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2nd CFP: 19th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA2024)
by Ekaterina Kochmar 23 Feb '24

23 Feb '24

The 19th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2024) Location: Mexico City (co-located with NAACL 2024) Date: Thursday, June 20 or Friday, June 21, 2024 (TBD) Website: https://sig-edu.org/bea/current *Submission Deadline: Sunday, March 10, 2024, 11:59pm UTC-12* WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION The BEA Workshop is a leading venue for NLP innovation in the context of educational applications. It is one of the largest one-day workshops in the ACL community with over 100 registered attendees in the past several years. The growing interest in educational applications and a diverse community of researchers involved resulted in the creation of the Special Interest Group in Educational Applications (SIGEDU) <https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2019Q3_Reports:_SIGEDU> in 2017, which currently has over 390 members. The 19th BEA workshop will have a keynote by Alla Rozovskaya <https://sites.google.com/site/allamrozovskaya/> (Queens College, CUNY), an invited paper presentation by a member of one of the educational societies from the International Alliance to Advance Learning in the Digital Era ( IAALDE <https://alliancelss.com/>), oral presentation sessions, and a large poster session to maximize the amount of original work presented. This year, the workshop is also hosting two shared tasks: on Automated Prediction of Item Difficulty and Item Response Time <https://sig-edu.org/sharedtask/2024> and on Multilingual Lexical Simplification <https://sites.google.com/view/mlsp-sharedtask-2024>. We expect that the workshop will continue to highlight novel technologies and opportunities for educational NLP in English as well as other languages. The workshop will solicit long, short and demo papers for either oral or poster presentation. We will solicit papers that incorporate NLP methods, including, but not limited to: - use of LLMs and generative AI in educational contexts - automated scoring of open-ended textual and spoken responses; - automated scoring/evaluation for written student responses (across multiple genres); - game-based instruction and assessment; - educational data mining; - intelligent tutoring; - collaborative learning environments; - peer review; - grammatical error detection and correction; - learner cognition; - spoken dialog; - multimodal applications; - annotation standards and schemas; - tools and applications for classroom teachers, learners and/or test developers; and - use of corpora in educational tools. INVITED TALKS The workshop will feature a keynote by Alla Rozovskaya <https://sites.google.com/site/allamrozovskaya/> (Queens College, CUNY) and an invited talk by a speaker from one of the IAALDE <https://alliancelss.com/> societies. IMPORTANT DATES All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC-12 (anywhere on earth). - Submission Deadline: Sunday, March 10, 2024 - Notification of Acceptance: Sunday, April 14, 2024 - Camera-ready Papers Due: Wednesday, April 24, 2024 - Workshop: Thursday, June 20 or Friday, June 21, 2024 (TBD) SUBMISSION INFORMATION We will be using the ACL Submission Guidelines for the BEA Workshop this year. Authors are invited to submit a long paper of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus unlimited references; final versions of long papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers’ comments can be taken into account. We also invite short papers of up to four (4) pages of content, plus unlimited references. Upon acceptance, short papers will be given five (5) content pages in the proceedings. Authors are encouraged to use this additional page to address reviewers’ comments in their final versions. We generally follow ACL submission guidelines <https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp> and will require that all submitted papers should include a dedicated "Limitations" section, which does not count toward the page limit. Papers which describe systems are also invited to give a demo of their system. If you would like to present a demo in addition to presenting the paper, please make sure to select either “long paper + demo” or “short paper + demo” under “Submission Category” in the START submission page. Previously published papers cannot be accepted. The submissions will be reviewed by the program committee. As reviewing will be blind, please ensure that papers are anonymous. Self-references that reveal the author’s identity, e.g., “We previously showed (Smith, 1991) …”, should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as “Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) …”. We have also included conflict of interest in the submission form. You should mark all potential reviewers who have been authors on the paper, are from the same research group or institution, or who have seen versions of this paper or discussed it with you. We will be using the START conference system to manage submissions: *https://softconf.com/naacl2024/BEA2024* <https://softconf.com/naacl2024/BEA2024/> DOUBLE SUBMISSION POLICY We will follow the official ACL double-submission policy <https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp>. Specifically: Papers being submitted both to BEA and another conference or workshop must: - Note on the title page the other conference or workshop to which they are being submitted. - State on the title page that if the authors choose to present their paper at BEA (assuming it was accepted), then the paper will be withdrawn from other conferences and workshops. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE - Ekaterina Kochmar <https://ekochmar.github.io/about/>, MBZUAI - Marie Bexte < https://www.fernuni-hagen.de/english/research/clusters/catalpa/about-catalp…>, FernUniversität in Hagen - Jill Burstein <https://sites.google.com/site/jbursteinets/>, Duolingo - Andrea Horbach < https://www.fernuni-hagen.de/english/research/clusters/catalpa/about-catalp…>, FernUniversität in Hagen - Ronja Laarmann-Quante <https://www.ltl.uni-due.de/team/ronja-laarmann-quante>, Ruhr University Bochum - Anaïs Tack <https://anaistack.github.io/>, KU Leuven - Yaneva <http://www.victoriayaneva.info/>, National Board of Medical Examiners - Zheng Yuan <https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~zy249/>, King’s College London Workshop contact email address: bea.nlp.workshop(a)gmail.com PROGRAM COMMITTEE Tazin Afrin (Educational Testing Service); Erfan Al-Hossami (UNC Charlotte); Desislava Aleksandrova (CBC/Radio-Canada); Giora Alexandron (Weizmann Institute of Science); David Alfter (University of Gothenburg); Jatin Ambasana (Unitedworld School of Computational Intelligence); Alejandro Andrade (Pearson); Nischal Ashok Kumar (University of Massachusetts Amherst); Berk Atil (Penn State University); Shiva Baghel (Data Scientist); Rabin Banjade (University of Memphis); Michael Gringo Angelo Bayona (Trinity College Dublin); Lee Becker (Pearson); Lisa Beinborn (VU Amsterdam); Luca Benedetto (University of Cambridge); Jeanette Bewersdorff (FernUniversität in Hagen); Abhidip Bhattacharyya (CICS UMass); Serge Bibauw (UCLouvain); Ted Briscoe (MBZUAI); Jie Cao (University of Colorado Boulder); Dumitru-Clementin Cercel (University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest); Jeevan Chapagain (University of Memphis); Mei-Hua Chen (Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, Tunghai University); Mark Core (University of Southern California); Steven Coyne (Tohoku University); Sam Davidson (UC Davis); Orphee De Clercq (LT3, Ghent University); Kordula De Kuthy (University of Tübingen); Jasper Degraeuwe (Ghent University); Yo Ehara (Tokyo Gakugei University); Yang Deng (Singapore); Chris Develder (Ghent University - imec, Belgium); Yuning Ding (FernUniversität in Hagen); Rahul Divekar (Bentley University); George Dueñas (Universidad Pedagogica Nacional); Mariano Felice (British Council); Nigel Fernandez (University of Massachusetts Amherst); Michael Flor (Educational Testing Service); Jennifer Frey (Institute for Applied Linguistics, Eurac Research); Kotaro Funakoshi (Tokyo Institute of Technology); Thomas Gaillat (Université Rennes 2); Diana Galvan-Sosa (Tohoku University); Ashwinkumar Ganesan (UMBC, Amazon); Rujun Gao (Texas A&M University); Ritik Garg (IIITD); Christian Gold (FernUniversität in Hagen); Sebastian Gombert (DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education); Cyril Goutte (National Research Council Canada); Abigail Gurin Schleifer (The Weizmann Institute of Science); Handoko Handoko (Universitas Andalas); Ching Nam Hang (Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong); Jiangang Hao (Educational Testing Service); Nicolas Hernandez (Nantes University - LS2N); Heiko Holz (Ludwigsburg University of Education); Chieh-Yang Huang (Penn State University); Chung-Chi Huang (Frostburg State University); Anna Huelsing (Universität Hildesheim); Joseph Marvin Imperial (University of Bath, National University); Radu Tudor Ionescu (University of Bucharest); Qinjin Jia (North Carolina State University); Helen Jin (University of Pennsylvania); Ioana Jivet (Goethe University Frankfurt); Léane Jourdan (University of Nantes); Anisia Katinskaia (University of Helsinki); Elma Kerz (RWTH Aachen Univeristy); Fazel Keshtkar (St. John's University, NY); Mamoru Komachi (Hitotsubashi University); Roland Kuhn (National Research Council of Canada (NRC)); Alexander Kwako (University of California, Los Angeles); Kristopher Kyle (University of Oregon); Antonio Laverghetta Jr. (University of South Florida); Seolhwa Lee (Technical University of Darmstadt); Arun Balajiee Lekshmi Narayanan (University of Pittsburgh); Yudong Liu (Western Washington University); Zhexiong Liu (University of Pittsburgh); Julian Lohmann (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel); Anastassia Loukina (Grammarly Inc.); Jiaying Lu (Emory University); Crisron Rudolf Lucas (UCD); Jakub Macina (ETH Zurich); Nitin Madnani (ETS); Arianna Masciolini (Språkbanken Text, Department of Swedish, Multilingualism, Language Technology, University of Gothenburg); Sandeep Mathias (Presidency University, Bangalore); Hunter McNichols (University of Massachusetts Amherst); Amit Kumar Mishra (Amity University Madhya Pradesh); Masato Mita (CyberAgent); Phoebe Mulcaire (Duolingo); Laura Musto (Facultad de Información y Comunicación, Universidad de la República); Farah Nadeem (The World Bank); Sungjin Nam (ACT, Inc); Diane Napolitano (Associated Press); Arun Balajiee Lekshmi Narayanan (University of Pittsburgh); Tanya Nazaretsky (EPFL); Kamel Nebhi (Education First); Hwee Tou Ng (National University of Singapore); Huy Nguyen (Amazon); Gebregziabihier Nigusie (Mizan-Tepi University); Christina Niklaus (University of St.Gallen); S Jaya Nirmala (NIT Trichy India); Eda Okur (Intel Labs); Kostiantyn Omelianchuk (Grammarly); Amin Omidvar (York University); Ulrike Pado (Hochschule für Technik Stuttgart); Chanjun Park (Upstage); Udita Patel (Amazon); Long Qin (Alibaba Cloud); Mengyang Qiu (University at Buffalo); Martí Quixal (University of Tübingen); Manav Rathod (Glean); Hanumant Redkar (Goa University); Robert Reynolds (Brigham Young University); Frankie Robertson (University of Jyväskylä); Aiala Rosá (Universidad de la República); Alla Rozovskaya (City University of New York); Josef Ruppenhofer (Fernuniversität in Hagen); Omer Salem; Nicy Scaria (Indian Institute of Science); Nils-Jonathan Schaller (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel); Gyu-Ho Shin (University of Illinois Chicago); Mayank Soni (ADAPT Center, Trinity College Dublin); Katherine Stasaski (Salesforce AI Research); Helmer Strik (Radboud University Nijmegen); Hakyung Sung (University of Oregon); Abhijit Suresh (Reddit Inc.); Chee Wei Tan (Nanyang Technological University); Zhongwei Teng (Duolingo); Xiaoyi Tian (University of Florida); Sowmya Vajjala (National Research Council, Canada); Giulia Venturi (Institute for Computational Linguistics "A. Zampolli"); Anthony Verardi (Duolingo English Test); Elena Volodina (University of Gothenburg, Sweden); Taro Watanabe (Nara Institute of Science and Technology); Michael White (The Ohio State University); Alistair Willis (The Open University, UK); Man Fai Wong (City University of Hong Kong); Simon Woodhead (Eedi); Changrong Xiao (Tsinghua University); Roman Yangarber (University of Helsinki); Su-Youn Yoon (EduLab); Marcos Zampieri (George Mason University); Fabian Zehner (DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education); Torsten Zesch (FernUniversität in Hagen); Jing Zhang (Emory University); Yiyun Zhou (NBME); Jessica Zipf (University of Konstanz); Michael Zock (CNRS, (LIF) University of Aix-Marseille); Bowei Zou (Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR, Singapore).

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TSD 2024 - 1st Call for Papers
by TSD 2024 23 Feb '24

23 Feb '24

[Apologies for cross-postings] ********************************************************* TSD 2024 - FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS ********************************************************* Twenty-seventh International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2024) Brno, Czech Republic, 9-13 September 2024 http://www.tsdconference.org/ The conference is organized by the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, and the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen. The conference is supported by International Speech Communication Association. Venue: Brno, Czech Republic THE SUBMISSION DEADLINES: April 10 2024 ............ Submission of abstracts April 17 2024 ............ Submission of full papers Submission of abstracts serves for better organization of the review process only - for the actual review a full paper submission is necessary. TSD SERIES TSD series evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in both spoken and written language processing from all over the world. Proceedings of TSD form a book published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. TSD Proceedings are regularly indexed by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index. Moreover, LNAI series are listed in all major citation databases such as DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC or COMPENDEX. CALL for SATELLITE WORKSHOP PROPOSALS https://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2024/conf_workshop_proposals.html The TSD 2024 conference will be accompanied by one-day satellite workshops or project meetings with organizational support by the TSD organizing committee. The organizing committee can arrange for a meeting room at the conference venue and prepare a workshop proceedings as a book with ISBN by a local publisher. The workshop papers that will pass also the standard TSD review process will appear in the Springer proceedings. Each workshop is a subject to proposal that should be sent via the proposal submission form or discussed via the contact e-mail tsd2024(a)tsdconference.org ahead of the respective deadline. TOPICS Topics of the conference will include (but are not limited to): Corpora and Language Resources (monolingual, multilingual, text and spoken corpora, large web corpora, large language models, disambiguation, specialized lexicons, dictionaries) Speech Recognition (multilingual, continuous, emotional speech, handicapped speaker, out-of-vocabulary words, alternative way of feature extraction, new models for acoustic and language modelling) Tagging, Classification and Parsing of Text and Speech (morphological and syntactic analysis, synthesis and disambiguation, multilingual processing, sentiment analysis, credibility analysis, automatic text labeling, summarization, authorship attribution) Speech and Spoken Language Generation (multilingual, high fidelity speech synthesis, computer singing) Semantic Processing of Text and Speech (information extraction, information retrieval, data mining, semantic web, knowledge representation, inference, ontologies, sense disambiguation, plagiarism detection, fake news detection) Integrating Applications of Text and Speech Processing (machine translation, natural language understanding, question-answering strategies, assistive technologies) Automatic Dialogue Systems (self-learning, multilingual, question-answering systems, dialogue strategies, prosody in dialogues) Multimodal Techniques and Modelling (video processing, facial animation, visual speech synthesis, user modelling, emotions and personality modelling) Papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Elmar Noeth, Germany (general chair) Rodrigo Agerri, Spain Eneko Agirre, Spain Vladimir Benko, Slovakia Archna Bhatia, USA Jan Cernocky, Czech Republic Simon Dobrisek, Slovenia Kamil Ekstein, Czech Republic Karina Evgrafova, Russia Yevhen Fedorov, Ukraine Volker Fischer, Germany Darja Fiser, Slovenia Lucie Flek, Germany Bjorn Gamback, Norway Radovan Garabik, Slovakia Alexander Gelbukh, Mexico Louise Guthrie, USA Jan Hajic, Czech Republic Eva Hajicova, Czech Republic Yannis Haralambous, France Hynek Hermansky, USA Jaroslava Hlavacova, Czech Republic Ales Horak, Czech Republic Eduard Hovy, USA Milos Jakubicek, Czech Republic Maria Khokhlova, Russia Aidar Khusainov, Russia Daniil Kocharov, Russia Miloslav Konopik, Czech Republic Valia Kordoni, Germany Evgeny Kotelnikov, Russia Pavel Kral, Czech Republic Siegfried Kunzmann, USA Nikola Ljubesic, Croatia Natalija Loukachevitch, Russia Bernardo Magnini, Italy Vaclav Matousek, Czech Republic Roman Moucek, Czech Republic Agnieszka Mykowiecka, Poland Hermann Ney, Germany Joakim Nivre, Sweden Juan Rafael Orozco-Arroyave, Colombia Maciej Piasecki, Poland Josef Psutka, Czech Republic James Pustejovsky, USA German Rigau, Spain Paolo Rosso, Spain Leon Rothkrantz, The Netherlands Anna Rumshisky, USA Milan Rusko, Slovakia Pavel Rychly, Czechia Mykola Sazhok, Ukraine Pavel Skrelin, Russia Pavel Smrz, Czech Republic Petr Sojka, Czech Republic Georg Stemmer, Germany Marko Robnik Sikonja, Slovenia Marko Tadic, Croatia Jan Trmal, Czechia Tamas Varadi, Hungary Zygmunt Vetulani, Poland Aleksander Wawer, Poland Pascal Wiggers, The Netherlands Alina Wroblewska, Poland Jerneja Zganec Gros, Slovenia FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE The conference program will include presentation of invited papers, oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions. Papers will be presented in plenary or topic oriented sessions. Social events including a trip in the vicinity of Brno will allow for additional informal interactions. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 12 pages formatted in the LNCS style (including references). Those accepted will be presented either orally or as posters. The decision about the presentation format will be based on the recommendation of the reviewers. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the on-line form accessible from the conference website. Papers submitted to TSD 2024 must not be under review by any other conference or publication during the TSD review cycle, and must not be previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere. Authors are also invited to present actual projects, developed software or interesting material relevant to the topics of the conference. The presenters of demonstrations should provide an abstract not exceeding one page. The demonstration abstracts will not appear in the conference proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES April 10 2024 ............ Submission of abstracts April 17 2024 ............ Submission of full papers June 5 2024 .............. Notification of acceptance June 15 2024 ............. Final papers (camera ready) and registration August 8 2024 ............ Submission of demonstration abstracts August 15 2024 ........... Notification of acceptance for demonstrations sent to the authors September 9-13 2024 ...... Conference date Submission of abstracts serves for better organization of the review process only - for the actual review a full paper submission is necessary. The accepted conference contributions will be published in Springer proceedings that will be made available to participants at the time of the conference. OFFICIAL LANGUAGE The official language of the conference is English. ACCOMMODATION The organizing committee will arrange discounts on accommodation in the 4-star hotel at the conference venue. The current prices of the accommodation will be available at the conference website. ADDRESS All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to Ales Horak, TSD 2024 Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University Botanicka 68a, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic phone: +420-5-49 49 18 63 fax: +420-5-49 49 18 20 email: tsd2024(a)tsdconference.org The official TSD 2024 homepage is: http://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2024 LOCATION Brno is the second largest city in the Czech Republic with a population of almost 400.000 and is the country's judiciary and trade-fair center. Brno is the capital of South Moravia, which is located in the south-east part of the Czech Republic and is known for a wide range of cultural, natural, and technical sights. South Moravia is a traditional wine region. Brno had been a Royal City since 1347 and with its six universities it forms a cultural center of the region. Brno can be reached easily by direct flights from London and Milano, and by trains or buses from Vienna (150 km) or Prague (230 km).

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Final CfP 5th workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL) @ LREC-COLING
by Menno Van Zaanen 22 Feb '24

22 Feb '24

EXTENDED DEADLINE (28 February 2024) The fifth workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL) Colocated with LREC-COLING 2024 https://bit.ly/rail2024 New: extended deadline Conference dates: 20-25 May 2024 Workshop date: 25 May 2024 Venue: Lingotto Conference Centre, Torino (Italy) The fifth RAIL workshop website: https://bit.ly/rail2024 LREC-COLING 2024 website: https://lrec-coling-2024.org/ Submission website: https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/rail2024/ The fifth Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) workshop will be co-located with LREC-COLING 2024 in Lingotto Conference Centre, Torino, Italy on 25 May 2024. The RAIL workshop is an interdisciplinary platform for researchers working on resources (data collections, tools, etc.) specifically targeted towards African indigenous languages. In particular, it aims to create the conditions for the emergence of a scientific community of practice that focuses on data, as well as computational linguistic tools specifically designed for or applied to indigenous languages found in Africa. Many African languages are under-resourced while only a few of them are somewhat better resourced. These languages often share interesting properties such as writing systems, or tone, making them different from most high-resourced languages. From a computational perspective, these languages lack enough corpora to undertake high level development of Human Language Technologies (HLT) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools, which in turn impedes the development of African languages in these areas. During previous workshops, it has become clear that the problems and solutions presented are not only applicable to African languages but are also relevant to many other low-resource languages. Because these languages share similar challenges, this workshop provides researchers with opportunities to work collaboratively on issues of language resource development and learn from each other. The RAIL workshop has several aims. First, the workshop brings together researchers who work on African indigenous languages, forming a community of practice for people working on indigenous languages. Second, the workshop aims to reveal currently unknown or unpublished existing resources (corpora, NLP tools, and applications), resulting in a better overview of the current state-of-the-art, and also allows for discussions on novel, desired resources for future research in this area. Third, it enhances sharing of knowledge on the development of low-resource languages. Finally, it enables discussions on how to improve the quality as well as availability of the resources. The workshop has “Creating resources for less-resourced languages” as its theme, but submissions on any topic related to properties of African indigenous languages (including non-African languages) may be accepted. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to) the following: Digital representations of linguistic structures Descriptions of corpora or other data sets of African indigenous languages Building resources for (under resourced) African indigenous languages Developing and using African indigenous languages in the digital age Effectiveness of digital technologies for the development of African indigenous languages Revealing unknown or unpublished existing resources for African indigenous languages Developing desired resources for African indigenous languages Improving quality, availability and accessibility of African indigenous language resources Submission requirements: We invite papers on original, unpublished work related to the topics of the workshop. Submissions, presenting completed work, may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content for a long submission and up to four (4) pages of content for a short submission plus additional pages of references. The final camera-ready version of accepted long papers are allowed one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers’ feedback can be incorporated. Papers should be formatted according to the LREC-COLING style sheet (https://lrec-coling-2024.org/authors-kit/), which is provided on the LREC-COLING 2024 website (https://lrec-coling-2024.org/). Reviewing is double-blind, so make sure to anonymise your submission (e.g., do not provide author names, affiliations, project names, etc.) Limit the amount of self citations (anonymised citations should not be used). The RAIL workshop follows the LREC-COLING submission requirements. Please submit papers in PDF format to the START account (https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/rail2024/). Accepted papers will be published in proceedings linked to the LREC-COLING conference. Important dates: Submission deadline: 28 February 2024 (AoE) Date of notification: 15 March 2024 Camera ready deadline: 29 March 2024 RAIL workshop: 25 May 2024 Organising Committee Rooweither Mabuya, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Muzi Matfunjwa, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Mmasibidi Setaka, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa Menno van Zaanen, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), South Africa -- Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za Professor in Digital Humanities South African Centre for Digital Language Resources https://www.sadilar.org ________________________________ NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT: http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. 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CfP: BUCC, extended deadline, 17th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora
by Pierre Zweigenbaum 22 Feb '24

22 Feb '24

17th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora Co-located with LREC-COLING 2024 Torino, Italia, 20 May 2024 *Extended deadline: 6 March 2024* Invited speaker: François Yvon, Sorbonne Université, CNRS, ISIR Workshop website: https://comparable.limsi.fr/bucc2024/ LREC-COLING website: https://lrec-coling-2024.org/ Workshop proceedings to be published in the ACL Anthology MOTIVATION In the language engineering and linguistics communities, research in comparable corpora has been motivated by two main reasons. In language engineering, on the one hand, it is chiefly motivated by the need to use comparable corpora as training data for statistical NLP applications such as statistical and neural machine translation or cross-lingual retrieval. In linguistics, on the other hand, comparable corpora are of interest because they enable cross-language discoveries and comparisons. It is generally accepted in both communities that comparable corpora consist of documents that are comparable in content and form in various degrees and dimensions across several languages. Parallel corpora are on the one end of this spectrum, unrelated corpora on the other. Comparable corpora have been used in a range of applications, including Information Retrieval, Machine Translation, Cross-lingual text classification, etc. The linguistic definitions and observations related to comparable corpora can improve methods to mine such corpora for applications of neural NLP, for example, to extract parallel corpora from comparable corpora for neural machine translation. As such, it is of great interest to bring together builders and users of such corpora. TOPICS We solicit contributions on all topics related to comparable (and parallel) corpora, including but not limited to the following: Building Comparable Corpora: - Automatic and semi-automatic methods - Methods to mine parallel and non-parallel corpora from the web - Tools and criteria to evaluate the comparability of corpora - Parallel vs non-parallel corpora, monolingual corpora - Rare and minority languages, across language families - Multi-media/multi-modal comparable corpora Applications of Comparable Corpora: - Human translation - Language learning - Cross-language information retrieval & document categorization - Bilingual and multilingual projections - (Unsupervised) Machine translation - Writing assistance - Machine learning techniques using comparable corpora Mining from Comparable Corpora: - Cross-language distributional semantics, word embeddings and pre-trained multilingual transformer models - Extraction of parallel segments or paraphrases from comparable corpora - Methods to derive parallel from non-parallel corpora (e.g. to provide for low-resource languages in neural machine translation) - Extraction of bilingual and multilingual translations of single words, multi-word expressions, proper names, named entities, sentences, paraphrases etc. from comparable corpora - Induction of morphological, grammatical, and translation rules from comparable corpora - Induction of multilingual word classes from comparable corpora Comparable Corpora in the Humanities: - Comparing linguistic phenomena across languages in contrastive linguistics - Analyzing properties of translated language in translation studies - Studying language change over time in diachronic linguistics - Assigning texts to authors via authors' corpora in forensic linguistics - Comparing rhetorical features in discourse analysis - Studying cultural differences in sociolinguistics - Analyzing language universals in typological research IMPORTANT DATES Deadlines are "anywhere on Earth". 6 Mar 2024: *Extended* paper submission deadline 24 Mar 2024: Notification of acceptance 7 Apr 2024: Camera-ready final papers 20 May 2024: Workshop date For updates, please see the workshop website at https://comparable.limsi.fr/bucc2024/ PRACTICAL INFORMATION The workshop is an in-person event. Workshop registration is via the main conference registration site, see https://lrec-coling-2024.org/ The workshop proceedings will be published in the ACL Anthology. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Please follow the style sheet and templates (for LaTeX, Overleaf and MS-Word) provided for the main conference at https://lrec-coling-2024.org/authors-kit/ Papers should be submitted as a PDF file using the START conference manager at https://secure-web.cisco.com/1UaJIr7ltEdbVzt8EpJCgpyj2ZyxfgFf-boU68G__QPUm2… Submissions must describe original and unpublished work and range from 4 to 8 pages plus unlimited references. Reviewing will be double blind, so the papers should not reveal the authors' identity. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings, which will be included in the ACL Anthology. Double submission policy: Parallel submission to other meetings or publications is possible but must be immediately (i.e. as soon as known to the authors) notified to the workshop organizers by e-mail. For further information and updates, please see the BUCC 2024 website: https://comparable.limsi.fr/bucc2024/ WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS - Pierre Zweigenbaum (Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, LISN, Orsay, France) - Reinhard Rapp (University of Mainz and Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences, Germany) - Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds, United Kingdom) Contact: pz (at) lisn (dot) fr PROGRAMME COMMITTEE - Ebrahim Ansari (Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Iran) - Thierry Etchegoyhen (Vicomtech, Spain) - Kyo Kageura (University of Tokyo, Japan) - Natalie Kübler (Université Paris Cité, France) - Philippe Langlais (Université de Montréal, Canada) - Yves Lepage (Waseda University, Japan) - Shervin Malmasi (Amazon, USA) - Michael Mohler (Language Computer Corporation, USA) - Emmanuel Morin (Nantes Université, France) - Dragos Stefan Munteanu (Language Weaver, Inc., USA) - Ted Pedersen (University of Minnesota, Duluth, USA) - Ayla Rigouts Terryn (KU Leuven, Belgium) - Reinhard Rapp (University of Mainz and Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences, Germany) - Nasredine Semmar (CEA LIST, Paris, France) - Silvia Severini (Leonardo Labs, Italy) - Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds, UK) - Richard Sproat (OGI School of Science & Technology, USA) - Tim Van de Cruys (KU Leuven, Belgium) - Pierre Zweigenbaum (Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, LISN, Orsay, France)

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2nd Call for Papers MMSYM 2014
by Andy Lücking 22 Feb '24

22 Feb '24

*Apologies for cross-postings* Call for Papers MMSYM 2024 (http://mmsym.org/) 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS 2nd International MultiModal communication SYMposium (MMSYM 2024) Frankfurt, Germany; 25.09.-27.09.2024 STRICT ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 08th, 2024 (anywhere on earth)! The 2nd edition of MMSYM continues the symposium series on multimodal communication previously held as the 1st MMSYM in Barcelona (2023), as European Symposia in Leuven (2019), Bielefeld (2017), Copenhagen (2016), Tartu (2014) and Malta (2013), and even earlier as Nordic (2003-2012) and Swedish Symposia (1997-2000). The symposium aims at gaining insights into the interaction and/or co-dependence of visual and acoustic modes of communication. To advance our understanding of communication, the symposium aims at further integrating multimodality as an integral part of linguistics and cognitive science. We welcome innovative contributions in the broader field of multimodal communication. Investigating multimodality extends our knowledge about various ways of communication beyond (spoken) language. This year’s symposium has a particular interest in three main research themes: (1) The gesture-speech integration, in particular the prosody-gesture link, (2) formal, automatic and machine-learning approaches to multimodality, and (3) psycholinguistic approaches in multimodal settings. For MMSYM 2024, we particularly encourage contributions relating to the conference themes. Topics include, but are not limited to: • Annotation schemes and tools for multimodal data • Articulation-Gesture-coordination • Automatic recognition and interpretation of different modalities and their interaction • Formal implementation of multimodality • Intercultural aspects of multimodal behavior • Kinematics of bodily movements • Machine and deep learning techniques applied to multimodal data • Memory effects in multimodal settings • Multimodal aspects of language acquisition and learning (both L1 and L2) • Multimodal communication disorders and communication support • Multimodal corpora • Multimodal dialogue systems • Multimodal health communication • Multimodal human-computer interaction and conversational agents • Multimodal language processing • Prosody-Gesture-Integration • Semantic and pragmatic functions of multimodality • Speech and gestures in human communication Invited speakers: - Petra Wagner (Bielefeld University) - Judith Holler (Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition & Behaviour, Radboud University; MPI for Psycholinguistics Nijmegen) - Julie Hunter (LinaGora Labs, Toulouse)

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Semantic Methods for Events and Stories, 2nd Edition (SEMMES 2024) – 2nd Call for Papers
by Pasquale Lisena 22 Feb '24

22 Feb '24

Apologies for cross posting *************** Semantic Methods for Events and Stories, 2nd Edition (SEMMES 2024) – 2nd Call for Papers *************** Website: https://anr-kflow.github.io/semmes/ Workshop co-located with the Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) in Hersonissos, Greece Submission deadline: March 7th, 2024 Scope *************** An important part of human history and knowledge is made of events, which can be aggregated and connected to create stories, be they real or fictional. These events as well as the stories created from them can typically be inherently complex, reflect societal or political stances and be perceived differently across the world population. The Semantic Web offers technologies and methods to represent these events and stories, as well as to interpret the knowledge encoded into graphs and use it for different applications, spanning from narrative understanding and generation to fact-checking. The aim of the 2nd edition of our workshop on Semantic Methods for Events and Stories (SEMMES) is to offer an opportunity to discuss the challenges related to dealing with events and stories, and how we can use semantic methods to tackle them. We welcome approaches which combine data, methods and technologies coming from the Semantic Web with methods from other fields, including machine learning, narratology or information extraction. This workshop wants to bring together researchers working on complementary topics, in order to foster collaboration and sharing of expertise in the context of events and stories. Topics *************** Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Ontologies and data models for representing events, event relations, and narratives; - Event extraction, co-reference and linking; - Event Relation extraction and linking (e.g. temporal, causal, modal relationships); - Methods combining KGs and LLMs targeting event- or narrative-related research; - Fake events detection and event verification; - Event-centric question answering; - Event information visualisation; - Event-centric knowledge graphs and vocabularies; - Completion of event-centric knowledge graphs and reasoning; - Event summarisation; - Automatic narrative understanding and generation; - Storytelling Applications/Demos. Submission Guidelines *************** We welcome the following types of contributions. - Long papers (10-15 pages including references) - Short papers (5-9 pages including references) We welcome any types of research, resource and application papers, as well as (short only) demonstration submissions. Submissions must be written in English and formatted using the template for submissions to CEUR Workshop Proceedings (https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-submissions-to-ceur-w…) All papers and abstracts have to be submitted electronically via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semmes2024. Each accepted paper needs to be presented by one of the authors, who agrees to register and participate in SEMMES. Authors may be requested to serve as reviewers for max 2 papers. Important Dates *************** - Submission deadline: March 7th, 2024 - Notifications: April 4th, 2024 - Camera-ready version: April 18th, 2024 - Workshop day: May 26th or 27th, 2024 (half-day, TBA) All deadlines are 23:59 anywhere on earth (UTC-12). Proceedings *************** The complete set of papers will be published with the joint CEUR ESWC Workshop Proceedings (http://CEUR-WS.org), listed by the DBLP. -- Pasquale Lisena EURECOM, Campus SophiaTech 450 route des Chappes, 06410 Biot, France e-mail: pasquale.lisena(a)eurecom.fr site: http://pasqlisena.github.io/

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CHANGE OF DATE for sign-lang@LREC 2024
by Schulder, Dr. Marc 22 Feb '24

22 Feb '24

Dear all, the date for the sign-lang@LREC 2024 workshop has changed. It will now be on Saturday, 25 May, the day after the LREC-COLING 2024 main conference. We are also pleased to confirm that the workshop will be a hybrid event. Similar to the 2022 workshop, participants will be given access to an online text chat before and during the event for online participants to present their work as well as for discussion of all workshop contributions. On-stage presentations will be live streamed (including International Sign/English interpretation) with opportunity for questions from online and on-site participants. The live poster sessions will be held on-site only, but posters will be made available online for discussion via text chat. For further information, please visit the workshop website at https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/lrec2024/ Yours, the sign-lang@LREC 2024 workshop committee

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Edge Hill Corpus Research Group, Thursday 29 February 2024
by Costas Gabrielatos 22 Feb '24

22 Feb '24

Edge Hill Corpus Research Group The next meeting of the Edge Hill Corpus Research Group will take place online (via MS Teams) on Thursday 29 February 2024, 2:00-3:30 pm (GMT). Attendance is free. Registration closes on Wednesday 28 February, 11 am (GMT) You can register here: https://store.edgehill.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/conferences/events/edge… Topic: Corpus Methodology Speaker: Matteo Di Cristofaro<https://infogrep.it/site/> (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy) Title: One dataset, many corpora: Problems of scientific validity in corpora and corpus-derived results Abstract Corpus linguistics has, since its inception, recognised the relevance of digital technologies as a major driving force behind corpus techniques and their (r)evolution in the study of language (cf. Tognini-Bonelli 2012). And yet, while both corpus linguistics and digital technologies have frequently benefited from each other (the case of NLP/NLU is one such macro example), their pathways have often diverged. The result is a disconnect between corpus linguistics and digital data processing whose effects directly impinge on the ability to analyse language through software tools. A disconnect becoming more and more relevant as corpus linguistics is being applied to vast amounts of data obtained from manifold sources – including a wide array of social media platforms, each one with its unique linguistic and technical peculiarities. As the ground-truth of an ever-increasing number of language studies, corpora must be able to correctly treat and represent such peculiarities: e.g. the dialogic dimension of comments or forum posts; the presence (and potential subsequent normalisation) of spelling variations; the use of hashtags and emojis. Failing to do so, the corpus-derived results will likely present researchers with a falsified view of the language under scrutiny. What is at stake is not the ability to “count” what is in a corpus, but rather whether what is being counted is or is not a feature present in the original data – of which the corpus should be a faithful representation. The presentation is consequently devoted to tackling digital technicalities, i.e. “those notions and mechanisms that – while not classically associated with natural language – are i) foundational of the digital environments in which language production and exchanges occur and ii) at the core of the techniques that are used to produce, collect, and process the focus of investigation, that is, digital textual data.” (Di Cristofaro 2023:5). One such example is represented by character encodings: although at the “core” of the whole corpus linguistics enterprise (cf. McEnery and Xiao 2005; Gries 2016:39,111) – since they allow written language to be processed by a computer and understood by humans -, these are often overlooked at all stages of corpus compilation and analysis, potentially leading linguists to involuntarily tampering with the data and its linguistic contents. Starting from practical examples, the presentation discusses the implications that digital technicalities have on corpora and their analyses – or rather, what happens when they are not properly treated – while outlining (also in the form of Python scripts and practical tools) potential new pathways that a “digital-aware” perspective of corpus linguistics can open up. References Di Cristofaro, Matteo. Corpus Approaches to Language in Social Media. Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics. New York: Routledge, 2023. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003225218<https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003225218>. Gries, Stefan Th. Quantitative Corpus Linguistics with R: A Practical Introduction. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 2016. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315746210<https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315746210>. McEnery, Tony, and Richard Xiao. ‘Character Encoding in Corpus Construction’. In Developing Linguistic Corpora: A Guide to Good Practice, edited by Martin Wynne, 47–58. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2005. https://users.ox.ac.uk/~martinw/dlc/index.htm<https://users.ox.ac.uk/~martinw/dlc/index.htm>. Tognini Bonelli, Elena. ‘Theoretical Overview of the Evolution of Corpus Linguistics’. In The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics, edited by Anne O’Keeffe and Michael McCarthy, 14–27. Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York: Routledge, 2012. ________________________________ Edge Hill University<http://ehu.ac.uk/home/emailfooter> Modern University of the Year, The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2022<http://ehu.ac.uk/tef/emailfooter> University of the Year, Educate North 2021/21 ________________________________ This message is private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it from your system. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Edge Hill or associated companies. Edge Hill University may monitor email traffic data and also the content of email for the purposes of security and business communications during staff absence.<http://ehu.ac.uk/itspolicies/emailfooter>

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2 Assistant/Associate Professors in Artificial Intelligence at Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS)
by Wijnholds, G.J. (Gijs) 22 Feb '24

22 Feb '24

Dear all, My institute is looking to recruit two assistant or associate professors in AI, which may be relevant to people on this list. Here’s the beginning of the vacancy: "The Faculty of Science, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), is looking for: 2 Assistant/Associate Professors in Artificial Intelligence (0.8-1.0 FTE) The rapid evolution and expansion of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science and the increasing integration with other disciplines creates new challenges in developing and understanding modern computation in its foundations, applications, and societal consequences. Our institute is at the center of this transformation, and we aim to strengthen our research and education in artificial intelligence. We are looking for candidates with expertise complementary to the one that is already present at LIACS and related to generative AI, human centered AI, interactive machine learning, and computational creativity." Here’s the full vacancy: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/2024/q1/14490-2-assistant_assoc… Best, dr. Gijs Wijnholds Assistant Professor in Natural Language Processing Text Mining and Retrieval Group<https://tmr.liacs.nl/> Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science https://gijswijnholds.github.io

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[CfP] e-Commerce and NLP Workshop @ LREC-COLING 2024
by besnikf＠amazon.com 22 Feb '24

22 Feb '24

The Seventh Workshop on e-Commerce and NLP (ECNLP 7) Co-located with LREC-COLING 2024 in Torino, Italy – May 21, 2024 https://sites.google.com/view/ecnlp/ Submission Deadline: Friday Feb 23, 2024 - 23:59pm (AoE) ECNLP focuses on NLP for e-Commerce and online shopping applications. We welcome papers covering all aspects on online commerce and data, including search, retrieval, and customer-facing applications and tasks. Important Dates Submission Deadline: Friday Feb 23, 2024 - 23:59pm (AoE) Acceptance Notification: Friday March 29, 2024 Camera-ready versions: Friday April 12, 2024 Workshop: Tuesday May 21, 2024 Instructions for Authors Papers must be submitted in PDF format using the official LREC-COLING template. More details available on the website. Additional Information and Contact Details https://sites.google.com/view/ecnlp/home/ Workshop Scope ECNLP invites quality research contributions as short or long papers. All submissions will undergo a double-blind review process, and accepted submissions will be presented at the workshop. NLP and IR have been powering e-Commerce applications since the early days of the fields. Today, NLP and IR already play a significant role in e-commerce tasks, including product search, recommender systems, product question answering, machine translation, sentiment analysis, product description and review summarization, and customer review processing, among many other tasks. With the exploding popularity of chatbots and shopping assistants – both text- and voice-based – NLP, IR, question answering, and dialogue systems research is poised to transform e-commerce once again, but requires a forum where new and unfinished ideas could be discussed. The ECNLP workshop will provide a venue for the dissemination of NLP and IR research results related to e-commerce and online shopping, bringing together researchers from both academia and industry. The workshop welcomes submission of late-breaking and preliminary research results, as well as opinion and position papers. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Product classification and cataloguing (including into types and hierarchies) - NER for products, brands, attributes, and part names - Search and product query auto-completion - Recommender systems and product suggestions - Machine Translation applied to e-commerce (e.g. translating product titles/reviews) - Voice & dialogue-based e-commerce applications; ASR for e-commerce - Advertising and ad prediction/forecasting models - Fraud and spam detection in e-commerce (e.g. in customer reviews/comments) - Product description and review summarization - Product similarity and matching of seller-provided listings to catalog products - Technical support request processing (user emails, chat agents, etc.) - E-commerce related social media processing - The intersection of Computer Vision and NLP (e.g. product images and text) - Product Question Answering - Shopping assistants, agents, and chat bots - Sentiment analysis, opinion mining, and stance detection in user-generated content - Relevant resources and datasets Thank you, The ECNLP Organizing Committee

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