September 2023 - Corpora

CfP: ACM Web Science Conference @ Stuttgart, Papers due Nov 30
by Agnieszka Falenska 04 Sep '23

04 Sep '23

Dear all, Please find below the call for papers for next year’s Web Science Conference. Best regards, Agnieszka Faleńska *Call for Papers <https://websci24.org/call-for-papers/>* ACM WebSci’24 ● 16th ACM Web Science Conference May 21 – May 24, 2024 ● Stuttgart, Germany *Reflecting on the Web, AI, and Society* *https://websci24.webscience.org/* <https://websci24.webscience.org/> *Important Dates* - *Thu, November 30, 2023: Paper submission deadline* - *Wed, January 31, 2024: Notification* - *Thu, February 29, 2024: Camera-ready versions due* - *Tue-Fri, May 21 – May 24, 2024: Conference dates* *All dates are 23:59 **Anywhere on earth time* <https://time.is/Anywhere_on_Earth> *About the Web Science Conference* Web Science is an interdisciplinary field dedicated to understanding the complex and multiple impacts of the Web on society and vice versa. The discipline is well situated to address pressing issues of our time by incorporating various scientific approaches. We welcome quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research, including social sciences and computer science techniques. In addition, we are interested in work exploring Web-based data collection and research ethics. We also encourage studies that combine analyses of Web data and other types of data (e.g., from surveys or interviews) and help better understand user behavior online and offline. *Possible topics across methodological approaches and digital contexts include but are not limited to:* *Understanding the Web* - Automation and AI in all its manifestations relevant to the Web - Trends in globalization, fragmentation, and polarization of the Web - The architecture and philosophy of the Web - Critical analyses of the Web and Web technologies Making the Web Inclusive - Issues of discrimination and fairness - Intersectionality and design justice in questions of marginalization and inequality - Ethical challenges of technologies, data, algorithms, platforms, and people on the Web - Safeguarding and governance of the Web, including anonymity, security, and trust - Inclusion, literacy and the digital divide *The Web and Society* - Social machines, crowd computing and collective intelligence - Web economics, social entrepreneurship, and innovation - Legal issues, including rights and accountability for AI actors - Humanities, arts, and culture on the Web - Politics and social activism on the Web - Online education and remote learning - Health and well-being online - The role of the Web in the future of (augmented) work - The Web as a source of news and information, and misinformation *Doing Web Science* - Data curation, Web archives and stewardship in Web Science - Temporal and spatial dimensions of the Web as a repository of information - Analysis and modeling of human vs. automatic behavior (e.g., bots) - Analysis of online social and information networks - Detecting, preventing and predicting anomalies in Web data (e.g., fake content, spam) *2024 Emphasis: Reflecting on the Web, AI, and Society* In addition to the topics at the heart of Web Science, we also welcome submissions addressing the interplay between the Web, AI and society. New advances in AI are revolutionizing the way in which people use the Web and interact through it. As these technologies develop, it is crucial to examine their effect on society and the socio-technical environment in which we find ourselves. We are nearing the crossroads wherein content on the Web will increasingly be automatically generated, blended with that created by humans. This creates new potential yet brings new challenges and exacerbates existing ones in relation to data quality and misinformation. Additionally, we need to consider the role of the Web as a source of data for AI, including privacy and copyright concerns, as well as bias and representativity of resulting systems. The potential impact of new AI tools on the nature of work may bring a transformation of some careers while creating whole new ones. This year’s conference especially encourages contributions documenting different uses of AI in relation to how people use the Web, and in the ways the Web affects the creation and deployment of AI tools. *Format of the submissions*Please upload your submissions via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmwebsci24 *There are two submission formats.* - Full papers should be between 6 and 10 pages (including references, appendices, etc.). Full papers typically report on mature and completed projects. - Short papers should be up to 5 pages (including references, appendices, etc.). Short papers will primarily report on high-quality ongoing work not mature enough for a full-length publication. *All accepted submissions will be assigned an oral presentation (of two different lengths).* All papers should adopt the current ACM SIG Conference proceedings template (acmart.cls). Please submit papers as PDF files using the ACM template, either in Microsoft Word format (available at https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-templateunder “Word Authors”) or with the ACM LaTeX template on the Overleaf platform, which is available at https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/association-for-computing-machiner… . In particular; please ensure that you are using the two-column version of the appropriate template. All contributions will be judged by the Program Committee upon rigorous peer review standards for quality and fit for the conference by at least three referees. Additionally, each paper will be assigned to a Senior Program Committee member to ensure review quality. WebSci-2024 review is double-blind. Therefore, please anonymize your submission: do not put the author(s) names or affiliation(s) at the start of the paper, and do not include funding or other acknowledgments in papers submitted for review. References to authors’ own prior relevant work should be included but should not specify that this is the authors’ own work. It is up to the authors’ discretion how much to further modify the body of the paper to preserve anonymity. The requirement for anonymity does not extend outside of the review process, e.g., the authors can decide how widely to distribute their papers over the Internet. Even in cases where the author’s identity is known to a reviewer, the double-blind process will serve as a symbolic reminder of the importance of evaluating the submitted work on its own merits without regard to the authors’ reputation. For authors who wish to opt-out of publication proceedings, this option will be made available upon acceptance. This will encourage the participation of researchers from the social sciences that prefer to publish their work as journal articles. All authors of accepted papers (including those who opt out of proceedings) are expected to present their work at the conference. *ACM Policies <https://websci24.org/acm-policy-2/>* 1. “By submitting your article to an ACM Publication, you are hereby acknowledging that you and your co-authors are subject to all ACM Publications Policies <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.acm.o…>, including ACM’s new Publications Policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.acm.o…>. Alleged violations of this policy or any ACM Publications Policy will be investigated by ACM and may result in a full retraction of your paper, in addition to other potential penalties, as per ACM Publications Policy.” 2. “Please ensure that you and your co-authors obtain an ORCID ID <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Forcid.org…>, so you can complete the publishing process for your accepted paper. ACM has been involved in ORCID from the start and we have recently made a commitment to collect ORCID IDs from all of our published authors <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fauthors.a…>. The collection process has started and will roll out as a requirement throughout 2022. We are committed to improve author discoverability, ensure proper attribution and contribute to ongoing community efforts around name normalization; your ORCID ID will help in these efforts.” *Program Committee Chairs:* *Oshani Seneviratne (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)* *Luca Maria Aiello (IT University of Copenhagen)* *Yelena Mejova (ISI Foundation)* For any questions and queries regarding the paper submission, please contact the chairs at acmwebsci24(a)easychair.org.

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Monthly online ILFC Seminar: interactions between formal and computational linguistics
by Timothée Bernard 04 Sep '23

04 Sep '23

Monthly online ILFC Seminar: interactions between formal and computational linguistics https://gdr-lift.loria.fr/monthy-online-ilfc-seminar/ GdR LIFT is happy to announce the four forthcoming sessions of the ILFC seminar on the interactions between formal and computational linguistics: - 2023/09/13 17:00-18:00 UTC+2: *Anna Ivanova* (Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 11:00-12:00 UTC-4) Title: *Dissociating formal and functional linguistic competence in large language models* Abstract: *Today’s large language models (LLMs) routinely generate coherent, grammatical and seemingly meaningful paragraphs of text. This achievement has led to speculation that LLMs have become “thinking machines”, capable of performing tasks that require reasoning and/or world knowledge. In this talk, I will introduce a distinction between formal competence—knowledge of linguistic rules and patterns—and functional competence—understanding and using language in the world. This distinction is grounded in human neuroscience, which shows that formal and functional competence recruit different cognitive mechanisms. I will show that the word-in-context prediction objective has allowed LLMs to essentially master formal linguistic competence; however, LLMs still lag behind at many aspects of functional linguistic competence, and improvements in this domain often depend on specialized fine-tuning or coupling with an external module. In the last part of the talk, I will present a case study highlighting the difficulties of disentangling formal and functional competence when it comes to evaluating world knowledge, and show that similar difficulties are present in neuroscience research. I will conclude by discussing the value of the formal/functional competence framework for evaluating and building flexible, humanlike models of language use.* - 2023/10/18 17:00-18:00 UTC+2: *Alexander Koller* (Saarland University) Title: [TBA] Abstract: [TBA] - 2023/11/15 17:00-18:00 UTC+1: *Raquel Fernández* (University of Amsterdam) Title: [TBA] Abstract: [TBA] - 2023/12/13 17:00-18:00 UTC+1: *Richard Futrell* (UC Irvine; 8:00-9:00 UTC-8) Title: [TBA] Abstract: [TBA] The seminar is held on Zoom. To attend the seminar and get updates, please subscribe to our mailing list (we now only rarely communicate through other mailing lists): https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/subscribe/seminaire_ilfc

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Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in (w/m/d), Universität Paderborn
by habernal＠mail.uni-paderborn.de 04 Sep '23

04 Sep '23

(apologies, German version only as this position requires German language skills) In der Fakultät für Elektrotechnik, Informatik und Mathematik - Institut für Informatik / Fachgebiet Natural Language Processing - ist zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt eine Stelle als wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in (w/m/d) (Entgeltgruppe 13 TV-L) im Umfang von 100% der regelmäßigen Arbeitszeit zu besetzen. Es handelt sich um eine Qualifizierungsstelle im Sinne des Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetzes (WissZeitVG), die zur Förderung eines Promotionsverfahrens im Bereich Natural Language Processing dient. Die Stelle ist befristet für die Dauer des Promotionsverfahrens, abhängig von der bisher erreichten Qualifizierung, jedoch für einen Zeitraum von i.d.R. 3 Jahren, zu besetzen. Eine Verlängerung zum Abschluss der Promotion ist innerhalb der Befristungsgrenzen des WissZeitVG ggf. möglich. Aufgabengebiet: * Eigenverantwortliche Forschung in den Bereichen "Privacy in Natural Language Processing" oder "Legal Natural Language Processing" * Lehrverpflichtung im Umfang von i.d.R. 4 SWS * Beteiligung an der Selbstverwaltung Einstellungsvoraussetzungen: * Wissenschaftlicher Hochschulabschluss (Master in Computer Science oder einer verwandten Disziplin) * Solide Kenntnisse im Bereich des maschinellen Lernens und der Verarbeitung natürlicher Sprache * Starkes Interesse am Thema “Privacy in Natural Language Processing” oder "Legal Natural Language Processing * Ausgezeichnete analytische und programmiertechnische Fähigkeiten * Teamfähigkeit * Fließende Sprachkenntnisse in Englisch und Deutsch Bewerbungen von Frauen sind ausdrücklich erwünscht und werden gem. LGG bei gleicher Eignung, Befähigung und fachlicher Leistung bevorzugt berücksichtigt, sofern nicht in der Person eines Mitbewerbers liegende Gründe überwiegen. Teilzeitbeschäftigung ist grundsätzlich möglich. Ebenso ist die Bewerbung geeigneter Schwerbehinderter und Gleichgestellter im Sinne des Sozialgesetzbuches Neuntes Buch (SGB IX) erwünscht. Bewerbungen mit den üblichen Unterlagen werden als PDF-Dokument per E-Mail unter Angabe der Kennziffer 6082 "PhD-NLP" bis zum 24.09.2023 erbeten an: habernal(a)mail.uni-paderborn.de. Als Ansprechpartner steht Prof. Habernal unter der oben genannten E-Mail-Adresse zur Verfügung. Informationen zur Verarbeitung Ihrer personenbezogenen Daten finden Sie unter: https://www.uni-paderborn.de/zv/personaldatenschutz.

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2nd CFP: 1st Workshop on Readability for Low Resourced Languages (RLRL 2023)
by El-Haj, Mo 04 Sep '23

04 Sep '23

2nd Call for Abstracts: 1st Workshop on Readability for Low Resourced Languages (RLRL 2023) Free registration is now open https://bit.ly/3pwUwlG - a few tickets are still available. Please join us for an exciting online workshop where experts in natural language processing will come together to discuss the latest research and innovative approaches to assessing the readability of low-resource languages. The workshop will take place as a free online event on September 5, 2023, and is being hosted jointly by Lancaster University, Sheffield Hallam University and King Saud University. We welcome researchers and practitioners to submit presentation abstract proposals of up to 500 words for talks related to the development of a Readability Framework for low-resource languages. The ultimate goal of the workshop is to discuss best practices and state-of-the-art AI-based approaches to create mathematical representations of expected readability levels at different school grade or cognitive ability levels. The workshop will also focus on utilising classifiers that are intuitive for humans to understand and adjust, enabling the analysis and improvement of the decision-making criteria. We welcome abstracts on work that is still in progress or that does not yet have conclusive results. We encourage authors to share their work at various stages of development to facilitate discussions and collaboration during the workshop. Important Dates: - Due date for workshop abstract submission: August 1, 2023 (extended) - Notification of abstract acceptance to authors: August 10, 2023 - Workshop date: September 5, 2023 (online event<https://bit.ly/3pwUwlG>) Keynote speakers: - Professor Laurence Anthony - Faculty of Science and Engineering at Waseda University, Japan. - Dr Violetta Cavalli-Sforza - School of Science and Engineering at Al Akhawayn University, Morocco. - Professor Hend Al-Khalifa - College of Computer and Information Sciences at King Saud University, KSA - Dr Abdel-Karim Al Tamimi- Computer Science and Software Engineering at Sheffield Hallam University, UK - Dr Mo El-Haj - School of Computing and Communications at Lancaster University, UK For list of speakers, talks' titles and abstract please visit the workshop's website: https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/acc/rlrl2023/ The main objectives of the workshop are three-fold: 1- Increase awareness of the importance of readability in low-resource languages and its impact on language learning and literacy. 2- Discuss the challenges of readability in low-resource languages, such as limited resources and lack of standardization, and brainstorm strategies for addressing these challenges. 3- Foster a community of practice among participants, allowing them to share their experiences and best practices for addressing readability issues in low-resource languages. Abstract submission: Abstract submission page is now open, please submit abstracts of no more than 500 words https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rlrl2023 Alternatively, you can contact the organisers directly with presentation ideas on topics related to readability or low resourced languages. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Machine learning for text readability - Applications of readability assessment - Readability in low-resource languages - Comprehensibility measures - Mathematical representations of readability levels - Text simplification for low-resource languages - Readability and comprehensibility in language learning - The effects of text simplification on readability - Readability frameworks for indigenous languages - Updating readability representations We look forward to your contributions and to a productive and enlightening workshop on September 5, 2023. RLRL 2023 Organisers: - Dr Mo El-Haj (SCC/DSI/UCREL, Lancaster University) - Dr Abdel-Karim Al Tamimi (CSSE, Sheffield Hallam University) - Prof. Hend Al Khalifa (iWAN, King Saud University) https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/acc/rlrl2023/ Best wishes, Mahmoud --------------------- Dr Mo El-Haj Senior Lecturer in NLP Co-Director of UCREL NLP Group Strategic Lead of Arabic and Financial NLP Research Advisory Board of the Natural Language Processing Journal https://benjamins.com/catalog/nlp School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/staff/elhaj @DocElhaj<https://twitter.com/DocElhaj>

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36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2024): First Call for Workshop Proposals
by Announce 02 Sep '23

02 Sep '23

*** First Call for Workshop Proposals *** 36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2024) June 3-7, 2024, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/caise2024/ (*** Submission Deadline: October 13, 2023 AoE ***) CAiSE is a well-established, highly visible conference series on Advanced Information Systems (IS) Engineering. It covers all relevant topics in the area, including methodologies and approaches for IS engineering, innovative platforms, architectures and technologies, and engineering of specific kinds of IS. CAiSE conferences also have the tradition of hosting workshops in related fields. Workshops are intended to focus on particular topics and provide ample room for discussions of new ideas and developments. CAiSE 2024, the 36th edition of the CAiSE series, invites proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the main conference, related to the CAiSE topics, covering new emerging topics and targeting innovative papers in special focus areas. Prospective workshop organisers should specify whether they plan an event with a presentation-oriented track, a discussion-oriented track, or both. Presentation-oriented track This track focuses on accepted papers with presentations followed by Q&A sessions, akin to conferences. The proceedings of these workshops are intended to be published in a joint volume in the Springer LNBIP series. Submissions must  conform to the Springer LNCS/LNBIP format and should  not exceed 12 pages. According to the Springer standards, the overall acceptance rate cannot exceed 45%-50%. Discussion-oriented track This track emphasizes discussions facilitated by paper presentations revolving around novel ideas and early-stage research. Since the main criterion for paper acceptance in such workshops is relevance and potential for raising discussion, they are not expected to have their proceedings in the Springer LNBIP volume. The edition of a joint proceedings volume next to the LNBIP one for the discussion-oriented track is underway. Proceedings shall be submitted to CEUR-WS.org for online publication. Details on this aspect will be provided separately. Proposal submission Workshop proposals should be submitted via EasyChair at the following address:  https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=caise2024  Please select the Author role and the CAiSE 2024 Workshops track. Prior contact with the workshop chairs (caise2024-workshops(a)easychair.org) is encouraged. The organizer(s) of approved workshops will be responsible for advertising their workshop, eliciting high-quality submissions, organizing the reviewing process of their workshop’s papers according to the principles and guidelines of CAiSE, and collecting camera-ready copies of accepted papers (verifying that they comply with the formatting rules). Organizers (including co-organizers) are expected to attend their entire workshop. Detailed instructions for workshop proposers The proposal (up to 1000 words) should cover the following points: • Workshop title, duration (1 day or 2 days), preferred date (3-4 June 2024) • Workshop type (presentation-oriented or discussion-oriented, or both). • Information on the organizers (PC chairs, other organizers who will be present at the workshop or are otherwise involved, including the person responsible for web presence and communication). Please include names, addresses, and affiliations, indicating the main responsible person. The submission should include a one-paragraph biographical sketch for each organizer, describing relevant qualifications and experience. Please specify at least one PC chair. PC chairs will not be allowed to submit papers to the workshop, but other organizers (who will have no oversight over the review process) are encouraged to do so. • Purpose: What are the main goals of the workshop? Please list the workshop topics. How does the focus of the workshop differ from the main conference? How does the focus of the workshop differ from other potential CAiSE events? (Proponents are advised to look at the workshops and working conferences held at CAiSE 2022 and CAiSE 2023 and differentiate your scope from theirs.) • Organization of the workshop: Specify the type of contributions, distribution into sessions, type of sessions, etc. Mention if you plan to have any keynote speaker (please note that the conference organization will not cover fees, travel expenses, accommodation and registration costs of keynote speakers). Include any special requirements regarding infrastructure and room layout. • Tentative list of PC members. • An estimate of the number of papers to be accepted, and the number of attendees. If applicable, short information on previous editions of the workshop series (this should include submission, acceptance, and attendance information). Short information on your plans for advertising your workshop and making it highly visible. Services provided by CAiSE • EasyChair installation for the management of the workshop submissions (each organizer will be made chair of their own workshop). • Publication of papers in an LNBIP volume for presentation-oriented tracks, and in a CEUR-WS.org online volume for discussion-oriented tracks. • One free workshop-only registration if more than 10 people are registered for the workshop. Organizers willing to attend the whole event (main conference) will have to register for the conference at their own expense. • Local organizational infrastructure and administrative support (registration, badges, refreshments, beamers, screens, etc.). In particular, all venue issues (rooms, meals and catering, social dinner, etc.) as well as the management of the registrations and the financing/administrative issues will be handled by the CAiSE Organization Board and are not under the responsibility of the workshop organizers. • Advertisement of the workshop on the CAiSE 2024 homepage and mailings. Please note that the workshop may be canceled if the number of registrations is less than 10. Also, in the case of workshops with topics that are similar, two or more workshops may be suggested to merge together. Key Dates • Submission of workshops proposals (via Easychair): October 13th, 2023 • Workshop notifications: November 3rd, 2023 • Workshop paper submission (tentative, recommended for presentation-oriented tracks): March 6th, 2024 • Workshop paper decision (recommended for presentation-oriented tracks): April 3rd, 2024 • Camera-ready due (recommended for presentation-oriented tracks): April 22nd, 2024 • Workshops: June 3rd-4th, 2024 Contact For more information and inquiries, please feel free and welcome to contact the Workshop Chairs at the following address: caise2024-workshops(a)easychair.org

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31st Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS23)
by muskaan singh 01 Sep '23

01 Sep '23

**** Call for Papers **** *31st Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS23)* December 7th – 8th 2023 - Atlantic Technological University, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal Conference Website: https://www.aics.ie/ Submission Deadline: 24th September 2023 The 31st Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS 2023) will be hosted by Atlantic Technological University (ATU) in collaboration with Ulster University. The conference will be held in-person at the Letterkenny campus of ATU Donegal. We are also honoured that IEEE UK and Ireland Computational Intelligence Chapter will provide technical sponsorship of the conference. Accepted papers will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore subject to meeting IEEE Xplore’s scope and quality requirements. With regular conferences dating back to 1988, the AICS Conference is Ireland’s primary forum bringing together researchers in the fields of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science. The fields of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, encompassing areas such as Data Analytics, Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, and Machine Learning, are now at the forefront of Irish computing research and industry. The AICS 2023 program will include presentations of high-quality theoretical and applied scientific papers and tutorials. Invited talks will describe important topics relevant to the field. *Topics of Interest* We invite submissions in the broad areas of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science to communicate the advances and achievements in these fields. Areas of interest include, but are not restricted to: - Machine Learning - Natural Language Processing - Computer Vision - Automated Reasoning - Robotics - Deep Learning - Ethics of AI - Cognitive Psychology - Explainability / Interpretability - Cyberpsychology - Intelligent Systems - Opinion Mining - Recommender Systems - Machine Translation For a full list of areas associated with this conference please visit the conference website at: https://www.aics.ie/ *Submission* Accepted papers will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore subject to meeting IEEE Xplore’s scope and quality requirements. We invite two types of submissions: - Full Paper Track: Full paper submissions should consist of original contributions (describing either fundamental research, interesting applications, in-use experiences, or reviews of the field) not published in other forums. Papers should be no more than 6-8 pages (including references) and these will be oral presentations at conferences. Papers over 6 pages will be charged €90 per extra page up to a maximum of two extra pages (8 pages maximum). - Short Paper Track: This track is designed to facilitate students who have recently completed a Master’s program or for PhD students. Short paper submissions should consist of original contributions (describing interesting applications or theoretical research) and the first author must be a student. Papers should be a maximum of 4 pages (including references) and these will be poster presentations at conferences. The paper submission system used is EasyChair and the submission link is: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aics231 All papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance to AICS23, originality, significance and clarity. For full submission instructions please visit: https://www.aics.ie/submission.html *Organisation* *Conference Chairs* Dr Kevin Meehan (Atlantic Technological University) - General Chair Dr Muskaan Singh (Ulster University) - Co-chair Dr Karla Muñoz Esquivel (Atlantic Technological University) - Co-chair Dr Fatemeh Golpayegani, (University College Dublin) - Co-chair *Organising Committee* Dr Jennifer Hyndman (Atlantic Technological University) Professor Michaela Black (Ulster University) Dr Gerry McWilliams (Atlantic Technological University) Dr Bryan Gardiner (Ulster University) Professor Hujun Yin (University of Manchester) Thank you on behalf of the chairs and organising committee.

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Postdoctoral position in LLM Alignment at Uni Würzburg
by Goran Glavaš 01 Sep '23

01 Sep '23

The Natural Language Processing Chair at JMU Würzburg (WüNLP) <https://www.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/nlp/wuenlp/> as a member of the Center for AI and Data Science (CAIDAS) <https://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/caidas/> offers one research position in the area of natural language processing (NLP). The position is bound to the project EQUIFAIR (Equitably Fair and Trustworthy Language Technology), funded by the Alcatel-Lucent Stiftung as part of the “Responsible AI” program. The project targets two major issues related to *alignment of large language models* (LLMs): hallucinations and societal biases, to be addressed in a (massively) multilingual context (i.e., across a wide variety of natural languages) and in an explainable/interpretable manner. The applicants should have a doctoral degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related discipline. Substantial experience in modern NLP (i.e., LLM-based) research is expected, as well as prior publications at top-tier NLP/ML venues (e.g., ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML), demonstrating ability to conduct research at the highest level. Prior experience in any of the subareas relevant to the project, namely fair and trustworthy NLP (hallucinations, biases), multilinguality, and/or explainable/interpretable AI, is a plus. The position is available for *two years*; the project will start as soon as the suitable candidate for this position is found. The remuneration will be at the level *E14* of the German federal wage agreement scheme (TV-L). Please send your application with standard documents (letter of motivation, curriculum vitae, academic records, optionally letter(s) or recommendation; please concatenate all documents into a single PDF) at your earliest convenience, but no later than *30.09.2023* to Prof. Dr. Goran Glavaš ( goran.glavas(a)uni-wuerzburg.de). Potential candidates are welcome to also informally contact Prof. Glavaš for additional information. We take diversity seriously and *especially encourage female and diversity* *candidates to apply*. WüNLP is one of the leading German NLP research labs. We are a young and energetic research group, part of CAIDAS, the ambitious AI research center of the University of Würzburg. Würzburg is one of the most livable cities in Germany. More information: https://www.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/nlp/news/single/news/open-position-…

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Deadline extension: CRAC 2023: Workshop on Reference, Anaphora and Coreference at EMNLP 2023
by Maciej Ogrodniczuk 01 Sep '23

01 Sep '23

(apologies for cross-posting) Submission deadline for <https://sites.google.com/view/crac2023/> CRAC 2023, the Sixth Workshop on Computational Models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference, held at EMNLP 2023 <https://2023.emnlp.org/> , was extended to September 15, 2023. The website has all information but here are a few highlights: ● we welcome papers on any aspect of coreference, anaphora or bridging, whether it’s annotation, analysis or resolution, intra- or cross-document ● we have various categories of papers (research papers, survey papers, position papers and more) ● we were running a new edition the shared task on Multilingual Coreference Resolution <https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/corefud/crac23> using a harmonized CorefUD dataset <https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/corefud> , extended this year; the task is already over <https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/11800#results> but the resource is there, ready to be played with Please spread the news to everyone who might be still interested. Best regards, Maciej Ogrodniczuk (also on behalf of Vincent Ng, Sameer Pradhan, and Massimo Poesio)

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[SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED] (ArabicNLP 2023): The 1st Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference
by amr.keleg.p＠gmail.com 01 Sep '23

01 Sep '23

*** Apologies for Cross-Posting *** The ArabicNLP 2023’s organization committee is pleased to announce the extension of the paper submission deadline by 1 week, for it to be on Tuesday the 12th of September 2023, 23:59 AOE. The First Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP 2023) is co-located with EMNLP 2023 in Singapore. Conference URL: https://arabicnlp2023.sigarab.org/ Submission URL: https://openreview.net/group?id=SIGARAB.org/ArabicNLP/2023/Conference ArabicNLP 2023 invites the submission of original long, short, or demo papers in the area of Arabic Natural Language Processing. ArabicNLP 2023 builds on seven previous workshop editions, which have been extremely successful, drawing in a large active participation in various capacities. This conference is timely given the continued rise in research projects focusing on Arabic NLP. ArabicNLP 2023 will also feature shared tasks, allowing participants to work on specific NLP challenges related to Arabic language processing. The conference is organized by the Special Interest Group on Arabic NLP (SIGARAB), an Association for Computational Linguistics Special Interest Group on Arabic Natural Language Processing. Important Dates: * (Extended) September 12, 2023: conference papers due date * October 12, 2023: notification of acceptance * October 20, 2023: camera-ready papers due * December 7, 2023: conference day All deadlines are 11:59 pm UTC -12h (“Anywhere on Earth”). We accept long (up to 8 pages), short (up to 4 pages), and demo paper (up to 4 pages) submissions. Long and short papers will be presented orally or as posters as determined by the program committee. Submissions are invited on topics that include, but are not limited to, the following: Enabling core technologies: language models and large language models, morphological analysis, disambiguation, tokenization, POS tagging, named entity detection, chunking, parsing, semantic role labeling, sentiment analysis, Arabic dialect modeling, etc. Applications: dialog modeling, machine translation, speech recognition, speech synthesis, optical character recognition, pedagogy, assistive technologies, social media, etc. Resources: dictionaries, annotated data, corpora, etc. Submissions may include work in progress as well as finished work. Submissions must have a clear focus on specific issues pertaining to the Arabic language whether it is standard Arabic, dialectal, classical, or mixed. Papers on other languages sharing problems faced by Arabic NLP researchers, such as Semitic languages or languages using Arabic script, are welcome provided that they propose techniques or approaches that would be of interest to Arabic NLP, and they explain why this is the case. Additionally, papers on efforts using Arabic resources but targeting other languages are also welcome. Descriptions of commercial systems are welcome, but authors should be willing to discuss the details of their work. If you have any questions, please contact us at: arabicnlp-pc-chairs(a)sigarab.org What's in a name? To mark our move from a workshop to a conference, we changed our acronym from WANLP to ArabicNLP. The ArabicNLP 2023 Publicity Chairs, Amr Keleg and Salam Khalifa

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