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*************** 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).
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More about ontology matching:
http://www.ontologymatching.org/http://book.ontologymatching.org/
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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*.
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*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
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*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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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
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Registration opens: 1st July 2024
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Registration closes: 30th July 2024 *
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Submission deadline: 14th September 2024 *
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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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CIKM 2024: 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management
Boise, Idaho, USA
October 21–25, 2024
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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.
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Key Dates
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* 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.
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Prizes
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* 1st Place: $3,000
* 2nd Place: $2,000
* 3rd Place: $1,000
* 4th-10th Place: $500 each
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More information
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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…
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
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Institut für Translation und Mehrsprachige Kommunikation (Fakultät 03)
Lehrgebiet: Terminologie und mehrsprachige Fachkommunikation
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Technische Hochschule Köln
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****** 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)
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.
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CLiC-it 2024 - Tenth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics
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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)."
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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)