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SemDial 2024: EXTENDED Submission Deadline: June 2, 2024
by Raffaella Bernardi 20 May '24

20 May '24

SemDial 2024 -- TrentoLogue The 28th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue 11 and 12 September 2024 University of Trento, Italy https://tinyurl.com/3c7rracn TrentoLogue will be the 28th edition of the SemDial workshop series which aim to bring together researchers working on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue in fields such as formal semantics and pragmatics, computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience. Keynote speakers Uri Hasson, Princeton University Azzurra Ruggeri, Technical University Munich and CEU, Vienna Bernardo Magnini, Fondazone Bruno Kessler (FBK), Italy # IMPORTANT DATES: * *EXTENDED* l*ong paper submission deadline: June 2, 2024* * Reviews due to: June 24, 2024 * Notification for long papers: July 1, 2024 * Short paper submissions: July 11, 2024 * Notification for short papers: July 17, 2024 * Camera Ready: August 26, 2024 * Registration Deadline: August 27, 2024 Note: All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 ("Anywhere on Earth"). #TOPICS We welcome submissions with formal, computational, and empirical approaches to the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue, including, but not limited to: * the dynamics of agents' information states in dialogue * common ground/mutual belief * goals, intentions, and commitments in communication * turn-taking and interaction control * semantic/pragmatic interpretation in dialogue * dialogue and discourse structure * categorization of dialogue phenomena in corpora * child-adult interaction * language learning through dialogue * gesture, gaze, and intonational meaning in communication * multimodal dialogue * interpretation and reasoning in spoken dialogue systems * dialogue management * designing and evaluating dialogue systems * modelling miscommunication, disfluency, and repair * dialogue/interaction studies from a psychological perspective * neuroscience of dialogue * Interactivist approaches to dialogue * animal communication # SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: Long papers: Authors should submit an anonymous paper of at most 8 pages of content (up to 2 additional pages are allowed for references). Short papers: Authors should submit a non-anonymized paper of at most 2 pages of content (up to 1 additional page allowed for references). Submissions to this track can be non-archival on request. Submissions should be pdf files and use the LaTeX or Word ( https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files) templates provided for ACL. Concurrent submission policy: Papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications must provide this information, using a footnote on the title page of the submissions. SemDial 2024 cannot accept work for publication or presentation that will be (or has been) published elsewhere. Submission is electronic, using the EasyChair conference management system at our Easychair submission site https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semdial2024trentolog Organizing Committee Raffaella Bernardi Vanessa Maria Caleca Jakub Szymanik Roberto Zamparelli Programme Committee Chairs Raffaella Bernardi, University of Trento Ellen Breitholtz, University of Gothenburg Giuseppe Riccardi, University of Trento TrentoLogue is endorsed by SIGdial and SIGsem. ============================================================== University of Trento CIMeC: C225, second floor, Corso Bettini 31, 38068 Rovereto (TN), DISI: Povo 2, Room: 110, Via Sommarive 9, I 38123, Povo (TN) Tel. +39 0464 80 8704 (CIMeC) http://disi.unitn.it/~bernardi/ ==============================================================

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CFP: Special Track - Enhancing Online Safety and Wellbeing through AI (WISE 2024)
by Wajdi Zaghouani 19 May '24

19 May '24

**CFP Special Track: Enhancing Online Safety and Wellbeing through AI ** Are you passionate about leveraging AI for a safer, healthier digital world? Join us for an exciting special track that delves into how Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Large Language Models (LLMs) can transform online safety and user wellbeing. All accepted papers will be published in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Topics Include but not limited to: ---------------- - AI-driven user experience & safety - Detecting & mitigating online harassment - Mental health support via AI - Combating misinformation & fact-checking - Digital literacy & education - Ethical AI deployment - Advanced content moderation - Privacy & data security - Cyberbullying prevention - Empowering vulnerable populations - AI in emergency response - Community building - Regulatory & policy impacts Key Dates: ----------- - Submission Deadline: 30 June, 2024 - Acceptance Notification: 30 August, 2024 - Camera-Ready Submission: 07 September, 2024 For more details and to submit your papers, visit the Special Track Webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/onlinesafetyandwellbeing/home Join us in advancing the dialogue on AI's role in creating a secure and empowering digital space! Organizers: ------------ - Wajdi Zaghouani, Hamad Bin Khalifa University (wzaghouani(a)hbku.edu.qa) - Firoj Alam, QCRI, Hamad Bin Khalifa University (fialam(a)hbku.edu.qa) - Reem Suwaileh, Hamad Bin Khalifa University (rs081123(a)student.qu.edu.qa) - Venus Jin, Northwestern University Qatar (venus.jin(a)northwestern.edu) - Raian Ali, Hamad Bin Khalifa University (raali2(a)hbku.edu.qa) - Anis Charfi, Carnegie Mellon University (acharfi(a)andrew.cmu.edu) Submission Guidelines: ------------------------ - Papers should be in PDF format, unpublished, and not under review elsewhere. - Submissions must conform to Springer's LNCS format, not exceeding 15 pages. - Submit via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wise20240 We look forward to your contributions! ---- *Wajdi Zaghouani, Ph.D.* *Associate Professor in Digital Humanities* College of Humanities and Social Sciences P.O. Box 34110 | Education City | Doha, Qatar tel: +974 4454 5601 | mob: +974 33454992 wzaghouani(a)hbku.edu.qa| Office A141, LAS Building

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ICON 2024
by Asif Ekbal 19 May '24

19 May '24

Dear Colleague, Please disseminate the following. Best regards Asif ================================================================ *First Call for Papers- ICON 2024* The 21st International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON-2024) will be held at AU-KBC Research Centre, Chennai, India during December 19-22, 2024. The ICON Conference series is a forum for promoting interaction among researchers in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computational linguistics (CL) in India and abroad. The main conference is from 20th December 2024 to 21st December 2024. This will be preceded by one day of pre-conference tutorials / workshops on 19th December 2024 and one day of post conference shared tasks / tools / demos on 22nd December 2024. The papers published in ICON proceedings will be indexed in ACL Anthology. ACL Anthology is a digital archive of research papers in Computational Linguistics for major international conferences under Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), which is one of the most well-known associations for NLP and CL. The previous proceedings of ICON 2014 <https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/volumes/W14-51/>, ICON 2015 <https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/volumes/W15-59/>, ICON 2016 <https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/volumes/W16-63/>, ICON 2017 <https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/volumes/W17-75/>, ICON 2019 <https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/events/icon-2019/> , ICON 2020 <https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/events/icon-2020/> , ICON 2021 and ICON 2022 can be found in ACL Anthology. *Call for Papers* Papers are invited on substantial, original and unpublished research work on all aspects of Natural Language Processing. We encourage submissions from all language families but special emphasis is given for South Asian languages and other less resourced languages, their issues and applications. The areas of interest include, but are not restricted to: Language Resources Morphology, Syntax, Semantics and Discourse Machine Translation Large Language Models (LLMs) Interpretability and Explainability of NLP models Summarization Information Extraction Named Entity Recognition Sentiment and Emotion Analysis Question Answering Natural Language Generation Natural Language Understanding Information Retrieval Text Mining Multilingual systems Multimodality Dialogue Systems NLP for Digital Humanities Ethics in NLP NLP for Education Medical NLP NLP Language Documentation and Preservation Speech Recognition Speech Synthesis Video to Text Machine Learning Applications to NLP Cognitive Modeling Psycholinguistics Computational Social Science and Social Media. *Call for Tutorials / Workshops* Proposals are invited for pre-conference tutorials/workshops. Tutorials/Workshops can be of half-day or full-day duration. The proposal should be presented in the form of an extended abstract (1-2 pages) as per the ICON 2024 template (ACL template). This should contain a topical outline of the content, description of the proposers and their qualifications relating to the tutorial content. Proposals for Tutorial/Workshop can be submitted at this link <https://www.softconf.com/icon2021/WS-TUT-ICON2021/>. Send tutorial/workshop proposals to the ICON-2024 Secretariat by email to icon2024(a)gmail.com. For further information, please refer to the Conference URL or contact the ICON-2024 Secretariat. *Call for Doctoral Consortium* The ICON organising committee is pleased to call for papers for the 3rd Doctoral Consortium. This event extends an opportunity for doctoral candidates to present and discuss their research with a panel of experts. The discussion would include feedback on the evolution and progress of their research. It also helps them to identify the roadmap and additional studies, which could help refine the shape of their doctoral thesis. The doctoral consortium will be a one-day or half day event being organised on December 19, 2024, as part of the ICON-2024 conference. The applicants are required to submit a two-page extended abstract of their PhD research work. Submit your abstracts at this link <https://www.softconf.com/icon2021/Doc-Consort-ICON2021/>. The shortlisted candidates would be invited to the consortium where they are required to present a summary of their research. Each candidate will be given 30 minutes for the presentation, which will be followed by a discussion of 15 minutes, led by a panel of experts. Prospective doctoral students from language technologies related disciplines are invited to apply. The selection of participants will be based on the submitted abstracts. *Guidelines* The invitation is open to all participants of ICON 2024. The applicants are required to submit an extended two-page abstract on their ongoing doctoral research. The submission can be extended to a maximum of two pages including all text, figures and tables, plus an additional third page exclusively for references. The submissions must follow the ICON template provided in the author's kit. The abstracts may incorporate published and in-progress work from the authors. Submissions are expected to present a fair picture of the research undertaken towards the thesis. Participants are advised to refrain from submitting a shorter version of their conference papers. Submissions must have the participant as the sole author. Acknowledgements to their supervisors, supporting agencies/bodies, and contributors to the work, can be made in a separate section. The submission must highlight the following: The motivation of the research; Key issues identified/addressed; Major contributions; Methodologies, Experiments; Discussion of results; Future plans and Roadmap for the thesis. *Call for Shared Tasks /Tools / Demos* Proposals are invited for post-conference shared tasks / tools / demos. Shared Tasks /Tools / Demos can be of half-day or full-day duration. The proposal should be presented in the form of an extended abstract (1-2 pages) as per the ICON 2024 template (ACL template). This should contain a topical outline of the content, description of the proposers and their qualifications relating to the shared tasks / tools / demos content. Proposals for Shared Tasks /Tools / Demos can be submitted at this link <https://www.softconf.com/icon2021/Shared-Demo-ICON2021/>. Send shared task / tool / demo proposals to the ICON-2024 Secretariat by email to icon2024(a)gmail.com. For further information, please refer to the Conference URL or contact the ICON-2024 Secretariat. *Important Dates* Event Date Paper Submission Deadline September 15, 2024 Paper Acceptance Notification November 1, 2024 Paper Camera Ready Paper Submission December 10, 2024 Doctoral Consortium Deadline October 1, 2024 Paper Acceptance Notification (Doctoral Consortium) November 10, 2024 Workshop Proposal Submission September 15, 2024 Workshop Acceptance Notification October 15, 2024 Tutorial Proposal Submission September 15, 2024 Tutorial Acceptance Notification October 15, 2024 Shared Task /Tool/ Demo Proposal Submission September 15, 2024 Shared Task /Tool/ Demo Acceptance Notification October 15, 2024 Conference December 19-22, 2024 *Paper Submission Information* *Long Papers* Long paper submissions must describe substantial, original, completed and unpublished work. Long papers may consist of up to 8 pages of content, plus unlimited references. Final versions of long papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) plus any no of pages for the references. *Short Papers* Short paper submissions must describe original and unpublished work. Please note that a short paper is not a shortened long paper. Instead short papers should have a point that can be made in a few pages. Some kinds of short papers are: A small, focused contribution A negative result An opinion piece An interesting application nugget Short papers may consist of up to 4 pages of content, plus unlimited references. Upon acceptance, short papers will be given 5 content pages in the proceedings. Authors are encouraged to use this additional page to address reviewers' comments in their final versions. *Instructions for Double-Blind Review* As reviewing will be double blind, papers must not include authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references or links (such as github) that reveal the author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) .." must be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ..." Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. Papers should not refer, for further detail, to documents that are not available to the reviewers. For example, do not omit or redact important citation information to preserve anonymity. Instead, use third person or named reference to this work, as described above ("Smith showed" rather than "we showed"). Papers may be accompanied by a resource (software and/or data) described in the paper, but these resources should be anonymized as well. *Authorship* The author list for submissions should include all (and only) individuals who made substantial contributions to the work presented. Each author listed on a submission to ICON 2021 will be notified of submissions, revisions and the final decision. No changes to the order or composition of authorship may be made to submissions to ICON 2021 after the paper submission deadline. *Paper Submission and Templates* Submission is electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system. The submission will be available here: The deadline for submission of both long and short papers is September 15, 2024 (GMT -12). Both long and short papers must follow the ACL Author Guidelines <https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Author_Guidelines> Style sheets (Latex, Word) are available here: https://acl2020.org/downloads/acl2020-templates.zip The Overleaf template is also available here: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/acl-2020-proceedings-template/zsrk… Please do not modify these style files, or use templates designed for other conferences. Submissions that do not conform to the required styles, including paper size, margin width, and font size restrictions, will be rejected without review. ====================================================================== -- Asif Ekbal Associate Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering IIT Patna Email ids: asif@iitp.ac.in,asif.ekbal@gmail.com Ph no: +91-6115-2338090 <callto:+91-6115-2338090> (office), +91-8521274830 <callto:+91-8521274830> Web: http://www.iitp.ac.in/~asif/

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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 Carol Scarton 17 May '24

17 May '24

Modelling Climate Change: An Overview of the Crisis and Reconstruction Plans in Southern Brazil Date: May 24, 2024, 3pm UK Location: Join the Zoom Meeting <http://join%20zoom%20meeting%20https//Universityofexeter.zoom.us/j/94995645…> 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://www.if.ufrgs.br/~barbosa/> (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) - Rob Chadwick <https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/people/rob-chadwick> (Met Office, UK) - Andrew Hartley <https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/people/andrew-hartley> (Met Office, UK) - José Marengo <https://scholar.google.com.br/citations?user=uGuYY_gAAAAJ&hl=en> (National Centre for Monitoring and Early Warning of Natural Disasters, Brazil) Moderator: Carolina Brito <https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=GS2zeM0AAAAJ&view_op=list_w…> (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) -- *Carolina Scarton* Lecturer in Natural Language Processing Department of Computer Science University of Sheffield http://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/C.Scarton/

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ALT-EDIC seeks a Director
by info＠elda.org 17 May '24

17 May '24

[Apologies for multiple postings] ALT-EDIC seeks a Director who will lead the Alliance for Language Technologies – European Digital Infrastructure Consortium (ALT-EDIC). Application deadline (CET): 31^st May 2024, 12:00 CET Check the full description @ https://language-data-space.ec.europa.eu/related-initiatives/alt-edic/alt-e…

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1st Call for Participation AthNLP 2024 - 2nd ATHENS NLP SUMMER SCHOOL
by A. Vlachos 17 May '24

17 May '24

1st Call for Participation AthNLP 2024 - 2nd ATHENS NLP SUMMER SCHOOL ============================================================== ** Application Deadline: June 20, 2024 ** Preliminary schedule: https://athnlp.github.io/2024/schedule.html ** CFP webpage: https://athnlp.github.io/2024/cfp.html <https://athnlp.github.io/2024/cfp.html> ** Info for sponsors: see here<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MuSzi7hvT7AwE_8bwhbIymh-ZWNq3noR/view?usp=…> We invite everyone interested in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning to attend the 2nd Athens Natural Language Processing Summer School - AthNLP 2024: https://athnlp.github.io/2024/ Important Dates --------------- * Application Deadline: June 20, 2024 * Decision: June 30, 2024 * Early Registration: July 30, 2024 * Late Registration: September 15, 2024 * Summer School: September 19-25, 2024 Description --------------- Following on from the success of the 1st AthNLP in 2019, AthNLP 2024 will take place at the campus of NCSR “Demokritos" in Athens and is organised jointly by NCSR "Demokritos", the Athens University of Economics and Business, RC "Athena", and Heriot-Watt University. AthNLP cooperates closely with the organisers of LxMLS, taking place in Lisbon, in July 11-17. The school will cover a range of NLP topics focusing on machine learning (ML) methods. There will be morning lectures focusing on theoretical aspects, afternoon lab sessions focusing on implementation and experimentation, and evening talks on research topics and perspectives, as well as demos and posters from the participants and industry research labs. The lectures and the evening talks will be given by internationally recognized researchers from academic and industrial research labs. The topics to be covered include: classification, sequence prediction, linear models, neural networks, encoder-decoder architectures, machine translation, large language models, and multimodality. Our target audience is: * Researchers and students in the fields of NLP and Computational Linguistics; * Computer scientists who have interests in natural language processing and machine learning; * Industry practitioners who desire a more in-depth understanding of these subjects. While previous experience with the topics will be helpful, the school assumes no previous knowledge of natural language processing and machine learning. The only background required is basic mathematics and Python programming. Features of AthNLP: * Attendance at the Social Event, daily lunch as well as morning and afternoon coffee breaks are included in the application fee. * Lecturers are leading researchers in machine learning and natural language processing. * Students will be able to (optionally) show their current work in poster sessions during coffee breaks. * In the demo day, students will be able to interact with technical companies and research institutions working in machine learning. Confirmed Speakers --------------- * Antonis Anastasopoulos, George Mason Computer Science * Raquel Fernández, University of Amsterdam * Ferenc Huszár, University of Cambridge * Martin Krallinger, Barcelona Supercomputing Center * Mirella Lapata, University of Edinburgh * Ryan McDonald, ASAPP * Aida Nematzadeh, Google DeepMind * Vlad Niculae, University of Amsterdam * Barbara Plank, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich * Anna Rogers, IT University of Copenhagen Participation ----------------- To apply, please fill the form here<https://openreview.net/group?id=demokritos.gr/NCSR_Demokritos/Athens_NLP/20…> on OpenReview. The fees are the following: 300 EUR for students 400 EUR for university professors or researchers at a public institute 500 EUR for everyone else Any questions should be directed to: athnlp2024(a)athenarc.gr We are looking forward to your participation! -- The organisers of AthNLP 2024

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Deadline Extension: LoResMT 2024 at ACL 2024
by Atul K. Ojha 17 May '24

17 May '24

Apologies for cross-posting. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Seventh Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT 2024) https://www.loresmt.org/ @ ACL 2024 (August 11–16, 2024) Bangkok, Thailand SUBMISSION https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2024/Workshop/LoResMT TIMELINE Paper submission due: *May 30 (**Thursday**)*, 2024, at 23:59 (Anywhere on Earth) Notification of acceptance: June 24 (Monday), 2024 Camera-ready papers due: July 1 (Monday), 2024, at 23:59 (Anywhere on Earth) Workshop dates at ACL: August 15, 2024 SCOPE Based on the success of past low-resource machine translation (MT) workshops at AMTA 2018 (https://amtaweb.org/), MT Summit 2019 ( https://www.mtsummit2019.com), AACL-IJCNLP 2020 (http://aacl2020.org/), AMTA 2021, COLING 2022 and EACL 2023, we introduce the Seventh LoResMT Workshop at ACL 2024. The workshop provides a discussion panel for researchers working on MT systems/methods for low-resource and under-represented languages in general. We would like to help review/overview the state of MT for low-resource languages and define the most important directions. We also solicit papers dedicated to supplementary NLP tools that are used in any language and especially in low-resource languages. Overview papers on these NLP tools are very welcome. It will be beneficial if the evaluations of these tools in research papers include their impact on the quality of MT output. TOPICS We are highly interested in (1) original research papers, (2) review/opinion papers, and (3) online systems on the topics below; however, we welcome all novel ideas that cover research on low-resource languages. - Neural machine translation (NMT) for low-resource languages - Use of LLMs (large language models) for low-resource MT systems - COVID-related corpora, their translations and corresponding NLP/MT systems - Work that presents online systems for practical use by native speakers - Word tokenizers/de-tokenizers for specific languages - Word/morpheme segmenters for specific languages - Alignment/Re-ordering tools for specific language pairs - Use of morphology analyzers and/or morpheme segmenters in MT - Multilingual/cross-lingual NLP tools for MT - Corpora creation and curation technologies for low-resource languages - Review of available parallel corpora for low-resource languages - Research and review papers on MT methods for low-resource languages - MT systems/methods (e.g. rule-based, SMT, NMT) for low-resource languages - Pivot MT for low-resource languages - Zero-shot MT for low-resource languages - Fast building of MT systems for low-resource languages - Re-usability of existing MT systems for low-resource languages - Machine translation for language preservation SUBMISSION INFORMATION We are soliciting two types of submissions: (1) research, review, and position papers and (2) system demonstration papers. For research, review and position papers, the length of each paper should be at least four (4) and not exceed eight (8) pages, plus unlimited pages for references. For system demonstration papers, the limit is four (4) pages. Submissions should be formatted according to the official ACL 2024 style templates. Accepted papers will be published online in the ACL 2024 proceedings and will be presented at the conference. Submissions must be anonymized and should be done using the provided submission system. Scientific papers that have been or will be submitted to other venues must be declared as such and must be withdrawn from the other venues if accepted and published at LoResMT. The review will be double-blind. Authors of an accepted paper should present their paper in person at ACL 2024. Papers should be submitted in PDF to the LoResMT Open Review. We would like to encourage authors to cite papers written in ANY language that are related to the topics, as long as both original bibliographic items and their corresponding English translations are provided. Registration is handled by the main conference (https://2024.aclweb.org/). ORGANIZING COMMITTEE (LISTED ALPHABETICALLY) Atul Kr. Ojha, University of Galway & Panlingua Language Processing LLP Chao-Hong Liu, Potamu Research Ltd Ekaterina Vylomova, University of Melbourne, Australia Jade Abbott, Retro Rabbit Jonathan Washington, Swarthmore College Nathaniel Oco, National University (Philippines) Tommi A Pirinen, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø Valentin Malykh, Huawei Noah’s Ark lab and Kazan Federal University Varvara Logacheva, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology Xiaobing Zhao, Minzu University of China PROGRAM COMMITTEE (LISTED ALPHABETICALLY) Abigail Walsh, ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University, Ireland Alberto Poncelas, Rakuten, Singapore Alina Karakanta, Leiden University Amirhossein Tebbifakhr, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Anna Currey, Amazon Web Services Aswarth Abhilash Dara, Amazon Arturo Oncevay, University of Edinburgh Atul Kr. Ojha, DSI, University of Galway & Panlingua Language Processing LLP Barry Haddow, University of Edinburgh Bogdan Babych, Heidelberg University Chao-Hong Liu, Potamu Research Ltd Constantine Lignos, Brandeis University, USA Daan van Esch, Google Diptesh Kanojia, University of Surrey, UK Duygu Ataman, University of Zurich Ekaterina Vylomova, University of Melbourne, Australia Eleni Metheniti, CLLE-CNRS and IRIT-CNRS Flammie Pirinen, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø Koel Dutta Chowdhury, Saarland University (Germany) Jade Abbott, Retro Rabbit Jasper Kyle Catapang, University of the Philippines Jindřich Libovicky, Charles University John P. McCrae, DSI, University of Galway Liangyou Li, Noah’s Ark Lab, Huawei Technologies Majid Latifi, University of York, York, UK Maria Art Antonette Clariño, University of the Philippines Los Baños Mathias Müller, University of Zurich Nathaniel Oco, De La Salle University (Philippines) Rajdeep Sarkar, Yahoo Rico Sennrich, University of Zurich Saliha Muradoglu, The Australian National University Sangjee Dondrub, Qinghai Normal University Santanu Pal, WIPRO AI Sardana Ivanova, University of Helsinki Shantipriya Parida, Silo AI Sunit Bhattacharya, Charles University Surafel Melaku Lakew, Amazon AI Wen Lai, Center for Information and Language Processing, LMU Munich Valentin Malykh, Huawei Noah’s Ark lab and Kazan Federal University CONTACT Please email loresmt(a)googlegroups.com if you have any questions/comments/suggestions.

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WASSA@ACL 2024 Shared Task on Empathy, Emotion and Personality Detection in Interactions
by valbarrierepro＠gmail.com 17 May '24

17 May '24

[Apologies for cross-posting] We invite you to participate in the shared task on Empathy and Personality Detection in interactions, organized as part of WASSA 2024 at ACL 2024. This task aims to develop models that can predict Empathy, Emotion, and Personality recognition in short text and at the speech-turn in a conversation. Task Description You can participate in five different tracks: Track 1: Empathy Prediction in Conversations (CONV-dialog), which consists in predicting the perceived empathy at the dialog-level Track 2: Empathy and Emotion Prediction in Conversations Turns (CONV-turn), which consists in predicting the perceived empathy, emotion polarity, and emotion intensity at the speech-turn-level in a conversation Track 3: Empathy Prediction (EMP), which consists in predicting both the empathy concern and the personal distress at the essay-level Track 4: Personality Prediction (PER), which consists in predicting the personality (openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and emotional stability; OCEAN) of the essay writer, knowing all of their essays, dialogs, and the news article from which they reacted Note: You are free to participate in any or both tracks. For participation, please check: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/18810 Important Dates April 24, 2024: Codalab competition website goes online, and training/development data released May 29, 2024: Evaluation phase begins: test data released June 1, 2024: Evaluation phase ends: Deadline for final submission on Codalab June 12, 2024: Deadline system description paper (max. 4p) June 22, 2024: Notification of acceptance July 1, 2024: Camera-ready papers due Task Organizers Salvatore Giorgi - National Institute on Drug Abuse [C], USA Valentin Barriere - Universidad de Chile , Chile Joao Sedoc - New York University, USA Shabnam Tafreshi - Evernorth Healthcare, USA Contact wassa24empathy [at] gmail [dot] com Join Google Group wassa24empathy(a)googlegroups.com

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2nd CfP: The 4th Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Political and Social Sciences (CPSS 2024)
by Ines 17 May '24

17 May '24

2nd Call for Papers: 4th Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Political and Social Sciences (CPSS 2024) [With apologies for cross-posting] We welcome submissions for the **4th edition of the CPSS workshop,**co-located with KONVENS'24, in Vienna, Austria on 13th September 2024*.* Keeping with the theme of text-as-data and NLP techniques for studying political and social phenomena, you can submit both archival papers (short or long) or non-archival abstracts. Closely related themes include (but are not limited to): * Modelling political communication with NLP (e.g. topic classification, position measurement) * Mining policy debates from heterogeneous textual sources * Modelling complex social constructs (e.g. populism, polarisation,identity) with NLP methods * Political and social bias in language models * Methodological insights in interdisciplinary collaboration: workflows, challenges, best practices * NLP support to understand and support democratic decision making * Resources and tools for political/social science research * ... and more! Important Dates Workshop papers due 14.06.2024 Notification of acceptance 02.08.2024 Camera-ready papers due 12.08.2024 Workshop date 13.09.2024 Papers can be submitted through Easychair via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cpss2024 More details: https://sites.google.com/view/cpss2024konvens/home-page Best, CPSS'24 organizers (Christopher Klamm, Gabriella Lapesa, Simone Paolo Ponzetto, Ines Rehbein, Indira Sen)

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[CFP] EvalLAC 2024 Final Call For Papers – AIED 24 workshop
by Shiva Taslimipoor 17 May '24

17 May '24

[Apologies for cross-posting] *1st Workshop on Automated Evaluation of Learning and Assessment Content* AIED 2024 workshop | Recife (Brazil) & Hybrid | 8 July 2024 https://sites.google.com/view/eval-lac-2024/ The submission deadline for the Workshop on Automated Evaluation of Learning and Assessment Content, which will be held in Recife (Brazil) & online during the AIED 2024 conference, is fast approaching! About the workshop The evaluation of learning and assessment content has always been a crucial task in the educational domain, but traditional approaches based on human feedback are not always usable in modern educational settings. Indeed, the advent of machine learning models, in particular Large Language Models (LLMs), enabled to quickly and automatically generate large quantities of texts, making human evaluation unfeasible. Still, these texts are used in the educational domain -- e.g., as questions, hints, or even to score and assess students -- and thus the need for accurate and automated techniques for evaluation becomes pressing. This hybrid workshop aims to attract professionals from both academia and the industry, and to to offer an opportunity to discuss which are the common challenges in evaluating learning and assessment content in education. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Question evaluation (e.g., in terms of alignment to learning objectives, factual accuracy, language level, cognitive validity, etc.). - Estimation of question statistics (e.g., difficulty, discrimination, response time, etc.). - Evaluation of distractors in Multiple Choice Questions. - Evaluation of reading passages in reading comprehension questions. - Evaluation of lectures and course material. - Evaluation of learning paths (e.g., in terms of prerequisites and topics taught before a specific exam). - Evaluation of educational recommendation systems (e.g., personalised curricula). - Evaluation of hints and scaffolding questions, as well as their adaptation to different students. - Evaluation of automatically generated feedback provided to students. - Evaluation of techniques for automated scoring. - Evaluation of bias in educational content and LLM outputs. Human-in-the-loop approaches are welcome, provided that there is also an automated component in the evaluation and there is a focus on the scalability of the proposed approach. Papers on generation are also very welcome, as long as there is an extensive focus on the evaluation step. The workshop will feature two keynote speakers: - Zachary A. Pardos, Associate Professor of Education at UC Berkeley - Victoria Yaneva, Manager of NLP research at NBME. Important dates Submission deadline: May 17, 2024 Notification of acceptance: June 4, 2024 Camera ready: June 11, 2024 Workshop: 8 July 2024 Submission guidelines Submission URL: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=evallac2024 Authors are invited to submit short papers (5 pages, excluding references) and long papers (10 pages, excluding references), formatted according to the workshop style available on the website. Submissions should contain mostly novel work, but there can be some overlap between the submission and work submitted elsewhere (e.g., summaries, focus on the evaluation phase of a broader work). Each of the submissions will be reviewed by the members of the Program Committee, and the proceedings volume will be submitted for publication to CEUR Workshop Proceedings. Organisers Luca Benedetto (1), Andrew Caines (1), George Dueñas (2), Diana Galvan-Sosa (1), Anastassia Loukina (3), Shiva Taslimipoor (1), Torsten Zesch (4) (1) ALTA Institute, Dept. of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge (2) National Pedagogical University, Colombia (3) Grammarly, Inc. (4) FernUniversität in Hagen

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