*Monthly online ILFC Seminar: interactions between formal and computational
linguistics*
https://gdr-lift.loria.fr/monthy-online-ilfc-seminar/
The LIFT 2 research group is happy to announce the two forthcoming sessions
of the ILFC seminar on the interactions between formal and computational
linguistics:
- 2024/06/12 17:00-18:00 UTC+2: *Kenny Smith* (University of Edinburgh;
16:00-17:00 UTC+1)
Title: *The evolution of linguistic regularities and exceptions*
Abstract: *Languages persist through a cycle of learning and use - we
learn the language of our community through immersion in that language,
then in using that language to meet our communicative goals we generate
more linguistic data which others learn from. In previous work we have used
computational and experimental methods to show how this cycle of learning
and use can explain some of the fundamental structural features shared by
all languages - for example, the fact that all languages exploit regular
rules for generating meaningful expressions allows languages to be both
relatively learnable but also exceptionally powerful tools for
communication. In this talk I’ll briefly review this older work on the
evolution of regularity, then apply the same approach to understanding
exceptions to those regular rules. Within individual languages, exceptions
and irregularities tend not to be distributed randomly - idiosyncratic
exceptions tend to occur for high-frequency items, with low-frequency items
following the general regular rule. And languages spoken in small, isolated
communities tend to have more irregularities, exceptions, and complexity in
general than languages (like English) spoken in large heterogeneous
communities. I’ll describe a recent series of experiments, using artificial
language learning and iterated learning methods, showing how this
distribution of irregularity within and across languages can be explained
as a consequence of the same processes of learning and use that account for
linguistic regularity.*
- 2024/09/11 17:00-18:00 UTC+2: *Meaghan Fowlie* (Utrecht University)
Title: [TBA]
Abstract: [TBA]
The seminar is held on Zoom. To attend the seminar and get updates, please
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First Call for Papers
Workshop on the Future of Event Detection
Miami, USA
November 15 or 16, 2024
(co-located with EMNLP 2024 <https://2024.emnlp.org/>)
https://future-of-event-detection.github.io/
Submission Deadline: Thursday, August 15, 2024 11:59PM AoE
Workshop Description
In recent years, there has been a significant increase in the amount of
publicly generated digital data. One prominent category of this data, and
arguably the largest in terms of daily generation, pertains to various
real-world events, ranging from natural disasters to political occurrences
to sports events. Detecting these events serves various crucial purposes,
including early warning systems, emergency response, situational awareness,
tracking public health trends, and understanding societal shifts, among
others. However, automatic real-time event detection presents intriguing
challenges, primarily stemming from the characteristics of the data. These
challenges include the diversity of public online data (multimodal nature),
the rapid pace at which data is produced (velocity), the sheer volume of
data generated, and the reliability of the data (veracity). Moreover, the
recent advancements in powerful Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative
AI Systems offer new opportunities to revise event detection pipelines,
enabling novel approaches and applications across various domains. The
workshop focuses on:
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Looking forward and looking back: The workshop will solicit ideas on how
the field of event detection should evolve over the next twenty years, as
well as solicit papers reflecting on what has worked and not worked in the
field thus far.
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Expanding Beyond NLP: As noted above, there are many sibling areas that
actively research event detection. Many of these areas have remained siloed
and there is not much cross-communication though they are working on
similar problem areas. This workshop seeks to address this by actively
soliciting research and invited speakers from these areas.
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Theory to Application: Finally, this workshop will emphasize how event
detection technology can be used in real-world applications.
We will solicit novel papers, including, but not limited to the following
topics:
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Position and opinion papers on the state and future of event detection
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Retrospectives
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Multimodal event detection
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Large language models (LLMs) and their applications for event detection
and related areas
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Event detection on non-traditional sources of data
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Inferring causal, temporal, coreference, and sub-event relations for
events
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Multilingual event detection
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Event representation
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Event ontology
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Never-ending learning
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Streaming algorithms for event detection
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Interpretability of event detection methods
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Bias detection and mitigation
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Human-AI Interaction for event detection frameworks
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Information visualization for events
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Anomaly detection
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Practical application of event detection for different domains such as
emergency response
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Usability of event detection systems
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Datasets for Event Detection
Important Dates
All deadlines are 11:59 pm UTC-12 (anywhere on Earth).
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Submission Deadline: Thursday, August 15
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Notification of Acceptance: Friday, September 20
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Camera Ready Deadline: Friday, October 4
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Workshop: either November 15 or 16
Submission Information
We will be using the EMNLP Submission Guidelines
<https://2024.emnlp.org/calls/main_conference_papers/#paper-submission-detai…>
for the workshop. Authors are invited to submit a full paper of up to 8
pages of content with unlimited pages for references. We also invite short
papers of up to 4 pages of content, including unlimited pages for
references. Final camera ready versions of accepted papers will be given an
additional page of content to address reviewer comments.
Previously published papers cannot be accepted. The submissions will be
reviewed by the program committee. As reviewing will be blind, please
ensure that papers are anonymous. Self-references that reveal the author's
identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...", should be
avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith,
1991) ...".
Please note that unlike EMNLP, which uses ARR for submission management, we
will be using the START conference system. The link will be made live when
available.
https://softconf.com/emnlp2024/FuturED/
<https://www.softconf.com/EMNLP2024/FuturED>
Organizing Committee
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Joel Tetreault
<https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Fn52EXUAAAAJ&hl=en>, Dataminr
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Thien Huu Nguyen <https://ix.cs.uoregon.edu/~thien/>, University of
Oregon
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Hemank Lamba <https://sites.google.com/site/hemanklamba/home>, Dataminr
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Amanda Hughes
<https://cs.byu.edu/department/directory/faculty-directory/amanda-hughes/>,
Brigham Young University
Contact Information
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Workshop contact email address: futureofeventdetection(a)googlegroup.com
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Workshop Twitter: @FuturED2024 <https://x.com/FuturED2024>
** Workshop proposal deadline June 14th **
** A week to go **
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* We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CfP *
* For the online version of this Call, visit: https://cikm2024.org/call-for-workshops/
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CIKM 2024: 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
Boise, Idaho, USA
October 21–25, 2024
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The ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) is the premier international conference on topics at the confluence of information retrieval, databases, and knowledge management. Running annually since 1992, CIKM attracts top talent from industry and academia with the goal of fostering collaboration and bridging the academic-commercial gap in the database, information retrieval, machine learning, and knowledge management communities. We look for prospective submissions of highly interactive full-/half-day workshops proposing novel research, deepening established research topics, or presenting practical applications on the many aspects of the data lifecycle (data acquisition, pre-processing, modelling, integration/aggregation, storage, analysis, and consumption). Interdisciplinary workshops bridging across different communities are also highly encouraged. Workshops will complement the main CIKM conference to be held in-person at Boise, Idaho, USA, from October 21-25, 2024. The workshops are planned to take place on 25 October 2024.
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Key Dates
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* Workshop proposal: 14 June 2024
* Workshop proposal acceptance notification: 5 July 2024
* Camera ready: 8 August 2024
(All deadlines are at 11:59 pm AOE)
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Paper Submissions
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Please use the CIKM 2024 Workshop Proposal Template for your submission. Submit the proposal here through Easychair (https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=cikm2024). Workshop proposals are reviewed based on the quality of the proposal, their relation to the main CIKM topics, the likelihood of attracting enough participants, and the hosting capacity of the conference.
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Requirements for In-Person Activities
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The CIKM 2024 conference will be held in-person in Boise, Idaho, USA. To enhance the in-person experience, it is required for each workshop to at least plan for a subset of the organizers to be attending the conference and organizing the workshops in-person.
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Recommended Dates for Paper Submissions to the Workshops
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* Paper submission deadline: 29 July 2024:
* Paper notification (highly desirable): 30 August 2024:
* Workshop date: 25 October 2024:
Exact workshop paper submission and author notification due dates are at the discretion of workshop organizers. Note that the paper acceptance notification deadline should remain August 30 (or earlier), so authors of accepted papers still have at least a week to take advantage of Early-Bird Registration fees.
Workshop papers will not be included in the ACM proceedings. Any decision on if and where proceedings are to be archived is left to the organizers. To help preserve the authors’ ability to submit a revised version of their paper to a conference or journal, joining the volume is suggested to be left at the discretion of the authors.
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Chairs Contact Information
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For more information, contact the Workshop Chairs at cikm2024-workshop [at] easychair [dot] org
Vanessa Braganholo, Instituto de Computação Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil
Yangqiu Song,Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
** Tutorial proposal dedline June 14th **
** A week to go **
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* We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CfP *
* For the online version of this Call, visit: https://cikm2024.org/call-for-tutorials/
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CIKM 2024: 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
Boise, Idaho, USA
October 21–25, 2024
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The Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) provides an international forum for the presentation and discussion of research on information and knowledge management, as well as recent advances in data and knowledge bases. The purpose of the conference is to identify challenging problems facing the development of future knowledge and information systems, and to shape future directions of research by soliciting and reviewing high-quality, applied and theoretical research findings.
CIKM 2024 solicits proposals for both half and full-day tutorials from active and experienced researchers and practitioners covering topics relevant to CIKM. Areas of interest include information retrieval, knowledge management, data science, artificial intelligence, and other related areas of relevance to the CIKM community.
We invite proposals for tutorials that target various levels of expertise and interests. We also welcome the submission of hands-on tutorials, for instance using notebooks that combine theoretical concepts with practical exercises. We encourage the submission of cutting-edge tutorials that cover advances in newly emerging areas.
Each tutorial should cover a specific topic of interest in depth. The goal is to provide a self-contained overview of a topic, and then connect to state-of-the- art research and developments in the associated area of interest. For example, tutorials may cover an established sub-topic, introduce an emerging application in the area, or update the CIKM community on recent advances in related fields.
Tutorials are expected to be presented in person.
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Key Dates
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* Tutorials proposal: 14 June 2024
* Tutorials notification: 5 July 2024
* Camera ready: 8 August 2024
* Tutorial day: 21 October 2024 (Monday)
(All deadlines are at 11:59 pm AOE)
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Paper Submissions
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Each tutorial proposal must include the following information:
* Title of the tutorial
* Length (either half-day, i.e., 3 hours plus breaks; or full-day, i.e., 6 hours plus breaks)
* Abstract of up to 150 words.
* Target audience, prerequisites, and benefits. Proposals must clearly identify the intended audience for the tutorial (e.g., novice users of statistical techniques, versus expert researchers in text mining). What background will be required of the audience? Why is this topic important and interesting to the CIKM community? What is the benefit to participants?
* Outline of the tutorial. Enough material should be included to provide a sense of both the scope of material to be covered and the depth to which it will be covered. The more details provided, the better (up to and including links to the actual slides). Presenters should not focus exclusively on their own research results – a CIKM tutorial is not meant to be a forum for promoting one’s own research or product.
* A list of the most important references that will be covered in the tutorial.
* A list of forums, dates, and locations where this or a closely related tutorial has been presented before. Please highlight the similarities and differences between previous related tutorials, and the one proposed for CIKM 2023, using up to 150 words for each.
* A short bio for each presenter, including their expertise related to the tutorial. Please do not exceed 200 words per presenter.
* (Optional) URLs of the slides/notes of the previous presentations of this tutorial by the current set of authors.
* Any specific audio, video, or computer requirements for presenting the tutorial.
The length of the whole proposal should be limited to 4 pages in the ACM proceedings template (double column). Instructions and suitable LATEX, Microsoft Word, and Overleaf templates are available from the ACM Website (use the “sigconf” proceedings template): ACM Primary Article Template.
Please submit your tutorial proposal as a PDF file, choosing the “tutorial track” on the CIKM 2024 online submission system.
Please note that the organizers of accepted tutorials will be invited to submit a camera-ready summary of the tutorial, to be included in the CIKM 2024 conference proceedings.
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Selection Procedure
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The selection process will prioritize:
* The ability of the tutorial to contribute to strengthening the foundations of CIKM-related research or to broaden the field to look at important new challenges and techniques.
* Likely audience interest
* The experience and skill of the presenters
* The value of any materials released with the tutorial for the community.
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Chairs Contact Information
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For further information, please contact the Tutorial Chairs at: CIKM2024-tutorial [at] easychair [dot] org
Dafna Shahaf, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Isreal
Mahantesh Halappanavar, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Balder ten Cate (ILLC, University of Amsterdam, chair)
Daniel Gutzman (Ruhr University of Bochum, local co-chair)
Area Chairs Language and Computation (LaCo)
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- Nicholas Asher (IRIT/CNRS Toulouse)
- Martha Lewis (ILLC, University Amsterdam)
- Valerio Basile (University of Turin)
Area Chairs Language and Logic (LaLo)
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- Daniel Altshuler (Oxford University)
- Elin McCready (Aoyama Gakuin University)
- Judith Tonhauser (University of Stuttgart)
Area Chairs Logic and Computation (LoCo)
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- 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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2nd Call for Shared Task Participation on Visually Grounded Story
Generation
Introducing the Visually Grounded Story Generation (VGSG
<https://vgsg2024.github.io/>) Challenge, a shared task at the
Generation Challenges workshop at INLG 2024
<https://inlg2024.github.io/>in Tokyo, Japan!
This task invites enthusiasts in vision-and-language integration to push
the boundaries of vision-based story generation. This shared task aims
to generate stories grounded on a sequence of images. Participants will
explore the intricate relations between visual prompts and textual
stories, fostering innovations in techniques for coherent, visually
grounded story generation. This task is particularly challenging
because: 1) the output story should be a narratively coherent text with
multiple sentences, and 2) the protagonists in the generated stories
need to be grounded in the images. In addition, we also elicit
submissions to fine-tune existing multimodal models efficiently, which
is exciting for both industry and academics.
Major progress has been made by the industry in vision-based text
generation in the last few years. While generating descriptions from
images or videos is widely available, grounded story generation is not
evaluated with a benchmark. Investigating vision-based story generation
requires several capabilities including commonsense reasoning and
content planning.
We're calling for submissions that demonstrate novel approaches to
generating narratives that are not only coherent but also visually
grounded. We particularly welcome participants to explore the following
aspects of multimodal story generation:
*
Retrieval Augmented Generation
*
Active Learning or Curriculum Learning
*
Human-in-the-loop Generation
*
Psycholinguistics-Driven Methods
*
Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning
*
Self-Supervised Learning
*
Reinforcement Learning
*
Generative Adversarial Network and Diffusion Models
Both automatic and human evaluations will be used. Participants can
submit a 4-page report, which will be peer-reviewed and included in the
INLG 2024 proceedings if accepted. Participants will present their
systems in a poster session at the Generation Challenges workshop.
Whether it's through advanced computational models, innovative narrative
techniques, or new data processing methods, your contribution can help
illuminate the paths toward more intuitive, human-like story generation
from visual inputs. Join us in this endeavor to bridge the gap between
visual prompts and story generation, and help set the stage for the next
leap in vision and language research.
Important dates:
Apr 15, 2024: Release of Data (see website for download)
June 15, 2024: Team Registration Deadline
June 15, 2024: System Submission for Validation Open
June 23, 2024: System Submission for Test Open
July 1, 2024: System Submission Deadline
July 8, 2024: System Report Submission Deadline
July 23-Aug 8, 2024: Evaluation Period
Aug 8, 2024: System Report Review Notification
Aug 15, 2024: Camera Ready Deadline for System Reports
Sep 23-24: Presentation at INLG 2024
To participate, please fill in this Google Form
<https://forms.gle/W4rrXDJVRoNkFDQs9>(https://forms.gle/W4rrXDJVRoNkFDQs9
<https://forms.gle/W4rrXDJVRoNkFDQs9>). For more information, visit the
VGSG website <https://vgsg2024.github.io/>(https://vgsg2024.github.io/
<https://vgsg2024.github.io/>) or read our shared task proposal
<https://aclanthology.org/2023.inlg-genchal.3.pdf>(https://aclanthology.org/2023.inlg-genchal.3.pdf
<https://aclanthology.org/2023.inlg-genchal.3.pdf>).
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*************** First Call for Papers ***************
The 19th International Workshop on
ONTOLOGY MATCHING
(OM-2024)
http://om.ontologymatching.org/2024/
November 11th or 12th, 2024,
International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) Workshop Program,
Live! Casino & Hotel Maryland, Baltimore, USA.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES
Ontology matching is a key interoperability enabler for the Semantic Web,
as well as a useful technique in some classical data integration tasks
dealing with the semantic heterogeneity problem. It takes ontologies
as input and determines as output an alignment, that is, a set of
correspondences between the semantically related entities of those ontologies.
These correspondences can be used for various tasks, such as ontology
merging, data interlinking, query answering or navigation over knowledge graphs.
Thus, matching ontologies enables the knowledge and data expressed
with the matched ontologies to interoperate.
The workshop has three goals:
1.
To bring together leaders from academia, industry and user institutions
to assess how academic advances are addressing real-world requirements.
The workshop will strive to improve academic awareness of industrial
and final user needs, and therefore, direct research towards those needs.
Simultaneously, the workshop will serve to inform industry and user
representatives about existing research efforts that may meet their
requirements. The workshop will also investigate how the ontology
matching technology is going to evolve, especially with respect to
data interlinking, knowledge graph and web table matching tasks.
2.
To conduct an extensive and rigorous evaluation of ontology matching
and instance matching (link discovery) approaches through
the OAEI (Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative) 2024 campaign:
http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2024/
3.
To examine similarities and differences from other, old, new and emerging,
techniques and usages, such as web table matching or knowledge embeddings.
TOPICS of interest include but are not limited to:
Business and use cases for matching (e.g., big, open, closed data);
Requirements to matching from specific application scenarios;
Formal foundations and frameworks for matching;
Novel matching methods, including link prediction, ontology-based access;
Matching and knowledge graphs;
Matching and deep learning;
Matching and embeddings;
Matching and big data;
Matching and linked data;
Instance matching, data interlinking and relations between them;
Privacy-aware matching;
Process model matching;
Large-scale and efficient matching techniques;
Matcher selection, combination and tuning;
User involvement (including both technical and organizational aspects);
Explanations in matching;
Social and collaborative matching;
Uncertainty in matching;
Expressive alignments;
Reasoning with alignments;
Alignment coherence and debugging;
Alignment management;
FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) alignments;
Matching for traditional applications (e.g., data science);
Matching for emerging applications (e.g., web tables, knowledge graphs).
SUBMISSIONS
Contributions to the workshop can be made in terms of technical papers and
posters/statements of interest addressing different issues of ontology matching
as well as participating in the OAEI 2024 campaign. Long technical papers should
be of max. 12 pages. Short technical papers should be of max. 6 pages.
Posters/statements of interest should not exceed 3 pages.
All contributions have to be prepared using the CEUR-ART, 1-column style.
Overleaf page for LaTeX users is available at
https://www.overleaf.com/read/gwhxnqcghhdt,
while offline version with the style files is available from
http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip.
Submissions should be uploaded in PDF format
through the workshop submission site at:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=om2024
Contributors to the OAEI 2024 campaign have to follow the campaign conditions
and schedule at http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2024/.
DATES FOR TECHNICAL PAPERS AND POSTERS:
August 9th, 2024: Deadline for the submission of papers.
August 30th, 2024: Deadline for the notification of acceptance/rejection.
September 9th, 2024: Workshop camera ready copy submission.
November 11th or 12th, 2024: OM-2024, Live! Casino & Hotel Maryland, Baltimore, USA.
Contributions will be refereed by the Program Committee.
Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings as a volume of CEUR-WS as well as indexed on DBLP.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
1. Pavel Shvaiko
Trentino Digitale, Italy
2. Jérôme Euzenat
INRIA & Univ. Grenoble Alpes, France
3. Ernesto Jiménez-Ruiz
City, University of London, UK & SIRIUS, University of Oslo, Norway
4. Oktie Hassanzadeh
IBM Research, USA
5. Cássia Trojahn
IRIT, France
6. Sven Hertling
FIZ Karlsruhe, Germany
7. Huanyu Li
Linköping University, Sweden
PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be added soon).
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*TL;DR:*
BRACIS 2024 Call for Papers - The 34th Brazilian Conference on Intelligent
Systems (BRACIS) will be held in Belém, Brazil, from November 17-21, 2024.
This is Brazil's primary AI and CI event. It invites the submission of
research papers on various AI topics. Please visit the website
<https://bracis.sbc.org.br/2024/> for more information
about the location and venue. *Key dates: submission by June 13,*
*2024; notifications by August 10, 2024; and camera-ready copies by
August20, 2024*. The conference features a double-anonymous review process
and
introduces four tracks, including a new "Published Papers in Top Venues"
track.
Best papers may be invited for special issue publications.
Submissions are via JEMS <https://jems.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=4616>. More
details are as follows.
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The Program Committee of the 34th Brazilian Conference on Intelligent
Systems (BRACIS) invites submissions of original research papers for the
conference to be held in Belém, PA, Brazil. **First edition in the North
Region** from November 17th to 21st, 2024.
BRACIS is the most important event in Brazil for researchers interested in
publishing significant and novel results related to Artificial and
Computational Intelligence. The Brazilian Conference on Intelligent Systems
(BRACIS) originated from the combination of the two most important
scientific events in Brazil in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and
Computational Intelligence (CI): the Brazilian Symposium on Artificial
Intelligence - SBIA (21 editions), and the Brazilian Symposium on Neural
Networks - SBRN (12 editions). BRACIS, which previously had 12 editions,
will now be recognized as the 34th edition when considering its history and
the 21 editions of SBIA. The 34th BRACIS plays a pivotal role in AI in
Brazil, serving as a hub for promoting theoretical concepts and
applications in Artificial and Computational Intelligence. The event
fosters a space for exchanging scientific ideas among researchers,
practitioners, scientists, and engineers working toward advancing
Artificial and Computational Intelligence science. This aligns with the
goals of other major international conferences proposed in a similar period
in the history of AI, such as the 37th AAAI, 32nd IJCAI, and 37th NeurIPS
(formerly called NIPS). The 33 previous editions of BRACIS highlight the
pioneering of the Brazilian AI Community.
**Please note that this year, we are inaugurating the track submissions.See
further details in the Submission Details section. **
IMPORTANT DATESa
-* Paper submission - June 13th, 2024 - AoE**
- Notification to authors - August 10th, 2024.
- Camera-ready copy due - August 20th, 2024.
SPECIAL ISSUES
Authors of the best papers will be invited to submit extended versions of
their work to be appreciated for publication in special issues after the
conference.
SUBMISSION DETAILS
Please note that the BRACIS submission is double-anonymous. This means
that both the reviewer and author's identities and institutions are
concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa, throughout the review
process. To facilitate this, authors need to ensure that their manuscripts
are prepared in a way that does not reveal their identity.
If you have published a non-anonymous version of your paper online before
paper submission (e.g. arXiv), you can send an anonymous version to the
conference. No references to the non-anonymous version should appear in the
anonymous version, and you should inform the PC chairs that there is a
non-anonymous version. You cannot update the online version nor publish
information regarding the work on social media during the paper review
period, as it can compromise the double-double-anonymous review process.
We strongly encourage making code and data available anonymously (e.g., in
an anonymous GitHub repository via Anonymous GitHub or in a Dropbox folder).
Submitted papers must be written in English and be at most 15 pages,
including all tables, figures, references, and appendices. Formatting
instructions, as well as templates for Word and LaTeX, are available
at ConferenceProceedings guidelines
<https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…>
.
Springer's proceedings LaTeX templates are also available in Overleaf
<https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/springer-lecture-notes-in-computer…>
.
All submitted papers will be reviewed by at least three experts in the
field. Accepted papers will be included in the BRACIS proceedings and
submitted for publication in Springer in Lecture Notes in Artificial
Intelligence (LNAI) series. Only PDF files can be uploaded to the
submission system.
For each accepted paper, at least one author must register for the
conference and present the paper at the conference venue.
Submissions must be made online using JEMS
<https://jems.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=4616>.
** ATTENTION - About the use of LLMs **
Generative AI models (including Chat-GPT, BARD, LLaMA, Gemini, etc.) or
similar LLMs do not meet the article authorship criteria for BRACIS 2024.
However, we encourage articles that describe research on or involving such
advanced AI models and tools.
Authors who use an LLM in any part of the article writing process take full
responsibility for all content, including checking for plagiarism and
correcting all text. We suggest that this use be properly mentioned in the
Acknowledgments section, with no harm in the evaluation process.
****** Tracks submission: New in this edition *******
This year, BRACIS will have four tracks:
1. Main track: original works showing novel AI methods with sound
results.
2. AI applications for Social Good: original works presenting novel
Social
Good applications using established AI methods.
3. General applications: original works presenting novel applications
using
established AI methods, naturally considering the ethical aspects of the
application.
4. Published papers: papers published in top AI conferences or journals
in
2023 or 2024 (as a guide, consider the international rankings CS Metrics
<https://csmetrics.net/> and CS rankings
<https://csrankings.org/#/index?ai&vision&mlmining&nlp&inforet&robotics&us> by
selecting AI area or subareas; others can also be considered).
Tracks 1-3 will have no distinction regarding the publication format and
the publication in the proceedings. For Track 4, authors must submit a
publishable 2-pages extended abstract (references can be on additional
pages) that does not
violate the copyright of the previous publication. The accepted papers of
all tracks will have the same slot for presentation during the conference.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
Submissions should include significant and unpublished research on all
aspects of Artificial Intelligence (AI) or Computational Intelligence (CI).
Topics of interest include (but are not restricted to):
- Agent-based and Multi-Agent Systems
- Cognitive Modeling and Human Interaction
- Constraints and Search
- Foundations of AI
- Distributed AI
- Information Retrieval, Integration, and Extraction
- Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
- Commonsense Reasoning
- Model-Based Reasoning
- Probabilistic Reasoning, and Approximate Reasoning
- Ontologies and the Semantic Web
- Logic-based Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
- Natural Language Processing
- Planning and Scheduling
- Evolutionary Computation and Metaheuristics
- Fuzzy Systems
- Neural Networks
- Deep Learning
- Machine Learning and Data Mining
- Meta-learning
- Reinforcement Learning
- Molecular and Quantum Computing
- Pattern Recognition and Cluster Analysis
- Hybrid Systems
- Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering using AI
- Combinatorial and Numerical Optimization
- Computer Vision
- Education for AI and AI for Education
- Forecasting
- Game Playing and Intelligent Interactive Entertainment
- Intelligent Robotics
- Multidisciplinary AI and CI
- Foundation Models
- Large Language Models
- Human-centric AI
- Generative AI
- Ethics in AI
GENERAL CHAIR
André Ponce (ICMC/USP)
PROGRAM CHAIRS
Aline Paes (IC/UFF)
Filipe A. N. Verri (IEC/ITA)
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*Profa. Dra. Aline Paes (she/her)*
*Associate professor - Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence)*
Institute of Computing / Universidade Federal Fluminense (IC/UFF)
Member of CE-PLN <https://sites.google.com/view/ce-pln/inicio> and BPLN
<https://brasileiraspln.com/>
CNPq PQ-E and FAPERJ JCNE
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url: www.ic.uff.br/~alinepaes
Av Gal Milton Tavares de Souza, S/N, Computing Building, Office 504
São Domingos, Niterói, RJ, Brazil. ZIP 24210-346
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The 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2025) will take place in Abu Dhabi, UAE, January 19-24 2025. COLING 2025 invites the submission of long and short papers featuring substantial, original, and unpublished research in all aspects of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing.
Relevant topics include, but are not limited to, the following areas:
Dialogue and Interactive Systems
Discourse and Pragmatics
Document Classification and Topic Modeling
Ethics, Bias, and Fairness
Information Extraction
Information Retrieval and Text Mining
Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP
Language Modeling
Language Resources and Evaluation
Linguistic Insights Derived using Computational Techniques
Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics
Low-Resource and Efficient Methods for NLP
Machine Learning for Computational Linguistics and NLP
Machine Translation and Translation Aids
Multilingualism and Language Diversity
Multimodal and Grounded Language Acquisition
NLP and LLM Applications (such as Education, Healthcare, Finance, Legal NLP, Computational Social Science, etc.)
Natural Language Generation
Offensive Speech Detection and Analysis
Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation
Question Answering
Lexical Semantics
Sentence-level Semantics (Textual Inference, Paraphrasing, etc)
Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, Opinion and Argument Mining
Speech Recognition and Synthesis, and Spoken Language Understanding
Summarization and Simplification
Syntactic analysis (tagging, chunking, parsing)
Vision and Robotics
Papers targeting any of these topics from the perspective of the Sustainability Goals of the UN are especially welcome.
Important Dates
All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”).
Deadline for direct submissions September 16, 2024
Commitment deadline for ARR papers October 20, 2024
Notification of acceptance for COLING 2025 November 29, 2024
Tutorials and Workshops January 19-20, 2025
Main Conference January 21-24, 2025
Submission Details
COLING 2025 invites the submission of long papers of up to eight pages and short papers of up to four pages. These page limits only apply to the main body of the paper. At the end of the paper, after the main body but before the references, papers need to include a mandatory section discussing the limitations of the work and, optionally, a section discussing ethical considerations. Papers can include unlimited pages of references and an unlimited appendix. Authors must follow the two-column format of *ACL conferences.
COLING 2025 adopts the ACL Ethics Policy.
Submissions will only be accepted in PDF format, with optional supplementary materials such as software and data. Deviations from the provided templates will result in rejection without review.
COLING 2025 will allow two routes for paper submission:
Direct submission: Papers submitted via this route will undergo a normal review process. Papers will be assigned to three reviewers and authors will have the opportunity to provide a short rebuttal to clarify any misunderstandings.
ARR papers: Papers which have already been reviewed through the ACL Rolling Review (ARR) system can be committed to COLING 2025. These papers will not be re-reviewed. Senior Area Chairs and Program Chairs will make acceptance decisions based on the ARR reviews and meta-reviews.
The review process will be double-blind. Reviewers will not see authors, authors will not see reviewers. Reviews and submissions will not be made publicly visible.
Anonymity Period
COLING 2025 will follow the ACL Anonymity Policy. As a result, no anonymity period will be required, although authors are still cautioned against extensive advertising. The submissions themselves must still be fully anonymized.
Multiple Submission Policy
Papers which are submitted to COLING 2025 cannot be under review for other conferences or journals at the same time. The commitment process is treated as being under review for a conference. Authors can either commit their paper through ARR or directly submit it to the conference. Papers reviewed and committed to the conference through ARR cannot be submitted directly to the
conference. In addition, we will not consider any paper that overlaps significantly in content or results with papers that will be (or have been) published elsewhere. Submissions that violate these requirements will be desk rejected.
Website: http://coling2025.org/
Contact Information
General chairs
Owen Rambow, Stony Brook University
Leo Wanner, ICREA, Pompeu Fabra University
Program co-chairs
Marianna Apidianaki, University of Pennsylvania
Hend Al-Khalifa, King Saud University
Barbara Di Eugenio, University of Illinois Chicago
Steven Schockaert, Cardiff University
For questions about submissions: coling2025-programchairs(a)googlegroups.com