August 2024 - Corpora

Call for submissions: Conference on Rational Approaches in Language Science (RAILS)
by Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb 16 Sep '24

16 Sep '24

Call for submissions: Conference on Rational Approaches in Language Science (RAILS) The 2nd Conference on Rational Approaches in Language Science (RAILS) will be held in Saarbruecken, Germany, 13-15 February 2025. The central theme of this conference is rational communication, i.e. the idea that language users continuously strive to optimize their means of communication to effectively convey their intended messages. RAILS brings together research on (1) how interlocutors process and update information in diverse situational contexts, (2) how language use is adapted to certain contexts and intended referents, and (3) how linguistic and conceptual information is stored and maintained in short- and long-term memory. We invite submissions from researchers across the language sciences – including speech science, theoretical linguistics, empirical linguistics, psycholinguistics and neuroscience, computational linguistics, as well as language development, change and evolution – who apply rational probabilistic explanations to linguistic phenomena, or bring novel experimental findings to bear on such accounts. Keynote speakers: Mark Dingemanse (Radboud University) Richard Futrell (University of California, Irvine) Adele Goldberg (Princeton University) Rachel Ryskin (University of California, Merced) Submission guidelines: Abstracts should be submitted as a single PDF file via https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/43090/submissions/new <https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/43090/submissions/new?behalf=false&f…>, adhering to the guidelines listed on our conference website <https://sfb1102.uni-saarland.de/sfb-conference-2025/>. We accept submissions for posters and/or talks. Talks are slated for 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for questions. Submission of planned work is invited for poster presentation only. Note that, if accepted, we expect results to be presented at the conference. Important dates: Submissions open: 8 July, 2024 Submissions due: 16 September, 2024 Notification of acceptance: 4 November, 2024 Registration period: 11 November-16 December, 2024 De-anonymized abstracts due in final form: 2 December, 2024 Conference: 13-15 February, 2025 Scientific Committee: Regine Bader Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb Katja Haeuser Robin Lemke Ivan Yuen Scientific and financial support for this conference comes from the Collaborative Research Center SFB1102 Information Density and Linguistic Encoding <https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sfb110…>. For inquiries, please send an email to rails2025(a)lst.uni-saarland.de <mailto:rails2025@lst.uni-saarland.de>. Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb Associate Professor Universität des Saarlandes Language Science and Technology Campus A2.2, 1.06 66123 Saarbrücken Tel.: ++49 681 302 70077 E-Mail: s.degaetano(a)mx.uni-saarland.de www.stefaniadegaetano.com

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Asia Pacific Journal of Corpus Research (APJCR) Vol. 4, No. 1 is now available online
by Prof CK Jung 04 Sep '24

04 Sep '24

*Asia Pacific Journal of Corpus Research (APJCR) is now available online:* http://icr.or.kr/ejournals-apjcr *The Incredible Shrinking Noun Phrase: Ongoing Change in Japanese Word Formation*Kevin Heffernan, (Kwansei Gakuin University), JAPAN; Yusuke Imanishi (Kwansei Gakuin University), JAPAN DOI: https://doi.org/10.22925/apjcr.2023.4.1.1 ________________________________________ *Identifying Key Grammatical Errors of Japanese English as a Foreign Language Learners in a Learner Corpus: Toward Focused Grammar Instruction with Data-Driven Learning* Atsushi Mizumoto (Kansai University), JAPAN; Yoichi Watari (Chukyo University), JAPAN DOI: https://doi.org/10.22925/apjcr.2023.4.1.25 ________________________________________ *A Comparison of the Constructions Make / Take a Decision in Malaysian English with the Supervarieties * Christina Sook Beng Ong (Wawasan Open University), MALAYSIA DOI: https://doi.org/10.22925/apjcr.2023.4.1.43 ________________________________________ *Effects of Corpus Use on Error Identification in L2 Writing * Yoshiho Satake (Aoyama Gakuin University), JAPAN DOI: https://doi.org/10.22925/apjcr.2023.4.1.61 --- *CK Jung BEng(Hons) Birmingham MSc Warwick EdD Warwick Cert Oxford* Associate Professor | Department of English Language and Literature, Incheon National University, *South Korea* President | The Korea Association of Secondary English Education, *South Korea *(http://kasee.org) Vice President | The Korea Association of Primary English Education), *South Korea *(http://kapee.or.kr) Director | Institute for Corpus Research, Incheon National University, *South Korea* (http://icr.or.kr) Editor-in-Chief | Asia Pacific Journal of Corpus Research, ICR, *International* (http://icr.or.kr/apjcr) Editorial Board | Corpora, Edinburgh University Press, *UK* Editorial Board | English Today, Cambridge University Press, *UK* E: ckjung(a)inu.ac.kr / T: +82 (0)32 835 8129 H(EN): http://ckjung.org

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CFP: The 4th Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics (WACL-4)
by amalhaddad 30 Aug '24

30 Aug '24

(apologies for cross-posting) Dear colleagues, We are delighted to announce the first CfP for The 4th Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics (WACL-4) @ COLING 2025. The 4th Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics (WACL-4) 20 January 2025, in conjunction with COLING'2025 in Abu Dhabi (UAE). URL: https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/wacl4/ [1] Description The 4th Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics (WACL - 4) will serve as an outstanding international platform for exchanging knowledge and outcomes in the theory, methodology, and applications of language technologies tailored to the diverse range of Arabic dialects. We encourage submissions that span a spectrum from theoretical investigations to practical applications, aiming to address the unique challenges, solutions, and insights that Arabic dialects introduce to the field of NLP. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following * Development and Utilisation of Arabic Dialectal Corpora * Advancements in Natural Language Processing Techniques for Arabic Dialects * Applications and Challenges of Large Language Models in Understanding and Generating Arabic Dialects * Morphological and Syntactical Challenges in Arabic Dialects * Dialect Identification and Classification * Speech Recognition and Synthesis for Arabic Dialects * Machine Translation involving Arabic Dialects * Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining in Arabic Dialects * Named Entity Recognition and Information Extraction for Arabic Dialects * Development of Open Access Resources for Arabic Dialects * Text Processing and Transliteration Challenges for Arabic Dialects * Cultural and Sociolinguistic Considerations in NLP Applications for Arabic Dialects * Resources and Tools for Computational Analysis of Arabic Dialects * Applications of Arabic Dialects NLP in Real-World Scenarios Paper Submission Submissions should adhere to the COLING 2025 standards. Authors are strongly encouraged to review and follow the COLING 2025 submission guidelines and author kit, available at https://coling2025.org/ [2]. Submission link: https://softconf.com/coling2025/WACL-4/ [3] If authors are describing dialectal variations, we request that they include relevant linguistic details and sociolinguistic contexts to enrich the understanding of the presented work. Submissions may be of two types * Long papers - up to eight (8) pages including references, presenting substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. * Short papers - up to four (4) pages including references, describing a small focused contribution, negative results, or system demonstrations, etc. Important dates * Call for Papers Announcement: 07 August 2024 * Abstract Submission Deadline: 03 October 2024 * Paper Submission Deadline: 10 October 2024 * Notification of Paper Acceptance: 1 November 2024 * Camera-ready Paper Deadline: 15 November 2024 * Workshop Date: 20th January 2025 Organising Committee * Saad Ezzini, Lancaster University, UK (General Chair) * Hamza Alami, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Morocco (Programme Co-Chair) * Ismail Berrada, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco (Programme Co-Chair) * Abdessamad Benlahbib, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Morocco (Programme Co-Chair) * Abdelkader El Mahdaouy, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco (Review Chair) * Salima Lamsiyah, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg (Publication Chair) * Nouran Khallaf, Leeds University, UK (Publicity Co-Chair) * Hatim Derrouz, Ibn Tofail University, Morocco (Publicity Co-Chair) * Amal Haddad, University of Granada, Spain (Publicity Co-Chair) * Mustafa Jarrar, Birzeit University, Palestine (Advisory Committee) * Mo El-Haj, Lancaster University, UK (Advisory Committee) * Ruslan Mitkov, Lancaster University, UK (Advisory Committee) * Paul Rayson, Lancaster University, UK (Advisory Committee) Anti-Harassment policy The workshop supports the COLING anti-harassment policy https://coling2022.org/policy [4] Links: ------ [1] https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/wacl4/ [2] https://coling2025.org/ [3] https://softconf.com/coling2025/WACL-4/ [4] https://coling2022.org/policy

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CFP: International Workshop on Nakba Narratives as Language Resources (Nakba-NLP 2025)
by amalhaddad 30 Aug '24

30 Aug '24

Nakba-NLP 2025 International Workshop on Nakba Narratives as Language Resources Part of the COLING 2025 Conference Abu Dhabi (virtual) January 20, 2025 https://sina.birzeit.edu/nakba-nlp [1] We invite submissions for Nakba-NLP 2025, a workshop dedicated to exploring and preserving Nakba narratives through the application of artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and corpus linguistics. We seek contributions on the following topics: ◈ Digitization of oral and written narratives ◈ Creation and labeling of language corpora and datasets ◈ Digital archives, metadata, and semantic/content mark-up ◈ Annotation tools and annotation guidelines ◈ Document classification, topic modeling, and information retrieval ◈ Named entity recognition for identifying people, places, organizations, and events ◈ Entity linking and relationship extraction ◈ Event detection and event argument extraction ◈ Knowledge Graphs and Linked Data ◈ Vocabularies, dictionaries, and ontologies ◈ Data visualization ◈ Knowledge representation ◈ Machine translation, summarisation, and paraphrasing ◈ Natural Language Generation ◈ Large Language Models ◈ Sentiment analysis and emotional content extraction ◈ Discourse analysis (e.g., bias, offensive language, and misinformation) related to Nakba narratives ◈ Voice & dialogue-based systems; ASR ◈ Palestinian dialects (written and spoken) Suggested Datasets: a list of datasets can be found here https://t.ly/00Ul6 [2] Important Dates: ===================== All deadlines are 11:59 pm UTC-12 (anywhere on Earth). - Submission Deadline: 25 November 2024 - Notifications of Acceptance: 5 December 2024 - Camera Ready Deadline: 13 December 2024 (cannot be changed) Organizing Committee: ===================== - Mustafa Jarrar, Birzeit University, Palestine - Nizar Habash, New York University, UAE - Mo El-Haj, Lancaster University, UK - Zeina Jallad, Harvard Law School, USA - Camille Mansour, Paris-Sorbonne University, France - Diana Allan, McGill University, Canada - Paul Rayson, Lancaster University, UK Publicity Chairs ===================== - Amal Haddad, University of Granada, Spain - Sanad Malaysha, Birzeit University, Palestine Contact: Nakba-NLP25_coling2025(a)softconf.com Links: ------ [1] https://sina.birzeit.edu/nakba-nlp/ [2] https://t.ly/00Ul6

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CFP: The 1st Workshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic Script (AbjadNLP 2025)
by amalhaddad 30 Aug '24

30 Aug '24

CALL FOR PAPERS CALL FOR PAPERS: THE 1ST WORKSHOP ON NLP FOR LANGUAGES USING ARABIC SCRIPT (ABJADNLP 2025) https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/abjad/cfp/ Co-located with COLING 2025 Conference, Abu Dhabi, UAE (19-20 January 2025) Submission URL [1] AbjadNLP is dedicated to advancing innovation and gaining deeper insights into Natural Language Processing (NLP) for languages that use the Arabic script. Our primary focus is on Abjad and Ajami languages that utilise the Arabic script or its variations. Traditionally associated with Semitic languages, Abjad scripts represent consonants in every syllable. In contrast, Ajami scripts denote the alphabetic use of the Arabic script in various African contexts, representing non-Arabic languages. We are interested in research on languages that fall under the Abjad or Ajami categories that use the Arabic script or any variations of it. We invite contributions, discussions, and explorations that delve deep into the unique linguistic structures, resources, challenges, and untapped potential presented by Abjad and Ajami languages within the realm of NLP and language resources. Our goal is to create synergies among researchers by addressing the diverse phenomena and challenges inherent in these rich linguistic traditions. The workshop is proud to highlight our connections with the Masakhane NLP community and collaborations with institutions worldwide, such as COMSATS on Urdu, and the long-standing UCREL NLP Group at Lancaster University, whose work encompasses over 20 languages worldwide, including Abjad and Ajami languages. Note: We chose the name Abjad for simplicity, but our focus includes Abjad and other languages that have adopted the Arabic and Perso-Arabic scripts, as well as Ajami languages. We acknowledge that Sorani Kurdish, when written in Arabic script, follows an alphabet style rather than an Abjad style. TOPICS OF INTEREST: * Core Technologies: morphological analysis, disambiguation, tokenisation, POS tagging, named entity detection, chunking, parsing, semantic role labelling, sentiment analysis, language modelling, etc. * Applications: machine translation, speech recognition, speech synthesis, optical character recognition, assistive technologies, social media, etc. * Resources and Tools: dictionaries, annotated data, corpora, orthography descriptions, font technology, glyph rendering, text input methodologies, spell-checking, speech-to-text solutions, BLARK descriptions, open access corpora. * Cultural and Sociolinguistic Considerations: text processing, transliteration challenges, and solutions, cultural contexts in NLP applications. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: We follow the COLING 2025 standards for submission format and guidelines. Submissions should conform to the following types: * Long papers: Up to eight (8) pages, presenting substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. * Short papers: Up to four (4) pages, describing a small focused contribution, negative results, system demonstrations, etc. KEY DATES: * 1st Call for Papers Announcement: 16 July 2024 * 2nd Call for Papers Announcement: 16 August 2024 * Paper Submission Deadline: 15 November 2024 * Notification of Paper Acceptance: 6 December 2024 * Camera-ready Paper Deadline: 13 December 2024 * Workshop Date: 19 or 20 January 2025 ORGANISING COMMITTEE: General Chair: Mo El-Haj, Lancaster University Programme Chairs: * Hugh Paterson III, Collaborative Scholar * Saad Ezzini, Lancaster University * Ignatius Ezeani, Lancaster University Review Committee: * Mahum Hayat Khan, University of La Rioja * Muhammad Sharjeel, COMSATS University Islamabad Publication Chair: Sina Ahmadi, University of Zurich Publicity Chairs: * Cynthia Amol, Maseno University * Amal Haddad Haddad, University of Granada * Jaleh Delfani, University of Surrey Advisory Committee: * Ruslan Mitkov, Lancaster University * Paul Rayson, Lancaster University Links: ------ [1] https://softconf.com/coling2025/AbjadNLP25/

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Multilingual Encoder-Decoder models
by liling tan 29 Aug '24

29 Aug '24

Hi all, In the age of decoder-only LLMs, I'll like to ask if there's any competitive encoder-decoder architectures that are known to scale well for multilingual seq2seq tasks? - https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/en/model_doc/mt5 - https://huggingface.co/facebook/m2m100_418M - https://huggingface.co/google-bert/bert-base-multilingual-cased + https://www.kaggle.com/code/alvations/neural-plasticity-bert2bert-on-wmt14 - https://huggingface.co/Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-en-mul + https://huggingface.co/Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-mul-en - https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/en/model_doc/umt5 There's these that reported state-of-the-art NLI scores but they were not known to be multilingual - https://huggingface.co/google/ul2 - https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/en/model_doc/flan-t5 - https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/en/model_doc/byt5 There's some ideas on doing encoder with mamba https://github.com/state-spaces/mamba/issues/78 but it looks like an open question. Other than the above, are there any competitive encoder-decoder architectures that are known to scale well for multilingual seq2seq tasks? Thank you in advance for the pointers! Regards, Liling

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corpora of technologies? ...
by Albretch Mueller 29 Aug '24

29 Aug '24

In the main, the Greek word "philology" has been taken as meaning "bibliosophy". I argue, it shouldn't mainly or just be about books. I have tried unsuccessful searches on: "corpora research" "technologies"; "corpora research" "patents"; ... to have search engines make sense of it in their own ways, not as meaning a corpus of technologies as such. Lewis Mumford in his worthwhile "Technics and Civilization" considers the first "eotechnic" phase of technologically civilized life approximately from AD 1000 AD 1800, a time frame during which the mechanical clock took relevance as a coordinating device. Yet, since around 600 BC Ancient Ionian/Greek philosophers had been pondering about techne and its relationship to concrete engineering and social technologies, including its intersubjective and moral aspects. Solon wondered about the relationship between techne and virtue and Plato dedicated in explicit and inferred way most of his dialogues to that theme. Mumford also pointed out that there have always been the kind of scientists and engineers such as Archimedes, Galileo, Agricola, Euler and Franz Reuleaux; who saw their business in "techne-like" ways. Basically, they take simple physical devices such as the lever, the wheel and the pulley (already more of a mechanism), to which the pressure gradient force in air naturally making windmills move and electromagnetic forces both as they happen in fields and on a quantum mechanical level on diodes, transistors and LEDs should be also included. Those most simple processes are seen as kinds of characters of an alphabet out of which mechanisms: "words" and "lexical bundles" of sort are contrived to create machines in a through and through "textual" way by chaining "kinematic pairs" in a way that at each juncture physical conservation laws apply. Cross correlating the pieces of such technological texts in a DAG kind of way you naturally build a corpus. So, as ancient philosophers intuited long ago the whole of society is a corpus. Do you know of any prior art relating to such corpora research? Please, if you do could you point me to such resources in a way that I can access them? I am what they call an independent researcher and it is virtually impossible for me to work. lbrtchx: corpora of technologies? ...

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23 fully funded PhD positions in The Finnish Doctoral Program Network in Artificial Intelligence
by Tiedemann, Jörg 28 Aug '24

28 Aug '24

The Finnish Doctoral Program Network in Artificial Intelligence (AI-DOC) is looking for new PhD students to work in fundamental AI and machine learning research and in five application areas. Come do a PhD tackling challenging research questions in a network that fosters industry and multidisciplinary collaboration! More information: https://fcai.fi/doctoral-program Application deadline: September 9 ***************************************************************** Jörg Tiedemann Language Technology https://blogs.helsinki.fi/language-technology/ University of Helsinki

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ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems CFP: RecSys 4 Good
by antonela.tommasel＠isistan.unicen.edu.ar 28 Aug '24

28 Aug '24

CALL FOR PAPERS: ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems Special Issue on Recommender Systems for Good Submission deadline: 24. December 2024 Guest Editors: - Marko Tkalčič, University of Primorska, Slovenia - Noemi Mauro, University of Turin, Italy - Alan Said, University of Gothenburg, Sweden - Nava Tintarev, University of Maastricht, Netherlands - Antonela Tommasel, ISISTAN, CONICET-UNCPBA, Argentina Recommender systems are among the most widely used applications of machine learning. Since they are so widely used, it is important that we, as practitioners and researchers, think about the impact these systems may have on users, society, and other stakeholders. In practice, the focus is often on systems and values of improving key performance indicators (KPIs), such as increased sales or customer retention. Recommendation technology is currently underutilized to serve societal goals that go beyond the business objectives of individual corporations. However, other values, bound more to societal good, could be considered in the development and goals of a recommender system. In fact, recommender systems have already been explored to stimulate healthier eating behavior and for improved health and well-being in general, to help low-income families make school choices, to suggest successful learning paths for students, to entice climate-protecting energy-saving behavior, to support fair micro-lending, or improve the information diets of news readers. Research in these areas is however limited in numbers, compared to the many papers that are published every year that propose new models for improved movie recommendations. Moreover, concerning the methodology and evaluation perspective in this area, it is essential to find a clear methodology and criteria for evaluating the effectiveness and "goodness" of the proposed algorithms. This includes acknowledging that different values may be conflicting, as well as resolving how and when (and by whom) certain values should be prioritized over others such as in the NORMalize workshop (https://sites.google.com/view/normalizeworkshop). Research on "Recommender Systems for Good" may benefit from an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on insights from fields such as computer science, ethics, sociology, psychology, law, and economics. Collaborations with stakeholders from diverse backgrounds can enrich the research and ensure that recommendations are grounded in real-world needs and values. This special issue aims to present state-of-the-art research works where recommender systems have a positive societal impact and help us address urgent societal challenges. It will thereby serve as a call to action for more research in these areas. Ultimately, through this special issue, we hope to establish a vision of "Recommender Systems for Good', following the spirit of the "AI for Good" initiative (https://aiforgood.itu.int) to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (2015) and the more recent UNESCO recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (2024) (https://www.unesco.org/en/artificial-intelligence/recommendation-ethics). Topics: We aim to collect the latest research on recommender systems for societal good. The topics of the special issues include (but are not limited to): - Recommender systems for safety, security, and privacy (e.g., reducing poverty and inequality) - Recommender systems that protect the environment and ecosystems (e.g., lower energy consumption, water and energy management) - Recommender systems that give control of data back to the users (e.g., transparency of data, models, and outputs) - Recommender systems for the interconnected society (e.g., increase of solidarity, online conversational health, multi-stakeholder recommenders) - Accountability in recommender systems, including addressing emerging regulations, such as the DSA (Digital Service Act) - Recommender systems for the public good (e.g., mental and physical health, welfare, digital literacy, stakeholder engagement, e-learning) - Introspective studies on the current state of RSs concerning societal good - Fairness-preserving and fairness-enhancing recommender systems, unbiased recommendations (e.g. to preserve gender equality) - Responsible recommendation (e.g., in social media and traditional news, avoiding filter bubbles and echo chambers) - Sustainability and Cultural recommendations (e.g., art, cultural heritage) - Recommendations to support disadvantaged groups (e.g., elderly, minorities) - Recommender systems for personal development and well-being (e.g., behavioral change, fitness, self-actualization, personal growth) Important Dates: - Submission deadline: December 24, 2024 - First-round review decisions: March 24, 2025 - Deadline for revision submissions: May 24, 2025 - Notification of final decisions: June 24, 2025 Submissions that are received before the first deadline will be directly sent out for review; papers will be immediately published online after acceptance. Submission Information: The special issue welcomes technical research papers, survey papers, and opinion/reflective papers. Each paper should address one or more of the abovementioned topics or be in other scopes of Recommender Systems for Good. The special issue will also consider peer-reviewed journal versions (at least 30% new content) of top papers from related recommender system conferences such as RecSys, SIGIR, KDD, CIKM, IUI, UMAP, CHI, WSDM, ACL, etc. Prospective authors may take advantage of submitting an early version of their work to the ACM RecSys RecSoGood Workshop https://recsogood.github.io/recsogood24/. The new content must be in terms of intellectual contributions, technical experiments, and findings. Submissions must be prepared according to the TORS submission guidelines (https://dl.acm.org/journal/tors/author-guidelines) and must be submitted via Manuscript Central (https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tors). For questions and further information, please contact the guest editors at rs4good [at] acm [dot] org.

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SemDial 2024: Online Participation
by Raffaella Bernardi 28 Aug '24

28 Aug '24

SemDial 2024 -- TrentoLogue The 28th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue 11 and 12 September 2024, University of Trento, Italy https://event.unitn.it/semdial2024/ Upon request, we have opened the registration form for online participation. Important information: Fee 30 EURO Deadline for registration: September 5th at 12:00 PM CEST Deadline for payment: September 9th at 11:59 CEST The Zoom link will be shared with the online participants on September 10th; it will let participants attend the three invited talks and the presentations of the full papers. *Keynote speakers* Uri Hasson, Princeton University Azzurra Ruggeri, Technical University Munich e Central European University Bernardo Magnini, Fondazone Bruno Kessler Full program available at: https://event.unitn.it/semdial2024/#programme Raffaella On behalf of the OC ============================================================== University of Trento CIMeC: C225, second floor, Corso Bettini 31, 38068 Rovereto (TN), DISI: Povo 2, Room: 110, Via Sommarive 9, I 38123, Povo (TN) Tel. +39 0464 80 8704 (CIMeC) http://disi.unitn.it/~bernardi/ ==============================================================

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Applied Sciences: Special Issue on Tokenization and related phenomena
by Yuval Pinter 28 Aug '24

28 Aug '24

Dear Colleagues, As language models take center stage not only in NLP but in a vast array of scientific applications, the question of how it is best to map natural language in textual form into vector space gains more and more interest. While most popular models still use subword tokens as their atomic units, “token-free” methods including character-level, byte-level, and encoding of visual text rendering have been making promising progress. Still, development and analysis of tokenization and untokenization methods is advancing at a slower rate than research in model architecture and optimization technologies, mostly due to the early stage at which representation is applied, which makes evaluation of new algorithms and techniques particularly challenging. Fundamental insights into the effect of representation atomicity on morphological modeling, on multilingual and crosslingual applications, on computation efficiency, on representations of groups in society, and on other aspects, are still being gained, making this research topic ripe for aggregation and integration of findings and methodologies. Our special issue, entitled *Atoms of Representation in Natural Language Processing*, aims to collect such findings and insights, to encourage diving deep into the relationships between language and computation, and to foster holistic approaches and collaboration in development and assessment of different aspects of representation in language models and other NLP systems and applications. Suggested themes and article types for submissions include: - Novel schemas for subword tokenization and for tokenizer application methodologies - Benchmarks and analyses of tokenizer effectiveness and quality, including crosslingual and multilingual setups, morphological aspects, information-theoretic constructions, correlation with quality of learned embeddings and downstream model performance, ability to handle linguistic phenomena, security implications, societal implications, etc. - Development, modification, evaluation, and analysis of token-free representation schemata based on textual input - Development, modification, evaluation, and analysis of token-free representation schemata utilizing multimodal input such as visual, spatial, or acoustic signals; combination of different linguistic signals (auditory, textual, sign language) into a single input framework - Theoretic contributions addressing expressive power or limitations of various textual representation methodologies - Analysis of the textual modality and its representation on the computational level, e.g. of Unicode standards The full call is available here: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/special_issues/2SHP0751R0. Several waiver discounts are available (contact me personally). -- - Yuval Pinter Guest Editor www.yuvalpinter.com

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CFP: 1st Shared Task on Spoken-Query Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval for the Indic Languages (SqCLIR 2024)
by Bhargav Dave 27 Aug '24

27 Aug '24

Apologies for the multiple postings. ----------------------------- Spoken-Query Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval for the Indic Languages (SqCLIR 2024) Website: https://sites.google.com/view/sqclir2024 To be organized in conjunction with FIRE 2024 (fire.irsi.org.in) 12th-15th December 2024, Gandhinagar, India ------------------------------ India is known for its linguistic diversity, featuring a multitude of languages. The Constitution of India recognizes 22 languages under the Eighth Schedule. These include Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Odia, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Bodo, Santhali, Maithili, and Dogri. Building a retrieval system that handles spoken queries in one of India's 22 officially recognized languages and locates relevant passages in a large knowledge base is multifaceted and complex. To our knowledge, spoken-query retrieval is a relatively underexplored area in information retrieval and natural language processing, and it is a multi-lingual version that includes under-resourced languages. In addressing this challenge and exploring a new area, we offer a novel shared task for FIRE 2024 that will allow the development and evaluation of retrieval systems that receive a spoken query as input and search for answers in a document corpus. Overview of Task Task 1: Spoken Query Ad-Hoc Retrieval Data - Monolingual Task Participants are required to develop a Spoken Query Retrieval System that handles monolingual queries. This task involves both the spoken queries and the corpus being in the same language, making the retrieval process more straightforward. The system should accurately interpret spoken queries and retrieve relevant passages from a corpus in the same language. This year, the languages involved in this task are English, Gujarati, Hindi, and Bengali. Task 2: Spoken Query Cross-Lingual Retrieval Participants are required to develop a Spoken Query Retrieval System capable of handling cross-lingual queries. In this task, the spoken queries and the corpus are in different languages, adding complexity to the retrieval process. The system should accurately interpret spoken queries in one language and retrieve the most relevant passages from a corpus in another language. This year, the task will involve English, Hindi, and Bengali. The language pairs for queries and corpus could be any combination of these languages, allowing participants to address various cross-lingual retrieval challenges. Tentative Timeline 20th August - Training Data Released and Registrations open 5th September - Test Data Release 30th September - Run Submission Deadline 10th October - Results Declared 20th October - Working notes due 20th November - Camera Ready Submissions due 12th-15th December - FIRE 2024 at Gandhinagar, India Organizers ---------------- Bhargav Dave, DA-IICT, Gandhinagar, India Debasis Ganguly, University of Glasgow, Scotland Evangelos Kanoulas, University of Amsterdam Prasenjit Majumder, DA-IICT, Gandhinagar, India For regular updates, subscribe to our mailing list: sqclir(a)googlegroups.com

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Job opportunity - Professor in Digital Humanities with focus on images & objects at FAU, Germany
by Michaela Mahlberg 27 Aug '24

27 Aug '24

Dear all, The Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) invites applications for a Full Professor of Digital Humanities with a focus on Images and Objects (salary group W3) at the Department of Digital Humanities and Social Studies (DHSS). This is a full-time and permanent position to be filled by the earliest possible starting date. We seek to appoint a leading expert with an internationally visible profile in research and teaching. The successful candidate must have expertise in several of the following areas: * methods for image and object-based digital humanities * distant viewing * computer-assisted techniques and analytical approaches for researching visual culture * hermeneutics of digital humanities * digitalization of cultural heritage * software development * infrastructures for visual computing. The successful candidate will have a track record in the acquisition of third-party funding and an excellent research profile, demonstrated with internationally visible publications and an established research network. Experience in interdisciplinary collaborative research is desirable, and your research must tie in with the key research priorities at FAU and the faculty. We also expect willingness to participate in innovative courses and to develop innovative teaching concepts. The newly launched Department of Digital Humanities and Social Studies pursues the goal of facilitating world-leading research into the opportunities and challenges of the datafication and algorithmization of society, culture, and human knowledge. The professor will assume a pivotal role in establishing the department and shaping its profile. The organizational structure of the department is based on team resources and encourages collaborative work. Deadline for applications September 29, 2024 More information at https://www.fau.eu/people/working-at-fau/professorships/ All good wishes Michaela -- Professor Michaela Mahlberg https://michaelamahlberg.com/ Alexander-von-Humboldt Professor & Professor of Digital Humanities<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgkKhcwvWgI> Head of Department of Digital Humanities and Social Studies (DHSS)<https://www.dhss.phil.fau.de/> FAU - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg<https://www.fau.de/> Werner-von-Siemens-Str. 61 91052 Erlangen, Germany Editor of the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics <https://benjamins.com/catalog/ijcl> Host of the Life and Language Podcast <https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/michaela-mahlberg/> @MichaMahlberg<https://twitter.com/MichaMahlberg> https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaela-mahlberg/

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JT-DH 2024 (Ljubljana, Slovenia) - Registration
by Špela Arhar Holdt 27 Aug '24

27 Aug '24

Dear Colleagues, If you are interested in attending the Language Technologies and Digital Humanities Conference (JT-DH 2024), please ensure you register by September 8, 2024: https://www.sdjt.si/wp/jtdh-2024/. The conference is organized by ZRC SAZU in collaboration with the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the University of Ljubljana, which will host the event on September 19-20, 2024. We warmly invite you to participate in both the conference and the pre-conference events. Best regards, Špela Arhar Holdt

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3rd Call for Papers for the 22nd Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop - ALTA2024
by Kathy Reid 27 Aug '24

27 Aug '24

Dear Colleagues, We're delighted to announce that the CfP for the 22nd Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association - ALTA 2024 - is now open and closes on 20th September (23:59hrs Anywhere on Earth UTC -12) Details are available on our website at https://alta2024.alta.asn.au/calls/papers and a summary follows. --- Important Dates * Submission deadline for short/long papers, presentation abstracts and industry demonstrations: 20 September 2024 (23:59 Anywhere On Earth UTC-12). * Main conference: 3 December and 4 December 2024, ANU, Canberra, ACT, hybrid (in person and online) Overview The 22nd Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA) will be held in a hybrid format at the Australian National University, Canberra, from 2 December to 4 December 2024 and also online. The ALTA 2024 workshop is the key local forum for socialising research results in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computational Linguistics (CL). It will feature presentations, posters, and demonstrations from students, industry, and academic researchers. Like previous years, we also encourage submissions and participation from industry and government researchers and developers. Note that ALTA is listed in the CORE 2023 Conference Rankings as Australasian C<https://www.core.edu.au/conference-portal>. Topics ALTA invites the submission of papers and presentations on all aspects of NLP and CL, including, but not limited to: * Commonsense Reasoning. * Computational Social Science and Cultural Analytics. * Dialogue and Interactive Systems. * Discourse and Pragmatics. * Efficient Methods for NLP. * Ethics in NLP. * Information Extraction. * Information Retrieval and Text Mining. * Interpretability, Interactivity and Analysis of Models for NLP. * Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond. * Language Modeling and Analysis of Language Models. * Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics. * Machine Learning for NLP. * Machine Translation. * Multilinguality and Linguistic Diversity. * Natural Language Generation. * NLP Applications. * Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation. * Question Answering. * Resources and Evaluation. * Semantics: Lexical, Sentence level, Document Level, Textual Inference, etc. * Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining. * Speech and Multimodality. * Summarisation. * Syntax, Parsing and their Applications. We particularly encourage submissions that broaden the scope of our community by considering practical applications of language technology and multidisciplinary research. We also specifically encourage submissions from the industry. Format and instructions for authors Please refer to our CfP webpage for specifics.<https://alta2024.alta.asn.au/calls/papers> We are using OpenReview for submissions, and invite submissions of three different formats: (1) Original Research Papers, (2) Abstract-based Presentations, and (3) Industry Demonstrations. --- You can follow ALTA on social media at the following links: * LinkedIn (page): https://www.linkedin.com/company/australasian-language-technology-associati… * LinkedIn (group):https://www.linkedin.com/groups/1849979/ * Twitter: https://twitter.com/altanlp * Mastodon: https://sigmoid.social/@ALTAnlp * Hashtag is #ALTA2024 With kind regards, on behalf of the ALTA 2024 Team: Dr Gabriela Ferraro, General Chair Professor Tim Baldwin, Program Chair Dr Sergio José Rodríguez Méndez, Program Chair Dr Nicholas Kuo, Program Chair Dr Anton Malko, Publication Chair Dr Dawei Chen, Technology Chair A/Prof Shunichi Ishihara, Finance Chair Charbel El-Khaissi, PhD candidate, Sponsorship Chair Ned Cooper, PhD candidate, Local Chair Kathy Reid, PhD candidate, Publicity Chair

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Job: Postdoctoral researcher (UClouvain): iRead4skills - Reminder
by Thomas François 26 Aug '24

26 Aug '24

Job : Postdoctoral researcher (UClouvain) : iRead4skills : Intelligent Reading Improvement System for Fundamental and Transversal Skills Development UCLouvain is looking for a post-doctoral researcher in natural language processing or computer science - Full-time (100%) post-doctoral funding for a period of approximately 18 months - for the Centre de traitement automatique du langage (CENTAL), of the Institut langage et communication (ILC) at UCLouvain (Louvain-la-Neuve) - start date: 1 October 2024 (negotiable) Full description of the offer : EN : https://uclouvain.be/en/research-institutes/ilc/cental/news/job-postdoctora… FR : https://uclouvain.be/fr/instituts-recherche/ilc/cental/actualites/job-post-… Application file Application deadline: 1 September 2024 If you are interested in this position, please send your application to Thomas François by email (thomas.francois(a)uclouvain.be<mailto:thomas.francois@uclouvain.be>). This should include : 1. a detailed curriculum vitae in French or English, including the various qualifications and skills required, details of your academic career (years of study, degrees obtained, honours), as well as scientific publications and other academic and scientific achievements; 2. a covering letter in French, describing your interest in the position ; how your profile meets the description of the position and the objectives of the project, etc. (maximum 2 pages); 3. one or two letters of reference in French or English, in particular from your thesis supervisor. Successful candidates will be invited to take part in a video-conference interview, the details of which will be sent to them by email. Pr. Thomas François Chargé de cours en linguistique appliquée Faculté de Philosophie, Arts et Lettres Université catholique de Louvain Institut Langage et Communication, PLIN, CENTAL et TeaMM Place Montesquieu, 3 - box L2.06.04 • B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve • Belgium Tél. : +32 (0)10 / 47 37 36

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Hard deadline - CFP - SIMBig 2024 in Peru - Artificial Intelligence
by Juan Antonio Lossio-Ventura 26 Aug '24

26 Aug '24

> [Apologies for cross-posting] > > *** Due to multiple requests, we decided to extend the deadline for paper submission!*** > *** The NEW and HARD deadline is set to August 31th, 2024 *** > > ========================================================================== > EXTENDED CALL FOR PAPERS - SIMBig 2024 > ========================================================================== > > 11th International Conference on Information Management and Big Data - SIMBig 2024 > Where: Universidad Nacional de Moquegua, Ilo, PERU > When: November 20 - 22, 2024 > Website: https://simbig.org/SIMBig2024/ > Free of Cost: no fees associated with Publication > ========================================================================== > > OVERVIEW > ---------------------------------- > > SIMBig 2024 seeks to present new methods of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data Science, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Semantic Web, and related fields, for analyzing, managing, and extracting insights and patterns from large volumes of data. > > > KEYNOTE SPEAKERS > ---------------------------------- > Aaron Courville, Université de Montréal, Canada Mona Diab, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Anna Korhonen, University of Cambridge, UK Huan Liu, Arizona State University, USA > > IMPORTANT DATES > ---------------------------------- > > August 10, 2024 August 31, 2024 --> Full papers and short papers due > September 30, 2024 --> Notification of acceptance > October 28, 2024 --> Camera-ready versions > November 20-22, 2024 --> Conference held in Moquegua, Peru > > PUBLICATION > ---------------------------------- > > All accepted papers of SIMBig 2024 (tracks including) will be published with Springer CCIS Series <https://www.springer.com/series/7899>. > > > CONFERENCE FEES > ---------------------------------- > > To disseminate new advances in data science, SIMBig 2034 offers a conference registration fee of 30 USD, which includes access to the conference, materials, and publication of the proceedings for the authors. Submit your articles HERE <https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/User/Login?ReturnUrl=%2FSIMBIG2024>. > > > TOPICS OF INTEREST > ---------------------------------- > > SIMBig 2024 has a broad scope. We invite contributions on theory and practice, including but not limited to the following technical areas: > > Artificial Intelligence > Big/Masive Data > Data Science > Machine Learning > Deep Learning > Natural Language Processing > Semantic Web > Data-driven Software Engineering > Healthcare Informatics > Biomedical Informatics > Data Privacy and Security > Information Retrieval > Ontologies and Knowledge Representation > Social Networks and Social Web > Information Visualization > > SPECIAL TRACKS > ---------------------------------- > > SIMBig 2024 proposes a special track in addition to the main conference: > > DISE <https://simbig.org/SIMBig2024/call-for-paper/track-on-data-driven-software-…> - Data-Driven Software Engineering > EE-AI-HPC <https://www.cri.ensmp.fr/conf/ee-ai-hpc2024/> - Efficieny Enhencement for Artificial Intelligence and High-Performance Computing > > CONTACT > ---------------------------------- > > SIMBig 2024 General Chairs > > Juan Antonio Lossio-Ventura, National Institutes of Health, USA (juan.lossio(a)nih.gov <mailto:juan.lossio@nih.gov>) > Hugo Alatrista-Salas, Léonard de Vinci Pôle Universitaire Research Center, Paris, France (hugo.alatrista_salas(a)devinci.fr <mailto:halatrista@pucp.pe>)

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FYI: DRDHum 2024 (Joensuu) - registration now open
by Michael Pace-Sigge 26 Aug '24

26 Aug '24

3rd Conference on Digital Data and Human Sciences (DRDHum 2024): Digital Research Data and Human Sciences in the Age of A.I. Now open for registration. Date: 10-Dec-2024 - 12-Dec-2024 Location: Joensuu, Finland Contact Person: Michael Pace-Sigge Contact Email: drdhum(a)uef.fi<mailto:drdhum@uef.fi> Web Site: https://sites.uef.fi/drd-hum-2024/ Please register here: https://registration.contio.fi/uef/Registration/Login?id=7500-T_7500-8717 Conference Description: Today, there are many ways in which the human and social sciences use digital tools to investigate different aspects of human life and society. As the significance and use of digital resources continually expands into new fields of study, there are some disciplines which have already been working with digital methods for decades. This conference aims to present an overview of the current state of research in fields such as archival studies, cultural studies, history, linguistics, literature, performing and visual arts, philosophy where novel approaches are being made available through digital tools. The 2024 conference focusses on novel and innovative approaches to make use of digital applications, in particular in the light of the advent of machine learning and A.I. solutions. The Digital Research Data and Human Sciences (DRDHum 2024) conference aims to bring together researchers who have different areas of interest and expertise to discuss the themes of data compilation and management, and to share their knowledge and experience. We encourage contributions from researchers and research groups who have implemented interdisciplinary research to participate in the event. DRDHum 2024 is organized by the University of Eastern Finland. The first (D)RDHum Conference was hosted at the University of Oulu in 2019, where the focus was specifically on linguistic text corpora. The second conference, 2022 at the University of Jyväskylä was more expansive, looking at digital resources and technologies within the humanities and include multi-modal approaches. Please note that there will be a free pre-conference workshop. For details go to: https://sites.uef.fi/drd-hum-2024/programme/ Plenary speakers Professor Katherine Bode, Professor, Australian National University https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/bode-k ARC Future Fellow, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences Professor Anna Foka, Uppsala University, Sweden https://www.katalog.uu.se/profile/?id=N18-926 Professor at Department of ALM Professor Michaela Mahlberg, Professor of Digital Humanities & Head of Department https://michaelamahlberg.com/ Department of Digital Humanities and Social Sciences Friedrich Alexander Universität, Germany Professor Tony McEnery, University of Lancaster, UK https://www.lancaster.ac.uk<https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/> Distinguished Professor On behalf of the organising committee: Dr Michael Pace-Sigge (he/him/his) School of Humanities Dept. of English Language and Culture University of Eastern Finland Room 155 Agora Tel.+ 358 (0) 504423473 P.O. Box 111 FI-80101 Joensuu Finland https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5164-5242 https://sites.uef.fi/drd-hum-2024/

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Canceled event: Monthly online ILFC Seminar: interactions ... @ Wed 2024-09-11 17:00 - 18:00 (CEST) (corpora@list.elra.info)
by Kilian Evang 26 Aug '24

26 Aug '24

This event has been canceled. [Corpora-List] Monthly online ILFC Seminar: interactions between formal and computational linguistics Wednesday 2024-09-11 ⋅ 17:00 – 18:00 Central European Time - Berlin Join with Google Meet https://meet.google.com/dyw-vtfm-prq?hs=224 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 three forthcoming sessions of the ILFC seminar on the interactions between formal and computational linguistics: 2024/09/11 17:00-18:00 UTC+2: Meaghan Fowlie (Utrecht University) Title: Trees as building instructions Abstract: Trees are very common linguistic representations, used for instance in rewrite grammars, X-Bar grammars, and lambda expressions. Trees can also be records of the steps by which a structure was built, for instance a derivation tree or a term over an algebra. These building instructions don’t have to build trees, but can build anything you like. This opens the possibility of using well-established and interpretable tree-prediction methods, such as dependency parsing, to predict... Organizer Kilian Evang kilian.evang(a)gmail.com ~~//~~ Invitation from Google Calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ You are receiving this email because you are an attendee on the event. To stop receiving future updates for this event, decline this event. Forwarding this invitation could allow any recipient to send a response to the organizer, be added to the guest list, invite others regardless of their own invitation status, or modify your RSVP. Learn more https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37135#forwarding

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Invitation: Monthly online ILFC Seminar: interactions ... @ Wed 2024-09-11 17:00 - 18:00 (CEST) (corpora@list.elra.info)
by Kilian Evang 26 Aug '24

26 Aug '24

[Corpora-List] Monthly online ILFC Seminar: interactions between formal and computational linguistics Wednesday 2024-09-11 ⋅ 17:00 – 18:00 Central European Time - Berlin Join with Google Meet https://meet.google.com/dyw-vtfm-prq?hs=224 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 three forthcoming sessions of the ILFC seminar on the interactions between formal and computational linguistics: 2024/09/11 17:00-18:00 UTC+2: Meaghan Fowlie (Utrecht University) Title: Trees as building instructions Abstract: Trees are very common linguistic representations, used for instance in rewrite grammars, X-Bar grammars, and lambda expressions. Trees can also be records of the steps by which a structure was built, for instance a derivation tree or a term over an algebra. These building instructions don’t have to build trees, but can build anything you like. This opens the possibility of using well-established and interpretable tree-prediction methods, such as dependency parsing, to predict... Organizer Kilian Evang kilian.evang(a)gmail.com Guests Kilian Evang - organizer corpora(a)list.elra.info View all guest info https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=VIEW&eid=NHJqbzJqNzFhc3Vl… Reply for corpora(a)list.elra.info and view more details https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=VIEW&eid=NHJqbzJqNzFhc3Vl… Your attendance is optional. ~~//~~ Invitation from Google Calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ You are receiving this email because you are an attendee on the event. To stop receiving future updates for this event, decline this event. Forwarding this invitation could allow any recipient to send a response to the organizer, be added to the guest list, invite others regardless of their own invitation status, or modify your RSVP. Learn more https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37135#forwarding

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Monthly online ILFC Seminar: interactions between formal and computational linguistics
by Timothée Bernard 26 Aug '24

26 Aug '24

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 three forthcoming sessions of the ILFC seminar on the interactions between formal and computational linguistics: - 2024/09/11 17:00-18:00 UTC+2: *Meaghan Fowlie* (Utrecht University) Title: *Trees as building instructions *Abstract: *Trees are very common linguistic representations, used for instance in rewrite grammars, X-Bar grammars, and lambda expressions. Trees can also be records of the steps by which a structure was built, for instance a derivation tree or a term over an algebra. These building instructions don’t have to build trees, but can build anything you like. This opens the possibility of using well-established and interpretable tree-prediction methods, such as dependency parsing, to predict a wide variety of structures. This talk will cover some subset of the following ways of using trees as building instructions: IRTGs, Minimalist Grammars, algebra terms, and rewrite grammars. It will also cover some subset of the following computational methods for predicting trees qua building instructions: the Apply-Modify Algebra and Minimalist parsing.* - 2024/10/16 *15:00-16:00* UTC+2: *Isabelle Dautriche* (CNRS) Title: [TBA] Abstract: [TBA] - 2024/11/13 17:00-18:00 UTC+1: *Denis Paperno* (Utrecht University) Title: [TBA] Abstract: [TBA] The seminar is held on Zoom. To attend the seminar and get updates, please subscribe to our mailing list (we now only rarely communicate through other mailing lists): https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/subscribe/seminaire_ilfc

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CFP - SAC 2025 - Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track
by pbellan＠fbk.eu 26 Aug '24

26 Aug '24

[Apologies for cross-postings] ***Call for Papers: Knowledge and Natural Language Processing track*** We are pleased to invite you to submit your contribution to SAC 2025! The 40th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing ACM SAC 2025 March 31 - April 4, 2025 - Catania, Italy Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track Aim & Scope Aim of the Knowledge and Natural Language Processing (KNLP) track at ACM SAC is to investigate techniques and application of knowledge engineering and natural language processing, two extremely interdisciplinary and lively research areas at the core of Artificial Intelligence. In particular, the track welcomes contributions combining and complementing methods and approaches from both areas. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Natural Language Processing * NLP tasks for Knowledge Extraction * NLP for Ontology Population and Learning * Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining for Knowledge Applications * Interplay between Language and Ontologies * NLP for Explainable Knowledge * Machine Translation techniques for Multi-lingual Knowledge * NLP for the Web * (Large) Language Models and Knowledge * Knowledge * Knowledge to improve NLP tasks * Knowledge for Information Retrieval * Knowledge-based Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining * Combining Knowledge and Deep Learning for NLP * Knowledge for Text Summarization and Generation * Knowledge for Persuasion * Knowledge-based Machine Translation * Knowledge for the Web * Linked Data for NLP * Knowledge-based NL Explainability * RAG and Knowledge injection for Language Models * Applications * Real-world applications that exploit Knowledge and NLP * Knowledge and NLP Systems for Big Data scenarios * Knowledge and NLP technology for diverse, equitable, and inclusive society * Deployment of Knowledge and NLP Systems in specific domains, such as: * Digital Humanities and Social Sciences * eGovernment and public administration * Life sciences, health and medicine * News and Data Streaming Paper Submission Research papers and experience reports related to the above topics are solicited. Submissions must not have been published or be concurrently considered for publication elsewhere. Papers should be submitted in PDF using the ACM-SAC proceedings format using the submission link on the SAC 2025 website ( <https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2025/> https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2025/). Authors' names and affiliations should be entered separately at the submission site and not appear in the submitted papers. Each submission will be reviewed in a DOUBLE-BLIND process according to the ACM-SAC Regulations. Student Research Competition (SRC) submissions are welcome (see SAC 2025 website for details). Full papers are limited to 8 pages, in camera-ready format, included in the registration fee. Authors have the option to include up to two (2) extra pages (paying an extra charge). Posters are limited to 2 pages, in camera-ready format, included in the registration fee. Authors have the option to include only one (1) extra page (paying an extra charge). SRC Abstracts are limited to 3 pages, in camera-ready format, included in the registration fee. No extra pages are allowed. Paper selection is based on originality, technical contribution, presentation quality, and relevance to the Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track. Some papers may be accepted as posters. Paper registration is required, allowing the inclusion of the paper/poster in the conference proceedings. An author or a proxy attending SAC MUST present the paper. This is a requirement for the paper/poster to be included in the ACM digital library. No-show of registered papers and posters will result in excluding them from the ACM digital library. Important Dates * Author deadline for submissions: September 20, 2024 * Author notification of acceptance: October 30, 2024 * Author camera ready and registration due: November 29, 2024 Track Co-Chairs Patrizio Bellan, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) Marco Bombieri, Università degli Studi di Verona Mauro Dragoni, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) Marco Rospocher, Università degli Studi di Verona Programme Committee TBA General Inquiries For further information, please visit SAC Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track ( <https://knlp-sac.github.io/2025/> https://knlp-sac.github.io/2025/) and SAC 2024 conference websites ( <https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2025/> https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2025/) or feel free to contact the Track Co-Chairs at <mailto:knlp@fbk.eu> knlp(a)fbk.eu . -- -- Le informazioni contenute nella presente comunicazione sono di natura privata e come tali sono da considerarsi riservate ed indirizzate esclusivamente ai destinatari indicati e per le finalità strettamente legate al relativo contenuto. 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CfP: AIAI 32nd Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science
by Beyza Yaman 26 Aug '24

26 Aug '24

AIAI 32nd Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS 2024) December 09-10th 2024 University College Dublin (UCD) https://aics2024.ucd.ie The 32nd Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS2024) will be hosted by the School of Computer Science at University College Dublin (UCD) and will take place from 9th to 10th December 2024. With regular conferences dating back to 1988, the AICS Conference is Ireland's primary forum for researchers with interests in the fields of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science. Submissions ------------------- The Program Committee of AICS2024 invites submissions in the broad areas of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science. Areas of interest include, but are not restricted to: *Machine Learning (supervised/semi-supervised/unsupervised learning, meta-learning, ensemble learning etc.) *Cognitive Science (Decision making, perception, concept combination, creative cognition etc.) *Applications (Computer Vision, speech/audio processing, natural language processing, ML for medicine, recommender systems etc. ) *Deep Learning (Network architectures, deep generative models, graph neural networks, foundation models etc.) *AI Ethics (Fairness, interpretability, transparency, explainability, environmental impact of AI etc.) *Datasets (Novel datasets, benchmarks, dataset audits, dataset design etc. ) *Machine Learning Testing (Safety, evaluation metrics, robustness etc. ) *Learning Theory (Optimisation, Bayesian Methods, Game Theory, Complexity Analysis etc. ) *Semantic Web (Knowledge Graphs, Social Network Analysis etc.) We invite three types of submissions: -------------------------------------- *Full Paper Track: Full paper submissions should consist of original contributions (describing either fundamental research, interesting applications, in-use experiences, or reviews of the field) not published in other forums. Papers should be 6 to 12 pages in length in the Springer LNCS style. Accepted submissions will appear in online proceedings and authors will be invited for oral or poster presentations. *Student Track: This track is designed to facilitate students who have recently completed a Bachelor’s or Master’s program. Student track submissions should consist of original contributions (describing either basic research or interesting applications) and the first author must be a student. Papers should be 6 to 12 pages in length in the Springer LNCS style. Accepted submissions will appear in the online proceedings and authors will be invited for a poster presentation. *NECTAR Track: NECTAR track submissions should describe significant results previously published or disseminated no earlier than 2022 at a prestigious international conference or journal. Accepted submissions will be included in online proceedings as a single-page abstract, and authors will be invited to present their work orally at AICS. All accepted submissions in Full Paper Track and Student Paper Track will appear in online proceedings (TBA). Publication and Instructions for Authors ----------------------------------------- All accepted submissions will be presented at the conference, either orally or as posters, and included in the online conference proceedings. At least one author of each submission will be required to register for, and attend, the conference. All submissions must be made via the EasyChair system online at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aics20240 Full papers and student papers must be submitted in Springer LNCS format (single column proceedings), which is also the format required for the final camera-ready copy. A sample LaTeX document in this format is available here. NECTAR track submissions should consist of a single page with an abstract and reference to the original publication. A sample NECTAR track submission is available here. Important Dates ------------------- Paper Submission Deadline for all Tracks - 1st October 2024, 23:59 Irish time Acceptance Notification for all Papers - 29th October 2024 Camera Ready Submissions (all tracks) - 12th November 2024 Organisation ------------------- Arjun Pakrashi (University College Dublin) arjun.pakrashi(a)ucd.ie Ellen Rushe (Dublin City University) ellen.rushe(a)dcu.ie Brian Mac Namee (University College Dublin) brian.macnamee(a)ucd.ie Rob Brennan (University College Dublin) rob.brennan(a)ucd.ie Contacts ------------------- Website: https://aics2024.ucd.ie Twitter: @AICSconference ReplyForward

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Call for participation: Shared task on Predicting Disagreements in WiC Annotations
by Dominik Schlechtweg 24 Aug '24

24 Aug '24

Dear colleagues, The CoMeDi (Context and Meaning—Navigating Disagreements in NLP Annotations) workshop will host a shared task. We invite participants to solve two subtasks given a pair of words uses: Subtask 1: Ordinal Word-in-Context Detection (OGWiC) Subtask 2: Disagreement in Word-in-Context Detection (DisWiC) The task takes a different view on modeling of word meaning by (i) treating WiC as an ordinal classification task, and (ii) making disagreement the explicit detection aim (instead of removing it). The workshop will colocated with COLING 2025, where the results of the shared task will be presented. All information can be found on our website: https://comedinlp.github.io/ Everyone is cordially invited to participate. Feel free to approach us in case of any questions. Best, Dominik -- https://garrafao.github.io/ https://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/en/institute/team/Schlechtweg/

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[CFP] COLING 2025 - 3rd Call for Main Conference Papers
by sakhar＠cs.columbia.edu 23 Aug '24

23 Aug '24

Third Call for Main Conference Papers (COLING 2025) Important Dates All deadlines are 11:59 PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”). Deadline for direct submissions September 16, 2024 Commitment deadline for ARR papers October 20, 2024 Author rebuttal phase (for direct submissions) October 30 - November 1, 2024 Notification of acceptance for COLING 2025 November 29, 2024 Tutorials and Workshops January 19-20, 2025 Main Conference January 21-24, 2025 Website: https://coling2025.org/calls/main_conference_papers/ ---------- CFP: 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. 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 conclusions 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 should follow the general instructions for COLING 2025 proceedings, which are an adaptation of the general instructions for *ACL proceedings. To prepare your submission, please make sure to use the COLING 2025 style files available here: LaTeX Word Overleaf Papers deviating from the provided style files will be rejected without review. COLING 2025 adopts the ACL Ethics Policy. There are two routes for paper submission: Direct submission Papers should be submitted through Softconf/START using the following link: https://softconf.com/coling2025/papers/ Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews. Authors will have the opportunity to provide a short rebuttal to clarify any misunderstandings. 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. ACL Rolling Review (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. Optional Supplementary Materials: Appendices, Software and Data Each COLING 2025 submission can be accompanied by a single .tgz or .zip archive containing supplementary materials, such as program code and datasets. COLING 2025 encourages the submission of such supplementary materials to improve the reproducibility of results. For the main track, the supplementary materials need to be fully anonymized to preserve the double-blind reviewing policy. Additional information, such as preprocessing decisions, model parameters or proofs should be put into the appendix of the main PDF submission. Note that submissions need to remain fully self-contained. In particular, any details that are important for reviewers to assess the technical correctness of the work should be included in the main body of the paper. 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. 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

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Deadline extension: CRAC 2024: Workshop on Reference, Anaphora and Coreference at EMNLP 2024
by maciej.ogrodniczuk＠gmail.com 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

<https://sites.google.com/view/crac2024/> CRAC 2024, the Seventh Workshop on Computational Models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference, will be held at EMNLP 2024 <https://2024.emnlp.org/> in Miami on November 15, 2024. Important dates - Workshop papers due: September 1, 2024 (extended) - ARR commitment date: September 22, 2024 - Notification of acceptance: September 24, 2024 - Camera-ready papers due: October 4, 2024 - Workshop date: November 15, 2024 About the workshop The CRAC workshop is a forum for presenting work on all aspects of computational work on anaphora resolution and annotation, including both coreference and types of anaphora such as bridging reference resolution and discourse deixis. Since 2016, the annual CRAC <https://aclanthology.org/venues/crac/> (and its predecessor, CORBON <https://aclanthology.org/venues/corbon/> ) workshop has become the main forum for researchers interested in computational modelling of reference, anaphora and coreference to discuss and publish their results. Over the years, this workshop series has been held at major NLP conferences and has successfully organised 7 shared tasks, which stimulating interest in new problems in this research area, facilitating discussion and dissemination of results on new problems/directions (e.g. multimodal reference resolution). Topics of interest We are interested in your work on any aspect of theoretical or applied computational work on anaphora/coreference resolution. Some suggested topics include: - Coreference resolution for less-researched languages - Annotation and interpretation of anaphoric relations, including relations other than identity coreference (e.g., bridging references) - Investigation of difficult cases of anaphora and their resolution - Coreference resolution in noisy data (e.g. in social media) - New applications of coreference resolution - <https://universalanaphora.github.io/UniversalAnaphora/> Universal Anaphora - CorefUD <https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/corefud> CRAC 2024 Shared Task on Multilingual Coreference Resolution The workshop will also present the results of our Shared Task on Multilingual Coreference Resolution <https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/corefud/crac24> , based on 17 coreference datasets for 12 languages harmonized under a common CoNLL-U scheme. Paper categories - Research papers (theoretical computational linguistics, empirical/data-driven approaches, paradigms/techniques/strategies, analysis papers, resources and evaluation, negative result) - Survey papers (surveys a popular or emerging area of anaphora/coreference resolution) - Position papers (presents one side of an arguable opinion about an issue) - Challenge papers (a challenge to the field in terms of setting out a goal for the next 5/10/20 years) - Demo papers (systems, tools, visualizations) - Extended abstracts (describe work in progress) Double submission We allow for double submissions. Please indicate at the time of submission which other conference or workshop your work has been submitted to. We also invite authors of papers accepted for the Findings of major conferences (e.g. ACL, NAACL, EMNLP) to present their work at the workshop. If these papers have been removed from the Findings, they may be included in the workshop proceedings without further review. Submission link You can either submit your paper to SoftConf <https://softconf.com/emnlp2024/CRAC2024/> (by the August 22 submission deadline) or commit your ARR-reviewed paper to CRAC 2024 (by the September 22 commitment deadline). If you choose to commit your ARR-reviewed paper to CRAC, the latest ARR cycle to which you need to submit your paper for review is the June 2024 cycle. All submissions must follow the *ACL formatting instructions <https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html> . An Overleaf template <https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/association-for-computational-ling uistics-acl-conference/jvxskxpnznfj> is also available. All other information All other information can be found on the CRAC 2024 website <https://sites.google.com/view/crac2024/> or by e-mailing the organizers <mailto:maciej.ogrodniczuk@gmail.com> . See you at CRAC 2024! Maciej Ogrodniczuk (on behalf of all the organizers: Vincent Ng, Sameer Pradhan, Anna Nedoluzhko and Massimo Poesio)

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What can we do about this spam :)?
by Daniel Varab 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

I’m hope that Jakob is enjoying some vacation-time, however, my mailbox is quickly filling up. Is there anything we can do to pause this spam? All the best, Daniel Varab

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BCS IRSG - call for one-day event proposals
by Tony Russell-Rose 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

CALL FOR ONE DAY EVENT PROPOSALS The Information Retrieval Specialist Group (IRSG) of the BCS invites proposals for the organisation of one day events supported by BCS. Proposals will be evaluated based on the organisational and financial plans and benefits to the Information Retrieval community. IMPORTANT DATES * Submission deadline for this round: 02-Aug-2024 * Notification: 16-Aug-2024 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Proposals should be in PDF and include the following: * Title of the event * Chairs and organisers * Contact information * A description of the event topic and its goals * A statement on how the event complements or relates to other IR events * Proposed venue * Desired format, including preferred dates and duration, onsite or hybrid * Outline of the program (including talks, breaks, and any social events) * Potential (or accepted) speakers * Publicity plans * Funding plans and preliminary budget Organisers of accepted events are expected to announce the event and call for speakers, solicit speakers, compose the program, and organise the event. Evaluation criteria include topic significance and timeliness, scientific quality, proposed organisation, level of interest, and synergy with other events. Accepted events will be supported up to £1,000 and are expected to have a credible financial plan and budget. We anticipate holding further funding rounds in due course. Topics should be related to the theory and practice of information retrieval and interaction, such as: * Topical issues in IR practice, e.g. trust, bias, and fairness * Interdisciplinary topics, e.g IR and information science, data science, or user experience * The use (and abuse) of large language models and other AI techniques * Domain-specific or professional issues, e.g. in eCommerce, media, recruitment, library and information science, healthcare information, etc. * Innovative approaches used in operational IR systems and products Proposals and enquiries should be submitted via email to the IRSG Events Organiser and Chair (tgr2uk(a)gmail.com and Udo.Kruschwitz(a)ur.de) with "BCS One Day Event Proposal" in the email subject. ABOUT THE IRSG The IRSG is a Specialist Group of BCS. Its mission is to provide a focus for the European IR community, facilitate communication between researchers and practitioners and promote the adoption of IR research within industry. We host a major European conference (ECIR) and provide an associated programme of workshops, seminars and events. The IRSG provides access to further IR articles, events and resources. For how to join the IRSG please see http://irsg.bcs.org, or contact the membership secretary at h.liu(a)soton.ac.uk. BCS is the industry body for IT professionals. With members in over 100 countries around the world, BCS is the leading professional and learned society in the field of computers and information systems.

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Canceled event: (No Subject) @ Thu Aug 22, 2024 10am - 11am (GMT+2) (corpora@list.elra.info)
by Luffroy Raphaël 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

This event has been canceled. (No Subject) Thursday Aug 22, 2024 ⋅ 10am – 11am Central European Time - Paris Organizer Luffroy Raphaël r.luffroy(a)gmail.com Guests Luffroy Raphaël - organizer corpora(a)list.elra.info ~~//~~ Invitation from Google Calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ You are receiving this email because you are an attendee on the event. To stop receiving future updates for this event, decline this event. Forwarding this invitation could allow any recipient to send a response to the organizer, be added to the guest list, invite others regardless of their own invitation status, or modify your RSVP. Learn more https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37135#forwarding

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Deadline extension NARNiHS 2025 Annual Meeting
by NAm Research Network in HistSocio 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

Dear Colleagues, Please notice the deadline extension for the next NARNiHS Annual Meeting in 2025. There is still time to submit your abstract! We look forward to seeing you in Philadelphia! *Call for Abstracts* *NARNiHS 2025North American Research Network in Historical SociolinguisticsSeventh Annual Meeting* *100% IN PERSONCo-Located with the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting* *Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA9-12 January 2025* We encourage our fellow historical sociolinguists and scholars from related fields from our global scholarly community (in addition to North America) to join us in Philadelphia for our Seventh Annual Meeting. *NEW abstract submission deadline: Friday, 30 August 2024, 11:59 PM US Eastern Time.* Please see our call for abstracts below and send us your latest work in historical sociolinguistics! —————————— Call for Abstracts —————————— The North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics (NARNiHS) is accepting abstracts for its Seventh Annual Meeting (NARNiHS 2025) in Philadelphia, Thursday, January 9 – Sunday, January 12, 2025. *NEW! deadline for receipt of abstracts: Friday, 30 August 2024, 11:59 PM US Eastern Time.* NARNiHS welcomes abstracts in all areas of historical sociolinguistics, which is understood as the application/development of sociolinguistic theories, models, and methods for the study of historical language variation and change over time, or more broadly, the study of the interaction of language and society in historical periods and from historical perspectives. Thus, a wide range of linguistic areas, subdisciplines, and methodologies easily find their place within the field, and we encourage submission of abstracts that reflect this broad scope. Abstracts will be accepted for both 20-minute papers and posters. Please note that, at the NARNiHS annual meeting, poster presentations are an integral part of the conference (not second-tier presentations). Abstracts will be assigned a paper or a poster presentation based on determinations in the review process about the most effective format for the submission. However, if you prefer that your submission be considered primarily for poster presentation, please specify this in your abstract. Abstracts will be evaluated on the following criteria: ● explicit discussion of which theoretical frameworks, methodological protocols, and analytical strategies are being applied or critiqued; ● sufficient (if brief) presentation of data sources and examples to allow reviewers a clear understanding of the scope and claims of the research; ● clear articulation of how the research advances knowledge in the field of historical sociolinguistics. Abstracts should also be anonymized to allow for blind peer review. Failure to adhere to these criteria will significantly increase the likelihood of non-acceptance (see also point (c) below). General Requirements: 1) Abstracts must be submitted electronically, using the following link: https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/NARNiHS_2025/ 2) Authors may submit a maximum of two abstracts: one single-author abstract and one co-authored abstract. 3) Authors may not submit identical abstracts for presentation at the NARNiHS meeting and at the LSA Annual Meeting or one of the other LSA Sister Societies (ADS, ANS, NAAHoLS, SCiL, SPCL, SSILA). 4) Specify in the abstract if you prefer that your submission be considered primarily for a poster presentation. 5) After an abstract has been submitted, no changes of author, title, or wording of the abstract, other than those due to typographical errors, are permitted. If accepted, authors will be contacted for a final version for the abstract booklet. 6) Papers or posters must be delivered as projected in the abstract or represent bona fide developments of the same research. 7) Authors are expected to attend the conference in-person and present their own papers and posters. This will not be a hybrid event. Abstract Format Guidelines: a) Abstracts must be submitted in PDF format. b) Abstracts must fit on one standard 8.5×11 inch page, with margins no smaller than 1 inch and a font style and size no smaller than Times New Roman 12 point. All additional content (visualizations, trees, tables, figures, captions, examples, and references) must fit on a single (1) additional page. No exceptions to these requirements are allowed. c) Anonymize your abstract. We realize that sometimes it is not possible to attain complete anonymity, but there is a difference between “inability to anonymize completely” (due to the nature of the research) and “careless non-anonymizing” (for example: “In Jones 2021, I describe…”). In addition, be sure to anonymize your PDF file (you may do so in Adobe Acrobat Reader by clicking on “File”, then “Properties”, removing your name if it appears in the “Author” line of the “Description” tab, and re-saving before submitting it). Please be aware that abstract file names might not be automatically anonymized by the system; do not use your name (e.g. Smith_Abstract.pdf) when saving your abstract in PDF format, rather, use non-identifying information (e.g. HistSoc4Lyfe_NARNiHS.pdf). Your name should only appear in the online form accompanying your abstract submission. Papers that are not sufficiently anonymized wherever possible (whether in the text of the abstract or in the metadata of the digital file) risk being rejected. Contact us at *NARNiHistSoc(a)gmail.com <NARNiHistSoc(a)gmail.com>* with any questions. Carolina Amador-Moreno (on behalf of the organising committee).

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Invitation: (No Subject) @ Thu Aug 22, 2024 10am - 11am (GMT+2) (corpora@list.elra.info)
by Luffroy Raphaël 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

(No Subject) Thursday Aug 22, 2024 ⋅ 10am – 11am Central European Time - Paris Organizer Luffroy Raphaël r.luffroy(a)gmail.com Guests Luffroy Raphaël - organizer corpora(a)list.elra.info View all guest info https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=VIEW&eid=Y29vNmFkMWg2Z3Bt… Reply for corpora(a)list.elra.info and view more details https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=VIEW&eid=Y29vNmFkMWg2Z3Bt… Your attendance is optional. ~~//~~ Invitation from Google Calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ You are receiving this email because you are an attendee on the event. To stop receiving future updates for this event, decline this event. Forwarding this invitation could allow any recipient to send a response to the organizer, be added to the guest list, invite others regardless of their own invitation status, or modify your RSVP. Learn more https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37135#forwarding

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COLING 2025 : [CFS] International Conference on Computational Linguistics - Call for System Demonstrations
by sakhar＠cs.columbia.edu 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

Call for System Demonstrations (COLING 2025) https://coling2025.org/calls/system_demonstrations/ Important Dates All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”). Submissions due September 30, 2024 Notifications November 21, 2024 Camera-ready (PDF) due December 1, 2024 Conference January 19-24, 2025 Invitation for Submission The COLING 2025 Demonstration Program Committee invites proposals for system demonstrations, which can range from early prototypes to mature systems. The demonstration program is part of the main conference program and aims at showcasing working systems that address a wide range of conference topics. The session will provide opportunities to exchange ideas gained from the practical implementation of NLP systems and to obtain feedback from expert users. All accepted demos are published in a companion volume of the conference proceedings. We expect at least one of the authors to present a live demo during a demo session at COLING 2025, with an accompanying poster. COLING 2025 will be held in Abu Dhabi from January 19th to 24th, 2025. The COLING conference has a history that dates back to the 1960s, and regularly attracts more than 700 delegates. The conference has developed into one of the premier Computational Linguistics (CL) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) conferences worldwide and is a major international event for the presentation of new research results and for the demonstration of new systems and techniques in the broad field of CL and NLP. Topics of Interest COLING 2025 solicits demonstrations on original and unpublished research on topics, including, but not limited to: 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. Submitted systems may be of the following types: Natural Language Processing systems or system components Application systems using language technology components Software tools or API for computational linguistics research Software for evaluating natural language processing systems Software supporting learning or education Tools for data visualization and annotation Open-sourced large language models and their applications Development tools Please note: Commercial products and services are welcome; however, sales and marketing activities are not appropriate in the Demonstrations Program. Submissions The submissions should address the following questions: What problem does the proposed system address? Why is the system important and what is its impact? What is the novel in the approach/technology on which this system is based? Who is the target audience? How does the system work? How does it compare with existing systems? How is the system licensed? There are two parts to the submission, the paper and a video. Paper The maximum submission length is 6 pages, but with extra space for an optional ethics/broader impact statement (only necessary if you think you may want to preempt reviewer questions, given the conference’s ethics policy) and unlimited pages for references. Accepted papers will be given one additional page of content so that reviewers’ comments can be taken into account. Papers must be submitted in English and must conform to the official COLING 2025 templates available from the link below; the only acceptable format for submissions is PDF. Your paper does not need to be anonymous (see Reviewing Policy). Any papers that do not follow the official style guidelines and page limits will be automatically rejected. Video A short (max. 2 minutes) video demonstrating the system. This video will be used to evaluate the paper but won’t be published unless requested. A screencast with audio narration is a natural choice for demos that can be presented on a screen. Otherwise, a video of a user interacting with the system can be used. The production quality of the video is not of interest. Hence, we encourage the videos to be simply a screencast of the software that is getting demoed, with zero to minimal editing efforts. We recommend that you publish your video to YouTube or another website and include the link in your paper. If you prefer not to publicly upload a screencast, please submit the video (in MP4 format) as supplementary material when you submit your paper. How to Submit Submission and reviewing will be managed in the START system: https://softconf.com/coling2025/demosCL25/ Ethics COLING 2025 adopts the ACL Ethics Policy. Multiple Submission Policy Papers which are submitted to the COLING 2025 demo session cannot be under review for other conferences or journals at the same time, or for other tracks at COLING 2025 (e.g. the main session). 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. Reviewing Policy Reviewing will be single-blind, so authors do not need to conceal their identity. The paper should include the authors’ names and affiliations. Self-references are also allowed. Relevant papers that meet formatting requirements will be assessed on the basis of their relevance to the demo track, contribution, clarity, completeness, and novelty. Demo Session Chairs Contact email: coling2025demos(a)googlegroups.com Tilman Becker, Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics, and Cybernetics Mark Dras, Macquarie University Brodie Mather, Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition

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AIWolfDial Shared Task 2024 @ INLG 2024 - First call for participation
by Yoshinobu Kano 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

Call for Participation Shared Task for the 2nd Workshop of AI Werewolf and Dialog System (AIWolfDial2024) at the 17th International Natural Language Generation conference (INLG 2024) # Summary Recent achievements of generation models, e.g. ChatGPT, are gathering greater attentions. However, there is still room to investigate LLMs could sufficiently able to handle coherent responses, longer contexts, common grounds, and logics. Werewolf is a social, hidden identity game that requires debate between players and coalition building. The goal of our AIWerewolf contest is to build an AI agent that is able to play this game against other AI. # Schedule Shared tasks July 28th, 2024 Registration August 4th, 2024 Preliminary run (self-match game) mid August, 2024 Formal run (multi-agent game) Workshop August 18th, 2024 Paper submission deadline (submissions should be via the Sontconf system, see our Call for Papers) August 25th, 2024 Notifications of the paper accpetance August 30th, 2024 Camera ready paper deadline Sep 24th, 2024 Workshop (planned in pm) in Tokyo Sep 23-27, 2024 INLG conference Our shared task is held as a part of our AIWolfDial 2024 workshop at INLG 2024 (17th International Natural Language Generation Conference), which will be held in Tokyo from September 23th to 27th. It is not mandatry for our shared task participants to attend the INLG 2024 conference, but encouraged to submit thier papers to the workshop. Please refer to our websites for the details including technical requirments: https://sites.google.com/view/aiwolfdial2024-inlg We have a seperate call for papers of our workshop. # Why AI Werewolf? Recent achievements of generation models, e.g. ChatGPT, are gathering greater attentions. However, such a huge language model would not be sufficiently able to handle coherent responses, longer contexts, common grounds, and logics. The AIWolfDial 2024 contest, which is an international open contest for automatic players of the conversation game "Mafia", requires players not just to communicate but to infer, persuade, deceive other players via coherent logical conversations, while having the role-playing non-task-oriented chats as well. We believe that this contest reveals current issues in the recent huge language models, showing directions of next breakthrough in the NLP area. From the viewpoint of Game AI area, players must hide information, in contrast to perfect information games such as chess or Reversi. Each player acquires secret information from other players' conversations and behavior and acts by hiding information to accomplish their objectives. Players are required persuasion for earning confidence, and speculation for detecting fabrications. Participants must build an artificial intelligence agent that can play the werewolf game as humans do, using natural language. Participant agents will be evaluated by a panel of judges, who will grade the subjective quality of the dialog generated by the agent, in addition to their win rates. Agents must communicate in Japanese or English. # Registration A team should send a mail to aiwolf [at] kanolab.net (replace at by @), describing your team name, a contact e-mail address, names and affiliations of its members (please mark a contact person when a team consists of multiple members), communication language (English and/or Japanese) of your agent, ssh public key and your preferred user name to connect to our game server. Registration is free. # System Evaluation Participants should submit a paper to the workshop, or a system design description document to the organizers. In addition to the win rates, reviewers will perform subjective evaluations on the game logs of a self-match games and multi-agent games, using following criteria: A Natural utterance expressions B Contextually natural conversation C Coherent (not contradictory) conversation D Coherent game actions (vote, attack, divine) with conversation contents E Diverse utterance expressions, including coherent characterization Please note that vague utterances that could be used regardless of context are not always natural in the werewolf game. The top-ranking teams will be awarded prizes and gifts from SpiralAI, a company developing its own LLM for colloquial multi-turn conversations. # Sponser Spiral.AI Inc, Japan # Organizers Organizers and Program Commitee: Yoshinobu Kano, Shizuoka University, Japan Claus Aranha, Tsukuba University Takashi Otsuki, Yamagata University, Japan Fujio Toriumi, The University of Tokyo, Japan Hirotaka Osawa, Keio University, Japan Daisuke Katagami, Tokyo Polytechnic University, Japan Michimasa Inaba, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan Kei Harada, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan Takeshi Ito, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan Local Organizers: Neo Watanabe, Shizuoka University, Japan Kaito Kagaminuma, Shizuoka University, Japan Yuto Sahashi, Shizuoka University, Japan On behalf of the AIWolf organizers, Yoshinobu Kano Associate Professor, Shizuoka University kano(a)inf.shizuoka.ac.jp

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PhD programs online?
by Mariana Romanyshyn 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

Dear community, Could you recommend any PhD programs in NLP, Responsible AI, or Interpretability that can be taken *online*? I have a very talented Master's student, Nazarii Drushchak <https://www.linkedin.com/in/nazarii-drushchak-bb46781a7/>, who'd like to pursue a PhD but cannot leave Ukraine due to the war. Thanks in advance! Kindest regards, Mariana

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CMC Corpora 2024, Sept. 5-6, 2024, Nice, France - early birds registrations closing soon
by Mathilde Guernut 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

*International Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities* September 5-6, 2024, Université Côte d'Azur, Nice, France Dear all, The 11th International Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities (CMC-Corpora) will be held at the Université Côte d'Azur, Nice, France in collaboration with the Consortium CORpus, Langues et Interactions (CORLI) and the laboratory Bases, Corpus, Langage (BCL) of the Université Côte d'Azur... ... And registrations are available here: https://dr20.azur-colloque.fr/inscription/fr/194/inscription We encourage you to register early to secure your spot and take advantage of early bird discounts - up until June 28th! We look forward to seeing you there! Warm regards, The organizing committee: Céline POUDAT (CORLI, BCL), Marie CHANDELIER (BCL), Mathilde GUERNUT (CORLI), Christophe PARISSE (CORLI), Minerva ROJAS (BCL), Simona RUGGIA (BCL) Conference website: https://cmc-corpora-nice.sciencesconf.org/

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AIWolfDial 2024 workshop @ INLG 2024 - First call for papers
by Yoshinobu Kano 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers The 2nd International Workshop of AI Werewolf and Dialog System (AIWolfDial2024) Collocated with INLG 2024 conference, September 23-27, 2024, Tokyo, Japan https://sites.google.com/view/aiwolfdial2024-inlg -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- < Workshop aims > Recent achievements of generation models, e.g. ChatGPT, are gathering greater attentions. However, such a huge language model would not be sufficiently able to handle coherent responses, longer contexts, common grounds, and logics. The AIWolfDial 2024 contest is held as a part of this AIWolfDial2024 workshop. This is an international open contest for automatic players of the conversation game "Mafia", requires players not just to communicate but to infer, persuade, deceive other players via coherent logical conversations, while having the role-playing non-task-oriented chats as well. We believe that this contest reveals current issues in the recent huge language models, showing directions of next breakthrough in the NLP area. From the viewpoint of Game AI area, players must hide information, in contrast to perfect information games such as chess or Reversi. Each player acquires secret information from other players' conversations and behavior and acts by hiding information to accomplish their objectives. Players are required persuasion for earning confidence, and speculation for detecting fabrications. We call for papers which include following topics but not limited to: - AI werewolf agents for natural language and/or protocols - Natural language processing and LLMs for games - Corpora, resources, analysis on conversation games - Natural language processing for human relationships - Natural language processing for logic and strategy - Imperfect information game and natural language - Deceiving and persuasion by automatic agents - Evaluation of dialog systems using games < Important dates > August 18th, 2024 Paper submission deadline (submissions should be via the Sontconf system, see our Call for Papers) August 25th, 2024 Notifications of the paper accpetance August 30th, 2024 Camera ready paper deadline Sep 24th, 2024 Workshop (planned in pm) in Tokyo Sep 23-27, 2024 INLG conference < Submission > We call for short papers and long papers as same as the INLG main conference, both for shared task papers and papers in general. Please use the ACL format as specified in the INLG conference webpage. Submission site will open soon. < Website > https://sites.google.com/view/aiwolfdial2024-inlg < Shared task > Please refer to our call for participation sent separately, which is shown in our workshop website. < Committee > Contact E-mail to aiwolf at kanolab.net (replace at by @) # Organizers Organizers and Program Commitee: Yoshinobu Kano, Shizuoka University, Japan Claus Aranha, Tsukuba University Takashi Otsuki, Yamagata University, Japan Fujio Toriumi, The University of Tokyo, Japan Hirotaka Osawa, Keio University, Japan Daisuke Katagami, Tokyo Polytechnic University, Japan Michimasa Inaba, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan Kei Harada, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan Takeshi Ito, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan Local Organizers: Neo Watanabe, Shizuoka University, Japan Kaito Kagaminuma, Shizuoka University, Japan Yuto Sahashi, Shizuoka University, Japan On behalf of the AIWolf organizers, Yoshinobu Kano Associate Professor, Shizuoka University kano(a)inf.shizuoka.ac.jp

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DGfS Computational Linguistics Poster Session
by Annette Hautli-Janisz 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS The Annual Meeting of the German Society for Linguistics (https://dgfs.de/en/) features a poster session for presenting work in computational linguistics. We invite the submission of abstracts for the Computational Linguistics poster session of the 47th annual meeting of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS), hosted by the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. We invite submissions from all areas of computational linguistics and natural language processing, ranging from machine translation and information retrieval to speech and dialogue systems and cognitive modeling. We especially encourage students and junior researchers to participate. The poster session is organized by the Special Interest Group on Computational Linguistics of the DGfS (https://dgfs.de/en/cl/general). Conference webpage: https://converia.uni-mainz.de/frontend/index.php?sub=167 DATES - Abstract submission due: October 25, 2024 - Notification of acceptance: November 8, 2024 - Short abstract (for conference website/brochure) due: November 15, 2024 - Conference dates: March 4-7, 2025 SUBMISSION Anonymous one-page abstract (A4) in PDF format (12pt). Submissions can be in German or English. Please submit your abstract via email to: annette.hautli-janisz(a)uni-passau.de

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NLP4CALL 2023 Final call for papers
by David Alfter 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

== 12th NLP4CALL, Tórshavn, Faroe Islands== The workshop series on Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (NLP4CALL) is a meeting place for researchers working on the integration of Natural Language Processing and Speech Technologies in CALL systems and exploring the theoretical and methodological issues arising in this connection. The latter includes, among others, insights from Second Language Acquisition (SLA) research, on the one hand, and promote development of “Computational SLA” through setting up Second Language research infrastructure(s), on the other. The intersection of Natural Language Processing (or Language Technology / Computational Linguistics) and Speech Technology with Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) brings “understanding” of language to CALL tools, thus making CALL intelligent. This fact has given the name for this area of research – Intelligent CALL, ICALL. As the definition suggests, apart from having excellent knowledge of Natural Language Processing and/or Speech Technology, ICALL researchers need good insights into second language acquisition theories and practices, as well as knowledge of second language pedagogy and didactics. This workshop invites therefore a wide range of ICALL-relevant research, including studies where NLP-enriched tools are used for testing SLA and pedagogical theories, and vice versa, where SLA theories, pedagogical practices or empirical data are modeled in ICALL tools. The NLP4CALL workshop series is aimed at bringing together competences from these areas for sharing experiences and brainstorming around the future of the field. We welcome papers: - that describe research directly aimed at ICALL; - that demonstrate actual or discuss the potential use of existing Language and Speech Technologies or resources for language learning; - that describe the ongoing development of resources and tools with potential usage in ICALL, either directly in interactive applications, or indirectly in materials, application or curriculum development, e.g. learning material generation, assessment of learner texts and responses, individualized learning solutions, provision of feedback; - that discuss challenges and/or research agenda for ICALL - that describe empirical studies on language learner data. This year a special focus is given to work done on error detection/correction and feedback generation. We encourage paper presentations and software demonstrations describing the above- mentioned themes primarily, but not exclusively, for the Nordic languages. ==Shared task== NEW for this year is the MultiGED shared task on token-level error detection for L2 Czech, English, German, Italian and Swedish, organized by the Computational SLA working group. For more information, please see the Shared Task website: https://github.com/spraakbanken/multiged-2023 ==Invited speakers== This year, we have the pleasure to announce two invited talks. The first talk is given by Marije Michel from the University of Amsterdam. The second talk is given by Pierre Lison from the Norwegian Computing Center. ==Submission information== Authors are invited to submit long papers (8-12 pages) alternatively short papers (4-7 pages), page count not including references. We will be using the NLP4CALL template for the workshop this year. The author kit can be accessed here, alternatively on Overleaf: <https://spraakbanken.gu.se/sites/default/files/2023/NLP4CALL%20workshop%20t…> <https://spraakbanken.gu.se/sites/default/files/2023/nlp4call%20template.doc> <https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/nlp4call-workshop-template/qqqzqqy…> Submissions will be managed through the electronic conference management system EasyChair <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nlp4call2023>. Papers must be submitted digitally through the conference management system, in PDF format. Final camera-ready versions of accepted papers will be given an additional page to address reviewer comments. Papers should describe original unpublished work or work-in-progress. Papers will be peer reviewed by at least two members of the program committee in a double-blind fashion. All accepted papers will be collected into a proceedings volume to be submitted for publication in the NEALT Proceeding Series (Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings) and, additionally, double-published through the ACL anthology, following experiences from the previous NLP4CALL editions (<https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/venues/nlp4call/>). ==Important dates== 03 April 2023: paper submission deadline 21 April 2023: notification of acceptance 01 May 2023: camera-ready papers for publication 22 May 2023: workshop date ==Organizers== David Alfter (1), Elena Volodina (2), Thomas François (3), Arne Jönsson (4), Evelina Rennes (4) (1) Gothenburg Research Infrastructure for Digital Humanities, Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion, University of Gothenburg, Sweden (2) Språkbanken, Department of Swedish, Multilingualism, Language Technology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden (3) CENTAL, Institute for Language and Communication, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium (4) Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköping University, Sweden ==Contact== For any questions, please contact David Alfter, david.alfter(a)gu.se For further information, see the workshop website <https://spraakbanken.gu.se/en/research/themes/icall/nlp4call-workshop-serie…> Follow us on Twitter @NLP4CALL <https://twitter.com/NLP4CALL/>

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EMNLP 2024 - Call for Ethics Reviewing Volunteers
by ACL Announcements 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

Dear all, EMNLP 2024 organisers are committed to making EMNLP 2024 a huge success. As we commence the review process, we are looking for volunteers for ethics reviewing of EMNLP submissions. Please consider applying through 'https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScLyoxN3CDIeUbQbluh4XQK38fg8AMMNqe…'. Everyone is welcome! We especially invite people from diverse geographical locations and demographic identities to ensure diversity of opinions in the review process.

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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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OSNEM Special Issue:AI in Online Social Networks: opportunities and challenges
by Andrea Passarella 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS Elsevier Online Social Networks and Media Journal (OSNEM) Special issue on AI in Online Social Networks: opportunities and challenges Submission Deadline: Continuous submissions until July 31st, 2024 https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/online-social-networks-and-media ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Online Social Networks and Media are a fundamental component of everyday life and the use of AI technologies in OSNEM can further boost their role. The use of AI in online social networks offers great opportunities and, at the same time, raises several challenges. AI's ability to analyze vast amounts of data in real-time allows social media platforms to offer highly personalized experiences to users. The use of AI may raise concerns about ethical issues such as privacy, algorithmic bias, misinformation, etc., but AI can also be used for content moderation on social media to detect and remove harmful or inappropriate content, identifying and mitigating the spread of fake news. etc. The use of AI on OSNEM can promote the democratic processes by facilitating the dissemination of information and encourage political engagement. On the other hand, AI algorithms can create echo chambers, influence voting behavior and generate significant risks for democracy. AI-driven security measures can help to protect OSNEM users from fraud and privacy breaches but, malicious actors can also use AI to support their attacks. The exponential diffusion of generative AI adds novel dimensions to this landscape, on the one hand supporting novel forms of interactions spanning into the Metaverse, but on the other hand exposing vulnerable users to dramatic threats. The aim of this special issue is to push the state of the art in using AI in OSNEM, by presenting quantitative contributions that investigate the opportunities and challenges of using AI in Online Social Networks. Within this framework, topics include, but are not limited to: - Using AI in OSNEM for personalization, efficiency, and recommendations; - AI-based studies for analysis and modelling of information and opinion dynamics in OSNEM; - AI-based predictions based on OSNEM data analysis; - AI impact on OSNEM security, trustworthiness and privacy; - Generative AI in OSNEM; - AI and social networking in the Metaverse; - AI methodologies for large-scale OSNEM data collection and analysis - AI methods to safeguard OSNEM users (e.g., bot detection, toxic content identification, content moderation, echo chamber avoidance) - Case studies of AI application in OSNEM Online Social Networks and Media is a multidisciplinary journal for the wide community of computer and network scientists working on developing OSNEM platforms and services and using OSNEM as a big data source to mine, learn and model the (online) human behaviour. Manuscripts only based on questionnaires, even focused on the reported use of social media, are outside the scope of the journal. On the other hand, the journal welcomes papers which present analyses based on big data mined from social networks/media. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Schedule Manuscript submission deadline: continuous submission until July 31st, 2024 (*) First notification: two months after the submission Expected publication: papers are published a few weeks after acceptance. Guest Editors Marco Conti, IIT-CNR, Italy Andrea Passarella, IIT-CNR, Italy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Instructions for submission Manuscripts must not have been previously published nor currently under review by other journals or conferences. If prior work was published in a conference, the submitted manuscript should include a substantial extension of at least 35% novel contributions. In this case, authors are also required to submit their published conference articles and a summary document explaining the enhancements made in the journal version. The submission website for this journal is located at https://www2.cloud.editorialmanager.com/osnem/default2.aspx. Please select ''VSI:AI&OSNEM'' when you reach the ''Article Type'' step in the submission process. To ensure that all manuscripts are correctly identified, for consideration by the special issue, the authors should indicate in the cover letter that the manuscript has been submitted for the special issue on “AI&OSNEM”. (*) Manuscripts can be submitted continuously until the deadline. Once a paper is submitted, the review process will start immediately. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (in the first issue available as soon as the paper is accepted). All accepted papers will be listed together in an online virtual special issue published in the journal website. For further information, please contact the guest editors at {m.conti,a.passarella} at iit.cnr.it

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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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[ICS 2024] Call for Papers - Deadline is July 6, 2024
by An-Zi Yen 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

=============== ICS 2024: 2024 International Computer Symposium Taipei, Taiwan October 24-26, 2024 Website: https://ics2024.conf.nycu.edu.tw/ =============== International Computer Symposium (ICS) is one of the most prestigious international ICT symposiums held in Taiwan. Founded in 1973, it is intended to provide a forum for researchers, educators, and professionals to exchange their discoveries and practices, and to explore future trends and applications in computer technologies. The biennial symposium offers a great opportunity to share research experiences and to discuss potential new trends in the ICT industry. ICS 2024 will provide workshops, panels and keynotes to facilitate discourse on and deepen the understanding of the challenges in computer and communication technologies. Important Dates Paper submission due date: July 6, 2024 Paper notification: August 22, 2024 Final paper due date: September 15 ,2024 Conference date: October 24-26, 2024 =============== Submission Guidelines International Computer Symposium (ICS) is one of the most prestigious international ICT symposiums held in Taiwan. Founded in 1973, it is intended to provide a forum for researchers, educators, and professionals to exchange their discoveries and practices, and to explore future trends and applications in computer technologies. The biennial symposium offers a great opportunity to share research experiences and to discuss potential new trends in the ICT industry. ICS 2024 will provide workshops, panels and keynotes to facilitate discourse on and deepen the understanding of the challenges in computer and communication technologies. =============== Workshops All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The conference will include the following workshops: Algorithms, Bioinformatics, and Computation Theory Cloud Computing and Big Data Computer Vision and Image Processing Cryptography and Quantum Computing Mobile and Wireless Networks Autonomous Driving and UAV Human Computer Interaction and AR/VR/MR Computer Architecture, Embedded Systems, SoC, and VLSI/EDA Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval Cybersecurity Attack, Defense, and Resilience (Cadence) AI/ML and Application AI and Smart Healthcare (Special Session) AI and Precision Medicine (Special Session) Digital Transformation and AI in Dental Application (Special Session) =============== Submission Submissions should be made through the ICS 2024 submission page, handled by the EasyChair conference management system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ics2024. =============== Contact All questions about submissions should be emailed to ics2024(a)nycu.edu.tw.

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LxGr2024: Last Call for Participation
by Costas Gabrielatos 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

9th Symposium on Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar (LxGr2024) 5-6 July 2024. Online. Attendance is free. Registration closes tomorrow: 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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Fwd: NARNiHS 2025 Annual Meeting
by NAm Research Network in HistSocio 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

*North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics (NARNiHS) 2025 Annual Meeting: Call for abstracts* Please find below our Call for Abstracts for the next Annual Meeting in 2025. We look forward to seeing you in Philadelphia! *Call for Abstracts* *NARNiHS 2025North American Research Network in Historical SociolinguisticsSeventh Annual Meeting* *100% IN PERSONCo-Located with the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting* *Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA9-12 January 2025* We encourage our fellow historical sociolinguists and scholars from related fields from our global scholarly community (in addition to North America) to join us in Philadelphia for our Seventh Annual Meeting. *Abstract submission deadline: Friday, 16 August 2024, 11:59 PM US Eastern Time.* Please see our call for abstracts below and send us your latest work in historical sociolinguistics! —————————— Call for Abstracts —————————— The North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics (NARNiHS) is accepting abstracts for its Seventh Annual Meeting (NARNiHS 2025) in Philadelphia, Thursday, January 9 – Sunday, January 12, 2025. Deadline for receipt of abstracts: Friday, 16 August 2024, 11:59 PM US Eastern Time. Late abstracts will not be considered. NARNiHS welcomes abstracts in all areas of historical sociolinguistics, which is understood as the application/development of sociolinguistic theories, models, and methods for the study of historical language variation and change over time, or more broadly, the study of the interaction of language and society in historical periods and from historical perspectives. Thus, a wide range of linguistic areas, subdisciplines, and methodologies easily find their place within the field, and we encourage submission of abstracts that reflect this broad scope. Abstracts will be accepted for both 20-minute papers and posters. Please note that, at the NARNiHS annual meeting, poster presentations are an integral part of the conference (not second-tier presentations). Abstracts will be assigned a paper or a poster presentation based on determinations in the review process about the most effective format for the submission. However, if you prefer that your submission be considered primarily for poster presentation, please specify this in your abstract. Abstracts will be evaluated on the following criteria: ● explicit discussion of which theoretical frameworks, methodological protocols, and analytical strategies are being applied or critiqued; ● sufficient (if brief) presentation of data sources and examples to allow reviewers a clear understanding of the scope and claims of the research; ● clear articulation of how the research advances knowledge in the field of historical sociolinguistics. Abstracts should also be anonymized to allow for blind peer review. Failure to adhere to these criteria will significantly increase the likelihood of non-acceptance (see also point (c) below). General Requirements: 1) Abstracts must be submitted electronically, using the following link: https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/NARNiHS_2025/ 2) Authors may submit a maximum of two abstracts: one single-author abstract and one co-authored abstract. 3) Authors may not submit identical abstracts for presentation at the NARNiHS meeting and at the LSA Annual Meeting or one of the other LSA Sister Societies (ADS, ANS, NAAHoLS, SCiL, SPCL, SSILA). 4) Specify in the abstract if you prefer that your submission be considered primarily for a poster presentation. 5) After an abstract has been submitted, no changes of author, title, or wording of the abstract, other than those due to typographical errors, are permitted. If accepted, authors will be contacted for a final version for the abstract booklet. 6) Papers or posters must be delivered as projected in the abstract or represent bona fide developments of the same research. 7) Authors are expected to attend the conference in-person and present their own papers and posters. This will not be a hybrid event. Abstract Format Guidelines: a) Abstracts must be submitted in PDF format. b) Abstracts must fit on one standard 8.5×11 inch page, with margins no smaller than 1 inch and a font style and size no smaller than Times New Roman 12 point. All additional content (visualizations, trees, tables, figures, captions, examples, and references) must fit on a single (1) additional page. No exceptions to these requirements are allowed. c) Anonymize your abstract. We realize that sometimes it is not possible to attain complete anonymity, but there is a difference between “inability to anonymize completely” (due to the nature of the research) and “careless non-anonymizing” (for example: “In Jones 2021, I describe…”). In addition, be sure to anonymize your PDF file (you may do so in Adobe Acrobat Reader by clicking on “File”, then “Properties”, removing your name if it appears in the “Author” line of the “Description” tab, and re-saving before submitting it). Please be aware that abstract file names might not be automatically anonymized by the system; do not use your name (e.g. Smith_Abstract.pdf) when saving your abstract in PDF format, rather, use non-identifying information (e.g. HistSoc4Lyfe_NARNiHS.pdf). Your name should only appear in the online form accompanying your abstract submission. Papers that are not sufficiently anonymized wherever possible (whether in the text of the abstract or in the metadata of the digital file) risk being rejected. Contact us at *NARNiHistSoc(a)gmail.com <NARNiHistSoc(a)gmail.com>* with any questions. Carolina Amador-Moreno (on behalf of the organising committee)

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SemDial 2024: Call for SHORT PAPERS reminder
by Raffaella Bernardi 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

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

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2nd CfP - OM-2024: The 19th International Workshop on Ontology Matching collocated with ISWC2024
by Huanyu Li 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

*****We apologize for possible cross-posting***** *************** Second 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). ------------------------------------------------------- More about ontology matching: http://www.ontologymatching.org/ http://book.ontologymatching.org/ -------------------------------------------------------

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[CfP] Deadline Extended: NLP4MusA - 3rd Workshop on NLP for Music and Audio @ ISMIR 2024
by Sergio Oramas 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

Dear all, The submission deadline for the 3rd Workshop on NLP for Music and Audio <https://sites.google.com/view/nlp4musa-2024> (NLP4MusA), co-located with ISMIR 2024, has been extended to *Friday 12 July 2024*. =================================== *When*: November, 15 *Where*: San Francisco (ISMIR) *Submission deadline*: July, 12 (*updated*) *Proceedings*: Accepted papers will be published on the ACL Anthology *Website*: https://sites.google.com/view/nlp4musa-2024 *Submission link:* https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=nlp4musa2024 =================================== *Topics of Interest* We welcome both academic and industry submissions at the crossroads of NLP and music and audio, including (but not limited to) topics such as: - NLP for Music Understanding - Tagging and meta-tagging - Knowledge graph construction - Information extraction - Named entity recognition and linking - Speech to text - Song and podcast segmentation - Topic modeling - Sentiment analysis - Representation learning - Bias in music and audio corpora - Audio captioning - Debiasing music entity embeddings - Evaluation and adaptation of LLMs for music understanding - NLP for Music Retrieval and Personalization - Conversational AI - Slot filling and intent prediction - Information retrieval - Cross-modal retrieval - Recommender systems - Ads personalization - Responsible recommendations - Fairness and transparency - NLP for Music and Audio Generation - Lyrics generation - Music generation with (Large) Language models - Spoken audio/podcast generation *Submission Instructions* We invite short-papers of up to 4 pages (excluding references). The review process will be double-blind. Submissions should adhere to the ACL Anthology formatting guidelines. A LaTeX template is available here <https://drive.google.com/file/d/10sSh9JR6Q1644h6XP21lYEyCEoMyB0gQ/view>. Papers should be submitted via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=nlp4musa2024. Accepted submissions will be published as ACL anthology papers. *Important dates* - Submission Deadline: *July 12, 2024* - Notification of Acceptance: September 2, 2024 - Camera-Ready Deadline: September 27, 2024 - Workshop Date: November 15, 2024 NLP4MusA Organizing Committee

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Call for Participation: ODESIA CHALLENGE @ SEPLN 2024 – Evaluation of NLP Systems in Spanish
by ROSER MORANTE VALLEJO 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

[Apologies for cross-posting] ODESIA CHALLENGE @ SEPLN 2024 – Evaluation of NLP Systems in Spanish https://leaderboard.odesia.uned.es/en/leaderboard/challenge Call for Participation The members of the ODESIA<https://odesia.es/> project (Space for the Observation of the Development of Spanish in Artificial Intelligence) and the organizers of SEPLN 2024 are pleased to invite you to participate in the ODESIA Challenge @ SEPLN 2024. This competition aims to promote the development and evaluation of language technologies in Spanish using the evaluation platform and datasets provided by ODESIA (see full rules here<https://unedo365-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/personal/al_benito_lsi_uned_es/EWm…>). Participants must create a system capable of solving 10 discriminative Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks in Spanish belonging to the ODESIA Leaderboard<https://leaderboard.odesia.uned.es/en/node/1>. The winning team will receive a cash prize of 3,000 euros, donated by the company Llorente y Cuenca Madrid, SL. (conditions apply, see below). Tasks The ODESIA-CORE benchmark consists of 10 discriminative tasks with public training datasets and private test datasets (not previously distributed by any means) created within the ODESIA initiative. The private nature of the test data guarantees the absence of contamination in the leaderboard results: no LLM should have seen the test set annotations in its pre-training phase. Accepted Systems All types of Natural Language Processing (NLP) systems that are applied uniformly to all tasks will be accepted. That is, each participation must be a single system that applies to all tasks, instead of different approaches for each task. A submission in which the solution for each task is constructed independently will not be acceptable. For illustrative purposes, systems with the following characteristics (the list is non-exhaustive) are acceptable: 1. The system is an encoder-type LLM (or an ensemble of LLMs), to which a fine-tuning process is applied for each of the challenge tasks, using the training data provided in the participants’ package or from other sources as deemed appropriate by the participating team. 2. The system uses one or more generative LLMs, combined with a uniform zero-shot, one-shot or few-shot prompting strategy. 3. The system uses one or more generative LLMs combined with a retrieval-augmented generation strategy on the training dataset or other external sources. 4. Any combination of the above methods, as long as it is applied uniformly to all datasets. Registration and Participation Teams will have to pre-register before they can participate. Each team will register a single account on the ODESIA Leaderboard evaluation platform using the form provided for this purpose (link<https://forms.office.com/e/Tg0Yv6AtHw>). The organizers will provide a username and password on the ODESIA Leaderboard platform upon validation of the registration data. Prize A single prize of 3,000 euros -donated by Llorente y Cuenca Madrid, SL- will be awarded to the team that submits the system with the best global average performance in the ODESIA-CORE tasks for Spanish, and that outperforms the best current model in the Leaderboard (XLM-Roberta-Large - 0.5873). Please note that for the prize to be awarded, there must be a minimum of five teams submitting results; if this number is not met, the organization reserves the right to defer the challenge's deadline until this number is reached. Also, The winning team commits to present its solution (in-person or online) at the Award ceremony at SEPLN 2024 (25th September 2024, Valladolid - Spain). Important dates * Registration opens: 1st July 2024 * Registration closes: 30th July 2024 * * Submission deadline: 14th September 2024 * * Official results announced: 16-20th September 2024 * Award ceremony and presentation of results: 25th September 2024 - 5:30pm, at SEPLN 2024 *23:59 AoE (Anywhere on Earth) Organizing Committee * Alejandro Benito-Santos (co-chair, UNED) * Roser Morante (co-chair, UNED) * Julio Gonzalo (UNED) * Jorge Carrillo-de-Albornoz (UNED) * Laura Plaza (UNED) * Enrique Amigó (UNED) * Víctor Fresno (UNED) * Andrés Fernández (UNED) * Adrián Ghajari (UNED) * Guillermo Marco (UNED) * Eva Sánchez (UNED) * Miguel Lucas (LLYC) Advisory Board * TBA Contact and More Information: * The full contest rules, along with instructions to participate, can be found at the ODESIA Leaderboard website<https://leaderboard.odesia.uned.es/leaderboard/challenge> and here in PDF<https://unedo365-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/personal/al_benito_lsi_uned_es/EWm…>. * For questions related to the challenge, please join our Discord server: #odesia-challenge-2024.<https://discord.gg/psw7ayZzf6> You can also contact the challenge co-chairs, Alejandro Benito-Santos (al.benito(a)lsi.uned.es<mailto:al.benito@lsi.uned.es>) and Roser Morante (r.morant(a)lsi.uned.es<mailto:rmorante@lsi.uned.es>). 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Re: Corpora Digest, Vol 845, Issue 1
by Sarah Holschneider 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

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[CIKM-2024] - Data challenge starts!
by antonela.tommasel＠isistan.unicen.edu.ar 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

=============== =============== * We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this data challenge * * For the online version of this Call, visit: https://cikm2024.org/cikm-2024-analyticup/ =============== CIKM 2024: 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management Boise, Idaho, USA October 21–25, 2024 =============== CIKM 2024:AI Aided Advanced Aerodynamics-Streamlining Automobile Design for Optimal Performance In this competition, participants will develop AI4Science methods towards the prediction of aerodynamic drag, a pivotal factor shaping the performance and efficiency of vehicles. The computation will be performed based on industry-level steady vehicle aerodynamics simulated based on the 3D ShapeNet Car, and a total of 2,700 different shaped car data. The challenge will be held on the OpenAtom Foundation’s Open Source Competition Platform and Baidu’s AI Studio competition platform. -------------------------- Key Dates -------------------------- * Registration open: June 23rd 2024. * Initial data release: July 1st 2024. * Leaderboard A submission starts: July 20th 2024. * Leaderboard B submission starts: August 23rd 2024. * Final submission deadline: August 30th 2024. * Winner’s presentations: October 25th 2024. -------------------------- Prizes -------------------------- * 1st Place: $3,000 * 2nd Place: $2,000 * 3rd Place: $1,000 * 4th-10th Place: $500 each -------------------------- More information -------------------------- For further information, please contact: zhangzhe [at] openatom [dot] org More details can be found at the competition website: https://competition.atomgit.com/competitionInfo?id=cda4e961b0c25858ca0fd2a4…

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Antw: Corpora Digest, Vol 855, Issue 1 (Abwesenheitsnotiz)
by Karolina Suchowolec 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

Vielen Dank für Ihre Nachricht. Ich bin am 12.07.2024 wieder erreichbar. Ihre E-Mail wird nicht weitergeleitet. Thank you for your message. I am out of the office until 07/11/2024. Your e-mail will not be forwarded. Mit freundlichen Grüßen/Best regards, Karolina Suchowolec -- *Prof. Dr. Karolina Suchowolec* Institut für Translation und Mehrsprachige Kommunikation (Fakultät 03) Lehrgebiet: Terminologie und mehrsprachige Fachkommunikation T: +49 221-8275-3902 E: karolina.suchowolec(a)th-koeln.de Technische Hochschule Köln Campus Südstadt Ubierring 48 50678 Köln Raum: 436 www.th-koeln.de <http://www.th-koeln.de> TH Köln Logo

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1st CfP: 2nd Workshop on Social Influence in Conversations (SICon 2024)
by aina.garisoler＠telecom-paris.fr 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

(Apologies for cross-posting) ****** First Call for Papers ****** SICon 2024: 2nd Workshop on Social Influence in Conversations Website: https://sites.google.com/view/sicon2024/home Twitter/X: @SIConWorkshop Paper Submission via Openreview: https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2024/Workshop/SiCon Contact: sicon-chairs [at] googlegroups.com Venue: Co-located with EMNLP 2024; November 15 or 16, 2024; Miami, Florida *** Workshop description *** Social influence (SI) is the change in an individual's thoughts, feelings, attitudes, or behaviors from interacting with another individual or a group. For example, a buyer uses SI skills to negotiate trade-offs and build rapport with the seller. SI is ubiquitous in everyday life, and hence, realistic human-machine conversations must reflect these dynamics, making it essential to model and understand SI in dialogue research systematically. This would improve SI systems' ability to understand users’ utterances, tailor communication strategies, personalize responses, and actively lead conversations. These challenges draw on perspectives not only from NLP and AI research but also from Game Theory, Affective Computing, Communication, and Social Psychology. SICon 2024 will be the second edition of a venue that uniquely fosters a dedicated discussion on social influence within NLP while involving researchers from other disciplines such as affective computing and the social sciences. SICon 2024 features keynote talks, panel discussions, poster sessions, and lightning talks for accepted papers. We encourage researchers of all stages and backgrounds to share their exciting work! SICon will promote discussion around several key questions: * How should social influence systems model users and plan optimal responses systematically? * How can social influence systems benefit from linguistic theories (e.g.,successful persuasion or negotiation tactics) developed in the social sciences? * What structurally differentiates and unites various social influence tasks? * What are the ethical issues involved with AI that engage in social influence and what guardrails must be implemented before using these systems in the wild? *** Submission Guidelines *** SICon welcomes two types of papers: regular workshop submissions and shared task submissions (more information about the shared task will be announced at a later date). Regular workshop submissions are archival short (4 pages) and long (8 pages) papers. There is also a non-archival track for extended abstracts (2 pages) covering ongoing work on social influence NLP. Topics include but are not limited to: * Analysis-focused contributions (e.g., associations between linguistic behaviors or user attributes with SI task outcomes); * System design contributions (e.g., dialogue systems for SI tasks such as strategic games, emotional support, etc.; SI systems effectively harnessing the capabilities of LLMs); * Contributions advancing relevant subgoals in SI tasks (e.g. detecting SI strategies in text, partner/opponent modeling and emotion recognition in SI interactions); * SI systems benefited from linguistic theories (e.g., successful persuasion, negotiation tactics) developed in social science; * Ethical issues and guardrails involved with AI that engage in SI; * Unintentional aspects of SI for any human-facing NLP system; * Datasets capturing forms of SI; * Opinion or position papers on SI. Submissions should follow the official EMNLP 2024 style guidelines and be submitted through OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2024/Workshop/SiCon *** Important Dates *** Direct paper submission deadline: August 15, 2024 Notification of acceptance: October 1, 2024 Camera-ready paper due: October 8, 2024 Workshop: November 15 or 16, 2024 (All submission deadlines are 11:59 p.m. UTC-12:00 ‘anywhere on Earth’) *** Contact *** For any questions, please contact the organizers at: sicon-chairs [at] googlegroups.com Consider joining our slack community! A dedicated space to connect researchers working on various topics related to social influence in NLP and beyond, as well as a useful communication channel for live announcements during the workshop: https://join.slack.com/t/acl2023sicon/shared_invite/zt-1y7cv1c2v-Lm21Sm6KX3… ***Organizers*** Muskan Garg (Mayo Clinic) Kushal Chawla (Capital One) Weiyan Shi (Stanford NLP) Ritam Dutt (Carnegie Mellon University) Deuksin Kwon (University of Southern California) James Hale (University of Southern California) Liang Qiu (Amazon) Aina Garí Soler (Télécom-Paris) Alexandros Papangelis (Amazon Alexa AI) Gale Lucas (University of Southern California) Zhou Yu (Columbia University) Daniel Hershcovich (University of Copenhagen)

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The ReproHum 2024 Survey of NLP and ML researchers' experience and views of reproducibility
by Thomson, Craig 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

Dear Corpora list members, As part of the EPSRC UK ReproHum project, PI Prof. Anya Belz (DCU/Adapt & University of Aberdeen), Co-I Prof. Ehud Reiter (University of Aberdeen), RF Dr Craig Thomson (DCU/Adapt & University of Aberdeen), we are performing a survey of NLP and ML researchers’ experience and views of reproducibility. We would like to hear from as many researchers as possible (NLP or ML), not just those who work on evaluation! If you completed a similar survey in 2022 then you can still complete this one, we are interested in the difference in your experience and views between then and now. We would be most grateful if you are able to spend 5-10 minutes taking part in the survey, it can be accessed via the below link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfg1C2seS6ciHGUFdiksf3ofeMzBOtEz7H… With thanks and apologies for cross-posting. Anya, Craig, and Ehud The University of Aberdeen is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013683. Tha Oilthigh Obar Dheathain na charthannas clàraichte ann an Alba, Àir. SC013683.

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CLiC-it 2024: third CFP - important updates
by Rachele SPRUGNOLI 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

[Apologies for multiple postings] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CLiC-it 2024 - Tenth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 4 - 6 December 2024, Pisa, Italy Third CFP - important updates https://clic2024.ilc.cnr.it/ DEADLINE EXTENSION - **22/07/2024**: EXTENDED paper submission deadline: regular papers and research communications (11:59 pm CEST) - 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 RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS CLiC-it 2024 adopts a parallel submission policy for outstanding papers accepted **in both 2023 and 2024** by major publication venues, namely the major international CL conferences (workshops excluded) or international journals. When submitting the proposal, the appropriate track should be selected. SUBMISSION TEMPLATE AND PROCEDURE Submission guidelines are detailed in the conference website: https://clic2024.ilc.cnr.it/information-for-authors/ Please note that as stated in the CEUR guidelines (https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html), "The minimum length of a regular or short paper should be five "standard" pages (=2500 chars per page, calculated from a sample of LNCS one-column papers)." Firma il tuo 5xmille all'Universit? di Parma. Aiutaci a potenziare la capacit? di accoglienza, soprattutto abitativa, per le studentesse e gli studenti. - Indica 00308780345 nella tua dichiarazione dei redditi.

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RANLP-2025: FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT
by Petya Osenova 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

(Apologies for cross-postings) ===== FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT ===== RANLP-25 RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING Varna, Bulgaria http://ranlp.org/ranlp2025/ Summer School ‘Deep Learning and Large Language Models for NLP’: 3-5 September 2025 (Wednesday-Friday) Tutorials: 6-7 September 2025 (Saturday-Sunday) Main Conference: 8-10 September 2025 (Monday-Wednesday) Workshops and shared tasks: 11-12 September 2025 (Thursday-Friday) RANLP (Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing) is one of the most influential and competitive NLP conferences. The event is held biennially and grew out of the International Summer schools "Contemporary topics in Computational Linguistics" which were organised for many years as international training events. Previous RANLP conferences (1995, 1997, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021 and 2023) featured keynote talks by leading experts in NLP as well as presentations/papers of high quality, rigorously reviewed by a Programme Committee of well-known researchers. After 2009, the papers accepted at RANLP and the associated workshops have been included in the ACL Anthology. The RANLP proceedings are indexed by SCOPUS and DBLP. The Proceedings has its own Scopus SJR, in 2023 it is 0,299. The conference will be preceded by a Summer School on Deep Learning and Large Language Models in NLP as well as 4-6 tutorials on current topics of particular interest and cutting edge technologies. RANLP-2025 will be followed by selected workshops on specialised NLP topics as well as shared tasks. A Student Research Workshop will be held in parallel with the main conference. The Student Research Workshops (now 9th edition) have become active discussion forums for young researchers. Expected conference submission deadline: end of April/beginning of May 2025 (please regularly check http://ranlp.org/ranlp2025/ for updated information) Call for shared tasks proposals: September 2024 Call for workshop proposals: December 2024 Venue: RANLP-25 will be held in Cherno More Hotel, Varna, Bulgaria. The event venue offers excellent conference facilities. The International airport of Varna conveniently connects Varna to major airports in Central Europe, Sofia, Istanbul and many others. TEAM BEHIND RANLP-25 Galia Angelova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (OC Chair) Ruslan Mitkov, University of Lancaster, UK (PC Chair) Preslav Nakov, MBZUAI, Abu Dhabi, UAE Nikolai Nikolov, Bulgarian Association for Computational Linguistics, Bulgaria Ivelina Nikolova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria Petya Osenova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (Workshops Co-Chair) Kiril Simov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (Workshops Co-Chair) Saad Ezzini, Lancaster University, UK (Sponsorship Chair and Shared tasks Co-Chair) Tharindu Ranasinghe, Lancaster University, UK (Shared tasks Co-Chair)

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Call for submissions: Conference on Rational Approaches in Language Science (RAILS)
by Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

Call for submissions: Conference on Rational Approaches in Language Science (RAILS) The 2nd Conference on Rational Approaches in Language Science (RAILS) will be held in Saarbruecken, Germany, 13-15 February 2025. The central theme of this conference is rational communication, i.e. the idea that language users continuously strive to optimize their means of communication to effectively convey their intended messages. RAILS brings together research on (1) how interlocutors process and update information in diverse situational contexts, (2) how language use is adapted to certain contexts and intended referents, and (3) how linguistic and conceptual information is stored and maintained in short- and long-term memory. We invite submissions from researchers across the language sciences – including speech science, theoretical linguistics, empirical linguistics, psycholinguistics and neuroscience, computational linguistics, as well as language development, change and evolution – who apply rational probabilistic explanations to linguistic phenomena, or bring novel experimental findings to bear on such accounts. Keynote speakers: Mark Dingemanse (Radboud University) Richard Futrell (University of California, Irvine) Adele Goldberg (Princeton University) Rachel Ryskin (University of California, Merced) Submission guidelines: Abstracts should be submitted as a single PDF file via https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/43090/submissions/new <https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/43090/submissions/new?behalf=false&f…>, adhering to the guidelines listed on our conference website <https://sfb1102.uni-saarland.de/sfb-conference-2025/>. We accept submissions for posters and/or talks. Talks are slated for 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for questions. Submission of planned work is invited for poster presentation only. Note that, if accepted, we expect results to be presented at the conference. Important dates: Submissions open: 8 July, 2024 Submissions due: 16 September, 2024 Notification of acceptance: 4 November, 2024 Registration period: 11 November-16 December, 2024 De-anonymized abstracts due in final form: 2 December, 2024 Conference: 13-15 February, 2025 Scientific Committee: Regine Bader Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb Katja Haeuser Robin Lemke Ivan Yuen Scientific and financial support for this conference comes from the Collaborative Research Center SFB1102 Information Density and Linguistic Encoding <https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sfb110…>. For inquiries, please send an email to rails2025(a)lst.uni-saarland.de <mailto:rails2025@lst.uni-saarland.de>. Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb Associate Professor Universität des Saarlandes Language Science and Technology Campus A2.2, 1.06 66123 Saarbrücken Tel.: ++49 681 302 70077 E-Mail: s.degaetano(a)mx.uni-saarland.de www.stefaniadegaetano.com

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CfP: 8th Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages (ComputEL-8)
by Antti Arppe 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

Eighth Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages (ComputEL-8) March 3-4, 2024 Honolulu, Hawai’i URL: https://computel-workshop.org/computel-8/ EMAIL: computel.workshop(a)gmail.com Read to the end for guidelines for the Special Session submissions deadline. FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS FOR REGULAR SESSION We invite submissions to the 8th workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages, by October 7, 2024. The ComputEL-8 workshop focuses on the use of computational methods in the study, support, and revitalization of endangered languages. The primary aim of the workshop is to continue narrowing the gap between computational linguists interested in methods for low resource languages, academic linguists documenting languages, and the language communities who are striving to maintain their languages. We encourage submissions from scholars and activists representing any or all of these perspectives. The intention of the workshop is not merely to allow for the presentation of research, but also to build a network of computational linguists, documentary linguists, and community language activists who are able to effectively join together and serve their common interests. WORKSHOP VENUE ComputEL-8 will take place March 3-4, 2024, immediately preceding be co-located with the 9th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (ICLDC) in Honolulu, Hawaii (https://ling.lll.hawaii.edu/sites/icldc/). In-person events will be co-located with the ICLDC at the University of Hawai’i Manoa. The workshop will be a virtual/in-person hybrid event. Ability to attend in person will not affect consideration of submissions. CALL FOR PAPERS We encourage submissions that explore the interface and intersection of computational linguistics, documentary linguistics, and community-based efforts in language revitalization and reclamation. This includes submissions that: (i) propose or demonstrate new methods or technologies for tasks or applications focused on low-resource settings, and in particular, endangered languages. (ii) examine the use of specific methods in the analysis of data from low-resource languages, or propose new methods for analysis of such data, oriented toward the goals of language reclamation and revitalization (iii) propose new models for the collection, management, and mobilization of language data in community settings, with attention to issues of data sovereignty and community protocols (iv) explore concrete steps for a more fruitful interaction among computer scientists, documentary linguists, and language communities IMPORTANT DATES 07-Oct-2024 Deadline for submission of papers or extended abstracts 22-Nov-2024 Notification of Acceptance 10-Jan-2025 Camera-ready papers due 3-4 March 2025 Workshop PRESENTATIONS Presentation of accepted papers will be in both oral sessions and a poster session. The decision on whether a presentation for a paper will be oral and/or poster will be made by the Organizing Committee on the advice of the Program Committee, taking into account the subject matter and how the content might be best conveyed. Oral and poster presentations will not be distinguished in the Proceedings. SUBMISSIONS In line with our goal of reaching multiple overlapping communities, we offer two modes of submission: extended abstract and full paper. The mode of submission does not influence the likelihood of acceptance. Either can be submitted to one of the workshop’s tracks: (a) language community perspective and (b) academic perspective. All submissions must be anonymous following ACL guidelines and will be peer-reviewed by the scientific committee. A. Extended Abstract: Please submit anonymous abstracts of up to 1500 words, excluding references. Extended abstracts must be submitted as attached documents. B. Full Paper: Please submit anonymously either a) a long paper (max. 8 pages excluding references and appendices), or b) a short paper (max. 4 pages excluding references) PROCEEDINGS The authors of selected accepted full papers (long or short) will be invited by the Organizing Committee to submit their papers for online publication via the open-access ACL Anthology. Final versions of long and short papers will be allotted one additional page (altogether 5 and 9 pages) excluding references. Proceedings papers should be revised and improved versions of the work that underwent review. Any revisions should concern responses to reviewer comments or the addition of relevant details and clarifications, but not entirely new, unreviewed content. Camera-ready versions of the articles for publication will be due on January 10, 2025. SPECIAL THEME SESSION: BUILDING TOOLS TOGETHER In addition to the Regular Session, ComputEL-8 invites self-identified submissions to a Special Themed Session on “Building Tools Together.” This Session will focus on amplifying our shared understanding of how best to work together across disciplinary and cultural boundaries to build technological tools that support community language revitalization. We invite presentations that: (1) Describe the development of new tools and technologies in collaborative teams, and/or (2) Describe or identify technological or computational needs within community language revitalization contexts, and/or propose solutions. For presentations that describe the development of new tools and technologies in collaboration among language communities, academic researchers, and (in some cases) industry or non-governmental organizations, we encourage submissions which address questions such as: a. How did the idea for the tool or technology come about? b. How did the team members meet and come to work together? c. What has been the impact of this tool? How are you evaluating it? How has the project benefitted community efforts at language maintenance and revitalization? d. What are some challenges (logistical, technical, interdisciplinary, intercultural) that you encountered, and how did you address them? e. How have you balanced the needs and priorities of different team members through the lifespan of the project? f. What lessons have you learned that might benefit similar collaborations? For presentations that identify technological or computational needs within community language revitalization contexts, and/or propose solutions, we encourage submissions which address questions such as: a. What is the need that this tool would meet? Who will it serve? b. What is the blue-sky version of this tool? What is the minimum viable product version? c. What kinds of data, digital assets, or media content would be required to create the tool, and how would they be assembled? d. What challenges might the team face in the development process? e. How do you anticipate the collaborative process to best incorporate diverse areas of expertise from cultural and community-grounded knowledge to academic, technical, and production-oriented knowledge? SUBMISSIONS to the SPECIAL THEME SESSION Please submit anonymous extended abstracts of up to 1500 words, excluding references. Submissions representing community-led collaborations are strongly encouraged. Submissions to the Regular Session may choose to be considered for the Special Session as well. Same considerations will be given for publication whether papers are accepted to the Main Session or the Special Session. Alternatively, authors may submit abstracts only to the Special Session. The deadline for submissions is 11:59pm 7 October, 2024 (Anywhere on Earth). You may indicate that your full paper or extended abstract be considered for inclusion in the Special Session. Notification of acceptance to the Special Session will be sent out by November 22, 2024. All authors of papers in the Special Theme Session will be invited to contribute to a follow-up paper that synthesizes the findings of the Session. IMPORTANT DATES (SPECIAL SESSION) 07-Oct-2024 Deadline for submission of papers or extended abstracts 22-Nov-2024 Notification of Acceptance 10-Jan-2025 Camera-ready papers due 3-4 March 2025 Workshop with Special Session MORE INFORMATION about Special Session submissions will follow on our website and subsequent calls for papers, see: URL: https://computel-workshop.org/computel-8/ ComputEL-8 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Godfred Agyapong (University of Florida) Antti Arppe (University of Alberta) Aditi Chaudhary (Google DeepMind) Jordan Lachler (University of Alberta) Sarah Moeller (University of Florida) Shruti Rijhwani (Google DeepMind) Daisy Rosenblum (University of British Columbia) CONTACT the OC For further information email us at: computel.workshop(a)gmail.com -- ====================================================================== Antti Arppe - Ph.D (General Linguistics), M.Sc. (Engineering) Professor of Quantitative Linguistics Director, Alberta Language Technology Lab (ALTLab) Project Director, 21st Century Tools for Indigenous Languages (21C) Past President, ACL SIG for Endangered Languages (SIGEL) Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta E-mail: arppe(a)ualberta.ca, antti.arppe(a)iki.fi WWW: www.ualberta.ca/~arppe, altlab.artsrn.ualberta.ca Mānahtu ina rēdûti ihza ummânūti ihannaq - dulum ugulak úmun ingul ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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2nd CfP : Complexity in Language Sciences, December 12-13, 2024, Paris, France
by sascha.diwersy＠univ-montp3.fr 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

(Apologies for cross-posting) Workshop Complexity in Language Sciences December 12-13, 2024 Paris, France Submissions deadline : September 9, 2024 ========= While speaking, writing, listening and reading are easy, simple, and natural activities for those who practice them on a daily basis, what can be said about the cognitive and linguistic processes that underlie them? What about the languages in which these activities are practiced, and the theories and models developed to explain and represent the mechanisms involved? And finally, what can be said about individuals (speakers, listeners, writers, readers) who have not yet finished the learning process of these activities (children in the language acquisition phase, adults learning a second language), especially given that certain processes that may prove particularly difficult or even impossible (e.g.: writing in deaf people)? The question of complexity quickly arises, and the notion is regularly invoked in the language sciences, though often in a vague and intuition-driven way. In practice, this question takes on different forms depending on who is formulating it (psycholinguists, linguists, descriptive or model scientists, etc.) and who is targeted by it (speakers, listeners, natives, non-natives, learners, atypical subjects, etc.). In short, how complex, for whom and why? Is it necessary or contingent complexity? To answer these questions, we need to know what kind of complexity we're talking about: conceptual (e.g. representation of time and reference in languages), formal (e.g. at the phonological, graphic, morphological and syntactic level) or physiological (unnatural articulatory gestures, material constraints)? Does one complexity call for another (e.g. does the complex conception of time in a language call for a complex syntax, does formal complexity imply cognitive complexity and vice versa?). The aim of this conference is to discuss the current state of the art on complexity in the language sciences. It will offer the opportunity to examine the history and use of the notion of complexity in linguistics, through a variety of theoretical and epistemological perspectives. Its ambition is to bring together linguists working on spoken and written language, NLP/computer scientists and psycholinguists, etc., to discuss the complexity that runs, to varying degrees, through the different components of language and discourse (segmental, suprasegmental, morphological, syntactic, semantic, pragmatic). The expected result is to elaborate a concept that will work for the community, however stratified it may be, since the criteria on which it is based are obviously many: • For the linguist, complexity is that which is not simple to represent and model, because (i) it is not easily predictable (e.g. unexpected constructions, productions that escape general rules), (ii) it could be of a continuous nature, and therefore difficult to isolate or categorize (e.g. the prosodic level of representation as opposed to the segmental level; opaque or indefinite reference)[1]. A complex element is also an observable that can be described but which resists explanation (e.g. errors in deaf writing). • For the human subject, everything that is unnatural and therefore difficult to produce or to hear (such as a foreign language) can be considered as complex. Complexity can also refer to units which are linguistically underspecified, and thus ambiguous or implicit, entailing a high cognitive load. While human subjects or linguists might view complexity as an obstacle to learning or a challenge in representing language, complexity is conversely necessary to the very existence of natural languages and their uses. From a synchronic point of view, complexity plays a part in regulating the linguistic system, the internal balance of a language, based on a partition between complex and simple elements (e.g. poor morphology vs. complex tonal system in Chinese). What remains to be understood is how this balance is determined in languages. From a diachronic point of view, complexity seems to play the same role, whether it's a question of simplifying certain processes and maintaining the formal economy of the system (e.g. deletion of phonological oppositions with low functional output, grammaticalization processes), or, on the contrary, reintegrating complexity (e.g. the transition from pidgin to creole). This raises a question for the language sciences: how can we account for linguistic complexity? Which approach would be most adequate: typological and contrastive, or internal, experimental, or inductive on large corpora? How should complexity be measured, and what measurement standard should be proposed? Which scale and which descriptors should be used? For example, can we assume the existence of a neutral SVO sentence in order to work on complex structures in syntax? Can the concepts of transformation and movement proposed by generative grammar be used to work on syntactic complexity? If so, how? If not, what descriptors should be used to replace them: "easily" quantifiable descriptors (cf. work on text readability or simplification, which systematically use them), such as sentence length or the types of dependency between elements (e.g. number, length, direction)? The question of medium sheds a different light on complexity, particularly with regards to the syntactic component. Is the syntactic structure of a message more complex in spoken or written form? And from what point of view? In production or reception? From the point of view of language activity or from the point of view of linguistic representation and modeling? In semantics and pragmatics, how can we deal with the meaning-form relationship? How can we deal with ambiguity and implicitness? Can a text be simple, given that it contains a set of units and constructions that are themselves complex. If so, what mechanism of adjustment or qualitative change are necessary? In text linguistics, the notion of complexity has been seen in various ways; for example, through the study of the textualization process itself; through the measurement and quantification of writers' pauses or revisions; by the methods used in applied linguistics to simplify texts, too difficult to be understood and needing to be adapted for a particular audience. Finally, there's a central question in modeling: how does one manage the complexity of the object that is to be represented? How does one break down a complex object into simple elements without losing information? How can we understand which properties are necessary and sufficient to represent the system's operation? How can we approach the question of how multiple descriptors relate to each other using mathematical formulas that go further than the formulas proposed in the field of readability? Among the descriptors, one could for example be interested in units or dependency relations in syntax, in contours or tones in languages with accentual prosody, in operations underlying the description of the semantics of lexical and grammatical units (e.g. deictic operation), in referencing operations to different spaces of validation of predicative contents (e.g. hypothetic spaces), or even in different types of relations between textual units (e.g. embedding, inclusion, successivity). From the point of view of skill acquisition, a point of interest can be the way we can correlate linguistic structures and the stages of an individual's cognitive development. Important dates: September 9, 2024 – abstract submissions October 15, 2024 - scientific committee decision December 12-13, 2024 - Workshop Submission instructions: Abstracts, written in French or English, are due on September 9 at the latest: - 1 cover page including the name and affiliation of the author(s) ; - 1-2 pages of text (excluding references); - 3 to 5 keywords. They should be sent to MAIL to: Delphine Battistelli, Modyco, Paris Nanterre : delphine.battistelli(a)parisnanterre.fr Georgeta Cislaru, Modyco, Paris Nanterre : georgeta.cislaru(a)parisnanterre.fr Sascha Diwersy, Praxiling, Paul Valéry Montpellier : sascha.diwersy(a)univ-montp3.fr Anne Lacheret, Modyco, Paris Nanterre : anne.lacheret(a)parisnanterre.fr Dominique Legallois, Lattice, Sorbonne Nouvelle : dominique.legallois(a)sorbonne-nouvelle.fr Scientific Committee: Basso Pierluigi, Université Lumière Lyon 2 Blache Philippe CNRS, ILCB, Laboratoire Parole & Langage, Université Aix Marseille Blumenthal-Dramé Alice, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies Brunetti Lisa, LLF, Université Paris Cité Feltgen Quentin, Université de Gand François Thomas, Cental, UCLouvain Gala Núria, LPL, Aix Marseille Université. Grandjean Didier, Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, Université de Genève Heidlmayr Karin, MoDyCo, CNRS-Université Paris Nanterre Kahane Sylvain, MoDyCo, CNRS-Université Paris Nanterre Lampitelli Nicola, MoDyCo, CNRS-Université Paris Nanterre Landragin Frédéric, Lattice, CNRS Nadvornikova Olga, Université Charles, Prague Olive Thierry, CeRCA, CNRS – Université de Poitiers Prévost Sophie, Lattice, CNRS Watine Marie-Albane, BCL, Université Côte d’Azur Ziegler Johannes, Centre de Recherche en Psychologie et Neuroscience (CRPN) CNRS et Université Aix Marseille. Selected References Barbaresi, Adrien. 2011. La complexité linguistique, méthode d’analyse. TALN Jun 2011, Montpellier, France. pp.229-234. Berthoz, Alain. 2009. La Simplexité, Paris, Odile Jacob. Bottineau, Didier. 2015. Les langues naturelles, objets complexes, systèmes simplexes : le cas du basque. In Begioni et Placella (dir.), Problématiques de langues romanes, Linguistique, politique des langues, didactique, culture, Hommages à Alvaro Rocchetti, Linguistica 69, Fasano, Schena Editore, pp. 55-85. Dahl, Östen. 2004. The Growth and Maintenance of Linguistic Complexity. Amsterdam/Philadelphia, Benjamins. Do-Hurinville, Danh-Thành, Dao, Huy-Linh (dir.). 2017. La complexité et la comparaison des langues, ÉLA. Études de linguistique appliquée, n°185. Ehret, Katharina, Berdicevskis, Aleksandrs, Bentz, Christian, and Blumenthal-Dramé, Alice. 2023. Measuring language complexity: challenges and opportunities. Linguistics Vanguard, vol. 9, no. s1, pp. 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2022-0133 Ellis, Nick C. & Diane Larsen-Freeman (eds). 2009. Language as a Complex Adaptive System. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. Glaudert, Nathalie. 2011. La complexité linguistique : essai de théorisation et d’application dans un cadre comparatiste, Université de la Réunion. Housen, Alex, Kuiken, Folkert, and Vedder, Ineke. (Eds.). 2012. Dimensions of L2 Performance and Proficiency: Complexity, Accuracy and Fluency in SLA. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Laplantine, Chloé, Joseph, John E., and Aussant, Émilie (dir.) 2023. Simplicité et complexité des langues dans l’histoire des théories linguistiques. Paris : SHESL (HEL Livres, 3). Larsen-Freeman, Diane, & Cameron, Lynne. 2008. Complex Systems and AppliedLlinguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Lund, Kristine, Basso Fossali, Pierluigi, Mazur, Audrey & Ollagnier-Beldame, Magali (eds.). 2022. Language is a Complex Adaptive System: Explorations and evidence (Conceptual Foundations of Language Science 8). Berlin: Language Science Press. Martinot, Claire, Bosnjak Botica, Tomislava, Gerolimich, Sonia, and Paprocka-Piotrowska, Urszula (eds.) 2019. Reformulation and Acquisition of Linguistic Complexity. Crosslinguistic perspective. London: ISTE & Wiley. Sampson, Geoffrey, Gil, David, Trudgill, Peter (dir.). 2009. Language Complexity as an Evolving Variable, Oxford Linguistics. Trudgill, Peter. 2001. Contact and simplification: Historical baggage and directionality in linguistic change. Language Typology, 5, 371–37.

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Workshop on the Future of Event Detection: 2nd Call for Papers (Aug 15 deadline)
by Joel Tetreault 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

Second 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: - 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. - 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. - 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: - Position and opinion papers on the state and future of event detection - Retrospectives - Multimodal event detection - Large language models (LLMs) and their applications for event detection and related areas - Event detection on non-traditional sources of data - Inferring causal, temporal, coreference, and sub-event relations for events - Multilingual event detection - Event representation - Event ontology - Never-ending learning - Streaming algorithms for event detection - Interpretability of event detection methods - Bias detection and mitigation - Human-AI Interaction for event detection frameworks - Information visualization for events - Anomaly detection - Practical application of event detection for different domains such as emergency response - Usability of event detection systems - Datasets for Event Detection Important Dates All deadlines are 11:59 pm UTC-12 (anywhere on Earth). - Submission Deadline: Thursday, August 15 - Notification of Acceptance: Friday, September 20 - Camera Ready Deadline: Friday, October 4 - 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/ Organizing Committee - Joel Tetreault <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Fn52EXUAAAAJ&hl=en>, Dataminr - Thien Huu Nguyen <https://ix.cs.uoregon.edu/~thien/>, University of Oregon - Hemank Lamba <https://sites.google.com/site/hemanklamba/home>, Dataminr - Amanda Hughes <https://cs.byu.edu/department/directory/faculty-directory/amanda-hughes/>, Brigham Young University Contact Information - Workshop contact email address: futureofeventdetection(a)googlegroup.com - Workshop Twitter: @FuturED2024 <https://x.com/FuturED2024>

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[CIKM-2024] - Workshop program announced
by antonela.tommasel＠isistan.unicen.edu.ar 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

=============== =============== * We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this Workshop program * * For the online version of this Call, visit: https://cikm2024.org/workshops/ =============== CIKM 2024: 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management Boise, Idaho, USA October 21–25, 2024 =============== The workshop program of CIKM 2024 has been published. Workshops are planned to take place on 25 October 2024. Here you can find a summary of each accepted workshop and the website for more information. Deadlines start on July 29th. =============== AI Agent for Information Retrieval =============== The field of information retrieval has significantly transformed with the integration of AI technologies. AI agents, especially those leveraging LLMs and vast computational power, have revolutionized information retrieval, processing, and presentation. Despite these advancements, challenges such as ensuring relevance and accuracy, mitigating biases, providing real-time responses, and maintaining data security remain. This workshop is motivated by the need to explore these challenges, share innovative solutions, and discuss future directions. More information at: https://sites.google.com/view/ai4ir/ =============== DCAI: The 4th International Workshop on Data-Centric AI =============== Machine learning focuses on developing models for datasets, but real-world data is often messy. Improving the dataset itself can be a better way to enhance performance instead of just improving the models. Data-Centric AI (DCAI) is an emerging field that systematically improves datasets, resulting in significant improvements in ML applications. This workshop aims to build an interdisciplinary DCAI community to tackle data problems such as collection, labeling, preprocessing, quality evaluation, debt, and governance. More information at: https://data-centric-ai-dev.github.io/CIKM2024/ =============== GenAI and RAG Systems for Enterprise =============== Generative AI (GenAI) represented by large language models (LLMs) is revolutionizing the way we approach problem-solving and content creation in various domains. This workshop aims to bring together academic researchers and industrial practitioners who are interested in building GenAI solutions for enterprise AI, with a special focus on RAG systems. The workshop will provide a platform for sharing the latest research advances, practical experiences, and real-world challenges in this emerging field. More information at: https://sites.google.com/view/cikm2024-rag/home =============== Knowledge Graphs for Responsible AI =============== As AI systems become increasingly sophisticated, including the explosion of Generative AI, there is a growing need to address ethical considerations and potential societal impacts of their uses. The workshop aims to investigate the role of Knowledge Graphs (KGs) in promoting Responsible AI principles and creating a cooperative space for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to exchange insights and enhance their comprehension of KGs' impact on achieving Responsible AI solutions. It seeks to facilitate collaboration and idea-sharing to advance the understanding of how KGs can contribute to Responsible AI. More information at: https://deepa-tilwani.github.io/kg-for-responsible-ai-workshop-cikm-2024.gi… =============== LLMs Beyond the Cutoff =============== The workshop provides an interdisciplinary forum for discussing the temporal limitations of LLMs and proposing technical solutions of how to apply and develop LLMs beyond their cutoff dates. We explore two prominent scenarios, where contexts tend to evolve faster than the LLMs that are used to analyze them: (1) journalism and (2) industry. More information at: https://llmsbeyondthecutoff2024.wordpress.com/ =============== The 1st Workshop on Multimodal Search and Recommendations (CIKM MMSR ‘24) =============== The advent of multimodal LLMs like GPT-4o and Gemini has significantly boosted the potential for multimodal search and recommendations. Traditional search engines rely mainly on textual queries, supplemented by session and geographical data. In contrast, multimodal systems create a shared embedding space for text, images, audio, and more, enabling next-gen customer experiences. These advancements lead to more accurate and personalized recommendations, enhancing user satisfaction and engagement. More information at: https://cikm-mmsr.github.io/ =============== The 3rd International Workshop on Industrial Recommendation Systems =============== The gap in constraints and requirements between academic research and industry limits the broad applicability of many of academia’s contributions for industrial recommendation systems. This workshop aspires to bridge this gap by bringing together researchers from both academia and industry. Its goal is to serve as a platform via which academic researchers become aware of the additional factors that may affect the chances of algorithm adoption into real production systems, and the performance of the algorithms if deployed. Industrial researchers will also benefit from sharing the practical frameworks at an industrial level. More information at: https://irsworkshop.github.io/2024/ =============== The 4th International Workshop on Online and Adaptive Recommender Systems =============== The international workshop on Online and Adaptive Recommender Systems (OARS) will serve as a platform for publication and discussion of OARS. This workshop will bring together practitioners and researchers from academia and industry to discuss the challenges and approaches to implement OARS algorithms and systems, and improve user experiences by better modeling and responding to user intent. More information at: https://oars-workshop.github.io/ =============== The 8th Workshop on Graph Techniques for Adversarial Activity Analytics (GTA³ 2024) =============== Graphs are powerful analytic tools for modeling adversarial activities across a wide range of domains and applications. With the rapid development of generative AI, the lifecycle and throughput of adversarial activities, such as generating attacks or synthesizing deceptive signals, have accelerated significantly. The purpose of this workshop is to provide a forum to discuss emerging research problems and novel approaches in graph analysis for modeling adversarial activities in the age of generative AI. More information at: https://gta3.hrl.com/ =============== Trustworthy and Responsible AI for Information and Knowledge Management System =============== The way research and business manage and utilize knowledge is undergoing a significant transformation, driven by Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI offers a unique solution for organizations struggling with information overload and inefficient knowledge transfer. However, such AI systems solicit a trustworthy and responsible solution that can cater the potential misuse and malfunction. In this workshop, we aim to gather researchers and engineers from academia and industry to discuss the latest advances for trustworthy and responsible AI solutions for information and knowledge management systems. More information at: https://responsible-ai.wiki/cikm24/index.html =============== Workshop on Generative AI for E-Commerce =============== The “Gen AI for E-commerce” workshop explores the role of Generative Artificial Intelligence in transforming e-commerce through enhanced user experience and operational efficiency. E-commerce companies grapple with multiple challenges such as lack of quality content for products, subpar user experience, sparse datasets... This workshop will bring together experts from academia and industry to discuss these challenges and opportunities, aiming to showcase case studies, breakthroughs, and insights into practical implementations of Gen AI in e-commerce. More information at: https://genai-ecommerce.github.io/GenAIECommerce2024

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Call For Papers: 1st Workshop on Multimodal Search and Recommendations (CIKM MMSR ‘24)
by Aditya Nandkishore Chichani 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

1st Workshop on Multimodal Search and Recommendations (CIKM MMSR ‘24) Date: October 25, 2024 (Full day workshop) Venue: ACM CIKM 2024 <https://cikm2024.org/> (Boise, Idaho, United States) Website: https://cikm-mmsr.github.io/ Organizers: Aditya Chichani, Surya Kallumadi, Tracy Holloway King, Andrei Lopatenko Paper submission deadline: August 10, 2024 (23:59 P.M. GMT) Overview: The advent of multimodal LLMs like GPT-4o and Gemini has significantly boosted the potential for multimodal search and recommendations. Traditional search engines rely mainly on textual queries, supplemented by session and geographical data. In contrast, multimodal systems create a shared embedding space for text, images, audio, and more, enabling next-gen customer experiences. These advancements lead to more accurate and personalized recommendations, enhancing user satisfaction and engagement. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Cross-modal retrieval techniques Strategies for efficiently indexing and retrieving multimodal data. Approaches to ensure cross-modal retrieval systems can handle large-scale data. Development of metrics to measure similarity across different data modalities. Applications of Multimodal Search and Recommendations to Verticals (e.g. E-commerce, real estate) Implementing and optimizing image-based product searches. Creating multimodal conversational systems to enhance user experience and make search more accessible. Utilizing AR to enhance product discovery and user interaction. Leveraging multimodal search for efficient customer service and support. User-centric design principles for multimodal search interfaces Best practices for designing user-friendly interfaces that support multimodal search. Methods for evaluating the usability of multimodal search interfaces. Personalizing multimodal search interfaces to individual user preferences. Ensuring multimodal search interfaces are accessible to users with disabilities. Ethical Considerations and Privacy Implications of Multimodal Search and Recommendations Strategies for ensuring user data privacy in multimodal applications. Identifying and mitigating biases in multimodal algorithms. Ensuring transparency in how multimodal results are generated and presented. Approaches for obtaining and managing user consent for using their data. Modeling for Multimodal Search and Discovery Multi-modal representation learning Utilizing GPT-4o, Gemini, and other advanced pre-trained multimodal LLMs Dimensionality reduction techniques to reduce complexity of multimodal data. Techniques for fine-tuning pre-trained vision-language models. Developing and standardizing metrics to evaluate the performance of vision-language models in multimodal search. Submission Instructions: All papers will be peer-reviewed by the program committee and judged based on their relevance to the workshop and their potential to generate discussion. Submissions must be in PDF format, following the latest CEUR single column format. For instructions and LaTeX/Overleaf/docx templates, refer to CEUR’s submission guidelines ( https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html#CEURART), reading up to and including the “License footnote in paper PDFs” section. Use Emphasizing Capitalized Style for Paper Titles. Submissions must describe original work not previously published, not accepted for publication, and not under review elsewhere. All submissions must be in English. The workshop follows a single-blind review process and does not accept anonymous submissions. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop and present the paper. Long paper limit: 15 pages. Short paper limit: 8 pages. References are not counted in the page limit. Submit to CIKM MMSR’24: https://openreview.net/group?id=ACM.org/CIKM/2024/Workshop/MMSR Contact: Aditya Chichani E-mail: aditya_chichani(a)berkeley.edu

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

22 Aug '24

Deadline extended: 31 July 2024 TRANSLATING AND THE COMPUTER CONFERENCE 2024 (TC46) - Call for Presentations and Papers https://asling.org/tc46/call-for-papers-cfp/ "Navigating the future of language: Innovation, integration, inspiration" 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. 1. Deadline for submitting proposals for full length talks (academic and user-experience) and short/Poster talks for TC46 is extended to 31 July 2. Deadline for submitting proposals for workshops and panels is extended to 15 August https://asling.org/tc46/call-for-papers-cfp/

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[CFP] COLING 2025 - 2nd Call for Main Conference Papers
by sakhar＠cs.columbia.edu 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

Second Call for Main Conference Papers (COLING 2025) 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 Author rebuttal phase (for direct submissions) October 30 - November 1, 2024 Notification of acceptance for COLING 2025 November 29, 2024 Tutorials and Workshops January 19-20, 2025 Main Conference January 21-24, 2025 ---------- CFP: 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. 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 conclusions 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 should follow the general instructions for COLING 2025 proceedings, which are an adaptation of the general instructions for *ACL proceedings. To prepare your submission, please make sure to use the COLING 2025 style files available here: LaTeX Word Overleaf Papers deviating from the provided style files will be rejected without review. COLING 2025 adopts the ACL Ethics Policy. There are two routes for paper submission: Direct submission Papers should be submitted through Softconf/START using the following link: https://softconf.com/coling2025/papers/ Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews. Authors will have the opportunity to provide a short rebuttal to clarify any misunderstandings. 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. ACL Rolling Review (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. Optional Supplementary Materials: Appendices, Software and Data Each COLING 2025 submission can be accompanied by a single .tgz or .zip archive containing supplementary materials, such as program code and datasets. COLING 2025 encourages the submission of such supplementary materials to improve the reproducibility of results. For the main track, the supplementary materials need to be fully anonymized to preserve the double-blind reviewing policy. Additional information, such as preprocessing decisions, model parameters or proofs should be put into the appendix of the main PDF submission. Note that submissions need to remain fully self-contained. In particular, any details that are important for reviewers to assess the technical correctness of the work should be included in the main body of the paper. 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. 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

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Call for Papers: The 1st Workshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic Script (AbjadNLP 2025)
by amalhaddad 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

URL: https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/abjad/ [1] AbjadNLP 2025 aims to advance innovation in Natural Language Processing (NLP) for languages using the Arabic script, focusing on Abjad and Ajami languages. These languages represent a significant segment of the global linguistic mosaic, spanning numerous countries and regions. By focusing on these languages, we aim to enhance the versatility and adaptability of NLP models and applications, fostering multilingualism and multiculturalism in NLP research. This workshop will address the unique challenges and solutions associated with these languages, promoting inclusive and equitable advancements in NLP. Ajami languages, representing a myriad of African languages that have adopted the Arabic script, span at least 43 distinct languages, including Hausa, Fulfulde, Mandingo, Swahili, Wolof, Kanuri, and Tamazight. The combined number of speakers of these languages is estimated to exceed 200 million within Africa alone. Although Abjad has been traditionally associated with Semitic languages such as Arabic, Hebrew and Syriac, it has been adopted for writing by many other language communities as in Perso-Arabic scripts used in Persian, Urdu, Pashto, Sorani Kurdish, Azeri Turkish, Sindhi, and Uyghur, with a collective estimated speaker population exceeding 500 million. Altogether, these languages represent an approximate global aggregate of 1 billion speakers. >> We invite submissions on the following topics: Core Technologies: morphological analysis, disambiguation, tokenisation, POS tagging, named entity detection, chunking, parsing, semantic role labelling, sentiment analysis, language modelling, etc. Applications: machine translation, speech recognition, speech synthesis, optical character recognition, assistive technologies, social media, etc. Resources and Tools: dictionaries, annotated data, corpora, orthography descriptions, font technology, glyph rendering, text input methodologies, spell-checking, speech-to-text solutions, BLARK descriptions, open access corpora. Cultural and Sociolinguistic Considerations: text processing, transliteration challenges, and solutions, cultural contexts in NLP applications. >> Submission Guidelines: We follow the COLING 2025 standards for submission format and guidelines. Submissions should conform to the following types: Long papers: Up to eight (8) pages, presenting substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. Short papers: Up to four (4) pages, describing a small focused contribution, negative results, system demonstrations, etc. >> Key Dates: 1st Call for Papers Announcement: 16 July 2024 2nd Call for Papers Announcement: 16 August 2024 Paper Submission Deadline: 15 November 2024 Notification of Paper Acceptance: 6 December 2024 Camera-ready Paper Deadline: 13 December 2024 Workshop Date: 19 or 20 January 2025 >> Organising Committee: General Chair: - Mo El-Haj, Lancaster University Programme Chairs: - Hugh Paterson III, Collaborative Scholar - Saad Ezzini, Lancaster University - Ignatius Ezeani, Lancaster University Review Committee: - Manum Hayat Khan, University of La Rioja - Muhammad Sharjeel, COMSATS University Islamabad Publication Chair: - Sina Ahmadi, University of Zurich Publicity Chairs: - Cynthia Amol, Maseno University - Amal Haddad Haddad, University of Granada - Jaleh Delfani, University of Surrey Advisory Committee: - Ruslan Mitkov, Lancaster University - Paul Rayson, Lancaster University URL: https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/abjad/ [1] Submission URL: https://softconf.com/coling2025/AbjadNLP25/ [2] Links: ------ [1] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/wp.lancs.ac.uk/abjad/__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!VA… [2] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/softconf.com/coling2025/AbjadNLP25/__;!!…

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[CIKM-2024] - Student Travel Awards
by antonela.tommasel＠isistan.unicen.edu.ar 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

=============== =============== * We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this Travel Award call* * For the online version of this Call, visit: https://cikm2024.org/cikm-2024-student-travel-awards-faq/ =============== CIKM 2024: 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management Boise, Idaho, USA October 21–25, 2024 =============== Thanks to the generous support from the National Science Foundation, ACM SIGIR and ACM SIGWEB, CIKM will provide travel awards to selected students attending the CIKM 2024 conference. =============== NSF Student Travel Awards =============== Thanks to the generous support from the National Science Foundation, we will provide travel awards to selected US-based students attending the CIKM 2024 conference. The travel award will cover the cost of the conference registration (main conference and workshops/tutorials if desired) and some travel expenses. The awards will be competitive in the sense that only some applicants are guaranteed to receive a travel award. Awardees are expected to register for the main conference and arrange travel and accommodation. Recipients will be reimbursed after the conference upon submission of the expense receipts. --- Eligibility Applicants need to be full-time students (graduate or undergraduate) at a US-based academic institution. Applicants do not need to have an accepted paper to be eligible. The selection will be made based on the following criteria: * Students selected to present at the PhD Symposium will be given priority * Students from under-represented groups will be given priority * Students with accepted papers (main conference, tutorials, or workshops) will be prioritized. – PhD students will be prioritized. --- Application Procedure Please submit the following materials (in a single PDF file) with your application: * Student’s full name and email address * Name and address of student’s school * (If available) Advisor’s full name and email address * 1-2 page CV including the duration of the program (Ph.D., Master) along with reference to the accepted paper(s) * A brief statement from the student about (i) their research (summarizing a broad view of his/her research with motivation, problem description, approach, and progress), and (ii) how they would benefit from attending CIKM, enriching CIKM and their local community; the statement must be written in English and needs to comply with the two-column ACM proceedings format. * A letter of endorsement from the student’s advisor (is available) or department chair * (Optional) demographic data for reporting purposes: Gender, Ethnic background The student must submit the necessary materials to apply for a grant through the button below --- Important dates * Award Application Submission Due July, 31 2024 * Award Acceptance Notification: August, 10 2024 All deadlines are 11:59 pm anywhere on earth --- Special Notes from US NSF Grants * To get reimbursement of the airfare by using US NSF, you must book flights with US-flagged carriers (a carrier operating under a code share agreement with a US carrier is considered a US flag carrier, as long as the ticket is issued using the US flag carrier’s airline designator and flight number). * Your airline ticket purchases must comply with the Fly America Act (U.S. carrier or code shared flights are used). Enclosed please find links to the GSA Fly America Act and Code Share fact sheet. * For eligible flights with US-flagged carriers, we suggest you book flights directly from USA airlines, e.g., United Airlines, American Airlines, Delta Airlines, Hawaii Airlines, Southwest Airlines, Alaska Airlines, etc. Even if the flights are operated by a foreign airline (e.g., Air Canada), it is still eligible as long as you book the flights from USA airlines. However, it may not be eligible if you book a flight from travel agencies (e.g., priceline). More information at: https://cikm2024.org/nsf-student-travel-awards/ =============== ACM SIGIR Student Travel Awards =============== The SIGIR Student Travel Award Program (https://sigir.org/general-information/travel-grants/) provides funding for students who are members of ACM SIGIR to help cover the cost of travel and lodging to attend and contribute to CIKM 2024. SIGIR is pleased to offer Student Travel Award for students presenting their accepted contributions at CIKM 2024. For awardees, the award will cover the cost of in-person registration (main conference and workshops/tutorials if desired) and U$D 1,000 stipend towards travel and accommodation costs. --- Eligibility To be eligible, the student must: * Be a SIGIR member. (SIGIR student travel awards are only open to SIGIR members. If you are not, you can click here to join SIGIR before continuing.) * Be an author of an accepted contribution. * Be the author presenting said contribution. These awards are competitive (i.e., not every applicant will receive an award).  We will prioritize students presenting with accepted contributions on the main conference track; students from underrepresented countries; and students who have not received an award in the past. --- Application Procedure To be considered for an award, the student must submit an application and their academic advisor must complete a statement of support (a link to the advisor will be sent directly as soon as the student provides all the information requested in their application). --- Important dates * Award Application Submission Deadline: July 31 2024 * Award Acceptance Notification: August 10 2024 All deadlines are 11:59 pm anywhere on earth Please do not register for the conference ahead of the notification date as SIGIR Awards cannot reimburse you for the registration. If awarded a travel award, you will receive a code for a registration fee waiver. More information at: https://cikm2024.org/acm-sigir-student-travel-awards/ =============== ACM SIGWEB Student Travel Awards =============== Thanks to the generous support of ACM SIGWEB, we will provide travel awards to select students attending the CIKM 2024 conference. This award is designated to support student diversity and students from underrepresented regions. The travel award will cover the cost of the conference registration (main conference and workshops/tutorials if desired) and some travel expenses. The awards will be competitive in the sense that only some applicants are guaranteed to receive a travel award. Awardees are expected to register for the main conference and arrange travel and accommodation. Awardees will receive a complimentary registration code to cover their registration. Recipients will be reimbursed for travel expenses after the conference is over upon submission of the expense receipts. --- Eligibility Applicants need to be full-time students (graduate or undergraduate). Applicants do not need to have an accepted paper to be eligible. --- Application Procedure * Please submit the following materials (in a single PDF file) with your application: * Student’s full name and email address * Name and address of student’s school * (If available) Advisor’s full name and email address * 1-2 page CV including the duration of the program (Ph.D., Master) along with reference to the accepted paper(s) * A brief statement from the student about (i) their research (summarizing a broad view of his/her research with motivation, problem description, approach, and progress), and (ii) how they would benefit from attending CIKM, enriching CIKM and their local community; the statement must be written in English and needs to comply with the two-column ACM proceedings format * A letter of endorsement from the student’s advisor (if available) or department chair * (Optional) demographic data for reporting purposes: Gender, Ethnic background The student must submit the necessary materials to apply for a grant through the button below. --- Important dates Award Application Submission Due July, 31 2024 Award Acceptance Notification: August, 10 2024 All deadlines are 11:59 pm anywhere on earth More information at: https://cikm2024.org/acm-sigweb-student-travel-awards/ =============== Travel Award Selection Committee =============== * Tyler Derr Vanderbilt University * Sumit Purohit Pacific Northwest National Lab * Giovanni Stilo University of L’Aquila * Yu Wang Vanderbilt University For further information (please check the FAQ document first), please contact the CIKM2024 Travel Awards Selection Committee by email to cikm2024-travelawards [at] easychair [dot] org

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PhD fellowship at the intersection of corpus linguistics, second language acquisition and language testing
by Magali Paquot 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

The Centre for English Corpus Linguistics (CECL, UCLouvain, Belgium) has an opening for a PhD fellowship in linguistics. * Full-time (100%) PhD fellowship for one year, renewable (max. 4 years) * Start date: October 2024 The main objective of the PhD project will be to use the method of Comparative Judgment to explore whether the theoretical construct of ‘phraseological complexity’ (Paquot, 2019) is reflective of collective understandings of the linguistic phenomena we wish to measure with such a construct. The project will centre around two main objectives: (1) test empirically whether reliable human judgments of phraseological complexity are attainable (both at the level of multi-word units and at the text level); (2) explore the degree to which various automated measures of phraseological complexity align with human judgments of phraseological complexity, which is to be understood as our ‘gold standard’ to assess construct validity. For more information about phraseological complexity, the method of Comparative Judgment and the use of human judgments to explore the multidimensionality of our research constructs, see: * Kyle, K., Crossley, S. A., & Jarvis, S. (2021). Assessing the Validity of Lexical Diversity Indices Using Direct Judgements. Language Assessment Quarterly, 18(2), 154‑170. https://doi.org/10.1080/15434303.2020.1844205 * Paquot, M. (2019). The phraseological dimension in interlanguage complexity research. Second Language Research, 35(1), 121–145. https://doi.org/10.1177/0267658317694221 * Paquot, M., Rubin, R. & Vandeweerd, N. (2022). Crowdsourced Adaptive Comparative Judgment: A community-based solution for proficiency rating. Language Learning 72(3), 853-885. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/lang.12498 Qualifications and expected profile The candidate will meet the following qualifications: * Master degree in (Applied) Linguistics or Natural Language Processing * Excellent record of BA and MA level study * Excellent oral and written English (minimum level: C1) * Excellent analytic skills * Knowledge of corpus linguistic techniques is a requirement * Knowledge of statistics and R is an asset * Autonomy, sense of teamwork, ability to listen and analyse needs, responsiveness * Willingness to live in Belgium and to travel abroad (to attend international academic conferences) Conditions of engagement This doctoral fellowship is subject to the following conditions: * The contract will initially be for one year, three times renewable, with a total of four years. * The candidate receives a doctoral fellowship grant (starting at approx. EUR 2400 net per month) and full medical insurance. * This position requires residence in Belgium for the duration of the mandate. * Applicants from outside the EU are responsible for obtaining the necessary visa or permits, with the assistance of UCLouvain staff department. Application Application deadline: 1 September 2024 The application file should include : * a cover letter in English, in which you specify why you are interested in this position and how you meet the job requirements outlined above; * a curriculum vitae in English; * a concise academic statement in English, in which you outline your expectations about and plans for graduate study and career goals; * a copy of BA and MA diplomas and degrees; * a copy of your master thesis and academic publications (if applicable); * the names and full contact details of two academic referees. Shortlisted candidates will be invited for an interview (in situ or via video conferencing) in the second half of September 2024. Applications (as an email attachment) and inquiries should be addressed to Dr. Magali Paquot (<magali.paquot(a)uclouvain.be<mailto:magali.paquot@uclouvain.be>>)

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July 2024 Newsletter - LDC
by Penn LDC 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

In this newsletter: LDC at IC2S2 Fall 2024 LDC Data Scholarship Program New publications: MATERIAL Bulgarian-English Language Pack<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2024S07> Dialogs Re-Enacted Across Languages<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2024S08> ________________________________ LDC at IC2S2 LDC is delighted to be a bronze sponsor for the 10th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2<https://ic2s2-2024.org/>) held this year on Penn's campus July 17-20. The conference will feature research from around the world across a broad range of relevant fields to advance the many frontiers of computational social science. Be sure to visit LDC's table during the poster sessions July 18 and 19 from 1:30-2:30 pm. Fall 2024 LDC Data Scholarship Program Student applications for the Fall 2024 LDC Data Scholarship program are being accepted now through September 15, 2024. This program provides eligible students with no-cost access to LDC data. Students must complete an application consisting of a data use proposal and letter of support from their advisor. For application requirements and program rules, visit the LDC Data Scholarships page<https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/language-resources/data/data-scholarships>. ________________________________ New publications: MATERIAL Bulgarian-English Language Pack<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2024S07> was developed by Appen<http://www.appen.com/> for the IARPA (Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity) MATERIAL<https://www.iarpa.gov/index.php/research-programs/material> (Machine Translation for English Retrieval of Information in Any Language) program. It contains 80 hours of Bulgarian conversational telephone speech, transcripts, English translations, annotations, and queries. Calls were made using different telephones (e.g., mobile, landline) from a variety of environments. Transcripts cover approximately 40% of the speech files, and approximately 10% of the speech files were translated into English. This release also includes domain annotations, English queries, and their relevance annotations. The MATERIAL program focused on underserved languages with the ultimate goal to build cross language information retrieval systems to find speech and text content using English search queries. 2024 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts provided they have submitted a completed copy of the special license agreement. Non-members may license this data for a fee. * Dialogs Re-Enacted Across Languages<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2024S08> was developed at the University of Texas at El Paso<https://www.utep.edu/>. It contains 17 hours of conversational speech in English and Spanish by 129 unique bilingual speakers, specifically, short fragments extracted from spontaneous conversations and close re-enactments in the other language by the original speakers, for 3816 pairs of matching utterances. Data was collected in 2022-2023. Participants were recruited from among students at the University of Texas at El Paso; all were bilingual speakers of General American English and of Mexico-Texas Border Spanish. Each speaker pair had a 10 minute conversation in one language. Various fragments from these conversations were chosen for re-enactment, and the original speakers produced equivalents in the other language. Each re-enactment was vetted for fidelity to the original and naturalness in the target language. Also included is metadata about conversations, participants, re-enactments and utterances. 2024 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee. To unsubscribe from this newsletter, log in to your LDC account<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/login> and uncheck the box next to "Receive Newsletter" under Account Options or contact LDC for assistance. Membership Coordinator Linguistic Data Consortium<ldc.upenn.edu> University of Pennsylvania T: +1-215-573-1275 E: ldc(a)ldc.upenn.edu<mailto:ldc@ldc.upenn.edu> M: 3600 Market St. Suite 810 Philadelphia, PA 19104

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Postdoc position in Natural Language Processing at LISN
by nona.naderi＠universite-paris-saclay.fr 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

Dear All, We are recruiting a postdoc in information extraction as part of the European FAIRClinical project at LISN. Details are available here: https://emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/UMR9015-NONNAD-002/Default.aspx?lang=EN Nona NADERI Associate Professor Department of Computer Science Université Paris-Saclay

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COLING 2025 Workshop on Detecting AI Generated Content, 1st Call for participation
by Firoj Alam 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

(apologies for cross-posting) Dear colleague, We seek submissions of long and short papers on original and unpublished work (same page limit as the COLING 2025 main conference). In addition, there will be two shared tasks. All accepted submissions will be presented as talks and/or posters at the workshop, prior to the COLING 2025 main conference. Research Papers We invite original research papers from a wide range of topics, including but not limited to: - Detection methods for text, image, speech and other modalities - Multilingual detection methods - Detection Methods Image Modality - Detection Methods Multimodal Content - Real-time detection systems: real-time systems for detecting AI-generated content in live scenarios. - Attacks for detection systems - Datasets and resources - Benchmarking for AI generated content detection - AI generated fake news detection - Deep Fakes in audio, videos and images - Ethical and legal implications of AI generated content Shared Tasks We plan to run two shared tasks: - Task 1: Binary Multilingual Machine-Generated Text Detection (Human vs. Machine) - Task 2: AI vs. Human -- Academic Essay Authenticity Challenge Important dates: Regular Submission (including shared tasks) Deadline: November 15, 2024 (dual-submission allowed) Resubmission (with a rebuttal) Deadline: December 2, 2024 Acceptance Notification: December 7, 2024 Camera-Ready Deadline: December 13, 2025 Workshop Day: January 19-20, 2025 All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”). Submission Details: Papers must describe original, completed or in-progress, and unpublished work. All papers will be refereed through a double-blind peer review process by multiple reviewers with final acceptance decisions made by the workshop organizers. Accepted papers will be given up to 9 pages (for full papers), 5 pages (for short papers and posters) in the workshop proceedings, and will be presented as oral paper or poster. We are seeking submissions under the following categories: - Full/long papers (8 pages) - Short papers (work in progress, innovative ideas/proposals: 4 pages) - Shared task papers (4 pages) Long, short, and shared task papers must follow the two-column format of *ACL conferences, using the official templates. The templates can be downloaded in style files and formatting. Please do not modify these style files, nor should you use templates designed for other conferences. Submissions that do not conform to the required styles, including paper size, margin width, and font size restrictions, will be rejected without review. Verification to guarantee conformance to publication standards, we will be using the ACL pubcheck tool. The PDFs of camera-ready papers must be run through this tool prior to their final submission, and we recommend its use also at submission time. Submissions are open to all, and are to be submitted anonymously. For the anonymity, double-blind submission, and reproducibility criteria please follow the COLING 2025 instructions. **If you have published in *ACL conferences previously, and are interested in helping out in the program committee to review papers, please fill up this form. Submission portal Submissions must be made using the START portal. We will make the URL to the portal available soon. Best regards The Organizers

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Third Call for Participation - CoLI-Dravidian@FIRE 2024: Word-level Code-Mixed Language Identification in Dravidian Languages
by Sabur B 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '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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Second Call for Papers: GenBench, the second workshop on generalisation (benchmarking) in NLP @ EMNLP 2024
by Verna 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

*GenBench: The second workshop on generalisation (benchmarking) in NLP* *Workshop description*The ability to generalise well is often mentioned as one of the primary desiderata for models of natural language processing (NLP). Yet, there are still many open questions related to what it means for an NLP model to generalise well, and how generalisation should be evaluated. LLMs, trained on gigantic training corpora that are – at best – hard to analyse or not publicly available at all, bring a new set of challenges to the topic. The second GenBench workshop aims to serve as a cornerstone to catalyse research on generalisation in the NLP community. The workshop aims to bring together different expert communities to discuss challenging questions relating to generalisation in NLP, crowd-source challenging generalisation benchmarks for LLMs, and make progress on open questions related to generalisation. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Opinion or position papers about generalisation and how it should be evaluated; - Analyses of how existing or new models generalise; - Empirical studies that propose new paradigms to evaluate generalisation; - Meta-analyses that compare how results from different generalisation studies compare; - Meta-analyses that study how different types of generalisation are related; - Papers that discuss how generalisation of LLMs can be evaluated; - Papers that discuss why generalisation is (not) important in the era of LLMs; - Studies on the relationship between generalisation and fairness or robustness. The second GenBench workshop on generalisation (benchmarking) in NLP will be co-located with EMNLP 2024. *Submission types* We call for two types of submissions: regular workshop submissions and collaborative benchmarking task submissions. The latter will consist of a data/task artefact and a companion paper motivating and evaluating the submission. In both cases, we accept archival papers and extended abstracts. *1. Regular workshop submissions* Regular workshop submissions present papers on the topic of generalisation (see examples listed above). Regular workshop papers may be submitted as an archival paper, when they report on completed, original and unpublished research, or as a shorter extended abstract, otherwise. More details on this category can be found below. If you are unsure whether a specific topic is well-suited for submission, feel free to reach out to the organisers of the workshop at genbench(a)googlegroups.com. *2. Collaborative Benchmarking Task (CBT) submissions* The goal of this year's CBT is to generate versions of existing evaluation datasets for LLMs which, given a particular training corpus, have a larger distribution shift than the original test set, or – in other words – evaluate generalisation to a stronger degree than the original dataset. For this particular challenge, we focus on three training corpora: C4, RedPajama-Data-1T, and Dolma. All three corpora are publicly available, and they can be searched via the What's in My Big Data API (https://github.com/allenai/wimbd). We will focus on three popular evaluation datasets: MMLU, HumanEval, and SiQA. Submitters to the CBT are asked to design a way to assess distribution shift for one or more of these evaluation datasets, given particular features of the training corpus, and then generate one or more versions of the dataset that have a larger distribution shift according to this method. Newly generated sets do not have to have the same size as the original test set, but should have at least 200 examples. Practically speaking, CBT submissions consist of: 1. the data/task artefact, submitted through https://github.com/GenBench/genbench_cbt 2. a paper describing the dataset and its method of construction, submitted through https://openreview.net/group?id=GenBench.org/2024/Workshop We accept submissions that consider only one pretraining dataset and evaluation dataset, but encourage submitters to apply their suggested protocols to both pretraining datasets. We also suggest that submitters include model results for models trained on these datasets. Suggestions are provided on the CBT website: https://genbench.org/cbt. Given enough high-quality submissions, we aim to write a paper with the combined results, to which submitters can be co-authors, if they wish so. More detailed guidelines will be given on https://genbench.org/cbt. *Archival vs extended abstract* Archival papers are up to 8 pages excluding references and report on completed, original and unpublished research. They follow the requirements of regular EMNLP 2024 submissions. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings and are expected to be presented at the workshop. The papers will undergo double-blind peer review and should thus be anonymised. Extended abstracts can be up to 2 pages excluding references, and may report on work in progress or be cross-submissions of work that has already appeared in another venue. Abstract titles will be posted on the workshop website, but will not be included in the proceedings. *Submission instructions*For both archival papers and extended abstracts, we refer to the EMNLP 2024 website for paper templates and requirements. Additional requirements for both regular workshop papers and collaborative benchmarking task submissions can be found on our website. All submissions can be submitted through OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=GenBench.org/2024/Workshop. *Important dates* - August 15, 2024: Paper submission deadline - September 20, 2024: Notification deadline - October 4, 2024: Camera-ready deadline - November 15 or 16, 2024: Workshop Note: all deadlines are 11:59 PM UTC-12:00. Check the website for final updates to these deadlines (https://genbench.org/workshop). *Preprints* We do not have an anonymity deadline, preprints are allowed, both before the submission deadline as well as after. *Contact* Email address: genbench(a)googlegroups.com Website: https://genbench.org/workshop *On behalf of the organisers*Dieuwke Hupkes Verna Dankers Khuyagbaatar Batsuren Amirhossein Kazemnejad Christos Christodoulopoulos Mario Giulianelli Ryan Cotterell

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[CfP] 2nd CfP - LLMs Beyond the Cutoff workshop @ CIKM 2024
by Patricia Martín Chozas 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

*Apologies for crossposting* LLMs Beyond the Cutoff: 1st International Workshop on Computational Methods Beyond the Temporal Borders of Training Data https://llmsbeyondthecutoff2024.wordpress.com Collocated with CIKM 2024 October 25, 2024 — Boise (Idaho), USA * July 29, 2024: Paper submission deadline * August 30, 2024: Paper acceptance notification * September 15, 2024: Camera ready versions submission * October 25, 2024: Workshop date === NEWS === * LLMs Beyond the CutOff will be published as a volume of Springer Nature’s post-proceedings * Submission via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=llmsbeyondthecut0ff * Springer guidelines for authors: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… SUMMARY LLMs are trained on large amounts of web data that spread temporally up to a specific moment in time. For instance, chatGPT’s LLM “knows” the world before May 2023 with no real time access to information beyond this limit, other than a browsing tool similar to a search engine enabling simple lookup. However, in many scenarios, being able to analyze and reason with novel emerging events and topics is crucial to face the challenges of rapidly evolving landscapes of information. The workshop provides an interdisciplinary forum for discussing the temporal limitations of LLMs and proposing technical solutions of how to apply and develop LLMs beyond their cutoff dates. We explore two prominent scenarios, where contexts tend to evolve faster than the LLMs that are used to analyze them: (1) journalism and (2) industry. In terms of (1) the goal is to propose methods of detecting, classifying and reasoning with emerging topics that infuse public discourse on social or mainstream media. An example of such a topic is COVID-19 at the dawn of the pandemics outbreak. Downstream tasks of interest are fake news detection and fact-checking on novel topics, including claim analysis, opinion mining and narratives extraction. With regard to (2), the goal is to shed light on the limits of LLMs for companies in sectors such as international geopolitical monitoring and corporate intelligence, finance and stock market trading or insurance, where companies need to track their interests and products in real time. This does not address the inclusion of corporate data into the LLMs, but rather proposes solutions by using publicly available and constantly growing data. An overarching problem that will be studied is that of the cross-language and cross-country specificities of emerging data, where novel information in underrepresented languages or contexts may be more challenging to analyze. We welcome insights and parallels from the field of knowledge representation, where the similar problem with cutoff dates of knowledge graphs (dynamics and regular updates) is well understood. The expected outcomes are: 1) insights on the temporal limitations of LLMs, where the workshop will outline concrete challenges and bottlenecks in the identified scenarios; 2) novel methodological and technical solutions in terms of (incremental) machine learning models when dealing with (reasoning, extracting and classifying) information beyond the cutoff dates of current LLMs. TOPICS OF INTEREST * Analysis of emerging topics and events, including counterfactual/what-if reasoning * Methods for few-shot or zero-shot learning * Large language models for online discourse * Large language models for corporate near real-time data analysis * Large language models for multimodal understanding and generation * Multilingual and cross-country emerging information extraction * Computational journalism, disinformation spread, fact-checking and fake news detection * Stance and viewpoint discovery for novel information * Detection and classification of claims within emerging narratives * Social, ethical and legal aspects of LLMs up-to-dateness * Interpretability / explainability of computational methods beyond the cut off * Linking and enrichment of data beyond LLM cut off * Foundational models for knowledge graph building and entity alignment * Recommender systems for novel information * Quality, provenance, uncertainty and trust of emerging information and data * Use-cases, applications and cross-community interfaces * Evaluation frameworks and benchmarks SUBMISSION We welcome the following types of contributions: * Full papers (12-15 pages including references): contain original research. * Short papers (up to 11 pages including references): contain original research in progress. * Demo papers (up to 11 pages including references): contain descriptions of prototypes, demos or software systems. * Data papers (up to 11 pages including references): contain descriptions of resources related to the workshop topics, such as datasets, knowledge graphs, corpora, annotation protocols, etc. * Position papers (up to 11 pages including references): discuss vision statements or research directions. Workshop papers must be self-contained and in English. They should not have been previously published, should not be considered for publication, and should not be under review for another workshop, conference, or journal. Manuscripts should be submitted via EasyChair ( https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=llmsbeyondthecut0ff) in PDF format, using the Springer LNCS format. For full authors instructions, please check Springer’s website: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…. The review of manuscripts will be double-blind. Papers will be evaluated according to their significance, originality, technical content, style, clarity, and relevance to the workshop. At least one author of each accepted contribution must register for the workshop and present the paper. Pre-prints of all contributions will be made available during the conference. The accepted papers will appear as a volume of Springer Nature’s LNCS post-proceedings. Submission via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=llmsbeyondthecut0ff Springer guidelines for authors: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… For any enquiries, please contact the workshop organizers: todorov(a)lirmm.fr, rettinger(a)uni-trier.de, jmgomez(a)expert.ai, croitoru(a)lirmm.fr, IMPORTANT DATES * July 29, 2024: Paper submission deadline * August 30, 2024: Paper acceptance notification * September 15, 2024: Camera ready versions submission * October 25, 2024: Workshop date All submission deadlines are end-of-day in the Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time zone. KEYNOTES * TBA AWARD * All contributions are eligible for the "Best Paper" award ORGANIZING COMMITTEE * Konstantin Todorov (University of Montpellier, CNRS, LIRMM, France) * José Manuel Gomèz Perèz (Expert.ai, Spain) * Madalina Croitoru (University of Montpellier, CNRS, LIRMM, France) * Achim Rettinger (University of Trier, Germany) PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Preslav Nakov, MBZUAI, United Arabe Emirates * Serena Villata, I3S, CNRS, France * Ronald Denaux, Amazon, USA * Filip Ilievski, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands * Elena Montiel, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain * Sandra Bringay, University Paul Valéry, France * Carlos Badenes, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain * Ioana Manolescu, Inria Saclay, France * Dino Ienco, INRAE, France * Colin Porlezza, Univ. della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland * Katarina Boland, Heinrich Heine Universität, Germany * Gabriella Lapesa, GESIS, Germany * Jonas Fegert, FZI, Germany * Michael Färber, TU-Dresden, Germany * Salim Hafid, University of Montpellier, France * Pavlos Fafalios, FORTH, Greece * Andrés García Silva, Expert.ai, Spain * Sarah Labelle, University Paul Valéry, France * Pablo Calleja, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain *Patricia Martín Chozas* *Assistant Professor *at the Applied Linguistics Department *Postdoctoral Researcher *at the Ontology Engineering Group (Artificial Intelligence Department) ETSI Informáticos - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Phone: (+34) 910673091

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[CIKM-2024] - Tutorial program announced
by antonela.tommasel＠isistan.unicen.edu.ar 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

=============== =============== * We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this Tutorial program * * For the online version of this program, visit: https://cikm2024.org/tutorials/ =============== CIKM 2024: 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management Boise, Idaho, USA October 21–25, 2024 =============== The tutorial program of CIKM 2024 has been published. Tutorials are planned to take place on 21 October 2024. Here you can find a summary of each accepted tutorial. =============== Systems for Scalable Graph Analytics and Machine Learning =============== Da Yan (Indiana University Bloomington), Lyuheng Yuan (Indiana University Bloomington), Akhlaque Ahmad (Indiana University Bloomington) and Saugat Adhikari (Indiana University Bloomington) Graph-theoretic algorithms and graph machine learning models are essential tools for addressing many real-life problems, such as social network analysis and bioinformatics. To support large-scale graph analytics, graph-parallel systems have been actively developed for over one decade, such as Google’s Pregel and Spark’s GraphX, which (i) promote a think-like-a-vertex computing model and target (ii) iterative algorithms and (iii) those problems that output a value for each vertex. However, this model is too restricted for supporting the rich set of heterogeneous operations for graph analytics and machine learning that many real applications demand. In recent years, two new trends emerge in graph-parallel systems research: (1) a novel think-like-a-task computing model that can efficiently support the various computationally expensive problems of subgraph search; and (2) scalable systems for learning graph neural networks. These systems effectively complement the diversity needs of graph-parallel tools that can flexibly work together in a comprehensive graph processing pipeline for real applications, with the capability of capturing structural features. This tutorial will provide an effective categorization of the recent systems in these two directions based on their computing models and adopted techniques, and will review the key design ideas of these systems. =============== Fairness in Large Language Models: Recent Advances and Future =============== Thang Viet Doan (Florida International University), Zichong Wang (Florida International University), Minh Nhat Nguyen (Florida International University) and Wenbin Zhang (Florida International University) Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable success across various domains but often lack fairness considerations, potentially leading to discriminatory outcomes against marginalized populations. On the other hand, fairness in LLMs, in contrast to fairness in traditional machine learning, entails exclusive backgrounds, taxonomies, and fulfillment techniques. In this tutorial, we give a systematic overview of recent advances in the existing literature concerning fair LLMs. Specifically, a series of real-world case studies serve as a brief introduction to LLMs, and then an analysis of bias causes based on their training process follows. Additionally, the concept of fairness in LLMs is discussed categorically, summarizing metrics for evaluating bias in LLMs and existing algorithms for promoting fairness. Furthermore, resources for evaluating bias in LLMs, including toolkits and datasets, are summarized. Finally, current research challenges and open questions are discussed. =============== Unifying Graph Neural Networks across Spatial and Spectral Domains =============== Zhiqian Chen (Mississippi State University), Lei Zhang (Virginia Tech) and Liang Zhao (Emory University) Over recent years, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have garnered significant attention. However, the proliferation of diverse GNN models, underpinned by various theoretical approaches, complicates model selection, as they are not readily comprehensible within a uniform framework. Early GNNs were implemented using spectral theory, while others were based on spatial theory. This divergence renders direct comparisons challenging. Moreover, the multitude of models within each domain further complicates evaluation. In this half-day tutorial, we examine state-of-the-art GNNs and introduce a comprehensive framework bridging spatial and spectral domains, elucidating their interrelationship. This framework enhances our understanding of GNN operations. The tutorial explores key paradigms, such as spatial and spectral methods, through a synthesis of spectral graph theory and approximation theory. We provide an in-depth analysis of recent research developments, including emerging issues like over-smoothing, using well-established GNN models to illustrate our framework's universality. =============== Tabular Data-centric AI: Challenges, Techniques and Future Perspectives =============== Yanjie Fu (Arizona State University), Dongjie Wang (University of Kansas), Hui Xiong (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)) and Kunpeng Liu (Portland State University) Tabular data is ubiquitous across various application domains such as biology, ecology, and material science. Tabular data-centric AI aims to enhance the predictive power of AI through better utilization of tabular data, improving its readiness at structural, predictive, interaction, and expression levels. This tutorial targets professionals in AI, machine learning, and data mining, as well as researchers from specific application areas. We will cover the settings, challenges, existing methods, and future directions of tabular data-centric AI. The tutorial includes a hands-on session to develop, evaluate, and visualize techniques in this emerging field, equipping attendees with a thorough understanding of its key challenges and techniques for integration into their research. =============== Frontiers of Large Language Model-Based Agentic Systems =============== Reshmi Ghosh (Microsoft), Jia He (Microsoft Corp.), Kabir Walia (Microsoft), Jieqiu Chen (Microsoft), Tushar Dhadiwal (Microsoft), April Hazel (Microsoft) and Chandra Inguva (Microsoft) Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently demonstrated remarkable potential in achieving human-level intelligence, sparking a surge of interest in LLM-based autonomous agents. However, there is a noticeable absence of a thorough guide that methodically compiles the latest methods for building LLM-agents, their assessment, and the associated challenges. As a pioneering initiative, this tutorial delves into the intricacies of constructing LLM-based agents, providing a systematic exploration of key components and recent innovations. We dissect agent design using an established taxonomy, focusing on essential keywords prevalent in agent-related framework discussions. Key components include profiling, perception, memory, planning, and action. We unravel the intricacies of each element, emphasizing state-of-the-art techniques. Beyond individual agents, we explore the extension from single-agent paradigms to multi-agent frameworks. Participants will gain insights into orchestrating collaborative intelligence within complex environments. Additionally, we introduce and compare popular open-source frameworks for LLM-based agent development, enabling practitioners to choose the right tools for their projects. We discuss evaluation methodologies for assessing agent systems, addressing efficiency and safety concerns. We present a unified framework that consolidates existing work, making it a valuable resource for practitioners and researchers alike. =============== Hands-On Introduction to Quantum Machine Learning =============== Samuel Yen-Chi Chen (Wells Fargo) and Joongheon Kim (Korea University) This tutorial offers a hands-on introduction into the captivating field of quantum machine learning (QML). Beginning with the bedrock of quantum information science (QIS)—including essential elements like qubits, single and multiple qubit gates, measurements, and entanglement—the session swiftly progresses to foundational QML concepts. Participants will explore parametrized or variational circuits, data encoding or embedding techniques, and quantum circuit design principles. Delving deeper, attendees will examine various QML models, including the quantum support vector machine (QSVM), quantum feed-forward neural network (QNN), and quantum convolutional neural network (QCNN). Pushing boundaries, the tutorial delves into cutting-edge QML models such as quantum recurrent neural networks (QRNN) and quantum reinforcement learning (QRL), alongside privacy-preserving techniques like quantum federated machine learning, bolstered by concrete programming examples. Throughout the tutorial, all topics and concepts are brought to life through practical demonstrations executed on a quantum computer simulator. Designed with novices in mind, the content caters to those eager to embark on their journey into QML. Attendees will also receive guidance on further reading materials, as well as software packages and frameworks to explore beyond the session. =============== On the Use of Large Language Models for Table Tasks =============== Yuyang Dong (NEC), Masafumi Oyamada (NEC), Chuan Xiao (Osaka University, Nagoya University) and Haochen Zhang (Osaka University) The proliferation of LLMs has catalyzed a diverse array of applications. This tutorial delves into the application of LLMs for tabular data and targets a variety of table-related tasks, such as table understanding, text-to-SQL conversion, and tabular data preprocessing. It surveys LLM solutions to these tasks in five classes, categorized by their underpinning techniques: prompting, fine-tuning, RAG, agents, and multimodal methods. It discusses how LLMs offer innovative ways to interpret, augment, query, and cleanse tabular data, featuring academic contributions and their practical use in the industrial sector. It emphasizes the versatility and effectiveness of LLMs in handling complex table tasks, showcasing their ability to improve data quality, enhance analytical capabilities, and facilitate more intuitive data interactions. By surveying different approaches, this tutorial highlights the strengths of LLMs in enriching table tasks with more accuracy and usability, setting a foundation for future research and application in data science and AI-driven analytics. =============== Data Quality-aware Graph Machine Learning =============== Yu Wang (Vanderbilt University), Kaize Ding (Northwestern University), Xiaorui Liu (North Carolina State University), Jian Kang (University of Rochester), Ryan Rossi (Adobe Research) and Tyler Derr (Vanderbilt University) Recent years have seen a significant shift in Artificial Intelligence from model-centric to data-centric approaches, highlighted by the success of large foundational models. Following this trend, despite numerous innovations in graph machine learning model design, graph-structured data often suffers from data quality issues, which jeopardizes the progress of Data-centric AI in graph-structured applications. Our proposed tutorial aims to address this gap by raising awareness about data quality issues within the graph machine-learning community. We provide an overview of existing issues, including topology, imbalance, bias, limited data, and abnormalities in graph data. Additionally, we highlight previous studies and recent developments in foundational graph models that focus on identifying, investigating, mitigating, and resolving these issues. =============== Towards Efficient Temporal Graph Learning: Algorithms, Frameworks, and Tools =============== Ruijie Wang (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Wanyu Zhao (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Dachun Sun (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Charith Mendis (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) and Tarek Abdelzaher (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) Temporal graphs capture dynamic node relations via temporal edges, finding extensive utility in wide domains where time-varying patterns are crucial. Temporal Graph Neural Networks (TGNNs) have gained significant attention for their effectiveness in representing temporal graphs. However, TGNNs still face significant efficiency challenges in real-world low-resource settings. First, from a data-efficiency standpoint, training TGNNs requires sufficient temporal edges and data labels, which is problematic in practical scenarios with limited data collection and annotation. Second, from a resource-efficiency perspective, TGNN training and inference are computationally demanding due to complex encoding operations, especially on large-scale temporal graphs. Minimizing resource consumption while preserving effectiveness is essential. Inspired by these efficiency challenges, this tutorial systematically introduces state-of-the-art data-efficient and resource-efficient TGNNs, focusing on algorithms, frameworks, and tools, and discusses promising yet under-explored research directions in efficient temporal graph learning. This tutorial aims to benefit researchers and practitioners in data mining, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. =============== Landing Generative AI in Industrial Social and E-commerce Recsys =============== Da Xu (LinkedIn), Danqing Zhang (Amazon), Lingling Zheng (Microsoft), Bo Yang (Amazon), Guangyu Yang (TikTok), Shuyuan Xu (TikTok) and Cindy Liang (LinkedIn) Over the past two years, GAI has evolved rapidly, influencing various fields including social and e-commerce Recsys. Despite exciting advances, landing these innovations in real-world Recsys remains challenging due to the sophistication of modern industrial product and systems. Our tutorial begins with a brief overview of building industrial Recsys and GAI fundamentals, followed by the ongoing efforts and opportunities to enhance personalized recommendations with foundation models. We then explore the integration of curation capabilities into Recsys, such as repurposing raw content, incorporating external knowledge, and generating personalized insights/explanations to foster transparency and trust. Next, the tutorial illustrates how AI agents can transform Recsys through interactive reasoning and action loops, shifting away from traditional passive feedback models. Finally, we shed insights on real-world solutions for human-AI alignment and responsible GAI practices. A critical component of the tutorial is detailing the AI, Infrastructure, LLMOps, and Product roadmap (including the evaluation and responsible AI practices) derived from the production solutions in LinkedIn, Amazon, TikTok, and Microsoft. While GAI in Recsys is still in its early stages, this tutorial provides valuable insights and practical solutions for the Recsys and GAI communities. =============== Transforming Digital Forensics with Large Language Models =============== Eric Xu (University of Maryland, College Park), Wenbin Zhang (Florida International University) and Weifeng Xu (University of Baltimore) In the pursuit of justice and accountability in the digital age, the integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) with digital forensics holds immense promise. This half-day tutorial provides a comprehensive exploration of the transformative potential of LLMs in automating digital investigations and uncovering hidden insights. Through a combination of real-world case studies, interactive exercises, and hands-on labs, participants will gain a deep understanding of how to harness LLMs for evidence analysis, entity identification, and knowledge graph reconstruction. By fostering a collaborative learning environment, this tutorial aims to empower professionals, researchers, and students with the skills and knowledge needed to drive innovation in digital forensics. As LLMs continue to revolutionize the field, this tutorial will have far-reaching implications for enhancing justice outcomes, promoting accountability, and shaping the future of digital investigations. =============== Collecting and Analyzing Public Data from Mastodon =============== Haris Bin Zia (Queen Mary University of London), Ignacio Castro (none) and Gareth Tyson (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) Understanding online behaviors, communities, and trends through social media analytics is becoming increasingly important. Recent changes in the accessibility of platforms like Twitter have made Mastodon a valuable alternative for researchers. In this tutorial, we will explore methods for collecting and analyzing public data from Mastodon, a decentralized micro-blogging social network. Participants will learn about the architecture of Mastodon, techniques and best practices for data collection, and various analytical methods to derive insights from the collected data. This session aims to equip researchers with the skills necessary to harness the potential of Mastodon data in computational social science and social data science research.

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[ECAI-2024] Call for Participation: 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence
by luis.magdalena＠gmail.com 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

Registration for ECAI-2024, the 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, is now open. The early registration period will end on Monday, 19 August 2024. https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ecai2024.eu/registration__;!!D9dNQw… Please join us during 19-24 October 2024 in Santiago de Compostela to mark the 50th anniversary since the first AI conference was held in Europe back in 1974. We are looking forward to an exciting programme with some 600 accepted papers across all areas of AI, as well as lots of special events, including invited talks, panel sessions, satellite workshops, tutorials, and more. -- Luis Magdalena Publicity Chair of the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-2024)

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First Call for Papers: The First Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2025@COLING)
by Ranasinghe, Tharindu 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

Neural language models have revolutionised natural language processing (NLP) and have provided state-of-the-art results for many tasks. However, their effectiveness is largely dependent on the pre-training resources. Therefore, language models (LMs) often struggle with low-resource languages in both training and evaluation. Recently, there has been a growing trend in developing and adopting LMs for low-resource languages. LoResLM aims to provide a forum for researchers to share and discuss their ongoing work on LMs for low-resource languages. >> Topics LoResLM 2025 invites submissions on a broad range of topics related to the development and evaluation of neural language models for low-resource languages, including but not limited to the following. * Building language models for low-resource languages. * Adapting/extending existing language models/large language models for low-resource languages. * Corpora creation and curation technologies for training language models/large language models for low-resource languages. * Benchmarks to evaluate language models/large language models in low-resource languages. * Prompting/in-context learning strategies for low-resource languages with large language models. * Review of available corpora to train/fine-tune language models/large language models for low-resource languages. * Multilingual/cross-lingual language models/large language models for low-resource languages. * Applications of language models/large language models for low-resource languages (i.e. machine translation, chatbots, content moderation, etc. >> Important Dates * Paper submission due – 5th November 2024 * Notification of acceptance – 25th November 2024 * Camera-ready due – 13th December 2024 * LoResLM 2025 workshop – 19th / 20th January 2025 co-located with COLING 2025 >> Submission Guidelines We follow the COLING 2025 standards for submission format and guidelines. LoResLM 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 conclusions 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. To prepare your submission, please make sure to use the COLING 2025 style files available here: * Latex - https://coling2025.org/downloads/coling-2025.zip * Word - https://coling2025.org/downloads/coling-2025.docx * Overleaf - https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/instructions-for-coling-2025-proce… Papers should be submitted through Softconf/START using the following link: https://softconf.com/coling2025/LoResLM25/ >> Organising Committee * Hansi Hettiarachchi, Lancaster University, UK * Tharindu Ranasinghe, Lancaster University, UK * Paul Rayson, Lancaster University, UK * Ruslan Mitkov, Lancaster University, UK * Mohamed Gaber, Birmingham City University, UK * Damith Premasiri, Lancaster University, UK * Fiona Anting Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore * Lasitha Uyangodage, University of Münster, Germany URL - https://loreslm.github.io/ Twitter - https://x.com/LoResLM2025 Best Regards Tharindu Ranasinghe

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Call for Participation: NLP Winter School -- 5th ALPS
by Matthias Gallé 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

FIRST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Advanced Language Processing School (ALPS) 2025 March 30th - April 4th 2025 Aussois (French Alps) We are pleased to announce the 5th edition of ALPS - the Advanced NLP School to be held in the French Alps from March 30th to April 4th 2025. This school targets advanced research students in Natural Language Processing and related fields and brings together world leading experts and motivated students. The programme comprises lectures, poster presentations, practical lab sessions and nature activities - the venue is located near a National Park. Important Dates - Oct 15th 2024: Application deadline - Nov 15th 2024: acceptance notification - Jan 15th 2025: registration deadline - March 30th 2025: Start of School Confirmed speakers so far: - Kyunghyun Cho (New York University & Prescient Design) - Titouan Parcollet (Cambridge University & Samsung AI Center) - Barbara Plank (LMU Munich) - François Yvon (ISIR CNRS) Website and online application: https://alps.imag.fr/ <http://alps.imag.fr/> Questions: alps(a)univ-grenoble-alpes.fr The registration fees for the event encompass accommodation and full board at the conference venue, the Centre Paul Langevin <https://lig-alps.imag.fr/index.php/venue/>. We will announce the fee amounts later, and they will vary depending on the participant's background: students, academia, and industry. Student fees will be set at or below €600, including twin room accommodation. We will have a limited amount of scholarships for the registration: if you are interested please mark this in the application form. The rates for academia and industry will be higher, as is customary, and will include accommodation in a single room.

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Call For Papers : IMLIP 2024
by Jun Miao 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

Call For Papers: The International Conference on Intelligent Multilingual Information Processing 2024 (IMLIP 2024) The International Conference on Intelligent Multilingual Information Processing 2024 (IMLIP 2024) will take place in Beijing, China, on 16-17 November 2024, hosted by Beijing Institute of Technology ( https://english.bit.edu.cn/). As a professional committee of the Chinese Association of Artificial Intelligence, the Institue of Multilingual Intelligent Information Processing (IMLIP), focuses on multilingual intelligent information processing and its applications. The aim of the conference IMLIP 2024 is to bring together experts from industry, academia, and research in the community, to provide a platform for academic exchange and collaborative research for scholars from around the world, and also to promote linguistic research and natural language processing studies related to China's ethnic minorities and countries. Conference Website：http://www.imlip.org/ Topics IMLIP 2024 welcomes original research and applications related to multilingual intelligent information processing. We encourage interdisciplinary studies and the integration of humanities and sciences. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: Linguistics Cross-lingual processing Large language models Computational linguistics theory Resource and corpus construction Evaluation Multilingual language understanding Machine translation Multimodal intelligent information processing, including multilingual speech recognition and text processing Intelligent processing in international Chinese education Applications of multilingual intelligent information processing Keynote speakers Academician Nima Tashi, Professor, Tibet University, Tibetan multilingual processing Professor Kim Gerdes, University of Saclay, France Important Dates Paper Submission System Open: June 30, 2024 Paper submission Deadline: August 30, 2024 Notification of Acceptance: September 30, 2024 Conference Dates: November 16-17, 2024 Submissions Papers submitted to IMLIP 2024 can be in Chinese or English. An accepted paper will be presented either as an oral talk or as a poster, as determined by the Program Committee. Accepted Chinese papers will be recommended to "Corpus Linguistics" and "AppliedTechnology" based on circumstances, with further review required to determine final acceptance. Accepted English papers will be published in the Springer conference proceedings (EIindexed). The authors of accepted papers must revise the papers according to the review before publication. At least one author of the accepted paper must attend the conference. Format Please use the Word or LaTeX templates provided. Papers may consist of up to 8 pages of content, plus unlimited references. Papers will be double-blindly reviewed without the authors’ names and affiliations included. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author’s identity, e.g., “We previously showed (Smith, 1991) …”, must be avoided. Instead, use citations such as “Smith (1991) previously showed …”. Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. For Chinese submission, please download the template at http://jcip.cipsc.org.cn/CN/item/downloadFile.do?id=79. For English submission, please download the template at https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files. Submission Website: Submission will be electronic in PDF format through https://openreview.net/groupid=IMLIP.org/2024/Conference. Multiple-Submission Policy IMLIP 2024 allows authors to submit manuscripts to leading NLP international conferences simultaneously only if the conferences have established similar multiple-submission policies. Papers that have been or will be submitted to other conferences must indicate this at the submission time. Authors of papers accepted for presentation in IMLIP 2024 must notify the program chairs by the camera-ready deadline as to whether the paper will be presented at IMLIP 2024. Once confirmed, the paper must be withdrawn from other venues. We will not accept papers that are identical or overlap significantly in content or results with papers that will be (or have been) published elsewhere except the arXiv preprint version. Awards and Funds IMLIP 2024 will grant Best Paper Awards in Chinese and English respectively. Contact For further information, visit the conference website at http://www.imlip.org/ 参会地点：北京理工大学良乡校区文博中心 Venue: Cultural and Museum Center, Liangxiang Campus, Beijing Institute of Technology

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ICLC-11: 1st Call for Abstracts
by alexandr.rosen＠ff.cuni.cz 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

ICLC-11 11TH INTERNATIONAL CONTRASTIVE LINGUISTICS CONFERENCE First Call for Abstracts September 17–19, 2025 Prague, Czech Republic The Faculty of Arts at Charles University in Prague is pleased to announce the 11th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference. The ICLC conference series, running since 1998, aims to promote fine-grained cross-linguistic research comprising two or more languages from a broad range of theoretical and methodological perspectives. Following the success of ICLC-10 in Mannheim 2023, ICLC-11 wants to bring together researchers from different linguistic subfields and neighbouring disciplines to continue the interdisciplinary dialog on comparing languages, to foster the development of an international community and to advance possible new areas of cross-linguistic research. See https://iclc11.ff.cuni.cz/ for more and note the submission deadline of February 24, 2025. We invite abstracts on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: (1) Comparison of phenomena in two or more languages focused on any area and level of linguistic analysis: * lexicon * phonetics and phonology * morphology, syntax and morphosyntax, linguistic complexity * semantics, pragmatics, register and socio-cultural context (2) Methodological challenges and solutions in cross-linguistic research: * language corpora (multilingual, learner, and multimodal) and issues of linguistic annotation (e.g., Universal Dependencies) * comparability issues, tertia comparationis, language universals; experimental and naturalistic interaction data * AI and new digital tools in linguistic analysis * low-resourced languages (3) Contrastive linguistics in touch with related disciplines: * generative, model-theoretic, functional or cognitive (e.g., constructional) approches * historical, sociolinguistic and variationist perspectives; registers, multimodality, pragmatics, interculturality; language contact; language policy * cognitive and psycholinguistic approaches to bilingualism and multilingualism; language acquisition, language teaching and learning * translation studies The abstracts should present empirical research, well-defined research questions or hypotheses, details of the research approach and methods, theoretical insights, and (preliminary or expected) results. For details see https://iclc11.ff.cuni.cz/calls-and-circulars/call-for-papers/. PRELIMINARY PROGRAM * Parallel Oral Sessions * Poster Sessions * Keynote Speakers: Sabine De Knop (Université Saint-Louis, Bruxelles, Belgium) Volker Gast (Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena, Germany) Dan Zeman (Charles University, Prague) * Panel Discussion IMPORTANT DATES 24.02.2025: Deadline for abstract submission 26.05.2025: Notification of acceptance 02.06.2025: Registration opens 16.06.2025: Deadline for revised abstract submission 30.06.2025: Last day for early bird registration 01.09.2025: Online registration closes 16.09.2025: Arrival, Registration, Get-together 17–19.09.2025: Conference ORGANIZING COMMITTEE * Mirjam Fried (chair) 1) * Viktor Elšík 1) * Jana Kocková 2) * Michal Křen 1) * Olga Nádvorníková 1) * Alexandr Rosen 1) 1) Charles University, Faculty of Arts 2) Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Slavonic Studies PROGRAM COMMITTEE: tba CONTACT INFORMATION Website: https://iclc11.ff.cuni.cz/ Email: iclc11(a)ff.cuni.cz

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TAL journal - Non thematic issue - Call for papers
by Cecile Fabre 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

Non thematic issue of the TAL journal: 2025 Volume 66-1 http://tal-66-1.sciencesconf.org/ Editors: Maxime Amblard, Cécile Fabre, Benoit Favre and Sophie Rosset The call for volume 66-1 is open until December 31, 2024. NEW since 2023: Non-thematic issues of the Automatic Language Processing journal become "on the fly". Each paper in issue 66-1 will be evaluated as soon as it is submitted and will be published, subject to its acceptance, within an indicative period of six months after its submission. THEMES The journal Automatic Language Processing has an open call for papers. Submissions may concern theoretical and experimental contributions on all aspects of written, spoken, and signed language processing and computational linguistics, both theoretical and experimental, for example: Computational models of language Linguistic resources Statistical learning and modeling Intermodality and multimodality Language multiplicity and diversity Semantics and comprehension Information access and text mining Language production and processing/generation/synthesis Evaluation Explicability and reproducibility NLP in interaction with other disciplines, digital humanities This list is indicative. On all topics, it is essential that the aspects related to natural language processing are emphasized. We also welcome position papers and survey papers. LANGUAGE Manuscripts may be submitted in English or French. THE TAL JOURNAL TAL (Traitement Automatique des Langues / Natural Language Processing) is an international journal published by ATALA (French Association for Natural Language Processing, https://www.atala.org/revuetal) since 1959. TAL has an electronic mode of publication with immediate free access to published articles. SCHEDULE Submission deadline: on the fly until December 31, 2024 Notification to the authors after first review: two months after submission Notification to the authors after second review: two months after the first review Publication : two months after the second review FORMAT SUBMISSION Papers must be between 20 and 25 pages long, including references and appendices (with no possible derogation on the length). TAL is a double-blind review journal: it is thus necessary to anonymise the manuscript and the name of the pdf file. Self-references that reveal the author's identity must be avoided. Style sheets are available for download on the Web site of the journal. More information on: http://tal-66-1.sciencesconf.org/

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Call for participation: the 34th Meeting on Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands, Leiden University
by Wijnholds, G.J. (Gijs) 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

*Apologies for cross-posting* Dear colleague, We cordially invite you to participate in the 34th Meeting of Computational Linguistics in The Netherlands (CLIN34) which takes place in Leiden on Friday 30 August 2024. Besides a large and diverse programme of posters and oral presentations, we are happy to report that CLIN34 will have two keynote talks by: * Diana Maynard, Sheffield University * Dominique Blok and Erik de Graaf, TNO If you wish to participate, please register via the conference website: clin34.leidenuniv.nl<http://clin34.leidenuniv.nl/> The programme can also be found at: clin34.leidenuniv.nl/program/<https://clin34.leidenuniv.nl/program/> We hope to see you in Leiden in August! The CLIN34 organizers Leiden University

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Call for papers: Building and Using Comparable Corpora workshop at COLING'25
by s.sharoff＠leeds.ac.uk 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

18th WORKSHOP ON BUILDING AND USING COMPARABLE CORPORA WITH SHARED TASK ON MULTILINGUAL TERMINOLOGY EXTRACTION FROM COMPARABLE CORPORA Co-located with COLING 2025 (Abu Dhabi) Paper submission deadline: 30 November, 2024 Workshop website: https://comparable.lisn.upsaclay.fr/bucc2025/ COLING website: https://coling2025.org/ Keynote speaker: Preslav Nakov, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, Abu Dhabi ************************************************************** * Motivation In the language engineering and linguistics communities, research in comparable corpora has been motivated by two main reasons. In language engineering, on the one hand, it is chiefly motivated by the need to use comparable corpora as training data for statistical NLP applications such as statistical and neural machine translation or cross-lingual retrieval. In linguistics, on the other hand, comparable corpora are of interest because they enable cross-language discoveries and comparisons. It is generally accepted in both communities that comparable corpora consist of documents that are comparable in content and form in various degrees and dimensions across several languages. Parallel corpora are on the one end of this spectrum, and unrelated corpora are on the other. In recent years, the use of comparable corpora for pre-training Large Language Models (LLMs) has led to their impressive multilingual and cross-lingual abilities, which are relevant to a range of applications, including Information Retrieval, Machine Translation, Cross-lingual text classification, etc. The linguistic definitions and observations related to comparable corpora can improve methods to mine such corpora or to improve cross-lingual transfer of LLMs. Therefore, it is of great interest to bring together builders and users of such corpora. * Shared Task This year we will run a shared task aimed at detecting translations of terms via comparable corpora. Please see the website for details: https://comparable.limsi.fr/bucc2025/bucc2025-task.html * Topics We solicit contributions on all topics related to comparable (and parallel) corpora, including but not limited to the following: Building Comparable Corpora: - Automatic and semi-automatic methods - Methods to mine parallel and non-parallel corpora from the web - Tools and criteria to evaluate the comparability of corpora - Parallel vs non-parallel corpora, monolingual corpora - Rare and minority languages, across language families - Multi-media/multi-modal comparable corpora Applications of comparable corpora: - Human translation - Language learning - Cross-language information retrieval & document categorization - Bilingual and multilingual projections - (Unsupervised) Machine translation - Writing assistance - Machine learning techniques using comparable corpora Mining from Comparable Corpora: - Cross-language distributional semantics, word embeddings and pre-trained multilingual transformer models - Extraction of parallel segments or paraphrases from comparable corpora - Methods to derive parallel from non-parallel corpora (e.g. to provide for low-resource languages in neural machine translation) - Extraction of bilingual and multilingual translations of single words, multi-word expressions, proper names, named entities, sentences, and paraphrases from comparable corpora, etc. - Induction of morphological, grammatical, and translation rules from comparable corpora - Induction of multilingual word classes from comparable corpora Comparable Corpora in the Humanities: - Comparing linguistic phenomena across languages in contrastive linguistics - Analyzing properties of translated language in translation studies - Studying language change over time in diachronic linguistics - Assigning texts to authors via authors' corpora in forensic linguistics - Comparing rhetorical features in discourse analysis - Studying cultural differences in sociolinguistics - Analyzing language universals in typological research * Workshop Organizers - Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds) - Ayla Rigouts Terryn (Université de Montréal (UdeM), Mila) - Pierre Zweigenbaum (Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, LISN, Orsay) - Reinhard Rapp (University of Mainz, Germany) * Program Committee - Ebrahim Ansari (Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Iran) - Eleftherios Avramidis (DFKI, Germany) - Gabriel Bernier-Colborne (National Research Council, Canada) - Thierry Etchegoyhen (Vicomtech, Spain) - Alex Fraser (University of Munich, Germany) - Natalia Grabar (University of Lille, France) - Amal Haddad Haddad (Universidad de Granada, Spain) - Amir Hazem (University of Tokyo, Japan) - Kyo Kageura (University of Tokyo, Japan) - Natalie Kübler (Université Paris Cité, France) - Philippe Langlais (Université de Montréal, Canada) - Yves Lepage (Waseda University, Japan). - Shervin Malmasi (Amazon, USA) - Michael Mohler (Language Computer Corporation, USA) - Emmanuel Morin (Nantes Université, France) - Dragos Stefan Munteanu (RWS, USA) - Ted Pedersen (University of Minnesota, Duluth, USA) - Nasredine Semmar (CEA LIST, Paris, France) - Silvia Severini (Leonardo Labs, Italy) - Pranaydeep Singh (University of Gent, Belgium) - Richard Sproat (Google, USA) - Marko Tadić (University of Zagreb, Croatia) - François Yvon (Sorbonne Université, France)

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PhD positions in NLP, healthcare & responsible AI
by Matthew Purver 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

We are recruiting PhD researchers for the UKRI/RAi UK Keystone project AdSoLve on Addressing Sociotechnical Limitations of LLMs: https://adsolve.github.io/ Up to four funded positions are available in a joint collaboration between Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) and the Imperial College London CDT in healthcare AI - a great opportunity to work with leading academics in NLP, AI, healthcare, and responsible AI. AdSoLve offers collaborations across 4 universities, a large consortium and a network of over 21 non-academic partners. QMUL has one of the UK's leading NLP research groups, with 8 core faculty and a group of c.40 researchers. APPLICATION DEADLINE 28th July 2024 Interviews 5th & 6th September 2024 For details see: https://www.findaphd.com/phds/programme/phd-opportunities-in-addressing-soc… https://adsolve.github.io/assets/other/phd_advert_QMUL.pdf -- Matthew Purver - http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~mpurver/ Computational Linguistics Lab - http://compling.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/ Cognitive Science Research Group - http://cogsci.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/ School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, UK *My working days for QMUL are **Tuesday-Thursday**; responses to mail on other days may be delayed.*

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Post-doctoral position in ML/XAI : 18 month at IMT Mines Alès or IMT Business School
by Andon Tchechmedjiev 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

Dear Corpora-list, We are advertising a post-doctoral position in ML/XAI : 18 month at IMT Mines Alès (south of France), or IMT Business School, Evry (near Paris) Subject: Evaluation of the impact of XAI techniques on Human-Machine collaboration Context: ENFIELD project, Horizon-funded European AI Network of Excellence on adaptive, sustainable, human-centered and trustworthy AI. Objectives : Evaluate the impact of XAI methods on Human-Machine collaboration through the study of : Performance of the human operator in performing a task, in different contexts: alone, with the help of a predictive model for which decisions will be explained/not explained, with the help of an XAI technique, Types of human-machine collaboration (e.g. delegation, substitution, mediation), Potential biases induced by XAI techniques. A focus will be made on specific contexts of study (e.g., image classification or NLP tasks, XAI techniques based on local interpretability using attribution methods). You will contribute to: Defining the study contexts (e.g. games, image classification) and test protocols to be considered. Selecting and implementing predictive models and XAI techniques. Set up the tools needed to carry out the experiments covered by the study protocols, e.g. development of simple games, decision interfaces. Implement the above-mentioned protocols on cohorts of human operators. Evaluate and promote the results obtained. Deadline for applications: 20/09/2024 Desired start date: 01/11/2024 Application and additional info: https://institutminestelecom.recruitee.com/o/post-doctorant-post-doctorante… Contacts : Sébastien Harispe, Associate Professor sebastien.harispe(a)mines-ales.fr Nicolas Soulié, Associate Professor nicolas.soulie(a)imt-bs.eu Best regards, -- Andon Tchechmedjiev, PhD. Associate Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Engineering at EuroMov Digital Health in Motion, IMT Mines Alès. Taxonomy and Semantics of Movement (SemTaxM) co-lead, Learning and Complexity group member. Research expertise: Deep Learning, Knowledge Engineering, Computational Linguistics and Semantics, Biomedical Informatics, Neuroengineering and Human Movement Processing

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Jobs-Postdoctoral Researcher – Defining Authentic Inclusive Communication- Galway-reg
by Bharathi Raja Asoka Chakravarthi 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

Postdoctoral Researcher – Defining Authentic Inclusive Communication Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics Data Science Institute Ref. No. 010548 JOB ADVERTISEMENT Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates for a full-time, fixed term position as a Postdoctoral Researcher with Data Science Institute <https://www.universityofgalway.ie/dsi/>at the University of Galway, Ireland. This position is funded by Science Foundation of Ireland and is available from 1st October 2024 to contract end date of 30th September 2025. Salary: Postdoctoral salary scale €44,346 – €56,764 per annum per annum, (subject to the project’s funding limitations), and pro rata for shorter and/or part-time contracts. Closing date for receipt of applications is 17:00 (Irish Time) on 5th Aug2024. It will not be possible to consider applications received after the closing date. ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS Essential Requirements: - PhD in Natural Language Processing (NLP) or Linguistics - Published at top conferences in the NLP field or in high impact factor - Excellent understanding of experimental design and scientific methodologies - Strong command of oral and written English - Good programming skills Desirable Requirements: - Strong knowledge of NLP equality, diversity, and inclusion - Experience engaging in research collaborations with industry - Experience in writing grant proposals - Experience of working in national and/or EU research projects To apply: Jobs – University of Galway. <https://www.universityofgalway.ie/about-us/jobs/> Applications must be submitted How to apply guide <https://www.universityofgalway.ie/human-resources/recruitment-and-selection…> - For informal enquiries, please contact Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi bharathi.raja(a)universityofgalway.ie <bharathi.raja(a)universityofgalway.ie>and cc Dr Meghann L. Drury-Grogan Meghann.Drury- <Meghann.Drury-Grogan(a)atu.ie> Grogan(a)atu.ie <Meghann.Drury-Grogan(a)atu.ie> - University’s Strategic Plan <https://www.universityofgalway.ie/strategy2025/> - Working in Research at University of Galway <https://www.universityofgalway.ie/our-research/> - Moving to Ireland (Euraxess) <https://www.euraxess.ie/> - Applicant Information <https://www.universityofgalway.ie/human-resources/recruitment-and-selection…> - We reserve the right to re-advertise or extend the closing date for this - University of Galway is an equal opportunities - All positions are recruited in line with Open, Transparent, Merit (OTM) and Competency based with regards, Dr. Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Assistant Professor / Lecturer-above-the-bar School of Computer Science, University of Galway, Ireland Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, Data Science Institute, University of Galway, Ireland E-mail: bharathiraja.akr(a)gmail.com , bharathi.raja(a)universityofgalway.ie <bharathiraja.asokachakravarthi(a)universityofgalway.ie> Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=irCl028AAAAJ&hl=en Website: https://www.universityofgalway.ie/our-research/people/computer-science/bhar… <https://www.universityofgalway.ie/our-research/people/computer-science/bhar…>

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2 Assistant Professors in Generative AI and Human-centered AI at Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS)
by Wijnholds, G.J. (Gijs) 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

Dear all, LIACS currently has a vacancy for two assistant professor positions, which might be of interest to some people on this list. Here’s the beginning of the vacancy: "The Faculty of Science, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), is seeking candidates for two Assistant Professors (0.8-1.0 FTE), one in generative AI and another in Human-centered AI. We seek to appoint an expert in the research area of Generative AI with focus on software systems and engineering (code generation, bug detection and repair, refactoring, and optimization but also at a larger scale such as architecture reconstruction and impact analysis for changes), prompt engineering (for content creation and data analysis), or diffusion models (for transforming the creation of high-fidelity data, such as images and simulations). Additionally, we seek to appoint an expert in Human-centered AI with focus on the designing of AI systems that prioritize human needs, usability, and collaboration, and/or on the involvement of humans in the training and refining processes (interactive machine learning)." Here’s the full vacancy: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies/2024/q3/150312-assistant-pro… Best, dr. Gijs Wijnholds Assistant Professor in Natural Language Processing Text Mining and Retrieval Group<https://tmr.liacs.nl/> Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science https://gijswijnholds.github.io

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Shared Task on Quality Estimation at WMT'24
by Fred Blain 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

Dear all, the QE shared task 2024 is ON! You can now submit and test your quality estimation system(s) on a set of different languages and tasks: to predict translation quality at sentence level, to detect error spans, or even to correct translations! For information on how to access the test data and the submission platforms, visit the shared task's webpage: https://www2.statmt.org/wmt24/qe-task.html Deadline to participate is July 31 (AoE). Looking forward to receiving your predictions! -- Best wishes, on behalf of the organisers. Dear all, we are happy to invite you to participate in the Shared Task on Quality Estimation at WMT'24. The details of the task can be found at: https://www2.statmt.org/wmt24/qe-task.html New this year: * We introduce a new language pair (zero-shot): English-Spanish * Continuing from the previous edition, we will also analyse the robustness of submitted QE systems to a set of different phenomena which will span from hallucinations and biases to localized errors, which can significantly impact real-world applications. * We also introduce a new task, seeking not only to detect but also to correct errors: Quality-aware Automatic Post-Editing! We invite participants to submit systems capable of automatically generating QE predictions for machine-translated text and the corresponding output corrections. 2024 QE Tasks: Task 1 -- Sentence-level quality estimation This task follows the same format as last year but with fresh test sets and a new language pair: English-Spanish. We will test the following language pairs: * English to German (MQM) * English to Spanish (MQM) * English to Hindi (MQM & DA) * English to Gujarati (DA) * English to Telugu (DA) * English to Tamil (DA) More details: https://www2.statmt.org/wmt24/qe-subtask1.html Task 2 -- Fine-grained error span detection Sequence labelling task: predict the error spans in each translation and the associated error severity: Major or Minor. We will test the following language pairs: * English to German (MQM) * English to Spanish (MQM) * English to Hindi (MQM) More details: https://www2.statmt.org/wmt24/qe-subtask2.html Task 3 -- Quality-aware Automatic Post-editing We expect submissions of post edits correcting detected error spans of the original translation. Although the task is focused on quality-informed APE, we also allow participants to submit APE output without QE predictions to understand the impact of their QE system. Submissions w/o QE predictions will also be considered official. We will test the following language pairs: * English to Hindi * English to Tamil More details: https://www2.statmt.org/wmt24/qe-subtask3.html Important dates: 1. Test sets will be released on July 15th. 2. Participants can submit their systems by July 23rd on codalab. 3. System paper submissions are due by 20th August [aligned with WMT deadlines]. Note: Like last year, we aligned with the General MT and Metrics shared tasks to facilitate cross-submission on the common language pairs: English-German, English-Spanish, and English-Hindi (MQM). We look forward to your submissions and feel free to contact us if you have any more questions! Best wishes, on behalf of the organisers.

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First International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (NLPAICS 2024) - Call for Participation
by Ranasinghe, Tharindu 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

First International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (NLPAICS 2024) Lancaster, UK, 29-30 July 2024 Call for Participation We are pleased to share the NLPAICS 2024 conference programme, which you can view by clicking here - https://nlpaics.com/programme-2/. To register, please visit https://nlpaics.com/registration/. We very much hope to welcome you to NLPAICS 2024 at Lancaster! The conference Recent advances in Natural Language Processing (NLP), Deep Learning and Large Language Models (LLMs) have resulted in improved performance of applications. In particular, there has been a growing interest in employing AI methods in different Cyber Security applications. In today's digital world, Cyber Security has emerged as a heightened priority for both individual users and organisations. As the volume of online information grows exponentially, traditional security approaches often struggle to identify and prevent evolving security threats. The inadequacy of conventional security frameworks highlights the need for innovative solutions that can effectively navigate the complex digital landscape for ensuring robust security. NLP and AI in Cyber Security have vast potential to significantly enhance threat detection and mitigation by fostering the development of advanced security systems for autonomous identification, assessment, and response to security threats in real-time. Recognising this challenge and the capabilities of NLP and AI approaches to fortify Cyber Security systems, the First International Conference on Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Cyber Security (NLPAICS’2024) serves as a gathering place for researchers in NLP and AI methods for Cyber Security. We invite contributions that present the latest NLP and AI solutions for mitigating risks in processing digital information. Venue The First International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (NLPAICS’2024) will take place at Lancaster University and is organised by the Lancaster University UCREL NLP research group. Keynote speakers We are delighted to announce the NLPAICS’2024 keynote speakers - Iva Gumnishka (Humans in the Loop) - Sevil Şen (Hacettepe University) - Paolo Rosso (Universitat Politècnica de València) - Jacques Klein (University of Luxembourg) Sponsors We are proud to announce the conference sponsors: CodeAgent – Collaborative Agents for Software Engineering Further information and contact details The conference website is https://nlpaics.com/ and will be updated on a regular basis. The conference updates will also be available on social media (X - https://x.com/nlpaics, LinkedIn - https://linkedin.com/company/nlpaics/ ) Regards Tharindu Ranasinghe

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NLP for Positive Impact Workshop EMNLP 2024: Second Call for Papers
by Daryna Dementieva 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

Second Call for Papers NLP for Positive Impact Workshop Miami, USA November 15 or 16, 2024 (co-located with EMNLP 2024 <https://2024.emnlp.org/>) https://sites.google.com/view/nlp4positiveimpact *Submission* Direct submission via ARR*: *link <https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2024/Workshop/NLP4PI_Direct_Submission> Deadline: August, 15th For papers submitted to June (or earlier) ARR cycle: Commitment deadline to the Workshop: August 20, 2024 Commit to the workshop: via this link <https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2024/Workshop/NLP4PI_ARR_Commitment> Notification of Acceptance: September 20, 2024 Camera-Ready Papers Due: October 3, 2024 Workshop Date: either November 15 or 16 All deadlines are 11:59 PM (Anywhere on Earth <https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/aoe>) *Submission Information* We are 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. Summary The widespread and indispensable use of language-oriented AI systems presents new opportunities to have a positive social impact. NLP technologies are starting to mature to the point where they could have an even broader impact, supporting the UN sustainability goals <https://sdgs.un.org/goals> by helping to address big problems such as poverty, hunger, healthcare, education, inequality, COVID-19 and climate change. Our workshop aims to promote innovative NLP research that will positively impact society, focusing on responsible methods and new applications. We will encourage submissions from areas including (but not limited to): - Work that grounds the impact of NLP: Beyond developing a better-performing NLP model, can we make a step further to connect the model to actual social impact? Example directions include: case studies of real-world deployments; or improving the deployment and maintenance of NLP models in practice. - In addition to commonly recognized NLP for social good areas such as NLP for healthcare, mental well-being, and many others, we also call for work on neglected areas such as NLP for poverty, hunger, energy, climate change, among others. - We also highly value work that builds on interdisciplinary expertise, and encourages submissions of case studies or worked examples that seek to expand the social impact of NLP through collaboration with other fields (e.g., philanthropy, social science, political science, economics, HCI). Special theme: This year, we would like to encourage submission providing solutions or concepts to address digital violence. Digital violence encompasses various forms of violence that utilize digital tools and media, such as cell phones, apps, internet applications, and emails, and occurs within digital spaces like online portals and social platforms. We aim to explore how modern NLP and AI technologies can contribute to enhancing safety in digital environments. At the workshop, you will have an opportunity to connect and share your results with NGO representatives from this field! Submission types: Thus, we would appreciate to see various types of works on this (but not only) topic like: - automatic identification of various social needs, their corresponding sizes and demographics of people affected; - position papers to propose promising new tasks or directions that the field should pursue; - literature review of a subfield; - philosophical discussions of what how positive impact can be achieved with NLP methods; - approaches to interdisciplinary collaboration; - user study designs, user surveys; - ethical considerations, and other related topics. Note that we want submissions to our workshop to have some distinctive features of social good implications, beyond a general paper on NLP. We will require each submission to discuss the ethical and societal implications of their work, and encourage a discussion of what "positive impact" means in the work. Organizers Zhijing Jin (Max Planck Institute & ETH Zurich) Daryna Dementieva (Technical University of Munich) Giorgio Piatti (ETH Zürich) Steven Wilson (Oakland University) Oana Ignat (Santa Clara University) Jieyu Zhao (University of Maryland, College Park) Joel Tetreault (Dataminr, Inc.) Rada Michaela (University of Michigan) Contact Email - nlp4pi.workshop(a)gmail.com

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AIRiAL 2024 Conference Registration
by Voss, Erik 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

**Apologies for cross-posting!** Registration for Artificial Intelligence Research in Applied Linguistics (AIRiAL) 2024 Conference <https://sites.google.com/tc.columbia.edu/airialconference/airial-2024> is open. Register here <https://sites.google.com/tc.columbia.edu/airialconference/airial-2024/regis…> for the conference. Early registration ends on July 31, 2024, so don't delay! Please note that banquet seating is limited to 50 guests. Contact use for information about sponsorship opportunities. We look forward to seeing you in New York in September! Best regards, The AIRiAL 2024 Conference Organizing Committee -- Erik Voss, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Applied Linguistics & TESOL program Language & Technology Specialization Department of Arts & Humanities Teachers College, Columbia University TC Faculty Profile <https://www.tc.columbia.edu/faculty/ev2449/>, Linkedin Profile <https://www.linkedin.com/in/erik-voss-ph-d-941a3ab9>, Google Scholar <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=FMnVdjcAAAAJ&hl=en> ALTESOL Language & Technology Research Group <https://sites.google.com/tc.columbia.edu/al-tesol-language-technology/home> Editor-in-Chief of NYS TESOL Journal Associate Editor of Language Assessment Quarterly *Latest Publications* TC Interview: How New Artificial Intelligence Tools Will Keep Changing Education <https://youtu.be/Zh1RB7DLRMI?si=vDIvowSnzrWy480P>(7:28 mins.) Voss, E. et al. (2023). The Use of Assistive Technologies Including Generative AI by Test Takers in Language Assessment: A Debate of Theory and Practice. <https://doi.org/10.1080/15434303.2023.2288256> LAQ Journal Voss, E. (2024) Duolingo Webinar: Current Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Language Assessment <https://youtu.be/b-mjLmvXLBU?si=nmph76-lizkfzi1J> (1 hour)

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The 22nd International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories – SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
by Zinsmeister, Heike 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

[With apologies for cross-posting] We are excited to announce the 22nd International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT 2024), which will bring together developers and users of linguistically annotated natural language corpora. The workshop is endorsed by ACL SIGPARSE and will be hosted by Universität Hamburg in Germany on December 5th-6th, 2024. ----------------------------- VENUE ----------------------------- TLT 2024 will take place at the guest house of Universität Hamburg. In order to support rich discussions and networking, TLT 2024 will primarily be an in-person event; we will, however, accommodate a limited number of live / synchronous remote presentations, prioritizing those with circumstances that prevent travel. Universität Hamburg and its guest house are conveniently located near the Dammtor train station / metro station Stephansplatz which are well-connected with many parts of the city and beyond, providing an easy commute for attendees. Hamburg is a vibrant city known for its rich maritime history as one of the leading cities in the medieval Hanseatic League, as well as its modern cultural diversity, including events at the world-famous Elbphilharmonie Concert Hall. The city is easily accessible by train or plane (Hamburg Airport (HAM); about 1 to 1.5 hours train ride: Bremen Airport (BRE) and Hannover Airport (HAJ)). ----------------------------- SUBMISSION INFORMATION ----------------------------- TLT addresses all aspects of treebank design, development, and use. As ‘treebanks’ we consider any pairing of natural language data (spoken, signed, or written) with annotations of linguistic structure at various levels of analysis, including, e.g., morpho-phonology, syntax, semantics, and discourse. Annotations can take any form (including trees or general graphs), but they should be encoded in a way that enables computational processing. Reflections on the design of linguistic annotations, methodology studies, resource announcements or updates, annotation or conversion tool development, or reports on treebank usage including probing the leakage of treebanks into large language models are but some examples of the types of papers we anticipate for TLT. Papers should describe original work; they should emphasize completed work rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance and relevance to the conference, and interest to the attendees. We invite paper submissions in two distinct tracks: * regular papers on substantial and original research, including empirical evaluation results, where appropriate; * short papers on smaller, focused contributions, work in progress, negative results, surveys, or opinion pieces. Submissions (in both tracks) may either be archival—in case of unpublished work—or non-archival, based on the wish of the authors. All archival papers accepted for presentation at the workshop will be included in the TLT 2024 proceedings volume, which will be part of the ACL Anthology. Non-archival papers must have been published or accepted for publication at another CL conference. Long papers may consist of up to 8 pages of content (excluding references and appendices). Short papers may consist of up to 4 pages of content (excluding references and appendices). Accepted papers will be given an additional page to address reviewer comments. All submissions should follow the two-column format and the ACL style guidelines. We strongly recommend the use of the LaTeX style files, OpenDocument, or Microsoft Word templates created for ACL: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files Submissions will be reviewed double-blind, and all full and short papers must be anonymous, i.e. not reveal author(s) on the title page or through self-references. So e.g., “We previously showed (Smith, 2020) …”, should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as “Smith (2020) previously showed …. Papers must be submitted digitally, in PDF, and uploaded through the on-line conference system (link forthcoming). Submissions that violate these requirements will be rejected without review. ----------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ----------------------------- * Long and short paper submission deadlines: August 15th, 2024 * Reviews Due: September 26th, 2024 * Notification of acceptance: October 6th, 2024 * Final version of papers due: November 6th, 2024 * TLT2024: December 5th-6th, 2024 in Hamburg ----------------------------- TLT2024 WORKSHOP CHAIRS ----------------------------- Daniel Dakota, Indiana University Sandra Kübler, Indiana University Heike Zinsmeister, Universität Hamburg ----------------------------- TLT2024 COMMUNICATION CHAIR ----------------------------- Sarah Jablotschkin, Universität Hamburg Contact: tlt2024.gw(a)uni-hamburg.de Website: https://www.korpuslab.uni-hamburg.de/en/tlt2024.html --------------------------- Prof. Dr. Heike Zinsmeister (sie/ihr) Linguistik des Deutschen / Korpuslinguistik Universität Hamburg, Institut für Germanistik, Raum C7012 Von-Melle-Park 6, Postfach #15, D-20146 Hamburg Tel.: 040 42838-7119 heike.zinsmeister(a)uni-hamburg.de http://www.slm.uni-hamburg.de/germanistik/personen/zinsmeister.html

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Eugene Charniak Memorial (Save the Date)
by ACL Announcements 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

Friday, November 8 - Saturday, November 9 Brown Computer Science Department, Providence, RI https://cs.brown.edu/people/in-memorium/eugene_charniak/ Brown University invites you to attend an academic memorial event to commemorate the research and legacy of Eugene Charniak. Eugene, an ACL Lifetime Achievement Award winner and ACL fellow, passed away in June 2023. His colleagues and students have organized a two-day workshop of invited presentations of cutting-edge research with an emphasis on the themes which defined Eugene's career: the legacy of classic statistical NLP/ML, the sometimes-surprising effectiveness of simple baselines, clever tricks for dealing with data sparsity such as self-training or distant supervision, and unsupervised learning. A full program will be posted later this summer. Mark Johnson will give a keynote presentation, along with research talks by Regina Barzilay, Michael Collins, Jason Eisner, Lillian Lee, Ani Nenkova, Ellie Pavlick, Brian Roark, Chris Tanner and Byron Wallace. There will also be opportunities to remember Eugene in a social setting, and a panel discussion of the workshop's research themes. The event will take place at the Brown Computer Science Department in Providence, RI; attendees are responsible for finding their own accommodations. Instructions for travel to Providence are available here: https://cs.brown.edu/about/directions/. The program will begin at 9am on Friday the 8th, and conclude at 1:30pm on Saturday the 9th. All members of the ACL community are welcome, whether you knew Eugene well or not. Please mark your calendars now! To stay in the loop about the event, please fill out this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe_7LZBSjP3Ur2XCTtsDtwnL_Jbxgh5Wfi… If you have questions about the event, contact the organizers, Micha Elsner (melsner0(a)gmail.com) and David McClosky (david.mcclosky(a)gmail.com).

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a postdoc in text and data mining (newspapers) at Uni Tartu
by Peeter Tinits 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

Hi all, I have a postdoc job to share, see below. Thank you for sharing the offer in potentially interested circles. Best, Peeter ---- Post doc job(s) available for text and data mining and social history / sustainability transitions. The project “The Crisis and Transformation of Industrial Modernity, 1900-2055”, is a five-year project at the University of Tartu. It is based on the Deep Transitions framework which theorizes industrialization as a long-term co-evolution of various socio-technical systems. Website: https://www.deeptransitions.ut.ee/. Job description: https://www.deeptransitions.ut.ee/jobs/ Job call PDF: http://tiny.cc/dt_postdoc_call_2024<http://tiny.cc/dt_postdoc_call_2024> 1,5 FTE available for jobs. Some flexibility in workload and work location based on the exact focus. Contact laur.kanger(a)ut.ee<mailto:laur.kanger@ut.ee> for more details.

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ELRA Catalogue of Language Resources - Update
by info＠elda.org 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

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COLING 2025 : [CFT] International Conference on Computational Linguistics - Last Call for Tutorials
by Sakhar AlKhereyf 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

** Apologies for cross-posting ** Dear Colleagues, This is the last call for tutorial proposals for COLING 2025. Due: July, 31, 2024 CFT: The 2025 International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2025) invites proposals for tutorials to be held in conjunction with the conference. We seek proposals in all areas of natural language processing and computation, language resources (LRs) and evaluation, including spoken language, sign language, and multimodal interaction. We invite proposals for three types of tutorials, and we especially encourage submissions from early-career researchers: Cutting-edge: tutorials that cover advances in newly emerging areas. The tutorials are expected to give a brief introduction to the topic, but participants are assumed to have some prior knowledge of the topic. The focus of the class will be on discussing the most recent developments in the field, and it will spend a considerable amount of time pointing out open research questions and important novel research directions. Introductory to computational linguistics/NLP topics: tutorials that provide introductions to topics that are established in the COLING communities. The lecturers provide an overview of the development of the field from the beginning until now. Attendees are not expected to come with prior knowledge. They acquire sufficient understanding of the topic to understand the most recent research in the field. Introduction to Key Concepts in Linguistics including Semantics, Syntax, Psycholinguistics, Neurolinguistics, and Sociolinguistics: tutorials that provide introductions to topics that are established or emerging in areas adjacent to CL/NLP. The lecturers provide an overview of the development of the field from the beginning until now. Attendees are not expected to come with prior knowledge. They acquire a sufficient understanding of the topic to understand the most recent research in the field and the relevance for the CL/NLP domains. Each of these types of tutorials can either be half-day (4h long including a coffee break (30m long)) or full-day (8h long including two coffee breaks (1h long in total) but excluding a lunch break). In all cases, the aim of a tutorial is primarily to help understand a scientific problem, its tractability, and its theoretical and practical implications. Presentations of particular technological solutions or systems are welcome, provided that they serve as illustrations of broader scientific considerations. None of the tutorial types are expected to be “self-invited” long talks – the content should be a good balance between research from multiple groups and perspectives, not only fromof the teachers of the tutorial. The tutorials will be held at COLING 2025 in Abu Dhabi, UAE, on 19 and 20 January, 2025. Important Dates All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”). Proposal submission due July 31, 2024 Notification of acceptance August 31, 2024 COLIING2025 tutorials January 19-20, 2025 COLING2025 conference January 21-24, 2025 Diversity and Inclusion We particularly encourage submissions of underrepresented groups in computational linguistics, researchers from any demographic or geographic minority, with disabilities, or others. In the evaluation of the proposal, we will take these aspects into account to create a varied and balanced set of tutorials. This includes several aspects of diversity, namely (1) how the topic of the tutorial contributes to improved diversity and increased fairness in the field, (2) if the topic is particularly relevant for a specific underrepresented group of potential participants, (3), if the presenters are from an underrepresented group. Submission Details They should contain: A title that helps the potential attendees to understand what the tutorial will be about. An abstract that summarizes the topics, goals, target audience, and type (see above) of the tutorial (this abstract will also be on the LREC-COLING website). A section called “Introduction” that explains the topic and summarizes the starting point and relevance for our community and in general. A section called “Target Audience” that explains for whom the tutorial will be developed and what the expected prior knowledge is. Clearly specify what attendees should know and be able to practically do to get the most out of your tutorial. Examples of what to specify include prior mathematical knowledge, knowledge of specific modeling approaches and methods, programming skills, or adjacent areas like computer vision. Also specify the number of expected participants. A section called “Outline” in which the various topics are explained. This can be a list of bullet points or a set of paragraphs explaining the content. Explain what you intend and how long the tutorial will be. A section called “Diversity Considerations”, discussing each of the three aspects of diversity mentioned above or others. A section called “Reading List”: What are introductory papers or books that potential attendees can read to get a first impression of the tutorial content? What do you expect them to have read before attending? What does provide further information beyond the content of the tutorial? A section called “Presenters” in which each tutorial presenter is briefly introduced in one paragraph, including their research interests, their areas of expertise for the tutorial topic, and their experience in teaching a diverse and international audience. A section called “Other Information” which should include information on how many people are expected to participate and how you came to this estimate. You can also explain any other aspects that you find important, including special equipment that you would need. A section called “Ethics Statement” which discusses ethical considerations related to the topics of the tutorial. The proposals should be submitted no later than 31 July, 2024, 11:59 PM Samoa Standard Time (SST) (UTC/GMT-11, “anywhere on Earth”). Submission is electronic. Please submit the proposals using the START system at this URL: https://softconf.com/coling2025/tutorialsCL25 <https://softconf.com/coling2025/tutorialsCL25> Please note that tutorials should either be 100% in-person or 100% virtual; hybrid formats will not be allowed. For in-person tutorials, at least one tutorial organiser should be physically present to run the tutorial at COLING. Evaluation Criteria The tutorial proposals will be evaluated according to their originality and impact, the expected interest level of participants, as well as the quality of the organizing team and Program Committee and their contribution to the diversity of the conference. Each tutorial will be evaluated regarding its clarity and preparedness, novelty or timely character of the topic, the instructor’s experience, the audience interest, and the potential to increase diversity in our community. Instructor Responsibilities Accepted tutorial presenters will be notified by the date mentioned above. They must then provide abstracts of their tutorials for inclusion in the conference registration material by the specific deadlines. The abstract needs to be provided in ASCII format. The summary will be submitted in PDF format and can be updated from the version submitted for review. The instructors will make their material available in an appropriate way, for instance, by setting up a website. They will be invited to submit their slides to the ACL Anthology. Tutorial Chairs Email: coling25tutorialchairs(a)gmail.com The tutorial chairs are: Djamé Seddah, Senior Researcher, INRIA, Paris, Frace (on leave from Sorbonne University) Shaonan Wang, Associate Professor at the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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Saarland University - Postdoc in NLP/Computational Linguistics
by Alexander Koller 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

Hello everyone, I have an open postdoc position at Saarland University (initially two years, with the possibility of extension). I would like to fill it around the end of the year, in October or later. The position offers a lot of flexibility in developing your own research agenda and scientific network. It is also flexible with respect to topic. Current topics of interest in our group include accurate reasoning and planning with LLMs (including tool use); dialogue systems (in particular user adaptation and joint problem solving); and neurosymbolic models for NLP. If you are interested, please see the website for details: https://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/groups/AK/jobs/ I look forward to hearing from you! Best, Alexander Koller.

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Last CfP (submission deadline on August 9th) - OM-2024: The 19th International Workshop on Ontology Matching collocated with ISWC2024
by Huanyu Li 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

*****We apologize for possible cross-posting***** *************** Last 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: Alsayed Algergawy, Jena University, Germany Manuel Atencia, Universidad de Málaga, Spain Jiaoyan Chen, University of Oxford, UK Jérôme David, University Grenoble Alpes & INRIA, France Gayo Diallo, University of Bordeaux, France Daniel Faria, INESC-ID&IST, University of Lisbon, Portugal Alfio Ferrara, University of Milan, Italy Marko Gulić, University of Rijeka, Croatia Wei Hu, Nanjing University, China Ryutaro Ichise, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & Europeana, Netherlands Naouel Karam, Fraunhofer, Germany Prodromos Kolyvakis, EPFL, Switzerland Patrick Lambrix, Linköpings Universitet, Sweden Oliver Lehmberg, University of Mannheim, Germany Fiona McNeill, University of Edinburgh, UK Hoa Ngo, CSIRO, Australia George Papadakis, University of Athens, Greece Catia Pesquita, University of Lisbon, Portugal Henry Rosales-Méndez, University of Chile, Chile Booma Sowkarthiga, Microsoft, USA Kavitha Srinivas, IBM, USA Giorgos Stoilos, University of Oxford, UK Valentina Tamma, University of Liverpool, UK Ludger van Elst, DFKI, Germany Xingsi Xue, Fujian University of Technology, China Ondřej Zamazal, Prague University of Economics, Czech Republic Songmao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Lu Zhou, TigerGraph, USA ------------------------------------------------------- More about ontology matching: http://www.ontologymatching.org/ http://book.ontologymatching.org/ -------------------------------------------------------

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

22 Aug '24

Deadline: 31 July 2024 TRANSLATING AND THE COMPUTER CONFERENCE 2024 (TC46) - Call for Presentations and Papers https://asling.org/tc46/call-for-papers-cfp/ "Navigating the future of language: Innovation, integration, inspiration" 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 31 July * Deadline for submitting proposals for workshops and panels is extended to 15 August

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CfP: 1st Workshop on Computational Humor (CHum @ COLING 2025)
by Tristan Miller 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

Call for papers: 1st Workshop on Computational Humor (CHum 2025) ================================================================ The 1st Workshop on Computational Humor (CHum 2025) will take place virtually on January 19 or 20, 2025 (exact date TBD) as part of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2025). Scope and topics ---------------- CHum 2025 aims to foster further work on modeling the processes of humor with current methods in computational linguistics and natural language processing, against the theoretical backdrop of humor research and with reference to relevant corpora of textual, visual, and multimodal materials. A principal goal of the workshop is to unite researchers who can together probe the limits of various meaning representations -- symbolic, neural, and hybrid -- for humor processing. We welcome contributions on any topic relevant to the computational processing of humor, including but not limited to the following: * LLMs, knowledge representation * Resources and evaluation * Human-computer interaction * Computer-mediated communication * Assisted content creation * Machine and computer-assisted translation * Digital humanities applications * Formal modeling of humor * Proof-of-concept humor detection and classification Particularly encouraged are submissions describing inter- or multi-disciplinary work, whether completed or in progress, and position papers that critically discuss the past, present, and future of computational humor systems. Submission instructions ----------------------- Long and short papers should be formatted according to the same guidelines for the main COLING 2025 conference papers <https://coling2025.org/calls/submission_guidlines/> and submitted through START: <https://softconf.com/coling2025/CompHum25/> Important dates --------------- All deadlines are at 23:59 UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth"). * Initial submission: November 15, 2024 * Notification of acceptance: December 2, 2024 * Camera-ready submission: December 13, 2024 * Workshop: January 19 or 20, 2025 Organizers ---------- * Christian F. Hempelmann, Texas A&M University-Commerce * Julia Rayz, Purdue University * Tiansi Dong, Fraunhofer IAIS * Tristan Miller, University of Manitoba Further information ------------------- * Website: <https://chum2025.github.io/> * E-mail: chum(a)groups.io -- Dr. Tristan Miller, Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba https://logological.org/ | Tel. +1 204 474 6792

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Fourth Inria-DFKI European Summer School on AI (IDESSAI 2024)
by simon.ostermann＠dfki.de 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

*******************************************************************   Fourth Inria-DFKI European Summer School on AI (IDESSAI 2024) Large AI Models and Robotics and AI Saarbrücken, Germany September 9th - September 13th, 2024 https://idessai.eu/ Registration deadline: August 23th, 2024 ******************************************************************* IDESSAI 2024 is the fourth yearly Summer School organized by the two renowned German and French AI institutes, DFKI and Inria. It stands out from the crowd of offerings for AI students in several aspects: We ensure a good balance in the number of participants and instructors: participants will have the opportunity to join a community of like-minded people, and, at the same time, they will be in close contact with the experts. Our program features a line-up of courses focused on two themes, Large AI Models, and Robotics and AI, which are at the forefront of socio-economic issues related to AI. On top of the latest methodological advances and the shared vision of the future that both organizing institutes have to offer, IDESSAI 2024 will be practically oriented. We will achieve this through hands-on courses and the involvement of industry practitioners and innovators. Participants will be offered to the opportunity to present their work to each other in dedicated poster/demo sessions. Large AI Models and Robotic and AI will take place in two parallel tracks. There will be plenty of opportunities to exchange between these two tracks at coffee breaks, meals, and social events, as well as through joint cross-track sessions. TARGETED AUDIENCE IDESSAI 2024 was designed for PhD students in all areas of AI, including machine learning, knowledge representation and reasoning, search and optimisation, planning and scheduling, multi-agent systems, natural language processing, robotics, computer vision, and other areas. PhD students in other fields, MSc students, postdocs, and researchers in academia and industry are also welcome. VENUE IDESSAI 2024 is planned as a fully in-person event, which will take place at the University of Saarland. Remote attendance will not be possible. CONFIRMED SPEAKERS Keynotes: Wolfgang Wahlster (DFKI) – Industrial AI for Smart Manufacturing Karën Fort (Université de Lorraine) - Ethics in Natural Language Processing: don't look up! Kai Warsönke und Henrik Waschke (Volkswagen) - Increasing product quality in the automotive industry through the Virtual Measurement Data Analysis (VMDA) Xavier Hinaut (Inria) - BrainGPT: Tailoring Transformers into Cognitive Language Models Large AI Models: Christophe Cerisara (CNRS) - Introduction to Large Language Malte Ostendorff (Deutsche Telekom) – Training Data for Large Language Models Christophe Cerisara (CNRS) - Efficient LLM training Mariya Toneva (MPI) - Relating LLMs to human brains Jindong Gu (Google Deep Mind) - Responsible Generative AI Marc Lelarge (Inria) - LLMs for code Gerit Großmann und Islam Mesabah (DFKI) - Language Models and Structured Knowledge in AI Alexandre Défossez (Kyutai) - Auto-regressive modeling of discrete audio tokens Robotics and AI: Daniel Porta (DFKI) - Digital twins for AI-based industrial applications Pia Bideau (Inria) - Navigating Together: Integrating Analytical and Learning-Based Approaches for Distance Estimation Marie-Odile Berger (Inria) - AI for computer vision: using high level features for localization RICAIP-Day Xiaomei Xu – Hands-On Robotic-Course - Multi-Robot Simulation using Siemens Tecnomatix Martin Suda und Miklas Janota (CIIRC Prague) - Powering Logic-Based Reasoning with Machine Learning and Vice Versa? Tim Schwartz (DFKI) – Practical Tour through the German-Czech Innovation Lab for Human-Robot Collaboration in Industrie 4.0 (MRK 4.0 Lab) Maurice Rekrut und Marc Tabie (NEARBY/DFKI) - The NEARBY Project - Variabilities in Brain-Computer Interfaces – Towards applying BCIs in real-world applications FEES AND REGISTRATION Our fees are all-inclusive. Please keep in mind that an accommodation must be organised on your own and paid by your own. For more details and to register, see https://idessai.eu/registration-2024/ (deadline: August 23th, 2024). To ensure a good balance in the number of participants and instructors and maximize the chances of interaction, the number of attendees is limited to 50 per track. Applicants will be selected on the grounds of diversity and benefit gained from attending the selected track. ORGANIZERS Co-organized by: Inria, DFKI Contact us: idessai-support(a)dfki.de.

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Call for Proposals CoNLL Shared Task 2025
by Fokkens, A.S. (Antske) 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

SIGNLL (ACL's Special Interest Group on Natural Language Learning) invites proposals for the CoNLL Shared Task 2025. Background Since 1999, CoNLL (the Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning) has regularly included a shared task in which training and test data are provided by the organizers, which allows participating systems to be evaluated and compared in a systematic way. Descriptions of the participating systems and an evaluation of their performance are presented both at the conference and in the proceedings. Previous shared tasks Previous shared tasks have been devoted to: * Chunking (1999, 2000) * Clause identifications (2001) * Named entity recognition (2002, 2003) * Semantic role labeling (2004, 2005) * Dependency parsing (2006, 2007) * Joint parsing of syntactic and semantic dependencies (2008, 2009) * Hedge detection (2010) * Co-reference resolution (2011, 2012) * Grammatical error correction (2013, 2014) * Universal morphological reinflection (2017, 2018) * Multilingual parsing from raw text to universal dependencies (2017, 2018) * Cross-framework Meaning Representation Parsing (2019, 2020) * BabyLM Challenge (2023) Submission guidelines For CoNLL-2025 proposals are invited for any shared task involving natural language learning and processing, that will directly contribute to theoretically, cognitively and scientifically motivated approaches to computational linguistics (rather than driven by particular engineering applications). Proposals should contain the following information: * Names and affiliations of the members of the organizing committee (including a designated contact person). * Description of the shared task, including its relevance to theoretically, cognitively and scientifically motivated approaches to computational linguistics. * Description of the process for selecting, acquiring and preparing the data for training and evaluation, including conditions of availability. * Description of the procedure for evaluating the performance of participating systems, including the availability of evaluation software. * Description of any ethical or licensing issues that may arise from the organization and participation in the proposed task. * Any other relevant information. The exact timeline of the shared task will be determined according to the venue CoNLL will be collocated with (either NAACL, ACL or EMNLP; aiming for ACL). Proposals should be submitted by October 1, 2024. Proposals should be submitted by e-mail to proposals(a)signll.org, from the email of the contact person, with the subject “CoNLL-2025 Shared Task Proposal”. A tentative timeline for the CoNLL Shared Task 2025 is as follows: * October 1, 2024: deadline for proposals * October 15, 2024: confirmation of acceptance * December 15, 2024: first version of task website online * December 15, 2024: first call for papers out * January 30, 2019: all trial datasets (plus documentation and scorer) available * February 15, 2025: test data available * April 15, 2025: test phase ends * April 22, 2025: submission of system description papers Proposals should make clear that a similar schedule can be implemented, especially for the preparation of resources (trial/training/development/test data sets). Proposals should be 2 to 3 pages long, in PDF format. We encourage proposers to include appendices with examples that help understanding the data and type of evaluation. Proposals will be reviewed by the SIGNLL steering committee. Proposers might be contacted during the reviewing period to provide further information. Potential proposers should feel free to indicate the intention to submit by emailing proposals(a)signll.org. We are also happy to answer your questions about the process, or to solicit early feedback for a proposal. -- prof. dr. Antske Fokkens University Research Chair Computational Linguistic Methods Computational Linguistics & Text Mining Lab, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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BrPoliCorpus - Brazilian Portuguese Political Corpus V 1.0
by Lima-Lopes, Rodrigo Esteves de 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

<https://github.com/rll307/BrPoliCorpus> Dear Colleagues, I’d like to introduce BrPoliCorpus <https://github.com/rll307/BrPoliCorpus>, my current project. It comprises 441.644.155 million words and is an open data set of Brazilian political documents. It is intended to be useful for linguists and political scientists. At this project stage, distribution is via the R package or freely downloadable spreadsheets. The spreadsheets contain the texts and all the metadata, which is useful for context. The datasets include: - Ordinary congress floor sessions - Ordinary congress committees - CPI (Parliamentary Inquiry Commission) - Presidential inaugural speeches - Government programmes for the offices of Governor and President of the Republic Here is a breakdown of its current status: Doc Types Tokens CPI 2615392 4563382 Parliamentary Committees 7985000 108251624 Floor Parliamentary speeches 3423405 322893136 Gov. Programmes 688342 5849807 Inaugural Speeches 31959 86206 Total 14.744.098 441.644.155 The corpus is available here <https://github.com/rll307/BrPoliCorpus>. Please, contact me if any further information is needed. All the best, Rodrigo *---* *Dr Rodrigo Esteves de Lima Lopes* *Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) * Livre Docente em Linguagem e Tecnologia Professor Associado *||* Associate Professor Depto. de Linguística Aplicada *|| *Dept. of Applied Linguistics CV (Português) <http://lattes.cnpq.br/1654734521861377> *||* ORCID <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3681-1553> *||* Google Scholar <https://scholar.google.com.br/citations?user=q1V4jksAAAAJ&hl=pt-BR> rll307(a)unicamp.br

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Call for Participation for FEL XXVIII 2024 -- 25-27(+28) September 2024, Islamabad, Pakistan
by Steven Krauwer 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

Call for Participation for FEL XXVIII 2024 Registration for the 28th Annual Conference of the Foundation for Endangered Languages, 25-27(+28) September 2024, in Islamabad, Pakistan, is now open! The conference is organised by the Foundation for Endangered Languages (FEL) and the Forum for Language Initiatives (FLI), in collaboration with Allama Iqbal Open University Islamabad. The main theme of FELXXVIII is “Endangered Languages and Oral Traditions” See the conference website for more information about the theme: https://fli-online.org/site/conference-of-the-foundation-for-endangered-lan… About the programme: - Keynote and submitted presentations on 25-27 September - Excursion on 28 September - Provisional list of accepted papers: https://www.ogmios.org/conferences/2024/FEL2024-accepted-abstracts.pdf About registration: - You can register for in person or on-line participation - Information about fees: https://www.ogmios.org/conferences/2024/FEL2024-registration-info.php - We offer special rates for FEL members and Pakistan residents - Registration link: https://vonweber.nl/fel/registration_form.html FEL Organizing Committee: - Maya Khemlani David - Eda Derhemi - Hakim Elnazarov - Fazal Hadi - Steven Krauwer - Salem Mezhoud - Christopher Moseley - Mujahid Torwali (Chair) Islamabad Organizing Committee: - Abdul Aziz Sahir - Malik Ajmal Gulzar - Muhammad Kamal Khan (Chair) - Fakhruddin Akhunzada - Furrakh Abbas - Shams Wali Khan - Ubaidullah Khan - Saira Maqbool - Ejaz Ahmad - Rashida Imran - Hina Khan - Munir Ahmad - Amir Haider More information: - For venue, travel, visa, accommodation visit the conference website: https://fli-online.org/site/conference-of-the-foundation-for-endangered-lan… - Visa applications to be submitted at least 6 weeks before the event! - Contact the local organisers at: felconf2024.islamabad(a)gmail.com -- _______________________________________________________________________ Steven Krauwer, CLARIN/FEL/ELSNET/UiLOTS, Utrecht, NL, s.krauwer(a)uu.nl

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Amazon Postdoc in NLP and LLMs
by Shervin Malmasi 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

We have postdoc positions focusing on applying LLMs, NLP/IR, and graph techniques to real-world problems around Amazon's retail business. Job posting: https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/2706036 Please feel free to reach out with any questions: malmasi(a)amazon.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/smalmasi Thank you, Shervin

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Data released for PLABA 2024 @ TREC
by Ondov, Brian 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

Training and testing data are now available for the 2024 Plain Language Adaptation of Biomedical Abstracts<https://bionlp.nlm.nih.gov/plaba2024/> track at TREC<https://trec.nist.gov>. The PLABA task is to rewrite biomedical abstracts, line by line, in plain language for the general public. This includes: - Simplifying and splitting sentences - Replacing or omitting jargon - Providing further background where appropriate This year, PLABA also has new subtask—expert term replacement. This includes: - Identifying expert terms - Classifying how they should be replaced (explained, substituted, generalized, exemplified, or omitted) - Generating replacement text for the terms As this subtask does not require generation of complete documents, we hope it will allow for participation with fewer compute resources. By participating in PLABA, you will get: - Access to a unique, manually annotated expert term replacement dataset - Manual evaluations of system outputs by science communication experts Further information Task descriptions: https://bionlp.nlm.nih.gov/plaba2024/ Registration: https://ir.nist.gov/evalbase/ Mailing list: https://groups.google.com/g/plaba2024 Due dates Aug 30 - Task 2 (abstract rewriting) submissions due Sep 15 - Task 1 (term replacement) submissions due We look forward to your submissions!

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[CFP] NLP4Science workshop at EMLP 2024
by Roi Reichart 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

Background and Scope --------------------- The NLP4Science workshop invites submissions of papers that leverage NLP tools and methodologies for human-focused scientific modeling. As language is closely tied to human behavior, cognition, and communication, many researchers are turning to NLP to decode intricate patterns and gain meaningful insights into humanity. NLP tools and Large Language Models (LLMs) are reshaping research methodologies across a wide range of fields, including social science, psychology, psychiatry, psycholinguistics, health, neuroscience, finance, behavioral economics, political science, and more. This workshop provides an opportunity for researchers to focus on how NLP tools can be harnessed for scientific modeling and exploration. We offer a platform for exchanging knowledge, methodologies, findings, tools, and resources, fostering synergies across different scientific domains. The workshop aims to facilitate discussions that encompass shared scientific methodologies across various disciplines. Topics will include, but are not limited to: principles of NLP-driven human-centered scientific modeling, state-of-the-art methods for statistically robust evaluation of NLP models in science, experimental design, causal inference, and the development and application of model interpretation and causality-based methods for text models in science. The workshop will be held as part of EMNLP in November 2024 in Miami, Florida. ===Important Dates=== Paper submission deadline: August 16, 2024 Notification of acceptance: September 5, 2024 Camera-ready papers due: October 3, 2024 ===Submission Topics=== We will solicit novel papers, including, but not limited to the following topics: - NLP and LLMs for scientific modeling in various fields - Social science - Psychology - Psychiatry - Psycholinguistics - Health - Neuroscience - Finance - Behavioral economics - Political science - Statistically robust evaluation of NLP models in science - NLP Experimental design - Causal inference - Model Interpretability ===Submission Information=== We will be using the EMNLP Submission Guidelines 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. Submit your work here: https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2024/Workshop/NLP4Science ===Contact Information=== - Workshop contact email address: nlp4science [at] gmail.com - Workshop Twitter: @nlp4science Read more: <https://sites.google.com/view/nlp4science/home> https://sites.google.com/view/nlp4science/home

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2nd CFP: Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities NLP4DH @ EMNLP 2024
by Mika Hämäläinen 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

The 4th International Conference on Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities will co-locate with EMNLP in Miami, USA! The proceedings will be published in the ACL anthology. The event will take place on November 15-16 2024. https://www.nlp4dh.com/nlp4dh-2024 Submission deadline: September 1, 2024 The focus of NLP4DH is on applying natural language processing techniques to digital humanities research. The topics can be anything of digital humanities interest with a natural language processing or generation aspect. A list of suitable NLP4DH topics include but are not limited to: -Text analysis and processing related to humanities using computational methods -Dataset creation and curation for NLP (e.g. digitization, digitalization, datafication, and data preservation). -Research on cultural heritage collections such as national archives and libraries using NLP -NLP for error detection, correction, normalization and denoising data -Generation and analysis of literary works such as poetry and novels -Analysis and detection of text genres Short papers can be up to 4 pages in length. Short papers can report on work in progress or a more targeted contribution such as software or partial results. Long papers can be up to 8 pages in length. Long papers should report on previously unpublished, completed, original work. Lightning talks can be submitted as 750-word abstracts. Lightning talks are suited for discussing ideas or presenting work in progress. Lightning talks will be published in lightning proceedings on Zenodo. Accepted papers (short and long) will be published in the proceedings that will appear in the ACL Anthology. Accepted papers will also be given an additional page to address the reviewers’ comments. The length of a camera ready submission can then be 5 pages for a short paper and 9 for a long paper with an unlimited number of pages for references. The authors of the accepted papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper to a special issue in the Journal of Data Mining & Digital Humanities<https://jdmdh.episciences.org/volume/view/id/593>. Important dates -Paper submission (full and short): September 1, 2024 -Notification of acceptance: September 22, 2024 -Camera ready deadline: October 4, 2024 -Conference: November 15-16, 2024

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Job Opening for Data Scientist with a focus on natural language processing
by Menno Van Zaanen 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

Job Opening for Data Scientist with a focus on natural language processing Application link: https://bit.ly/4fqI2Sl Application deadline: 31 August 2024 The South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR) is looking for a data scientist with a focus on natural language processing (permanent position). As a Data Scientist at the South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR) you will have the opportunity to initiate and lead projects focusing on Human Language Technology and Digital Humanities stemming from your own research interests. You will work closely together with a team of researchers as part of SADiLaR's extended network, both on your own and commissioned projects. Dissemination of project results at national and international conferences will be encouraged and supported. This position is crucial for research and development in Human Language Technology and Digital Humanities, fields that form the essence of SADiLaR, which is a national Research Infrastructure supported by the Department of Science and Innovation. Read more about SADiLaR at https://www.sadilar.org. Key responsibilities: - Research: Research in the area of Human Language Technology and Digital Humanities. - Project work: Initiating and contributing to Human Language Technology and Digital Humanities projects. - Teaching: Teaching in the area of Human Language Technology and Digital Humanities. - Mentorship: Mentorship of researchers in the field of Human Language Technology and Digital Humanities. Minimum requirements: - A PhD (NQF level 10) in one of the following fields: Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Human Language Technology, Digital Humanities, Data Science, Computer Science, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence, or related fields. The PhD should have a focus on computational aspects of linguistics. - A minimum of (five) 5 years' experience in the use of Python (other programming languages used within the computational linguistics or Digital Humanities domain can also be considered). - Evidence of peer-reviewed academic publications. - A minimum of (three) 3 years' experience as a supervisor/co- supervisor of students or playing a mentorship/supervising role for individuals. - A minimum of (three) 3 years' experience with using and/or developing computational tools. - A minimum of (three) 3 years experience related to research within the domain of Language Technology or Digital Humanities. - A minimum of (one) 1 year experience related to teaching or training within the domain of Language Technology or Digital Humanities. More information can be found at the application link. For informal inquiries please contact: Menno van Zaanen <menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za> Application link: https://bit.ly/4fqI2Sl -- Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za Professor in Digital Humanities South African Centre for Digital Language Resources https://www.sadilar.org ________________________________ NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT: http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorised review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you have received the e-mail by mistake, please contact the sender or reply e-mail and delete the e-mail and its attachments (where appropriate) from your system. ________________________________

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[CFP] The First Workshop and Shared Task on Multilingual Counterspeech Generation at COLING-2025
by mevallec＠ujaen.es 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

Background and Scope --------------------- While interest in automatic approaches to Counterspeech generation has been steadily growing, including studies on data curation (Chung et al., 2019a; Fanton et al., 2021), detection (Chung et al., 2021a; Mathew et al., 2018), and generation (Tekiroglu et al., 2020; Chung et al., 2021b; Zhu and Bhat, 2021; Tekiroglu et al., 2022), the large majority of the published experimental work on automatic Counterspeech generation has been carried out for English. This is due to the scarcity of both non-English manually curated training data and to the crushing predominance of English in the generative Large Language Models (LLMs) ecosystem. A workshop on exploring Multilingual Counterspeech Generation is proposed to promote and encourage research on multilingual approaches for this challenging topic. Thus, this workshop aims to test monolingual and multilingual LLMs in particular and Language Technology in general to automatically generate counterspeech not only in English but also in languages with fewer resources. In this sense, an important goal of the workshop will be to understand the impact of using LLMs, considering for example how to deal with pressing issues such as biases, hallucinated content, data scarcity or data contamination. We seek to maximize the scientific and social impact of this workshop by promoting the creation of a community of researchers from diverse fields, such as computer and social sciences, as well as policy makers and other stakeholders interested in automatic counterspeech generation. By doing so we aim to gain a deeper understanding of how counterspeech is currently used to tackle abuse by individuals, activists, and organizations and how Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Generation (NLG) may be best applied to counteract it. Call for Papers --------------------- We welcome submissions on the following topics (but not limited to): - Models and methods for generating counterspeech in different languages. - Automatic Counterspeech generation for low resource languages with scarce training data. - Dialogue agents that use counterspeech to combat offensive messages that are directed to individuals or groups, targeted based on various aspects such as ideology, gender, sexual orientation and religion. - Methods for human and automatic evaluation of counterspeech. - Multidisciplinary studies providing different perspectives on the topic such as computer science, social science, psychology, etc. - Development of taxonomies and quality datasets for counterspeech in multiple languages. - Potentials and limitations (e.g., fairness, biases, hallucinated content) of applying different NLP methods, such as LLMs, to generate counterspeech. - Social impact and empirical studies of counterspeech in social networks, including research on the effectiveness and consequences for users of using counterspeech to combat hate online. Submission --------------------- 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 START [https://softconf.com/coling2025/MCG25/] - 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 an double-blind single-track review. 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 will not be 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 COLING format. Important Dates --------------------- - Submission: November 20th, 2024 - Notification of Acceptance: December 2nd, 2024 - Camera-Ready Papers Due: December 10th, 2024 ----------------------------------------------------- Shared Task on Multilingual Counterspeech Generation ----------------------------------------------------- In addition to paper contributions, we are organizing a shared task on multilingual counterspeech generation with the aim of sharing in a central space current efforts, especially those for languages different to English. It is envisaged that the shared task would allow the community to study how we can improve counterspeech generation for both lower resource languages but also to reinforce the strong body of research already existing for English. The counterspeech generated by participants should be respectful, non-offensive, and contain information that is specific and truthful with respect to the following targets: Jews, LGBT+, immigrants,, people of color, women. Data --------------------- We release new data consisting of 597 Hate Speech-Counter Narrative (HS-CN) pairs. In this dataset, the HS are taken from MTCONAN [https://github.com/marcoguerini/CONAN/tree/master/Multitarget-CONAN], while the CN are newly generated. Together with each HS-CN pair, we also provide 5 background knowledge sentences, some of which are relevant for obtaining the Counter Narratives. The dataset is available in 4 different languages (Basque, English, Italian and Spanish) and divided in the following splits: - Development: 100 pairs. [AVAILABLE NOW!] [https://huggingface.co/datasets/LanD-FBK/ML_MTCONAN_KN] - Train: 397 pairs [AVAILABLE in OCTOBER!] - Test: 100 pairs [TBA] In order to score the shared task participants, the CNs will be kept hidden during the shared task while the HS and the background knowledge will be released for participants to prepare their submissions. The languages, Basque, English, Italian and Spanish, offer a varied spectrum of complexity including an agglutinative language isolate (Basque), two romance languages (Italian, Spanish) and a Germanic one (English). The choice of languages obeys to the existing linguistic expertise among the organizers required to successfully run the shared task. Additional Multilingual Data --------------------- Participants also have available the English, Italian, Basque and Spanish CONAN manually curated data: - CONAN (English and Italian) [https://github.com/marcoguerini/CONAN/tree/master/CONAN] - CONAN (Basque and Spanish) [https://huggingface.co/datasets/HiTZ/CONAN-EUS] - CONAN-MT-SP (Spanish) [https://github.com/sinai-uja/CONAN-MT-SP] or [https://huggingface.co/datasets/SINAI/CONAN-MT-SP] - Multitarget-CONAN (English) [https://github.com/marcoguerini/CONAN/tree/master/Multitarget-CONAN] Participation --------------------- The aim of the shared task is, given a HS (and optionally any additional knowledge the participants may like to use), generate a CN to counteract the HS. An example of CN appear bellow: - English: + HS: We should ban all homosexuals. + CN: When will the love prosper and the hatred start to dissipate? I will not only respect my fellow LGBT+ people, I will promote their rights. - Italian: + HS: Dovremmo espellere tutti gli omosessuali. + CN: Quand'è che l'amore prospererà e l'odio inizierà a dissiparsi? Non solo rispetterò i miei compagni LGBT+, ma promuoverò i loro diritti. - Spanish: + HS: Deberíamos prohibir a todos los homosexuales. + CN: ¿Cuándo prosperará el amor y empezará a disiparse el odio? No sólo respetaré a mis compañeros LGBT+, sino que promoveré sus derechos. - Basque: + HS: Homosexual guztiak debekatu beharko genituzke. + CN: Noiz hasiko da maitasuna irabazten eta gorrotoa desagertzen? LGBT+ pertsonak errespetatzeaz gain, haien eskubideak sustatuko ditut. Participants will download the test HS for the 4 languages and generate at most three different CNs per HS for each language). The test window will last 5 days. Participants are allowed to use any resource (language model, data, etc.) to generate the CN. Evaluation --------------------- The CNs submitted by the participants will be evaluated: - Using traditional automatic metrics as in Tekiro ̆glu et al.( 2022), which include BLEU, ROUGE, Novelty and Repetition Rate. - Using LLM as a Judge following the approach described in this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.15227 Important Dates --------------------- - Test dataset release: October 21st, 2024 - Results submission: October 25th, 2024 - Results notification: November 10th, 2024 - Working papers submission: November 20th, 2024 - Notification of Acceptance: December 3rd, 2024 - Camera-Ready Papers Due: December 10th, 2024 - Workshop: January 19th, 2025 For more information you can joint the Google group [https://groups.google.com/g/multilingual-cs-generation-coling2025] or visit our website [https://sites.google.com/view/multilang-counterspeech-gen/home] Best regards, The Multilingual Counterspeech Generation Workshop Organizers.

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**Deadline: 15 August** - Postdoctoral researcher in computational linguistics with a focus on grounding language in computer vision and robotics
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, 2024 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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SEARCH SOLUTIONS 2024 - London, 27 Nov
by Udo Kruschwitz 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

SEARCH SOLUTIONS 2024 Wednesday 27 November 2024, London Innovations in Search and Information Retrieval Search Solutions is the BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group’s (BCS IRSG) annual event focused on practitioner issues in the arena of search and information retrieval (IR). In contrast to other major industry events, Search Solutions aims to be highly interactive, with attendance strictly limited. We bring together practitioners, researchers, analysts and end users to discuss the latest developments in the IR community and to share insights between research and practice. It is a unique opportunity to bring together academic research and practitioner experience. The Search Solutions event consists of a Tutorial day (26 November) and a Conference day (27 November), each of which has a separate registration. The main programme includes presentations, panels and keynote talks by influential industry leaders on novel and emerging applications in search and information retrieval. CONFIRMED SPEAKERS (MORE TO COME) * Dyaa Albakour, SIGNAL AI, “Mapping the landscape of narratives in Global Media” * Alessandro Benedetti, Sease, “What I don’t like about RAG: can we do better?” * Charlie Hull, OpenSource Connections, “Measure and Tune your Search with User Behaviour Insights” * Maria-Inti Metzendorf, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, “Searching for Living Systematic Reviews – overview and case report” * Eugene Morozov, ISKO, "Search and Browse Use Cases in Data Governance" * Daniel Tunkelang, Search Consultant & Aritra Mandal, eBay, "Modeling Queries as Bags of Documents" We are also looking forward to a lively panel chaired by Michael Upshall entitled “Has Generative AI removed the need for conventional search?” LOCATION Search Solutions is organised by the Information Retrieval Specialist Group of the BCS (The Chartered Institute for IT) and ISKO (International Society for Knowledge Organization), and is held at the BCS Central London Office: BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT Ground Floor 25 Copthall Avenue London EC2R 7BP https://www.bcs.org/about-us/our-london-office-and-event-venue/ REGISTRATION Registration fees (including VAT at 20%) for Search Solutions are as follows: * BCS / ISKO member rate: £92 * Non-member rate: £110 * Students: £80 Registration fees include lunch. Tea and coffee will also be available throughout the day followed by a drinks reception in the evening. Register here: https://www.bcs.org/events-calendar/2024/november/search-solutions-2024-inf… TUTORIAL DAY Search Solutions also includes a Tutorial Programme on Tuesday, 26 November. A detailed programme will be announced in due course. A Call for Tutorials can be found here: https://www.bcs.org/membership-and-registrations/member-communities/informa… Tutorials are payable separately. PAST EVENTS We have been running Search Solutions for more than 15 years now. For details on past events please visit the BCS IRSG Web site at: https://www.bcs.org/membership-and-registrations/member-communities/informa…

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2nd call for Workshops: NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025
by Sara Stymne 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '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.ee<mailto:nodalida_baltichlt_2025-loc@eki.ee>’. Looking forward to your workshop proposals which will help make NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025 a success! Sara Stymne, NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 20205 general chair PS: please also check our call for papers: https://www.nodalida-bhlt2025.eu/call-for-papers 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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PhD position at Queensland University of Technology and CSIRO
by dai.xiang.au＠gmail.com 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

Hi colleagues, We are seeking candidates for a PhD position in Human-Computer Interaction and Natural Language Processing. Location: Brisbane or Sydney, Australia Deadline: We will review applications and conduct interviews on an ongoing basis until a suitable candidate for the role is found. Project title: “Spot, what’s happening?” Explaining a robot’s state through language Details about the project Collaborative human-robot teams are increasingly being used for a variety of tasks. When working with robots, humans sometimes need to understand what the robot is currently doing, why and how it got to that state, and how it interprets its environment. This is important for the human operator to ensure the robot is working according to plans and particularly important if the human needs to intervene or react when the robot needs help. This project aims to explore the use of language as an interaction modality to facilitate the collaboration between robots and humans. The project will investigate what information about a robot’s state and perception is relevant to human operators in a given interaction and task context and how to present that information through language, including dialogue or chat interfaces. The project requires expertise in Human-Computer Interaction and/or Human-Robot Interaction. In addition, knowledge or a willingness to upskill in natural language processing (including using large language models), Explainable AI, and robotics are highly desired. This project addresses Dynamic Situation Awareness and Human-AI Communication, two of the foundational research questions being addressed in Collaborative Intelligence research programme at CSIRO CINTEL. The project also fits into a collaboration between CINTEL and the Australian Cobotic Centre’s research on Human-Robot Interaction. More details about the post and instructions on how to apply are available at https://www.australiancobotics.org/project/project-2-5-spot-whats-happening…. Thanks, Dai

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BlackboxNLP 2024: The 7th Workshop on Analyzing and Interpreting Neural Networks for NLP
by Hosein Mohebbi 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

*Last Call for Papers*: The seventh edition of the BlackboxNLP workshop, co-located with EMNLP 2024, in Miami on November 15, 2024. . *Important dates* --------------------- *August 15, 2024* - Paper submission deadline (through OpenReview). September 20, 2024 - Notification of acceptance. October 4, 2024 - Camera-ready deadline. *November 15, 2024* - Workshop date. All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“Anywhere on Earth”). We will accept ARR submissions; corresponding deadlines will be announced at a later moment in time. *Workshop description:* ----------------- Many recent performance improvements in NLP have come at the cost of understanding of the systems. How do we assess what representations and computations models learn? How do we formalize desirable properties of interpretable models, and measure the extent to which existing models achieve them? How can we build models that better encode these properties? What can new or existing tools tell us about these systems’ inductive biases? The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers focused on interpreting and explaining NLP models by taking inspiration from fields such as machine learning, psychology, linguistics, and neuroscience. We hope the workshop will serve as an interdisciplinary meetup that allows for cross-collaboration. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Applying analysis techniques from neuroscience to analyze high-dimensional vector representations in artificial neural networks; * Analyzing the network’s response to strategically chosen input in order to infer the linguistic generalizations that the network has acquired; * Examining network performance on simplified or formal languages; * Mechanistic interpretability, reverse engineering approaches to understanding particular properties of neural models; * Proposing modifications to neural architectures that increase their interpretability; * Testing whether interpretable information can be decoded from intermediate representations; * Explaining specific model predictions made by neural networks; * Generating and evaluating the quality of adversarial examples in NLP; * Developing open-source tools for analyzing neural networks in NLP; * Evaluating the analysis results: how do we know that the analysis is valid? *Submissions* ----------------- We call for two types of papers: 1) *Archival papers*. These are papers reporting on completed, original and unpublished research, with a maximum length of 8 pages + references (papers shorter than this maximum are also welcome). Broader Impacts/Ethics and Limitations sections are optional and can be included on a 9th page. An optional appendix may appear after the references in the same pdf file. Accepted papers are expected to be presented at the workshop and will be published in the workshop proceedings of the ACL Anthology, meaning they cannot be published elsewhere. They should report on obtained results rather than intended work. These papers will undergo double-blind peer-review, and should thus be anonymized. 2) *Extended abstracts*. These may report on work in progress or may be cross-submissions that have already appeared (or are scheduled to appear) in another venue in 2024-2025. The extended abstracts are of a maximum of 2 pages + references. These submissions are non-archival and will not be included in the proceedings. The selection will not be based on a double-blind review and thus submissions of this type need not be anonymized. Submissions should follow the official EMNLP 2024 style guidelines. Accepted submissions for both tracks will be presented at the workshop: most as posters, some as oral presentations (determined by the program committee). *The submission site is:* https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2024/Workshop/BlackBoxNLP *Organizers* ----------------- Yonatan Belinkov, Technion Najoung Kim, Boston University Jaap Jumelet, University of Amsterdam Hosein Mohebbi, Tilburg University Aaron Mueller, Northeastern University & Technion Hanjie Chen, Rice University *Contact* --------------------- Please contact the organizers via email (blackboxnlp(a)googlegroups.com) for any questions. Read more on the workshop's website: https://blackboxnlp.github.io

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Call for Papers: VarDial 2025 - Twelfth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects
by Jauhiainen, Tommi S 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

Hello all, here is our Call for Papers: VarDial 2025 - Twelfth Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects VarDial 2025: https://sites.google.com/view/vardial-2025/home Co-located with COLING 2025, VarDial deals with computational methods and language resources for closely related languages, language varieties, and dialects. We welcome papers dealing with one or more of the following topics: - Corpora, resources, and tools for similar languages, varieties and dialects; - Adaptation of tools (taggers, parsers) for similar languages, varieties and dialects; - Evaluation of language resources and tools when applied to language varieties; - Reusability of language resources in NLP applications (e.g., for machine translation, POS tagging, syntactic parsing, etc.); - Corpus-driven studies in dialectology and language variation; - Computational approaches to mutual intelligibility between dialects and similar languages; - Automatic identification of lexical variation; - Automatic classification of language varieties; - Text similarity and adaptation between language varieties; - Linguistic issues in the adaptation of language resources and tools (e.g., semantic discrepancies, lexical gaps, false friends); - Machine translation between closely related languages, language varieties and dialects. In addition to the topics listed above, we also welcome papers dealing with diachronic language variation (e.g. phylogenetic methods, historical dialects). Timeline Publication of call for papers: Tuesday, August 6th, 2024 Paper submission deadline: Tuesday, November 5th, 2024 Notification of acceptance: Monday, November 25th, 2024 Commitment deadline for pre-reviewed papers: TBD Camera-ready papers due: Friday, December 13th, 2024 Workshop date: Sunday, January 19th, 2025 Submission information We invite submissions of up to 8 pages of content, plus up to one page for ethical considerations and/or limitations, plus unlimited pages of references. We also welcome shorter contributions, but we do not make an explicit distinction between long and short papers. For shared task system description papers, we recommend a length of 4-5 pages of content. Detailed submission guidelines available on the COLING 2025 website. All submissions must use the official COLING templates. Contributions must be submitted to Softconf: https://softconf.com/coling2025/VarDial25/ It will also be possible to submit rejected COLING main conference papers to VarDial 2025. Instructions on committing such papers to VarDial will be provided here at a later date. Organizers Yves Scherrer - University of Oslo (Norway) Tommi Jauhiainen - University of Helsinki (Finland) Nikola Ljubešić - Jožef Stefan Institute (Slovenia) and University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) Preslav Nakov - Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (UAE) Jörg Tiedemann - University of Helsinki (Finland) Marcos Zampieri - George Mason University (USA) Cheers, Tommi — Tommi Jauhiainen (PhD, Language Technology) Projektisuunnittelija / Project Planning Officer FIN-CLARIN & Kielipankki – The Language Bank of Finland Digitaalisten ihmistieteiden osasto / Department of Digital Humanities Helsingin yliopisto / University of Helsinki https://www.kielipankki.fi Member Centre of Excellence in Ancient Near Eastern Empires, University of Helsinki

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The 22nd International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT 2024) – FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
by Zinsmeister, Heike 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

[With apologies for cross-posting] We are excited to announce the 22nd International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT 2024), which will bring together developers and users of linguistically annotated natural language corpora. The workshop is endorsed by ACL SIGPARSE and will be hosted by Universität Hamburg in Germany on December 5th-6th, 2024. ----------------------------- VENUE ----------------------------- TLT 2024 will take place at the guest house of Universität Hamburg. In order to support rich discussions and networking, TLT 2024 will primarily be an in-person event; we will, however, accommodate a limited number of live / synchronous remote presentations, prioritizing those with circumstances that prevent travel. Universität Hamburg and its guest house are conveniently located near the Dammtor train station / metro station Stephansplatz which are well-connected with many parts of the city and beyond, providing an easy commute for attendees. Hamburg is a vibrant city known for its rich maritime history as one of the leading cities in the medieval Hanseatic League, as well as its modern cultural diversity, including events at the world-famous Elbphilharmonie Concert Hall. The city is easily accessible by train or plane (Hamburg Airport (HAM); about 1 to 1.5 hours train ride: Bremen Airport (BRE) and Hannover Airport (HAJ)). ----------------------------- SUBMISSION INFORMATION ----------------------------- TLT addresses all aspects of treebank design, development, and use. As ‘treebanks’ we consider any pairing of natural language data (spoken, signed, or written) with annotations of linguistic structure at various levels of analysis, including, e.g., morpho-phonology, syntax, semantics, and discourse. Annotations can take any form (including trees or general graphs), but they should be encoded in a way that enables computational processing. Reflections on the design of linguistic annotations, methodology studies, resource announcements or updates, annotation or conversion tool development, or reports on treebank usage including probing the leakage of treebanks into large language models are but some examples of the types of papers we anticipate for TLT. Papers should describe original work; they should emphasize completed work rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance and relevance to the conference, and interest to the attendees. We invite paper submissions in two distinct tracks: * regular papers on substantial and original research, including empirical evaluation results, where appropriate; * short papers on smaller, focused contributions, work in progress, negative results, surveys, or opinion pieces. Submissions (in both tracks) may either be archival—in case of unpublished work—or non-archival, based on the wish of the authors. All archival papers accepted for presentation at the workshop will be included in the TLT 2024 proceedings volume, which will be part of the ACL Anthology. Non-archival papers must have been published or accepted for publication at another CL conference. Long papers may consist of up to 8 pages of content (excluding references and appendices). Short papers may consist of up to 4 pages of content (excluding references and appendices). Accepted papers will be given an additional page to address reviewer comments. All submissions should follow the two-column format and the ACL style guidelines. We strongly recommend the use of the LaTeX style files, OpenDocument, or Microsoft Word templates created for ACL: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files Submissions will be reviewed double-blind, and all full and short papers must be anonymous, i.e. not reveal author(s) on the title page or through self-references. So e.g., “We previously showed (Smith, 2020) …”, should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as “Smith (2020) previously showed …. Papers must be submitted digitally, in PDF, and uploaded through the on-line conference system (link forthcoming). Submissions that violate these requirements will be rejected without review. ----------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ----------------------------- * Long and short paper submission deadlines: August 15th, 2024 * Reviews Due: September 26th, 2024 * Notification of acceptance: October 6th, 2024 * Final version of papers due: November 6th, 2024 * TLT2024: December 5th-6th, 2024 in Hamburg ----------------------------- TLT2024 WORKSHOP CHAIRS ----------------------------- Daniel Dakota, Indiana University Sandra Kübler, Indiana University Heike Zinsmeister, Universität Hamburg ----------------------------- TLT2024 COMMUNICATION CHAIR ----------------------------- Sarah Jablotschkin, Universität Hamburg Contact: tlt2024.gw(a)uni-hamburg.de Website: https://www.korpuslab.uni-hamburg.de/en/tlt2024.html

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[Deadline Extended to Aug 16] Final Call For Papers: Workshop on Multimodal Search and Recommendations, CIKM MMSR ‘24
by Aditya Nandkishore Chichani 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

============================================================================================================================ We are pleased to announce an extension of the submission deadline for CIKM MMSR 24. The new deadline is August 16, 2024. ============================================================================================================================ Workshop on Multimodal Search and Recommendations (CIKM MMSR ‘24) Date: October 25, 2024 (Full day workshop) Venue: ACM CIKM 2024 (Boise, Idaho, United States) Website: https://cikm-mmsr.github.io/ Organizers: Aditya Chichani, Surya Kallumadi, Tracy Holloway King, Andrei Lopatenko Keynote Speakers: Vamsi Salaka, Yubin Kim Paper submission deadline: August 16, 2024 (23:59 P.M. GMT) https://openreview.net/group?id=ACM.org/CIKM/2024/Workshop/MMSR Overview: The advent of multimodal LLMs like GPT-4o and Gemini has significantly boosted the potential for multimodal search and recommendations. Traditional search engines rely mainly on textual queries, supplemented by session and geographical data. In contrast, multimodal systems create a shared embedding space for text, images, audio, and more, enabling next-gen customer experiences. These advancements lead to more accurate and personalized recommendations, enhancing user satisfaction and engagement. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Cross-modal retrieval techniques Strategies for efficiently indexing and retrieving multimodal data. Approaches to ensure cross-modal retrieval systems can handle large-scale data. Development of metrics to measure similarity across different data modalities. Applications of Multimodal Search and Recommendations to Verticals (e.g. E-commerce, real estate) Implementing and optimizing image-based product searches. Creating multimodal conversational systems to enhance user experience and make search more accessible. Utilizing AR to enhance product discovery and user interaction. Leveraging multimodal search for efficient customer service and support. User-centric design principles for multimodal search interfaces Best practices for designing user-friendly interfaces that support multimodal search. Methods for evaluating the usability of multimodal search interfaces. Personalizing multimodal search interfaces to individual user preferences. Ensuring multimodal search interfaces are accessible to users with disabilities. Ethical Considerations and Privacy Implications of Multimodal Search and Recommendations Strategies for ensuring user data privacy in multimodal applications. Identifying and mitigating biases in multimodal algorithms. Ensuring transparency in how multimodal results are generated and presented. Approaches for obtaining and managing user consent for using their data. Modeling for Multimodal Search and Discovery Multi-modal representation learning Utilizing GPT-4o, Gemini, and other advanced pre-trained multimodal LLMs Dimensionality reduction techniques to reduce complexity of multimodal data. Techniques for fine-tuning pre-trained vision-language models. Developing and standardizing metrics to evaluate the performance of vision-language models in multimodal search. Submission Instructions: All papers will be peer-reviewed by the program committee and judged based on their relevance to the workshop and their potential to generate discussion. Submissions must be in PDF format, following the latest CEUR single column format. For instructions and LaTeX/Overleaf/docx templates, refer to CEUR’s submission guidelines ( https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html#CEURART), reading up to and including the “License footnote in paper PDFs” section. Use Emphasizing Capitalized Style for Paper Titles. Submissions must describe original work not previously published, not accepted for publication, and not under review elsewhere. All submissions must be in English. The workshop follows a single-blind review process and does not accept anonymous submissions. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop and present the paper. Long paper limit: 15 pages. Short paper limit: 8 pages. References are not counted in the page limit. Contact: Aditya Chichani E-mail: aditya_chichani(a)berkeley.edu

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CFP: The 4th Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics (WACL-4) @ COLING 2025.
by amalhaddad 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

(apologies for cross-posting) Dear colleagues, We are delighted to announce the first CfP for The 4th Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics (WACL-4) @ COLING 2025. The 4th Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics (WACL-4) 20 January 2025, in conjunction with COLING'2025 in Abu Dhabi (UAE). URL: https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/wacl4/ [1] Description The 4th Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics (WACL - 4) will serve as an outstanding international platform for exchanging knowledge and outcomes in the theory, methodology, and applications of language technologies tailored to the diverse range of Arabic dialects. We encourage submissions that span a spectrum from theoretical investigations to practical applications, aiming to address the unique challenges, solutions, and insights that Arabic dialects introduce to the field of NLP. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following * Development and Utilisation of Arabic Dialectal Corpora * Advancements in Natural Language Processing Techniques for Arabic Dialects * Applications and Challenges of Large Language Models in Understanding and Generating Arabic Dialects * Morphological and Syntactical Challenges in Arabic Dialects * Dialect Identification and Classification * Speech Recognition and Synthesis for Arabic Dialects * Machine Translation involving Arabic Dialects * Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining in Arabic Dialects * Named Entity Recognition and Information Extraction for Arabic Dialects * Development of Open Access Resources for Arabic Dialects * Text Processing and Transliteration Challenges for Arabic Dialects * Cultural and Sociolinguistic Considerations in NLP Applications for Arabic Dialects * Resources and Tools for Computational Analysis of Arabic Dialects * Applications of Arabic Dialects NLP in Real-World Scenarios Paper Submission Submissions should adhere to the COLING 2025 standards. Authors are strongly encouraged to review and follow the COLING 2025 submission guidelines and author kit, available at https://coling2025.org/ [2]. Submission link: https://softconf.com/coling2025/WACL-4/ [3] If authors are describing dialectal variations, we request that they include relevant linguistic details and sociolinguistic contexts to enrich the understanding of the presented work. Submissions may be of two types * Long papers - up to eight (8) pages including references, presenting substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. * Short papers - up to four (4) pages including references, describing a small focused contribution, negative results, or system demonstrations, etc. Important dates * Call for Papers Announcement: 07 August 2024 * Abstract Submission Deadline: 03 October 2024 * Paper Submission Deadline: 10 October 2024 * Notification of Paper Acceptance: 1 November 2024 * Camera-ready Paper Deadline: 15 November 2024 * Workshop Date: 20th January 2025 Organising Committee * Saad Ezzini, Lancaster University, UK (General Chair) * Hamza Alami, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Morocco (Programme Co-Chair) * Ismail Berrada, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco (Programme Co-Chair) * Abdessamad Benlahbib, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Morocco (Programme Co-Chair) * Abdelkader El Mahdaouy, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco (Review Chair) * Salima Lamsiyah, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg (Publication Chair) * Nouran Khallaf, Leeds University, UK (Publicity Co-Chair) * Hatim Derrouz, Ibn Tofail University, Morocco (Publicity Co-Chair) * Amal Haddad, University of Granada, Spain (Publicity Co-Chair) * Mustafa Jarrar, Birzeit University, Palestine (Advisory Committee) * Mo El-Haj, Lancaster University, UK (Advisory Committee) * Ruslan Mitkov, Lancaster University, UK (Advisory Committee) * Paul Rayson, Lancaster University, UK (Advisory Committee) Anti-Harassment policy The workshop supports the COLING anti-harassment policy https://coling2022.org/policy [4] Links: ------ [1] https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/wacl4/ [2] https://coling2025.org/ [3] https://softconf.com/coling2025/WACL-4/ [4] https://coling2022.org/policy

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Lacuna Fund Proposals
by Felipe Bravo 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

Dear Community, I am writing to share an exciting chance to fund projects focused on creating or strengthening Natural Language datasets in English, French, Portuguese, or Spanish. In collaboration with Lacuna Fund, the National Center for Artificial Intelligence <https://www.cenia.cl/> (CENIA) has opened a call for proposals focused on Latin America and Africa. I kindly ask for your assistance in spreading the word about this initiative. This is a significant opportunity to contribute to the development of language technologies that are inclusive and representative of diverse linguistic communities. By supporting the creation of high-quality datasets, we can ensure that innovations in AI and Natural Language Processing are accessible and beneficial to a broader range of people, particularly in regions that are often underrepresented in global research efforts. Lacuna Fund is an initiative that funds the creation of high-quality open data to close critical knowledge gaps. Its goal is to empower institutions, organizations, and academic groups by providing resources that enable the development of innovative and sustainable solutions. I invite you to learn more about the call for proposals here: https://lacunafund.org/apply/. Cheers, Felipe

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Call for Questions about the IR community
by tim gollub 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

Dear fellow researchers, as part of a bachelor thesis on Text2SQL models, we are collecting questions about the IR community. In order to get realistic and diverse questions, we’d like to ask for your help: What questions do you have about the IR research community and the publications in the field? All questions are welcome; simply submit them via our form; no additional information is required. https://forms.gle/aTKXA2PFqWVK96rYA Thank you in advance! Tim Gollub https://webis.de

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Last Call for the Future!
by Joel Tetreault 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

My friends, it is time to look to the future. All the way to *August 15, 2024*. On that day you will happily submit one or more submissions to the Workshop on the Future of Event Detection <https://future-of-event-detection.github.io/> (FuturED). Your work will help set the agenda for years to come of this long-standing subfield of NLP, CV, HCI and other main areas of AI. The future can be yours! Look forward to seeing you on Softconf <https://softconf.com/emnlp2024/FuturED/> in 11 days and the workshop itself on November 15 at EMNLP <https://2024.emnlp.org/>. Yours truly, for the Future.

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DEADLINE EXTENSION: The 22nd International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT 2024)
by Zinsmeister, Heike 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

[With apologies for cross-posting] ----------------------------- NEW DEADLINE: August 22nd, 2024 ----------------------------- We are excited to announce the 22nd International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT 2024), which will bring together developers and users of linguistically annotated natural language corpora. The workshop is endorsed by ACL SIGPARSE and will be hosted by Universität Hamburg in Germany on December 5th-6th, 2024. ----------------------------- VENUE ----------------------------- TLT 2024 will take place at the guest house of Universität Hamburg. In order to support rich discussions and networking, TLT 2024 will primarily be an in-person event; we will, however, accommodate a limited number of live / synchronous remote presentations, prioritizing those with circumstances that prevent travel. Universität Hamburg and its guest house are conveniently located near the Dammtor train station / metro station Stephansplatz which are well-connected with many parts of the city and beyond, providing an easy commute for attendees. Hamburg is a vibrant city known for its rich maritime history as one of the leading cities in the medieval Hanseatic League, as well as its modern cultural diversity, including events at the world-famous Elbphilharmonie Concert Hall. The city is easily accessible by train or plane (Hamburg Airport (HAM); about 1 to 1.5 hours train ride: Bremen Airport (BRE) and Hannover Airport (HAJ)). ----------------------------- SUBMISSION INFORMATION ----------------------------- TLT addresses all aspects of treebank design, development, and use. As ‘treebanks’ we consider any pairing of natural language data (spoken, signed, or written) with annotations of linguistic structure at various levels of analysis, including, e.g., morpho-phonology, syntax, semantics, and discourse. Annotations can take any form (including trees or general graphs), but they should be encoded in a way that enables computational processing. Reflections on the design of linguistic annotations, methodology studies, resource announcements or updates, annotation or conversion tool development, or reports on treebank usage including probing the leakage of treebanks into large language models are but some examples of the types of papers we anticipate for TLT. Papers should describe original work; they should emphasize completed work rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance and relevance to the conference, and interest to the attendees. We invite paper submissions in two distinct tracks: * regular papers on substantial and original research, including empirical evaluation results, where appropriate; * short papers on smaller, focused contributions, work in progress, negative results, surveys, or opinion pieces. Submissions (in both tracks) may either be archival—in case of unpublished work—or non-archival, based on the wish of the authors. All archival papers accepted for presentation at the workshop will be included in the TLT 2024 proceedings volume, which will be part of the ACL Anthology. Non-archival papers must have been published or accepted for publication at another CL conference. Long papers may consist of up to 8 pages of content (excluding references and appendices). Short papers may consist of up to 4 pages of content (excluding references and appendices). Accepted papers will be given an additional page to address reviewer comments. All submissions should follow the two-column format and the ACL style guidelines. We strongly recommend the use of the LaTeX style files, OpenDocument, or Microsoft Word templates created for ACL: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files Submissions will be reviewed double-blind, and all full and short papers must be anonymous, i.e. not reveal author(s) on the title page or through self-references. So e.g., “We previously showed (Smith, 2020) …”, should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as “Smith (2020) previously showed …. Papers must be submitted digitally, in PDF, and uploaded through the on-line conference system (link forthcoming). Submissions that violate these requirements will be rejected without review. ----------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ----------------------------- * Long and short paper submission deadlines: August 22th, 2024 * Reviews Due: September 26th, 2024 * Notification of acceptance: October 6th, 2024 * Final version of papers due: November 6th, 2024 * TLT2024: December 5th-6th, 2024 in Hamburg ----------------------------- TLT2024 WORKSHOP CHAIRS ----------------------------- Daniel Dakota, Indiana University Sandra Kübler, Indiana University Heike Zinsmeister, Universität Hamburg ----------------------------- TLT2024 COMMUNICATION CHAIR ----------------------------- Sarah Jablotschkin, Universität Hamburg Contact: tlt2024.gw(a)uni-hamburg.de Website: https://www.korpuslab.uni-hamburg.de/en/tlt2024.html

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August 2024 Newsletter - LDC
by Penn LDC 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

In this newsletter: Fall 2024 LDC Data Scholarship program New publications: LORELEI Uyghur Incident Language Pack<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2024T07> Ravnursson Faroese Speech and Transcripts<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2024S09> ________________________________ Fall 2024 LDC Data Scholarship program Student applications for the Fall 2024 LDC Data Scholarship program are being accepted now through September 15, 2024. This program provides eligible students with no-cost access to LDC data. Students must complete an application consisting of a data use proposal and letter of support from their advisor. For application requirements and program rules, visit the LDC Data Scholarships page<https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/language-resources/data/data-scholarships>. ________________________________ New publications: LORELEI Uyghur Incident Language Pack<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2024T07> was developed by LDC and is comprised of 28 million words of Uyghur monolingual text, 500,000 words of English monolingual text, 3.3 million words of parallel and comparable Uyghur-English text, and 200,000 words annotated for simple named entities and situation frames. It constitutes all of the text data, annotations, supplemental resources, and related software tools for the Uyghur language that were used in the DARPA LORELEI / LoReHLT 2016 Evaluation<https://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/mig/lorehlt-evaluations>. The LORELEI (Low Resource Languages for Emergent Incidents) program was concerned with building human language technology for low resource languages in the context of emergent situations. In the evaluation scenario, an unforeseen event triggered a need for humanitarian and logistical support in a region where the incident language had received little or no attention in NLP research. Evaluation participants provided NLP solutions, including information extraction and machine translation, with limited resources and limited development time. Data was collected from news, social network, weblog, newsgroup, discussion forum, and reference material. Named entity annotation identified entities to be detected by systems for scoring purposes. Situation frame analysis was designed to extract basic information about needs and relevant issues for planning a disaster response effort. 2024 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee. * Ravnursson Faroese Speech and Transcripts<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2024S09> contains 109 hours of Faroese prompted speech from 433 speakers (249 female, 184 male), corresponding transcripts and speaker metadata. It is an extract from the Basic Language Resource Kit 1.0 (BLARK 1.0)<https://mtd.setur.fo/en/resource/ravnur-blark-1-0/> developed by the Faroe Islands' Ravnur Project<https://mtd.setur.fo/en/>. Speech data was collected in 2022. Speakers from all major dialect areas in the Faroe Islands in three age groups -- 15-35, 36-60, and 61+ years -- read texts that included a word list, a phrase list, closed vocabulary readings, and short texts. Recordings also contain spontaneous speech. Orthographic transcripts are included. 2024 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts provided they have submitted a completed copy of the special license agreement. Non-members may license this data at no cost. To unsubscribe from this newsletter, log in to your LDC account<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/login> and uncheck the box next to "Receive Newsletter" under Account Options or contact LDC for assistance. Membership Coordinator Linguistic Data Consortium<ldc.upenn.edu> University of Pennsylvania T: +1-215-573-1275 E: ldc(a)ldc.upenn.edu<mailto:ldc@ldc.upenn.edu> M: 3600 Market St. Suite 810 Philadelphia, PA 19104

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SICon 2024: Deadline extension and GenSICon Shared Task
by aina.garisoler＠telecom-paris.fr 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

(Apologies for cross-posting) NEW DEADLINE: August 29, 2024 ****** Second Call for Papers ****** SICon 2024: 2nd Workshop on Social Influence in Conversations Website: https://sites.google.com/view/sicon2024/home Twitter/X: @SIConWorkshop Paper Submission via Openreview: https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2024/Workshop/SiCon Contact: sicon-chairs [at] googlegroups.com Venue: Co-located with EMNLP 2024; November 16, 2024; Miami, Florida *** Workshop description *** Social influence (SI) is the change in an individual's thoughts, feelings, attitudes, or behaviors from interacting with another individual or a group. For example, a buyer uses SI skills to negotiate trade-offs and build rapport with the seller. SI is ubiquitous in everyday life, and hence, realistic human-machine conversations must reflect these dynamics, making it essential to model and understand SI in dialogue research systematically. This would improve SI systems' ability to understand users’ utterances, tailor communication strategies, personalize responses, and actively lead conversations. These challenges draw on perspectives not only from NLP and AI research but also from Game Theory, Affective Computing, Communication, and Social Psychology. SICon 2024 will be the second edition of a venue that uniquely fosters a dedicated discussion on social influence within NLP while involving researchers from other disciplines such as affective computing and the social sciences. SICon 2024 features keynote talks, panel discussions, poster sessions, and lightning talks for accepted papers. We encourage researchers of all stages and backgrounds to share their exciting work! SICon will promote discussion around several key questions: * How should social influence systems model users and plan optimal responses systematically? * How can social influence systems benefit from linguistic theories (e.g.,successful persuasion or negotiation tactics) developed in the social sciences? * What structurally differentiates and unites various social influence tasks? * What are the ethical issues involved with AI that engage in social influence and what guardrails must be implemented before using these systems in the wild? *** Submission Guidelines *** SICon welcomes two types of papers: regular workshop submissions and shared task submissions. - Regular workshop submissions Regular workshop submissions are archival short (4 pages) and long (8 pages) papers. There is also a non-archival track for extended abstracts (2 pages) covering ongoing work on social influence NLP. Topics include but are not limited to: Analysis-focused contributions (e.g., associations between linguistic behaviors or user attributes with SI task outcomes); System design contributions (e.g., dialogue systems for SI tasks such as strategic games, emotional support, etc.; SI systems effectively harnessing the capabilities of LLMs); Contributions advancing relevant subgoals in SI tasks (e.g. detecting SI strategies in text, partner/opponent modeling and emotion recognition in SI interactions); SI systems benefited from linguistic theories (e.g., successful persuasion, negotiation tactics) developed in social science; Ethical issues and guardrails involved with AI that engage in SI; Unintentional aspects of SI for any human-facing NLP system; Datasets capturing forms of SI; Opinion or position papers on SI. Submissions should follow the official EMNLP 2024 style guidelines and be submitted through OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2024/Workshop/SiCon - Shared task submissions The GenSICon shared task aims to investigate the generalization capability of a particular model across different social influence tasks or scenarios. Further details and a submission link can be found here: https://sites.google.com/view/sicon2024/shared-task We have prizes for the winners! *** Important Dates *** Direct paper submission deadline: August 29, 2024 Shared task paper submission deadline: September 27, 2024 Notification of acceptance: October 2, 2024 Camera-ready paper due: October 10, 2024 Workshop: November 16, 2024 (All submission deadlines are 11:59 p.m. UTC-12:00 ‘anywhere on Earth’) *** Contact *** For any questions, please contact the organizers at: sicon-chairs [at] googlegroups.com Consider joining our slack community! A dedicated space to connect researchers working on various topics related to social influence in NLP and beyond, as well as a useful communication channel for live announcements during the workshop. https://join.slack.com/t/acl2023sicon/shared_invite/zt-1y7cv1c2v-Lm21Sm6KX3… *** Organizers *** Muskan Garg (Mayo Clinic) Kushal Chawla (Capital One) Weiyan Shi (Stanford NLP) Ritam Dutt (Carnegie Mellon University) Deuksin Kwon (University of Southern California) James Hale (University of Southern California) Liang Qiu (Amazon) Aina Garí Soler (Télécom-Paris) Alexandros Papangelis (Amazon Alexa AI) Gale Lucas (University of Southern California) Zhou Yu (Columbia University) Daniel Hershcovich (University of Copenhagen)

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New Named Entity Corpus for Occupational Substance Exposure Assessment
by Paul Thompson 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

We are pleased to announce the release of a new annotated corpus, consisting of selected sections (i.e., Abstract, Methods and Results) of scientific research articles concerning occupational exposures to two different types of substance, i.e., diesel exhaust (51 articles) and respirable crystalline silica (50 articles). The article sections have been annotated by experts in the field with 6 categories of named entities relevant to the assessment of occupational substance exposures, particularly in the context of Job Exposure Matrices. The corpus and associated annotation guidelines may be downloaded from: https://zenodo.org/records/11164271 NER models and associated code are available at: https://github.com/panagiotis-geo/Substance_Exposure_NER/ The development of the corpus and the associated NER models are described in more detail in the following article: Thompson, P., Ananiadou, S., Basinas I., Brinchmann, B. C., Cramer, C., Galea, K. S., Ge, C., Georgiadis, P., Kirkeleit, J., Kuijpers, E., Nguyen, N., Nuñez, R., Schlünssen, V., Stokholm, Z. A., Taher, E. A., Tinnerberg, H., Van Tongeren, M. and Xie, Q. (2024). <https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0307844> Supporting the working life exposome: annotating occupational exposure for enhanced literature search. PLoS ONE 19(8): e030784 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0307844 Abstract ————— An individual’s likelihood of developing non-communicable diseases is often influenced by the types, intensities and duration of exposures at work. Job exposure matrices provide exposure estimates associated with different occupations. However, due to their time-consuming expert curation process, job exposure matrices currently cover only a subset of possible workplace exposures and may not be regularly updated. Scientific literature articles describing exposure studies provide important supporting evidence for developing and updating job exposure matrices, since they report on exposures in a variety of occupational scenarios. However, the constant growth of scientific literature is increasing the challenges of efficiently identifying relevant articles and important content within them. Natural language processing methods emulate the human process of reading and understanding texts, but in a fraction of the time. Such methods can increase the efficiency of both finding relevant documents and pinpointing specific information within them, which could streamline the process of developing and updating job exposure matrices. Named entity recognition is a fundamental natural language processing method for language understanding, which automatically identifies mentions of domain-specific concepts (named entities) in documents, e.g., exposures, occupations and job tasks. State-of-the-art machine learning models typically use evidence from an annotated corpus, i.e., a set of documents in which named entities are manually marked up (annotated) by experts, to learn how to detect named entities automatically in new documents. We have developed a novel annotated corpus of scientific articles to support machine learning based named entity recognition relevant to occupational substance exposures. Through incremental refinements to the annotation process, we demonstrate that expert annotators can attain high levels of agreement, and that the corpus can be used to train high-performance named entity recognition models. The corpus thus constitutes an important foundation for the wider development of natural language processing tools to support the study of occupational exposures. -- Paul Thompson Research Fellow Department of Computer Science National Centre for Text Mining Manchester Institute of Biotechnology University of Manchester 131 Princess Street Manchester M1 7DN UK Tel: 0161 306 3091 http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/Paul.Thompson/

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Academic positions in the University of Cambridge
by alk23＠cam.ac.uk 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

The Centre for Human-Inspired Artificial Intelligence (CHIA) at the University of Cambridge is looking to appoint new academic staff: Two Assistant Professors and one Teaching Associate in Human-Inspired Artificial Intelligence. Successful candidates will have core technical expertise in machine learning, human-computer interaction, computer vision, speech and/or natural language processing, robotics, mobile systems or another area of human-centred or human-facing AI. In addition to excellence in their area, we emphasise a proven ability to work interdisciplinarily with other disciplines that are central to the development of human-inspired AI. We are also looking for commitment to CHIA's mission to develop AI that can contribute to social and global progress. For full details and how to apply for these positions, see Two Assistant Professors https://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/47407/ Deadline: 1 September, 2024 One Teaching Associate https://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/47788/ Deadline: 30 September, 2024

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Call for participation: The 34th Meeting on Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands, Leiden University
by Leiden University - CLIN34 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

Dear colleague, The 34th Meeting of Computational Linguistics in The Netherlands (CLIN34) will take place soon, on Friday 30 August 2024! We cordially invite you to participate. Online registration<https://clin34.leidenuniv.nl/2024/07/05/registration-open/> ends on Wednesday (21st of August). Besides a large and diverse programme of posters and oral presentations, we are happy to report that CLIN34 will have two keynote talks by: * Diana Maynard, Sheffield University * Dominique Blok and Erik de Graaf, TNO The programme can also be found at: clin34.leidenuniv.nl/program/<https://clin34.leidenuniv.nl/program/> We hope to see you in Leiden about two weeks from now! The CLIN34 organizers Leiden University

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Student contest: 2024 Babel Young Writers' Competition
by Tristan Miller 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

Dear all, Below is a call for submissions to our annual contest for student writers. Contributions from undergraduate students of computational linguistics are most welcome. Sincerely, Tristan Miller Babel Advisory Panel ---------------------- This year, Babel: The Language Magazine <https://babelzine.co.uk/> will be running the tenth edition of our Young Writers' Competition, which encourages young linguists who are starting out on their study of language. The competition is open to anyone studying a linguistics-related subject at the 16–18-year-old or undergraduate level. The winner(s) will have their article published in Babel's 50th issue (Spring 2025) and receive a year's subscription to the magazine. Keep an eye on @Babelzine on X or @babel_zine on Instagram for inspiration from previous winners on topics ranging from sign language to spoonerisms, and from language birth to language death. Competition rules are as follows: Topic: An original discussion of any linguistic topic, written in an accessible and interesting style Length: 2000 to 2500 words Deadline: Monday, 16 December 2024 Format: Word file Submission: By e-mail to babelthelanguagemagazine(a)gmail.com with the subject "Young Writer's Competition" Please e-mail babelthelanguagemagazine(a)gmail.com if you have any questions about the competition. -- Dr. Tristan Miller, Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba https://clam.logological.org/ | Tel. +1 204 474 6792

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Lecturer/Associate Professor in Natural Language Processing at University College London (UCL)
by Yilmaz, Emine 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

University College London (UCL) Department of Computer Science invites applications for a Lecturer/Associate Professor position in Natural Language Processing. Interested applicants can submit their applications until September 5th using this link<https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/search-ucl-jobs/details?jobId=25979&jobTi…>. About UCL UCL’s Department of Computer Science (CS) is a top-ranked Computer Science Department in the UK. In the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF) evaluation, UCL Computer Science was ranked second in the UK for research power and first in England. London is a global hub for AI, where UCL plays a central role through close collaborations and joint PhD programmes with for example Meta and Google DeepMind. About the role University College London, Department of Computer Science is seeking a Lecturer (equivalent of Assistant Professor in the UK)/Associate Professor to join the Natural Language Processing Group. Successful candidates are expected to contribute to the teaching and research activities at the department. Expected duties and responsibilities include conducting research in the broader field of natural language processing, securing funding and engagement in the management of research projects, and dissemination of research through publications at top conferences/journals, talks and external engagements. About you Candidates should have a PhD (or equivalent qualification) or have held a previous postdoctoral position in natural language processing, information retrieval, machine learning, or a strongly related field. Candidates are expected to have a strong publication record in top conferences such as ACL, ICLR, NeurIPS, EMNLP, SIGIR. Experience in applying for research funding is not necessary, but highly desired. We also welcome applications from candidates with research experience from industry. Please contact Emine Yilmaz (emine.yilmaz(a)ucl.ac.uk<mailto:emine.yilmaz@ucl.ac.uk>) if you need any further information.

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Release: 𝐐𝐚𝐛𝐚𝐬 - 𝐚𝐧 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧-𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞 𝐋𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐜𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐜 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐚𝐬
by Mustafa Jarrar 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

We are very happy to release 𝐐𝐚𝐛𝐚𝐬 - 𝐚𝐧 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧-𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞 𝐋𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐜𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐜 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐞 Birzeit University’s SinaLab for Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence <https://sina.birzeit.edu/> has officially launched Qabas <https://sina.birzeit.edu/qabas>, an open-source lexicographic database for Arabic, designed specifically for Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications. Qabas stands out by linking its lexical entries (lemmas) with lemmas from 110 different lexicons and numerous morphologically annotated corpora (around 2 million tokens), creating an extensive lexicographic graph. This project has been under development for over fourteen years. Lexicons have evolved from being primarily hard-copy resources for human use to having substantial significance in NLP applications. Although Arabic is a highly resourced language in terms of traditional lexicons, not enough attention is given to developing AI-oriented lexicographic databases. Additionally, none of the Arabic lexicons are available open-source, due to copyright restrictions imposed by their owners. As for Qabas, it is an open-source Arabic lexicon designed for NLP applications, and its novelty lies in its synthesis of many lexical resources. Each lexical entry (i.e., lemma) in Qabas is linked with equivalent lemmas in 110 other lexicons, and with 12 morphologically-annotated corpora (about 2M tokens); The philosophy of Qabas is to construct a large lexicographic data graph by linking existing Arabic lexicons and annotated corpora. Qabas stands as the largest Arabic lexicon, encompassing about 58K lemmas (45K nominal lemmas, 12.5K verbal lemmas, and 500 function word lemmas). Prof. Mustafa Jarrar, the project’s manager and main author, emphasized the importance of making Qabas freely available as an open-source resource, allowing everyone to access and use it for both commercial and non-commercial purposes. Prof. Jarrar hopes that researchers, companies, and software developers will leverage the lexicon’s data to develop innovative content and applications that benefit humanity. Prof. Talal Shahwan, President of Birzeit University, stated that despite the challenging conditions in Palestine, the university remains committed to excellence and to its mission towards knowledge. He emphasized that this achievement was made possible by the dedication of the university’s faculty and researchers. Qabas is publicly available online at: https://sina.birzeit.edu/qabas To download Qabas and find out more, see: https://sina.birzeit.edu/qabas/about Article: https://www.jarrar.info/publications/JH24.pdf We’d love your feedback: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=880418097306662 LinkedIn: https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=880418097306662 Best --Mustafa __________________________ Mustafa Jarrar, PhD Professor of Artificial Intelligence Chair, PhD Program in Computer Science Birzeit University, Palestine Page: http://www.jarrar.info SinaLab: https://sina.birzeit.edu

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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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Open Position in Human-centric ART(ificial Intelligence) at UNITOV
by znzfms00＠uniroma2.it 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

We are certain that YOU're the kind of researcher that wants to dive deep into Neural Networks (and, clearly, LLMs) to understand what happens inside. If this is the case, YOU are the person Human-centric ART looks for. Take your time to solve this >>> CHALLENGE<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.linkedin.com/posts/fabio-massimo-za…> <<< and, meanwhile, apply to our Open Position >>> https://pica.cineca.it/uniroma2/f4-2024-0005/<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://pica.cineca.it/uniroma2/f4-2024-0005/__…> <<< To attract exactly YOU, we offer a competitive salary for a one-year position (34K€/annually with low taxation - Assegno di Ricerca IV Fascia) with possibility of renewal. DEADLINE: August 31st Drop me an email if you apply: fabio.massimo.zanzotto(a)uniroma2.it Requirements: - out-of-the-box thinking attitude - an adequate publication record track in ML and/or NLP Encouraged: - Ph.D. in CS, AI, ML, or NLP Research Group: Human-centric ART Institution: University of Rome Tor Vergata Location: Rome, Italy Position: Research Assistant (Assegno di Ricerca IV Fascia) Salary: 34K€/annually with low taxation Duration: 1 year with the possibility of renewal Application site: https://pica.cineca.it/uniroma2/f4-2024-0005/<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://pica.cineca.it/uniroma2/f4-2024-0005/__…> Check out our last publications: ‪Fabio Massimo Zanzotto‬ - ‪Google Scholar‬<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user…>

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Call For Papers: RegNLP 2025 - Regulatory Natural Language Processing Workshop
by cengtubagokhan＠gmail.com 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

===Workshop Description=== The RegNLP 2025 Workshop will take place on January 20th, 2025, in conjunction with the COLING 2025 conference in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Regulatory documents are foundational to governance, compliance, and legal frameworks across various sectors. However, the sheer complexity, volume, and constantly evolving nature of these documents present significant challenges. To address these, the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) is increasingly being harnessed to develop tools and methodologies that enable the effective management, analysis, and utilization of regulatory content. This workshop seeks to bring together researchers and practitioners from NLP, legal informatics, compliance, and related fields to discuss the latest advancements and challenges in regulatory NLP. The focus will be on innovative methods for document parsing, entity recognition, automated compliance checking, and other applications critical to navigating the intricate landscape of regulatory requirements. We will explore how NLP can be adapted to the specialized language and context of regulatory texts and how it can be employed to enhance the accuracy, efficiency, and reliability of regulatory processes. By fostering collaboration and knowledge exchange, RegNLP 2025 aims to build a community dedicated to advancing the application of NLP in the regulatory domain and to identify promising directions for future research. ===Important Dates=== Paper Submission Deadline: November 5, 2024 Notification of Acceptance: December 3, 2024 Camera-Ready Papers Due: December 10, 2024 Workshop Date: January 20, 2025 ===Submission Topics=== We invite submissions of original and high-quality research papers on topics related to the application of NLP in regulatory contexts, including but not limited to: -Applications of NLP to Regulatory Tasks: --Compliance monitoring and management --Risk assessment and regulatory reporting --Interpretation and classification of regulatory changes --Summarization of regulatory documents for decision-making --Creation of domain-specific lexical resources -Adapting NLP Methods for Regulatory Data: --Information retrieval and anomaly detection --Clustering and multimodality analysis --Entity recognition, linking, and disambiguation --Syntax: Tagging, chunking, and parsing --Dialogue and discourse analysis --Text summarization and relation extraction --Question answering using regulatory data -Tasks and Resources: --New regulatory tasks and datasets for NLP --Evaluation frameworks for regulatory NLP tasks -Demos: --Systems and software solutions utilizing NLP for regulatory text processing -Industrial Research: --Case studies of industrial applications in regulatory compliance --Research involving proprietary regulatory data -Interdisciplinary Position Papers: --The role of NLP in the regulatory landscape --Reflections on the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) in regulatory contexts --Legal and ethical considerations in regulatory data processing ===More Details=== For more information about the workshop, please visit our website: https://regnlp.github.io/ ===Organization=== Workshop Chairs: Tuba Gokhan - MBZUAI Kexin Wang - UKP Lab, Technical University of Darmstadt Iryna Gurevych - UKP Lab, Technical University of Darmstadt & MBZUAI Ted Briscoe - MBZUAI ===Contact Information=== For inquiries, please contact us via email at: regnlp2025(a)gmail.com

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CFP: 3rd Shared Task on Indian Language Summarization (ILSUM 2024)
by Parth Mehta 15 Aug '24

15 Aug '24

Apologies for the multiple postings. ----------------------------- *Indian Language Summarization (ILSUM 2024)* Website: https://ilsum.github.io/ To be organized in conjunction with FIRE 2024 (fire.irsi.org.in) 12th-15th December 2024, Gandhinagar, India ------------------------------ The third shared task on Indian Language Summarization (ILSUM) aims at extending evaluation benchmark dataset for Indian Language Summarization. Three Dravidian languages Kannada, Telugu and Tamil are introduced this year. We also extend the misinformation detection subtask to a cross-lingual setup. *Subtask 1*: This task builds upon the task from the first two editions. In the previous editions we covered three major Indian languages Hindi, Gujarati and Bengali alongside Indian English, a widely recognized dialect of the English Language. This year's edition adds the three Dravidian languages Kannada, Tamil and Telugu and an expanded dataset for the languages from last year. Like the previous edition, this will be a classic summarization task, where we will provide article-summary pairs for each language and the participants are expected to generate a fixed-length summary. *Subtask 2*: The task is centred around identifying factual errors in machine-generated summaries. While LLMs are very good at summarization, among other NLP tasks, they are often prone to hallucinations. This means the model generates information that is not accurate, not based on its training data, or is completely made up but looks accurate and reliable. Further, such tools can be misused to generate misleading or outright incorrect information. Identifying such inaccuracies can be a challenging task. This year's subtask builds upon a similar task from the previous edition in a cross-lingual setup. Participants will be provided with an article in English and its corresponding machine-generated summary in Hindi and Gujarati. The objective is to identify the presence of factual incorrectness in the summaries if any, and classify them in one of the predefined categories. *Tentative Timeline* ------------- 15th August - Training Data Released and Registrations open 30th August - Test Data Release 30th September - Run Submission Deadline 10th October - Results Declared 20th October - Working notes due 20th November - Camera Ready Submissions due 12th-15th December - FIRE 2024 at Gandhinagar, India *Organisers* ---------------- Shrey Satapara, Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, India Sandip Modha, LDRP-ITR, Gandhinagar, India Shashirekha HL, Mangalore University, India Asha Hegde, Mangalore University, India Parth Mehta, Parmonic, USA Debasis Ganguly, University of Glasgow, Scotland *For regular updates subscribe to our mailing list: **ilsum(a)googlegroups.com**

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Extended CFP - SIMBig 2024 in Peru - Artificial Intelligence
by Juan Antonio Lossio-Ventura 13 Aug '24

13 Aug '24

> [Apologies for cross-posting] > > ***** Deadline Extension for Paper Submission until August 24th, 2024 ****** > > ========================================================================== > EXTENDED CALL FOR PAPERS - SIMBig 2024 > ========================================================================== > > 11th International Conference on Information Management and Big Data - SIMBig 2024 > Where: Universidad Nacional de Moquegua, Ilo, PERU > When: November 20 - 22, 2024 > Website: https://simbig.org/SIMBig2024/ > Free of Cost: no fees associated with Publication > ========================================================================== > > OVERVIEW > ---------------------------------- > > SIMBig 2024 seeks to present new methods of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data Science, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Semantic Web, and related fields, for analyzing, managing, and extracting insights and patterns from large volumes of data. > > > KEYNOTE SPEAKERS > ---------------------------------- > Aaron Courville, Université de Montréal, Canada Mona Diab, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Anna Korhonen, University of Cambridge, UK Huan Liu, Arizona State University, USA > > IMPORTANT DATES > ---------------------------------- > > August 10, 2024 August 24, 2024 --> Full papers and short papers due > September 30, 2024 --> Notification of acceptance > October 28, 2024 --> Camera-ready versions > November 20-22, 2024 --> Conference held in Moquegua, Peru > > PUBLICATION > ---------------------------------- > > All accepted papers of SIMBig 2024 (tracks including) will be published with Springer CCIS Series <https://www.springer.com/series/7899>. > > > CONFERENCE FEES > ---------------------------------- > > To disseminate new advances in data science, SIMBig 2034 offers a conference registration fee of 30 USD, which includes access to the conference, materials, and publication of the proceedings for the authors. Submit your articles HERE <https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/User/Login?ReturnUrl=%2FSIMBIG2024>. > > > TOPICS OF INTEREST > ---------------------------------- > > SIMBig 2024 has a broad scope. We invite contributions on theory and practice, including but not limited to the following technical areas: > > Artificial Intelligence > Big/Masive Data > Data Science > Machine Learning > Deep Learning > Natural Language Processing > Semantic Web > Data-driven Software Engineering > Healthcare Informatics > Biomedical Informatics > Data Privacy and Security > Information Retrieval > Ontologies and Knowledge Representation > Social Networks and Social Web > Information Visualization > > SPECIAL TRACKS > ---------------------------------- > > SIMBig 2024 proposes a special track in addition to the main conference: > > DISE <https://simbig.org/SIMBig2024/call-for-paper/track-on-data-driven-software-…> - Data-Driven Software Engineering > > CONTACT > ---------------------------------- > > SIMBig 2024 General Chairs > > Juan Antonio Lossio-Ventura, National Institutes of Health, USA (juan.lossio(a)nih.gov <mailto:juan.lossio@nih.gov>) > Hugo Alatrista-Salas, Léonard de Vinci Pôle Universitaire Research Center, Paris, France (hugo.alatrista_salas(a)devinci.fr <mailto:halatrista@pucp.pe>)

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Extended CFP - SIMBig 2024 in Peru - Artificial Intelligence
by Juan Antonio Lossio-Ventura 13 Aug '24

13 Aug '24

> [Apologies for cross-posting] > > ***** Deadline Extension for Paper Submission until August 24th, 2024 ****** > > ========================================================================== > EXTENDED CALL FOR PAPERS - SIMBig 2024 > ========================================================================== > > 11th International Conference on Information Management and Big Data - SIMBig 2024 > Where: Universidad Nacional de Moquegua, Ilo, PERU > When: November 20 - 22, 2024 > Website: https://simbig.org/SIMBig2024/ > Free of Cost: no fees associated with Publication > ========================================================================== > > OVERVIEW > ---------------------------------- > > SIMBig 2024 seeks to present new methods of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data Science, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Semantic Web, and related fields, for analyzing, managing, and extracting insights and patterns from large volumes of data. > > > KEYNOTE SPEAKERS > ---------------------------------- > Aaron Courville, Université de Montréal, Canada Mona Diab, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Anna Korhonen, University of Cambridge, UK Huan Liu, Arizona State University, USA > > IMPORTANT DATES > ---------------------------------- > > August 10, 2024 August 24, 2024 --> Full papers and short papers due > September 30, 2024 --> Notification of acceptance > October 28, 2024 --> Camera-ready versions > November 20-22, 2024 --> Conference held in Moquegua, Peru > > PUBLICATION > ---------------------------------- > > All accepted papers of SIMBig 2024 (tracks including) will be published with Springer CCIS Series <https://www.springer.com/series/7899>. > > > CONFERENCE FEES > ---------------------------------- > > To disseminate new advances in data science, SIMBig 2034 offers a conference registration fee of 30 USD, which includes access to the conference, materials, and publication of the proceedings for the authors. Submit your articles HERE <https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/User/Login?ReturnUrl=%2FSIMBIG2024>. > > > TOPICS OF INTEREST > ---------------------------------- > > SIMBig 2024 has a broad scope. We invite contributions on theory and practice, including but not limited to the following technical areas: > > Artificial Intelligence > Big/Masive Data > Data Science > Machine Learning > Deep Learning > Natural Language Processing > Semantic Web > Data-driven Software Engineering > Healthcare Informatics > Biomedical Informatics > Data Privacy and Security > Information Retrieval > Ontologies and Knowledge Representation > Social Networks and Social Web > Information Visualization > > SPECIAL TRACKS > ---------------------------------- > > SIMBig 2024 proposes a special track in addition to the main conference: > > DISE <https://simbig.org/SIMBig2024/call-for-paper/track-on-data-driven-software-…> - Data-Driven Software Engineering > > CONTACT > ---------------------------------- > > SIMBig 2024 General Chairs > > Juan Antonio Lossio-Ventura, National Institutes of Health, USA (juan.lossio(a)nih.gov <mailto:juan.lossio@nih.gov>) > Hugo Alatrista-Salas, Léonard de Vinci Pôle Universitaire Research Center, Paris, France (hugo.alatrista_salas(a)devinci.fr <mailto:halatrista@pucp.pe>)

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CFP: The 1st Workshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic Script (AbjadNLP 2025)
by amalhaddad 10 Aug '24

10 Aug '24

The 1st Workshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic Script (AbjadNLP 2025) Abu Dhabi, UAE 19-20 January 2024 Submission URL: https://softconf.com/coling2025/AbjadNLP25/ Co-located with COLING 2025 Conference, Abu Dhabi, UAE (19-20 January 2025) AbjadNLP is dedicated to advancing innovation and gaining deeper insights into Natural Language Processing (NLP) for languages that use the Arabic script. Our primary focus is on Abjad and Ajami languages that utilise the Arabic script or its variations. Traditionally associated with Semitic languages, Abjad scripts represent consonants in every syllable. In contrast, Ajami scripts denote the alphabetic use of the Arabic script in various African contexts, representing non-Arabic languages. We are interested in research on languages that fall under the Abjad or Ajami categories that use the Arabic script or any variations of it. We invite contributions, discussions, and explorations that delve deep into the unique linguistic structures, resources, challenges, and untapped potential presented by Abjad and Ajami languages within the realm of NLP and language resources. Our goal is to create synergies among researchers by addressing the diverse phenomena and challenges inherent in these rich linguistic traditions. The workshop is proud to highlight our connections with the Masakhane NLP community and collaborations with institutions worldwide, such as COMSATS on Urdu, and the long-standing UCREL NLP Group at Lancaster University, whose work encompasses over 20 languages worldwide, including Abjad and Ajami languages. Note: We chose the name Abjad for simplicity, but our focus includes Abjad and other languages that have adopted the Arabic and Perso-Arabic scripts, as well as Ajami languages. We acknowledge that Sorani Kurdish, when written in Arabic script, follows an alphabet style rather than an Abjad style. Workshop Description: We welcome contributions, discussions, and explorations that thoroughly investigate the distinctive linguistic structures, resources, challenges, and untapped potential of Abjad and Ajami languages within the field of NLP and language resources. Our aim is to foster collaboration among researchers by addressing the varied phenomena and challenges inherent in these rich linguistic traditions. Ajami languages, representing a myriad of African languages that have adopted the Arabic script, span at least 43 distinct languages, including Hausa, Fulfulde, Mandingo, Swahili, Wolof, Kanuri, and Tamazight. The combined number of speakers of these languages is estimated to exceed 200 million within Africa alone. Although Abjad has been traditionally associated with Semitic languages such as Arabic, Hebrew and Syriac, it has been adopted for writing by many other language communities as in Perso-Arabic scripts used in Persian, Urdu, Pashto, Sorani Kurdish, Azeri Turkish, Sindhi, and Uyghur, with a collective estimated speaker population exceeding 500 million. Altogether, these languages represent an approximate global aggregate of 1 billion speakers. The adoption of the Arabic script across diverse linguistic landscapes highlights its expansive and varied application, transcending genres such as governmental correspondences, poetic compositions, religious texts, and journalistic pursuits. This widespread use underscores the imperative need to enhance digital infrastructure, tools, and resources for these under-resourced languages. Advancing such resources is crucial to nurturing linguistic diversity and resilience in both digital and print media, ensuring the preservation of linguistic heritage in the digital age. Currently, there is an increasing interest in various NLP communities, both in academia and industry, in writing systems. However, there is a lack of initiatives focusing on the diverse phenomena and challenges of the languages using an Abjad script. The AbjadNLP workshop aims to fill this gap, fostering collaboration and innovation in this vital area of study. Motivation Languages employing an Abjad script signify a pivotal and diverse fragment of the global linguistic mosaic, traversing numerous countries and regions and embodying a considerable populace of speakers. The linguistic wealth and geographical diffusion of languages covered by AbjadNLP present a prolific environment for exploration and advancement in NLP. By channeling attention towards these languages, the realm of NLP is poised to unlock access to an expansive and varied array of linguistic constructions, subtleties, and cultural contexts, pivotal for bolstering the versatility and adaptability of NLP models and applications. The extensive spectrum of these languages not only unfolds a valuable opportunity to amplify multilingualism and multiculturalism in NLP research but also forges pathways for addressing the requisites and challenges intrinsic to a diverse and extensive speaker population. The broad adoption of Abjad scripts transcends diverse genres, including governmental correspondences, poetic compositions, religious texts, and journalistic pursuits. The sustained use of such scripts underscores the imperative need to enhance digital infrastructure, tools, and resources that elucidate the varied writing systems inherent to under-resourced languages. Such advancement is crucial to nurturing linguistic diversity and resilience in both digital and print media, ensuring that the linguistic heritage does not diminish in the digital age. This workshop can contribute to more inclusive and equitable progressions in NLP, accommodating a broader assortment of languages and dialects and promoting enhanced comprehension and interconnectivity amongst varied linguistic communities. The assimilation and prioritization of these linguistically affluent and diverse languages are indispensable for the comprehensive progression and the universal adaptability of NLP technologies. While our workshop primarily targets languages using an Abjad script, we recognize that many historical languages such as Aramaic , Sogdian, Parthian and Phoenician employed such a writing system. As such, we believe that our workshop can enforce links with researchers working on endangered languages as well. We are proud to highlight our existing connections with the Masakhane NLP community (www.masakhane.io) and collaborations with institutions worldwide, such as COMSAT on Urdu (www.comsats.edu.pk), and the long-standing UCREL NLP Group at Lancaster University, whose work encompasses over 20 languages worldwide, including Abjad and Ajami languages (http://ucrel-web-dev.lancs.ac.uk/ucrelng/). Team Our team is uniquely diverse and gender-balanced, comprising individuals from a wide range of ethnic backgrounds. We represent a spectrum of languages that use the Arabic script and include researchers from both Linguistics and NLP, enriching the ever-needed collaboration between these two fields. With expertise in language technology, Unicode, NLP, resources, and multilingual text analysis, together, we aim to foster a dynamic and inclusive environment for research and collaboration in the field of NLP. Call for papers We invite submissions on topics that include, but are not limited to, the following: * Enabling core technologies: morphological analysis, disambiguation, tokenisation, POS tagging, named entity detection, chunking, parsing, semantic role labelling, sentiment analysis, language modelling, etc. * Applications: machine translation, speech recognition, speech synthesis, optical character recognition, pedagogy, assistive technologies, social media, etc. * Resources: dictionaries, annotated data, corpus, etc. In addition, we extend a warm invitation to researchers and stakeholders across the spectrum to contribute papers focusing on, but not limited to, the following dimensions: * Orthography descriptions (Constable 2002; Hosken 2003) * Advancements in Font Technology, Glyph Rendering, and OCR * Text Input Methodologies * Development and Utilisation of Exploitable Dictionaries * Enhancements in Spell-Checking Support * Advancements in Speech-to-Text Solutions * Progressive Natural Language Processing Techniques * BLARK - Basic Language Resource Kit descriptions for languages using Abjad or Ajami * Insights and Experiences Utilising Data Supplied by the Unicode Hosted Common Locale Data Repository in Abjad or Ajami. * Morphological and syntactical challenges in Abjad or Ajami Orthographies. * Development of open access corpora in Abjad or Ajami. * Text processing and transliteration challenges and solutions for languages using Abjad or Ajami. * Cultural and sociolinguistic considerations in NLP applications for Abjad or Ajami. * Languages resources and NLP tools for Abjad or Ajami. Summary of the Call: We welcome submissions of papers centred around the Abjad and Ajami theme, focusing on supporting NLP language resources for non-Arabic languages utilising Arabic script. We encourage submissions that span a spectrum from theoretical investigations to practical applications, aiming to underscore the distinctive challenges, solutions, and insights that languages using Ajami and Abjad scripts introduce to the field of NLP. For the submission format and guidelines, we follow the COLING 2025 standards. Authors are encouraged to thoroughly review and adhere to the COLING 2025 submission guidelines and author kit, which can be found at: https://coling2025.org/calls/submission_guidlines/. If authors are describing an orthography, we request that they include the points recommended in (Hosken 2003 https://scripts.sil.org/WP-Encoding). For continuity across the workshop and greater impact across industry applications, authors should consider terminological (orthography, script, writing system, etc.) differences presented by Constable (2002) https://www.sil.org/resources/publications/entry/7853. The model presented by Constable is the current Unicode model. Please ensure that all submissions strictly conform to these standards to streamline the review process and maintain uniformity across all contributions. Both long papers (up to 8 pages) and short papers (up to 4 pages) are welcome. All submissions will undergo a rigorous peer-review process, emphasizing originality, relevance, and clarity. Submissions may be of two types: * Long papers - up to eight (8) pages maximum, presenting substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. * Short papers - up to four (4) pages, describing a small focused contribution, negative results, system demonstrations, etc. Submission URL: https://softconf.com/coling2025/AbjadNLP25/ Submission Guidelines: https://coling2025.org/calls/submission_guidlines/ Provisional Key Dates: * 1st Call for Papers Announcement: 16 July 2024 * 2nd Call for Papers Announcement: 16 August 2024 * Paper Submission Deadline: 15 November 2024 * Notification of Paper Acceptance: 6 December 2024 * Camera-ready Paper Deadline: 13 December 2024 * Workshop Date: either on 19 or 20 January 2024 Anti-Harassment Policy: The workshop supports the COLING anti-harassment policy https://coling2022.org/policy Organising Committee: General Chair: * Dr. Mo El-Haj, Senior Lecturer at Lancaster University, is a Natural Language Processing expert with a focus on Arabic and under-resourced languages. He founded the FNP workshop series in 2018 and has organised workshops at top NLP conferences including LREC and COLING. http://elhaj.uk/ [1] Programme Chairs: * Mr Hugh Paterson III. Collaborative Scholar in linguistics, writing systems, metadata, and archives. http://hugh4.us [2] * Dr Saad Ezzini. Lecturer at Lancaster University, UK. Saad has experience working on low-resource languages with a focus on machine translation, QA, IR, and language modelling. http://ezzini.github.io [3] * Dr Ignatius Ezeani. Senior Research Associate working on multilingual NLP, Lancaster University, UK https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/scc/about-us/people/ignatius-ezeani [4] Review Committee: * Dr Manum Hayat Khan. Cognitive Linguistics Researcher at the University of La Rioja, Spain. https://investigacion.unirioja.es/investigadores/1183/detalle * Dr Muhammad Sharjeel. Assistant Professor working on Urdu NLP, COMSATS University Islamabad, Pakistan https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=xUF3l9gAAAAJ&hl=en [5] Publication Chair: * Dr Sina Ahmadi. Postdoctoral researcher at University of Zurich focusing on leveraging language technology to assist languages with constrained digital resources, with an emphasis on adapting current natural language processing approaches and existing resources for less-resourced languages. https://sinaahmadi.github.io/ Publicity Chairs: * Ms Cynthia Amol. NLP Researcher focusing on low-resource languages at Maseno University, Kenya. https://ke.linkedin.com/in/cynthia-amol-779668119 * Ms Amal Haddad Haddad. PhD Student in translations and terminologies at the University of Granada, Spain. http://lexicon.ugr.es/haddad * Dr Jaleh Delfani. Research Fellow in Translation at University of Surrey https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/jaleh-delfani [6] Advisory Committee: * Prof. Ruslan Mitkov, Professor of Computing and Communications at Lancaster University, actively working on different research topics from the areas of Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computational Linguistics and Translation Technology.https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/mitkov/ [7] * Prof. Paul Rayson, Director of UCREL research centre at Lancaster University, specialises in semantic-based NLP across 20 languages, including Urdu and Arabic. With 25 years of experience, he excels in noisy language environments like financial disclosures and has organised various conferences and workshops. https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/staff/rayson/ [8] Programme Committee* * Abdoulaye Diallo. Fula & Wolof. Independent Researcher * Ahmed Abdelali. Arabic/Multilingual NLP. Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI), Qatar. * Ahmed AbuRa'ed. Arabic. UBC. Canada. * Alp Oktem. Tigrinya and Kanuri. Translators without Borders * Antonio Moreno Sandoval. Low Resourced Languages. UAM. Spain * Azizud Din. Pashto. University Malaysia Sarawak. Malaysia * Behnam Sabeti. Persian. Miras Technologies International. Iran * Chenggang Mi. Uyghur. Xinjiang Technical Institute. China * Clement Oyeleke. Yoruba. University of Ibadan. Nigeria * Daniel Whitenack. Kimbundu, Fulfulde, Pular. SIL International. USA * Derguene Mbaye. Wolof. Baamtu. Senegal * Djamel Mostefa. Pashto. ELDA, France. * Doaa Samy. Arabic. Cairo University, Egypt and LLI-UAM. Spain * Elias W BA. Fula and Wolof. Baamtu. Senegal * Eric Atwell. Arabic/Multilingual NLP. Leeds University, UK. * Frederick Apina. Swahili. Parrot.AI. Tanzania * George Giannakopoulos. Multilingual NLP. SKEL Lab - NCSR Demokritos. Greece * Haithem Afli. Arabic/Multilingual NLP. Dublin City University, Ireland. * Hazem Hajj. Arabic/Multilingual NLP. American University of Beirut, Lebanon. * Houda Bouamor. Arabic/Multilingual NLP. CMU. Qatar * Ignatius Ezeani. Igbo, African Languages NLP. Lancaster University, UK. * Imed Zitouni. Arabic/Multilingual NLP. Microsoft Research, USA. * Karim Bouzoubaa. Arabic/Multilingual NLP. Mohamed Vth University, Morocco. * Mariam Masoud. Sorani Kurdish. National University of Ireland Galway. Ireland * Lei Wang. Uyghur. Xinjiang Technical Institute. China * Marina Litvak. Hebrew and Arabic. Sami Shamoon College of Engineering, Israel * Mo El-Haj. Arabic/Multilingual and Low resourced Languages. Lancaster University, UK * Muhammad Sharjeel. Urdu. COMSATS University Islamabad, Pakistan. * Omid Momenzadeh. Persian. Miras Technologies International. Iran * Paul Rayson. Multilingual and Low resourced Languages. Lancaster University, UK * Preni Golazizian. Persian. Miras Technologies International. Iran * Rao Muhammad Adeel Nawab. Urdu. COMSATS University Islamabad, Pakistan. * Reza Fahmi. Persian. Miras Technologies International. Iran * Samuel Olanrewaju. Yoruba, Yagba and Basa. University of Ibadan. Nigeria * Scott Piao. Multilingual and Low resourced Languages. Lancaster University, UK * Seyed Arad Ashrafi Asli. Persian. Miras Technologies International. Iran * Shervin Malmasi. Sorani Kurdish. Macquarie University. Australia * Sina Ahmadi. Sorani Kurdish. National University of Ireland Galway. Ireland * Sokhar Samb. Wolof. ML & NLP. Senegal * Tonghai Jiang. Uyghur. Xinjiang Technical Institute. China * Waziri Shebogholo. Swahili. Parrot.AI. Tanzania * Wole Akin. IsiXhosa, Yorùbá, Hausa, and Igbo. University of Johannesburg. South Africa * Xi Zhou. Uyghur. Xinjiang Technical Institute. China * Yating Yang. Uyghur. Xinjiang Technical Institute. China * Zahra Majdabadi. Persian. Miras Technologies International. Iran _*We are in the process of forming a linguistically diverse program committee who are experts in languages that use Arabic Script (Abjad and Ajami), with the majority of the list already confirmed to serve as reviewers. As soon as we gain access to SoftConf, we will extend invitations to the remaining committee (if you see your name on the list and want it removed, please contact any of the organisers). If your name appears in this list and you want it removed, please contact us as soon as possible and we'll make sure it's removed. Thanks_ Links: ------ [1] http://elhaj.uk/ [2] http://hugh4.us/ [3] http://ezzini.github.io/ [4] https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/scc/about-us/people/ignatius-ezeani [5] https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=xUF3l9gAAAAJ&hl=en [6] https://www.surrey.ac.uk/people/jaleh-delfani [7] https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/mitkov/ [8] https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/staff/rayson/

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Call4Papers: Nakba-NLP Workshop, at COLING 2025
by Mustafa Jarrar 10 Aug '24

10 Aug '24

Apologies for multiple posts! Nakba-NLP 2025 International Workshop on Nakba Narratives as Language Resources Part of the COLING 2025 <https://coling2025.org/> Conference Abu Dhabi (virtual) January 19, 2025 https://sina.birzeit.edu/nakba-nlp <https://sina.birzeit.edu/nakba-nlp/> We invite submissions for Nakba-NLP 2025, a workshop dedicated to exploring and preserving Nakba narratives through the application of artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and corpus linguistics. We seek contributions on the following topics: ◈ Digitization of oral and written narratives ◈ Creation and labeling of language corpora and datasets ◈ Digital archives, metadata, and semantic/content mark-up ◈ Annotation tools and annotation guidelines ◈ Document classification, topic modeling, and information retrieval ◈ Named entity recognition for identifying people, places, organizations, and events ◈ Entity linking and relationship extraction ◈ Event detection and event argument extraction ◈ Knowledge Graphs and Linked Data ◈ Vocabularies, dictionaries, and ontologies ◈ Data visualization ◈ Knowledge representation ◈ Machine translation, summarisation, and paraphrasing ◈ Natural Language Generation ◈ Large Language Models ◈ Sentiment analysis and emotional content extraction ◈ Discourse analysis (e.g., bias, offensive language, and misinformation) related to Nakba narratives ◈ Voice & dialogue-based systems; ASR ◈ Palestinian dialects (written and spoken) Suggested Datasets: a list of datasets can be found here https://t.ly/00Ul6 Important Dates: ===================== All deadlines are 11:59 pm UTC-12 (anywhere on Earth). - Submission Deadline: 25 November 2024 - Notifications of Acceptance: 5 December 2024 - Camera Ready Deadline: 13 December 2024 (cannot be changed) Organizing Committee: ===================== - Mustafa Jarrar, Birzeit University, Palestine - Nizar Habash, New York University, UAE - Mo El-Haj, Lancaster University, UK - Zeina Jallad, Harvard Law School, USA - Camille Mansour, Paris-Sorbonne University, France - Diana Allan, McGill University, Canada - Paul Rayson, Lancaster University, UK Publicity Chairs ===================== - Amal Haddad, University of Granada, Spain - Sanad Malaysha, Birzeit University, Palestine Contact: Nakba-NLP25_coling2025(a)softconf.com <mailto:Nakba-NLP25_coling2025@softconf.com> Best, Mustafa

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English-Portuguese Dictionary of Verbal Collocations
by Stella Esther Ortweiler Tagnin 06 Aug '24

06 Aug '24

Dear Colleagues, A draft version of my English-Portuguese Dictionary of Verbal Collocations has seen the light at https://zenodo.org/records/12761211. It is available in two formats 1. An interactive “complete” version accessible at https://portuguese-english-collocations.shinyapps.io/PortugueseEnglishVerba… 2. A machine-readable interoperable version of the data available at: https://mangalamresearch.shinyapps.io/EnglishPortugueseVerbalCollocations/ The conversion of the dictionary data and its display in the form of a digital dictionary were made possible thanks Ligeia Lugli, Tilak Balavijayan and the NEH-funded project *Democratizing Digital Lexicography* (HAA-290402-23). Just in case, here is how to cite it APA format Tagnin, S. E. O. (2024). English-Portuguese Dictionary of Verbal Collocations (0.1) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12761211 MLA format Tagnin, S. E. O. English-portuguese Dictionary of Verbal Collocations. 0.1, Zenodo, 17 de Julho de 2024, doi:10.5281/zenodo.12761211. Please, feel free to explore it. We welcome criticisms and suggestions. We know there are still problems with diacritics (hopefully to be solved). Best wishes Stella Stella E. O. Tagnin Projeto COMET - Corpus Multilíngue para Ensino e Tradução Universidade de São Paulo - FFLCH - DLM Av. Prof. Luciano Gualberto, 403 05508-900 -São Paulo - SP Brazil comet.fflch.usp.br 55 11 3091 2929 ORCID: 0000-0002-5517-2710

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2nd Call for Papers: IWCLUL 2024 in Helsinki
by Mika Hämäläinen 06 Aug '24

06 Aug '24

The 9th International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages (IWCLUL 2024) will be organized by ACL SIGUR. The proceedings of the event will be published in the ACL anthology. The workshop will take place in November 28-29, 2024 in Helsinki, Finland at Metropolia University of Applied Sciences. https://acl-sigur.github.io/iwclul2024.html Submission deadline: October 20, 2024 Registration/publication fees: 0€! We solicit original and unpublished work related to NLP methods for Uralic languages, including multilingual methods that include at least one Uralic language (e.g. Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian etc). Appropriate topics include (but are not limited to): - Multilingual approaches in NLP presenting work on at least one Uralic language - Parsers, analysers and processing pipelines of Uralic languages - Lexical databases, electronic dictionaries - Finished end-user applications aimed at Uralic languages, such as spelling or grammar checkers, machine translation or speech processing - Evaluation methods and gold standards, tagged corpora, treebanks - Reports on language-independent or unsupervised methods as applied to Uralic languages - Surveys and review articles on subjects related to computational linguistics for one or more Uralic languages - Any work that aims at combining efforts and reducing duplication of work - How to elicit activity from the language community, agitation campaigns, games with a purpose Short papers can be up to 4 pages in length (5 for camera-ready version). Short papers can report on work in progress or a more targeted contribution such as software or partial results. Long papers can be up to 8 pages in length (9 for camera-ready version). Long papers should report on previously unpublished, completed, original work. Lightning talks submitted as 750-word abstracts. Lightning talks are suited for discussing ideas or presenting work in progress. The abstracts will be published in a lightning proceedings on Zenodo. All submission formats can have an unlimited number of pages for references. All submissions must follow the ACL stylesheet. The submissions must be anonymous, and they will be peer-reviewed by our program committee. The peer review is double blinded. Papers must be submitted using the conference submission system by the deadline. At least one of the authors of an accepted paper must attend the event and present their paper. Accepted papers (short and long) will be published in the joint proceedings that will appear in the ACL Anthology. Accepted papers will also be given an additional page to address the reviewers’ comments. The length of a camera-ready submission can then be 5 pages for a short paper and 9 for a long paper with an unlimited number of pages for references. Important dates: - Paper submission (full and short): October 20, 2024 - Notification of acceptance: November 3, 2024 - Camera ready deadline: November 10, 2024 - Registration deadline: November 10, 2024 - Workshop: November 28-29, 2024

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first CALL FOR PAPER - ACM SAC 2025 - Knowledge and Natural Language Processing (KNLP) track
by pbellan＠fbk.eu 06 Aug '24

06 Aug '24

***************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS The 40th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing ACM SAC 2025 March 31 - April 4, 2025 - Catania, Italy Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track ***************************************** Important Dates Author deadline for submissions: September 20, 2024 Author notification of acceptance: October 30, 2024 Author camera ready and registration due: November 29, 2024 ***************************************** Aim Aim of the Knowledge and Natural Language Processing (KNLP) track at ACM SAC is to investigate techniques and application of knowledge engineering and natural language processing, two extremely interdisciplinary and lively research areas at the core of Artificial Intelligence. In particular, the track welcomes contributions combining and complementing methods and approaches from both areas. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Natural Language Processing NLP tasks for Knowledge Extraction NLP for Ontology Population and Learning Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining for Knowledge Applications Interplay between Language and Ontologies NLP for Explainable Knowledge Machine Translation techniques for Multi-lingual Knowledge NLP for the Web (Large) Language Models and Knowledge - Knowledge Knowledge to improve NLP tasks Knowledge for Information Retrieval Knowledge-based Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining Combining Knowledge and Deep Learning for NLP Knowledge for Text Summarization and Generation Knowledge for Persuasion Knowledge-based Machine Translation Knowledge for the Web Linked Data for NLP Knowledge-based NL Explainability RAG and Knowledge injection for Language Models - Applications Real-world applications that exploit Knowledge and NLP Knowledge and NLP Systems for Big Data scenarios Knowledge and NLP technology for diverse, equitable, and inclusive society Deployment of Knowledge and NLP Systems in specific domains, such as: Digital Humanities and Social Sciences eGovernment and public administration Life sciences, health and medicine News and Data Streaming ***************************************** Paper Submission Research papers and experience reports related to the above topics are solicited. Submissions must not have been published or be concurrently considered for publication elsewhere. Papers should be submitted in PDF using the ACM-SAC proceedings format using the submission link on the SAC 2025 website (https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2025/). Authors' names and affiliations should be entered separately at the submission site and not appear in the submitted papers. Each submission will be reviewed in a DOUBLE-BLIND process according to the ACM-SAC Regulations. Student Research Competition (SRC) submissions are welcome (see SAC 2025 website for details). Full papers are limited to 8 pages, in camera-ready format, included in the registration fee. Authors have the option to include up to two (2) extra pages (paying an extra charge). Posters are limited to 2 pages, in camera-ready format, included in the registration fee. Authors have the option to include only one (1) extra page (paying an extra charge). SRC Abstracts are limited to 3 pages, in camera-ready format, included in the registration fee. No extra pages are allowed. Paper selection is based on originality, technical contribution, presentation quality, and relevance to the Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track. Some papers may be accepted as posters. Paper registration is required, allowing the inclusion of the paper/poster in the conference proceedings. An author or a proxy attending SAC MUST present the paper. This is a requirement for the paper/poster to be included in the ACM digital library. No-show of registered papers and posters will result in excluding them from the ACM digital library. ***************************************** Track Co-Chairs Patrizio Bellan, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) Marco Bombieri, Università degli Studi di Verona Mauro Dragoni, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) Marco Rospocher, Università degli Studi di Verona ***************************************** Programme Committee TBA ***************************************** General Inquiries For further information, please visit SAC Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track (https://knlp-sac.github.io/2025/) and SAC 2024 conference websites (https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2025/) or feel free to contact the Track Co-Chairs at knlp(a)fbk.eu .

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CALL FOR PAPER - ACM SAC 2025 - Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track
by pbellan＠fbk.eu 06 Aug '24

06 Aug '24

***************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS The 40th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing ACM SAC 2025 March 31 - April 4, 2025 - Catania, Italy Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track ***************************************** Important Dates Author deadline for submissions: September 20, 2024 Author notification of acceptance: October 30, 2024 Author camera ready and registration due: November 29, 2024 ***************************************** Aim Aim of the Knowledge and Natural Language Processing (KNLP) track at ACM SAC is to investigate techniques and application of knowledge engineering and natural language processing, two extremely interdisciplinary and lively research areas at the core of Artificial Intelligence. In particular, the track welcomes contributions combining and complementing methods and approaches from both areas. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Natural Language Processing NLP tasks for Knowledge Extraction NLP for Ontology Population and Learning Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining for Knowledge Applications Interplay between Language and Ontologies NLP for Explainable Knowledge Machine Translation techniques for Multi-lingual Knowledge NLP for the Web (Large) Language Models and Knowledge - Knowledge Knowledge to improve NLP tasks Knowledge for Information Retrieval Knowledge-based Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining Combining Knowledge and Deep Learning for NLP Knowledge for Text Summarization and Generation Knowledge for Persuasion Knowledge-based Machine Translation Knowledge for the Web Linked Data for NLP Knowledge-based NL Explainability RAG and Knowledge injection for Language Models - Applications Real-world applications that exploit Knowledge and NLP Knowledge and NLP Systems for Big Data scenarios Knowledge and NLP technology for diverse, equitable, and inclusive society Deployment of Knowledge and NLP Systems in specific domains, such as: Digital Humanities and Social Sciences eGovernment and public administration Life sciences, health and medicine News and Data Streaming ***************************************** Paper Submission Research papers and experience reports related to the above topics are solicited. Submissions must not have been published or be concurrently considered for publication elsewhere. Papers should be submitted in PDF using the ACM-SAC proceedings format using the submission link on the SAC 2025 website (https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2025/). Authors' names and affiliations should be entered separately at the submission site and not appear in the submitted papers. Each submission will be reviewed in a DOUBLE-BLIND process according to the ACM-SAC Regulations. Student Research Competition (SRC) submissions are welcome (see SAC 2025 website for details). Full papers are limited to 8 pages, in camera-ready format, included in the registration fee. Authors have the option to include up to two (2) extra pages (paying an extra charge). Posters are limited to 2 pages, in camera-ready format, included in the registration fee. Authors have the option to include only one (1) extra page (paying an extra charge). SRC Abstracts are limited to 3 pages, in camera-ready format, included in the registration fee. No extra pages are allowed. Paper selection is based on originality, technical contribution, presentation quality, and relevance to the Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track. Some papers may be accepted as posters. Paper registration is required, allowing the inclusion of the paper/poster in the conference proceedings. An author or a proxy attending SAC MUST present the paper. This is a requirement for the paper/poster to be included in the ACM digital library. No-show of registered papers and posters will result in excluding them from the ACM digital library. ***************************************** Track Co-Chairs Patrizio Bellan, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) Marco Bombieri, Università degli Studi di Verona Mauro Dragoni, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) Marco Rospocher, Università degli Studi di Verona ***************************************** Programme Committee TBA ***************************************** General Inquiries For further information, please visit SAC Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track (https://knlp-sac.github.io/2025/) and SAC 2024 conference websites (https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2025/) or feel free to contact the Track Co-Chairs at knlp(a)fbk.eu .

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Final call: TRANSLATING AND THE COMPUTER CONFERENCE 2024 (TC46) – Deadline 15 August
by amalhaddad 05 Aug '24

05 Aug '24

Deadline extension: 15 August 2024 TRANSLATING AND THE COMPUTER CONFERENCE 2024 (TC46) - Call for Presentations and Papers https://asling.org/tc46/call-for-papers-cfp/ "Navigating the future of language: Innovation, integration, inspiration" 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 August * Deadline for submitting proposals for workshops and panels is extended to 15 August https://asling.org/tc46/call-for-papers-cfp/

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Final call: TRANSLATING AND THE COMPUTER CONFERENCE 2024 (TC46) – Deadline 15 August
by amalhaddad 05 Aug '24

05 Aug '24

Deadline extension: 15 August 2024 TRANSLATING AND THE COMPUTER CONFERENCE 2024 (TC46) - Call for Presentations and Papers https://asling.org/tc46/call-for-papers-cfp/ "Navigating the future of language: Innovation, integration, inspiration" 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 31 July * Deadline for submitting proposals for workshops and panels is extended to 15 August https://asling.org/tc46/call-for-papers-cfp/

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Dialogue and Discourse: Submissions for issue 15:2
by Massimo Poesio 05 Aug '24

05 Aug '24

We are pleased to announce the call for submissions for the next regular issue of the journal Dialogue and Discourse. Submissions are invited on all topics in the formal, computational, or psycholinguistic study of dialogue and discourse. Submissions received by Sep 1st, 2024 will be considered for the next regular issue. Later submissions will be slated for the next available issue. About the journal Dialogue and Discourse (D&D http://www.dialogue-and-discourse.org) is the first peer-reviewed free open access journal dedicated exclusively to work that deals with language "beyond the sentence". The journal adopts an interdisciplinary perspective, accepting work from Linguistics, Computer Science, Psychology, Sociology, Philosophy, and other associated fields with an interest in formally, technically, empirically or experimentally rigorous approaches. Descriptive papers should make a substantial theoretical contribution to be considered. We are committed to ensuring the highest editorial standards and rigorous peer-review of all submissions, while granting open access to all interested readers. D&D has published regular issues every year since 2010, and occasionally special issues on common topics. As of July 2024, D&D has published 115 papers, and the journal's h-index is 30. D&D is endorsed by ACL SIGdial, SemDial, and AMLaP. D&D is indexed by Scopus and the European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Submissions Submissions ought to be made via the online submission system at http://www.dialogue-and-discourse.org/submission.shtml Authors are required to indicate if a submission is an extended version of one or more previously published conference papers (to which we would expect substantial additions); simultaneous submission to another venue is prohibited. Submissions will undergo rigorous peer-review. Once accepted and finalized, papers will appear online immediately, as part of the current issue. Selected papers will furthermore be offered the opportunity to present a poster at the following SIGDIAL Conference. Dialogue and Discourse Editors Issue Editors: Massimo Poesio (Volume 15, Issue 2) Pat Healey (Volume 15, Issue 1) David Traum (Volume 14, issue 2) Editor In Chief: Barbara Di Eugenio, University of Illinois Chicago, United States Associate Editors: Kallirroi Georgila, University of Southern California, United States Jonathan Ginzburg, Université Paris-Cité, France Pat Healey, Queen Mary University London, United Kingdom Ryuichiro Higashinaka, Nagoya University, Japan Casey Kennington, Boise State University Junyi Jessy Li, University of Texas at Austin, United States Massimo Poesio, Queen Mary University London and University of Utrecht Manfred Stede, University of Potsdam, Germany David R. Traum, University of Southern California, United States Amir Zeldes, Georgetown University, United States

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Call For Participation KI 2024
by janna.omeliyanenko＠gmail.com 05 Aug '24

05 Aug '24

Call For Participation KI 2024 47th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence Call For Participation KI 2024 47th German Conference on Artificial Intelligence Sep 25 – Sep 27, 2024, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany Please register to participate! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KI is one of the major European AI conference series and traditionally brings together academic and industrial researchers from all areas of AI, providing an ideal place for exchanging news and research results on theory and applications. KI 2024 takes place at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg. This year, we are excited to announce that the conference is jointly organized with the LWDA 2024 conference [1]. The organization is carried out by members of CAIDAS and the Institute for Computer Science. Here [4] you can find more details about the venue and Würzburg. The technical program of KI 2024 comprises presentations of selected AI papers and discussions, a panel, a doctoral symposium, as well as tutorials and workshops, plus keynotes by the following renowned AI experts: • Elisabeth André (University of Augsburg): Amplifying Human-Human and Human-Agent Interaction with AI • Christian Baukhage (University of Bonn): Quantum AI / ML – Hype or Hope? See also [2] for abstracts of the invited talks, and [3] for the overall program. KI 2024 will also host the FBKI general assembly (Mitgliederversammlung). For detailed program information and how to register and attend see: https://www.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/ki24/attending/registration/ Participation requires registration. Early bird prices are available until August 20, 2024, 23:59 (Berlin time). KI 2024 is the 47rd edition of the German conference on Artificial Intelligence organized in cooperation with the AI chapter of the GI (GI-FBKI). We hope to see you at KI 2024! Andreas Hotho and Sebastian Rudolph (KI2024 Co-Chairs) [1] https://www.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/lwda24/ [2] https://www.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/ki24/program/invited-speakers/ [3] https://www.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/ki24/program/ki-schedule/ [4] https://www.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/ki24/

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Postdoctoral position at Cardiff University
by Steven Schockaert 05 Aug '24

05 Aug '24

Location: Cardiff, UK Deadline for applications: 1st September Start date: 1st November Duration: 30 months Keywords: natural language processing, neurosymbolic AI, graph neural networks, commonsense reasoning Details about the post Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Cardiff University School of Computer Science & Informatics, to work on the EPSRC Open Fellowship project ReStoRe (Reasoning about Structured Story Representations), which is focused on story-level language understanding. The overall aim of this project is to develop methods for learning graph-structured representations of stories. For this post, the specific focus will be on developing common sense reasoning strategies, based on graph neural networks, to fill the gap between what is explicitly stated in a story and what a human reader would infer by “reading between the lines”. More details about the post and instructions on how to apply are available at www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DJA796/research-associate<https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DJA796/research-associate>.

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Call for Participation: ALTA 2024 Shared Task
by Diego Molla-Aliod 05 Aug '24

05 Aug '24

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION http://www.alta.asn.au/events/sharedtask2024 The Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA) is organising a programming competition for university undergraduate and postgraduate students. Following on the series of shared tasks by ALTA since 2010, all participants compete to solve the same problem. The problem highlights an active area of research and programming in the area of language technology. This year's shared task is: Automatic AI-Generated Sentences Detection for Human-AI Hybrid Articles. The tentative key dates are: Right Now - Registration and release of training and development data 30 Sep 2024 - Release of test data 06 Oct 2024 - Deadline of submission of runs 09 Oct 2024 - Notification of results 04 Nov 2024 - Deadline of submission of system description 2-4 Dec 2024 - Presentation of results at ALTA 2024 Details of the task and registration are available at the competition website (https://www.alta.asn.au/events/sharedtask2024) Good luck! Diego Molla

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[Call for Papers] The First Workshop of Evaluation of Multi-Modal Generation @ COLING 2025
by mongyuansim＠gmail.com 05 Aug '24

05 Aug '24

Dear Colleagues, We are delighted to announce the first CfP for The First Workshop of Evaluation of Multi-Modal Generation @ COLING 2025. It is now open and closes on 20th November 2024 (11:59PM AoE UTC-12). Website link: https://evalmg.github.io/ ------------------------------------------------------------ The First Workshop of Evaluation of Multi-Modal Generation Multimodal generation techniques have opened new avenues for creative content generation. However, evaluating the quality of multimodal generation remains underexplored and some key questions are unanswered, such as the contributions of each modal, the utility of pre-trained large language models for multimodal generation, and measuring faithfulness and fairness in multimodal outputs. This workshop aims to foster discussions and research efforts by bringing together researchers and practitioners in natural language processing, computer vision, and multimodal AI. Our goal is to establish evaluation methods for multimodal research and advance research efforts in this direction. Call for Papers Both long paper and short papers (up to 8 pages and 4 pages respectively with unlimited references and appendices) are welcomed for submission. A list of topics relevant to this workshop (but not limited to): * Evaluation metrics for multimodal text generation for assessing informativeness, factuality and faithfulness * New benchmark datasets, evaluation protocols and annotations * Challenges in evaluating multimodal coherence, relevance and contribution of modalities and inter- and intra-interactions * Assessing information integration and aggregation across multiple modalities * Adversarial evaluation approaches for testing the robustness and reliability of multimodal generation systems * Ethical considerations in the evaluation of multimodal text generation, including bias detection and mitigation strategies * Multilingual multimodal text generation systems for low-resource languages * Evaluating fairness and privacy in multimodal learning and applications Important Dates * Nov 20, 2024: Paper submission due date * Dec 05, 2024: Notification of acceptance * Dec 11, 2024: Camera-ready version due * Jan 19, 2025: Workshop Date Note: All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“Anywhere on Earth”) Submission Instructions You are invited to submit your papers in our START/SoftConf submission portal. All the submitted papers have to be anonymous for double-blind review. The content of the paper should not be longer than 8 pages for long papers and 4 pages for short papers, strictly following the COLING 2025 templates, with the mandatory limitation section not counting towards the page limit. Supplementary and appendices (either as separate files or appended after the main submission) are allowed. We encourage code link submissions for reproducibility. Non-archival Option To promote discussions within the community, our workshop includes non-archival track. Authors have the flexbility to submit their unpublished work or papers accepted to COLING main conference to our workshop. The organisers may offer the opportunity to give oral or poster presentation. Organisers * Wei Emma Zhang, The University of Adelaide * Xiang Dai, CSIRO * Desmond Elliot, University of Copenhagen * Byron Fang, CSIRO * Haojie Zhuang, The University of Adelaide * Mong Yuan Sim, The University of Adelaide & CSIRO * Weitong Chen, The University of Adelaide Kind regards, COLING25 EvalMG Organisers

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[Deadline Extended] Call for short papers - DAAfrica 2024 - Bejaia, Algeria
by Mathieu ROCHE 04 Aug '24

04 Aug '24

We are pleased to announce an extension of the submission deadline for DAAfrica’2024. The new deadline is August 18, 2024. ============================================================= Call for short papers DAAfrica - Workshop on Data Science for Agriculture in Africa November 23, 2024 Bejaia, Algeria (hybrid) Event affiliated with CARI’2024 Workshop supported by ASDS, #DigitAg and the MOOD project ============================================================= === SCOPE === Data science in agriculture has evolved with the accessibility of data by farmers that allow them to analyze and facilitate decision making. Today new technology like Internet of Things (IoT) enables us to collect and store farm and environmental data (e.g. soil data, water data, etc.) in dedicated databases and/or data warehouses. This agricultural data can be combined with other data sources (e.g. remote sensing, weather stations, web and social media, etc.) that need to address new challenges like ingestion of heterogeneous data. Data science in agriculture aims to explore and mine agricultural data using different techniques like machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, text-mining, large language models (LLM), etc. For instance, data science can predict crop yields and plant and animal diseases with different variables, including rainfall, temperature fluctuations, and soil conditions by using a variety of data (e.g. sensor data, texts, satellite images, plant images, etc.). So, agriculture professionals and decision-makers can use data science to provide information and knowledge in order to make decisions about agricultural activities in Africa. === TOPICS OF INTEREST === The topics of the workshop encompass all aspects concerning the intersection of data science and agriculture in Africa with different applications: - Smart Farming - Yield and production - Plant specie identification - Land cover monitoring - Crop recommendation - Crop monitoring & forecasting - Animal and plant health monitoring - Water management - Food safety & security - Agroecology - etc. === SUBMISSIONS === Researchers, academics, and students working on the field of data science with application in agriculture in Africa are invited to submit short papers for oral presentations or posters. Submitted abstracts must be in English and will be reviewed by the workshop committees for suitability and interest to the DAAfrica audience. The authors can submit papers of unpublished work reporting original and early results, introducing new ideas or describing prototypes. Every accepted submission must have at least one author registered for the workshop. All submitted extended abstracts must follow the LNCS format (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…) with a page limit of up to 6 pages including the title page, figures, references, and an optional appendix. The abstracts should be submitted electronically in PDF format via EasyChair via the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=daafrica2024 Accepted extended abstract will be published as CEUR proceedings. Selected contributions will be invited to submit full papers to ARIMA Journal (indexed by DBLP and DOAJ) for a peer-review according to its usual reviewing process. === IMPORTANT DATES === - Submission deadline: August 18, 2024 [extended deadline] - Notification to authors: September 23, 2024 - Workshop date: November 23, 2024 === PARTICIPATION === The workshop will be held in Bejaia, Algeria, as an event affiliated to CARI’2024 (https://www.cari-info.org). This workshop will be a hybrid event that combines a "live" in-person event with a "virtual" online component. Further information related to registration is available on the ASDS website: https://asds.africa/daafrica2024 === WORKSHOP CHAIRS === - Paulin Melatagia, University of Yaoundé I, Cameroun - Mathieu Roche, CIRAD, UMR TETIS, France

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assortlist
by bbrgy2ek＠nqmo.com 04 Aug '24

04 Aug '24

If you aren't a current list member, sending this message will subscribe you. https://www.assortlist.com

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Journal of Biomedical Informatics (JBI) Special Issue on Semantics-enabled Biomedical Literature Analytics
by bbrgy2ek＠nqmo.com 04 Aug '24

04 Aug '24

Journal of Biomedical Informatics (JBI) Special Issue on Semantics-enabled Biomedical Literature Analytics https://www.assortlist.com

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Fwd: [Call for Papers] 4th NeurIPS ENLSP 2024 Workshop
by Ignacio J. Iacobacci 02 Aug '24

02 Aug '24

(Apologies for cross-posting) The 4th NeurIPS ENLSP 2024 workshop on "Efficient Natural Language & Speech Processing: Highlighting New Architectures for Future Foundation Models" is now open for submissions! If your research aims to enhance the efficiency of large language and foundation models in architecture, training, and inference for real-world applications, we invite you to submit your work to this workshop and please feel free to share it with your network. Link to the website for more details: https://neurips2024-enlsp.github.io *Call For Paper* The scope of this workshop includes, but not limited to, the following topics: Efficient Architectures and Models 🧠 Efficient Training (pre-training & fine-tuning) ⚡ Efficient Inference 📈 Evaluation and Benchmarking of Efficient Models 📊 Efficient Solutions in Other Modalities and Applications 🌐 Efficiency of foundational or pre-trained models in multi-modal set-up and other modalities (beyond NLP and Speech) such as biology, chemistry, computer vision, and time series Efficient representations (e.g. Matryoshka representation) and models in dense retrieval and search Efficient Federated learning, lower communication costs, tackling heterogeneous data and models ... and much more! *Submission Remarks* You are invited to submit your papers in our CMT submission portal ( https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ENLSP2024 ). All the submitted papers have to be anonymous for double-blind review. We expect each paper will be reviewed by at least three reviewers. The content of the paper (excluding the references and supplementary materials) should not be more than *8 pages for Long Papers* and *4 pages for Short Papers*, strictly following the NeurIPS template style. According to the guideline of the NeurIPS workshops, already published papers are not encouraged for submission, but you are allowed to submit your ArXiv papers or the ones which are under submission (for example *any NeurIPS submissions can be submitted concurrently to workshops* ). To encourage higher quality submissions, our sponsors are offering the *Best Paper* and the *Best Poster* Awards to qualified outstanding original oral and poster presentations (upon nomination of the reviewers). Bear in mind that our workshop is not archival, but the accepted papers will be hosted on the workshop website. *Moreover, **accepted papers may opt-in to publish their papers in a special issue proceeding for the workshop in PMLR. * *Important Dates:* Submission Deadline: *August 30, 2024 Anywhere on Earth (AOE)* Acceptance Notification: October 14, 2024 AOE Camera-Ready Submission: October 28, 2024 AOE We look forward to receiving your submissions and encourage you to share this call for papers with your network (or you may reshare this LINK <https://x.com/mrgzadeh/status/1814400987299238188> on X ). Thanks! Best Regards, NeurIPS ENLSP 2024 Organizers

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Open Call to Join the WOAH Organizing Team
by Agostina Calabrese 02 Aug '24

02 Aug '24

Dear Colleagues, We are looking for a new member to help us diversify our organizing team for the 9th edition of the Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms<https://www.workshopononlineabuse.com/> (WOAH). If you are interested, please fill out the application form by August 31st: https://t.co/UoqdNV8ZBh. All the best, Agostina The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. Is e buidheann carthannais a th' ann an Oilthigh Dh?n ?ideann, cl?raichte an Alba, ?ireamh cl?raidh SC005336.

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2nd Call for Papers for the 22nd Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop - #ALTA2024
by Kathy Reid 02 Aug '24

02 Aug '24

Dear Colleagues, We're delighted to announce that the CfP for the 22nd Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association - ALTA 2024 - is now open and closes on 20th September (23:59hrs Anywhere on Earth UTC -12) Details are available on our website at https://alta2024.alta.asn.au/calls/papers and a summary follows. --- Important Dates * Submission deadline for short/long papers, presentation abstracts and industry demonstrations: 20 September 2024 (23:59 Anywhere On Earth UTC-12). * Main conference: 3 December and 4 December 2024, ANU, Canberra, ACT, hybrid (in person and online) Overview The 22nd Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA) will be held in a hybrid format at the Australian National University, Canberra, from 2 December to 4 December 2024. The ALTA 2024 workshop is the key local forum for socialising research results in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computational Linguistics (CL). It will feature presentations, posters, and demonstrations from students, industry, and academic researchers. Like previous years, we also encourage submissions and participation from industry and government researchers and developers. Note that ALTA is listed in the CORE 2023 Conference Rankings as Australasian C<https://www.core.edu.au/conference-portal>. Topics ALTA invites the submission of papers and presentations on all aspects of NLP and CL, including, but not limited to: * Commonsense Reasoning. * Computational Social Science and Cultural Analytics. * Dialogue and Interactive Systems. * Discourse and Pragmatics. * Efficient Methods for NLP. * Ethics in NLP. * Information Extraction. * Information Retrieval and Text Mining. * Interpretability, Interactivity and Analysis of Models for NLP. * Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond. * Language Modeling and Analysis of Language Models. * Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics. * Machine Learning for NLP. * Machine Translation. * Multilinguality and Linguistic Diversity. * Natural Language Generation. * NLP Applications. * Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation. * Question Answering. * Resources and Evaluation. * Semantics: Lexical, Sentence level, Document Level, Textual Inference, etc. * Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining. * Speech and Multimodality. * Summarisation. * Syntax, Parsing and their Applications. We particularly encourage submissions that broaden the scope of our community by considering practical applications of language technology and multidisciplinary research. We also specifically encourage submissions from the industry. Format and instructions for authors Please refer to our CfP webpage for specifics.<https://alta2024.alta.asn.au/calls/papers> We are using OpenReview for submissions, and invite submissions of three different formats: (1) Original Research Papers, (2) Abstract-based Presentations, and (3) Industry Demonstrations. --- You can follow ALTA on social media at the following links: * LinkedIn (page): https://www.linkedin.com/company/australasian-language-technology-associati… * LinkedIn (group):https://www.linkedin.com/groups/1849979/ * Twitter: https://twitter.com/altanlp * Mastodon: https://sigmoid.social/@ALTAnlp * Hashtag is #ALTA2024 With kind regards, on behalf of the ALTA 2024 Team: Dr Gabriela Ferraro, General Chair Professor Tim Baldwin, Program Chair Dr Sergio José Rodríguez Méndez, Program Chair Dr Nicholas Kuo, Program Chair Dr Anton Malko, Publication Chair Dr Dawei Chen, Technology Chair A/Prof Shunichi Ishihara, Finance Chair Charbel El-Khaissi, PhD candidate, Sponsorship Chair Ned Cooper, PhD candidate, Local Chair Kathy Reid, PhD candidate, Publicity Chair

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Final Call for Participation - CoLI-Dravidian@FIRE 2024: Word-level Code-Mixed Language Identification in Dravidian Languages
by Sabur B 01 Aug '24

01 Aug '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 (7th August – run submission deadline extended) - 8th August – results declared - 29th 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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Position for a junior researcher in historical computational linguistics at the University of Milan
by Martin Ruskov 01 Aug '24

01 Aug '24

Hello everyone, We have an open position for a junior researcher (with or without PhD) in linguistics or computational humanities at the University of Milan, as part of the project MetaLing that works on a corpus about the metalanguage of English linguistics between the 16th and the 18th century. We are particularly interested in the semantic shifts and variations in this context. This is a one-year contract, with a possibility of extension. The application deadline is 30 August 2024. Related links: project overview: https://expertise.unimi.it/resource/project/PRIN202223AANDR_01 position opening (pdf): https://www.unimi.it/en/media/69915/download For more information and help with the application process: angela.andreani(a)unimi.it or martin.ruskov(a)unimi.it Best regards, Martin Ruskov

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