April 2023 - Corpora

Job Opening at CRC 1102, Saarbrücken (Postdoc or PhD)
by Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb 13 Apr '23

13 Apr '23

Job Title: Postdoctoral Researcher or PhD Candidate in Computational Linguistics/Digital Humanities/Corpus Linguistics Position Type: Full-time, fixed-term (2 years with the possibility of extension) Salary in accordance with the German TV-L salary scale, pay grade: E13 TV- L. Application Deadline: June 1, 2023 Start Date: earliest possible opportunity, subject to negotiation Location: Saarland University is a campus university with an international reputation for research excellence, particularly in computer science and in the life sciences and nanosciences. The university is also distinguished by its close ties to France and its strong European focus. Around 17,000 students, studying over one hundred different academic disciplines, are currently enrolled at Saarland University. Saarland University is officially recognized as one of Germanys family-friendly higher-education institutions and with a combined workforce of more than 4000 it is one of the largest employers in the region. Workplace/Department: The position is affiliated with project B1 of the DFG-funded Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 1102. The successful applicant will have the opportunity to collaborate closely with other researchers at the CRC and at Saarland University. CRC 1102 is a thriving research environment with over 30 PhD students and postdocs from many subfields of linguistics, computational linguistics and psycholinguistics. It is located at Saarland University, one of the leading centers for computational linguistics in Europe. The Department of Language Science and Technology consists of about 100 research staff in nine research groups in the fields of computational linguistics, psycholinguistics, speech processing, and corpus linguistics. It is part of Saarland Informatics Campus, which brings together computer science research at the university with world-class research institutions on campus. See https://sfb1102.uni-saarland.de/ for more information on the CRC. Project B1: Information Density in English Scientific Writing: A Diachronic Perspective PIs: Elke Teich ( <mailto:e.teich@mx.uni-saarland.de> e.teich(a)mx.uni-saarland.de), Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb ( <mailto:s.degaetano@mx.uni-saarland.de> s.degaetano(a)mx.uni-saarland.de) We are seeking a highly motivated Postdoctoral Researcher or PhD candidate with a strong background in computational linguistics or digital humanities and a keen interest in diachronic language studies. The position is situated in Project B1 on the Diachronic Development of Scientific English using information-theoretic approaches and considering rational communication accounts. Project B1 is concerned with the hypothesis of communicative optimization in the development of scientific English. Based on a diachronic corpus (Royal Society Corpus), we have applied selected types of computational language models (e.g. topic models, n-gram models, word embeddings) and combined them with information-based measures (e.g. entropy, surprisal) to capture diachronic variation. In the upcoming project phase, we intend to address the following research questions: (1) Is there evidence of a more general diachronic mechanism (beyond scientific language)? (2) Within scientific language, what are additional, typical imprints of conventionalization (register variables)? (3) How can we assess the overall communicative efficiency of scientific language (effects on working memory)? Focusing on selected linguistic phenomena (multi-word expressions, discourse markers, nominal vs. verbal phrases), we complement a corpus-based, production-oriented approach with selected behavioral, comprehension-oriented studies. Job requirements and responsibilities: * Conduct research on the diachronic development of scientific English using computational methods and information-theoretic approaches * Analyze linguistic data and develop models to understand the underlying principles of rational communication in scientific discourse * Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team of researchers in linguistics, computational linguistics, psycholinguistics, and related fields * Present research findings at conferences and publish in high-impact, peer-reviewed journals Your academic qualifications: * A completed MA/MSc in computational linguistics, digital humanities, or a closely related field (for Phd candidates) * A completed (or soon to be completed) PhD in computational linguistics, digital humanities, or a closely related field (for Postdoc candidates) The successful candidate will also be expected to: * Strong programming skills and experience with computational text analysis, natural language processing, or machine learning techniques * Familiarity with variationist/diachronic language studies * A solid understanding of information-theoretic approaches would be a plus * Familiarity with experimental linguistics would be a plus * Excellent written and verbal communication skills * A good command of English is mandatory * Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a multidisciplinary research environment What we can offer you: A flexible work schedule allowing you to balance work and family, among other things the possibility of teleworking Secure and future-oriented employment with attractive conditions A broad range of further education and professional development programs (for example language courses) An occupational health management model with numerous attractive options, such as our university sports program Supplementary pension scheme (RZVK) Discounted tickets on local public transport services (Job-Ticket Plus of the saarVV) To apply, please submit the following documents: 1. Cover letter detailing your research interests, qualifications, and motivation for applying 2. Curriculum vitae, including a list of publications 3. Names of two scholars who can be addressed for a letter of reference Please submit your application materials via email to e.teich(a)mx.uni-saarland.de <mailto:e.teich@mx.uni-saarland.de> and s.degaetano(a)mx.uni-saarland.de <mailto:s.degaetano@mx.uni-saarland.de> by June 1, 2023. For further information about the position or the research center visit our website at https://sfb1102.uni-saarland.de/ . We look forward to receiving your application and exploring the possibility of you joining our dynamic research team.

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Pros&Comps: ESSLLI Workshop announcement and call for abstracts
by Sonia Ramotowska 13 Apr '23

13 Apr '23

Pros&Comps: ESSLLI Workshop announcement and call for abstracts We are happy to announce the workshop: "Procedural and computational models of semantic and pragmatic processes" organized at the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) 2023. We would greatly appreciate your help in sharing this call for abstracts with potentially interested researchers! Location: University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Dates: 31 July – 4 August 2023 Submission deadline: 5 May 2023 Webpage: https://prosandcomps.github.io Contact: prosandcomps(a)gmail.com Workshop description: Computational methods in semantics and pragmatics have recently gained in merit and popularity. One of the reasons for increased interest in modeling is its usefulness in operationalizing abstract predictions of formal semantics and pragmatics theories and linking them with experimental data, yielding not only a good fit to empirical data but also insights of theoretical relevance. Different modeling frameworks have been proposed to explain various aspects of linguistic data. On the one hand, some computational models propose domain-general, unified computational-level (in the sense of Marr, 1982) characterizations of meaning-related processes in order to rationalize how speakers and listeners utilize language in communication. On the other hand, procedural models describe language processing as the execution of series of steps that speakers and listeners carry out during language processing to compute utterance meanings. Both of these approaches have specific strengths and weaknesses but they also have the potential to complement each other. In the field of experimental pragmatics, information theoretical and Bayesian models received much attention as they excel in capturing the dynamic interactions between speakers and listeners. Iterated response models (such as RSA, Frank & Goodman, 2012; or Franke, 2009), in particular, are able to explain linguistic phenomena at the semantics-pragmatics interface (e.g., scalar implicature computation), or effects of discourse and sociolinguistic factors (e.g., Questions Under Discussion or politeness; see Scontras, Tessler, & Franke, 2018, for review). These models provide an abstract explanation of how humans compute meaning but leave unspecified how this computation unfolds over time. Procedural models, by contrast, zoom in on the algorithms (in the sense of Marr’s, 1982, second level) underlying meaning computation and propose sequences of processing steps, potentially executed via different modules. For example, in the domain of experimental semantics, procedural models (e.g. Szymanik, 2016; Bott, Schlotterbeck & Klein, 2019) were applied to quantifier interpretation and cognitive architectures such as ACT-R (Anderson, 2007) can capture a broad range of complex linguistic processes (Brasoveanu & Dotlacil, 2019). Call for abstracts: The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers applying different modeling methodologies. We invite submissions that present state-of-the-art applications of computational and procedural models or discuss strengths and limitations of each of the mentioned methodologies. Moreover, because we see great potential for integrated computational and procedural models, we strongly encourage submissions that propose hybrid approaches. Such hybrid approaches may, for example, include sequential sampling decision models (e.g. Schlotterbeck et al., 2020; Ramotowska et al., 2023) or models of incremental interpretation (e.g. Cohn-Gorden et al., 2019; Waldon & Degen, 2021) as procedural extensions of Bayesian approaches. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): -procedural and/or computational models of incremental interpretation, -procedural and/or computational models of language comprehension and production, -procedural and/or computational models of verification or inferences, -behavioral and neurocognitive procedural and/or computational models, -procedural and/or computational models of the semantics-pragmatics interface, -procedural and/or computational models of context effects (e.g., politeness, conversation goals, informativeness) on interpretation, and -procedural and/or computational models of interaction between language-specific and domain-general interpretation mechanisms. Submissions guidelines: Abstracts should be anonymous and not exceed 2 pages (plus one extra page for figures, tables, glosses, references, etc.) with 11 pt font size. Submissions can be made at the workshop’s EasyChair site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=texmod2020 Submissions will be reviewed by at least two program committee members. Invited speakers: Bob van Tiel (Radboud University Nijmegen) tba Organizers: Sonia Ramotowska (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf) Fabian Schlotterbeck (University of Tuebingen)

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First CFP: PROPOR 2024 - 16th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese
by Pablo Gamallo 13 Apr '23

13 Apr '23

First CFP: PROPOR 2024 - 16th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese [Apologies for cross-postings] ******************************************************** PROPOR 2024: 16th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (Santiago de Compostela - Galicia) March 14th to 15th 2024 1st Call for Papershttps://propor2024.citius.gal/ ******************************************************** The International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese (PROPOR), whose next edition will take place for the first time in Galicia, birthplace of the Portuguese language, is the main event in the area of natural language processing that is focused on theoretical and technological issues of written and spoken Portuguese and Galician (considered as a local variety of the former). The meeting has been a very rich forum for the exchange of ideas and partnerships for the research and industry communities dedicated to the automated processing of this language, promoting the development of methodologies, resources and projects that can be shared among researchers and practitioners in the field. We call for papers describing work on any topic related to computational language and speech processing of Portuguese/Galician by researchers in the industry or academia. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Natural language processing tasks (e.g. parsing, word sense disambiguation, coreference resolution) * Natural language processing applications (e.g. question answering, subtitling, summarization, sentiment analysis) * Natural language generation * Information extraction and information retrieval * Speech technologies (e.g. spoken language generation, speech and speaker recognition, spoken language understanding) * Speech applications (e.g. spoken language interfaces, dialogue systems, speech-to-speech translation) * Resources, standardization and evaluation (e.g. corpora, ontologies, lexicons, grammars) * NLP-oriented linguistic description or theoretical analysis * Distributional semantics and language modeling * Portuguese language varieties and dialect processing (including the language varieties of Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Galicia, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, and Sao Tome and Principe) * Multilingual studies, methods, applications and resources including Portuguese/Galician PROPOR 2024 will be held at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Santiago de Compostela - Galicia, Spain) from March 14th to March 15th. PROPOR 2024 will be the 16th edition of the biennial PROPOR conference, hosted alternately in Brazil and in Europe (Portugal/Galicia). Past meetings were held in Lisbon, PT (1993); Curitiba, BR (1996); Porto Alegre, BR (1998); Évora, PT (1999); Atibaia, BR (2000); Faro, PT (2003); Itatiaia, BR (2006); Aveiro, PT (2008); Porto Alegre, BR (2010); Coimbra, PT (2012); São Carlos, BR (2014), Tomar, PT (2016), Canela, BR (2018), Évora, PT (2020), and Fortaleza, BR (2022). Submissions: Submissions should describe original, unpublished work. Authors are invited to submit two kinds of papers: * Full papers – Reporting substantial and completed work, especially those that may contribute in a significant way to the advancement of the area. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation results should be included. Full papers may consist of up to 8 pages of content, plus unlimited pages of references. * Short papers – Reporting small, focused contributions such as ongoing work, position papers, potential ideas to be discussed, or negative results. Short papers pages of content, plus unlimited pages of references. Both Full and Short papers will be published in the proceedings of the main conference. Each submission will be evaluated by at least three reviewers. As reviewing will be double-blind, submitted papers must be anonymized, that is, they should not contain the authors’ names and affiliations. Authors must avoid self-references that reveal identity, like, “We previously showed (Smith, 1991) …”. Instead, they should prefer citations such as “Smith (1991) previously showed …”. Separate author identification information will be required as part of the submission process. Submissions to PROPOR 2024 may not be made available online (e.g. via a preprint server), and may not be submitted for review elsewhere while being under review for this conference. Submissions should be written in English. At submission time, only PDF format is accepted. For the final versions, authors of accepted papers will be given 1 extra content page to take the reviews into account. Authors of accepted papers will be requested to send the source files for the production of the proceedings.All submitted papers must conform to the official ACL style guidelines. ACL provides style files for LaTeX and Microsoft Word that meet these requirements. They can be found at: * LaTeX styelesheet [https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files/tree/master/latex] * MS Word stylesheet [https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files/tree/master/word] The URL for paper submission will be available soon. Important dates: * Full and short paper submission deadline: 15/10/2023 (23:59 GMT-3) * Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: 15/11/2023 * Camera-ready papers due: 29/11/2023 * Conference: March 14th - 15th, 2024 Publication: The proceedings of PROPOR 2024 will be published by ACL as a volume in ACL Anthology (https://aclanthology.org/ ). They will be available online. To ensure publication, at least one author of each accepted paper must complete an adequate registration for PROPOR 2024 by the early registration deadline. Kindest regards, António Teixeira, Livy Real & Marcos Garcia PROPOR 2024 Program Chairs

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Fully funded PhD position, Peace Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
by Matthew Purver 12 Apr '23

12 Apr '23

A fully funded PhD position (up to 4 years) in computational social science/digital humanities is open. We are looking for candidates with either computer science or social sciences/humanities background, interested in interdisciplinary research on hate speech. The candidate will be employed at the Peace Institute, Slovenia https://www.mirovni-institut.si/en/), and work in close collaboration with the natural language processing group at the Jožef Stefan Institute. Application deadline: 30 April 2023. Please see this page for details: https://www.mirovni-institut.si/en/public-call-for-candidates-for-junior-re… -- Matthew Purver - http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~mpurver/ Computational Linguistics Lab - http://compling.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/ Cognitive Science Research Group - http://cogsci.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/ School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, UK *My working days for QMUL are Monday-Wednesday; responses to mail on other days may be delayed.*

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(WANLP2023) CFP: The 1st Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference
by Salam Khalifa 12 Apr '23

12 Apr '23

Hello All, *** Apologies for Cross-Posting *** The First Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (WANLP 2023) Co-located with EMNLP 2023 in Singapore. Conference URL: https://wanlp2023.sigarab.org/ Submission URL: <https://softconf.com/emnlp2022/WANLP2022>TBD WANLP 2023 invites the submission of original long, short or demo papers in the area of Arabic Natural Language Processing.WANLP 2023 builds on seven previous workshop editions, which have been extremely successful drawing in a large active participation in various capacities. This conference is timely given the continued rise in research projects focusing on Arabic NLP. WANLP 2023 will also feature shared tasks, allowing participants to work on specific NLP challenges related to Arabic language processing. The conference is organized by the Special Interest Group on Arabic NLP (SIGARAB), an Association for Computational Linguistics Special Interest Group on Arabic Natural Language Processing. Shared Tasks We are also inviting proposals for shared tasks related to the topics below. The proposals should provide an overview of the proposed task, motivation, data/resources (how the data will be collected), task description, pilot run (if available), tentative timeline that matches the submission dates below, and task organizers (name, affiliation). Proposals (up to 4 pages) should be sent to: wanlp-shared-task-chair(a)sigarab.org Important Dates - May 7, 2023: submission of shared tasks proposals - May 14, 2023: notification of acceptance of shared tasks - September 5, 2023: conference paper & shared task papers due date - October 12, 2023: notification of acceptance - October 20, 2023: camera-ready papers due - Conference Date (one day): TBD (timeframe: December 6-10) All deadlines are 11:59 pm UTC -12h <https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zone/timezone/utc-12> (“Anywhere on Earth”). We accept long (up to 8 pages), short (up to 4 pages), and demo paper (up to 4 pages) submissions. Presentation Mode Long and short papers will be presented orally or as posters as determined by the program committee. Submissions are invited on topics that include, but are not limited to, the following: - Enabling core technologies: language models and large language models, morphological analysis, disambiguation, tokenization, POS tagging, named entity detection, chunking, parsing, semantic role labeling, sentiment analysis, Arabic dialect modeling, etc. - Applications: dialog modeling, machine translation, speech recognition, speech synthesis, optical character recognition, pedagogy, assistive technologies, social media, etc. - Resources: dictionaries, annotated data, corpora, etc. Submissions may include work in progress as well as finished work. Submissions must have a clear focus on specific issues pertaining to the Arabic language whether it is standard Arabic, dialectal, classical, or mixed. Papers on other languages sharing problems faced by Arabic NLP researchers, such as Semitic languages or languages using Arabic script, are welcome provided that they propose techniques or approaches that would be of interest to Arabic NLP, and they explain why this is the case. Additionally, papers on efforts using Arabic resources but targeting other languages are also welcome. Descriptions of commercial systems are welcome, but authors should be willing to discuss the details of their work. If you have any questions, please contact us at: wanlp-pc-chairs(a)sigarab.org The WANLP 2023 Organizing Committee Best, WANLP publicity chairs: Salam Khalifa and Amr Keleg

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Second Call for Papers and deadline extension: IWCS workshop on Semantics in Organisational Communication
by Matthew Purver 12 Apr '23

12 Apr '23

Second CFP: SemInOrgCom: Semantics in Organisational Communication https://sodestream.github.io/seminorgcom/ June 20th, Nancy, France Co-located with IWCS 2023 Important dates: Regular and non-archival submissions: * May 5th (extended from April 14th) Submission deadline * June 2nd (extended from May 12th) Notification of acceptance * June 9th Camera ready deadline for regular papers Hackathon: * March 8th – May 31st Participants working on Hackathon * March 31st First meeting with Hackathon participants * May 2nd Second meeting with Hackathon participants * June 7th Submission deadline for system description papers * June 9th Camera ready deadline for hackathon system description papers Workshop: * 20th Jun Workshop date Keynote speakers: Dr. Colin Perkins (University of Glasgow; chair, Internet Research Task Force) Prof. Magda Osman (University of Cambridge) Workshop description: Interaction and communication are at the heart of every organisation, from small to large, and take many forms: email, group messaging applications, face-to-face and online meetings of various sizes, and others. Insights into how people express complex issues, discuss their own and others’ intentions and make decisions could help make these processes more efficient and/or transparent and lead to a range of assistive tools. However, the group interaction involved is often at a scale between the small scales usually assumed in computational semantics or dialogue modelling, and the very large scales usually studied in social networks. The organisational nature also brings important factors that affect language and the meaning expressed or understood – explicit or implicit hierarchy, shared or disputed goals, and social groupings with competitive or collaborative agendas – well known in other disciplines but not often taken into account in computational semantics. The computational linguistics community has looked at various relevant phenomena and tasks (e.g., meeting summarization, intention detection, intention detection, argument mining, agreement/disagreement detection, persuasiveness detection), and some relevant datasets have been produced (e.g., the Enron email dataset). However, there are still relatively few attempts and few resources or approaches to semantics in organisational communication in general. This workshop aims to fill this gap to model, analyse and understand overall organisational communication, and encourage collaboration between researchers from diverse backgrounds, including computational linguistics, organisational psychology, and computational social science. Main topics: We welcome work broadly in the area of natural language processing, computational linguistics, computational social science, sociolinguistics, organisational psychology, and related fields with the aim of better understanding organisational communication. Cross-disciplinary collaborations between computer scientists and other social scientists in order to reach richer insights are especially welcome. We also encourage contributions that address multilingual settings as well as low-resource languages. The workshop topics include but are not limited to: * Summarization of meetings and other organisational communication * Models of argument, (dis)agreement and decision-making * Analysis of influence, persuasiveness and power relations * Effects of organisational culture and hierarchy * Communication across different modalities and timescales * Differences between organisational communication and other forms of communication * Datasets and annotation schemas for organisational communication * Social network analysis in organisations as applied to communication * Diachronic analysis of organisational communication * Application and adaptation of NLP models to organisational communication. Format: Regular submissions (long and short) Authors are invited to submit full papers of up to 8 pages of content and short papers of up to 4 pages of content, with unlimited pages for references. Accepted papers will be given an additional page of content to address reviewer comments and will be published in the ACL Anthology. Previously published papers cannot be accepted. Dual submissions are allowed; papers that are currently undergoing review at other venues are welcome but must declare this on submission. Non-archival submissions We welcome two types of non-archival submissions. First, you can submit an extended abstract of work not published elsewhere. These can include position papers, or early-stage work that would benefit from peer feedback. Second, work previously accepted/published elsewhere, along with details about the venue or journal where it is accepted, and a link to the archived version, if available. In both cases there are no page limits, or style/anonymity requirements, and the submissions will be reviewed only for the fit to the workshop theme. Papers accepted as non-archival will be given an opportunity to present the work at the workshop but will not be published in the ACL Anthology (they will be available on the workshop website). Hackathon submissions An active, experimentation-based track where hackathon-type online activities precede the workshop, and teams/individuals present their work in the workshop. The hackathon organisers will provide data, task suggestions, and periodic feedback. Though, participants are free to work on any relevant task or dataset during their hackathon project. Hackathon activities are by design online, while the rest of the workshop will be in person. Hackathon participants are invited (but not required) to submit a system description paper (up to 4 pages + unlimited pages for references); authors will be able to choose whether these are published in the ACL anthology. Journal special issue After the workshop, we will explore the possibility of inviting selected authors to submit a paper to a special issue of the Dialogue & Discourse journal. The journal submissions would undergo further review, and the paper should be substantially different from the original work. Submission instructions: Similar to IWCS, regular submissions should be fully anonymous to ensure double-blind reviewing. All submissions should follow the IWCS conference template (see https://iwcs2023.loria.fr/call-for-papers/) Submission link: https://softconf.com/iwcs2023/seminorgcom/ Program committee: Ignacio Castro, Queen Mary University of London Goran Glavaš, University of Würzburg Patrick Healey, Queen Mary University of London Mladen Karan, Queen Mary University of London Stephen McQuistin, University of Glasgow Paul Piwek, Open University Matthew Purver, Queen Mary University of London and Jožef Stefan Institute Ravi Shekhar, University of Essex Gareth Tyson, Hong Kong University of Science of Science and Technology Andreas Vlachos, University of Cambridge Ivan Vulić, University of Cambridge (more TBA) -- Matthew Purver - http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~mpurver/ Computational Linguistics Lab - http://compling.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/ Cognitive Science Research Group - http://cogsci.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/ School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, UK *My working days for QMUL are Monday-Wednesday; responses to mail on other days may be delayed.*

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Lectures on Computational Linguistics, 29-31 May 2023 Pisa (IT)
by Tommaso Caselli 12 Apr '23

12 Apr '23

We are pleased to announce that the 2023 edition of Lectures on Computational Linguistics organized by the Italian Association for Computational Linguistics will take place on 29, 30, and 31 May in Pisa (IT). The 2023 edition of the Lectures will focus on the latest models of learning and knowledge representation in mono- and multi-modal contexts, with particular reference to the latest generation of neural language models. Aspects related to the processes of knowledge generation and transfer, their interpretation and explicability will be addressed. The topics will be declined both from a theoretical perspective of linguistic and computer studies and in application scenarios oriented to Digital Humanities. The program is available at: https://www.ai-lc.it/lectures/lectures-2023-it/ *Tutorials*: - *Computational linguistic methods for linguistic analyses – *Ellie Pavlick - *Grounding language in visual data: Models, datasets and recent results – *Albert Gatt - Transfer and Multi-Task Learning in Natural Language Processing – Barbara Plank - * Interpretability of linguistic knowledge in neural language models – *Afra Alishahi *Lab activities:* - *Multimodality and NLP* – Alessandro Bondielli & Lucia Passaro - *Explaining Neural Language Models from Internal Representations to Model Predictions – *Alessio Miaschi & Gabriele Sarti *Evening Lecture:* - *Computational linguistics for the humanities – *Simonetta Montemagni The school is aimed primarily at doctoral and master's students, but is open to all interested. Participation is free but subject to registration. The event is organized by the Italian Association of Computational Linguistics (AILC) in collaboration with the Department of Philology, Literature and Linguistics of the University of Pisa and the Institute of Computational Linguistics "A. Zampolli" of the National Research Council. The event is coordinated with the parallel event Ital-IA, the conference on artificial intelligence organized by the National Interuniversity Consortium for Informatics (CINI). Students who wish to present aspects of their work in the "Student Presentations" sessions are asked to submit a 500-word abstract by April 27, 2023 to ailc.lectures(a)gmail.com. Acceptance notifications will be sent by May 8. Participation is free of charge but subject to registration: https://www.ai-lc.it/en/lcl-registration-procedure/ Scientific Committee. Raffaella Bernardi (University of Trento) Tommaso Caselli (University of Groningen) Francesco Cutugno (University of Naples Federico II) Felice Dell'Orletta (Institute of Computational Linguistics CNR - Pisa) Elisabetta Jezek (University of Pavia) Local Organizing Committee Felice Dell'Orletta (Institute of Computational Linguistics "A. Zampolli") Alessandro Lenci (University of Pisa) Secretariat Chiara Alzetta (Institute of Computational Linguistics CNR - Pisa) Irene Sucameli (University of Pisa) Contact: ailc.lectures(a)gmail.com -- Tommaso Caselli, Ph.D. Senior Assistant Professor in Computational Semantics Faculty of Arts, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen The Netherlands ---------------------------- https://xs4all.academia.edu/TommasoCaselli https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tommaso_Caselli Twitter: @tommaso_caselli

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2nd Cal for Papers: SemDial 2023 - MariLogue
by Andy Lücking 12 Apr '23

12 Apr '23

* Apologies for cross-posting * 2nd Call for papers: SemDial 2023 Submissions date: June 16th, 2023 Submissions website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semdial2023marilogue # CALL FOR PAPERS SemDial 2023 -- MariLogue The 27th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue 16--17 August, University of Maribor, Slovenia https://mezzanine.um.si/en/conference/semdial-2023-marilogue/ MariLogue will be the 27th edition of the SemDial workshop series, which aims to bring together researchers working on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue in fields such as formal semantics and pragmatics, computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience. We welcome submissions with formal, computational and empirical approaches to the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue, including, but not limited to: * the dynamics of agents' information states in dialogue * common ground/mutual belief * goals, intentions and commitments in communication * turn-taking and interaction control * semantic/pragmatic interpretation in dialogue * dialogue and discourse structure * categorisation of dialogue phenomena in corpora * child-adult interaction * language learning through dialogue * gesture, gaze, and intonational meaning in communication * multimodal dialogue * interpretation and reasoning in spoken dialogue systems * dialogue management * designing and evaluating dialogue systems * modelling miscommunication, disfluency and repair * dialogue/interaction studies from a psychological perspective * neuroscience of dialogue * Interactivist approaches to dialogue * animal communication # SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: Long papers: Authors should submit an anonymous paper of at most 8 pages of content (up to 2 additional pages are allowed for references). Short papers: Authors should submit a non-anonymized paper of at most 2 pages of content (up to 1 additional page allowed for references). Submission to this track can be non-archival on request. Submissions should be pdf files and use the LaTeX (https://2023.aclweb.org/downloads/acl2023.zip) or Word (https://2023.aclweb.org/downloads/acl2023.docx) templates provided for ACL 2023 submissions. The LaTeX template is readily available on Overleaf (https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/acl-2023-proceedings-template/qjdg…). Concurrent submission policy: Papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications must provide this information, using a footnote on the title page of the submissions. SemDial 2023 cannot accept work for publication or presentation that will be (or has been) published elsewhere. Submission is electronic, using the EasyChair conference management system at our Easychair submission site (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semdial2023marilogue). # IMPORTANT DATES: Note: All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth"). * Long paper submissions due: June 16th, 2023 * Notification: July 14th, 2023 * Short paper submissions due: July 21st, 2023 * Final versions due: August 4th, 2023 * Registration Deadline for presenters/refund deadline: August 4th, 2023 * MariLogue Conference: August 16th--17th, 2023

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EACL 2023 Early Registration and Volunteer Announcements
by Joel Tetreault 11 Apr '23

11 Apr '23

Dear colleagues, Thank you for opening this message. EACL 2023 <https://2023.eacl.org/> is quickly approaching (May 1 - 6) and we hope you can make it. Frankly speaking, there is no better conference covering the latest advances in NLP, held in beautiful Croatia, named EACL, and held during the first week of May. I actively challenge anyone to find a better one. Which means you would be remiss not to attend. You can right that potential wrong by registering today! Early registration ends tomorrow *April 11*, as well as the hotel block. https://2023.eacl.org/registration In addition, volunteer applications end today, *April 10*! https://2023.eacl.org/calls/volunteers/ Don't miss out. Act now! Yours truly in exaggeration, EACL Publicity Chairs

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One Assistant Position (Akademischer Rat) for 3+3 Years with the Chair of Multilingual Computational Linguistics in Passau
by Mattis List 11 Apr '23

11 Apr '23

Dear all, Our Chair of Multilingual Computational Linguistics is offering a position for an Akademischer Rat (research assistant) for 3 years with the possibility of extension by 3 more years. We look for a candidate who can teach topics in Multilingual Computational Linguistics with a specific focus on machine learning and data management. Deadline for application is May 16, more information can be found here: https://www.uni-passau.de/fileadmin/dokumente/beschaeftigte/Stellenangebote… Sincerely, Mattis List -- Prof. Dr. Johann-Mattis List Chair of Multilingual Computational Linguistics University of Passau Dr.-Hans-Kapfinger-Str. 16 04032 Passau Germany Chair Website: https://phil.uni-passau.de/multilinguale-computerlinguistik/ Personal Website: https://lingulist.de Telephone: +49(0)851/509-3480

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