Dear linguists,
We would like to give our warmest wishes to you! Happy 2024!
In the spirit of new beginnings, we are thrilled to invite you again to apply for the Call for Papers for the 18th NooJ International Conference, taking place in Bergamo from June 4th to 7th, 2024. This conference is for linguists, scholars, and professionals to engage in thought-provoking discussions on a myriad of topics encompassing Natural Language Processing (NLP), Linguistic Resources, Digital Humanities, and Language in Society.
Website: https://nooj2024.x-23.org/
Submission website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=18nj
Abstract submission deadline: 4th Feb 2024
We are currently calling papers on the following topics:
📚NLP Societal applications and citizen science:
Typography, Spelling, Syllabification, Phonemic and Prosodic Transcription, Morphology, Lexical Analysis, Local Syntax, Structural Syntax, Transformational Analysis, Paraphrase Generation, Semantic Annotations, Semantic Analysis.
🗣️Linguistic Resources:
Corpus Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Sentiment analysis, Literature Studies, Second-Language Teaching, Narrative content analysis, Corpus processing for the Social Sciences.
đź§ Digital Humanities:
Business Intelligence, Text Mining, Text Generation. Language Teaching Software, Automatic Paraphrasing, Machine Translation, etc.
đź’»Natural Language Processing Applications:
Computational Socio-Linguistic (migration, geography, tourism, political discourse, cinema, social media, gender studies…)
Important dates!
Abstract Submission: Feb 4 2024
Notification of accept: March 10 2024
Camera ready: March 24 2024
Early bird registrations: From March 11 to March 31st 2024
Deadline for the other registrations: April 15 2024
Selected papers submission: Sept 15 2024
Opportunity for publication
A selection of the papers presented at the 18th NooJ International Conference 2024 will be published by Springer Verlag in their CCIS Series (Communication in Computer and Information Sciences). CCIS is abstracted/indexed in DBLP, Google Scholar, EI-Compendex, Mathematical Reviews, SCImago, Scopus. CCIS volumes are also submitted for the inclusion in ISI Proceedings. Deadline for submission of full camera-ready papers is September 15th, 2024.
Please feel free to contact us in case of any question.
Best,
The 18th NooJ Conference Organisation Board
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THE 18TH NOOJ INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2024
JUN 4th to 7th, 2024 — Bergamo, Italy
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Workshop on Advanced analysis and recognition of parliamentary corpora
(ARPC)
The ARPC organizing committee invites papers for the workshop to be held in
physical format during the ICDAR 2024 conference (August 30 - September 4,
2024) in Athens, Greece (https://icdar2024.net/). The exact date of the ARPC
workshop will be communicated soon.
Workshop Context
Data-driven insights from archives have the potential to steer academic
research in a variety of fields. This workshop attempts to address the
growing importance of employing advanced recognition and analytical methods
and tools to decode the complexities within legislative and administrative
documents of parliamentary origin. The workshop will deep dive into
cutting-edge OCR techniques for parliamentary corpora. Further attention
will be placed into recognizing patterns, extracting meaningful insights and
understanding the intricate dimensions of contemporary and historical
parliamentary discourse. The relevance of this topic lies in its potential
to bridge previously isolated domains of research, fostering
interdisciplinary collaboration. By connecting history, political science,
and linguistics, participants will unlock a richer understanding of
legislative evolution, political trends, and linguistic nuances embedded in
parliamentary proceedings. A keynote presentation will open the workshop,
followed by a couple of sessions dedicated to specific topics related to the
analysis and recognition of parliamentary corpora. Each session will be
concluded by a structured panel discussion. The organization of the ARPC
workshop is supported by the Hellenic OCR Team.
We encourage the authors to submit papers on the topics detailed below.
Topics
- The recognition of polytonic Greek fonts
- Recognition of mixed text (printed and handwritten)
- Parliamentary discourse analysis
- Historical trends in parliamentary language use
- Integration of linguistic and political science methodologies in OCR
- Cross-lingual OCR challenges in parliamentary texts
- Machine learning approaches for semantic analysis of parliamentary
proceedings
- Ethical considerations in the digitization and analysis of parliamentary
records
- Developing standardized formats for parliamentary data preservation
- The role of OCR technology in enhancing public access to parliamentary
archives
- Comparative analysis of parliamentary rhetoric across different eras
- The impact of digital humanities tools on legislative studies
- Application of Natural Language Processing techniques in political
discourse analysis
- Automated categorization and indexing of parliamentary documents
- Challenges and solutions in digitizing non-standard parliamentary texts.
Paper Tracks
There is both a standard conference paper track and a journal track at ICDAR
2024; details regarding the journal track may be found in a separate Call
for Papers on the conference website, https://icdar2024.net/. ICDAR 2024
will follow a double blind review process. Authors should not include their
names and affiliations anywhere in the manuscript. Authors should also
ensure that their identity is not revealed indirectly by citing their
previous work in the third person and omit acknowledgements until the
camera-ready version.
Important Dates
1 February 2024 - Paper submission deadline
15 April 2024 - Paper acceptance notification
30 April 2024 - Camera-ready paper
Date TBC - Workshop
Submission Guidelines & Enquiries
All proposals should be submitted electronically via an easychair online
submission form: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icdar2024 .
Enquiries should be sent to pc-chairs(a)icdar2024.net
<mailto:pc-chairs@icdar2024.net> . The submitted papers will respect the
same policy and conditions of ICDAR 2023 conference papers. Papers should be
formatted according to the instructions and style files provided by
Springer. Papers accepted for the conference will be allocated up to 15
pages (usually not counting references) in the proceedings. Submissions are
expected to be in the range of 10-15 pages. Each accepted paper requires at
least one author to perform a full registration. The registration fee for
only workshop participants will be discounted.
Publisher
ICDAR 2024 proceedings will be published under the Springer Lecture Notes in
Computer Science (LNCS) series. This provides the proceedings of the
conference and the workshops with an excellent online accessibility,
including free access to SpringerLink via links on the conference website
during one year after the publication and free access for everyone in
SpringerLink four years after the publication.
Organizing Committee
Dr. Fotios Fitsilis (Scientific Service, Hellenic Parliament) Email:
fitsilisf(a)parliament.gr <mailto:fitsilisf@parliament.gr>
Prof. George Mikros (College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hamad Bin
Khalifa University), Email: gmikros(a)hbku.edu.qa <mailto:gmikros@hbku.edu.qa>
Dear colleagues,
[apologies for cross-posting]
We would like to remind you that this year SIGTYP is hosting a Shared Task
on Word Embedding Evaluation for Ancient and Historical Language:
https://github.com/sigtyp/ST2024/
Test data has been released, and CodaLab competitions are up and running,
so we encourage you to register if you still haven't! There is still a week
before the deadline. :)
*Summary*
In recent years, sets of downstream tasks called benchmarks have become a
very popular, if not default, method to evaluate general-purpose word and
sentence embeddings. Starting with decaNLP (McCann et al., 2018) and
SentEval (Conneau & Kiela, 2018), multitask benchmarks for NLU keep
appearing and improving every year. However, even the largest multilingual
benchmarks, such as XGLUE, XTREME, XTREME-R or XTREME-UP (Hu et al., 2020;
Liang et al., 2020; Ruder et al., 2021, 2023), only include modern
languages. When it comes to ancient and historical languages, scholars
mostly adapt/translate intrinsic evaluation datasets from modern languages
or create their own diagnostic tests. We argue that there is a need for a
universal evaluation benchmark for embeddings learned from ancient and
historical language data and view this shared task as a proving ground for
it.
The shared task involves solving the following problems for 12+ ancient and
historical languages that belong to 4 language families and use 6 different
scripts. Participants will be invited to describe their system in a paper
for the SIGTYP workshop proceedings. The task organizers will write an
overview paper that describes the task and summarizes the different
approaches taken, and analyzes their results.
*Subtasks*
For subtask A, participants are not allowed to use any additional data;
however, they can reduce and balance provided training datasets if they see
fit. For subtask B, participants are allowed to use any additional data in
any language, including pre-trained embeddings and LLMs.
A. Constrained
1. POS-tagging
2. Full morphological annotation
3. Lemmatisation
B. Unconstrained
1. POS-tagging
2. Detailed morphological annotation
3. Lemmatisation
4. Filling the gaps
- Word-level
- Character-level
*Important links*
- *Registration form*
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdINgMfzzZGIZ-uBVQhvyndB6yeaaj-wT7…>
- Detailed description, incl. submission format: https://github.com/
sigtyp/ST2024 <https://github.com/sigtyp/ST2024>
- Constrained subtask on CodaLab:
https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/16822
- Unconstrained subtask on CodaLab:
https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/16818
*Important dates*
*05 Nov 2023*: Release of training and validation data
*02 Jan 2024*: Release of test data
- * 09 Jan 2024:* Submission of results for Phase 1 of the Constrained
Subtask
- * 12 Jan 2024:* Submission of results for Phase 2 of the Constrained
Subtask and for the Unconstrained Subtask *13 Jan 2024*: Notification of
results
*20 Jan 2024*: Submission of shared task papers
*27 Jan 2024*: Notification of acceptance to authors
*03 Feb 2024*: Camera-ready
*15 Mar 2024*: Video recordings due
*21/22 Mar 2024*: SIGTYP workshop
Kind regards,
Oksana and the organisers' team
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<https://www.insight-centre.org/>
Oksana Dereza | PhD student on the Cardamom
<http://cardamom.insight-centre.org/> project | Unit for Linguistic Data |
Insight Centre for Data Analytics | Data Science Institute | University of
Galway
Oksana Dereza | IarrthĂłir PhD ar thionscadal Cardamom
<http://cardamom.insight-centre.org/> | An tAonad um ShonraĂ TeangeolaĂocha
| Insight, Ionad na hAnailĂsĂochta SonraĂ | InstitiĂşid EolaĂochta SonraĂ |
Ollscoil na Gaillimhe
Dear all,
We are hiring for the following two postdoctoral positions at the Alan
Turing Institute both focussed on probabilistic program scaffolds for large
language models. This is a collaborative project lead by Dr. Pranava
Madhyastha from City, University of London along with Prof. Alessandra
Russo from Imperial College London and Prof. Anthony Cohn from the
University of Leeds.
Opportunity 1: LLM Inference Expert
The first position requires experience with controlling inference in LLMs
and transformer-based sequence-to-sequence models. More details and
application link can be found here:
https://cezanneondemand.intervieweb.it/turing/jobs/senior-research-associat…
.
Opportunity 2: Probabilistic Programming Specialist
The second position requires a solid background in probabilistic
programming, logic programming or symbolic models for artificial
intelligence (more details and application link can be found here:
https://cezanneondemand.intervieweb.it/turing/jobs/research-associate-proba…
)
As a postdoctoral researcher at the Alan Turing Institute, you will be part
of a vibrant and collaborative research environment, surrounded by renowned
experts and cutting-edge technologies. This position provides an excellent
platform to advance your career and make lasting contributions to the field
of artificial intelligence.
For any questions, get in touch with me (over pranava.madhyastha(a)city.ac.uk
).
Kind regards,
Pranava
Apologies for cross-posting.
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*1st Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of Lusophone Countries
(ILLC-NLP 2024) -- 2nd CFP*
January 10, 2024: Papers submission due
January 25, 2024: Notification of Acceptance
March 12, 2024: Workshop
Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/illc-nlp-2024/home
<https://sites.google.com/view/illc-nlp-2024/home>
Co-located with PROPOR 2024 <https://propor2024.citius.gal/> in Santiago
de Compostela
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*Overview and goals:*
The workshop aims to explore, discuss, and enhance the development of
resources, methods, and applications of NLP for indigenous languages,
especially those spoken or that have influenced languages spoken in
countries where Portuguese is currently the official language. We hope to
contribute to the preservation and promotion of these languages.
This is one of the several initiatives aiming at expanding knowledge and
research in NLP for underrepresented languages. We encourage the
participation of everyone who shares an interest in preserving and
enriching the linguistic and cultural heritage of indigenous languages in a
broad sense. This way, we welcome the submission of works including
languages from all Portuguese-speaking nations, like those of African
origin in Angola, Mozambique, and the Atlantic islands, as well as minority
languages in Portugal.
*Submissions*:
IILC-NLP seeks submissions under the following categories:
- Full papers: 8 pages+unlimited reference
- Short papers (work in progress, innovative ideas/proposals, research
ideas): 4 pages+unlimited reference
- Submissions should be written in English. At submission time,
papers must be in PDF format only. For the final versions, authors of
accepted papers will be given one extra content page to consider the
reviews. Authors of accepted papers will be requested to send the source
files to produce the proceedings. All submitted papers must conform to the
official ACL style guidelines (Latex
<https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files/tree/master/latex> or Word
<https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files/tree/master/word>).
Both long and short papers will be published in the ACL Anthology.
Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=illcnlp2024
Reviewing format: At least two reviewers will evaluate each submission.
The reviewing format will be single-blind.
Please help us spread the word about this event by sharing this call with
your contacts and institutions. Your participation and support are crucial
for the success of this workshop.
Sincerely,
Aline Paes, Aline Villavicencio, Claudio Pinhanez, Edward Gow-Smith, Paulo
Rodrigo Cavalin (Workshop organisers)
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*Profa. Dra. Aline Paes (she/her)*
*Associate professor - Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence)*
Institute of Computing / Universidade Federal Fluminense (IC/UFF)
Member of CE-PLN <https://sites.google.com/view/ce-pln/inicio> and BPLN
<https://brasileiraspln.com/>
CNPq PQ-E and FAPERJ JCNE
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url: www.ic.uff.br/~alinepaes
Av Gal Milton Tavares de Souza, S/N, Computing Building, Office 504
SĂŁo Domingos, NiterĂłi, RJ, Brazil. ZIP 24210-346
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working hours. Remember that this is supposed to be an asynchronous tool***
*FinNLP-KDF-2024: Joint Workshop of the 7th Financial Technology and
Natural Language Processing (FinNLP) and the 5th Knowledge Discovery from
Unstructured Data in Financial Services (KDF)*
LREC-COLING-2024
Torina, Italy, May 20, 2024
*Conference website: *
https://sites.google.com/nlg.csie.ntu.edu.tw/finnlp-kdf-2024/home
*Submission deadline: *March 1, 2024
*Introduction*
FinNLP has emerged since 2019 as one of the pivotal workshops dedicated to
harnessing NLP for financial technology applications. By collocating with
representative conferences like IJCAI, EMNLP, and IJCNLP-AACL, it has
bridged the AI and NLP communities. Its proceedings can be accessed on the
ACL Anthology. On the other hand, KDF, initiated in 2020 as a workshop at
AAAI, concentrates on multimodal knowledge discovery for financial
services. It's particularly renowned for its keynote speaker series,
inviting both academic and industry researchers to shed light on the latest
topics. Recognizing the consistent efforts and contributions of both
workshops over the years, we believe it's an opportune moment to convene
their audiences, reflecting on achievements of the past five years and
envisaging the roadmap for the next half-decade.
The adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in
financial technology has been extensive. A significant observation is the
diminishing barriers between diverse data modalities and also between
distinct model architectures of different tasks. This progress emerges
particularly after the inception of the Transformer model and potential of
large language models (LLMs) as foundation models or generic resolvers of
variety of NLP tasks. For instance, financial question-answering diverged
from conventional machine reading comprehension tasks in NLP, such as
SQuAD. This divergence was mainly attributed to the integration of
knowledge from tabular data and image data. Given these advancements, we
plan to expand the purview of both workshops. We are confident that such a
merger will generate unprecedented synergy.
*List of Topics*
We invite submissions of original contributions on methods,
theories, applications, and systems on artificial intelligence, machine
learning, natural language processing & understanding, big data,
statistical learning, data analytics, and deep learning, with a focus on
knowledge discovery in the financial services domain. The scope of the
workshop includes, but is not limited to, the following areas:
- Representation learning, and distributed representation learning and
encoding in natural language processing for financial document
- Language modeling on financial corpora including tabular and numerical
data, and multi-modal modeling; large language models (LLMs) and
applications for finance
- Graph representation learning, mining learning on graph structures
from financial data
- Multi-source knowledge integration and fusion, and knowledge alignment
and integration from heterogeneous data
- Synthetic or genuine financial datasets and benchmarks for baseline
models
- Transfer learning applications for financial data, knowledge
distillation as a method for compression of pre-trained models or
adaptation to financial datasets
- Search and question answering systems designed for financial corpora
- Event discovery from alternative data and impact on organization
equity price
- Environmental, social, governance (ESG) event discovery, evaluation,
and impact assessment
*Submission Guidelines*
- Submission Deadline: March 1st, 2024 (AoE)
- Submission System: https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/finnlp-kdf2024/
- Long Paper: May consist of up to 8 pages of content, plus unlimited
pages for references and appendix.
- Short Paper and Demo Paper: May consist of up to 4 pages of content,
plus unlimited references and appendix.
Accepted papers proceedings will be published at ACL Anthology
<https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/>.
*Organizing Committees*
Chung-Chi Chen, Artificial Intelligence Research Center, National Institute
of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan
Xiaomo Liu, JP Morgan AI Research, US
Armineh Nourbakhsh, JP Morgan AI Research, US
Zhiqiang Ma, JP Morgan AI Research, US
Charese Smiley, JP Morgan AI Research, US
Manling Li, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, US
Mohammad Ghassemi, Michigan State University, US
Hen-Hsen Huang, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Hiroya Takamura, Artificial Intelligence Research Center, National
Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan
Hsin-Hsi Chen, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering,
National Taiwan University, Taiwan
*Venue*
In conjunction with LREC-COLING-2024 <https://lrec-coling-2024.org/>, May
20-25, 2024, Torina, Italia
*Contact*
For general inquiries about the workshop, please write to
finnlp(a)nlg.csie.ntu.edu.tw.
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Zhiqiang Ma
ZQMASTER(a)GMAIL.COM