April 2024 - Corpora

[2nd CFP] Special issue on Abusive Language Detection of the journal Traitement Automatique des Langues (TAL)
by Farah Benamara 22 Apr '24

22 Apr '24

================[Apologies for any cross-posting]================ **Special issue of the journal Traitement Automatique des Langues (TAL) Abusive Language Detection : Linguistic Resources, Methods and Applications ** **Guest Editors** Farah Benamara (IRIT-Toulouse University, IPAL Singapore), Delphine Battistelli (MoDyCo, Paris Nanterre University) and Viviana Patti (Turin University) **Motivations** Abusive language - or, in another very common terminology, hate speech - and the propagation of harmful stereotypes have unfortunately become commonplace occurrences on various social media platforms, partly due to users’ freedom and anonymity and the lack of regulation provided by these platforms. The sheer volume and often implicit nature of such unwanted content make manual moderation of these user spaces a formidable task. Various scientific communities interested in its at least partial automation have taken up the problem over the past ten years. In particular, Computational Social Science, Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics have proposed numerous works to create resources, datasets, and models aimed at automating the task of abusive language detection (henceforth ALD). In fact, we see that ALD has become a research theme in its own right in the field of Natural Language Processing with an abundant literature. Abusive language (umbrella term to refer to the various forms of harmful language, such as toxic, offensive language, hate speech, and stereotypes) is topically focused and each specific manifestation of abusive language targets different vulnerable groups based on characteristics such as gender (misogyny, sexism), ethnicity, race, religion (xenophobia, racism, Islamophobia), sexual orientation (homophobia), and so on. Most automatic ALD approaches cast the problem into a binary classification task but important considerations should be taken into account, in particular: (1) the topical focus or the target-oriented nature of hate speech ; (2) the degree of engagement of users in abusive content (e.g., denunciation, approbation, reporting, neutral attitude) ; (3) the question of stereotypes and dominant ideologies ; (4) the question of linguistic strategies more particularly linked or born with social networks (e.g., emoticons, hashtags). Furthermore, most of the work (resources, classifiers) is developed for English. **Topics** Motivated by the interest of the community in the problem of ALD, we invite papers from Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning and Computational Social Sciences. We explicitly encourage interdisciplinary submissions (resources, computational methods, and user applications at the interface of linguistics/psychology/socio-linguistics/sociology) but also position papers on the actual state of the art in the field discussing the limitations of the current approaches and directions for future work. The topics covered by the special issue include, but are not limited to: -- Linguistic resources and evaluation: annotation schemes, corpus linguistics studies, new datasets, with a particular interest in French language and/or multilingual resources. In the case of strictly lexical resources: methods for constituting them and coverage, semantic categories retained. -- Formal/Conceptual approaches for ALD as inspired by models in sociology, socio-linguistics and psychology. -- Models and Methods: supervised and unsupervised approaches, including LLMs. -- Role of contextual phenomena, including discourses, extra-linguistic contexts (e.g., cultural aspects). -- Models for cross-lingual and multimodal detection. -- New approaches beyond binary classification: target-oriented ALD, degrees of user engagement, etc. -- Dynamics of online AL in social media, propaganda propagation. -- Bias detection and removal in resource creation, datasets and methods. -- Application of ALD tools in education, social media content moderation, etc. -- Social, legal, and ethical implications of detecting, monitoring and moderating AL. **Important dates** May 31th, 2024: Submission deadline July 15th, 2024: Notification of acceptance after first rereading End of September 2024: Revised version Mid October 2024: Final decision End of November 2024: Camera ready January 2025: Publication of the special issue **Submission** Submissions can either be in French or English and should follow the journal templates: https://tal-65-3.sciencesconf.org/ **About the journal** Traitement Automatiques des Langues Journal (TAL) is the international French journal of Natural Language Processing (https://www.atala.org/revuetal) published by ATALA (French Association for Natural Language Processing, http://www.atala.org) since 1959 with the support of CNRS (National Centre for Scientific Research). It is indexed by ACL Anthology as well as DBLP. It is also supported by the Institute of Human and Social Sciences of the CNRS. **Contact** For any question, please contact tal-65-3(a)sciencesconf.org **External committee** -- Cristina Bosco, University of Turin -- Elena Cabrio, University of Côte d'Azur -- Tommaso Caselli, Faculty of Arts, Rijksuniveristeit Groningen -- Valentina Dragos, ONERA -- Karën Fort, Sorbonne University -- Claire Hugonnier, University of Grenoble Alpes -- Irina Illina, University of Lorraine -- Roy Ka-Wei Lee, Singapore University of Technology and Design -- Véronique Moriceau, IRIT, University of Toulouse -– Frédérique Segond, INRIA Paris -- Mariona Taulé, University of Barcelona -- Samuel Vernet, Aix-Marseille University -- Mathieu Valette, Paris Sorbonne Nouvelle University -- Marcos Zampieri, George Mason University -- ======================== Farah Benamara Zitoune Professor in Computer Science, Université Paul Sabatier IRIT-CNRS 118 Route de Narbonne, 31062, Toulouse. Tel : +33 5 61 55 77 06 http://www.irit.fr/~Farah.Benamara ================================== -- ======================== Farah Benamara Zitoune Professor in Computer Science, Université Paul Sabatier IRIT-CNRS 118 Route de Narbonne, 31062, Toulouse. Tel : +33 5 61 55 77 06 http://www.irit.fr/~Farah.Benamara ==================================

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Final CPF: SIGIR eCom'24: May 3rd
by Tracy Holloway King 21 Apr '24

21 Apr '24

Final Call For Papers - SIGIR eCom'24 - https://sigir-ecom.github.io/ The SIGIR Workshop on eCommerce will serve as a platform for publication and discussion of Information Retrieval, NLP and Vision research relative to their applications in the domain of eCommerce. This workshop will bring together practitioners and researchers from academia and industry to discuss the challenges and approaches to product search and recommendation in eCommerce. The deadline for paper submission is May 3rd, 2024 (11:59 P.M. AoE) The special theme of this year's workshop is eCommerce Search in the Age of Generative AI and LLMs. The workshop will also include a data challenge. This year we will collaborate with TREC on a product search data challenge ( https://trec-product-search.github.io/index.html). The overarching goal is to study how end-to-end retrieval systems can be built and evaluated given a large set of products. The data challenge provides a corpus of products and a set of user intents (queries): the goal is to find the product that suits the user’s needs. SIGIR eCom is a full day workshop taking place on Thursday, July 18, 2024 in conjunction with SIGIR 2024. SIGIR eCom'24 will be an in-person workshop. ________________ Important Dates: Paper submission deadline - May 3rd, 2024 (11:59 P.M. AoE) Notification of acceptance - May 23, 2024 Camera Ready Version of Papers Due - June 24, 2024 SIGIR eCom Full day Workshop - July 18, 2024 We invite quality research contributions, position and opinion papers addressing relevant challenges in the domain of eCommerce. We invite submission of both papers and posters. All submitted papers and posters will be single-blind and will be peer reviewed by an international program committee of researchers of high repute. Accepted submissions will be presented at the workshop. Topics: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * eCommerce search in the age of Generative AI and LLMs (2024 special theme) - Ranking and Whole Page Relevance - Optimization for IR and business metrics - Diversity in product search and recommendations - Relevance models for multi-faceted entities - Relevance vs. revenue - Deterministic sorts (e.g. price low to high) - Temporal dynamics and seasonality * Query and Document Understanding - Query intent, query suggestions, and auto-completion - Strategies for resolving low or zero recall queries - Converting across modalities (e.g., text, structured data, images) - Categorization and facets - Reviews and sentiment analysis * Recommendation and Personalization - Personalization & contextualization, including the use of personal facets such as age, gender, location - Privacy, bias and ethics in eCommerce IR - Blending recommendations and search results - Representations and Data - Semantic representation of products, queries, and customers - Construction and use of knowledge graphs for eCommerce * IR Fundamentals for eCommerce - Unified and universal search and recommendations - Cross-lingual search and machine translation - Indexing and search in rapidly changing environments (e.g., auction sites) - Experimentation techniques including AB testing and multi-armed bandits * Visual Search in ecommerce - Large-scale Visual Search Challenges and Solutions - Multimodal Search and combining visual and textual information - Combining Vision and language models - Explainable AI for Visual Search * Other challenges - Trust, transparency, and fairness in eCommerce - UX for eCommerce - The role of search in trust and security for marketplaces - Question answering and chatbots for eCommerce Data/Resource Track: In order to promote academic research in the eCommerce domain, we plan to accept a small number of high quality dataset contributions. These submissions should be accompanied by a clear and detailed description of the dataset, some potential questions and applications that arise from it. Preliminary empirical investigations conveying any insight about the data will increase the quality of the submission. Submission Instructions: All papers will be peer reviewed (single-blind) by the program committee and judged by their relevance to the workshop, especially to the main themes identified above, and their potential to generate discussion. Submissions must describe work that is not previously published, not accepted for publication elsewhere, and not currently under review elsewhere. All submissions must be in English. The workshop follows a single-blind reviewing process, i.e. author names must be on the papers. We do not accept anonymized submissions. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper must register for the workshop and present the paper. All submissions must be in PDF formatted according to the latest CEUR single column format; the short (8-page) and long (15-page) limits are extended to account for this. For instructions and LaTeX/Overleaf/docx templates, see: https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html#CEURART Read up to and including the “License footnote in paper PDFs” section. Please Use Emphasizing Capitalized Style for Paper Titles. Submit your paper PDF through the SIGIR eCom’24 Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sigirecom24 Long paper limit: 15 pages. References are not counted in the page limit. Short paper limit: 8 pages. References are not counted in the page limit. The deadline for paper submission is May 3rd, 2024 (11:59 P.M. AoE) https://sigir-ecom.github.io/

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WMT 2024: Low-Resource Indic Language Translation.
by Santanu Pal 21 Apr '24

21 Apr '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. 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. We highly encourage participants to register in advance so that we can provide updates regarding release dates of data and other relevant information periodically To register for the event, please fill out the registration form available here. ( https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd8LwriqdLLhVNAvUWEcGRJmKuBFQZ9BR_… ) We look forward to your participation and contributions to advancing low-resource Indic language translation. with best regards, Santanu

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[CIKM-2024] 2nd Call for Tutorials / Workshops
by antonela.tommasel＠isistan.unicen.edu.ar 20 Apr '24

20 Apr '24

* We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CfP * * For the online version of this Call, visit: https://cikm2024.org/ =============== CIKM 2024: 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management Boise, Idaho, USA October 21–25, 2024 =============== The ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) is the premier international conference on topics at the confluence of information retrieval, databases, and knowledge management. Running annually since 1992, CIKM attracts top talent from industry and academia with the goal of fostering collaboration and bridging the academic-commercial gap in the database, information retrieval, machine learning, and knowledge management communities. CIKM 2024 solicits proposals of highly interactive full-/half-day workshops proposing novel research, deepening established research topics, or presenting practical applications on the many aspects of the data lifecycle (data acquisition, pre-processing, modelling, integration/aggregation, storage, analysis, and consumption). Interdisciplinary workshops bridging across different communities are also highly encouraged. CIKM 2024 solicits proposals for both half and full-day tutorials from active and experienced researchers and practitioners covering topics relevant to CIKM. Areas of interest include information retrieval, knowledge management, data science, artificial intelligence, and other related areas of relevance to the CIKM community. -------------------------- Key Dates -------------------------- * Workshop/Tutorials proposal: 14 June 2024 * Workhshop/Tutorials notification: 5 July 2024 * Camera ready: 8 August 2024 * Tutorial day: 21 October 2024 (Monday) * Workshop day: 25 October 2024 (Friday) (All deadlines are at 11:59 pm AOE) -------------------------- Paper Submissions -------------------------- Please use the CIKM 2024 Workshop Proposal Template for your submission. Workshop proposals are reviewed based on the quality of the proposal, their relation to the main CIKM topics, the likelihood of attracting enough participants, and the hosting capacity of the conference. The length of the whole Tutorial proposal should be limited to 4 pages in the ACM proceedings template (double column). Instructions and suitable LATEX, Microsoft Word, and Overleaf templates are available from the ACM Website (use the “sigconf” proceedings template): ACM Primary Article Template. Please note that the organizers of accepted tutorials will be invited to submit a camera-ready summary of the tutorial, to be included in the CIKM 2024 conference proceedings. Proposals should be submitted through Easychair: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=cikm2024 -------------------------- Chairs Contact Information - Workshops -------------------------- For the online version of this Call, visit: https://cikm2024.org/call-for-workshops/ For more information, contact the Workshop Chairs at cikm2024-workshop [at] easychair [dot] org Vanessa Braganholo, Instituto de Computação Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil Yangqiu Song,Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong -------------------------- Chairs Contact Information - Tutorials -------------------------- For the online version of this Call, visit: https://cikm2024.org/call-for-tutorials/ For further information, please contact the Tutorial Chairs at: CIKM2024-tutorial [at] easychair [dot] org Dafna Shahaf, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Isreal Mahantesh Halappanavar, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA

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[CIKM-2024] - 2nd Call for Demo / Resource papers
by antonela.tommasel＠isistan.unicen.edu.ar 20 Apr '24

20 Apr '24

* We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CfP * * For the online version of this Call, visit: https://cikm2024.org/ =============== 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) is a premier forum for researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government bodies to share technologies and state-of-the-art research on the emerging aspects of artificial intelligence, data mining, data management, and information retrieval. The resource track at CIKM 2024 provides a unique opportunity to researchers to share and highlight their latest technologies that enable intelligent decision-making, predictive analytics, and machine learning. The demo track at CIKM 2024 provides a unique opportunity to share research ideas through prototypes. Accepted demo papers will be part of the main conference proceeding. -------------------------- Key Dates -------------------------- * Resource/Demo Papers abstract: 27 May 2024 * Resource/Demo Papers: 3 June 2024 * Resource/Demo Papers notifications: 16 July 2024 * Camera Ready: 8 August 2024 (All deadlines are at 11:59 pm AOE) -------------------------- Topics of Interest - Resource papers -------------------------- We welcome submissions on all topics in the general areas of artificial intelligence, machine learning, data science, databases, information retrieval, and knowledge management. An ideal resource paper’s topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas: * Data resources comprising a new and innovative dataset or protocol, or one created using novel methods and/or algorithms * Data resources labelled using novel and well-described annotation and/or crowdsourcing approaches * Software resources to support research on novel application domains or support novel evaluation or benchmark tasks * Software resources such as prototypes and services, open source frameworks, or tools and libraries which support computing, visualization, evaluation and other exploration tasks in data science, data engineering, or information & knowledge management -------------------------- Topics of Interest - Demo papers -------------------------- We seek demonstrations that showcase exciting new technologies and early prototypes within the scope of CIKM, as well as case studies from more mature systems with innovative features and functionalities. We welcome submissions on all topics in the general areas of artificial intelligence, data mining, data management, information retrieval, and knowledge management. -------------------------- Paper Submissions -------------------------- * Resourse papers must be no more than 4 pages long including appendices, plus unlimited pages for references. It is allowed to cite supplementary materials including source code, videos, datasets, and demonstration prototypes that are accessible via online platforms like GitHub. Reviewers have the discretion to decide whether or not they will review such materials. * Demo papers must be no more than 4 pages long including appendices, plus unlimited pages for references. Authors should also prepare a 3 minutes long demonstration video, showcasing the main features of the system. A URL of the video (e.g., YouTube, Dropbox, etc.) should be included in the paper. Manuscripts should be submitted to CIKM 2024’s Easychair page in PDF format using the ACM’s two-column template “sigconf”, see https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. All papers should be submitted via Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cikm24 The review of the resource/demo papers will be single-blind, which means that the authors should include their names and affiliations in the paper. All submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee of the Resource/Demo track, who will evaluate the novelty of the technical features and/or research being presented, the research and/or development challenges, its expected impact, and its timeliness and relevance for the CIKM audience of practitioners and researchers. 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. -------------------------- Authorship Policy -------------------------- Before paper submission, authors should carefully review ACM’s authorship policy, including ACM’s new Publications Policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/research-involving-human-particip… At least one author of each accepted paper must register to present the work at the conference. -------------------------- 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. However, submissions are permitted for papers presented or to be presented at conferences or workshops without proceedings or with only abstracts published. Authors may also submit work already available as a preprint (e.g., in arXiv). -------------------------- Desk Rejection Policy -------------------------- Submissions that fail to adhere to the 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’s discrimination policy. For full details, please visit this site: https://www.acm.org/special-interest-groups/volunteer-resources/officers-ma… -------------------------- Chairs Contact Information -------------------------- * For the online version of this Call, visit: https://cikm2024.org/call-for-demo-papers/ * For the online version of this Call, visit: https://cikm2024.org/call-for-resource-papers/ For more information, contact the Demo chairs at: CIKM2024-demo [at] easychair [dot] org For more information, contact the resource chairs at: CIKM2024-resources [at] easychair [dot] org Nicolas Kourtellis, Telefonica, Spain Davide Mottin, Aarhus University, Denmark

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[CIKM-2024] - 2nd Call for Full / Short / Applied papers
by antonela.tommasel＠isistan.unicen.edu.ar 20 Apr '24

20 Apr '24

* We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CfP * * For the online version of this Call, visit: https://cikm2024.org/ =============== 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 -------------------------- * 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) -------------------------- Key Dates - Short papers -------------------------- * 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) -------------------------- Key Dates - Applied papers -------------------------- * Applied Research Papers abstract: 13 May 2024 * Applied Research Papers: 20 May 2024 * Applied Research 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/short/applied research papers that are not previously published, accepted to be published, or being considered for publication in any other forum. 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. * Short papers cannot exceed 4 pages plus unlimited references. The review of manuscripts will be double-blind. * Appied papers are limited to 7 pages plus unlimited references (note that additional appendices are not allowed). Authors should include their names and affiliations in the manuscript (i.e. submissions are single-blind). 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 - Full papers -------------------------- For the online version of this Call, visit: https://cikm2024.org/call-for-papers/ 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 -------------------------- Chairs Contact Information - Short papers -------------------------- For the online version of this Call, visit: https://cikm2024.org/call-for-short-research-papers/ 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 -------------------------- Chairs Contact Information - Applied papers -------------------------- For the online version of this Call, visit: https://cikm2024.org/call-for-applied-research-papers For more information, contact the Applied Research Track PC chairs at: CIKM2024-applied [at] easychair [dot] org Wei Chen (Microsoft Research Asia) Yinglong Xia (Meta)

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LUHME: Language Understanding in the Human-Machine Era | Workshop at ECAI 2024
by Rui Sousa Silva 19 Apr '24

19 Apr '24

*** APOLOGIES FOR CROSS POSTINGS *** Call for Papers: Language Understanding in the Human-Machine Era (LUHME) The LUHME 2024 workshop Language Understanding in the Human-Machine Era is part of the 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI 2024 (https://www.ecai2024.eu/). Workshop description Large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized the development of interactional artificial intelligence (AI) systems by democratizing their use. These models have shown remarkable advancements in various applications such as conversational AI and machine translation, marking the undeniable advent of the human-machine era. However, despite their significant achievements, state-of-the-art systems still exhibit shortcomings in language understanding, raising questions about their true comprehension of human languages. The concept of language understanding has always been contentious, as meaning-making depends not only on form and immediate meaning but also on context. Therefore, understanding natural language involves more than just parsing form and meaning; it requires access to grounding for true comprehension. Equipping language models with linguistics-grounded capabilities remains a complex task, given the importance of discourse, pragmatics, and social context in language understanding. Understanding language is a doubly challenging task as it necessitates not only grasping the intrinsic capabilities of LLMs but also examining their impact and requirements in real-world applications. While LLMs have shown effectiveness in various applications, the lack of supporting theories raises concerns about ethical implications, particularly in applications involving human interaction. The “Language Understanding in the Human-Machine Era” (LUHME) workshop aims to reignite the debate on the role of understanding in natural language use and its applications. It seeks to explore the necessity of language understanding in computational tasks like machine translation and natural language generation, as well as the contributions of language professionals in enhancing computational language understanding. Topics of Interest Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Language understanding in LLMs • Language grounding • Psycholinguistic approaches to language understanding • Discourse, pragmatics and language understanding • Evaluation of language understanding • Multi-modality and language understanding • Socio-cultural aspects in understanding language • Effects of language misunderstanding by computational models • Manifestations of language understanding • Distributional semantics and language understanding • Linguistic theory and language understanding by machines • Linguistic, world, and common sense knowledge in language understanding • Machine translation and/or interpreting and language understanding • Human vs. machine language understanding • Role of language professionals in the LLMs era • Understanding language and explainable AI Ethics Statement Research reported at ECAI and the LUHME workshop should avoid harm, be honest and trustworthy, fair and non-discriminatory, and respect privacy and intellectual property. Where relevant, authors can include in the main body of their paper, or on the reference page, a short ethics statement that addresses ethical issues regarding the research being reported and the broader ethical impact of the work. Reviewers will be asked to flag possible violations of relevant ethical principles. Such flagged submissions will be reviewed by a senior member of the programme committee. Authors may be required to revise their paper to include a discussion of possible ethical concerns and their mitigation. Submission Instructions Papers must be written in English, be prepared for double-blind review using the ECAI LaTeX template, and not exceed 7 pages (not including references). The ECAI LaTeX Template can be found at https://ecai2024.eu/download/ecai-template.zip. Papers should be submitted via OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=eurai.org/ECAI/2024/Workshop/LUHME Excessive use of typesetting tricks to make things fit is not permitted. Please do not modify the style files or layout parameters. You can resubmit any number of times until the submission deadline. The workshop papers will be published in the proceedings (further information will be provided soon). Important Dates • Paper submission: 31 May 2024 • Notification of acceptance: 15 July 2024 • Camera-ready papers: 31 July 2024 • LUHME workshop: 19 or 20 October 2024 Invited Speakers • Alexander Koller, Saarland University • Anders Søgaard, University of Copenhagen • Melanie Mitchell, Santa Fe Institute Organization This workshop is jointly organized by the chairs of working groups 1 (Computational Linguistics) and 7 (Language work, language professionals) of the COST Action LITHME – Language in the Human-Machine Era. Workshop Organizers • Rui Sousa-Silva (University of Porto, Portugal) • Henrique Lopes Cardoso (University of Porto, Portugal) • Maarit Koponen (University of Eastern Finland, Finland) • Antonio Pareja-Lora (Universidad de Alcalá, Spain) • Márta Seresi (Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary) Program Committee • Aida Kostikova (Bielefeld University) • Alex Lascarides (University of Edinburgh) • Alípio Jorge (University of Porto) • António Branco (University of Lisbon) • Belinda Maia (University of Porto) • Caroline Lehr (ZHAW School of Applied Linguistics) • Diana Santos (Universitetet i Oslo) • Efstathios Stamatatos (University of the Aegean) • Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski (University of Hildesheim) • Eliot Bytyçi (Universiteti i Prishtinës “Hasan Prishtina”) • Hanna Risku (University of Vienna) • Jörg Tiedemann (University of Helsinki) • Lynne Bowker (University of Ottawa) • Nataša Pavlović (University of Zagreb) • Paolo Rosso (Universitat Politècnica de València) • Ran Zhang (Bielefeld University) • Ruslan Mitkov (Lancaster University) • Sule Yildirim Yayilgan (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) • Tharindu Ranasinghe (Lancaster University) For further information, please visit https://luhme.web.uah.es/ or contact rssilva(a)letras.up.pt<mailto:rssilva@letras.up.pt>

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COLING 2025 - 1st Call For Workshop Proposals
by El-Haj, Mo 19 Apr '24

19 Apr '24

Dear all, This is the first Call for Workshops for the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics (https://coling2025.org/), scheduled to take place from 19th to 24th January 2025 in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Call for Workshops COLING 2025 The International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING) invites proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the 31st edition of COLING in 2025 in Abu Dhabi (UAE). We solicit proposals in all areas of computational linguistics, language resources and evaluation, broadly conceived to include related disciplines such as linguistics, language documentation, natural language processing, speech and multimodal processing, computational social science, and the digital humanities. Note: for this edition of COLING, we will not be conducting a joint call for workshops with the ACL conferences (AACL, ACL, EACL, EMNLP, NAACL). This is due to scheduling differences between COLING and the ACL conferences in 2025. COLING is happening much earlier than the *ACL conferences, which makes it impractical to coordinate a joint call. However, we anticipate a return to joint workshop calls in the future. IMPORTANT DATES 31 May 2024: Proposal submission due 30 June 2024: Notification of acceptance 19-20 January 2025: COLING-2025 Workshops 21-24 January 2025: COLING-2025 conference SUBMISSION INFORMATION Proposals should be submitted as PDF documents. Note that submissions should essentially be ready to be turned into a Call for Workshop Papers shortly after the notification. The proposals should be at most two pages long, with additional two pages permitted for information about organisers and tentative program committee. Hence, the entire proposal should not exceed FOUR pages in length, excluding references. Please note that workshops should either be 100% in-person or 100% virtual; hybrid formats will not be allowed. For in-person workshops, at least one workshop organiser should be physically present to run the workshop at COLING. WORKSHOP TEMPLATE (non-mandatory) https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/coling-2025-workshop-proposal-temp… The two pages for the main proposal must include the following: - A title and a brief description of the workshop topic and content. - A list of invited speakers, if applicable, with an indication of which ones have already agreed and which are tentative, and sources of funding for the speakers, if needed. - An estimate of the number of attendees. - Workshop format: in-person or virtual (hybrid proposals will not be accepted). - A description of any shared tasks associated with the workshop, and estimate of the number of participants. Note that any shared task will also need to be reviewed by the workshop committee for ethical concerns. - A description of special requirements and technical needs, where relevant. - If the workshop has been held before, a note specifying where previous iterations of the workshops were held, how many submissions the workshop received, how many papers were accepted (also specify whether they were not regular papers, e.g., shared task system description papers, non-archival papers), and how many attendees the workshop attracted. The two pages for information about organisers and program committee must include the following: - The names, affiliations, and email addresses of the organisers, with one-paragraph statements of their research interests, areas of expertise, and experience in organising workshops and related events. - A list of Program Committee members, with an indication of which members have already agreed. Organisers should do their best to estimate the number of submissions (especially for recurring workshops) in order to (a) ensure a sufficient number of reviewers so that each paper receives 3 reviews, and (b) anticipate that no one is committed to reviewing more than 3 papers. This practice is likely to ensure on-time, and more thorough and thoughtful reviews. - A very brief advertisement or tagline for the workshop, up to 140 characters, that highlights any key information you wish prospective attendees to know, and which would be suitable to be put onto a web-based survey (see below). The proposals should be submitted no later than May 31, 2024, 11:59 PM Samoa Standard Time (SST) (UTC/GMT-11, ‘Anywhere on Earth’). Submission is electronic, and the submission URL will be displayed on the COLING 2025 website: https://coling2025.org/. The workshop proposals will be evaluated according to their originality and impact, the expected interest level of participants, as well as the quality of the organising team and Program Committee and their contribution to the diversity of the conference. DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION We particularly encourage submissions of underrepresented groups in computational linguistics, language resource and evaluation, including researchers from any demographic or geographic minority, with disabilities, or others. In the evaluation of the proposal, we will take these aspects into account to create a varied and balanced set of tutorials. This includes several aspects of diversity, namely (1) how the topic of the tutorial contributes to improved diversity and increased fairness in the field, (2) if the topic is particularly relevant for a specific underrepresented group of potential participants, (3), if the presenters are from an underrepresented group. WORKSHOP ORGANISER RESPONSIBILITIES The organisers of the accepted workshops (at least one) must be present in person in Abu Dhabi for an in-person workshop, and virtually for a virtual workshop. They will be responsible for publicising and conducting the workshop, which includes reviewing submissions, preparing the camera-ready workshop proceedings, coordinating the meeting days, and ensuring that all participants are informed about COLING’s anti-harassment policy. (see https://coling2022.org/policy). It is crucial that organisers commit to all deadlines. In particular, failure to produce the camera-ready proceedings on time will lead to the exclusion of the workshop from the unified proceedings and author indexes. Workshop organisers cannot accept submissions for publication that will be (or have been) published elsewhere, although they are free to set their own policies on simultaneous submission and review, as well as to accept additional non-archival presentations. CONTACT For any questions related to the workshop proposals only, please send your email to coling2025-workshops(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:coling2025-workshops@googlegroups.com>. Please do not email the workshops chairs directly. Best wishes, COLING 2025 Workshops Chairs: - Mo El-Haj (Lancaster University) - Katsuhito Sudoh (Nara Women's University) -------------------------------- Dr Mo El-Haj Senior Lecturer in NLP Director of Admissions (SCC) Co-Director of UCREL NLP Group<https://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/> Natural Language Engineering (NLE) Journal Editorial Board https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/natural-language-engineering Advisory Board of the Natural Language Processing Book Series https://benjamins.com/catalog/nlp School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/staff/elhaj @DocElhaj<https://twitter.com/DocElhaj> You may receive emails from me outside what are your typical office hours. I do not expect you to respond to my email outside your working hours.

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2nd Call for Abstracts: the 34th Meeting on Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands, Leiden University
by Wijnholds, G.J. (Gijs) 19 Apr '24

19 Apr '24

Dear colleague, This is the second call for abstracts for the 34th Meeting of Computational Linguistics in The Netherlands (CLIN34), that will take place in Leiden on Friday 30 August 2024. Abstracts describing work on any aspect of computational linguistics / natural language processing (finished or in progress), are welcome. Submissions must be written in English and must be submitted through this web form<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1G2Ee1LUfQdmh2xQz8T46YcR1BXUMuB4q4iuAKq9sp8Q>. Please provide all information requested in the form. The submission deadline is May 15th 2023 and notifications of acceptance will be sent out on June 15th 2023. Authors of accepted abstracts will have the opportunity to submit a full paper after the conference to CLIN Journal. Please visit the CLIN34 website<https://clin34.leidenuniv.nl/> for more info on the event. We look forward to your abstract! The CLIN34 organizers Leiden University

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[CfP] SEMANTiCS 2024 EU || Extended Submission Deadline May 6, 2024
by SEMANTiCS 19 Apr '24

19 Apr '24

Dear all, due to several requests we decided to extend the deadlines for the R&I track. The new dates are as follows: Abstract Submission Deadline: May 6, 2024 Paper Submission Deadline: May 13, 2024 All deadlines are set for 11:59 pm, Anywhere On Earth time (UTC-12) Submission via Easychair on https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=sem24 <https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=sem24>. For details please go to: https://2024-eu.semantics.cc/page/cfp_rev_rep <https://2024-eu.semantics.cc/page/cfp_rev_rep> We strongly encourage early-career female AI researchers, especially doctoral students, to attend this year's SEMANTiCS conference, for which we are offering travel grants to support their participation. Looking forward to your submissions! Stay tuned and stay safe! With kind regards, Mehwish Alam, Angelo Salatino & Femke Ongenae -- R&I Track Chairs --

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