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Fifth Workshop on NLP for Internet Freedom (NLP4IF): extended deadline; corrected url
by Anna Feldman 08 Aug '22

08 Aug '22

Corrected URL: COLING 2022 Fifth Workshop on NLP for Internet Freedom (NLP4IF): Censorship, Disinformation, and Propaganda Workshop website: http://www.netcopia.net/nlp4if/ Co-located with COLING-2022, Oct 12-17, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea *Submission deadline: August 18, 2022 (23:59 PM Pacific Standard Time)* NLP4IF (http://www.netcopia.net/nlp4if/ is dedicated to NLP methods that potentially contribute (either positively or negatively) to the free flow of information on the Internet, or to our understanding of the issues that arise in this area. We hope that our workshop will have a transformative impact on society by getting closer to achieving Internet freedom in countries where accessing and sharing of information are strictly controlled by censorship. The topics of interest include (but are not limited) to the following: Censorship detection: detecting deleted or edited text; detecting blocked keywords/banned terms; Censorship circumvention techniques: linguistically inspired countermeasure for Internet censorship such as keyword substitution, expanding coverage of existing banned terms, text paraphrasing, linguistic steganography, generating information morphs etc.; Identification of propaganda at different granularity levels: text fragment, document, and full website Detection of self-censorship; Identifying potentially censorable content; Disinformation/Misinformation detection: fake news, fake accounts, rumor detection, etc.; Identification of hate speech and offensive language (Comparative) analysis of the language of propagandistic and biased texts Automatic generation of persuasive content Automatic debiasing of news content Tools to facilitate the flagging, either automatic or manual, of propaganda and bias in social media Automatic detection of coordinated propaganda campaigns such as the use of social bots, botnets, and water armies Analysis of diffusion and consumption of propagandistic, hyperpartisan, and extremely biased content in social media Techniques to empirically measure Internet censorship across communication platforms; Investigations on covert linguistic communication and its limits; Identity and private information detection; Passive and targeted surveillance techniques; Ethics in NLP; “Walled gardens”, personalization and fragmentation of the online public space; Multiple submission policy: papers that are under review in another COLING workshop at the time of submission will not be considered. Submission page: https://www.softconf.com/coling2022/NLP4IF Formatting requirements: https://coling2022.org/Submission Important Dates * Submission deadline: August 18, 2022 (23:59 PM Pacific Standard Time) * Camera-ready papers due: September 5, 2022 * Workshop: co-located with COLING-2022, October 12-17, 2022

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Fifth Workshop on NLP for Internet Freedom (NLP4IF): extended deadline
by Anna Feldman 08 Aug '22

08 Aug '22

COLING 2022 Fifth Workshop on NLP for Internet Freedom (NLP4IF): Censorship, Disinformation, and Propaganda Workshop website: http://netsci.montclair.edu/nlp4if/ Co-located with COLING-2022, Oct 12-17, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea *Submission deadline: August 18, 2022 (23:59 PM Pacific Standard Time)* NLP4IF (http://netsci.montclair.edu/nlp4if/ is dedicated to NLP methods that potentially contribute (either positively or negatively) to the free flow of information on the Internet, or to our understanding of the issues that arise in this area. We hope that our workshop will have a transformative impact on society by getting closer to achieving Internet freedom in countries where accessing and sharing of information are strictly controlled by censorship. The topics of interest include (but are not limited) to the following: Censorship detection: detecting deleted or edited text; detecting blocked keywords/banned terms; Censorship circumvention techniques: linguistically inspired countermeasure for Internet censorship such as keyword substitution, expanding coverage of existing banned terms, text paraphrasing, linguistic steganography, generating information morphs etc.; Identification of propaganda at different granularity levels: text fragment, document, and full website Detection of self-censorship; Identifying potentially censorable content; Disinformation/Misinformation detection: fake news, fake accounts, rumor detection, etc.; Identification of hate speech and offensive language (Comparative) analysis of the language of propagandistic and biased texts Automatic generation of persuasive content Automatic debiasing of news content Tools to facilitate the flagging, either automatic or manual, of propaganda and bias in social media Automatic detection of coordinated propaganda campaigns such as the use of social bots, botnets, and water armies Analysis of diffusion and consumption of propagandistic, hyperpartisan, and extremely biased content in social media Techniques to empirically measure Internet censorship across communication platforms; Investigations on covert linguistic communication and its limits; Identity and private information detection; Passive and targeted surveillance techniques; Ethics in NLP; “Walled gardens”, personalization and fragmentation of the online public space; Multiple submission policy: papers that are under review in another COLING workshop at the time of submission will not be considered. Submission page: https://www.softconf.com/coling2022/NLP4IF Formatting requirements: https://coling2022.org/Submission Important Dates * Submission deadline: August 18, 2022 (23:59 PM Pacific Standard Time) * Camera-ready papers due: September 5, 2022 * Workshop: co-located with COLING-2022, October 12-17, 2022

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Natural Legal Language Processing (NLLP) Workshop @ EMNLP 2022 - Call for Papers
by danielpr＠gmail.com 08 Aug '22

08 Aug '22

Workshop on Natural Legal Language Processing (NLLP) 2022 8 December 2022 Abu Dhabi, UAE & Online Collocated with EMNLP 2022 Website: http://nllpw.org/workshop - Twitter: @nllpworkshop - Contact: nllp.chairs(a)gmail.com Sponsors: Bloomberg and LBox Following the success of the first three editions of the NLLP workshop (NAACL 2019, KDD 2020, EMNLP 2021), we aim to bring researchers and practitioners from NLP, machine learning and other artificial intelligence disciplines together with legal practitioners and researchers. = Topics = We welcome all submissions describing original work with one or more of the following contribution types: Applications of NLP to legal tasks including, but not limited to: - Legal Citation Resolution - Case Outcome Analysis and Prediction - Models of Legal Reasoning - E-Discovery - Lexical and other Data Resources for the Legal Domain - Bias and Privacy Experimental results using and adapting NLP methods for legal data including: - Classification - Information Retrieval - Anomaly Detection - Clustering - Knowledge Base Population - Multimedia Search - Link Analysis - Entity Recognition and Disambiguation - Training and Using Embeddings - Parsing - Dialogue and Discourse Analysis - Text Summarization and Generation - Relation and Event Extraction - Anaphora Resolution - Question Answering - Query Understanding - Combining Text with Structured data Tasks: - Description of new legal tasks for NLP - Structured overviews of a specific task with the goal of identifying new areas for research - Position papers presenting new visions, challenges and changes to existing research practices Resources: - Creation of curated and/or annotated data sets that can be publicly released and used by the community to advance the field Demos: - Descriptions of systems which use NLP technologies for legal text Industrial Research: - Industrial applications - Papers describing research on proprietary data Interdisciplinary Position Papers: - Legal and socio-legal analyses relating to the role NLP can play in the legal field - Critical reflections on the legality and ethics of data collection and processing practices = Submissions = We accept papers reporting original (unpublished) research of two types: - Long papers (max 8 pages + references) - Short papers (max 4 pages + references) To submit a paper, please access the submission link: https://softconf.com/emnlp2022/NLLP Conference proceedings will be published on the ACL Anthology (https://aclanthology.org/). = Non-archival option = The authors have the option of submitting previously unpublished research as non-archival, meaning that only the abstract will be published in the conference proceedings. We expect these submissions to describe the same quality of work as archival submissions. These will be reviewed following the same procedure as archival submissions. This option accommodates publication of the work or a superset at a later date in a conference or journal which does not allow previously archived work and to encourage presentation and feedback on mature, yet unpublished work. Non-archival submissions should adhere to the same formatting and length constraints as archival submissions. = Dual Submission and Pre-print Policy = Papers that have been or will be submitted to workshops, conferences or journals during the review period must indicate so at submission time. Authors of papers accepted for presentation at the NLLP workshop 2022 must notify the organizers by the camera-ready deadline as to whether the paper will be presented or withdrawn. If the preliminary version of a paper was posted in arXiv, the authors should NOT mention it as their own paper in the submission. Papers that violate the double-blind review requirements will be desk rejected. Exception: Submissions with the non-archival option are excepted from these requirements. = ACL Rolling Review Submissions = Our workshop also welcomes submissions from ACL Rolling Review or ARR (https://aclrollingreview.org/). Authors of any papers that are submitted to ARR and have their meta review ready may submit their papers and reviews for consideration for the workshop until 15 October 2022. This should include submissions to ARR for the 1 September deadline. = Double-Blind reviewing = The review process is double-blind. Submitted papers must not include author names and affiliations and they must be written in a way so that they do not break the double-blind reviewing process. If the preliminary version of a paper was posted in arXiv, the authors should NOT mention it as their own paper in the submission. Papers that violate the double-blind review requirements will be desk rejected. = Submission Style & Format Guidelines = Paper submissions must use the official ACL style templates, which are available here (https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files) (Latex and Word). Please follow the paper formatting guidelines general to "*ACL" conferences available (https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html) Authors may not modify these style files or use templates designed for other conferences. Submissions that do not conform to the required styles, including paper size, margin width, and font size restrictions, will be rejected without review. All long, short and theme papers must follow the ACL Author Guidelines (https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Author_Guidelines) = Important Dates = Submission deadline: 26 September 2022 Notification: 12 October 2022 ARR Commitment deadline: 15 October 2022 Camera ready: 26 October 2022 Workshop: 8 December 2020 All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h. = Presentation = Presentation format and schedule will be announced before the camera-ready deadline. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the NLLP 2022 by the registration deadline in order for the submission to be published in the proceedings. = Organizing Committee = Nikolaos Aletras ― University of Sheffield Leslie Barrett ― Bloomberg Law Ilias Chalkidis ― University of Copenhagen Catalina Goanta ― Utrecht University Daniel Preotiuc-Pietro ― Bloomberg

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Job: Research Associate – Natural Language Processing @ UCREL, Lancaster
by Rayson, Paul 08 Aug '22

08 Aug '22

School of Computing and Communications Salary: £29,619 to £34,308 Closing Date: Friday 26 August 2022 Interview Date: To be confirmed Reference: 0809-22 https://hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=0809-22 The School of Computing and Communications (SCC) within Lancaster University’s Faculty of Science and Technology, is seeking to appoint a Research Associate (RA) to work on two connected research projects on Natural Language Processing (NLP) for the Welsh language. FreeTxt/TestunRhydd (https://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/freetxt/) is funded by the AHRC as a follow-on funding for impact and engagement project. Thesawrws (https://corcencc.org/thesawrws/) is funded by the Welsh Government and will use word embeddings and other NLP techniques to create an open-access, freely-available online thesaurus of contemporary Welsh. Working together with project partners at Cardiff University (led by Dr Dawn Knight as PI), and stakeholders in the FreeTxt/TestunRhydd project advisory group (National Trust Wales, Cadw, National Museum Wales), the RA will continue the co-design, development and implementation of a well documented and thoroughly tested Streamlit web-based software prototype for supporting bilingual free-text survey and questionnaire data analysis. While a range of sophisticated digital tools for the analysis of text-based data are already available, particularly for researchers working in academia, in marketing and public relations contexts etc., many of the digital resources used are not necessarily affordable, quick and easy to use, and/or accessible to non-expert users. Specifically, these tools currently do not fully support the task of systematically processing free-text responses in Welsh. The FreeTxt/TestunRhydd project aims to bridge this gap between quantitative and qualitative forms of survey data by building the novel FreeTxt toolkit which is designed to support the analysis and visualisation of multiple forms of open-ended, free-text data in both English and Welsh. In the Thesawrws project, the RA will work on developing an open-access, freely available online thesaurus of the Welsh language, for Welsh speakers and learners alike. The RA’s work will draw on pre-existing word embeddings to find related words, and the CorCenCC project Welsh semantic tagger and human evaluators to refine the similarities to enhance this resource. For the language user, this represents a valuable resource which goes beyond traditional thesauri and it will be available publicly as a fully bilingual, user-friendly website, released via the main CorCenCC project website (http://www.corcencc.org/). The RA will be part of an internationally recognised centre of expertise for corpus-based natural language processing (UCREL), and will work directly with Professor Paul Rayson and Dr Mo El-Haj in SCC. For more details, please see the associated job description and person specification for this position. Potential candidates can also make informal enquiries to Professor Paul Rayson (p.rayson(a)lancaster.ac.uk<mailto:p.rayson@lancaster.ac.uk>) and Dr Mo El-Haj (m.el-haj(a)lancaster.ac.uk<mailto:m.el-haj@lancaster.ac.uk>). This is a full-time position expected to start in September 2022, and the RA will join on an indefinite contract, however the role remains contingent on external funding, which for this position which for this position ends 10th March 2023. Lancaster University are committed to family-friendly and flexible working policies on an individual basis. The School is also an Athena Swan Bronze Award holder, driving good employment practice and initiatives to address gender inequalities in Computing higher education and research. We welcome applications from people in all diversity groups. -- Paul Rayson Director of UCREL and Professor of Natural Language Processing Group Lead (SCC Data Science) School of Computing and Communications, InfoLab21, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK. Web: http://www.research.lancs.ac.uk/portal/en/people/Paul-Rayson/ Tel: +44 1524 510357 Contact me on Teams<https://teams.microsoft.com/l/chat/0/0?users=p.rayson@lancaster.ac.uk>

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Workshop Participation Opportunity/Call for Abstracts - Finance & NLP
by caitlin＠theiainsights.com 08 Aug '22

08 Aug '22

We are hosting a workshop at the Automated Knowledge Base Construction (AKBC) 2022 Conference. This is a non-archival event and we welcome work in progress/published works. Call for Abstracts We encourage submissions of abstracts relevant to knowledge graphs, NLP, and broader financial/economics research that could benefit from the use of KGs or NLP. These submissions may be previously published papers, new research, or works in progress. Accepted submissions may be asked to present their research at a presentation, lighting talk, or panel during the conference. For more information on the conference, please visit our website. Formatting guidelines Length between ½ - 1 page (not including references) PDF, Word, or Text file Include all authors Submit your abstract at https://finance-at-akbc.bubbleapps.io/submit Topics include but are not limited to Using KGs to represent relationships among companies and industries Automatic new industry and theme detection Identifying and representing supply chains Data sources and annotation for KGs in finance and economics Economic value of the data produced by KGs Knowledge graph entity hierarchy induction Combining numerical and semantic information in KGs Bootstrap KGs from public data sources other than Wikipedia Committee Members Dr. Ye Tian (University College London, Theia Insights) Ben Jones (Nasdaq) Dr. Gaurav Singh (Binance) Dr. Migael Strydom (Theia Insights) Dr. Pranava Madhyastha (City University of London) Ioannis Dourats (Meta) Dr. Lemin Wu (Theia Insights) Pietro Lesci (University of Cambridge) Nathan Burton (Theia Insights) Caitlin Walsh (Theia Insights) If you have any questions, please contact caitlin(a)theiainsights.com.

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HiT-IT’2023: First announcement
by Caro Quintana, Rocío I. 08 Aug '22

08 Aug '22

HiT-IT’2023 (HiT-IT conference: Human-informed Translation and Interpreting Technology) Naples, Italy, 6-8 July 2023 First announcement The conference We are pleased to announce the first Conference on Human-Informed Translation and Interpreting Technology. HiT-IT 2023 is a follow-up of the successful HiT-IT workshops, which took place in Varna, Bulgaria in parallel to the international conferences RANLP 2017 and RANLP 2019. The conference will take place on Naples, Italy, 6-8 July, 2023. HiT-IT seeks to act as a meeting point for (and invites) researchers working in translation and interpreting technologies, practicing technology-minded translators and interpreters, companies and freelancers providing services in translation and interpreting as well as companies developing tools for translators and interpreters. In addition to the accepted papers for presentation, HiT-IT will feature invited talks by prominent experts as well as presentations and panels hosted by practitioners. Human translation and interpreting as well as Machine Translation (MT) (including Automatic Speech Translation) aim to solve the same problem (i.e. facilitate communication between different languages) but in most cases obtain different results. While human translation so far is largely preferred by businesses and individuals in terms of quality, it requires high cognitive efforts and a lot of time. MT is much faster and can process large amounts of textual data in no time, but its results have obvious shortcomings for the average human. However, the quality of MT has been improving and MT now is part of the standard pipeline for many professional translators and CAT tools. Translation Technology (TT) has the objective of speeding up and easing the translation process, and more specifically, of assisting human translators. The emerging field of Interpreting Technology seeks to support the work of interpreters too. TT relies heavily on methods developed in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) (and Computational linguistics). Typical examples are Computer-Assisted Translation (CAT) tools, electronic dictionaries, concordancers, spell-checkers, terminological databases, terminology extraction tools, translation memories, partial machine translation of template documents, speech recognition systems for automatic subtitling, to name just a few. However, quite often these tools do not address the actual needs of translation and interpreting professionals. In turn, the NLP and MT make use of the knowledge and expertise of professional translators and interpreters in order to build and improve models for automatic translation – e.g. by using parallel aligned human translations and speech interpretation corpora for machine learning, human evaluation of machine translation outputs and human annotations. Most of the existing conferences are either focused too much on the automatic side of translation or concentrate largely on translators’ and interpreters’ professions. HiT-IT seeks to fill in this gap by allowing the discussion, the scientific comparison, and the mutual enrichment of professionals from both fields. HiT-IT 2023 addresses the development of translation tools and the experience translators and interpreters have with these tools as well as the development of machine translation engines, incorporating human (translators and interpreters’) expertise. The conference also offers a discussion forum and publishing opportunity for professionals from the human translation and interpreting fields (e.g. translators including subtitlers, interpreters, respeakers, researchers in translation and interpreting studies) and for researchers and developers working on translation and interpreting technology and machine translation. The idea behind this conference attendees to hear the other side’s position and to voice their opinions on how to make translation technologies closer to what would be accepted by large audiences, by incorporating human expertise into them. We expect contributions to the following topics: TOPICS We invite papers on the following four main themes, however submissions on related themes/topics will also be considered. Both theoretical ideas and practical applications are welcome. Position papers promoting new ideas, challenging the current status of the fields and proposing how to take them forward are also encouraged. User needs: * analysis of translators’ and interpreters’ needs in terms of translation and interpreting technology * user requirements for interpreting and translation tools * incorporating human knowledge into translation and interpreting technology * what existing translators’ (including subtitlers’) and interpreters’ tools do not offer * user requirements for electronic resources for translators and interpreters * translation and interpreting workflows in larger organisations and the tools for translation and interpreting employed Existing methods and resources * latest developments in translation and interpreting technology * electronic resources for translators and interpreters * annotation of corpora for translation and interpreting technology * crowdsourcing techniques for creating resources for translation and interpreting * latest advances in pre-editing and post-editing of machine translation * human-informed (semi-)automatic generation of interlingual subtitles * technology for subtitling Evaluation * (human) evaluation of translation and interpreting technology * crowdsourcing techniques for evaluating translation and interpreting * evaluation of discourse and other linguistic phenomena in (machine) translation and interpreting * evaluation of existing resources for translators and interpreters * human evaluation of neural machine translation Other * position papers discussing how machine translation should be improved to incorporate translators’/interpreters’ expertise * translation and interpreting technologies’ impact on the market * comparison between human and machine translation * changes in the translators and interpreters’ professions in the new technology era especially as a result of the latest developments in Neural Machine Translation Besides the above topics, submissions from industry and practitioners could discuss: distinctive work experience, ongoing practical work, in-house procedures or software, in-house processing pipelines, technology needs, managing a translation (technology) company, interpreters in the technology era, IP issues or any topic related to their professional activities in the field of (technology for) translation and interpreting, etc. SUBMISSIONS User papers – for industry and practitioners. References to related work are optional. Allowed paper length: between 1 and 4 pages (without references). Academic submissions, in three different categories (have to follow formatting requirements, references to related work are required): * (academic) full papers – describing original completed research. Allowed paper length: maximum 8 pages (without references). * (academic) work-in-progress papers – describing work in progress, late breaking research, papers at a more conceptual stage, and other types of papers that do not fit in the ‘full’ papers category. Allowed paper length: maximum 6 pages (without references). * (academic) demo papers – describing working systems. Allowed paper length: maximum 4 pages (without references). In addition to the papers, the authors will be expected to demonstrate the systems at the conference. Organisation HiT-IT is organised by the University of Wolverhampton, the University of Surrey (United Kingdom), the University of Malaga (Spain), and the University of Naples L ’Orientale (Italy), and the Association of Computational Linguistics (Bulgaria). Conference Chairs Gloria Corpas Pastor (University of Malaga), Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton), Johanna Monti (University of Naples L’Orientale), Constantin Orasan (University of Surrey) Venue The conference will take place at the Palazzo del Mediterraneo, University of Naples, https://www.unior.it/ateneo/253/1/palazzo-del-mediterraneo.html Further information Further information and updates will be made available on the conference website http://hit-it-conference.org/. The Organising Committee can be reached by email on 2023(a)hit-it-conference.org<mailto:2023@hit-it-conference.org>.

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CfP: Third Conference on Computational Humanities Research Dec 12-14, 2022
by Melvin Wevers 08 Aug '22

08 Aug '22

In the arts and humanities, the use of computational, statistical, and mathematical approaches has considerably increased in recent years. This research is characterized by the use of formal methods and the construction of explicit, computational models. This includes quantitative, statistical approaches, but also more generally computational methods for processing and analyzing data, as well as theoretical reflections on these approaches. Despite the undeniable growth of this research area, many scholars still struggle to find suitable research-oriented venues to present and publish computational work that does not lose sight of traditional modes of inquiry in the arts and humanities. This is the scholarly niche that the CHR conference aims to fill. More precisely, the conference aims at 1. Building a community of scholars working on humanities research questions relying on a wide range of computational and quantitative approaches to humanities data in all its forms. We consider this community to be complementary to the digital humanities landscape. 2. Promoting good practices through sharing “research stories”. Such good practices may include, for instance, the publication of code and data in order to support transparency and replication of studies; pre-registering research design to present theoretical justification, hypotheses, and proposed statistical analysis; or a redesign of the reviewing process for interdisciplinary studies that rely on computational approaches to answer questions relevant to the humanities. Topics of interest We invite original research papers from a wide range of topics, including -- but not limited to -- the following: - Applications of statistical methods (machine learning) to process, enrich and analyse humanities and cultural heritage data; - Hypothesis-driven humanities research; - Development of empirical methods for humanities research; - Modeling bias, uncertainty, and conflicting interpretation in the humanities; - Evaluation methods and development of standards; - Statistical evaluation of categorization / periodization; - Explanatory models for humanities research; - Theories for quantitative methods and computational humanities approaches; - Translation and transfer of methods from other disciplines, approaches to bridge humanistic and statistical interpretations. To gain further insight into paper topics, please also refer to the proceedings of CHR2020<http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2723/> and CHR2021<http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2989/>. Venue The 2022 edition of the Computational Humanities Research conference will be hosted by the University of Antwerp, Belgium. The conference will be a hybrid event with an option to attend in person at the beautiful Monastery of the Grauwzusters<https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/about-uantwerp/campuses/catering-conventionhal…> in Antwerp, virtually, or a combination of the two. More details will follow soon. Important dates - Submission deadline: September 2, 2022 - Notification to authors: October 18, 2022 - Final papers ready: November 1, 2022 - Conference: December 12 - December 14, 2022 Submission types Long Papers: up to 5000 words (ca. 10 pages, references, abstract and tables/illustrations excluded). Long papers report on completed, original and unpublished results. Brevity of argument is preferred. We welcome the use of appendices or other supplementary information. Short Papers: up to 3000 words (ca. 6 pages references, abstract and tables/illustrations excluded). Short papers report on focussed contributions, and may present work in progress. Posters: For poster presentations we ask you to submit an abstract describing your work in about 750 words (references excluded). Posters are well suited to present new or early stage research, for a corpus or database description, or for detailed technical explanations and clarifications. Perhaps needless to say given the R in CHR, but posters must also describe actual research. Posters will not be published in the proceedings, but they will be added to the website of CHR. Overleaf has a word count functionality, or you can use the TexCount<https://app.uio.no/ifi/texcount/> application. Submission instructions and review process Submissions should be written in English and must be formatted according to the CHR latex template<https://github.com/cohure/CHR2022-website/raw/main/data/chr2022_latex_templ…> (see instructions on the forum to get you started here<https://discourse.computational-humanities-research.org/t/chr-latex-instruc…>.) Submissions are to be submitted anonymously. All submissions will be refereed through a double-blind peer review process by at least three reviewers with final acceptance decisions made by the Programme Chairs. Papers and posters should be submitted as PDF documents via the Easychair<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=chr2022> conference management system. At least one author of each accepted submission must register to the conference and present the paper or poster. Accepted papers will be submitted for publication online via the CEUR-WS<http://ceur-ws.org/> Proceedings publication service. Instructions for paper anonymisation Any information which might help identify authors should be anonymized. To this end, please: 1. do not include authors' names and affiliations; 2. use placeholders for code and data repositories, e.g. https://anonymous.4open.science/, https://zenodo.org/record/xxxxx; 3. do not mention self-references in a way that can reveal the author's identity, e.g. do not use "We previously demonstrated (Smith, 2002)" but "Smith (2022) previously demonstrated"; 4. leave acknowledgements blank. Anonymity period The anonymity period runs until the notification of acceptance (October 18, 2022). Preprints can be published after this date. Questions? Contact the organizers: info(a)computational-humanities-research.org<mailto:info@computational-humanities-research.org> or drop us a line on the discourse forum<https://discourse.computational-humanities-research.org>.

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Call for Shared Task Participation - HASOC-2022
by Dola Mullage, Damith P. 08 Aug '22

08 Aug '22

14th meeting of Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation HASOC-2022 Shared task on HATE AND OFFENSIVE CONTENT IDENTIFICATION FIRE-22 9th to 13th Dec 2022 in a Hybrid mode at Kolkata, India Call for Shared Task Participation https://hasocfire.github.io<https://url6.mailanyone.net/scanner?m=1oIuaZ-000ArL-3w&d=3%7Cmail%2F14%2F16…> Task description: This task aims to study the various forms of problematic content, such as aggressiveness, hate, offensive, and abusive content in conversational dialogue (with context) on online platforms, such as Twitter. Systems should use the context of a conversation in order to identify problematic content. Task 1: ICHCL contextual binary classification (Hinglish and German) This task focused on the binary classification (Subtask-1) of such conversational tweets with tree-structured data into: (NOT) Non-Hate-Offensive - This tweet, comment, or reply does not contain any Hate speech, or profane, offensive content. (HOF) Hate and Offensive - This tweet, comment, or reply contains Hate, offensive, and profane content in itself or supports hate expressed in the parent tweet. The data set will be offered in Code Mixed Hindi English as well as in German. Task 2: ICHCL contextual multiclass classification Furthermore, for Hinglish (Code Mixed Hindi English), we're introducing a multiclass task that further divides the HOF tweets into 2 subclasses so this task will contain 3 labels: (SHOF) Standalone Hate - This tweet, comment, or reply contains Hate, offensive, and profane content in itself. (CHOF) Contextual Hate - Comment or reply is supporting the hate, offence and profanity expressed by its parent. This includes affirming the hate with positive sentiment and having apparent hate. (NOT) Non-Hate-Offensive - This tweet, comment, or reply does not contain any Hate speech, or profane, offensive content. For more information on task-1 and 2 please visit: https://hasocfire.github.io/hasoc/2022/ichcl.html<https://url6.mailanyone.net/scanner?m=1oIuaZ-000ArL-3w&d=3%7Cmail%2F14%2F16…> Task 3: Offensive Language Identification in Marathi This task aims to evaluate the hierarchical modelling of offensive language identification in Marathi. The task has three subtasks. Subtask-1: Offensive Language Detection In this subtask, the goal is to discriminate between offensive and non-offensive posts. Offensive posts include insults, threats, and posts containing any form of untargeted profanity. Each instance is assigned one of the following two labels: OFF - Posts containing any form of non-acceptable language (profanity) or a targeted offence, which can be veiled or direct. NOT - Posts that do not contain offence or profanity. Subtask-2: Categorisation of Offensive Language In subtask B, the goal is to predict the type of offence. Only posts labelled as Offensive (OFF) in subtask A are included in subtask B. The two categories in subtask B are the following: Targeted Insult (TIN): Posts containing an insult/threat to an individual, group, or others. Untargeted (UNT): Posts containing non-targeted profanity and swearing. Subtask-3: Offense Target Identification Subtask C focuses on the target of offences. Only posts that are either insults or threats (TIN) are considered in this third layer of annotation. The three labels in subtask C are the following: Individual (IND): Posts targeting an individual. Group (GRP): The target of these offensive posts is a group of people considered to a unity due to the same ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation, political affiliation, religious belief, or other common characteristics. Other (OTH): The target of these offensive posts does not belong to any of the previous two categories. Timeline: 5th June Task Announcement, Data of HASOC 2019,20,21 Available 1st Aug Training Data Release 1st Sept Test Data Release and Run Submission Starts 3rd Sept Registration Deadline 8th Sept Deadline for run submission 10nd Sept Result Declaration 30th Sept Paper Submission Deadline 10th Oct Review Distribution 20th Oct Revised system description paper submission 9th-13 Dec FIRE takes place in Hybrid mode Organizers: Thomas Mandl - University of Hildesheim, Germany Sandip Modha - LDRP-ITR, Gandhinagar, India Prasenjit majumder - DA-IICT, Gandhinagar, India Shrey Satapara - Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, India Hiren Madhu - Indian Institute of Science, Banglore, India Tharindu Ranasinghe - University of Wolverhampton, UK Marcos Zampieri - Rochester Institute of Technology, USA Kai North - Rochester Institute of Technology, USA Damith Premasiri - University of Wolverhampton, UK For more information, please visit: https://hasocfire.github.io/hasoc/2022/index.html<https://url6.mailanyone.net/scanner?m=1oIuaZ-000ArL-3w&d=3%7Cmail%2F14%2F16…> For participation please visit: https://hasocfire.github.io/hasoc/2022/registration.html<https://url6.mailanyone.net/scanner?m=1oIuaZ-000ArL-3w&d=3%7Cmail%2F14%2F16…> For any clarification please contact us at hasocfire(a)gmail.com<mailto:hasocfire@gmail.com> Looking forward to your participation

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Postdoc/PhD position in XAI for medical NLP
by Damien Sileo 08 Aug '22

08 Aug '22

We offer a two-year research position for a postdoctoral or predoctoral scientist on the topic of explainable AI in the context of natural language processing of clinical reports at the Department of Computer Science, KU Leuven.. The position is financed by the CHIST-ERA project ANTIDOTE (ArgumeNtaTIon-Driven explainable artificial intelligence fOr digiTal mEdicine). The project focuses on deep learning models for text classification in the medical domain, where the need for high quality explanations of clinical decisions is critical. The project proposes an integrated approach for the understanding of textual medical data and the generation of a textual explanation to justify a medical diagnosis made by a neural network, so that clinicians can judge its validity. The partners of the ANTIDOTE project provide annotated argumentative structures of natural language explanations of medical decisions (human explanations). We will also leverage larger-scale data (without annotated explanation) in order to improve explanation generation. One way would be to use feature importance techniques (Integrated gradients, LIME or preferably search-based methods) applied to models trained to perform medical decisions, to guide explanation generation. KU Leuven is declared the most innovative university in Europe by Reuters four years in a row and is ranked 42th on the Times Higher Education World University Ranking (2022). Offer * We offer a research position for 2 years starting September 1 or the latest October 1, 2022. * We offer a competitive wage and yearly budget to attend conferences. * We offer the opportunity for personal development beyond research including the supervision of master and PhD students and the possibility to contribute to teaching. * Access to our deep learning cluster which contains the latest GPU hardware. If interested,please apply the latest by August 20h, 2022. Excellent candidates will be invited for an online interview. The position will be closed once a suitable candidate is found. Responsibilities * Perform fundamental research in natural language processing, machine learning and explainable AI resulting in publications in highly-ranked venues. * Collaborate with the other European partners of the ANTIDOTE project. * Carry out some (light) teaching duties if interested, which may include lectures, the organization of student seminars, and the supervision of bachelor and master theses. Profile * You have (or are near completion of) a master or PhD in Computer Science . * Given that we have to fill in the research position very soon, we will only consider applicants who can work at KU Leuven, Belgium without visa. * You have a demonstrated expertise in machine learning, deep neural networks and natural language processing. Expertise in structured prediction and/or structured generation is a plus. * You have an outstanding track record of publications in relevant international peer-reviewed A ranked conferences and in journals with high impact factor in the fields of machine learning and natural language processing. * You are good at collaborating with others. * You work proactively and independently and have good communication skills. * You have an excellent knowledge of the English language, both spoken and written as well as of another European language (e.g., French, Spanish or Italian). * You are highly motivated, ambitious and result-oriented. For more information please contact Dr Damien Sileo mail: damien.sileo(a)kuleuven.be or Prof. Dr. Marie-Francine Moens, mail: sien.moens(a)kuleuven.be with [XAI22] in your e-mail subject.

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Head of Internal Communications and Engagement, University of LEEDS, UK
by Eric Atwell 08 Aug '22

08 Aug '22

Just a couple of days left to apply for our Head of Internal Communications and Engagement role at the University of Leeds<https://www.linkedin.com/company/university-of-leeds/>. We are looking for a highly experienced and self-motivated internal communications leader with a proven ability to build, manage and motivate teams and establish productive stakeholder relationships, and to create and successfully implement audience content, channel and audience strategies to engage and build internal communities, in a complex environment. If this sounds like you, then please check out the details using the links below. https://jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=CSCOM1107 https://www.linkedin.com/posts/markdorey_job-opportunity-at-university-of-l…<https://www.linkedin.com/posts/markdorey_job-opportunity-at-university-of-l…> also see Jeff Allen, "Education - a commodity or a necessity" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL5GIjktivQ&ab_channel=jeffallenfrance

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Free online course (MOOC) in CL and special offer
by Brezina, Vaclav 08 Aug '22

08 Aug '22

Dear all, Lancaster University offers a free online course (MOOC) in Corpus linguistics: ‘Corpus Linguistics: Method, Analysis, Interpretation’. The course starts on 19 September 2022 and runs for eight weeks. If you are interested, you can register now for free at https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/corpus-linguistics by clicking on ‘Join today’. **Special offer - £500 off Lancaster tuition fees** If you decide to study the free MOOC, or if you actively participated and completed the course within the last three years, you are eligible to apply for our MOOC entry route to Lancaster University’s MA (2 years, online) or Postgraduate Certificate (1 year, online). You can still apply for the 2022 start. By doing so, you will not take the first core module of the programme, Fundamentals of Corpus Linguistics, but will be expected to submit two written assessments, in January of year 1, using the knowledge you developed through the MOOC. This entry route has a fee discount of £500, which will be deducted from the first year of your fees. MA https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/postgraduate-courses/corpus-… PG Certificate https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/postgraduate-courses/corpus-… Best, Vaclav Professor Vaclav Brezina Professor in Corpus Linguistics Department of Linguistics and English Language ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Lancaster University Lancaster, LA1 4YD Office: County South, room C05 T: +44 (0)1524 510828 [cid:983e86f0-0557-4989-92e1-32caa1d1ba1c]@vaclavbrezina [cid:271e209b-19f4-4569-93c2-3cc500082e84]<http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/arts-and-social-sciences/about-us/people/vaclav-…>

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Call for Submissions – EMNLP Workshop on NLP for Positive Impact
by Joel Tetreault 08 Aug '22

08 Aug '22

(apologies for cross-posting) Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/nlp4positiveimpact Submission website: https://softconf.com/emnlp2022/NLPforPositiveImpact2022/ Important Dates - (Submission channel 1) Latest submission deadline to Softconf: Aug 15, 2022 - (Submission channel 2; alternative) Latest ARR commitment deadline: Oct 2, 2022 (As the ARR site explains, authors can commit to venues when they have their reviews and meta-reviews. By Oct 2, you need to "commit" your ARR paper through Softconf, as in EMNLP 2022). - Notification of Acceptance: Oct 9, 2022 - Camera-Ready Papers Due: Oct 16, 2022 - Workshop Date: Dec 7, 2022 All deadlines are 11:59 PM (Anywhere on Earth <https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/aoe>) Summary The widespread and indispensable use of language-oriented AI systems presents new opportunities to have a positive social impact. NLP technologies are starting to mature to the point where they could have an even broader impact, supporting the UN sustainability goals <https://sdgs.un.org/goals> by helping to address big problems such as poverty, hunger, healthcare, education, inequality, COVID-19 and climate change. Our workshop aims to promote innovative NLP research that will positively impact society, focusing on responsible methods and new applications. We will encourage submissions from areas including (but not limited to): - Work that grounds the impact of NLP: Beyond developing a better-performing NLP model, can we make a step further to connect the model to actual social impact? Example directions include: case studies of real-world deployments; or improving the deployment and maintenance of NLP models in practice. In addition to commonly recognized NLP for social good areas such as NLP for healthcare, mental well-being, and many others, we also call for work on neglected areas such as NLP for poverty, hunger, energy, climate change, among others. We also highly value work that builds on interdisciplinary expertise, and encourage submissions of case studies or worked examples that seek to expand the social impact of NLP through collaboration with other fields (e.g., philanthropy, social science, political science, economics, HCI). - Work that guides researchers in NLP for Social Good: Can we provide insights and guidance to the field? Example directions include: measures of social impact; automatic identification of various social needs, their corresponding sizes and demographics of people affected; position papers to propose promising new tasks or directions that the field should pursue; literature review of a subfield; philosophical discussions of what social good is; approaches to interdisciplinary collaboration; user study designs, user surveys; ethical considerations, and other related topics. Note that we want submissions to our workshop to have some distinctive features of social good implications, beyond a general paper on NLP. We will require each submission to discuss the ethical and societal implications of their work, and encourage a discussion of what "positive impact" means in the work. Organizers - Zhijing Jin (Max Planck Institute & ETH Zurich) - Laura Biester (University of Michigan) - Dora Demszky (Stanford University) - Mrinmaya Sachan (ETH Zurich) - Joel Tetreault (Dataminr, Inc.) - Steven Wilson (Oakland University) - Lu Xiao (Syracuse University) - Jieyu Zhao (University of Maryland, College Park) Contact Email - nlp4pi.workshop(a)gmail.com

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PhD Studentship in Multilingual Multimodal Information Extraction at ADAPT Centre, MTU, Ireland
by Mohammed Hasanuzzaman 07 Aug '22

07 Aug '22

Dear List Members, ADAPT Centre (https://www.adaptcentre.ie/), Munster Technological University (MTU), Ireland and Bluetensor S.r.l, Italy ( https://bluetensor.ai/) have formed a partnership to fully fund a 4-year PhD position in the area of Artificial Intelligence. The general area for the PhD focus will be *Multilingual Multimodal Information Extraction*. The successful candidate will work closely with a team of mentors from academia and industry. *Why ADAPT Centre?* Contribute to the ADAPT research agenda that pioneers and combines research in AI driven technologies: Natural Language Processing, Video/Text/Image/Speech processing, digital engagement & HCI, semantic modeling, personalisation, privacy & data governance. Work with our interdisciplinary team of leading experts from the complementary fields of, Social Sciences, Communications, Commerce/Fintech, Ethics, Law, Health, Environment and Sustainability. Leverage our success. ADAPT’s researchers have signed 43 collaborative research projects, 52 licence agreements and oversee 16 active commercialisation funds and 52 commercialisation awards. ADAPT has won 40 competitive EU research projects and obtained €18.5 million in non-exchequer non-commercial funding. Additionally, six spinout companies have been formed. ADAPT’s researchers have produced over 1,500 journal and conference publications and nearly 100 PhD students have been trained. As an ADAPT funded PhD researcher you will have access to a network of 85 global experts and over 250 staff as well as a wide multi-disciplinary ecosystem across 8 leading Irish universities. We can influence and inform your work, share our networks and collaborate with you to increase your impact, and accelerate your career opportunities. Specifically we offer: Opportunity to build your profile at international conferences and global events. A solid career pathway through formalised training & development, expert one-on-one supervision and exposure to top specialists. A Fully funded, 4 year PhD postgraduate studentship which includes a tax-free stipend of approx. €18,500 per year for up to four years including EU tuition fees, research and equipment costs and all costs associated with training related covered. *Why Bluetensor?* Combine research with field experience. Every day we apply the latest technological innovations by selecting those that are best suited to the business, developing customised solutions to solve our customers' concrete problems. Compare yourself with different sectors. See how your research is indispensable in different businesses. BlueTensor develops artificial intelligence projects in industry, education, law, media, etc. participating in public and private tenders. Exploit synergies. Technologies become even more powerful when combined with others. BlueTensor has expertise in deep learning, machine learning, predictive analysis, computer vision and natural language processing. In each project we know whether and how to combine algorithms in the best possible way. You will be able to deal with our highly skilled team of data scientists, front-end developers, full-stack developers and AI architects. *Minimum qualifications* Minimum 2.1 honours undergraduate degree in either Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering or related disciplines with strong programming skills. - Expertise and interest in Machine Learning/Natural Language Processing/Data Mining - - Previous scientific publication experience preferred. - - Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills *Application Process* Interested candidates can send an application with the following documents directly to Mohammed Hasanuzzaman (mohammed.hasanuzzaman(a)adaptcentre.ie) - Detailed curriculum vitae, including – if applicable – relevant publications; - - Transcripts of degrees, - - The name and email contacts of two academic referees, - - A cover letter/letter of introduction (max 2000 words). In the letter, applicants should include the following details: - - An explanation of your interest in the research to be conducted and why you believe they are suitable for the position. - - Details of your final year undergraduate project (if applicable) - - Details of your MSc project (if applicable) - - Details of any relevant modules previously taken, at undergraduate and/or Master level. - - Details of any relevant work experience (if applicable). *Diversity* ADAPT is committed to achieving better diversity and gender representation at all levels of the organisation, across leadership, academic, operations, research staff and studentship levels. ADAPT is committed to the continued development of employment policies, procedures and practices that promote gender equality. On that basis we encourage and welcome talented people from all backgrounds to join ADAPT. *About the ADAPT Centre* ADAPT is the world-leading SFI research centre for AI Driven Digital Content Technology hosted by Trinity College Dublin. ADAPT’s partner institutions include Dublin City University, University College Dublin, Technological University Dublin, Maynooth University, Munster Technological University, Athlone Institute of Technology, and the National University of Ireland Galway. ADAPT's research vision is to pioneer new forms of proactive, scalable, and integrated AI-driven Digital Content Technology that empower individuals and society to engage in digital experiences with control, inclusion, and accountability with the long term goal of a balanced digital society by 2030. ADAPT is pioneering new Human Centric AI techniques and technologies including personalisation, natural language processing, data analytics, intelligent machine translation, human-computer interaction, as well as setting the standards for data governance, privacy and ethics for digital content. *Our Research Vision* Governments and civil society are starting to recognise the need for urgent and concerted action to address the societal impact of the accelerating pace of digital content technologies and the AI techniques that underpin them. ADAPT provides an ambitious, ground-breaking, integrated research programme that assembles three interlocking Strands that together are capable of addressing this challenge. Each of these complementary and reinforcing research Strands takes one of the different perspectives on the provision of personalised, immersive, multimodal digital engagement, i.e. the individual’s experience and control of the engagement, the algorithms underlying digital content processing, and the balanced governance by enterprise and societal stakeholders. *About Bluetensor* Bluetensor was founded in Trento (Italy) in 2018 and today its team consists of 13 resources. By combining Project Management with the Agile method, Bluetensor meets clients' needs by developing solutions that have an impact on business time, costs and processes. The projects carried out over the past three years have earned Buetensor an excellent international reputation. One of its reasoning systems, for example, is being beta tested by teams of experts on five continents. Moreover, thanks to its strong expertise and challenging projects, Bletensor has created two new start-ups to apply artificial intelligence in particular sectors. Bluetensor’s founders believe in the importance of scientific research. That's why Bluetensor is sponsor of the Doctorate in Industrial Innovation at the University of Trento and partner of various initiatives with Italian and foreign universities. BlueTensor’s vision: “Promote a smarter way of working and a better lifestyle by empowering people and organizations through Artificial Intelligence.” Best regards, Mohammed ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Dr. Mohammed Hasanuzzaman, Lecturer, Munster Technological University <https://www.mtu.ie/> * *Funded Investigator, ADAPT Centre- <https://www.adaptcentre.ie/> A <https://www.adaptcentre.ie/>* World-Leading SFI Research Centre <https://www.adaptcentre.ie/> *Member, Lero, the SFI Research Centre for Software <https://lero.ie/>**C**hercheur Associé*, GREYC UMR CNRS 6072 Research Centre, France <https://www.greyc.fr/en/home/> *Associate Editor/EBM:** IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, Nature Scientific Reports, IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, ACM TALLIP, Computer Speech and Language* Dept. of CS Munster Technological University Bishopstown campus Cork e: mohammed.hasanuzzaman(a)adaptcentre.ie <email(a)adaptcentre.ie>/ Ireland https://mohammedhasanuzzaman.github.io/ [image: Mailtrack] <https://mailtrack.io?utm_source=gmail&utm_medium=signature&utm_campaign=sig…> Sender notified by Mailtrack <https://mailtrack.io?utm_source=gmail&utm_medium=signature&utm_campaign=sig…> 07/08/22, 20:45:43

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by Aleksandra Wesolowska 07 Aug '22

07 Aug '22

Leave Sent from my iPhone > On 5 Aug 2022, at 14:00, corpora-request(a)list.elra.info wrote: > > Send Corpora mailing list submissions to > corpora(a)list.elra.info > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via email, send a message with subject or > body 'help' to > corpora-request(a)list.elra.info > > You can reach the person managing the list at > corpora-owner(a)list.elra.info > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Corpora digest..." > > Today's Topics: > > 1. TempoWiC shared task at EMNLP EvoNLP Workshop: Evaluation starts (deadline: September 12) > (Jose Camacho Collados) > 2. PhD Position in Speech Translation at Fondazione Bruno Kessler > (Matteo Negri) > 3. [QPP++] 2nd CfP Query Performance Prediction and Its Evaluation in New Tasks @ CIKM 2022 > (Guglielmo Faggioli) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2022 16:04:09 +0000 > From: Jose Camacho Collados <CamachoColladosJ(a)cardiff.ac.uk> > Subject: [Corpora-List] TempoWiC shared task at EMNLP EvoNLP Workshop: > Evaluation starts (deadline: September 12) > To: "corpora(a)list.elra.info" <corpora(a)list.elra.info> > Message-ID: <LO2P265MB5789301B4C033C1A12DC3F218E9F9(a)LO2P265MB5789.GBR > P265.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM> > Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="_000_LO2P265MB578930 > 1B4C033C1A12DC3F218E9F9LO2P265MB5789GBRP_" > > ************************************ > > Call for participation: TempoWiC shared task at EvoNLP shared task (co-located with EMNLP) > > > Training and test data available! > > > Shared Task website: https://sites.google.com/view/evonlp/shared-task > > Codalab evaluation page: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/5360 > > > Important dates: > > * 1 August 2022: Test data released and evaluation phase starts > > * 12 September 2022: Evaluation phase ends > > * 16 September 2022: Results released > > * 10 October 2022: System description paper deadline > > ************************************ > > > TempoWiC is the Shared Task for the "EvoNLP: The First Workshop on Ever Evolving NLP" workshop, co-located with EMNLP 2022. For this novel temporal meaning shift task, users are given a pair of sentences (or, in this case, tweets) and a target word (e.g. delta), and the task consists of deciding whether the meaning of the target word is the same or not. Basically, the framing is the same binary classification as the original WiC (Word-in-Context) task but adapted so the temporal aspect is taken into account (tweets in each pair were selected from different time periods). > > > For example, we can observe a meaning shift happening to the word folklore in the following instance, where its meaning represents a recent music album in the second example. > > (1) There's a thunderstorm outside so clearly it's the perfect time to watch videos about folklore monsters. (August 2019) > > (2) Cardigan on folklore is my favorite song. I wish @taylorswift13 would love me (August 2020) > > > > -- > > > Jose Camacho Collados > http://www.josecamachocollados.com<http://www.josecamachocollados.com/> > > -------------- next part -------------- > A message part incompatible with plain text digests has been removed ... > Name: not available > Type: text/html > Size: 6177 bytes > Desc: not available > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2022 22:58:14 +0200 > From: Matteo Negri <negri(a)fbk.eu> > Subject: [Corpora-List] PhD Position in Speech Translation at > Fondazione Bruno Kessler > To: corpora(a)list.elra.info, elsnet-list(a)list.hum.uu.nl, > dbworld(a)cs.wisc.edu, mt-list(a)eamt.org, > LINGUIST(a)listserv.linguistlist.org > Message-ID: > <CAOE0tRuS5pwrcaujkihv=kqW5TBiNOaed=XyVxUu5UQVQ+1R7Q(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: multipart/alternative; > boundary="0000000000005bab1c05e5709cf4" > > -- > > Apologies for cross-posting. > > -- > > Have you recently completed or expect very soon an MSc or equivalent degree > in computer science, artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, > engineering, or a related area? Are you interested in carrying out research > on Speech Translation during the next few years? Are you excited to spend a > part of your life in a pleasant city in the heart of the Italian Alps? > > WE ARE LOOKING FOR YOU!!! > > The Machine Translation <https://ict.fbk.eu/units/hlt-mt/> (MT) group at > Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Trento, Italy) in conjunction with the ICT > International Doctorate School of the University of Trento > <https://iecs.unitn.it/> is pleased to announce the availability of the > following fully-funded Ph.D. position in Speech Translation. > > TITLE: Application-oriented Speech Translation > > DESCRIPTION: > > The need to translate audio input from one language into text in a target > language has dramatically increased in the last few years with the growth > of audiovisual content freely available on the Web. Current speech > translation (ST) systems are now required to be flexible and robust enough > to operate in different application scenarios. On one side, the industry > calls for key features like real-time processing, domain adaptability, > extended language coverage, and the capability to meet application-specific > constraints. On the other side, society calls for new efforts towards > inclusiveness with respect to specific categories and groups (e.g. > gender-sensitivity, customization to the needs of impaired users). Both > industry and society face the orthogonal challenges posed by the > variability of audio conditions (e.g. background noise, strong speakers’ > accent, overlapping speakers). The objective of this Ph.D. is to make ST > flexible and robust to these and other factors. > > CONTACT: negri(a)fbk.eu > > COMPLETE DETAILS AVAILABLE AT: > https://iecs.unitn.it/education/admission/call-for-application > > > IMPORTANT DATES: > > The deadline for application is September 6, 2022, hrs. 04:00 PM (CEST) > > Potential candidates are strongly invited to contact us in advance for > preliminary interviews. Precedence for interviews will be given to > short-listed candidates that will send us a complete CV via email ( > negri(a)fbk.eu) by August 18, 2022. > > Candidate profile > > The ideal candidate must have recently completed or expect very soon an MSc > or equivalent degree in computer science, artificial intelligence, > computational linguistics, engineering, or a closely related area. In > addition, the applicant should: > > - > > Have interest in Machine and Speech Translation > - > > Have experience in deep learning and machine learning, in general > - > > Have good programming skills in Python and experience in PyTorch > - > > Enjoy working with real-world problems and large data sets > - > > Have good knowledge of written and spoken English > - > > Enjoy working in a closely collaborating team > > Working Environment > > The doctoral student will be employed at the MT group at Fondazione Bruno > Kessler, Trento, Italy. The group (about 10 people including staff and > students) has a long tradition in research on machine and speech > translation and is currently involved in several projects. Former students > are nowadays employed in leading IT companies in the world. > > Benefits > > Fondazione Bruno Kessler offers an attractive benefits package, including a > flexible work week, full reimbursement for conferences and summer schools, > a competitive salary, an excellent team of supervisors and mentors, help > for housing, full health insurance, the possibility of Italian courses, and > sporting facilities. > > Further Information > > For preliminary interviews, and should you need further information about > the position, please contact Matteo Negri (negri(a)fbk.eu). > > Best Regards, > > Matteo Negri > > -- > -- > 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. > -------------- next part -------------- > A message part incompatible with plain text digests has been removed ... > Name: not available > Type: text/html > Size: 18048 bytes > Desc: not available > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2022 10:05:10 +0200 > From: Guglielmo Faggioli <guglielmo.faggioli(a)phd.unipd.it> > Subject: [Corpora-List] [QPP++] 2nd CfP Query Performance Prediction > and Its Evaluation in New Tasks @ CIKM 2022 > To: corpora(a)list.elra.info > Message-ID: > <CAD3vDD-Ts1eGy6Mzq=gjKiwrq6PO=J+58OhJdPyCpiywNNzvxg(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: multipart/alternative; > boundary="00000000000076a3d705e579ed95" > > Query Performance Prediction (QPP) is currently primarily used for ad-hoc > retrieval tasks. The Information Retrieval (IR) field is reaching new > heights thanks to recent advances in large language models and neural > networks, as well as emerging new ways of searching, such as conversational > search. Such advancements are quickly spreading to adjacent research areas, > including QPP, necessitating a reconsideration of how we perform and > evaluate QPP. > > Important Dates > --------------------- > Submission deadline: September 2, 2022 > Notification of acceptance: September 27, 2022 > Camera ready: October 06, 2022 > Conference days: October 17-20, 2022 > Workshop day: October 21, 2022 > > Call for Papers > ------------------- > This workshop aims at stimulating discussion on three main aspects > concerning the future of QPP: > > What are the emerging QPP challenges posed by new methods and > technologies, including but not limited to dense retrieval, contextualized > embeddings, and conversational search? > How might these new techniques be used to improve the quality of QPP? > Can we claim that the current techniques for evaluating QPP are > effective in all arising scenarios? Can we envision new evaluation > protocols capable of granting generalizability in new domains? > > We plan to foster the discussion via two focus groups led by the workshop's > organizers. > > The first focus group will identify what possibilities the QPP offers > regarding new research models and IR tasks, primary considerations, issues > linked to different aspects of the QPP, and the potentialities provided by > new tools. > > The second focus group will gather the community’s concerns and solutions > with respect to the QPP evaluation, especially for what concerns emerging > domains. > Themes and Topics > > The workshop will focus on the following themes: > Query performance prediction applied to new tasks: > Can existing QPP techniques be exploited, or which new QPP theories and > models need to be devised for new tasks, such as passage-retrieval, Q&A, > and conversational search? > Query performance prediction exploiting new techniques: > How can new technologies, such as contextualized embeddings, large > language models, and neural networks be exploited to improve QPP? > Evaluation of query performance prediction: > How should QPP techniques be evaluated, including best practices, > datasets, and resources, and, in particular, should QPP be evaluated the > same for different IR tasks? > > It is possible to submit three main categories of manuscripts to the > workshop: > Full papers: up to 6 pages. > Short papers: up to 3 pages. > Discussion papers: up to 3 pages. > > All manuscripts are expected to address the workshop's themes as mentioned > above. > Full and short papers should contain innovative ideas and their > experimental evaluation. We are also interested in works containing > (methodologically sound) preliminary results and incremental endeavours. > Discussion papers should include work with or without preliminary results, > position papers, and papers describing failures. Such papers should foster > the discussion and thus are not required to contain full-fledged results. > In this sense, the experimental evaluation of the submitted discussion > paper is appreciated but not required. We are also interested in receiving > contributions regarding (methodologically sound) failed experiments; since > the workshop will focus on new research directions, we consider it > necessary also to discuss the reasons and causes of failures. > Each manuscript will be peer-reviewed by at least two program committee > members > Accepted papers will be published online as a volume of the CEUR-WS > proceeding series. > > Website > -------------- > qpp2022.dei.unipd.it > > Organizers > -------------- > Guglielmo Faggioli, University of Padova, Italy, faggioli(a)dei.unipd.it > <http://faggiolidei.unipd.it/> > Nicola Ferro, University of Padova, Italy, ferro(a)unipd.it > <http://ferrounipd.it/> > Josiane Mothe, Université de Toulouse, IRIT, France, josiane.mothe(a)irit.fr > <http://josiane.motheirit.fr/> > Fiana Raiber, Yahoo Research, Israel, fiana(a)yahooinc.com > <http://fianayahooinc.com/> > > ---------- > Guglielmo Faggioli > Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica, University of Padua > Via Gradenigo 6/b, 35138, Padua, Italy > -------------- next part -------------- > A message part incompatible with plain text digests has been removed ... > Name: not available > Type: text/html > Size: 4759 bytes > Desc: not available > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > Corpora mailing list -- corpora(a)list.elra.info > To unsubscribe send an email to corpora-leave(a)list.elra.info > > > ------------------------------ > > End of Corpora Digest, Vol 212, Issue 1 > ***************************************

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ICNLSP 2022, 5th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing, 16, 17 December2022
by Mourad Abbas 05 Aug '22

05 Aug '22

*ICNLSP 2022: 3rd call for papers* Dear all, This is the 3rd call for papers for ICNLSP 2022 <https://www.icnlsp.org/2022welcome/>, the 5*th* edition of the International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing, hosted by DataScientia (University of Trento) <http://datascientia.disi.unitn.it/events/> for the third time, will be held online, on 16-17 December 2022. Authors are invited to present their work relevant to the topics of the conference. The following list includes the topics of ICNLSP 2022 <https://www.icnlsp.org/2022welcome/> but not limited to: Signal processing, acoustic modeling Architecture of speech recognition system Deep learning for speech recognition Analysis of speech Paralinguistics in Speech and Language Pathological speech and language Speech coding Speech comprehension Summarization Speech Translation Speech synthesis Speaker and language identification Phonetics, phonology and prosody Cognition and natural language processing Text categorization Sentiment analysis and opinion mining Computational Social Web Arabic dialects processing Under-resourced languages: tools and corpora New language models Arabic OCR Lexical semantics and knowledge representation Requirements engineering and NLP NLP tools for software requirements and engineering Knowledge fundamentals Knowledge management systems Information extraction Data mining and information retrieval Machine translation NLP for Arabic heritage documents *Important dates* *Submission deadline*: *30 August 2022* *Notification of acceptance*: *31 October 2022* *Camera-ready paper due*: *20 November 2022* *Conference dates*: *16, 17 Decemberber 2022* *Publication* 1- All accepted papers will be published in ACL Anthology, and indexed in DBLP. 2- Selected papers will be published in Signals and Communication Technology (Springer) (https://www.springer.com/series/4748), indexed in Scopus. *Keynote speakers* 1. Eric Laporte, Gustave Eiffel University, France. 2. Jan Niehues, University of Maastricht, Netherlands. 3. Ahmed Ali, QCRI, Qatar. *Workshop: NSURL 2022* The workshop on NLP Solutions for Under Resourced Languages NSURL <http://nsurl.org> will be held with ICNLSP 2022 <https://www.icnlsp.org/2022welcome/>. The workshop aim to be a forum for solving NLP tasks concerning Arabic and its dialects and also under-resourced languages as African, Persian, etc. We look forward to welcome you to ICNLSP 2022 <https://www.icnlsp.org/2022welcome/> that will be an opportunity to get acquainted with the latest research in the field of natural language and speech processing, hoping that it will be successful with your active participation. *Contact* icnlsp2022(a)easychair.org

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[QPP++] 2nd CfP Query Performance Prediction and Its Evaluation in New Tasks @ CIKM 2022
by Guglielmo Faggioli 05 Aug '22

05 Aug '22

Query Performance Prediction (QPP) is currently primarily used for ad-hoc retrieval tasks. The Information Retrieval (IR) field is reaching new heights thanks to recent advances in large language models and neural networks, as well as emerging new ways of searching, such as conversational search. Such advancements are quickly spreading to adjacent research areas, including QPP, necessitating a reconsideration of how we perform and evaluate QPP. Important Dates --------------------- Submission deadline: September 2, 2022 Notification of acceptance: September 27, 2022 Camera ready: October 06, 2022 Conference days: October 17-20, 2022 Workshop day: October 21, 2022 Call for Papers ------------------- This workshop aims at stimulating discussion on three main aspects concerning the future of QPP: What are the emerging QPP challenges posed by new methods and technologies, including but not limited to dense retrieval, contextualized embeddings, and conversational search? How might these new techniques be used to improve the quality of QPP? Can we claim that the current techniques for evaluating QPP are effective in all arising scenarios? Can we envision new evaluation protocols capable of granting generalizability in new domains? We plan to foster the discussion via two focus groups led by the workshop's organizers. The first focus group will identify what possibilities the QPP offers regarding new research models and IR tasks, primary considerations, issues linked to different aspects of the QPP, and the potentialities provided by new tools. The second focus group will gather the community’s concerns and solutions with respect to the QPP evaluation, especially for what concerns emerging domains. Themes and Topics The workshop will focus on the following themes: Query performance prediction applied to new tasks: Can existing QPP techniques be exploited, or which new QPP theories and models need to be devised for new tasks, such as passage-retrieval, Q&A, and conversational search? Query performance prediction exploiting new techniques: How can new technologies, such as contextualized embeddings, large language models, and neural networks be exploited to improve QPP? Evaluation of query performance prediction: How should QPP techniques be evaluated, including best practices, datasets, and resources, and, in particular, should QPP be evaluated the same for different IR tasks? It is possible to submit three main categories of manuscripts to the workshop: Full papers: up to 6 pages. Short papers: up to 3 pages. Discussion papers: up to 3 pages. All manuscripts are expected to address the workshop's themes as mentioned above. Full and short papers should contain innovative ideas and their experimental evaluation. We are also interested in works containing (methodologically sound) preliminary results and incremental endeavours. Discussion papers should include work with or without preliminary results, position papers, and papers describing failures. Such papers should foster the discussion and thus are not required to contain full-fledged results. In this sense, the experimental evaluation of the submitted discussion paper is appreciated but not required. We are also interested in receiving contributions regarding (methodologically sound) failed experiments; since the workshop will focus on new research directions, we consider it necessary also to discuss the reasons and causes of failures. Each manuscript will be peer-reviewed by at least two program committee members Accepted papers will be published online as a volume of the CEUR-WS proceeding series. Website -------------- qpp2022.dei.unipd.it Organizers -------------- Guglielmo Faggioli, University of Padova, Italy, faggioli(a)dei.unipd.it <http://faggiolidei.unipd.it/> Nicola Ferro, University of Padova, Italy, ferro(a)unipd.it <http://ferrounipd.it/> Josiane Mothe, Université de Toulouse, IRIT, France, josiane.mothe(a)irit.fr <http://josiane.motheirit.fr/> Fiana Raiber, Yahoo Research, Israel, fiana(a)yahooinc.com <http://fianayahooinc.com/> ---------- Guglielmo Faggioli Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica, University of Padua Via Gradenigo 6/b, 35138, Padua, Italy

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PhD Position in Speech Translation at Fondazione Bruno Kessler
by Matteo Negri 04 Aug '22

04 Aug '22

-- Apologies for cross-posting. -- Have you recently completed or expect very soon an MSc or equivalent degree in computer science, artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, engineering, or a related area? Are you interested in carrying out research on Speech Translation during the next few years? Are you excited to spend a part of your life in a pleasant city in the heart of the Italian Alps? WE ARE LOOKING FOR YOU!!! The Machine Translation <https://ict.fbk.eu/units/hlt-mt/> (MT) group at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Trento, Italy) in conjunction with the ICT International Doctorate School of the University of Trento <https://iecs.unitn.it/> is pleased to announce the availability of the following fully-funded Ph.D. position in Speech Translation. TITLE: Application-oriented Speech Translation DESCRIPTION: The need to translate audio input from one language into text in a target language has dramatically increased in the last few years with the growth of audiovisual content freely available on the Web. Current speech translation (ST) systems are now required to be flexible and robust enough to operate in different application scenarios. On one side, the industry calls for key features like real-time processing, domain adaptability, extended language coverage, and the capability to meet application-specific constraints. On the other side, society calls for new efforts towards inclusiveness with respect to specific categories and groups (e.g. gender-sensitivity, customization to the needs of impaired users). Both industry and society face the orthogonal challenges posed by the variability of audio conditions (e.g. background noise, strong speakers’ accent, overlapping speakers). The objective of this Ph.D. is to make ST flexible and robust to these and other factors. CONTACT: negri(a)fbk.eu COMPLETE DETAILS AVAILABLE AT: https://iecs.unitn.it/education/admission/call-for-application IMPORTANT DATES: The deadline for application is September 6, 2022, hrs. 04:00 PM (CEST) Potential candidates are strongly invited to contact us in advance for preliminary interviews. Precedence for interviews will be given to short-listed candidates that will send us a complete CV via email ( negri(a)fbk.eu) by August 18, 2022. Candidate profile The ideal candidate must have recently completed or expect very soon an MSc or equivalent degree in computer science, artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, engineering, or a closely related area. In addition, the applicant should: - Have interest in Machine and Speech Translation - Have experience in deep learning and machine learning, in general - Have good programming skills in Python and experience in PyTorch - Enjoy working with real-world problems and large data sets - Have good knowledge of written and spoken English - Enjoy working in a closely collaborating team Working Environment The doctoral student will be employed at the MT group at Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy. The group (about 10 people including staff and students) has a long tradition in research on machine and speech translation and is currently involved in several projects. Former students are nowadays employed in leading IT companies in the world. Benefits Fondazione Bruno Kessler offers an attractive benefits package, including a flexible work week, full reimbursement for conferences and summer schools, a competitive salary, an excellent team of supervisors and mentors, help for housing, full health insurance, the possibility of Italian courses, and sporting facilities. Further Information For preliminary interviews, and should you need further information about the position, please contact Matteo Negri (negri(a)fbk.eu). Best Regards, Matteo Negri -- -- 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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EVALITA 2023: Call for NLP tasks
by Marco Polignano 04 Aug '22

04 Aug '22

****************************************************** *********** EVALITA 2023: Call for tasks *********** ****************************************************** *EVALITA 2023 *is an initiative of AILC (Associazione Italiana di Linguistica Computazionale, *AILC* https://www.ai-lc.it/). As in the previous editions (https://www.evalita.it/), EVALITA 2023 will be organized along a few selected tasks, which provide participants with opportunities to discuss and explore both emerging and traditional areas of *Natural Language Processing and Speech*. The participation is encouraged for teams working both in academic institutions and industrial organizations. *TASK PROPOSAL SUBMISSION* Tasks proposals should be no longer than 4 pages and should include: - task title and acronym; - names and affiliation of the organizers (minimum 2 organizers); - brief task description, including motivations and state of the art; - explanation of the international relevance of the task; - description and examples of the data, including information about their availability, development stage, and issues concerning privacy and data sensitivity. The examples are mandatory because they are intended to give potential participants an idea of what the task data will look like, how it’ll be formatted, etc. - expected number of participants and attendees; - names and contact information of the organizers. /In submitting your proposal, please bear in mind that we encourage:/ - c*hallenging tasks* involving linguistic analysis, e.g., beyond “simple” classification problems; - tasks focused on multimodality, e.g., considering both textual and visual information; - tasks characterized by *different levels of complexity*, e.g., with a straightforward main subtask and one or more sophisticated additional subtasks; - the re-annotation/expansion of datasets from previous years with new annotation levels, and texts from publicly available corpora; - both new tasks and re-runs: for new tasks, organizers will have to specify in the proposal why it would attract a reasonable number of participants, and why it is needed; - application-oriented tasks, that is tasks that have a clearly defined end-user application showcasing; - *multilingual tasks*, i.e. with data both in Italian and in other languages; - *industrial tasks*, i.e. task with real data provided by companies. The organizers of the accepted tasks should take care of planning, according to the scheduled deadlines (see below): - the development and distribution of datasets needed for the contest, i.e. data for training and development, and data for testing; the scorer to be used to evaluate the submitted systems should be included in the release of development data; - the development of task guidelines, where all the instructions for the participation are made clear together with a detailed description of data and evaluation metrics applied for the evaluation of the participant results; - the collection of participants results; - the evaluation of participants results according to standard metrics and baseline(s); - the solicitation of participation and of submissions; - the reviewing process of the papers describing the participants approach and results (according to the template to be made available by the EVALITA 2023 chairs); - the production of a paper describing the task (according to the template to be made available by the EVALITA 2023 chairs). **** Email your proposal in PDF format to evalita2023(a)gmail.com with "EVALITA 2023 TASK Proposal" as the subject line by the submission deadline: October 4th 2022. **** Please feel free to contact the EVALITA 2023 chairs at evalita2023(a)gmail.com in case of any questions or suggestions. Deadlines of the task proposal: - October 4th 2022: submission of task proposals - October 18th 2022: notification of task proposal acceptance *Tentative timelines of EVALITA 2023:* - 17th January 2023: development data available to participants - 13th April 2023: registration closes - 14th - 27th April 2023: evaluation windows - 4th May 2023: assessment returned to participants - first half of July: final workshop, location to be announced shortly *EVALITA 2023 CHAIRS* Mirko Lai (Università di Torino) Stefano Menini (Fondazione Bruno Kessler) Marco Polignano (Università di Bari Aldo Moro) Valentina Russo (Logogramma SRL) Rachele Sprugnoli (Università degli Studi di Parma) Giulia Venturi (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale “A. Zampolli” - CNR)

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TempoWiC shared task at EMNLP EvoNLP Workshop: Evaluation starts (deadline: September 12)
by Jose Camacho Collados 04 Aug '22

04 Aug '22

************************************ Call for participation: TempoWiC shared task at EvoNLP shared task (co-located with EMNLP) Training and test data available! Shared Task website: https://sites.google.com/view/evonlp/shared-task Codalab evaluation page: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/5360 Important dates: * 1 August 2022: Test data released and evaluation phase starts * 12 September 2022: Evaluation phase ends * 16 September 2022: Results released * 10 October 2022: System description paper deadline ************************************ TempoWiC is the Shared Task for the "EvoNLP: The First Workshop on Ever Evolving NLP" workshop, co-located with EMNLP 2022. For this novel temporal meaning shift task, users are given a pair of sentences (or, in this case, tweets) and a target word (e.g. delta), and the task consists of deciding whether the meaning of the target word is the same or not. Basically, the framing is the same binary classification as the original WiC (Word-in-Context) task but adapted so the temporal aspect is taken into account (tweets in each pair were selected from different time periods). For example, we can observe a meaning shift happening to the word folklore in the following instance, where its meaning represents a recent music album in the second example. (1) There's a thunderstorm outside so clearly it's the perfect time to watch videos about folklore monsters. (August 2019) (2) Cardigan on folklore is my favorite song. I wish @taylorswift13 would love me (August 2020) -- Jose Camacho Collados http://www.josecamachocollados.com<http://www.josecamachocollados.com/>

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Open position: Independent Research Group Leader in Natural Language Processing, TU Darmstadt, Germany
by Elisabeth Niemann 04 Aug '22

04 Aug '22

The Department of Computer Science at the Technical University of Darmstadt keeps growing - we are now looking for an Independent Research Group Leader (equivalent to the assistant professor level) in NLP to join our team! Are you interested in doing cutting-edge research on Natural Language Processing and AI, often in collaboration with top academic and industrial partners? We are a diverse team working on some of the hardest and most exciting machine learning challenges, including representation learning, neural IR, explainable NLP, continual learning, multi-task learning, self-supervised learning, and more. Visit our website and read more about the opening: https://www.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/ukp/ukp_home/jobs_ukp/2022_independe… -------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych UKP Lab Computer Science Department Technical University Darmstadt, Germany http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/

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Associate Research Scientist in Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing, UKP Lab Darmstadt (Germany)
by Elisabeth Niemann 04 Aug '22

04 Aug '22

The Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing (UKP) Lab at the Department of Computer Science, Technical University Darmstadt in Germany has several ERC-, HORIZON- or DFG-funded openings for an Associate Research Scientist (PostDoc- or PhD-level; for an initial term of two to three years) in Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing. As an interdisciplinary team, we are happy to accommodate a wide variety of research questions and backgrounds, ranging from machine learning to dataset creation. We particularly welcome proposals on neuro-symbolic reasoning, multilingual and multimodal language modeling, and creative ideas on modeling cross-document relations. Interested to become part of our diverse, ambitious and successful team doing cutting edge research? Visit our website and read more about the openings: https://www.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/ukp/ukp_home/jobs_ukp/2022_associiat… -------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych UKP Lab Technical University Darmstadt, Germany http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/

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Important UPDATES/EXTENSION: ClinSpEn medical machine translation sub-track (Biomedical WMT Task, EMNLP 2022)
by Salvador Lima 04 Aug '22

04 Aug '22

Important UPDATES/EXTENSION: ClinSpEn sub-track (Biomedical WMT Task, EMNLP 2022) Machine Translation of Clinical cases, ontologies & medical entities: Spanish - English https://temu.bsc.es/clinspen/ Evaluation period extension, test and background data available on Zenodo and CodaLab submission available. The ClinSpEn track of the Biomedical WMT 2022 shared task tries to address a pressing need and emerging research topic related to the development and exploitation of multilingual clinical NLP and text mining applications. Recent advances in neural machine translation approaches (MT) adapted to specific domains and text genres have resulted in promising results that facilitate processing of healthcare and clinical data beyond language silos. The ClinSpEn sub-track tries to promote the use of advanced machine translation technologies applied to three high impact healthcare application scenarios: (1) automatic translation of clinical case documents of importance to examine how MT could be further applied to cope with clinical records (2) automatic translation of clinical terms and entity mentions extracted directly from medical records and literature to improve multilingual semantic annotation technologies (3) automatic translation of ontologies and controlled vocabulary concepts of uttermost importance for multilingual data and concept normalization These three scenarios will be addressed by three specific benchmark data collections used for evaluation purposes by the ClinSpEn biomedical WMT track: ClinSpEn-CC (Clinical Cases): EN>ES translation of clinical case documents. ClinSpEn-CT (Clinical Terms): ES>EN translation of clinical terms and entity mentions extracted from records and literature. ClinSpEn-OC (Ontology Concepts): EN>ES translation of highly used open clinical controlled vocabularies and ontology concepts. Important links: - ClinSpEn web: https://temu.bsc.es/clinspen/ - Biomedical WMT web: https://statmt.org/wmt22/biomedical-translation-task.html - WMT2022: https://statmt.org/wmt22/ - EMNLP conference: https://2022.emnlp.org/ - Data (NEW!): - Clinical Cases: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6497350 - Clinical Terms: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6497372 - Ontology Concepts: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6497388 - CodaLab: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/6696 - Team Registration (mandatory): https://temu.bsc.es/clinspen/registration/ For the ClinSpEn track Gold Standard manual translations generated by professional medical translators have been generated to evaluate participating teams. The primary evaluation metric to be used for this track will be SacreBLEU. Participants will also have access to a larger background collection to promote scalability and robustness assessment of machine translation technology. Updated schedule: - Participant Predictions Due: August 30th, 2022 (UPDATED EXTENSION!) - Paper Submission: September 7th, 2022 - Acceptance notification: October 9th, 2022 - Camera-ready version: October 16th, 2022 - WMT workshop at EMNLP: December 7th and 8th, 2022 Publications and workshop Participating teams will be invited to contribute a systems description paper for the WMT 2022 Working Notes proceedings. This workshop will be part of the prestigious EMNLP 2022 conference. More information on the paper’s specifications, formatting guidelines and review process at: https://statmt.org/wmt22/index.html. ClinSpEn Track Organizers - Salvador Lima-López (BSC) - Darryl Johan Estrada (BSC) - Eulàlia Farré-Maduell (BSC) - Martin Krallinger (BSC) Biomedical WMT Organizers - Rachel Bawden (University of Edinburgh, UK) - Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio (University of Padua, Italy) - Darryl Johan Estrada (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain) - Eulàlia Farré-Maduell (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain) - Cristian Grozea (Fraunhofer Institute, Germany) - Antonio Jimeno Yepes (University of Melbourne, Australia) - Salvador Lima-López (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain) - Martin Krallinger (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain) - Aurélie Névéol (Université Paris Saclay, CNRS, LISN, France) - Mariana Neves (German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Germany) - Roland Roller (DFKI, Germany) - Amy Siu (Beuth University of Applied Sciences, Germany) - Philippe Thomas (DFKI, Germany) - Federica Vezzani (University of Padua, Italy) - Maika Vicente Navarro, Maika Spanish Translator, Melbourne, Australia - Dina Wiemann (Novartis, Switzerland) - Lana Yeganova (NCBI/NLM/NIH, USA -- Salvador Lima Lopez RESEARCH ENGINEER Life Sciences - Text Mining, BSC-CNS Barcelona, Spain

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[OM-2022] 2nd CFP: 17th workshop on Ontology Matching collocated with ISWC
by Cassia TROJAHN 04 Aug '22

04 Aug '22

** With apologies for multiple posting ** The Seventeenth International Workshop on ONTOLOGY MATCHING (OM-2022) http://om2022.ontologymatching.org/ October 23rd or 24th, 2022, International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) Workshop Program, Hybrid conference, Hangzhou, China BRIEF DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES Ontology matching is a key interoperability enabler for the Semantic Web, as well as a useful technique in some classical data integration tasks dealing with the semantic heterogeneity problem. It takes ontologies as input and determines as output an alignment, that is, a set of correspondences between the semantically related entities of those ontologies. These correspondences can be used for various tasks, such as ontology merging, data interlinking, query answering or navigation over knowledge graphs. Thus, matching ontologies enables the knowledge and data expressed with the matched ontologies to interoperate. The workshop has three goals: 1. To bring together leaders from academia, industry and user institutions to assess how academic advances are addressing real-world requirements. The workshop will strive to improve academic awareness of industrial and final user needs, and therefore, direct research towards those needs. Simultaneously, the workshop will serve to inform industry and user representatives about existing research efforts that may meet their requirements. The workshop will also investigate how the ontology matching technology is going to evolve, especially with respect to data interlinking, knowledge graph and web table matching tasks. 2. To conduct an extensive and rigorous evaluation of ontology matching and instance matching (link discovery) approaches through the OAEI (Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative) 2022 campaign: http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2022/ 3. To examine similarities and differences from other, old, new and emerging, techniques and usages, such as web table matching or knowledge embeddings. TOPICS of interest include but are not limited to: Business and use cases for matching (e.g., big, open, closed data); Requirements to matching from specific application scenarios (e.g., public sector); Application of matching techniques in real-world scenarios (e.g., in cloud, with mobile apps); Formal foundations and frameworks for matching; Novel matching methods, including link prediction, ontology-based access; Matching and knowledge graphs; Matching and deep learning; Matching and embeddings; Matching and big data; Matching and linked data; Instance matching, data interlinking and relations between them; Privacy-aware matching; Process model matching; Large-scale and efficient matching techniques; Matcher selection, combination and tuning; User involvement (including both technical and organizational aspects); Explanations in matching; Social and collaborative matching; Uncertainty in matching; Expressive alignments; Reasoning with alignments; Alignment coherence and debugging; Alignment management; Matching for traditional applications (e.g., data science); Matching for emerging applications (e.g., web tables, knowledge graphs). SUBMISSIONS Contributions to the workshop can be made in terms of technical papers and posters/statements of interest addressing different issues of ontology matching as well as participating in the OAEI 2022 campaign. Long technical papers should be of max. 12 pages. Short technical papers should be of max. 5 pages. Posters/statements of interest should not exceed 2 pages. All contributions have to be prepared using the LNCS Style: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 and should be submitted in PDF format (no later than August 9th, 2022) through the workshop submission site at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=om2022 Contributors to the OAEI 2022 campaign have to follow the campaign conditions and schedule at http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2022/. DATES FOR TECHNICAL PAPERS AND POSTERS: August 9th, 2022: Deadline for the submission of papers. September 6th, 2022: Deadline for the notification of acceptance/rejection. September 20th, 2022: Workshop camera ready copy submission. October 23rd or 24th, 2022: OM-2022, hybrid conference, Hangzhou, China. Contributions will be refereed by the Program Committee. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings as a volume of CEUR-WS as well as indexed on DBLP. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 1. Pavel Shvaiko (main contact) Trentino Digitale, Italy 2. Jérôme Euzenat INRIA & Univ. Grenoble Alpes, France 3. Ernesto Jiménez-Ruiz City, University of London, UK & SIRIUS, University of Oslo, Norway 4. Oktie Hassanzadeh IBM Research, USA 5. Cássia Trojahn IRIT, France PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be completed): Alsayed Algergawy, Jena University, Germany Manuel Atencia, Universidad de Málaga, Spain Jiaoyan Chen, University of Oxford, UK Jérôme David, University Grenoble Alpes & INRIA, France Gayo Diallo, University of Bordeaux, France Daniel Faria, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciéncia, Portugal Alfio Ferrara, University of Milan, Italy Marko Gulic, University of Rijeka, Croatia Wei Hu, Nanjing University, China Ryutaro Ichise, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & Europeana, Netherlands Naouel Karam, Fraunhofer, Germany Prodromos Kolyvakis, EPFL, Switzerland Patrick Lambrix, Linköpings Universitet, Sweden Oliver Lehmberg, University of Mannheim, Germany Fiona McNeill, University of Edinburgh, UK Majid Mohammadi, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands Hoa Ngo, CSIRO, Australia George Papadakis, University of Athens, Greece Henry Rosales-Méndez, University of Chile, Chile Booma Sowkarthiga, Microsoft, USA Kavitha Srinivas, IBM, USA Ludger van Elst, DFKI, Germany Xingsi Xue, Fujian University of Technology, China Ondrej Zamazal, Prague University of Economics, Czech Republic Songmao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Science, China Lu Zhou, TigerGraph, USA --------------------- Best regards, Cassia

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PhD opening: Adaptive Multimodal Conversational Agents
by Raffaella Bernardi 04 Aug '22

04 Aug '22

The IECS Doctoral School, at the University of Trento, has several PhD openings. Application deadline on September* 6, 2022 hrs. 04:00 PM *(CEST). See here for details: https://iecs.unitn.it/education/admission/call-for-application If you are interested in the project on *Adaptive Multimodal conversational agents* that will be run in collaboration with Amazon Alexa (in Berlin), please contact me at raffaella.bernardi(a)unitn.it I am looking for PhD candidates with a strong background in Computer Science, in particular on Machine Learning, ideally with some expertise on Natural Language Processing/Natural Language Generation. ============================================================== University of Trento CIMeC: C225, second floor, Corso Bettini 31, 38068 Rovereto (TN), DISI: Povo 2, Room: 110, Via Sommarive 9, I 38123, Povo (TN) Tel. +39 0464 80 8704 (CIMeC) http://disi.unitn.it/~bernardi/ ==============================================================

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[CfP] Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility, and Readability (TSAR) @ EMNLP 2022
by Daniel Ferrés 03 Aug '22

03 Aug '22

Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility, and Readability (TSAR-2022) Workshop and Shared Task at EMNLP 2022 Workshop: https://taln.upf.edu/pages/tsar2022-ws Shared Task: https://taln.upf.edu/pages/tsar2022-st Call for Papers The web provides an abundance of knowledge and information that can reach large populations. However, the way in which a text is written (vocabulary, syntax, or text organization/structure), or presented, can make it inaccessible for many people, especially for non-native speakers, people with low literacy, and people with some type of cognitive or linguistic impairments. The results of the Adult Literacy Survey (OECD, 2013) indicate that approximately 16.7% of the adult population (averaged over 24 highly-developed countries) requires lexical, 50% syntactic, and 89.4% conceptual simplification of everyday texts (Štajner, 2021). Research on automatic text simplification (TS), textual accessibility, and readability have the potential to improve social inclusion of marginalized populations. These related research areas have attracted attention in the past ten years, evidenced by the growing number of publications in NLP conferences. While only about 300 articles in Google Scholar mentioned TS in 2010, this number has increased to about 600 in 2015 and greater than 1000 in 2020 (Štajner, 2021). Recent research in automatic text simplification has mostly focused on proposing the use of methods derived from the deep learning paradigm (Glavaš and Štajner, 2015; Paetzold and Specia, 2016; Nisioi et al., 2017; Zhang and Lapata, 2017; Martin et al., 2020; Maddela et al., 2021; Sheang and Saggion, 2021). However, there are many important aspects of automatic text simplification that need the attention of our community: the design of appropriate evaluation metrics, the development of context-aware simplification solutions, the creation of appropriate language resources to support research and evaluation, the deployment of simplification in real environments for real users, the study of discourse factors in text simplification, the identification of factors affecting the readability of a text, etc. To overcome those issues, there is a need for collaboration of CL/NLP researchers, machine learning and deep learning researchers, UI/UX and Accessibility professionals, as well as public organizations representatives (Štajner, 2021). The proposed TSAR workshop builds upon the recent success of several regional workshops that covered a subset of our topics of interest, including READI Workshops at LREC 2022 and LREC 2022, SEPLN 2021 Workshop on Current Trends in Text Simplification (CTTS) and the SimpleText workshop at CLEF 2021, as well as the birds-of-a-feather events on Text Simplification at NAACL 2021 (over 50 participants) and ACL 2022. The TSAR workshop aims to foster collaboration among all parties interested in making information more accessible to all people. Through the two invited talks, a shared task on lexical simplification, the round table discussion, oral and poster presentations of novel research, we will discuss recent trends and developments in the area of automatic text simplification, text accessibility, automatic readability assessment, language resources and evaluation for text simplification, etc. Topics We invite contributions on the following topics (among others): Lexical simplification; Syntactic simplification; Modular and end-to-end TS; Sequence-to-sequence and zero-shot TS; Controllable TS; Text complexity assessment; Complex word identification and lexical complexity prediction; Corpora, lexical resources, and benchmarks for TS; Evaluation of TS systems; Domain specific/adaptable TS (e.g. health, legal); Other related topics (e.g. empirical and eye-tracking studies); Assistive technologies for improving readability and comprehension including those going beyond text. Text Simplification in Languages other than English Multilingual TS Readability Controlled MT Submissions We welcome two types of papers: long papers and short papers. Submissions should be made to the Softconf submission management system: https://softconf.com/emnlp2022/tsar. The papers should present novel research. The review will be double blind and thus all submissions should be anonymized. Format: Paper submissions must use the official EMNLP template, which is available as an Overleaf template and also downloadable directly (Latex and Word) (see here: https://2022.emnlp.org/calls/style-and-formatting/). Authors may not modify these style files or use templates designed for other conferences. Submissions that do not conform to the required styles, including paper size, margin width, and font size restrictions, will be rejected without review. Long Papers: Long papers must describe substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis should be included. Long papers may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus unlimited pages of 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. Long papers will be presented orally or as posters as determined by the program committee. The decisions as to which papers will be presented orally and which as poster presentations will be based on the nature rather than the quality of the work. There will be no distinction in the proceedings between long papers presented orally and long papers presented as posters. Short Papers: Short paper submissions must describe original and unpublished work. Please note that a short paper is not a shortened long paper. Instead, short papers should have a point that can be made in a few pages. Some kinds of short papers include: a small, focused contribution; a negative result; an opinion piece; an interesting application nugget Short papers may consist of up to four (4) pages of content, plus unlimited pages of references. Final versions of short papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 5 pages), so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account. Short papers will be presented orally or as posters as determined by the program committee. While short papers will be distinguished from long papers in the proceedings, there will be no distinction in the proceedings between short papers presented orally and short papers presented as posters. Important Dates 7 September 2022: Workshop paper submission deadline (Softconf) 2 October 2022: Workshop paper notification deadline 16 October 2022: Workshop paper camera ready deadline 8 December 2022: Workshop Proceedings All accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings and published in ACL Anthology. Extended versions of best papers will be invited for a special issue of Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence focused on: applied research for TS and readability assessment in the context of TS. Organizers Sanja Štajner, NLP Researcher, Germany Horacio Saggion, Chair in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence and Head of the LaSTUS Lab in the TALN-DTIC, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Wei Xu, Assistant Professor at School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology Marcos Zampieri, Assistant Professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology Matthew Shardlow, Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University Daniel Ferrés, Post-Doctoral Research Assistant at LaSTUS Lab. at TALN-DTIC, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Kai North, Ph.D. student at the Rochester Institute of Technology Kim Cheng Sheang, PhD student at LaSTUS Lab. at TALN-DTIC, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Program committee (Tentative) Rodrigo Alarcón (Universidad Carlos III, Spain) Fernando Alva Manchego (University of Sheffield, UK) Susana Bautista (Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, Spain) Antoine Bordes (Facebook, UK) Remi Cardon (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium) Eric De la Clergerie (INRIA, France) Felice Dell'Orletta (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale “Antonio Zampolli”, Italy) Thomas François (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgique) Nuria Gala (Université Aix-Marseille, France) Goran Glavaš (University of Mannheim, Germany) Itziar Gonzalez-Dios (University of the Basque Country, Spain) Natalia Grabar (Université de Lille, France) Raquel Hervás (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain) Tomoyuki Kajiwara (Ehime University, Japan) David Kauchak (Pomona College, USA) Reno Kriz (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Louis Martin (Facebook, UK) Lourdes Moreno López (Universidad Carlos III, Spain) Christina Niklaus (University St. Gallen, Switzerland) Benoît Sagot (INRIA, France) Giulia Venturi (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale “Antonio Zampolli”, Italy) Victoria Yaneva (National Board of Medical Examiners, USA) CONTACT Feel free to send us messages at: Email: horacio.saggion(a)upf.edu

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Four new books on pluricentric languages and sociolinguistic published at PCL-Press.org
by Rudolf Muhr 02 Aug '22

02 Aug '22

Dear colleagues, the editorial committee is happy to inform you that four new books on pluricentric languages and sociolinguistic matters have been published at PCL-Press, the publishing house fo the Working Group on Ono-dominant Varieties of Pluricentric Languages (WGNDV). The books are downloadable for free and available in print. (See the links below). You find the data of the four volumes below. The editorial committe would be gratefull if you would disseminate this message to friends and colleagues who might be interested in our publications. Kind regards Rudolf Muhr (Coordinator of the WGNDV) (General editor of PCL-Press) ***** Rudolf Muhr, Juan Thomas, Eugenia L. Duarte, Cilene Rodrigues (eds.) (2022): Pluricentric Languages in the Americas. Graz/Berlin. PCL-Press. ISBN: 9783756516636. Downloadable at: https://pcl-press.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Muhr-et.al_.-2022-Pluricen… Available in print (hardback) € 28,99: https://www.epubli.de/shop/buch/pluricentric-languages-in-the-americas-rudo… *********** Rudolf Muhr, Reglindis De Ridder, Gerhard Edelmann, Aditi Ghosh (eds.) (2022): Pluricentric languages in different theoretical and educational contexts. Graz/Berlin, PCL-Press. 151 p. ISBN: 978-3-756516-11-7. Downloadable at: https://pcl-press.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Muhr-et.al_.-2022b-Plurice… Available in print (hardback) € 21,50: https://www.epubli.de/shop/buch/pluricentric-languages-in-different-theoret… Tariq Rahman (2022): Language and Politics in Pakistan. Graz/Berlin. PCL-Press. 331 pages. ISBN 978-3-756517-36-7. Downloadable at: https://pcl-press.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Rahman-Tariq-Language-and-… Available in print (hardback) € 28,99: https://www.epubli.de/shop/buch/language-and-politics-in-pakistan-tariq-rah… ***** Tariq Rahman (2022): Pakistani English. Graz/Berlin. PCL-Press. ISBN: 9783756516100. 91 pages. Downloadable at: https://pcl-press.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Tariq-Rahman-2022-PAKISTAN… Available in print (hardback) € 17,99: https://www.epubli.de/shop/buch/pakistani-english-tariq-rahman-978375651610…

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Fwd: EAMT Sponsorship of Activities for 2023 (deadline 07/10/2022)
by Carol Scarton 02 Aug '22

02 Aug '22

************************************************************** EAMT Sponsorship of Activities for 2023 Deadline: 07/10/2022 ************************************************************** == Call for Proposals == The European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT) is an organisation that serves the growing community of people interested in MT and translation tools, including translators, users, developers, and researchers of this increasingly viable technology. As part of its commitment to promote research, development and awareness about translation technologies, the EAMT is for the eleventh consecutive year launching a call for proposals to fund MT-related activities during 2023. == Purpose of the Call == The EAMT is planning to support various MT activities such as tutorials, workshops, teaching and awareness initiatives, open-source initiatives, and small research and development projects by its current members. The EAMT particularly encourages proposals from early career researchers. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Recent developments in MT research. - MT evaluation methodology, metrics and results. - Launch of MT-specific evaluation campaigns. - New or prospective commercial users of MT technology. - MT environments (workflow, support tools, etc.). - Interaction between users and MT systems. - MT combined with other technologies (translation memories, speech translation, cross-language information retrieval, multilingual text categorization, multilingual text summarization, etc.). - MT for less-resourced languages: development, usage, etc. - MT in the social internet: new uses, new modes of development. - MT for crisis management. - Training events on MT, particularly on recent developments. - Events to disseminate MT, especially to the wider public. All proposals will be screened by a review committee that consists of EAMT Executive Committee members and possibly a few appointed external experts if necessary. == Submission information == * Eligibility requirements * In order to qualify for funding, the institution(s) or the individual making the proposal must be a confirmed member of the EAMT at submission time. Membership information: http://www.eamt.org/membership.php * Selection criteria * - The proposed activity should be of direct interest to the MT community at large: researchers, developers, vendors, translators and users of MT technologies. - The proposal shall clearly describe the purpose of the project and include measurable mid-project milestones for which a report should be submitted (see below). - Preference will be given to projects which by nature will involve and be beneficial for several persons, as for instance conferences, seminars, workshops and tutorials. - Proposals with a significant, clearly identified impact on the MT community (through the development, dissemination or use of project results) are those most likely to be accepted. - Proposals that bring together different aspects of MT will be especially valued. - The proposal should be clearly justified as being technically and/or scientifically sound. - The quality and efficiency of the implementation of the proposal will be evaluated. - The budget should be adequate for the proposed objectives and the actual implementation of the activity. == Budget == EAMT anticipates funding several proposals for various activities. There are two categories of proposals. The member institutions’ category and the individual members’ category. The total foreseen EAMT Budget for this call is around €10,000 to cover all granted projects. The maximum amount EAMT can grant for a single project will be €10,000. During the negotiation stage, budget adjustments may be required by the EAMT executive committee. This means that the EAMT may only offer to partially fund a project. A project being granted financial support by EAMT according to this call will receive 50% of the granted amount at the start of the project. The proposer will receive the remaining 50% when the mid-project progress report has been received by the EAMT Secretary and substantiates that the mid-project milestones are met, and furthermore provided that the proposer is still a current member of the EAMT. == Contact for enquiries == Carolina Scarton EAMT Secretary e-mail: c.scarton(a)sheffield.ac.uk == Submission procedure == * Overview * Candidates should submit their proposals as a single PDF file, written in English, that is composed of the elements described below. - Proposal description: 2-page maximum - Person/organisation experience: 1-page maximum - Budget and project planning overview: 1-page maximum Proposals should be submitted no later than the deadline (see Important Dates below) through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eamt2023 (Submission type: Project Proposals). Authors are encouraged to use the template available at http://www.eamt.org/eamt2020-projects.zip. Templates for both LaTeX and Microsoft Word are available. * Detailed description of sections of the proposal * 1-) Proposal description (two pages) in English - Complete contact information of the candidate. - A clear and detailed description of the proposed event or activity. - A statement on why this event or activity would be helpful for the community. - A statement justifying why EAMT should support this event or activity. 2-) Experience of the proposing person/organisation in the field (up to one page). - It may include a list of experience and related skills of the participants of the team. 3-) Budget and project planning overview (up to one page) - A breakdown of the costs estimated for the entire activity or event. - Clear milestones and deliverables must be indicated. - An identification of the support requested from EAMT and possible other supporting funds. == Important Dates == - Circulation of the Call: August 1, 2022 - Submission deadline for proposals: October 7, 2022, 23:59 CEST - Acceptance notifications and negotiations to start on: December 7, 2022 In case of acceptance: - Mid-project progress report due: June 30, 2023, 23:59 CEST - Final report and deliverables due: January 31, 2024, 23:59 CET == Additional provisions == - Only complete proposals will be reviewed. - All information submitted with proposals will be regarded as confidential and will only be used in the context of this project. - Following the recommendations from the reviewers and EAMT executive members, projects may be approved with amendments that will be discussed during the negotiation stage. - The funded projects may be required to report at the EAMT events (e.g. Poster at the EAMT conference, a short progress report for the General assembly, etc.), without any claim for additional funds. - The EAMT should be acknowledged in all materials related to the project, activity or initiative. == No obligation to award the proposal == The EAMT shall be under no obligation to fund the proposals pursuant to this call for proposals. EAMT shall not be liable for any compensation with respect to candidates whose proposals have not been accepted. Nor shall it be liable in the event of it deciding not to award the proposal. -- *Carolina Scarton* Lecturer in Natural Language Processing Department of Computer Science University of Sheffield http://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/C.Scarton/

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Fwd: EAMT Sponsorship of Activities (Students' edition) for 2023 (deadline 07/10/2022)
by Carol Scarton 02 Aug '22

02 Aug '22

************************************************************** EAMT Sponsorship of Activities (Students' edition) for 2023 Deadline: 07/10/2022 ************************************************************** == Call for Proposals == The European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT) is an organisation that serves the growing community of people interested in MT and translation tools, including translators, users, developers, and researchers of this increasingly viable technology. As part of its commitment to promote research, development and awareness about translation technologies, the EAMT is for the third consecutive year launching a call for proposals to fund MT-related activities led by students during 2023. == Purpose of the Call == The EAMT is planning to support various MT activities such as shared tasks, workshops, teaching and awareness initiatives, open-source initiatives, dataset creation and small research and development projects by its current student members. The EAMT particularly welcomes proposals from students in all levels of education, including undergraduates, postgraduates and PhD students. This call will also give priority to projects that extend work done during the Machine Translation Marathon 2022 ( https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/events/mt-marathon-2022), being held in Prague, Czech Republic from 5 to 10 September 2022. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Recent developments in MT research. - MT evaluation methodology, metrics and results. - Launch of MT-specific evaluation campaigns. - New or prospective commercial users of MT technology. - MT environments (workflow, support tools, etc.). - Interaction between users and MT systems. - MT combined with other technologies (translation memories, speech translation, cross-language information retrieval, multilingual text categorization, multilingual text summarization, etc.). - MT for less-resourced languages: development, usage, etc. - MT in the social internet: new uses, new modes of development. - MT for crisis management. - Training events on MT, particularly on recent developments. - Events to disseminate MT, especially to the wider public (including shared tasks). - Creation of datasets for MT research. All proposals will be screened by a review committee that consists of EAMT Executive Committee members and possibly a few appointed external experts if necessary. == Submission information == * Eligibility requirements * In order to qualify for funding, the individual making the proposal must be a confirmed student member of the EAMT at submission time (Membership information: http://www.eamt.org/membership.php). Applicants will also need formal approval from their supervisor. It is important to emphasise that projects are expected to be student-led. Therefore, although we welcome projects showing collaboration with industry and other academic partners, the project is expected to directly benefit the students own career and/or project. * Selection criteria * - The proposed activity should be of direct interest to the MT community at large: researchers, developers, vendors, translators and/or users of MT technologies. - The proposal shall clearly describe the purpose of the project and include measurable mid-project milestones for which a report should be submitted (see below). - Preference will be given to projects which by nature will involve and be beneficial for several persons, as for instance conferences, seminars, workshops, shared tasks and tutorials. - Proposals with a significant, clearly identified impact on the MT community (through the development, dissemination or use of project results) are those most likely to be accepted. - Proposals that bring together different aspects of MT will be especially valued. - The proposal should be clearly justified as being technically and/or scientifically sound. - The quality and efficiency of the implementation of the proposal will be evaluated. - The budget should be adequate for the proposed objectives and the actual implementation of the activity. == Budget == EAMT anticipates funding several proposals for various activities. The total foreseen EAMT Budget for this call is around €4,000 to cover all granted projects. The maximum amount EAMT can grant for a single project will be €4,000. During the negotiation stage, budget adjustments may be required by the EAMT executive committee. This means that the EAMT may only offer to partially fund a project. A project being granted financial support by EAMT according to this call will receive 50% of the granted amount at the start of the project. The proposer will receive the remaining 50% when the mid-project progress report has been received by the EAMT Secretary and substantiates that the mid-project milestones are met, and furthermore provided that the proposer is still a current member of the EAMT. == Contact for enquiries == Carolina Scarton EAMT Secretary e-mail: c.scarton(a)sheffield.ac.uk == Submission procedure == * Overview * Candidates should submit their proposals as a single PDF file, written in English, that is composed of the elements described below. - Proposal description: 2-page maximum - Person/organisation experience: 1-page maximum - Budget and project planning overview: 1-page maximum - Supervisor's letter of approval: 1-page maximum Proposals should be submitted no later than the deadline (see Important Dates below) through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eamt2023 (Submission type: Project Proposals). Authors are encouraged to use the template available at http://www.eamt.org/eamt2020-projects.zip. Templates for both LaTeX and Microsoft Word are available. * Detailed description of sections of the proposal * 1-) Proposal summary (two pages) in English - Complete contact information of the candidate. - A clear and detailed description of the proposed event or activity. - A statement on why this event or activity would be helpful for the community and the development of your studies (you should establish a clear connection between this activity and your degree project). - A statement justifying why EAMT should support this event or activity. 2-) Experience of the proposing person in the field (up to one page) - It may include a list of experience and related skills of the participants of the team (your team may be composed by your supervisors and potential collaborators). 3-) Budget and project planning overview (up to one page) - A breakdown of the costs estimated for the entire activity or event. - Clear milestones and deliverables must be indicated. - An identification of the support requested from EAMT and possible other supporting funds. 4-) Supervisor's letter of approval (up to one page) - A letter from your supervisor stating that they approve your project submission and that they will act as fund manager if needed (please note that EAMT needs to make payments into a research account set up at your institution). == Important Dates == - Circulation of the Call: August 1, 2022 - Submission deadline for proposals: October 7, 2022, 23:59 CEST - Acceptance notifications and negotiations to start on: December 7, 2022 In case of acceptance: - Mid-project progress report due: June 30, 2023, 23:59 CEST - Final report and deliverables due: January 31, 2024, 23:59 CET == Additional provisions == - Only complete proposals will be reviewed. - All information submitted with proposals will be regarded as confidential and will only be used in the context of this project. - Following the recommendations from the reviewers and EAMT executive members, projects may be approved with amendments that will be discussed during the negotiation stage. - The funded projects may be required to report at the EAMT events (e.g. Poster at the EAMT conference, a short progress report for the General assembly, etc.). If you think you will not have funds for attending the EAMT event you can add travel costs to your budget. - The EAMT should be acknowledged in all materials related to the project, activity or initiative. == No obligation to award the proposal == The EAMT shall be under no obligation to fund the proposals pursuant to this call for proposals. EAMT shall not be liable for any compensation with respect to candidates whose proposals have not been accepted. Nor shall it be liable in the event of it deciding not to award the proposal. -- *Carolina Scarton* Lecturer in Natural Language Processing Department of Computer Science University of Sheffield http://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/C.Scarton/

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PhD position in multilingual NLP at KU Leuven
by Miryam de Lhoneux 02 Aug '22

02 Aug '22

Dear colleagues, The HCI unit within the Computer Science department at KU Leuven (Belgium) has an open PhD position in multilingual NLP. The PhD will be supervised by me. All applications received before the 15th of August will receive full consideration and the position will remain open until filled after that. More information and application link here: https://www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsite/jobs/60142077 Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any question! Best, Miryam --- Miryam de Lhoneux (she/her) Postdoc in NLP Incoming assistant professor (oct 2022) Department of Computer Science KU Leuven

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3rd CfP Third workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL)
by Menno Van Zaanen 02 Aug '22

02 Aug '22

Third call for papers Third workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL) https://bit.ly/rail2022 The South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR) is organising the 3rd RAIL workshop in the field of Resources for African Indigenous Languages. This workshop aims to bring together researchers who are interested in showcasing their research and thereby boosting the field of African indigenous languages. This provides an overview of the current state-of-the-art and emphasizes availability of African indigenous language resources, including both data and tools. Additionally, it will allow for information sharing among researchers interested in African indigenous languages and also start discussions on improving the quality and availability of the resources. Many African indigenous languages currently have no or very limited resources available and, additionally, they are often structurally quite different from more well-resourced languages, requiring the development and use of specialized techniques. By bringing together researchers from different fields (e.g., (computational) linguistics, sociolinguistics, language technology) to discuss the development of language resources for African indigenous languages, we hope to boost research in this field. The RAIL workshop is an interdisciplinary platform for researchers working on resources (data collections, tools, etc.) specifically targeted towards African indigenous languages. It aims to create the conditions for the emergence of a scientific community of practice that focuses on data, as well as tools, specifically designed for or applied to indigenous languages found in Africa. Suggested topics include 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 The 3rd RAIL workshop 2022 will be co-located with the 10th Southern African Microlinguistics Workshop ( https://sites.google.com/nwulettere.co.za/samwop-10/home). This will be an in-person event located in Potchefstroom, South Africa. Registration will be free. RAIL 2022 submission requirements: * RAIL asks for full papers from 4 pages to 8 pages (plus more pages for references if needed), which must strictly follow the Journal of the Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa style guide ( https://upjournals.up.ac.za/index.php/dhasa/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/30 ). * Accepted submissions will be published in JDHASA, the Journal of the Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa ( https://upjournals.up.ac.za/index.php/dhasa/). * Papers will be double blind peer-reviewed and must be submitted through EasyChair (https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=rail2022). Important dates Submission deadline: 28 August 2022 Date of notification: 30 September 2022 Camera ready copy deadline: 23 October 2022 RAIL: 30 November 2022, North-West University - Potchefstroom SAMWOP: 1 – 3 December 2022, North-West University - Potchefstroom Organising Committee Jessica Mabaso Rooweither Mabuya Muzi Matfunjwa Mmasibidi Setaka 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 CORONA VIRUS: http://www.nwu.ac.za/coronavirus/ 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. Any unauthorised review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you have received the e-mail by mistake, please contact the sender or reply e-mail and delete the e-mail and its attachments (where appropriate) from your system. ________________________________

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Text Analysis Instructor (job listing reposted)
by heather froehlich 01 Aug '22

01 Aug '22

Dear all, ITHAKA is seeking a Text Analysis Instructor to join the Constellate team ( https://constellate.org/). *This is a reposting of a previous listing - they have re-opened the search.* The team develops Constellate, an online platform for teaching, learning, and research in text analysis using Python and Jupyter notebooks. In this role, you will work on a cross-functional, close-knit team to develop educational resources and teach training workshops. Constellate enables schools of all sizes to teach data and text analytics with a platform that empowers faculty, librarians, and other instructors to educate a new generation of learners in text and data analysis. Our solution, centered on student and researcher success, provides text and data analysis capabilities and access to content from some of the world’s most respected databases in an open environment with a variety of teaching materials that can be used, modified, and shared. The role will be responsible for teaching regular courses in text analysis to Constellate users, demonstrating features of the platform, increasing user competency in text analysis, and building communities of practice. The role will also work closely with the rest of the Constellate team, joining in discussions around development and marketing. More information and application details are available here: https://www.ithaka.org/careers/?gh_jid=4024359005. The anticipated pay range for this position is $65,000 - 75,000 per year. *I am not affiliated with this search so please direct questions to careers(a)ithaka.org <careers(a)ithaka.org>.* Thank you! Heather Froehlich -- Dr Heather Froehlich w // http://hfroehli.ch t // @heatherfro

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Shared Task on Understanding Figurative Language at FigLang2022 Workshop (Test Set Available August 15, 2022)
by Smaranda Muresan 01 Aug '22

01 Aug '22

*Shared Task on Understanding Figurative Language at FigLang2022* Interested in figurative language understanding, textual entailment, explanation generation? We are happy to announce a new shared task on Understanding Figurative Language as part of the Figurative Language Workshop (FigLang 2022) at EMNLP 2022. *Important dates:* · July 10, 2022: CodaLab competition is open; training data can be downloaded · *Aug 15, 2022: Test data* (available only to registered participants) can be downloaded and results submitted; performance will be tracked on CodaLab dashboard · *Aug 20, 2022: Last day for submitting predictions on test data* · Sept 7, 2022: Papers describing the systems are due · Oct 9, 2022: Notification of acceptance · TBD, 2022: Camera-ready papers due · December 8, 2022: Workshop at EMNLP 2022 In recent years, there have been several benchmarks dedicated to figurative language understanding, which generally frame "understanding" as a recognizing textual entailment task -- deciding whether one sentence (premise) entails/contradicts another (hypothesis) (Chakrabarty et al 2021, Stowe et al 2022). We introduce a new shared task for figurative language understanding around this textual entailment paradigm, where the hypothesis is a sentence containing the figurative language expression (e.g., metaphor, sarcasm, idiom, simile) and the premise is a literal sentence containing the literal meaning. There are two important aspects of this task: 1) the task requires not only to generate the label (entail/contradict) but also to generate a plausible explanation for the prediction; 2) the entail/contradict label and the exploration are related to the meaning of the figurative language expression. For more information about the shared task, including the link to the datasets, evaluation metrics and scripts important dates please visit the Shared task website (https://figlang2022sharedtask.github.io/). Participants can use the following CodaLab ( https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/5908) link to participate in the task as well as submit the predictions. *Organizing Team* Tuhin Chakrabarty, Columbia University; tuhin.chakr(a)cs.columbia.edu Arkadiy Saakyan, Columbia University; as5423(a)columbia.edu Debanjan Ghosh, Educational Testing Service; dghosh(a)ets.org Smaranda Muresan, Data Science Institute, Columbia University; smara(a)columbia.edu

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New corpus: Release of faGLOBE (a balanced corpus of 1M-word contemporary written Farsi/Persian)
by Xu, Jiajin 01 Aug '22

01 Aug '22

Dear list members, We are pleased to announce a new corpus of present-day Persian. The faGLOBE Corpus (Version 1) is a balanced collection of contemporary Farsi/Persian written texts, totaling one million words. The text samples in the corpus were gathered and cleaned up by Yanjun Li and three students of Persian, namely, Shuainan Chen, Qi Hu and Tinglu Zhou, of the School of Asian Studies, Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU). The online version of the faGLOBE Corpus is available at http://114.251.154.212/cqp/. Both user ID and passcode are ‘test’. More information can be found at http://corpus.bfsu.edu.cn/info/1082/1812.htm. Best, Jiajin XU, Ph.D., Professor National Research Centre for Foreign Language Education, Beijing Foreign Studies University, China

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Postdoc position in computational dialogue modelling, University of Amsterdam
by Raquel Fernández 01 Aug '22

01 Aug '22

I'm looking for a postdoc to join our group at the ILLC, University of Amsterdam. If you are interested in linguistic interaction / visual grounding / model analysis inspired by human cognition and are keen to join the NLP/AI community in Amsterdam, please take a look at the vacancy: https://vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Postdoctoral-Researcher-in-Computational-D… This is a 2-year position funded by my ERC Consolidator grant, which includes generous funding for travel, data collection, etc. There is considerable freedom to choose research agenda, provided there is a good alignment with the research carried out by the group -- please check out our publications to see what we have been working on: https://dmg-illc.github.io/dmg/ The application deadline is the 1st of September 2022, but we will begin to interview as soon as possible. Applications received via the official submission system by the 21st of August will receive full consideration. A starting date within 2022 is highly preferred. Best regards, Raquel -- Raquel Fernández Institute for Logic, Language and Computation University of Amsterdam http://illc.uva.nl/~raquel

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Call for papers: 1st International Multimodal Communication Symposium 2023
by Multimodal Communication Symposium 01 Aug '22

01 Aug '22

Dear colleagues, Could you please help distribute the information below? Thank you very much in advance! ------------------------------------------------ ***With apologies for multiple postings*** *MMSYM 2023* *1st International Multimodal Communication Symposium, April 27-28 2023, Barcelona* The *1st International Multimodal Communication Symposium (**MMSYM 2023)* will be held from Thursday 27th to Friday 28th April 2023 at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Catalonia. *MMSYM 2023* follows up on a tradition established by the Swedish Symposia on Multimodal Communication held from 1997 until 2000, and continued by the Nordic Symposia on Multimodal Communication held from 2003 to 2012. Since 2013, the symposium has acquired a broader European dimension, with editions held in Malta (2013), Tartu (2014), Dublin (2015), Copenhagen (2016), Bielefeld (2017), and Leuven (2019). To acknowledge its international ambition, this year, the symposium in Barcelona has updated its name to *1st International Multimodal Communication Symposium*. The symposium is locally organized at Universitat Pompeu Fabra with the support of the research groups collaborating within the GEHM network (GEstures and Head Movements in Language, https://cst.ku.dk/english/projects/gestures-and-head-movements-in-language-…), whose goal is to foster research into the way hand gestures and head movements interact with speech in face-to-face and human-computer multimodal communication. We welcome works aimed at exploring different approaches to multimodal communication, including research on multimodality in human communication and/or in human-computer interaction. In addition, this year’s symposium has a particular interest in three main research themes: 1) the language-specific characteristics of gesture-speech interaction 2) multimodal prominence 3) the conceptual and statistical modelling of multimodal contributions, with particular regard to head movements and the use of gaze. Therefore, we particularly encourage contributions dealing with––but not limited to––the three topics described above. The symposium will feature *keynote talks* by three confirmed invited speakers: § *Alan Cienki*, Professor of Language Use & Cognition and English Linguistics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Website: https://research.vu.nl/en/persons/alan-cienki § *Jelena Krivokapić*, Associate Professor in Linguistics, University of Michigan. Website: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/jelenakrivokapic/ § *Catherine Pelachaud*, Director of Research, Institute of Intelligent Systems and Robotics, Campus Pierre et Marie Curie, Sorbonne Université. Website: https://www.isir.upmc.fr/personnel/pelachaud/ *Abstract submission guidelines* 1) Abstracts should be written in English and should not exceed 2 A4 pages (max. 700 words) including examples, figures and references. The format should comply with the MS Word model provided *here*: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Eyi9laqglihk7OmfFWv8QsEd1jqzYjIi/edit?r… 2) Add at least three keywords to your submission. 3) Abstracts should be *anonymous* and submitted in pdf format. All references to authors should be omitted for purposes of blind review. 4) Authors may submit one abstract as first author and up to three abstracts as a co-author. Please use our *EasyChair* website for abstract submissions: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mmsym2023 Abstracts received after the deadline will not be considered. Accepted abstracts will be allocated as either oral talk or poster presentation, and will be published in the book of abstracts. *Abstract submission*: September 30, 2022 *Notification of acceptance*: approximately December 15, 2022 For more information, please visit the symposium website at http://mmsym.org/ If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us at mmsym2023(a)gmail.com *Local organizing committee:* Pilar Prieto (coordinator) Florence Baills Júlia Florit-Pons Celia Gorba Sara Muñoz Mariia Pronina Patrick Rohrer Ïo Valls Ingrid Vilà-Giménez Xiaotong Xi Ting Yao Yuan Zhang *Program committee:* Patrizia Paggio (coordinator, University of Copenhagen) Jens Edlund (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm) Marianne Gullberg (Lund University) David House (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm) Maria Koutsombogera (Trinity College Dublin) Pilar Prieto (ICREA-Universitat Pompeu Fabra) Carl Vogel (Trinity College Dublin) Margaret Zellers (Kiel University) ------------------------------------------------ Please feel free to share the call with your colleagues/networks. Best wishes, The MMSYM 2023 Organizing Committee

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Extended CFP - SIMBig 2022, 8 Keynotes Speakers, Peru (AI, Data Science, NLP, ML)
by Juan Antonio Lossio-Ventura 01 Aug '22

01 Aug '22

> [Apologies for cross-posting] > > > **** The Submission Deadline is Extended to August 12 **** > > ================================================================= > CALL FOR PAPERS - DEADLINE EXTENSION - SIMBig 2022 > ================================================================= > > SIMBig 2022 - 9th International Conference on Information Management and Big Data > Where: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, PERU > When: November 16 - 18, 2022 > Website: http://simbig.org/SIMBig2022/ <http://simbig.org/SIMBig2022/> > > ================================================================= > > OVERVIEW > ---------------------------------- > > SIMBig 2022 seeks to present new methods of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data Science, and related fields, for analyzing, managing, and extracting insights and patterns from large volumes of data. > > > KEYNOTE SPEAKERS > ------------- > > Leman Akoglu, Carnegie Mellon University, USA > Jiang Bian, University of Florida, USA > Rich Caruana, Microsoft, USA > Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Amazon Alexa AI, USA > Monica Lam, Stanford University, USA > Wang-Chiew Tan, Facebook AI, USA > Andrew Tomkins, Google, USA > Bin Yu, University of California, Berkeley, USA > > IMPORTANT DATES > ------------- > > August 05, 2022 August 12, 2022--> Papers submission deadline > September 09, 2022 --> Notification of acceptance > October 07, 2022 --> Camera-ready versions > November 16 - 18, 2022 --> Conference held in Lima, Peru > > PUBLICATION AND TRAVEL AWARDS > ------------- > > All accepted papers of SIMBig 2022 (tracks including) will be published with Springer CCIS Series <https://www.springer.com/series/7899>. > > > The best 8-10 papers of SIMBig 2022 (tracks including) will be selected to submit an extension to be published with the Springer SN Computer Science Journal. <https://www.springer.com/journal/42979> > Thanks to the support of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) <http://naacl.org/>, SIMBig 2022 will offer 4 student travel awards for the best papers. > > > > TOPICS OF INTEREST > ------------- > > SIMBig 2022 has a broad scope. We invite contributions on theory and practice, including but not limited to the following technical areas: > > Artificial Intelligence > Data Science > Machine Learning > Natural Language Processing > Semantic Web > Healthcare Informatics > Biomedical Informatics > Data Privacy and Security > Information Retrieval > Ontologies and Knowledge Representation > Social Networks and Social Web > Information Visualization > OLAP and Business intelligence > Data-driven Software Engineering > > SPECIAL TRACKS > ------------- > > SIMBig 2022 proposes three special tracks in addition to the main conference: > > ANLP <https://simbig.org/SIMBig2022/en/anlp.html> - Applied Natural Language Processing > DISE <https://simbig.org/SIMBig2022/en/dise.html> - Data-drIven Software Engineering > SNMAM <https://simbig.org/SIMBig2022/en/snmam.html> - Social Network and Media Analysis and Mining > > CONTACT > ------------- > > SIMBig 2022 General Chairs > > Juan Antonio Lossio-Ventura, National Institutes of Health, USA (juan.lossio(a)nih.gov <mailto:juan.lossio@nih.gov>) > Hugo Alatrista-Salas, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Peru (halatrista(a)pucp.pe <mailto:halatrista@pucp.pe>) >

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CFP - The Sixth Widening Natural Language Processing Workshop (WiNLP)
by haddad.hatem＠gmail.com 31 Jul '22

31 Jul '22

WiNLP 2022 – Call for Submissions http://www.winlp.org/winlp22-call-for-papers/ Workshop Date December 7th or 8th, 2022 (date TBD) EMNLP 2022 Abu Dhabi, UAE The Sixth Widening Natural Language Processing Workshop (WiNLP) will be held in conjunction with EMNLP 2022 in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Since EMNLP is anticipating a hybrid format for their conference, we also anticipate our workshop will be hybrid, with both online and in-person attendees. The one-day workshop will occur during EMNLP’s workshop period either December 7th or 8th, 2022 (date TBD). We invite authors from underrepresented groups in Natural Language Processing (NLP) to submit a two-page abstract to be considered for a poster presentation at our workshop. Important Dates: Last date to join author workshopping: August 24, 2022 Submission deadline: September 7, 2022 Acceptance notification: October 9, 2022 Travel grant applications due: October 21, 2022 Travel grant notification: October 25, 2022 Workshop Description The WiNLP workshop is open to all to foster an inclusive and welcoming ACL environment. It aims to promote diversity and highlight the work of underrepresented groups in NLP: anyone who self-identifies within an underrepresented group [based on gender, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation, disability status, or otherwise] is invited to submit a two-page abstract for a poster presentation. In our 2022 iteration, we hope to be more intentional about centering discussions of access and disability, as well as contributing to diversity in scientific background, discipline, training, obtained degrees, seniority, and communities from underrepresented languages. The full-day event includes invited talks, oral presentations, and poster sessions. The workshop provides an excellent opportunity for junior members in the community to showcase their work and connect with senior mentors for feedback and career advice. It also offers recruitment opportunities with leading industrial labs. Most importantly, the workshop will provide an inclusive and accepting space, and work to lower structural barriers to joining and collaborating with the NLP community at large. Submission guidelines While everyone is encouraged to attend, the opportunity to present a talk or poster is intended for members of underrepresented groups at all career levels: students, post-docs, professors, and other researchers. Since many submissions are works in progress, we act as a non-archival repository for these works: while authors may elect to have their papers linked from our website, they will not be archived in the ACL Anthology. Authors may elect to not have their submission listed on the website if they wish to avoid de-anonymizing themselves for later submissions to other venues. Submissions should be two pages long (not including references). Authors must use the ACL Rolling Review style files to format their submission, and must submit it electronically in PDF format via the WiNLP 2022 online submission system: https://softconf.com/emnlp2022/WiNLP22/.https://softconf.com/emnlp2022/WiNL… Travel Support There will be a limited amount of travel grants and/or additional funding to cover expenses, similar to the previous editions. Funding is available for travel, lodging, registration, and visa costs for one author for each submission. The funded author may elect to attend virtually if they prefer. The selected author should be identified as part of the travel grant submission form. If we find ourselves with extra funds, we will attempt to support further funding for virtual attendance for additional authors, but we do not guarantee we can support any further in-person attendance. We recommend additional student authors keep an eye out for the EMNLP call for student volunteers or call for D&I subsidies as opportunities for further funding. For further details please visit our website: http://www.winlp.org/winlp22-call-for-papers/http://www.winlp.org/winlp22-c…

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[OM-2022] Final CFP: 17th wshop on Ontology Matching collocated with ISWC: the submission deadline is approaching on Aug. 9th
by Cassia TROJAHN 29 Jul '22

29 Jul '22

The Seventeenth International Workshop on ONTOLOGY MATCHING (OM-2022) http://om2022.ontologymatching.org/ October 23rd or 24th, 2022, International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) Workshop Program, Hybrid conference, Hangzhou, China ===================================================================== The submission deadline for tech. papers is approaching in 2 weeks on Aug. 9th: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=om2022 ===================================================================== BRIEF DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES Ontology matching is a key interoperability enabler for the Semantic Web, as well as a useful technique in some classical data integration tasks dealing with the semantic heterogeneity problem. It takes ontologies as input and determines as output an alignment, that is, a set of correspondences between the semantically related entities of those ontologies. These correspondences can be used for various tasks, such as ontology merging, data interlinking, query answering or navigation over knowledge graphs. Thus, matching ontologies enables the knowledge and data expressed with the matched ontologies to interoperate. The workshop has three goals: 1. To bring together leaders from academia, industry and user institutions to assess how academic advances are addressing real-world requirements. The workshop will strive to improve academic awareness of industrial and final user needs, and therefore, direct research towards those needs. Simultaneously, the workshop will serve to inform industry and user representatives about existing research efforts that may meet their requirements. The workshop will also investigate how the ontology matching technology is going to evolve, especially with respect to data interlinking, knowledge graph and web table matching tasks. 2. To conduct an extensive and rigorous evaluation of ontology matching and instance matching (link discovery) approaches through the OAEI (Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative) 2022 campaign: http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2022/ 3. To examine similarities and differences from other, old, new and emerging, techniques and usages, such as web table matching or knowledge embeddings. TOPICS of interest include but are not limited to: Business and use cases for matching (e.g., big, open, closed data); Requirements to matching from specific application scenarios (e.g., public sector); Application of matching techniques in real-world scenarios (e.g., in cloud, with mobile apps); Formal foundations and frameworks for matching; Novel matching methods, including link prediction, ontology-based access; Matching and knowledge graphs; Matching and deep learning; Matching and embeddings; Matching and big data; Matching and linked data; Instance matching, data interlinking and relations between them; Privacy-aware matching; Process model matching; Large-scale and efficient matching techniques; Matcher selection, combination and tuning; User involvement (including both technical and organizational aspects); Explanations in matching; Social and collaborative matching; Uncertainty in matching; Expressive alignments; Reasoning with alignments; Alignment coherence and debugging; Alignment management; Matching for traditional applications (e.g., data science); Matching for emerging applications (e.g., web tables, knowledge graphs). SUBMISSIONS Contributions to the workshop can be made in terms of technical papers and posters/statements of interest addressing different issues of ontology matching as well as participating in the OAEI 2022 campaign. Long technical papers should be of max. 12 pages. Short technical papers should be of max. 5 pages. Posters/statements of interest should not exceed 2 pages. All contributions have to be prepared using the LNCS Style: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 and should be submitted in PDF format (no later than August 9th, 2022) through the workshop submission site at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=om2022 Contributors to the OAEI 2022 campaign have to follow the campaign conditions and schedule at http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2022/. DATES FOR TECHNICAL PAPERS AND POSTERS: August 9th, 2022: Deadline for the submission of papers. September 6th, 2022: Deadline for the notification of acceptance/rejection. September 20th, 2022: Workshop camera ready copy submission. October 23rd or 24th, 2022: OM-2022, hybrid conference, Hangzhou, China. Contributions will be refereed by the Program Committee. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings as a volume of CEUR-WS as well as indexed on DBLP. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE 1. Pavel Shvaiko (main contact) Trentino Digitale, Italy 2. Jérôme Euzenat INRIA & Univ. Grenoble Alpes, France 3. Ernesto Jiménez-Ruiz City, University of London, UK & SIRIUS, University of Oslo, Norway 4. Oktie Hassanzadeh IBM Research, USA 5. Cássia Trojahn IRIT, France PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Alsayed Algergawy, Jena University, Germany Manuel Atencia, Universidad de Málaga, Spain Jiaoyan Chen, University of Oxford, UK Jérôme David, University Grenoble Alpes & INRIA, France Gayo Diallo, University of Bordeaux, France Daniel Faria, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciéncia, Portugal Alfio Ferrara, University of Milan, Italy Marko Gulic, University of Rijeka, Croatia Wei Hu, Nanjing University, China Ryutaro Ichise, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & Europeana, Netherlands Naouel Karam, Fraunhofer, Germany Prodromos Kolyvakis, EPFL, Switzerland Patrick Lambrix, Linköpings Universitet, Sweden Oliver Lehmberg, University of Mannheim, Germany Fiona McNeill, University of Edinburgh, UK Majid Mohammadi, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands Hoa Ngo, CSIRO, Australia George Papadakis, University of Athens, Greece Henry Rosales-Méndez, University of Chile, Chile Booma Sowkarthiga, Microsoft, USA Kavitha Srinivas, IBM, USA Ludger van Elst, DFKI, Germany Xingsi Xue, Fujian University of Technology, China Ondrej Zamazal, Prague University of Economics, Czech Republic Songmao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Science, China Lu Zhou, TigerGraph, USA ------------------------------------------------------- More about ontology matching: http://www.ontologymatching.org/ http://book.ontologymatching.org/ ------------------------------------------------------- Best regards Cassia Trojahn

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NLP Capstone Workshop on August 26: Register to attend online
by Emelye Neff 28 Jul '22

28 Jul '22

Greetings! We invite you to participate in *UC Santa Cruz's Natural Language Processing Capstone Workshop* to be held online on August 26th. UCSC's specialized Natural Language Processing master's program equips students with the skills and in-depth knowledge needed for a successful career in the rapidly growing NLP field. Over the past year, students have worked in teams mentored by industry experts to develop Capstone projects that address real-world NLP challenges. Join us online on August 26 (1 - 5 PM PDT) to learn about each project and participate in our NLP Industry Panel. *To register for the 2022 NLP Capstone Workshop,* visit https://ucsc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xOV5vxrgQpWjaeCcK_ZFMA *Workshop Sessions:* - Keynote Address: Hear insights about the future of NLP from incoming UCSC CSE and NLP faculty member, Professor Ian Lane. - NLP Capstone Projects: Watch student teams present Capstone projects mentored by industry experts from IBM, Interactions, LinkedIn and Google. - NLP Industry Panel: Join our expert panel of leading scientists for insights on career opportunities in the NLP field. *About our Workshop:* The NLP M.S. program at UCSC balances theory with practice including a Capstone project that enables students to apply the skills they've acquired in the program to a current, industry-relevant NLP topic. Register for this free online workshop to see our talented students showcase their work and answer questions from attendees. *The 2022 NLP Capstone Projects and Mentors are:* - *IBM Research:* Probing of Language Models for Code - *Interactions: *Neural Models of Supertagging for Semantic Role Labeling and Beyond - *LinkedIn:* Comparing Dictionaries and Word Embeddings - *Google and UCSC: *Multimodal Knowledge Extraction and Question Answering in Farming The workshop will conclude with a discussion about careers in NLP hosted by our expert NLP Industry Panel. Learn more about this year's Capstone projects and mentors by visiting https://nlp.ucsc.edu/capstone-projects If you have any questions about the event, please contact UCSC's NLP Program Team by emailing nlp(a)ucsc.edu. We look forward to seeing you at this year's workshop! All the best, Emelye -- *Emelye Neff* Program Coordinator Natural Language Processing Program <https://nlp.ucsc.edu/> Baskin Engineering University of California, Santa Cruz MA IEM - Middlebury Institute of International Studies Peace Corps Fellow - Guatemala

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CFP: #SMM4H'22, 7th Social Media Mining for Health Applications - Workshop at COLING 2022
by Davy Weissenbacher 28 Jul '22

28 Jul '22

============================= Last call for papers, submission deadline is August 17, 2022 ============================= *Apologies if you received multiple copies of this CFP* Location: Gyeongju, Republic of Korea Workshop Date: October 16-17, 2022 Workshop link: https://healthlanguageprocessing.org/smm4h-2022/ Submission link: https://www.softconf.com/coling2022/7thSMM4H/ The workshop will include two components — a standard workshop and a shared task Workshop The Social Media Mining for Health Applications (#SMM4H) workshop serves as a venue for bringing together researchers interested in automatic methods for the collection, extraction, representation, analysis, and validation of social media data (e.g., Twitter, Reddit, Facebook) for health informatics. The 7th #SMM4H Workshop, co-located at COLING 2022 ( https://coling2022.org/index), invites 4-page paper (unlimited references in standard COLING format) submissions on original, unpublished research in all aspects at the intersection of social media mining and health. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Methods for the automatic detection and extraction of health-related concept mentions in social media Mapping of health-related mentions in social media to standardized vocabularies Deriving health-related trends from social media Information retrieval methods for obtaining relevant social media data Geographic or demographic data inference from social media discourse Virus spread monitoring using social media Mining health-related discussions in social media Drug abuse and alcoholism incidence monitoring through social media Disease incidence studies using social media Sentinel event detection using social media Semantic methods in social media analysis Classifying health-related messages in social media Automatic analysis of social media messages for disease surveillance and patient education Methods for validation of social media-derived hypotheses and datasets Shared task The workshop organizers this year are hosting 10 shared tasks i.e. NLP challenges as part of the workshop. Participating teams will be provided with a set of annotated posts for developing systems, followed by a three-day window during which they will run their systems on unlabeled test data and upload it to Codalab for evaluation. For additional details about the tasks and information about registration, data access, paper submissions, and presentations, go to https://healthlanguageprocessing.org/smm4h-2022/ Task 1 – Classification, detection, and normalization of Adverse Events (AE) mentions in tweets (in English) Task 2 – Classification of stance and premise in tweets about health mandates related to COVID-19 (in English) Task 3 – Classification of changes in medication treatments in tweets and WebMD reviews (in English) Task 4 – Classification of tweets self-reporting exact age (in English) Task 5 – Classification of tweets containing self-reported COVID-19 symptoms (in Spanish) Task 6 – Classification of tweets which indicate self-reported COVID-19 vaccination status (in English) Task 7 – Classification of self-reported intimate partner violence on Twitter (in English) Task 8 – Classification of self-reported chronic stress on Twitter (in English) Task 9 – Classification of Reddit posts self-reporting exact age (in English) Task 10 – Detection of disease mentions in tweets – SocialDisNER (in Spanish) Organizing Committee Graciela Gonzalez-Hernandez, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, USA Davy Weissenbacher, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, USA Arjun Magge, University of Pennsylvania, USA Ari Z. Klein, University of Pennsylvania, USA Ivan Flores, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, USA Karen O’Connor, University of Pennsylvania, USA Raul Rodriguez-Esteban, Roche Pharmaceuticals, Switzerland Lucia Schmidt, Roche Pharmaceuticals, Switzerland Juan M. Banda, Georgia State University, USA Abeed Sarker, Emory University, USA Yuting Guo, Emory University, USA Yao Ge, Emory University, USA Elena Tutubalina, Insilico Medicine, Hong Kong Luis Gasco, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Darryl Estrada, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Martin Krallinger, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Program Committee Cecilia Arighi, University of Delaware, USA Natalia Grabar, French National Center for Scientific Research, France Thierry Hamon, Paris-Nord University, France Antonio Jimeno Yepes, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia Jin-Dong Kim, Database Center for Life Science, Japan Corrado Lanera, University of Padova, Italy Robert Leaman, US National Library of Medicine, USA Kirk Roberts, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USA Yutaka Sasaki, Toyota Technological Institute, Japan Pierre Zweigenbaum, French National Center for Scientific Research, France Contact All questions should be emailed to Davy Weissenbacher ( davy.weissenbacher(a)cshs.org)

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Re: WMT22 Chat Translation Task
by Amin Farajian 28 Jul '22

28 Jul '22

Dear all, The evaluation week of the Chat Task is postponed by 1 week: it will now happen between 28th June - 6th August. For more information about the submission formats check the corresponding section in https://wmt-chat-task.github.io <https://wmt-chat-task.github.io/> . Best regards, Amin Farajian (On behalf of the Chat Translation Task organisers) > On 22 Jun 2022, at 16:48, Amin Farajian <ma.farajian(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > Dear all, > > I would like to inform you that the second edition of the chat translation translation task for WMT22 is live now! > This year we release real conversational data for the following three language pairs: English-German, English-French, and English-Portuguese (Brazilian). > You can find more details of the task in our website: > https://wmt-chat-task.github.io <http://www.statmt.org/wmt20/chat-task.html> > > Best, > Amin Farajian > (on behalf of the Chat Translation Task organisers)

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5th CRAC Workshop: Deadline extension to August 1, 2022
by Maciej Ogrodniczuk 28 Jul '22

28 Jul '22

The 5th Workshop on Computational Models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference <https://sites.google.com/view/crac2022/> (held at COLING 2022 <https://coling2022.org/> ) provides a forum where work on all aspects of computational work on reference annotation and resolution can be presented, e.g. * all aspects of annotation, resolution and evaluation of anaphora, coreference and other reference relations * reference resolution for less-researched languages * interpretation of anaphoric relations, including relations other than identity coreference (e.g., bridging references) * investigation of difficult cases of reference and their resolution * reference resolution in noisy data (e.g. in social media) * new applications of reference resolution * Universal Anaphora <https://github.com/UniversalAnaphora/> WHAT'S NEW IN 2022? * a new <https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/corefud/crac22> CRAC 2022 shared task on multilingual coreference resolution * a <https://bit.ly/codi-crac-2022-sharedtask> CODI-CRAC 2022 joint shared task on Anaphora Resolution in Dialogue co-organized with the <https://sites.google.com/view/codi-2022> CODI workshop IMPORTANT DATES: * Workshop papers due: Aug 1, 2022 * Notification of acceptance: Sep 1, 2022 * Camera-ready papers due: Sep 12, 2022 * Workshop date: Oct 16-17, 2022 PAPER CATEGORIES: * Research papers (theoretical computational linguistics, empirical/data-driven approaches, paradigms/techniques/strategies, analysis papers, resources and evaluation, negative result) * Survey papers (surveys a popular or emerging area of anaphora/coreference resolution) * Position papers (presents one side of an arguable opinion about an issue) * Challenge papers (a challenge to the field in terms of setting out a goal for the next 5/10/20 years) * Demo papers (systems, tools, visualizations) * Extended abstracts (describe work in progress) Research papers, survey papers, position papers, and challenge papers can have up to 8 pages of content for long papers and up to 4 pages of content for short papers, plus an unlimited number of pages for references. Demo papers can have up to 4 pages of content plus an unlimited number of pages for references. Extended abstracts can have up to 2 pages of content plus an unlimited number of pages for references. You can also include a supplementary document and/or (sample) data along with your paper. Essentially, materials that can help the program committee make a better determination of the quality of your submission. Code/data submission is strongly encouarged for resource/evaluation papers. All accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. Final versions of all types of papers will be given one additional page of content. DOUBLE SUBMISSION: We allow for double submissions. Please indicate during submission to which other conference or workshop your work has been submitted. We also invite authors of papers accepted to Findings of the main conferences (e.g. ACL, NAACL, EMNLP) to present their work at the workshop. It these papers were removed from the Findings, they can be included in the proceedings of the workshop without additional review. SUBMISSION LINK: Please <https://www.softconf.com/coling2022/CRAC_2022/> submit your paper to SoftConf. All submissions must follow <https://coling2022.org/Submission> the COLING 2022 formatting instructions. PROGRAM COMMITTEE: * Antonio Branco (University of Lisbon) * Arie Cattan (Bar-Ilan University) * Haixia Chai (Heidelberg University) * Stephanie Dipper (Ruhr-University Bochum) * Yansong Feng (Peking University) * Yulia Grishina (Amazon) * Christian Hardmeier (IT University of Copenhagen) * Lars Hellan (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) * Veronique Hoste (Ghent University) * Ruihong Huang (Texas A&M University) * Sobha Lalitha Devi (AU-KBC Research Center, Anna University of Chennai) * Loic De Langhe (Ghent University) * Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski (Saarland University) * Sharid Loáiciga (University of Gothenburg) * Costanza Navaretta (University of Copenhagen) * Anna Nedoluzhko (Charles University in Prague) * Michal Novák (Charles University in Prague) * Massimo Poesio (Queen Mary University of London) * Marta Recasens (Google) * Carolyn Rosé (Carnegie Mellon University) * Nobuhiro Ueda (Kyoto University) * Bonnie Webber (University of Edinburgh) * Yaqin Yang (Brandeis University) * Juntao Yu (Queen Mary University of London) * Yilun Zhu (Georgetown University) * Heike Zinsmeister (University of Hamburg) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: * Maciej Ogrodniczuk (Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences) * Sameer Pradhan (University of Pennsylvania and cemantix) * Anna Nedoluzhko (Charles University in Prague) * Vincent Ng (University of Texas at Dallas) * Massimo Poesio (Queen Mary University of London)

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CFP - Reflection on Intelligent Systems (University of Stuttgart, online, 20/21 October)
by Gabriella Lapesa 27 Jul '22

27 Jul '22

Workshop title: Reflection on intelligent systems: towards a cross-disciplinary definition When: October 20-21, 2022 (Digital Workshop) Deadline (2-pages abstract): September 7th Website: https://www.iris.uni-stuttgart.de/public-engagement/news/Call-for-Papers-00… What does it mean to reflect on intelligent systems? Which tools and methods are needed to successfully engage in (critical) reflection on intelligent systems? What is the purpose of this reflection, its outcome, and who is the target audience? Which lessons can we learn from discipline-internal reflection practices? To what extent can these lessons be “translated” into interdisciplinary collaborations, teaching, science-policy debates, and science communication to a broader public? Taking these questions as a starting point for this digital workshop, we aim to take the first steps towards a cross-disciplinary definition of the notion of reflection on intelligent systems by approaching the topic of reflection from various interdisciplinary perspectives. The conceptual outline of our workshop is defined by the goals and targets of reflection or, more specifically, by its end-users and their needs. We thus invite submissions that investigate empirical or theoretical work on the challenges and desiderata of reflection practices across different levels: Theme 1: At a discipline-specific level, e.g., interpretability/introspection of intelligent systems. Why is reflection necessary if it does not improve performance? What are the ethical issues or catalysts of reflection at this level (e.g., bias, sustainability)? Theme 2: At an interdisciplinary level: successful interdisciplinary collaboration requires a "translation" of the ontologies/methods of one discipline into the “language” of the other. While the outcome of reflection for interdisciplinary exchange likely shares features with discipline-specific reflection(s), the translation process reveals specific features that only "exist" at the intersection between different disciplines. Theme 3: From one discipline to the public: yet another type of reflection is driven by this practical question: Why do we want the public to gain a deeper understanding of an intelligent system? And as a consequence, which aspects do we want the public to understand (clearly, not everything is necessary)? And what does the public want to know? Special Theme: Reflection and Teaching Teaching is one of the strongest driving forces for reflection. As educators, we all feel at some point that we have only really understood the subject through the preparation of a lecture and sharing it with a class. How does this deep understanding relate to the three-layer structuring of reflection defined above? Indeed, students are part of the public (theme 3), but they are also experts in their respective disciplines to some extent (theme 1). Besides, the reflection on intelligent systems in teaching can be seen as a form of the conceptual translation we engage in when collaborating with experts of other disciplines who have limited knowledge of our domain (theme 2). Submissions Submissions (2-page abstracts) should relate to one or multiple workshop themes. We particularly encourage submissions that report on unpublished empirical or theoretical work or present relevant aspects of already published work. As this is a workshop, working papers are welcome! All submissions should be sent to reflection.workshop(a)iris.uni-stuttgart.de with a short bio by August 7th, 2022. The participants will be notified of the acceptance by mid-September. Invited speaker: Gregor Betz (https://www.gregorbetz.de/) + TBA Organizers: This two-day online event is hosted by the University of Stuttgart, Interchange Forum for Reflecting on Intelligent Systems (IRIS), and organized by Gabriella Lapesa, Lukas Erhard, Curtis Runstedler, and Sierra Kaiser. Contact: gabriella.lapesa(a)ims.uni-stuttgart.de & reflection.workshop(a)iris.uni-stuttgart.de

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Lecturer vacancies at University of Birmingham, UK
by Mark Lee 27 Jul '22

27 Jul '22

Dear All The School of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham is looking to appoint several assistant/associate professors in all areas of AI/Computational Life Sciences including Natural Language Processing/Computational Linguistics. The deadline is 16th of August with interviews to be held in September. Further details and the link for applying are at https://bham.taleo.net/careersection/external/jobdetail.ftl?job=220001IV&tz… (I welcome informal enquiries to me but I’m absent 1-12th of August) Best regards Mark Lee Head of School, Computer Science, University of Birmingham www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~mgl For appointments, contact Wendy Pan w.pan.1(a)bham.ac.uk

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CFP - The Sixth Widening Natural Language Processing Workshop (WiNLP)
by Hatem Haddad 27 Jul '22

27 Jul '22

*WiNLP 2022 – Call for Submissions* http://www.winlp.org/winlp22-call-for-papers/ Workshop Date December 7th or 8th, 2022 (date TBD) EMNLP 2022 Abu Dhabi, UAE The Sixth Widening Natural Language Processing Workshop (WiNLP) will be held in conjunction with EMNLP 2022 in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Since EMNLP is anticipating a hybrid format for their conference, we also anticipate our workshop will be hybrid, with both online and in-person attendees. The one-day workshop will occur during EMNLP’s workshop period either December 7th or 8th, 2022 (date TBD). We invite authors from underrepresented groups in Natural Language Processing (NLP) to submit a two-page abstract to be considered for a poster presentation at our workshop. *Important Dates:* Last date to join author workshopping <https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=DQSIkWdsW0yxEjajBLZtrQA…>: August 24, 2022 Submission deadline: September 7, 2022 Acceptance notification: October 9, 2022 Travel grant applications due: October 21, 2022 Travel grant notification: October 25, 2022 *Workshop Description*The WiNLP workshop is open to all to foster an inclusive and welcoming ACL environment. It aims to promote diversity and highlight the work of underrepresented groups in NLP: anyone who self-identifies within an underrepresented group [based on gender, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation, disability status, or otherwise] is invited to submit a two-page abstract for a poster presentation. In our 2022 iteration, we hope to be more intentional about centering discussions of access and disability, as well as contributing to diversity in scientific background, discipline, training, obtained degrees, seniority, and communities from underrepresented languages. The full-day event includes invited talks, oral presentations, and poster sessions. The workshop provides an excellent opportunity for junior members in the community to showcase their work and connect with senior mentors for feedback and career advice. It also offers recruitment opportunities with leading industrial labs. Most importantly, the workshop will provide an inclusive and accepting space, and work to lower structural barriers to joining and collaborating with the NLP community at large. *Submission guidelines* While everyone is encouraged to attend, the opportunity to present a talk or poster is intended for members of underrepresented groups at all career levels: students, post-docs, professors, and other researchers. Since many submissions are works in progress, we act as a non-archival repository for these works: while authors may elect to have their papers linked from our website, they will not be archived in the ACL Anthology. Authors may elect to not have their submission listed on the website if they wish to avoid de-anonymizing themselves for later submissions to other venues. Submissions should be two pages long (not including references). Authors must use the ACL Rolling Review <https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html#style-files>style files to format their submission, and must submit it electronically in PDF format via the WiNLP 2022 online submission system: https://softconf.com/emnlp2022/WiNLP22/. https://softconf.com/emnlp2022/WiNLP22/ *Travel Support* There will be a limited amount of travel grants and/or additional funding to cover expenses, similar to the previous editions. Funding is available for travel, lodging, registration, and visa costs for one author for each submission. The funded author may elect to attend virtually if they prefer. The selected author should be identified as part of the travel grant submission form. If we find ourselves with extra funds, we will attempt to support further funding for virtual attendance for additional authors, but we do not guarantee we can support any further in-person attendance. We recommend additional student authors keep an eye out for the EMNLP call for student volunteers or call for D&I subsidies as opportunities for further funding. For further details please visit our website: http://www.winlp.org/winlp22-call-for-papers/ http://www.winlp.org/winlp22-call-for-papers/

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Call for (Raw) Data: ValueEval @ SemEval'23
by Milad Alshomary 27 Jul '22

27 Jul '22

Dear corpora community, We are organizing the ValueEval competition [1] as part of SemEval'23. We are looking for data suggestions or contributions to diversify our training and test datasets. The task of ValueEval is to automatically identify human value categories (e.g., "concern," "tradition," or "self-directed thinking") from which a statement draws persuasive power. For example, the statement "Nuclear weapons have the potential to cause massive destruction" can draw on social security values to appeal to the statement "Nuclear weapons should be abolished." For more details, see our paper and the existing dataset [2]. Specifically, we are looking for data that fulfill these criteria: - The data consists of pairs of two causally related short statements (1 to 3 sentences each): - the first statement of the pair must provide one or more reasons - the second statement of the pair provides context for the first statement: the first statement must either be supporting or attacking the second statement - The data contains between 50 and 1000 such pairs - The statements are in English (possibly translated from a different language) and grammatically sound The suitable datasets we know (mainly from the computational argumentation community) focus on US or Western topics and contain debate-style statements. We are thus specifically looking for datasets that focus on issues from other parts of the world or other genres. We are grateful for pointers to resources we could use (e.g., specific websites) or to existing corpora. After assessing suitability per the criteria outlined above, we will take care of annotation. We will write a paper on the final dataset and invite each data contributor to join as a co-author. Please respond with suggestions or contributions to this mail by August 31, 2022. Yours sincerely, Milad, Johannes, Henning, and Benno -- Milad Alshomary, M.Sc. Computational Social Science Paderborn University Zukunftsmeile 2 33102 Paderborn Germany Office A.03.03 Phone (+49) (0) 5251 60-6587 E-Mail milad.alshomary(a)uni-paderborn.de

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CfP: "Educational NLP for a Multilingual World: Research, Applications, and Challenges", Special Issue, IJAIED
by Mamoru Komachi 27 Jul '22

27 Jul '22

Dear colleagues, We are delighted to announce that we are guest editing in the International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education (IJAIED) a Special Issue (SI) titled: “Educational NLP for a Multilingual World: Research, Applications, and Challenges” The SI will have a semi-open call where we will have a mandatory initial extended abstract submission (1000 words max) that shall be submitted to the guest editors <ijaied.nlp.mlw(a)gmail.com <mailto:ijaied.nlp.mlw@gmail.com>> by October 15, 2022. Find the full description and CfP at: https://www.springer.com/journal/40593/updates/23181128 <https://www.springer.com/journal/40593/updates/23181128> Please do not hesitate to reach out to any of the guest editors if you have any questions. Thank you, the guest editors: Giora Alexandron, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel <giora.alexandron(a)weizmann.ac.il <mailto:giora.alexandron@weizmann.ac.il>> Beata Beigman Klebanov, Educational Testing Service, USA <bbeigmanklebanov(a)ets.org <mailto:bbeigmanklebanov@ets.org>> Mamoru Komachi, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan <komachi(a)tmu.ac.jp <mailto:komachi@tmu.ac.jp>> Torsten Zesch, FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany <torsten.zesch(a)fernuni-hagen.de <mailto:torsten.zesch@fernuni-hagen.de>>

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Call for Papers - COGALEX-VII (The 7th International Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon)
by HSU, Yu-Yin [CBS] 27 Jul '22

27 Jul '22

Call for papers for COGALEX-VII “The 7th International Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon” https://sites.google.com/view/cogalexvii2022/home<https://secure-web.cisco.com/1k0oFmGnZrOFaeI2HxANlZJVh9778WCiULXiYbE7x-WQAT…> co-located with AACL-IJCNLP 2022 https://www.aacl2022.org/home<https://secure-web.cisco.com/1LY2S6Ya1SruiPXs7YiiKXrv5aA6yt5lTULbqcJkA6PZD4…> Taipei, Taiwan Submission Deadline: 25-Aug-2022 Workshop date : Date: 24-Nov-2022 Key words: Dictionary, (Mental)Lexicon, Brain, Cognition, Neuroscience, Computational Linguistics; Corpus Linguistics, Complex graphs, Navigation Meeting Description: COGALEX is a workshop devoted to the cognitive aspects of the lexicon. While in the past, it has always been co-located with COLING, this time it will be hosted by AACL-IJCNLP 2022, at the NTUH International Convention Center, Taipei, Taiwan (https://www.aacl2022.org/home<https://secure-web.cisco.com/1LY2S6Ya1SruiPXs7YiiKXrv5aA6yt5lTULbqcJkA6PZD4…>). The accepted papers will be published as proceedings appearing in the ACL anthology. The goal of COGALEX is to provide a snapshot of the current state of the art in the different disciplines —lexicography, psycholinguistics, neuroscience— dealing words, their organization (lexicon) and usage (for example: navigation in a hybrid conceptual-lexical resource; word production and analysis). The approach being deliberately cross-disciplinary. In sum, we solicit original and unpublished work related to the cognitive aspects of the lexicon. For details, see: https://sites.google.com/view/cogalexvii2022/home<https://secure-web.cisco.com/1k0oFmGnZrOFaeI2HxANlZJVh9778WCiULXiYbE7x-WQAT…> Short papers can be up to 4 pages in length and long papers up to 8 pages. Both submission formats can have an unlimited number of pages for references. All submissions must follow the ACL stylesheet. We don’t accept submissions that consist only of an abstract. The submissions must be anonymous and they will be peer-reviewed by our program committee. The peer review is double blinded. Papers must be submitted via SoftConf by August 25, 2022. Submission page: https://softconf.com/aacl2022/CogALex-VII/user/scmd.cgi?scmd=submitPaperCus…<https://secure-web.cisco.com/1vswo2xA3aiELwmmGnyoJD5x5LLE9_KHWNQNlH3Da5BErV…> At least one of the authors of an accepted paper must register for the main conference and present the paper. Accepted papers (short and long) will be published in the workshop proceedings that will appear in the ACL Anthology. Accepted papers will also be given an additional page to address the reviewers’ comments. The length of a camera-ready submission can then be 4 pages for a short paper and 8 for a long paper with an unlimited number of pages for references. We consider to invite the authors of the accepted papers to submit an extended version of their workshop paper for a special issue. Important dates - Paper submission (full and short): August 25, 2022 - Notification of acceptance: September 25, 2022 - Camera ready deadline: October 10, 2022 - Workshop: November 24, 2022 Workshop organizers ; - Michael Zock (CNRS, LIS, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France) - Emmanuele Chersoni (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China) - Yu-Yin Hsu (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China) - Enrico Santus (Bayer, Whippany, NJ, 07981, USA) For specific requests or information Please send an e-mail to cogalex2022(a)gmail.com<mailto:cogalex2022@gmail.com>, or to Michael Zock (michael.zock(a)lis-lab.fr<mailto:michael.zock@lis-lab.fr>), Emmanuele Chersoni (emmanuelechersoni(a)gmail.com<mailto:emmanuelechersoni@gmail.com>) -- Yu-Yin Hsu Assistant Professor Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies The Hong Kong Polytechnic University [https://www.polyu.edu.hk/emaildisclaimer/85A-PolyU_Email_Signature.jpg] Disclaimer: This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose. If you are not the intended recipient, you should delete this message and notify the sender and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (the University) immediately. Any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this message, or the taking of any action based on it, is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. The University specifically denies any responsibility for the accuracy or quality of information obtained through University E-mail Facilities. Any views and opinions expressed are only those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent those of the University and the University accepts no liability whatsoever for any losses or damages incurred or caused to any party as a result of the use of such information.

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Final CFP (COLING 2022 Workshop) *Deadline extended to July 31, 2022*
by Atul K. Ojha 26 Jul '22

26 Jul '22

*3rd (Online) Workshop on Threat, Aggression and Cyberbullying (TRAC-2022)* Co-located with COLING 2022, October 17, 2022 Gyeongju, the Republic of Korea *Third Call for Papers and Deadline Extension* *Workshop Website*: https://sites.google.com/view/trac2022/home *Paper Submission*: https://www.softconf.com/coling2022/TRAC-2022/ **Submission Deadline*: July 31, 2022* As in the earlier editions of the workshop, TRAC-2022 will focus on the applications of NLP, ML and pragmatic studies on aggression and impoliteness to tackle these issues. We invite *long (8 pages)* and *short papers (4 pages)* as well as *position papers* and opinion pieces (5 - 20 pages), *demo proposals* and *non-archival extended abstracts* (2 pages) based on, but not limited to, any of the following themes from academic researchers, industry and any other group/team working in the area. - Theories and models of aggression and conflict in language. - Cyberbullying, threatening, hateful, aggressive and abusive language on the web. - Multilingualism and aggression. - Resource Development - Corpora, Annotation Guidelines and Best Practices for threat and aggression detection. - Computational Models and Methods for aggression, hate speech and offensive language detection in text and speech. - Detection of threats and bullying on the web. - Automatic censorship and moderation: ethical, legal and technological issues and challenges. For any clarifications, contact coling.aggression(a)gmail.com.

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Workshop on Transcript Understanding submission deadline extended to August 1, 2022
by Viet Lai 25 Jul '22

25 Jul '22

Call for Paper: 1st workshop on Transcript Understanding Venue: COLING 2022 Location: Gyeongju, Republic of Korea Submission deadline: August 1, 2022 Submission Site: https://www.softconf.com/coling2022/TU <https://www.softconf.com/coling2022/TU> Workshop Website: https://tuworkshop.github.io <https://tuworkshop.github.io/> Overview: Videos have become an omnipresent source of knowledge: courses, presentations, conferences, documentaries, livestreams, meeting recordings, vlogs. This has created a strong demand for transcript understanding. However, the quality of audio and video content shared online and the nature of speech, video transcripts pose many challenges to the existing natural language processing technologies. At the First workshop on Transcript Understanding (TU@COLING2022), we aim to bring together researchers from various domains to make the best of the knowledge that all these videos contain. Researchers from related domains are invited to paper on recent advanced technologies, resources, tools, and challenges for Transcript Understanding. Topics: The TU workshop holds a research track and a shared task track. The research track aims to explore recent advances and remaining challenges on video transcript understanding. As this topic is a multi-modal subject, researchers from artificial intelligence, computer vision, speech processing, natural language processing, data mining, statistics, and other fields are invited to submit papers on recent advances, resources, tools, challenges for video transcript understanding. To this end, the topics of the workshop include but are not limited to the following: - Fundamental processing for video transcript, such as punctuation restoration, chunking, parsing, and named entity recognition. - Subtitle segmentation - Text summarization and keyword extraction for transcripts - Event extraction, intent detection, and slot filling - Sentiment analysis for speech text processing - Noisy text processing - Fact-checking, evidence extraction - Question-Answering extraction from transcripts - Automatic Speech Recognition, and related system such as speaker identification and filler word detection - Multi-modal, multilingual video-speech-text processing Important Dates Papers Due (extended): Aug 1, 2022 (Monday) Notification of Acceptance: August 22, 2022 (Monday) Camera-ready papers due: September 5, 2022 (Monday) Workshop proceedings due: September 19, 2022 (Monday) Workshop date: October 17, 2022 All deadlines are “anywhere on earth” (UTC-12) Submissions: Authors are invited to submit their unpublished work that represents novel research. The papers should be written in English using the *ACL style. Authors can also submit the supplementary materials, including technical appendices, source codes, datasets, and multimedia appendices. All submissions, including the main paper and its supplementary materials, should be fully anonymized. For more information on formatting and anonymity guidelines, please refer to COLING 2022 submission guidelines. TU accepts both long papers (8 pages) and short papers (4 pages). The paper can include unlimited appendix and references. Upon the acceptance, the authors are provided with 1 more page to address the reviewer comments. All papers will be double blind peer reviewed. Two reviewers with the same technical expertise will review each paper. Authors of the accepted papers will present their work in either the Oral or Poster session. All accepted papers will appear on the workshop proceedings that will be published on CEUR-WS. The authors will keep the copyright of their papers that are published on CEUR-WS. The workshop proceedings will be indexed by DBLP. Both research paper and shared task paper must be submitted using SoftConf at https://www.softconf.com/coling2022/TU/ <https://www.softconf.com/coling2022/TU/>. We look forward to seeing you all at the virtual conference. TU@COLING2022 Organizers: Franck Dernoncourt (Adobe Research, USA) Thien Huu Nguyen (University of Oregon, USA) Viet Dac Lai (University of Oregon, USA) Amir Pouran Ben Veyseh (University of Oregon, USA)

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Webinar: Lexical Multidimensional Analysis
by Tony Berber-Sardinha 25 Jul '22

25 Jul '22

Webinar CEPRIL Talks Series Title: Lexical Multidimensional Analysis Wednesday, August 31, 2022 9am Corpus Christi 11am Sao Paulo 3pm Lancaster Speakers: Shannon Fitzsimmons-Doolan (Texas A&M Corpus Christi, USA): Exploring the Distribution of Selected Migrant Education Ideological Discourses Over Time and Register. Isobelle Clarke (Lancaster University, UK): Using keyword co-occurrence analysis to reveal the discourses of climate change across pseudo-science and conspiracy websites Tony Berber Sardinha (Pontifical Catholic University of Sao Paulo, Brazil), Claudia Delfino (Sao Paulo Technical College, Pontifical Catholic University of Sao Paulo, Brazil), Joe Collentine (Northern Arizona University, USA): Exploring a large corpus of English pop music from a multimodal perspective using Lexical MD Analysis Register here: https://bit.ly/3chVjR2 Capacity: 100 attendees This webinar will be broadcast via Zoom. — PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO -- PUC-SP GRADUATE PROGRAM IN APPLIED LINGUISTICS *** LAEL 52 YEARS *** (he/him/his) Tony Berber Sardinha Deputy coordinator LAEL, Graduate Program in Applied Linguistics Coordinator CEPRIL, Center for Language Research, Resources and Information Rua Monte Alegre 984, sala 4B02, São Paulo, SP 05014-901 Brazil Tel.: +55 (11) 3670-8374 E-mail: tony(a)pucsp.br | www2.lael.pucsp.br — Disclaimer This message is reserved and its disclosure, distribution, reproduction or any other form of use is prohibited and shall depend upon previous proper authorization. The sender uses the electronic mail in the exercise of his/her work or by virtue thereof, and the institution accepts no liability for its undue use. If you have received this e-mail by mistake, please delete it immediately.

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AK Prize
by Ilan Kernerman 25 Jul '22

25 Jul '22

* apologies for cross-posting * We invite applications for the Adam Kilgarriff Prize. Full information for potential applicants can be found here<https://kilgarriff.co.uk/prize/adam-kilgarriff-prize/>. The deadline for applications is 30th September 2022. A winner will be announced on or before 31st December 2022, and the Prize will be awarded at the next eLex conference<https://elex.link/>, which will be held in Brno, Czech Republic, in June 2023. This is the fourth iteration of the Adam Kilgarriff Prize, which has so far had three excellent winners. (You can read about them here<https://kilgarriff.co.uk/prize/winners/>.) We look forward to receiving your applications! The Trustees of the Adam Kilgarriff Prize. https://kilgarriff.co.uk/prize/

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Multilingual text bank anywhere (same text translated to different languages?) . . .
by Albretch Mueller 25 Jul '22

25 Jul '22

wikipedia has a list, (notoriously without books in Russian): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_literary_works_by_number_of_translati… gut they didn't include links to the actual source texts and their derivative translations lbrtchx

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CFP - Springer (Scopus Indexed) SPELLL 2022 - First International Conference on Speech and Language Technologies for Low-resource Languages
by Thenmozhi D 25 Jul '22

25 Jul '22

We apologize if you have received multiple copies of this email. *First Call for Papers Springer - SPELLL 2022 - 1st International Conference on Speech and Language Technologies for Low-resource Languages23 – 25 November, 2022SSN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, CHENNAI, INDIAURL: http://www.spelll.org/ <http://www.spelll.org/>* *Greetings!!!* *The Department of CSE, SSN College of Engineering, Chennai, India is organizing 1st International conference on **Speech and Language Technologies for Low-resource Languages (SPELLL - 2022**), during 23-25 November, 2022.* *We invite submissions of original, unpublished technical papers in the following tracks:* * Track 1: Language and Speech Resources - Lexicons and machine-readable dictionaries- Linguistic Theories, Phonology, Morphological analysis, Syntax and Semantics- Corpus development, tools, analysis and evaluation- Issues in the design, construction and use of LRs: text, speech, sign, gesture, image, in single or multimodal/multimedia data- Exploitation of LRs in systems and applications- Annotation, analysis, enrichment of text archivesTrack 2: Language Technologies - Code-mixing- Cognitive modeling and psycholinguistics- Computer-assisted language learning - Covid-19 alert, NLP applications for emergency situations and crisis management- Equality, diversity, and inclusion for language technology- Fake news, spam, and rumour detection- Hate speech detection and offensive language detection- Machine translation, sentiment analysis, and text summarization- Text and data mining for social sciences and humanities research- Text and data mining of (bio) medical literature, including pandemics- Knowledge representation and reasoning- Knowledge graphs for corpora processing and analysis- Applications for language, data and knowledge- Question answering and semantic search- Text analytics on big data- Semantic content management- Computer-aided language learning- Natural language interfaces to big data- Knowledge-based NLPTrack 3: Speech Technologies - Speech technology and automatic speech recognition- Spoken dialog systems and analysis of conversation- Spoken language processing — translation, information retrieval, summarization resources and evaluation- Speaker verification and identification- Multimodal/multimedia speaker recognition and diarization- Analysis of speech and audio signals- Speech coding and enhancement- Speech recognition - architecture, search, and linguistic components- Speech, voice, and hearing disorders- Speech synthesis and spoken language generation- Cross-lingual and multilingual components for speech recognition / code switching- Dialect identificationTrack 4: Other Related Topics - Analysis of para-linguistics in speech and language- Multimodal analysis- Visualisation of social sciences and humanities research IMPORTANT DATES - Paper Submission Due: July 30, 2022.- Acceptance Notification: September 30, 2022.- Camera Ready Submission: October 30, 2022.- Conference: November 23-25, 2022* *The conference accepts regular and short papers. Accepted papers that are presented at the conference will be included in the conference proceedings published in the Springer CCIS (*Communications in Computer and Information Science*) series. *Volumes published will be indexed in Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI) - part of Clarivate Analytics’ Web of Science, EI Engineering Index, ACM Digital Library, DBLP, Google Scholar and Scopus. Papers have to be submitted via https://equinocs.springernature.com/service/SPELLL2022 * For further details please visit our website: www.spelll.org <http://www.spelll.org/>* *We also request you to kindly circulate this among your peer research group.* *For any queries, feel free to contact the coordinators.* -- Dr. D.Thenmozhi Associate Professor / CSE SSN College of Engg OMR Road Kalavakkam - 603 110 -- ::DISCLAIMER:: --------------------------------------------------------------------- The contents of this e-mail and any attachment(s) are confidential and intended for the named recipient(s) only. Views or opinions, if any, presented in this email are solely those of the author and may not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of SSN Institutions (SSN) or its affiliates. Any form of reproduction, dissemination, copying, disclosure, modification, distribution and / or publication of this message without the prior written consent of authorized representative of SSN is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify the sender immediately. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Header of this mail should have a valid DKIM signature for the domain ssn.edu.in <http://www.ssn.edu.in/>

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Extended deadline: COLING 2022 Fifth Workshop on NLP for Internet Freedom (NLP4IF): Censorship, Disinformation, and Propaganda
by Anna Feldman 24 Jul '22

24 Jul '22

COLING 2022 Fifth Workshop on NLP for Internet Freedom (NLP4IF): Censorship, Disinformation, and Propaganda Workshop website: http://netsci.montclair.edu/nlp4if/ Co-located with COLING-2022, Oct 12-17, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea *Submission deadline: August 5, 2022 (23:59 PM Pacific Standard Time)* NLP4IF (http://netsci.montclair.edu/nlp4if/ is dedicated to NLP methods that potentially contribute (either positively or negatively) to the free flow of information on the Internet, or to our understanding of the issues that arise in this area. We hope that our workshop will have a transformative impact on society by getting closer to achieving Internet freedom in countries where accessing and sharing of information are strictly controlled by censorship. The topics of interest include (but are not limited) to the following: Censorship detection: detecting deleted or edited text; detecting blocked keywords/banned terms; Censorship circumvention techniques: linguistically inspired countermeasure for Internet censorship such as keyword substitution, expanding coverage of existing banned terms, text paraphrasing, linguistic steganography, generating information morphs etc.; Identification of propaganda at different granularity levels: text fragment, document, and full website Detection of self-censorship; Identifying potentially censorable content; Disinformation/Misinformation detection: fake news, fake accounts, rumor detection, etc.; Identification of hate speech and offensive language (Comparative) analysis of the language of propagandistic and biased texts Automatic generation of persuasive content Automatic debiasing of news content Tools to facilitate the flagging, either automatic or manual, of propaganda and bias in social media Automatic detection of coordinated propaganda campaigns such as the use of social bots, botnets, and water armies Analysis of diffusion and consumption of propagandistic, hyperpartisan, and extremely biased content in social media Techniques to empirically measure Internet censorship across communication platforms; Investigations on covert linguistic communication and its limits; Identity and private information detection; Passive and targeted surveillance techniques; Ethics in NLP; “Walled gardens”, personalization and fragmentation of the online public space; Multiple submission policy: papers that are under review in another COLING workshop at the time of submission will not be considered. Submission page: https://www.softconf.com/coling2022/NLP4IF Formatting requirements: https://coling2022.org/Submission Important Dates * Submission deadline: August 5, 2022 (23:59 PM Pacific Standard Time) * Notification of acceptance: August 22, 2022 * Camera-ready papers due: September 5, 2022 * Workshop: co-located with COLING-2022, October 12-17, 2022

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Call for Abstracts - North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics - Fifth Annual Meeting (NARNiHS 2023)
by Lauersdorf, Mark R. 24 Jul '22

24 Jul '22

***** Call for Abstracts ***** NARNiHS 2023 ***** North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics ***** Fifth Annual Meeting Despite the recent relaxation of global pandemic travel policies, travel concerns remain for many communities as of the summer of 2022. In light of these concerns, and in response to the positive feedback we have received concerning our recent all-online events, our NARNiHS 2023 Annual Meeting will once again be taking place as a **free, entirely online event**. This presents a great opportunity for scholars in historical sociolinguistics from all over the world to participate as presenters and/or attendees without the limitations imposed by international travel. We encourage our fellow historical sociolinguists and scholars from related fields from our global scholarly community (in addition to North America) to join us online for our Fifth Annual Meeting. ==> Abstract submission deadline: Monday, 19 September 2022, 11:59 PM US Eastern Time. Please see our call for abstracts below and send us your latest work in historical sociolinguistics! ----- Call for Abstracts -----. The North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics (NARNiHS) is accepting abstracts for its Fifth Annual Meeting (NARNiHS 2023), to take place Wednesday, January 4 - Sunday, January 8, 2023. Since NARNiHS is a Sister Society of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), NARNiHS 2023 will partially overlap with the LSA 2023 Annual Meeting. The NARNiHS 2023 Annual Meeting, however, will be organized independently from the LSA Annual Meeting. ==> Deadline for receipt of abstracts: Monday, 19 September 2022, 11:59 PM US Eastern Time. * Late abstracts will not be considered *. NARNiHS welcomes abstracts in all areas of historical sociolinguistics, which is understood as the application/development of sociolinguistic theories, models, and methods for the study of historical language variation and change over time, or more broadly, the study of the interaction of language and society in historical periods and from historical perspectives. Thus, a wide range of linguistic areas, subdisciplines, and methodologies easily find their place within the field, and we encourage submission of abstracts that reflect this broad scope. Abstracts will be accepted for 20-minute presentations to be delivered "live" through an online video-conferencing platform. *** Abstracts will be evaluated on the following criteria ***. - explicit discussion of which theoretical frameworks, methodological protocols, and analytical strategies are being applied or critiqued; - sufficient (if brief) presentation of data sources and examples to allow reviewers a clear understanding of the scope and claims of the research; - clear articulation of how the research advances knowledge in the field of historical sociolinguistics. Abstracts should also be anonymized to allow for blind peer review. Failure to adhere to these criteria will increase the likelihood of non-acceptance. *** General Requirements ***. 1) Abstracts must be submitted electronically, using the following link: http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/5THnarnihs2023 . 2) Authors may submit a maximum of two abstracts: one single-author abstract and one co-authored abstract. 3) After an abstract has been submitted, no changes of author, title, or wording of the abstract, other than those due to typographical errors, are permitted. If accepted, authors will be contacted for a final version for the abstract booklet. 4) Papers must be delivered as projected in the abstract or represent bona fide developments of the same research. 5) Authors are expected to attend the conference and present their own papers. 6) Presentations will be delivered via a video-conferencing platform, most likely Zoom. Technical details and instructions regarding the platform for our NARNiHS Annual Meeting will be sent to authors in due time. 7) After acceptance, authors will be given an option to have their live presentation recorded during the meeting and archived for future online viewing. *** Abstract Format Guidelines ***. 1) Abstracts must be submitted in PDF format. 2) Abstracts must fit on one standard 8.5x11 inch page, with margins no smaller than 1 inch and a font style and size no smaller than Times New Roman 12 point. All additional content (visualizations, trees, tables, figures, captions, examples, and references) must fit on a single (1) additional page. No exceptions to these requirements are allowed. 3) Anonymize your abstract. We realize that sometimes it is not possible to attain complete anonymity, but there is a difference between "inability to anonymize completely" (due to the nature of the research) and "careless non-anonymizing" (for example: "In Jones 2021, I describe..."). In addition, be sure to anonymize your PDF file (you may do so in Adobe Acrobat Reader by clicking on "File", then "Properties", removing your name if it appears in the "Author" line of the "Description" tab, and re-saving before submitting it). Please be aware that abstract file names might not be automatically anonymized by the system; do not use your name (e.g. Smith_Abstract.pdf) when saving your abstract in PDF format, rather, use non-identifying information (e.g. HistSoc4Lyfe_NARNiHS.pdf). Your name should only appear in the online form accompanying your abstract submission. Papers that are not sufficiently anonymized wherever possible (whether in the text of the abstract or in the metadata of the digital file) risk being rejected. Contact us at NARNiHistSoc(a)gmail.com with any questions.

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Invitation to QUALICO 2023 conference, Switzerland
by Adam Pawłowski 23 Jul '22

23 Jul '22

Dear Colleagues, I include below an invitation to the conference QUALICO 2023. Best regards, Adam Pawłowski Uniwersytet Wrocławski, Institute of Information and Media Sciences Head of the Digital Humanities Lab Call for Papers Submission Deadline : January 8th, 2023 QUALICO 2023 Lausanne, Switzerland, June 28-30, 2023 https://www.unil.ch/qualico2023/ The 12th International Quantitative Linguistics Conference will take place in Lausanne, Switzerland, on June 28-30, 2023. QUALICO 2023 is organized by the International Quantitative Linguistics Association (IQLA) and the Department of Language and Information Sciences (SLI) at the University of Lausanne (UNIL). Topics All contributions relating to quantitative linguistics and text analysis are welcome. We particularly encourage submissions on: Descriptions of all aspects of language and text phenomena, including psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, dialectology, pragmatics, language typology, language acquisition, language evolution, usage-based approaches, information science, etc., insofar as they use quantitative mathematical methods (probability theory, stochastic processes, differential and difference equations, multidimensional analysis, fuzzy logics and set theory, function theory, etc.). Applications of methods, models, or findings from quantitative linguistics to problems of natural language processing, text classification, stylistics, authorship attribution, language teaching, scientometrics, bibliometrics, text mining, language complexity and complex network analysis. Methods of linguistic measurement, model construction, sampling and test theory. Epistemological issues relevant to quantitative linguistics such as explanation of language and text phenomena, contributions to theory construction, systems theory, philosophy of science. Oral and Poster Sessions Presentations should be in English. Each paper will be allotted 30 minutes (20 minutes of presentation and 10 minutes of discussion). There will also be a poster session. Multiple Works by the Same Author The maximum number of submissions by the same author or co-author is two papers. Submissions exceeding this threshold will be automatically deleted without notification. Submission of Abstracts The submission of an abstract will be via EasyChair https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=qualico2023 Abstracts must be in English and should include keywords, authors affiliations and references. They should not exceed 500 words (excluding keywords, authors affiliations and references) and 2 pages all included. The requested format for submission is PDF. The deadline for submission is January 8th 2023, 11:59:59 pm (GMT). Notification of Acceptance Notification of acceptance will be sent to the contact author by February 28th 2023. Conference Volume We will invite authors of accepted abstracts to submit full papers for publication in the conference volume, which will be proposed for publication with a leading publisher. Participation Fees Participation fees must be paid before April 30th, 2023. The fees are: Regular: 250€ IQLA Member: 150€ Participation fees include: An abstract book for the conference. Conference volume of full papers. One lunch break meal voucher and 2 coffee break vouchers for every day. For participants interested in the special social event, an extra fee will be added (still to be determined). Conference Venue Anthropole, UNIL-Chamberonne. 1015 Chavannes-près-Renens, SWITZERLAND https://goo.gl/maps/d6QtQM2SCzRTutAG9 The conference will take place on-site unless the sanitary situation in June 2023 requires switching to a remote, online modality. Contact qualico2023(a)unil.ch For further details, visit the conference webpage: https://www.unil.ch/qualico2023/ Scientific Committee François Bavaud, University of Lausanne Radek Cech, University of Ostrava Xinying Chen, Xi'an Jiaotong University Sheila Embleton, York University Guillaume Guex, University of Lausanne Emmerich Kelih, University of Vienna Ján Mačutek, Slovak Academy of Sciences & Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra Coline Métrailler, University of Lausanne George Mikros, Hamad Bin Khalifa University Hermann Moisl, University of Newcastle Adam Pawłowski, University of Wrocław Haruko Sanada, Rissho University Benjamin Storme, University of Lausanne Arjuna Tuzzi, University of Padua Aris Xanthos, University of Lausanne Organizing Committee François Bavaud, Guillaume Guex, Coline Métrailler, Stéphanie Pichot, Benjamin Storme, and Aris Xanthos. Please read IQLA’s position regarding the war in Ukraine

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3rd CODI workshop: Deadline extension to July 28, 2022
by Chloé Braud 22 Jul '22

22 Jul '22

** apologies for cross-postings ** CODI, 3rd Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse Gyeongju, Republic of Korea ** Submission deadline: Extension to July 28, 2022 ** * Important information: The CODI workshop will be a hybrid workshop following COLING’s format. The workshop will take place on October 16-17, 2022. * Aims and scope The last ten years have seen a dramatic improvement in the ability of NLP systems to understand and produce words and sentences. This development has created a renewed interest in discourse problems as researchers move towards the processing of long-form text and conversations. There is a surge of activity in discourse parsing, coherence models, text summarization, corpora for discourse level reading comprehension, and discourse related/aided representation learning, to name a few. At this juncture, we have organized two Workshops on Computational Approaches to Discourse (CODI) at EMNLP 2020 and at EMNLP 2021 to bring together discourse experts and upcoming researchers. These workshops have catalyzed the speed and knowledge needed to solve such problems and have served as a forum for the discussion of suitable datasets and reliable evaluation methods. The previous workshops on discourse in machine translation (DiscoMT), linking lexical, sentential and discourse semantics (LSDSem), discourse structure in natural language generation (DSNNLG), discourse parsing and treebanking (DISRPT) and coreference (CORBON/CRAC), have shown that there is considerable interest and success in bringing together the community working on specific problems. We believe that the discourse community will also benefit from a general forum where work ranging from corpus development/analysis to computational models, and evaluation is discussed, and desiderata can be drawn for future progress. The 3rd CODI workshop is planned as a 1 1/2 day event which brings together different subcommunities. It will feature invited talks and regular papers on the first day. The second day will be dedicated to shared tasks and special sessions which focus on the issues mentioned above. After a first successful iteration in 2021 the shared task on coreference resolution (encompassing entity and abstract coreference and bridging anaphora) in dialogue will be held again in 2022 as the CODI-CRAC 2022 Shared Task on Anaphora, Bridging, and Discourse Deixis in Dialogue, next to the CRAC 2022 Shared Task on Multilingual Coreference Resolution. Topics of interest We welcome symbolic and probabilistic approaches, corpus development and analysis, as well as machine and deep learning approaches to discourse. We appreciate theoretical contributions as well as practical applications, including demos of systems and tools. The goal of the workshop is to provide a forum for the community of NLP researchers working on all aspects of discourse. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * discourse structure * discourse connectives * discourse relations * annotation tools and schemes for discourse phenomena * corpora annotated with discourse phenomena * discourse parsing * cross-lingual discourse processing * cross-domain discourse processing * anaphora and coreference resolution * event coreference * argument mining * coherence modeling * discourse and semantics * discourse in applications such as machine translation, summarization, etc. * evaluation methodology for discourse processing Submissions We solicit four categories of papers: regular workshop papers, demos, shared task papers and extended abstracts. Only regular workshop papers, shared task papers and demos will be included in the proceedings as archival publications. Regular papers must describe original unpublished research. Long papers may consist of up to 8 pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references. Short papers can be up to 4 pages, plus unlimited pages for references. Demo submissions may describe systems, tools, visualizations, etc., and may consist of up to 4 pages, plus unlimited pages for references. Each submission can contain unlimited pages for Appendices but the paper submissions need to remain fully self-contained, as these supplementary materials are completely optional, and reviewers are not even asked to review them. Accepted long, short, and demo papers will be presented orally. Extended abstracts can describe work in progress or those already published elsewhere. These may be two pages long (without references). Extended abstracts are non-archival. They will be presented orally, and included in the workshop program and handbook, but will not appear in the workshop proceedings. Double submission of papers is allowed but will need to be notified at submission. Submission website All submissions must be anonymous and follow the COLING 2022 formatting instructions described here: https://coling2022.org/Submission Please submit your workshop papers at https://www.softconf.com/coling2022/CODI/ Shared task papers should be submitted to the links specified on the shared task pages. Important dates * 2022-07-25 --> 2022-07-28: CODI papers due * 2022-08-03: Reviewing period * 2022-08-24: Reviews due * 2022-09-01: Notification of acceptance * 2022-09-12: Camera ready deadline for main conference and CODI * 2022-10-16 – 2022-10-17: CODI workshopAll deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h ("anywhere on Earth"). Invited Speakers * Nate Chambers, US Naval Academy * Bonnie Webber, University of Edinburgh Organizers * Chloé Braud, CNRS-IRIT * Christian Hardmeier, IT University of Copenhagen and Uppsala University * Jessy Li, University of Texas, Austin * Sharid Loáiciga, University of Gothenburg * Michael Strube, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies * Amir Zeldes, Georgetown UniversityTo contact the organizers, please send an email to: codi-workshop(a)googlegroups.com

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[Job] Postdoctoral researcher (m/f/d) in NLP, TrustHLT research group, TU Darmstadt, Germany
by ivan.habernal＠tu-darmstadt.de 22 Jul '22

22 Jul '22

# Postdoctoral researcher (m/f/d) in Natural Language Processing, TrustHLT research group, TU Darmstadt, Germany The independent research group Trustworthy Human Language Technologies (TrustHLT) at the Department of Computer Science of the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany has a job opening for a **Postdoctoral researcher (m/f/d)** in the recently acquired project “PrivaLingo: Truly Privacy-Preserving Machine Translation” by Dr. Ivan Habernal. This position will focus on a broad range of research questions related to privacy-preserving NLP models with a special focus on neural machine translation. A solid background in machine learning for natural language processing is essential, prior experience with differential privacy in model training is a plus. Wages and salaries are based on the collective agreement applicable to the TU Darmstadt (TV-TU Darmstadt). The starting date is as soon as possible, the position is funded for 2 years. Candidates The ideal candidate holds a PhD degree in computer science, computational linguistics, machine learning, or a related discipline, has a strong interest in privacy in natural language processing, excellent analytical and programming skills, is a team player, and is fluent in English. Diversity TU Darmstadt is strongly committed to diversity and particularly welcomes applications from members of underrepresented groups. Applications from female candidates are highly encouraged. Team TrustHLT is an independent research group led by Dr. Ivan Habernal, appointed at the Department of Computer Science of the Technical University of Darmstadt. The group conducts research in the field of natural language processing with a focus on privacy-preserving technologies and legal argumentation, see www.trusthlt.org for more details. The Department of Computer Science at TU Darmstadt regularly ranks among the top in Germany. ## Application Please send your detailed CV including a publication list, names of two referees, and a letter of motivation outlining your research interests to ivan.habernal(a)tu-darmstadt.de, subject: “Postdoc application PrivaLingo”. Send all documents as a single PDF (“PDF Arranger” is a helpful tool, for instance). Please do not hesitate to contact Dr. Habernal should you have any further questions. Deadline for applications is August 5, 2022. Applications arriving after the deadline will still be considered if the position is not filled yet.

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[Job] Postdoctoral fellow: Georgetown University Neuroscience of Language training program (Washington, DC)
by Nathan Schneider 21 Jul '22

21 Jul '22

Sharing on behalf of colleagues—note that applicants may come from a variety of fields! See contact info at the bottom of the ad. Postdoctoral fellow: Georgetown University Neuroscience of Language training program (Washington, DC) Georgetown University’s new Neuroscience of Language T32 training program <https://sites.google.com/georgetown.edu/neuro-lang> is seeking postdoctoral fellows. The Neuroscience of Language program provides training in the brain basis of language, as well as sensory, motor, and cognitive systems as they pertain to language and communication. Georgetown has a number of faculty focused on Neuroscience of Language research, ranging from basic work on auditory or language processing (spoken, signed, and written language) to clinical trials in adults and children with brain injuries affecting language. Interactions with Georgetown’s highly regarded Linguistics Department, as well as Children’s National Hospital and MedStar National Rehabilitation Hospital, provide us with access to additional faculty and research populations and further enrich the training environment. Individuals with doctoral degrees from any field related to Neuroscience of Language (Neuroscience, Cognitive Science, Linguistics, Psychology, Communication Disorders, etc.) are encouraged to apply. Fellows will be supported for two years and will develop an individualized training plan to provide expertise across disciplines important to Neuroscience of Language research. Fellows will take coursework as needed and will participate in a regular journal club and seminar series, clinical experiences, community engagement activities, and professional development activities, in addition to conducting research in the neuroscience of language. The overall goal of the program is to develop well-rounded scientists who have a broad perspective on basic and clinical Neuroscience of Language. Fellows will work with one or more of the following investigators: Drs. Thomas Coate, Guinevere Eden, Rhonda Friedman, William Gaillard, Anna Greenwald, Xiong Jiang, Elissa Newport, Josef Rauschecker, Max Riesenhuber, Ella Striem-Amit, Ted Supalla, Peter Turkeltaub, and Michael Ullman. Collaborations among our faculty are common and a strength of our program. Appointments are funded at standard NIH NRSA stipend rates, with an initial one-year term to be renewed for an additional year if fellows meet the program requirements. U.S. citizens or permanent residents who currently hold a doctoral degree or will have met all doctoral program requirements before starting the program are eligible to apply. Individuals from groups recognized to be underrepresented in the sciences are encouraged to apply <http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/wmpd/>. Please submit the following application materials via the application form <https://forms.gle/eEBab9cYSGwYYmrk7>. - CV - Personal statement describing career goals, prior research, goals for postdoctoral training, and lab(s) of interest (3 pages) - Names and contact information for three references - Writing sample (manuscript or dissertation) Contact Dr. Peter Turkeltaub (peter.turkeltaub(a)georgetown.edu) with any questions about the program or eligibility. Contact Rachel Galginaitis ( rg1171(a)georgetown.edu) with questions about the application process. -- Nathan Schneider Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Computer Science, Georgetown University http://nathan.cl

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Shared Task on Dialect Identification
by Salam Khalifa 21 Jul '22

21 Jul '22

Hello All, We are pleased to announce the *Nuanced Arabic Dialect Identification (NADI)* shared task as part of the Workshop on Arabic NLP WANLP2022 <https://sites.google.com/view/wanlp2022/>. *Summary:* Arabic has a widely varying collection of dialects. Many of these dialects remain under-studied due to the rarity of resources. The goal of the Nuanced Arabic Dialect Identification (NADI) shared task series is to alleviate this bottleneck by providing datasets and modeling opportunities for participants to carry out dialect identification. Dialect identification is the task of automatically detecting the source variety of a given text or speech segment. In addition to nuanced dialect identification at the country level, NADI 2022 also offers a new subtask focused on country-level sentiment analysis. While we invite participation in either of the two subtasks, we hope that teams will submit systems to both tasks (i.e., participate in the two tasks rather than only one task). By offering two subtasks, we hope to receive systems that exploit diverse machine learning architectures. This could include multi-task learning systems as well as sequence-to-sequence architectures in a single model such as the text-to-text Transformer. Other approaches could also be possible. We introduce the two subtasks next. *Organizers:* Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, Chiyu Zhang, Abdelrahim Elmadany, Nizar Habash, and Houda Bouamor. To find more information about the shared task please visit: https://nadi.dlnlp.ai/ Looking forward to your participation, Salam Khalifa (On behalf of the WANLP publicity chairs) -- *Salam Khalifa* *PhD Student* *Linguistics Department* *Institute for Advanced Computational Science (IACS)* *Stony Brook University* salam.khalifa(a)stonybrook.edu

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CfP: Special Issue of RiCL on spoken corpora
by Robbie Love 21 Jul '22

21 Jul '22

Dear colleagues You may be interested to know that I am guest editing a special issue of the Research in Corpus Linguistics (RiCL) journal on "Innovations in the compilation and analysis of spoken corpora". The deadline for proposals is in October. Please find more information below. If this is of interest to you and you would like to discuss any ideas you may have, then please don't hesitate to email me directly. Best wishes Robbie *** Corpora derived from recordings of spoken language present unique challenges for linguists, from the perspectives of corpus design, compilation, processing and analysis, among others. Over the last few decades, there have been many developments in these areas, largely driven by technological innovations, for example: the ubiquity of digital recording devices for the easy capture of speech; the wide availability of video and audio data, from a variety of discourse contexts; advancements in automated transcription; developments in the exploitation of multimodal corpora; and advancements in the functionality of popular corpus tools to process highly-annotated corpora. This special issue of RiCL intends to capture recent innovations in the compilation and analysis of spoken corpora - both monomodal and multimodal - and highlight the current challenges and future opportunities in this area of study. Potential topics for the special issue include innovations in: * The design of (monomodal or multimodal) spoken corpora in a variety of domains * The collection, processing and exploitation of metadata (e.g. social variables, contextual variables, etc.) * The transcription of audio or audio-visual data * The analysis of spoken corpora, including but not limited to: theoretical frameworks, tool development, visualisation * The generation of knowledge about language and communication deriving from spoken corpora * The annotation and processing of spoken corpus data * The applications and impacts of spoken corpus analysis * The compilation and analysis of spoken corpora in lesser-studied language varieties This is an indicative and non-exhaustive list. To be clear, research on any language variet(y/ies) is welcome. If you have an idea but are not sure whether it would be suitable, please get in touch. Important Dates * Deadline for proposals: October 7, 2022 * Outcome of proposal review: October 28, 2022 * Deadline for manuscript first drafts: May 5, 2023 * Notification of reviewer outcome: September 1, 2023 * Deadline for manuscript final drafts: December 15, 2023 Special issue publication: Spring 2024 Proposal Format & Submission Submit a one-page abstract and tentative title for your proposed paper. The abstract should introduce the topic, motivate the study, summarise the methods and (where appropriate) describe the data to be analysed. Preliminary results are welcome but not required (i.e. we will consider proposals based on planned but not yet completed research). Please also include your name(s) and full contact information. Submit your proposal to Robbie Love (r.love(a)aston.ac.uk<mailto:r.love@aston.ac.uk>). RiCL's submission guidelines can be found at: https://ricl.aelinco.es/index.php/ricl/about/submissions Peer Review All accepted manuscripts will undergo double-blind peer review. Dr Robbie Love FHEA (he/him) Lecturer in English Language Director of Undergraduate English Programmes [cid:image001.png@01D89D20.AF468BA0] Department of English, Languages and Applied Linguistics, NW914A Birmingham, B4 7ET, UK aston.ac.uk @lovermob<https://twitter.com/lovermob>

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Large-scale Datasets for Persian Question Answering (University of Isfahan)
by mozafari.jamshid＠gmail.com 21 Jul '22

21 Jul '22

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce that the BigData Lab of the University of Isfahan has presented some large-scale datasets for Question Answering, Machine Reading Comprehension, and Answer Selection for the Persian language. We are very proud to share these datasets with our colleagues. These datasets are accessible from the links below: (1) PersianQuAD: The Native Question Answering Dataset for the Persian Language DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3157289 Github: https://github.com/BigData-IsfahanUni/PersianQuAD Kaggle: https://www.kaggle.com/jamshidjdmy/persianquad (2) PerAnSel: A Novel Deep Neural Network-Based System for Persian Question Answering DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/3661286 Github: https://github.com/BigData-IsfahanUni/PerAnSel Kaggle: https://www.kaggle.com/jamshidjdmy/peransel (3) ParSQuAD: Persian Question Answering Dataset based on Machine Translation of SQuAD 2.0 DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.22133/ijwr.2021.293313.1101 Github: https://github.com/BigData-IsfahanUni/ParSQuAD Kaggle: https://www.kaggle.com/neginabadani/parsquad

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PhD Position on Unified Foundation models for Speech-to-Speech Translation at FBK and Naver Labs Europe
by Matteo Negri 21 Jul '22

21 Jul '22

-- Apologies for cross-posting. -- Have you recently completed or expect very soon an MSc or equivalent degree in computer science, artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, engineering, or a related area? Are you interested in carrying out research on Speech-to-Speech Translation during the next few years? Are you excited to spend a part of your life in 2 pleasant alpine cities in France (Grenoble) and Italy (Trento)? WE ARE LOOKING FOR YOU!!! The Machine Translation <https://ict.fbk.eu/units/hlt-mt/> (MT) group at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Trento, Italy) in conjunction with Naver Labs Europe <https://europe.naverlabs.com/> (Grenoble, France) are pleased to announce the availability of the following fully-funded Ph.D. position at the Doctorate Program in Industrial Innovation of the University of Trento and Fondazione Bruno Kessler <https://iid.unitn.it/>. TITLE: Unified Foundation models for Speech-to-Speech Translation DESCRIPTION: Current trends in Artificial Intelligence are characterized by the migration from “task-specific models” to the so-called “foundation models”. The former are usually trained on large datasets labelled for specific target applications. The latter, much more reusable and flexible, are trained on a variety of unlabeled data to perform different tasks with minimal fine-tuning. In recent years, the introduction of such models (e.g. BERT, GPT-3) has opened an unprecedented range of opportunities, with an explosion of AI applications fueled by the power of transfer learning across diverse data and tasks. In line with this trend, this PhD aims at investigating and training deep neural architectures to build large multimodal sequence-to-sequence models able to encode input speech and text in a common space, also being able to decode output text or speech from a common representation. Such a multimodal architecture, if then made multilingual, will become the future unified foundation model for building automatic speech recognition (ASR), text-to-speech synthesis (TTS), speech-to-text translation (S2T) and speech-to-speech translation (S2S) systems from a single backbone. REQUIRED SKILLS: The ideal candidate must have recently completed or expect by October 31st, 2022, an MSc or equivalent degree in computer science, artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, engineering, or a closely related area. In addition, the applicant should: - Have interest in Machine and Speech Translation - Have experience in deep learning and machine learning, in general - Have good programming skills in Python and experience in PyTorch - Enjoy working with real-world problems and large data sets - Have good knowledge of written and spoken English - Enjoy working in a closely collaborating international team Working Environment The doctoral student will be employed at the MT group at Fondazione Bruno Kessler and will work for an equivalent amount of time in two different labs (TBD): - The NLP team at Naver Labs Europe (Grenoble, France) - The Machine Translation (MT) group at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Trento, Italy) NAVER LABS is the R&D subsidiary of NAVER, Korea’s leading internet company. FBK has trained many scientists nowadays employed in leading IT companies in the world. Both groups have a long tradition in research on machine and speech translation. Benefits Fondazione Bruno Kessler offers an attractive benefits package, including a flexible work week, full reimbursement for conferences and summer schools, a competitive scholarship, an excellent team of supervisors and mentors, help for housing search, full health insurance, the possibility of Italian courses, sporting facilities, and free canteen at lunch During the student’s research stays at Naver Labs Europe (Grenoble, France), accommodation and travel expenses from and to Trento will be fully covered. Further Information For preliminary interviews, and should you need further information about the position, please contact Matteo Negri (negri(a)fbk.eu), Laurent Besacier ( laurent.besacier(a)naverlabs.com) and Ioan Calapodescu ( ioan.calapodescu(a)naverlabs.com) COMPLETE DETAILS AVAILABLE AT: <https://iecs.unitn.it/education/admission/call-for-application> http://iid.unitn.it/education/admission/call-for-application <https://iid.unitn.it/education/admission/call-for-application> IMPORTANT DATES: The deadline for application: August 23, 2022 | 16:00 (CEST) Potential candidates are strongly invited to contact us in advance for preliminary interviews. Precedence for interviews will be given to short-listed candidates that will send us a complete CV via email ( negri(a)fbk.eu, laurent.besacier(a)naverlabs.com, ioan.calapodescu(a)naverlabs.com) by August 5, 2022. Best Regards, Matteo Negri -- -- 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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Bilingual parallel dataset EN/ES
by Komal Florio 21 Jul '22

21 Jul '22

Dear all, I am looking for a bilingual parallel dataset in EN/ES or relevant shared tasks that may involve such linguistic resources. I do not have specific requirements in terms of the domain (or at least not in this exploratory phase), but it is mandatory that the two datasets were developed following exactly the same rules and with the same timestamp. Thanks very much! K. -- Komal Florio, PhD UNED Research Group in Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval AVISO LEGAL. Este mensaje puede contener información reservada y confidencial. Si usted no es el destinatario no está autorizado a copiar, reproducir o distribuir este mensaje ni su contenido. Si ha recibido este mensaje por error, le rogamos que lo notifique al remitente. Le informamos de que sus datos personales, que puedan constar en este mensaje, serán tratados en calidad de responsable de tratamiento por la UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA (UNED) c/ Bravo Murillo, 38, 28015-MADRID-, con la finalidad de mantener el contacto con usted. La base jurídica que legitima este tratamiento, será su consentimiento, el interés legítimo o la necesidad para gestionar una relación contractual o similar. En cualquier momento podrá ejercer sus derechos de acceso, rectificación, supresión, oposición, limitación al tratamiento o portabilidad de los datos, ante la UNED, Departamento de Política Jurídica de Seguridad de la Información<https://www.uned.es/dpj>, o a través de la Sede electrónica<https://sede.uned.es/> de la Universidad. Para más información visite nuestra Política de Privacidad<https://descargas.uned.es/publico/pdf/Politica_privacidad_UNED.pdf>.

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Training data for ASR and MT in Danish and Irish (Gaelic)
by Elisa Di Nuovo 21 Jul '22

21 Jul '22

Dear members, I’m looking for public data that can be used to train a tool that performs Automatic Speech Recognition and Machine Translation. The languages are Danish and Gaelic. Thank you for your help, Best regards, Elisa Di Nuovo Elisa Di Nuovo PhD student @ University of Turin elisa.dinuovo(a)unito.it

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Deadline extension! [2nd CfP] METRICS 2022: ASIS&T VIRTUAL WORKSHOP ON INFORMETRICS AND SCIENTOMETRICS RESEARCH
by Tirthankar Ghosal 21 Jul '22

21 Jul '22

Dear Colleagues, METRICS 2022 OC has decided to extend the deadline to submit your abstracts till August 5th. Looking forward to your submissions. Thank you. Best regards, Tirthankar METRICS 2022: ASIS&T VIRTUAL WORKSHOP ON INFORMETRICS AND SCIENTOMETRICS RESEARCH Virtual workshop sponsored by ASIS&T SIG/MET ASIS&T 2022 Annual Meeting - Part I: Saturday, October 8, 2022, 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. EDT - Part II: Sunday, October 9, 2022, 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. EDT Website: https://www.asist.org/2022/06/14/metrics-2022-asist-virtual-workshop-on-inf… *CALL FOR ABSTRACTS* The ASIS&T Special Interest Group for Metrics (SIG/MET) invites contributions to the METRICS 2022 workshop, which will be held prior to the 85th ASIS&T Annual Meeting. The workshop continues the successful SIG/MET workshop series held annually since 2011 by providing an opportunity to present and discuss research related to the measurement of knowledge production, dissemination, and use among experienced researchers, young academics, and practitioners. We invite abstracts describing empirical or theoretical work, related but not limited to: - Altmetrics - Bibliometric-enhanced information retrieval - Bibliometrics - Informetrics - Open access - Open science - Patent analysis - Quantitative science studies - Research evaluation - Scholarly communication - Science communication - Science of science - Scientometrics *SUBMISSIONS* The following four types of submission are accepted: - *Research presentations*, for completed or in-progress research. [Presentation] - *Posters* for work in early stages or best presented visually. [Poster] - *Tutorials* for practical information on a tool or method. [Tutorial] - *Panels* for discussions on a specific topic. [Panel] Please indicate the type of submission by naming the file in the following format: Metrics22_First Author's Last Name + First Name Initials_Submission Type (e.g., Metrics22_ChenPY_Presentation). All submissions should be in the form of a *two-page extended abstract* using APA style and formatted according to the AM22 Proposal Template Instructions <https://growthzonesitesprod.azureedge.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/946/Temp…>. Where appropriate, up to three figures/tables can be provided. Do not include any author names on the file you upload. The abstracts of accepted papers and posters, as well as the presentation slides, will be deposited on Zenodo <https://zenodo.org/> to enhance the visibility and retrievability of the presented research. Please submit your abstract as a PDF to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=metrics2022 *Submissions will be evaluated by at least two independent reviewers based on their relevance to the workshop and their methodological soundness (where applicable), and brief feedback will be given in narrative format.* *AWARDS* Thanks to the generous sponsorship from the International Center for the Study of Research (ICSR) <https://www.elsevier.com/icsr>, the workshop will present the *Best Student Paper Awards* and *Best Paper Award* this year to recognize the excellence of the presenting work (excluding *posters*). Up to three awardees will be selected for the Best Student Paper Awards. *To be considered for the best student paper, the first author of the paper entered into this contest must be a full-time student at the time of submission*, irrespective of ASIS&T or SIG/MET membership. Please also indicate Student on the name of the submitted file, e.g., Metrics22_ChenPY_Presentation_Student, even if the co-authors are non-students. One best paper will also be selected from all accepted papers regardless of their topic. However, to ensure fairness, a paper cannot be awarded both as best paper and best student paper at the same time. In other words, if a student paper is selected to be the best paper, it will not be considered for the best student paper awards. *The winners of both awards will be decided by a double-blind peer review process from the eligible accepted submissions.* The awards will be decided before the presentations take place, but the authors must present at the workshop to qualify. *We offer a cash prize of $500 for the Best Paper Award and $250 for the Best Student Paper Award.* *IMPORTANT DATES* - Submissions due: Friday, August 5th, 2022 EDT - Notifications: Friday, August 26th, 2022 EDT *REGISTRATION* In an effort to provide an open venue for communication and discussion on metrics-related research, we are offering free registration for ASIS&T members and discounted registration fees for non-members this year. *Rate* *Member/Regular* *Member/Student* *Non-member/Regular* *Non-member/Student* Early (by August 12) $0 $0 $25 $10 After August 12 $25 $25 $50 $35 More information on registration rates can be found at https://www.asist.org/am22/22registration/. *ORGANIZERS* - Pei-Ying Chen, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA ( peiychen(a)iu.edu) - Isabelle Dorsch, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany (isabelle.dorsch.hhu.de) - Fei Shu, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou, China; Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada (fei.shu(a)mail.mcgill.ca) *SPONSORS* International Center for the Study of Research <https://www.elsevier.com/icsr> -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Tirthankar Ghosal Researcher at UFAL, Charles University, CZ https://member.acm.org/~tghosal +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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GailBot usage: Jeffersonian annotations for CA
by Andrew Mitchell 21 Jul '22

21 Jul '22

Hi list A bit of a random and potentially off-list query, but has anybody any experience in using GailBot for Jeffersonian annotations and mark ups to facilitate CA on audio transcriptions? If so, please write to me off-list because I'd really appreciate any tips and tricks on how to use it. Cheers Andrew ----- Andrew Mitchell PhD, MSc, MBPsS Course Leader: Engineering Management (H1N171) Module Leader: Engineering Business Environment (ENGT5219) Web of Science Researcher ID: AAT-8116-2021 Agile PM Practitioner: 1000728878 Room QB1.15D , Institute of Energy & Sustainable Development (IESD) Faculty of Computing, Engineering & Media, De Montfort University Leicester LE1 9BH +44(0)116 257 7957 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3946-4094

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Shared Task on Propaganda Detection
by Salam Khalifa 21 Jul '22

21 Jul '22

Hello All, We are pleased to announce the *Propaganda Detection in Arabic Social Media Text* shared task as part of the Workshop on Arabic NLP WANLP2022 <https://sites.google.com/view/wanlp2022/>. *Summary:* Propaganda is defined as an expression of opinion or action by individuals or groups deliberately designed to influence the opinions or actions of other individuals or groups with reference to predetermined ends. This is achieved by means of well-defined rhetorical and psychological devices. Currently, propaganda (or persuasion) techniques have been commonly used on social media to manipulate or mislead social media users. More detail on the techniques can be found here: https://propaganda.qcri.org/annotations/definitions.html. The goal of the shared task is to build models for identifying such techniques in Arabic social media text (specifically tweets). *Organizers:* Firoj Alam, Hamdy Mubarak, Wajdi Zaghouani, Preslav Nakov, and Giovanni Da San Martino. To find more information about the shared task please visit: https://sites.google.com/view/propaganda-detection-in-arabic Looking forward to your participation, Salam Khalifa (On behalf of the WANLP publicity chairs) -- *Salam Khalifa* *PhD Student* *Linguistics Department* *Institute for Advanced Computational Science (IACS)* *Stony Brook University* salam.khalifa(a)stonybrook.edu

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Shared Task on Gender Rewriting [Registration Deadline August 7th]
by Salam Khalifa 20 Jul '22

20 Jul '22

Hello All, We are pleased to announce the *Gender Rewriting* shared task as part of the Workshop on Arabic NLP WANLP2022 <https://sites.google.com/view/wanlp2022/>. *Summary:* The task of gender rewriting refers to generating alternatives to a given sentence to match different target user gender contexts (e.g., a female speaker with a male listener, a male speaker with a male listener, etc.). This requires changing the grammatical gender (masculine or feminine) of certain words referring to the users (speaker/1st person and listener/2nd person). In this task, we focus on Arabic, a gender-marking morphologically rich language. The task of gender rewriting was introduced by Alhafni et al. (2022). *Organizers: *Bashar Alhafni, Ossama Obeid, Houda Bouamor, and Nizar Habash. To find more information about the shared task please visit: https://sites.google.com/view/arabic-gender-rewriting/ Looking forward to your participation, Salam Khalifa (On behalf of the WANLP publicity chairs) -- *Salam Khalifa* *PhD Student* *Linguistics Department* *Institute for Advanced Computational Science (IACS)* *Stony Brook University* salam.khalifa(a)stonybrook.edu

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3rd CFP - SIMBig 2022, Peru (AI, Data Science, NLP, ML)
by Juan Antonio Lossio-Ventura 20 Jul '22

20 Jul '22

> [Apologies for cross-posting] > > ================================================================= > 3rd CALL FOR PAPERS - SIMBig 2022 > ================================================================= > > SIMBig 2022 - 9th International Conference on Information Management and Big Data > Where: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, PERU > When: November 16 - 18, 2022 > Website: http://simbig.org/SIMBig2022/ <http://simbig.org/SIMBig2022/> > > ================================================================= > > OVERVIEW > ---------------------------------- > > SIMBig 2022 seeks to present new methods of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data Science, and related fields, for analyzing, managing, and extracting insights and patterns from large volumes of data. > > > KEYNOTE SPEAKERS > ------------- > > Leman Akoglu, Carnegie Mellon University, USA > Jiang Bian, University of Florida, USA > Rich Caruana, Microsoft, USA > Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Amazon Alexa AI, USA > Monica Lam, Stanford University, USA > Wang-Chiew Tan, Facebook AI, USA > Andrew Tomkins, Google, USA > Bin Yu, University of California, Berkeley, USA > > IMPORTANT DATES > ------------- > > August 05, 2022 --> Papers submission deadline > September 09, 2022 --> Notification of acceptance > October 07, 2022 --> Camera-ready versions > November 16 - 18, 2022 --> Conference held in Lima, Peru > > PUBLICATION AND TRAVEL AWARDS > ------------- > > All accepted papers of SIMBig 2022 (tracks including) will be published with Springer CCIS Series <https://www.springer.com/series/7899>. > > > The best 8-10 papers of SIMBig 2022 (tracks including) will be selected to submit an extension to be published with the Springer SN Computer Science Journal. <https://www.springer.com/journal/42979> > > Thanks to the support of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) <http://naacl.org/>, SIMBig 2022 will offer 4 student travel awards for the best papers. > > > > TOPICS OF INTEREST > ------------- > > SIMBig 2022 has a broad scope. We invite contributions on theory and practice, including but not limited to the following technical areas: > > Artificial Intelligence > Data Science > Machine Learning > Natural Language Processing > Semantic Web > Healthcare Informatics > Biomedical Informatics > Data Privacy and Security > Information Retrieval > Ontologies and Knowledge Representation > Social Networks and Social Web > Information Visualization > OLAP and Business intelligence > Data-driven Software Engineering > > SPECIAL TRACKS > ------------- > > SIMBig 2022 proposes three special tracks in addition to the main conference: > > ANLP <https://simbig.org/SIMBig2022/en/anlp.html> - Applied Natural Language Processing > DISE <https://simbig.org/SIMBig2022/en/dise.html> - Data-drIven Software Engineering > SNMAM <https://simbig.org/SIMBig2022/en/snmam.html> - Social Network and Media Analysis and Mining > > CONTACT > ------------- > > SIMBig 2022 General Chairs > > Juan Antonio Lossio-Ventura, National Institutes of Health, USA (juan.lossio(a)nih.gov <mailto:juan.lossio@nih.gov>) > Hugo Alatrista-Salas, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Peru (halatrista(a)pucp.pe <mailto:halatrista@pucp.pe>) >

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PhD position in NLP/ML (Munich+Vienna)
by Benjamin Roth 20 Jul '22

20 Jul '22

The research group Data Mining and Machine Learning at the University of Vienna, in a continued collaboration with the Volkswagen Natural Language Processing Expert Center in Munich, is looking for graduates or advanced MSc students in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Statistics, or related fields, that are interested in doing a PhD in Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing. The PhD candidate would be expected to be located in Munich for the duration of the doctoral project. Please contact Prof. Benjamin Roth, Univ. of Vienna, (benjamin.roth(a)univie.ac.at, use subject "ml nlp phd", please include a short CV) to learn more about this opportunity. -- Univ.-Prof. Dr. Benjamin Roth Digitale Textwissenschaften Universität Wien Kolingasse 14 Raum 5.17 1090 Wien email: benjamin.roth(a)univie.ac.at tel: +43 14277 79513 video call: https://univienna.zoom.us/j/93796507934?pwd=VFg5dW9JbStPUml6WFVtOWJXV3phQT09 web: https://dm.cs.univie.ac.at/team/person/112089/

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[2nd CfP] Shared Task on Detecting Entities in the Astrophysics Literature (DEAL) at AACL-IJCNLP 2022
by Tirthankar Ghosal 20 Jul '22

20 Jul '22

***Shared Task: Detecting Entities in the Astrophysics Literature (DEAL)*** ***Website: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/WIESP/2022/SharedTasks *** ***Twitter: https://twitter.com/wiesp_nlp *** A good amount of astrophysics research makes use of data coming from missions and facilities such as ground observatories in remote locations or space telescopes, as well as digital archives that hold large amounts of observed and simulated data. These missions and facilities are frequently named after historical figures or use some ingenious acronym which, unfortunately, can be easily confused when searching for them in the literature via simple string matching. For instance, Planck can refer to the person, the mission, the constant, or several institutions. Automatically recognizing entities such as missions or facilities would help tackle this word sense disambiguation problem. The shared task consists of Named Entity recognition (NER) on samples of text extracted from astrophysics publications. The labels were created by domain experts and designed to identify entities of interest to the astrophysics community. They range from simple to detect (ex: URLs) to highly unstructured (ex: Formula), and from useful to researchers (ex: Telescope) to more useful to archivists and administrators (ex: Grant). Overall 31 different labels are included, and their distribution is highly unbalanced (ex: ~100x more Citations than Proposals). Submissions will be scored using both the CoNLL-2000 shared task seqeval F1-Score at the entity level, and scikit-learn's Matthews correlation coefficient method at the token level. We also encourage authors to propose their own evaluation metrics. A sample dataset and more instructions can be found at: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/WIESP/2022/SharedTasks Participants (individuals or groups) will have the opportunity to present their findings during the workshop and write a short paper. The best performant or interesting approaches might be invited to further collaborate with the NASA Astrophysics Data System ( https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/). The DEAL shared task is a part of the *1st Workshop on Information Extraction from Scientific Publications (WIESP) at AACL-IJCNLP 2022: * https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/WIESP/2022/ ***Please fill in this form to report your intention to participate in the shared task*** https://forms.office.com/r/KKpeKJBLy3 ***Shared Task Submission*** Link to data and scoring scripts: https://huggingface.co/datasets/fgrezes/WIESP2022-NER CodaLab Link to the online competition : https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/5062 ***Important Dates*** - Training+Validation Data Release: June 1, 2022 - Validation Phase: June 1 - July 31, 2022 - Test Data Release: August 1, 2022 - Final Scoring Period: August 1 - August 10, 2022 - System Report Submission: August 25, 2022 - Notification: September 25, 2022 - Camera-ready Submission Deadline: October 10, 2022 - Event Date: November 20, 2022 (online) ***All submission deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h (“Anywhere on Earth”)*** ***Organizers*** - Tirthankar Ghosal <https://elitr.eu/tirthankar-ghosal>, Charles University, CZ - Sergi Blanco-Cuaresma <https://www.blancocuaresma.com/s/>, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, USA - Alberto Accomazzi <https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/about/team/team/aaccomazzi.html>, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, USA - Robert M. Patton <https://www.ornl.gov/staff-profile/robert-m-patton>, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Felix Grezes <https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/about/team/team/fgrezes.html>, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, USA - Thomas Allen <https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/about/team/team/tallen.html>, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, USA -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Tirthankar Ghosal Researcher at UFAL, Charles University, CZ https://member.acm.org/~tghosal +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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Entity Taggers
by Kims Shady 20 Jul '22

20 Jul '22

Hye all I need to tag entities and relationships between them in an English language corpus. Can someone please help which tool i am supposed to use for this? Any help would be appreciated. Regards

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Final call for papers: LoResMT 2022 (The 5th Workshop on Technologies for MT of Low-Resource Languages)
by Atul K. Ojha 20 Jul '22

20 Jul '22

___Apologies for cross-posting__ The Fifth Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low Resource Languages (LoResMT 2022) https://sites.google.com/view/loresmt @ COLING 2022 Gyeongju, Republic of Korea, October 12-17, 2022 SUBMISSION https://www.softconf.com/coling2022/LoResMT_2022/ TIMELINE *Submission Open Until*: *July 30, 2022 (Saturday) at 23:59 (Anywhere on Earth)* *Notification of acceptance: *August 22, 2022 (Monday) *Camera-ready papers due:* September 5, 2022 (Monday) *LoResMT workshop:* October 16, 2022 (online on Sunday at UTC+9) *COLING 2022: *October 12-17, 2022 SCOPE Based on the success of past low-resource machine translation (MT) workshops at AMTA 2018 (https://amtaweb.org/), MT Summit 2019 ( https://www.mtsummit2019.com), AACL-IJCNLP 2020 (http://aacl2020.org/), and AMTA 2021, we introduce the Fifth LoResMT workshop at COLING 2022. The workshop provides a discussion panel for researchers working on MT systems/methods for low-resource and under-represented languages in general. We would like to help review/overview the state of MT for low-resource languages and define the most important directions. We also solicit papers dedicated to supplementary NLP tools that are used in any language and especially in low-resource languages. Overview papers of these NLP tools are very welcome. It will be beneficial if the evaluations of these tools in research papers include their impact on the quality of MT output. TOPICS We are highly interested in (1) original research papers, (2) review/opinion papers, and (3) online systems on the topics below; however, we welcome all novel ideas that cover research on low-resource languages. - COVID-related corpora, their translations and corresponding NLP/MT systems - Neural machine translation for low-resource languages - Work that presents online systems for practical use by native speakers - Word tokenizers/de-tokenizers for specific languages - Word/morpheme segmenters for specific languages - Alignment/Re-ordering tools for specific language pairs - Use of morphology analyzers and/or morpheme segmenters in MT - Multilingual/cross-lingual NLP tools for MT - Corpora creation and curation technologies for low-resource languages - Review of available parallel corpora for low-resource languages - Research and review papers of MT methods for low-resource languages - MT systems/methods (e.g. rule-based, SMT, NMT) for low-resource languages - Pivot MT for low-resource languages - Zero-shot MT for low-resource languages - Fast building of MT systems for low-resource languages - Re-usability of existing MT systems for low-resource languages - Machine translation for language preservation SUBMISSION INFORMATION We are soliciting two types of submissions: (1) research, review, and position papers and (2) system demonstration papers. For research, review and position papers, the length of each paper should be at least four (4) and not exceed eight (8) pages, plus unlimited pages for references. For system demonstration papers, the limit is four (4) pages. Submissions should be formatted according to the official COLING 2022 style templates (LaTeX, Word, Overleaf). Accepted papers will be published online in the COLING 2022 proceedings and will be presented at the conference. Submissions must be anonymized and should be done using the official conference management system ( https://www.softconf.com/coling2022/LoResMT_2022/). Scientific papers that have been or will be submitted to other venues must be declared as such and must be withdrawn from the other venues if accepted and published at LoResMT. The review will be double-blind. We would like to encourage authors to cite papers written in ANY language that are related to the topics, as long as both original bibliographic items and their corresponding English translations are provided. Registration is handled by the main conference ( https://coling2022.org/coling). ORGANIZING COMMITTEE (LISTED ALPHABETICALLY) Atul Kr. Ojha, DSI, National University of Ireland Galway & Panlingua Language Processing LLP Chao-Hong Liu, Potamu Research Ltd Ekaterina Vylomova, University of Melbourne, Australia Jade Abbott, Retro Rabbit Jonathan Washington, Swarthmore College Nathaniel Oco, National University (Philippines) Tommi A Pirinen, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø Valentin Malykh, Huawei Noah’s Ark lab and Kazan Federal University Varvara Logacheva, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology Xiaobing Zhao, Minzu University of China PROGRAM COMMITTEE (LISTED ALPHABETICALLY) Alberto Poncelas, Rakuten, Singapore Alina Karakanta, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Amirhossein Tebbifakhr, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Anna Currey, Amazon Web Services Aswarth Abhilash Dara, Amazon Arturo Oncevay, University of Edinburgh Atul Kr. Ojha, DSI, National University of Ireland Galway & Panlingua Language Processing LLP Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, DSI, National University of Ireland Galway Beatrice Savold, University of Trento Bogdan Babych, Heidelberg University Chao-Hong Liu, Potamu Research Ltd Duygu Ataman, University of Zurich Ekaterina Vylomova, University of Melbourne, Australia Eleni Metheniti, CLLE-CNRS and IRIT-CNRS Francis Tyers, Indiana University Kalika Bali, MSRI Bangalore, India Koel Dutta Chowdhury, Saarland University (Germany) Jade Abbott, Retro Rabbit Jasper Kyle Catapang, University of the Philippines John P. McCrae, DSI, National University of Ireland Galway Liangyou Li, Noah’s Ark Lab, Huawei Technologies Maria Art Antonette Clariño, University of the Philippines Los Baños Mathias Müller, University of Zurich Nathaniel Oco, National University (Philippines) Rico Sennrich, University of Zurich Sangjee Dondrub, Qinghai Normal University Santanu Pal, WIPRO AI Sardana Ivanova, University of Helsinki Shantipriya Parida, Silo AI Sina Ahmadi, DSI, National University of Ireland Galway Sunit Bhattacharya, Charles University Surafel Melaku Lakew, Amazon AI Tommi A Pirinen, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø Wen Lai, Center for Information and Language Processing, LMU Munich Valentin Malykh, Huawei Noah’s Ark lab and Kazan Federal University CONTACT Please email loresmt(a)googlegroups.com if you have any questions/comments/suggestions. PROCEEDINGS Proceedings of LoResMT 2021 Workshop https://aclanthology.org/volumes/2021.mtsummit-loresmt/ Proceedings of LoResMT 2020 Workshop https://aclanthology.org/volumes/2020.loresmt-1/ Proceedings of LoResMT 2019 Workshop https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W19-6800 Slides of LoResMT 2018 Workshop presentations https://sites.google.com/view/loresmt-2018/ Proceedings of LoResMT 2018 Workshop https://amtaweb.org/amta-2018-proceedings-for-the-conference-workshops-and-…

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Shared Task on Lexical Simplification for English, Portuguese and Spanish / TSAR-2022 @EMNLP2022
by Horacio Saggion 20 Jul '22

20 Jul '22

Shared Task on Lexical Simplification for English, Portuguese and Spanish In conjunction with the TSAR-2022 Workshop @EMNLP2022 *** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION *** Lexical Simplification is the process of reducing the lexical complexity of a text by replacing difficult words with easier to read (or understand) expressions while preserving the original information and meaning. Lexical Simplification (LS) aims at facilitating reading comprehension to different target readerships such as foreign language learners, native speakers with low literacy levels, second language learners or people with different kinds of reading impairments. This new Lexical Simplification Shared Task features three similar datasets in three different languages: English, Brazilian Portuguese, and Spanish. Definition of the task Given a sentence containing a complex word, systems should return an ordered list of “simpler” valid substitutes for the complex word in its original context. The list of simpler words (up to a maximum of 10) returned by the system should be ordered by the confidence the system has in its prediction (best predictions first). The ordered list must not contain ties. An instance of the task for the English language is: 1. “That prompted the military to deploy its largest warship, the BRP Gregorio del Pilar, which was recently acquired from the United States.” Complex word: deploy For this instance a system may suggest the following ranked substitutes: send, move, position, redeploy, employ, situate… Systems should only produce simplifications that are good contextual fits (semantically and syntactically). Participating teams can register (details below) for three different tracks, one per language. * English monolingual (EN) * Portuguese (Brazilian) monolingual (PT-BR) * Spanish monolingual (ES) It is possible to participate in one, two or all three tracks. Participating teams will be allowed to submit up to 3 runs per track. Data The three datasets (trial data with gold annotations and test data without gold annotations)and the evaluation script will be available through a GitHub repository. There is no training dataset. However, a sample of 10 or 12 instances with gold standard annotations will be provided. Note that participating teams are allowed to use any other lexical simplification datasets or resources for developing their systems. Test data with gold annotations will also be released via the same GitHub repository at the end of the evaluation period. Evaluation Metrics The evaluation metrics to be applied in the TSAR-2022 Shared Task are the following: MAP@K (Mean Average Precision @ K): K={1,3,5,10}. The MAP@K metric is used commonly for evaluating Information Retrieval models and Recommender Systems. For this Lexical Simplification task, instead of using a ranked list of relevant and irrelevant documents to evaluate our ranking output, we use a ranked list of predicted substitutes, which can be matched (relevant) and not matched (irrelevant) terms against the set of the gold-standard annotations for evaluation. The traditional Precision metric, in the context of Lexical Simplification, can be used to see how many of the predicted substitutes are relevant. But precision fails to capture the order in which correctly predicted substitutes are. Mean Average Precision is designed to work for binary relevance: candidates that match or not in the list of gold annotations. So MAP@K for Lexical Simplification evaluates the following aspects: 1) are the predicted substitutes relevant?, and 2) are the predicted substitutes at the top positions? Potential@K: K={1,3,5,10}. The percentage of instances for which at least one of the substitutions predicted is present in the set of gold annotations. Accuracy@K@top1: K={1,2,3}. The ratio of instances where at least one of the K top predicted candidates matches the most frequently suggested synonym/s in the gold list of annotated candidates. Note 1: Potential@1/MAP@1/Precision@1 will give the same value. Note 2: The exact computation of the metrics will be provided in the official evaluation script. Publication Participating teams will be invited to submit system description papers (four pages with an unlimited number of pages for references) which will be peer-reviewed by at least 2 reviewers (at least one member of each participating team will be required to help with the review process) and papers will be published in the TSAR-2022 Workshop proceedings. The submissions will be via SoftConf and details for submission will be communicated to registered teams in due time. Important dates * Registration opens: July 19th, 2022 * Release of sample/trial instances with gold annotations: July 20th, 2022 * Release of evaluation metrics and code: July 22th, 2022 * Registration deadline: September 7, 2022 * Test set release (without gold annotations): September 8, 2022 * Submissions of systems' output due: September 15, 2022 * Official results announced: September 30, 2022 * Test set release (wit gold annotations): September 30, 2022 * Submission of Shared Tasks papers deadline: October 15, 2022 * Shared Task Papers Reviews due: November 1, 2022 * Camera-ready deadline for Shared-task papers: November 10, 2022 * TSAR Workshop and Shared Task: December 8, 2022 Registering your team: Please access this form to register for the TSAR-2022 Shared Task on Lexical Simplification. https://forms.gle/6iNm5cTRueA78ri17 Website and Shared Task Guidelines Please visit the TSAR-2022 Shared Task website to obtain further information about the Guidelines, Datasets, and team registration. https://taln.upf.edu/pages/tsar2022-st Organisers * Horacio Saggion, Chair in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence and Head of the LaSTUS Lab in the TALN-DTIC, Universitat Pompeu Fabra * Sanja Štajner, Senior Research Scientist and R&D Application Manager at Symanto Research * Matthew Shardlow, Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University * Marcos Zampieri, Assistant Professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology * Daniel Ferrés, Post-Doctoral Research Assistant at LaSTUS Lab. at TALN-DTIC, Universitat Pompeu Fabra * Kai North, PhD student at the Rochester Institute of Technology * Kim Cheng Sheang, PhD student at LaSTUS Lab. at TALN-DTIC, Universitat Pompeu Fabra -- Professor Horacio Saggion Head of the Large Scale Text Understanding Systems Lab Full Professor / Chair in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence TALN / DTIC Universitat Pompeu Fabra [image: https://twitter.com/h_saggion] [image: https://www.linkedin.com/in/horacio-saggion-1749b916]

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[CfP] 2nd SummDial: A SemDial 2022 Special Session on Summarization of Dialogues and Multi-Party Meetings
by Tirthankar Ghosal 20 Jul '22

20 Jul '22

Dear Colleague, We cordially invite you to participate and submit your paper in the 2nd SummDial @ SemDial 2022 ( https://elitr.github.io/automatic-minuting/summdial-2022.html). The First SummDial special session was held at SIGDial 2021 and witnessed enthusiastic participation from the dialogue, summarization, NLP, and speech communities. https://elitr.github.io/automatic-minuting/summdial.html https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3527546.3527561 (Report on SummDial @ SIGDial 2021) The second SummDial would be held as a hybrid session at SemDial 2022 ( https://semdial2022.github.io/). Papers accepted in SummDial will appear in the SemDial Anthology (http://semdial.org/anthology/venues/semdial/). ***2nd SummDial: A SemDial 2022 <https://semdial2022.github.io/#> Special Session on Summarization of Dialogues and Multi-Party Meetings*** ***Website: https://elitr.github.io/automatic-minuting/summdial-2022.html *** ***Submission Deadline: August 1, 2022 *** ***Event Date: August 24, 2022 *** With a sizeable working population of the world going virtual, resulting in information overload from multiple online meetings, imagine how convenient it would be to just hover over past calendar invites and get concise summaries of the meeting proceedings? How about automatically minuting a multimodal multi-party meeting? Are minutes and multi-party dialogue summaries the same? We believe Automatic Minuting is challenging. There are possibly no agreed-upon guidelines for taking minutes, and people adopt different styles to record meeting minutes. The minutes also depend on the meeting's category, the intended audience, and the goal or objective of the meeting. We hosted the First SummDial Special Session at SIGDial 2021. Several significant problems and challenges in multi-party dialogue and meeting summarization came from the discussions in the first SummDial, which we documented in our event report <https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3527546.3527561>. Since we witnessed enthusiastic participation of the dialogue and summarization community in the first SummDial special session <https://elitr.github.io/automatic-minuting/summdial.html> ( https://elitr.github.io/automatic-minuting/summdial.html), we are hosting the Second SummDial special session at SemDial 2022 <https://semdial2022.github.io/#> (https://semdial2022.github.io/#). This year, we intend to continue discussing these challenges and lessons learned from the previous SummDial. Our goal for this special session would be to stimulate intense discussions around this topic and set the tone for further interest, research, and collaboration in both Speech and Natural Language Processing communities. Our topics of interest are Dialogue Summarization, including but not limited to Meeting Summarization, Chat Summarization, Email Threads Summarization, Customer Service Summarization, Medical Dialogue Summarziation, and Multi-modal Dialogue Summarization. Our shared task on Automatic Minuting (AutoMin) at Interspeech 2021 ( https://elitr.github.io/automatic-minuting/) was another community effort in this direction. ***Call for papers*** We invite regular and work-in-progress papers that report: - Current research in multi-party dialogue summarization for summarizing meetings, spoken dialogue, using speech, text, or multi-modal data (audio, video), - Challenges in dialogue summarization evaluation (manual + automatic), - New methods and metrics for dialogue summarization evaluation, - Relevant corpus collection, pre-processing, development, and ethical issues involved, - Compare and contrast speech-specific systems to systems imported from text summarization, - Tools for meeting transcript generation and automatic summarization, - Topic detection and span identification in meeting transcripts for multi-topic summarization, - Position papers to reflect on the current state of the art in this topic, to take stock of where we have been, where we are, where we are going and where we should go. Researchers may choose to submit: - ***Long papers*** Authors should submit an anonymous paper of at most 8 pages of content (up to 2 additional pages are allowed for references). - ***Short papers*** Authors should submit a non-anonymized paper of at most 2 pages of content (up to 1 additional page allowed for references). Submissions to this track can be non-archival on request. - ***Position Papers*** Including extended abstracts, work-in-progress, and late-breaking papers. ***Submission Link*** https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=summdial2022 Submissions should follow the ACL format. Papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications must provide this information using a footnote on the title page of the submissions. SummDial 2022 cannot accept work for a publication that will be (or has been) published elsewhere. ***Special Session Program*** The special session would consist of a keynote, a panel, oral and/or poster paper presentations. ***Organizers*** - Tirthankar Ghosal <https://elitr.eu/tirthankar-ghosal/>, Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Charles University, Czech Republic - Muskaan Singh, IDIAP, Switzerland - Xinnou Xu, University of Edinburgh, UK - Ondřej Bojar <https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/ondrej-bojar>, Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics, Charles University, Czech Republic -- Tirthankar Ghosal, Researcher, EU H2020 Project ELITR <https://elitr.eu/> and NEUREM3 <https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/grants/neurem3> Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics <https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/home-page>, Charles University <https://cuni.cz/uken-1.html>, Czech Republic https://member.acm.org/~tghosal

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TreeTagger for the Mac M1 chip?
by Tony Berber-Sardinha 19 Jul '22

19 Jul '22

Dear all I was wondering if anyone would have a version of the TreeTagger that can run on machines with the new M1 chip? I tried to run the tagger on an M1 Mac using the Mac version available on the tagger site, but the response was ‘bad CPU architecture’, which I think is because that version is for the Intel chip only. Thank you ahead ! Tony tonycorpuslg(a)gmail.com — PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO -- PUC-SP GRADUATE PROGRAM IN APPLIED LINGUISTICS *** LAEL 52 YEARS *** (he/him/his) Tony Berber Sardinha Deputy coordinator LAEL, Graduate Program in Applied Linguistics Coordinator CEPRIL, Center for Language Research, Resources and Information Rua Monte Alegre 984, sala 4B02, São Paulo, SP 05014-901 Brazil Tel.: +55 (11) 3670-8374 E-mail: tony(a)pucsp.br | www2.lael.pucsp.br — Disclaimer This message is reserved and its disclosure, distribution, reproduction or any other form of use is prohibited and shall depend upon previous proper authorization. The sender uses the electronic mail in the exercise of his/her work or by virtue thereof, and the institution accepts no liability for its undue use. If you have received this e-mail by mistake, please delete it immediately.

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2nd CfP Third workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL)
by Menno Van Zaanen 19 Jul '22

19 Jul '22

Second call for papers Third workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Language (RAIL) https://bit.ly/rail2022 The South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR) is organising the 3rd RAIL workshop in the field of Resources for African Indigenous Languages. This workshop aims to bring together researchers who are interested in showcasing their research and thereby boosting the field of African indigenous languages. This provides an overview of the current state-of-the-art and emphasizes availability of African indigenous language resources, including both data and tools. Additionally, it will allow for information sharing among researchers interested in African indigenous languages and also start discussions on improving the quality and availability of the resources. Many African indigenous languages currently have no or very limited resources available and, additionally, they are often structurally quite different from more well-resourced languages, requiring the development and use of specialized techniques. By bringing together researchers from different fields (e.g., (computational) linguistics, sociolinguistics, language technology) to discuss the development of language resources for African indigenous languages, we hope to boost research in this field. The RAIL workshop is an interdisciplinary platform for researchers working on resources (data collections, tools, etc.) specifically targeted towards African indigenous languages. It aims to create the conditions for the emergence of a scientific community of practice that focuses on data, as well as tools, specifically designed for or applied to indigenous languages found in Africa. Suggested topics include 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 The 3rd RAIL workshop 2022 will be co-located with the 10th Southern African Microlinguistics Workshop ( https://sites.google.com/nwulettere.co.za/samwop-10/home). This will be an in-person event located in Potchefstroom, South Africa. Registration will be free. RAIL 2022 submission requirements: * RAIL asks for full papers from 4 pages to 8 pages (plus more pages for references if needed), which must strictly follow the Journal of the Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa style guide ( https://upjournals.up.ac.za/index.php/dhasa/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/30 ). * Accepted submissions will be published in JDHASA, the Journal of the Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa ( https://upjournals.up.ac.za/index.php/dhasa/). * Papers will be double blind peer-reviewed and must be submitted through EasyChair (https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=rail2022). Important dates Submission deadline: 28 August 2022 Date of notification: 30 September 2022 Camera ready copy deadline: 23 October 2022 RAIL: 30 November 2022, North-West University - Potchefstroom SAMWOP: 1 – 3 December 2021, North-West University - Potchefstroom Organising Committee Jessica Mabaso Rooweither Mabuya Muzi Matfunjwa Mmasibidi Setaka 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 CORONA VIRUS: http://www.nwu.ac.za/coronavirus/ 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. Any unauthorised review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you have received the e-mail by mistake, please contact the sender or reply e-mail and delete the e-mail and its attachments (where appropriate) from your system. ________________________________

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Job opening: Computational linguist
by Menno Van Zaanen 19 Jul '22

19 Jul '22

Computational Linguist Purpose of the position: As a Computational Linguist at the South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR) you will have the opportunity to initiate and lead Human Language Technology and Digital Humanities projects stemming from your own research interests. You will work closely with a team of researchers as part of SADiLaR’s extended network, both on your own and commissioned projects. Dissemination of project results at national and international conferences will be encouraged and supported. This position is crucial for research and development in Human Language Technology and Digital Humanities, fields that form the essence of SADiLaR, which is a national Research Infrastructure supported by the Department of Science and Innovation. Minimum Requirements * PhD in one of the following fields: Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, General Linguistics, Human Language Technology, Digital Humanities, Computer Science, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence or related fields with a focus on computational aspects of linguistics. * Applicable experience in the use of Python (recommended). Other programming languages used within the computational linguistics domain can also be considered. * Experience as a supervisor/co-supervisor of students or playing a mentorship/supervising role for individuals. * Evidence of peer-reviewed academic publications. * Advanced computer literacy. Other competency requirements * Ability to work independently or as part of a team. * Ability to effectively liaise and communicate with public, students, colleagues, and other stakeholders at various levels and from diverse backgrounds. * Demonstration of language proficiency in order to function optimally in the various multilingual environments of SADiLaR. Recommendations: * Experience with writing research reports. * Ability to lead research projects. * Evidence of acquiring research funding. * Experience with using and/or developing computational tools. * Experience related to research within the domain of Language Technology or Digital Humanities. * Experience in the presentation of research-based results at national and international conferences. * Experience related to teaching within the domain of Language Technology or Digital Humanities. * Strong interest in the advancement of under-resourced South African languages. Responsibilities: * Research in the area of Human Language Technology and Digital Humanities. * Teaching in the area of Human Language Technology and Digital Humanities. * Initiating and leading Human Language Technology and Digital Humanities projects. * Mentorship of researchers in the field of Computational Linguistics and Digital Humanities. ENQUIRIES: Prof Menno van Zaanen, menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za CLOSING DATE: 29 July 2022 COMMENCEMENT OF DUTIES: As soon as possible TO APPLY: https://bit.ly/3yQqcnd -- 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 CORONA VIRUS: http://www.nwu.ac.za/coronavirus/ 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. Any unauthorised review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you have received the e-mail by mistake, please contact the sender or reply e-mail and delete the e-mail and its attachments (where appropriate) from your system. ________________________________

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Cancelled event: ALTA abstract presentation @ Sun 2 Oct 2022 (corpora@list.elra.info)
by dai.xiang.au＠gmail.com 19 Jul '22

19 Jul '22

This event has been cancelled. ALTA abstract presentation Sunday 2 Oct 2022 Join with Google Meet https://meet.google.com/vnf-axwm-htx?hs=224 ******************************************************************************************* 20th Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA 2022) ** Flinders University, Adelaide ** 14th - 16th December 2022 http://alta2022.alta.asn.au/ ******************************************************************************************* Important Dates Submission Deadline (short and long papers): 30 September, 2022 Submission Deadline (presentation abstracts) 7 October, 2022 Author Notification: 7 November, 2022 Camera-Ready Deadline: 15 November, 2022 Tutorials: 14 December, 2022 Main Conference: 15-16 December, 2022 Submission deadlines are UTC-11 Overview The 20th Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association will be held in a hybrid format at Flinders University, Adelaide, from the 14th to the 16th of December 2022. The hybrid format gives participants a v... Organiser dai.xiang.au(a)gmail.com dai.xiang.au(a)gmail.com ~~//~~ Invitation from Google Calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ You are receiving this email because you are an attendee of the event. To stop receiving future updates for this event, decline this event. Forwarding this invitation could allow any recipient to send a response to the organiser, be added to the guest list, invite others regardless of their own invitation status or modify your RSVP. Learn more https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37135#forwarding

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Invitation: ALTA abstract presentation @ Sun 2 Oct 2022 (corpora@list.elra.info)
by dai.xiang.au＠gmail.com 19 Jul '22

19 Jul '22

ALTA abstract presentation Sunday 2 Oct 2022 Join with Google Meet https://meet.google.com/vnf-axwm-htx?hs=224 ******************************************************************************************* 20th Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA 2022) ** Flinders University, Adelaide ** 14th - 16th December 2022 http://alta2022.alta.asn.au/ ******************************************************************************************* Important Dates Submission Deadline (short and long papers): 30 September, 2022 Submission Deadline (presentation abstracts) 7 October, 2022 Author Notification: 7 November, 2022 Camera-Ready Deadline: 15 November, 2022 Tutorials: 14 December, 2022 Main Conference: 15-16 December, 2022 Submission deadlines are UTC-11 Overview The 20th Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association will be held in a hybrid format at Flinders University, Adelaide, from the 14th to the 16th of December 2022. The hybrid format gives participants a v... Organiser dai.xiang.au(a)gmail.com dai.xiang.au(a)gmail.com Guests dai.xiang.au(a)gmail.com- organiser pradeesh(a)cs.otago.ac.nz corpora(a)list.elra.info View all guest info https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=VIEW&eid=MG90cXJidWU2ODg5… Reply for corpora(a)list.elra.info and view more details https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=VIEW&eid=MG90cXJidWU2ODg5… Your attendance is optional. ~~//~~ Invitation from Google Calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ You are receiving this email because you are an attendee of the event. To stop receiving future updates for this event, decline this event. Forwarding this invitation could allow any recipient to send a response to the organiser, be added to the guest list, invite others regardless of their own invitation status or modify your RSVP. Learn more https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37135#forwarding

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[Second Call for Papers] Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA 2022) Hybrid Workshop
by pradeesh＠cs.otago.ac.nz 19 Jul '22

19 Jul '22

******************************************************************************************* 20th Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA 2022) ** Flinders University, Adelaide ** 14th - 16th December 2022 http://alta2022.alta.asn.au/ ******************************************************************************************* Important Dates Submission Deadline (short and long papers): 30 September, 2022 Submission Deadline (presentation abstracts) 7 October, 2022 Author Notification: 7 November, 2022 Camera-Ready Deadline: 15 November, 2022 Tutorials: 14 December, 2022 Main Conference: 15-16 December, 2022 Submission deadlines are UTC-11 Overview The 20th Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association will be held in a hybrid format at Flinders University, Adelaide, from the 14th to the 16th of December 2022. The hybrid format gives participants a valuable opportunity to socialise either in-person or via online platform. The ALTA 2022 workshop is the key local forum for socialising research results in natural language processing and computational linguistics, with presentations and posters from students, industry, and academic researchers. Like previous years, we would also like to encourage submissions and participation from industry and government researchers and developers. Note that ALTA is listed in recently updated CORE 2021 Conference Rankings as Australasian B. See details from CORE Rankings Portal. Topics ALTA invites the submission of papers and presentations on all aspects of natural language processing, including, but not limited to: phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and discourse speech recognition, understanding and generation interpreting spoken and written language natural language generation linguistic, mathematical, and psychological models of language NLP-based information extraction and retrieval corpus-based and statistical language modelling machine translation and translation aids question answering and information extraction natural language interfaces and dialogue systems natural language and multimodal systems message and narrative understanding systems evaluations of language systems embodied conversational agents computational lexicography summarisation language resources topic modelling, semantics and ontology unsupervised language learning and analysis social media analysis and processing search and information retrieval domain-specific adaptation of natural language processing algorithms applied natural language processing and/or applications in industry We particularly encourage submissions that broaden the scope of our community through the consideration of practical applications of language technology and through multi-disciplinary research. We also specifically encourage submissions from industry. Format We invite submissions of two different formats: (1) Original Research Papers and (2) Abstract-based Presentations. (1) Original Research Papers We invite the submission of papers on original and unpublished research on all aspects of natural language processing. Long papers should be 6-8 pages and short papers should be 3-4 pages. Accepted papers will either be delivered as an oral presentation or as a poster presentation. Both short and long papers may include unlimited pages of references in addition to the page count requirements. Note that the review process is double-blind, and accordingly submitted papers should not include the identity of author(s) and the text should be suitably anonymised, e.g. using third person wording for self-citations, not providing URLs to your person website, etc. Original research papers will be included in the workshop proceedings, which will be published online in the ACL anthology and the ALTA website. Long papers will be distinguished from short papers in the proceedings. (2) Abstract-based Presentations To encourage broader participation and facilitate local socialisation of international results, we invite 1-2 page presentation abstracts. The organisers may offer the opportunity to give an oral presentation or a poster presentation. Submissions should include presentation title and abstract, name of the presenter, any publications relating to the work, and any information on collaboration with the local ALTA community. Abstracts will not be published in the proceedings, but simply reviewed by the ALTA executive committee to ensure that they are on topic, coherent and likely to be of interest to the ALTA community. Abstracts on work in progress and work published or submitted elsewhere are encouraged. ALTA invites submissions of all manner interesting research, not limited to, but including: established academics giving an overview of an exciting paper or paper/s published in international venues; completing research students giving an overview of their thesis work; early candidature research students presenting their work-in-progress and ideas, which may not have been published; and industry presenting research and development over linguistic data in the context of their business. Presentation abstracts should not be anonymised, any publications relating to the work should be cited in the submission, and the person who will give the presentation should be clearly stated. Multiple Submission Policy Original research papers that are under review for other publication venues or that you intend to submit elsewhere may be submitted in parallel to ALTA. We require that you declare at submission that your paper is submitted to another venue, and identify the venue. Should your paper be accepted to both ALTA and another venue, we allow you to decide whether the paper should be published in the ALTA proceedings, or if it should be treated as a Presentation (without archival publication). In this case you would still be able to present a research talk at the ALTA workshop. This is to encourage more internationally leading research to be presented at the workshop. Instructions for AuthorsPaper Submission Authors should submit their papers via Easychair. There are 3 tracks in EasyChair this year: ALTA 2022 (Long) – use this for long papers ALTA 2022 (Short) – use this for short papers ALTA 2022 (Abstracts) – use this for abstracts Formatting Guidelines Submissions must follow the two-column ACL format. We therefore strongly recommend you use LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word template. Paper Length Long papers should be 6-8 pages Short papers should be 3-4 pages Abstracts ideally should be a few paragraphs and no more than 2 pages Anonymisation Short and long papers must be anonymised. Abstracts are NOT to be anonymised and must include the author's/authors' affiliation

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Open research position in NLP at Uni Würzburg
by Goran Glavaš 18 Jul '22

18 Jul '22

The Natural Language Processing Chair at JMU Würzburg (WüNLP) as a member of the Center for AI and Data Science (CAIDAS: https://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/caidas) offers one research position in the area of natural language processing (NLP). The position is bound to a European project EUINACTION ( https://www.euinaction.eu/), carried out in collaboration with two Political Science research groups, at the University of Leiden and the University of Strathclyde. The candidate's role in the project will be to apply and advance state-of-the-art neural NLP to help answer interesting research questions in Political Science. The position is available from 1.10.2022 and is available until the end of the grant, 31.12.2023. There is a possibility of extension, subject to mutual interest and availability of third-party research funding. Payment is at the level of E13 according to the German federal wage agreement scheme (TV-L). Candidates are expected to have a strong background in computer science, with a specialisation in machine learning or natural language processing and interest in the topic of the project. Both applicants with completed Master (or equivalent) degree as well as those with a completed PhD (postdocs) are welcome to apply. Please send your application (letter of motivation, curriculum vitae, academic records) at your earliest convenience, but no later than 31.7.2022 to Prof. Dr. Goran Glavaš (goran.glavas(a)uni-wuerzburg.de). You are welcome to contact Prof. Glavaš (via the same email address) for additional information. WüNLP is a young research group that takes diversity very seriously. Female and diversity candidates as well as international candidates are warmly encouraged to apply. Among candidates of equal aptitude and qualifications, a person with disabilities will be given preference.

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Open research position in NLP at Uni Würzburg
by Goran Glavaš 18 Jul '22

18 Jul '22

The Natural Language Processing Chair at JMU Würzburg (WüNLP) as a member of the Center for AI and Data Science (CAIDAS: https://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/caidas) offers one research position in the area of natural language processing (NLP). The position is bound to a European project EUINACTION ( https://www.euinaction.eu/), carried out in collaboration with two Political Science research groups, at the University of Leiden and the University of Strathclyde. The candidate's role in the project will be to apply and advance state-of-the-art neural NLP to help answer interesting research questions in Political Science. The position is available from 1.10.2022 and is available until the end of the grant, 31.12.2023. There is a possibility of extension, subject to mutual interest and availability of third-party research funding. Payment is at the level of E13 according to the German federal wage agreement scheme (TV-L). Candidates are expected to have a strong background in computer science, with a specialisation in machine learning or natural language processing and interest in the topic of the project. Both applicants with completed Master (or equivalent) degree as well as those with a completed PhD (postdocs) are welcome to apply. Please send your application (letter of motivation, curriculum vitae, academic records) at your earliest convenience, but no later than 31.7.2022 to Prof. Dr. Goran Glavaš (goran.glavas(a)uni-wuerzburg.de). You are welcome to contact Prof. Glavaš (via the same email address) for additional information. WüNLP is a young research group that takes diversity very seriously. Female and diversity candidates as well as international candidates are warmly encouraged to apply. Among candidates of equal aptitude and qualifications, a person with disabilities will be given preference.

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[Extended date]: CRAC 2022: 5th Workshop on Computational Models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference
by Maciej Ogrodniczuk 18 Jul '22

18 Jul '22

(apologies for cross-postings) <https://sites.google.com/view/crac2022/> CRAC 2022, the 5th Workshop on Computational Models of Reference, Anaphora and Coreference, held at COLING 2022 <https://coling2022.org/> on October 16-17, in Gyeongju, Republic of Korea (in hybrid mode) has a new date for sending papers: July 30, 2022. You are welcome to send a paper: * on any topic related to anaphora, reference, coreference * in several categories (research paper, survey paper, position paper, challenge paper, demo paper, extended abstract) Please find all other important information on the CRAC 2022 website <https://sites.google.com/view/crac2022/> . See you at CRAC 2022! Maciej Ogrodniczuk (on behalf of all organizers: Vincent Ng, Sameer Pradhan, Anna Nedoluzhko and Massimo Poesio)

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BEA 2019 - New Open Phase submission website
by BEA 2019 Shared Task 18 Jul '22

18 Jul '22

Dear all, As organisers of the BEA 2019 Shared Task on Grammatical Error Correction, we wish to announce that the Open Phase Codalab evaluation platform for the shared task has now moved to a new server: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/4057 This change was necessary because Codalab are phasing out their old servers, and so the original evaluation platform will no longer accept new submissions. We were unfortunately unable to migrate past submissions, but Detailed Results are now accessible again and server stability should be improved. We have been really pleased to see how our competition has helped GEC take off in the past few years, and hope that this update allows people to continue benchmarking their systems against the BEA 2019 test set for years to come. Do get in touch if you encounter any issues. Thank you, The BEA 2019 Shared Task organisers

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CfP: Special Issue on Trends in Social Media Analysis to Address Fake News, Hate Speech, or Bias (Springer Datenbank-Spektrum)
by Wiegand, Michael 18 Jul '22

18 Jul '22

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CfP] Special Issue on Trends in Social Media Analysis to Address Fake News, Hate Speech, or Bias ========================================================== Springer Datenbank-Spektrum https://www.springer.com/13222 ========================================================== Social media has many benefits: from staying in contact with close and not-so-close friends, over exercising the right to voice one's opinion, to communicating with many like-minded people all over the world and providing an additional channel for information exchange. Unfortunately, social media has also been abused and misused ever since its inception. Hate speech is prevalent on many sites alienating trusting users and hindering fruitful discussions. Fake news are distributed through social media platforms with dangerous effects. But even without malicious intention, social media can be misleading due to various biases in the system. Topics of Interest ================== In this special issue of Datenbank-Spektrum, we will explore and present current trends in the field of automatically detecting and managing hate speech, fake news, bias and other toxic content in the context of social media. We welcome original contributions including technical papers, application-oriented papers, case studies, survey papers and position papers. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Automatic detection of hate speech - Methods to improve online discussions - Trust and reputation of social media actors - Identification of fake news - Countermeasures to fight fake news - Detection and/or mitigation of bias - Dealing with bias in training data - Content analysis and NLP - Opinion mining and sentiment analysis on social media - Information extraction and retrieval on social media - Information diffusion within social networks - Ethical and legal aspects Submission Guidelines ==================== Paper format: 8-10 pages, double-column (cf. author guidelines at https://www.springer.com/13222). We welcome contributions in both German and English through the Springer submission system https://www.editorialmanager.com/dasp/ Deadline for submissions: Oct. 1st, 2022; Publication of special issue: DASP-1-2023 (March 2023) Guest editors ============= Feel free to contact the guest editors in case you have questions. Ralf Krestel, ZBW & CAU Kiel, r.krestel(a)zbw.eu Udo Kruschwitz, Universität Regensburg, udo.kruschwitz(a)ur.de Michael Wiegand, Universität Klagenfurt, michael.wiegand(a)aau.at

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Post-doc position in semantics/language generation
by Ondrej Dusek 17 Jul '22

17 Jul '22

Dear all, I'm looking for a post-doc to work with me & my students at Charles University in Prague on semantic formalisms for text planning and language generation, as part of the ERC Starting Grant project Next-generation Natural Language Generation (NG-NLG). The position is for 36 months (negotiable), job location is Prague, Czechia. Applications by 31 July are preferred, but the position is open until filled. Position details, requirements and application instructions can be found here: https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/ng-nlg/postdoc If you're interested in language generation, semantics, deep learning, and want to address the limitations of current state-of-the-art models, please apply! If you know someone who might be interested, please forward them this message. If you need to ask about any details before applying or forwarding, do not hesitate to contact me. Best regards (& apologies for cross-posting), Ondrej Dusek -- https://tuetschek.github.io

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Search Solutions 2022 - Second call for tutorials
by Haiming Liu 16 Jul '22

16 Jul '22

Call for Tutorials: Search Solutions 2022 Search Solutions is the BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group's annual event focused on practitioner issues in the arena of search and information retrieval. Search Solutions consists of two parts: a tutorial day and a conference day. We invite tutorial proposals which focus on any area of the practical application of search technologies to real world problems, for the tutorial day due to take place on 22nd Nov 2022 before the conference day on 23rd Nov 2022. Tutorials in previous years have included: designing usability for search, multimedia information retrieval, evaluation, pattern search, city search in SmartCities, text analysis, introduction to natural language processing and introduction to reinforcement learning, etc. The details of the previous tutorials can be found here: https://www.bcs.org/membership-and-registrations/member-communities/informa… Tutorials Proposals for both full day (5-6 hours including breaks and lunch) and half day (2-3 hours including breaks) tutorials are invited. The tutorials will take place on Tuesday 22nd November 2022 at the BCS offices in London and/or online depending on the situation near the time. We encourage in person tutorials at the BCS offices if possible. Proposal submission Tutorial proposals should be submitted to the tutorial chair (h.liu(a)soton.ac.uk<mailto:h.liu@soton.ac.uk>) by midnight Friday 22nd July 2022, using the following template: * Name of presenter(s): please list the names and affiliations of presenter(s). * Title: title of the tutorial. * Contact details: email and snail mail address, phone numbers etc. * Type of tutorial: half day or full day. * Delivery format: Online only or in person only or could be both * Tutorial Abstract: for publicity. * Target audience: please outline the practitioner audience to be addressed. * Learning outcomes: what would the practitioners gain from attending this tutorial? * Tutorial schedule and description: provide a draft schedule and detailed description of each of the items. * Tutorial logistics/materials: required media and formats for tutorial. What will be provided to attendees (e.g. slides). * Bio of presenter(s): including track record of presenting tutorials, lecturing experience etc. (200/300 words) Selection Procedure All tutorial proposals will be reviewed by the tutorial chair and approved by the organising committee. The selection criteria will focus on the quality of the tutorial content and the appropriateness of it to the main theme of search solutions. Honorarium and other issues Each tutorial will receive an honorarium of around £300. All travel and accommodation expenses must be met by the presenters themselves. The organising committee of Search Solutions reserves the right to cancel tutorials unless a minimum of four participants have registered. Contact Tutorial Chair: Dr Haiming Liu, h.liu(a)soton.ac.uk<mailto:h.liu@soton.ac.uk> Dr Haiming Liu, PhD, PgCAP, SFHEA Associate Professor Web and Internet Science (WAIS) Research Group School of Electronics and Computer Science Faculty of Engineering and Physical Science University of Southampton Highfield, Southampton, SO17 1BJ Email: h.liu(a)soton.ac.uk<mailto:h.liu@soton.ac.uk>

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July 2022 Newsletter - LDC
by Penn LDC 15 Jul '22

15 Jul '22

In this newsletter: Fall 2022 LDC Data Scholarship Program 30th Anniversary Highlight: ATIS0 Complete New publications: Qatari Corpus of Argumentative Writing<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2022T04> Second DIHARD Challenge Evaluation - SEEDLingS<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2022S07> ________________________________ Fall 2022 LDC Data Scholarship Program Student applications for the Fall 2022 LDC Data Scholarship program are being accepted now through September 15, 2022. This program provides eligible students with no-cost access to LDC data. Students must complete an application consisting of a data use proposal and letter of support from their advisor. For application requirements and program rules, visit the LDC Data Scholarships page<https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/language-resources/data/data-scholarships>. 30th Anniversary Highlight: ATIS0 Complete The ATIS corpora were among the first publications that appeared with the launch of LDC's catalog in 1993. ATIS0 Complete (LDC93S4A)<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC93S4A> is comprised of spontaneous speech, read speech, and other material from participants in the ATIS collection that is contained in ATIS0 Pilot (LDC93S4B),<http://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC93S4B> ATIS0 Read (LDC93S4B-2)<http://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC93S4B-2>, and ATIS0 SD-Read (LDC93S4B-3<http://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC93S4B-3>). The ATIS (Air Travel Information Services) collection was developed to support the research and development of speech understanding systems. Participants were presented with various hypothetical travel planning scenarios and asked to solve them by interacting with partially or completely automated ATIS systems. The resulting utterances were recorded and transcribed. Data was collected in the early 1990s at five US sites: Raytheon BBN, Carnegie Mellon University, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, National Institute for Standards and Technology, and SRI International. The ATIS collection has been widely used to further research in spoken language understanding and slot filling (Kuo et al., 2020<https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.14386.pdf>). Other data sets published from the collection include ATIS2 (LDC93S5)<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC93S5>, ATIS3 Training and Test Data (LDC94S19,<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC94S19> LDC95S26<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC95S26>) and, more recently, Multilingual ATIS (LDC2019T04)<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2019T04> and ATIS - Seven Languages (LDC2021T04)<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2021T04>. All ATIS corpora are available for licensing by Consortium members and non-members. Visit Obtaining Data <https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/language-resources/data/obtaining> for more information. ________________________________ New publications: (1) Qatari Corpus of Argumentative Writing<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2022T04> was developed by Qatar University<http://www.qu.edu.qa/>, University of Exeter<https://www.exeter.ac.uk/>, and Hamad Bin Khalifa University<https://www.hbku.edu.qa/en>, and is comprised of approximately 200,000 tokens of Arabic and English writing by undergraduate students (159 female, 36 male) along with annotations and related metadata. Students were native Arabic speakers and fluent in English; each student wrote one Arabic and one English essay in response to specific argumentative prompts. They were instructed to include in their essays a clear thesis statement supported by relevant evidence. The corpus is divided into Arabic and English parts, each of which contains 195 essays. Metadata includes information about the students (gender, major, first language, second language) and information about the essay texts (serial numbers of texts, word limits, genre, date of writing, time spent on writing, place of writing). Qatari Corpus of Argumentative Writing is distributed via web download. 2022 Subscription Members will automatically receive copies of this corpus. 2022 Standard Members may request a copy as part of their 16 free membership corpora. Non-members may license this data for a fee. * (2) Second DIHARD Challenge Evaluation - SEEDLingS<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2022S07> was developed by Duke University and LDC and contains approximately two hours of English child language recordings along with corresponding annotations used in support of the Second DIHARD Challenge<https://dihardchallenge.github.io/dihard2>. Source data is from the SEEDLingS<https://homebank.talkbank.org/access/Password/Bergelson.html> (The Study of Environmental Effects on Developing Linguistic Skills) corpus, designed to investigate how infants' early linguistic and environmental input plays a role in their learning. Recordings were generated in the home environment of infants in the Rochester, New York area. A subset of that data was annotated by LDC for use in the First and Second DIHARD Challenges Second DIHARD Challenge Evaluation - SEEDLingS is distributed via web download. 2022 Subscription Members will automatically receive copies of this corpus provided they have submitted a completed copy of the special license agreement. 2022 Standard Members may request a copy as part of their 16 free membership corpora. Non-members may license this data for a fee. To unsubscribe from this newsletter, log in to your LDC account<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/login> and uncheck the box next to "Receive Newsletter" under Account Options; or contact LDC for assistance. Membership Coordinator Linguistic Data Consortium<ldc.upenn.edu> University of Pennsylvania T: +1-215-573-1275 E: ldc(a)ldc.upenn.edu<mailto:ldc@ldc.upenn.edu> M: 3600 Market St. Suite 810 Philadelphia, PA 19104

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Call for papers: Special issue on Computational Approaches to Morphological Typology
by Sacha Beniamine 15 Jul '22

15 Jul '22

We invite researchers in the broad area of computational morphology to submit their recent, unpublished work to a special issue of the Journal of Language Modelling <https://jlm.ipipan.waw.pl/index.php/JLM><https://jlm.ipipan.waw.pl/index.php/JLM>. Motivation: Computational techniques have a long history of use in the study of morphology, where they have been used both for practical tasks such as the analysis and production of complex word forms and for theoretical ones such as structural and informational analysis of morphological systems. As both systems and datasets improve, these techniques are increasingly developed and evaluated on a typologically diverse array of languages, including many which are endangered or lack large-scale resources. Detailed comparisons across languages can help to reveal typological biases or assumptions within existing computational techniques [1, 2]. Alternatively, computational methods and analyses can also shed light on questions within linguistic typology [3, 4, 5, 6]. The goal of this special issue is to bring researchers from multiple communities together in exploring issues of linguistic typology across a wide range of different languages and phenomena. We encourage the submission of work on endangered or less-studied languages. The Journal of Language Modelling is a free (for readers and authors alike) open-access peer-reviewed journal. All articles are peer-reviewed by at least 3 reviewers, usually including at least one member of the Editorial Board. Topics of interest: - Typological clustering or classification of languages - Investigation of particular linguistic features which improve or detract from the performance of computational morphology tools - Comparison of morphological structures (e.g., inflection classes, implicative networks) across typologically different languages - Investigation of diachronic typological change using computational methods - Creation, curation or analysis of typological databases via computational methods Submissions: The submissions should be journal papers, not proceedings papers, totalling 25-50 pages, excluding references. Authors are advised to use the online manuscript submission for the journal. Make sure to select the special issue when asked to provide the article type. More information, including formatting instructions for authors can be found on the journal's webpage at: https://jlm.ipipan.waw.pl/index.php/JLM/about/submissions. Important dates: Call for papers issued: 15/7/2022 Submissions due: 15/1/2023 Author notification: Spring 2023 Guest editors: Sacha Beniamine (University of Surrey) Micha Elsner (The Ohio State University) Katharina Kann (University of Colorado, Boulder) References [1] Ryan Cotterell, Christo Kirov, John Sylak-Glassman, David Yarowsky, Jason Eisner, and Mans Hulden. 2016a. The SIGMORPHON 2016 shared Task— Morphological reinflection. In Proceedings of the 14th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology, pages 10–22, Berlin, Germany. Association for Computational Linguistics. [2] Huiming Jin, Liwei Cai, Yihui Peng, Chen Xia, Arya McCarthy, and Katharina Kann. 2020. Unsupervised morphological paradigm completion. In Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 6696– 6707, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics. [3] Neil Rathi, Michael Hahn, and Richard Futrell. 2021. An Information-Theoretic Characterization of Morphological Fusion. In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 10115–10120, Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. Association for Computational Linguistics. [4] Parker, J., Reynolds, R., & Sims, A. (2022). Network Structure and Inflection Class Predictability: Modeling the Emergence of Marginal Detraction. In A. Sims, A. Ussishkin, J. Parker, & S. Wray (Eds.), Morphological Diversity and Linguistic Cognition (pp. 247-281). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. DOI: 10.1017/9781108807951.010 [5] Guzmán Naranjo, Matías and Becker, Laura. Statistical bias control in typology. Linguistic Typology, to appear, 2021. DOI: 10.1515/lingty-2021-0002 [6] Sacha Beniamine. 2021. One lexeme, many classes: Inflection class systems as lattices. In Berthold Crysmann & Manfred Sailer (eds.), One-to-many relations in morphology, syntax, and semantics, 23--51. Berlin: Language Science Press. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4729789

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PhD position in Linguistics at the University of Gothenburg
by Eleni Gregoromichelaki 15 Jul '22

15 Jul '22

The Department of Philosophy, Linguistics, and Theory of Science at the University of Gothenburg is pleased to announce the availability of the following fully-funded Ph.D. position in Linguistics. Information about the institution The Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science (FLoV) at the University of Gothenburg is home to a large number of national and international research projects and offers courses and degree programs for philosophers, logicians, linguists, language technologists, theorists of science, historians of philosophy, philologists and philosophy teachers. Linguistics is a subject authorised to award qualifications at all levels, including in third-cycle studies. At the department, there is also the Centre for Linguistic Theory and Studies in Probability (CLASP), funded by a 10-year grant from the Swedish Research Council (2015-2025). CLASP is devoted to research and advanced training in the application of probabilistic modelling and machine learning methods to core issues in linguistic theory and cognition. The department offers an international English-speaking research environment. The research is interdisciplinary and aims at bringing together insights from various fields such as logic, mathematics, computer science, artificial intelligence, linguistics, computational linguistics, cognitive science, philology, and philosophy. Job description: The current position is within the area of Linguistics at the department. Linguistic interaction is the main overarching theme for research in linguistics at FLoV. The focus is on conversational dialogue as a research topic within psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, semantics and pragmatics, and language technology/computational linguistics. The ideal candidate should be motivated to develop an original PhD thesis project in any single or combination of these fields. We will fund one well-qualified and highly motivated candidate to carry out research using experimental and/or formal methods on any of the following general topics in relation to dialogue modelling and/or grammar design: - Incremental processing in conversation - Multimodal phenomena - Theories of joint action and linguistic meaning - Context and common ground - Probabilistic models of inference and linguistic processing - Dialogue acts - Turn-taking We are looking for candidates who have solid prior experience in linguistics (syntax, semantics, pragmatics), psycholinguistics, or computational linguistics. More particularly, demonstrable ability and experience in the modelling of, or experimentation with dialogue phenomena is highly desirable. The candidate should be able to provide evidence of the ability for conducting original independent research. Candidates with an interdisciplinary background are particularly encouraged to apply. How to apply: In order to apply for a position at the University of Gothenburg, you have to register an account in our online recruitment system: https://web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/1035/job?site=7&lang=UK&validator=9b89… It is the responsibility of the applicant to ensure that the application is complete in accordance with the instructions in the job advertisement and that it is submitted before the deadline. The selection of candidates is made on the basis of the qualifications registered in the application. Further information: Queries about the recruitment process should be directed to Jennifer Stråle, HR Administrator, jennifer.strale(a)gu.se Queries about possible topics for study should be directed to Eleni Gregoromichelaki, Professor of Linguistics, +46 31-786 52 33, eleni.gregoromichelaki(a)gu.se IMPORTANT DATES: The deadline for application is: 15 September 2022 all the best Eleni Gregoromichelaki Professor of Linguistics Linguistics, Logic and Theory of Science unit Department of Philosophy, Linguistics, Theory of Science (FLoV) University of Gothenburg Room: C539, Renströmsgatan 6 Tel.: +46 31-786 52 33 Eleni Gregoromichelaki Professor of Linguistics Linguistics, Logic and Theory of Science unit Department of Philosophy, Linguistics, Theory of Science (FLoV) University of Gothenburg Room: C539, Renströmsgatan 6 Tel.: +46 31-786 52 33 From: Eleni Gregoromichelaki <eleni.gregoromichelaki(a)gu.se> Sent: 12 July 2022 07:55 To: sigsem(a)list.rug.nl <sigsem(a)list.rug.nl>; iva-list(a)lists.uni-bielefeld.de <iva-list(a)lists.uni-bielefeld.de>; sigdial(a)list.sigdial.org <sigdial(a)list.sigdial.org>; semantik(a)uni-duesseldorf.de <semantik(a)uni-duesseldorf.de>; folli(a)folli.info <folli(a)folli.info>; amlap-list(a)coli.uni-sb.de <amlap-list(a)coli.uni-sb.de>; corpora(a)uib.no <corpora(a)uib.no>; sentproc(a)lists.qc.cuny.edu <sentproc(a)lists.qc.cuny.edu>; Eleni Gregoromichelaki <eleni.gregoromichelaki(a)gu.se> Subject: SemDial 2022: deadline extension for short papers ** Short papers SemDial 2022 ** ** Submission deadline extended to 22 July 2022 ** --------------------------------------------------------------- SemDial 2022 - DubDial THE 26TH WORKSHOP ON THE SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF DIALOGUE https://semdial2022.github.io/ 22-24 August 2022 Dublin // Online --------------------------------------------------------------------- DubDial will be the 26th edition of the SemDial workshop series, which aims to bring together researchers working on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue in fields such as formal semantics and pragmatics, computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience. In 2022 the workshop will be hosted by the Information, Communication and Entertainment Research Institute at Technological University Dublin, Ireland and the SFI ADAPT Research Centre. There will also be an online component for those who cannot travel to Dublin. Please see the website for updates closer to the date. *WEBSITE:* https://semdial2022.github.io/ This year, there will be a guiding theme for the conference: Interactivism. The interactivist model (Bickhard, 2009) offers a new dynamic approach to understanding language, communication, and cognition. Across many disciplines, from philosophy to neuroscience and robotics, there is recognition that explanations of life and mind need to be grounded in the physics of far-from-equilibrium, interactive systems. From this starting point, explanations have been developed for phenomena ranging from representation, perception, and action to motivation, memory, learning and development, emotions, consciousness, rationality, sociality, personality and psychopathology. This work has yet to develop interfaces with studies of specific phenomena in dialogue modelling and our purpose is to open the discussion on how dialogue researchers can take advantage of this and related perspectives like Enactivism and Ecological Psychology. *SCOPE:* We welcome submissions on this special theme of Interactivism and we continue to welcome any papers with formal, computational and empirical approaches to the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue, including, but not limited to: - the dynamics of agents' information states in dialogue - common ground / mutual belief - goals, intentions and commitments in communication - turn-taking and interaction control - semantic/pragmatic interpretation in dialogue - dialogue and discourse structure - categorisation of dialogue phenomena in corpora - child-adult interaction - psycholinguistics of dialogue - language learning through dialogue - gesture, gaze, and intonational meaning in communication - multimodal and multi-party dialogue - interpretation and reasoning in spoken dialogue systems - dialogue management - designing and evaluating dialogue systems - modelling miscommunication, disfluency, and repair - applications of the Interactivist model in dialogue phenomena - enactive approaches to interaction - dialogue/interaction studies from an Ecological Psychology perspective *INVITED SPEAKERS:* Mark H. Bickhard Yvette Graham Joanna Rączaszek-Leonardi *DEADLINE EXTENSION for short-paper submissions* We invite NON-ANONYMOUS SUBMISSIONS for 2-page short papers. The deadline has now been extended to the *22 July 2022* Authors should submit a paper of at most 2 pages of content (1 additional page is allowed for references). Formatting instructions and the URL of the submission site are available on the DubDial website: https://semdial2022.github.io/?page=call# Short-paper submissions will not be refereed but evaluated for relevance only by the chairs. As such, papers do not need to be anonymised. They will be presented as posters at the workshop. *IMPORTANT DATES:* Short paper submissions due: 22 July 2022 Notification: 25 July 2022 Camera-ready submissions deadline: 8th August 2022 *REGISTRATION* Registration is now open: https://semdial2022.github.io/?page=registration# DubDial - SemDial 2022 SemDial 2022 (LondonLogue) - The 26th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue. TUD, August 22-24th, 2022 semdial2022.github.io *RELATED EVENTS* The final session of SemDial will be the second edition of SummDial, a special session on Summarization of Dialogues and Multi-Party Meetings, for which there is a separate submission process - please see the SummDial website: https://elitr.github.io/automatic-minuting/summdial-2022.html *TECHNICAL PROGRAMME CHAIRS:* Eleni Gregoromichelaki (University of Gothenburg) Julian Hough (Queen Mary University of London) John Kelleher (Technological University Dublin) Contact: pcchairs.semdial2022(a)gmail.com *LOCAL ORGANISATION:* John Kelleher, the Information, Communication and Entertainment Research Institute at Technological University Dublin, Ireland and the SFI ADAPT Research Centre. Contact: organisers.semdial2022(a)gmail.com *PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:* Jedediah Allen, Maxime Amblard, Ron Artstein, Alex Berman, Mark Bickhard, Maria Boritchev, Ellen Breitholtz, Harry Bunt, Heather Burnett, Robin Cooper, Valeria de Paiva, Emilie Destruel, Simon Dobnik, Kerstin Fischer, Kallirroi Georgila, Emer Gilmartin, Jonathan Ginzburg, Christine Howes, Julie Hunter, Nikolai Ilinykh, Ruth Kempson, Staffan Larsson, Alex Lascarides, Andy Lücking, Chiara Mazzocconi, Gregory Mills, Robert Mirski, Bill Noble, Massimo Poesio, Laurent Prévot, Matthew Purver, Joanna Raczaszek-Leonardi, Hannes Rieser, Robert Ross, Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, David Schlangen, Matthew Stone, Peter Sutton, Lucas Thorpe, Ye Tian, Shu-Chuan Tseng *SEMDIAL BOARD CHAIRS:* Ellen Breitholtz (University of Gothenburg)) Julian Hough (Queen Mary University of London) http://semdial.org/ Eleni Gregoromichelaki Professor of Linguistics Linguistics, Logic and Theory of Science unit Department of Philosophy, Linguistics, Theory of Science (FLoV) University of Gothenburg Room: C539, Renströmsgatan 6 Tel.: +46 31-786 52 33

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RiCL CFPs Issue 11/1
by Paula Rodríguez-Puente 15 Jul '22

15 Jul '22

Dear colleagues, *Research in Corpus Linguistics* (RiCL, ISSN 2243-4712), the official journal of the *Spanish Association for Corpus Linguistics* (AELINCO), is seeking for contributions to be published in the first issue of 2023 (11/1). RiCL invites previously unpublished submissions in four main forms: 1. *Papers reporting on* research based on or derived from *corpora*. 2. *Research* *papers* *reporting* *on* *corpus* *construction*, annotation, the development and application of corpus tools, software, etc. 3. *Book reviews* in the field of Corpus Linguistics. 4. *Review articles* in the field of Corpus Linguistics. Further information about RiCL’s editorial policies can be found here <https://ricl.aelinco.es/index.php/ricl/editorial-policies>. Specific areas of interest include corpus design, compilation, and typology; discourse, literary analysis and corpora; corpus-based grammatical studies; corpus-based lexicology and lexicography; corpora, contrastive studies and translation; corpus and linguistic variation; corpus-based computational linguistics; corpora, language acquisition and teaching; and special uses of corpus linguistics. Please note that submissions must adhere to the submission guidelines <https://ricl.aelinco.es/index.php/ricl/about/submissions> of RiCL. Further information at: *https://ricl.aelinco.es* <https://ricl.aelinco.es/> All the best, Paula Rodríguez-Puente and Carlos Prado-Alonso *Editors-in-chief* -- Paula Rodríguez Puente paula.r.puente(a)gmail.com http://www.usc-vlcg.es/PRP.htm

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CFP: Semantics and Natural Language Processing in Agriculture
by Mathieu Roche 15 Jul '22

15 Jul '22

======== Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence Special issue: Semantics and Natural Language Processing in Agriculture ======== Manuscript Submission Deadline: 30 September 2022 https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/35711/semantics-and-natural-lan… Currently, agriculture is at a crossroads. There has been an increase in the world?s population, a reduction in available farmland as well as competition for agricultural land from biofuels. Advances from traditional agricultural areas have been resisted by consumers and politicians, and consequently increases in productivity need to come from non-traditional areas to ensure that the world's population has access to basic nutrition at an affordable price. The Semantic and Natural Language Processing (NLP) community can assist the agricultural domain by providing unique insights from data or by providing greater clarity to current agricultural processes. Agricultural researchers, in common with other domains, have access to large collections of agricultural documents such as scientific papers, news, social media data, etc. These textual documents can be analyzed and processed with NLP methods, supported by semantic knowledge, to resolve agricultural issues in digital agriculture. To date, the application of text mining and semantics in the agricultural domain remains under-explored. This Research Topic invites original research, surveys, and position papers that address issues in Agricultural Text Mining or Agri Semantics, in order to increase the visibility and application potential of this important and emerging research area. The scope of this article collection is broad and seeks submissions on, but not limited to: - novel agricultural NLP methods - multilingual agricultural text mining - agricultural information retrieval - agricultural information extraction - agricultural named entity recognition and disambiguation - agricultural text visualization - NLP agricultural applications - societal impacts of agricultural text mining, language resources, and datasets - agricultural web crawling - novel agrisemantic resources - bias or gaps in existing agrisemantic resources - agrisemantic data integration - novel argisemantic backed agricultural applications - and agribusiness industry case studies Keywords: nlp, agriculture, Text Mining, Information Extraction, Agricultural Applications, Web Crawling, Agrisemantic, Natural Language Processing, Semantic Currently, agriculture is at a crossroads. There has been an increase in the world?s population, a reduction in available farmland as well as competition for agricultural land from biofuels. Advances from traditional agricultural areas have been resisted by consumers and politicians, and consequently increases in productivity need to come from non-traditional areas to ensure that the world?s population has access to basic nutrition at an affordable price. The Semantic and Natural Language Processing (NLP) community can assist the agricultural domain by providing unique insights from data or by providing greater clarity to current agricultural processes. Agricultural researchers, in common with other domains, have access to large collections of agricultural documents such as scientific papers, news, social media data, etc. These textual documents can be analyzed and processed with NLP methods, supported by semantic knowledge, to resolve agricultural issues in digital agriculture. To date, the application of text mining and semantics in the agricultural domain remains under-explored. This Research Topic invites original research, surveys, and position papers that address issues in Agricultural Text Mining or Agri Semantics, in order to increase the visibility and application potential of this important and emerging research area. The scope of this article collection is broad and seeks submissions on, but not limited to: - novel agricultural NLP methods - multilingual agricultural text mining - agricultural information retrieval - agricultural information extraction - agricultural named entity recognition and disambiguation - agricultural text visualization - NLP agricultural applications - societal impacts of agricultural text mining, language resources, and datasets - agricultural web crawling - novel agrisemantic resources - bias or gaps in existing agrisemantic resources - agrisemantic data integration - novel argisemantic backed agricultural applications - and agribusiness industry case studies Topic Editors - Mathieu Roche, French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD), Montpellier, France - Brett Drury, Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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TRAC 2022: Third CFP (COLING 2022 Workshop) *Deadline extended to July 25, 2022*
by Ritesh Kumar 14 Jul '22

14 Jul '22

*3rd (Online) Workshop on Threat, Aggression and Cyberbullying (TRAC - 2022)* Co-located with COLING 2022, October 17, 2022 Gyeongju, the Republic of Korea *Third Call for Papers and Deadline Extension* *Workshop Website*: https://sites.google.com/view/trac2022/home *Paper Submission*: https://www.softconf.com/coling2022/TRAC-2022/ *Submission Deadline*: July 25, 2022 (Regular) / July 31, 2022 (ACL ARR) As in the earlier editions of the workshop, TRAC-2022 will focus on the applications of NLP, ML and pragmatic studies on aggression and impoliteness to tackle these issues. We invite *long (8 pages)* and *short papers (4 pages)* as well as *position papers* and opinion pieces (5 - 20 pages), *demo proposals* and *non-archival extended abstracts* (2 pages) based on, but not limited to, any of the following themes from academic researchers, industry and any other group / team working in the area. - Theories and models of aggression and conflict in language. - Cyberbullying, threatening, hateful, aggressive and abusive language on the web. - Multilingualism and aggression. - Resource Development - Corpora, Annotation Guidelines and Best Practices for threat and aggression detection. - Computational Models and Methods for aggression, hate speech and offensive language detection in text and speech. - Detection of threats and bullying on the web. - Automatic censorship and moderation: ethical, legal and technological issues and challenges. For any clarifications, contact coling.aggression(a)gmail.com. Looking forward to your participation!

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New publication: Shaping Writing Grades
by Susan Hunston 14 Jul '22

14 Jul '22

Dear list members, I am delighted to announce a new publication in the Elements in Corpus Linguistics series, by Lee McCallum and Philip Durrant. The Element title is: "Shaping Writing Grades: Collocation and Writing Context Effects". It explores relationships between collocations, writing quality and learner and contextual variables in a first-year university composition programme. The Element can be viewed here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/search?q=9781009074445&_csrf=Bx66KnU6-7EI4dZ…<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cambr…>. It will be available free of charge for 2 weeks. The full Element abstract can be seen at the bottom of this email. This publication brings the number of Elements in this series to eight. The other titles in the series so far are: Multimodal News Analysis across Cultures (Caple, Huan & Bednarek) Doing Linguistics with a Corpus (Egbert, Larsson & Biber) Citations in Interdisciplinary Research Articles (Muguiro) Conducting Sentiment Analysis (Lei & Liu) Natural Language Processing for Corpus Linguistics (Dunn) The Impact of Everyday Language Change on the Practices of Visual Artists (Hocking) Analysis Language, Sex and Age in a Corpus of Patient Feedback (Baker & Brookes) Best wishes Susan Hunston (Series Editor) Abstract This Element explores relationships between collocations, writing quality, and learner and contextual variables in a first-year composition (FYC) programme. Comprising three studies, the Element is anchored in understanding phraseological complexity and its sub-constructs of sophistication and diversity. First, the authors look at sophistication through association measures. They tap into how these measures may tell us different types of information about collocation via a cluster analysis. Selected measures from this clustering are used in a cumulative links model to establish relationships between these measures, measures of diversity and measures of task, the language background of the writer and individual writer variation, and writing quality scores. A third qualitative study of the statistically significant predictors helps understand how writers use collocations and why they might be favoured or downgraded by raters. This Element concludes by considering the implications of this modelling for assessment. Professor Susan Hunston (she/her) Department of English Language and Linguistics University of Birmingham Birmingham B15 2TT UK (+44) 0121 414 5675 s.e.hunston(a)bham.ac.uk

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Second CFP: The 7th Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP-7 2022) / Co-located with EMNLP 2022
by Wajdi Zaghouani 14 Jul '22

14 Jul '22

*** Apologies for Cross-Posting *** The 7th Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP2022) will be a full-day event taking place on December 7 or 8, 2022 (in a hybrid mode). This year’s WANLP is co-located with EMNLP 2022 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Workshop URL: http://wanlp2022.arabic-nlp.net/ Submission URL: https://softconf.com/emnlp2022/WANLP2022 Important Dates - September 5: Workshop Paper Due Date - October 10: Notification of Acceptance - October 21: Camera-ready papers due (strict!) - December 7-8: Workshop Dates We invite submissions on topics that include, but are not limited to, the following: - Enabling core technologies: morphological analysis, disambiguation, tokenization, POS tagging, named entity detection, chunking, parsing, semantic role labeling, sentiment analysis, Arabic dialect modeling, etc. - Applications: machine translation, speech recognition, speech synthesis, optical character recognition, pedagogy, assistive technologies, social media, etc. - Resources: dictionaries, annotated data, corpus, etc. Submissions may include work in progress as well as finished work. Submissions§ must have a clear focus on specific issues pertaining to the Arabic language whether it is standard Arabic, dialectal, classical, or mixed. Papers on other languages sharing problems faced by Arabic NLP researchers, such as Semitic languages or languages using Arabic script, are welcome provided that they propose techniques or approaches that would be of interest to Arabic NLP, and they explain why this is the case. Additionally, papers on efforts using Arabic resources but targeting other languages are also welcome. Descriptions of commercial systems are welcome, but authors should be willing to discuss the details of their work. We have several submission tracks including long, short, and demo tracks. If you have any questions, please contact us at: wanlp2022(a)gmail.com The WANLP 2022 Organizing Committee http://wanlp2022.arabic-nlp.net/ ---- *Wajdi Zaghouani, Ph.D.* *Assistant Professor* College of Humanities and Social Sciences P.O. Box 34110 | Education City | Doha, Qatar tel: +974 4454 5601 | mob: +974 33454992 wzaghouani(a)hbku.edu.qa| Office A141, LAS Building

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Call for Nominations: The Microsoft BCS/BCS IRSG Karen Spärck Jones Award 2022
by Jochen L. Leidner 14 Jul '22

14 Jul '22

Call for Nominations: The Microsoft BCS/BCS IRSG Karen Spärck Jones Award 2022 TLDR: Closing date: 9 September 2022 ~ An award to commemorate Karen Spärck Jones ~ A pioneer of information retrieval, the computer science sub-discipline that also underpins the technology of modern Web search engines, Karen Spärck Jones was a British professor of Computers and Information at the University of Cambridge in Cambridge. Her contributions to the fields of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Information Retrieval (IR), especially with regard to experimentation, have been outstanding, highly influential and lasting, and include the introduction of Inverse Document Frequency for relevance ranking. Her achievements resulted in her receiving a number of prestigious accolades such as the BCS Lovelace medal for her advancement in Information Systems, and the ACM Salton Award for her significant, sustained and continuing contributions to research in information retrieval. Karen was also an outspoken advocate for women in computing, and we encourage former advisors of talented scientists to provide the judges with a rich and diverse candidate pool to select from. To learn more about Karen and her work, visit: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Sp%C3%A4rck_Jones * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8FecRxSiUM * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fYeKiebpuo In order to honour Karen's achievements, the BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group (BCS IRSG) in conjunction with the BCS has established an annual award to encourage and promote talented researchers who have endeavoured to advance our understanding of Natural Language Processing or Information Retrieval with significant experimental contributions. To celebrate the commemorative event, the recipient of the 2021 award will be invited to present a keynote lecture at BCS IRSG’s annual conference — the European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) next year. This forum provides an excellent venue to present and announce the award as the conference attracts many new and young researchers. Eligibility. Open to all NLP/IR researchers who have no more than 10 years experience after their Ph.D. at the closing date for nominations (non-research times, e.g. parental leave or career breaks, will be taken into account to ensure equity; please point at such times in the nominee's CVs). Criteron. The candidate ought to have substantially advanced our understanding of NLP or IR or both through experimentation. Nominations. The following should be provided: • Name of nominee, position, affiliation, years since completion of the Ph.D.; • Name of person proposing the nominee, position, and affiliation; • Short case for the award, not to exceed 2,500 words, highlighting the contributions the individual has made; • List of the individual's top five publications reflecting the relevant contributions, and role within these; and • Exactly two supporting letters from people who would like to encourage/support the nomination. Nominations should be emailed to the panel chair below. The support letters can be emailed separately by the referees. It is possible for individuals to nominate themselves, in which case they should provide three support letters. Please note that we anticipate that people who provide support letters will do so only for a single candidate. Award Panel. The Award Panel Chair, appointed by the BCS IRSG Committee, will invite panel members from amongst representatives of the BCS main council, the BCS IRSG Committee, the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL), the Award-sponsoring organisation (unless there could be a conflict of interest), as well as seasoned experts in IR and NLP from academia and industry. Prize. The recipient of the award will receive a certificate, a trophy, a cash prize of £1000 plus expenses for the awardee to travel to ECIR 2023. Note that the Karen Spärck Jones Award will now alternate between ECIR and EACL to promote integration between the IR and NLP communities that Karen Spärck Jones was an active member of. The 2022 prize award lecture will take place at ECIR 2023. Timeline for the 2022 Award: • 9 September 2022 — closing date for nominations; • 17 September 2022 — deadline for support letters; • 9 December 2022 — notification of the prize recipient; • 2 April-6 April 2023 — recipient presents keynote at ECIR 2023 in Dublin, Ireland. The Karen Spärck Jones Award is sponsored by Microsoft Research Cambridge; we would like to thank our generous sponsors. Current Award Chair: Professor Jochen L. Leidner <leidner AT acm.org>. -- Prof. Jochen L. Leidner *M.A. M.Phil. Ph.D. FRGS* Professor of Explainable and Responsible Artificial Intelligence in Insurance, Coburg University of Applied Sciences, Coburg, Germany Visiting Professor of Data Analytics, Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom [ E-Mail: leidner (at) acm.org <leidner(a)acm.org> | Web: *https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/dcs/people/academic/jleidner <https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/dcs/people/academic/jleidner>* | LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leidner/ | Twitter: @jochenleidner <https://twitter.com/jochenleidner> ]

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QURATOR 2022 – Call for Papers – Deadline: 31 July
by Georg Rehm 14 Jul '22

14 Jul '22

*QURATOR 2022 – Third Conference on Digital Curation Technologies* *Call for Papers* *– Due to numerous requests the submission deadline has been extended to 31 July 2022 –* 23 September 2022 – Berlin, Germany Part of the QURATOR Conference 2022 – 19-23 September 2022 *https://qurator.ai/conference-qurator-2022/call-for-papers/* <https://qurator.ai/conference-qurator-2022/call-for-papers/> Digital curation is a complex time and knowledge intensive process, in which knowledge workers across various industries and application domains create new content artifacts and insights from heterogeneous sources (content, data, knowledge). The work required for this includes, e.g., selecting, summarizing, scheduling, translating, localising, structuring, condensing, enriching, visualizing and explaining the various contents, taking into account the steadily growing speed, volume and number of sources such as online newspapers, news portals, social media, linked data, business information systems, IoT data streams etc. AI methods, in particular from the field of language and semantic knowledge technologies, are used to support these tasks and thereby accelerate and qualitatively improve them. The Qurator conference provides a forum on the use of digital curation technologies in application domains for, e.g., media, journalism, logistics, cultural heritage, health care and life sciences, energy, industry. Of particular relevance are submissions that demonstrate the applied use of digital curation technologies and tools in domain-specific use cases and that bridge traditional boundaries between disciplines such as Artificial Intelligence and Semantic Web, data analytics and machine learning, information/content and knowledge management systems, information retrieval, knowledge discovery, and computational linguistics. *Topics of interest include, but are not limited to* Management of Digitally Curated and Semantically Expressive Information and Knowledge: • Knowledge representation and semantic knowledge management • Semantic content and data modeling and digital knowledge curation • Semantic integration, including transformation rules, ontology matching, merging, etc. • Ontology and rule engineering and metadata management • Ontology-based data management, linked data management, semantic big data management • Processes, workflows, roles and responsibilities in digital curation AI-based / Semantic Large Scale and Complex Information and Content Analysis: • Indexing, search and query answering in large volumes of data • Digital curation, semantic annotation, extraction, enrichment, summarization, and integration • Semantic storytelling, identification and generation of story paths and story lines • Text and content classification, especially for advanced class-specific processing workflows • Text genre and hypertext genre (web genre) classification • (Smart/big) data analytics, data mining, and machine learning / deep learning • Information and knowledge extraction including text mining • Streaming analytics, and semantic complex event processing Applications, Evaluations, and Experiences of applying digital curation technologies, standards, and tools including but not limited to the following domains: • AI / Semantic technology standards and tools • (Corporate) Semantic Web and Linked Data • Curation technologies and the Covid-19-pandemic • Document analysis and recognition • Semantic enterprise information systems and knowledge management • Semantic business process management (SBPM) and decision models • Semantic Web and the Internet of Things (IoT) • Crowdsourcing, human computation, and the People Web • AI/Semantic services and semantic Multi Agent Systems (MAS) • Personalisation and digital content interaction • Hypertext, multimedia, and hypermedia • Semantic storytelling and corporate smart content • Ubiquitous and mobile information systems • Information/data governance, information assurance, security, compliance • Semantic cloud computing, edge computing, fog computing • Semantic Web applications and tools for eCommerce, eScience, eCulture, media, Industrie 4.0 • Legal ontologies, rules, and reasoning • Distributed ledger/blockchain technologies for novel data/content management and smart contracts *Important Dates * Paper submission: 31 July 2022 – *extended submission deadline* Notification of acceptance: 22 August 2022 Camera ready due: 11 September 2022 QURATOR Conference Scientific Workshop: 23 September 2022 QURATOR Conference: 20-23 September 2022 The following types of submissions are invited: *Regular papers* (10-15 pages): Research papers – Original research on a topic of interest. In-use papers – New applications and tool descriptions addressing a topic of interest. *Short papers* (5-9 pages): Use Case and Position papers – use case descriptions and application notes, discovery notes, using digital curation applications and tools. Poster and Software demo papers – present software and tools in action. Industry application papers – report on industrial applications addressing a topic of interest *Student papers* (5-15 pages): Describe results of Bachelor/Master theses or student projects; the best student paper will receive an award. *Instructions for authors* All submissions are handled via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=qurator2022. All papers and posters/demos must be in English and submitted in PDF using the new CEUR-ART style for writing papers to be published in the CEUR-WS.org online proceedings at http://ceur-ws.org: - An Overleaf page for LaTeX users is available at: https://www.overleaf.com/read/gwhxnqcghhdt - An offline version with the style files including DOCX template files is available at: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip - The paper must contain, as the name of the conference: Qurator 2022: 3rd Conference on Digital Curation Technologies, September 19-23, 2022, Berlin, Germany - The title of the paper should follow the regular capitalization of English - Please, choose the single-column template - According to CEUR-WS policy, the papers will be published under a CC BY 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en) - If the paper is accepted, authors will be asked to sign (at pen) an author agreement with CEUR: - In case you do not employ Third-Party Material (TPM) in your draft, sign the document at http://ceur-ws.org/ceur-author-agreement-ccby-ntp.pdf?ver=2020-03-02 - If you do use TPM, the agreement can be found at http://ceur-ws.org/ceur-author-agreement-ccby-tp.pdf?ver=2020-03-02 Submissions for regular papers must be between 10-15 pages and submissions for short papers must be between 5-9 pages. Papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of the Scientific Program Committee. Accepted papers will be published in the CEUR-WS.org online proceedings at http://ceur-ws.org. *Organizing Committee* Adrian Paschke, Fraunhofer FOKUS and Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Georg Rehm, DFKI, Germany Clemens Neudecker, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Germany Lydia Pintscher, Wikimedia, Germany Venue: the scientific workshop will take place ONLINE +++ Apologies for cross-posting +++ -- *Prof. Dr. Georg Rehm <http://georg-re.hm/>* Principal Researcher and Research Fellow DFKI GmbH <http://www.dfki.de/>, Alt-Moabit 91c, 10559 Berlin, Germany Phone: +49 30 23895-1833 – Fax: -1810 georg.rehm(a)dfki.de Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz GmbH Firmensitz: Trippstadter Strasse 122, D-67663 Kaiserslautern Geschäftsführung: Prof. Dr. Antonio Krüger (Vorsitzender), Helmut Ditzer Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Dr. Gabriël Clemens Amtsgericht Kaiserslautern, HRB 2313

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