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 …
[View More]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!
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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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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 …
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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.
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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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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)
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Submission of Long, Short, Best of 2023 Labs Papers: 12 May, 2023
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Notification of Acceptance: 9 June, 2023
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Camera Ready Copy due: 30 June, 2023
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Conference: 18-21 September, 2023
Aim and Scope
The CLEF Conference addresses all aspects of Information …
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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:
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Information access in any language or modality: information retrieval,
image retrieval, question answering, information extraction and
summarisation, search interfaces and design, infrastructures, etc.
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Analytics for information retrieval: theoretical and practical results
in the analytics field that are specifically targeted for information
access data analysis, data enrichment, etc.
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User studies either based on lab studies or crowdsourcing.
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Past results/run deep analysis both statistically and fine grain based.
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Evaluation initiatives: conclusions, lessons learned, impact and
projection of any evaluation initiative after completing their cycle.
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Evaluation: methodologies, metrics, statistical and analytical tools,
component based, user groups and use cases, ground-truth creation, impact
of multilingual/multicultural/multimodal differences, etc.
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Technology transfer: economic impact/sustainability of information
access approaches, deployment and exploitation of systems, use cases, etc.
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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.
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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.
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New data collection: presentation of new data collection with potential
high impact on future research, specific collections from companies or
labs, multilingual collections.
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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:
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Long papers: 12 pages max (excluding references). Aimed to report
complete research works.
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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
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Submit the methodology version at the Methodology Track
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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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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 …
[View More]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 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 …
[View More]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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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 …
[View More]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
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>
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Task Description
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*The 4th Slav-NER Shared Task focuses on Named Entities …
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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.
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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.
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Important Dates
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* 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.
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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
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> The Computation, Cognition, and Language Group at Idiap in Martigny, is
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> duration of 2 years.
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> 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.
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> The appointment for this position is for 24 months, starting from May
> 1st, (but open until filled) with possibilities for renewal depending on
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> Ph.D. degree (or close to completion) in Computer Science or another
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> high-quality first-author publications
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> Interest in working in a cross-disciplinary team, working on a diverse
> set of languages
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> Solid English communication skills (scientific writing and speaking)
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> Confident in Python programming
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> Expertise in any of following areas is a plus but not required:
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> The Idiap Research Institute ('AI for society')
> https://www.idiap.ch/en/about
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> Idiap is an independent, not-for-profit, research institute accredited
> and funded by the Swiss Federal Government, the State of Valais, and the
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> offering exceptional quality of life, exciting recreational activities,
> including hiking, climbing and skiing, as well as varied cultural
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> Although Idiap is located in the French part of Switzerland, English is
> the official working language.
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> For frequently asked questions (FAQs) about living in Switzerland,
> please go tohttps://www.idiap.ch/en/faq
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> 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…
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> 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
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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 …
[View More]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:
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language modeling
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morphological analysis and generation,
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syntactic and semantic parsing,
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lexical semantics,
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named-entity recognition,
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text normalisation and processing non-standard language
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coreference resolution,
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information extraction,
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question answering,
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text summarization,
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machine translation,
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development of linguistic resources,
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text classification
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disinformation detection,
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fact verification.
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sentiment analysis
This Workshop continues the proud tradition established by the 8 previous BSNLP Workshops.
IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission deadline: 27 February 2023
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Notification of acceptance: 19 March 2023
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Camera-ready papers due: 27 March 2023
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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:
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Czech,
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Polish,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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…
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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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