*Overview*
EACL 2023 is providing D&I funds for registration, travel/accommodation,
caregiving, bandwidth and VPN subsidies. The grants are intended for
individuals for whom attending the conference would cause a financial
burden or create risks to their safety or privacy. Please apply by 27th
March 2023 (2 weeks before the early registration deadline) at
https://forms.gle/RqAGjjEjwdvnEqBv7.
This call is also available online:
https://2023.eacl.org/calls/d-i-subsidies
Registration subsidies
This is for getting a waiver for EACL registration. If you haven’t already
registered for an *ACL in 2023, you would also need to pay the ACL
membership registration fee, e.g. $100 for regular. You can also request
for ACL membership if that’s applicable.
Note that if you are applying for a registration fee waiver, it is expected
that you DO NOT register for the conference until you hear from us about
your D&I subsidy application. That way, you would not have to ask for a
reimbursement, since you would not be charged in the first place. We
strongly encourage folks to apply for a volunteership program in order to
maximize their chances for getting their registration fees waived.
Travel subsidies and pre-paid accommodation
We have a limited number of pre-paid accommodation available. These are
shared double-rooms in the conference hotel. Please list any special
requirements in your application form. We also have a limited budget
allocated to support international travel. Please make sure to outline how
you will benefit from in-person attendance at this stage of your career.
Caregiving and accessibility subsidies
We can reimburse caregiving purchases that you need for the conferences.
You need to provide receipts for your purchases. These can be babysitting,
transportation costs, or other support required for yourself or your
dependents, which would ease your participation. If you need any personal
or technical assistance to access and navigate the conference due to a
disability, we can reimburse you for the cost of it. This holds for example
if you need assistance in using the platform for online participation due
to a visual impairment. We acknowledge that accessibility needs are highly
individual to each participant, so please feel free to reach out to us with
any issues you might face in this regard.
Bandwidth and VPN subsidies
We can reimburse bandwidth or VPN purchases that you need for the
conferences. You need to provide receipts for your purchases. Bandwidth
subsidies would be for high-speed internet access costs for the duration of
the conference only. VPN generally does not cost more than 10 USD per month
and could be applied towards participation if you need anonymity to
participate completely (for example, for queer folks who might need this
for extra security depending on where they live).
Selection Criteria
Applicants for the subsidy program will be evaluated based on the material
they submit in their application packages. Preference will be given to
applicants who are presenting a paper in the main conference, the Student
Research Workshop, or any of the workshops associated with EACL 2023, and
who do not have other means of support. Preferences will be given to
residents of under-represented regions and members of marginalized
communities (as detailed in the application form).
Instructions
Applicants for the D&I subsidy Program should fill the application form at:
https://forms.gle/RqAGjjEjwdvnEqBv7.
*Application deadline:*
27th March 2023 (anywhere on earth) – 2 weeks before the early registration
deadline.
*Notification of acceptance:*
3rd April 2023 – 1 week before the early registration deadline
We aim to send all notifications by the deadline above. However, we will
start processing the applications as they come and you may be contacted
earlier.
*Contact Information*
The co-chairs of the Diversity and Inclusion committee can be contacted by
email at: eacl2023_div_incl(a)hw.ac.uk
Dear colleagues,
The Fourth Workshop on Insights from Negative Results in NLP Co-located
with EACL, May 5 or 6, 2023
First Call for Participation
Insights Website: <https://insights-workshop.github.io/
<https://insights-workshop.github.io/index>>
Contact email: insights-workshop-organizers(a)googlegroups.com
*****Submission due: February 20, 2023
*Overview
Publication of negative results is difficult in most fields, but in NLP the
problem is exacerbated by the near-universal focus on improvements in
benchmarks. This situation implicitly discourages hypothesis-driven
research, and it turns creation and fine-tuning of NLP models into art
rather than science. Furthermore, it increases the time, effort, and carbon
emissions spent on developing and tuning models, as the researchers have no
opportunity to learn what has already been tried and failed.
This workshop invites both practical and theoretical unexpected or negative
results that have important implications for future research, highlight
methodological issues with existing approaches, and/or point out pervasive
misunderstandings or bad practices. In particular, the most successful NLP
models currently rely on different kinds of pretrained meaning
representations (from word embeddings to Transformer-based models like BERT
and GPT-3). To complement all the success stories, it would be insightful
to see where and possibly why they fail. Any NLP tasks are welcome:
sequence labeling, question answering, inference, dialogue, machine
translation - you name it.
A successful negative results paper would contribute one of the following:
** broadly applicable recommendations for training/fine-tuning, especially
if X that didn’t work is something that many practitioners would think
reasonable to try, and if the demonstration of X’s failure is accompanied
by some explanation/hypothesis;
** ablation studies of components in previously proposed models, showing
that their contributions are different from what was initially reported;
** datasets or probing tasks showing that previous approaches do not
generalize to other domains or language phenomena;
** trivial baselines that work suspiciously well for a given task/dataset;
** cross-lingual studies showing that a technique X is only successful for
a certain language or language family;
** experiments on (in)stability of the previously published results due to
hardware, random initializations, preprocessing pipeline components, etc;
** theoretical arguments and/or proofs for why X should not be expected to
work;
** demonstration of issues with data processing/collection/annotation
pipelines, especially if they are widely used;
** demonstration of issues with evaluation metrics (e.g. accuracy, F1 or
BLEU), which prevent their usage for fair comparison of methods.
* Important Dates
** Submission due: February 20, 2023
** Submission due for papers reviewed through ACL Rolling Review: March 17,
2023
** Notification of acceptance: March 13, 2023
** Camera-ready papers due: March 27, 2023
** Workshop: May 5 or 6, 2023
* Submission
Submission is electronic, using the Softconf START conference management
system.
Submission link: <https://softconf.com/eacl2023/insights2023/>
The workshop will accept short papers (up to 4 pages, excluding
references), as well as 1-2 page non-archival abstract submissions for
papers published elsewhere (e.g. in one of the main conferences or in
non-NLP venues). The goal of this event is to stimulate a meaningful
community-wide discussion of the deep issues in NLP methodology, and the
authors of both types of submissions will be welcome to take part in our
get-togethers.
The workshop will run its own review process, and papers can be submitted
directly to the workshop by Feb 13, 2023. It is also possible to submit a
paper accompanied with reviews from the ACL Rolling Review system by March
17, 2023. The submission deadline for ARR papers follows the ACL RR
calendar. Both research papers and abstracts must follow the ACL two-column
format. Official style sheets:
<https://www.overleaf.com/read/crtcwgxzjskr>
<https://github.com/acl-org/ACLPUB/tree/master/templates>
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.
* Multiple Submission Policy
The workshop cannot accept work for publication or presentation that will
be (or has been) published elsewhere and that have been or will be
submitted to other meetings or publications whose review periods overlap
with that of Insights. Any questions regarding submissions can be sent to
insights-workshop-organizers(a)googlegroups.com.
If the paper has been rejected from another venue, the authors will have
the option to provide the original reviews and the author response. The new
reviewers will not have access to this information, but the organizers will
be able to take into account the fact that the paper has already been
revised and improved.
* Anonymity Period
We are not enforcing any anonymity period.
* Presentation
All accepted papers must be presented at the workshop to appear in the
proceedings. Authors of accepted papers must notify the program chairs by
the camera-ready deadline if they wish to withdraw the paper. At least one
author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop.
Previous presentations of the work (e.g. preprints on arXiv.org) should be
noted in a footnote in the camera-ready version (but not in the anonymized
version of the paper).
The workshop will take place on May 2 or 6 2023. The workshop will be
hybrid with both in-person and virtual presentations.
* Organization Committee
** Shabnam Tafreshi, University of Maryland: ARLIS
** Arjun Reddy Akula, Google
** João Sedoc, New York University
** Anna Rogers, University of Copenhagen
** Aleksandr Drozd, RIKEN
** Anna Rumshisky, University of Massachusetts Lowell / Amazon Alexa
* Contact info
Any questions regarding the workshop can be sent to
insights-workshop-organizers(a)googlegroups.com.
Please continue reading about: Authorship, Citation and Comparison, Ethics
Policy, Reproducibility, Anonymity Period, and Presentation in the call for
paper page on our website: https://insights-workshop.github.io/2023/cfp/
Regards,
Insights 2023 Organizers
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*Shabnam Tafreshi, PhD*
*Assistant Research Scientist*
*Computational Linguistics, NLP*
*UMD: ARLIS @ College Park*
*"All the problems of the world could be settled easily, if people only
willing to think."*
*-Thomas J. Watson*
Dear colleagues,
We are happy to announce the call for papers for our one-day special
session on “Multi-Perspectivist Data and Learning 2023” at the upcoming CD
MAKE 2023 conference:
https://cd-make.net/special-sessions/multi-perspectivist-data-and-learning/
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Description, scope and aims
Many Artificial Intelligence applications are based on supervised machine
learning (ML), which ultimately grounds on manually annotated data. The
annotation process (i.e., ground-truthing) is often performed in terms of a
majority vote and this has been proved to be often problematic, as
highlighted by recent studies on the evaluation of ML models. Recently, a
different paradigm for ground-truthing has started to emerge, called data
perspectivism, which moves away from traditional majority aggregated
datasets, towards the adoption of methods that integrate different opinions
and perspectives within the knowledge representation, training, and
evaluation steps of ML processes, by adopting a non-aggregation policy.
This alternative paradigm obviously implies a radical change in how we
develop and evaluate ML systems: such ML systems have to take into account
multiple, uncertain, and potentially mutually conflicting views. This
obviously brings both opportunities and difficulties: novel models or
training techniques may need to be designed, and the validation phase may
become more complex. Nonetheless, initial works have shown that data
perspectivism can lead to better performances, and could also have
important implications in terms of human-in-the-loop and interpretable AI,
as well as in regard to the ethical issues or concerns related to the use
of AI systems.
The scope of this special session is to attract contributions related to
the management of subjective, crowd-sourced, multi-perspective, or
otherwise non-aggregated data in ground-truthing, machine learning, and
more generally artificial intelligence systems.
Invited contributions: full research papers and research in progress papers.
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Topics of interest:
- Subjective, uncertain, or conflicting information in annotation and
crowdsourcing processes;
- Limits and problems with standard data annotation and aggregation
processes;
- Theoretical studies on the problem of learning from multi-rater and
non-aggregated data;
- Participation mechanisms/incentives/gamification for rater engagement and
crowdsourcing;
- Ethical and legal concerns related to annotation and aggregation
processes in ground-truthing;
- Creation and documentation of multi-rater and non-aggregated datasets and
benchmarks;
- Development of ML algorithms for multi-rater and non-aggregated data;
- Techniques for the evaluation of ML systems based on multi-rater and
non-aggregated data;
- Applications of data perspectivism and non-aggregated data to eXplainable
AI, human-in-the-loop AI and algorithmic fairness;
- Experimental and application studies of ML/AI systems on multi-rater and
non-aggregated data, in possibly different application domains (e.g. NLP,
medicine, legal studies, etc.)
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Important dates:
Submission Deadline March 27, 2023 (AoE)
Author Notification June 01, 2023
Proceedings Version June 22, 2023 (AoE)
Conference August 29 – September 01, 2023
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Special Session Chairs:
Federico Cabitza (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
Andrea Campagner (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
Valerio Basile (University of Turin, Italy)
Program Committee (provisional):
Nahuel Costa Cortez, University of Oviedo
Elisa Leonardelli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK)
Julian Lienen, Paderborn University
Gavin Abercrombie, Heriot-Watt University
Simona Frenda, University of Turin
Marília Barandas, Fraunhofer Portugal AICOS
Duarte Folgado, Fraunhofer Portugal AICOS
Barbara Plank, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Tommaso Caselli, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
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Related readings
[1] Cabitza, F., Campagner, A., Basile, V. (2023)
Toward a Perspectivist Turn in Ground Truthing for Predictive Computing
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
(extended preprint at: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2109.04270.pdf)
[2] V. Basile (2020)
It’s the End of the Gold Standard as we Know it. On the Impact of
Pre-aggregation on the Evaluation of Highly Subjective Tasks
Proceedings of the AIxIA 2020 Discussion Papers Workshop
[3] F. Cabitza, A. Campagner, L. M. Sconfienza (2020)
As if sand were stone. New concepts and metrics to probe the ground on
which to build trustable AI
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
[4] Plank, B. (2022).
The 'Problem' of Human Label Variation: On Ground Truth in Data, Modeling
and Evaluation.
arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.02570.
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Call for Papers
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SNLP: The9thWorkshoponNLP for Slavic languages <http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/>
2 May 2023 or 6 May 2023
co-located with EACL 2023
http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/ <http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/>
Submission Deadline: 27 February 2023
WORKSHOPDESCRIPTION
The 9th edition of the SNLP Workshop at EACLSponsored by SIGSLAV: the ACL Special Interest Group on Slavic NLP
The languages from the Slavic group play an important role due to their diverse cultural heritage and widespread use — with over 400 million speakers worldwide. The current political and economic developments in Central and Eastern Europe bring Slavic societies and languages into focus in terms of rapid technological advancement and expanding consumer markets.
Research on theoretical and applied topics in the context of Slavic languages is still lagging in the community. Linguistic phenomena that are common to Slavic languages — rich morphology, free word order, etc. — make NLP for these languages a challenging task. Slavic NLP gathers researchers from academia and industry. It aims to stimulate research in Slavic NLP, and to foster the creation of tools and resources. The Workshops provides a forum for exchange of ideas and experience, discussing current challenges, and making the available resources widely-known. The structural similarity, as well as the easily recognizable core vocabulary and inflectional inventory spanning this entire large language group creates a special environment, where researchers can appreciate the shared problems and communicate naturally — despite the lack of mutual intelligibility.This year, we are especially glad to have an opportunity to organize Slav NLP in a Slavic-speaking country.
This Workshop addresses Natural Language Processing (NLP) for the Slavic languages. The NLP tasks in urgent need of attention include:
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language modeling
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morphological analysis and generation,
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syntactic and semantic parsing,
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lexical semantics,
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named-entity recognition,
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text normalisation and processing non-standard language
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coreference resolution,
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information extraction,
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question answering,
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text summarization,
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machine translation,
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development of linguistic resources,
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text classification
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disinformation detection,
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fact verification.
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sentiment analysis
This Workshop continues the proud tradition established by the 8 previous BSNLP Workshops.
IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission deadline: 27 February 2023
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Notification of acceptance: 19 March 2023
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Camera-ready papers due: 27 March 2023
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Workshop: 2 or 6 May 2023
SHARED TASK
This year's SNLP features the 4th editionof the Shared Task on Multilingual Named Entity Recognition: recognizing mentions of named entities in Web documents, lemmatization, and cross-lingual matching in Slavic languages. The shared task covers:
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Czech,
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Polish,
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Russian.
Information about the Shared Task and training data is available on the Workshop web page
SUBMISSION INFORMATION
At the Workshop Web page: bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi <http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/call-for-papers.html>
Workshop contact email address: bsnlp(a)cs.helsinki.fi
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Roman Yangarber
Associate Professor, University of Helsinki
Digital Humanities
INEQ: Helsinki Inequality Initiative <https://helsinki.fi/en/ineq-helsinki-inequality-initiative> — Linguistic Inequalities and Translation Technologies
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e-Learning & language learninghelsinki.fi/revita <https://www.helsinki.fi/revita>
Language Learning Labhelsinki.fi/language-learning-lab <https://www.helsinki.fi/language-learning-lab>
Unioninkatu 40, Metsätalo A214 mobile: +358 50 41 51 71 3
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Humor and Artificial Intelligence Track
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33rd International Society for Humor Studies Conference (ISHS 2023)
Boston, Massachusetts
July 3 to 7, 2023
https://combeyond.bu.edu/offering/international-society-of-humor-studies-co…
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: MARCH 1, 2023
Call for papers
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Humor is a universal and ubiquitous facet of human communication, but is
among the hardest to process in artificial intelligence environments.
The Humor and Artificial Intelligence track at ISHS 2023 solicits
abstracts on the computational representation, detection,
classification, interpretation, and generation of any and all forms of
verbal or non-verbal humor.
Application areas include, but are not limited to:
* human–computer interaction
* computer-mediated communication
* intelligent writing assistants
* conversational agents
* machine and computer-assisted translation
* digital humanities
* natural language processing
* computer vision
Abstracts of 150 to 350 words should be submitted on the ISHS 2023
website at
<https://combeyond.bu.edu/offering/international-society-of-humor-studies-co…>
by March 1, 2023. Authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to give
a conference talk of approximately 20 minutes plus time for questions.
Conveners
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Kiki Hempelmann (Texas A&M University-Commerce)
Tristan Miller (Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence)
Julia M. Rayz (Purdue University)
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Dr.-Ing. Tristan Miller, Research Scientist
Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI)
Freyung 6/6, 1010 Vienna, Austria | Tel: +43 1 5336112 12
https://logological.org/ | https://punderstanding.ofai.at/
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
The First Construction Grammars and NLP (CxGs+NLP) Workshop will take place
as part of the Georgetown University Round Table on Linguistics &
SyntaxFest (GURT/SyntaxFest 2023) between the 9 and 12 March, 2023.
https://gurt.georgetown.edu
Location: Washington, DC
Date: March 9-12, 2023
The detailed conference program is now online here:
https://gurt.georgetown.edu/gurt-2023/program/
GURT/SyntaxFest is an in-person event with a modest registration fee. For a
discounted rate, register by Feb. 28 at
https://gurt.georgetown.edu/gurt-2023/registration-gurt-2023.
Our aim is to bring together theoretical and computational researchers
interested in CxG approaches and encourage topics examining how theoretical
research can inform computational approaches and applications, whether
existing or needed in the future. Thus, we invite original research papers
from a range of topics, including but not limited to:
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Theory and Linguistics
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Formalisms for construction grammar
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Natural Language Understanding (NLU)
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Opinion pieces on the interplay between CxGs and NLP
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Constructions and Language Models (BERTology)
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Constructicons and corpora annotated for construction grammar
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Construction grammar learning and adaptation
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Applications
We will have an invited speaker, Jonathan Dunn discussing the relation
between Construction Grammars and NLP. The workshop will also include
a discussion
consisting of experts from both fields discussing possible synergies
between the two fields.
We look forward to seeing you in Washington DC!
The CxGs+NLP organisers
Mediate 2023: Mediate - News Media and Computational Journalism Workshop
co-located with ICWSM 2023
Limassol, Cyprus, June 5, 2023
https://digitalmediasig.github.io/Mediate2023/
Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mediate2023
Papers due: March 27, 2023
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The fourth MEDIATE workshop will be held on June 5, as part of the
International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM). The main
goal of the workshop is to bring together media practitioners and
technologists to discuss new opportunities and obstacles that arise in the
modern era of information diffusion. This year's theme is: Misinformation:
automated journalism, explainable and multi-modal verification and content
moderation.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Automated journalism: novel automated and human-in-the-loop solutions for
rumour detection/verification, fact-checking, stance classification,
evaluation of existing solutions and novel relevant applications. Submitted
papers should describe how their advantages would lead to being adopted in
practice by journalists and the public (e.g. improved generalisability,
ability to provide explanations, reduced bias) and address ethical
considerations.
- Explainable and Multi-modal verification: explainable rumour verification
systems, evidence-based solutions, uncertainty and prediction
explainability and general interpretable and transparent AI-systems, as
well as multi-modal rumour verification/fact-checking models, sources and
data, non-textual and multi-modal features.
- Content Moderation: novel content moderation systems for inhibiting
misinformation spreading, domain-specific content moderation solutions as
well as content moderation systems that showcase generalisability and are
interpretable.
We invite submissions of technical papers and talk proposals:
- Technical papers must be up to 4 pages (short papers) or up to 8 pages
(long papers). Technical papers must contain novel, previously-unpublished
material related to the topics of the workshop. Accepted papers will be
presented orally and will appear in the workshop proceedings.
- Talk proposals must be up to 2 pages describing the content of a short
talk (the actual length will be determined based on program constraints).
Papers must adhere to the ICWSM guidelines (
https://www.icwsm.org/2023/index.html/call_for_submissions.html#guidelines)
and be submitted through easychair (
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mediate2023).
Organizing committee
Talia Tseriotou, Queen Mary University of London
Dina Pisarevskaya, Queen Mary University of London
Elena Kochkina, Alan Turing Institute
Marya Bazzi, Alan Turing Institute & University of Warwick
Maria Liakata, Alan Turing Institute & Queen Mary University of London
Arkaitz Zubiaga, Queen Mary University of London
All questions about submissions should be emailed to t.tseriotou(a)qmul.ac.uk<mailto:t.tseriotou@qmul.ac.uk>,
d.pisarevskaya(a)qmul.ac.uk<mailto:d.pisarevskaya@qmul.ac.uk> and mbazzi(a)turing.ac.uk<mailto:mbazzi@turing.ac.uk>
**apologies for cross-postings**
Call for papers DMR 2023: The Fourth International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representation
workshop site: dmr2023.github.io
Co-located with IWCS 2023 the 15th International Conference on Computational Semantics, 20-23th June 2023, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France.
IWCS site: https://iwcs2023.loria.fr/
While deep learning methods have led to many breakthroughs in practical natural language applications, most notably in Machine Translation, Machine Reading, Question Answering, Recognizing Textual Entailment, and so on, there is still a sense among many NLP researchers that we have a long way to go before we can develop systems that can actually “understand” human language and explain the decisions they make. Indeed, “understanding” natural language entails many different human-like capabilities, and they include but are not limited to the ability to track entities in a text, understand the relations between these entities, track events and their participants described in a text, understand how events unfold in time, and distinguish events that have actually happened from events that are planned or intended, are uncertain, or did not happen at all. We believe a critical step in achieving natural language understanding is to design meaning representations for text that have the necessary meaning “ingredients” that help us achieve these capabilities. Such meaning representations can also potentially be used to evaluate the compositional generalization capacity of deep learning models.
There has been a growing body of research devoted to the design, annotation, and parsing of meaning representations in recent years. The meaning representations that have been used for semantic parsing research are developed with different linguistic perspectives and practical goals in mind and have different formal properties. Formal meaning representation frameworks such as Minimal Recursion Semantics (MRS) and Discourse Representation Theory (as exemplified in the Parallel Meaning Bank) are developed with the goal of supporting logical inference in reasoning-based AI systems and are therefore easily translatable into first-order logic, requiring proper representation of semantic components such as quantification, negation, tense, and modality. Other meaning representation frameworks such as Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR), Tecto-grammatical Representation (TR) in Prague Dependency Treebanks and the Universal Conceptual Cognitive Annotation (UCCA), put more emphasis on the representation of core predicate-argument structure, lexical semantic information such as semantic roles and word senses, or named entities and relations. There is also a more recent effort in developing a Uniform Meaning Representation (UMR) that is based on AMR but extends it to cross-linguistic settings and enhances it to represent document-level semantic content. The automatic parsing of natural language text into these meaning representations and the generation of natural language text from these meaning representations are also very active areas of research, and a wide range of technical approaches and learning methods have been applied to these problems.
This workshop will bring together researchers who are producers and consumers of meaning representations, and through their interaction develop a deeper understanding of the key elements of meaning representations that are the most valuable to the NLP community. The workshop will also provide an opportunity for meaning representation researchers to critically examine existing frameworks with the goal of using their findings to inform the design of next-generation meaning representations. A third goal of the workshop is to explore opportunities and identify challenges in the design and use of meaning representations in multilingual settings. A final goal of the workshop 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 and gain a deeper understanding of areas where each type of meaning representation is the most effective.
The workshop solicits papers that address one or more of the following topics:
• Design and annotation of meaning representations;
• Cross-framework comparison of meaning representations;
• Challenges and techniques in automatic parsing of meaning representations;
• Challenges and techniques in automatically generating text from meaning representations;
• Meaning representation evaluation metrics;
• Lexical resources, ontologies, and grounding in relation to meaning representations;
• Real-world applications of meaning representations;
• Issues in applying meaning representations to multilingual settings and lower-resourced languages;
• The relationship between symbolic meaning representations and distributed semantic representations;
• Formal properties of meaning representations;
• Any other topics that address the design, processing, and use of meaning representations.
=== SUBMISSION INFORMATION ===
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.
Submission is electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system.
Link to the DMR submission site: https://softconf.com/iwcs2023/dmr2023/
Submissions must adhere to the two-column format of ACL venues. Please use our specific style-files or the Overleaf template taken from ACL 2021:
https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/instructions-for-iwcs-2021-proceed…
Initial submissions should be fully anonymous to ensure double-blind reviewing. Long papers must not exceed eight (8) pages of content. Short papers and demonstration papers must not exceed four (4) pages of content. If a paper is accepted, it will be given an additional page to address reviewers’ comments in the final version. References and appendices do not count against these limits.
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 …”. 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 organizers dmr2023-chairs(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.
** DMR 2023 does not have an anonymity period. However, we ask you to be reasonable and not publicly advertise your preprint during (or right before) review.
=== IMPORTANT DATES ===
Submissions due April 3, 2023
Notification of acceptance May 1, 2023
Camera-ready deadline June 1, 2023
Workshop date June 20, 2023
IWCS conference June 20-23, 2023
TrueHealth 2023: Combating Health Misinformation for Social Wellbeing
Workshop @ ICWSM 2023, the 17th International Conference on Web and Social Media
June 5th – 8th 2023, Limassol, Cyprus
https://truehealth.disco.unimib.it/
Scope and topics:
In recent years, people have increasingly referred to the Web and social media as sources of information about health-related problems and solutions, as confirmed by the U.S. Pew Research Center, and other European and international studies. Although, on the one hand, these platforms favor easier and more direct access to information sources by users without the intermediation of experts, on the other hand, it is precisely such democratization of health information that constitutes a potential danger for people. As we have seen especially in the last period, linked to the pandemic, the proliferation of false information, conspiracy theories, and unreliable remedies risk compromising the health not only of individuals but that of the community as a whole.
From this perspective, it becomes necessary to study and propose technological solutions to help users come into contact with genuine information, especially in a critical domain such as health, for social well-being.
To this end, it is essential to promote research of an interdisciplinary nature, involving computer scientists, physicians, lawyers, and communication experts who can address the problem of health misinformation from different points of view by combining their expertise.
The topics of interest of the TrueHealth 2023 Workshop at ICWSM include, but are not limited to:
Assessing the genuineness of Online Health Information (OHI);
Consumer Health Search (CHS) and genuine information access;
Debunking health misinformation;
Fake news/rumors and healthcare;
Measures, evaluation methods, and datasets for health misinformation detection;
Health misinformation detection;
Health literacy and information genuineness;
Fact-checking in Online Health Information (OHI);
Misinformation and public opinion on health;
Relationship between access to non-genuine information and danger to public health;
Relationship between psychological characteristics and perceptions of health misinformation;
Techniques for accessing and retrieving genuine Online Health Information (OHI).
Submission Instructions
We welcome both 2-page abstracts, as well as Long (8 pages) and Short (4 pages) papers – excluding references (11 pages max with references and ethics statement). Abstracts are ideal as Demo or Position papers, Short papers as presentations of ongoing research with preliminary results or summaries of previous work, and Long papers as presentations of novel research and results.
Long and Short papers will be published in ICWSM Workshop Proceedings (http://workshop-proceedings.icwsm.org/).
All submissions should be double-blind.
Papers have to follow the AAAI format, as outlined here: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/aaai-2023-author-kit/wxnmhzcrjbpc
Submit here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=truehealth2023
Other ICWSM submission instructions: https://www.icwsm.org/2023/index.html/call_for_submissions.html
Important Dates
Workshop Papers Submissions: March 27, 2023
Workshop Paper Acceptance Notification: April 10, 2023
Workshop Final Camera-Ready Paper Due: May 6, 2023
ICWSM-2023 Workshops Day: June 5, 2023
Organizers
Gabriella Pasi (Full Professor), University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
Rishabh Upadhyay (Research Fellow), University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
Marco Viviani (Associate Professor), University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
Program Committee
Lorraine Goeuriot, Université Grenoble Alpes, France
Sanda Harabagiu, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Liadh Kelly, Maynooth University, Ireland
Dongwon Lee, Penn State: The Pennsylvania State University, USA
Yelena Mejova, ISI Foundation, Italy
Michael Sirivianos, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
Xingyi Song, University of Sheffield, UK
Angelo Spognardi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Bei Yu, Syracuse University, USA
Arkaitz Zubiaga, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Other members are going to be added in the coming days
Hello,
We're writing with an updated call for proposals for the Law and Corpus Linguistics Conference to be held on Friday, October 13, 2023, with pre-conference workshops on Thursday, October 12. The conference will be held at Brigham Young University's J. Reuben Clark Law School in Provo, Utah.
We're pleased to announce that the keynote address at this year's conference will be given by D. Gordon Smith, Dean of the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University. Gordon has made tremendous contributions to the field of law and corpus linguistics, and we're excited to have him as this year's keynote speaker.
Proposals are invited for individual papers and panels. We're open to submissions on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to:
* applications of corpus linguistics to the constitutional, statutory, contract, patent, trademark, probate, administrative, and criminal law in any state or nation;
* philosophical, normative, and pragmatic commentary on the use of corpus linguistics in the law;
* triangulation between corpus linguistics and other empirical methods in legal interpretation;
* corpus linguistic analysis of the law of countries other than the United States;
* the relationship between corpus linguistics and pragmatics (e.g. implicature, presupposition, sociolinguistic context);
* corpus-based analysis of legal discourse or topics;
* best practices in corpus design and corpus linguistic methods in legal settings.
We have a new proposal deadline of May 31, 2023. Proposals should include an abstract of no more than 750 words and complete contact information for presenters. Please send proposals to byulawcorpus(a)law.byu.edu<mailto:byulawcorpus@law.byu.edu>.
Best,
BYU LCL 2023 Conference Organizing Committee (Thomas Lee, Jesse Egbert, Brett Hashimoto, James Heilpern and James Phillips)
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Assistant Professor of Linguistics
Brigham Young University
https://sites.google.com/site/brettjameshashimoto/https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9871-5092