December 2023 - Corpora

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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