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Job: Assistant Professor of Computational Linguistics at Rochester Institute of Technolog
by Cecilia Alm 14 Oct '24

14 Oct '24

Assistant Professor of Computational Linguistics Rochester Institute of Technology Detailed Job Description The Department of Psychology and Department of Modern Languages and Cultures at the Rochester Institute of Technology jointly invite applications for a full-time, 9-month tenure-track Assistant Professor of Computational Linguistics, beginning in August 2025. Candidates are expected to have an earned doctoral degree (in hand by August 2025) in Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, or a related field. Successful candidates should demonstrate computational expertise, strong research talent, and initiative in grant writing. Candidates should also have a plan for excellence in teaching and student mentoring at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Applicants must be able to teach our courses in language technology, natural language processing, and/or speech processing. In addition, applicants should be able to teach foundational linguistics from a cross-linguistic perspective, as well as courses in one or more linguistics or cognitive science subfields. Proficiency in a language other than English is preferred, and we welcome research or teaching experience involving language learning. The position requires a strong commitment to teaching and mentoring, active research and publication, and a strong potential to attract external funding. Research and teaching are priorities for faculty at RIT, and all faculty are expected to mentor students through advising, research, and in-class experiences. The computational linguistics-related programs at RIT serve a rapidly expanding student population at a technical university. We are particularly looking for a faculty colleague who can also contribute to the interdisciplinary Ph.D. program in Cognitive Science and the M.S. in Artificial Intelligence. In addition, RIT provides many opportunities for collaborative research across the institute in areas such as linguistics of sign languages and languages other than English, artificial intelligence, human-centered computing, and cybersecurity. RIT faculty have access to extensive research computing resources. We are seeking an individual who has the ability and interest in contributing to a community committed to student centeredness; professional development and scholarship; integrity and ethics; respect, diversity and pluralism; innovation and flexibility; and teamwork and collaboration. Select to view links to RIT’s core values<https://www.rit.edu/policies/p040>, honor code<https://www.rit.edu/policies/p030>, and diversity commitment<https://www.rit.edu/diversity/>. Department/College Description The Department of Psychology at RIT offers B.S. and M.S. degrees, Advanced Certificates, minors, immersions, electives, and co-supports interdisciplinary graduate degrees including the Ph.D. program in Cognitive Science and the M.S. program in Artificial Intelligence. It also contributes to joint undergraduate degrees in Human-Centered Computing and Neuroscience. The Department of Modern Languages and Cultures offers a B.S. in Applied Modern Language and Culture with tracks in Chinese, French, Japanese, and Spanish, in addition to minors, immersions, and general education courses in Language Science<https://www.rit.edu/study/language-science-minor>, American Sign Language and Deaf Cultural Studies, Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Latino/Latina/Latin American Studies, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. The Department houses a Modern Language Technology Center where faculty and students actively integrate technology into language teaching and learning. The College of Liberal Arts is one of nine colleges within Rochester Institute of Technology. The College has over 150 faculty in 13 departments in the arts, humanities and social sciences. The College currently offers fourteen undergraduate degree programs and five Master degrees, serving over 800 students. The Ph.D. program in Cognitive Science, with language as one of the areas, is interdisciplinary with multiple partner units across the university. The College also jointly delivers the M.S. in Artificial Intelligence with other colleges of the university. We encourage the creation, development, dissemination, and application of human knowledge in the arts, humanities, and social sciences by promoting innovative teaching, scholarship, and research, thus providing a comprehensive education for all RIT students. We strive to prepare students for a lifetime of personal growth and responsible citizenship in an increasingly technological and rapidly changing society by maintaining and promoting the intellectual climate on campus, contributing to students’ awareness and understanding of diversity, and enhancing students’ abilities to reason critically and communicate effectively. We value a rigorous liberal arts education that encourages innovative experiential learning and active scholarship, the highest ethical standards, the educational and social benefits of diversity and global awareness, an interdisciplinary and collaborative environment of openness and academic freedom, a working environment in which all staff and faculty enjoy respect and recognition, and the active and meaningful participation of all members of the College community. Required Minimum Qualifications • Ph.D. (in hand by August 2025) in Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, or a related field. • Have demonstrated ability to conduct independent research in computational linguistics. • Have consistently and recently published. • Demonstrate potential for excellence in teaching language technology, natural language processing, and/or speech processing. • Demonstrate potential for excellence in teaching foundational linguistics from a cross-linguistic perspective, as well as courses in one or more linguistics or cognitive science subfields. • Demonstrate potential for excellence in supervising student research. • Demonstrate potential for external research grant attainment. • Show a career trajectory that emphasizes a balance between research and teaching. • Ability to contribute in meaningful ways to the College’s continuing commitment to cultural diversity, pluralism, and individual differences. How To Apply Apply online at http://careers.rit.edu/faculty; search openings, then Keyword Search 9260BR. Please submit your application, curriculum vitae, cover letter addressing the listed qualifications and upload the following attachments: * A research statement that includes information about previous grant work, the potential for future grants, and information about one-on-one supervision of student research * A brief teaching philosophy * The names, email addresses, and phone numbers of three references * Contribution to Diversity Statement You can contact the co-chairs of the search committee, Cecilia Alm, Ph.D. and Zhong Chen, Ph.D., with questions on the position at: cecilia.o.alm(a)rit.edu<mailto:cecilia.o.alm@rit.edu> and z.chen(a)rit.edu<mailto:z.chen@rit.edu>. Review of applications will begin November 15, 2024 and will continue until an acceptable candidate is found. RIT does not discriminate. RIT promotes and values diversity, pluralism and inclusion in the work place. RIT provides equal opportunity to all qualified individuals and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, age, marital status, sex, gender, religion, sexual orientations, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, veteran status or disability in its hiring, admissions, educational programs and activities.

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NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT Deadline extension
by Sara Stymne 14 Oct '24

14 Oct '24

*********** DEADLINE EXTENSION ************** The submission deadline has been extended! The new deadline is October 27, 2024 (23:59 anywhere on earth) ******************************************************* 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 as an in-person conference. https://www.nodalida-bhlt2025.eu/conference KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Dirk Hovy, Bocconi University, Milan Arianna Bisazza, University of Groningen 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 October 27, 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 (23:59, anywhere on earth): Sunday, October 27, 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.xn--com-to0a. 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.xn--ee-o2t. Follow us on X: https://twitter.com/NoDaLiDa Web page: https://www.nodalida-bhlt2025.eu/conference 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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Call for Data: Unidive Shared Task on Morphosyntactic Parsing
by Leonie Weissweiler 12 Oct '24

12 Oct '24

Dear members, We invite you to contribute data for UniDive’s shared task on morpho-syntactic parsing, to be hosted as part of SyntaxFest 2025 (August, Ljubljana). Data for this task largely resembles dependency trees as in Universal Dependencies, but bypasses wordhood debates by adopting the distinction between content and function elements to fully characterize sentences. The systems participating in this task will be required to output relations between content nodes and ascribe them morpho-syntactic features. Data and systems in this data format will allow easier cross-lingual studies and natural treatment of many additional languages, especially of the agglutinative type. We are looking for data contributors and annotators for data in various languages for this task. Our current team includes annotation teams in about a dozen of languages and we would like to expand the number and variety of the languages included. The data is set to be released around *February 2025*, and it can be either data tagged from scratch or semi-automatically converted from existing treebanks. Initial or partial data is to be available already *by the end of 2024*. Researchers interested in joining are welcome to reply to one or all the organizers (omer.goldman(a)gmail.com, weissweiler(a)utexas.edu, reut.tsarfaty(a)gmail.com) to hear more details of the data structure, including annotation guidelines and English example. Best regards, Omer Goldman, Leonie Weissweiler, and Reut Tsarfaty

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FINAL EXTENSION October 13, 2024- ACM SAC 2025 - Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track
by Patrizio Bellan 11 Oct '24

11 Oct '24

The 40th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing ACM SAC 2025 March 31 - April 4, 2025 - Catania, Italy Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track ***************************************** Important Dates Author deadline for submissions: September 20, 2024 October 4, 2024 FINAL EXTENSION October 13, 2024 Author notification of acceptance: October 30, 2024 Author camera ready and registration due: November 29, 2024 ***************************************** Aim Aim of the Knowledge and Natural Language Processing (KNLP) track at ACM SAC is to investigate techniques and application of knowledge engineering and natural language processing, two extremely interdisciplinary and lively research areas at the core of Artificial Intelligence. In particular, the track welcomes contributions combining and complementing methods and approaches from both areas. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Natural Language Processing NLP tasks for Knowledge Extraction NLP for Ontology Population and Learning Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining for Knowledge Applications Interplay between Language and Ontologies NLP for Explainable Knowledge Machine Translation techniques for Multi-lingual Knowledge NLP for the Web (Large) Language Models and Knowledge - Knowledge Knowledge to improve NLP tasks Knowledge for Information Retrieval Knowledge-based Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining Combining Knowledge and Deep Learning for NLP Knowledge for Text Summarization and Generation Knowledge for Persuasion Knowledge-based Machine Translation Knowledge for the Web Linked Data for NLP Knowledge-based NL Explainability RAG and Knowledge injection for Language Models - Applications Real-world applications that exploit Knowledge and NLP Knowledge and NLP Systems for Big Data scenarios Knowledge and NLP technology for diverse, equitable, and inclusive society Deployment of Knowledge and NLP Systems in specific domains, such as: Digital Humanities and Social Sciences eGovernment and public administration Life sciences, health and medicine News and Data Streaming ***************************************** Paper Submission Research papers and experience reports related to the above topics are solicited. Submissions must not have been published or be concurrently considered for publication elsewhere. Papers should be submitted in PDF using the ACM-SAC proceedings format using the submission link on the SAC 2025 website (https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2025/&source=gma…). Authors' names and affiliations should be entered separately at the submission site and not appear in the submitted papers. Each submission will be reviewed in a DOUBLE-BLIND process according to the ACM-SAC Regulations. Student Research Competition (SRC) submissions are welcome (see SAC 2025 website for details). Full papers are limited to 8 pages, in camera-ready format, included in the registration fee. Authors have the option to include up to two (2) extra pages (paying an extra charge). Posters are limited to 2 pages, in camera-ready format, included in the registration fee. Authors have the option to include only one (1) extra page (paying an extra charge). SRC Abstracts are limited to 3 pages, in camera-ready format, included in the registration fee. No extra pages are allowed. Paper selection is based on originality, technical contribution, presentation quality, and relevance to the Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track. Some papers may be accepted as posters. Paper registration is required, allowing the inclusion of the paper/poster in the conference proceedings. An author or a proxy attending SAC MUST present the paper. This is a requirement for the paper/poster to be included in the ACM digital library. No-show of registered papers and posters will result in excluding them from the ACM digital library. ***************************************** Track Co-Chairs Patrizio Bellan, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) Marco Bombieri, Università degli Studi di Verona Mauro Dragoni, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) Marco Rospocher, Università degli Studi di Verona ***************************************** Programme Committee TBA ***************************************** General Inquiries For further information, please visit SAC Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track (https://www.google.com/url?q=https://knlp-sac.github.io/2025/&source=gmail-…) and SAC 2024 conference websites (https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2025/&source=gma…) or feel free to contact the Track Co-Chairs at knlp(a)fbk.eu<mailto:knlp@fbk.eu> . -- -- Le informazioni contenute nella presente comunicazione sono di natura privata e come tali sono da considerarsi riservate ed indirizzate esclusivamente ai destinatari indicati e per le finalità strettamente legate al relativo contenuto. 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Interspeech 2025: Call for Proposals for special sessions
by Grzegorz Chrupała 10 Oct '24

10 Oct '24

============================================ Interspeech 2025 17 - 21 August, Rotterdam, The Netherlands https://www.interspeech2025.org/ ============================================ Call for Special Sessions Proposals https://www.interspeech2025.org/call-for-special-sessions ============================================ Important Dates =============== Proposals of special sessions due: 8 November 2024 Notification of pre-selection for special sessions: 18 November 2024 Final list of special sessions: 14 May 2025 Submissions for special session proposals are invited for Interspeech 2025 https://interspeech2025.org/. Special Sessions should cover interdisciplinary topics and/or important new emerging areas in speech communication. Submissions related to the special focus of the conference's theme, Fair and Inclusive Speech Science and Technology, are particularly welcome. Proposals should describe why the topic is relevant to the conference regular topics, and if applicable, to the conference's theme. Each special session proposal must contain the following information: * Special session title * Names and affiliations of the organizers (including contact information and a brief biography for each organizer) * Up to five bullet points on what makes the session special * A summary (up to one page) stating the importance of the session's topic and objectives. The summary should also explain why the topic is not properly covered by regular conference sessions. * A tentative list of authors who could contribute papers to the session. Note that with an approximate 50% acceptance rate for Interspeech papers, special sessions should have a minimum of 12 anticipated submissions, unless their format allocates time to other formats than paper presentations. * Special sessions may have a different format from regular sessions, e.g., panel discussion, longer summary talks, or a mix thereof. The proposal's session format should be clearly defined (panel, oral, posters, etc.). * Additional or non-standard resources (e.g., data, equipment, poster stands, etc.) needed for organizing the special session. Proposals will be evaluated by the organizing committee in consultation with the ISCA Technical Committee for relevance and significance to the conference. Papers for approved Special Sessions must be submitted according to the same schedule and procedure as used for regular papers. Papers will undergo the same review process by anonymous and independent reviewers. Special Session organizers may suggest reviewers. Note that the ISCA board has decided that special sessions can run for a maximum of three years in total. If this rule makes your proposal ineligible, we encourage you to organize your event as an Interspeech Satellite Workshop instead. Proposals as well as any questions should be submitted to the Special Session Chairs: Rob van Son (Netherlands Cancer Institute, the Netherlands) and Heysem Kaya (Utrecht University, the Netherlands) at specialsessions(a)interspeech2025.org.

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Interspeech 2025: Call for Challenge Proposals
by Grzegorz Chrupała 10 Oct '24

10 Oct '24

============================================ Interspeech 2025 17 - 21 August, Rotterdam, The Netherlands https://www.interspeech2025.org/ ============================================ Call for Challenge Proposals https://www.interspeech2025.org/call-for-challenges ============================================ Important Dates =============== Proposals of challenges due: 21 October 2024 Notification of pre-selection for challenges: 31 October 2024 Challenge paper deadline (same as regular papers) : 12 February 2025 Final list of challenges: 14 May 2025 Submissions for challenge proposals are invited for Interspeech2025 https://interspeech2025.org/. Challenge proposals should cover interdisciplinary topics and/or important new emerging areas in speech communication. Submissions related to the special focus of the conference's theme, Fair and Inclusive Speech Science and Technology, are particularly welcome. Proposals should describe why the topic is relevant to the conference regular topics, and if applicable, to the conference's theme. Note that the deadline for challenge proposal submission is earlier than regular special sessions, namely on October 21 2024. This is to give the challenge organizers time to disseminate the call and give participants enough time to participate and submit their papers before the regular paper deadline. A Challenge proposal must contain the following information: * Challenge title * Challenge organizers (including contact information and a brief biography for each organizer) * Brief introduction of the challenge * Significance of the challenge * Rules for participation * Criteria for judging the submissions to the competition * Data sets to be used and, if applicable, planned baseline systems * Relevant dates (e.g., submission deadline, data available, and winner announcement) Proposals will be evaluated by the organizing committee in consultation with the ISCA Technical Committee for relevance and significance to the conference. Papers for approved Challenges must be submitted according to the same schedule and procedure as used for regular papers. Papers will undergo the same review process by anonymous and independent reviewers. Challenge organizers may suggest reviewers. Note that the ISCA board has decided that challenges can run for a maximum of three years in total. If this rule makes your proposal ineligible, we encourage you to organize your event as an Interspeech Satellite Workshop instead. Proposals as well as any questions should be submitted to the Special Session Chairs: Rob van Son (Netherlands Cancer Institute, the Netherlands) and Heysem Kaya (Utrecht University, the Netherlands) at specialsessions(a)interspeech2025.org.

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Postdoctoral Scholar Opening - ITAO Department at the University of Notre Dame
by John Lalor 09 Oct '24

09 Oct '24

Postdoctoral Scholar Opening - ITAO Department at the University of Notre Dame Apply here: https://apply.interfolio.com/156773 The Department of IT, Analytics, and Operations in the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame is hiring one postdoctoral fellow as part of an NSF-funded project under the supervision of Assistant Professor John Lalor. The position is for two years, with an anticipated start date of January 2025. The project’s scope includes personalization in large language models, human-LLM interaction, and instance hardness and data difficulty. The fellow will be expected to conduct research in these areas, assist with PhD student mentoring, and submit research for publication in top Information Systems and/or Computer Science venues. The position includes a travel allowance for collaborations and conference presentations. Qualifications - PhD received within the last five years in machine learning, information systems, or a closely related field. - History of publications in top ML/NLP/IS conferences or journals. - Experience with open-source software and reproducible research. Application Instructions - Updated CV, indicating date of PhD completion - Brief cover letter - Two letters of recommendation highlighting the candidate's research accomplishments. Equal Employment Opportunity Statement The University of Notre Dame seeks to attract, develop, and retain the highest quality faculty, staff and administration. The University is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and is committed to building a culturally diverse workplace. We strongly encourage applications from female and minority candidates and those candidates attracted to a university with a Catholic identity. Moreover, Notre Dame prohibits discrimination against veterans or disabled qualified individuals, and requires affirmative action by covered contractors to employ and advance veterans and qualified individuals with disabilities in compliance with 41 CFR 60-741.5(a) and 41 CFR 60-300.5(a). Apply here: https://apply.interfolio.com/156773 -- John Lalor Assistant Professor of IT, Analytics, and Operations University of Notre Dame http://www.nd.edu/~jlalor1

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DANTE resurrected: public release of the DANTE English lexical database
by Miloš Jakubíček 09 Oct '24

09 Oct '24

We proudly announce the public availability of the DANTE lexical database, developed originally by Sue Atkins, Adam Kilgarriff and Michael Rundell in 2010 for Foras na Gaeilge, which decided to release the dataset under the CC-BY licence recently. "DANTE – the Database of ANalysed Texts of English – is a lexical database which provides a corpus-based description of the core vocabulary of English. It records the semantic, grammatical, combinatorial, and text-type characteristics of over 42,000 single-word lemmas and 23,000 compounds and phrasal verbs, and it also includes over 27,000 idioms and phrases." (Rundell & Atkins, 2010) The dataset is provided in a Lexonomy instance running at https://dantedictionary.com/ (including API) as well as raw data at https://github.com/lexicalcomputing/dante. Regards, Miloš Jakubíček Lexical Computing References: * https://dantedictionary.com/ * https://github.com/lexicalcomputing/dante * Convery, C., Mianáin, P. O., Raghallaigh, M. O., Atkins, S., Kilgarriff, A., & Rundell, M. (2010). The DANTE Database (Database of ANalysed Texts of English) [Conference paper]. Proceedings of the XIV EURALEX International Conference

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Final Call for Papers: NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025
by Sara Stymne 09 Oct '24

09 Oct '24

***Apologies for possible cross-posting *** The two major conferences in the Baltic and Nordic regions, NoDaLiDa, organized by The Northern European Association for Language Technology (NEALT) and Baltic HLT are joining forces to organize NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025 – The Joint 25th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics and 11th Baltic Conference on Human Language Technologies, to be held in Tallinn, Estonia, on March 2–5, 2025. https://www.nodalida-bhlt2025.eu/conference KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Dirk Hovy, Bocconi University, Milan Arianna Bisazza, University of Groningen 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>’. Follow us on X: https://twitter.com/NoDaLiDa Web page: https://www.nodalida-bhlt2025.eu/conference 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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[CORPORA] Workshop: Large Language Models for the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science (2-4 April 2025, TU Berlin)
by Arno Simons 09 Oct '24

09 Oct '24

Large Language Models for the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science (Workshop)* April 2-4, 2025, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany Organized jointly by: Gerd Graßhoff (HU Berlin), Arno Simons (TU Berlin), Adrian Wüthrich (TU Berlin), and Michael Zichert (TU Berlin) Summary We invite contributions to our workshop on using large language models (LLMs) in the history, philosophy, and sociology of science (HPSS). The workshop will focus on exploring use cases and proposals for how, and to what extent, LLMs might help overcome long-standing challenges in studies of how science works. The event will take place from April 2–4, 2025, at Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. Attendance (online and on site) will be free and open to the public but registration will be required. To contribute a talk, please submit abstracts of 300–600 words by December 31, 2024, to arno.simons(a)tu-berlin.de. Workshop topics Computational approaches to the history of science are in the process of establishing themselves among the standard repertoire of tools in the field and we have seen remarkable successes in their application already. Subfields of sociology of science have focused, since long, on quantitative methods such as bibliometrics and scientometrics. More recently, philosophy of science has experienced a shift towards allowing more empirical approaches including large-scale algorithmic analyses of scientific or methodological concepts. Computational tools can not only help reduce the workload in traditional research in these fields but, more importantly, also open up new avenues which to explore would otherwise be hopeless. Analyses of co-occurrences and word frequencies as well as more advanced techniques such as topic modeling have helped go beyond identifying only structural features of scientific activities and began scratching the surface of semantics. However, a deeper understanding of scientific concepts, the structure of scientific arguments, and the process of knowledge transformation and spread have remained formidable challenges for computational approaches in the mentioned fields. With the advent of LLMs this might change now. Natural language processing and machine learning have made a spectacular leap forward in their attempt to capture and analyze meaning and grammatical structures of texts. This promises that LLMs can help HPSS researchers meet the aforementioned challenges. However—besides general issues such as opacity, bias and interpretability—the use of LLMs for HPSS is likely to face unique obstacles arising from the specialized nature of scientific language as well as the specific perspectives and objectives of HPSS. It will be the main goal of this workshop to see how, given these obstacles, the most recent advances in LLM development can help overcome long-standing challenges in HPSS. Accordingly, the workshop will address two key themes, with the goal of synthesizing them over the course of the event. On one hand, contributions should articulate the specific needs and desiderata of HPSS researchers—what they hope LLMs can achieve for their work. On the other hand, the current state of LLM development should be critically examined to determine to what extent these research goals are becoming attainable. Ideally, contributions will address both these objectives, though submissions focused on only one of them are also welcome. We particularly encourage contributions that focus on: Use cases that demonstrate how LLMs can help resolve current issues in HPSS Examples of how LLMs allow researchers to ask and answer new types of questions in HPSS How new types of sources and data, made analyzable through LLMs, contribute to novel insights in HPSS research We look for contributions that help resolve questions like these: How can LLMs help gain new perspectives on long-standing problems in HPSS such as determining the relevant contexts of knowledge claims, the dynamics of scientific controversies, problems of incommensurability, and generalizability of case studies? How can LLMs handle the specialized language of scientific texts, including technical jargon, citations, and mathematical formulas? How can LLMs bridge the gap between qualitative and computational methods and help overcome their limitations? How can LLMs be integrated into existing theoretical and methodological frameworks in HPSS, or how should these frameworks evolve to accommodate LLM-based analysis? How can we evaluate the validity of results generated by LLMs, given their opacity? How can LLMs account for the temporal development of scientific language and knowledge over time? Format and practical information The workshop will take place from April 2-4, 2025 at Technische Universität Berlin. The program will consist of an invited keynote and contributed short talks (15+10 min) as well as additional sessions for discussions. Attendance (online and on site) will be free and open to the public but registration will be required. Information on this will follow closer to the date. To contribute a talk, please send an abstract of your planned contribution of 300-600 words by e-mail to arno.simons(a)tu-berlin.de by December 31, 2024. We encourage every contributor to present on site and to participate in the whole workshop program. In exceptional cases, we will offer the possibility to present remotely. Participation of underrepresented groups is particularly welcome, and we may be able to offer financial support to cover travel costs for contributing authors in exceptional cases. Please indicate in your submission if you would like to apply for financial support. We plan to publish the slides, videos, and abstracts on a suitable platform. We also plan to write a report on the workshop and on the perspectives resulting from it. Stable workshop URL: https://www.tu.berlin/hps-mod-sci/workshop-llms-for-hpss * The workshop is funded by the European Union through the project “Network Epistemology in Practice (NEPI)” (ERC Consolidator Grant, Project No. 101044932). Views and opinions expressed are however those of the organizers only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Council. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them. -- Arno Simons Technische Universität Berlin Institut für Philosophie, Literatur-, Wissenschafts- und Technikgeschichte https://www.tu.berlin/hps-mod-sci/arno-simons

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