March 2023 - Corpora

3 Ph.D scholarships at ETSIT-UPM (Spain) - Multimodal Conversational Systems
by Luis Fernando D'Haro 21 Mar '23

21 Mar '23

The Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM, Spain) is pleased to announce the following Three full Ph.D. scholarships to work on the following topics: - Personalization of DNN-based generative conversational systems (chatbots) <https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/82169> - Acoustic environment awareness and automatic dialogue evaluation for chatbots <https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/82175> - Multimodal task-oriented conversational systems and adaptation with human feedback <https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/82183> The UPM is the largest Spanish technological university as well as a renowned European institution. With two recognitions as Campus of International Excellence, it is outstanding in its research activity together with its training of highly-qualified professionals, competitive at an international level. These three Ph.D scholarships are supported by the European Commission through Project ASTOUND <https://astound-project.eu/> (101071191 - HORIZON-EIC-2021-PATHFINDERCHALLENGES-01). For information about our school <http://etsit.upm.es/>and research group <https://blogs.upm.es/gthau> check the corresponding link. **** Prerequisites:* - A Master's degree in computational linguistics, computer science, telecommunications or alike, graded with success and corresponding knowledge in the field. - Candidates should have a fluent competency in written and spoken English (Spanish is a plus) - Good communication and team work skills - Good programming skills (preferably Python) **** Additional desired qualifications* - Knowledge and/or experience in training deep neural networks using different frameworks (Pytorch or Tensorflow). - Knowledge and/or experience of natural language processing, machine learning or speech technologies. - Experience in writing scientific papers and /or participating in international challenges. **** What we offer:* Three full scholarship for 3.5 years including €21k gross salary per annum (2023 rate) and health coverage, the possibility of attending national and international conferences, personal and professional advanced training courses, management and career coaching, the possibility of working for a European research project, and the opportunity to live and work in one of the most attractive cities in the world (Madrid). The start date is negotiable. **** Application:* If you are interested and have related background please send the following documents to luisfernando.dharo(a)upm.es: - Your CV - Academic transcripts (both undergraduate and master) - 2 paragraphs describing your research interests and background - Most relevant publication, if any, or Master thesis (or equivalent) Should you have questions or would like to discuss further details, please get in touch.

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Lecturer/Reader in Computational Social Science, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
by Alex Lascarides 21 Mar '23

21 Mar '23

The School of Informatics (https://www.ed.ac.uk/informatics) at the University of Edinburgh is hiring a lecturer/reader in Computational Social Science. The position is permanent. The successful candidate is expected to take part at the social media analysis group (SMASH, https://smash.inf.ed.ac.uk/) at Edinburgh, and work closely with the social and political science school. In addition, they are expected to develop a new course for undergraduates on computation social science and teach it. The application deadline is 25th of April 2023. More details and application is in the following link: https://elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1… If you have any enquiries, feel free to get in touch with Walid Magdy (wmagdy(a)inf.ed.ac.uk, https://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wmagdy).

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ESU 2023 hosting proposals
by Europaeische Sommeruniversitaet-Kulturen und Technologien 21 Mar '23

21 Mar '23

Dear all, On behalf of the voting members of the European Summer University in Digital Humanities 2023 Evaluative Committee, I am pleased to announce that the Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania has been selected as the future host for ESU 2023-2025. We are thrilled that Christian Schuster, the director of the Transylvania Digital Humanities Center there, and Alexandra Cotoc, a former ESU community member, will join an impressive team from across the university to provide the ESU with a new intellectual home. The Evaluative Committee had the difficult task of selecting from an extremely competitive pool of candidates, a testament to the strength of the ESU over the years and to Elisabeth Burr’s extraordinary leadership. I thank each one of the committee members for their time, their thoughtful insights, and the collegiality with which they approached this process. We hope that you will encourage your colleagues and your students to join us in Cluj-Napoca this summer for the next chapter in the European Summer University in Digital Humanities. Carol CAROL CHIODO, Ph.D. Librarian for Collections and Digital Scholarship | Americas, Europe, and Oceania Division (AEOD) carol_chiodo(a)harvard.edu | profile -->  ORCID orcid.org/0000-0002-6424-3445[1] HARVARD LIBRARY Champions of curiosity for the betterment of the world library.harvard.edu HARVARD UNIVERSITY Acknowledgment of land and people of the Massachusett Tribe   Links: ------ [1] http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6424-3445

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[SEBD 2023] Doctoral Consortium - Last Call for Papers
by Stefano Marchesin 21 Mar '23

21 Mar '23

[APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE POSTINGS] SEBD 2023 Doctoral Consortium - Last Call for Papers ==================================================================== Important dates Doctoral Consortium Submission Deadline: Friday, March 31, 2023 (AoE) Papers Notification: Wednesday, April 26, 2023 (AoE) Camera-Ready Submission Deadline: Thursday, June 01, 2023 (AoE) Doctoral Consortium Day: Sunday, July 02, 2023 Submission Link: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/SEBD2023/ ================================================= The SEBD 2023 Doctoral Consortium will take place in a dedicated session during the 31st Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems (SEBD 2023), Galzignano Terme, Padova (Italy), July 02-05, 2023, http://sebd2023.dei.unipd.it/. The goal is to provide a forum for PhD candidates to present their ongoing research and receive feedback from renowned and experienced members of the research community. The Consortium fosters a collaborative environment, encouraging constructive discussions and sharing of ideas. It will be an excellent opportunity for developing person-to-person networks to the benefit of the PhD students in their future careers – as well as of the community. Submissions from students who are in the early stages of their research should provide a clear description of the problem to be addressed and the planned methodology. Submissions from students who are in the middle or final stages of their PhD research should clearly indicate the contributions made to date and future work directions. Each doctoral symposium paper must be single-authored by a current PhD student or a PhD student who submitted the thesis between September and December 2022. The paper should be written in English and must be 6-7 pages long, including selected references. Submissions must be formatted in PDF, prepared in CEUR-ART Column 1 Style (http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip), and submitted electronically via the submission system: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/SEBD2023/ Submissions will be reviewed by the Doctoral Consortium Program Committee (appointed by the Doctoral Consortium Chairs). All papers will be reviewed with respect to the overall presentation quality, the potential for the future impact of the research on the field, and the expected benefit to the other doctoral students attending the conference. The accepted papers will be published as part of the SEBD 2023 proceedings on WS-CEUR.org and indexed in Scopus, DBLP and Google Scholar. ================================================= Topics The SEBD Symposium and its Doctoral Consortium cover a broad range of topics, including traditional database management, as well as new challenges for data management in any possible domain. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to) the following ones: - Big Data and Smart Computing; - Data integration, Heterogeneous and Federated DBMS; - Data mining, knowledge discovery, information extraction, and machine learning; - Data visualization; - Data warehousing; - Distributed and parallel databases; - Grid, peer-to-peer databases, and Cloud Computing; - Incompleteness, inconsistency, and other aspects of data quality; - Uncertainty in databases; - Ethical problems posed by Big Data Analysis; - Keyword-based and natural language access to structured, semistructured, and unstructured data; - Knowledge representation and reasoning; - Ontology-based data management; - Privacy, security and trust management; - Query processing and optimization, approximate query answering; - Real-time, embedded, sensor, and mobile databases; - Scientific and Statistical Databases; - Semantic Web and Open Linked data; - Social networks and Graph databases; - Transaction and workflow management, interoperability and Web services. ================================================= Contact For any questions regarding Doctoral Consortium submissions, please email the Doctoral Consortium Chairs: - Letizia Tanca (letizia.tanca(a)polimi.it) - Stefano Marchesin (stefano.marchesin(a)unipd.it) -- Stefano Marchesin, PhD Postdoctoral Researcher Information Management Systems (IMS) Group Department of Information Engineering University of Padua Via Gradenigo 6/a, 35131 Padua, Italy Home page: http://www.dei.unipd.it/~marches1/

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Invitation to a Postdoctoral Fellowship Application at the University of Vienna
by Benjamin Roth 21 Mar '23

21 Mar '23

The Natural Language Processing Lab [1] at the Data Mining and Machine Learning Research Group, University of Vienna, invites researchers (who have or will have a PhD degree at the call deadline in September 2023 and fulfill the eligibility criteria) to prepare a joint application for an EU-funded Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship [2,3]. Potential topics can be in current areas of NLP research, e.g.: - Measuring and improving interpretability, fairness, robustness in large language models - Privacy-preserving learning with language data - Using additional knowledge sources for information extraction from text - Reasoning with knowledge graphs and language Potential candidates should have published at top NLP or ML conferences (EMNLP,ACL,NAACL,NeurIPS,ICML,ICLR). In case of agreement on a Fellowship application, the NLP lab will support the candidate in the preparation, including a fully funded research visit at the University of Vienna (if desired). If you want to learn more, please send an email to Benjamin Roth (benjamin.roth [at] univie.ac.at) with your CV attached and the subject line "msca ml nlp". [1] https://dm.cs.univie.ac.at/about-us/natural-language-processing/ [2] https://marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/postdoctoral-fe… [3] https://marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/calls/msca-postdoctoral… -- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Benjamin Roth Digitale Textwissenschaften Universität Wien Kolingasse 14 Raum 5.17 1090 Wien email: benjamin.roth(a)univie.ac.at tel: +43 14277 79513 virtual coffee (Tuesday 2pm CEST): https://www.benjaminroth.net/virtual_coffee video call: https://univienna.zoom.us/j/93796507934?pwd=VFg5dW9JbStPUml6WFVtOWJXV3phQT09 web: https://dm.cs.univie.ac.at/team/person/112089/

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PhD Position in Conversational AI / NLP in St. Gallen, Switzerland
by Handschuh, Siegfried 21 Mar '23

21 Mar '23

The Chair of Data Science and Natural Language Processing (Prof. Siegfried Handschuh) invites applications for a PhD position as part of the recently granted Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) research project "Conversational AI: Dialogue-based Adaptive Argumentative Writing Support". You will contribute to its successful implementation, as well as the chair's varied activities in teaching and outreach. Our research at the Data Science and NLP Chair at ICS-HSG focuses on the cutting-edge field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Natural Language Understanding (NLU). Our group delves into various aspects, including conversational AI, Large Language Models (LLM), intricate language analysis, Knowledge Graphs and more. Utilising sophisticated methods and algorithms, we aim to extract deeper knowledge and understanding from vast amounts of textual and auditory data. Our research not only delves into the core principles of NLP but also explores its practical applications across various industries. Details of the post and how to apply: https://bit.ly/phd_conversational_ai -- Prof. Dr. Siegfried Handschuh Full Professor of Data Science and Natural Language Processing Director, Institute of Computer Science University of St.Gallen E-mail: siegfried.handschuh(a)unisg.ch

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Second Shared Task on Automatic Minuting at INLG 2023
by Tirthankar Ghosal 21 Mar '23

21 Mar '23

*** Second Shared Task on Automatic Minuting *** *** AutoMin 2023 as INLG 2023 Generation Challenge *** Automatic summarization of meetings into meeting minutes (aka `minuting') would be an amazing tool. Superficially, large language models like BART, GPT*, and friends may seem to have solved it already, but serious concerns still remain regarding completeness and factual correctness. We would like to invite you to take part in AutoMin 2023, the second instance of the shared on automatic minuting, i.e., summarization of English and Czech meeting transcripts into meeting minutes and their evaluation. See the details on task options below. AutoMin 2023 is a registered INLG Challenge this year. *** Website *** https://ufal.github.io/automin-2023/ *** Key Tasks (one or both) *** - Task A: The main task consists of automatically creating minutes from multiparty meeting transcripts. The generated minute will be evaluated both via automatic and manual metrics. - Task D: Given a meeting transcript, a candidate minutes, and a set of one or more reference minutes, assign a score indicating the quality of the candidate. Task D will not be evaluated by a single criterion. All submissions to Task D will be evaluated in terms of Pearson correlation against all manual and all automatic evaluation scores available in AutoMin 2023, including other submissions to Task D. *** Registration *** Registration and participation are free of charge. All participants need to register to get access to the test data. Use this form and provide us with your GitHub user name (one member per team is fine): https://forms.office.com/e/jdvsdtV5Tm After registration, we will give you GitHub access to the test data. Please get in touch in case you would be willing to contribute to the manual evaluation of AutoMin submissions. *** Important Dates (EXTENDED) *** May 1, 2023 System Submission Deadline May 15, 2023 Report Submission Deadline July 25, 2023 Camera Ready Submission; in line with INLG September, 2023 AutoMin @ INLG 2023 *** Publication *** All teams are required to submit a brief technical report describing their method. Please submit using the INLG paper template (details here: https://inlg2023.github.io/calls.html). All reports must be a minimum of 2 pages and a maximum of 4 pages excluding references. Reports must be written in English. The proceedings will be published in ACL Anthology. *** Organizers *** Ondřej Bojar, UFAL, Charles University, Czech Republic Tirthankar Ghosal, UFAL, Charles University, Czech Republic Marie Hledikova, UFAL, Charles University, Czech Republic Anja Nedoluzhko, UFAL, Charles University, Czech Republic *** Contact *** For inquiries, contact <automin(a)ufal.mff.cuni.cz>. -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Tirthankar Ghosal https://member.acm.org/~tghosal ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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CFP: TRUEHEALTH 2023: Workshop on Combating Health Misinformation for Social Wellbeing [ICWSM 2023]
by Rishabh Upadhyay 21 Mar '23

21 Mar '23

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: March 27, 2023 Workshop Paper Acceptance Notification: April 10, 2023 Workshop Final Camera-Ready Paper Due: May 6, 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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Call for participations-Homophobia/Transphobia Detection in social media comments-reg
by Bharathi Raja Asoka Chakravarthi 21 Mar '23

21 Mar '23

Apologies for cross-posting Link:https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/11077 Shared Task on Homophobia/Transphobia Detection in social media comments: at LT-EDI 2023- RANLP 2023 <https://sites.google.com/view/lt-edi-2023/home?authuser=0> *Languages: English, Spanish, Hindi, Tamil, and Malayalam*. Participants will be provided with sentences in comment, extracted from social. Given a comments, a system must predict whether or not it contains any form of homophobia/transphobia. The seed data for this task is the Homophobia/Transphobia Detection dataset [1], a collection of comments from social media. The comments are manually annotated to show whether the text contains homophobia/transphobia. The participants will be provided development, training and test dataset in *English, Spanish, Hindi, Tamil, and Malayalam*. To download the data and participate, go to codalab and click “Participate" tab. As far as we know, this is the first shared task on Homophobia/Transphobia Detection. *Important Dates for shared task:* Task announcement: Feb 20, 2023 Release of Training data: Feb 28, 2023 Release of Test data: May 10, 2023 Run submission deadline: June 1, 2023 Results declared: June 10, 2023 Paper submission:1 July 2023 Peer review notification: 5 August 2023 Camera-ready paper due: 20 August 2023 with regards, Dr. Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Assistant Professor / Lecturer-above-the-bar School of Computer Science, University of Galway, Ireland Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, Data Science Institute, University of Galway, Ireland E-mail: bharathiraja.akr(a)gmail.com , bharathi.raja(a)universityofgalway.ie <bharathiraja.asokachakravarthi(a)universityofgalway.ie> Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=irCl028AAAAJ&hl=en Website: https://www.universityofgalway.ie/our-research/people/bharathirajaasokachak… Special Issue on Language Technology for Safer Online Social Media Platforms in Low-resource Eurasian Languages <https://dl.acm.org/pb-assets/static_journal_pages/tallip/pdf/TALLIP-SI-Lang…> Cyber-Social Issues Prediction in Low-Resource Languages with Deep Internet of Things (DIoT) <https://dl.acm.org/pb-assets/static_journal_pages/tallip/pdf/TALLIP-SI-Pred…>

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[CFP] [SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENSION] "Contemporary Trends in English-Language Studies"
by Leszek Szymański 20 Mar '23

20 Mar '23

Dear Colleagues, the Institute of Modern Languages at the University of Zielona Góra announces a linguistics conference: "Contemporary Trends in English-Language Studies". This year's edition will be held entirely online on May 18-19, 2023. SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENSION: March 31, 2023. More information is available at: https://sites.google.com/view/ctiels/ Thank you! Leszek Szymański

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