April 2024 - Corpora

CfP: The First Workshop on Analogical Abstraction in Cognition, Perception, and Language (Analogy-ANGLE)
by Pia Sommerauer 16 Apr '24

16 Apr '24

First Workshop on 𝐀𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞 (𝐀𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲-𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐋𝐄) Submission deadline: May 10th, 2024 https://analogy-angle.github.io/ Topics of interest include but are not limited to Cognitive modeling · Analogy and abstraction · Analogy and conceptual metaphor · Analogy, figurative language, sarcasm, and irony · Cognitive frameworks of analogy · Cognitive/psychological studies on analogy involving human participants Algorithms and methods · Studies of the analogical abilities of large language models and visual diffusion models · Algorithmic approaches to analogy · Augmentation and verification of large language and vision models through analogy · Neuro-symbolic AI architectures for analogical abstraction · Extracting analogies from knowledge bases Tasks and benchmarks · Matching narratives and situational descriptions through narratives · Novel tasks and benchmarks for evaluating analogies in text and vision · Analogy in longer formats, e.g., narratives and videos · Analogy and visual abstraction tasks · Analogical discovery and computational creativity Applications · Analogies for personalization, explanation, and collaboration · Novel applications of analogical abstraction · Studies of the impact of analogy in specific applications and domains, including education, innovation, and law Workshop organisers: -Filip Ilievski, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam) -Pia Sommerauer, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam) -Marianna Bolognesi, PhD, University of Bologna (Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna) -Ute Schmid, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg -Dafna Shahaf, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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1st UniDive training Summer School 2024
by Atul K. Ojha 16 Apr '24

16 Apr '24

*1st UniDive Training Summer School 2024* Dates: *8 — 12 July 2024* Location: *Technical University of Moldova*, Chișinău, Moldova Coordinating Project: UNIDIVE <https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/doku.php?id=start> (Universality, Diversity and Idiosyncrasy in Language Technology) Website: https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/doku.php?id=meetings:other-events:1st_unid… Cost: *Participants selected on the basis of their application will be reimbursed, details are below.* *Apply by:* *April 29, 2024* CALL FOR APPLICATIONS We are happy to announce the 1th edition of UNIDIVE Summer School on Universality, Diversity and Idiosyncrasy in Language Technology. It is dedicated mainly (but not exclusively) to young researchers and investigators. Researchers working on low-resourced languages, dialects and varieties are particularly welcome SUMMER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES - Annotation of Universal Dependencies treebank for a new language - a course by Sylvain Kahane (Université Paris Nanterre, France) and Francis Tyers (Indiana University, USA) - Annotation of multiword expressions in a new language - course by Verginica Mititelu (Romanian Academy) and Voula Giouli (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and ILSP, ATHENA RC, Greece) - Corpus annotation infrastructure (annotation platforms, format validators, Git etc.) - a course by Daniel Zeman (Charles University, Czechia), Bruno Guillaume (LORIA, France) and Agata Savary (Université Paris-Saclay, France) - A brainstorming hackathon on topics submitted by the trainees - Poster sessions APPLICATIONS AND SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Each applicant should *submit a project* for a construction of a resource related to the topics of the training school (e.g. a new/enhanced UD treebank, a new PARSEME corpus, a resource adding a new annotation layer on top of a UD/PARSEME corpus, etc.). The length of the application should be 2 pages (excluding references). The application should contain: - The title - Applicant’s name and affiliation (including the country) - A list of 3-4 key-words - Description of a resource related to the topics of the training school - Explanation how the participation in the training school will be useful for the project - Open questions related to the project which could be addressed during the brainstorming hackathon - Short statement of the project phase (planning, started, in the process of creation) The projects are to be submitted via the OpenReview <https://openreview.net/group?id=UniDive/2024/Training_School> portal. TRAINEE’S SELECTION CRITERIA We can fund at least 40 trainees, the selection criteria include: - Trainee’s country: trainees only from COST countries[1] <#m_4818236555433100574_m_-2062973076706449294_m_-5162026155145348429__ftn1> and Near-Neighbour Countries can be funded. See here <https://www.cost.eu/about/members/> and here <https://www.cost.eu/about/strategy/international-collaboration/>. - Age: Young Researchers and Investigators, i.e. under the age of 40, are promoted - Gender and geographical balance (notably between Inclusiveness Target Countries and others COST countries) - Relevance and quality of the project submitted by the trainee - Status of the language on which the trainee intends to work (low-resourced languages, dialects or varieties are promoted) *If you are not selected on the basis of these criteria and you can find other financial sources to cover your travel, accommodation and meals, you are also welcome to participate. * *The authors of the selected projects may optionally present them in a poster session during the Training School. * IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for project submission: April 29, 2024 Notification of acceptance: May 15, 2024 Summer school: July 8-12, 2024 For any inquiry, please contact the organisers at: victoria.bobicev(a)ia.utm.md Looking forward to seeing you in Moldova, Organizing Committee ------------------------------ [1] <#m_4818236555433100574_m_-2062973076706449294_m_-5162026155145348429__ftnref1> COST members include 3 categories: COST Full Members, COST Cooperating Members (Israel), COST Partner Members (South Africa).

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TSD 2024 - Last Call for Papers, extended deadline
by TSD 2024 16 Apr '24

16 Apr '24

********************************************************* TSD 2024 - LAST CALL FOR PAPERS ********************************************************* Twenty-seventh International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2024) Brno, Czech Republic, 9-13 September 2024 http://www.tsdconference.org/ THE SUBMISSION DEADLINE has been EXTENDED to: April 22 2024 ............ Submission of full papers KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Hynek Hermansky, Johns Hopkins University, USA Preslav Nakov, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, Abu Dhabi The conference is organized by the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, and the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen. The conference is supported by International Speech Communication Association. Venue: Brno, Czech Republic SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 12 pages formatted in the LNCS style (including references). Those accepted will be presented either orally or as posters. The decision about the presentation format will be based on the recommendation of the reviewers. Proceedings papers do not differentiate the presentation format. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the on-line form accessible from the conference website. Papers submitted to TSD 2024 must not be under review by any other conference or publication during the TSD review cycle, and must not be previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere. Publishing on preprint servers is not forbidden, but authors are warned that when doing so this might influence the blind reviewing conditions. As reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...", should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...". Papers that do not conform to the requirements above are subject to be rejected without review. The authors are strongly encouraged to write their papers in TeX or LaTeX formats. These formats are necessary for the final versions of the papers that will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes. The paper format for review has to be in the PDF format with all required fonts included. Upon notification of acceptance, presenters will receive further information on submitting their camera-ready and electronic sources (for detailed instructions on the final paper format see https://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2024/paper_instr.html). Authors are also invited to present actual projects, developed software or interesting material relevant to the topics of the conference. The presenters of demonstrations should provide an abstract not exceeding one page. The demonstration abstracts will not appear in the conference proceedings. TSD SERIES TSD series evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in both spoken and written language processing from all over the world. Proceedings of TSD form a book published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. TSD Proceedings are regularly indexed by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index/Web of Science. Moreover, LNAI series are listed in all major citation databases such as DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC or COMPENDEX. CALL for SATELLITE WORKSHOP PROPOSALS https://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2024/conf_workshop_proposals.html The TSD 2024 conference will be accompanied by one-day satellite workshops or project meetings with organizational support by the TSD organizing committee. The organizing committee can arrange for a meeting room at the conference venue and prepare a workshop proceedings as a book with ISBN by a local publisher. The workshop papers that will pass also the standard TSD review process will appear in the Springer proceedings. Each workshop is a subject to proposal that should be sent via the proposal submission form or discussed via the contact e-mail tsd2024(a)tsdconference.org ahead of the respective deadline. TOPICS Topics of the conference will include (but are not limited to): Corpora and Language Resources (monolingual, multilingual, text and spoken corpora, large web corpora, large language models, disambiguation, specialized lexicons, dictionaries) Speech Recognition (multilingual, continuous, emotional speech, handicapped speaker, out-of-vocabulary words, alternative way of feature extraction, new models for acoustic and language modelling) Tagging, Classification and Parsing of Text and Speech (morphological and syntactic analysis, synthesis and disambiguation, multilingual processing, sentiment analysis, credibility analysis, automatic text labeling, summarization, authorship attribution) Speech and Spoken Language Generation (multilingual, high fidelity speech synthesis, computer singing) Semantic Processing of Text and Speech (information extraction, information retrieval, data mining, semantic web, knowledge representation, inference, ontologies, sense disambiguation, plagiarism detection, fake news detection) Integrating Applications of Text and Speech Processing (machine translation, natural language understanding, question-answering strategies, assistive technologies) Automatic Dialogue Systems (self-learning, multilingual, question-answering systems, dialogue strategies, prosody in dialogues) Multimodal Techniques and Modelling (video processing, facial animation, visual speech synthesis, user modelling, emotions and personality modelling) Papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Elmar Noeth, Germany (general chair) Rodrigo Agerri, Spain Eneko Agirre, Spain Vladimir Benko, Slovakia Archna Bhatia, USA Jan Cernocky, Czech Republic Simon Dobrisek, Slovenia Kamil Ekstein, Czech Republic Karina Evgrafova, Russia Yevhen Fedorov, Ukraine Volker Fischer, Germany Darja Fiser, Slovenia Lucie Flek, Germany Bjorn Gamback, Norway Radovan Garabik, Slovakia Alexander Gelbukh, Mexico Louise Guthrie, USA Jan Hajic, Czech Republic Eva Hajicova, Czech Republic Yannis Haralambous, France Hynek Hermansky, USA Ales Horak, Czech Republic Eduard Hovy, USA Milos Jakubicek, Czech Republic Maria Khokhlova, Russia Aidar Khusainov, Russia Daniil Kocharov, Russia Miloslav Konopik, Czech Republic Valia Kordoni, Germany Evgeny Kotelnikov, Russia Pavel Kral, Czech Republic Siegfried Kunzmann, USA Nikola Ljubesic, Croatia Natalija Loukachevitch, Russia Bernardo Magnini, Italy Vaclav Matousek, Czech Republic Roman Moucek, Czech Republic Agnieszka Mykowiecka, Poland Hermann Ney, Germany Joakim Nivre, Sweden Juan Rafael Orozco-Arroyave, Colombia Maciej Piasecki, Poland Josef Psutka, Czech Republic James Pustejovsky, USA German Rigau, Spain Paolo Rosso, Spain Leon Rothkrantz, The Netherlands Anna Rumshisky, USA Milan Rusko, Slovakia Pavel Rychly, Czechia Mykola Sazhok, Ukraine Pavel Skrelin, Russia Pavel Smrz, Czech Republic Petr Sojka, Czech Republic Georg Stemmer, Germany Marko Robnik Sikonja, Slovenia Marko Tadic, Croatia Jan Trmal, Czechia Tamas Varadi, Hungary Zygmunt Vetulani, Poland Aleksander Wawer, Poland Pascal Wiggers, The Netherlands Alina Wroblewska, Poland Jerneja Zganec Gros, Slovenia FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE The conference program will include presentation of invited papers, oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions. Papers will be presented in plenary or topic oriented sessions. Social events including a trip in the vicinity of Brno will allow for additional informal interactions. IMPORTANT DATES April 22 2024 ............ Submission of full papers June 5 2024 .............. Notification of acceptance June 15 2024 ............. Final papers (camera ready) and registration August 8 2024 ............ Submission of demonstration abstracts August 15 2024 ........... Notification of acceptance for demonstrations sent to the authors September 9-13 2024 ...... Conference date Submission of abstracts serves for better organization of the review process only - please submit your abstract as soon as possible. For the actual review a full paper submission is necessary. The accepted conference contributions will be published in Springer proceedings that will be made available to participants at the time of the conference. OFFICIAL LANGUAGE The official language of the conference is English. ACCOMMODATION The organizing committee will arrange discounts on accommodation in the 4-star hotel at the conference venue. The current prices of the accommodation will be available at the conference website. ADDRESS All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to Ales Horak, TSD 2024 Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University Botanicka 68a, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic phone: +420-5-49 49 18 63 fax: +420-5-49 49 18 20 email: tsd2024(a)tsdconference.org The official TSD 2024 homepage is: http://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2024 LOCATION Brno is the second largest city in the Czech Republic with a population of almost 400.000 and is the country's judiciary and trade-fair center. Brno is the capital of South Moravia, which is located in the south-east part of the Czech Republic and is known for a wide range of cultural, natural, and technical sights. South Moravia is a traditional wine region. Brno had been a Royal City since 1347 and with its six universities it forms a cultural center of the region. Brno can be reached easily by direct flights from London and Milano, and by trains or buses from Vienna (150 km) or Prague (230 km). For the participants with some extra time, nearby places may also be of interest. Local ones include: Brno Castle now called Spilberk, Veveri Castle, the Old and New City Halls, the Augustine Monastery with St. Thomas Church and crypt of Moravian Margraves, Church of St. James, Cathedral of St. Peter & Paul, Cartesian Monastery in Kralovo Pole, the famous Villa Tugendhat (UNESCO) designed by Mies van der Rohe along with other important buildings of between-war Czech architecture. For those willing to venture out of Brno, Moravian Karst with Macocha Chasm and Punkva caves, battlefield of the Battle of three emperors (Napoleon, Russian Alexander and Austrian Franz - Battle by Austerlitz), Chateau of Slavkov (Austerlitz), Pernstejn Castle, Buchlov Castle, Lednice Chateau, Buchlovice Chateau, Letovice Chateau, Mikulov with one of the largest Jewish cemeteries in Central Europe, Telc - a town on the UNESCO heritage list, and many others are all within easy reach.

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[CIKM-2024] - Call for sponsors
by antonela.tommasel＠isistan.unicen.edu.ar 16 Apr '24

16 Apr '24

* We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this call for sponsors* * For the online version of this Call, visit: https://cikm2024.org/become-a-sponsor/ =============== CIKM 2024: 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management Boise, Idaho, USA October 21–25, 2024 =============== The 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2024) serves as an international forum for presenting and discussing research in information and knowledge management, alongside recent advancements in data and knowledge bases. The conference aims to address challenging issues in the development of future knowledge and information systems and to guide forthcoming research directions by reviewing high-quality applied and theoretical research outcomes. A significant aspect of the conference is its Workshops program, which targets current research challenges and endeavors. CIKM has a rich history of workshops dedicated to emerging domains of artificial intelligence, database management, information retrieval, data mining, and related fields. Since 2022, CIKM has also hosted an industry day where industrial research advancements are shared with the community. Being a prestigious ACM conference, CIKM draws in leading researchers and influencers from academia and industry. CIKM presents a distinctive opportunity to engage with scientists who are shaping the next generation of techniques and to gain insights into both the current state-of-the-art and future research trajectories. Moreover, CIKM offers the chance to network with and recruit top Ph.D. students, making it an ideal platform to enhance your organization’s visibility among globally influential thought leaders. Sponsors stand to gain extensive exposure to this community through conference promotion, activities during the event, and the possibility of synergies with other industry partners. We eagerly anticipate your participation in CIKM2024 which will be hosted in Boise, Idaho, and encourage you to explore the advantages of sponsoring CIKM 2024. -------------------------- Benefits of Supporting CIKM 2024 -------------------------- * Acknowledgement of your organisation’s support leading up to and during the conference * Networking opportunities during the conference to promote your products and services to specialists and graduate students * A showcase for your brand in support of researchers in this key scientific and industrial field * An opportunity to establish contacts and strengthen relationships with the leading researchers and institutions from around the world * Access to conference delegates for recruiting and promoting mind share of your organisation’s brand * A place and time for your researchers and management to connect face-to-face with the most influential people in this field in a setting especially conducive to learning and exploration of future opportunities -------------------------- Levels of sponsorship -------------------------- There are five levels of sponsorship opportunities and the Sponsorship Chairs are happy to discuss more specific sponsorship opportunities. All conference sponsors receive the following standard benefits: * Recognition as a supporter (with your logo) in the conference program * Recognition as a supporter (with your logo) on the supporters’ page of the official conference website, including a hyperlink to your organisation’s home page * Acknowledgement as a supporter on the official audiovisual material used at the virtual conference (e.g., announcements in business sessions and logo in official virtual backgrounds) * Added Benefits of the different levels of sponsorship are outlined in the table below: Check the added benefits of the different levels of sponsorship at: https://cikm2024.org/become-a-sponsor/ -------------------------- Contact Information -------------------------- For more information, contact us at: cikm2024 [at] gmail [dot] com Francesco Gullo, University of L’Aquila Edoardo Serra, Boise State University Francesca Spezzano, Boise State University

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AIRiAL 2024 Call for Proposals, Friendly Reminder
by Voss, Erik 15 Apr '24

15 Apr '24

** apologies for cross-posting ** This is a friendly reminder that submissions are due by April 30th. CALL FOR PROPOSALS 2nd Annual Artificial Intelligence Research in Applied Linguistics (AIRiAL) Conference Theme AI in Education: Empowering Learners & Preparing Educators Location Teachers College, Columbia University Dates September 27-28, 2024 Submission deadline: April 30, 2024 The AL & TESOL Language and Technology Research Group <https://sites.google.com/tc.columbia.edu/al-tesol-language-technology/home> in the Applied Linguistics & TESOL program at Teachers College will host the second annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence Research in Applied Linguistics (AIRiAL). The theme of this conference emphasizes the transformative role of artificial intelligence (AI) in education and language teaching, focusing on AI literacy among learners and the preparedness of educators for the AI-driven future. We are interested in contributions that showcase AI technologies prioritizing human values, ethics, and the enhancement of human capabilities in the context of applied linguistics. Submissions may cover a wide array of topics within the scope of AI literacy and applied linguistics. Presentation Types - Papers - Posters - Colloquia - Technology Demonstrations Proposal Evaluation CriteriaProposals will be evaluated on (1) Contribution to the field of AI in AL, (2) Quality of the proposal, and (3) Clarity of the abstract. Preparation and Submission of Proposals Please submit your abstract through <https://tccolumbia.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_7PwYe30Vv8xDggu>the submission site: https://tinyurl.com/CFPAIRiAL2024 Abstracts should be max. 250 words. Submission deadline: April 30, 2024 Student Paper Award An award will be presented to the best student paper presentation at the conference. All authors on student papers must be actively-enrolled graduate students at the time of the conference. Conference Sponsors We are accepting sponsorships for this year's conference. Please email us at airialconference(a)tc.columbia.edu for more information. -- Erik Voss, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Applied Linguistics & TESOL program Language & Technology Specialization Department of Arts & Humanities Teachers College, Columbia University TC Faculty Profile <https://www.tc.columbia.edu/faculty/ev2449/>, Linkedin Profile <https://www.linkedin.com/in/erik-voss-ph-d-941a3ab9>, Google Scholar <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=FMnVdjcAAAAJ&hl=en> ALTESOL Language & Technology Research Group <https://sites.google.com/tc.columbia.edu/al-tesol-language-technology/home> Editor-in-Chief of NYS TESOL Journal Associate Editor of Language Assessment Quarterly *Latest Publications* TC Interview: How New Artificial Intelligence Tools Will Keep Changing Education <https://youtu.be/Zh1RB7DLRMI?si=vDIvowSnzrWy480P>(7:28 mins.) Voss, E. et al. (2023). The Use of Assistive Technologies Including Generative AI by Test Takers in Language Assessment: A Debate of Theory and Practice. <https://doi.org/10.1080/15434303.2023.2288256> LAQ Journal Voss, E. (2024) Duolingo Webinar: Current Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Language Assessment <https://youtu.be/b-mjLmvXLBU?si=nmph76-lizkfzi1J> (1 hour)

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April 2024 Newsletter - LDC
by Penn LDC 15 Apr '24

15 Apr '24

In this newsletter: New publications: LoReHLT Hausa Representative Language Pack<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2024T03> AIDA Scenario 2 Practice Topic Source Data<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2024T04> ________________________________ New publications: LoReHLT Hausa Representative Language Pack<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2024T03> was developed by LDC and is comprised of approximately 4.4 million words of Hausa monolingual text, 86,000 Hausa words translated from English data, and 30 minutes of Hausa audio recordings. Approximately 96,000 words were annotated for named entities and over 13,000 words were annotated for full entity including nominals and pronouns. Noun-phrase chunking was applied to more than 7,400 words. Over 9,600 words were labeled with simple semantic annotation. Topic annotation was applied to the audio recordings. Data was collected from discussion forum, news, reference, social network, amateur web audio recordings, and weblogs. LoReHLT was a companion project of the DARPA LORELEI program. The LORELEI (Low Resource Languages for Emergent Incidents) program was concerned with building human language technology for low resource languages in the context of emergent situations. Representative languages were selected to provide broad typological coverage. 2024 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee. * AIDA Scenario 2 Practice Topic Source Data<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2024T04> was developed by LDC and is comprised of 1500 root documents (text, image, and video) from English, Russian, and Spanish web sources. Each phase of the AIDA program centered on a specific scenario, or broad topic area, with related subtopics designated as either practice subtopics or evaluation subtopics. The Phase 2 scenario focused on the socioeconomic and political crisis in Venezuela since 2010. This corpus constitutes the full set of topic-focused documents for Phase 2 practice subtopics. The DARPA AIDA (Active Interpretation of Disparate Alternatives) program aimed to develop a multi-hypothesis semantic engine to generate explicit alternative interpretations of events, situations and trends from a variety of unstructured sources. LDC supported AIDA by collecting, creating and annotating multimodal linguistic resources in multiple languages. The knowledge base for entity detection and linking annotation for all AIDA Scenario 1 and 2 corpora is available separately as AIDA Scenario 1 and 2 Reference Knowledge Base (LDC2023T10)<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2023T10>. 2024 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee. To unsubscribe from this newsletter, log in to your LDC account<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/login> and uncheck the box next to "Receive Newsletter" under Account Options or contact LDC for assistance.

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LREC-COLING 2024 - Early Bird Deadline is extended to April 20, 2024
by info＠elda.org 15 Apr '24

15 Apr '24

[Apologies for multiple postings] The Early-bird registration deadline is extended to April 20, 2024 (23:59 UTC+2). If you are an author of one paper(or more) accepted to the Main Conference, please ensure you register by April 20, 2024 to guarantee their publication in the LREC-COLING 2024 Proceedings. https://lrec-coling-2024.org/

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Job openings in Computational Corpus Linguistics at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg – One week left to apply!
by Stephanie Evert 15 Apr '24

15 Apr '24

The Chair of Computational Corpus Linguistics (CCL) at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg has open positions for PhD CANDIDATES AND POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHERS IN COMPUTATIONAL CORPUS LINGUISTICS (65% or 100%, E13 TV-L, starting ASAP) You will contribute to one or more research projects in the area of computational corpus linguistics. Depending on qualifications and your preferred topic, different appointments are possible: • Statistical methods for the multivariate analysis of linguistic variation (65% for 3 years) • Text mining with corpus queries and LLM (65% for 3 years) • Development and applications of deep learning models in NLP and legal tech (100% until 12/2025, with possible extension depending on availability of funding) • Evaluation and analysis of generative LLM (100% until 12/2025, with possible extension depending on availability of funding) Required qualifications: • M.A./M.Sc. or Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Machine Learning, Data Science, Computational Humanities, or similar subject area (with very good grade) • Evidence of strong programming skills, ideally in Python and/or R • Experience with machine learning in NLP, deep learning, or statistical analysis • Near-native language skills in German or English • Very good communication skills in English, including the ability to write for publication and present research findings at meetings and conferences • Ability to work independently, manage own academic research and associated activities, and to supervise student assistants • Ability to work effectively in small and large teams Optional qualifications: • Evidence of strong mathematical skills • Evidence of ability to analyse linguistic data • Experience with creation of corpora and gold standards • Native-like language skills in German and English • Experience with development of Web apps in Python/Flask and Web-based UIs The contract will start ASAP (preferably by July 2024) and run for 3 years (65% positions) or until 14.12.2025 (100%, with extension depending on availability of funding). If you have any questions about the positions, the research projects, or the expected qualifications, please don’t hesitate to contact me at stephanie.evert(a)fau.de. Please submit your application by e-mail to stephanie.evert(a)fau.de, providing evidence for all relevant qualifications. The application deadline is Sunday, 21 April 2024. Positions will be open until filled. Full details: https://www.jobs.fau.de/jobs/phd-candidates-and-postdoctoral-researchers-in…

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CfP: JOKER @ CLEF 2024: Automatic Humour Analysis
by Tristan Miller 15 Apr '24

15 Apr '24

Call for Participation - JOKER @ CLEF 2024: Automatic Humour Analysis ===================================================================== https://joker-project.com/ We invite individuals and teams to participate in JOKER 2024, a set of shared tasks on automatic humour analysis. JOKER 2024 will be held at the Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2024) from 9 to 12 September 2024 in Grenoble, France. Topics and tasks ---------------- The goal of the JOKER workshop is to bring together linguists and computer scientists to work on an evaluation framework for humour, including data and metric development, and to foster work on automatic methods for humour analysis and translation. We invite submissions of automatic or manual runs for any or all of the following tasks, for which we have prepared annotated data: Task 1: Humour-aware information retrieval Task 2: Humour classification according to genre and technique Task 3: Translation of puns from English to French Unshared task: We welcome submissions that use our data for other tasks. How to participate ------------------ At least one team member should register at the CLEF website, and all team members should join the JOKER mailing list (see URLs below). Task data will be made available to all registered participants. Runs and system description papers should be submitted according to the schedule and instructions posted on the JOKER and CLEF websites. Deadlines --------- 2024-04-22: CLEF 2024 registration 2024-05-06: Submission of runs for JOKER 2024-05-24: Evaluation results posted 2024-05-31: Submission of system description papers 2024-06-24: Reviews of system description papers 2024-07-08: Submission of camera-ready papers 2024-09-09: CLEF 2024 conference begins Contacts -------- JOKER website: https://joker-project.com/ CLEF website: https://clef2024.clef-iniative.eu/ Email: contact(a)joker-project.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/joker_research Mailing list (Google Groups): https://groups.google.com/g/joker-project Chairs ------ Liana Ermakova, Université de Bretagne Occidentale Tristan Miller, University of Manitoba Adam Jatowt, University of Innsbruck Anne-Gwenn Bosser, ENIB Victor Manuel Palma Preciado, Instituto Politécnico Nacional Grigori Sidorov, Instituto Politécnico Nacional -- Dr. Tristan Miller, Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba https://logological.org/ | Tel. +1 204 474 6792

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Funded PhD in text mining, deadline May 15
by Peeter Tinits 15 Apr '24

15 Apr '24

Dear all, A fully funded PhD available for with a text mining / digital humanities / computational social science specialization. An interdisciplinary team of researchers is seeking to recruit a PhD student to a research project on industrial modernity and Deep Transitions at the Institute of Social Studies, University of Tartu, Estonia, led by Laur Kanger. The PhD study (4 years) will focus on the identification of long-term trends in industrial modernity in a comparative-historical perspective, combining the text mining of digitalized newspapers with existing databases. The application deadline is 15.05.2024. Please do not hesitate to forward this to anyone who might be interested in taking up the challenge. General information can be found here: https://ut.ee/en/content/phd-open-calls (navigate to “1-15 May and 1-15 June 2024” > “Faculty of Social Sciences” > “Media and Communication, Sociology” tab). Detailed description of the PhD position can be found here (https://ut.ee/sites/default/files/2024-04/Sociology_PhD%20call_Deep%20Trans…) . Long story short: if you have experience in text mining and an interest in societal change, you're likely to be a good match. :) Don't hesitate to contact for more information about the research! Best, Peeter Tinits

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