August 2024 - Corpora

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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