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[CIKM 2024] - Call for Short Research Papers
by antonela.tommasel＠isistan.unicen.edu.ar 21 Mar '24

21 Mar '24

* We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CfP * * For the online version of this Call, visit: https://cikm2024.org/call-for-short-research-papers/ =============== CIKM 2024: 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management Boise, Idaho, USA October 21–25, 2024 =============== The Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) provides a unique venue for industry and academia to present and discuss state-of-the-art research on artificial intelligence, search and discovery, data mining, and database systems, all at a single conference. CIKM is uniquely situated to highlight technologies and insights that materialize the big data and artificial intelligence vision of the future. CIKM 2024 will take place between October 21-25, 2024 in Boise, Idaho, USA. -------------------------- Key Dates -------------------------- * Short Papers abstract: 27 May 2024 * Short Papers: 3 June 2024 * Short Papers notifications: 16 July 2024 * Camera ready: 8 August 2024 (All deadlines are at 11:59 pm AOE) -------------------------- Topics of Interest -------------------------- We encourage submissions of high-quality research papers on all topics in the general areas of artificial intelligence, data science, databases, information retrieval, and knowledge management. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas: * Data and information acquisition and preprocessing (e.g., data crawling, IoT data, data quality, data privacy, mitigating biases, data wrangling) * Integration and aggregation (e.g., semantic processing, data provenance, data linkage, data fusion, knowledge graphs, data warehousing, privacy and security, modeling, information credibility) * Efficient data processing (e.g., serverless, data-intensive computing, database systems, indexing and compression, architectures, distributed data systems, dataspaces, customized hardware) * Special data processing (e.g., multilingual text, sequential, stream, spatio-temporal, (knowledge) graphs, multimedia, scientific, and social media data) * Analytics and machine learning (e.g., OLAP, data mining, machine learning and AI, scalable analysis algorithms, algorithmic biases, event detection and tracking, understanding, interpretability) * Neural Information and knowledge processing (e.g., graph neural networks, domain adaptation, transfer learning, network architectures, neural ranking, neural recommendation, and neural prediction) * Information access and retrieval (e.g., ad hoc and web search, facets and entities, question answering and dialogue systems, retrieval models, query processing, personalization, recommender and filtering systems) * Users and interfaces for information and data systems (e.g., user behavior analysis, user interface design, perception of biases, personalization, interactive information retrieval, interactive analysis, spoken interfaces) * Evaluation, performance studies, and benchmarks (e.g., online and offline evaluation, best practices) Crowdsourcing (e.g. task assignment, worker reliability, optimization, trustworthiness, transparency, best practices) * Understanding multi-modal content (e.g., natural language processing, speech recognition, computer vision, content understanding, knowledge extraction, knowledge graphs, and knowledge representations) * Data presentation (e.g., visualization, summarization, readability, VR, speech input/output) * Applications (e.g., urban systems, biomedical and health informatics, legal informatics, crisis informatics, computational social science, data-enabled discovery, social media) -------------------------- Paper Submissions -------------------------- Authors are invited to submit original short papers that have not been previously published, and are not being considered for publication in any other forum. Short papers should describe ongoing work, recent insights, or summaries of significant research, that address research problems targeting top-tier research venues. Short papers should be particularly well suited to poster presentations.Manuscripts should be submitted to the CIKM 2024 Easychair site in PDF format, using the ACM sigconf template, see https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. Submissions should be in 2-column sigconf format. Short papers cannot exceed 4 pages plus unlimited references. Papers should be submitted through the CIKM 2024 online submission system. The review of short papers will be double-blind, and those submissions that have not been properly anonymized will be desk-rejected without review. Papers that include text generated from a large-scale language model (LLM) such as ChatGPT are prohibited unless this produced text is presented as a part of the paper’s experimental analysis. AI tools may be used to edit and polish authors’ work, such as using LLMs for light editing of their own text (e.g., automate grammar checks, word autocorrect, and other editing work), but text “produced entirely” by AI is not allowed. At least one author of each accepted paper must register to present the work on-site in Boise, Idaho, USA, as scheduled in the conference program. The official publication date is when the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks before the first day of the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. -------------------------- Dual Submission Policy -------------------------- It is not allowed to submit papers that are identical (or substantially similar) to versions that have been previously published, or accepted for publication, or that have been submitted in parallel to other conferences (or any venue with published proceedings). Such submissions violate our dual-submission policy. There are several exceptions to this rule: Submission is permitted for papers presented or to be presented at conferences or workshops without proceedings, or with only abstracts published. Submission is permitted for papers that have previously been made available as a technical report or similar, e.g., in arXiv. In this case, the authors should not cite the report, so as to preserve anonymity. -------------------------- Authorship Policy -------------------------- Before paper submission, authors are advised to review ACM’s authorship policy carefully. Please ensure that all authors are identified in EasyChair before the submission deadline. To help reviewers identify potential conflicts of interest, the full author list must be specified by the abstract submission deadline. Consequently, no changes to authorship will be allowed under any circumstance after the abstract submission deadline; neither update will be permitted for camera-ready versions. -------------------------- Desk Rejection Policy -------------------------- Submissions that fail to adhere to the anonymity, length, or formatting requirements, or violate ACM’s policies on academic dishonesty—such as plagiarism, author misrepresentation, or falsification—may be subject to desk rejection by the chairs. -------------------------- ACM Policy Against Harassment -------------------------- All authors and participants must adhere to the ACM Policy Against Harassment. For full details, please visit this site: https://www.acm.org/about-acm/policy-against-harassment -------------------------- Chairs Contact Information -------------------------- For more information, contact the short paper chairs at: CIKM2024-short [at] easychair [dot] org Arijit Khan, Aalborg University, Denmark Barbara Poblete, University of Chile, Chile/Amazon, USA. Hua Wen, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China

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[CIKM 2024] - Call for Full Research Papers
by antonela.tommasel＠isistan.unicen.edu.ar 21 Mar '24

21 Mar '24

* We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CfP * * For the online version of this Call, visit: https://cikm2024.org/call-for-papers/ =============== CIKM 2024: 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management Boise, Idaho, USA October 21–25, 2024 =============== The Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) provides a unique venue for industry and academia to present and discuss state-of-the-art research on artificial intelligence, search and discovery, data mining, and database systems, all at a single conference. CIKM is uniquely situated to highlight technologies and insights that materialize the big data and artificial intelligence vision of the future. CIKM 2024 will take place between October 21-25, 2024 in Boise, Idaho, USA. -------------------------- Key Dates -------------------------- * Full Papers abstract: 13 May 2024 * Full Papers: 20 May 2024 * Papers notifications: 16 July 2024 * Camera ready: 8 August 2024 (All deadlines are at 11:59 pm AOE) -------------------------- Topics of Interest -------------------------- We encourage submissions of high-quality research papers on the general areas of artificial intelligence, data science, databases, information retrieval, and knowledge management. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas: * Data and information acquisition and preprocessing (e.g., data crawling, IoT data, data quality, data privacy, mitigating biases, data wrangling) * Integration and aggregation (e.g., semantic processing, data provenance, data linkage, data fusion, knowledge graphs, data warehousing, data lake, privacy and security, modeling, information credibility) * Efficient data processing (e.g., serverless, data-intensive computing, database systems, indexing and compression, architectures, distributed data systems, dataspaces, customized hardware) * Special data processing (e.g., multilingual text, sequential, stream, time series, spatio-temporal, (knowledge) graph, multimedia, scientific, and social media data) * Analytics and machine learning (e.g., OLAP, data mining, machine learning and AI, scalable analysis algorithms, algorithmic biases, event detection, and tracking, understanding, and interpretability) * Neural Information and knowledge processing (e.g., graph neural networks, domain adaptation, transfer learning, network architectures, neural ranking, neural recommendation, and neural prediction) * Data preparation, Valuation, and Trading * Information access and retrieval (e.g., web search, question answering and dialogue systems, retrieval models, query processing, personalization, recommender, and filtering systems) * Users and interfaces for information systems (e.g., user behavior analysis, user interface design, perception of biases, personalization, interactive information retrieval, interactive analysis, spoken interfaces) * Evaluation, performance studies, and benchmarks (e.g., online and offline evaluation, best practices) * Crowdsourcing (e.g. task assignment, worker reliability, optimization, trustworthiness, transparency, best practices) * Mining multi-modal content (e.g., natural language processing, speech recognition, computer vision, content understanding, knowledge extraction, knowledge graphs, and knowledge representations) * Data presentation (e.g., visualization, summarization, readability, VR, speech input/output) * Applications (e.g., urban systems, biomedical and health informatics, legal informatics, crisis informatics, computational social science, data-enabled discovery, social media) * Knowledge graphs support data representation and manipulation * Generation of knowledge graphs using unstructured data * Information retrieval in the era of LLMs * Open-ended QA systems * Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, Ethics, and Explainability in Information and Knowledge Management -------------------------- Paper Submissions -------------------------- Authors are invited to submit original, full-length research papers that are not previously published, accepted to be published, or being considered for publication in any other forum. Full-length papers should satisfy the standard requirements of top-tier international research conferences. Manuscripts should be submitted to CIKM 2024 Easychair site in PDF format, using the 2-column ACM sigconf template, see https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template . Full papers cannot exceed 9 pages, including an appendix, plus unlimited references. Rejected full papers will not be considered for publication as short papers. The review of manuscripts will be double-blind, and submissions not properly anonymized will be desk-rejected without review. Papers that include text generated from a large-scale language model (LLM), such as ChatGPT, are prohibited unless this produced text is presented as a part of the paper’s experimental analysis. AI tools may be used to edit and polish authors’ work, such as using LLMs for light editing of their text (e.g., automate grammar checks, word autocorrect, and other editing of author-written text), but text “produced entirely” by generative/AI models is not allowed. At least one author of each accepted paper must register to present the work on-site in Boise, Idaho, USA, as scheduled in the conference program. The official publication date is when the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks before the first day of the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. -------------------------- Dual Submission Policy -------------------------- Submitting papers that are identical (or substantially similar) to versions that have been published, accepted for publication, or submitted in parallel to other conferences (or any venue with published proceedings) is not allowed. However, it is allowed to make an abstract submission by May 13, 2024 (without uploading the paper PDF) for a paper that is still under review as long as the ongoing review process ends by the full paper final deadline of May 20, 2024. You need to withdraw your submission in case the paper is accepted or still under review by May 20, 2024. Authors are allowed to submit papers that have been presented or are to be presented at conferences or workshops without proceedings, or with only abstracts published. Authors may also submit anonymized work already available as a preprint (e.g., in arXiv). In this case, the authors must modify the title and abstract while refraining from citing the manuscript to preserve anonymity. -------------------------- Authorship Policy -------------------------- Before paper submission, authors are advised to review ACM’s authorship policy carefully. Please ensure that all authors are identified in EasyChair before the submission deadline. To help reviewers identify potential conflicts of interest, the full author list must be specified by the abstract submission deadline. Consequently, no changes to authorship will be allowed under any circumstance after the abstract submission deadline; neither update will be permitted for camera-ready versions. -------------------------- Desk Rejection Policy -------------------------- Submissions that fail to adhere to the anonymity, length, or formatting requirements, or violate ACM’s policies on academic dishonesty—such as plagiarism, author misrepresentation, or falsification—may be subject to desk rejection by the chairs. -------------------------- ACM Policy Against Harassment -------------------------- All authors and participants must adhere to the ACM Policy Against Harassment. For full details, please visit this site: https://www.acm.org/about-acm/policy-against-harassment -------------------------- Chairs Contact Information -------------------------- For more information, contact the PC chairs at: CIKM2024-pc [at] easychair [dot] org Carlotta Domeniconi, George Mason University, USA Zhifeng Bao, RMIT University, Australia Sole Pera, TU Delft, Netherlands

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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 20 Mar '24

20 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: Mar 23, 2024. - End of evaluation campaign (deadline for runs submission): Apr 7, 2024. - Publication of official results: Apr 9, 2024. - Paper submission: May 5, 2024. - Review notification: Jun 2, 2024. - Camera-ready submission: Jun 19, 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. - 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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Webinar: Peter Crosthwaite, Methodological considerations in selecting and designing corpus tools, Thursday, April 25, 2024, 4:15pm (Sao Paulo time)
by Tony Berber-Sardinha 20 Mar '24

20 Mar '24

CEPRIL Talks Peter Crosthwaite Methodological considerations in selecting and designing corpus tools University of Queensland Brisbane, Australia Date: Thursday, April 25, 2024 Time: 4:15pm (Sao Paulo time) Online Zoom webinar Register for free: https://forms.gle/mPGQVDNWTNzfgNT87 Upon registration, you will receive the link to join the Zoom session by email. This may take a few days, because manual screening is involved. Support: Projeto Temático Fapesp 2022/05908-0 CEPRIL, LAEL, PUCSP

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Second call for participation - MentalRiskES@IberLEF2024: Early detection of mental
by María Dolores Molina González 20 Mar '24

20 Mar '24

*Training* *set* *released**!* Please, consider participating and/or forwarding to colleagues and groups. ****We apologize for multiple postings of this e-mail**** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ MentalRiskES at IberLEF 2024: Call for Participation Website: https://sites.google.com/view/mentalriskes2024 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MentalRiskEs describes the second edition of a novel task on early risk identification of mental disorders in Spanish comments from social media sources. The first edition took place last year in the IberLEF evaluation forum as part of the SEPLN 2023. The task was resolved as an online problem, that is, the participants had to detect a potential risk as early as possible in a continuous stream of data. Therefore, the performance not only depended on the accuracy of the systems but also on how fast the problem was detected. These dynamics are reflected in the design of the tasks and the metrics used to evaluate participants. For this second edition, we propose three novel tasks, the first subtask is about the detection of the disorder, the second subtask consists of detecting the context that may be associated with the disorder, and the third subtask is about suicidal ideation detection. We would like to invite you to participate in the following tasks: 1. Disorders detection (multi-class classification) 2. Disorder contextualization (fine-grained classification) 3. Suicidal ideation detection (binary classification) Find out more at https://sites.google.com/view/mentalriskes2024. MentalRiskES 2024 is part of the IberLEF Workshop and will be held in conjunction with the SEPLN 2024 conference in Valladolid (Spain). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Feb 16th Registration open Feb 21st Release of trial corpora (trial server available) *Mar 20th Release of training corpora* Mar 29th Registration closed Apr 8th Release of test corpora and start of the evaluation campaign (test server available and trial submissions closed) Apr 12th End of evaluation campaign (deadline for submission of runs) Apr 18th Publication of official results and release of test gold labels May 10th Deadline for paper submission May 31st Acceptance notification Jun 17th Camera-ready submission deadline July 11th Final camera-ready submission deadline (to IberLEF organisers) Please reach out to the organizers at MentalRiskEs@IberLEF2024. The MentalRiskES 2024 organizing committee. -- M. Dolores Molina González

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[CFP] 1st Call for Participation - ISWC-LLMs4OL 2024 Challenge: Large Language Models for Ontology Learning
by Jennifer D'Souza 20 Mar '24

20 Mar '24

Dear colleagues and friends, *We are pleased to release the 1st Call for Participation - LLMs4OL Challenge collocated with The International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2024)* *Overview:* LLMs4OL stands for "Large Language Models for Ontology Learning." The LLMs4OL paradigm was first introduced in our research paper ( https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-47240-4_22) published in the ISWC 2023 main conference proceedings. In this context, we aimed to test the readiness of LLMs to address the Ontology Learning (OL) task w.r.t. three main subtasks: 1) Term Typing, 2) Type Taxonomy Discovery, and 3) Non-Taxonomic Relation Extraction. Therein our evaluations included ontolgies from various knowledge domains, i.e. lexicosemantics (WordNet), geography (GeoNames), biomedicine (NCI, MEDICIN, SNOMEDCT), and web content types (schema.org). With the ISWC-LLMs4OL 2024 challenge, we aim to catalyze community-wide engagement in validating and expanding the use of LLMs in OL by releasing our evaluation datasets publicly in the community. This initiative is poised to advance our comprehension of LLMs’ roles within the Semantic Web, encouraging innovation and collaboration in developing scalable and accurate OL methods. More info on the task website: https://sites.google.com/view/llms4ol/ The LLMs4OL Challenge will be divided into two evaluation phases: - Evaluation Phase 1: Few-shot Testing; - Evaluation Phase 2: Zero-shot Testing *Dates* Training datasets available: March 30, 2024 Test data available (Task A): May 27, 2024 Evaluation ends (Task A): June 4, 2024 Test data available (Tasks B & C): June 5, 2024 Evaluation ends (Tasks B & C): June 18, 2024 Participant papers due: June 28, 2024 Notification to authors: July 19, 2024 Camera ready due: July 30, 2024 ISWC 2024, Baltimore, Maryland, USA: 11-15 November 2024 *Task Organizers* Hamed Babaei Giglou (TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology - Germany) Jennifer D’Souza (TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology - Germany) Sören Auer (TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology - Germany) We look forward to having you on board! *Contact:* llms4ol.challenge [at] gmail.com

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2nd CfP: 5th International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change 2024 (LChange’24) + AXOLOTL-24 Shared Task
by Syrielle Montariol 19 Mar '24

19 Mar '24

***Apologies for possible cross-posting *** Second Call for Papers: 5th International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change (LChange’24) We will organize a full-day workshop co-located with the ACL conference on Aug 15, 2024 in Bangkok and online. We hope to make this fifth edition another resounding success! This year, we are happy to host a *shared task* within LChange: the *AXOLOTL-24* Shared Task on Explainable Semantic Change Modeling. Workshop: https://www.changeiskey.org/event/2024-acl-lchange/ Shared task: https://github.com/ltgoslo/axolotl24_shared_task/. Contact email: lchange(a)changeiskey.org Workshop description The LChange workshop targets all aspects of computational modeling of language change, historical as well as synchronic change. It is running in its fifth iteration following successful workshops in 2019 <https://languagechange.org/events/2019-acl-lcworkshop/>, 2021 <https://languagechange.org/events/2021-acl-lcworkshop/>, 2022 <https://languagechange.org/events/2022-acl-lchange/>, and 2023 <https://languagechange.org/events/2023-emnlp-lchange/>, and will be co-located with ACL 2024 in Bangkok (Thailand), as a hybrid event. The workshop will take place on Thursday 15 August 2024. The main topics of the workshop remain the same: all aspects around computational approaches to language change with a focus on digital text corpora. LChange explores state-of-the-art computational methodologies, theories and digital text resources on exploring the time-varying nature of human language. The aim of this workshop is to provide pioneering researchers who work on computational methods, evaluation, and large-scale modeling of language change an outlet for disseminating research on topics concerning language change. Besides these goals, this workshop will also support discussion on evaluating computational methodologies for uncovering language change. We’ll also be offering mentorship to students, to discuss their research topic with a member of the field, regardless of whether they are submitting a paper or not. Important Dates * May 10, 2024: Paper submission * June 20, 2024: Notification of acceptance * June 30, 2024: Camera-ready papers due * August 15, 2024: Workshop date AXOLOTL-24 Shared Task AXOLOTL-24 stands for “Ascertain and eXplain Overhauls of the Lexicon Over Time at LChange'24” and is organized by Mariia Fedorova and Andrey Kutuzov (University of Oslo), Timothee Mickus, Niko Partanen and Janine Siewert (University of Helsinki), and Elena Spaziani (Sapienza University Rome). Note that the papers describing the shared task submissions will be peer-reviewed and published in the LChange proceedings along with the rest of the workshop papers. The shared task presents two subtasks: - Subtask 1: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/18009 Finding the target word usages associated with new, gained senses - Subtask 2: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/18008 Describing these senses in a way that facilitates understanding and lexicographical research. More information, including a timeline and instructions, is available here: https://github.com/ltgoslo/axolotl24_shared_task/. Submissions We accept two types of submissions, long and short papers, consisting of up to eight (8) and four (4) pages of content, respectively, plus unlimited references; final versions will be given one additional page of content so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account. We also welcome papers focusing on releasing a dataset or a model; these papers fall into the short paper category. We invite original research papers from a wide range of topics, including but not limited to: - Novel methods for detecting diachronic semantic change and lexical replacement - Automatic discovery and quantitative evaluation of laws of language change - Computational theories and generative models of language change - Sense-aware (semantic) change analysis - Diachronic word sense disambiguation - Novel methods for diachronic analysis of low-resource languages - Novel methods for diachronic linguistic data visualization - Novel applications and implications of language change detection - Quantification of sociocultural influences on language change - Cross-linguistic, phylogenetic, and developmental approaches to language change - Novel datasets for cross-linguistic and diachronic analyses of language Accepted papers will be presented orally or as posters and included in the workshop proceedings. Submissions are open to all and are to be submitted anonymously. All papers will be refereed through a double-blind peer review process by at least three reviewers with final acceptance decisions made by the workshop organizers. If you have published in the field previously, and are interested in helping out in the program committee to review papers, please send us an email! Workshop organizers Nina Tahmasebi, University of Gothenburg Syrielle Montariol, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne Andrey Kutuzov, University of Oslo Simon Hengchen, iguanodon.ai and Université de Genève David Alfter, University of Gothenburg Francesco Periti, University of Milan Pierluigi Cassotti, University of Gothenburg

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AMTA 2024 - Second Call for Papers
by derickofajardo＠gmail.com 19 Mar '24

19 Mar '24

Dear Colleagues, The Association for Machine Translation in the Americas is pleased to announce the Second Call for Papers, Presentations, Tutorials, Workshops and Best Thesis Award Submissions for AMTA 2024. AMTA 2024 will be a three-day hybrid event under the auspices of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas to be held on Monday, 30 September 2024 through Wednesday, 2 October 2024 at the Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center in Chicago, Illinois, USA. The organizing committee of AMTA 2024 is seeking proposals for papers and presentations on all topics related to research, development, application, and evaluation of Machine Translation and cross-lingual technologies. A sample list of topics of interest, additional conference details, and complete submission guidelines can be found here: https://amtaweb.org/amta-2024-call-for-proposals/ This year's workshops and tutorials will be held online on September 18. For details about topics of interest and submission guidelines for Workshops and Tutorials, please see: https://amtaweb.org/amta-2024-call-for-proposals/ The AMTA Board of Directors is also pleased to sponsor the first edition of the AMTA Best Thesis Award, which aims to highlight the achievements of a recent PhD graduate whose thesis has focused on a topic or topics related to machine translation. This award includes a $1000 USD prize, free conference registration and AMTA membership, among other benefits. For more information about eligibility and submission details, please see: https://amtaweb.org/amta-2024-call-for-proposals/ Important dates Submission deadline: 6 June 2024 Notification of acceptance: 18 July 2024 Final submission of materials: 16 August 2024 Please direct any questions you may have to organizing.committee(a)amtaweb.org. We look forward to receiving your submission! AMTA Board of Directors

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Call for Participation: Shared Task on Low-Resource Indic Language Translation at WMT 2024
by Pankaj Dadure 19 Mar '24

19 Mar '24

Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to inform you that we will be hosting the "Shared Task: Low-Resource Indic Language Translation" again this year as part of WMT 2024. Following the outstanding success and enthusiastic participation witnessed in the previous year's edition, we are excited to continue this important initiative. Despite recent advancements in machine translation (MT), such as multilingual translation and transfer learning techniques, the scarcity of parallel data remains a significant challenge, particularly for low-resource languages. The WMT 2024 Indic Machine Translation Shared Task aims to address this challenge by focusing on low-resource Indic languages from diverse language families. Specifically, we are targeting languages such as Assamese, Mizo, Khasi, Manipuri, Nyishi, Bodo, Mising, and Kokborok. The task for this year features two categories based on the availability of training data: *Category 1: Moderate Training Data Available* - en-as: English ⇔ Assamese - en-lus: English ⇔ Mizo - en-kha: English ⇔ Khasi - en-mni: English ⇔ Manipuri - en-nshi: English ⇔ Nyishi *Category 2: Very Limited Training Data* - en-bodo: English ⇔ Bodo - en-mrp: English ⇔ Mising - en-trp: English ⇔ Kokborok Participants are encouraged to develop MT systems that can produce high-quality translations despite limited data availability. Key areas for exploration include leveraging monolingual data, investigating multilingual approaches, and exploring transfer learning techniques. *Important Dates:* - Release of training/dev data: 25 May, 2024 - Test data release: 13 July, 2024 - Run Submission deadline: 28 July, 2024 - System description/workshop paper submission deadline: TBA, 2024 (follow EMNLP/WMT page) - Notification of Acceptance: TBA, 2024 (follow EMNLP/WMT page) - Camera-ready: TBA, 2024 (follow EMNLP/WMT page) - Workshop Dates: follow EMNLP/WMT main page The organizing committee comprises experts from various institutions dedicated to advancing MT research in low-resource language settings. *Organizers:* - Santanu Pal, Wipro AI Lab, London, UK - Partha Pakray, National Institute of Technology, Silchar, India - Sandeep Kumar Dash, National Institute of Technology, Mizoram, India - Lenin Laitonjam, National Institute of Technology, Mizoram, India - Pankaj Kundan Dadure, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, India - Arnab Maji, North-Eastern Hill University, India - Lyngdoh Sarah, North-Eastern Hill University, India - Anupam Jamatia, National Institute of Technology Agartala, India - Koj Sambyo, National Institute of Technology Arunachal Pradesh, India For inquiries and further information, please contact us at lrilt.wmt24(a)gmail.com. Additionally, you can find more details and updates on the task through the following link: Task Link: https://www2.statmt.org/wmt24/indic-mt-task.html <https://www2.statmt.org/wmt24/indic-mt-task.html>. To register for the event, please fill out the registration form available here <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd8LwriqdLLhVNAvUWEcGRJmKuBFQZ9BR_…>. ( https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd8LwriqdLLhVNAvUWEcGRJmKuBFQZ9BR_… ) We look forward to your participation and contributions to advancing low-resource Indic language translation. Best regards Team Low-Resource Indic Language Translation WMT 2024

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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 Wajdi Zaghouani 19 Mar '24

19 Mar '24

Dear colleagues, You are invited to participate in the *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 ---- *Wajdi Zaghouani, Ph.D.* *Associate Professor in Digital Humanities* College of Humanities and Social Sciences P.O. Box 34110 | Education City | Doha, Qatar tel: +974 4454 5601 | mob: +974 33454992 wzaghouani(a)hbku.edu.qa| Office A141, LAS Building

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