October 2023 - Corpora

Permanent faculty positions at the ILLC, University of Amsterdam
by Ekaterina Shutova 20 Oct '23

20 Oct '23

We have an opening for a permanent faculty position at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. The position is in the area of neuro-symbolic artificial intelligence, with a particular emphasis on natural language processing or related fields. The position is part of the prestigious MacGillavry Fellowship programme <https://www.uva.nl/en/about-the-uva/organisation/faculties/faculty-of-scien…> for female scientists, and we invite excellent female candidates working in the above area to apply. Closing date: 30 November 2023 For further information and to apply: https://vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/MacGillavry-Fellowship%2C-Assistant-Profes… For any questions, please send an email to e.shutova(a)uva.nl

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1st CFP: Towards Ethical and Inclusive Conversational AI: Language Attitudes, Linguistic Diversity, and Language Rights (TEICAI) at EACL 2024 in Malta
by Nina Hosseini-Kivanani 20 Oct '23

20 Oct '23

Towards Ethical and Inclusive Conversational AI: Language Attitudes, Linguistic Diversity, and Language Rights (TEICAI) at EACL 2024 in Malta-March 17-22 2024. Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/teicai2024 Submission link: https://softconf.com/eacl2024/TEICAI-2024/ Conversational language technologies (chatbots, voice assistants, and multimodal conversational interfaces) are becoming increasingly complex and common in everyday life. Various language theories (such as speech act theory, politeness theory, conversation analysis, and interaction theory) have started influencing their development. At the same time, the development of these technologies is often driven by technology-related concerns and tends to overlook users’ needs and socio-cultural contexts. This combined with the scarcity of human rights regulation of AI, raises concerns about linguistic discrimination, exclusion, surveillance, and security risks. In addition, training data for conversational AI mostly comes from written rather than interaction-based language data sets and often does not include gestural, social, and emotional aspects that are fundamental to human interaction. In the same vein, Sign Language is rarely facilitated. To promote a positive impact of conversational technology on linguistic diversity and inclusion, it is imperative to strike a balance between technological concerns and socially relevant matters. Our workshop aims to address these issues by using a holistic approach that involves dialogue and collaboration among technologists, linguists, policymakers, and communities involved in the development and commissioning of conversational AI systems. To foster dialogue towards a multidisciplinary approach to the development of conversational AI that can better serve diverse global audiences, we welcome submissions on a range of topics related to language ideologies and language rights, in relation to conversational language technology and AI (e.g. chatbots, voice assistants, multimodal conversational interfaces). Possible topics may include: - Language ideologies in conversational AI - Language rights in conversational AI - Socio-cultural context in conversational AI - Language inclusion in training data for enhancing inclusivity - Incorporating non-verbal communication elements (gestures, emotions) in AI - Sign language and multimodal conversational AI - Audience design in conversational AI (tailoring systems to meet specific audiences’ needs and preferences) - The sense of human agency and identity while interacting with conversational AI - Addressing challenges and opportunities of conversational AI development (case studies, models of effective collaborations) - Linguistic discrimination in conversational AI - Perspectives of communities affected by conversational AI systems: needs, concerns, and expectations We invite authors to submit original, unpublished work (long, short, and position papers). Each submission will be reviewed by 2-3 members of the Programme Committee. Participants should format their submissions using the EACL template, available for LaTeX/Overleaf and all submissions must be in PDF format. All accepted papers (long, short, and position papers) will be included in the workshop proceedings. The submission is through the SoftConf platform, and the platform link will be shared once it's available. The proceedings will be published in the ACL anthology. Important dates: First call for workshop papers: October 20, 2023 Second call for workshop papers: November 15, 2023 Third call for workshop papers: December 11, 2023 Workshop paper due: December 18, 2023 Direct Submission deadline (pre-reviewed ARR & main conference): January 17, 2024 Notification of acceptance: January 20, 2024 Camera-ready papers due: January 30, 2024 Proceedings due: February 7, 2024 Workshop dates: March 21-22, 2024 Organizers: Sviatlana Höhn, LuxAI, Luxembourg Nina Hosseini-Kivanani, Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine (FSTM), University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Dimitra Anastasiou, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg Angela Soltan, State University of Moldova, Moldova Bettina Migge, University College Dublin, Ireland Doris Dippold, University of Surrey, UK Ekaterina Kamlovskaya, Translatables For any preliminary questions, you're welcome to reach out to teicai2024(a)gmail.com .

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2nd Call for Abstracts: Sustainable archiving, exploitation, distribution of social media data - After Twitter
by Tatjana Scheffler 20 Oct '23

20 Oct '23

SECOND CALL FOR ABSTRACTS "SUSTAINABLE ARCHIVING, EXPLOITATION, AND DISTRIBUTION OF DYNAMIC DATA FROM SOCIAL MEDIA - TWITTER AND BEYOND" Conference from 19 - 20 March 2024 at the German National Library (Frankfurt am Main) Website: https://www.dnb.de/EN/twittertagung Social media is both a source of data for and the focus of a range of research approaches in the humanities, social sciences, IT, sciences and life sciences. The development of social media over time makes it a part of our digital cultural heritage, but the process for institutions to archive and document these in ways which fully reflect its detail and complexity is still only rudimentary. One key reason for this is the unique characteristics of the data in terms of media technology, economics, social factors and aesthetics. This confronts researchers, research institutions and cultural heritage institutions with many different challenges in terms of how to archive, catalogue and provide the data for later use. One example of this is Twitter (now known as “X”). The monetisation of the platform’s internal archive (part of ongoing restructuring of the platform) has had a radical impact on research and archiving. While flexible APIs and access opportunities before early 2023 led to a boom in research activity and the creation of comprehensive collections, access for research and archive has been made increasingly difficult since then. Archiving, cataloguing and providing dynamic data from social media present challenges which affect researchers, research institutions, libraries and archives in equal measure, and the best way to solve these problems is through collaboration and partnership. This requires wide-ranging efforts which would be impossible for a single data community or discipline. The aim of the conference is to facilitate networking between libraries, archives, research institutes and researchers in German-speaking countries who are involved in archiving and long-term use of data and digital objects from social media. Conference presentations should focus on the following topics: • The interaction between research and archiving • Research data problems in Tweet-based research caused by the loss of Twitter as a data provider • The status and maintenance of social media from an archival and cultural-historical perspective, e.g. posts, interactions and platform elements • The consolidation of collections, corpora, and holdings such as metadata • Initiatives to encourage archiving and cataloguing of social media data • Concepts for providing derivative datasets from social media and how these can be used • Ethical questions • Legal issues • The possibility of creating a social media data registry Please submit your abstract (max. 1 page / 500 words) and no more than 1 page of biobibliographic data as a PDF in German or English. Up to 20 minutes are available for each presentation, plus 10 minutes for discussion. Submission to: twarchiv(a)dnb.de <mailto:twarchiv@dnb.de> Deadline for submission of abstracts: 31 October 2023 feedback on acceptance of paper: 30 November 2023 Conference The conference will take place from about noon, 19 March 2024 and end in the early evening of 20 March. It will be followed by a data sprint working with a long-term corpus of German Twitter data on 21 & 22 March 2024. More information coming soon. Conference: 19. - 20. March 2024 Data Sprint: 21. - 22. March 2023 Venue: German National Library, Frankfurt am Main Speakers who do not have their own resources for travel may apply for up to €300 to cover travel and accommodation costs. Organisation: Dr. Britta Woldering, Letitia Mölck, German National Library, twarchiv(a)dnb.de <mailto:twarchiv@dnb.de> Programme Committee (in alphabetical order) Stefan Dietze (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf) Dimitar Dimitrov (GESIS) Christoph Eggersglüß (Philipps University Marburg, NFDI4Culture) Philippe Genêt (German National Library, Text+) Tatjana Scheffler (Ruhr University Bochum) Claus-Michael Schlesinger (University Library, Humboldt University Berlin) Britta Woldering (German National Library) Cooperation partners: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek BERD@NFDI KonsortSWD NFDI4Culture NFDI4Data Science Text+ --- Jun.-Prof. Dr. Tatjana Scheffler (she/her) GB 5/157 Ruhr-Universität Bochum Fakultät für Philologie, Germanistik Universitätsstraße 150 44801 Bochum Germany Mail: tatjana.scheffler(a)rub.de Web: http://staff.germanistik.rub.de/digitale-forensische-linguistik/ Tel.: +49 234 32-21471

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First CfP: UncertaiNLP @ EACL 2024 - The First Workshop on Uncertainty-Aware NLP
by Tiedemann, Jörg 20 Oct '23

20 Oct '23

First Call for papers: UncertaiNLP - First Workshop on Uncertainty-Aware NLP @ EACL 2024, March 21 or 22, 2024 Website: https://uncertainlp.github.io/ Submission website: https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2024/Workshop/UncertaiNLP We invite submissions to the first edition of the UncertaiNLP workshop on Uncertainty-Aware NLP, to be held at EACL 2024 on March 21 or 22, 2024. [Important Dates] * Paper submission deadline: December 18, 2023 * Resubmission of already pre-reviewed ARR papers: January 17, 2024 * Notification of acceptance: January 20, 2024 * Camera-ready papers due: January 30 2024 * Workshop dates: March 21-22, 2024 [Introduction] Human languages are inherently ambiguous and understanding language input is subject to interpretation and complex contextual dependencies. Nevertheless, the main body of research in NLP is still based on the assumption that ambiguities and other types of underspecification can and have to be resolved. This workshop will provide a platform for research that embraces variability in human language and aims to represent and evaluate the uncertainty that arises from it, and from modeling tools themselves. [Topics of Interest] UncertaiNLP welcomes submissions to topics related (but not limited) to: * Frameworks for uncertainty representation * Theoretical work on probability and its generalizations * Symbolic representations of uncertainty * Documenting sources of uncertainty * Theoretical underpinnings of linguistic sources of variation * Data collection (e.g., to document linguistic variability, multiple perspectives, etc.) * Modeling * Explicit representation of model uncertainty (e.g., parameter and/or hypothesis uncertainty, Bayesian NNs in NLU/NLG, verbalised uncertainty, feature density, external calibration modules) * Disentangled representation of different sources of uncertainty (e.g., hierarchical models, prompting) * Reducing uncertainty due to additional context (e.g., additional context, clarification questions, retrieval/API augmented models) * Learning (or parameter estimation) * Learning from single and/or multiple references * Gradient estimation in latent variable models * Probabilistic inference * Theoretical and applied work on approximate inference (e.g., variational inference, Langevin dynamics) * Unbiased and asymptotically unbiased sampling algorithms * Decision making * Utility-aware decoders and controllable generation * Selective prediction * Active learning * Evaluation * Statistical evaluation of language models * Calibration to interpretable notions of uncertainty (e.g., calibration error, conformal prediction) * Evaluation of epistemic uncertainty [Submission Guidelines] Authors are invited to submit by December 18, 2023 original and unpublished research papers in the following categories: * Full papers (up to 8 pages) for substantial contributions. * Short papers (up to 4 pages) for ongoing or preliminary work. All submissions must be in PDF format, submitted electronically via OpenReview (https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2024/Workshop/UncertaiNLP) and should follow the EACL 2024 formatting guidelines (following the ARR CfP<https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp>: use the official ACL style templates, which are available here<https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files>). We also invite authors of papers accepted to Findings to reach out to the organizing committee of UncertaiNLP to present their papers at the workshop, if in line with the topics described above. Resubmission of already pre-reviewed ARR papers will be possible and more information will be sent in the later calls. [Workshop Organizers] * Wilker Aziz, University of Amsterdam * Joris Baan, University of Amsterdam * Hande Celikkanat, University of Helsinki * Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, UCLouvain/FNRS * Barbara Plank, LMU Munich * Swabha Swayamdipta, USC * Jörg Tiedemann, University of Helsinki * Dennis Ulmer, ITU Copenhagen [Program Committee] A list of program committee members will be available on the workshop website. [Contact] For inquiries, please contact uncertainlp(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:uncertainlp@googlegroups.com>

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Call for Bids to Host ESSIR 2026 - Due by 8 March 2024
by Nicola Ferro 20 Oct '23

20 Oct '23

------------------------------------------- Call for Bids to Host ESSIR 2026 Deadline: 8 March 2024 Further details: https://www.essir.eu/ Contact: chair(a)essir.eu ------------------------------------------- The Steering Committee of the European Summer School on Information Retrieval (ESSIR) invites interested parties to submit bids to host ESSIR in 2026. ## INTRODUCTION ## The ESSIR initiative is a self-organized body, whose main mission is to promote research, innovation, and development of information access systems by educating junior and senior researchers, students, professionals, developers, and practitioners on the latest developments in the field, both methodological and technological. The ESSIR event is a week-long event, organized over the summer, where renowned lecturers and students interact together in a number of ways, e.g. lectures, hands-on sessions, flipped classrooms, aimed at the most effective teaching and learning of both basic and advanced topics on information access at large. By targeting information access at large, ESSIR places itself at the crossroad of several neighbors disciplines, namely + Information Retrieval (IR) + Recommender Systems (RecSys) + Natural Language Processing (NLP) + Machine Learning (ML) + Artificial Intelligence (AI) + Data Science (DS) ESSIR gives participants a grounding in the core subjects such as architectures; algorithms; formal theoretical models; evaluation theory and practice, as well as a coverage of recent topics and trends in the field, such as fairness, conversational search, and more. ESSIR is aimed at: advanced undergraduate students; PhD students; post-doctoral researchers; academic and industrial researchers; developers. Traditionally, ESSIR is co-located with accompanying events (such as the Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access, FDIA) that give the participants an excellent opportunity for focused discussions on recent emerging topics in Information Retrieval. Further details on ESSIR can be found at: https://www.essir.eu/ ## PROPOSAL SUBMISSION AND SELECTION ## Parties interested in hosting ESSIR 2026 are invited to submit proposals, in PDF format, by email to the ESSIR Steering Committee chair Nicola Ferro at chair(a)essir.eu by ** 8 MARCH 2024 ** Proposals will be evaluated by the ESSIR Steering Committee. Evaluation will take into account: + venue and timing: attractiveness of the location, hosting facilities, transportation options, accommodation, social program options, targeted event week, key dates, avoidance of timing conflicts with other relevant IR events and large-scale local public events. + scientific program: foundational topics, special lectures, accompanying events (podium discussions, poster sessions, etc.), strategy for acquiring and organizational support of high-quality IR lecturers. Proposals should also take into consideration the scheduling of relevant co-located events (symposiums, workshops) like FDIA. + support for student participants: grants, special conditions for participation and/or accommodation, opportunity to collect ECTS credit points, networking events, opportunities for personal dialogue with ESSIR lecturers. + financial viability: initial draft of the financial plan including major fixed and variable costs, budget cut-off points, strategy of sponsoring acquisition. + plans for organisation: local organizer consortium and its expertise in event/hosting management, key roles and initial responsibility assignments. Analysis of major risks (such as appropriate number of participants, commitment of key lecturers, sufficient amount of sponsoring) and reasonable fallback options. + dissemination and publicity: plans for reaching the target audience through mailing lists, direct contacts to research groups, scientific social networks, Web 2.0 channels, Web presence. Opportunities to share ESSIR materials within research community: slides, video lectures, scripts, post-proceedings, etc. The ESSIR charter and a bid template is available at: https://www.essir.eu/assets/charter/essir-sc-charter.pdf ## INQUIRIES AND FURTHER INFORMATION ## For any inquiries or if any additional information is needed, please write to chair(a)essir.eu ## ESSIR STEERING COMMITTEE ## - Nicola Ferro, University of Padua, Italy [chair] - Maristella Agosti, University of Padua, Italy - Catherine Berrut, Université Grenoble Alpes, France - Pablo Castells, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain and Amazon, USA - João Magalhães, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal - Iadh Ounis, University of Glasgow, UK - Gabriella Pasi, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy - Florina Piroi, TU Wien, Austria

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"Aristotelian: 'justice in exchange'": some sort of subjective utility?, "exchange value" coefficient? or "labour comparison" as an adjusting societal korpus factor based on techne? ...
by Albretch Mueller 19 Oct '23

19 Oct '23

On page 31 of Henry William Spiegel's book: "The growth of economic thought" (the 3rd edition is the one I got): https://archive.org/details/growthofeconomic0000spie_r1d4 https://www.csus.edu/indiv/d/dowellm/econ101/spiegel 1(1).pdf there are two statements (very questionably) written as mathematical equations, one of which, Spiegel said, has been claimed and re-interpreted throughout the ages in their own ways by different economic schools of thought mostly in utilitarian or "labour theory of value" kinds of ways. Aristotle analytically (and semi-poetically) wrote his "justice in exchange" (in previous times people tended to mind morality in a more involved way) as: ((A: builder)/(B: shoemaker) = X ((D: house)/(D: shoe)) and on page 33 there is an even more questionable "clarifying" deduction based on that statement. AFAIK, no one knows exactly what happened around 600 BC which made Ancient Greece intellectually awaken into a new age. Whatever happened, we know that they were obsessed with two themes: 1) like ratios: from Archimedes' law of the lever, to the kinds of metaphors their commanders used as battle cries, to how Aristotle himself "explained" poetry (which Eco thinks is the only substantial statement ever since made about the topic) Ancient Greeks understood everything through like ratios; 2) they also wondered incessantly about the subjectively moral, "objectively" social and divine aspects relating to techne from pre-Socratic times to its best implementation in Euclid's Elements (three centuries later). I am not claiming to be a mind reader, but based on how he used like ratios for his own sharp and powerful analysis of various subjects, I think, on the left side of that equation, he can't possibly be dividing "builders" by "shoemakers" (trying to establish a meaningful proportion), but the time it takes for them to finish an unit of work and on the right, determining proportion he is considering the qualitatively different kind of techne they each use to go about their business and since the Greek would only compare like ratios, he introduced that adjusting factor "X" which has made scholars wonder about it ever since. ~ Frederick Gustav Weiss in his thoroughgoing "Hegel's critique of Aristotle's philosophy of mind": https://www.amazon.com/Hegels-critique-Aristotles-philosophy-mind/dp/B0006C… https://philpapers.org/rec/WEIHCO shows how Hegel's concepts and notions resemble Aristotle's and how Hegel's trains of thought could be interpreted as a continuation of "the Philosopher's" if not exactly as a chronicler or commentator, definitely how Hegel critically re-engages Aristotle's work as no one had done after the Renaissance. About Aristotle Weiss says: page 33: ... The sense, for Aristotle, is not the organ as such, nor it is its relation or contact with objective qualities a "physical" or mechanical interaction as Ross seemed to suggest.(94) The potential sense is more like a ratio which is not yet the ratio of anything. The actual sense is an "enmattered" ratio; that is, one which is determined by its factors, and which simultaneously holds these factors, e.g., white and black, page 34: etc., in such a way as to allow their discrimination, and this without changing them. The sense is a mean which unfailingly establishes itself with respect to any two contrary qualities within the same genus. Which, since our semiosis is the only "enmattered" medium (à la de Saussure) simultaneously holding and allowing the discrimination of all meaningful factors of "any two contrary qualities within the same genus", I take as meaning that that factoring "X" is essentially semiotic in nature, linking in a societally-wide corpus kind of way qualitatively different kinds of techne, thereby establishing a fair exchange value between two different things and manifestingly showing the necessity for and hows of money, which (in the combined rates way I explained in a previous post about how NLP folks use "tensors") we used as equitable aspect, not different to how we use words to go about our respective businesses. As I interpret their philosophy, Anaxagoras "nous", techne, that "Aristotelian: 'justice in exchange'" equation, Leibniz' "best of all possible worlds" ideas, Smith's "invisible hand" (previously discussed to exhaustion by medieval philosophers) and Marx' "socially necessary labour time" are all aspects relating to the same thing. At the risk of being told that I am myself, "self-servingly" trying to rationalize such readings into Aristotle's analysis, I think that this is the first explicitly clear hint to our mind-body link being our semiosis. I privately (via email) asked Chalmers about such matters and he told me he didn't know of such approaches and I publicly asked Eco during a conference at the UN about it and he even became impatient, seemed to have gotten upset with me/about such ideas (I even tried to speak to him privately after his talk to no avail). There is simply no way on earth that no one hasn't noticed such interrelationships and how they relate to corpora research. I am sure that some of you have stumbled onto such themes and wondered about them. As a TI, here in "'the' land of 'the' 'free', ..." I can't even visit a library. There isn't anything illegal about it, it would be "fair use". Could you do me the favor to send my way or point to me to any prior art relating to such topics (essentially how corpora research and the mind-body link intrinsically relate). I am writing a paper on such matters, but I don't have access to papers that (most of?) you do. They tell me "I am not a researcher" so they can't grant me access to such repositories of previous art. Access to such papers is prohibitively expensive to me right now and at times you pay good money for a book without any substance whatsoever. There is this protagonistic tendency to write whatever nonsense crosses one's mind (apparently to claim priority) as if there were something wrong with Aristotle's approach. In a "footnotes to Plato" kind of way, I think timely (from "'more' to 'post-'modern") progress is a functional illusion. Aristotle's analysis is fine, we just can't match his intellectual prowess. Thank you, lbrtchx

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CfP: CIKM 2023 (online)
by Ingo Frommholz 19 Oct '23

19 Oct '23

ACM CIKM 2023 http://cikm2023.org/ CIKM 2023 in Birmingham, UK, starts in a few days (21-25 October, 2023), and it is still possible to register for virtual attendance! You will be able to attend the keynote talks and main room talks live; all other talks will be further provided as online encore ones on request at mutually agreed times after the conference. More at https://cikm2023.org/vgeneralreg/Site/Register. The conference will contain numerous presented papers of high quality, applied and theoretical research findings. CIKM has a strong tradition of speakers devoted to emerging areas of database management, IR, AI, NLP, and related fields. An Industry Day will bring together practitioners and academics. We are very happy to present the following keynote speakers: Chirag Shah (University of Washington): Generative AI and the Future of Information Access Yulan He (King’s College, London): Interpretable Natural Language Understanding Steffen Staab (University of Stuttgart & University of Southampton): Knowledge Graphs for Knowing More and Knowing for Sure Please see https://cikm2023.org/keynote-speakers for details and https://cikm2023.org for more information. -- Ingo Frommholz (he/him), PhD, FBCS, FHEA Reader (~Associate Professor) in Data Science ACM CIKM 2023 General Chair Head of Data, AI, Interaction, Retrieval and Language Group http://dairel.org Deputy Head Digital Innovations and Solutions Centre (DISC) University of Wolverhampton, UK Adjunct Professor, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland Web: http://www.frommholz.org/ | Email: ifrommholz(a)acm.org Twitter: @iFromm | Mastodon: @ingo@idf.social PGP/GPG fingerprint: B74E A422 C7B2 A5BB 2BC2 523B 2790 216E F8F8 D166 http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x2790216EF8F8D166

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First International Conference on Natural Language Processing
by Dola Mullage, Damith P. 19 Oct '23

19 Oct '23

First International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (NLPAICS’2024) Lancaster University, Lancaster 29-30 July 2024 First announcement Recent advances in Natural Language Processing (NLP), Deep Learning and Large Language Models have resulted in improved performance of applications benefiting from these techniques. In particular, in there has been a growing interest of employing AI methods in different Cyber Security applications. In today's digital world Cyber Security has emerged and its importance has magnified, becoming a priority for both individual users and organisations. With the exponential growth of the volume of information online, traditional security approaches often fall short in identifying and preventing evolving security threats. The inadequacy of conventional security frameworks highlights the need for innovative solutions that can effectively navigate the complex digital landscape for ensuring robust security. NLP and AI in Cyber Security have vast potential to significantly enhance threat detection and mitigation by fostering the development of advanced security systems for autonomous identification, assessment, and response to security threats in real-time. Recognising this challenge and the capabilities of NLP and AI approaches to fortify cyber security systems, the First International Conference on Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Cyber Security (NLPAICS’2024) offers to act as a meeting point for researchers working on NLP and AI methods for Cyber Security and welcomes contributions reporting latest solutions based on NLP and AI to mitigate the risks when processing digital information. Conference topics The conference invites submissions on a broad range of topics related to the employment of NLP and AI (and in general, language studies and models) for Cyber Security including but not limited to: Societal and Human Security and Safety * Content Legitimacy and Quality * Detection and mitigation of hate speech and offensive language * Fake news, deepfakes, misinformation and disinformation * Detection of machine generated language in multimodal context (text, speech and gesture) * User Security and Safety * Cyberbullying and identification of internet offenders * Monitoring extremist fora * Suicide prevention * Technical Measures and Solutions * Social engineering identification, phishing detection * NLP for risk assessment * Controlled languages for safe messages * Prevention of malicious use of ai models * Forensic linguistics * Human Factors in Cyber Security Speech Technology and Multimodal Investigations for Cyber Security * Voice-based security: Analysis of voice recordings or transcripts for security threats * Detection of machine generated language in multimodal context (text, speech and gesture) * NLP and biometrics in multimodal context Data and Software Security * Cryptography * Digital forensics * Malware detection, obfuscation * Models for documentation * NLP for data privacy and leakage prevention (DLP) * Addressing dataset “poisoning” attacks Human-Centric Security and Support * Natural language understanding for chatbots: NLP-powered chatbots for user support and security incident reporting * User behaviour analysis: Analysing user-generated text data (e.g., chat logs and emails) to detect insider threats or unusual behaviour * Human supervision of technology for Cyber Security Anomaly Detection and Threat Intelligence * Text-Based Anomaly Detection * Identification of unusual or suspicious patterns in logs, incident reports or other textual data * Detecting deviations from normal behaviour in system logs or network traffic * Threat Intelligence Analysis * Processing and analysing threat intelligence reports, news, articles and blogs on latest Cyber Security threats * Extracting key information and indicators of compromise (IoCs) from unstructured text Systems and Infrastructure Security * Systems Security * Anti-reverse engineering for protecting privacy and anonymity * Identification and mitigation of side-channel attacks * Authentication and access control * Enterprise-level mitigation * NLP for software vulnerability detection * Malware Detection through Code Analysis * Analysing code and scripts for malware * Detection using NLP to identify patterns indicative of malicious code Financial Cyber Security * Financial Fraud Detection * Algorithmic Trading Security * Secure Online Banking * Risk Management in Finance * Financial Text Analytics Ethics, Bias, and Legislation in Cyber Security * Ethical and Legal Issues * Digital privacy and identity management * The ethics of NLP and speech technology * Explainability of NLP and speech technology tools * Legislation against malicious use of AI * Regulatory issues * Bias and Security * Bias in Large Language Models (LLMs) * Bias in security related datasets and annotations Datasets and resources for Cyber Security Applications Specialised Security Applications and Open Topics * Intelligence applications * Emerging and innovative applications in Cyber Security Submissions and Publication The first call for papers (to be distributed in November 2023) will provide details on the types of submissions and the submission procedure. The first call will also provide information on the conference schedule, including submission and notification deadlines. Each submission will be reviewed by three members of the Programme Committee. All accepted papers will be included in the conference e-proceedings which will be available at the conference. The NLPAICS’2024 organisers will work with ACL to secure their inclusion in the ACL Anthology. Organisation The First International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (NLPAICS’2024) is organised by the Lancaster University UCREL NLP research group. Further information and contact details This is a first announcement only. The first Call for Papers is expected in November 2023 and registration will be open as from March 2024. The follow-up calls will list keynote speakers, conference chairs and members of the programme committee once confirmed. The conference website and the conference email address will be available soon. For any initial queries, please feel free to contact Prof Ruslan Mitkov on r.mitkov(a)lancaster.ac.uk.

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Re: [External] Re: NIF: NLP Interchange Format
by Bilgin, Orhan (Postgraduate Researcher) 18 Oct '23

18 Oct '23

I am sorry, I forgot to mention that the strings in my example are Turkish words, and the lemma AĞAÇ- corresponds to the lemma TREE- in English, which is a label that allows me to talk about the only meaningful thing that is common to the set {tree, trees}. Best, Orhan On 17 Oct 2023 20:44, "Bilgin, Orhan (Postgraduate Researcher)" <o.bilgin(a)lancaster.ac.uk> wrote: Dear Ada, I agree that lemmatisation is a construct and is not a universal method for linguistic analyses, but I don't understand why it is imperative that I wean myself from using lemmas. What is it that restricts my freedom to invent the lemma (a non-universal construct) AĞAÇ-, for example, to refer to the one and only "meaningful thing" that is common to the very many (theoretically infinite, practically probably around 10,000) strings including ağaç, ağacı, ağaca, ağaçlar, ağacımızdaki, ağaçlandırılabilmesinden, ağaçsızlaşmasını, etc. etc.? How (and why) am I supposed to talk about that very large set without using a label for it? Best, Orhan Bilgin On 17 Oct 2023 18:36, Ada Wan via Corpora <corpora(a)list.elra.info> wrote: This email originated outside the University. Check before clicking links or attachments. Dear Christian Re your PS: one doesn't need to debate the use/future of lemmatization, though I'd welcome such as part of scholarship. For those experienced in matters in/of Linguistics, it should be clear that lemmatization was simply a cconstruct, a entry-level philological exercise (esp. for those from Computer Science with less of a background in Linguistics and language(s)). It has been sad that some have picked up the habit of using lemmatization as a heuristic (though for what, specifically?) and might have become, apparently, too addicted to it to let it go. It is imperative that one weans themselves from such habit. Methods for linguistic morphology, e.g. (morphological) parsing or stemming, are not a universal decomposition scheme, nor a universal method for language/linguistic analyses. Also important is to bear in mind is that neither linguistic morphology nor lemmas/lemmata doesn't/don't have that long of a history. Thanks for being open-minded enough to read this far. Best Ada

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NIF: NLP Interchange Format
by Hugh Paterson III 17 Oct '23

17 Oct '23

Greetings, I am working on a project which is using lemmatization. I'm wondering how people have approached combining NIF and lemmatization. are there any "blessed" extensions or ontologies? I'm not seeing nif:lemma as an option within the nif ontology... though I am likely missing something. Kind regards, - Hugh

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