December 2023 - Corpora

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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