International Conference on Human-Informed Translation and Interpreting
Technology (HiT-IT 2023)
Naples, Italy, 7, 8 and 9 July 2023
http://hit-it-conference.org/
Second Call for Papers
The International Conference on Human-Informed Translation and
Interpreting Technology (HiT-IT 2023) will take place in Naples, Italy
between 7 and 9 July 2023. The conference will be preceded by tutorials
on 6 July 2023.
HiT-IT seeks to act as a meeting point for (and invites) researchers
working in translation and interpreting technologies, practicing
technology-minded translators and interpreters, companies and
freelancers providing services in translation and interpreting as well
as companies developing tools for translators and interpreters. In
addition to the accepted papers for presentation, HiT-IT will feature
invited talks by prominent experts as well as presentations and panels
hosted by practitioners.
Most of the existing conferences are either focused too much on the
automatic side of translation or concentrate largely on translators’
and interpreters’ professions. HiT-IT seeks to fill in this gap by
allowing the discussion, the scientific comparison, and the mutual
enrichment of professionals from both fields. HiT-IT 2023 addresses the
development of translation tools and the experience translators and
interpreters have with these tools as well as the development of
machine translation engines, incorporating human (translators and
interpreters’) expertise. The conference also offers a discussion forum
and publishing opportunity for professionals from the human translation
and interpreting fields (e.g. translators including subtitlers,
interpreters, respeakers, researchers in translation and interpreting
studies) and for researchers and developers working on translation and
interpreting technology and machine translation. The idea behind this
conference attendees to hear the other side’s position and to voice
their opinions on how to make translation technologies closer to what
would be accepted by large audiences, by incorporating human expertise
into them.
Conference topics
While we invite papers on the following four main themes, submissions
on any topic related to translation and interpreting technology and
natural language processing for translation and interpreting technology
will be considered. Both theoretical ideas and practical applications
are welcome. Position papers promoting new ideas, challenging the
current status of the fields and proposing how to take them forward are
also encouraged.
User needs:
- analysis of translators’ and interpreters’ needs in terms of
translation and interpreting technology
- user requirements for interpreting and translation tools
- incorporating human knowledge into translation and interpreting
technology
- what existing translators’ (including subtitlers’) and interpreters’
tools do not offer
- user requirements for electronic resources for translators and
interpreters
- translation and interpreting workflows in larger organisations and
the tools for translation and interpreting employed
Existing methods and resources:
- latest developments in translation and interpreting technology
- latest advances in (Neural) Machine Translation
- latest advances in Translation Memory systems- latest advances in
automatic post-editing
- electronic resources for translators and interpreters
- annotation of corpora for translation and interpreting technology
- crowdsourcing techniques for creating resources for translation and
interpreting
- latest advances in pre-editing and post-editing of machine
translation
- human-informed (semi-)automatic generation of interlingual subtitles
- technology for subtitling
- Machine Translation for literary texts
Evaluation:
- (human) evaluation of translation and interpreting technology
- crowdsourcing techniques for evaluating translation and interpreting
- evaluation of discourse and other linguistic phenomena in (machine)
translation and interpreting
- evaluation of existing resources for translators and interpreters
- human evaluation of neural machine translation
- automatic evaluation of neural machine translation
More:
- position papers discussing how machine translation should be improved
to incorporate translators’/interpreters’ expertise
- translation and interpreting technologies’ impact on the market
- comparison between human and machine translation
- changes in the translators and interpreters’ professions in the new
technology era especially as a result of the latest developments in
Neural Machine Translation
Besides the above topics, submissions from industry and practitioners
could discuss: distinctive work experience, ongoing practical work, in-
house procedures or software, in-house processing pipelines, technology
needs, managing a translation (technology) company, interpreters in the
technology era, IP issues or any topic related to their professional
activities in the field of (technology for) translation and
interpreting, etc.
Submissions and publication
The conference invites the following types of submissions reporting
original unpublished work.
- User papers for industry and practitioners ranging between 2 and 4
pages (without references). References to related work are optional.
Academic submissions, in three different categories (have to follow
formatting requirements, references to related work are required):
- (academic) full papers: describing original completed research.
Allowed paper length: maximum 12 pages (without references).
- (academic) work-in-progress papers – describing work in progress,
late breaking research, papers at a more conceptual stage, and other
types of papers that do not fit in the ‘full’ papers category. Allowed
paper length: maximum 7 pages (without references).
- (academic) demo papers - describing working systems. Allowed paper
length: maximum 5 pages (without references). In addition to the
papers, the authors will be expected to demonstrate the systems at the
conference.
The conference will not consider the submission and evaluation of
abstracts only.
Each submission will be reviewed by 3 members of the Programme
Committee. Submission is electronic, using the Softconf START
conference management system. For further instructions please follow
the submission guidelines at the conference
website: http://hit-it-conference.org/
The accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and
made available online on the conference website. Authors of accepted
papers will receive guidelines regarding how to produce camera-ready
versions of their papers.
We plan to invite the authors of the best papers to submit extended
versions to a special issue of a prestigious journal.
IMPORTANT DATES
- Submission deadline: 10 April 2023
- Notification of acceptance: 31 May 2023
- Final version due: 10 June 2023
- Early fee deadline: 20 June 2023
- Conference dates: 7, 8 and 9 July 2023
- Tutorials: 6 July 2023
Keynote speakers
- Jochen Hummel (Coreon)
- Tharindu Ranasinghe (Aston University)
Invited tutorials
- Felix do Carmo (University of Surrey): Neural Machine Translation
Conference Chairs
- Gloria Corpas Pastor (University of Malaga)
- Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton)
- Johanna Monti (University of Naples L’Orientale)
- Constantin Orasan (University of Surrey)
Organising Committee
- Dayana Abuin Rios (University of Malaga)
- Khadija Ait Elqih (University of Naples l’Orientale)
- Anastasia Bezobrazova (University of Malaga)
- Meriem Boulekhoukh (University of Oran)
- Rocío Caro Quintana (University of Wolverhampton)
- Amal El Farhmat (University of Malaga)
- Lilit Kharatian (University of Malaga)
- Alfiya Khabibullina (University of Malaga)
- Nikolai Nikolov (INCOMA Ltd.)
- Daria Sokova (New Bulgarian University)
- Giulia Speranza (University of Naples l’Orientale)
Programme Committee
- Amal Haddad Haddad, University of Granada, Spain
- Anna Dimas Furtado, University of Galway, Ireland
- Eleanor Taylor-Stilgoe, University of Surrey, United Kingdom
- Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski, Saarland University, Germany
- Eva Vanmassenhove, University of Tilburg, Netherlands
- Eleni Zisi, El-translations, Greece
- Eirini Zafeiridou, Welocalize, Greece
- Eithar Alangari, Shaqra University, Saudi Arabia
- Fred Blain, Tilburg University, Netherlands
- Federico Gaspari, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
- Irina Temnikova, Big Data for Smart Society Institute, Bulgaria
- Isabelle Tamba, Romanian Academy, Romania
- Jaleh Delfani, University of Surrey, UK
- Joanna Druggan, Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom
- Marie Escribe, LanguageWire, Spain
- Judyta Mężyk, University of Silesia, Poland
- John Ortega, Northeastern University, United States of America
- Joss Moorkens, Dublin City University, Ireland
- Khetam Al Sharou, Imperial College, United Kingdom
- Lynne Bowker, University of Ottawa, Canada
- Manuel Herranz, Pangeanic, Spain
- Mihaela Vela, Saarland University, Germany
- Maarit Koponen, University of Eastern Finland, Finland
- Maria Pia Di Buono, University of Naples 'L'Orientale', Italy
- Najeh Hajlaoui, European Commission, Belgium
- Núria Molines Galarza, Jaume I University, Spain
- Paola Ruffo, Ghent University, Belgium
- Raquel Lázaro Gutiérrez, University of Alcala, Spain
- Sara Ramos Pinto, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
- Sheila Castilho, Dublin City University, Ireland
- Silvia Bernardini, University of Bologna, Italy
- Tímea Palotai-Torzsás, Juremy, Hungary
- Vilelmini Sosoni, Ionian University, Greece
- William D. Lewis, University of Washington, United States of Americ
- Yves Champollion, Wordfast, France
More Programme Committee members and further invited speakers and
tutorials will be announced in further calls and listed on the
conference’s webpage.
Organisation and sponsors
The forthcoming international conference HiT-It 2023 is jointly
organised by the University of Wolverhampton, the University of Surrey
(United Kingdom), the University of Malaga (Spain), and the University
of Naples L’Orientale, (Italy), and the Association of Computational
Linguistics (Bulgaria).
Pangeanic, El-Translations and Juremy are the official sponsors of the
conference.
Venue
The conference will take place at the Palazzo del Mediterraneo,
University of Naples
Further information and contact details
Registration for HiT-IT 2023 is now open. To register, please complete
the registration form.
The conference website (http://hit-it-conference.org/home) will be
updated on a regular basis. For further information, please email
2023(a)hit-it-conference.org.
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Constantin Orăsan
Professor of Language and Translation Technologies
Centre for Translation Studies | School of Literature and Languages
Personal page: https://dinel.org.uk
Office: 06LC03, Phone: +44 (0) 1483 68 4115
Library and Learning Centre,
University of Surrey,
Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH, UK
# Final Call for Participation
Workshop on Language-Based AI Agent Interaction with Children
https://aichildinteraction.github.io/
February 21st, 2023, in Los Angeles, USA & Virtual (Hybrid Format)
Registration: https://sites.google.com/view/iwsds2023/registration
Virtual participation is free!
Program: https://aichildinteraction.github.io/#schedule
Papers: https://aichildinteraction.github.io/#submission
Keynotes: https://aichildinteraction.github.io/keynotes.html
Contact: https://groups.google.com/g/ai-child-interactions or
aichildinteraction(a)gmail.com
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In this workshop, we aim to bring together researchers looking into
multimodal interactions between children and artificial agents to
discuss research problems that center around interactivity and go beyond
just processing child speech. The first part of the workshop will be
concerned with conversational agents for child learning with four short
presentations followed by a roundtable discussion. After a coffee break,
the workshop will then focus on collecting data and practical and
ethical considerations when building datasets involving children.
We invite all researchers interested in AI-Child Interaction independent
of their background and their previous experience with speech-based
interaction to participate in the workshop.
## Accepted Papers
A list of accepted papers including their PDFs can be found here:
https://aichildinteraction.github.io/#submission
The papers will remain on the website available to everyone even after
the workshop has concluded
## Schedule
An overview of the schedule is available on our website (all times are
PST - UTC-8): https://aichildinteraction.github.io/#schedule
In addition to two keynote presentations, the first by Prof. Khiet
Truong, University of Twente, Netherlands, and the second by Prof.
Shrikanth Narayanan, University of Southern California, USA, and seven
short paper presentations, we will host two roundtable discussion
sessions. These are interactive sessions in which we can dive deeper
into the topics covered by our speakers and we welcome all participants
to contribute with questions and statements.
More information about the keynote speakers and their talks can be found
here: https://aichildinteraction.github.io/keynotes.html
## Registration
If you would like to attend our workshop, please register using the
IWSDS registration website:
https://sites.google.com/view/iwsds2023/registration
There are three types of registration:
(i) If you are already registered for the IWSDS main conference
(in-person or virtual), then your workshop participation is already
covered. There is no need for any extra registration.
(ii) If you would like to attend the workshop in person without
registering for the main conference, please choose "In-Person Workshop
Only" non-student (100 USD) or student (50 USD) options towards the end
of the registration form.
(iii) Virtual registration is completely free of charge! Please use the
same link and select the "Virtual Workshop Only - Non-students and
students" option.
We will send registered participants information about in-person and
virtual participation as well as the Link to the Zoom Webinar the day
before the workshop.
## Contact
If you have questions, please get in touch via our public Google Group
https://groups.google.com/g/ai-child-interactions or by sending an
e-mail to aichildinteraction(a)gmail.com
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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* Joan Bresnan
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SEMANTiCS 2023 is a major venue for research and industrial innovation and
features a workshop and tutorial program addressing the diverse practical
interests of its audience. This program is intended to offer a rich
diversity of topics to conference attendees and local participants seeking
to pick up new skills and stay up-to-date regarding the latest developments
in the community. We encourage submissions of proposals on all topics in
the general areas of SEMANTiCS 2023 and proposals bridging or introducing
new perspectives in these areas. Workshops and tutorials may incorporate
panel discussions, lightning talks, meetings, networking or hands-on
sessions, hackathons and other practical formats where applicable. Rooms
for business or project meetings are available upon request as well.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- Web Semantics & Linked (Open) Data
- Enterprise Knowledge Graphs, Graph Data Management and Deep Semantics
- Machine Learning & Deep Learning Techniques
- Semantic Information Management & Knowledge Integration
- Terminology, Thesaurus & Ontology Management
- Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
- Reasoning, Rules and Policies
- Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics
- Social and Human aspects of Semantic Web
- Data Quality Management and Assurance
- Explainable Artificial Intelligence
- Semantics in Data Science
- Semantics of Blockchain & Distributed Ledger Technologies
- Trust, Data Privacy, and Security with Semantic Technologies
- Economics of Data, Data Services and Data Ecosystems
- Applications of Semantic Web technologies in domains such as law,
medicine, life sciences, digital humanities, mobility and smart cities,
etc.
We especially invite contributions that illustrate the applicability of the
topics mentioned above for industrial purposes and/or illustrate the
business relevance of their contribution for specific industries. Workshop
proposals on *emerging themes* for the topics listed above are encouraged.
Detailed Call for Workshops and Tutorials:
https://2023-eu.semantics.cc/page/cfp_ws
Workshops
Deadline: March 07, 2023 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Notification of acceptance: March 14, 2023 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Tutorials
Deadline: June 06, 2023 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
Notification of acceptance: June 20, 2023 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time)
*Submission via Easychair on https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sem23
<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sem23>*
*We are looking forward to your contribution!*
Jennifer D’Souza, TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and
Technology, Germany
Anisa Rula, University of Brescia, Italy
*Workshop & Tutorial Chairs*
[Apologies for cross-posting]
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First Call for Participation
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*TASK*: Assessing DIScourse COherence in Italian TEXts (DisCoTEX) @
EVALITA 2023
*Info*: https://sites.google.com/view/discotex/home
*Final Workshop*: September 7th-8th, 2023, Parma, Italy
We invite interested parties from academia and industry to participate
in the *DisCoTEX Task*, which will be held in the context of Evalita
2023 <https://www.evalita.it/campaigns/evalita-2023/>.
DisCoTEX is the first shared task focused on modeling discourse
coherence for Italian real-word texts. Coherence is a key property of
any well-organized text and it plays a fundamental role in human
discourse processing as well as in a number of NLP applications.
Inspired by previous literature on coherence modeling, the DisCoTEX task
will be articulated into two subtasks:
1. Last sentence classification: this is conceived as a binary
classification task. Specifically, given a short textual passage and an
individual sentence, participants will be asked to predict whether the
sentence follows or not, thus joining it to the passage gives out a
coherent or incoherent passage.
2. Human score prediction: this is conceived as a regression task in
which participants will be asked to predict the average coherence score
assigned by human raters to short passages (either in their original or
modified version).
Participants are free to participate in either one of them or both.
More details about the definition, source data and evaluation are
available at the task website <https://sites.google.com/view/discotex/home>.
Given the novelty of the task and the crucial role that coherence
modeling plays in a variety of application scenarios, we expect to
attract groups from communities working on distinct fields, such as
automatic essay scoring, readability assessment and document
summarization. Moreover, we hope that beyond the competition, the task
would rise the interest of scholars working on theoretical models of
coherence from a linguistic and a cognitive perspective, as well as
those involved in the interpretability of current language models based
on deep learning networks.
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Important Dates
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7th February 2023: training data available to participants
30th April 2023: registration closes
2nd – 9 May 2023: evaluation windows
30th May 2023: results notification to participants
14th June 2023: technical report from participants due to task organizers
28th June 2023: final reports from task organizers due to EVALITA chairs
10th July 2023: review deadline
25th July 2023: camera ready version deadline
7th-8th September 2023: EVALITA workshop in Parma
Updates will be made available at the Evalita 2023 website, check it often.
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Organizers
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Dominique Brunato*
Davide Colla**
Felice Dell'Orletta*
Irene Dini*
Daniele Paolo Radicioni**
Andrea Amelio Ravelli*
* ItaliaNLP Lab, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "Antonio
Zampolli" (ILC-CNR), Pisa
** Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Torino
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The DisCoTEX organizing committee
Measuring Meanings | Computing Concepts:
Practices of Operationalization and their Implications for Text Studies
All details can also be found here: https://cretaverein.de/mmcc/
Since the work of physicist Percy Bridgman (1927, 5), ›operationalization‹ is used to refer to the practice of determining or measuring concepts by means of a »set of operations«. In Bridgman’s strong variant of operationalization, he regarded the meaning of concepts as synonymous with the operations used to measure it. In Bridgman’s view, such operational definitions are fundamental to all research in physics. The concept of length, for instance, would thus be defined by the operations which are necessary for measuring the length of a physical object. Early on, this position was intensively discussed (cf. Frank 1956), and also criticized for that, in extreme cases, each new measurement method of a concept is equivalent to a new operational definition: »it becomes a tautology that any measurement operation is the correct one for the concept associated with it« (Chang, Cartwright 2008, 367).
Text-oriented DH projects seem to align with a weaker variant of operationalization in that their activities are structured by clearly delineable sub-steps (cf. Pichler, Reiter 2022; Krautter 2022). Thereby, operationalization can both contribute to the definitional refining of (humanities’) concepts, and facilitate opportunities for their empirical examination. The workshop aims to address these questions from scientific, computational, and praxeological perspectives, and thus attempts to provide an overview of the different theoretical positions and practical approaches; in particular with regard to operationalization in the field of digital humanities and digital text analysis. We especially solicit contributions that develop their theoretical reflections by means of concrete data. Please refrain from submitting textual analyses that do not include a theoretical reflection on their operationalization practice.
Guiding questions include, but are not limited to:
• What is referred to as a concept in the text studying fields of the humanities? What is the role of such concepts in theory building?
• What is the function of quantitative, formal or computational analysis in terms of conceptualization in text studying fields?
• How does the practice of operationalization relate to traditional and current approaches to conceptualization in philosophy, e.g., Carnapian explication and conceptual engineering?
• What is the practice of operationalization in text studying fields of the humanities?
• How does operationalization interact with established machine learning workflows? Which understanding of operationalization is inherent in these workflows?
• How does operationalizing engage with interpreting?
• How do we compare and evaluate operationalizations?
• How can we conceptualize the ›agent‹ that conducts the measurement (e.g., computer vs. human)? What impact do different agents and their capacities have on our understanding of operationalization?
• What are the differences between expressing measurement rules in natural (such as annotation guidelines) and formal language in relation to the operationalized concepts? How do these as well as their guiding background assumptions affect our understanding of operationalization?
• Does the advent of large language models (such as BERT and GPT) change our notion of operationalization -- and if so, how?
Submission
We invite the submission of abstracts (1 page) in English on any of the above mentioned or closely related topics. Abstracts should be submitted in PDF format to axel.pichler(a)ts.uni-stuttgart.de; they do not need to be anonymised (non-blind).
Prior to the workshop, the accepted abstracts must be extended into full papers (5000–6000 words), which will be circulated before the workshop. At the workshop, each paper is presented briefly, followed by an in-depth-discussion.
The revised full papers will be published. Further details on publication will follow after acceptance. For the specific deadlines, please see the timeline below.
Timeline
Abstract submission deadline: May 1st, 2023
Notification: May 15 2023
Paper submission: August 31 2023
Workshop: September 25/26 2023
Venue
Cologne
Please contact Axel Pichler (axel.pichler(a)ts.uni-stuttgart.de) for further questions.
Organizers
Axel Pichler, University of Stuttgart
Benjamin Krautter, University of Cologne
Nils Reiter, University of Cologne
References
Bridgman, Percy W.: The Logic of Modern Physics. New York 1927.
Chang, Hasok / Cartwright, Nancy: Measurement. In: The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Science, ed. by Stathis Psillos / Martin Curd. Abingdon, New York 2008, 367–375.
Krautter, Benjamin: Die Operationalisierung als interdisziplinäre Schnittstelle der Digital Humanities. In: Scientia Poetica 26 (2022), S. 215–244.
Pichler, Axel / Reiter, Nils: From Concepts to Texts and Back: Operationalization as a Core Activity of Digital Humanities. In: Journal of Cultural Analytics 7.4 (2022), https://doi.org/10.22148/001c.57195.
Frank, Philipp G. (eds.): The Validation of Scientific Theories. Boston 1956.
There is an open research position on Question Answering over Social Media data for Healthcare Semantic Computing Group [1] at Bielefeld University.
The project funding the position is concerned with automatically extract statements from health fora on the Web about how people managed their disease, what burdens they have, what symptoms affect them and how they cope with them. The goal of the project is to automatically fill questionnaires on the basis of the posts in such fora and compare the results to existing surveys in which the same questions have been directly asked to patients. Methodologically, we intend to push the state-of-the-art in QA while at the same time making a contribution to improving healthcare by discovering unmet needs and priorities of patients.
Position requirements:
- MSc in computational linguistics, NLP
- demonstrated ability to work scientifically (e.g. through Master thesis or publications)
- strong analytical, conceptual and communicative skills
- ability to work in a larger team
- strong programming skills
The following aspects are a plus but not necessary:
- PhD in NLP/computational linguistics
- experience in question answering
- experience in analysing social media data
- experience with applications n the field of healthcare.
The position is available for at least three years starting from May 2023 and is suited both for postdoctoral and PhD researchers. The group offers an intellectually stimulating and international environment with sufficient freedom to pursue own research interests. There is no teaching involved. Knowledge of German is not required.
The application deadline is March 13th. Please send your applications directly to Prof. Dr. Philipp Cimiano at cimiano(a)cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de <mailto:cimiano@cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de>
[1] http://www.sc.cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de/home/ <http://www.sc.cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de/home/>
Prof. Dr. Philipp Cimiano
AG Semantic Computing
Exzellenzcluster für Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC)
Universität Bielefeld
Tel: +49 521 106 12249
Fax: +49 521 106 6560
Mail: cimiano(a)cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de
Office CITEC-2.307
Universitätsstr. 21-25
33615 Bielefeld, NRW
Germany
Language Technologies and Digital Humanities: Resources and Applications (LTаDH-RA)
CLaDA-BG 2023 Conference
https://clada-bg.eu/en/dissemination/events/international-clada-bg-conferen…
Sofia, Bulgaria
10-12 May 2023
CLaDA-BG is the Bulgarian national research infrastructure for resources and technologies for linguistic, cultural and historical heritage, integrated within CLARIN EU and DARIAH EU. Its mission is to provide access to the necessary resources and technologies that would support the research in Social Sciences and Humanities (SS&H). Modeling and linking of various types of knowledge and its contexts is crucial for the successful research in the interdisciplinary field of resources and technologies related to language, culture and history.
This is the second edition of the CLaDA-BG conference. It aims at bringing together NLP developers, linguists, digital humanitarians, scholars and all parties interested in knowledge modeling and linking data for research.
Topics of Interest
The topics include, but are not limited to, the following ones:
Problems in SS&H – research methods, technological support
Language technologies for sentiment analysis, semantic technologies, trust-worthiness of knowledge graphs, ethical challenges in digital SS&H
Knowledge Modeling and Elicitation for digital SS&H
Specific Language Resources and Technologies for historical texts, parliamentary records, speech and multimodal corpora, social media data
The role of digital libraries, archives and museums in digital SS&H research
Language Interface to Knowledge Graphs in SS&H
Knowledge-modeled and linked applications in SS&H
Best practices and new trends in Knowledge Modeling and Linking for language, culture and history
Invited Speakers
Alessandro Lenci, Università di Pisa, Italy
Erhard Hinrichs, Leibniz Institut für Deutsche Sprache Mannheim and Tübingen University, Germany
Milena Dobreva, Sofia University St Kliment Ohridski, Bulgaria
Important Dates
Submission deadline: 24.02.2023
Notification of acceptance: 3.04.2023
Final Submission: 3.05.2023
Conference: 10-12.05.2023
Submissions
We welcome oral presentations or posters (optionally with demo). There are two modes of submissions: Full papers (6 to 12 pages) or extended abstracts (3-5 pages, references excluded) in PDF format, in accordance with the Springer Computer Science Proceedings (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…).
Please submit your full paper or extended abstract in PDF to this EasyChair link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=ltdhra2023
For contacting organizers please use the following email: ltadh-ra(a)bultreebank.org
The CLaDA-BG Organizer
*Apologies for cross-posting*
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Full Title: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Anorexia Nervosa
Short Title: IPAN
Date: May 26th 2023
Location: University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Contact Persons: Gloria Gagliardi; Paola Vernillo
Meeting Email: gloria.gloria(a)unibo.it; paola.vernillo(a)unibo.it
Web Site: https://site.unibo.it/metaphan/it
Research Field(s): Clinical Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Discourse Analysis, Natural Language Processing, Neurolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, Psychology, and Neuropsychiatry.
Call Deadline: 19th March 2023
We are pleased to announce the upcoming International Conference IPAN (“Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Anorexia Nervosa”), to be held at the University of Bologna (Italy) on May 26th, 2023, in hybrid (both in-person and online) format. The conference is centered on the study of AN in its various aspects, but it particularly focuses on its linguistic profile.
Call for Papers:
Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a psychopathological gendered disorder characterized by disturbance in eating behavior, which manifests in the form of dysfunctional routines, such as food deprivation, obsessive weight control, and compulsive physical exercise. Beyond the disordered eating behaviors, AN appears to be also characterized by inflexible thinking, rigid habits, disconnection from the bodily experience, strong sensitivity to praise, anxiety, and perfectionism. Interestingly, from a very linguistic point of view, evidence of the linguistic changes characterizing patients with eating disorders seems to be less clear and the overall picture more blurred.
Despite the fact that in the last decade a growing body of linguistic studies have been devoted to the investigation of linguistic changes in various clinical conditions, only a limited number of works have been specifically conducted on the linguistic profile of patients with eating disorders (ED), and an even smaller number has specifically focused on AN. This has meant that not only many issues are still unsolved, but also that several linguistic aspects of AN happen to be unexplored territory.
“Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Anorexia Nervosa” (IPAN) is a conference aimed at fostering multidisciplinary exchange about research on AN and, more in general, on eating disorders. It invites contributions from all fields related to the study of this subject, including (but not limited to) Linguistics, Psychology, and Neuropsychiatry.
The conference is open for research on various aspect of eating disorders. Topics of interest include the following:
- Linguistic profile of AN: morphosyntactic and lexical markers
- Conceptual representation of AN: abstraction deficits and concretism
- Relationship between altered body image and disordered eating
- NLP detection of online pro-ana and pro-mia communities
- NLP and altered linguistic patterns in AN
- Representation of eating disorders in social media
- Analysis of voice disturbance in patients with eating disorders
This conference aims to provide an excellent opportunity to present and discuss ongoing research on eating disorders, both from theoretical and experimental viewpoints. Since our main aim is to bring together experts on ED/AN from different backgrounds and provide an environment for dialogue, we invite researchers from all related fields to submit abstracts to the conference.
Time and Venue:
Date: May 26th 2023
Venue: Bologna (more information soon)
Invited Speakers:
Laura A. Cariola, The University of Edinburgh
More to be announced…
Abstract Submission
Abstracts should be submitted, in word/rtf format, with your name, affiliation, and e-mail address directly to gloria.g...(a)unibo.it and paola.v...(a)unibo.it. Abstracts should not be longer than 400 words of text (excluding references) and should include up to 5 keywords.
Paper presentations will be allowed 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for discussion and will be in English.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at gloria.gloria(a)unibo.it; paola.vernillo(a)unibo.it
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Important Dates and Key Information
Abstract submission opens: February 6th 2023
Abstract submission deadline: March 19th 2023
Registration: Participation at the conference is free of charge, but registration is compulsory.
Scientific Committee:
Marianna Bolognesi
Vittoria Cuteri
Gloria Gagliardi
Caterina Mauri
Antonia Parmeggiani
Jacopo Pruccoli
Paola Vernillo
Local Organizers:
Gloria Gagliardi
Paola Vernillo