March 2023 - Corpora

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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CfP: Humor and Artificial Intelligence at ISHS 2023
by Tristan Miller 02 Mar '23

02 Mar '23

Humor and Artificial Intelligence Track ======================================= 33rd International Society for Humor Studies Conference (ISHS 2023) Boston, Massachusetts July 3 to 7, 2023 https://combeyond.bu.edu/offering/international-society-of-humor-studies-co… ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: MARCH 1, 2023 Call for papers --------------- Humor is a universal and ubiquitous facet of human communication, but is among the hardest to process in artificial intelligence environments. The Humor and Artificial Intelligence track at ISHS 2023 solicits abstracts on the computational representation, detection, classification, interpretation, and generation of any and all forms of verbal or non-verbal humor. Application areas include, but are not limited to: * human–computer interaction * computer-mediated communication * intelligent writing assistants * conversational agents * machine and computer-assisted translation * digital humanities * natural language processing * computer vision Abstracts of 150 to 350 words should be submitted on the ISHS 2023 website at <https://combeyond.bu.edu/offering/international-society-of-humor-studies-co…> by March 1, 2023. Authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to give a conference talk of approximately 20 minutes plus time for questions. Conveners --------- Kiki Hempelmann (Texas A&M University-Commerce) Tristan Miller (Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence) Julia M. Rayz (Purdue University) -- Dr.-Ing. Tristan Miller, Research Scientist Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI) Freyung 6/6, 1010 Vienna, Austria | Tel: +43 1 5336112 12 https://logological.org/ | https://punderstanding.ofai.at/

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18 month postdoc position in Natural Language Processing at the University of Copenhagen
by Desmond Elliott 02 Mar '23

02 Mar '23

The Natural Language Processing Section at the Department of Computer Science at University of Copenhagen is advertising an 18 month position for a Postdoctoral Researcher in Natural Language Processing. The position is funded by a VILLUM Young Investigator Grant held by the principal investigator, Desmond Elliott. The overall goal of the project is to develop a new family of language models that can process any written language by rendering text as images, which allows the models to learn from the visual similarities between written languages, facilitating effective transfer to lower-resource or unseen languages. The Natural Language Processing Section provides a strong, international and diverse environment for research within core as well as emerging topics in natural language processing, natural language understanding, computational linguistics and multi-modal language processing. It is housed within the main Science Campus, which is centrally located in Copenhagen. Further information about research at the Department is available here: https://di.ku.dk/english/research/. The application deadline is 29 March 2023, with a preferred start date of 1 June 2023, or as soon as possible thereafter. Applications for the position can be submitted here: https://employment.ku.dk/faculty/?show=158711 Informal enquiries about the positions can be made to Desmond Elliott, Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, e-mail: de(a)di.ku.dk.

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SEPLN 2023 - Second Call for Papers
by Eugenio Martínez Camara 02 Mar '23

02 Mar '23

[apologies for cross-posting] *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/ The Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN <http://www.sepln.org/>) 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. The main aim of the SEPLN 2023 Conference is to provide both to the scientific community and to the industry a forum where the latest research and developments in the field of NLP can be presented and shared. The SEPLN 2023 Conference also gives the possibility to present real NLP applications and R&D projects. Finally, the conference intends to be an appropriate forum for helping new professionals to become active members in this field. *Topics of interest* Topics related to NLP, including but not limited to: - Linguistic, mathematical and psycholinguistic models of language. - Machine learning in NLP. - Computational lexicography and terminology. - Corpus linguistics. - Development of linguistic resources and tools. - Morphological and syntactic analysis. - Semantics, pragmatics and discourse. - Word sense disambiguation. - Monolingual and multilingual text generation. - Machine translation. - Knowledge and common sense. - Multimodality. - Spoken language processing. - Dialogue systems and interactive systems / Conversational assistants. - Multimedia indexing and retrieval. - Monolingual and multilingual information extraction and retrieval. - Question answering systems. - Evaluation of NLP systems. - Automatic textual content analysis. - Sentiment analysis and argument mining. - Plagiarism detection. - Negation and speculation processing. - Text mining in social media. - Text summarization. - Text simplification. - NLP in the biomedical domain. - NLP-based generation of teaching resources. - NLP for languages with limited resources. - NLP industrial applications. - Low-resource NLP tasks, data augmentation. - Ethics and NLP. - Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP. *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. *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, 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) among others. 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 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 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 19th, 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 19th, 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 Granada (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 University of Jaén (Spain). *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. Dpto. de Informática / Computer Science Department Universidad de Jaén.

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1st Call for Papers: The 37th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 37)
by emmanuelechersoni＠gmail.com 02 Mar '23

02 Mar '23

* The 37th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 37) * * December 2-4, 2023 (deadline paper submission: July 16, 2023 AoE) * * The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong (China) * CONFERENCE OBJECTIVES Following the long tradition of PACLIC conferences, PACLIC 37 emphasizes the synergy of theoretical frameworks and processing of natural language, providing a forum for researchers from different fields to share and discuss progress in scientific studies, development and application of the topics related to the study of languages. TOPICS Topics include but are not limited to: - Language Studies o Clinical linguistics and language disorders o Corpus linguistics o Discourse Analysis o Language Acquisition o Language and Social Media o Language Learning o Language, Mind and Culture o Linguistic Theories o Morphology o Multilingualism o Phonology o Pragmatics o Semantics o Sociolinguistics o Spoken language processing o Syntax o Typology - Information Processing and Computational Applications o Cognitive modeling and psycholinguistics o Dialogue systems o Digital Humanities o Ethics in Natural Language Processing o Information retrieval/extraction o Interpretability of Natural Language Processing systems o Language models o Language resources o Linguistic diversity o Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing o Machine Translation o Multimodality o Natural Language Generation o Natural Language Processing applications o Sentiment Analysis o Summarization o Word segmentation PAPER SUBMISSION Papers may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus references and appendices. Submissions will be judged based on relevance, technical strength, significance and opportunities, and interest to the attendees. As the reviewing will be double-blind, authors must not indicate their names and affiliations while submitting their papers. Papers must be submitted through the Easy Chair Conference System: [URL COMING SOON]. Accepted papers will be presented orally or as posters as determined by the PACLIC 37 program committee. Papers in the proceedings of PACLIC have been indexed in Scopus since PACLIC 19 (2005). They are also listed in the ACL Anthology. Double submissions with other conferences/workshops are allowed, but the authors are asked to declare it at submission time. SUBMISSION FORMAT The conference will only accept papers formatted according to the standard ACL templates (downloadable at: https://2023.aclweb.org/calls/style_and_formatting/). IMPORTANT DATES * Deadline of paper submission: July 16, 2023 (AoE) * Notification: September 10, 2023 Camera-ready: October 1, 2023 Early bird registration: October 1, 2023 Conference: December 2-4, 2023 CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS (To be completed) Chu-Ren Huang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) Yasunari Harada (Waseda University) Jong-Bok Kim (Kyung Hee University) Emmanuele Chersoni (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) Sophia Yat Mei Lee (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) Sarah Chen (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) Yu-Yin Hsu (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) CONTACT paclic37(a)gmail.com

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CfP Extension: Context in Neural Machine Translation & Evaluation
by Knowles, Rebecca 01 Mar '23

01 Mar '23

*Apologies for cross-posting* [image.png] Deadline Extended: Special issue on The Role of Context in Neural Machine Translation Systems and its Evaluation in Natural Language Engineering Submission deadline extended to March 31, 2023. Guest editors: - Sheila Castilho (The ADAPT Centre, School of Applied Languages and Intercultural Studies, Dublin City University)) - Rebecca Knowles (National Research Council Canada) For this special issue, we invite the submission of papers focusing on the variety of novel implementations of context into neural machine translation systems as well as novel approaches to its evaluation. Recent claims that machine translation systems are reaching (near) human parity at the sentence level have been followed by subsequent analyses that indicate remaining gaps in translation quality at the document level. How best to evaluate machine translation at the document level (and what exactly constitutes document level evaluation) remains an open question. At the same time, there is work seeking to add discourse and context into neural machine translation systems. Papers that focus on topics of context in neural machine translation, machine translation evaluation, or both are welcome. For full details, see: https://sites.google.com/dcu.ie/nlecontextnmt/home Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Novel language processing techniques for implementing discourse in NMT systems - Document-level NMT and evaluation - Use of target and source context - Context-aware techniques for quality evaluation - Context-aware automatic and human evaluation metrics - The size and composition of the training data and its effect on context-aware systems - The effect of the quality of training data and test sets on context-aware systems - Translationese and its effect on document-level training - Lexical diversity and lexical density in discourse NMT - Discourse NMT for different domains Publication Timeline: - Article submission deadline: 31 March 2023 - Return of reviews to contributors: 15 May 2023 - Revised articles deadline submission: 15 June 2023 - Return of second reviews to contributors (if applicable): 1 August 2023 - Final Submission: 15 September 2023 - Publication: November 2023 / January 2024 Format and Submission: Typical submissions will be 12-25 pages in length. Authors should follow the "Author Instructions" section on the journal website: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/natural-language-engineering/inform… We highly recommend using the LaTeX template found under "Preparing your materials" at the link above. All manuscripts must be submitted online via the NLE ScholarOne website: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/nle. Under "Special Issue Designation", choose "The Role of Context in Neural Machine Translation Systems and its Evaluation". Queries: Any queries related to this special issue should be addressed to sheila.castilho(a)dcu.ie<mailto:sheila.castilho@dcu.ie> with NLE-ContextNMT in the subject line.

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Second call For Papers - IWCS 2023
by Maxime Amblard 01 Mar '23

01 Mar '23

**apologies for cross-postings** === Second call for papers IWCS 2023 === Paper submissions: 15 March 2023 https://softconf.com/iwcs2023/papers ======================================== 15th International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS) Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France 20-23th June 2023 http://iwcs2023.loria.fr/ IWCS is the biennial meeting of SIGSEM [1], the ACL special interest group on semantics [2]; this year's edition is organized in person by the Loria [3] and IDMC [4] of the Université de Lorraine. [1] http://sigsem.org/ [2] http://aclweb.org/ [3] https://www.loria.fr/fr/ [4] http://idmc.univ-lorraine.fr/ The aim of the IWCS conference is to bring together researchers interested in any aspects of the computation, annotation, extraction, representation and neuralisation of meaning in natural language, whether this is from a lexical or structural semantic perspective. IWCS embraces both symbolic and machine learning approaches to computational semantics, and everything in between. The conference and workshops will take place 20-23 June 2023. === TOPICS OF INTEREST === We invite paper submissions in all areas of computational semantics, in other words all computational aspects of meaning of natural language within written, spoken, signed, or multi-modal communication. Presentations will be oral and posters. Submissions are invited on these closely related areas, including the following: * design of meaning representations * syntax-semantics interface * representing and resolving semantic ambiguity * shallow and deep semantic processing and reasoning * hybrid symbolic and statistical approaches to semantics * distributional semantics * alternative approaches to compositional semantics * inference methods for computational semantics * recognising textual entailment * learning by reading * methodologies and practices for semantic annotation * machine learning of semantic structures * probabilistic computational semantics * neural semantic parsing * computational aspects of lexical semantics * semantics and ontologies * semantic web and natural language processing * semantic aspects of language generation * generating from meaning representations * semantic relations in discourse and dialogue * semantics and pragmatics of dialogue acts * multimodal and grounded approaches to computing meaning * semantics-pragmatics interface * applications of computational semantics === SUBMISSION INFORMATION === Two types of submission are solicited: long papers and short papers. Both types should be submitted not later than 3 March (anywhere on earth). Long papers should describe original research and must not exceed 8 pages (not counting acknowledgements and references). Short papers (typically system or project descriptions, or ongoing research) must not exceed 4 pages (not counting acknowledgements and references). Both types will be published in the conference proceedings and in the ACL Anthology. Accepted papers get an extra page in the camera-ready version. Style-files: IWCS papers should be formatted following the common two-column structure as used by ACL. Please use our specific style-files or the Overleaf template, taken from ACL 2021. Similar to ACL 2021, initial submissions should be fully anonymous to ensure double-blind reviewing. Submitting: Papers should be submitted in PDF format via Softconf: https://softconf.com/iwcs2023/papers Please make sure that you select the right track when submitting your paper. Contact the organisers if you have problems using Softconf. No anonymity period IWCS 2023 does not have an anonymity period. However, we ask you to be reasonable and not publicly advertise your preprint during (or right before) review. === IMPORTANT DATES === 15 March 2023 (anywhere on earth) Paper submissions 17 April 2023 Decisions sent to authors 15 May 2023 Camera-ready papers due 20-23 June 2023 IWCS conference === CONTACT === For questions, contact: iwcs2023-contact(a)univ-lorraine.fr Maxime Amblard, Ellen Breithloltz (the IWCS 2023 organizers) ---------------------- Maxime Amblard Université de Lorraine https://members.loria.fr/mamblard http://espoir-ul.fr

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[Engineer position – 18 months] Research engineer in full-stack software development
by Claire Gardent 01 Mar '23

01 Mar '23

{Engineer offer – 18 months] Research engineer in full-stack software development ** CONTEXT We are looking for a software engineer (Engineering School or Master Degree) for full-stack development within a technology transfer project on Computer Assisted Language Learning funded by CNRS. ** TOPIC and MISSIONS The recruted engineer will work on the design and implementation of modules within a web application. She/he will take part in the following tasks: - Extending a Natural Language Processing (NLP) engine written in Python / Pytorch (Back-End) in order to include new functionalities and a webservice interface (API) ; - Designing and implementing a dashboard for administrating the application (Front-End) ; - Designing installation and deployment procedures using docker-based application virtualisation. In addition to these tasks, documentation writing will be expected (to facilitate future code maintenance and extension). ** TECHNOLOGIES Frameworks and technologies used for this project include: - Functional and object-oriented programming in Python - Web technologies (HTML / CSS / JS / VueJS / Jinja2) - Libraries for NLP (e.g. Spacy) / Machine Learning (e.g. ScikitLearn) and Deep Learning (Pytorch) - Relational and noSQL databases - Versionning (Git) - Application virtualisation (Docker) ** WORKING VENUE Work will be carried out at Loria on the science campus of the Université de Lorraine in Nancy, France. Loria is a research unit supported by CNRS (UMR 7503), Inria and Université de Lorraine. Since its creation in 1997, Loria’s activities belong to fundamental and applied research in computer sciences. The lab is a member of the Charles Hermite Federation, which groups the four main research labs in Mathematics, in Information and Communication Sciences and in Control and Automation. Bolstered by the 400 people working in the lab, its scientific work is conducted in 28 teams including 15 common teams with INRIA. LORIA is today one of the biggest research labs in Lorraine. Loria is renowned for its expertise in the following areas: - Algorithmics, Computation, Image and Geometry - Formal methods - Networks, Systems and Services - Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Discovery - Complex Systems, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Loria offers a dynamic and international environment in sync with the challenges of society (cybersecurity, quantic computing, artificial intelligence, e-education, robotics, energy, health). The selected candidate will be part of the SyNaLP tem, a group 9 permanent researchers et 11 PhD candidates specialised in Natural Language Processing. The GramEx project is lead by Claire Gardent, CNRS Senior Researcher, who has been awarded the 2022 CNRS Silver Medal and who will lead the project on which the recruted engineer will work. ** CANDIDATE PROFILE We are looking for applications from candidates with a background in computer science (Engineering or Master degree), a good experience in software development (experience in the above mentioned technologies is not mandatory), rigour, curiosity and who appreciate team work. Prior experience with NLP, Machine Learning, Deep Learning or in one of the technologies mentioned in this offer are a plus. ** EXTRA INFORMATION The recruted person will work under a fixed-term contract for 18 months. Income will be between 2609 € and 3169 € brutto per month depending on work experience. ** HOW TO APPLY Applications are open until the positions is filled. Please send a letter of motivation, a curriculum vitae, your MSc transcript of records (grades), and the names and contact information of at least two referees to Claire Gardent (claire.gardent(a)loria.fr) and Yannick Parmentier (yannick.parmentier(a)loria.fr).

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Postdoctoral Researcher on Translation, Religion and Print history @ Uni of Galway
by Anna Beatriz Dimas Furtado 01 Mar '23

01 Mar '23

The University of Galway is recruiting a full-time, fixed term Postdoctoral Researcher for 36 months. The successful candidate will join a diverse and international research team on the PIETRA Project led by Professor Anne O’Connor, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures. The position is funded by a European Research Council Consolidator Grant awarded to Professor O’Connor and is available from April 2023 to contract end date of March 2026 (36 months). *The project* PIETRA is the first, large-scale, multilingual study of the translation products and processes that underpin communication in global religion. The project focuses on translation practices in the institution of the Catholic Church and the multilingual communication of religious messages against a background of technological change. It poses key research questions relating to consistency of message in a large multilingual institution across different languages, cultures and communicative formats. PIETRA analyses the translation processes and products of the Catholic Church across three different media (print, web and social media) and in two different time periods to advance understandings of how multilingual dissemination intersects with technological change and institutional ideology. PIETRA combines the latest advances in empirical translation research, data capture and analytics, with sociological and ethnographic investigations to form a model for the analysis of the products and processes of large-scale multilingual dissemination. *The place* This post will be based in the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies, located in the Hardiman Research Building at the University of Galway. The researcher will work with the other members of the research team and will benefit from dedicated training, mentorship and networking activities. The research team will comprise of the PI, 2 postdoctoral researchers, 2 Research Assistants and 3 doctoral students. *Job Description:* The Postdoctoral Researcher (PDR) will conduct archival research relating to the Catholic publishing industry in the nineteenth century. The researcher will create datasets on the translation of Catholic religious works in European countries and beyond, analysing bibliographical trends and conducting data trawls through catalogues. The PDR will study the paratexts of religious translations, publication processes and changes in print industrialisation. The PDR will be involved in the dissemination of project findings. This will include co-authoring and presenting conferences papers; co-authoring peer-reviewed articles; co-ordinating social media communications, and co-creating and organising dissemination events. *Duties include:* – Developing datasets on religious translations in the nineteenth century – Quantitative research, data gathering and data input of multilingual sources – Analysing translation patterns and media of communication in the nineteenth century – Analysing related elements such as economics, paratextuality, audience, translators – Contributing to the project website, social media outputs – Preparation of research work for publication, individually or in collaboration with research team, and dissemination of results as appropriate (peer-reviewed publications, conference presentations) – Promotion of the project including project website and social media – Contribution to project progress reports and day to day running of the project – Building collaborative relationships with researchers – Attending core meetings *Essential Requirements:* Suitable candidates must meet the following criteria: – PhD in Translation History/Religious History/Digital Humanities or related area (submitted before interview date) – Excellent writing and communication skills – English proficiency plus proficiency in at least two additional languages (preferably including one of the following: Polish, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese). *Desirable criteria:* – Familiarity with religious translation/religious contexts – Ability to work both collaboratively and independently – Good evidence of quantitative research skills and/or experience working with multilingual corpora/large data sets – Peer-reviewed publication record – Evidence of strong organizational and interpersonal skills *Salary:* €41,209 per annum pro rata for shorter and/or part-time contracts (public sector pay policy rules pertaining to new entrants will apply). *Start:* April 2023 *Continuing Professional Development/Training:* The University of Galway provides continuing professional development support for all researchers seeking to build their own career pathways either within or beyond academia. Researchers are encouraged to engage with our Researcher Development Centre (RDC) upon commencing employment – see www.universityofgalway.ie/rdc for further information. Further information on research and working at University of Galway is available on Research at University of Galway. For information on moving to Ireland please see www.euraxess.ie. Further informal enquiries concerning this position may be made by contacting Professor Anne O’Connor: anne.oconnor(a)universityofgalway.ie. *To Apply* Applications should include a covering letter outlining the applicant’s suitability for the role, a sample of academic written work (e.g. published article, thesis chapter), a CV, and the contact details of two referees. Applications should be sent as one pdf file via email to mooreinstitute(a)universityofgalway.ie. Please put the relevant reference number *University of Galway 049-23* in the subject line of email application. Closing date for receipt of applications is *5.00 pm, March 24 2023*. Interviews are planned to be held online the week commencing 4 April 2023. We reserve the right to re-advertise or extend the closing date for this post. The University of Galway is an equal opportunities employer. All positions are recruited in line with Open, Transparent, Merit (OTM) and Competency based recruitment. -- Anna Furtado Research Assistant in the PIETRA Project <https://pietra.universityofgalway.ie/>.

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2nd Call for Papers: Workshop on RESOURCEs and representations For Under-resourced Languages and domains (RESOURCEFUL-2023)
by Adam 01 Mar '23

01 Mar '23

[Apologies for cross-posting] The second workshop on resources and representations for under-resourced language and domains (RESOURCEFUL-2023, https://resourceful-workshop.github.io/resourceful-2023/index.html) explores the role of the kind and the quality of resources that are available to us and challenges and directions for constructing new resources in light of the latest trends in natural language processing. The workshop is co-located with NoDaLiDa2023 (https://www.nodalida2023.fo/) at Tórshavn, Faroe Islands on May 22nd-24th, 2023. Data-driven machine-learning techniques in natural language processing have achieved remarkable performance (e.g., BERT, GPT, ChatGPT) but in order to do so large quantities of quality data (which is mostly text) is required. Interpretability studies of large language models in both text-only and multi-modal setups have revealed that even in cases where large text datasets are available, the models still do not cover all the contexts of human social activity and are prone to capturing unwanted bias where data is focused towards only some contexts. A question has also been raised whether textual data is enough to capture semantics of natural language processing and other modalities such as visual representations or a situated context of a robot might be required. Annotator-based resources have been constructed over years based on theoretical work in linguistics, psychology and related fields and a large amount of work has been done both theoretically and practically. The purpose of the workshop is to initiate a discussion between the two communities involved in building resources (data vs annotation-based) and exploring their synergies for the new challenges in natural language processing. We encourage contributions in the areas of resource creation, representation learning and interpretability in data-driven and expert-driven machine learning setups and both uni-modal and multi-modal scenarios. In particular we would like to open a forum by bringing together students, researchers, and experts to address and discuss the following questions: - What is relevant linguistic knowledge the models should capture and how can this knowledge be sampled and extracted in practice? - What kind of linguistic knowledge do we want and can capture in different contexts and tasks? - To what degree are resources that have been traditionally aimed at rule-based natural language processing approaches relevant today both for machine learning techniques and hybrid approaches? - How can they be adapted for data-driven approaches? - To what degree data-driven approaches can be used to facilitate expert-driven annotation? - What are current challenges for expert-based annotation? - How can crowd-sourcing and citizen science be used in building resources? - How can we evaluate and reduce unwanted biases? Intended participants are researchers, PhD students and practitioners from diverse backgrounds (linguistics, psychology, computational linguistics, speech, computer science, machine learning, computer vision etc). We foresee an interactive workshop with plenty of time for discussion, complemented with invited talks and presentations of on-going or completed research. This workshop is a continuation of the first workshop on resources and representations for under-resourced languages and domains held together with the SLTC 2020, https://gu-clasp.github.io/resourceful-2020/. ** Important dates: - Submission deadline for archival papers: 28th March 2023 - Submission deadline for non-archival papers: 4 April 2023 - Notification of acceptance: 25th April 2023 - Camera-ready version: 9th May 2023 - Workshop date: 22nd May 2023 All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth"). ** Submission We invite submissions of long papers (8 pages), short papers (4 pages), and extended abstracts describing work in progress (2 pages). Submissions can report negative results and be opinion pieces. Both papers and extended abstracts can include any number of pages for references. All submissions must follow the NoDaLida template, available in both LaTeX and MS Word, the templates are available at the official conference website, https://www.nodalida2023.fo/authorkit-nodalida23 Submissions must be anonymous and submitted in the PDF format through OpenReview. We also invite submissions of non-archival papers related to our theme already presented or published at other venues. These can be submitted in their original formatting. They will be reviewed by the workshop organisers and the accepted ones will be posted on the workshop website. Authors may be asked to contribute peer-reviews of papers. ** Workshop organisers Dana Dannélls, Språkbanken Text, University of Gothenburg Simon Dobnik, CLASP, University of Gothenburg Adam Ek, CLASP, University of Gothenburg Stella Frank, University of Copenhagen Nikolai Ilinykh, CLASP, University of Gothenburg Beáta Megyesi, Uppsala University Felix Morger, Språkbanken Text, University of Gothenburg Joakim Nivre, RISE and Uppsala University Magnus Sahlgren, AI Sweden Sara Stymne, Uppsala University Jörg Tiedemann, University of Helsinki Lilja Øvrelid, University of Oslo

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