January 2025 - Corpora

Several PhD positions in computational linguistics and other language subjects, Uppsala Unviersity
by Sara Stymne 22 Jan '25

22 Jan '25

We offer several fully funded four-year PhD positions at the Language Faculty at Uppsala University. One position is in Computational Linguistics, with a specialization in Nordic Languages. This position requires knowledge of a Scandinavian language and will be carried out as part of the research project "Language change and non-fictional texts – a large-scale investigation of Late Modern Swedish (1800–1950)”, led by Sara Stymne and David Håkansson One PhD position in computational linguistics with a specialization in Scandinavian languages at the Department of Linguistics and Philology, UFV-PA 2024/4415<https://uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:781989/> Several positions are focused on projects related to linguistic diversity and are open to students in Computational Linguistics, Linguistics, as well as other language subjects. Five PhD positions on the theme of linguistic diversity at the Department of Linguistics and Philology, UFV-PA 2024/4412<https://uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:781937/> One PhD position on the theme of linguistic diversity within any research environment at the faculty, UFV-PA 2025/18<https://uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:785710/> There are also several positions in several other language subjects. https://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/join-us/jobs-and-vacancies/job-details?query=… Application for all positions closes on March 3. Best, Sara 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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[2nd CFP] Special Issue on Language Models for Portuguese (JBCS)
by Aline Paes 21 Jan '25

21 Jan '25

2nd Call for Papers Special Issue on Language Models for Portuguese of the Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society (JBCS) JBCS <https://journals-sol.sbc.org.br/index.php/jbcs/> invites the submission of papers featuring substantial, original, and unpublished research in all aspects of creating, adapting, using, and evaluating *Language Models for Portuguese*. The use of Language Models in the most diverse areas of computing has raised several issues that deserve the attention of researchers. In the specific case of the Portuguese language, we face major challenges. Whereas efforts are put forward for the construction of good Portuguese models, the most diverse applications are still created using multilingual models or even models built for other languages. It is extremely important that the Portuguese-speaking scientific community makes an effort to build adequate resources to ensure safe and quality systems. This Special Issue aims to gather original papers discussing Portuguese language models. In addition to automatic evaluation measures, submissions should also discuss the linguistic issues regarding these models' capabilities, limitations, and biases. Topics covered by this Special Issue extend to all research works involving the creation, adaptation, use and evaluation of Language Models for Portuguese processing, including the topics of interest below. Topics of interest: Comparative and critical analyses of language models Social, ethical, financial, and ecological issues related to language models Discussion on alternative solutions to language models Domain-specific language models Adequacy of not-so-large language models for specific tasks Multilingual x Portuguese-specific models Semantic issues in language models Cultural issues in language models Resources for training language models Evaluation of language models The papers must be written in English and the authors should follow the Author Guidelines of the JBCS described here <https://journals-sol.sbc.org.br/index.php/jbcs/about/submissions> using this JBCS LaTeX template <https://www.overleaf.com/project/63b08a6f82cc2ad5aa297ac8>. - Submission deadline: *March 1, 2025* - Review deadline (1st round): *April 30, 2025* - Submission of revised version deadline: *May 31, 2025* - Review deadline (2nd round): *June 30, 2025* - Submission of revised version deadline: *July 31, 2025* - Decision deadline (rejection, acceptance): *August 2025* - Camera-ready submission deadline: *September 2025* - Publication: *October, 2025* The papers must be written in English and should not exceed 20 pages, excluding references and appendices. Authors should follow Author Guidelines of the JBCS described here <https://journals-sol.sbc.org.br/index.php/jbcs/about/submissions> using this JBCS LaTeX template <https://www.overleaf.com/project/63b08a6f82cc2ad5aa297ac8>. The submission for this Special Issue can be made through the JBCS website <https://journals-sol.sbc.org.br/index.php/jbcs/open-calls>. Guest Editors: Renata Vieira - UEVORA Aline Paes - IC-UFF Graça Nunes - ICMC-USP Helena Caseli - DC-UFSCar An initiative of Brasileiras em PLN group (https://brasileiraspln.com/) in partnership with CE-PLN <https://www.sbc.org.br/>, the special group in NLP of the Brazilian Computing Society <https://www.sbc.org.br/>. contact email: jbcs-si-lmpt(a)googlegroups.com homepage: https://sites.google.com/view/jbcs-si-on-portugueselm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Profa. Dra. Aline Paes (she/her)* *Associate professor - Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence)* Institute of Computing / Universidade Federal Fluminense (IC/UFF) Member of CE-PLN <https://sites.google.com/view/ce-pln/inicio> and BPLN <https://brasileiraspln.com/> CNPq PQ-E and FAPERJ JCNE __________________________________________________________ url: www.ic.uff.br/~alinepaes Av Gal Milton Tavares de Souza, S/N, Computing Building, Office 504 São Domingos, Niterói, RJ, Brazil. ZIP 24210-346 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ****Please do not feel any pressure to respond out of your own regular working hours. Remember that this is supposed to be an asynchronous tool***

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CfP: Humor and Artificial Intelligence at ISHS 2025
by Tristan Miller 21 Jan '25

21 Jan '25

Humor and Artificial Intelligence Track ======================================= 35th International Society for Humor Studies Conference (ISHS 2025) Krakow, Poland, July 7 to 11, 2025 https://ishs2025.pl/ ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 14, 2025 Call for papers --------------- As in previous years, the Humor and AI Special Interest Group <https://humorstudies.org/Forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=9> of the International Society for Humor Studies will hold a panel at the 35th International Society for Humor Studies Conference (ISHS 2025). We invite presentations on AI-based technology for generating, processing, or analyzing humor. Application areas include, but are not limited to: * human–computer interaction * computer-mediated communication * intelligent writing assistants * conversational agents * machine and computer-assisted translation * digital humanities * natural language processing * computer vision Abstracts of up to 300 words should be submitted using the form at <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfoMsDfZo70QgnRvGgsXFlyYT0K-4yqOho…>. (Select a submission type of "paper presenter" and specify "Humor and Artificial Intelligence" in the "If your presentation is part of a panel..." field.) Conveners --------- Kiki Hempelmann, East Texas A&M University <kiki(a)tamuc.edu> Tristan Miller, University of Manitoba <Tristan.Miller(a)umanitoba.ca> Julia M. Rayz, Purdue University <jtaylor1(a)purdue.edu> -- Dr. Tristan Miller, Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba https://clam.cs.umanitoba.ca/ | Tel. +1 204 474 6792

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CFP: 38th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Canadian AI 2025)
by pmvul089＠uottawa.ca 20 Jan '25

20 Jan '25

** Apologies for cross-postings ** ---------- Call for Papers: Canadian AI 2025 ---------- ---------- May 26-29, 2025, in Calgary, Alberta ---------- We are now inviting researchers to submit papers in all areas of Artificial Intelligence, either theoretical or applied, to the 38th Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence taking place in Calgary on May 26-29. We also welcome the submission of position papers, which present evidence-based arguments for a particular point of view without necessarily presenting a new system. **Paper submissions are due by Monday, Feb 10, 2025 (11:59 p.m. AoE time zone).** Conference proceedings will be published in PubPub open-access online format and submitted to be indexed/abstracted in leading indexing services such as DBLP, ACM, and Google Scholar. ---------- Submission details ---------- Canadian AI is accepting submissions of both long and short papers. Long papers must be no longer than 12 pages, and short papers must be no longer than 6 pages, including references. Submissions in both LaTeX and Word are accepted. More information and submission templates are available under Submission Details here: https://www.caiac.ca/en/conferences/canadianai-2025/call-papers **The portal for submission is now open and can be found here:** https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/CANADIANAI2025/ Papers submitted to the conference must not have already been published, or accepted for publication, or be under review by a journal or another conference (preprint is acceptable if the title is different). Submissions will go through a double-blind review process by Program Committee members to assess originality, significance, technical merit, and clarity of presentation. As such, submissions must be anonymized, and papers that fail to do so will be desk rejected without a review. ---------- Topics of interest include: ---------- - Agent Systems - AI Applications - Automated Reasoning - Case‐based Reasoning - Cognitive Models - Constraint Satisfaction - Data Mining - Deep Learning and Neural Models - E‐Commerce - Ethics in AI, AI for social good - Evolutionary Computation - Explainable AI - Fair, Secure, Private, and Trusted AI - Games - Information Retrieval and Search - Knowledge Management - Knowledge Representation - Large Language Models - Machine Learning - Multimedia Processing - Natural Language Processing - Planning - Robotics - Uncertainty - User Modeling - Web Mining and Applications Authors of accepted long papers will be allotted time for an oral presentation during the conference. Accepted short papers will also be allotted time for a 5-minute oral presentation, followed by a poster session presentation. It is mandatory for at least one author of each accepted paper to attend the conference in person to present their work. Authors are expected to agree to this requirement before submitting their paper for review. Furthermore, the corresponding author of each paper must complete and sign a copyright form on behalf of all authors associated with the paper. It is important that the corresponding author who signs the copyright form matches the corresponding author listed on the paper. ---------- Awards ---------- A Best Paper Award and a Best Student Paper Award will be given at the conference, respectively, to the authors of each best paper, as judged by the Best Paper Award Selection Committee. For the Best Student Paper Award, the first author must be a registered student at the time of submitting the paper. ---------- Important dates ---------- - Submission deadline: Monday, Feb 10, 2025 (11:59 p.m. AoE time zone) - Author notification: Tuesday, April 1, 2025 - Camera-ready copy due: Tuesday, April 15, 2025 (11:59 p.m. AoE time zone) - Conference dates: May 26-29 2025 ---------- Program Chairs ---------- Paula Branco School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa pbranco(a)uottawa.ca https://uniweb.uottawa.ca/view/profile/members/4218?lang=en Amine Trabelsi Département d'informatique, Université de Sherbrooke Amine.Trabelsi(a)USherbrooke.ca https://www.usherbrooke.ca/informatique/trabelsi We look forward to your participation in Canadian AI 2025!

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Second Call for Papers Fifth Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK 2025)
by Andon Tchechmedjiev 20 Jan '25

20 Jan '25

** Apologies for cross-postings ** ============== Call for Papers @ Fifth Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK 2025) Dates: 9-12 September 2025 Location: Naples, Italy Website: http://2025.ldk-conf.org Twitter/X: https://x.com/LDKconference Submission Deadline: 06/03/2025 Submission page: https://openreview.net/group?id=LDK/2025/Conference ============== We invite submissions to the fifth biennial conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK 2025) to be held in Naples, Italy in September 2025. This conference aims to bring together researchers from across different disciplines concerned with the acquisition, treatment, curation and the use of language data in the context of data science and knowledge-based applications. This edition builds upon the success of the inaugural event held in Galway, Ireland in 2017, the second LDK in Leipzig, Germany in 2019, the third LDK in Zaragoza, Spain in 2021, and the fourth LDK in Vienna, Austria in 2023. Paper Submission We welcome submissions of relevance to the topics listed below. Submissions can be in the form of: Long papers: 9–12 pages; Short papers: 4–6 pages. All submission lengths are given including references. Accepted submissions will be published in an open-access conference proceedings volume and indexed in ACL anthology and DBLP, free of charge for authors. The ACL templates should therefore be used for all conference submissions. As the reviewing process is single-blind, submissions should not be anonymised. Papers should be submitted via OpenReview at the following address: https://openreview.net/group?id=LDK/2025/Conference All papers must represent original work. When submitted, the submission must not have been previously published*, and the material in it must not have been/be submitted for review at another journal or conference while under review at LDK 2025. *This excludes papers on preprint archives, such as arXiv, which we do not consider to have been previously published. The conference will be hybrid (face-to-face and remote). Note that at least one author of each accepted paper must register to present the paper at the conference (either remotely or on-site). Topics Relevant topics for the conference include, but are not limited to, the following fields: Language Data Language data construction and acquisition Language data annotation FAIR data practices for language data Language data portals and metadata about language data Organisational and infrastructural management of language data Multilingual, multimedia and multimodal language data Evaluation, provenance and quality of language data Visualisation of language data Standards and interoperability of language data Legal aspects of publishing language data Under-resourced languages e-Lexicography Semantic processing Knowledge Graphs Linguistic Linked Data and the multilingual Semantic Web Ontologies, terminologies, wordnets, framenets and related resources Information and knowledge extraction (taxonomy extraction, ontology learning) Data, information and knowledge integration across languages (Cross-lingual) ontology alignment Entity linking and relatedness Linked data profiling Knowledge representation and reasoning Knowledge graphs for corpora processing and analysis Neuro Symbolic Artificial Intelligence Methods and Applications for Language, Data and Knowledge Question answering and semantic search Text analytics on big data NLP for language documentation and preservation Speech recognition and synthesis Spoken language processing Semantic content management Computer-aided language learning Natural language interfaces to big data Knowledge-based NLP Deep learning and machine learning for and on LLOD Language Models and Foundation Models (Language and Multimodal Models). Generative Artificial Intelligence and Language, Data, Knowledge Graphs Use Cases in Language, Data and Knowledge Contributions are welcome where the topics above - and others within the scope of Language, Data and Knowledge - are applied to domain-specific use cases, including but not limited to: social sciences and humanities, legal, life sciences, FinTech, cybersecurity. Organising Committee Conference Chairs: Jorge Gracia, University of Zaragoza, Spain Dagmar Gromann, University of Vienna, Austria Program Chairs: Mehwish Alam, Telecom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France Andon Tchechmedjiev, Institut Mines Telecom, France Proceedings chair: Max Ionov, University of Zaragoza, Spain Publicity chair: Argentina Rescigno, University of Naples “L’Orientale”, Italy Workshop and Tutorial Chairs: Katerina Gkirtzou, ILSP/Athena Research Center, Greece Slavko Zitnik, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Local Organisers: Maria Pia Buono, University of Naples “L’Orientale”, Italy Johanna Monti, University of Naples “L’Orientale”, Italy Important Dates: Paper submission deadline: 6th March, 2025 Acceptance/Rejection Notification: 8th May, 2025 Pre/Post Conference events: 9 to 12 September, 2025 Main conference: 10-11 September, 2025 All deadlines are 23:59 AoE (anywhere on Earth)

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2nd CFP: Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities NLP4DH @ NAACL 2025
by Mika Hämäläinen 20 Jan '25

20 Jan '25

The 5th International Conference on Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities will co-locate with NAACL in Albuquerque, USA! The proceedings will be published in the ACL anthology. The event will take place on May 3–4, 2025. https://www.nlp4dh.com/nlp4dh-2025 Submission deadline: February 23, 2025 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 - Direct paper submission (long and short): February 23, 2025 - Notification of acceptance: March 10, 2025 - Camera ready deadline: March 23, 2025 - Conference: May 3-4, 2025

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UCCTS 2025 - Final Call for Papers
by Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski 20 Jan '25

20 Jan '25

UCCTS 2025 - Final Call for Papers The eighth edition of the UCCTS conference (www.uni-hildesheim.de/uccts2025) will be held on the 8-10th of September 2025 in Hildesheim, Germany. UCCTS conference series are meant to bring together researchers who collect, annotate, analyze corpora and/or use them to inform contrastive linguistics and translation theory and/or develop corpus-informed tools (in foreign language teaching, language testing and quality assessment, translation pedagogy, computer-aided/machine translation or other related NLP domains). We invite original submissions that open to various topics within empirical contrastive linguistics and translation studies (see below). We welcome interdisciplinary contributions that combine corpus data with other types of empirical data (e.g. experiment) and allow for an interplay between different methods and data types. Moreover, we encourage contributions applying information and computational technologies including Large Language Models (LLMs). Conference topics include: * Quantitative approaches in corpus-based contrastive and translation/interpreting studies, in particular with multi-methodological designs (corpus-based, corpus-driven, experimental) and advanced statistical modeling * Computational methods derived from NLP and data mining (e.g. computational semantics, pragmatics) applied to contrastive linguistics and translation studies * LLMs for contrastive linguistics and translation research (data annotation, data analysis, etc.) * Method and data triangulation: combined use of corpus data and methods and other sources of data * New or remodelled theoretical frameworks relevant to corpus-based contrastive and translation/interpreting studies * Presentation of new resources for contrastive and translation studies (spoken and multimodal corpora, sign language (interpreting) corpora, transcript datasets, corpora of low-resourced languages, lexicons, databases, etc.) * Linguistic variation of various types, e.g. variation driven by register or genre variation, learner language, target audience, mode of production, etc. * Cognitive approaches to translation (and other language product) properties * Analysis of non-canonical forms of (multilingual) communication * Corpus use in translator training, foreign language learning/teaching * Corpus use in multilingual (e-)lexicography and terminology * Quality assessment in (automatic) translation and interpreting * Non-canonical forms of translation/interpreting and multilingual communication * Corpus analysis of translation between close languages, from a third language, non-native translation, indirect/relay translation, etc. * Analysis of accessible communication (e.g. intralingual translation, audio-visual and audio-descriptive forms, etc.) The submissions are to be made in the form of anonymized extended abstracts (in PDF) that should be between 800 and 1000 words long (excluding references) by February 10, 2025. Apart from a clear outline of the aims and methods of the study, the abstracts should also provide (preliminary) results. The abstracts will be submitted through the Open review system and reviewed by at least two members of the scientific committee. The accepted contributions will be presented either as oral talks or as posters. All submissions must follow abstract submission instructions given below. Abstract text must be in single-spaced 12pt Arial font, with no indents and 1 inch borders on each side (2.54 cm). The title should be in 12pt Arial, bold and centred, in title case. Page numbers should be omitted. Figure and table captions should be in 10pt Arial font. Table and figure captions should appear below the table or figure. References must be in 9pt Arial font, in APA7 format.Publications The abstracts of the accepted papers will be published in an online book of abstracts. We also plan to publish selected papers in an edited volume or in a special issue of a journal. Further information will be communicated in due course. Keynote speakers We are pleased to announce that the following plenary lectures are planned for the UCCTS2025 conference in Hildesheim: * Elke Teich, Saarland University in Germany * Dylan Glynn, Université Paris 8, Vincennes - St Denis * Christian Hardmeier, IT University of Copenhagen Important dates * Conference abstract submission due: Feb 10, 2025 * Notification of acceptance: April 14, 2025 * Final abstract version due: May 5, 2025 * Registration open: May 12, 2025 * Early-bird registration: July 7, 2025 * Conference date: September 8-10, 2025 Questions and inquiries under uccts2025(at)uni-hildesheim.de -- Prof. Dr. Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski Mehrsprachige technische Fachkommunikation Institut für Übersetzungswissenschaft und Fachkommunikation Fachbereich 3: Sprach und Informationswissenschaften Stiftung Universität Hildesheim Lübecker Straße 3 31141 Hildesheim +49 5121 883-30934

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eLex 2025 Call for papers
by Iztok Kosem 20 Jan '25

20 Jan '25

(Apologies for cross-posting) Dear colleagues, eLex 2025, the ninth biennial conference on electronic lexicography in the 21st century, will be held in Bled, Slovenia, 18–20 November 2025. More information is available on the conference website: https://elex.link/elex2025/. Please note that we are currently inviting proposals for pre- or post-conference workshops. Call for papers Submission guidelines The focus of this conference is on Intelligent Lexicography, i.e., all the aspects of using LLMs and AI in lexicography, and vice versa. Beyond this year’s topic, papers discussing any of the following areas of lexicography are cordially welcome: Dictionary content in different digital media (e.g. mobile devices, tablets) Exploitation of language resources (e.g. via API): monolingual and multilingual corpora, learner corpora, lexical databases (e.g. Wordnet, Framenet, DANTE, Wikipedia) Linked lexical data, its integration and presentation Automatic creation of dictionary content Visualisation of lexical data New reference tools with a dictionary element (e.g. learning tools, writing assistants) Dictionary writing systems and other software available to the lexicographer Integration of NLP tools (e.g. grammatical annotation, speech synthesis) Corpus lexicography Usage practices of the users of electronic dictionaries Automated customisation of dictionaries to users’ needs and characteristics (e.g. proficiency level, mother tongue) Integration of electronic dictionaries into language learning and teaching (e.g. CALL, translator training) Crowdsourcing and its use in lexicography Language of the conference: English The abstracts (required for all categories), to be submitted by March 31st 2025, should be between 400–500 words in length (excluding references). The abstracts should be anonymous. The abstracts should be submitted via Easychair website: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=elex2025. There will be three categories of presentation at the conference: Paper (25 minutes, including discussion) Software presentation (25 minutes, including discussion) Posters and demos Software presentations should not include only a demo of the software but also other aspects, such as the analysis of user needs, the rationale for certain features, specifics of projects/datasets, etc. The posters and demos are intended to present research still at a preliminary stage and on which researchers would like to get feedback. In order to give a presentation at the conference, you must have your abstract accepted. The authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit a full paper for the proceedings (indexed by SCOPUS). We look forward to your contributions. Iztok Kosem Head of the organising committee

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COLING 2025 Tutorial: Bridging Linguistic Theory & AI - Unlocking Usage-Based Learning in Humans & Machines (Call for Participation)
by claire.n.bonial.civ＠army.mil 19 Jan '25

19 Jan '25

**Happening tomorrow – Jan. 20** on-site tutorial at COLING 2025 that will discuss the latest work on bridging the worlds of linguistic theory with Large Language Models: “Bridging Linguistic Theory and AI: Usage-Based Learning in Humans and Machines.” If you are in Abu Dhabi, come join us! Time: 14:00 - 17:30 Location: Capital Suite 7 If you were not able to attend but are interested, we would like to note that **our slides will be available to download** on our website: https://sites.google.com/view/linguistic-theory-and-ai/ Detailed Tutorial Description: The takeaways of this tutorial, which will be held in-person, will be an overview of the shared and divergent aspects of human and machine usage and data-driven learning, outlined from the theoretical perspective of usage-based psycholinguistic theory, with an emphasis on how this can shed light on the capabilities and limitations of LLMs, including multimodal models. This will serve as the bedrock for guiding participants and the NLP community towards more informed evaluation of large, pre-trained models, as well as energising solutions drawing upon the multi-modal information and linguistic theory that enriches language and many dimensions of interaction. Background: Unlike our past NLP tools, such as syntactic parsers and automatic semantic role labelling, LLMs lack grounding in linguistic theory. Instead, their development is based on the encoder-decoder architecture, which was originally designed for sequence- to-sequence tasks, specifically translation. This dichotomy impedes methods for evaluating LLMs, as their performance on meta-linguistic tasks, such as semantic role labelling, which previously served as benchmarks for the individual components in an NLP pipeline, are poor predictors of their fluency on downstream applications. However, the fact that LLMs, designed primarily to meet information-theoretic needs, can capture any linguistic information at all is fascinating. Additionally, it offers a novel foundation for exploring what can be achieved through exposure to information alone. Therefore, it has been compelling to turn to usage-based theories of language, such as Construction Grammar, to establish experimentally validated structures of language that speakers of a given language consistently recognise and are able to generalise over. We can then compare such structures to the linguistic structure that we can probe for within LLMs. For More information, visit: https://sites.google.com/view/linguistic-theory-and-ai/ We hope to see you tomorrow at COLING, On behalf of Claire Bonial, Harish Tayyar Madabushi, Nikhil Krishnaswamy, James Pustejovsky

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Researcher E13 (50%) position with PhD opportunity until 2029-12-31
by Ulrich Schäfer 18 Jan '25

18 Jan '25

Dear Corpora list members, please forward this email to anyone you think might be interested in a PhD: Researcher E13 (50%) position with PhD opportunity: Foundation Models for the AI-driven Factory of the Future =========================================== Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule (OTH) Amberg-Weiden, a technical university and university of applied science located in eastern Bavaria, is offering a researcher position (Computer Science, AI, Data Science, Computational Linguistics, or similar) from 2025-03-01 until 2029-12-31. The focus is on investigating large language and vision models in industrial production environments in the Technology Transfer Center (TTZ) "AI-Driven Factory of the Future". In September 2023, our university was granted the right to confer PhD degrees in this research area. Please note that a good command of German is indispensable for this position because close collaboration with industrial partners in the region will be part of the job. Applications are only possible via the university's job portal https://jobs.b-ite.com/jobposting/62675ed25235f82d581b1496d89f082fe818e9832 [https://jobs.b-ite.com/jobposting/62675ed25235f82d581b1496d89f082fe818e9832] There you can also find the detailed job description. The position will be 50% of full time on the German E13 scale (TV-L) OTH Amberg-Weiden is a young university in the middle of Europe that offers its students a future-oriented education in 54 courses. Over 4,200 students are taught by 119 professors in the two university towns of Amberg and Weiden: https://www.oth-aw.de [https://www.oth-aw.de] best, Ulrich -- Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ulrich Schäfer Dean, Director of Innovation and Competence Centre Artificial Intelligence (IKKI) Department of Electrical Engineering, Media and Computer Science (EMI) Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden Kaiser-Wilhelm-Ring 23 D-92224 Amberg email: u.schaefer(a)oth-aw.de homepage: http://www.oth-aw.de/schaefer-ulrich/ [http://www.oth-aw.de/schaefer-ulrich/] Fon: +49 9621 482-3623

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