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DEADLINE EXTENSION: The First Workshop on Data Contamination (CONDA) @ ACL 2024
by Eneko Agirre 13 May '24

13 May '24

*New paper submission and ARR commitment deadlines (see below)* We invite you to participate and submit your work to the First Workshop on Data Contamination (CONDA) co-located with ACL 2024 in Bangkok, Thailand. Data contamination, where evaluation data is inadvertently included in pre-training corpora of large scale models, and language models (LMs) in particular, has become a concern in recent times. The growing scale of both models and data, coupled with massive web crawling, has led to the inclusion of segments from evaluation benchmarks in the pre-training data of LMs. The scale of internet data makes it difficult to prevent this contamination from happening, or even detect when it has happened. Crucially, when evaluation data becomes part of pre-training data, it introduces biases and can artificially inflate the performance of LMs on specific tasks or benchmarks. This poses a challenge for fair and unbiased evaluation of models, as their performance may not accurately reflect their generalization capabilities. Although a growing number of papers and state-of-the-art models mention issues of data contamination, there is no agreed-upon definition or standard methodology to ensure that a model does not report results on contaminated benchmarks. Addressing data contamination is a shared responsibility among researchers, developers, and the broader community. By adopting best practices, increasing transparency, documenting vulnerabilities, and conducting thorough evaluations, we can work towards minimizing the impact of data contamination and ensuring fair and reliable evaluations. We welcome paper submissions on all topics related to data contamination, including but not limited to: * Definitions, taxonomies, and gradings of contamination * Contamination detection (both manual and automatic) * Community efforts to discover, report, and organize contamination events * Documentation frameworks for datasets or models * Methods to avoid data contamination * Methods to forget contaminated data * Scaling laws and contamination * Memorization and contamination * Policies to avoid impact of contamination in publication venues and open source communities * Reproducing and attributing results from previous work to data contamination * Survey work on data contamination research * Data contamination in other modalities */ /* */Submission Instructions/* We welcome two types of papers: regular workshop papers and non-archival submissions. Regular workshop papers will be included in the workshop proceedings. All submissions must be in PDF format and made through OpenReview. * * *Regular workshop papers:*Authors can submit papers up to 8 pages, with unlimited pages for references. Authors may submit up to 100 MB of supplementary materials separately and their code for reproducibility. All submissions undergo a double-blind single-track review. Best Paper Award(s) will be given based on nomination by the reviewers. Accepted papers will be presented as posters with the possibility of oral presentations. * * *Non-archival submissions:*Cross-submissions are welcome. Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop but not included in the workshop proceedings. Papers must be in PDF format and will be reviewed in a double-blind fashion by workshop reviewers. We also welcome extended abstracts (up to 2 pages) of papers that are work in progress, under review or to be submitted to other venues. Papers in this category need to follow the ACL format. * In addition to papers submitted directly to the workshop, which will be reviewed by our Programme Committee. We also accept papers reviewed through ACL Rolling Review and committed to the workshop. Please, check the relevant dates for each type of submission. */ /* */Important dates/* Relevant deadlines to consider when submitting your paper are: * *Paper submission deadline: May 31 (Friday), 2024* * *ARR pre-reviewed commitment deadline: June 14 (Friday), 2024* * Notification of acceptance: June 17 (Monday), 2024 * Camera-ready paper due: July 1 (Monday), 2024 * Workshop date: August 16, 2024 */ /* */Sponsors/* * AWS AI and Amazon Bedrock * HuggingFace * Google */ /* */Contact/* * Website:https://conda-workshop.github.io/ <https://conda-workshop.github.io/> * Email:conda-workshop@googlegroups.com<mailto:conda-workshop@googlegroups.com> */ /* */Organizers/* Oscar Sainz, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) Iker García Ferrero, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) Eneko Agirre, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) Jon Ander Campos, Cohere Alon Jacovi, Bar Ilan University Yanai Elazar, Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence and University of Washington Yoav Goldberg, Bar Ilan University and Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence -- Eneko Agirre HiTZ Hizkuntza Teknologiako Zentroa - Ixa Taldea Centro Vasco de Tecnología de la Lengua - Grupo Ixa Basque Center for Language Technology - Ixa NLP Group University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) hitz.ehu.eus/eneko <https://hitz.ehu.eus/eneko>

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[EXTENDED DEADLINE] METAPOL3: DISCOURSE, IDEOLOGIES AND SUB-STATE NATIONALISM
by Raymond Echitchi 13 May '24

13 May '24

IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: 16/06/24 Notification of acceptance: 15/07/24 More information on https://metapol3.sciencesconf.org/ _____________ CALL FOR PAPERS METAPOL3: DISCOURSE, IDEOLOGIES AND SUB-STATE NATIONALISM 21-22 November 2024, University of Liège, Belgium Despite attempts to discourage sub-state nationalism and keep the political map of the world in its present form, the struggle for separate identities still remains a serious issue in modern-day countries. Sub-state nationalism has led to violent conflicts in postcolonial Africa, the former Yugoslavia and Soviet Union, and has been one of the main causes of political upheaval in Belgium, Britain, Spain, China, etc. As Anderson (1983) indicates, nations are imagined communities whose formation involves the spread of discourses aimed at establishing a clear difference between in-groups and out-groups. While national identity has attracted a fair amount of scholarly interest in the field of political science, it is only in the early 90s that studies emphasizing the discursive manifestations of nationalism started being conducted (Wodak & Matouschek, 1993; Wodak & Reisigl, 1999; Wodak et al. 1999). These last two decades, the study of political discourse has been consolidated by metaphor analysis (Musolff, 2006; 2016; Saric & Stanojevic, 2019), and even though great strides have indeed been made in political discourse analysis, research on sub-state nationalism remains scant. It is thus in an attempt to fill this gap that we are organizing this conference which will hopefully bring together researchers from different fields (linguistics, sociology, political science, cognitive science), interested in discourse, metaphor and nationalist ideologies. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, - The discursive construction of (sub-state) national identity - Characteristics of separatist discourse - Conceptualisations of the body politic - Metaphor scenarios in national identity discourse - Visual metaphor in (sub-state) nationalist discourse - Gender and metaphor in (sub-state) nationalist discourse - ... KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Catherine Xhardez, University of Montreal Martin Reisigl, University of Vienna SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS The conference will be held in person at the University of Liège, Belgium. Each presentation will last 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes of Q&A. Conference proposals should include: - A title (max. 15 words) - Key words (max. 5 words) - An abstract (300 words, excluding references) Guide for submitting a proposal To submit a proposal, you must create a user account on sciencesconf.org and log in as a registered user. It is possible to create an account either directly on the SciencesConf portal or by clicking on the Login button on top right of the conference website (https://metapol3.sciencesconf.org/). Once connected, access "My submissions" and then go to New submission > Submit an abstract. Individual and co-authored papers in English or French are welcome. All abstracts will go through double-blind peer review. CONTACT Do not hesitate to email us at metapol3(a)sciencesconf.org.

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Call for Workshops: NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025
by Sara Stymne 13 May '24

13 May '24

***Apologies for possible cross-posting *** The two major conferences in the Baltic and Nordic regions, NoDaLida, organized by The Northern European Association for Language Technology (NEALT) and Baltic HLT are joining forces to organize NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025 – The Joint 25th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics and 11th Baltic Conference on Human Language Technologies, to be held in Tallinn, Estonia, on March 2–5, 2025. We would like to invite proposals for workshops, to be held on Sunday, March 2, immediately before the main conference, or on Wednesday, March 5, immediately after the main conference. Workshops can be scheduled either for a full day (morning and afternoon) or for half a day. The main conference will be held on-site only, without an online option, in order to facilitate networking. Workshops are free to offer online presentations if they wish to do so. NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT addresses all aspects of natural language processing, speech processing, and computational linguistics, including work in closely related neighboring disciplines (such as, for example, machine learning, linguistics, digital humanities, or psychology) that is sufficiently formalized or applied to bear relevance to speech and language technologies. Workshop proposals can be submitted in free-text form as a pdf file, by email to ‘nodalida_baltichlt_2025-workshops(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:nodalida_baltichlt_2025-workshops@googlegroups.com>’. Workshop proposals must include adequate information on at least the following aspects: - proposed workshop title - topic and goals of the workshop - target group and estimated attendance - workshop organizer(s) and contact(s) - mode of organization and program design, including: - information on full versus half-day workshop - information on the preference of workshop day: March 2, March 5, or either - information on whether you plan an on-site only or hybrid event SCHEDULE * Monday, August 26, 2024: Submission of workshop proposals * Tuesday, September 10, 2024: Notification of workshop selection * Monday, December 16, 2024: Recommended workshop paper submission deadline * Monday, February 3, 2025: Camera-ready workshop papers due * Sunday, March 2, 2025: Pre-conference workshops * Sunday, March 5, 2025: Post-conference workshops Organizers of accepted proposals will be responsible for publicizing and running the workshop, including sending out calls for papers, reviewing submissions, producing the camera-ready workshop proceedings, and organizing the meeting day. SELECTION The assessment and selection of workshop proposals will be made by the NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025 Workshop Chairs: * Normunds Grūzītis, University of Latvia, Latvia * Samia Touileb, University of Bergen, Norway To inquire about the workshop submission process or any practical aspect of the organization of workshops, please email ‘nodalida_baltichlt_2025-workshops(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:nodalida_baltichlt_2025-workshops@googlegroups.com>’. For any question about the conference in general, please email ‘nodalida_baltichlt_2025-pc(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:nodalida_baltichlt_2025-pc@googlegroups.com>’ and for any general practical inquiries, please email ‘nodalida_baltichlt_2025-loc(a)eki.xn--ee-o2t. Looking forward to your workshop proposals which will help make NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025 a success! Sara Stymne, NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 20205 general chair När du har kontakt med oss på Uppsala universitet med e-post så innebär det att vi behandlar dina personuppgifter. För att läsa mer om hur vi gör det kan du läsa här: http://www.uu.se/om-uu/dataskydd-personuppgifter/ E-mailing Uppsala University means that we will process your personal data. For more information on how this is performed, please read here: http://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/data-protection-policy

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Second Call For Papers: 17th International Natural Language Generation Conference INLG 2024
by Saad Mahamood 13 May '24

13 May '24

*Second Call For papers: 17th International Natural Language Generation Conference INLG 2024* We invite the submission of long and short papers, as well as system demonstrations, related to all aspects of Natural Language Generation (NLG), including data-to-text, concept-to-text, text-to-text and vision-to-text approaches. Accepted papers will be presented as oral talks or posters. The event is organized under the auspices of the Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation (SIGGEN) (https://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN) of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) (https://aclweb.org/). The event will be held from 23-27 September in Tokyo, Japan. INLG 2024 will be taking place after SIGDial 2024 (18-20 September) nearby in Kyoto. **Important dates** All deadlines are Anywhere on Earth (UTC-12) • START system regular paper submission deadline: May 31, 2024 • ARR commitment to INLG deadline via START system: June 24, 2024 • START system demo paper submission deadline: June 24, 2024 • Notification: July 15, 2024 • Camera ready: August 16, 2024 • Conference: 23-27 September 2024 **Topics** INLG 2024 solicits papers on any topic related to NLG. General topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Large Language Models (LLMs) for NLG • Affect/emotion generation • Analysis and detection of automatically generated text • Bias and fairness in NLG systems • Cognitive modelling of language production • Computational efficiency of NLG models • Content and text planning • Corpora and resources for NLG • Ethical considerations of NLG • Evaluation and error analysis of NLG systems • Explainability and Trustworthiness of NLG systems • Generalizability of NLG systems • Grounded language generation • Lexicalisation • Multimedia and multimodality in generation • Natural language understanding techniques for NLG • NLG and accessibility • NLG in speech synthesis and spoken language models • NLG in dialogue • NLG for human-robot interaction • NLG for low-resourced languages • NLG for real-world applications • Paraphrasing, summarization and translation • Personalisation and variation in text • Referring expression generation • Storytelling and narrative generation • Surface realization • System architectures **Submissions & Format** Three kinds of papers can be submitted: • Long papers are most appropriate for presenting substantial research results and must not exceed eight (8) pages of content, plus unlimited pages of ethical considerations, supplementary material statements, and references. The supplementary material statement provides detailed descriptions to support the reproduction of the results presented in the paper (see below for details). The final versions of long papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account. • Short papers are more appropriate for presenting an ongoing research effort and must not exceed four (4) pages, plus unlimited pages of ethical considerations, supplementary material statements, and references. The final versions of short papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 5 pages) so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account. • Demo papers should be no more than two (2) pages, including references, and should describe implemented systems relevant to the NLG community. It also should include a link to a short screencast of the working software. In addition, authors of demo papers must be willing to present a demo of their system during INLG 2024. Submissions should follow ACL Author Guidelines (https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Author_Guidelines) and policies for submission, review and citation, and be anonymised for double blind reviewing. Please use ACL 2023 style files; LaTeX style files and Microsoft Word templates are available at: https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html Authors must honor the ethical code set out in the ACL Code of Ethics (https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/acl-code-ethics). If your work raises any ethical issues, you should include an explicit discussion of those issues. This will also be taken into account in the review process. You may find the following checklist of use: https://aclrollingreview.org/responsibleNLPresearch/ Authors are strongly encouraged to ensure that their work is reproducible; see, e.g., the following reproducibility checklist (https://2021.aclweb.org/calls/reproducibility-checklist/). Papers involving any kind of experimental results (human judgments, system outputs, etc) should incorporate a data availability statement into their paper. Authors are asked to indicate whether the data is made publicly available. If the data is not made available, authors should provide a brief explanation why. (E.g. because the data contains proprietary information.) A statement guide is available on the INLG 2024 website: https://inlg2024.github.io/ To submit a long or short paper to INLG 2024, authors can either submit directly or commit a paper previously reviewed by ARR via the same paper submission site (https://softconf.com/n/inlg2024/). For direct submissions, the deadline for submitting papers is May 31, 2024, 11:59:59 AOE. If committing an ARR paper to INLG, the submission is also made through the INLG 2024 paper submission site, indicating the link of the paper on OpenReview. The deadline for committing an ARR paper to INLG is June 24, 2024, 11:59:59 AOE, and the last eligible ARR paper submission deadline for INLG 2024 is May 24, 2024. It is important to note that when committing an ARR paper to INLG, it should be submitted through the INLG 2024 paper submission site, just like a direct submission paper, with the only difference being the need to provide the OpenReview link to the paper and to provide an optional author response to reviews. Demo papers should be submitted directly through the INLG 2024 paper submission site (https://softconf.com/n/inlg2024/) by June 24, 2024, 11:59:59 AOE. All accepted papers will be published in the INLG 2024 proceedings and included in the ACL anthology. A paper accepted for presentation at INLG 2024 must not have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available proceedings. Dual submission to other conferences is permitted, provided that authors clearly indicate this in the submission form. If the paper is accepted at both venues, the authors will need to choose which venue to present at, since they can not present the same paper twice. Finally, at least one of the authors of an accepted paper must register to attend the conference. **Awards** INLG 2024 will present several awards to recognize outstanding achievements in the field. These awards are: • Best Long Paper Award: This award will be given to the best long paper submission based on its originality, impact, and contribution to the field of NLG. • Best Short Paper Award: This award will be given to the best short paper submission based on its originality, impact, and contribution to the field of NLG. • Best Demo Paper Award: This award will recognize the best demo paper submitted to the conference. This award considers not only the paper's quality but also the demonstration given at the conference. The demonstration will play a significant role in the judging process. • Best Evaluation Award: The award is a new addition to INLG 2024. This award is designed to honor authors who have demonstrated the most comprehensive and insightful analysis in evaluating their results. This award aims to highlight papers where the authors have gone the extra mile in providing a thorough and detailed analysis of their results, offering a nuanced understanding of their findings.

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Job Alert: Postdoctoral Researcher in Computational Literary Studies
by Baumbach, Sibylle 13 May '24

13 May '24

Dear all, I would be grateful if you could forward the following ad to anyone who might be interested in the position. Please contact me if you have any questions about the post. Thank you and all the best, Sibylle Baumbach Also available at: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/232922. We are seeking to fill a position of a Postdoctoral Researcher (f/m/d) in Computational Literary Studies (Pay Group 13 TV-L, 100%) The position is limited to three years. The anticipated starting date is 01 October 2024. The position is part of the project LitAttention – What Short Fiction Knows About Attention and Attention Politics, funded by the European Research Council (ERC). LitAttention combines approaches from cognitive literary studies, computational linguistics/digital humanities, and educational psychology to investigate ‘literary attention’. The project will (a) examine the connection between developments in short fiction and changing theories of attention; (b) explore literary techniques and linguistic devices that guide readers’ attention; (c) assess the value of short fiction today, especially for education, and (d) develop methodological and conceptual frameworks for examining literary attention. LitAttention is based at the Department of English Literatures and Cultures at the University of Stuttgart and integrated into a strong interdisciplinary community, including the Stuttgart Research Centre for Text Studies (SRCTS), the Institute for Natural Language Processing (IMS), and the Center for Reflected Text Analytics (CRETA). Your tasks The successful candidate will contribute to the identification of text properties that elicit attention. They will be responsible for developing and applying computational models that help identify and explain patterns of attention (and distraction) in short fiction. As part of the LitAttention team, they will be involved in the organisation of project events, public outreach activities, presentations at international conferences, and project publications. Required qualifications • PhD in Computational Literary Studies, Digital Humanities, Computational Linguistics, or an adjacent field, and willingness to engage in interdisciplinary research • Experience with corpus-based analysis of — ideally literary — texts (operationalization, annotation, evaluation) and computational modelling from conception to implementation • Excellent language skills (written and spoken) in English; proficiency in German is welcome but not required • Proven organisational and administrative skills • Familiarity with narrative theory and/or cognitive approaches in linguistics or literary studies is a plus What we offer • The opportunity to join a highly motivated, dynamic, and supportive team • An international, stimulating work environment, strongly committed to interdisciplinary research • Flexible working hours in a family-friendly environment • A fixed-term contract (limited to three years) in salary group TV-L 13 (the pay scale grouping will be determined by the university’s central administration) • Mentoring that emphasises professional and scientific growth • Internal training and coaching opportunities • Numerous additional benefits offered by the University of Stuttgart (https://www.beschaeftigte.uni-stuttgart.de/en/) Please email your application to nel(a)ilw.uni-stuttgart.de<mailto:nel@ilw.uni-stuttgart.de> by 10 June 2024. In your application, please include the reference number LitAttention_CLS. Please include the following documents (as one single PDF file): cover letter including a short description of your past and current research interests as well as your expertise in the required area, academic CV, publication list, copies of academic certificates and transcript of records, an abstract of your PhD thesis (or equivalent) (3 pages max.), and the names and contact details of two academic referees. Please also submit a PDF document ofyour PhD thesis (or equivalent). If you have not yet completed your PhD thesis (or equivalent), please submit finalised chapters/papers and a letter of recommendation from your supervisor, which includes the expected date of completion of your degree. If you have any questions about the position, please contact Prof Dr Sibylle Baumbach, sibylle.baumbach(a)ilw.uni-stuttgart.de.<mailto:sibylle.baumbach@ilw.uni-%20stuttgart.de.> The University of Stuttgart is a certified ‘family-friendly university’ and offers a wide range of services to support early-career researchers (https://www.uni-stuttgart.de/en/research/early-career-researchers/) and to enhance social equity (https://www.uni-stuttgart.de/en/university/profile/equality-diversity/). The University of Stuttgart is an equal opportunity employer (https://www.uni-stuttgart.de/en/university/employer/). Women who apply will be given preferential consideration in areas in which they are underrepresented. Applications from severely disabled candidates with equivalent qualifications will be given priority.

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Research assistant/associate at Glasgow for mining cancer mutation knowledge
by Jake Lever 13 May '24

13 May '24

Hi, we’ve got an excellent job position that has just opened up. Please drop me an email if you’ve got any questions (jake.lever(a)glasgow.ac.uk) and forward it on to anyone who may be interested. Details below. Role: Research assistant/associate at the University of Glasgow Fast summary of the project: Using machine learning to automatically read cancer research papers to help catalogue the meaning of different cancer mutations and how they may affect patients’ treatments Slightly longer description about the project Modern DNA sequencing technologies enable us to probe the genetics of individual cancers. Each cancer is unique and can have a multitude of mutations. However, understanding the importance and impact of each of those mutations is hugely challenging and relies heavily on searching the research literature. The CIViC database, managed by the Griffith Lab at Washington University at St Louis, collates this knowledge on cancer mutations from research papers for fast searching by clinicians and researchers worldwide. However, keeping it up to date involves a lot of human effort to read the latest research. The collaboration with Glasgow will enable the latest innovations in language technologies to be applied to automatically process research papers and flag relevant research useful for the CIViC database. This will involve development of all kinds of information extraction techniques. No background knowledge of biology/medicine is needed. Salary: Grade 6 (£32,332 - £36,024) / Grade 7 (£39,347 - £44,263) The contract is for two years with the potential for renewal. More details available at: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DHO579/research-assistant-associate Application close on 6th June 2024

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Call for Participation: LT4HALA 2024 -- Third Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient LAnguages @ LREC COLING 2024
by Rachele SPRUGNOLI 13 May '24

13 May '24

Call for Participation: LT4HALA 2024 -- Third Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient LAnguages @ LREC COLING 2024 The Third Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient LAnguages (LT4HALA 2024) will be held on May 25th in Torino (Italy), co-located with LREC-COLING 2024. This one-day hybrid workshop brings together scholars who are developing and/or are using Language Technologies for historically attested languages, so to foster cross-fertilization between the Computational Linguistics community and the areas in the Humanities dealing with historical linguistic data, e.g. history, philology, linguistics, archaeology and literature. In addition, LT4HALA 2024 hosts: - the third edition of EvaLatin, an evaluation campaign entirely devoted to the evaluation of NLP tools for Latin, focusing on dependency parsing and emotion polarity detection; - the third edition of EvaHan, the evaluation campaign for the evaluation of NLP tools for Ancient Chinese, focusing on sentence segmentation and punctuation prediction. For more information: - Website: https://circse.github.io/LT4HALA/2024/ - Program: https://circse.github.io/LT4HALA/2024/Program

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PhD position on "AI+Ling" in CL/NLP at Utrecht University
by Lasha Abzianidze 13 May '24

13 May '24

[Apologize for cross-posting] If you are enthusiastic about a PhD research that combines formal linguistics (especially semantics) with deep learning to make NLP models more generalisable and explainable, please read more details about the call here: https://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/working-at-utrecht-university/jobs/phd-on… - Note that there is only a week left before the application deadline (20 May). Applications have to be submitted via the university page using the [apply now] button. - with best, Lasha -- Lasha Abzianidze Assistant professor at Utrecht University Institute for Language Sciences

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CfP: NEW DEADLINE 31 MAY - FEL2024, The XXVIIIth Annual Conference of the Foundation for Endangered Languages, 25-27 September 2024
by Steven Krauwer 13 May '24

13 May '24

CALL FOR PAPERS & DEADLINE EXTENDED TILL 31 MAY! ================================================ The Foundation for Endangered Languages (FEL) and the Forum for Language Initiatives (FLI), in collaboration with Allama Iqbal Open University Islamabad will hold the 28th Annual Conference - FEL XXVIII in Islamabad, Pakistan, 25 – 27 September 2024 Main theme of the conference: Endangered Languages and Oral Traditions. Conference topics include, but are not limited to: 1. Endangered oral literatures: heritage preservation (music, poetry, mushaira, contests...) 2. Oral cultures and traditional knowledge 3. Documentation and digitalization of oral art and literature 4. Language policy, planning, and oral art 5. Oral art and mother tongue education 6. Mother-tongue education policies: oral art and literature 7. Rediscovering oral traditions and expressions 8. Oral Traditions as vehicle for transmission of culture and language The main focus of the conference will be on the dynamic relationship between language endangerment and the role of oral traditions and expressions in safeguarding them. While it has a universal scope, it specifically aims to highlight interesting and creative oral traditions and expressions of the indigenous communities of Pakistan and encourage scholarship and accounts of community initiatives for preserving and promoting them. Studies highlighting the oral traditions of indigenous communities from anywhere are welcome. Abstracts in PDF of 600 - 800 words are invited for submission on EasyChair at this address: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=felxxviii2024 by the deadline of 31 May 2024 at 23:59 GMT If you have already submitted your abstract and want to use the extra time to make it even better you can just go to EasyChair and update the earlier version! Important Dates ▪ 31 May 2024: Deadline for submission of abstract - NEW DEADLINE ▪ 21 June 2024: Selected applicants informed ▪ 31 July 2024: Deadline for extended version of accepted abstract ▪ 25-27 September 2024: Conference dates ▪ 28 September: Excursion to a local community Conference website: https://fli-online.org/site/conference-of-the-foundation-for-endangered-lan… For more information please contact: felconf2024.islamabad(a)gmail.com -- _______________________________________________________________________ Steven Krauwer, CLARIN/FEL/ELSNET/UiLOTS, Utrecht, NL, s.krauwer(a)uu.nl

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CALL FOR NTCIR-18 TASK PARTICIPATION
by CHUNG-CHI CHEN 13 May '24

13 May '24

CALL FOR NTCIR-18 TASK PARTICIPATION NTCIR-18 tasks: http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-18/tasks.html NTCIR-18 registration: http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-18/howto.html ____________________________________________________________ NTCIR-18 (June 10-13, 2025, Tokyo, Japan) now calls for task participation of anyone interested in research on information access technologies and their evaluation, such as retrieval from a large amount of document collections, question answering and natural language processing. We welcome students, young researchers, professors who supervise students, researchers working for a company, and anyone who is interested in informatics. == What is NTCIR? == Development of Information Access technologies based on techniques of Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, and Database Management becomes increasingly more important for many applications, (e.g., providing effective access to Web resources and text archives, and analyzing big data obtained from various kinds of sensors). It is indispensable for developing such technologies to experimentally evaluate them by using test collections constructed under collaborations of many researchers. Over the past 20 years, NTCIR has been formulating the infrastructure for the evaluation, and contributing to development of the Information Access technologies. A total of over 80 “evaluation tasks” have been organized, attracting over 1,000 participant research groups worldwide so far. Furthermore, over 4,600 research groups have signed up to use the NTCIR test collections in their research. Consequently, NTCIR has been a major forum for researchers to intensively discuss the evaluation methodology of emerging information access technologies. == NTCIR-18 Tasks == NTCIR-18 Program Committee has selected 10 tasks. The overview slide of each task can be available at the kick-off page: https://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-18/kickoffcfp.html For more details, please visit the websites of each task: Task Overview page: http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-18/tasks.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- NTCIR-18 Tasks Core Tasks AEOLLM: Automatic Evaluation of LLMs https://aeollm.github.io/ FairWeb-2: The Second Fair Web Task sakailab.com/fairweb2/ FinArg-2: Temporal Inference of Financial Arguments https://sites.google.com/nlg.csie.ntu.edu.tw/ntcir-18-finarg-2/finarg-2 Lifelog-6: Personal Lifelog Organisation & Retrieval Task http://lifelogsearch.org/ntcir-lifelog/ RadNLP: Natural Language Processing for Radiology https://sociocom.naist.jp/radnlp-2024 MedNLP-CHAT Medical Natural Language Processing for AI Chat https://sociocom.naist.jp/mednlp-chat Transfer-2: Resource Transfer Based Dense Retrieval https://github.com/ntcirtransfer/transfer2/discussions Pilot Tasks HIDDEN-RAD: Hidden Causality Inclusion in Radiology Report Generation https://sites.google.com/view/ntcir-18-hidden-rad/hidden-rad SUSHI: Searching Unseen Sources for Historical Information https://sites.google.com/view/ntcir-sushi-task/ U4: Unifying, Understanding, and Utilizing Unstructured Data in Financial Reports https://sites.google.com/view/ntcir18-u4/ == How to Participate == 1. Please carefully read “How to Participate to NTCIR-18 Task(s)“: http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-18/howto.html 2. Please register at http://ntcir.nii.ac.jp/index.php/ntcir-18-registration-form/ The datasets of each task will be delivered to the team after registration (the date may vary depending on the task). Registration Due (Depend on the task): Nov. 1st, 2024 AEOLLM: Automatic Evaluation of LLMs FairWeb-2: The Second Fair Web Task RadNLP: Natural Language Processing for Radiology MedNLP-CHAT: Medical Natural Language Processing for AI Chat HIDDEN-RAD: Hidden Causality Inclusion in Radiology Report Generation Dec. 15th, 2024 Transfer-2: Resource Transfer Based Dense Retrieval SUSHI Searching Unseen Sources for Historical Information U4: Unifying, Understanding, and Utilizing Unstructured Data in Financial Reports Jan 8th, 2025 FinArg-2: Temporal Inference of Financial Arguments Lifelog-6: Personal Lifelog Organisation & Retrieval Task == Schedule == (*Schedule can be different in different tasks. Please visit webpages of each task for the details.) May 2024 Dataset release* Jun-Dec 2024 Dry run* Sep 2024-Feb 2025 Formal run* Feb 1, 2025 Evaluation results return Feb 1, 2025 Task overview release (draft) Mar 1, 2025 Submission due of participant papers (draft) May 1, 2025 Camera-ready participant paper due Jun 10-13, 2025 NTCIR-18 Conference (At the NTCIR-18 Conference, an online presentation will be available) == Questions? == For information regarding the task specifications etc., please contact the NTCIR Program Chairs: ntc18-pcc(a)nii.ac.jp or task organizers. For information regarding the online registration and previous NTCIR test collections, please contact the NTCIR office: ntc-secretariat(a)nii.ac.jp We are looking forward to your participation! NTCIR-18 Program Co-Chairs: Qingyao Ai (Tsinghua University, China) Chung-Chi Chen (AIST, Japan) Shoko Wakamiya (NAIST, Japan) NTCIR-18 General Co-Chairs: Charles Clarke (University of Waterloo, Canada) Noriko Kando (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) Makoto P. Kato (University of Tsukuba, Japan) Yiqun Liu (Tsinghua University, China)

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