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2nd Workshop on Perspectivist Approaches to Disagreement in NLP: Second Call for Papers
by Simona Frenda 25 Apr '23

25 Apr '23

****NLPerspectives**** 2nd Workshop on Perspectivist Approaches to Disagreement in NLP (and Beyond) https://nlperspectives.di.unito.it/w/2nd-workshop-on-perspectivist-approach… Until recently, the dominant paradigm in natural language processing (and other areas of artificial intelligence) has been to resolve observed label disagreement into a single “ground truth” or “gold standard” via aggregation, adjudication, or statistical means. However, in recent years, the field has increasingly focused on subjective tasks, such as abuse detection or quality estimation, in which multiple points of view may be equally valid, and a unique ‘ground truth’ label may not exist (Plank, 2022). At the same time, as concerns have been raised about bias and fairness in AI, it has become increasingly apparent that an approach which assumes a single “ground truth” can erase minority voices. Strong perspectivism in NLP (Cabitza et al., 2023) pursues the spirit of recent initiatives such as Data Statements (Bender and Friedman, 2018), extending their scope to the full NLP pipeline, including the aspects related to modelling, evaluation and explanation. In line with the first edition <https://nlperspectives.di.unito.it/w/w2022/>, the NLPerspectives (Perspectivist Approaches to Disagreement in NLP) workshop will explore current and ongoing work on: the collection and labelling of non-aggregated datasets; and approaches to modelling and including these perspectives, as well as evaluation and applications of multi-perspective Machine Learning models. We also welcome opinion pieces and literature reviews, e.g., in the context of fairness and inclusion. A key outcome of this second edition will be to build on the work begun at https://pdai.info/ to create a repository of perspectivist datasets with non-aggregated labels for use by researchers in perspectivist NLP modelling. Authors are, therefore, invited to share their LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) and provide essential information about resources (i.e., also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work or are a result of their research. In addition, authors will be required to adhere to ethical research policies on AI and may include an ethics statement in their papers. The NLPerspectives workshop will be hosted in person during the 26th edition of ECAI 2023 <https://ecai2023.eu/> in Kraków, Poland, on 30 September or 1 October 2023. Submissions The contributions cannot exceed 7 pages (4 for research communications, see below) not including references, and as established by ECAI 2023 conference, the over length submissions will be rejected without review. The papers should be submitted as a PDF document, conforming to the formatting guidelines provided in the call for papers of ECAI 2023 conference: https://ecai2023.eu/ECAI2023 We accept three types of submissions: - Regular research papers; - Non-archival submissions: like research papers, but will not be included in the proceedings; - Research communications: 4-page abstracts summarising relevant research published elsewhere. Topics We invite original research papers from a wide range of topics, including but not limited to: - Non-aggregated data collection and annotation frameworks - Descriptions of corpora collected under the perspectivist paradigm - Multi-perspective Modelling and Machine Learning - Evaluation of multi-perspective models/ models of disagreement - Multi-perspective disagreement as applied to NLP evaluation - Fairness and inclusive modelling - Perspectivist approaches for social good - Applications of multi-perspective modelling - Computing with (dis)agreement - Perspectivist Natural Language Generation - Foundational aspects of perspectivism - Opinion pieces and reviews on perspectivist approaches to NLP Submissions are open to all, and are to be submitted anonymously (and must conform to the instructions for double-blind review). All papers will be refereed through a double-blind peer review process by at least three reviewers, with final acceptance decisions made by the workshop organisers. Scientific papers will be evaluated based on relevance, significance of contribution, impact, technical quality, scholarship, and quality of presentation. More information about the submission, publication of proceedings and date of the workshop will be provided soon. We are seeking sponsors in order to provide financial support for conference registration, travel, and accommodation for participants. Attendance At least one author of each accepted paper is required to participate in the conference and present the work. Important Dates * Friday June 23, 2023: Paper submission * Friday August 4, 2023: Notification of acceptance * Friday September 1, 2023: Camera-ready papers due * Saturday September 30 or Sunday October 1, 2023: Workshop Workshop organisers: Gavin Abercrombie, Heriot-Watt University Valerio Basile, University of Turin Davide Bernardi, Amazon Alexa Shiran Dudy, University of Colorado, Boulder Simona Frenda, University of Turin Lucy Havens, University of Edinburgh Elisa Leonardelli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Sara Tonelli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Contact us at g.abercrombie(a)hw.ac.uk if you have any questions. Website: https://nlperspectives.di.unito.it/

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2nd Call for Papers: TwinTalks 4: Understanding and Facilitating Remote Collaboration in DH
by Gorgaini, E. (Elisa) 25 Apr '23

25 Apr '23

2nd Call for Papers: 'TwinTalks 4: Understanding and Facilitating Remote Collaboration in DH' The workshop is a joint initiative by the European Social Sciences and Humanities Research Infrastructures CLARIN <http://www.clarin.eu> and DARIAH<https://www.dariah.eu/> and it will be organised as part of the DH 2023 Collaboration and Opportunity Conference<https://dh2023.adho.org/> that will take place on July 10-14 in Graz, Austria. Dates and Location Main conference: 10-14 July, Messe Congress Graz convention centre<http://www.mcg.at/messegraz.at/en/locations/messecongress-graz/veranstalter…> TwinTalks workshop: 10 July, 9:00 - 12:30, University of Graz<https://www.uni-graz.at/en/> Important Dates * 15 March 2023: Call for Papers * 15 May 2023: Submission deadline * 15 June 2023: Notification of acceptance * 30 June 2023: Deadline for the final version of extended abstracts * 10 July 2023 (9:00 - 12:30): Workshop Workshop Aims The main objective of the workshop is to develop a better understanding of the dynamics on the Digital Humanities work floor when researchers, teachers and/or professionals with different – but often overlapping – areas of competence engage in remote collaboration to solve humanities research questions, and to explore how education and training of humanities scholars, cultural heritage professionals and technical experts can help to make remote collaboration across disciplines more efficient and effective, more creative and innovative, and more inclusive and rewarding for all participants. To this end, we invite submissions reporting on all aspects and stages of engaging in remote collaborative research and teaching in DH, including the obstacles encountered and solutions found. We also welcome position papers on the role of research infrastructures in facilitating remote collaboration in DH. The insights gained should help those involved in the education of humanities scholars, professionals and technical experts alike to develop better training programmes, tailored towards the needs of a diverse group of potential learners. The workshop is a follow-up of three previous successful TwinTalks workshops that have taken place at various DH conferences from 2019 onwards (TwinTalks 1 proceedings<https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2365/>; TwinTalks 1 blog<http://www.parthenos-project.eu/clarin-and-parthenos-twintalks>; TwinTalks 2+3 proceedings<https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2717/>). Audience Researchers, cultural heritage professionals, educators, scientific programmers, research infrastructure operators and policy-makers with a special interest in creating the conditions where people with humanities research skills and technical expertise (or both) can fruitfully collaborate in answering humanities research questions remotely. Workshop Format The programme starts with an invited talk by a prominent speaker, which will set the scene for the rest of the day. The main component of the workshop programme consists of two types of (submitted) talks: * Twin talks, i.e. talks presented by pairs or teams consisting of someone rooted primarily in humanities research (with a humanities research problem, i.e. not a technical problem or tool), someone with a background in a totally different discipline (e.g. technical) who has contributed their specific capabilities to arrive at the answers, and/or a cultural heritage professional whose collection knowledge has contributed to the development of the research corpus. Talks will usually consist of three parts, followed by questions from the audience: In the first part, the humanities research question is the point of focus, while in the second part, it is shown how the joint effort resulted in an answer to the respective question. In the third part, these perspectives come together, as the team describes how the remote collaboration went, including obstacles that were encountered, and how better training and education could help to make remote collaboration more efficient and effective. * Teach talks by people with experience with or interesting ideas about how remote cross-discipline collaboration is or can be addressed in curricula or other training activities. Submissions The language of the workshop is English. What we expect from the submissions for the Twin Talks track: * They are authored and presented by one or more humanities scholars and one or more digital experts * They start from a humanities research question (i.e. not a technical question, a presentation of a tool, a platform or a data collection) * They describe the remote research carried out jointly and its results * They describe the technical aspects of the methods used and the results obtained * They analyse the way the scholars and the technicians collaborated remotely, addressing issues such as (but not limited to): * What was easy and what was difficult, and why? * How did the researchers, technicians or cultural heritage professionals change each other’s way of looking at things? * Did they, for instance, make each other aware of blind spots they had? * Did the combination of thinking from a DH research question and thinking from a technical solution lead to new insights? * How could better training or education of scholars and digital experts make remote collaboration easier, more effective and more efficient? With regards to the TeachTalks track, one single author and presenter is sufficient. Of course, multi-author papers are equally welcome. Submission instructions * Format: PDF. For format instructions, see http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip * Size: Extended abstracts, size ca 4-8 pages (between 2000-4000 words), covering research questions and answers, technical aspects and collaboration experience for Twin Talks, or relevant educational experience for Teach Talks. * Publication: The workshop proceedings will be published at CEUR-WS<https://ceur-ws.org/>. * Submission URL: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=twintalksdh2023 Workshop Programme Committee * Bente Maegaard (CLARIN ERIC / University of Copenhagen, Denmark) * Barbara McGillivray (King's College London & The Alan Turing Institute, UK) * Benjamin Wiggins (University of Manchester, UK) * Eleni Gouli (Academy of Athens, Greece) * Francesca Frontini (CNR, Italy & CLARIN ERIC) * Frank Uiterwaal (EHRI / NIOD / KNAW, Netherlands) * Folgert Karsdorp (Meertens Institute, KNAW, Netherlands) * Geoffrey Rockwell (University of Alberta, Canada) * Hitoshi Isahara (Center for IT-Based Education, Japan) * Jennifer Edmond (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) * Koenraad De Smedt (CLARINO, University of Bergen, Norway) * Maria Gavrilidou (Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Athens, Greece) * Menno Van Zaanen (South African Centre for Digital Language Resources, South Africa) * Milena Dobreva (Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Bulgaria) * Mikko Tolonen (University of Helsinki, Finland) * Radim Hladik (Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic) * Ulrike Wuttke (University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, Germany) * Vicky Garnett (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) Chairs and Organisers The workshop is a joint initiative by European SSH Research Infrastructures CLARIN (www.clarin.eu<http://www.clarin.eu/>) and DARIAH (https://www.dariah.eu/). * Steven Krauwer (CLARIN ERIC / Utrecht University, Netherlands) * Darja Fišer (CLARIN ERIC / Institute of Contemporary History, Slovenia) * Iulianna van der Lek-Ciudin (CLARIN ERIC, Netherlands) * Sally Chambers (DARIAH-EU / Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities, Belgium) * Agiatis Benardou (DARIAH-EU / Digital Curation Unit, ATHENA R.C., Athens, Greece) Contact Information For any questions, please contact Iulianna van der Lek at events(a)clarin.eu<https://mailto:events@clarin.eu>. — Elisa Gorgaini CLARIN ERIC External Relation Officer elisa(a)clarin.eu +31648213015 www.clarin.eu

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IACT’23: Human or AI? - Extension
by Marina Litvak 25 Apr '23

25 Apr '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 Extended to May 2, 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. 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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[FINAL CFP] Natural Language Processing, Text Mining and Applications (NLP-TeMA'23) Track of EPIA'23
by Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira 25 Apr '23

25 Apr '23

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS NLP-TeMA’23 will be held at the 22th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA 2023) taking place at Horta, Faial island, Azores, between September 5th-8th 2023. This track is organized under the auspices of the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA), and part of the EPIA 2023 Conference on Artificial Intelligence, URL: https://epia2023.inesctec.pt/ This announcement contains the following: [1] Track description; [2] Topics of interest; [3] Important dates; [4] Paper submission; [5] Track fees; [6] Organizing Committee; and [7] Program Committee. [1] Track Description The Track of NLP-TeMA 2023 is a forum for researchers working in Human Language Technologies, i.e., Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computational Linguistics (CL), Natural Language Engineering (NLE), Text Mining (TM), Information Retrieval (IR), and related areas. A huge amount of information is openly published every day, on many different topics and written in natural language, thus offering new insights and many opportunities for innovative applications of Human Language Technologies. Following advances in AI sub-fields such as NLP, Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL), NLP and TM are now even more valuable for bridging the gap between language theories and effective use of natural language contents, for harnessing the power of semi-structured and unstructured data, and to enable important applications in real-world heterogeneous environments. Both hidden and new knowledge can be discovered by using NLP and TM methods, at multiple levels and in multiple dimensions, and often with high commercial value. Authors are invited to submit their papers on any of the topics listed in section [2]. Submitted papers will be subject to a double-blind review process and will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of the track Program Committee. It is the responsibility of the authors to remove names and affiliations from the submitted papers, and to take reasonable care to assure anonymity during the review process. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings (a volume of Springer’s LNAI-Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence), provided that at least one author is registered in EPIA 2023 by the early registration deadline. EPIA 2023 proceedings are indexed in Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science, Scopus, DBLP and Google Scholar. Each accepted paper must be presented by one of the authors in a track session. The conference will grant the following awards: * Best Paper Award, for the best research paper presented at the conference. * Best Student Paper Award, for the best research paper presented at the conference where the first author is a student. [2] Topics of Interest Natural Language Processing • Language and Cognitive Modeling • Sentence-level Semantics and Text Inference • Language Resources: Acquisition and Usage. • Entailment and Paraphrase Recognition • Entity Recognition and Word Sense Disambiguation • Distributional Models and Semantics • Mathematical Properties of Language • Tagging, Chunking and Parsing • Morphology and Word Segmentation • Natural Language Generation • Discourse and Pragmatics • NLP for Low-Resource Languages Text Mining and Applications • Text Clustering, Classification and Summarization • Sentiment Analysis and Argument Mining • Computational Social Science • Multi-Word Units • Machine Learning for NLP and Text Mining • Spatio-Temporal and Big Text Mining • Cross-Lingual Approaches • Algorithms and Data Structures for Text Mining • Information Retrieval and Information Extraction • Question-Answering and Dialogue Systems • Text-Based Prediction and Forecasting • Web Content Annotation • Health/Biomedical/Legal and other Text Mining Applications [3] Important dates Paper submission April 28, 2023 [EXTENDED DEADLINE] Notification of paper acceptance May 26, 2023 Camera-ready papers deadline June 15, 2023 Conference dates September 5-8, 2023 [4] Paper submission Submissions must be full technical papers on substantial, original, and previously unpublished research. Papers can have a maximum length of 12 pages. All papers should be prepared according to the formatting instructions of Springer LNCS format and submitted in PDF format through the EPIA 2023 EasyChair submission page https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=epia2023. For the preparation of their papers, authors should consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines and use their proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for Word. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers. In addition, the corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form. The corresponding author signing the copyright form should match the corresponding author marked on the paper. Once the files have been sent to Springer, changes relating to the authorship of the papers cannot be made. [5] Track Fees: Track participants must register at the main EPIA 2023 conference. [6] Organizing Committee: Joaquim Silva, jfs(a)fct.unl.pt, DI – FCT/UNL, Portugal (Contact person). Pablo Gamallo, Pablo.gamallo(a)usc.es, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Galiza/Spain. Paulo Quaresma, pq(a)uevora.pt, DI – Uviversidade de Évora, Portugal. Irene Rodrigues, ipr(a)uevora.pt, DI – Uviversidade de Évora, Portugal Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira, hroliv(a)dei.uc.pt – Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal [7] Program Committee: Adam Jatowt – Universit of Kioto, Japan Alverto Simões – 2Ai Lab – IPCA Alexandre Rademaker – IBM / FGV, Brazil Antoine Doucet – University of Caen, France Altigran Silva – Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Brazil António Branco – Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Antoine Doucet – University of Caen, France Béatrice Daille – University of Nantes, France Bruno Martins – Instituto Superior Técnico – Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Fernando Batista – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal Gaël Dias – University of Caen Basse-Normandie Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira – Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal Irene Rodrigues – Universidade de Évora, Portugal Jesús Vilares – University of A Coruña, Spain Joaquim Ferreira da Silva – Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia – Universidade Nova de Lisboa Luísa Coheur – IST/INESC–ID Lisboa Manuel Vilares Ferro – University of Vigo, Spain Marcos Garcia – Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Galiza/Spain Mário Silva – Instituto Superior Técnico – Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Nuno Marques – Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Pablo Gamallo – Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Galiza/Spain Paulo Quaresma – Universidade de Évora, Portugal Pavel Brazdil – University of Porto, Portugal Sophia Ananiadou –University of Manchester Sérgio Nunes – Faculdade de Engenharia – Universidade do Porto, Portugal ---------- Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira CISUC, Department of Informatics Engineering, University of Coimbra http://eden.dei.uc.pt/~hroliv

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DISRPT 2023: Deadline extension
by Chloé Braud 25 Apr '23

25 Apr '23

Deadline extension: DISRPT 2023 - Shared Task on Discourse Relation Parsing and Treebanking In conjunction with CODI 2023, ACL 2023 - 14 July 2023 News: The deadline has been extended, please consult the new timeline below This year, we are organizing DISRPT 2023 as a shared task on discourse processing across formalisms, for a variety of languages and genres. It is the third iteration of a cross-formalism shared task on discourse analysis, with three subtasks: * Task 1: discourse segmentation * Task 2: connective identification * Task 3: relation classification We will provide training, development and test datasets from all available languages in RST, SDRT, PDTB and Discourse Dependencies using a uniform format. Because different corpora, languages, and frameworks use different guidelines, the shared task will promote the design of flexible methods for dealing with various guidelines, and will help to push forward the discussion of converging standards for discourse units, discourse relations and discourse markers. For datasets which have treebanks, we will evaluate segmentation in two different scenarios: with and without gold syntax. An automatically parsed version is provided for all corpora without a gold parse. Shared Task Data and Formats Data for the shared task is released via GitHub together with format documentation and tools: https://github.com/disrpt/sharedtask2023 See here for more information about the previous shared tasks: - 2019: https://sites.google.com/view/disrpt2019/shared-task - 2021: https://sites.google.com/georgetown.edu/disrpt2021/ Schedule: * 25 January 2023 – Sample data released * 22 February 2023 – Train / dev data release * 17 April 2023 – Test data release * 14 May 2023 8 May 2023 – Submission of system and paper * 26 May 2023 22 May 2023 - Notification of acceptance * 5 June 2023 1 June 2023 - Camera-ready paper due * 13-14 July 2023 - CODI Workshop at ACL Information: Contact the organizers: disrpt_chairs(a)googlegroups.com Official website: https://sites.google.com/georgetown.edu/disrpt2021 Organization: * Amir Zeldes (Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA) * Janet Liu (Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA) * Philippe Muller (IRIT, University of Toulouse, Toulouse, France) * Chloé Braud (IRIT, CNRS, Toulouse, France) * Laura Rivière (IRIT, University of Toulouse, Toulouse, France) * Attapol Te Rutherford (Faculty of Arts Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thaïland)

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Deadline extension: CODI 4th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse
by Amir Zeldes 24 Apr '23

24 Apr '23

*apologies for cross-postings* � CODI, 4th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse � https://sites.google.com/view/codi-2023/ � 2023-07-13–14 - ACL 2023 - Toronto, Canada � ** Submission deadline extended: May 3, 2023 ** (Was: April 24, 2023) � Aims and scope � The last ten years have seen a dramatic improvement in the ability of NLP systems to understand and produce words and sentences. This development has created a renewed interest in discourse phenomena as researchers move towards the processing of long-form text and conversations. There is a surge of activity in discourse parsing, coherence models, text summarization, corpora for discourse level reading comprehension, and discourse related/aided representation learning, to name a few, but the problems in computational approaches to discourse are still substantial. At this juncture, we have organized three Workshops on Computational Approaches to Discourse (CODI) at EMNLP 2020, EMNLP 2021 and COLING 2022 to bring together discourse experts and upcoming researchers. These workshops have catalyzed work to improve the speed and knowledge needed to solve such problems and have served as a forum for the discussion of suitable datasets and reliable evaluation methods. � The previous workshops on discourse in machine translation (DiscoMT), linking lexical, sentential and discourse semantics (LSDSem), discourse structure in natural language generation (DSNNLG), discourse relation parsing and treebanking (DISRPT) and coreference (CORBON/CRAC), have shown that there is considerable interest and success in bringing together the community working on specific problems in discourse. We believe that the discourse community will also benefit from a general forum where work ranging from corpus development/analysis to computational models, and evaluation is discussed, and desiderata can be drawn for future progress. � The 4th CODI workshop is planned as a 2 day event which brings together different subcommunities. It will feature invited talks and regular papers on the first day. The second day will be dedicated to shared tasks and special sessions which focus on the issues mentioned above. After a first successful iteration in 2019 and 2021 the shared task on Discourse Relation Parsing and Treebanking (DISRPT) will be held again in 2023, with three tasks: discourse segmentation, discourse connective identification and discourse relation classification, including new datasets and languages. For more information on the shared task see: � <https://sites.google.com/view/disrpt2023/> https://sites.google.com/view/disrpt2023/ � � Topics of interest � We welcome symbolic and probabilistic approaches, corpus development and analysis, as well as machine and deep learning approaches to discourse. We appreciate theoretical contributions as well as practical applications, including demos of systems and tools. The goal of the workshop is to provide a forum for the community of NLP researchers working on all aspects of discourse. � � Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: � * discourse structure � * discourse connectives � * discourse relations � * annotation tools and schemes for discourse phenomena � * corpora annotated with discourse phenomena � * discourse parsing � * cross-lingual discourse processing � * cross-domain discourse processing � * anaphora and coreference resolution � * event coreference � * argument mining � * coherence modeling � * discourse and semantics � * discourse in applications such as machine translation, summarization, etc. � * evaluation methodology for discourse processing � � Submissions � � We solicit four categories of papers: regular workshop papers, demos, shared task papers and extended abstracts. Only regular workshop long and short papers, shared task papers and demos will be included in the proceedings as archival publications, while extended abstracts will be non-archival (see below). � � Regular papers must describe original unpublished research. Long papers may consist of up to 8 pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references. � � Short papers can be up to 4 pages, plus unlimited pages for references. � � Demo submissions may describe systems, tools, visualizations, etc., and may consist of up to 4 pages, plus unlimited pages for references. � � Each submission can contain unlimited pages for Appendices but the paper submissions need to remain fully self-contained, as these supplementary materials are completely optional, and reviewers are not even asked to review them. Accepted long, short, and demo papers will be presented orally. � � Extended abstracts can describe work in progress or those already published elsewhere. These may be two pages long (without references). Extended abstracts are non-archival. They will be presented orally, and included in the workshop program and handbook, but will not appear in the workshop proceedings. � Double submission of papers is allowed but will need to be indicated at submission. � � Submission website � All submissions must be anonymous and follow the ACL 2023 formatting instructions described here: https://2023.aclweb.org/calls/style_and_formatting/ � � � Please submit your workshop papers at <https://www.softconf.com/acl2023/CODI2023> https://www.softconf.com/acl2023/CODI2023 � Shared task papers should be submitted to the links specified on the shared task pages. � Important dates * 2023-03-24: Anonymity period starts * 2023-05-03: CODI papers due (was: 04-24) * 2023-05-29: Notification of acceptance (was: 05-22) * 2023-06-08: Camera ready deadline * 2023-07-13 – 2022-07-14: CODI workshop � All deadlines are 11:59 pm UTC -12h ("anywhere on Earth"). � Invited Speakers � * Yufang Hou, IBM Research � * Giuseppe Carenini, University of British Columbia � � Organizers * Chloé Braud, CNRS-IRIT * Christian Hardmeier, IT University of Copenhagen and Uppsala University * Jessy Li, University of Texas, Austin * Sharid Loáiciga, University of Gothenburg * Michael Strube, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies * Amir Zeldes, Georgetown University To contact the organizers, please send an email to: codi-workshop(a)googlegroups.com <mailto:codi-workshop@googlegroups.com> � � �

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Research fellowships in NLP, University of Oslo [Reminder]
by Erik Velldal 24 Apr '23

24 Apr '23

[Apologies for cross-posting] Two postdoc-level positions as Research Fellow in Natural Language Processing are available in the Language Technology Group (LTG) at the University of Oslo (UiO), Norway. The two 3-year positions are affiliated with a new research project focusing on event extraction in the domain of armed conflicts. For more information, please see the full announcement here: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/243246/researcher-in-natural… The closing date is May 7th, 2023. Please do not hesitate to contact me for any further information. Best regards, -erik -- Erik Velldal Language Technology Group Section for Machine Learning Department of Informatics, University of Oslo

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[CFP] for SIGIR Forum - June 2023 Edition (Deadline - May 14)
by Tirthankar Ghosal 24 Apr '23

24 Apr '23

Dear Colleague, We invite you to submit your contribution to the upcoming June 2023 Edition of the SIGIR Forum, the official newsletter of the ACM Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR). The SIGIR Forum consists of two issues (June, December). It serves as a medium for disseminating general information and opinions on matters of interest to the IR community, conference and workshop reports, papers and book reviews, and Ph.D. dissertation abstracts. *** Call for Contributions for the June 2023 issue *** We invite contributions to the following categories, including: - Reports of IR-related conferences and workshops: Reports from the chairpersons of IR-related workshops (such as the satellite workshops of SIGIR, JCDL, or CIKM, or other workshops such as NTCIR, INEX) or IR-related conferences other than SIGIR (such as ECIR, HLT, CHIIR, SPIRE, or TREC); - Papers from IR-related invited talks which are not published in full in the relevant conference proceedings; - Papers describing new public infrastructures for IR research, such as in-depth descriptions of newly available test collections, newly available open-source or public domain IR software of particular relevance, new evaluation campaigns, etc.; - Papers about funding initiatives, industry trends, connections between research and industry, legal issues that are of potential interest to the IR community at large; - Any paper that, while of general interest to the IR community, is non-technical, and because of this would be unsuitable for publication in technical publishing forums such as the SIGIR Annual Conference; - Book reviews, bibliographies of general interest to the IR community; - Abstracts of recently published Ph.D. theses of interest to the general IR community. Note: Unless specifically stated, contents of the SIGIR Forum do not represent the official position of SIGIR or ACM. Contributions to the Forum are unrefereed papers unless otherwise indicated. The editorial board may desk-reject papers if they are out of scope. From June 2020 onwards, the SIGIR Forum newsletter is continuing only online. *** Important dates for the June 2023 Edition *** *- 14 May 2023: Deadline for contributions* - June 2023: Online publication *** Submission Instructions *** Kindly see http://sigir.org/forum/ for details on previous issues, template, and submission instructions and checklist. For inquiries about contributions, please contact the editors at editors_SIGIR(a)acm.org. Tirthankar Ghosal (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US) Josiane Mothe (IRIT, Univ. de Toulouse) Julián Urbano (Delft University of Technology) -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Tirthankar Ghosal https://member.acm.org/~tghosal ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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Final CfP: Workshop on Individual Differences in Pragmatics and Discourse (IndiPRAG)
by Jia Loy 24 Apr '23

24 Apr '23

Final call for submissions for the Workshop on Individual Differences in Pragmatics and Discourse (IndiPRAG). Important dates: Submission deadline: 1st May 2023 Notification date: 5th June 2023 Workshop dates: 18th September (all day) and 19th September (morning) 2023 Workshop venue: Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany (the workshop is collocated with XPRAG in Paris, 20th-23rd September) ** Call for submissions: Experimental research in pragmatics and discourse processing has consistently found that not all comprehenders behave the same: while some seem to draw rich pragmatic inferences, others respond in a way that is more consistent with a literal interpretation (Fairchild & Papafragou, 2021; Mayn & Demberg, 2022). Similarly for discourse inference, experiments have found differences with respect to the sensitivity to discourse cues and the readiness for discourse predictions between participants (Scholman, Demberg & Sanders, 2020; Tskhovrebova, Zufferey & Gygax, 2022). This workshop aims to bring together researchers interested in exploring individual differences at the level of pragmatics and discourse, as well as methods for relating those differences to cognitive properties, and approaches for modelling the mechanism driving the individual differences effects. IndiPRAG Workshop invites submissions of abstracts addressing the following questions: - To what extent do pragmatic processing and discourse inferences differ between individuals? - How consistent are interpretation biases across different types of pragmatic implicatures? - What individual difference measures are particularly suitable for measuring IDs related to pragmatic processing? - How can we computationally model individual differences in discourse and pragmatics? - What statistical methods are best suited to identifying latent groups of participants and relating ID measures to task performance? ** Formatting guidelines: The abstracts must not exceed 1000 words for the text (excl. captions), 10000 characters for references, 2 figures. Abstracts should be submitted in PDF format, with 2.54 cm margins on all sides and 12 point font size, single-spaced. Please indicate up to three appropriate keywords for your abstract, which will be used for session planning. Abstracts must be written in English and should include a title but no information revealing the author(s). We welcome submissions for work that is being considered by other conferences, workshops, or journals. Submissions should be handed in via easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=indiprag2023 ** We will have invited talks by: Kirsten Abbot-Smith, University of Kent Morten Christiansen, Cornell University Craig Hedge, Aston University Petra Hendriks, University of Groningen Antje Meyer & Florian Hintz, MPI for Psycholinguistics Nijmegen ** IndiPRAG is being organised by: Vera Demberg, Jia Loy, Alexandra Mayn, Dongqi Pu, Margarita Ryzhova, Merel Scholman, Sebastian Schuster You can contact us at: indiprag(a)lst.uni-saarland.de

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10th International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC 2023): Third Call for Papers
by georgeangelos60＠gmail.com 24 Apr '23

24 Apr '23

*** Third Call for Papers *** 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 invites submissions of original, high-quality research papers addressing cutting-edge developments from all areas of behavioural and social computing. The conference aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to share their knowledge, experience, and perspectives on the latest trends, challenges, and opportunities in this rapidly evolving field. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Social Computing, Computational Social Science and Applications • Computational models of social phenomena • Social behaviour • Social network analysis • Semantic web • Collective intelligence • Security, privacy, trust in social contexts • Social recommendation • Social influence and social contagions • Quantifying offline phenomena through online data • Forecasting of social phenomena • Science and technology studies approaches to computational social science • Social media and health behaviours • Social psychology and personality • New theories, methods, and objectives in computational social science Digital Humanities • Digital media • Digital humanities • Digital games and learning • Digital footprints and privacy • Crowd dynamics • Digital arts • Digital healthcare • Activity streams and experience design • Virtual communities (e.g., open-source, multiplayer gaming, etc.) Information Management and Information Systems (IS) • Decision analytics • E-Business • Decision analytics • Computational finance • Societal impacts of IS • Human behaviour and IS • IS in healthcare • IS security and privacy • IS strategy, structure and organizational impacts • Service science and IS Natural Language Processing • Web mining and its social interpretations • Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining • Opinion mining and social media analytics • Credibility of online content • Computational Linguistics • Mining big social data • Cognitive Modelling and Psycholinguistics Behaviour and User Modelling, Privacy, and Ethics • Behaviour change • Positive technology • Personalization for individuals, groups and populations • Large scale personalization, adaptation and recommendation • Web dynamics and personalization • Privacy, perceived security and trust • Technology and Wellbeing • Ethics of computational research on human behaviour Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) • E-Learning and M-Learning • Open and Distance Learning • User modeling and personalization in TEL • TEL in secondary and in higher education • New tools for TEL BESC 2023 will also host the following Special Sessions. Papers accepted in any of the Special Sessions will be included in the same IEEE conference proceedings with the papers accepted for the general technical program. ● Computational Social Psychology in Post Covid-19 Period ● Artificial Intelligence for Mental Health, Mental Illness, Psychiatic Diagnosis, and Prediction ● Intelligent E-Learning at Post Covid-19 Era ● Big Data and AI-Powered Decision Support Systems in Business ● Understanding the Citizen's Behavior in Cognitive Cities ● Nudges and Behavioural Computing Models for a Sustainable and Equitable Development SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS The paper submission system is using Easy Chair and the submission link is: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=besc2023 . All papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance to BESC 2023, originality, significance and clarity. Please note: • All submissions should use IEEE two-column style. Templates are available here: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html • All papers must be submitted electronically through the paper submission system in PDF format only. BESC 2023 accepts research papers (6 pages), special session papers (6 pages) and Doctoral Symposium papers (4 pages). • The page count above excludes the references (but includes any appendices). • Paper review will be double-blind, and submissions not properly anonymized will be desk-rejected without review. • Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. • Papers must be clearly submitted in English and will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. • Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. • The use of artificial intelligence (AI)–generated text in an article shall be disclosed in the acknowledgements section of any paper submitted to an IEEE Conference or Periodical. The sections of the paper that use AI-generated text shall have a citation to the AI system used to generate the text. • All accepted papers will be included in IEEE Xplore and indexed by EI. Top quality papers after presented in the conference will be selected for extension and publication in several special issues of international journals, e.g., World Wide Web Journal (Springer), Web Intelligence (IOS Press), and Social Network Analysis and Mining (Springer), Human-Centric Intelligent Systems (Springer), Information Discovery and Delivery (Emerald Publishing). IMPORTANT DATES • Submission of all papers: 15 July 2023 • Notification of acceptance for submitted papers: 15 September 2023 • Camera-Ready Submission: 1 October 2023 • Author Registration: 1 October 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 • Ting Yu, Zhejiang Lab, China 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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