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Extended Deadline: Submission of Extended Abstracts - CLARIN Annual Conference 2024
by t.kontino＠uu.nl 28 Mar '24

28 Mar '24

Call for Submission of Extended Abstracts CLARIN Annual Conference 2024 CLARIN ERIC is pleased to announce the CLARIN Annual Conference 2024 and calls for the submission of extended abstracts. CLARIN is the European research infrastructure that makes digital language resources available to scholars, researchers, students and citizen scientists from a wide range of disciplines, coordinates the collection of language resources and tools, and offers advanced tools to explore, exploit, annotate, analyse or combine such datasets, regardless of their location. New in this year's call is the topic of Education and Training with CLARIN tools. Submission deadline: 26 April 2024 (Extended) Location The conference will take place in Barcelona, Spain. The event will be hosted and organised by CLARIN ERIC in collaboration with CLARIAH-ES and the Basque Center for Language Technology (HiTZ). Important Dates 24 January 2024: First call published on CLARIN website, disseminated, and submission system open 12 February 2024: Second call for abstracts disseminated 29 March 2024: Third call for abstracts disseminated 26 April 2024: Submission deadline (Extended) 17 June 2024: Notification of acceptance 2 September 2024: Camera-ready version deadline (that will be extended) 15-17 October 2024: CLARIN Annual Conference Conference Aims The CLARIN Annual Conference is organised for the wider Humanities and Social Sciences (SSH) community in order to exchange experiences and best practices in working with the CLARIN infrastructure and to share plans for future developments. The programme will cover a range of topics, including the design, construction and operation of the CLARIN infrastructure, the data, tools and services that it contains or should contain, its actual use by researchers, teachers or interested parties, its relation to other infrastructures and projects, and the CLARIN Knowledge Infrastructure. Keynote Speakers To be confirmed. Conference Topics We invite submissions describing CLARIN-related work addressing the following aspects: Use of the CLARIN Infrastructure: Use of the CLARIN infrastructure in SSH research and beyond Usability studies and evaluations of CLARIN services Analysis of the CLARIN infrastructure usage and impact studies/use cases Identification and analysis of user audiences and developer communities, including digital humanities, libraries, computer science, information science, cognitive science and human-centred AI Showcases, demonstrations and research projects that are relevant to CLARIN Design and Construction of the CLARIN Infrastructure: Recent tools and resources added to the CLARIN infrastructure Metadata and concept registries, cataloguing and browsing Persistent identifiers and citation mechanisms Access, including single sign-on authentication and authorisation Search functions, including Federated Content Search Web applications, web services and workflows Standards and solutions for interoperability of language resources, tools and services Models for the sustainability of the infrastructure, including curation, migration financing and cooperation Legal and ethical issues in operating the infrastructure. CLARIN Knowledge Infrastructure and Dissemination: User assistance (help desks, user manuals, FAQs) CLARIN portals and outreach to users Videos, screencasts, recorded lectures Knowledge centres. CLARIN vis-à-vis other Infrastructures and Initiatives: SSH research infrastructures, such as DARIAH and CESSDA and the collaboration under the umbrella of the SSH Open Cluster, etc. Generic infrastructural initiatives, such as EOSC, Europeana, Language Data Space, etc. Projects such as ATRIUM, EOSC Focus, ERIC Forum, EOSC Future, FAIRCORE4EOSC, OSCARS, OSTrails National and regional initiatives. Education and Training Using CLARIN language resources and services in teaching and training activities targeting audiences from different sectors (academia, GLAM, industry) and lessons learnt The impact of the DH Course Registry (e.g. development of the DH curricula, student exchange programmes) Guidelines and best practices for using CLARIN in the university curricula Developing new courses reusing existing materials from the CLARIN Learning Hub (e.g. UPSKILLS) FORMAT OF THE PROGRAMME SESSIONS The programme of the conference will include oral presentations and posters, and may also include demos. Due to limits in the time schedule, the number of oral presentations is limited. Authors can select if they prefer a poster presentation. If not, papers are allocated a presentation format based on the suitability of the paper for a session as decided by the programme committee. Authors of accepted submissions will be offered the opportunity to demo their work in addition to their presentation. SUBMISSIONS The language of the conference is English and presentations will be made in English. Proposals for oral, poster or demo presentations must be submitted as extended abstracts (length: 3 to 4 pages A4, including references) in PDF format, in accordance with the template (ZIP-archive, Overleaf template). Authors can choose whether to submit on an anonymous or non-anonymous basis. Extended abstracts should address one or more topics that are relevant to CLARIN’s activities, resources, tools or services. This relevance should be explicitly articulated in the submission, as well as in the presentation at the conference. Contributions addressing desiderata for the CLARIN infrastructure that are currently not in place are also eligible. Authors are not required to be or have been directly involved in national or cross-national CLARIN projects. Extended abstracts must be submitted through the EasyChair submission system and will be reviewed by the Programme Committee. All proposals will be reviewed on the basis of the following criteria: Appropriateness: The contribution must pertain to the CLARIN infrastructure or be relevant for it (e.g. its use, design, construction, operation, exploitation, illustration of possible applications, etc.), and this relevance should be explicitly articulated in the submission. Soundness and correctness: The content must be technically and factually correct and methods must be scientifically sound, according to best practice, and preferably evaluated. Meaningful comparison: The abstract must indicate that the author is aware of alternative approaches, if any, and highlight relevant differences. Substance: Concrete work and experiences will be given preference over ideas and plans. Impact: Contributions with a higher impact on the research community and society more broadly will be given preference over papers with lower impact. Clarity: The abstract should be clearly written and well structured. Timeliness and novelty: The work must convey relevant new knowledge to the audience at this event. ATTENDANCE For each accepted abstract, CLARIN ERIC offers one author free access, free accommodation and meals. Travelling costs are not covered by CLARIN ERIC. Authors are encouraged to reach out to their national consortium, to their home institution or to third party funds to cover travel costs. PROCEEDINGS Accepted submissions will be published in the online conference Book of Extended Abstracts, ISSN: 2773-2177. After the conference, the author(s) of accepted submissions will be invited to submit full papers (10-12 pages) to be reviewed according to the same criteria as the abstracts. Accepted full papers will be published in a digital conference proceedings volume after the conference: Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings (peer reviewed) ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online) https://ep.liu.se/en/conferences.aspx CONFERENCE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE The Programme Committee for the conference consists of the following members: Vincent Vandeghinste, Instituut voor de Nederlandse Taal (Dutch Language Institute), the Netherlands & KU Leuven, Belgium -- chair Starkaður Barkarson, Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, Iceland Lars Borin, University of Gothenburg, Sweden António Branco, University of Lisbon, Portugal Tomaž Erjavec, Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia Cristina Grisot, University of Zurich and at the Swiss National Center for Data & Services for the Humanities DaSCH Eva Hajičová, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic Marianne Hundt, University of Zurich, Switzerland Krister Lindén, University of Helsinki, Finland Monica Monachini, Institute of Computational Linguistics ‘A. Zampolli’, Italy Karlheinz Mörth, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria Costanza Navarretta, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Gijsbert Rutten, Leiden University, the Netherlands Maciej Piasecki, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland Stelios Piperidis, ILSP, Athena Research Center, Greece German Rigau, HiTZ, the Basque Center for Language Technology, Spain Kiril Simov, IICT, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria Inguna Skadiņa, Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Latvia, Latvia National Coordinator Norway Marko Tadić, University of Zagreb, Croatia Jurgita Vaičenonienė, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania Tamás Váradi, Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary Joshua Wilbur, Center of Estonian Language Resources, Estonia Andreas Witt, University of Mannheim, Germany Friedel Wolff, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources, North-West University, South Africa Martin Wynne, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

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Two post-doctoral positions in an ERC-funded project at the University of Helsinki, Finland
by Hiippala, Tuomo J 28 Mar '24

28 Mar '24

Dear all, I'm currently looking to hire two post-doctoral researchers for my upcoming project funded by the European Research Council: https://www.helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/multimodality/a-foundation-for-em… The project develops novel methods and resources for studying multimodality, or how human communication naturally combines multiple 'modes' of expression. These methods and resources are used to develop empirically founded theories of multimodal communication in the domain of everyday cultural artefacts. The data studied in the project includes, for example, school textbooks, user-generated explanation videos on social media, news broadcasts, instruction manuals and online newspapers. Please find descriptions for both positions below – if you have any questions, please contact me at tuomo.hiippala(a)helsinki.fi. For instructions on how to apply, please see the links to the full job announcements below. Best, Tuomo Hiippala --- POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCHER IN DIGITAL HUMANITIES --- This is a fixed-term position for 36 months, starting in September 2024 or as agreed, based in the Department of Languages at the University of Helsinki, Finland. RESPONSIBILITIES: The post-doctoral researcher is responsible for developing structured, machine-readable representations of multimodality for the page-based and audiovisual media studied in the project. As the descriptions of multimodality are collected using crowdsourcing, the post-doctoral researcher is also expected to participate in designing and implementing crowdsourcing pipelines. QUALIFICATIONS: The appointee must hold a doctoral degree in digital humanities, humanities computing, language technology, computer science or a related field, and have a keen interest in multimodality. Previous experience of developing structured representations for diverse forms of data is essential. Previous experience or interest in volunteer-based or paid crowdsourcing or citizen science is considered an asset. For more information, see the full announcement here: https://jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki-Post-doctoral-researcher-in-digital-h… --- POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCHER IN MULTIMODAL COMMUNICATION --- This is a fixed-term position for 48 months, starting in September 2024 or as agreed, based in the Department of Languages at the University of Helsinki, Finland. RESPONSIBILITIES: The post-doctoral researcher is responsible for developing large corpora that describe the multimodal structure of the diverse media studied in the project. To scale up the corpus size, the data will be described by crowdsourced non-expert workers. The post-doctoral researcher will lead the development of crowdsourcing tasks that generate descriptions that can be then compiled into systematic corpus annotations. The appointee will also participate in developing new methods for analysing large multimodal corpora. QUALIFICATIONS: The appointee must hold a doctoral degree in linguistics, semiotics, media studies or related field with a specific focus on multimodality. The appointee must have a deep understanding of contemporary theories of multimodality relevant to the domain of the project. Previous experience of designing and implementing annotation schemes for multimodal corpora is essential. Knowledge of programming languages such as Python and mark-up languages such as XML and JSON for managing research data is considered an advantage. For more information, see the full announcement here: https://jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki-Post-doctoral-researcher-in-multimoda… --- Dr. Tuomo Hiippala | Associate Professor in English Language and Digital Humanities Department of Languages | University of Helsinki, Finland | +358 50 377 33 66 http://www.helsinki.fi/~thiippal/ | https://www.helsinki.fi/multimodality

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[Iber AuTexTification@IberLEF2024] Training set released
by Francisco Manuel Rangel Pardo 28 Mar '24

28 Mar '24

Event Notification Type: Training set released Website: <https://sites.google.com/view/autextification> https://sites.google.com/view/iberautextification TRAINING SET RELEASED! Iber AuTexTification Automated Text Identification on Languages of the Iberian Peninsula Dear All, The Training dataset for the Iber AuTexTification 2024 shared task has been released. It can be found on the shared task website ( https://sites.google.com/view/iberautextification/data <https://sites.google.com/view/iberautextification/data?authuser=0>), in Genaios Github repository (https://github.com/Genaios/IberAuTexTification) and Zenodo (https://zenodo.org/records/10853560). Please, remember that registration is on a per-team basis, meaning only one member from each team needs to sign up. Once registered and requested the training set on one of the previous links, you will receive the download permission and a password to decompress the data within 24 hours. Please, make sure to write your email address correctly, since we will send passwords, as well as future notifications to that address. Please reach out to the organizers <organizers.autextification(a)gmail.com> or join the Slack <https://join.slack.com/t/iberautextification/shared_invite/zt-2c28ezgwy-lHH…> workspace to connect with the other participants and organizers. Best regards on behalf of Iber AuTexTification shared tasks organizers

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[NTCIR-18] Final Call for Participation
by CHUNG-CHI CHEN 28 Mar '24

28 Mar '24

Dear colleagues, We are glad to share the information of NTCIR-18 with you. This year, we have 9 interesting tasks, that cover the (1) Modern IR Tasks, (2) Access to Non-Digitized Archive Material, (3) Large Language Model Evaluation, and (4) NLP Tasks in Financial and Medical Domains. We will have a kickoff event within 24 hours. The task organizers will introduce their tasks. Below are more details, and please register for the kickoff event. We will send a Zoom link to you soon. Feel free to let us know if you have any questions. Best Regards, Qingyao Ai, Chung-Chi Chen, Shoko Wakamiya NTCIR-18 Program Co-Chairs *Kick-Off Event* - Date/Time: March 29th (Friday) 2024, From 16:00 To 17:30 p.m. - Onsite: Room 1902-1903, National Institute of Informatics - Online: Zoom (The link will be available for participants before the event.) - Fees: Free - Registration: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScumfe8q3HDe2Vul2RUhTxNacSt9KujvqM… - Zoom link will be sent to the registered email address before the event. - For more details, please refer to our site: https://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-18/kickoffcfp.html *Kick-Off Event Tentative Program* - Overview of NTCIR - Overview of NTCIR-18 - Introduction of each task - How to participate in NTCIR-18 - Q & A *NTCIR-18 Tasks* *CORE TASKS* 1. AEOLLM: Automatic Evaluation of LLMs 2. FairWeb-2: The Second Fair Web Task 3. FinArg-2: Temporal Inference of Financial Arguments 4. MedNLP-Rad: Medical Natural Language Processing for Radiology 5. MedNLP-CHAT: Medical Natural Language Processing for AI Chat 6. Transfer-2: The Resource Transfer Based Dense Retrieval Task *PILOT TASKS* 1. HIDDEN-RAD: Hidden Causality Inclusion in Radiography Report Generation 2. SUSHI: Searching Unseen Sources for Historical Information 3. UFO 2.0: Understanding of Non-Financial Objects in Financial Reports

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CFP - SIGIR 2024 Workshop on eCommerce
by Surya Kallumadi 28 Mar '24

28 Mar '24

Call For Papers - SIGIR eCom'24 - https://sigir-ecom.github.io/ The SIGIR Workshop on eCommerce will serve as a platform for publication and discussion of Information Retrieval, NLP and Vision research relative to their applications in the domain of eCommerce. This workshop will bring together practitioners and researchers from academia and industry to discuss the challenges and approaches to product search and recommendation in eCommerce. The deadline for paper submission is April 25, 2024 (11:59 P.M. AoE) The special theme of this year's workshop is eCommerce Search in the Age of Generative AI and LLMs. The workshop will also include a data challenge. This year we will collaborate with TREC on a product search data challenge ( https://trec-product-search.github.io/index.html). The overarching goal is to study how end-to-end retrieval systems can be built and evaluated given a large set of products. The data challenge provides a corpus of products and a set of user intents (queries): the goal is to find the product that suits the user’s needs. SIGIR eCom is a full day workshop taking place on Thursday, July 18, 2024 in conjunction with SIGIR 2024. SIGIR eCom'24 will be an in-person workshop. ________________ Important Dates: Paper submission deadline - April 25, 2024 (11:59 P.M. AoE) Notification of acceptance - May 23, 2024 Camera Ready Version of Papers Due - June 24, 2024 SIGIR eCom Full day Workshop - July 18, 2024 We invite quality research contributions, position and opinion papers addressing relevant challenges in the domain of eCommerce. We invite submission of both papers and posters. All submitted papers and posters will be single-blind and will be peer reviewed by an international program committee of researchers of high repute. Accepted submissions will be presented at the workshop. Topics: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - eCommerce search in the age of Generative AI and LLMs (2024 special theme) - Ranking and Whole Page Relevance - Optimization for IR and business metrics - Diversity in product search and recommendations - Relevance models for multi-faceted entities - Relevance vs. revenue - Deterministic sorts (e.g. price low to high) - Temporal dynamics and seasonality - Query and Document Understanding - Query intent, query suggestions, and auto-completion - Strategies for resolving low or zero recall queries - Converting across modalities (e.g., text, structured data, images) - Categorization and facets - Reviews and sentiment analysis - Recommendation and Personalization - Personalization & contextualization, including the use of personal facets such as age, gender, location - Privacy, bias and ethics in eCommerce IR - Blending recommendations and search results - Representations and Data - Semantic representation of products, queries, and customers - Construction and use of knowledge graphs for eCommerce - IR Fundamentals for eCommerce - Unified and universal search and recommendations - Cross-lingual search and machine translation - Indexing and search in rapidly changing environments (e.g., auction sites) - Experimentation techniques including AB testing and multi-armed bandits - Visual Search in ecommerce - Large-scale Visual Search Challenges and Solutions - Multimodal Search and combining visual and textual information - Combining Vision and language models - Explainable AI for Visual Search - Other challenges - Trust, transparency, and fairness in eCommerce - UX for eCommerce - The role of search in trust and security for marketplaces - Question answering and chatbots for eCommerce Data/Resource Track: In order to promote academic research in the eCommerce domain, we plan to accept a small number of high quality dataset contributions. These submissions should be accompanied by a clear and detailed description of the dataset, some potential questions and applications that arise from it. Preliminary empirical investigations conveying any insight about the data will increase the quality of the submission. Submission Instructions: All papers will be peer reviewed (single-blind) by the program committee and judged by their relevance to the workshop, especially to the main themes identified above, and their potential to generate discussion. Submissions must describe work that is not previously published, not accepted for publication elsewhere, and not currently under review elsewhere. All submissions must be in English. The workshop follows a single-blind reviewing process, i.e. author names must be on the papers. We do not accept anonymized submissions. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper must register for the workshop and present the paper. All submissions must be in PDF formatted according to the latest CEUR single column format; the short (8-page) and long (15-page) limits are extended to account for this. For instructions and LaTeX/Overleaf/docx templates, see: https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html#CEURART Read up to and including the “License footnote in paper PDFs” section. Please Use Emphasizing Capitalized Style for Paper Titles. Submit your paper PDF through the SIGIR eCom’24 Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sigirecom24 Long paper limit: 15 pages. References are not counted in the page limit. Short paper limit: 8 pages. References are not counted in the page limit. The deadline for paper submission is April 25, 2024 (11:59 P.M. AoE) https://sigir-ecom.github.io/

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Meta KDD Cup 2024: Comprehensive RAG Challenge
by Kai Sun 28 Mar '24

28 Mar '24

Hello Colleagues, Imagine using an AI assistant to get the latest updates on your favorite sports team, but instead of receiving latest scores, you get last year’s results. Or when asking about a niche movie you really like, but couldn't get meaningful answers. These are classic examples of “hallucination” where LLMs provide outdated or incorrect information. The Meta Comprehensive RAG (CRAG) Benchmark Challenge aims to address these challenges. Participate to improve how Large Language Models (LLMs) can keep-up with the ever-evolving reality and provide accurate responses by leveraging Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). Why RAG Matters Despite the advancements of LLMs, the issue of hallucination persists as a significant challenge; that is, LLMs may generate answers that lack factual accuracy or grounding. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has recently emerged as a promising solution to alleviate LLM’s deficiency in lack of knowledge and attracted a lot of attention from both academia research and industry. Introducing the Meta Comprehensive RAG (CRAG) Benchmark Challenge CRAG is a factual question answering benchmark that covers 5 domains and 8 question types, and provides a practical set-up to evaluate RAG systems. Different from existing benchmarks, CRAG is designed to include questions with a wide variety of domains and types. In particular, it includes questions with answers that change from over seconds to over years; it considers entity popularity and covers not only head, but also torso and tail facts; it contains simple-fact questions as well as 7 types of complex questions such as comparison, aggregation and set questions to test the reasoning and synthesis capabilities of RAG solutions. Why This Challenge Is a Game-Changer Addressing "hallucination" and outdated information is critical to enhancing the reliability of LLM-powered question-answering systems. RAG proposes a solution by integrating the external data into its responses. The CRAG Benchmark is a comprehensive test to evaluate these advanced systems' effectiveness across various domains and question types, challenging them with scenarios that require immediate data and those that explore less popular "tail" facts. What's unique about this challenge? * Tasks Designed to Improve QA Systems: The three tasks focus on web-based retrieval summarization, knowledge graph and web augmentation, and an end-to-end RAG challenge, each built on top of the previous one. * Rich Dataset Across Diverse Domains: The CRAG dataset covers domains from finance to music, to address questions that mirror real-world variability and complexity. * Prizes For Winners: Compete for a chance to win a part of the $31,500 prize pool, with the top performing teams in each task winning up to $4,000. Challenge Timeline * Website Online and Registration Begin: 20th March, 2024 23:55 UTC * Phase 1 Start Date: 1st April, 2024 23:55 UTC * Phase 1 End Date: 20th May, 2024 23:55 UTC * Phase 2 Start Date: 22nd May, 2023 23:55 UTC * Registration and Team Freeze Deadline: 31st May, 2024 23:55 UTC * Phase 2 End Date: 20th Jun, 2023 23:55 UTC * Winner Notification: 15th July, 2024 * Winner Announcement: 26th August, 2024 (KDD Cup Winners) 👉 Engage Now: Begin this journey by delving into the challenge details at https://www.aicrowd.com/challenges/meta-comprehensive-rag-benchmark-kdd-cup…. Join a community of innovative thinkers, share ideas, and engage in this exciting challenge. Connect with us on our Community Forum and Discord Server for support and collaboration. We're eager to see the innovations you'll bring to life. Refer to: https://www.aicrowd.com/challenges/meta-comprehensive-rag-benchmark-kdd-cup… for the competition rules. All the best, Team AIcrowd *NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER/WIN. Open to individuals who are 18 + age of majority and meet the full eligibility requirements in the full Rules. Open 3/20/2024 10:00:01 AM thru 6/15/2024 23:59:59 PM PT. Void where prohibited. Subject to full Rules at https://www.aicrowd.com/challenges/meta-comprehensive-rag-benchmark-kdd-cup…. See Rules for prize details and values. Sponsor: Meta Platforms, Inc. 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, California 94025 (for US entrants) or Meta Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland (for all other entrants).

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Invitation: Guest Speaker @ ACFTI Cybersecurity stream
by Andrew Zayine 28 Mar '24

28 Mar '24

The Association of Cyber Forensics and Threat Investigators (ACFTI) is an ambitious, non-profit technical organization focusing on the academics and practitioners of cybersecurity, digital forensics, incident response, and threat investigations and their influence on society. Our main aim is to inspire the next generation of underrepresented groups to flourish by creating a learning community of students, professors, and industry professionals. It connects future cybersecurity practitioners on campus with leading professionals On behalf of the Association of Cyber Forensics and Threat Investigators (ACFTI), I am pleased to invite you to the new DFIR stream lecture/seminar series. The presentation is a maximum of 1 hour in length, with an audience of about 60+, made up of researchers, practitioners, and cybersecurity students from underrepresented groups. Our goal is to shine a spotlight on the broad array of new advances in cybersecurity science and operations currently adopted in the industry. This session will be conducted online. It will be fantastic to have any hands-on topics related to cyber forensics and/or Cybercrime Your discussion on this topic will be a great addition to our event. Expressions of interest to present from anyone doing research or applying cybersecurity techniques to practical or theoretical applications related to the interactions between cyber forensics and threat investigations can be sent as a summary of your work (c.300 words) to https://dfir.stream/call-for-guest-speakers Thank you in advance for your consideration, and we are very much looking forward to hearing from you. To get more news about our events, please join our low-traffic announcement group @ https://groups.google.com/g/acfti Best regards, Andrew Zayin Ph.D., CISSP, CISM, CRISC, CDPSE, PMP ACFTI Secretariat ________________________________________________________ Association of Cyber Forensics and Threat Investigators https://www.acfti.org Twitter: @acfti

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Second Call for Participation - HOPE@IberLEF 2024: Approaching Hope Speech Detection in Social Media from Two Perspectives, for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and as Expectations
by Sabur B 27 Mar '24

27 Mar '24

****We apologize for multiple postings of this e-mail**** IberLEF 2024 Task - HOPE: Approaching Hope Speech Detection in Social Media from Two Perspectives, for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and as Expectations Held as part of the evaluation forum IberLEF 2024 <https://sites.google.com/view/iberlef-2024/home?authuser=0> in the 40th edition of the International Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN 2024 <http://sepln2024.infor.uva.es/en/front-page-english/>) Valladolid, Spain, 24-27 September 2024 Codalab link: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/17714 Dear All, Hope, a crucial aspect of human psychology, profoundly shapes emotions, behavior, and mood, influencing how individuals perceive and navigate challenges (Bruininks and Malle, 2005; Snyder, 1994, 2000). High levels of hope correlate with positive outcomes such as academic success and lower depression rates, while low hope is associated with diminished well-being (Snyder, 2002; Snyder et al., 1997; Diener, 2009). Despite its significance, hope has been underexplored in Natural Language Processing (NLP) until recent years. Efforts have been made to integrate NLP techniques into the analysis of hope through shared tasks, like those organized in ACL 2022, RANLP 2023, and IberLEF 2023 (Chakravarthi et al., 2022; Kumaresan et al., 2023; Jiménez-Zafra et al., 2023). The upcoming IberLEF 2024 edition aims to delve deeper into hope from two angles: hope for equality, diversity, and inclusion, and hope as expectations. This edition promises to expand understanding by examining hope across different domains and languages, thus addressing crucial questions in hope speech detection research. Two tasks are outlined in this description, each focusing on different aspects of hope. - Task 1: It centers on "Hope for Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion," emphasizing the importance of hope speech in mitigating hostility and supporting individuals facing challenges like illness, stress, or loneliness, particularly within vulnerable groups such as the LGBT community and racial minorities. This task consists of giving a Spanish tweet, identifying whether it contains hope speech or not. The possible categories for each text are: - hs: hope speech. - nhs: non hope speech. - Task 2: It delves into "Hope as Expectations," highlighting hope's role as an anticipatory mindset shaping human emotions and behaviors, especially in the context of social media where expressions are abundant. This task aims to analyze hope speech's presence in English and Spanish texts, focusing on binary hope speech detection and multiclass hope speech detection. The subtask are presented as follows, - Subtask 2a- Binary Hope speech detection: A given text in English/Spanish will be classified as: - Hope - Not Hope - Subtask 2b- Multiclass Hope speech detection: A given text in English/Spanish will be classified as: - Generalized Hope - Realistic Hope - Unrealistic Hope - Not Hope In both tasks, there will be a real-time leaderboard and the participants will be allowed to make a maximum of 10 submissions through CodaLab, from which each team will have to select the best one for ranking. The dataset details and registration are available at: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/17714 Best regards, The HOPE 2024 organizing committee Important dates - Release of training + development corpora: Feb 16, 2024. - Release of test corpora and start of evaluation campaign: April 1, 2024. - End of evaluation campaign (deadline for runs submission): Apr 16, 2024. - Publication of official results: Apr 18, 2024. - Paper submission: May 14, 2024. - Review notification: Jun 11, 2024. - Camera-ready submission: Jun 28, 2024. - IberLEF Workshop (SEPLN 2024): Sep 27, 2024. - Publication of proceedings: Sep ??, 2024. Organizing Committee - Daniel García-Baena, SINAI, Universidad de Jaén, Spain. - Fazlourrahman Balouchzahi, CIC IPN, Mexico. - Salud María Jiménez-Zafra, SINAI, Universidad de Jaén, Spain. - Sabur Butt, Institute for the Future of Education (IFE) at Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico. - Miguel Ángel García-Cumbreras, SINAI, Universidad de Jaén, Spain. - Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Centro de Investigación en Computación, Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN), Mexico. - José Antonio García-Díaz, UMUTeam, Universidad de Murcia, Spain. - Selen Bozkurt, Department of Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine, Emory University. - Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, University of Galway, Ireland. - Hector G. Ceballos, Institute for the Future of Education (IFE) at Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico. - Rafael Valencia-García, UMUTeam, Universidad de Murcia, Spain. - Grigori Sidorov, CIC IPN, Mexico. - L. Alfonso Ureña-López, SINAI, Universidad de Jaén, Spain. - Alexander Gelbukh, CIC IPN, Mexico. *Sabur Butt, Ph.D. *(He/Him) Institute for the Future of Education (IFE) *Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico* Address: Av. Eugenio Garza Sada 2501 Sur Tecnológico, 64849 Monterrey, N.L. LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/saburb> - GitHub <https://github.com/saburbutt> - Scholar <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=re7md-0AAAAJ&hl=en> - Website <https://saburbutt.github.io/>

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GEM'24 shared task: Final call for participation
by Simon Mille 27 Mar '24

27 Mar '24

Dear colleagues, The deadline for the GEM shared task submissions on multilingual data-to-text generation and summarization is now less than 10 days away! Note that you can pre-register your systems until the submission date (April 5th). More information on the GEM website <https://gem-benchmark.com/shared_task>. Regards, simon, on behalf of the GEM human evaluation team *ADAPT Research Centre / Ionaid Taighde ADAPT* *School of Computing, Dublin City University, Glasnevin Campus / Scoil na Ríomhaireachta, Campas Ghlas Naíon, Ollscoil Chathair Bhaile Átha Cliath*

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KONVENS 2024: Second Call for Papers
by Benjamin Roth 27 Mar '24

27 Mar '24

KONVENS 2024: Second Call for Papers We warmly welcome the submission of papers for KONVENS 2024, scheduled from September 9 to 13, 2024, at the University of Vienna, Austria. In addition to its technical program, KONVENS will facilitate dynamic interactions among academic researchers and industry peers, offering workshops, tutorials, shared tasks, and networking events. Confirmed keynote: Jana Diesner (TU München) See https://konvens-2024.univie.ac.at/ for more information! PAPER SUBMISSION INFORMATION We invite submissions of original and unpublished works in the fields of research, development, applications, and evaluation, encompassing all aspects of natural language processing, from fundamental inquiries to the practical implementation of natural language resources, components, and systems. We particularly encourage submissions of NLP approaches dedicated to the German language, including survey papers that provide insights into the current state of the art in German language and speech processing. We welcome contributions from both academic and industry professionals. We welcome the following types of paper submissions: * Long papers (8 pages plus references and appendix), describing original research with substantial new results. * Short papers (4 pages plus references and appendix), including small focused contributions, work in progress, as well as descriptions of projects, systems and resources. * Long and short papers can be submitted for archival publication, published in the ACL Anthology, and there is the option of non-archival submission. In the case of non-archival submission, only the abstract of the paper (max. 200 words) will be published on our website and the paper will not be part of the conference proceedings. Accepted papers will be presented orally or as posters as determined by the program chairs. The decisions will be based on the nature rather than the quality of the work. The conference language is English. Only contributions written in English will be accepted. Each submission must include a mandatory discussion of Ethical Considerations as well as a section on Limitations (both sections do not count towards the page limit). Papers without these sections will be desk-rejected. The review process will be double-blind. Submissions must be anonymized accordingly. The conference proceedings will be published via the ACL Anthology (archival submissions only). Papers must be formatted in accordance with the ACL style sheet: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files. We strongly encourage authors to use LaTeX in preparing their document. Papers must be submitted electronically via OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=KONVENS/2024/Conference IMPORTANT DATES * April 30th, 2024: Paper submission due (all submission types) * June 30th, 2024: Notification of acceptance * July 15th, 2024: Camera-ready papers due * September, 9th-13th, 2024: KONVENS CONFERENCE STIPEND GSCL is offering stipends for students in the field of computational linguistics (including PhD students) covering conference fees and (partially) travel costs for attending KONVENS 2024. For more information, see: https://gscl.org/activities/conference-stipend/ Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards the KONVENS-2024 organization team konvens-2024(a)googlegroups.com https://konvens-2024.univie.ac.at/ -- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Benjamin Roth Digitale Textwissenschaften Universität Wien Kolingasse 14 Raum 5.17 1090 Wien email: benjamin.roth(a)univie.ac.at tel: +43 14277 79513 virtual coffee (Tuesday 2pm CEST): https://www.benjaminroth.net/virtual_coffee video call: https://univienna.zoom.us/j/93796507934?pwd=VFg5dW9JbStPUml6WFVtOWJXV3phQT09 web: https://dm.cs.univie.ac.at/team/person/112089/

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