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PostDoc Opening(s) in University of Rome Tor Vergata
by znzfms00＠uniroma2.it 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

Can you force a single-layer transformer with attention to emit a token given an input sequence? If you can, YOU are the right person to work with us! Drop me an e-mail. We are hiring up to two PostDocs with a competitive salary for Italian PostDoc standards (assegno di ricerca 4 fascia). Here's the challenge: UnboxingChallenge.pdf<https://uniroma2-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/personal/fabio_zanzotto_uniroma2_e…> Here's the supporting Excel file simulating a single-layer transformer with attention: Challenge_1.xlsx<https://uniroma2-my.sharepoint.com/:x:/g/personal/fabio_zanzotto_uniroma2_e…> Research Group: Human-centric ART Institution: University of Rome Tor Vergata Location: Rome Required: a PhD in CS or a competitive publications' record track Desired: Willingness to work in team To stay up-to-date: X: https://x.com/HumanCentricArt LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/fabio-massimo-zanzotto-b027831<http://www.linkedin.com/in/fabio-massimo-zanzotto-b027831> Chek what we do: ‪Fabio Massimo Zanzotto‬ - ‪Google Scholar‬<https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=azv7Qr4AAAAJ&hl=en> Prof. Fabio Massimo Zanzotto Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Impresa "Mario Lucertini" University of Rome Tor Vergata

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2nd CFP: CLiC-it 2024 - Tenth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics
by Simonetta Montemagni 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CLiC-it 2024 - Tenth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 4 - 6 December 2024, Pisa, Italy https://clic2024.ilc.cnr.it/ This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics, CLiC-it! To commemorate this milestone, CLiC-it will be hosted in Pisa, just as it was in 2014. Over the years, CLiC-it has evolved into an important forum for the Italian community of researchers in Computational Linguistics (CL) and Natural Language Processing (NLP). CLiC-it aims to promote and disseminate high-quality, original research covering different aspects of automatic language processing, involving both written and spoken language. Furthermore, it seeks to showcase cutting-edge theoretical findings, experimental methodologies, technologies, and application perspectives. The spirit of the conference is inclusive. Recognizing the multifaceted nature of language phenomena and the need for interdisciplinary expertise, CLiC-it aims to bring together researchers from different fields including Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing, Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Machine Learning, Computer Science, Knowledge Representation, Information Retrieval, and Digital Humanities. CLiC-it welcomes contributions focusing on all languages, with a particular emphasis on Italian. CLiC-it 2024 will be held in Pisa, from the 4th to the 6th of December. CLiC-it is organised by the Italian Association of Computational Linguistics (AILC -- http://www.ai-lc.it/). Conference topics ----------------------------- CLiC-it 2024 aims to have a broad technical program. Relevant topics for the conference include, but are not limited to (in alphabetical order): - Computational Historical Linguistics - Computational Social Science and Cultural Analytics - Dialogue and Interactive Systems - Discourse and Pragmatics - Ethics and NLP - Generation - Handwritten Text Recognition - Information Extraction - Information Retrieval and Text Mining - Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP - Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond - Large Language Models - Linguistic Diversity - Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling, and Psycholinguistics - Machine Learning for NLP - Machine Translation - Multilingualism and Cross-Lingual NLP - NLP Applications - NLP for the Humanities - Phonology, Morphology, and Word Segmentation - Pragmatics and Creativity - Question Answering - Resources and Evaluation - Semantics: Lexical, Sentence-level Semantics, Textual Inference, and Other Areas - Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining - Speech and Multimodality - Summarization - Syntax: Tagging, Chunking and Parsing Paper Submission ----------------------- Submitted papers must describe substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis should be included. CLiC-it 2024 allows for a multiple submission policy. In case of acceptance of the paper in other venues, the authors must communicate this information to the CLiC-it 2024 Chairs as soon as possible. Papers may consist of up to five (5) pages of content, plus unlimited pages of acknowledgments, references and appendices. Upon acceptance, final versions of papers will be given one additional page of content, so that reviewers’ comments can be taken into account. Papers will be evaluated according to the following criteria: - soundness of approach - relevance to computational linguistics - novelty and clarity of relation with related work - quality of presentation - quality of evaluation (if applicable) - verifiability and ability to replicate (if applicable) Papers can be either in English or Italian, with the abstract in English. Accepted papers will be published on-line and will be presented at the conference either orally or as a poster. Reviewing will NOT be blind, so there is no need to remove author information from manuscripts. Research Communications ---------------------------------- CLiC-it 2024 adopts a parallel submission policy for outstanding papers accepted in 2023 by major publication venues, namely the major international CL conferences (workshops excluded) or international journals. These contributions can be submitted to CLiC-it 2024 as short research communications. Research communications will not be published in the conference proceedings, they serve primarily to promote the dissemination of high-quality research within the Italian CL community. Submitted research communications must be in the scope of the CLiC-it 2024 conference. The authors of papers that meet the above criteria are invited to submit a written (maximum) one-page abstract of the original paper, including the paper’s title and authors as well as a pointer to the original conference or journal where the paper was published. If needed, research communications will undergo a selection process overseen by the conference chairs. Since these papers have already been reviewed, the selection criteria will primarily consider their original publication venue. Priority will be granted to papers that align most closely with the conference program, ensuring a balanced representation across various conference topics. Submission template and procedure —--------------------------------------------- The required template for CLiC-it submissions must be compatible with CEUR (https://ceur-ws.org/). You can download the conference-adapted version at the following links: LaTeX template: https://clic2024.ilc.cnr.it/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/CLiC-it-2024-templat… Word template: https://clic2024.ilc.cnr.it/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/CLiC_it_2024_templat… Should you encounter any issues with the compilation (as the CEUR template has historically presented some challenges and is not modifiable without risking exclusion from the proceedings), we provide a read-only Overleaf template (https://www.overleaf.com/read/sjxmxsssfvyb#c76746). This template can be accessed and cloned to help resolve any technical difficulties. Papers and research communications must be submitted through the START platform using the following link: https://softconf.com/p/clic-it2024 For research communications the appropriate track should be selected. Awards --------- To acknowledge the contribution of young researchers to the field, the title of "best paper" will be awarded to outstanding papers, provided that a Master's or PhD student is among the authors and presents the work at the conference. Recipients of this award will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers to the Italian Journal of Computational Linguistics (IJCoL). To recognise excellence in student research as well as promote awareness of our field, AILC is also conferring the “Emanuele Pianta” prize for the best Master Thesis (Laurea Magistrale) in Computational Linguistics submitted at an Italian University. The prize consists of 500 Euros plus free membership to AILC for one year and free registration to the upcoming CLiC-it. The complete call is available on the conference website at: “Calls > AILC Master Thesis Award”. Invited Speakers --------- - Giosuè Baggio, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway - Dieuwke Hupkes, Meta AI Research, Paris, France Important Dates --------------- - 15/07/2024: Paper submission deadline: regular papers and research communications - 23/09/2024: Notification to authors of reviewing/selection outcome - 21/10/2024: Camera ready version of accepted papers - 4-6/12/2024: CLiC-it 2024 Conference, Pisa People ------ Conference Chairs: - Felice Dell’Orletta (CNR-ILC) - Alessandro Lenci (University of Pisa) - Simonetta Montemagni (CNR-ILC) - Rachele Sprugnoli (University of Parma) Program Committee: - Dominique Brunato (CNR-ILC) - Cristiano Chesi (IUSS Pavia) - Roberta Claudia Combei (University of Pavia) - Diego Frassinelli (University of Konstanz) - Marco Guerini (Fondazione Bruno Kessler) - Gianluca Lebani (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) - Alessandro Mazzei (University of Torino) - Johanna Monti (Orientale University of Naples) - Malvina Nissim (University of Groningen) - Debora Nozza (Bocconi University) - Lucia Passaro (University of Pisa) - Marco Polignano (University of Bari) - Roberto Zamparelli (University of Trento) - Fabio Massimo Zanzotto (University of Rome “Tor Vergata”) Local Organizing Committee: - Chiara Alzetta (CNR-ILC) - Serena Auriemma (University of Pisa) - Alessandro Bondielli (University of Pisa) - Luca Dini (CNR-ILC) - Chiara Fazzone (CNR-ILC) - Martina Miliani (University of Pisa) Proceedings Chairs: - Danilo Croce (University of Rome “Tor Vergata”) - Andrea Zaninello (FBK) Webmaster: - Alessio Miaschi (CNR-ILC) - Marta Sartor (CNR-ILC) Publicity Chair: - Sofia Brenna (Fondazione Bruno Kessler) Further information ------------------- - Conference website: https://clic2024.ilc.cnr.it/ - Mail: clicit2024(a)gmail.com - X: https://x.com/CLiC_it_conf -- Simonetta Montemagni Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "Antonio Zampolli" (ILC) - CNR Area della Ricerca di Pisa Via Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, ITALY e-mail simonetta.montemagni(a)ilc.cnr.it direct tel. no +39 050 3152850 fax no. +39 050 3152839 cell. +39 349 7656651

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Second CfProposals: ESSLLI 2025, July 28 - August 8, 2025, Bochum (Germany)
by ESSLLI Publicity 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

36th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI 2025) July 28-August 8, 2025, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany https://2025.esslli.eu/ (Please note that the Website is not currently online, but will soon be.) Important Dates ========================= *July 10, 2024:* Deadline for submitting course/workshop titles *July 24, 2024:* Deadline for submitting course/workshop proposals *October 15, 2024:* Notification sent to course/workshop proposers Note that submitting a proposal requires that the person submitting it has an OpenReview profile. Profiles created without an institutional email may go through a moderation process that can take up to two weeks to be activated. Profiles created with an institutional email are activated automatically. Introduction ========================= Under the auspices of the Association for Logic, Language, and Information (FoLLI), the European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (ESSLLI) runs every year. Except for 2021, when the school was virtual, it runs in a different European country each year. It takes place over two weeks in the summer, hosts approximately 50 different courses at levels that run from foundational to introductory to advanced, and attracts around 400 participants from all over the world. Since 1989, ESSLLI has been providing outstanding interdisciplinary educational opportunities in the fields of Computer Science, Cognitive Science, Linguistics, Logic, Philosophy, and beyond. It comes from a community which recognizes that advances in our common areas require the contributions of multiple interrelated disciplines. The main focus of ESSLLI is the interface between linguistics, logic and computation, with special emphasis on human linguistic and cognitive ability. Courses, both introductory and advanced, cover a wide variety of topics within the combined areas of interest: Logic and Computation, Computation and Language, and Language and Logic. Workshops are also organized, providing opportunities for in-depth discussion of issues at the forefront of research, as well as a series of invited evening lectures. Topics and Format ========================= Proposals for courses and workshops at ESSLLI 2025 are invited in all areas of Logic, Linguistics and Computer Science. Cross-disciplinary and innovative topics are particularly encouraged. During submission you will be asked to select one of three tracks “Language and Computation (LaCo)”, “Language and Logic (LaLo)”, “Logic and Computation (LoCo)”. Each course and workshop will consist of five 90 minute sessions, offered daily (Monday-Friday) in a single week. Proposals for two-week courses should be structured and submitted as two independent one-week courses, e.g. as an introductory course followed by an advanced one. In such cases, the ESSLLI Program Committee reserves the right to accept just one of the two proposals. All instructional and organizational work at ESSLLI is performed completely on a voluntary basis, so as to keep participation fees to a minimum. However, organizers and instructors have their registration fees waived, and are reimbursed for travel and accommodation expenses up to a level to be determined and communicated with the proposal notification. ESSLLI can only guarantee reimbursement for at most one course/workshop organizer, and cannot guarantee full reimbursement of travel costs for lecturers or organizers from outside of Europe. The ESSLLI organizers would appreciate any help in controlling the School's expenses by seeking partial or complete coverage of travel and accommodation expenses from other sources. Categories ========================= Each proposal should fall under one of the following categories. Foundational Courses ------------------------------------------- Such courses are designed to present the basics of a research area, to people with no prior knowledge in that area. They should be of elementary level, without prerequisites in the course's topic, though possibly assuming a level of general scientific maturity in the relevant discipline. They should enable researchers from related disciplines to develop a level of comfort with the fundamental concepts and techniques of the course's topic, thereby contributing to the interdisciplinary nature of our research community. Introductory Courses ------------------------------------------- Introductory courses are central to ESSLLI's mission. They are intended to introduce a research field to students, young researchers, and other non-specialists, and to foster a sound understanding of its basic methods and techniques. Such courses should enable researchers from related disciplines to develop some comfort and competence in the topic considered. Introductory courses in a cross-disciplinary area may presuppose general knowledge of the related disciplines. Advanced Courses ------------------------------------------- Advanced courses are targeted primarily to graduate students who wish to acquire a level of comfort and understanding in the current research of a field. Workshops ------------------------------------------- Workshops focus on specialized topics, usually of current interest. Workshop organizers are responsible for soliciting papers and selecting the workshop program. They are also responsible for publishing proceedings if they decide to have proceedings. Proposal Guidelines ========================= Course and workshop proposals should closely follow these guidelines to ensure full consideration. Course and Workshop proposals can be submitted by no more than two lecturers/organizers and can be presented by no more than these two lecturers/organizers. All instructors and organizers must possess a PhD or equivalent degree by the submission deadline. Course proposals should mention explicitly the intended course category. Proposals for introductory courses should indicate the intended level, for example as it relates to standard textbooks and monographs in the area. Proposals for advanced courses should specify the prerequisites in detail. Proposals of Courses given at ESSLLI in the previous year will have a lower priority of being accepted in the current year. Proposals must be in PDF format and include all the following information: 1. Personal information for each proposer: Name, affiliation, contact address, email, homepage (optional) 2. General proposal information: Title, category 3. Contents information: a. Abstract of up to 150 words b. Motivation and description (up to two pages) c. Tentative outline d. Expected level and prerequisites e. Appropriate references (e.g. textbooks, monographs, proceedings, surveys) 4. Information required of course proposers: a. Will the course appeal to students outside of the main discipline of the course? b. What experience does the proposer have in presenting an intensive one-week interdisciplinary setting? c. What evidence is there that the course proposer is an excellent lecturer? 5. Information required of workshop organizers: a. Information on relevant preceding meetings and events, if applicable b. Information about potential external funding for participants. Submission Information ========================= By *July 10, 2024*, proposers are asked to submit at least the name(s) of the instructor(s), the ESSLLI area+course level and a title and short abstract for the proposed course/workshop. By *July 24, 2024*, course proposers must complete their submission by uploading a PDF with the actual proposal as detailed above. Submission Portal ========================= Please* submit your proposals to* https://openreview.net/group?id=ESSLLI.eu/2025/Summer_School_Proposals Note that submitting a proposal requires that the person submitting it has an OpenReview profile. Profiles created without an institutional email may go through a moderation process that can take up to two weeks to be activated. Profiles created with an institutional email are activated automatically. EACSL Sponsorship ================= The EACSL will support one Logic and Computation course or workshop addressing topics of interest to Computer Science Logic (CSL) conferences. The selected course or workshop will be designated an EACSL course/workshop in the programme. If you wish to be considered for this, please indicate it in your proposal. Organizing Committee ========================= Tatjana Scheffler (Ruhr University Bochum, chair) Maria Berger (Ruhr University Bochum) Maike Buchin (Ruhr University Bochum) Daniel Gutzmann (Ruhr University Bochum) Stephanie Heimgartner (Ruhr University Bochum) Kristina Liefke (Ruhr University Bochum) Hannah Seemann (Ruhr University Bochum) Christian Straßer (Ruhr University Bochum) Katharina Turgay (Ruhr University Bochum) Thomas Zeume (Ruhr University Bochum) Program Committee ========================= Balder ten Cate (ILLC, University of Amsterdam, chair) Daniel Gutzman (Ruhr University of Bochum, local co-chair) Area Chairs Language and Computation (LaCo) ------------------------------------------- - Nicholas Asher (IRIT/CNRS Toulouse) - Martha Lewis (ILLC, University Amsterdam) - Valerio Basile (University of Turin) Area Chairs Language and Logic (LaLo) ------------------------------------------- - Daniel Altshuler (Oxford University) - Elin McCready (Aoyama Gakuin University) - Judith Tonhauser (University of Stuttgart) Area Chairs Logic and Computation (LoCo) ------------------------------------------- - Luca Reggio (University College London) - Leopoldo Bertossi (Skema Business School & Carleton University) - Anupam Das (University of Birmingham) Publicity Chair: Søren Knudstorp (ILLC, University of Amsterdam) ESSLLI Steering Committee ========================= Jakub Szymanik (University of Trento) (chair) Magdalena Ortiz (TU Wien) Roman Kuznets (TU Wien) (secretary) Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (University College London) Lonneke van der Plas (Idiap Research Institute)

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SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED: ICNLSP 2024, 7th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing
by Mourad Abbas 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

*Submission DEADLINE Extended* *Important dates* *Submission deadline: **30 June 2024 11:59 PM (GMT) * *08 July 2024 11:59 PM (GMT)* *Notification of acceptance:* 15 September 2024 *Camera-ready paper due:* 25 September 2024 *Conference dates:* 19, 20 October 2024 We are delighted to invite you to ICNLSP 2024 <https://www.icnlsp.org/2024welcome/>, the 7th edition of the International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing, which will be held at University of Trento from October 19th to 20th, 2024 (*HYBRID*). *Topics* - Signal processing, acoustic modeling. - Speech recognition (Architecture, search methods, lexical modeling, language modeling, language model adaptation, multimodal systems, applications in education and learning, zero-resource speech recognition, etc.). - Speech Analysis. - Paralinguistics in Speech and Language (Perception of paralinguistic phenomena, analysis of speaker states and traits, etc.). - Spoken Dialog Systems and Conversational Analysis - Speech Translation. - Speech synthesis. - Speaker verification and identification. - Language identification - Speech coding. - Speech enhancement - Speech intelligibility - Speech Perception - Speech Production - Brain studies on speech - Phonetics, phonology and prosody. - Speech and hearing disorders. - Paralinguistics of pathological speech and language. - Speech technology for disordered speech/hairing. - Cognition and natural language processing. - Machine translation. - Text categorization. - Summarization. - Sentiment analysis and opinion mining. - Computational Social Web. - Arabic dialects processing. - Under-resourced languages: tools and corpora. - Large language models. - Arabic OCR. - NLP tools for software requirements and engineering. - Knowledge fundamentals. - Knowledge management systems. - Information extraction. - Data mining and information retrieval. - Lexical semantics and knowledge representation. - Requirements engineering and NLP. - NLP for Arabic heritage documents. *Submission* Papers must be submitted via the link: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ICNLSP2024/ <https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ICNLSP2024/> Each submitted paper will be reviewed by three program committee members.The reviewing process is double-blind. Authors can use the *ACL format*: *Latex <https://www.icnlsp.org/ACL%202023%20Proceedings%20Template.zip>*or Word. Authors have the choice to submit their papers as a full or short paper . Long papers consist of up to 8 pages of content + references. Short papers, up to 4 pages of content + references. *Publication* *1- All accepted papers will be published in **ACL Anthology <https://aclanthology.org/>**.* *2- Selected papers will be published (after extension) in:* * 2-a-* A *SPECIAL ISSUE* <https://www.mdpi.com/journal/make/special_issues/POB4VNE0QP> of Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction Journal <https://www.mdpi.com/journal/make> (MAKE), indexed in *Web of Science <https://mjl.clarivate.com/search-results>*, *Scopus* <https://www.scopus.com/sources.uri>, etc. *Special issue title*: <https://www.mdpi.com/journal/make/special_issues/POB4VNE0QP> <https://www.mdpi.com/journal/make/special_issues/POB4VNE0QP>*Knowledge Graphs and Large Language Models. <https://www.mdpi.com/journal/make/special_issues/POB4VNE0QP>* * 2-b-* Signals and Communication Technology (Springer), indexed in *Scopus* <https://www.scopus.com/> and *zbMATH* <https://zbmath.org/>.

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CFP: TRANSLATING AND THE COMPUTER CONFERENCE 2024 (TC46) – Call for Presentations and Papers
by amalhaddad 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

TRANSLATING AND THE COMPUTER CONFERENCE 2024 (TC46) - CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS AND PAPERS "NAVIGATING THE FUTURE OF LANGUAGE: INNOVATION, INTEGRATION, INSPIRATION" https://asling.org/tc46/call-for-papers-cfp/ Embracing innovation in language technologies - From AI to traditional practices -, TC46 welcomes submissions on a broad spectrum of topics related to language technologies in the provision of language services. While there is a special emphasis on the advancements and implications of AI and Generative AI, we strongly encourage contributions that cover a wide range of interests and perspectives in the language services field. Whether you are deeply involved in AI-driven projects or are focused on traditional or emerging practices independent of AI, your insights are invaluable. * Deadline for submitting proposals for full length talks (academic and user-experience) and short/Poster talks for TC46 is extended to 15 July * Deadline for submitting proposals for workshops and panels is extended to 15 August https://asling.org/tc46/call-for-papers-cfp/ Kind regards, Amal Haddad

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Postdoctoral researcher in computational linguistics with a focus on grounding language in computer vision and robotics, application deadline: 15 August
by Simon Dobnik 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

[apologies for x-posting] We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher in computational linguistics and/or natural language processing to work on the project "Beyond pixels and words: language technology generation and understanding of spatial language in interaction" (2023-01552) funded by the Swedish Research Council (VR). Application deadline on August 15, 2023 23:59 (CEST, UTC+2) Project description: https://web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/1035/job?site=7&lang=UK&validator=9b89… (English) and https://web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/1035/job?site=6&lang=SE&validator=3038… (Swedish) and from my personal page (coming soon) I am looking for candidates with a strong background in computational linguistics, natural language processing (or neighbouring fileds such computer vision and robotics) and machine learning, ideally with experience of computational semantics, language modelling and working with multi-modal representations. Best regards, Simon — Simon Dobnik Professor of Computational Linguistics CLASP & FLoV, University of Gothenburg https://www.gu.se/en/about/find-staff/simondobnik

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[CfP] Diversity and Change in Easy German @ DGfS 2025
by lena.wieland＠uni-saarland.de 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

CfP: Diversity and Change in Easy German (Workshop at DGfS 2025) Date: March 5-7, 2025 Location: University of Mainz, Germany Meeting Email: workshop-easy-german-dgfs2025(a)uni-saarland.de<mailto:workshop-easy-german-dgfs2025@uni-saarland.de> Website: https://sfb1102.uni-saarland.de/vielfalt-und-wandel-in-leichter-sprache/ Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Psycholinguistics Language Family: Germanic Call Deadline: August 18, 2024 Shortened Workshop Description: Easy German, which has been systematically developed since the 2000s to aid individuals with learning difficulties among others, focuses on enhancing text comprehensibility by avoiding linguistic complexity. Despite its intended uniformity, there is a lack of consensus on its precise conceptualization, with various frameworks and guidelines proposing different approaches. This workshop aims to: 1. Provide a platform for researchers to discuss the production and evolution of Easy German texts. 2. Highlight dynamic changes and variability in Easy German texts compared to Standard German. 3. Examine the cognitive processing of Easy German through psycholinguistic studies involving the target demographic. 4. Critically assess AI-driven systems for Easy German text production, exploring their implications, opportunities, and challenges. For further information, please visit the workshop website: https://sfb1102.uni-saarland.de/vielfalt-und-wandel-in-leichter-sprache/ Organizers: Ingo Reich (Saarland University, Germany) Heike Zinsmeister (University of Hamburg, Germany) Sarah Jablotschkin (University of Hamburg, Germany) Lena Wieland (Saarland University, Germany) Invited Speakers: Bettina Bock (University of Cologne) Ted Sanders (Utrecht University) Call for Papers: We invite contributions on all aspects of Easy German and easy-to-read variants in other Germanic languages. The workshop will include a small poster session, and submissions for both talks and posters are welcome. Contributions in English are preferred, but submissions in German are also accepted. * Submission Details: * Abstract submission deadline: August 18, 2024 * Abstracts should be submitted to workshop-easy-german-dgfs2025(a)uni-saarland.de<mailto:workshop-easy-german-dgfs2025@uni-saarland.de> * Abstracts should not exceed one page (DIN A4, 2.5 cm margins, 12pt font) * Examples, graphics, or references may be included on a second page Important Workshop Information: The workshop is part of the 47th annual meeting of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS 2025) at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. Participants must register for the DGfS conference and pay the conference fee. For more information, visit http://dgfs.uni-mainz.de<http://dgfs.uni-mainz.de/>. Important Dates: Deadline for abstract submission: August 18, 2024 Notification of acceptance: September 2, 2024 Workshop dates: March 5-7, 2025 -- Lena Wieland SFB 1102, Project T1 – Information Density and Linguistic Encoding in “Leichte Sprache” Universität des Saarlandes Campus A2.2 Raum 3.12 D-66123 Saarbrücken T: +49 681 302 57543 www.uni-saarland.de/fakultaet-p/nds/team/wieland<https://www.uni-saarland.de/fakultaet-p/nds/team/wieland.html>

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Call for Participation - CoLI-Dravidian@FIRE 2024: Word-level Code-Mixed Language Identification in Dravidian Languages
by Sabur B 29 Jun '24

29 Jun '24

****We apologize for multiple postings of this e-mail**** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION FIRE 2024 Task - CoLI-Dravidian: Word-level Code-Mixed Language Identification in Dravidian Languages Held as a shared task in the 16th meeting of Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE 2024 <http://fire.irsi.org.in/fire/2024/home>) December 12-15, 2024. DAIICT, Gandhinagar, India Website: https://sites.google.com/view/coli-dravidian-2024/datasets?authuser=0 Codalab link: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/19357 Dear All, We are inviting researchers and students to participate in the shared task CoLI-Dravidian: Word-level Code-Mixed Language Identification in Dravidian Languages, which is held as a shared task in the 16th meeting of Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE 2024 <http://fire.irsi.org.in/fire/2024/home>). Language Identification (LI) involves detecting the language(s) used in a given text, which is a preliminary step for many applications such as sentiment analysis, machine translation, information retrieval, and natural language understanding. In multilingual India, especially among the youth, social media often features code-mixed text, blending local languages with English at various levels. However, this poses significant challenges for LI, particularly when languages are mixed within a single word. Dravidian languages, extensively spoken in southern India, are under-resourced despite their rich morphological structure. These languages face technological challenges, especially in script representation on digital platforms, leading users to prefer Roman or hybrid scripts for communication. This prevalent code-mixing offers vast linguistic data for research yet remains understudied. To address word-level LI challenges in code-mixed Dravidian languages, we are conducting a shared task by providing code-mixed datasets for four languages - Kannada, Tamil, Malayalam, and Tulu, to encourage the development of advanced LI models. There will be a real-time leaderboard, and the participants will be allowed to make a maximum of 10 submissions in the training phase and 5 submissions in the testing phase through CodaLab. Each team will have to select the best submission for ranking. To download the data and participate, go to: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/19357. Best regards, The CoLI-Dravidian 2024 Organizing Committee Important dates - 14th June 2024 - open track websites and training data release - 1st July 2024– test data release - 25th July – run submission deadline - 27th July – results declared - 27th August – Working notes due - 10th September - Reviews - 30th October – Camera-ready copies of working notes NOTE: All dates mentioned here are in the AoE (Anywhere on Earth) zone. Organizing Committee - Shashirekha Hosahalli Lakshmaiah, Department of Computer Science, Mangalore University, India. - Ameeta Agrawal, Department of Computer Science, Portland State University, USA. - Fazlourrahman Balouchzahi, CIC, IPN, Mexico. - Asha Hegde, Department of Computer Science, Mangalore University, India. - Sabur Butt, IFE, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico. - Sharal Coelho, Department of Computer Science, Mangalore University, India. - Kavya G, Department of Computer Science, Mangalore University, India. - Harshitha, Department of Computer Science, Mangalore University, India. - Sonith D, Department of Computer Science, Mangalore University, India. *Sabur Butt, Ph.D. *(He/Him) Institute for the Future of Education (IFE) *Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico* Address: Av. Eugenio Garza Sada 2501 Sur Tecnológico, 64849 Monterrey, N.L. LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/saburb> - GitHub <https://github.com/saburbutt> - Scholar <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=re7md-0AAAAJ&hl=en> - Website <https://saburbutt.github.io/>

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AthensNLP Summer School: applications deadline 1st JULY
by Georgios Moschovis 28 Jun '24

28 Jun '24

Call for Participation EXTENDED to Monday 1 July for the Athens Natural Language Processing Summer School! Applications: https://athnlp.github.io/2024/cfp.html Summer School dates: 19-15 September 2024 in Athens.

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LxGr2024: Call for Participation: one week to register [corrected]
by Costas Gabrielatos 26 Jun '24

26 Jun '24

[Reposting with the correct link to the symposium programme] 9th Symposium on Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar (LxGr2024) 5-6 July 2024. Online. Attendance is free. Registration closes in one week: https://store.edgehill.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/conferences/conferences… Symposium programme: https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/lxgr/lxgr202<https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/lxgr/lxgr2023>4 If you have any questions, please contact lxgr(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:lxgr@edgehill.ac.uk>. ________________________________ Edge Hill University<http://ehu.ac.uk/home/emailfooter> Modern University of the Year, The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2022<http://ehu.ac.uk/tef/emailfooter> University of the Year, Educate North 2021/21 ________________________________ This message is private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it from your system. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Edge Hill or associated companies. Edge Hill University may monitor email traffic data and also the content of email for the purposes of security and business communications during staff absence.<http://ehu.ac.uk/itspolicies/emailfooter>

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