April 2024 - Corpora

[CFP] 3rd and Final Call for Participation - CLEF 2024 SimpleText Task4: SOTA? "Tracking the State-of-the-Art in Scholarly Publications"
by Jennifer D'Souza 08 Apr '24

08 Apr '24

[apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call] Dear colleagues and friends, *We are pleased to release the 3rd and final Call for Participation - CLEF 2024 SimpleText Task4: SOTA?* *Overview:* SOTA? is introduced as Task 4 in the SimpleText track of CLEF 2024. The goal of the SOTA? shared task is to develop systems which given the full text of an AI paper, are capable of recognizing whether an incoming AI paper indeed reports model scores on benchmark datasets, and if so, to extract all pertinent (Task, Dataset, Metric, Score) quadruples presented within the paper. More info on the task website: https://sites.google.com/view/simpletext-sota/home SOTA? will be divided into two evaluation phases: - Evaluation Phase 1: Few-shot Testing; - Evaluation Phase 2: Zero-shot Testing *To participate in SOTA? i.e. SimpleText Task 4 @ CLEF 2024, please register your team*: 1. CLEF 2024 official registration page https://clef2024.imag.fr/index.php?page=Pages/registration.html 2. Codalab competition site: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/16616 Note, SOTA? is organized as a new task this year under the "SimpleText - Improving Access to Scientific Texts for Everyone" initiative https://simpletext-project.com/. Please take a look at the other 3 tasks, i.e. Task 1, 2, and 3, offered by SimpleText and select one or more of those task options too if you are interested. Note that there is no interdependence of the dataset between "Task 4 - SOTA?" and the other three tasks of SimpleText. *Dates* Training and validation datasets available: March 13, 2024 Test data available/Evaluation starts: April 23, 2024 Evaluation ends: May 3, 2024 Participant paper submissions due: May 31, 2024 Notification to authors: June 24, 2024 Camera ready due: July 8, 2024 CLEF 2024 Workshop, Grenoble, France: 9-12 September 2024 *Task Organizers* Jennifer D’Souza (TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology - Germany) Salomon Kabongo (L3S Research Center, Germany) Hamed Babaei Giglou (TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology - Germany) Yue Zhang (Berlin Technical University, Germany) Sören Auer (TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology - Germany) *We look forward to having you on board!* *Contact:* sota.task [at] gmail.com

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Last Call for Papers - First International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security
by t.ranasinghe＠aston.ac.uk 08 Apr '24

08 Apr '24

First International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (NLPAICS’2024) Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom 29-30 July 2024 https://www.nlpaics.com *** Last Call for Papers *** Submission deadline 22 April 2024 Recent advances in Natural Language Processing (NLP), Deep Learning and Large Language Models (LLMs) have resulted in improved performance of applications. . In particular, there has been a growing interest in employing AI methods in different Cyber Security applications. In today's digital world, Cyber Security has emerged as a heightened priority for both individual users and organisations. As the volume of online information grows exponentially, traditional security approaches often struggle to identify and prevent evolving security threats. The inadequacy of conventional security frameworks highlights the need for innovative solutions that can effectively navigate the complex digital landscape for ensuring robust security. NLP and AI in Cyber Security have vast potential to significantly enhance threat detection and mitigation by fostering the development of advanced security systems for autonomous identification, assessment, and response to security threats in real-time. Recognising this challenge and the capabilities of NLP and AI approaches to fortify Cyber Security systems, the First International Conference on Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Cyber Security (NLPAICS’2024) serves as a gathering place for researchers in NLP and AI methods for Cyber Security. We invite contributions that present the latest NLP and AI solutions for mitigating risks in processing digital information. Conference topics The conference invites submissions on a broad range of topics related to the employment of NLP and AI (and in general, language studies and models) for Cyber Security including but not limited to: ## Societal and Human Security and Safety - Content Legitimacy and Quality o Detection and mitigation of hate speech and offensive language o Fake news, deepfakes, misinformation and disinformation o Detection of machine generated language in multimodal context (text, speech and gesture) o Trust and credibility of online information - User Security and Safety o Cyberbullying and identification of internet offenders o Monitoring extremist fora o Suicide prevention o Clickbait and scam detection o Fake profile detection in online social networks - Technical Measures and Solutions o Social engineering identification, phishing detection o NLP for risk assessment o Controlled languages for safe messages o Prevention of malicious use of ai models o Forensic linguistics - Human Factors in Cyber Security ## Speech Technology and Multimodal Investigations for Cyber Security - Voice-based security: Analysis of voice recordings or transcripts for security threats - Detection of machine generated language in multimodal context (text, speech and gesture) - NLP and biometrics in multimodal context ## Data and Software Security - Cryptography - Digital forensics - Malware detection, obfuscation - Models for documentation - NLP for data privacy and leakage prevention (DLP) - Addressing dataset “poisoning” attacks ## Human-Centric Security and Support - Natural language understanding for chatbots: NLP-powered chatbots for user support and security incident reporting - User behaviour analysis: analysing user-generated text data (e.g., chat logs and emails) to detect insider threats or unusual behaviour - Human supervision of technology for Cyber Security ## Anomaly Detection and Threat Intelligence - Text-Based Anomaly Detection o Identification of unusual or suspicious patterns in logs, incident reports or other textual data o Detecting deviations from normal behaviour in system logs or network traffic - Threat Intelligence Analysis o Processing and analysing threat intelligence reports, news, articles and blogs on latest Cyber Security threats o Extracting key information and indicators of compromise (IoCs) from unstructured text ## Systems and Infrastructure Security - Systems Security o Anti-reverse engineering for protecting privacy and anonymity o Identification and mitigation of side-channel attacks o Authentication and access control o Enterprise-level mitigation o NLP for software vulnerability detection - Malware Detection through Code Analysis o Analysing code and scripts for malware o Detection using NLP to identify patterns indicative of malicious code ## Financial Cyber Security - Financial fraud detection - Financial risk detection - Algorithmic trading security - Secure online banking - Risk management in finance - Financial text analytics ## Ethics, Bias, and Legislation in Cyber Security - Ethical and Legal Issues o Digital privacy and identity management o The ethics of NLP and speech technology o Explainability of NLP and speech technology tools o Legislation against malicious use of AI o Regulatory issues - Bias and Security o Bias in Large Language Models (LLMs) o Bias in security related datasets and annotations ## Datasets and resources for Cyber Security Applications ## Specialised Security Applications and Open Topics - Intelligence applications - Emerging and innovative applications in Cyber Security ## Special Theme Track - Future of Cyber Security in the Era of LLMs and Generative AI We are excited to share that NLPAICS 2024 will have a special theme track with the goal of stimulating discussion around Large Language Models (LLMs), Generative AI and ensuring their safety. The latest generation of LLMs, such as CHATGPT, Gemini, LLAMA and open-source alternatives, has showcased remarkable advancements in text and image understanding and generation. However, as we navigate through uncharted territory, it becomes imperative to address the challenges associated with employing these models in everyday tasks, focusing on aspects such as fairness, ethics, and responsibility. The theme track invites studies on how to ensure the safety of LLMs in various tasks and applications and what this means for the future of the field. The possible topics of discussion include (but are not limited to) the following: - Detection of LLM-generated language in multimodal context (text, speech and gesture) - LLMs for forensic linguistics - Bias in LLMs - Safety benchmarks for LLMs - Legislation against malicious use of LLMs - Tools to evaluate safety in LLMs - Methods to enhance the robustness of language models ## Submissions and Publication NLPAICS welcomes high-quality submissions in English, which can take two forms: -Regular long papers: These can be up to eight (8) pages long, presenting substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. -Short papers: These can be up to four (4) pages long and are suitable for describing small, focused contributions, negative results, system demonstrations, etc. Note that the page limits mentioned above exclude additional pages for references, ethical considerations, conflict-of-interest statements, as well as data and code availability statements. Papers must be anonymised to support double-blind reviewing. Please submit your work as pdf using the following link: https://softconf.com/n/nlpaics2024/ Submission templates can be accessed here: LaTeX Overleaf, LaTeX , MS Office Accepted papers, including both long and short papers, will be published as part of the same e-proceedings to be uploaded on ACL Anthology. ## Important dates -Submissions due: 22 April 2024 -Reviewing process: 29 April-5 June 2024 -Notification of acceptance: 10 June 2024 -Camera-ready due: 1 July 2024 -Conference: 29-30 July 2024 ## Keynote speakers We are delighted to announce our already confirmed keynote speakers Sevil Şen (Hacettepe University) Iva Gumnishka (Humans in the Loop) Paolo Rosso (Polytechnic University of Valencia) ## Programme Committee Members of the Programme Committee of NLPAICS’2024 are listed here. ## Venue The First International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (NLPAICS’2024) will take place at Lancaster University and is organised by the Lancaster University UCREL NLP research group. ## Organisation - Conference Chair o Ruslan Mitkov (Lancaster University) - Conference Programme Chairs o Cengiz Acartürk (Jagiellonian University) o Matthew Bradbury (Lancaster University) o Mo El-Haj (Lancaster University) o Paul Rayson (Lancaster University) - Sponsorship Chair o Saad Ezzini (Lancaster University) - Publicity Chair o Tharindu Ranasinghe (Aston University) - Publication Chair o Ignatius Ezeani (Lancaster University) - Social Programme Chair o Nouran Khallaf (Lancaster University) ## Registration Conference registration is open on https://nlpaics.com/registration/ Early bird registration closes on 15 April 2024. ## Further information and contact details The conference website is https://nlpaics.com and will be updated on a regular basis. For further information, please email info(a)nlpaics.com Dr Tharindu Ranasinghe Lecturer in Computer Science School of Informatics and Digital Engineering Birmingham, B4 7ET, UK aston.ac.uk

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[CFP] 1st CFP: ACLing 2024 || Sept 2024 ||Hybrid Conference|| Dubai, UAE
by Khaled Shaalan 08 Apr '24

08 Apr '24

Apologies for cross-postings! ** We would like to invite you to submit your contributions to the "ACLing 2024" conference ** Please forward to anyone who might be interested ** ************************************************************************************ CALL FOR PAPERS Sixth International Conference on AI in Computational Linguistics (ACLing2024) September 21-22, 2024 (Hybrid Conference), Dubai, UAE Publication: Procedia Computer Science by ELSEVIER ( https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/procedia-computer-science) Website: https://acling.org/ Brochure: http://acling.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/ACLing24_CFP.pdf ************************************************************************************ IMPORTANT DATES * Paper submission deadline: 7 May 2024 * Notification of Acceptance: 1 June 2024 * Registration: 5 June 2024 * Camera ready version submission: 30 June 2024 * Conference Date: 20 – 21 September 2024‎ ************************************************************************************ INTRODUCTION With the recent advances in the field of Computational Linguistics (CL) brought on by rapid developments in neural models, the goal of this conference is to focus on the application of AI/ML in NLP and CL. The ACLing 2024 aims to bring together leading academicians, scientists, researchers and practitioners from all over the world to exchange new ideas and the latest results in Computational Linguistics and NLP; a field that has become increasingly important. The scope of the conference encompasses the theory and practice of all aspects of AI/ML in Computational Linguistics. The British University in Dubai has been chosen to organize the ACLing2024 conference because it has a mission for establishing itself as a provider of world class scholarship, education and research. TOPICS OF INTEREST ACLing2024 invites researchers from academia and industry to submit their papers on recent, unpublished research that addresses theoretical and practical aspects, algorithms, and architectures of Natural Language Processing systems. Papers describing the creation of resources, as well as survey and discussion papers, are also welcomed. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Large Language Models and their applications * Information Retrieval and Question Answering * Information Extraction * Linguistic Theories and Resources * Language Modeling * Speech and Multimodality * Machine Learning, Text Categorization, and Text Mining * Machine Translation * Multilinguality and Cross-linguality * NLP Applications * Segmentation, Tagging, and Parsing * Semantics * Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining * Web, Social Media and Computational Social Science * Natural Language Generation * Text Categorization and Topic Modeling * Text Mining * Language and Vision * AI applications in Computational linguistics HOW TO SUBMIT We encourage submissions that describe original unpublished work not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Submissions should be prepared according to the main conference guidelines and format described at the Submission Web Page: https://acling.org/submission/. All submissions should be written in English and submitted as PDF. Submissions will be peer reviewed by the program committee members. Evaluation criteria will include correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees. All the submissions should be submitted via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=acling2024 * Long papers: 8 pages including including figures, tables and references. * Short papers: 4 pages including including figures, tables and references. * INDEXING, RANKING, AND IMPACT Facts: * Abstracting and indexing: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/procedia-computer-science/about/insig… * Scopus: https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/19700182801?origin=sbrowse * CiteScore: https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/19700182801?origin=sbrowse * SJR (scimago): https://www.scimagojr.com/journalsearch.php?q=19700182801&tip=sid * ACLingy by Google Citation: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=jkpMuFMAAAAJ&hl=en * ACLing by DBLP: https://dblp.org/db/conf/acling/index.html CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS * Prof. Dr. Khaled Shaalan, The British University of Dubai, UAE * Prof. Dr. Samhaa R. El-Beltagy, Newgiza University, Egypt FURTHER INFORMATION & CONTACT DETAILS * The conference website (https://acling.org/) will be updated on a regular basis. * Please send any inquiry on ACLing 2024 to ACLing2024(a)gmail.com Regards, Khaled & Samhaa

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[CfP] 3rd CfP: SEMANTiCS 2024 EU || Sep 17 - 19, 2024 || Amsterdam, The Netherlands
by SEMANTiCS 06 Apr '24

06 Apr '24

==== SEMANTiCS - 20th International Conference on Semantic Systems Amsterdam, The Netherlands September 17 - 19, 2024 https://2024-eu.semantics.cc/ <https://2024-eu.semantics.cc/> ==== The Research and Innovation track at SEMANTiCS 2024 welcomes papers on novel scientific research and innovations relevant to the Semantic Web, Semantic Technologies, and semantic-enabled AI. We also welcome submissions at the intersection between this field and other scientific disciplines. Submissions should be original and should not have been published elsewhere in any form or language. Papers must adhere to the instructions given in the submission guidelines, including references and optional appendices. Each submission will receive at least three independent reviews and will be evaluated based on their novelty, technical quality, reproducibility, and practical significance. = Important Dates = * Abstract Submission Deadline: April 22, 2024 * Paper Submission Deadline: April 29, 2024 * Notification of Acceptance: June 11, 2024 * Camera-Ready Paper: July 09, 2024 All deadlines are set for 11:59 pm, Anywhere On Earth time (UTC-12) Submissions will be through Easychair. https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sem24 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sem24> Proceedings of SEMANTiCS 2024 EU will be made available open access. The publisher will be IOS Press - Studies on Semantic Web Series. SEMANTiCS 2024 calls for submissions of excellent quality addressing the following topics in the Semantic Web area, from both theoretical and practical perspectives. = Topics of Interest = * Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Web Semantics & Linked (Open) Data * Enterprise Knowledge Graphs, Graph Data Management * Machine Learning Techniques for/using Knowledge Graphs (e.g. reinforcement learning, deep learning, data mining and knowledge discovery) * Interplay between generative AI and Knowledge Graphs (e.g., RAG approach) * Knowledge Management (e.g. acquisition, capture, extraction, authoring, integration, publication) * Terminology, Thesaurus & Ontology Management, Ontology engineering * Reasoning, Rules, and Policies * Natural Language Processing for/using Knowledge Graphs (e.g. entity linking and resolution using target knowledge such as Wikidata and DBpedia, foundation models) * Crowdsourcing for/using Knowledge Graphs * Data Quality Management and Assurance * Mathematical Foundation of Knowledge-aware AI * Multimodal Knowledge Graphs * Semantics in Data Science * Semantics in Blockchain environments * Trust, Data Privacy, and Security with Semantic Technologies * IoT, Stream Processing, dealing with temporal data * Conversational AI and Dialogue Systems * Provenance and Data Change Tracking * Semantic Interoperability (via mapping, crosswalks, standards, etc.) * Linked Data storage, triple stores, graph databases * Robust and scalable management, querying and analysis of semantics and data * User interfaces for the Semantic Web & its management * Explainable and Interoperable AI * Decentralised and Federated Knowledge Graphs (e.g., Federated querying, link traversal) Application of Semantically-Enriched and AI-Based Approaches, such as, but not limited to: * Knowledge Graphs in Bioinformatics, Medical AI and preventive healthcare * Clinical Use Case of semantic-enabled AI-based Approaches * AI for Environmental Challenges * Semantics in Scholarly Communication and Scientific Knowledge Graphs * AI and LOD within GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) institutions * Knowledge Graphs & hybrid AI for predictive maintenance and Industry 4.0/5.0 * Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage * LegalTech, AI Safety, EU AI Act * Economics of Data, Data Services, and Data Ecosystems = Author Guidelines and Submission = For Submission Guidelines and Review and Evaluation Criteria please head to the online call for papers: https://2024-eu.semantics.cc/page/cfp_rev_rep <https://2024-eu.semantics.cc/page/cfp_rev_rep> For details please go to: https://2024-eu.semantics.cc/ <https://2024-eu.semantics.cc/> We are looking forward to your contribution! Mehwish Alam, Femke Ongenae & Angelo Salatino Research and Innovation Track Chairs

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Constructing cross-language word frequency lists containing phonemic transcription
by Luca Onnis 06 Apr '24

06 Apr '24

I plan to construct a comprehensive word frequency list in many languages, with a column for each word containing the orthographic word, another column with the phonemic transcription of the word in IPA, a third column with the word frequency, and a fourth column with the language. The words do not have to be translation equivalents, but could be the top N thousand words for a given language. The purpose is to then carry out cross-linguistic analyses of distributional properties of phonemes and phonotactic sequences. Another use could be to train grapheme-to-phoneme models for missing words in the list for each language. Ideally, the final resource would be free to use for research purposes. Technically, the word list is easy to compile, but one has to rely on limited open-source data. While frequency info can be easily obtained for many languages from open sources, phonemic transcriptions are typically available in proprietary dictionaries. Wiktionary is a good starting point, but its coverage might be limited for some languages, and thus it can provide valuable data for a handful of commonly spoken languages. I would like to obtain a wider and more representative sample of world languages. I am thus inviting anyone with tips/or resources available to contribute to this compiling effort. Contributors would receive the due acknowledgments, and could specify under which conditions they want their data to be used. You can reply here or write to lucao(a)uio.no . Best, Luca Onnis, PhD Professor, University of Oslo, Norway

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CfP: 9th Symposium on Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar (LxGr2024)
by Costas Gabrielatos 05 Apr '24

05 Apr '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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CARI 2024 - Digital Science in Africa - SUBMISSION DATE EXTENDED to April 30
by Mathieu ROCHE 05 Apr '24

05 Apr '24

======================================================== CARI 2024 - 23-26 november 2024, Bejaïa, Algeria African Conference on Research in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics - Digital Science in Africa https://www.cari-info.org/call-cari2024-2/ ======================================================== Paper Submission DEADLINE EXTENDED ==== IMPORTANT DATES ==== - Paper submission due: April 30th, 2024 (Firm deadline) - Notifications: July 12th 2024 - Camera ready paper due: July 31st, 2024 - CARI Conference: 23-26 November, 2024, University of Bejaia, Algeria ==== ABOUT CARI ==== CARI (http://www.cari-info.org/), the African Conference on Research in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, is the fruit of international cooperation between African, European and international research institutes. Organized every two years since its first edition in Yaoundé in 1992, CARI is more than just a scientific meeting, but a dynamic environment for cooperation that brings together researchers and decision-makers in the fields of computer science and applied mathematics. The scientific program, which reflects the richness and diversity of research carried out on the African continent in particular, focuses on work likely to contribute to scientific and technological development, environmental awareness and natural resource management. CARI 2024 (17th CARI) is organized under the auspices African Society in Digital Science (ASDS) in partnership with the Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique (Inria), the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), the Centre de coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD). *** Computer Science Track *** Topics in this track include, but not limited to the following fields: - Edge, Fog and Cloud Computing Systems - Internet of Things (IoT) - Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) - Blockchain Technology - Safety and Correctness of Concurrent and - Distributed Systems - Network Privacy and Security - National Information Security - Big Data and Data Science - Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Systems - (Large) Model languages - Natural Language Processing - Information Search and Retrieval - Knowledge Engineering - Ontologies and Semantics - Multi-agent Systems - Mobile and Wireless Networking - Service-Oriented Systems - Applications: Resource Management (energy, water, air quality, waste management, ...), Healthcare, Transportation, Smart Grids, Education, Social Networks, Agriculture, Smart Cities, E-Government, ... *** Applied Mathematics Track *** Topics in this track include, but not limited to the following fields: - Analysis of Dynamical Systems - Partial Differential Equations - Numerical Analysis - Optimization, Inverse Problems and Control - Stochastic Systems - Applied Statistics and Probability - Image and Signal Processing - Mathematics and Machine Learning - High Performance Scientific Computation - Mathematical Modelling - Mathematical Finance - Actuarial Science and Economy - Earth Sciences and Environment - Mathematical Biology, Ecology and Medicine *** Publication *** CARI 2024 accepts submissions in three categories: - Regular research papers, up to 14 pages in length (excluding references). - Work-in-progress papers on early results, up to 7 pages in length (excluding references). - Position papers on introducing new or disruptive ideas (supported, if possible, by empirical evidence and measurements) that differ from prior published work, up to 7 pages in length (excluding references). Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format through EasyChair using the LNCS format (version 2.20 or above). At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the conference and present the paper. All accepted papers will be published in the Springer LNCS series and made available through the SpringerLink Digital Library (indexed by Scopus, ACM Digital Library, dblp, Google Scholar). Selected papers of CARI'2024 will be considered for a submission of extended versions to the ARIMA Journal. ======= For additional information, visit the conference website: https://www.cari-info.org/call-cari2024-2/ Contact TPC Chair: Kamel Barkaoui, kamel.barkaoui(a)cnam.fr

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2024 NARNiHS Research Incubator
by NAm Research Network in HistSocio 05 Apr '24

05 Apr '24

Dear colleagues, The 2024 Research Incubator of the North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics (NARNiHS) will take place entirely online April 25-27. The full program is now available on our website: narnihs [dot] org/?page_id=2728 Note that NO registration is necessary for NARNiHS members to attend the fully online NARNiHS 2024. Conference access information will be sent to all NARNiHS members in a separate message as we get closer to the conference dates (25-27 April 2024). The NARNiHS Research Incubator offers a rich environment for the exploration of new approaches to theory, methodology, and analytical protocols in historical sociolinguistics. One of the novelties this year is a Roundtable that will take place at the end of the conference. The Roundtable will be moderated by DONALD TUTEN (Emory University), and it will include a total of four short presentations on the present and future directions in Historical Sociolinguistics. Guest Speakers are TERTTU NEVALAINEN (University of Helsinki), GIJSBERT RUTTEN (Leiden University), JOSEPH SALMONS (University of Wisconsin-Madison), and ISRAEL SANZ-SÁNCHEZ (West Chester University). Please join us and contribute to the invigorating discussion and brainstorming of fresh ideas in historical sociolinguistics. We look forward to seeing you at our panels! Not a member yet, but interested in joining NARNiHS? Membership is free! Check out https://narnihs [dot] org/?page_id=2 <https://narnihs.org/?page_id=2> for details on how to join NARNiHS. Kind regards, The 2024 NARNiHS Research Incubator Organizing Committee Carolina Amador-Moreno Sandrine Tailleur Kelly Wright

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CALL FOR PAPERS: Deep Learning and Large Language Models for Knowledge Graphs (DL4KG)
by Genet Asefa Gesese 05 Apr '24

05 Apr '24

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 7th Edition of Workshop on Deep Learning and Large Language Models for Knowledge Graphs (DL4KG), August 25 or 26, 2024 Web: https://genetasefa.github.io/dl4kg2024/ Twitter: @dl4kg1 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In conjunction with KDD 2024, Aug 25 - Aug 29, --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop Overview --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Over the past years, there has been a rapid growth in the use and importance of Knowledge Graphs (KGs) along with their application to many important tasks. KGs are large networks of real-world entities described in terms of their semantic types and their relationships to each other. On the other hand, Deep Learning methods have also become an important area of research, achieving some important breakthroughs in various research fields, especially Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computer Vision. In order to pursue more advanced methodologies, it has become critical that the communities related to Deep Learning, Knowledge Graphs, and NLP join forces in order to develop more effective algorithms and applications. This workshop, in the wake of other similar efforts at previous Semantic Web conferences such as ESWC 2018 as DL4KGs and ISWC 2018, ESWC 2019, ESWC 2020, ISWC 2021, ISWC 2022, and ISWC 2023 aims to reinforce the relationships between these communities and foster inter-disciplinary research in the areas of KG, Deep Learning, and Natural Language Processing. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics of Interest --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LLMs and Knowledge Graphs - Knowledge Base Construction using LLMs - Knowledge Graphs to improve the quality of LLMs - Question Answering exploiting LLMs and Knowledge Graphs (such as Retrieval Augmented Generation) - Hybrid LLMs-KG models (cross-attention, joint training,...) - Knowledge-Based fact-checking for LLMs New Approaches for Combining Deep Learning, LLMs, and Knowledge Graphs - Methods for generating Knowledge Graph (node) embeddings - Temporal Knowledge Graph Embeddings - KGs for Interoperability and Explainability - Recommender Systems leveraging Knowledge Graphs - Link Prediction and completing KGs - Ontology Learning and Matching exploiting Knowledge Graph Embeddings - Knowledge Graph-Based Sentiment Analysis - Natural Language Understanding/Machine Reading - Question Answering exploiting Knowledge Graphs and Deep Learning - Approximate query answering on knowledge graphs - Trend Prediction based on Knowledge Graphs Embeddings - Learning Representations from Graphs (Graph Neural Networks, Graph Convolutional Networks, etc.) Applications of combining Deep Learning, LLMs, and Knowledge Graphs - Domain Specific Applications (e.g., Scholarly, Biomedical, Cultural Heritage, etc.) - Applications in industry 4.0. - Knowledge Graph Alignment - Applying to real-world scenarios Applications to particular domains such as Cultural Heritage, Materials Sciences, Biomedical domain, Scholarly data, etc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Important Dates ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - May 20, 2024: Abstract submission deadline - May 28, 2024: Full and Short paper submission deadline - June 28, 2024: Notification of Acceptance - July 05, 2024: Camera-ready paper due - August 25 or 26, 2024: KDD Workshop day ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Submissions ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Full research papers (8-10 pages) Short research papers (4-7 pages) Papers are submitted in PDF format via the workshop’s Open Review submission pages (-- ). Accepted papers (after a blind review of at least 3 experts) will be published by CEUR-WS (single column). At least one of the authors of the accepted papers must register for the workshop (pre-conference only option) to be included in the workshop proceedings. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Organization --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Mehwish Alam, Telecom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France - Davide Buscaldi, LIPN, University Sorbonne Paris Nord, France - Michael Cochez, Vrije University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands - Genet Asefa Gesese, FIZ Karlsruhe, KIT, Germany - Francesco Osborne, Knowledge Media Institute, (KMi), The Open University, UK - Diego Reforgiato Recupero, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Cagliari, Italy

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Fully funded research visits at the University of Sheffield applying NLP to archaeological data
by Diana G Maynard 05 Apr '24

05 Apr '24

Dear all As part of the new EU ATRIUM project we have opportunities for short-term fully funded research visits to work on development and application of NLP methods and tools to archaeological data. We have models, tools and data available for you to use. Visitors must come from an organisation outside the UK. For more information and applications, please visit https://atrium-research.eu/travel-grants/ Diana Maynard Senior Research Fellow Computer Science Dept. University of Sheffield, UK Transnational Access Grants: Calls for Applications The ATRIUM project invites researchers to apply to participate in Transnational Access training visits to support their research. ATRIUM’s Transnational Access (TNA) scheme offers researchers the possibility to apply for a fully funded placement at several different partner organisations to access expert knowledge and advice from leading Data Management organisations across Europe. The TNA scheme aims to recruit and support approximately 200 Arts and Humanities researchers with mentorship and access to knowledge, data and tools from 14 different institutions across Europe. Researchers who are successful in their applications will be supported to visit the infrastructure providers in our consortium in person, benefiting from direct contact, knowledge sharing and network building. In total, 388 weeks of Transnational Access will be provided during the ATRIUM project. There are two types of types of TNA applications: Individual Access – These are individual applications based on a specific research topic proposed by the applicant that match the specialisms of the host organisation. Summer School Access – These are fixed events during the year that provide access for a group of researchers based on a set of predetermined specialised topics. The first collection date is 31 May, 2024, and applicants will be notified by 28 June, 2024. Calls for applications will be issued several times per year throughout the duration of the project (March 2024 to December 2028). Individual Access applications will be offered on a rolling basis with a deadline every three months. Summer Schools will be offered 1 to 2 times a year with a fixed deadline 3 to 4 months ahead of the scheduled event. Visit www.atrium-research.eu <https://atrium-research.eu/travel-grants/> for more information.

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