastructure. ________________________________ Keynote Speakers To be confirmed. ________________________________ Conference Topics We invite submissions describing CLARIN-related work addressing the following aspects: Use of the CLARIN Infrastructure: * Use of the CLARIN infrastructure in SSH research and beyond * Usability studies and evaluations of CLARIN services * Analysis of the CLARIN infrastructure usage and impact studies/use cases * Identification and analysis of user audiences and developer communities, including digital humanities, libraries, computer science, information science, cognitive science and human-centred AI * Showcases, demonstrations and research projects that are relevant to CLARIN * Teaching and learning cases for which CLARIN resources and services are used. Design and Construction of the CLARIN Infrastructure: * Recent tools and resources added to the CLARIN infrastructure * Metadata and concept registries, cataloguing and browsing * Persistent identifiers and citation mechanisms ] * Access, including single-sign-on authentication and authorisation * Search functions, including Federated Content Search * Web applications, web services and workflows * Standards and solutions for interoperability of language resources, tools and services * Models for the sustainability of the infrastructure, including curation, migration financing and cooperation * Legal and ethical issues in operating the infrastructure. CLARIN Knowledge Infrastructure and Dissemination: * User assistance (help desks, user manuals, FAQs) * CLARIN portals and outreach to users * Videos, screencasts, recorded lectures * Researcher training activities, hackathons * Knowledge infrastructure centres. CLARIN vis-à-vis other Infrastructures and Initiatives: * SSH research infrastructures, such as DARIAH<https://www.dariah.eu/> and CESSDA<https://www.cessda.eu/> and the collaboration under the umbrella of the SSH Open Cluster<https://www.sshopencloud.eu/news/sshoc-ssh-open-cluster>, etc. * Generic infrastructural initiatives, such as <https://www.clarin.eu/glossary#EUDAT> EOSC<https://eosc.eu/about-eosc>, Europeana<https://www.europeana.eu>, Language Data Space, etc. * Projects such as EOSC Future<https://eoscfuture.eu/>, FAIRCORE4EOSC<https://faircore4eosc.eu/> and TRIPLE<https://project.gotriple.eu/about/> * National and regional initiatives ________________________________ Format of the Programme Sessions The programme of the conference will include oral presentations and posters, and may also include demos. Papers are allocated a presentation format based on the suitability of the paper for the type of session (i.e. more or less interactive), not based on their quality or other factors. Authors of accepted submissions will be offered the opportunity to demo their work in addition to their presentation. ________________________________ Submissions The language of the conference is English and presentations will be made in English. Proposals for oral, poster or demo presentations must be submitted as extended abstracts (length: 3 to 4 pages A4, including references) in PDF format, in accordance with the template (ZIP-archive<https://www.dropbox.com/s/s7ocg2i15y0q1gy/Template_CLARIN2023.zip?dl=0>, Overleaf template<https://www.overleaf.com/read/qtvdcbqrmpfs>). Authors can choose whether to submit on an anonymous or non-anonymous basis. Extended abstracts should address one or more topics that are relevant to CLARIN’s activities, resources, tools or services. This relevance should be explicitly articulated in the submission, as well as in the presentation at the conference. Contributions addressing desiderata for the CLARIN infrastructure that are currently not in place are also eligible. It is not required for authors to be or have been directly involved in national or cross-national CLARIN projects. Extended abstracts must be submitted through the EasyChair submission system<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=clarin2023> and will be reviewed by the Programme Committee. All proposals will be reviewed on the basis of the following criteria: * Appropriateness: The contribution must pertain to the CLARIN infrastructure or be relevant for it (e.g. its use, design, construction, operation, exploitation, illustration of possible applications, etc.), and this relevance should be explicitly articulated in the submission. * Soundness and correctness: The content must be technically and factually correct and methods must be scientifically sound, according to best practice, and preferably evaluated. * Meaningful comparison: The abstract must indicate that the author is aware of alternative approaches, if any, and highlight relevant differences. * Substance: Concrete work and experiences will be given preference over ideas and plans. * Impact: Contributions with a higher impact on the research community and society more broadly will be given preference over papers with lower impact. * Clarity: The abstract should be clearly written and well structured. * Timeliness and novelty: The work must convey relevant new knowledge to the audience at this event. ________________________________ Attendance For each accepted abstract, one author will be granted reimbursement of travel costs up to 220 Euros, free accommodation and meals (conditional on the event taking place face-to-face; this does not apply if the conference needs to shift to a virtual format due to epidemiological reasons). ________________________________ Proceedings Accepted submissions will be published in the online conference Book of Extended Abstracts, ISSN: 2773-2177. After the conference, the author(s) of accepted submissions will be invited to submit full papers (10-12 pages) to be reviewed according to the same criteria as the abstracts. Accepted full papers will be published in a digital conference proceedings volume after the conference: Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings (peer reviewed) ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online) https://ep.liu.se/en/conferences.aspx ________________________________ Conference Programme Committee The Programme Committee for the conference consists of the following members: * Krister Lindén, University of Helsinki, Finland (Chair) * Starkaður Barkarson, Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, Iceland * Lars Borin, University of Gothenburg, Sweden * António Branco, University of Lisbon, Portugal * Tomaž Erjavec, Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia * Eva Hajičová, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic * Monica Monachini, Institute of Computational Linguistics ‘A. Zampolli’, Italy * Karlheinz Mörth, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria * Costanza Navarretta, University of Copenhagen, Denmark * Gijsbert Rutten, Leiden University, the Netherlands * Maciej Piasecki, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland * Stelios Piperidis, ILSP, Athena Research Center, Greece * Kiril Simov, IICT, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria * Inguna Skadiņa, Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Latvia, Latvia * Koenraad De Smedt, University of Bergen, Norway * Marko Tadić, University of Zagreb, Croatia * Jurgita Vaičenonienė, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania * Vincent Vandeghinste, Instituut voor de Nederlandse Taal (Dutch Language Institute), the Netherlands & KU Leuven, Belgium * Tamás Váradi, Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary * Joshua Wilbur, Center of Estonian Language Resources, Estonia * Andreas Witt, University of Mannheim, Germany * Friedel Wolff, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources, North-West University, South Africa * Martin Wynne, University of Oxford, United Kingdom * Marianne Hundt, University of Zurich, Switzerland ________________________________ Links * CLARIN Annual Conference 2023 website: https://www.clarin.eu/event/2023/clarin-annual-conference-2023 * EasyChair submission: available here<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=clarin2023> * Template for submissions: * ZIP-archive: available here<https://www.dropbox.com/s/s7ocg2i15y0q1gy/Template_CLARIN2023.zip?dl=0> * Overleaf template: available here<https://www.overleaf.com/read/qtvdcbqrmpfs> * Contact for any questions regarding the conference: events(a)clarin.eu<https://mailto:events@clarin.eu> (Please mention [CLARIN2023] in the email subject) * Proceedings of selected papers from previous CLARIN conferences: * CLARIN 2021: https://doi.org/10.3384/9789179294441 * CLARIN 2020: https://doi.org/10.3384/ecp180 * CLARIN 2019: https://doi.org/10.3384/ecp2020172 * CLARIN 2018: http://www.ep.liu.se/ecp/contents.asp?issue=159 * CLARIN 2017: http://www.ep.liu.se/ecp/contents.asp?issue=147 * CLARIN 2016: http://www.ep.liu.se/ecp/contents.asp?issue=136 * CLARIN 2015: http://www.ep.liu.se/ecp/contents.asp?issue=123 * CLARIN 2014: http://www.ep.liu.se/ecp/contents.asp?issue=116 <http://www.ep.liu.se/ecp/contents.asp?issue=116> --- Elisa Gorgaini External Relations Officer CLARIN ERIC www.clarin.eu E-mail: elisa(a)clarin.eu Phone: +31648213015

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[WWW-2023 - FinWeb] Last CFP - The 3rd Workshop on Financial Technology on the Web
by CHUNG-CHI CHEN 26 Jan '23

26 Jan '23

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to share the information of The 3rd Workshop on Financial Technology on the Web (FinWeb) with you. FinWeb-2023 is to be held on April 30, 2023 in conjunction with The Web Conference 2023. Our keynote speaker, Dr. James Zhang, Managing Director of AI Prediction and Strategy Platform of Ant Group, will share their experience on the topic of China‘s First Natural Language-based AI Chatbot Trader. We invite the submission of papers on original research in this area. We offer the prize in the main track (USD$500 to the Best Paper Award winner). *Submission Deadline: Feb. 06, 2023* The proceedings of the workshops will be published jointly with the conference proceedings. Please refer to the site of FinWeb-2023 for more details: https://sites.google.com/nlg.csie.ntu.edu.tw/finweb-2023/home Sincerely, Chung-Chi Chen, Hen-Hsen Huang, Hiroya Takamura, Hsin-Hsi Chen FinWeb-2023 Organizers *Topics of Interest* We list some possible topics below with the research tracks of The Web Conference, but the submissions from participants are not limited to these topics. - - *FinTech* - Analyzing Cloud, Online, and Mobile Financial Services - Anti-Money Laundering - Client Financial Security - Credit Analysis and Pricing - Crowdfunding - Digital Financial Advising - Financial Crime Detection - Financial Digital Authentication - Internet Payment - Internet Wealth Management - Mobile Payment - Modeling Financial Chaos, Uncertainty, and Change - Novel Financial Service Design - Online Banking - Peer-to-Peer Lending - Regulation - *Web and Internet Economics* - Algorithmic Game Theory - Algorithmic Mechanism Design - Auction Algorithms and Analysis - Computational Advertising - Computational Aspects of Equilibria - Computational Social Choice - Learning in Markets and Mechanism Design - Learning under Strategic Behavior - Coalitions, Coordination, and Collective Action - Economic Aspects of Security and Privacy - Economic Aspects of Distributed Computing and Cryptocurrencies - Econometrics, Machine Learning, and Data Science - Behavioral Economics and Behavioral Modeling - Fairness and Trust in Games and Markets - Price Differentiation and Price Dynamics - Revenue Management - Social Networks and Network Games *Best Paper Award* We will offer *USD$500* to the Best Paper Award winner. *Submission Details *(Time zone : Anywhere On Earth (AOE) <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timeanddate.com%2Ftime%2Fzon…> ) *Submission System: * *https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=thewebconf2023iwpd* <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Feasychair.org%2Fconferences%2F%3…> - *Submission Deadline: Feb. 06, 2023* - Notification: March 06, 2023 - Camera-ready version ready: March 20, 2023 The proceedings of the workshop will be published jointly with the conference proceedings. *Instructions for Authors of **Main **Track submissions* - *Regular Paper (A**nonymous**):* *8 pages* for the main text (including all figures but excluding references), and one additional page for references. - *Poster & **Demonstration (non-anonymous)**: 4 pages* in total (including all figures and references). - Papers submitted to the main track must be formatted according to *The Web Conference 2023 Guidelines* <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww2023.thewebconf.org%2Fcalls%2…> and must follow the page limitation. Papers must be submitted in PDF according to the ACM format published in the ACM guidelines, selecting the generic “sigconf” sample. The PDF files must have all non-standard fonts embedded. Papers must be self-contained and in English. - At least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the workshop to present the work. *All presenters need to be physically present.* No virtual presentations are allowed. As such, registration is mandatory for all presenters / speakers. It is allowed to foresee a proxy (i.e. somebody else who presents the paper physically) in case the author cannot attend. Authors will be required to agree to this requirement at the time of submission.

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