March 2023 - Corpora

Last call for onsite registrations/abstract submissions: Workshop on L2 profiles, Gothenburg, Sweden, 20-21 April
by Elena Volodina 06 Mar '23

06 Mar '23

Workshop on Profiling second language vocabulary and grammar Språkbanken Text<https://spraakbanken.gu.se/> and HumInfra<https://www.huminfra.se/> are organizing a workshop on tools and resources aimed at research on profiling second language vocabulary and grammar, to take place on April 20-21, 2023 in Gothenburg, Sweden. Venue (hybrid mode): Gothenburg, Sweden -- University of Gothenburg, Humanisten<https://www.gu.se/en/humanities>; Dates: 20-21 April, 2023 Deadline for registration (& abstract submission<https://forms.gle/jQ8UnBAp4dx5vEyC8>): 10 March, 2023. (For online attendees without presentations, the registration is possible until April, 18.) Participation is free. For registered onsite participants, lunches and coffee breaks will be offered free of charge. Webpage: https://spraakbanken.gu.se/l2p-2023 We invite researchers and teachers working with or interested in profiling second language lexical, grammatical and other types of competencies to join our workshop. To participate, please, fill in this registration form<https://forms.gle/jQ8UnBAp4dx5vEyC8> by March, 10, 2023. It is not obligatory, but possible to present your work during the workshop. In that case, please, add a short abstract (100-500 words), in the same registration form. We will come back to you with details shortly after March, 10. Some of the topics of interest: * descriptions of existing resources, work-in-progress or planned resources for profiling L2 competences * examples of practical use of such resources * lexical profiles * grammatical profiles * morphological profiles * word families * linguistic complexity studies based on L2 profiles * etc. Some areas of interest: * lexicography * teaching * (Second) Language Acquisition * language assessment * Intelligent Computer-Assisted language learning * Natural Language Processing * language learning app development * etc. Invited speakers * Aleksandrs Berdicevskis<https://sites.google.com/view/sasha-berdicevskis/>, University of Gothenburg, Sweden: We need to know more about relative complexity and learnability * Jelena Kallas<https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jelena-Kallas>, Eesti Keele Instituut, Estonia: Aligning leaners' dictionaries with the CEFR: the case of Estonian Vocabulary and Grammar Profiles * Gabrielle Palotti<http://www.gabrielepallotti.it/engwho.html>, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy: Profiling complexity: methodological issues and applications to L2 morphology * Geraldine Mark, Cardiff University, Wales: Building on insights from the English Grammar Profile: From really good to painfully obvious Description Efforts are made to create electronic resources that could help analyze learner language to feed into research and development projects within Teaching and Didactics, Second Language Acquisition (SLA) and Assessment, Lexicography, Intelligent CALL applications, automatic analysis of learner language, automatic exercise generation, course book writing and various applied derivative products, such as learning apps. Such resources, called second language profiles, are research infrastructure components that often focus on second language (L2) learners, covering descriptions/listings of vocabulary, grammar and morphology learners acquire by level of proficiency. We witness the appearance of such resources, e.g. English Profile<https://www.englishprofile.org/>, Teacher's Tools<https://sonaveeb.ee/teacher-tools/#/grammar> for Estonian and Swedish L2 profile<https://spraakbanken.gu.se/larkalabb/svlp>, however, since such resources are quite few and, most importantly, new to users/researchers, we need a forum where we can discuss them, practically test them, explore their possibilities for research together and exchange experiences. In this workshop, through presentations, discussions, demos and hands-on sessions, we intend: (1) to establish some common practices, among others, how to use L2 profiles practically and how to apply them to different research questions (2) to showcase scenarios for using them in research & teaching and outline benefits of their use (3) to exchange experiences and lessons learnt between projects that have created such resources, reflecting on the ways to improve user-friendliness and identifying missing functionalities (4) to inspire other languages to work on similar resources stimulating the creation of a new family of resources. Projects of that kind can hardly be “re-run” to fix errors that are discovered post-factum, and therefore planning such projects “right from the start” is a prerequisite. With the experiences from the L2 profile projects for Swedish, Estonian and English, we intend to offer our expertise (à la "advisory role") and help researchers in other countries set up their projects. Organizers: * Elena Volodina, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden * Therese Lindström Tiedemann, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland * David Alfter, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden Contact: * Elena Volodina < elena dot volodina at svenska dot gu dot se > Feel free to distribute this call to your networks! Welcome! ___________________ Elena Volodina, PhD, Docent https://spraakbanken.gu.se/en/about/staff/elena Life is like a mirror. Smile at it and it smiles back at you. Peace Pilgrim

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Summer Corpus Intensive PreRegistration
by Daniel HENKEL 06 Mar '23

06 Mar '23

(Texte en français ci-dessous) Thank-you for your request to pre-register or for information regarding the Paris 8 Summer Corpus Intensive. As we receive many more requests than the number of places available, applications will be reviewed first to ensure that we have a group whose interests are largely compatible with one another. We'll keep you informed as soon as possible as to whether your application has been accepted, and how to enroll. Classes will be held at the main Paris 8 campus in St. Denis (Metro station St. Denis Université). The language used in classes will primarily be English, depending on participants' preferences (and language abilities). As we will be working with corpora in both English and French, knowledge of both languages will be an advantage, but not strictly necessary. The overall schedule (subject to modifications between now and June) is roughly as follows: --mornings, 9:30-12:30, we'll start with a plain-text French corpus on Monday, then move to tagged corpora on Tues.-Wednesday, DIY corpus compilation on Wed.-Thurs. --afternoons, 14:00-17:00, the statistics classes will start out with the basics of loading data into R, performing a Chi2 analysis, and will depend to some extent on the work accomplished in the morning sessions and on the interests expressed by participants. --automatic and manual annotation workshops are planned for Thurs.-Fri. Participants should plan bring their own computers and a list of software to pre-install will be sent in late May. *** Merci pour votre demande de pré-inscription et/ou d'informations complémentaires concernant l'école d'été en Linguistique de Corpus de l'Université Paris 8. Étant donné que le nombre de demandes dépasse toujours le nombre de places disponibles, nous chercherons à sélectionner parmi les candidatures un groupe de participants dont les intérêts seront compatibles entre eux. Nous vous tiendrons au courant dès que possible de la suite donnée à votre demande, et des modalités d'inscription. Les séminaires se tiendront au campus principal de l'Université Paris 8 à St. Denis (M. St. Denis Université). Les cours seront dispensés principalement en anglais selon les préférences (et compétences langagières) des participants. Dans la mesure où nous travaillerons sur des corpus en anglais et français, des compétences dans les deux langues pourraient s'avérer utiles mais ne seront pas absolument nécessaires. Le planning provisionnel des séances (sous réserve de modification d'ici juin) sera grosso modo comme suit : --le matin, 9h30-12h30, nous commencerons par l'extraction et la préparation de données à partir d'un corpus de texte brut en français le lundi, puis commencerons à interroger des corpus étiquetés le mardi et le mercredi, pour terminer par des techniques de compilation le mercredi-jeudi. --l'après-midi, 14h00-17h00, les séminaires d'analyse statistique débuteront par l'importation des données dans R, l'analyse Chi2, et dépendront en partie du travail accompli dans les séances matinales et des intérêts exprimés par les participants eux-mêmes. --les ateliers d'annotation automatique et manuelle auront lieu le jeudi-vendredi. Chaque participant devra apporter son propre ordinateur, en ayant installé au préalable une liste de logiciels qui sera communiquée fin mai. Best regards, Meilleures salutations, Daniel Henkel & Dylan Glynn

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CFP: CLEF 2023 - Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum
by Anastasia Giachanou 06 Mar '23

06 Mar '23

Call for papers for CLEF 2023: Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum 18-21 September 2023, Thessaloniki, Greece https://clef2023.clef-initiative.eu Important Dates (Time zone: Anywhere on Earth) - Submission of Long, Short, Best of 2023 Labs Papers: 12 May, 2023 - Notification of Acceptance: 9 June, 2023 - Camera Ready Copy due: 30 June, 2023 - Conference: 18-21 September, 2023 Aim and Scope The CLEF Conference addresses all aspects of Information Access in any modality and language. The CLEF conference includes presentation of research papers and a series of workshops presenting the results of lab-based comparative evaluation benchmarks. CLEF 2023 is the 14th CLEF conference continuing the popular CLEF campaigns which have run since 2000 contributing to the systematic evaluation of information access systems, primarily through experimentation on shared tasks. The CLEFconference has a clear focus on experimental IR as carried out within evaluation forums (e.g., CLEF Labs, TREC, NTCIR, FIRE, MediaEval, RomIP, SemEval, and TAC) with special attention to the challenges of multimodality, multilinguality, and interactive search also considering specific classes of users as children, students, impaired users in different tasks (e.g., academic, professional, or everyday-life). We invite paper submissions on significant new insights demonstrated on IR test collections, on analysis of IR test collections and evaluation measures, as well as on concrete proposals to push the boundaries of the Cranfield style evaluation paradigm. All submissions to the CLEF main conference will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance, and clarity. CLEF welcomes papers that describe rigorous hypothesis testing regardless of whether the results are positive or negative. CLEF also welcomes past runs/results/data analysis and new data collections. Methods are expected to be written so that they are reproducible by others, and the logic of the research design is clearly described in the paper. The conference proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Topics Relevant topics for the CLEF 2023 Conference include but are not limited to: - Information access in any language or modality: information retrieval, image retrieval, question answering, information extraction and summarisation, search interfaces and design, infrastructures, etc. - Analytics for information retrieval: theoretical and practical results in the analytics field that are specifically targeted for information access data analysis, data enrichment, etc. - User studies either based on lab studies or crowdsourcing. - Past results/run deep analysis both statistically and fine grain based. - Evaluation initiatives: conclusions, lessons learned, impact and projection of any evaluation initiative after completing their cycle. - Evaluation: methodologies, metrics, statistical and analytical tools, component based, user groups and use cases, ground-truth creation, impact of multilingual/multicultural/multimodal differences, etc. - Technology transfer: economic impact/sustainability of information access approaches, deployment and exploitation of systems, use cases, etc. - Interactive information retrieval evaluation: interactive evaluation of information retrieval systems using user-centered methods, evaluation of novel search interfaces, novel interactive evaluation methods, simulation of interaction, etc. - Specific application domains: information access and its evaluation in application domains such as cultural heritage, digital libraries, social media, health information, legal documents, patents, news, books, and in the form of text, audio and/or image data. - New data collection: presentation of new data collection with potential high impact on future research, specific collections from companies or labs, multilingual collections. - Work on data from rare languages, collaborative, social data. Format Authors are invited to electronically submit original papers, which have not been published and are not under consideration elsewhere, using the LNCS proceedings format: http://www.springer.com/it/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gui… Two types of papers are solicited: - Long papers: 12 pages max (excluding references). Aimed to report complete research works. - Short papers: 6 pages max (excluding references). Position papers, new evaluation proposals, developments and applications, etc. Review Process Authors of long and short papers are asked to submit the following TWO versions of their manuscript: Methodology version: This version does NOT report anything related to the results of the study. At this stage, the manuscripts will be evaluated based on the importance of the problem addressed and the soundness of the methodology. Manuscripts can include an introduction, description of the proposed methodology and datasets used. However, there should be no result and discussion sections. The authors should also remove mentions of results in the included sections (e.g., abstract, introduction) Experimental version: This is the full version of the manuscript that contains all the sections of the paper including the experiments and results. Papers will be peer-reviewed by 3 members of the program committee in two stages. At the first stage, the members will review the methodology version of the manuscripts based on originality and methodology. At the second stage, the full version of the manuscripts that passed from the first sage will be reviewed. Selection will be based on originality, clarity, and technical quality. The deadline for the submission of both versions is 12th of May. Paper submission Papers should be submitted in PDF format to the following address: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=clef2023 - Submit the methodology version at the Methodology Track - Submit the experimental version at the Experimental Track Organisation General Chairs Evangelos Kanoulas, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands Theodora Tsikrika, Information Technologies Institute, CERTH, GR Stefanos Vrochidis, Information Technologies Institute, CERTH, GR Avi Arampatzis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Program Chairs Anastasia Giachanou, Utrecht University, the Netherlands Dan Li, Elsevier Evaluation Lab Chairs Mohammad Aliannejadi, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands Michalis Vlachos, University of Lausanne, Switzerland Lab Mentorship Chair Jian-Yun Nie, University of Montreal, Canada

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Job opening at the University of Cambridge: Teaching Associate in Computational Linguistics
by alk23＠cam.ac.uk 05 Mar '23

05 Mar '23

Applications are invited for a fixed-term (12 month) Teaching Associate in Computational Linguistics at the University of Cambridge. The Teaching Associate will be expected to contribute to the teaching and examining of undergraduate students in Computational Linguistics, and to the related administration. The successful candidate will have relevant teaching experience, hold a PhD in a relevant field and be able to demonstrate active engagement in research, teaching and administration. The post is based at the University of Cambridge, the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages - a unit that also houses the Cambridge Language Technology Lab (https://ltl.mmll.cam.ac.uk). Deadline for applications: 27 March, 2023 Start date: 1 September, 2023 Duration: 12 months Details and how to apply: https://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/39339/ Informal inquiries may be addressed to Professor Anna Korhonen (alk23(a)cam.ac.uk). On questions of procedure, please contact the Personnel Administrator (MMLLPersonnel(a)admin.cam.ac.uk) Please quote reference GP35262 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.

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LEXICON INTERNATIONAL DOCTORAL SUMMER SCHOOL Terminology management in the age of artificial intelligence
by amalhaddad 05 Mar '23

05 Mar '23

Lexicon Doctoral Summer School September 4th to 8th, 2023 Almuñecar (Granada), Spain www.lexiconsummerschool.com The Lexicon group of the University of Granada organizes an International Terminology Summer School that explores exciting possibilities in terminology, translation, scientific and technical writing, and artificial intelligence. The program is tailored for doctoral students, researchers, and language industry professionals seeking to stay ahead of the game. This summer school offers theoretical and practical training in the latest paradigms and IT tools in terminology theory and management for translation. Renowned international guest lecturers from top-level research institutions will conduct master classes and seminars, while fostering collaboration and synergy among participants. Don't miss this opportunity to advance your career and stay up-to-date with the latest developments in the field. Join us at the International Terminology Summer School and discover a world of possibilities.

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WASSA 2023 Shared Task on Empathy Emotion and Personality Detection in Interactions within ACL 2023
by valbarrierepro＠gmail.com 04 Mar '23

04 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** 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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Call for Participation: 4th Slav-NER Shared Task — Named Entities in Slavic Languages
by Roman Yangarber 04 Mar '23

04 Mar '23

Call for Participation The 4th Slav-NER Shared Task Named Entities in Slavic Languages — Recognition, Normalization, Classification and Cross-Lingual Linking co-located with Slav-NLP <http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/> Workshop, EACL 2023 <https://2023.eacl.org/> http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/shared-task.html <http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/shared-task.html> * Task Description * *The 4th Slav-NER Shared Task focuses on Named Entities in Slavic languages.* Due to rich inflection, free word order, derivation, and other phenomena common to the Slavic languages, work on Named Entities poses important challenges. Fostering research & development on the problems of Named Entities — detecting names, lemmatization (normalization), classification, and cross-lingual matching — is crucial for information access and wider use of NLP in Slavic languages. The 4th Slav-NER Shared Task covers three languages: * Czech, * Polish, * Russian. and five types of named entities: * persons, * locations, * organizations, * events, * products. For information about training and test data, guidelines, and participation, please see the Shared Task Home Page <http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/shared-task.html>. *IMPORTANT*: Participants are NOT required to perform all tasks or for all languages. For example, a monolingual entry, without lemmatization of the names, can participate. The Shared Task focuses on cross-lingual extraction of named entities — the systems should recognize, classify, and extract all mentions of a name in a document; detecting the position of each name mention is NOT required. Name mentions should be lemmatized, and mentions referring to the same real-world object should be linked across documents and languages. The text collection consists of sets of documents retrieved from the Web, each set about a certain major entity or event. The corpus was collected by crawling the Web and parsing the HTML documents. For background, see the details about the 1st edition (2017) <http://bsnlp-2017.cs.helsinki.fi/shared_task.html> , 2nd edition (2019) <http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/bsnlp-2019/shared_task.html> and the 3rd edition (2021) <http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/shared-task.html> of this shared task. * Participation *Teams that wish to participate should register via email to: bsnlp(a)cs.helsinki.fi, with the following information: * name of team, * team members, * contact person, * contact email. * Important Dates * * Shared task announcement: 11 January 2023 ⇒ *Training Data Released !* * Registration deadline: *06 March 2023* * *Release of Test Data* to registered participants: *07 March 2023* * Submission of system responses: 09 March 2023 * Results announced to participants: 11 March 2023 * Submission of shared task papers: 13 March 2023 * Camera-ready shared task papers: 03 April 2023 Shared task organizers. -- Roman Yangarber Associate Professor, University of Helsinki Digital Humanities INEQ: Helsinki Inequality Initiative <https://helsinki.fi/en/ineq-helsinki-inequality-initiative> — Linguistic Inequalities and Translation Technologies ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ e-Learning & language learninghelsinki.fi/revita <https://www.helsinki.fi/revita> Language Learning Labhelsinki.fi/language-learning-lab <https://www.helsinki.fi/language-learning-lab> Unioninkatu 40, Metsätalo A214 mobile: +358 50 41 51 71 3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RЯ

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Re: Corpora Digest, Vol 407, Issue 1
by Claire Gardent 04 Mar '23

04 Mar '23

----- Mail original ----- > De: corpora-request(a)list.elra.info > À: "corpora" <corpora(a)list.elra.info> > Envoyé: Samedi 4 Mars 2023 13:00:05 > Objet: Corpora Digest, Vol 407, Issue 1 > Send Corpora mailing list submissions to > corpora(a)list.elra.info > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via email, send a message with subject or > body 'help' to > corpora-request(a)list.elra.info > > You can reach the person managing the list at > corpora-owner(a)list.elra.info > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Corpora digest..." > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Postdoc in multilingual NLP at Idiap in Switzerland (2-years) > (Lonneke van der Plas) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2023 16:11:18 +0100 > From: Lonneke van der Plas <lonneke.vanderplas(a)idiap.ch> > Subject: [Corpora-List] Postdoc in multilingual NLP at Idiap in > Switzerland (2-years) > To: corpora(a)list.elra.info > Message-ID: <93fb50da-a632-439b-5769-95612d73bf48(a)idiap.ch> > Content-Type: multipart/alternative; > boundary="------------IkDaUAJ02CfB5eTeLKG0TLmY" > > The Computation, Cognition, and Language Group at Idiap in Martigny, is > looking for a postdoc to complement its cross-disciplinary team for a > duration of 2 years. > > The postdoc will lead their own research in collaboration with > researchers in Human Resource Management at EHL Hospitality Business > School, the company ARCA24 in Ticino, and a team of researchers and > developers at Idiap on the topic of recruitment, focusing on matching > the right profiles with the right positions. In order to do this well > and in accordance with modern insights from Management Studies, we will > not only focus on hard skills but also soft skills and > person-organisation fit. Furthermore, models will need to incorporate > structured and unstructured information in multiple languages, mitigate > bias, and explain their results. These are highly relevant topics in > NLP, which are expected to result in high-quality publications. > > The appointment for this position is for 24 months, starting from May > 1st, (but open until filled) with possibilities for renewal depending on > funding availability. > > If you need more information, please contact lonneke.vanderplas(a)idiap.ch > > > Profile > > Ph.D. degree (or close to completion) in Computer Science or another > relevant discipline > > Track record of scientific contributions in NLP, evidenced by > high-quality first-author publications > > Interest in working in a cross-disciplinary team, working on a diverse > set of languages > > Solid English communication skills (scientific writing and speaking) > > Confident in Python programming > > Expertise in any of following areas is a plus but not required: > cross-lingual transfer learning, neuro-symbolic methods > > > The Idiap Research Institute ('AI for society') > https://www.idiap.ch/en/about > > Idiap is an independent, not-for-profit, research institute accredited > and funded by the Swiss Federal Government, the State of Valais, and the > City of Martigny. > Idiap offers competitive salaries and working conditions at all levels > in a dynamic, multicultural environment. Idiap is an equal opportunity > employer. We specifically encourage women and minorities to apply. > > Idiap is located in the town of Martigny in Valais, Switzerland, > offering exceptional quality of life, exciting recreational activities, > including hiking, climbing and skiing, as well as varied cultural > activities. It is within close proximity to Lausanne and Geneva. > Although Idiap is located in the French part of Switzerland, English is > the official working language. > > > For frequently asked questions (FAQs) about living in Switzerland, > please go tohttps://www.idiap.ch/en/faq > > Salary for this position: CHF 81’600.– in the first year up to CHF > 83'230.- in the second year > > Application can be submitted here: > https://careers.werecruit.io/en/idiap/offres/postdoc-in-multilingual-natura… > > -- > Prof. Lonneke van der Plas > Head of Computation, Cognition & Language Group, and Assoc. Prof. (UM, affil.) > Idiap, Martigny, Switzerland > Tel: +41 277217739 >

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Call for Papers: Slav-NLP: The 9th Workshop on NLP for SlavicLanguages
by Roman Yangarber 04 Mar '23

04 Mar '23

* Call for Papers * * SNLP: The9thWorkshoponNLP for Slavic languages <http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/> 2 May 2023 or 6 May 2023 co-located with EACL 2023 http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/ <http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/> Submission Deadline: 27 February 2023 WORKSHOPDESCRIPTION The 9th edition of the SNLP Workshop at EACLSponsored by SIGSLAV: the ACL Special Interest Group on Slavic NLP The languages from the Slavic group play an important role due to their diverse cultural heritage and widespread use — with over 400 million speakers worldwide. The current political and economic developments in Central and Eastern Europe bring Slavic societies and languages into focus in terms of rapid technological advancement and expanding consumer markets. Research on theoretical and applied topics in the context of Slavic languages is still lagging in the community. Linguistic phenomena that are common to Slavic languages — rich morphology, free word order, etc. — make NLP for these languages a challenging task. Slavic NLP gathers researchers from academia and industry. It aims to stimulate research in Slavic NLP, and to foster the creation of tools and resources. The Workshops provides a forum for exchange of ideas and experience, discussing current challenges, and making the available resources widely-known. The structural similarity, as well as the easily recognizable core vocabulary and inflectional inventory spanning this entire large language group creates a special environment, where researchers can appreciate the shared problems and communicate naturally — despite the lack of mutual intelligibility.This year, we are especially glad to have an opportunity to organize Slav NLP in a Slavic-speaking country. This Workshop addresses Natural Language Processing (NLP) for the Slavic languages. The NLP tasks in urgent need of attention include: * language modeling * morphological analysis and generation, * syntactic and semantic parsing, * lexical semantics, * named-entity recognition, * text normalisation and processing non-standard language * coreference resolution, * information extraction, * question answering, * text summarization, * machine translation, * development of linguistic resources, * text classification * disinformation detection, * fact verification. * sentiment analysis This Workshop continues the proud tradition established by the 8 previous BSNLP Workshops. IMPORTANT DATES * Submission deadline: 27 February 2023 * Notification of acceptance: 19 March 2023 * Camera-ready papers due: 27 March 2023 * Workshop: 2 or 6 May 2023 SHARED TASK This year's SNLP features the 4th editionof the Shared Task on Multilingual Named Entity Recognition: recognizing mentions of named entities in Web documents, lemmatization, and cross-lingual matching in Slavic languages. The shared task covers: * Czech, * Polish, * Russian. Information about the Shared Task and training data is available on the Workshop web page SUBMISSION INFORMATION At the Workshop Web page: bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi <http://bsnlp.cs.helsinki.fi/call-for-papers.html> Workshop contact email address: bsnlp(a)cs.helsinki.fi * -- Roman Yangarber Associate Professor, University of Helsinki Digital Humanities INEQ: Helsinki Inequality Initiative <https://helsinki.fi/en/ineq-helsinki-inequality-initiative> — Linguistic Inequalities and Translation Technologies ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ e-Learning & language learninghelsinki.fi/revita <https://www.helsinki.fi/revita> Language Learning Labhelsinki.fi/language-learning-lab <https://www.helsinki.fi/language-learning-lab> Unioninkatu 40, Metsätalo A214 mobile: +358 50 41 51 71 3 Helsinki, Finland ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RЯ

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Postdoc in multilingual NLP at Idiap in Switzerland (2-years)
by Lonneke van der Plas 03 Mar '23

03 Mar '23

The Computation, Cognition, and Language Group at Idiap in Martigny, is looking for a postdoc to complement its cross-disciplinary team for a duration of 2 years. The postdoc will lead their own research in collaboration with researchers in Human Resource Management at EHL Hospitality Business School, the company ARCA24 in Ticino, and a team of researchers and developers at Idiap on the topic of recruitment, focusing on matching the right profiles with the right positions. In order to do this well and in accordance with modern insights from Management Studies, we will not only focus on hard skills but also soft skills and person-organisation fit. Furthermore, models will need to incorporate structured and unstructured information in multiple languages, mitigate bias, and explain their results. These are highly relevant topics in NLP, which are expected to result in high-quality publications. The appointment for this position is for 24 months, starting from May 1st, (but open until filled) with possibilities for renewal depending on funding availability. If you need more information, please contact lonneke.vanderplas(a)idiap.ch Profile Ph.D. degree (or close to completion) in Computer Science or another relevant discipline Track record of scientific contributions in NLP, evidenced by high-quality first-author publications Interest in working in a cross-disciplinary team, working on a diverse set of languages Solid English communication skills (scientific writing and speaking) Confident in Python programming Expertise in any of following areas is a plus but not required: cross-lingual transfer learning, neuro-symbolic methods The Idiap Research Institute ('AI for society') https://www.idiap.ch/en/about Idiap is an independent, not-for-profit, research institute accredited and funded by the Swiss Federal Government, the State of Valais, and the City of Martigny. Idiap offers competitive salaries and working conditions at all levels in a dynamic, multicultural environment. Idiap is an equal opportunity employer. We specifically encourage women and minorities to apply. Idiap is located in the town of Martigny in Valais, Switzerland, offering exceptional quality of life, exciting recreational activities, including hiking, climbing and skiing, as well as varied cultural activities. It is within close proximity to Lausanne and Geneva. Although Idiap is located in the French part of Switzerland, English is the official working language. For frequently asked questions (FAQs) about living in Switzerland, please go tohttps://www.idiap.ch/en/faq Salary for this position: CHF 81’600.– in the first year up to CHF 83'230.- in the second year Application can be submitted here: https://careers.werecruit.io/en/idiap/offres/postdoc-in-multilingual-natura… -- Prof. Lonneke van der Plas Head of Computation, Cognition & Language Group, and Assoc. Prof. (UM, affil.) Idiap, Martigny, Switzerland Tel: +41 277217739

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