February 2024 - Corpora

ESRC-funded PhD available - please promote
by Bell, Melanie 27 Feb '24

27 Feb '24

Dear colleagues, Ian van der Linde and I are recruiting for an ESRC-funded PhD studentship on ‘The role of gesture in spoken communication’. We are looking for people with a background in computational linguistics/ NLP, psycholinguistics, or cognitive science, who ideally have experience of using large language corpora and/or data collection with human participants as well as programming skills in R, MATLAB, or Python. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to develop their own project in consultation with us, in the general topic area of gesture and speech. Full details can be found at this link: https://www.esrcdtp.group.cam.ac.uk/current-studentship-opportunities/ Applications close on 15 March 2024. We would appreciate it if you could forward this information to anyone who might be suitable and interested or to any relevant lists. Please do encourage potential candidates to get in touch with us; we would be happy to discuss this further. Yours sincerely Melanie Bell Professor Melanie J. Bell Professor of Quantitative Linguistics    ARU, East Road, Cambridge, CB1 1PT aru.ac.uk<http://www.aru.ac.uk/> ARU Cambridge | ARU Chelmsford | ARU London | ARU Peterborough [ARU THE University of the Year 2023 | UK Social Mobility Awards University of the Year 2023 | TEF Gold 2023] -- Please click here to view our e-mail disclaimer http://www.aru.ac.uk/email-disclaimer

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Call for participation: DETESTS-Dis IberLEF 2024
by Simona Frenda 27 Feb '24

27 Feb '24

Please consider contributing and/or forwarding to appropriate colleagues and groups. *******We apologize for the multiple copies of this e-mail****** -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Participation -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DETESTS-Dis IberLEF 2024 Task: DETESTS-Dis (DETEction and classification of racial Stereotypes in Spanish – Learning with Disagreement) This task will take part of IberLEF 2024, the 6th Workshop on Iberian Languages Evaluation Forum at the SEPLN 2024 Conference, which will be held in Valladolid, Spain, on September 24th. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here, we introduce the second edition of the DETESTS task (Ariza-Casabona, 2022), which was first presented at IberLEF 2022. The aim of the new edition, DETESTS-Dis, is to detect and classify explicit and implicit stereotypes in texts from social media and comments on news articles, incorporating learning with disagreement techniques. Next, a description of both subtasks is provided: - Subtask 1, Stereotype Identification: This is a binary classification task the aim of which is to determine whether a comment or sentence contains at least one stereotype or none, considering the full distribution of labels provided by the annotators. This subtask follows the SemEval 2021 Task 12 (Uma et al., 2021) proposal about learning with disagreement, in which the authors state that there does not necessarily exist a single gold label for every sample in the dataset. This fact is particularly evident when multiple contradictory annotations arise at the data labeling stage due to “debatable, subjective, or linguistic ambiguity”. The actual gold label of this subtask is left as a proxy to determine the subset of comments that will be evaluated in the posterior subtask. - Subtask 2 (Optional), Implicitness Identification: This subtask introduces a novel binary classification problem to determine whether the stereotype is manifested or latent within the text, that is, whether the stereotype is implicit or explicit. The added difficulty in this case is that implicit stereotypes are not directly expressed in the text, and a process of inference must be applied by the annotators. Moreover, there are different strategies in which an implicit stereotype can be coded, such as metaphors, irony and other figures of speech, evaluations of the in-group, and the overgeneralization of a social group from features of some of its members. This subtask will be presented as a hierarchical binary classification problem. Although we recommend participating in both subtasks, participants are allowed to participate just in one of them (e.g., subtask 1). Teams will be allowed (and encouraged) to submit multiple runs (max. 5). To avoid any conflict with the sources of the comments regarding their intellectual property rights (IPR), the data will be sent privately to each participant who is interested in the task. The corpus will only be made available for research purposes. Important dates (All deadlines are 11:59 PM UTC-12:00): Training dataset release: March 04, 2024 Test dataset release: April 15, 2024 Systems results: April 29, 2024 Results notification: May 13, 2024 Working papers submission: June 3, 2024 Working papers (peer-)reviewed: June 17, 2024 Camera-ready versions: July 4, 2024 Workshop: September 24, 2024 Task organizers: - Mariona Taulé (Universitat de Barcelona, UB) - Wolfgang Schmeisser (Universitat de Barcelona, UB) - Alejandro Ariza (Universitat de Barcelona, UB) - Pol Pastells (Universitat de Barcelona, UB) - Mireia Farrús (Universitat de Barcelona, UB) - Simona Frenda (Università degli Studi di Torino, UniTo) - Paolo Rosso (Universitat Politècnica de València, UPV) Contact: Contact the organizers by writing to: detests.iberlef(a)gmail.com Web page: https://detests-dis.github.io/ We invite participants to join our Google Groups to be kept up to date with the latest news related to the task.

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CFP: NSLP 2024 Workshop – Natural Scientific Language Processing and Research Knowledge Graphs
by Georg Rehm 26 Feb '24

26 Feb '24

1st Workshop on Natural Scientific Language Processing and Research Knowledge Graphs (NSLP 2024) 26 or 27 May 2024 (tbc) Hersonissos, Crete, Greece (co-located with ESWC 2024) Submission deadline (extended): March 14, 2024 https://nfdi4ds.github.io/nslp2024/ <https://nfdi4ds.github.io/nslp2024/> Scientific research is almost exclusively published in unstructured text formats, which are not readily machine-readable. While technological approaches can help to get this flood of scientific information and new knowledge under control, the development of such technologies is very complex in practice and hinders the creation of infrastructures and systems to track research and assist the scientific community with applications such as dedicated scientific search engines and recommender systems. The 1st Workshop on Natural Scientific Language Processing and Research Knowledge Graphs (NSLP) aims to bring together researchers working on the processing, analysis, transformation and making-use-of scientific language and RKGs including all relevant sub-topics. NSLP 2024 is a full-day workshop co-located with ESWC 2024 <https://2024.eswc-conferences.org/> to be held in Crete, Greece, in May 2024. The workshop will consist of two invited keynote and two shared tasks (FoRC: Field of Research Classification of Scholarly Publications <https://nfdi4ds.github.io/nslp2024/docs/forc_shared_task.html>, SOMD: Software Mention Detection in Scholarly Publications <https://nfdi4ds.github.io/nslp2024/docs/somd_shared_task.html>), as well as presentations and posters of accepted papers. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to Research/Scientific Knowledge Graphs (RKGs/SKGs) and other forms of Structured Scientific Knowledge Representation Information Extraction for Research/Scientific Knowledge Graphs Question Answering over Research/Scientific Knowledge Graphs Scientific LLMs: LLMs for Natural Scientific Language Processing Natural Scientific Language Processing (monolingual, cross-lingual, multilingual) Language Resources and Language Technologies for Natural Scientific Language Processing Information Extraction from Scholarly Publications Classification of Scholarly Publications (document collections, individual documents, parts of documents) Summarisation of Scholarly Articles Scholarly Information Retrieval and Scientific Search Engines Digital Libraries of Scholarly Information Metadata and Cataloging Bibliometrics and Scientometrics Domain-specific Adaptation of Natural Language Processing (NLP) methods for NSLP purposes Micropublications and Nanopublications Important dates Deadline for submissions: March 07, 2024 – March 14, 2024 (deadline extended) Notification of acceptance: April 4, 2024 Deadline for camera-ready papers: April 18, 2024 Submissions The workshop invites anonymous submissions of regular long papers (up to 15 pages), position papers, and short papers (up to 8 pages) presenting negative results, in-progress projects, and demos. Papers can present negative results, in-progress projects, and demos. We especially encourage submissions from junior researchers and students from diverse backgrounds. Format of submissions: Springer LNCS style (full submission guidelines <https://nfdi4ds.github.io/nslp2024/docs/submission.html>). Submissions are done via easyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nslp2024 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nslp2024> The workshop proceedings will be published in the Springer series Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) as an Open Access book. Note that all fees for the Open Access book publication will be covered by the project NFDI4DS, which financially supports this workshop. Shared tasks The workshop offers two shared tasks: FoRC: Field of Research Classification of Scholarly Publications <https://nfdi4ds.github.io/nslp2024/docs/forc_shared_task.html> (two sub-tasks) SOMD: Software Mention Detection in Scholarly Publications <https://nfdi4ds.github.io/nslp2024/docs/somd_shared_task.html> (three sub-tasks) Confirmed keynote speakers Natalia Manola, OpenAIRE, Greece Francesco Osborne, Open University, UK Organisers Georg Rehm, DFKI, Germany Sonja Schimmler, TU Berlin & Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany Stefan Dietze, GESIS & HHU Düsseldorf, Germany Frank Krüger, Wismar University, Germany Contact Georg Rehm <georg.rehm(a)dfki.de <mailto:georg.rehm@dfki.de>> – NSLP 2024 website <https://nfdi4ds.github.io/nslp2024/> -- Prof. Dr. Georg Rehm <http://georg-re.hm/> Principal Researcher and Research Fellow, DFKI Adjunct Professor, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin DFKI GmbH <https://www.dfki.de/>, Alt-Moabit 91c, 10559 Berlin, Germany Phone: +49 30 23895-1833 – Fax: -1810 georg.rehm(a)dfki.de Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz GmbH Firmensitz: Trippstadter Strasse 122, D-67663 Kaiserslautern Geschäftsführung: Prof. Dr. Antonio Krüger (Vorsitzender), Helmut Ditzer Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Dr. Ferri Abolhassan Amtsgericht Kaiserslautern, HRB 2313

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Summer Internships at ITHAKA (jstor)
by heather froehlich 26 Feb '24

26 Feb '24

All, With apologies for cross-posting, the folks at ITHAKA (the company that brings us JSTOR) are seeking paid interns in the following roles: Outreach Intern, Outreach <https://www.ithaka.org/job/4369666005/?gh_jid=4369666005>Technology Intern, Software Engineering (Platform Engineering) <https://www.ithaka.org/job/4369659005/?gh_jid=4369659005>, Intern, Software Engineering (Full-stack) <https://www.ithaka.org/job/4369668005/?gh_jid=4369668005>, Intern, Software Engineering <https://www.ithaka.org/job/4369658005/?gh_jid=4369658005>Data & Analytics Intern, Data Intelligence <https://www.ithaka.org/job/4371666005/?gh_jid=4371666005> , Intern, Machine Learning and Data Science <https://www.ithaka.org/job/4371667005/?gh_jid=4371667005> These are 12-week positions starting on June 3, 2024 and will be paid at a rate of $20/hr. To be considered for this opportunity, please ensure your application is submitted through the links above by the deadline of *March 1, 2024.* Thank you very much! Heather Froehlich -- Dr Heather Froehlich w // http://hfroehli.ch t // @heatherfro

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Last Call for Papers for ParlaCLARIN IV
by t.k.kontino＠uu.nl 26 Feb '24

26 Feb '24

Last Call for Papers for ParlaCLARIN IV Date: to be held at LREC-COLING 2024, Monday 20 May, 2024 Location: Lingotto Conference Centre - Torino (Italy) Webpage: https://www.clarin.eu/ParlaCLARIN-IV Submission Deadline: 26 February 2024 (Extended) Submission Portal: https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/parlaclarin-iv/ ---------------------------------- Workshop description Parliamentary data is an important source of scholarly and socially relevant content, serving as a verified communication channel between the elected political representatives and members of the society. The development of accessible, comprehensive and well-annotated parliamentary corpora is therefore crucial for the information society, as such corpora help scientists and investigative journalists to ascertain the accuracy of socio-politically relevant information, and to inform the citizens about the trends and insights on the basis of such data explorations. Research-wise, parliamentary corpora are a quintessential resource for a number of disciplines in digital humanities and social sciences, such as political science, sociology, history, and (socio)linguistics. The distinguishing characteristic of parliamentary data is that it is spoken language produced in controlled circumstances. Such data has traditionally been transcribed in a formal way but is now also increasingly transcribed with speech-to-text software as well as released in the original audio and video formats, which encourages resource and software development and provides research opportunities related to structuring, synchronization, visualization, querying and analysis of parliamentary corpora. Therefore, a harmonized approach to data curation practices for this type of data can support the advancement of the field significantly. One of the ways in which the research community is supported in this line of work is through the conversion of existing corpora and further development of new cross-national parliamentary corpora into a highly comparable, harmonized set of multilingual resources. These allow researchers to share comparative perspectives and to perform multidisciplinary research on parliamentary data. We envision that the ParlaCLARIN IV workshop, as a venue for knowledge and experience exchange on the topic, will contribute to the development and growth of the field of digital parliamentary science. Objective This fourth ParlaCLARIN workshop is a continuation of the 2018, 2020 and 2022 editions held at the respective LREC conferences, see references below. On the one hand, it continues to bring together developers, curators and researchers of regional, national and international parliamentary debates from across diverse disciplines in the Humanities and Social Sciences. On the other hand, we envisage the appearance of new discussion threads, tasks, and challenges that are partially inspired by or related to the new data releases such as ParlaMint and data formats such as Parla-CLARIN. Topics of interests We invite unpublished original work focusing on (but not exclusive to) Compilation, annotation, visualisation and utilisation of historical or contemporary parliamentary written or audio records Harmonisation of existing multilingual parliamentary resources, containing either synchronic or diachronic data or both Linking or comparing parliamentary records with other datasets of political discourse such as party manifestos, political speeches, political campaign debates, and social media posts, and to other sources of structured knowledge, such as formal ontologies and LOD datasets (in particular for the description of speakers, political parties, etc.) Special themes for this year’s workshop are: Enrichment of parliamentary proceedings (with e.g. sentiment annotation, political profiling of speakers etc.) and research using such data Machine translation of parliamentary proceedings and research using such data Argument mining of parliamentary debates Apart from the dissemination of the results, the workshop also aims to address the identified obstacles, discuss open issues and coordinate future efforts in this increasingly trans-national and cross-disciplinary community. Previous editions for the reference: 2022: https://www.clarin.eu/ParlaCLARIN-III 2020: https://www.clarin.eu/ParlaCLARIN-II 2018: https://www.clarin.eu/ParlaCLARIN Submission and Publication We accept submission of long papers (up to 8 pages), short papers (up to 4 pages) and demo papers (up to 4 pages) to be presented as a long or short oral presentation at the workshop. The papers of the workshop will be published in online proceedings. When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC-COLING authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones). Important Dates Paper submission deadline: 26 February 2024 (Extended) Notification of acceptance: 26 March 2024 Camera-ready paper: 1 April 2024 Workshop date: 20 May 2024 Organizing Committee Darja Fiser, Institute of Contemporary History and CLARIN ERIC Maria Eskevich, Huygens Institute, KNAW David Bordon, University of Ljubljana Programme Committee Andreas Blaette, University of Duisburg-Essen Kaspar Beelen, School of Advanced Study, University of London Robert Borges, Department of Statistics, Uppsala University Hajo Boomgaarden, University of Vienna Çağrı Çöltekin, University of Tübingen Francesca Frontini, CNR-ILC and CLARIN ERIC Maria Gavriilidou, ILSP/Athena RC Haidee Kotze, Utrecht University Bente Maegaard, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Cristina Lastres-López, University of Seville Maarten Marx, University of Amsterdam Christian Mair, University of Freiburg Germany Simone Paolo Ponzetto, University of Mannheim Petya Osenova, IICT-BAS and Sofia University Maria Pontiki, ILSP/Athena RC, Greece Hugo Sanjurjo-González, University of Deusto Adam Smith, Macquarie University, Australia Stelios Piperidis, ILSP/Athena RC Tanja Wissik, Austrian Academy of Sciences Tomaž Erjavec, Jožef Stefan Institute Henk van den Heuvel, CLST, Radboud University Tanja Wissik, Austrian Academy of Sciences Turo Hiltunen, University of Helsinki Jan Odijk, Utrecht University Maciej Ogrodniczuk, Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences Turo Vartiainen, University of Helsinki The workshop is supported by the CLARIN ERIC research infrastructure. To contact the organisers, please mail parlaclarin(a)clarin.eu (Subject: [ParlaCLARIN@LREC2024]).

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[CfP] Call for Papers on TermTrends @ MDTT24: Models and Best Practices for Terminology Representation in the Semantic Web
by Patricia Martín Chozas 26 Feb '24

26 Feb '24

*Apologies for crossposting* TermTrends24: Models and Best Practices for Terminology Representation in the Semantic Web Workshop colocated with MDTT 2024 <https://mdtt2024.dei.unipd.it/en/> Date: 26th June, 2024 Venue: Granada, Spain More info: https://termtrends.linkeddata.es/ *About TermTrends*TermTrends 2024, co-located with MDTT 2024 aims to provide a discussion forum on the theoretical and methodological approaches for the representation of terminological data, both at a conceptual and a linguistic level. In particular, we would like to focus on their connection to the Linguistic Linked (Open) Data (LLOD) paradigm through the representation of these data according to Semantic Web formats. By adopting models or vocabularies proposed for the representation of linguistic data, we would contribute to the creation of interoperable and reusable terminological resources. With this objective, the workshop intends to explore the advantages and challenges underlying various Terminology-related standardisation approaches, ranging from the initially proposed standards to represent terminology within the International Standardisation Organisation (ISO), such as the TermBase eXchange (TBX) format, to models that represent linguistic descriptions associated with ontologies in the Semantic Web, such as SKOS and Ontolex-lemon. Being multidisciplinary in scope, it focuses on identifying terminological representation needs, as well as limitations of current models in addressing such needs, with the aim of also exploring the development of an extension of the Ontolex-lemon vocabulary and how that may contribute to overcoming such challenges. *Call for Papers*The topics of interest for this workshop include, but are not limited to, the following topics: - Terminology Representation Standards - Terminology as Linguistic Linked (Open) Data - Interoperability of Terminological Resources - Reusability of Terminological Resources - Challenges in Terminology Representation - Analysis of the structure of Terminological Resources *Submissions* Papers proposals should follow the CEUR template. Short and long papers will be accepted. Following CEUR guidelines, short papers should be 5-6 pages long and long papers 8-10 pages long. Authors must submit their papers through the EasyChair platform following this link. *Important Dates15 March 2024* - Deadline for paper submission *20 April 2024* - Deadline for notification for paper submission *15 May 2024* - Deadline for camera-ready paper submission *26 June 2024 *- TermTrends Workshop *Workshop Organisers* Rute Costa, NOVA FCSH / NOVA CLUNL (Portugal) Elena Montiel-Ponsoda, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain) Sara Carvalho, Univ. de Aveiro / NOVA CLUNL (Portugal) Patricia Martín-Chozas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain) Federica Vezzani, University of Padova (Italy) *Patricia Martín Chozas - Postdoctoral Researcher* * Ontology Engineering Group* Artificial Intelligence Department ETSI Informáticos - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Phone: (+34) 910673091

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*Extended deadline: 04/03* SIGUL2024 - The 3rd Annual Meeting of the ELRA-ISCA Special Interest Group on Under-resourced Languages
by Claudia Soria 26 Feb '24

26 Feb '24

Apologies for multiple postings. Due to several requests, we have extended the deadline for paper submission. *New submission deadline: March, 4th 2024* CFP: The 3rd Annual Meeting of the ELRA-ISCA Special Interest Group on Under-resourced Languages (SIGUL2024) * Workshop website: https://sigul-2024.ilc.cnr.it * When: Monday and Tuesday, May 20th-21st, 2024 * Where: Torino, Italy (co-located with LREC-COLING 2024) * Deadline for submissions: March 4th, 2024 (extended deadline) * Paper submission link: https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/sigul2024/ * Deadline for camera-ready papers: April 5th, 2024

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CFP : READI @ LREC-COLING 2024 - deadline extension
by Rémi Cardon 25 Feb '24

25 Feb '24

Call for Papers 3rd Workshop on Tools and Resources for People with Reading Difficulties READI @ LREC-COLING 2024, May 20th 2024 https://cental.uclouvain.be/readi2024/ *New submission deadline: March, 3rd 2024* Workshop description This interdisciplinary workshop invites participation from individuals with experience and/or interest in applications, technologies, and resources for reading. The general idea is to present state-of-the-art methods, and ongoing research questions, i.e., how can Natural Language Processing (NLP) methods leverage document accessibility? Are serious games appropriate/efficient to enhance reading? What kind of solutions AI proposes to help struggling readers? etc. By bringing together researchers from various research communities, we aim to address the issue from different angles: - Design, evaluation, use, and education related to technologies for reading - Assistive AI applications for learning to read - Existing solutions based on enhancing cognitive strategies to improve reading comprehension skills - Multimedia tools to develop literary education - Natural language applications for automatic text adaptation - AI-powered computer vision tools and applications - Opportunities, challenges, risks of technology-enhanced reading - ... Motivation and Topics of Interest With the growth of educational technologies, several innovative technology applications and resources are devoted to how to foster improvement in student learning to read. In addition, a number of assistive technologies for reading have appeared in the last decades, i.e. “devices and services that enhance the performance of individuals with a disability by enabling them to complete tasks more effectively, efficiently, and independently than otherwise possible” (Blackhurst, 1997). The field of special education has had a longstanding interest in technology and the potential it holds for individuals with language/speech disabilities, cognitive disorders, etc. (Edyburn, 2000). In this context, this workshop aims to present current state-of-the-art applications and approaches addressed to a variety of populations and contexts to enhance reading. While proposing current research on technology-enhanced reading, we would like to widen the perspective of the workshop for ‘field’ professionals (teachers and educators, speech-language pathologists, etc.). The workshop will thus address topics concerning specialized technology, tools, and resources, how they serve specific individuals or processes (i.e., learning to read, reading, comprehending), the impact of the devices on their lives and activities, etc. In the light of recent advances in AI, we would like to bring to the fore innovative works from research to applications in fieldwork. The workshop aims to address the issue from a variety of domains and languages, including education, natural language processing, linguistics, psycholinguistics, cognitive sciences, psychophysics of vision, etc. The focus will be on target populations struggling with learning to read, or with decoding, or with comprehending, etc. such as illiterates, aphasic or dyslexic readers, deaf or hard of hearing, low vision or visually impaired readers, people with autism or speech/language disorders, etc. to name a few. Topics include but are not limited to the following: - Measuring and evaluating readability and text complexity - Models, corpora, lexicons for text adaptation - Text adaptation approaches for target audiences - Meaning representation and multimodal text adaptation - Text generation of adapted contents - Educational devices and/or smart technologies for reading: - serious games for improving reading comprehension skills - text-to-speech applications - decoding training applications to strengthen early reading skills - booklets with lexical resources to look up unknown words - graded materials for adaptive learning - ... - ... Important Dates submission deadline: *March, 3rd, 2024* (23:59 AoE) notification of acceptance: March 20th, 2024 deadline for camera-ready versions: April 5th, 2024 (23:59 AoE) workshop: May 20th, 2024 Paper Submission Instructions Paper Length: submissions are expected to be between a minimum of 4 and a maximum of 8 pages in length, plus unlimited pages for references. Submission Format : all submissions must be formatted following the LREC style guidelines https://lrec-coling-2024.org/authors-kit/ (Word, OpenOffice, and LaTeX templates are available). Submissions should be made via the START conference system: https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/readi2024/. Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. The submissions will be anonymous (blind reviews). Organizing Committee Rémi Cardon Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium Núria Gala Aix Marseille Université, France Amalia Todirascu Université de Strasbourg, France Rodrigo Wilkens Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium Contact Núria Gala (nuria.gala(a)univ-amu.fr) Program Committee David Alfter, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Fernando Alva-Manchego, Cardiff University, UK Delphine Bernhard, Université de Strasbourg, France Dominique Brunato, ILC, Pisa, Italy Rémi Cardon, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium Éric Castet, Aix Marseille Université, France Stéphanie Ducrot, Aix Marseille Université, France Thomas François, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium Núria Gala, Aix Marseille Université, France Ludivine Javourey-Drevet, Université de Lille, France Arne Jönsson, Linköping University, Sweden Éole Lapeyre, Aix Marseille Université, France Horacio Saggion, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Catalonia, Spain Matthew Shardlow, Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom Didier Schwab, Université Grenoble Alpes, France Anaïs Tack, K.U. Leuven, Belgium Amalia Todirascu, Université de Strasbourg, France Vincent Vandeghinste, Instituut voor de Nederlandse Taal (Dutch Lge. Institute), Belgium Giulia Venturi, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale A. Zampolli (ILC-CNR), Pisa, Italy Elena Volodina, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Rodrigo Wilkens, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium Describe and Share your LRs! When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC-COLING authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones).

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SIGDIAL 2024: Call for Papers
by Vera Demberg 25 Feb '24

25 Feb '24

** *The 25th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL) will be held in Kyoto, Japan on September 18-20, 2024. SIGDIAL will be co-located with INLG which will take place after SIGDIAL in Tokyo, Japan.* * The SIGDIAL venue provides a regular forum for the presentation of cutting edge research in dialogue and discourse to both academic and industry researchers, continuing a series of 24 successful previous meetings. The conference is sponsored by the SIGDIAL organization - the Special Interest Group in discourse and dialogue for ACL and ISCA. Topics of Interest We welcome formal, corpus-based, implementation, experimental, or analytical work on discourse and dialogue including, but not restricted to, the following themes: * Discourse Processing: Rhetorical and coherence relations, discourse parsing and discourse connectives. Reference resolution. Event representation and causality in narrative. Argument mining. Quality and style in text. Cross-lingual discourse analysis. Discourse issues in applications such as machine translation, text summarization, essay grading, question answering and information retrieval. Discourse issues in text generated by large language models. * Dialogue Systems: Task oriented and open domain spoken, multi-modal, embedded, situated, and text-based dialogue systems, their components, evaluation and applications, Knowledge representation and extraction for dialogue, State representation, tracking and policy learning. Social and emotional intelligence, Dialogue issues in virtual reality and human-robot interaction. Entrainment, alignment and priming. Generation for dialogue, Style, voice, and personality. Safety and ethics issues in Dialogue. * Corpora, Tools and Methodology: Corpus-based and experimental work on discourse and dialogue, including supporting topics such as annotation tools and schemes, crowdsourcing, evaluation methodology and corpora. * Pragmatic and Semantic Modeling: Pragmatics and semantics of conversations (i.e., beyond a single sentence), e.g., rational speech act, conversation acts, intentions, conversational implicature, presuppositions. * Applications of Dialogue and Discourse Processing Technology. Submissions The program committee welcomes the submission of long papers, short papers, and demo descriptions. Submitted long papers may be accepted for oral or for poster presentation. Accepted short papers will be presented as posters. * Long papersubmissions must describe substantial, original, completed and unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis should be included. Long papers must be no longer than 8 pages, including title, text, figures and tables. An unlimited number of pages is allowed for references. Two additional pages are allowed for appendices containing sample discourses/dialogues and algorithms, and an extra page is allowed in the final version to address reviewers’ comments. * Short papersubmissions must describe original and unpublished work. Please note that a short paper is not a shortened long paper. Instead short papers should have a point that can be made in a few pages, such as a small, focused contribution; a negative result; or an interesting application nugget. Short papers should be no longer than 4 pagesincluding title, text, figures and tables. An unlimited number of pages is allowed for references. One additional page is allowed for sample discourses/dialogues and algorithms, and an extra page is allowed in the final version to address reviewers’ comments. * Demo descriptionsshould be no longer than 4 pagesincluding title, text, examples, figures, tables and references. A separate one-page document should be provided to the program co-chairs for demo descriptions, specifying furniture and equipment needed for the demo. Authors are encouraged to also submit additional accompanying materials, such as corpora (or corpus examples), demo code, videos and sound files. Multiple Submissions SIGDIAL 2024 cannot accept work for publication or presentation that will be (or has been) published elsewhere and that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications whose review periods overlap with that of SIGDIAL. Any questions regarding submissions can be sent to program-chairs [at] sigdial.org <http://sigdial.org/>. Blind Review Building on previous years’ move to anonymous long and short paper submissions, SIGDIAL 2024 will follow the ACL policies for preserving the integrity of double blind review (see author guidelines <https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Author_Guidelines>). Unlike long and short papers, demo descriptions will not be anonymous. Demo descriptions should include the authors’ names and affiliations, and self-references are allowed. Submission Format All long, short, and demonstration submissions must follow the two-column ACL format, which are available as an Overleaf template <https://www.overleaf.com/read/crtcwgxzjskr>and also downloadable directly <https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files>(Latex and Word) Submissions must conform to the official ACL style guidelines, which are contained in these templates. Submissions must be electronic, in PDF format. Submission Deadline SIGDIAL will accept regular submissions through the Softconf/START system, as well as commitment of already reviewed papers through the ACL Rolling Review (ARR) system. Regular submission Authors have to fill in the submission form in the Softconf/START system and upload an initial pdf of their papers before May 17, 2024(23:59 GMT-11). Details and the submission link will be posted on the conference website <https://2024.sigdial.org/>. Submissionvia ACL Rolling Review (ARR) <https://aclrollingreview.org/> Please refer to the ARR Call for Papers <https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp>for detailed information about submission guidelines to ARR. The commitment deadline for authors to submit their reviewed papers, reviews, and meta-review to SIGDIAL 2024 is June 19, 2024. Note that the paper needs to be fully reviewed by ARR in order to make a commitment, thus the latest date for ARR submission will be April 15, 2024. Mentoring Acceptable submissions that require language (English) or organizational assistance will be flagged for mentoring, and accepted with a recommendation to revise with the help of a mentor. An experienced mentor who has previously published in the SIGDIAL venue will then help the authors of these flagged papers prepare their submissions for publication. Best Paper Awards In order to recognize significant advancements in dialogue/discourse science and technology, SIGDIAL 2024 will include best paper awards. All papers at the conference are eligible for the best paper awards. A selection committee consisting of prominent researchers in the fields of interest will select the recipients of the awards. SIGDIAL 2024 Program Committee Vera Demberg and Stefan Ultes Conference Website: https://2024.sigdial.org/ <https://2024.sigdial.org/> *

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CFP - AraFinNLP Shared Task 2024
by El-Haj, Mo 24 Feb '24

24 Feb '24

Call for Participants: The 1st AraFinNLP Shared Task 2024 Shared-task URL: https://sina.birzeit.edu/arbanking77/arafinnlp/ Registration: https://forms.gle/rAZkRuiiEdjzTDedA We are excited to announce the first Arabic Financial NLP (AraFinNLP) shared task, which aims to advance Arabic Financial Natural Language Processing (NLP). In today's dynamic financial landscape, the Arab world is witnessing significant growth in its stock markets and financial sectors, highlighting the pivotal role of Financial NLP in this context. AraFinNLP shared task is part of the 2nd ArabicNLP conference, which is co-located with ACL 2024 in Bangkok, Thailand, scheduled for August 16, 2024. Shared Task Description The AraFinNLP shared task comprises two subtasks: Subtask 1: Multi-dialect Intent Detection Subtask-1 involves Cross-dialect Intent Detection in the banking domain. This subtask is centred around developing models that can accurately classify customer intents from queries in various Arabic dialects. Participants will be provided with a dataset containing queries in English and their corresponding MSA and Palestinian translations. The challenge lies in training models that not only understand MSA and Palestinian but are also adept at interpreting an array of Arabic dialects, such as Gulf, Levantine, and North African. This subtask aims to foster the creation of NLP tools that can seamlessly interact across the diverse linguistic landscape of the Arab world, enhancing customer experience and operational efficiency in the banking sector. The evaluation process for this subtask, combined with the second subtask of Dialectical Translation for Intent Detection, will be designed to comprehensively assess the effectiveness of these models in a real-world, multi-dialectal context. Subtask 2: Cross-dialect Translation and Intent Preservation Subtask-2 focuses on the translation from MSA to various Arabic dialects: Palestinian, Saudi, Tunisian, and Moroccan, with the Palestinian dialect provided as a training set. The objective is to retain the original intent in the translated dialects, ensuring that the intent detection is as effective as the MSA examples. This subtask will test the ability of models to adapt MSA banking queries into dialectal Arabic while preserving the semantic integrity, crucial for accurate intent classification, despite the potential complexities introduced by dialectal variations. In Subtask-2, participants will receive a parallel dataset containing banking queries in both MSA and Palestinian Arabic, and their associated intents. The subtask at hand is to accurately translate these queries into the following Arabic dialects: Palestinian, Saudi, Tunisian, and Moroccan. Participants will use the intent labels to examine if the resulting translations' intents are preserved and aligned with the original MSA queries. For more details please visit: https://sina.birzeit.edu/arbanking77/arafinnlp/ Important Dates - February 24, 2024: Shared task announcement. - March 1, 2024: Release of training and development datasets - April 5, 2024: Registration deadline. - April 10, 2024: Test set made available. - April 22, 2024: Codalab Test system submission deadline. - May 17, 2024: Shared task papers due date - June 17, 2024: Notification of acceptance - July 1, 2024: Camera-ready papers due - August 16, 2024: ArabicNLP conference Organising Committee - Mo El-Haj, Lancaster University, United Kingdom - Houda Bouamor, Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar - Saad Ezzini, Lancaster University, United Kingdom - Ismail Berrada, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco - Sanad Malaysha, Birzeit University, Palestine - Mohammed Khalilia, Birzeit University, Palestine - Mustafa Jarrar, Birzeit University, Palestine - Sultan Almujaiwel, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia Registration Registration is now open up until 5 April 2024: https://forms.gle/MuQb9H1Gq2nQoFUg8 We look forward to your participation in the AraFinNLP shared task. Best wishes, AraFinNLP Organising Committee -------------------------------- Dr Mo El-Haj Senior Lecturer in NLP Director of Admissions (SCC) Co-Director of UCREL NLP Group Natural Language Engineering (NLE) Journal Editorial Board https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/natural-language-engineering Advisory Board of the Natural Language Processing Book Series https://benjamins.com/catalog/nlp School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/staff/elhaj @DocElhaj You may receive emails from me outside what are your typical office hours. I do not expect you to respond to my email outside your working hours.

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