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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 23 Mar '24

23 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 23 Mar '24

23 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 23 Mar '24

23 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 23 Mar '24

23 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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Call for Participation: "Help us break LLMs" - Test suite sub-task of the Ninth Conference on Machine Translation (WMT24)
by Eleftherios Avramidis 22 Mar '24

22 Mar '24

The “test suites” sub-task will be included for the sixth time in the General MT Shared Task of the Conference on Machine Translation (WMT24). *OVERVIEW* Test suites are custom extensions to the test sets of the General MT Shared Task, constructed so that they can focus on concrete aspects of the MT output. They consist of a source-side test-set and a customized evaluation service. As opposed to the standard evaluation process which produces generic quality scores, test suites often produce separate fine-grained results for each phenomenon. Since the usage of LLMs for translation is getting more popular, and we are expecting more LLMs participations in WMT this year, the theme of this year’s test suite sub-task is "Help us break LLMs", i.e. to reveal weaknesses and serious flaws of LLMs when translating, hidden within the overall high-quality generation. *IMPORTANT DATES* * 11th April: Test suite source texts may be submitted for a pre-run on SoTA MT systems * 12th June: Test suite source texts must reach us * 11th July: Translated test suites shipped back to test suites authors: * TBC - August: Test suite description and analysis paper * 12th-13th November: Conference Potential participants are kindly requested to fill in this form https://forms.office.com/e/e4JuMTSWFF <the “Test suites” sub-task will be included for the sixth time in the General MT Shared Task of the Conference on Machine Translation (WMT24). , ,,*OVERVIEW* ,,Test suites are custom extensions to the test sets of the General MT Shared Task, constructed so that they can focus on concrete aspects of the MT output. They consist of a source-side test-set and a customized evaluation service. As opposed to the standard evaluation process which produces generic quality scores, test suites often produce separate fine-grained results for each phenomenon. ,,Since the usage of LLMs for translation is getting more popular, and we are expecting more LLMs participations in WMT this year, the theme of this year’s test suite sub-task is "Help us break LLMs", i.e. to reveal weaknesses and serious flaws of LLMs when translating, hidden within the overall high-quality generation. ,, ,,*IMPORTANT DATES* ,,11th April: Test suite source texts may be submitted for a pre-run on SoTA MT systems ,,12th June: Test suite source texts must reach us ,,18th July: Translated test suites shipped back to test suites authors: ,,TBC - August: Test suite description and analysis paper ,, ,,Potential participants are kindly requested to fill in this form ,,https://forms.office.com/e/e4JuMTSWFF ,, ,,Further information can be found in the dedicated page of the WMT website ,,http://www2.statmt.org/wmt24/testsuite-subtask.html> Further information can be found in the dedicated page of the WMT website http://www2.statmt.org/wmt24/testsuite-subtask.html <http://www2.statmt.org/wmt24/testsuite-subtask.html> -- Eleftherios Avramidis, senior researcher German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) departments: Design Research eXplorations, Speech and Language Technology short name: Lefteris, (pronouns: he/him), languages: English, German, Greek Website:https://www.dfki.de/~elav01 Address: Alt Moabit 91c, 10559 Berlin, Germany Tel.: +49 30 23895 1806 Sec.: +49 30 23895 1800 Fax.: +49 30 23895 1810 Firmensitz: Trippstadter Strasse 122, D-67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany Geschäftsführung: Prof. Dr. Antonio Krüger, Helmut Ditzer Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Dr. Ferri Abolhassan Amtsgericht Kaiserslautern, HRB 2313

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CAiSE'24: Last Call for Journal First Submissions
by Announce 22 Mar '24

22 Mar '24

*** Last Call for Journal First Submissions *** 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: 31st March, 2024 AoE ***) CAiSE 2024 is organising journal-first sessions as part of the scientific program. The aim of these sessions is to disseminate recent important research contributions and spark discussions between authors and researchers in the CAiSE community. Authors of selected journal articles on CAiSE-related topics will be invited to present their work at the conference. SCOPE For the journal-first sessions, we solicit submissions related to articles that have been accepted for publication by a reputable journal and that meet the following criteria: • The article relates to the topics of the CAiSE conference and the recent call for papers. • The article is an original submission to the journal and not an extension of an earlier conference or workshop paper. • The article is an original research article; review articles or commentaries will not be considered. • The article was accepted for publication by a journal on or after 1 January 2023, the acceptance must have been publicly announced, the article must be available at the publisher’s website (e.g., as "articles in advance" or published on a journal’s website), and the article must be written in English. • The article has not been presented at, and is not under consideration for, journal-first tracks of other conferences. FORMAT Accepted submissions will be presented as part of the CAiSE 2024 scientific programme. SUBMISION Submissions must be done electronically via Easychair (https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=caise2024) and include: • Title and author information of the article. • The original abstract and keywords. • DOI of the original publication or, alternatively, a link to the publication at the journal’s website. EVALUATION All submissions will be reviewed by the track chairs with the aim to accept all qualifying submissions subject to ability to accommodate them in the program. If needed, priority will be given to submissions according to their topical fit with the scope of the conference, the importance of the contribution, as well as the standing of the respective journal (including, but not limited to, the journal's impact factor and ranking results). ATTENDANCE AND PRESENTATION At least one author of each submission accepted for the journal-first track must register and attend the conference to present the work. The author needs a full registration to present the journal article. As the articles of the journal-first track have been published already, they will not be part of the CAiSE 2024 proceedings. The articles will be listed in the conference program and CAiSE 2024 participants will have access to the respective abstracts and a pointer to the original journal article. IMPORTANT DATES • Submission: 31st March, 2024 (AoE) • Notification of Acceptance: 14th April, 2024 • Author Registration: 17th May, 2024 • Conference Dates: 3rd-7th June, 2024 JOURNAL FIRST CHAIRS • Paolo Giorgini, University of Trento, Italy • Jeffrey Parsons, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada

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Preliminary Call for Papers – Special issue of Information Processing & Management on Large Language Models and Data Quality for Knowledge Graphs
by Stefano Marchesin 22 Mar '24

22 Mar '24

Apologies for crossposting. Call for Papers Information Processing & Management (IPM), Elsevier - CiteScore: 14.8 - Impact Factor: 8.6 Guest editors: - Omar Alonso, Applied Science, Amazon, Palo Alto, California, USA. E-mail: omralon(a)amazon.com - Stefano Marchesin, Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Padua, Italy. E-mail: stefano.marchesin(a)unipd.it - Gianmaria Silvello, Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Padua, Italy. E-mail: gianmaria.silvello(a)unipd.it Special Issue on “Large Language Models and Data Quality for Knowledge Graphs” In recent years, Knowledge Graphs (KGs), encompassing millions of relational facts, have emerged as central assets to support virtual assistants and search and recommendations on the web. Moreover, KGs are increasingly used by large companies and organizations to organize and comprehend their data, with industry-scale KGs fusing data from various sources for downstream applications. Building KGs involves data management and artificial intelligence areas, such as data integration, cleaning, named entity recognition and disambiguation, relation extraction, and active learning. However, the methods used to build these KGs involve automated components that could be better, resulting in KGs with high sparsity and incorporating several inaccuracies and wrong facts. As a result, evaluating the KG quality plays a significant role, as it serves multiple purposes – e.g., gaining insights into the quality of data, triggering the refinement of the KG construction process, and providing valuable information to downstream applications. In this regard, the information in the KG must be correct to ensure an engaging user experience for entity-oriented services like virtual assistants. Despite its importance, there is little research on data quality and evaluation for KGs at scale. In this context, the rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) opens up unprecedented opportunities – and challenges – to advance KG construction and evaluation, providing an intriguing intersection between human and machine capabilities. On the one hand, integrating LLMs within KG construction systems could trigger the development of more context-aware and adaptive AI systems. At the same time, however, LLMs are known to hallucinate and can thus generate mis/disinformation, which can affect the quality of the resulting KG. In this sense, reliability and credibility components are of paramount importance to manage the hallucinations produced by LLMs and avoid polluting the KG. On the other hand, investigating how to combine LLMs and quality evaluation has excellent potential, as shown by promising results from using LLMs to generate relevance judgments in information retrieval. Thus, this special issue promotes novel research on human-machine collaboration for KG construction and evaluation, fostering the intersection between KGs and LLMs. To this end, we encourage submissions related to using LLMs within KG construction systems, evaluating KG quality, and applying quality control systems to empower KG and LLM interactions on both research- and industrial-oriented scenarios. Topics include but are not limited to: - KG construction systems - Use of LLMs for KG generation - Efficient solutions to deploy LLMs on large-scale KGs - Quality control systems for KG construction - KG versioning and active learning - Human-in-the-loop architectures - Efficient KG quality assessment - Quality assessment over temporal and dynamic KGs - Redundancy and completeness issues - Error detection and correction mechanisms - Benchmarks and Evaluation - Domain-specific applications and challenges - Maintenance of industry-scale KGs - LLM validation via reliable/credible KG data Submission guidelines: Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished papers. All submissions will be peer-reviewed and judged on originality, significance, quality, and relevance to the special issue topics of interest. Submitted papers should not have appeared in or be under consideration for another journal. Papers can be submitted from 1 June 2024 to 1 September 2024. The estimated publication date for the special issue is 15 January 2025. Papers submission via IP&M electronic submission system: https://www.editorialmanager.com/IPM Instructions for authors: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/information-processing-and-management… To submit your manuscript to the special issue, please choose the article type: "VSI: LLMs and Data Quality for KGs". More info here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/information-processing-and-management… Important dates: - Submissions open: 1 June 2024 - Submissions close: 1 September 2024 - Publication date: 15 January 2025 References: Weikum G., Dong X.L., Razniewski S., et al. (2021) Machine knowledge: creation and curation of comprehensive knowledge bases. Found. Trends Databases, 10, 108–490. Hogan A., Blomqvist E., Cochez M. et al. (2021) Knowledge graphs. ACM Comput. Surv., 54, 71:1–71:37. B. Xue and L. Zou. 2023. Knowledge Graph Quality Management: A Comprehensive Survey. IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. 35, 5 (2023), 4969 – 4988 G. Faggioli, L. Dietz, C. L. A. Clarke, G. Demartini, M. Hagen, C. Hauff, N. Kando, E. Kanoulas, M. Potthast, B. Stein, and H. Wachsmuth. 2023. Perspectives on Large Language Models for Relevance Judgment. In Proc. of the 2023 ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval, ICTIR 2023, Taipei, Taiwan, 23 July 2023. ACM, 39 – 50. S. MacAvaney and L. Soldaini. 2023. One-Shot Labeling for Automatic Relevance Estimation. In Proc. of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2023, Taipei, Taiwan, July 23-27, 2023. ACM, 2230 – 2235. X. L. Dong. 2023. Generations of Knowledge Graphs: The Crazy Ideas and the Business Impact. Proc. VLDB Endow. 16, 12 (2023), 4130 – 4137. S. Pan, L. Luo, Y. Wang, C. Chen, J. Wang, and X. Wu. 2023. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap. CoRR abs/2306.08302 (2023). -- Stefano Marchesin, PhD Assistant Professor (RTD/a) Information Management Systems (IMS) Group Department of Information Engineering University of Padua Via Gradenigo 6/a, 35131 Padua, Italy Home page: http://www.dei.unipd.it/~marches1/

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[CfP] Deadline extended: Workshop on Reclaiming the Narrative: Digital Recovery, AI & Mitigating Harm in Social Media @ ICWSM 2024
by Steve Wilson 22 Mar '24

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Join us for the 1st workshop on “Reclaiming the Narrative: Digital Recovery, AI & Mitigating Harm in Social Media” at ICWSM! If you work in harm reduction, NLP, AI, Social Sciences, recovery, HCI, and adjacent narrative studies, this one’s for you! * When: June 3, 2024. * Format: Hybrid (@Buffalo, NY and Zoom) * [NEW] Submission deadline extended to: April 1 We invite submissions of abstracts (2 pages), as well as Long (8 pages) and Short (4 pages) papers, excluding references and appendices. The Long and Short papers will be included in the ICWSM Workshop proceedings, published by AAAI Press. For more details, please visit https://sites.google.com/view/reclaiming-the-narrative/

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