April 2023 - Corpora

Summer School 2023 - Digital Humanities and Digital Communication: AI and (new) literacies
by jessicajane.nocella1＠gmail.com 04 Apr '23

04 Apr '23

Host Institution: Università di Modena-Reggio Emilia Coordinating Institution: Department of Studies on Language and Culture Website: https://www.summerschooldigitalhumanities.unimore.it/ Dates: 12 Jun-2023—16 Jun-2023 Location: Modena, Emilia Romagna, Italy CALL FOR APPLICATIONS The Department of Studies on Language and Culture of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia in collaboration with the Fondazione Marco Biagi promote their 5th edition of a Summer School in Digital Humanities and Digital Communication, aimed at providing PhD students and young researchers with methodological tools for the study of digital communication and data analysis. Topics range from digital resources for research in the humanities to the use of new information technologies for data analysis, tools for analysing communication in new media and ways of disseminating knowledge through new ways of processing and accessing knowledge. SUMMER SCHOOL THEMES Technological advances continue to transform the way we think, communicate, work and live, imposing more and more demands on our ability to access, read and interpret information. Nowadays the meaning of literacy has stretched far beyond its traditional sense of the ability to read and write text. Over the years, we have had to come to terms with computer literacy, media literacy, visual literacy, multimodal literacy and more recently AI literacy. The various formats and affordances created by the new technologies call upon multiple semiotic modes (verbal, visual, aural, spatial and gestural). In the process, these technologies are having a marked impact on how we receive, perceive and interpret information, and thus on the dissemination of knowledge. The digital revolution opens up new intellectual horizons. One consequence is that it enriches the variety and capacity of methodologies that can be adopted in research in the humanities, including in fields such as linguistics, history and education. But recent development of tools like ChatGPT and DALL-E2 inevitably give rise to concern about the long-term effects that generative artificial intelligence may have on society and individuals. Will AI undermine human abilities and skills, even making some redundant? Will it lessen the desire to think, write, or draw for ourselves? Alternatively, can AI be an ally, stimulating new forms of human creativity and novel research pathways. What kind of consequences might it have on the labour market, on the business world, and on political organizations? Which legal adjustments and loopholes might AI lead to? The 2023 Summer School will try to address some of these questions from different disciplinary points of view, while at the same time giving participants an opportunity to explore some of the recent advances in the field of digital humanities in hands-on workshops. APPLICATIONS AND SUBMISSION GUIDELINES We invite contributions from PhD students and young non-tenured researchers from a variety of disciplines interested in digital communication, digital humanities, and transdisciplinary approaches to the field. The selection of participants is based on a review process organised by the scientific committee of the summer school. The application will be subjected to a double-blind peer review. Based on this review, the scientific committee of the summer school will select the participants. The selection criteria are: ▪ quality of the PhD project, assessed in relation to its: i) theoretical approach; ii) methodological standards; iii) potential for innovation; ▪ the relevance of the aims and objectives of the PhD project within the areas covered. Participants will be expected to present their work at the Summer School, either in the form of a presentation or of a poster. The application form includes: 1. abstract of the PhD project/current research project (max 2500 characters, including spaces) 2. a short CV according to a given model (see https://www.summerschooldigitalhumanities.unimore.it/application/) Send application form, abstract and CV to: digitalhumanities(a)unimore.it (with the subject of the email “APPLICATION NAME-SURNAME”) Programme director: Marina Bondi IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for applications: April 26th, 2023 Notification of acceptance: May 3rd, 2023 Conference website: https://www.summerschooldigitalhumanities.unimore.it/ For any inquiry, please contact the organisers at: digitalhumanities(a)unimore.it

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Reminder: Call for SEPLN AWARD TO THE BEST DOCTORAL THESIS 2022
by aitziber.atucha＠ehu.eus 04 Apr '23

04 Apr '23

[Apologies for cross-posting] At the end in English. EDICIÓN XXII PREMIO SEPLN A LA MEJOR TESIS DOCTORAL EN PROCESAMIENTO DEL LENGUAJE NATURAL [Plazo de presentación: 2 de mayo de 2023] La Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural convoca la Edición XXII del Premio SEPLN a la Mejor Tesis Doctoral en Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, que se regirá por las siguientes bases: La finalidad de este premio es la promoción y divulgación de la investigación en el campo del procesamiento del lenguaje natural. La tesis será premiada con una computadora portátil compacta (tablet). Se dará entrega del premio en el 39 Congreso Internacional de la Sociedad Española del Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (SEPLN 2023), tras una breve presentación del trabajo premiado por parte del autor. Para poder concursar, el autor de la tesis doctoral debe ser socio de la SEPLN en el momento de presentar el trabajo. Ninguna persona concursante podrá participar como autora en más de un trabajo. Se podrán presentar a concurso tesis doctorales leídas durante el año 2022, escritas en una lengua del Estado español o en lengua inglesa. Además de la tesis completa, es imprescindible enviar: Un breve resumen de 4 páginas donde claramente se indique el tema y la relevancia de la investigación, los objetivos, métodos, resultados alcanzados y contribuciones. Una breve descripción de la trayectoria científica del autor de la tesis, en la que se describa la participación en actividades científicas como organización de de tareas competitivas, congresos, generación de recursos open access como conjuntos de datos, modelos de lenguaje, etc., y participación en proyectos, contratos, y/o patentes. La calidad de la presentación, la corrección técnica y metodológica, la relevancia, originalidad, la generación, evaluación y publicación de recursos, así como la trayectoria investigadora durante el periodo predoctoral serán los criterios empleados para la adjudicación del premio por parte del jurado. Los trabajos se enviarán a través de la web de la revista de la Sociedad (http://journal.sepln.org) en formato PDF antes del 2 de mayo de 2023. La resolución del premio se comunicará durante el 39 Congreso Internacional de la Sociedad Española del Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (SEPLN 2023). Documento con las instrucciones (aquí) Para más información dirigirse a aitziber.atucha(a)ehu.eus 22nd EDITION OF THE SEPLN AWARD TO THE BEST DOCTORAL THESIS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING [Submission deadline: May 2nd, 2023] The Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing announces the 22 Edition of the SEPLN Award for the Best Doctoral Thesis in Natural Language Processing, which will be governed by the following bases: The purpose of this award is the promotion and dissemination of research in the field of natural language processing. The thesis will be awarded with a compact laptop (tablet). The award will be presented at the 39th International Congress of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN 2023), after a brief presentation of the award-winning work by the author. In order to compete, the author of the doctoral thesis must be a member of the SEPLN at the time of submitting the work. No contestant may participate as an author in more than one work. Doctoral theses read during the year 2023, written in a language of the Spanish State or in English, may be submitted to competition. In addition to the complete thesis, it is essential to send: a 4-page summary of the thesis, clearly describing the topic and the relevance of the research, the objectives, methods, results achieved and contributions. a brief description of the scientific career of the author of the thesis, detailing the participation in scientific activities such as organization of competitive tasks, congresses, generation of open access resources such as sets of data, language models, etc., and participation in projects, contracts, and/or patents. The quality of the presentation, the technical and methodological correctness, the relevance, originality, the generation, evaluation and publication of resources, as well as the research trajectory during the pre-doctoral period will be the criteria used for the award of the prize by the jury. The works will be submitted through the website of the Society's magazine (http://journal.sepln.org) in PDF format before May 2nd 2023. The final decision will be communicated during the 39th International Congress of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN 2023). Submission instructions (http://www.sepln.org/sites/default/files/noticia/documentos_relacionados/20…) For more information: aitziber.atucha(a)ehu.eus

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Release of Démonette-2: a French derivational database
by Nabil Hathout 04 Apr '23

04 Apr '23

We are pleased to announce the release of the French derivational morphology database Démonette-2, produced in the framework of the Demonext project (ANR-17-CE23-0005). Démonette is composed of descriptions of 222,118 lexeme pairs and their relations. The database contains three tables, one for the lexemes (table of lexemes), one for the morphologically related pairs of lexemes (table of relations) and one for the word families (table of families). Démonette provides the written form of the lexemes, their pronunciation, their grammatical category, their inflectional paradigm, their possible variants and for the nouns their masculine or feminine equivalents. For pairs of lexemes, the database provides the affixes of the two lexemes, the type of word formation, the complexity of the relation and its orientation. This information is derived from existing academic work. The origin of all the information in the database is explicitly mentioned. Démonette is a general-purpose database that can be used for teaching vocabulary and grammar, speech therapy and remediation, experimental linguistics, NLP, etc. Démonette-2 is distributed under a CC-Attribution-4.0 license. DOI : 10.17605/OSF.IO/DB2W8 Démonette can be accessed online at: https://www.demonette.fr/ It can be downloaded from the following sites and platforms: Démonette : https://www.demonette.fr/ Demonext : https://www.demonext.xyz/ OSF : https://osf.io/db2w8/ It will also be soon available on: Ortolang : https://www.ortolang.fr/fr/accueil/ REDAC : http://redac.univ-tlse2.fr/lexique/demonette For more information, please visit the Demonext website: https://www.demonext.xyz/ Fiammetta Namer and Nabil Hathout -- CLLE, CNRS & Université de Toulouse Jean Jaurès Maison de la Recherche. F-31058 Toulouse cedex 9 Tél. (+33) 561-504-013. Nabil.Hathout(a)univ-tlse2.fr http://nabil.hathout.free.fr/

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Fully-funded PhD studentship in NLP and bioinformatics at QMUL, London, UK (UK students only)
by Arkaitz Zubiaga 04 Apr '23

04 Apr '23

A fully funded PhD Studentship is available to work with Dr Anna Lobley, Associate Director, Biological Data Science at Exscientia, Dr Arkaitz Zubiaga, Senior Lecturer at the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University London, and Dr Claudia Cabrera, Lecturer in Bioinformatics at the William Harvey Research Institute at Queen Mary University London. Awards will cover UK tuition fees, stipend at UKRI rate (currently £19,668), and a consumable allowance for 4 years (pro-rata for part-time applicants). *Project Description:* Methods for automated target and biomarker identification typically involve ranking genes and proteins according to indication relevance criteria. A typical process then involves traversing scientific literature for supporting evidence. However, many age-related western world diseases bear the hallmarks of complex heterogeneous conditions that vary along a spectrum of disease severity. They frequently involve multiple systems and pathways. Hence selection pools comprise many hundreds to thousands of genes. Selecting the best targets and stratification biomarkers from a large candidate pool presents a significant challenge in drug discovery. Current approaches are at best semi-automated or rely on expert opinion. This means it is difficult to avoid bias in such decision making tasks. Decision theory is one branch of Artificial Intelligence that can be applied to help resolve these complexities. Automated reasoning and argumentation theory are two appropriate branches of natural language processing well suited to the task. The aim of this project is to fully automate target and biomarker selections using a combination of NLP-based and recommendation methods. The end goal is to generate unbiased decisions from a complex network of information relationships. We are seeking a highly motivated students who are passionate about contributing to biological knowledge through the application of NLP to large text corpora and biomolecular data sets. The deadline for applications is May 1st 2023 and projects start in September 2023. For more details, see https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/target-biomarker-selection-using-syst… For more on eligibility and how to apply, see https://www.qmul.ac.uk/deri/ukri-aidd-doctoral-training-programme/apply/

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CfP: Workshop on Open Community-Driven Machine Translation (CrowdMT) at EAMT2023
by Miquel Esplà 04 Apr '23

04 Apr '23

*Apologies for cross-posting* 1st Workshop on Open Community-Driven Machine Translation (CrowdMT) Tampere, Finland, on June 15, 2023 *https://macocu.eu/workshop* <https://macocu.eu/workshop> First Call for Papers The 1st edition of the Workshop on Open Community-Driven Machine Translation (CrowdMT) will be held in Tampere, Finland, on June 15, 2023, co-located with EAMT 2023. The workshop aims to be as open as possible: we invite everybody that works on topics related to machine translation in an open and community-driven way. We welcome submissions either as a full paper or just an abstract. The full papers have to present previously unpublished work, but abstract submission is open for anybody who wishes to discuss their relevant work. This work can be previously published, work in progress or simply a proposal for a new project. Topics for submissions include, but are not limited to: - development of machine translation toolkits, - platforms and services; - collection and curation of datasets that can be used to build machine translation systems; - automatic post-editing software and data; - machine translation quality estimation software and data; - machine translation evaluation; - integration of machine translation in computer-aided translation; - use of monolingual resources to improve machine translation; and - software, data and models licensing issues. Submission information The workshop accepts submission in two different modalities: - Abstracts: authors can submit abstracts up to 1 page that summarize the contribution of a work/paper. If accepted, authors will have the option of having their abstracts included in the proceedings of the workshop. - Papers: authors can submit papers between 4 and 10 pages (including appendices but not references). If accepted, in addition to presenting their work to the audience, authors will be requested to submit a camera-ready version of paper that will be included in the proceedings of the workshop. Submissions should be formatted according to the EAMT 2023 guidelines <https://events.tuni.fi/eamt23/second-call-for-papers/> and submitted in PDF through EasyChair page (link to be announced). Important dates - Workshop paper/abstracts due: 14th April 2023 - Notification of acceptance: 28th April 2023 - Camera-ready papers/extended abstracts due: 12th May 2023 - Workshop date: 15th June 2023 -- Dr. Miquel Esplà-Gomis Departament de Llenguatges i Sistemes Informàtics Universitat d'Alacant Carretera de Sant Vicent del Raspeig s/n 03690 Sant Vicent del Raspeig, Alacant (Spain) Tel: +34 965903400 ext. 2424

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Two open positions in multimodal emotion analysis
by Roman Klinger 04 Apr '23

04 Apr '23

(apologies for crossposting) The Institute for Natural Language Processing at the University of Stuttgart invites applications for a 1-year postdoc and a 3-year postdoc position in the DFG-funded project "User’s Choice of Images and Text to Express Emotions in Twitter and Reddit" (ITEM). The project is co-lead by Carina Silberer (for the multimodal language & vision aspect of the project) and Roman Klinger (for the aspect of emotion and emotion stimulus analysis). You can find more information in the detailed job description at https://romanklinger.de/projects/job-item.pdf If you have questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at * roman.klinger(a)ims.uni-stuttgart.de * carina.silberer(a)ims.uni-stuttgart.de The application deadline is May 10th, 2023. We intend to start the project in late summer. Best regards, Roman (Klinger)

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One open position (PhD student or Postdoc) in argument mining and emotion analysis
by Roman Klinger 04 Apr '23

04 Apr '23

(apologies for crossposting) The Institute for Natural Language Processing at the University of Stuttgart invites applications for a 3-year position that can be filled by a Phd student (with some prior experience) or a postdoctoral researcher. The successful candidate will work in the project "The Interplay of Emotions and Convincingness in Argument Mining for NLP" (EMCONA) in which we analyse the effect that emotions play on the convincingness of emotions. The project is a collaboration between the University of Stuttgart (Roman Klinger) and the University of Bielefeld (Steffen Eger). The PhD student who is advised by Roman Klinger in Stuttgart will focus on appraisal-theory-based analysis of emotions in argumentative texts. The PhD student in Steffen Eger's group will work on generating bias-free arguments. You can find more information at https://romanklinger.de/projects/job-emcona.pdf If you have questions, please contact Roman Klinger via email at roman.klinger(a)ims.uni-stuttgart.de The application deadline is May 10th, 2023. We intend to start the project in late summer. Best regards, Roman (Klinger)

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10th European Conference On Service-Oriented And Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2023): Final Call for Special Track Proposals
by georgeangelos60＠gmail.com 04 Apr '23

04 Apr '23

*** Final Call for Special Track Proposals *** 10th European Conference On Service-Oriented And Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2023) October 24-26, 2023, Golden Bay Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/esocc2023/ AIM AND SCOPE The European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC) is the premier conference on advances in the state of the art and practice of Service-Oriented Computing and Cloud Computing in Europe. The main objectives of this conference are to facilitate the exchange between researchers and practitioners in the areas of Service-oriented Computing and Cloud Computing and to foster future collaborations in Europe and beyond. ESOCC 2023 will host Special Tracks as part of its program. Special Tracks provide a space where ESOCC participants can discuss, e.g., topics relevant to Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing even if not explicitly mentioned in ESOCC’s topics of interest (cf. https://cyprusconferences.org/esocc2023/call-for-papers/), early-stage research ideas and/or results, or demonstrate industry-ready tools and research prototypes. Special Tracks may be driven by research interests, needs from specific application domains, or aim at bringing together practitioners and researchers from the area of Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing. Proposals for special tracks should indicate the title of the Special Track, its aims and scope (150-300 words), the Special Track chair(s), and the tentative members of the track’s PC. Please email your proposals as a PDF file to the PC chairs of ESOCC 2023, Florian Rademacher (florian.rademacher at fh-dortmund.de) and Jacopo Soldani (jacopo.soldani at unipi.it). Special Tracks will be selected for ESOCC 2023 using a lightweight review process. IMPORTANT DATES • Special Track Proposal Submission: April 18th, 2023 (AoE) • Notification of Acceptance: April 24th, 2023 (AoE) ORGANISATIONAL INFORMATION Chairs of accepted Special Tracks can devise a Call for Papers for their track, which will be published on ESOCC 2023 website, together with the provided information on the track (title, aims and scope, PC). The Call for Papers for their track will then be disseminated alongside that of ESOCC, and submissions will be handled through the EasyChair of ESOCC, which will include a special track link. Papers accepted for Special Tracks will be included in the main conference proceedings of ESOCC 2023, published by Springer in the LNCS series. The best papers accepted in the Special Tracks will be eligible for consideration to be invited to submit extended versions for a Journal Special Issue to be published by Springer Computing. Special Track chairs, presenters, and participants will be required to register through the ESOCC 2023 registration page. In case of any questions related to the Special Tracks, please do not hesitate to contact the Program Chairs. ORGANISATION General Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, CY (george at ucy.ac.cy) Program Chairs • Florian Rademacher, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund, DE (florian.rademacher at fh-dortmund.de) • Jacopo Soldani, University of Pisa, IT (jacopo.soldani at unipi.it) Steering and Program Committee https://cyprusconferences.org/esocc2023/committees/

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PhDs / Postdocs in ML, NLP and Computer Vision at U Amsterdam
by Ivan Titov 03 Apr '23

03 Apr '23

The University of Amsterdam invites applications for postdoctoral and Ph.D. positions on the intersection of ML, NLP, and Computer Vision. The research is funded by NWO (Dutch Science Foundation) grant of Ivan Titov ( http://ivan-titov.org/). The postdocs and PhD students will be employed by the University of Amsterdam and will be members of the Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation <https://www.illc.uva.nl/> and the Faculty of Science. The collaboration is envisaged with researchers at the University of Amsterdam (e.g., Efstratios Gavves, and Wilker Aziz), as well as at the University of Edinburgh (e.g., Edoardo Ponti, Hakan Bilen, Sidharth N., and Kenny Smith). The research will focus primarily on two directions (or their intersections): 1) *learning from language* in grounded settings: exploiting knowledge embedded in language and language models to help solve decision-making applications and produce generalizable and interpretable models for these tasks 2) *emergent communication* and collaboration: developing agents which learn to communicate with humans, explain their predictions and decision strategies, and also improve with human feedback. *Application deadline: May 1, 2023, 17:00 (Netherlands)* For informal enquiries please contact: Ivan Titov (titov(a)uva.nl) Please find more details by following the links: Ph.D. positions: https://vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/PhD-in-Machine-Learning-with-NLP-and-Compu… Postdoc positions: https://vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Postdoctoral-Researcher-in-Machine-Learnin…

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10th International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC 2023): Open Invitation for Self-Nomination to the Program Committee of BESC 2023
by georgeangelos60＠gmail.com 03 Apr '23

03 Apr '23

*** Open Invitation for Self-Nomination to the Program Committee of BESC 2023 *** 10th International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC 2023) October 30 - November 1, 2023, 5* Golden Bay Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus http://besc-conf.org/2023/ The International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC) is a major international forum that brings together academic researchers and industry practitioners from artificial intelligence, computational social sciences, natural language processing, business and marketing, and behavioural and psychological sciences to present updated research efforts and progresses on foundational and emerging interdisciplinary topics of BESC, exchange new ideas and identify future research directions. The BESC series of conferences are technically sponsored by IEEE SMC (Systems, Man and Cybernetics) Society as well as IEEE CIS (Computational Intelligence Society) and the proceedings are published by IEEE BESC 2023 is recruiting new PC members. If you are interested to join the PC and assist in the review process, please fill the form available here: https://forms.gle/X2cYY2jfmVBMHcNi9 Please note the submission deadline and bear in mind that your assistance in the review process will be required between mid-July and mid-September. IMPORTANT DATES • Submission of all papers: 15 July 2023 • Notification of acceptance for submitted papers: 15 September 2023 ORGANISATION Steering Committee Chair • Guandong Xu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia General Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs • Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • Ji Zhang, University of Southern Queensland, Australia Special Session Chairs • Taotao Cai, University of Southern Queensland, Australia (taotao.cai AT usq.edu.au) • Ting Yu, Zhejiang Lab, China (yuting AT zhejianglab.com) Doctoral Symposium Chair • Barbara Caci, University of Palermo, Italy Panel and Tutorial Chair • Philippe Fournier-Viger, Shenzhen University, China Proceedings Chair • Md Rafiqul Islam, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Publicity Chairs • Chandan Gautam, Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR, Singapore • Thanveer Shaik, University of Southern Queensland, Australia • Sanjay Sonbhadra, ITER, Siksha 'O' Anusandhan, India Webmaster • Shiqing Wu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

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