March 2023 - Corpora

Re: LITHME WG1 TECH TALKS: "With a little help from NLP", R. Mitkov. 17.03.2023
by Fred Blain 15 Mar '23

15 Mar '23

________________________________ From: Rui Sousa Silva via Corpora <corpora(a)list.elra.info> Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2023 12:29:12 PM To: corpora(a)list.elra.info <corpora(a)list.elra.info> Subject: [Corpora-List] LITHME WG1 TECH TALKS: "With a little help from NLP", R. Mitkov. 17.03.2023 *** APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTINGS *** Dear all, The chairs of LITHME Working Group 1 - Computational Linguistics are pleased to invite you to our forthcoming online talk, ' With a little help from NLP: My Language Technology applications with impact on society(and my thoughts on the future of NLP) ', by Ruslan Mitkov. The talk will present original methodologies developed by the speaker, underpinning implemented Language Technology tools which are already having an impact on the following areas of society: e-learning, translation and interpreting and care for people with language disabilities. The first part of the presentation will introduce an original methodology and tool for generating multiple-choice tests from electronic textbooks. The application draws on a variety of Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques which include term extraction, semantic computing and sentence transformation. The presentation will include an evaluation of the tool which demonstrates that generation of multiple-choice tests items with the help of this tool is almost four times faster than manual construction and the quality of the test items is not compromised. This application benefits e-learning users (both teachers and students) and is an example of how NLP can have a positive societal impact, in which the speaker passionately believes. The latest version of the system based on deep learning techniques will also be briefly introduced. The talk will go on to discuss two other original recent projects which are also related to the application of NLP beyond academia. First, a project, whose objective is to develop next-generation translation memory tools for translators and, in the near future, for interpreters, will be briefly presented. Finally, a project will be outlined which focuses on helping users with autism to read and better understand texts. The speaker will put forward ideas as to what we can do next. The presentation will finish with a brief outline of the latest (and forthcoming) research topics (to be) which the speaker plans to pursue and his vision on the future NLP applications. In particular, he will share his views as to how NLP will develop and what should be done for NLP to be more successful, more inclusive and more ethical. You can find a bio note of Ruslan Mitkov below. Since this talk might be of interest to other LITHME members, we took the liberty of sharing it with the whole network. The talk will take place on Friday, 17 March, at 13:00 (CET), via Zoom. Attendance, as usual, is free, but you will need to register in advance by clicking: https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwrcO2urz0qHt3aELxrDnw_… We look forward to seeing you online on 17 March. All best Rui & Henrique Ruslan Mitkov - Bionote Prof Dr Ruslan Mitkov has been working in Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computational Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Machine Translation, Translation Technology and related areas since the early 1980s. Whereas Prof Mitkov is best known for his seminal contributions to the areas of anaphora resolution and automatic generation of multiple-choice tests, his extensively cited research (more than 270 publications including 20 books, 35 journal articles and 40 book chapters) also covers topics such as deep learning for NLP, machine translation, translation memory and translation technology in general, bilingual term extraction, automatic identification of cognates and false friends, natural language generation, automatic summarisation, computer-aided language processing, centering, evaluation, corpus annotation, NLP-driven corpus-based study of translation universals, text simplification, NLP for people with language disorders and computational phraseology. In addition, Ruslan Mitkov is well known for his vision in research based on innovative ideas and drive towards research output which seeks to enhance the work efficiency of different professions (e.g. for teachers, translators and interpreters) or seeks to improve the quality of life (e.g. for people with language disabilities) and which has significant impact beyond academia. Mitkov is author of the monograph Anaphora resolution (Longman) and Editor of the most successful Oxford University Press Handbook - The Oxford Handbook of Computational Linguistics whose second and substantially revised edition was published in June 2022. Current prestigious projects include his role as Executive Editor of the Journal of Natural Language Engineering published by Cambridge University Press and Editor-in-Chief of the Natural Language Processing book series of John Benjamins publishers. Dr Mitkov is also working on the forthcoming Oxford Dictionary of Computational Linguistics (Oxford University Press, co-authored with Patrick Hanks) and the Oxford Handbook of Phraseology Linguistics (Oxford University Press, co-authored with Gloria Corpas and Jean-Pierre Colson). Prof Mitkov has been invited as a keynote speaker at more than 200 international conferences. He has acted as Chair or Programme Chair of more than 65 international conferences on Natural Language Processing (NLP), Machine Translation, Translation Technology, Translation Studies, Corpus Linguistics and Anaphora Resolution. He is asked on a regular basis to review for leading international funding bodies and organisations and to act as a referee for applications for Professorships both in North America and Europe. Ruslan Mitkov is regularly asked to review for leading journals, publishers and conferences and serve as a member of Programme Committees or Editorial Boards. Prof Mitkov has been an external examiner of many doctoral theses and curricula in the UK and abroad, including Master’s programmes related to NLP, Translation and Translation Technology. Prof Mitkov is Coordinator (Director) of the first and only Erasmus Mundus Master’s Programme in Technology for Translation and Interpreting - an innovative and inspirational programme, with a strong research focus but an equally strong emphasis on business; leading companies in the global translation and language industry participate as associated partners. Dr Mitkov has considerable external funding to his credit (more than £ 20,000,000) and has been Principal Investigator of 25 projects, are funded by UK research councils, by the EC as well as by companies and users from the UK and USA. Ruslan Mitkov received his MSc from the Humboldt University in Berlin, his PhD from the Technical University in Dresden and worked as a Research Professor at the Institute of Mathematics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia. Mitkov is Professor of Computational Linguistics and Language Engineering at the University of Wolverhampton which he joined in 1995 and where he set up the Research Group in Computational Linguistics. His Research Group has emerged as an internationally leading unit in applied Natural Language Processing and members of the group have won awards at different NLP/shared-task competitions and conferences. In addition to being Head of the Research Group in Computational Linguistics, Prof Mitkov is also Director of the Research Institute in Information and Language Processing and Director of the Responsible Digital Humanities Lab. The Research Institute consists of the Research Group in Computational Linguistics and the Research Group in Statistical Cybermetrics, which is another top performer internationally. Ruslan Mitkov is Vice President of ASLING, an international Association for promoting Language Technology. Dr Mitkov is a Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany, was a Marie Curie Fellow, Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Franche-Comté in Besançon, France and Distinguished Visiting Researcher at the University of Malaga, Spain; he also serves/has served as Vice-Chair for the prestigious EC funding programmes ‘Future and Emerging Technologies’ and ‘EIC Pathfinder Open’. In September 2022 the renowned National Board of Medical Examiners (USA) presented Prof Mitkov with a certificate of distinguished collaboration which resulted in lasting impact on the strategic planning and decision making of the US organisation and their employment of NLP solutions to assessment for the last 17 years. In recognition of his outstanding professional/research achievements, Prof Mitkov was awarded the title of Doctor Honoris Causa at Plovdiv University in November 2011. At the end of October 2014 Dr Mitkov was also conferred Professor Honoris Causa at Veliko Tarnovo University and on 25 October 2022 Prof R Mitkov received the title ‘Doctor Honoris Cause’ for the third time, this time awarded by New Bulgarian University, Sofia. Rui Sousa Silva Professor Auxiliar | Assistant Professor PhD Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto | Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto CLUP-Centro de Linguística da Universidade do Porto | Linguistics Centre of the University of Porto www.linguisticaforense.pt<http://www.linguisticaforense.pt> | https://s.up.pt/qjur [Text Description automatically generated with medium confidence] Rui Sousa Silva. ~ Professor Auxiliar | Assistant Professor www.letras.up.pt | www.clup.pt | www.linguisticaforense.pt

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SEPLN 2023 - Deadline Extension
by Eugenio Martínez Camara 15 Mar '23

15 Mar '23

SEPLN 2023: 39th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE SPANISH SOCIETY FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING Jaén, Spain September 27-29, 2023 http://sepln2023.sepln.org/en/home/ Paper submission deadline extension: March 31st, 2023. The Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN) is pleased to invite you to participate in the 39th edition of the SEPLN Conference. The SEPLN Conference will take place on 27-29 September 2022 at Jaén (Spain), at the Museo Íbero of Jaén, where the participants will discover the history of the Iberians. More information about the conference and the topics of interests is at the web version of the CfP: http://sepln2023.sepln.org/en/cfp-en/ Structure of the Conference The SEPLN 2023 Conference will be a three-day event and will include sessions to present papers, ongoing research projects and prototype or product demos related to the topics of the conference. Likewise, the 26th of September will take place the Workshop Day, where the main workshop will be IberLEF 2023 <https://sites.google.com/view/iberlef-2023>. Paper types and author guidelines The SEPLN 2023 Conference will accept three kinds of papers: (1) scientific contributions, (2) research project summaries and (3) system demonstration papers. Scientific contributions. The accepted scientific contributions will be published in the Journal Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural <http://journal.sepln.org/sepln/ojs/ojs/index.php/pln>, whose aim is to promote the development of areas related to NLP, disseminate research carried out, identify future guidelines for basic research, and present software applications in this field. The scientific quality of the Journal is supported by the 2021 JCR index (JCI: 0.21, Q4-Linguistics - ESCI), the SCImago Journal Ranking (SJR: 0.217, Q4-Computer Science Applications, Q2-Linguistics and Language), the Scopus Index (CiteScore: 1.5, Q4-Computer Science Applications, Q2-Linguistics and Language) and the index SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper) with 0.37 points. More information at http://www.sepln.org/en/journal/quality. The papers can be written in Spanish or English and must be at most 10 A4-size pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references. The papers must include the following sections: - The title of the communication (in English and Spanish). - The paper must be anonymized, since the Journal follows a double-blind review process. - An abstract with a maximum of 150 words (in English and Spanish). - A list of keywords or related topics (in English and Spanish). - The documents must not include headers or footers. The information about all the details of the format of the papers and the Latex and Microsoft Word template are at: http://www.sepln.org/en/journal/author-guidelines. Camera ready - the final version of the paper (camera ready) should be submitted together with a cover letter explaining how the suggestions of the reviewers were implemented in the final version. This cover letter will be considered in order to accept or finally reject the selected paper. Preprint policy - The Journal allows the publication of preprints (non-refereed paper posted online, such as ArXiv) anytime, but during the review period the preprint must indicate that the paper is “under review” in the Journal Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural. Likewise, if the paper is accepted, the preprint must be updated with the DOI, name of the Journal and the bibliographic information of the paper. Research project summaries. They are summaries of ongoing research projects. This kind of papers must include the following information: - Project title. - Author name, affiliation and contact information. The review of this kind of paper is not blind review. - Funding institutions. - Research Groups participating in the project. - Language: English. We will not accept research project summaries in Spanish or other languages. - An abstract of a maximum of 150 words and a list of keywords. - Minimum length: 5 pages. - Maximum length: 6 pages (including references). In the submission platform you have to choose “Projects and Demos” as main topic. System demonstration papers. These papers must be related to NLP applications, and they must describe the technical details and the NLP components used or developed. The paper must be written in English, the minimum length of the paper must be 5 A4-size pages and the maximum length is 6 A4-size pages of content with the references included. In the submission platform you have to choose “Projects and Demos” as main topic. The research project summaries and the system demonstration papers will be published in CEUR Workshop Proceedings platform, which is widely known by the computer science research community. Accordingly, the paper format must match the CEUR template. We have adapted the CEUR Latex Template to SEPLN 2023 and you can download it here. Submission Information. The papers must be submitted by March 31st, 2023. All submissions must be in PDF format and submitted electronically using the MyReview system available at: http://myreview.sepln.org/myreview-sepln71 . Submitted papers will be subjected to a blind review by at least three members of the SEPLN advisory council. Important dates - Deadline for the submission of papers, projects and demos: March 31st, 2023. - Notification of acceptance: May 16th, 2023. - Camera Ready: May 31st, 2023. - Workshops: September 26th, 2023. - Conference: September 27th-29th, 2023. Organizing Committee - L. Alfonso Ureña López (Chairman) University of Jaén (Spain). - M. Teresa Martín Valdivia (Chairwoman) University of Jaén (Spain). - Eugenio Martínez Cámara (Coordinator) University of Jaén (Spain). - M. Carlos Díaz Galiano University of Jaén (Spain). - Miguel Ángel García Cumbreras University of Jaén (Spain). - Manuel García Vega University of Jaén (Spain). - Salud María Jiménez Zafra University of Jaén (Spain). - Fernando Martínez Santiago University of Jaén (Spain). - M. Dolores Molina González University of Jaén (Spain). - Arturo Montejo Ráez University of Jaén (Spain). - Flor Miriam Plaza del Arco Università Bocconi (Italy). Collaborators - Alba María Mármol Romero University of Jaén (Spain). - Estrella Vallecillo Rodríguez University of Jaén (Spain). - Mariia Chizhikova University of Jaén (Spain). - Alberto Gutierrez Mejías University of Jaén (Spain). - Jaime Collado University of Jaén (Spain). Contact All information related to the conference can be found at http://sepln2023.sepln.org/ For all general enquiries, please contact: sepln2023jaen(a)googlegroups.com. -- Eugenio Martínez Cámara. Investigador en Proc. del Lenguaje Natural | Postdoctoral Researcher in Natural Language Proc. Grupo de Investigación SINAI <http://sinai.ujaen.es/> | SINAI <http://sinai.ujaen.es/> Research Group. Profesor Contratado Doctor | Associate Professor. Dpto. de Informática | Computer Science Department. Universidad de Jaén.

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CfP: Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar (LxGr2023)
by Costas Gabrielatos 15 Mar '23

15 Mar '23

Symposium: Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar (LxGr2023) CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline for abstract submission: Friday 31 March 2023 The symposium will take place online on 7-8 July 2023. Invited Speaker: Gaëtanelle Gilquin<https://perso.uclouvain.be/gaetanelle.gilquin> (Université catholique de Louvain) Construction grammar and lexico-grammar, and why they matter to each other If you would like to present, send an abstract of 500 words (excluding references) to lxgr(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:lxgr@edgehill.ac.uk>. Make sure that the abstract clearly specifies the research focus (research questions or hypotheses), the corpus, the methodology (techniques and metrics), the theoretical orientation, and the main findings. Abstracts will be double-blind reviewed, and decisions will be communicated within four weeks. Full papers will be allocated 35 minutes (including 10 minutes for discussion). Work-in-progress reports will be allocated 20 minutes (including 5 minutes for discussion). There will be no parallel sessions. Participation is free. The focus of LxGr is the interaction of lexis and grammar. The focus is influenced by Halliday's view of lexis and grammar as "complementary perspectives" (1991: 32), and his conception of the two as notional ends of a continuum (lexicogrammar), in that "if you interrogate the system grammatically you will get grammar-like answers and if you interrogate it lexically you get lexis-like answers" (1992: 64). For more information and details of past symposia, see here: https://ehu.ac.uk/lxgr. If you have any questions, contact lxgr(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:lxgr@edgehill.ac.uk>. ________________________________ Edge Hill University<http://ehu.ac.uk/home/emailfooter> Modern University of the Year, The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2022<http://ehu.ac.uk/tef/emailfooter> University of the Year, Educate North 2021/21 ________________________________ This message is private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it from your system. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Edge Hill or associated companies. Edge Hill University may monitor email traffic data and also the content of email for the purposes of security and business communications during staff absence.<http://ehu.ac.uk/itspolicies/emailfooter>

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Study Day / Journée d'étude : Bruit de fond ou valeur ajoutée ? Gérer le bruit lors des traitements informatiques des corpus linguistiques
by Luca Pallanti 15 Mar '23

15 Mar '23

----------------- English version --------------------- Hello, Here is the link of the program of the Study Day entitled "Background noise or added value? Managing noise in computer processing of linguistic corpora" : https://je-bruit-corpus.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/V3_Programme_previsionn… We note the presence of three guest speakers: - Ouafae Nahli, Production des outils pour l’étude des langues peu dotées : le cas de l’arabe contemporain écrit - Loïc Liégeois, Des bruits dans mon corpus : des données à réduire au silence, à atténuer ou à écouter attentivement ? - Bénédicte Pincemin, Gérer le "bruit" dans les corpus en textométrie : retour d'expérience et propositions The Study Day will take place in Grenoble on April 28, 2023, starting at 8:00 am, in the Salle Jacques Cartier, located in the Maison des langues et des cultures (Campus UGA, 1141, Avenue centrale, 38610 Gières. Tramway B: stop Bibliothèques universitaires). Attendance to the Study Day is free but it is necessary to register before April 10th from the following link: https://je-bruit-corpus.sciencesconf.org/registration The conferences will be accessible via the following Zoom link: https://univ-grenoble-alpes-fr.zoom.us/j/5686216302 We hope to see many of you at this event! The organizing committee of the Study Day ----------------- French version --------------------- Bonjour, Voici le lien pour accéder au programme de la Journée d'étude intitulée "Bruit de fond ou valeur ajoutée ? Gérer le bruit lors des traitements informatiques des corpus linguistiques" : https://je-bruit-corpus.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/V3_Programme_previsionn… Nous signalons la présence de trois conférenciers invités : - Ouafae Nahli, Production des outils pour l’étude des langues peu dotées : le cas de l’arabe contemporain écrit - Loïc Liégeois, Des bruits dans mon corpus : des données à réduire au silence, à atténuer ou à écouter attentivement ? - Bénédicte Pincemin, Gérer le "bruit" dans les corpus en textométrie : retour d'expérience et propositions La Journée d'étude se déroulera à Grenoble le 28 avril 2023, à partir de 8h, dans la Salle Jacques Cartier, située dans la Maison des langues et des cultures (Campus UGA, 1141, Avenue centrale, 38610 Gières. Tram B : arrêt Bibliothèques universitaires). Pour participer en présence à la Journée d'étude est gratuite mais il est nécessaire de s'inscrire avant le 10 avril à partir du lien suivant : https://je-bruit-corpus.sciencesconf.org/registration Les conférences seront accessibles à distance via le lien Zoom suivant : <https://univ-grenoble-alpes-fr.zoom.us/j/3551528868> https://univ-grenoble-alpes-fr.zoom.us/j/5686216302 Nous espérons vous retrouver nombreuses et nombreux à cet évènement ! Le comité d'organisation de la JE Luca Pallanti - Docteur en Linguistique et didactique ATER ISPEF - Univ. Lyon 2 Lumière Bureau G311 (ISPEF) - Tél: 06.43.57.23.04 [1662984884549]

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Third Call and DEADLINE EXTENDED For Papers: The Fourth Workshop on Insights from Negative Results (co-located with EACL 2023)
by Shabnam Tafreshi 15 Mar '23

15 Mar '23

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 -- *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*

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CLUP welcomes applications to Individual Call to Scientific Employment Stimulus
by Rui Sousa Silva 15 Mar '23

15 Mar '23

***APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTINGS*** CLUP welcomes applications to Individual Call to Scientific Employment Stimulus (CEEC) - 6th Edition CLUP – the Centre of Linguistics of the University of Porto, a research and development (R&D) unit funded by FCT – the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, acting as host institution, welcomes applications to the Individual Call to Scientific Employment Stimulus - 6th Edition. Within the scope of the sixth edition of the Scientific Employment Stimulus (CEECInd-6th edition), FCT aims to approve 400 funded contracts. Nationals, foreigners and stateless PhD holders who wish to conduct their scientific research or technological development activities in Portugal may apply. FCT will fund, via contracts signed with the host institution, all eligible costs for a maximum period of 6 years, according to the level and categories provided for. Submission of Applications: Deadline: 3 May 2023, 17:00 (Portugal time). In order to secure the support of CLUP at the application stage, please email: clup(a)letras.up.pt Specific requirements: (a) Junior Researcher - PhD holders of 5 years or less, counted at the closing date of the application submission period, with limited postdoctoral research experience in the scientific area to which they are applying. b) Auxiliary researcher – PhD holders with more than 5 and less than 12 years, inclusive, counted as of the closing date of the application submission period, with a relevant curriculum in the scientific area to which they are applying. c) Principal Investigator – PhD holders with more than 12 years, counted as of the closing date of the application submission period, with a relevant curriculum vitae in the scientific area they are applying for, which demonstrates their scientific independence in the last 3 years. For further information, visit: https://www.fct.pt/concursos/concurso-estimulo-ao-emprego-cientifico-indivi… CLUP support: In order to secure the support of CLUP, the applicant should address a request to the CLUP Scientific Coordinator. Applicants should state which of the levels/categories they intend to apply to and which line(s) of research conducted at CLUP their project fits in. The following documents should be attached: - Research plan (including the research topic, research questions and aims and objectives, methodology, expected results and impact); - Up-to-date Curriculum Vitae; - Copy of two relevant publications; - Letter of motivation to conduct their research at CLUP. Submission of support requests to CLUP: Applicants wishing to secure CLUP support in their application to CEEC should emailed clup(a)letras.up.pt by 15 April 2023. Rui Sousa Silva. ~ Professor Auxiliar | Assistant Professor www.letras.up.pt | www.clup.pt | www.linguisticaforense.pt

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2nd CFP CODI 4th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse
by Amir Zeldes 15 Mar '23

15 Mar '23

*apologies for cross-postings* � CODI, 4th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse � https://sites.google.com/view/codi-2023/ � 2023-07-13–14 - ACL 2023 - Toronto, Canada � ** Submission deadline: April 24th, 2023 ** � Aims and scope � The last ten years have seen a dramatic improvement in the ability of NLP systems to understand and produce words and sentences. This development has created a renewed interest in discourse phenomena as researchers move towards the processing of long-form text and conversations. There is a surge of activity in discourse parsing, coherence models, text summarization, corpora for discourse level reading comprehension, and discourse related/aided representation learning, to name a few, but the problems in computational approaches to discourse are still substantial. At this juncture, we have organized three Workshops on Computational Approaches to Discourse (CODI) at EMNLP 2020, EMNLP 2021 and COLING 2022 to bring together discourse experts and upcoming researchers. These workshops have catalyzed work to improve the speed and knowledge needed to solve such problems and have served as a forum for the discussion of suitable datasets and reliable evaluation methods. � The previous workshops on discourse in machine translation (DiscoMT), linking lexical, sentential and discourse semantics (LSDSem), discourse structure in natural language generation (DSNNLG), discourse relation parsing and treebanking (DISRPT) and coreference (CORBON/CRAC), have shown that there is considerable interest and success in bringing together the community working on specific problems in discourse. We believe that the discourse community will also benefit from a general forum where work ranging from corpus development/analysis to computational models, and evaluation is discussed, and desiderata can be drawn for future progress. � The 4th CODI workshop is planned as a 2 day event which brings together different subcommunities. It will feature invited talks and regular papers on the first day. The second day will be dedicated to shared tasks and special sessions which focus on the issues mentioned above. After a first successful iteration in 2019 and 2021 the shared task on Discourse Relation Parsing and Treebanking (DISRPT) will be held again in 2023, with three tasks: discourse segmentation, discourse connective identification and discourse relation classification, including new datasets and languages. For more information on the shared task see: � <https://sites.google.com/view/disrpt2023/> https://sites.google.com/view/disrpt2023/ � � Topics of interest � We welcome symbolic and probabilistic approaches, corpus development and analysis, as well as machine and deep learning approaches to discourse. We appreciate theoretical contributions as well as practical applications, including demos of systems and tools. The goal of the workshop is to provide a forum for the community of NLP researchers working on all aspects of discourse. � � Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: � * discourse structure � * discourse connectives � * discourse relations � * annotation tools and schemes for discourse phenomena � * corpora annotated with discourse phenomena � * discourse parsing � * cross-lingual discourse processing � * cross-domain discourse processing � * anaphora and coreference resolution � * event coreference � * argument mining � * coherence modeling � * discourse and semantics � * discourse in applications such as machine translation, summarization, etc. � * evaluation methodology for discourse processing � � Submissions � � We solicit four categories of papers: regular workshop papers, demos, shared task papers and extended abstracts. Only regular workshop papers, shared task papers and demos will be included in the proceedings as archival publications. � � Regular papers must describe original unpublished research. Long papers may consist of up to 8 pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references. � � Short papers can be up to 4 pages, plus unlimited pages for references. � � Demo submissions may describe systems, tools, visualizations, etc., and may consist of up to 4 pages, plus unlimited pages for references. � � Each submission can contain unlimited pages for Appendices but the paper submissions need to remain fully self-contained, as these supplementary materials are completely optional, and reviewers are not even asked to review them. Accepted long, short, and demo papers will be presented orally. � � Extended abstracts can describe work in progress or those already published elsewhere. These may be two pages long (without references). Extended abstracts are non-archival. They will be presented orally, and included in the workshop program and handbook, but will not appear in the workshop proceedings. � Double submission of papers is allowed but will need to be indicated at submission. � � Submission website � All submissions must be anonymous and follow the ACL 2023 formatting instructions described here: https://2023.aclweb.org/calls/style_and_formatting/ � � � Please submit your workshop papers at <https://www.softconf.com/acl2023/CODI2023> https://www.softconf.com/acl2023/CODI2023 � Shared task papers should be submitted to the links specified on the shared task pages. � Important dates * 2023-03-24: Anonymity period starts * 2023-04-24: CODI papers due * 2023-05-22: Notification of acceptance * 2023-06-06: Camera ready deadline for main conference and CODI * 2023-07-13 – 2022-07-14: CODI workshop � All deadlines are 11:59 pm UTC -12h ("anywhere on Earth"). � Invited Speakers � * Yufang Hou, IBM Research � * Giuseppe Carenini, University of British Columbia � � Organizers * Chloé Braud, CNRS-IRIT * Christian Hardmeier, IT University of Copenhagen and Uppsala University * Jessy Li, University of Texas, Austin * Sharid Loáiciga, University of Gothenburg * Michael Strube, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies * Amir Zeldes, Georgetown University To contact the organizers, please send an email to: codi-workshop(a)googlegroups.com <mailto:codi-workshop@googlegroups.com> �

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Call For Papers - InqBnB4
by valentin.richard＠loria.fr 14 Mar '23

14 Mar '23

[SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS] Greetings, InqBnB4 workshop: Inquisitiveness Below and Beyond the Sentence Boundary Nancy (France), 20 June 2023, hosted by IWCS 2023 https://iwcs2023.loria.fr/inqbnb4-inquisitiveness-below-and-beyond-the-sent… InqBnB is a workshop series bringing together researchers interested in the semantics and pragmatics of interrogatives (questions or embedded interrogative clauses). This series was originally organized by the Inquisitive Semantics Group of the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) from the University of Amsterdam. As such, the focus point mainly revolves around analyses using or related to inquisitive semantics. After three successful editions in the Netherlands, we hope to open the inquisitive community to a wider audience. The 4th edition is planned on 20 June 2023, just before IWCS 2023 (Internation Conference on Computational Semantics). As invited speakers we are welcoming Wataru Uegaki (University of Edinburgh) and Todor Koev (Universit��t Konstanz). InqBnB4 invites submissions on original and unpublished research focussed on the properties of inquisitive content. We are mainly interested in theoretical questions, formal models and empirical work. But we are also welcoming papers based on statistical or neural models, provided their main goal is to bring new insights regarding inquisitiveness. Here are some examples of questions of interest: * Which operators (connectives, quantifiers, modals, conditionals) generate inquisitiveness? * How do these operators project the inquisitive content of their arguments? * e.g. what triggers maximality, exhaustivity or uniqueness of readings? * How does inquisitive content interact with informative content in compositional semantics? * e.g. how do interrogative words interact with negative polarity items, free choice items, indefinites or plurality? * How do conventions of use interact with inquisitive content? * e.g. how can non-answering responses (e.g. clarification questions) be handled? * In which ways is pragmatics sensitive to inquisitive content? * e.g. how does answer bias and ignorance inferences arise? * What kind of discourse anaphora are licensed by inquisitive expressions? * e.g. does dynamic inquisitive semantics manage to correctly derive donkey anaphora? *Submission:* Submission link on SoftConf: https://softconf.com/iwcs2023/inqbnb4/ Sumitted papers must not exceed eight (8) pages (not counting acknowledgement, references and appendices). Accepted papers get an extra page in the camera-ready version. Submitted papers should be formatted following the common two-column structure as used by ACL. Please use the specific style-files or the Overleaf template for IWCS 2023, taken from ACL 2021. Initial submissions should be fully anonymous to ensure double-blind reviewing. The proceedings will be published in the ACL anthology. *Important dates:* * Submission deadline: 14 April * Author notification: 12 May * Camera ready: 9 June * Workshop day: 20 June *Organizers:* * Valentin D. Richard [1], Loria, Universit�� de Lorraine * Philippe de Groote [2], Loria, INRIA Nancy �� Grand Est * Floris Roelofsen [3], ILLC, Universiteit van Amsterdam *Programme committee:* * Local chair: Valentin D. Richard, Universit�� de Lorraine * Chair: Floris Roelofsen, Universiteit van Amsterdam * Maria Aloni [11], Universiteit van Amsterdam * Lucas Champollion [4], New York University (NYU) * Jonathan Ginzburg [5], Universit�� Paris Cit�� * Philippe de Groote [2], INRIA Nancy �� Grand Est * Todor Koev [12], Universit��t Konstanz * Jakub Dotla��il [6], Universiteit Utrecht * Reinhard Muskens [7], Universiteit van Amsterdam * Maribel Romero [8], Universit��t Konstanz * Wataru Uegaki [9], University of Edinburgh * Yimei Xiang [10], Rutgers Linguistics [1] https://valentin-d-richard.fr/ [2] https://members.loria.fr/PdeGroote/ [3] https://www.florisroelofsen.com/ [4] https://champollion.com/ [5] http://www.llf.cnrs.fr/fr/Gens/Ginzburg [6] http://www.jakubdotlacil.com/ [7] http://freevariable.nl/ [8] https://ling.sprachwiss.uni-konstanz.de/pages/home/romero/ [9] https://www.wataruuegaki.com/ [10] https://yimeixiang.wordpress.com/ [11] https://www.marialoni.org/ [12] https://todorkoev.weebly.com/

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CFP: WebNLG Challenge 2023 on low-resource languages (Breton, Maltese, Welsh and Irish) and on Russian
by Claire Gardent 14 Mar '23

14 Mar '23

WebNLG 2023: Call for Participation Special focus on multilingual NLG for under-resourced languages 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. Registration If you intend to participate or if you download the data, please fill in this form 👍 https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfytc1rUMUOKrDc9vV658uiLh1_jUS7G0X… 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 once again include Russian, which was first 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. I nstructions 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://synalp.gitlabpages.inria.fr/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

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RA/PhD position (language & vision & interaction) at Potsdam, 3yrs, from Nov 2023
by David Schlangen 14 Mar '23

14 Mar '23

#### Research Assistant / PhD Student, 3 Years We are looking to fill a research position (wissenschaftliche(r) Mitarbeiter*in, 75% TV-L) for November 1st, 2023, in the Computational Linguistics / NLP group led by David Schlangen at the University of Potsdam. The position comes with a small teaching load (3 hours per semester), but is mostly a research position offering time to work towards a PhD, on a topic relevant to the research interests of the group. (Language & vision, interaction / dialogue, embodied AI / human-robot interaction, self-explaining agents; see <http://clp.ling.uni-potsdam.de>.) The ideal candidate has an excellent degree in a related field (Computational Linguistics, Computer Science, Cognitive Psychology), strong programming skills, strong writing skills, intellectual curiosity, and the ability to carry a research project through. * Deadline for applications: March 31st 2023 * The Department of Linguistics at the University of Potsdam is a great place with many research activities (collaborative research center in linguistics; part of the University’s “designated research focus” on cognitive science); popular CL/NLP BA and MSc (taught in English); well established contacts with NLP industry in Berlin / Potsdam area. * Potsdam and the general Berlin/Potsdam metropolitan area is a great place to live. To apply, send a) a statement of research interests, relating them to the research of the group; b) electronic copies of your degree certificates; c) a CV with a list of publications, code repositories, etc, (if such already exists; otherwise, any other kind of writing and coding samples); d) the names of references, to David Schlangen ( first.last(a)uni-potsdam.de ), by email. For any enquiries, please also contact David Schlangen.

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