December 2023 - Corpora

NLP4CALL 2023 Final call for papers
by David Alfter 18 Mar '24

18 Mar '24

== 12th NLP4CALL, Tórshavn, Faroe Islands== The workshop series on Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (NLP4CALL) is a meeting place for researchers working on the integration of Natural Language Processing and Speech Technologies in CALL systems and exploring the theoretical and methodological issues arising in this connection. The latter includes, among others, insights from Second Language Acquisition (SLA) research, on the one hand, and promote development of “Computational SLA” through setting up Second Language research infrastructure(s), on the other. The intersection of Natural Language Processing (or Language Technology / Computational Linguistics) and Speech Technology with Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) brings “understanding” of language to CALL tools, thus making CALL intelligent. This fact has given the name for this area of research – Intelligent CALL, ICALL. As the definition suggests, apart from having excellent knowledge of Natural Language Processing and/or Speech Technology, ICALL researchers need good insights into second language acquisition theories and practices, as well as knowledge of second language pedagogy and didactics. This workshop invites therefore a wide range of ICALL-relevant research, including studies where NLP-enriched tools are used for testing SLA and pedagogical theories, and vice versa, where SLA theories, pedagogical practices or empirical data are modeled in ICALL tools. The NLP4CALL workshop series is aimed at bringing together competences from these areas for sharing experiences and brainstorming around the future of the field. We welcome papers: - that describe research directly aimed at ICALL; - that demonstrate actual or discuss the potential use of existing Language and Speech Technologies or resources for language learning; - that describe the ongoing development of resources and tools with potential usage in ICALL, either directly in interactive applications, or indirectly in materials, application or curriculum development, e.g. learning material generation, assessment of learner texts and responses, individualized learning solutions, provision of feedback; - that discuss challenges and/or research agenda for ICALL - that describe empirical studies on language learner data. This year a special focus is given to work done on error detection/correction and feedback generation. We encourage paper presentations and software demonstrations describing the above- mentioned themes primarily, but not exclusively, for the Nordic languages. ==Shared task== NEW for this year is the MultiGED shared task on token-level error detection for L2 Czech, English, German, Italian and Swedish, organized by the Computational SLA working group. For more information, please see the Shared Task website: https://github.com/spraakbanken/multiged-2023 ==Invited speakers== This year, we have the pleasure to announce two invited talks. The first talk is given by Marije Michel from the University of Amsterdam. The second talk is given by Pierre Lison from the Norwegian Computing Center. ==Submission information== Authors are invited to submit long papers (8-12 pages) alternatively short papers (4-7 pages), page count not including references. We will be using the NLP4CALL template for the workshop this year. The author kit can be accessed here, alternatively on Overleaf: <https://spraakbanken.gu.se/sites/default/files/2023/NLP4CALL%20workshop%20t…> <https://spraakbanken.gu.se/sites/default/files/2023/nlp4call%20template.doc> <https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/nlp4call-workshop-template/qqqzqqy…> Submissions will be managed through the electronic conference management system EasyChair <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nlp4call2023>. Papers must be submitted digitally through the conference management system, in PDF format. Final camera-ready versions of accepted papers will be given an additional page to address reviewer comments. Papers should describe original unpublished work or work-in-progress. Papers will be peer reviewed by at least two members of the program committee in a double-blind fashion. All accepted papers will be collected into a proceedings volume to be submitted for publication in the NEALT Proceeding Series (Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings) and, additionally, double-published through the ACL anthology, following experiences from the previous NLP4CALL editions (<https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/venues/nlp4call/>). ==Important dates== 03 April 2023: paper submission deadline 21 April 2023: notification of acceptance 01 May 2023: camera-ready papers for publication 22 May 2023: workshop date ==Organizers== David Alfter (1), Elena Volodina (2), Thomas François (3), Arne Jönsson (4), Evelina Rennes (4) (1) Gothenburg Research Infrastructure for Digital Humanities, Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion, University of Gothenburg, Sweden (2) Språkbanken, Department of Swedish, Multilingualism, Language Technology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden (3) CENTAL, Institute for Language and Communication, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium (4) Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköping University, Sweden ==Contact== For any questions, please contact David Alfter, david.alfter(a)gu.se For further information, see the workshop website <https://spraakbanken.gu.se/en/research/themes/icall/nlp4call-workshop-serie…> Follow us on Twitter @NLP4CALL <https://twitter.com/NLP4CALL/>

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second call for papers: eacl 2024 SRW
by Neele Falk 07 Mar '24

07 Mar '24

** *SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS: EACL 2024 STUDENT RESEARCH WORKSHOP * * Student Research Workshop co-located with EACL 2024 in St. Julians, Malta. Workshop Dates: March 21/22 2024 ***Paper Submission Deadline: December 18, 2023 (Direct) and January 17, 2024 (through ARR)*** ** About the Student Research Workshop ** The EACL 2024 Student Research Workshop (SRW) is a forum to bring together students investigating various areas of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing. The workshop provides an excellent opportunity for participants to present their work and to receive mentorship and valuable feedback from the international research community. The workshop's goal is to aid students at multiple stages of their education, including undergraduate, MSc/MA, junior and senior PhD students, in getting familiar with conducting and presenting their research. General Invitation for Submission* We invite papers in two different categories: * ** * Thesis Proposals: This category is appropriate for PhD students who have decided on a thesis topic and wish to get feedback on their proposal and broader ideas for their continuing work. * Research Papers: Papers in this category can describe completed work, or work in progress with preliminary results. For these papers, the first author **MUST BE** a current student (graduate or undergraduate). Topics of interest for the SRW are the same as for the main EACL 2024 conference:<https://www.2022.aclweb.org/calls>https://2024.eacl.org/calls/papers/ <https://2024.eacl.org/calls/papers/> We are opening a unique opportunity for the submission of research papers that, while not accepted to the EACL main conference, align well with the themes of this workshop. To be eligible for submission, the first author must be a current student. Additionally, submissions should be complemented with the reviews from ARR to provide context and insights for evaluation. The submission deadline for this will be January 17, 2024. Why Submit to EACL SRW? * Mentorship program: EACL SRW provides a unique opportunity for students to receive constructive feedback and advise from more senior researchers through our on-site mentorship program. * Improving your publication record: Publishing a paper as an undergraduate or as a MSc/MA student is beneficial when applying for a PhD program. Publishing a paper in an EACL SRW workshop can be really helpful for improving students’ publication records. * Negative results: we encourage the submission of studies with negative results providing insights on why and in which scenarios a particular method fails. All accepted papers and thesis proposals will be presented in the main conference poster sessions, which will give students an opportunity to interact with and to present their work to a large and diverse audience, including top researchers in the field and assigned mentors.** *Important Dates* **** * Direct Workshop paper submission: December 18, 2023 * Pre-reviewed ARR paper submission: January 17, 2024 * Notification of acceptance: January 20, 2024 * Camera-ready deadline: January 30 2024 * Workshop dates: March 21-22, 2024 All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth"). ** Submission Requirements ** We accept both archival submissions (which will be included in the conference proceedings) and non-archival submissions (which will be presented at the workshop but will not be included in the proceedings). ** The archival submissions must follow the anonymity period and the restrictions of the main conference. Short papersconsist of up to four (4) pages of content, plus unlimited references. Upon acceptance, they will be given five (5) content pages in the proceedings. Long papersconsist of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus unlimited references. Upon acceptance, they will be given nine (9) content pages in the proceedings. Thesis proposalsconsist of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus unlimited references. The title must begin with “Thesis Proposal:”. Upon acceptance, they will be given nine (9) content pages in the proceedings. We strongly recommend the use of the official ARR style templates. The paper templates are available as an Overleaf template and can also be downloaded directly (LaTeX and Word) via https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp <https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp>under 'Paper Submission and Templates'. All submissions must be in PDF format. Submissions that do not adhere to the above author guidelines or ACL policies will be rejected without review. Submission is electronic, using the OpenReview conference management. The submission link is available here: https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2024/Workshop/SRW <https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2024/Workshop/SRW> Grants We expect to have grants to offset some portion of students' travel, conference registration, and accommodation expenses. Further details will be posted on the SRW website. To contact the organizers of the workshop, please email us at: eaclsrw(a)gmail.com Website and Contact Information For more information, please visit https://sites.google.com/view/eacl2024srw <https://sites.google.com/view/eacl2024srw>and follow us on Twitter @eacl_srw. To contact the organizers of the workshop, please email us at eaclsrw(a)gmail.com*

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[3rd CfP]: CALD-pseudo workshop @ EACL 2024
by Elena Volodina 29 Feb '24

29 Feb '24

Third Call for Papers: CALD-pseudo workshop on Computational Approaches to Language Data Pseudonymization @ EACL 2024, March 21 or 22, 2024 Website: https://mormor-karl.github.io/events/CALD-pseudo/ Submission website: https://softconf.com/eacl2024/CALD-pseudo-2024/ Submission Deadline: Monday, 18 December 2023 (anywhere on earth) We invite submissions to the first edition of the CALD-pseudo workshop on Computational Approaches to Language Data Pseudonymization, to be held at EACL 2024 on March 21 or 22, 2024. [Important Dates] * December 18, 2023: paper submission deadline * January 17, 2024: resubmission of already pre-reviewed ARR papers * January 20, 2024: notification of acceptance * January, 30 2024: camera-ready papers due * March 21 or 22, 2024: workshop date (the date to be confirmed by the EACL) [Introduction] Accessibility of research data is critical for advances in many research fields, but textual data often cannot be shared due to the personal and sensitive information which it contains, e.g names, political opinions, sensitive personal information and medical data. General Data Protection Regulation, GDPR (EU Commission, 2016), suggests pseudonymization as a solution to secure open access to research data but we need to learn more about pseudonymization as an approach before adopting it for manipulation of research data (Volodina et al., 2023). The main challenge is how to effectively pseudonymize data so that individuals cannot be identified, while at the same time keeping the data usable for research in, among others, computational linguistics, linguistics and natural language processing, for which it was collected. [Topics of Interest] CALD-pseudo workshop invites a broad community of researchers in all concerned cross-disciplinary fields to jointly discuss challenges within pseudonymization, such as * automatic approaches to detection and labelling of personal information in unstructured language data, including events and other context-dependent cues revealing a person; * developing context-sensitive algorithms for replacement of personal information in unstructured data; * studies into the effects of pseudonymization on unstructured data, e.g. applicability of pseudonymised data for the intended research questions, readability of pseudonymised data or addition of unwelcome biases through pseudonymization; * effectiveness of pseudonymization as a way of protecting writer identity; * reidentification studies; e.g. adversarial learning techniques that attempt to breach the privacy protections of pseudonymized data; * constructing datasets for automatic pseudonymization, including methodological and ethical aspects of those; * approaches to the evaluation of automatic pseudonymization both in concealing the private information and preserving the semantics of the non-personal data; * pseudonymization tools and software: evaluating the available tools and software for pseudonymization in different languages, and their ease of use, scalability, and performance; * and numerous other open questions. [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, must follow the EACL 2024 guidelines described in the ARR CfP (https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp), and use the official ACL style templates available here: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files Direct submission deadline: December 18, 2023 at https://softconf.com/eacl2024/CALD-pseudo-2024/ Deadline for registration of ARR reviewed papers: January 17, 2023. (Further instructions will follow.) We also invite authors of papers on the topics of the workshop accepted to Findings to reach out to the organizing committee of CALD-pseudo to present them at the workshop. [Invited speakers] We are happy to announce that the workshop will host two invited speakers: * Anders Søgaard, University of Copenhagen, Denmark * Ildikó Pilán, the Norwegian Computing Center, Norway [Workshop Organizers] * Elena Volodina, University of Gothenburg, Sweden * Therese Lindström Tiedemann, University of Helsinki, Finland * Simon Dobnik, University of Gothenburg, Sweden * Xuan-Son Vu, Umeå university, Sweden [Program Committee] A list of program committee members is available on the workshop website. [Contact] For inquiries, please contact mormor.karl(a)svenska.gu.se ACL link to the call: https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/computational-approaches-language-dat… ___________________ Elena Volodina, PhD, Docent https://spraakbanken.gu.se/en/about/staff/elena Life is like a mirror. Smile at it and it smiles back at you. Peace Pilgrim

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Open Positions in the Newly Established Bamberg NLP Research Group
by Roman Klinger 14 Feb '24

14 Feb '24

I will start a new research group on natural language processing as part of the Bamberg AI Center (https://www.uni-bamberg.de/en/bacai/). There are currently four open positions: We do fundamental NLP research at the intersection to computational psychology, digital humanities, and computational social sciences. We have currently four positions open (deadline February 28, 2024): 1. Postdoc, Open Topic (3 years) 2. PhD student in interactive prompt optimization (3 years) 3. Researcher in event-centered emotion analysis (1 year) 4. Researcher in multimodal emotion analysis (1 year) Position 3+4 can be combined to have a 2-year position. Please find more details at https://www.bamnlp.de/openpositions/ Do not hesitate to contact me, if you have questions! Roman Klinger

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1st CfP: Asia Pacific Journal of Corpus Research (APJCR) Vol. 4, No. 2 (Deadline: 15 October 2023)
by Prof CK Jung 21 Jan '24

21 Jan '24

[Apologies for cross-posting] Dear colleagues We are inviting submissions for the next issue of Asia Pacific Journal of Corpus Research, to appear on 31 December 2023. *ABOUT*The Asia Pacific Journal of Corpus Research (APJCR, e-ISSN 2733-8096, DOI: https://doi.org/10.22925/apjcr) is an international and interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal intended to explore corpus research in the Asia Pacific region. APJCR addresses areas of methodological, applied and theoretical work in the field of corpus research. Examples of such include discourse analysis, lexical studies, grammatical studies, language acquisition, language learning, language education, lexicography, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, (machine) translation studies, (digital) literary studies, computational linguistics, speech, phonetics, deep learning and natural language understanding in conjunction with corpus. *NO ARTICLE PROCESS CHARGE*APJCR does not charge authors an Article Processing Fee (APF). *OPEN ACCESS POLICY*APJCR provides open access to its content under the principle in the academic field that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. *SUBMISSION* Papers (in English or Korean) should be sent to *apjcreditor(a)icr.or.kr <apjcreditor(a)icr.or.kr>* *Full instruction can be found on http://icr.or.kr/apjcr <http://icr.or.kr/apjcr>* *IMPORTANT DATES*- Manuscript submission: 15 October 2023 - First decision (articles assessed by editors): October 2023 - Final decision: November 2023 - Production: December 2023 - Online publication: 31 December 2023 *APJCR ARCHIVE*- Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.kr/scholar?hl=ko&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=apjcr&btnG= - KoreaScience: http://koreascience.or.kr/journal/CPSOBX/v1n1.page *ENQUIRIES* help(a)icr.or.kr --- *CK Jung BEng(Hons) Birmingham MSc Warwick EdD Warwick Cert Oxford* Associate Professor | Department of English Language and Literature, Incheon National University, *South Korea* President | The Korea Association of Secondary English Education, *South Korea *(http://kasee.org) Vice President | The Korea Association of Primary English Education), *South Korea *(http://kapee.or.kr) Director | Institute for Corpus Research, Incheon National University, *South Korea* (http://icr.or.kr) Editor-in-Chief | Asia Pacific Journal of Corpus Research, ICR, *International* (http://icr.or.kr/apjcr) Editorial Board | Corpora, Edinburgh University Press, *UK* Editorial Board | English Today, Cambridge University Press, *UK* E: ckjung(a)inu.ac.kr / T: +82 (0)32 835 8129

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Call for ARR Commitment WNUT 2023
by rob van der goot 17 Jan '24

17 Jan '24

Dear colleagues, The 9th Workshop on Noisy and User-generated Text is welcoming paper commitments from ARR. More info on the workshop:http://noisy-text.github.io ARR commitment link:https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2024/Workshop/WNUT_ARR_C… Our ARR commitment deadline is January 17th anywhere on earth, so you can also commit EACL submissions after rejection. Best, Rob

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1st CfP: Special Session on Emergent Phenomena in Deep Representations and Large Language Models @IJCNN 2024 & IEEE WCCI 2024
by Ozge Alacam 16 Jan '24

16 Jan '24

Apologies for cross-posting ------------------------------------------------------ Dear colleagues, We invite you to submit to the special session on “Emergent Phenomena in Deep Representations and Large Language Models” as a part of IJCNN 2024 and IEEE WCCI 2024, which will be located in Yokohama, Japan. We are looking forward to your contributions. Please find the CfP below. Best wishes, On behalf of Organising Committee Özge Alacam ------------------------------------------------------ First Call for Papers: Special Session on Emergent Phenomena in Deep Representations and Large Language Models @IJCNN 2024 & IEEE WCCI 2024: Deep learning models trained on large datasets have shown spectacular performance in a wide range of tasks demonstrated by current applications of Large Language Models. However, recent works have shown that the abilities large machine learning models acquire often emerge unpredictably with increasing model complexity or training dataset size. These emergent phenomena include the unexpected appearance of abilities for which the model was not explicitly trained, but they might also be related to unexpected performance boosts due to the increased model complexity. Emergent phenomena are not always beneficial: larger models may pick up new biases from the training data or start hallucinating. To move towards increasingly sustainable, reliable, and explainable applications of AI systems, it is necessary to increase the understanding of the mechanisms surrounding emergent phenomena. Moreover, this effort provides increased insight into the learning process behind the acquisition of abilities of large models to perform specific tasks. Important research questions relate to the definition of emergent phenomena, their causes (what controls which abilities are acquired and when?), training efficiency, and training data quality (e.g., acquiring desired abilities with less computational effort), prompting strategies to get or test for desired model behaviour (e.g., a chain of thought), and further verification methods of model abilities and properties. The primary goal of this special session is (i) to discuss the emergent abilities and risks in deep neural networks and representations from very different angles and (ii) facilitate networking and encourage collaboration between various research fields that approach this issue from different perspectives, like computational linguistics, ethics in AI, computer science, physics, etc. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • The definition of emergence in the context of NLP and ML • Prompting strategies • Physics-based/inspired analyses (e.g. phase transitions in ML models) • Explainability and interpretability (XAI) • Evaluation measures for model ability, monitoring strategies, assessment of model abilities (e.g. technical or psychology-based) • Knowledge distillation, model pruning, energy-efficient models. • Mitigation strategies for emergent risks and model deterioration. • Fine-tuning and Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) • Papers focusing on specific emergent phenomena (reasoning, creativity, double descent phenomena etc.) The website for the call for papers is accessible at https://sites.google.com/view/emergenn/call-for-papers Organising Committee: ------------------------------ • Dr. Özge Alacam (Ludwig-Maximilian University & Uni Bielefeld, Germany) • Dr. Michiel Straat (Uni Bielefeld, Germany) • Prof. Dr. Hinrich Schütze (Ludwig-Maximilian University, Germany) • Prof. Dr. Alessandro Sperduti (University of Padova, Italy) Important Dates: ------------------------------ • January 15, 2024 - Paper Submission Deadline • March 15, 2024 - Notification of Acceptance • May 1, 2024 - Camera-ready Deadline & Early Registration Deadline • June 30 - July 5, 2024 - Main Conference (IEEE WCCI 2024, Yokohama, Japan) * All deadlines are 11:59 PM UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth") Submission Format and Platform: ------------------------------ • Submissions will be through the IEEE WCCI 2024 Submission page <https://edas.info/login.php?rurl=aHR0cHM6Ly9lZGFzLmluZm8vTjMxNjE0P2M9MzE2MT…>. • Each paper is limited to 8 pages, including figures, tables, and references. Please refer to the author guidelines provided by IEEE WCCI 2024 • Please specify during the submission that your paper is intended for the Special Session: Emergent Phenomena in Deep Representations and Large Language Models. • Special session webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/emergenn/call-for-papers • IEEE WCCI 2024 webpage: https://2024.ieeewcci.org/ Contact information: ------------------------------ • Özge Alacam : oezge.alacam(a)uni-bielefeld.de • Michiel Straat : mstraat(a)techfak.uni-bielefeld.de

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[2nd CfP]: Computational Approaches to Language Data Pseudonymization @ EACL 2024
by Elena Volodina 14 Jan '24

14 Jan '24

Second Call for papers: CALD-pseudo workshop on Computational Approaches to Language Data Pseudonymization @ EACL 2024, March 21 or 22, 2024 Website: https://mormor-karl.github.io/events/CALD-pseudo/ Submission website: https://softconf.com/eacl2024/CALD-pseudo-2024/ Submission Deadline: Monday, 18 December 2023 We invite submissions to the first edition of the CALD-pseudo workshop on Computational Approaches to Language Data Pseudonymization, to be held at EACL 2024 on March 21 or 22, 2024. [Important Dates] * December 18, 2023: paper submission deadline * January 17, 2024: resubmission of already pre-reviewed ARR papers * January 20, 2024: notification of acceptance * January, 30 2024: camera-ready papers due * March 21 or 22, 2024: workshop date (the date to be confirmed by the EACL) [Introduction] Accessibility of research data is critical for advances in many research fields, but textual data often cannot be shared due to the personal and sensitive information which it contains, e.g names, political opinions, sensitive personal information and medical data. General Data Protection Regulation, GDPR (EU Commission, 2016), suggests pseudonymization as a solution to secure open access to research data but we need to learn more about pseudonymization as an approach before adopting it for manipulation of research data (Volodina et al., 2023). The main challenge is how to effectively pseudonymize data so that individuals cannot be identified, while at the same time keeping the data usable for research in, among others, computational linguistics, linguistics and natural language processing, for which it was collected. [Topics of Interest] CALD-pseudo workshop invites a broad community of researchers in all concerned cross-disciplinary fields to jointly discuss challenges within pseudonymization, such as * automatic approaches to detection and labelling of personal information in unstructured language data, including events and other context-dependent cues revealing a person; * developing context-sensitive algorithms for replacement of personal information in unstructured data; * studies into the effects of pseudonymization on unstructured data, e.g. applicability of pseudonymised data for the intended research questions, readability of pseudonymised data or addition of unwelcome biases through pseudonymization; * effectiveness of pseudonymization as a way of protecting writer identity; * reidentification studies; e.g. adversarial learning techniques that attempt to breach the privacy protections of pseudonymized data; * constructing datasets for automatic pseudonymization, including methodological and ethical aspects of those; * approaches to the evaluation of automatic pseudonymization both in concealing the private information and preserving the semantics of the non-personal data; * pseudonymization tools and software: evaluating the available tools and software for pseudonymization in different languages, and their ease of use, scalability, and performance; * and numerous other open questions. [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, must follow the EACL 2024 guidelines described in the ARR CfP (https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp), and use the official ACL style templates available here: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files Direct submission deadline: December 18, 2023 at https://softconf.com/eacl2024/CALD-pseudo-2024/ Deadline for registration of ARR reviewed papers: January 17, 2023. (Further instructions will follow.) We also invite authors of papers on the topics of the workshop accepted to Findings to reach out to the organizing committee of CALD-pseudo to present them at the workshop. [Invited speakers] We are happy to announce that the workshop will host two invited speakers: * Anders Søgaard, University of Copenhagen, Denmark * Ildikó Pilán, the Norwegian Computing Center, Norway [Workshop Organizers] * Elena Volodina, University of Gothenburg, Sweden * Therese Lindström Tiedemann, University of Helsinki, Finland * Simon Dobnik, University of Gothenburg, Sweden * Xuan-Son Vu, Umeå university, Sweden [Program Committee] A list of program committee members is available on the workshop website. [Contact] For inquiries, please contact mormor.karl(a)svenska.gu.se ACL link to the call: https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/computational-approaches-language-dat… ___________________ Elena Volodina, PhD, Docent https://spraakbanken.gu.se/en/about/staff/elena Life is like a mirror. Smile at it and it smiles back at you. Peace Pilgrim

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2nd Call for Participation: SemRel SemEval Shared Task 1
by Nedjma OUSIDHOUM 08 Jan '24

08 Jan '24

Dear corpora-list members, We are announcing the first SemEval shared task on Semantic Textual Relatedness (STR): A shared task on automatically detecting the degree of semantic relatedness (closeness in meaning) between pairs of sentences. The semantic relatedness of two language units has long been considered fundamental to understanding meaning (Halliday and Hasan, 1976; Miller and Charles, 1991), and automatically determining relatedness has many applications such as evaluating sentence representation methods, question answering, and summarization. Two sentences are considered semantically similar when they have a paraphrasal or entailment relation. On the other hand, relatedness is a much broader concept that accounts for all the commonalities between two sentences: whether they are on the same topic, express the same view, originate from the same time period, one elaborates on (or follows from) the other, etc. For instance, for the following sentence pairs: - Pair 1: a. There was a lemon tree next to the house. b. The boy enjoyed reading under the lemon tree. - Pair 2: a. There was a lemon tree next to the house. b. The boy was an excellent football player. Most people will agree that the sentences in pair 1 are more related than the sentences in pair 2. In this task, new textual datasets will be provided for Afrikaans <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrikaans>, Algerian Arabic <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algerian_Arabic>, Amharic <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amharic>, English, Hausa <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hausa_language>, Hindi <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindi>, Indonesian <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_language>, Kinyarwanda <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinyarwanda>, Marathi <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathi_language>, Moroccan Arabic <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moroccan_Arabic>, Modern Standard Arabic <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Standard_Arabic>, Punjabi <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punjabi_language>, Spanish <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_language>, and Telugu <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telugu_language>. Data Each instance in the training, development, and test sets is a sentence pair. The instance is labeled with a score representing the degree of semantic textual relatedness between the two sentences. The scores can range from 0 (maximally unrelated) to 1 (maximally related). These gold label scores have been determined through manual annotation. Specifically, a comparative annotation approach was used to avoid known limitations of traditional rating scale annotation methods This comparative annotation process (which avoids several biases of traditional rating scales) led to a high reliability of the final relatedness rankings. Further details about the task, the method of data annotation, how STR is different from semantic textual similarity, applications of semantic textual relatedness, etc. can be found in this paper: https://aclanthology.org/2023.eacl-main.55.pdf Tracks Each team can provide submissions for one, two or all of the tracks shown below: Track A: Supervised Participants are to submit systems that have been trained using the labeled training datasets provided. Participating teams are allowed to use any publicly available datasets (e.g., other relatedness and similarity datasets or datasets in any other languages). However, they must report additional data they used, and ideally report how impactful each resource was on the final results. Track B: Unsupervised Participants are to submit systems that have been developed without the use of any labeled datasets pertaining to semantic relatedness or semantic similarity between units of text more than two words long in any language. The use of unigram or bigram relatedness datasets (from any language) is permitted. Track C: Cross-lingual Participants are to submit systems that have been developed without the use of any labeled semantic similarity or semantic relatedness datasets in the target language and with the use of labeled dataset(s) from at least one other language. Note: Using labeled data from another track is mandatory for submission to this track. Deciding which track a submission should go to: - If a submission uses labeled data in the target language: submit to Track A - If a submission does not use labeled data in the target language but uses labeled data from another language: submit to Track C - If a submission does not use labeled data in any language: submit to Track B ** Here ‘labeled data’ refers to labeled datasets pertaining to semantic relatedness or semantic similarity between units of text more than two words long. Evaluation The official evaluation metric for this task is the Spearman rank correlation coefficient, which captures how well the system-predicted rankings of test instances align with human judgments. You can find the evaluation script for this shared task on our Github page <https://github.com/semantic-textual-relatedness/Semantic_Relatedness_SemEva…> . Helpful Links - Competition Website: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/15704 - Task Website: <https://afrisenti-semeval.github.io/> https://semantic-textual-relatedness.github.io - Twitter X: <https://twitter.com/AfriSenti2023> https://twitter.com/SemRel2024 - Contact organisers semrel-semeval-organisers(a)googlegroups.com - Google group for participants semrel -semeval-participants(a)googlegroups.com Important Dates - Training data ready: 11 September 2023 - Evaluation Starts: 10 January 2024 - Evaluation End: 31 January 2024 - System Description Paper Due: February 2024 - SemEval workshop: Summer 2024 - (co-located with NAACL 2024) NB. We will organise a mentorship session in January and a system description writing tutorial in February for all participants, especially students and junior researchers. References - Shima Asaadi, Saif Mohammad, Svetlana Kiritchenko. 2019. Big BiRD: A Large, Fine-Grained, Bigram Relatedness Dataset for Examining Semantic Composition. Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. - M. A. K. Halliday and R. Hasan. 1976. Cohesion in English. London: Longman. - George A Miller and Walter G Charles. 1991. Contextual Correlates of Semantic Similarity. Language and Cognitive Processes, 6(1):1–28 - Mohamed Abdalla, Krishnapriya Vishnubhotla, and Saif Mohammad. 2023. What Makes Sentences Semantically Related? A Textual Relatedness Dataset and Empirical Study. In Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 782–796, Dubrovnik, Croatia. Association for Computational Linguistics. Task Organizers Nedjma Ousidhoum Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad Mohamed Abdalla Krishnapriya Vishnubhotla Vladimir Araujo Meriem Beloucif Idris Abdulmumin Seid Muhie Yimam Nirmal Surange Christine De Kock Sanchit Ahuja Oumaima Hourrane Manish Shrivastava Alham Fikri Aji Thamar Solorio Saif M. Mohammad

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Postdoc positions at the Alan Turing Institute (Deadline: 07/01/2024)
by Pranava Madhyastha 03 Jan '24

03 Jan '24

Dear all, We are hiring for the following two postdoctoral positions at the Alan Turing Institute both focussed on probabilistic program scaffolds for large language models. This is a collaborative project lead by Dr. Pranava Madhyastha from City, University of London along with Prof. Alessandra Russo from Imperial College London and Prof. Anthony Cohn from the University of Leeds. Opportunity 1: LLM Inference Expert The first position requires experience with controlling inference in LLMs and transformer-based sequence-to-sequence models. More details and application link can be found here: https://cezanneondemand.intervieweb.it/turing/jobs/senior-research-associat… . Opportunity 2: Probabilistic Programming Specialist The second position requires a solid background in probabilistic programming, logic programming or symbolic models for artificial intelligence (more details and application link can be found here: https://cezanneondemand.intervieweb.it/turing/jobs/research-associate-proba… ) As a postdoctoral researcher at the Alan Turing Institute, you will be part of a vibrant and collaborative research environment, surrounded by renowned experts and cutting-edge technologies. This position provides an excellent platform to advance your career and make lasting contributions to the field of artificial intelligence. For any questions, get in touch with me (over pranava.madhyastha(a)city.ac.uk ). Kind regards, Pranava

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Asia Pacific Journal of Corpus Research (APJCR) Vol. 4, No. 1 is now available online
by Prof CK Jung 31 Dec '23

31 Dec '23

*Asia Pacific Journal of Corpus Research (APJCR) is now available online:* http://icr.or.kr/ejournals-apjcr *The Incredible Shrinking Noun Phrase: Ongoing Change in Japanese Word Formation*Kevin Heffernan, (Kwansei Gakuin University), JAPAN; Yusuke Imanishi (Kwansei Gakuin University), JAPAN DOI: https://doi.org/10.22925/apjcr.2023.4.1.1 ________________________________________ *Identifying Key Grammatical Errors of Japanese English as a Foreign Language Learners in a Learner Corpus: Toward Focused Grammar Instruction with Data-Driven Learning* Atsushi Mizumoto (Kansai University), JAPAN; Yoichi Watari (Chukyo University), JAPAN DOI: https://doi.org/10.22925/apjcr.2023.4.1.25 ________________________________________ *A Comparison of the Constructions Make / Take a Decision in Malaysian English with the Supervarieties * Christina Sook Beng Ong (Wawasan Open University), MALAYSIA DOI: https://doi.org/10.22925/apjcr.2023.4.1.43 ________________________________________ *Effects of Corpus Use on Error Identification in L2 Writing * Yoshiho Satake (Aoyama Gakuin University), JAPAN DOI: https://doi.org/10.22925/apjcr.2023.4.1.61 --- *CK Jung BEng(Hons) Birmingham MSc Warwick EdD Warwick Cert Oxford* Associate Professor | Department of English Language and Literature, Incheon National University, *South Korea* President | The Korea Association of Secondary English Education, *South Korea *(http://kasee.org) Vice President | The Korea Association of Primary English Education), *South Korea *(http://kapee.or.kr) Director | Institute for Corpus Research, Incheon National University, *South Korea* (http://icr.or.kr) Editor-in-Chief | Asia Pacific Journal of Corpus Research, ICR, *International* (http://icr.or.kr/apjcr) Editorial Board | Corpora, Edinburgh University Press, *UK* Editorial Board | English Today, Cambridge University Press, *UK* E: ckjung(a)inu.ac.kr / T: +82 (0)32 835 8129 H(EN): http://ckjung.org

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NTCIR-18 First Call for Task Proposal
by CHUNG-CHI CHEN 31 Dec '23

31 Dec '23

Dear colleagues, (Apologize if you received multiple emails from different mailing lists) We are delighted to announce the call for task proposal of NTCIR-18. NTCIR (NII Testbeds and Community for Information Access Research) is a series of evaluation conferences that mainly focus on information access with East Asian languages and English. The first NTCIR conference (NTCIR-1) took place in August/September 1999, and the latest NTCIR-17 conference was held in December 2023. Research teams from all over the world participate in one or more NTCIR tasks to advance the state of the art and to learn from one another's experiences. We invite new task proposals within the expansive field of information access. Organizing an evaluation task entails pinpointing significant research challenges, strategically addressing them through collaboration with fellow researchers (including co-organizers and participants), developing the requisite evaluation framework to propel advancements in the state of the art, and generating a meaningful impact on both the research community and future developments. Prospective applicants are urged to underscore the real-world applicability of their proposed tasks by utilizing authentic data, focusing on practical tasks, and solving tangible problems. Additionally, they should confront challenges in evaluating information access technology, such as the extensive number of assessments needed for evaluation, ensuring privacy while using proprietary data, and conducting live tests with actual users. *Task Proposal Submission Due: Feb 9, 2024 (Anywhere on Earth)SUBMISSION LINK: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ntcir18proposal <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ntcir18proposal>* Below are more details, and please feel free to contact us if you have any questions. Happy holidays, and happy new year. Warm regards, NTCIR-18 Program Committee Co-Chairs Qingyao Ai, Chung-Chi Chen, and Shoko Wakamiya

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Call for Participation: Survey on Language Documentation and NLP
by Luke Gessler 29 Dec '23

29 Dec '23

Dear colleagues, Have you ever worked at the intersection of natural language processing and endangered language documentation, or are you curious about doing so? My colleagues and I at the University of Colorado Boulder are surveying NLP researchers and documentary linguists who have done or are interested in this kind of work. Our goal is to better understand how to make NLP systems more practically successful in language documentation settings. If you have 15 minutes, we would be honored if you shared your experiences with us to help advance our understanding of NLP in language documentation. We invite you to participate by taking one of our two different surveys based on which group you belong to: - NLP researchers <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeCFdMrbWmRqz7OAYbhoJYKX5g2NHPooXo…> - Documentary linguists <https://forms.gle/4pGhsbGQ36b58byn6> We look forward to reading what you have to share! Best regards, Luke Gessler

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Join OSACT 2024 workshop for Pioneering Research and Shared Tasks
by m.zakiali80＠gmail.com 28 Dec '23

28 Dec '23

Dear Corpora Members, 🌟 Exciting Announcement: OSACT 2024 Workshop 🌟 Calling All Researchers in Computational Linguistics, NLP, and IR Specializing in Arabic Language! Are you at the forefront of research in low-resource languages, particularly Arabic? Do you delve into the complexities of computational linguistics (CL), natural language processing (NLP), and information retrieval (IR) with a focus on Arabic? We invite you to explore and contribute to groundbreaking advancements in machine translation, particularly in developing models that seamlessly translate dialectal Arabic text into Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). Moreover, if your research aims to elevate the integrity and dependability of Arabic Large Language Models (LLMs) by innovating in hallucination detection and mitigation strategies, this workshop is a perfect platform for you. Join us at the 6th Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools (OSACT6), a hub of innovation and scholarly exchange. Featured Shared Tasks: Tackling the Forefront Issues in Arabic LLMs and Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) Machine Translation Task 1: Arabic LLMs Hallucination Challenge: Address the critical issue of hallucinated content in Arabic language models. Engage in this vital conversation and present your solutions. Read details: https://osact-lrec.github.io/ Task 2: Dialect to MSA Machine Translation Challenge: Engage in the pivotal task of transforming dialectal Arabic into MSA through innovative translation models. We invite you to utilize your expertise in driving significant advancements in language processing, fostering more effective and meaningful exchanges in the Arabic-speaking world. Read details: https://osact-lrec.github.io/ Event Details: Date: May 25, 2024 Location: Torino, Italy In conjunction with the esteemed LREC-COLING 2024 - The 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation. Don’t miss this opportunity to contribute to a pioneering field! Key Dates: Paper Submission Deadline: February 25, 2024 Acceptance Notification: March 25, 2024 Visit our website, OSACT 2024: https://osact-lrec.github.io/ , to read more details and submission guidelines. For all your questions please send to OSACT.WORKSHOP(a)gmail.com Looking forward to your participation and to seeing you in LERC-COLING in May 2024! The OSACT 2024 Workshop Organizing Committee -- Mona Ali MSc. PhD. Computer Science Associate Professor Northeastern University Vancouver Campus 410 W Georgia, 14th Floor Vancouver, BC | Land of: xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ

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CNLP4DH First Call for Papers
by Nicolas Nicolas 28 Dec '23

28 Dec '23

************************************************************************* CNLP4DH First Call for Papers: Throughout 2024 Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities (JDMDH) organizes a worldwide call for papers about the topic Chinese Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities (CNLP4DH) As a reminder JDMDH is an international-based journal managed by French national research institutions and green open access (no charge for readers and authors). This special issue is dedicated to natural language processing for digital humanities involving the documents written in Chinese, including Modern, Ancient and dialectal Chinese. Mandarin, which is the national official and main common language, can be accepted and research on texts written in other languages, such as Tibet, Inner Mongolia, etc., is also welcome. A list of suitable topics includes but are not limited to: - Text analysis and processing related to humanities using computational methods - Dataset creation and curation for NLP (e.g. digitization, datafication, and data preservation). - Research on cultural heritage collections such as national archives and libraries using NLP - NLP for error detection, correction, normalization and denoising data - Generation and analysis of literary works such as poetry and novels - Analysis and detection of text genres - Word segmentation, part-of-speech tagging of Ancient Chinese - Large Language Models (LLM) for Chinese in Digital Humanities - Cross modal Models (text-speech-video-image) for Chinese in Digital Humanities - Visualization of text analytics - Ontology models for natural language text - Applications in Chinese Literature, Traditional Chinese medicine, Learning Chinese language as second language, Sentiment Analysis in Chinese Social Media, China Cultural Heritage, Chinese History, Ancient Chinese language submission guideline: https://jdmdh.episciences.org/page/submissions Paper submission : https://jdmdh.episciences.org/submit Website and more details: https://jdmdh.episciences.org/page/chinese-natural-language-processing-for-… Guest Editors: Dr. Wenhe FENG (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Laboratory of Language Engineering and Computing) Dr. Bin LI (Nanjing Normal University, School of Chinese Language and Literature, Center of Linguistic Big Data and Computational Humanities) Dr. Nicolas TURENNE (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, School of Information Science and Technology) Dr. Tong WEI (Beijing University, Digital Humanities Center) *************************************************************************

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First Call for Papers: RaPID-5@LREC-COLING 2024
by Dimitrios Kokkinakis 27 Dec '23

27 Dec '23

*********************************************************************************** First Call for Papers: The 5th workshop on: "Resources and ProcessIng of linguistic, para-linguistic and extra-linguistic Data from people with various forms of cognitive/psychiatric/developmental impairments" Workshop: co-located with LREC-COLING 2024 | Turin, Italy | May 21st, 2024 RaPID-5 serves as an interdisciplinary platform for researchers to exchange insights, methods, and experiences related to collecting and processing data from individuals with mental, cognitive, neuropsychiatric, or neurodegenerative impairments. The workshop focuses on creating, processing, and applying such data resources from individuals at different stages and severity levels of these impairments. The ultimate goal of RaPID-5 is to facilitate the study of relationships among linguistic, paralinguistic, and extra-linguistic observations, with applications ranging from aiding diagnosis to enhancing monitoring and predicting individuals at higher risk, ultimately promoting multidisciplinary collaboration across clinical, language technology, computational linguistics, and computer science communities. Submission deadline: Sun., 31st of March, 2024 (anywhere on earth) Paper submission: https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/rapid2024/ Website and more details: https://spraakbanken.gu.se/en/rapid-2024 Contact: Dimitrios Kokkinakis Contact email: dimitrios.kokkinakis(a)gu.se Organizing committee: * Kathleen C. Fraser, National Research Council, Canada; * Dimitrios Kokkinakis, University of Gothenburg, Sweden; * Kristina Lundholm Fors, Lund University, Sweden; * Charalambos K. Themistocleous, University of Oslo, Norway * Athanasios Tsanas, The University of Edinburgh, UK * Fredrik Öhman, University of Gothenburg and Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Sweden ************************************************************************************

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Assistant professorship with tenure track in NLP at TU Vienna
by Pia Pachinger 27 Dec '23

27 Dec '23

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CfP: Second International Workshop Towards Digital Language Equality (TDLE): Focusing on Sustainability at LREC-COLING 2024
by fgaspari＠sslmit.unibo.it 24 Dec '23

24 Dec '23

[Apologies for multiple postings] CALL FOR PAPERS Second International Workshop Towards Digital Language Equality (TDLE): Focusing on Sustainability co-located with LREC-COLING 2024, May 2024, Turin (Italy) See further details at https://european-language-equality.eu/tdle-2024/ [1] 1 Description and Aims of the Workshop The key aim of this half-day workshop co-located with LREC-COLING 2024 (https://lrec-coling-2024.org/), to be held in Turin (Italy) in May 2024, is to discuss and promote the importance of sustainability in the design, development, creation, use, distribution and sharing of language data, resources, platforms, infrastructures, tools and technologies, with the intention of achieving Digital Language Equality (DLE). While some important work has recently addressed these crucial areas (e.g. Fort and Couillault, 2016; Hessenthaler et al., 2022; Ramesh et al., 2023; Castilho et al., forthcoming), the relevant contributions seem to be as yet unsystematic and relatively isolated. The workshop intends to provide an inclusive forum to encourage in-depth debate and facilitate collaborations to promote the sustainability of resources and technologies in any (combination of) languages, in support of multilingualism and of the overarching goal of DLE. The sustainability of language resources and technologies is key to enabling multilingualism and digital language equality in the age of Artificial Intelligence. 2 Topics of Interest The second international Towards Digital Language Equality (TDLE) workshop focuses on sustainability in relation to the design, development, creation, use, distribution and sharing of language data, resources, platforms, infrastructures, tools and technologies, with a view to promoting the broader goal of Digital Language Equality (DLE). The concept of DLE has been firmly established in relation to all languages of Europe (Rehm and Way, 2023), and has the potential to also benefit other languages throughout the world, to support the prosperity of the respective communities at a time of impressive - but as yet very unevenly distributed and severely imbalanced - progress in language-centric Artificial Intelligence (AI), e.g. through large language models (LLMs). The workshop places particular emphasis on multilingualism and on leveling up digital support for languages, domains and applications that have so far been underserved, and wishes to explore ways to develop policies and funding streams to work towards sustainability in connection with DLE, especially in support of regional, minority and territorial languages. To this end, recognizing that the sustainability of Language Resources and Technologies (LRTs) is key to enabling multilingualism and DLE in the age of AI, topics of particular interest for the workshop on which we invite original contributions covering any (combination of) languages include, but are not limited to, the following: - research on the factors affecting DLE and the sustainability of LRTs; - best practices, case studies and validated guidelines related to the design, implementation and improvement of sustainability of written, oral/spoken, signed and/or multimodal LRTs (including LLMs), particularly in support of DLE; - how multilingual LLM technology can support DLE; - retrospectively assessing the sustainability of legacy LRTs, and future-proofing new LRTs in the interest of DLE; - analyzing the costs and benefits of foregrounding sustainability for LRTs; - the role of metadata, accompanying documentation and licenses in showing and improving the sustainability of LRTs; - sustainability, fairness and accessibility (e.g. for users with physical or cognitive disabilities, limited computing resources and connectivity) of platforms and infrastructures hosting, distributing and sharing LRTs in the interest of DLE; - how current data and computing access inequality is affecting DLE (in particular regarding LLMs); - ecological sustainability and environmental fairness of developing and deploying state-of-the-art LRTs, e.g. LLMs with regard to energy consumption, global warming and climate change; - developing data and parameter efficient methods to train or adapt language models to new languages; - how to evaluate, measure, compare and improve the sustainability of LRTs; - establishing benchmarks and protocols to ensure the sustainability of LRTs; - how to avoid the potential dangers of developing and using unfair and unsustainable LRTs, e.g. for malicious, ill-intentioned or harmful purposes; - ethical, legal, cultural and/or socio-economic implications of (ignoring) fairness and sustainability of LRTs; - developing and implementing forward-looking policies to promote fairness and long-term sustainability of LRTs to achieve DLE; - education and training needs and experiences in relation to promoting fairness and sustainability of LRTs and ways to raise broad awareness of DLE and related topics, e.g. among the general public, policy- and decision-makers. Given this wide-ranging and inclusive remit, the workshop intends to bring together developers, creators, vendors, distributors, brokers, users, evaluators and researchers of written, oral/spoken, signed and/or multimodal LRTs in any (combination of) languages. 3 Background and First TDLE Workshop Held in 2022 The second 2024 edition of the workshop builds on the success of the first Towards Digital Language Equality (TDLE) workshop, that was held at LREC 2022 in Marseille (France) on 20 June 2022, and whose accepted papers were published in a dedicated volume of proceedings, Aldabe et al. (2022). Following this well-received inaugural workshop held in June 2022, the second event in the series will be co-located with LREC-COLING 2024 in Turin (Italy) in May 2024, and will focus specifically on the highly relevant topic of the sustainability of LRTs in connection with multilingualism and DLE. 4 Submissions Up-to-date information on the workshop, including materials for authors, guidelines, templates, stylesheet and key dates can be found at the dedicated website https://european-language-equality.eu/tdle-2024/ [1]. To contact the organizing committee of the workshop directly, you can email tdle2024.hitz(a)ehu.eus. Papers submitted to the workshop should be completely anonymous for double-blind peer review, written in English, and prepared using the official LREC-COLING 2024 author's kit and submission stylesheet/template available at https://lrec-coling-2024.org/authors-kit/ [2]. The submissions to the workshop should not exceed 8 pages, excluding references, and be saved in unprotected PDF format. Papers should be submitted no later than 23 February 2024 through the START submission management system available via the workshop website at https://european-language-equality.eu/tdle-2024/ [1]. The workshop seeks original papers, i.e. it does not accept submissions that have been, or will be, published elsewhere. The workshop allows simultaneous submissions, and in these cases the authors should clearly indicate in the manuscript to which other conference, workshop or venue they have submitted the paper for review. Each paper submitted to the workshop will receive three double-blind peer reviews. Papers accepted for presentation will be included in the proceedings of the workshop. In light of the LREC-COLING 2024 Map and the "Share your LRs!" initiative, when submitting their papers through the START system authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of their research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC-COLING authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones). 5 Key Dates Paper submission deadline: 23 February 2024 Notification of acceptance: 19 March 2024 Camera-ready papers due: 8 April 2024 Half-day workshop date: 20, 21 or 25 May 2024 (TBC) 6 Workshop Organizers - Itziar Aldabe (HiTZ Basque Center for Language Technology - Ixa, University of the Basque Country, Spain) - Begoña Altuna (HiTZ Basque Center for Language Technology - Ixa, University of the Basque Country, Spain) - Aritz Farwell (HiTZ Basque Center for Language Technology - Ixa, University of the Basque Country, Spain) - Federico Gaspari (University of Naples "Federico II", Italy & ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University, Ireland - co-chair) - Joss Moorkens (School of Applied Language & Intercultural Studies/ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University, Ireland - co-chair) - Stelios Piperidis (Institute of Language and Speech Processing, Athena Research and Innovation Center in Information, Communication and Knowledge Technologies, Greece) - Georg Rehm (Speech and Language Technology Lab, Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz, Germany) - German Rigau (HiTZ Basque Center for Language Technology - Ixa, University of the Basque Country, Spain) 7 Program Committee - Antonios Anastasopoulos (GMU, USA) - Anya Belz (ADAPT, DCU, Ireland) - Steven Bird (CDU, Australia) - Fred Blain (Uni. Tilburg, Netherlands) - Franco Cutugno (Uni. Naples "Federico II", Italy) - Bessie Dendrinos (NKUA, Greece & ECSPM, Denmark) - Félix do Carmo (Uni. Surrey, UK) - Annika Grützner-Zahn (DFKI, Germany) - Ana Guerberof-Arenas (Uni. Groningen, Netherlands) - Davyth Hicks (ELEN, Belgium) - Monja Jannet (ADAPT, DCU, Ireland) - John Judge (ADAPT, DCU, Ireland) - Dorothy Kenny (SALIS/CTTS/ADAPT, DCU, Ireland) - Sabine Kirchmeier (EFNIL, Luxembourg) - Teresa Lynn (MBZUAI, United Arab Emirates) - Maite Melero (BSC, Spain) - Helena Moniz (Uni. Lisbon, Portugal & EAMT) - Johanna Monti (UniOR, Italy) - Rachele Raus (UniBO, Italy) - Wessel Reijers (Uni. Paderborn, Germany) - Celia Rico Pérez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain) - Dimitar Shterionov (TU, Netherlands) - Carlos S. C. Teixeira (IOTA Localisation Services & Uni. Rovira i Virgili, Spain) - Antonio Toral (Uni. Groningen, Netherlands) - Vincent Vandeghinste (Instituut voor de Nederlandse Taal, Netherlands & KU Leuven, Belgium) References Itziar Aldabe, Begoña Altuna, Aritz Farwell and German Rigau, editors. 2022. Proceedings of the Workshop Towards Digital Language Equality (TDLE). European Language Resources Association, Marseille, France. Sheila Castilho, Federico Gaspari, Joss Moorkens, Maja Popović and Antonio Toral, editors. Forthcoming. Journal of Specialised Translation. Special Issue n. 41 on "Translation Automation and Sustainability". Karën Fort and Alain Couillault, 2016. "Yes, We Care! Results of the Ethics and Natural Language Processing Surveys". Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16). European Language Resources Association, Portorož, Slovenia. 1593-1600. Marius Hessenthaler, Emma Strubell, Dirk Hovy and Anne Lauscher, 2022. "Bridging Fairness and Environmental Sustainability in Natural Language Processing". Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. 7817-7836. András Kornai, 2013. "Digital Language Death". PLoS ONE, 8(10):e77056. Krithika Ramesh, Sunayana Sitaram and Monojit Choudhury, 2023. "Fairness in Language Models Beyond English: Gaps and Challenges". Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2023. Association for Computational Linguistics, Dubrovnik, Croatia. 2106-2119. Georg Rehm and Andy Way, editors. 2023. European Language Equality: A Strategic Agenda for Digital Language Equality. Berlin: Springer. Links: ------ [1] https://european-language-equality.eu/tdle-2024/ [2] https://lrec-coling-2024.org/authors-kit/

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[jobs] Assistant Professorship in Semantic Systems and Natural Language Processing, tenure track
by Jacek Malec 22 Dec '23

22 Dec '23

The Robotics and Semantic Systems group at the Department of Computer Science, Lund University, has announced an Assistant Professor position (biträdande universitetslektor, BUL) in Computer Science with focus on semantic systems and natural language processing. The group (https://rss.cs.lth.se) is doing research in cognitive robotics and AI, including Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Human-Robot Interaction and Advanced Robotics. The group is part of the RobotLab LTH (https://robotics.lth.se). It is involved in a number of research centers and programmes, including WASP (Wallenberg Autonomous Software and Systems Programme, https://wasp-sweden.org), ELLIIT (Excellence Center at Linköping – Lund in Information Technology, https://elliit.se), LTH profile area: Pillars of AI and Digitalization and LU profile area: Natural and Artificial Cognition. The candidate is expected to have a PhD a couple of years old, preferably after a postdoc, planning to settle for the academic career in a vibrant university (with a fresh Nobel prize in house:-). Detailed information about the position may be found in the announcement: https://lu.varbi.com/what:job/jobID:654845/?lang=en The deadline for applying has been postponed until January 9th, 2024. You are welcome to contact me for more details. Jacek Malec, head of the RSS group -- Jacek Malec jacek.malec(a)cs.lth.se Department of Computer Science tel. +46 46 2224950 LTH, Lund University cell +46 70 4950474 Box 118, 221 00 Lund, Sweden http://cs.lth.se/Jacek_Malec/ When you send emails to Lund University, we process your personal data in accordance with existing legislation. To find out more about the processing of your personal data, visit the Lund University website: https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/about/contact-us/processing-of-personal-da…

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Junior researcher / postdoc position in Machine Translation at ISIR [Paris, France]
by François Yvon 22 Dec '23

22 Dec '23

[apologies for cross-posting] ISIR, in Paris, has an open position for a two year non-permanent junior researcher / postdoc in Machine Translation / Large Language Models. Details available here: https://emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/UMR7222-FRAYVO-001/Default.aspx?lang=EN Please apply before Jan, 5th, 2024. Best F -- --- François Yvon ISIR/CNRS 4 Place Jussieu F 75005 Paris https://fyvo.github.io

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Postdoc, Research fellow, and PhD student positions in Machine learning and AI (Helsinki, Finland; deadline Jan 14 / Jan 21)
by Tiedemann, Jörg 22 Dec '23

22 Dec '23

Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence FCAI<https://fcai.fi/> and ELLIS Unit Helsinki<https://fcai.fi/ellis-unit-helsinki> are looking for postdocs, research fellows and PhD students to the following areas of research: 1) Reinforcement learning 2) Probabilistic methods 3) Simulation-based inference 4) Privacy-preserving machine learning 5) Collaborative AI and human modeling 6) Machine learning for science Read more about the positions and apply by January 14 (postdocs/research fellows) or January 21 (PhD students), 2024 at https://fcai.fi/we-are-hiring —————————————— Jörg Tiedemann University of Helsinki https://blogs.helsinki.fi/language-technology/

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ArabicNLP 2024 - First Call for Papers and Shared Task Proposals
by Salam Khalifa 22 Dec '23

22 Dec '23

*** Apologies for Cross-Posting *** The Second Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP 2024) Co-located with ACL 2024 in Bangkok, Thailand, August 16, 2024. (Hybrid Mode). Conference URL: https://arabicnlp2024.sigarab.org/ ArabicNLP 2024 builds on eight previous conference and workshop editions, which have been very successful drawing in a large active participation in various capacities (See Scholar Page <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=LGzh8jYAAAAJ>). This conference is timely given the continued rise in research projects focusing on Arabic NLP. The conference is organized by the Special Interest Group on Arabic NLP (SIGARAB <https://www.sigarab.org/>), an Association for Computational Linguistics Special Interest Group on Arabic NLP. This announcement combines two calls: (1) a call for shared task proposals, and (2) a call for conference papers. Call for Shared Task Proposals We invite proposals for shared tasks related to Arabic NLP to be part of the ArabicNLP 2024 conference. The proposals should provide an overview of the proposed task, motivation, data/resource collection and creation, task description, pilot run details (if available), a tentative timeline that matches the submission dates below, and task organizers (name, email, affiliation). Proposals in PDF format can be up to 4 pages. Shared Task Proposal Submission URL: https://shorturl.at/eCJOS Important Dates for Shared Task Proposals - January 23, 2024: Submission of shared tasks proposals due date - February 6, 2024: Notification of acceptance of shared tasks - Proposals should target the following dates when planning their calls - April 29, 2024: Shared task papers due date - June 4, 2024: Notification of acceptance - June 24, 2024: Camera-ready papers due - August 16, 2024: ArabicNLP conference All deadlines are 11:59 pm UTC -12h <https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zone/timezone/utc-12> (“Anywhere on Earth”). For any questions, please contact the Shared Task Chair: arabicnlp-shared-task-chair(a)sigarab.org Call for Papers We invite long (up to 8 pages), short (up to 4 pages), and demo paper (up to 4 pages) submissions. Long and short papers will be presented orally or as posters as determined by the program committee; presentation mode does not reflect the quality of the work. Submissions are invited on topics that include, but are not limited to, the following: - Enabling technologies: (any size) language models, diacritization, lemmatization, morphological analysis, disambiguation, tokenization, POS tagging, named entity detection, chunking, parsing, semantic role labeling, sentiment analysis, Arabic dialect modeling, etc. - Applications: dialog modeling, machine translation, speech recognition, speech synthesis, optical character recognition, pedagogy, assistive technologies, social media analytics, etc. - Resources: dictionaries, annotated data, corpora, etc. Submissions may include work in progress as well as finished work. Submissions must have a clear focus on specific issues pertaining to the Arabic language whether it is standard Arabic, dialectal, classical, or mixed. Papers on other languages sharing problems faced by Arabic NLP researchers, such as Semitic languages or languages using Arabic script, are welcome provided that they propose techniques or approaches that would be of interest to Arabic NLP, and they explain why this is the case. Additionally, papers on efforts using Arabic resources but targeting other languages are also welcome. Descriptions of commercial systems are welcome, but authors should be willing to discuss the details of their work. We also welcome position papers and surveys about any of the above topics. Conference Paper Submission URL: <https://softconf.com/emnlp2022/WANLP2022> TBA Important Dates for Conference Papers - April 22, 2024: Abstract submission for conference papers due date - April 29, 2024: Conference paper due date - May 21, 2024: Reviews submission deadline - June 4, 2024: Notification of acceptance - June 24, 2024: Camera-ready papers due - August 16, 2024: ArabicNLP conference All deadlines are 11:59 pm UTC -12h <https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zone/timezone/utc-12> (“Anywhere on Earth”). If you have any questions, please contact us at: arabicnlp-pc-chairs(a)sigarab.org The ArabicNLP 2024 Organizing Committee -- Salam Khalifa PhD Student at Stony Brook Linguistics <https://www.linguistics.stonybrook.edu/>.

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1st CfP: BEA (2024) shared-task on automated prediction of Difficulty And Response Time for Multiple Choice Questions (DART-MCQ).
by knorth8＠gmu.edu 22 Dec '23

22 Dec '23

Call for Participation We are announcing the first BEA (2024) shared-task on automated prediction of Difficulty And Response Time for Multiple Choice Questions (DART-MCQ). Motivation For standardized exams to be fair and valid, test questions, otherwise known as items, must meet certain criteria. One important criterion is that the items should cover a wide range of difficulty levels to gather information about the abilities of test takers effectively. Additionally, it is essential to allocate an appropriate amount of time for each item: too little time can make the exam speeded, while too much time can make it inefficient. There is growing interest in predicting item characteristics such as difficulty and response time based on the item text. However, due to difficulties with sharing exam data, efforts to advance the state-of-the-art in item parameter prediction have been fragmented and conducted in individual institutions, with no transparent evaluation on a publicly available dataset. In this Shared Task, we bridge this gap by sharing practice item content and characteristics from a high-stakes medical exam called the United States Medical Licensing Examination® (USMLE®) for the exploration of two topics: predicting item difficulty (Track 1) and item response time (Track 2) based on item text. Participation The shared-task has two separate tracks as follows: • Track 1: Given the item text and metadata, predict the item difficulty variable. • Track 2: Given the item text and metadata, predict the time intensity variable. Important Dates Training data release: January 15 Test data release: February 10 Results due: February 16 Announcement of winners: February 21 Paper submissions due: March 10 Camera-ready papers due: April 22 Links For more information about the shared task, see: https://sig-edu.org/sharedtask/2024 Organizers Victoria Yaneva, National Board of Medical Examiners Peter Baldwin, National Board of Medical Examiners Kai North, George Mason University Brian Clauser, National Board of Medical Examiners Saed Rezayi, National Board of Medical Examiners Yiyun Zhou, National Board of Medical Examiners Le An Ha, University of Wolverhampton Polina Harik, National Board of Medical Examiners

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First Call for Papers: The Fifth International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations (DMR 2024) - "Marthaverse of Meaning"
by claire.n.bonial.civ＠army.mil 21 Dec '23

21 Dec '23

DMR 2024 - Call for Papers Timeline When Tues, May 21 Where Torino, Italy Mode hybrid Direct Submission Deadline February 19 ARR Commitment Deadline March 25 Notification of Acceptance March 27 Final Version Due April 8 Workshop site: https://dmr2024.github.io/index.html DMR 2024 will be co-located with LREC-COLING 2024 (the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation), 20-25 May, 2024 at the Lingotto Conference Centre, Torino, Italy. DMR 2024 will be a hybrid event (real-time virtual participation allowed), but in-person participation is encouraged. DMR 2024 submission website: https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/dmr2024/ LREC-COLING 2024 website: https://lrec-coling-2024.org/ Contact us with questions at dmr.workshop.0(a)gmail.com Overview DMR 2024 invites the submissions of long and short papers about original works on meaning representations. As the special theme of DMR 2024, we also invite the submissions of original research that have in any way leveraged, expanded, or been inspired by the “Marthaverse of Meaning”-- the 50 years of gold-standard contributions to the field of NLP by 2023 ACL lifetime Achievement Award recipient, Dr. Martha Palmer. Broader Goals DMR intends to bring together researchers who are producers and consumers of meaning representations and, through their interaction, gain a deeper understanding of the key elements of meaning representations that are the most valuable to the NLP community. The workshop will provide an opportunity for meaning representation researchers to present new frameworks and to critically examine existing frameworks with the goal of using their findings to inform the design of next-generation meaning representations. One particular goal is to explore opportunities and identify challenges in the design and use of meaning representations in multilingual settings. Another is to understand the relationship between distributed meaning representations trained on large data sets using network models and the symbolic meaning representations that are carefully designed and annotated by NLP researchers, with an aim of gaining a deeper understanding of areas where each type of meaning representation is the most effective. Special Theme: A Marthaverse of Meaning In her 2023 ACL Lifetime Achievement Award acceptance speech, Dr. Martha Palmer (University of Colorado, Boulder) sums up her 50 years of research in AI and NLP in six words: “Finding meaning, quite literally, in words.” This year's workshop honors Dr. Palmer's contributions with a special theme on resources, approaches, and applications that draw upon her manifold contributions to the field. These resources include Treebanks (Chinese and Arabic TreeBanks, Hindi and Urdu Treebanks), PropBanks (English, Chinese and Arabic), VerbNet, OntoNotes, Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR), and Uniform Meaning Representation (UMR). These resources share attention to semantic detail combined with scalability and, therefore, an ability to generalize to and support a variety of different NLP applications and tasks. Indeed, the applicability of her research extends beyond the textual to the multimodal, where she has broadly contributed to the cross-modal event understanding. DMR 2024 seeks to highlight the depth and the breadth of Dr. Palmer's contributions and their influence over the field of natural language processing by inviting the submission of original works that have in any way leveraged, expanded, or been inspired by the ``Marthaverse of Meaning.'' We also seek to recognize Dr. Palmer's long tenure of dedication to outstanding mentorship that has been so powerful for the many students who have gone on to shape the NLP research community and the field at large. Topics The workshop solicits papers that address one or more of the following topics: Treebanks and the syntax-semantics interface; PropBanks, VerbNets, and semantic role labeling resources; OntoNotes and word sense disambiguation resources; Expansion or pairing of semantic resources with LLMs; Design and annotation of meaning representations; Cross-framework comparison of meaning representations; Automatic parsing of meaning representations; Automatic generation of text from meaning representations; Strengths and weaknesses of existing meaning representations exposed as a result of using them in natural language applications or natural language understanding systems; Use of meaning representations in real-world applications; Issues in applying meaning representations to multilingual settings; Issues in bringing multimodality into meaning representations; The relationship between symbolic meaning representations and distributed semantic representations; The use of LLMs to create meaning representations Formal properties of meaning representations; Any other topics that address the design, processing, and use of meaning representations or Dr. Martha Palmer's contributions to NLP. Submission Details Submissions should report original and unpublished research on topics of interest to the workshop. Accepted papers are expected to be presented at the workshop and will be published in the workshop proceedings on the ACL Anthology. They should emphasize obtained results rather than intended work and should clearly indicate the state of completion of the reported results. A paper accepted for presentation at the workshop must not be or have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available proceedings. Submissions and Templates: Submission is electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system at https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/dmr2024/. Submissions must adhere to the two-column LREC-COLING format. Long papers must not exceed eight (8) pages of content and short papers must not exceed four (4) pages of content. If a paper is accepted, the authors will be given an additional page to address reviewers’ comments in the final version. References and appendices do not count against these limits. When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC-COLING authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones). We also accept commitments from the ACL Rolling Review (ARR). All ARR commitments to DMR must have received all reviews and meta-reviews by March 25, 2024. For more info on ARR in general, see https://aclrollingreview.org. Author Responsibilities: Reviewing of papers will be double-blind. Therefore, the paper must not include the authors’ names and affiliations or self-references that reveal any author’s identity–e.g., “We previously showed (Smith, 1991) …” should be replaced with citations such as “Smith (1991) previously showed …”. The submissions should also avoid links to non-anonymized repositories: the code should be either submitted as supplementary material in the final version of the paper, or as a link to an anonymized repository (e.g., Anonymous GitHub or Anonym Share). Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. If the paper is available as a preprint, this must be indicated on the submission form but not in the paper itself. In addition, DMR 2024, in accordance with LREC-COLING 2024, will follow the same policy as ACL conferences establishing an anonymity period during which non-anonymous posting of preprints is not allowed. Papers that have been or will be under consideration for other venues at the same time must be declared at submission time. If a paper is accepted for publication at DMR 2024, it must be immediately withdrawn from other venues. If a paper under review at DMR 2024 is accepted elsewhere and authors intend to proceed there, the workshop committee must be notified immediately. Authors of papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications must provide this information to the workshop organizers dmr.workshop.0(a)gmail.com. Authors of accepted papers must notify the program chairs within 10 days of acceptance if the paper is withdrawn for any reason.

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30 PhD positions in CRC 1646 “Linguistic Creativity in Communication” (Bielefeld University)
by Sina Zarrieß 21 Dec '23

21 Dec '23

The Collaborative Research Center CRC 1646 “Linguistic Creativity in Communication” at Bielefeld University is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and investigates linguistic creativity in communication from different perspectives. The CRC has 30 open PhD positions in the following areas of expertise: * 21 positions in linguistics (65 %) * 1 position in literary studies (65 %) * 1 position in philosophy (65 %) * 2 positions in psychology (75 %) * 5 positions in computational linguistics/computer science (100 %) Application details:https://uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/3067/research-positions?p… Application deadline: January 18, 2024 More details about the CRC, brief project descriptions and the tasks of the different research positions can be found here: https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/linguistik-literaturwissenschaft/f… -- Prof. Dr. Sina Zarrieß Computational Linguistics https://sinazarriess.github.io/ University of Bielefeld Universitätsstr. 25 33615 Bielefeld, Germany +49 521 106-2534

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CFP : READI @ LREC-COLING 2024
by Rémi Cardon 21 Dec '23

21 Dec '23

Call for Papers 3rd Workshop on Tools and Resources for People with Reading Difficulties READI @ LREC-COLING 2024 https://cental.uclouvain.be/readi2024/ Workshop description This interdisciplinary workshop invites participation from individuals with experience and/or interest in applications, technologies, and resources for reading. The general idea is to present state-of-the-art methods, and ongoing research questions, i.e., how can Natural Language Processing (NLP) methods leverage document accessibility? Are serious games appropriate/efficient to enhance reading? What kind of solutions AI proposes to help struggling readers? etc. By bringing together researchers from various research communities, we aim to address the issue from different angles: - Design, evaluation, use, and education related to technologies for reading - Assistive AI applications for learning to read - Existing solutions based on enhancing cognitive strategies to improve reading comprehension skills - Multimedia tools to develop literary education - Natural language applications for automatic text adaptation - AI-powered computer vision tools and applications - Opportunities, challenges, risks of technology-enhanced reading - ... Motivation and Topics of Interest With the growth of educational technologies, several innovative technology applications and resources are devoted to how to foster improvement in student learning to read. In addition, a number of assistive technologies for reading have appeared in the last decades, i.e. “devices and services that enhance the performance of individuals with a disability by enabling them to complete tasks more effectively, efficiently, and independently than otherwise possible” (Blackhurst, 1997). The field of special education has had a longstanding interest in technology and the potential it holds for individuals with language/speech disabilities, cognitive disorders, etc. (Edyburn, 2000). In this context, this workshop aims to present current state-of-the-art applications and approaches addressed to a variety of populations and contexts to enhance reading. While proposing current research on technology-enhanced reading, we would like to widen the perspective of the workshop for ‘field’ professionals (teachers and educators, speech-language pathologists, etc.). The workshop will thus address topics concerning specialized technology, tools, and resources, how they serve specific individuals or processes (i.e., learning to read, reading, comprehending), the impact of the devices on their lives and activities, etc. In the light of recent advances in AI, we would like to bring to the fore innovative works from research to applications in fieldwork. The workshop aims to address the issue from a variety of domains and languages, including education, natural language processing, linguistics, psycholinguistics, cognitive sciences, psychophysics of vision, etc. The focus will be on target populations struggling with learning to read, or with decoding, or with comprehending, etc. such as illiterates, aphasic or dyslexic readers, deaf or hard of hearing, low vision or visually impaired readers, people with autism or speech/language disorders, etc. to name a few. Topics include but are not limited to the following: - Measuring and evaluating readability and text complexity - Models, corpora, lexicons for text adaptation - Text adaptation approaches for target audiences - Meaning representation and multimodal text adaptation - Text generation of adapted contents - Educational devices and/or smart technologies for reading: - serious games for improving reading comprehension skills - text-to-speech applications - decoding training applications to strengthen early reading skills - booklets with lexical resources to look up unknown words - graded materials for adaptive learning - ... Important Dates submission deadline: *February 26th, 2024* notification of acceptance: April 7th, 2024 deadline for camera-ready versions: April 25th, 2024 workshop: May 20th or 21st, 2024 Paper Submission Instructions Paper Length: submissions are expected to be between a minimum of 4 and a maximum of 8 pages in length, plus unlimited pages for references. Submission Format : all submissions must be formatted following the LREC style guidelines https://lrec-coling-2024.org/authors-kit/ (Word, OpenOffice, and LaTeX templates are available). Submissions should be made via the START conference system: https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/readi2024/. Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. The submissions will be anonymous (blind reviews). Organizing Committee Rémi Cardon Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium Núria Gala Aix Marseille Université, France Amalia Todirascu Université de Strasbourg, France Rodrigo Wilkens Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium Contact Núria Gala (nuria.gala(a)univ-amu.fr) Program Committee Fernando Alva-Manchego, Cardiff University, UK Delphine Bernhard, Université de Strasbourg, France Dominique Brunato, ILC, Pisa, Italy Rémi Cardon, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium Éric Castet, Aix Marseille Université, France Stéphanie Ducrot, Aix Marseille Université, France Thomas François, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium Núria Gala, Aix Marseille Université, France Ludivine Javourey-Drevet, Université de Lille, France Arne Jönsson, Linköping University, Sweden Éole Lapeyre, Aix Marseille Université, France Horacio Saggion, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Catalonia, Spain Matthew Shardlow, Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom Didier Schwab, Université Grenoble Alpes, France Anaïs Tack, K.U. Leuven, Belgium Amalia Todirascu, Université de Strasbourg, France Vincent Vandeghinste, Instituut voor de Nederlandse Taal (Dutch Lge. Institute), Belgium Giulia Venturi, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale A. Zampolli (ILC-CNR), Pisa, Italy Elena Volodina, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Rodrigo Wilkens, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium Describe and Share your LRs! When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC-COLING authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones).

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1st CfP: 5th International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change 2024 (LChange’24)
by Syrielle Montariol 21 Dec '23

21 Dec '23

***Apologies for possible cross-posting *** First Call for Papers 5th International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change 2023 (LChange’24) We are happy to announce that we will organize a full-day workshop co-located with the ACL conference on Aug 15, 2024 in Bangkok and online. We hope to make this fifth edition another resounding success! Website: https://www.changeiskey.org/event/2024-acl-lchange/ Contact email: lchange(a)changeiskey.org Workshop description The LChange workshop targets all aspects of computational modeling of language change, historics as well as synchronic change. It is running in its fifth iteration following successful workshops in (2019 <https://languagechange.org/events/2019-acl-lcworkshop/>, 2021 <https://languagechange.org/events/2021-acl-lcworkshop/>, 2022 <https://languagechange.org/events/2022-acl-lchange/>, 2023 <https://languagechange.org/events/2023-emnlp-lchange/>) and will be co-located with ACL 2024 in Bangkok (Thailand), as a hybrid event. The workshop will take place on Thursday 15 August 2024. The main topics of the workshop remain the same: all aspects around computational approaches to language change with a focus on digital text corpora. LChange explores state-of-the-art computational methodologies, theories and digital text resources on exploring the time-varying nature of human language. The aim of this workshop is to provide pioneering researchers who work on computational methods, evaluation, and large-scale modeling of language change an outlet for disseminating research on topics concerning language change. Besides these goals, this workshop will also support discussion on evaluating computational methodologies for uncovering language change. We’ll also be offering mentorship to students, to discuss their research topic with a member of the field, regardless of whether they are submitting a paper or not. Important Dates (tentative) * May 10, 2024: Paper submission * June 20, 2024: Notification of acceptance * June 30, 2024: Camera-ready papers due * August 15, 2024: Workshop date Submissions We accept two types of submissions, long and short papers, consisting of up to eight (8) and four (4) pages of content, respectively, plus unlimited references; final versions will be given one additional page of content so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account. We also welcome papers focusing on releasing a dataset or a model; these papers fall into the short paper category. We invite original research papers from a wide range of topics, including but not limited to: - Novel methods for detecting diachronic semantic change and lexical replacement - Automatic discovery and quantitative evaluation of laws of language change - Computational theories and generative models of language change - Sense-aware (semantic) change analysis - Diachronic word sense disambiguation - Novel methods for diachronic analysis of low-resource languages - Novel methods for diachronic linguistic data visualization - Novel applications and implications of language change detection - Quantification of sociocultural influences on language change - Cross-linguistic, phylogenetic, and developmental approaches to language change - Novel datasets for cross-linguistic and diachronic analyses of language Accepted papers will be presented orally or as posters and included in the workshop proceedings. Submissions are open to all and are to be submitted anonymously. All papers will be refereed through a double-blind peer review process by at least three reviewers with final acceptance decisions made by the workshop organizers. If you have published in the field previously, and are interested in helping out in the program committee to review papers, please send us an email! Keynote Talks To be announced. If you have any good suggestions, or anyone you would like to listen to, please contact us. Workshop organizers Nina Tahmasebi, University of Gothenburg Syrielle Montariol, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne Andrey Kutuzov, University of Oslo Simon Hengchen, University of Gothenburg David Alfter, University of Gothenburg Francesco Periti, University of Milan Pierluigi Cassotti, University of Bari Aldo Moro

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open computational linguistic/cognitive science position at CiMeC, Trento
by Raffaella Bernardi 21 Dec '23

21 Dec '23

*Call for Expression of Interest for Associate Professor or Tenure Track Assistant Professor coming from outside of Italy* *Computational Linguistics Principal Investigator, University of Trento, Center for Mind-Brain Sciences (CIMeC), CIMeC Language, Interaction and Computation (CLIC) lab, Trento, Italy* The Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC) at the University of Trento, Italy, invites expressions of interest from highly motivated scholars with the view to open a principal investigator position at the level of Associate Professor or Tenure Track Assistant Professor (in the latter case, if after 3 years the tenure track AP has obtained the Italian Scientific Habilitation for Associate Professor, they will be evaluated to obtain the Associate Professor Position at CIMeC). Applicants are expected to have had a 3-year position abroad at the time and level they apply to. *Research Profile* The ideal candidate for the assistant professor position works in computational linguistics or cognitive science and has a strong track record in at least one of these fields. Preference will be given to candidates with a good knowledge of theoretical linguistics and the ability to carry out experimental work involving human subjects. In addition, associate professor candidates should demonstrate the ability to attract external funding, lead a research team, and have good connections to the international community. All candidates, regardless of their level of seniority, will be expected to participate in the administrative life of CIMeC and should show a willingness to work in a team. All should also demonstrate enthusiasm for teaching and supporting students throughout their academic training. The successful candidate will work in the CIMeC Language, Interaction, and Computation Lab (CLIC: https://www.cimec.unitn.it/en/71/language-interaction-and-computation-labor…) at the Center for Mind-Brain Sciences (CIMeC: http://web.unitn.it/en/cimec). They are expected to be interested in interacting with the rest of the CIMeC faculty on general cognitive neurosciences issues and help develop cutting-edge research at the intersection between computational linguistics, theoretical linguistics, and general cognition and neuroscience. Knowledge of Italian is appreciated but not required. The University of Trento particularly welcomes EoI from female candidates and underrepresented minorities. *Teaching* The candidate will be required to contribute to the Center’s overall goal of delivering high-quality teaching in English at the BSc, MSc, and PhD levels. Tenure Track Assistant Professors are expected to teach 90 hrs/year, while duties for Associate and Full professors are 120 hrs/year. The position holder will have a personal grant for research/travel expenses. The research group will negotiate the possibility of supervising PhD students fully funded by the University. *Other terms and Conditions* Income will depend on the candidate's career stage; the candidate will benefit from tax breaks for the first years. *UniTN and CIMeC* The University of Trento has systematically ranked in Italy's top-tier positions in the past 10 years in both national Research Assessment Evaluations (RAE) and University Surveys. In the latest RAE, the University of Trento ranks 1st among medium universities. The CIMeC's goal is to foster cutting-edge research on cognition and its neural underpinnings and to support the dissemination of these findings internationally and within the local community. As an interdisciplinary research and teaching center, it draws on faculty from several departments, including Psychology and Cognitive Science, Biology, Physics, Mathematics, Information Engineering, and Computer Science. Its faculty originates from Italy, Germany, The Netherlands, Poland, New Zealand, Belgium, the USA, the UK, Argentina, Israel and beyond. In the last 5 years, CIMeC PIs have won many competitive national and international grants, including several European Research Council (ERC) grants, other European Framework grants, and highly competitive grants awarded by the local province. The center has been recognized as Italy's leading cognitive neuroscience research department. It is part of the Erasmus Mundus European Master Program in Language and Communication Technologies. Expressions of interest in English should include a brief motivation letter and should be addressed to: Prof. Yuri Bozzi Director of the Center for Mind-Brain Sciences Corso Bettini 31, 38068 Rovereto Italy Expressions of interest sent by email are welcomed and should be sent to cimec.clic-lab(a)unitn.it Expression of interest should be sent *****by the 1st of February, 2024***** ============================================================== University of Trento CIMeC: C225, second floor, Corso Bettini 31, 38068 Rovereto (TN), DISI: Povo 2, Room: 110, Via Sommarive 9, I 38123, Povo (TN) Tel. +39 0464 80 8704 (CIMeC) http://disi.unitn.it/~bernardi/ ==============================================================

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7th workshop CASE 2024 @ EACL: Deadline extension & shared tasks (with a new one with awards)
by ali hürriyetoglu 20 Dec '23

20 Dec '23

Dear all, We are extending the regular paper submission deadline of the workshop CASE 2024 @ EACL to Jan 4, 2024 (AoE) [1]. Please pay attention to the shared tasks organized in the scope of CASE 2024. The new ones are: *1- Climate Activism Stance and Hate Event Detection Shared Task at CASE 2024* Hate speech detection and stance detection are some of the most important aspects of event identification during climate change activism events. In the case of hate speech detection, the event is the occurrence of hate speech, the entity is the target of the hate speech, and the relationship is the connection between the two. The hate speech event has targets to which hate is directed. Identification of targets is an important task within hate speech event detection. Additionally, stance event detection is an important part of assessing the dynamics of protests and activisms for climate change. This helps to understand whether the activist movements and protests are being supported or opposed. This task will have three subtasks (i) Hate speech identification (ii) Targets of Hate Speech Identification (iii) Stance Detection. Codalab Link: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/16206 Registration: In order to register for the shared task, please send a request in codalab. The organizers will approve requests on a daily basis. GitHub Page: https://github.com/therealthapa/case2024-climate *2- Hate Speech Detection in Turkish and Arabic Tweets (HSD-2Lang) (7k Euros total award)* Hate speech, which targets groups based on characteristics such as ethnicity, nationality, religion, colour, gender, and sexual orientation, is a significant problem on social media platforms. Automated detection of such content is crucial for effective content moderation and minimising societal harm, and can also be used in socio-political event analysis. Following the SIU2023-NST competition organized to benchmark progress in Turkish hate speech detection and classification, we are organizing a new shared task in conjunction with CASE @ EACL 2024. This shared task focuses on tackling the challenge of identifying hate speech in tweets in Turkish and Arabic languages. The task is divided into two subtasks: A) Hate Speech Detection in Turkish across Various Contexts; B) Hate Speech Detection with Limited Data in Arabic More details can be found at: https://github.com/boun-tabi/case-2024-hsd-2lang/ Please check the website for detailed information and contact us for anything you think we can help. Best wishes, Ali [1] https://emw.ku.edu.tr/case-2024/, The 7th Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text

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The 4th Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP): First Call for Papers
by Luis Chiruzzo - Inco 20 Dec '23

20 Dec '23

The 4th Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP 2024) First Call for Papers The 4th Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP) will be co-located with the 2024 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2024 <https://2024.naacl.org/>), which is scheduled to be held in Mexico City, Mexico, between June 16-21, 2024. The goal of the workshop is to encourage and increase the visibility of work on the Indigenous languages of the Americas. It aims to encourage research on NLP, computational linguistics, corpus linguistics and speech for Indigenous languages, to connect researchers and professionals from underrepresented communities and native speakers of endangered languages with the ACL community, and, more generally, to promote machine learning approaches suitable for low-resource languages. We invite the submission of - Long papers (8 pages) and short papers (4 pages) on substantial, original, and unpublished research - Non-archival extended abstracts (2 pages), technical reports (8 pages), and work which has been presented at other venues (in the format of the original publication) Submissions do not need to describe work on native languages directly, as long as it is clear why those can benefit from the described approaches. Areas of interest include but are not limited to: - Creation of datasets for NLP applications - Incorporation of external knowledge into neural systems - Linguistic typology and the use of typological features for NLP - Transfer learning, meta-learning, and active learning - Weakly supervised, semi-supervised, and unsupervised learning - Machine translation of low-resource languages - Morphology and phonology of low-resource languages - NLP applications for Indigenous languages of the Americas Important dates: - Start of the anonymity period: February 10, 2024 - Submission deadline: March 10, 2024 - Notification of acceptance: April 14, 2024 - Camera ready papers due: April 24, 2024 - Workshop: June 20 or 21, 2024 All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h (anywhere on earth). Link to submission portal: https://softconf.com/naacl2024/americasnlp The workshop also includes: - A machine translation shared task on truly low-resource languages - A shared task on morphological adaptation to generate educational examples We also have a diverse set of invited speakers, focused on bridging the gap between linguists, NLP, and machine learning research! - Graham Neubig (multilingual NLP and ML research) - Jaime Pérez González (linguistics research on critically endangered South American languages; field linguistics) Organizing Committee - Manuel Mager, AWS AI Labs - Abteen Ebrahimi, University of Colorado Boulder - Shruti Rijhwani, Google DeepMind - Arturo Oncevay, JP Morgan AI Research - Luis Chiruzzo, Universidad de la República, Uruguay - Robert Pugh, Indiana University, Bloomington - Katharina von der Wense, University of Colorado Boulder and Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz More information and contact information can be found at http://turing.iimas.unam.mx/americasnlp/.

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18 month postdoc position in Natural Language Processing at the University of Copenhagen
by Desmond Elliott 20 Dec '23

20 Dec '23

The Natural Language Processing Section at the Department of Computer Science at University of Copenhagen is advertising an 18 month position for a Postdoctoral Researcher in Natural Language Processing. The position is funded by the European Union Horizon Europe project to Democratize Trustworthy and Efficient Large Language Model Technology for Europe. The overall goal of the project is to develop European large language models (LLMs) on an unprecedented scale, trained on the largest amount of text so far in European AI, covering a range of underrepresented languages, and pushing the limits of European exascale computing. The successful candidate will join a team developing hybrid token-pixel language models and retrieval-augmented language models. The project team includes a consortium of researchers across Europe, and, locally, the co-investigator, a postdoctoral researcher, and one Ph.D student. Further information about the project is available at https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101135671. The successful candidate will join the Language and Multimodal Processing group, which is part of a section with a strong, international, and diverse environment for research within core as well as emerging topics in natural language processing, natural language understanding, computational linguistics and multi-modal language processing. It is housed within the main Science Campus, which is centrally located in Copenhagen. Further information about the group is available here: https://lampgroup.github.io/ and further information about research at the Department is available here: https://di.ku.dk/english/research/. The application deadline is 31 January 2024, with a start date of 1 April 2024, or as soon as possible thereafter. Further information about the position can be found here: https://employment.ku.dk/faculty/?show=160726 Informal enquiries about the positions can be made to the co-investigator Desmond Elliott, Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, e-mail: de(a)di.ku.dk.

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CALL FOR PAPERS: 9th Symposium on Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar (LxGr2024)
by Costas Gabrielatos 20 Dec '23

20 Dec '23

9th Symposium on Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar (LxGr2024) CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline for abstract submission: Friday 15 March 2024 The symposium will take place online on Friday 5 and Saturday 6 July 2024. LxGr primarily welcomes papers reporting on corpus-based research on any aspect of the interaction of lexis and grammar - particularly studies that interrogate the system lexicogrammatically to get lexicogrammatical answers. However, position papers discussing theoretical or methodological issues are also welcome, as long as they are relevant to both lexicogrammar and corpus linguistics. If you would like to present, send an abstract of 500 words (excluding references) to lxgr(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:lxgr@edgehill.ac.uk>. Make sure that the abstract clearly specifies the research focus (research questions or hypotheses), the corpus, the methodology (techniques and metrics), the theoretical orientation, and the main findings. Abstracts will be double-blind reviewed, and decisions will be communicated within four weeks. Full papers will be allocated 35 minutes (including 10 minutes for discussion). Work-in-progress reports will be allocated 20 minutes (including 5 minutes for discussion). There will be no parallel sessions. Participation is free. For details, visit the LxGr website: https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/lxgr/lxgr2024 If you have any questions, contact lxgr(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:lxgr@edgehill.ac.uk>. ________________________________ Edge Hill University<http://ehu.ac.uk/home/emailfooter> Modern University of the Year, The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2022<http://ehu.ac.uk/tef/emailfooter> University of the Year, Educate North 2021/21 ________________________________ This message is private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it from your system. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Edge Hill or associated companies. Edge Hill University may monitor email traffic data and also the content of email for the purposes of security and business communications during staff absence.<http://ehu.ac.uk/itspolicies/emailfooter>

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iCASE EPSRC funded PhD- multimodal NLP - University of Manchester & BAE
by Sophia Ananiadou 20 Dec '23

20 Dec '23

We are seeking an enthusiastic PhD candidate to work in multimodal NLP for model-based systems engineering. Details This project is funded by the EPSRC iCASE (sponsored by BAE Systems) to conduct research in the area of multimodal natural language processing (NLP) for model-based systems engineering based on Large Language Models (LLMs). LLMs have demonstrated a remarkable ability to generate text when presented with images, text, audio and video as input. They are able to achieve higher performance than traditional neural methods and pre-trained language models, without the need for supervised training. The project will examine different approaches to multimodal LLM-based NLP to address complex and fine-grained tasks such as reasoning in model-based systems engineering. The PhD will delve into LLM architectures, data augmentation methods, multi-task and domain-specific LLMs, prompting engineering and interpretability. The candidate will have the opportunity to work with experts at BAE to gain experience in the practical application of model-based systems engineering. The candidate will join the world-class teams of Prof. S. Ananiadou (Computer Science and National Centre for Text Mining, Natural Language Processing, LLMs) and Prof. H. Yin (Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Deep Learning, Computer Vision). Requirements You will have a very good undergraduate degree in Computer Science (minimum 2:1 UK or equivalent for EU students). Experience and knowledge of NLP, multimodal LLMs, Ontologies, Semantic Web, Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) and Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) tools and technology will be considered as an advantage. The successful candidate must be capable of obtaining UK security clearance to fulfil any onsite industrial placement at the location of the host site. Research Environment in Host Institution The Department of Computer Science at the University of Manchester (UoM) is in the unique position of hosting the National Centre for Text Mining (NaCTeM), the first publicly funded centre for text mining in the world, focusing on fundamental research in Natural Language Processing (LLMs, interpretability, information extraction) in a variety of domains. Besides NaCTeM, academic expertise in AI is spread across a number of other institutes including the Institute for Data Science and AI (IDSAI), the Centre for AI Fundamentals and partnerships with the Alan Turing Institute and the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS). BAE Systems BAE Systems provides some of the world's most advanced, technology-led defence, aerospace and security solutions. They employ a skilled workforce of more than 93,000 people in around 40 countries. Working with customers and local partners, they develop, engineer, manufacture, and support products and systems to deliver military capability, protect national security and people, and keep critical information and infrastructure secure. Before you apply We strongly recommend that you contact the supervisors of this project prior to application. How to apply To be considered for this project, you will need to complete a formal application through our online application portal<https://www.findaphd.com/common/clickCount.aspx?theid=167305&type=199&DID=1…> by the 26th of January 2024. When applying, you will need to specify the full name of this project, the name of your supervisor, how you are planning to fund your research, details of your previous studies, and the names and contact details of two referees. Please also send the following to Prof. Sophia Ananiadou (Sophia.ananiadou(a)manchester.ac.uk<mailto:Sophia.ananiadou@manchester.ac.uk>) and Prof. Hujun Yin (hujun.yin(a)manchester.ac.uk<mailto:hujun.yin@manchester.ac.uk>): * cover letter and full CV * Full degree transcripts and relevant certificates Candidates will be shortlisted by a panel comprising members of UoM and BAE Systems. Selected candidates will be invited to give a presentation followed by a formal interview. The interviews will be held during the week of 29th January 2024. Your application will not be processed unless all of the required documents are submitted at the time of application, and we cannot accept responsibility for late or missed deadlines. Incomplete applications will not be considered. If you have any questions about making an application, please contact our admissions team by emailing FSE.doctoralacademy.admissions(a)manchester.ac.uk<mailto:FSE.doctoralacademy.admissions@manchester.ac.uk>. Equality, diversity and inclusion<https://www.findaphd.com/common/clickCount.aspx?theid=167305&type=199&DID=1…> is fundamental to the success of The University of Manchester, and is at the heart of all of our activities. We know that diversity strengthens our research community, leading to enhanced research creativity, productivity and quality, and societal and economic impact. We actively encourage applicants from diverse career paths and backgrounds and from all sections of the community, regardless of age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation and transgender status. We also support applications from those returning from a career break or other roles. We will consider offering flexible study arrangements (including part-time: 50%, 60% or 80%, depending on the project/funder). Funding Notes This project is funded through EPSRC iCASE (with BAE Systems). The project will pay the tuition fees and provide a tax free stipend set at the UKRI rate (£18,622). We are able to offer a limited number of studentships to applicants outside the UK. Therefore, full studentships will only be awarded to exceptional quality candidates, due to the competitive nature of this scheme. Additional research funds will be available. ---------- Professor Sophia Ananiadou Department of Computer Science Director, National Centre for Text Mining Deputy Director, Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Turing Fellow The University of Manchester

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CfP: The 9th Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics (LDL) - LREC-COLING, May 25th 2024
by Max Ionov 20 Dec '23

20 Dec '23

(apologies for cross-posting) The 9th Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics: Resources, Applications, Best Practices Workshop colocated with *LREC-COLING 2024*, *Date*: May 25, 2024 *Venue*: Torino, Italy and online For up to date info, check: https://ldl2024.linguistic-lod.org/ Call for Papers The Linked Data in Linguistics (LDL) workshop series has established itself as the premier venue for discussing the application of Semantic Web technologies to the fields of linguistics, digital lexicography, and digital humanities (DH). While recent years have witnessed a steady growth in adoption of the technology in these areas, its uptake in other relevant domains, most notably in the case of natural language processing (NLP), continues to lag behind. This year, aside from embracing the full bandwidth of applications of LLOD technologies and the closely related area of knowledge graphs in linguistics, we welcome contributions addressing the application of LLOD technologies to NLP applications, as well as those dealing with emerging hot topics of future bridges between structured (linguistic) knowledge and neural methods. In addition, this year’s edition of the workshop will be a venue for in-depth discussions on community standards and best practices, and, above all, those related to the work of the W3C community groups OntoLex <https://www.w3.org/community/ontolex/> [1], LD4LT <https://www.w3.org/community/ld4lt/> [2] and BPMLOD <https://www.w3.org/community/bpmlod/> [3]. To this end, it will include featured talks on the latest achievements, developments, and perspectives of these W3C Community Groups. [1] Ontology-Lexica Community Group [2] Linked Data in Language Technology Community Group [3] Best Practices in Multilingual Linked Open Data * Topics of interest * We invite presentations of algorithms, methodologies, experiments, tools, use cases, descriptions of ongoing or planned research projects as well as position papers that describe the creation, publication or application of linked linguistic data collections and their linking with other resources. Descriptions of such data, and in particular, its uses in research (linguistics, lexicology, digital humanities) and technology (NLP, e-lexicography, localization) are also welcome. The following is a non-exhaustive list of relevant topics: 1. Building, managing and linking language resources - Lexicons and Lexical Data, including Dictionaries and Lexicographic Resources - Annotations and Annotated Corpora - Entity Linking 2. Technologies, challenges and best practices for language technology and language resources on the web: - Interoperability - Sustainability - FAIRness 3. Structured data in language technology: - Knowledge Graphs - Machine Learning - Multilingual Technologies - Language Knowledge Injection in LLMs 4. Show cases, case studies and applications by different communities of practice: - Multimodality - Corpus Linguistics - Lexicography - Digital Humanities 5. Current directions and critical reflection. Position papers on: - Ethical, legal, technological aspects of structured data in the age of LLMs - The role of LLOD in promoting low-resource languages - Extensions of RDF and graph formalisms We invite both long (8 pages and 2 pages of references) and short papers (4 pages and 2 pages of references) representing original research, innovative approaches and resource descriptions. Short papers may also represent project descriptions. These do not have to be implemented but discuss to what extent and for which purposes Linguistic Linked Open Data is reused or created. Projects that are still in their early stages and seek advice from the broader Linguistic Linked Data community are welcome, especially if they include underrepresented fields of study. Papers should be formatted according to the LREC-COLING guidelines, please see https://lrec-coling-2024.org/authors-kit/. Please note that the review process will be *single-blind*. * Identify, Describe and Share your LRs! * When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC-COLING authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones). * Important Dates * - Submission Date: February 23, 2024 - Notification of Acceptance: March 22, 2024 - Camera-Ready: April 5, 2024 - Workshop: May 25, 2024 * Workshop Organizers * - Christian Chiarcos (University of Augsburg, Germany) - Katerina Gkirtzou (Athena Research Center, Greece) - Maxim Ionov (University of Cologne, Germany) - Fahad Khan (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy) - John P. McCrae, (University of Galway, Ireland) - Elena Montiel Ponsoda (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain) - Patricia Martín Chozas (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain) Please get in contact via ldl2024(a)linguistic-lod.org. * Program Committee * - Sina Ahmadi (George Mason University, USA) - Verginica Barbu Mititelu (Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence of the Romanian Academy, Romania) - Paul Buitelaar (Insight, Ireland) - Sara Carvalho (University of Aveiro, Portugal) - Rute Costa (NOVA FCSH/NOVA CLUNL, Portugal) - Milan Dojchinovski (Czech Technical University, Czech Republic) - Agata Filipowska (Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Poznaniu, Poland) - Francesca Frontini (CNR-ILC, Italy) - Frances Gillis Webber (University of Cape Town, South Africa) - Voula Giouli (Athena Research Center, Greece) - Dagmar Gromann (University of Vienna, Austria) - Yoshihiko Hayashi (Waseda University, Japan) - Alik Kirillovich (Higher School of Economics, Russia) - Penny Labropoulou (Athena Research Center, Greece) - Chaya Liebeskind (Jerusalem College of Technology, Israel) - David Lindemann (University of the Basque Country, Spain) - Francesco Mambrini (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy) - Monica Monachini (CNR-ILC, Italy) - Diego Moussallem (Paderborn University, Germany) - Roberto Navigli (“La Sapienza” Università di Roma, Italy) - Petya Osenova (IICT-BAS, Bulgaria) - Ana Ostroški Anić (Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics, Croatia) - Giulia Pedonese (CNR-ILC, Italy) - Sigita Rackevičienė (Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania) - Felix Sasaki (SAP, Germany) - Andrea Schalley (Karlstad University, Sweden) - Gilles Sérasset (University Grenoble Alpes, France) - Milena Slavcheva (IICT-BAS, Bulgaria) - Blerina Spahiu (Bicocca University, Italy) - Ranka Stanković (University of Belgrade, Serbia) - Armando Stellato (University of Rome, Italy) - Federica Vezzani (University of Padua, Italy)

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Fully funded PhD Opportunities in AI (NLP) for Science at the Bredesen Center, University of Tennessee Knoxville and ORNL
by Tirthankar Ghosal 20 Dec '23

20 Dec '23

****Fully funded PhD Opportunities in AI (NLP) for Science at the Bredesen Center, University of Tennessee Knoxville and ORNL*** * The Bredesen Center brings together the extensive scientific resources of the University of Tennessee (UT) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). We are looking for candidates interested in working on #nlp <https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=nlp&highlightedUpdateUrns=u…> for #scientificdiscovery <https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=scientificdiscovery&highlig…> #aiforscience <https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=aiforscience&highlightedUpd…> #llmforscience <https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=llmforscience&highlightedUp…> applications. Successful candidates will have the opportunity to use world-class research facilities at #ORNL <https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=ornl&highlightedUpdateUrns=…>, including the Frontier #Exascale <https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=exascale&highlightedUpdateU…> #supercomputer <https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=supercomputer&highlightedUp…> . Students at the Bredesen Center, UTK, will benefit from a unique experience, working jointly with ORNL, UTK, and our industry partners on research projects that significantly contribute to advancements in trustworthy AI for scientific discovery. *Application Deadline: January 15th, 2024.* Note: The GRE is optional. Please reach out to me at ghosalt(a)ornl.gov if you have questions. We are also hiring #interns <https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=interns&highlightedUpdateUr…> #postdocs <https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=postdocs&highlightedUpdateU…> on the above topic! https://bredesencenter.utk.edu/data-science/ <https://lnkd.in/gqeMRJM9> #sdp <https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=sdp&highlightedUpdateUrns=u…> #llms <https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=llms&highlightedUpdateUrns=…> #sciNLP <https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=scinlp&highlightedUpdateUrn…> Relevant Links: https://utorii.com https://bredesencenter.utk.edu https://www.ornl.gov/staff-profile/tirthankar-ghosal https://www.ornl.gov/ai-initiative -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ *Tirthankar Ghosal* Scientist National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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*SEM 2024 Call for Papers
by jodiechou001＠gmail.com 20 Dec '23

20 Dec '23

*SEM brings together researchers interested in the semantics of (many and diverse!) natural languages and its computational modeling. The conference embraces data-driven, neural, and probabilistic approaches, as well as symbolic approaches and everything in between; practical applications as well as theoretical contributions are welcome. The long-term goal of *SEM is to provide a stable forum for the growing number of NLP researchers working on all aspects of semantics of (many and diverse!) natural languages. Topics of interest: Lexical semantics and word representations Compositional semantics and sentence representations Statistical, machine learning, and deep learning methods in semantic tasks Multilingual and cross-lingual semantics Word sense disambiguation and induction Semantic parsing, and syntax-semantics interface Frame semantics and semantic role labeling Textual inference, textual entailment, and question answering Formal approaches to semantics Extraction of events and of causal and temporal relations Entity linking, pronouns and coreference Discourse, pragmatics, and dialogue Machine reading Extra-propositional aspects of meaning Multiword and idiomatic expressions Metaphor, irony, and humor Knowledge mining and acquisition Common sense reasoning Language generation Semantics in NLP applications: sentiment analysis, abusive language detection, summarization, fact-checking, etc. Multidisciplinary research on semantics Grounding and multimodal semantics Psycholinguistics Interpretability and Explainability Human semantic processing Semantic annotation, evaluation, and resources Ethical aspects and bias in semantic representations We encourage authors to think about the ethical aspects of their work, and to address and discuss all ethical questions and implications relevant to their research. STARSEM values reproducibility and particularly welcomes submissions that adhere to the reproducibility guidelines as specified here. Submission Instructions Submissions must describe unpublished work and be written in English. We solicit both long and short papers. Please note that double submission of papers will need to be notified at submission. Long papers describe original research and may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references. Appendices are allowed after the references, but the paper should be self-contained and reviewers will not be required to check the appendices, if any. Final versions of long papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account. Short papers describe original focused research and may consist of up to four (4) pages, plus unlimited pages for references. Upon acceptance, short papers will be given five (5) content pages in the proceedings. Authors are encouraged to use this additional page to address reviewers comments in their final versions. Submissions should follow the ARR formatting requirements. The deadline for direct submissions is Feb 22, 2024, and these submissions will be reviewed by the *SEM-2024 program committee. ACL Rolling Review (ARR) submissions can be committed to *SEM up to March 22, 2024 (authors of ARR-reviewed papers need to include their OpenReview link with reviews in the submission form). Both types of submissions are through OpenReview. Limitations and Ethics Statement sections are allowed and encouraged, but they are not mandatory. They should be placed after the conclusion and they will not count towards the overall page limit.). In *SEM there is no special policy against multiple submissions, but this should be notified to the Program Chairs. Submission link: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/StarSEM/2024/Conference Important Dates Anonymity period for direct submissions begins Jan 22, 2024 Direct submission deadline Feb 22, 2024 ARR-reviewed paper submission deadline Mar 22, 2024 Notification of acceptance Apr 22, 2024 Camera-ready deadline May 5, 2024 Conference date Jun 16, 2024 Anonymity period To protect the integrity of double-blind review and ensure that submissions are reviewed fairly, we adopt the rules and guidelines for ACL conferences. The following rules and guidelines make reference to the anonymity period, which runs from 1 month before the submission deadline (starting February 22, 2024 11:59PM UTC-12:00) up to the date when your paper is either accepted, rejected (Apr 22, 2024), or withdrawn. You may not make a non-anonymized version of your paper available online to the general community (for example, via a preprint server) during the anonymity period. By a version of a paper we understand another paper having essentially the same scientific content but possibly differing in minor details (including title and structure) and/or in length (e.g., an abstract is a version of the paper that it summarizes). If you have posted a non-anonymized version of your paper online before the start of the anonymity period, you may submit an anonymized version to the conference. The submitted version must not refer to the non-anonymized version, and you must inform the program chair(s) that a non-anonymized version exists. You may not update the non-anonymized version during the anonymity period, and we ask you not to advertise it on social media or take other actions that would further compromise double-blind reviewing during the anonymity period. Note that, while you are not prohibited from making a non-anonymous version available online before the start of the anonymity period, this does make double-blind reviewing more difficult to maintain, and we therefore encourage you to wait until the end of the anonymity period if possible. Alternatively, you may consider submitting your work to the Computational Linguistics journal, which does not require anonymization and has a track for “short” (i.e., conference-length) papers.

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2nd Call for Participation - SHROOM: Shared-task on Hallucinations and Related Observable Overgeneration Mistakes at SemEval-2024
by Mickus, Timothee 20 Dec '23

20 Dec '23

Welcome to SHROOM, a Shared-task on Hallucinations and Related Observable Overgeneration Mistakes! Task description: SHROOM participants will need to detect grammatically sound output that contains incorrect semantic information (i.e. unsupported or inconsistent with the source input), with or without having access to the model that produced the output. Overview of the task: The modern NLG landscape is plagued by two interlinked problems: On the one hand, our current neural models have a propensity to produce inaccurate but fluent outputs; on the other hand, our metrics are most apt at describing fluency, rather than correctness. This leads neural networks to “hallucinate”, i.e., produce fluent but incorrect outputs that we currently struggle to detect automatically. For many NLG applications, the correctness of an output is however mission critical. For instance, producing a plausible-sounding translation that is inconsistent with the source text puts in jeopardy the usefulness of a machine translation pipeline. With our shared task, we hope to foster the growing interest in this topic in the community. With SHROOM we adopt a post hoc setting, where models have already been trained and outputs already produced: participants will be asked to perform binary classification to identify cases of fluent overgeneration hallucinations in two different tracks: a model-aware and a model-agnostic track. In the former, participants have access to the model that produced the output; in the latter, they do not. To ensure a low-barrier to entry, we format the task as a binary classification problem. We now also provide a baseline kit, containing a baseline system, a format checker and the scoring program. All systems will be rated on accuracy (i.e., the proportion of test examples correctly labeled) and calibration (i.e., the correlation between the probability assigned by a system and the proportion of annotators marking a production as hallucinatory). We provide to participants a collection of checkpoints, inputs, references and outputs of systems covering three NLG tasks: definition modeling (DM), machine translation (MT), and paraphrase generation (PG), trained with varying degrees of accuracy. The development set provides binary annotations from five different annotators and a majority vote gold label. Anyone wishing to participate in the task is welcome! Participants will have to * Submit at least once during the evaluation phase on January; * Write a system description paper before February 19; * Review other system description papers (max. 2). Trial, dev and train data are now available on the task website: https://helsinki-nlp.github.io/shroom/ Codalab competition: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/15726 Join the mailing group: https://groups.google.com/u/1/g/semeval-2024-task-6-shroom Updates on Twitter: @shroom2024<https://twitter.com/shroom2024> Important dates: * Sample data ready: July 15th, 2023 * Validation data ready: September 11th, 2023 * Unlabeled train data ready: September 22nd, 2023 * Evaluation period starts (test set released): January 10th, 2024 * Evaluation period ends: January 31st, 2024 * Workshop paper submission deadline: February 19th, 2024 * Notification to authors: March 18th, 2024 * SemEval workshop: 16–21 June, Mexico (collocated with NAACL 2024) Task organizers * Elaine Zosa, Silo AI, Finland * Raúl Vázquez, University of Helsinki, Finland * Jörg Tiedemann, University of Helsinki, Finland * Vincent Segonne, Southern Brittany University, France * Teemu Vahtola, University of Helsinki, Finland * Alessandro Raganato, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy * Timothee Mickus, University of Helsinki, Finland * Marianna Apidianaki, University of Pennsylvania, USA

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CfP: HTRes 2024 – Holocaust Testimonies as Language Resources at LREC-COLING 2024
by Martin Wynne 20 Dec '23

20 Dec '23

Call for Papers: * HTRes 2024 – Holocaust Testimonies as Language Resources *Pre-conference workshop at LREC-COLING 2024 (https://lrec-coling-2024.org/) Tuesday, 21st May, 2024 in Torino, Italy Workshop webpage: https://www.clarin.eu/HTRes2024 ** Final date for paper submission: 21 February 2024 ** Holocaust testimonies serve as a bridge between survivors and history’s darkest chapters, providing a connection to the profound experiences of the past. Testimonies stand as the primary source of information that describe the Holocaust, offering first-hand accounts and personal narratives of those who experienced it. The majority of testimonies are captured in an oral format, as survivors vividly explain and share their personal experiences and observations from that time period. Transforming Holocaust testimonies into a machine-processable digital format can be a difficult task owing to the unstructured nature of the text. The creation of accessible, comprehensive, and well-annotated Holocaust testimony collections is of paramount importance to our society. These collections empower researchers and historians to validate the accuracy of socially and historically significant information, enabling them to share critical insights and trends derived from these data. This workshop will investigate a number of ways in which techniques and tools from natural language processing and corpus linguistics can contribute to the exploration, analysis, dissemination and preservation of Holocaust testimonies. Topics of interest: We expect contributions related to the following topics: * Creation of datasets and development of tools for the study of Holocaust testimonies: * Creation of language corpora of Holocaust testimonies * Digitisation and enhancement of oral and written testimonies (including automatic speech recognition, alignment of text and speech, format conversion, OCR, handwriting recognition, machine translation) * Named entity recognition for identifying people, places, and events in testimonies * Standards, representation formats, and guidelines for annotations and vocabularies relevant to the Holocaust testimonies * Creation, adaptation and tuning of software applications for the creation, annotation, enhancement and use of Holocaust testimonies as language resources Research using NLP and Holocaust testimonies * Applications of NLP in analysing Holocaust survivor testimonies * Sentiment analysis and emotional content extraction from survivor narratives. Data Visualisation, Knowledge Representation and Information Extraction: * Visualising complex data structures from Holocaust testimonies * Building knowledge graphs and networks to represent historical relationships * Interactive data visualisations for education and research * Extracting biographical and temporal information relevant to the Holocaust * Deep learning and large language models Digital Archiving and Long-Term Preservation: * Methods and tools for digitising and preserving Holocaust testimonies * Best practices for metadata standards and cataloguing * Ensuring long-term accessibility and data integrity Ethical Considerations and Privacy * Ethical challenges in digitising and sharing sensitive testimonies * Anonymisation and privacy protection in Holocaust data * Community engagement and consent in digital projects User and application aspects * Development of tools and interfaces for the search, analysis and exploration of Holocaust testimonies * Other relevant use cases and application scenarios All papers must clearly state and explain their relevance to the topic of 'Holocaust Testimonies as Language Resources'. All papers must represent original and unpublished work that is not currently under review. Papers will be evaluated according to their significance, originality, technical content, style, clarity, and relevance to the workshop. We welcome the following types of contributions: Standard research papers (up to 8 pages, plus more pages for references if needed); Short research papers (from 4 to 6 pages, plus more pages for references if needed). Submissions should strictly follow the LREC2024 stylesheet formatting guidelines. All papers should be electronically submitted in PDF format via the main conference platform via START (https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/htres2024/) Important Dates: Final date for paper submission: 21 February 2024 Notification of Acceptance: 20 March 2024 Camera-ready version submission: 15 April 2024 Workshop date: 21 May 2024 Programme: Please refer to the website for the details of the programme, plus the organizing and programme committees: https://www.clarin.eu/HTRes2024 -- Senior Researcher in Corpus Linguistics Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics, University of Oxford National Co-ordinator, CLARIN-UK martin.wynne(a)ling-phil.ox.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4155-0530

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NLP positions / CS @ Max Planck PhD Program - Call for Applicants
by Vera Demberg 20 Dec '23

20 Dec '23

Please note that students in NLP are also very welcome to apply to the CS @ Max Planck PhD Program; NLP Faculty in this program include e.g. Mariya Toneva and Vera Demberg. CS @ Max Planck is a selective doctoral program that grants admitted students full financial support to pursue doctoral research in the field of computer and information science, with faculty at Max Planck Institutes and some of the best German universities. To qualify for the program, students must hold a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science (or a related field) and have an outstanding academic record. We especially encourage applications from students who wish to explore research across the CS spectrum before committing to a topic and advisor. For more information about the program, see: https://www.cis.mpg.de/graduate-programs/cs-max-planck The next application deadline is December 31, 2023. For further information, please contact Gretchen Gravelle (MPI-SWS Grad Office, grad-office(a)mpi-sws.org)

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First Call for Participation- IWSLT 2024
by Atul K. Ojha 19 Dec '23

19 Dec '23

Apologies for cross-posting. ---------------------------------------- *The International Conference on Spoken Language Translation* *21st IWSLT 2024 – First Call for Participation* *August 15-16, 2024 – Bangkok, Thailand* *http://iwslt.org <http://iwslt.org/>* The International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT) is the premier annual conference for all aspects of Spoken Language Translation. Every year, the conference organizes and sponsors open evaluation campaigns around key challenges in simultaneous and consecutive translation, under real-time/low latency or offline conditions and under low-resource or multilingual constraints. System descriptions and results from participants’ systems and scientific papers related to key algorithmic advances and best practices are presented. IWSLT is the venue of the SIGSLTs, the Special Interest Group on Spoken Language Translation of ACL, ISCA and ELRA. With a track record of 20 years, IWSLT benchmarks and proceedings serve as reference for all researchers and practitioners working on speech translation and related fields. The 21st edition of IWSLT will be run as an *ELRA/ACL* event and co-located with ACL 2024 <https://2024.aclweb.org/> on August 15-16, 2024. It will be run as a hybrid event. Important Dates January 15, 2024: Release of shared task training and dev data April 01-15, 2024: Evaluation period April 29, 2024: Paper submission due (all papers) June 4, 2024: Notification of acceptance June 24, 2024: Camera-ready paper due July 22, 2024: Pre-recorded video due August 15-16, 2024: Conference Evaluation The IWSLT 2024 features shared tasks <https://iwslt.org/2024/#shared-tasks> that address the following focus areas: - Speech-to-speech track - Simultaneous track - Subtitling track - Offline track - Dubbing track - Low-resource track - Indic track Training, development and test data for each shared task will be prepared and released by the respective organizers (for further information on this initiative, please refer to the website <https://iwslt.org/2024/>). Participants will receive instructions about how to submit their runs. In addition, participants have the opportunity to present their work through a system paper that will be published in the ACL Proceedings. Conference IWSLT also invites submissions of scientific papers to be published in the ACL Proceedings and presented either in oral or poster format. The conference selects high-quality, original contributions on theoretical and practical issues of spoken language translation research, technologies and applications. For further information on this initiative, please refer to the website <https://iwslt.org/2024/#paper-submission> Contact Please send an email to iwslt-evaluation-campaign(a)googlegroups.com if you have any questions related to the shared tasks.

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CfP: The First Workshop on Language-driven Deliberation Technology (DELITE2024) - LREC-COLING, May 20th 2024
by Gabriella Lapesa 19 Dec '23

19 Dec '23

CfP: The First Workshop on Language-driven Deliberation Technology (DELITE2024) Date: 20 May 2024 Co-located with LREC-COLING 2024, Torino, Italy Website: https://idea.kmi.open.ac.uk/the-first-workshop-on-language-driven-deliberat… ********************************************************************************* Deliberation is ubiquitous: from navigating divergent interests in everyday personal life to reaching consensus in the political decision making process, deliberation describes the communicative process by which a group of people exchange ideas, weigh different arguments, and ultimately reach mutual understanding. In recent years, deliberative processes have gained momentum and shown to improve everyday and political decision-making. For the first time, technological solutions are maturing to the point that they can be deployed to support deliberation. In this context, we want to establish the foundations for collecting and curating data for deliberation domains and for evaluating technology in deliberative settings. The DELITE workshop provides a forum for presenting new advances in technology around deliberation by addressing researchers in Natural Language Processing, human-computer interaction, corpus linguistics, political science and philosophy, as well as stakeholders and domain experts involved in integrating such technology into decision-making processes. Topics for DELITE2024 include, but are not limited to: - Technological advances for public decision making - Deliberation theory in NLP models - In-domain versus across domain resources and corpora - Data-driven theory development - Integration of language systems into deliberation processes and interfaces - Technological solutions for online deliberation at scale - Argument mining for deliberation scenarios - Visual Analytics for human sensemaking - Empirical foundations for evaluation - Integration and reflection on recent advances in LLMs for deliberation scenarios - Explainability - Ethical questions - Addressing bias Application areas include, but are not limited to: - Public policy making - Democratic innovations - Deliberative democracy - Political decision making - Participatory urban planning - Citizen engagement and co-creation - Intelligence services and military - Conflict resolution/mitigation - Case analysis in healthcare - Legal decision making - Scholarly discourse (written and spoken) Submissions *************** Papers must describe original (completed or in progress) and unpublished work. We invite long (8 pages, excluding references) and short papers (4 pages, excluding references). Papers must be anonymized to support double-blind reviewing, i.e., they must not include authors’ names and affiliations and should avoid links to non-anonymized repositories. Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. Upon acceptance, the papers will be given one additional page – for long papers, up to nine (9) pages of content plus unlimited pages for acknowledgments and references and five (5) pages for short papers. We also invite non-archival, non-anonymous papers (4 pages, including references) for a poster session where ongoing projects are presented in order to serve community building. Submission of all papers is electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system (https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/delite2024/). Papers must follow the LREC-COLING 2024 two-column format, using the supplied official style files. The templates can be downloaded from the Style Files and Formatting page provided on the website. Please do not modify these style files, nor should you use templates designed for other conferences. Submissions that do not conform to the required styles, including paper size, margin width, and font size restrictions, will be rejected without review. Important Dates ****************** Paper submission deadline: 23 February 2024 Notification of acceptance: 13 March 2024 Camera-ready versions due: 20 March 2024 Workshop date: 20 May 2024 (half-day) Workshop organizers: ************************** Annette Hautli-Janisz (University of Passau) Gabriella Lapesa (Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences (GESIS), Köln, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf) Valentin Gold (University of Göttingen) Anna de Liddo (The Open University) Chris Reed (University of Dundee) Program Committee: ********************* Lucas Anastasiou (The Open U.) Miriam Butt (U. Konstanz) Philipp Cimiano (U. Bielefeld) Katharina Esau (Queensland U. of Technology) Neele Falk (U. Stuttgart) Iman Jundi (U. Stuttgart) Zlata Kikteva (U. Passau) John Lawrence (U. Dundee) Marcin Lewinsky (U. Lisbon) Steve Oswald (U. Fribourg) Joonsuk Park (U. Richmond) Brian Plüss (U. Dundee) Julia Romberg (U. Düsseldorf) Paolo Spada (U. Southampton) Manfred Stede (U. Potsdam) Sebastian Stier (GESIS, Köln) Eva Maria Vecchi (U. Stuttgart) Jacky Visser (U. Dundee) Henning Wachsmuth (U. Hannover) Timon Ziegenbein (U. Hannover) Contact: ******** delite(a)fim.uni-passau.de https://idea.kmi.open.ac.uk/the-first-workshop-on-language-driven-deliberat… The "Share your LRs!" initiative: ********************************* When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC-COLING authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones).

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Ukrainian NLP Workshop @ LREC-Coling 2024: First CFP
by Mariana Romanyshyn 19 Dec '23

19 Dec '23

*The Third Ukrainian Natural Language Processing Workshop (UNLP 2024)* <https://unlp.org.ua/> *Call For Papers* UNLP 2024 <https://unlp.org.ua/> will be held *online* on May 25, 2024, in conjunction with LREC-COLING 2024. The workshop will bring together academics, researchers, and practitioners in the fields of Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics who work with the Ukrainian language or do cross-Slavic research that can be applied to the Ukrainian language. We hope that the workshop will facilitate developments in the processing of the Ukrainian language, as well as provide a platform for discussion and sharing of ideas, encourage collaboration between different research groups, and improve the visibility of the Ukrainian research community. Topics of interest lie in the area of Ukrainian NLP and Computational Linguistics and include, but are not limited to, the following tasks: - morphosyntactic tagging, - named-entity recognition, - syntactic and semantic parsing, - coreference resolution, - information extraction and text mining, - automated question answering and information retrieval, - language modelling and natural language generation, - grammatical error correction, - text summarization, - machine translation, - sentiment analysis, - argument mining, - disinformation detection and fact verification, - development of language resources and evaluation methods, - speech recognition and generation, - knowledge representation and computational pragmatics, - computational semantics, - computational methods for phonology, - cross-Slavic models, - code-switching and Ukrainian dialects, - Ukrainian NLP in interaction with other artificial intelligence technologies. *Note:* The workshop will accept research papers for the Crimean Tatar language with the aim of supporting this severely endangered language of the indigenous people of Ukraine. The workshop will also accept papers with negative results. *Important dates* March 1, 2024 — Workshop paper due March 29, 2024 — Notification of acceptance TBD (mid-April) — Camera-ready papers due May 25, 2024 — Workshop *Submissions* UNLP invites submissions of completed and ongoing projects. Submissions describing resources or solutions that have been made available to the broader public are strongly encouraged. We invite two types of submissions: long and short papers. Long papers should describe original, unpublished, and completed work. The short papers may describe work in progress, small focused contributions, system demonstrations, new linguistic resources, or experiments based on existing software and resources. The workshop will provide *Grammarly Premium* to all authors. To request Grammarly Premium, please submit the form provided on the website home page <https://unlp.org.ua/>. Learn more at https://unlp.org.ua/call-for-papers/. Link for paper submission: https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/unlp2024/. *Share your LRs!* When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC-COLING authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones). *Workshop Organizers* Andrii Hlybovets, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine Mariana Romanyshyn, Grammarly, Ukraine Nataliia Romanyshyn, Ukrainian Catholic University, Ukraine Oleksii Ignatenko, Ukrainian Catholic University, Ukraine Find our program committee members at https://unlp.org.ua/committees/. *Follow us* Website: https://unlp.org.ua/. Twitter: https://twitter.com/UNLP_workshop. Telegram: https://t.me/UNLP_workshop. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UNLPworkshop. Email: info(a)unlp.org.ua.

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Deadline extension (Dec 22)-Towards Ethical and Inclusive Conversational AI: Language Attitudes, Linguistic Diversity, and Language Rights (TEICAI)
by Nina Hosseini-Kivanani 19 Dec '23

19 Dec '23

Towards Ethical and Inclusive Conversational AI: Language Attitudes, Linguistic Diversity, and Language Rights (TEICAI) at EACL 2024 on Malta-March 17-22, 2024. Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/teicai2024 Submission link: https://softconf.com/eacl2024/TEICAI-2024/ Submission Deadline: 22 December 2023 (anywhere on earth) 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 proceedings will be published in the ACL anthology. Important dates: Workshop paper due: December 22, 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 Workshop 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 Fred Philippy, Zortify, Luxembourg Ekaterina Kamlovskaya, Translatables Program Committee: A list of program committee members is available on the workshop website. For any preliminary questions, you're welcome to reach out to teicai2024(a)gmail.com . You can follow us on LinkedIn (TEICAI) and Twitter (teicai2024) to get more updates about the workshop. On behalf of the organizers Nina Hosseini-Kivanani University of Luxembourg

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Third CFPs: The First Workshop on Natural Language Processing For Human Resources @ EACL 2024
by Estevam Rafael Hruschka Junior 19 Dec '23

19 Dec '23

The First Workshop on Natural Language Processing For Human Resources will be held on 21 or 22 March (TBD) in Malta together with EACL 2024. The Human Resources (HR) field involves a range of diverse tasks where Natural Language Processing (NLP) can provide valuable assistance. These tasks include talent acquisition, career growth guidance, performance management, continuous education and training, among others. At the same time, the adoption of automated techniques for HR applications can also pose certain risks and concerns, such as fairness, privacy, reproducibility, controllability, and transparency among others, for which, again, NLP research can play a pivotal role. The NLP4HR workshop aims to bring together research communities from academia and industry in these interconnected areas to discuss related challenges and opportunities. The workshop will feature invited talks, a panel discussion, and presentations of submitted long and short papers. It will also provide a platform for researchers and practitioners to come together and exchange their ideas and experiences through open discussions. * Important Dates * Mentorship program deadline: December 15, 2023 Workshop submission deadlines: - Direct submission: December 18, 2023 - Mentorship paper submission: January 5, 2024 - Paper commitment via ARR: January 17, 2024 Notification of acceptance for all submissions: January 20, 2024 Camera-ready paper due: January 30, 2024 Workshop: 21 or 22 March 2024 (TBD) *All deadlines are 11:59 PM AoE * Topics of Interest * The topics for submissions include but are not limited to: - Acquiring HR-specific knowledge from a variety of sources - Information extraction from HR documents, including job descriptions and resumes - Representation learning for HR entities like jobs, job seekers, and employers - Analysis of opinions on companies - Search and recommendation systems for recruiters and job seekers - Conversational HR assistants - Generation of HR-related documents - Question answering systems for HR-related inquiries - Identification and rectification of biases * Submissions * We invite submissions of both long and short papers that present original and previously unpublished research addressing the challenges associated with the application of NLP for HR. We also consider non-archival submissions upon request (*Please inform the organizers before submitting). Accepted papers will be presented either through oral presentations or poster sessions and will be included in the EACL proceedings as workshop papers. All regular papers and short papers should adhere to the EACL 2024 submission guidelines, with the only exception being the mandatory inclusion of a limitations section. While we strongly encourage authors to discuss the limitations of their work, we will not reject papers solely for lacking a limitations section. - Long papers can have up to 8 pages of content, with unlimited references and appendices. Accepted long papers will also receive an additional page of content (up to 9 pages) in the proceedings to incorporate feedback from the reviewers. - Short papers can have up to 4 pages of content, with unlimited references and appendices. Accepted short papers will also receive an additional page of content (up to 5 pages) in the proceedings to incorporate feedback from the reviewers. - All submissions must follow the official ACL style format, which can be found at this link: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files - Unlike the main track of EACL 2024, papers without a limitations section will still undergo review for the NLP4HR workshop. Nevertheless, we strongly encourage authors to address the limitations of their work in a dedicated section titled "Limitations." This section should be placed at the end of the main content of the paper, following the discussion/conclusions section and preceding the references, and will not count towards the page limit. For more detailed information, please refer to the EACL 2024 website ( https://2024.eacl.org). Important Notes: - No dual submission: NLP4HR will not consider any paper that is currently under review in a journal, another conference, or workshop at the time of submission, and submitted papers must not be simultaneously submitted elsewhere during the review period. - Presentation: All accepted papers must be presented either in person or virtually at the workshop. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for EACL 2024 and participate in the workshop. Submission links: - Direct submission: https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2024/Workshop/NLP4HR - Paper commitment (ARR): https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2024/Workshop/NLP4HR_ARR_Comm… * Mentorship Program and Student Scholarship Program * The workshop will offer two programs aimed at promoting diversity, fairness, and equality for all participants who submit to and attend the workshop. (1) We host a mentorship program, designed to foster valuable exchanges between prospective workshop attendees and experts working in fields relevant to the workshop theme. (2) We will cover the registration fees for up to four deserving student researchers. Further details regarding this will be announced on the workshop website. Applications to the mentorship program are due December 15th, 2023. Applications and more details can be found at https://forms.gle/8AycB9rgpkpt7oiu9 * NLP4HR 2024 Organizing Committee * - Estevam Hruschka, Megagon Labs, USA - Thom Lake, Indeed, USA - Naoki Otani, Megagon Labs, USA - Tom Mitchell, Carnegie Mellon University, USA For more details, visit the workshop website at https://megagon.ai/nlp4hr-2024/ -- Estevam Hruschka Lab Director and Staff Research Scientist Megagon Labs - www.megagon.ai

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CfP: Workshop on Unpacking Efficient Communication
by Gemma Boleda 18 Dec '23

18 Dec '23

Call for Papers 2024 CORE Project Workshop Unpacking Efficient Communication: The Roles of Cognitive Bias and Extralinguistic Context in Referring Expression Choice When: April 18-19, 2024 Where: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona Language offers a rich set of lexical and syntactic options for reference, reflecting the different ways we can choose to identify, describe, categorize, and differentiate the entities and events we talk about. For example, in any given context, a speaker can choose between a more or less specific expression (the dog, the spotted dog, the Dalmatian), or between expressions that convey complementary information about the referent (the woman, the skier). A well-established line of research highlights the role of efficiency in referring expression choice. But what makes a referring expression “efficient”? Efficiency in communication has been frequently characterized in terms of an informativity/effort trade-off, with informativity operationalized in terms of inference, and effort, in terms of cognitive or physical cost (Horn 1984, Levshina 2021). However, there is also evidence that other factors such as the salience of visual features (e.g., color, Rubio-Fernández 2016) or the prototypicality of an entity as an exemplar of a category (see, e.g., Degen, et al. 2020) can lead speakers to use expressions that are, strictly speaking, overinformative in the narrowest sense of the term. Efficiency can also be examined at the level of the whole system; for instance, Brochhagen and Boleda (2022) argue that the informativity/effort trade-off helps explain cross-linguistic patterns in colexification, or how meanings are organized in the lexicon. The goal of this workshop, supported by the Spanish AEI-funded CORE project (“COntextual effects in the choice of Referring Expressions for visually presented entities”, PID2020-112602GB-I00), is to dig deeper into what makes a linguistic expression “efficient”, considering factors such as: - Cognitive biases that influence the potential for rapid/efficient discrimination. - Potential for exploiting inferences due to choice of one expression vs. another. - Information load a referring expression has to bear given extralinguistic sources of information in the context, especially visual information. - Lexical/constructional frequency effects and association strength between RE options and the referent in question. The workshop aims to give a forum to new and especially exploratory research in this area. The workshop will include a combination of invited talks, presentations of ongoing research by project members, and presentations and/or posters selected in this open call. We invite submissions on topics including, but not limited to: - The general principles that intervene in efficient communication, especially alternatives to or refined definitions of notions such as “efficiency”, “effort”, and “informativity”. - Which features of entities or events are more likely to be used for discrimination. - The role of the visual context and/or distractor entities in influencing RE choice; more generally, the role of multi-modal aspects. - The role of the implicit semantic organization of RE alternatives and the conventionalized division of labor between them, especially organization based on implicative semantic relations (e.g. hyponymy, troponymy). - The factors influencing the choice among alternative cross-classifications of a target referent (e.g. the choice between “taxonomic” descriptions such as woman vs. role-based descriptions such as skier). - The dynamics between reference and the linguistic system, that is, how efficient communication is enabled by and at the same time transforms a given language. We take a methodologically pluralistic approach and thus welcome presentations on experimental studies, analysis of corpus data, computational modeling, critiques or analyses of published research, as well as position papers. Invited speakers: Lilia Rissman, University of Wisconsin - Madison Paula Rubio-Fernández, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics Sina Zarrieß, University of Bielefeld Abstract guidelines: Abstracts should not exceed 2 pages in length (A4 or letter-size), in 12 pt. font, with 1-inch/2,5-cm margins; a third page can be used for references, data, and figures. Please indicate whether you want the submission to be considered for a paper, a poster, or either. Abstracts should be submitted to EasyChair at the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=core2024. Important dates: Deadline for abstract submission: December 20, 2023 Notification of acceptance: January 15, 2024 Workshop dates: April 18-19, 2024 Organizers: Louise McNally, Gemma Boleda, Jialing Liang, Marina Bolea. References: Degen, J., Hawkins, R. D., Graf, C., Kreiss, E., & Goodman, N. D. (2020). When redundancy is useful: A Bayesian approach to “overinformative” referring expressions. Psychological Review, 127(4), 591–621. Gualdoni, E., T. Brochhagen, A. Mädebach, G. Boleda. 2023. What's in a name? A large-scale computational study on how competition between names affects naming variation. Journal of Memory and Language, 133, 104459. Brochhagen, T., G. Boleda. 2022. When do languages use the same word for different meanings? The Goldilocks Principle in colexification. Cognition, 226, 105179. Horn, L.R. (1984). Towards a new taxonomy for pragmatic inference: Q-based and R-based implicature. In Schiffrin, D. (ed.), Meaning, Form, and Use in Context: Linguistic Applications, 11-42. Georgetown University Press, Washington, DC. Levshina, N. (2023). Communicative efficiency: Language structure and use. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Rissman, L., & Lupyan, G. (2022). A Dissociation Between Conceptual Prominence and Explicit Category Learning: Evidence From Agent and Patient Event Roles. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 151(7):1707-1732. Rubio-Fernandez, P., Mollica, F., & Jara-Ettinger, J. (2021). Speakers and listeners exploit word order for communicative efficiency: A cross-linguistic investigation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 150(3), 583–594. Schüz, S., Han, T., Zarrieß, S. (2021) Diversity as a By-Product: Goal-oriented Language Generation Leads to Linguistic Variation. Proceedings of the 22nd Annual SIGdial Meeting on Discourse and Dialogue. Association for Computational Linguistics.

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Survey about LLM democratization
by Vagrant Gautam 18 Dec '23

18 Dec '23

Dear corpora-list members, [ https://arjunsubramonian.github.io/ | Arjun Subramonian ] , [ https://zeerak.org/ | Zeerak Talat ] and [ https://dippedrusk.com/ | I ] are investigating the barriers that NLP researchers face in using large language models (LLMs), as well as how they conceptualize the democratization of LLMs. All NLP practitioners are invited to fill out our survey: [ https://forms.gle/DC6ZjDbFKxW95khz9 | https://forms.gle/DC6ZjDbFKxW95khz9 ] We look forward to your responses. Best, Vagrant Mx. Vagrant Gautam ( [ https://dippedrusk.com/posts/2022-12-03-pronouns/ | they/them ] ) [ https://dippedrusk.com/ | https://dippedrusk.com/ ]

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Call For Chapters ! | Applied Speech and Text Processing For Low Resource Languages by River Publishers
by Shantipriya Parida 18 Dec '23

18 Dec '23

Dear Professor/Scholar, We would like to invite you to contribute a chapter for the upcoming book entitled “Applied Speech and Text Processing For Low Resource Languages” to be published by the River Publishers. ------------------------------ Motivation and Scope of the Book Out of over 7000 recognized languages worldwide, only a small proportion offer sufficient resources to build speech and natural language processing (NLP) technologies adequately. Developing such solutions for low-resource languages is challenging in multiple aspects. The dependency on deep learning over volumes of resources is quite conventional. Hence, the research in this domain is propelled by different ideas to train and validate systems, such as data augmentation, transfer learning, and hybrid multi-modal architectures, to name a few. This book aims at collecting such ideas, advent, and solutions for building speech/NLP technologies in low-resource scenarios. ------------------------------ Table of Contents We invite submissions of high-quality, original chapters addressing both theoretical and practical aspects, including their ethical and social implications of NLP in healthcare. The Book aims to cover (but is not limited) the following topics: - Speech Processing for Low Resource Languages - Natural Language Processing for Low Resource - Deep learning methods for low-resource languages - End-to-end speech Recognition for Low-Resource Language - Development of a Speech Corpus for Low Resource Language - Multimodal architectures for social media analysis - Speech synthesis for low-resource language - Speech translation for low-resource language - Indigenous Language revitalization/preservation - Transfer learning applications - Leveraging Large pre-trained language models knowledge under few-shot and zero-shot in NLP tasks - Efficiently aligning acoustic and textual embeddings - Speech Recognition for Specific Dialects ------------------------------ Important Dates and Submission Guidelines - Full Chapter Abstract Submission: 10.01.2024 - Abstract Acceptance/Rejection Notification: 25.01.2024 - Full Chapter Submission: 15.03.2024 - First Review Notification: 15.04.2024 - Revised Version Notification: 15.05.2024 - Final Acceptance/Rejection Notification: 30.05.2024 - Camera Ready Chapter Submission: 10.06.2024 Authors should send their abstracts and chapters through easy-chair <https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=appliedspeechnlpbook0>only. The submission guidelines and other detailed information can be found on the book website <https://sites.google.com/view/speech-nlp-boook-river/home>. For any query mail to: speech_nlp_book_river(a)googlegroups.com <https://groups.google.com/g/speech_nlp_book_river> ------------------------------ Editors - Dr. Shantipriya Parida (Silo AI, Finland) <https://www.linkedin.com/in/shantipriya-parida-9781a9127/> - Assoc. Prof. Satya Ranjan Dash (KIIT University, India) <https://ksca.kiit.ac.in/profiles/satya-ranjan-dash/> - Asst. Prof. Biswa Ranjan Acharya (Marwadi university, India) <https://www.linkedin.com/in/acharyabiswa/?originalSubdomain=in> - Dr. Ravi Shankar Prasad (Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland) <https://www.linkedin.com/in/ravishankar-prasad-b9907924/> - Prof. Esaú Villatoro-Tello (Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland) <https://www.linkedin.com/in/esa%C3%BA-villatoro-tello-bb185b1aa/> Request to share among NLP researchers/scholars. -- Shantipriya Parida Senior AI Scientist @ Silo AI <http://www.silo.ai/> Mobile:# +358 (0465787840) LinkedIn <http://linkedin.com/>*Shantipriya Parida <https://www.linkedin.com/in/shantipriya-parida-9781a9127/>* *http://www.shantipriya.me/ <http://www.shantipriya.me/>*

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Job @ ELDA - Immediate vacancy: Senior Project Manager in Speech Technologies (m/f)
by info＠elda.org 18 Dec '23

18 Dec '23

[Apologies for multiple postings] The European Language Resources Distribution Agency (ELDA), a company specialized in Human Language Technologies within an international context, is currently seeking to fill an immediate vacancy for a permanent Senior Project Manager position, specialised in Speech Technologies. Under the supervision of the CEO, the Senior Project Manager, specialised in Speech Technologies will be in charge of conducting the activities related to the production of language resources and the co-ordination of R&D projects. Their responsibilities include language resources design/specification, production frameworks and platforms setup, quality control and assessment, project-dedicated team members recruitment and management. They will also contribute to improving or updating of the current language resources production workflows. This yields excellent opportunities for qualified, creative, and motivated candidates wishing to participate actively in the Language Engineering field. The position is based in Paris (13th). Required profile: * PhD in computer science specialised in speech technologies. A proven background in research (scientific publications) will be a strong plus * At least 3 years of experience in speech technologies (speech recognition, synthesis, language modelling) and the well-used tools to produce and collect data, and assess quality * Ability to experiment with various techniques for improving or building tools (eg., transcription and annotation tools) * Contribution to international projects * Good knowledge of Linux and open source software * Proficiency in Python programming language * Good knowledge of scripting languages: bash, R, Perl * Experience and ability to supervise members of a multidisciplinary team * Dynamic and communicative, flexible to combine and work on different tasks * Proficiency in English with ability to write user guides, administration documentation and reports, and good mastering of French. Knowledge of other languages would be a plus. * Citizenship (or residency papers) of a European Union country Salary: Commensurate with qualifications and experience (between 40-50K€). Other benefits: complementary health insurance and meal vouchers. About ELDA is an SME established in 1995 to promote the development and exploitation of Language Resources (LRs). Language Resources include all data necessary for language engineering, such as monolingual and multilingual lexica, text corpora, speech databases and terminology. ELDA’s role is to produce LRs, to collect and to validate them and, foremost, make them available to users in compliance with applicable regulations and ethical requirements. For further information about ELDA, visit: http://www.elda.org Applicants should email a cover letter addressing the points listed above together with a curriculum vitae to: ELDA 9, rue des Cordelières 75013 Paris FRANCE Email: job(a)elda.org *__*

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First CFP: Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2024)
by Ivelina Stoyanova Department of Computational Linguistics 18 Dec '23

18 Dec '23

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to invite you to the 6th edition of the International Conference on Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2024, [ http://dcl.bas.bg/clib/ | http://dcl.bas.bg/clib/ ] ), to be held on 9 and 10 September 2024 in Sofia, Bulga ria. Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB) is an international conference that aims at exploring novel approaches and methods in computational linguistics and natural language processing (NLP), especially with a view to their application to small and less-resourced languages such as Bulgarian and the bridging of the discrepancies between big and small languages with respect to language technologies. IMPORTANT DATES Tutorial submission deadline: 15 February 2024 Tutorial notification deadline: 15 March 2024 Paper abstract submission deadline: 15 March 2024 Paper submission deadline: 15 April 2024 (23:59 UTC/GMT+2) Author notification deadline: 15 May 2024 Camera-ready PDF due: 15 June 2024 Official proceedings publication date: 7 September 2024 Conference: 9 – 10 September 2024 TOPICS OF INTEREST CLIB invites contributions on original research, including, but not limited to: * computer-aided learning, training and education * dialogue and interactive systems * information retrieval, information extraction, text mining and knowledge graph derivation * language grounding for computer vision and robotics * language modelling * language theories and cognitive modelling for NLP * large language models and NLP evaluation methodologies * language resources and benchmarking for large language models * language resources construction and annotation * machine learning for NLP * machine translation, multilingualism, translation aids * morphology and segmentation * natural language generation, understanding, summarisation and simplification * ontologies, terminology and knowledge representation * sentiment analysis, stylistic analysis, opinion and argument mining * speech recognition, synthesis and spoken language understanding * tagging, chunking, syntax and parsing CLIB 2024 also solicits submissions presenting project reports , new data resources , system demonstrations , position papers . SPECIAL SESSION ON WORDNETS, FRAMENETS AND ONTOLOGIES The Special Session on Wordnets, Framenets and Ontologies brings together researchers interested in the principles, theory, practice and applications of wordnets, ontologies, related linguistic resources and their interoperability and seeks to establish a dedicated community and to foster joint initiatives in this particular field. PAPER TYPES AND FORMAT Long papers must describe substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. Long papers may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content. Short paper submissions must describe original and unpublished work dealing with a small, focused contribution. Short papers may consist of up to four (4) pages. Both types of submissions allow for an unlimited number of pages of references and appendices. All accepted papers will be included in the Conference Proceedings. Additional information and the CLIB 2024 style guidelines and templates are available in the [ http://dcl.bas.bg/clib/instructions-for-authors/ | Instructions for Authors ] section at the Conference website. PAPER SUBMISSION Papers must be submitted in English and should be anonymous . Reviewing will be double blind . Each submission will be reviewed by at least two anonymous reviewers. We invite authors to submit a provisional title along with a brief abstract (approx. 150 words) by 15 March 2024 in pdf format. Abstract should be anonymous. Submission of papers and abstracts will be managed online by the EasyChair conference management system through the [ https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=clib2024 | CLIB 2024 EasyChair page ] . BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD In order to encourage talented young researchers, the best paper with a Master/PhD student among the authors and presenting the work at the conference will be awarded a small prize and a diploma. CALL FOR TUTORIALS CLIB 2024 invites proposals for tutorials which will be held before the Conference (on September 8). Proposals should not exceed 4 pages of content (plus unlimited pages for references) using CLIB paper templates, and they should be submitted as pdf documents through the [ https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=clib2024 | CLIB 2024 EasyChair page ] . Tutorial proposals are not anonymous . Guidelines for the proposals for tutorials are available in the [ https://dcl.bas.bg/clib/call-for-tutorials/ | Call for Tutorials ] section at the Conference website. The CLIB 2024 style guidelines and templates are available in the [ http://dcl.bas.bg/clib/instructions-for-authors/ | Instructions for Authors ] section published at the Conference website. CLIB PROCEEDINGS INDEXING The Proceedings from CLIB 2016, CLIB 2018, CLIB 2020 are indexed in ISI Web of Science. As of November 2020 the Proceedings are indexed in Scopus . CLIB Proceedings published since 2020 are also included in the ACL Anthology. You can contact us via the Conference e-mail: [ mailto:clib2024@dcl.bas.bg | clib2024(a)dcl.bas.bg ] Best regards, The CLIB2024 Organising Committee

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Second CFP: The 6th Workshop on Research in Computational Linguistic Typology and Multilingual NLP (SIGTYP 2024)
by Michael Hahn 18 Dec '23

18 Dec '23

Second CFP: The 6th Workshop on Research in Computational Linguistic Typology and Multilingual NLP (SIGTYP 2024) To be held at EACL 2024 (March 21 or 22, 2024 Malta) Website: https://sigtyp.github.io/ Submission website: https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2024/Workshop/SIGTYP <https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2024/Workshop/SIGTYP> Submission deadline: December 18, 2023 We invite submissions to the 6th edition of the SIGTYP workshop on Research in Computational Linguistic Typology and Multilingual NLP, to be held at EACL 2024 on March 21 or 22, 2024. Workshop description The aim of the 6th edition of SIGTYP workshop is to act as a platform and a forum for the exchange of information between typology-related research, multilingual NLP, and other research areas that can lead to the development of truly multilingual NLP methods. The workshop is specifically aimed at raising awareness of linguistic typology and its potential in supporting and widening the global reach of multilingual NLP, as well as at introducing computational approaches to linguistic typology. It will foster research and discussion on open problems, not only within the active community working on cross- and multilingual NLP but also inviting input from leading researchers in linguistic typology. Our workshop will serve as a platform to enable fruitful discussions. In 2024, we additionally focus on bridging the gap between cross-linguistic and universal annotation, models, and technology. SIGTYP is the first dedicated venue for typology-related research and its integration in multilingual NLP. Appropriate topics include (but are not limited to) the following as they relate to the areas of the workshop: * Integration of typological features in language transfer and joint multilingual learning. In addition to established techniques such as “selective sharing”, are there alternative ways to encoding heterogeneous external knowledge in machine learning algorithms? * Development of unified taxonomy and resources. Building universal databases and models to facilitate understanding and processing of diverse languages. * Automatic inference of typological features. The pros and cons of existing techniques (e.g. heuristics derived from morphosyntactic annotation, propagation from features of other languages, supervised Bayesian and neural models) and discussion on emerging ones. * Typology and interpretability. The use of typological knowledge for interpretation of hidden representations of multilingual neural models, multilingual data generation and selection, and typological annotation of texts. * Improvement and completion of typological databases. Combining linguistic knowledge and automatic data-driven methods towards the joint goal of improving the knowledge on cross-linguistic variation and universals. * Linguistic diversity and universals. Challenges of cross-lingual annotation. Which linguistic phenomena or categories should be considered universal? How should they be annotated? * Language-specific studies to support or contradict universals. Framing a study on 1-3 languages that would shed more light on common linguistic structures and properties. * Extra topics also include: generation of constructed languages, universals in diachronic languages changes, information-theoretic approaches to typology, automated approaches to etymology. Important Dates (all deadlines are 23:59 AoE) — December 18, 2023: Paper submission deadline — January 20, 2024: Notification of acceptance — January 30, 2024: Camera-ready deadline — March 21 or 22, 2024: Workshop Submissions We invite both extended abstract submissions (non-archival) and general paper submissions (archival). The accepted submissions will be presented at the workshop, providing new insights and ideas. Extended abstracts should describe already published work or work in progress and should not exceed two (2) pages. This way, we will not discourage researchers from preferring main conference proceedings, at the same time ensuring that interesting and thought-provoking research is presented at the workshop. For general (archival) submissions we accept both long and short papers. Short papers should not exceed four (4) pages, long papers should not exceed eight (8) pages papers. Unlimited additional pages are allowed for the references section in all submission types. Submissions should be anonymous, without authors or an acknowledgement section; self-citations should appear in third person. Submissions must follow the EACL 2024 stylesheet https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files <https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files>; both long and short paper submissions must follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings. All submissions must be in PDF format. These should be submitted via OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2024/Workshop/SIGTYP <https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2024/Workshop/SIGTYP>. ARR submissions that were rejected or withdrawn from EACL can be submitted to SIGTYP by January 17, 2024. We will create a web form for submitting, and announce it at https://sigtyp.github.io/sigtyp-cfp2024.html by January 15, 2024. Acceptance decisions will be made based on the existing ARR reviews. Authors will be notified by January 20, 2024. *Shared Task* In 2024, SIGTYP is hosting a Word Embedding Evaluation for Ancient and Historical Languages. More details can be found here: https://sigtyp.github.io/st2024.html. Organizing Committee Michael Hahn, Rena Gao, Saliha Muradoglu, Yulia Otmakhova, Andreas Shcherbakov, Oleg Serikov, Jinrui Yang, Alexey Sorokin, Priya Rani, Ritesh Kumar, Ryan Cotterell, Edoardo M. Ponti, Kat Vylomova Anti-harassment policy The workshop follows the ACL anti-harassment policy: https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Anti-Harassment_Policy <https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Anti-Harassment_Policy>. Contact For any inquiries regarding the workshop, please send an email to the Organizing Committee at sigtyp(a)gmail.com

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[IberLEF 2024] Second Call for Task Proposals
by Salud María Jiménez Zafra 18 Dec '23

18 Dec '23

================================= IberLEF 2024 -- Second 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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Post-doc Namkin & Loria-Sémagramme - Troyes-Nancy, France
by Maxime Amblard 18 Dec '23

18 Dec '23

The Namkin company and Loria - Université de Lorraine invites applications for a postdoctoral position on business event extraction. Location: Troyes, France and Nancy, France Application Deadline: 31st January 2024 Starting Date: March 2024 Contract Duration: 1 year (with possible extension) The industry faces numerous challenges that necessitate the evolution of BtoB marketing tools, in order to develop a valuable offer and provide an enhanced customer experience. Namkin's BrainLab develops industrial marketing tools for digitalizing customer relations, evolving business models, and exploiting business and economic data for business development. One of the key challenges of marketing intelligence is to identify risks and opportunities so as to guide marketing strategies. Among the sources of information useful to detect risks and opportunities, Namkin has identified Business Events, that is, “textually reported real-world occurrences, actions, relations, and situations involving companies and firms” (Jacobs et al., 2018). The Loria Semagram team specialises in modelling natural language semantics to represent discourse. While modern semantic representations may contain vast quantities of information, they do not always (or necessarily) contain the information that is useful for the concrete application. For instance, significant challenges still persist in dealing with temporal relations and finely-grained negation interpretation. A number of studies at the crossroads of business intelligence and NLP have focused on the detection or extraction of Business Events (e.g., Arendarenko & Kakkonen, 2012; Han et al., 2018; Jacobs et al., 2018; Jacobs & Hoste, 2020; Jacobs & Hoste, 2022). Despite the richness of the event extraction literature, many challenges still remain. Some of these challenges are concerned with the modelling of the task itself, such as the necessity / benefit of trigger identification for event extraction (see Zhu et al. 2021), some with the scope of the task, such as sentence level vs document level extraction (e.g., Zheng et al. 2019), some with the information necessary to the integration of events in a coherent knowledge base, like factuality detection (e.g., Zhang et al., 2022) and event disambiguation (e.g., Barhom et al., 2019). Recent research has looked into the benefits of exploiting semantic representations, and in particular Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR; Banarescu et al. 2013), for low-resources scenarios (Huang et al., 2018) and document level event argument extraction (e.g., Xu et al., 2022). However, it appears that AMR has to be adapted in order to optimally support event extraction related tasks (Yang et al., 2023). One major limitation of AMR for document-level event extraction is that AMR works at the sentence level, and thus requires the aggregation of sentence-level representations. AMR is also limited in terms of negation and universal quantification expressive power. To overcome these issues, we seek to appoint a Postdoctoral Researcher to work on semantic modelling. Some promising new lead was recently provided by Bos (2023) who proposes a new meaning representation system that overcomes expressive power limitations, supports discourse relations and inter-sentential coreferences, and reduces the annotation load. The appointed Postdoctoral Researcher will explore semantic modelling solutions and their application to event extraction in the field of business. The topic covers various subjects, including: - Computational semantics, - Machine learning with neural networks, - Cross-domain model transfer, - Learning from small data, - Combining top-down (expert-driven) and bottom-up (dataset-driven) models, - Design of meaning representations - Shallow and deep semantic processing and reasoning - Hybrid symbolic and statistical approaches to semantics - Neural semantic parsing - Semantics and ontologies The successful candidate will be part of Namkin's Data & IA team and the Sémagramme Team at Loria, with co-supervision provided by Agata Marcante and Professor Maxime Amblard. As part of the role, you will have the opportunity to... - Design, develop and test semantic representation algorithms for text-mining with the aim of identifying significant information in unstructured text. - Collaborate with Namkin’s experts to evaluate the algorithms on real-world use cases. You will be responsible for writing academic papers, technical reports and project deliverables. You will also attend academic conferences or project meetings to present your findings and act as a representative for the team. Requirements include expertise in semantic representation algorithms, excellent technical writing skills and the ability to work well in a team. * Applicants must hold a PhD in Computer Science, related to Data Systems, Natural Language Processing, or Artificial Intelligence. * They should have proven fluency in at least one programming language, such as Python, R, Java or C++. * Candidates must possess a curious and passionate attitude towards research and learning in general. * Proficiency in French language would be considered a bonus. * Previous experience in the NLP field would be considered advantageous. How to apply: send an email to: applications(a)namkin.fr <mailto:applications@namkin.fr> - with the subject starting with ''Namkin-Loria Postdoc'' - with a single PDF attached containing: * Cover letter detailing motivation and qualifications for this position. * Curriculum vitae, with a list of publications and contact details for references. Interested parties are encouraged to contact us for further information regarding the position before applying. References Arendarenko, E., & Kakkonen, T. (2012). Ontology-based information and event extraction for business intelligence. In Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, and Applications: 15th International Conference, AIMSA 2012, Varna, Bulgaria, September 12-15, 2012. Proceedings 15 (pp. 89-102). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. Barhom, S., Shwartz, V., Eirew, A., Bugert, M., Reimers, N., & Dagan, I. (2019). Revisiting joint modeling of cross-document entity and event coreference resolution. arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.01753. Banarescu, L., Bonial, C., Cai, S., Georgescu, M., Griffitt, K., Hermjakob, U., ... & Schneider, N. (2013, August). Abstract meaning representation for sembanking. In Proceedings of the 7th linguistic annotation workshop and interoperability with discourse (pp. 178-186). Jacobs, G., & Hoste, V. (2020). Extracting fine-grained economic events from business news. In COLING 2020 (pp. 235-245). COLING. Jacobs, G., & Hoste, V. (2022). SENTiVENT: enabling supervised information extraction of company-specific events in economic and financial news. Language Resources and Evaluation, 56(1), 225-257. Jacobs, G., Lefever, E., & Hoste, V. (2018). Economic event detection in company-specific news text. In 1st Workshop on Economics and Natural Language Processing (ECONLP) at Meeting of the Association-for-Computational-Linguistics (ACL) (pp. 1-10). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). Han, S., Hao, X., & Huang, H. (2018). An event-extraction approach for business analysis from online Chinese news. Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, 28, 244-260. Huang, L., Ji, H., Cho, K., Dagan, I., Riedel, S., & Voss, C. (2018, July). Zero-Shot Transfer Learning for Event Extraction. In Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) (pp. 2160-2170). Xu, R., Wang, P., Liu, T., Zeng, S., Chang, B., & Sui, Z. (2022). A two-stream AMR-enhanced model for document-level event argument extraction. arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.00241. Yang, Y., Guo, Q., Hu, X., Zhang, Y., Qiu, X., & Zhang, Z. (2023). An AMR-based link prediction approach for document-level event argument extraction. arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.19162. Zhang, H., Qian, Z., Li, P., & Zhu, X. (2022, November). Evidence-Based Document-Level Event Factuality Identification. In PRICAI 2022: Trends in Artificial Intelligence: 19th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, PRICAI 2022, Shanghai, China, November 10–13, 2022, Proceedings, Part II (pp. 240-254). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. Zheng, S., Cao, W., Xu, W., & Bian, J. (2019). Doc2EDAG: An end-to-end document-level framework for Chinese financial event extraction. arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.07535. Zhu, T., Qu, X., Chen, W., Wang, Z., Huai, B., Yuan, N. J., & Zhang, M. (2021). Efficient document-level event extraction via pseudo-trigger-aware pruned complete graph. arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.06013. ---------------------- Maxime Amblard Université de Lorraine https://members.loria.fr/mamblard <https://members.loria.fr/mamblard> http://espoir-ul.fr <http://espoir-ul.fr/>

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Job offer: W1 Professorship for Digital Humanities
by Stefanie Dipper 18 Dec '23

18 Dec '23

Job offer: W1 Professorship for Digital Humanities in the Study of Religion (with Tenure Track W2) The Center for Religious Studies (CERES) at the Ruhr University Bochum (RUB), Germany, invites applications for the position of a W1 Professorship for Digital Humanities in the Study of Religion (with Tenure Track W2). The successful applicant is expected to represent the field of Digital Humanities in the study of religion in research and teaching. The aim is to strengthen Digital Humanities at RUB and the study of religion at CERES and especially in the context of the Collaborative Research Center "Metaphors of Religion". The full text of the advertisement (in German) is available at https://jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/8c4b276c0e75e597169c5082e2051ca7… (for an unofficial English version, see https://ceres.rub.de/en/news/w1-professur-fur-digital-humanities-in-der-rel…). Address for questions and applications: Dr. Tim Karis/tim.karis(a)rub.de Application deadline: 2024, Jan 31 Stefanie Dipper

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[CfP] DLnLD: Deep Learning and Linked Data
by Gilles Sérasset 18 Dec '23

18 Dec '23

DLnLD: Deep Learning and Linked Data Workshop colocated with LREC-COLING 2024, Date: May 21, 2024 Venue: Torino, Italy and online For up to date info, check: https://dl-n-ld.github.io/ <https://dl-n-ld.github.io/> Call for Papers ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What does Linguistic Linked Data brings to Deep Learning and vice versa ? Let’s bring together these two complementary approaches in NLP. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Motivations for the Workshop Since the appearance of transformers (Vaswani et al., 2017), Deep Learning (DL) and neural approaches have brought a huge contribution to Natural Language Processing (NLP) either with highly specialized models for specific application or via Large Language Models (LLMs) (Devlin et al., 2019; Brown et al., 2020; Touvron et al., 2023) that are efficient few-shot learners for many NLP tasks. Such models usually build on huge web-scale data (raw multilingual corpora and annotated specialized, task related, corpora) that are now widely available on the Web. This approach has clearly shown many successes, but still suffers from several weaknesses, such as the cost/impact of training on raw data, biases, hallucinations, explainability, among others (Nah et al., 2023). The Linguistic Linked Open Data (LLOD) (Chiarcos et al., 2013) community aims at creating/distributing explicitly structured data (modelled as RDF graphs) and interlinking such data across languages. This collection of datasets, gathered inside the LLOD Cloud (Chiarcos et al., 2020), contains a huge amount of multilingual ontological (e.g. DBpedia (Lehmann et al., 2015)); lexical (e.g., DBnary (Sérasset, 2015), Wordnet (McCrae et al., 2014), Wikidata (Vrandečić and Krötzsch, 2014)); or linguistic (e.g., Universal Dependencies Treebank (Nivre et al., 2020; Chiarcos et al., 2021), DBpedia Abstract Corpus (Brümmer et al., 2016)) information, structured using common metadata (e.g., OntoLex (McCrae et al., 2017), NIF (Hellmann et al., 2013), etc.) and standardised data categories (e.g., lexinfo (Cimiano et al., 2011), OliA (Chiarcos and Sukhareva, 2015)). Both communities bring striking contributions that seem to be highly complementary. However, if knowledge (ontological) graphs are now routinely used in DL, there is still very few research studying the value of Linguistic/Lexical knowledge in the context of DL. We think that, today, there is a real opportunity to bring both communities together to take the best of both worlds. Indeed, with more and more work on Graph Neural Networks (Wu et al., 2023) and Embeddings on RDF graphs (Ristoski et al., 2019), there is more and more opportunity to apply DL techniques to build, interlink or enhance Linguistic Linked Open Datasets, to borrow data from the LLOD Cloud for enhancing Neural Models on NLP tasks, or to take the best of both worlds for specific NLP use cases. Submission Topics This workshop aims at gathering researchers that work on the interaction between DL and LLOD in order to discuss what each approach has to bring to the other. For this, we welcome contributions on original work involving some of the following (non exhaustive) topics: • Deep Learning for Linguistic Linked Data, among which (but not exclusively): • Modelling, Resources & Interlinking, • Relation Extraction • Corpus annotation • Ontology localization • Knowledge/Linguistic Graphs creation or expansion • Linguistic Linked Data for Deep Learning, among which (but not exclusively): • Linguistic/Knowledge Graphs as training data • Fine tuning LLMs using Linguistic Linked (meta)Data • Graph Neural Networks • Knowledge/Linguistic Graphs embeddings • LLOD for model explainability/sourcing • Neural models for under-resourced languages • Joint Deep Learning and Linguistic Data applications • Use cases combining Language Models and Structured Linguistic Data • LLOD and DL for Digital Humanities • Question-Answering on graph data All application domains (Digital Humanities, FinTech, Education, Linguistics, Cybersecurity…) as well as approaches (NLG, NLU, Data Extraction…) are welcome, provided that the work is based on the use of BOTH Deep Learning techniques and Linguistic Linked (meta)Data. Important Dates (Current dates are tentative and will be revised when we will have more input from LREC-COLING Workshop Chairs) All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”) • Final submissions due: 25 February 2024 • Notification of acceptance: 25 March 2024 • Camera-ready due: 2nd April 2024 Authors kit All papers must follow the LREC-COLING 2024 two-column format, using the supplied official style files. The templates can be downloaded from the Style Files and Formatting page provided on the website. Please do not modify these style files, nor should you use templates designed for other conferences. Submissions that do not conform to the required styles, including paper size, margin width, and font size restrictions, will be rejected without review. LREC-COLING 2024 Author’s Kit Page: https://lrec-coling-2024.org/authors-kit/ <https://lrec-coling-2024.org/authors-kit/> Paper submission Submission is electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system. For the submission link, refer to DLnLD website: https://dl-n-ld.github.io/ <https://dl-n-ld.github.io/> Workshop Chairs • Gilles Sérasset, Université Grenoble Alpes, France • Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira, University of Coimbra, Portugal • Giedre Valunaite Oleskeviciene, Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania Program Committee • Mehwish Alam, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France • Russa Biswas, Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam, Germany • Milana Bolatbek, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Kazakhstan • Michael Cochez, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands • Milan Dojchinovski, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic • Basil Ell, University of Oslo, Norway • Robert Fuchs, University of Hamburg, Germany • Radovan Garabík, L’. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia • Daniela Gifu, Romanian Academy, Iasi branch & Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania • Katerina Gkirtzou, Athena Research Center, Maroussi, Greece • Jorge Gracia del Río, University of Zaragoza, Spain • Dagmar Gromann, University of Vienna, Austria • Dangis Gudelis, Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania • Ilan Kernerman, Lexicala by K Dictionaries, Israel • Chaya Liebeskind, Jerusalem College of Technology, Israel • Marco C. Passarotti, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy • Heiko Paulheim, University of Mannheim, Germany • Alexandre Rademaker, IBM Research Brazil and EMAp/FGV, Brazil • Georg Rehm, DFKI GmbH, Berlin, Germany • Harald Sack, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany • Didier Schwab, Université Grenoble Alpes, France • Ranka Stanković, University of Belgrade, Serbia • Andon Tchechmedjiev, IMT Mines Alès, France • Dimitar Trajanov, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University – Skopje, Macedonia • Ciprian-Octavian Truică, POLITEHNICA Bucharest, Romania • Nicolas Turenne, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China • Slavko Žitnik, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

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Deadline extension (Dec 22): MOOMIN @ EACL 2024 - the first workshop on Modular and Open Multilingual NLP
by tiedeman＠gmail.com 17 Dec '23

17 Dec '23

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First CfP: MOOMIN @ EACL 2024 - the first workshop on Modular and Open Multilingual NLP
by Tiedemann, Jörg 17 Dec '23

17 Dec '23

First Call for papers: MOOMIN (the first workshop on Modular and Open Multilingual NLP) collocated with EACL 2024, March 21 or 22, 2024 Website: https://moomin-workshop.github.io/ Submission website: https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2024/Workshop/MOOMIN We invite submissions to the first edition of the MOOMIN workshop on Modular and Open Multilingual NLP, to be held at EACL 2024 on March 21 or 22, 2024. [Important Dates] * Workshop paper due: December 18, 2023 * Resubmission deadline (for pre-reviewed ARR & main conference submissions): January 17, 2024 * Notification of acceptance: January 20, 2024 * Camera-ready papers due: January 30 2024 * Workshop dates: March 21-22, 2024 [Introduction] NLP in the age of monolithic large language models starts to hit the limits in terms of size and information that can be handled. The trend goes to modularization, a necessary step into the direction of designing smaller sub-networks and components with specialized functionality. This allows researchers to design scalable, wide-coverage, efficient and reusable models. Multilingual NLP is today faced with a number of difficult challenges. Scaling a multilingual model to a high number of languages is prone to suffer from negative interference, also known as the curse of multilinguality, leading to degradation in per-language performance, while earlier approaches to improving model capacity have hit the ceiling in terms of hardware, data and training algorithms. At the same time, we as a community wish to foster the development of open components that can be shared, deployed and widely integrated within the broader research community without incurring computational costs that add to the overall carbon footprint of NLP engineering. Modularity is a practical solution to answer all of these challenges and more, as it offers a very promising set of tools towards increased multilinguality of larger foundation models, either during their pretraining or in a post-hoc post-pretraining manner. [Topics of Interest] With this in mind, the MOOMIN workshop invites contributions related but not limited to the following topics: * mixture of expert models and gated routing * modular pre-training of multilingual language and translation models * effective transfer with modular architectures such as adapters and hypernetworks * efficient parallelization and distribution of modular model training * modular frameworks and architecture implementations * massively multilingual models with large language coverage * subnet selection and pruning * modular distillation * modular extensions of existing NLP models systems, especially in low-resource settings and for low-resource languages * evaluation of modular systems in terms of performance, efficiency, and computational costs * platforms for distributing, sharing, and integrating NLP components [Submission Guidelines] Authors are invited to submit 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/MOOMIN) 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 intend to invite papers accepted to Findings to reach out to the organizing committee of MOOMIN to present their papers at the workshop, if in line with the topics as described above. [Workshop Organizers] * Timothee Mickus, University of Helsinki * Jörg Tiedemann, University of Helsinki * Ahmet Üstün, Cohere For AI * Raúl Vázquez, University of Helsinki * Ivan Vulić, University of Cambridge & PolyAI [Program Committee] A list of program committee members will be available on the workshop website. [Contact] For inquiries, please contact moomin.nlp.workshop(a)gmail.com<mailto:moomin.nlp.workshop@gmail.com>

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Deadline extension (Dec 22): UncertaiNLP @ EACL 2024 - The First Workshop on Uncertainty-Aware NLP
by Tiedemann, Jörg 17 Dec '23

17 Dec '23

Due to several requests we decided to extend the submission deadline for our workshop. The new deadline is Friday, December 22, 2023 Third 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 December 22, 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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6 PhD students and 1 Postdoc: Neuroexplicit Models of Language, Vision, and Action - Saarbrücken, Germany
by Vera Demberg 16 Dec '23

16 Dec '23

** *The Research Training Group 2853 “Neuroexplicit Models of Language, Vision, and Action” is looking for* * 6 PhD students - September 2024 1 Postdoc - March 2024 or later Neuroexplicit models combine neural and human-interpretable (“explicit”) models in order to overcome the limitations that each model class has separately. They include neurosymbolic models, which combine neural and symbolic models, but also e.g. combinations of neural and physics-based models. In the RTG, we will improve the state of the art in natural language processing (“Language”), computer vision (“Vision”), and planning and reinforcement learning (“Action”) through the use of neuroexplicit models and investigate the cross-cutting design principles of effective neuroexplicit models (“Foundations”). The RTG is scheduled to grow to a total of 24 PhD students and one postdocby 2025; the first six PhD students started in late 2023. Through the inclusion of ~20 further PhD students and postdocs funded from other sources, it will be one of the largest research centers on neuroexplicit or neurosymbolic models in the world. The RTG brings together researchers at Saarland University, the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). All of these institutions are colocated on the same campus in Saarbrücken, Germany. The positions are funded as follows: * PhD students will be funded for up to four years at the TV-L E13 100% pay scale. You should have or be about to complete an MSc degree in computer science or a related field and have demonstrated expertise in one of the research areas of the RTG, e.g. through an excellent Master’s thesis or relevant publications. * The postdoc will initially be funded for three years, with the possibility of extension up to five years, at the TV-L E13 100% pay scale.As the RTG postdoc, you will pursue your own research agenda in the field of neuroexplicit models and work with the PhD students to identify and pursue opportunities for collaborative research. You should have or be about to complete a PhD in computer science or a related field and have demonstrated your expertise in one or more of the RTG’s research areas through publications in top venues. The RTG is part of the Saarland Informatics Campus, one of the leading centers for researchin computer science, artificial intelligence, and natural language processing in Europe. The Saarland Informatics Campus brings together 900 researchers and 2500 students from 81 countries. The CISPA Helmholtz Center, located on the same campus, is home to an additional 350 researchers and on track to grow to 800 by 2026. Researchers at SIC and CISPA are part of the ELLIS network and have been awarded more than 35 ERC grants. Each PhD student in the RTG will be jointly supervised by two PhD advisorsfrom the list of Principal Investigators below. Each student will freely define their own research topic; we encourage the choice of topics that cross the traditional boundaries of research fields. Students may be affiliated with Saarland University or with one of the participating institutes. Vera Demberg, Saarland University - Computational Linguistics Jörg Hoffmann, Saarland University - AI Planning Eddy Ilg, Saarland University - Computer Vision, Machine Learning Dietrich Klakow, Saarland University - Natural Language Processing Alexander Koller, Saarland University - Computational Linguistics Bernt Schiele, MPI for Informatics - Computer Vision, Machine Learning Philipp Slusallek, DFKI and Saarland University - Computer Graphics, Artificial Intelligence Christian Theobalt, MPI for Informatics - Visual Computing, Machine Learning Mariya Toneva, MPI for Software Systems - Computational Neuroscience, Machine Learning Isabel Valera, Saarland University - Machine Learning Jilles Vreeken, CISPA - Machine Learning, Causality Joachim Weickert, Saarland University - Mathematical Data Analysis Verena Wolf, DFKI and Saarland University - Modeling and Simulation, Reinforcement Learning Ellie Pavlick, Brown University and Google AI, will join us regularly as a Mercator Fellow. Please send your application by 7 January 2024to apply(a)neuroexplicit.org <mailto:apply@neuroexplicit.org>. Include the reference number W2298 for the postdoc position and the reference number W2299 for the PhD positions. We aim to conduct job interviews in July (for a start in October) and September (for a later start). The legally binding version of this job ad is at https://www.uni-saarland.de/fileadmin/upload/verwaltung/stellen/Wissenschaf… <https://www.uni-saarland.de/fileadmin/upload/verwaltung/stellen/Wissenschaf…> (postdoc) and https://www.uni-saarland.de/fileadmin/upload/verwaltung/stellen/Wissenschaf… <https://www.uni-saarland.de/fileadmin/upload/verwaltung/stellen/Wissenschaf…> (PhD), respectively. For details on what materials to submit with your application and all other information about the RTG, please see our website: https://www.neuroexplicit.org/jobs/ <https://www.neuroexplicit.org/jobs/#phd-2023> *

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Re: Call for Papers- Special Session in IEEE-IJCNN under WCCI 2024 at Yokohama, Japan
by Prashant Gupta 16 Dec '23

16 Dec '23

On Sat, Dec 16, 2023 at 6:57 PM Prashant Gupta <guptaprashant1986(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Dear all, > Lots of greetings for the day. > > We (Dr. Bireshwar Dass Mazumdar and Dr. Prashant K. Gupta from Bennett > University, India) are organizing a “Special Session on Intelligent > Cognitive Computing (ICC) and Its Impact on Modern AI” at IEEE > International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (WCCI IEEE-IJCNN 2024) > which is going to be held as apart of IEEE World Congress on Computational > Intelligence 2024, Yokohama, Japan from June 30-July 5, 2024. > > IEEE WCCI 2024 (https://2024.ieeewcci.org/) is the world’s largest > technical event on computational intelligence, featuring the three flagship > conferences of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) under one > roof: The International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), the > IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE) and the IEEE > Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC). > > I request you to kindly circulate this mail in your organization and > encourage students, research scholars, and faculty members to submit their > research work at the respective venue. > > Information about the Special Session and the call of papers is available > on the link: https://sites.google.com/view/ssicc2024/home > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Special Session on Intelligent Cognitive Computing (ICC) and Its Impact on > Modern AI > > Session Chairs: > > > - Dr. Bireshwar Dass Mazumdar, Associate Professor at School of > Computer Science Engineering & Technology, Bennett University, Greater > Noida, India. Email: bireshwardm(a)gmail.com > - Dr. Prashant K Gupta, Associate Professor at School of Computer > Science Engineering & Technology, Bennett University, Greater Noida, India. > Email: guptaprashant1986(a)gmail.com > > > > Important Dates: > > - Full paper submission: January 15, 2024 > - Notification of paper acceptance: March 15, 2024 > - Final Paper Submission & Early Registration Deadline: May 01, 2024 > - Conference: June 30- July 05, 2024 > > > We look forward to receiving your high-quality submissions. Please kindly > circulate this email among your contacts. > > -- > > *Dr. Prashant Gupta * > > *Associate Professor* > > > *School of Computer Science Engineering & Technology, * > > *Bennett University, Times of India Group, Greater Noida,* > > *Web: www.bennett.edu.in <http://www.bennett.edu.in>* > > > -- *Dr. Prashant Gupta * *Associate Professor* *School of Computer Science Engineering & Technology, * *Bennett University, Times of India Group, Greater Noida,* *Web: www.bennett.edu.in <http://www.bennett.edu.in>*

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Fwd: Call for Papers- Special Session in FUZZ-IEEE under WCCI 2024 at Yokohama, Japan
by Prashant Gupta 16 Dec '23

16 Dec '23

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Prashant Gupta <guptaprashant1986(a)gmail.com> Date: Sat, Dec 16, 2023 at 6:51 PM Subject: Call for Papers- Special Session in FUZZ-IEEE under WCCI 2024 at Yokohama, Japan To: <corpora(a)lists.uib.no> Dear all, Lots of greetings for the day. I, Dr. Prashant K. Gupta, Bennett University, India, am organizing a “Special Session on Computing with Words (CWW): Emerging Topics & Applications” at IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (WCCI FUZZ-IEEE 2024) which is going to be held as apart of IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence 2024, Yokohama, Japan from June 30-July 5, 2024. IEEE WCCI 2024 (https://2024.ieeewcci.org/) is the world’s largest technical event on computational intelligence, featuring the three flagship conferences of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) under one roof: The International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), the IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE) and the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC). I request you to kindly circulate this mail in your organization and encourage students, research scholars, and faculty members to submit their research work at the respective venue. Information about the Special Session and the call of papers is available on the link: https://sites.google.com/view/sscww2024/home -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Special Session on Computing with Words (CWW): Emerging Topics & Applications Session Chairs: Dr. Prashant K Gupta, Associate Professor at School of Computer Science Engineering & Technology, Bennett University, Greater Noida, India. Email: guptaprashant1986(a)gmail.com Important Dates: - Full paper submission: January 15, 2024 - Notification of paper acceptance: March 15, 2024 - Final Paper Submission & Early Registration Deadline: May 01, 2024 - Conference: June 30- July 05, 2024 We look forward to receiving your high-quality submissions. Please kindly circulate this email among your contacts. -- *Dr. Prashant Gupta * *Associate Professor* *School of Computer Science Engineering & Technology, * *Bennett University, Times of India Group, Greater Noida,* *Web: www.bennett.edu.in <http://www.bennett.edu.in>* -- *Dr. Prashant Gupta * *Associate Professor* *School of Computer Science Engineering & Technology, * *Bennett University, Times of India Group, Greater Noida,* *Web: www.bennett.edu.in <http://www.bennett.edu.in>*

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Tenure Stream Assistant Professor Positions: Dalhousie University
by Hassan Sajjad 16 Dec '23

16 Dec '23

Full Ad: https://dal.peopleadmin.ca/postings/14872 The Faculty of Computer Science at Dalhousie University ( https://www.cs.dal.ca) invites applications for up to three tenure-stream Assistant Professor positions in any area of Computer Science. We are seeking candidates whose research focuses on one of our five *research clusters* <https://www.dal.ca/faculty/computerscience/research-industry/fcs_research.h…>: 1) Big Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, 2) Human Computer Interaction, Visualization & Graphics, 3) Systems, 4) Algorithms & Bioinformatics and 5) Computer Science Education. Research areas of particular interest include but are not limited to: Computer Vision and Signal Understanding, Qualitative and Design Research in HCI, Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. *Application Instructions: *Applications must include a cover letter, curriculum vitae, statements of research and teaching interests, sample publications, and the names and full contact information of three referees. Applications are due by *February 15, 2024*. All application materials should be submitted directly at *https://dal.peopleadmin.ca/postings/14872* <https://dal.peopleadmin.ca/postings/14872>. -- Regards; Hassan Sajjad

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December 2023 Newsletter - LDC
by Penn LDC 15 Dec '23

15 Dec '23

In this newsletter: LDC 2024 membership discounts now available Approaching deadline for Spring 2024 data scholarship applications LDC closed for Winter Break Dec. 25-Jan. 1 New publications: Kasdi-Merbah (University) Emotional Database in Arabic Speech<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2023S10> TAC-KBP Belief and Sentiment - Comprehensive Training and Evaluation Data 2016-2017<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2023T13> ________________________________ LDC 2024 membership discounts now available Now through March 1, 2024, current 2023 members receive a 10% discount for renewing their membership, and new or returning organizations receive a 5% discount. Membership remains the most economical way to access current and past LDC releases. Consult Join LDC<https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/members/join-ldc> for details on membership options and benefits. Approaching deadline for Spring 2024 data scholarship applications Attention students: don't miss out on the chance to receive no-cost access to LDC data for your research. Applications for Spring 2024 data scholarships are due January 15, 2024. For more information on requirements and program rules, see LDC Data Scholarships<https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/language-resources/data/data-scholarships>. LDC closed for Winter Break Dec. 25-Jan. 1 LDC will be closed from Monday, December 25, 2023, through Monday, January 1, 2024, in accordance with the University of Pennsylvania Winter Break Policy. Our offices will reopen on Tuesday, January 2, 2024. Requests received by the Membership Office during Winter Break will be processed when the office reopens. ________________________________ New publications: Kasdi-Merbah (University) Emotional Database in Arabic Speech<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2023S10> was developed by the University of Kasdi Merbah Ouargla<https://www.univ-ouargla.dz/index.php/en/> and contains two hours of Modern Standard Arabic prompted speech from 500 speakers (254 female, 246 male) representing 5,000 utterances. Each speaker read ten sentences, with two sentences each for five different emotions (sadness, fear, anger, happiness, neutral). 2023 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee. * TAC-KBP Belief and Sentiment - Comprehensive Training and Evaluation Data 2016-2017<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2023T13> includes all training and evaluation data developed by LDC for the Belief and Sentiment tracks: source documents (Chinese, English, and Spanish newswire and discussion forums); gold standard entity, relation, and event annotation; and belief and sentiment annotation. The goal of the TAC-KBP Belief and Sentiment track was to provide information about beliefs and sentiments held by entities toward other entities, as well as toward events and relations. The gold standard set of labeled entities, relations, and events was used to create a system for automatically labeling belief and sentiment about each possible target (entity, relation, or event) and for identifying the entity holding the belief or sentiment. 2023 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee. To unsubscribe from this newsletter, log in to your LDC account<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/login> and uncheck the box next to "Receive Newsletter" under Account Options or contact LDC for assistance. Membership Coordinator Linguistic Data Consortium<ldc.upenn.edu> University of Pennsylvania T: +1-215-573-1275 E: ldc(a)ldc.upenn.edu<mailto:ldc@ldc.upenn.edu> M: 3600 Market St. Suite 810 Philadelphia, PA 19104

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PhD position: computational approaches to Narrative in Argumentation (1.0 FTE)
by Pianzola, Federico 15 Dec '23

15 Dec '23

Fully-funded 4-year PhD position in the field of Computational Linguistics, focusing on the intricate relationship between narratives and argumentation in persuasive communication. University of Groningen, Netherlands *Deadline: 7 January 11:59pm CET* More info at the link below: https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-0… -- Kind regards, Federico Pianzola Assistant Professor of Computational Humanities University of Groningen https://federicopianzola.me ERC project; https://golemlab.eu Book:* Digital Social Reading: Sharing Fiction in the 21st Century <https://wip.mitpress.mit.edu/digital-social-reading>* (MIT Press open peer review)

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Edge Hill Corpus Research Group, 11 January 2024
by Costas Gabrielatos 15 Dec '23

15 Dec '23

The next meeting of the Edge Hill corpus Research Group will take place online (via Teams) on Thursday 11 January 2024, 2:00-3:00 pm (UK time). Attendance is free. You can register here: https://store.edgehill.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/conferences/events/edge… Registration closes on Wednesday 10 January, 12 noon (UK time) Topics: Corpus Methodology, Phraseology Speaker: Benet Vincent<https://www.coventry.ac.uk/life-on-campus/staff-directory/arts-and-humaniti…> (Coventry University, UK) Title: Methodological issues and challenges in the use of phrase-frames to investigate phraseology Abstract The importance of gaining a better understanding of phraseology has been recognised for some time now in the area of English for Academic Purposes (EAP). A widespread approach is to extract from a corpus frequently-occurring fixed strings (lexical bundles, or clusters) of potentially useful phrases/multi-word units (see e.g. Gilmore and Millar's 2018). A limitation of this sort of study is the focus on fixed continuous sequences when phrases are well-known to allow a degree of variation (see e.g. Gries, 2008). One proposal to address this limitation is the 'phrase frame' (p-frame), a fixed sequence of items occurring frequently in a corpus with one or two empty slots (Lu, Yoon & Kisselev, 2021). This approach allows researchers to retrieve the most frequent p-frames in a particular corpus, then identify which items typically fill these slots and what meanings / functions might be associated with them. The idea is that the results of such research can help us better understand how members of a specific discourse community typically express themselves, which in turn may inform EAP pedagogy (Lu, Yoon, & Kisselev, 2018). Our project aimed to use a p-frame approach to create a list of pedagogically useful phrases to help novice writers of RA introductions in Health Sciences. A number of studies have used a p-frame approach with similar aims though for different discipline areas, including Fuster-Márquez and Pennock-Speck (2015), Cunningham (2017) and Lu et al., (2018, 2021). However, analysis of these studies indicates that they lack consensus on a number of issues central to p-frame methodology, presenting a challenge for new work in this area. This presentation will provide an overview of the key issues in p-frame research which we have identified and show how we have addressed them. The main aim will be to underline the importance of ensuring that the methods applied by a p-frame study align with the aims of the project. References Cunningham, K. J. (2017). A phraseological exploration of recent mathematics research articles through key phrase frames. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 25, 71. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeap.2016.11.005 Fuster-Márquez, M., & Pennock-Speck, B. (2015). Target frames in British hotel websites. International Journal of English Studies, 15(1), 51-69. https://doi.org/10.6018/ijes/2015/1/213231 Gilmore, A., & Millar, N. (2018). The language of civil engineering research articles: A corpus-based approach. English for Specific Purposes, 51, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esp.2018.02.002 Gries, S. (2008). Phraseology and linguistic theory. In Phraseology: An interdisciplinary perspective, S. Granger & F. Meunier (eds.), 3-26. Lu, X., Yoon, J., & Kisselev, O. (2018). A phrase-frame list for social science research article introductions. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 36, 76-85. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeap.2018.09.004 Lu, X., Yoon, J., & Kisselev, O. (2021). Matching phrase-frames to rhetorical moves in social science research article introductions. English for Specific Purposes, 61, 63-83. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esp.2020.10.001 ________________________________ Edge Hill University<http://ehu.ac.uk/home/emailfooter> Modern University of the Year, The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2022<http://ehu.ac.uk/tef/emailfooter> University of the Year, Educate North 2021/21 ________________________________ This message is private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it from your system. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Edge Hill or associated companies. Edge Hill University may monitor email traffic data and also the content of email for the purposes of security and business communications during staff absence.<http://ehu.ac.uk/itspolicies/emailfooter>

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Edge Hill Corpus Research Group, 11 January 2024
by Costas Gabrielatos 15 Dec '23

15 Dec '23

The next meeting of the Edge Hill corpus Research Group will take place online (via Teams) on Thursday 11 January 2024, 2:00-3:00 pm (GMT). Attendance is free. You can register here: https://store.edgehill.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/conferences/events/edge… Registration closes on Wednesday 10 January, 12 noon (UK time) Topics: Corpus Methodology, Phraseology Speaker: Benet Vincent<https://www.coventry.ac.uk/life-on-campus/staff-directory/arts-and-humaniti…> (Coventry University, UK) Title: Methodological issues and challenges in the use of phrase-frames to investigate phraseology Abstract The importance of gaining a better understanding of phraseology has been recognised for some time now in the area of English for Academic Purposes (EAP). A widespread approach is to extract from a corpus frequently-occurring fixed strings (lexical bundles, or clusters) of potentially useful phrases/multi-word units (see e.g. Gilmore and Millar's 2018). A limitation of this sort of study is the focus on fixed continuous sequences when phrases are well-known to allow a degree of variation (see e.g. Gries, 2008). One proposal to address this limitation is the 'phrase frame' (p-frame), a fixed sequence of items occurring frequently in a corpus with one or two empty slots (Lu, Yoon & Kisselev, 2021). This approach allows researchers to retrieve the most frequent p-frames in a particular corpus, then identify which items typically fill these slots and what meanings / functions might be associated with them. The idea is that the results of such research can help us better understand how members of a specific discourse community typically express themselves, which in turn may inform EAP pedagogy (Lu, Yoon, & Kisselev, 2018). Our project aimed to use a p-frame approach to create a list of pedagogically useful phrases to help novice writers of RA introductions in Health Sciences. A number of studies have used a p-frame approach with similar aims though for different discipline areas, including Fuster-Márquez and Pennock-Speck (2015), Cunningham (2017) and Lu et al., (2018, 2021). However, analysis of these studies indicates that they lack consensus on a number of issues central to p-frame methodology, presenting a challenge for new work in this area. This presentation will provide an overview of the key issues in p-frame research which we have identified and show how we have addressed them. The main aim will be to underline the importance of ensuring that the methods applied by a p-frame study align with the aims of the project. References Cunningham, K. J. (2017). A phraseological exploration of recent mathematics research articles through key phrase frames. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 25, 71. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeap.2016.11.005 Fuster-Márquez, M., & Pennock-Speck, B. (2015). Target frames in British hotel websites. International Journal of English Studies, 15(1), 51-69. https://doi.org/10.6018/ijes/2015/1/213231 Gilmore, A., & Millar, N. (2018). The language of civil engineering research articles: A corpus-based approach. English for Specific Purposes, 51, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esp.2018.02.002 Gries, S. (2008). Phraseology and linguistic theory. In Phraseology: An interdisciplinary perspective, S. Granger & F. Meunier (eds.), 3-26. Lu, X., Yoon, J., & Kisselev, O. (2018). A phrase-frame list for social science research article introductions. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 36, 76-85. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeap.2018.09.004 Lu, X., Yoon, J., & Kisselev, O. (2021). Matching phrase-frames to rhetorical moves in social science research article introductions. English for Specific Purposes, 61, 63-83. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esp.2020.10.001 ________________________________ Edge Hill University<http://ehu.ac.uk/home/emailfooter> Modern University of the Year, The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2022<http://ehu.ac.uk/tef/emailfooter> University of the Year, Educate North 2021/21 ________________________________ This message is private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it from your system. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Edge Hill or associated companies. Edge Hill University may monitor email traffic data and also the content of email for the purposes of security and business communications during staff absence.<http://ehu.ac.uk/itspolicies/emailfooter>

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SemEval 2024 Task 2: Safe Biomedical Natural Language Inference for Clinical Trials
by mael.jullien＠gmail.com 15 Dec '23

15 Dec '23

Call for Participation We're excited to announce "SemEval-2023 Task 7: Multi-Evidence Natural Language Inference for Clinical Trial Data" (NLI4CT). This task aims to enhance the application of Large Language Models (LLMs) in clinical settings, addressing challenges like factual inconsistency, shortcut learning, and performance degradation. The SemEval workshop will be co-located with NAACL 2024 in Mexico City, Mexico on June 16–21, 2024. Background: LLMs are crucial in Natural Language Processing but face limitations in real-world scenarios, especially in medical applications. There's a growing need to analyze over 400,000 Clinical Trial Reports (CTRs) efficiently. NLI offers a solution for large-scale interpretation and retrieval of medical evidence. Task Overview: Task: Textual Entailment in the context of breast cancer CTRs. Determine the inference relation (entailment vs contradiction) between CTR-statement pairs. We provide a training set and a specially designed test set to evaluate the effectiveness of models in clinical NLI settings. Example: Consider this scenario from a Clinical Trial Report (CTR): Eligibility Criteria: - Gender: Female - ERBB2 positive BC - Treatment history: No previous chemotherapy Exclusion Criteria: - BMI > 40 - Smoker Given Statement: "Morbidly obese female patients with ERBB2+ Breast Cancer are not eligible for Trial X." In this case, the statement contradicts the eligibility criteria of the CTR. While the patient's gender and medical condition align with the inclusion criteria, the term "morbidly obese" generally indicates a BMI > 40, which falls under the exclusion criteria. Therefore, the relationship between the CTR and the statement is a contradiction. Research Aims: Investigate the consistency and faithfulness of NLI models in clinical settings. Develop and apply novel evaluation methodologies through interventional and causal analyses. Important Dates: Practice Task: Already underway! Main Task: Starts January 10, 2024. Post-Competition Task: Begins February 1, 2024. Get Involved: Register Here: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/16190 Join Our Slack: https://join.slack.com/t/semeval2024task2/shared_invite/zt-22m7o4u7o-wa_Pnh…

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Gezocht: Computationeel linguïst bij het Instituut voor de Nederlandse Taal (INT)
by vincent＠ccl.kuleuven.be 14 Dec '23

14 Dec '23

Het INT zoekt op korte termijn een computationeel linguïst om bij te dragen aan de deelname van het instituut aan het SSHOC-NL (Social Sciences & Humanities Open Cloud) project, en daarnaast ook op andere wijze bij te dragen aan het uitbouwen van de taalinfrastructuur voor het Nederlands. Binnen SSHOC-NL neem het instituut deel aan de taak Machine Learning and AI for Methodologically Sound Data Enrichment. Deze taak houdt met name in dat onderzoekers worden ondersteund bij het vinden en gebruiken van de juiste (verrijkings- en analyse)tools en dat ze in staat worden gesteld de resultaten van de tools op relevante data te evalueren. De taalinfrastructuur van het INT bestaat uit een kennisbank die de aspecten van de documentatie van modern en historisch Nederlands omvat, van lexicale informatie tot syntax, semantiek en taalvariatie. Het werk hieraan wordt ondersteund door computationele workflows. Jouw werk Je onderzoekt hoe nieuwe methoden en technieken het opbouwen en ontsluiten van de taalinfrastructuur kunnen ondersteunen en draagt bij aan processen gericht op het beheer, onderhoud en de beschikbaarstelling van producten en tools. Je publiceert over je werk, neemt deel aan nationale en internationale samenwerkingsverbanden als CLARIN en CLARIAH, en spreekt op academische en professionele conferenties. Functie-eisen: ● Minimaal postdocniveau, gepromoveerd ● Resultaatgericht en analytisch ● Je schakelt makkelijk tussen tools en technologieën ● Diepgaande kennis van en ervaring met Natural Language Processing en Machine learning, inclusief de meest recente technieken, zoals Transformers en Large Language Models ● Ervaring met het ontwikkelen van efficiënte, goed gestructureerde en gedocumenteerde software Ervaring met deze technologieën geven je een extra streepje voor: ● Python, Huggingface transformers ● Meerdere programmeertalen (m.n. Java/Kotlin, JavaScript/TypeScript) ● PostgreSQL (of andere relationele database) ● Ontwikkelen van webapplicaties / -services Arbeidsvoorwaarden Het gaat om een aanstelling van 32-40 uur per week. De arbeidsvoorwaarden zijn overeenkomstig de cao Onderzoeksinstellingen. Het betreft vooralsnog een tijdelijk dienstverband met uitzicht op een vaste aanstelling. Het INT heeft aantrekkelijke arbeidsvoorwaarden, waaronder veel vrije dagen, een eindejaarsuitkering en aansluiting bij het ABP voor de pensioenvoorziening. Neem voor meer informatie over de vacature contact op met Jesse de Does, jesse.dedoes(a)ivdnt.org. Acquisitie naar aanleiding van deze vacature wordt niet op prijs gesteld. Sollicitaties kunnen vóór 15 januari 2024 per mail verstuurd worden naar: secretariaat(a)ivdnt.org t.a.v. de directeur, mevrouw prof. dr. F. Steurs. Over het INT Het Instituut voor de Nederlandse Taal is dé plek voor iedereen die iets wil weten over het Nederlands door de eeuwen heen. Het is een breed toegankelijk wetenschappelijk instituut dat alle aspecten van de Nederlandse taal bestudeert, waaronder de woordenschat, grammatica en taalvariatie. Het INT verzamelt de nieuwste Nederlandse woorden, actualiseert belangrijke naslagwerken zoals de Algemene Nederlandse Spraakkunst en maakt vaktaal toegankelijk via terminologielijsten. Het instituut is ook betrokken bij diverse nationale en internationale samenwerkingsverbanden. Om al deze taken te ondersteunen, ontwikkelt het INT zelf websites en -applicaties, bijvoorbeeld over vertalen van en naar het Nederlands, terminologie, taaladvies of historische teksten. Het instituut bevindt zich in de sfeervolle Leidse binnenstad, op loopafstand van het station. Deels thuiswerken is mogelijk. Er zijn collega’s van alle leeftijden en de sfeer is informeel. Er is veel ruimte voor eigen inbreng en volop mogelijkheid om ervaring op te doen met verschillende tools en technologieën.

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First call for papers - The 3rd Workshop on Perspectivist Approaches to NLP
by Sara Tonelli 14 Dec '23

14 Dec '23

NLPerspectives: The 3rd Workshop on Perspectivist Approaches to NLP FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS https://nlperspectives.di.unito.it/w/3rd-workshop-on-perspectivist-approach… Until recently, the dominant paradigm in natural language processing (and other areas of artificial intelligence) has been to resolve observed label disagreement into a single “ground truth” or “gold standard” via aggregation, adjudication, or statistical means. However, in recent years, the field has increasingly focused on subjective tasks, such as abuse detection or quality estimation, in which multiple points of view may be equally valid, and a unique ‘ground truth’ label may not exist (Plank, 2022). At the same time, as concerns have been raised about bias and fairness in AI, it has become increasingly apparent that an approach which assumes a single “ground truth” can erase minority voices. Strong perspectivism in NLP (Cabitza et al., 2023) pursues the spirit of recent initiatives such as Data Statements (Bender and Friedman, 2018), extending their scope to the full NLP pipeline, including the aspects related to modelling, evaluation and explanation. In line with the first <https://nlperspectives.di.unito.it/w/w2022/> and second <https://nlperspectives.di.unito.it/w/2nd-workshop-on-perspectivist-approach…> editions, the third NLPerspectives (Perspectivist Approaches to Disagreement in NLP) workshop will explore current and ongoing work on: the collection and labelling of non-aggregated datasets; and approaches to modelling and including these perspectives in NLP pipelines, as well as evaluation and applications of multi-perspective Machine Learning models. We also welcome opinion pieces and literature reviews, e.g., fairness and inclusion in a perspectivist framework. Following our previous workshops, a key outcome of the third edition will be to continue the work begun at https://pdai.info/ to create a repository of perspectivist datasets with non-aggregated labels for use by researchers in perspectivist NLP modelling. Authors are, therefore, invited to share their LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) and provide essential information about resources (i.e., also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work or are a result of their research. In addition, authors will be required to adhere to ethical research policies on AI and may include an ethics statement in their papers. The NLPerspectives workshop will be co-located with the 14th edition of LREC-COLING 2024 <https://lrec-coling-2024.org/> in Torino, Italy, in May 20-25, 2024. Submissions The papers should be submitted as a PDF document, conforming to the formatting guidelines provided in the call for papers of LREC-COLING conference: authors-kit <https://lrec-coling-2024.org/authors-kit/> We accept three types of submissions: Regular research papers; Non-archival submissions: like research papers, but will not be included in the proceedings; Research communications: 4-page abstracts summarising relevant research published elsewhere. Research papers (archival or non-archival) may consist of up to 8 pages of content. Research communications may consist of up to 4 pages of content. More details will be up soon. Topics We invite original research papers from a wide range of topics, including but not limited to: Non-aggregated data collection and annotation frameworks Descriptions of corpora collected under the perspectivist paradigm Multi-perspective Modelling and Machine Learning Evaluation of multi-perspective models/ models of disagreement Multi-perspective disagreement as applied to NLP evaluation Fairness and inclusive modelling Perspectivist approaches for social good Applications of multi-perspective modelling Computing with (dis)agreement Perspectivist Natural Language Generation Foundational aspects of perspectivism Opinion pieces and reviews on perspectivist approaches to NLP Submissions are open to all, and are to be submitted anonymously (and must conform to the instructions for double-blind review). All papers will be refereed through a double-blind peer review process by at least three reviewers, with final acceptance decisions made by the workshop organisers. Scientific papers will be evaluated based on relevance, significance of contribution, impact, technical quality, scholarship, and quality of presentation. Attendance At least one author of each accepted paper is required to participate in the conference and present the work. Important Dates * Friday February 23, 2024: Paper submission * Friday March 29, 2024: Notification of acceptance * Friday April 12, 2024: Camera-ready papers due * Tuesday May 21, 2024: Workshop Workshop organisers: Gavin Abercrombie, Heriot-Watt University Valerio Basile, University of Turin Davide Bernardi, Amazon Alexa Shiran Dudy, Northeastern University Simona Frenda, University of Turin Lucy Havens, University of Edinburgh Sara Tonelli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Contact us at g.abercrombie(a)hw.ac.uk <mailto:g.abercrombie@hw.ac.uk> if you have any questions. 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CfP 5th workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL) @ LREC-COLING
by Menno Van Zaanen 14 Dec '23

14 Dec '23

First call for papers The fifth workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL) Colocated with LREC-COLING 2024 https://bit.ly/rail2024 Conference dates: 20-25 May 2024 Workshop date: 25 May 2024 Venue: Lingotto Conference Centre, Torino (Italy) The fifth RAIL workshop website: https://bit.ly/rail2024 LREC-COLING 2024 website: https://lrec-coling-2024.org/ The fifth Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) workshop will be co-located with LREC-COLING 2024 in Lingotto Conference Centre, Torino, Italy on 25 May 2024. The RAIL workshop is an interdisciplinary platform for researchers working on resources (data collections, tools, etc.) specifically targeted towards African indigenous languages. In particular, it aims to create the conditions for the emergence of a scientific community of practice that focuses on data, as well as computational linguistic tools specifically designed for or applied to indigenous languages found in Africa. Many African languages are under-resourced while only a few of them are somewhat better resourced. These languages often share interesting properties such as writing systems, or tone, making them different from most high-resourced languages. From a computational perspective, these languages lack enough corpora to undertake high level development of Human Language Technologies (HLT) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools, which in turn impedes the development of African languages in these areas. During previous workshops, it has become clear that the problems and solutions presented are not only applicable to African languages but are also relevant to many other low-resource languages. Because these languages share similar challenges, this workshop provides researchers with opportunities to work collaboratively on issues of language resource development and learn from each other. The RAIL workshop has several aims. First, the workshop brings together researchers who work on African indigenous languages, forming a community of practice for people working on indigenous languages. Second, the workshop aims to reveal currently unknown or unpublished existing resources (corpora, NLP tools, and applications), resulting in a better overview of the current state-of-the-art, and also allows for discussions on novel, desired resources for future research in this area. Third, it enhances sharing of knowledge on the development of low-resource languages. Finally, it enables discussions on how to improve the quality as well as availability of the resources. The workshop has “Creating resources for less-resourced languages” as its theme, but submissions on any topic related to properties of African indigenous languages (including non-African languages) may be accepted. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to) the following: * Digital representations of linguistic structures * Descriptions of corpora or other data sets of African indigenous languages * Building resources for (under resourced) African indigenous languages * Developing and using African indigenous languages in the digital age * Effectiveness of digital technologies for the development of African indigenous languages * Revealing unknown or unpublished existing resources for African indigenous languages * Developing desired resources for African indigenous languages * Improving quality, availability and accessibility of African indigenous language resources Submission requirements: We invite papers on original, unpublished work related to the topics of the workshop. Submissions, presenting completed work, may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content plus additional pages of references. The final camera-ready version of accepted long papers are allowed one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers’ feedback can be incorporated. Papers should be formatted according to the LREC- COLING style sheet (https://lrec-coling-2024.org/authors-kit/), which is provided on the LREC-COLING 2024 website (https://lrec-coling-2024.org/). Reviewing is double-blind, so make sure to anonymise your submission (e.g., do not provide author names, affiliations, project names, etc.) Limit the amount of self citations (anonymised citations should not be used). The RAIL workshop follows the LREC-COLING submission requirements. Please submit papers in PDF format to the START account (the submission link will be available soon). Accepted papers will be published in proceedings linked to the LREC-COLING conference. Important dates: Submission deadline: 16 February 2024 Date of notification: 15 March 2024 Camera ready deadline: 29 March 2024 RAIL workshop: 25 May 2024 Organising Committee Rooweither Mabuya, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Muzi Matfunjwa, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Mmasibidi Setaka, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Menno van Zaanen, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa -- Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za Professor in Digital Humanities South African Centre for Digital Language Resources https://www.sadilar.org ________________________________ NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT: http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. 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Junior Research Group Leader “AI and NLP for Mental Health”, Department of Computer Science, Technical University Darmstadt, Germany
by Niemann, Elisabeth 14 Dec '23

14 Dec '23

Are you interested in doing cutting-edge research in Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, and AI for mental health? Do you want your research to have a real-world impact in the fight against mental disorders - some of the most common and serious diseases in the world? The Department of Computer Science at the Technical University Darmstadt is recruiting a Junior Research Group Leader “AI and NLP for Mental Health” (equivalent to an Assistant Professor) as part of DYNAMIC, the newly approved interdisciplinary LOEWE-funded center "Dynamic Network Approach of Mental Health to Stimulate Innovations for Change". The Junior Research Group will work closely with the research labs of Prof. Iryna Gurevych and Prof. Kristian Kersting. Further collaboration opportunities exist with the labs of Prof. Marcus Rohrbach, Prof. Anna Rohrbach, Prof. Carsten Binnig and others. Join our diverse and interdisciplinary team to tackle some of the hardest and most exciting research challenges, including representation learning and multimodality! The research position is funded from 01 October 2024 to 31 December 2027 - applications are possible until 31 January 2024 and should include a CV, PhD certificate, publication list, letter of motivation, research and teaching statement. Learn more here: https://www.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/ukp/ukp_home/jobs_ukp/group_leader_m… -------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych UKP Lab Technical University Darmstadt, Germany http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/

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Edge Hill Corpus Research Group, Thursday 14 December 2023
by Costas Gabrielatos 14 Dec '23

14 Dec '23

The next meeting of the Edge Hill Corpus Research Group will take place online (via MS Teams) on Thursday 14 December 2023, 2:00-3:30 pm (UK time). Topics: Discourse-Oriented Corpus Studies, Collocation Networks Speakers: Dan Malone<https://independent.academia.edu/DanielMalone14> (Edge Hill University, UK) & Hanna Schmück<https://hannaschmueck.github.io/> (Lancaster University, UK) Title: A pack of lone wolves? Exploring the nexus between the lone-wolf terrorist, Al-Qaeda, and ISIS in the British Press Abstract Following recent events in Belgium and Israel, the lone-wolf terrorist re-emerged in media reportage, with President Joe Biden<https://edition.cnn.com/2011/09/11/tv/biden-does-not-rule-out-possibility-o…> and former GCHQ Director Sir David Omand<https://inews.co.uk/news/uk-facing-heightened-threat-from-lone-wolf-terror-…> expressing concerns over potential attacks in the USA and UK. Days later, Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo described the neutralised Brussels shooter as "probably a lone wolf,"<https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/17/killing-of-two-swedes-in-brus…> thus aiming to downplay the risk of subsequent incidents. Together, these instances exemplify that by shaping a "reality" (Entman, 2004), (in)security discourses can amplify or downplay a terrorist threat, in turn reflecting and/or influencing public perception and potentially guiding policy responses. Historically, the lone wolf has been associated with different movements, ranging from the propaganda of the deed in the 19th Century to the leaderless resistance of white-supremacist groups in the 1980s and 90s. More recently, it is within the domain of Islamist terrorism, often dominated by Al-Qaeda and ISIS, where the lone wolf has become increasingly associated, especially in the British press. In this joint presentation, we discuss the analytical approaches and results from our analysis of discourses surrounding the lone-wolf terrorist, al Qaeda, and ISIS in three diachronic sub-corpora of the Lone Wolf Corpus (Malone, 2020), a compilation of British Press articles from 2000 to 2019. In a unique methodological combination, we employed large-scale collocation networks and topical clustering to examine shifting discourses through collocational clusters, and applied a corpus-based critical discourse analysis to examine representations of the Al-Qaeda-ISIS nexus. Hanna introduces the methodology employed to generate topical clusters and discusses collocational changes and constants in emerging discourses surrounding the lone-wolf terrorist. The resulting patterns present a discursive shift from clusters related to causative factors (e.g., a mental health subcluster), towards the internationalisation and institutionalisation of lone-wolf terrorism, and finally to response management in the form of sentencing and punitive actions (e.g., a court proceedings/prison subcluster). Reporting on his corpus-based critical discourse analysis, Daniel presents the emergent representations surrounding co-occurrences of the node AL QAEDA with ISIS. These discourses were categorised into four modes of representation of presented relationship-types: Convergence, Association, Dissociation, and Divergence. These modes contributed to surrounding (in)security discourses that at times equate, promote and/or relegate different entities in a continual reshuffling of the threat hierarchy; a process termed here enmity reimagining. References Entman, R. (2004). Projections of Power: Framing News, Public Opinion, and U.S. Foreign Policy. The University of Chicago Press: London. Malone, D. (2020). Developing a complex query to build a specialised corpus: Reducing the issue of polysemous query terms. Corpora and Discourse International Conference 2020. You can register here: https://store.edgehill.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/faculty-of-arts-and-sci… ________________________________ Edge Hill University<http://ehu.ac.uk/home/emailfooter> Modern University of the Year, The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2022<http://ehu.ac.uk/tef/emailfooter> University of the Year, Educate North 2021/21 ________________________________ This message is private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it from your system. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Edge Hill or associated companies. Edge Hill University may monitor email traffic data and also the content of email for the purposes of security and business communications during staff absence.<http://ehu.ac.uk/itspolicies/emailfooter>

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Research Position in the Field of Italian Language Models For Dialogical Interaction
by Marco Guerini 13 Dec '23

13 Dec '23

[Apologies for cross-posting] We are looking for one researcher in the field of Natural Language Processing for the Language and Dialog Technologies (LanD) Unit at Fondazione Bruno Kessler. The candidate will be asked to advance state-of-the-art research in the field of Italian Language Models (LMs) for dialogical interactions and information extraction, with particular emphasis on data collection and the development of neural LMs, specific for the management of dialogues in the Public Administration sector. The candidate will have the opportunity to work in collaboration with PhD students, other researchers in the LanD unit, as well as with other partners in the project. Further details: https://jobs.fbk.eu/Annunci/Jobs_Within_Piano_Nazionale_Complementare_al_PN… Application deadline: *22nd of December 2023 * -- Marco Guerini, PhD www.marcoguerini.eu

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2nd CfP: Translation in Transition
by Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski 13 Dec '23

13 Dec '23

Dear colleagues, we are happy to announce the 7th edition of the Translation in Transition conference (https://sites.google.com/view/tt2024). This series of conferences has established itself as a central meeting point for researchers in the field of empirical translation studies through previous editions in Copenhagen, Germersheim, Ghent, Barcelona, Kent and Prague. In its 7th edition held at the Shota Rustaveli State University in Batumi it once again wants to be a forum of discussion for empirical research that is based on any kind of empirical methodology and that advances our knowledge in the fields of translation and interpreting. While the Batumi edition will be open to various topics within empirical translation studies, we also want to put special emphasis on two directions: low-resourced and less-researched language pairs, as well as an interplay between different methods and data types, e.g. combining product and process research. *Second Call for Papers* We invite original submissions that deal with any of the conference topics. To encourage a fruitful exchange of ideas and experience among the researchers of various fields of specialization, preference will be given to interdisciplinary contributions that cover two or more of the conference topics. The submissions are to be made in the form of anonymized extended abstracts that should be between 800 and 1000 words long (excluding references) by February 16, 2024. Apart from a clear outline of the aims and methods of the study, the abstracts should also provide (preliminary) results. The abstracts will be submitted through the open review system (https://openreview.net/group?id=TT/2024/Conference) and reviewed by at least two members of the scientific committee. The accepted contributions will be presented either as oral talks or as posters. All submissions must follow the abstract submission instructions (https://sites.google.com/view/tt2024/submission-instructions). We welcome contributions (in English) grounded in empirical approaches to studying both interlingual and intralingual translation, as well as theoretical and position papers on the following topics: * Empirical methods and models (corpus-based, corpus-driven, experimental) or methods derived from computational linguistics and data mining (e.g. computational semantics, pragmatics) applied to translation studies * Presentation of new resources for translation studies (spoken corpora, multimodal corpora, interpreting transcript datasets, corpora of low-resourced languages, lexicons, databases, etc.) * Method and data triangulation: combined use of corpus data and methods and other sources of data * Detection and analysis of specific features of translation (translationese, interpretese, editese, machine translationese, post-editese, etc.) using parallel and comparable corpora * Analysis and interpretation of variation in translation, e.g. variation driven through register/genre, expertise, mode, etc. * Empirical analysis of specialised translation, e.g. legal translation, technical translation and others * Analysis of non-canonical forms of translation/interpreting and multilingual communication * Cognitive and computational insights of variation in translation and translationese * Cognitive modeling of translation processes, including cognitive load measurements * Translation quality assessment and evaluation using corpora or experimental research * Translation in specific settings: between close languages, from a third language, non-native translation, indirect/relay translation, etc. * The use of corpora in translator and/or interpreter training * Improving understanding of translation in the context of NLP * Computer-assisted translation and/or interpreting (CAT/CAI) * Machine translation (MT): analysis, evaluation, selection and preparation of data for MT, ‘machine translationese’Important dates · Conference abstract submission due: Feb 16, 2024 · Notification of acceptance: April 8, 2024 · Final abstract version due: April 29, 2024 · Registration open: May 6, 2024 · Early-bird registration: June 6, 2024 · Conference date: September 23-25, 2024 The conference is organized by the Department of European Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University in Batumi (Georgia) in cooperation with the Institute of Translation Studies and Specialised Communication, University of Hildesheim (Germany). Local organizing committee at the Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University Khatuna Beridze, Theona Beridze, Khatuna Diasamidze, Tamta Nagervadze Program Chairs at the University of Hildesheim Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski and Silvana Deilen -- Prof. Dr. Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski Geschäftsführende Direktorin Institut für Übersetzungswissenschaft und Fachkommunikation Fachbereich 3: Sprach und Informationswissenschaften Stiftung Universität Hildesheim Lübecker Straße 3 31141 Hildesheim +49 5121 883-30934

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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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CFP SIGUL2024: The 3rd Annual Meeting of the ELRA-ISCA Special Interest Group on Under-resourced Languages
by Claudia Soria 13 Dec '23

13 Dec '23

** *CFP: The3rd Annual Meeting of the ELRA-ISCA Special Interest Group on Under-resourced Languages (SIGUL2024)* * * Workshop website (under construction): https://sigul-2024.ilc.cnr.it <https://sigul-2024.ilc.cnr.it/> * When: Monday and Tuesday, May 20th-21st, 2024 * Where: Torino, Italy (co-located with LREC-COLING 2024) * Deadline for submissions: February 26th, 2024 (details tba) * Paper submission link: tba * Deadline for camera-ready papers: April 5th, 2024 (details tba) The 3rd Annual Meeting of the ELRA <http://www.elra.info/>/ISCA <https://www.isca-speech.org/iscaweb/index.php>Special Interest Group on Under-Resourced Languages <http://www.elra.info/en/sig/sigul/>(SIGUL2024) will provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of cutting-edge research in language processing for under-resourced languages by academic and industry researchers. Following the long-standing series of previous meetings, the SIGUL workshop will also offer a venue where researchers in different disciplines and from varied backgrounds can fruitfully explore new areas of intellectual and practical development while honoring their common interest of sustaining less-resourced languages. We invite contributions (regular long papers of 8 pages or short papers of 4 pages) targeting any of the following - non-exhaustive - list of topics: * Processing any under-resourced languages (covering less-resourced, under-resourced, endangered, minority, and minoritized languages) * Cognitive and linguistic studies of under-resourced languages * Fast resources acquisition: text and speech corpora, parallel texts, dictionaries, grammars, and language models * Zero and few-shot methodologies and self-supervised learning in language and speech technologies * Cross-lingual and multilingual acoustic and lexical modeling * Speech recognition and synthesis for under-resourced languages and dialects * Machine translation and speech-to-speech translation * Spoken dialogue systems * Applications of language technologies for under-resourced languages * Large language models and under-resourced languages * Special topic: o Text and speech resources and technologies for the languages of Italy Special Session on languages of Italy and language technologies Italy is known for its linguistic diversity that reflects its long and varied history. To celebrate it, SIGUL2024 will provide a special session or forum for researchers interested in developing language resources and technologies for the many languages of Italy (regional, minority, or heritage languages, including those of the neighboring countries). * **Important Dates* • 26 February 2024: submission due • 18 March 2024: reviews due • 22 March 2024: notifications to authors • 5 April 2024: camera-ready (PDF) due Organizers Maite Melero, Sakriani Sakti, Claudia Soria Contact claudia.soria[AT]ilc.cnr.it Please, write “SIGUL2024” in the subject of your e-mail. * -- facebook <https://www.facebook.com/CNRsocialFB> twitter <https://twitter.com/CNRsocial_> instagram <https://www.instagram.com/cnrsocial/> linkedin <https://www.linkedin.com/company/283032> Claudia Soria CNR, ISTITUTO DI LINGUISTICA COMPUTAZIONALE "ANTONIO ZAMPOLLI" claudia.soria(a)ilc.cnr.it Tel. 0503153166 Via Giuseppe Moruzzi, 1, 56124 – Pisa www.ilc.cnr.it *www.cnr.it* <http://www.cnr.it/> Devolvi il 5×1000 al CNR CF 80054330586

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First CFP: Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2024)
by iva＠dcl.bas.bg 13 Dec '23

13 Dec '23

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to invite you to the 6th edition of the International Conference on Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB 2024) (http://dcl.bas.bg/clib/), to be held on 9 and 10 September 2024 in Sofia, Bulgaria. Computational Linguistics in Bulgaria (CLIB) is an international conference that aims at exploring novel approaches and methods in computational linguistics and natural language processing (NLP), especially with a view to their application to small and less-resourced languages such as Bulgarian and the bridging of the discrepancies between big and small languages with respect to language technologies. IMPORTANT DATES Tutorial submission deadline: 15 February 2024 Tutorial notification deadline: 15 March 2024 Paper abstract submission deadline: 15 March 2024 Paper submission deadline: 15 April 2024 (23:59 UTC/GMT+2) Author notification deadline: 15 May 2024 Camera-ready PDF due: 15 June 2024 Official proceedings publication date: 7 September 2024 Conference: 9 – 10 September 2024 TOPICS OF INTEREST CLIB invites contributions on original research, including, but not limited to: computer-aided learning, training and education dialogue and interactive systems information retrieval, information extraction, text mining and knowledge graph derivation language grounding for computer vision and robotics language modelling language theories and cognitive modelling for NLP large language models and NLP evaluation methodologies language resources and benchmarking for large language models language resources construction and annotation machine learning for NLP machine translation, multilingualism, translation aids morphology and segmentation natural language generation, understanding, summarisation and simplification ontologies, terminology and knowledge representation sentiment analysis, stylistic analysis, opinion and argument mining speech recognition, synthesis and spoken language understanding tagging, chunking, syntax and parsing CLIB 2024 also solicits submissions presenting project reports, new data resources, system demonstrations, position papers. SPECIAL SESSION ON WORDNETS, FRAMENETS AND ONTOLOGIES The Special Session on Wordnets, Framenets and Ontologies brings together researchers interested in the principles, theory, practice and applications of wordnets, ontologies, related linguistic resources and their interoperability and seeks to establish a dedicated community and to foster joint initiatives in this particular field. PAPER TYPES AND FORMAT Long papers must describe substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. Long papers may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content. Short paper submissions must describe original and unpublished work dealing with a small, focused contribution. Short papers may consist of up to four (4) pages. Both types of submissions allow for an unlimited number of pages of references and appendices. All accepted papers will be included in the Conference Proceedings. Additional information and the CLIB 2024 style guidelines and templates are available in the Instructions for Authors section at the Conference website. PAPER SUBMISSION Papers must be submitted in English and should be anonymous. Reviewing will be double blind. Each submission will be reviewed by at least two anonymous reviewers. We invite authors to submit a provisional title along with a brief abstract (approx. 150 words) by 15 March 2024 in pdf format. Abstract should be anonymous. Submission of papers and abstracts will be managed online by the EasyChair conference management system through the CLIB 2024 EasyChair page. BEST STUDENT PAPER AWARD In order to encourage talented young researchers, the best paper with a Master/PhD student among the authors and presenting the work at the conference will be awarded a small prize and a diploma. CALL FOR TUTORIALS CLIB 2024 invites proposals for tutorials which will be held before the Conference (on September 8). Proposals should not exceed 4 pages of content (plus unlimited pages for references) using CLIB paper templates, and they should be submitted as pdf documents through the CLIB 2024 EasyChair page. Tutorial proposals are not anonymous. Guidelines for the proposals for tutorials are available in the Call for Tutorials section at the Conference website. The CLIB 2024 style guidelines and templates are available in the Instructions for Authors section published at the Conference website. CLIB PROCEEDINGS INDEXING The Proceedings from CLIB 2016, CLIB 2018, CLIB 2020 are indexed in ISI Web of Science. As of November 2020 the Proceedings are indexed in Scopus. CLIB Proceedings published since 2020 are also included in the ACL Anthology. You can contact us via the Conference e-mail: clib2024(a)dcl.bas.bg Best regards, The CLIB2024 Organising Committee

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Postdoc Research Fellows in the field of AI/Natural Language Processing, UKP Lab Darmstadt, Germany
by Niemann, Elisabeth 13 Dec '23

13 Dec '23

The UKP Lab at the Department of Computer Science, Technical University Darmstadt, Germany, is hiring several *** Postdoc Research Fellows in the field of AI/Natural Language Processing. *** Areas of work include Conversational AI, Multimodal fact-checking, Interactive Code Generation, NLP for mental health and privacy-aware NLP. It is also possible to propose a topic bottom-up. https://www.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/ukp/ukp_home/jobs_ukp/2023_postdoc_u… Join our internationally recognized team at TU Darmstadt, enjoy diverse opportunities for professional development, and conduct cutting-edge research! Application deadline: January 15th, 2024. Please submit your application via the following form: https://careers.ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/ukprecruitment -------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych UKP Lab Technical University Darmstadt, Germany http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/

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Permanent research positions, LLF, Paris, France
by Olivier Bonami 13 Dec '23

13 Dec '23

[Apologies for cross-posting] The Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle (www.llf.cnrs.fr, LLF) is seeking to support applications in linguistics and language sciences to Research Associate positions at the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (cnrs.fr). CNRS Research Associate positions are full-time permanent positions intended for candidates in their early career. Applicants must hold a PhD by the application deadline. Knowledge of French is not required. Although CNRS recruits researchers by way of a national competition, applicants are encouraged to select one or more research labs to which they would like to be assigned, and support is crucial for a successful application. Located at Université Paris Cité (u-paris.fr), the LLF has about 80 members, including 36 permanent faculty members, working on every subfield of linguistics. In recent years, it has extended its focus from formal and theoretical linguistics to domains such as psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, experimental linguistics, computational linguistics, dialogue, typology, and Sign language linguistics. The LLF is interested in supporting a limited number of applicants, with an excellent research record and willing to develop a project that would fit the lab's areas of inquiry. The official call for application will be published on January 10, 2024 with an application deadline of February 9, 2024 (https://www.cnrs.fr/en/competitive-entrance-examinations-researchers-womenm…). Prospective applicants that wish to be supported by the LLF are invited to contact the lab by January 12, sending a CV (including a publication list) and a short description of their research profile to direction.llf(a)listes.u-paris.fr. Decisions on whether support is granted will be taken by January 16. Olivier Bonami Professeur de linguistique, Université Paris Cité Directeur du Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle UMR 7110 - Université de Paris & CNRS Tel: +33 1 57 27 57 97 Bâtiment Olympe de Gouges 8 place Paul Ricoeur 75013 Paris Bureau 520

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PhD and Postdoc opportunities in Natural Language Processing at LMU Munich
by Barbara Plank 13 Dec '23

13 Dec '23

For more info: https://mainlp.github.io/jobs/ Apply by December 14th, 2023 (positions open until filled)

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[Jobs] Tenured and Tenure-Track Professorships at the Tübingen AI Center
by jessica.endress＠uni-tuebingen.de 12 Dec '23

12 Dec '23

The Tübingen AI Center is inviting applications for the following positions: Full Professor of Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems Tenure-Track Professor of Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems The Tübingen AI Center is a research institution hosted by the University of Tübingen in cooperation with the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems whose core machine learning faculties work together to develop more robust, efficient and accountable learning systems. Embedded in Tübingen's rapidly growing science and technology campus, the Tübingen AI Center has close ties with the newly established ELLIS Institute Tübingen, and more generally cooperates closely with the pan-European ELLIS network as well as the Cyber Valley initiative, which connects researchers with start-ups and industry in the area. Details about the positions and how to apply can be found at https://tuebingen.ai/careers. Applications should be submitted by January 15, 2024. Inquiries about the position may be directed to the Central Office of the Tübingen AI Center (careers(a)tuebingen.ai).

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CFP LT4HALA2024: Third Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient LAnguages
by Rachele SPRUGNOLI 12 Dec '23

12 Dec '23

CFP: Third Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient LAnguages (LT4HALA 2024) • Website: https://circse.github.io/LT4HALA/2024/ • Place: co-located with LREC-COLING 2024, Torino, Italy • Date: Saturday, May 25 2024 DESCRIPTION LT4HALA 2024 is a one-day workshop that seeks to bring together scholars who are developing and/or are using Language Technologies (LTs) for historically attested languages, so to foster cross-fertilization between the Computational Linguistics community and the areas in the Humanities dealing with historical linguistic data, e.g. historians, philologists, linguists, archaeologists and literary scholars. LT4HALA 2024 follows LT4HALA 2020 and 2022 that was organized in the context of LREC 2022 and LREC 2022, respectively. Despite the current availability of large collections of digitized texts written in historical languages, such interdisciplinary collaboration is still hampered by the limited availability of annotated linguistic resources for most of the historical languages. Creating such resources is a challenge and an obligation for LTs, both to support historical linguistic research with the most updated technologies and to preserve those precious linguistic data that survived from past times. Relevant topics for the workshop include, but are not limited to: • handling spelling variation, • detection and correction of OCR errors, • creation and annotation of linguistic resources, • deciphering, • morphological/syntactic/semantic analysis of textual data, • adaptation of tools to address diachronic/diatopic/diastratic variation in texts, • teaching ancient languages with LTs, • NLP-driven theoretical studies in historical linguistics, • NLP-driven analysis of literary ancient texts, • evaluation of LTs designed for historical and ancient languages, • Large Language Models for the automatic analysis of ancient texts. SHARED TASKS LT4HALA 2024 will hosts two shared tasks: * the third edition of EvaLatin, an evaluation campaign entirely devoted to the evaluation of NLP tools for Latin. The third edition of EvaLatin will focus on two tasks (i.e. dependency parsing and emotion polarity detection). Dependency parsing will be based on the Universal Dependencies framework. No specific training data will be released but participants will be free to make use of any (kind of) resource they consider useful for the task, including the Latin treebanks already available in the UD collection. In this regard, one of the challenges of this task will be to understand which treebank (or combination of treebanks) is the most suitable to deal with new test data. Test data will be both prose and poetic texts from different time periods. Also for the emotion polarity detection task, no training data will be released but the organizers will provide an annotation sample, a manually created polarity lexicon and annotation guidelines. Also in this task, participants will be free to pursue the approach they prefer, including unsupervised and/or cross-language ones (which promise to be the most efficient, given the lack of training data for Latin for this task). Test data will be poetic texts from different time periods; * the third edition of EvaHan, the evaluation campaign for the evaluation of NLP tools for Ancient Chinese. EvaHan 2024 will focus on two tasks (i.e. Ancient Chinese auto sentence segmentation and punctuation). Training data for EvaHan 2024 will be released on 22 December, 2023. SUBMISSIONS Submissions of three forms of papers will be considered: • Regular long papers – up to eight (8) pages maximum*, presenting substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. • Short papers – up to four (4) pages*, describing a small focused contribution, negative results, system demonstrations, etc. • Position papers – up to eight (8) pages*, discussing key hot topics, challenges and open issues, as well as cross-fertilization between computational linguistics and other disciplines. * Excluding any number of additional pages for references, ethical consideration, conflict-of-interest, as well as data, and code availability statements. We encourage the authors of papers reporting experimental results to make their results reproducible and the entire process of analysis replicable, by making the data and the tools they used available. The form of the presentation may be oral or poster, whereas in the proceedings there is no difference between the accepted papers. The submission is NOT anonymous. The LREC-COLING 2024 official format is requested. Each paper will be reviewed by three independent reviewers. As for EvaLatin and EvaHan, participants will be required to submit a technical report for each task (with all the related sub-tasks) they took part in. Technical reports will be included in the proceedings as short papers: the maximum length is 4 pages (excluding references) and they should follow the LREC-COLING 2024 official format. Reports will receive a light review (we will check for the correctness of the format, the exactness of results and ranking, and overall exposition). IMPORTANT DATES Workshop • 26 February 2024: submission due • 18 March 2024: reviews due • 22 March 2024: notifications to authors • 5 April 2024: camera-ready (PDF) due Shared Tasks EvaLatin • 22 December 2023: guidelines available • Evaluation Window I - Task: Dependency Parsing • 1 February 2024: test data available • 8 February 2024: system results due to organizers • Evaluation Window II - Task: Emotion Polarity Detection • 12 February 2024: test data available • 19 February 2024: system results due to organizers • 11 March 2024: reports due to organizers • 22 March 2024: short report review deadline • 5 April 2024: camera ready version of reports due to organizers EvaHan • 22 December 2023: training data available • Evaluation Window • 12 February 2024: test data available • 19 February 2024: system results due to organizers • 11 March 2024: reports due to organizers • 22 March 2024: short report review deadline • 5 April 2024: camera ready version of reports due to organizers Identify, Describe and Share your LRs! When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC-COLING authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones). Workshop Organizers • Marco Passarotti, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milan, Italy • Rachele Sprugnoli, Università di Parma, Italy Programme Committee • Adam Anderson, FactGrid Cuneiform Project, USA • Yannis Assael, Google DeepMind • Monica Berti, University of Leipzig, Germany • Luca Brigada Villa, Università di Bergamo, Italy • Margherita Fantoli, University of Leuven, Belgium • Shai Gordin, Ariel University, Israel • Federica Iurescia, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano, Italy • Bin Li, School of Chinese Language and Literature at Nanjing Normal University, P.R. China • Eleonora Litta, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano, Italy • Yudong Liu, Western Washington University • Barbara McGillivray, Turing Institute, UK • Beáta Megyesi, Uppsala University, Sweden • Chiara Palladino, Furman University, USA • John Pavlopoulos, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece • Eva Pettersson, Uppsala University, Sweden • Sophie Prévost, Laboratoire Lattice, France • Thea Sommerschield, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy • James Tauber, Eldarion, USA • Toon Van Hal, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium • Tariq Yousef, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark EvaLatin 2024 Organizers • Rachele Sprugnoli, Università di Parma, Italy • Federica Iurescia, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano, Italy • Marco Passarotti, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano, Italy EvaHan 2024 Organizers • Bin Li, Nanjing Normal University, P.R. China • Bolin Chang, Nanjing Normal University, P.R. China • Minxuan Feng, Nanjing Normal University, P.R. China • Chao Xu, Nanjing Normal University, P.R. China • Dongbo Wang, Nanjing Agricultural University, P.R. China Contact rachele.sprugnoli[AT]unipr.it<http://unipr.it> Please, write “LT4HALA” or “EvaLatin” in the subject of your e-mail. For more information on EvaHan, please write to libin.njnu[AT]gmail.com writing “EvaHan” in the subject of the e-mail.

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ACM WebSci’24: Call for Posters and PhD Symposium
by Thilo Hagendorff 12 Dec '23

12 Dec '23

*ACM WebSci’24: Call for Submissions* Conference Dates: May 21-24, 2024https://websci24.org/ <https://websci24.org/><https://websci24.org/> Hosted by the*Interchange Forum for Reflecting on Intelligent Systems*(IRIS) | Organized by the*University of Stuttgart*| Partners ACM • Cyber Valley • Web Science Trust • SigWeb •*Posters*[LINK] <https://websci24.org/call-for-papers/call-for-posters/>Submission Deadline:*Feb. 15, 2024*oContact for questions:_posters@iris.uni-stuttgart.de_oPoster Session on May 22, 2024 •*PhD Symposium*[LINK] <https://websci24.org/call-for-papers/call-for-phd-symposium/>Submission Deadline:*Feb. 26, 2024*oContact for questions:_phd-symposium@iris.uni-stuttgart.de <mailto:phd-symposium@iris.uni-stuttgart.de>_oPhD Symposium on May 21, 2024

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Annotator / Knowledge Engineer for Spanish, German or Arabic
by Katarzyna Marszałek-Kowalewska 12 Dec '23

12 Dec '23

Dear Corpora-List Members, YUKKA Lab AG is looking for annotators/knowledge engineers (student/freelancer) to join our Data & Resources Team. *About Us* We are a fast growing FinTech and hiring talented engineers with a broad understanding of technology, visionary and creative thinking for thrilling development tasks. We are unique in the sentiment analysis by screening professional print and media content. Our focus is the financial market but we are enlarging our products for overall market sentiment detection. We understand the value of data. Our software analyses online and print news and derives market sentiments. We analyze sectors, indexes and securities all over the financial markets. *Responsibilities*: Annotation of data with linguistic information Development of language resources, such as lexica, gazetteers Development of knowledge bases/ontologies We are looking for following language combinations: Arabic/English Spanish/English German/English *Requirements*: Student in linguistics, philology or translation Good understanding of language analysis, e.g. part-of-speech, morphology, syntax, semantics Native (for native-like) fluency in Spanish, Arabic or German Excellent English skills Creativity and motivation to push product development Technically-minded Ability to research and collect information from a wide variety of resources Interest in information extraction *Nice to have*: Experience with creating ontologies, knowledge graphs Knowledge of additional languages *We offer*: Flexibility / Hybrid Work-life balance Regular events Start-Up Flair Drinks / Fruit Headquarters in the heart of Berlin Bikini House Discount 10%-15% You believe that you would be a good fit for YUKKA Lab? Great! Please send your application with a possible start date to Katarzyna Marszalek-Kowalewska (kmk(a)yukkalab.com). Best, Katarzyna Marszalek-Kowalewska

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2nd Call for workshop / course proposals -- ESSLLI 2024 (extended deadline)
by Tatjana Scheffler 12 Dec '23

12 Dec '23

35th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information 29 July – 9 August 2024, Leuven, Belgium https://2024.esslli.eu/ Important Dates =============== 22 December 2023: * (Extended) Deadline for submitting Workshop proposals * (Extended) Deadline for submitting Course Titles 12 January 2024: Deadline for submitting Course proposals 9 February 2024: Notification sent to Workshop proposers 4 March 2024: Notification sent to Course proposers The deadline for Workshop submissions and notification differs from those for Course submissions and notification, to allow participants who need a visa to attend a workshop, sufficient time to apply for one. Topics and Format ================= Proposals for courses and workshops at ESSLLI 2024 are invited in all areas of Logic, Linguistics and Computer Science. Cross-disciplinary and innovative topics are particularly encouraged. Each course and workshop will consist of five 90 minute sessions, offered daily (Monday-Friday) in a single week. Proposals for two-week courses should be structured and submitted as two independent one-week courses, e.g. as an introductory course followed by an advanced one. In such cases, the ESSLLI Program Committee reserves the right to accept just one of the two proposals. All instructional and organizational work at ESSLLI is performed completely on a voluntary basis, so as to keep participation fees to a minimum. However, organizers and instructors have their registration fees waived, and are reimbursed for travel and accommodation expenses up to a level to be determined and communicated with the proposal notification. ESSLLI can only guarantee reimbursement for at most one course/workshop organizer, and cannot guarantee full reimbursement of travel costs for lecturers or organizers from outside of Europe. The ESSLLI organizers would appreciate any help in controlling the School's expenses by seeking partial or complete coverage of travel and accommodation expenses from other sources. Categories ========== Each proposal should fall under one of the following categories. Foundational Courses -------------------- Such courses are designed to present the basics of a research area, to people with no prior knowledge in that area. They should be of elementary level, without prerequisites in the course's topic, though possibly assuming a level of general scientific maturity in the relevant discipline. They should enable researchers from related disciplines to develop a level of comfort with the fundamental concepts and techniques of the course's topic, thereby contributing to the interdisciplinary nature of our research community. Introductory Courses -------------------- Introductory courses are central to ESSLLI's mission. They are intended to introduce a research field to students, young researchers, and other non-specialists, and to foster a sound understanding of its basic methods and techniques. Such courses should enable researchers from related disciplines to develop some comfort and competence in the topic considered. Introductory courses in a cross-disciplinary area may presuppose general knowledge of the related disciplines. Advanced Courses ---------------- Advanced courses are targeted primarily to graduate students who wish to acquire a level of comfort and understanding in the current research of a field. Workshops --------- Workshops focus on specialized topics, usually of current interest. Workshop organizers are responsible for soliciting papers and selecting the workshop program. They are also responsible for publishing proceedings if they decide to have proceedings. Proposal Guidelines =================== Course and workshop proposals should closely follow these guidelines to ensure full consideration. Course and Workshop proposals can be submitted by no more than two lecturers/organizers and can be presented by no more than these two lecturers/organizers. All instructors and organizers must possess a PhD or equivalent degree by the submission deadline. Course proposals should mention explicitly the intended course category. Proposals for introductory courses should indicate the intended level, for example as it relates to standard textbooks and monographs in the area. Proposals for advanced courses should specify the prerequisites in detail. Proposals of Courses given at ESSLLI in the previous year will have a lower priority of being accepted in the current year. Proposals must be in PDF format and include all the following information: 1. Personal information for each proposer: Name, affiliation, contact address, email, homepage (optional) 2. General proposal information: Title, category 3. Contents information: a. Abstract of up to 150 words b. Motivation and description (up to two pages) c. Tentative outline d. Expected level and prerequisites e. Appropriate references (e.g. textbooks, monographs, proceedings, surveys) 4. Information required of course proposers: a. Will the course appeal to students outside of the main discipline of the course? b. What experience does the proposer have in presenting an intensive one-week interdisciplinary setting? c. What evidence is there that the course proposer is an excellent lecturer? 5. Information required of workshop organizers: a. Information on relevant preceding meetings and events, if applicable b. Information about potential external funding for participants. Submission Information ====================== Workshops We have extended the deadline for Workshop proposals. By 22 December 2023, people proposing workshops should upload a PDF with the actual proposal as detailed above. Courses We have extended the deadline for initial submission of course proposals. By 22 December 2023, proposers are asked to submit (via EasyChair) at least the name(s) of the instructor(s), the ESSLLI area+course level and a title and short abstract for the proposed course. By 12 January 2024, course proposers must complete their submission by uploading a PDF with the actual proposal as detailed above. Submission Portal ================= Please submit your proposals to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esslli2024 EACSL Sponsorship ================= The EACSL will support one Logic and Computation course or workshop addressing topics of interest to Computer Science Logic (CSL) conferences. The selected course or workshop will be designated an EACSL course/workshop in the programme. If you wish to be considered for this, please indicate it in your proposal. Organizing Committee ==================== Tim Van de Cruys (KU Leuven, Department of Linguistics) (chair) Lorenz Demey (KU Leuven Institute of Philosophy) Marie-Francine (Sien) Moens (KU Leuven, Department of Computer Science) Walter Schaeken (KU Leuven Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences) Hans Smessaert (KU Leuven, Department of Linguistics) Dirk Speelman (KU Leuven, Department of Linguistics) Program Committee ================= Bonnie Webber (Edinburgh University) (chair) Marie-Francine (Sien) Moens (KU Leuven) (local co-chair) Area Chairs Language and Computation (LaCo) ------------------------------------------- Tatjana Scheffler (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) Carina Silberer (IMS Stuttgart) Ivan Vulic (Cambridge University) Area Chairs Language and Logic (LaLo) ------------------------------------- Heather Burnett (CNRS) Dan Lassiter (Edinburgh University) Bob van Tiel (Radboud University, Nijmegen) Area Chairs Logic and Computation (LoCo) ---------------------------------------- Beniamino Accattoli (INRIA) Louwe Kuijer (University of Liverpool) Fan Yang (Utrecht University) ESSLLI Steering Committee ========================= Jakub Szymanik (University of Trento) (chair) Phokion Kolaitis (University of California, Santa Cruz) (vice-chair) Roman Kuznets (TU Wien) (secretary) Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (University College London) Lonneke van der Plas (Idiap) --- Jun.-Prof. Dr. Tatjana Scheffler (she/her) GB 5/157 Ruhr-Universität Bochum Digital Forensic Linguistics 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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LAST CALL SEPLN issue 72 ***15th December***
by aitziber.atucha＠ehu.eus 12 Dec '23

12 Dec '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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1st CFP: First Workshop on Patient-Oriented Language Processing (CL4Health) @ LREC-COLING 2024
by Paul Thompson 12 Dec '23

12 Dec '23

First Workshop on Patient-Oriented Language Processing (CL4HEALTH) @ LREC-COLING 2024 https://bionlp.nlm.nih.gov/cl4health2024/ Torino, Italy (co-located with LREC-COLING 2024) SCOPE This first workshop on patient-oriented language processing aims to establish a general venue for presenting research and applications focused on patients’ needs, including summarizing health records for the patients, answering consumer-health questions using reliable resources, detecting misinformation or potentially harmful information, and providing multi-modal information, such as video, if it better satisfies patients’ needs. Such a venue is needed both to invigorate patient-oriented language processing research and to build a community of researchers interested in this area. The growing interest in this topic is fueled by several current trends: - a proliferation of online services that target patients but do not always act in their best interests - policy changes that allow patients to access their health records written in the professional vernacular, which may confuse the patients or lead to misinterpretation; - replacement of customer services with chat bots; and - the increasing tendency of patients to consult online resources as a second or even first opinion on their health problems. We invite papers concerning all areas of language processing focused on patients’ health. The workshop will be centered on language technologies for health-related issues concerning the public that include, but are not limited to: - accessibility and trustworthiness of health information provided to the public - explainable and evidence-supported answers to consumer-health questions - accurate summarization of patients’ health records at their health-literacy level - understanding patients' non-informational needs through their language, and accurate and accessible interpretations of biomedical research Broadly, CL4Health is concerned with the resources, computational approaches, and behavioral and socio-economic aspects of the public interactions with digital resources in search of health-related information that satisfies their information needs and guides their actions. The topics of interest for the workshop include but are not limited to the following: - Health-related information needs and online behaviors of the public - Quality assurance and ethics considerations in language technologies and approaches applied to text and other modalities for public consumption - Summarization of EHR data for patients - Detection of misinformation in health-related resources and mitigation of potential harms - Consumer-health question answering - Biomedical text simplification/adaptation - Dialogue systems to support patients’ interactions with clinicians, healthcare systems, and online resources - Linguistic resources, data and tools for language technologies focusing on consumer health - Resources, strategies and metrics for system testing and evaluation - Infrastructures and pre-trained language models for consumer health - Processing and annotation platforms - Synthetic data generation and data augmentation. IMPORTANT DATES (Tentative) March 15, 2024 - Paper submissions due April 5, 2024 - Camera-ready papers due May 20, 2024 - Workshop @ LREC-COLING SUBMISSIONS Two types of submissions are invited: - Full papers: should not exceed eight (8) pages of text, plus unlimited references. These are intended to be reports of original research. - Short papers: may consist of up to four (4) pages of content, plus unlimited references. Appropriate short paper topics include preliminary results, application notes, descriptions of work in progress, etc. Electronic Submission: Submissions must be electronic and in PDF format, using the Softconf START conference management system. Submissions need to be anonymous. The submission site will be announced shortly. Dual submission policy: papers may NOT be submitted to the workshop if they are or will be concurrently submitted to another meeting or publication. INVITED TALKS - Barbara Di Eugenio, University of Illinois Chicago - Abeed Sarker, Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Research in Biomedical Informatics @ Emory School of Medicine - Natalia Grabar, CNRS Researcher, Université de Lille ORGANIZERS - Dina Demner-Fushman, US National Library of Medicine - Sophia Ananiadou, National Centre for Text Mining and University of Manchester, UK - Paul Thompson, National Centre for Text Mining and University of Manchester, UK - Brian Ondov, US National Library of Medicine

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**3rd CFP**- Towards Ethical and Inclusive Conversational AI (TEICAI) at EACL 2024 (Malta)
by Nina Hosseini-Kivanani 12 Dec '23

12 Dec '23

Towards Ethical and Inclusive Conversational AI: Language Attitudes, Linguistic Diversity, and Language Rights (TEICAI) at EACL 2024 on Malta-March 17-22, 2024. Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/teicai2024 Submission link: https://softconf.com/eacl2024/TEICAI-2024/ Submission Deadline: Monday, 18 December 2023 (anywhere on earth) 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 proceedings will be published in the ACL anthology. Important dates: 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 Workshop 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 Fred Philippy, Zortify, Luxembourg Ekaterina Kamlovskaya, Translatables Program Committee: A list of program committee members is available on the workshop website. For any preliminary questions, you're welcome to reach out to teicai2024(a)gmail.com . You can follow us on LinkedIn (TEICAI) and Twitter (teicai2024) to get more updates about the workshop. On behalf of the organizers Nina Hosseini-Kivanani University of Luxembourg

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Post Doc Researcher with the Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics (FATE) research group at Microsoft Research; Review of applications begins January 3, 2024
by Solon Barocas 12 Dec '23

12 Dec '23

The Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics (FATE) research group at Microsoft Research New York City is looking for a Post Doc Researcher to start July 2024: https://jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/job/1667778/Post-Doc-Researche… We will begin to review applications for the position on January 3, 2024. This two-year position is an ideal opportunity for an emerging scholar whose work focuses on the social implications of machine learning and AI. As a Postdoctoral Researcher, you will define your own research agenda, driving forward an effective program of basic, fundamental, and applied research. You will also have the opportunity to collaborate with members of the research group, including Solon Barocas, Alexandra Chouldechova, Kate Crawford, Hal Daumé, Miro Dudík, Hanna Wallach, and Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, as well as others in the New York City lab and other Microsoft Research labs. Microsoft Research offers an exhilarating and supportive environment for cutting-edge, multidisciplinary research, both theoretical and applied, with access to an extraordinary diversity of data sources, an open publications policy, and close links to top academic institutions around the world. Additionally, the position offers unique opportunities to engage with the broader responsible AI (RAI) ecosystem within Microsoft, including product teams, AI policy teams, and RAI practitioners. We seek applicants with a demonstrated interest in FATE-related topics and a desire to work in a highly interdisciplinary environment that includes researchers from computer science, statistics, the social sciences, the humanities, and other fields. Successful candidates will also have an established research track record, evidenced by notable journal or conference publications and broader contributions to the research community. We will consider candidates with a background in a technical field such as computer science (especially AI, machine learning, NLP, and computer vision), statistics, economics, and decision sciences as well as candidates with a socio-technical orientation, such as those in information science, sociology, anthropology, science and technology studies, media studies, law, and related fields. We are especially interested in candidates who would like to pursue research aligned with one or more of the following themes: • Computational, statistical, and sociotechnical approaches to fairness assessment: Data collection, experimental design, sample-efficient statistical methods, measurement, and visualization for fairness assessment; mixed-methods approaches, including participatory methods, for measuring fairness-related harms caused by AI and human-AI systems. • Human-centered AI transparency: Explanation, evaluation, and uncertainty communication approaches to improve stakeholder understanding of AI models or systems; transparency approaches for improving human control, autonomy, oversight, and mitigation of AI harms; transparency in human-AI collaboration. • Institutional, organizational, and economic challenges of AI development, deployment, and use: Challenges of translating real-world problems into machine learning tasks and integrating AI with existing institutional processes; incentives for and resistance to contributing training data; impacts of generative AI on the cultural industries; environmental impacts of generative AI systems. • AI law and policy; AI for policymaking and regulation: How existing laws and policies apply to AI, and where new regulations might be necessary; AI as a tool for effective policymaking, regulation, and enforcement. • Responsible AI in practice: Turning RAI principles into policies and practices; translating RAI research into practice; navigating organizational dynamics, competing incentives, and decision-making under uncertainty. Candidates must have completed their PhD, including submission of their dissertation, prior to the start of the position (i.e., dissertation submitted and degree preferably conferred by July 2024). We encourage candidates with tenure-track job offers from other institutions to apply, provided they are able to defer their start date by at least one year to accept our position. To be assured of full consideration, all application materials, including reference letters, need to be received by January 3, 2024. Applications received after that date may be considered until the position is filled. This role is not to exceed two years.

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Final call for papers: CODI, 5th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse
by Amir Zeldes 11 Dec '23

11 Dec '23

CODI, 5th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse: Final Call for Papers 2024-03-21 or 22 - EACL 2024 - Malta ** Submission deadline: December 20th, 2023 - No deadline extension ** Website link: https://sites.google.com/view/codi2024 Aims and scope The last ten years have seen a dramatic improvement in the ability of NLP systems to understand and produce words and sentences. This development has created a renewed interest in discourse phenomena as researchers move towards the processing of long-form text and conversations. There is a surge of activity in discourse parsing, coherence models, text summarization, corpora for discourse level reading comprehension, and discourse related/aided representation learning, to name a few, but the problems in computational approaches to discourse are still substantial. At this juncture, we have organized four Workshops on Computational Approaches to Discourse (CODI) at EMNLP 2020, EMNLP 2021, COLING 2022 and ACL 2023 to bring together discourse experts and upcoming researchers. These workshops have catalyzed work to advance research on discourse level problems and have served as a forum for the discussion of suitable datasets and reliable evaluation methods. The previous workshops on discourse in machine translation (DiscoMT), linking lexical, sentential and discourse semantics (LSDSem), discourse structure in natural language generation (DSNNLG), discourse relation parsing and treebanking (DISRPT) and coreference (CORBON/CRAC), have shown that there is considerable interest and success in bringing together the community working on specific problems in discourse. We believe that the discourse community will also benefit from a general forum where work ranging from corpus development/analysis to computational models, and evaluation is discussed, and desiderata can be drawn for future progress. The 5th CODI workshop is planned as a 1 day event which brings together different subcommunities. It will feature invited talks and regular papers. We also accept papers accepted at other major conferences for non-archival presentation, including Findings papers. Topics of interest We welcome papers on symbolic and probabilistic approaches, corpus development and analysis, as well as machine and deep learning approaches to discourse. We appreciate theoretical contributions as well as practical applications, including demos of systems and tools. The goal of the workshop is to provide a forum for the community of NLP researchers working on all aspects of discourse. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - discourse structure - discourse connectives - discourse relations - annotation tools and schemes for discourse phenomena - corpora annotated with discourse phenomena - discourse parsing - cross-lingual discourse processing - cross-domain discourse processing - anaphora and coreference resolution - event coreference - argument mining - coherence modeling - discourse and semantics - discourse in applications such as machine translation, summarization, etc. - evaluation methodology for discourse processing Submissions We solicit three categories of papers: regular (long and short) workshop papers, demos and extended abstracts. Only regular workshop papers and demos will be included in the proceedings as archival publications. Double submission of papers is allowed but will need to be indicated at submission. Regular papers must describe original unpublished research. Long papers may consist of up to 8 pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references. Short papers can be up to 4 pages, plus unlimited pages for references. Demo submissions may describe systems, tools, visualizations, etc., and may consist of up to 4 pages, plus unlimited pages for references. Each submission can contain unlimited pages for Appendices but the paper submissions need to remain fully self-contained, as these supplementary materials are completely optional, and reviewers are not even asked to review them. Extended abstracts can describe work in progress. These may be two pages long (without references). Extended abstracts are non-archival. They will be included in the workshop program and handbook, but will not appear in the workshop proceedings. Paper accepted or rejected at one of the main conferences We also invite presentations of paper accepted at another main conference, a specific deadline and submission process will be communicated later on. They will be included in the workshop program and handbook, but will not appear in the workshop proceedings. We will also consider for publication papers rejected at one of the main conferences (see the direct submission deadline below), authors will have to submit both the paper and the reviews. The submission process will be communicated later on. Submission website All submissions must be anonymous and follow the EACL 2024 formatting instructions described here: � https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp Please submit your workshop papers at https://softconf.com/eacl2024/CODI-2024/ Important dates 2023-12-20: CODI papers due 2024-01-17: Direct submission (papers rejected at a main conference) 2024-01-20: Notification of acceptance 2024-01-30: Camera ready deadline for main conference and CODI 2024-03-17 – 2024-03-22: CODI workshop All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h ("anywhere on Earth"). Due to the tight schedule, there will be no deadline extension. Invited Speakers - Hannah Rohde, University of Edinburgh - Manfred Stede, Potsdam University Organizers Chloé Braud, CNRS-IRIT Christian Hardmeier, IT University of Copenhagen Chuyuan (Lisa) Li, � University of British Columbia Jessy Li, University of Texas, Austin Sharid Loáiciga, University of Gothenburg Michael Strube, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies Amir Zeldes, Georgetown University To contact the organizers, please send an email to: codi-workshop(a)googlegroups.com <mailto:codi-workshop@googlegroups.com> �

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Tenure-Track Position in Data Curation & Responsible Data Science (Open Rank) - Information Sciences
by Halil Kilicoglu 11 Dec '23

11 Dec '23

*** Apologies for cross-posting *** Dear colleagues, The School of Information Sciences (iSchool) at the University of Illinois-Champaign is hiring for a tenure-track position in Data Curation & Responsible Data Science (open rank). The application deadline is January 05, 2024. The expected start date is August 16, 2024. For the full job announcement and application link, please see https://illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/1/home/requisition/8864?c=illin…. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Best regards, --Halil *HALIL KILICOGLU* *Associate Professor* School of Information Sciences University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign halil(a)illinois.edu https://ischool.illinois.edu/people/halil-kilicoglu

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UMRs in Boulder Summer School - First Call for Applications
by kristine.stenzel＠colorado.edu 11 Dec '23

11 Dec '23

June 10-13, 2024, University of Colorado, Boulder Held in conjunction with the UMR Parsing Workshop, June 14, 2024 https://umr4nlp.github.io/web/UMRParsingWorkshop.html Impressive progress has been made in many aspects of natural language processing (NLP) in recent years. Most notably, the achievements of transformer-based large language models such as ChatGPT would seem to obviate the need for any type of semantic representation beyond what can be encoded as contextualized word embeddings of surface text. Advances have been particularly notable in areas where large training data sets exist, and it is advantageous to build an end-to-end training architecture without resorting to intermediate representations. For any truly interactive NLP applications, however, a more complete understanding of the information conveyed by each sentence is needed to advance the state of the art. Here, "understanding'' entails the use of some form of meaning representation. NLP techniques that can accurately capture the required elements of the meaning of each utterance in a formal representation are critical to making progress in these areas and have long been a central goal of the field. As with end-to-end NLP applications, the dominant approach for deriving meaning representations from raw textual data is through the use of machine learning and appropriate training data. This allows the development of systems that can assign appropriate meaning representations to previously unseen text. In this four-day course, instructors from the University of Colorado and Brandeis University will describe the framework of Uniform Meaning Representations (UMRs), a recent cross-lingual, multi-sentence incarnation of Abstract Meaning Representations (AMRs), that addresses these issues and comprises such a transformative representation. Incorporating Named Entity tagging, discourse relations, intra-sentential coreference, negation and modality, and the popular PropBank-style predicate argument structures with semantic role labels into a single directed acyclic graph structure, UMR builds on AMR and keeps the essential characteristics of AMR while making it cross-lingual and extending it to be a document-level representation. It also adds aspect, multi-sentence coreference and temporal relations, and scope. Each day will include lectures and hands-on practice. Topics to be covered June 10-13: 1. The basic structural representation of UMR and its application to multiple languages; 2. How UMR encodes different types of MWE (multi-word expressions), discourse and temporal relations, and TAM (tense-aspect-modality) information in multiple languages, and differences between AMR and UMR; 3. Going from IGT (interlinear glossed text) to UMR graphs semi-automatically; 4. Formal semantic interpretation of UMR incorporating a continuation-based semantics for scope phenomena involving modality, negation, and quantification; 5. Extension to UMR for encoding gesture in multimodal dialogue, Gesture AMR (GAMR), which aligns with speech-based UMR to account for situated grounding in dialogue. The fifth day of the summer school, June 14, will be co-located with a UMR Parsing Workshop, focusing on parsing algorithms that generate AMR and UMR representations over multiple languages. https://umr4nlp.github.io/web/UMRParsingWorkshop.html To apply, please complete this form by Jan. 30, 2024. https://www.colorado.edu/linguistics/umrs-boulder-summer-school-application Other important dates: ● Notification of acceptance: Feb. 20, 2024 ● Confirmation of participation: Mar. 1, 2024 ● Arrival in Boulder June 9, departure June 15, 2024. Participation will be fully funded (reasonable airfare, lodging, and meals). This summer school has been made possible by funding from NSF Collaborative Research: Building a Broad Infrastructure for Uniform Meaning Representations (Award # 2213805), with additional support from the University of Colorado Boulder and the CLEAR Center.

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UMR Parsing Workshop 2024 - First Call
by kristine.stenzel＠colorado.edu 11 Dec '23

11 Dec '23

UMR Parsing Workshop - First Call University of Colorado, Boulder June 14, 2024 This workshop will focus on developing parsers for Uniform Meaning Representations. The goal is to start from raw text from real-world settings that could be in any one of many typologically different languages, even low-resource languages for which there is little or no training data. This can be achieved by exploiting a common semantic annotation standard. This workshop has been made possible by funding for NSF Collaborative Research: Building a Broad Infrastructure for Uniform Meaning Representations (Award # 2213805), which is aimed at developing guidelines and annotation for cross-lingual Uniform Meaning Representations, based on the original Abstract Meaning Representation guidelines for English, but ensuring cross-linguistically consistent annotation and recoverability of the original raw texts. This workshop will overlap with the last day of the Colorado UMR Annotation Summer School. The workshop is open to everyone and will cover the fundamentals of UMR annotation and the differences between AMR and UMR. In addition to the talk from our invited speaker, there will be presentations on recent successful approaches to AMR parsing and how they can be applied to UMR parsing. We welcome submissions from anyone on related topics, such as: ● AMR or UMR parsing for any language ● AMR or UMR generation for any language ● Evaluation metrics for AMR or UMR parsing ● Bootstrapping of AMRs or UMRs from related semantic representations such as Propbanks ● Projections of English AMR onto other languages; ● Challenges of applying AMR annotation to languages other than English; ● Challenges of accurate multi-sentence coreference as a subtask of AMR parsing; ● Any other topic related to the parsing and generation of AMRs or UMRs. Important dates ● Workshop paper submissions due: March 30, 2024 ● Notification of acceptance: April 25, 2024 ● Camera-ready versions due: May 30, 2024 Submissions Submissions should report original and unpublished research on topics of interest to the workshop. Accepted papers are expected to be presented at the workshop and will be published in the workshop proceedings. They should emphasize obtained results rather than intended work and should clearly indicate the state of completion of the reported results. Submission is electronic, using the Workshop submission site in Easy Chair. https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=umrpw2024 Submissions must adhere to the two-column format of ACL venues, using the Overleaf template taken from ACL 2023. https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/acl-2023-proceedings-template/qjdg… Initial submissions should be fully anonymous to ensure double-blind reviewing. Long papers must not exceed eight (8) pages of content; short papers must not exceed four (4) pages of content. References and appendices do not count against these limits. To ensure double-blind reviews, papers must not include the authors’ names and affiliations or self-references that reveal any author’s identity. Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review.

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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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Third call for papers: The 9th Workshop on Noisy and User-generated Text (WNUT 2024)
by rob van der goot 11 Dec '23

11 Dec '23

The WNUT Workshop will be collocated with EACL 2024 (Malta). The website for the workshop is at: http://noisy-text.github.io/ The WNUT workshop focuses on core NLP tasks (e.g., POS/NER tagging and translation; not computational social science) over user-generated text, such as that found on social media, web forums, online reviews, digital health records, or language learner essays. We seek submissions of long and short papers on original and unpublished work (same format and page limit as EACL main conference). All accepted submissions will be presented as posters. Additionally, selected submissions will be presented orally. There will be best paper awards for both short and long papers. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * NLP of noisy text, e.g. POS, NER tagging, Parsing * Text normalization and error correction * Paraphrase identification and semantic similarity of short text or noisy text * Extracting user demographics, profiles, and major life events * Machine translation and Multilingual NLP over noisy text * Information extraction from noisy text, global and regional trend detection, and event extraction * Colloquial language, e.g. idiom detection * Domain adaptation to user-generated text * Detecting rumors, contradictory information, sarcasm and humor on social media * Sentiment analysis * Temporal aspects of user-generated content (resolving time expressions, concept drift, etc...) * Representing and mining language variation in user-generated content * Processing of automatically generated data * Robustness to Noise, both Natural and Adversarial [IMPORTANT DATES] * Submission Deadline: December 18, 2023 (anytime on earth; dual-submission allowed) * Acceptance Notification: January 20, 2024 * Camera-Ready Deadline: january 30, 2024 * Workshop Day: March 21/22, 2024 [INVITED SPEAKERS] * Su Lin Blodgett * Jennifer Foster [ORGANIZERS] * Tim Baldwin (University of Melbourne) * Wei Xu (Georgia Institute of Technology) * Alan Ritter (Georgia Institute of Technology) * Rob van der Goot (IT University of Copenhagen) * Max Müller-Eberstein (IT University of Copenhagen) [SUBMISSION] Submissions should conform to the ACL style guidelines. Long and short paper submissions must be anonymized. Please submit your papers via OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2024/Workshop/WNUT

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CAiSE'24 Ph.D. Award: First Call for Applications
by Announce 11 Dec '23

11 Dec '23

*** Ph.D. Award: First Call for Applications *** 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: 1st March, 2024 AoE ***) The deadline to apply for the CAiSE 2024 PhD Award is March 1st 2024. The conditions to apply are: • having participated as an author in a previous CAiSE Doctoral Consortium or at a main CAiSE Event: either the main conference, the CAiSE Forum, EMMSAD, or BPMDS; • having successfully defended the PhD thesis in the last two years (i.e., since January 2022). The application must be submitted electronically to the PhD Awards track of CAiSE 2024 via EasyChair <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=caise2024> . The application must be a single PDF file containing: • a short cover letter that includes the list of PhD committee members, • a support letter from the thesis advisor, • the candidate's defended PhD thesis, • the candidate’s CV. About the PhD Award The CAiSE PhD Award 2024 is granted annually to an outstanding recent PhD thesis in the field of Information Systems Engineering. The award is co-sponsored by the CAiSE Steering Committee and Springer. It consists of a certificate, free full registration (5 days) to the next two editions of the CAiSE conference, and a book voucher for a free selection worth EUR 500 from Springer’s printed books collection. In addition, the selected thesis will be recommended for publication as a monograph in the LNBIP series published by Springer, provided that Springer’s publication conditions are met. The PhD theses submitted for the award will be reviewed by a standing committee of senior members selected from the CAiSE Advisory Committee, the CAiSE Steering Committee, and the CAiSE Program Committee. Award Chair Professor Andreas L Opdahl, University of Bergen, Norway Key Dates • Submission of application: 1st March, 2024 (AoE) • Notification: 15th April, 2024 Past Recipents • 2023: Anna Bernasconi, PhD from Politecninco Milano (Italy), thesis title “Model, Integrate, Search... Repeat: a Sound Approach to Building Integrated Repositories of Genomic Data” (link to the forthcoming monograph: https://link.springer.com/book/9783031449062) • 2022: Volodymyr Leno, PhD from University of Melbourne (Australia), thesis title “Robotic Process Mining: Accelerating the adoption of Robotic Process Automation” (link to the thesis: https://minerva-access.unimelb.edu.au/bitstream/handle/ 11343/297274/98f9efca-4dd2-eb11-94dc-0050568d0279_manuscript.pdf) • 2021: Orlenys Lopez Pintado, PhD from University of Tartu (Estonia), thesis title “Collaborative Business Process Execution on the Block Chain: the Caterpillar System” (link to the thesis: https://dspace.ut.ee/items/1e09072c-5442-463a-b8c6-0425951cb90b) • 2020: Steven Mertens, PhD from Ghent University (Belgium), thesis title “Enabling process management for loosely framed knowledge-intensive processes” (link to the published monograph: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030661922) • 2019: Giovanni Meroni, PhD from Politecnico di Milano (Italy), thesis title “Artifact-driven business process monitoring” (link to the published monograph: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030324117) • 2018: Wei Wang, PhD from University of Queensland (Australia) thesis title “Integrated Modeling of Business Processes and Business Rules” (link to the published monograph: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030118082) • 2017: Marcela Ruiz, PhD from the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Spain), thesis title “TraceME: A Traceability-Based Method for Conceptual Model Evolution” (link to the published monograph: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319897158) • 2016: Le Minh Sang Tran, PhD from University of Trento (Italy), thesis title “Managing the Uncertainty of the Evolution of Requirements Models” (testimony of the 2016 CAiSE PhD Award winner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-vvlH66lC4)

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1st CFP - Third Workshop on Digital Humanities and Natural Language Processing
by Leonardo Zilio 11 Dec '23

11 Dec '23

* We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP * For the online version of this Call, visit: https://easychair.org/cfp/3rdDHandNLP =============== 3rd DHandNLP Third Workshop on Digital Humanities and Natural Language Processing Co-located with PROPOR 2024 14-15 March 2024, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Galizia, Spain Website: https://sites.google.com/view/dhandnlp-propor Submission deadline: 20 January 2024 (23:59 GMT) Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=3rddhandnlp 3rd DHandNLP is a one-day workshop during PROPOR - 14-15 March 2024 *Workshop description* Digital humanities (DH) stand at the intersection of computing and the humanities, involving collaborative transdisciplinary research. While current DH practice already shows an impressive array of new digital tools and methods for the study of the humanities, we believe that natural language processing techniques and experience can significantly enhance the field, while DH can also bring new testbeds and problems for the NLP community. As shown in the previous workshops, there is an increasing set of researchers in the processing of Portuguese who are interested in this active collaboration, and we believe that we should cater for a forum which may join the two communities, DH and NLP, showcasing several different aspects allowed by this cross-fertilization. The 3rdDHandNLP welcomes papers stemming from humanities that deal with language, such as philosophy, history, geography, law, philology, linguistics, or literature, and that can benefit from a digital approach or enhanced with computational linguistics methods or techniques, be it by using large sets of (written or spoken) textual data or by developing applications for an increasingly digital world. We also welcome papers that use “traditional” DH tools or techniques, such as topic modeling, and papers that use standard NLP tools that were already applied in different DH contexts, such as named entity recognition, document clustering and classification, sentiment analysis, dialect/language identification and linked data. *Main workshop topics* - Digital philology, critical editions production and textual criticism - Lexicometrics, lexicology and lexicography - Visualization or sonification of large textual bodies in specific domains - Computational stylometry, authorship attribution and profiling - Distant reading of literature - Construction of historical thesauri Finally, we are especially interested in approaches that deal with historical material, involving not only historical linguistics but historical lexicology, corpus processing and their multilingual analysis. *SUBMISSION GUIDELINES* All papers must be anonymous, original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. They must strictly adhere to the submission templates of the main conference. We welcome submissions of: - Short papers, consisting of up to 4 pages of content, plus unlimited pages of references - Full papers, consisting of up to 8 pages of content, plus unlimited pages of references Kind regards, Maria José B. Finatto and Leonardo Zilio (on behalf of the organising committee)

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PROPOR24 Deadline extension + last call for demos.
by Iria de Dios Flores 11 Dec '23

11 Dec '23

The PROPOR 2024 demonstration program committee invites submissions for demonstrations. Following the spirit of previous PROPOR editions, the demonstration track aims at bringing together academia and industry, creating a forum where more than written or spoken descriptions of research are available. Thus, demos should allow attendees to try and test them during their presentation in a dedicated session that will provide a more informal and interactive setting. Products, systems, or tools are examples of acceptable demos. Both early-research prototypes and mature systems may also be considered. *Important dates:* Demos Submission: January 10 2024 Notification of acceptance or rejection: February 21 2024 Camera-ready demo paper: February 28 2024 Conference: March 14 and 15 2024 *Topics:* The areas of interest include all topics related to theoretical and applied issues of written and spoken Portuguese and Galician, such as, but not limited to, the same topics as for the conference paper submission: Natural language processing tasks (e.g. parsing, word sense disambiguation, coreference resolution) Natural language processing applications (e.g. question answering, subtitling, summarization, sentiment analysis) Natural language generation Information extraction and information retrieval Speech technologies (e.g. spoken language generation, speech and speaker recognition, spoken language understanding) Speech applications (e.g. spoken language interfaces, dialogue systems, speech-to-speech translation) Resources, standardization and evaluation (e.g. corpora, ontologies, lexicons, grammars) NLP-oriented linguistic description or theoretical analysis Distributional semantics and language modeling Portuguese language varieties and dialect processing (including the language varieties of Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Galicia, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé, and Principe) Multilingual studies, methods, applications, and resources including Portuguese/Galician The systems may be of the following kinds: Natural Language Processing systems or system components Application systems using language technology components Software tools for computational linguistics research Software for demonstration or evaluation Development tools *Submissions:* Submissions should consist of a non-anonymous brief description document of up to three pages of content, including references. Developers must outline the main characteristics of their system/product/tool, provide sufficient details to allow its evaluation, and give information on how they plan to demonstrate it. Developers are encouraged to focus their description on the relevance of the computational processing component of Portuguese or Galician in the proposed system. Submissions should be written in English. At submission time, only PDF format is accepted. For the final versions, authors of accepted papers will be given one extra content page to take the reviews into account. Authors of accepted papers will be requested to send the source files for the production of the proceedings. Submissions must be sent via EasyChair ( https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=propor2024) — please select the track: PROPOR2024 Demo Paper. All submitted papers must conform to the official ACL style guidelines. ACL provides style files for LaTeX and Microsoft Word that meet these requirements. They can be found at: LaTeX styelesheet: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files/tree/master/latex MS Word stylesheet: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files/tree/master/word Publication: Accepted demo papers are expected to be published by ACL as a volume in ACL Anthology (https://aclanthology.org/) as part of the PROPOR 2024 proceedings. They will be available online. To ensure publication, at least one author of each accepted paper must complete an adequate registration for PROPOR 2024 by the early registration deadline. *Presentation format:* Accepted demos will be presented at a designated demo session with an optional accompanying poster. Developers should make sure they could run their demos properly. Thus, it is the authors’ responsibility to provide the necessary technical conditions (i.e. equipment) for the demo at the conference. Note that the local organizers will not provide any hardware or software. Free high-speed Internet access will be available. There will be a best demo award for the best-presented project. Further details on the date, time, and instructions of the demonstration session(s) will be determined and provided at a later date. *Demo chairs:* Marlo Souza (Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil) Iria de-Dios-Flores (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain) -- *Iria de-Dios-Flores (PhD)* *https://sites.google.com/view/iriadediosflores/ <https://sites.google.com/view/iriadediosflores/>*

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1st CfP: Workshop on Reference, Framing, and Perspective
by pia.sommerauer＠live.com 11 Dec '23

11 Dec '23

We are very pleased to share our first call for papers for our workshop on Reference, Framing, and Perspective co-located with LREC-COLING 2024. * Workshop website: https://cltl.github.io/reference-framing-perspective/ * When: Saturday, May 25th, 20204 * Where: Torino, Italy (co-located with LREC-COLING 2024) * Deadline for submissions: February (details tba) * Paper submission link: tba * Deadline for camera-ready papers: beginning of April 2024 (details tba) When something happens in the world, we have access to an unlimited range of ways (from lexical choices to specific syntactic structures) to refer to the same real-world event. Variations in reference may convey radically different perspectives. This process of making reference to something by adopting a specific perspective is also known as framing. Although previous work in is this area is present (see Ali and Hassan (2022)’s survey for an overview), there is a lack of unitary framework and only few targeted datasets (Chen et al., 2019) and tools based on Large Language Models exist (Minnema et al., 2022). In this workshop, we propose to adopt Frame Semantics (Fillmore, 1968, 1985, 2006) as a unifying theoretical framework and analysis method to understand the choices made in linguistic references to events. The semantic frames (expressed by predicates and roles) we choose give rise to our understanding, or framing, of an event. We aim to bring together different research communities interested in lexical and syntactic variation, referential grounding, frame semantics, and perspectives. We believe that there is significant overlap within the goals and interests of these communities, but not the necessary common ground to enable collaborative work. Shared dataset: To facilitate discussion among participants and to make this a real working workshop, we make available a shared corpus. The corpus is composed of news articles reporting on the 2020/2021 Eurovision Song Contest (canceled in 2020 and held in 2021) that took place in Rotterdam (the Netherlands). The news articles have been collected using the structured data-to-text approach (Vossen et al., 2018). At this point, the corpus contains texts in English and Dutch. We are extending it to a range of other European languages. We invite participants to submit short and targeted analyses using the data (extended abstracts to be discussed in a hands-on data session). Participants are also free to use the data in regular contributions. More information about the corpus will be released soon. Regular contributions: We aim to lay the groundwork for such efforts. We invite contributions (regular long papers of 8 pages or short papers of 4 pages) targeting any of the following - non-exhaustive - list of topics: * Theoretical models of framing and perspective * Annotation frameworks for framing and perspectives * Computational models of framing and perspective * Approaches for creating and analyzing referentially grounded datasets (containing different perspectives, written at different points in time, written in different languages) * Approaches for and analyses of texts about contested and divisive events triggering different opinions and perspectives * Analyses of and methods for analyzing (diachronic) lexical variation and framing * Language resources for reference, frames, and perspectives * Approaches and tools to compare claims of sources * Frames as expressions of bias in the representation of social groups * User interface for the visualization of multiple perspectives Extended abstracts: We invite extended abstracts (1,500 words maximum) about small analyses or experiments conducted on our Shared Data. The abstracts will be non-archival and discussed in a dedicated data session. Invited speakers: Maria Antoniak Vered Shwartz Organizers: Pia Sommerauer, Tommaso Caselli, Malvina Nissim, Levi Remijnse, Piek Vossen

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Third Call for Papers: The 18th Linguistic Annotation Workshop
by Sophie Henning 10 Dec '23

10 Dec '23

***Third Call for Papers*** **Overview** - Submission of long and short papers: December 18, 2023 (no deadline extension possible) - Submission page: https://softconf.com/eacl2024/LAW-XVIII/ - Website: https://sigann.github.io/LAW-XVIII-2024/ **Workshop Description** LAW-XVIII will be the 18th annual meeting endorsed by the ACL Special Interest Group for Annotation (SIGANN). It will take place in March 2024 at EACL in St. Julians, Malta. Linguistic annotation of natural language corpora is the backbone of supervised methods in both statistical and neural natural language processing. Annotated corpora are also a major supporting source of information for unsupervised methods, multitask learning, and evaluation of both NLP tools and theories about language within and outside of linguistics. The LAW-XVIII will provide a forum for presentation and discussion of innovative research on all aspects of linguistic annotation, including creation/evaluation of annotation schemes, methods for automatic and manual annotation, use and evaluation of annotation software and frameworks, representation of linguistic data and annotations, semi-supervised “human in the loop” methods of annotation, crowd-sourcing approaches, and more. The LAW will also provide a forum for annotation researchers to work towards standardization, best practices, and interoperability of annotation information and software. In line with the EACL main conference, LAW will be hybrid, allowing both in-person and virtual presentations. **Special Theme** The special theme of LAW-XVIII is “Annotation in the Age of Large Language Models (LLMs).” In addition to LAW’s general topics, we specifically invite submissions on the following topics: - Comparison of linguistically annotated datasets vs. datasets created using large language models. Potential topics include: - Comparison of models that have been trained on the respective datasets - Impact of data size of manually annotated resources already available prior to dataset creation with LLMs - Is synthetic dataset creation a viable option for non-standard domains, e.g., the medical domain, where expert knowledge is required? - Non-performance-related considerations of manual vs. synthetic dataset creation (e.g., explainability) - Impact and prevention of test dataset contamination in LLM training - Usefulness of LLMs for linguistic research (in relation to annotation). - Any other topics related to the special theme. **Submissions** We accept both direct submissions and commitments from ACL Rolling Review (ARR). We welcome submissions of long and short papers, posters, and demonstrations relating to the special theme or any aspect of linguistic annotation, including: - Annotation procedures - Innovative automated and manual strategies for annotation - Machine learning and knowledge-based methods for automation of corpus annotation - Creation, maintenance, and interactive exploration of annotation structures and annotated data - Annotation evaluation - Inter-annotator agreement and other evaluation metrics and strategies - Qualitative evaluation of linguistic representations - Innovative means to evaluate annotation quality - Annotation access and use - Representation formats/structures for annotations of different phenomena, especially annotations at multiple levels, and means to explore/manipulate them - Linguistic considerations for merging annotations of distinct phenomena - Annotation schemes, guidelines and standards - New and innovative annotation schemes, comparison of annotation schemes - Methodologies and resources for annotation scheme development - Best practices for annotation procedures and/or development and documentation of annotation schemes - Interoperability of annotation formats and/or frameworks among different systems as well as different tasks, frameworks, modalities, and languages - Results from the application and evaluation of standards for linguistic annotation - Annotation software and frameworks - Development, evaluation and/or innovative use of annotation software frameworks Submissions should report original and unpublished research on topics of interest to the workshop. We also invite substantiated position papers, in particular with regard to our special theme. Accepted papers are expected to be presented at the workshop and will be published in the workshop proceedings. They should emphasize obtained results rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. A paper accepted for presentation at the workshop must not be or have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available proceedings. Long/short paper submissions must use the official ACL style templates. Long papers must not exceed eight (8) pages of content. Short papers and demonstration papers must not exceed four (4) pages of content. References do not count against these limits. Note: The supplementary material does not count towards page limit and should not be included in the paper, but should be submitted separately using the appropriate field on the submission website. All submissions must be in PDF format. Reviewing of papers will be double-blind. Therefore, the paper must not include the authors' names and affiliations or self-references that reveal the authors’ identity--e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ..." should be replaced with citations such as "Smith (1991) previously showed ...". Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. Authors of papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications must provide this information to the workshop co-chairs ( law-xviii-2024(a)googlegroups.com). Authors of accepted papers must notify the program chairs within 10 days of acceptance if the paper is withdrawn for any reason. We follow previous and current ACL policy to establish an anonymity period (from submission to author notification) during which non-anonymous posting of preprints is not allowed. Also included in that policy are instructions to reviewers to not rate papers down for not citing recent preprints. Authors are asked to cite published versions of papers instead of preprint versions when possible. Papers can be submitted at https://softconf.com/eacl2024/LAW-XVIII/. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the program co-chairs via e-mail or check the workshop website ( https://sigann.github.io/LAW-XVIII-2024/) for updates. **Dates** (All submission deadlines are 11:59 p.m. UTC-12:00 “anywhere on Earth” and will not be extended) Anonymity period starts: November 18, 2023 Submission of long and short papers: December 18, 2023 ARR Commitment deadline: January 17, 2024 Notification of acceptance: January 20, 2024 Camera-ready papers due: January 30, 2024 Workshop: March 21 or 22, 2024 **Workshop Organizers** Manfred Stede (Program Co-Chair) Sophie Henning (Program Co-Chair) Amir Zeldes (ACL SIGANN President) Ines Rehbein (ACL SIGANN Secretary)

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First CFP: 2nd Workshop on Resources and Technologies for Indigenous, Endangered and Lesser-resourced Languages in Eurasia (EURALI)
by Atul K. Ojha 09 Dec '23

09 Dec '23

Apologies for cross-posting. ------------------------- 2nd Workshop on Resources and Technologies for Indigenous, Endangered and Lesser-resourced Languages in Eurasia (EURALI) @ LREC-COLING 2024 Date: 20-25 May, 2024 Venue: Lingotto Conference Centre - Torino (Italia) Main website: https://sites.google.com/view/eurali/ <https://sites.google.com/view/eurali/> LREC-COLING 2024 website: https://lrec-coling-2024.org/ —————————————————————————————————— Workshop overview and objectives This workshop will focus on the development of language technology resources and tools for indigenous, endangered and lesser-resourced languages on the Eurasian continent. In a media-centric world where language technology allows people to break cultural and language barriers, it is important that speakers of endangered and indigenous languages can be empowered to use this technology to continue to share their knowledge and culture with the world. With the hope of bridging this gap, the goal of this workshop is to increase visibility and promote research for lesser-resourced and underrepresented languages in Europe and Asia. Through collaboration between NLP researchers, language experts and linguists working for the benefit of endangered languages in these communities, we aim to create language technology resources that will help to preserve and revive these languages for future generations. Furthermore, the workshop aims to promote the emergence of new methods that benefit linguists, for instance for automation of analysis and validation processes, field linguists, the facilitation of data collection and analysis processes, and computational linguists by developing new techniques necessary for linguistic analysis, development of supervised or weakly supervised methods for the analysis of poorly written or undocumented languages. The main objective of the workshop is to create basic resources and develop tools for Eurasiatic languages, including but not limited to the following topics: - identifying languages and variants spoken in these regions - creation of language resources and applications, e.g. sentiment analysis, named entity recognition, and syntactic parsing - standardization for endangered languages - automatic identification and classification of lexical variation and language varieties - adaptation of fundamental NLP tools for these languages, e.g., morphological analysis, taggers and parsers - reusability of language resources in NLP applications, e.g. machine translation, and POS tagging - machine translation between closely related languages evaluation of language resources and tools when applied to lesser-resourced languages in the same language families - corpora, resources, and tools for closely related languages - linguistic and textual similarities among languages in Eurasia - digitalization of endangered languages - challenges in the creation of language resources and tools from linguistic perspectives (which includes any perspective formal theory) Submissions We are seeking submissions under the following category: Full papers: 8 pages+unlimited reference Short papers (work in progress): 4 pages+unlimited reference Posters (innovative ideas/proposals, a research idea of students): 4 pages+unlimited reference Demo (of working online/standalone systems): 2 pages Papers must describe original, completed or in progress, and unpublished work. The accepted papers will be given up for full/short paper and poster in the workshop proceedings and will be presented as an oral presentation or poster. Papers should be formatted according to the LREC-COLING style sheet ( https://lrec-coling-2024.org/authors-kit/), which is provided on the LREC-COLING 2024 website(https://lrec-coling-2024.org/). Please submit papers in PDF format to the START account (the submission link will be available soon). For further information on this initiative, please refer to the https://sites.google.com/view/eurali/. Important Dates (tentative) February 23, 2024: Paper submissions due March 22, 2024: Paper notification of acceptance May 20-25, 2024: Workshop Workshop Chair: Atul Kr. Ojha, Sina Ahmadi, Chao-Hong Liu, Potamu Research Ltd, Dublin (Ireland) John P. McCrae, University of Galway, Galway (Ireland) Theodorus Fransen, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan (Italy) Silvie Cinkovà, Charles University, Prague (Czech Republic) Programme Committee (to be updated): Abigail Walsh*, Dublin City University, Dublin (Ireland) Agata Savary, University of Paris-Saclay, Paris-Saclay (France) A. Seza Doğruöz, Ghent University, Ghent (Belgium) Alina Karakanta, University of Leiden, Leiden (Netherlands) Alina Wróblewska, Institute of Computer Science, Jana Kazimierza, Warszawa (Poland) Akanksha Bansal, Panlingua, Delhi (India) Anabela Barreiro*, INESC-ID, Lisboa (Portugal) Atul Kr. Ojha, University of Galway, Galway (Ireland) & Panlingua, (India) Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, University of Galway, Galway (Ireland) Bogdan Babych, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg (Germany) Chao-Hong Liu, Potamu Research Ltd, Dublin (Ireland) Daan van Esch, Google, Amsterdam (Netherlands) Daniel Zeman, Charles University, Prague (Czech Republic) Deepak Alok, IIT-Delhi, Delhi (India) Dorothee Beermann, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trøndelag (Norway) Esha Banerjee, J.P. Morgan, Bengaluru (India) Ekaterina Vylomova, University of Melbourne, Melbourne (Australia) George Rehm, GmbH, Berlin (Germany) Jamal Abdul Nasir, University of Galway, Galway (Ireland) Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University, (Sweden) John P. McCrae, University of Galway, (Ireland) Jonathan Washington, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore (USA) Joseph Mariani, LIMSI-CNRS, Pairs (France) Kaja Dobrovoljc, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana (Slovenia) Katharina Kann*, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA Kevin Patrick Scannell, Cadhan Aonair, LLC, Missouri (USA) Khalid Choukri, ELDA/ELRA, Paris (France) Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, UCLouvainCollège Léon Durpiez, (Belgium) Massimo Monaglia, University of Florence, (Italy) Nicoletta Calzolari, CNR-ILC, (Italy) Olesea Caftanatov, Vladimir Andrunachievici Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, Chişinău (Moldova) Richard Sproat, Google, Tokyo (Japan) Rico Sennrich, University of Zurich, Zurich (Switzerland) Ritesh Kumar, Agra University, Agra (India) Saliha Muradoglu, Australian National University, Canberra (Australia) Silvie Cinkovà, Charles University, Prague (Czech Republic) Sina Ahmadi, George Mason University, (USA) Stella Markantonatou, Athena RC, Athens (Greece) Sourabrata Mukherjee, Charles University, Prague (Czech Republic) Sunipa Dev, Google, Washington (USA) Theodorus Fransen, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan (Italy) Valentin Malykh, MTS AI / ITMO University Verginica Barbu Mititelu, Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Bucharest (Romania) Voula Giouli, Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Athens (Greece)

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First CfP: First International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (NLPAICS’2024)
by t.ranasinghe＠aston.ac.uk 08 Dec '23

08 Dec '23

First International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (NLPAICS’2024) Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom 29-30 July 2024 https://www.nlpaics.com First Call for Papers Recent advances in Natural Language Processing (NLP), Deep Learning and Large Language Models (LLMs) have resulted in improved performance of applications. . In particular, there has been a growing interest in employing AI methods in different Cyber Security applications. In today's digital world, Cyber Security has emerged as a heightened priority for both individual users and organisations. As the volume of online information grows exponentially, traditional security approaches often struggle to identify and prevent 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) serves as a gathering place for researchers in NLP and AI methods for Cyber Security. We invite contributions that present the latest NLP and AI solutions for mitigating risks in 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 o Detection and mitigation of hate speech and offensive language o Fake news, deepfakes, misinformation and disinformation o Detection of machine generated language in multimodal context (text, speech and gesture) o Trust and credibility of online information • User Security and Safety o Cyberbullying and identification of internet offenders o Monitoring extremist fora o Suicide prevention o Clickbait and scam detection o Fake profile detection in online social networks • Technical Measures and Solutions o Social engineering identification, phishing detection o NLP for risk assessment o Controlled languages for safe messages o Prevention of malicious use of ai models o 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 o Identification of unusual or suspicious patterns in logs, incident reports or other textual data o Detecting deviations from normal behaviour in system logs or network traffic • Threat Intelligence Analysis o Processing and analysing threat intelligence reports, news, articles and blogs on latest Cyber Security threats o Extracting key information and indicators of compromise (IoCs) from unstructured text Systems and Infrastructure Security • Systems Security o Anti-reverse engineering for protecting privacy and anonymity o Identification and mitigation of side-channel attacks o Authentication and access control o Enterprise-level mitigation o NLP for software vulnerability detection • Malware Detection through Code Analysis o Analysing code and scripts for malware o Detection using NLP to identify patterns indicative of malicious code Financial Cyber Security • Financial fraud detection • Financial risk 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 o Digital privacy and identity management o The ethics of NLP and speech technology o Explainability of NLP and speech technology tools o Legislation against malicious use of AI o Regulatory issues • Bias and Security o Bias in Large Language Models (LLMs) o 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 NLPAICS welcomes high-quality submissions in English, which can take two forms: • Regular long papers: These can be up to eight (8) pages long, presenting substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. • Short papers: These can be up to four (4) pages long and are suitable for describing small, focused contributions, negative results, system demonstrations, etc. Note that the page limits mentioned above exclude additional pages for references, ethical considerations, conflict-of-interest statements, as well as data and code availability statements. Papers must be anonymised to support double-blind reviewing. Please submit your work as pdf using the following link: https://softconf.com/n/nlpaics2024/ Submission templates can be accessed here: LaTeX Overleaf, LaTeX , MS Office Accepted papers, including both long and short papers, will be published as part of the same e-proceedings to be uploaded on ACL Anthology. Important dates • Submissions due: 5 April 2024 • Reviewing process: 25 April-31 May 2024 • Notification of acceptance: 5 June 2024 • Camera-ready due: 20 June 2024 • Conference: 29-30 July 2024 Venue The First International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (NLPAICS’2024) will take place at Lancaster University and is organised by the Lancaster University UCREL NLP research group. Organisation • Conference Chair o Ruslan Mitkov (Lancaster University) • Conference Programme Chairs o Cengiz Acartürk (Jagiellonian University) o Matthew Bradbury (Lancaster University) o Mo El-Haj (Lancaster University) o Paul Rayson (Lancaster University) • Sponsorship Chair o Saad Ezzini (Lancaster University) • Publicity Chair o Tharindu Ranasinghe (Aston University) • Publication Chair o Ignatius Ezeani (Lancaster University) Contact For further information please refer to the conference website (nlpaics.com) for regular updates. General queries can be emailed to info(a)nlpaics.com

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First CfP: Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and Universal Dependencies (MWE-UD 2024)
by Kilian Evang 08 Dec '23

08 Dec '23

First CfP: Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and Universal Dependencies (MWE-UD 2024) Co-located with LREC-COLING 2024 Torino, Italy and online May 25, 2024 Workshop Webpage: https://multiword.org/mweud2024/ We are pleased to announce that the multiword expressions (MWE) and Universal Dependencies (UD) research communities are joining forces in 2024 to organize a joint workshop. This is a timely collaboration because the two communities clearly have overlapping interests. For instance, while UD has several dependency relations that can be used to annotate MWEs, both annotation guidelines (i.e. is syntactic irregularity and inflexibility or semantic non-compositionality the leading criterion?) and annotation practice (both across treebanks for a single language and across languages) for these relations can be improved (Schneider and Zeldes, 2021). The PARSEME MWE-annotated corpora for 26 languages build on UD annotated corpora (Savary et al., 2023). Both communities share an interest in developing guidelines, data-sets, and tools that can be applied to a wide range of typologically diverse languages, raising fundamental questions about tokenization, lemmatization, and morphological decomposition of tokens. Proposals for harmonizing annotation practices between what has been achieved in PARSEME and UD and expanding PARSEME MWE annotation to non-verbal MWEs are also central to the recently started UniDive COST action (CA21167) <https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/doku.php?id=start>. The workshop invites submissions of original research on MWE, UD, and the interplay of both. In particular, the following topics are especially relevant: - Sensitivity of LLMs to MWE and syntactic dependencies. Studies along the lines of Manning et al. (2020) (UD), Nedumpozhimana and Kelleher (2021), Garcia et al. (2021), Fakharian and Cook (2021), Moreau et al. (2018) (MWE), and others on the question to what extent LLMs make use of syntactic dependencies or are capable of detecting MWEs and capturing their semantics. - Applicability of UD and MWE annotation and discovery for low-resource and typologically diverse languages and language varieties. Both UD and PARSEME aim at universal applicability across a wide range of languages. Much theoretical, computational, and empirical work concentrates on high-resource languages however. Applying these frameworks to typologically diverse languages may lead one to reconsider the notion of token, word, and morphological segmentation, and to reassess the notion of MWE for languages that feature compounding or incorporation (Baldwin et al., 2021; Haspelmath, 2023). - Case studies. Studies on the consistency, coverage or universal applicability of MWE annotation in the UD or PARSEME frameworks, as well as studies on automatic detection and interpretation of MWEs in corpora. - MWE and UD processing to enhance end-user applications. MWEs have gained particular attention in end-user applications, including MT (Zaninello and Birch, 2020; Han et al., 2021), simplification (Kochmar et al., 2020), language learning and assessment (Paquot et al., 2019; Christiansen and Arnon, 2017), social media mining (Maisto et al., 2017), and abusive language detection (Zampieri et al., 2020; Caselli et al., 2020). We believe that it is crucial to extend and deepen these first attempts to integrate and evaluate MWE technology in these and further end-user applications. - Testing developed systems on the latest dataset versions. Authors are also encouraged to submit papers that test the developed systems using the recent UD 2.13 and/or PARSEME 1.3 releases. Organizational Details - The workshop is sponsored by ACL-SIGLEX <https://siglex.org/> and UniDive <https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/doku.php?id=start>. - UniDive members with accepted papers may be eligible for travel reimbursement. - If you are based in an underrepresented country or work on low-resource languages and have an accepted paper, you may be eligible for an ACL-SIGLEX travel grant of up to 500 USD. - The workshop follows LREC-COLING’s hybrid online/onsite format. - Workshop proceedings will be published in the ACL Anthology. - The workshop follows the ACL anti-harassment policy <https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/Anti-Harassment_Policy>. Submission Instructions The workshop invites two types of submissions: - archival submissions that present substantially original research in both long paper format (8 pages + references) and short paper format (4 pages + references) - non-archival submissions of abstracts describing relevant research presented/published elsewhere which will not be included in the MWE-UD proceedings. Papers should be submitted via the workshop’s START submission page (link will be provided once available). Please choose the appropriate submission format (archival/non-archival). Submissions must follow the LREC-COLING 2024 stylesheet <https://lrec-coling-2024.org/authors-kit/>. When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC-COLING authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones) Archival papers with existing reviews from ACL Rolling Review will also be considered. A paper may not be simultaneously under review through ARR and MWE-UD. A paper that has or will receive reviews through ARR may not be submitted for review to MWE-UD. Important Dates (Tentative) Paper submission: Feb 25, 2024 ARR paper commitment: Mar 25, 2024 Notification of acceptance: Apr 1, 2024 Camera ready papers due: Apr 8, 2024 Workshop: May 25, 2024 All deadlines are at 23:59 UTC-12 (Anywhere on Earth). Organizing Committee Archna Bhatia, Gosse Bouma, Kilian Evang, Marcos Garcia, Voula Giouli, Lifeng Han, Joakim Nivre. For any inquiries contact the Organizing Committee at mweud2024-organizers(a)uni-duesseldorf.de.

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Paris Graduate School of Linguistics: masters programme
by Jonathan Ginzburg 08 Dec '23

08 Dec '23

Paris Graduate school of Linguistics offers 12 Masters specialties. Application for September 2024 is open https://mobility.smarts-up.fr/ Choose one or our master specialties and apply for a 10 000 euros /year grant https://paris-gsl.org/applying <https://paris-gsl.org/> Deadline: January 19th 2024 (5 pm Paris time) Please circulate this information Anne Abeillé Professor Head of Paris Graduate School of Linguistics https://paris-gsl.org/ Université Paris Cité

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Emerging Researcher: Data Analyst (British Council)
by Felice, Mariano (Exams) 08 Dec '23

08 Dec '23

An opportunity to join the Assessment Research Group at the British Council as Emerging Researcher: Data Analyst. Full details and link to application here: https://careers.britishcouncil.org/job/London-Emerging-Researcher-Data-Anal… For any enquiries, please contact Dr Karen Dunn at Karen.Dunn(a)britishcouncil.org<mailto:Karen.Dunn@britishcouncil.org>. Deadline for applications is 8th January. The British Council is the United Kingdom's international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities. A registered charity: 209131 (England and Wales) SC037733 (Scotland). This message is for the use of the intended recipient(s) only and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and delete it. The British Council accepts no liability for loss or damage caused by viruses and other malware and you are advised to carry out a virus and malware check on any attachments contained in this message.

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Job posting: Research Fellow in NLP for Clinical Linguistics
by Gloria Gagliardi 08 Dec '23

08 Dec '23

**With apologies for cross-posting** The Clinical Linguistics@LLiS Group at the University of Bologna, Italy, invites applications for a research position in NLP for Clinical Linguistics. The research activities will be carried out within the ReMind project - an ecological, cost-effective AI platform for early detection of prodromal stages of cognitive impairment, founded by MUR with the PRIN 2022 grant (CUP J53D23008380006), under the supervision of Prof. Gloria Gagliardi. We are looking for a proactive team member with a master’s degree or a PhD in Computer Science/Computational Linguistics. The candidate should have a strong background in corpus linguistics, machine learning and Natural Language Processing and good programming skills (i.e., Python). What we offer: - Duration: 18 months - Salary: 22.293,68 EUR/year (gross), around 1650 EUR/month (net) - Flexible working hours and home office arrangements For further information please contact Gloria Gagliardi (gloria.gagliardi(a)unibo.it). Interested? Apply here: https://bandi.unibo.it/ricerca/assegni-ricerca?id_bando=66888

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Postdoctoral position in natural language processing, Univ. Lorraine, Nancy, France
by Mathieu Constant 07 Dec '23

07 Dec '23

The Research unit ATILF (Computer Processing and Analysis of the French Language) offers a postdoctoral position in natural language processing (NLP). Topic: Discovery of multiword expressions, their meaning and their linguistic properties in texts using large language models Location: ATILF, Nancy, France Starting date: from February 2024 Duration: 12 months (possibility to extend the duration for one more year) Supervisors: Mathieu Constant (Univ. Lorraine, France) and Agata Savary (Univ. Paris-Saclay, France) Salary: depends on experience after PhD and salary grids, from 3070 (<2-year experience) to 4465 euros (>7-year-experience) before tax Application deadline: 14th December 2023 (extended deadline) Subject. The term « multiword expression » refers to a combination of multiple lexical items that displays irregular composition possibly on different linguistic levels (morphology, syntax, semantics, …). They include a large variety of phenomena such as idioms (run around in circles), support verb constructions (take a walk), nominal compounds (dry run), complex function units (in spite of). They have been the subject of extensive research work in the NLP community over the last 50 years. The goal of this post-doc position is to investigate new methods for discovering multiword expressions, their meaning and their linguistic properties in texts, in order to enrich an induced semantic lexicon with new multiword entries, definitions, argumental structure, and other properties. The emergence of Large Language Models (LLM) opens new promising perspectives for multiword expressions, not only regarding their semantic compositionality but also their linguistic characterization. The methods will be primarily experimented on French, but other languages are also possible. Context. The position is part of the SELEXINI project (https://selexini.lis-lab.fr <https://selexini.lis-lab.fr/>, 2022-2026) funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR). The goal of the SELEXINI project is to develop next-generation lexicon induction methods for natural language processing. The induced lexicons will not only cluster word usages according to their senses, but also contain multiword expressions, argumental structure, generated definitions, etc, combining the power of large pre-trained language models and existing lexical resources to address the lack of interpretability and diversity in current language technology. The hired researcher will be fully integrated in the project team. Requirements. Applicants should hold a PhD thesis in computer science, in applied mathematics, in natural language processing, or in computational linguistics. Applications from PhD students planning their defense by December 31st, 2023 are also welcome. The hired post-doc researcher should have the following skills: expertise in deep learning for NLP and notably large language models excellent programming skills good linguistic skills good knowledge of French would be a plus team spirit Application. The applicants should submit a cover letter, a CV including their publications, a list of references for recommendation, a transcript of Master grades, on the following official web site: https://emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/UMR7118-SABMAR-017/Default.aspx?Lang=EN <https://emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/UMR7118-SABMAR-017/Default.aspx?Lang=EN>. The applications should be submitted not later than December 14.

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ELRA Catalogue of Language Resources - Update
by info＠elda.org 07 Dec '23

07 Dec '23

[Apologies for multiple postings] We are happy to announce that 3 new monolingual lexicons are now available in our catalogue. DiaLEX – Egyptian (DiaLEX-EA) <https://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0206/> ISLRN: 697-328-151-668-9 <http://www.islrn.org/resources/697-328-151-668-9> A comprehensive full-form lexicon of Egyptian Arabic general vocabulary (DiaLEX-EA) including 78 million entries for 31,000 lemmas with all inflected forms, enclitics, proclitics, case endings, declensions, and conjugated forms. Each entry is accompanied by a full and accurate diacriticization (vocalization) as well as an extensive coverage of variants. The lexicon is ideally suited to support natural language processing applications for Egyptian Arabic, especially morphological analysis and speech technology. Quantity and size: 75,204,644 lines / 11,217 MB (11.0 GB) DiaLEX – Emirati (DiaLEX-UA) <https://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0207/> ISLRN: 836-793-503-213-8 <http://www.islrn.org/resources/836-793-503-213-8> A comprehensive full-form lexicon of Emirati Arabic general vocabulary (DiaLEX-UA) including 28 million entries for 29,000 lemmas with all inflected forms, enclitics, proclitics, case endings, declensions, and conjugated forms. Each entry is accompanied by a full and accurate diacriticization (vocalization) as well as an extensive coverage of variants. The lexicon is ideally suited to support natural language processing applications for Emirati Arabic, especially morphological analysis and speech technology. Quantity and size: 24,976,871 lines / 3,841 MB (3.8 GB) DiaLEX – Saudi Arabian Hijazi (DiaLEX-HA) <https://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0208/> ISLRN: 849-157-479-216-3 <http://www.islrn.org/resources/849-157-479-216-3> A comprehensive full-form lexicon of Hijazi Arabic general vocabulary (DiaLEX-HA) including 21 million entries for 30,000 lemmas with all inflected forms, enclitics, proclitics, case endings, declensions, and conjugated forms. Each entry is accompanied by a full and accurate diacriticization (vocalization) as well as an extensive coverage of variants. The lexicon is ideally suited to support natural language processing applications for Hijazi Arabic, especially morphological analysis and speech technology. Quantity and size: 20,247,655 lines / 2,835 MB (2.8 GB) For more information on the catalogue or if you would like to enquire about having your resources distributed by ELRA, please contact us <mailto:contact@elda.org>. _________________________________________ Visit the ELRA Catalogue of Language Resources <http://catalog.elra.info> Visit the Universal Catalogue <http://universal.elra.info> Archives <http://www.elra.info/en/catalogues/language-resources-announcements> of ELRA Language Resources Catalogue Updates

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Announcement: Release of BabelNet 5.3
by Roberto Navigli 07 Dec '23

07 Dec '23

Release of BabelNet 5.3 https://babelnet.org We are proud to announce the release of a new version of BabelNet <https://babelnet.org/> and its programmatic *Java and Python API*, developed jointly by the Sapienza NLP Group <http://nlp.uniroma1.it> of *Sapienza University of Rome* under the supervision of prof. Roberto Navigli <https://www.diag.uniroma1.it/navigli/> and Babelscape <http://babelscape.com/>, *a deep-tech multilingual NLP company* providing innovative solutions for natural language understanding. BabelNet -- winner of the *prominent paper award 2017* from the Artificial Intelligence Journal and the META prize 2015, and covered in media such as The Guardian <https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/feb/23/oxford-english-dictionary-can-…> and Time Magazine <http://wwwusers.di.uniroma1.it/~navigli/img/Redefining_the_modern_dictionar…> -- is today's *most far-reaching multilingual lexical-semantic knowledge graph* which, according to need, can be used as an *encyclopedic dictionary*, or a *semantic network* or a huge *knowledge base/ontology* e.g. to be integrated into *deep learning solutions*. It has been used by more than *1000 universities and research institutions*, enabling multilinguality in several fields of AI and NLP, such as multilingual semantic search, Word Sense Disambiguation and Entity Linking, Semantic Role Labeling, image tagging and semantically-enhanced multimodality. BabelNet was created by means of the seamless integration and interlinking of the largest multilingual Web encyclopedia - i.e., Wikipedia - with the most popular computational lexicon of English - i.e., WordNet, and other lexical-semantic resources such as Wikidata, Wiktionary, OmegaWiki, dozens of wordnets (including Open English WordNet), GeoNames, and ImageNet. The BabelNet model is centered around *multilingual synsets*, i.e., concepts and named entities lexicalized in many languages, and connected with large amounts of semantic relations. *Version 5.3* ships with the following features: - *80 new languages* for a grand total of *600 languages*; - *23 million synsets* covered; - *Lemma casing updated in 24 languages*; - *Wikipedia and Wikidata updated* thanks to BabelNet live (November 2023 dump); - *Open English WordNet* has been updated to version 2023; - *Images* associated with synsets have been updated; - *Wiktionary* has been *updated* and *20k new concepts* have been integrated (November 2023 dump); - *Significantly improved cross-lingual resource mapping*, ensuring more accurate and contextually relevant lexicalizations and translations; - *General data cleanup* (glosses, senses, Named Entity vs. Concept labels); - *Wikipedia multilingual labels updated.* More statistics are available at: babelnet.org/statistics. Kind regards, The BabelNet group -- ============================================== Roberto Navigli* - Professor* Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering Sapienza University of Rome Via Ariosto, 25 00185 Roma Italy Phone: +39 06 77274109 Home Page: https://www.diag.uniroma1.it/navigli/ Sapienza NLP Group: http://nlp.uniroma1.it Co-founder of Babelscape <https://babelscape.com> ==============================================

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Third CFP-Fourth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion (LT-EDI-2024) at EACL 2024-reg
by Bharathi Raja Asoka Chakravarthi 06 Dec '23

06 Dec '23

Apologies for cross posting *Fourth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion (LT-EDI-2024) at EACL 2024* *Website link: https://sites.google.com/view/lt-edi-2024/ <https://sites.google.com/view/lt-edi-2024/>* Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) is an important agenda across every field throughout the world. Language as a major part of communication should be inclusive and treat everyone with equality. Today’s large internet community uses language technology (LT) and has a direct impact on people across the globe. EDI is crucial to ensure everyone is valued and included, so it is necessary to build LT that serves this purpose. Recent results have shown that big data and deep learning are entrenching existing biases and that some algorithms are even naturally biased due to problems such as ‘regression to the mode’. Our focus is on creating LT that will be more inclusive of gender, racial, sexual orientation, persons with disability. The workshop will focus on creating speech and language technology to address EDI not only in English, but also in less resourced languages. The broader objective of LT-EDI-2024 will be - To investigate challenges related to speech and language resource creation for EDI. - To promote research in inclusive LT. - To adopt and adapt appropriate LT models to suit EDI. - To provide opportunities for researchers from the LT community around the world to collaborate with other researchers to identify and propose possible solutions for the challenges of EDI. Our workshop theme focuses on being more inclusive and providing a platform for researchers to create LT of a more inclusive nature. We hope that through these engagements we can develop LT tools to be more inclusive of everyone, including marginalized people. *Call for Papers:* Our main theme in this workshop is equality, diversity, and inclusivity in LT. We invite researchers and practitioners to submit papers reporting on these issues and datasets to avoid these issues. We also encourage qualitative studies related to these issues and how to avoid them. LT-EDI- 2024 welcomes theoretical and practical paper submissions on any languages that contribute to research in Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. We will particularly encourage studies that address either practical application or improving resources. *Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:* - Data set development to include EDI - Gender inclusivity in LT - LGBTQ+ inclusivity in LT - Racial inclusivity in LT - Persons with disability inclusivity in LT - Speech and language recognition for minority groups - Unconscious bias and how to avoid them in natural language processing, machine learning and other LT technologies. - Tackling rumours and fake news about gender, racial, and LGBTQ+ minorities. - Tackling discrimination against gender, racial, and LGBTQ+ minorities. Submissions: At LTEDI we accept the following submission types: - Long paper submissions must describe substantial, original, completed and unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis should be included. Long papers may consist of up to 8 pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references and appendices. Upon acceptance, long papers will be given one additional page of content (i.e. up to 9 pages) in the proceedings so that reviewers’ comments can be taken into account. - Short paper submissions must describe original and unpublished work. Please note that a short paper is not a shortened long paper. Instead, short papers should have a point that can be made in a few pages. Short papers may consist of up to 4 pages of content, plus unlimited references and appendices. Upon acceptance, short papers will be given one additional page of content (i.e. up to 5 pages) in the proceedings so that reviewers’ comments can be taken into account. - Poster and demo submissions should be no longer than 4 pages (plus unlimited number of pages for references and ethics/broader impact statement). More information on submission can be found at https://sites.google.com/view/lt-edi-2024/submission For electronic submission of all papers, please use: https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2024/Workshop/LTEDI *Important Dates* - Workshop paper due: December 12, 2023 - Direct Submission deadline (pre-reviewed ARR & main conference) January 17, 2024 - Notification of acceptance: January 15, 2024 - Camera-ready papers due: January 25 2024 - Workshop dates: March 21-22, 2024 with regards, Dr. Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Assistant Professor / Lecturer-above-the-bar School of Computer Science, University of Galway, Ireland Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, Data Science Institute, University of Galway, Ireland E-mail: bharathiraja.akr(a)gmail.com , bharathi.raja(a)universityofgalway.ie <bharathiraja.asokachakravarthi(a)universityofgalway.ie> Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=irCl028AAAAJ&hl=en Website: https://www.universityofgalway.ie/our-research/people/computer-science/bhar… <https://www.universityofgalway.ie/our-research/people/computer-science/bhar…>

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ILLC-NLP 2024 - First Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of Lusophone Countries
by Aline Paes 06 Dec '23

06 Dec '23

With great enthusiasm, we announce the first edition of the *Natural Language Processing (NLP) Workshop for Indigenous Languages of Lusophone Countries*. The workshop aims to explore, discuss, and enhance the development of resources, methods, and applications of NLP for indigenous languages, especially those spoken or that have influenced languages spoken in countries where Portuguese is currently the official language. We hope to contribute to the preservation and promotion of these languages. The workshop will be held in conjunction with PROPOR 2024. *Workshop Date: 13 or 14 March 2024, in Santiago de Compostela.* *Paper Submission: 5 January 2024 AoE.* *More information: *https://sites.google.com/view/illc-nlp-2024/home This event aims to expand knowledge and research in NLP for underrepresented languages. We encourage the participation of everyone who shares an interest in preserving and enriching the linguistic and cultural heritage of indigenous languages in a broad sense. This way, we welcome the submission of works including languages from all Portuguese-speaking nations, like those of African origin in Angola, Mozambique, and the Atlantic islands, as well as minority languages in Portugal. Please help us spread the word about this event by sharing this call with your contacts and institutions. Your participation and support are crucial for the success of this workshop. We are excited to see your contributions and active participation. Sincerely, Aline Paes, Aline Villavicencio, Claudio Pinhanez, Edward Gow-Smith, Paulo Rodrigo Cavalin (Workshop organisers) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Profa. Dra. Aline Paes (she/her)* *Associate professor - Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence)* Institute of Computing / Universidade Federal Fluminense (IC/UFF) Member of CE-PLN <https://sites.google.com/view/ce-pln/inicio> and BPLN <https://brasileiraspln.com/> CNPq PQ-2 and FAPERJ JCNE __________________________________________________________ url: www.ic.uff.br/~alinepaes Av Gal Milton Tavares de Souza, S/N, Computing Building, Office 504 São Domingos, Niterói, RJ, Brazil. ZIP 24210-346 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ****Please do not feel any pressure to respond out of your own regular working hours. Remember that this is supposed to be an asynchronous tool***

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Comparable CLASSLA web corpora of South Slavic languages
by Taja Kuzman 06 Dec '23

06 Dec '23

** *Dear all,* ***The CLASSLA Knowledge centre for South Slavic languages <https://www.clarin.si/info/k-centre/>is delighted to announce the release of comparable web corpora for all official South Slavic languages, namely Slovenian <https://www.clarin.si/ske/#concordance?corpname=classlaweb_sl>(1.8 billion words), Croatian <https://www.clarin.si/ske/#concordance?corpname=classlaweb_hr>(2.2 billion words), Bosnian <https://www.clarin.si/ske/#concordance?corpname=classlaweb_bs>(802 million words), Montenegrin <https://www.clarin.si/ske/#concordance?corpname=classlaweb_cnr>(151 million words), Serbian <https://www.clarin.si/ske/#concordance?corpname=classlaweb_sr>(2.3 billion words), Macedonian <https://www.clarin.si/ske/#concordance?corpname=classlaweb_mk>(479 million words) and Bulgarian <https://www.clarin.si/ske/#concordance?corpname=classlaweb_bg>(3.3 billion words), all these corpora summing up to almost 11 billion words! The linguistic annotation was performed with the state-of-the-art CLASSLA-Stanza <https://pypi.org/project/classla/>toolkit, which you can now try out also through the CLASSLA annotator web interface <https://clarin.si/oznacevalnik/eng>! Additionally, each of the 26 million documents in these seven corpora is annotated with the X-GENRE multilingual genre classifier <https://huggingface.co/classla/xlm-roberta-base-multilingual-text-genre-cla…>, enabling creation of subcorpora based on genre information. Interestingly, while the corpora were developed with the same pipeline, the genre distribution across corpora is rather varying. If you are interested in more details on the sizes, genre distributions and additional insights, we warmly invite you to read our blog post <https://www.clarin.si/info/k-centre/comparable-classla-web-corpora-of-south…>.* **** Best regards, Nikola Ljubešić, Taja Kuzman and many other CLASSLAers

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36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
by Announce 06 Dec '23

06 Dec '23

*** First Call for Workshop Papers *** 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: 26th February, 2024 AoE ***) CAiSE is a well-established, highly visible conference series on Advanced Information Systems (IS) Engineering. It covers all relevant topics in the area, including methodologies and approaches for IS engineering, innovative platforms, architectures and technologies, and engineering of specific kinds of IS. CAiSE conferences also have the tradition of hosting workshops in related fields. Workshops are intended to focus on particular topics and provide ample room for discussions of new ideas and developments. CAiSE'24, the 36th edition of the CAiSE series, will host the following workshops. For more information including important dates for each workshop, please visit the workshops' web sites. CAiSE'24 Workshops • 3rd International Workshop on Agile Methods for Information Systems Engineering (Agil-ISE) https://agilise.github.io/2024/index.html • International Workshop on Blockchain for Information Systems (BC4IS24) and Blockchain for Trusted Data Sharing (B4TDS) https://pros.unicam.it/bc4isb4tds/ • 2nd International Workshop on Hybrid Artificial Intelligence and Enterprise Modelling for Intelligent Information Systems (HybridAIMS) https://hybridaims.com/ • 2nd Workshop on Knowledge Graphs for Semantics-driven Systems Engineering https://www.omilab.org/activities/events/caise2024_kg4sdse/ • 16th International Workshop on Enterprise & Organizational Modeling and Simulation (EOMAS 2024) https://eomas2024.fel.cvut.cz/ • Digital Transformation with Business Process Mining (DigPro2024) https://digpro.iiita.ac.in/ IMPORTANT DATES • Paper Submission Deadline: 26th February, 2024 (AoE) • Notification of Acceptance: 27th March, 2024 • Camera-ready Deadline: 5th April, 2024 • Author Registration Deadline: 5th April, 2024 Workshop Chairs • João Paulo A. Almeida, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil • Claudio di Ciccio, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy • Christos Kalloniatis, University of the Aegean, Greece

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5th HPLT & NLPL Winter School on Large Language Models: Creation, Customization, Evaluation, and Use
by Stephan Oepen 05 Dec '23

05 Dec '23

Dear colleagues: We invite participants to a three-day winter school on large-scale neural NLP research – with special emphasis on language modeling for non-English languages – using massive Web data. The school will provide lectures and space for discussion by, among others, Afra Alishahi (Tilburg University), Desmond Elliot (University of Copenhagen), Aurélie Névéol (LISN, CNRS), and a few more international experts. The winter school is organized as a collaboration between the Horizon Europe project High-Performance Language Technologies (HPLT) and the Nordic Language Processing Laboratory (NLPL). The event will be held ‘in real life’ on February 4–6, 2024, in Norway. For additional information, please see: http://wiki.nlpl.eu/Community/training There is no participant fee for the winter school, and HPLT will provide free bus transfer between the Oslo airport and the conference hotel (about two hours north of Oslo, with skiing facilities just outside the door). Participants will need to cover their own travel to Oslo and accommodation at the hotel (NOK 3745 for two nights in a single room, including all meals and conference facilities). We kindly invite expressions of interest in participation in the winter school. Please register through the on-line form linked up from the above overview page. We will process requests for participation on a first-come, first-served basis, with an eye toward regional balance. Participation will be confirmed in three batches, one on December 8, another one on December 15, and finally after the closing date for registration, which is Thursday, December 22, 2023. Welcome to Skeikampen in February 2024! Andrey Kutuzov & Stephan Oepen (for the organizing team)

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21st International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse (ICSR 2024): Third Call for Papers
by Announce 05 Dec '23

05 Dec '23

*** Third 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 15, 2024, AoE • Author Registration: April 15, 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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Postdoctoral position in NLP at the University of Edinburgh
by Mirella Lapata 05 Dec '23

05 Dec '23

The School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh invites applications for a Research Associate position in natural language processing and machine learning. The research project is flexible; the areas of interest include, among others, multimodal natural language understanding and generation, long-form and retrieval-augmented text generation, semantic parsing, and addressing general limitations of modern NLP methods (e.g., improving generalization and interpretability). The postdoctoral researcher will be supervised by Mirella Lapata<https://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mlap/> and funded by UKRI (the UK Research and Innovation National funding agency) and will join the Edinburgh NLP group (https://edinburghnlp.inf.ed.ac.uk/), one of the largest and most active NLP research groups in the world (see http://csrankings.org/#/index?nlp&world <http://csrankings.org/#/index?nlp&world> ). There are many collaborative opportunities, both within the NLP group as well as across the School of Informatics (which includes faculty working on machine learning, computer vision, speech processing, and social computing). Knowledge, skills and experience: - Ph.D. degree (or about to obtain one) - A strong background in AI, machine learning and/or natural language processing - Publications at top venues in NLP or/and ML - Strong programming skills - Experience with modern deep learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch) - Strong communication, presentation, and writing skills, and excellent command of English Employment conditions: Grade 7, salary range: £37,099 - £44,263 Full time, Fixed term, 24 months Application deadline: 04/01/2024, 17:00 (UK time) For informal enquiries please contact: Mirella Lapata<https://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mlap/> Please ensure a CV and supporting statement is provided in your application. The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality. More information: https://elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1… The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. Is e buidheann carthannais a th' ann an Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann, clàraichte an Alba, àireamh clàraidh SC005336.

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[CfP] The Sixth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on the Quantitative and Computational Analysis of Textual Data (COMPTEXT) will be held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on 2-4 May 2024.
by Johannes B. Gruber 05 Dec '23

05 Dec '23

Dear colleagues, COMPTEXT is an international community of quantitative text analysis and computational social science scholars in political science, international relations and beyond. COMPTEXT 2024 in Amsterdam follows in the footsteps of previous conferences in Budapest (2018), Tokyo (2019) and Innsbruck (online, 2020), Dublin (2022), and Glasgow (2023). COMPTEXT conferences offer ample opportunities to network with computational scholars, to exchange technological knowledge of computational methods, and to obtain useful feedback on ongoing research. For COMPTEXT 2024 in Amsterdam we are seeking paper submissions that: - rely on image, video, text or other digital trace data to study social and political phenomena broadly construed - propose or evaluate new computational methods or tools - seek to make contributions at the intersection of social science and computer science We accept both substantive and methodological papers for presentation: substantive papers may be on any studies in social sciences or humanities that utilize computational methods; methodological papers may describe new computational methods, tools and approaches. Note that conference proceeding will not be published, as the conference format follows social science practices. In keeping with our tradition, ahead of the conference a series of methods training tutorials will be held for registered participants. Courses will be offered for both beginner and advanced level participants. *Submission of Paper Abstracts:* Abstracts of max. 250 words and three substantive and/or methods-related keywords, should be submitted by *Wednesday 20 December 2023*. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by *16 February, 2024*. The registration deadline is *15 March, 2024*. Please submit your paper at https://forms.gle/VrzhEzJEcTNdM3RN9 Please be advised that a conference fee will be charged for participants with accepted papers. The COMPTEXT 2024 Organising Committee consists of: - Mariken A.C.G. van der Velden (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) - Roan Buma (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) - Alona O. Dolinsky (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) - Johannes Gruber (Universiteit van Amsterdam) - Kasper Welbers (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) - Miklós Sebők (Centre for Social Sciences, Budapest) *Equality, Diversion, and Inclusion:* COMPTEXT is committed to creating an inclusive conference where diversity is celebrated, and everyone is afforded equality of opportunity. We welcome applications from everyone, including those who identify with any of the protected characteristics that are set out in VU’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion policy (https://vu.nl/en/about-vu/more-about/diversity). We especially encourage scholars from traditionally underrepresented groups, female scholars, and early-career researchers to apply. For more information, please visit our website: http://www.comptextconference.org/ Questions related to COMPTEXT Amsterdam 2024 should be directed to comptext2024(a)gmail.com. Best regards, The Organizers

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ECAI-2024: Call for Papers, Tutorial Proposals and Workshop Proposals
by luis.magdalena＠gmail.com 05 Dec '23

05 Dec '23

The 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-2024) will be held in the beautiful city of Santiago de Compostela during 19-24 October 2024. Join us to mark the 50th birthday since the first AI conference was held in Europe back in 1974. We invite all members of the international AI research community to submit their best work to ECAI. We furthermore invite proposals for workshops and tutorials to be held during the first two days of the conference. Proposals from all subfields of AI, and organisers and presenters of all levels of seniority are welcome. The deadlines are as follows: Workshop proposals: Monday, 15 January 2024 Tutorial proposals: Thursday, 15 February 2024 Papers: Thursday, 25 April 2024 (abstract deadline one week earlier) Demos: Thursday, 9 May 2024 Consult the ECAI-2024 website for the full Calls: Call for Workshop Proposals: https://www.ecai2024.eu/calls/workshops Call for Tutorial Proposals: https://www.ecai2024.eu/calls/tutorials Call for Papers: https://www.ecai2024.eu/calls/main-track Call for Demos: https://www.ecai2024.eu/calls/demos Calls for the Doctoral Consortium and our sister conference on Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems (PAIS) will get published soon, so please stay tuned. -- Luis Magdalena Publicity Chair of the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-2024)

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Edge Hill Corpus Research Group, 14 December 2023
by Costas Gabrielatos 05 Dec '23

05 Dec '23

The next meeting of the Edge Hill Corpus Research Group will take place online (via MS Teams) on Thursday 14 December 2023, 2:00-3:30 pm (UK time). Topics: Discourse-Oriented Corpus Studies, Collocation Networks Speakers: Dan Malone<https://independent.academia.edu/DanielMalone14> (Edge Hill University, UK) & Hanna Schmück<https://hannaschmueck.github.io/> (Lancaster University, UK) Title: A pack of lone wolves? Exploring the nexus between the lone-wolf terrorist, Al-Qaeda, and ISIS in the British Press Registration (free) closes on Tuesday 13 December, 1pm. You can register here: https://store.edgehill.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/faculty-of-arts-and-sci… Abstract Following recent events in Belgium and Israel, the lone-wolf terrorist re-emerged in media reportage, with President Joe Biden<https://edition.cnn.com/2011/09/11/tv/biden-does-not-rule-out-possibility-o…> and former GCHQ Director Sir David Omand<https://inews.co.uk/news/uk-facing-heightened-threat-from-lone-wolf-terror-…> expressing concerns over potential attacks in the USA and UK. Days later, Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo described the neutralised Brussels shooter as "probably a lone wolf,"<https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/17/killing-of-two-swedes-in-brus…> thus aiming to downplay the risk of subsequent incidents. Together, these instances exemplify that by shaping a "reality" (Entman, 2004), (in)security discourses can amplify or downplay a terrorist threat, in turn reflecting and/or influencing public perception and potentially guiding policy responses. Historically, the lone wolf has been associated with different movements, ranging from the propaganda of the deed in the 19th Century to the leaderless resistance of white-supremacist groups in the 1980s and 90s. More recently, it is within the domain of Islamist terrorism, often dominated by Al-Qaeda and ISIS, where the lone wolf has become increasingly associated, especially in the British press. In this joint presentation, we discuss the analytical approaches and results from our analysis of discourses surrounding the lone-wolf terrorist, al Qaeda, and ISIS in three diachronic sub-corpora of the Lone Wolf Corpus (Malone, 2020), a compilation of British Press articles from 2000 to 2019. In a unique methodological combination, we employed large-scale collocation networks and topical clustering to examine shifting discourses through collocational clusters, and applied a corpus-based critical discourse analysis to examine representations of the Al-Qaeda-ISIS nexus. Hanna introduces the methodology employed to generate topical clusters and discusses collocational changes and constants in emerging discourses surrounding the lone-wolf terrorist. The resulting patterns present a discursive shift from clusters related to causative factors (e.g., a mental health subcluster), towards the internationalisation and institutionalisation of lone-wolf terrorism, and finally to response management in the form of sentencing and punitive actions (e.g., a court proceedings/prison subcluster). Reporting on his corpus-based critical discourse analysis, Daniel presents the emergent representations surrounding co-occurrences of the node AL QAEDA with ISIS. These discourses were categorised into four modes of representation of presented relationship-types: Convergence, Association, Dissociation, and Divergence. These modes contributed to surrounding (in)security discourses that at times equate, promote and/or relegate different entities in a continual reshuffling of the threat hierarchy; a process termed here enmity reimagining. References Entman, R. (2004). Projections of Power: Framing News, Public Opinion, and U.S. Foreign Policy. The University of Chicago Press: London. Malone, D. (2020). Developing a complex query to build a specialised corpus: Reducing the issue of polysemous query terms. Corpora and Discourse International Conference 2020. ________________________________ Edge Hill University<http://ehu.ac.uk/home/emailfooter> Modern University of the Year, The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2022<http://ehu.ac.uk/tef/emailfooter> University of the Year, Educate North 2021/21 ________________________________ This message is private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it from your system. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Edge Hill or associated companies. Edge Hill University may monitor email traffic data and also the content of email for the purposes of security and business communications during staff absence.<http://ehu.ac.uk/itspolicies/emailfooter>

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New online language resource: coanzse.org
by Steven Coats 05 Dec '23

05 Dec '23

To:corpora@list.elra.info Tue 1/3/2023 9:38 PM Dear Corpora list subscribers, I'm pleased to announce the availability of CoANZSE Audio v0.2, the searchable online version of the Corpus of Australian and New Zealand Spoken English. The resource provides access to 195.5m words of part-of-speech-tagged transcripts from 478 Australian and New Zealand locations, as well as to over 18 million FLAC audio and forced alignment files in Praat's TextGrid format. Access to the corpus is freely available for research and educational purposes at https://coanzse.org<https://coanzse.org/> via login through CLARIN/eduGAIN-affiliated service providers or a clarin.eu account. With kind regards, Steven Coats University Lecturer English, Faculty of Humanities University of Oulu P.O. Box 8000, FI-90014 University of Oulu Finland https://cc.oulu.fi/~scoats

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CfP: Special issue of the TAL journal: Scholarly Document Processing
by Florian Boudin 05 Dec '23

05 Dec '23

Special issue of the TAL journal: Scholarly Document Processing https://tal-65-2.sciencesconf.org/ ** Deadline for submission: March, 15th 2024 ** ** Guest Editors ** Florian Boudin, JFLI/LS2N, Nantes University Akiko Aizawa, National Institute of Informatics ** Context ** The body of scholarly literature is steadily and rapidly expanding. In arXiv alone, the number of scientific articles submitted in 2022 exceeded 185,000, averaging nearly 500 submissions per day. In the face of this exponential growth, researchers and institutions are continually challenged to keep pace with the sheer volume of new knowledge being created. Automated methods for analyzing and interpreting scientific papers are therefore urgently needed to assist researchers in navigating through the expanding volume of scientific information, enabling more efficient and targeted acquisition of new knowledge across various fields. More precisely, the development of methods capable of extracting reliable, valuable and verifiable information from scientific papers is crucial for many downstream tasks including retrieval, recommendation, summarization, question-answering and document understanding. The uniqueness of scientific papers, marked by intricate technical language, discipline-specific terminology, a distinct structural organization and the inclusion of complex elements such as equations, tables, and figures, poses a significant challenge for existing natural language processing and information retrieval methods. Furthermore, these methods should also account for additional features provided at the collection level (e.g., citation networks) or embedded in rich paper metadata (e.g., authors, keywords, publication venues), each introducing its own set of challenges. This special issue of the TAL journal is dedicated to papers describing work that address these challenges, and more broadly to papers describing research on *natural language processing and information retrieval of scholarly and scientific documents*. Relevant topics for this issue include, but are not limited to, the following areas (in alphabetical order): - Bibliometrics, scientometrics - Citation analysis and recommendation - Claim verification - Datasets, tools and resources - Information extraction, NER - Large Language Models (LLMs) - Plagiarism detection - Question-answering - Retrieval and recommendation - Scientific document analysis - Scientific writing assistance - Text simplification - Summarization and generation ** Important dates ** • Submission deadline: 15 March 2024 • Notification to the authors after first review: May 2024 • Notification to the authors after second review: September 2024 • Publication : December 2024 ** Submission format ** The length of the papers must be between 20 and 25 pages. Style sheets are available on the journal's website ([https://www.atala.org/content/instruction-authors-style-files-0](https://ww…). Authors are invited to submit their paper on this platform: [https://tal-65-2.sciencesconf.org/](https://tal-65-2.sciencesconf.org/) To do so, authors will need to first create an account by clicking on "Create account" (Créer un compte) next to the “Login" (Connexion) button at the top of this page. To submit a paper, authors can connect to their account and upload their submission in "My Space" > "My submissions”. The articles can be written in English or in French. The TAL journal has a double-blind review process. It is necessary to anonymize the article, the name of the file, and to avoid self-references. Each article is evaluated by three reviewers, two external reviewers and a member of the editorial board of the journal TAL. ** TAL Journal ** TAL (Traitement Automatique des Langues / Natural Language Processing) is an international journal published by ATALA (French Association for Natural Language Processing, [http://www.atala.org](http://www.atala.org)) since 1959 with the support of CNRS (National Centre for Scientific Research). It has moved to an electronic mode of publication, with printing on demand. The TAL journal is open-access. Paper submission, publication and access are free of charge. Papers published in the TAL journal will be made available on the ATALA website and on ACL Anthology.

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PhD opportunity at King's College London
by Barbara McGillivray 04 Dec '23

04 Dec '23

(Apologies for cross-posting) A fully funded PhD position is now available at King’s College London on the project “‘Lost for words’: semantic search in the Find Case Law service of The National Archives”, a Collaborative Doctoral Award received by King’s College London in collaboration with The National Archives and funded by the London Arts & Humanities Partnership (LAHP). This interdisciplinary project is an exciting opportunity to work in natural language processing (particularly computational semantics and information retrieval) applied to legal texts and digital humanities. About the project: Access to case law is vital for safeguarding the constitutional right of access to justice. It enables members of the public to understand their position when facing litigation and to scrutinise court judgements. Since April 2022, UK court and tribunal decisions are preserved by The National Archives’ Find Case Law service as freely accessible online public records. This project seeks to improve Find Case Law by enhancing it with meaning-sensitive (semantic) search functionality. It will study how individuals without legal training use language to navigate court judgments and it will develop tools to facilitate this navigation. In most digital cultural heritage catalogues, while we can search for words within the metadata describing their records, we cannot search for records based on the meaning of words contained within these records, for example the different words to refer to “knife crime”. Therefore, users’ access to collection is determined by their ability to articulate their information need precisely. Recent advances in natural language processing unlock new possibilities for querying documents via state-of-the-art semantic search. Incorporating such search capabilities in the Find Case Law collection is crucial for democratising access to digital collections, helping expose the social impact of how the law is written. Skills required  Essential:   · Experience with Natural Language Processing research and applied work, including developing new tools.   · Interest in working with UK case law for improving access to justice  Desirable:   · Background in law or legal research.  · Experience working with digital archives   · Knowledge of User experience (UX) research   · Knowledge of lexical semantics.   · Experience with semantic search.   · Experience with NLP applied to legal texts.     About application process: Applicants will need to submit an application for a PhD in Digital Humanities at King’s (https://tinyurl.com/ycxekhzv ) and an application for the LAHP (https://www.lahp.ac.uk/prospective-students/collaborative-doctoral-awards-p…). Both applications need to be submitted by 26 January 2024 at 5pm. Application Deadline: 26-Jan-2024 Web Address for Applications: https://lahp.flexigrant.com/login.aspx?ReturnUrl=https%3a%2f%2flahp.flexigr… For queries specific to the project, please contact the project’s lead supervisor Barbara McGillivray on barbara.mcgillivray(a)kcl.ac.uk<mailto:barbara.mcgillivray@kcl.ac.uk>   Barbara McGillivray | @BarbaraMcGilli<https://twitter.com/BarbaraMcGilli> Lecturer in Digital Humanities and Cultural Computation and lead of MA programme in Digital Humanities Group lead of the Computational Humanities Research Group<https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/computational-humanities-research-group> Room 3.28, Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London, Strand Campus, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS Group lead of the Computational Humanities Research Group at King’s College London<https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/computational-humanities-research-group> Turing Fellow<https://www.turing.ac.uk/people/researchers/barbara-mcgillivray>, The Alan Turing Institute Editor-in-chief of Journal of Open Humanities Data<https://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/>

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The Anthony C. Clarke Award for the 2023 EAMT Best Thesis: Call for Thesis
by Carol Scarton 04 Dec '23

04 Dec '23

******************************************************* The Anthony C. Clarke Award for the 2023 EAMT Best Thesis Deadline: 08/02/2024 Notification: 08/03/2024 Website: https://eamt.org/2023/12/03/the-anthony-c-clarke-award-for-the-2023-eamt-be… ******************************************************* The European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT, http://www.eamt.org) is an organization that serves the growing community of people interested in MT and translation tools, including translators, users, developers, and researchers of this increasingly viable technology. The EAMT invites entries for its twelfth EAMT Best Thesis Award for a PhD or equivalent thesis on a topic related to machine translation. Previous year winners can be found at https://eamt.org/best-thesis-award/. ** Eligibility ** Researchers who - have completed a PhD (or equivalent) thesis on a relevant topic in a European, African or Middle Eastern institution within calendar year 2023, - have not previously won another international award for that thesis, and, - are members of the EAMT at the time of submission, are invited to submit their theses to the EAMT for consideration. ** Panel ** The submissions will be judged by a panel of experts who will be specifically appointed, based on the EAMT 2024 program committee, and which will be ratified by the Executive Board of the EAMT. ** Selection criteria ** Each thesis will be judged according to how challenging the problem was, to how relevant the results are for machine translation as a field, and to the strength of their impact in terms of scientific publications. ** Scope ** The scope of the thesis does not need to be confined to a technical area, and applications are also invited from students who carried out their research into commercial and management aspects of machine translation. Possible areas of research include: - development of machine translation or advanced computer-assisted translation: methods, software or resources - machine translation for less-resourced languages - the use of these systems in professional environments (freelance translators, translation agencies, localisation, etc.) - the increasing impact of machine translation on non-professional Internet users and its impact in communications, social networking, etc. - spoken language translation - the integration of machine translation and translation memory systems - the integration of machine translation software in larger IT applications - the evaluation of machine translation systems in real tasks such as those above - the cross-fertilisation between machine translation and other language technologies ** Prize ** The winner will be announced on the 8th of March 2024 and will receive a prize of €500, together with an inscribed certificate. The recipient of the award will be required to briefly present their research at EAMT 2024 to be held from 24th June to 27th June 2024 in Sheffield, UK ( https://eamt2024.sheffield.ac.uk/). In order to facilitate this, the EAMT will waive the winner's registration costs, and will make available a travel bursary of €200 to enable the recipient of the award to attend the said conference. The prize includes complimentary membership in the EAMT for 2025. ** Submission ** Candidates will submit, using OpenReview ( https://openreview.net/group?id=EAMT.org/2024/Thesis_Award) a single PDF file containing: - a 2-page summary of your thesis in English, containing: ---- your full contact details, ---- the name and contact details of your supervisor(s), ---- the main aspects of your work, namely goal/objectives, methodology and results. - a copy of your CV in English (at most one page, plus a complete list of publications directly related to the thesis) - an electronic copy of your thesis - optionally, an appendix with any other relevant information on the thesis By submitting their work, authors - agree that, in case they are granted the award, any subsequently published version of the thesis should carry the citation "The Anthony C. Clarke Award for the 2023 EAMT Best Thesis" and - acknowledge the right of the EAMT to publicize the granting of the award. For this year's Best Thesis Award we are requiring candidates to be an individual EAMT member at the time of submission. For EAMT memberships, please visit: https://eamt.org/101-2/. ** Closing date ** Submission deadline: February 8, 2024, 23:59 CEST. Award notification: March 8, 2024. -- *Carolina Scarton* Lecturer in Natural Language Processing Department of Computer Science University of Sheffield http://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/C.Scarton/

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EAMT 2024: 1st Call for Workshop Proposals
by Carol Scarton 04 Dec '23

04 Dec '23

******************************************************* EAMT 2024: The 25th Annual Conference of The European Association for Machine Translation 24 - 27 June 2024 Sheffield, UK https://eamt2024.sheffield.ac.uk/ @eamt2024 (X account) Workshop proposal deadline: 31 January 2024 Workshop date: 27 June 2024 More information: https://eamt2024.sheffield.ac.uk/conference-calls/call-for-papers ******************************************************* *** Overview *** The European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT) invites proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the EAMT 2024 conference taking place in Sheffield, UK, from 24 to 27 June 2024, with workshops held on 27 June. We solicit proposals in all areas of machine translation. EAMT workshops are intended to provide the opportunity for MT-related communities of interest to spend focused time together advancing the state of thinking or the state of practice in their area of interest or endeavour. Workshops are generally scheduled as full-day events. Every effort will be made to accept or reject (with reason) workshop proposals as soon as possible after they are received by the organising committee so that the workshop organisers have adequate time to prepare the workshop. *** Submission information *** Proposals should be submitted as PDF documents. Note that submissions should be ready to be turned into a Call for Papers to the workshop within one week of notification. The proposals should be at most two pages for the main proposal and at most two additional pages for information about the organisers, programme committee, and references. Thus, the whole proposal should not be more than four pages long. The two pages for the main proposal must include: - A title and authors, affiliations, and contact information. - A title and a brief description of the workshop topic and content. - A list of speakers and alternates whom you intend to invite to present at the workshop. - An estimate of the number of attendees. - A description of any shared tasks associated with the workshop (if any), and an estimate of the number of participants. - A description of special requirements and technical needs. - If the workshop has been held before, a note specifying where previous workshops were held, how many submissions the workshop received, how many papers were accepted (also specify if they were not regular papers, e.g., shared task system description papers), and how many attendees the workshop attracted. - An outline of the intended workshop timeline with details about the following items: ---- First call for workshop papers: some date ---- Second call for workshop papers: some date ---- Workshop paper due: some date ---- Notification of acceptance: some date ---- Camera-ready papers due: some date Workshops are expected to follow the timelines below, so please make sure the dates above fit into the schedule: - 1st Call: no later than 14 March - 2nd Call: no later than 04 April - Deadline: 15 April (no later than 20 April) - Acceptance: no later than 20 May - Camera ready: no later than 27 May - Proceedings deadline: 12 June - Workshops: 27 June The two pages for information about the organisers, program committee, and references must include the following: - The names, affiliations, and email addresses of the organisers, with a brief description (2-5 sentences) of their research interests, areas of expertise, and experience in organising workshops and related events. - A list of Programme Committee members, with an indication of which members have already agreed. - References Submissions should be formatted according to the templates specified below. Anonymisation is not required. Submissions should be no longer than 4 pages, and submitted as PDF files to OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=EAMT.org/2024/Workshops_Track. *** Templates for writing your proposal *** There templates available in the following formats (check our website -- https://eamt2024.sheffield.ac.uk/conference-calls/call-for-papers): - LaTeX - Cloneable Overleaf template - Word - Libre Office/Open Office - PDF Please also use these templates for camera-ready workshop contributions to comply with the format requirements for the workshop proceedings to be published in the ACL Anthology. *** Evaluation criteria *** The workshop proposals will be evaluated according to their originality and impact, and the quality of the organising team and Programme Committee. *** Organiser Responsibilities *** The organisers of the accepted proposals will be responsible for publicising and running the workshop, including reviewing submissions, producing the camera-ready workshop proceedings in the ACL Anthology format, as well as organising the schedule with local EAMT organisers. For every accepted workshop, we offer one free registration for the EAMT 2024 conference to one workshop organiser. *** Important dates *** - Proposal submission deadline: 31 January 2024 - Notification of acceptance: rolling basis (no later than 28/02/2024) All deadlines are 23:59 CEST *** Workshop Co-Chairs*** Mary Nurminen (Tampere University) Diptesh Kanojia (University of Surrey) *** Local organising committee *** Carolina Scarton (University of Sheffield) Charlotte Prescott (ZOO Digital) Chris Bayliss (ZOO Digital) Chris Oakley (ZOO Digital) Xingyi Song (University of Sheffield) -- *Carolina Scarton* Lecturer in Natural Language Processing Department of Computer Science University of Sheffield http://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/C.Scarton/

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EAMT 2024: 1st Call for Tutorial Proposals
by Carol Scarton 04 Dec '23

04 Dec '23

******************************************************* EAMT 2024: The 25th Annual Conference of The European Association for Machine Translation 24 - 27 June 2024 Sheffield, UK https://eamt2024.sheffield.ac.uk/ @eamt2024 (X account) Tutorial proposal deadline: 08 March 2024 Tutorial date: 27 June 2024 More information: https://eamt2024.sheffield.ac.uk/conference-calls/call-for-papers ******************************************************* *** Overview *** The European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT) invites proposals for tutorials to be held in conjunction with the EAMT 2024 conference taking place in Sheffield, UK, from 24 to 27 June, with tutorials held on 27 June. We seek proposals in all areas of machine translation (see the call for papers of the main conference for the focus areas of EAMT 2024). The aim of a tutorial is primarily to help the audience develop an understanding of particular technical, applied, and business matters related to research, development, and use of MT and translation technology. Presentations of particular technological solutions or systems are welcome, provided that they serve as illustrations of broader scientific considerations. We recommend that the tutorial covers work by the presenters as well as by other researchers. The submission should explain that this breadth is ensured. Tutorials should not be “self-invited talks”. *** Submission Details *** Proposals should not exceed 4 pages of content (plus unlimited pages for references), should be in PDF format, and should contain the following: - A title and authors, affiliations, and contact information. - A brief description of the tutorial content and its relevance to the machine translation community. - Short description of the target audience and any expected prerequisite background the audience should be aware of. - An outline of the tutorial structure content and how it will be covered in a three-hour slot (half-day). In exceptional cases, six-hour tutorial slots (full day) are available. These time limits do not include coffee breaks, e.g., a three-hour tutorial, in fact, occupies a 3.5-hour slot, and a six-hour tutorial occupies a 7-hour slot. - Diversity considerations, e.g. use of multilingual data, indications of how the described methods scale up to various languages or domains, participation of both senior and junior instructors, demographic and geographical diversity of the instructors, plans for how to diversify audience participation, etc. - Reading list. Work that you expect the audience to read before the tutorial can be indicated by an asterisk. Recommended papers should provide the breadth of authorship and include work by other authors, and work from other disciplines is welcome if relevant. - For each tutorial presenter, a one-paragraph statement of their research interests and areas of expertise for the tutorial topic, as well as experience in instructing an international audience. An estimate of the audience size for the tutorial. If the same or a similar tutorial has been given before, include information on where any previous version of the tutorial was given and how many attendees the tutorial attracted. - A description of special requirements for technical equipment. Tutorial proposals should be submitted as PDF files to OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=EAMT.org/2024/Tutorials_Track. Submissions should be formatted according to the templates specified below. Anonymisation is not required. Submissions should be no longer than 4 pages (excluding references). *** Templates for writing your proposal *** There templates available in the following formats (check our website -- https://eamt2024.sheffield.ac.uk/conference-calls/call-for-papers): - LaTeX - Cloneable Overleaf template - Word - Libre Office/Open Office - PDF *** Evaluation Criteria *** Each tutorial proposal will be evaluated according to its clarity and preparedness, novelty or timely character of the topic, and instructors’ experience. ** Tutorial Instructor Responsibilities *** Accepted tutorial presenters will be notified by 8 April 2024. They must then provide abstracts of their tutorials for inclusion in the conference registration material by the specific conference deadlines. The description should be in two formats: (a) an ASCII version that can be included in email announcements and published on the conference website, and (b) a PDF version for inclusion in the electronic proceedings (detailed instructions will be provided). Tutorial speakers must provide tutorial materials by 15 May 2024. The final submitted tutorial materials must minimally include copies of the course slides and a bibliography for the material covered in the tutorial. For each tutorial being held at EAMT 2024, we offer free registration to the conference for one tutor only. *** Important Dates *** - Submission deadline for tutorial proposals: 8 March 2024 - Notification of acceptance: 8 April 2024 - Tutorial slides + abstract + bibliography + any other materials: 15 May 2024 All deadlines are at 23:59 CEST. *** Workshop Co-Chairs *** Mary Nurminen (Tampere University) Diptesh Kanojia (University of Surrey) *** Local organising committee *** Carolina Scarton (University of Sheffield) Charlotte Prescott (ZOO Digital) Chris Bayliss (ZOO Digital) Chris Oakley (ZOO Digital) Xingyi Song (University of Sheffield) -- *Carolina Scarton* Lecturer in Natural Language Processing Department of Computer Science University of Sheffield http://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/C.Scarton/

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EAMT 2024: 1st Call for Papers
by Carol Scarton 04 Dec '23

04 Dec '23

******************************************************* EAMT 2024: The 25th Annual Conference of The European Association for Machine Translation 24 - 27 June 2024 Sheffield, UK https://eamt2024.sheffield.ac.uk/ @eamt2024 (X account) Paper submission deadline: 08 March 2024 More information: https://eamt2024.sheffield.ac.uk/conference-calls/call-for-papers ******************************************************* ******************************************************* EAMT 2024 1st Call for Papers ******************************************************* The European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT) invites everyone interested in machine translation (MT) and translation-related tools and resources ― developers, researchers, users, translation and localization professionals and managers ― to participate in this conference. Driven by the state of the art, the research community will demonstrate their cutting-edge research and results. Professional MTusers will provide insights into successful MT implementation of MT in business scenarios as well as implementation scenarios involving large corporations, governments, or NGOs. Translation scholars and translation practitioners are also invited to share their first-hand MT experience, which will be addressed during a special track. Note that papers that have been archived in arXiv can be accepted for submission provided that they have not already been published elsewhere. EAMT 2024 has four tracks, namely Research: Technical, Research: Translators & Users, Implementations & Case Studies, and Products & Projects. *** Research: technical *** Submissions (up to 10 pages, plus unlimited pages for references and appendices) are invited for reports of significant research results in any aspect of MT and related areas. Such reports should include a substantial evaluation component, or have a strong theoretical and/or methodological contribution where results and in-depth evaluations may not be appropriate. Papers are welcome on all topics in the areas of MT and translation-related technologies, including, but not limited to: - Deep-learning approaches for MT and MT evaluation - Advances in classical MT paradigms: statistical, rule-based, and hybrid approaches - Comparison of various MT approaches - Technologies for MT deployment: quality estimation, domain adaptation, etc. - Resources and evaluation - MT in special settings: low resources, massive resources, high volume, low computing resources - MT applications: translation/localization aids, speech translation, multimodal MT, MT for user generated content (blogs, social networks), MT in computer-aided language learning, etc. - Linguistic resources for MT: corpora, terminologies, dictionaries, etc. - MT evaluation techniques, metrics, and evaluation results - Human factors in MT and user interfaces - Related multilingual technologies: natural language generation, information retrieval, text categorization, text summarization, information extraction, optical character recognition, etc. Papers should describe original work. They should emphasise completed work rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. Where appropriate, concrete evaluation results should be included. Papers should be anonymized, prepared according to the templates specified below, and be no longer than 10 pages (plus unlimited pages for references and appendices). Submit the paper as a PDF to OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=EAMT.org/2024/Technical_Track. Submissions that do not conform to the required styles may be rejected without review. **Track co-chairs Rachel Bawden (Inria, Paris) Víctor M Sánchez-Cartagena (University of Alicante) *** Research: translators & users *** Submissions (up to 10 pages, plus unlimited pages for references and appendices) are invited for academic research on all topics related to how professional translators and other types of MT users interact with, are affected by, or conceptualise MT. Papers should report significant research results with a strong theoretical and/or methodological contribution. Topics for the track include, but are not limited to: - The impact of MT and post-editing: including studies on processes, effort, strategies, usability, productivity, pricing, workflows, and post-editese - Human factors and psycho-social aspects of MT adoption (ergonomics, motivation, and social impact on the profession, relationship between user profiles and MT adoption) - Emerging areas for MT & post-editing: e.g. audiovisual, game localisation, literary texts, creative texts, social media, health care communication, crisis translation - MT and ethics - The impact of using translators’ metadata and user activity data for monitoring their work - The evaluation and reception of different modalities of translation: human translation, post-edited, raw MT - MT and interpreting - Human evaluations of MT output - MT for gisting and the impact of MT on users: use cases, expectations, perceptions, trust, views on acceptability - MT and usability - MT and education/language learning - MT in the translation/interpreting classroom Papers should describe original work. They should emphasise completed work rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. Papers should be anonymized, prepared according to the templates specified below, and be no longer than 10 pages (plus unlimited pages for references and appendices). Submit the paper as a PDF to OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=EAMT.org/2024/Research_Translators_Users_Tr…. Submissions that do not conform to the required styles may be rejected without review. ** Track co-chairs Patrick Cadwell (DCU) Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski (University of Hildesheim) *** Implementations & case studies *** Submissions (approximately 4–6 pages) are invited for reports on case studies and implementation experience with MT in organisations of all types, including small businesses, large corporations, governments, NGOs, or language service providers. We also invite translation practitioners to share their views and observations based on their day-to-day experience working with MT in a variety of environments. Topics for the track include, but are not limited to: - Integrating or optimising MT and computer-assisted translation in translation production workflows (translation memory/MT thresholds, mixing online and offline tools, using interactive MT, dealing with MT confidence scores) - Managing change when implementing and using MT (e.g. switching between multiple MT systems, limiting degradations when updating or upgrading an MT system) - Implementing open-source MT (e.g. strategies to get support, reports on taking pilot results into full deployment, examples of advanced customization sought and obtained thanks to the open-source paradigm, collaboration within open-source MT projects) - Evaluating MT in a real-world setting (e.g. error detection strategies employed, metrics used, productivity or translation quality gains achieved) - Ethical and confidentiality issues when using MT, especially MT in the cloud - Using MT in social networking or real-time communication (e.g. enterprise support chat, multilingual content for social media) - MT and usability - Implementing MT to process multilingual content for assimilation purposes (e.g. cross-lingual information retrieval, MT for e-discovery or spam detection, MT for highly dynamic content) - MT in literary, audiovisual, game localization and creative texts - Impact of MT and post-editing on translation practices and the profession: processes, effort, compensation, - Psycho-social aspects of MT adoption (ergonomics, motivation, and social impact on the profession) - Error analysis and post-editing strategies (including automatic post-editing and automation strategies) - The use of translators’ metadata and user activity data in MT development - Freelance translators’ independent use of MT - MT and interpreting Papers should highlight real-world use scenarios, solutions, and problems in addition to describing MT integration processes and project settings. Where solutions do not seem to exist, suggestions for MT researchers and developers should be clearly emphasized. For papers on implementations and case studies produced by academics, we require co-authorship with the actual organizations working with MT implementations. Papers (approximately 4–6 pages, with a maximum of 10 pages -- plus unlimited pages for references) should be formatted according to the templates specified below and submitted as PDF files to Open Review: https://openreview.net/group?id=EAMT.org/2024/Implementations_Case_Studies_…. Anonymization is not required in the Implementations & Case Studies track submissions. Submissions that do not conform to the required styles may be rejected without review. ** Track co-chairs Vera Cabarrão (Unbabel) Konstantinos Chatzitheodorou (Strategic Agenda) *** Products & Projects *** Submissions (2 pages, including references) are invited on either of the subtracks (Products or Projects). - Products: Tools for MT, computer-aided translation, and other translation technologies (including commercial products and free/open-source software). Descriptions should include information about product availability and licensing, an indication of cost if applicable, basic functionality, (optionally) a comparison with other products, and a description of the technologies used. The authors should be ready to present the tools in the form of demos or posters during the conference. - Projects: Research projects, funded through grants obtained in competitive public or private calls related to MT. Descriptions should contain: project title and acronym, funding agency, project reference, duration, list of partner institutions or companies in the consortium if there is one, project objectives, and a summary of partial results available or final results if the project has ended. The authors should be ready to present the projects in the form of posters during the conference. This follows on from the successful ‘project villages’ held at the last EAMT conferences. There will be a poster boaster session for this track, in which authors will have 120 seconds to attract attendees to their posters or demos with a two-slide presentation. Submissions should be formatted according to the templates specified below. Anonymization is not required. Submissions should be no longer than 2 pages (including references), and submitted as PDF files to OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=EAMT.org/2024/Products_Projects_Track. Track chair Helena Moniz (University of Lisbon (FLUL), INESC-ID) *** Templates for writing your proposal *** There templates available in the following formats (check our website -- https://eamt2024.sheffield.ac.uk/conference-calls/call-for-papers): - LaTeX - Cloneable Overleaf template - Word - Libre Office/Open Office - PDF *** Important deadlines *** - Deadline for paper submission: 8 March 2024 - Notification to authors: 8 April 2024 - Camera ready deadline: 22 April 2024 - Author Registration: 8 May 2024 All deadlines are at 23:59 CEST. *** Local organising committee *** Carolina Scarton (University of Sheffield) Charlotte Prescott (ZOO Digital) Chris Bayliss (ZOO Digital) Chris Oakley (ZOO Digital) Xingyi Song (University of Sheffield) -- *Carolina Scarton* Lecturer in Natural Language Processing Department of Computer Science University of Sheffield http://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/C.Scarton/

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TT job: Assistant/Associate Professors in Cultural Heritage Informatics, University of Arizona
by heather froehlich 04 Dec '23

04 Dec '23

Dear all, (with apologies for cross-posting) The University of Arizona’s School of Information invites applications for *Assistant/Associate Professors in Cultural Heritage Informatics.* These are tenure-line hires in our iSchool, a place for the interdisciplinary study of information. The iSchool is particularly focused on preparing students for living, thinking, and working in the digital age. Students are trained to become specialists in information management, data analysis, artificial intelligence, librarianship, social media marketing, and much more. The iSchool has highly ranked on-campus and online degree programs, with a normal teaching load of two graduate courses per semester for tenure track/tenured faculty. We intend to hire *multiple* tenure-track Assistant or Associate Professors with records of research in creative and critical application of information and computing technology in cultural heritage to begin in mid-August, 2024. We are especially interested in candidates who are well-versed in qualitative and quantitative methodologies as well as those with interest in academic leadership roles (e.g. program supervision, student advising) who bring a record of working on inter- or trans-disciplinary funded grant teams. We invite applicants from a range of disciplines, including but not limited to library and information science, cultural heritage studies, archival studies, digital humanities, Indigenous studies, geography and development, and more. Our intent is to recruit scholars with research agendas that overlap with existing areas of strength in the iSchool regardless of disciplinary background. We are especially interested in candidates with any of the following expertise: • Curation and management of cultural heritage data and artifacts • Digital preservation infrastructures, systems, or tools • Digital Humanities, and data-intensive cultural heritage environments • Archives, access, and preservation with historically marginalized communities • Collaborative research with/in marginalized communities and/or critical cultural studies • Computational techniques in analyzing archival and/or museum collections • Convergence of libraries, archives, and museums through information technologies such as digitization, digital imaging, access systems, aggregation, linked data, and/or related areas. More details/apply here: https://arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/4/home/requisition/18291?c=arizo… I am not affiliated with this search but I am happy to discuss life in Tucson, moving into library-affiliated landscapes, etc. I will add that there's tons of interest across UofA in computing and cultural informatics to get tapped into, and our iSchool students are particularly interested in digital scholarship! Thank you, Heather Froehlich -- Dr Heather Froehlich w // http://hfroehli.ch t // @heatherfro

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SCI-CHAT 2024: Second call for Participation & Papers for Workshop on Simulation of Conversational Intelligence in Chat
by Gerasimos Lampouras 04 Dec '23

04 Dec '23

tl;dr: - submission deadline for research track paper via Softconf: December 18th 2023 - submission deadline for research track submissions already reviewed via ARR: January 17th 2024 - submission deadline for shard task systems: January 20th 2024 - submission deadline for shard task system descriptions via SoftConf: January 26th 2024 https://sites.google.com/view/dialogue-evaluation/ Call for Papers The aim of this workshop is to bring together experts working in the area of open-domain dialogue. In this speedily advancing research area many challenges still exist, such as learning information from conversations, engaging in realistic and convincing simulation of human intelligence, reasoning, and so on. SCI-CHAT follows previous workshops on open domain dialogue, but with a focus on the simulation of intelligent conversation, including the ability to follow a challenging topic over a multi-turn conversation, the ability to posit questions, refuting and reasoning with live human evaluation employed as the primary mechanism for evaluating models. The workshop will include a research track and shared task: SCI-CHAT's research track aims to explore recent advances and challenges in open-domain dialogue research. Researchers working on all aspects of open-domain dialogue are invited to submit papers on recent advances, resources, tools, analysis, evaluation, and challenges on the broad theme of open-domain dialogues. The topics of the workshop include but are not limited to the following: - Intelligent conversation, chit-chat, open-domain dialogue; - Automatic and human evaluation of open-domain dialogue; - Limitations, risks and safety in open-domain dialogue; - Instruction-tuned and instruction-enabled models; - Any other topic of interest to the dialogue community. SCI-CHAT's shared task will focus on simulating intelligent conversations; participants will be asked to submit (access to the APIs of) automated dialogue agents with the aim of carrying out nuanced conversations over multiple dialogue turns. Participating systems will be interactively evaluated in a live human evaluation. All data acquired within the context of the shared task will be made public, providing an important resource for improving metrics and systems in this research area. Submission guidelines: Authors are invited to submit their unpublished work that represents novel research through either direct submission or ARR commitment. Papers should consist of up to 8 pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references and appendix. Authors should make use of the EACL Latex Template <https://2023.eacl.org/calls/styles/> alongside supplementary materials, including technical appendices, links to source code, datasets, and multimedia appendices. Papers can also be submitted as non-archival, so that their content can be reused for other venues by adding "(NON-ARCHIVAL)" to the title of their submission. Previously published work can also be submitted as non-archival in the same way, with the additional requirement to state such on the first page. - Direct paper submissions must be submitted through SoftCon submission link: https://softconf.com/eacl2024/SCI-CHAT-2024/ <https://softconf.com/eacl2024/SCI-CHAT-2024/> Multiple submissions of the same paper to more EACL workshops are forbidden. All papers will be double-blind peer-reviewed, by at least 2 program committee members. As such, all submissions, including the main paper and its supplementary materials, should be fully anonymized. For more information on formatting and anonymity guidelines, please refer to EACL guidelines <https://eacl.org/index.html>. Organizers - Yvette Graham (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) - Qun Liu (Huawei Noah's Ark Lab, China) - Gerasimos Lampouras (Huawei Noah's Ark Lab,UK) - Ignacio Iacobacci (Huawei Noah's Ark Lab, UK) - Sinead Madden (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) - Haider Khalid (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) - Rameez Qureshi (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) Important Dates Regarding Research Track: - Research paper via Softconf: December 18th 2023 - Pre-reviewed ARR commitment deadline: January 17th 2024 - Notification of research paper acceptance: January 20th, 2024 - Camera-ready papers due: January 30th 2024 Regarding Shared Task: - Release of training and development data: November 9th 2023 - Release of baseline systems: November 9th 2023 - Preliminary System submission deadline: January 13th 2024 (optional - if you want help testing your API, please submit early) - System submission (API) deadline: January 20th 2024 - System description paper via SoftConf: January 26th 2024 - Camera-ready papers due: January 30th 2024 Overview of results at one-day workshop: March 21 or 22, 2024 CONTACT: sci-chat(a)adaptcentre.ie

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job posting - PhD student information extraction & NLP
by Laura Kallmeyer 04 Dec '23

04 Dec '23

PhD student– Information Extraction & Natural Language Processing Starting now / at the soonest possible date, the Data & Knowledge Engineering group at Heinrich-Heine-University (HHU, Düsseldorf), affiliated with Knowledge Technologies for Social Sciences (KTS, https://www.gesis.org/en/kts) at GESIS (Cologne) and the Computational Linguistics department at HHU ( https://www.ling.hhu.de/bereiche-des-institutes/abteilung-fuer-computerling…) are looking for a *PhD student– Information Extraction & Natural Language Processing* (Salary group 13 TV-L, working time 75%-100%, initially limited to 36 months with the possibility of further extension) In the context of the research project "NewOrder", we are investigating scientific online discourse in news & social media, in an interdisciplinary consortium involving researchers from Computer Science, Psychology, Political and Communication Science. Our research will be concerned with novel Natural Language Processing (NLP) methods for the analysis of scientific online discourse (e.g. on Twitter) addressing challenges arising from its informal nature and heterogeneity. For instance, references to scientific works (e.g. publications, studies, datasets), scientists or scientific organisations are often provided in informal and ambiguous ways. Other challenges include the dynamically evolving vocabulary posing challenges for reuse and adaptation of both pretrained language models as well as NLP models finetuned towards specific downstream tasks. Hence, detecting and disambiguating informal science discourse and associated claims remains a challenging problem. Your tasks will be: ******************* * Research in fields such as NLP, Machine Learning, Language Modeling and Representation learning, specifically with the aim to extract structured information from online discourse data * Develop NLP methods for (i) the detection, disambiguation and classification of sources of science-related information on social media, (ii) assessing the quality and credibility of sources and claims and (iii) investigating implicit language cues for cognitive states and source characteristics/traits * Writing, publishing and presenting project results * Collaboration with team members and project partners in an interdisciplinary consortium Your profile: ************** * University degree (diploma/MSc) in Computational Linguistics, Computer Science or related fields * Research interests in NLP, machine learning, data mining, large language models * Hands-on experience with Python and handling big datasets, ideally experience with Big Data Frameworks (e.g. Spark/Hadoop) * Knowledge of ML-Frameworks such as TensorFlow and PyTorch * Ability to communicate fluently in English mandatory, basic knowledge of the German language desirable What we offer: *************** * Flexible working hours and home office arrangements * A fast growing and international working environment with a lot of creative scientific freedom * Access to unique research data, (social) web archives and behavioral data * Support of collaborations with international research labs and experts through an extensive international exchange programme The PhD research will be supervised by Prof. Dr. Stefan Dietze (Scientific Director of KTS at GESIS and Professor for Data & Knowledge Engineering at HHU) & Prof. Dr. Laura Kallmeyer (Chair of Computational Linguistics department at HHU). For further information please contact Stefan Dietze (stefan.dietze(a)hhu.de) and/or Laura Kallmeyer (kallmeyer(a)phil.uni-duesseldorf.de). Interested? ************* Please apply by sending your complete application documents as a single PDF file to stefan.dietze(a)hhu.de by 20 December 2023. -- Prof. Dr. Laura Kallmeyer Institut für Linguistik Heinrich-Heine Universität Duesseldorf Universitaetsstr. 1 D-40225 Duesseldorf, Germany https://user.phil.hhu.de/kallmeyer/ Phone +49 (0)211 8113899

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NLP Fully Funded PhD position at Ulster University, UK
by muskaan singh 03 Dec '23

03 Dec '23

Hi all, I have two fully funded position for 3 years in Social Network Analysis https://www.ulster.ac.uk/doctoralcollege/find-a-phd/1577710 Speech and Language Disorder, https://www.ulster.ac.uk/doctoralcollege/find-a-phd/1577271 If you're interested, please feel free to contact me for more details or apply on the link provided. Thanks, Muskaan Singh

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Fully funded PhD positions in NLP/AI
by Somnath Banerjee 03 Dec '23

03 Dec '23

Dear all, Applications are invited for a fully funded PhD (4-year) on Natural language processing (NLP) and social computing. POSITIONS: Presently, I am looking to recruit 2 PhD students to start their PhD as members of the TARTUNLP Group, Institute of Computer Science<https://cs.ut.ee/en>, at the University of Tartu. The University of Tartu is one of the oldest universities (founded in 1632) in Northern and Eastern Europe. As of 2023, the University of Tartu belongs to the top 1% of the world's universities. Here, 13,000 students and 3000 staff members study and work in a diverse range of fields connected by the power of curiosity. SCOPE (but not limited to): - Content analysis on Social Media (Named Entity Recognition, Sentiment analysis, etc.) - Information Disorder on Social Media (Fake news, Cyberbullying, Hate Speech, misinformation, etc.) - Disaster Management Using Social Media - Explainable AI in NLP - LLM BENEFITS: - Scholarship approximately 2000 Euro/month gross amount. - Health insurance cover. - Travel grant for attending conferences and workshops, etc. HOW TO APPLY: - Send your latest CV to somnath.banerjee(a)ut.ee with the subject line "PhD position 2024". Your CV must include: - final year undergraduate/graduate project (brief description: max 150 words) - pursued relevant subjects at undergraduate and/or Master level (if any) - relevant work experience (if any) - publications (if any) - The name and email contacts of academic referees(optional) **Do not send academic certificates, motivation letters, letters of recommendation, etc. Upon initial selection based on CVs, additional documents will be asked for further processing. NOTE: - Master-level students who are in their final semester also can apply. - Applications will be considered until the position is filled. However, you are encouraged to apply early as the processing of the applications will start soon after receiving them. For queries: Feel free to reach out with questions or comments by contacting somnath.banerjee(a)ut.ee with the subject line "PhD positions queries". Kind regards, Somnath Banerjee Assistant Professor, Chair of Natural Language Processing, Institute of Computer Science, University of Tartu, webpage: http://www.ut.ee/~somnath/

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SEPLN – CEDI 2024: 40th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE SPANISH SOCIETY FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING - VII CONGRESO ESPAÑOL DE INFORMÁTICA
by rafael＠dlsi.ua.es 01 Dec '23

01 Dec '23

SEPLN – CEDI 2024: 40th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE SPANISH SOCIETY FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING - VII CONGRESO ESPAÑOL DE INFORMÁTICA A Coruña, Spain June 20, 2024 The Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN) is pleased to invite you to participate in the Special SEPLN – CEDI Seminar 2024. The Seminar will take place on 20 June 2024 in A Coruña (Spain) co-located with the VII Congreso Español de Informática. The SEPLN-CEDI 2024 Seminar intends to be an appropriate forum for helping new professionals to become active members in this field. In this respect, its main aim is to give the possibility to present real NLP applications (demos) and R&D projects. Topics of interest Topics related to NLP, including but not limited to: Linguistic, mathematical and psycholinguistic models of language. Machine learning in NLP. Computational lexicography and terminology. Corpus linguistics. Development of linguistic resources and tools. Morphological and syntactic analysis. Semantics, pragmatics and discourse. Word sense disambiguation. Monolingual and multilingual text generation. Machine translation. Knowledge and common sense. Multimodality. Spoken language processing. Dialogue systems and interactive systems / Conversational assistants. Multimedia indexing and retrieval. Monolingual and multilingual information extraction and retrieval. Question answering systems. Evaluation of NLP systems. Automatic textual content analysis. Sentiment analysis and argument mining. Plagiarism detection. Negation and speculation processing. Text mining in social media. Text summarization. Text simplification. NLP in the biomedical domain. NLP-based generation of teaching resources. NLP for languages with limited resources. NLP industrial applications. Low-resource NLP tasks, data augmentation. Ethics and NLP. Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP. Structure of the Conference The SEPLN-CEDI 2024 Seminar will be a one-day event and will include sessions to present ongoing research projects and prototype or product demos related to the topics of the conference. Paper types and author guidelines The SEPLN-CEDI 2024 Seinar will accept two kinds of papers: (1) research project summaries and (2) system demonstration papers. Research project summaries. They are summaries of ongoing research projects. This kind of papers must include the following information: Project title. Author name, affiliation and contact information. The review of this kind of paper is not blind review. Funding institutions. Research Groups participating in the project. Language: English. We will not accept research project summaries in Spanish or other languages. An abstract of a maximum of 150 words and a list of keywords. Minimum length: 5 A4-size pages. Maximum length: 6 A4-size pages (including references). In the submission platform you have to choose “Projects and Demos” as main topic. System demonstration papers. These papers must be related to NLP applications, and they must describe the technical details and the NLP components used or developed. The paper must be written in English, the minimum length of the paper must be 5 A4-size pages and the maximum length is 6 A4-size pages of content with the references included. In the submission platform you have to choose “Projects and Demos” as main topic. The research project summaries and the system demonstration papers will be published in CEUR Workshop Proceedings platform, which is widely known by the computer science research community. Accordingly, the paper format must be in accordance with the CEUR template. We have adapted the CEUR Latex Template to SEPLN 2023 and you can download it (Latex, Word). Submission Information. The papers must be submitted by February 16th, 2024. All submissions must be in PDF format and submitted electronically using the MyReview system available. Submitted papers will be subjected to a blind review by at least three members of the SEPLN advisory council. Camera ready - the final version of the paper 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 CEUR proceedings 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 is “under review” in the CEUR Proceedings. 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 Deadline for the submission of projects and demos: Febraury 16th, 2024. Notification of acceptance: March 16th, 2024. Deadline Authors Registration: April 8th, 2024 Camera Ready: May 8th, 2024. Conference: June 20th, 2024. Organizing Committee Rafael Muñoz Guillena University of Alicante (Spain). Elena Lloret Pastor University of Alicante (Spain). Eugenio Martínez Cámara University of Granada (Spain). Alba Bonet University of Alicante (Spain) Robiert Sepúlveda University of Alicante (Spain) Alvaro Rodrigo Yuste UNED (Spain) Contact All information related to the conference can be found at: https://seplncedi2024.gplsi.es For all general enquiries, please contact: seplncedi2024(a)googlegroups.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rafael Muñoz Guillena Universidad de Alicante -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Call for applications (all areas of linguistics): funded training school, ‘Language in the Human-Machine Era’, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic, 27–31 May 2024 (deadline Tuesday 19 Dec 2023 12:00 CET)
by Rui Sousa Silva 01 Dec '23

01 Dec '23

‘Language in the Human-Machine Era’ (https://lithme.eu/) welcomes everyone interested in the impact of new and emerging language technologies that integrate with human senses. Whether you are a tech developer who wants to learn more about linguistics, or a linguist who wants to know more about tech, we want to hear from you! You can find out more about our themes of interest from our published forecast report (https://doi.org/10.17011/jyx/reports/20210518/1) and our animations (https://lithme.eu/animations). Funding is available to people in European countries and in countries neighbouring Europe (see https://www.cost.eu/about/strategy/cost-global-networking/). Self-funded applicants from any country are also welcome, with no registration fee. LITHME’s overall aim is to prepare for imminent changes in the way we use technology to communicate. From immersive augmented reality to super-intelligent chatbots, in the near future we will be communicating in very different ways. This will present significant challenges for all areas of linguistics and language research; meanwhile, developers need insights from linguistic research to improve the technologies themselves. So we must all adapt. Our fully funded training school is open to any eligible researcher or practitioner who is interested in exploring these timely topics. We welcome experienced developers, but no technological expertise is required, only an interest in exploring the possible effects of these near-future advances in language technology. More information about eligibility, and the online application form, can be found at https://lithme.eu/training-school-2024/<https://lithme.eu/training-school/>. The deadline for applications is Tuesday 19 Dec 2023, 12:00 CET. Please forward this email on to anyone who may be interested, and please repost the announcement here: https://twitter.com/LgHumanMachine/status/1724750085907484672 https://bsky.app/profile/lghumanmachine.bsky.social/post/3ke7xbuozl22k We hope to see you in Hradec Králové! Best wishes, Rui Sousa-Silva (on behalf of the training school organising committee) Rui Sousa Silva Faculdade de Letras, Universidade do Porto Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Porto www.linguisticaforense.pt | https://s.up.pt/qjur

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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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