March 2023 - Corpora

[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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CfP: 2023-2024 Bloomberg Data Science Ph.D. Fellowship
by rdml＠bloomberg.net 20 Mar '23

20 Mar '23

Hello, Bloomberg is happy to announce an exciting funding opportunity for Ph.D. students. The sixth edition of the Bloomberg Data Science Ph.D. Fellowship Program invites Ph.D. students working in broadly-construed data science to apply for fellowships. Our fellowship program, launched in 2018, provides the opportunity for outstanding Ph.D. candidates to be funded for up to three years of their Ph.D studies to work on their research proposal. The recipients will collaborate and be supported by our Data Science community throughout this time and will complete 14-week summer internships with Bloomberg for the duration of their fellowships. The past year's recipients of the fellowship are presented here: https://www.bloomberg.com/company/stories/introducing-the-fifth-cohort-of-b… Applications for the 2023-2024 academic year must be submitted by April 28, 2023. Fellowship recipients will be announced by June 16, 2023. Full details about the fellowship and application process can be found at: https://www.bloomberg.com/company/values/tech-at-bloomberg/data-science/aca… We would appreciate it if you can share this opportunity with interested parties. Please direct all questions and future communications to rdml(a)bloomberg.net. Bloomberg

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CLEF 2023 LongEval Lab on Longitudinal Evaluation of Model Performance
by Arkaitz Zubiaga 20 Mar '23

20 Mar '23

Call for Participants LongEval: Longitudinal Evaluation of Model Performance CLEF 2023 Lab 18-21 September, Thessaloniki, Greece -------------------------------------------------------- ** Registration open, training data available ** The CLEF 2023 LongEval lab is motivated by recent research showing that the performance of information retrieval and text classification models drops as the test data becomes more distant in time from the training data. LongEval differs from traditional IR and classification shared tasks with special considerations on evaluating models that mitigate performance drop over time. It encourages participants to develop temporal information retrieval systems and longitudinal text classifiers that survive through dynamic temporal text changes, introducing time as a new dimension for ranking models performance. The lab consists of two tasks: * Task 1. LongEval-Retrieval: The goal of Task 1 is to propose an information retrieval system which can handle changes over the time. The proposed retrieval system should follow the temporal timewise evolution of Web documents. Contact: longeval-ir-task(a)univ-grenoble-alpes.fr * Task 2. LongEval-Classification: The goal of Task 2 is to propose a temporal persistence classifier which can mitigate performance drop over short and long periods of time compared to a test set from the same time frame as training. Contact: r.a.a.alkhalifa(a)qmul.ac.uk Registration ------------ Please use the CLEF registration form (http://clef2023-labs-registration.dei.unipd.it/) to register to the tasks. The registration closes on Friday, 28 April 2023. Timeline -------- April 2023: Test data release 28 April 2023: Registration closes 10 May 2023: End of Evaluation Cycle [submission of runs] 5 June 2023: Submission of Participant Papers [CEUR-WS] 5–23 June 2023: Review process of participant papers July 2023: Camera ready paper submission September 2023: CLEF Conference Organisers ---------- Rabab Alkhalifa, Iman Bilal, Hsuvas Borkakoty, Jose Camacho-Collados, Romain Deveaud, Alaa El-Ebshihy, Luis Espinosa-Anke, Gabriela Gonzalez-Saez, Petra Galuščáková, Lorraine Goeuriot, Elena Kochkina, Maria Liakata, Daniel Loureiro, Harish Tayyar Madabushi, Philippe Mulhem, Florina Piroi, Martin Popel, Christophe Servan, Arkaitz Zubiaga.

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Call-for-Participation: Aware Task @ ImageCLEF 2023 (Unveiling Real-Life Effects of Online Photo Sharing)
by Bogdan Ionescu 20 Mar '23

20 Mar '23

[Apologies for multiple postings] ImageCLEFaware (3rd edition) Registration: https://www.imageclef.org/2023/aware Run submission: May 10, 2023 Working notes submission: June 5, 2023 CLEF 2023 conference: September 18-21, Thessaloniki, Greece *** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION *** Images constitute a large part of the content shared on social networks. Their disclosure is often related to a particular context and users are often unaware of the fact that, depending on their privacy status, images can be accessible to third parties and be used for purposes which were initially unforeseen. For instance, it is common practice for employers to search information about their future employees online. Another example of usage is that of automatic credit scoring based on online data. Most existing approaches which propose feedback about shared data focus on inferring user characteristics and their practical utility is rather limited. We hypothesize that user feedback would be more efficient if conveyed through the real-life effects of data sharing. The objective of the task is to automatically score user photographic profiles in a series of situations with strong impact on her/his life. Four such situations were modeled this year and refer to searching for: (i) a bank loan, (ii) an accommodation, (iii) a job as waitress/waiter, and (iv) a job in IT. The inclusion of several situations is interesting in order to make it clear to the end-users of the system that the same image will be interpreted differently depending on the context. The final objective of the task is to encourage the development of efficient user feedback, such as the YDSYO Android app https://ydsyo.app/. *** TASK *** Given an annotated training dataset, participants will propose machine learning techniques which provide a ranking of test user profiles in each situation which is as close as possible to a human ranking of the test profiles. *** DATA SET *** This is the third edition of the task. A data set of more than 1,000 user profiles with 100 photos per profile was created and annotated with an appeal score for a series of real-life situations via crowdsourcing. Participants to the experiment were asked to provide a global rating of each profile in each situation modeled using a 7-points Likert scale ranging from strongly unappealing to strongly appealing. An averaged and normalized appeal score will be used to create a ground truth composed of ranked users in each modeled situation. User profiles are created by repurposing a subset of the YFCC100M dataset. *** METRICS *** Participants to the task will provide an automatically ranking of user ratings for each situation which will be compared to a ground truth rating obtained by crowdsourcing. The correlation between the two ranked list will be measured using Pearson's correlation coefficient. The final score of each participating team will be obtained by averaging correlations obtained for individual situations. *** IMPORTANT DATES *** - Run submission: May 10, 2023 - Working notes submission: June 5, 2023 - CLEF 2023 conference: September 18-21, Thessaloniki, Greece (https://clef2023.clef-initiative.eu/) *** OVERALL COORDINATION *** Jérôme Deshayes-Chossart, CEA LIST, France Adrian Popescu, CEA LIST, France Bogdan Ionescu, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania *** ACKNOWLEDGEMENT *** The task is supported under the H2020 AI4Media â€œA European Excellence Centre for Media, Society and Democracyâ€ project, contract #951911 https://www.ai4media.eu/. On behalf of the Organizers, Bogdan Ionescu https://www.AIMultimediaLab.ro/

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2nd CfP for 4th Workshop on Patent Text Mining and Semantic Technologies (PatentSemTech2023) @ SIGIR 2023
by Krestel, Ralf 20 Mar '23

20 Mar '23

4th Workshop on Patent Text Mining and Semantic Technologies (PatentSemTech2023) ================================================================================ The PatentSemTech2023 workshop aims to establish a long-term collaboration and a two-way communication channel between the IP industry and academia from relevant fields such as natural language processing (NLP), text and data mining (TDM), and semantic technologies (ST) in order to explore and transfer new knowledge, methods, and technologies for the benefit of industrial applications as well as support research in applied sciences for the IP and neighboring domains. Call for Contributions ====================== PatentSemTech2023 will be held as a full-day event in conjunction with SIGIR 2023. Workshop website: http://ifs.tuwien.ac.at/patentsemtech/ Important Dates =============== Submission deadline: April 25, 2023 Notification: May 23, 2023 SIGIR PatentSemTech2023 workshop: July 27, 2023 Topics of Interest ================== We encourage submissions of high quality research papers on all topics related to the IP domain. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Text mining and retrieval from patents, legal documents, or other scientific-technical information sources * Machine learning methods, in particular deep learning methods for - Representation learning (word and document embeddings) - Query expansion - Clustering and classification - Recommendation - IPC/CPC prediction - Trend detection - Entity extraction * Semantic approaches for - Linking semantic information - Integrating external knowledge sources - Semantic enrichment * Methods and applications for retrieving, mining, and analysing, including - Patent landscaping - Hot spot / White spot analysis - Multi-modal analysis - Technology trend analysis - Innovative user interfaces - Visual user interface concepts Contributions ============= We solicit two types of submissions: full papers and short papers for three tracks: research, demo, and summarization task. Full papers will be limited to 8 pages (including references); short papers will be 4 pages (including references). The submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least two program committee members and evaluated based on innovativeness, novelty, interestingness, and impact. We plan for three tracks: *Research Track (full or short papers)* For this track, we solicit contributions from academia that present * Novel applications of existing state of the art methods for the IP domain * Novel methods or tasks in the IP domain * Novel user interfaces for the IP domain * Novel evaluation or analysis insights in the IP domain * Novel benchmark datasets or other resources of interest * A survey or overview related to a particular task in the IP domain *Demo/System Track (short papers)* We solicit demos, case study, insights, or novel ideas from industry that present * Focused case studies making use of semantic technologies or machine learning * Interesting IP-related task descriptions or best practices for patent analysis * In-use systems or prototype implementations of semantic technologies * Demos on processing or analysing data from the IP domain, or user interfaces * In-use resources related to patents or external resources, e.g., linked open data. *Summarization Task Track (short papers)* Within the patent text mining community, especially from the industry, there is an interest in developing text mining tools targeting text summarization. * Participants are free to use publicly available data sets to train their models. We recommend exploring US Patents, which many contain the text section SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION. * We will also publish a small training and test data set on the 23rd of February. The provided data set is composed of patents within the field of Green Plastics Technology. * Participants are asked to submit a short (4 pages) scientific paper, which will be peer-reviewed by the workshop organizers. The most interesting submissions will be invited to present their solution at the workshop. * Furthermore, we will have an additional interactive evaluation to reflect a more real-life scenario at the workshop, making it possible to evaluate not only the performance in terms of F1, ROUGE, recall, precision etc., but also efficiency. Therefore the invited participants will be asked to set-up their solutions as a service and provide a REST API. Input will be a patent document (PDF,DOCX), and output should be a summary of not more than 700 words. Submission Guidelines ===================== Submissions must be in English, in PDF, and in the current ACM two-column conference format. Suitable LaTeX, Word, and Overleaf templates are available from the ACM Website: https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template ("sigconf" template for LaTeX; Interim Template for Word). Submissions should be at most 8 (full) or 4 (short) pages (including figures and references) in length. Submissions should be submitted electronically via EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=patentsemtech2023. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register for, and present the work in person at the workshop. Publication =========== Accepted papers will be published as CEUR proceedings. Selected contributions will be invited to submit extended, full papers to Elsevier's World Patent Information (WPI) journal: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/world-patent-information/ Organizers ========== Ralf Krestel (ZBW & CAU Kiel, Germany), Hidir Aras (FIZ Karlsruhe, Germany), Linda Andersson (Artificial Researcher, Austria), Florina Piroi (Data Science Studio, RSA FG, Austria), Allan Hanbury (TU Wien, Austria), Dean Alderucci (CMU, USA) All questions about submissions should be emailed to: r.krestel(a)zbw.eu and hidir.aras(a)fiz-karlsruhe.de

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Large Language Models Initiatives?
by Annemarie Friedrich 20 Mar '23

20 Mar '23

Dear CorporaList members, we are aiming to compile a list of initiatives/funded projects working on creating Large Language Models, similar to this one (https://leam.ai/). If you know such projects, we would be highly grateful if you could either reply to this list or contact us personally. Thank you very much. Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best Regards Dr. Annemarie Friedrich https://annefried.github.io

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Call for Papers: 3rd Workshop on Computational Linguistics for the Political and Social Sciences (CPSS 2023)
by Simone Paolo Ponzetto 20 Mar '23

20 Mar '23

Call for Papers: 3rd Workshop on Computational Linguistics for the Political and Social Sciences (CPSS 2023): https://sites.google.com/view/cpss2023konvens/home-page * Workshop description * Our workshop aims to bring together researchers and ideas from computational linguistics/NLP and the text-as-data community from political and social science to foster collaboration and catalyze further interdisciplinary research efforts between these communities. * Potential topics * - Modeling political communication with NLP (e.g. topic classification, position measurement) - Mining policy debates from heterogeneous textual sources - Modeling complex social constructs (e.g. populism, polarization, identity) with NLP methods - Political bias in language models - Methodological insights in interdisciplinary collaboration: workflows, challenges, best practices - Application of NLP methods to understand and support democratic decision making - Resources and tools for Political/Social Science research - ... and more * Important dates * - Submission deadline: June 14, 2023 - Notification of acceptance: July 10, 2023 - Camera-ready deadline: July 20, 2023 - Workshop: September 22, 2023 The workshop is co-located with KONVENS 2023 in Ingolstadt (https://www.thi.de/konvens-2023). * Submissions * We solicit two types of submissions: - archival papers describing original and unpublished work (long papers: max. 8 pages, references/appendix excluded; short papers: max 4 pages, references/appendix excluded). Accepted papers will be published in the ACL anthology. Submissions will be accepted through softconf (link coming soon). For the submission format, refer to the KONVENS template. - non-archival papers (1-page abstracts, references excluded) describing already published research or ongoing work The two formats will meet the need of researchers from different communities, allowing the exchange of ideas in a "get to know each other" environment which we hope will foster future collaborations. Details on the submission system are to come soon in the 2nd CfP. For more information, please refer to the workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/cpss2023konvens/home-page If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the workshop organisers. * Organizers * Gabriella Lapesa (U-Stuttgart) Christopher Klamm (U-Mannheim) Theresa Gessler (European University Viadrina) Valentin Gold (U-Göttingen) Simone Ponzetto (U-Mannheim)

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Post-doc position in Corpus Linguistics at IDS Mannheim
by Marc Kupietz 20 Mar '23

20 Mar '23

Job advertisement(see original version here) The Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS) in Mannheim, founded in 1964, is the leading international scientific centre for the documentation and research of the German language and its present use and recent history. The IDS has an annual budget of around 13.6 million Euro and currently has 220 employees. Together with 96 other non- university research and infrastructure institutions, it belongs to the Leibniz Association. Corpus linguistics at the Leibniz Institute for the German Language is one of the pioneers of this sub-discipline of linguistics, both nationally and internationally. For the project Methods of corpus analysis we are looking for a: Corpus Linguist(Reference number 02/2023) from 1 July 2023 or later, for the Corpus Linguistics Programme Area in the Department of Digital Linguistics. The employment relationship is initially limited to 2 years. A permanent cooperation is intended. In principle, the position can be made permanent after the successful completion of a structured procedure. The remuneration is in accordance with the remuneration group TV-L E13. Your area of responsibility essentially includes: * Development of methodologies for gaining linguistic insights from very large corpora * Development of language models and tools for analysis and visualization * Independent implementation and collaboration in corpus linguistic studies * Collaboration in the expansion of the German Reference Corpus * Independent creation of and collaboration on scientific publications * Active participation in scientific conferences * Participation in the further development of the field of corpus linguistics at IDS * Participation in interdepartmental scientific tasks and activities Requirements: * a university degree with a doctorate in linguistics, computational linguistics, mathematics, computer science, digital humanities or a comparable degree programme * Experience in dealing with large corpora * Programming experience * Proficiency in Unix and version control tools * Very good language skills in German and English (each at least B2) We offer:Working in the programme area of corpus linguistics at the IDS, together with a committed team and in the context of many national and international collaborations, allows new methods and technologies to be tested and productively used on the German reference corpus DeReKo, one of the world's largest linguistic corpora. The IDS also offers an interesting scientific field of work in a large linguistic research institute, in which there are many opportunities for cooperation both within and across projects. Through the IDS's diverse cooperations with universities, especially Mannheim and Heidelberg, the development of an academic career can also be fully supported. IDS also offers an attractive pension scheme, a cost subsidy for childcare and performance-related remuneration in accordance with the collective agreement of the Länder. IDS pursues the goal of professional equality between women and men and strives to increase the proportion of women in those areas in which they are underrepresented. Applications from women are therefore expressly welcome. The compatibility of work and family is particularly promoted by the IDS. IDS welcomes applications from severely disabled persons. Please send your convincing written application (letter of motivation, CV, references, list of publications summarized in a PDF document (max. 5 MB) until 30 April 2023 by e-mail to: Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS), Human Resources (e-mail: bewerbungen(at)ids- mannheim.de ) For further information, please contact Dr Marc Kupietz <kupietz(at)ids-mannheim.de>.

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PhD Position in Educational NLP, Hildesheim University, Germany
by Horbach, Andrea 19 Mar '23

19 Mar '23

1 PhD-Position in Educational NLP We invite applications for a fully funded PhD position at the University of Hildesheim (100%, TV-L E13 according to the German system) in the field of Educational NLP on topics such as automatic free-text assessment, feedback and exercise generation. The position starts in May, a later date is negotiable. It is initially funded for 3 years, an extension is possible. An ideal candidate has a master’s degree in computational linguistics, computer science, or a related discipline. Programming experience in Python and some experience in machine learning is expected. The position comes with a teaching obligation of 4 hours per week. The ability to teach in German is required. For more details including information on the application process, please refer to: https://bewerbung.uni-hildesheim.de/jobposting/c9651389f3ee489f7f95abc46c04… I am happy to answer questions (andrea.horbach(a)fernuni-hagen.de<mailto:andrea.horbach@fernuni-hagen.de>). Best regards, Andrea Andrea Horbach CATALPA - Center of Advanced Technology for Assisted Learning and Predictive Analytics<https://www.fernuni-hagen.de/forschung/schwerpunkte/catalpa/index.shtml> Nachwuchsgruppenleitung / Junior Research Group Leader „EduNLP“ ________________________________ FernUniversität in Hagen Gebäude 5 (PRG), Raum A107, Fon: 02331 987 1702 www.fernuni-hagen.de<https://www.fernuni-hagen.de/>

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Call for Papers: The 1st International Workshop on Implicit Author Characterization from Texts for Search and Retrieval (IACT’23)
by Marina Litvak 19 Mar '23

19 Mar '23

*Call for Papers: The 1st International Workshop on Implicit Author Characterization from Texts for Search and Retrieval (IACT’23) * The workshop will be held in conjunction with the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval Workshop website: https://en.sce.ac.il/news/iact23 July 27, 2023. Taipei, Taiwan. Paper submission deadline: April 25, 2023, AoE Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iact23 To bring the research community's attention to the limitations of current models in recognizing and characterizing AI vs. human authors, we organize the first edition of IACT workshops under the umbrella of the SIGIR conference. Research works submitted to the workshop should foster scientific advances in all aspects of author characterization. All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome: - *Full research papers*: up to 8 pages. Original and high-quality unpublished contributions to the theory and practical aspects of the workshop topics. - *Short research* *papers*: up to 5 pages. It can describe ongoing research, resources, and demos. - *Negative results* *papers*: up to 5 pages. Highlighting tested hypotheses that did not get the expected outcome is also welcomed. - *Position papers*: up to 5 pages. Discussing current and future research directions. The length constraints do not include references. The submissions must be anonymous and will be peer-reviewed by at least two program committee members. The authors of accepted papers will be given 15 minutes for a short oral presentation. The workshop will run as a hybrid event to allow virtual attendance and meet the SIGIR format. Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format through Easy Chair <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iact23>. All submissions must be in English and formatted according to the one-column CEUR-ART style with no page numbers. Templates in Word or LaTeX can be found in the following zip folder at http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip. There is also an Overleaf <https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-submissions-to-ceur-w…> page for LaTeX users. Research works submitted to the workshop should foster the scientific advance on all aspects of implicit author information extraction from text, including but not limited to the following: - Differentiation between AI-generated content and human-generated content and bot profiling - Characterization of conversational agents - Feature detection of authors for human vs. AI determination - Prompt understanding and recognition in language models - Personalized question answering and conversation generation - Troll identification on social media - Review authenticity estimation - Multi-modal, multi-genre, and multilingual author analysis - Character analysis, description, and representation in narrative texts - Detecting implicit expressions of sentiment, emotion, opinion, and bias - Transfer learning for implicit author characterization - Implicit author characterization annotation schema - Evaluation of implicit author characterization - Author characterization in low-resource languages and under-studied domains - Accountability and regulation of AI-based information extraction, retrieval, and content generation - Copyright issues of AI-generated content - Ethical and privacy implications of author characterization and implicit information extraction - Fairness and bias of AI-generated content Organizing Committee: - Marina Litvak - marinal(a)ac.sce.ac.il; Shamoon College of Engineering Beer Sheva; Israel - Irina Rabaev - irinar(a)ac.sce.ac.il; Shamoon College of Engineering Beer Sheva; Israel - Alípio Mário Jorge - amjorge(a)fc.up.pt; University of Porto; Porto, Portugal - Ricardo Campos - ricardo.campos(a)ipt.pt; Polytechnic Institute of Tomar INESC TEC, Portugal; Porto, Portugal - Adam Jatowt - adam.jatowt(a)uibk.ac.at; University of Innsbruck; Innsbruck, Austria Invited Speakers: - Prof. Mark Last - Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel - Prof. Dr. Valia Kordoni - Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Germany IACT’23 proceedings will be published at CEUR workshop proceedings (indexed in Scopus and DBLP) as long as they do not conflict with previous publication rights. Contact: - Dr. Marina Litvak: litvak.marina(a)gmail.com - Dr. Irina Rabaev: irinar(a)ac.sce.ac.il -- Best regards, Marina Litvak

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