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COLING 2025 : [CFT] International Conference on Computational Linguistics - Tutorials
by sakhar＠cs.columbia.edu 27 May '24

27 May '24

Call for Tutorials COLING 2025 The 2025 International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2025) invites proposals for tutorials to be held in conjunction with the conference. We seek proposals in all areas of natural language processing and computation, language resources (LRs), and evaluation, including spoken language, sign language, and multimodal interaction. We invite proposals for three types of tutorials, and we especially encourage submissions from early-career researchers: Cutting-edge: tutorials that cover advances in newly emerging areas. The tutorials are expected to give a brief introduction to the topic, but participants are assumed to have some prior knowledge of the topic. The focus of the class will be on discussing the most recent developments in the field, and it will spend a considerable amount of time pointing out open research questions and important novel research directions. Introductory to computational linguistics/NLP topics: tutorials that provide introductions to topics that are established in the COLING communities. The lecturers provide an overview of the development of the field from the beginning until now. Attendees are not expected to come with prior knowledge. They acquire sufficient understanding of the topic to understand the most recent research in the field. Introduction to Key Concepts in Linguistics, including Semantics, Syntax, Psycholinguistics, Neurolinguistics, and Sociolinguistics: tutorials that provide introductions to topics that are established or emerging in areas adjacent to CL/NLP. The lecturers provide an overview of the development of the field from the beginning until now. Attendees are not expected to come with prior knowledge. They acquire a sufficient understanding of the topic to understand the most recent research in the field and the relevance for the CL/NLP domains. Each of these types of tutorials can either be half-day (4h long including a coffee break (30m long)) or full-day (8h long including two coffee breaks (1h long in total) but excluding a lunch break). In all cases, the aim of a tutorial is primarily to help understand a scientific problem, its tractability, and its theoretical and practical implications. Presentations of particular technological solutions or systems are welcome, provided that they serve as illustrations of broader scientific considerations. None of the tutorial types are expected to be “self-invited” long talks – the content should be a good balance between research from multiple groups and perspectives, not only from the teachers of the tutorial. The tutorials will be held at COLING 2025 in Abu Dhabi, UAE, on 19 and 20 January, 2025. Important Dates All deadlines are 11:59 PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”). Proposal submission due July 31, 2024 Notification of acceptance August 31, 2024 COLIING2025 tutorials January 19-20, 2025 COLING2025 conference January 21-24, 2025 Diversity and Inclusion We particularly encourage submissions of underrepresented groups in computational linguistics, 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. Submission Details They should contain: A title that helps the potential attendees to understand what the tutorial will be about. An abstract that summarizes the topics, goals, target audience, and type (see above) of the tutorial (this abstract will also be on the LREC-COLING website). A section called “Introduction” that explains the topic and summarizes the starting point and relevance for our community and in general. A section called “Target Audience” that explains for whom the tutorial will be developed and what the expected prior knowledge is. Clearly specify what attendees should know and be able to practically do to get the most out of your tutorial. Examples of what to specify include prior mathematical knowledge, knowledge of specific modeling approaches and methods, programming skills, or adjacent areas like computer vision. Also specify the number of expected participants. A section called “Outline” in which the various topics are explained. This can be a list of bullet points or a set of paragraphs explaining the content. Explain what you intend and how long the tutorial will be. A section called “Diversity Considerations”, discussing each of the three aspects of diversity mentioned above or others. A section called “Reading List”: What are introductory papers or books that potential attendees can read to get a first impression of the tutorial content? What do you expect them to have read before attending? What does provide further information beyond the content of the tutorial? A section called “Presenters” in which each tutorial presenter is briefly introduced in one paragraph, including their research interests, their areas of expertise for the tutorial topic, and their experience in teaching a diverse and international audience. A section called “Other Information” which should include information on how many people are expected to participate and how you came to this estimate. You can also explain any other aspects that you find important, including special equipment that you would need. A section called “Ethics Statement” which discusses ethical considerations related to the topics of the tutorial. The proposals should be submitted no later than 31 July, 2024, 11:59 PM Samoa Standard Time (SST) (UTC/GMT-11, “anywhere on Earth”). Submission is electronic. Please submit the proposals using the START system at this URL: https://softconf.com/coling2025/tutorialsCL25 Evaluation Criteria The tutorial proposals will be evaluated according to their originality and impact, the expected interest level of participants, as well as the quality of the organizing team and Program Committee and their contribution to the diversity of the conference. Each tutorial will be evaluated regarding its clarity and preparedness, novelty or timely character of the topic, the instructor’s experience, the audience interest, and the potential to increase diversity in our community. Instructor Responsibilities Accepted tutorial presenters will be notified by the date mentioned above. They must then provide abstracts of their tutorials for inclusion in the conference registration material by the specific deadlines. The abstract needs to be provided in ASCII format. The summary will be submitted in PDF format and can be updated from the version submitted for review. The instructors will make their material available in an appropriate way, for instance, by setting up a website. They will be invited to submit their slides to the ACL Anthology. Tutorial Chairs Email: coling25tutorialchairs(a)gmail.com The tutorial chairs are: Djamé Seddah, Senior Researcher, INRIA, Paris, Frace (on leave from Sorbonne University) Shaonan Wang, Associate Professor at the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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First Call for NLP for Positive Impact Workshop
by Daryna Dementieva 26 May '24

26 May '24

Dear all! We are delighted to invite you for submission to the Third Workshop on NLP for Positive Impact! Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/nlp4positiveimpact Submission method: ACL Rolling Review (ARR) Important Dates We align our paper acceptance with the ARR cycles <https://aclrollingreview.org/dates>: Submission deadline: June ARR, i.e., June 15, 2024, 11:59pm AoE Commitment deadline to the Workshop: August 20, 2024 Notification of Acceptance: September 20, 2024 Camera-Ready Papers Due: October 3, 2024 Workshop Date: co-located with EMNLP 2024 in November, Miami (exact date to be announced) All deadlines are 11:59 PM (Anywhere on Earth <https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/aoe>) Summary The widespread and indispensable use of language-oriented AI systems presents new opportunities to have a positive social impact. NLP technologies are starting to mature to the point where they could have an even broader impact, supporting the UN sustainability goals <https://sdgs.un.org/goals> by helping to address big problems such as poverty, hunger, healthcare, education, inequality, COVID-19 and climate change. Our workshop aims to promote innovative NLP research that will positively impact society, focusing on responsible methods and new applications. We will encourage submissions from areas including (but not limited to): - Work that grounds the impact of NLP: Beyond developing a better-performing NLP model, can we make a step further to connect the model to actual social impact? Example directions include: case studies of real-world deployments; or improving the deployment and maintenance of NLP models in practice. - In addition to commonly recognized NLP for social good areas such as NLP for healthcare, mental well-being, and many others, we also call for work on neglected areas such as NLP for poverty, hunger, energy, climate change, among others. - We also highly value work that builds on interdisciplinary expertise, and encourages submissions of case studies or worked examples that seek to expand the social impact of NLP through collaboration with other fields (e.g., philanthropy, social science, political science, economics, HCI). Special theme: This year, we would like to encourage submission providing solutions or concepts to address digital violence. Digital violence encompasses various forms of violence that utilize digital tools and media, such as cell phones, apps, internet applications, and emails, and occurs within digital spaces like online portals and social platforms. We aim to explore how modern NLP and AI technologies can contribute to enhancing safety in digital environments. At the workshop, you will have an opportunity to connect and share your results with NGO representatives from this field! Submission types: Thus, we would appreciate to see various types of works on this (but not only) topic like: - automatic identification of various social needs, their corresponding sizes and demographics of people affected; - position papers to propose promising new tasks or directions that the field should pursue; - literature review of a subfield; - philosophical discussions of what how positive impact can be achieved with NLP methods; - approaches to interdisciplinary collaboration; - user study designs, user surveys; - ethical considerations, and other related topics. Note that we want submissions to our workshop to have some distinctive features of social good implications, beyond a general paper on NLP. We will require each submission to discuss the ethical and societal implications of their work, and encourage a discussion of what "positive impact" means in the work. Papers Format Both long and short paper submissions should follow all of the ARR submission requirements <https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#paper-submission-information>, including: - Long Papers <https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#long-papers> (8 pages) and Short Papers <https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#short-papers> (4 pages) - Instructions for Two-Way Anonymized Review <https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#instructions-for-two-way-anonymized-review> - Authorship <https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#authorship> - Citation and Comparison <https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#citation-and-comparison> - Multiple Submission Policy <https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#multiple-submission-policy>, Resubmission Policy <https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#resubmission-policy>, and Withdrawal Policy <https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#withdrawal-policy> - Ethics Policy <https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#ethics-policy> including the responsible NLP research checklist <https://aclrollingreview.org/responsibleNLPresearch> - Limitations <https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#limitations> - Writing Assistance <https://2023.aclweb.org/blog/ACL-2023-policy/> - Paper Submission and Templates <https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#paper-submission-and-templates> - Optional Supplementary Materials <https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#optional-supplementary-materials-appendice…> Organizers Zhijing Jin (Max Planck Institute & ETH Zurich) Daryna Dementieva (Technical University of Munich) Steven Wilson (Oakland University) Oana Ignat (University of Michigan) Jieyu Zhao (University of Maryland, College Park) Joel Tetreault (Dataminr, Inc.) Rada Michaela (University of Michigan) Contact Email - nlp4pi.workshop(a)gmail.com All positive regards, Daryna Dementieva On behalf of NLP4PI Workshop Organizers

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[CIKM-2024] - Final Call for AnalytiCup Competition proposals
by antonela.tommasel＠isistan.unicen.edu.ar 26 May '24

26 May '24

** Deadline May 31st ** ** Next friday! ** =============== =============== * We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CfP * * For the online version of this Call, visit: https://cikm2024.org/call-for-analyticup-competition-proposals/ =============== CIKM 2024: 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management Boise, Idaho, USA October 21–25, 2024 =============== CIKM 2024 AnalytiCup is an open competition including compelling data challenges aimed at members of the industry and academia interested in information and knowledge management. The challenges will be rolled out progressively and last for several weeks. The final solutions will be presented at CIKM 2024 AnalytiCup which is to be held in conjunction with the CIKM conference during October 2024. -------------------------- Key Dates -------------------------- * Proposal due: May 31 2024 * Notification: June 7 2024 * Competition Kickoff: June 24 20224 * Competition Ends: August 30, 2024 (All deadlines are at 11:59 pm AOE) -------------------------- Proposals Submissions -------------------------- We invite proposals from practitioners across industry and academia who are interested in the areas of information retrieval, databases, and knowledge management. The best fit proposal should include a well-motivated goal with a positive social impact, a novel and challenging task, a fair setup with stable evaluation approach, and adequate amount of real-world data for the competition. * A well-motivated goal: A goal of the proposed competition should be solving a challenging real-world problem at the same time impacting the research and other communities positively. A good competition is where the output of the competition should lead to a greater good of everyone, such proposals are encouraged. * A challenging task: The task should be challenging in the sense that there is enough room for improvement from the basic solutions, and novel ideas are required to succeed in the competition. At the same time the task should be manageable in about 2 months’ time. * A fair setup: The organizers should guarantee the availability of the data and the confidentiality of the test set. The evaluation metrics should be both meaningful for the application in-hand and statistically sound for the objective comparison. The baseline should be established to show that non-trivial results can be achieved. * A real-world dataset: A proposal should clearly explain what data will be provided for competition and the source of the data. Also, explain how/why the provided data is sufficient for the competition. A proposal should cover all the important details such as dates, submission and evaluation of results, etc. and describe the competition rules clearly. Please provide following details with your proposal: * Title: The title of your challenge. * Problem Description: Describe the problem clearly in detail. Explain the importance of the problem and its impact. Discuss different scenarios for the problem with its challenges and limitations. Share the simple data samples and explain the data clearly. If the proposed competition includes more than one track, please describe each track clearly and show unique value for each track. * Evaluation: Describe how you plan to evaluate the submission. Select the evaluation method which is fair and statistically robust. * Suggested Participants: Provide a list of suggested participants in the challenge. * Timeline. Dates for expected start of the competition, user registration, team formation, submission, evaluation, and notification. * Awards. Specify the type and form of the awards you want to share with the winners. * Host information: Names, affiliations, email addresses, and short biographies of the organizers. -------------------------- Chairs Contact Information -------------------------- For more information, contact the AnalytiCup Chairs at: CIKM2024-analyticup [at] easychair [dot] org Vachik Dave, Walmart Global Tech Carl Yang, Emory University

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CFW: Call for Workshop Proposals COLING 2025 - Deadline is May 31, 2024
by sakhar＠cs.columbia.edu 25 May '24

25 May '24

Dear colleagues, This is the second Call for Workshops for the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics, scheduled to take place from 19th to 24th January 2025 in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Website: https://coling2025.org submission link: https://softconf.com/coling2025/wsCL25/ Proposal submission due May 31, 2024 Call for Workshop Proposals: https://coling2025.org/calls/workshop_proposals/ 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 All deadlines are 11:59 PM UTC-11:00 (“anywhere on Earth”). Proposal submission due May 31, 2024 Notification of acceptance June 30, 2024 COLING-2025 Workshops January 19-20, 2025 COLING-2025 conference January 21-24, 2025 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 for the main proposal, with additional two pages permitted for information about organisers, tentative program committee, and references. 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. More information about the CFW submission can be found on the website: https://coling2025.org/calls/workshop_proposals/ CONTACT For any questions related to the workshop proposals only, please send your email to coling2025-programchairs(a)googlegroups.com Please do not email the workshop chairs directly. Sincerely, COLING 2025 Website/Publicity/Social Media Chairs Hasan Iqbal (MBZUAI, UAE) Zain Muhammad Mujahid (MBZUAI, UAE) Sakhar AlKhereyf (KACST, Saudi Arabia)

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Looking for Editorial Assistant for TACL Journal
by ACL Announcements 25 May '24

25 May '24

Looking for EDITORIAL ASSISTANT for an ACADEMIC JOURNAL IN COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) is seeking an Editorial Assistant for Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL), an ACL-sponsored journal published by MIT Press that publishes papers in all areas of computational linguistics and natural language processing. This position provides an experience in the world of academic publishing and the peer-review process and a first-hand engagement with the most current and impactful work on computational linguistics. POSITION SUMMARY The Editorial Assistant will: Manage the submission process using a web-based workflow management system (WMS) Correspond with authors, in coordination with the Editors-in-Chief (EiC), regarding submissions of articles, revisions and possibility of presentation at ACL conferences for eligible papers Correspond with action editors and reviewers, in coordination with the EiC, regarding submissions of reviews and decisions Prepare monthly Activity Report for EiCs Consult with EiCs when issues arise Interact with the API developers and oversee updates to the WMS REQUIRED SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE Candidates are required to have: Strong organizational and time-management skills Demonstrated attention to detail Strong written communication skills Knowledge and experience with using APIs The work is done remotely; interaction with the team of Editors-in-Chief, reviewers, and authors will be electronic. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION The Editorial Assistant is named on the masthead of each issue of TACL and works closely and directly with the Editors-In-Chief. The start date of this position is June 1, 2024. The workload varies somewhat over the course of the journal’s annual cycle but averages approximately 20 hours weekly. To apply, submit a cover letter, CV/resume, and three references. If you have questions about this position or to submit an application, contact us via email at: editors-in-chief(a)transacl.org and roireichart(a)gmail.com.

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[Call for Papers] NLP4MusA - 3rd Workshop on NLP for Music and Audio @ ISMIR 2024
by Sergio Oramas 24 May '24

24 May '24

Dear MIR community, We are excited to announce NLP4MusA 2024, the 3rd Workshop on NLP for Music and Audio <https://sites.google.com/view/nlp4musa-2024>, co-located with ISMIR 2024. =================================== *When*: November, 15 *Where*: San Francisco (ISMIR) *Submission deadline*: July, 5 *Proceedings*: Accepted papers will be published on the ACL Anthology *Website*: https://sites.google.com/view/nlp4musa-2024 *Submission link:* https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=nlp4musa2024 =================================== *Topics of Interest* We welcome both academic and industry submissions at the crossroads of NLP and music and audio, including (but not limited to) topics such as: - NLP for Music Understanding - Tagging and meta-tagging - Knowledge graph construction - Information extraction - Named entity recognition and linking - Speech to text - Song and podcast segmentation - Topic modeling - Sentiment analysis - Representation learning - Bias in music and audio corpora - Audio captioning - Debiasing music entity embeddings - Evaluation and adaptation of LLMs for music understanding - NLP for Music Retrieval and Personalization - Conversational AI - Slot filling and intent prediction - Information retrieval - Cross-modal retrieval - Recommender systems - Ads personalization - Responsible recommendations - Fairness and transparency - NLP for Music and Audio Generation - Lyrics generation - Music generation with (Large) Language models - Spoken audio/podcast generation *Submission Instructions* We invite short-papers of up to 4 pages (excluding references). The review process will be double-blind. Submissions should adhere to the ACL Anthology formatting guidelines. A LaTeX template is available here <https://drive.google.com/file/d/10sSh9JR6Q1644h6XP21lYEyCEoMyB0gQ/view>. Papers should be submitted via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=nlp4musa2024. Accepted submissions will be published as ACL anthology papers. *Important dates* - Submission Deadline: *July 5, 2024* - Notification of Acceptance: August 2, 2024 - Camera-Ready Deadline: September 6, 2024 - Workshop Date: November 15, 2024 NLP4MusA Organizing Committee

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[Open position] Postdoc in NLP and computational social science
by khuram shehzad 24 May '24

24 May '24

Dear all, An exciting opportunity awaits in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Behavioural Data Analytics at GESIS in Cologne, Germany. We are currently seeking a Senior Researcher Postdoc to join our team. https://www.hidden-professionals.de/HPv3.Jobs/gesis/stellenangebot/37621/Se… The position is limited to 4 years, with option for further extension. Best regards Hajira *GESIS-Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften* Team Lead Big Data Analytics Tel: 49 (0)221-47694-517 https://hajirajabeen.github.io/

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[Online Panel] Modelling Climate Change: An Overview of the Crisis and Reconstruction Plans in Southern Brazil (May 24th, 3pm UK time)
by Aline Villavicencio 23 May '24

23 May '24

Dear all, reposting including link information for joining online. We are hosting a rapid response online panel on Friday 24 May 2024 at 15:00 (BST) about the recent and devastating floods in South Brazil and the role of science in modelling, predicting and responding to extreme climate events, and how it can inform and support response and replanning efforts. This online event is open to all, and details about how to join are included below. ------------------------------ Modelling Climate Change: An Overview of the Crisis and Reconstruction Plans in Southern Brazil Date: May 24, 2024, 3pm UK Website: https://sites.google.com/view/climate-change-southern-brazil <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsites.goo…> Location: Join the Zoom Meeting <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Funiversit…> https://Universityofexeter.zoom.us/j/94995645524?pwd=bnhlcThXalBsTWpYWXZrZF… <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Funiversit…> Meeting ID: 949 9564 5524 Password: 409333 Climate change and the increase in extreme climatic events present a pressing challenge globally. This panel focuses on the environmental, social, and economic ramifications of climate change in the recent floods in Southern Brazil. With over 2 million people and more than 90% of the region's municipalities affected, heavy rainfalls have disrupted both electricity and treated water supplies, closed the main airport for months and caused extensive damage to traffic on highways. A substantial impact on economic activity is expected. We discuss the role of science in monitoring and preventing these crises and in supporting emergency actions and reconstruction plans. Panellists include: Márcia Barbosa <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.if.uf…> (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) Rob Chadwick <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.metof…> (Met Office, UK) Andrew Hartley <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.metof…> (Met Office, UK) José Marengo <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fscholar.g…> (National Centre for Monitoring and Early Warning of Natural Disasters, Brazil) Moderator: Carolina Brito <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fscholar.g…> (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)

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Call for short papers - DAAfrica 2024 - Bejaia, Algeria
by Mathieu ROCHE 23 May '24

23 May '24

============================================================= Call for short papers DAAfrica - Workshop on Data Science for Agriculture in Africa November 23, 2024 Bejaia, Algeria (hybrid) Event affiliated with CARI’2024 Workshop supported by ASDS, #DigitAg and the MOOD project ============================================================= === SCOPE === Data science in agriculture has evolved with the accessibility of data by farmers that allow them to analyze and facilitate decision making. Today new technology like Internet of Things (IoT) enables us to collect and store farm and environmental data (e.g. soil data, water data, etc.) in dedicated databases and/or data warehouses. This agricultural data can be combined with other data sources (e.g. remote sensing, weather stations, web and social media, etc.) that need to address new challenges like ingestion of heterogeneous data. Data science in agriculture aims to explore and mine agricultural data using different techniques like machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, text-mining, large language models (LLM), etc. For instance, data science can predict crop yields and plant and animal diseases with different variables, including rainfall, temperature fluctuations, and soil conditions by using a variety of data (e.g. sensor data, texts, satellite images, plant images, etc.). So, agriculture professionals and decision-makers can use data science to provide information and knowledge in order to make decisions about agricultural activities in Africa. === TOPICS OF INTEREST === The topics of the workshop encompass all aspects concerning the intersection of data science and agriculture in Africa with different applications: - Smart Farming - Yield and production - Plant specie identification - Land cover monitoring - Crop recommendation - Crop monitoring & forecasting - Animal and plant health monitoring - Water management - Food safety & security - Agroecology - etc. === SUBMISSIONS === Researchers, academics, and students working on the field of data science with application in agriculture in Africa are invited to submit short papers for oral presentations or posters. Submitted abstracts must be in English and will be reviewed by the workshop committees for suitability and interest to the DAAfrica audience. The authors can submit papers of unpublished work reporting original and early results, introducing new ideas or describing prototypes. Every accepted submission must have at least one author registered for the workshop. All submitted extended abstracts must follow the LNCS format (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…) with a page limit of up to 6 pages including the title page, figures, references, and an optional appendix. The abstracts should be submitted electronically in PDF format via EasyChair via the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=daafrica2024 Accepted extended abstract will be published as CEUR proceedings. Selected contributions will be invited to submit full papers to ARIMA Journal (indexed by DBLP and DOAJ) for a peer-review according to its usual reviewing process. === IMPORTANT DATES === - Submission deadline: July 31, 2024 - Notification to authors: September 23, 2024 - Workshop date: November 23, 2024 === PARTICIPATION === The workshop will be held in Bejaia, Algeria, as an event affiliated to CARI’2024 (https://www.cari-info.org). This workshop will be a hybrid event that combines a "live" in-person event with a "virtual" online component. Further information related to registration is available on the ASDS website: https://asds.africa/daafrica2024 === WORKSHOP CHAIRS === - Paulin Melatagia, University of Yaoundé I, Cameroun - Mathieu Roche, CIRAD, UMR TETIS, France

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[CFP] International Combined Workshop on Spatial Language Understanding (SpLU) and Grounded Communication for Robotics (RoboNLP) @ACL 2024
by Kordjamshidi, Parisa 23 May '24

23 May '24

--------------------------------------------------------------- First CALL FOR PAPERS ---------------------------------------------------------------- International Combined Workshop on Spatial Language Understanding (SpLU) and Grounded Communication for Robotics (RoboNLP) @ACL 2024 (https://splu-robonlp-2024.github.io/ <https://splu-robonlp-2024.github.io/>) Location: Bangkok, Thailand Date: August 16, 2024 --------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES --------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates - Submission Deadline: 17 May 2024 (Anywhere on Earth) - Notification of Acceptance: 17 June 2024 (Anywhere on Earth) - Camera Ready Deadline: 1 July 2024 (Anywhere on Earth) - Workshop Day: 16 August 2024 (co-located with ACL 2024) --------------------------------------------------------------- AIM AND SCOPE --------------------------------------------------------------- Leveraging the foundation built in the prior workshops SpLU-RoboNLP 2023, SpLU-RoboNLP 2021, SpLU 2020, SpLU-RoboNLP 2019, SpLU 2018, and RoboNLP 2017, we propose the fourth combined workshop on Spatial Language Understanding and Grounded Communication for Robotics. Natural language communication with general-purpose embodied robots has long been a dream inspired by science fiction, and natural language interfaces have the potential to make robots more accessible to a wider range of users. Achieving this goal requires the continuous improvement of and development of new technologies for linking language to perception and action in the physical world. In particular, given the rise of large vision and language generative models, spatial language understanding and natural interactions have become more exciting topics to explore. This joint workshop aims to bring together the perspectives of researchers working on physical robot systems with human users, simulated embodied environments, multimodal interaction, and spatial language understanding to forge collaborations. --------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS OF INTEREST --------------------------------------------------------------- We are interested in but not limited to original research in developing computational models, benchmarks, evaluation metrics, analysis, surveys, and position papers on the following topics: - Deployment of Large Language Models for Situated Dialogue and Language Grounding - Spatial Reasoning with Large Language Models - Aligning and Translating Language to Situated Actions - Evaluation Metrics for Language Grounding and Human-Robot Communication - Human-Computer Interactions Through Natural or Structural Language - Instruction Understanding and Spatial Reasoning based on Multimodal Information for Navigation, Articulation, and Manipulation - Interactive Situated Dialogue for Physical Tasks - Language-based Game Playing for Grounding - Spatial Language and Skill Learning via Grounded Dialogue - (Spatial) Language Generation for Embodied Tasks - (Spatially-) Grounded Knowledge Representations - Spatial Reasoning in Image and Video Diffusion Models - Qualitative Spatial Representations and Neuro-symbolic Modeling - Utilization and Limitations of Large (Multimodal-)Language Models in Spatial Understanding and Grounded Communication --------------------------------------------------------------- INVITED SPEAKERS --------------------------------------------------------------- We are open to the nomination of speakers and encourage self-nomination. The speakers are REQUIRED to attend the workshop in person. We aim to gather a diverse set of senior/junior speakers from academia/industry who work on related topics in language, vision and robotics and did not have a chance to speak in the past versions of the workshop. If you are interested, please email splu-robonlp2024(a)googlegroups.com <mailto:splu-robonlp2024@googlegroups.com> and include your tentative topic. --------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION AND SELECTION PROCESS --------------------------------------------------------------- * Long Papers * Technical papers: ACL style, 8 pages excluding references * Short Papers * Position statements describing previously unpublished work or demos: ACL style, 4 pages excluding references ACL Style Files (GitHub): https://github.com/acl-org/ACLPUB/tree/master/templates <https://github.com/acl-org/ACLPUB/tree/master/templates> ACL Style Files (Overview): https://www.overleaf.com/read/crtcwgxzjskr <https://www.overleaf.com/read/crtcwgxzjskr> OpenReview Submission: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2024/Workshop/SpLU-RoboNLP <https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2024/Workshop/SpLU-RoboNLP> Non-Archival Option: ACL workshops are traditionally archival. To allow dual submission of your work to SpLU-RoboNLP 2024 from *ACL Findings and other conferences/journals, we are also including a non-archival track. Space permitting, these submissions will still participate and present their work in the workshop, and will be hosted on the workshop website, but will not be included in the official proceedings. Please apply the ACL format and submit through OpenReview, but indicate that this is a cross-submission (non-archival) at the bottom of the submission form. --------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE --------------------------------------------------------------- Parisa Kordjamshidi, Michigan State University Malihe Alikhani, Northeastern University Xin Eric Wang, University of California Santa Cruz Yue Zhang, Michigan State University Ziqiao Ma, University of Michigan Mert Inan, Northeastern University --------------------------------------------------------------- ADVISING COMMITTEE --------------------------------------------------------------- Raymond J. Mooney, The University of Texas at Austin Joyce Y. Chai, University of Michigan Anthony G. Cohn, University of Leeds --------------------------------------------------------------- CONTACT --------------------------------------------------------------- Feel free to contact the Organizing Committee at splu-robonlp2024(a)googlegroups.com <mailto:splu-robonlp2024@googlegroups.com>. ------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------ Kordjamshidi, Parisa Assistant Professor Computer Science and Engineering Michigan State University http://www.cse.msu.edu/~kordjams/ <http://www.cse.msu.edu/~kordjams/> Heterogeneous Learning & Reasoning Lab: https://hlr.github.io/ Woman, Life, Freedom

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