March 2024 - Corpora

2nd CFP-GITT-2024 at EAMT 2024
by bsavoldi＠fbk.eu 24 Mar '24

24 Mar '24

2nd CALL FOR PAPERS Second International Workshop on Gender-Inclusive Translation Technologies (GITT) at EAMT 2024 27 June 2024, Sheffield, UK https://sites.google.com/tilburguniversity.edu/gitt2024 @GITT2024 Important Dates (Time zone: Anywhere on Earth) Submission deadline: 15 April, 2024 Notification of Acceptance: 15 May, 2024 Camera Ready Copy due: 24 May, 2024 Workshop: 27 June, 2024 Aim and scope The Gender-Inclusive Translation Technologies Workshop (GITT) is set out to be the only dedicated workshop that focuses on gender-inclusive language in translation and cross-lingual scenarios. The workshop aims to bring together researchers from diverse areas, including industry partners, MT practitioners, and language professionals. GITT aims to encourage multidisciplinary research that develops and interrogates both solutions and challenges for addressing bias and promoting gender inclusivity in MT and translation tools, including LLMs applications for the translation task. Topics GITT invites technical as well as non-technical submissions, which consist of experimental, theoretical or methodological contributions. We explicitly welcome interdisciplinary submissions and submissions that focus on innovative, non-binary linguistic strategies and/or with sociolinguistically-informed perspectives. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Models or methods for assessing and mitigating gender bias - New resources for inclusive language and gender translation (e.g., datasets, translation memories, dictionaries) - Social, cross-lingual, and ethical implications of gender bias - Qualitative and quantitative analyses on the potential limits of current approaches to gender bias in translation and MT, error taxonomies as well as best practices and guidelines - User-centric case studies on the impact of biased language and/or mitigating approaches which can include translators, post-editors, or monolingual MT users GITT is also open to other non-listed topics aligned with the scope of the workshop and works focusing on non-textual modalities (e.g., audiovisual translation) Submission We welcome three types of submissions: - Research papers: of at least 4 up to 10 pages (including references) - Extended Abstracts: up to 2 pages (including references) Accepted papers and extended abstracts consisting of novel work will be published online as proceedings in the ACL Anthology. - Research Communications: up to 2 pages (including reference) We include a parallel submission policy for papers accepted in other venues in 2023. Research communications will not be included in the proceedings, but will serve to promote the dissemination of research aligned with the scope of the workshop. Submissions should adhere to the EAMT 2024 guidelines and style templates (PDF, LaTeX, Word) and be uploaded on OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=EAMT.org/2024/Workshop/GITT Workshop organizers Beatrice Savoldi, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Janiça Hackenbuchner, University of Ghent Luisa Bentivogli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Eva Vanmassenhove, University of Tilburg Joke Daems, University of Ghent Jasmijn Bastings, Google DeepMind

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CfP: 9th Symposium on Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar (LxGr2024)
by Costas Gabrielatos 24 Mar '24

24 Mar '24

9th Symposium on Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar (LxGr2024) CALL FOR PAPERS Extended deadline for abstract submission: 15 April 2024 The symposium will take place online on Friday 5 and Saturday 6 July 2024. Invited Speakers Lise Fontaine<http://www.uqtr.ca/PagePerso/Lise.Fontaine> (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières): Reconciling (or not) lexis and grammar Ute Römer-Barron<http://alsl.gsu.edu/profile/ute-romer> (Georgia State University): Phraseology research in second language acquisition LxGr primarily welcomes papers reporting on corpus-based research on any aspect of the interaction of lexis and grammar - particularly studies that interrogate the system lexicogrammatically to get lexicogrammatical answers. However, position papers discussing theoretical or methodological issues are also welcome, as long as they are relevant to both lexicogrammar and corpus linguistics. If you would like to present, send an abstract of 500 words (excluding references) to lxgr(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:lxgr@edgehill.ac.uk>. Abstracts for research papers should specify the research focus (research questions or hypotheses), the corpus, the methodology (techniques, metrics), the theoretical orientation, and the main findings. Abstracts for position papers should specify the theoretical orientation and the potential contribution to both lexicogrammar and corpus linguistics. Abstracts will be double-blind reviewed by members of the Programme Committee<https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/lxgr/committee>. Full papers will be allocated 35 minutes (including 10 minutes for discussion). Work-in-progress reports will be allocated 20 minutes (including 5 minutes for discussion). There will be no parallel sessions. Participation is free. For details, visit the LxGr website: https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/lxgr/lxgr2024 If you have any questions, contact lxgr(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:lxgr@edgehill.ac.uk>. ________________________________ Edge Hill University<http://ehu.ac.uk/home/emailfooter> Modern University of the Year, The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2022<http://ehu.ac.uk/tef/emailfooter> University of the Year, Educate North 2021/21 ________________________________ This message is private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it from your system. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Edge Hill or associated companies. Edge Hill University may monitor email traffic data and also the content of email for the purposes of security and business communications during staff absence.<http://ehu.ac.uk/itspolicies/emailfooter>

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Call for Participation: ArAIEval Shared Task at the ArabicNLP conference 2024 (co-located with ACL 2024): Propagandistic Techniques Detection in Unimodal and Multimodal Arabic Content
by Firoj Alam 23 Mar '24

23 Mar '24

Dear colleagues, You are invited to participate in ArAIEval Shared Task at the ArabicNLP 2024: (i) detection of propagandistic textual spans with persuasion techniques identification (unimodal) on Arabic news articles and tweets. (ii) distinguishing between propagandistic and non-propagandistic memes (multimodal) in Arabic. The shared task will be held alongside the Second Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP 2024), co-located with the ACL2024 Conference in Bangkok, Thailand (11-16 Aug, 2024). Tasks Task 1: Unimodal (Text) Propagandistic Technique Detection: The task is to detect the propaganda techniques used in a text and identify the exact span(s) in which each propaganda technique appears. You will be given text snippets from news paragraphs or tweets (multigenre). This is a sequence tagging task. Task 2: Multimodal propagandistic memes classification: We offer the three subtasks as defined below: - Subtask 2A: Given a text extracted from a meme, detect whether it is propagandistic or not. - Subtask 2B: Given a meme (text overlayed image), the task is to detect whether the content is propagandistic. - Subtask 2C: Given multimodal content (text extracted from meme and the meme itself) the task is to detect whether the content is propagandistic. Website for detailed information: https://araieval.gitlab.io/ Registration and submission: Task 1: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/18111 Task 2: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/18099 Important Dates: - 15 Mar 2024: Registration on CodaLab and the start of the development cycle (release of training and development datasets, along with submission for the development phase on CodaLab) - 27 April 2023 23:59 AOE: Beginning of the evaluation cycle (test sets release) - 1 May 2024 23:59 AOE: End of the evaluation cycle (run submission) - 5 May 2024: Release leaderboard - 15 May 2024: Deadline for the submission of shared task papers - 17 June 2024: Notification of acceptance of shared task papers - 1 July 2024: Deadline for submission of camera-ready papers - 16 August 2023: ArabicNLP Conference (colocated with ACL-2024) Organizers - Firoj Alam, Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU, Qatar - Maram Hasanain, Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU, Qatar - Reem Suwaileh, HBKU, Qatar - Md. Arid Hasan, University of New Brunswick, Canada - Fatema Ahmed, Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU, Qatar - Md. Rafiul Biswas, HBKU, Qatar - Wajdi Zaghouani, HBKU, Qatar Regards, The ArAIEval Shared Task Organizers

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PhD position CASCADE EU Horizon MSCA - Modeling context for the analysis of language variation and change
by Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb 23 Mar '24

23 Mar '24

Exciting EU Horizon Doctoral Network Opportunity! Network: HORIZON Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Doctoral Network on Computational Analysis of Semantic Change Across Different Environments (CASCADE) Job Title: PhD Candidate in Computational Linguistics/Digital Humanities/Computational Humanities/Data Science (AI/NLP) Project Title: Modeling context for the analysis of language variation and change Please share with interested students! Important: see eligibility requirements below!! Full official advert available here: https://www.uni-saarland.de/fileadmin/upload/verwaltung/stellen/Wissenschaft ler/W2439.pdf Workplace Computational Analysis of Semantic Change Across Different Environments (CASCADE) is a HORIZON Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Doctoral Networks scheme which will bring together researchers from a variety of backgrounds, including literary studies, historical text analysis, semantics, corpus linguistics, machine learning and natural language processing. The project will emphasise the importance of computational linguistics and humanities scholarship as skills that bring value and competitive edge to organisations concerned with semantically aware information retrieval and text analytics. CASCADE is a partnership between University College Cork, the University of Sheffield, KU Leuven, the University of Helsinki, and Saarland University. Location This position is to be filled at Saarland University, seeking applications for a PhD project entitled Diachronic development of text types in the English Language, which will be one of ten funded projects to emerge out of CASCADE's doctoral network. The successful candidate will be appointed as Marie Curie Early Career Researchers at Saarland University, enrolled in a fully-funded three-year PhD programme. The successful candidate will be supervised by PD Dr. Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb. The position will be located within the Department of Language Science and Technology. The successful applicant will have the opportunity to collaborate with researchers affiliated with the DFG-funded Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 1102 on Information Density and Linguistic Encoding at Saarland University. CRC 1102 is a thriving research environment with over 30 PhD students and postdocs from many subfields of Linguistics, Computational Linguistics and Psycholinguistics. The Department of Language Science and Technology consists of about 100 research staff in nine research groups in the fields of Computational Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Speech Processing, and Corpus Linguistics. It is part of Saarland Informatics Campus, which brings together computer science research at the university with world-class research institutions on campus. Project description The project Modeling context for the analysis of language variation and change will use computational approaches to mode linguistic and extra-linguistic context for the analysis of language variation and change. Context has a major impact on how we process language. However, the notion of context is very broad ranging from broadly conceived pragmatic conditions, i.e. the extra-linguistic context (e.g. socio-cultural factors, genres, time), to the relationship among linguistic elements that can substitute for each other in a given context, i.e. the paradigmatic context, up to the local linguistic context of linguistic elements, i.e. the syntagmatic context. While studies on language variation and change do encompass the notion of context, the coverage of contextual factors is often relatively limited. This project will apply and further develop computational modeling techniques to integrate contextual factors among the types of context described above to arrive at more comprehensive accounts of effects of contextual factors on language variation and change. Eligibility: This is important! The vacancy is open to applicants of all nationalities who comply with the mobility requirement and the degree requirement: * applicants must not have resided in the country of the CASCADE university that will host them (university of the main supervisor, Germany in this case) for more than 12 months in the 36 months preceding appointment * applicants must not hold a doctoral degree in any other field or have failed a corresponding doctoral examination at another higher education institution. More information about the Network CASCADE is committed to creating an environment in which all talents can develop to their maximum potential, regardless of gender, age, cultural origin, nationality or disability. We particularly encourage candidates from traditionally underrepresented groups to apply. CASCADE is advertising positions for 10 candidates within its network, who will be housed across the five participating universities. While applications are welcome to apply for more than one project, applications for each position must be submitted separately. In the event an applicant does apply for more than one position and has a particular preference, this should be indicated by email to PD Dr. Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb. Applicants are encouraged to only apply for projects for which they are ideally qualified and suitable. The recruitment process will be done centrally by the CASCADE selection committee. Job requirements and responsibilities * Participation in the general training programme of the doctoral network (kick-off, monthly online research meetings, annual workshops and schools, and final conference) * Collaboration with a multidisciplinary research group focused on the intersection of Computational Linguistics, Linguistics, and Digital Humanities. * Creation of a computational approach to model contextual factors. * Large-scale analysis of effects of contextual factors on modeling language variation and change. * Participation in joint publications and engagement in academic service. * The successful candidate will be expected to participate in a series of international conferences and workshops, as well as undertake secondments in Germany and abroad. Your academic qualifications * Completed university studies in Digital Humanities, Computational Linguistics, Data Science, AI/NLP, Information Science, or related fields, held by time of appointment * Language skills (according to GER): English - B2 The successful candidate will also be expected to: * Demonstrated experience in applying computational methods to textual data (essential); * Familiarity with eighteenth-century English data sources (desirable) * Capability to bridge the gap between data science and the humanities (essential); * Enthusiasm for inter- and multidisciplinary research and ability to work independently and collaboratively * (essential); * Strong research, analytical, and organizational skills (essential); * Excellent written and verbal communication skills (essential); * A good command of English is mandatory; * Language skills (according to GER): English B2 What we can offer you: * A flexible work schedule allowing you to balance work and family * Interdisciplinary supervision and structured PhD training * An occupational health management model with numerous attractive options, such as our university sports program * A broad range or further education and professional development programmes (e.g. language courses) Applicants are requested to enclose the following documents in English with their application: 1. A curriculum vitae, including any publications (max. 10 pages); 2. A cover statement outlining the applicant's ambitions for Diachronic development of text types in the English Language and the wider CASCADE network (max. 2 pages); 3. A single-authored writing sample from your previous studies (any length). We look forward to receiving your meaningful online application (in a PDF file) by 29.03.2024 (extension is planned) to s.degaetano(a)mx.uni-saarland.de. Please include the reference number W2440 in the subject line of the e-mail. If you have any questions, please contact us for assistance. Your contact: PD Dr. Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb Assistant Professor (Akademische Rätin) Department of Language Science and Technology Saarland University Campus A2.2 66123 Saarbrücken s.degaetano(a)mx.uni-saarland.de <mailto:s.degaetano@mx.uni-saarland.de> www.stefaniadegaetano.com <http://www.stefaniadegaetano.com/>

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PhD position CASCADE EU Horizon MSCA - Diachronic development of text types in the English Language
by Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb 23 Mar '24

23 Mar '24

Exciting EU Horizon Doctoral Network Opportunity! Network: HORIZON Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Doctoral Network on Computational Analysis of Semantic Change Across Different Environments (CASCADE) Job Title: PhD Candidate in Computational Linguistics/Digital Humanities/Computational humanities/Corpus Linguistics Project Title: Diachronic development of text types in the English Language Please share with interested students! Important: see eligibility requirements below!! Full official advert available here: https://www.uni-saarland.de/fileadmin/upload/verwaltung/stellen/Wissenschaft ler/W2440.pdf Workplace Computational Analysis of Semantic Change Across Different Environments (CASCADE) is a HORIZON Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Doctoral Networks scheme which will bring together researchers from a variety of backgrounds, including literary studies, historical text analysis, semantics, corpus linguistics, machine learning and natural language processing. The project will emphasise the importance of computational linguistics and humanities scholarship as skills that bring value and competitive edge to organisations concerned with semantically aware information retrieval and text analytics. CASCADE is a partnership between University College Cork, the University of Sheffield, KU Leuven, the University of Helsinki, and Saarland University. Location This position is to be filled at Saarland University, seeking applications for a PhD project entitled Diachronic development of text types in the English Language, which will be one of ten funded projects to emerge out of CASCADE's doctoral network. The successful candidate will be appointed as Marie Curie Early Career Researchers at Saarland University, enrolled in a fully-funded three-year PhD programme. The successful candidate will be supervised by PD Dr. Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb. The position will be located within the Department of Language Science and Technology. The successful applicant will have the opportunity to collaborate with researchers affiliated with the DFG-funded Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 1102 on Information Density and Linguistic Encoding at Saarland University. CRC 1102 is a thriving research environment with over 30 PhD students and postdocs from many subfields of Linguistics, Computational Linguistics and Psycholinguistics. The Department of Language Science and Technology consists of about 100 research staff in nine research groups in the fields of Computational Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Speech Processing, and Corpus Linguistics. It is part of Saarland Informatics Campus, which brings together computer science research at the university with world-class research institutions on campus. Project description The project Diachronic development of text types in the English Language will use computational approaches to model temporal dynamics of textual data (corpus-based and novel probabilistic measures) for the analysis of the development of text types in English. From the 15th century onward, increased use of the vernacular and perceived syntactic and lexical gaps (compared with Latin) prompted linguistic innovation in English, concurrent with the progressive conventionalization of text types. Existing variation was made functional and new distinctions were either borrowed or invented (e.g. transfer of features from medicine to cooking recipes). Applying corpus-based and novel probabilistic measures to investigate diachronic change and with support from Text+ and IDeaL, the PhD candidate will be able to: 1) determine the linguistic features of different text types; 2) determine how these features change over time; 3) assess the overlap of different text types and the possible mutual influence of text types; 4) develop a computational workflow to support the above objectives which is made publicly available (e.g. on github). Eligibility: This is important! The vacancy is open to applicants of all nationalities who comply with the mobility requirement and the degree requirement: * applicants must not have resided in the country of the CASCADE university that will host them (university of the main supervisor, Germany in this case) for more than 12 months in the 36 months preceding appointment * applicants must not hold a doctoral degree in any other field or have failed a corresponding doctoral examination at another higher education institution. More information about the Network CASCADE is committed to creating an environment in which all talents can develop to their maximum potential, regardless of gender, age, cultural origin, nationality or disability. We particularly encourage candidates from traditionally underrepresented groups to apply. CASCADE is advertising positions for 10 candidates within its network, who will be housed across the five participating universities. While applications are welcome to apply for more than one project, applications for each position must be submitted separately. In the event an applicant does apply for more than one position and has a particular preference, this should be indicated by email to PD Dr. Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb. Applicants are encouraged to only apply for projects for which they are ideally qualified and suitable. The recruitment process will be done centrally by the CASCADE selection committee. Job requirements and responsibilities * Participation in the general training programme of the doctoral network (kick-off, monthly online research meetings, annual workshops and schools, and final conference) * Collaboration with a multidisciplinary research group focused on the intersection of Computational Linguistics, Linguistics, and Digital Humanities. * Creation of a typology of diachronic text types. * Large-scale analysis of the evolution of meaning across text types. * Development of a computationally supported methodology for diachronic text typology. * Participation in joint publications and engagement in academic service. * The successful candidate will be expected to participate in a series of international conferences and workshops, as well as undertake secondments in Germany and abroad. Your academic qualifications * Completed university studies in English Linguistics with strong historical and/or corpus-based background, Digital Humanities, Corpus Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, or related fields, held by time of appointment (MA-degree) * Language skills (according to GER): English B2 The successful candidate will also be expected to: * Demonstrated experience in applying text-/corpus-based or comparative approaches to the analysis of language variation (e.g., diachronic, sociolinguistic, multilingual variation) (desirable); * Capability to bridge the gap between data science and the humanities (essential); * Enthusiasm for inter- and multidisciplinary research and ability to work independently and collaboratively (essential); * Strong research, analytical, and organizational skills (essential); * Excellent written and verbal communication skills (essential); * A good command of English is mandatory; * Language skills (according to GER): English B2 What we can offer you: * A flexible work schedule allowing you to balance work and family * Interdisciplinary supervision and structured PhD training * An occupational health management model with numerous attractive options, such as our university sports program * A broad range or further education and professional development programmes (e.g. language courses) Applicants are requested to enclose the following documents in English with their application: 1. A curriculum vitae, including any publications (max. 10 pages); 2. A cover statement outlining the applicant's ambitions for Diachronic development of text types in the English Language and the wider CASCADE network (max. 2 pages); 3. A single-authored writing sample from your previous studies (any length). We look forward to receiving your meaningful online application (in a PDF file) by 29.03.2024 (extension is planned) to s.degaetano(a)mx.uni-saarland.de. Please include the reference number W2440 in the subject line of the e-mail. If you have any questions, please contact us for assistance. Your contact: PD Dr. Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb Assistant Professor (Akademische Rätin) Department of Language Science and Technology Saarland University Campus A2.2 66123 Saarbrücken s.degaetano(a)mx.uni-saarland.de <mailto:s.degaetano@mx.uni-saarland.de> www.stefaniadegaetano.com <http://www.stefaniadegaetano.com/>

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CAiSE'24: Last Call for Research Projects Exhibition
by Announce 23 Mar '24

23 Mar '24

*** Last Call for Research Projects Exhibition *** 36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'24) June 3-7, 2024, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/caise2024/ (*** Submission Deadline: 8th April, 2024 AoE ***) CAiSE 2024 features a Research Project Exhibition (RPE@CAiSE'24) where researchers and practitioners can present their ongoing research projects (e.g., Horizon or ERC projects, national grants) in the context of Information Systems Engineering. The main objective of this call is to serve as a forum where presenters can disseminate the intermediate results of their projects or get feedback about research project proposals being developed. The exhibition will also provide a warm environment to find potential research partners, foster existing relationships, and discuss research ideas. To participate in the RPE@CAiSE'24, the authors should submit a short paper (5-8 pages) showcasing the project, including the participants, the main objectives of the project and relevant results obtained so far (or expected results in the case of project proposals). Each submission will be peer-reviewed on the relevance of the submitted paper in the context of CAiSE 2024. If the paper is accepted, the authors will be invited to register for the conference to present their work at the Research Projects Exhibition session at CAiSE 2024. The accepted contributions will be proposed for publication by CEUR proceedings using the 1-column CEUR-ART style. In addition, the authors of the most influential project presented at the RPE@CAiSE'24 will receive an award distinguishing their contribution as the "Most Influential Project of the Research Project Exhibition @CAiSE'24". RESEARCH PROJECTS REQUIREMENTS For the Research Projects Exhibition, we solicit submissions of projects related to the topics of CAiSE that meet the following criteria: • Projects funded by the European Union, by national or local funding organisations, or even by individual universities and industries. • Projects focused on fundamental research, applied research or more industry-oriented. • Research projects carried out by an international consortium of partners or by a national research team. • Research statements for future projects concerning the Information Systems Engineering community. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Papers should be submitted via Easychair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=caise2024) by selecting the "Research Projects Exhibition". Each submission of a research project should include: • The project's full name, acronym, duration (from-to), participants, funding agency and URL. • Names of presenter(s) and main contributors. • Abstract and keywords. • Summary of project objectives and expected tangible outputs. • The relevance of the project (or one of its work packages) to the topics of the International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering. • If the project is ongoing: summary of current status and intermediate results. All submissions should be 5 to 8 pages long and be formatted as a 1-column CEUR-ART style (templates available at https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/). An intention to submit should be performed one week before the deadline, including the full name of the project, the authors' name and the abstract. Each submission will be reviewed by at least two members of the Program Committee. In case of disagreement, a third member of the Program Committee will review the submission. The Program Committee will comprise international researchers with expertise in the field. ATTENDANCE AND PRESENTATION During the Research Projects Exhibition session, the authors of accepted contributions will present the research project. Details about the format of the session and instructions to prepare the presentation will be given to authors after the acceptance notification. At least one author of each submission accepted for the Research Projects Exhibition must register and attend the conference to present the work. The author needs a full registration to present the research project. IMPORTANT DATES • Submission: 8th April, 2024 (AoE) • Notification of Acceptance: 22nd April, 2024 • Camera Ready: 13th May, 2024 • Author Registration: 17th May, 2024 • Conference Dates: 3rd-7th June, 2024 RESEARCH PROJECTS EXHIBITION CHAIRS • Raimundas Matulevicius, University of Tartu, Estonia • Henderik A. Proper, TU Wien, Austria

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Postdoctoral Researcher, STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse, 1475–1700
by heather froehlich 22 Mar '24

22 Mar '24

Dear all, With apologies for cross posting, please see the below job opportunity. I am posting this on behalf of Professor Erin McCarthy, please contact her ( erin.mccarthy(a)nuigalway.ie) with additional questions! *Postdoctoral Researcher, STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse, 1475–1700* School of English, Media, and Creative Arts, University of Galway Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates for a full-time, fixed-term position as a Postdoctoral Researcher for the project ‘STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse, 1475–1700’, led by Professor Erin A. McCarthy <https://www.universityofgalway.ie/colleges-and-schools/arts-social-sciences…>, School of English and Creative Arts at the University of Galway, Ireland. The position is funded by a European Research Council Consolidator Grant awarded to Professor McCarthy. This position is funded by a European Research Council Consolidator Grant awarded to Professor McCarthy and is available for thirty-six months from 1 July 2024. *Project Description* This project develops and applies a data-driven approach in order to provide the first macro-level view of the circulation of early modern English poetry in manuscript. It focuses on English verse manuscripts written and used between the introduction of printing in England in 1475 and 1700, by which time the rapid changes in both literary taste and publishing norms ushered in by the Restoration had fully transformed literary culture. The project includes manuscripts circulating in England and anywhere else English was spoken and read, including Ireland, the North American colonies, and continental exile communities. It develops innovative computational models and quantitative methods for studying the social and material forces that informed literary culture. Whereas the current state of the art has seen the scholarly community address manuscripts primarily as case studies, STEMMA seeks to open new frontiers in manuscript research by facilitating the identification of patterns and trends at scale. To that end, the project begins by synthesizing six of the most comprehensive datasets about early modern English manuscripts in preparation for advanced literary, material, and quantitative analyses. This first work package sets the stage for four further, interlocking work packages, to which the doctoral and postdoctoral positions are allocated: networking early modern manuscript poems; early modern literary communities in the English-speaking world; rolling archetypes, computational text analysis, and scholarly editing; and textual circulation between manuscript and print. The research team will comprise the PI, three postdoctoral researchers, and one PhD student with expertise in literary history, textual studies, computational text analysis, and social network analysis. They will be based in the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies, located in the Hardiman Research Building. *Job Description:*The successful candidate will focus on Work Package 4, ‘Rolling Archetypes, Computational Text Analysis, and Scholarly Editing’. This work package will test methods from textual editing and stylometry to assess their usefulness for identifying poets and/or scribes. The first several months of the contract will focus primarily on data preparation and reconciliation. The researcher will then identify one or more previously unidentified textual ‘clusters’ and prepare a full-text corpus. The researcher will apply computational text analysis methods to investigate how compilers worked with rolling archetypes and how these insights might inform contemporary textual editing practice. The researcher will also contribute to the organization of a major international hackathon and conference and the communication of project results through peer-reviewed outputs and public outreach activities. Duties: · Preparation of data for online virtual research environment · Analysing data and results · Computational text analysis · Archival research on major collections of manuscript miscellanies held in libraries internationally · Preparation of papers for presentation and publication · Contribution to the project website and social media channels · Associated administrative duties · Any other duties assigned commensurate to this level of post. *Qualifications/Skills required:* Essential Requirements: · PhD in English literature, digital humanities, or another relevant field · Significant experience in computational text analysis and/or stylometry · Experience working with databases · Excellent writing and communication skills · Peer-reviewed publication record · Ability to work well both collaboratively and independently · Highly motivated, with excellent organisational skills Desirable Requirements: · Expertise in early modern manuscript culture and/or early modern English poetry · Experience with textual editing · Experience with network analysis · Knowledge of one or more of the following languages: French, German, Italian, Latin, Spanish · Excellent IT skills Salary: Postdoctoral Researcher pay scale €42,782 - €54,965 per annum, (subject to the project’s funding limitations), and pro rata for shorter and/or part-time contracts. 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, 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). Start date: Position is available from 1 July 2024. Information on how to apply is available at https://www.universityofgalway.ie/about-us/jobs/research/?fbclid=IwAR2VB3Kb… . Thank you! -- Dr Heather Froehlich w // http://hfroehli.ch t // @heatherfro *this email address is for mailing list subscriptions only and is not monitored regularly.*

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LREC-COLING 2024: Registration is now open
by info＠elda.org 22 Mar '24

22 Mar '24

[Apologies for multiple postings] The online registration to LREC-COLING 2024 Main conference, Workshops and Tutorials is now open @ https://cvent.me/egYlAz Early-Bird Deadline: April 15, 2024 (23:59 AoE) Fees and Registration Policy: https://lrec-coling-2024.org/registration/ LREC-COLING 2024 Contacts: General contact: contact(a)lrec-coling-2024.org Invitation and visa letters: lreccoling24-local-chairs-l(a)ufal.mff.cuni.cz ELRA membership, payment, invoices: ELRASecretariat(a)lrec-coling-2024.org Scientific programme and Main conference papers: lreccoling24-program-chairs-l(a)ufal.mff.cuni.cz / lreccoling24-general-chairs-l(a)ufal.mff.cuni.cz Workshops and Tutorials: lreccoling24-all-workshop-chairs-l(a)ufal.mff.cuni.cz lreccoling24-tutorial-chairs-l(a)ufal.mff.cuni.cz https://lrec-coling-2024.org/ Follow us on Twitter: @LrecColing <https://twitter.com/recColing>

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HealTAC 024 - second call for contributions
by Jaya Chaturvedi 22 Mar '24

22 Mar '24

---------------------------- HealTAC 2024 June 12-14th, 2024, Lancaster (UK) https://healtac2024.github.io/ [healtac2024.github.io]<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/healtac2024.github.io/__;!!PDiH4ENfjr2_J…> ---------------------------- 1) Second call for contributions: deadline extended to April 8th 2) Keynote speakers: Suzan Verberne and Alistair Johnson 3) Tutorial: ‘Healthcare Text Analytics in the Era of LLMs’ (12 June) Second call for contributions The 7th Healthcare Text Analytics Conference (HealTAC 2024) invites contributions that address any aspect of healthcare text analytics. This year, we invite submissions in the form of extended abstracts that describe either methodological or application work that has not been previously presented in a conference. Submissions (up to 2 pages) should be prepared based on a template that is available at the conference web site. We also invite PhD and fellowship project submissions that describe ongoing PhD research (any stage) or a planned fellowship application. The conference will provide an opportunity to receive constructive feedback from a panel of experts. As in previous years, there will be a post-conference open call to submit a journal length paper for further peer review and publication in Frontiers in Digital Health. Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=healtac2024 [easychair.org]<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/easychair.org/conferences/?conf=healtac2…> Updated key dates : Deadline for all contributions: April 8th 2024 Notification of acceptance: April 24th 2024 Tutorial: June 12th 2024 Conference: June 13-14th 2024 Keynote speakers We are pleased to announce that the keynote speakers at HealTAC 2024 will be Suzan Verberne (Leiden University) and Alistair Johnson (Glowyr). Tutorial We are also pleased that a team from the Institute of Health Informatics, University College London (Yunsoo Kim, Jinge Wu, Honghan Wu) will deliver a tutorial on 'Healthcare Text Analytics in the Era of Large Language Models'. Announcements Follow the conference announcements on social media at #HEALTAC2024 We are looking forward to welcoming you to HealTAC 2024. Jaya Chaturvedi KCL DRIVE-Health CDT PhD Student (drive-health.org) Department of Biostatistics and Health Informatics C3.15, Social Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience King’s College London PO Box 80, De Crespigny Park London SE5 8AF Pronunciation: Juh-yaa Pronouns: she/her GitHub: https://github.com/jayachaturvedi X: @JayaChatur Project website: https://sites.google.com/view/pain-mental-health/home If you receive an email from me outside of normal working hours, please do not feel the need to respond outside of your own working hours.

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CFP for the LLcD 2024 Conference
by Pascal Denis 22 Mar '24

22 Mar '24

Hi there, Could you please distribute the following call for paper? thanks. Best, Pascal Denis =================================================================================================================================================== Langues et langage à la croisée des disciplines ( LLcD ) is a new research network, supported by the French CNRS. It organizes an international conference in France aiming to advance the scientific understanding of human language and linguistic systems, as well as to foster new collaborations and cross-fertilization among different research areas and approaches. The LLcD Meeting, slated to occur annually, will change its location and its thematic focus every year. It will be organized around a conference, as well as a panel discussion and a summer school, both within the theme promoted that year. The LLcD conference will feature plenary lectures delivered by invited keynote speakers, a general session and thematic workshops. The first edition of the conference is scheduled to take place at Sorbonne University, Paris, from September 9th to September 11th, 2024 . Its main theme will be: Languages, variations, changes: synchronic, diachronic, typological and comparative approaches. We invite papers on all sub-fields of linguistics, languages, approaches (descriptive, theoretical, empirical, interdisciplinary, etc.), in order to promote diversity across disciplines and methodologies. The proposals are not required to address the main theme of the conference. The languages of the conference are English and French. Abstracts may be submitted for thematic workshops or the general session, no later than April 20, 2024 , on EasyChair . [ https://llcd2024.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/18 | List of workshops ] Abstracts must clearly state the research questions, approach, method, data and (expected) results. They must be anonymous: not only must they not contain the presenters' names, affiliations or addresses, but they must avoid any other information that might reveal their author(s). They should not exceed 500 words (including examples, but excluding bibliographical references). Each submission is subject to three reviews. Abstracts submitted for the general session will be evaluated by three members of the Scientific Committee. Abstracts submitted for workshops will be assessed by two members of the Scientific Committee and (one of) the workshop organizer(s). EasyChair submission page: [ https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=llcd2024 | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=llcd2024 ] Contact: [ mailto:llcd@sciencesconf.org | llcd(a)sciencesconf.org ] -- Pascal ---- Pour une évaluation indépendante, transparente et rigoureuse ! Je soutiens la Commission d'Évaluation de l'Inria. ---- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Pascal Denis Equipe MAGNET, INRIA Lille Nord Europe Bâtiment B, Avenue Heloïse Parc scientifique de la Haute Borne 59650 Villeneuve d'Ascq Tel: ++33 3 59 35 87 24 Url: http://researchers.lille.inria.fr/~pdenis/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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