January 2024 - Corpora

NLP4HR@EACL 2024: Call for Presentations of EACL Findings Papers
by Naoki Otani 26 Jan '24

26 Jan '24

We invite authors of accepted EACL Findings papers to present their work at the NLP for Human Resources (NLP4HR) workshop, scheduled for March 22nd in St. Julians, Malta. Application form: https://forms.gle/SX4fdxSnTEGjuxVq6 Deadline: February 1st 2024, 11:59 pm AoE The NLP4HR workshop is centered around various aspects of applying NLP techniques in the HR domain, including but not limited to: - Knowledge acquisition and reasoning in the HR domain - Parsing, extracting, or inferring information from HR documents - Learning representations for HR entities - Search and recommendation systems tailored to HR - Dialogue-based HR assistants - Language generation for HR purposes (e.g., generating a job description) - QA systems for HR-related queries - Fairness and bias in HR applications For more details, visit the workshop website at https://megagon.ai/nlp4hr-2024/ NLP4HR 2024 Organizing Committee - Estevam Hruschka, Megagon Labs, USA - Thom Lake, Indeed, USA - Naoki Otani, Megagon Labs, USA - Tom Mitchell, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Contact: nlp4hr-workshop(a)megagon.ai -- Naoki Otani Megagon Labs - Mountain View, CA, USA naoki(a)megagon.ai

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CFP: SIGIR 2024 Industry Track (SIRIP), 14-18 July 2024, Washington D.C.
by Edgar Meij 26 Jan '24

26 Jan '24

The SIGIR Symposium on IR in Practice (SIRIP) 2024 will be held as part of ACM SIGIR 2024, onsite (in Washington DC, USA). We aim to provide an opportunity for researchers, engineers, practitioners, analysts and consumers to meet and discuss the latest and greatest Information Retrieval (IR) technologies as deployed in companies, big and small, and to be the premier forum for knowledge sharing across the boundary between academia and industry. The annual SIGIR conference is the major international forum for the presentation of new research results, and the demonstration of new systems and techniques, in the broad field of information retrieval (IR). The 47th ACM SIGIR conference, will be run as an in-person conference from July 14th to 18th, 2024 in Washington D.C., USA. Important Dates for SIRIP Papers (Time zone: Anywhere on Earth (AoE)) - SIRIP Proposal abstract due: Feb 21, 2024 - SIRIP Proposal due: Feb 28, 2024 - SIRIP Notifications: April 10, 2024 - SIRIP Camera ready: April 24, 2024 - SIRIP Days: TBD, 2024 We solicit position papers, talk proposals, and panel proposals for SIRIP in the following categories: - Open problems and challenges in industry, from industry research to production - Presentations creating a connection with academia to solve interesting problems, including presentations from academics spending time in industry, or vice-versa, covering insights for other practitioners - Novel applications of IR/Recsys/NLP/Multimodal learning systems, and complex user interaction modeling in real-world situations - Innovative approaches used in deployed systems and products. We also encourage presentations from small companies, especially startups or spin-offs from either a university project or a large company. Papers discussing domain specific challenges are also welcome. - Position papers on the current and future state of IR in practice, and the role IR could play in shaping the next generation of information access systems. - Building IR systems with an emphasis on trust and safety: Combating misinformation spread; Building privacy preserving retrieval systems; Algorithmic responsibility & fairness. - Role of search & IR in the creator economy (e.g. short video platforms, audio platforms) & marketplaces (e.g. delivery services, hospitality industry, crowdfunding platforms, retail platforms, rentals) - System design case-studies from industry practitioners, identifying best practices and design principles for learning systems - Metrics and measurement techniques used at scale to understand performance of industrial systems. Success in achieving offline/online evaluation consistency - Best practices and successful applications in combining LLM and IR in new or existing products. Submission Presentation proposals should be 2-4 pages (excluding references) and follow the ACM format. Any appendices will be counted towards the page limit. Formatting guidelines are available at this ACM publication site (use the “sigconf” proceedings template). Please include: - Title, abstract, main body of proposal. - All author names and a short bio of the main presenter (~100 words, which will NOT count towards the page limit) - Please do NOT submit a sales pitch We also solicit panel discussion proposals in the above categories. Panel proposals should be 1-2 pages and include: - Panel title, description, proposed moderator (with a short CV), topics of discussion, and profiles of proposed panelists. - We strongly encourage a diverse slate of candidates for panelists and moderators. Proposals should be submitted electronically via Easy Chair: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=sigir24 Presentation and Publication The presentation format of the Symposium will be decided based on submissions and interest to the wider community, and is likely to be a mix of short and long presentations as well as panels. A condition of acceptance is that at least one author commits to registering and attending SIRIP 2024 (in-person) to present the work. The authors of accepted proposals will be invited to submit a camera ready copy to be included in the proceedings. SIRIP Chairs - Edgar Meij (Bloomberg) - Tao Ye (Amazon) For any questions, you may contact the Chairs by emailing sigir24-sirip(a)easychair.org https://sigir-2024.github.io/call_for_SIRIP.html

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3rd CfP 5th workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL) @ LREC-COLING
by Menno Van Zaanen 26 Jan '24

26 Jan '24

The fifth workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL) Colocated with LREC-COLING 2024 https://bit.ly/rail2024 New: deadline and article submission type Conference dates: 20-25 May 2024 Workshop date: 25 May 2024 Venue: Lingotto Conference Centre, Torino (Italy) The fifth RAIL workshop website: https://bit.ly/rail2024 LREC-COLING 2024 website: https://lrec-coling-2024.org/ Submission website: https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/rail2024/ The fifth Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) workshop will be co-located with LREC-COLING 2024 in Lingotto Conference Centre, Torino, Italy on 25 May 2024. The RAIL workshop is an interdisciplinary platform for researchers working on resources (data collections, tools, etc.) specifically targeted towards African indigenous languages. In particular, it aims to create the conditions for the emergence of a scientific community of practice that focuses on data, as well as computational linguistic tools specifically designed for or applied to indigenous languages found in Africa. Many African languages are under-resourced while only a few of them are somewhat better resourced. These languages often share interesting properties such as writing systems, or tone, making them different from most high-resourced languages. From a computational perspective, these languages lack enough corpora to undertake high level development of Human Language Technologies (HLT) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools, which in turn impedes the development of African languages in these areas. During previous workshops, it has become clear that the problems and solutions presented are not only applicable to African languages but are also relevant to many other low-resource languages. Because these languages share similar challenges, this workshop provides researchers with opportunities to work collaboratively on issues of language resource development and learn from each other. The RAIL workshop has several aims. First, the workshop brings together researchers who work on African indigenous languages, forming a community of practice for people working on indigenous languages. Second, the workshop aims to reveal currently unknown or unpublished existing resources (corpora, NLP tools, and applications), resulting in a better overview of the current state-of-the-art, and also allows for discussions on novel, desired resources for future research in this area. Third, it enhances sharing of knowledge on the development of low-resource languages. Finally, it enables discussions on how to improve the quality as well as availability of the resources. The workshop has “Creating resources for less-resourced languages” as its theme, but submissions on any topic related to properties of African indigenous languages (including non-African languages) may be accepted. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to) the following: * Digital representations of linguistic structures * Descriptions of corpora or other data sets of African indigenous languages * Building resources for (under resourced) African indigenous languages * Developing and using African indigenous languages in the digital age * Effectiveness of digital technologies for the development of African indigenous languages * Revealing unknown or unpublished existing resources for African indigenous languages * Developing desired resources for African indigenous languages * Improving quality, availability and accessibility of African indigenous language resources Submission requirements: We invite papers on original, unpublished work related to the topics of the workshop. Submissions, presenting completed work, may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content for a long submission and up to four (4) pages of content for a short submission plus additional pages of references. The final camera-ready version of accepted long papers are allowed one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers’ feedback can be incorporated. Papers should be formatted according to the LREC-COLING style sheet (https://lrec-coling-2024.org/authors-kit/), which is provided on the LREC-COLING 2024 website (https://lrec-coling-2024.org/). Reviewing is double-blind, so make sure to anonymise your submission (e.g., do not provide author names, affiliations, project names, etc.) Limit the amount of self citations (anonymised citations should not be used). The RAIL workshop follows the LREC-COLING submission requirements. Please submit papers in PDF format to the START account (https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/rail2024/). Accepted papers will be published in proceedings linked to the LREC-COLING conference. Important dates: Submission deadline: 23 February 2024 Date of notification: 15 March 2024 Camera ready deadline: 29 March 2024 RAIL workshop: 25 May 2024 Organising Committee Rooweither Mabuya, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Muzi Matfunjwa, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Mmasibidi Setaka, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Menno van Zaanen, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa -- Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za<mailto:menno.vanzaanen@nwu.ac.za> Professor in Digital Humanities South African Centre for Digital Language Resources https://www.sadilar.org<https://www.sadilar.org/> ________________________________ NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT: http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. 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First CfP: First Workshop on Data Contamination (CONDA) @ ACL 2024
by Eneko Agirre 26 Jan '24

26 Jan '24

We invite you to participate and submit your work to the First Workshop on Data Contamination (CONDA) co-located with ACL 2024 in Bangkok, Thailand. Data contamination, where evaluation data is inadvertently included in pre-training corpora of large scale models, and language models (LMs) in particular, has become a concern in recent times. The growing scale of both models and data, coupled with massive web crawling, has led to the inclusion of segments from evaluation benchmarks in the pre-training data of LMs. The scale of internet data makes it difficult to prevent this contamination from happening, or even detect when it has happened. Crucially, when evaluation data becomes part of pre-training data, it introduces biases and can artificially inflate the performance of LMs on specific tasks or benchmarks. This poses a challenge for fair and unbiased evaluation of models, as their performance may not accurately reflect their generalization capabilities. Although a growing number of papers and state-of-the-art models mention issues of data contamination, there is no agreed-upon definition or standard methodology to ensure that a model does not report results on contaminated benchmarks. Addressing data contamination is a shared responsibility among researchers, developers, and the broader community. By adopting best practices, increasing transparency, documenting vulnerabilities, and conducting thorough evaluations, we can work towards minimizing the impact of data contamination and ensuring fair and reliable evaluations. We welcome paper submissions on all topics related to data contamination, including but not limited to: * Definitions, taxonomies, and gradings of contamination * Contamination detection (both manual and automatic) * Community efforts to discover, report, and organize contamination events * Documentation frameworks for datasets or models * Methods to avoid data contamination * Methods to forget contaminated data * Scaling laws and contamination * Memorization and contamination * Policies to avoid impact of contamination in publication venues and open source communities * Reproducing and attributing results from previous work to data contamination * Survey work on data contamination research * Data contamination in other modalities *Submission Instructions* We welcome two types of papers: regular workshop papers and non-archival submissions. Regular workshop papers will be included in the workshop proceedings. All submissions must be in PDF format and made through OpenReview <https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2024/Workshop/CONDA>. * *Regular workshop papers:* Authors can submit papers up to 8 pages, with unlimited pages for references. Authors may submit up to 100 MB of supplementary materials separately and their code for reproducibility. All submissions undergo an double-blind single-track review. Best Paper Award(s) will be given based on nomination by the reviewers. Accepted papers will be presented as posters with the possibility of oral presentations. * *Non-archival submissions:* Cross-submissions are welcome. Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop, but will not be included in the workshop proceedings. Papers must be in PDF format and will be reviewed in a double-blind fashion by workshop reviewers. We also welcome extended abstracts (up to 2 pages) of papers that are work in progress, under review or to be submitted to other venues. Papers in this category need to follow the ACL format. In addition to papers submitted directly to the workshop, which will be reviewed by our Programme Committee. We also accept papers reviewed through ACL Rolling Review and committed to the workshop. Please, check the relevant dates for each type of submission. *Important dates* Relevant deadlines to consider when submitting your paper are: * Paper submission deadline: May 17 (Friday), 2024 * ARR pre-reviewed commitment deadline: TBD, 2024 * Notification of acceptance: June 17 (Monday), 2024 * Camera-ready paper due: July 1 (Monday), 2024 * Workshop date: August 16, 2024 *Contact* * *Website:* https://conda-workshop.github.io/ * *Contact:* conda-workshop(a)googlegroups.com <mailto:conda-workshop@googlegroups.com> *Workshop organizers* Oscar Sainz, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) Iker García Ferrero, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) Eneko Agirre, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) Jon Ander Campos, Cohere Alon Jacovi, Bar Ilan University Yanai Elazar, Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence and University of Washington Yoav Goldberg, Bar Ilan University and Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence

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Second CfP: 2nd Workshop on Resources and Technologies for Indigenous, Endangered and Lesser-resourced Languages in Eurasia (EURALI)
by Theodorus Fransen 26 Jan '24

26 Jan '24

Apologies for cross-posting *2nd Workshop on Resources and Technologies for Indigenous, Endangered and Lesser-resourced Languages in Eurasia (EURALI) @ LREC-COLING 2024* Date: 20-25 May, 2024 Venue: Lingotto Conference Centre - Torino (Italia) Main website: https://sites.google.com/view/eurali/ LREC-COLING 2024 website: https://lrec-coling-2024.org/ Submission website: https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/eurali2024/ —————————————————————————————————— *Workshop overview and objectives* This workshop will focus on the development of language technology resources and tools for indigenous, endangered and lesser-resourced languages on the Eurasian continent. In a media-centric world where language technology allows people to break cultural and language barriers, it is important that speakers of endangered and indigenous languages can be empowered to use this technology to continue to share their knowledge and culture with the world. With the hope of bridging this gap, the goal of this workshop is to increase visibility and promote research for lesser-resourced and under-represented languages in Europe and Asia. Through collaboration between NLP researchers, language experts and linguists working for the benefit of endangered languages in these communities, we aim to create language technology resources that will help to preserve and revive these languages for future generations. Furthermore, the workshop aims to promote the emergence of new methods that benefit linguists (e.g. automating analysis and validation processes), field linguists (facilitating data collection and analysis processes), and computational linguists (developing new techniques necessary for linguistic analysis, development of supervised or weakly supervised methods for the analysis of poorly written or undocumented languages). The main objective of the workshop is to create basic resources and develop tools for Eurasiatic languages, including but not limited to the following topics: - identifying languages and variants spoken in these regions - creation of language resources and applications, e.g. sentiment analysis, named entity recognition, and syntactic parsing - standardization for endangered languages - automatic identification and classification of lexical variation and language varieties - adaptation of fundamental NLP tools for these languages, e.g., morphological analysis, taggers and parsers - reusability of language resources in NLP applications, e.g. machine translation, and POS tagging - machine translation between closely related languages - evaluation of language resources and tools when applied to lesser-resourced languages in the same language families - corpora, resources, and tools for closely related languages - linguistic and textual similarities among languages in Eurasia - digitalization of endangered languages - challenges in the creation of language resources and tools from linguistic perspectives (which includes any perspective formal theory) *Submissions* We are seeking submissions in the following categories: - Full papers: 8 pages+unlimited references - Short papers (work in progress): 4 pages+unlimited references - Posters (innovative ideas/proposals, a research idea of students): 4 pages+unlimited references - Demo (of working online/standalone systems): 2 pages Papers must describe original, completed or in progress, and unpublished work. The accepted papers will be given up for full/short paper and poster in the workshop proceedings and will be presented as an oral presentation or poster. Papers should be formatted according to the LREC-COLING style sheet (https://lrec-coling-2024.org/authors-kit/), which is provided on the LREC-COLING 2024 website (https://lrec-coling-2024.org/). Please submit papers in PDF format to the START account (https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/eurali2024/). For further information on this initiative, please refer to https://sites.google.com/view/eurali/. *Important Dates* February 23, 2024: Paper submissions due March 22, 2024: Paper notification of acceptance May 25, 2024: Workshop *Workshop Chairs* Atul Kr. Ojha, University of Galway, Galway (Ireland) Sina Ahmadi, George Mason University, Fairfax VA (USA) Chao-Hong Liu, Potamu Research Ltd, Dublin (Ireland) John P. McCrae, University of Galway, Galway (Ireland) Theodorus Fransen, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan (Italy) Silvie Cinková, Charles University, Prague (Czech Republic) *Programme Committee (to be updated)* Abigail Walsh, Dublin City University, Dublin (Ireland) Aiala Rosá, Universidad de la República - Uruguay, Montevideo (Uruguay) Aryaman Arora, Stanford University, Stanford, California (USA) A. Seza Doğruöz, Ghent University, Ghent (Belgium) Alina Karakanta, University of Leiden, Leiden (Netherlands) Alina Wróblewska, Institute of Computer Science, Jana Kazimierza, Warszawa (Poland) Akanksha Bansal, Panlingua, Delhi (India) Atul Kr. Ojha, University of Galway, Galway (Ireland) & Panlingua, (India) Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, University of Galway, Galway (Ireland) Bogdan Babych, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg (Germany) Çağrı Çöltekin, University of Tübingen, Tübingen (Germany) Chao-Hong Liu, Potamu Research Ltd, Dublin (Ireland) Chihiro Taguchi, the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame (USA) Daan van Esch, Google, Amsterdam (Netherlands) Daniel Zeman, Charles University, Prague (Czech Republic) Deepak Alok, IIT-Delhi, Delhi (India) Dorothee Beermann, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trøndelag (Norway) Esha Banerjee, J.P. Morgan, Bengaluru (India) Ekaterina Vylomova, University of Melbourne, Melbourne (Australia) George Rehm, GmbH, Berlin (Germany) Hiwa Asadpour, Goethe University, Frankfurt (Germany) Jamal Abdul Nasir, University of Galway, Galway (Ireland) Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University, (Sweden) John P. McCrae, University of Galway, (Ireland) John E. Ortega, New York University (USA) Jonathan Washington, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore (USA) Joseph Mariani, LIMSI-CNRS, Pairs (France) Kaja Dobrovoljc, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana (Slovenia) Khalid Choukri, ELDA/ELRA, Paris (France) Luke D. Gessler, University of Colorado at Boulder (USA) Maitrey Mehta, University of Utah, Utah (USA) Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, UCLouvainCollège Léon Durpiez, (Belgium) Olesea Caftanatov, Vladimir Andrunachievici Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, Chişinău (Moldova) Ranka Stanković, University of Belgrade, Belgrade (Serbia) Rico Sennrich, University of Zurich, Zurich (Switzerland) Ritesh Kumar, Agra University, Agra (India) Rute Costa, the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Lisbon (Portugal) Saliha Muradoglu, Australian National University, Canberra (Australia) Sarah Moeller, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (USA) Silvie Cinkovà, Charles University, Prague (Czech Republic) Sina Ahmadi, George Mason University, (USA) Stella Markantonatou, Athena RC, Athens (Greece) Sourabrata Mukherjee, Charles University, Prague (Czech Republic) Theodorus Fransen, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan (Italy) Valentin Malykh, MTS AI / ITMO University Verginica Barbu Mititelu, Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Bucharest (Romania) Victoria Bobicev, University of Moldova, Chișinău (Moldova) Voula Giouli, Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Athens (Greece)

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First Call for Participation: Shared Task: Cross-Lingual Few-Shot Relation Extraction for Pharmacovigilance (SMM4H - Task 2)
by Lisa Raithel 26 Jan '24

26 Jan '24

Apologies for cross-posting. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- **Social Media Mining For Health 2024** https://healthlanguageprocessing.org/smm4h-2024/ The Social Media Mining for Health (SMM4H) workshop and shared tasks have been running successfully since 2016. They now go into the 9th round, with the workshop being co-located at ACL 2024 in Bangkok. https://2024.aclweb.org/ Bangkok, Thailand , August 12–17, 2024 **Important Dates for all SMM4H Shared Tasks** Training data available: January 10, 2024 CodaLab Available: January 17, 2024 Evaluation Phase: April 17 - 24, 2024 System description paper due: May 17, 2024 Paper acceptance notification: June 17, 2024 Camera-ready papers due: July 1, 2024 Workshop in Bangkok, Thailand , August 15, 2024 **Task 2: Task Description** Adverse Drug Events (ADEs) are negative medical side effects related to a drug. Mining ADEs from user-generated text has become a popular topic and is an important use case for research, as it could help detecting crowd signals from users online. Being able to make use of information across languages by applying multi-lingual methods further supports this endeavor. Our task targets the languages *German, French and Japanese* and is split into two subtasks. Subtask 2a focuses on Named Entity Recognition (NER) of of medication, disorder, and function mentions from user-generated texts. Subtask 2b performs joint NER and Relation Extraction (RE) to determine if these disorders are ADEs by finding the correct relations between medications, disorders and functions. We distinguish two types of relations between medication mentions and disorder/function mentions: - "caused": the disorder/function was caused by a medication, i.e., the disorder/function is an ADE - "treatment_for": the disorder/function is the reason for the medication, i.e., the medication is supposed to treat the disorder/function *Tasks*: Participants can choose between participating in subtask 2a, or subtask 2b, or both. ~~ We explicitly encourage the submission of new and creative approaches! ~~ - Subtask 2a) Named entity recognition of the entities "drug", "disorder" and "function" from user-generated texts. - Subtask 2b) Joint named entity and relation extraction of the entities "drug", "disorder" and "function" and the relations "caused" and "treatment_for". *Data*: The data originates from social media platforms, e.g., patient fora and X (Twitter). We provide data in German and Japanese, and a few examples in French. The submitted systems will be evaluated on German, French and Japanese data. Please find more information here: https://healthlanguageprocessing.org/smm4h-2024/ Please use this form to register: https://forms.gle/7w4si27uJrCMiTyL8 Organizers of Subtask 2: Pierre Zweigenbaum, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, LISN, France Sebastian Möller, Technische Universität Berlin, DFKI GmbH, Germany Roland Roller, DFKI GmbH, Germany Philippe Thomas, DFKI GmbH, Germany Eiji Aramaki, NAIST, Japan Shoko Wakamiya, NAIST, Japan Shuntaro Yada, NAIST, Japan Katherine Yeh, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, LISN, France Lisa Raithel, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany & Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, LISN, France -- Lisa Raithel PhD candidate at TU Berlin, BIFOLD & Université Paris-Saclay, LISN, CNRS Guest researcher at DFKI GmbH Berlin (she/her)

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Doctoral Position at the Chair of Multilingual Computational Linguistics in Passau
by Mattis List 26 Jan '24

26 Jan '24

Dear all, Our Chair of Multilingual Computational Linguistics is offering a doctoral position for three years, with a possibility of extension by one more year, ideally to start from April 01 in 2024. Research topics include historical linguistics, linguistic typology and cognitive linguistics / psycholinguistics. Deadline for application is February 18. https://www.uni-passau.de/fileadmin/dokumente/beschaeftigte/Stellenangebote… If you have any questions on the details, please write an email to mcl-admin(a)uni-passau.de. We'll gladly provide more information. Feel also free to forward this email to friends and colleagues or to share the link to the calls via social media. Sincerely, Mattis List -- Prof. Dr. Johann-Mattis List Chair of Multilingual Computational Linguistics University of Passau Dr.-Hans-Kapfinger-Str. 16 04032 Passau Germany Chair Website: https://phil.uni-passau.de/multilinguale-computerlinguistik/ Personal Website: https://lingulist.de Telephone: +49(0)851/509-3480

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[CfP] 1st Call for Contributions to WISDOMS - ethics, values, and knowledge graphs
by Stefano De Giorgis 26 Jan '24

26 Jan '24

[Apologies for potential crossposting] We are excited to announce the call for papers for WISDOMS 2024, a workshop focusing on the integration of data semantics, ontologies, moral values, and their societal impact. About the Workshop: The growing influence of AI in our daily lives has transformed both the digital landscape and the way we generate, extract and represent information. The surge in using Large Language Models (LLMs) not only in academia and industry but among the public, has made it increasingly important to address the alignment of AI tools to moral and cultural human values. Despite ongoing governmental work on developing ethical guidelines and practical requirements for AI, for academic and industrial applications there is a particular importance to ensure that the research respective practical methods follow ethical practices and that the outcomes do not conflict with moral values. As hybridizing knowledge structures and semantic data with generative AI has a high impact potential for the development of increasingly more complex and intelligent systems, it becomes of the utmost important that such innovation adheres to the EU’s objective of realizing AI applications that are dependable, robust, explicable, ethically guided, and therefore trustworthy. The first edition of WISDOMS, the Workshop on Integrating the Semantics of Data, Ontologies, Moral and cultural values and their Societal impact, aims to provide an interdisciplinary platform for researchers, practitioners, and those curious enough to explore the convergence of ethics, socio-behavioral norms, moral and cultural values, with hybrid neuro-symbolic knowledge structures and generative AI. Join us in discussing the socio-ethical boundaries of AI innovation! Important Dates: • Submission Deadline: March 7, 2024 • Author Notification: April 4, 2024 • Final Version Due: April 18, 2024 • Workshop Dates: May 26/27, 2024 List of Topics: WISDOMS invite paper contributions related (but not restricted to) the following areas: • Ethical dilemmas in value knowledge representation • Development of value-centric vocabularies and ontologies • Societal impact of (non-)ethical AI • Moral and cultural value knowledge graphs and semantic resources • Value-driven system design and explainability • Value-sensitive autonomous agents • Neuro-symbolic and hybrid semantic web tools for moral reasoning in AI Type of Contributions: We welcome diverse contributions including research papers, case studies, and theoretical explorations that align with the workshop's themes. We accept four types of contributes: • Full Papers (10-12 pages excluding references) • Short Papers (5-8 pages excluding references) • Position Papers (1-4 pages excluding references, not included in the proceedings) • Extended Abstracts of recently published papers (1-4 pages excluding references, not included in the proceedings) Submissions must be sent via Easychair and should be formatted in CEUR 1-column format (template available on workshop website). For inclusion in the workshop, at least one of the authors of accepted papers needs to register at ESWC 2024 and participate on-site at WISDOMS. Location: WISDOMS is co-located with ESWC 2024 held on the beautiful island city Hersonissos, Crete, Greece. This year, ESWC has the timely theme on Fabrics of Knowledge: Knowledge Graphs and Generative AI. Join us at WISDOMS to add a flair of ethics to the main conference! We look forward to your valuable contributions to a fruitful and thought-provoking discussion on these critical issues. Best regards, Stefano De Giorgis Luana Bulla Maria Hedblom Luc Steels Stefano De Giorgis Postdoctoral Researcher in Digital Humanities stefano.de.giorgis(a)gmail.com

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[CFP] Special Issue on "Information Extraction and Language Discourse Processing" of Journal Information (ISSN 2078-2489)
by Jennifer D'Souza 26 Jan '24

26 Jan '24

*apologies if you received multiple copies of this call* The open access journal /Information/ is arranging a Special Issue on “Information Extraction and Language Discourse Processing” topic. As Guest Editor for this Special Issue, we would like to invite you to contribute a review or research article. The submission deadline will be /*30 April 2024*/. If you are interested in submitting, the journal office will do its best to apply for the maximum discount for you. You can see more details at the link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ information/special_issues/WYS02U2GTD Yours cordially, Dr. Jennifer D'Souza Prof. Dr. Chengzhi Zhang Guest Editors

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CFP: Multilingual Euphemism Detection: Shared Task at FigLang 2024 (NAACL 2024)
by Anna Feldman 26 Jan '24

26 Jan '24

Multilingual Euphemism Detection https://www.codabench.org/competitions/1959/ Multilingual Euphemism Detection Shared Task <https://www.codabench.org/competitions/1959/> <https://www.codabench.org/competitions/1959/> for the Fourth Workshop on Figurative Language Processing <https://sites.google.com/view/figlang2024/call-for-papers> co-located with NAACL 2024 <https://2024.naacl.org/>. Euphemisms are a linguistic device used to soften or neutralize language that may otherwise be harsh or awkward to state directly (e.g. "between jobs" instead of "unemployed", "late" instead of "dead", "collateral damage" instead of "war-related civilian deaths"). By acting as alternative words or phrases, euphemisms are used in everyday language to maintain politeness, mitigate discomfort, or conceal the truth. While they are culturally-dependent, the need to discuss sensitive topics in a non-offensive way is universal, suggesting similarities in the way euphemisms are used across languages and cultures. Terms which may be used euphemistically sometimes require context to determine a euphemistic usage: *"Asked to choose between jobs and the environment, a majority -- at least in our warped, first-past-the-post system -- will pick jobs."* [ non-euphemistic] vs. *"This summer, the budding talent agent was between jobs and free to babysit pretty much any time."* [euphemistic] In this shared task, participants are invited to develop approaches and models to disambiguate texts (in multiple languages) as either euphemistic or not. Participants are encouraged to develop multilingual and cross-lingual approaches. Important dates: - 1/25/24: Competition opens; participants develop approaches on training data and labels - 2/15/24: Test data is released; performances will be tracked on Codabench dashboard - 2/25/24: Last day to submit predictions on test data - 3/10/24: Papers describing approaches are due - 4/14/24: Notification of acceptance - 4/24/24: Final paper submission - 6/21/24 or 6/22/24: FigLang 2024 Workshop

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