September 2023 - Corpora

Asia Pacific Journal of Corpus Research (APJCR) Vol. 4, No. 1 is now available online
by Prof CK Jung 04 Sep '24

04 Sep '24

*Asia Pacific Journal of Corpus Research (APJCR) is now available online:* http://icr.or.kr/ejournals-apjcr *The Incredible Shrinking Noun Phrase: Ongoing Change in Japanese Word Formation*Kevin Heffernan, (Kwansei Gakuin University), JAPAN; Yusuke Imanishi (Kwansei Gakuin University), JAPAN DOI: https://doi.org/10.22925/apjcr.2023.4.1.1 ________________________________________ *Identifying Key Grammatical Errors of Japanese English as a Foreign Language Learners in a Learner Corpus: Toward Focused Grammar Instruction with Data-Driven Learning* Atsushi Mizumoto (Kansai University), JAPAN; Yoichi Watari (Chukyo University), JAPAN DOI: https://doi.org/10.22925/apjcr.2023.4.1.25 ________________________________________ *A Comparison of the Constructions Make / Take a Decision in Malaysian English with the Supervarieties * Christina Sook Beng Ong (Wawasan Open University), MALAYSIA DOI: https://doi.org/10.22925/apjcr.2023.4.1.43 ________________________________________ *Effects of Corpus Use on Error Identification in L2 Writing * Yoshiho Satake (Aoyama Gakuin University), JAPAN DOI: https://doi.org/10.22925/apjcr.2023.4.1.61 --- *CK Jung BEng(Hons) Birmingham MSc Warwick EdD Warwick Cert Oxford* Associate Professor | Department of English Language and Literature, Incheon National University, *South Korea* President | The Korea Association of Secondary English Education, *South Korea *(http://kasee.org) Vice President | The Korea Association of Primary English Education), *South Korea *(http://kapee.or.kr) Director | Institute for Corpus Research, Incheon National University, *South Korea* (http://icr.or.kr) Editor-in-Chief | Asia Pacific Journal of Corpus Research, ICR, *International* (http://icr.or.kr/apjcr) Editorial Board | Corpora, Edinburgh University Press, *UK* Editorial Board | English Today, Cambridge University Press, *UK* E: ckjung(a)inu.ac.kr / T: +82 (0)32 835 8129 H(EN): http://ckjung.org

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NLP4CALL 2023 Final call for papers
by David Alfter 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

== 12th NLP4CALL, Tórshavn, Faroe Islands== The workshop series on Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (NLP4CALL) is a meeting place for researchers working on the integration of Natural Language Processing and Speech Technologies in CALL systems and exploring the theoretical and methodological issues arising in this connection. The latter includes, among others, insights from Second Language Acquisition (SLA) research, on the one hand, and promote development of “Computational SLA” through setting up Second Language research infrastructure(s), on the other. The intersection of Natural Language Processing (or Language Technology / Computational Linguistics) and Speech Technology with Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) brings “understanding” of language to CALL tools, thus making CALL intelligent. This fact has given the name for this area of research – Intelligent CALL, ICALL. As the definition suggests, apart from having excellent knowledge of Natural Language Processing and/or Speech Technology, ICALL researchers need good insights into second language acquisition theories and practices, as well as knowledge of second language pedagogy and didactics. This workshop invites therefore a wide range of ICALL-relevant research, including studies where NLP-enriched tools are used for testing SLA and pedagogical theories, and vice versa, where SLA theories, pedagogical practices or empirical data are modeled in ICALL tools. The NLP4CALL workshop series is aimed at bringing together competences from these areas for sharing experiences and brainstorming around the future of the field. We welcome papers: - that describe research directly aimed at ICALL; - that demonstrate actual or discuss the potential use of existing Language and Speech Technologies or resources for language learning; - that describe the ongoing development of resources and tools with potential usage in ICALL, either directly in interactive applications, or indirectly in materials, application or curriculum development, e.g. learning material generation, assessment of learner texts and responses, individualized learning solutions, provision of feedback; - that discuss challenges and/or research agenda for ICALL - that describe empirical studies on language learner data. This year a special focus is given to work done on error detection/correction and feedback generation. We encourage paper presentations and software demonstrations describing the above- mentioned themes primarily, but not exclusively, for the Nordic languages. ==Shared task== NEW for this year is the MultiGED shared task on token-level error detection for L2 Czech, English, German, Italian and Swedish, organized by the Computational SLA working group. For more information, please see the Shared Task website: https://github.com/spraakbanken/multiged-2023 ==Invited speakers== This year, we have the pleasure to announce two invited talks. The first talk is given by Marije Michel from the University of Amsterdam. The second talk is given by Pierre Lison from the Norwegian Computing Center. ==Submission information== Authors are invited to submit long papers (8-12 pages) alternatively short papers (4-7 pages), page count not including references. We will be using the NLP4CALL template for the workshop this year. The author kit can be accessed here, alternatively on Overleaf: <https://spraakbanken.gu.se/sites/default/files/2023/NLP4CALL%20workshop%20t…> <https://spraakbanken.gu.se/sites/default/files/2023/nlp4call%20template.doc> <https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/nlp4call-workshop-template/qqqzqqy…> Submissions will be managed through the electronic conference management system EasyChair <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nlp4call2023>. Papers must be submitted digitally through the conference management system, in PDF format. Final camera-ready versions of accepted papers will be given an additional page to address reviewer comments. Papers should describe original unpublished work or work-in-progress. Papers will be peer reviewed by at least two members of the program committee in a double-blind fashion. All accepted papers will be collected into a proceedings volume to be submitted for publication in the NEALT Proceeding Series (Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings) and, additionally, double-published through the ACL anthology, following experiences from the previous NLP4CALL editions (<https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/venues/nlp4call/>). ==Important dates== 03 April 2023: paper submission deadline 21 April 2023: notification of acceptance 01 May 2023: camera-ready papers for publication 22 May 2023: workshop date ==Organizers== David Alfter (1), Elena Volodina (2), Thomas François (3), Arne Jönsson (4), Evelina Rennes (4) (1) Gothenburg Research Infrastructure for Digital Humanities, Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion, University of Gothenburg, Sweden (2) Språkbanken, Department of Swedish, Multilingualism, Language Technology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden (3) CENTAL, Institute for Language and Communication, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium (4) Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköping University, Sweden ==Contact== For any questions, please contact David Alfter, david.alfter(a)gu.se For further information, see the workshop website <https://spraakbanken.gu.se/en/research/themes/icall/nlp4call-workshop-serie…> Follow us on Twitter @NLP4CALL <https://twitter.com/NLP4CALL/>

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1st CfP: Asia Pacific Journal of Corpus Research (APJCR) Vol. 4, No. 2 (Deadline: 15 October 2023)
by Prof CK Jung 31 May '24

31 May '24

[Apologies for cross-posting] Dear colleagues We are inviting submissions for the next issue of Asia Pacific Journal of Corpus Research, to appear on 31 December 2023. *ABOUT*The Asia Pacific Journal of Corpus Research (APJCR, e-ISSN 2733-8096, DOI: https://doi.org/10.22925/apjcr) is an international and interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal intended to explore corpus research in the Asia Pacific region. APJCR addresses areas of methodological, applied and theoretical work in the field of corpus research. Examples of such include discourse analysis, lexical studies, grammatical studies, language acquisition, language learning, language education, lexicography, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, (machine) translation studies, (digital) literary studies, computational linguistics, speech, phonetics, deep learning and natural language understanding in conjunction with corpus. *NO ARTICLE PROCESS CHARGE*APJCR does not charge authors an Article Processing Fee (APF). *OPEN ACCESS POLICY*APJCR provides open access to its content under the principle in the academic field that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. *SUBMISSION* Papers (in English or Korean) should be sent to *apjcreditor(a)icr.or.kr <apjcreditor(a)icr.or.kr>* *Full instruction can be found on http://icr.or.kr/apjcr <http://icr.or.kr/apjcr>* *IMPORTANT DATES*- Manuscript submission: 15 October 2023 - First decision (articles assessed by editors): October 2023 - Final decision: November 2023 - Production: December 2023 - Online publication: 31 December 2023 *APJCR ARCHIVE*- Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.kr/scholar?hl=ko&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=apjcr&btnG= - KoreaScience: http://koreascience.or.kr/journal/CPSOBX/v1n1.page *ENQUIRIES* help(a)icr.or.kr --- *CK Jung BEng(Hons) Birmingham MSc Warwick EdD Warwick Cert Oxford* Associate Professor | Department of English Language and Literature, Incheon National University, *South Korea* President | The Korea Association of Secondary English Education, *South Korea *(http://kasee.org) Vice President | The Korea Association of Primary English Education), *South Korea *(http://kapee.or.kr) Director | Institute for Corpus Research, Incheon National University, *South Korea* (http://icr.or.kr) Editor-in-Chief | Asia Pacific Journal of Corpus Research, ICR, *International* (http://icr.or.kr/apjcr) Editorial Board | Corpora, Edinburgh University Press, *UK* Editorial Board | English Today, Cambridge University Press, *UK* E: ckjung(a)inu.ac.kr / T: +82 (0)32 835 8129

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Postdoc position -- multimodal coreference
by Sharid Loáiciga 14 Nov '23

14 Nov '23

We're hiring a postdoc to work on multimodal coreference resolution. The position is at CLASP, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, for 2 years with possibility of 1 year extension. I'm happy to answer questions if you're interested. https://web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/1035/job?site=7&lang=UK&validator=9b89… Sharid

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3-year PhD position in Automatic Argumentation Mining in French Legal Decisions (Inria Lille, University of Lille, and LexisNexis France)
by Pascal Denis 10 Nov '23

10 Nov '23

Hi there, Could you please distribute the following job offer? Thanks. Best, Pascal ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We invite applications for a 3-year PhD position co-funded by Inria, the French national research institute in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, and LexisNexis France, leader of legal information in France and subsidiary of the RELX Group. The overall objective of this project is to develop an automated system for detecting argumentation structures in French legal decisions, using recent machine learning-based approaches (i.e. deep learning approaches). In the general case, these structures take the form of a directed labeled graph, whose nodes are the elements of the text (propositions or groups of propositions, not necessarily contiguous) which serve as components of the argument, and edges are relations that signal the argumentative connection between them (e.g., support, offensive). By revealing the argumentation structure behind legal decisions, such a system will provide a crucial milestone towards their detailed understanding, their use by legal professionals, and above all contributes to greater transparency of justice. The main challenges and milestones of this project start with the creation and release of a large-scale dataset of French legal decisions annotated with argumentation structures. To minimize the manual annotation effort, we will resort to semi-supervised and transfer learning techniques to leverage existing argument mining corpora, such as the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) corpus, as well as annotations already started by LexisNexis. Another promising research direction, which is likely to improve over state-of-the-art approaches, is to better model the dependencies between the different sub-tasks (argument span detection, argument typing, etc.) instead of learning these tasks independently. A third research avenue is to find innovative ways to inject the domain knowledge (in particular the rich legal ontology developed by LexisNexis) to enrich enrich the representations used in these models. Finally, we would like to take advantage of other discourse structures, such as coreference and rhetorical relations, conceived as auxiliary tasks in a multi-tasking architecture. The successful candidate holds a Master's degree in computational linguistics, natural language processing, machine learning, ideally with prior experience in legal document processing and discourse processing. Furthermore, the candidate will provide strong programming skills, expertise in machine learning approaches and is eager to work at the interplay between academia and industry. The position is affiliated with the MAGNET [1], a research group at Inria, Lille, which has expertise in Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing, in particular Discourse Processing. The PhD student will also work in close collaboration with the R&D team at LexisNexis France, who will provide their expertise in the legal domain and the data they have collected. Applications will be considered until the position is filled. However, you are encouraged to apply early as we shall start processing the applications as and when they are received. Applications, written in English or French, should include a brief cover letter with research interests and vision, a CV (including your contact address, work experience, publications), and contact information for at least 2 referees. Applications (and questions) should be sent to Pascal Denis (pascal.denis(a)inria.fr). The starting date of the position is 1 November 2022 or soon thereafter, for a total of 3 full years. Best regards, Pascal Denis [1] https://team.inria.fr/magnet/ [2] https://www.lexisnexis.fr/ -- Pascal ---- Pour une évaluation indépendante, transparente et rigoureuse ! Je soutiens la Commission d'Évaluation de l'Inria. ---- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Pascal Denis Equipe MAGNET, INRIA Lille Nord Europe Bâtiment B, Avenue Heloïse Parc scientifique de la Haute Borne 59650 Villeneuve d'Ascq Tel: ++33 3 59 35 87 24 Url: http://researchers.lille.inria.fr/~pdenis/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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Call for Papers: Special Issue of AI Communications on "Human-Aware AI"
by Loizos Michael 08 Nov '23

08 Nov '23

Dear colleagues, We are inviting contributions to the Special Issue of AI Communications on "Human-Aware AI". Contributions are sought that report on mature and highly interdisciplinary research with a focus on the human involvement in the development of meaningful paradigms of AI-enabled human-human interactions, human-AI interactions, and human-centered AI-AI interactions. An indicative list of disciplines and sub-disciplines that we expect to be relevant are: Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Ethics, Human-Computer Interaction, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Machine Learning, Ontologies, Privacy, Social Computing, Social Psychology, Social Sciences. Any contribution relating to the general theme is welcome. The following is a non-exhaustive list of suggested topics: • Models of human diversity and human awareness • Models of AI diversity and human-aware AI • Perception of diversity versus models of diversity • Models of diverse human-AI societies and interactions • Experimental studies on human and social diversity • Experimental studies on hybrid human-AI diversity • Representation and visualization of diversity • Incentive models for Human-AI collaboration • Human-aware machine learning technologies • Interpretability and explainability of human-aware machine learning • Diversification and unbiasing of machine learning • Metrics for diversity-aware machine learning • Diversity-aware and diversity-preserving inference and reasoning • Ethical and privacy considerations on diversity • Ethical and legal considerations on diversity-misuse scenarios • Data economics, business models, and/or non-profit use • Insights from Critical Diversity Studies • Diversity-sensitive communication • Content moderation for diversity-aware social interaction More information about the Special Issue can be found here: https://www.iospress.com/sites/default/files/media/files/2023-09/AIC_Human-… The submission deadline is November 30, 2023. However, we would appreciate it if you could register your interest to submit a paper by completing the following form at your earliest convenience: https://forms.gle/vsVjJrCwXE8Nh9YU6 We look forward to your contributions! Regards, Loizos

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Core metadata scheme for learner corpora - feedback needed!
by Magali Paquot 30 Oct '23

30 Oct '23

Dear colleagues, Last month, we shared the result of our collaborative work on a core metadata scheme for learner corpora with LCR2022 participants. Our proposal builds on Granger and Paquot (2017)'s first attempt to design such a scheme and during our presentation, we explained the rationale for expanding on the initial proposal and discussed selected aspects of the revised scheme. Our proposal is available at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-RbX5iUCUtCBkZU9Rfk-kv-Vzc--F-eUW2O…<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.goog…> We firmly believe that our efforts to develop a core metadata scheme for learner corpora will only be successful to the extent that (1) the LCR community is given the opportunity to engage with our work in various ways (provide feedback on the general structure of the scheme, the list of variables that we identified as core and their operationalization; test the metadata on other learner corpora; use the scheme to start a new corpus compilation, etc.) and (2) the core metadata scheme is the result of truly collaborative work. As mentioned at LCR2022, we will be collecting feedback on the metadata scheme until the end of October. The online feedback form is available at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NeDUuxGJlPSJI9wHVA1xgGM-aV8jXTa8Qlb45K-…<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.goog…> We'd like to thank all the colleagues who already got back to us (at LCR2022, by email or via the online form). We also thank them for their appreciation and enthusiasm for our work! We'd also like to encourage more colleagues (and particularly those of you who have experience in learner corpus compilation) to provide feedback! We need help in finalizing the core metadata scheme to make sure that it can be applied in all learner compilation contexts. In short, we need you to make sure the scheme meets the needs of the LCR community at large. With very best wishes, Magali Paquot (also on behalf of Alexander König, Jennifer-Carmen Frey, and Egon W. Stemle) Reference Granger, S. & M. Paquot (2017). Towards standardization of metadata for L2 corpora. Invited talk at the CLARIN workshop on Interoperability of Second Language Resources and Tools, 6-8 December 2017, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Dr. Magali Paquot Centre for English Corpus Linguistics Institut Langage et Communication UCLouvain https://perso.uclouvain.be/magali.paquot/

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Deadline Extension (20 October 2023) Call for papers: SCOPUS indexed - Hybrid Event - Springer Publication
by Anu Bajaj 30 Sep '23

30 Sep '23

* Deadline Extension: please circulate this CFP to your colleagues and networks ** ------------On multiple requests from several authors, we have extended the submission deadline till October 20, 2023--------------- ------------*International Joint Conferences - Published by Springer LNNS Series (Scopus)*--------------- ** ISDA 2023 - HIS 2023 - SoCPaR 2023 - IBICA 2023 - IAS 2023 - NaBIC 2023 - WICT 2023 ** * *Onsite and On the World Wide Web ** *Publisher*: Springer Verlag, LNNS Series *Indexed by*: SCOPUS, DBLP, INSPEC, SCImago etc. ** Venue details and accommodation details are now published ** *Onsite Venues: *Olten, Switzerland; Porto, Portugal; Kaunas, Lithuania; Kochi, India *Please visit:* https://mirlabs.org/ias23/venue2.php <https://er-anubajaj-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2-2ypoYLoQkMn5Qu41DzfLDgoGhB…> ***Important Dates*** --------------------- Paper submission due:* September 30, 2023* Notification of paper acceptance: *October 31, 2023* Registration and Final manuscript due: *November 10, 2023* *Conferences:* December 11-15, 2023 -- *23rd International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA 2023)* http://www.mirlabs.net/isda23 <https://er-anubajaj-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2U2Q7H3L2mEXiMb7qsUEVTfuRNMx…> Proceedings of ISDA’22: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-27440-4 <https://er-anubajaj-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2O2tJ6bhKv3ICtm_M4WrxSIHrkil…> *Submission link: *https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ISDA2023 <https://er-anubajaj-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2wh4gk1oJvcNdOHMcLgNOzPnw4zo…> -- *23rd International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS 2023)* http://www.mirlabs.net/his23 <https://er-anubajaj-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2KyAHA4JA6zb_hBaM_bsJImXIgAt…> Proceedings of HIS'22: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-27409-1 <https://er-anubajaj-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2yRh-QHfBEQKmzsC3PRbjIKiVFkf…> *Submission link: *https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ICHIS2023 <https://er-anubajaj-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/219rKKaeqKKMLf_silKq0SfhFaJP…> -- 19th International Conference on Information Assurance and Security (IAS 2023) http://www.mirlabs.org/ias23 <https://er-anubajaj-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/21wiQCc4Wt-1_y8ainNwtVOS3ZJ3…> Proceedings of IAS'22: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-27409-1 <https://er-anubajaj-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2PwPMlBbwV5upqnvqjb12stz7RHg…> *Submission link*: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/IAS2023 <https://er-anubajaj-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2f5nc-HkpOPoHH5zV2ELFOTPcO7N…> -- *15th International Conference on Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition (SoCPaR 2023)* http://www.mirlabs.org/socpar23 <https://er-anubajaj-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/26WYgXBX1IVAz-8HIlhG4J3X5UmN…> Proceedings of SoCPaR'22: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-27524-1 <https://er-anubajaj-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2bBclcDkZ_zBGL9LjKb4XtcwnUji…> *Submission link: *https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/SOCPAR2023 <https://er-anubajaj-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2froA_XLJVJVtN8PIfSl30KSaDbE…> -- *15th World Congress on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing (NaBIC 2023)* http://www.mirlabs.net/nabic23 <https://er-anubajaj-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2vRWNTvT6HdjqEjlAtu-Dx_VxOgZ…> Proceedings of NaBIC'22: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-96302-6 <https://er-anubajaj-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2e0FX148bGU9zkNapVLGDkfuZGKh…> *Submission link:* https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/NABIC2023 <https://er-anubajaj-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2I8hnoy33kvvJ3saB7AdxqmMZ3Qg…> -- *14th International Conference on Innovations in Bio-Inspired Computing and Applications (IBICA 2023)* http://www.mirlabs.net/ibica23 <https://er-anubajaj-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2IiRZUltXA6P-_wvZajN9pHsxlov…> Proceedings of IBICA'22: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-27499-2 <https://er-anubajaj-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/27yYWf93kHFSRPz0ZD0NtPNhoFqn…> *Submission link:* https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/IBICA2023 <https://er-anubajaj-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/21vjJoq7HraSAckJqrnShThGapG6…> -- *13th World Congress on Information and Communication Technologies (WICT 2023)* http://www.mirlabs.org/wict23 <https://er-anubajaj-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2gTahGNsaLYLIPjYob8MAqTKXhRc…> Proceedings of WICT'22: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-27499-2 <https://er-anubajaj-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/22ohbgHGVdSeNCKioS-KvoMzCUJV…> *Submission link: *https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/WICT2023 <https://er-anubajaj-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2gHXqW4-NwR-Vtm5OPrGaaKhJy6G…> ***Plenary Talks*** ------------------------ Christine Zarges, Aberystwyth University, UK Theresa Schmiedel, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Basel, Switzerland Ke Feng, Singapore-ETH Centre, The National University of Singapore, Singapore Stefka Fidanova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria Diego Oliva, Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico Sebastian Ventura, University of Cordoba, Spain Ana Maria Madureira, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal Nuno Bettencourt, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal Aboul Ella Hassanien, Cairo University, Egypt Milan Tuba, Singidunum University, Serbia Dalia Kriksciuniene, Vilnius University / Kaunas University of Applied Sciences, Lithuania Kusum Deep, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India João Pedrosa, Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Portugal ** *About the International events* ** -------------------------------------------------- Provides an international forum to share the latest research results, ideas and experiences in intelligent systems design and applications; soft computing; information assurance and security; nature-inspired computing, pattern recognition; and information and communication technologies by bringing together the leading communities in this research space. These events are built on a solid history, through ISDA to WICT, connecting young researchers with highly experienced peers to forge connections, which can last for many years. ** *Topics (not limited to)* ** -------------------------------------- Artificial Intelligence Big Data Analytics Human Computer Interaction Intelligent Systems and Applications Hybrid Intelligent Systems Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing Innovations in Bio-Inspired Computing and Applications Information and Assurance Security Innovations in Information and Communication Technologies Wireless Networks Data Mining IoT, Cloud Computing Software Engineering Digital Learning Cybersecurity ***Submission Guidelines*** ------------------------------------- Submission of paper should be made through the submission page from the conference web page. Please refer to the conference website for guidelines to prepare your manuscript. *Paper format templates:* https://www.springer.com/de/authors-editors/book-authors-editors/manuscript… <https://er-anubajaj-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/2heWlEr4Mfm4TkVJmlOXS8CdvgjG…> ***Technical Contact*** --------------------------- Dr. Ajith Abraham Email: ajith.abraham(a)ieee.org [image: beacon]

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NLP Tenure-Track faculty position at Brandeis University
by Nianwen Xue 29 Sep '23

29 Sep '23

The Department of Computer Science at Brandeis University invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor in computational linguistics, beginning Fall 2024. Qualifications required of all applicants include a Ph.D., in hand by Fall 2024, in Computer Science or a related discipline, a strong research record, and a commitment to teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Particular attention will be given to candidates pursuing research in the broad area of speech, dialogue, or multimodal language processing. This position is subject to budgetary approval. The Department consists of a diverse group of 20 full-time faculty members and researchers and offers programs leading to B.A./B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science and an M.S. in Computational Linguistics. The Department has research strengths in computational linguistics, theoretical linguistics, machine learning, computer vision, data mining, networking, distributed systems, operating systems, databases, algorithms, and software design and implementation. In addition, members of the Department collaborate closely with faculty across the university including biology, neuroscience, economics, physics, political science, among others. At Brandeis, we believe that diversity, equity, and inclusion are essential components of academic excellence. Brandeis University is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer that is committed to creating equitable access and opportunities for applicants to all employment positions. Because diversity, equity, and inclusion are at the core of Brandeis’ history and mission, we value and are seeking candidates that represent a variety of social identities, including those that have been underrepresented in higher education, who possess skills that spark innovation, and who, through their scholarly pursuits, teaching, and/or service experiences, bring expertise in building, engaging, and sustaining a pluralistic, just, and inclusive campus community. Applicants should submit a CV, research statement, and teaching statement, and arrange for at least three reference letters to be submitted to Academic Jobs Online (AJO). Qualified applicants should apply at https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/25467. First consideration will be given to applications received by December 20, 2023. Questions about the position can be directed to Professor James Pustejovsky . Additional information about the Department is available at https://www.brandeis.edu/computer-science/, and information about the Computational Linguistics program is available at https://www.brandeis.edu/computer-science/computational-linguistics/index.h… .

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philosophyideas.com: contextual, "hierarchical"/tree-like browsing of terminology, themes, concepts ...
by Albretch Mueller 29 Sep '23

29 Sep '23

our understanding tends to find its way into our language, but there is definitely more to an idea than its paraphrasing as a one liner. Some way to browse themes based on a GUI which would enable the noticing of differing deltas and how they branch into other topics would be very useful especially when it comes to philosophy which terms (and themes) tend to be semantically overloaded. I have haven’t had the time to spend more time at your site and I have no way of knowing what criteria did you choose to parse what you consider to be ideas (did you just read philosophical terms off a dictionary and parsed them in source texts?). For example, you don't list "piety" as one of your themes, nor do you "question" as such (even though you do "argument" 8), but I don't see the one liner: “Questioning is the piety of thought” by Martin Heidegger (which original statement in the source language: „Fragen ist die Frömmigkeit des Denkens“, I would include (some translations are a bit too "explaining", my translation would be: "questioning is the way to worship thoughts" or "worship thoughts by questioning (them)")): http://www.philosophyideas.com/search/response_philosopherTe.asp?era_no=A&e… Take "techne": 11365, as a general concept with a rich and protracted history in philosophy. That concept and its constellation of ideas were one of the earliest and most crucially constitutive for the development of later sciences and technologies. Both Plato and Aristotle engaged it at length in more or less explicit ways and was the underlying structuring concept in the most important text ever written: the deductive corpus compiled by Euclid 300 BC ("Euclid’s Elements"). However, this is all you have to say about it: [filed under theme 1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 3. Greek-English Lexicon ] Full Idea: Techne: skill, practical knowledge Gist of Idea: Techne: skill, practical knowledge Source: PG (Db (lexicon) [c.1001 BCE], 82) ~ lbrtchx

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