November 2023 - Corpora

Berkeley ML/AI Safety Research Program
by rocket＠serimats.org 03 Nov '23

03 Nov '23

The MATS Winter 2023-24 Cohort has launched! Apply by Nov 17 (or Nov 10 for Neel Nanda). The ML Alignment & Theory Scholars (MATS) Program is an educational seminar and independent research program. MATS provides talented scholars with talks, workshops, and research mentorship in the field of AI safety, and connects them with the Berkeley AI safety research community. The program takes place in Berkeley, CA from January 8 to March 17. If you’d like to sign up for program updates and application deadline reminders, **fill out our interest form (see below)** (~1 min)! If you know anyone you’d be excited to see apply to MATS, you can fill out our recommendation form (see below) (~1 minute). We’ll reach out to encourage them to apply! Read more about the winter program here: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tqyg3DpoiE4DKyi4y/apply-for-mats-winter-202…. Website: https://matsprogram.org Mentors: https://www.matsprogram.org/mentors Interest form: https://airtable.com/appxum3Sqh7TdDvdg/shrwtDZXeSfzeh5GT Recommendation form: https://airtable.com/appxum3Sqh7TdDvdg/shrRtJW4Ux8oTY28C

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Two Open NLP Positions at University of Würzburg (CAIDAS)
by janna.omeliyanenko＠gmail.com 03 Nov '23

03 Nov '23

The Data Science Chair at JMU Würzburg as a member of the Center for AI and Data Science (CAIDAS) offers two positions for doctoral researchers (m/w/d) in the area of machine learning and natural language processing. The first position will work within the BigData@Geo2 project, the followup of the successful BigData@Geo project [1], that provides machine-learning-aided decision support for agricultural measures in the light of regional climate change. This includes prediction of crop yields and enabling proactive agricultural strategies. The second position is part of the LitBERT project, which focuses on developing machine learning solutions to support and improve the modelling and analysis of characters in literary texts. The BigData@Geo2 position will allow you to work on data from many small companies in the form of historical yearbooks, as well as general information from local newspapers or social media discussing local climate events. Using this data, you will develop new methods for discovering climate, ecosystem and agriculturally relevant events that assist in the overarching goal of BigData@Geo2 of assessing the economic viability of agricultural decisions, such as which crops to grow in future seasons, or predicting crop yield. In the LitBERT position, you will work with a large collection of German literary texts such as narratives and novels to develop improved language models that provide a foundation for comprehensive analysis of literary characters. This includes automatic extraction of character traits, categorizing their types, and analysis of the complex evolution of relationships between characters in literary texts. The work focuses on using and improving state-of-the-art language models to effectively address the unique challenges posed by literary texts. Payment is at the level of E13 according to the German federal wage agreement scheme (TV-L). Candidates are expected to have a strong background in computer science and mathematics, with a specialization in machine learning and interest in the topic of one of the positions. Prior knowledge in the field of deep learning in one of the subject areas is advantageous. Please send your application (letter of motivation, curriculum vitae, academic records) at your earliest convenience, but no later than November 30th, 2023, to Prof. Dr. Andreas Hotho (dmir-jobs(a)uni-wuerzburg.de). You are welcome to contact us on the same address for additional details. [1] https://bigdata-at-geo.eu/

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21st International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse (ICSR 2024): Second Call for Papers
by Announce 03 Nov '23

03 Nov '23

*** Second Call for Papers *** 21st International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse (ICSR 2024) June 10-12, 2024, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/icsr2024/ (*** Submission Deadline: 12th February, 2024 AoE ***) The International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse (ICSR) is a biannual conference in the field of software reuse research and technology. ICSR is a premier event aiming to present the most recent advances and breakthroughs in the area of software reuse and to promote an intensive and continuous exchange among researchers and practitioners. The guiding theme of this edition is Sustainable Software Reuse. We invite submissions on new and innovative research results and industrial experience reports dealing with all aspects of software reuse within the context of the modern software development landscape. Topics include but are not limited to the following. 1 Technical aspects of reuse, including • Reuse in/for Quality Assurance (QA) techniques, testing, verification, etc. • Domain ontologies and Model-Driven Development • Variability management and software product lines • Context-aware and Dynamic Reuse • Reuse in and for Machine Learning • Domain-specific languages (DSLs) • New language abstractions for software reuse • Generative Development • COTS-based development and reuse of open source assets • Retrieval and recommendation of reusable assets • Reuse of non-code artefacts • Architecture-centric reuse approaches • Service-oriented architectures and microservices • Software composition and modularization • Sustainability and software reuse • Economic models of reuse • Benefit and risk analysis, scoping • Legal and managerial aspects of reuse • Reuse adoption and transition to software reuse • Lightweight reuse approaches • Reuse in agile projects • Technical debt and software reuse 2 Software reuse in industry and in emerging domains • Reuse success stories • Reuse failures, and lessons learned • Reuse obstacles and success factors • Return on Investment (ROI) studies • Reuse in hot topic domains (Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, Virtualization, Network functions, Quantum Computing, etc.) We welcome research (16 pages) and industry papers (12 pages) following the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science format. Submissions will be handled via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=icsr2024). Submissions will be **double-blindly** reviewed, meaning that authors should: • Omit all authors’ names and affiliations from the title page • Do not include the acknowledgement section, if you have any, in the submitted paper • Refer to your own work in the third person • Use anonymous GitHub, Zenondo, FigShare or equivalent to provide access to artefacts without disclosing your identity Both research and industry papers will be reviewed by members of the same program committee (check the website for details). Proceedings will be published by Springer in their Lecture Notes for Computer Science (LNCS) series. An award will be given to the best research and the best industry papers. The authors of selected papers from the conference will be invited to submit an extended version (containing at least 30% new material) to a special issue in the Journal of Systems and Software (Elsevier). More details will follow. IMPORTANT DATES • Abstract submission: February 12, 2024, AoE • Full paper submission: February 19, 2024, AoE • Notification: April 8, 2024, AoE • Camera Ready: April 22, 2024, AoE • Author Registration: April 22, 2024 AoE ORGANISATION Steering Committee • Eduardo Almeida, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil • Goetz Botterweck, Lero, University of Limerick, Ireland • Rafael Capilla, Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain • John Favaro, Trust-IT, Italy • William B. Frakes, IEEE TCSE committee on software reuse, USA • Martin L. Griss, Carnegie Mellon University, USA • Oliver Hummel, University of Applied Sciences, Germany • Hafedh Mili, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada • Nan Niu, University of Cincinnati, USA • George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • Claudia M.L. Werner, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil General Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Co-Chairs • Achilleas Achilleos, Frederick University, Cyprus • Lidia Fuentes, University of Malaga, Spain

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Postdoc in Natural Language Processing / Text Simplification
by Horacio Saggion 02 Nov '23

02 Nov '23

We are looking for a well-motivated and technically strong postdoc researcher in the area of Natural Language Processing (NLP) with experience on Text Simplification, Text Summarization or Text Generation to carry out research and development in the context of the iDEM Horizon Europe project coordinated by Universitat Pompeu Fabra. The project's main objective is to produce technology to make text more accessible to people who need support to read and comprehend language and to facilitate communication and dialogue in democratic spaces. The postdoc will work in the LaSTUS/TALN laboratory under the supervision of Prof. Horacio Saggion, coordinator of iDEM. The LaSTUS laboratory and TALN research group is one of the leading groups in NLP in Spain, with an important track record of participation in European and national research projects. The group works in diverse areas of NLP including text accessibility, language translation, sign language processing, dialogue systems, summarization, lexicography, social network text analysis, etc. We offer a truly international and stimulating environment for developing an international and well recognized research career. The ideal candidate will have a PhD in Computer Science or Computational Linguistics with very good knowledge of current Deep learning for NLP, especially Large Language Models (LLMs), generative AI and their adaptation to different tasks. Knowledge and experience with current Deep Learning frameworks and libraries are required. Experience with software development and management tools is required. The candidate will work in several areas of the iDEM project including, but not limited to: · Carry out research on readability assessment of different corpora related to the project · Develop algorithms for multilingual text simplification (Spanish, Italian, Catalan, and English) for people with language impairment · Develop text generation algorithms based on LLMs to generate discourses for people with language impairment · Investigate and adopt methods for evaluation of the simplification and generation technology · Assist the principal investigator with the day-by-day research activities · Administer the software and data resources generated by the project · Coordinate work activities, tasks and deliverables with other partners · Produce deliverables of excellent quality for the funding body · Participate in quality assessment · Participate in ethical training activities · Participate in periodic meetings *Gross annual salary* of 39.758,76€ Duration of the contract is 3 years (depending on start date) indefinite. *Ideal start date*: 01/01/2024 *Application deadline:* 07/11/2023 *How to apply*: https://apply.interfolio.com/135337 Send your informal queries to Horacio Saggion horacio.saggion(a)upf.edu -- Professor Horacio Saggion Head of the Large Scale Text Understanding Systems Lab Full Professor / Chair in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence TALN / DTIC Deputy Director for Recruitment Universitat Pompeu Fabra [image: https://twitter.com/h_saggion] [image: https://www.linkedin.com/in/horacio-saggion-1749b916]

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Assistant Professor in CL - University of British Columbia
by garrett.nicolai＠ubc.ca 02 Nov '23

02 Nov '23

The Linguistics department at the University of British Columbia is hiring a tenure-track research position to join the Master of Data Science - Computational Linguistics team. We encourage applications from any CL/NLP background. Please see the ad here: https://linguistics.ubc.ca/job-opportunities/asst-prof-job-posting/ Please note the short turnaround time - applications are due by December 8. Garrett Nicolai Department of Linguistics University of British Columbia

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18TH NOOJ INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2024 | Call For Paper Now Open!
by THE 18TH NOOJ INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2024 02 Nov '23

02 Nov '23

Dear all, Greetings from the 18th NooJ Conference https://nooj2024.x-23.org/ Organisation Board, nice to e-meet you! We are X23 Science in Society, a spin-off from X23 Innovation Bakery™, which is a research centre based in Italy. We have a long-record of working with migrant-entrepreneurs, using linguistic tools. We are honoured to be the organiser of the 18th Nooj Conference! Some exciting news! The 18th NooJ Conference will be held in Bergamo, Italy, from the 4th-7th of June, 2024! Check out the website for this year’s event https://nooj2024.x-23.org/ ! As some of you might have already attended in the past edition, the Nooj Conference is a great occasion for the scholars and researchers to discuss topics using NooJ, a versatile linguistic software for corpus processing, offering seamless integration with NLP applications. For this edition, we are excited to announce that the Call for Papers is officially opened, we sincerely invite you to participate in this. The topics of the call for paper: 📚NLP Societal applications and citizen science: Computational Socio-Linguistic (migration, geography, tourism, political discourse, cinema, social media, gender studies… 🗣️Linguistic Resources: Typography, Spelling, Syllabification, Phonemic and Prosodic Transcription, Morphology, Lexical Analysis, Local Syntax, Structural Syntax, Transformational Analysis, Paraphrase Generation, Semantic Annotations, Semantic Analysis. 🧠Digital Humanities: Corpus Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Sentiment analysis, Literature Studies, Second-Language Teaching, Narrative content analysis, Corpus processing for the Social Sciences 💻Natural Language Processing Applications: Business Intelligence, Text Mining, Text Generation. Language Teaching Software, Automatic Paraphrasing, Machine Translation, etc. The following are essential guidelines to follow during the submission process. Abstracts for submission must be in English and include the author(s)' title, name, institution, and email. They should not exceed one page in length (between 300 and 600 words, excluding references) and should be submitted via Easy Chair. Additionally, all papers must be original and cannot be concurrently presented at another journal or conference. Here are Important Dates: * Deadline of Abstract submission: Feb 4 2024 * Notification of accept: March 10 2024 * Camera ready: March 24 2024 * Early bird registrations: From March 11 to March 31 2024 * Deadline for the other registrations: April 15 2024 * 18th Nooj Conference: June 4 to June 7 2024 * Selected papers submission: Sept 15 2024 Submit your application now: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=18nj For more information, visit our conference website: https://nooj2024.x-23.org/call-for-paper Subscribe to our Newsletters to stay updated with the Conference: LINK https://02d305c7.sibforms.com/serve/MUIFAKD0rCj_mL1XNOurnW8YlMZBwo4BBOgsPrt… More doubts or questions about the Call for Paper, please do not hesitate to send us an email at papers(a)nooj2024.org mailto:papers@nooj2024.org We look forward to having you for the 18th Nooj Conference! Best, 18th NooJ Conference Organisation, X23 Science in Society __________________ THE 18TH NOOJ INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2024 JUN 4th to 7th, 2024 — Bergamo, Italy Managed by The Nooj Association Powered and hosted by X23 Srl

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Rogozhin Lectures 2023
by Ludmila Malahov 02 Nov '23

02 Nov '23

Dear Colleagues: On November 14, 2024 at 17.00 (GMT/UTC+2) - Vladimir Andrunachievici Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science at Moldova State University - Louisiana Scholars College at Northwestern State University, - Permion AI LLC, USA organize a presentation titled *Diagramatic Reasoning: From Peirce’s Existential Graphs to Artificial Intelligence *by Dr. *John F. Sowa* ( https://jfsowa.com/pubs/) from Permion AI LLC, USA. The talk will be held in a virtual format through Zoom platform. This talk is conducted as the 10th edition of *Rogozhin Lectures*. Everybody interested in (virtually) attending the presentation has to register at https://islai.org/rogozhin-lectures/ or https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1e6qkwNSjy0NNPJv4-DTPBAANzUjZrp36xQk7ND5SXl… no later than November 9, 2023. Those who have registered to attend the virtual presentation will receive a link on November 10, 2023. We are looking forward to meeting you virtually! Ludmila Malahov Rogozhin Lectures Series Coordinator

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Re: Assistant/associate professor in NLP - ITU Copenhagen
by Christian Hardmeier 02 Nov '23

02 Nov '23

Dear Ada and list, Thank you for your interest in our job posting. I am happy to clarify that candidates from any research area that deals with the computational processing of human language, including any technical, theoretical, social or ethical aspects, should feel welcome to apply. Anyone who is considering an application is warmly invited to get in touch with me directly to discuss how their profile would fit into our group. Best wishes, Christian From: Ada Wan <adawan919(a)gmail.com> Date: Thursday, 2 November 2023 at 13.43 To: Christian Hardmeier <chrha(a)itu.dk> Cc: "corpora(a)list.elra.info" <corpora(a)list.elra.info> Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] Assistant/associate professor in NLP - ITU Copenhagen You don't often get email from adawan919(a)gmail.com. Learn why this is important<https://aka.ms/LearnAboutSenderIdentification> Dear Christian What is NLP? E.g. some may have wondered why there is no "natural vision processing" with a fixed (non-byte) granularity that is generally too coarse for computing prescribed/"preferred", as in the case of "natural language processing" (NLP), an area where an unfortunate mix-up between processing and interpretation has occurred. Since you have a posting for a new position here, I thought that you may be able to clarify further. Thanks and best regards Ada On Wed, Nov 1, 2023 at 11:06 AM Christian Hardmeier via Corpora <corpora(a)list.elra.info<mailto:corpora@list.elra.info>> wrote: Assistant/Associate Professor in Natural Language Processing IT University of Copenhagen Application deadline: 26 November 2023 The computer science department at the IT University of Copenhagen is recruiting a new faculty member to join the natural language processing group. Candidates from any background and all areas of natural language processing are very welcome to apply! ITU is a small university with a motivated and engaged student community in Copenhagen, a city that consistently ranks as one of the most livable places in the world. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to get in touch with me: chrha(a)itu.dk<mailto:chrha@itu.dk> More information and application link in the official job posting: https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx?cid=119&ProjectId=181… Website of the NLP group at ITU: https://nlpnorth.github.io/ -- Christian Hardmeier, Associate Professor – https://christianhardmeier.rax.ch/ IT University of Copenhagen, Department of Computer Science _______________________________________________ Corpora mailing list -- corpora(a)list.elra.info<mailto:corpora@list.elra.info> https://list.elra.info/mailman3/postorius/lists/corpora.list.elra.info/ To unsubscribe send an email to corpora-leave(a)list.elra.info<mailto:corpora-leave@list.elra.info>

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Assistant/associate professor in NLP - ITU Copenhagen
by Christian Hardmeier 01 Nov '23

01 Nov '23

Assistant/Associate Professor in Natural Language Processing IT University of Copenhagen Application deadline: 26 November 2023 The computer science department at the IT University of Copenhagen is recruiting a new faculty member to join the natural language processing group. Candidates from any background and all areas of natural language processing are very welcome to apply! ITU is a small university with a motivated and engaged student community in Copenhagen, a city that consistently ranks as one of the most livable places in the world. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to get in touch with me: chrha(a)itu.dk<mailto:chrha@itu.dk> More information and application link in the official job posting: https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx?cid=119&ProjectId=181… Website of the NLP group at ITU: https://nlpnorth.github.io/ -- Christian Hardmeier, Associate Professor – https://christianhardmeier.rax.ch/ IT University of Copenhagen, Department of Computer Science

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SIG Writing 2024: Deadline Extension
by Aleksandra MILETIC 01 Nov '23

01 Nov '23

SIG Writing 2024 Call for Conference Papers & Research School Participation The EARLI Special Interest Group Writing, Paris Nanterre University (France), Sorbonne Nouvelle University (France), and the University of Turku (Finland) invite proposals to the 20th biennial SIG Writing conference to be held at Paris Nanterre University, Nanterre, France, from 26-28 June 2024. Prior to the conference, from 24-25 June 2024, the Research School will be held. The conference theme for SIG Writing 2024 is ways2write. Writing is a ubiquitous social and professional practice in most parts of the world. It takes on diverse, increasingly mixed and heterogeneous forms, manifests itself over ever wider spans of life and activity, exploits more and more media and technologies, and is increasingly fluid. The source and its individual and collective characteristics (age, cognitive abilities, human/non-human...), the medium, the context and the production objectives, time and space—all give rise to a diversity of writings and ways of writing, raising numerous questions in an interdisciplinary field. While the conference traditionally hosts a diversity of topics and approaches, proposals within the ways2write theme are particularly welcome. More information and full calls for conference papers and Research School participation at the SIG WRITING 2024 website: https://sites.google.com/view/sig-writing-2024/ * Submission deadline *EXTENDED*: November 17, 2023 * Submission guidelines The aim of the conference is to promote interaction among researchers who are interested in understanding the cognitive, social, and developmental processes involved in writing, who are concerned with designing writing instruction in various educational settings, or who are engaged with exploring the functions of writing in different social and institutional contexts. The scope of the conference is broad, and we hope to draw together a wide range of researchers and professionals. CONFERENCE: Available presentation formats are Paper, Symposium, Poster, Roundtable, and Demonstration Session. The abstract should be 250-350 words (including any references). All proposals must be written in English and submitted using the online submission system: https://www.earli-eapril.org PhD students and early career researchers are invited to submit to and participate in the pre-conference Research School. RESEARCH SCHOOL: Available presentation formats are Paper Presentation, Poster or 30' Article Manuscript Discussion. The abstract should be 350 words (including any references). All proposals must be written in English and submitted using the online submission system: https://www.earli-eapril.org For any questions, please contact us at sigwriting24.paris(a)gmail.com You can also follow the updates on Twitter/X: @SIGWriting2024 Or on Facebook: SigWriting Paris ( https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100091544465843) On behalf of the organizing committee, Aleksandra Miletić ---------- Aleksandra Miletić Post-doctoral researcher on the CorCoDial <https://blogs.helsinki.fi/yvesscherrer/corcodial-corpus-based-computational…> Project Language Technology Group, University of Helsinki

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