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PhD position on mental health at the University of Tartu
by Rajesh Sharma 27 Sep '22

27 Sep '22

I hope this email finds you well and sorry for cross-posting. Computational Social Science has a PhD position on the topic related to mental health. Please feel free to spread among your contacts. We expect the candidate to know one or more aspects of the following techniques and programming languages (if not all): (i) Preferred programming languages: Python or R. (ii) Exploratory data analysis: feature extraction, visualization, etc. (ii) Machine learning and deep learning with some hands-on experience. (iv) Social media analysis: This includes collecting data from Twitter/Reddit and analyzing it for insights. An ideal candidate should be mindful of what's going on social media as well. (v) Social network analysis and Natural Language Processing Program Benefits ================ The funding is for 4 years for PhD Health insurance is provided Academic and industrial professional development including travel support. Interaction with world-renowned external board members and speakers. Travel grant for attending conferences and workshops. Location: Institute of Computer Science, University of Tartu, Estonia. Institute of Computer Science is located in the University of Tartu Delta Centre (https://delta.ut.ee/en/) and it is a unique multidisciplinary centre for digital technology, analytics and economic thought, bringing together more than 2500 students, university teachers, scientists and R&D staff from companies. In short you will get an opportunity to work with diverse and collaborative colleagues. Delta Centre opened in January 2020 and is one of the most modern centres of digital technology, analytical and economic thought in the Nordic region. University of Tartu is the leading higher education and research center in Estonia, with more than 16000 students and 1800 academic staff. It is also the highest ranked university in the Baltic States according to both the Times Higher Education and the QS World University rankings. University of Tartu's Institute of Computer Science, ranks 176-200 (according to Times Higher Education), and hosts 750 Bachelors and Masters students and 60 doctoral students. The institute has a strong international orientation: over 40% of graduate students and a quarter of academic and research staff members are international. Graduate teaching in the institute is in English. Estonia is famous for its e-approach and home to many startups like Skype, Transferwise and Bolt to name a few. Tartu, university town, is the second largest city of Estonia and is relatively less expensive and is surrounded by nature within the walkable distance from the city. The successful candidate will work on an European research project within the "computational social science lab" (https://css.cs.ut.ee/) at the Institute of Computer Science. The group conducts leading-edge research in the fields of social media analytics and social network analysis. The applicant should have: - Should have a master's/PhD degree in computer science, IT, mathematics or other relevant discipline for PhD/Postdoc - Excellent programming skills. - A good command of spoken and written English, - Background in statistics/Data Mining/Machine Learning, social media analysis would be ideal. Knowledge of social network analysis would be an additional advantage. All applications should include a CV (PDF format, at the most 2 pages), research statement of suitability (PDF format, at the most 2 pages), Transcripts (master and bachelor), master thesis (or paper writing experience evidence). Applications can be sent to rajesh.sharma(a)ut.ee with the subject "(PhD application in hate speech/mental health". We will get back to you in case your application is shortlisted. Kind regards Rajesh Sharma, Associate Prof and Erasmus+ Coordinator, Head, Computational Social Science Group <https://css.cs.ut.ee/> Institute of Computer Science, University of Tartu, Estonia Google Scholar <https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=GKegbo0AAAAJ&view_op=list_w…> LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajesh-sharma-9a03408/>Twitter <https://twitter.com/RajeshS44973898> ReplyForward <https://drive.google.com/u/0/settings/storage?hl=en&utm_medium=web&utm_sour…> <https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/> <https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/> <https://www.google.com/gmail/about/policy/>

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PhD position in Conversational AI / Multilingual NLP - University of Groningen (NL)
by Bisazza, A. 27 Sep '22

27 Sep '22

We are looking for a PhD candidate in the areas of Natural Language Processing (NLP), Conversational AI and Multilingual NLP. Application Deadline: 2 October 2022 Job description: This 4-year salaried PhD position is embedded in the project “Low-Resource Chat-based Conversational Intelligence (LESSEN <http://lessen-project.nl/>), funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). The project’s consortium brings together a diverse set of academic researchers and industrial stakeholders aimed at developing safe and transparent chat-based conversational AI agents, based on state-of-the-art neural architectures. In this context, the selected PhD candidate will work on multilinguality-related challenges and opportunities, with the goal of improving conversational agents under data scarcity conditions. Besides enabling knowledge sharing among high- and low-resource languages and language variants, the project aims at empowering chatbots to handle code-switching utterances, which are common in many communities. Qualifications: We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic student with a Master degree in computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, computer science, information science, or related areas. Machine learning skills are mandatory; experience with training and/or designing neural networks for language processing tasks is strongly desired; experience in conversational systems is a plus. Furthermore, an excellent knowledge of English and good academic writing skills are essential. Organisation: The PhD candidate will be based at the Centre for Language and Cognition of the University of Groningen (CLCG) and will collaborate with other researchers from the Lessen project. The research will be carried out in the context of the Computational Linguistics group ( https://www.rug.nl/research/clcg/research/cl/) of the CLCG research institute. Application Deadline: 2 October 2022 Start date: 1 January 2023 Find all details and apply here: https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-0… For questions you can contact: Dr A. Bisazza, a.bisazza(a)rug.nl Please do NOT use the e-mail address above for applications. Please first check if your question is already answered at the application link <https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-0…> . -- Arianna Bisazza Assistant Professor University of Groningen http://www.cs.rug.nl/~bisazza

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Call for Participation: FEL XXVI Albuquerque 02-04 November 2022
by Steven Krauwer 27 Sep '22

27 Sep '22

Registration is now open for the 26th Annual Conference of the Foundation for Endangered Languages, to be held at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 02-04 November 2022. The theme of this year’s conference is: Community ownership of language education for endangered language revitalization Invited speakers: Joel Isaak, Kenaitze Indian Trip, Kenai, Alaska “Teaching Dena'ina Literacy Through Culture” Melvatha Chee, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico “The Documentation of Indigenous Child speech and Child-Directed Speech” Conference web page here: https://www.ogmios.org/conferences/2022/index.php Register for the conference here: https://vonweber.nl/fel/registration_form.html Registration for the conference is required for both in-person and online attendance. In-person registration will close October 15, 2022. Remote registration will remain open throughout the conference. Local organizers Siri Tuttle and Wafa Hozien of Navajo Technical University will welcome participants on a first-day trip out of the city to Crownpoint, New Mexico, the home of Navajo Tech. To join this field trip, and to participate in a special conference dinner, registrants may sign up using this Google form: https://forms.gle/D7Mb8cCgHCV4ZKJp8 The costs of both events are included in the conference registration fee. -- _______________________________________________________________________ Steven Krauwer, CLARIN/FEL/ELSNET/UiLOTS, Utrecht, NL, s.krauwer(a)uu.nl

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Fwd: Abstract deadline extension - 1st International Multimodal Communication Symposium (MMSYM)
by Multimodal Communication Symposium 27 Sep '22

27 Sep '22

Dear colleagues, On behalf of the organizing committee for the *1st International Multimodal Communication Symposium (MMSYM)*, we hope this message finds you well. We are writing to inform you that the* abstract submission deadline* has been extended until *October 7th*. Please find the Call for Papers below. ______________________________________ *Third Call for Papers: 1st International Multimodal Communication Symposium 2023* ***With apologies for multiple postings*** We are delighted to announce that the *1st International Multimodal Communication Symposium (MMSYM 2023)*, which will take place in Barcelona in April 2023 (27th-28th), has just issued a Call for Papers. The abstract submissions are now open. *Call for Papers: 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*: October 7, 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* *Website*: mmsym.org *Email*: mmsym2023(a)gmail.com *Twitter*: @MMSYM2023 <https://twitter.com/mmsym2023> -- *The MMSYM 2023 Organizing Committee* *Website*: mmsym.org *Email*: mmsym2023(a)gmail.com *Twitter*: @MMSYM2023 <https://twitter.com/mmsym2023> -- *The MMSYM 2023 Organizing Committee* *Website*: mmsym.org *Email*: mmsym2023(a)gmail.com *Twitter*: @MMSYM2023 <https://twitter.com/mmsym2023> -- *The MMSYM 2023 Organizing Committee* *Website*: mmsym.org *Email*: mmsym2023(a)gmail.com *Twitter*: @MMSYM2023 <https://twitter.com/mmsym2023>

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Jobs: Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Computational Linguistics at Montclair
by Anna Feldman 27 Sep '22

27 Sep '22

The Department of Linguistics at Montclair State University invites candidates to apply for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Computational Linguistics position starting on September 1, 2023. [The position is open until filled.* Applications received by November 1 will receive fullest consideration.]* Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Linguistics, with a primary specialization in computational linguistics. We seek candidates who are active researchers in a core linguistics area that complements existing departmental strengths. The successful candidate will play an important role in the continued development of our programs in computational linguistics at the graduate and undergraduate levels that prepare students for careers in industry as well as academia. The new faculty will be expected to teach undergraduate and graduate courses, have an active research agenda, and participate in graduate mentoring and student advisement. Willingness to provide service to the department, university and the larger professional community is also required. Demonstrated ability in grant seeking/writing is a plus. Link to submit your application: https://montclair .wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/JobOpportunities/details/Assistant-Professor-of-Linguistics-- Computational-Linguistics_R1002553 Further information about the department and the research interests of its faculty is available at http://www.montclair.edu/chss/linguistics/ COLLEGE/SCHOOL AND DEPARTMENT DESCRIPTIONS The Linguistics Department at Montclair State, housed within the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, offers a wide variety of graduate and undergraduate programs including B.A. in Linguistics, M.A. in Applied Linguistics, and M.S. in Computational Linguistics (jointly with Computer Science). The undergraduate concentrations include ASL/English Interpreting, TESL, and Language Engineering. We also offer Graduate Certificates in Teaching English as a Second Language, Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, and Computational Linguistics. The Montclair State Linguistics Department faculty are all actively engaged in research. THE UNIVERSITY Montclair State University is a nationally recognized R2 research doctoral institution that empowers students, faculty, and researchers to rise above their own expectations. Building on a distinguished history dating back to 1908, the University today has 10 colleges and schools that serve 21,000 undergraduate and graduate students with more than 300 doctoral, master’s and baccalaureate programs. Situated on a beautiful, 252-acre suburban campus just 12 miles from New York City, Montclair State welcomes a diverse population of students, many of whom are first generation, and delivers the instructional and research resources of a large public university in a supportive and sophisticated academic environment. QUALIFICATIONS Earned Ph.D. in Linguistics or related discipline required at the time of appointment. Evidence of successful teaching experience at the undergraduate and graduate levels and an active research agenda in computational linguistics. DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION STATEMENT Montclair State University is committed to establishing and maintaining a diverse campus community that is representative of the State of New Jersey through inclusive excellence and equal opportunity. Montclair State University's commitment to access and equity is designed to prepare each graduate to thrive as a global citizen. As an affirmative action, equal opportunity institution we are working to support a campus-wide agenda to foster a community that both values and promotes the varied voices of our students, faculty, and staff. The University encourages candidates to apply who will contribute to the cultural tapestry of MSU and who value teaching a diverse student population, many of whom are first generation students. SALARY RANGE Commensurate with experience STARTING DATE September 1, 2023 REQUIRED MATERIALS: · Cover letter, curriculum vitae, research and teaching statements, and representative publications, which can be uploaded during the application process. · 3 letters of recommendation, which can be sent to: lingsearch2022@ montclair.edu APPLY BY: The position is open until filled.* Applications received by November 1 will receive fullest consideration.* You can contact the chair of the search committee, Dr. Jonathan Howell, with questions on the position at lingsearch2022(a)montclair.edu. AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY/AFFIRMATIVE ACTION INSTITUTION

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Job: open rank faculty position in quantitative methods of humanities research
by heather froehlich 26 Sep '22

26 Sep '22

The Department of Quantitative Theory & Methods at Emory University invites applications for a tenured or tenure-track faculty member with a specialization in quantitative methods of humanities research to begin fall 2023. We seek an exceptional, active researcher in any humanities discipline (or allied field, such as information studies or computer science) with strong interdisciplinary experience. The successful applicant will teach courses in quantitative methods and their applications in their discipline at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. We are especially interested in applicants with expertise in computational text analysis, computational image/audio/video analysis, humanities data analysis, and/or cultural analytics. The position is fully funded 9-month tenure-track, and open with respect to rank. The teaching load is competitive. A Ph.D. is required by time of appointment. QTM is a new and rapidly growing interdisciplinary department at Emory with faculty from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds including biology, computer science, economics, English, operations research, political science, public health, sociology, and statistics. The successful candidate must demonstrate excellence (or the promise of excellence) in research and teaching, as well as a strong ability to teach and mentor a diverse student body. The successful candidate will also demonstrate an interest in contributing to QTM’s intellectual mission. For a full list of ECAS faculty responsibilities, see: http://college.emory.edu/faculty/documents/faculty/faculty-responsibilities… For every search, diversifying our faculty is of primary importance. Emory has a diverse student body and values both vision and experience that will foster an inclusive learning environment. All faculty applicants will be required to complete a brief statement describing their experience and vision regarding the teaching and mentorship of students of diverse backgrounds. In addition to this statement, a complete application will also consist of a cover letter, curriculum vitae, research statement, teaching portfolio, writing sample of 20-25 pages, graduate transcript, and three letters of recommendation. Review begins October 1, 2022. Applications received by November 1, 2022 will receive full consideration. To apply for this position, please submit all materials through the following link. https://apply.interfolio.com/112362. best wishes, Heather Froehlich -- Dr Heather Froehlich w // http://hfroehli.ch t // @heatherfro

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Paid participant opportunity: legal and ethical issues of cross-border text and data mining
by heather froehlich 26 Sep '22

26 Sep '22

Dear all, The NEH-funded Legal Literacies for Text Data Mining, Cross-Border (LLTDM-X) <https://update.lib.berkeley.edu/2022/08/16/uc-berkeley-library-and-internet…> team seeks to compensate *10 U.S.-based* (living or working in U.S.) humanities and social sciences researchers with up to $800 stipends for discussing the legal and ethical issues they face or will face when conducting their cross-border text and data mining research. The project has previously created guidance around copyright, licensing, privacy, and ethical issues for the U.S. <https://berkeley.pressbooks.pub/buildinglltdm/> TDM (used broadly here- inclusive of any and all corpus and NLP projects) get more complicated, especially surroudning legal and ethical issues including but not limited to: + the materials you want to mine are housed in a foreign jurisdiction / are subject to foreign licensing or law, + the human subjects you are studying or who created the content you are studying reside in another country, or + the colleagues with whom you’re collaborating are abroad, and you are not sure whose law applies or what’s allowed. Their next steps are focused on corpora that are held or created beyond the U.S. border or that you access via foreign license agreements, as well as in collaboration with colleagues around the world on cross-border TDM projects. Participation in this roundtable will contribute to a Springtime NEH institute focused on cross-border text and data mining initiatives. Please see full details of how to apply to participate here, including an assessment guideline: https://buildinglltdm.org/2022/09/26/seeking-text-data-mining-researchers-f… . best wishes, Heather Froehlich -- Dr Heather Froehlich w // http://hfroehli.ch t // @heatherfro

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CfP for IJEAP Special Issue
by Eniko Csomay 26 Sep '22

26 Sep '22

Call for Abstracts for the 2024 *International Journal of English for Academic Purposes *Special Issue *Corpora and English for Academic Purposes * Guest Editor: Eniko Csomay The goal of the special issue is to offer an overview of the latest developments and innovations in the study of language in the academia with special emphasis on using corpora. The special issue welcomes studies from · all academic levels (primary/elementary, secondary, and tertiary including undergraduate and graduate) · all spoken and written registers as they relate to the academic context (e.g., TED talk language in training teaching associates, classroom discourse, student writing, academic prose, etc.) · all educational contexts where English is the medium of instruction (EMI), and · all research paradigms including corpus-driven, corpus-based, corpus-informed qualitative/quantitative methods including analyses of written texts, transcribed oral texts, and/or multimodal corpora. The journal makes all articles open access (free of charge) and all submissions go through a double blind review by experts in the field. Articles for this special issue are solicited by submission as well as by invitation. Suggested topics include but are not limited to · university classroom discourse · language use within and across disciplines · student writing at the university (whether in the classroom or under testing conditions) · the language of content-based instruction in Ø dual language schools and/or immersion programs (e.g., high school) Ø tertiary education (university, vocational school) · the language of EMI contexts · multimodal corpora · language training for teaching associates · the use of corpora with young learners · international perspectives on academic language use Abstracts should describe empirical studies and include implications. Full-length articles will be 7,000 words including references and appendices. Please send a max. 600-word abstract without author(s) names. On a separate sheet, include each author’s name, title of the article, affiliation, mailing address, e-mail address, telephone number, and a 50-word biographical statement. The deadline for abstracts is October 25, 2022. Please send abstracts and inquiries to the guest editor, Eniko Csomay at ecsomay(a)sdsu.edu. *Timeline:* September 25, 2022 Call for Papers October 25, 2022 Submission of abstracts November 5, 2022 Invitation to submit to special issue (based on abstracts and invitations) May 1, 2023 Manuscript submission June 10, 2023 Completion of first round of review August 1, 2023 Revised manuscript submission (based on first round of reviews) September 10, 2023 Completion of second round of reviews November 1, 2023 Final submission November 15, 2023 Manuscripts to be sent to the publisher to work with authors on proofs March 2024 Publication -- Eniko Csomay <https://linguistics.sdsu.edu/people/csomay>, Ph.D. Professor Department of Linguistics and Asian/Middle Eastern Languages <http://linguistics.sdsu.edu/> San Diego State University San Diego, CA 92182-7727 Office phone: (+1) 619.594.3377 Graduate advisor (2021-2024) Senator, Academic Senate, California State University (ASCSU <http://www.calstate.edu/AcadSen/>) (2018-2024) Chair, General Education Advisory Committee (GEAC <https://www.calstate.edu/csu-system/administration/academic-and-student-aff…>), ASCSU (2022-2023) Vice Chair, General Education Advisory Committee (GEAC <https://www.calstate.edu/csu-system/administration/academic-and-student-aff…>), ASCSU (2020-2022) Member, Academic Affairs Committee (AA <https://www.calstate.edu/csu-system/faculty-staff/academic-senate/Pages/Aca…>), ASCSU (2019-2023) Co-editor of *The Routledge Handbook of Corpora and English Language Teaching and Learning* <https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Corpora-in-English-Lang…> Co-editor for Journal of Corpora and Discourse Studies <https://jcads.cardiffuniversitypress.org/> Editorial Board member for Journal of English for Academic Purposes <https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-english-for-academic-purpo…> , English for Specific Purposes <https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/english-for-specific-purposes>, International Journal of English for Academic Purposes <https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journals/id/94/> Associate Dean, (SDSU) College of Arts and Letters <http://cal.sdsu.edu> (2009-2016) President, Fulbright Alumni Association, San Diego Chapter (2013-2018) English Language Specialist (2009 Morocco, 2015 Hungary, 2022 Taiwan) Fulbright Scholar (1995-1996) British Council Fellow (1992-1993) Soros-Oxford Fellow (1990-1991)

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Call for Participation: SemEval-2023 Shared Task 3 - Genre, Framing, and Persuasion Techniques Detection in Online News in a Multi-lingual Setup
by joedsm＠gmail.com 26 Sep '22

26 Sep '22

We are glad to invite you to participate in the SemEval-2023 Shared Task 3 on detecting the genre, the framing, and the persuasion techniques in online news. The main drive behind this task is to foster development of methods and tools to support the analysis of online media content in order to understand what makes a text persuasive: which writing style is used, what key aspects are highlighted, and which persuasion techniques are used to influence the reader. The data used for for this task is made of articles collected from 2020 to mid 2022, they revolve around a range of widely discussed topics such as COVID-19, climate change, abortion, migration, the Russo-Ukrainian war, and local elections. The data presents several novelties: it is multilabel, multilingual, uses an updated taxonomy of persuassion techniques and covers complementary dimensions of what makes a text persuasive. Are you interested in using AI systems to analyse political speech, media bias or rhetorics? Then you should not miss this task!!! URL https://propaganda.math.unipd.it/semeval2023task3/ TASKS We offer three subtasks on news articles in six languages (English, French, German, Italian, Polish, and Russian). Subtask 1: NEWS GENRE CATEGORISATION Given a news article, determine whether it is an opinion piece, aims at objective news reporting, or is a satire piece. This is a multi-class task at article-level. Subtask 2: NEWS FRAME CATEGORISATION Given a news article, identify the generic frames used in the article. This is a multi-class task at article-level. Subtask 3: PERSUASION TECHNIQUE DETECTION Given a news article, identify the persuasion techniques in each paragraph. This is a multi-label task at paragraph level. PARTICIPATION & EVALUATION The participants may take part in any number of subtask-language pairs (even just one), and may train their systems using the data for all languages (in a multilingual setup). To promote the development of language-agnostic solutions, there will be also two "surprise" languages for which we will release only test data for evaluation purposes. IMPORTANT DATES 23 September 2022: Registration opens 23 September 2022: Release of the first batch of the training\development set (next batches will follow regularly). 12 January 2023: Release of the test set 22 January 2023: Test submission site closes February 2023: Paper Submission Deadline March 2023: Notification to authors April 2023: Camera ready papers due Summer 2023: SemEval 2023 workshop TASK ORGANIZERS Giovanni Da San Martino, Preslav Nakov, Jakub Piskorski, Nicolas Stefanovitch

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Postdoctoral position at Cardiff University
by Steven Schockaert 26 Sep '22

26 Sep '22

Location: Cardiff, UK Deadline for applications: 17th October 2022 Start date: 1st January 2023 (or later) Duration: 30 months Keywords: learning & reasoning, natural language processing, commonsense reasoning Details about the post Applications are invited for a Research Associate post in the Cardiff University School of Computer Science & Informatics, to work on the EPSRC Open Fellowship project ReStoRe (Reasoning about Structured Story Representations), which is focused on story-level language understanding. The overall aim of this project is to develop methods for learning graph-structured representations of stories. For this post, the specific focus will be on developing common sense reasoning strategies, based on graph neural networks, to fill the gap between what is explicitly stated in a story and what a human reader would infer by “reading between the lines”. More details about the post and instructions on how to apply are available here: https://krb-sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search/home/HomeWithPreLoad?partner… Background about the ReStoRe project When we read a story as a human, we build up a mental model of what is described. Such mental models are crucial for reading comprehension. They allow us to relate the story to our earlier experiences, to make inferences that require combining information from different sentences, and to interpret ambiguous sentences correctly. Crucially, mental models capture more information than what is literally mentioned in the story. They are representations of the situations that are described, rather than the text itself, and they are constructed by combining the story text with our commonsense understanding of how the world works. The field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) has made rapid progress in the last few years, but the focus has largely been on sentence-level representations. Stories, such as news articles, social media posts or medical case reports, are essentially modelled as collections of sentences. As a result, current systems struggle with the ambiguity of language, since the correct interpretation of a word or sentence can often only be inferred by taking its broader story context into account. They are also severely limited in their ability to solve problems where information from different sentences needs to be combined. As a final example, current systems struggle to identify correspondences between related stories (e.g. different news articles about the same event), especially if they are written from a different perspective. To address these fundamental challenges, we need a method to learn story-level representations that can act as an analogue to mental models. Intuitively, there are two steps involved in learning such story representations: first we need to model what is literally mentioned in the story, and then we need some form of commonsense reasoning to fill in the gaps. In practice, however, these two steps are closely interrelated: interpreting what is mentioned in the story requires a model of the story context, but constructing this model requires an interpretation of what is mentioned. The solution that is proposed in this fellowship is based on representations called story graphs. These story graphs encode the events that occur, the entities involved, and the relationships that hold between these entities and events. A story can then be viewed as an incomplete specification of a story graph, similar to how a symbolic knowledge base corresponds to an incomplete specification of a possible world. The proposed framework will allow us to reason about textual information in a principled way. It will lead to significant improvements in NLP tasks where a commonsense understanding is required of the situations that are described, or where information from multiple sentences or documents needs to be combined. It will furthermore enable a step change in applications that directly rely on structured text representations, such as situational understanding, information retrieval systems for the legal, medical and news domains, and tools for inferring business insights from news stories and social media feeds.

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