November 2023 - Corpora

Second CfP: UncertaiNLP @ EACL 2024 - The First Workshop on Uncertainty-Aware NLP
by Tiedemann, Jörg 13 Dec '23

13 Dec '23

Second 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 [Workshop Topic and Content] 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. Confirmed Invited Speakers: * Kristin Lennox (Exponent) * Mohit Bansal (UNC Chapel Hill) 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 Papers - 11th Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies (IVACS) Biennial Conference - University of Cambridge - 16th & 17th July 2024
by Andrew Caines 11 Dec '23

11 Dec '23

Dear Colleagues, We are delighted to launch the Call for Paper for the *11th Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies (IVACS) Biennial Conference *which will be hosted by the University of Cambridge, U.K., on Tuesday 16th and Wednesday 17th July 2024. Conference website: https://www.ivacs2024.com/ Abstract deadline 20th December, 2023. *Plenary Speakers* We are delighted that the following researchers will be giving plenary talks at the conference: - Dr Brian Clancy <https://www.mic.ul.ie/staff/276-brian-clancy> - Dr Geraldine Mark <https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/markg2> Please spread the word! Best wishes, Anne and Andrew *Dr Andrew Caines, Conference Convenor, University of Cambridge* *Prof. Anne O'Keeffe, Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies (IVACS) Network Director* *Call for Papers* *The 11th Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies (IVACS) Biennial Conference* We are particularly interested in papers in but not limited to the following areas: Strand 1 – Corpus Methods and Innovations: Innovations in Corpus Design, Analysis and Annotation Tools; Critical Reflections on Corpus Methods; Advances in Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches to Analysing Corpora; Innovations in Statistics for CL. Strand 2 – Corpus Linguistics, Pragmatics and Discourse: Corpus Approaches to Discourse Analysis, Conversation Analysis, Critical Discourse Analysis; Corpus Pragmatics; CL and Real-World Contexts (e.g. Media Discourse, Classroom Discourse; Workplace Discourse). Strand 3 – Corpus Linguistics and Applied Linguistics: Learner Corpus Research; CL and Second Language Acquisition; Data-Driven Learning; CL for Materials Development; CL and Teacher Education; CL and Lexicography. Strand 4 – Corpus Linguistics, Literature, Texts and Register: CL and Register Studies; Corpus Stylistics; CL and Literary Linguistics; CL and Translation Studies; Forensic Linguistics. Strand 5 – Corpus Linguistics and Speech: CL Speech Technology; CL and Multimodality; Spoken Corpora; Corpus Phonology. Strand 6 – Corpus Linguistics and Sociolinguistics: CL and Language Change; Language Varieties and Variation; CL and Minority Language Studies. Strand 7 – Computational Linguistics and Corpora: The use of Corpora for Computational Linguistics research; Exploration and analyses of Corpora using Computational Linguistic methods; Data collection and annotation for Computational Linguistics. *Abstract Submission and Timeline* Full papers will involve a 20-minute presentation, plus 10 minutes for questions and discussion. Posters can present work in progress or summaries of completed studies, research projects or other innovations. Posters will be printed in portrait A0 size. Abstracts will be 300 words (not including reference list, if any). Note that the deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h <https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zone/timezone/utc-12> (“anywhere on Earth”). Abstract deadline 20th December, 2023 Notification 31st January, 2024 Conference 16th-17th July, 2024 Submission of abstracts: OpenReview <https://openreview.net/group?id=IVACS/2024/Conference> *Seeking Reviewers* Would you have time to help us review the abstracts in January? Maximum 5 per person. Please sign up here <https://forms.gle/BkopQZ12esXMAnv36>

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Second CfP: The 8th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature
by Stan Szpakowicz 01 Dec '23

01 Dec '23

*LaTeCH-CLfL 2024: The 8th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature * to be held in March 2024 in conjunction with EACL 2024 <https://2024.eacl.org/> in St Julian’s, Malta. https://sighum.wordpress.com/latech-clfl-2024/ Second Call for Papers (with apologies for cross-posting) Organisers: Yuri Bizzoni, Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Anna Kazantseva, Stan Szpakowicz LaTeCH-CLfL 2024 is the eighth in a series of meetings for NLP researchers who work with data from the broadly understood arts, humanities and social sciences, and for specialists in those disciplines who apply NLP techniques in their work. The workshop continues a long tradition of annual meetings. The SIGHUM Workshops on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities (LaTeCH) ran ten times in 2007-2016. The five Workshops on Computational Linguistics for Literature (CLfL) took place in 2012-2016. The first seven joint workshops (LaTeCH-CLfL) were held in 2017-2023. *Topics and content* In the Humanities, Social Sciences, Cultural Heritage and literary communities, there is increasing interest in, and demand for, NLP methods for semantic and structural annotation, intelligent linking, discovery, querying, cleaning and visualization of both primary and secondary data. This is even true of primarily non-textual collections, given that text is also the pervasive medium for metadata. Such applications pose new challenges for NLP research: noisy, non-standard textual or multi-modal input, historical languages, vague research concepts, multilingual parts within one document, and so no. Digital resources often have insufficient coverage; resource-intensive methods require (semi-)automatic processing tools and domain adaptation, or intense manual effort (e.g., annotation). Literary texts bring their own problems, because navigating this form of creative expression requires more than the typical information-seeking tools. Examples of advanced tasks include the study of literature of a certain period, author or sub-genre, recognition of certain literary devices, or quantitative analysis of poetry. NLP methods applied in this context not only need to achieve high performance, but are often applied as a first step in research or scholarly workflow. That is why it is crucial to interpret model results properly; model interpretability might be more important than raw performance scores, depending on the context. More generally, there is a growing interest in computational models whose results can be used or interpreted in meaningful ways. It is, therefore, of mutual benefit that NLP experts, data specialists and Digital Humanities researchers who work in and across their domains get involved in the Computational Linguistics community and present their fundamental or applied research results. It has already been demonstrated how cross-disciplinary exchange not only supports work in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Cultural Heritage communities but also promotes work in the Computational Linguistics community to build richer and more effective tools and models. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: • adaptation of NLP tools to Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and literature; • automatic error detection and cleaning of textual data; • complex annotation schemas, tools and interfaces; • creation (fully- or semi-automatic) of semantic resources; • creation and analysis of social networks of literary characters; • discourse and narrative analysis/modelling, notably in literature; • emotion analysis for the humanities and for literature; • generation of literary narrative, dialogue or poetry; • identification and analysis of literary genres; • interpretability of large language models output for DH-related tasks (explainable AI); • linking and retrieving information from different sources, media, and domains; • low-resource and historical language processing; • modelling dialogue literary style for generation; • modelling of information and knowledge in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Cultural Heritage; • profiling and authorship attribution; • search for scientific and/or scholarly literature; • work with linguistic variation and non-standard or historical use of language. *Information for authors* We invite papers on original, unpublished work in the topic areas of the workshop. In addition to long papers, we will consider short papers and system descriptions (demos). We also welcome position papers. • Long papers, presenting completed work, may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content plus additional pages of references (just two if possible -:). The final camera-ready versions of accepted long papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers’ comments can be taken into account. • A short paper / demo presenting work in progress, or the description of a system, and may consist of up to four (4) pages of content plus additional pages of references (one if you can). Upon acceptance, short papers will be given five (5) content pages in the proceedings. • A position paper — clearly marked as such — should not exceed eight (8) pages including references. All submissions are to use the EACL stylesheets (for LaTeX / Overleaf and MS Word); there will be a link soon (we hope) but last year's https://2023.eacl.org/calls/styles is a good guess. Papers should be submitted electronically, only in PDF, via the LaTeCH-CLfL2024 submission website on the SoftConf pages at https://softconf.com/eacl2024/LaTeCH-CLfL-2024/. Reviewing will be double-blind. Please do not include the authors’ names and affiliations, or any references to Web sites, project names, acknowledgements and so on — anything that immediately reveals the authors’ identity. Self-references should be kept to a reasonable minimum, and anonymous citations cannot be used. We will make an exception for demo papers: the review may be single-blind. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings available as usual in the ACL Anthology. *Important dates* (still tentative) Workshop paper due: December 18, 2023 Notification of acceptance: January 20, 2024 Camera-ready papers due: January 30 2024 Workshop date: March 21 or 22, 2024 *More on the organizers* Yuri Bizzoni, Center for Humanities Computing / School for Communication and Culture, Århus University Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb, Language Science and Technology, Saarland University Anna Kazantseva, National Research Council Canada Stan Szpakowicz, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa *Contact* latech-clfl(a)googlegroups.com

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1st International Workshop on Open Web Search: Call for Participation
by maik.froebe＠uni-jena.de 30 Nov '23

30 Nov '23

We invite you to participate in the ECIR 2024 Workshop on Open Web Search. Since much of the web search technology stack is closed source, and many even basic pieces of technology for building a scalable web search engine are missing, the WOWS workshop aims to promote, discuss, and develop an open web search ecosystem. The workshop encourages submissions of scientific papers and implementations of retrieval components. For the practical part of submitting (parts of) retrieval pipelines, we offer mentoring of (early-stage) participants (e.g., bachelor/master students). Learn more at https://opensearchfoundation.org/wows2024 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now open: Pre-Registration to coordinate implementation efforts at https://www.tira.io/t/pre-registration January 24, 2024: Early Bird Submission deadline February 14, 2024: Submission deadline March 13, 2024: Peer review notification March 20, 2024: Camera-ready papers submission March 28, 2024: Workshop (co-located with ECIR 2024 in Glasgow) Best regards, WOWS team

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Call for Shared Tasks Proposals - the 11th Workshop on Argument Mining (ACL 2024, Bangkok, Thailand)
by Yamen Ajjour 30 Nov '23

30 Nov '23

CALL FOR SHARED TASK PROPOSALS We cordially invite submissions of shared tasks as part of ArgMining 2024, the “11th Workshop on Argument Mining”. The workshop will be co-located with ACL 2024 (to be held in Bangkok, Thailand). Argument mining (also known as “argumentation mining”) is a gradually maturing research area within computational linguistics. It involves the automatic identification of argumentative structures in free text, as well as argument quality assessment, argument persuasiveness, and the synthesis of argumentative texts. To advance research on specific aspects of argument mining, previous editions of the ArgMining workshop series have promoted shared tasks, including key point analysis for quantitative summarization of arguments (see https://2021.argmining.org/), the validity and novelty of arguments (see https://argmining-org.github.io/2022/), multimodal argument mining and pragmatic tagging of peer reviews (see https://argmining-org.github.io/2023). Following the success of previous workshops, ArgMining 2024 plans to share one or more unsolved problems to be investigated by the community. Proposals for shared tasks should include: * a title and a brief description of the task * a description of the datasets that will be used in the task and their readiness, and a proposed plan for data collection and annotation * previous work on the datasets, including publications (if any) * a few lines regarding evaluation of the submitted systems * a brief introduction of the task organizers Shared task organizers will have the opportunity to publish a task overview paper in the workshop proceedings. Please submit your shared task proposal via email to argmining.org [at] gmail.com. The submission deadline is January 5, 2024, and task organizers will be notified of proposal acceptance on January 19, 2024. While exact dates are not yet available, we assume the following tentative schedule: * End of February - Training data release * Mid of April - Test data release, evaluation start * End of April - Evaluation end * Mid of May - Results announcement * End of May - Paper submission due * End of June - Camera-ready version due * Mid of August - ArgMining 2024 workshop (ACL) The timeline will be finalized with the shared task organizers. ORGANIZERS: Yamen Ajjour, Leibniz University Hannover Roy Bar-Haim, IBM Research Roxanne El Baff, German Aerospace Center (DLR) and Bauhaus-Universität Zhexiong Liu, University of Pittsburgh Gabriella Skitalinskaya, Leibniz University Hannover

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[IberLEF 2024] Call for Task Proposals
by Salud María Jiménez Zafra 30 Nov '23

30 Nov '23

================================= IberLEF 2024 -- Call for Task Proposals ================================= The goal of IberLEF is to encourage the research community to organize competitive text processing, understanding and generation tasks, with the aim of defining new research challenges and advancing the state of the art in Natural Language Processing challenges involving at least one of the following Iberian languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Basque or Galician. Researchers and practitioners from all areas of Natural Language Processing and related communities are invited to submit task proposals that fit IberLEF goals by December 22, 2023. Proposals must be submitted (as a pdf file) to iberlef(a)googlegroups.com, and should include the following fields: - Title of the task. - Description of the task, highlighting: - Relevance and novelty of the task, and the challenges involved. - Evaluation measures, and other relevant methodological aspects. - Expected target community, and actual or potential industrial takeup. - Related evaluation activities, if any. - Previous editions of the task, if any. If it has been organized previously, what the roadmap is and what the novelties for 2024 are. - Linguistic resources to be gathered, created and/or reused. Please include as many details on data gathering, selection and annotation procedures as possible: sources and representativity, training/validation/test sizes, harvesting procedures, profile of annotators (experts, linguists, crowdworkers, etc.), multiple annotation policy, IPR issues, baselines, etc. - Tentative schedule (note that camera-ready versions of the proceedings must be ready by July 11, 2024). - Organization committee: full name and affiliation of the organizers, with a succinct description of their research interests, areas of expertise and experience organizing similar events. - Funding, if available. - Contact person. - Any other relevant issues. Task organizers duties Note that organizers of accepted tasks are expected to: - Set up the evaluation exercise according to the submitted proposal. - Promote the task within the target research community. - Manage the submission and scientific evaluation of the system description papers of the corresponding systems submitted by the participants. The accepted papers will be published in the IberLEF proceedings. - Prepare and submit an overview of the evaluation exercise. - Present the results of the task at IberLEF 2024. Task selection procedure Each submitted proposal will be reviewed by members of the IberLEF steering and program committee, and decisions will be sent back to the task organizers by January 26, 2024. Proceedings IberLEF 2024 Proceedings including the description of the participating systems will be published at CEUR-WS.org. Task Overviews will be published in the SEPLN journal (http://www.sepln.org/en/journal, indexed in Clarivate ESCI (JCI: 0.21), CiteScore (Scopus): 2,9 and SJR: 0,421) in its September 2024 issue. Task Organizers are expected to send the camera ready task and system description papers for their task to IberLEF organizers by July 11, 2024. Important dates - Task proposals due: December 22, 2023. - Notification of acceptance: January 26, 2024. - Camera ready submissions due: July 11, 2024. - IberLEF Workshop: September 2024. IberLEF general chairs: Salud María Jiménez Zafra, SINAI, Universidad de Jaén (Spain) Luis Chiruzzo, Universidad de la República (Uruguay) Francisco Rangel, Symanto Research (Spain) Website https://sites.google.com/view/iberlef-2024 Contact E-mail: iberlef(a)googlegroups.com ================================= [image: Universidad de Jaén] <http://www.uja.es/> *Salud María Jiménez Zafra* sjzafra(a)ujaen.es Universidad de Jaén Grupo de Investigación SINAI <http://sinai.ujaen.es/> | Departamento de Informática EPS Jaén, Edificio A3, Despacho 219 Campus Las Lagunillas s/n 23071 - Jaén | +34 953212992 [image: Universidad de Jaén] <http://www.uja.es/>

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36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2024): Last Mile for Paper Submission
by Announce 30 Nov '23

30 Nov '23

*** Last Mile for Paper Submission *** 36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'24) June 3-7, 2024, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/caise2024/ (*** Submission Deadline: Abstract: December 1, 2023 AoE; Paper: December 8, 2023 AoE ***) The CAiSE’24 organization calls for full papers with a special emphasis on the theme of Information Systems in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as a transformative technology, revolutionizing various industries, and its significance in Information Systems cannot be overstated. AI-powered systems have the potential to streamline operations, enhance decision-making processes, and drive innovation across organizations. From data analysis to automated processes, AI is reshaping the way we leverage information in the digital age. The relevance of AI in IS extends beyond internal operations. AI-powered predictive analytics enables organizations to forecast trends, anticipate customer needs, and optimize resource allocation. This empowers businesses to adapt swiftly to changing market dynamics, gain a competitive edge, and make proactive decisions. AI algorithms can also detect anomalies and patterns that indicate potential security breaches, contributing to robust cybersecurity measures in information systems. However, while acknowledging the benefits, it is essential to consider the ethical implications of AI in information systems. Ensuring data privacy, addressing bias in algorithms, and maintaining transparency are vital aspects that need to be carefully managed and regulated to foster trust and accountability. In addition to offering an exciting scientific program, CAiSE’24 will feature a best paper award, a journal special issue, and a PhD-thesis award: • Best Paper Award‚ prize EUR 1000 (sponsored by Springer) • A small selection of best papers will be invited to submit enhanced versions for consideration in a special issue of Elsevier Information Systems journal dedicated to this conference. • PhD-Thesis Award • Best PhD thesis of a past CAiSE Doctoral Consortium author (co-sponsored by the CAiSE Steering Committee and Springer) Papers should be submitted in PDF format. Submissions must conform to Springer‚ LNCS format and should not exceed 15 pages, including all text, figures, references, and appendices. Submissions not conforming to the LNCS format, exceeding 15 pages, or being obviously out of the scope of the conference, will be rejected without review. See the guidelines here: https://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/authors.html . The results described must be unpublished and must not be under review elsewhere. Three to five keywords characterizing the paper should be listed at the end of the abstract. Each paper will be reviewed by at least two program committee members and, if positively evaluated, by one additional program board member. The selected papers will be discussed among the paper reviewers online and during the program board meeting. As the review process is not blind, please indicate your name and affiliation on your submission. Accepted papers will be presented at CAiSE’24 and published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) conference proceedings. We invite three types of original and scientific papers. The type of submission must be indicated in the submission system. Each contribution should explicitly address the engineering or the operation of information systems, clearly identify the information systems problem addressed, the expected impact of the contribution to information system engineering or operation, and the research method used. We strongly advise authors to clearly emphasize these aspects in their paper, including the abstract. Technical papers describe original solutions (theoretical, methodological or conceptual) in the field of IS Engineering. A technical paper should clearly describe the situation or problem tackled, the relevant state of the art, the position or solution suggested and its potential‚ as well as demonstrate the benefits of the contribution through a rigorous evaluation. Empirical papers evaluate existing problem situations including problems encountered in practice, or validate proposed solutions with scientific means, i.e., by empirical studies, experiments, case studies, experience reports, simulations, etc. Scientific reflection on problems and practices in industry also falls into this category. The topic of the evaluation presented in the paper as well as its causal or logical properties must be clearly stated. The research method must be sound and appropriate. Exploratory papers describe completely new research positions or approaches, in order to face a generic situation arising because of new ICT tools, new kinds of activities, or new IS challenges. They must precisely describe the situation and demonstrate why current methods, tools, ways of reasoning, or meta-models are inadequate. They must also rigorously present their approach and demonstrate its pertinence and correctness in addressing the identified situation. The topics of contribution include but are not limited to: • Novel Approaches to IS Engineering ◦ Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning ◦ Robotic Process Automation (RPA) ◦ Big Data, Data Science and Analytics ◦ Blockchain applications in IS ◦ Simulation and Digital Twins  ◦ IS for collaboration and social computing  ◦ Virtual reality / Augmented Reality ◦ Context-aware, autonomous and adaptive IS • Models, Methods and Techniques in IS Engineering ◦ Ontologies and Ontology Engineering ◦ Conceptual modeling, languages and design ◦ Requirements engineering ◦ Process modeling, analysis and improvement ◦ Process automation, mining and monitoring ◦ Models and methods for evolution and reuse ◦ Domain and method engineering ◦ Product lines, variability and configuration management ◦ Compliance and alignment handling ◦ Active and interactive models ◦ Quality of IS models for analysis and design ◦ Visualization techniques in IS ◦ Decision models and business intelligence ◦ Knowledge graphs ◦ Human-centered techniques • Architectures and Platforms for IS Engineering ◦ Distributed, mobile and open architecture ◦ Big Data architectures ◦ Cloud- and edge-based IS engineering ◦ Service oriented and multi-agent IS engineering ◦ Multi-platform IS engineering ◦ Cyber-physical systems and Internet of Things (IoT) ◦ Workflow and Process Aware Information Systems (PAIS) ◦ Handling of real time data streams ◦ Content management and semantic Web ◦ Crowdsourcing platforms ◦ Conversational agents (chatbots) ◦ Microservices design and deployment • Domain-specific and Multi-aspect IS Engineering ◦ IT governance ◦ eGovernment ◦ Autonomous and smart systems (smart city management, smart vehicles, etc.) ◦ IS for healthcare ◦ Educational Systems and Learning Analytics ◦ Value and supply chain management ◦ Industry 4.0 ◦ Sustainability and social responsibility management ◦ Privacy, security, trust, and safety management ◦ IS in the post-COVID world Submit your paper using the Easy Chair link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=caise2024 . IMPORTANT DATES • Abstract Submission: 1st December 2023 (AoE, extended and firm) • Paper Submission: 8th December 2023 (AoE, extended and firm) • Notification of Acceptance: 23rd February 2024 • Camera-ready Papers: 5th April 2024 • Author registration: 5th April 2024 ORGANISATION General Chairs • Haris Mouratidis, University of Essex, UK • Pnina Soffer, University of Haifa, Israel Local Organizing and Finance Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs • Giancarlo Guizzardi, University of Twente, The Netherlands • Flavia Maria Santoro, University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Other Committee Members https://cyprusconferences.org/caise2024/committees/

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SEPLN: Deadline extension from 1st to 15th December
by aitziber.atucha＠ehu.eus 29 Nov '23

29 Nov '23

[Spanish version below] Please consider contributing and/or forwarding to appropriate colleagues and groups. *******We apologize for the multiple copies of this e-mail****** SEPLN: CFP Deadline extension from 1st to 15th December for the issue 72 of the Journal Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural http://www.sepln.org/en/journal http://www.sepln.org/en/journal/author-guidelines Introduction The aim of the journal Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural is to provide a forum for the publication of scientific-technical articles in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), for both the national and international scientific community. The articles must be unpublished and cannot be simultaneously submitted for publication in other journals or conference proceedings. The journal also aims to promote the development of areas related to NLP, disseminate research carried out, identify future guidelines for basic research, and present software applications in this field. Every year the Sociedad Española de Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (SEPLN) (Spanish Society for the Natural Language Processing) publishes two issues of the journal, including original articles, presentations of R&D projects, book reviews and summaries of PhD theses. The scientific quality of the Journal is supported by the 2022 JCR index (JCI: 0.31, Q4-Linguistics - ESCI), the SCImago Journal Ranking (2022 SJR: 0.421, Q3-Computer Science Applications, Q1-Linguistics and Language), the Scopus Index (2022 CiteScore: 2.9, Q3-Computer Science Applications, Q1-Linguistics and Language) and the index SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper) with 0.93 points. More information at: http://www.sepln.org/en/journal/quality. Topics Linguistic, mathematical and psycholinguistic models of language Machine learning in NLP Computational lexicography and terminology Corpus linguistics Development of linguistic resources and tools Grammars and formalisms for morphological and syntactic analysis Semantics, pragmatics and discourse Word sense disambiguation Monolingual and multilingual text generation Machine translation Knowledge and common sense Multimodality Speech synthesis and recognition Dialogue systems and interactive systems/ Conversational assistants Audio indexing and retrieval Monolingual and multilingual information extraction and retrieval Question answering systems Evaluation of NLP systems Automatic textual content analysis Sentiment analysis, opinion mining and argument mining Plagiarism detection Negation and speculation processing Text mining in blogosphere and social networks Text summarization Text simplification Image retrieval NLP in biomedical domain NLP-based generation of teaching resources NLP for languages with limited resources NLP industrial applications Low-resource NLP tasks, data augmentation Submission Information The proposal must be submitted by December 15th, 2023 and must meet certain format and style requirements. All submissions must be in PDF format and submitted electronically using the Myreview system available at: http://myreview.sepln.org/myreview-sepln72 Submitted papers will be subjected to a blind review by at least three members of the program committee. Categories of papers Regular papers with original contributions. Summary of PhD thesis. Information for Authors The proposals can be written in Spanish or English and should be at most 10 A4-size pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references, and 4 pages maximum for summaries of PhD theses. The papers must include the following sections: The title of the communication (in English and Spanish). An abstract in English and Spanish (maximum 150 words). A list of keywords or related topics (in English and Spanish). The documents must not include headers or footers. As reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the authors’ names and affiliation. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author’s identity should be avoided. The articles should only include the title, the abstract, the keywords and the proposal. We recommend using the LaTeX and Word templates that can be downloaded from the SEPLN web (author guidelines have been updated): http://www.sepln.org/index.php/en/journal/author-guidelines Note on camera ready The final version of the paper (camera ready) should be submitted together with a cover letter explaining how the suggestions of the reviewers were implemented in the final version. This cover letter will be considered in order to accept or finally reject the selected paper. Preprint policy The Journal allows the publication of preprints (non-refereed paper posted online, such as ArXiv) anytime, but during the review period the preprint must indicate that the paper it is “under review” in the Journal Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural. Likewise, if the paper is accepted, the preprint must be updated with the DOI, name of the Journal and the bibliographic information of the paper. Important dates Submission deadline: 15th December 2023 Notification of acceptance: 5th February 2024 Camera ready: 12th February 2024 Publication: March 2024 Contact person: Aitziber Atutxa (aitziber.atucha(a)ehu.eus) Editorial Committee of the Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***********Disculpen si reciben varias copias de este mensaje ************ Por favor, si lo considera oportuno, distribuya este llamamiento entre sus colegas. SEPLN: Extensión de entrega del 1 al 15 de Diciembre de artículos para la revista Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural nº 72. http://www.sepln.org/la-revista http://www.sepln.org/la-revista/informacion-para-autores Objetivos de la revista La revista Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural es un foro de publicación de artículos científico-técnicos en el ámbito del Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (PLN), tanto para la comunidad científica nacional como internacional. Los artículos tienen que ser inéditos y no haber sido postulados para ser publicados simultáneamente en otras revistas o actas de congresos. La revista quiere potenciar el desarrollo de las diferentes áreas relacionadas con el PLN, mejorar la divulgación de las investigaciones que se llevan a cabo, identificar las futuras directrices de la investigación básica y mostrar las posibilidades reales de aplicación en este campo. Anualmente la SEPLN (Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural) publica dos números de la revista, que incluyen artículos originales, presentaciones de proyectos, reseñas bibliográficas y resúmenes de tesis doctorales. La calidad científica de la Revista está respaldada por el índice del JCR 2022 (JCI: 0,31, Q4-Linguistics - ESCI), el índice SCImago Journal Ranking (SJR: 0,421, Q3-Computer Science Applications, Q1-Linguistics and Language), el índice de Scopus (CiteScore: 2,9, Q3-Computer Science Applications, Q1-Linguistics and Language) y el índice SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper) con 0,93 puntos. Más información en http://www.sepln.org/la-revista/calidad. Áreas temáticas Modelos de lenguaje matemáticos y psicolingüísticos Aprendizaje automático en PLN Lexicografía y terminología computacional Lingüística de corpus Desarrollo de recursos y herramientas lingüísticas Gramáticas y formalismos para análisis morfológico y sintáctico Semántica, pragmática y discurso Resolución de ambigüedad léxico-semántica Generación de texto monolingüe y multilingüe Traducción automática Multimodalidad Reconocimiento y síntesis de habla Sistemas de diálogo/ asistentes conversacionales Auto-indexación Recuperación y extracción de información monolingüe y multilingüe Sistemas de búsqueda de respuestas Evaluación de sistemas de PLN Análisis automático de contenido textual Análisis de sentimiento y minería de opiniones Detección de plagio Procesamiento de la negación y la especulación Minería de texto en la blogosfera y las redes sociales Resumen automático de texto Simplificación de texto Recuperación de imágenes Conocimiento y sentido común PLN en el ámbito biomédico Generación de recursos didácticos basada en PLN PLN para lenguas con recursos limitados Aplicaciones industriales del PLN Tratamiento del Lenguaje Hablado Envío de trabajos Las propuestas de trabajos (artículos y resúmenes de tesis) podrán ser enviadas hasta la fecha límite del 15 de diciembre de 2023. El envío y la revisión de las propuestas se realizarán exclusivamente en formato PDF y se gestionarán a través del sistema Myreview: http://myreview.sepln.org/myreview-sepln72. La evaluación de los trabajos pasará por un proceso de revisión ciego realizado como mínimo por tres miembros del consejo asesor de la SEPLN. Tipos de trabajos Artículos sobre contribuciones originales. Reseñas de tesis doctorales. Instrucciones para los Autores Los trabajos pueden estar escritos en español o en inglés y su longitud máxima será de 10 páginas de contenido más un número ilimitado de páginas de referencias para los artículos científicos, y de un máximo de 4 páginas para los resúmenes de tesis. Las propuestas deben contener los siguientes apartados: El título del artículo (en español e inglés). Un resumen en español y un abstract en inglés de un máximo de 150 palabras. Un listado de temas relacionados o palabras clave (en español e inglés). Los documentos no podrán incluir cabeceras ni pies de página. Como la fase de revisión de los trabajos es ciega, en los artículos que se envíen no se debe incluir ninguna referencia a los autores ni referencias propias que revelen la identidad de los mismos. Todas las contribuciones deben contener únicamente el título, el resumen, las palabras claves y la propuesta. En el caso de los resúmenes de tesis, el anonimato no es necesario. Los trabajos deben seguir el formato de las revistas de la SEPLN disponible en la siguiente dirección: http://www.sepln.org/la-revista/informacion-para-autores Las guías se han actualizado, por favor, utilicen las que están disponibles en la página web de la revista. Nota sobre la versión final La versión final del trabajo (camera ready) debe enviarse con un documento en el que se explique cómo se han implementado las sugerencias de los revisores. Dicho documento se tendrá en cuenta para aceptar o rechazar el trabajo en cuestión. Política de prepublicación La revista permite publicar una versión no revisada de los artículos en plataformas de prepublicación (plataformas de artículos no evaluados como ArXiv). Sin embargo, durante el periodo de revisión se debe indicar que el artículo está “en revisión” en la revista Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural. Si el artículo es aceptado, se debe actualizar la publicación en la plataforma de prepublicación con el DOI, nombre de la revista y la información bibliográfica del artículo. Fechas importantes Envío de trabajos: 15 de diciembre de 2023 Notificación de aceptación o rechazo: 5 de febrero de 2024 Versión final: 12 de febrero de 2024 Publicación: Marzo de 2024 Persona de contacto:Aitziber Atutxa (aitziber.atucha(a)ehu.eus) Consejo de redacción de la revista Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural.

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NBME Summer Internships in Psychometrics and Data Science
by Christopher Runyon 28 Nov '23

28 Nov '23

NBME (National Board of Medical Examiners) Summer 2024 Internships in Psychometrics and Data Science June 3 - July 26, 2024 NBME invites applications for multiple full-time internship positions, all fully remote, for the Summer of 2024 (June 3 - July 26, 2024). Interns will interact with NBME staff and other graduate students and present completed projects or work-in-progress to NBME staff. The expected deliverables from the summer internship project are an internal research presentation, a conference submission/presentation (ACL, AERA, NCME, AAMC, etc.), and/or a paper submitted for publication. The application deadline is Wednesday, January 31, 2024, at midnight PST. More details can be found here: https://nbme.applicantpro.com/jobs/3142558<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/nbme.applicantpro.com/jobs/3142558__;!!P…>. Compensation The pay is $45 an hour. Total stipend for full-time interns (35 hours per week) is $12,600. In addition, NBME will provide up to $1000 toward attending a conference for interns; this is not conditional on presenting at the conference. If you have any questions or need additional information, please contact Chris Runyon: CRunyon(a)nbme.org<mailto:CRunyon@nbme.org> This email message and any attachments may contain privileged and/or confidential business information and are for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message and any attachments.

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Reader (~Associate Professor) in AI at the University of Wolverhampton
by Ingo Frommholz 28 Nov '23

28 Nov '23

The University of Wolverhampton (UOW) in the UK is hiring a Reader (Associate Professor equivalent) in Artificial Intelligence (AI). An exciting opportunity has arisen to join UOW as a Reader in Artificial Intelligence. The School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematical Sciences is a large interdisciplinary centre for education, research, and enterprise. We are looking for an experienced researcher to help lead, drive, and advance research and knowledge exchange activities in Artificial Intelligence. This job is a permanent position. Further information and the application form can be found at https://jobs.wlv.ac.uk/vacancy/reader-in-artificial-intelligence-541125.html. -- 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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