January 2024 - Corpora

The SemEval-2024 Task 8 test set is now available!
by Preslav Nakov 13 Jan '24

13 Jan '24

The SemEval-2024 Task 8 test set is now available! (apologies for cross-posting) For “Multigenerator, Multidomain, and Multilingual Black-Box Machine-Generated Text Detection”, we have prepared machine-generated and human-written texts in multiple languages. You can access the test set in the link below: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/10DKtClzkwIIAatzHBWXZXuQNID-DNGSG?us… Submit your solution by 31 January 2024, The task description and the training data are available at: https://github.com/mbzuai-nlp/SemEval2024-task8

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Postdoc vacancy: NLP in the Health and Medical Domain (Leiden, the Netherlands)
by Rayson, Paul 12 Jan '24

12 Jan '24

Hello all, I’m posting this on behalf of Suzan Verberne for a vacancy in our joint 4D Picture project, please note the deadline is rapidly approaching … We have a vacancy for a postdoctoral researcher on Natural Language Processing in the Health and Medical Domain, in Leiden, the Netherlands: https://www.lumc.nl/en/about-lumc/werken-bij/vacancies/d.23.bh.ak.116-postd… The deadline for application is January 22nd. ----- Postdoc researcher Natural Language Processing in the Health and Medical Domain ----- About your role ----- The position is part of the interdisciplinary, international Horizon Europe project 4D PICTURE<https://4dpicture.eu/>. The 4D PICTURE project aims to improve shared decision making between patients with cancer (and their families) and healthcare providers, by using a design-method called ‘MetroMapping’ to improve care paths. For these aims, the project draws on large amounts of evidence from different types of European data. The postdoc position is embedded in work package 3: ‘Text mining and citizen science’, under the supervision of Suzan Verberne, professor of Natural Language Processing. The key project tasks of the postdoc are medical named entity recognition, medical entity linking, and analysis of written (informal) data by patient and healthcare providers. You will work with Dutch-language data, but fluency in Dutch is not required for the position. There is space in the position to engage in curiosity-driven research in the context of domain-specific NLP. Method development, paper writing, and participation in key conferences are part of the job, and grant proposal writing for personal development is encouraged. As a postdoc researcher, your key responsibilities will include conducting research in the area of health/medical NLP and actively participating in activities of the 4D PICTURE project (project meetings, research collaboration, organizational activities). You will also co-supervise BSc, MSc and PhD students on topics related to domain-specific NLP. Lastly, you will actively participate in the Text Mining and Retrieval research group (group meetings, research collaboration). About you ----- - A PhD in Natural Language Processing or a strongly related field. - Knowledge of the health/medical domain and domain-specific NLP. - First author papers published in respected and relevant conference proceedings or journals. - Good writing skills and proficiency of the English language. - Able to work independently, in a team, and in a student (co-)supervisory role. - An academic, creative, and curious mindset. - Willing to learn Dutch on a basic level. Our offer ----- Getting better by breaking new ground; that's our mission. This applies not only to healthcare, but also to our employees. In order to be able to continue to learn and develop, we offer internal and external training. You are also entitled to an end-of-year bonus (8,3%), holiday allowance, sports budget and bicycle scheme. Furthermore, as an employee of LUMC, you are also affiliated with the ABP pension fund. This means that 70% of your pension premium is paid by LUMC, leaving you with a higher net salary. About your workplace ----- You will be appointed as a researcher in the interdisciplinary European project 4D PICTURE (Work package 3: Text mining and citizen science). Your appointment is at the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), and you will have a guest appointment and office in the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), where you will be embedded in the Text Mining and Retrieval Group to work on Natural Language Processing. The research group has many active collaborations, weekly group meetings, and discussions among all group members. The 4D PICTURE project is a stimulating, interdisciplinary environment that offers many opportunities for expanding your network. -- Suzan Verberne, full professor Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science Email: s.verberne(a)liacs.leidenuniv.nl<mailto:s.verberne@liacs.leidenuniv.nl> http://liacs.leidenuniv.nl/~verbernes http://tmr.liacs.nl<http://tmr.liacs.nl/> -- Paul Rayson Director of UCREL and Professor of Natural Language Processing SCC Data Theme Lead School of Computing and Communications, InfoLab21, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK. Web: https://www.research.lancs.ac.uk/portal/en/people/Paul-Rayson/ Tel: +44 1524 510357 Contact me on Teams<https://teams.microsoft.com/l/chat/0/0?users=p.rayson@lancaster.ac.uk>

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EAMT 2024: 2nd Call for Papers
by Carol Scarton 12 Jan '24

12 Jan '24

******************************************************* EAMT 2024: The 25th Annual Conference of The European Association for Machine Translation 24 - 27 June 2024 Sheffield, UK https://eamt2024.sheffield.ac.uk/ @eamt_2024 (X account) Keynote speaker: Alexandra Birch (University of Edinburgh, UK) Paper submission deadline: 08 March 2024 More information: https://eamt2024.sheffield.ac.uk/conference-calls/call-for-papers ******************************************************* The European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT) invites everyone interested in machine translation (MT) and translation-related tools and resources ― developers, researchers, users, translation and localization professionals and managers ― to participate in this conference. Driven by the state of the art, the research community will demonstrate their cutting-edge research and results. Professional MTusers will provide insights into successful MT implementation of MT in business scenarios as well as implementation scenarios involving large corporations, governments, or NGOs. Translation scholars and translation practitioners are also invited to share their first-hand MT experience, which will be addressed during a special track. Note that papers that have been archived in arXiv can be accepted for submission provided that they have not already been published elsewhere. EAMT 2024 has four tracks, namely Research: Technical, Research: Translators & Users, Implementations & Case Studies, and Products & Projects. *** Research: technical *** Submissions (up to 10 pages, plus unlimited pages for references and appendices) are invited for reports of significant research results in any aspect of MT and related areas. Such reports should include a substantial evaluation component, or have a strong theoretical and/or methodological contribution where results and in-depth evaluations may not be appropriate. Papers are welcome on all topics in the areas of MT and translation-related technologies, including, but not limited to: - Deep-learning approaches for MT and MT evaluation - Advances in classical MT paradigms: statistical, rule-based, and hybrid approaches - Comparison of various MT approaches - Technologies for MT deployment: quality estimation, domain adaptation, etc. - Resources and evaluation - MT in special settings: low resources, massive resources, high volume, low computing resources - MT applications: translation/localization aids, speech translation, multimodal MT, MT for user generated content (blogs, social networks), MT in computer-aided language learning, etc. - Linguistic resources for MT: corpora, terminologies, dictionaries, etc. - MT evaluation techniques, metrics, and evaluation results - Human factors in MT and user interfaces - Related multilingual technologies: natural language generation, information retrieval, text categorization, text summarization, information extraction, optical character recognition, etc. Papers should describe original work. They should emphasise completed work rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. Where appropriate, concrete evaluation results should be included. Papers should be anonymized, prepared according to the templates specified below, and be no longer than 10 pages (plus unlimited pages for references and appendices). Submit the paper as a PDF to OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=EAMT.org/2024/Technical_Track. Submissions that do not conform to the required styles may be rejected without review. **Track co-chairs Rachel Bawden (Inria, Paris) Víctor M Sánchez-Cartagena (University of Alicant) *** Research: translators & users *** Submissions (up to 10 pages, plus unlimited pages for references and appendices) are invited for academic research on all topics related to how professional translators and other types of MT users interact with, are affected by, or conceptualise MT. Papers should report significant research results with a strong theoretical and/or methodological contribution. Topics for the track include, but are not limited to: - The impact of MT and post-editing: including studies on processes, effort, strategies, usability, productivity, pricing, workflows, and post-editese - Human factors and psycho-social aspects of MT adoption (ergonomics, motivation, and social impact on the profession, relationship between user profiles and MT adoption) - Emerging areas for MT & post-editing: e.g. audiovisual, game localisation, literary texts, creative texts, social media, health care communication, crisis translation - MT and ethics - The impact of using translators’ metadata and user activity data for monitoring their work - The evaluation and reception of different modalities of translation: human translation, post-edited, raw MT - MT and interpreting - Human evaluations of MT output - MT for gisting and the impact of MT on users: use cases, expectations, perceptions, trust, views on acceptability - MT and usability - MT and education/language learning - MT in the translation/interpreting classroom Papers should describe original work. They should emphasise completed work rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. Papers should be anonymized, prepared according to the templates specified below, and be no longer than 10 pages (plus unlimited pages for references and appendices). Submit the paper as a PDF to OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=EAMT.org/2024/Research_Translators_Users_Tr…. Submissions that do not conform to the required styles may be rejected without review. ** Track co-chairs Patrick Cadwell (DCU) Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski (University of Hildesheim) *** Implementations & case studies *** Submissions (approximately 4–6 pages) are invited for reports on case studies and implementation experience with MT in organisations of all types, including small businesses, large corporations, governments, NGOs, or language service providers. We also invite translation practitioners to share their views and observations based on their day-to-day experience working with MT in a variety of environments. Topics for the track include, but are not limited to: - Integrating or optimising MT and computer-assisted translation in translation production workflows (translation memory/MT thresholds, mixing online and offline tools, using interactive MT, dealing with MT confidence scores) - Managing change when implementing and using MT (e.g. switching between multiple MT systems, limiting degradations when updating or upgrading an MT system) - Implementing open-source MT (e.g. strategies to get support, reports on taking pilot results into full deployment, examples of advanced customization sought and obtained thanks to the open-source paradigm, collaboration within open-source MT projects) - Evaluating MT in a real-world setting (e.g. error detection strategies employed, metrics used, productivity or translation quality gains achieved) - Ethical and confidentiality issues when using MT, especially MT in the cloud - Using MT in social networking or real-time communication (e.g. enterprise support chat, multilingual content for social media) - MT and usability - Implementing MT to process multilingual content for assimilation purposes (e.g. cross-lingual information retrieval, MT for e-discovery or spam detection, MT for highly dynamic content) - MT in literary, audiovisual, game localization and creative texts - Impact of MT and post-editing on translation practices and the profession: processes, effort, compensation, - Psycho-social aspects of MT adoption (ergonomics, motivation, and social impact on the profession) - Error analysis and post-editing strategies (including automatic post-editing and automation strategies) - The use of translators’ metadata and user activity data in MT development - Freelance translators’ independent use of MT - MT and interpreting Papers should highlight real-world use scenarios, solutions, and problems in addition to describing MT integration processes and project settings. Where solutions do not seem to exist, suggestions for MT researchers and developers should be clearly emphasized. For papers on implementations and case studies produced by academics, we require co-authorship with the actual organizations working with MT implementations. Papers (approximately 4–6 pages, with a maximum of 10 pages -- plus unlimited pages for references) should be formatted according to the templates specified below and submitted as PDF files to Open Review: https://openreview.net/group?id=EAMT.org/2024/Implementations_Case_Studies_…. Anonymization is not required in the Implementations & Case Studies track submissions. Submissions that do not conform to the required styles may be rejected without review. ** Track co-chairs Vera Cabarrão (Unbabel) Konstantinos Chatzitheodorou (Strategic Agenda) *** Products & Projects *** Submissions (2 pages, including references) are invited on either of the subtracks (Products or Projects). - Products: Tools for MT, computer-aided translation, and other translation technologies (including commercial products and free/open-source software). Descriptions should include information about product availability and licensing, an indication of cost if applicable, basic functionality, (optionally) a comparison with other products, and a description of the technologies used. The authors should be ready to present the tools in the form of demos or posters during the conference. - Projects: Research projects, funded through grants obtained in competitive public or private calls related to MT. Descriptions should contain: project title and acronym, funding agency, project reference, duration, list of partner institutions or companies in the consortium if there is one, project objectives, and a summary of partial results available or final results if the project has ended. The authors should be ready to present the projects in the form of posters during the conference. This follows on from the successful ‘project villages’ held at the last EAMT conferences. There will be a poster boaster session for this track, in which authors will have 120 seconds to attract attendees to their posters or demos with a two-slide presentation. Submissions should be formatted according to the templates specified below. Anonymization is not required. Submissions should be no longer than 2 pages (including references), and submitted as PDF files to OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=EAMT.org/2024/Products_Projects_Track. Track chairs Helena Moniz (University of Lisbon (FLUL), INESC-ID) Mikel Forcada (University of Alicant) *** Templates for writing your proposal *** There templates available in the following formats (check our website -- https://eamt2024.sheffield.ac.uk/conference-calls/call-for-papers): - LaTeX - Cloneable Overleaf template - Word - Libre Office/Open Office - PDF *** Important deadlines *** - Deadline for paper submission: 8 March 2024 - Notification to authors: 8 April 2024 - Camera ready deadline: 22 April 2024 - Author Registration: 8 May 2024 All deadlines are at 23:59 CEST. *** Local organising committee *** Carolina Scarton (University of Sheffield) Charlotte Prescott (ZOO Digital) Chris Bayliss (ZOO Digital) Chris Oakley (ZOO Digital) Xingyi Song (University of Sheffield) -- *Carolina Scarton* Lecturer in Natural Language Processing Department of Computer Science University of Sheffield http://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/C.Scarton/

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EAMT 2024: 2nd Call for Tutorial Proposals
by Carol Scarton 12 Jan '24

12 Jan '24

******************************************************* EAMT 2024: The 25th Annual Conference of The European Association for Machine Translation 24 - 27 June 2024 Sheffield, UK https://eamt2024.sheffield.ac.uk/ @eamt_2024 (X account) Keynote speaker: Alexandra Birch (University of Edinburgh, UK) Tutorial proposal deadline: 08 March 2024 Tutorial date: 27 June 2024 More information: https://eamt2024.sheffield.ac.uk/conference-calls/call-for-tutorials ******************************************************* *** Overview *** The European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT) invites proposals for tutorials to be held in conjunction with the EAMT 2024 conference taking place in Sheffield, UK, from 24 to 27 June, with tutorials held on 27 June. We seek proposals in all areas of machine translation (see the call for papers of the main conference for the focus areas of EAMT 2024). The aim of a tutorial is primarily to help the audience develop an understanding of particular technical, applied, and business matters related to research, development, and use of MT and translation technology. Presentations of particular technological solutions or systems are welcome, provided that they serve as illustrations of broader scientific considerations. We recommend that the tutorial covers work by the presenters as well as by other researchers. The submission should explain that this breadth is ensured. Tutorials should not be “self-invited talks”. *** Submission Details *** Proposals should not exceed 4 pages of content (plus unlimited pages for references), should be in PDF format, and should contain the following: - A title and authors, affiliations, and contact information. - A brief description of the tutorial content and its relevance to the machine translation community. - Short description of the target audience and any expected prerequisite background the audience should be aware of. - An outline of the tutorial structure content and how it will be covered in a three-hour slot (half-day). In exceptional cases, six-hour tutorial slots (full day) are available. These time limits do not include coffee breaks, e.g., a three-hour tutorial, in fact, occupies a 3.5-hour slot, and a six-hour tutorial occupies a 7-hour slot. - Diversity considerations, e.g. use of multilingual data, indications of how the described methods scale up to various languages or domains, participation of both senior and junior instructors, demographic and geographical diversity of the instructors, plans for how to diversify audience participation, etc. - Reading list. Work that you expect the audience to read before the tutorial can be indicated by an asterisk. Recommended papers should provide the breadth of authorship and include work by other authors, and work from other disciplines is welcome if relevant. - For each tutorial presenter, a one-paragraph statement of their research interests and areas of expertise for the tutorial topic, as well as experience in instructing an international audience. An estimate of the audience size for the tutorial. If the same or a similar tutorial has been given before, include information on where any previous version of the tutorial was given and how many attendees the tutorial attracted. - A description of special requirements for technical equipment. Tutorial proposals should be submitted as PDF files to OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=EAMT.org/2024/Tutorials_Track. Submissions should be formatted according to the templates specified below. Anonymisation is not required. Submissions should be no longer than 4 pages (excluding references). *** Templates for writing your proposal *** There templates available in the following formats (check our website -- https://eamt2024.sheffield.ac.uk/conference-calls/call-for-papers): - LaTeX - Cloneable Overleaf template - Word - Libre Office/Open Office - PDF *** Evaluation Criteria *** Each tutorial proposal will be evaluated according to its clarity and preparedness, novelty or timely character of the topic, and instructors’ experience. ** Tutorial Instructor Responsibilities *** Accepted tutorial presenters will be notified by 8 April 2024. They must then provide abstracts of their tutorials for inclusion in the conference registration material by the specific conference deadlines. The description should be in two formats: (a) an ASCII version that can be included in email announcements and published on the conference website, and (b) a PDF version for inclusion in the electronic proceedings (detailed instructions will be provided). Tutorial speakers must provide tutorial materials by 15 May 2024. The final submitted tutorial materials must minimally include copies of the course slides and a bibliography for the material covered in the tutorial. For each tutorial being held at EAMT 2024, we offer free registration to the conference for one tutor only. *** Important Dates *** - Submission deadline for tutorial proposals: 8 March 2024 - Notification of acceptance: 8 April 2024 - Tutorial slides + abstract + bibliography + any other materials: 15 May 2024 All deadlines are at 23:59 CEST. *** Workshop Co-Chairs *** Mary Nurminen (Tampere University) Diptesh Kanojia (University of Surrey) *** Local organising committee *** Carolina Scarton (University of Sheffield) Charlotte Prescott (ZOO Digital) Chris Bayliss (ZOO Digital) Chris Oakley (ZOO Digital) Xingyi Song (University of Sheffield) -- *Carolina Scarton* Lecturer in Natural Language Processing Department of Computer Science University of Sheffield http://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/C.Scarton/

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EAMT 2024: 2nd Call for Workshop Proposals
by Carol Scarton 12 Jan '24

12 Jan '24

******************************************************* EAMT 2024: The 25th Annual Conference of The European Association for Machine Translation 24 - 27 June 2024 Sheffield, UK https://eamt2024.sheffield.ac.uk/ @eamt_2024 (X account) Keynote speaker: Alexandra Birch (University of Edinburgh, UK) Workshop proposal deadline: 31 January 2024 Workshop date: 27 June 2024 More information: https://eamt2024.sheffield.ac.uk/conference-calls/call-for-workshops ******************************************************* *** Overview *** The European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT) invites proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the EAMT 2024 conference taking place in Sheffield, UK, from 24 to 27 June 2024, with workshops held on 27 June. We solicit proposals in all areas of machine translation. EAMT workshops are intended to provide the opportunity for MT-related communities of interest to spend focused time together advancing the state of thinking or the state of practice in their area of interest or endeavour. Workshops are generally scheduled as full-day events. Every effort will be made to accept or reject (with reason) workshop proposals as soon as possible after they are received by the organising committee so that the workshop organisers have adequate time to prepare the workshop. *** Submission information *** Proposals should be submitted as PDF documents. Note that submissions should be ready to be turned into a Call for Papers to the workshop within one week of notification. The proposals should be at most two pages for the main proposal and at most two additional pages for information about the organisers, programme committee, and references. Thus, the whole proposal should not be more than four pages long. The two pages for the main proposal must include: - A title and authors, affiliations, and contact information. - A title and a brief description of the workshop topic and content. - A list of speakers and alternates whom you intend to invite to present at the workshop. - An estimate of the number of attendees. - A description of any shared tasks associated with the workshop (if any), and an estimate of the number of participants. - A description of special requirements and technical needs. - If the workshop has been held before, a note specifying where previous workshops were held, how many submissions the workshop received, how many papers were accepted (also specify if they were not regular papers, e.g., shared task system description papers), and how many attendees the workshop attracted. - An outline of the intended workshop timeline with details about the following items: ---- First call for workshop papers: some date ---- Second call for workshop papers: some date ---- Workshop paper due: some date ---- Notification of acceptance: some date ---- Camera-ready papers due: some date Workshops are expected to follow the timelines below, so please make sure the dates above fit into the schedule: - 1st Call: no later than 14 March - 2nd Call: no later than 04 April - Deadline: 15 April (no later than 20 April) - Acceptance: no later than 20 May - Camera ready: no later than 27 May - Proceedings deadline: 12 June - Workshops: 27 June The two pages for information about the organisers, program committee, and references must include the following: - The names, affiliations, and email addresses of the organisers, with a brief description (2-5 sentences) of their research interests, areas of expertise, and experience in organising workshops and related events. - A list of Programme Committee members, with an indication of which members have already agreed. - References Submissions should be formatted according to the templates specified below. Anonymisation is not required. Submissions should be no longer than 4 pages, and submitted as PDF files to OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=EAMT.org/2024/Workshops_Track. *** Templates for writing your proposal *** There templates available in the following formats (check our website -- https://eamt2024.sheffield.ac.uk/conference-calls/call-for-papers): - LaTeX - Cloneable Overleaf template - Word - Libre Office/Open Office - PDF Please also use these templates for camera-ready workshop contributions to comply with the format requirements for the workshop proceedings to be published in the ACL Anthology. *** Evaluation criteria *** The workshop proposals will be evaluated according to their originality and impact, and the quality of the organising team and Programme Committee. *** Organiser Responsibilities *** The organisers of the accepted proposals will be responsible for publicising and running the workshop, including reviewing submissions, producing the camera-ready workshop proceedings in the ACL Anthology format, as well as organising the schedule with local EAMT organisers. For every accepted workshop, we offer one free registration for the EAMT 2024 conference to one workshop organiser. *** Important dates *** - Proposal submission deadline: 31 January 2024 - Notification of acceptance: rolling basis (no later than 28/02/2024) All deadlines are 23:59 CEST *** Workshop Co-Chairs*** Mary Nurminen (Tampere University) Diptesh Kanojia (University of Surrey) *** Local organising committee *** Carolina Scarton (University of Sheffield) Charlotte Prescott (ZOO Digital) Chris Bayliss (ZOO Digital) Chris Oakley (ZOO Digital) Xingyi Song (University of Sheffield) -- *Carolina Scarton* Lecturer in Natural Language Processing Department of Computer Science University of Sheffield http://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/C.Scarton/

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CAiSE'24: First Call for Research Projects Exhibition
by Announce 12 Jan '24

12 Jan '24

*** First Call for Research Projects Exhibition *** 36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'24) June 3-7, 2024, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/caise2024/ (*** Submission Deadline: 8th April, 2024 AoE ***) CAiSE 2024 features a Research Project Exhibition (RPE@CAiSE'24) where researchers and practitioners can present their ongoing research projects (e.g., H2020 or ERC projects, national grants) in the context of Information Systems Engineering. The main objective of this call is to serve as a forum where presenters can disseminate the intermediate results of their projects or get feedback about research project proposals being developed. The exhibition will also provide a warm environment to find potential research partners, foster existing relationships, and discuss research ideas. To participate in the RPE@CAiSE'24, the authors should submit a short paper (5-8 pages) showcasing the project, including the participants, the main objectives of the project and relevant results obtained so far (or expected results in the case of project proposals). Each submission will be peer-reviewed on the relevance of the submitted paper in the context of CAiSE 2024. If the paper is accepted, the authors will be invited to register for the conference to present their work at the Research Projects Exhibition session at CAiSE 2024. The accepted contributions will be proposed for publication by CEUR proceedings using the 1-column CEUR-ART style. In addition, the authors of the most influential project presented at the RPE@CAiSE'24 will receive an award distinguishing their contribution as the "Most Influential Project of the Research Project Exhibition @CAiSE'24". RESEARCH PROJECTS REQUIREMENTS For the Research Projects Exhibition, we solicit submissions of projects related to the topics of CAiSE that meet the following criteria: • Projects funded by the European Union, by national or local funding organisations, or even by individual universities and industries. • Projects focused on fundamental research, applied research or more industry-oriented. • Research projects carried out by an international consortium of partners or by a national research team. • Research statements for future projects concerning the Information Systems Engineering community. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Papers should be submitted via Easychair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=caise2024) by selecting the "Research Projects Exhibition". Each submission of a research project should include: • The project's full name, acronym, duration (from-to), participants, funding agency and URL. • Names of presenter(s) and main contributors. • Abstract and keywords. • Summary of project objectives and expected tangible outputs. • The relevance of the project (or one of its work packages) to the topics of the International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering. • If the project is ongoing: summary of current status and intermediate results. All submissions should be 5 to 8 pages long and be formatted as a 1-column CEUR-ART style (templates available at https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/). An intention to submit should be performed one week before the deadline, including the full name of the project, the authors' name and the abstract. Each submission will be reviewed by at least two members of the Program Committee. In case of disagreement, a third member of the Program Committee will review the submission. The Program Committee will comprise international researchers with expertise in the field. ATTENDANCE AND PRESENTATION During the Research Projects Exhibition session, the authors of accepted contributions will present the research project. Details about the format of the session and instructions to prepare the presentation will be given to authors after the acceptance notification. At least one author of each submission accepted for the Research Projects Exhibition must register and attend the conference to present the work. The author needs a full registration to present the research project. IMPORTANT DATES • Intention to Submit: 1st April, 2024 (AoE) • Submission: 8th April, 2024 (AoE) • Notification of Acceptance: 22nd April, 2024 • Camera Ready: 13th May, 2024 • Author Registration: 17th May, 2024 • Conference Dates: 3rd-7th June, 2024 RESEARCH PROJECTS EXHIBITION CHAIRS • Raimundas Matulevicius, University of Tartu, Estonia • Henderik A. Proper, TU Wien, Austria

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Call for Papers: HumEval 2024 @ LREC-COLING 2024
by Simone Balloccu 12 Jan '24

12 Jan '24

The Fourth Workshop on Human Evaluation of NLP Systems (HumEval 2024) invites the submission of long and short papers on current human evaluation research and future directions. HumEval 2024 will take place in Turin (Italy) on May 21 2024, during LREC-COLING 2024. Website: https://humeval.github.io/ Important dates: Submission deadline: 11 March 2024 Paper acceptance notification: 4 April 2024 Camera-ready versions: 19 April 2024 HumEval 2024: 21 May 2024 LREC-COLING 2024 conference: 20–25 May 2024 All deadlines are 23:59 UTC-12. =============================================== Human evaluation plays a central role in NLP, from the large-scale crowd-sourced evaluations carried out e.g. by the WMT workshops, to the much smaller experiments routinely encountered in conference papers. Moreover, while NLP embraced a number of automatic evaluation metrics, the field has always been acutely aware of their limitations (Callison-Burch et al., 2006; Reiter and Belz, 2009; Novikova et al., 2017; Reiter, 2018; Mathur et al., 2020a), and has gauged their trustworthiness in terms of how well, and how consistently, they correlate with human evaluation scores (Gatt and Belz, 2008; Popović and Ney, 2011., Shimorina, 2018; Mille et al., 2019; Dušek et al., 2020, Mathur et al., 2020b). Yet there is growing unease about how human evaluations are conducted in NLP. Researchers have pointed out the less than perfect experimental and reporting standards that prevail (van der Lee et al., 2019; Gehrmann et al., 2023), and that low-quality evaluations with crowdworkers may not correlate well with high-quality evaluations with domain experts (Freitag et al., 2021). Only a small proportion of papers provide enough detail for reproduction of human evaluations, and in many cases the information provided is not even enough to support the conclusions drawn (Belz et al., 2023). We have found that more than 200 different quality criteria (such as Fluency, Accuracy, Readability, etc.) have been used in NLP, and that different papers use the same quality criterion name with different definitions, and the same definition with different names (Howcroft et al., 2020). Furthermore, many papers do not use a named criterion, asking the evaluators only to assess 'how good' the output is. Inter and intra-annotator agreement are usually given only in the form of an overall number without analysing the reasons and causes for disagreement and potential to reduce them. A small number of papers have aimed to address this from different perspectives, e.g. comparing agreement for different evaluation methods (Belz and Kow, 2010), or analysing errors and linguistic phenomena related to disagreement (Pavlick and Kwiatkowski, 2019; Oortwijn et al., 2021; Thomson and Reiter, 2020; Popović, 2021). Context beyond sentences needed for a reliable evaluation has also started to be investigated (e.g. Castilho et al., 2020). The above aspects all interact in different ways with the reliability and reproducibility of human evaluation measures. While reproducibility of automatically computed evaluation measures has attracted attention for a number of years (e.g. Pineau et al., 2018, Branco et al., 2020), research on reproducibility of measures involving human evaluations is a more recent addition (Cooper & Shardlow, 2020; Belz et al., 2023). The HumEval workshops (previously at EACL 2021, ACL 2022, and RANLP 2023) aim to create a forum for current human evaluation research and future directions, a space for researchers working with human evaluations to exchange ideas and begin to address the issues human evaluation in NLP faces in many respects, including experimental design, meta-evaluation and reproducibility. We will invite papers on topics including, but not limited to, the following topics as addressed in any subfield of NLP - Experimental design and methods for human evaluations - Reproducibility of human evaluations - Inter-evaluator and intra-evaluator agreement - Ethical considerations in human evaluation of computational systems - Quality assurance for human evaluation - Crowdsourcing for human evaluation - Issues in meta-evaluation of automatic metrics by correlation with human evaluations - Alternative forms of meta-evaluation and validation of human evaluations - Comparability of different human evaluations - Methods for assessing the quality and the reliability of human evaluations - Role of human evaluation in the context of Responsible and Accountable AI Submissions for both short and long papers will be made directly via START, following submission guidelines issued by LREC-COLING 2024. For full submission details please refer to the workshop website. The third ReproNLP Shared Task on Reproduction of Automatic and Human Evaluations of NLP Systems will be part of HumEval, offering (A) an Open Track for any reproduction studies involving human evaluation of NLP systems; and (B) the ReproHum Track where participants will reproduce the papers currently being reproduced by partner labs in the EPSRC ReproHum project. A separate call will be issued for ReproNLP 2024. -- Kind regards, Simone Balloccu.

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First CFP: The ClinicalNLP 2024 Workshop & Shared Tasks @ NAACL 2024
by Asma Ben Abacha 11 Jan '24

11 Jan '24

The 6th Clinical Natural Language Processing Workshop@ NAACL 2024 <https://2024.naacl.org/>. 20 or 21 June 2024, Mexico City, Mexico. https://clinical-nlp.github.io/2024 Clinical text is growing rapidly as electronic health records become pervasive. Much of the information recorded in a clinical encounter is located exclusively in provider narrative notes, which makes them indispensable for supplementing structured clinical data in order to better understand patient state and care provided. The methods and tools developed for the clinical domain have historically lagged behind the scientific advances in the general-domain NLP. Despite the substantial recent strides in clinical NLP, a substantial gap remains. The goal of this workshop is to address this gap by establishing a regular event in CL conferences that brings together researchers interested in developing state-of-the-art methods for the clinical domain. The focus is on improving NLP technology to enable clinical applications, and specifically, information extraction and modeling of narrative provider notes from electronic health records, patient encounter transcripts, and other clinical narratives. Relevant topics for the workshop include, but are not limited to: - Modeling clinical text in standard NLP tasks (tagging, chunking, parsing, entity identification, entity linking/normalization, relation extraction, coreference, summarization, etc.) - De-identification and other handling of protected health information - Disease detection and other coding of clinical documents (e.g., ICD) - Structure of clinical documents (e.g., section identification) - Information extraction from clinical text - Integration of structured and textual data for clinical tasks - Domain adaptation and transfer learning techniques for clinical data - Generation of clinical notes: summarization, image-to-text, generation of notes from clinical conversations, etc. - Annotation schemes and annotation methodology for clinical data - Evaluation techniques for the clinical domain - Bias and fairness in clinical text In 2024, Clinical NLP will encourage submissions from the following special tracks: - Clinical NLP in low-resource settings (e.g., languages other than English) - Clinical NLP for clinical conversations (e.g., doctor-patient) - Risk analysis of large language models for clinical NLP (e.g., privacy, bias) The 6th Clinical NLP Workshop will be co-located with NAACL 2024 in Mexico City on June 20 or 21. Shared Tasks Clinical NLP 2024 is hosting four shared tasks: - Task 1 - MEDIQA-CORR: Medical Error Detection & Correction - Task 2 - MEDIQA-M3G: Multilingual & Multimodal Medical Answer Generation - Task 3 - EHRSQL: Reliable Text-to-SQL Modeling on Electronic Health Records - Task 4 - Chemotherapy Timelines Extraction Please visit the shared task websites to register to participate and for additional information about the shared tasks. - MEDIQA-CORR: https://sites.google.com/view/mediqa2024/mediqa-corr - MEDIQA-M3G: https://sites.google.com/view/mediqa2024/mediqa-m3g - EHRSQL: https://github.com/glee4810/ehrsql-2024 - Chemotherapy Timelines Extraction: http://chemotimelines2024.healthnlp.org Submissions The OpenReview submission site is: - https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/NAACL/2024/Workshop/Clinical_NLP All submissions must follow ACL formatting guidelines <https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html>, including: - Submissions should be anonymous and must not include any identifying information about the authors <https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/review-version.html> - Long papers may have up to eight (8) pages of content and short papers may have up to four (4) pages of content. - You are allowed unlimited pages for references <https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html#paper-length>. Any “Limitations” section or “Ethics Statement” is similar to references; it does not count toward the page limit. Clinical NLP 2024 has no preprint restrictions; you may post to arXiv at any time. Clinical NLP 2024 workshop proceedings are archival will be published on the ACL Anthology <https://aclanthology.org/venues/clinicalnlp/>. We encourage submissions of papers submitted to but not accepted by EACL 2024 <https://2024.eacl.org/>, NAACL 2024 <https://2024.naacl.org/>, or ACL Rolling Review <https://aclrollingreview.org/>, as long as the topics are relevant to Clinical NLP. Important Dates All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (anywhere on Earth <https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/aoe>). EventDate Submission deadline Tuesday, March 19, 2024 Notification of acceptance Tuesday April 16, 2024 Final versions of papers due Wednesday April 24, 2024 Workshop June 20 or 21, 2024Shared Task Dates EventDate Shared task registration opens Monday January 8, 2024 Shared task release of training / validation sets Friday January 26, 2024 Shared task release of the test sets Monday February 26, 2024 Shared task run submission deadline Friday March 1, 2024 Shared task release of official results Wednesday March 6, 2024 Paper-related deadlines See General Dates aboveWorkshop Organizers - Asma Ben Abacha (Microsoft) - Danielle Bitterman (Harvard Medical School) - Kirk Roberts (UTHealth Houston) - Steven Bethard (University of Arizona) - Tristan Naumann (Microsoft Research) Contact For inquiries, please contact: clinical-nlp-workshop-organizers(a)googlegroups.com.

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Semantic Methods for Events and Stories, 2nd Edition (SEMMES 2024) – Call for Papers
by Pasquale Lisena 11 Jan '24

11 Jan '24

*************** Semantic Methods for Events and Stories, 2nd Edition (SEMMES 2024) – Call for Papers *************** Website: https://anr-kflow.github.io/semmes/ Workshop co-located with the Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) in Hersonissos, Greece Submission deadline: March 7th, 2024 Scope *************** An important part of human history and knowledge is made of events, which can be aggregated and connected to create stories, be they real or fictional. These events as well as the stories created from them can typically be inherently complex, reflect societal or political stances and be perceived differently across the world population. The Semantic Web offers technologies and methods to represent these events and stories, as well as to interpret the knowledge encoded into graphs and use it for different applications, spanning from narrative understanding and generation to fact-checking. The aim of the 2nd edition of our workshop on Semantic Methods for Events and Stories (SEMMES) is to offer an opportunity to discuss the challenges related to dealing with events and stories, and how we can use semantic methods to tackle them. We welcome approaches which combine data, methods and technologies coming from the Semantic Web with methods from other fields, including machine learning, narratology or information extraction. This workshop wants to bring together researchers working on complementary topics, in order to foster collaboration and sharing of expertise in the context of events and stories. Topics *************** Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Ontologies and data models for representing events, event relations, and narratives; - Event extraction, co-reference and linking; - Event Relation extraction and linking (e.g. temporal, causal, modal relationships); - Methods combining KGs and LLMs targeting event- or narrative-related research; - Fake events detection and event verification; - Event-centric question answering; - Event information visualisation; - Event-centric knowledge graphs and vocabularies; - Completion of event-centric knowledge graphs and reasoning; - Event summarisation; - Automatic narrative understanding and generation; - Storytelling Applications/Demos. Submission Guidelines *************** We welcome the following types of contributions. - Long papers (10-15 pages including references) - Short papers (5-9 pages including references) We welcome any types of research, resource and application papers, as well as (short only) demonstration submissions. Submissions must be written in English and formatted using the template for submissions to CEUR Workshop Proceedings (https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-submissions-to-ceur-w…) All papers and abstracts have to be submitted electronically via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semmes2024. Each accepted paper needs to be presented by one of the authors, who agrees to register and participate in SEMMES. Authors may be requested to serve as reviewers for max 2 papers. Important Dates *************** - Submission deadline: March 7th, 2024 - Notifications: April 4th, 2024 - Camera-ready version: April 18th, 2024 - Workshop day: May 26th or 27th, 2024 (half-day, TBA) All deadlines are 23:59 anywhere on earth (UTC-12). Proceedings *************** The complete set of papers will be published with the joint CEUR ESWC Workshop Proceedings (http://CEUR-WS.org), listed by the DBLP. -- Pasquale Lisena EURECOM, Campus SophiaTech 450 route des Chappes, 06410 Biot, France e-mail: pasquale.lisena(a)eurecom.fr site: http://pasqlisena.github.io/

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8th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH) @NAACL: 1st CFP
by Yi-Ling Chung 11 Jan '24

11 Jan '24

*** First Call for Papers *** We invite paper submissions to the 8th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH), which will take place on June 20/21 at NAACL 2024. Website: https://www.workshopononlineabuse.com/cfp.html Important Dates Submission due: March 10, 2024 ARR reviewed submission due: April 7, 2024 Notification of acceptance: April 14, 2024 Camera-ready papers due: April 24, 2024 Workshop: June 20-21, 2024 Overview Digital technologies have brought many benefits for society, transforming how people connect, communicate and interact with each other. However, they have also enabled abusive and harmful content such as hate speech and harassment to reach large audiences, and for their negative effects to be amplified. The sheer amount of content shared online means that abuse and harm can only be tackled at scale with the help of computational tools. However, detecting and moderating online abuse and harms is a difficult task, with many technical, social, legal and ethical challenges. The Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms invites paper submissions from a wide range of fields, including natural language processing, machine learning, computational social sciences, law, politics, psychology, sociology and cultural studies. We explicitly encourage interdisciplinary submissions, technical as well as non-technical submissions, and submissions that focus on under-resourced languages. We also invite non-archival submissions and civil society reports. The topics covered by WOAH include, but are not limited to: * New models or methods for detecting abusive and harmful online content, including misinformation; * Biases and limitations of existing detection models or datasets for abusive and harmful online content, particularly those in commercial use; * New datasets and taxonomies for online abuse and harms; * New evaluation metrics and procedures for the detection of harmful content; * Dynamics of online abuse and harms, as well as their impact on different communities * Social, legal, and ethical implications of detecting, monitoring and moderating online abuse In addition, we invite submissions related to the theme for this eighth edition of WOAH, which will be online harms in the age of large language models. Highly capable Large Language Models (LLMs) are now widely deployed and easily accessible by millions across the globe. Without proper safeguards, these LLMs will readily follow malicious instructions and generate toxic content. Even the safest LLMs can be exploited by bad actors for harmful purposes. With this theme, we invite submissions that explore the implications of LLMs for the creation, dissemination and detection of harmful online content. We are interested in how to stop LLMs from following malicious instructions and generating toxic content, but also how they could be used to improve content moderation and enable countermeasures like personalised counterspeech. To support our theme, we have invited an interdisciplinary line-up of high-profile speakers across academia, industry and public policy. Submission Submission is electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system. Submission link: TBD The workshop will accept three types of papers. * Academic Papers (long and short): Long papers of up to 8 pages, excluding references, and short papers of up to 4 pages, excluding references. Unlimited pages for references and appendices. Accepted papers will be given an additional page of content to address reviewer comments. Previously published papers cannot be accepted. * Non-Archival Submissions: Up to 2 pages, excluding references, to summarise and showcase in-progress work and work published elsewhere. * Civil Society Reports: Non-archival submissions, with a minimum of 2 pages and no upper limit. Can include work published elsewhere. Format and styling All submissions must use the official ACL two-column format, using the supplied official style files. The templates can be downloaded in Style Files and Formatting<https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files>. 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