March 2024 - Corpora

3-year researcher position in NLP and event extraction at the University of Oslo
by Erik Velldal 07 Mar '24

07 Mar '24

[Apologies for cross-posting] A postdoc-level position as Research Fellow in Natural Language Processing is available in the Language Technology Group (LTG) at the University of Oslo (UiO), Norway. The 3-year position is affiliated with a new research project focusing on event extraction from news articles in the domain of armed conflicts. While the project is coordinated by the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), the researcher position is located within LTG which is the main project partner. For more information about the position and the research group, please see the full announcement here: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/259513/researcher-in-natural… The closing date is April 10th, 2024. Please do not hesitate to contact me for any further information. Best regards, -erik -- Erik Velldal Language Technology Group Section for Machine Learning Department of Informatics, University of Oslo

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Postdoctoral Researcher - Language Technology- University of Galway-reg
by Bharathi Raja Asoka Chakravarthi 07 Mar '24

07 Mar '24

Postdoctoral Researcher - Language Technology, *Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics**, Data Science Institute,* *Ref. No. University of Galway 060-24 * Applications are invited from suitable candidates for a full-time, fixed-term position as Postdoctoral Researcher with the Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics at the Data Science Institute <https://www.universityofgalway.ie/dsi/work_with_us/> (DSI), College of Science and Engineering at the University of Galway. This position is funded by the Insight SFI Research Centre <https://www.universityofgalway.ie/dsi/sfi_research/> for Data Analytics and is available from 1st June 2024 to 30th December 2025 (18-months). Explore Life in Galway - University of Galway <https://www.universityofgalway.ie/student-life/galwaylife/> SFI Research - University of Galway <https://www.universityofgalway.ie/dsi/sfi_research/> Data Science Institute <https://www.universityofgalway.ie/dsi/work_with_us/> *Job Description:* This postdoctoral position is in the area of Insight Research Challenge 4 on “Multimodal Data Analysis” and will focus on the combination of natural language processing and multimodal machine learning. In addition, the project will focus on the use of these technologies to improve NLP for equality, diversity, inclusion, and under-resourced languages. There has been an elevation in hate speech or abuse, and this position will focus on the LGBTQIA+ community. Due to the shortage of resources in the said study area, more research is needed. The Postdoctoral position will focus on improving the research by creating more data and creating novel NLP models to identify homophobic or transphobic comments in social media. In the context of this funded position, we will also look at the area of cultural analytics, which will involve the development of methods for the analysis of multimodal data (e.g. textual data and image data) from different cultural perspectives. The tasks of the successful candidate include the organization of an annotation effort, in which various types of hate and culturally specific attributes are annotated in a crowdsourcing setting. Based on this novel resource, the candidate will develop new methods for the detection of hate speech against minorities and create language and multimodal technologies for equality, diversity, and inclusion. This will also continue to improve the development of novel methods that advance the state of the art in relation to equality, diversity, inclusion and other bias mitigation areas. The postdoctoral position will focus on research work, however, the candidate will also be expected to contribute to the activities of the institute, in particular, through writing grant applications, assist in supervising PhD and MSc students and in public engagement activities as appropriate. The successful candidate will be based at the Data Science Institute and will be part of the Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics at the University of Galway. The candidate will be supported in their professional development, be able to avail of a range of career level focussed training opportunities and have the potential to publish research findings in leading journals and international events. *Duties:* · Research, design, and develop foundation models in the field of NLP and Multimodal Learning, based on the latest advancements. · Conduct a specified programme of research and scholarship under the supervision and direction of the Principal Investigator. · Establish principles and tools to support best practices for data and NLP models in collaboration with the European data and AI communities. · Plan, coordinate, and implement the described research project (this may include managing a small research team/coordinating other researcher activities). · Assist in the attraction of funding. · Keep up to date with research related methods and techniques, in particular, developments in the specific research area. · Collaborate with colleagues on areas of shared research interest. · Present on research progress and outcomes e.g. to bodies supervising research; conferences, steering groups; other team members, as agreed with the PI/project leader. · Produce top-quality journal and conference publications in collaboration with students and PI. · Mentor and assist, as appropriate and as directed, the research graduate students in the institute. · Engage in Education and Public Engagement (EPE) activities of the institute. · Any other duties assigned commensurate to this level of post *Qualifications/Skills required: * *Essential Requirements: * · PhD in Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, Computer Science or Linguistics · Published at top conferences in the field or in high impact factor journals. · Excellent understanding of experimental design and scientific methodologies · Strong command of oral and written English · Good programming skills *Desirable Requirements: * · Strong knowledge of NLP / language technology for equality, diversity, and inclusion · Knowledge of debiasing techniques in NLP tasks · Knowledge of multimodal learning approaches · Programming experience with deep learning in Python · Experience in writing grant proposals *Salary*: Postdoctoral Researcher Point 1 €42,783 to Point 10 €54,965 per annum, pro rata for shorter and/or part-time contracts (public sector pay policy rules pertaining to new entrants will apply), depending on qualifications. The default position for all new public sector appointments is the 1st point of the salary scale. This may be reviewed, and consideration afforded to appointment at a higher point on the payscale (subject to the project’s funding limitations), where evidence of prior years’ equivalent experience is accepted in determining placement on the scale above point 1, subject to the maximum of the scale. Research Salary Scales - University of Galway). <https://www.universityofgalway.ie/human-resources/recruitment-and-selection…> *Start date*: Position is available from 1st June 2024. *Continuing Professional Development/Training*: Researchers at University of Galway are encouraged to avail of a range of training and development opportunities designed to support their personal career development plans. University of Galway provides continuing professional development supports for all researchers seeking to build their own career pathways either within or beyond academia. Researchers are encouraged to engage with our Researcher Development Centre (RDC) upon commencing employment - see HERE <http://www.nuigalway.ie/rdc> for further information. Further information on research and working at University of Galway is available on Research at University of Galway <http://www.nuigalway.ie/our-research/> For information on moving to Ireland please see www.euraxess.ie *Informal enquiries* concerning the post may be made to: Dr. Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi bharathi.raja(a)universityofgalway.ie *To Apply:* Applications to include a covering letter, CV, and the contact details of three referees should be sent, via e-mail (in word or PDF only) to Dr. Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi bharathi.raja(a)universityofgalway.ie Please put reference number *University of Galway 060-24 *in subject line of e-mail application. *Closing date for receipt of applications is 5.00 pm (Irish Time) 31st March, 2024* We reserve the right to re-advertise or extend the closing date for this post. University of Galway is an equal opportunities employer. All positions are recruited in line with Open, Transparent, Merit (OTM) and Competency based recruitment Dr. Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Assistant Professor / Lecturer-above-the-bar School of Computer Science, University of Galway, Ireland Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, Data Science Institute, University of Galway, Ireland E-mail: bharathiraja.akr(a)gmail.com , bharathi.raja(a)universityofgalway.ie <bharathiraja.asokachakravarthi(a)universityofgalway.ie> Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=irCl028AAAAJ&hl=en Website: https://www.universityofgalway.ie/our-research/people/computer-science/bhar… <https://www.universityofgalway.ie/our-research/people/computer-science/bhar…>

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What is the License type for WMT dev/test sets?
by liling tan 07 Mar '24

07 Mar '24

Dear MT community, We have been using the WMT test sets for a decade but it'll be nice to get clarity on the license type and usability in the age of LLMs. Is there an institution or person that we can approach to get an answer for the license for WMT dev/test datasets? Thank you in advance for the tips! Regards, Liling

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UMR Parsing Workshop 2024 - Final Call
by kristine.stenzel＠colorado.edu 07 Mar '24

07 Mar '24

Final CALL for Papers UMR Parsing Workshop University of Colorado, Boulder June 14, 2024 https://umr4nlp.github.io/web/UMRParsingWorkshop.html Organizers: Nianwen Xue, James Martin, Jon Cai, Marie Claire, Jayeol Chun, Haibo Sun This workshop will focus on developing parsers for Uniform Meaning Representations. The goal is to start from raw text from real-world settings that could be in any one of many typologically different languages, even low-resource languages for which there is little or no training data. This can be achieved by exploiting a common semantic annotation standard. This workshop has been made possible by funding for NSF Collaborative Research: Building a Broad Infrastructure for Uniform Meaning Representations (Award # 2213805), which is aimed at developing guidelines and annotation for cross-lingual Uniform Meaning Representations, based on the original Abstract Meaning Representation guidelines for English, but ensuring cross-linguistically consistent annotation and recoverability of the original raw texts. This workshop will overlap with the last day of the Colorado UMR Annotation Summer School. https://umr4nlp.github.io/web/SummerSchool.html The workshop is open to everyone and will cover the fundamentals of UMR annotation and the differences between AMR and UMR. In addition to an invited speaker, there will be presentations on recent successful approaches to AMR parsing and how they can be applied to UMR parsing. We welcome submissions from anyone on related topics, such as: ● AMR or UMR parsing for any language ● AMR or UMR generation for any language ● Evaluation metrics for AMR or UMR parsing ● Bootstrapping of AMRs or UMRs from related semantic representations such as Propbanks ● Projections of English AMR onto other languages; ● Challenges of applying AMR annotation to languages other than English; ● Challenges of accurate multi-sentence coreference as a subtask of AMR parsing; ● Any other topic related to the parsing and generation of AMRs or UMRs. Important dates ● Workshop paper submissions due: March 30, 2024 ● Notification of acceptance: April 25, 2024 ● Camera-ready versions due: May 30, 2024 Submissions Submissions should report original and unpublished research on topics of interest to the workshop. Accepted papers are expected to be presented at the workshop and will be published in the workshop proceedings. They should emphasize obtained results rather than intended work and should clearly indicate the state of completion of the reported results. Submission is electronic, using the Workshop submission site in Easy Chair. https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=umrpw2024 Submissions must adhere to the two-column format of ACL venues, using the Overleaf template taken from ACL 2023. https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/acl-2023-proceedings-template/qjdg… Initial submissions should be fully anonymous to ensure double-blind reviewing. Long papers must not exceed eight (8) pages of content; short papers must not exceed four (4) pages of content. References and appendices do not count against these limits. To ensure double-blind reviews, papers must not include the authors’ names and affiliations or self-references that reveal any author’s identity. Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review.

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Deadline extension: VarDial 2024
by Yves Scherrer 07 Mar '24

07 Mar '24

VarDial 2024, the eleventh workshop on NLP for similar languages, varieties and dialects, will be held in conjunction with NAACL in Mexico City, on June 20/21, 2024. The paper submission deadline is extended to March 17, 2024 (AoE). We welcome papers dealing with one or more of the following topics: - Corpora, resources, and tools for similar languages, varieties and dialects; - Adaptation of tools (taggers, parsers) for similar languages, varieties and dialects; - Evaluation of language resources and tools when applied to language varieties; - Reusability of language resources in NLP applications (e.g., for machine translation, POS tagging, syntactic parsing, etc.); - Corpus-driven studies in dialectology and language variation; - Computational approaches to mutual intelligibility between dialects and similar languages; - Automatic identification of lexical variation; - Automatic classification of language varieties; - Text similarity and adaptation between language varieties; - Linguistic issues in the adaptation of language resources and tools (e.g., semantic discrepancies, lexical gaps, false friends); - Machine translation between closely related languages, language varieties and dialects. In addition to the topics listed above, we also welcome papers dealing with diachronic language variation (e.g. phylogenetic methods, historical dialects). Important dates: - Extended paper submission deadline: March 17 (AoE) - Commitment deadline for pre-reviewed papers: April 7 - Notification of acceptance: April 14 - Camera-ready papers due: April 24 - Workshop date: June 20/21 Details: https://sites.google.com/view/vardial-2024/call-for-papers

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PhD and postdoc positions on Natural Language Understanding at Pioneer Centre for AI
by Isabelle Augenstein 07 Mar '24

07 Mar '24

A PhD and two postdoc positions on natural language understanding are now available at the Pioneer Centre for AI<https://www.aicentre.dk/>. You can read more about the positions here<https://www.aicentre.dk/jobs>. PhD Fellowship on Factual Text Generation While recent large language models demonstrate surprising fluency and predictive capabilities in their generated text, they have been demonstrated to generate factual inaccuracies even when they have encoded truthful information. This limits their utility and safety in real world scenarios where guarantees of factuality are needed. To address this, the project will explore methods for improving the factuality of text generation with respect to both objective real-world facts and provided source documents. We are looking for candidates with a background in computer science, machine learning, natural language processing, computational social science, or similar. The candidate should have an interest in automatic text generation and fact checking. They should also have an interest in interdisciplinary research endeavors, including at the Pioneer Center for AI. Early research experience, especially with empirical research methods, or relevant industry experience, will be a bonus. The principal supervisor is Professor Isabelle Augenstein<mailto:augenstein@di.ku.dk> and the co-supervisor is Dustin Wright<mailto:dw@di.ku.dk>. Application deadline: 1 April 2024. Apply here<https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx/?cid=1307&departmentI…>. Postdoctoral Fellowship on NLP for Computational Social Science The Pioneer Centre for AI and Department of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen invite applications for a 2-year postdoctoral full-time research position in the domain of Natural Language Processing. NLP is becoming an increasingly powerful tool for social scientists. Yet, the intersection between the two disciplines is still poorly explored, with research in the two disciplines often being conducted as separate streams. The goal of this project is to research methods which can more directly be useful for downstream social science applications. One such application is to analyse common narratives in news, which requires methods including (interpretable) topic modelling, framing detection, social media analysis, etc. The successful candidate will be affiliated with a larger initiative on narrative analysis, spanning different content modalities, with the autonomy to define their project in this larger context. The research will be conducted in collaboration with researchers at the Pioneer Centre for Artificial Intelligence’s Speech and Language Collaboratory, CopeNLU<https://www.copenlu.com/> and the Belongie Lab<https://www.belongielab.org/>. Inquiries about the position can be made to Professor Isabelle Augenstein<mailto:augenstein@di.ku.dk>. Application deadline: 7 April 2024. Apply here<https://jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabelige-stillinger/?show=161353>. Postdoctoral Fellowship on Multi-Modal Fact Checking The Pioneer Centre for AI and Department of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen invite applications for a 2-year postdoctoral full-time research position in the domain of Natural Language Processing. Online content can include multiple different modalities, ranging from text to images or tables. Increasingly, detecting false information requires the understanding of a combination of these modalities and the relationship between them. This project will focus on developing general-purpose multi-modal methods for automatic fact checking in various domains, such as scientific publications, news or social media. Inquiries about the position can be made to Professor Isabelle Augenstein<mailto:augenstein@di.ku.dk> or Assistant Professor Desmond Elliot<mailto:de@di.ku.dk>. Application deadline: 7 April 2024. Apply here<https://jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabelige-stillinger/?show=161352>. Isabelle Augenstein, Dr. Scient., Ph.D. Professor and Head of the NLP Section, Department of Computer Science (DIKU) Co-Lead, Pioneer Centre for Artificial Intelligence University of Copenhagen Østervold Observatory Øster Voldgade 3 1350 Copenhagen augenstein(a)di.ku.dk<mailto:augenstein@di.ku.dk> http://isabelleaugenstein.github.io/

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SemDial 2024, TrentoLogue: First Call for Papers
by Raffaella Bernardi 07 Mar '24

07 Mar '24

SemDial 2024 -- TrentoLogue The 28th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue 11 and 12 September 2024 University of Trento, Italy https://tinyurl.com/3c7rracn TrentoLogue will be the 28th edition of the SemDial workshop series which aim to bring together researchers working on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue in fields such as formal semantics and pragmatics, computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience. Keynote speakers Uri Hasson, Princeton University Azzurra Ruggeri, Max Planck Institute Bernardo Magnini, Fondazone Bruno Kessler (FBK) # IMPORTANT DATES: * Long paper submissions: May 26, 2024 * Reviews due to: June 24, 2024 * Notification for long papers: July 1, 2024 * Short paper submissions: July 11, 2024 * Notification for short papers: July 17, 2024 * Camera Ready: August 26, 2024 * Registration Deadline: August 27, 2024 Note: All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 ("Anywhere on Earth"). #TOPICS We welcome submissions with formal, computational, and empirical approaches to the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue, including, but not limited to: * the dynamics of agents' information states in dialogue * common ground/mutual belief * goals, intentions, and commitments in communication * turn-taking and interaction control * semantic/pragmatic interpretation in dialogue * dialogue and discourse structure * categorization of dialogue phenomena in corpora * child-adult interaction * language learning through dialogue * gesture, gaze, and intonational meaning in communication * multimodal dialogue * interpretation and reasoning in spoken dialogue systems * dialogue management * designing and evaluating dialogue systems * modelling miscommunication, disfluency, and repair * dialogue/interaction studies from a psychological perspective * neuroscience of dialogue * Interactivist approaches to dialogue * animal communication # SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: Long papers: Authors should submit an anonymous paper of at most 8 pages of content (up to 2 additional pages are allowed for references). Short papers: Authors should submit a non-anonymized paper of at most 2 pages of content (up to 1 additional page allowed for references). Submissions to this track can be non-archival on request. Submissions should be pdf files and use the LaTeX or Word ( https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files) templates provided for ACL. Concurrent submission policy: Papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications must provide this information, using a footnote on the title page of the submissions. SemDial 2024 cannot accept work for publication or presentation that will be (or has been) published elsewhere. Submission is electronic, using the EasyChair conference management system at our Easychair submission site https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semdial2024trentolog Organizing Committee Raffaella Bernardi Vanessa Maria Caleca Jakub Szymanik Roberto Zamparelli Programme Committee Chairs Raffaella Bernardi, University of Trento Ellen Breitholtz, University of Gothenburg Giuseppe Riccardi, University of Trento TrentoLogue is endorsed by SIGdial and SIGsem. ============================================================== University of Trento CIMeC: C225, second floor, Corso Bettini 31, 38068 Rovereto (TN), DISI: Povo 2, Room: 110, Via Sommarive 9, I 38123, Povo (TN) Tel. +39 0464 80 8704 (CIMeC) http://disi.unitn.it/~bernardi/ ==============================================================

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Final CFP: CL4Health Workshop@LREC-COLING - Deadline: March 15, 2024
by Paul Thompson 07 Mar '24

07 Mar '24

First Workshop on Patient-Oriented Language Processing (CL4HEALTH) @ LREC-COLING 2024 SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 15, 2024 Main conference resubmissions: We welcome submissions of topically-relevant papers that have been rejected from the main LREC-COLING conference. The scores and reviews from the main conference will be taken into consideration, and the highest ranking papers may be considered without additional review. Please ensure that you paste the original review and scores within the indicated text box on the submission page. https://bionlp.nlm.nih.gov/cl4health2024/ Torino, Italy (co-located with LREC-COLING 2024) May 20, 2024 SCOPE This first workshop on patient-oriented language processing aims to establish a general venue for presenting research and applications focused on patients’ needs, including summarizing health records for the patients, answering consumer-health questions using reliable resources, detecting misinformation or potentially harmful information, and providing multi-modal information, such as video, if it better satisfies patients’ needs. Such a venue is needed both to invigorate patient-oriented language processing research and to build a community of researchers interested in this area. The growing interest in this topic is fueled by several current trends: - a proliferation of online services that target patients but do not always act in their best interests - policy changes that allow patients to access their health records written in the professional vernacular, which may confuse the patients or lead to misinterpretation; - replacement of customer services with chat bots; and - the increasing tendency of patients to consult online resources as a second or even first opinion on their health problems. We invite papers concerning all areas of language processing focused on patients’ health. The workshop will be centered on language technologies for health-related issues concerning the public that include, but are not limited to: - accessibility and trustworthiness of health information provided to the public - explainable and evidence-supported answers to consumer-health questions - accurate summarization of patients’ health records at their health-literacy level - understanding patients' non-informational needs through their language, and accurate and accessible interpretations of biomedical research Broadly, CL4Health is concerned with the resources, computational approaches, and behavioral and socio-economic aspects of the public interactions with digital resources in search of health-related information that satisfies their information needs and guides their actions. The topics of interest for the workshop include but are not limited to the following: - Health-related information needs and online behaviors of the public - Quality assurance and ethics considerations in language technologies and approaches applied to text and other modalities for public consumption - Summarization of EHR data for patients - Detection of misinformation in health-related resources and mitigation of potential harms - Consumer-health question answering - Biomedical text simplification/adaptation - Dialogue systems to support patients’ interactions with clinicians, healthcare systems, and online resources - Linguistic resources, data and tools for language technologies focusing on consumer health - Resources, strategies and metrics for system testing and evaluation - Infrastructures and pre-trained language models for consumer health - Processing and annotation platforms - Synthetic data generation and data augmentation. IMPORTANT DATES March 15, 2024 - Paper submissions due March 25, 2024 - Notification of acceptance March 31, 2024 - Camera-ready papers due May 20, 2024 - Workshop @ LREC-COLING SUBMISSIONS Two types of submissions are invited: - Full papers: should not exceed eight (8) pages of text, plus unlimited references. These are intended to be reports of original research. - Short papers: may consist of up to four (4) pages of content, plus unlimited references. Appropriate short paper topics include preliminary results, application notes, descriptions of work in progress, etc. Electronic Submission: Submissions must be electronic and in PDF format, using the Softconf START conference management system. Submissions need to be anonymous. Submission site: https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/cl4health2024/ Dual submission policy: papers may NOT be submitted to the workshop if they are or will be concurrently submitted to another meeting or publication. MEETING The workshop will be hybrid. Virtual attendees must be registered for the workshop to access the online environment. Accepted papers will be presented as posters or oral presentations based on the reviewers’ recommendations. All accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings and ACL Anthology INVITED TALKS - Barbara Di Eugenio, University of Illinois Chicago - Abeed Sarker, Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Research in Biomedical Informatics @ Emory School of Medicine - Natalia Grabar, CNRS Researcher, Université de Lille ORGANIZERS - Dina Demner-Fushman, US National Library of Medicine - Sophia Ananiadou, National Centre for Text Mining and University of Manchester, UK - Paul Thompson, National Centre for Text Mining and University of Manchester, UK - Brian Ondov, US National Library of Medicine PROGRAMME COMMITTEE - Sophia Ananiadou, National Centre for Text Mining and University of Manchester, UK - Luiz Henrique Bonifacio, University of Waterloo, Canada - Leonardo Campillos-Llanos, Spanish National Research Council, Spain - Dina Demner-Fushman, National Library of Medicine, USA - Manas Gaur, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA - Natalia Grabar, Université de Lille, France - Cyril Grouin, Université de Paris-Saclay, CNRS, LISN, Orsay, France - Tudor Groza, Curtin University, Australia - Deepak Gupta, National Library of Medicine, USA - Anna Koroleva, Springbok AI, UK - Alberto Lavelli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy - Aurélie Névéol, Université de Paris-Saclay, CNRS, LISN, Orsay, France - Brian Ondov, National Library of Medicine, USA - Anthony Rios, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA - Miguel Rocha, University of Minho, Portugal - Roland Roller, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) Germany - Abeed Sarker, Emory School of Medicine, USA - Paul Thompson, National Centre for Text Mining and University of Manchester, UK - Amelie Wührl, University of Stuttgart, Germany - Pierre Zweigenbaum, Université de Paris-Saclay, CNRS, LISN, Orsay, France

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second call for papers: eacl 2024 SRW
by Neele Falk 07 Mar '24

07 Mar '24

** *SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS: EACL 2024 STUDENT RESEARCH WORKSHOP * * Student Research Workshop co-located with EACL 2024 in St. Julians, Malta. Workshop Dates: March 21/22 2024 ***Paper Submission Deadline: December 18, 2023 (Direct) and January 17, 2024 (through ARR)*** ** About the Student Research Workshop ** The EACL 2024 Student Research Workshop (SRW) is a forum to bring together students investigating various areas of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing. The workshop provides an excellent opportunity for participants to present their work and to receive mentorship and valuable feedback from the international research community. The workshop's goal is to aid students at multiple stages of their education, including undergraduate, MSc/MA, junior and senior PhD students, in getting familiar with conducting and presenting their research. General Invitation for Submission* We invite papers in two different categories: * ** * Thesis Proposals: This category is appropriate for PhD students who have decided on a thesis topic and wish to get feedback on their proposal and broader ideas for their continuing work. * Research Papers: Papers in this category can describe completed work, or work in progress with preliminary results. For these papers, the first author **MUST BE** a current student (graduate or undergraduate). Topics of interest for the SRW are the same as for the main EACL 2024 conference:<https://www.2022.aclweb.org/calls>https://2024.eacl.org/calls/papers/ <https://2024.eacl.org/calls/papers/> We are opening a unique opportunity for the submission of research papers that, while not accepted to the EACL main conference, align well with the themes of this workshop. To be eligible for submission, the first author must be a current student. Additionally, submissions should be complemented with the reviews from ARR to provide context and insights for evaluation. The submission deadline for this will be January 17, 2024. Why Submit to EACL SRW? * Mentorship program: EACL SRW provides a unique opportunity for students to receive constructive feedback and advise from more senior researchers through our on-site mentorship program. * Improving your publication record: Publishing a paper as an undergraduate or as a MSc/MA student is beneficial when applying for a PhD program. Publishing a paper in an EACL SRW workshop can be really helpful for improving students’ publication records. * Negative results: we encourage the submission of studies with negative results providing insights on why and in which scenarios a particular method fails. All accepted papers and thesis proposals will be presented in the main conference poster sessions, which will give students an opportunity to interact with and to present their work to a large and diverse audience, including top researchers in the field and assigned mentors.** *Important Dates* **** * Direct Workshop paper submission: December 18, 2023 * Pre-reviewed ARR paper submission: January 17, 2024 * Notification of acceptance: January 20, 2024 * Camera-ready deadline: January 30 2024 * Workshop dates: March 21-22, 2024 All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth"). ** Submission Requirements ** We accept both archival submissions (which will be included in the conference proceedings) and non-archival submissions (which will be presented at the workshop but will not be included in the proceedings). ** The archival submissions must follow the anonymity period and the restrictions of the main conference. Short papersconsist of up to four (4) pages of content, plus unlimited references. Upon acceptance, they will be given five (5) content pages in the proceedings. Long papersconsist of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus unlimited references. Upon acceptance, they will be given nine (9) content pages in the proceedings. Thesis proposalsconsist of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus unlimited references. The title must begin with “Thesis Proposal:”. Upon acceptance, they will be given nine (9) content pages in the proceedings. We strongly recommend the use of the official ARR style templates. The paper templates are available as an Overleaf template and can also be downloaded directly (LaTeX and Word) via https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp <https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp>under 'Paper Submission and Templates'. All submissions must be in PDF format. Submissions that do not adhere to the above author guidelines or ACL policies will be rejected without review. Submission is electronic, using the OpenReview conference management. The submission link is available here: https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2024/Workshop/SRW <https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2024/Workshop/SRW> Grants We expect to have grants to offset some portion of students' travel, conference registration, and accommodation expenses. Further details will be posted on the SRW website. To contact the organizers of the workshop, please email us at: eaclsrw(a)gmail.com Website and Contact Information For more information, please visit https://sites.google.com/view/eacl2024srw <https://sites.google.com/view/eacl2024srw>and follow us on Twitter @eacl_srw. To contact the organizers of the workshop, please email us at eaclsrw(a)gmail.com*

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3rd Call for Papers - First International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (NLPAICS’2024)
by t.ranasinghe＠aston.ac.uk 06 Mar '24

06 Mar '24

First International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (NLPAICS’2024) Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom 29-30 July 2024 https://www.nlpaics.com Third Call for Papers Recent advances in Natural Language Processing (NLP), Deep Learning and Large Language Models (LLMs) have resulted in improved performance of applications. . In particular, there has been a growing interest in employing AI methods in different Cyber Security applications. In today's digital world, Cyber Security has emerged as a heightened priority for both individual users and organisations. As the volume of online information grows exponentially, traditional security approaches often struggle to identify and prevent evolving security threats. The inadequacy of conventional security frameworks highlights the need for innovative solutions that can effectively navigate the complex digital landscape for ensuring robust security. NLP and AI in Cyber Security have vast potential to significantly enhance threat detection and mitigation by fostering the development of advanced security systems for autonomous identification, assessment, and response to security threats in real-time. Recognising this challenge and the capabilities of NLP and AI approaches to fortify Cyber Security systems, the First International Conference on Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Cyber Security (NLPAICS’2024) serves as a gathering place for researchers in NLP and AI methods for Cyber Security. We invite contributions that present the latest NLP and AI solutions for mitigating risks in processing digital information. Conference topics The conference invites submissions on a broad range of topics related to the employment of NLP and AI (and in general, language studies and models) for Cyber Security including but not limited to: Societal and Human Security and Safety • Content Legitimacy and Quality o Detection and mitigation of hate speech and offensive language o Fake news, deepfakes, misinformation and disinformation o Detection of machine generated language in multimodal context (text, speech and gesture) o Trust and credibility of online information • User Security and Safety o Cyberbullying and identification of internet offenders o Monitoring extremist fora o Suicide prevention o Clickbait and scam detection o Fake profile detection in online social networks • Technical Measures and Solutions o Social engineering identification, phishing detection o NLP for risk assessment o Controlled languages for safe messages o Prevention of malicious use of ai models o Forensic linguistics • Human Factors in Cyber Security Speech Technology and Multimodal Investigations for Cyber Security • Voice-based security: Analysis of voice recordings or transcripts for security threats • Detection of machine generated language in multimodal context (text, speech and gesture) • NLP and biometrics in multimodal context Data and Software Security • Cryptography • Digital forensics • Malware detection, obfuscation • Models for documentation • NLP for data privacy and leakage prevention (DLP) • Addressing dataset “poisoning” attacks Human-Centric Security and Support • Natural language understanding for chatbots: NLP-powered chatbots for user support and security incident reporting • User behaviour analysis: analysing user-generated text data (e.g., chat logs and emails) to detect insider threats or unusual behaviour • Human supervision of technology for Cyber Security Anomaly Detection and Threat Intelligence • Text-Based Anomaly Detection o Identification of unusual or suspicious patterns in logs, incident reports or other textual data o Detecting deviations from normal behaviour in system logs or network traffic • Threat Intelligence Analysis o Processing and analysing threat intelligence reports, news, articles and blogs on latest Cyber Security threats o Extracting key information and indicators of compromise (IoCs) from unstructured text Systems and Infrastructure Security • Systems Security o Anti-reverse engineering for protecting privacy and anonymity o Identification and mitigation of side-channel attacks o Authentication and access control o Enterprise-level mitigation o NLP for software vulnerability detection • Malware Detection through Code Analysis o Analysing code and scripts for malware o Detection using NLP to identify patterns indicative of malicious code Financial Cyber Security • Financial fraud detection • Financial risk detection • Algorithmic trading security • Secure online banking • Risk management in finance • Financial text analytics Ethics, Bias, and Legislation in Cyber Security • Ethical and Legal Issues o Digital privacy and identity management o The ethics of NLP and speech technology o Explainability of NLP and speech technology tools o Legislation against malicious use of AI o Regulatory issues • Bias and Security o Bias in Large Language Models (LLMs) o Bias in security related datasets and annotations Datasets and resources for Cyber Security Applications Specialised Security Applications and Open Topics • Intelligence applications • Emerging and innovative applications in Cyber Security Special Theme Track - Future of Cyber Security in the Era of LLMs and Generative AI We are excited to share that NLPAICS 2024 will have a special theme track with the goal of stimulating discussion around Large Language Models (LLMs), Generative AI and ensuring their safety. The latest generation of LLMs, such as CHATGPT, Gemini, LLAMA and open-source alternatives, has showcased remarkable advancements in text and image understanding and generation. However, as we navigate through uncharted territory, it becomes imperative to address the challenges associated with employing these models in everyday tasks, focusing on aspects such as fairness, ethics, and responsibility. The theme track invites studies on how to ensure the safety of LLMs in various tasks and applications and what this means for the future of the field. The possible topics of discussion include (but are not limited to) the following: • Detection of LLM-generated language in multimodal context (text, speech and gesture) • LLMs for forensic linguistics • Bias in LLMs • Safety benchmarks for LLMs • Legislation against malicious use of LLMs • Tools to evaluate safety in LLMs • Methods to enhance the robustness of language models Submissions and Publication NLPAICS welcomes high-quality submissions in English, which can take two forms: • Regular long papers: These can be up to eight (8) pages long, presenting substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. • Short papers: These can be up to four (4) pages long and are suitable for describing small, focused contributions, negative results, system demonstrations, etc. Note that the page limits mentioned above exclude additional pages for references, ethical considerations, conflict-of-interest statements, as well as data and code availability statements. Papers must be anonymised to support double-blind reviewing. Please submit your work as pdf using the following link: https://softconf.com/n/nlpaics2024/ Submission templates can be accessed here: LaTeX Overleaf, LaTeX , MS Office Accepted papers, including both long and short papers, will be published as part of the same e-proceedings to be uploaded on ACL Anthology. Important dates • Submissions due: 5 April 2024 • Reviewing process: 25 April-31 May 2024 • Notification of acceptance: 5 June 2024 • Camera-ready due: 20 June 2024 • Conference: 29-30 July 2024 Keynote speakers We are delighted to announce our first keynote speaker Nigel Hardacre (Lancashire Constabulary) More keynote speakers will be listed in the next calls and also on the conference website. Programme Committee Members of the Programme Committee of NLPAICS’2024 are listed here. Venue The First International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (NLPAICS’2024) will take place at Lancaster University and is organised by the Lancaster University UCREL NLP research group. Organisation • Conference Chair o Ruslan Mitkov (Lancaster University) • Conference Programme Chairs o Cengiz Acartürk (Jagiellonian University) o Matthew Bradbury (Lancaster University) o Mo El-Haj (Lancaster University) o Paul Rayson (Lancaster University) • Sponsorship Chair o Saad Ezzini (Lancaster University) • Publicity Chair o Tharindu Ranasinghe (Aston University) • Publication Chair o Ignatius Ezeani (Lancaster University) Registration Conference registration is open on https://nlpaics.com/registration/ Early bird registration closes on 15 April 2024. Further information and contact details The conference website is https://nlpaics.com and will be updated on a regular basis. For further information, please email info(a)nlpaics.com

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