Corpora December 2024

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Last Call for Abstracts: LLM fails – Failed experiments with Generative AI and what we can learn from them
by Ngoc Duyen Tanja Tu 03 Dec '24

03 Dec '24

more information on our Workshop-Website: https://www.ids-mannheim.de/home/lexiktagungen/llm-fails Dear list members, we would like to invite you to submit abstracts to our workshop "LLM fails – Failed experiments with Generative AI and what we can learn from them" taking place from April 8-9, 2025 at the Leibniz Institute for the German Language, Mannheim, Germany. If the extended short papers are positively reviewed, there is an opportunity to publish them in a special issue of the Journal for Language Technology and Computational Linguistics. Further information (automatic English translation): Failed experiments typically have no place in scientific discourse; they are discarded and not published. We believe this leads to a loss of potential knowledge. After all, a systematic reflection on the reasons for failure allows for the questioning and/or improvement of methods used. Furthermore, when previously failed experiments are repeated and succeed, explicit progress can be determined. Thus, the discussion and documentation of failures creates added value for the scientific community from the perspective of methodological reflection. This is even more relevant in a field like research into and with Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), which cannot look back on decades of tradition and where best practices are still being negotiated. This workshop focuses on linguistic and NLP experiments with Generative AI that did not yield the desired results, such as but not limited to: • Using Generative AI as a Named-Entity Recognizer • Using Generative AI for automatic transcription of spoken language data • Using Generative AI for the creation of dictionary entries • Using Generative AI for the detection of language change phenomena The contribution should clarify how this failure can contribute to knowledge gain regarding the work with Generative AI. Unpublished proposals can be submitted anonymously as an abstract (500-750 words) in either German or English to the following email address by December 11, 2024: llmfails(at)ids-mannheim.de The organization team will decide on the acceptance of contributions by December 16, 2025. If a contribution is accepted, a short paper (4-6 pages without references) in English will be requested by February 15, 2025. The short papers will undergo double-blind peer review and will be published in a special issue of the Journal for Language Technology and Computational Linguistics and archived at ACL Anthology. Best, Annelen Brunner, Christian Lang, Ngoc Duyen Tanja Tu (Organising committee) -- Dr. Ngoc Duyen Tanja Tu Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache Abteilung Grammatik Tel: +49 621-1581-242

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Junior Professorship in Information&Language Processing / AI at LMU Munich
by Hinrich Schuetze 03 Dec '24

03 Dec '24

Dear community members, We cordially invite applications for the following position. Thanks - Hinrich Junior Professorship (W1) Information and Language Processing Using AI Methods LMU Munich tenure track apply by December 12 https://job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/7815e9257475585704e21860f79f54abceadb4…

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Corpora of English novels
by Martin Wynne 02 Dec '24

02 Dec '24

I have a student who is interested in tracing the development of the English novel from its origins to the present day (or at least to the start of the twentieth century), and I'm trying to gather information about relevant corpora covering this text type and period. We know about the European Literary Text Collection (ELTeC, https://www.distant-reading.net/eltec/) which will be very useful for the later end of the timescale. We also know it is possible to assemble a corpus from Project Gutenberg, archive.org, Oxford Text Archive, etc. , but would be interested in re-using any corpora that people might already have made, which aim to be representative of particular periods within this genre. The student has some flexibility with her research question, so while the original idea of 'English novels' was probably 'novels in English from Great Britain and Ireland', other related areas such as US novels might be interesting as well. Any tips and suggestions gratefully received. If we get a number of interesting direct emails, I'll be happy to summarize the results to the list. Best wishes, Martin -- Senior Researcher in Corpus Linguistics Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics, University of Oxford National Co-ordinator, CLARIN-UK martin.wynne(a)ling-phil.ox.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4155-0530

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