March 2023 - Corpora

*SEM 2023: Deadline extension and final CFP
by Alexis Palmer 18 Mar '23

18 Mar '23

*SEM 2023 Final Call for Papers (https://sites.google.com/view/starsem2023) Deadline extension: March 18 → March 24, 2023! *SEM brings together researchers interested in the semantics of natural languages and its computational modeling. The conference embraces data-driven, neural, and probabilistic approaches, as well as symbolic approaches and everything in between; practical applications and resources as well as theoretical contributions are welcome. The long-term goal of *SEM is to provide a stable forum for the growing number of NLP researchers working on all aspects of semantics of (many and diverse!) natural languages. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Lexical semantics and word representations * Compositional semantics and sentence representations * Statistical, machine learning and deep learning methods for semantics * Multilingual and cross-lingual semantics * Word sense disambiguation and induction * Semantic parsing; syntax-semantics interface * Frame semantics and semantic role labeling * Textual inference, entailment and question answering * Formal approaches to semantics * Extraction of events and causal and temporal relations * Entity linking; pronouns and coreference * Discourse, pragmatics, and dialogue * Machine reading * Extra-propositional aspects of meaning * Multiword and idiomatic expressions * Metaphor, irony, and humor * Knowledge mining and acquisition * Common sense reasoning * Language generation * Semantics in NLP applications: sentiment analysis, abusive language detection, summarization, fact-checking, etc. * Multidisciplinary research on semantics * Grounding and multimodal semantics * Human semantic processing * Semantic annotation, evaluation, and resources * Semantics for low-resource and * Ethical aspects and bias in semantic representations We encourage authors to think about the ethical aspects of their work, and to address and discuss all ethical questions and implications relevant to their research. STARSEM values reproducibility and particularly welcomes submissions that adhere to the reproducibility guidelines as specified here<https://folk.idi.ntnu.no/odderik/reproducibility_guidelines.pdf>. Important dates Paper submission deadline: 24 March 2023, AoE (extended!) Commitment deadline for ARR-reviewed papers: 17 April 2023, AoE Notification of acceptance: 15 May 2023 Camera-ready deadline: 29 May 2023, AoE STARSEM conference: 13-14 July 2023 (co-located with ACL 2023) Submission instructions Submissions must describe unpublished work and be written in English. We solicit both long and short papers. Please note that double submission of papers will need to be notified at submission. Long papers describe original research and may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references. Final versions of long papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account. Short papers describe original focused research and may consist of up to four (4) pages, plus unlimited pages for references. Upon acceptance, short papers will be given five (5) content pages in the proceedings. Authors are encouraged to use this additional page to address reviewers comments in their final versions. Submissions should follow the ACL 2023 formatting requirements<https://2023.aclweb.org/calls/style_and_formatting/>. ACL Rolling Review (ARR) submissions can be committed to *SEM up to April 16th (OpenReview link to commit TBA), but new submissions need to be submitted through softconf by the March 18 deadline and will be reviewed by the *SEM-2023 program committee. Limitations and Ethics Statement sections after the conclusion (not counting towards the overall page limit) are allowed and encouraged, but they are not mandatory. In *SEM there is no special policy against multiple submissions, but this should be indicated at submission time. Submission link: https://softconf.com/acl2023/StarSEM2023 Organisers General Chair: Mohammad Taher Pilehvar, Tehran Institute for Advanced Studies Program Chairs: Jose Camacho-Collados, Cardiff University Alexis Palmer, University of Colorado Boulder Anonymity period To protect the integrity of double-blind review and ensure that submissions are reviewed fairly, we adopt the rules and guidelines for ACL conferences. The following rules and guidelines make reference to the anonymity period, which runs from 1 month before the submission deadline (starting February 18, 2023 11:59PM UTC-12:00) up to the date when your paper is either accepted, rejected (May 12, 2023), or withdrawn. * You may not make a non-anonymized version of your paper available online to the general community (for example, via a preprint server) during the anonymity period. By a version of a paper we understand another paper having essentially the same scientific content but possibly differing in minor details (including title and structure) and/or in length (e.g., an abstract is a version of the paper that it summarizes). * If you have posted a non-anonymized version of your paper online before the start of the anonymity period, you may submit an anonymized version to the conference. The submitted version must not refer to the non-anonymized version, and you must inform the program chair(s) that a non-anonymized version exists. * You may not update the non-anonymized version during the anonymity period, and we ask you not to advertise it on social media or take other actions that would further compromise double-blind reviewing during the anonymity period. * Note that, while you are not prohibited from making a non-anonymous version available online before the start of the anonymity period, this does make double-blind reviewing more difficult to maintain, and we therefore encourage you to wait until the end of the anonymity period if possible. Alternatively, you may consider submitting your work to the Computational Linguistics journal, which does not require anonymization and has a track for “short” (i.e., conference-length) papers. Website Further information can be found online at: https://sites.google.com/view/starsem2023 Alexis Palmer Assistant Professor Department of Linguistics University of Colorado Boulder alexis.palmer(a)colorado.edu<mailto:alexis.palmer@colorado.edu> 303-735-0418

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Second Call: Shared Task @ACL on Empathy Emotion, and Personality Detection in Interactions within WASSA
by valbarrierepro＠gmail.com 18 Mar '23

18 Mar '23

We invite you to participate in the shared task on Empathy Emotion and Personality Detection in Interactions, organized as part of WASSA 2023 at ACL 2023. This task aims to develop models that can predict Empathy, Emotion, Personnality recognition in short text and at the speech-turn in a conversation. **Task Description** We have a new task this year, with conversational data! You can participate in five different tracks: Track 1: Empathy and Emotion Prediction in Conversations (CONV), which consists in predicting the perceived empathy, emotion polarity and emotion intensity at the speech-turn-level in a conversation Track 2: Empathy Prediction (EMP), which consists in predicting both the empathic concern and the personal distress at the essay-level Track 3: Emotion Classification (EMO), which consists in predicting the emotion at the essay-level, in a multi-label way Track 4: Personality Prediction (PER), which consists in predicting the personality (Big Five) of the essay writer, knowing all his/her essays and the news article from which they reacted Track 5: Interpersonal Reactivity Index Prediction (IRI), which consists in predicting the IRI of the essay writer, knowing all his/her essays and the news article from which they reacted Note: You are free to participate in any or both tracks. For participation, please check: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/11167 **Important Dates** February 28th, 2023: Initial training data release February 28th, 2023: Codalab competition website goes online, and development data released April 15th, 2023: Evaluation phase begins: development labels test data released April 18th, 2023: Deadline submission of final result on Codalab April 24th, 2023: Deadline system description paper (max. 4p) May 22nd, 2023: Notification of acceptance June 6th, 2023: Camera-ready papers due **Task Organizers** Valentin Barriere - Centro Nacional de Inteligencia Artificial , Chile Salvatore Giorgi - University of Pennsylvania, USA Joao Sedoc - New York University, USA Shabnam Tafreshi - ARLIS, Univeristy of Maryland, USA **Contact** wassa23empathy [at] gmail [dot] com **Join Google Group** wassa23empathy(a)googlegroups.com

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EACL 2023 News
by Joel Tetreault 17 Mar '23

17 Mar '23

Hello! It's been a relatively quiet time in NLP this week, hence why we're happy to make this big announcement: registration for EACL 2023 <https://2023.eacl.org/> is now open! acl.swoogo.com/EACL2023 <https://t.co/0RZkSFig3G> For accommodations, a block of rooms has been reserved at a discounted rate. Kindly reserve your room by April 18, 2023, while supplies last. More information can be found here: 2023.eacl.org/venue <https://t.co/SHlKkKdeg0> And that's not all! We've just released the general conference schedule here: 2023.eacl.org/program/main/ <https://t.co/o4REIe3A8O> where you can find the workshop schedule, tutorial schedule, and the list of accepted main conference papers and findings papers. I'm not finished. EACL 2023 is proud to announce three inspiring speakers to anchor our already great program: https://2023.eacl.org/program/invited/ * Edward Grefenstette (Cohere) * Kevin Munger (Penn State University) * Joyce Chai (University of Michigan) How to see you in two months!

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Rome Technopole - 11 Fully Founded Ph.D. positions in University of Rome Tor Vergata
by fabio.massimo.zanzotto＠uniroma2.it 17 Mar '23

17 Mar '23

A stunning opportunity to study Artificial Intelligence in Rome! Several open opportunities (11 positions). Deadline: 31/03/2023 11:59 AM CEST <https://dottorati.uniroma2.it/news.aspx?id_news=49> Call (in Italian) Apply <https://gestione.dottorati.uniroma2.it/application/default.aspx> here Highlighted Positions for the Ph.D. in Data Science <https://datasciencephd.uniroma2.it/> at University of Rome Tor Vergata: [1] a position with Prof. Roberto Basili (more info from basili(a)info.uniroma2.it <mailto:basili@info.uniroma2.it> ) Theme: "Entity Recognition, reconciliation for touristic forecasting and cultural heritage services based on neural language learning" [2] a position with Prof. Armando Stellato (more info from stellato(a)uniroma2.it <mailto:stellato@uniroma2.it> ) Theme: Knowledge Engineering for Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) [3] a position with Prof. Fabio Massimo Zanzotto (more info from fabio.massimo.zanzotto(a)uniroma2.it <mailto:fabio.massimo.zanzotto@uniroma2.it> ) Theme: Privacy in Pre-Trained Language Models: Data leakage from pre[1]trained transformers READ CAREFULLY If you what to have full consideration for position [3], please, produce a produce a 2-page report for this paper: <https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.05798> The Dual Form of Neural Networks Revisited: Connecting Test Time Predictions to Training Patterns via Spotlights of Attention and connect it with the paper: <https://www.jair.org/index.php/jair/article/view/11345/26472> View of Viewpoint: Human-in-the-loop Artificial Intelligence (jair.org) Then, send the 2-page report to me (fabio.massimo.zanzotto(a)uniroma2.it <mailto:fabio.massimo.zanzotto@uniroma2.it> ) with an e-mail Subject: Rome Technopole Privacy in Pre-trained Transformers

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PhD Position in Conversational AI / NLP in St. Gallen, Switzerland
by Siegfried Handschuh 17 Mar '23

17 Mar '23

The Chair of Data Science and Natural Language Processing (Prof. Siegfried Handschuh) invites applications for a PhD position as part of the recently granted Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) research project "Conversational AI: Dialogue-based Adaptive Argumentative Writing Support". You will contribute to its successful implementation, as well as the chair's varied activities in teaching and outreach. Our research at the Data Science and NLP Chair at ICS-HSG focuses on the cutting-edge field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Natural Language Understanding (NLU). Our group delves into various aspects, including conversational AI, Large Language Models (LLM), intricate language analysis, Knowledge Graphs and more. Utilising sophisticated methods and algorithms, we aim to extract deeper knowledge and understanding from vast amounts of textual and auditory data. Our research not only delves into the core principles of NLP but also explores its practical applications across various industries. Details of the post and how to apply: https://bit.ly/phd_conversational_ai -- Prof. Dr. Siegfried Handschuh Full Professor of Data Science and Natural Language Processing Director, Institute of Computer Science University of St.Gallen E-mail: siegfried.handschuh(a)unisg.ch

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Post-doc position in archive digital valorization (computer science & digital humanities)
by pat 17 Mar '23

17 Mar '23

*Job offer summary* In the context of the BELSPO FED-tWIN <https://www.belspo.be/belspo/research/FEDtWIN_en.stm> research program (ARKEY funded proposal), the MiiL <https://uclouvain.be/en/research-institutes/ilc/miil> (Media Innovation and Intelligibility Lab from UCLouvain <https://uclouvain.be/en/index.html>, Belgium) and the States Archives of Belgium <https://www.arch.be/index.php?l=en> (SAB) are looking for a *post-doc researcher in computer science or digital humanities*, with a significant experience in the automatic processing of digital documents involving both text and images. The proposed contract is an *open-ended FTE contract* (50% UCLouvain, 50% SAB). The funding is guaranteed over a period of 10 years, with the intention of securing the position. The main objective of this ARKEY research profile will be to improve the *digital valorization of archive collections through long-term tools*. It involves *(1)* the research and development of an enhanced access key to digitized content (through text and layout recognition, and enriched digital archival representation), and *(2)* the improvement of the navigation experience within archive collections. It builds on the expertise of a *multidisciplinary team* from SAB and from several research groups within UCLouvain (MiiL <https://uclouvain.be/en/research-institutes/ilc/miil>, Cental <https://uclouvain.be/fr/instituts-recherche/ilc/cental>, ARCH <https://uclouvain.be/fr/decouvrir/archives>, and GEMCA <https://uclouvain.be/fr/instituts-recherche/incal/gemca>). ARKEY aims to bring added value for society and public service, by improving the accessibility and intelligibility of archives: a priority for many researchers and a foundation of democratic states. The complete offer is available here <https://uclouvain.be/en/research-institutes/ilc/miil/jobs.html>. Application should be sent to Antonin Descampe ( antonin.descampe(a)uclouvain.be) and Eddy Put (eddy.put(a)arch.be) as soon as possible and *no later than May 1st, 2023*. *Résumé de l’offre* Dans le cadre du programme de recherche BELSPO FED-tWIN <https://www.belspo.be/belspo/research/FEDtWIN_fr.stm> (proposition financée « ARKEY »), le MiiL <https://uclouvain.be/fr/instituts-recherche/ilc/miil> (Media Innovation and Intelligibility Lab de l'UCLouvain <https://uclouvain.be/fr/index.html>, Belgique) et les Archives de l’Etat en Belgique <https://www.arch.be/index.php?l=fr> (AGR) recherchent un *post-doctorant en informatique ou en humanités numériques*, avec une expérience importante dans le le traitement automatique de documents numériques impliquant à la fois du texte et des images. Le contrat proposé est un *contrat à temps plein à durée indéterminée* (50% UCLouvain, 50% AGR). Le financement est garanti sur 10 ans, avec un intention de pérennisation du poste. L'objectif principal de ce profil de recherche ARKEY sera d’*optimiser la valorisation numérique des collections d'archives grâce à des outils informatiques pérennes*. Il propose *(1) *la recherche et le développement de moyens d'accès enrichis au contenu numérisé (grâce à la reconnaissance de texte et de structure, ainsi qu’à une représentation enrichie des archives), et *(2)* l'amélioration de l'expérience de navigation au sein des collections d'archives. Il s'appuie sur l'expertise d'une *équipe pluridisciplinaire* des AGR et de plusieurs groupes de recherche au sein de l'UCLouvain (MiiL <https://uclouvain.be/fr/instituts-recherche/ilc/miil>, Cental <https://uclouvain.be/fr/instituts-recherche/ilc/cental>, ARCH <https://uclouvain.be/fr/decouvrir/archives> et GEMCA <https://uclouvain.be/fr/instituts-recherche/incal/gemca>). ARKEY vise à apporter une valeur ajoutée pour la société et le service public en améliorant l'accessibilité et l'intelligibilité des archives : une priorité pour de nombreux chercheurs et chercheuses, et un fondement des États démocratiques. L'offre complète est également disponible ici <https://uclouvain.be/fr/instituts-recherche/ilc/miil/offres-d-emploi.html>. Les candidatures doivent être envoyées à Antonin Descampe ( antonin.descampe(a)uclouvain.be) et Eddy Put (eddy.put(a)arch.be) dès que possible et *au plus tard le* *1er mai 2023*.

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Tenure-track Assistant Professor or Associate Professor in computational cognitive modelling and natural language processing - closing date for applications is 23:59 CET, 20 March 2023
by Costanza Navarretta 17 Mar '23

17 Mar '23

*** With apologies for multiple postings *** Tenure-track Assistant Professor or Associate Professor in computational cognitive modelling and natural language processing The Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark, invites applications for a tenure-track assistant/associate professorship in computational cognitive modelling and natural language processing to be filled by August 1, 2023 or as soon as possible thereafter. Job content The successful candidate will engage in cutting-edge research in computational cognitive modelling in collaboration with the CST researchers and is expected to contribute actively to the Centre's research environment, see also: Research - University of Copenhagen (ku.dk)<https://cst.ku.dk/english/research/> The ideal candidate will have expertise in working with neurocognitive methods such as eye-tracking or EEG; they will have worked with computational modelling, preferably of language phenomena; they will have active knowledge of machine learning and deep modelling techniques. The candidate will also be expected to strengthen the Centre's project portfolio by applying for external funding, in particular to support projects at the interface between computational cognitive modelling and NLP. The candidate will also contribute with teaching to the MSc in IT and Cognition, more specifically to the Cognitive Science courses, as well as supervise master's dissertations. More detail on the programme as a whole and the individual study units are provided at: Master of Science (MSc) in IT and Cognition - University of Copenhagen (ku.dk)<https://studies.ku.dk/masters/it-and-cognition/> The closing date for applications is 23:59 CET, 20 March 2023 Applications or supplementary material received thereafter will not be considered. More information about the qualification requirements and the application procedure can be found on the following link: https://jobportal.ku.dk/tenure-track/?show=158556 Costanza Navarretta PhD, senior researcher/assoc.professor Centre for Language Technology Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics University of Copenhagen DIR +45 35329079 costanza(a)hum.ku.dk<mailto:costanza@hum.ku.dk>

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First Call for Participation: AmericasNLP 2023 Shared Task on Machine Translation into Indigenous Languages
by Katharina Kann 17 Mar '23

17 Mar '23

AmericasNLP 2023 Shared Task on Machine Translation into Indigenous Languages First Call for Participation The AmericasNLP 2023 Shared Task on Machine Translation into Indigenous Languages <https://turing.iimas.unam.mx/americasnlp/2023_st.html> is a competition aimed at encouraging the development of machine translation (MT) systems for Indigenous languages of the Americas. Participants will build systems that translate between Spanish and an Indigenous language. Systems submitted to the shared task will be presented at the Third Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP) on July 14, 2023, which will be co-located with the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2023), which will be held in Toronto, Canada. Why? Many of the Indigenous languages of the Americas are so-called low-resource languages: parallel data with other languages as needed to train MT systems is limited. This means that many approaches designed for translating between high-resource languages, such as English and Chinese, are not directly applicable or perform poorly. Additionally, many Indigenous languages exhibit linguistic properties uncommon among languages frequently studied in natural language processing (NLP). For instance, many are polysynthetic. This constitutes an additional difficulty. The goal of AmericasNLP is to motivate researchers to take on the challenge of developing MT systems for Indigenous languages. How? AmericasNLP invites the submission of MT results obtained by systems built for Indigenous languages. Participants can use the training and development data we provide, but there are no limits on what participants can use. If participants want to translate additional data to improve their systems, that's great! If they want to use pretrained models, that's great, too! The only limitation is that we ask participants to not have the test input translated by hand or train on the development or test sets. The main metric of the shared task is ChrF++ (Popović, 2017). Participants can enter the competition with as many language pairs as they like, and systems for every language pair will be evaluated separately. We provide an evaluation script and a baseline MT system to help participants get started quickly. If you are interested in this shared task, please register here <https://forms.gle/ZMVWCxoFunHF3bjNA>. Which languages? The following language pairs are featured in the AmericasNLP 2023 shared task: - Hñähñu–Spanish - Wixarika–Spanish - Nahuatl–Spanish - Guaraní–Spanish - Bribri–Spanish - Rarámuri–Spanish - Quechua–Spanish - Aymara–Spanish - Shipibo-Konibo–Spanish - Asháninka–Spanish - 👻Surprise language👻–Spanish Spanish is always the target language: systems are evaluated on translating from an Indigenous language into Spanish. Important Dates - Release of initial languages and evaluation script: March 16, 2023 - Release of baseline system and baseline results: March 20, 2023 - Release of surprise language data: April 21, 2023 - Submission of translations (shared task deadline): May 07, 2023 - Announcements of results: May 09, 2023 - Submission of system description papers: May 16, 2023 - Notification of acceptance: May 20, 2023 - Camera-ready papers due: May 26, 2023 - Workshop: July 14, 2023 All deadlines are 11:59 pm UTC -12h (AoE). Organizers Abteen Ebrahimi, Manuel Mager, Arturo Oncevay, Enora Rice, John Ortega, Shruti Rijhwani, Ivan Vladimir Meza Ruiz, Alexis Palmer, Katharina Kann Contact: americas.nlp.workshop(a)gmail.com Website: https://turing.iimas.unam.mx/americasnlp/2023_st.html -- Dr. Katharina Kann Assistant Professor of Computer Science University of Colorado Boulder Personal page: https://kelina.github.io Group page: https://nala-cub.github.io

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Second Call for Task Participation: WASSA 2023 Shared Second Call - Task on Emotion Classification on Code-Mixed Text Messages within ACL 2023
by Iqra Ameer 16 Mar '23

16 Mar '23

We invite you to participate in the shared task on Multi-Label and Multi-Class Emotion Classification on Code-Mixed Text Messages, organized as part of WASSA 2023 <https://wassa-workshop.github.io/>at ACL 2023 <https://2023.aclweb.org/>. This task aims to develop models that can predict emotion based on code-mixed (Roman Urdu and English) text messages. *Task Description* The shared task has two Tracks: *Track 1 - Multi-Label Emotion Classification (MLEC):* Given a code-mixed SMS message, classify it as 'neutral or no emotion' or as one, or more, of eleven given emotions that best represent the mental state of the author. *Track 2 - Multi-Class Emotion Classification (MCEC):* Given a code-mixed SMS message, classify it as 'neutral or no emotion' or as one of eleven given emotions that best represent the mental state of the author. *Note: *You are free to participate in any or both tracks. *For participation, please check:* https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/10864 *Important Dates* - February 28th, 2023: Initial training data release - February 28th, 2023: Codalab competition website goes online, and development data released - April 15th, 2023: Evaluation phase begins: development labels test data released - April 18th, 2023: Deadline submission of final result on Codalab - April 24th, 2023: Deadline system description paper (max. 4p) - May 22nd, 2023: Notification of acceptance - June 6th, 2023: Camera-ready papers due *Task Organizers* - Iqra Ameer - School of Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas, Health Science Center Houston, USA - ‪Necva Bölücü - Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia - Ali Al Bataineh - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Norwich University, USA - Hua Xu - Section of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science, School of Medicine, Yale University, USA *Contact* wassa23codemixed [at] gmail [dot] com *Join Google Group* wassa23codemixed(a)googlegroups.com -- *Regards,* Dr. Iqra Ameer (Ph.D.)

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Call for Papers: 'TwinTalks 4: Understanding and Facilitating Remote Collaboration in DH' at DH2023
by Gorgaini, E. (Elisa) 16 Mar '23

16 Mar '23

Call for Papers: 'TwinTalks 4: Understanding and Facilitating Remote Collaboration in DH' The workshop is a joint initiative by the European Social Sciences and Humanities Research Infrastructures CLARIN <http://www.clarin.eu> and DARIAH<https://www.dariah.eu/> and it will be organised as part of the DH 2023 Collaboration and Opportunity Conference<https://dh2023.adho.org/> that will take place on July 10-14 in Graz, Austria. Dates and Location Main conference: 10-14 July, Messe Congress Graz convention centre<http://www.mcg.at/messegraz.at/en/locations/messecongress-graz/veranstalter…> TwinTalks workshop: 10 July, 9:00 - 12:30, University of Graz<https://www.uni-graz.at/en/> ________________________________ Important Dates * 15 March 2023: Call for Papers * 15 May 2023: Submission deadline * 15 June 2023: Notification of acceptance * 30 June 2023: Deadline for the final version of extended abstracts * 10 July 2023 (9:00 - 12:30): Workshop ________________________________ Workshop Aims The main objective of the workshop is to develop a better understanding of the dynamics on the Digital Humanities work floor when researchers, teachers and/or professionals with different – but often overlapping – areas of competence engage in remote collaboration to solve humanities research questions, and to explore how education and training of humanities scholars, cultural heritage professionals and technical experts can help to make remote collaboration across disciplines more efficient and effective, more creative and innovative, and more inclusive and rewarding for all participants. To this end, we invite submissions reporting on all aspects and stages of engaging in remote collaborative research and teaching in DH, including the obstacles encountered and solutions found. We also welcome position papers on the role of research infrastructures in facilitating remote collaboration in DH. The insights gained should help those involved in the education of humanities scholars, professionals and technical experts alike to develop better training programmes, tailored towards the needs of a diverse group of potential learners. The workshop is a follow-up of three previous successful TwinTalks workshops that have taken place at various DH conferences from 2019 onwards (TwinTalks 1 proceedings<https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2365/>; TwinTalks 1 blog<http://www.parthenos-project.eu/clarin-and-parthenos-twintalks>; TwinTalks 2+3 proceedings<https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2717/>). ________________________________ Audience Researchers, cultural heritage professionals, educators, scientific programmers, research infrastructure operators and policy-makers with a special interest in creating the conditions where people with humanities research skills and technical expertise (or both) can fruitfully collaborate in answering humanities research questions remotely. ________________________________ Workshop Format The programme starts with an invited talk by a prominent speaker, which will set the scene for the rest of the day. The main component of the workshop programme consists of two types of (submitted) talks: * Twin talks, i.e. talks presented by pairs or teams consisting of someone rooted primarily in humanities research (with a humanities research problem, i.e. not a technical problem or tool), someone with a background in a totally different discipline (e.g. technical) who has contributed their specific capabilities to arrive at the answers, and/or a cultural heritage professional whose collection knowledge has contributed to the development of the research corpus. Talks will usually consist of three parts, followed by questions from the audience: In the first part, the humanities research question is the point of focus, while in the second part, it is shown how the joint effort resulted in an answer to the respective question. In the third part, these perspectives come together, as the team describes how the remote collaboration went, including obstacles that were encountered, and how better training and education could help to make remote collaboration more efficient and effective. * Teach talks by people with experience with or interesting ideas about how remote cross-discipline collaboration is or can be addressed in curricula or other training activities. ________________________________ Submissions The language of the workshop is English. What we expect from the submissions for the Twin Talks track: * They are authored and presented by one or more humanities scholars and one or more digital experts * They start from a humanities research question (i.e. not a technical question, a presentation of a tool, a platform or a data collection) * They describe the remote research carried out jointly and its results * They describe the technical aspects of the methods used and the results obtained * They analyse the way the scholars and the technicians collaborated remotely, addressing issues such as (but not limited to): * What was easy and what was difficult, and why? * How did the researchers, technicians or cultural heritage professionals change each other’s way of looking at things? * Did they, for instance, make each other aware of blind spots they had? * Did the combination of thinking from a DH research question and thinking from a technical solution lead to new insights? * How could better training or education of scholars and digital experts make remote collaboration easier, more effective and more efficient? With regards to the TeachTalks track, one single author and presenter is sufficient. Of course, multi-author papers are equally welcome. Submission instructions * Format: PDF. For format instructions, see http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip * Size: Extended abstracts, size ca 4-8 pages (between 2000-4000 words), covering research questions and answers, technical aspects and collaboration experience for Twin Talks, or relevant educational experience for Teach Talks. * Publication: The workshop proceedings will be published at CEUR-WS<https://ceur-ws.org/>. * Submission URL: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=twintalksdh2023 Workshop Programme Committee * Bente Maegaard (CLARIN ERIC / University of Copenhagen, Denmark) * Barbara McGillivray (King's College London & The Alan Turing Institute, UK) * Benjamin Wiggins (University of Manchester, UK) * Eleni Gouli (Academy of Athens, Greece) * Francesca Frontini (CNR, Italy & CLARIN ERIC) * Frank Uiterwaal (EHRI / NIOD / KNAW, Netherlands) * Folgert Karsdorp (Meertens Institute, KNAW, Netherlands) * Geoffrey Rockwell (University of Alberta, Canada) * Hitoshi Isahara (Center for IT-Based Education, Japan) * Jennifer Edmond (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) * Koenraad De Smedt (CLARINO, University of Bergen, Norway) * Maria Gavrilidou (Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Athens, Greece) * Menno Van Zaanen (South African Centre for Digital Language Resources, South Africa) * Milena Dobreva (Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Bulgaria) * Mikko Tolonen (University of Helsinki, Finland) * Radim Hladik (Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic) * Ulrike Wuttke (University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, Germany) * Vicky Garnett (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) ________________________________ Chairs and Organisers The workshop is a joint initiative by European SSH Research Infrastructures CLARIN (http://www.clarin.eu<http://www.clarin.eu/>) and DARIAH (https://www.dariah.eu/). * Steven Krauwer (CLARIN ERIC / Utrecht University, Netherlands) * Darja Fišer (CLARIN ERIC / Institute of Contemporary History, Slovenia) * Iulianna van der Lek-Ciudin (CLARIN ERIC, Netherlands) * Sally Chambers (DARIAH-EU / Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities, Belgium) * Agiatis Benardou (DARIAH-EU / Digital Curation Unit, ATHENA R.C., Athens, Greece) ________________________________ Contact Information For any questions, please contact Iulianna van der Lek at events(a)clarin.eu<https://mailto:events@clarin.eu>. — Elisa Gorgaini CLARIN ERIC External Relation Officer elisa(a)clarin.eu +31648213015 www.clarin.eu

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