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[Corpora-List]Rome Workshop on 10 Years of BabelNet and Multilingual Neurosymbolic NLU
by Roberto Navigli 27 Jun '22

27 Jun '22

It is my pleasure to invite you all to the Workshop on 10 Years of BabelNet and Multilingual Neurosymbolic NLU <http://mousse-project.org/events/event-a5f3r5.html> which will take place in *Rome*, at *Sapienza*, Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering (DIAG), on *4-5 July*. The workshop includes a *slate of invited speakers *who will participate in person, including in Dagstuhl-like brainstorming sessions, and is *open online to all interested attendees* (sign up here <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc5yVnaxXsT5t63_peEvZOTw3CyY-oIPEz…>). We will celebrate the most far-reaching and novel multilingual dictionary and knowledge base, BabelNet <https://babelnet.org>, a popular resource currently used by* more than 1000 universities and research institutions*, and discuss the future of neurosymbolic approaches to multilingual Natural Language Understanding. BabelNet is an output of the Sapienza NLP <https://nlp.uniroma1.it> Group and two ERC projects acknowledged among the 15 projects through which the ERC "transformed science" <https://erc.europa.eu/how-ERC-transformed-science/stories.html>, but it also led to the creation of a spinoff company, Babelscape <https://babelscape.com>, that is one of the most successful in the Sapienza startup portfolio. Notably, besides the ERC and Babelscape, this event is also co-sponsored by Accademia della Crusca <https://accademiadellacrusca.it/> (the oldest linguistic academy in the world), the Artificial Intelligence Journal <https://www.journals.elsevier.com/artificial-intelligence> and the European Language Grid <https://www.european-language-grid.eu/>. A *new updated version of BabelNet will be available* in conjunction with the event together with the *brand-new Python API* (available on PyPi <https://pypi.org/project/babelnet/>)! A smartphone app is also available on Android and iPhone. Enjoy! -- ============================================== Roberto Navigli* - Professor* Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering Sapienza University of Rome Via Ariosto, 25 00185 Roma Italy Phone: +39 06 77274109 Home Page: https://www.diag.uniroma1.it/navigli/ Sapienza NLP Group: http://nlp.uniroma1.it Co-founder of Babelscape <https://babelscape.com> ==============================================

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[Corpora-List]Third CfP MUMTTT 2022 - The 5th Workshop on Multi-word Units in Machine Translation and Translation Technology (Malaga)
by Giulia Speranza 27 Jun '22

27 Jun '22

*apologies for cross-posting* http://lexytrad.es/europhras2022/mumttt-2022-2/ The 5th Workshop on Multi-word Units in Machine Translation and Translation Technology(MUMTTT 2022) Malaga, 30th September 2022 In conjunction with EUROPHRAS 2022 – International Conference “‘Computational and Corpus-based Phraseology’” Third Call for Papers Following the success of the previous editions of the workshops on Multi-word Units in Machine Translation and TranslationTechnology–the 2013 edition at the MT Summit in Nice, France, and the editions at the European Society of Phraseology Conference in Malaga, Spain (2015 and 2019), in London, UK (2017) we are announcing the fifth edition to be held in conjunction with the International Conference “Computational and Corpus-based Phraseology which is jointly organised by the European Association for Phraseology (EUROPHRAS), the University of Malaga (Research Group in Lexicography and Translation <http://lexytrad.es/>, IUITLM <http://iuitlm.uma.es/>), the University of Wolverhampton (Research Group in Computational Linguistics <http://rgcl.wlv.ac.uk/>, RIILP <http://www.wlv.ac.uk/riilp>) and the Bulgarian Association for Computational Linguistics <http://acl-bg.org/>. The MUMTTT workshop will be held on the last day of the conference, 30th September 2022. It will provide a forum for researchers and practitioners in the fields of (Computational) Linguistics, (Computational) Phraseology, Translation Studies and Translation Technology to discuss recent advances in the area of multi-word unit processing and to coordinate research efforts across disciplines in order to improve the integration of multi-word units in machine translation and translation technology tools. Multi-word units are word combinations which range from compounds such as ‘credit card’ to idiomatic expressions such as “’it is raining cats and dogs’ and are acknowledged as one of the major challenges in natural language processing (NLP), because of their lexical, syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and/or statistical idiosyncrasies. In spite of the relative progress achieved in translation technology with the adoption of neural approaches and in the processing of particular types of units such as verb-particle constructions, the identification, interpretation and translation of multi-word units in general still represent open challenges, both from a theoretical and a practical point of view. The idiosyncratic morpho-syntactic, semantic and translational properties of multi-word units pose many obstacles even to human translators, mainly because of intrinsic ambiguities, structural and lexical asymmetries between languages, and, finally, cultural differences. In recent years, growing attention has been paid to integrating multi-word units (MWUs) in machine translation and translation technology tools, as it has been acknowledged that it is not possible to create large scale language solutions without properly handling MWUs of all types. As a matter of fact, researchers are now addressing the problems posed by MWU processing and translation using different formalisms and techniques, such as automatic recognition of MWUs in a monolingual or bilingual setting; alignment and paraphrasing techniques; development and use of (handcrafted) monolingual and bilingual language resources; creation of annotated monolingual and parallel corpora, development of strategies for handling syntactically flexible units in language analysis and translation modules, development of evaluation projects. The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners working on MWU processing from various perspectives, in order to enable cross-fertilisation and foster the creation of innovative solutions that can only arise from interdisciplinary collaborations. In particular, the workshop welcomes interactions between NLP researchers working on the computational treatment of multi-word units, experts in (computational) phraseology working on challenging topics of their discipline, as well as translation practitioners, to the benefit of applying their latest results to advance the state of the art in MWU processing. Topics of Interest The MUMTTT 2022 workshop invites the submission of papers reporting on original and unpublished research on topics related to MWU processing in machine translation and translation technology, including - Lexical, syntactic, semantic and translational aspects in MWU representation - Theoretical approaches to MWUs (e.g., collostructional analysis of MWU, cognitive approaches to processing MWUs, etc.) - Development of multilingual MWU resources - Identification and acquisition of MWUs and variants - Learning semantic information about MWUs from monolingual, parallel or comparable corpora - Development and use of MWU resources in machine translation and translation technology - Development of corpora for the extraction and translation of MWUs - Compilation of resources for the extraction and translation of multiword units - Creation of MWU-annotated corpora with a focus on translation aspects - Paraphrasing of MWUs applied to the improvement of machine translation - MWUs and word alignment techniques - MWUs in machine translation - MWUs in translation memory systems - MWUs in term extraction - MWU-centred machine translation evaluation - Evaluation of MWU translation - MWUs in CAT tools - Multilingualism and MWU processing - Psycholinguistic studies of MWU processing in a bilingual setting. Submission Guidelines Submissions must consist of full-text papers and should not exceed 7 pages excluding references, they should be a minimum of 5 pages long. The accepted papers will be published as workshop e-proceedings together with Europhras short papers and posters with ISBN, will be assigned a DOI and will be also available at the time of the conference. The papers should be in English. Authors of accepted papers will receive guidelines regarding how to produce camera-ready versions of their papers for inclusion in the proceedings. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three programme committee members. Accepted papers will be presented orally or as posters, as determined by the programme committee. There will be no distinction in the workshop proceedings between papers presented orally or as posters. Templates LaTeX <http://lexytrad.es/europhras2022/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/LaTeX2eProceedi…> template. Word <http://lexytrad.es/europhras2022/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/WordTemplate.zip> template. Submissions Access this link <https://www.softconf.com/m/europhras2022/> to make a submission via the START conference management system (Please, be sure to select MUMTTT as Topic). The tutorial on how to create a START account can be found here <http://lexytrad.es/europhras2022/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/howto_START_202…> . Submissions should be compliant with the above templates and should be uploaded as pdf files in START. (START is configured to accept pdf files only). Should you require any assistance with the submission, please do not hesitate to contact us at mumttt2022(a)gmail.com. Important Dates Deadline for paper submission: 10th June 2022 15th July 2022 – EXTENDED Acceptance notification: 8th July 2022 31st July 2022 Final camera-ready version: 2nd September 2022 MUMTTT 2022 workshop: 30th September 2022 Workshop Chairs Gloria Corpas Pastor, Universidad de Málaga, Spain Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom Johanna Monti, Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale” Italy Maria Pia di Buono, Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale” Italy Organising Committee Gennaro Nolano, Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale” Italy Giulia Speranza, Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale” Italy Khadija Ait ElFqih, Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale” Italy

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[Corpora-List]Post doc position: Semantics and Pragmatics of Emojis in Digital Communication
by Tatjana Scheffler 27 Jun '22

27 Jun '22

The project EmDiCom "Semantics and Pragmatics of Emojis in Digital Communication" will develop a formal semantics for emojis as a prime example of visual communication within the newly established DFG priority program ViCom (“Visual Communication. Theoretical, Empirical, and Applied Perspectives”). The project is carried out in cooperation between Jun.-Prof. Dr. Tatjana Scheffler (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany) and Prof. Dr. Patrick Grosz (University of Oslo, Norway). At the Chair of Digital Forensic Linguistics (Scheffler), Department for German Language and Literature of the Faculty of Philology of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, EmDiCom is looking for a: Post-doc (m/f/d) with 39,83 hours per week for a period of 3 years (TV-L E13) to start on 1st September 2022 or as soon as possible thereafter. Your tasks: - Independent research on the semantics and pragmatics of emojis in the research project "Semantics and Pragmatics of Emojis in Digital Communication" (EmDiCom). - Participation in the interdisciplinary DFG priority program "Visual Communication" (e.g. participation in network meetings) - Planning and conducting linguistic online experiments (acceptability studies, reading time measurements) - Collaboration on publications and presentations at international conferences - Supervision of research assistants - Organization of scientific events (workshops) Your profile: - An above-average linguistics PhD is required - Focus on formal semantics/pragmatics and experience in experimental linguistics - Willingness to travel to the project partner in Oslo for research visits is expected (up to 6 months in total) - Knowledge of tools for creating and conducting online experiments is an advantage - Prior experience working with digital corpora is desirable - Very good English skills are required, knowledge of German or Norwegian is an advantage We offer: - Challenging and varied tasks with a high degree of personal responsibility - Exciting research on a current topic - International cooperation with the "Super Linguistics" group at the University of Oslo and within the "Visual Communication" priority program - A friendly and enthusiastic team at the interface of formal, digital, and computational linguistics - Employment at one of the largest universities in Germany, part of the University Alliance Ruhr - Flexibility for working from home - Extensive opportunities for further education and training Further information: Since this position is part of a third-party funded research project, there is no teaching obligation. Official job announcement: https://jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/f1ec75a1aff56228230b431eedf4678c… Contact persons for further information: Jun.-Prof. Dr. Tatjana Scheffler (tatjana.scheffler(a)rub.de) and Prof. Dr. Patrick Grosz (p.g.grosz(a)iln.uio.no) Interviews are expected to take place via Zoom on July 28 and 29. Travel expenses, accommodation costs and loss of earnings or other application costs for interviews cannot be reimbursed according to the guidelines of the state of NRW. The deadline of application is July 5, 2022. Applicants should submit a short cover letter including their motivation for the position, a full CV, two sample publications and the names of two potential referees, as a single pdf document. We look forward to receiving your application, quoting “EmDiCom”, by July 5, 2022 by e-mail to the following address: malvina.witzki(a)rub.de <mailto:malvina.witzki@rub.de> --- Jun.-Prof. Dr. Tatjana Scheffler (she/her) GB 5/157 Ruhr-Universität Bochum Fakultät für Philologie, Germanistik Universitätsstraße 150 44780 Bochum Germany Mail: tatjana.scheffler(a)rub.de Web: http://staff.germanistik.rub.de/digitale-forensische-linguistik/ Tel.: +49 234 32-21471

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[Corpora-List]Programme and Call for Participation: LxGr2022
by Costas Gabrielatos 27 Jun '22

27 Jun '22

Symposium: Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar (LxGr2022) Programme and Call for Participation The symposium will take place online on Friday 8 & Saturday 9 July 2022. Programme: https://www.edgehill.ac.uk/departments/academic/englishhistorycreativewriti… Registration (free): https://store.edgehill.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/conferences/conferences… For more information, contact the organiser, Costas Gabrielatos (gabrielc(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:gabrielc@edgehill.ac.uk>). ________________________________ 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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[Corpora-List][Computers] (ISSN 2073-431X) Special Issue "Advances of Machine and Deep Learning in the Health Domain"--Call for Paper
by Mr. Blink Yu 27 Jun '22

27 Jun '22

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] ==================================== Special Issue "Advances of Machine and Deep Learning in the Health Domain" Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2022. Guest Editor: Dr. Antonio Celesti MIFT Department, University of Messina, Viale F. Stagno d'Alcontres, 31 98166 Messina, Italy Dr. Ivanoe De Falco Institute of High Performance Computing and Networking of National Research Council (ICAR-CNR), 80131 Naples, Italy Dr. Antonino Galletta MIFT Department, University of Messina, 98166 Messina, Italy Dr. Giovanna Sannino Institute of High Performance Computing and Networking – National Research Council of Italy (ICAR-CNR), 80131 Naples, Italy https://www.mdpi.com/journal/computers/special_issues/AI_health_2022 =========================================== The 1st edition of the IEEE International Conference on ICT Solutions for eHealth (ICTS4eHealth) will be held on 5–8 September 2021 in Athens (Greece) in conjunction with the 26th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC). For more information about the conference, please use this link: https://www.icts4ehealth.icar.cnr.it/ Machine and Deep Learning deal with data, and one of their goals is to extract information and related knowledge that is hidden in them in order to make detections and/or predictions and, subsequently, take decisions. With the terms “Machine and Deep Learning”, we cover a wide range of theories, methods, algorithms, and architectures that are used to this end. This Special Issue will cover promising developments in the related areas of machine and deep learning applied to the health domain and offer possible paths for the future. The authors of selected papers that are presented at the International IEEE ICTS4eHealth Conference 2021 are invited to submit their extended versions to this Special Issue of the journal Computers after the conference. Submitted papers should be extended to the size of regular research or review articles, with at least 50% extension of new results. All submitted papers will undergo our standard peer-review procedure. Accepted papers will be published in open access format in Computers and collected together in this Special Issue’s website. Accepted extended papers will be free of charge. There are no page limitations for this journal. We are also inviting original research work covering novel theories, innovative methods, and meaningful applications that can potentially lead to significant advances in artificial intelligence in the health domain. The main topics include but are not limited to: Knowledge management of health data; Data mining and knowledge discovery in healthcare; Machine and deep learning approaches for health data; Explainable ai models for health, biology, and medicine; Decision support systems for healthcare and wellbeing; AI for precision medicine; Optimization for healthcare problems; Regression and forecasting for medical and/or biomedical signals; Healthcare information systems; Wellness information systems; Medical signal and image processing and techniques; Medical expert systems; Diagnoses and therapy support systems; Biomedical applications; Applications of AI in healthcare and wellbeing systems; machine learning-based medical systems; medical data and knowledge bases; neural networks in medicine; ambient intelligence and pervasive computing in medicine and healthcare; AI in genomics; AI for healthcare social networks. Dr. Antonio Celesti Dr. Ivanoe De Falco Dr. Antonino Galletta Dr. Giovanna Sannino Guest Edito -- Mr. Blink Yu Managing Editor E-Mail: blink.yu(a)mdpi.com Skype: live:c91693ac8277e1f0 -- MDPI Wuhan Office No.6 Jingan Road, 430064 Wuhan, China http://www.mdpi.com -- Disclaimer: MDPI recognizes the importance of data privacy and protection. We treat personal data in line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and with what the community expects of us. The information contained in this message is confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this message in error, please notify me and delete this message from your system. You may not copy this message in its entirety or in part, or disclose its contents to anyone.

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[Corpora-List]PhD scholarships at the University of Bozen-Bolzano
by Alberto Lavelli 27 Jun '22

27 Jun '22

The Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (https://www.unibz.it/) has opened a public competition for 21 fully funded PhD scholarships in Computer Science (*deadline July 1, 2022*). They cover a range of epistemologies, theories, methods and applications of computer science. Topics include studies of theoretical AI, data science and machine learning application, up to the design of the most advanced user interfaces and critical user research. In particular, the two following topics (in collaboration with Fondazione Bruno Kessler) can be of interest for the mailing list. *Emotions in Multilingual Texts (Carlo Strapparava)* The affective dimension of word meaning often forms part of our reservoir of common-sense knowledge, and it is reflected in the way we use words. This project aims at producing and evaluating new technologies for recognition of emotional language and possibly other subtle pragmatic aspects of communication. Because there are diverse subtilties in emotional expressions in different languages, the project will devote particular attention in approaching the problem from a multilingual point of view. *Neural Models of Collaborative Behaviours in Conversational Agents (Bernardo Magnini)* Human-human dialogues are characterized by collaborative behaviours, through which interlocutors achieve their communicative goals. As an example, proactivity (i.e., anticipating user needs during dialogue) and grounding (e.g., posing clarification questions) are two relevant cases that have been investigated from a linguistics perspective. However, such collaborative behaviours are still largely absent in current neural dialogue models. There are several open research challenges in this direction, including investigating how dialogue systems can learn when and how to be collaborative, depending on the dialogue context, and how do we evaluate whether collaborative behaviours have improved the efficacy of dialogue. This PhD project addresses collaborative behaviours in conversational agents from a computational perspective, exploiting the integration of machine learning approaches based on neural models, reinforcement learning, and knowledge-based techniques. Key information to apply and gain admission to the PhD Programme can be found here: https://www.unibz.it/en/faculties/computer-science/phd-computer-science/ The scholarship includes University Fees 3-year personal grant (approx. € 17,000 NET per year) 50% pay increase to support international mobility for a period variable between 6 months and one year according to the type of projects Personal budget for research and travel expenses (Euro 2,500) State-of-the-art technical equipment Further financial possibilities are available in the form of teaching contracts and research consultancies during the years of study, for top students. -- -- 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. Se avete ricevuto questo messaggio per errore, vi preghiamo di eliminarlo e di inviare una comunicazione all’indirizzo e-mail del mittente. -- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material.

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[Corpora-List]Natural Language Processing Postdoctoral Scholar at University of California, Santa Cruz
by Marilyn Walker 27 Jun '22

27 Jun '22

The Natural Language Processing Program (nlp.ucsc.edu) in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) invites applications for the Natural Language Processing Postdoctoral Researcher, under the direction of Professor Marilyn Walker. We seek outstanding applicants with research expertise in all areas of Natural Language Processing (NLP). The NLP Postdoctoral Researcher will be expected to contribute to the research profile of the NLP group. We also expect the successful candidate to support graduate students and other Postdoctoral Scholars as a peer mentor. Feel free to contact me at nlp(a)ucsc.edu with any questions. Applications are open now, full consideration will be given to applications submitted by July 15th, 2022 for a start date of September 1st. For details, and to apply, go here: https://recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01330 -- Professor Marilyn Walker Fellow of the Association for Computational Linguistics Program Director, NLP MS Program, https://nlp.ucsc.edu/ Natural Language and Dialogue Systems Lab Department of Computer Science and Engineering Baskin School of Engineering University of California Santa Cruz users.soe.ucsc.edu/~maw

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[Corpora-List]REMINDER -- Late-breaking and non-archival round -- (Dis)embodiment
by Sharid Loáiciga 27 Jun '22

27 Jun '22

(Dis)embodiment University of Gothenburg, Sweden, September 14-16, 2022 REMINDER: Late-breaking and non-archival round https://sites.google.com/view/disembodiment/home (Dis)embodiment will bring together researchers from various areas looking to answer the question of the role of grounding and embodiment in modelling human language tasks and behaviour -- or limits thereof. The conference is open to viewpoints from machine learning, computational linguistics, theoretical linguistics and philosophy, cognitive science and psycholinguistics, as well as artificial intelligence ethics and policy. We hope to see technical contributions and the full spectrum of reasoned debate. Important dates ***** NEW! Late-breaking and archival submission deadline: 2022 July 11, anywhere on Earth ***** Submission deadline: 2022 May 16 2020 May 30, anywhere on Earth Notification of acceptance: 2022 June 30, anywhere on Earth Camera ready: 2022 August 19, anywhere on Earth Conference: 2022 September 14-16, not anywhere on Earth, but in Gothenburg

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[Corpora-List][CFP] The 8th Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text | COLING 2022 | Due Aug 19th
by Xu, Wei 27 Jun '22

27 Jun '22

The 8th Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (WNUT @COLING 2022) The WNUT Workshop will be collocated with COLING 2022 (Hybrid - Gyeongju, Republic of Korea). The website for the workshop is at: http://noisy-text.github.io/<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://noisy-text.github.io/__;!!KGKeukY!jkgFYC…> The WNUT workshop focuses on Natural Language Processing applied to noisy user-generated text, such as that found in social media, online reviews, crowdsourced data, web forums, clinical records, and language learner essays. We seek submissions of long and short papers on original and unpublished work (same format and page limit as COLING main conference). All accepted submissions will be presented as posters. Additionally, selected submissions will be presented orally. We have Best Paper Awards sponsored by Megagon Labs this year. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * NLP Preprocessing of Noisy Text - Part of speech tagging - Named entity tagging, including a wide range of categories, e.g. product names - Chunking of user-generated text - Parsing * Text Normalization and Error Correction - Normalizing noisy text for downstream tasks and for human readability - Error detection and correction * Robustness to Noise, both Natural and Adversarial * Multilingual NLP in noisy text * Machine Translation of Noisy Text * Sentiment analysis * Crowdsourcing of text data * User prediction, e.g. gender, age, etc * Stylistics, e.g. formality, politeness, etc * Colloquial language, e.g. code-switching, idiom detection * Bilingual translation of the noisy text * Paraphrase identification and semantic similarity of short text or noisy text * Information extraction from noisy text * Domain adaptation to user-generated text * Geolocation prediction * Global and regional trend detection and event extraction * Detecting rumors, contradictory information, sarcasm, and humor on social media * Extracting user demographics, profiles, and major life events * Temporal aspects of user-generated content (resolving time expressions, concept drift, diachronic analyses, etc...) = IMPORTANT DATES = * August 19, 2022: Submission Deadline (dual-submission w/ COLING main conference allowed) * September 7, 2022: Acceptance Notification * September 14, 2022: Camera-ready Deadline * October 17, 2022: Workshop Day = ORGANIZERS = Tim Baldwin (University of Melbourne) Afshin Rahimi (University of Queensland) Wei Xu (Georgia Institute of Technology) Alan Ritter (Georgia Institute of Technology) = SUBMISSION = Formatting should be according to COLING 2022 specifications. Dual submission is allowed but must state at the time of submission. Please submit through the START system at the following URL: https://www.softconf.com/coling2022/W-NUT_2022

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[Corpora-List]PhD position in modeling children's communicative development
by Abdellah Fourtassi 26 Jun '22

26 Jun '22

Our team (cocodev.fr) at Aix-Marseille University offers a fully-funded Ph.D. research position (with no teaching duties) in the framework of the ANR grant MACoMiC (Mastering the Art of Conversation in Middle Childhood). The broad goal of the PhD researcher is to lead the development of deep learning models of child-parent multimodal communication, across several cultures, using data of face-to-face conversations recorded using portable eye-tracking systems and zoom calls. We are interested in studying the development of various conversational skills including mechanisms of building shared understanding, multimodal synchrony/alignment, and discourse coherence/contingency. We are also interested in the application of this research both to help design more effective clinical interventions (for children with communicative difficulties) and to build child-oriented conversational AI. The selected candidate can focus on one or several of these dimensions, defining a personalized research program together with the main advisor. The PhD researcher will be integrated into a supportive and highly interdisciplinary team of senior and early career researchers in computer science (with expertise in conversational AI), developmental psychology, and neuro-linguistics. They will be located at the Department of Computer science of Aix-Marseille University and part of the Institute of Language Communication and the Brain (ILCB.fr) <https://www.ilcb.fr/>. Additionally, the PhD researcher will have the opportunity to interact/collaborate with CoCoDev’s internal network, especially researchers from the Dialog Modelling Group (University of Amsterdam), the Interacting Minds Center (The University of Aarhus), and the Multimodal Language and Cognition group (Max Plank Institute of Psycholinguistics). Requirement - -The ideal candidate for this position should have a strong background/training in computer science and experience with deep-learning modeling. - -Interest in cognitive science (though no prior experience is required). - -Good mastery of English - Key dates Open until filled. Please send (as soon as possible for full consideration): 1) a CV 2) A recent transcript (a university document with courses taken and grades) 2) Contact info of one reference (ideally a research supervisor) 3) (Optional) Evidence of prior experience with deep-learning modeling (a publication, dissertation, code on GitHub, etc.) *Latest starting date:* October 1st, 2022 Inquiries All kinds of inquiries (about the scientific project, the university, life in Marseille, etc) as well as the application documents should be addressed to Abdellah Fourtassi (abdellah.fourtassi(a)univ-amu.fr) -- Abdellah Fourtassi Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Institute of Language, Communication, and the Brain Aix-Marseille University, France https://sites.google.com/site/fourtassi/

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