March 2023 - Corpora

Embodied and Emotional Voice Interaction with ChatGPT and QTrobot
by hkivanani＠gmail.com 29 Mar '23

29 Mar '23

Dear all, 👋Join the LuxAI QTrobot competition at IROS2023 (https://ieee-iros.org/) and win one of three QTrobots! 👉Sneak-peak: Embodied and Emotional Voice Interaction with ChatGPT and QTrobot. 🤓 Sounds interesting? Click https://luxai.com/blog/iroscompetition2023/ to learn more and off we go! Important dates: 👉 Registration Deadline: 10.04.2023 Please consider registering: https://luxai.com/blog/iroscompetition2023/ Task Large language models such as GPT3 can be used for different applications in human-computer interaction, and we want to explore their use in embodied interaction. The task in the competition will be to integrate ChatGPT gpt-3.5-turbo model into QTrobot by LuxAI to build a model for embodiment based on the output of the large language model. The embodiment model should employ and synchronize voice, facial expressions and gestures of the robot to produce emotional and multimodal (voice-based and embodied) dialogues. The steps can be for example: 1- A user sends a textual input to ChatGPT using a web interface. 2- Response from ChatGPT arrives and is analyzed by your model. 3- QTrobot performs what your model suggests: how to move arms, how to speak, how to show emotions. You can find the technical description of the QTrobot here: QTrobot Documentation (https://docs.luxai.com/docs/tutorials/intro_ros) Organizers: Sviatlana Höhn (LuxAI S.A) Ali Paikan (LuxAI. S.A) Denis Kovacevic (LuxAI S.A.) Nina Hosseini-Kivanani (University of Luxembourg) Contact Any questions? Contact the organizers via iros2023(a)luxai.com!

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Corpus-based research on Marxist discourse
by Mikhail Mikhailov (TAU) 29 Mar '23

29 Mar '23

Dear all, does anyone happen to know, if there exist any corpus-based research of Marxist discourse? Thank you in advance. Best wishes, Mikhail Mikhail Mikhailov Professor of Translation Studies (Finnish and Russian) Tampere University, ITC Kanslerinrinne 1, Pinni B4109 +358 50 318 0767 web: https://www.tuni.fi/en/mikhail-mikhailov

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Call for Papers: LxGr2023 - Extended Deadline
by Costas Gabrielatos 29 Mar '23

29 Mar '23

Symposium: Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar (LxGr2023) CALL FOR PAPERS Extended deadline for abstract submission: 15 April 2023 The symposium will take place online on 7-8 July 2023. Invited Speakers: Gaëtanelle Gilquin<https://perso.uclouvain.be/gaetanelle.gilquin> (Université catholique de Louvain) Thomas Herbst<https://www.angam.phil.fau.de/fields/engling/herbst/> (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität) If you would like to present, send an abstract of 500 words (excluding references) to lxgr(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:lxgr@edgehill.ac.uk>. Make sure that the abstract clearly specifies the research focus (research questions or hypotheses), the corpus, the methodology (techniques and metrics), the theoretical orientation, and the main findings. Abstracts will be double-blind reviewed, and decisions will be communicated within four weeks. Full papers will be allocated 35 minutes (including 10 minutes for discussion). Work-in-progress reports will be allocated 20 minutes (including 5 minutes for discussion). There will be no parallel sessions. Participation is free. The focus of LxGr is the interaction of lexis and grammar. The focus is influenced by Halliday's view of lexis and grammar as "complementary perspectives" (1991: 32), and his conception of the two as notional ends of a continuum (lexicogrammar), in that "if you interrogate the system grammatically you will get grammar-like answers and if you interrogate it lexically you get lexis-like answers" (1992: 64). For more information and details of past symposia, see here: https://ehu.ac.uk/lxgr. If you have any questions, contact lxgr(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:lxgr@edgehill.ac.uk>. ________________________________ Edge Hill University<http://ehu.ac.uk/home/emailfooter> Modern University of the Year, The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2022<http://ehu.ac.uk/tef/emailfooter> University of the Year, Educate North 2021/21 ________________________________ This message is private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it from your system. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Edge Hill or associated companies. Edge Hill University may monitor email traffic data and also the content of email for the purposes of security and business communications during staff absence.<http://ehu.ac.uk/itspolicies/emailfooter>

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[2nd CFP][ICWSM 2023][Extended Deadline] TRUEHEALTH 2023: Workshop on Combating Health Misinformation for Social Wellbeing
by Rishabh Upadhyay 28 Mar '23

28 Mar '23

[Apologies for multiple submissions] Submission deadline EXTENDED to APRIL 09! Papers will be published in the ICWSM Workshop Proceedings. Long Papers are welcome, but also Short Papers and Abstracts are great for discussing ongoing work. Call for Papers TrueHealth 2023: Combating Health Misinformation for Social Wellbeing Workshop @ ICWSM 2023, the 17th International Conference on Web and Social Media June 5th – 8th 2023, Limassol, Cyprus https://truehealth.disco.unimib.it/ Scope and topics In recent years, people have increasingly referred to the Web and social media as sources of information about health-related problems and solutions, as confirmed by the U.S. Pew Research Center, and other European and international studies. Although, on the one hand, these platforms favor easier and more direct access to information sources by users without the intermediation of experts, on the other hand, it is precisely such democratization of health information that constitutes a potential danger for people. As we have seen especially in the last period, linked to the pandemic, the proliferation of false information, conspiracy theories, and unreliable remedies risk compromising the health not only of individuals but that of the community as a whole. From this perspective, it becomes necessary to study and propose technological solutions to help users come into contact with genuine information, especially in a critical domain such as health, for social well-being. To this end, it is essential to promote research of an interdisciplinary nature, involving computer scientists, physicians, lawyers, and communication experts who can address the problem of health misinformation from different points of view by combining their expertise. The topics of interest of the TrueHealth 2023 Workshop at ICWSM include, but are not limited to: Assessing the genuineness of Online Health Information (OHI); Consumer Health Search (CHS) and genuine information access; Debunking health misinformation; Fake news/rumors and healthcare; Measures, evaluation methods, and datasets for health misinformation detection; Health misinformation detection; Health literacy and information genuineness; Fact-checking in Online Health Information (OHI); Misinformation and public opinion on health; Relationship between access to non-genuine information and danger to public health; Relationship between psychological characteristics and perceptions of health misinformation; Techniques for accessing and retrieving genuine Online Health Information (OHI). Submission Instructions We welcome both 2-page abstracts, as well as Long (8 pages) and Short (4 pages) papers – excluding references (11 pages max with references and ethics statement). Abstracts are ideal as Demo or Position papers, Short papers as presentations of ongoing research with preliminary results or summaries of previous work, and Long papers as presentations of novel research and results. Long and Short papers will be published in ICWSM Workshop Proceedings (http://workshop-proceedings.icwsm.org/). All submissions should be double-blind. Papers have to follow the AAAI format, as outlined here: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/aaai-2023-author-kit/wxnmhzcrjbpc Submit here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=truehealth2023 Other ICWSM submission instructions: https://www.icwsm.org/2023/index.html/call_for_submissions.html Important Dates Workshop Papers Submissions: April 09, 2023 Workshop Paper Acceptance Notification:April 23, 2023 Workshop Final Camera-Ready Paper Due: May 5, 2023 ICWSM-2023 Workshops Day: June 5, 2023 Organizers Gabriella Pasi (Full Professor), University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy Rishabh Upadhyay (Research Fellow), University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy Marco Viviani (Associate Professor), University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy Program Committee Lorraine Goeuriot, Université Grenoble Alpes, France Sanda Harabagiu, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA Liadh Kelly, Maynooth University, Ireland Dongwon Lee, The Pennsylvania State University, USA Yelena Mejova, ISI Foundation, Italy Marinella Petrocchi, Institute of Informatics and Telematics (CNR), Italy Michael Sirivianos, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus Xingyi Song, University of Sheffield, UK Hanna Suominen, Australian National University, Australia Francesca Spazzano, Boise State University, USA Angelo Spognardi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Bei Yu, Syracuse University, USA Arkaitz Zubiaga, Queen Mary University of London, UK

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Fully-funded PhD contract in English for Specific Purposes, France
by Alex Boulton 28 Mar '23

28 Mar '23

Dear colleagues I would be grateful if you could distribute the following announcement for a PhD contract funded by the French ANR "Lexhnology". This project in English for Specific Purposes specifically concerns moves analysis and data-driven learning for reading legal texts in English. The full profile and call for applications can be found at: https://emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Doctorant/UMR7118-SABMAR-015/Default.aspx?lan… Kind regards Alex Boulton ATILF, CNRS & Université de Lorraine [ https://perso.atilf.fr/aboulton/ ]

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Deadline extension - Mediate 2023 ICWSM Workshop - Submit papers and talk proposals
by Elena Kochkina 28 Mar '23

28 Mar '23

Mediate 2023: Mediate - News Media and Computational Journalism Workshop co-located with ICWSM 2023 Limassol, Cyprus, June 5, 2023 https://digitalmediasig.github.io/Mediate2023/ Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mediate2023 Papers and talk proposals due: April 3, 2023 The fourth MEDIATE workshop will be held on June 5, as part of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM). The main goal of the workshop is to bring together media practitioners and technologists to discuss new opportunities and obstacles that arise in the modern era of information diffusion. This year's theme is: Misinformation: automated journalism, explainable and multi-modal verification and content moderation. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Automated journalism: novel automated and human-in-the-loop solutions for rumour detection/verification, fact-checking, stance classification, evaluation of existing solutions and novel relevant applications. Submitted papers should describe how their advantages would lead to being adopted in practice by journalists and the public (e.g. improved generalisability, ability to provide explanations, reduced bias) and address ethical considerations. - Explainable and Multi-modal verification: explainable rumour verification systems, evidence-based solutions, uncertainty and prediction explainability and general interpretable and transparent AI-systems, as well as multi-modal rumour verification/fact-checking models, sources and data, non-textual and multi-modal features. - Content Moderation: novel content moderation systems for inhibiting misinformation spreading, domain-specific content moderation solutions as well as content moderation systems that showcase generalisability and are interpretable. We invite submissions of technical papers and talk proposals: - Technical papers must be up to 4 pages (short papers) or up to 8 pages (long papers). Technical papers must contain novel, previously-unpublished material related to the topics of the workshop. Accepted papers will be presented orally and will appear in the workshop proceedings. - Talk proposals must be up to 2 pages describing the content of a short talk (the actual length will be determined based on program constraints). Papers must adhere to the ICWSM guidelines ( https://www.icwsm.org/2023/index.html/call_for_submissions.html#guidelines) and be submitted through easychair ( https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mediate2023). Organizing committee Talia Tseriotou, Queen Mary University of London Dina Pisarevskaya, Queen Mary University of London Elena Kochkina, Alan Turing Institute Marya Bazzi, Alan Turing Institute & University of Warwick Maria Liakata, Alan Turing Institute & Queen Mary University of London Arkaitz Zubiaga, Queen Mary University of London All questions about submissions should be emailed to t.tseriotou(a)qmul.ac.uk<mailto:t.tseriotou@qmul.ac.uk>, d.pisarevskaya(a)qmul.ac.uk<mailto:d.pisarevskaya@qmul.ac.uk> and mbazzi(a)turing.ac.uk<mailto:mbazzi@turing.ac.uk>

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Edge Hill Corpus Research Group: Registration
by Costas Gabrielatos 28 Mar '23

28 Mar '23

Edge Hill Corpus Research Group Next meeting: Thursday 30 March 2023, 2-4 pm (UK time) Topic: Corpus Tools and Corpus Processing Speaker: Mike Scott (Lexical Analysis Software & Aston University) Title: News Downloads and Text Coverage: Case Studies in Relevance Details: https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/crg/next Registration closes tomorrow: https://store.edgehill.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/conferences/events/edge… If you have any questions, contact Costas Gabrielatos (gabrielc(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:gabrielc@edgehill.ac.uk>) ________________________________ Edge Hill University<http://ehu.ac.uk/home/emailfooter> Modern University of the Year, The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2022<http://ehu.ac.uk/tef/emailfooter> University of the Year, Educate North 2021/21 ________________________________ This message is private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it from your system. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Edge Hill or associated companies. Edge Hill University may monitor email traffic data and also the content of email for the purposes of security and business communications during staff absence.<http://ehu.ac.uk/itspolicies/emailfooter>

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1st CFP: MEDDOPLACE task on medical location extraction, normalization & toponym resolution (IberlEF/SEPLN 2023)
by Salvador Lima 27 Mar '23

27 Mar '23

(Apologies for cross-posting!) 1st CFP MEDDOPLACE Shared Task @ IberLEF/SEPLN2023 [Medical Documents PLAce-related Content Extraction] Info: - Web: https://temu.bsc.es/meddoplace/ - Registration: https://temu.bsc.es/meddoplace/registration - Data: https://zenodo.org/record/7707567 - Guidelines: https://zenodo.org/record/7775235 A. INTRODUCTION: Location information represents one of the most relevant types of entities for high impact practical NLP solutions, resulting in a variety of applications adapted to different languages, content types and text genres. Despite these previous efforts, the use, application, and exploitation of location-related entity detection (including sociodemographic information as well as more domain-specific things like clinical departments) from medical content was not sufficiently addressed. The performance of general purpose location NER systems applied on clinical texts is still poor, usually covering only general geolocation mentions, lacking sufficient granularity and not taking into account appropriate normalization or linking of the extracted locations to widely used geocoding resources, terminologies or vocabularies (like PlusCodes, GeoNames, or SNOMED CT concepts), thus hindering the practical exploitation of the generated results. To address these issues we organize the MEDDOPLACE shared task (part of the IberLEF/SEPLN2023 initiative) devoted to the recognition, normalization and classification of location and location-related concept mentions for high impact healthcare data mining scenarios. For this task we will release the MEDDOPLACE corpus, a large collection of clinical case reports written in Spanish that were exhaustively annotated manually by linguists and medical experts to label location-relevant entity mentions, following detailed annotation guidelines and entity linking procedures. The practical implications of this task include: - Patient management: The detection of locations, origin of patients, their language is relevant for healthcare safety, management, patient communication and appropriate treatment options. - Diagnosis & prognosis: Location information is important for the diagnosis or prognosis of some diseases that are more endemic to certain regions or particular geographical environments. - Health risk factors: Geolocation information can be a risk factor in case of exposure to radiation, work-related or environmental contaminants affecting patients health. - Mobility: Due to the increasing mobility of populations, detection of patients' travels and movements can improve early detection and tracing of infectious disease outbreaks, and thus enable taking preventive measurements. - Traceability: the detection of medical departments, facilities and services is critical to support the traceability of the patient’s route through the health services. The expected results as well as provided resources for this task show a clear multilingual adaptation potential and could have an impact beyond healthcare documents, being relevant for processing tourism-related content (traveling) or even legal texts. B. TASKS DESCRIPTION: The MEDDOPLACE task is structured into three subtracks: - MEDDOPLACE-NER: Given a collection of plain text documents, systems have to return the exact character offsets of all location and location-related mentions. - MEDDOPLACE-NORM: Given a collection of entities and their origin in text, systems have to normalize them to their corresponding GeoNames (Toponym Resolution), PlusCodes (POIs Toponym Resolution) and SNOMED CT (Entity Linking) concept, depending on entity type. - MEDDOPLACE-CLASS: Classification of detected location entities into four subcategories of clinical relevance (patient’s origin place; residence’s location; place where the patient has traveled to/from; place where the patient has received medical attention) Publications and IBERLEF/SEPLN2023 workshop Teams participating in MEDDOPLACE will be invited to contribute a systems description paper for the IberLEF (SEPLN 2023) Working Notes proceedings, and a short presentation of their approach at the IberLEF 2023 workshop. Tentative Schedule: - Train set: March 27th, 2023 - Test set release (start of evaluation period): April 3rd, 2023 - End of evaluation period (system submissions): May 10th, 2023 - Working papers submission: June 5th, 2023 - Notification of acceptance (peer-reviews): June 23rd, 2023 - Camera-ready system descriptions: July 6th, 2023 - IberLEF @ SEPLN 2023: September 27th-29th, 2023 Organizers: MEDDOPLACE is organized by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center’s NLP for Biomedical Information Analysis, as well as some external collaborators: - Martin Krallinger, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain - Salvador Lima, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain - Eulàlia Farré, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain - Luis Gascó, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain - Vicent Briva-Iglesias, D-REAL, Dublin City University, Ireland -- Salvador Lima Lopez RESEARCH ENGINEER Life Sciences - NLP for Biomedical Information Analysis, BSC-CNS Barcelona, Spain

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BioNLP 2023 2nd CFP
by ddemner＠gmail.com 27 Mar '23

27 Mar '23

Dear all, Please consider submitting your work to BIONLP 2023 and Shared Tasks @ ACL 2023 aclweb.org/aclwiki/BioNLP_Workshop Important dates: April 24, 2023: Workshop Paper Due Date. Submission site: softconf.com/acl2023/BioNLP2023 May 29, 20232: Notification of Acceptance June 6, 2023: Camera-ready papers due June 12, 2023: Pre-recorded video due BioNLP 2023 Workshop at ACL, July 13, 2023, Toronto, Cana WORKSHOP OVERVIEW AND SCOPE The BioNLP workshop associated with the ACL SIGBIOMED special interest group has established itself as the primary venue for presenting foundational research in language processing for the biological and medical domains. The workshop is running every year since 2002 and continues getting stronger. BioNLP welcomes and encourages work on languages other than English, and inclusion and diversity. BioNLP truly encompasses the breadth of the domain and brings together researchers in bio- and clinical NLP from all over the world. The workshop will continue presenting work on a broad and interesting range of topics in NLP. The interest to biomedical language has broadened significantly due to the COVID-19 pandemic and continues to grow: as access to information becomes easier and more people generate and access health-related text, it becomes clearer that only language technologies can enable and support adequate use of the biomedical text. BioNLP 2023 will be particularly interested in language processing that supports DEIA (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility). The work on detection and mitigation of bias and misinformation continues to be of interest. Research in languages other than English, particularly, under-represented languages, and health disparities are always of interest to BioNLP. Other active areas of research include, but are not limited to: Tangible results of biomedical language processing applications; Entity identification and normalization (linking) for a broad range of semantic categories; Extraction of complex relations and events; Discourse analysis; Anaphora/coreference resolution; Text mining / Literature based discovery; Summarization; Τext simplification; Question Answering; Resources and strategies for system testing and evaluation; Infrastructures and pre-trained language models for biomedical NLP (Processing and annotation platforms); Development of synthetic data & data augmentation; Translating NLP research into practice; Getting reproducible results. Organizers Dina Demner-Fushman, US National Library of Medicine Kevin Bretonnel Cohen, University of Colorado School of Medicine Sophia Ananiadou, National Centre for Text Mining and University of Manchester, UK Jun-ichi Tsujii, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan

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Post-doc position in Multi-Dimensional Analysis
by Tony Berber-Sardinha 27 Mar '23

27 Mar '23

The Graduate Program in Applied Linguistics and Language Studies (LAEL) at the Pontifical Catholic University of Sao Paulo (PUCSP), Brazil, invites applications for a post-doctoral position in Multi-Dimensional Analysis. This position is part of a large international research project funded by FAPESP (Sao Paulo State Research Foundation), grant #2022/05848-7. The successful candidate will contribute to one or more major goals of the project, which include developing and improving innovative methodologies and resources for MD Analysis, describing register variation in diverse languages and domains using MD Analysis, and identifying discourse related to socially relevant issues in the contemporary world using MD Analysis. Candidates must possess a background in MD Analysis, statistical analysis, and computer programming. Additionally, proficiency in English is mandatory. The successful candidate may be required to supervise graduate students. A full-time commitment of 40 hours per week is expected. This is a temporary post-doctoral position for 24 months, and the stipend is BRL 8,479.20 per month. Please note that this position does not entail employment at PUCSP. Applications will be accepted until May 31, 2023, and should be submitted using the online form at https://www.jotform.com/build/230804143618956. Applications received through this form only will be considered. --- PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DE SÃO PAULO -- PUC-SP PROGRAMA DE ESTUDOS PÓS-GRADUADOS EM LINGUÍSTICA APLICADA E ESTUDOS DA LINGUAGEM (LAEL) *** LAEL 53 ANOS *** (ele/o) Tony Berber Sardinha Vice-coordenador PPG em LAEL Coordenador CEPRIL Rua Monte Alegre 984, sala 4B02, São Paulo, SP 05014-901 Brazil Tel.: (11) 3670-8374 E-mail: tony(a)pucsp.br | www2.lael.pucsp.br --- Cláusula de Confidencialidade Esta mensagem é reservada e sua divulgação, distribuição, reprodução ou qualquer forma de uso é proibida e depende de prévia autorização desta instituição. O remetente utiliza o correio eletrônico no exercício do seu trabalho ou em razão dele, eximindo esta instituição de qualquer responsabilidade por utilização indevida. Se você recebeu esta mensagem por engano, favor eliminá-la imediatamente. This message is reserved and its disclosure, distribution, reproduction or any other form of use is prohibited and shall depend upon previous proper authorization. The sender uses the electronic mail in the exercise of his/her work or by virtue thereof, and the institution accepts no liability for its undue use. If you have received this e-mail by mistake, please delete it immediately.

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