January 2024 - Corpora

TEICAI workshop-Deadline extension for ARR commitments @EACL2024
by Nina Hosseini-Kivanani 18 Jan '24

18 Jan '24

The TEICAI Workshop is welcoming paper commitments from ARR; due to the delay in EACL notifications, we are extending the deadline to January 20th. Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/teicai2024 Submission link: https://softconf.com/eacl2024/TEICAI-2024/ Submission Deadline: 20 January 2024 (Anywhere on Earth) Authors are required to submit their paper alongside the reviews it received, provided as a supplementary PDF file. In cases where the paper has undergone revisions since its original submission, authors should also include a separate file briefly outlining the changes made. The acceptance of these papers for the workshop will be determined by the organizers based on the paper's quality and relevance to the workshop's theme. We are also pleased to announce that our sponsor, e-COST ACTION Language in the Human-Machine Era (LITHME), is offering two to three travel grants for authors of selected accepted papers. More information about LITHME can be found at https://lithme.eu/. Workshop Organizers: Sviatlana Höhn, LuxAI, Luxembourg Nina Hosseini-Kivanani, Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine (FSTM), University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Dimitra Anastasiou, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg Angela Soltan, State University of Moldova, Moldova Bettina Migge, University College Dublin, Ireland Doris Dippold, University of Surrey, UK Fred Philippy, Zortify, Luxembourg Ekaterina Kamlovskaya, Translatables Program Committee: A list of program committee members is available on the workshop website. For any preliminary questions, you're welcome to reach out to teicai2024(a)gmail.com . You can follow us on LinkedIn (TEICAI) and Twitter (teicai2024) to get more updates about the workshop. On behalf of the organizers Nina Hosseini-Kivanani University of Luxembourg

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The 3rd EmpathiCH Workshop @ CHI 2024 Empathy-Centric Design: Scrutinizing Empathy Beyond the Individual
by Allison Claire Lahnala 18 Jan '24

18 Jan '24

The 3rd EmpathiCH Workshop @ CHI 2024 Empathy-Centric Design: Scrutinizing Empathy Beyond the Individual (Apologies for possible Cross-Posting) This is a call for papers for the EmpathiCH Workshop at CHI 2024 to be held in Hawai’i on the 11th of May 2024. Online version: https://empathich.com/participate/ ** OVERVIEW** The EmpathiCH workshop (at CHI 2024) focuses on empathy-centric design research in human-computer interaction and associated fields. In this edition, the workshop welcomes contributions towards the theme of Scrutinizing Empathy Beyond the Individual, i.e. research which examines the nature and implications of empathy being a design principle in interactive systems, interfaces, intelligent agents, etc. Authors are encouraged to contribute to the workshop by submitting research papers (6-8 pages), short papers (4-5 pages), pictorials, provocations, or system demonstrations. **TOPICS OF INTEREST** The 3rd EmpathiCH Workshop builds on its predecessors wherein the workshop welcomes original, high-quality academic contributions in: * Hypermedia and interactive software with empathy-centric design * Human-computer, human-robot, and human-agent empathy * Assessment and measurement of empathy and empathetic systems * Empathy abuses, tensions, and misuses * Empathy and interaction dynamics in multi-stakeholder systems * Empathy in sensitive, personal, critical, or medical circumstances Specifically, the theme this year is Scrutinizing Empathy Beyond the Individual, we also welcome research contributions which examine (or go beyond) the three provocations of our theme: * Empathy in a post-humanist HCI context. * How do externalized representations of users (avatars, profiles, organizations) empathize? * What is the nature of empathy and interaction in the context of abstractions such as a collective ideology or cause? * How do these representations help, harm, impact, eliminate, introduce, highlight, or devalue facets of empathetic interaction? * The role of the researcher in empathy-centric design. * How can CHI research be approached in an empathetic manner? * What role and drawbacks does empathy play in an interactive research environment? * Empathy beyond perspective-taking. * Emotion contagion and resonance in interactive systems * Interpersonal empathy and empathic accuracy for artificial agents We aim to bring together authors and participants from across HCI, AI, social science, design, psychology, and health from universities, companies, non-profit organizations, and government sectors. **SUBMISSION GUIDELINES** We welcome the following types of submissions along with a brief description of the submission type. All submissions are to be a maximum of eight (8) pages excluding references. * Research Paper: novel research on Empathy-Centric Design (i.e., empathy in HCI and related fields) * Case study: research based on real-world experiences on Empathy-Centric Design topics * Provocation/Position Paper: inspiring, controversial, provoking thoughts on Empathy-Centric Design * System Demonstration: prototypes and new technology concepts that will be tested during the workshop (including a description of what attendees will experience through the demos) related to Empathy-Centric Design topics * Pictorials: visual components (e.g., diagrams, sketches, illustrations, renderings, photographs, annotated photographs, and collages) accompanying text to convey new ideas and contribute to Empathy-Centric Design **IMPORTANT DATES** * Paper Submission: February 22, 2024 * Notifications: March 15, 2024 * Camera Ready Submission: TBA **FURTHER DETAILS** The details of the workshop and all other information are available at https://empathich.com For any additional questions or clarifications, please contact Alok Debnath (debnatha(a)tcd.ie) or Allison Lahnala (alahnala(a)uni-bonn.de)

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Full PhD position in "Contextualised metrics of linguistic creativity" at Bielefeld University, Germany
by Sina Zarrieß 18 Jan '24

18 Jan '24

The Computional Linguistics Group at Bielefeld University is seeking applications for a ** Full-time (100%) Research Assistant / Ph.D. Student position ** to work in a newly established project on measuring linguistic creativity across literary and non-literary genres with quantitative, corpus-based methods. The project is part of a newly established Collaborative Research Center (CRC 1646) on “Linguistic Creativity in Communication” funded by the German Research Agency (DFG) for 4 years. The project asks how the originality and success of linguistic signs vary depending on textual cues and are mediated by a spectrum of popular and artistic genre contexts such as travel blogs, popular fiction and literary novels. Focusing on the domain of descriptions of spatial entities across all genres, we aim to develop data-driven metrics and models that automatically identify creative signs at sentence, paragraph and text level. It will be carried out by the Computational Linguistics Group (Prof. Sina Zarrieß) and the Computational Literary Studies Group (Prof. Berenike Herrmann) at Bielefeld University, and will encompass stylistic, experimental and computational methods. The announced position will be focusing on computational aspects of measuring linguistic creativity. The main task will be to develop sentence embedding models that disentangle style and content, based on language models for different literary and non-literary genres. In addition, the PhD student will carry out work on the analysis of linguistic creativity in large language models, in collaboration with other projects of the CRC. The duration of the position is about 3,5 years (until end of 2027). Salary is 100% TVL-E13 scale (about 4.000,- EUR per month before taxes, depending on relevant work experience). Bielefeld is the vibrant center of the region of East Westphalia and Germany’s greenest big city with a lot of cultural, entertainment, and recreational opportunities. It is located in the center of Germany, surrounded by beautiful forests, and connected to Germany’s high-speed rail system. Bielefeld University is a strong research-oriented university with more than 20.000 students and a famous commitment to interdisciplinary research. It hosts major research centers such as the Center for Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC) or the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF). Application deadline is 25th of January, but later applications will be considered too until the position has been filled. If you are interested to learn more about the position, please get in contact with Sina Zarrieß (sina.zarriess(a)uni-bielefeld.de). For information on how to apply please refer to: https://uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/3067/research-positions?page_lang… More information on the CRC: https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/linguistik-literaturwissenschaft/f… -- Prof. Dr. Sina Zarrieß Computational Linguistics https://sinazarriess.github.io/ University of Bielefeld Universitätsstr. 25 33615 Bielefeld, Germany +49 521 106-2534

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Call for Papers: 17th Workshop on Graph-based Natural Language Processing (TextGraphs@ACL 2024)
by Yanjun Gao 17 Jan '24

17 Jan '24

Venue: ACL 2024 Location: Bangkok, Thailand Date: August 15, 2024 Papers Due: May 7, 2024 Website: https://sites.google.com/view/textgraphs2024 OpenReview Submission: : https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2024/Workshop/TextGraphs-17<https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2024/Workshop/TextGraphs-17#…> Workshop Description For the past seventeen years, the workshops in the TextGraphs series have published and promoted the synergy between the field of Graph Theory (GT) and Natural Language Processing (NLP). The mix between the two started small, with graph-theoretical frameworks providing efficient and elegant solutions for NLP applications. Graph-based solutions initially focused on single-document part-of-speech tagging, word sense disambiguation, and semantic role labeling. They became progressively larger to include ontology learning and information extraction from large text collections. Nowadays, graph-based solutions also target Web-scale applications such as information propagation in social networks, rumor proliferation, e-reputation, multiple entity detection, language dynamics learning, and future events prediction, to name a few. We plan to encourage the description of novel NLP problems or applications that have emerged in recent years, which can be enhanced with existing and new graph-based methods. We widen the workshop topics beyond the familiar graph domain, encompassing a broader range of less examined structured data domains as well. The seventeenth edition of the TextGraphs workshop aims to extend the focus on exploring rising topics of large language models (LLMs) prompting from the unique perspective of GT. Therefore, our workshop aims to foster stronger, mutually advantageous connections between NLP and structured data, tackling key challenges inherent in each field. TextGraphs-17 invites submissions on (but not limited to) the following topics: * Knowledge Graphs Meet LLMs. A proper utilization of graph-based methods for reasoning over a Knowledge Graph (KG) is a prospective way to overcome critical limitations of the existing LLMs which lack interpretability and factual knowledge and are prone to the hallucination problem. Vice versa, the incorporation of LLM knowledge learnt from large textual collections may help many graph-related tasks, such as KG completion and graph representation learning. Thus, we are highly interested in novel research on the joint use of KG and LLM for an improved processing of either the NLP or graph domain (preferably both). * Chain Prompting of LLMs. Recent studies show that prompting strategies like Chain-of-Thought and Graph-of-Thought enhance language understanding and generation tasks compared to the traditional few-shot methods. We welcome submissions developing advanced prompting schemes and software for LLMs and other pre-trained machine learning models. * Learning from Structured Data. We greet novel efforts to build a bridge between NLP and various structured data formats including relational and non-relational databases, as well as standardized data formats (such as XML, JSON, RDF, etc.) * Interpretability of NLP Systems. The question of interpretability poses a fundamental challenge for the practical application of NLP methods. We invite researchers to adopt structured data and employ graph-based methods to shed light on decision-making and logic behind modern LLMs. Any work on applying a KG or any other structured knowledge to explore and evaluate factual awareness, treating the interpretability problem from the GT perspective, or any other topic that utilizes graphs and other structured data to make LLMs more understandable, is met with appreciation. Important dates - Papers due: May 7, 2024 - Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2024 - Camera-ready papers due: July 1, 2024 - Conference date: August 15, 2024 Submission We invite submissions of up to eight (8) pages maximum, plus bibliography for long papers and four (4) pages, plus bibliography, for short papers. The ACL 2024 templates must be used; these are provided in LaTeX and also Microsoft Word format. Submissions will only be accepted in PDF format. This year, TextGraph submission is managed through OpenReview. Submit papers by the end of the deadline day (timezone is UTC-12; AoE) via the submission link on our site: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2024/Workshop/TextGraphs-17<https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2024/Workshop/TextGraphs-17#…> Shared Task We invite participation in the task of Knowledge Graph Question Answering (KGQA). We will ask the participants to analyze candidate answers with text and graph features. For each query-answer candidate, a graph characterizing paths in Wikidata from entity from the query to the answer entity will be given. Contact Please direct all questions and inquiries to our official e-mail address (textgraphsOC(a)gmail.com<mailto:textgraphsOC@gmail.com>) or contact any of the organizers via their individual emails. Also you can join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/900711756665369. Organizers - Dmitry Ustalov, JetBrains - Arti Ramesh, Binghamton University - Alexander Panchenko, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology - Yanjun Gao, University of Wisconsin-Madison - Andrey Sakhovskiy, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology - Elena Tutubalina, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute - Gerald Penn, University of Toronto - Marco Valentino, Idiap Research Institute

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PhD Position in NLP: Interplay of Argumentation & Emotions
by Eger, Steffen Phillip 17 Jan '24

17 Jan '24

The Natural Language Learning Group (NLLG) at University of Mannheim (https://nl2g.github.io/) is looking for a motivated PhD student on the topic of argument mining. The overall goal of the project is the analysis of the interplay of emotions and argumentation. The project is supervised by Steffen Eger and Roman Klinger (University of Stuttgart), where the PhD student supervised by Steffen Eger will work on determining the convincingness of arguments using natural language processing (NLP) techniques (LLMs, etc.) as well as the generation of convincing bias-free arguments, taking emotionality into account. The ideal candidate has a completed Master degree in NLP or computer science, excellent programming skills and a good knowledge of machine learning / text generation. More information can be found here: https://www.uni-mannheim.de/media/Universitaet/Dokumente/Ausschreibungen_St… To apply, submit one PDF document containing the following information: * CV (max. 2 pages) * letter of motivation (max. 1 page), including a clear indication why this position is interesting for you and what makes you a qualified candidate * transcript of grades (Bachelor/Master studies) In case of questions, please feel free to contact: steffen.eger(a)uni-mannheim.de Application deadline: January 28, 2024 ---------------------------------------------------- Steffen Eger Natural Language Learning Group (NLLG) Heisenberg Group Leader CITEC - 3-225 33619 Bielefeld DFG Heisenberg Grant Recipient (2022) BMBF Group "Metrics4NLG" (2022) https://steffeneger.github.io/ https://nl2g.github.io/

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1st Call for Shared Task, Workshop and Tutorial Proposals @ KONVENS 2024
by Wiegand, Michael 17 Jan '24

17 Jan '24

Call for Shared Task, Workshop and Tutorial Proposals @ KONVENS 2024 1ST CALL FOR SHARED TASK, WORKSHOP AND TUTORIAL PROPOSALS We cordially invite submissions of shared task, workshop and tutorial proposals as part of KONVENS 2024 (https://konvens-2024.univie.ac.at/), which takes place from September 9-13, 2024 at University of Vienna (Austria). KONVENS (Konferenz zur Verarbeitung natürlicher Sprache/Conference on Natural Language Processing) is an annual conference series on computational linguistics (biennial until 2018) that started in 1992 and that is organized under the auspices of the German Society for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology, the Special Interest Group on Computational Linguistics of the German Linguistic Society, the Austrian Society for Artificial Intelligence and SwissText. CALL FOR SHARED TASK PROPOSALS Shared tasks need to be in line with the GermEval campaign that focuses on NLP for the German language. See https://germeval.github.io/ for an overview of previous GermEval tasks. Proposals for shared tasks should contain: · a title and a brief description of the topic of the task and its potential impact on the NLP community and on society · a description of the datasets that will be used in the shared task and their readiness · a sketch of how the submitted systems will be evaluated In addition, proposals need to contain the filled out GermEval Questionnaire https://gscl.org/germeval, which aims to help with identifying potential ethical issues. Please submit your shared task proposal by email to konvens-2024(a)googlegroups.com no later than February 14, 2024. Notifications will be sent out by February 21, 2024. While fixing the exact timeline for the shared task is up to the task organizers, we propose the following tentative schedule: Trial data ready: March 14, 2024 Training data ready: April 14, 2024 Test data ready: May 18, 2024 Evaluation start: June 25, 2024 Evaluation end: June 13, 2024 Paper submission due: July 1, 2024 Camera ready due: July 20, 2024 KONVENS conference: September 9-13, 2024 CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS Workshop proposals should contain: · a title and a brief description of the workshop topic · the desired workshop length (half-day or full-day) · the names and email addresses of the organizers, with one-paragraph statements of their research interests and areas of expertise · a list of potential members of the program committee, with an indication of which members have already agreed to serve Workshop proposals should be submitted by email to konvens-2024(a)googlegroups.com no later than February 14, 2024. Notifications will be sent out by February 21, 2024. Organizers of accepted proposals will be responsible for publicizing and running the workshop, including reviewing submissions and producing the camera-ready workshop proceedings. CALL FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS Tutorials are intended to either provide a comprehensive introduction to core techniques/areas of interest or address advanced topics relevant for the KONVENS community. We invite half-day tutorials on established or emerging research topics in these areas but we also welcome tutorials from related research fields or applications. Tutorials may be explicitly introductory, targeting experienced researchers or attracting a wide audience by addressing basic as well as advanced topics. Tutorial proposals should contain: · a title and abstract of the tutorial · a brief description of the tutorial content and its relevance to the KONVENS community · a brief outline of the tutorial structure showing that the tutorial's core content can be covered in half a day · the names and email addresses of the tutorial instructors, including one-paragraph statements of their research interests and areas of expertise · a list of previous venues and approximate audience sizes, if the same or a similar tutorial has been given elsewhere Tutorial proposals should be submitted by email to konvens-2024(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:tokonvens-2024@googlegroups.com> no later than February 14, 2024. Notifications will be sent out by February 21, 2024. Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards the KONVENS-2024 organization team https://konvens-2024.univie.ac.at/

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Call for ARR Commitment WNUT 2023
by rob van der goot 17 Jan '24

17 Jan '24

Dear colleagues, The 9th Workshop on Noisy and User-generated Text is welcoming paper commitments from ARR. More info on the workshop:http://noisy-text.github.io ARR commitment link:https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2024/Workshop/WNUT_ARR_C… Our ARR commitment deadline is January 17th anywhere on earth, so you can also commit EACL submissions after rejection. Best, Rob

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Call for Bids: LDK 2025
by Dagmar Gromann 17 Jan '24

17 Jan '24

========================== CALL FOR BIDS: LDK 2025 ========================== The Scientific Advisory Board of the Language, Data and Knowledge Conferences (LDK SAC) welcomes bids from organisers for the 5th Language, Data and Knowledge Conference in 2025. Proposals should consider the following criteria: Expected date: Summer 2025 (typically in September); Expected size: About 150 onsite participants; Accessible by international travel; Affordable accommodation for participants; The event is expected to be a 2-day conference with at least one additional day of workshops; Program chairs and proceedings chairs will be selected by the LDK SAC and work in close collaboration with the local organisers; Website hosting is provided by the University of Galway in line with the LDK SAC charter; The conference will most probably take place in hybrid mode. Funding for the conference should be covered by the registration fees. However, complementary support by other grants, projects, institutions or sponsorships by companies and other organisations is also welcome (if this is the case, it should be indicated in the application). The application should include a budget draft covering the following: Room hire covering a large lecture theatre for the main conference and 5-6 smaller rooms for the workshop day(s); Coffee breaks (and optionally lunch); One conference dinner; Poster session hall; Refreshments for a poster session (optional); Travel and accommodation for approx. 3 invited speakers; Marketing and material costs; Other dissemination expenses; Technical and administrative support costs, if any. The application should include a short CV of the local organiser/s, emphasising any previous experience in the organisation of scientific events, and a short description of the venue, highlighting any technical and administrative support that the host institution can provide. Please send your applications to Dagmar Gromann <dagmar.gromann(a)univie.ac.at <mailto:dagmar.gromann@univie.ac.at>> and Jorge Gracia <jogracia(a)unizar.es <mailto:jogracia@unizar.es>> by March 31st, 2024.

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CfP: 11th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages (sign-lang@LREC 2024)
by Schulder, Dr. Marc 17 Jan '24

17 Jan '24

Event: 11th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages (sign-lang@LREC 2024) Deadline: 22 February 2024 Website: https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/lrec2024/ Submission page: https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/signlang2024/ CALL FOR PAPERS Submissions are invited for a full day workshop on sign language resources, to take place on 20 May 2024 as a satellite event of LREC-COLING 2024 in Turin, Italy. During the past years, a number of large-scale sign language corpus projects have started. Some have already been completed, but many more projects are about to start. At the same time, sign language technologies are maturing and are promising to support the time-consuming basic annotation. The workshop aims at bringing together those researchers who already work with multimodal sign language corpora (and those who see the need for empirical underpinnings of their current research) with those who develop sign language technologies. It provides the platform to compare competing approaches. As sign language resource technologies build to a large extent on methodologies and tools used in the language resource community in general, but add very specific perspectives (e.g. no writing system established, use of video as data source) and works with a different modality of human language, sign language research is able to feed back to the language resource community at large. At the same time, as the raw data are in the visual domain, the field naturally bridges into Computer Vision. Thus, researchers use Machine Learning methods on both visual and linguistic data. We invite submissions of papers to be presented either on stage (20 minutes plus 10 minutes discussion) or as posters (with or without demonstrations) on the following topics: 2024 SPECIAL TOPIC: EVALUATION OF SIGN LANGUAGE RESOURCES With the field maturing, it becomes an urgent issue to assess the quality of sign language resources for a large variety of tasks. We invite contributions on both automatic and human-based evaluation procedures for all kinds of sign language resources and tools. GENERAL ISSUES ON SIGN LANGUAGE CORPORA AND TOOLS • Avatar technology as a tool in sign language corpora and corpus data feeding into advances in avatar technology • Experiences in building sign language corpora • Elicitation methodology appropriate for corpus collection • Proposals for standards for linguistic annotation or for metadata descriptions • Experiences from linguistic research using corpora • Use of (parallel) corpora and lexicons in translation studies • Language documentation and long-term accessibility for sign language data • Annotation and visualization Tools • Linking corpora and lexicons and integrated presentation of corpus and dictionary contents • “Internet as a corpus” for sign languages • Sign language corpus mining • Crowd and community sourcing for corpus work • Multi-lingual sign language resources and connecting sign language resources to language resources for spoken languages • FAIR, CARE and OpenScience for sign language data In the tradition of LREC, oral/signed presentations and poster presentations (with or without demonstrations) have equal status, and authors are encouraged to suggest the presentation format best suited to communicate their ideas. Papers (4-8 pages) of all accepted submissions to this workshop will be published as workshop proceedings published on the conference website – independent of whether you have a poster or an oral/signed presentation. The workshop does not differentiate between long, short, or position papers. Please submit your paper through the LREC START system (https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/signlang2024/) not later than 22 February 2024, indicating whether you prefer an oral/signed presentation, a poster presentation or a poster presentation with demo. Unlike the main conference, the workshop will be reviewed single-blind, so submissions SHOULD NOT BE ANONYMOUS. ATTENTION Please note that you are expected to submit the full paper, not an extended abstract as in previous years! IMPORTANT DATES • Deadline for submissions: 22 February 2024 (11:59PM UTC-12:00 “anywhere on Earth”) • Notification of acceptance: 22 March, 2024 • Early bird registration ends: tbd • Camera ready version of the paper (for both oral/signed presentations and posters): 8 April 2024 • Submission of slides for interpreters' preparation (oral/signed presentations only): 10 May 2024 • This workshop: 20 May 2024 • LREC main conference: 22–24 May 2024 • LREC workshops 20, 21 & 25 May 2024

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Deadline extension for ARR commitments for UncertaiNLP@EACL2024
by Tiedemann, Jörg 17 Jan '24

17 Jan '24

Due to the delay in EACL notifications we extend the deadline for ARR commitments to the First Workshop on Uncertainty-Aware NLP (UncertaiNLP) to January 20. More info on the workshop: https://uncertainlp.github.io/ ARR commitment link: https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2024/Workshop/UncertaiNLP_ARR… We welcome submissions of papers that did not receive a positive decision by the main EACL conference and accepted findings papers who would like to apply for a presentation slot in the workshop. —————————————— Jörg Tiedemann University of Helsinki https://blogs.helsinki.fi/language-technology/

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