February 2023 - Corpora

Error analysis survey results
by Emiel van Miltenburg 22 Feb '23

22 Feb '23

Dear colleagues, A while ago we sent out a survey asking about your experiences with and opinions about error analysis. We are happy to announce that our paper based on this survey has been published in NEJLT: https://nejlt.ep.liu.se/article/view/4529 We hope that our paper will help foster a discussion about the publication culture in NLG, and in NLP more generally. We would also like to thank you again for filling in our survey. I consider myself very lucky to be part of this community. Best wishes, also on behalf of my co-authors, Emiel van Miltenburg

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CFP: WebNLG Challenge 2023 on low-resource languages (Breton, Maltese, Welsh and Irish) and on Russian
by Claire Gardent 22 Feb '23

22 Feb '23

============================================================== WebNLG Challenge 2023: Call for Participation Special focus on multilingual NLG for under-resourced languages https://webnlg-challenge/challenge_2023/ =============================================================== We are delighted to announce a new edition of the WebNLG challenge, which will take place in 2023. WebNLG 2023 will focus on multilingual generation for under-resourced languages: Maltese, Irish, Breton and Welsh. In addition, WebNLG 2023 will once again include Russian, which was first featured in WebNLG 2020. * MOTIVATION With the development of large-scale pretrained models, research in automatic text generation has acquired new impetus. Yet, the current state-of-the-art is dominated by a handful of languages, for which training data is relatively easy to acquire. At the same time, the field has recently witnessed some encouraging developments which focus on generation for under-resourced and under-represented languages. This trend is paralleled by a growing interest in multilingual models and applications in NLP more broadly. The WebNLG 2023 Challenge is being organised in response to these trends and specifically addresses generation in few-shot and/or zero-shot settings for four under-resourced languages. * About WebNLG The WebNLG Challenge consists in mapping data, in the form of RDF triples, to natural language text. The input is a set of RDF triples sourced from DBPedia for example: (John_E_Blaha birthDate 1942_08_26) (John_E_Blaha birthPlace San_Antonio) (John_E_Blaha occupation Fighter_pilot) where the corresponding output text might be: John E Blaha, born in San Antonio on 1942-08-26, worked as a fighter pilot The WebNLG challenge was launched in 2017. A second edition, in 2020, extended the task to Russian, in addition to English. * WebNLG 2023 The new edition of WebNLG focuses on four under-resourced languages which are severely under-represented in research on text generation, namely Maltese, Irish, Breton and Welsh. In addition, WebNLG 2023 will again include Russian, a language featured in WebNLG 2020. For WebNLG 2023, we are soliciting submissions encompassing a variety of approaches to automatic text generation, from neural architectures to rule-based systems. We especially encourage submissions addressing generation in few-shot or zero-shot settings. * DATA Development and test data is now available for all 5 languages, namely Breton, Maltese, Irish and Welsh (the target languages for WebNLG 2023), as well as Russian. Participants can download the development data; the test data will be reserved for the final evaluation. Data for each language was obtained by sourcing high-quality, professional translations of the original English texts in the WebNLG 2020 dev and test sets. Training data is also available for the original WebNLG English data and, as per WebNLG 2020, for Russian. In addition, we provide ‘noisy’ training data for the target languages (Maltese, Breton, Welsh and Irish), obtained via machine translation of the texts in the English WebNLG 2020 train split. * EVALUATION As in previous editions of WebNLG, submitted results will be evaluated using both automatic and human evaluation methods. * INSTRUCTIONS FOR PARTICIPANTS Data and instructions for the task are available from the WebNLG repo: https://github.com/WebNLG/2023-Challenge Teams who submit systems for evaluation at WebNLG 2023 will subsequently be invited to contribute a short paper describing their approach and results. The task as a whole, as well as individual submissions, will be presented at a special session in an event to be announced later. General information about the WebNLG challenges can be found on the following URL: https://webnlg-challenge/challenge_2023/ * TIMELINE February 2023: First call for participation. Development data and noisy training data available. 8 June 2023: Release of test data 15 June 2023: Deadline for submission of system outputs. 15 August 2023: Deadline for submission of short papers describing systems. The final presentation of results will be held during a workshop. Current plans are to hold this in September 2023. * ORGANISATION: WebNLG 2023 is being organised under the auspices of LT-Bridge, supported by the Horizon 2020 Work Programme Spreading Excellence and Widening Participation (WIDESPREAD) 2018-2020 and the ANR funded xNLG Chair on multi-lingual, multi-source NLG. Claire Gardent, CNRS/LORIA, Nancy, France Albert Gatt, Utrecht University, The Netherlands and University of Malta Claudia Borg, University of Malta Enrico Aquilina, University of Malta Anya Belz, Dublin City University, Ireland John Judge, Dublin City University, Ireland Liam Cripwell, CNRS/LORIA and Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France William Soto-Martinez, CNRS/LORIA and Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France Contact: webnlg-challenge(a)inria.fr To unsubscribe from the SIGGEN list, click the following link: [ https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=SIGGEN&A=1 | https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=SIGGEN&A=1 ]

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Deadline extension - MultiGED-2023 shared task
by Elena Volodina 21 Feb '23

21 Feb '23

UPDATE: Following requests, we extend the deadline for system submissions for the MultiGED-2023 shared task by one week according to the following: 27 February, 2023 06 March, 2023 - test data released 03 March, 2023 10 March, 2023 - system submission deadline (system output) 10 March, 2023 14 March, 2023 - results announced 03 April, 2023 - paper submission deadline with system descriptions. Call for participation -- Shared task on Multilingual Grammatical Error Detection (MultiGED-2023) on Czech, English, German, Italian and Swedish Official website for the shared task: https://github.com/spraakbanken/multiged-2023 The Computational SLA<https://spraakbanken.gu.se/en/compsla> working group invites you to participate in the first shared task on Multilingual Grammatical Error Detection, MultiGED-2023, which includes five languages: Czech, English, German, Italian and Swedish. The aim of this shared task is to detect tokens in need of correction across five different languages, labeling them as either correct ("c") or incorrect ("i"), i.e. performing binary classification at the token level. You can work on one of the provided languages or any combination of languages. More details about the task: https://github.com/spraakbanken/multiged-2023 The shared task is part of the NLP4CALL workshop<https://spraakbanken.gu.se/en/research/themes/icall/nlp4call-workshop-serie…>, which will take place on 22 May 2023, co-located with the NoDaLiDa conference <https://www.nodalida2023.fo/> to be held in the Faroe Islands. Accepted papers with systems descriptions will be published in the workshop proceedings and double-published through the ACL anthology. Timeline: * 23 January, 2023 - first call for participation. Training and validation data released, CodaLab opens for team registrations. * 14 February, 2023 - second call/reminder * 03 March, 2023 10 March, 2023 - system submission deadline (system output) * 10 March, 2023 14 March, 2023 - results announced * 03 April, 2023 - paper submission deadline with system descriptions. We encourage you to share models, code, fact sheets, extra data, etc. with the community through github or other repositories on paper publication. * 21 April, 2023 - paper reviews sent to the authors * 01 May, 2023 - camera-ready deadline * 22 May, 2023 - presentations of the systems at NLP4CALL workshop To register for/express interest in the shared task, please fill in this form <https://forms.gle/DgwTNmTCQhsmrbxq6>. To ask questions and to get important information and updates about the shared task, please join the MultiGED-2023 Google Group <https://groups.google.com/g/multiged-2023>. Official system evaluation will be carried out on CodaLab <https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/9784>. Organizers: * Elena Volodina<https://spraakbanken.gu.se/en/about/staff/elena>, University of Gothenburg, Sweden * Chris Bryant<https://www.cst.cam.ac.uk/people/cjb255>, University of Cambridge, UK * Andrew Caines<https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~apc38/>, University of Cambridge, UK * Orphee De Clercq<https://research.flw.ugent.be/nl/orphee.declercq>, Ghent University, Belgium * Jennifer-Carmen Frey<https://www.eurac.edu/en/people/jennifer-carmen-frey>, EURAC Research, Italy * Elizaveta Ershova, JetBrains, Cyprus * Alexandr Rosen<http://utkl.ff.cuni.cz/~rosen/>, Charles University, Czech Republic * Olga Vinogradova, Independent researcher, Israel Please, feel free to forward this call to those who might be interested. ___________________ Elena Volodina, PhD, Docent https://spraakbanken.gu.se/en/about/staff/elena Life is like a mirror. Smile at it and it smiles back at you. Peace Pilgrim

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Two positions at Bergen (linguistics, psycholinguistics)
by Koenraad de Smedt 21 Feb '23

21 Feb '23

At the University of Bergen, two positions are open: Postdoc in Psycholinguistics (https://www.jobbnorge.no/nn-no/ledige-stillingar/stilling/240671/postdoktor…) PhD in Linguistics (https://www.jobbnorge.no/nn-no/ledige-stillingar/stilling/240695/stipendiat…) The announcements are in Norwegian and English. Best regards, Prof. Koenraad De Smedt

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death announcement - prof. Karel Pala
by Miloš Jakubíček 21 Feb '23

21 Feb '23

Dear colleagues, It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Karel Pala, professor emeritus of our faculty. He passed away on Wednesday morning, February 15, 2023, at the age of 83. Karel was an early corpus-enthusiast who pioneered corpus linguistics in Czechia. His friendly attitude inspired many of us to pursue our careers in this field. This will always be remembered with deep gratitude. Official announcement: https://nlp.fi.muni.cz/en/DeathAnnouncementKarelPala Best regards, Milos Jakubicek Faculty of Informatics Masaryk University Brno, Czechia

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24 February: free corpus online event and tool launch
by Brezina, Vaclav 21 Feb '23

21 Feb '23

Dear all, We've been really encouraged by the overwhelming positive response to the #LancsBox X launch event, which will take place on Friday 24 February 2.00-3.30pm UK time. We will be showcasing a brand new version of #LancsBox X, a powerful tool for the analysis and visualisation of very large corpora: millions and billions of words. The event is organised jointly by The ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (https://cass.lancs.ac.uk), Lancaster University and CLARIN-UK (https://www.clarin.ac.uk). The event will take place online via MS Teams. Attendance in person is also possible. Free registration is still open: https://forms.office.com/e/LBLqyZiqX9 Best, Vaclav Professor Vaclav Brezina Professor in Corpus Linguistics Department of Linguistics and English Language ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Lancaster University Lancaster, LA1 4YD Office: County South, room C05 T: +44 (0)1524 510828 [8ED5AC37]@vaclavbrezina [B213DA5D]<http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/arts-and-social-sciences/about-us/people/vaclav-…>

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[PhD] position at CIS, University of Munich
by hangyav＠cis.lmu.de 21 Feb '23

21 Feb '23

We are looking for a PhD student interested in transfer learning in natural language processing. The candidate will work on the "Transfer Learning for Hate Speech Detection" project which focuses on supporting various hate speech detection scenarios in low-resource setups, such as low-resource languages or domains. The main goal is to leverage already existing resources in order to build high quality models for the target scenarios. Offer We offer employment as a full-time doctoral researcher for three years. Starting date is as soon as possible. The salary amounts to TV-L E13 (roughly 52,000 EUR gross income per year). The position is open until filled. The "Transfer Learning for Hate Speech Detection" project is funded by the German Science Foundation. It is led by Dr. Viktor Hangya in the research group of Prof. Alexander M. Fraser at the Center for Information and Language Processing (CIS), University of Munich (LMU). The group has multiple activities with other groups at CIS, such as the groups led by Prof. Barbara Plank and Prof. Hinrich Schuetze, as well as with the Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML) providing ample opportunities to collaborate with other researchers. Other than the research related to the doctoral program, the candidate is expected to assist in teaching duties, such as giving presentations at student seminars or proposing and leading bachelor and master theses. Qualifications Ideal PhD candidates have a master in computer science, computational linguistics or a related discipline, a strong interest in natural language processing and machine learning, excellent mathematical and programming skills, are team players and fluent in English. Application Please send CV, transcript or records, a copy of your Master's thesis and a motivation letter stating your research interests, as well as two reference letters to hangyav[at]cis.lmu.de, subject: "PhD application". Send all documents as a single PDF, give the PDF a name that includes your name. Diversity LMU is strongly committed to diversity and especially welcomes applications from members of underrepresented groups. Location CIS is located in the city center of Munich near the English Garden, one of the world's largest urban public parks. Munich, the capital of Bavaria, is a vibrant international city with many cultural and recreational offerings, including the nearby Alps.

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[Cfp] Contemporary Trends in English-Language Studies
by Leszek Szymański 21 Feb '23

21 Feb '23

Dear Colleagues, The Institute of Modern Languages at the University of Zielona Góra, Poland, announces a conference titled "Contemporary Trends in English-Language Studies". This year's edition will be held entirely online on May 18-19. More information is available at: https://sites.google.com/view/ctiels/ Thank you! Leszek

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Call for Participation: 4th Slav-NER Shared Task - Named EntitiesinSlavic Languages
by Roman Yangarber 21 Feb '23

21 Feb '23

* Call for Participation * ** ** * The 4thSlav-NER Shared Task: Named Entities in Slavic Languages — Recognition, Normalization, Classification and Cross-Lingual Linking ** co-located with the Slav-NLP <http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/>Workshop, EACL 2023 http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/shared-task.html <http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/shared-task.html> TASK DESCRIPTION: The 4thSlav-NER Shared Task focuses on Named Entities in Slavic languages. Due to rich inflection, free word order, derivation, and other phenomena common to the Slavic languages, work on Named Entities poses important challenges. Fostering research & development on the problems of Named Entities — detecting names, lemmatization (normalization), classification, and cross-lingual matching — is crucial for information access and wider use of NLP in Slavic languages. The 4thSlav-NER Shared Task covers three languages: * Czech, * Polish, * Russian. ** with five types of named entities: ** * persons, * locations, * organizations, * *products* * ***events,*. ** For information about training and test data, and *guidelines* please see Shared Task Home Page. <http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/shared-task.html> ** IMPORTANT: Participants are *NOT* required to perform all tasks or for all languages. For example, a monolingual entry, without lemmatization, can participate. The Shared Task focuses on cross-lingual extraction of named entities — the systems should recognize, classify, and extract the names in a document. Detecting the positionof every name mention is NOT required. Name mentions should be lemmatized, and mentions referring to the same real-world object should be linked across documents and languages. The text collections consist of documents retrieved from the Web, each set about a major /entity or event/. The corpus was collected by crawling the Web and parsing the HTML documents. For background, see the1^st edition (2017) <http://bsnlp-2017.cs.helsinki.fi/shared_task.html>, 2^nd edition (2019) <http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/bsnlp-2019/shared_task.html>and the3^rd edition (2021) <http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/shared-task.html>of this shared task. Participation Participating teams should register via email to: bsnlp(a)cs.helsinki.fiwith the following information: * name of team, * team members, * contact person and *email.* **** Important Dates ** * Shared task announcement: 11 January 2023 ⇒ *Training Data Available* ! * Registration deadline: *06 March 2023* * Release of *Test**Data* to registered participants: 07 March2023 * Submission of system responses: 09 March 2023 * Results announced to participants: 11March 2023 * Submission of shared task papers: 13 March 2023 * Camera-ready shared task papers: 03 April 2023 * * * -- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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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Journal of Language and Aging Research: New journal announcement
by Annette Gerstenberg 20 Feb '23

20 Feb '23

Oh my, don’t talk about aging! — Journal of Language and Aging Research open for submissions What one of our participants said (in French: “ah là là, parlez pas de vieillir,” Ms. Moreau, 85 years old) holds for much of linguistic research: topics addressing the relation of old age and language receive little attention. The newly founded open-access Journal of Language and Aging Research is the first journal to deal with the intersection of two things that are part of our constant, everyday experience: language and aging. The idea for the journal grew out of the CLARe (Corpora for Language and Aging Research) conference series that began in 2014, and which have shown the fruitfulness of sharing research and ideas on this topic in a common venue. Supported by an advisory board of outstanding representatives of a wide range of linguistic fields dealing with related topics, its three editors have developed the journal to provide such a platform. Our website is online <https://deref-1und1-02.de/mail/client/oDQEoGA2o6o/dereferrer/?redirectUrl=h…>, and the first issue will be published in the spring of 2023. Starting now, we are open for submissions <https://deref-1und1-02.de/mail/client/t6wnsjl40iM/dereferrer/?redirectUrl=h…>!

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