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[CIIAM] Postdoc on Contextual Information Inference for Argument Mining
by Anaïs Ollagnier 02 Apr '24

02 Apr '24

** *Bonjour,* * (english announcement follows) Dans le cadre du projet CIIAM (Contextual Information Inference for Argument Mining) financé par l’Académie d’Excellence Réseaux, Information et Société Numérique, visant à renforcer la robustesse des techniques de fouille d'arguments par la synthétisation d’informations contextuelles relevant des aspects multimodaux de la communication. Nous invitons les doctorant(e)s en fin de thèse et les jeunes docteur(e)s à candidater à un postdoctorat sur "l'Amélioration de la fouille d’argument par la synthétisation d’information contextuelle" (12 mois). -------- Contexte -------- Parvenir à appréhender les structures argumentatives dans les entrées en langage naturel constitue une étape clé pour de nombreuses tâches relevant du domaine du Traitement Automatique des Langues (TAL), telles que le résumé automatique ou l'analyse de débats politiques. Bien que des progrès significatifs aient été réalisés grâce à l'avènement des modèles de langue pré-entraînés, ils ne saisissent pas toujours l'ensemble des connaissances linguistiques nécessaires pour une compréhension contextuelle fine et l'établissement d'inférences pertinentes. Face à ces limitations, notre projet vise à explorer l'inclusion de la dimension d'analyse linguistique liée à la pragmatique. Cette approche se veut particulièrement novatrice, car la pragmatique, en raison de sa complexité à être formalisée, est très peu étudiée d'un point de vue computationnel. C’est à travers l'utilisation des dernières techniques de pointe en matière de "prompting" que nous souhaitons pallier les écueils des méthodes existantes, tels que la variabilité culturelle et l’implicite. --------------- Pour candidater --------------- Sujet détaillé : https://aollagnier.github.io/publications/CIIAM%20PostDoc%20DETAILS.pdf Début du contrat : Octobre 2024, au plus tard Durée du contrat : 12 mois Les candidatures comprenant un CV scientifique, une lettre de motivation et des lettres de recommandation doivent être envoyées à Anaïs Ollagnier (ollagnier(a)i3s.unice.fr) Date limite : 14 Juin 2024 Laboratoire d'accueil : I3S, Sophia-Antipolis, France Au plaisir de vous lire. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ In the context of the CIIAM project (Contextual Information Inference for Argument Mining), funded through the France 2030 investment plan managed by the National Research Agency (ANR), as part of the Initiative of Excellence Université Côte d’Azur, aiming to enhance the robustness of argument mining techniques through the synthesis of contextual information relevant to multimodal aspects of communication. We invite doctoral candidates nearing completion of their thesis and young PhD graduates to apply for a postdoctoral position on "Improving Argument Mining through the Synthesis of Contextual Information" (12 months). -------- Context -------- Understanding argumentative structures in natural language inputs is a key step for many tasks in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), such as automatic summarization or analysis of political debates. Although significant progress has been made with the advent of pre-trained language models, they do not always grasp all the linguistic knowledge necessary for fine contextual understanding and the establishment of relevant inferences. Faced with these limitations, our project aims to explore the inclusion of linguistic analysis dimension related to pragmatics. This approach is particularly innovative because pragmatics, due to its complexity in formalization, has been scarcely studied from a computational perspective. It is through the use of the latest cutting-edge prompting techniques that we aim to overcome the pitfalls of existing methods, such as cultural variability and implicit knowledge. --------------- To Apply --------------- Detailed subject: https://aollagnier.github.io/publications/CIIAM%20PostDoc%20DETAILS.pdf Contract start: October 2024, at the latest Contract duration: 12 months Applications including a scientific CV, a motivation letter, and recommendation letters should be sent to Anaïs Ollagnier (ollagnier(a)i3s.unice.fr) Deadline: June 14, 2024 Hosting laboratory: I3S, Sophia-Antipolis, France * -- Anaïs OLLAGNIER Junior Fellow in AI 3IA Université Côte d'Azur (Polytech Nice) | I3S | INRIA wimmics team -------------------------------------------- Templiers 1, Bureau 414, 930 Route des Colles, BP 145 06903 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France anais.ollagnier(a)inria.fr |https://aollagnier.github.io/

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Registration Now Open for NLDB 2024 - Join Us in Turin!
by Federico Torrielli 02 Apr '24

02 Apr '24

Dear Colleagues and Researchers, We are delighted to announce that registration for the 29th International Conference on Natural Language & Information Systems (NLDB 2024) is now officially open! The conference will be held from 25-27 June 2024 at the University of Turin, Italy. *Register for NLDB 2024*: Click Here to Register <https://nldb2024.di.unito.it/registration/> NLDB 2024 brings together a vibrant community of researchers and industry practitioners focusing on advances in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and its applications in information systems. As the field of NLP continues to evolve rapidly, this conference offers a prime opportunity to stay ahead of the curve, presenting your work, sharing insights, and forging new connections. *Conference Highlights:* * Engage with cutting-edge research and industrial applications of NLP. * Network and connect with leading academics and industry experts. * Experience a mix of oral and poster presentations, and interactive sessions. * Enjoy the beautiful city of Turin and its rich cultural heritage. *Registration Policy Summary:* * *Paper Presentation*: All accepted papers must be presented, ideally in person. * *Attendance*: In-person attendance is recommended, but remote options are available. * *Author Registration*: At least one author per paper must register at the in-person rate by the specified deadline to ensure inclusion in the proceedings. * *Fees*: Early registration offers reduced fees, and special rates are available for students to encourage young researchers' participation. For detailed information on fees, the registration process, and more, please visit the NLDB 2024 Registration Page <https://nldb2024.di.unito.it/registration/>. Should you have any questions or need further assistance, please do not hesitate to contact us at federico.torrielli(a)unito.it. We look forward to welcoming you to Turin for an exciting and enriching conference experience. Warm regards, The NLDB 2024 Organizing Committee *General Chairs*: * Luigi Di Caro, University of Turin * Farid Meziane, University of Derby * Amon Rapp, University of Turin * Vijayan Sugumaran, Oakland University

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Call for Papers: Special Issue of Register Studies
by mg2957＠nau.edu 01 Apr '24

01 Apr '24

Title of Special Issue: Situational Context in Register Studies Call for papers Situation of language use has been at the forefront of register studies. Register research in text-linguistics has documented systematic situational variation and its relationship to functional language use across culturally recognized register categories, among texts within register categories, and across hybrid registers (e.g., Biber, 1988; Biber & Egbert, 2018; Biber, Egbert, Keller, 2020). Situations of language use have also been explored by a variety of other research traditions (and referred to as ‘register,’ ‘communicative situation,’ ‘speech situation,’ ‘social situation, ’or ‘situational context’). For example, the contribution of the situation of language use to explaining linguistic variation is examined alongside linguistic variables in variationist linguistics (e.g., Szmrecsanyi , 2019). In computational research, it has served as the basis for text classification (e.g., Argamon, 2019). The effect of situations of use on individual language use is being recognized in stylistics and stylometry (e.g., Marko, Reitbauer & Pickl, 2022). Additionally, some situational variables, such as the audience and their relative status to the addressor, have been central to sociolinguistic research (e.g., Rickford & McNair-Knox, 1994) and discourse analysis (e.g., Lorson et al., 2023). To synthesize the variety of perspectives, approaches, and conceptualizations, Register Studies invites proposals that elevate the role of situational context in linguistic research. We welcome a wide range of empirical, methodological, or theoretical papers under this scope. Papers for this special issue should highlight situational context and its integration into register studies. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: Applications of situational analysis to corpus design and evaluation Analysis of situational variation across and within registers Detailed analyses of communicative events and their communicative strategies (e.g., conflict, celebration, social gathering, etc.) Descriptions of frameworks for situational analysis Approaches to coding for situational characteristics Generality and specificity of situational parameters Situation in applied research (e.g., pedagogy, medical discourse, legal discourse, etc.) The psycholinguistic reality of situational distinctions Interaction of the situation of language use with other predictor variables (e.g., social status, gender) New, unaccounted for (configurations of) situational parameters and/or novel/nonstandard situations of language use Cross-cultural situational differences and/or situations unique to particular linguistic communities Situation of language use and discourse-pragmatic variation Situation of technology-mediated interactions Important Dates Deadline for proposals: April 15, 2024 Invitations to submit a manuscript: May 1, 2024 Initial manuscripts due: October 1, 2024 Notification of review outcome: December 1, 2024 Final manuscripts due: February 28, 2025 Special issue publication: 7:2 - Fall 2025 Proposal Format & Submission Submit a one-page abstract for your proposed article to Associate Editors Larissa Goulart and Marianna Gracheva at Register.Studies(a)gmail.com. Please include your full contact information and a draft title. For empirical studies, the abstract should introduce the topic and motivate the study, summarize the methodological approach, describe the data to be analyzed, and summarize preliminary results. Abstracts for theoretical and methodological articles should introduce and motivate the issue to be addressed, and explain the main premises that will be included in the article. Please follow the style guide for Register Studies (available at the journal website: https://benjamins.com/catalog/rs). Peer Review All manuscripts will undergo double-blind peer review following the journal’s standard process. References: Biber, D. 1988. Variation across speech and writing. Cambridge University Press. Biber, D., & Egbert, J. (2018). Register variation online. Cambridge University Press. Biber, D., Egbert, J., & Keller, D. (2020). Reconceptualizing register in a continuous situational space. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, 16(3), 581–616. Argamon, S. (2019). Computational register analysis and synthesis. Computation and Language. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1901.02543 Lorson, A., Rhode, H., & Cummins, C. (2023). Epistemicity and communicative strategies. Discourse Processes, 60(8), 556–593. Marko, K., Reitbauer, M., & Pickl, G. (2022). Same person, different platform. Challenges and implications for forensic authorship analysis. An exploratory study of Instagram and Twitter users. Register Studies, 4(2), 202–231. Rickford, J. R. & McNair-Knox, F. (1994). Addressee- and topic-influenced style shift: a quantitative sociolinguistic study. In D. Biber & E. Finegan (Eds.), Sociolinguistic perspectives on register (pp. 235–276). Oxford University Press. Szmrecsanyi, B. (2019). Register in variationist linguistics. Register Studies, 1(1), 76–99.

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Promoting 2024 TREC NeuCLIR Track -- #CLIR, #RAG, #Summarization
by Paul McNamee 01 Apr '24

01 Apr '24

A multingual retrieval shared task is running again this year at TREC 2024. The NeuCLIR (i.e., neural CLIR) track contains news document collections in Chinese, Farsi, and Russian, and support subtasks in: * cross-lingual search: search document collections from various languages * multlingual search: produce a unified ranked list of relevant documents across the three collections * report generation: produce an multi-paragraph English-language summary based on relevant information found in the source documents * technical document CLIR: searching in a collection of Chinese technical abstracts Information about the track, including task guidelines is available: https://neuclir.github.io/2024 To participate in the track advance registration for TREC 2024 is required: https://trec.nist.gov/pubs/call2024.html Best, - Paul McNamee

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Registrations open for The Alan Turing Institute AI UK Fringe Event Public Lectures on April 16, 2024
by Mohammed Hasanuzzaman 01 Apr '24

01 Apr '24

Dear Colleagues, Exciting news! Join us for "*AI and Future*" at Queen’s University Belfast, UK, on April 16, 2024, at 1:00 PM BST. It's The Alan Turing Institute AI UK Fringe Event Public Lectures – don't miss out! Event Details: - Date: *April 16, 2024*, starting at 1:00 PM BST - Format: Hybrid (Link will be shared after the registration deadline) - Participation Fees: Free Talks Include: 1. "Reflections on Consciousness in AI" by *Dr. Patrick Butlin, University of Oxford, UK* 2. "Scalable Multimodal Learning and Multimedia Recommendation" by *Prof. Jialie Shen, City, University of London, UK* 3. "Generalization Error of Neural Networks and Its Applications" by *Prof. Wing W. Y. Ng, South China University of Technology, China* Registration Details: Please register your interest through our application, accessible via the following link: Application Link <https://forms.office.com/e/6U2h0chaFS>. The deadline for registration is *April 10, 2024*. We look forward to your participation in this insightful event. Should you have any questions or require further information, please feel free to reach out to me at m.hasanuzzaman(a)qub.ac.uk Best regards, Mohammed ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Dr. Mohammed HasanuzzamanLecturer/Assistant Professor**Queen's University Belfast <https://www.qub.ac.uk/>, UK * *&Munster Technological University <https://www.mtu.ie/>, Ireland* *Funded Investigator, ADAPT Centre- <https://www.adaptcentre.ie/> A <https://www.adaptcentre.ie/>* World-Leading SFI Research Centre <https://www.adaptcentre.ie/> *C**hercheur Associé*, GREYC UMR CNRS 6072 Research Centre, France <https://www.greyc.fr/en/home/> *Associate Editor:* * IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, Nature Scientific Reports, IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, ACM TALLIP, PLOS One, Computer Speech and Language**Website: **https://mohammedhasanuzzaman.github.io/ <https://mohammedhasanuzzaman.github.io/>* [image: Mailtrack] <https://mailtrack.io?utm_source=gmail&utm_medium=signature&utm_campaign=sig…> Sender notified by Mailtrack <https://mailtrack.io?utm_source=gmail&utm_medium=signature&utm_campaign=sig…> 25/03/24, 22:39:35

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