***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.
https://www.nodalida-bhlt2025.eu/conference
SUBMISSIONS
NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025 addresses all aspects of natural language processing, speech recognition and synthesis, 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.
We invite paper submissions of three types:
* regular papers on substantial, original, and unpublished research, including empirical evaluation results, where appropriate;
* short papers on smaller, focused contributions, work in progress, negative results, surveys, or opinion pieces; and
* demonstration papers on software or resource demonstrations, e.g. of systems, interfaces, infrastructures, data collections, or annotations. Demonstration papers do not need to be anonymous.
We particularly encourage submission of papers on completed or ongoing work, where the first author is a Master's or PhD student. This should be indicated at submission time.
Papers accepted for presentation at the conference will be included in the NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025 proceedings, which are published in the ACL Anthology and the NEALT Proceedings Series at DSpace at Tartu University Library (negotiations for indexation are ongoing and expected to be in place at publication time)
SCHEDULE
* Monday, October 21, 2024: Submission of Papers
* Monday, December 9, 2024: Notification of Acceptance
* Monday, January 13, 2025: Camera-Ready Manuscripts
* Monday and Tuesday, March 3–4, 2025: Main Conference
The main conference will be held on-site only, without an online option, in order to facilitate networking.
SUBMISSION FORMATS
All submissions must follow the NoDaLiDa 2025 style files, which will be available for LaTeX (preferred) and MS Word.
Submissions must be anonymous, i.e. not reveal author(s) on the title page or through self-references. Papers must be submitted digitally, in PDF, and uploaded through the online conference system. Paper submissions that violate either of these requirements will be returned without review.
The page limits for submissions are: up to eight pages for regular papers and up to four pages for short papers and demo papers. For all three submission types, these page limits do not include additional pages with bibliographic references. We do not allow any extra pages for appendices.
DOUBLE SUBMISSION and PRE-PUBLICATION
Papers that have been or will be submitted to other venues must indicate this at submission time and must be withdrawn from the other venues if accepted to NoDALiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025. Authors of papers accepted for presentation at NoDALiDa/Baltic_HLT must notify the program chairs by the camera-ready deadline as to whether the paper will be presented. We will not accept for publication or presentation papers that overlap significantly in content or results with papers that will be (or have been) published elsewhere.
We follow the ACL Anonymity Policy, which means that we have no anonymity period. Authors are still cautioned against extensive advertising.
SUBMISSION MANAGEMENT
Submissions to the conference must be uploaded electronically, obeying the above requirements, and no later than (end of day, anywhere on earth): Monday, October 21, 2024.
Submission is done through OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT/2025/Conference
Please note: To submit a paper, you need an account on OpenReview. For persons without an institutional email, it can take up to two weeks to have an account verified. Thus, please create an account early if you don’t have one already!
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
General Chair
* Sara Stymne, Uppsala University, Sweden
Program Chairs
* Mark Fišel, University of Tartu, Estonia
* Daniel Hershcovich, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
* Jenna Kanerva, University of Turku, Finland
* Pierre Lison, Norwegian Computing Centre, Norway
* Inguna Skadiņa, University of Latvia, Lativa
* Andrius Utka, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania
Workshop chairs
* Normunds Grūzītis, University of Latvia, Latvia
* Samia Touileb, University of Bergen, Norway
Publication chair
* Richard Johansson, Chalmers Technical University, Sweden
Social media chair
* Mike Zhang, Aalborg University, Denmark
To inquire about the submission and reviewing process or the scientific program of the conference, please email ‘nodalida_baltichlt_2025-pc(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:nodalida_baltichlt_2025-pc@googlegroups.com>’.
Local Chairs
* Helen Kaljumäe, Institute of the Estonian Language, Estonia
* Kadri Vare, Institute of the Estonian Language, Estonia
* Merily Remma, Institute of the Estonian Language, Estonia
For all practical inquiries, please email ‘nodalida_baltichlt_2025-loc(a)eki.ee<mailto:nodalida_baltichlt_2025-loc@eki.ee>’.
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Hello Everyone,
RebelsNLU Lab (Reading between the Lines for Natural Language Understanding Lab) at JAIST (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) conducts extensive research in knowledge, reasoning, and natural language processing, spanning a broad spectrum from fundamental to application-oriented research. Our lab is set in a naturally rich environment and benefits from an internationally diverse atmosphere. We are pleased to announce that we have started accepting applications for a Research Assistant Professor position, as detailed below.
If you are interested, we welcome informal discussions, so please feel free to contact Professor Inoue (naoya-i(a)jaist.ac.jp).
We look forward to receiving your application.
Thank you very much.
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[Affiliation] School of Advanced Science and Technology, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), Computing Science Research Area
[Position] Research Assistant Professor
[Laboratory] RebelsNLU Lab (https://rebelsnlu.super.site)
[Job Description]
- Research: Conduct research related to natural language processing, focusing on knowledge and reasoning.
- Education: Teach courses related to information science and supervise master’s and doctoral students in the lab, as well as students with secondary projects from other laboratories.
[Term] April 1, 2025 – March 31, 2026 (renewable, up to a maximum of five years)
[Application Deadline] September 13, 2024 (Friday) 17:00 (Japan Time)
For more details, please refer to the following URLs:
- https://jrecin.jst.go.jp/seek/SeekJorDetail?id=D124071630&ln=1
- https://www.jaist.ac.jp/top/data/cs20240722-2e.pdf
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Naoya Inoue / 井之上 直也
Associate Professor, School of Information Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST)
Address: Information Science Building #1 I-51, 1-1 Asahidai, Nomi, Ishikawa 923-1292 Japan
Tel: (+81) 0761-51-1264
E-mail: naoya-i(a)jaist.ac.jp
Web: https://naoya-i.info/ (personal), https://rebelsnlu.super.site/ (Lab)
The SheffieldNLP group is pleased to announce an exciting opportunity for a Senior Lecturer in Natural Language Processing! As one of the largest and most productive NLP research groups in the UK, with 13 academic members, we are seeking a dedicated and passionate researcher to join our innovative and dynamic team.
Our research covers a wide range of NLP areas, including foundational models, machine learning for NLP, various real-world applications, and much more. This is an excellent opportunity to contribute to groundbreaking research and advance the field.
Located in the vibrant and green city of Sheffield, this role offers an exceptional quality of life, with affordable living, a thriving arts scene, and a welcoming community. Moreover, with a light teaching load, you will have more time to engage in impactful research and collaborative projects.
More details and application link: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DJN226/senior-lecturer-in-natural-language-proce…
📅 Application Deadline: 6th October 2024
Dear all,
We are offering an exciting position as team lead / senior researcher
within the department Knowledge Technologies for the Social Sciences
(https://gesis.org/en/kts) at GESIS in Cologne, Germany. The position
holder will lead and further develop a team of researchers working on
innovative methods and infrastructures for computational social
scientists based on research in information extraction, NLP, machine
learning and web mining.
The position is limited to 4 years, with option for tenure/permanency.
Further information can be found at
https://www.hidden-professionals.de/HPv3.Jobs/gesis/stellenangebot/39995/Se….
For any questions, please don't hesitate to get in touch with me.
Best regards,
Stefan
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Prof. Dr. Stefan Dietze
Scientific Director Knowledge Technologies for the Social Sciences
GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
Web: https://www.gesis.org/en/kts
Chair of Data & Knowledge Engineering
Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf
Web: https://www.cs.hhu.de/en/research-groups/data-knowledge-engineering
Phone: +49 (0)221-47694-421
Web: http://stefandietze.net
> [Apologies for cross-posting]
>
> *** Due to NEW TRAVEL AWARDS, we extended the submission deadline to September 7, 2024 ***
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> *** 6 TRAVEL AWARDS of USD 750 and USD 450 to attend the conference. ***
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> EXTENDED CALL FOR PAPERS - SIMBig 2024
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> 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 Publication: No fees associated with publication
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>
> OVERVIEW
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> 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
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>
 Aaron Courville, Université de Montréal, Canada
 Mona Diab, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
 Anna Korhonen, University of Cambridge, UK
 Huan Liu, Arizona State University, USA
>
> TRAVEL AWARD
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>
> Thanks to the Artificial Intelligence Journal - AIJ <https://aij.ijcai.org/> support, SIMBig 2024 is offering six (6) travel awards for students/authors attending the conference. The purpose of the grant is to broaden participation to increase the diversity of attendants and help students present their contributions.
>
> Each award will consist of up to USD 750 for international students/authors and USD 450 for national students/authors. The allocation of the award will be based on the quality of the paper. All authors participating in the main conference or special tracks are eligible.
>
>
> IMPORTANT DATES
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>
> August 10, 2024 September 07, 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
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>
> 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
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>
> SIMBig 2024 has a broad scope. We invite contributions on theory and practice, including but not limited to the following technical areas:
>
> Artificial Intelligence
> Data Science
> Machine Learning
> Deep Learning
> Natural Language Processing
> Big/Masive Data
> 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
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>
> 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
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>
> 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>)
Dear All,
The NLP4BIA group at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) is looking
for a post-doctoral researcher with expertise in data science, NLP and LMs.
*URL application*: https://www.bsc.es/join-us/job-opportunities/54824lsnlpr3
The position description is below. Please let me know if you or others you
know are interested.
Best wishes,
Martin Krallinger
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Martin Krallinger, Dr.
Head of NLP for Biomedical Information Analysis Unit
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-krallinger-85495920/
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*About BSC*
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación
(BSC-CNS) is the leading supercomputing center in Spain. It houses
MareNostrum, one of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe. The mission
of BSC is to research, develop and manage information technologies in order
to facilitate scientific progress. BSC combines HPC service provision and
R&D into both computer and computational science (life, earth and
engineering sciences) under one roof, and currently has over 1000 staff
from 60 countries.
*Context And Mission*
The Natural Language Processing for Biomedical Information Analysis
(NLP4BIA) group at BSC is an internationally renowned research group
working on the development of NLP, language technology, and text-mining
solutions applied primarily to biomedical and clinical data. It is a highly
interdisciplinary team, funded through competitive European and National
projects requiring the implementation of natural language processing and
advanced AI solutions making use of diverse technologies, including
Transformers and recent advances in Large Language Models (LLM) to improve
healthcare data analysis.
The NLP4BIA-BSC is looking for a *Postdoctoral Research Engineer with
experience in Language Technologies and Deep Learning*. The candidate will
be involved in technical work related to international projects, being part
of a team of researchers working on topics related to multilingual
information extraction in the clinical field, including Named-Entity
Recognition, Entity Linking and Language Modeling. The candidate will have
the opportunity to advance the state of the art of cross-lingual biomedical
NLP methods by working in a multidisciplinary environment alongside
linguists, medical experts, and other engineers.
The funding for these actions/fellowships and contracts comes from the
European Union Recovery and Resilience Facility - Next Generation, within
the framework of the General Invitation by the public business entity
Red.es to participate in the talent attraction and retention programs
within Investment 4 of Component 19 of the Recovery, Transformation, and
Resilience Plan.
For more information, please check:
https://www.bsc.es/join-us/excellence-career-opportunities/ai4s
*Key Duties*
- Generation of Large Language Models
- NLP system development: Development of monolingual and multilingual
content classification and entity recognition systems
- Pre-training of monolingual and multilingual language models for
biomedicine
- Managing projects and technical project coordination
- Collaborate in drafting technical research proposals and writing
scientific papers.
*Requirements*
- Education
- University degree in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics,
or other engineering / science degree.
- PhD in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, or similar
- Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience
- Experience in Natural Language Processing technologies, preferable
with some publication track record or projects in the field of LLMs/Deep
Learning/NLP
- Ability to design, implement, and evaluate existing NLP and LMs
models.
- Experience in developing models using transformer architectures.
- Practical experience with deep learning libraries (e.g. Pytorch,
TensorFlow, Spacy, Transformers…)
- Knowledge of deep learning methods for fine-tuning large language
models.
- Advanced programming skills in Python.
- Experience in software development resources (Git)
- Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience
- Fluency in English is essential. Proficiency in Spanish and other
European languages would be advantageous.
- Competences
- Ability to work in a team and in a multi-cultural environment.
- Good communication and presentation skills.
- Technical writing skills.
- A proactive mindset, with creativity to design new solutions.
- Ability to work effectively both autonomously and as part of an
interdisciplinary team.
- Comfortable working under pressure and meeting strict deadlines.
Proactive working style.
*Conditions*
- The position will be located at BSC within the Life Sciences Department
- We offer a full-time contract (37.5h/week), a good working
environment, a highly stimulating environment with state-of-the-art
infrastructure, flexible working hours, extensive training plan, restaurant
tickets, private health insurance
- Duration: 4 years
- Holidays: 23 paid vacation days plus 24th and 31st of December per our
collective agreement
- Salary: 55.000,00 €
- Additional Expenses Grant: Each fellowship will be associated with a
grant for additional expenses, such as IT equipment, travel, training,
stays, etc.
- Starting date: asap - the incorporation for this vacancy must be
before the 16th of December 2024
Dear all,
The International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT) is the
premier annual conference for all aspects of Spoken Language Translation.
Every year, the conference organizes and sponsors open evaluation campaigns
around key challenges in simultaneous and consecutive translation, under
real-time/low latency or offline conditions, and for a variety of languages
in under-resourced or multilingual conditions. System descriptions and
results from participants’ systems and scientific papers related to key
algorithmic advances and best practices are presented.
IWSLT is the venue of the SIGSLT, the Special Interest Group on Spoken
Language Translation of ACL, ISCA, and ELRA. With a track record of 20+
years, IWSLT benchmarks and proceedings serve as a reference for all
researchers and practitioners working on speech translation and related
fields.
There are many challenges in speech translation that have not yet been
addressed, among them, we are really interested in topics related to new
applications scenarios (e.g. meetings, subtitling, dubbing), specific
aspects (e.g. names, accents), different styles, multilingually, discourse
and summarization, multimodal and multi-party speech translation, automatic
evaluation metrics for speech translation. or many other ideas that
researchers have not yet focused on. Therefore, we invite proposals for *shared
tasks*.
If you want to propose a new task to encourage researchers around the world
to work on particular timely challenges in SLT, please fill out the following
form <https://iwslt.org/assets/pdfs/IWSLT2025-Call_for_Tasks.pdf> and send
it to *iwslt-organizers(a)googlegroups.com
<iwslt-organizers(a)googlegroups.com> *by* September 30th, 2024. *Decisions
about which tasks will run in 2025 will be announced by November 1st, 2024.
For further information on this initiative, please refer to
*https://iwslt.org/assets/pdfs/IWSLT2025-Call_for_Tasks.pdf
<https://iwslt.org/assets/pdfs/IWSLT2025-Call_for_Tasks.pdf>.*
Best,
Marine, Marcello, Alex, Jan, Sebastian, Elizabeth, Atul
IWSLT Organisers
***Apologies for cross-postings***
At the Institute of Computer Science (Prof. Dr. Alexander Mehler, TTLab,
https://www.texttechnologylab.org/), Department of Computer Science and
Mathematics at Goethe University Frankfurt, a PhD position for a
*Research Assistant (m/f/d)
(E 13 TV-G-U) *
is available at the next possible date for a period of three years
within the project Semiautomated Thematic Text Classification as a Basis
for Corpus Linguistic Value-Added Services. The project is funded by the
German Research Foundation (DFG). The salary group classification is
based on the job characteristics determined by the collective labour
agreement in effect for the Goethe University (TV-G-U).
The aim of the project is to develop a deep learning-based topic
classification system using the Wikipedia category system and data from
the Wikidata project, and to develop and test topic models based on this
classification system for the automatic classification of texts,
including those from the Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS)
in Mannheim. The project will be carried out in cooperation with the IDS
and the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig. The research will focus on
state-of-the-art AI methods, in particular generative AI methods.
The applicant is expected to engage in the project and actively
participate in courses, workshops, and events of the project. We are
looking for a highly qualified individual with a strong interest in
research methods in the fields of AI and topic modeling as well as in
the team-oriented development and application of innovative,
research-oriented methods in the field of text modeling. With the
Text-Technology Lab, in which the position will be embedded, we offer a
research-oriented, internationally focused working environment in the
fields of computational humanities, multimodal computing, machine
learning and artificial intelligence. This includes funding for
conference attendance and individual career development.
Requirements:
• Completed academic degree (Master's or equivalent) in computer
science, computational humanities, computational linguistics or a field
related to text modelling and AI.
• Experience in the development and testing of NLP or AI methods.
• Extensive programming knowledge in Java, Python or similar.
• An interest in issues relating to information science is desirable
but not essential.
Please send your application with the usual documents (cover letter, CV,
copies of certificates) electronically in a summarized PDF document by
20.09.2024 to Prof. Dr. Alexander Mehler: mehler(a)em.uni-frankfurt.de.
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Giuseppe Abrami
Text-Technology Lab
Fakultät für Informatik und Mathematik
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
Robert-Mayer-Strasse 10
4. Stock (Texttechnologie)
60325 Frankfurt am Main
Postfach: 154
Tel: +49 69-798-28926
Fax: +49 69-798-28931
Mail: abrami(a)em.uni-frankfurt.de
Web: http://www.texttechnologylab.org
Full PhD position in Computational Dialogue Modeling @ Bielefeld University, Germany
Collaborative Research Center 1646 „Linguistic Creativity in Communication“
- Project B02: Computational linguistic creativity in reference games between interactive dialogue agents
- PIs: Prof. Dr. Hendrik Buschmeier, Prof. Dr. Sina Zarrieß
Explore how dialogue agents can develop creative strategies to solve tasks in interaction.
- Collect+analyze data from humans playing reference games.
- Develop state-of-the-art computational models combining neural and symbolic reasoning.
- Contribute to groundbreaking research on human-machine co-creativity.
More information and application link:
https://uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/3653/research-position?page_lang=…
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Hendrik Buschmeier
Digital Linguistics Lab
Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies, Bielefeld University
https://purl.org/net/hbuschme
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Hendrik Buschmeier
Digital Linguistics Lab
Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies, Bielefeld University
https://purl.org/net/hbuschme