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free online event 14 May
by Brezina, Vaclav 24 Apr '24

24 Apr '24

Dear all, We are organizing a free online event "Lancaster Talks on Language: Corpus linguistics". This event offers three short lectures on corpus linguistics by leading experts in the field. You will also learn more about training opportunities in corpus linguistics at Lancaster University. Free registration: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/events/lancaster-talks-on-language-… Programme: Prof. Elena Semino: Corpus linguistics and healthcare Prof. Vaclav Brezina: New tools and methods in corpus linguistics Dr Dana Gablasova: Corpus linguistics and data-driven learning 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:image001.jpg@01DA9632.B1FA8F10]@vaclavbrezina [cid:image002.jpg@01DA9632.B1FA8F10]<http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/arts-and-social-sciences/about-us/people/vaclav-…>

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Position as research assistant in the CRC "NegLaB" at Goethe University Frankfurt - Application deadline: 03.05.2024
by Giuseppe Abrami 24 Apr '24

24 Apr '24

***Apologies for possible cross-posting **** * At the Institute of Computer Science (Prof. Dr. Alexander Mehler, TTLab, https://www.texttechnologylab.org), Department of Computer Science and Mathematics at Goethe University Frankfurt / Germany, a position for a *Research Assistant (m/f/d) (E 13 TV-G-U)* is available *at the next possible date* as a temporary position until 31.12.2027 within the project "INF: Scientific services and data management”. The project is part of the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 1629 "Negation in Language and Beyond (NegLaB)" (https://www.uni-frankfurt.de/149292001/Negation_in_Language_and_Beyond), which is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The salary group classification is based on the job characteristics determined by the collective labour agreement in effect for the Goethe University (TV-G-U). *Responsibilities:* The aim of the project is the establishment, maintenance, and development of a research database, including services to ensure the reproducibility and long-term sustainability of partly multimodal research data (i.e., both linguistic and non-linguistic data such as eye-tracking data), as well as the development or application of deep learning methods for the annotation of linguistic data. The applicant is expected to engage in the project and actively participate in courses, workshops, and events of the CRC. We are looking for a highly qualified person who (a) has a strong interest in contributing to current research data infrastructures, and (b) wants to join a research team for the development of NLP methods and their data-driven application. We offer a stimulating and international environment in the field of computational linguistics/text technology, including financial funds for conference participation and individual career development. *Requirements:* * Completed academic degree (Master's or equivalent) in computer science, computational linguistics or a field related to database management and NLP. * Demonstrable experience in setting up databases and utilizing NLP methods (e.g. automatic annotation, corpus linguistic methods). * Extensive programming knowledge in Java, Python or similar. * Knowledge of the use of Docker is an advantage. * An interest in linguistic issues is desirable but not essential. Please submit your application with the usual documents (cover letter, curriculum vitae, copies of certificates) electronically in a single PDF document to Prof. Dr. Alexander Mehler by *03.05.2024*: mehler(a)em.uni-frankfurt.de <mailto:mehler@em.uni-frankfurt.de?subject=INF NegLaB>. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Giuseppe Abrami Text-Technology Lab Fakultät für Informatik und Mathematik Goethe-Universität Frankfurt Robert-Mayer-Strasse 10 4. Stock (Texttechnologie) 60325 Frankfurt am Main Postfach: 154 Tel: +49 69-798-28926 Fax: +49 69-798-28931 Mail: abrami(a)em.uni-frankfurt.de Web: http://www.texttechnologylab.org

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[Call for Abstracts] Deadline extended: Analysis of Linguistic VAriation for BEtter Tools (ALVABET) within the LLcD 2024 Conference
by mathilde.regnault＠ling.uni-stuttgart.de 23 Apr '24

23 Apr '24

Call for Abstracts: Analysis of Linguistic VAriation for BEtter Tools (ALVABET) within the LLcD 2024 Conference (https://llcd2024.sciencesconf.org/) Workshop Variation plays a particularly important role in linguistic change, since every change stem from a state of variation; but each state of variation does not necessarily end up with a change: the new variant can disappear, or variation can linger but in different contexts. Access to sufficient amounts of data and their quantification, in order to detect the emergence of new variants as precisely as possible, and the recession or even disappearance of others, is a precious tool for the study of variations, whatever their dimensions (diachronic, diatopic, …) and in whatever field (syntax, morphology, …). The appearance of large corpora has thus renewed the study of variation. NLP has contributed largely to this renewal, providing tools for the enrichment and the exploration of these corpora. In return, linguistic analysis can help explain some of these errors and thus deepen the picture where performance metrics tend to flatten out everything under a single number, or even help improve the performances. NLP annotation tools, such as syntactic parsers and morphological taggers, reach great performances nowadays when they are applied on similar data to those seen during their development. However, they quickly drop as the target data diverges from those of the training scenario. This raises a number of issues when it comes to using automatically annotated data to perform linguistic studies. This workshop aims at exploring bilateral contributions between Natural Language Processing and variation analysis in the fields of morphosyntax and syntax, from diachronic and diatopic perspectives but also from genre, domain or form of writing, without any restriction on the languages of interest. We warmly welcome submissions dealing with the issues and contributions of applying NLP to variation analysis : • Quantification of variation along its different dimensions (both external and internal ones as well as in interaction with each other); • Impact of annotation errors on the study of marginal structures (emergent or recessing); • Syntactic variation when it is induced by semantic changes. But also submissions dealing with the contributions of variation analysis to NLP: • Variation mitigation (spelling standardisation...); • Domain adaptation (domain referring here to any variation dimension); • Error analysis (in and out of domain) in light of known variation phenomena, amongst which (de-)grammaticalisation; • The evolution of grammatical categories and its impact on prediction models; • The place of variation studies in NLP in the large language model era. These themes are only suggestions, and the workshop will gladly host any submission that deals substantially with the reciprocal contributions between NLP and variation analysis in the mentioned fields. Full workshop description: https://llcd2024.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/WS12Eng.pdf Important Dates • Apr 30, 2024: extended deadline for abstract submission • May 15, 2024: Notification • Sep 9-11: Conference Submissions Abstracts must clearly state the research questions, approach, method, data and (expected) results. They must be anonymous: not only must they not contain the presenters' names, affiliations or addresses, but they must avoid any other information that might reveal their author(s). They should not exceed 500 words (including examples, but excluding bibliographical references). Abstracts will be assessed by two members of the Scientific Committee and (one of) the workshop organizers.

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Two postdoc positions at University of Turin (HARMONIA)
by Valerio Basile 23 Apr '24

23 Apr '24

The Content-Centered Computing <https://www.cs.unito.it/do/gruppi.pl/Show?_id=453y> group at the University of Turin, Italy, offers *two 14-month postdoc positions* in the context of HARMONIA (Harmony in Hybrid Decision-Making: Knowledge-enhanced Perspective-taking LLMs for Inclusive Decision-Making), funded by the European Union under the NextGenerationEU program within the larger project FAIR (Future Artificial Intelligence) Spoke 2 "Integrative AI" <https://fair.fbk.eu/>. The project aims at developing methods for the adoption of knowledge-enhanced Large Language Models (LLMs) in supporting informed and inclusive political decisions within public decision-making processes. The topics of the postdoc fellowships are: - Computational linguistics methods for knowledge-enhanced perspective-taking LLMs to support Inclusive Decision-Making - Perspective-taking LLMs for supporting Inclusive Decision-Making (full descriptions below) The team includes members of the Computer Science Department and Economics and Statistics Department of the University of Turin. A PhD in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, or related areas is highly recommended. Knowledge of Italian is not mandatory. The deadline for application is *May 13th 2024*. The gross salary is €25.328 (about €1,860/month net salary). Turin <https://www.turismotorino.org/en/territory/torino-metropoli/torino> is a vibrant and liveable city in Northern Italy, close to the beautiful Italian Alps and with a manageable cost of living <https://en.unito.it/living-turin/when-you-arrive/cost-living-turin>. Link to the call <https://www.turismotorino.org/en/territory/torino-metropoli/torino> (in Italian). Link to the application platform <https://pica.cineca.it/unito/assegni-di-ricerca-unito-2024-i-pnrr/>. Please write to <valerio.basile(a)unito.it> or <viviana.patti(a)unito.it> for further information on how to apply. Best regards, Valerio Basile -- *Computational linguistics methods for knowledge-enhanced perspective-taking LLMs to support Inclusive Decision-Making* The activity will focus on a) design of a semantic model to represent interactions between urban services and citizens and integrate multi-source hybrid data; b) data annotation by citizens with different socio-cultural backgrounds to collect different perspectives on social issues. Data will be collected and organized in a Knowledge Graph. The activity will be supported by an interdisciplinary team of experts in KR, behavioral economics and LLMs (link with the design of knowledge-enhanced LLMs). *Perspective-taking LLMs for supporting Inclusive Decision-Making* The activity will focus on a) exploring techniques for integrating multi-source hybrid citizen data into LLMs (RAG and Knowledge Injection); b) developing methods for training and evaluating perspective-taking LLMs, which explicitly encode multiple perspectives, embodying the point of view of different citizen communities on a topic. Planned activities include: benchmark creation, error analysis, and evaluation of the efficiency and reliability of the developed technologies.

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CALAMITA - Challenge the Abilities of LAnguage Models in ITAlian - Call for Challenges
by Malvina Nissim 23 Apr '24

23 Apr '24

*CALAMITA - Challenge the Abilities of LAnguage Models in ITAlian* *Special event co-located with the Tenth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics - CLiC-it 2024 Pisa, 4 - 6 December, 2024 - https://clic2024.ilc.cnr.it/ <https://clic2024.ilc.cnr.it/> * *Upcoming deadline: 17th May 2024, challenge pre-proposal submission! Pre-proposal form: *https://forms.gle/u4rSt9yXHHYquKrB6 *Project Description* AILC, the Italian Association for Computational Linguistics, is launching a *collaborative* effort to develop a dynamic and growing benchmark for evaluating LLMs’ capabilities in Italian. In the *long term*, we aim to establish a suite of tasks in the form of a benchmark which can be accessed through a shared platform and a live leaderboard. This would allow for ongoing evaluation of existing and newly developed Italian or multilingual LLMs. In the *short term*, we are looking to start building this benchmark through a series of challenges collaboratively construed by the research community. Concretely, this happens through the present call for challenge contributions. In a similar style to standard Natural Language Processing shared tasks, *participants are asked to contribute a task and the corresponding dataset with which a set of LLMs should be challenged*. Participants are expected to provide an explanation and motivation for a given task, a dataset that reflects that task together with any information relevant to the dataset (provenance, annotation, distribution of labels or phenomena, etc.) and a rationale for putting that together that way. Evaluation metrics and example prompts should also be provided. Existing relevant datasets are also very welcome, together with related publications if available. All of the proposed challenges either with existing datasets or new datasets, will have to follow the challenge template, which will be distributed in due time, towards the write-up of a challenge paper. In this first phase, all prospective participants are asked to submit a *pre-proposal* by filling in this form https://forms.gle/u4rSt9yXHHYquKrB6. Please fill in all the fields so we can get an idea of what challenge you’d like to propose, how the model should be prompted to perform the task, where you’d get the data and how much, whether it’s already available, etc. The organizers will examine the submitted pre-proposals and select those challenges that comply with the template’s requirements, with an eye to balancing different challenge types. The selected challenges will be expanded with a full dataset, longer descriptions, etc. according to the aforementioned template which will be distributed later. The final report of each accepted challenge must provide the code for the evaluation with an example that must smoothly run on a pre-selected base LLM (most likely LLaMa-2) which will be communicated by the organisers in the second phase. All reports will be published as CEUR Proceedings related to the CALAMITA event. Subsequently, all challenge organisers who wish to be involved can participate in a broader follow-up paper, targeting a top venue, which will describe the whole benchmark, procedures, results, and analyses. Once this first challenge set is put together, the *CALAMITA organizers* will run *zero* or *few* shots experiments with a selection of LLMs, and write a final report. No tuning materials or experiments are expected at this stage of the project. *Deadlines (tentative)* - *17th May 2024: pre-proposal submission* - 27th May 2024: notification of pre-proposal acceptance - End of May 2024: distribution of challenge paper template and further instructions - 2nd September 2024: data and report submission - 30th September 2024: benchmark ready with reports for each challenge (after light review) - October-November 2024: running selected models on the benchmark with analyses - 4th-6th December 2024: CLIC-it Pisa (special event co-located with CLIC-it 2024) *Website:* https://clic2024.ilc.cnr.it/calamita (under construction) *Mail: *calamita.ailc(a)gmail.com *Organizers* - Pierpaolo Basile (University of Bari Aldo Moro) - Danilo Croce (University of Rome, Tor Vergata) - Malvina Nissim (University of Groningen) - Viviana Patti (University of Turin)

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Postdoc or Research Assistant in London (QMUL)
by Haim Dubossarsky 23 Apr '24

23 Apr '24

On behalf of Prof. Mark Sandler. Lyrics generation project using LLMs. Notice the closing deadline. From: Mark Sandler <mark.sandler(a)qmul.ac.uk> I am happy to announce that the Centre for Digital Music is now formally advertising the new research positions I posted last week. One area is lyrics generation and the other is music signal processing (instrument ID, loop ID, lyric transcription). Both are collaborative with London-based music industry companies, session and stage. These are available immediately and can be offered as either post-doctoral or graduate research assistants, and can be either full- or part-time. Closing date is May 1 2024. Details can be found here https://www.qmul.ac.uk/jobs/vacancies/items/9619.html https://www.qmul.ac.uk/jobs/vacancies/items/9617.html

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Re: Corpora Digest, Vol 789, Issue 1
by frcchang＠gmail.com 23 Apr '24

23 Apr '24

help ---- Replied Message ---- From corpora-request(a)list.elra.info Date 04/22/2024 20:00 To corpora(a)list.elra.info Cc Subject Corpora Digest, Vol 789, Issue 1 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. WMT 2024: Low-Resource Indic Language Translation. (Santanu Pal) 2. Final CPF: SIGIR eCom'24: May 3rd (Tracy Holloway King) 3. [2nd CFP] Special issue on Abusive Language Detection of the journal Traitement Automatique des Langues (TAL) (Farah Benamara) 4. [Call for Participation]: GermEval2024 Shared Task GerMS-Detect - Sexism Detection in German Online News Fora @Konvens 2024 (stephanie.gross(a)ofai.at) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2024 13:02:42 +0100 From: Santanu Pal <santanu.pal.ju(a)gmail.com> Subject: [Corpora-List] WMT 2024: Low-Resource Indic Language Translation. To: corpora(a)list.elra.info Message-ID: <CALdLWwZZ4EJ6Vk5r9xS1b90vGBgtWpfq_PwGJSF=F+UQ6-ZCUg(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="00000000000043488c06169a1b64" Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to inform you that we will be hosting the "Shared Task: Low-Resource Indic Language Translation" again this year as part of WMT 2024. Following the outstanding success and enthusiastic participation witnessed in the previous year's edition, we are excited to continue this important initiative. Despite recent advancements in machine translation (MT), such as multilingual translation and transfer learning techniques, the scarcity of parallel data remains a significant challenge, particularly for low-resource languages. The WMT 2024 Indic Machine Translation Shared Task aims to address this challenge by focusing on low-resource Indic languages from diverse language families. Specifically, we are targeting languages such as Assamese, Mizo, Khasi, Manipuri, Nyishi, Bodo, Mising, and Kokborok. For inquiries and further information, please contact us at lrilt.wmt24(a)gmail.com. Additionally, you can find more details and updates on the task through the following link: Task Link: https://www2.statmt.org/wmt24/indic-mt-task.html. We highly encourage participants to register in advance so that we can provide updates regarding release dates of data and other relevant information periodically To register for the event, please fill out the registration form available here. ( https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd8LwriqdLLhVNAvUWEcGRJmKuBFQZ9BR_… ) We look forward to your participation and contributions to advancing low-resource Indic language translation. with best regards, Santanu

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[CFP] Deadline extended - 2024 SIGIR First Workshop on Large Language Models, LLMs, for Evaluation in Information Retrieval
by Guglielmo Faggioli 23 Apr '24

23 Apr '24

The first workshop on evaluating IR systems with Large Language Models (LLMs) is accepting submissions that describe original research findings, preliminary research results, proposals for new work, and recent relevant studies already published in high-quality venues. Topics of interest We welcome both full papers and extended abstract submissions on the following topics, including but not limited to: - LLM-based evaluation metrics for traditional IR and generative IR. - Agreement between human and LLM labels. - Effectiveness and/or efficiency of LLMs to produce robust relevance labels. - Investigating LLM-based relevance estimators for potential systemic biases. - Automated evaluation of text generation systems. - End-to-end evaluation of Retrieval Augmented Generation systems. - Trustworthiness in the world of LLMs evaluation. - Prompt engineering in LLMs evaluation. - Effectiveness and/or efficiency of LLMs as ranking models. - LLMs in specific IR tasks such as personalized search, conversational search, and multimodal retrieval. - Challenges and future directions in LLM-based IR evaluation. Submission guidelines We welcome the following submissions: - Previously unpublished manuscripts will be accepted as extended abstracts and full papers (any length between 1 - 9 pages) with unlimited references, formatted according to the latest ACM SIG proceedings template available at http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. - Published manuscripts can be submitted in their original format. All submissions should be made through Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=llm4eval All papers will be peer-reviewed (single-blind) by the program committee and judged by their relevance to the workshop, especially to the main themes identified above, and their potential to generate discussion. For already published studies, the paper can be submitted in the original format. These submissions will be reviewed for their relevance to this workshop. All submissions must be in English (PDF format). All accepted papers will have a poster presentation with a few selected for spotlight talks. Accepted papers may be uploaded to arXiv.org, allowing submission elsewhere as they will be considered non-archival. The workshop’s website will maintain a link to the arXiv versions of the papers. Important Dates - Submission Deadline: April 25th May 2nd, 2024 (AoE time) - Acceptance Notifications: May 31st, 2024 (AoE time) - Workshop date: July 18, 2024 Website For more information, visit the workshop website: https://llm4eval.github.io/ Contact For any questions about paper submission, you may contact the workshop organizers at llm4eval(a)easychair.org

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First Call For Papers: 17th International Natural Language Generation Conference INLG 2024
by Saad Mahamood 23 Apr '24

23 Apr '24

*First Call For papers: 17th International Natural Language Generation Conference INLG 2024* We invite the submission of long and short papers, as well as system demonstrations, related to all aspects of Natural Language Generation (NLG), including data-to-text, concept-to-text, text-to-text and vision-to-text approaches. Accepted papers will be presented as oral talks or posters. The event is organized under the auspices of the Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation (SIGGEN) (https://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN) of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) (https://aclweb.org/). The event will be held from 23-27 September in Tokyo, Japan. INLG 2024 will be taking place after SIGDial 2024 (18-20 September) nearby in Kyoto. **Important dates** All deadlines are Anywhere on Earth (UTC-12) • START system regular paper submission deadline: May 31, 2024 • ARR commitment to INLG deadline via START system: June 24, 2024 • START system demo paper submission deadline: June 24, 2024 • Notification: July 15, 2024 • Camera ready: August 16, 2024 • Conference: 23-27 September 2024 **Topics** INLG 2024 solicits papers on any topic related to NLG. General topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Large Language Models (LLMs) for NLG • Affect/emotion generation • Analysis and detection of automatically generated text • Bias and fairness in NLG systems • Cognitive modelling of language production • Computational efficiency of NLG models • Content and text planning • Corpora and resources for NLG • Ethical considerations of NLG • Evaluation and error analysis of NLG systems • Explainability and Trustworthiness of NLG systems • Generalizability of NLG systems • Grounded language generation • Lexicalisation • Multimedia and multimodality in generation • Natural language understanding techniques for NLG • NLG and accessibility • NLG in speech synthesis and spoken language models • NLG in dialogue • NLG for human-robot interaction • NLG for low-resourced languages • NLG for real-world applications • Paraphrasing, summarization and translation • Personalisation and variation in text • Referring expression generation • Storytelling and narrative generation • Surface realization • System architectures **Submissions & Format** Three kinds of papers can be submitted: • Long papers are most appropriate for presenting substantial research results and must not exceed eight (8) pages of content, plus unlimited pages of ethical considerations, supplementary material statements, and references. The supplementary material statement provides detailed descriptions to support the reproduction of the results presented in the paper (see below for details). The 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. • Short papers are more appropriate for presenting an ongoing research effort and must not exceed four (4) pages, plus unlimited pages of ethical considerations, supplementary material statements, and references. The 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. • Demo papers should be no more than two (2) pages, including references, and should describe implemented systems relevant to the NLG community. It also should include a link to a short screencast of the working software. In addition, authors of demo papers must be willing to present a demo of their system during INLG 2024. Submissions should follow ACL Author Guidelines (https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Author_Guidelines) and policies for submission, review and citation, and be anonymised for double blind reviewing. Please use ACL 2023 style files; LaTeX style files and Microsoft Word templates are available at: https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html Authors must honor the ethical code set out in the ACL Code of Ethics (https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/acl-code-ethics). If your work raises any ethical issues, you should include an explicit discussion of those issues. This will also be taken into account in the review process. You may find the following checklist of use: https://aclrollingreview.org/responsibleNLPresearch/ Authors are strongly encouraged to ensure that their work is reproducible; see, e.g., the following reproducibility checklist (https://2021.aclweb.org/calls/reproducibility-checklist/). Papers involving any kind of experimental results (human judgments, system outputs, etc) should incorporate a data availability statement into their paper. Authors are asked to indicate whether the data is made publicly available. If the data is not made available, authors should provide a brief explanation why. (E.g. because the data contains proprietary information.) A statement guide is available on the INLG 2024 website: https://inlg2024.github.io/ To submit a long or short paper to INLG 2024, authors can either submit directly or commit a paper previously reviewed by ARR via the same paper submission site (https://softconf.com/n/inlg2024/). For direct submissions, the deadline for submitting papers is May 31, 2024, 11:59:59 AOE. If committing an ARR paper to INLG, the submission is also made through the INLG 2024 paper submission site, indicating the link of the paper on OpenReview. The deadline for committing an ARR paper to INLG is June 24, 2024, 11:59:59 AOE, and the last eligible ARR paper submission deadline for INLG 2024 is May 24, 2024. It is important to note that when committing an ARR paper to INLG, it should be submitted through the INLG 2024 paper submission site, just like a direct submission paper, with the only difference being the need to provide the OpenReview link to the paper and to provide an optional author response to reviews. Demo papers should be submitted directly through the INLG 2024 paper submission site (https://softconf.com/n/inlg2024/) by June 24, 2024, 11:59:59 AOE. All accepted papers will be published in the INLG 2024 proceedings and included in the ACL anthology. A paper accepted for presentation at INLG 2024 must not have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available proceedings. Dual submission to other conferences is permitted, provided that authors clearly indicate this in the submission form. If the paper is accepted at both venues, the authors will need to choose which venue to present at, since they can not present the same paper twice. Finally, at least one of the authors of an accepted paper must register to attend the conference. **Awards** INLG 2024 will present several awards to recognize outstanding achievements in the field. These awards are: • Best Long Paper Award: This award will be given to the best long paper submission based on its originality, impact, and contribution to the field of NLG. • Best Short Paper Award: This award will be given to the best short paper submission based on its originality, impact, and contribution to the field of NLG. • Best Demo Paper Award: This award will recognize the best demo paper submitted to the conference. This award considers not only the paper's quality but also the demonstration given at the conference. The demonstration will play a significant role in the judging process. • Best Evaluation Award: The award is a new addition to INLG 2024. This award is designed to honor authors who have demonstrated the most comprehensive and insightful analysis in evaluating their results. This award aims to highlight papers where the authors have gone the extra mile in providing a thorough and detailed analysis of their results, offering a nuanced understanding of their findings.

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RiCL indexed as Q2 in SJR
by Paula Rodríguez-Puente 22 Apr '24

22 Apr '24

Dear colleagues, We are happy to announce that the journal *Research in Corpus Linguistics,* sponsored by the *Spanish Association for Corpus Linguistics**, has been indexed in Scimago Journal and Country Rank. The journal has been ranked in Quartile 2 (Q2) for the period 2019–2023.* As SJR’s indexing criteria show, there is no doubt that RiCL has been an academically relevant linguistic journal since 2019. The editorial team is particularly happy with the coverage (2019–2023), which is beneficial for authors who have published in RiCL over the time-frame (2019–2023), and evidence of the substantial work carried out by the team since 2018. We would like to thank all contributors, guest editors and reviewers for their collaboration with the journal and invite scholars to submit their submission proposals to the journal. 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. Further information at: *https://ricl.aelinco.es <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://ricl.aelinco.es/__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!XdCA4T…>* All the best, Paula Rodríguez-Puente and Carlos Prado-Alonso (editors of RiCL) -- Paula Rodríguez Puente rodriguezppaula(a)uniovi.es <paula.r.puente(a)gmail.com> http://www.usc-vlcg.es/PRP.htm <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_cam…> Libre de virus.www.avg.com <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_cam…> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>

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3rd CfP: 5th International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change 2024 (LChange’24)
by Syrielle Montariol 22 Apr '24

22 Apr '24

***Apologies for possible cross-posting *** Third Call for Papers: 5th International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change (LChange’24) /!\ Less than 3 weeks before the submission deadline /!\ We're organizing a full-day workshop co-located with the ACL conference on Aug 15, 2024 in Bangkok and online. We hope to make this fifth edition another resounding success! This year, we are happy to host a *shared task* within LChange: the *AXOLOTL-24* Shared Task on Explainable Semantic Change Modeling. Workshop: https://www.changeiskey.org/event/2024-acl-lchange/ Shared task: https://github.com/ltgoslo/axolotl24_shared_task/. Contact email: lchange(a)changeiskey.org Workshop description The LChange workshop targets all aspects of computational modeling of language change, historical as well as synchronic change. It is running in its fifth iteration following successful workshops in 2019 <https://languagechange.org/events/2019-acl-lcworkshop/>, 2021 <https://languagechange.org/events/2021-acl-lcworkshop/>, 2022 <https://languagechange.org/events/2022-acl-lchange/>, and 2023 <https://languagechange.org/events/2023-emnlp-lchange/>, and will be co-located with ACL 2024 in Bangkok (Thailand), as a hybrid event. The workshop will take place on Thursday 15 August 2024. The main topics of the workshop remain the same: all aspects around computational approaches to language change with a focus on digital text corpora. LChange explores state-of-the-art computational methodologies, theories and digital text resources on exploring the time-varying nature of human language. The aim of this workshop is to provide pioneering researchers who work on computational methods, evaluation, and large-scale modeling of language change an outlet for disseminating research on topics concerning language change. Besides these goals, this workshop will also support discussion on evaluating computational methodologies for uncovering language change. We’ll also be offering mentorship to students, to discuss their research topic with a member of the field, regardless of whether they are submitting a paper or not. Important Dates * May 10, 2024: Paper submission * June 20, 2024: Notification of acceptance * June 30, 2024: Camera-ready papers due * August 15, 2024: Workshop date AXOLOTL-24 Shared Task AXOLOTL-24 stands for “Ascertain and eXplain Overhauls of the Lexicon Over Time at LChange'24” and is organized by Mariia Fedorova and Andrey Kutuzov (University of Oslo), Timothee Mickus, Niko Partanen and Janine Siewert (University of Helsinki), and Elena Spaziani (Sapienza University Rome). The AXOLOTL'24 shared task itself is finished, and the leaderboards are published. But you can still participate in the post-evaluation phase and submit a paper to LChange. The shared task presents two subtasks: - Subtask 1: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/18570 Finding the target word usages associated with new, gained senses - Subtask 2: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/18572 <https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/18008>Describing these senses in a way that facilitates understanding and lexicographical research. Submissions We accept two types of submissions, long and short papers, consisting of up to eight (8) and four (4) pages of content, respectively, plus unlimited references; final versions will be given one additional page of content so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account. We also welcome papers focusing on releasing a dataset or a model; these papers fall into the short paper category. We invite original research papers from a wide range of topics, including but not limited to: - Novel methods for detecting diachronic semantic change and lexical replacement - Automatic discovery and quantitative evaluation of laws of language change - Computational theories and generative models of language change - Sense-aware (semantic) change analysis - Diachronic word sense disambiguation - Novel methods for diachronic analysis of low-resource languages - Novel methods for diachronic linguistic data visualization - Novel applications and implications of language change detection - Quantification of sociocultural influences on language change - Cross-linguistic, phylogenetic, and developmental approaches to language change - Novel datasets for cross-linguistic and diachronic analyses of language Accepted papers will be presented orally or as posters and included in the workshop proceedings. Submissions are open to all and are to be submitted anonymously. All papers will be refereed through a double-blind peer review process by at least three reviewers with final acceptance decisions made by the workshop organizers. If you have published in the field previously, and are interested in helping out in the program committee to review papers, please send us an email! Workshop organizers Nina Tahmasebi, University of Gothenburg Syrielle Montariol, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne Andrey Kutuzov, University of Oslo Simon Hengchen, iguanodon.ai and Université de Genève David Alfter, University of Gothenburg Francesco Periti, University of Milan Pierluigi Cassotti, University of Gothenburg

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[Call for Participation]: GermEval2024 Shared Task GerMS-Detect - Sexism Detection in German Online News Fora @Konvens 2024
by stephanie.gross＠ofai.at 22 Apr '24

22 Apr '24

1st CALL FOR PARTICIPATION We are pleased to announce the GermEval Shared Task GerMS-Detect on Sexism Detection in German Online News Fora collocated with Konvens 2024. Competition Website: https://ofai.github.io/GermEval2024-GerMS/ Important Dates: Trial phase: April 20 - April 29, 2024 Development phase: May 1 - June 5, 2024 Competition phase: June 7 - June 25, 2024 Paper submission due: July 1, 2024 Camera ready due: July 20, 2024 Shared Task @KONVENS: 10 September, 2024 Task description: This shared task is about the detection of sexism/misogyny in comments posted in (mostly) German language to the comment section of an Austrian online newspaper. The data was originally collected for the development of a classifier that supports human moderators in detecting potentially sexist comments or identify comment fora with a high rate of sexist comments. For details see the Competition Website (https://ofai.github.io/GermEval2024-GerMS/). Organizers: The task is organized by the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI) (www.ofai.at). Organizing team: Brigitte Krenn (brigitte.krenn (AT) ofai.at) Johann Petrak (johann.petrak (AT) ofai.at) Stephanie Gross (stephanie.gross (AT) ofai.at)

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[2nd CFP] Special issue on Abusive Language Detection of the journal Traitement Automatique des Langues (TAL)
by Farah Benamara 22 Apr '24

22 Apr '24

================[Apologies for any cross-posting]================ **Special issue of the journal Traitement Automatique des Langues (TAL) Abusive Language Detection : Linguistic Resources, Methods and Applications ** **Guest Editors** Farah Benamara (IRIT-Toulouse University, IPAL Singapore), Delphine Battistelli (MoDyCo, Paris Nanterre University) and Viviana Patti (Turin University) **Motivations** Abusive language - or, in another very common terminology, hate speech - and the propagation of harmful stereotypes have unfortunately become commonplace occurrences on various social media platforms, partly due to users’ freedom and anonymity and the lack of regulation provided by these platforms. The sheer volume and often implicit nature of such unwanted content make manual moderation of these user spaces a formidable task. Various scientific communities interested in its at least partial automation have taken up the problem over the past ten years. In particular, Computational Social Science, Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics have proposed numerous works to create resources, datasets, and models aimed at automating the task of abusive language detection (henceforth ALD). In fact, we see that ALD has become a research theme in its own right in the field of Natural Language Processing with an abundant literature. Abusive language (umbrella term to refer to the various forms of harmful language, such as toxic, offensive language, hate speech, and stereotypes) is topically focused and each specific manifestation of abusive language targets different vulnerable groups based on characteristics such as gender (misogyny, sexism), ethnicity, race, religion (xenophobia, racism, Islamophobia), sexual orientation (homophobia), and so on. Most automatic ALD approaches cast the problem into a binary classification task but important considerations should be taken into account, in particular: (1) the topical focus or the target-oriented nature of hate speech ; (2) the degree of engagement of users in abusive content (e.g., denunciation, approbation, reporting, neutral attitude) ; (3) the question of stereotypes and dominant ideologies ; (4) the question of linguistic strategies more particularly linked or born with social networks (e.g., emoticons, hashtags). Furthermore, most of the work (resources, classifiers) is developed for English. **Topics** Motivated by the interest of the community in the problem of ALD, we invite papers from Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning and Computational Social Sciences. We explicitly encourage interdisciplinary submissions (resources, computational methods, and user applications at the interface of linguistics/psychology/socio-linguistics/sociology) but also position papers on the actual state of the art in the field discussing the limitations of the current approaches and directions for future work. The topics covered by the special issue include, but are not limited to: -- Linguistic resources and evaluation: annotation schemes, corpus linguistics studies, new datasets, with a particular interest in French language and/or multilingual resources. In the case of strictly lexical resources: methods for constituting them and coverage, semantic categories retained. -- Formal/Conceptual approaches for ALD as inspired by models in sociology, socio-linguistics and psychology. -- Models and Methods: supervised and unsupervised approaches, including LLMs. -- Role of contextual phenomena, including discourses, extra-linguistic contexts (e.g., cultural aspects). -- Models for cross-lingual and multimodal detection. -- New approaches beyond binary classification: target-oriented ALD, degrees of user engagement, etc. -- Dynamics of online AL in social media, propaganda propagation. -- Bias detection and removal in resource creation, datasets and methods. -- Application of ALD tools in education, social media content moderation, etc. -- Social, legal, and ethical implications of detecting, monitoring and moderating AL. **Important dates** May 31th, 2024: Submission deadline July 15th, 2024: Notification of acceptance after first rereading End of September 2024: Revised version Mid October 2024: Final decision End of November 2024: Camera ready January 2025: Publication of the special issue **Submission** Submissions can either be in French or English and should follow the journal templates: https://tal-65-3.sciencesconf.org/ **About the journal** Traitement Automatiques des Langues Journal (TAL) is the international French journal of Natural Language Processing (https://www.atala.org/revuetal) published by ATALA (French Association for Natural Language Processing, http://www.atala.org) since 1959 with the support of CNRS (National Centre for Scientific Research). It is indexed by ACL Anthology as well as DBLP. It is also supported by the Institute of Human and Social Sciences of the CNRS. **Contact** For any question, please contact tal-65-3(a)sciencesconf.org **External committee** -- Cristina Bosco, University of Turin -- Elena Cabrio, University of Côte d'Azur -- Tommaso Caselli, Faculty of Arts, Rijksuniveristeit Groningen -- Valentina Dragos, ONERA -- Karën Fort, Sorbonne University -- Claire Hugonnier, University of Grenoble Alpes -- Irina Illina, University of Lorraine -- Roy Ka-Wei Lee, Singapore University of Technology and Design -- Véronique Moriceau, IRIT, University of Toulouse -– Frédérique Segond, INRIA Paris -- Mariona Taulé, University of Barcelona -- Samuel Vernet, Aix-Marseille University -- Mathieu Valette, Paris Sorbonne Nouvelle University -- Marcos Zampieri, George Mason University -- ======================== Farah Benamara Zitoune Professor in Computer Science, Université Paul Sabatier IRIT-CNRS 118 Route de Narbonne, 31062, Toulouse. Tel : +33 5 61 55 77 06 http://www.irit.fr/~Farah.Benamara ================================== -- ======================== Farah Benamara Zitoune Professor in Computer Science, Université Paul Sabatier IRIT-CNRS 118 Route de Narbonne, 31062, Toulouse. Tel : +33 5 61 55 77 06 http://www.irit.fr/~Farah.Benamara ==================================

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Final CPF: SIGIR eCom'24: May 3rd
by Tracy Holloway King 21 Apr '24

21 Apr '24

Final Call For Papers - SIGIR eCom'24 - https://sigir-ecom.github.io/ The SIGIR Workshop on eCommerce will serve as a platform for publication and discussion of Information Retrieval, NLP and Vision research relative to their applications in the domain of eCommerce. This workshop will bring together practitioners and researchers from academia and industry to discuss the challenges and approaches to product search and recommendation in eCommerce. The deadline for paper submission is May 3rd, 2024 (11:59 P.M. AoE) The special theme of this year's workshop is eCommerce Search in the Age of Generative AI and LLMs. The workshop will also include a data challenge. This year we will collaborate with TREC on a product search data challenge ( https://trec-product-search.github.io/index.html). The overarching goal is to study how end-to-end retrieval systems can be built and evaluated given a large set of products. The data challenge provides a corpus of products and a set of user intents (queries): the goal is to find the product that suits the user’s needs. SIGIR eCom is a full day workshop taking place on Thursday, July 18, 2024 in conjunction with SIGIR 2024. SIGIR eCom'24 will be an in-person workshop. ________________ Important Dates: Paper submission deadline - May 3rd, 2024 (11:59 P.M. AoE) Notification of acceptance - May 23, 2024 Camera Ready Version of Papers Due - June 24, 2024 SIGIR eCom Full day Workshop - July 18, 2024 We invite quality research contributions, position and opinion papers addressing relevant challenges in the domain of eCommerce. We invite submission of both papers and posters. All submitted papers and posters will be single-blind and will be peer reviewed by an international program committee of researchers of high repute. Accepted submissions will be presented at the workshop. Topics: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * eCommerce search in the age of Generative AI and LLMs (2024 special theme) - Ranking and Whole Page Relevance - Optimization for IR and business metrics - Diversity in product search and recommendations - Relevance models for multi-faceted entities - Relevance vs. revenue - Deterministic sorts (e.g. price low to high) - Temporal dynamics and seasonality * Query and Document Understanding - Query intent, query suggestions, and auto-completion - Strategies for resolving low or zero recall queries - Converting across modalities (e.g., text, structured data, images) - Categorization and facets - Reviews and sentiment analysis * Recommendation and Personalization - Personalization & contextualization, including the use of personal facets such as age, gender, location - Privacy, bias and ethics in eCommerce IR - Blending recommendations and search results - Representations and Data - Semantic representation of products, queries, and customers - Construction and use of knowledge graphs for eCommerce * IR Fundamentals for eCommerce - Unified and universal search and recommendations - Cross-lingual search and machine translation - Indexing and search in rapidly changing environments (e.g., auction sites) - Experimentation techniques including AB testing and multi-armed bandits * Visual Search in ecommerce - Large-scale Visual Search Challenges and Solutions - Multimodal Search and combining visual and textual information - Combining Vision and language models - Explainable AI for Visual Search * Other challenges - Trust, transparency, and fairness in eCommerce - UX for eCommerce - The role of search in trust and security for marketplaces - Question answering and chatbots for eCommerce Data/Resource Track: In order to promote academic research in the eCommerce domain, we plan to accept a small number of high quality dataset contributions. These submissions should be accompanied by a clear and detailed description of the dataset, some potential questions and applications that arise from it. Preliminary empirical investigations conveying any insight about the data will increase the quality of the submission. Submission Instructions: All papers will be peer reviewed (single-blind) by the program committee and judged by their relevance to the workshop, especially to the main themes identified above, and their potential to generate discussion. Submissions must describe work that is not previously published, not accepted for publication elsewhere, and not currently under review elsewhere. All submissions must be in English. The workshop follows a single-blind reviewing process, i.e. author names must be on the papers. We do not accept anonymized submissions. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper must register for the workshop and present the paper. All submissions must be in PDF formatted according to the latest CEUR single column format; the short (8-page) and long (15-page) limits are extended to account for this. For instructions and LaTeX/Overleaf/docx templates, see: https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html#CEURART Read up to and including the “License footnote in paper PDFs” section. Please Use Emphasizing Capitalized Style for Paper Titles. Submit your paper PDF through the SIGIR eCom’24 Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sigirecom24 Long paper limit: 15 pages. References are not counted in the page limit. Short paper limit: 8 pages. References are not counted in the page limit. The deadline for paper submission is May 3rd, 2024 (11:59 P.M. AoE) https://sigir-ecom.github.io/

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WMT 2024: Low-Resource Indic Language Translation.
by Santanu Pal 21 Apr '24

21 Apr '24

Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to inform you that we will be hosting the "Shared Task: Low-Resource Indic Language Translation" again this year as part of WMT 2024. Following the outstanding success and enthusiastic participation witnessed in the previous year's edition, we are excited to continue this important initiative. Despite recent advancements in machine translation (MT), such as multilingual translation and transfer learning techniques, the scarcity of parallel data remains a significant challenge, particularly for low-resource languages. The WMT 2024 Indic Machine Translation Shared Task aims to address this challenge by focusing on low-resource Indic languages from diverse language families. Specifically, we are targeting languages such as Assamese, Mizo, Khasi, Manipuri, Nyishi, Bodo, Mising, and Kokborok. For inquiries and further information, please contact us at lrilt.wmt24(a)gmail.com. Additionally, you can find more details and updates on the task through the following link: Task Link: https://www2.statmt.org/wmt24/indic-mt-task.html. We highly encourage participants to register in advance so that we can provide updates regarding release dates of data and other relevant information periodically To register for the event, please fill out the registration form available here. ( https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd8LwriqdLLhVNAvUWEcGRJmKuBFQZ9BR_… ) We look forward to your participation and contributions to advancing low-resource Indic language translation. with best regards, Santanu

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[CIKM-2024] 2nd Call for Tutorials / Workshops
by antonela.tommasel＠isistan.unicen.edu.ar 20 Apr '24

20 Apr '24

* We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CfP * * For the online version of this Call, visit: https://cikm2024.org/ =============== CIKM 2024: 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management Boise, Idaho, USA October 21–25, 2024 =============== The ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) is the premier international conference on topics at the confluence of information retrieval, databases, and knowledge management. Running annually since 1992, CIKM attracts top talent from industry and academia with the goal of fostering collaboration and bridging the academic-commercial gap in the database, information retrieval, machine learning, and knowledge management communities. CIKM 2024 solicits proposals of highly interactive full-/half-day workshops proposing novel research, deepening established research topics, or presenting practical applications on the many aspects of the data lifecycle (data acquisition, pre-processing, modelling, integration/aggregation, storage, analysis, and consumption). Interdisciplinary workshops bridging across different communities are also highly encouraged. CIKM 2024 solicits proposals for both half and full-day tutorials from active and experienced researchers and practitioners covering topics relevant to CIKM. Areas of interest include information retrieval, knowledge management, data science, artificial intelligence, and other related areas of relevance to the CIKM community. -------------------------- Key Dates -------------------------- * Workshop/Tutorials proposal: 14 June 2024 * Workhshop/Tutorials notification: 5 July 2024 * Camera ready: 8 August 2024 * Tutorial day: 21 October 2024 (Monday) * Workshop day: 25 October 2024 (Friday) (All deadlines are at 11:59 pm AOE) -------------------------- Paper Submissions -------------------------- Please use the CIKM 2024 Workshop Proposal Template for your submission. Workshop proposals are reviewed based on the quality of the proposal, their relation to the main CIKM topics, the likelihood of attracting enough participants, and the hosting capacity of the conference. The length of the whole Tutorial proposal should be limited to 4 pages in the ACM proceedings template (double column). Instructions and suitable LATEX, Microsoft Word, and Overleaf templates are available from the ACM Website (use the “sigconf” proceedings template): ACM Primary Article Template. Please note that the organizers of accepted tutorials will be invited to submit a camera-ready summary of the tutorial, to be included in the CIKM 2024 conference proceedings. Proposals should be submitted through Easychair: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=cikm2024 -------------------------- Chairs Contact Information - Workshops -------------------------- For the online version of this Call, visit: https://cikm2024.org/call-for-workshops/ For more information, contact the Workshop Chairs at cikm2024-workshop [at] easychair [dot] org Vanessa Braganholo, Instituto de Computação Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil Yangqiu Song,Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong -------------------------- Chairs Contact Information - Tutorials -------------------------- For the online version of this Call, visit: https://cikm2024.org/call-for-tutorials/ For further information, please contact the Tutorial Chairs at: CIKM2024-tutorial [at] easychair [dot] org Dafna Shahaf, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Isreal Mahantesh Halappanavar, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA

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[CIKM-2024] - 2nd Call for Demo / Resource papers
by antonela.tommasel＠isistan.unicen.edu.ar 20 Apr '24

20 Apr '24

* We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CfP * * For the online version of this Call, visit: https://cikm2024.org/ =============== CIKM 2024: 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management Boise, Idaho, USA October 21–25, 2024 =============== The Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) is a premier forum for researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government bodies to share technologies and state-of-the-art research on the emerging aspects of artificial intelligence, data mining, data management, and information retrieval. The resource track at CIKM 2024 provides a unique opportunity to researchers to share and highlight their latest technologies that enable intelligent decision-making, predictive analytics, and machine learning. The demo track at CIKM 2024 provides a unique opportunity to share research ideas through prototypes. Accepted demo papers will be part of the main conference proceeding. -------------------------- Key Dates -------------------------- * Resource/Demo Papers abstract: 27 May 2024 * Resource/Demo Papers: 3 June 2024 * Resource/Demo Papers notifications: 16 July 2024 * Camera Ready: 8 August 2024 (All deadlines are at 11:59 pm AOE) -------------------------- Topics of Interest - Resource papers -------------------------- We welcome submissions on all topics in the general areas of artificial intelligence, machine learning, data science, databases, information retrieval, and knowledge management. An ideal resource paper’s topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas: * Data resources comprising a new and innovative dataset or protocol, or one created using novel methods and/or algorithms * Data resources labelled using novel and well-described annotation and/or crowdsourcing approaches * Software resources to support research on novel application domains or support novel evaluation or benchmark tasks * Software resources such as prototypes and services, open source frameworks, or tools and libraries which support computing, visualization, evaluation and other exploration tasks in data science, data engineering, or information & knowledge management -------------------------- Topics of Interest - Demo papers -------------------------- We seek demonstrations that showcase exciting new technologies and early prototypes within the scope of CIKM, as well as case studies from more mature systems with innovative features and functionalities. We welcome submissions on all topics in the general areas of artificial intelligence, data mining, data management, information retrieval, and knowledge management. -------------------------- Paper Submissions -------------------------- * Resourse papers must be no more than 4 pages long including appendices, plus unlimited pages for references. It is allowed to cite supplementary materials including source code, videos, datasets, and demonstration prototypes that are accessible via online platforms like GitHub. Reviewers have the discretion to decide whether or not they will review such materials. * Demo papers must be no more than 4 pages long including appendices, plus unlimited pages for references. Authors should also prepare a 3 minutes long demonstration video, showcasing the main features of the system. A URL of the video (e.g., YouTube, Dropbox, etc.) should be included in the paper. Manuscripts should be submitted to CIKM 2024’s Easychair page in PDF format using the ACM’s two-column template “sigconf”, see https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. All papers should be submitted via Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cikm24 The review of the resource/demo papers will be single-blind, which means that the authors should include their names and affiliations in the paper. All submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee of the Resource/Demo track, who will evaluate the novelty of the technical features and/or research being presented, the research and/or development challenges, its expected impact, and its timeliness and relevance for the CIKM audience of practitioners and researchers. Papers that include text generated from a large-scale language model (LLM), such as ChatGPT, are prohibited unless this produced text is presented as a part of the paper’s experimental analysis. AI tools may be used to edit and polish authors’ work, such as using LLMs for light editing of their text (e.g., automate grammar checks, word autocorrect, and other editing of author-written text), but text “produced entirely” by generative/AI models is not allowed. -------------------------- Authorship Policy -------------------------- Before paper submission, authors should carefully review ACM’s authorship policy, including ACM’s new Publications Policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/research-involving-human-particip… At least one author of each accepted paper must register to present the work at the conference. -------------------------- Dual Submission Policy -------------------------- It is not allowed to submit papers that are identical (or substantially similar) to versions that have been previously published or accepted for publication or that have been submitted in parallel to other conferences (or any venue with published proceedings). Such submissions violate our dual-submission policy. However, submissions are permitted for papers presented or to be presented at conferences or workshops without proceedings or with only abstracts published. Authors may also submit work already available as a preprint (e.g., in arXiv). -------------------------- Desk Rejection Policy -------------------------- Submissions that fail to adhere to the length, or formatting requirements, or violate ACM’s policies on academic dishonesty—such as plagiarism, author misrepresentation, or falsification—may be subject to desk rejection by the chairs. -------------------------- ACM Policy Against Harassment -------------------------- All authors and participants must adhere to the ACM’s discrimination policy. For full details, please visit this site: https://www.acm.org/special-interest-groups/volunteer-resources/officers-ma… -------------------------- Chairs Contact Information -------------------------- * For the online version of this Call, visit: https://cikm2024.org/call-for-demo-papers/ * For the online version of this Call, visit: https://cikm2024.org/call-for-resource-papers/ For more information, contact the Demo chairs at: CIKM2024-demo [at] easychair [dot] org For more information, contact the resource chairs at: CIKM2024-resources [at] easychair [dot] org Nicolas Kourtellis, Telefonica, Spain Davide Mottin, Aarhus University, Denmark

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[CIKM-2024] - 2nd Call for Full / Short / Applied papers
by antonela.tommasel＠isistan.unicen.edu.ar 20 Apr '24

20 Apr '24

* We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CfP * * For the online version of this Call, visit: https://cikm2024.org/ =============== CIKM 2024: 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management Boise, Idaho, USA October 21–25, 2024 =============== The Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) provides a unique venue for industry and academia to present and discuss state-of-the-art research on artificial intelligence, search and discovery, data mining, and database systems, all at a single conference. CIKM is uniquely situated to highlight technologies and insights that materialize the big data and artificial intelligence vision of the future. CIKM 2024 will take place between October 21-25, 2024 in Boise, Idaho, USA. -------------------------- Key Dates - Full papers -------------------------- * Full Papers abstract: 13 May 2024 * Full Papers: 20 May 2024 * Papers notifications: 16 July 2024 * Camera ready: 8 August 2024 (All deadlines are at 11:59 pm AOE) -------------------------- Key Dates - Short papers -------------------------- * Short Papers abstract: 27 May 2024 * Short Papers: 3 June 2024 * Short Papers notifications: 16 July 2024 * Camera ready: 8 August 2024 (All deadlines are at 11:59 pm AOE) -------------------------- Key Dates - Applied papers -------------------------- * Applied Research Papers abstract: 13 May 2024 * Applied Research Papers: 20 May 2024 * Applied Research Papers notifications: 16 July 2024 * Camera ready: 8 August 2024 (All deadlines are at 11:59 pm AOE) -------------------------- Topics of Interest -------------------------- We encourage submissions of high-quality research papers on the general areas of artificial intelligence, data science, databases, information retrieval, and knowledge management. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas: * Data and information acquisition and preprocessing (e.g., data crawling, IoT data, data quality, data privacy, mitigating biases, data wrangling) * Integration and aggregation (e.g., semantic processing, data provenance, data linkage, data fusion, knowledge graphs, data warehousing, data lake, privacy and security, modeling, information credibility) * Efficient data processing (e.g., serverless, data-intensive computing, database systems, indexing and compression, architectures, distributed data systems, dataspaces, customized hardware) * Special data processing (e.g., multilingual text, sequential, stream, time series, spatio-temporal, (knowledge) graph, multimedia, scientific, and social media data) * Analytics and machine learning (e.g., OLAP, data mining, machine learning and AI, scalable analysis algorithms, algorithmic biases, event detection, and tracking, understanding, and interpretability) * Neural Information and knowledge processing (e.g., graph neural networks, domain adaptation, transfer learning, network architectures, neural ranking, neural recommendation, and neural prediction) * Data preparation, Valuation, and Trading * Information access and retrieval (e.g., web search, question answering and dialogue systems, retrieval models, query processing, personalization, recommender, and filtering systems) * Users and interfaces for information systems (e.g., user behavior analysis, user interface design, perception of biases, personalization, interactive information retrieval, interactive analysis, spoken interfaces) * Evaluation, performance studies, and benchmarks (e.g., online and offline evaluation, best practices) * Crowdsourcing (e.g. task assignment, worker reliability, optimization, trustworthiness, transparency, best practices) * Mining multi-modal content (e.g., natural language processing, speech recognition, computer vision, content understanding, knowledge extraction, knowledge graphs, and knowledge representations) * Data presentation (e.g., visualization, summarization, readability, VR, speech input/output) * Applications (e.g., urban systems, biomedical and health informatics, legal informatics, crisis informatics, computational social science, data-enabled discovery, social media) * Knowledge graphs support data representation and manipulation * Generation of knowledge graphs using unstructured data * Information retrieval in the era of LLMs * Open-ended QA systems * Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, Ethics, and Explainability in Information and Knowledge Management -------------------------- Paper Submissions -------------------------- Authors are invited to submit original, full/short/applied research papers that are not previously published, accepted to be published, or being considered for publication in any other forum. Manuscripts should be submitted to CIKM 2024 Easychair site in PDF format, using the 2-column ACM sigconf template, see https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. * Full papers cannot exceed 9 pages, including an appendix, plus unlimited references. Rejected full papers will not be considered for publication as short papers. The review of manuscripts will be double-blind, and submissions not properly anonymized will be desk-rejected without review. * Short papers cannot exceed 4 pages plus unlimited references. The review of manuscripts will be double-blind. * Appied papers are limited to 7 pages plus unlimited references (note that additional appendices are not allowed). Authors should include their names and affiliations in the manuscript (i.e. submissions are single-blind). Papers that include text generated from a large-scale language model (LLM), such as ChatGPT, are prohibited unless this produced text is presented as a part of the paper’s experimental analysis. AI tools may be used to edit and polish authors’ work, such as using LLMs for light editing of their text (e.g., automate grammar checks, word autocorrect, and other editing of author-written text), but text “produced entirely” by generative/AI models is not allowed. At least one author of each accepted paper must register to present the work on-site in Boise, Idaho, USA, as scheduled in the conference program. The official publication date is when the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks before the first day of the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. -------------------------- Dual Submission Policy -------------------------- Submitting papers that are identical (or substantially similar) to versions that have been published, accepted for publication, or submitted in parallel to other conferences (or any venue with published proceedings) is not allowed. However, it is allowed to make an abstract submission by May 13, 2024 (without uploading the paper PDF) for a paper that is still under review as long as the ongoing review process ends by the full paper final deadline of May 20, 2024. You need to withdraw your submission in case the paper is accepted or still under review by May 20, 2024. Authors are allowed to submit papers that have been presented or are to be presented at conferences or workshops without proceedings, or with only abstracts published. Authors may also submit anonymized work already available as a preprint (e.g., in arXiv). In this case, the authors must modify the title and abstract while refraining from citing the manuscript to preserve anonymity. -------------------------- Authorship Policy -------------------------- Before paper submission, authors are advised to review ACM’s authorship policy carefully. Please ensure that all authors are identified in EasyChair before the submission deadline. To help reviewers identify potential conflicts of interest, the full author list must be specified by the abstract submission deadline. Consequently, no changes to authorship will be allowed under any circumstance after the abstract submission deadline; neither update will be permitted for camera-ready versions. -------------------------- Desk Rejection Policy -------------------------- Submissions that fail to adhere to the anonymity, length, or formatting requirements, or violate ACM’s policies on academic dishonesty—such as plagiarism, author misrepresentation, or falsification—may be subject to desk rejection by the chairs. -------------------------- ACM Policy Against Harassment -------------------------- All authors and participants must adhere to the ACM Policy Against Harassment. For full details, please visit this site: https://www.acm.org/about-acm/policy-against-harassment -------------------------- Chairs Contact Information - Full papers -------------------------- For the online version of this Call, visit: https://cikm2024.org/call-for-papers/ For more information, contact the PC chairs at: CIKM2024-pc [at] easychair [dot] org Carlotta Domeniconi, George Mason University, USA Zhifeng Bao, RMIT University, Australia Sole Pera, TU Delft, Netherlands -------------------------- Chairs Contact Information - Short papers -------------------------- For the online version of this Call, visit: https://cikm2024.org/call-for-short-research-papers/ For more information, contact the short paper chairs at: CIKM2024-short [at] easychair [dot] org Arijit Khan, Aalborg University, Denmark Barbara Poblete, University of Chile, Chile/Amazon, USA. Hua Wen, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China -------------------------- Chairs Contact Information - Applied papers -------------------------- For the online version of this Call, visit: https://cikm2024.org/call-for-applied-research-papers For more information, contact the Applied Research Track PC chairs at: CIKM2024-applied [at] easychair [dot] org Wei Chen (Microsoft Research Asia) Yinglong Xia (Meta)

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LUHME: Language Understanding in the Human-Machine Era | Workshop at ECAI 2024
by Rui Sousa Silva 19 Apr '24

19 Apr '24

*** APOLOGIES FOR CROSS POSTINGS *** Call for Papers: Language Understanding in the Human-Machine Era (LUHME) The LUHME 2024 workshop Language Understanding in the Human-Machine Era is part of the 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI 2024 (https://www.ecai2024.eu/). Workshop description Large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized the development of interactional artificial intelligence (AI) systems by democratizing their use. These models have shown remarkable advancements in various applications such as conversational AI and machine translation, marking the undeniable advent of the human-machine era. However, despite their significant achievements, state-of-the-art systems still exhibit shortcomings in language understanding, raising questions about their true comprehension of human languages. The concept of language understanding has always been contentious, as meaning-making depends not only on form and immediate meaning but also on context. Therefore, understanding natural language involves more than just parsing form and meaning; it requires access to grounding for true comprehension. Equipping language models with linguistics-grounded capabilities remains a complex task, given the importance of discourse, pragmatics, and social context in language understanding. Understanding language is a doubly challenging task as it necessitates not only grasping the intrinsic capabilities of LLMs but also examining their impact and requirements in real-world applications. While LLMs have shown effectiveness in various applications, the lack of supporting theories raises concerns about ethical implications, particularly in applications involving human interaction. The “Language Understanding in the Human-Machine Era” (LUHME) workshop aims to reignite the debate on the role of understanding in natural language use and its applications. It seeks to explore the necessity of language understanding in computational tasks like machine translation and natural language generation, as well as the contributions of language professionals in enhancing computational language understanding. Topics of Interest Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Language understanding in LLMs • Language grounding • Psycholinguistic approaches to language understanding • Discourse, pragmatics and language understanding • Evaluation of language understanding • Multi-modality and language understanding • Socio-cultural aspects in understanding language • Effects of language misunderstanding by computational models • Manifestations of language understanding • Distributional semantics and language understanding • Linguistic theory and language understanding by machines • Linguistic, world, and common sense knowledge in language understanding • Machine translation and/or interpreting and language understanding • Human vs. machine language understanding • Role of language professionals in the LLMs era • Understanding language and explainable AI Ethics Statement Research reported at ECAI and the LUHME workshop should avoid harm, be honest and trustworthy, fair and non-discriminatory, and respect privacy and intellectual property. Where relevant, authors can include in the main body of their paper, or on the reference page, a short ethics statement that addresses ethical issues regarding the research being reported and the broader ethical impact of the work. Reviewers will be asked to flag possible violations of relevant ethical principles. Such flagged submissions will be reviewed by a senior member of the programme committee. Authors may be required to revise their paper to include a discussion of possible ethical concerns and their mitigation. Submission Instructions Papers must be written in English, be prepared for double-blind review using the ECAI LaTeX template, and not exceed 7 pages (not including references). The ECAI LaTeX Template can be found at https://ecai2024.eu/download/ecai-template.zip. Papers should be submitted via OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=eurai.org/ECAI/2024/Workshop/LUHME Excessive use of typesetting tricks to make things fit is not permitted. Please do not modify the style files or layout parameters. You can resubmit any number of times until the submission deadline. The workshop papers will be published in the proceedings (further information will be provided soon). Important Dates • Paper submission: 31 May 2024 • Notification of acceptance: 15 July 2024 • Camera-ready papers: 31 July 2024 • LUHME workshop: 19 or 20 October 2024 Invited Speakers • Alexander Koller, Saarland University • Anders Søgaard, University of Copenhagen • Melanie Mitchell, Santa Fe Institute Organization This workshop is jointly organized by the chairs of working groups 1 (Computational Linguistics) and 7 (Language work, language professionals) of the COST Action LITHME – Language in the Human-Machine Era. Workshop Organizers • Rui Sousa-Silva (University of Porto, Portugal) • Henrique Lopes Cardoso (University of Porto, Portugal) • Maarit Koponen (University of Eastern Finland, Finland) • Antonio Pareja-Lora (Universidad de Alcalá, Spain) • Márta Seresi (Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary) Program Committee • Aida Kostikova (Bielefeld University) • Alex Lascarides (University of Edinburgh) • Alípio Jorge (University of Porto) • António Branco (University of Lisbon) • Belinda Maia (University of Porto) • Caroline Lehr (ZHAW School of Applied Linguistics) • Diana Santos (Universitetet i Oslo) • Efstathios Stamatatos (University of the Aegean) • Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski (University of Hildesheim) • Eliot Bytyçi (Universiteti i Prishtinës “Hasan Prishtina”) • Hanna Risku (University of Vienna) • Jörg Tiedemann (University of Helsinki) • Lynne Bowker (University of Ottawa) • Nataša Pavlović (University of Zagreb) • Paolo Rosso (Universitat Politècnica de València) • Ran Zhang (Bielefeld University) • Ruslan Mitkov (Lancaster University) • Sule Yildirim Yayilgan (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) • Tharindu Ranasinghe (Lancaster University) For further information, please visit https://luhme.web.uah.es/ or contact rssilva(a)letras.up.pt<mailto:rssilva@letras.up.pt>

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COLING 2025 - 1st Call For Workshop Proposals
by El-Haj, Mo 19 Apr '24

19 Apr '24

Dear all, This is the first Call for Workshops for the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics (https://coling2025.org/), scheduled to take place from 19th to 24th January 2025 in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Call for Workshops COLING 2025 The International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING) invites proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the 31st edition of COLING in 2025 in Abu Dhabi (UAE). We solicit proposals in all areas of computational linguistics, language resources and evaluation, broadly conceived to include related disciplines such as linguistics, language documentation, natural language processing, speech and multimodal processing, computational social science, and the digital humanities. Note: for this edition of COLING, we will not be conducting a joint call for workshops with the ACL conferences (AACL, ACL, EACL, EMNLP, NAACL). This is due to scheduling differences between COLING and the ACL conferences in 2025. COLING is happening much earlier than the *ACL conferences, which makes it impractical to coordinate a joint call. However, we anticipate a return to joint workshop calls in the future. IMPORTANT DATES 31 May 2024: Proposal submission due 30 June 2024: Notification of acceptance 19-20 January 2025: COLING-2025 Workshops 21-24 January 2025: COLING-2025 conference SUBMISSION INFORMATION Proposals should be submitted as PDF documents. Note that submissions should essentially be ready to be turned into a Call for Workshop Papers shortly after the notification. The proposals should be at most two pages long, with additional two pages permitted for information about organisers and tentative program committee. Hence, the entire proposal should not exceed FOUR pages in length, excluding references. Please note that workshops should either be 100% in-person or 100% virtual; hybrid formats will not be allowed. For in-person workshops, at least one workshop organiser should be physically present to run the workshop at COLING. WORKSHOP TEMPLATE (non-mandatory) https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/coling-2025-workshop-proposal-temp… The two pages for the main proposal must include the following: - A title and a brief description of the workshop topic and content. - A list of invited speakers, if applicable, with an indication of which ones have already agreed and which are tentative, and sources of funding for the speakers, if needed. - An estimate of the number of attendees. - Workshop format: in-person or virtual (hybrid proposals will not be accepted). - A description of any shared tasks associated with the workshop, and estimate of the number of participants. Note that any shared task will also need to be reviewed by the workshop committee for ethical concerns. - A description of special requirements and technical needs, where relevant. - If the workshop has been held before, a note specifying where previous iterations of the workshops were held, how many submissions the workshop received, how many papers were accepted (also specify whether they were not regular papers, e.g., shared task system description papers, non-archival papers), and how many attendees the workshop attracted. The two pages for information about organisers and program committee must include the following: - The names, affiliations, and email addresses of the organisers, with one-paragraph statements of their research interests, areas of expertise, and experience in organising workshops and related events. - A list of Program Committee members, with an indication of which members have already agreed. Organisers should do their best to estimate the number of submissions (especially for recurring workshops) in order to (a) ensure a sufficient number of reviewers so that each paper receives 3 reviews, and (b) anticipate that no one is committed to reviewing more than 3 papers. This practice is likely to ensure on-time, and more thorough and thoughtful reviews. - A very brief advertisement or tagline for the workshop, up to 140 characters, that highlights any key information you wish prospective attendees to know, and which would be suitable to be put onto a web-based survey (see below). The proposals should be submitted no later than May 31, 2024, 11:59 PM Samoa Standard Time (SST) (UTC/GMT-11, ‘Anywhere on Earth’). Submission is electronic, and the submission URL will be displayed on the COLING 2025 website: https://coling2025.org/. The workshop proposals will be evaluated according to their originality and impact, the expected interest level of participants, as well as the quality of the organising team and Program Committee and their contribution to the diversity of the conference. DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION We particularly encourage submissions of underrepresented groups in computational linguistics, language resource and evaluation, including researchers from any demographic or geographic minority, with disabilities, or others. In the evaluation of the proposal, we will take these aspects into account to create a varied and balanced set of tutorials. This includes several aspects of diversity, namely (1) how the topic of the tutorial contributes to improved diversity and increased fairness in the field, (2) if the topic is particularly relevant for a specific underrepresented group of potential participants, (3), if the presenters are from an underrepresented group. WORKSHOP ORGANISER RESPONSIBILITIES The organisers of the accepted workshops (at least one) must be present in person in Abu Dhabi for an in-person workshop, and virtually for a virtual workshop. They will be responsible for publicising and conducting the workshop, which includes reviewing submissions, preparing the camera-ready workshop proceedings, coordinating the meeting days, and ensuring that all participants are informed about COLING’s anti-harassment policy. (see https://coling2022.org/policy). It is crucial that organisers commit to all deadlines. In particular, failure to produce the camera-ready proceedings on time will lead to the exclusion of the workshop from the unified proceedings and author indexes. Workshop organisers cannot accept submissions for publication that will be (or have been) published elsewhere, although they are free to set their own policies on simultaneous submission and review, as well as to accept additional non-archival presentations. CONTACT For any questions related to the workshop proposals only, please send your email to coling2025-workshops(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:coling2025-workshops@googlegroups.com>. Please do not email the workshops chairs directly. Best wishes, COLING 2025 Workshops Chairs: - Mo El-Haj (Lancaster University) - Katsuhito Sudoh (Nara Women's University) -------------------------------- Dr Mo El-Haj Senior Lecturer in NLP Director of Admissions (SCC) Co-Director of UCREL NLP Group<https://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/> Natural Language Engineering (NLE) Journal Editorial Board https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/natural-language-engineering Advisory Board of the Natural Language Processing Book Series https://benjamins.com/catalog/nlp School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/staff/elhaj @DocElhaj<https://twitter.com/DocElhaj> You may receive emails from me outside what are your typical office hours. I do not expect you to respond to my email outside your working hours.

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2nd Call for Abstracts: the 34th Meeting on Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands, Leiden University
by Wijnholds, G.J. (Gijs) 19 Apr '24

19 Apr '24

Dear colleague, This is the second call for abstracts for the 34th Meeting of Computational Linguistics in The Netherlands (CLIN34), that will take place in Leiden on Friday 30 August 2024. Abstracts describing work on any aspect of computational linguistics / natural language processing (finished or in progress), are welcome. Submissions must be written in English and must be submitted through this web form<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1G2Ee1LUfQdmh2xQz8T46YcR1BXUMuB4q4iuAKq9sp8Q>. Please provide all information requested in the form. The submission deadline is May 15th 2023 and notifications of acceptance will be sent out on June 15th 2023. Authors of accepted abstracts will have the opportunity to submit a full paper after the conference to CLIN Journal. Please visit the CLIN34 website<https://clin34.leidenuniv.nl/> for more info on the event. We look forward to your abstract! The CLIN34 organizers Leiden University

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[CfP] SEMANTiCS 2024 EU || Extended Submission Deadline May 6, 2024
by SEMANTiCS 19 Apr '24

19 Apr '24

Dear all, due to several requests we decided to extend the deadlines for the R&I track. The new dates are as follows: Abstract Submission Deadline: May 6, 2024 Paper Submission Deadline: May 13, 2024 All deadlines are set for 11:59 pm, Anywhere On Earth time (UTC-12) Submission via Easychair on https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=sem24 <https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=sem24>. For details please go to: https://2024-eu.semantics.cc/page/cfp_rev_rep <https://2024-eu.semantics.cc/page/cfp_rev_rep> We strongly encourage early-career female AI researchers, especially doctoral students, to attend this year's SEMANTiCS conference, for which we are offering travel grants to support their participation. Looking forward to your submissions! Stay tuned and stay safe! With kind regards, Mehwish Alam, Angelo Salatino & Femke Ongenae -- R&I Track Chairs --

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Invitation to the Third Ukrainian NLP Workshop
by Mariana Romanyshyn 19 Apr '24

19 Apr '24

We warmly welcome you to attend the third Ukrainian Natural Language Processing Workshop (UNLP 2024 <https://unlp.org.ua/>), held in conjunction with LREC-COLING 2024 <https://lrec-coling-2024.org/>! *When: *May 25, 2024, 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM CET, in a hybrid format *What to expect:* - amazing keynote speakers — Ivan Vulić <https://scholar.google.be/citations?user=ZX8js60AAAAJ> (University of Cambridge), Vasyl Starko <https://scholar.google.be/citations?hl=uk&user=n3oDJtUAAAAJ> (Ukrainian Catholic University), and Andriy Rysin <https://www.linkedin.com/in/andriy-rysin-33a5161/> (Independent Researcher) - the latest datasets and tools for processing Ukrainian - findings from our shared task on Fine-Tuning LLMs for Ukrainian <https://github.com/unlp-workshop/unlp-2024-shared-task> - a comprehensive lineup of presentations about innovative uses of LLMs in the Ukrainian context - and much more! The full workshop program is available at https://unlp.org.ua/program/. *Registration* The General Chairs kindly offer free registration for the *remote* participation of people based in Ukraine! Register at https://forms.gle/bqrfP99GCTUnYLSC9. For non-Ukrainian folks, we welcome you to register through https://lrec-coling-2024.org/. Early bird is *by April 20*. *Like and Share* - X <https://x.com/UNLP_workshop/status/1780923178006544464> - Telegram <https://t.me/UNLP_workshop> - Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/UNLPworkshop/posts/pfbid02dcbzfLyiCGyBs4zCjToHX2C6…> - LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mariana-romanyshyn-b5896529_unlp-2024-regist…>

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Call for papers : The Third International Conference on Language Processing and Knowledge Management (LPKM'2024)
by Wajdi Zaghouani 19 Apr '24

19 Apr '24

The ANLP Research Group of MIRACL Laboratory at FSEGS, University of Sfax, Tunisia, announces the 3rd edition of the Language Processing and Knowledge Management (LPKM) international conference. LPKM 2024, to be held at FSEG Sfax from June 3rd to 5th, 2024, brings together leading experts, researchers, and practitioners in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Blockchain, IoT, and related fields. This event serves as a platform to explore cutting-edge advancements, foster interdisciplinary collaborations, and address key challenges in language processing, knowledge management, and intelligent systems. The conference is organized in a Hybrid mode, which allows for both on-site paper presentations and online presentations. CALL FOR PAPERS LPKM 2024 invites researchers to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: Machine learning, Deep Learning, Data Mining, Big Data, Statistical Analysis, Knowledge processing, Semantic Web, Computational methods applied to language & text processing, Text classification, Document clustering, Machine translation, Text-to-speech (TTS) and speech-to-text (STT) methods, Authorship identification and verification, Author profiling, Plagiarism detection, Knowledge extraction and retrieval from text, Sentiment analysis, NLP applications, Resources, and corpora, Chatbots, Text generation, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Formal methods, Blockchain, Cloud Computing, IT security, Knowledge engineering and ontologies, Parallel and distributed computing (IoT and sensor networks), Service engineering, Adaptive distributed applications, Multimedia, computer vision and image processing. DEADLINES Paper submission: May 10, 2024 Notification of acceptance: May 19, 2024 Camera ready paper: May 25, 2024 LPKM Conference: June 03-05, 2024 at FSEGS, University of Sfax, Tunisia PAPER SUBMISSION Authors should submit their papers in PDF format via the CMT conference management system: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/LPKM2024 The total length of a paper should not exceed 10 pages (including tables, figures, and references) and formatted according to Springer LNCS style. Submitted papers should be written in English and describe original work that has not previously been published or submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance, and clarity. PUBLICATION Proceedings will be submitted to CEUR-WS.org for on-line publication and indexed in DBLP. For any information, please consult the website: https://sites.google.com/view/lpkm-2024 Contact of the organizing committee: lpkm2024(a)gmail.com

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Second CfP: The EPIA Track of Natural Language, Text Mining and Applications (NLP-TeMA 2024)
by Pablo Gamallo 18 Apr '24

18 Apr '24

The EPIA Track of Natural Language, Text Mining and Applications (NLP-TeMA 2024) Important date: Paper submission deadline: April 30, 2024 The EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a well-established European conference in the field of AI. The 23st edition, EPIA 2024, will take place in Viana do Castelo from 3th to 6th of September, 2024. As in previous editions, this international conference is hosted with the patronage of the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA). The Track of Natural Language, Text Mining and Applications (NLP-TeMA 2024) of EPIA is a forum for researchers working in Human Language Technologies, i.e. Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computational Linguistics (CL), Natural Language Engineering (NLE), Text Mining (TM), Information Retrieval (IR), and related areas. The most natural form of sharing knowledge is indeed through textual documents. Especially on the Web, a huge amount of textual information is openly published every day, on many different topics and written in natural language, thus offering new insights and many opportunities for innovative applications of Human Language Technologies. Following advances in general AI sub-fields such as NLP, Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL), text mining is now even more valuable as tool for bridging the gap between language theories and effective use of natural language contents, for harnessing the power of semi-structured and unstructured data, and to enable important applications in real-world heterogeneous environments. Both hidden and new knowledge can be discovered by using NLP and Text Mining methods, at multiple levels and in multiple dimensions, and often with high commercial value. Topics of Interest Natural Language Processing: Language and Cognitive Modeling Tagging, Chunking and Parsing Morphology and Word Segmentation Natural Language Generation Discourse and Pragmatics Sentence-level Semantics and Text Inference Language Resources: Acquisition and Usage. Lexical Knowledge Acquisition Entailment and Paraphrases Entity Recognition and Word Sense Disambiguation Natural Language Understanding Language Modeling Mathematical Properties of Language NLP for Low-Resource Languages Text Mining and Applications: Text Clustering, Classification and Summarization Sentiment Analysis and Argument Mining Computational Social Science Multi-Word Units Machine Learning for NLP and Text Mining Spatio-Temporal and Big Text Mining Cross-Lingual Approaches Algorithms and Data Structures for Text Mining Information Retrieval and Information Extraction Question-Answering and Dialogue Systems Text-Based Prediction and Forecasting Web Content Annotation Health/Biomedical/Legal and other Text Mining Applications The Track Organizing Committee: Joaquim Silva Pablo Gamallo Irene Rodrigues Paulo Quaresma Alípio Jorge Joaquim Ferreira da Silva Departamento de Informática, Nova School of Science and Technology, Quinta da Torre, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal. Tel: +351 21 294 8536 ext. 10732 Fax; +351 21 294 8541; e-mail: jfs(a)fct.unl.pt

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PhD position: computational approaches to Narrative in Argumentation (1.0 FTE)
by Pianzola, Federico 18 Apr '24

18 Apr '24

Fully-funded 4-year PhD position in the field of Computational Linguistics, focusing on the intricate relationship between narratives and argumentation in various domains (social media, fiction, news). University of Groningen, Netherlands *Deadline: 5 May 2024 11:59pm CET* More info at the link below: https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-0… -- Kind regards, Federico Pianzola University of Groningen

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LPKM'2024 Call for papers : The Third International Conference on Language Processing and Knowledge Management
by Lamia Hadrich Belguith 18 Apr '24

18 Apr '24

************************************ Call for papers ************************ LPKM 2024 The 3rd International Conference on Language Processing and Knowledge Management June 03-05, 2024, University of Sfax, Tunisia https://sites.google.com/view/lpkm-2024 ABOUT LPKM The ANLP Research Group of MIRACL Laboratory at FSEGS, University of Sfax, Tunisia, announces the 3rd edition of the Language Processing and Knowledge Management (LPKM) international conference. LPKM 2024, to be held at FSEG Sfax from June 3rd to 5th, 2024, brings together leading experts, researchers, and practitioners in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Blockchain, IoT, and related fields. This event serves as a platform to explore cutting-edge advancements, foster interdisciplinary collaborations, and address key challenges in language processing, knowledge management, and intelligent systems. The conference is organized in a Hybrid mode, which allows for both on-site paper presentations and online presentations. CALL FOR PAPERS LPKM 2024 invites researchers to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: Machine learning, Deep Learning, Data Mining, Big Data, Statistical Analysis, Knowledge processing, Semantic Web, Computational methods applied to language & text processing, Text classification, Document clustering, Machine translation, Text-to-speech (TTS) and speech-to-text (STT) methods, Authorship identification and verification, Author profiling, Plagiarism detection, Knowledge extraction and retrieval from text, Sentiment analysis, NLP applications, Resources, and corpora, Chatbots, Text generation, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Formal methods, Blockchain, Cloud Computing, IT security, Knowledge engineering and ontologies, Parallel and distributed computing (IoT and sensor networks), Service engineering, Adaptive distributed applications, Multimedia, computer vision and image processing. DEADLINES Paper submission: May 10, 2024 Notification of acceptance: May 19, 2024 Camera ready paper: May 25, 2024 LPKM Conference: June 03-05, 2024 at FSEGS, University of Sfax, Tunisia PAPER SUBMISSION Authors should submit their papers in PDF format via the CMT conference management system: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/LPKM2024 The total length of a paper should not exceed 10 pages (including tables, figures, and references) and formatted according to Springer LNCS style. Submitted papers should be written in English and describe original work that has not previously been published or submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance, and clarity. PUBLICATION Proceedings will be submitted to CEUR-WS.org for on-line publication and indexed in DBLP. For any information, please consult the website: https://sites.google.com/view/lpkm-2024 Contact of the organizing committee: lpkm2024(a)gmail.com -- _____________________________________________________________ www.fsegs.tn www.univ-sfax.tn *Prof. Dr. Lamia Hadrich Belguith* Directrice de l'Ecole Doctorale EGI de la FSEGS Chef de l'équipe de recherche ANLP-RG du laboratoire MIRACL https://sites.google.com/site/anlprg/ Présidente de la commission des thèses et d'habilitations en Informatique de la FSEGS (2015-2023) Responsable du mastère de recherche SINT de la FSEGS Présidente de la commission nationale de recrutement des maîtres de conférences en Informatique de Gestion Membre du conseil scientifique de la FSEGS (2022) Membre du conseil scientifique du laboratoire MIRACL Email : lamia.belguith(a)fesgs.usf.tn <lamia.belguith(a)gmail.com> ResearchGate: Lamia Hadrich Belguith Site Web : https://sites.google.com/site/lamiahadrich/ DBLP : https://dblp.org/pid/59/1682.html <https://dblp.org/pid/59/1682.html> ORCID ID : https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4868-657X Google Scholar : https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=0qVRSRYAAAAJ&hl=en Web of Science Researcher ID: GWU-9641-2022 Adresse : FSEGS, B.P. 1088, 3018 Sfax, Tunisie ___________________________________________________________-

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One week to go -- Call for Submissions to SIGIR 2024 Workshop on Information Retrieval for Climate Impact
by Maarten de Rijke 18 Apr '24

18 Apr '24

TL;DR: Help to shape research agenda for IR for climate impact: * 2-4 pages * One week until deadline: April 25, 2024 (AOE) * Workshop: https://sites.google.com/view/ir-for-climate-impact/home * Submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=manila24 - - - - - - - - Call for Submissions — SIGIR 2024 Workshop on Information Retrieval for Climate Impact Climate change is a far-reaching, global phenomenon that will impact many aspects of our society. The evidence base for observed climate impacts is expanding, and the wider climate literature is growing exponentially. How can effective access be provided to the growing body of peer-reviewed literature on climate change impact? Purpose The emphasis will be on discussion, not a mini-conference but a dynamic sharing of ideas. The workshop will be organized along four areas of interest: (i) Information needs in climate impact; (ii) Search and analysis of formal literature for climate impact; (iii) Search and analysis of informal publications for climate impact; and (iv) Resources to support IR for climate impact. During the workshop, we will work towards creating actionable technical research agendas for each of them. Call for contributions To help shape a research agenda for information retrieval for climate impact, we welcome technical contributions and position papers as extended abstracts (2-4 pages) on a wide range of topics related to information retrieval for climate impact, including but not limited to very large-scale systematic reviews, climate language models, geolocated literature with climate information, evidence synthesis. Be sure to emphasize how your ideas connect to IR for climate impact and the ambition to create an agenda on the topic. Important dates - April 25, 2024: Extended abstracts due (AOE) - May 23, 2024: Notifications - July 18, 2024: Workshop at SIGIR 2024 - December 1, 2024: Submission of the Information Retrieval for Climate Impact Agenda for publication in SIGIR Forum How to submit Extended abstracts submitted to the workshop should be in English, in PDF, and formatted using the standard ACM sigconf format (using \documentclass[sigconf, natbib=true, anonymous=false]{acmart}). The review process is single-blind. The workshop uses EasyChair to handle submissions: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=manila24. No official proceedings will be published. Organization Bart van den Hurk (IPCC), Maarten de Rijke (U. Amsterdam), Flora Salim (UNSW, Sydney) Workshop site https://sites.google.com/view/ir-for-climate-impact/home Contact manila24(a)easychair.org<mailto:manila24@easychair.org> -- Maarten de Rijke Distinguished University Professor AI & IR University of Amsterdam http://staff.fnwi.uva.nl/m.derijke

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Edge Hill Corpus Research Group – Meeting #12
by Costas Gabrielatos 17 Apr '24

17 Apr '24

The next meeting of the Edge Hill Corpus Research Group will take place online (via MS Teams) on Thursday 25 April 2024, 2:00-3:30 pm (UK time). Attendance is free. You can register here: https://store.edgehill.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/conferences/events/edge… Topics: Corpus Methodology, Large Language Models Speakers: Sylvia Jaworska<https://www.reading.ac.uk/elal/staff/dr-sylvia-jaworska> (University of Reading, UK) & Mathew Gillings<https://www.wu.ac.at/ebc/about-us/team/mathew-gillings/> (Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria) Title: How humans vs. machines identify discourse topics: an exploratory triangulation Abstract Identifying discourses and discursive topics in a set of texts has not only been of interest to linguists, but to researchers working across social sciences. Traditionally, these analyses have been conducted based on small-scale interpretive analyses of discourse which involve some form of close reading. Naturally, however, that close reading is only possible when the dataset is small, and it leaves the analyst open to accusations of bias and/or cherry-picking. Designed to avoid these issues, other methods have emerged which involve larger datasets and have some form of quantitative component. Within linguistics, this has typically been through the use of corpus-assisted methods, whilst outside of linguistics, topic modelling is one of the most widely-used approaches. Increasingly, researchers are also exploring the utility of LLMs (such as ChatGPT) to assist analyses and identification of topics. This talk reports on a study assessing the effect that analytical method has on the interpretation of texts, specifically in relation to the identification of the main topics. Using a corpus of corporate sustainability reports, totalling 98,277 words, we asked 6 different researchers, along with ChatGPT, to interrogate the corpus and decide on its main ‘topics’ via four different methods. Each method gradually increases in the amount of context available. • Method A: ChatGPT is used to categorise the topic model output and assign topic labels; • Method B: Two researchers were asked to view a topic model output and assign topic labels based purely on eyeballing the co-occurring words; • Method C: Two researchers were asked to assign topic labels based on a concordance analysis of 100 randomised lines of each co-occurring word; • Method D: Two researchers were asked to reverse-engineer a topic model output by creating topic labels based on a close reading. The talk explores how the identified topics differed both between researchers in the same condition, and between researchers in different conditions shedding light on some of the mechanisms underlying topic identification by machines vs humans or machines assisted by humans. We conclude with a series of tentative observations regarding the benefits and limitations of each method along with suggestions for researchers in selecting an analytical approach for discourse topic identification. While this study is exploratory and limited in scope, it opens up a way for further methodological and larger scale triangulations of corpus-based analyses with other computational methods including AI. If you have any questions, please contact the organiser, Costas Gabrielatos (gabrielc(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:gabrielc@edgehill.ac.uk>) ________________________________ Edge Hill University<http://ehu.ac.uk/home/emailfooter> Modern University of the Year, The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2022<http://ehu.ac.uk/tef/emailfooter> University of the Year, Educate North 2021/21 ________________________________ This message is private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it from your system. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Edge Hill or associated companies. Edge Hill University may monitor email traffic data and also the content of email for the purposes of security and business communications during staff absence.<http://ehu.ac.uk/itspolicies/emailfooter>

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[CFP] 2nd Call for Participation - ISWC-LLMs4OL 2024 Challenge: Large Language Models for Ontology Learning
by Jennifer D'Souza 17 Apr '24

17 Apr '24

[apologies if you received multiple copies of this call] Dear colleagues and friends, *We are pleased to release the 2nd Call for Participation - LLMs4OL Challenge collocated with The International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2024)* *Overview:* LLMs4OL stands for "Large Language Models for Ontology Learning." The LLMs4OL paradigm was first introduced in our research paper ( https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-47240-4_22) published in the ISWC 2023 main conference proceedings. In this context, we aimed to test the readiness of LLMs to address the Ontology Learning (OL) task w.r.t. three main subtasks: 1) Term Typing, 2) Type Taxonomy Discovery, and 3) Non-Taxonomic Relation Extraction. Therein our evaluations included ontolgies from various knowledge domains, i.e. lexicosemantics (WordNet), geography (GeoNames), biomedicine (NCI, MEDICIN, SNOMEDCT), and web content types (schema.org). With the ISWC-LLMs4OL 2024 challenge, we aim to catalyze community-wide engagement in validating and expanding the use of LLMs in OL by releasing our evaluation datasets publicly in the community. This initiative is poised to advance our comprehension of LLMs’ roles within the Semantic Web, encouraging innovation and collaboration in developing scalable and accurate OL methods. More info on the task website: https://sites.google.com/view/llms4ol/ The LLMs4OL Challenge will be divided into two evaluation phases: - Evaluation Phase 1: Few-shot Testing; - Evaluation Phase 2: Zero-shot Testing *Dates* Training datasets available: March 30, 2024 Test data available (Task A): May 27, 2024 Evaluation ends (Task A): June 4, 2024 Test data available (Tasks B & C): June 5, 2024 Evaluation ends (Tasks B & C): June 18, 2024 Participant papers due: June 28, 2024 Notification to authors: July 19, 2024 Camera ready due: July 30, 2024 ISWC 2024, Baltimore, Maryland, USA: 11-15 November 2024 *Task Organizers* Hamed Babaei Giglou (TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology - Germany) Jennifer D’Souza (TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology - Germany) Sören Auer (TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology - Germany) We look forward to having you on board! *Contact:* llms4ol.challenge [at] gmail.com

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Funded PhD Position in NLP (4 years, Zurich)
by Reto Gubelmann 17 Apr '24

17 Apr '24

Dear Colleagues, The Digital Society Initiative of the University of Zurich has an opening for a funded PhD position in NLP. The position is for four years, starting on August 1, 2024, or per agreement. Details on the position and the application procedure can be found in the job ad here<https://jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stellen/phd-student-position-empowering-ai-to-ex…>. The position is part of Project AIR that aims to bring together cutting-edge methods in NLP with recent developments in the philosophy of language and logic with a focus on natural language inference. To apply, please follow the guidelines in the ad. Feel free to contact me if there are any questions. All the best, Reto

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36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering: Call for Participation
by Announce 17 Apr '24

17 Apr '24

*** Call for Participation *** 36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'24) June 3-7, 2024, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/caise2024/ (*** Early Bird Registration: May 1, 2024 ***) ( *** Registration site: https://cyprusconferences.org/caise2024/registration/ ***) CAiSE is the premier conference series for information systems engineering. It offers a meeting space for presentation of recent research results, discussion about trends and futures of information systems engineering, and interaction between researchers and practitioners. Registration is now open, Early-bird registration is possible until May 1, 2024. See all CAiSE’24 speakers, the conference venue and the social events. Highlights of the conference: RESEARCH PAPER PRESENTARIONS • 36 high quality research paper presentations • CAiSE Forum: presentations and discussions of 10 innovative vision papers and 8 tool demos • Journal-first paper presentations – of selected papers on IS Engineering topics that were published in journals this year • Research projects exhibition KEYNOTES AND PANELS • Keynote by Prof. J. Mark Bishop: The colour of cognition: from abstract computation to the lived mind • Keynote by Prof. David Harel: Two Projects on Human Interaction with AI • Panel on the use of generative AI for IS engineering research and academic writing TUTORIALS • Orlenys López Pintado and David Chapela-Campa: Data-driven Business Process Simulation: From Event Logs to Tools and Techniques • Diego Calvanese and Davide Lanti: Designing Virtual Knowledge Graphs • Henrik Leopold: How to Conduct Valid Information Systems Engineering Research? • Luiz Olavo Bonino: FAIR Data Train: A FAIR-compliant distributed data and services platform • Massimo Mecella: Engineering Information Systems with LLMs and AI-based techniques WORKING CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS • Working conference on Business Process Modeling, Development and Support (BPMDS) • Working conference on Exploring Modelling Methods for Systems Analysis and Design (EMMSAD) • 6 workshops: on Agile Methods for Information Systems Engineering, Blockchain for Information Systems and Blockchain for Trusted Data Sharing, Hybrid Artificial Intelligence and Enterprise Modelling for Intelligent Information Systems, Knowledge Graphs for Semantics-driven Systems Engineering, Enterprise & Organizational Modeling and Simulation, Digital Transformation with Business Process Mining SOCIAL EVENTS • Workshop and co-located events dinner with typical Cypriot food and atmosphere • Welcome reception and cocktail • A tour and a conference dinner in Aphrodite Hill’s Village • A beach party with drinks and dancing

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KI Conference 2024 Abstract Submission Deadline
by janna.omeliyanenko＠gmail.com 17 Apr '24

17 Apr '24

Dear all, this is a friendly reminder regarding the upcoming deadline for abstract submissions for the KI Conference 2024. The deadline is just three days away on April 20th. If you haven't already, please make sure to finalize and submit your abstract as soon as possible to ensure it is considered for the conference. Note that the abstract submission is a mandatory prerequisite for the full paper submission. Best regards, KI24 Team

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NeTTT’2024 Last Call for Papers
by t.ranasinghe＠aston.ac.uk 17 Apr '24

17 Apr '24

International Conference ‘New Trends in Translation and Technology’ (NeTTT’2024) Varna, Bulgaria, 3-6 July 2024 https://nettt-conference.com/ *** Last Call for Papers (Submission deadline approaching: 30 April 2024) *** # The conference The second edition of the forthcoming International Conference ‘New Trends in Translation and Technology’ (NeTTT’2024) will take place in Varna, Bulgaria, 3-6 July 2024. Continuing the tradition of the first edition of the NeTTT conference and HiT-IT events series, the objective of the conference is (i) to bridge the gap between academia and industry in the field of translation and interpreting by bringing together academics in linguistics, translation studies, machine translation and natural language processing, developers, practitioners, language service providers and vendors who work on or are interested in different aspects of technology for translation and interpreting, and (ii) to be a distinctive event for discussing the latest developments and practices. NeTTT’2024 invites all professionals who would like to learn about the new trends, present the latest work or/and share their experience in the field, and who would like to establish business and research contacts, collaborations and new ventures. The conference will take the form of presentations (peer-reviewed research and user presentations, keynote speeches), and posters; it will also feature panel discussions. The accepted papers will be published as open-access conference e-proceedings. # Conference topics Contributions are invited on any topic related to latest technology and practices in machine translation, translation, subtitling, localisation and interpreting. NeTTT’2024 will feature a Special Theme Track "Future of Translation Technology in the Era of LLMs and Generative AI". The conference topics include but are not limited to: ## CAT tools - Translation Memory (TM) systems - NLP and MT for translation memory systems - Terminology extraction tools - Localisation tools ## Machine Translation - Latest developments in Neural Machine Translation - MT for under-resourced languages - MT with low computing resources - Multimodal MT - Integration of MT in TM systems - Resources for MT ## Technologies for MT deployment - MT evaluation techniques, metrics and evaluation results - Human evaluations of MT output - Evaluating MT in a real-world setting - Quality estimation for MT - Domain adaptation ## Translation Studies - Corpus-based studies applied to translation - Corpora and resources for translation - Translationese - Cognitive effort and eye-tracking experiments in translation ## Interpreting studies - Corpus-based studies applied to interpreting - Corpora and resources for interpreting - Interpretese - Resources for interpreting and interpreting technology applications - Cognitive effort and eye-tracking experiments in interpreting ## Interpreting technology - Machine interpreting - Computer-aided interpreting - NLP for dialogue interpreting - Development of NLP based applications for communication in public service settings (healthcare, education, law, emergency services) ## Emerging Areas in Translation and Interpreting - MT and translation tools for literary texts and creative texts - MT for social media and real-time conversations - Sign language recognition and translation ## Subtitling - NLP and MT for subtitling - Latest technology for subtitling ## 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 ## The business of translation and interpreting - Translation workflow and management - Technology adoption by translators and industry - Setting up translation /interpreting / language provider company ## Teaching translation and interpreting - Teaching Machine Translation - Teaching translation technology - Teaching interpreting technology - Latest AI developments in the syllabi of translation and interpreting curricula ## Ethical issues in translation and technology - Bias and fairness in MT - Privacy and security in cloud MT systems - Transparency and explainability of MT systems - Environmental impact on MT systems # Special Theme Track - Future of Translation Technology in the Era of LLMs and Generative AI We are excited to share that NeTTT’2024 will have a special theme with the goal of stimulating discussion around Large Language Models, Generative AI and the Future of Translation and Interpreting Technology. While the new generation of Large Language Models such as CHATGPT and LLAMA showcase remarkable advancements in language generation and understanding, we find ourselves in uncharted territory when it comes to their performance on various Translation and Interpreting Technology tasks with regards to fairness, interpretability, ethics and transparency. The theme track invites studies on how LLMs perform on Translation and Interpreting Technology tasks and applications, and what this means for the future of the field. The possible topics of discussion include (but are not limited to) the following: - Changes in the translators and interpreters’ professions in the new AI era especially as a result of the latest developments in LLMSs and Generative AI - Generative AI and translation - Generative AI and interpreting - Augmenting machine translation systems with generative AI - Domain and terminology adaptation with Large Language Models - Literary translation with Large Language Models - Improving Machine Translation Quality with Contextual Prompts in Large Language Models - Prompt engineering for translation - Generative AI for professional translation - Generative AI for professional interpreting # Keynote speakers We are delighted to announce the NeTTT’2024 keynote speakers - Helena Moniz (University of Lisbon and Unbabel), President of the European Association of Machine Translation - Carla Parra Escartín (RWS Language Weaver) # Tutorial (3 July 2024) - Tharindu Ranasinghe (Aston University), Quality Estimation for Machine Translation # Programme Committee The Programme Committee of NeTTT’2024 is listed https://nettt-conference.com/26844-2/. # Conference Chairs - Ruslan Mitkov (Lancaster University) - Gloria Corpas Pastor (University of Malaga) # Programme Chairs - Constantin Orasan (University of Surrey) - Tharindu Ranasinghe (Aston University) # Sponsorship Chair - Vilelmini Sosoni (Ionian University) # Publication Chair - Maria Kunilovskaya (University of Saarland) # Organising Committee - Organising Committee of NeTTT’2024 is listed https://nettt-conference.com/organisers/ # Submissions and publication NETTT’2024 invites the following types of submissions: User papers – for industry and practitioners. References to related work are optional. Allowed paper length: between 1 and 4 pages. 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 12 pages + unlimited references. • (academic) work-in-progress papers/posters – 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 7 pages + unlimited references. • (academic) demo papers – describing working systems. Allowed paper length: maximum 5 pages + unlimited references. In addition to the papers, the authors will be expected to demonstrate the systems at the workshop. The conference will not consider and evaluate abstracts only. Each submission will be reviewed by three members of the Programme Committee. Submission is organised via Softconf START conference management system at https://softconf.com/n/nettt2024. For submitting the papers, we invite the authors to comply with the Springer format, following the templates: • LaTeX: https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/192386…, • Overleaf: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/springer-lecture-notes-in-computer…, • Word: https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/192387…. The accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and made available online on the conference website. Authors of accepted papers will receive guidelines regarding how to produce camera-ready versions of their papers. The final version of the accepted papers will be published in e-proceedings with assigned ISBN and DOI. All accepted papers will be included in the conference e-proceedings which will be available at the conference website. # Schedule - Submission deadline: 30 April 2024 - Notification: 5 June 2024 - Final version due: 20 June 2024 All deadlines are valid for 23.59 Anywhere on Earth. # Registration Conference registration is open on https://nettt-conference.com/fees-registration/ The promotional early registration fee has been extended to 17 March 2024. # Venue The conference will take place at https://www.chernomorebg.com/en/conference-centre.html, Varna, situated only 200 m away from the fine sandy Black Sea beach. # Sponsors We are proud to announce the conference sponsors: OONA - Diamond Sponsor Pangeanic – Gold Sponsor MITRA Translations – Silver Sponsor Juremy – Bronze Sponsor # Further information and contact details The conference website is https://nettt-conference.com and will be updated on a regular basis. For further information, please contact us at nettt2024(a)nettt-conference.com Dr Tharindu Ranasinghe Lecturer in Computer Science School of Informatics and Digital Engineering Birmingham, B4 7ET, UK aston.ac.uk

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new version of the free software tool LancsBox X
by Brezina, Vaclav 17 Apr '24

17 Apr '24

Dear all, The ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science<https://cass.lancs.ac.uk/>, Lancaster University (CASS) is happy to announce the release of a new version of the free software tool for the analysis of corpora of the size of up to billions of words. #LancsBox X, CASS's flagship software tool available for free, reflects the most recent developments in the field and offers its users a comprehensive solution for the analysis of language data. The new version is freely downloadable from: https://lancsbox.lancs.ac.uk New features include: -n-grams and skip-grams with large corpora -key n-grams and skip-grams - new visualizations now including rich word clouds - tag corpora (pos, headword, semantic category, syntactic dependency etc.) and download them to your computer - lighting fast complex searches (ADJECTIVE NOUN VERB ADVERB) and table sorting Read more about these innovations at a CASS blogpost: https://cass.lancs.ac.uk/casss-innovation-programme-new-features-in-lancbox… The new version comes with the British National Corpus 2014<https://cass.lancs.ac.uk/bnc2014>, also developed at CASS, (we recommend deleting and re-downloading the BNC2014 if you have used a previous version). Also learn about CASS's extensive research programme of corpus methodology and its innovative applications to social science: https://cass.lancs.ac.uk/cass-projects [cid:image001.png@01DA8F1D.8813BF30]

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PhD in Generative AI for Cybersecurity Applications
by Pranava Madhyastha 17 Apr '24

17 Apr '24

The Department of Computer Science at City, University of London is seeking a PhD student to research the use of generative AI (large language models) for cybersecurity applications. The research will focus on exploring network topologies, mitigating cyber attack paths, and ameliorating vulnerabilities. The candidate will work closely with industry partner BT and have the opportunity to create real-world impact beyond academic research. Please follow the link for more details: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DGA891/phd-studentship-generative-ai-for-cyber-s…

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Final Call: ArAIEval Shared Task at the ArabicNLP conference 2024 (co-located with ACL 2024): Propagandistic Techniques Detection
by Wajdi Zaghouani 17 Apr '24

17 Apr '24

Dear colleagues, You are invited to participate in the *ArAIEval Shared Task *at the *ArabicNLP 2024*: (i) detection of propagandistic textual spans with persuasion techniques identification (unimodal) on Arabic news articles and tweets. (ii) distinguishing between propagandistic and non-propagandistic memes (multimodal) in Arabic. The shared task will be held alongside the Second Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP 2024), co-located with the ACL2024 Conference in Bangkok, Thailand (11-16 Aug, 2024). *Tasks* Task 1: Unimodal (Text) Propagandistic Technique Detection: The task is to detect the propaganda techniques used in a text and identify the exact span(s) in which each propaganda technique appears. You will be given text snippets from news paragraphs or tweets (multigenre). This is a sequence tagging task. Task 2: Multimodal propagandistic memes classification: We offer the three subtasks as defined below: - Subtask 2A: Given a text extracted from a meme, detect whether it is propagandistic or not. - Subtask 2B: Given a meme (text overlayed image), the task is to detect whether the content is propagandistic. - Subtask 2C: Given multimodal content (text extracted from meme and the meme itself) the task is to detect whether the content is propagandistic. Website for detailed information: https://araieval.gitlab.io/ Registration and submission: Task 1: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/18111 Task 2: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/18099 Important Dates - 15 Mar 2024: Registration on CodaLab and the start of the development cycle (release of training and development datasets, along with submission for the development phase on CodaLab) - 27 April 2023 23:59 AOE: Beginning of the evaluation cycle (test sets release) - 1 May 2024 23:59 AOE: End of the evaluation cycle (run submission) - 5 May 2024: Release leaderboard - 15 May 2024: Deadline for the submission of shared task papers - 17 June 2024: Notification of acceptance of shared task papers - 1 July 2024: Deadline for submission of camera-ready papers - 16 August 2023: ArabicNLP Conference (colocated with ACL-2024) Organizers - Firoj Alam, Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU, Qatar - Maram Hasanain, Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU, Qatar - Reem Suwaileh, HBKU, Qatar - Md. Arid Hasan, University of New Brunswick, Canada - Fatema Ahmed, Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU, Qatar - Md. Rafiul Biswas, HBKU, Qatar - Wajdi Zaghouani, HBKU, Qatar Regards, The ArAIEval Shared Task Organizers ---- *Wajdi Zaghouani, Ph.D.* *Associate Professor in Digital Humanities* 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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Touché 2024: Shared Tasks on Argumentation Systems. Final Call for Participation
by Johannes Kiesel 16 Apr '24

16 Apr '24

Touché 2024: Shared Tasks on Argumentation Systems. Final Call for Participation. Touché is a series of shared tasks on argumentation systems, now in its 5th year. It is held in conjunction with the CLEF'24 conference in Grenoble, France, September 9-12. This year, Touché features a selection of three tasks: 1. Human Value Detection (a continuation of ValueEval’23 @ SemEval) features two subtasks in ethical argumentation on the detection of human values in texts and their attainment, respectively https://touche.webis.de/clef24/touche24-web/human-value-detection.html 2. Ideology and Power Identification in Parliamentary Debates (new task) features two subtasks in debate analysis on the detection of the ideology and position of power of the speaker’s party, respectively https://touche.webis.de/clef24/touche24-web/ideology-and-power-identificati… 3. Image Retrieval for Arguments (third edition, joint with ImageCLEF) features a task on the retrieval or generation of images to help convey an argument’s premise https://touche.webis.de/clef24/touche24-web/image-retrieval-for-arguments.h… Registration via CLEF (not binding) will close next Monday, April 22nd: https://clef2024-labs-registration.dei.unipd.it/ Important Dates --------------- May 6, 2024: Approaches submission deadline. May 31, 2024: Participant paper submission. June 21, 2024: Participant paper notification. July 8, 2024: Camera-ready participant papers submission. Sep. 9-12, 2024: Conference Links ----- Touché: https://touche.webis.de/ Contact: touche(a)webis.de CLEF: https://clef2024.clef-initiative.eu/ Registration: https://clef2024-labs-registration.dei.unipd.it/ We are looking forward to your submission! The Touché team

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Call for Participants: LongEval: Longitudinal Evaluation of Model Performance CLEF 2024 Lab
by hsuvas＠gmail.com 16 Apr '24

16 Apr '24

Call for Participants LongEval: Longitudinal Evaluation of Model Performance CLEF 2024 Lab 9-12 September, Grenoble, France -------------------------------------------------------- ** Registration open, training data available ** The CLEF 2024 LongEval lab is motivated by recent research showing that the performance of information retrieval and text classification models drops as the test data becomes more distant in time from the training data. LongEval differs from traditional IR and classification shared tasks with special considerations on evaluating models that mitigate performance drop over time. It encourages participants to develop temporal information retrieval systems and longitudinal text classifiers that survive through dynamic temporal text changes, introducing time as a new dimension for ranking models performance. The lab consists of two tasks: * Task 1. LongEval-Retrieval: The goal of Task 1 is to propose an information retrieval system which can handle changes over the time. The proposed retrieval system should follow the temporal timewise evolution of Web documents. Contact: longeval-ir-task(a)univ-grenoble-alpes.fr * Task 2. LongEval-Classification: The goal of Task 2 is to propose a temporal persistence classifier which can mitigate performance drop over short and long periods of time compared to a test set from the same time frame as training. Contact: r.a.a.alkhalifa(a)qmul.ac.uk Registration ------------ Please use the CLEF registration form (https://clef2024-labs-registration.dei.unipd.it/ ) to register for the tasks. The registration closes on Monday, 22 April 2024. Timeline -------- April 2024: Test data release 22 April 2024: Registration closes 6 May 2024: End of Evaluation Cycle [submission of runs] 31 May 2024: Submission of Participant Papers [CEUR-WS] 31 May–21 June 2024: Review process of participant papers July 2024: Camera ready paper submission September 2024: CLEF Conference Organisers ---------- Rabab Alkhalifa, Hsuvas Borkakoty, Romain Deveaud, Alaa El-Ebshihy, Luis Espinosa-Anke, Gabriela Gonzalez-Saez, Petra Galuščáková, Lorraine Goeuriot, Maria Liakata, Harish Tayyar Madabushi, Philippe Mulhem, Florina Piroi, Martin Popel, Christophe Servan, Arkaitz Zubiaga.

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DIMEMEX@IberLEF2024: Call for participation
by dirazuhf 16 Apr '24

16 Apr '24

Apologies for cross-postings ------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PARTICIPATION DIMEMEX@IberLEF2024: Detection of Inappropriate Memes from Mexico URL: https://sites.google.com/inaoe.mx/dimemex-2024/ *** NEWS *** We are pleased to inform you that the CodaLab site for accessing the details of the DIMEMEX tasks is available at: DIMEMEX@IberLEF 2024: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/18118 This platform serves as the central repository of information regarding the DIMEMEX-2024 initiative. We encourage you to visit the site to explore relevant materials, including task descriptions, datasets, evaluation metrics, terms & conditions, submission guidelines, results, and others. *** Task description *** Social networks are increasingly playing crucial roles in people’s lives, transforming the dynamics of communication and information sharing. Analyzing the content originated on these platforms has become a hot research topic for the computational linguistics community. However, despite the notable advances made in recent years, there are still open challenges that merit additional research for better treatment or deeper understanding. One such challenge is the detection of abusive content, which includes aspects like hate speech, aggression, offensive language, and other related phenomena. Given the multimodal nature of social media platforms, we aim to promote the research and development of multimodal computational models for the detection of abusive content in Mexican Spanish, particularly hate, offensive, and vulgar memes. Memes are defined as the conjunction of a text and an image which often provide a joint meaning. This meaning is predominantly humorous or ironic, and the absence of either text or image may alter its interpretation. Accordingly, combining information from both modalities to identify a meme as abusive represents an exciting and challenging problem. DIMEMEX comprises two subtasks: a) A three-way classification: hate speech, inappropriate content, and neither. b) A finer-grained classification distinguishing instances containing hate speech into different categories such as classism, sexism, racism, and others. Stay tuned! - register to the associated mailing list: https://sites.google.com/inaoe.mx/dimemex-2024/registration *** Important dates *** March 15th - Release of training corpora. May 10th - Release of test corpora and start of evaluation campaign. May 21th - End of evaluation campaign (deadline for submission of runs). May 24th - Publication of official results. Jun 7th - Deadline for paper submission. Jun 21th - Acceptance notification. Jun 28th - Camera ready submission deadline. September - TBD Publication of proceedings. September - TBD IberLEF@SEPLN 2024 Workshop. *** Task organizers *** Horacio Jesús Jarquín, INAOE, Mexico Delia Irazú Hernández, INAOE, Mexico Hugo Jair Escalante, INAOE, Mexico Luis Villaseñor, INAOE, Mexico Manuel Montes, INAOE, Mexico Itzel Tlelo-Coyotecatl, INAOE, Mexico Marco Casavantes, INAOE, Mexico ********* AVISO DE CONFIDENCIALIDAD: Este correo electrónico, incluyendo en su caso, los archivos adjuntos al mismo pueden contener información de carácter confidencial y/o privilegiada, y se envían a la atención única y exclusivamente de la persona y/o entidad a quien va dirigido. La copia, revisión, uso, revelación y/o distribución de dicha información confidencial sin la autorización por escrito del Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica (INAOE) está prohibida. Si usted no es el destinatario a quien se dirige el presente correo, favor de contactar al remitente respondiendo al presente correo y eliminar el correo original incluyendo sus archivos, así como cualquiera copia de este. Mediante la recepción del presente correo usted reconoce y acepta que en caso de incumplimiento de su parte y/o de sus representantes a los términos antes mencionados, este Centro Público de Investigación tendrá el derecho de reclamar los daños y perjuicios que dicha vulneración le cause; asimismo se hace de su conocimiento que el Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica (INAOE) está obligado a salvaguardar los datos personales que le sean proporcionados por terceros, en los términos de la Ley General de Protección de Datos Personales en Posesión de Sujetos Obligados. AVISO DE PRIVACIDAD, En cumplimiento con la Ley General de Protección de Datos Personales en Posesión de Sujetos Obligados, al recibir datos de carácter personal a través de este medio, se entiende el consentimiento expreso del titular de los datos personales para utilizarlos en actividades propias del Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica (INAOE). Para mayor información, lo invitamos a consultar el Aviso de Privacidad en nuestro portal: https://www.inaoep.mx

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Reminder: two post-doc positions (36/48 months) at the University of Helsinki, Finland [deadline: May 1]
by Hiippala, Tuomo J 16 Apr '24

16 Apr '24

Dear all, apologies for cross/reposting the announcements – just wanted to send out a reminder about the positions described below, as the May 1 deadline for applications is approaching. In case you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me at tuomo.hiippala(a)helsinki.fi. Best, Tuomo Hiippala --- POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCHER IN DIGITAL HUMANITIES --- This is a fixed-term position for 36 months, starting in September 2024 or as agreed, based in the Department of Languages at the University of Helsinki, Finland. RESPONSIBILITIES: The post-doctoral researcher is responsible for developing structured, machine-readable representations of multimodality for the page-based and audiovisual media studied in the project. As the descriptions of multimodality are collected using crowdsourcing, the post-doctoral researcher is also expected to participate in designing and implementing crowdsourcing pipelines. QUALIFICATIONS: The appointee must hold a doctoral degree in digital humanities, humanities computing, language technology, computer science or a related field, and have a keen interest in multimodality. Previous experience of developing structured representations for diverse forms of data is essential. Previous experience or interest in volunteer-based or paid crowdsourcing or citizen science is considered an asset. For more information, see the full announcement here: https://jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki-Post-doctoral-researcher-in-digital-h… --- POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCHER IN MULTIMODAL COMMUNICATION --- This is a fixed-term position for 48 months, starting in September 2024 or as agreed, based in the Department of Languages at the University of Helsinki, Finland. RESPONSIBILITIES: The post-doctoral researcher is responsible for developing large corpora that describe the multimodal structure of the diverse media studied in the project. To scale up the corpus size, the data will be described by crowdsourced non-expert workers. The post-doctoral researcher will lead the development of crowdsourcing tasks that generate descriptions that can be then compiled into systematic corpus annotations. The appointee will also participate in developing new methods for analysing large multimodal corpora. QUALIFICATIONS: The appointee must hold a doctoral degree in linguistics, semiotics, media studies or related field with a specific focus on multimodality. The appointee must have a deep understanding of contemporary theories of multimodality relevant to the domain of the project. Previous experience of designing and implementing annotation schemes for multimodal corpora is essential. Knowledge of programming languages such as Python and mark-up languages such as XML and JSON for managing research data is considered an advantage. For more information, see the full announcement here: https://jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki-Post-doctoral-researcher-in-multimoda… --- Dr. Tuomo Hiippala | Associate Professor in English Language and Digital Humanities Department of Languages | University of Helsinki, Finland | +358 50 377 33 66 http://www.helsinki.fi/~thiippal/ | https://www.helsinki.fi/multimodality

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ACM GoodIT'24: Special Track on Educating for a Sustainable Digital Future -- Second Call for Papers
by Announce 16 Apr '24

16 Apr '24

*** Second Call for Papers *** ACM 4th International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good (GoodIT''24) Special Track on Educating for a Sustainable Digital Future https://blogs.uni-bremen.de/goodit2024/ ( *** Submission Deadline: 17 May 2024 ***) SCOPE Exploring the development of our digital future requires a comprehensive examination of both individual and societal consequences. Placing excessive emphasis on individual gains, a common practice in individualistic societies for many years, has hindered the ability to grasp the complex dynamics and forward-thinking mindset essential for the sustainability of a contemporary society. The evolving landscape of technology and the ongoing digital advancements have paved the way for creative applications in the field of education, allowing us to adapt to the ever-changing circumstances. When shaping a new approach for Information Systems and Information Technology education, it is crucial to emphasize the significance of individuals as key stakeholders and integral members of the wider community, while also recognizing the pivotal role of collaboration. In this track, we are searching for papers employing innovative technology and approaches to educate the future generation towards world equality, collegiality, inclusion and a more cooperative learning for a sustainable digital future. Values which are emphasized in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which overall aim towards creating a more equitable, sustainable, and peaceful world. This track is particularly relevant to IS/IT educators and those creative IT practitioners who care about developing a sustainable digital future. TOPICS Potential topics for papers include (but are not limited to): • Sustainable and innovative education technologies and practices • Universal access to quality education • The new role for IS/IT in society and education and the value of information and knowledge • The role of cooperative learning for life-long learning and societal developments • Digital transformation: opportunities and challenges for education, work, and society • Digital learning environments: Innovations and trends • Equality, diversity, and inclusion in education, work, and society • The use of large language models and generative AI in education • New topics and domains in IT-enhanced education We hope to attract the interest of IS/IT educators and those creative IT practitioners who care about developing a sustainable digital future. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Please refer to the instructions on the conference web site: https://blogs.uni-bremen.de/goodit2024/submission-of-papers/ . All accepted papers will be included in the ACM Digital Library . IMPORTANT DATES • Submission deadline: 17 May 2024 (AoE) • Notification of acceptance: 8 July 2024 • Camera ready: 19 July 2024 TRACK CHAIRS • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • Vasso Stylianou, University of Nicosia, Cyprus CONTACT DETAILS Vasso Stylianou, stylianou.v(a)unic.ac.cy

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CfP: The First Workshop on Analogical Abstraction in Cognition, Perception, and Language (Analogy-ANGLE)
by Pia Sommerauer 16 Apr '24

16 Apr '24

First Workshop on 𝐀𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐛𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞 (𝐀𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲-𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐋𝐄) Submission deadline: May 10th, 2024 https://analogy-angle.github.io/ Topics of interest include but are not limited to Cognitive modeling · Analogy and abstraction · Analogy and conceptual metaphor · Analogy, figurative language, sarcasm, and irony · Cognitive frameworks of analogy · Cognitive/psychological studies on analogy involving human participants Algorithms and methods · Studies of the analogical abilities of large language models and visual diffusion models · Algorithmic approaches to analogy · Augmentation and verification of large language and vision models through analogy · Neuro-symbolic AI architectures for analogical abstraction · Extracting analogies from knowledge bases Tasks and benchmarks · Matching narratives and situational descriptions through narratives · Novel tasks and benchmarks for evaluating analogies in text and vision · Analogy in longer formats, e.g., narratives and videos · Analogy and visual abstraction tasks · Analogical discovery and computational creativity Applications · Analogies for personalization, explanation, and collaboration · Novel applications of analogical abstraction · Studies of the impact of analogy in specific applications and domains, including education, innovation, and law Workshop organisers: -Filip Ilievski, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam) -Pia Sommerauer, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam) -Marianna Bolognesi, PhD, University of Bologna (Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna) -Ute Schmid, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg -Dafna Shahaf, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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1st UniDive training Summer School 2024
by Atul K. Ojha 16 Apr '24

16 Apr '24

*1st UniDive Training Summer School 2024* Dates: *8 — 12 July 2024* Location: *Technical University of Moldova*, Chișinău, Moldova Coordinating Project: UNIDIVE <https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/doku.php?id=start> (Universality, Diversity and Idiosyncrasy in Language Technology) Website: https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/doku.php?id=meetings:other-events:1st_unid… Cost: *Participants selected on the basis of their application will be reimbursed, details are below.* *Apply by:* *April 29, 2024* CALL FOR APPLICATIONS We are happy to announce the 1th edition of UNIDIVE Summer School on Universality, Diversity and Idiosyncrasy in Language Technology. It is dedicated mainly (but not exclusively) to young researchers and investigators. Researchers working on low-resourced languages, dialects and varieties are particularly welcome SUMMER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES - Annotation of Universal Dependencies treebank for a new language - a course by Sylvain Kahane (Université Paris Nanterre, France) and Francis Tyers (Indiana University, USA) - Annotation of multiword expressions in a new language - course by Verginica Mititelu (Romanian Academy) and Voula Giouli (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and ILSP, ATHENA RC, Greece) - Corpus annotation infrastructure (annotation platforms, format validators, Git etc.) - a course by Daniel Zeman (Charles University, Czechia), Bruno Guillaume (LORIA, France) and Agata Savary (Université Paris-Saclay, France) - A brainstorming hackathon on topics submitted by the trainees - Poster sessions APPLICATIONS AND SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Each applicant should *submit a project* for a construction of a resource related to the topics of the training school (e.g. a new/enhanced UD treebank, a new PARSEME corpus, a resource adding a new annotation layer on top of a UD/PARSEME corpus, etc.). The length of the application should be 2 pages (excluding references). The application should contain: - The title - Applicant’s name and affiliation (including the country) - A list of 3-4 key-words - Description of a resource related to the topics of the training school - Explanation how the participation in the training school will be useful for the project - Open questions related to the project which could be addressed during the brainstorming hackathon - Short statement of the project phase (planning, started, in the process of creation) The projects are to be submitted via the OpenReview <https://openreview.net/group?id=UniDive/2024/Training_School> portal. TRAINEE’S SELECTION CRITERIA We can fund at least 40 trainees, the selection criteria include: - Trainee’s country: trainees only from COST countries[1] <#m_4818236555433100574_m_-2062973076706449294_m_-5162026155145348429__ftn1> and Near-Neighbour Countries can be funded. See here <https://www.cost.eu/about/members/> and here <https://www.cost.eu/about/strategy/international-collaboration/>. - Age: Young Researchers and Investigators, i.e. under the age of 40, are promoted - Gender and geographical balance (notably between Inclusiveness Target Countries and others COST countries) - Relevance and quality of the project submitted by the trainee - Status of the language on which the trainee intends to work (low-resourced languages, dialects or varieties are promoted) *If you are not selected on the basis of these criteria and you can find other financial sources to cover your travel, accommodation and meals, you are also welcome to participate. * *The authors of the selected projects may optionally present them in a poster session during the Training School. * IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for project submission: April 29, 2024 Notification of acceptance: May 15, 2024 Summer school: July 8-12, 2024 For any inquiry, please contact the organisers at: victoria.bobicev(a)ia.utm.md Looking forward to seeing you in Moldova, Organizing Committee ------------------------------ [1] <#m_4818236555433100574_m_-2062973076706449294_m_-5162026155145348429__ftnref1> COST members include 3 categories: COST Full Members, COST Cooperating Members (Israel), COST Partner Members (South Africa).

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TSD 2024 - Last Call for Papers, extended deadline
by TSD 2024 16 Apr '24

16 Apr '24

********************************************************* TSD 2024 - LAST CALL FOR PAPERS ********************************************************* Twenty-seventh International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2024) Brno, Czech Republic, 9-13 September 2024 http://www.tsdconference.org/ THE SUBMISSION DEADLINE has been EXTENDED to: April 22 2024 ............ Submission of full papers KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Hynek Hermansky, Johns Hopkins University, USA Preslav Nakov, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, Abu Dhabi The conference is organized by the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, and the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen. The conference is supported by International Speech Communication Association. Venue: Brno, Czech Republic SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 12 pages formatted in the LNCS style (including references). Those accepted will be presented either orally or as posters. The decision about the presentation format will be based on the recommendation of the reviewers. Proceedings papers do not differentiate the presentation format. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the on-line form accessible from the conference website. Papers submitted to TSD 2024 must not be under review by any other conference or publication during the TSD review cycle, and must not be previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere. Publishing on preprint servers is not forbidden, but authors are warned that when doing so this might influence the blind reviewing conditions. As reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...", should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...". Papers that do not conform to the requirements above are subject to be rejected without review. The authors are strongly encouraged to write their papers in TeX or LaTeX formats. These formats are necessary for the final versions of the papers that will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes. The paper format for review has to be in the PDF format with all required fonts included. Upon notification of acceptance, presenters will receive further information on submitting their camera-ready and electronic sources (for detailed instructions on the final paper format see https://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2024/paper_instr.html). Authors are also invited to present actual projects, developed software or interesting material relevant to the topics of the conference. The presenters of demonstrations should provide an abstract not exceeding one page. The demonstration abstracts will not appear in the conference proceedings. TSD SERIES TSD series evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in both spoken and written language processing from all over the world. Proceedings of TSD form a book published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. TSD Proceedings are regularly indexed by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index/Web of Science. Moreover, LNAI series are listed in all major citation databases such as DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC or COMPENDEX. CALL for SATELLITE WORKSHOP PROPOSALS https://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2024/conf_workshop_proposals.html The TSD 2024 conference will be accompanied by one-day satellite workshops or project meetings with organizational support by the TSD organizing committee. The organizing committee can arrange for a meeting room at the conference venue and prepare a workshop proceedings as a book with ISBN by a local publisher. The workshop papers that will pass also the standard TSD review process will appear in the Springer proceedings. Each workshop is a subject to proposal that should be sent via the proposal submission form or discussed via the contact e-mail tsd2024(a)tsdconference.org ahead of the respective deadline. TOPICS Topics of the conference will include (but are not limited to): Corpora and Language Resources (monolingual, multilingual, text and spoken corpora, large web corpora, large language models, disambiguation, specialized lexicons, dictionaries) Speech Recognition (multilingual, continuous, emotional speech, handicapped speaker, out-of-vocabulary words, alternative way of feature extraction, new models for acoustic and language modelling) Tagging, Classification and Parsing of Text and Speech (morphological and syntactic analysis, synthesis and disambiguation, multilingual processing, sentiment analysis, credibility analysis, automatic text labeling, summarization, authorship attribution) Speech and Spoken Language Generation (multilingual, high fidelity speech synthesis, computer singing) Semantic Processing of Text and Speech (information extraction, information retrieval, data mining, semantic web, knowledge representation, inference, ontologies, sense disambiguation, plagiarism detection, fake news detection) Integrating Applications of Text and Speech Processing (machine translation, natural language understanding, question-answering strategies, assistive technologies) Automatic Dialogue Systems (self-learning, multilingual, question-answering systems, dialogue strategies, prosody in dialogues) Multimodal Techniques and Modelling (video processing, facial animation, visual speech synthesis, user modelling, emotions and personality modelling) Papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Elmar Noeth, Germany (general chair) Rodrigo Agerri, Spain Eneko Agirre, Spain Vladimir Benko, Slovakia Archna Bhatia, USA Jan Cernocky, Czech Republic Simon Dobrisek, Slovenia Kamil Ekstein, Czech Republic Karina Evgrafova, Russia Yevhen Fedorov, Ukraine Volker Fischer, Germany Darja Fiser, Slovenia Lucie Flek, Germany Bjorn Gamback, Norway Radovan Garabik, Slovakia Alexander Gelbukh, Mexico Louise Guthrie, USA Jan Hajic, Czech Republic Eva Hajicova, Czech Republic Yannis Haralambous, France Hynek Hermansky, USA Ales Horak, Czech Republic Eduard Hovy, USA Milos Jakubicek, Czech Republic Maria Khokhlova, Russia Aidar Khusainov, Russia Daniil Kocharov, Russia Miloslav Konopik, Czech Republic Valia Kordoni, Germany Evgeny Kotelnikov, Russia Pavel Kral, Czech Republic Siegfried Kunzmann, USA Nikola Ljubesic, Croatia Natalija Loukachevitch, Russia Bernardo Magnini, Italy Vaclav Matousek, Czech Republic Roman Moucek, Czech Republic Agnieszka Mykowiecka, Poland Hermann Ney, Germany Joakim Nivre, Sweden Juan Rafael Orozco-Arroyave, Colombia Maciej Piasecki, Poland Josef Psutka, Czech Republic James Pustejovsky, USA German Rigau, Spain Paolo Rosso, Spain Leon Rothkrantz, The Netherlands Anna Rumshisky, USA Milan Rusko, Slovakia Pavel Rychly, Czechia Mykola Sazhok, Ukraine Pavel Skrelin, Russia Pavel Smrz, Czech Republic Petr Sojka, Czech Republic Georg Stemmer, Germany Marko Robnik Sikonja, Slovenia Marko Tadic, Croatia Jan Trmal, Czechia Tamas Varadi, Hungary Zygmunt Vetulani, Poland Aleksander Wawer, Poland Pascal Wiggers, The Netherlands Alina Wroblewska, Poland Jerneja Zganec Gros, Slovenia FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE The conference program will include presentation of invited papers, oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions. Papers will be presented in plenary or topic oriented sessions. Social events including a trip in the vicinity of Brno will allow for additional informal interactions. IMPORTANT DATES April 22 2024 ............ Submission of full papers June 5 2024 .............. Notification of acceptance June 15 2024 ............. Final papers (camera ready) and registration August 8 2024 ............ Submission of demonstration abstracts August 15 2024 ........... Notification of acceptance for demonstrations sent to the authors September 9-13 2024 ...... Conference date Submission of abstracts serves for better organization of the review process only - please submit your abstract as soon as possible. For the actual review a full paper submission is necessary. The accepted conference contributions will be published in Springer proceedings that will be made available to participants at the time of the conference. OFFICIAL LANGUAGE The official language of the conference is English. ACCOMMODATION The organizing committee will arrange discounts on accommodation in the 4-star hotel at the conference venue. The current prices of the accommodation will be available at the conference website. ADDRESS All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to Ales Horak, TSD 2024 Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University Botanicka 68a, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic phone: +420-5-49 49 18 63 fax: +420-5-49 49 18 20 email: tsd2024(a)tsdconference.org The official TSD 2024 homepage is: http://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2024 LOCATION Brno is the second largest city in the Czech Republic with a population of almost 400.000 and is the country's judiciary and trade-fair center. Brno is the capital of South Moravia, which is located in the south-east part of the Czech Republic and is known for a wide range of cultural, natural, and technical sights. South Moravia is a traditional wine region. Brno had been a Royal City since 1347 and with its six universities it forms a cultural center of the region. Brno can be reached easily by direct flights from London and Milano, and by trains or buses from Vienna (150 km) or Prague (230 km). For the participants with some extra time, nearby places may also be of interest. Local ones include: Brno Castle now called Spilberk, Veveri Castle, the Old and New City Halls, the Augustine Monastery with St. Thomas Church and crypt of Moravian Margraves, Church of St. James, Cathedral of St. Peter & Paul, Cartesian Monastery in Kralovo Pole, the famous Villa Tugendhat (UNESCO) designed by Mies van der Rohe along with other important buildings of between-war Czech architecture. For those willing to venture out of Brno, Moravian Karst with Macocha Chasm and Punkva caves, battlefield of the Battle of three emperors (Napoleon, Russian Alexander and Austrian Franz - Battle by Austerlitz), Chateau of Slavkov (Austerlitz), Pernstejn Castle, Buchlov Castle, Lednice Chateau, Buchlovice Chateau, Letovice Chateau, Mikulov with one of the largest Jewish cemeteries in Central Europe, Telc - a town on the UNESCO heritage list, and many others are all within easy reach.

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[CIKM-2024] - Call for sponsors
by antonela.tommasel＠isistan.unicen.edu.ar 16 Apr '24

16 Apr '24

* We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this call for sponsors* * For the online version of this Call, visit: https://cikm2024.org/become-a-sponsor/ =============== CIKM 2024: 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management Boise, Idaho, USA October 21–25, 2024 =============== The 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2024) serves as an international forum for presenting and discussing research in information and knowledge management, alongside recent advancements in data and knowledge bases. The conference aims to address challenging issues in the development of future knowledge and information systems and to guide forthcoming research directions by reviewing high-quality applied and theoretical research outcomes. A significant aspect of the conference is its Workshops program, which targets current research challenges and endeavors. CIKM has a rich history of workshops dedicated to emerging domains of artificial intelligence, database management, information retrieval, data mining, and related fields. Since 2022, CIKM has also hosted an industry day where industrial research advancements are shared with the community. Being a prestigious ACM conference, CIKM draws in leading researchers and influencers from academia and industry. CIKM presents a distinctive opportunity to engage with scientists who are shaping the next generation of techniques and to gain insights into both the current state-of-the-art and future research trajectories. Moreover, CIKM offers the chance to network with and recruit top Ph.D. students, making it an ideal platform to enhance your organization’s visibility among globally influential thought leaders. Sponsors stand to gain extensive exposure to this community through conference promotion, activities during the event, and the possibility of synergies with other industry partners. We eagerly anticipate your participation in CIKM2024 which will be hosted in Boise, Idaho, and encourage you to explore the advantages of sponsoring CIKM 2024. -------------------------- Benefits of Supporting CIKM 2024 -------------------------- * Acknowledgement of your organisation’s support leading up to and during the conference * Networking opportunities during the conference to promote your products and services to specialists and graduate students * A showcase for your brand in support of researchers in this key scientific and industrial field * An opportunity to establish contacts and strengthen relationships with the leading researchers and institutions from around the world * Access to conference delegates for recruiting and promoting mind share of your organisation’s brand * A place and time for your researchers and management to connect face-to-face with the most influential people in this field in a setting especially conducive to learning and exploration of future opportunities -------------------------- Levels of sponsorship -------------------------- There are five levels of sponsorship opportunities and the Sponsorship Chairs are happy to discuss more specific sponsorship opportunities. All conference sponsors receive the following standard benefits: * Recognition as a supporter (with your logo) in the conference program * Recognition as a supporter (with your logo) on the supporters’ page of the official conference website, including a hyperlink to your organisation’s home page * Acknowledgement as a supporter on the official audiovisual material used at the virtual conference (e.g., announcements in business sessions and logo in official virtual backgrounds) * Added Benefits of the different levels of sponsorship are outlined in the table below: Check the added benefits of the different levels of sponsorship at: https://cikm2024.org/become-a-sponsor/ -------------------------- Contact Information -------------------------- For more information, contact us at: cikm2024 [at] gmail [dot] com Francesco Gullo, University of L’Aquila Edoardo Serra, Boise State University Francesca Spezzano, Boise State University

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AIRiAL 2024 Call for Proposals, Friendly Reminder
by Voss, Erik 15 Apr '24

15 Apr '24

** apologies for cross-posting ** This is a friendly reminder that submissions are due by April 30th. CALL FOR PROPOSALS 2nd Annual Artificial Intelligence Research in Applied Linguistics (AIRiAL) Conference Theme AI in Education: Empowering Learners & Preparing Educators Location Teachers College, Columbia University Dates September 27-28, 2024 Submission deadline: April 30, 2024 The AL & TESOL Language and Technology Research Group <https://sites.google.com/tc.columbia.edu/al-tesol-language-technology/home> in the Applied Linguistics & TESOL program at Teachers College will host the second annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence Research in Applied Linguistics (AIRiAL). The theme of this conference emphasizes the transformative role of artificial intelligence (AI) in education and language teaching, focusing on AI literacy among learners and the preparedness of educators for the AI-driven future. We are interested in contributions that showcase AI technologies prioritizing human values, ethics, and the enhancement of human capabilities in the context of applied linguistics. Submissions may cover a wide array of topics within the scope of AI literacy and applied linguistics. Presentation Types - Papers - Posters - Colloquia - Technology Demonstrations Proposal Evaluation CriteriaProposals will be evaluated on (1) Contribution to the field of AI in AL, (2) Quality of the proposal, and (3) Clarity of the abstract. Preparation and Submission of Proposals Please submit your abstract through <https://tccolumbia.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_7PwYe30Vv8xDggu>the submission site: https://tinyurl.com/CFPAIRiAL2024 Abstracts should be max. 250 words. Submission deadline: April 30, 2024 Student Paper Award An award will be presented to the best student paper presentation at the conference. All authors on student papers must be actively-enrolled graduate students at the time of the conference. Conference Sponsors We are accepting sponsorships for this year's conference. Please email us at airialconference(a)tc.columbia.edu for more information. -- Erik Voss, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Applied Linguistics & TESOL program Language & Technology Specialization Department of Arts & Humanities Teachers College, Columbia University TC Faculty Profile <https://www.tc.columbia.edu/faculty/ev2449/>, Linkedin Profile <https://www.linkedin.com/in/erik-voss-ph-d-941a3ab9>, Google Scholar <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=FMnVdjcAAAAJ&hl=en> ALTESOL Language & Technology Research Group <https://sites.google.com/tc.columbia.edu/al-tesol-language-technology/home> Editor-in-Chief of NYS TESOL Journal Associate Editor of Language Assessment Quarterly *Latest Publications* TC Interview: How New Artificial Intelligence Tools Will Keep Changing Education <https://youtu.be/Zh1RB7DLRMI?si=vDIvowSnzrWy480P>(7:28 mins.) Voss, E. et al. (2023). The Use of Assistive Technologies Including Generative AI by Test Takers in Language Assessment: A Debate of Theory and Practice. <https://doi.org/10.1080/15434303.2023.2288256> LAQ Journal Voss, E. (2024) Duolingo Webinar: Current Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Language Assessment <https://youtu.be/b-mjLmvXLBU?si=nmph76-lizkfzi1J> (1 hour)

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April 2024 Newsletter - LDC
by Penn LDC 15 Apr '24

15 Apr '24

In this newsletter: New publications: LoReHLT Hausa Representative Language Pack<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2024T03> AIDA Scenario 2 Practice Topic Source Data<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2024T04> ________________________________ New publications: LoReHLT Hausa Representative Language Pack<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2024T03> was developed by LDC and is comprised of approximately 4.4 million words of Hausa monolingual text, 86,000 Hausa words translated from English data, and 30 minutes of Hausa audio recordings. Approximately 96,000 words were annotated for named entities and over 13,000 words were annotated for full entity including nominals and pronouns. Noun-phrase chunking was applied to more than 7,400 words. Over 9,600 words were labeled with simple semantic annotation. Topic annotation was applied to the audio recordings. Data was collected from discussion forum, news, reference, social network, amateur web audio recordings, and weblogs. LoReHLT was a companion project of the DARPA LORELEI program. The LORELEI (Low Resource Languages for Emergent Incidents) program was concerned with building human language technology for low resource languages in the context of emergent situations. Representative languages were selected to provide broad typological coverage. 2024 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee. * AIDA Scenario 2 Practice Topic Source Data<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2024T04> was developed by LDC and is comprised of 1500 root documents (text, image, and video) from English, Russian, and Spanish web sources. Each phase of the AIDA program centered on a specific scenario, or broad topic area, with related subtopics designated as either practice subtopics or evaluation subtopics. The Phase 2 scenario focused on the socioeconomic and political crisis in Venezuela since 2010. This corpus constitutes the full set of topic-focused documents for Phase 2 practice subtopics. The DARPA AIDA (Active Interpretation of Disparate Alternatives) program aimed to develop a multi-hypothesis semantic engine to generate explicit alternative interpretations of events, situations and trends from a variety of unstructured sources. LDC supported AIDA by collecting, creating and annotating multimodal linguistic resources in multiple languages. The knowledge base for entity detection and linking annotation for all AIDA Scenario 1 and 2 corpora is available separately as AIDA Scenario 1 and 2 Reference Knowledge Base (LDC2023T10)<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2023T10>. 2024 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. 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.

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LREC-COLING 2024 - Early Bird Deadline is extended to April 20, 2024
by info＠elda.org 15 Apr '24

15 Apr '24

[Apologies for multiple postings] The Early-bird registration deadline is extended to April 20, 2024 (23:59 UTC+2). If you are an author of one paper(or more) accepted to the Main Conference, please ensure you register by April 20, 2024 to guarantee their publication in the LREC-COLING 2024 Proceedings. https://lrec-coling-2024.org/

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Job openings in Computational Corpus Linguistics at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg – One week left to apply!
by Stephanie Evert 15 Apr '24

15 Apr '24

The Chair of Computational Corpus Linguistics (CCL) at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg has open positions for PhD CANDIDATES AND POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHERS IN COMPUTATIONAL CORPUS LINGUISTICS (65% or 100%, E13 TV-L, starting ASAP) You will contribute to one or more research projects in the area of computational corpus linguistics. Depending on qualifications and your preferred topic, different appointments are possible: • Statistical methods for the multivariate analysis of linguistic variation (65% for 3 years) • Text mining with corpus queries and LLM (65% for 3 years) • Development and applications of deep learning models in NLP and legal tech (100% until 12/2025, with possible extension depending on availability of funding) • Evaluation and analysis of generative LLM (100% until 12/2025, with possible extension depending on availability of funding) Required qualifications: • M.A./M.Sc. or Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Machine Learning, Data Science, Computational Humanities, or similar subject area (with very good grade) • Evidence of strong programming skills, ideally in Python and/or R • Experience with machine learning in NLP, deep learning, or statistical analysis • Near-native language skills in German or English • Very good communication skills in English, including the ability to write for publication and present research findings at meetings and conferences • Ability to work independently, manage own academic research and associated activities, and to supervise student assistants • Ability to work effectively in small and large teams Optional qualifications: • Evidence of strong mathematical skills • Evidence of ability to analyse linguistic data • Experience with creation of corpora and gold standards • Native-like language skills in German and English • Experience with development of Web apps in Python/Flask and Web-based UIs The contract will start ASAP (preferably by July 2024) and run for 3 years (65% positions) or until 14.12.2025 (100%, with extension depending on availability of funding). If you have any questions about the positions, the research projects, or the expected qualifications, please don’t hesitate to contact me at stephanie.evert(a)fau.de. Please submit your application by e-mail to stephanie.evert(a)fau.de, providing evidence for all relevant qualifications. The application deadline is Sunday, 21 April 2024. Positions will be open until filled. Full details: https://www.jobs.fau.de/jobs/phd-candidates-and-postdoctoral-researchers-in…

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CfP: JOKER @ CLEF 2024: Automatic Humour Analysis
by Tristan Miller 15 Apr '24

15 Apr '24

Call for Participation - JOKER @ CLEF 2024: Automatic Humour Analysis ===================================================================== https://joker-project.com/ We invite individuals and teams to participate in JOKER 2024, a set of shared tasks on automatic humour analysis. JOKER 2024 will be held at the Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2024) from 9 to 12 September 2024 in Grenoble, France. Topics and tasks ---------------- The goal of the JOKER workshop is to bring together linguists and computer scientists to work on an evaluation framework for humour, including data and metric development, and to foster work on automatic methods for humour analysis and translation. We invite submissions of automatic or manual runs for any or all of the following tasks, for which we have prepared annotated data: Task 1: Humour-aware information retrieval Task 2: Humour classification according to genre and technique Task 3: Translation of puns from English to French Unshared task: We welcome submissions that use our data for other tasks. How to participate ------------------ At least one team member should register at the CLEF website, and all team members should join the JOKER mailing list (see URLs below). Task data will be made available to all registered participants. Runs and system description papers should be submitted according to the schedule and instructions posted on the JOKER and CLEF websites. Deadlines --------- 2024-04-22: CLEF 2024 registration 2024-05-06: Submission of runs for JOKER 2024-05-24: Evaluation results posted 2024-05-31: Submission of system description papers 2024-06-24: Reviews of system description papers 2024-07-08: Submission of camera-ready papers 2024-09-09: CLEF 2024 conference begins Contacts -------- JOKER website: https://joker-project.com/ CLEF website: https://clef2024.clef-iniative.eu/ Email: contact(a)joker-project.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/joker_research Mailing list (Google Groups): https://groups.google.com/g/joker-project Chairs ------ Liana Ermakova, Université de Bretagne Occidentale Tristan Miller, University of Manitoba Adam Jatowt, University of Innsbruck Anne-Gwenn Bosser, ENIB Victor Manuel Palma Preciado, Instituto Politécnico Nacional Grigori Sidorov, Instituto Politécnico Nacional -- Dr. Tristan Miller, Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba https://logological.org/ | Tel. +1 204 474 6792

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Funded PhD in text mining, deadline May 15
by Peeter Tinits 15 Apr '24

15 Apr '24

Dear all, A fully funded PhD available for with a text mining / digital humanities / computational social science specialization. An interdisciplinary team of researchers is seeking to recruit a PhD student to a research project on industrial modernity and Deep Transitions at the Institute of Social Studies, University of Tartu, Estonia, led by Laur Kanger. The PhD study (4 years) will focus on the identification of long-term trends in industrial modernity in a comparative-historical perspective, combining the text mining of digitalized newspapers with existing databases. The application deadline is 15.05.2024. Please do not hesitate to forward this to anyone who might be interested in taking up the challenge. General information can be found here: https://ut.ee/en/content/phd-open-calls (navigate to “1-15 May and 1-15 June 2024” > “Faculty of Social Sciences” > “Media and Communication, Sociology” tab). Detailed description of the PhD position can be found here (https://ut.ee/sites/default/files/2024-04/Sociology_PhD%20call_Deep%20Trans…) . Long story short: if you have experience in text mining and an interest in societal change, you're likely to be a good match. :) Don't hesitate to contact for more information about the research! Best, Peeter Tinits

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Research Fellow position, University of Essex, UK- deadline April 21
by Ravi Shekhar 15 Apr '24

15 Apr '24

Dear All, We are seeking a passionate and motivated Research Fellow at the University of Essex, UK. You will be working on the EU/UKRI funded ELOQUENCE project <https://eloquenceai.eu/>. The funding is available until 31 December 2026. We are interested in attracting a researcher working on Natural Language Processing, Speech Processing, and Machine Learning/AI. Some areas of interest include (but not limited to) - Multimodel foundation model to combine text, speech and vision. - Multi-lingual text and speech processing - Factual retrieval-augmented generation - Human feedback incorporation using HCI techniques. - Ethics dimension of AI in real-world use cases You will be responsible for developing, validating, and deploying a deep-learning model. You will need experience building deep learning models using established tools (e.g., PyTorch) and proficiency in Python. You should also have, or be close to completing, a Ph.D. in computer science or a related field. You will have opportunities to develop your research interests, collaborate with other project partners, and present work in international conferences/journals. *Application Deadline: 21 April 2024 (Application details <https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DGX705/senior-research-officer>) * Informal inquiries about the position can be made to Prof. Haris Mouratidis and Dr. Ravi Shekhar (e-mail: {h.mouratidis and r.shekhar}(a)essex.ac.uk) -- Ravi Ravi Shekhar Lecturer, University of Essex, UK http://shekharravi.github.io/

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SIGDIAL 2024: Second Call for Papers
by Ultes, Stefan 15 Apr '24

15 Apr '24

The 25th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL) will be held in Kyoto, Japan on September 18-20, 2024. SIGDIAL will be co-located with INLG which will take place after SIGDIAL in Tokyo, Japan. The SIGDIAL venue provides a regular forum for the presentation of cutting-edge research in dialogue and discourse to both academic and industry researchers, continuing a series of 24 successful previous meetings. The conference is sponsored by the SIGDIAL organization - the Special Interest Group in discourse and dialogue for ACL and ISCA. * Topics of Interest * We welcome formal, corpus-based, implementation, experimental, or analytical work on discourse and dialogue including, but not restricted to, the following themes: - Discourse Processing: Rhetorical and coherence relations, discourse parsing and discourse connectives. Reference resolution. Event representation and causality in narrative. Argument mining. Quality and style in text. Cross-lingual discourse analysis. Discourse issues in applications such as machine translation, text summarization, essay grading, question answering and information retrieval. Discourse issues in text generated by large language models. - Dialogue Systems: Task oriented and open domain spoken, multimodal, embedded, situated, and text-based dialogue systems, their components, evaluation and applications, Knowledge representation and extraction for dialogue, State representation, tracking and policy learning. Social and emotional intelligence, Dialogue issues in virtual reality and human-robot interaction. Entrainment, alignment and priming. Generation for dialogue, Style, voice, and personality. Safety and ethics issues in Dialogue. - Corpora, Tools and Methodology: Corpus-based and experimental work on discourse and dialogue, including supporting topics such as annotation tools and schemes, crowdsourcing, evaluation methodology and corpora. - Pragmatic and Semantic Modeling: Pragmatics and semantics of conversations (i.e., beyond a single sentence), e.g., rational speech act, conversation acts, intentions, conversational implicature, presuppositions. - Applications of Dialogue and Discourse Processing Technology. * Special Session * SIGDIAL 2024 invites work on the special session “GEMINI - Graph-based knowledge for Modelling Intelligent Natural Interaction” that focuses on knowledge and knowledge modeling for dialogue systems, in particular on the opportunities and challenges for enhancing and stabilizing dialogue capabilities of chatbots, robots, and virtual agents with the use of LLMs. * Submissions * The program committee welcomes the submission of long papers, short papers, and demo descriptions. Submitted long papers may be accepted for oral or for poster presentation. Accepted short papers will be presented as posters. - Long paper submissions must describe substantial, original, completed and unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis should be included. Long papers must be no longer than 8 pages, including title, text, figures and tables. An unlimited number of pages is allowed for references and appendices, and an extra page is allowed in the final version to address reviewers’ comments. - 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, such as a small, focused contribution; a negative result; or an interesting application nugget. Short papers should be no longer than 4 pages including title, text, figures and tables. An unlimited number of pages is allowed for references and appendices, and an extra page is allowed in the final version to address reviewers’ comments. - Demo descriptions should be no longer than 4 pages including title, text, examples, figures, tables and references. A separate one-page document should be provided to the program co-chairs for demo descriptions, specifying furniture and equipment needed for the demo. Note that content that is an important part of the contribution or that is important for the reviewers to assess the technical correctness of the work should be a part of the main paper, and not appear in appendices. Reviewers are not required to consider material in appendices. Authors are encouraged to also submit additional accompanying materials, such as corpora (or corpus examples), demo code, videos and sound files. * Multiple Submissions * SIGDIAL 2024 cannot accept work for publication or presentation that will be (or has been) published elsewhere and that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications whose review periods overlap with that of SIGDIAL. Any questions regarding submissions can be sent to program-chairs [at] sigdial.org. * Blind Review * Building on previous years’ move to anonymous long and short paper submissions, SIGDIAL 2024 will follow the ACL policies for preserving the integrity of double-blind review (see author guidelines: https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Author_Guidelines). Unlike long and short papers, demo descriptions will not be anonymous. Demo descriptions should include the authors’ names and affiliations, and self-references are allowed. * Submission Format * All long, short, and demonstration submissions must follow the two-column ACL format, which are available as an Overleaf template (https://www.overleaf.com/read/crtcwgxzjskr) and also downloadable directly (Latex and Word) (https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files). Submissions must conform to the official ACL style guidelines, which are contained in these templates. Submissions must be electronic, in PDF format. * Submission Deadline * SIGDIAL will accept regular submissions through the Softconf/START system, as well as commitment of already reviewed papers through the ACL Rolling Review (ARR) system. * Regular submission * Authors have to fill in the submission form in the Softconf/START system and upload an initial pdf of their papers before May 17, 2024 (23:59 GMT-11). Details and the submission link will be posted on the conference website (https://2024.sigdial.org/). Submission via ACL Rolling Review (ARR, https://aclrollingreview.org/) Please refer to the ARR Call for Papers (https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp ) for detailed information about submission guidelines to ARR. The commitment deadline for authors to submit their reviewed papers, reviews, and meta-review to SIGDIAL 2024 is June 19, 2024. Note that the paper needs to be fully reviewed by ARR in order to make a commitment, thus the latest date for ARR submission will be April 15, 2024. * Mentoring * Acceptable submissions that require language (English) or organizational assistance will be flagged for mentoring, and accepted with a recommendation to revise with the help of a mentor. An experienced mentor who has previously published in the SIGDIAL venue will then help the authors of these flagged papers prepare their submissions for publication. * Best Paper Awards * In order to recognize significant advancements in dialogue/discourse science and technology, SIGDIAL 2024 will include best paper awards. All papers at the conference are eligible for the best paper awards. A selection committee consisting of prominent researchers in the fields of interest will select the recipients of the awards. SIGDIAL 2024 Program Committee Vera Demberg and Stefan Ultes Conference Website: https://2024.sigdial.org/

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The 12th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Cloud Computing, Services and Engineering (IEEE Mobile Cloud 2024): Last Call for Papers
by Announce 15 Apr '24

15 Apr '24

*** Last Call for Papers *** IEEE Mobile Cloud 2024 The 12th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Cloud Computing, Services and Engineering July 15-18, 2024 | Shanghai, China https://ieeemobilecloud.com (*** Submission Deadline: April 30th, 2024 AoE (extended) ***) IEEE Mobile Cloud is a pioneering IEEE sponsored international conference devoted to the research in mobile, edge, and cloud computing. It covers all aspects of mobile, edge, and cloud computing from architectures, techniques, tools and methodologies to applications. This year's conference is scheduled to take place in Shanghai, China, from 15-18 July 2024. IEEE Mobile Cloud 2024 is part of the IEEE International Congress On Intelligent And Service- Oriented Systems Engineering offering a broad spectrum of international events, sharing renowned keynotes and fostering exchange among researchers and practitioners (see common homepage for all colocated events, https://ieee-cisose-congress.org). The fusion of mobile communications, computing, and intelligence is catalysing the emergence of innovative systems and applications that facilitate intelligent resource provisioning, process extensive data from mobile sensors and interconnected hardware platforms, and bolster the Internet of Things (IoT) through robust edge and cloud-based backend infrastructure. The pivotal role of current and forthcoming communication technologies, machine learning implementation, and mobile cloud infrastructures as facilitators for this convergence cannot be understated. These mobile intelligent applications are poised to revolutionise various facets of daily life, encompassing domains such as transportation, e-commerce, healthcare, smart homes, smart cities, social interaction, and more. Mobile intelligence serves as an inclusive platform for both academic and industrial researchers to share their latest research insights, experimental findings, and the latest advancements in industry technologies related to mobile systems, machine learning, edge and cloud computing, services, and engineering. Leveraging the synergy of mobile communications, machine intelligence, edge computing, and edge/cloud infrastructures, the future of Mobile Intelligence Systems is envisioned to provide a multitude of critical and personalised services across diverse application domains, ranging from education, transportation, to public health, safety, and security. Submissions will be evaluated on the criteria of originality, significance, clarity, relevance, and accuracy. TOPICS OF INTEREST They include but not limited to: Theory, Modelling, and Methodologies • Mobile cloud computing models, architectures, infrastructures, and platforms • Mobile intelligence theories, concepts, algorithms, and methodologies • Mobile cloud data management • Mobile cloud tools, middleware, and data centres • Mobile intelligence as a service • Mobile networking, protocols, and technologies • Quality of service (QoS) • Mobile intelligence security and privacy Applications and Industry Practice • Mobile intelligence for autonomous driving systems, V2X, intelligent transportation systems (ITS), telematics • Mobile intelligence for robotics, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) • Mobile intelligence for sensor networks, Industrial IoT, industrial 4.0, and industry 5.0 • Mobile intelligence for future wireless technologies, 5G/6G, WiFi, Satellite, etc. • Mobile intelligence for aviation, airports, and railway • Mobile intelligence for Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality (AR/VR) • Mobile intelligence for computer vision and video analytics • Mobile intelligence for surveillance and disaster management • Mobile intelligence for healthcare • Mobile intelligence for the metaverse • Mobile intelligence for smart city • Mobile intelligence for satellite • Mobile intelligence for mission-critical systems • Mobile intelligence for community services and social networking • Mobile intelligence computing for sustainable development PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Papers must be written in English. All papers must be prepared in the IEEE double column proceedings format. Please see the following link for details: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html . All accepted conference papers will be published by IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Explore digital library with EI-index. Selected papers will be recommended to SCI-index journals as special issue papers. The paper length should be up to 8 pages for regular conference papers and 6 pages for work-in-progress papers. Submitted papers should contain original work and not being submitted elsewhere. Each paper must be presented by an author at the conference. Presentations via teleconference are not permitted. Permissions to have the paper presented by a qualified substitute presented may be granted by the TCP Chairs under extraordinary circumstances, upon written request. Submissions should be made via Easy Chair using the following link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=imc24 . IMPORTANT DATES • Abstract submission: March 31st, 2024 (AoE) • Paper submission: April 30th, 2024 (AoE) (extended) • Notification of acceptance: May 15th, 2024 • Final manuscript submission: May 22nd, 2024 • Author registration: May 22nd, 2024 • Conference: July 15th-18th, 2024 COMMITTEES General Chairs • Hiroyuki Sato, University of Tokyo, Japan • Yan Bai, University of Washington Tacoma, USA Program Chairs • Lan Zhang, Clemson University, USA • Sun Yao, The University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK • Tomoki Watanabe, Kanagawa Institute Technology, Japan • Fan Wu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Publicity Chair George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Committee • Ouri Wolfson, University of illinois • Felix Beierle, University of Würzburg • Thomas Richter, Rhein-Waal University of Applied Sciences • Dan Grigoras, University College Cork • Sergio Ilarri, University of Zaragoza • Iulian Sandu Popa, University of Versailles Saint-Quentin & INRIA Saclay-Ile-de-France • Haiping Xu, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth • Prasad Calyam, University of Missouri • Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara • Fabio Costa, Federal University of Goias • Cristian Borcea, New Jersey Institute of Technology • Lei Huang, Prairie View A&M University • Chunsheng Zhu, Southern University of Science and Technology • Xuyun Zhang, Macquarie University • Jia Zhao, Changchun Institute of Technology • Richard Han, University of Colorado Boulder CISOSE General Chairs • Jerry Gao, San Jose State University, USA • Iraklis Varlamis, Harokopio University of Athens, Greece CISOSE Steering Committee • Jerry Gao, San Jose State University, USA • Guido Wirtz, University of Bamberg, Germany • Huaimin Wang, NUDT, China • Jie Xu, University of Leeds, UK • Wei-Tek Tsai, Arizona State University, USA • Axel Kupper, TU Berlin, Germany • Hong Zhu, Oxford Brookes University, UK • Longbin Cao, University of Technology Sydney, Australia • Cristian Borcea, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA • Sato Hiroyuki, University of Tokyo, Japan

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2-year postdoc in quantitative text analysis/ NLP
by Stephanie Dornschneider-Elkink 15 Apr '24

15 Apr '24

*Two-year fully funded postdoctoral position in quantitative text analysis/ NLP* *Location:* University College Dublin, School of Politics and International Relations *Start date:* 1st September, 2024 *Deadline:* 12th May, noon, 2024 University College Dublin is currently recruiting a post-doctoral researcher to implement natural language processing (NLP) tools to analyse interview data. The main objective of this position is to develop tools to identify and analyse so-called cognitive maps (Axelrod 1976) from interview data. Dornschneider and Henderson (2016, 2023) and Dornschneider (2019) have developed tools for the computational analysis of cognitive maps. What is needed is a set of tools to infer cognitive maps from natural language. This Irish Research Council funded project investigates the role of women in Muslim resistance movements, based on Arabic interviews conducted by the Principal Investigator. The cognitive mapping analysis has several main objectives: 1- to show typical behavioral decisions (e.g. to join a resistance movement) described by the interviewees; 2- to identify common reasoning processes related to these decisions; and 3- to trace the role of religious beliefs in these reasoning processes. You will work with the PI, Dr. Stephanie Dornschneider-Elkink, to deliver the research objectives of the project. You will support the development and subsequent publication of new tools to convert text into cognitive maps. Tasks will include but are not limited to POS tagging, sequence analysis, word embeddings, and visualization. You will have the chance to give substantial input to the analysis and to co-author papers with the PI. Full ad*:* https://my.corehr.com/pls/coreportal_ucdp/apply?id=017201 *References* Axelrod, R. (ed.). 1976. *Structure of decision: The cognitive maps of political elites*. Princeton: Princeton university press. Dornschneider-Elkink, S. and Henderson, N., 2023. Repression and Dissent: How Tit-for-Tat Leads to Violent and Nonviolent Resistance. *Journal of Conflict Resolution*, p.00220027231179102. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022002714540473 Dornschneider, S., 2019. High‐Stakes Decision‐Making Within Complex Social Environments: A Computational Model of Belief Systems in the Arab Spring. *Cognitive Science*, *43*(7), p.e12762. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12762 Dornschneider, S. and Henderson, N., 2016. A computational model of cognitive maps: Analyzing violent and nonviolent activity in Egypt and Germany. *Journal of Conflict Resolution*, *60*(2), pp.368-399. -- Dr Stephanie Dornschneider-Elkink Assistant Professor, School of Politics & International Relations (SPIRe) University College Dublin Newman Building, F316, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland http://www.dornschneider.net/

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Deadline extension (May 15th) SEPLN BEST 2023 THESIS AWARD
by aitziber.atucha＠ehu.eus 15 Apr '24

15 Apr '24

[Apologies for cross-posting] 23rd EDITION OF THE SEPLN AWARD TO THE BEST DOCTORAL THESIS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING [EXTENSION: May 15nd, 2024] The Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing announces the 23rd Edition of the SEPLN Award for the Best Doctoral Thesis in Natural Language Processing, which will be governed by the following bases: 1.- The purpose of this award is the promotion and dissemination of research in the field of natural language processing. 2.- The thesis will be awarded with a compact laptop (tablet) and €300 for attendance at the congress. The award will be presented at the 40th International Congress of the Spanish Society of Natural Language Processing (SEPLN 2024), after a brief presentation of the award-winning work by the author. 3.- In order to compete, the author of the doctoral thesis must be a member of the SEPLN at the time of submitting the work. No contestant may participate as author in more than one work. 4.- Doctoral theses read during the year 2023, written in a language of the Spanish State or in English, may be submitted to the competition. In addition to the complete thesis, it is essential to send: a) a 4-page summary of the thesis, clearly describing the topic and the relevance of the research, the objectives, methods, results achieved and contributions. b) a brief description of the scientific career of the author of the thesis, detailing the participation in scientific activities such as organization of competitive tasks, congresses, generation of open access resources such as sets of data, language models, etc., and participation in projects, contracts, and/or patents. The quality of the presentation, the technical and methodological correctness, the relevance, originality, the generation, evaluation and publication of resources, as well as the research trajectory during the pre-doctoral period will be the criteria used for the award of the prize by the jury. The works will be submitted through the website of the Society's magazine (http://journal.sepln.org) in PDF format before May 15nd 2024. The final decision will be communicated during the 40th International Congress of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN 2024). Submission instructions (http://www.sepln.org/sites/default/files/noticia/documentos_relacionados/20…) For more information aitziber.atucha(a)ehu.eus EDICIÓN XXIII PREMIO SEPLN A LA MEJOR TESIS DOCTORAL EN PROCESAMIENTO DEL LENGUAJE NATURAL [EXTENSIÓN: 15 de mayo de 2024] La Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural convoca la Edición XXIII del Premio SEPLN a la Mejor Tesis Doctoral en Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, que se regirá por las siguientes bases: 1.- La finalidad de este premio es la promoción y divulgación de la investigación en el campo del procesamiento del lenguaje natural. 2.- La tesis será premiada con una computadora portátil compacta (tablet) y 300€ para la asistencia al congreso. Se dará entrega del premio en el 40 Congreso Internacional de la Sociedad Española del Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (SEPLN 2024), tras una breve presentación del trabajo premiado por parte del autor. 3.- Para poder concursar, el autor de la tesis doctoral debe ser socio de la SEPLN en el momento de presentar el trabajo. Ninguna persona concursante podrá participar como autora en más de un trabajo. 4.- Se podrán presentar a concurso tesis doctorales leídas durante el año 2023, escritas en una lengua del Estado español o en lengua inglesa. Además de la tesis completa, es imprescindible enviar: a.- Un breve resumen de 4 páginas donde claramente se indique el tema y la relevancia de la investigación, los objetivos, métodos, resultados alcanzados y contribuciones. b.- Una breve descripción de la trayectoria científica del autor de la tesis, en la que se describa la participación en actividades científicas como organización de de tareas competitivas, congresos, generación de recursos open access como conjuntos de datos, modelos de lenguaje, etc, y participación en proyectos, contratos, y/o patentes. La calidad de la presentación, la corrección técnica y metodológica, la relevancia, originalidad, la generación, evaluación y publicación de recursos, así como la trayectoria investigadora durante el periodo predoctoral serán los criterios empleados para la adjudicación del premio por parte del jurado. Los trabajos se enviarán a través de la web de la revista de la Sociedad (http://journal.sepln.org) en formato PDF antes del 15 de mayo de 2024. La resolución del premio se comunicará durante el 40 Congreso Internacional de la Sociedad Española del Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (SEPLN 2024). Documento con las instrucciones (http://www.sepln.org/sites/default/files/noticia/documentos_relacionados/20…) Para más información dirigirse a aitziber.atucha(a)ehu.eus

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11th CMC-Corpora Conference, Nice, France, 5-7 September 2024: Extension of submission deadline to 26 April
by Steven Coats 15 Apr '24

15 Apr '24

Dear colleagues, We have received many requests to extend the submission deadline for CMC-Corpora 2024 and are therefore pleased to announce an extension of the paper and abstract submission deadline to 23:59 CEST (GMT +2), April, 26th, 2024. We are also very happy to inform you that Susan Herring (Indiana University) will be our keynote speaker! For submission details, please see the conference website: https://cmc-corpora-nice.sciencesconf.org/ Looking forward to receiving your submission! On behalf of the organizing and steering committees, Céline Poudat and Steven Coats University Lecturer, Docent English, Faculty of Humanities University of Oulu P.O. Box 8000, FI-90014 University of Oulu Finland https://cc.oulu.fi/~scoats

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Subject: Call for Shared Task Participation: Data Contamination Evidence Collection - CONDA workshop @ ACL 2024
by Eneko Agirre 15 Apr '24

15 Apr '24

We invite the community to participate in a shared task organized in the context of the CONDA workshop https://conda-workshop.github.io/ <https://conda-workshop.github.io/>. Data contamination, where evaluation data is inadvertently included in pre-training corpora of large scale models, and language models (LMs) in particular, has become a concern in recent times (Sainz et al. 2023 <https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-emnlp.722/>; Jacovi et al. 2023 <https://aclanthology.org/2023.emnlp-main.308/>). The growing scale of both models and data, coupled with massive web crawling, has led to the inclusion of segments from evaluation benchmarks in the pre-training data of LMs (Dodge et al., 2021 <https://aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-main.98/>; OpenAI, 2023 <https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.08774>; Google, 2023 <https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.10403>; Elazar et al., 2023 <https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.20707>). The scale of internet data makes it difficult to prevent this contamination from happening, or even detect when it has happened (Bommasani et al., 2022 <https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.07258>; Mitchell et al., 2023 <https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.05129>). Crucially, when evaluation data becomes part of pre-training data, it introduces biases and can artificially inflate the performance of LMs on specific tasks or benchmarks (Magar and Schwartz, 2022 <https://aclanthology.org/2022.acl-short.18/>). This poses a challenge for fair and unbiased evaluation of models, as their performance may not accurately reflect their generalization capabilities. The shared task is a community effort on centralized data contamination evidence collection. While the problem of data contamination is prevalent and serious, the breadth and depth of this contamination are still largely unknown. The concrete evidence of contamination is scattered across papers, blog posts, and social media, and it is suspected that the true scope of data contamination in NLP is significantly larger than reported. With this shared task we aim to provide a structured, centralized platform for contamination evidence collection to help the community understand the extent of the problem and to help researchers avoid repeating the same mistakes. The shared task also gathers evidence of clean, non-contaminated instances. The platform is already available for perusal at https://huggingface.co/spaces/CONDA-Workshop/Data-Contamination-Database <https://huggingface.co/spaces/CONDA-Workshop/Data-Contamination-Report>. Participants in the shared task need to submit their contamination evidence (see instructions below). The CONDA 2024 workshop organizers will review the evidence through pull requests. */Compilation Paper/* As a companion to the contamination evidence platform, we will produce a paper that will provide a summary and overview of the evidence collected in the shared task. The participants who contribute to the shared task will be listed as co-authors in the paper. */ /* */Instructions for Evidence Submission/* Each submission should report a case of contamination or lack of contamination thereof. The submission can be either about (1) contamination in the corpus used to pre-train language models, where the pre-training corpus contains a specific evaluation dataset, or about (2) contamination in a model that shows evidence of having seen a specific evaluation dataset while being trained. Each submission needs to mention the corpus (or model) and the evaluation dataset, in addition to some evidence of contamination. Alternatively, we also welcome evidence of a lack of contamination. Reports must be submitted through a Pull Request in the Data Contamination Report space at HuggingFace. The reports must follow the Contribution Guidelines provided in the space and will be reviewed by the organizers. If you have any questions, please contact us at conda-workshop(a)googlegroups.com <mailto:conda-workshop@googlegroups.com> or open a discussion in the space itself. URL with contribution guidelines: https://huggingface.co/spaces/CONDA-Workshop/Data-Contamination-Database <https://huggingface.co/spaces/CONDA-Workshop/Data-Contamination-Report> (“Contribution Guidelines” tab) */Important dates/* * Deadline for evidence submission: July 1, 2024 * Workshop day: August 16, 2024 */Sponsors/* * AWS AI and Amazon Bedrock * HuggingFace * Google */Contact/* * Website: https://conda-workshop.github.io/ <https://conda-workshop.github.io/> * Email: conda-workshop(a)googlegroups.com <mailto:conda-workshop@googlegroups.com> */Organizers/* Oscar Sainz, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) Iker García Ferrero, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) Eneko Agirre, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) Jon Ander Campos, Cohere Alon Jacovi, Bar Ilan University Yanai Elazar, Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence and University of Washington Yoav Goldberg, Bar Ilan University and Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence

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ArabicNLP 2024 - Third Call for Papers
by Salam Khalifa 14 Apr '24

14 Apr '24

Dear all, (Apologies for cross-posting) This is the third CFP for the second Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP 2024) Co-located with ACL 2024 in Bangkok, Thailand, August 16, 2024. (Hybrid Mode). Conference URL: https://arabicnlp2024.sigarab.org/ Upcoming deadline: May 3, 2024: Abstract of direct conference paper submissions due date (Open Review) ArabicNLP 2024 builds on eight previous conference and workshop editions, which have been very successful drawing in a large active participation in various capacities (See Scholar Page <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=LGzh8jYAAAAJ>). This conference is timely given the continued rise in research projects focusing on Arabic NLP. The conference is organized by the Special Interest Group on Arabic NLP (SIGARAB <https://www.sigarab.org/>), an Association for Computational Linguistics Special Interest Group on Arabic NLP. Call for Papers We invite long (up to 8 pages), short (up to 4 pages), and demo paper (up to 4 pages) submissions. Long and short papers will be presented orally or as posters as determined by the program committee; presentation mode does not reflect the quality of the work. Submissions are invited on topics that include, but are not limited to, the following: - Enabling technologies: (any size) language models, diacritization, lemmatization, morphological analysis, disambiguation, tokenization, POS tagging, named entity detection, chunking, parsing, semantic role labeling, sentiment analysis, Arabic dialect modeling, etc. - Applications: dialog modeling, machine translation, speech recognition, speech synthesis, optical character recognition, pedagogy, assistive technologies, social media analytics, etc. - Resources: dictionaries, annotated data, corpora, 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 also welcome position papers and surveys about any of the above topics. Conference Paper Submission URL: <https://softconf.com/emnlp2022/WANLP2022> https://openreview.net/group?id=SIGARAB.org/ArabicNLP/2024/Conference Important Dates for Conference Papers - May 3, 2024: Abstract of direct conference paper submissions due date (Open Review) - May 10, 2024: Full direct conference paper submissions due date (Open Review) - May 17, 2024: ARR commitment date <https://aclrollingreview.org/dates> - May 31, 2024: Reviews submission deadline - June 17, 2024: Notification of acceptance - July 1, 2024: Camera-ready papers due - August 16, 2024: ArabicNLP conference All deadlines are 11:59 pm UTC -12h <https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zone/timezone/utc-12> (“Anywhere on Earth”). There are eight exciting shared tasks: https://arabicnlp2024.sigarab.org/shared-tasks - Task 1: AraFinNLP: Arabic Financial NLP - Task 2: FIGNEWS 2024: Shared Task on News Media Narratives of the Israel War on Gaza - Task 3: ArAIEval: Propagandistic Techniques Detection in Unimodal and Multimodal Arabic Content - Task 4: StanceEval2024: Arabic Stance Evaluation Shared Task - Task 5: WojoodNER 2024: The 2nd Arabic Named Entity Recognition Shared Task - Task 6: ArabicNLU Shared-Task: Arabic Natural Language Understanding - Task 7: NADI 2024: Nuanced Arabic Dialect Identification - Task 8: KSAA-CAD Shared Task: Contemporary Arabic Reverse Dictionary and Word Sense Disambiguation If you have any questions, please contact us at arabicnlp-pc-chairs(a)sigarab.org The ArabicNLP 2024 Organizing Committee -- Salam Khalifa PhD Student at Stony Brook Linguistics <https://www.linguistics.stonybrook.edu/>.

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MSCA DTN PhD Position on NLP at MaIAGE (France) and Univ. of Szeged (Hungary)
by Claire Nedellec 14 Apr '24

14 Apr '24

Job title: Design of Information Extraction Tools to characterize molecules produced or degraded by microbes and applications to plant-fermented food ecosystems. MaIAGE-Bibliome (INRAE, University Paris-Saclay), a transdisciplinary research lab, offers a PhD position in NLP applied to biology and food science. The candidate will work within the FAIROmics doctoral network; a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action that aims to leverage AI techniques to improve and discover knowledge about fermented food. The position is located in Jouy-en-Josas (near Paris) and includes a twelve-month secondment at the Applied AI Research Group at the University of Szeged (Hungary). Both universities will award the PhD diploma. We are looking for candidates with: - Master’s degree in Computer Science with a solid background in NLP, AI, and/or ML. Strong academic records are highly recommended. - Experience in deep learning approaches for NLP. - Programming skills in Python. - Very good English skills (both writing and speaking). - An interest in biology, bioinformatics, and food science. Application deadline: 15/05/2024 23:59 - Europe/Brussels. Application form: https://sondages.inrae.fr/index.php/342264 <https://sondages.inrae.fr/index.php/342264>(select DC9) Detailed description: https://www.dn-fairomics.eu/open-phd-positions/dc-9-phd-position <https://www.dn-fairomics.eu/open-phd-positions/dc-9-phd-position> FAIROmics Doctoral Network: https://www.dn-fairomics.eu <https://www.dn-fairomics.eu/> MaIAGE-Bibliome: https://maiage.inrae.fr/en/bibliome <https://maiage.inrae.fr/en/bibliome> Department of Software Engineering - University of Szeged: https://www.sed.inf.u-szeged.hu <https://www.sed.inf.u-szeged.hu> Feel free to contact us for any questions: Robert.Bossy(a)inrae.fr <mailto:Robert.Bossy@inrae.fr>

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Call for Papers – Special issue of Information Processing & Management on Large Language Models and Data Quality for Knowledge Graphs
by Stefano Marchesin 14 Apr '24

14 Apr '24

Apologies for crossposting. Call for Papers Information Processing & Management (IPM), Elsevier - CiteScore: 14.8 - Impact Factor: 8.6 Guest editors: - Omar Alonso, Applied Science, Amazon, Palo Alto, California, USA. E-mail: omralon(a)amazon.com - Stefano Marchesin, Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Padua, Italy. E-mail: stefano.marchesin(a)unipd.it - Gianmaria Silvello, Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Padua, Italy. E-mail: gianmaria.silvello(a)unipd.it Special Issue on “Large Language Models and Data Quality for Knowledge Graphs” In recent years, Knowledge Graphs (KGs), encompassing millions of relational facts, have emerged as central assets to support virtual assistants and search and recommendations on the web. Moreover, KGs are increasingly used by large companies and organizations to organize and comprehend their data, with industry-scale KGs fusing data from various sources for downstream applications. Building KGs involves data management and artificial intelligence areas, such as data integration, cleaning, named entity recognition and disambiguation, relation extraction, and active learning. However, the methods used to build these KGs involve automated components that could be better, resulting in KGs with high sparsity and incorporating several inaccuracies and wrong facts. As a result, evaluating the KG quality plays a significant role, as it serves multiple purposes – e.g., gaining insights into the quality of data, triggering the refinement of the KG construction process, and providing valuable information to downstream applications. In this regard, the information in the KG must be correct to ensure an engaging user experience for entity-oriented services like virtual assistants. Despite its importance, there is little research on data quality and evaluation for KGs at scale. In this context, the rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) opens up unprecedented opportunities – and challenges – to advance KG construction and evaluation, providing an intriguing intersection between human and machine capabilities. On the one hand, integrating LLMs within KG construction systems could trigger the development of more context-aware and adaptive AI systems. At the same time, however, LLMs are known to hallucinate and can thus generate mis/disinformation, which can affect the quality of the resulting KG. In this sense, reliability and credibility components are of paramount importance to manage the hallucinations produced by LLMs and avoid polluting the KG. On the other hand, investigating how to combine LLMs and quality evaluation has excellent potential, as shown by promising results from using LLMs to generate relevance judgments in information retrieval. Thus, this special issue promotes novel research on human-machine collaboration for KG construction and evaluation, fostering the intersection between KGs and LLMs. To this end, we encourage submissions related to using LLMs within KG construction systems, evaluating KG quality, and applying quality control systems to empower KG and LLM interactions on both research- and industrial-oriented scenarios. Topics include but are not limited to: - KG construction systems - Use of LLMs for KG generation - Efficient solutions to deploy LLMs on large-scale KGs - Quality control systems for KG construction - KG versioning and active learning - Human-in-the-loop architectures - Efficient KG quality assessment - Quality assessment over temporal and dynamic KGs - Redundancy and completeness issues - Error detection and correction mechanisms - Benchmarks and Evaluation - Domain-specific applications and challenges - Maintenance of industry-scale KGs - LLM validation via reliable/credible KG data Submission guidelines: Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished papers. All submissions will be peer-reviewed and judged on originality, significance, quality, and relevance to the special issue topics of interest. Submitted papers should not have appeared in or be under consideration for another journal. Papers can be submitted *up *to 1 September 2024. The estimated publication date for the special issue is 15 January 2025. Papers submission via IP&M electronic submission system: https://www.editorialmanager.com/IPM To submit your manuscript to the special issue, please choose the article type: "VSI: LLMs and Data Quality for KGs". More info here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/information-processing-and-management… Instructions for authors: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/information-processing-and-management… Important dates: - Submissions close: 1 September 2024 - Publication date (estimated): 15 January 2025 References: Weikum G., Dong X.L., Razniewski S., et al. (2021) Machine knowledge: creation and curation of comprehensive knowledge bases. Found. Trends Databases, 10, 108–490. Hogan A., Blomqvist E., Cochez M. et al. (2021) Knowledge graphs. ACM Comput. Surv., 54, 71:1–71:37. B. Xue and L. Zou. 2023. Knowledge Graph Quality Management: A Comprehensive Survey. IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. 35, 5 (2023), 4969 – 4988 G. Faggioli, L. Dietz, C. L. A. Clarke, G. Demartini, M. Hagen, C. Hauff, N. Kando, E. Kanoulas, M. Potthast, B. Stein, and H. Wachsmuth. 2023. Perspectives on Large Language Models for Relevance Judgment. In Proc. of the 2023 ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval, ICTIR 2023, Taipei, Taiwan, 23 July 2023. ACM, 39 – 50. S. MacAvaney and L. Soldaini. 2023. One-Shot Labeling for Automatic Relevance Estimation. In Proc. of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2023, Taipei, Taiwan, July 23-27, 2023. ACM, 2230 – 2235. X. L. Dong. 2023. Generations of Knowledge Graphs: The Crazy Ideas and the Business Impact. Proc. VLDB Endow. 16, 12 (2023), 4130 – 4137. S. Pan, L. Luo, Y. Wang, C. Chen, J. Wang, and X. Wu. 2023. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap. CoRR abs/2306.08302 (2023). -- Stefano Marchesin, PhD Assistant Professor (RTD/a) Information Management Systems (IMS) Group Department of Information Engineering University of Padua Via Gradenigo 6/a, 35131 Padua, Italy Home page: http://www.dei.unipd.it/~marches1/

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CfP: Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar
by Costas Gabrielatos 13 Apr '24

13 Apr '24

9th Symposium on Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar (LxGr2024) CALL FOR PAPERS Extended deadline for abstract submission: 15 April 2024 The symposium will take place online on Friday 5 and Saturday 6 July 2024. Invited Speakers Lise Fontaine<http://www.uqtr.ca/PagePerso/Lise.Fontaine> (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières): Reconciling (or not) lexis and grammar Ute Römer-Barron<http://alsl.gsu.edu/profile/ute-romer> (Georgia State University): Phraseology research in second language acquisition LxGr primarily welcomes papers reporting on corpus-based research on any aspect of the interaction of lexis and grammar - particularly studies that interrogate the system lexicogrammatically to get lexicogrammatical answers. However, position papers discussing theoretical or methodological issues are also welcome, as long as they are relevant to both lexicogrammar and corpus linguistics. If you would like to present, send an abstract of 500 words (excluding references) to lxgr(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:lxgr@edgehill.ac.uk> Abstracts for research papers should specify the research focus (research questions or hypotheses), the corpus, the methodology (techniques, metrics), the theoretical orientation, and the main findings. Abstracts for position papers should specify the theoretical orientation and the potential contribution to both lexicogrammar and corpus linguistics. Abstracts will be double-blind reviewed by members of the Programme Committee<https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/lxgr/committee>. Full papers will be allocated 35 minutes (including 10 minutes for discussion). Work-in-progress reports will be allocated 20 minutes (including 5 minutes for discussion). There will be no parallel sessions. Participation is free. For details, visit the LxGr website: https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/lxgr/lxgr2024 If you have any questions, contact gabrielc(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:gabrielc@edgehill.ac.uk> ________________________________ Edge Hill University<http://ehu.ac.uk/home/emailfooter> Modern University of the Year, The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2022<http://ehu.ac.uk/tef/emailfooter> University of the Year, Educate North 2021/21 ________________________________ This message is private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it from your system. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Edge Hill or associated companies. Edge Hill University may monitor email traffic data and also the content of email for the purposes of security and business communications during staff absence.<http://ehu.ac.uk/itspolicies/emailfooter>

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Job opening in Helsinki: University Lecturer in Humanities Data Science / Computational Humanities
by Tiedemann, Jörg 12 Apr '24

12 Apr '24

The Department of Digital Humanities, Faculty of Arts, University of Helsinki, invites applications for the position of UNIVERSITY LECTURER IN HUMANITIES DATA SCIENCE / COMPUTATIONAL HUMANITIES for a permanent appointment starting 1st of September 2024. https://jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki-University-Lecturer-in-Humanities-Dat… Due date: April 25, 2024 The position relates to the application of computational and/or statistical methods in the humanities. The application areas are to be interpreted broadly, from area studies to cognitive science, linguistics to history, phonetics to literature. Application, on the other hand, is to be understood primarily from the viewpoint of end-use across this plethora of humanistic research, e.g. through matching approaches to research questions and data, and not as a focus on methodological development itself. The lecturer will be attached to the Liberal Arts and Sciences bachelor’s programme currently under preparation at the university. —————————————— Jörg Tiedemann University of Helsinki https://blogs.helsinki.fi/language-technology/

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[CFP] 2024 SIGIR First Workshop on Large Language Models (LLMs) for Evaluation in Information Retrieval
by Guglielmo Faggioli 12 Apr '24

12 Apr '24

The first workshop on evaluating IR systems with Large Language Models (LLMs) is accepting submissions that describe original research findings, preliminary research results, proposals for new work, and recent relevant studies already published in high-quality venues. Topics of interest We welcome both full papers and extended abstract submissions on the following topics, including but not limited to: - LLM-based evaluation metrics for traditional IR and generative IR. - Agreement between human and LLM labels. - Effectiveness and/or efficiency of LLMs to produce robust relevance labels. - Investigating LLM-based relevance estimators for potential systemic biases. - Automated evaluation of text generation systems. - End-to-end evaluation of Retrieval Augmented Generation systems. - Trustworthiness in the world of LLMs evaluation. - Prompt engineering in LLMs evaluation. - Effectiveness and/or efficiency of LLMs as ranking models. - LLMs in specific IR tasks such as personalized search, conversational search, and multimodal retrieval. - Challenges and future directions in LLM-based IR evaluation. Submission guidelines We welcome the following submissions: - Previously unpublished manuscripts will be accepted as extended abstracts and full papers (any length between 1 - 9 pages) with unlimited references, formatted according to the latest ACM SIG proceedings template available at http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. - Published manuscripts can be submitted in their original format. All submissions should be made through Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=llm4eval All papers will be peer-reviewed (single-blind) by the program committee and judged by their relevance to the workshop, especially to the main themes identified above, and their potential to generate discussion. For already published studies, the paper can be submitted in the original format. These submissions will be reviewed for their relevance to this workshop. All submissions must be in English (PDF format). All accepted papers will have a poster presentation with a few selected for spotlight talks. Accepted papers may be uploaded to arXiv.org, allowing submission elsewhere as they will be considered non-archival. The workshop’s website will maintain a link to the arXiv versions of the papers. Important Dates - Submission Deadline: April 25th, 2024 (AoE time) - Acceptance Notifications: May 31st, 2024 (AoE time) - Workshop date: July 18, 2024 Website For more information, visit the workshop website: https://llm4eval.github.io/ Contact For any questions about paper submission, you may contact the workshop organizers at llm4eval(a)easychair.org

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PhD Position on Resource-efficient Foundation Models for Automatic Translation at Fondazione Bruno Kessler - Application deadline: *7th of May 2024*
by Matteo Negri 12 Apr '24

12 Apr '24

-- 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 automatic 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://mt.fbk.eu/> (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 PhD position: TITLE: Resource-efficient Foundation Models for Automatic Translation DESCRIPTION: The advent of foundation models has led to impressive advancements in all areas of natural language processing. However, their huge size poses limitations due to the significant computational costs associated with their use or adaptation. When applying them to specific tasks, fundamental questions arise: do we actually need all the architectural complexity of large and - by design - general-purpose foundation models? Can we optimize them to achieve higher efficiency? These questions spark interest in research aimed at reducing models’ size, or deploying efficient decoding strategies, so as to accomplish the same tasks while maintaining or even improving performance. Success in this direction would lead to significant practical and economic benefits (e.g., lower adaptation costs, the possibility of local deployment on small-sized hardware devices), as well as advantages from an environmental impact perspective towards sustainable AI. Focusing on automatic translation, this PhD aims to understand the functioning dynamics of general-purpose massive foundation models and explore possibilities to streamline them for specific tasks. Possible areas of interest range from textual and speech translation (e.g., how to streamline a massively multilingual model to best handle a subset of languages?) to scenarios where the latency is a critical factor, such as in simultaneous/streaming translation (e.g., how to streamline the model to reduce latency?), to automatic subtitling of audiovisual content (e.g., how to streamline the model without losing its ability to generate compact outputs suitable for subtitling?). CONTACTS: Matteo Negri (negri(a)fbk.eu), Luisa Bentivogli (bentivo(a)fbk.eu) COMPLETE DETAILS AVAILABLE AT: https://iecs.unitn.it/education/admission/call-for-application IMPORTANT DATES: The deadline for application is May 7th, 2024, hrs. 04:00 PM (CEST) Prospective 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, bentivo(a)fbk.eu) by April 22, 2024. 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 an 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 with 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) and Luisa Bentivogli (bentivo(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. 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Digital lexicography and lexical computing workshop, Málaga, Spain
by Ondřej Matuška 12 Apr '24

12 Apr '24

*<Lexicom/>* a workshop in digital lexicography and lexical computing *Registration open* *Málaga, Spain*16 – 20 September 2024 Your 5 days to get up-to-date with the latest developments in *corpus-driven lexicography* and to activate and enhance your *corpus building and corpus query skills* with some of the top experts in the field. For the programme, lecturers, invited speakers, fees and registration, visit this website *lexicom.courses <https://lexicom.courses/lexicom-2024-malaga-spain-lexicography-workshop/>* I hope to meet you in Málaga in September! Ondřej *Ondřej Matuška* Brno, CZ | Brighton, UK sketchengine.eu <http://www.sketchengine.eu> | Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/SketchEngine/> | LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/ondrejmatuska> | Twitter <https://twitter.com/SketchEngine> Become a Sketch Engine *expert*! Check our training options» <https://mailchi.mp/sketchengine/learn-with-sketch-engine>

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Lectures on Computational Linguistics, June 19-21 2024, BARI (IT)
by Elisabetta Jezek 12 Apr '24

12 Apr '24

Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce that the 2024 edition of the *Lectures on Computational Linguistics*, a series of lectures dedicated to central topics in Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing, will be held in Bari from June 19 to 21. The programme and all information are available on this <https://www.ai-lc.it/en/lectures-2/lectures-2024/> site. The 2024 edition is organized by the Italian Association of Computational Linguistics/Associazione Italiana di Linguistica Computazionale (AILC) with the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Humanistic Research and Innovation of the University of Bari 'Aldo Moro'. The interdisciplinary nature of the school crosses several areas, particularly the Humanities, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. The program includes tutorials, labs, evening lectures, and two student presentation sessions. The 2024 edition features a four-hour tutorial dedicated to introducing Large Language Models to a broad audience. *Programme* *Wednesday, June 19, 2024* 9:00–9:30: Welcome and opening 9.30 – 11.30: Tutorial 1 (part 1) – Introduction to Large Language Models – Andrey Kutuzov, Language Technology Group, University of Oslo 11.30 – 12.00: BREAK 12:00 – 13:30: Student session 1.30pm – 3.00pm: LUNCH 3.00pm – 5.00pm: Tutorial 1 (part 2) – Introduction to Large Language Models – Andrey Kutuzov, Language Technology Group, University of Oslo 5.00pm – 5.30pm: BREAK 5.30pm – 6.30pm: Evening lecture 7.30pm: Welcome drink *Thursday, June 20, 2024* 9:00 – 11:00: Tutorial 2 – Computational methods for lexical semantic change detection – Nina Tahmasebi, University of Gothenburg 11:00 – 11:30: BREAK 11.30 – 13.30: Lab. 1 (part 1) – Hands-on Large Language Models – Marco Polignano & Lucia Siciliani, University of Bari Aldo Moro 1.30pm – 3.00pm: LUNCH 3.00pm – 5.00pm: Lab. 1 (part 2) – Hands-on Large Language Models – Marco Polignano & Lucia Siciliani, University of Bari Aldo Moro 5.00pm – 5.30pm: BREAK 5.30pm – 6.30pm: Evening lecture 7.00pm: Tour of the Old Town and dinner with typical food *Friday, June 21, 2024* 9:00 – 11:00: Tutorial 3 – Dissociating language and thought in Large Language Models – Anna Ivanova, School of Psychology, Georgia Tech 11:00 – 11:30: BREAK 11.30am – 1.00pm: Student session 1.00pm – 2.00pm: LUNCH 2.00pm – 4.00pm: Lab 2 – Lab. Computational methods for lexical semantic change detection – Pierluigi Cassotti, University of Gothenburg *Registration* The school is mainly aimed at Doctoral and Master's degree students, although a minimum qualification is not required for access. Participation is free but subject to registration, and places are limited to 200. Students wishing to present aspects of their work in the "Student Presentations" sessions are asked to send a 500-word abstract to ailc.lectures(a)gmail.com by May 10, 2024. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by May 31. Scientific Committee Pierpaolo Basile (University of Bari Aldo Moro) Raffaella Bernardi (University of Trento) Tommaso Caselli (University of Groningen) Felice Dell'Orletta (Institute of Computational Linguistics CNR – Pisa) Elisabetta Jezek (University of Pavia) Local Organizing Committee Pierpaolo Basile (Department of Computer Science, University of Bari Aldo Moro) Marco de Gemmis (Department of Computer Science, University of Bari Aldo Moro) Maristella Gatto (Department of Humanistic Research and Innovation, University of Bari Aldo Moro) Olimpia Imperio (Coordinator of the Doctorate in Letters, Languages and Arts, Department of Humanistic Research and Innovation, University of Bari Aldo Moro) Secretariat Lucia Siciliani (Department of Computer Science, University of Bari Aldo Moro) Contacts: ailc.lectures(a)gmail.com -- *Linguistica computazionale. Introduzione all'analisi automatica dei testi <https://www.mulino.it/isbn/9788815290359>.* Bologna, Il Mulino, in libreria dal 3 marzo 2023 -- [image: LOGO-UNIPV] Elisabetta Jezek Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici Professore Associato di Glottologia e Linguistica Corso Strada Nuova 65 - 27100 Pavia (Italia) <http://maps.google.com/?q=Corso+Strada+Nuova+65+27100+Pavia+%28Italia%29> T. 0382984391 https://studiumanistici.unipv.it/?pagina=docenti&id=13 <https://studiumanistici.unipv.it/?pagina=docenti&id=135>5 Elisabetta Jezek's Personal Meeting Room https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7814331810 -- Le informazioni contenute nella presente comunicazione sono di natura privata e come tali sono da considerarsi riservate ed indirizzate esclusivamente ai destinatari indicati e per le finalità strettamente legate al relativo contenuto. 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2nd CfP for CMCL at ACL 2024: Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics
by Ece Takmaz 11 Apr '24

11 Apr '24

*** CMCL – 2nd Call for Papers*** The 13th edition of the Workshop on Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics (CMCL 2024) will be co-located with the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2024). Webpage: https://cmclorg.github.io/ Direct submission page: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2024/Workshop/CMCL ARR commitment page: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2024/Workshop/CMCL_ARR_Commi… *Workshop Description* CMCL 2024 is a one-day workshop held in conjunction with ACL 2024. CMCL invites papers on cognitive modeling, cognitively-inspired natural language processing, and, more broadly, the alignment of language models with human cognition/perception. The 2024 workshop follows in the tradition of earlier meetings at ACL 2010, ACL 2011, NAACL-HLT 2012, ACL 2013, ACL 2014, NAACL 2015, EACL 2017, LSA 2018, NAACL 2019, EMNLP 2020, NAACL 2021, and ACL 2022. *Scope and Topics* The research interests/questions include, but are not limited to: - Human-like language acquisition/learning: How is language acquisition of language models (LMs) (dis)similar to humans, and why? - Contrasting/aligning NLP models with human behavior data: What do humans compute during language comprehension/production, and how/why? - Linguistic probing of NLP models: How well do current language models understand/represent/generalize language behaviorally/internally? - Linguistically-motivated data modeling/analysis: How can one quantify a particular aspect of language? - Emergent communication/language: What are the sufficient conditions for the emergence of language? A more formal description of the workshop scope is: - Stochastic models of factors influencing a speaker's production or comprehension decisions. - Models of semantic interpretation, including psychologically realistic notions of word and phrase meaning and composition. - Incremental parsers for diverse grammar formalisms and their psychological plausibility. - Models of speaker-specific linguistic adaptation and/or generalization. - Models of first and second language acquisition and bilingual language processing. - Behavioral tasks for better understanding neural models of linguistic representation. - Models and empirical analysis of the relationship between mechanistic psycholinguistic principles and pragmatics or semantics. - Models of lexical acquisition, including phonology, morphology, and semantics. - Psychologically motivated models of grammar induction. - Psychologically plausible models of lexical or conceptual representations. - Models of language disorders, such as aphasia, dyslexia, or dysgraphia. - Behavioral datasets or resources for modeling language processing or production in languages other than English. - Models of language comprehension difficulty. - Models of language learning and generalization. - Models of linguistic information propagation and language evolution in communities. - Cognitively-motivated models of discourse and dialogue. *Invited Speakers* Aida Nematzadeh (Google DeepMind) Frank Keller (University of Edinburgh) *Important Dates* - May 17, 2024: Paper submission/commitment deadline (cf. May 15, 2024: notification of ACL 2024) - June 17, 2024: Notification of acceptance - July 1, 2024: Camera-ready paper due - August 15, 2024: Workshop dates Deadlines are at 11:59 pm AOE. *Workshop submissions* CMCL accepts direct submissions through the OpenReview site: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2024/Workshop/CMCL We also receive papers already reviewed in ACL Rolling Review (ARR) February or earlier: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2024/Workshop/CMCL_ARR_Commi… There is no need that the CMCL is mentioned as a preferred venue in the original ARR submission. Detiailed submission flow/schedule is shown in our workshop webpage: https://cmclorg.github.io/ *Submission types* We invite three types of submissions: (1) Archival regular workshop submissions that present original research in either long (8 pages + references) or short (4 pages + references) paper format. (2) Non-archival submissions of extended abstracts that present preliminary results (from 2 to 4 pages + references). (3) Non-archival cross-submission of long/short papers that present relevant research submitted/published elsewhere (including ACL "Findings of..." papers). - Only regular workshop papers submitted via (1) will be included in the proceedings, but all types of papers will have a presentation opportunity in the workshop. - Submissions must be formatted using the ACL style template (https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files) and be submitted as a PDF file. - We adhere to the ACL anonymity policy: https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/ACL_Anonymity_Policy - This year, we don't host a shared task. *Workshop Organizers* Tatsuki Kuribayashi (MBZUAI, tatsuki.kuribayashi(a)mbzuai.ac.ae) Giulia Rambelli (University of Bologna, giulia.rambelli4(a)unibo.it) Ece Takmaz (University of Amsterdam, ece.takmaz(a)uva.nl) Philipp Wicke (Ludwig Maximilian University LMU, pwicke(a)cis.lmu.de) Yohei Oseki (University of Tokyo, oseki(a)g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp) *Program Committee* Abdellah Fourtassi (Aix-Marseille University) Adina Williams (FAIR) Afra Alishahi (Tilburg University) Aniello De Santo (University of Utah) Carina Kauf (MIT) Cassandra Jacobs (University of Buffalo) Christos Christodoulopoulos (Amazon) Cory Shain (MIT) Ethan Wilcox (ETH Zurich) Frances Yung (Saarland University) Fred Mailhot (Dialpad) Gianluca Lebani (University Ca' Foscari Venezia) James Michaelov (The University of California San Diego) John Hale (University of Georgia) Laurent Prévot (Aix-Marseille University) Lisa Beinborn (VU Amsterdam) Ludovica Pannitto (University of Trento) Micha Elsner (Ohio State University) Nora Hollenstein (University of Copenhagen) Rachel Ryskin (University of California Merced) Raquel Garrido Alhama (Tilburg University) Richard Futrell (UC Irvine Language Science) Robert Frank (Yale University) Ryo Yoshida (The University of Tokyo) Samar Husain (IIT Delhi) Sandra Kuebler (Indiana University) Tal Linzen (New York University) Ted Briscoe (MBZUAI) Tiago Pimentel (ETH Zurich) Tim Hunter (UCLA) Vera Demberg (Saarland University) William Schuler (Ohio State University) Yao Yao (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) *Website* https://cmclorg.github.io/ *Sponsoring Institutions* Japan Society for the Promotion of Science *Contact* cmclorganizers2024(a)gmail.com

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PhD position on AI/NLP/IR at the University of Amsterdam
by Jaap Kamps 10 Apr '24

10 Apr '24

The University of Amsterdam has a fully funded PhD position on AI/NLP/IR for information access. We seek an ambitious PhD student with a background in artificial intelligence, natural language processing and information retrieval. Your focus will be on large language models (LLMs) for information access. How can we search specific collections, including full text, metadata, and multimodal content? How can we support complex search tasks and practices, such as scholarly research on cultural data, and the research and workflow of investigative journalism? The PhD position is part of four PhD vacancies as part of digital Humanities, Artificial Intelligence, Cultural Heritage (HAICu) project, a large national science agenda project funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research. We are one of the best European and global places to study AI, and you will work together with other AI and Digital Humanities researchers, and a range of external partners on scientific breakthroughs. HAICu deploys artificial intelligence (AI) to make digital heritage collections more accessible, and the extraordinary challenges of cultural heritage provide a unique opportunity to push the boundaries of AI. The PhD position is fully funded and you will be employed by the University of Amsterdam for four years (full-time, with all employment benefits) and are expected to complete a PhD thesis within this period. Are you interested? Strong candidates with an AI/NLP/IR background are encouraged to apply by May 15. Details are in: https://vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/4PhDs/792167402/ (Project #1). Feel free to reach out with questions or comments! Jaap Kamps

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Second CfP: The First Workshop on Data Contamination (CONDA) @ ACL 2024
by Eneko Agirre 10 Apr '24

10 Apr '24

We invite you to participate and submit your work to the First Workshop on Data Contamination (CONDA) co-located with ACL 2024 in Bangkok, Thailand. Data contamination, where evaluation data is inadvertently included in pre-training corpora of large scale models, and language models (LMs) in particular, has become a concern in recent times. The growing scale of both models and data, coupled with massive web crawling, has led to the inclusion of segments from evaluation benchmarks in the pre-training data of LMs. The scale of internet data makes it difficult to prevent this contamination from happening, or even detect when it has happened. Crucially, when evaluation data becomes part of pre-training data, it introduces biases and can artificially inflate the performance of LMs on specific tasks or benchmarks. This poses a challenge for fair and unbiased evaluation of models, as their performance may not accurately reflect their generalization capabilities. Although a growing number of papers and state-of-the-art models mention issues of data contamination, there is no agreed-upon definition or standard methodology to ensure that a model does not report results on contaminated benchmarks. Addressing data contamination is a shared responsibility among researchers, developers, and the broader community. By adopting best practices, increasing transparency, documenting vulnerabilities, and conducting thorough evaluations, we can work towards minimizing the impact of data contamination and ensuring fair and reliable evaluations. We welcome paper submissions on all topics related to data contamination, including but not limited to: * Definitions, taxonomies, and gradings of contamination * Contamination detection (both manual and automatic) * Community efforts to discover, report, and organize contamination events * Documentation frameworks for datasets or models * Methods to avoid data contamination * Methods to forget contaminated data * Scaling laws and contamination * Memorization and contamination * Policies to avoid impact of contamination in publication venues and open source communities * Reproducing and attributing results from previous work to data contamination * Survey work on data contamination research * Data contamination in other modalities *Submission Instructions* We welcome two types of papers: regular workshop papers and non-archival submissions. Regular workshop papers will be included in the workshop proceedings. All submissions must be in PDF format and made through OpenReview. * Regular workshop papers: Authors can submit papers up to 8 pages, with unlimited pages for references. Authors may submit up to 100 MB of supplementary materials separately and their code for reproducibility. All submissions undergo a double-blind single-track review. Best Paper Award(s) will be given based on nomination by the reviewers. Accepted papers will be presented as posters with the possibility of oral presentations. * Non-archival submissions: Cross-submissions are welcome. Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop but not included in the workshop proceedings. Papers must be in PDF format and will be reviewed in a double-blind fashion by workshop reviewers. We also welcome extended abstracts (up to 2 pages) of papers that are work in progress, under review or to be submitted to other venues. Papers in this category need to follow the ACL format. In addition to papers submitted directly to the workshop, which will be reviewed by our Programme Committee. We also accept papers reviewed through ACL Rolling Review and committed to the workshop. Please, check the relevant dates for each type of submission. *Important dates* * Relevant deadlines to consider when submitting your paper are: * Paper submission deadline: May 17 (Friday), 2024 * ARR pre-reviewed commitment deadline: TBD, 2024 * Notification of acceptance: June 17 (Monday), 2024 * Camera-ready paper due: July 1 (Monday), 2024 * Workshop date: August 16, 2024 *Sponsors* * AWS AI and Amazon Bedrock * HuggingFace * Google *Contact* * Website: https://conda-workshop.github.io/ * Email: conda-workshop(a)googlegroups.com *Organizers* Oscar Sainz, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) Iker García Ferrero, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) Eneko Agirre, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) Jon Ander Campos, Cohere Alon Jacovi, Bar Ilan University Yanai Elazar, Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence and University of Washington Yoav Goldberg, Bar Ilan University and Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence -- Eneko Agirre HiTZ Hizkuntza Teknologiako Zentroa - Ixa Taldea Centro Vasco de Tecnología de la Lengua - Grupo Ixa Basque Center for Language Technology - Ixa NLP Group University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) hitz.ehu.eus/eneko <https://hitz.ehu.eus/eneko>

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Postdoc opening at the University of Vienna
by Benjamin Roth 10 Apr '24

10 Apr '24

The research group Data Mining and Machine Learning at the University of Vienna is looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher in Natural Language Processing. Possible research topics are: - Analysis, explainability and interpretability of large language models - Linguistic capabilities of large language models - Extraction of structured information from text, linking knowledge graphs and language - Weak supervision of natural language processing models - Multimodal and multilingual deep learning For more details see: https://jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Postdoctoral-Researcher-in-Natural-Language-P… -- 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 virtual coffee (Tuesday 2pm CEST): https://www.benjaminroth.net/virtual_coffee video call: https://univienna.zoom.us/j/93796507934?pwd=VFg5dW9JbStPUml6WFVtOWJXV3phQT09 web: https://dm.cs.univie.ac.at/team/person/112089/

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CALL FOR PAPERS: Conference on metaphor and political discourse, November 2024 in Liege Belgium
by Raymond Echitchi 10 Apr '24

10 Apr '24

Dear all Please, find below more information about a conference we are organising. The conference, which will take place on 21-22 November 2024 at the University of Liège (Belgium), is meant for researchers interested in metaphor and national identity discourse from different perspectives (linguistics, cognitive science, etc.). Regards, _____________ CALL FOR PAPERS METAPOL3: DISCOURSE, IDEOLOGIES AND SUB-STATE NATIONALISM 21-22 November 2024, University of Liège, Belgium Despite attempts to discourage sub-state nationalism and keep the political map of the world in its present form, the struggle for separate identities still remains a serious issue in modern-day countries. Sub-state nationalism has led to violent conflicts in postcolonial Africa, the former Yugoslavia and Soviet Union, and has been one of the main causes of political upheaval in Belgium, Britain, Spain, China, etc. As Anderson (1983) indicates, nations are imagined communities whose formation involves the spread of discourses aimed at establishing a clear difference between in-groups and out-groups. While national identity has attracted a fair amount of scholarly interest in the field of political science, it is only in the early 90s that studies emphasizing the discursive manifestations of nationalism started being conducted (Wodak & Matouschek, 1993; Wodak & Reisigl, 1999; Wodak et al. 1999). These last two decades, the study of political discourse has been consolidated by metaphor analysis (Musolff, 2006; 2016; Saric & Stanojevic, 2019), and even though great strides have indeed been made in political discourse analysis, research on sub-state nationalism remains scant. It is thus in an attempt to fill this gap that we are organizing this conference which will hopefully bring together researchers from different fields (linguistics, sociology, political science, cognitive science), interested in discourse, metaphor and nationalist ideologies. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, - The discursive construction of (sub-state) national identity - Characteristics of separatist discourse - Conceptualisations of the body politic - Metaphor scenarios in national identity discourse - Visual metaphor in (sub-state) nationalist discourse - Gender and metaphor in (sub-state) nationalist discourse - ... KEYNOTE SPEAKER Professor Martin Reisigl, University of Vienna SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS The conference will be held in person at the University of Liège, Belgium. Each presentation will last 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes of Q&A. Conference proposals should include: - A title (max. 15 words) - Key words (max. 5 words) - An abstract (300 words, excluding references) Guide for submitting a proposal To submit a proposal, you must create a user account on sciencesconf.org and log in as a registered user. It is possible to create an account either directly on the SciencesConf portal or by clicking on the Login button on top right of the conference website (https://metapol3.sciencesconf.org/). Once connected, access "My submissions" and then go to New submission > Submit an abstract. Individual and co-authored papers in English or French are welcome. All abstracts will go through double-blind peer review. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: 15/05/24 Notification of acceptance: 15/07/24 CONTACT AND MORE INFORMATION For more information, please visit our website (https://metapol3.sciencesconf.org/), and if necessary, do not hesitate to email us at metapol3(a)sciencesconf.org.

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Vacancy: Research Fellow in Clinical Natural Language Processing
by Bea Alex 10 Apr '24

10 Apr '24

The following Research Fellow position is available as part of the Edinburgh Clinical NLP Group and the Advanced Care Research Centre at the University of Edinburgh. The deadline is 19th of April 2024. https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DGS698/research-fellow-in-clinical-natural-langu… ---------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Beatrice Alex Senior Lecturer and Chancellor’s Fellow University of Edinburgh Head of the Edinburgh Language Technology Group Co-lead of the Edinburgh Clinical NLP Group The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. Is e buidheann carthannais a th’ ann an Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann, clàraichte an Alba, àireamh clàraidh SC005336.

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NER Shared Task (Deadline 10 April)
by Mustafa Jarrar 09 Apr '24

09 Apr '24

Registration Deadline 10 April The 2nd Arabic Named Entity Recognition Shared Task, at ArabicNLP’24 https://dlnlp.ai/st/wojood/ Dataset: Wojood-Fine <https://aclanthology.org/2023.arabicnlp-1.25/> New version: Arabic Fine-Grained Entity Recognition (Wojood + Subtypes of entity types). Subtask-1 (Closed-Track Flat Fine-Grain NER): We provide the Wojood-Fine Flat train (70%) and development (10%) datasets. The final evaluation will be on the test set (20%). External data is not allowed .... (read more <https://dlnlp.ai/st/wojood/>). Subtask-2 (Closed-Track Nested Fine-Grain NER): This subtask is similar to the subtask-1, we provide the Wojood-Fine Nested train (70%) and development (10%) datasets. The final evaluation will be on the test set (20%) .... (read more <https://dlnlp.ai/st/wojood/>). Subtask-3 (Open-Track NER - Gaza War): to allow participants to reflect on the utility of NER in the context of real-world events, allow them to use external resources, and encourage them to use generative models in different ways (fine-tuned, zero-shot learning, in-context learning, etc.). The goal of focusing on generative models in this particular subtask is to help the Arabic NLP research community better understand the capabilities and performance gaps of LLMs in information extraction, an area currently understudied. We provide development and test data related to the current War on Gaza. This is motivated by the assumption that discourse about recent global events will involve mentions from different data distribution. For this subtask, we include data from five different news domains related to the War on Gaza - but we keep the names of the domains hidden. Participants will be given a development dataset (10K tokens, 2K from each of the five domains), and a testing dataset (50K tokens, 10K from each domain). Both development and testing sets are manually annotated with fine-grain named entities using the same annotation guidelines used in Subtask1 and Subtask2 (also described in Liqreina et al., 2023). .... (read more <https://dlnlp.ai/st/wojood/>). BASELINES Two baseline models trained on WojoodFine (flat and nested) are provided (See Liqreina et al., 2023 <https://aclanthology.org/2023.arabicnlp-1.25/>). The code used to produce these baselines is available on GitHub <https://github.com/SinaLab/ArabicNER>. Subtask Precision Recall Average Micro-F1 Flat Fine-Grain NER (Subtask 1) 0.8870 0.8966 0.8917 Nested Fine-Grain NER (Subtask 2) 0.9179 0.9279 0.9229 GOOGLE COLAB NOTEBOOKS To allow you to experiment with the baseline, we authored four Google Colab notebooks that demonstrate how to train and evaluate our baseline models. [1] Train Flat Fine-Grain NER <https://gist.github.com/mohammedkhalilia/72c3261734d7715094089bdf4de74b4a>: This notebook can be used to train our ArabicNER model on the flat Fine-grain NER task using the sample Wojood_Fine data. [2] Evaluate Flat Fine-Grain NER <https://gist.github.com/mohammedkhalilia/c807eb1ccb15416b187c32a362001665>: This notebook will use the trained model saved from the notebook above to perform evaluation on unseen dataset. [3] Train Nested Fine-Grain NER <https://gist.github.com/mohammedkhalilia/a4d83d4e43682d1efcdf299d41beb3da>: This notebook can be used to train our ArabicNER model on the nested Fine-grain task using the sample Wojood data. [4] Evaluate Nested Fine-Grain NER <https://gist.github.com/mohammedkhalilia/9134510aa2684464f57de7934c97138b>: This notebook will use the trained model saved from the notebook above to perform evaluation on unseen dataset. REGISTRATION Participants need to register via this form (NERSharedTask 2024) <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ISMILgQYfUug3XuDpxFmuPASXkWaduYOUc3xOZuGwq…>. Participating teams will be provided with common training development datasets. No external manually labelled datasets are allowed. Blind test data set will be used to evaluate the output of the participating teams. Each team is allowed a maximum of 3 submissions. All teams are required to report on the development and test sets (after results are announced) in their write-ups. FAQ For any questions related to this task, please check our Frequently Asked Questions <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1W_13FRpP3NbDx_ALYJWA3-ESXPRVomOjNovUuYf…> IMPORTANT DATES - February 25, 2024: Shared task announcement. - March 1, 2024: Release of training data, development sets, scoring script, and Codalab links. - April 10, 2024: Registration deadline. - April 26, 2024: Test set made available. - May 3, 2024: Codalab Test system submission deadline. - May 10, 2024: Shared task system paper submissions due. - June 17, 2024: Notification of acceptance. - July 1, 2024: Camera-ready version. - August 16, 2024: ArabicNLP 2024 conference in Thailand. CONTACT For any questions related to this task, please contact the organizers directly using the following email address: NERSharedtask(a)gmail.com <mailto:NERSharedtask@gmail.com> .

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NLP postdoc position at Boston University (first deadline 4/15)
by Najoung Kim 09 Apr '24

09 Apr '24

(Re-sending due to the initial attempt bouncing, apologies in advance if you receive multiple copies!) Professor and co-principal investigator Najoung Kim <https://najoung.kim/>of the Boston University Department of Linguistics <https://ling.bu.edu/> (with active affiliations in Computer Science <https://www.bu.edu/cs/>and Data Science <https://www.bu.edu/cds-faculty/>) is seeking a Postdoctoral Associate to join the Professor's TIN Lab in Fall 2024. The successful applicant will have a background in one of the following disciplines: Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, Cognitive Science, or other relevant areas. The postdoctoral associate will work closely with the PIs (Najoung Kim, Boston University & Sebastian Schuster, UCL) and will be responsible for co-leading a collaborative research project minimally involving two PhD-level graduate students. *Responsibilities* The postdoctoral associate’s primary responsibility is to lead a research project, the aim of which is to develop detailed evaluation protocols for AI technology applied to a consequential task of real-world complexity—specifically, AI in the domain of academic AI research—and to apply this evaluation to estimate the capacities of the current best models. We expect there to be a substantial system development component (for building the baselines) as well as a substantial human study design component (for a rigorous evaluation of the system outputs), where different expertise can be contributed by different members of the research team (minimally, two PIs, the postdoctoral associate, and two PhD-level graduate students). The postdoctoral associate is also invited to engage with the broader academic community at BU, spanning Linguistics, Computer Science, and the Center for Computing & Data Sciences, and academic communities in Boston and New England. There will also be regular opportunities to connect with the community at UCL. *Qualifications* The postdoctoral associate needs to hold a PhD degree at the start of their appointment. Hands-on experience in either: (1) building systems that use language models as a core component to solve complex tasks, or (2) leading human annotation efforts or human behavioral experiments is required. Publications or prior research experience in one of the following topic areas are desired, but not required: - Compositional generalization - Data-efficient training methods (e.g., BabyLM-scale) - Language model evaluation - General-purpose prompting techniques *Location* The postdoctoral associate will be based in Boston University. They will be physically located in one of the office spaces in 621 Commonwealth Avenue or 665 Commonwealth Avenue, subject to space availabilities. *Duration* This is a one-year position with the base expectation that it will renew for a second year, conditioned on satisfactory progress. *Compensation* The 12-month compensation for this position will be $90K-100K USD, commensurate with experience. *Application* Candidates must submit a CV, two pieces of their most significant research contribution, and contacts of two references at the time of application. We will only contact the reference writers for letters of recommendation when we decide to interview the candidate. Application materials should be uploaded as individual PDF files through Academic Jobs Online at https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/27426. We will give full consideration to applications received by April 15, 2024: two weeks from the job posting date. Afterwards, applications will be considered on a rolling basis until the position is filled. Inquiries should be directed to najoung(a)bu.edu and s.schuster(a)ucl.ac.uk. -- Najoung Kim Assistant Professor Department of Linguistics & Computer Science, Boston University https://najoung.kim 🍪

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Second CfP: Fifth Workshop on "Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing", August 16, Thailand, ACL
by Agnieszka Falenska 09 Apr '24

09 Apr '24

*Apologies for cross-posting* Fifth Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing Bangkok, Thailand, on August 16, 2024 https://genderbiasnlp.talp.cat/ <https://kemt2024.wixsite.com/home> Second Call for Papers Gender bias, among other demographic biases (e.g. race, nationality, religion), in machine-learned models is of increasing interest to the scientific community and industry. Models of natural language are highly affected by such biases, which are present in widely used products and can lead to poor user experiences. There is a growing body of research into improved representations of gender in NLP models. Key example approaches are to build and use balanced training and evaluation datasets (e.g. Webster et al., 2018), and to change the learning algorithms themselves (e.g. Bolukbasi et al., 2016). While these approaches show promising results, there is more to do to solve identified and future bias issues. In order to make progress as a field, we need to create widespread awareness of bias and a consensus on how to work against it, for instance by developing standard tasks and metrics. Our workshop provides a forum to achieve this goal. Topics of interest We invite submissions of technical work exploring the detection, measurement, and mediation of gender bias in NLP models and applications. Other important topics are the creation of datasets, identifying and assessing relevant biases or focusing on fairness in NLP systems. Finally, the workshop is also open to non-technical work addressing sociological perspectives, and we strongly encourage critical reflections on the sources and implications of bias throughout all types of work. In addition this year we are organising a Shared Task on Gender Bias Machine Translation evaluation. Paper Submission Information Submissions will be accepted as short papers (4-6 pages) and as long papers (8-10 pages), plus additional pages for references, following the ACL 2024 guidelines. Supplementary material can be added, but should not be central to the argument of the paper. Blind submission is required. Each paper should include a statement which explicitly defines (a) what system behaviors are considered as bias in the work and (b) why those behaviors are harmful, in what ways, and to whom (cf. Blodgett et al. (2020)). More information on this requirement, which was successfully introduced at GeBNLP 2020, can be found on the workshop website. We also encourage authors to engage with definitions of bias and other relevant concepts such as prejudice, harm, discrimination from outside NLP, especially from social sciences and normative ethics, in this statement and in their work in general. Non-archival option The authors have the option of submitting research as non-archival, meaning that the paper will not be published in the conference proceedings. We expect these submissions to describe the same quality of work and format as archival submissions. Important dates. May 10, 2024: Workshop Paper Due Date June 5, 2024: Notification of Acceptance June 25, 2024: Camera-ready papers due August 16, 2024: Workshop Dates Keynote Speakers. Isabelle Augenstein, University of Copenhagen Hal Daumé III, University of Maryland and Microsoft Research NYC Organizers. Christine Basta, Alexandria University Marta R. Costa-jussà, FAIR, Meta, Agnieszka Falénska, University of Stuttgart Seraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant, Cohere Debora Nozza, Bocconi University

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Call for Participation: Announcing New DFIR 6, 7 & 8 Streams
by Andrew Zayine 08 Apr '24

08 Apr '24

Dear All, The Association of Cyber Forensics and Threat Investigators invites you to join our next webinars: "DFIR Stream 0x6" on Tuesday, April 16 · 4:00 – 5:00 pm (GMT+00:00) UK Time Title: Operationalizing Machine Learning for Networks, by Shinan Liu, University of Chicago. Register@ https://www.acfti.org/news-events/dfir-stream-0x6 "DFIR Stream 0x7" on Tuesday, May 7. 1:30 – 2:30 pm (GMT+00:00) UK Time Title: Malware Detection in Memory Forensics: Open Challenges and Issues, by Dr. Ricardo J. Rodríguez, University of Zaragoza. Register@ https://www.acfti.org/news-events/dfir-stream-0x7 "DFIR Stream 0x8" on Monday, May 13 · 4:00 – 5:00 pm (GMT+00:00) UK Time Title: Low-Level Hardware Information Assisted Approach Towards System Security, by Dr. Chen Liu, Clarkson University. Register@ https://www.acfti.org/news-events/dfir-stream-0x8 ======Housekeeping Notes====== - Note that this event is online only. Hence, You must register to receive a link to connect. Due to limited availability, we kindly ask you to register as soon as possible to ensure your participation in the webinar of your choice. - For Students, A certificate of successful participation in the event will be delivered upon request for free (after verifying attendance), indicating the number of hours of the seminar (please make sure that you add the correct name in the registration form). This should be sufficient for those participants who plan to request ECTS recognition from their home university. Join Us & stay tuned! #CyberSecurity #MemoryForensics #MachineLearning #AnomalyDetection Finally, I would like to remind you that the call for speakers is currently open on the dedicated DFIR stream website, https://dfir.stream/call-for-guest-speakers To get more news about our events, please join our low-traffic announcement group @ https://groups.google.com/g/acfti This event is brought to you by CFTIRC (Cyber Forensics & Threat Investigations Research Community). Best regards, Andrew Zayin Ph.D., CISSP, CISM, CRISC, CDPSE, PMP ACFTI Secretariat

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CLiC-it 2024 - Tenth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics - First CFP
by Simonetta Montemagni 08 Apr '24

08 Apr '24

[Apologies for multiple postings] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ *CLiC-it 2024 - Tenth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 4 - 6 December 2024, Pisa, Italy Conference Announcement and First Call for Papers https://clic2024.ilc.cnr.it/ <https://clic2024.ilc.cnr.it/> This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics, CLiC-it! To commemorate this milestone, CLiC-it will be hosted in Pisa, just as it was in 2014. Over the years, CLiC-it has evolved into an important forum for the Italian community of researchers in Computational Linguistics (CL) and Natural Language Processing (NLP). CLiC-it aims to promote and disseminate high-quality, original research covering different aspects of automatic language processing, involving both written and spoken language. Furthermore, it seeks to showcase cutting-edge theoretical findings, experimental methodologies, technologies, and application perspectives. The spirit of the conference is inclusive. Recognizing the multifaceted nature of language phenomena and the need for interdisciplinary expertise, CLiC-it aims to bring together researchers from different fields including Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing, Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Machine Learning, Computer Science, Knowledge Representation, Information Retrieval, and Digital Humanities. CLiC-it welcomes contributions focusing on all languages, with a particular emphasis on Italian. CLiC-it 2024 will be held in Pisa, from the 4th to the 6th of December. CLiC-it is organised by the Italian Association of Computational Linguistics (AILC -- http://www.ai-lc.it/ <http://www.ai-lc.it/>). Conference topics ----------------------------- CLiC-it 2024 aims to have a broad technical program. Relevant topics for the conference include, but are not limited to (in alphabetical order): - Computational Historical Linguistics - Computational Social Science and Cultural Analytics - Dialogue and Interactive Systems - Discourse and Pragmatics - Ethics and NLP - Generation - Handwritten Text Recognition - Information Extraction - Information Retrieval and Text Mining - Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP - Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond - Large Language Models - Linguistic Diversity - Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling, and Psycholinguistics - Machine Learning for NLP - Machine Translation - Multilingualism and Cross-Lingual NLP - NLP Applications - NLP for the Humanities - Phonology, Morphology, and Word Segmentation - Pragmatics and Creativity - Question Answering - Resources and Evaluation - Semantics: Lexical, Sentence-level Semantics, Textual Inference, and Other Areas - Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining - Speech and Multimodality - Summarization - Syntax: Tagging, Chunking and Parsing Paper Submission ----------------------- Submitted papers must describe substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis should be included. CLiC-it 2024 allows for a multiple submission policy. In case of acceptance of the paper in other venues, the authors must communicate this information to the CLiC-it 2024 Chairs as soon as possible. Papers may consist of up to five (5) pages of content, plus unlimited pages of acknowledgments, references and appendices. Upon acceptance, final versions of papers will be given one additional page of content, so that reviewers’ comments can be taken into account. Papers will be evaluated according to the following criteria: - soundness of approach - relevance to computational linguistics - novelty and clarity of relation with related work - quality of presentation - quality of evaluation (if applicable) - verifiability and ability to replicate (if applicable) Papers can be either in English or Italian, with the abstract in English. Accepted papers will be published on-line and will be presented at the conference either orally or as a poster. Reviewing will NOT be blind, so there is no need to remove author information from manuscripts. Information about the paper format and the conference management system to be used for submission will be notified in the second Call for Papers. Research Communications ---------------------------------- CLiC-it 2024 adopts a parallel submission policy for outstanding papers accepted in 2023 by major publication venues, namely the major international CL conferences (workshops excluded) or international journals. These contributions can be submitted to CLiC-it 2024 as short research communications. Research communications will not be published in the conference proceedings, they serve primarily to promote the dissemination of high-quality research within the Italian CL community. Submitted research communications must be in the scope of the CLiC-it 2024 conference. The authors of papers that meet the above criteria are invited to submit a written (maximum) one-page abstract of the original paper, including the paper’s title and authors as well as a pointer to the original conference or journal where the paper was published. If needed, research communications will undergo a selection process overseen by the conference chairs. Since these papers have already been reviewed, the selection criteria will primarily consider their original publication venue. Priority will be granted to papers that align most closely with the conference program, ensuring a balanced representation across various conference topics. Awards --------- To acknowledge the contribution of young researchers to the field, the title of "best paper" will be awarded to outstanding papers, provided that a Master's or PhD student is among the authors and presents the work at the conference. Recipients of this award will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers to the Italian Journal of Computational Linguistics (IJCoL). To recognise excellence in student research as well as promote awareness of our field, AILC is also conferring the “Emanuele Pianta” prize for the best Master Thesis (Laurea Magistrale) in Computational Linguistics submitted at an Italian University. The prize consists of 500 Euros plus free membership to AILC for one year and free registration to the upcoming CLiC-it. The complete call is available on the conference website at: “Calls > AILC Master Thesis Award”. Important Dates --------------- - 15/07/2024: Paper submission deadline: regular papers and research communications - 23/09/2024: Notification to authors of reviewing/selection outcome - 21/10/2024: Camera ready version of accepted papers - 4-6/12/2024: CLiC-it 2024 Conference, Pisa Conference Chairs ------ - Felice Dell’Orletta (CNR-ILC) - Alessandro Lenci (Università di Pisa) - Simonetta Montemagni (CNR-ILC) - Rachele Sprugnoli (Università di Parma) Further information ------------------- Conference website: https://clic2024.ilc.cnr.it/ <https://clic2024.ilc.cnr.it/> Mail: clicit2024(a)gmail.com <mailto:clicit2024@gmail.com> -- Simonetta Montemagni Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "Antonio Zampolli" (ILC) - CNR Area della Ricerca di Pisa Via Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, ITALY e-mailsimonetta.montemagni(a)ilc.cnr.it direct tel. no +39 050 3152850 fax no. +39 050 3152839 cell. +39 349 7656651

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GITT-2024 at EAMT 2024 - SUBMISSION DATE EXTENDED to April 22
by bsavoldi＠fbk.eu 08 Apr '24

08 Apr '24

Second International Workshop on Gender-Inclusive Translation Technologies (GITT) at EAMT 2024 27 June 2024, Sheffield, UK https://sites.google.com/tilburguniversity.edu/gitt2024 @GITT2024 Paper SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED We extend the GITT submission deadline by one week in line with the updated dates and deadlines of the EAMT main conference Important Dates (Time zone: Anywhere on Earth) EXTENDED Submission deadline: 22 April, 2024 Notification of Acceptance: 15 May, 2024 Camera Ready Copy due: 24 May, 2024 Workshop: 27 June, 2024 Aim and scope The Gender-Inclusive Translation Technologies Workshop (GITT) is set out to be the only dedicated workshop that focuses on gender-inclusive language in translation and cross-lingual scenarios. The workshop aims to bring together researchers from diverse areas, including industry partners, MT practitioners, and language professionals. GITT aims to encourage multidisciplinary research that develops and interrogates both solutions and challenges for addressing bias and promoting gender inclusivity in MT and translation tools, including LLMs applications for the translation task. Topics GITT invites technical as well as non-technical submissions, which consist of experimental, theoretical or methodological contributions. We explicitly welcome interdisciplinary submissions and submissions that focus on innovative, non-binary linguistic strategies and/or with sociolinguistically-informed perspectives. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Models or methods for assessing and mitigating gender bias - New resources for inclusive language and gender translation (e.g., datasets, translation memories, dictionaries) - Social, cross-lingual, and ethical implications of gender bias - Qualitative and quantitative analyses on the potential limits of current approaches to gender bias in translation and MT, error taxonomies as well as best practices and guidelines - User-centric case studies on the impact of biased language and/or mitigating approaches which can include translators, post-editors, or monolingual MT users GITT is also open to other non-listed topics aligned with the scope of the workshop and works focusing on non-textual modalities (e.g., audiovisual translation) Submission We welcome three types of submissions: - Research papers: of at least 4 up to 10 pages (including references) - Extended Abstracts: up to 2 pages (including references) Accepted papers and extended abstracts consisting of novel work will be published online as proceedings in the ACL Anthology. - Research Communications: up to 2 pages (including reference) We include a parallel submission policy for papers accepted in other venues in 2023 and 2024. Research communications will not be included in the proceedings, but will serve to promote the dissemination of research aligned with the scope of the workshop. Submissions should adhere to the EAMT 2024 guidelines and style templates (PDF, LaTeX, Word) and be uploaded on OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=EAMT.org/2024/Workshop/GITT Workshop organizers Beatrice Savoldi, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Janiça Hackenbuchner, University of Ghent Luisa Bentivogli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Eva Vanmassenhove, University of Tilburg Joke Daems, University of Ghent Jasmijn Bastings, Google DeepMind

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Third call for participation - MentalRiskES@IberLEF2024: Early detection of mental
by María Dolores Molina González 08 Apr '24

08 Apr '24

*Test* *set* *released**!* Please, consider participating and/or forwarding to colleagues and groups. ****We apologize for multiple postings of this e-mail**** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ MentalRiskES at IberLEF 2024: Call for Participation Website: https://sites.google.com/view/mentalriskes2024 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MentalRiskEs describes the second edition of a novel task on early risk identification of mental disorders in Spanish comments from social media sources. The first edition took place last year in the IberLEF evaluation forum as part of the SEPLN 2023. The task was resolved as an online problem, that is, the participants had to detect a potential risk as early as possible in a continuous stream of data. Therefore, the performance not only depended on the accuracy of the systems but also on how fast the problem was detected. These dynamics are reflected in the design of the tasks and the metrics used to evaluate participants. For this second edition, we propose three novel tasks, the first subtask is about the detection of the disorder, the second subtask consists of detecting the context that may be associated with the disorder, and the third subtask is about suicidal ideation detection. We would like to invite you to participate in the following tasks: 1. Disorders detection (multi-class classification) 2. Disorder contextualization (fine-grained classification) 3. Suicidal ideation detection (binary classification) Find out more at https://sites.google.com/view/mentalriskes2024. MentalRiskES 2024 is part of the IberLEF Workshop and will be held in conjunction with the SEPLN 2024 conference in Valladolid (Spain). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Feb 16th Registration open Feb 21st Release of trial corpora (trial server available) Mar 20th Release of training corpora Mar 29th Registration closed *Apr 8th Release of test corpora and start of the evaluation campaign (test server available and trial submissions closed)* Apr 12th End of evaluation campaign (deadline for submission of runs) Apr 17th End of evaluation campaign (deadline for submission of runs) Apr 18th Publication of official results and release of test gold labels Apr 22th Publication of official results and release of test gold labels May 10th Deadline for paper submission May 31st Acceptance notification Jun 17th Camera-ready submission deadline July 11th Final camera-ready submission deadline (to IberLEF organisers) Please reach out to the organizers at MentalRiskEs@IberLEF2024. The MentalRiskES 2024 organizing committee. -- M. Dolores Molina González Mas informacion sobre listas de correo en la Univ. de Jaen http://www.ujaen.es/sci/redes/listas/ -----------------------------------------------------------

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Invitation to a Postdoctoral Fellowship Application at La Rochelle University
by Georgeta Bordea 08 Apr '24

08 Apr '24

The Images and Contents team [1] of the L3i lab at La Rochelle University, invites researchers who have or will have a PhD degree at the call deadline in September 2024 and fulfill the eligibility criteria to prepare a joint application for an EU-funded Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship [2,3]. Potential topics can include current areas of NLP research such as: - Multimodal Large Language Models - Text processing of news archives - Using NLP for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature - Extraction, summarisation, and analysis of financial text - Information extraction for knowledge graph population - Using additional knowledge sources for information extraction from text - Reasoning with knowledge graphs and language Potential candidates should have published at top NLP or ML conferences (EMNLP,ACL,NAACL,EACL,NeurIPS,ICML,ICLR). Female candidates and candidates from other underrepresented groups in Computer Science are especially encouraged to apply. If you want to learn more, please send an email to Georgeta Bordea (name.surname [at] univ-lr.fr) with your CV attached and the subject line "MSCA NLP". [1] https://l3i.univ-larochelle.fr/Images-et-contenus [2] https://marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/postdoctoral-fe… [3] https://marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/calls/msca-postdoctoral…

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[CFP] 3rd and Final Call for Participation - CLEF 2024 SimpleText Task4: SOTA? "Tracking the State-of-the-Art in Scholarly Publications"
by Jennifer D'Souza 08 Apr '24

08 Apr '24

[apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call] Dear colleagues and friends, *We are pleased to release the 3rd and final Call for Participation - CLEF 2024 SimpleText Task4: SOTA?* *Overview:* SOTA? is introduced as Task 4 in the SimpleText track of CLEF 2024. The goal of the SOTA? shared task is to develop systems which given the full text of an AI paper, are capable of recognizing whether an incoming AI paper indeed reports model scores on benchmark datasets, and if so, to extract all pertinent (Task, Dataset, Metric, Score) quadruples presented within the paper. More info on the task website: https://sites.google.com/view/simpletext-sota/home SOTA? will be divided into two evaluation phases: - Evaluation Phase 1: Few-shot Testing; - Evaluation Phase 2: Zero-shot Testing *To participate in SOTA? i.e. SimpleText Task 4 @ CLEF 2024, please register your team*: 1. CLEF 2024 official registration page https://clef2024.imag.fr/index.php?page=Pages/registration.html 2. Codalab competition site: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/16616 Note, SOTA? is organized as a new task this year under the "SimpleText - Improving Access to Scientific Texts for Everyone" initiative https://simpletext-project.com/. Please take a look at the other 3 tasks, i.e. Task 1, 2, and 3, offered by SimpleText and select one or more of those task options too if you are interested. Note that there is no interdependence of the dataset between "Task 4 - SOTA?" and the other three tasks of SimpleText. *Dates* Training and validation datasets available: March 13, 2024 Test data available/Evaluation starts: April 23, 2024 Evaluation ends: May 3, 2024 Participant paper submissions due: May 31, 2024 Notification to authors: June 24, 2024 Camera ready due: July 8, 2024 CLEF 2024 Workshop, Grenoble, France: 9-12 September 2024 *Task Organizers* Jennifer D’Souza (TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology - Germany) Salomon Kabongo (L3S Research Center, Germany) Hamed Babaei Giglou (TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology - Germany) Yue Zhang (Berlin Technical University, Germany) Sören Auer (TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology - Germany) *We look forward to having you on board!* *Contact:* sota.task [at] gmail.com

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Last Call for Papers - First International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security
by t.ranasinghe＠aston.ac.uk 08 Apr '24

08 Apr '24

First International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (NLPAICS’2024) Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom 29-30 July 2024 https://www.nlpaics.com *** Last Call for Papers *** Submission deadline 22 April 2024 Recent advances in Natural Language Processing (NLP), Deep Learning and Large Language Models (LLMs) have resulted in improved performance of applications. . In particular, there has been a growing interest in employing AI methods in different Cyber Security applications. In today's digital world, Cyber Security has emerged as a heightened priority for both individual users and organisations. As the volume of online information grows exponentially, traditional security approaches often struggle to identify and prevent evolving security threats. The inadequacy of conventional security frameworks highlights the need for innovative solutions that can effectively navigate the complex digital landscape for ensuring robust security. NLP and AI in Cyber Security have vast potential to significantly enhance threat detection and mitigation by fostering the development of advanced security systems for autonomous identification, assessment, and response to security threats in real-time. Recognising this challenge and the capabilities of NLP and AI approaches to fortify Cyber Security systems, the First International Conference on Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Cyber Security (NLPAICS’2024) serves as a gathering place for researchers in NLP and AI methods for Cyber Security. We invite contributions that present the latest NLP and AI solutions for mitigating risks in processing digital information. Conference topics The conference invites submissions on a broad range of topics related to the employment of NLP and AI (and in general, language studies and models) for Cyber Security including but not limited to: ## Societal and Human Security and Safety - Content Legitimacy and Quality o Detection and mitigation of hate speech and offensive language o Fake news, deepfakes, misinformation and disinformation o Detection of machine generated language in multimodal context (text, speech and gesture) o Trust and credibility of online information - User Security and Safety o Cyberbullying and identification of internet offenders o Monitoring extremist fora o Suicide prevention o Clickbait and scam detection o Fake profile detection in online social networks - Technical Measures and Solutions o Social engineering identification, phishing detection o NLP for risk assessment o Controlled languages for safe messages o Prevention of malicious use of ai models o Forensic linguistics - Human Factors in Cyber Security ## Speech Technology and Multimodal Investigations for Cyber Security - Voice-based security: Analysis of voice recordings or transcripts for security threats - Detection of machine generated language in multimodal context (text, speech and gesture) - NLP and biometrics in multimodal context ## Data and Software Security - Cryptography - Digital forensics - Malware detection, obfuscation - Models for documentation - NLP for data privacy and leakage prevention (DLP) - Addressing dataset “poisoning” attacks ## Human-Centric Security and Support - Natural language understanding for chatbots: NLP-powered chatbots for user support and security incident reporting - User behaviour analysis: analysing user-generated text data (e.g., chat logs and emails) to detect insider threats or unusual behaviour - Human supervision of technology for Cyber Security ## Anomaly Detection and Threat Intelligence - Text-Based Anomaly Detection o Identification of unusual or suspicious patterns in logs, incident reports or other textual data o Detecting deviations from normal behaviour in system logs or network traffic - Threat Intelligence Analysis o Processing and analysing threat intelligence reports, news, articles and blogs on latest Cyber Security threats o Extracting key information and indicators of compromise (IoCs) from unstructured text ## Systems and Infrastructure Security - Systems Security o Anti-reverse engineering for protecting privacy and anonymity o Identification and mitigation of side-channel attacks o Authentication and access control o Enterprise-level mitigation o NLP for software vulnerability detection - Malware Detection through Code Analysis o Analysing code and scripts for malware o Detection using NLP to identify patterns indicative of malicious code ## Financial Cyber Security - Financial fraud detection - Financial risk detection - Algorithmic trading security - Secure online banking - Risk management in finance - Financial text analytics ## Ethics, Bias, and Legislation in Cyber Security - Ethical and Legal Issues o Digital privacy and identity management o The ethics of NLP and speech technology o Explainability of NLP and speech technology tools o Legislation against malicious use of AI o Regulatory issues - Bias and Security o Bias in Large Language Models (LLMs) o Bias in security related datasets and annotations ## Datasets and resources for Cyber Security Applications ## Specialised Security Applications and Open Topics - Intelligence applications - Emerging and innovative applications in Cyber Security ## Special Theme Track - Future of Cyber Security in the Era of LLMs and Generative AI We are excited to share that NLPAICS 2024 will have a special theme track with the goal of stimulating discussion around Large Language Models (LLMs), Generative AI and ensuring their safety. The latest generation of LLMs, such as CHATGPT, Gemini, LLAMA and open-source alternatives, has showcased remarkable advancements in text and image understanding and generation. However, as we navigate through uncharted territory, it becomes imperative to address the challenges associated with employing these models in everyday tasks, focusing on aspects such as fairness, ethics, and responsibility. The theme track invites studies on how to ensure the safety of LLMs in various tasks and applications and what this means for the future of the field. The possible topics of discussion include (but are not limited to) the following: - Detection of LLM-generated language in multimodal context (text, speech and gesture) - LLMs for forensic linguistics - Bias in LLMs - Safety benchmarks for LLMs - Legislation against malicious use of LLMs - Tools to evaluate safety in LLMs - Methods to enhance the robustness of language models ## Submissions and Publication NLPAICS welcomes high-quality submissions in English, which can take two forms: -Regular long papers: These can be up to eight (8) pages long, presenting substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. -Short papers: These can be up to four (4) pages long and are suitable for describing small, focused contributions, negative results, system demonstrations, etc. Note that the page limits mentioned above exclude additional pages for references, ethical considerations, conflict-of-interest statements, as well as data and code availability statements. Papers must be anonymised to support double-blind reviewing. Please submit your work as pdf using the following link: https://softconf.com/n/nlpaics2024/ Submission templates can be accessed here: LaTeX Overleaf, LaTeX , MS Office Accepted papers, including both long and short papers, will be published as part of the same e-proceedings to be uploaded on ACL Anthology. ## Important dates -Submissions due: 22 April 2024 -Reviewing process: 29 April-5 June 2024 -Notification of acceptance: 10 June 2024 -Camera-ready due: 1 July 2024 -Conference: 29-30 July 2024 ## Keynote speakers We are delighted to announce our already confirmed keynote speakers Sevil Şen (Hacettepe University) Iva Gumnishka (Humans in the Loop) Paolo Rosso (Polytechnic University of Valencia) ## Programme Committee Members of the Programme Committee of NLPAICS’2024 are listed here. ## Venue The First International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (NLPAICS’2024) will take place at Lancaster University and is organised by the Lancaster University UCREL NLP research group. ## Organisation - Conference Chair o Ruslan Mitkov (Lancaster University) - Conference Programme Chairs o Cengiz Acartürk (Jagiellonian University) o Matthew Bradbury (Lancaster University) o Mo El-Haj (Lancaster University) o Paul Rayson (Lancaster University) - Sponsorship Chair o Saad Ezzini (Lancaster University) - Publicity Chair o Tharindu Ranasinghe (Aston University) - Publication Chair o Ignatius Ezeani (Lancaster University) - Social Programme Chair o Nouran Khallaf (Lancaster University) ## Registration Conference registration is open on https://nlpaics.com/registration/ Early bird registration closes on 15 April 2024. ## Further information and contact details The conference website is https://nlpaics.com and will be updated on a regular basis. For further information, please email info(a)nlpaics.com Dr Tharindu Ranasinghe Lecturer in Computer Science School of Informatics and Digital Engineering Birmingham, B4 7ET, UK aston.ac.uk

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[CFP] 1st CFP: ACLing 2024 || Sept 2024 ||Hybrid Conference|| Dubai, UAE
by Khaled Shaalan 08 Apr '24

08 Apr '24

Apologies for cross-postings! ** We would like to invite you to submit your contributions to the "ACLing 2024" conference ** Please forward to anyone who might be interested ** ************************************************************************************ CALL FOR PAPERS Sixth International Conference on AI in Computational Linguistics (ACLing2024) September 21-22, 2024 (Hybrid Conference), Dubai, UAE Publication: Procedia Computer Science by ELSEVIER ( https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/procedia-computer-science) Website: https://acling.org/ Brochure: http://acling.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/ACLing24_CFP.pdf ************************************************************************************ IMPORTANT DATES * Paper submission deadline: 7 May 2024 * Notification of Acceptance: 1 June 2024 * Registration: 5 June 2024 * Camera ready version submission: 30 June 2024 * Conference Date: 20 – 21 September 2024‎ ************************************************************************************ INTRODUCTION With the recent advances in the field of Computational Linguistics (CL) brought on by rapid developments in neural models, the goal of this conference is to focus on the application of AI/ML in NLP and CL. The ACLing 2024 aims to bring together leading academicians, scientists, researchers and practitioners from all over the world to exchange new ideas and the latest results in Computational Linguistics and NLP; a field that has become increasingly important. The scope of the conference encompasses the theory and practice of all aspects of AI/ML in Computational Linguistics. The British University in Dubai has been chosen to organize the ACLing2024 conference because it has a mission for establishing itself as a provider of world class scholarship, education and research. TOPICS OF INTEREST ACLing2024 invites researchers from academia and industry to submit their papers on recent, unpublished research that addresses theoretical and practical aspects, algorithms, and architectures of Natural Language Processing systems. Papers describing the creation of resources, as well as survey and discussion papers, are also welcomed. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Large Language Models and their applications * Information Retrieval and Question Answering * Information Extraction * Linguistic Theories and Resources * Language Modeling * Speech and Multimodality * Machine Learning, Text Categorization, and Text Mining * Machine Translation * Multilinguality and Cross-linguality * NLP Applications * Segmentation, Tagging, and Parsing * Semantics * Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining * Web, Social Media and Computational Social Science * Natural Language Generation * Text Categorization and Topic Modeling * Text Mining * Language and Vision * AI applications in Computational linguistics HOW TO SUBMIT We encourage submissions that describe original unpublished work not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Submissions should be prepared according to the main conference guidelines and format described at the Submission Web Page: https://acling.org/submission/. All submissions should be written in English and submitted as PDF. Submissions will be peer reviewed by the program committee members. Evaluation criteria will include correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees. All the submissions should be submitted via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=acling2024 * Long papers: 8 pages including including figures, tables and references. * Short papers: 4 pages including including figures, tables and references. * INDEXING, RANKING, AND IMPACT Facts: * Abstracting and indexing: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/procedia-computer-science/about/insig… * Scopus: https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/19700182801?origin=sbrowse * CiteScore: https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/19700182801?origin=sbrowse * SJR (scimago): https://www.scimagojr.com/journalsearch.php?q=19700182801&tip=sid * ACLingy by Google Citation: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=jkpMuFMAAAAJ&hl=en * ACLing by DBLP: https://dblp.org/db/conf/acling/index.html CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS * Prof. Dr. Khaled Shaalan, The British University of Dubai, UAE * Prof. Dr. Samhaa R. El-Beltagy, Newgiza University, Egypt FURTHER INFORMATION & CONTACT DETAILS * The conference website (https://acling.org/) will be updated on a regular basis. * Please send any inquiry on ACLing 2024 to ACLing2024(a)gmail.com Regards, Khaled & Samhaa

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[CfP] 3rd CfP: SEMANTiCS 2024 EU || Sep 17 - 19, 2024 || Amsterdam, The Netherlands
by SEMANTiCS 06 Apr '24

06 Apr '24

==== SEMANTiCS - 20th International Conference on Semantic Systems Amsterdam, The Netherlands September 17 - 19, 2024 https://2024-eu.semantics.cc/ <https://2024-eu.semantics.cc/> ==== The Research and Innovation track at SEMANTiCS 2024 welcomes papers on novel scientific research and innovations relevant to the Semantic Web, Semantic Technologies, and semantic-enabled AI. We also welcome submissions at the intersection between this field and other scientific disciplines. Submissions should be original and should not have been published elsewhere in any form or language. Papers must adhere to the instructions given in the submission guidelines, including references and optional appendices. Each submission will receive at least three independent reviews and will be evaluated based on their novelty, technical quality, reproducibility, and practical significance. = Important Dates = * Abstract Submission Deadline: April 22, 2024 * Paper Submission Deadline: April 29, 2024 * Notification of Acceptance: June 11, 2024 * Camera-Ready Paper: July 09, 2024 All deadlines are set for 11:59 pm, Anywhere On Earth time (UTC-12) Submissions will be through Easychair. https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sem24 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sem24> Proceedings of SEMANTiCS 2024 EU will be made available open access. The publisher will be IOS Press - Studies on Semantic Web Series. SEMANTiCS 2024 calls for submissions of excellent quality addressing the following topics in the Semantic Web area, from both theoretical and practical perspectives. = Topics of Interest = * Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Web Semantics & Linked (Open) Data * Enterprise Knowledge Graphs, Graph Data Management * Machine Learning Techniques for/using Knowledge Graphs (e.g. reinforcement learning, deep learning, data mining and knowledge discovery) * Interplay between generative AI and Knowledge Graphs (e.g., RAG approach) * Knowledge Management (e.g. acquisition, capture, extraction, authoring, integration, publication) * Terminology, Thesaurus & Ontology Management, Ontology engineering * Reasoning, Rules, and Policies * Natural Language Processing for/using Knowledge Graphs (e.g. entity linking and resolution using target knowledge such as Wikidata and DBpedia, foundation models) * Crowdsourcing for/using Knowledge Graphs * Data Quality Management and Assurance * Mathematical Foundation of Knowledge-aware AI * Multimodal Knowledge Graphs * Semantics in Data Science * Semantics in Blockchain environments * Trust, Data Privacy, and Security with Semantic Technologies * IoT, Stream Processing, dealing with temporal data * Conversational AI and Dialogue Systems * Provenance and Data Change Tracking * Semantic Interoperability (via mapping, crosswalks, standards, etc.) * Linked Data storage, triple stores, graph databases * Robust and scalable management, querying and analysis of semantics and data * User interfaces for the Semantic Web & its management * Explainable and Interoperable AI * Decentralised and Federated Knowledge Graphs (e.g., Federated querying, link traversal) Application of Semantically-Enriched and AI-Based Approaches, such as, but not limited to: * Knowledge Graphs in Bioinformatics, Medical AI and preventive healthcare * Clinical Use Case of semantic-enabled AI-based Approaches * AI for Environmental Challenges * Semantics in Scholarly Communication and Scientific Knowledge Graphs * AI and LOD within GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) institutions * Knowledge Graphs & hybrid AI for predictive maintenance and Industry 4.0/5.0 * Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage * LegalTech, AI Safety, EU AI Act * Economics of Data, Data Services, and Data Ecosystems = Author Guidelines and Submission = For Submission Guidelines and Review and Evaluation Criteria please head to the online call for papers: https://2024-eu.semantics.cc/page/cfp_rev_rep <https://2024-eu.semantics.cc/page/cfp_rev_rep> For details please go to: https://2024-eu.semantics.cc/ <https://2024-eu.semantics.cc/> We are looking forward to your contribution! Mehwish Alam, Femke Ongenae & Angelo Salatino Research and Innovation Track Chairs

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Constructing cross-language word frequency lists containing phonemic transcription
by Luca Onnis 06 Apr '24

06 Apr '24

I plan to construct a comprehensive word frequency list in many languages, with a column for each word containing the orthographic word, another column with the phonemic transcription of the word in IPA, a third column with the word frequency, and a fourth column with the language. The words do not have to be translation equivalents, but could be the top N thousand words for a given language. The purpose is to then carry out cross-linguistic analyses of distributional properties of phonemes and phonotactic sequences. Another use could be to train grapheme-to-phoneme models for missing words in the list for each language. Ideally, the final resource would be free to use for research purposes. Technically, the word list is easy to compile, but one has to rely on limited open-source data. While frequency info can be easily obtained for many languages from open sources, phonemic transcriptions are typically available in proprietary dictionaries. Wiktionary is a good starting point, but its coverage might be limited for some languages, and thus it can provide valuable data for a handful of commonly spoken languages. I would like to obtain a wider and more representative sample of world languages. I am thus inviting anyone with tips/or resources available to contribute to this compiling effort. Contributors would receive the due acknowledgments, and could specify under which conditions they want their data to be used. You can reply here or write to lucao(a)uio.no . Best, Luca Onnis, PhD Professor, University of Oslo, Norway

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CfP: 9th Symposium on Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar (LxGr2024)
by Costas Gabrielatos 05 Apr '24

05 Apr '24

9th Symposium on Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar (LxGr2024) CALL FOR PAPERS Extended deadline for abstract submission: 15 April 2024 The symposium will take place online on Friday 5 and Saturday 6 July 2024. Invited Speakers Lise Fontaine<http://www.uqtr.ca/PagePerso/Lise.Fontaine> (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières): Reconciling (or not) lexis and grammar Ute Römer-Barron<http://alsl.gsu.edu/profile/ute-romer> (Georgia State University): Phraseology research in second language acquisition LxGr primarily welcomes papers reporting on corpus-based research on any aspect of the interaction of lexis and grammar - particularly studies that interrogate the system lexicogrammatically to get lexicogrammatical answers. However, position papers discussing theoretical or methodological issues are also welcome, as long as they are relevant to both lexicogrammar and corpus linguistics. If you would like to present, send an abstract of 500 words (excluding references) to lxgr(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:lxgr@edgehill.ac.uk>. Abstracts for research papers should specify the research focus (research questions or hypotheses), the corpus, the methodology (techniques, metrics), the theoretical orientation, and the main findings. Abstracts for position papers should specify the theoretical orientation and the potential contribution to both lexicogrammar and corpus linguistics. Abstracts will be double-blind reviewed by members of the Programme Committee<https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/lxgr/committee>. Full papers will be allocated 35 minutes (including 10 minutes for discussion). Work-in-progress reports will be allocated 20 minutes (including 5 minutes for discussion). There will be no parallel sessions. Participation is free. For details, visit the LxGr website: https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/lxgr/lxgr2024 If you have any questions, contact lxgr(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:lxgr@edgehill.ac.uk>. ________________________________ Edge Hill University<http://ehu.ac.uk/home/emailfooter> Modern University of the Year, The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2022<http://ehu.ac.uk/tef/emailfooter> University of the Year, Educate North 2021/21 ________________________________ This message is private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it from your system. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Edge Hill or associated companies. Edge Hill University may monitor email traffic data and also the content of email for the purposes of security and business communications during staff absence.<http://ehu.ac.uk/itspolicies/emailfooter>

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CARI 2024 - Digital Science in Africa - SUBMISSION DATE EXTENDED to April 30
by Mathieu ROCHE 05 Apr '24

05 Apr '24

======================================================== CARI 2024 - 23-26 november 2024, Bejaïa, Algeria African Conference on Research in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics - Digital Science in Africa https://www.cari-info.org/call-cari2024-2/ ======================================================== Paper Submission DEADLINE EXTENDED ==== IMPORTANT DATES ==== - Paper submission due: April 30th, 2024 (Firm deadline) - Notifications: July 12th 2024 - Camera ready paper due: July 31st, 2024 - CARI Conference: 23-26 November, 2024, University of Bejaia, Algeria ==== ABOUT CARI ==== CARI (http://www.cari-info.org/), the African Conference on Research in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, is the fruit of international cooperation between African, European and international research institutes. Organized every two years since its first edition in Yaoundé in 1992, CARI is more than just a scientific meeting, but a dynamic environment for cooperation that brings together researchers and decision-makers in the fields of computer science and applied mathematics. The scientific program, which reflects the richness and diversity of research carried out on the African continent in particular, focuses on work likely to contribute to scientific and technological development, environmental awareness and natural resource management. CARI 2024 (17th CARI) is organized under the auspices African Society in Digital Science (ASDS) in partnership with the Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique (Inria), the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), the Centre de coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD). *** Computer Science Track *** Topics in this track include, but not limited to the following fields: - Edge, Fog and Cloud Computing Systems - Internet of Things (IoT) - Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) - Blockchain Technology - Safety and Correctness of Concurrent and - Distributed Systems - Network Privacy and Security - National Information Security - Big Data and Data Science - Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Systems - (Large) Model languages - Natural Language Processing - Information Search and Retrieval - Knowledge Engineering - Ontologies and Semantics - Multi-agent Systems - Mobile and Wireless Networking - Service-Oriented Systems - Applications: Resource Management (energy, water, air quality, waste management, ...), Healthcare, Transportation, Smart Grids, Education, Social Networks, Agriculture, Smart Cities, E-Government, ... *** Applied Mathematics Track *** Topics in this track include, but not limited to the following fields: - Analysis of Dynamical Systems - Partial Differential Equations - Numerical Analysis - Optimization, Inverse Problems and Control - Stochastic Systems - Applied Statistics and Probability - Image and Signal Processing - Mathematics and Machine Learning - High Performance Scientific Computation - Mathematical Modelling - Mathematical Finance - Actuarial Science and Economy - Earth Sciences and Environment - Mathematical Biology, Ecology and Medicine *** Publication *** CARI 2024 accepts submissions in three categories: - Regular research papers, up to 14 pages in length (excluding references). - Work-in-progress papers on early results, up to 7 pages in length (excluding references). - Position papers on introducing new or disruptive ideas (supported, if possible, by empirical evidence and measurements) that differ from prior published work, up to 7 pages in length (excluding references). Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format through EasyChair using the LNCS format (version 2.20 or above). At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the conference and present the paper. All accepted papers will be published in the Springer LNCS series and made available through the SpringerLink Digital Library (indexed by Scopus, ACM Digital Library, dblp, Google Scholar). Selected papers of CARI'2024 will be considered for a submission of extended versions to the ARIMA Journal. ======= For additional information, visit the conference website: https://www.cari-info.org/call-cari2024-2/ Contact TPC Chair: Kamel Barkaoui, kamel.barkaoui(a)cnam.fr

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2024 NARNiHS Research Incubator
by NAm Research Network in HistSocio 05 Apr '24

05 Apr '24

Dear colleagues, The 2024 Research Incubator of the North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics (NARNiHS) will take place entirely online April 25-27. The full program is now available on our website: narnihs [dot] org/?page_id=2728 Note that NO registration is necessary for NARNiHS members to attend the fully online NARNiHS 2024. Conference access information will be sent to all NARNiHS members in a separate message as we get closer to the conference dates (25-27 April 2024). The NARNiHS Research Incubator offers a rich environment for the exploration of new approaches to theory, methodology, and analytical protocols in historical sociolinguistics. One of the novelties this year is a Roundtable that will take place at the end of the conference. The Roundtable will be moderated by DONALD TUTEN (Emory University), and it will include a total of four short presentations on the present and future directions in Historical Sociolinguistics. Guest Speakers are TERTTU NEVALAINEN (University of Helsinki), GIJSBERT RUTTEN (Leiden University), JOSEPH SALMONS (University of Wisconsin-Madison), and ISRAEL SANZ-SÁNCHEZ (West Chester University). Please join us and contribute to the invigorating discussion and brainstorming of fresh ideas in historical sociolinguistics. We look forward to seeing you at our panels! Not a member yet, but interested in joining NARNiHS? Membership is free! Check out https://narnihs [dot] org/?page_id=2 <https://narnihs.org/?page_id=2> for details on how to join NARNiHS. Kind regards, The 2024 NARNiHS Research Incubator Organizing Committee Carolina Amador-Moreno Sandrine Tailleur Kelly Wright

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CALL FOR PAPERS: Deep Learning and Large Language Models for Knowledge Graphs (DL4KG)
by Genet Asefa Gesese 05 Apr '24

05 Apr '24

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 7th Edition of Workshop on Deep Learning and Large Language Models for Knowledge Graphs (DL4KG), August 25 or 26, 2024 Web: https://genetasefa.github.io/dl4kg2024/ Twitter: @dl4kg1 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In conjunction with KDD 2024, Aug 25 - Aug 29, --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop Overview --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Over the past years, there has been a rapid growth in the use and importance of Knowledge Graphs (KGs) along with their application to many important tasks. KGs are large networks of real-world entities described in terms of their semantic types and their relationships to each other. On the other hand, Deep Learning methods have also become an important area of research, achieving some important breakthroughs in various research fields, especially Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computer Vision. In order to pursue more advanced methodologies, it has become critical that the communities related to Deep Learning, Knowledge Graphs, and NLP join forces in order to develop more effective algorithms and applications. This workshop, in the wake of other similar efforts at previous Semantic Web conferences such as ESWC 2018 as DL4KGs and ISWC 2018, ESWC 2019, ESWC 2020, ISWC 2021, ISWC 2022, and ISWC 2023 aims to reinforce the relationships between these communities and foster inter-disciplinary research in the areas of KG, Deep Learning, and Natural Language Processing. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics of Interest --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LLMs and Knowledge Graphs - Knowledge Base Construction using LLMs - Knowledge Graphs to improve the quality of LLMs - Question Answering exploiting LLMs and Knowledge Graphs (such as Retrieval Augmented Generation) - Hybrid LLMs-KG models (cross-attention, joint training,...) - Knowledge-Based fact-checking for LLMs New Approaches for Combining Deep Learning, LLMs, and Knowledge Graphs - Methods for generating Knowledge Graph (node) embeddings - Temporal Knowledge Graph Embeddings - KGs for Interoperability and Explainability - Recommender Systems leveraging Knowledge Graphs - Link Prediction and completing KGs - Ontology Learning and Matching exploiting Knowledge Graph Embeddings - Knowledge Graph-Based Sentiment Analysis - Natural Language Understanding/Machine Reading - Question Answering exploiting Knowledge Graphs and Deep Learning - Approximate query answering on knowledge graphs - Trend Prediction based on Knowledge Graphs Embeddings - Learning Representations from Graphs (Graph Neural Networks, Graph Convolutional Networks, etc.) Applications of combining Deep Learning, LLMs, and Knowledge Graphs - Domain Specific Applications (e.g., Scholarly, Biomedical, Cultural Heritage, etc.) - Applications in industry 4.0. - Knowledge Graph Alignment - Applying to real-world scenarios Applications to particular domains such as Cultural Heritage, Materials Sciences, Biomedical domain, Scholarly data, etc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Important Dates ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - May 20, 2024: Abstract submission deadline - May 28, 2024: Full and Short paper submission deadline - June 28, 2024: Notification of Acceptance - July 05, 2024: Camera-ready paper due - August 25 or 26, 2024: KDD Workshop day ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Submissions ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Full research papers (8-10 pages) Short research papers (4-7 pages) Papers are submitted in PDF format via the workshop’s Open Review submission pages (-- ). Accepted papers (after a blind review of at least 3 experts) will be published by CEUR-WS (single column). At least one of the authors of the accepted papers must register for the workshop (pre-conference only option) to be included in the workshop proceedings. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Organization --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Mehwish Alam, Telecom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France - Davide Buscaldi, LIPN, University Sorbonne Paris Nord, France - Michael Cochez, Vrije University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands - Genet Asefa Gesese, FIZ Karlsruhe, KIT, Germany - Francesco Osborne, Knowledge Media Institute, (KMi), The Open University, UK - Diego Reforgiato Recupero, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Cagliari, Italy

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Fully funded research visits at the University of Sheffield applying NLP to archaeological data
by Diana G Maynard 05 Apr '24

05 Apr '24

Dear all As part of the new EU ATRIUM project we have opportunities for short-term fully funded research visits to work on development and application of NLP methods and tools to archaeological data. We have models, tools and data available for you to use. Visitors must come from an organisation outside the UK. For more information and applications, please visit https://atrium-research.eu/travel-grants/ Diana Maynard Senior Research Fellow Computer Science Dept. University of Sheffield, UK Transnational Access Grants: Calls for Applications The ATRIUM project invites researchers to apply to participate in Transnational Access training visits to support their research. ATRIUM’s Transnational Access (TNA) scheme offers researchers the possibility to apply for a fully funded placement at several different partner organisations to access expert knowledge and advice from leading Data Management organisations across Europe. The TNA scheme aims to recruit and support approximately 200 Arts and Humanities researchers with mentorship and access to knowledge, data and tools from 14 different institutions across Europe. Researchers who are successful in their applications will be supported to visit the infrastructure providers in our consortium in person, benefiting from direct contact, knowledge sharing and network building. In total, 388 weeks of Transnational Access will be provided during the ATRIUM project. There are two types of types of TNA applications: Individual Access – These are individual applications based on a specific research topic proposed by the applicant that match the specialisms of the host organisation. Summer School Access – These are fixed events during the year that provide access for a group of researchers based on a set of predetermined specialised topics. The first collection date is 31 May, 2024, and applicants will be notified by 28 June, 2024. Calls for applications will be issued several times per year throughout the duration of the project (March 2024 to December 2028). Individual Access applications will be offered on a rolling basis with a deadline every three months. Summer Schools will be offered 1 to 2 times a year with a fixed deadline 3 to 4 months ahead of the scheduled event. Visit www.atrium-research.eu <https://atrium-research.eu/travel-grants/> for more information.

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Fully-funded 3-year PhD position in NLP for insect biodiversity
by Claire Nedellec 04 Apr '24

04 Apr '24

PhD Title: Information Rating and Analysis of Knowledge Dynamics. Application to the Temporal Monitoring of the Reliability of Bibliographic Information on Insects as Vectors of Plant Pathogens. We are looking for candidates who have proven knowledge of NLP and Machine Learning. Deadline is June30th. Detailed description of the doctoral project HERE <https://maiage.inrae.fr/sites/default/files/2024-04/ADUM%20INRAE%202024-eng…> ----------- ## Research subject within the framework of the research project on NLP for insect monitoring in plant health. The central aim of the PhD project is to develop original approaches for the reliability of textual information, by integrating linguistic dimensions and knowledge graphs (NLP, language models), and dynamic dimensions (time series). The quality and relevance of the extracted information will be derived from the collected documents along time and from the existing knowledge base. For plant health and risk management, the biological interaction between insect vectors, pathogens, and host plants is of primary interest for anticipating contamination and reducing pesticide use. You will be affiliated with the Computer Science Graduate School at Paris-Saclay University. You will be employed by INRAE. ## Requirements A successful candidate will have an MSc or equivalent in Artificial Intelligence. * Proven experience with applying natural language processing. * Interest in learning about biology or bioinformatics. * High level of academic English or French, both written and spoken; * Good programming skills in Python or Java (and preferably experience with deep learning tools) * Capacity to work as part of a team in a multidisciplinary framework. * Experiences of applied research to Life Science is an asset. ## Offer We offer a motivating research environment with many opportunities for in-house, national and international collaborations and access to computing GPU resources and state-of-the-art research equipment. The gross salary per month for the three-year contract is 2 100 (in 2024) to 2300 (in 2026) including the social security package (healthcare, pensions, unemployment benefits). ## Start date: October 2024 Location: Paris-Saclay University campus, mainly at the MaIAGE lab [1] and MIA-Paris-Saclay [2], you will visit PHIM [3] at the INRAE research center in Montpellier (South of France). ## Application The closing date is June 30th 2024 Interested candidates should send their application files to Claire Nédellec (claire.nedellec(a)inrae.fr <mailto:claire.nedellec@inrae.fr>), Vincent Guigue, Nicolas Sauvion (Nicolas.sauvion(a)inrae.fr <mailto:Nicolas.sauvion@inrae.fr>), and Robert Bossy (Robert.bossy(a)inrae.fr <mailto:Robert.bossy@inrae.fr>). It should comprise: * a CV (max 5 pages) with transcripts (Master), diplomas, internships * a cover letter * the names and contact of two referees for reference letters [1] https://maiage.inrae.fr/en/bibliome <https://maiage.inrae.fr/en/bibliome> [2] https://vguigue.github.io/ <https://vguigue.github.io/> [3] https://umr-phim.cirad.fr/en/recherche/comprendre-les-epidemies-dans-les-ch… <https://umr-phim.cirad.fr/en/recherche/comprendre-les-epidemies-dans-les-ch…>

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CfP: First Workshop on Knowledge-Enhanced Machine Translation (KEMT) at EAMT2024
by Miquel Esplà 04 Apr '24

04 Apr '24

*Apologies for cross-posting* First Workshop on Knowledge-Enhanced Machine Translation Sheffield, United Kingdom, on June 27, 2024 https://kemt2024.wixsite.com/home First Call for Papers The 1st edition of the Workshop on Knowledge-Enhanced Machine Translation will be held in Sheffield, United Kingdom, on June 27, 2024, co-located with EAMT 2024. We welcome submissions either of research papers or extended abstracts/industry reports. Full research papers should describe original, unpublished content, while extended abstracts are open to reporting preliminary results of ongoing research. Industry reports should demonstrate the impact of conceptual modelling in a real-world setting, arguing for generalisability of methods and lessons learned. Potential submission topics encompass, but are not restricted to: - Integration of external terminology and constrained decoding - Integration of translation memories and similar translations from external sources - Leveraging any kind of linguistic information - Data augmentation techniques - Using large language models to integrate external resources - Knowledge graphs - Integration of translation quality indicators for improving final MT output - Quality assessment of knowledge-enhanced MT systems - Utilising quality estimation systems for improving MT performance Submission information The workshop accepts submissions in two different modalities: - Full research papers: Submissions will be accepted as papers of at least 4 up to 10 pages (plus unlimited pages for references and appendices). - Extended abstracts/industry reports:Submissions will be accepted as papers of up to 2 pages. The references are not included in the 2-page limit. Accepted submissions will be presented either as posters or oral communications, as decided by the program committee. Accepted submissions will be published online as proceedings included in the ACL Anthology, unless the authors specify otherwise. Submissions should be formatted according to the EAMT 2024 guidelines (PDF, LaTeX, Word) <https://eamt2024.sheffield.ac.uk/conference-calls/2nd-call-for-papers#h.45w…> and submitted in PDF through OpenReview page ( https://openreview.net/group?id=EAMT.org/2024/Workshop/KEMT ). Important dates - Workshop paper/abstracts due: 15th April 2024 - Notification of acceptance: 15th May 2024 - Camera-ready papers/extended abstracts due: 27th May 2024 - Workshop date: 27th June 2024 Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/kemt2024 -- Miquel Esplà-Gomis Departament de Llenguatges i Sistemes Informàtics Universitat d'Alacant Carretera de Sant Vicent del Raspeig s/n 03690 Sant Vicent del Raspeig, Alacant (Spain) Tel: +34 965903400 ext. 2424

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Edge Hill Corpus Research Group – Meeting #12
by Costas Gabrielatos 04 Apr '24

04 Apr '24

The next meeting of the Edge Hill Corpus Research Group will take place online (via MS Teams) on Thursday 25 April 2024, 2:00-3:30 pm (UK time). Attendance is free. You can register here: https://store.edgehill.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/conferences/events/edge… Topics: Corpus Methodology, Large Language Models Speakers: Sylvia Jaworska<https://www.reading.ac.uk/elal/staff/dr-sylvia-jaworska> (University of Reading, UK) & Mathew Gillings<https://www.wu.ac.at/ebc/about-us/team/mathew-gillings/> (Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria) Title: How humans vs. machines identify discourse topics: an exploratory triangulation Abstract Identifying discourses and discursive topics in a set of texts has not only been of interest to linguists, but to researchers working across social sciences. Traditionally, these analyses have been conducted based on small-scale interpretive analyses of discourse which involve some form of close reading. Naturally, however, that close reading is only possible when the dataset is small, and it leaves the analyst open to accusations of bias and/or cherry-picking. Designed to avoid these issues, other methods have emerged which involve larger datasets and have some form of quantitative component. Within linguistics, this has typically been through the use of corpus-assisted methods, whilst outside of linguistics, topic modelling is one of the most widely-used approaches. Increasingly, researchers are also exploring the utility of LLMs (such as ChatGPT) to assist analyses and identification of topics. This talk reports on a study assessing the effect that analytical method has on the interpretation of texts, specifically in relation to the identification of the main topics. Using a corpus of corporate sustainability reports, totalling 98,277 words, we asked 6 different researchers, along with ChatGPT, to interrogate the corpus and decide on its main ‘topics’ via four different methods. Each method gradually increases in the amount of context available. • Method A: ChatGPT is used to categorise the topic model output and assign topic labels; • Method B: Two researchers were asked to view a topic model output and assign topic labels based purely on eyeballing the co-occurring words; • Method C: Two researchers were asked to assign topic labels based on a concordance analysis of 100 randomised lines of each co-occurring word; • Method D: Two researchers were asked to reverse-engineer a topic model output by creating topic labels based on a close reading. The talk explores how the identified topics differed both between researchers in the same condition, and between researchers in different conditions shedding light on some of the mechanisms underlying topic identification by machines vs humans or machines assisted by humans. We conclude with a series of tentative observations regarding the benefits and limitations of each method along with suggestions for researchers in selecting an analytical approach for discourse topic identification. While this study is exploratory and limited in scope, it opens up a way for further methodological and larger scale triangulations of corpus-based analyses with other computational methods including AI. ________________________________ Edge Hill University<http://ehu.ac.uk/home/emailfooter> Modern University of the Year, The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2022<http://ehu.ac.uk/tef/emailfooter> University of the Year, Educate North 2021/21 ________________________________ This message is private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it from your system. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Edge Hill or associated companies. Edge Hill University may monitor email traffic data and also the content of email for the purposes of security and business communications during staff absence.<http://ehu.ac.uk/itspolicies/emailfooter>

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Free event 9 April 2024: Celtic Languages in the Digital Age Workshop (CLIDA 2024)
by El-Haj, Mo 04 Apr '24

04 Apr '24

Dear all, We are excited to announce the upcoming "Celtic Languages in the Digital Age" workshop, scheduled for April 9, 2024, at Lancaster University. This is a hybrid event of talks and panel discussion, organised by the UCREL NLP Group and funded by the Faculty of Science and Technology's Research Catalyst Fund, aims to address the critical need for linguistic resources supporting Celtic languages. Event Details: - Date: April 9, 2024 - Location: Lancaster University - Format: Hybrid with online broadcast (free registration) - Register to attend online: https://bit.ly/clida2024 The workshop will gather experts in Celtic languages, linguistics, corpus linguistics, computer science, and computational linguistics to explore the development of language models for under-resourced languages, including Welsh, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Cornish, Breton, and Manx. We also have a talk on the use of transfer learning to create language models for low-resourced languages taking Luxembourgish as a use case. Programme, list of speakers and talks details can be found on the event's website: https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/celtic/ If you are in or near Lancaster and would like to attend in person, do get in touch with me as we have a few places left, attending in person is free, lunch and refreshments will be provided on the day. Best wishes, Mo -------------------------------- Dr Mo El-Haj Senior Lecturer in NLP Director of Admissions (SCC) Co-Director of UCREL NLP Group<https://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/> Natural Language Engineering (NLE) Journal Editorial Board https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/natural-language-engineering Advisory Board of the Natural Language Processing Book Series https://benjamins.com/catalog/nlp School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/staff/elhaj @DocElhaj<https://twitter.com/DocElhaj> You may receive emails from me outside what are your typical office hours. I do not expect you to respond to my email outside your working hours.

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12th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Systems: Invited Session on Intelligent Tools in e/m/d Learning
by Announce 04 Apr '24

04 Apr '24

*** Third Call for Papers *** 12th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Systems (IS'24) Invited Session on Intelligent Tools for e/m/d Learning August 29-31, 2024, Golden Sands Resort, Varna, Bulgaria https://www.ieee-is.org (*** Submission Deadline: April 30, 2024 AoE ***) This invited session aims to explore state-of-the-art advancements in intelligent tools designed to revolutionize the landscape of e-learning (electronic learning), m-learning (mobile learning) and d-learning (digital learning). With the rapid integration of technology into education, there is a growing need to investigate and showcase innovative intelligent solutions that can enhance the effectiveness of online, mobile and digital learning environments. Intelligent solutions for the educational context can have a groundbreaking and revolutionary impact on learners and faculty alike, with integrated educational tools offering enhanced engagement, support for different learning levels, styles and abilities, and personalized learning experiences with immediate feedback at its core. Papers submitted to this session are expected to present results on various aspects of intelligent tools for e-learning, m-learning and d-learning. Topics may include but are not limited to adaptive learning systems, personalized learning experiences, artificial intelligence-driven content creation, data analytics for educational insights, and the integration of emerging technologies such as augmented reality and virtual reality in educational settings. Authors are encouraged to share empirical research, case studies, and practical implementations that demonstrate the impact of intelligent tools on learner/faculty engagement, knowledge retention, and overall educational outcomes. The session aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the current state-of-the-art in intelligent tools in e-learning, m-learning and d-learning, fostering discussions on their implications for the future of education and their potential to address challenges in diverse learning environments and educational levels, as well as diverse learner ability. PAPER SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Submitted papers should be in IEEE 2-column format and should adhere to the template available here: https://www.ieee-is.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/IS_A4_format-AAu.docx The expected paper length in camera-ready format should not exceed 6 pages. Submissions should be done in PDF using Easy Chair and the submission link is: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=itl24 . PUBLICATION All accepted papers will be included in the IS'24 proceedings to be published by IEEE. The proceedings of the previous editions of IS can be found here: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/1000395/all-proceedings . Traditionally, extended versions of conference-selected papers appear within 1-2 years after the conference dates in well-known international iournals and/or post-conference books. More information can be found on the conference web site (https://www.ieee-is.org/publication-information/ ). CONTACT POINT For any additional information or clarification please contact the Invited Session Chair, George A. Papadopoulos at george(a)ucy.ac.cy . IMPORTANT DATES • Paper submission: April 30, 2024, AoE • Notification: May 20, 2024 • Camera Ready: June 6, 2024 • Author Registration: June 15, 2024 ORGANISATION Committees https://www.ieee-is.org/program-committee/ Invited Session Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (george(a)ucy.ac.cy)

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Final Call for Participation - HOPE@IberLEF 2024: Approaching Hope Speech Detection in Social Media from Two Perspectives, for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and as Expectations
by Sabur B 04 Apr '24

04 Apr '24

****We apologize for multiple postings of this e-mail**** IberLEF 2024 Task - HOPE: Approaching Hope Speech Detection in Social Media from Two Perspectives, for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and as Expectations Held as part of the evaluation forum IberLEF 2024 <https://sites.google.com/view/iberlef-2024/home?authuser=0> in the 40th edition of the International Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN 2024 <http://sepln2024.infor.uva.es/en/front-page-english/>) Valladolid, Spain, 24-27 September 2024 Codalab link: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/17714 Dear All, Hope, a crucial aspect of human psychology, profoundly shapes emotions, behavior, and mood, influencing how individuals perceive and navigate challenges (Bruininks and Malle, 2005; Snyder, 1994, 2000). High levels of hope correlate with positive outcomes such as academic success and lower depression rates, while low hope is associated with diminished well-being (Snyder, 2002; Snyder et al., 1997; Diener, 2009). Despite its significance, hope has been underexplored in Natural Language Processing (NLP) until recent years. Efforts have been made to integrate NLP techniques into the analysis of hope through shared tasks, like those organized in ACL 2022, RANLP 2023, and IberLEF 2023 (Chakravarthi et al., 2022; Kumaresan et al., 2023; Jiménez-Zafra et al., 2023). The upcoming IberLEF 2024 edition aims to delve deeper into hope from two angles: hope for equality, diversity, and inclusion, and hope as expectations. This edition promises to expand understanding by examining hope across different domains and languages, thus addressing crucial questions in hope speech detection research. Two tasks are outlined in this description, each focusing on different aspects of hope. - Task 1: It centers on "Hope for Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion," emphasizing the importance of hope speech in mitigating hostility and supporting individuals facing challenges like illness, stress, or loneliness, particularly within vulnerable groups such as the LGBT community and racial minorities. This task consists of giving a Spanish tweet, identifying whether it contains hope speech or not. The possible categories for each text are: - hs: hope speech. - nhs: non hope speech. - Task 2: It delves into "Hope as Expectations," highlighting hope's role as an anticipatory mindset shaping human emotions and behaviors, especially in the context of social media where expressions are abundant. This task aims to analyze hope speech's presence in English and Spanish texts, focusing on binary hope speech detection and multiclass hope speech detection. The subtask are presented as follows, - Subtask 2a- Binary Hope speech detection: A given text in English/Spanish will be classified as: - Hope - Not Hope - Subtask 2b- Multiclass Hope speech detection: A given text in English/Spanish will be classified as: - Generalized Hope - Realistic Hope - Unrealistic Hope - Not Hope In both tasks, there will be a real-time leaderboard and the participants will be allowed to make a maximum of 10 submissions through CodaLab, from which each team will have to select the best one for ranking. The dataset details and registration are available at: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/17714 Best regards, The HOPE 2024 organizing committee Important dates - Release of training + development corpora: Feb 16, 2024. - Release of test corpora and start of evaluation campaign: April 1, 2024. - End of evaluation campaign (deadline for runs submission): Apr 16, 2024. - Publication of official results: Apr 18, 2024. - Paper submission: May 14, 2024. - Review notification: Jun 11, 2024. - Camera-ready submission: Jun 28, 2024. - IberLEF Workshop (SEPLN 2024): Sep 27, 2024. - Publication of proceedings: Sep ??, 2024. Organizing Committee - Daniel García-Baena, SINAI, Universidad de Jaén, Spain. - Fazlourrahman Balouchzahi, CIC IPN, Mexico. - Salud María Jiménez-Zafra, SINAI, Universidad de Jaén, Spain. - Sabur Butt, Institute for the Future of Education (IFE) at Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico. - Miguel Ángel García-Cumbreras, SINAI, Universidad de Jaén, Spain. - Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Centro de Investigación en Computación, Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN), Mexico. - José Antonio García-Díaz, UMUTeam, Universidad de Murcia, Spain. - Selen Bozkurt, Department of Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine, Emory University. - Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, University of Galway, Ireland. - Hector G. Ceballos, Institute for the Future of Education (IFE) at Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico. - Rafael Valencia-García, UMUTeam, Universidad de Murcia, Spain. - Grigori Sidorov, CIC IPN, Mexico. - L. Alfonso Ureña-López, SINAI, Universidad de Jaén, Spain. - Alexander Gelbukh, CIC IPN, Mexico. *Sabur Butt, Ph.D. *(He/Him) Institute for the Future of Education (IFE) *Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico* Address: Av. Eugenio Garza Sada 2501 Sur Tecnológico, 64849 Monterrey, N.L. LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/saburb> - GitHub <https://github.com/saburbutt> - Scholar <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=re7md-0AAAAJ&hl=en> - Website <https://saburbutt.github.io/>

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PhD position in NLP/CL at IT University of Copenhagen
by Anna Rogers 04 Apr '24

04 Apr '24

Anna Rogers <anna.gld(a)gmail.com> 10:36 AM (2 hours ago) to Corpora The Department of Computer Science at the IT University of Copenhagen is offering a PhD position in Natural Language Processing/Computational Linguistics*,* with a start date of *1 September 2024*. The *application deadline is 1**5* *April** 2024.* Applications for the position can be submitted via ITU job portal <https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx?cid=119&ProjectId=181…> . *Proposed project title: *Linguistic competence of language models in prompt interpretation and text generation *Proposed project description.* Recent generative systems based on pre-trained language models are remarkably fluent when generating even relatively exotic kinds of text, such as limericks or texts in early middle English. At the same time, they remain sensitive to slight variation in the wording of the prompts. The proposed project will investigate this difference in competence for different linguistic phenomena when the model interprets its instructions (prompts) and generates text in response to prompts. *The specific focus of the project is negotiable*, it could be syntactic constructions, variations in lexical semantics, text registers etc. Model competence will be assessed with respect to analysis of its pre-training data (hence, an open-source model will be used). The ideal candidate would have a strong background in computational linguistics, as well as core skills in programming in Python and machine learning. For entering the PhD program in Denmark, a M.Sc. or equivalent degree is required. For this position, it is also possible to start as a Master student, if extra ECTs are needed (for students who currently have 60-115 MA ECTS). The successful candidate will be a member of the national Pioneer Centre for Artificial Intelligence <https://aicentre.dk/>, a 5-university Danish research endeavor, and of the NLPnorth <https://nlpnorth.github.io/>research group at the IT University’s Computer Science Department. Both the centre and research group are highly international and well-funded, working on a broad range of research topics. The project will be co-supervised by Associate Professors Anna Rogers <https://annargrs.github.io/> (arog(a)itu.dk) and Rob van der Goot <https://robvanderg.github.io/> (robv(a)itu.dk), to whom inquiries about the project can be directed. -- Anna Rogers Associate Professor IT University of Copenhagen http://annargrs.github.io/

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Postdoc opening at UT Austin
by Matt Lease 04 Apr '24

04 Apr '24

I have a postdoc opening in my lab with *applications due April 10th*. See Bullard Research Fellow (BRF) area 7 (“*BRF7*”) in the job ad here: https://apply.interfolio.com/142711. "BRF7) We seek applicants in natural language processing (NLP), information retrieval (IR), and human computation & crowdsourcing (HCOMP). Our work on responsible AI develops methods for model explanations and fairness. We build automated and human-in-the-loop models. We develop general methods to advance the state-of-the-art, grounded in social challenges like curbing disinformation and hate speech. A variety of our ongoing work touches on large language models (LLMs). This position will be mentored by Matt Lease <https://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~ml/>, as part of his lab for Artificial Intelligence and Human-Centered Computing <http://ai.ischool.utexas.edu/> (AI&HCC), and provide collaboration opportunities in UT Austin’s campus-wide Good Systems <http://goodsystems.utexas.edu/> grand challenge for responsible AI." Please see the job ad for full details about the opening: https://apply.interfolio.com/142711. -- Matt Lease Professor Information & Computer Science University of Texas at Austin Voice: (512) 471-9350 · Fax: (512) 471-3971 · Office: UTA 5.536 http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~ml

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Second Call for Participation: Shared Task: Cross-Lingual Few-Shot Relation Extraction for Pharmacovigilance (SMM4H@ACL2024 - Task 2)
by Pierre Zweigenbaum 03 Apr '24

03 Apr '24

Apologies for cross-posting. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- There is still time to participate in this shared task---evaluation phase from April 17 to 24. **Social Media Mining For Health 2024** https://healthlanguageprocessing.org/smm4h-2024/ The Social Media Mining for Health (SMM4H) workshop and shared tasks have been running successfully since 2016. They now go into the 9th round, with the workshop being co-located at ACL 2024 in Bangkok. https://2024.aclweb.org/ Bangkok, Thailand , August 12–17, 2024 **Important Dates for all SMM4H Shared Tasks** Training data available: January 10, 2024 CodaLab Available: January 17, 2024 Evaluation Phase: April 17 - 24, 2024 System description paper due: May 17, 2024 Paper acceptance notification: June 17, 2024 Camera-ready papers due: July 1, 2024 Workshop in Bangkok, Thailand , August 15, 2024 **Task 2: Task Description** Adverse Drug Events (ADEs) are negative medical side effects related to a drug. Mining ADEs from user-generated text has become a popular topic and is an important use case for research, as it could help detecting crowd signals from users online. Being able to make use of information across languages by applying multi-lingual methods further supports this endeavor. Our task targets the languages *German, French and Japanese* and is split into two subtasks. Subtask 2a focuses on Named Entity Recognition (NER) of of medication, disorder, and function mentions from user-generated texts. Subtask 2b performs joint NER and Relation Extraction (RE) to determine if these disorders are ADEs by finding the correct relations between medications, disorders and functions. We distinguish two types of relations between medication mentions and disorder/function mentions: - "caused": the disorder/function was caused by a medication, i.e., the disorder/function is an ADE - "treatment_for": the disorder/function is the reason for the medication, i.e., the medication is supposed to treat the disorder/function *Tasks*: Participants can choose between participating in subtask 2a, or subtask 2b, or both. ~~ We explicitly encourage the submission of new and creative approaches! ~~ - Subtask 2a) Named entity recognition of the entities "drug", "disorder" and "function" from user-generated texts. - Subtask 2b) Joint named entity and relation extraction of the entities "drug", "disorder" and "function" and the relations "caused" and "treatment_for". *Data*: The data originates from social media platforms, e.g., patient fora and X (Twitter). We provide data in German and Japanese, and a few examples in French. The submitted systems will be evaluated on German, French and Japanese data. Please find more information here: https://healthlanguageprocessing.org/smm4h-2024/ Please use this form to register: https://forms.gle/7w4si27uJrCMiTyL8 Organizers of Subtask 2: Pierre Zweigenbaum, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, LISN, France Sebastian Möller, Technische Universität Berlin, DFKI GmbH, Germany Roland Roller, DFKI GmbH, Germany Philippe Thomas, DFKI GmbH, Germany Eiji Aramaki, NAIST, Japan Shoko Wakamiya, NAIST, Japan Shuntaro Yada, NAIST, Japan Katherine Yeh, Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, LISN, France Lisa Raithel, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany & Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, LISN, France -- Pierre Zweigenbaum Senior Researcher Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, LISN

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1st Call For Papers, Fifth Workshop on Privacy in Natural Language Processing at ACL 2024
by Ivan Habernal 03 Apr '24

03 Apr '24

PrivateNLP 2024: Fifth Workshop on Privacy in Natural Language Processing at ACL 2024 1st Call For Papers ACL PrivateNLP is a full day workshop taking place on August 15, 2024 in conjunction with ACL 2024. Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/privatenlp/ Important Dates: • Submission Deadline: May 17, 2024 • Acceptance Notification: June 17, 2024 • Camera-ready versions: July 01, 2024 • Workshop: August 15, 2024 Privacy-preserving data analysis has become essential in the age of Large Language Models (LLMs) where access to vast amounts of data can provide gains over tuned algorithms. A large proportion of user-contributed data comes from natural language e.g., text transcriptions from voice assistants. It is therefore important to curate NLP datasets while preserving the privacy of the users whose data is collected, and train LLMs models that only retain non-identifying user data. The workshop aims to bring together practitioners and researchers from academia and industry to discuss the challenges and approaches to designing, building, verifying, and testing privacy preserving systems in the context of Natural Language Processing. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Privacy in Large Language Models * Generating privacy preserving test sets * Inference and identification attacks * Generating Differentially private derived data * NLP, privacy and regulatory compliance * Private Generative Adversarial Networks * Privacy in Active Learning and Crowdsourcing * Privacy and Federated Learning in NLP * User perceptions on privatized personal data * Auditing provenance in language models * Continual learning under privacy constraints * NLP and summarization of privacy policies * Ethical ramifications of AI/NLP in support of usable privacy * Homomorphic encryption for language models Submissions: Accepted papers will be presented orally or as posters and included in the workshop proceedings. Submissions are open to all, and are to be submitted anonymously. All papers will be refereed through a double-blind peer review process by at least three reviewers with final acceptance decisions made by the workshop organizers. We'll be using OpenReview - the final submission link will be specified later Organizers: Sepideh Ghanavati, University of Maine Abhilasha Ravichander, Allen AI Niloofar Mireshghallah, University of Washington Ivan Habernal, Paderborn University Seyi Feyisetan, Amazon Patricia Thaine, Private AI Contact us: privatenlp24-orga(a)lists.uni-paderborn.de

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[CFP] ACL 2024 Workshop on Knowledge Graphs and LLMs (KaLLM)
by russa biswas 03 Apr '24

03 Apr '24

Dear colleagues, We would like to invite you to submit the unpublished results of your research on Knowledge Graphs and Large Language Models to: *The 1st Workshop on Knowledge Graphs and Large Language Models (KaLLM)*, to be held on *August 15, 2024*, co-located with *ACL 2024*, Bangkok, Thailand. Second Call for Participation *Submission Deadline: May 10, 2024 at 23:59, UTC -12h, AoE* *Website*: https://kallmworkshop.github.io/kallm2024/ *Contact email*: kallmworkshop2024(a)googlegroups.com The workshop intends to provide a platform for researchers, practitioners, and industry professionals to explore the synergies between LLMs and KGs. We aim to provide a space for the LLM community and the community of KG researchers to interact and explore how these two communities could collaborate and support one another. *Important Dates* Submission Deadline: May 10, 2024 Author Notifications: June 17, 2024 Camera-Ready Deadline: July 1, 2024 Workshop Date: August 15, 2024 *Submission Guidelines:* Papers must be submitted in PDF format using the official ACL template. More details are available on the website. *Scope of the workshop:* KaLLM invites quality research contributions as short or long papers and resource papers. All submissions will undergo a double-blind review process, and accepted submissions will be presented at the workshop. The submissions should focus on the interaction between LLMs and KGs in the context of NLP. The workshop will cover a diverse range of topics related to the integration of LLMs and KGs, including but not limited to: - Knowledge-enhanced language generation - KG-based question answering using LLMs - Fact validation and bias mitigation - KG creation and completion using LLMs - Privacy considerations in LLM-KG integration - Interpretability and explainability - Cross-domain applications - KG-based text summarisation with LLMs - Ethical implications of LLM-KG technologies - Multimodality of KGs and LLMs - Multilingual LLMs for KGs and vice-versa We look forward to receiving your submissions and having your valuable contribution to the success of the workshop. If you have any questions or require further information, please do not hesitate to contact us at kallmworkshop2024(a)googlegroups.com or visit https://kallmworkshop.github.io/kallm2024/. Thank you and best regards, Workshop Organisers Russa Biswas, Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany Lucie Aimée Kaffee, Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany Oshin Agarwal, Bloomberg, USA Pasquale Minervini, University of Edinburgh, UK Sameer Singh, University of California, Irvine, USA Gerard de Melo, Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Germany

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EAMT 2024: Bursaries for Translators
by Carol Scarton 03 Apr '24

03 Apr '24

****************************************************** EAMT 2024: Bursaries for Translators Deadline for applications: 19/04/2024 ****************************************************** == Call for Participation == 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 opens a call for a small number of bursaries to support translators and Translation Studies' students, in attending the 25th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT 2024) conference will be held in Sheffield, United Kingdom, from June 24th to June 27th. == Purpose of the Call == This call is dedicated to support translators and Translation Studies' students, working or studying in European, Middle-Eastern or African countries, that do not have fundings to attend the conference. The EAMT particularly encourages applications from early-career translators. All applications will be screened by EAMT executive committee members. == Application information == -- Eligibility requirements -- In order to qualify for this call, the individual must be a translator or enrolled in a Master or PhD course in Translation Studies. The support is only available to individuals working or studying in European, Middle-Eastern or African countries. Freelance translators and students will have priority. We will also give priority to people with accepted papers in the main conference. -- Selection criteria -- - The selection will be made based on the information submitted to the provided Google Forms (link below). - One of the fields in the form is a "motivation letter", where you should describe your motivation for attending the EAMT 2024 conference and explain why you do not have other funds to sponsor your attendance. - You should also submit a CV, highlighting your years of experience in the translation area and your experience working with MT. - For students: you should also submit an official proof of student status, signed by your University. == Bursaries == EAMT anticipates funding several applications. Selected participants will be announced on the 26th April 2024 and will receive complimentary membership in the EAMT for 2024 and 2025, free registration at the EAMT 2024 conference and paid accommodation in Sheffield. == Contact for enquiries == Sara Szoc EAMT member e-mail: saraszoc(a)gmail.com == Applications == Candidates should submit their applications via a Google Form: https://forms.gle/7JUDDhC7TDNXUEaq8 == Important Dates == - Circulation of the Call: March 28th, 2024 - Submission deadline for applications: April 19th, 2024, 23:59 CEST - Notification: April 26th, 2024 == Additional provisions == - Only complete applications will be reviewed. - All information submitted with applications will be regarded as confidential and will only be used in the context of this call. - You may be asked to share the accommodation room with other awardees. However, we will commit to respect any requirements / concerns that you inform us (e.g. religion, gender, etc). == No obligation to award the bursaries == The EAMT shall be under no obligation to fund the applications pursuant to this call for participation. EAMT shall not be liable for any compensation with respect to candidates whose applications have not been approved. Nor shall it be liable in the event of it deciding not to award the bursaries. -- *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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EAMT 2024: Support for participants from low-income countries and war zones
by Carol Scarton 03 Apr '24

03 Apr '24

****************************************************** EAMT 2024: Support for participants from low-income countries and war zones Deadline for applications: 19/04/2024 ****************************************************** == Call for Participation == 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 opens a call for a small number of bursaries to support EAMT 2024 attendees from areas affected by war and low-income countries. The 25th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT 2024) conference will be held in Sheffield, United Kingdom, from June 24th to June 27th. == Purpose of the Call == This call is dedicated to support EAMT 2024 attendees that do not have fundings to attend the conference, from areas affected by war or low-income countries in Europe, Middle East or Africa. The EAMT particularly encourages applications from early career researchers. All applications will be screened by EAMT executive committee members. == Application information == -- Eligibility requirements -- In order to qualify for this call, the individual must be a student or an employee of an institution located in areas affected by war or in low-income countries in Europe, Middle East or Africa, that would not be able to attend the conference without this support. Students and early-career researchers/academics will have priority. We will also give priority to people with accepted papers in the main conference. -- Selection criteria -- - The selection will be made based on the information submitted to the provided Google Forms (link below). - One of the fields in the form is a "motivation letter", where you should describe your motivation for attending the EAMT 2024 conference and explain why you do not have other funds to sponsor your attendance. - You should also submit a CV, highlighting your years of experience in the MT area. == Bursaries == EAMT anticipates funding several applications. Selected participants will be announced on the 26th April 2024 and will receive complimentary membership in the EAMT for 2024 and 2025, free registration at the EAMT 2024 conference and paid accommodation in Sheffield. == Contact for enquiries == Sara Szoc EAMT member e-mail: saraszoc(a)gmail.com == Applications == Candidates should submit their applications via a Google Form: https://forms.gle/jS314WGUszZ2fMUT9 == Important Dates == - Circulation of the Call: March 28th, 2024 - Submission deadline for applications: April 19th, 2024, 23:59 CEST - Notification: April 26th, 2024 == Additional provisions == - Only complete applications will be reviewed. - All information submitted with applications will be regarded as confidential and will only be used in the context of this call. - You may be asked to share the accommodation room with other awardees. However, we will commit to respect any requirements / concerns that you inform us (e.g. religion, gender, etc). == No obligation to award the bursaries == The EAMT shall be under no obligation to fund the applications pursuant to this call for participation. EAMT shall not be liable for any compensation with respect to candidates whose applications have not been approved. Nor shall it be liable in the event of it deciding not to award the bursaries. -- *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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Postdoc / Engineer position in Computational Social Sciences (18 months, Paris region)
by Thierry Poibeau 03 Apr '24

03 Apr '24

Dear Colleagues, The Lattice Lab in Paris, France (Ecole normale supérieure-PSL & CNRS) is recruiting a Research Engineer in Computational Social Sciences, for 18 months beginning in June 2024 (Post-doc or Master level). See here for details: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/200537 The post is related to the ANR Medialex project (https://anr.fr/Projet-ANR-21-CE38-0016), on the mutual influence between the medias (including social medias) and the political sphere (esp. debates at the Parliament). Some command of French is necessary, but it does not need to be your main language. To apply, please send me an email with a few words about your interest for the job, a detailed CV, one relevant publication if relevant (esp. if you applied at post-doc level) and the name of two referees. All the best, Thierry

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Call for papers 4th Workshop on Scholarly Document Processing - SDP@ACL 2024
by Tirthankar Ghosal 02 Apr '24

02 Apr '24

** Call for Research Papers ** Scholarly literature is the chief means by which scientists and academics document and communicate their results and is therefore critical to the advancement of knowledge and improvement of human well-being. At the same time, this literature poses challenges to NLP uncommon in other genres, such as specialized language and high background knowledge requirements, long documents and strong structural conventions, multimodal presentation, citation relationships among documents, an emphasis on rational argumentation, and the frequent availability of detailed metadata. These challenges necessitate the development of NLP methods and resources optimized for this domain. The Scholarly Document Processing (SDP) workshop provides a venue for discussing these challenges, bringing together stakeholders from different communities including computational linguistics, machine learning, text mining, information retrieval, digital libraries, scientometrics and others, to develop methods, tasks, and resources in support of these goals. This workshop builds on the success of prior workshops: the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd SDP workshops held at EMNLP 2020, NAACL 2021, and COLING 2022, and the 1st and 2nd SciNLP workshops held at AKBC 2020 and 2021. In addition to having broad appeal within the NLP community, we hope the SDP workshop will attract researchers from other relevant fields including meta-science, scientometrics, data mining, information retrieval, and digital libraries, bringing together these disparate communities within ACL. Website: https://sdproc.org/2024/ X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/sdpworkshop Topics of Interest We invite submissions from all communities demonstrating usage of and challenges associated with natural language processing, information retrieval, and data mining of scholarly and scientific documents. Relevant topics include (but are not limited to): - Large Language Models (LLMs) for Science - Representation learning and language modeling - Information extraction and NER - Document understanding - Summarization and generation - Question-answering - Discourse modeling/argumentation mining - Network analysis - Bibliometrics, scientometrics, and altmetrics - Reproducibility and research integrity, including new challenges posed by generative AI - Peer review tools, principles and technology - Metadata and indexing - Inclusion of datasets and computational resources - Research infrastructures and digital libraries - Increasing the representation in scholarly work of disadvantaged populations - LLM-based interfaces to consume/produce scholarly documents ** Submission Information ** Authors are invited to submit full and short papers with unpublished, original work. Submissions will be subject to a double-blind peer-review process. Accepted papers will be presented by the authors at the workshop either as a talk or a poster. All accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings (proceedings from previous years can be found here: https://aclanthology.org/venues/sdp/). The submissions must be in PDF format and anonymized for review. All submissions must be written in English and follow the ACL 2024 formatting requirements: Long paper submissions: up to 8 pages of content, plus unlimited references. Short paper submissions: up to 4 pages of content, plus unlimited references. Submission Website: Paper submission has to be done through openreview: < https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2024/Workshop/SDProc> Final versions of accepted papers will be allowed 1 additional page of content so that reviewer comments can be taken into account. ** Important Dates (Main Research Track) ** Paper submission deadline: May 17 (Friday), 2024 Notification of acceptance: June 17 (Monday), 2024 Camera-ready paper due: July 1 (Monday), 2024 Workshop dates: August 16, 2024 ** SDP 2024 Keynote Speakers ** We are excited to have several keynote speakers at SDP 2024. 1. Iryna Gurevych, Professor at Technical University Darmstadt and head of the UKP Lab, Germany. 2. Anna Rogers, Assistant Professor, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 3. Heng Ji, Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. 4. Doug Downey, Associate Professor at Northwestern University and Research Manager at Allen Institute for AI, USA. ** SDP 2024 Shared Tasks ** SDP 2024 will host two exciting shared tasks. More information about all shared tasks is provided on the workshop website: https://sdproc.org/2024/sharedtasks.html DAGPap24: Detecting automatically generated scientific papers A big problem with the ubiquity of Generative AI is that it has now become very easy to generate fake scientific papers. This can erode public trust in science and attack the foundations of science: are we standing on the shoulders of robots? The Detecting Automatically Generated Papers (DAGPAP) competition aims to encourage the development of robust, reliable AI-generated scientific text detection systems, utilizing a diverse dataset and varied machine learning models in a number of scientific domains. Organizers: Savvas Chamezopoulos, Yury Kashnitsky, Drahomira Herrmannova, Anita de Waard (Elsevier), Domenic Rosati (Scite) Context24: Contextualizing Scientific Figures and Tables When making sense of results across many research papers on a topic, figures or tables of key results from the papers can serve as effective, information-dense summaries that can be compared/contrasted and synthesized with other results. However, to understand the results, key elements (e.g., measures, sample) need to be contextualized with associated methodological details, which are typically dispersed throughout the text, often far from the figure/table and from each other. In this shared task, we are interested in contextualizing scientific figures and tables, i.e., automatically retrieving and ranking snippets from the paper that are most needed to interpret their results, with the goal of making figures/tables more self-contained. Organizers: Joel Chan, Matthew Akamatsu ** Organizing Committee ** Tirthankar Ghosal, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Philipp Mayr, GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany Aakanksha Naik, Allen Institute for AI, USA Shannon Shen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Amanpreet Singh, Allen Institute for AI, USA Anita de Waard, Elsevier, Netherlands Orion Weller, Johns Hopkins University, USA Yanxia Qin, National University of Singapore, Singapore Yoonjoo Lee, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, South Korea -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ *Tirthankar Ghosal* Scientist National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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CfP: FEL2024, The XXVIIIth Annual Conference of the Foundation for Endangered Languages, 25-27 September 2024, Islamabad
by Steven Krauwer 02 Apr '24

02 Apr '24

CALL FOR PAPERS =============== The Foundation for Endangered Languages (FEL) and the Forum for Language Initiatives (FLI), in collaboration with Allama Iqbal Open University Islamabad will hold the 28th Annual Conference - FEL XXVIII in Islamabad, Pakistan, 25 – 27 September 2024 Main theme of the conference: Endangered Languages and Oral Traditions. Conference topics include, but are not limited to: 1. Endangered oral literatures: heritage preservation (music, poetry, mushaira, contests...) 2. Oral cultures and traditional knowledge 3. Documentation and digitalization of oral art and literature 4. Language policy, planning, and oral art 5. Oral art and mother tongue education 6. Mother-tongue education policies: oral art and literature 7. Rediscovering oral traditions and expressions 8. Oral Traditions as vehicle for transmission of culture and language The main focus of the conference will be on the dynamic relationship between language endangerment and the role of oral traditions and expressions in safeguarding them. While it has a universal scope, it specifically aims to highlight interesting and creative oral traditions and expressions of the indigenous communities of Pakistan and encourage scholarship and accounts of community initiatives for preserving and promoting them. Studies highlighting the oral traditions of indigenous communities from anywhere are welcome. Abstracts in PDF of 600 - 800 words are invited for submission on EasyChair at this address: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=felxxviii2024 by the deadline of 15 May 2024 at 23:59 GMT Important Dates ▪ 15 May 2024: Deadline for submission of abstract ▪ 21 June 2024: Selected applicants informed ▪ 31 July 2024: Deadline for extended version of accepted abstract ▪ 25-27 September 2024: Conference dates ▪ 28 September: Excursion to a local community Conference website: https://fli-online.org/site/conference-of-the-foundation-for-endangered-lan… For more information please contact: felconf2024.islamabad(a)gmail.com -- _______________________________________________________________________ Steven Krauwer, CLARIN/FEL/ELSNET/UiLOTS, Utrecht, NL, s.krauwer(a)uu.nl

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Summer School - Corpus Methods in Linguistics
by Dylan Glynn 02 Apr '24

02 Apr '24

University Paris 8 <https://www.univ-paris8.fr/>, with the support of the European Reform University Alliance <https://erua-eui.eu/>, is pleased to announce their upcoming Summer School: *Corpus Methods in Linguistics--compilation, annotation and quantitative analysis* 03-07 June 2024 https://summer-corpus-p8.sciencesconf.org/ This will be a 30h week-long course consisting of: --morning sessions devoted to data collection, extraction and organization, as well as DIY corpus building --afternoon sessions focusing on statistical analysis of the data produced during the morning sessions --several half-day sessions on automatic annotation and manual annotation methods Participants will learn how to: --formulate advanced search queries in a concordancer in *TextSTAT* --compile a text corpus with *BootCaT* --automatically annotate a text corpus in *TreeTagger* --manually annotate a text corpus in *UAM CorpusTool* --measure keyword specificity and collocation strength using *AntConc* --perform exploratory statistical analysis for complex data using correspondence analysis, factor analysis, and cluster analysis in *R* --perform confirmatory statistical analysis using log-linear analysis and regression modelling in *R* This programme is intended primarily for researchers and upper-level students (Masters or Doctorate). Tuition will be 90€ (free for students from universities participating in the ERUA <https://erua-eui.eu/> scheme, including Paris 8). Normally, we receive more requests than we can accept, so if you wish to participate, please fill in this form <https://forms.gle/r4VxwuH1MdUerNub9> - https://forms.gle/E6QxWzwCzwqkADoJ9 If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us. Dylan Glynn and Daniel Henkel dsg.up8(a)gmail.com / daniel.henkel(a)univ-paris8.fr

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The Tensor Tournament T3 – Registration Open
by Jelena Mitrovic 02 Apr '24

02 Apr '24

Registration for the first Bavaria-wide Tensor Tournament is open. *The Tensor Tournament T**3* is a one-day AI student competition with free food, a live leaderboard, and all members of the three winning teams win programmable drones. Hype up your team and register today 👉 https://the-tensor-tournament.de ! 📅 *Date:* Saturday, May 4th, 2024 🕙 *Time:* 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM 📍 *Locations:* FAU, Uni Bamberg, Uni Regensburg, HS Ansbach, TH Nürnberg, Uni Passau, TUM, LMU *Highlights* 🔥 *3 Challenges*: Test your Machine Learning skills with three unique challenges of increasing difficulty designed to push your boundaries and spark your creativity. But beware, the clock is ticking! You have only 6 hours to complete the challenges. 👥 *3 Teammates*: Form a dream team of up to three students and tackle the challenges together. Each team will get a single PC and access to powerful GPU resources. Then, compete against the other teams for the top ranks on our Bavarian-wide leaderboard. 🏆 *3 Winners*: The top three teams will be rewarded with amazing prices: Programmable Ryze Tech Tello drones, some with the Booster Combo for extra endurance. *Conditions* 🍕 *Free food*: Enjoy free food and drinks throughout the event to keep your energy levels high and your ideas flowing. 🚀 *We welcome all STEM students*: Whether you're a seasoned ML pro or just starting your journey, all bachelor and master students interested in machine learning are welcome. Basic programming knowledge in Python is recommended, but the tournament is designed to be inclusive and engaging for everyone. Of course, you need to be enrolled in one of the participating universities. 👉 *First come, first serve*: GPUs are limited, so register now to secure your spot: https://the-tensor-tournament.de -- Prof. Dr. Jelena Mitrović Universität Passau / ITZ / Raum 161/Innstr. 43 94032 Passau +49 851 509 3353 https://ca-roll.github.io/ <http://www.uni-passau.de>

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CAiSE'24: Last Mile for Research Projects Exhibition
by Announce 02 Apr '24

02 Apr '24

*** Last Mile for Research Projects Exhibition *** 36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'24) June 3-7, 2024, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/caise2024/ (*** Submission Deadline: 15th April, 2024 AoE (extended) ***) CAiSE 2024 features a Research Project Exhibition (RPE@CAiSE'24) where researchers and practitioners can present their ongoing research projects (e.g., Horizon or ERC projects, national grants) in the context of Information Systems Engineering. The main objective of this call is to serve as a forum where presenters can disseminate the intermediate results of their projects or get feedback about research project proposals being developed. The exhibition will also provide a warm environment to find potential research partners, foster existing relationships, and discuss research ideas. To participate in the RPE@CAiSE'24, the authors should submit a short paper (5-8 pages) showcasing the project, including the participants, the main objectives of the project and relevant results obtained so far (or expected results in the case of project proposals). Each submission will be peer-reviewed on the relevance of the submitted paper in the context of CAiSE 2024. If the paper is accepted, the authors will be invited to register for the conference to present their work at the Research Projects Exhibition session at CAiSE 2024. The accepted contributions will be proposed for publication by CEUR proceedings using the 1-column CEUR-ART style. In addition, the authors of the most influential project presented at the RPE@CAiSE'24 will receive an award distinguishing their contribution as the "Most Influential Project of the Research Project Exhibition @CAiSE'24". RESEARCH PROJECTS REQUIREMENTS For the Research Projects Exhibition, we solicit submissions of projects related to the topics of CAiSE that meet the following criteria: • Projects funded by the European Union, by national or local funding organisations, or even by individual universities and industries. • Projects focused on fundamental research, applied research or more industry-oriented. • Research projects carried out by an international consortium of partners or by a national research team. • Research statements for future projects concerning the Information Systems Engineering community. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Papers should be submitted via Easychair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=caise2024) by selecting the "Research Projects Exhibition". Each submission of a research project should include: • The project's full name, acronym, duration (from-to), participants, funding agency and URL. • Names of presenter(s) and main contributors. • Abstract and keywords. • Summary of project objectives and expected tangible outputs. • The relevance of the project (or one of its work packages) to the topics of the International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering. • If the project is ongoing: summary of current status and intermediate results. All submissions should be 5 to 8 pages long and be formatted as a 1-column CEUR-ART style (templates available at https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/). An intention to submit should be performed one week before the deadline, including the full name of the project, the authors' name and the abstract. Each submission will be reviewed by at least two members of the Program Committee. In case of disagreement, a third member of the Program Committee will review the submission. The Program Committee will comprise international researchers with expertise in the field. ATTENDANCE AND PRESENTATION During the Research Projects Exhibition session, the authors of accepted contributions will present the research project. Details about the format of the session and instructions to prepare the presentation will be given to authors after the acceptance notification. At least one author of each submission accepted for the Research Projects Exhibition must register and attend the conference to present the work. The author needs a full registration to present the research project. IMPORTANT DATES • Intention to Submit (Abstract Submission): 8th April, 2024 (AoE) (extended) • Submission: 15th April, 2024 (AoE) (extended) • Notification of Acceptance: 29th April, 2024 • Camera Ready: 13th May, 2024 • Author Registration: 13th May, 2024 • Conference Dates: 3rd-7th June, 2024 RESEARCH PROJECTS EXHIBITION CHAIRS • Raimundas Matulevicius, University of Tartu, Estonia • Henderik A. Proper, TU Wien, Austria

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Call for Papers: Analysis of Linguistic VAriation for BEtter Tools (ALVABET) within the LLcD 2024 Conference
by mathilde.regnault＠ling.uni-stuttgart.de 02 Apr '24

02 Apr '24

Apologies for cross-posting. Call for Papers: Analysis of Linguistic VAriation for BEtter Tools (ALVABET) within the LLcD 2024 Conference (https://llcd2024.sciencesconf.org/) Workshop Variation plays a particularly important role in linguistic change, since every change stem from a state of variation; but each state of variation does not necessarily end up with a change: the new variant can disappear, or variation can linger but in different contexts. Access to sufficient amounts of data and their quantification, in order to detect the emergence of new variants as precisely as possible, and the recession or even disappearance of others, is a precious tool for the study of variations, whatever their dimensions (diachronic, diatopic, …) and in whatever field (syntax, morphology, …). The appearance of large corpora has thus renewed the study of variation. NLP has contributed largely to this renewal, providing tools for the enrichment and the exploration of these corpora. In return, linguistic analysis can help explain some of these errors and thus deepen the picture where performance metrics tend to flatten out everything under a single number, or even help improve the performances. NLP annotation tools, such as syntactic parsers and morphological taggers, reach great performances nowadays when they are applied on similar data to those seen during their development. However, they quickly drop as the target data diverges from those of the training scenario. This raises a number of issues when it comes to using automatically annotated data to perform linguistic studies. This workshop aims at exploring bilateral contributions between Natural Language Processing and variation analysis in the fields of morphosyntax and syntax, from diachronic and diatopic perspectives but also from genre, domain or form of writing, without any restriction on the languages of interest. We warmly welcome submissions dealing with the issues and contributions of applying NLP to variation analysis : • Quantification of variation along its different dimensions (both external and internal ones as well as in interaction with each other); • Impact of annotation errors on the study of marginal structures (emergent or recessing); • Syntactic variation when it is induced by semantic changes. But also submissions dealing with the contributions of variation analysis to NLP: • Variation mitigation (spelling standardisation...); • Domain adaptation (domain referring here to any variation dimension); • Error analysis (in and out of domain) in light of known variation phenomena, amongst which (de-)grammaticalisation; • The evolution of grammatical categories and its impact on prediction models; • The place of variation studies in NLP in the large language model era. These themes are only suggestions and the workshop will gladly host any submission that deals substantially with the reciprocal contributions between NLP and variation analysis in the mentioned fields. Full workshop description: https://llcd2024.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/WS12Eng.pdf Important Dates • Apr 20, 2024: deadline for abstract submission (Workshops and General session) • May 15, 2024: Notification • Sep 9-11: Conference Submissions Abstracts must clearly state the research questions, approach, method, data and (expected) results. They must be anonymous: not only must they not contain the presenters' names, affiliations or addresses, but they must avoid any other information that might reveal their author(s). They should not exceed 500 words (including examples, but excluding bibliographical references). Abstracts will be assessed by two members of the Scientific Committee and (one of) the workshop organizers.

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[CIIAM] Postdoc on Contextual Information Inference for Argument Mining
by Anaïs Ollagnier 02 Apr '24

02 Apr '24

** *Bonjour,* * (english announcement follows) Dans le cadre du projet CIIAM (Contextual Information Inference for Argument Mining) financé par l’Académie d’Excellence Réseaux, Information et Société Numérique, visant à renforcer la robustesse des techniques de fouille d'arguments par la synthétisation d’informations contextuelles relevant des aspects multimodaux de la communication. Nous invitons les doctorant(e)s en fin de thèse et les jeunes docteur(e)s à candidater à un postdoctorat sur "l'Amélioration de la fouille d’argument par la synthétisation d’information contextuelle" (12 mois). -------- Contexte -------- Parvenir à appréhender les structures argumentatives dans les entrées en langage naturel constitue une étape clé pour de nombreuses tâches relevant du domaine du Traitement Automatique des Langues (TAL), telles que le résumé automatique ou l'analyse de débats politiques. Bien que des progrès significatifs aient été réalisés grâce à l'avènement des modèles de langue pré-entraînés, ils ne saisissent pas toujours l'ensemble des connaissances linguistiques nécessaires pour une compréhension contextuelle fine et l'établissement d'inférences pertinentes. Face à ces limitations, notre projet vise à explorer l'inclusion de la dimension d'analyse linguistique liée à la pragmatique. Cette approche se veut particulièrement novatrice, car la pragmatique, en raison de sa complexité à être formalisée, est très peu étudiée d'un point de vue computationnel. C’est à travers l'utilisation des dernières techniques de pointe en matière de "prompting" que nous souhaitons pallier les écueils des méthodes existantes, tels que la variabilité culturelle et l’implicite. --------------- Pour candidater --------------- Sujet détaillé : https://aollagnier.github.io/publications/CIIAM%20PostDoc%20DETAILS.pdf Début du contrat : Octobre 2024, au plus tard Durée du contrat : 12 mois Les candidatures comprenant un CV scientifique, une lettre de motivation et des lettres de recommandation doivent être envoyées à Anaïs Ollagnier (ollagnier(a)i3s.unice.fr) Date limite : 14 Juin 2024 Laboratoire d'accueil : I3S, Sophia-Antipolis, France Au plaisir de vous lire. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ In the context of the CIIAM project (Contextual Information Inference for Argument Mining), funded through the France 2030 investment plan managed by the National Research Agency (ANR), as part of the Initiative of Excellence Université Côte d’Azur, aiming to enhance the robustness of argument mining techniques through the synthesis of contextual information relevant to multimodal aspects of communication. We invite doctoral candidates nearing completion of their thesis and young PhD graduates to apply for a postdoctoral position on "Improving Argument Mining through the Synthesis of Contextual Information" (12 months). -------- Context -------- Understanding argumentative structures in natural language inputs is a key step for many tasks in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), such as automatic summarization or analysis of political debates. Although significant progress has been made with the advent of pre-trained language models, they do not always grasp all the linguistic knowledge necessary for fine contextual understanding and the establishment of relevant inferences. Faced with these limitations, our project aims to explore the inclusion of linguistic analysis dimension related to pragmatics. This approach is particularly innovative because pragmatics, due to its complexity in formalization, has been scarcely studied from a computational perspective. It is through the use of the latest cutting-edge prompting techniques that we aim to overcome the pitfalls of existing methods, such as cultural variability and implicit knowledge. --------------- To Apply --------------- Detailed subject: https://aollagnier.github.io/publications/CIIAM%20PostDoc%20DETAILS.pdf Contract start: October 2024, at the latest Contract duration: 12 months Applications including a scientific CV, a motivation letter, and recommendation letters should be sent to Anaïs Ollagnier (ollagnier(a)i3s.unice.fr) Deadline: June 14, 2024 Hosting laboratory: I3S, Sophia-Antipolis, France * -- Anaïs OLLAGNIER Junior Fellow in AI 3IA Université Côte d'Azur (Polytech Nice) | I3S | INRIA wimmics team -------------------------------------------- Templiers 1, Bureau 414, 930 Route des Colles, BP 145 06903 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France anais.ollagnier(a)inria.fr |https://aollagnier.github.io/

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Registration Now Open for NLDB 2024 - Join Us in Turin!
by Federico Torrielli 02 Apr '24

02 Apr '24

Dear Colleagues and Researchers, We are delighted to announce that registration for the 29th International Conference on Natural Language & Information Systems (NLDB 2024) is now officially open! The conference will be held from 25-27 June 2024 at the University of Turin, Italy. *Register for NLDB 2024*: Click Here to Register <https://nldb2024.di.unito.it/registration/> NLDB 2024 brings together a vibrant community of researchers and industry practitioners focusing on advances in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and its applications in information systems. As the field of NLP continues to evolve rapidly, this conference offers a prime opportunity to stay ahead of the curve, presenting your work, sharing insights, and forging new connections. *Conference Highlights:* * Engage with cutting-edge research and industrial applications of NLP. * Network and connect with leading academics and industry experts. * Experience a mix of oral and poster presentations, and interactive sessions. * Enjoy the beautiful city of Turin and its rich cultural heritage. *Registration Policy Summary:* * *Paper Presentation*: All accepted papers must be presented, ideally in person. * *Attendance*: In-person attendance is recommended, but remote options are available. * *Author Registration*: At least one author per paper must register at the in-person rate by the specified deadline to ensure inclusion in the proceedings. * *Fees*: Early registration offers reduced fees, and special rates are available for students to encourage young researchers' participation. For detailed information on fees, the registration process, and more, please visit the NLDB 2024 Registration Page <https://nldb2024.di.unito.it/registration/>. Should you have any questions or need further assistance, please do not hesitate to contact us at federico.torrielli(a)unito.it. We look forward to welcoming you to Turin for an exciting and enriching conference experience. Warm regards, The NLDB 2024 Organizing Committee *General Chairs*: * Luigi Di Caro, University of Turin * Farid Meziane, University of Derby * Amon Rapp, University of Turin * Vijayan Sugumaran, Oakland University

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Call for Papers: Special Issue of Register Studies
by mg2957＠nau.edu 01 Apr '24

01 Apr '24

Title of Special Issue: Situational Context in Register Studies Call for papers Situation of language use has been at the forefront of register studies. Register research in text-linguistics has documented systematic situational variation and its relationship to functional language use across culturally recognized register categories, among texts within register categories, and across hybrid registers (e.g., Biber, 1988; Biber & Egbert, 2018; Biber, Egbert, Keller, 2020). Situations of language use have also been explored by a variety of other research traditions (and referred to as ‘register,’ ‘communicative situation,’ ‘speech situation,’ ‘social situation, ’or ‘situational context’). For example, the contribution of the situation of language use to explaining linguistic variation is examined alongside linguistic variables in variationist linguistics (e.g., Szmrecsanyi , 2019). In computational research, it has served as the basis for text classification (e.g., Argamon, 2019). The effect of situations of use on individual language use is being recognized in stylistics and stylometry (e.g., Marko, Reitbauer & Pickl, 2022). Additionally, some situational variables, such as the audience and their relative status to the addressor, have been central to sociolinguistic research (e.g., Rickford & McNair-Knox, 1994) and discourse analysis (e.g., Lorson et al., 2023). To synthesize the variety of perspectives, approaches, and conceptualizations, Register Studies invites proposals that elevate the role of situational context in linguistic research. We welcome a wide range of empirical, methodological, or theoretical papers under this scope. Papers for this special issue should highlight situational context and its integration into register studies. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: Applications of situational analysis to corpus design and evaluation Analysis of situational variation across and within registers Detailed analyses of communicative events and their communicative strategies (e.g., conflict, celebration, social gathering, etc.) Descriptions of frameworks for situational analysis Approaches to coding for situational characteristics Generality and specificity of situational parameters Situation in applied research (e.g., pedagogy, medical discourse, legal discourse, etc.) The psycholinguistic reality of situational distinctions Interaction of the situation of language use with other predictor variables (e.g., social status, gender) New, unaccounted for (configurations of) situational parameters and/or novel/nonstandard situations of language use Cross-cultural situational differences and/or situations unique to particular linguistic communities Situation of language use and discourse-pragmatic variation Situation of technology-mediated interactions Important Dates Deadline for proposals: April 15, 2024 Invitations to submit a manuscript: May 1, 2024 Initial manuscripts due: October 1, 2024 Notification of review outcome: December 1, 2024 Final manuscripts due: February 28, 2025 Special issue publication: 7:2 - Fall 2025 Proposal Format & Submission Submit a one-page abstract for your proposed article to Associate Editors Larissa Goulart and Marianna Gracheva at Register.Studies(a)gmail.com. Please include your full contact information and a draft title. For empirical studies, the abstract should introduce the topic and motivate the study, summarize the methodological approach, describe the data to be analyzed, and summarize preliminary results. Abstracts for theoretical and methodological articles should introduce and motivate the issue to be addressed, and explain the main premises that will be included in the article. Please follow the style guide for Register Studies (available at the journal website: https://benjamins.com/catalog/rs). Peer Review All manuscripts will undergo double-blind peer review following the journal’s standard process. References: Biber, D. 1988. Variation across speech and writing. Cambridge University Press. Biber, D., & Egbert, J. (2018). Register variation online. Cambridge University Press. Biber, D., Egbert, J., & Keller, D. (2020). Reconceptualizing register in a continuous situational space. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, 16(3), 581–616. Argamon, S. (2019). Computational register analysis and synthesis. Computation and Language. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1901.02543 Lorson, A., Rhode, H., & Cummins, C. (2023). Epistemicity and communicative strategies. Discourse Processes, 60(8), 556–593. Marko, K., Reitbauer, M., & Pickl, G. (2022). Same person, different platform. Challenges and implications for forensic authorship analysis. An exploratory study of Instagram and Twitter users. Register Studies, 4(2), 202–231. Rickford, J. R. & McNair-Knox, F. (1994). Addressee- and topic-influenced style shift: a quantitative sociolinguistic study. In D. Biber & E. Finegan (Eds.), Sociolinguistic perspectives on register (pp. 235–276). Oxford University Press. Szmrecsanyi, B. (2019). Register in variationist linguistics. Register Studies, 1(1), 76–99.

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Promoting 2024 TREC NeuCLIR Track -- #CLIR, #RAG, #Summarization
by Paul McNamee 01 Apr '24

01 Apr '24

A multingual retrieval shared task is running again this year at TREC 2024. The NeuCLIR (i.e., neural CLIR) track contains news document collections in Chinese, Farsi, and Russian, and support subtasks in: * cross-lingual search: search document collections from various languages * multlingual search: produce a unified ranked list of relevant documents across the three collections * report generation: produce an multi-paragraph English-language summary based on relevant information found in the source documents * technical document CLIR: searching in a collection of Chinese technical abstracts Information about the track, including task guidelines is available: https://neuclir.github.io/2024 To participate in the track advance registration for TREC 2024 is required: https://trec.nist.gov/pubs/call2024.html Best, - Paul McNamee

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Registrations open for The Alan Turing Institute AI UK Fringe Event Public Lectures on April 16, 2024
by Mohammed Hasanuzzaman 01 Apr '24

01 Apr '24

Dear Colleagues, Exciting news! Join us for "*AI and Future*" at Queen’s University Belfast, UK, on April 16, 2024, at 1:00 PM BST. It's The Alan Turing Institute AI UK Fringe Event Public Lectures – don't miss out! Event Details: - Date: *April 16, 2024*, starting at 1:00 PM BST - Format: Hybrid (Link will be shared after the registration deadline) - Participation Fees: Free Talks Include: 1. "Reflections on Consciousness in AI" by *Dr. Patrick Butlin, University of Oxford, UK* 2. "Scalable Multimodal Learning and Multimedia Recommendation" by *Prof. Jialie Shen, City, University of London, UK* 3. "Generalization Error of Neural Networks and Its Applications" by *Prof. Wing W. Y. Ng, South China University of Technology, China* Registration Details: Please register your interest through our application, accessible via the following link: Application Link <https://forms.office.com/e/6U2h0chaFS>. The deadline for registration is *April 10, 2024*. We look forward to your participation in this insightful event. Should you have any questions or require further information, please feel free to reach out to me at m.hasanuzzaman(a)qub.ac.uk Best regards, Mohammed ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Dr. Mohammed HasanuzzamanLecturer/Assistant Professor**Queen's University Belfast <https://www.qub.ac.uk/>, UK * *&Munster Technological University <https://www.mtu.ie/>, Ireland* *Funded Investigator, ADAPT Centre- <https://www.adaptcentre.ie/> A <https://www.adaptcentre.ie/>* World-Leading SFI Research Centre <https://www.adaptcentre.ie/> *C**hercheur Associé*, GREYC UMR CNRS 6072 Research Centre, France <https://www.greyc.fr/en/home/> *Associate Editor:* * IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, Nature Scientific Reports, IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, ACM TALLIP, PLOS One, Computer Speech and Language**Website: **https://mohammedhasanuzzaman.github.io/ <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…> 25/03/24, 22:39:35

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PhD position - Deadline April 15th - CASCADE EU Horizon MSCA - Diachronic development of text types in the English Language
by Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb 29 Mar '24

29 Mar '24

New deadline April 15th! Exciting EU Horizon Doctoral Network Opportunity! Network: HORIZON Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Doctoral Network on Computational Analysis of Semantic Change Across Different Environments (CASCADE) Job Title: PhD Candidate in Computational Linguistics/Digital Humanities/Computational humanities/Corpus Linguistics Project Title: Diachronic development of text types in the English Language Please share with interested students! Important: see eligibility requirements below!! Full official advert available here: https://www.uni-saarland.de/fileadmin/upload/verwaltung/stellen/Wissenschaft ler/W2440.pdf Workplace Computational Analysis of Semantic Change Across Different Environments (CASCADE) is a HORIZON Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Doctoral Networks scheme which will bring together researchers from a variety of backgrounds, including literary studies, historical text analysis, semantics, corpus linguistics, machine learning and natural language processing. The project will emphasise the importance of computational linguistics and humanities scholarship as skills that bring value and competitive edge to organisations concerned with semantically aware information retrieval and text analytics. CASCADE is a partnership between University College Cork, the University of Sheffield, KU Leuven, the University of Helsinki, and Saarland University. Location This position is to be filled at Saarland University, seeking applications for a PhD project entitled Diachronic development of text types in the English Language, which will be one of ten funded projects to emerge out of CASCADE's doctoral network. The successful candidate will be appointed as Marie Curie Early Career Researchers at Saarland University, enrolled in a fully-funded three-year PhD programme. The successful candidate will be supervised by PD Dr. Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb. The position will be located within the Department of Language Science and Technology. The successful applicant will have the opportunity to collaborate with researchers affiliated with the DFG-funded Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 1102 on Information Density and Linguistic Encoding at Saarland University. CRC 1102 is a thriving research environment with over 30 PhD students and postdocs from many subfields of Linguistics, Computational Linguistics and Psycholinguistics. The Department of Language Science and Technology consists of about 100 research staff in nine research groups in the fields of Computational Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Speech Processing, and Corpus Linguistics. It is part of Saarland Informatics Campus, which brings together computer science research at the university with world-class research institutions on campus. Project description The project Diachronic development of text types in the English Language will use computational approaches to model temporal dynamics of textual data (corpus-based and novel probabilistic measures) for the analysis of the development of text types in English. From the 15th century onward, increased use of the vernacular and perceived syntactic and lexical gaps (compared with Latin) prompted linguistic innovation in English, concurrent with the progressive conventionalization of text types. Existing variation was made functional and new distinctions were either borrowed or invented (e.g. transfer of features from medicine to cooking recipes). Applying corpus-based and novel probabilistic measures to investigate diachronic change and with support from Text+ and IDeaL, the PhD candidate will be able to: 1) determine the linguistic features of different text types; 2) determine how these features change over time; 3) assess the overlap of different text types and the possible mutual influence of text types; 4) develop a computational workflow to support the above objectives which is made publicly available (e.g. on github). Eligibility: This is important! The vacancy is open to applicants of all nationalities who comply with the mobility requirement and the degree requirement: * applicants must not have resided in the country of the CASCADE university that will host them (university of the main supervisor, Germany in this case) for more than 12 months in the 36 months preceding appointment * applicants must not hold a doctoral degree in any other field or have failed a corresponding doctoral examination at another higher education institution. More information about the Network CASCADE is committed to creating an environment in which all talents can develop to their maximum potential, regardless of gender, age, cultural origin, nationality or disability. We particularly encourage candidates from traditionally underrepresented groups to apply. CASCADE is advertising positions for 10 candidates within its network, who will be housed across the five participating universities. While applications are welcome to apply for more than one project, applications for each position must be submitted separately. In the event an applicant does apply for more than one position and has a particular preference, this should be indicated by email to PD Dr. Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb. Applicants are encouraged to only apply for projects for which they are ideally qualified and suitable. The recruitment process will be done centrally by the CASCADE selection committee. Job requirements and responsibilities * Participation in the general training programme of the doctoral network (kick-off, monthly online research meetings, annual workshops and schools, and final conference) * Collaboration with a multidisciplinary research group focused on the intersection of Computational Linguistics, Linguistics, and Digital Humanities. * Creation of a typology of diachronic text types. * Large-scale analysis of the evolution of meaning across text types. * Development of a computationally supported methodology for diachronic text typology. * Participation in joint publications and engagement in academic service. * The successful candidate will be expected to participate in a series of international conferences and workshops, as well as undertake secondments in Germany and abroad. Your academic qualifications * Completed university studies in English Linguistics with strong historical and/or corpus-based background, Digital Humanities, Corpus Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, or related fields, held by time of appointment (MA-degree) * Language skills (according to GER): English B2 The successful candidate will also be expected to: * Demonstrated experience in applying text-/corpus-based or comparative approaches to the analysis of language variation (e.g., diachronic, sociolinguistic, multilingual variation) (desirable); * Capability to bridge the gap between data science and the humanities (essential); * Enthusiasm for inter- and multidisciplinary research and ability to work independently and collaboratively (essential); * Strong research, analytical, and organizational skills (essential); * Excellent written and verbal communication skills (essential); * A good command of English is mandatory; * Language skills (according to GER): English B2 What we can offer you: * A flexible work schedule allowing you to balance work and family * Interdisciplinary supervision and structured PhD training * An occupational health management model with numerous attractive options, such as our university sports program * A broad range or further education and professional development programmes (e.g. language courses) Applicants are requested to enclose the following documents in English with their application: 1. A curriculum vitae, including any publications (max. 10 pages); 2. A cover statement outlining the applicant's ambitions for Diachronic development of text types in the English Language and the wider CASCADE network (max. 2 pages); 3. A single-authored writing sample from your previous studies (any length). We look forward to receiving your meaningful online application (in a PDF file) by 15.04.2024 (extension is planned) to s.degaetano(a)mx.uni-saarland.de <mailto:s.degaetano@mx.uni-saarland.de> . Please include the reference number W2440 in the subject line of the e-mail. If you have any questions, please contact us for assistance. Your contact: PD Dr. Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb Assistant Professor (Akademische Rätin) Department of Language Science and Technology Saarland University Campus A2.2 66123 Saarbrücken s.degaetano(a)mx.uni-saarland.de <mailto:s.degaetano@mx.uni-saarland.de> www.stefaniadegaetano.com <http://www.stefaniadegaetano.com/>

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PhD position - Deadline April 15th - CASCADE EU Horizon MSCA - Modeling context for the analysis of language variation and change
by Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb 29 Mar '24

29 Mar '24

New deadline April 15th! Exciting EU Horizon Doctoral Network Opportunity! Network: HORIZON Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Doctoral Network on Computational Analysis of Semantic Change Across Different Environments (CASCADE) Job Title: PhD Candidate in Computational Linguistics/Digital Humanities/Computational Humanities/Data Science (AI/NLP) Project Title: Modeling context for the analysis of language variation and change Please share with interested students! Important: see eligibility requirements below!! Full official advert available here: https://www.uni-saarland.de/fileadmin/upload/verwaltung/stellen/Wissenschaft ler/W2439.pdf Workplace Computational Analysis of Semantic Change Across Different Environments (CASCADE) is a HORIZON Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Doctoral Networks scheme which will bring together researchers from a variety of backgrounds, including literary studies, historical text analysis, semantics, corpus linguistics, machine learning and natural language processing. The project will emphasise the importance of computational linguistics and humanities scholarship as skills that bring value and competitive edge to organisations concerned with semantically aware information retrieval and text analytics. CASCADE is a partnership between University College Cork, the University of Sheffield, KU Leuven, the University of Helsinki, and Saarland University. Location This position is to be filled at Saarland University, seeking applications for a PhD project entitled Diachronic development of text types in the English Language, which will be one of ten funded projects to emerge out of CASCADE's doctoral network. The successful candidate will be appointed as Marie Curie Early Career Researchers at Saarland University, enrolled in a fully-funded three-year PhD programme. The successful candidate will be supervised by PD Dr. Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb. The position will be located within the Department of Language Science and Technology. The successful applicant will have the opportunity to collaborate with researchers affiliated with the DFG-funded Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 1102 on Information Density and Linguistic Encoding at Saarland University. CRC 1102 is a thriving research environment with over 30 PhD students and postdocs from many subfields of Linguistics, Computational Linguistics and Psycholinguistics. The Department of Language Science and Technology consists of about 100 research staff in nine research groups in the fields of Computational Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Speech Processing, and Corpus Linguistics. It is part of Saarland Informatics Campus, which brings together computer science research at the university with world-class research institutions on campus. Project description The project Modeling context for the analysis of language variation and change will use computational approaches to mode linguistic and extra-linguistic context for the analysis of language variation and change. Context has a major impact on how we process language. However, the notion of context is very broad ranging from broadly conceived pragmatic conditions, i.e. the extra-linguistic context (e.g. socio-cultural factors, genres, time), to the relationship among linguistic elements that can substitute for each other in a given context, i.e. the paradigmatic context, up to the local linguistic context of linguistic elements, i.e. the syntagmatic context. While studies on language variation and change do encompass the notion of context, the coverage of contextual factors is often relatively limited. This project will apply and further develop computational modeling techniques to integrate contextual factors among the types of context described above to arrive at more comprehensive accounts of effects of contextual factors on language variation and change. Eligibility: This is important! The vacancy is open to applicants of all nationalities who comply with the mobility requirement and the degree requirement: * applicants must not have resided in the country of the CASCADE university that will host them (university of the main supervisor, Germany in this case) for more than 12 months in the 36 months preceding appointment * applicants must not hold a doctoral degree in any other field or have failed a corresponding doctoral examination at another higher education institution. More information about the Network CASCADE is committed to creating an environment in which all talents can develop to their maximum potential, regardless of gender, age, cultural origin, nationality or disability. We particularly encourage candidates from traditionally underrepresented groups to apply. CASCADE is advertising positions for 10 candidates within its network, who will be housed across the five participating universities. While applications are welcome to apply for more than one project, applications for each position must be submitted separately. In the event an applicant does apply for more than one position and has a particular preference, this should be indicated by email to PD Dr. Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb. Applicants are encouraged to only apply for projects for which they are ideally qualified and suitable. The recruitment process will be done centrally by the CASCADE selection committee. Job requirements and responsibilities * Participation in the general training programme of the doctoral network (kick-off, monthly online research meetings, annual workshops and schools, and final conference) * Collaboration with a multidisciplinary research group focused on the intersection of Computational Linguistics, Linguistics, and Digital Humanities. * Creation of a computational approach to model contextual factors. * Large-scale analysis of effects of contextual factors on modeling language variation and change. * Participation in joint publications and engagement in academic service. * The successful candidate will be expected to participate in a series of international conferences and workshops, as well as undertake secondments in Germany and abroad. Your academic qualifications * Completed university studies in Digital Humanities, Computational Linguistics, Data Science, AI/NLP, Information Science, or related fields, held by time of appointment * Language skills (according to GER): English - B2 The successful candidate will also be expected to: * Demonstrated experience in applying computational methods to textual data (essential); * Familiarity with eighteenth-century English data sources (desirable) * Capability to bridge the gap between data science and the humanities (essential); * Enthusiasm for inter- and multidisciplinary research and ability to work independently and collaboratively * (essential); * Strong research, analytical, and organizational skills (essential); * Excellent written and verbal communication skills (essential); * A good command of English is mandatory; * Language skills (according to GER): English B2 What we can offer you: * A flexible work schedule allowing you to balance work and family * Interdisciplinary supervision and structured PhD training * An occupational health management model with numerous attractive options, such as our university sports program * A broad range or further education and professional development programmes (e.g. language courses) Applicants are requested to enclose the following documents in English with their application: 1. A curriculum vitae, including any publications (max. 10 pages); 2. A cover statement outlining the applicant's ambitions for Diachronic development of text types in the English Language and the wider CASCADE network (max. 2 pages); 3. A single-authored writing sample from your previous studies (any length). We look forward to receiving your meaningful online application (in a PDF file) by 15.4.2024 (extension is planned) to s.degaetano(a)mx.uni-saarland.de <mailto:s.degaetano@mx.uni-saarland.de> . Please include the reference number W2440 in the subject line of the e-mail. If you have any questions, please contact us for assistance. Your contact: PD Dr. Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb Assistant Professor (Akademische Rätin) Department of Language Science and Technology Saarland University Campus A2.2 66123 Saarbrücken s.degaetano(a)mx.uni-saarland.de <mailto:s.degaetano@mx.uni-saarland.de> www.stefaniadegaetano.com <http://www.stefaniadegaetano.com/>

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CfP: Sixth Workshop on Teaching NLP
by Biester, Laura 29 Mar '24

29 Mar '24

Call For Papers: Sixth Workshop on Teaching NLP at ACL 2024 The Sixth Workshop on Teaching NLP will be co-located with the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics in Bangkok, Thailand. The workshop will occur on August 15 (hybrid option available). The one-day workshop will combine a program of traditional keynotes, posters, and oral presentations, with discourse through panel discussion, and focus on building a community for sharing resources. Call for Papers The field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) is growing rapidly, with new state-of-the-art methods emerging every year. This rapid growth challenges educators of NLP courses and degree programs to constantly revise their old material and create fresh NLP courses and degree programs, as well as new best practices and educational materials focused on emerging subareas of NLP. To support those facing these challenges, our one-day workshop will bring together the communities of NLP research and education to facilitate active discussion on questions including (but not limited to): * How can we facilitate meaningful conversations about language among Computer Science students? * How do we include user-centered design in core NLP curricula? * How should NLP educators design curricula that equip students with the ability to advance responsible and ethical NLP? * How can we design assignments that require GPU access or the use of paid APIs? * What are best practices that NLP educators from universities, industry groups, and Massive OpenOnline Courses (MOOCs) can use to share tools and resources for NLP education? This timely sixth edition of the Teaching NLP Workshop builds on prior successful offerings to tackle the most pressing issues in how to design NLP courses and bring together instructors from various backgrounds to discuss, create, and refine instructional design and material. Submission Information We welcome two submission types: teaching materials and papers: Teaching Materials (short papers) We invite short paper submissions of 1-2 pages that describe teaching materials such as curricula, course GitHub repositories, Jupyter notebooks, slides, homework, and assignments. These short papers do not need to be anonymised, but will be peer-reviewed and published in workshop proceedings, as well as presented in posters or demos. The corresponding teaching materials, while not being part of proceedings, should be submitted in addition to the short paper. We will create a Teaching NLP repository/wiki where authors may opt-in to make their materials available for the community after the workshop. Papers We invite papers of up to 8 pages discussing pedagogical aspects of NLP, focusing on (but not limited to) any of the following general topics: * Tools and methodologies (e.g., active learning, flipped classroom) * Scaling curricula to fit large class sizes * Adapting existing curricula to incorporate new NLP advancements * Teaching online NLP courses or adjusting courses to become remote * Challenges of designing the first NLP course or related degree program at a college, university, or on a MOOC platform * Teaching heterogenous groups of students (e.g., with respect to prior experience in computer science and linguistics) * Teaching underrepresented students * Bridging the gap between academic training and industry needs * Incorporating ethics, reproducibility, and responsible practices in NLP courses * Teaching multilingual NLP All submissions will be processed through OpenReview<https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2024/Workshop/TeachNLP>. Important Dates * Paper Submission: May 17, 2024 * Notification of Acceptance: June 17, 2024 * Camera-Ready Deadline: July 1, 2024 * Teaching NLP Workshop: August 15, 2024 Website: https://sites.google.com/view/teachingnlpacl2024/ Contact: teachingnlp.yt(a)gmail.com<mailto:teachingnlp.yt@gmail.com> Best, TeachingNLP 2024 Organizers (Sana Al-azzawi, Laura Biester, György Kovács, Ana Marasović, Leena Mathur, Margot Mieskes, Leonie Weissweiler)

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[CIKM 2024] - Call for PhD Symposium papers
by antonela.tommasel＠isistan.unicen.edu.ar 28 Mar '24

28 Mar '24

* We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CfP * * For the online version of this Call, visit: https://cikm2024.org/call-for-phd-symposium/ =============== CIKM 2024: 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management Boise, Idaho, USA October 21–25, 2024 =============== We are excited to invite Ph.D. students in databases (DB), information retrieval (IR), and knowledge management (KM) to submit their research proposals for the PhD Symposium at the 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2024). The conference will take place at the Boise Centre in Boise, Idaho, USA, from October 21 to 25, 2024. The PhD Symposium is designed to provide a supportive environment where doctoral students can present their ongoing research, receive feedback from experienced researchers, and engage with peers at similar stages of their doctoral journey. This event aims to foster discussions on research questions, methodologies, and preliminary results, contributing to the student’s doctoral research progression. CIKM 2024 is deeply committed to improving the field by making the research community more diverse, equitable, and inclusive. We highly encourage women and students from other underrepresented demographic groups to submit their work. -------------------------- Key Dates -------------------------- * Submission Deadline: 17 June 2024 * Acceptance Notification: 16 July 2024 * Camera-ready Version Due: 8 August 2024 * Doctoral Consortium: 25 October 2024 -------------------------- Symposium Objectives -------------------------- * Feedback and Guidance: Offer a platform for doctoral students to present their research and receive constructive feedback from the CIKM community’s senior researchers. * Community Building: Help participants network with other doctoral students and researchers, facilitating knowledge exchange and potential collaborations. * Insight into Career Paths: Through panel discussions and networking sessions, provide insights into career opportunities post-PhD in academia and industry. * Prospective attendees should have written or be close to completing a thesis proposal (or equivalent). It is desirable that students are not so close to completing their Ph.D. that the event would have little impact on their work. Similarly, students should not be so early in their Ph.D. program that a concrete topic has not been chosen yet. We strongly advise students to discuss this criterion with their advisor(s) or supervisor(s) before submitting. Doctoral students who submit to the Symposium are allowed to have previously published their research. They are encouraged to submit full, short, or demo papers of their work to the CIKM 2024 conference and associated workshops. -------------------------- Topics of Interest -------------------------- We welcome submissions across the broad spectrum of AI, data science, databases, information retrieval, and knowledge management. Research with real-world social impact is particularly encouraged. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas: * Data and information acquisition and preprocessing (e.g., data crawling, IoT data, data quality, data privacy, mitigating biases, data wrangling) * Integration and aggregation (e.g., semantic processing, data provenance, data linkage, data fusion, knowledge graphs, data warehousing, privacy and security, modeling, information credibility) * Efficient data processing (e.g., serverless, data-intensive computing, database systems, indexing and compression, architectures, distributed data systems, dataspaces, customized hardware) * Special data processing (e.g., multilingual text, sequential, stream, spatiotemporal, (knowledge) graphs, multimedia, scientific, and social media data) * Analytics and machine learning (e.g., OLAP, data mining, machine learning and AI, scalable analysis algorithms, algorithmic biases, event detection and tracking, understanding, interpretability) * Neural Information and knowledge processing (e.g., graph neural networks, domain adaptation, transfer learning, network architectures, neural ranking, neural recommendation, and neural prediction) * Information access and retrieval (e.g., ad hoc and web search, facets, and entities, question answering and dialogue systems, retrieval models, query processing, personalization, recommender systems) * Users and interfaces for information and data systems (e.g., user behavior analysis, user interface design, perception of biases, personalization, interactive information retrieval, interactive analysis, conversational interfaces) * Evaluation, performance studies, and benchmarks (e.g., online and offline evaluation, best practices, user studies) * Crowdsourcing (e.g., task assignment, worker reliability, optimization, trustworthiness, transparency, best practices) * Understanding multi-modal content (e.g., natural language processing, speech recognition, computer vision, content understanding, knowledge extraction, knowledge graphs, and knowledge representations) * Data presentation (e.g., visualization, summarization, readability, VR, speech input/output) * Applications (e.g., urban systems, biomedical and health informatics, legal informatics, crisis informatics, computational social science, data-enabled discovery, social media) * Fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics (e.g., sociotechnical nature of information access systems, algorithmic fairness, transparency and explainability, misinformation and disinformation) -------------------------- Submission Guidelines -------------------------- PhD students interested in participating should submit a paper (up to 4 pages, including references) using the ACM camera-ready two-column template. Submissions are single-blind, should be solely authored by the student, and clearly state the Ph.D. supervisor(s) (“supervised by …”). The submitted paper should be discussed with the PhD supervisor(s) before submission. Submissions should cover the following aspects: * Problem: What research problem or question does your work address? * State of the Art: How does your work relate to existing research in CIKM-related fields (e.g., information retrieval, databases, machine learning, data mining)? * Approach: Your novel approach to addressing the problem. * Methodology: The methodology you use or plan to use, including evaluation strategies. * Results: Any preliminary results you have obtained. * Conclusion and Future Work: Your conclusions and future research directions so far. * Additionally, include a one-page appendix detailing: - Topics and questions you wish to discuss with mentors and peers. - A statement from your advisor(s) supporting your participation, describing the current status of your research, and providing an anticipated thesis completion date. -------------------------- Selection Procedure -------------------------- Candidates will be selected based on the potential of their research for future impact and their potential to benefit from participating in the Symposium. Submissions will be reviewed by the PhD Symposium Program Committee, comprising experienced researchers who will provide feedback and suggest future research directions. All accepted PhD Symposium papers (excluding the appendix) will be included in the main proceedings and available through the ACM Digital Library. If accepted, presenting the results at the PhD Symposium is mandatory. -------------------------- Symposium Format -------------------------- The symposium will include presentations by the Ph.D. students, plenary discussions, one-to-one mentorship sessions, and panel discussions focusing on career paths post-PhD. -------------------------- Student Travel Support -------------------------- Students are highly encouraged to apply for student travel support from CIKM. Application details will be available on the CIKM 2024 website. Students must apply for the support to be considered. -------------------------- Chairs Contact Information -------------------------- For more information, contact the PhD Symposium chairs at: CIKM2024-phdsymposium [at] easychair [dot] org Yanfang (Fanny) Ye (University of Notre Dame, US) Jiaxin Mao (Renmin University of China, China)

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[CIKM 2024] - Call for AnalytiCup Competition Proposals
by antonela.tommasel＠isistan.unicen.edu.ar 28 Mar '24

28 Mar '24

* We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CfP * * For the online version of this Call, visit: https://cikm2024.org/call-for-analyticup-competition-proposals/ =============== CIKM 2024: 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management Boise, Idaho, USA October 21–25, 2024 =============== CIKM 2024 AnalytiCup is an open competition including compelling data challenges aimed at members of the industry and academia interested in information and knowledge management. The challenges will be rolled out progressively and last for several weeks. The final solutions will be presented at CIKM 2024 AnalytiCup which is to be held in conjunction with the CIKM conference during October 2024. -------------------------- Key Dates -------------------------- * Proposal due: May 31 2024 * Notification: June 7 2024 * Competition Kickoff: June 24 20224 * Competition Ends: August 30, 2024 (All deadlines are at 11:59 pm AOE) -------------------------- Proposals Submissions -------------------------- We invite proposals from practitioners across industry and academia who are interested in the areas of information retrieval, databases, and knowledge management. The best fit proposal should include a well-motivated goal with a positive social impact, a novel and challenging task, a fair setup with stable evaluation approach, and adequate amount of real-world data for the competition. * A well-motivated goal: A goal of the proposed competition should be solving a challenging real-world problem at the same time impacting the research and other communities positively. A good competition is where the output of the competition should lead to a greater good of everyone, such proposals are encouraged. * A challenging task: The task should be challenging in the sense that there is enough room for improvement from the basic solutions, and novel ideas are required to succeed in the competition. At the same time the task should be manageable in about 2 months’ time. * A fair setup: The organizers should guarantee the availability of the data and the confidentiality of the test set. The evaluation metrics should be both meaningful for the application in-hand and statistically sound for the objective comparison. The baseline should be established to show that non-trivial results can be achieved. * A real-world dataset: A proposal should clearly explain what data will be provided for competition and the source of the data. Also, explain how/why the provided data is sufficient for the competition. A proposal should cover all the important details such as dates, submission and evaluation of results, etc. and describe the competition rules clearly. Please provide following details with your proposal: * Title: The title of your challenge. * Problem Description: Describe the problem clearly in detail. Explain the importance of the problem and its impact. Discuss different scenarios for the problem with its challenges and limitations. Share the simple data samples and explain the data clearly. If the proposed competition includes more than one track, please describe each track clearly and show unique value for each track. * Evaluation: Describe how you plan to evaluate the submission. Select the evaluation method which is fair and statistically robust. * Suggested Participants: Provide a list of suggested participants in the challenge. * Timeline. Dates for expected start of the competition, user registration, team formation, submission, evaluation, and notification. * Awards. Specify the type and form of the awards you want to share with the winners. * Host information: Names, affiliations, email addresses, and short biographies of the organizers. -------------------------- Chairs Contact Information -------------------------- For more information, contact the AnalytiCup Chairs at: CIKM2024-analyticup [at] easychair [dot] org Vachik Dave, Walmart Global Tech Carl Yang, Emory University

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1st CFP: EvalLAC 2024 – AIED 24 workshop
by Shiva Taslimipoor 28 Mar '24

28 Mar '24

***** *1st Workshop on Automated Evaluation of Learning and Assessment Content* AIED 2024 workshop | Recife (Brazil) & Hybrid | 8-12 July 2024 https://sites.google.com/view/eval-lac-2024/ ***** We are happy to announce the first edition of the Workshop on Automated Evaluation of Learning and Assessment Content will be held in Recife (Brazil) & online during the AIED 2024 conference. *About the workshop* The evaluation of learning and assessment content has always been a crucial task in the educational domain, but traditional approaches based on human feedback are not always usable in modern educational settings. Indeed, the advent of machine learning models, in particular Large Language Models (LLMs), enabled to quickly and automatically generate large quantities of texts, making human evaluation unfeasible. Still, these texts are used in the educational domain -- e.g., as questions, hints, or even to score and assess students -- and thus the need for accurate and automated techniques for evaluation becomes pressing. This hybrid workshop aims to attract professionals from both academia and the industry, and to to offer an opportunity to discuss which are the common challenges in evaluating learning and assessment content in education. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Question evaluation (e.g., in terms of alignment to learning objectives, factual accuracy, language level, cognitive validity, etc.). - Estimation of question statistics (e.g., difficulty, discrimination, response time, etc.). - Evaluation of distractors in Multiple Choice Questions. - Evaluation of reading passages in reading comprehension questions. - Evaluation of lectures and course material. - Evaluation of learning paths (e.g., in terms of prerequisites and topics taught before a specific exam). - Evaluation of educational recommendation systems (e.g., personalised curricula). - Evaluation of hints and scaffolding questions, as well as their adaptation to different students. - Evaluation of automatically generated feedback provided to students. - Evaluation of techniques for automated scoring. - Evaluation of bias in educational content and LLM outputs. Human-in-the-loop approaches are welcome, provided that there is also an automated component in the evaluation and there is a focus on the scalability of the proposed approach. Papers on generation are also very welcome, as long as there is an extensive focus on the evaluation step. *Important dates* Submission deadline: May 17, 2024 Notification of acceptance: June 4, 2024 Camera ready: June 11, 2024 Workshop: 8 July or 12 July 2024 *Submission guidelines* Authors are invited to submit short papers (5 pages, excluding references) and long papers (10 pages, excluding references), formatted according to the workshop style available on the website. Submissions should contain mostly novel work, but there can be some overlap between the submission and work submitted elsewhere (e.g., summaries, focus on the evaluation phase of a broader work). Each of the submissions will be reviewed by the members of the Program Committee, and the proceedings volume will be submitted for publication to CEUR Workshop Proceedings. *Organisers* Luca Benedetto (1), Andrew Caines (1), George Dueñas (2), Diana Galvan-Sosa (1), Anastassia Loukina (3), Shiva Taslimipoor (1), Torsten Zesch (4) (1) ALTA Institute, Dept. of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge (2) National Pedagogical University, Colombia (3) Grammarly, Inc. (4) FernUniversität in Hagen

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Reminder: Professor of Language Technology at the Department of Swedish, Multilingualism, Language Technology; University of Gothenburg [new deadline]
by Gerlof Bouma 28 Mar '24

28 Mar '24

The Department of Swedish, Multilingualism, Language Technology at the University of Gothenburg is inviting applications for the position of Professor of Language Technology. The new professor's main duties will be to lead and develop research, education, and outreach in the field of language technology at the department, in particular within its Språkbanken Text group. A detailed description of the position and the application requirements can be found in University of Gothenburg's job application portal, at the link below. This detailed description is only available in Swedish, as proficiency in Swedish or another Scandinavian language is required for the position. Applications must be submitted no later than 6 May 2024. https://web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/1035/job?site=6&lang=SE&validator=3038… <https://web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/1035/job?site=6&lang=SE&validator=3038…> -- GERLOF BOUMA Universitetslektor GÖTEBORGS UNIVERSITET Institutionen för svenska, flerspråkighet och språkteknologi Språkbanken Text https://spraakbanken.gu.se/om/personal/gerlof

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2nd CfP - MILLing (Update: Invited Speakers)
by William Noble 28 Mar '24

28 Mar '24

https://gu-clasp.github.io/MILLing Multimodality and Interaction in Language Learning (MILLing) will bring together researchers in linguistics and computational linguistics to discuss learning through linguistic interaction, from the perspectives of both human language acquisition and machine learning. We encourage contributions from the fields of theoretical linguistics, experimental linguistics, pragmatics, computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science. The conference is organised by the Centre for Linguistic Theory and Studies in Probability (CLASP, <https://gu-clasp.github.io/>), University of Gothenburg. The conference will be held between October 14 and 15 in Gothenburg, Sweden. Important dates ---- - Submission deadline: May 31, 2024, anywhere on Earth - Notification of acceptance: Aug 30, 2024, anywhere on Earth - Camera ready: Sep 20, 2024, anywhere on Earth - Conference: Oct 14--15, 2024, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Invited speakers ---- - Catherine Pelachaud <http://chronos.isir.upmc.fr/~pelachaud/>, Director of Research at CNRS in the laboratory LTCI, TELECOM ParisTech - Charles Yang <https://www.ling.upenn.edu/~ycharles/> Professor of Linguistics and Computer Science at the University of Pennsylvania - Napoleon Katsos <https://sites.google.com/site/napoleonkatsos/home> Professor of Experimental Pragmatics at the Section of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at the University of Cambridge and Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge Topics of interest ---- We hope to see innovative work that considers language learning from different perspectives, and we hope to cultivate discussion that reaches across traditionally disparate disciplines. Papers are invited on topics in these and closely related areas, including (but not limited to) the following: - Language acquisition: formal, statistical, experimental, and machine learning- based work - Language learning through dialogue in humans and machines - Multi-modality and figurativeness in language learning and dialogue - Linguistic variation, adaptation, and audience design - Low-resource and ecologically plausible language modelling (e.g., BabyLM) - Cognitive architectures for language learning - Information state update in humans and machines - Cognitive aproaches to second language acquisition - Dialogue systems for language learning - Online, reinforcement and curriculum learning in NLP - Atypical development and language learning - Ethical considerations in AI-assisted language learning Submission Requirements ---- MILLing will feature two types of submissions: long papers and short papers. Long papers must describe original research, and they must not exceed 8 pages excluding references (position papers are also accepted and should be formatted in the same way). Short papers present work in progress, or they describe systems and/or projects. They must not exceed 4 pages excluding references. All types of papers will be published in the 2024 ACL Anthology as a CLASP Conference Proceedings. Papers should be electronically submitted via the softconf system at: <https://softconf.com/n/MILLing2024/>. Submissions should be PDF files and use the LaTeX or Word templates provided for ACL submissions (<https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files>). Submissions have to be anonymous. Please make sure that you select the right track when submitting your paper. Contact the organisers if you have problems using softconf. Concurrent Submissions ---- Papers that have been or will be submitted to other conferences or publications must indicate this at submission time using a footnote on the title page of the submissions. Authors of papers accepted for presentation at MILLing must notify the program chairs by the camera-ready deadline as to whether the paper will be presented. All accepted papers must be presented at the conference to appear in the proceedings. We will not accept publications or presentation papers that overlap significantly in content or results with papers that will be (or have been) published elsewhere. Camera Ready Versions ---- Camera ready versions should follow the same guidelines with respect to style and page numbers as the initial submission, i.e. there are no additional pages allowed in the final submission. Please submit the camera ready version by Sep 20, 2024. About CLASP ---- MILLing is organised by the Centre for Linguistic Theory and Studies in Probability (CLASP, <https://gu-clasp.github.io/>) at the Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science (FLoV), University of Gothenburg. CLASP focuses its research on the application of probabilistic and information theoretic methods to the analysis of natural language. CLASP is concerned both with understanding the cognitive foundations of language and developing efficient language technology. We work at the interface of computational linguistics/natural language processing, theoretical linguistics, and cognitive science.

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Extended Deadline: Submission of Extended Abstracts - CLARIN Annual Conference 2024
by t.kontino＠uu.nl 28 Mar '24

28 Mar '24

Call for Submission of Extended Abstracts CLARIN Annual Conference 2024 CLARIN ERIC is pleased to announce the CLARIN Annual Conference 2024 and calls for the submission of extended abstracts. CLARIN is the European research infrastructure that makes digital language resources available to scholars, researchers, students and citizen scientists from a wide range of disciplines, coordinates the collection of language resources and tools, and offers advanced tools to explore, exploit, annotate, analyse or combine such datasets, regardless of their location. New in this year's call is the topic of Education and Training with CLARIN tools. Submission deadline: 26 April 2024 (Extended) Location The conference will take place in Barcelona, Spain. The event will be hosted and organised by CLARIN ERIC in collaboration with CLARIAH-ES and the Basque Center for Language Technology (HiTZ). Important Dates 24 January 2024: First call published on CLARIN website, disseminated, and submission system open 12 February 2024: Second call for abstracts disseminated 29 March 2024: Third call for abstracts disseminated 26 April 2024: Submission deadline (Extended) 17 June 2024: Notification of acceptance 2 September 2024: Camera-ready version deadline (that will be extended) 15-17 October 2024: CLARIN Annual Conference Conference Aims The CLARIN Annual Conference is organised for the wider Humanities and Social Sciences (SSH) community in order to exchange experiences and best practices in working with the CLARIN infrastructure and to share plans for future developments. The programme will cover a range of topics, including the design, construction and operation of the CLARIN infrastructure, the data, tools and services that it contains or should contain, its actual use by researchers, teachers or interested parties, its relation to other infrastructures and projects, and the CLARIN Knowledge Infrastructure. Keynote Speakers To be confirmed. Conference Topics We invite submissions describing CLARIN-related work addressing the following aspects: Use of the CLARIN Infrastructure: Use of the CLARIN infrastructure in SSH research and beyond Usability studies and evaluations of CLARIN services Analysis of the CLARIN infrastructure usage and impact studies/use cases Identification and analysis of user audiences and developer communities, including digital humanities, libraries, computer science, information science, cognitive science and human-centred AI Showcases, demonstrations and research projects that are relevant to CLARIN Design and Construction of the CLARIN Infrastructure: Recent tools and resources added to the CLARIN infrastructure Metadata and concept registries, cataloguing and browsing Persistent identifiers and citation mechanisms Access, including single sign-on authentication and authorisation Search functions, including Federated Content Search Web applications, web services and workflows Standards and solutions for interoperability of language resources, tools and services Models for the sustainability of the infrastructure, including curation, migration financing and cooperation Legal and ethical issues in operating the infrastructure. CLARIN Knowledge Infrastructure and Dissemination: User assistance (help desks, user manuals, FAQs) CLARIN portals and outreach to users Videos, screencasts, recorded lectures Knowledge centres. CLARIN vis-à-vis other Infrastructures and Initiatives: SSH research infrastructures, such as DARIAH and CESSDA and the collaboration under the umbrella of the SSH Open Cluster, etc. Generic infrastructural initiatives, such as EOSC, Europeana, Language Data Space, etc. Projects such as ATRIUM, EOSC Focus, ERIC Forum, EOSC Future, FAIRCORE4EOSC, OSCARS, OSTrails National and regional initiatives. Education and Training Using CLARIN language resources and services in teaching and training activities targeting audiences from different sectors (academia, GLAM, industry) and lessons learnt The impact of the DH Course Registry (e.g. development of the DH curricula, student exchange programmes) Guidelines and best practices for using CLARIN in the university curricula Developing new courses reusing existing materials from the CLARIN Learning Hub (e.g. UPSKILLS) FORMAT OF THE PROGRAMME SESSIONS The programme of the conference will include oral presentations and posters, and may also include demos. Due to limits in the time schedule, the number of oral presentations is limited. Authors can select if they prefer a poster presentation. If not, papers are allocated a presentation format based on the suitability of the paper for a session as decided by the programme committee. Authors of accepted submissions will be offered the opportunity to demo their work in addition to their presentation. SUBMISSIONS The language of the conference is English and presentations will be made in English. Proposals for oral, poster or demo presentations must be submitted as extended abstracts (length: 3 to 4 pages A4, including references) in PDF format, in accordance with the template (ZIP-archive, Overleaf template). Authors can choose whether to submit on an anonymous or non-anonymous basis. Extended abstracts should address one or more topics that are relevant to CLARIN’s activities, resources, tools or services. This relevance should be explicitly articulated in the submission, as well as in the presentation at the conference. Contributions addressing desiderata for the CLARIN infrastructure that are currently not in place are also eligible. Authors are not required to be or have been directly involved in national or cross-national CLARIN projects. Extended abstracts must be submitted through the EasyChair submission system and will be reviewed by the Programme Committee. All proposals will be reviewed on the basis of the following criteria: Appropriateness: The contribution must pertain to the CLARIN infrastructure or be relevant for it (e.g. its use, design, construction, operation, exploitation, illustration of possible applications, etc.), and this relevance should be explicitly articulated in the submission. Soundness and correctness: The content must be technically and factually correct and methods must be scientifically sound, according to best practice, and preferably evaluated. Meaningful comparison: The abstract must indicate that the author is aware of alternative approaches, if any, and highlight relevant differences. Substance: Concrete work and experiences will be given preference over ideas and plans. Impact: Contributions with a higher impact on the research community and society more broadly will be given preference over papers with lower impact. Clarity: The abstract should be clearly written and well structured. Timeliness and novelty: The work must convey relevant new knowledge to the audience at this event. ATTENDANCE For each accepted abstract, CLARIN ERIC offers one author free access, free accommodation and meals. Travelling costs are not covered by CLARIN ERIC. Authors are encouraged to reach out to their national consortium, to their home institution or to third party funds to cover travel costs. PROCEEDINGS Accepted submissions will be published in the online conference Book of Extended Abstracts, ISSN: 2773-2177. After the conference, the author(s) of accepted submissions will be invited to submit full papers (10-12 pages) to be reviewed according to the same criteria as the abstracts. Accepted full papers will be published in a digital conference proceedings volume after the conference: Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings (peer reviewed) ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online) https://ep.liu.se/en/conferences.aspx CONFERENCE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE The Programme Committee for the conference consists of the following members: Vincent Vandeghinste, Instituut voor de Nederlandse Taal (Dutch Language Institute), the Netherlands & KU Leuven, Belgium -- chair Starkaður Barkarson, Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, Iceland Lars Borin, University of Gothenburg, Sweden António Branco, University of Lisbon, Portugal Tomaž Erjavec, Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia Cristina Grisot, University of Zurich and at the Swiss National Center for Data & Services for the Humanities DaSCH Eva Hajičová, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic Marianne Hundt, University of Zurich, Switzerland Krister Lindén, University of Helsinki, Finland Monica Monachini, Institute of Computational Linguistics ‘A. Zampolli’, Italy Karlheinz Mörth, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria Costanza Navarretta, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Gijsbert Rutten, Leiden University, the Netherlands Maciej Piasecki, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland Stelios Piperidis, ILSP, Athena Research Center, Greece German Rigau, HiTZ, the Basque Center for Language Technology, Spain Kiril Simov, IICT, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria Inguna Skadiņa, Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Latvia, Latvia National Coordinator Norway Marko Tadić, University of Zagreb, Croatia Jurgita Vaičenonienė, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania Tamás Váradi, Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary Joshua Wilbur, Center of Estonian Language Resources, Estonia Andreas Witt, University of Mannheim, Germany Friedel Wolff, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources, North-West University, South Africa Martin Wynne, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

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Two post-doctoral positions in an ERC-funded project at the University of Helsinki, Finland
by Hiippala, Tuomo J 28 Mar '24

28 Mar '24

Dear all, I'm currently looking to hire two post-doctoral researchers for my upcoming project funded by the European Research Council: https://www.helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/multimodality/a-foundation-for-em… The project develops novel methods and resources for studying multimodality, or how human communication naturally combines multiple 'modes' of expression. These methods and resources are used to develop empirically founded theories of multimodal communication in the domain of everyday cultural artefacts. The data studied in the project includes, for example, school textbooks, user-generated explanation videos on social media, news broadcasts, instruction manuals and online newspapers. Please find descriptions for both positions below – if you have any questions, please contact me at tuomo.hiippala(a)helsinki.fi. For instructions on how to apply, please see the links to the full job announcements below. Best, Tuomo Hiippala --- POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCHER IN DIGITAL HUMANITIES --- This is a fixed-term position for 36 months, starting in September 2024 or as agreed, based in the Department of Languages at the University of Helsinki, Finland. RESPONSIBILITIES: The post-doctoral researcher is responsible for developing structured, machine-readable representations of multimodality for the page-based and audiovisual media studied in the project. As the descriptions of multimodality are collected using crowdsourcing, the post-doctoral researcher is also expected to participate in designing and implementing crowdsourcing pipelines. QUALIFICATIONS: The appointee must hold a doctoral degree in digital humanities, humanities computing, language technology, computer science or a related field, and have a keen interest in multimodality. Previous experience of developing structured representations for diverse forms of data is essential. Previous experience or interest in volunteer-based or paid crowdsourcing or citizen science is considered an asset. For more information, see the full announcement here: https://jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki-Post-doctoral-researcher-in-digital-h… --- POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCHER IN MULTIMODAL COMMUNICATION --- This is a fixed-term position for 48 months, starting in September 2024 or as agreed, based in the Department of Languages at the University of Helsinki, Finland. RESPONSIBILITIES: The post-doctoral researcher is responsible for developing large corpora that describe the multimodal structure of the diverse media studied in the project. To scale up the corpus size, the data will be described by crowdsourced non-expert workers. The post-doctoral researcher will lead the development of crowdsourcing tasks that generate descriptions that can be then compiled into systematic corpus annotations. The appointee will also participate in developing new methods for analysing large multimodal corpora. QUALIFICATIONS: The appointee must hold a doctoral degree in linguistics, semiotics, media studies or related field with a specific focus on multimodality. The appointee must have a deep understanding of contemporary theories of multimodality relevant to the domain of the project. Previous experience of designing and implementing annotation schemes for multimodal corpora is essential. Knowledge of programming languages such as Python and mark-up languages such as XML and JSON for managing research data is considered an advantage. For more information, see the full announcement here: https://jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki-Post-doctoral-researcher-in-multimoda… --- Dr. Tuomo Hiippala | Associate Professor in English Language and Digital Humanities Department of Languages | University of Helsinki, Finland | +358 50 377 33 66 http://www.helsinki.fi/~thiippal/ | https://www.helsinki.fi/multimodality

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[Iber AuTexTification@IberLEF2024] Training set released
by Francisco Manuel Rangel Pardo 28 Mar '24

28 Mar '24

Event Notification Type: Training set released Website: <https://sites.google.com/view/autextification> https://sites.google.com/view/iberautextification TRAINING SET RELEASED! Iber AuTexTification Automated Text Identification on Languages of the Iberian Peninsula Dear All, The Training dataset for the Iber AuTexTification 2024 shared task has been released. It can be found on the shared task website ( https://sites.google.com/view/iberautextification/data <https://sites.google.com/view/iberautextification/data?authuser=0>), in Genaios Github repository (https://github.com/Genaios/IberAuTexTification) and Zenodo (https://zenodo.org/records/10853560). Please, remember that registration is on a per-team basis, meaning only one member from each team needs to sign up. Once registered and requested the training set on one of the previous links, you will receive the download permission and a password to decompress the data within 24 hours. Please, make sure to write your email address correctly, since we will send passwords, as well as future notifications to that address. Please reach out to the organizers <organizers.autextification(a)gmail.com> or join the Slack <https://join.slack.com/t/iberautextification/shared_invite/zt-2c28ezgwy-lHH…> workspace to connect with the other participants and organizers. Best regards on behalf of Iber AuTexTification shared tasks organizers

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[NTCIR-18] Final Call for Participation
by CHUNG-CHI CHEN 28 Mar '24

28 Mar '24

Dear colleagues, We are glad to share the information of NTCIR-18 with you. This year, we have 9 interesting tasks, that cover the (1) Modern IR Tasks, (2) Access to Non-Digitized Archive Material, (3) Large Language Model Evaluation, and (4) NLP Tasks in Financial and Medical Domains. We will have a kickoff event within 24 hours. The task organizers will introduce their tasks. Below are more details, and please register for the kickoff event. We will send a Zoom link to you soon. Feel free to let us know if you have any questions. Best Regards, Qingyao Ai, Chung-Chi Chen, Shoko Wakamiya NTCIR-18 Program Co-Chairs *Kick-Off Event* - Date/Time: March 29th (Friday) 2024, From 16:00 To 17:30 p.m. - Onsite: Room 1902-1903, National Institute of Informatics - Online: Zoom (The link will be available for participants before the event.) - Fees: Free - Registration: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScumfe8q3HDe2Vul2RUhTxNacSt9KujvqM… - Zoom link will be sent to the registered email address before the event. - For more details, please refer to our site: https://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-18/kickoffcfp.html *Kick-Off Event Tentative Program* - Overview of NTCIR - Overview of NTCIR-18 - Introduction of each task - How to participate in NTCIR-18 - Q & A *NTCIR-18 Tasks* *CORE TASKS* 1. AEOLLM: Automatic Evaluation of LLMs 2. FairWeb-2: The Second Fair Web Task 3. FinArg-2: Temporal Inference of Financial Arguments 4. MedNLP-Rad: Medical Natural Language Processing for Radiology 5. MedNLP-CHAT: Medical Natural Language Processing for AI Chat 6. Transfer-2: The Resource Transfer Based Dense Retrieval Task *PILOT TASKS* 1. HIDDEN-RAD: Hidden Causality Inclusion in Radiography Report Generation 2. SUSHI: Searching Unseen Sources for Historical Information 3. UFO 2.0: Understanding of Non-Financial Objects in Financial Reports

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CFP - SIGIR 2024 Workshop on eCommerce
by Surya Kallumadi 28 Mar '24

28 Mar '24

Call For Papers - SIGIR eCom'24 - https://sigir-ecom.github.io/ The SIGIR Workshop on eCommerce will serve as a platform for publication and discussion of Information Retrieval, NLP and Vision research relative to their applications in the domain of eCommerce. This workshop will bring together practitioners and researchers from academia and industry to discuss the challenges and approaches to product search and recommendation in eCommerce. The deadline for paper submission is April 25, 2024 (11:59 P.M. AoE) The special theme of this year's workshop is eCommerce Search in the Age of Generative AI and LLMs. The workshop will also include a data challenge. This year we will collaborate with TREC on a product search data challenge ( https://trec-product-search.github.io/index.html). The overarching goal is to study how end-to-end retrieval systems can be built and evaluated given a large set of products. The data challenge provides a corpus of products and a set of user intents (queries): the goal is to find the product that suits the user’s needs. SIGIR eCom is a full day workshop taking place on Thursday, July 18, 2024 in conjunction with SIGIR 2024. SIGIR eCom'24 will be an in-person workshop. ________________ Important Dates: Paper submission deadline - April 25, 2024 (11:59 P.M. AoE) Notification of acceptance - May 23, 2024 Camera Ready Version of Papers Due - June 24, 2024 SIGIR eCom Full day Workshop - July 18, 2024 We invite quality research contributions, position and opinion papers addressing relevant challenges in the domain of eCommerce. We invite submission of both papers and posters. All submitted papers and posters will be single-blind and will be peer reviewed by an international program committee of researchers of high repute. Accepted submissions will be presented at the workshop. Topics: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - eCommerce search in the age of Generative AI and LLMs (2024 special theme) - Ranking and Whole Page Relevance - Optimization for IR and business metrics - Diversity in product search and recommendations - Relevance models for multi-faceted entities - Relevance vs. revenue - Deterministic sorts (e.g. price low to high) - Temporal dynamics and seasonality - Query and Document Understanding - Query intent, query suggestions, and auto-completion - Strategies for resolving low or zero recall queries - Converting across modalities (e.g., text, structured data, images) - Categorization and facets - Reviews and sentiment analysis - Recommendation and Personalization - Personalization & contextualization, including the use of personal facets such as age, gender, location - Privacy, bias and ethics in eCommerce IR - Blending recommendations and search results - Representations and Data - Semantic representation of products, queries, and customers - Construction and use of knowledge graphs for eCommerce - IR Fundamentals for eCommerce - Unified and universal search and recommendations - Cross-lingual search and machine translation - Indexing and search in rapidly changing environments (e.g., auction sites) - Experimentation techniques including AB testing and multi-armed bandits - Visual Search in ecommerce - Large-scale Visual Search Challenges and Solutions - Multimodal Search and combining visual and textual information - Combining Vision and language models - Explainable AI for Visual Search - Other challenges - Trust, transparency, and fairness in eCommerce - UX for eCommerce - The role of search in trust and security for marketplaces - Question answering and chatbots for eCommerce Data/Resource Track: In order to promote academic research in the eCommerce domain, we plan to accept a small number of high quality dataset contributions. These submissions should be accompanied by a clear and detailed description of the dataset, some potential questions and applications that arise from it. Preliminary empirical investigations conveying any insight about the data will increase the quality of the submission. Submission Instructions: All papers will be peer reviewed (single-blind) by the program committee and judged by their relevance to the workshop, especially to the main themes identified above, and their potential to generate discussion. Submissions must describe work that is not previously published, not accepted for publication elsewhere, and not currently under review elsewhere. All submissions must be in English. The workshop follows a single-blind reviewing process, i.e. author names must be on the papers. We do not accept anonymized submissions. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper must register for the workshop and present the paper. All submissions must be in PDF formatted according to the latest CEUR single column format; the short (8-page) and long (15-page) limits are extended to account for this. For instructions and LaTeX/Overleaf/docx templates, see: https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html#CEURART Read up to and including the “License footnote in paper PDFs” section. Please Use Emphasizing Capitalized Style for Paper Titles. Submit your paper PDF through the SIGIR eCom’24 Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sigirecom24 Long paper limit: 15 pages. References are not counted in the page limit. Short paper limit: 8 pages. References are not counted in the page limit. The deadline for paper submission is April 25, 2024 (11:59 P.M. AoE) https://sigir-ecom.github.io/

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Meta KDD Cup 2024: Comprehensive RAG Challenge
by Kai Sun 28 Mar '24

28 Mar '24

Hello Colleagues, Imagine using an AI assistant to get the latest updates on your favorite sports team, but instead of receiving latest scores, you get last year’s results. Or when asking about a niche movie you really like, but couldn't get meaningful answers. These are classic examples of “hallucination” where LLMs provide outdated or incorrect information. The Meta Comprehensive RAG (CRAG) Benchmark Challenge aims to address these challenges. Participate to improve how Large Language Models (LLMs) can keep-up with the ever-evolving reality and provide accurate responses by leveraging Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). Why RAG Matters Despite the advancements of LLMs, the issue of hallucination persists as a significant challenge; that is, LLMs may generate answers that lack factual accuracy or grounding. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has recently emerged as a promising solution to alleviate LLM’s deficiency in lack of knowledge and attracted a lot of attention from both academia research and industry. Introducing the Meta Comprehensive RAG (CRAG) Benchmark Challenge CRAG is a factual question answering benchmark that covers 5 domains and 8 question types, and provides a practical set-up to evaluate RAG systems. Different from existing benchmarks, CRAG is designed to include questions with a wide variety of domains and types. In particular, it includes questions with answers that change from over seconds to over years; it considers entity popularity and covers not only head, but also torso and tail facts; it contains simple-fact questions as well as 7 types of complex questions such as comparison, aggregation and set questions to test the reasoning and synthesis capabilities of RAG solutions. Why This Challenge Is a Game-Changer Addressing "hallucination" and outdated information is critical to enhancing the reliability of LLM-powered question-answering systems. RAG proposes a solution by integrating the external data into its responses. The CRAG Benchmark is a comprehensive test to evaluate these advanced systems' effectiveness across various domains and question types, challenging them with scenarios that require immediate data and those that explore less popular "tail" facts. What's unique about this challenge? * Tasks Designed to Improve QA Systems: The three tasks focus on web-based retrieval summarization, knowledge graph and web augmentation, and an end-to-end RAG challenge, each built on top of the previous one. * Rich Dataset Across Diverse Domains: The CRAG dataset covers domains from finance to music, to address questions that mirror real-world variability and complexity. * Prizes For Winners: Compete for a chance to win a part of the $31,500 prize pool, with the top performing teams in each task winning up to $4,000. Challenge Timeline * Website Online and Registration Begin: 20th March, 2024 23:55 UTC * Phase 1 Start Date: 1st April, 2024 23:55 UTC * Phase 1 End Date: 20th May, 2024 23:55 UTC * Phase 2 Start Date: 22nd May, 2023 23:55 UTC * Registration and Team Freeze Deadline: 31st May, 2024 23:55 UTC * Phase 2 End Date: 20th Jun, 2023 23:55 UTC * Winner Notification: 15th July, 2024 * Winner Announcement: 26th August, 2024 (KDD Cup Winners) 👉 Engage Now: Begin this journey by delving into the challenge details at https://www.aicrowd.com/challenges/meta-comprehensive-rag-benchmark-kdd-cup…. Join a community of innovative thinkers, share ideas, and engage in this exciting challenge. Connect with us on our Community Forum and Discord Server for support and collaboration. We're eager to see the innovations you'll bring to life. Refer to: https://www.aicrowd.com/challenges/meta-comprehensive-rag-benchmark-kdd-cup… for the competition rules. All the best, Team AIcrowd *NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER/WIN. Open to individuals who are 18 + age of majority and meet the full eligibility requirements in the full Rules. Open 3/20/2024 10:00:01 AM thru 6/15/2024 23:59:59 PM PT. Void where prohibited. Subject to full Rules at https://www.aicrowd.com/challenges/meta-comprehensive-rag-benchmark-kdd-cup…. See Rules for prize details and values. Sponsor: Meta Platforms, Inc. 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, California 94025 (for US entrants) or Meta Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland (for all other entrants).

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Invitation: Guest Speaker @ ACFTI Cybersecurity stream
by Andrew Zayine 27 Mar '24

27 Mar '24

The Association of Cyber Forensics and Threat Investigators (ACFTI) is an ambitious, non-profit technical organization focusing on the academics and practitioners of cybersecurity, digital forensics, incident response, and threat investigations and their influence on society. Our main aim is to inspire the next generation of underrepresented groups to flourish by creating a learning community of students, professors, and industry professionals. It connects future cybersecurity practitioners on campus with leading professionals On behalf of the Association of Cyber Forensics and Threat Investigators (ACFTI), I am pleased to invite you to the new DFIR stream lecture/seminar series. The presentation is a maximum of 1 hour in length, with an audience of about 60+, made up of researchers, practitioners, and cybersecurity students from underrepresented groups. Our goal is to shine a spotlight on the broad array of new advances in cybersecurity science and operations currently adopted in the industry. This session will be conducted online. It will be fantastic to have any hands-on topics related to cyber forensics and/or Cybercrime Your discussion on this topic will be a great addition to our event. Expressions of interest to present from anyone doing research or applying cybersecurity techniques to practical or theoretical applications related to the interactions between cyber forensics and threat investigations can be sent as a summary of your work (c.300 words) to https://dfir.stream/call-for-guest-speakers Thank you in advance for your consideration, and we are very much looking forward to hearing from you. To get more news about our events, please join our low-traffic announcement group @ https://groups.google.com/g/acfti Best regards, Andrew Zayin Ph.D., CISSP, CISM, CRISC, CDPSE, PMP ACFTI Secretariat ________________________________________________________ Association of Cyber Forensics and Threat Investigators https://www.acfti.org Twitter: @acfti

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Second Call for Participation - HOPE@IberLEF 2024: Approaching Hope Speech Detection in Social Media from Two Perspectives, for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and as Expectations
by Sabur B 27 Mar '24

27 Mar '24

****We apologize for multiple postings of this e-mail**** IberLEF 2024 Task - HOPE: Approaching Hope Speech Detection in Social Media from Two Perspectives, for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and as Expectations Held as part of the evaluation forum IberLEF 2024 <https://sites.google.com/view/iberlef-2024/home?authuser=0> in the 40th edition of the International Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN 2024 <http://sepln2024.infor.uva.es/en/front-page-english/>) Valladolid, Spain, 24-27 September 2024 Codalab link: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/17714 Dear All, Hope, a crucial aspect of human psychology, profoundly shapes emotions, behavior, and mood, influencing how individuals perceive and navigate challenges (Bruininks and Malle, 2005; Snyder, 1994, 2000). High levels of hope correlate with positive outcomes such as academic success and lower depression rates, while low hope is associated with diminished well-being (Snyder, 2002; Snyder et al., 1997; Diener, 2009). Despite its significance, hope has been underexplored in Natural Language Processing (NLP) until recent years. Efforts have been made to integrate NLP techniques into the analysis of hope through shared tasks, like those organized in ACL 2022, RANLP 2023, and IberLEF 2023 (Chakravarthi et al., 2022; Kumaresan et al., 2023; Jiménez-Zafra et al., 2023). The upcoming IberLEF 2024 edition aims to delve deeper into hope from two angles: hope for equality, diversity, and inclusion, and hope as expectations. This edition promises to expand understanding by examining hope across different domains and languages, thus addressing crucial questions in hope speech detection research. Two tasks are outlined in this description, each focusing on different aspects of hope. - Task 1: It centers on "Hope for Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion," emphasizing the importance of hope speech in mitigating hostility and supporting individuals facing challenges like illness, stress, or loneliness, particularly within vulnerable groups such as the LGBT community and racial minorities. This task consists of giving a Spanish tweet, identifying whether it contains hope speech or not. The possible categories for each text are: - hs: hope speech. - nhs: non hope speech. - Task 2: It delves into "Hope as Expectations," highlighting hope's role as an anticipatory mindset shaping human emotions and behaviors, especially in the context of social media where expressions are abundant. This task aims to analyze hope speech's presence in English and Spanish texts, focusing on binary hope speech detection and multiclass hope speech detection. The subtask are presented as follows, - Subtask 2a- Binary Hope speech detection: A given text in English/Spanish will be classified as: - Hope - Not Hope - Subtask 2b- Multiclass Hope speech detection: A given text in English/Spanish will be classified as: - Generalized Hope - Realistic Hope - Unrealistic Hope - Not Hope In both tasks, there will be a real-time leaderboard and the participants will be allowed to make a maximum of 10 submissions through CodaLab, from which each team will have to select the best one for ranking. The dataset details and registration are available at: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/17714 Best regards, The HOPE 2024 organizing committee Important dates - Release of training + development corpora: Feb 16, 2024. - Release of test corpora and start of evaluation campaign: April 1, 2024. - End of evaluation campaign (deadline for runs submission): Apr 16, 2024. - Publication of official results: Apr 18, 2024. - Paper submission: May 14, 2024. - Review notification: Jun 11, 2024. - Camera-ready submission: Jun 28, 2024. - IberLEF Workshop (SEPLN 2024): Sep 27, 2024. - Publication of proceedings: Sep ??, 2024. Organizing Committee - Daniel García-Baena, SINAI, Universidad de Jaén, Spain. - Fazlourrahman Balouchzahi, CIC IPN, Mexico. - Salud María Jiménez-Zafra, SINAI, Universidad de Jaén, Spain. - Sabur Butt, Institute for the Future of Education (IFE) at Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico. - Miguel Ángel García-Cumbreras, SINAI, Universidad de Jaén, Spain. - Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Centro de Investigación en Computación, Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN), Mexico. - José Antonio García-Díaz, UMUTeam, Universidad de Murcia, Spain. - Selen Bozkurt, Department of Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine, Emory University. - Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, University of Galway, Ireland. - Hector G. Ceballos, Institute for the Future of Education (IFE) at Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico. - Rafael Valencia-García, UMUTeam, Universidad de Murcia, Spain. - Grigori Sidorov, CIC IPN, Mexico. - L. Alfonso Ureña-López, SINAI, Universidad de Jaén, Spain. - Alexander Gelbukh, CIC IPN, Mexico. *Sabur Butt, Ph.D. *(He/Him) Institute for the Future of Education (IFE) *Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico* Address: Av. Eugenio Garza Sada 2501 Sur Tecnológico, 64849 Monterrey, N.L. LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/saburb> - GitHub <https://github.com/saburbutt> - Scholar <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=re7md-0AAAAJ&hl=en> - Website <https://saburbutt.github.io/>

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GEM'24 shared task: Final call for participation
by Simon Mille 27 Mar '24

27 Mar '24

Dear colleagues, The deadline for the GEM shared task submissions on multilingual data-to-text generation and summarization is now less than 10 days away! Note that you can pre-register your systems until the submission date (April 5th). More information on the GEM website <https://gem-benchmark.com/shared_task>. Regards, simon, on behalf of the GEM human evaluation team *ADAPT Research Centre / Ionaid Taighde ADAPT* *School of Computing, Dublin City University, Glasnevin Campus / Scoil na Ríomhaireachta, Campas Ghlas Naíon, Ollscoil Chathair Bhaile Átha Cliath*

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KONVENS 2024: Second Call for Papers
by Benjamin Roth 27 Mar '24

27 Mar '24

KONVENS 2024: Second Call for Papers We warmly welcome the submission of papers for KONVENS 2024, scheduled from September 9 to 13, 2024, at the University of Vienna, Austria. In addition to its technical program, KONVENS will facilitate dynamic interactions among academic researchers and industry peers, offering workshops, tutorials, shared tasks, and networking events. Confirmed keynote: Jana Diesner (TU München) See https://konvens-2024.univie.ac.at/ for more information! PAPER SUBMISSION INFORMATION We invite submissions of original and unpublished works in the fields of research, development, applications, and evaluation, encompassing all aspects of natural language processing, from fundamental inquiries to the practical implementation of natural language resources, components, and systems. We particularly encourage submissions of NLP approaches dedicated to the German language, including survey papers that provide insights into the current state of the art in German language and speech processing. We welcome contributions from both academic and industry professionals. We welcome the following types of paper submissions: * Long papers (8 pages plus references and appendix), describing original research with substantial new results. * Short papers (4 pages plus references and appendix), including small focused contributions, work in progress, as well as descriptions of projects, systems and resources. * Long and short papers can be submitted for archival publication, published in the ACL Anthology, and there is the option of non-archival submission. In the case of non-archival submission, only the abstract of the paper (max. 200 words) will be published on our website and the paper will not be part of the conference proceedings. Accepted papers will be presented orally or as posters as determined by the program chairs. The decisions will be based on the nature rather than the quality of the work. The conference language is English. Only contributions written in English will be accepted. Each submission must include a mandatory discussion of Ethical Considerations as well as a section on Limitations (both sections do not count towards the page limit). Papers without these sections will be desk-rejected. The review process will be double-blind. Submissions must be anonymized accordingly. The conference proceedings will be published via the ACL Anthology (archival submissions only). Papers must be formatted in accordance with the ACL style sheet: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files. We strongly encourage authors to use LaTeX in preparing their document. Papers must be submitted electronically via OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=KONVENS/2024/Conference IMPORTANT DATES * April 30th, 2024: Paper submission due (all submission types) * June 30th, 2024: Notification of acceptance * July 15th, 2024: Camera-ready papers due * September, 9th-13th, 2024: KONVENS CONFERENCE STIPEND GSCL is offering stipends for students in the field of computational linguistics (including PhD students) covering conference fees and (partially) travel costs for attending KONVENS 2024. For more information, see: https://gscl.org/activities/conference-stipend/ Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards the KONVENS-2024 organization team konvens-2024(a)googlegroups.com https://konvens-2024.univie.ac.at/ -- 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 virtual coffee (Tuesday 2pm CEST): https://www.benjaminroth.net/virtual_coffee video call: https://univienna.zoom.us/j/93796507934?pwd=VFg5dW9JbStPUml6WFVtOWJXV3phQT09 web: https://dm.cs.univie.ac.at/team/person/112089/

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CfP: 4th Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Political and Social Sciences (CPSS 2024)
by Indira Sen 27 Mar '24

27 Mar '24

[Apologies for cross-posting] Dear Corpora list members, We welcome submissions for the *4th edition of the CPSS workshop, co-located with KONVENS'24, in Vienna, Austria on 13th September 2024.* Keeping with the theme of text-as-data and NLP techniques for studying political and social phenomena, you can submit both archival papers (short or long) or non-archival abstracts. Closely related themes include (but are not limited to): - Modeling political communication with NLP (e.g. topic classification, position measurement) - Mining policy debates from heterogeneous textual sources - Modeling complex social constructs (e.g. populism, polarization, identity) with NLP methods - Political and social bias in language models - ... and more! *Important Dates* - Submission deadline: 14 June 2024 - Notification of acceptance: 2 August 2024 - Camera ready deadline: 12 August 2024 - Workshop: 13 September 2024 Papers can be submitted through Easychair via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cpss2024 More details: https://sites.google.com/view/cpss2024konvens/home-page Best, CPSS'24 organizers (Christopher Klamm, Gabriella Lapesa, Simone Paolo Ponzetto, Ines Rehbein, Indira Sen)

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[2nd call] PhD and postdoc positions on Natural Language Understanding at Pioneer Centre for AI
by Isabelle Augenstein 27 Mar '24

27 Mar '24

A PhD and two postdoc positions on natural language understanding are now available at the Pioneer Centre for AI<https://www.aicentre.dk/>. You can read more about the positions here<https://www.aicentre.dk/jobs>. PhD Fellowship on Factual Text Generation While recent large language models demonstrate surprising fluency and predictive capabilities in their generated text, they have been demonstrated to generate factual inaccuracies even when they have encoded truthful information. This limits their utility and safety in real world scenarios where guarantees of factuality are needed. To address this, the project will explore methods for improving the factuality of text generation with respect to both objective real-world facts and provided source documents. We are looking for candidates with a background in computer science, machine learning, natural language processing, computational social science, or similar. The candidate should have an interest in automatic text generation and fact checking. They should also have an interest in interdisciplinary research endeavors, including at the Pioneer Center for AI. Early research experience, especially with empirical research methods, or relevant industry experience, will be a bonus. The principal supervisor is Professor Isabelle Augenstein<mailto:augenstein@di.ku.dk> and the co-supervisor is Dustin Wright<mailto:dw@di.ku.dk>. Application deadline: 1 April 2024. Apply here<https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx/?cid=1307&departmentI…>. Postdoctoral Fellowship on NLP for Computational Social Science The Pioneer Centre for AI and Department of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen invite applications for a 2-year postdoctoral full-time research position in the domain of Natural Language Processing. NLP is becoming an increasingly powerful tool for social scientists. Yet, the intersection between the two disciplines is still poorly explored, with research in the two disciplines often being conducted as separate streams. The goal of this project is to research methods which can more directly be useful for downstream social science applications. One such application is to analyse common narratives in news, which requires methods including (interpretable) topic modelling, framing detection, social media analysis, etc. The successful candidate will be affiliated with a larger initiative on narrative analysis, spanning different content modalities, with the autonomy to define their project in this larger context. The research will be conducted in collaboration with researchers at the Pioneer Centre for Artificial Intelligence’s Speech and Language Collaboratory, CopeNLU<https://www.copenlu.com/> and the Belongie Lab<https://www.belongielab.org/>. Inquiries about the position can be made to Professor Isabelle Augenstein<mailto:augenstein@di.ku.dk>. Application deadline: 7 April 2024. Apply here<https://jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabelige-stillinger/?show=161353>. Postdoctoral Fellowship on Multi-Modal Fact Checking The Pioneer Centre for AI and Department of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen invite applications for a 2-year postdoctoral full-time research position in the domain of Natural Language Processing. Online content can include multiple different modalities, ranging from text to images or tables. Increasingly, detecting false information requires the understanding of a combination of these modalities and the relationship between them. This project will focus on developing general-purpose multi-modal methods for automatic fact checking in various domains, such as scientific publications, news or social media. Inquiries about the position can be made to Professor Isabelle Augenstein<mailto:augenstein@di.ku.dk> or Assistant Professor Desmond Elliot<mailto:de@di.ku.dk>. Application deadline: 7 April 2024. Apply here<https://jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabelige-stillinger/?show=161352>. Isabelle Augenstein, Dr. Scient., Ph.D. Professor and Head of the NLP Section, Department of Computer Science (DIKU) Co-Lead, Pioneer Centre for Artificial Intelligence University of Copenhagen Østervold Observatory Øster Voldgade 3 1350 Copenhagen augenstein(a)di.ku.dk<mailto:augenstein@di.ku.dk> http://isabelleaugenstein.github.io/

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[CfP] DLnLD: Deep Learning and Linked Data — LREC-COLING Workshop — Last CfP
by Gilles Sérasset 26 Mar '24

26 Mar '24

DLnLD: Deep Learning and Linked Data — Last Call for Paper Workshop colocated with LREC-COLING 2024, Date: May 21, 2024 Submissions due: 9th March 2024 Venue: Torino, Italy and online For up to date info, check: https://dl-n-ld.github.io/ <https://dl-n-ld.github.io/> Call for Papers ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What does Linguistic Linked Data brings to Deep Learning and vice versa ? Let’s bring together these two complementary approaches in NLP. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Motivations for the Workshop Since the appearance of transformers (Vaswani et al., 2017), Deep Learning (DL) and neural approaches have brought a huge contribution to Natural Language Processing (NLP) either with highly specialized models for specific application or via Large Language Models (LLMs) (Devlin et al., 2019; Brown et al., 2020; Touvron et al., 2023) that are efficient few-shot learners for many NLP tasks. Such models usually build on huge web-scale data (raw multilingual corpora and annotated specialized, task related, corpora) that are now widely available on the Web. This approach has clearly shown many successes, but still suffers from several weaknesses, such as the cost/impact of training on raw data, biases, hallucinations, explainability, among others (Nah et al., 2023). The Linguistic Linked Open Data (LLOD) (Chiarcos et al., 2013) community aims at creating/distributing explicitly structured data (modelled as RDF graphs) and interlinking such data across languages. This collection of datasets, gathered inside the LLOD Cloud (Chiarcos et al., 2020), contains a huge amount of multilingual ontological (e.g. DBpedia (Lehmann et al., 2015)); lexical (e.g., DBnary (Sérasset, 2015), Wordnet (McCrae et al., 2014), Wikidata (Vrandečić and Krötzsch, 2014)); or linguistic (e.g., Universal Dependencies Treebank (Nivre et al., 2020; Chiarcos et al., 2021), DBpedia Abstract Corpus (Brümmer et al., 2016)) information, structured using common metadata (e.g., OntoLex (McCrae et al., 2017), NIF (Hellmann et al., 2013), etc.) and standardised data categories (e.g., lexinfo (Cimiano et al., 2011), OliA (Chiarcos and Sukhareva, 2015)). Both communities bring striking contributions that seem to be highly complementary. However, if knowledge (ontological) graphs are now routinely used in DL, there is still very few research studying the value of Linguistic/Lexical knowledge in the context of DL. We think that, today, there is a real opportunity to bring both communities together to take the best of both worlds. Indeed, with more and more work on Graph Neural Networks (Wu et al., 2023) and Embeddings on RDF graphs (Ristoski et al., 2019), there is more and more opportunity to apply DL techniques to build, interlink or enhance Linguistic Linked Open Datasets, to borrow data from the LLOD Cloud for enhancing Neural Models on NLP tasks, or to take the best of both worlds for specific NLP use cases. Submission Topics This workshop aims at gathering researchers that work on the interaction between DL and LLOD in order to discuss what each approach has to bring to the other. For this, we welcome contributions on original work involving some of the following (non exhaustive) topics: • Deep Learning for Linguistic Linked Data, among which (but not exclusively): • Modelling, Resources & Interlinking, • Relation Extraction • Corpus annotation • Ontology localization • Knowledge/Linguistic Graphs creation or expansion • Linguistic Linked Data for Deep Learning, among which (but not exclusively): • Linguistic/Knowledge Graphs as training data • Fine tuning LLMs using Linguistic Linked (meta)Data • Graph Neural Networks • Knowledge/Linguistic Graphs embeddings • LLOD for model explainability/sourcing • Neural models for under-resourced languages • Joint Deep Learning and Linguistic Data applications • Use cases combining Language Models and Structured Linguistic Data • LLOD and DL for Digital Humanities • Question-Answering on graph data All application domains (Digital Humanities, FinTech, Education, Linguistics, Cybersecurity…) as well as approaches (NLG, NLU, Data Extraction…) are welcome, provided that the work is based on the use of BOTH Deep Learning techniques and Linguistic Linked (meta)Data. Important Dates All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”) • Submissions due: 9th March 2024 (Hard deadline: there will be no deadline extension) • Notification of acceptance: 2nd April 2024 • Camera-ready due: 12th April 2024 Authors kit All papers must follow the LREC-COLING 2024 two-column format, using the supplied official style files. The templates can be downloaded from the Style Files and Formatting page provided on the website. Please do not modify these style files, nor should you 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. LREC-COLING 2024 Author’s Kit Page: https://lrec-coling-2024.org/authors-kit/ <https://lrec-coling-2024.org/authors-kit/> Paper submission Submission is electronic at https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/dlnld2024/ <https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/dlnld2024/> Workshop Chairs • Gilles Sérasset, Université Grenoble Alpes, France • Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira, University of Coimbra, Portugal • Giedre Valunaite Oleskeviciene, Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania Program Committee • Mehwish Alam, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France • Russa Biswas, Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam, Germany • Milana Bolatbek, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Kazakhstan • Michael Cochez, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands • Milan Dojchinovski, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic • Basil Ell, University of Oslo, Norway • Robert Fuchs, University of Hamburg, Germany • Radovan Garabík, L’. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia • Daniela Gifu, Romanian Academy, Iasi branch & Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania • Katerina Gkirtzou, Athena Research Center, Maroussi, Greece • Jorge Gracia del Río, University of Zaragoza, Spain • Dagmar Gromann, University of Vienna, Austria • Dangis Gudelis, Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania • Ilan Kernerman, Lexicala by K Dictionaries, Israel • Chaya Liebeskind, Jerusalem College of Technology, Israel • Marco C. Passarotti, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy • Heiko Paulheim, University of Mannheim, Germany • Alexandre Rademaker, IBM Research Brazil and EMAp/FGV, Brazil • Georg Rehm, DFKI GmbH, Berlin, Germany • Harald Sack, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany • Didier Schwab, Université Grenoble Alpes, France • Ranka Stanković, University of Belgrade, Serbia • Andon Tchechmedjiev, IMT Mines Alès, France • Dimitar Trajanov, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University – Skopje, Macedonia • Ciprian-Octavian Truică, POLITEHNICA Bucharest, Romania • Nicolas Turenne, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China • Slavko Žitnik, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

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CLASSLA-Express Workshops on Using Corpora in Language Research in Croatia, Serbia, North Macedonia and Slovenia
by Taja Kuzman 26 Mar '24

26 Mar '24

** *Dear all,* * We are excited to extend an invitation to you for a series of five workshops designed to demonstrate the practical applications of the CLASSLA web corpora <https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.12721>in language research. The CLASSLA-Express workshops will take place from April to September 2024 in 4 countries and 5 cities: Croatia (Zagreb and Rijeka), Serbia (Belgrade), North Macedonia (Skopje) and Slovenia (Ljubljana). The workshops will provide hands-on experience in using the CLARIN.SI NoSketch Engine concordancer <https://www.clarin.si/ske/#open>to extract valuable insights on word meanings, usage, collocations, and grammatical patterns from Croatian <https://www.clarin.si/ske/#concordance?corpname=classlaweb_hr>, Macedonian <https://www.clarin.si/ske/#concordance?corpname=classlaweb_mk>, Serbian <https://www.clarin.si/ske/#concordance?corpname=classlaweb_sr>and Slovene <https://www.clarin.si/ske/#concordance?corpname=classlaweb_sl>corpora. The workshops are free of charge. The workshops are tailored for university students of South Slavic languages, linguists, lexicographers, language teachers, and digital humanities scholars. The registration is already open for the workshops in Zagreb, Rijeka and Belgrade! We will make sure to let you know when the registrations in Skopje and Ljubljana open as well. Here are the details of the workshops: * 19 April 2024 – CLASSLA-Express stop in Zagreb, Croatia (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb). Registration is open – register by filling this form <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfVE3VVmBYeQzgZjZO2Om1cRQPCPbPnENp…>. More information about the programme and location is available here. <https://www.clarin.si/info/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Poziv-na-radionicu-CL…> * 26 April 2024 – CLASSLA-Express stop in Rijeka, Croatia (Center for Language Research, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Rijeka). Registration is open – register by filling this form <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScWoarqWZQuLTaDGfVQYHpeXfKSlMNb_d2…>. More information about the programme and location is available here. <https://www.clarin.si/info/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Poziv-na-radionicu-CL…> * 29 May 2024 – CLASSLA-Express stop in Belgrade, Serbia (International conference Leksikografski susreti, Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade). Registration is open – register by filling this form <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScLpDUEmJnA43hEASWNWeuCe_3a01hPZLg…>. More information about the programme and location is available here. <https://www.clarin.si/info/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Poziv-na-radionicu-CL…> * 4 June 2024 – CLASSLA-Express stop in Skopje, North Macedonia (Blaže Koneski Faculty of Philology, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University). Registration is not open yet – we will let you know when it opens. * 18 September 2024 – CLASSLA-Express stop in Ljubljana, Slovenia (Language Technologies & Digital Humanities Conference 2024, University of Ljubljana). Registration is not open yet – we will let you know when it opens. We warmly welcome you to join us at the nearest workshop location. For registration and further details, please visit https://www.clarin.si/info/k-centre/workshops/classla-express/ <https://www.clarin.si/info/k-centre/workshops/classla-express/> We would also like to kindly ask you to spread the word among researchers, students and other interested colleagues. Warm regards, The CLASSLA-Express team: Ivana Filipović Petrović, Jelena Parizoska, Taja Kuzman and Nikola Ljubešić *

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Survey on the appreciation of book reviews
by Chiara Alzetta 26 Mar '24

26 Mar '24

Dear Colleagues, We are researchers from the ItaliaNLP Lab (http://www.italianlp.it/) at the Institute of Computational Linguistics at the National Research Council in Pisa, Italy. We are conducting a study aimed at designing and developing solutions to promote the practice of leisure reading. Our activities are part of the research project "Letture Per Te - LETTERE" funded by the Region of Tuscany in the context of the "Regional Pact for Reading" (DGR 463/2019). We'd like to invite you to contribute to our research by taking part in a survey to collect data on the enjoyment of reviews written by amateur readers. We ask participants to rate some reviews of fiction books based on three parameters: informativeness, style and appreciation. Participation in the survey is voluntary and takes about 17 minutes. The only requirement for taking part in the survey is being *Italian native speakers*. Your answers will help us understand which aspects influence the liking of a novel review and what makes them more or less appealing. To involve a wide audience, we are spreading this invitation through this mailing list. Please share this e-mail with your colleagues who might be interested in participating. To fill out the survey, please follow this link: https://forms.gle/JmCcDwjYnf32p8Ns8 We thank you in advance for your help. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions about the survey. Best regards, Chiara Alzetta <chiara.alzetta(a)ilc.cnr.it> Alessio Miaschi <alessio.miaschi(a)ilc.cnr.it> Giulia Venturi <giulia.venturi(a)ilc.cnr.it>

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[CfP] 2nd CfP: SEMANTiCS 2024 EU || Sep 17 - 19, 2024 || Amsterdam, The Netherlands
by SEMANTiCS 26 Mar '24

26 Mar '24

==== SEMANTiCS - 20th International Conference on Semantic Systems Amsterdam, The Netherlands September 17 - 19, 2024 https://2024-eu.semantics.cc/ <https://2024-eu.semantics.cc/> ==== The Research and Innovation track at SEMANTiCS 2024 welcomes papers on novel scientific research and innovations relevant to the Semantic Web, Semantic Technologies, and semantic-enabled AI. We also welcome submissions at the intersection between this field and other scientific disciplines. Submissions should be original and should not have been published elsewhere in any form or language. Papers must adhere to the instructions given in the submission guidelines, including references and optional appendices. Each submission will receive at least three independent reviews and will be evaluated based on their novelty, technical quality, reproducibility, and practical significance. = Important Dates = * Abstract Submission Deadline: April 22, 2024 * Paper Submission Deadline: April 29, 2024 * Notification of Acceptance: June 11, 2024 * Camera-Ready Paper: July 09, 2024 All deadlines are set for 11:59 pm, Anywhere On Earth time (UTC-12) Submissions will be through Easychair. https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sem24 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sem24> Proceedings of SEMANTiCS 2024 EU will be made available open access. The publisher will be TIB Open Publishing. SEMANTiCS 2024 calls for submissions of excellent quality addressing the following topics in the Semantic Web area, from both theoretical and practical perspectives. = Topics of Interest = * Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Web Semantics & Linked (Open) Data * Enterprise Knowledge Graphs, Graph Data Management * Machine Learning Techniques for/using Knowledge Graphs (e.g. reinforcement learning, deep learning, data mining and knowledge discovery) * Interplay between generative AI and Knowledge Graphs (e.g., RAG approach) * Knowledge Management (e.g. acquisition, capture, extraction, authoring, integration, publication) * Terminology, Thesaurus & Ontology Management, Ontology engineering * Reasoning, Rules, and Policies * Natural Language Processing for/using Knowledge Graphs (e.g. entity linking and resolution using target knowledge such as Wikidata and DBpedia, foundation models) * Crowdsourcing for/using Knowledge Graphs * Data Quality Management and Assurance * Mathematical Foundation of Knowledge-aware AI * Multimodal Knowledge Graphs * Semantics in Data Science * Semantics in Blockchain environments * Trust, Data Privacy, and Security with Semantic Technologies * IoT, Stream Processing, dealing with temporal data * Conversational AI and Dialogue Systems * Provenance and Data Change Tracking * Semantic Interoperability (via mapping, crosswalks, standards, etc.) * Linked Data storage, triple stores, graph databases * Robust and scalable management, querying and analysis of semantics and data * User interfaces for the Semantic Web & its management * Explainable and Interoperable AI * Decentralised and Federated Knowledge Graphs (e.g., Federated querying, link traversal) Application of Semantically-Enriched and AI-Based Approaches, such as, but not limited to: * Knowledge Graphs in Bioinformatics, Medical AI and preventive healthcare * Clinical Use Case of semantic-enabled AI-based Approaches * AI for Environmental Challenges * Semantics in Scholarly Communication and Scientific Knowledge Graphs * AI and LOD within GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) institutions * Knowledge Graphs & hybrid AI for predictive maintenance and Industry 4.0/5.0 * Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage * LegalTech, AI Safety, EU AI Act * Economics of Data, Data Services, and Data Ecosystems = Author Guidelines and Submission = For Submission Guidelines and Review and Evaluation Criteria please head to the online call for papers: https://2024-eu.semantics.cc/page/cfp_rev_rep <https://2024-eu.semantics.cc/page/cfp_rev_rep> For details please go to: https://2024-eu.semantics.cc/ <https://2024-eu.semantics.cc/> We are looking forward to your contribution! Mehwish Alam, Femke Ongenae & Angelo Salatino Research and Innovation Track Chairs

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CFP: Multimodal & Generative QA in Dermatology (MEDIQA-MAGIC) @ImageCLEF 2024
by Asma Ben Abacha 25 Mar '24

25 Mar '24

Dear all, If you are interested in multimodal medical question answering, we are organizing the MEDIQA-MAGIC competition on answer generation from dermatology images @ CLEF 2024 <https://clef2024.imag.fr/>, Grenoble, France. The training and validation sets have been released: - *Website*: https://www.imageclef.org/2024/medical/mediqa - *Evaluation Platform*: https://ai4media-bench.aimultimedialab.ro/competitions/20/ If you have any questions, please email us at mediqa.organizers(a)gmail.com and join the MEDIQA mailing list for more updates: https://groups.google.com/g/mediqa-nlp MEDIQA <https://sites.google.com/view/mediqa2024> Organizers: - Asma Ben Abacha, Microsoft - Wen-wai Yim, Microsoft - Meliha Yetisgen, University of Washington - Fei Xia, University of Washington

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Quechua to Spanish Dialectal and Low-Resource Track at IWSLT 2024 @ ACL
by John Ortega 25 Mar '24

25 Mar '24

[Apologies for cross-posting] We need your help to preserve indigenous languages! Due to the overwhelming success of previous workshops like LoResMT and AmericasNLP we have decided to continue to push the needle for Quechua to Spanish translations. Please participate in the 2024 edition of the QUE-SPA speech translation shared task being held at IWSLT 2024. This low-resource task will help increase language preservation for low-resource languages. We invite advanced research and approaches of all types so bring your rule-based, statistical, neural, and more! IMPORTANT LINKS Dialectal and Low-resource webpage: https://iwslt.org/2024/low-resource Data webpage: https://github.com/Llamacha/IWSLT2024_Quechua_data Google Group: https://groups.google.com/g/iwslt-evaluation-campaign IWSLT conference webpage: https://iwslt.org/2024 HOW TO PARTICIPATE Please join the IWSLT Evaluation Campaign Google Group and access the registration using the following link: https://groups.google.com/g/iwslt-evaluation-campaign The QUE-SPA data set can be downloaded here: https://github.com/Llamacha/IWSLT2024_Quechua_data Task submissions can be uploaded to GitHub, please email the organizers for more details. Evaluation scripts based on BLEU are made available via the IWSLT 2024 website. IMPORTANT DATES Jan 15, 2024 Release of shared task training and dev data Apr 1-15, 2024 Evaluation period Apr 29, 2024 Paper submission deadline (all papers) June 4, 2024 Notification of acceptance June 24, 2024 Camera ready paper due July 22, 2024 Pre-recorded video due August 17-18, 2024 IWSLT conference ORGANIZING COMMITTEE John E. Ortega (Northeastern University) William Chen (Carnegie Mellon University) Rodolfo Zevallos (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) Ibrahim Said Ahmad (Northeastern University)

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Call for Workshop Papers - ReNeuIR Workshop @ SIGIR 2024
by Martin Potthast 25 Mar '24

25 Mar '24

We invite you to participate in the SIGIR 2024 Workshop on Reaching Efficiency in Neural Information Retrieval (ReNeuIR). The workshop aims to foster discussion and collaboration on holistic evaluation of methods in the age of neural information retrieval (NIR), noting that effectiveness matters but so does the computational cost incurred to achieve it. Specific areas of interest include (but are not limited to): - Novel Neural IR (NIR) models that reach competitive quality but are designed to provide fast training or fast inference; - Efficient NIR models for decentralized IR tasks such as conversational search; - Strategies to speed up training or inference of existing NIR models; - Sample-efficient training of NIR models; - Efficiency-driven distillation, pruning, quantization, retraining, and transfer learning; - Empirical investigation of the complexity of existing NIR models through an analysis of quality, interpretability, robustness, and environmental impact; and, - Evaluation protocols for efficiency in NIR. We accept both original submissions, as well as extensions or revisions to existing work. Papers can be submitted in two lengths – shorter poster submissions, and longer article submissions. Please see the website for more information: https://reneuir.org/cfp.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- May 15, 2024: Paper submission deadline June 7, 2024: Notification of acceptance for scientific papers July 18, 2024: Workshop (co-located with SIGIR 2024 in Washington) July 31, 2024: Final Proceedings Deadline (yes, after the conference) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Questions? Please contact us! reneuir2024(a)easychair.org Best regards, ReNeuIR team

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Call for Shared Task Participation - ReNeuIR Workshop @ SIGIR 2024
by Martin Potthast 25 Mar '24

25 Mar '24

We invite you to participate in the first shared task of the SIGIR 2024 Workshop on Reaching Efficiency in Neural Information Retrieval (ReNeuIR). The workshop aims to foster discussion and collaboration on the holistic evaluation of methods in the age of neural information retrieval (NIR), noting that effectiveness matters, but so does the computational cost incurred to achieve it. Shared Task Overview Our shared task aims to develop a more comprehensive understanding of the efficiency-vs-effectiveness landscape with the goal of promoting better metrics and deeper investigation into this area. It is based on the MS MARCO (version one) passage collection and focuses on batch processing an entire log of queries. We invite the community to submit either a source repository or a docker image of their approaches for cloud-based evaluation, and we provide detailed instructions/tutorials to assist with this process. Please see the website for more information: https://reneuir.org/shared_task.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- June 26, 2024: Shared task oral presentation deadline July 18, 2024: Workshop (co-located with SIGIR 2024 in Washington) July 31, 2024: Final Proceedings Deadline (yes, after the conference) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Questions? Please contact us! reneuir2024(a)easychair.org Best regards, ReNeuIR team

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Workshop on COuntering Disinformation with AI @ECAI: CFP (Deadline extended)
by Rajesh Sharma 25 Mar '24

25 Mar '24

Dear All, We invite paper submissions to the Workshop on COuntering Disinformation with AI (CODAI), which will take place on 20 October at ECAI 2024. *Website:* https://codai2024.github.io/ *Important dates* Submission deadline: 15th May 2024 Accept/Reject Communications: 1st July 2024 Camera-ready papers due: 22nd July 2024 Workshop date: 20 October 2024 All deadlines are 11:59 pm UTC-12 (“anywhere on earth”). *Overview* Social media platforms which have been designed primarily to allow users to create and share content with others, have become integral parts of modern communication, enabling people to connect with each other as well as for broadcasting information to a wider audience. On one side these platforms provide an opportunity to facilitate discussions in an open and free environment. On the flip side, new societal issues have started emerging on these platforms. Among all the issues, the topic of misinformation has been prevalent on these platforms. The term misinformation is an umbrella term which encompasses various entities such as fake news, hoaxes, rumors to name a few. While misinformation refers to non-intentional spread of non-authentic information, the term disinformation points to spreading of a piece of inauthentic information with certain malign intentions. *Topics* Areas of interest to include, but are not limited to, the following: - Information diffusion models for understanding and thwarting the spread of low-quality information; - Characterization and detection of coordinated inauthentic behavior; - Novel techniques for detecting malicious accounts (e.g., bots, cyborgs and trolls); - Information diffusion models for understanding and thwarting the spread of low-quality information; - Understanding and detection of disinformation; - Study, inference and detection of narratives in disinformation campaigns; - Impact/Harm of misinformation on society. - Case-studies on the spread and impact of fake news in controversial topics such as politics, health, climate change, economics, migration. - Social and psychological studies, or data analytics related to misinformation spreaders. - Metrics, tools and methods for measuring the impact of fake news and of coordinated inauthentic behaviors; - Datasets for evaluation. *Submission Link:* https://chairingtool.com/ *Submission Types* *Original submissions:* Submissions about unpublished ideas will be reviewed by a double-blind process and should be anonymous. *Transferred papers* In addition to regular paper submissions, we also consider accepting papers rejected from the main conference. Decisions about acceptance of these transferred papers will be based on the reviews of the ECAI PC. Accepted submissions will be presented at the workshop as oral presentations. *Format and styling* Submissions should be formatted according to the ECAI formatting instructions and not exceed 7 pages (plus 1 extra page for references). All submissions should use the ECAI 2024 template and formatting requirements specified by ECAI. Please send any questions about the workshop to codaihelp(a)gmail.com *Organisers* Rajesh Sharma, University of Tartu, Estonia Anselmo Peñas, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Spain

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Senior Research Scientist (m/f/x/d) position offered by Genaios APPLICATION FORM
by ainhoa.avila＠genaios.ai 25 Mar '24

25 Mar '24

Dear list members, APPLY HERE: https://genaios.factorialhr.es/apply/senior-research-scientist-m-f-x-d-54945 LINK TO THE JOB AD: https://genaios.factorialhr.es/job_posting/senior-research-scientist-m-f-x-… I am thrilled to announce you an exciting opening at Genaios: we are now looking for a Senior Research Scientist (m/f/x/d) for our Research team in Valencia (Spain). In this position, you will play a key role in the team and will have the opportunity to participate and lead innovative projects in different NLP areas: fact-checking, text similarity analysis, plagiarism detection, opinion mining, author profiling, etc. Your work will attempt to improve the company's products and be aligned to customers needs. In addition, at Genaios we will also encourage you to explore new research ideas and to publish in blogs, forums, reputable research conferences and journals. Join our team and you will have the opportunity to work with NLP researchers and data scientists with an international background and an important research publication record. If you’re passionate about solving scientific problems and creating deep learning models using cutting edge technology, this is the role for you! Your job will be -Collaborate and lead the different research NLP projects -Mentor and support your junior colleagues on research-related matters -Designing and implementing machine and deep learning-based NLP workflows and algorithms in alignment with the business needs -Deliver scalable and maintainable solution using the latest cutting-edge technology -Identification and evaluation of strategic innovations (concepts, tools/languages, technologies, services) in the field of NLP and deep learning -Constant personal development in new technologies -Publish articles in blogs, forums, and prestigious NLP/AI conferences and journals -Represent the company in the research community Your profile -Bachelor’s degree in computer science, telecommunication technologies, or similar -Master’s degree in NLP, deep learning, or similar -+5 years experience as a researcher in NLP and deep learning-related tasks -Fluency in English -Experience in publishing research material -Advanced python programming skills -Experience in at least one of the following tasks: fact-checking, text similarity analysis, plagiarism detection, or author profiling -Advanced knowledge of one of the following technologies: keras, tensorflow, pytorch, or JAX -Experience with text classification, sequence labeling, model selection, evaluation and result analysis -Knowledge of the following technologies: git and docker -Knowledge of, and/or experience with API and web service development in python; agile methodologies; cloud computing solutions; cloud devops services (Azure, AWS, or Google cloud) -Respectfulness; teamwork skills; organizational and planning skills; leadership skills; communication skills; creativity; proactivity; problem solving; autonomy Preferred Skills and Experience -PhD in natural language processing, deep learning, or similar -+2 years experience as a researcher in industry -Experience mentoring and supervising research staff -Spanish language is a plus -Knowledge of the following technologies: kubernetes -Knowledge of multilingual and multi-task classification; adversarial architectures; online learning methodologies; model compression (pruning, quantization, distillation…) -Knowledge of the following technologies: bash, ssh, linux terminal, SQL, FastAPI, swagger, and NVIDIA Triton Inference Server About the interview process -The first interview will be with HR, to inform you about the position and determine your suitability for the role -The second interview will be with the Chief Scientific Officer (CSO), to share information about the team and talk about your past experience and skills -The final interview will be with the CSO and another Research colleague. In this interview you will have the opportunity to show us everything you know. We will delve into technology, NLP and deep learning. We will also conduct a science-related coding test. Finally, we will present you some practical scenarios so that you can give us your best solution or proposal What we offer -A well-funded early-stage startup with the opportunity to build from the ground-up -Possibility to publish in blogs, fora, and reputable research conferences and journals -A company laptop plus access to GPU servers to conduct your research -Great people to work with in an international environment -Work on Innovative projects and solutions -Training in new technologies and domains -Flexible working time -28 vacation days -Home Office possibility -Chance to develop and grow with the company -Out-of-office events -...and to be a part of something that is going to change the way we use AI forever!

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Senior Research Scientist (m/f/x/d) position offered by Genaios
by ainhoa.avila＠genaios.ai 25 Mar '24

25 Mar '24

Dear list members, I am thrilled to announce you an exciting opening at Genaios: we are now looking for a Senior Research Scientist (m/f/x/d) for our Research team in Valencia (Spain). In this position, you will play a key role in the team and will have the opportunity to participate and lead innovative projects in different NLP areas: fact-checking, text similarity analysis, plagiarism detection, opinion mining, author profiling, etc. Your work will attempt to improve the company's products and be aligned to customers needs. In addition, at Genaios we will also encourage you to explore new research ideas and to publish in blogs, forums, reputable research conferences and journals.  Join our team and you will have the opportunity to work with NLP researchers and data scientists with an international background and an important research publication record. If you’re passionate about solving scientific problems and creating deep learning models using cutting edge technology, this is the role for you! Your job will be -Collaborate and lead the different research NLP projects -Mentor and support your junior colleagues on research-related matters -Designing and implementing machine and deep learning-based NLP workflows and algorithms in alignment with the business needs -Deliver scalable and maintainable solution using the latest cutting-edge technology -Identification and evaluation of strategic innovations (concepts, tools/languages, technologies, services) in the field of NLP and deep learning -Constant personal development in new technologies -Publish articles in blogs, forums, and prestigious NLP/AI conferences and journals -Represent the company in the research community Your profile -Bachelor’s degree in computer science, telecommunication technologies, or similar -Master’s degree in NLP, deep learning, or similar -+5 years experience as a researcher in NLP and deep learning-related tasks -Fluency in English -Experience in publishing research material -Advanced python programming skills -Experience in at least one of the following tasks: fact-checking, text similarity analysis, plagiarism detection, or author profiling -Advanced knowledge of one of the following technologies: keras, tensorflow, pytorch, or JAX -Experience with text classification, sequence labeling, model selection, evaluation and result analysis -Knowledge of the following technologies: git and docker -Knowledge of, and/or experience with API and web service development in python; agile methodologies; cloud computing solutions; cloud devops services (Azure, AWS, or Google cloud) -Respectfulness; teamwork skills; organizational and planning skills; leadership skills; communication skills; creativity; proactivity; problem solving; autonomy Preferred Skills and Experience -PhD in natural language processing, deep learning, or similar -+2 years experience as a researcher in industry -Experience mentoring and supervising research staff -Spanish language is a plus -Knowledge of the following technologies: kubernetes -Knowledge of multilingual and multi-task classification; adversarial architectures; online learning methodologies; model compression (pruning, quantization, distillation…) -Knowledge of the following technologies: bash, ssh, linux terminal, SQL, FastAPI, swagger, and NVIDIA Triton Inference Server About the interview process -The first interview will be with HR, to inform you about the position and determine your suitability for the role -The second interview will be with the Chief Scientific Officer (CSO), to share information about the team and talk about your past experience and skills -The final interview will be with the CSO and another Research colleague. In this interview you will have the opportunity to show us everything you know. We will delve into technology, NLP and deep learning. We will also conduct a science-related coding test. Finally, we will present you some practical scenarios so that you can give us your best solution or proposal What we offer -A well-funded early-stage startup with the opportunity to build from the ground-up -Possibility to publish in blogs, fora, and reputable research conferences and journals -A company laptop plus access to GPU servers to conduct your research -Great people to work with in an international environment -Work on Innovative projects and solutions -Training in new technologies and domains -Flexible working time -28 vacation days -Home Office possibility -Chance to develop and grow with the company -Out-of-office events -...and to be a part of something that is going to change the way we use AI forever!

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[CIKM 2024] - Call for Tutorials
by antonela.tommasel＠isistan.unicen.edu.ar 25 Mar '24

25 Mar '24

* We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CfP * * For the online version of this Call, visit: https://cikm2024.org/call-for-tutorials/ =============== CIKM 2024: 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management Boise, Idaho, USA October 21–25, 2024 =============== The Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) provides an international forum for the presentation and discussion of research on information and knowledge management, as well as recent advances in data and knowledge bases. The purpose of the conference is to identify challenging problems facing the development of future knowledge and information systems, and to shape future directions of research by soliciting and reviewing high-quality, applied and theoretical research findings. CIKM 2024 solicits proposals for both half and full-day tutorials from active and experienced researchers and practitioners covering topics relevant to CIKM. Areas of interest include information retrieval, knowledge management, data science, artificial intelligence, and other related areas of relevance to the CIKM community. We invite proposals for tutorials that target various levels of expertise and interests. We also welcome the submission of hands-on tutorials, for instance using notebooks that combine theoretical concepts with practical exercises. We encourage the submission of cutting-edge tutorials that cover advances in newly emerging areas. Each tutorial should cover a specific topic of interest in depth. The goal is to provide a self-contained overview of a topic, and then connect to state-of-the- art research and developments in the associated area of interest. For example, tutorials may cover an established sub-topic, introduce an emerging application in the area, or update the CIKM community on recent advances in related fields. Tutorials are expected to be presented in person. -------------------------- Key Dates -------------------------- * Tutorials proposal: 14 June 2024 * Tutorials notification: 5 July 2024 * Camera ready: 8 August 2024 * Tutorial day: 21 October 2024 (Monday) (All deadlines are at 11:59 pm AOE) -------------------------- Paper Submissions -------------------------- Each tutorial proposal must include the following information: * Title of the tutorial * Length (either half-day, i.e., 3 hours plus breaks; or full-day, i.e., 6 hours plus breaks) * Abstract of up to 150 words. * Target audience, prerequisites, and benefits. Proposals must clearly identify the intended audience for the tutorial (e.g., novice users of statistical techniques, versus expert researchers in text mining). What background will be required of the audience? Why is this topic important and interesting to the CIKM community? What is the benefit to participants? * Outline of the tutorial. Enough material should be included to provide a sense of both the scope of material to be covered and the depth to which it will be covered. The more details provided, the better (up to and including links to the actual slides). Presenters should not focus exclusively on their own research results – a CIKM tutorial is not meant to be a forum for promoting one’s own research or product. * A list of the most important references that will be covered in the tutorial. * A list of forums, dates, and locations where this or a closely related tutorial has been presented before. Please highlight the similarities and differences between previous related tutorials, and the one proposed for CIKM 2023, using up to 150 words for each. * A short bio for each presenter, including their expertise related to the tutorial. Please do not exceed 200 words per presenter. * (Optional) URLs of the slides/notes of the previous presentations of this tutorial by the current set of authors. * Any specific audio, video, or computer requirements for presenting the tutorial. The length of the whole proposal should be limited to 4 pages in the ACM proceedings template (double column). Instructions and suitable LATEX, Microsoft Word, and Overleaf templates are available from the ACM Website (use the “sigconf” proceedings template): ACM Primary Article Template. Please submit your tutorial proposal as a PDF file, choosing the “tutorial track” on the CIKM 2024 online submission system. Please note that the organizers of accepted tutorials will be invited to submit a camera-ready summary of the tutorial, to be included in the CIKM 2024 conference proceedings. -------------------------- Selection Procedure -------------------------- The selection process will prioritize: * The ability of the tutorial to contribute to strengthening the foundations of CIKM-related research or to broaden the field to look at important new challenges and techniques. * Likely audience interest * The experience and skill of the presenters * The value of any materials released with the tutorial for the community. -------------------------- Chairs Contact Information -------------------------- For further information, please contact the Tutorial Chairs at: CIKM2024-tutorial [at] easychair [dot] org Dafna Shahaf, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Isreal Mahantesh Halappanavar, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA

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[CIKM 2024] - Call for Tutorials
by antonela.tommasel＠isistan.unicen.edu.ar 25 Mar '24

25 Mar '24

* We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CfP * * For the online version of this Call, visit: https://cikm2024.org/call-for-tutorials/ =============== CIKM 2024: 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management Boise, Idaho, USA October 21–25, 2024 =============== The Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) provides an international forum for the presentation and discussion of research on information and knowledge management, as well as recent advances in data and knowledge bases. The purpose of the conference is to identify challenging problems facing the development of future knowledge and information systems, and to shape future directions of research by soliciting and reviewing high-quality, applied and theoretical research findings. CIKM 2024 solicits proposals for both half and full-day tutorials from active and experienced researchers and practitioners covering topics relevant to CIKM. Areas of interest include information retrieval, knowledge management, data science, artificial intelligence, and other related areas of relevance to the CIKM community. We invite proposals for tutorials that target various levels of expertise and interests. We also welcome the submission of hands-on tutorials, for instance using notebooks that combine theoretical concepts with practical exercises. We encourage the submission of cutting-edge tutorials that cover advances in newly emerging areas. Each tutorial should cover a specific topic of interest in depth. The goal is to provide a self-contained overview of a topic, and then connect to state-of-the- art research and developments in the associated area of interest. For example, tutorials may cover an established sub-topic, introduce an emerging application in the area, or update the CIKM community on recent advances in related fields. Tutorials are expected to be presented in person. -------------------------- Key Dates -------------------------- * Tutorials proposal: 14 June 2024 * Tutorials notification: 5 July 2024 * Camera ready: 8 August 2024 * Tutorial day: 21 October 2024 (Monday) (All deadlines are at 11:59 pm AOE) -------------------------- Paper Submissions -------------------------- Each tutorial proposal must include the following information: * Title of the tutorial * Length (either half-day, i.e., 3 hours plus breaks; or full-day, i.e., 6 hours plus breaks) * Abstract of up to 150 words. * Target audience, prerequisites, and benefits. Proposals must clearly identify the intended audience for the tutorial (e.g., novice users of statistical techniques, versus expert researchers in text mining). What background will be required of the audience? Why is this topic important and interesting to the CIKM community? What is the benefit to participants? * Outline of the tutorial. Enough material should be included to provide a sense of both the scope of material to be covered and the depth to which it will be covered. The more details provided, the better (up to and including links to the actual slides). Presenters should not focus exclusively on their own research results – a CIKM tutorial is not meant to be a forum for promoting one’s own research or product. * A list of the most important references that will be covered in the tutorial. * A list of forums, dates, and locations where this or a closely related tutorial has been presented before. Please highlight the similarities and differences between previous related tutorials, and the one proposed for CIKM 2023, using up to 150 words for each. * A short bio for each presenter, including their expertise related to the tutorial. Please do not exceed 200 words per presenter. * (Optional) URLs of the slides/notes of the previous presentations of this tutorial by the current set of authors. * Any specific audio, video, or computer requirements for presenting the tutorial. The length of the whole proposal should be limited to 4 pages in the ACM proceedings template (double column). Instructions and suitable LATEX, Microsoft Word, and Overleaf templates are available from the ACM Website (use the “sigconf” proceedings template): ACM Primary Article Template. Please submit your tutorial proposal as a PDF file, choosing the “tutorial track” on the CIKM 2024 online submission system. Please note that the organizers of accepted tutorials will be invited to submit a camera-ready summary of the tutorial, to be included in the CIKM 2024 conference proceedings. -------------------------- Selection Procedure -------------------------- The selection process will prioritize: * The ability of the tutorial to contribute to strengthening the foundations of CIKM-related research or to broaden the field to look at important new challenges and techniques. * Likely audience interest * The experience and skill of the presenters * The value of any materials released with the tutorial for the community. -------------------------- Chairs Contact Information -------------------------- For further information, please contact the Tutorial Chairs at: CIKM2024-tutorial [at] easychair [dot] org Dafna Shahaf, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Isreal Mahantesh Halappanavar, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA

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[CIKM 2024] - Call for Workshops
by antonela.tommasel＠isistan.unicen.edu.ar 25 Mar '24

25 Mar '24

* We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CfP * * For the online version of this Call, visit: https://cikm2024.org/call-for-workshops/ =============== CIKM 2024: 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management Boise, Idaho, USA October 21–25, 2024 =============== The ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) is the premier international conference on topics at the confluence of information retrieval, databases, and knowledge management. Running annually since 1992, CIKM attracts top talent from industry and academia with the goal of fostering collaboration and bridging the academic-commercial gap in the database, information retrieval, machine learning, and knowledge management communities. We look for prospective submissions of highly interactive full-/half-day workshops proposing novel research, deepening established research topics, or presenting practical applications on the many aspects of the data lifecycle (data acquisition, pre-processing, modelling, integration/aggregation, storage, analysis, and consumption). Interdisciplinary workshops bridging across different communities are also highly encouraged. Workshops will complement the main CIKM conference to be held in-person at Boise, Idaho, USA, from October 21-25, 2024. The workshops are planned to take place on 25 October 2024. -------------------------- Key Dates -------------------------- * Workshop proposal: 14 June 2024 * Workshop proposal acceptance notification: 5 July 2024 * Camera ready: 8 August 2024 (All deadlines are at 11:59 pm AOE) -------------------------- Paper Submissions -------------------------- Please use the CIKM 2024 Workshop Proposal Template for your submission. Submit the proposal here through Easychair (https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=cikm2024). Workshop proposals are reviewed based on the quality of the proposal, their relation to the main CIKM topics, the likelihood of attracting enough participants, and the hosting capacity of the conference. -------------------------- Requirements for In-Person Activities -------------------------- The CIKM 2024 conference will be held in-person in Boise, Idaho, USA. To enhance the in-person experience, it is required for each workshop to at least plan for a subset of the organizers to be attending the conference and organizing the workshops in-person. -------------------------- Recommended Dates for Paper Submissions to the Workshops -------------------------- * Paper submission deadline: 29 July 2024: * Paper notification (highly desirable): 30 August 2024: * Workshop date: 25 October 2024: Exact workshop paper submission and author notification due dates are at the discretion of workshop organizers. Note that the paper acceptance notification deadline should remain August 30 (or earlier), so authors of accepted papers still have at least a week to take advantage of Early-Bird Registration fees. Workshop papers will not be included in the ACM proceedings. Any decision on if and where proceedings are to be archived is left to the organizers. To help preserve the authors’ ability to submit a revised version of their paper to a conference or journal, joining the volume is suggested to be left at the discretion of the authors. -------------------------- Chairs Contact Information -------------------------- For more information, contact the Workshop Chairs at cikm2024-workshop [at] easychair [dot] org Vanessa Braganholo, Instituto de Computação Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil Yangqiu Song,Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

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[CIKM 2024] - Call for Resource Papers
by antonela.tommasel＠isistan.unicen.edu.ar 25 Mar '24

25 Mar '24

* We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CfP * * For the online version of this Call, visit: https://cikm2024.org/call-for-resource-papers/ =============== CIKM 2024: 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management Boise, Idaho, USA October 21–25, 2024 =============== The Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) is a premier forum for researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government bodies to share technologies and state-of-the-art research on the emerging aspects of artificial intelligence, data mining, data management, and information retrieval. The resource track at CIKM 2024 provides a unique opportunity to researchers to share and highlight their latest technologies that enable intelligent decision-making, predictive analytics, and machine learning. -------------------------- Key Dates -------------------------- * Resource Papers abstract: 27 May 2024 * Resource Papers: 3 June 2024 * Resource Papers notifications: 16 July 2024 * Camera Ready: 8 August 2024 (All deadlines are at 11:59 pm AOE) -------------------------- Topics of Interest -------------------------- We welcome submissions on all topics in the general areas of artificial intelligence, machine learning, data science, databases, information retrieval, and knowledge management. An ideal resource paper’s topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas: * Data resources comprising a new and innovative dataset or protocol, or one created using novel methods and/or algorithms * Data resources labelled using novel and well-described annotation and/or crowdsourcing approaches * Software resources to support research on novel application domains or support novel evaluation or benchmark tasks * Software resources such as prototypes and services, open source frameworks, or tools and libraries which support computing, visualization, evaluation and other exploration tasks in data science, data engineering, or information & knowledge management -------------------------- Paper Submissions -------------------------- Recourse papers must be no more than 4 pages long including appendices, plus unlimited pages for references. Supplementary material: It is allowed to cite supplementary materials including source code, videos, datasets, and demonstration prototypes that are accessible via online platforms like GitHub. Reviewers have the discretion to decide whether or not they will review such materials. The review of the resource papers will be single-blind, which means that the authors should include their names and affiliations in the paper. All submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee of the Resource track, who will evaluate the novelty of the technical features and/or research being presented, the research and/or development challenges, its expected impact, and its timeliness and relevance for the CIKM audience of practitioners and researchers. Manuscripts should be submitted to CIKM 2024’s Easychair page in PDF format using the ACM’s two-column template “sigconf”, see https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. All papers should be submitted via Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cikm24 Papers that include text generated from a large-scale language model (LLM), such as ChatGPT, are prohibited unless this produced text is presented as a part of the paper’s experimental analysis. AI tools may be used to edit and polish authors’ work, such as using LLMs for light editing of their text (e.g., automate grammar checks, word autocorrect, and other editing of author-written text), but text “produced entirely” by generative/AI models is not allowed. -------------------------- Authorship Policy -------------------------- Before paper submission, authors should carefully review ACM’s authorship policy, including ACM’s new Publications Policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/research-involving-human-particip… At least one author of each accepted paper must register to present the work at the conference. -------------------------- Guidelines and review rubric for Resource papers -------------------------- Papers presenting a dataset or a benchmark must publish the datasets and metadata using a dataset-sharing service (e.g., Zenodo, Datorium, Dataverse, or any other dataset-sharing service that indexes your dataset and metadata and increase the re-findability of the data) that provides a DOI for the dataset, which should be included in the dataset paper submission. Ethical considerations must be discussed. Authors are encouraged to include a description of how they intend to make their datasets FAIR. We would also encourage authors to consider addressing the questions covered in the Datasheets for Datasets recommendations. For papers detailing code resources, such as libraries, external tools, frameworks, etc., it is imperative that authors adhere to rigorous standards in code sharing and ethical considerations. Specifically, authors should ensure that their code resources are made publicly available through reputable, code-sharing platforms such as GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, or similar services that facilitate code access and enhance code reusability, thereby ensuring transparency and reproducibility. We advocate for the incorporation of best practices in code documentation and versioning, urging authors to provide comprehensive documentation covering code functionalities, dependencies, and potential limitations, fostering transparency and usability in research practices. The reviewing guidelines for the resource paper track will focus on the following criteria: * Novelty: - What is new about this resource? - Does the resource represent an incremental advance or something more dramatic? * Availability: - Is the resource available to the reviewer at the time of review? - Are there discrepancies between what is described and what is available? - Are the licensing/terms of use sufficiently open to allow most academic and industry researchers access to the resource? - If the resource is data collected from people, do appropriate human subjects control board (IRB) procedures appear to have been followed and included in the repo? * Utility: - Is the resource well documented? What level of expertise do you expect is required to make use of the resource? - Are there tutorials or examples? Do they resemble actual uses, or are they toy examples? - If the resource is data, are appropriate tools provided for loading that data? - If the resource is data, are the provenance (source, pre-processing, cleaning, aggregation) stages clearly documented? * Predicted Impact: - What CIKM research activity is enabled by the availability of this resource? - Does the resource advance a well-established research area or a brand new one? - Do you expect that this resource will be useful for a long time, or will it need to be curated or updated? If the latter, is that planned? - How large is the (anticipated) research user community? Will that grow or shrink in the next few years? -------------------------- Ethics of Resource Type Papers -------------------------- Resources are expected to be available as described, where “available” means that most researchers in our community could obtain and make use of the resource without strongly limiting the research they can perform with it. Datasets are expected to be collected in accordance with institutional review board standards and ACM standards of ethics. Reviewers are instructed not to use their reviews as an advocacy platform for these issues but to do what they can to help authors bring their resources to fruition. -------------------------- Disclosure of Competing Interests -------------------------- Disclosure of funding and competing interests: Authors are required to provide an explicit disclosure of funding (financial activities supporting the submitted work) and competing interests (related financial activities outside the submitted work) that could result in conflicts of interest in a section (e.g., “Acknowledgments”) that should be added in the submitted version for review. -------------------------- Dual Submission Policy -------------------------- It is not allowed to submit papers that are identical (or substantially similar) to versions that have been previously published or accepted for publication or that have been submitted in parallel to other conferences (or any venue with published proceedings). Such submissions violate our dual-submission policy. However, submissions are permitted for papers presented or to be presented at conferences or workshops without proceedings or with only abstracts published. Authors may also submit work already available as a preprint (e.g., in arXiv). -------------------------- Desk Rejection Policy -------------------------- Submissions that fail to adhere to the length, or formatting requirements, or violate ACM’s policies on academic dishonesty—such as plagiarism, author misrepresentation, or falsification—may be subject to desk rejection by the chairs. -------------------------- ACM Policy Against Harassment -------------------------- All authors and participants must adhere to the ACM’s discrimination policy. For full details, please visit this site: https://www.acm.org/special-interest-groups/volunteer-resources/officers-ma… -------------------------- Chairs Contact Information -------------------------- For more information, contact the resource chairs at: CIKM2024-resources [at] easychair [dot] org Nicolas Kourtellis, Telefonica, Spain Davide Mottin, Aarhus University, Denmark

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[CIKM 2024] - Call for Demo Papers
by antonela.tommasel＠isistan.unicen.edu.ar 25 Mar '24

25 Mar '24

* We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CfP * * For the online version of this Call, visit: https://cikm2024.org/call-for-demo-papers/ =============== CIKM 2024: 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management Boise, Idaho, USA October 21–25, 2024 =============== The Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) is a premier forum for researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government bodies to share technologies and state-of-the-art research on the emerging aspects of artificial intelligence, data mining, data management, and information retrieval. The demo track at CIKM 2024 provides a unique opportunity to share research ideas through prototypes. Accepted demo papers will be part of the main conference proceeding. -------------------------- Key Dates -------------------------- * Demo Papers abstract: 27 May 2024 * Demo Papers: 3 June 2024 * Demo Papers notification: 16 July 2024 * Camera ready: 8 August 2024 (All deadlines are at 11:59 pm AOE) -------------------------- Topics of Interest -------------------------- We seek demonstrations that showcase exciting new technologies and early prototypes within the scope of CIKM, as well as case studies from more mature systems with innovative features and functionalities. We welcome submissions on all topics in the general areas of artificial intelligence, data mining, data management, information retrieval, and knowledge management. -------------------------- Paper Submissions -------------------------- Demo papers must be no more than 4 pages long including appendices, plus unlimited pages for references. Authors should also prepare a 3 minutes long demonstration video, showcasing the main features of the system. A URL of the video (e.g., YouTube, Dropbox, etc.) should be included in the paper. Supplementary material: It is allowed to cite supplementary materials including source code, datasets, and demonstration prototypes that are accessible via online platforms like GitHub. Reviewers have the discretion to decide whether or not they will review such materials. The review of the demo papers will be single-blind, which means that the authors should include their names and affiliations in the paper. All submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee of the Demo track, who will evaluate the novelty of the technical features and/or research being presented, the research and/or development challenges, its expected impact, and its timeliness and relevance for the CIKM audience of practitioners and researchers. Manuscripts should be submitted to CIKM 2024’s Easychair page in PDF format using the ACM’s two-column template “sigconf”, see https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. -------------------------- Guidelines and review rubric -------------------------- Demo papers should describe the intended audience, point out the innovative aspects of the system being presented, and explain how those aspects contribute to the state-of-the-art in the CIKM topics of interest. Each submission must also make clear what the audience will experience during the demo, what kind of functionality is supported, user scenarios, interface and interaction options provided, and how it is compared with existing systems (if any). Submissions that are case studies should also explain the case being demonstrated. Demo papers that describe case studies from mature systems will also be evaluated on the relevance of the system and innovative features and functionalities that are being included in the demonstration. Papers that include text generated from a large-scale language model (LLM), such as ChatGPT, are prohibited unless this produced text is presented as a part of the paper’s experimental analysis. AI tools may be used to edit and polish authors’ work, such as using LLMs for light editing of their text (e.g., automate grammar checks, word autocorrect, and other editing of author-written text), but text “produced entirely” by generative/AI models is not allowed. -------------------------- Disclosure of Competing Interests -------------------------- Disclosure of funding and competing interests: Authors are required to provide an explicit disclosure of funding (financial activities supporting the submitted work) and competing interests (related financial activities outside the submitted work) that could result in conflicts of interest in a section (e.g., “Acknowledgments”) that should be added in the submitted version for review. -------------------------- Dual Submission Policy -------------------------- It is not allowed to submit papers that are identical (or substantially similar) to versions that have been previously published or accepted for publication or that have been submitted in parallel to other conferences (or any venue with published proceedings). Such submissions violate our dual-submission policy. However, submissions are permitted for papers presented or to be presented at conferences or workshops without proceedings or with only abstracts published. Authors may also submit work already available as a preprint (e.g., in arXiv). -------------------------- Authorship Policy -------------------------- At least one author of each accepted paper must register to present the work at the conference. Before paper submission, authors are advised to review ACM’s authorship policy carefully. Please ensure that all authors are identified in EasyChair before the submission deadline. To help reviewers identify potential conflicts of interest, the full author list must be specified by the abstract submission deadline. Consequently, no changes to authorship will be allowed under any circumstance after the abstract submission deadline; neither update will be permitted for camera-ready versions. -------------------------- Desk Rejection Policy -------------------------- Submissions that fail to adhere to the length, or formatting requirements, or violate ACM’s policies on academic dishonesty—such as plagiarism, author misrepresentation, or falsification—may be subject to desk rejection by the chairs. -------------------------- ACM Policy Against Harassment -------------------------- All authors and participants must adhere to the ACM’s discrimination policy. For full details, please visit this site: https://www.acm.org/special-interest-groups/volunteer-resources/officers-ma… -------------------------- Chairs Contact Information -------------------------- For more information, contact the Demo chairs at: CIKM2024-demo [at] easychair [dot] org Nicolas Kourtellis, Telefonica, Spain Davide Mottin, Aarhus University, Denmark

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[ECAI-2024] Call for Nominations for the EurAI Dissertation Award
by luis.magdalena＠gmail.com 25 Mar '24

25 Mar '24

Nominations are now invited for the 2023 Artificial Intelligence Dissertation Award sponsored by EurAI, the European Association of Artificial Intelligence. Eligible are all doctoral theses in AI that were defended between December 2022 and December 2023 at a European university. Full information is available here: https://eurai.org/applications/dissertation-awards Deadline: 31 May 2024 The recipient of the award will be invited to give a talk at the 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), which will be held in Santiago de Compostela this October. Refer to https://www.ecai2024.eu for more information on the conference. -- Luis Magdalena Publicity Chair of the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-2024)

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Corpus Linguistics Summer School 2024
by Akira Murakami 25 Mar '24

25 Mar '24

The Centre for Corpus Research at the University of Birmingham is pleased to announce that our Corpus Linguistics Summer School will take place fully online this year on 15–18 July, 2024. https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/englishlanguage/even… Attendance is open to all on a first-come-first-served basis upon completion of the registration process (including payment) through the university’s online shop linked from the above website. Please note that we are planning to hold next year's summer school in-person at the University of Birmingham. Therefore, individuals wishing to attend the summer school remotely are encouraged to take advantage of this year's online format. *Registration fee:* £80 *Speakers:* This year, our participants will have the pleasure to hear contributions by Joyce Kim <https://research.aston.ac.uk/en/persons/joyce-lim> (Aston University), as well as members of our local staff of corpus linguistics, including Edward Clay <https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/languages/clay-edward>, Dagmar Divjak <https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/languages/divjak-dagmar.aspx>, Jason Grafmiller <https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/englishlanguage/staf…>, Jack Grieve <https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/elal/grieve-jack.aspx>, Nicholas Groom <https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/elal/groom-nicholas.aspx>, Petar Milin <https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/languages/milin-petar.aspx>, Akira Murakami <https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/elal/murakami-akira.aspx>, Michael Oakes, Florent Perek <https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/elal/perek-florent.aspx>, Adam Schembri <https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/elal/schembri-adam.aspx>, Paul Thompson <https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/elal/thompson-paul.aspx>, and Katharine Weetman <https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/clinical-sciences/weetman-Katha…>, among others. Dawn Knight <https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/knightd5> will be delivering the annual Sinclair Lecture on Monday, 15 July. *Programme:* Our Corpus Linguistics Summer School aims to equip participants with critical expertise in both the theory and practice of corpus-supported linguistic research. Over the course of four days, participants will be actively involved in two kinds of sessions. First, hands-on sessions will put the emphasis on the learning of practical skills for the purpose of extracting and analysing corpus data of various kinds, and the application of this knowledge to specific research projects. Second, participants will learn about current corpus research from our team. *Topics of sessions will include (this is a non-exhaustive list and subject to change):* - Analysing healthcare data using corpus linguistics - Analysing learner language - Behavioral Profile - Corpora and legal research - CQPweb - Fake news - Introduction to R - Phraseology - Sign language corpora - Statistics and readability - Tagging and parsing with spaCy - Topic models For more information and registration, please visit the website below: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/englishlanguage/even… Best regards, Akira -- Akira Murakami Assistant Professor Department of English Language and Linguistics University of Birmingham clsummerschool(a)contacts.bham.ac.uk

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The ReproHum 2024 Survey of NLP and ML researchers' experience and views of reproducibility
by e.reiter＠abdn.ac.uk 25 Mar '24

25 Mar '24

Dear Corpora list members, As part of the EPSRC UK ReproHum project, PI Prof. Anya Belz (DCU/Adapt & University of Aberdeen), Co-I Prof. Ehud Reiter (University of Aberdeen), RF Dr. Craig Thomson (DCU/Adapt & University of Aberdeen), we are performing a survey of NLP and ML researchers’ experience and views of reproducibility. We would like to hear from as many researchers as possible (NLP or ML), not just those who work on evaluation! If you completed a similar survey in 2022 then you can still complete this one, we are interested in the difference in your experience and views between then and now. We would be most grateful if you are able to spend 5-10 minutes taking part in the survey, it can be accessed via the below link: https://forms.gle/RshrHcvAXxAEEFj59 With thanks and apologies for cross-posting. Anya, Craig, and Ehud

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2 years post-doc offer - An engaging discussion robot for mental health preservation
by Christophe Lohr 25 Mar '24

25 Mar '24

Please find below a 2 years post-doc offer within the RAMBO and COMMEDIA teams from the pole interaction: DISCOBOT — An engaging discussion robot for mental health preservation Applications until the 15th April and if recruitment is unsuccessful, we will continue to accept ongoing applications for an ideal starting date between June and December 2024 included. <https://labsticc.fr/en/lab-sticc/job-offers/2-years-post-doc-offer>

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Last call for APCLC2024
by Xu, Jiajin 25 Mar '24

25 Mar '24

Last Call for Papers for The Fifth Asia Pacific Corpus Linguistics Conference (APCLC2024) Date: 25 to 27 October, 2024 Location: Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China Webpage: https://apclc2024.org Submission Deadline: 31 March 2024 (Extended) Submission Portal: https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/31556/submitter ***** Dear list members, The Fifth Asia Pacific Corpus Linguistics Conference (APCLC2024) will be held at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China from 25 to 27 October, 2024. Plenary speakers Michael Barlow (University of Auckland, New Zealand) Vaclav Brezina (Lancaster University, UK) Dagmar Divjak (University of Birmingham, UK) Martin Hilpert (University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland) Wenzhong Li (Zhejiang Gongshang University, China) Naixing Wei (Beihang University, China) Co-hosts Asia Pacific Corpus Linguistics Association Corpus Linguistics Society of China The School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Important dates 31 March, 2024: Deadline for abstract submission. Submit here: https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/31556/submitter 30 April, 2024: Notification of acceptance of abstracts 31 May, 2024: End of early bird registration 31 July, 2024: End of main registration 25 October, 2024: Preconference workshops 26-27 October, 2024: Main conference Please save the dates and visit our APCLC2024 official site ( https://apclc2024.org) for future updates. Best wishes, Jiajin On behalf of APCLA Jiajin XU, Ph.D., Professor National Research Centre for Foreign Language Education, Beijing Foreign Studies University, China

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[Deadline Extension!] Final Call for Papers for the 13th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2024) [CFP]
by Yi Zhou 24 Mar '24

24 Mar '24

* We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP * ARR commit deadline for *SEM 2024 has been extended until the 2nd of April. *13th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2024)* *Co-located with NAACL 2024* Mexico City, Mexico Workshop data June 20–21, 2024 Website: https://sites.google.com/view/starsem2024 *Invited Speakers* Dr. Greg Durrett (The University of Texas at Austin) https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~gdurrett/# Prof. Heng Ji (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) https://cs.illinois.edu/about/people/faculty/hengji *SEM brings together researchers interested in the semantics of (many and diverse!) natural languages and its computational modeling. The conference embraces data-driven, neural, and probabilistic approaches, as well as symbolic approaches and everything in between; practical applications as well as theoretical contributions are welcome. The long-term goal of *SEM is to provide a stable forum for the growing number of NLP researchers working on all aspects of semantics of (many and diverse!) natural languages. *Topics of Interest* * Lexical semantics and word representations * Compositional semantics and sentence representations * Statistical, machine learning, and deep learning methods in semantic tasks * Multilingual and cross-lingual semantics * Word sense disambiguation and induction * Semantic parsing, and syntax-semantics interface * Frame semantics and semantic role labeling * Textual inference, textual entailment, and question answering * Formal approaches to semantics * Extraction of events and of causal and temporal relations * Entity linking, pronouns and coreference * Discourse, pragmatics, and dialogue * Machine reading * Extra-propositional aspects of meaning * Multiword and idiomatic expressions * Metaphor, irony, and humor * Knowledge mining and acquisition * Common sense reasoning * Language generation * Semantics in NLP applications: sentiment analysis, abusive language detection, summarization, fact-checking, etc. * Multidisciplinary research on semantics * Grounding and multimodal semantics * Psycholinguistcs * Interpretability and Explainability * Human semantic processing * Semantic annotation, evaluation, and resources * Ethical aspects and bias in semantic representations

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ACM GoodIT'24: Special Track on Educating for a Sustainable Digital Future -- First Call for Papers
by Announce 24 Mar '24

24 Mar '24

*** First Call for Papers *** ACM 4th International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good (GoodIT''24) Special Track on Educating for a Sustainable Digital Future https://blogs.uni-bremen.de/goodit2024/ ( *** Submission Deadline: 17 May 2024 ***) SCOPE Exploring the development of our digital future requires a comprehensive examination of both individual and societal consequences. Placing excessive emphasis on individual gains, a common practice in individualistic societies for many years, has hindered the ability to grasp the complex dynamics and forward-thinking mindset essential for the sustainability of a contemporary society. The evolving landscape of technology and the ongoing digital advancements have paved the way for creative applications in the field of education, allowing us to adapt to the ever-changing circumstances. When shaping a new approach for Information Systems and Information Technology education, it is crucial to emphasize the significance of individuals as key stakeholders and integral members of the wider community, while also recognizing the pivotal role of collaboration. In this track, we are searching for papers employing innovative technology and approaches to educate the future generation towards world equality, collegiality, inclusion and a more cooperative learning for a sustainable digital future. Values which are emphasized in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which overall aim towards creating a more equitable, sustainable, and peaceful world. This track is particularly relevant to IS/IT educators and those creative IT practitioners who care about developing a sustainable digital future. TOPICS Potential topics for papers include (but are not limited to): • Sustainable and innovative education technologies and practices • Universal access to quality education • The new role for IS/IT in society and education and the value of information and knowledge • The role of cooperative learning for life-long learning and societal developments • Digital transformation: opportunities and challenges for education, work, and society • Digital learning environments: Innovations and trends • Equality, diversity, and inclusion in education, work, and society • The use of large language models and generative AI in education • New topics and domains in IT-enhanced education We hope to attract the interest of IS/IT educators and those creative IT practitioners who care about developing a sustainable digital future. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Please refer to the instructions on the conference web site: https://blogs.uni-bremen.de/goodit2024/submission-of-papers/ . All accepted papers will be included in the ACM Digital Library . IMPORTANT DATES • Submission deadline: 17 May 2024 (AoE) • Notification of acceptance: 8 July 2024 • Camera ready: 19 July 2024 TRACK CHAIRS • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • Vasso Stylianou, University of Nicosia, Cyprus CONTACT DETAILS Vasso Stylianou, stylianou.v(a)unic.ac.cy

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2nd CFP-GITT-2024 at EAMT 2024
by bsavoldi＠fbk.eu 24 Mar '24

24 Mar '24

2nd CALL FOR PAPERS Second International Workshop on Gender-Inclusive Translation Technologies (GITT) at EAMT 2024 27 June 2024, Sheffield, UK https://sites.google.com/tilburguniversity.edu/gitt2024 @GITT2024 Important Dates (Time zone: Anywhere on Earth) Submission deadline: 15 April, 2024 Notification of Acceptance: 15 May, 2024 Camera Ready Copy due: 24 May, 2024 Workshop: 27 June, 2024 Aim and scope The Gender-Inclusive Translation Technologies Workshop (GITT) is set out to be the only dedicated workshop that focuses on gender-inclusive language in translation and cross-lingual scenarios. The workshop aims to bring together researchers from diverse areas, including industry partners, MT practitioners, and language professionals. GITT aims to encourage multidisciplinary research that develops and interrogates both solutions and challenges for addressing bias and promoting gender inclusivity in MT and translation tools, including LLMs applications for the translation task. Topics GITT invites technical as well as non-technical submissions, which consist of experimental, theoretical or methodological contributions. We explicitly welcome interdisciplinary submissions and submissions that focus on innovative, non-binary linguistic strategies and/or with sociolinguistically-informed perspectives. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Models or methods for assessing and mitigating gender bias - New resources for inclusive language and gender translation (e.g., datasets, translation memories, dictionaries) - Social, cross-lingual, and ethical implications of gender bias - Qualitative and quantitative analyses on the potential limits of current approaches to gender bias in translation and MT, error taxonomies as well as best practices and guidelines - User-centric case studies on the impact of biased language and/or mitigating approaches which can include translators, post-editors, or monolingual MT users GITT is also open to other non-listed topics aligned with the scope of the workshop and works focusing on non-textual modalities (e.g., audiovisual translation) Submission We welcome three types of submissions: - Research papers: of at least 4 up to 10 pages (including references) - Extended Abstracts: up to 2 pages (including references) Accepted papers and extended abstracts consisting of novel work will be published online as proceedings in the ACL Anthology. - Research Communications: up to 2 pages (including reference) We include a parallel submission policy for papers accepted in other venues in 2023. Research communications will not be included in the proceedings, but will serve to promote the dissemination of research aligned with the scope of the workshop. Submissions should adhere to the EAMT 2024 guidelines and style templates (PDF, LaTeX, Word) and be uploaded on OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=EAMT.org/2024/Workshop/GITT Workshop organizers Beatrice Savoldi, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Janiça Hackenbuchner, University of Ghent Luisa Bentivogli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Eva Vanmassenhove, University of Tilburg Joke Daems, University of Ghent Jasmijn Bastings, Google DeepMind

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CfP: 9th Symposium on Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar (LxGr2024)
by Costas Gabrielatos 24 Mar '24

24 Mar '24

9th Symposium on Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar (LxGr2024) CALL FOR PAPERS Extended deadline for abstract submission: 15 April 2024 The symposium will take place online on Friday 5 and Saturday 6 July 2024. Invited Speakers Lise Fontaine<http://www.uqtr.ca/PagePerso/Lise.Fontaine> (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières): Reconciling (or not) lexis and grammar Ute Römer-Barron<http://alsl.gsu.edu/profile/ute-romer> (Georgia State University): Phraseology research in second language acquisition LxGr primarily welcomes papers reporting on corpus-based research on any aspect of the interaction of lexis and grammar - particularly studies that interrogate the system lexicogrammatically to get lexicogrammatical answers. However, position papers discussing theoretical or methodological issues are also welcome, as long as they are relevant to both lexicogrammar and corpus linguistics. If you would like to present, send an abstract of 500 words (excluding references) to lxgr(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:lxgr@edgehill.ac.uk>. Abstracts for research papers should specify the research focus (research questions or hypotheses), the corpus, the methodology (techniques, metrics), the theoretical orientation, and the main findings. Abstracts for position papers should specify the theoretical orientation and the potential contribution to both lexicogrammar and corpus linguistics. Abstracts will be double-blind reviewed by members of the Programme Committee<https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/lxgr/committee>. Full papers will be allocated 35 minutes (including 10 minutes for discussion). Work-in-progress reports will be allocated 20 minutes (including 5 minutes for discussion). There will be no parallel sessions. Participation is free. For details, visit the LxGr website: https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/lxgr/lxgr2024 If you have any questions, contact lxgr(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:lxgr@edgehill.ac.uk>. ________________________________ Edge Hill University<http://ehu.ac.uk/home/emailfooter> Modern University of the Year, The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2022<http://ehu.ac.uk/tef/emailfooter> University of the Year, Educate North 2021/21 ________________________________ This message is private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it from your system. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Edge Hill or associated companies. Edge Hill University may monitor email traffic data and also the content of email for the purposes of security and business communications during staff absence.<http://ehu.ac.uk/itspolicies/emailfooter>

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Call for Participation: ArAIEval Shared Task at the ArabicNLP conference 2024 (co-located with ACL 2024): Propagandistic Techniques Detection in Unimodal and Multimodal Arabic Content
by Firoj Alam 23 Mar '24

23 Mar '24

Dear colleagues, You are invited to participate in ArAIEval Shared Task at the ArabicNLP 2024: (i) detection of propagandistic textual spans with persuasion techniques identification (unimodal) on Arabic news articles and tweets. (ii) distinguishing between propagandistic and non-propagandistic memes (multimodal) in Arabic. The shared task will be held alongside the Second Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP 2024), co-located with the ACL2024 Conference in Bangkok, Thailand (11-16 Aug, 2024). Tasks Task 1: Unimodal (Text) Propagandistic Technique Detection: The task is to detect the propaganda techniques used in a text and identify the exact span(s) in which each propaganda technique appears. You will be given text snippets from news paragraphs or tweets (multigenre). This is a sequence tagging task. Task 2: Multimodal propagandistic memes classification: We offer the three subtasks as defined below: - Subtask 2A: Given a text extracted from a meme, detect whether it is propagandistic or not. - Subtask 2B: Given a meme (text overlayed image), the task is to detect whether the content is propagandistic. - Subtask 2C: Given multimodal content (text extracted from meme and the meme itself) the task is to detect whether the content is propagandistic. Website for detailed information: https://araieval.gitlab.io/ Registration and submission: Task 1: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/18111 Task 2: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/18099 Important Dates: - 15 Mar 2024: Registration on CodaLab and the start of the development cycle (release of training and development datasets, along with submission for the development phase on CodaLab) - 27 April 2023 23:59 AOE: Beginning of the evaluation cycle (test sets release) - 1 May 2024 23:59 AOE: End of the evaluation cycle (run submission) - 5 May 2024: Release leaderboard - 15 May 2024: Deadline for the submission of shared task papers - 17 June 2024: Notification of acceptance of shared task papers - 1 July 2024: Deadline for submission of camera-ready papers - 16 August 2023: ArabicNLP Conference (colocated with ACL-2024) Organizers - Firoj Alam, Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU, Qatar - Maram Hasanain, Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU, Qatar - Reem Suwaileh, HBKU, Qatar - Md. Arid Hasan, University of New Brunswick, Canada - Fatema Ahmed, Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU, Qatar - Md. Rafiul Biswas, HBKU, Qatar - Wajdi Zaghouani, HBKU, Qatar Regards, The ArAIEval Shared Task Organizers

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PhD position CASCADE EU Horizon MSCA - Modeling context for the analysis of language variation and change
by Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb 23 Mar '24

23 Mar '24

Exciting EU Horizon Doctoral Network Opportunity! Network: HORIZON Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Doctoral Network on Computational Analysis of Semantic Change Across Different Environments (CASCADE) Job Title: PhD Candidate in Computational Linguistics/Digital Humanities/Computational Humanities/Data Science (AI/NLP) Project Title: Modeling context for the analysis of language variation and change Please share with interested students! Important: see eligibility requirements below!! Full official advert available here: https://www.uni-saarland.de/fileadmin/upload/verwaltung/stellen/Wissenschaft ler/W2439.pdf Workplace Computational Analysis of Semantic Change Across Different Environments (CASCADE) is a HORIZON Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Doctoral Networks scheme which will bring together researchers from a variety of backgrounds, including literary studies, historical text analysis, semantics, corpus linguistics, machine learning and natural language processing. The project will emphasise the importance of computational linguistics and humanities scholarship as skills that bring value and competitive edge to organisations concerned with semantically aware information retrieval and text analytics. CASCADE is a partnership between University College Cork, the University of Sheffield, KU Leuven, the University of Helsinki, and Saarland University. Location This position is to be filled at Saarland University, seeking applications for a PhD project entitled Diachronic development of text types in the English Language, which will be one of ten funded projects to emerge out of CASCADE's doctoral network. The successful candidate will be appointed as Marie Curie Early Career Researchers at Saarland University, enrolled in a fully-funded three-year PhD programme. The successful candidate will be supervised by PD Dr. Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb. The position will be located within the Department of Language Science and Technology. The successful applicant will have the opportunity to collaborate with researchers affiliated with the DFG-funded Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 1102 on Information Density and Linguistic Encoding at Saarland University. CRC 1102 is a thriving research environment with over 30 PhD students and postdocs from many subfields of Linguistics, Computational Linguistics and Psycholinguistics. The Department of Language Science and Technology consists of about 100 research staff in nine research groups in the fields of Computational Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Speech Processing, and Corpus Linguistics. It is part of Saarland Informatics Campus, which brings together computer science research at the university with world-class research institutions on campus. Project description The project Modeling context for the analysis of language variation and change will use computational approaches to mode linguistic and extra-linguistic context for the analysis of language variation and change. Context has a major impact on how we process language. However, the notion of context is very broad ranging from broadly conceived pragmatic conditions, i.e. the extra-linguistic context (e.g. socio-cultural factors, genres, time), to the relationship among linguistic elements that can substitute for each other in a given context, i.e. the paradigmatic context, up to the local linguistic context of linguistic elements, i.e. the syntagmatic context. While studies on language variation and change do encompass the notion of context, the coverage of contextual factors is often relatively limited. This project will apply and further develop computational modeling techniques to integrate contextual factors among the types of context described above to arrive at more comprehensive accounts of effects of contextual factors on language variation and change. Eligibility: This is important! The vacancy is open to applicants of all nationalities who comply with the mobility requirement and the degree requirement: * applicants must not have resided in the country of the CASCADE university that will host them (university of the main supervisor, Germany in this case) for more than 12 months in the 36 months preceding appointment * applicants must not hold a doctoral degree in any other field or have failed a corresponding doctoral examination at another higher education institution. More information about the Network CASCADE is committed to creating an environment in which all talents can develop to their maximum potential, regardless of gender, age, cultural origin, nationality or disability. We particularly encourage candidates from traditionally underrepresented groups to apply. CASCADE is advertising positions for 10 candidates within its network, who will be housed across the five participating universities. While applications are welcome to apply for more than one project, applications for each position must be submitted separately. In the event an applicant does apply for more than one position and has a particular preference, this should be indicated by email to PD Dr. Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb. Applicants are encouraged to only apply for projects for which they are ideally qualified and suitable. The recruitment process will be done centrally by the CASCADE selection committee. Job requirements and responsibilities * Participation in the general training programme of the doctoral network (kick-off, monthly online research meetings, annual workshops and schools, and final conference) * Collaboration with a multidisciplinary research group focused on the intersection of Computational Linguistics, Linguistics, and Digital Humanities. * Creation of a computational approach to model contextual factors. * Large-scale analysis of effects of contextual factors on modeling language variation and change. * Participation in joint publications and engagement in academic service. * The successful candidate will be expected to participate in a series of international conferences and workshops, as well as undertake secondments in Germany and abroad. Your academic qualifications * Completed university studies in Digital Humanities, Computational Linguistics, Data Science, AI/NLP, Information Science, or related fields, held by time of appointment * Language skills (according to GER): English - B2 The successful candidate will also be expected to: * Demonstrated experience in applying computational methods to textual data (essential); * Familiarity with eighteenth-century English data sources (desirable) * Capability to bridge the gap between data science and the humanities (essential); * Enthusiasm for inter- and multidisciplinary research and ability to work independently and collaboratively * (essential); * Strong research, analytical, and organizational skills (essential); * Excellent written and verbal communication skills (essential); * A good command of English is mandatory; * Language skills (according to GER): English B2 What we can offer you: * A flexible work schedule allowing you to balance work and family * Interdisciplinary supervision and structured PhD training * An occupational health management model with numerous attractive options, such as our university sports program * A broad range or further education and professional development programmes (e.g. language courses) Applicants are requested to enclose the following documents in English with their application: 1. A curriculum vitae, including any publications (max. 10 pages); 2. A cover statement outlining the applicant's ambitions for Diachronic development of text types in the English Language and the wider CASCADE network (max. 2 pages); 3. A single-authored writing sample from your previous studies (any length). We look forward to receiving your meaningful online application (in a PDF file) by 29.03.2024 (extension is planned) to s.degaetano(a)mx.uni-saarland.de. Please include the reference number W2440 in the subject line of the e-mail. If you have any questions, please contact us for assistance. Your contact: PD Dr. Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb Assistant Professor (Akademische Rätin) Department of Language Science and Technology Saarland University Campus A2.2 66123 Saarbrücken s.degaetano(a)mx.uni-saarland.de <mailto:s.degaetano@mx.uni-saarland.de> www.stefaniadegaetano.com <http://www.stefaniadegaetano.com/>

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PhD position CASCADE EU Horizon MSCA - Diachronic development of text types in the English Language
by Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb 23 Mar '24

23 Mar '24

Exciting EU Horizon Doctoral Network Opportunity! Network: HORIZON Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Doctoral Network on Computational Analysis of Semantic Change Across Different Environments (CASCADE) Job Title: PhD Candidate in Computational Linguistics/Digital Humanities/Computational humanities/Corpus Linguistics Project Title: Diachronic development of text types in the English Language Please share with interested students! Important: see eligibility requirements below!! Full official advert available here: https://www.uni-saarland.de/fileadmin/upload/verwaltung/stellen/Wissenschaft ler/W2440.pdf Workplace Computational Analysis of Semantic Change Across Different Environments (CASCADE) is a HORIZON Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Doctoral Networks scheme which will bring together researchers from a variety of backgrounds, including literary studies, historical text analysis, semantics, corpus linguistics, machine learning and natural language processing. The project will emphasise the importance of computational linguistics and humanities scholarship as skills that bring value and competitive edge to organisations concerned with semantically aware information retrieval and text analytics. CASCADE is a partnership between University College Cork, the University of Sheffield, KU Leuven, the University of Helsinki, and Saarland University. Location This position is to be filled at Saarland University, seeking applications for a PhD project entitled Diachronic development of text types in the English Language, which will be one of ten funded projects to emerge out of CASCADE's doctoral network. The successful candidate will be appointed as Marie Curie Early Career Researchers at Saarland University, enrolled in a fully-funded three-year PhD programme. The successful candidate will be supervised by PD Dr. Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb. The position will be located within the Department of Language Science and Technology. The successful applicant will have the opportunity to collaborate with researchers affiliated with the DFG-funded Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 1102 on Information Density and Linguistic Encoding at Saarland University. CRC 1102 is a thriving research environment with over 30 PhD students and postdocs from many subfields of Linguistics, Computational Linguistics and Psycholinguistics. The Department of Language Science and Technology consists of about 100 research staff in nine research groups in the fields of Computational Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Speech Processing, and Corpus Linguistics. It is part of Saarland Informatics Campus, which brings together computer science research at the university with world-class research institutions on campus. Project description The project Diachronic development of text types in the English Language will use computational approaches to model temporal dynamics of textual data (corpus-based and novel probabilistic measures) for the analysis of the development of text types in English. From the 15th century onward, increased use of the vernacular and perceived syntactic and lexical gaps (compared with Latin) prompted linguistic innovation in English, concurrent with the progressive conventionalization of text types. Existing variation was made functional and new distinctions were either borrowed or invented (e.g. transfer of features from medicine to cooking recipes). Applying corpus-based and novel probabilistic measures to investigate diachronic change and with support from Text+ and IDeaL, the PhD candidate will be able to: 1) determine the linguistic features of different text types; 2) determine how these features change over time; 3) assess the overlap of different text types and the possible mutual influence of text types; 4) develop a computational workflow to support the above objectives which is made publicly available (e.g. on github). Eligibility: This is important! The vacancy is open to applicants of all nationalities who comply with the mobility requirement and the degree requirement: * applicants must not have resided in the country of the CASCADE university that will host them (university of the main supervisor, Germany in this case) for more than 12 months in the 36 months preceding appointment * applicants must not hold a doctoral degree in any other field or have failed a corresponding doctoral examination at another higher education institution. More information about the Network CASCADE is committed to creating an environment in which all talents can develop to their maximum potential, regardless of gender, age, cultural origin, nationality or disability. We particularly encourage candidates from traditionally underrepresented groups to apply. CASCADE is advertising positions for 10 candidates within its network, who will be housed across the five participating universities. While applications are welcome to apply for more than one project, applications for each position must be submitted separately. In the event an applicant does apply for more than one position and has a particular preference, this should be indicated by email to PD Dr. Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb. Applicants are encouraged to only apply for projects for which they are ideally qualified and suitable. The recruitment process will be done centrally by the CASCADE selection committee. Job requirements and responsibilities * Participation in the general training programme of the doctoral network (kick-off, monthly online research meetings, annual workshops and schools, and final conference) * Collaboration with a multidisciplinary research group focused on the intersection of Computational Linguistics, Linguistics, and Digital Humanities. * Creation of a typology of diachronic text types. * Large-scale analysis of the evolution of meaning across text types. * Development of a computationally supported methodology for diachronic text typology. * Participation in joint publications and engagement in academic service. * The successful candidate will be expected to participate in a series of international conferences and workshops, as well as undertake secondments in Germany and abroad. Your academic qualifications * Completed university studies in English Linguistics with strong historical and/or corpus-based background, Digital Humanities, Corpus Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, or related fields, held by time of appointment (MA-degree) * Language skills (according to GER): English B2 The successful candidate will also be expected to: * Demonstrated experience in applying text-/corpus-based or comparative approaches to the analysis of language variation (e.g., diachronic, sociolinguistic, multilingual variation) (desirable); * Capability to bridge the gap between data science and the humanities (essential); * Enthusiasm for inter- and multidisciplinary research and ability to work independently and collaboratively (essential); * Strong research, analytical, and organizational skills (essential); * Excellent written and verbal communication skills (essential); * A good command of English is mandatory; * Language skills (according to GER): English B2 What we can offer you: * A flexible work schedule allowing you to balance work and family * Interdisciplinary supervision and structured PhD training * An occupational health management model with numerous attractive options, such as our university sports program * A broad range or further education and professional development programmes (e.g. language courses) Applicants are requested to enclose the following documents in English with their application: 1. A curriculum vitae, including any publications (max. 10 pages); 2. A cover statement outlining the applicant's ambitions for Diachronic development of text types in the English Language and the wider CASCADE network (max. 2 pages); 3. A single-authored writing sample from your previous studies (any length). We look forward to receiving your meaningful online application (in a PDF file) by 29.03.2024 (extension is planned) to s.degaetano(a)mx.uni-saarland.de. Please include the reference number W2440 in the subject line of the e-mail. If you have any questions, please contact us for assistance. Your contact: PD Dr. Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb Assistant Professor (Akademische Rätin) Department of Language Science and Technology Saarland University Campus A2.2 66123 Saarbrücken s.degaetano(a)mx.uni-saarland.de <mailto:s.degaetano@mx.uni-saarland.de> www.stefaniadegaetano.com <http://www.stefaniadegaetano.com/>

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CAiSE'24: Last Call for Research Projects Exhibition
by Announce 23 Mar '24

23 Mar '24

*** Last Call for Research Projects Exhibition *** 36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'24) June 3-7, 2024, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/caise2024/ (*** Submission Deadline: 8th April, 2024 AoE ***) CAiSE 2024 features a Research Project Exhibition (RPE@CAiSE'24) where researchers and practitioners can present their ongoing research projects (e.g., Horizon or ERC projects, national grants) in the context of Information Systems Engineering. The main objective of this call is to serve as a forum where presenters can disseminate the intermediate results of their projects or get feedback about research project proposals being developed. The exhibition will also provide a warm environment to find potential research partners, foster existing relationships, and discuss research ideas. To participate in the RPE@CAiSE'24, the authors should submit a short paper (5-8 pages) showcasing the project, including the participants, the main objectives of the project and relevant results obtained so far (or expected results in the case of project proposals). Each submission will be peer-reviewed on the relevance of the submitted paper in the context of CAiSE 2024. If the paper is accepted, the authors will be invited to register for the conference to present their work at the Research Projects Exhibition session at CAiSE 2024. The accepted contributions will be proposed for publication by CEUR proceedings using the 1-column CEUR-ART style. In addition, the authors of the most influential project presented at the RPE@CAiSE'24 will receive an award distinguishing their contribution as the "Most Influential Project of the Research Project Exhibition @CAiSE'24". RESEARCH PROJECTS REQUIREMENTS For the Research Projects Exhibition, we solicit submissions of projects related to the topics of CAiSE that meet the following criteria: • Projects funded by the European Union, by national or local funding organisations, or even by individual universities and industries. • Projects focused on fundamental research, applied research or more industry-oriented. • Research projects carried out by an international consortium of partners or by a national research team. • Research statements for future projects concerning the Information Systems Engineering community. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Papers should be submitted via Easychair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=caise2024) by selecting the "Research Projects Exhibition". Each submission of a research project should include: • The project's full name, acronym, duration (from-to), participants, funding agency and URL. • Names of presenter(s) and main contributors. • Abstract and keywords. • Summary of project objectives and expected tangible outputs. • The relevance of the project (or one of its work packages) to the topics of the International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering. • If the project is ongoing: summary of current status and intermediate results. All submissions should be 5 to 8 pages long and be formatted as a 1-column CEUR-ART style (templates available at https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/). An intention to submit should be performed one week before the deadline, including the full name of the project, the authors' name and the abstract. Each submission will be reviewed by at least two members of the Program Committee. In case of disagreement, a third member of the Program Committee will review the submission. The Program Committee will comprise international researchers with expertise in the field. ATTENDANCE AND PRESENTATION During the Research Projects Exhibition session, the authors of accepted contributions will present the research project. Details about the format of the session and instructions to prepare the presentation will be given to authors after the acceptance notification. At least one author of each submission accepted for the Research Projects Exhibition must register and attend the conference to present the work. The author needs a full registration to present the research project. IMPORTANT DATES • Submission: 8th April, 2024 (AoE) • Notification of Acceptance: 22nd April, 2024 • Camera Ready: 13th May, 2024 • Author Registration: 17th May, 2024 • Conference Dates: 3rd-7th June, 2024 RESEARCH PROJECTS EXHIBITION CHAIRS • Raimundas Matulevicius, University of Tartu, Estonia • Henderik A. Proper, TU Wien, Austria

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Postdoctoral Researcher, STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse, 1475–1700
by heather froehlich 22 Mar '24

22 Mar '24

Dear all, With apologies for cross posting, please see the below job opportunity. I am posting this on behalf of Professor Erin McCarthy, please contact her ( erin.mccarthy(a)nuigalway.ie) with additional questions! *Postdoctoral Researcher, STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse, 1475–1700* School of English, Media, and Creative Arts, University of Galway Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates for a full-time, fixed-term position as a Postdoctoral Researcher for the project ‘STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse, 1475–1700’, led by Professor Erin A. McCarthy <https://www.universityofgalway.ie/colleges-and-schools/arts-social-sciences…>, School of English and Creative Arts at the University of Galway, Ireland. The position is funded by a European Research Council Consolidator Grant awarded to Professor McCarthy. This position is funded by a European Research Council Consolidator Grant awarded to Professor McCarthy and is available for thirty-six months from 1 July 2024. *Project Description* This project develops and applies a data-driven approach in order to provide the first macro-level view of the circulation of early modern English poetry in manuscript. It focuses on English verse manuscripts written and used between the introduction of printing in England in 1475 and 1700, by which time the rapid changes in both literary taste and publishing norms ushered in by the Restoration had fully transformed literary culture. The project includes manuscripts circulating in England and anywhere else English was spoken and read, including Ireland, the North American colonies, and continental exile communities. It develops innovative computational models and quantitative methods for studying the social and material forces that informed literary culture. Whereas the current state of the art has seen the scholarly community address manuscripts primarily as case studies, STEMMA seeks to open new frontiers in manuscript research by facilitating the identification of patterns and trends at scale. To that end, the project begins by synthesizing six of the most comprehensive datasets about early modern English manuscripts in preparation for advanced literary, material, and quantitative analyses. This first work package sets the stage for four further, interlocking work packages, to which the doctoral and postdoctoral positions are allocated: networking early modern manuscript poems; early modern literary communities in the English-speaking world; rolling archetypes, computational text analysis, and scholarly editing; and textual circulation between manuscript and print. The research team will comprise the PI, three postdoctoral researchers, and one PhD student with expertise in literary history, textual studies, computational text analysis, and social network analysis. They will be based in the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies, located in the Hardiman Research Building. *Job Description:*The successful candidate will focus on Work Package 4, ‘Rolling Archetypes, Computational Text Analysis, and Scholarly Editing’. This work package will test methods from textual editing and stylometry to assess their usefulness for identifying poets and/or scribes. The first several months of the contract will focus primarily on data preparation and reconciliation. The researcher will then identify one or more previously unidentified textual ‘clusters’ and prepare a full-text corpus. The researcher will apply computational text analysis methods to investigate how compilers worked with rolling archetypes and how these insights might inform contemporary textual editing practice. The researcher will also contribute to the organization of a major international hackathon and conference and the communication of project results through peer-reviewed outputs and public outreach activities. Duties: · Preparation of data for online virtual research environment · Analysing data and results · Computational text analysis · Archival research on major collections of manuscript miscellanies held in libraries internationally · Preparation of papers for presentation and publication · Contribution to the project website and social media channels · Associated administrative duties · Any other duties assigned commensurate to this level of post. *Qualifications/Skills required:* Essential Requirements: · PhD in English literature, digital humanities, or another relevant field · Significant experience in computational text analysis and/or stylometry · Experience working with databases · Excellent writing and communication skills · Peer-reviewed publication record · Ability to work well both collaboratively and independently · Highly motivated, with excellent organisational skills Desirable Requirements: · Expertise in early modern manuscript culture and/or early modern English poetry · Experience with textual editing · Experience with network analysis · Knowledge of one or more of the following languages: French, German, Italian, Latin, Spanish · Excellent IT skills Salary: Postdoctoral Researcher pay scale €42,782 - €54,965 per annum, (subject to the project’s funding limitations), and pro rata for shorter and/or part-time contracts. The default position for all new public sector appointments is the 1st point of the salary scale. This may be reviewed, and consideration afforded to appointment at a higher point on the payscale, where evidence of prior years’ equivalent experience is accepted in determining placement on the scale above point 1, subject to the maximum of the scale. Research Salary Scales - University of Galway). Start date: Position is available from 1 July 2024. Information on how to apply is available at https://www.universityofgalway.ie/about-us/jobs/research/?fbclid=IwAR2VB3Kb… . Thank you! -- Dr Heather Froehlich w // http://hfroehli.ch t // @heatherfro *this email address is for mailing list subscriptions only and is not monitored regularly.*

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LREC-COLING 2024: Registration is now open
by info＠elda.org 22 Mar '24

22 Mar '24

[Apologies for multiple postings] The online registration to LREC-COLING 2024 Main conference, Workshops and Tutorials is now open @ https://cvent.me/egYlAz Early-Bird Deadline: April 15, 2024 (23:59 AoE) Fees and Registration Policy: https://lrec-coling-2024.org/registration/ LREC-COLING 2024 Contacts: General contact: contact(a)lrec-coling-2024.org Invitation and visa letters: lreccoling24-local-chairs-l(a)ufal.mff.cuni.cz ELRA membership, payment, invoices: ELRASecretariat(a)lrec-coling-2024.org Scientific programme and Main conference papers: lreccoling24-program-chairs-l(a)ufal.mff.cuni.cz / lreccoling24-general-chairs-l(a)ufal.mff.cuni.cz Workshops and Tutorials: lreccoling24-all-workshop-chairs-l(a)ufal.mff.cuni.cz lreccoling24-tutorial-chairs-l(a)ufal.mff.cuni.cz https://lrec-coling-2024.org/ Follow us on Twitter: @LrecColing <https://twitter.com/recColing>

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HealTAC 024 - second call for contributions
by Jaya Chaturvedi 22 Mar '24

22 Mar '24

---------------------------- HealTAC 2024 June 12-14th, 2024, Lancaster (UK) https://healtac2024.github.io/ [healtac2024.github.io]<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/healtac2024.github.io/__;!!PDiH4ENfjr2_J…> ---------------------------- 1) Second call for contributions: deadline extended to April 8th 2) Keynote speakers: Suzan Verberne and Alistair Johnson 3) Tutorial: ‘Healthcare Text Analytics in the Era of LLMs’ (12 June) Second call for contributions The 7th Healthcare Text Analytics Conference (HealTAC 2024) invites contributions that address any aspect of healthcare text analytics. This year, we invite submissions in the form of extended abstracts that describe either methodological or application work that has not been previously presented in a conference. Submissions (up to 2 pages) should be prepared based on a template that is available at the conference web site. We also invite PhD and fellowship project submissions that describe ongoing PhD research (any stage) or a planned fellowship application. The conference will provide an opportunity to receive constructive feedback from a panel of experts. As in previous years, there will be a post-conference open call to submit a journal length paper for further peer review and publication in Frontiers in Digital Health. Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=healtac2024 [easychair.org]<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/easychair.org/conferences/?conf=healtac2…> Updated key dates : Deadline for all contributions: April 8th 2024 Notification of acceptance: April 24th 2024 Tutorial: June 12th 2024 Conference: June 13-14th 2024 Keynote speakers We are pleased to announce that the keynote speakers at HealTAC 2024 will be Suzan Verberne (Leiden University) and Alistair Johnson (Glowyr). Tutorial We are also pleased that a team from the Institute of Health Informatics, University College London (Yunsoo Kim, Jinge Wu, Honghan Wu) will deliver a tutorial on 'Healthcare Text Analytics in the Era of Large Language Models'. Announcements Follow the conference announcements on social media at #HEALTAC2024 We are looking forward to welcoming you to HealTAC 2024. Jaya Chaturvedi KCL DRIVE-Health CDT PhD Student (drive-health.org) Department of Biostatistics and Health Informatics C3.15, Social Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience King’s College London PO Box 80, De Crespigny Park London SE5 8AF Pronunciation: Juh-yaa Pronouns: she/her GitHub: https://github.com/jayachaturvedi X: @JayaChatur Project website: https://sites.google.com/view/pain-mental-health/home If you receive an email from me outside of normal working hours, please do not feel the need to respond outside of your own working hours.

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CFP for the LLcD 2024 Conference
by Pascal Denis 22 Mar '24

22 Mar '24

Hi there, Could you please distribute the following call for paper? thanks. Best, Pascal Denis =================================================================================================================================================== Langues et langage à la croisée des disciplines ( LLcD ) is a new research network, supported by the French CNRS. It organizes an international conference in France aiming to advance the scientific understanding of human language and linguistic systems, as well as to foster new collaborations and cross-fertilization among different research areas and approaches. The LLcD Meeting, slated to occur annually, will change its location and its thematic focus every year. It will be organized around a conference, as well as a panel discussion and a summer school, both within the theme promoted that year. The LLcD conference will feature plenary lectures delivered by invited keynote speakers, a general session and thematic workshops. The first edition of the conference is scheduled to take place at Sorbonne University, Paris, from September 9th to September 11th, 2024 . Its main theme will be: Languages, variations, changes: synchronic, diachronic, typological and comparative approaches. We invite papers on all sub-fields of linguistics, languages, approaches (descriptive, theoretical, empirical, interdisciplinary, etc.), in order to promote diversity across disciplines and methodologies. The proposals are not required to address the main theme of the conference. The languages of the conference are English and French. Abstracts may be submitted for thematic workshops or the general session, no later than April 20, 2024 , on EasyChair . [ https://llcd2024.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/18 | List of workshops ] Abstracts must clearly state the research questions, approach, method, data and (expected) results. They must be anonymous: not only must they not contain the presenters' names, affiliations or addresses, but they must avoid any other information that might reveal their author(s). They should not exceed 500 words (including examples, but excluding bibliographical references). Each submission is subject to three reviews. Abstracts submitted for the general session will be evaluated by three members of the Scientific Committee. Abstracts submitted for workshops will be assessed by two members of the Scientific Committee and (one of) the workshop organizer(s). EasyChair submission page: [ https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=llcd2024 | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=llcd2024 ] Contact: [ mailto:llcd@sciencesconf.org | llcd(a)sciencesconf.org ] -- Pascal ---- Pour une évaluation indépendante, transparente et rigoureuse ! Je soutiens la Commission d'Évaluation de l'Inria. ---- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Pascal Denis Equipe MAGNET, INRIA Lille Nord Europe Bâtiment B, Avenue Heloïse Parc scientifique de la Haute Borne 59650 Villeneuve d'Ascq Tel: ++33 3 59 35 87 24 Url: http://researchers.lille.inria.fr/~pdenis/ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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Call for Participation: "Help us break LLMs" - Test suite sub-task of the Ninth Conference on Machine Translation (WMT24)
by Eleftherios Avramidis 22 Mar '24

22 Mar '24

The “test suites” sub-task will be included for the sixth time in the General MT Shared Task of the Conference on Machine Translation (WMT24). *OVERVIEW* Test suites are custom extensions to the test sets of the General MT Shared Task, constructed so that they can focus on concrete aspects of the MT output. They consist of a source-side test-set and a customized evaluation service. As opposed to the standard evaluation process which produces generic quality scores, test suites often produce separate fine-grained results for each phenomenon. Since the usage of LLMs for translation is getting more popular, and we are expecting more LLMs participations in WMT this year, the theme of this year’s test suite sub-task is "Help us break LLMs", i.e. to reveal weaknesses and serious flaws of LLMs when translating, hidden within the overall high-quality generation. *IMPORTANT DATES* * 11th April: Test suite source texts may be submitted for a pre-run on SoTA MT systems * 12th June: Test suite source texts must reach us * 11th July: Translated test suites shipped back to test suites authors: * TBC - August: Test suite description and analysis paper * 12th-13th November: Conference Potential participants are kindly requested to fill in this form https://forms.office.com/e/e4JuMTSWFF <the “Test suites” sub-task will be included for the sixth time in the General MT Shared Task of the Conference on Machine Translation (WMT24). , ,,*OVERVIEW* ,,Test suites are custom extensions to the test sets of the General MT Shared Task, constructed so that they can focus on concrete aspects of the MT output. They consist of a source-side test-set and a customized evaluation service. As opposed to the standard evaluation process which produces generic quality scores, test suites often produce separate fine-grained results for each phenomenon. ,,Since the usage of LLMs for translation is getting more popular, and we are expecting more LLMs participations in WMT this year, the theme of this year’s test suite sub-task is "Help us break LLMs", i.e. to reveal weaknesses and serious flaws of LLMs when translating, hidden within the overall high-quality generation. ,, ,,*IMPORTANT DATES* ,,11th April: Test suite source texts may be submitted for a pre-run on SoTA MT systems ,,12th June: Test suite source texts must reach us ,,18th July: Translated test suites shipped back to test suites authors: ,,TBC - August: Test suite description and analysis paper ,, ,,Potential participants are kindly requested to fill in this form ,,https://forms.office.com/e/e4JuMTSWFF ,, ,,Further information can be found in the dedicated page of the WMT website ,,http://www2.statmt.org/wmt24/testsuite-subtask.html> Further information can be found in the dedicated page of the WMT website http://www2.statmt.org/wmt24/testsuite-subtask.html <http://www2.statmt.org/wmt24/testsuite-subtask.html> -- Eleftherios Avramidis, senior researcher German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) departments: Design Research eXplorations, Speech and Language Technology short name: Lefteris, (pronouns: he/him), languages: English, German, Greek Website:https://www.dfki.de/~elav01 Address: Alt Moabit 91c, 10559 Berlin, Germany Tel.: +49 30 23895 1806 Sec.: +49 30 23895 1800 Fax.: +49 30 23895 1810 Firmensitz: Trippstadter Strasse 122, D-67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany Geschäftsführung: Prof. Dr. Antonio Krüger, Helmut Ditzer Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Dr. Ferri Abolhassan Amtsgericht Kaiserslautern, HRB 2313

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CAiSE'24: Last Call for Journal First Submissions
by Announce 22 Mar '24

22 Mar '24

*** Last Call for Journal First Submissions *** 36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'24) June 3-7, 2024, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/caise2024/ (*** Submission Deadline: 31st March, 2024 AoE ***) CAiSE 2024 is organising journal-first sessions as part of the scientific program. The aim of these sessions is to disseminate recent important research contributions and spark discussions between authors and researchers in the CAiSE community. Authors of selected journal articles on CAiSE-related topics will be invited to present their work at the conference. SCOPE For the journal-first sessions, we solicit submissions related to articles that have been accepted for publication by a reputable journal and that meet the following criteria: • The article relates to the topics of the CAiSE conference and the recent call for papers. • The article is an original submission to the journal and not an extension of an earlier conference or workshop paper. • The article is an original research article; review articles or commentaries will not be considered. • The article was accepted for publication by a journal on or after 1 January 2023, the acceptance must have been publicly announced, the article must be available at the publisher’s website (e.g., as "articles in advance" or published on a journal’s website), and the article must be written in English. • The article has not been presented at, and is not under consideration for, journal-first tracks of other conferences. FORMAT Accepted submissions will be presented as part of the CAiSE 2024 scientific programme. SUBMISION Submissions must be done electronically via Easychair (https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=caise2024) and include: • Title and author information of the article. • The original abstract and keywords. • DOI of the original publication or, alternatively, a link to the publication at the journal’s website. EVALUATION All submissions will be reviewed by the track chairs with the aim to accept all qualifying submissions subject to ability to accommodate them in the program. If needed, priority will be given to submissions according to their topical fit with the scope of the conference, the importance of the contribution, as well as the standing of the respective journal (including, but not limited to, the journal's impact factor and ranking results). ATTENDANCE AND PRESENTATION At least one author of each submission accepted for the journal-first track must register and attend the conference to present the work. The author needs a full registration to present the journal article. As the articles of the journal-first track have been published already, they will not be part of the CAiSE 2024 proceedings. The articles will be listed in the conference program and CAiSE 2024 participants will have access to the respective abstracts and a pointer to the original journal article. IMPORTANT DATES • Submission: 31st March, 2024 (AoE) • Notification of Acceptance: 14th April, 2024 • Author Registration: 17th May, 2024 • Conference Dates: 3rd-7th June, 2024 JOURNAL FIRST CHAIRS • Paolo Giorgini, University of Trento, Italy • Jeffrey Parsons, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada

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Preliminary Call for Papers – Special issue of Information Processing & Management on Large Language Models and Data Quality for Knowledge Graphs
by Stefano Marchesin 22 Mar '24

22 Mar '24

Apologies for crossposting. Call for Papers Information Processing & Management (IPM), Elsevier - CiteScore: 14.8 - Impact Factor: 8.6 Guest editors: - Omar Alonso, Applied Science, Amazon, Palo Alto, California, USA. E-mail: omralon(a)amazon.com - Stefano Marchesin, Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Padua, Italy. E-mail: stefano.marchesin(a)unipd.it - Gianmaria Silvello, Department of Information Engineering, University of Padua, Padua, Italy. E-mail: gianmaria.silvello(a)unipd.it Special Issue on “Large Language Models and Data Quality for Knowledge Graphs” In recent years, Knowledge Graphs (KGs), encompassing millions of relational facts, have emerged as central assets to support virtual assistants and search and recommendations on the web. Moreover, KGs are increasingly used by large companies and organizations to organize and comprehend their data, with industry-scale KGs fusing data from various sources for downstream applications. Building KGs involves data management and artificial intelligence areas, such as data integration, cleaning, named entity recognition and disambiguation, relation extraction, and active learning. However, the methods used to build these KGs involve automated components that could be better, resulting in KGs with high sparsity and incorporating several inaccuracies and wrong facts. As a result, evaluating the KG quality plays a significant role, as it serves multiple purposes – e.g., gaining insights into the quality of data, triggering the refinement of the KG construction process, and providing valuable information to downstream applications. In this regard, the information in the KG must be correct to ensure an engaging user experience for entity-oriented services like virtual assistants. Despite its importance, there is little research on data quality and evaluation for KGs at scale. In this context, the rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) opens up unprecedented opportunities – and challenges – to advance KG construction and evaluation, providing an intriguing intersection between human and machine capabilities. On the one hand, integrating LLMs within KG construction systems could trigger the development of more context-aware and adaptive AI systems. At the same time, however, LLMs are known to hallucinate and can thus generate mis/disinformation, which can affect the quality of the resulting KG. In this sense, reliability and credibility components are of paramount importance to manage the hallucinations produced by LLMs and avoid polluting the KG. On the other hand, investigating how to combine LLMs and quality evaluation has excellent potential, as shown by promising results from using LLMs to generate relevance judgments in information retrieval. Thus, this special issue promotes novel research on human-machine collaboration for KG construction and evaluation, fostering the intersection between KGs and LLMs. To this end, we encourage submissions related to using LLMs within KG construction systems, evaluating KG quality, and applying quality control systems to empower KG and LLM interactions on both research- and industrial-oriented scenarios. Topics include but are not limited to: - KG construction systems - Use of LLMs for KG generation - Efficient solutions to deploy LLMs on large-scale KGs - Quality control systems for KG construction - KG versioning and active learning - Human-in-the-loop architectures - Efficient KG quality assessment - Quality assessment over temporal and dynamic KGs - Redundancy and completeness issues - Error detection and correction mechanisms - Benchmarks and Evaluation - Domain-specific applications and challenges - Maintenance of industry-scale KGs - LLM validation via reliable/credible KG data Submission guidelines: Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished papers. All submissions will be peer-reviewed and judged on originality, significance, quality, and relevance to the special issue topics of interest. Submitted papers should not have appeared in or be under consideration for another journal. Papers can be submitted from 1 June 2024 to 1 September 2024. The estimated publication date for the special issue is 15 January 2025. Papers submission via IP&M electronic submission system: https://www.editorialmanager.com/IPM Instructions for authors: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/information-processing-and-management… To submit your manuscript to the special issue, please choose the article type: "VSI: LLMs and Data Quality for KGs". More info here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/information-processing-and-management… Important dates: - Submissions open: 1 June 2024 - Submissions close: 1 September 2024 - Publication date: 15 January 2025 References: Weikum G., Dong X.L., Razniewski S., et al. (2021) Machine knowledge: creation and curation of comprehensive knowledge bases. Found. Trends Databases, 10, 108–490. Hogan A., Blomqvist E., Cochez M. et al. (2021) Knowledge graphs. ACM Comput. Surv., 54, 71:1–71:37. B. Xue and L. Zou. 2023. Knowledge Graph Quality Management: A Comprehensive Survey. IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. 35, 5 (2023), 4969 – 4988 G. Faggioli, L. Dietz, C. L. A. Clarke, G. Demartini, M. Hagen, C. Hauff, N. Kando, E. Kanoulas, M. Potthast, B. Stein, and H. Wachsmuth. 2023. Perspectives on Large Language Models for Relevance Judgment. In Proc. of the 2023 ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval, ICTIR 2023, Taipei, Taiwan, 23 July 2023. ACM, 39 – 50. S. MacAvaney and L. Soldaini. 2023. One-Shot Labeling for Automatic Relevance Estimation. In Proc. of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2023, Taipei, Taiwan, July 23-27, 2023. ACM, 2230 – 2235. X. L. Dong. 2023. Generations of Knowledge Graphs: The Crazy Ideas and the Business Impact. Proc. VLDB Endow. 16, 12 (2023), 4130 – 4137. S. Pan, L. Luo, Y. Wang, C. Chen, J. Wang, and X. Wu. 2023. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap. CoRR abs/2306.08302 (2023). -- Stefano Marchesin, PhD Assistant Professor (RTD/a) Information Management Systems (IMS) Group Department of Information Engineering University of Padua Via Gradenigo 6/a, 35131 Padua, Italy Home page: http://www.dei.unipd.it/~marches1/

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[CfP] Deadline extended: Workshop on Reclaiming the Narrative: Digital Recovery, AI & Mitigating Harm in Social Media @ ICWSM 2024
by Steve Wilson 21 Mar '24

21 Mar '24

Join us for the 1st workshop on “Reclaiming the Narrative: Digital Recovery, AI & Mitigating Harm in Social Media” at ICWSM! If you work in harm reduction, NLP, AI, Social Sciences, recovery, HCI, and adjacent narrative studies, this one’s for you! * When: June 3, 2024. * Format: Hybrid (@Buffalo, NY and Zoom) * [NEW] Submission deadline extended to: April 1 We invite submissions of abstracts (2 pages), as well as Long (8 pages) and Short (4 pages) papers, excluding references and appendices. The Long and Short papers will be included in the ICWSM Workshop proceedings, published by AAAI Press. For more details, please visit https://sites.google.com/view/reclaiming-the-narrative/

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[CfP] SIGIR Workshop on evaluating IR systems with Large Language Models (LLM4EVAL)
by Guglielmo Faggioli 21 Mar '24

21 Mar '24

Overview The first workshop on evaluating IR systems with Large Language Models (LLMs) is accepting submissions that describe original research findings, preliminary research results, proposals for new work, and recent relevant studies already published in high-quality venues. The workshop will have both an in-person and virtual component, and submissions are welcome even for researchers who cannot attend in person, as they will present their work in the virtual component. Topics of interest We welcome both full papers and extended abstract submissions on the following topics, including but not limited to: - LLM-based evaluation metrics for traditional IR and generative IR. - Agreement between human and LLM labels. - Effectiveness and/or efficiency of LLMs to produce robust relevance labels. - Investigating LLM-based relevance estimators for potential systemic biases. - Automated evaluation of text generation systems. - End-to-end evaluation of Retrieval Augmented Generation systems. - Trustworthiness in the world of LLMs evaluation. - Prompt engineering in LLMs evaluation. - Effectiveness and/or efficiency of LLMs as ranking models. - LLMs in specific IR tasks such as personalized search, conversational search, and multimodal retrieval. - Challenges and future directions in LLM-based IR evaluation. Submission guidelines We welcome the following submissions: - Previously unpublished manuscripts will be accepted as extended abstracts and full papers (any length between 1 - 9 pages) with unlimited references, formatted according to the latest ACM SIG proceedings template available at http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. - Published manuscripts can be submitted in their original format. All submissions should be made through Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=llm4eval All papers will be peer-reviewed (single-blind) by the program committee and judged by their relevance to the workshop, especially to the main themes identified above, and their potential to generate discussion. For already published studies, the paper can be submitted in the original format. These submissions will be reviewed for their relevance to this workshop. All submissions must be in English (PDF format). Please note the workshop will have an in-person (to be held with SIGIR 2024) and virtual component (to be held at a later date on SIGIR VF). During submission, the authors should select their preferred component. All accepted papers will have a poster presentation with a few selected for spotlight talks. Accepted papers may be uploaded to arXiv.org, allowing submission elsewhere as they will be considered non-archival. The workshop’s website will maintain a link to the arXiv versions of the papers. Important Dates - Submission Deadline: April 25th, 2024 (AoE time) - Acceptance Notifications: May 31st, 2024 (AoE time) - Workshop date: July 18, 2024 Website and Contact More details are available at https://llm4eval.github.io/cfp/. For any questions about paper submission, you may contact the workshop organizers at llm4eval(a)easychair.org

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Mapping of American English vocabulary by grade levels
by Flor, Michael 21 Mar '24

21 Mar '24

Dear colleagues, We are happy to announce the availability of the following lexical resource: A graded word list of American English, for 126K words. The publication is: Flor, M., Holtzman, S., Deane, P., & I. Bejar (2024). Mapping of American English vocabulary by grade levels. ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/itl.22025.flo The resource is available at GitHub: https://github.com/maafiah/VXGL Michael Flor Senior Research Scientist Research Division Educational Testing Service Princeton, NJ, USA mflor(a)ets.org<mailto:mflor@ets.org> ________________________________ This e-mail and any files transmitted with it may contain privileged or confidential information. It is solely for use by the individual for whom it is intended, even if addressed incorrectly. If you received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender; do not disclose, copy, distribute, or take any action in reliance on the contents of this information; and delete it from your system. Any other use of this e-mail is prohibited. Thank you for your compliance. ________________________________

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Job : Poste MCF Section 71, Universite de Lille
by Amel Fraisse 21 Mar '24

21 Mar '24

Cher.e.s, collègues, un poste d’enseignant-chercheur (MCF) en Sciences de l’information et de la communication est ouvert au concours lors de la campagne sychronisée 2024. Le profil de poste "Mutations de l'information et de la communication scientifique » est disponible sur galaxie : https://www.galaxie.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/ensup/ListesPostesPub… La personne recrutée effectuera ses recherches au sein du laboratoire Geriico. Les enseignements s’effectueront au sein du département INFODOC de l’université de Lille. Bien cordialement, Amel Fraisse. <> Amel Fraisse Maitresse de Conférences Directrice Département INFODOC Université de Lille - Département INFODOC - Laboratoire GERiiCO amel.fraisse(a)univ-lille.fr <mailto:prenom.nom@univ-lille.fr> / https://pro.univ-lille.fr/amel-fraisse/ <http://www.univ-lille.fr/> Domaine Universitaire de Pont de Bois - Villeneuve d'Ascq Bât. 2 - bureau B2.467 T. +33 (0)3 20 41 69 38

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[CFP] 1st Call for Participation - ISWC-LLMs4OL 2024 Challenge: Large Language Models for Ontology Learning
by Jennifer D'Souza 21 Mar '24

21 Mar '24

[apologies if you received multiple copies of this call] Dear colleagues and friends, *We are pleased to release the 1st Call for Participation - LLMs4OL Challenge collocated with The International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2024)* *Overview:* LLMs4OL stands for "Large Language Models for Ontology Learning." The LLMs4OL paradigm was first introduced in our research paper ( https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-47240-4_22) published in the ISWC 2023 main conference proceedings. In this context, we aimed to test the readiness of LLMs to address the Ontology Learning (OL) task w.r.t. three main subtasks: 1) Term Typing, 2) Type Taxonomy Discovery, and 3) Non-Taxonomic Relation Extraction. Therein our evaluations included ontolgies from various knowledge domains, i.e. lexicosemantics (WordNet), geography (GeoNames), biomedicine (NCI, MEDICIN, SNOMEDCT), and web content types (schema.org). With the ISWC-LLMs4OL 2024 challenge, we aim to catalyze community-wide engagement in validating and expanding the use of LLMs in OL by releasing our evaluation datasets publicly in the community. This initiative is poised to advance our comprehension of LLMs’ roles within the Semantic Web, encouraging innovation and collaboration in developing scalable and accurate OL methods. More info on the task website: https://sites.google.com/view/llms4ol/ The LLMs4OL Challenge will be divided into two evaluation phases: - Evaluation Phase 1: Few-shot Testing; - Evaluation Phase 2: Zero-shot Testing *Dates* Training datasets available: March 30, 2024 Test data available (Task A): May 27, 2024 Evaluation ends (Task A): June 4, 2024 Test data available (Tasks B & C): June 5, 2024 Evaluation ends (Tasks B & C): June 18, 2024 Participant papers due: June 28, 2024 Notification to authors: July 19, 2024 Camera ready due: July 30, 2024 ISWC 2024, Baltimore, Maryland, USA: 11-15 November 2024 *Task Organizers* Hamed Babaei Giglou (TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology - Germany) Jennifer D’Souza (TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology - Germany) Sören Auer (TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology - Germany) We look forward to having you on board! *Contact:* llms4ol.challenge [at] gmail.com

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NLPAICS’2024: Submission Deadline Extended to 22 April 2024
by t.ranasinghe＠aston.ac.uk 21 Mar '24

21 Mar '24

First International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (NLPAICS’2024) Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom 29-30 July 2024 https://www.nlpaics.com *** Submission Deadline Extended to 22 April 2024 *** Recent advances in Natural Language Processing (NLP), Deep Learning and Large Language Models (LLMs) have resulted in improved performance of applications. . In particular, there has been a growing interest in employing AI methods in different Cyber Security applications. In today's digital world, Cyber Security has emerged as a heightened priority for both individual users and organisations. As the volume of online information grows exponentially, traditional security approaches often struggle to identify and prevent evolving security threats. The inadequacy of conventional security frameworks highlights the need for innovative solutions that can effectively navigate the complex digital landscape for ensuring robust security. NLP and AI in Cyber Security have vast potential to significantly enhance threat detection and mitigation by fostering the development of advanced security systems for autonomous identification, assessment, and response to security threats in real-time. Recognising this challenge and the capabilities of NLP and AI approaches to fortify Cyber Security systems, the First International Conference on Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Cyber Security (NLPAICS’2024) serves as a gathering place for researchers in NLP and AI methods for Cyber Security. We invite contributions that present the latest NLP and AI solutions for mitigating risks in processing digital information. Conference topics The conference invites submissions on a broad range of topics related to the employment of NLP and AI (and in general, language studies and models) for Cyber Security including but not limited to: ## Societal and Human Security and Safety - Content Legitimacy and Quality o Detection and mitigation of hate speech and offensive language o Fake news, deepfakes, misinformation and disinformation o Detection of machine generated language in multimodal context (text, speech and gesture) o Trust and credibility of online information - User Security and Safety o Cyberbullying and identification of internet offenders o Monitoring extremist fora o Suicide prevention o Clickbait and scam detection o Fake profile detection in online social networks - Technical Measures and Solutions o Social engineering identification, phishing detection o NLP for risk assessment o Controlled languages for safe messages o Prevention of malicious use of ai models o Forensic linguistics - Human Factors in Cyber Security ## Speech Technology and Multimodal Investigations for Cyber Security - Voice-based security: Analysis of voice recordings or transcripts for security threats - Detection of machine generated language in multimodal context (text, speech and gesture) - NLP and biometrics in multimodal context ## Data and Software Security - Cryptography - Digital forensics - Malware detection, obfuscation - Models for documentation - NLP for data privacy and leakage prevention (DLP) - Addressing dataset “poisoning” attacks ## Human-Centric Security and Support - Natural language understanding for chatbots: NLP-powered chatbots for user support and security incident reporting - User behaviour analysis: analysing user-generated text data (e.g., chat logs and emails) to detect insider threats or unusual behaviour - Human supervision of technology for Cyber Security ## Anomaly Detection and Threat Intelligence - Text-Based Anomaly Detection o Identification of unusual or suspicious patterns in logs, incident reports or other textual data o Detecting deviations from normal behaviour in system logs or network traffic - Threat Intelligence Analysis o Processing and analysing threat intelligence reports, news, articles and blogs on latest Cyber Security threats o Extracting key information and indicators of compromise (IoCs) from unstructured text ## Systems and Infrastructure Security - Systems Security o Anti-reverse engineering for protecting privacy and anonymity o Identification and mitigation of side-channel attacks o Authentication and access control o Enterprise-level mitigation o NLP for software vulnerability detection - Malware Detection through Code Analysis o Analysing code and scripts for malware o Detection using NLP to identify patterns indicative of malicious code ## Financial Cyber Security - Financial fraud detection - Financial risk detection - Algorithmic trading security - Secure online banking - Risk management in finance - Financial text analytics ## Ethics, Bias, and Legislation in Cyber Security - Ethical and Legal Issues o Digital privacy and identity management o The ethics of NLP and speech technology o Explainability of NLP and speech technology tools o Legislation against malicious use of AI o Regulatory issues - Bias and Security o Bias in Large Language Models (LLMs) o Bias in security related datasets and annotations ## Datasets and resources for Cyber Security Applications ## Specialised Security Applications and Open Topics - Intelligence applications - Emerging and innovative applications in Cyber Security ## Special Theme Track - Future of Cyber Security in the Era of LLMs and Generative AI We are excited to share that NLPAICS 2024 will have a special theme track with the goal of stimulating discussion around Large Language Models (LLMs), Generative AI and ensuring their safety. The latest generation of LLMs, such as CHATGPT, Gemini, LLAMA and open-source alternatives, has showcased remarkable advancements in text and image understanding and generation. However, as we navigate through uncharted territory, it becomes imperative to address the challenges associated with employing these models in everyday tasks, focusing on aspects such as fairness, ethics, and responsibility. The theme track invites studies on how to ensure the safety of LLMs in various tasks and applications and what this means for the future of the field. The possible topics of discussion include (but are not limited to) the following: - Detection of LLM-generated language in multimodal context (text, speech and gesture) - LLMs for forensic linguistics - Bias in LLMs - Safety benchmarks for LLMs - Legislation against malicious use of LLMs - Tools to evaluate safety in LLMs - Methods to enhance the robustness of language models ## Submissions and Publication NLPAICS welcomes high-quality submissions in English, which can take two forms: -Regular long papers: These can be up to eight (8) pages long, presenting substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. -Short papers: These can be up to four (4) pages long and are suitable for describing small, focused contributions, negative results, system demonstrations, etc. Note that the page limits mentioned above exclude additional pages for references, ethical considerations, conflict-of-interest statements, as well as data and code availability statements. Papers must be anonymised to support double-blind reviewing. Please submit your work as pdf using the following link: https://softconf.com/n/nlpaics2024/ Submission templates can be accessed here: LaTeX Overleaf, LaTeX , MS Office Accepted papers, including both long and short papers, will be published as part of the same e-proceedings to be uploaded on ACL Anthology. ## Important dates -Submissions due: 22 April 2024 -Reviewing process: 29 April-5 June 2024 -Notification of acceptance: 10 June 2024 -Camera-ready due: 1 July 2024 -Conference: 29-30 July 2024 ## Keynote speakers We are delighted to announce our already confirmed keynote speakers Nigel Hardacre (Lancashire Constabulary) Sevil Şen (Hacettepe University) More keynote speakers will be listed in soon. ## Programme Committee Members of the Programme Committee of NLPAICS’2024 are listed here. ## Venue The First International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (NLPAICS’2024) will take place at Lancaster University and is organised by the Lancaster University UCREL NLP research group. ## Organisation - Conference Chair o Ruslan Mitkov (Lancaster University) - Conference Programme Chairs o Cengiz Acartürk (Jagiellonian University) o Matthew Bradbury (Lancaster University) o Mo El-Haj (Lancaster University) o Paul Rayson (Lancaster University) - Sponsorship Chair o Saad Ezzini (Lancaster University) - Publicity Chair o Tharindu Ranasinghe (Aston University) - Publication Chair o Ignatius Ezeani (Lancaster University) - Social Programme Chair o Nouran Khallaf (Lancaster University) ## Registration Conference registration is open on https://nlpaics.com/registration/ Early bird registration closes on 15 April 2024. ## Further information and contact details The conference website is https://nlpaics.com and will be updated on a regular basis. For further information, please email info(a)nlpaics.com Dr Tharindu Ranasinghe Lecturer in Computer Science School of Informatics and Digital Engineering Birmingham, B4 7ET, UK aston.ac.uk

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HIRING: Associate Research Scientists (PhD, Postdoc) in AI and NLP, at UKP Lab and INSAIT
by Niemann, Elisabeth 21 Mar '24

21 Mar '24

The UKP Lab in Darmstadt, Germany, led by Iryna Gurevych and the recently founded INSAIT in Sofia, Bulgaria have several job openings: *** Associate Research Scientists (PostDoc- or PhD-level) in AI and NLP *** Are you an outstanding PhD candidate or Postdoc with a strong profile in Natural Language Processing, LLMs and AI? We have several openings as Associate Research Scientists at UKP Lab (Germany) and INSAIT (Bulgaria)! We highly appreciate demonstrable engagement in open-source projects, communication skills in English and the ability to effectively cooperate with scientists of various interdisciplinary backgrounds. Prior experience with relevant areas of NLP and Machine Learning and strong engineering skills are a plus. More information about the opening and the application process can be found here: https://www.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/ukp/ukp_home/jobs_ukp/2024_associate… Join our internationally recognized team, enjoy diverse opportunities for professional development, and conduct cutting-edge research! Application deadline: April 15th, 2024. Please submit your application via the following form: https://careers.ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/ukprecruitment. Please indicate which institute you are applying to. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Dr. Iryna Gurevych UKP Lab, Technical University Darmstadt, Germany INSAIT, Sofia, Bulgaria

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NeTTT’2024 Submission Deadline Extended to 30 April 2024
by t.ranasinghe＠aston.ac.uk 21 Mar '24

21 Mar '24

International Conference ‘New Trends in Translation and Technology’ (NeTTT’2024) Varna, Bulgaria, 3-6 July 2024 https://nettt-conference.com/ *** Submission Deadline Extended to 30 April 2024 *** # The conference The second edition of the forthcoming International Conference ‘New Trends in Translation and Technology’ (NeTTT’2024) will take place in Varna, Bulgaria, 3-6 July 2024. Continuing the tradition of the first edition of the NeTTT conference and HiT-IT events series, the objective of the conference is (i) to bridge the gap between academia and industry in the field of translation and interpreting by bringing together academics in linguistics, translation studies, machine translation and natural language processing, developers, practitioners, language service providers and vendors who work on or are interested in different aspects of technology for translation and interpreting, and (ii) to be a distinctive event for discussing the latest developments and practices. NeTTT’2024 invites all professionals who would like to learn about the new trends, present the latest work or/and share their experience in the field, and who would like to establish business and research contacts, collaborations and new ventures. The conference will take the form of presentations (peer-reviewed research and user presentations, keynote speeches), and posters; it will also feature panel discussions. The accepted papers will be published as open-access conference e-proceedings. # Conference topics Contributions are invited on any topic related to latest technology and practices in machine translation, translation, subtitling, localisation and interpreting. NeTTT’2024 will feature a Special Theme Track "Future of Translation Technology in the Era of LLMs and Generative AI". The conference topics include but are not limited to: ## CAT tools - Translation Memory (TM) systems - NLP and MT for translation memory systems - Terminology extraction tools - Localisation tools ## Machine Translation - Latest developments in Neural Machine Translation - MT for under-resourced languages - MT with low computing resources - Multimodal MT - Integration of MT in TM systems - Resources for MT ## Technologies for MT deployment - MT evaluation techniques, metrics and evaluation results - Human evaluations of MT output - Evaluating MT in a real-world setting - Quality estimation for MT - Domain adaptation ## Translation Studies - Corpus-based studies applied to translation - Corpora and resources for translation - Translationese - Cognitive effort and eye-tracking experiments in translation ## Interpreting studies - Corpus-based studies applied to interpreting - Corpora and resources for interpreting - Interpretese - Resources for interpreting and interpreting technology applications - Cognitive effort and eye-tracking experiments in interpreting ## Interpreting technology - Machine interpreting - Computer-aided interpreting - NLP for dialogue interpreting - Development of NLP based applications for communication in public service settings (healthcare, education, law, emergency services) ## Emerging Areas in Translation and Interpreting - MT and translation tools for literary texts and creative texts - MT for social media and real-time conversations - Sign language recognition and translation ## Subtitling - NLP and MT for subtitling - Latest technology for subtitling ## 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 ## The business of translation and interpreting - Translation workflow and management - Technology adoption by translators and industry - Setting up translation /interpreting / language provider company ## Teaching translation and interpreting - Teaching Machine Translation - Teaching translation technology - Teaching interpreting technology - Latest AI developments in the syllabi of translation and interpreting curricula ## Ethical issues in translation and technology - Bias and fairness in MT - Privacy and security in cloud MT systems - Transparency and explainability of MT systems - Environmental impact on MT systems # Special Theme Track - Future of Translation Technology in the Era of LLMs and Generative AI We are excited to share that NeTTT’2024 will have a special theme with the goal of stimulating discussion around Large Language Models, Generative AI and the Future of Translation and Interpreting Technology. While the new generation of Large Language Models such as CHATGPT and LLAMA showcase remarkable advancements in language generation and understanding, we find ourselves in uncharted territory when it comes to their performance on various Translation and Interpreting Technology tasks with regards to fairness, interpretability, ethics and transparency. The theme track invites studies on how LLMs perform on Translation and Interpreting Technology tasks and applications, and what this means for the future of the field. The possible topics of discussion include (but are not limited to) the following: - Changes in the translators and interpreters’ professions in the new AI era especially as a result of the latest developments in LLMSs and Generative AI - Generative AI and translation - Generative AI and interpreting - Augmenting machine translation systems with generative AI - Domain and terminology adaptation with Large Language Models - Literary translation with Large Language Models - Improving Machine Translation Quality with Contextual Prompts in Large Language Models - Prompt engineering for translation - Generative AI for professional translation - Generative AI for professional interpreting # Keynote speakers We are delighted to announce the NeTTT’2024 keynote speakers - Helena Moniz (University of Lisbon and Unbabel), President of the European Association of Machine Translation - Carla Parra Escartín (RWS Language Weaver) # Tutorial (3 July 2024) - Tharindu Ranasinghe (Aston University), Quality Estimation for Machine Translation # Programme Committee The Programme Committee of NeTTT’2024 is listed https://nettt-conference.com/26844-2/. # Conference Chairs - Ruslan Mitkov (Lancaster University) - Gloria Corpas Pastor (University of Malaga) # Programme Chairs - Constantin Orasan (University of Surrey) - Tharindu Ranasinghe (Aston University) # Sponsorship Chair - Vilelmini Sosoni (Ionian University) # Publication Chair - Maria Kunilovskaya (University of Saarland) # Organising Committee - Organising Committee of NeTTT’2024 is listed https://nettt-conference.com/organisers/ # Submissions and publication NETTT’2024 invites the following types of submissions: User papers – for industry and practitioners. References to related work are optional. Allowed paper length: between 1 and 4 pages. 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 12 pages + unlimited references. • (academic) work-in-progress papers/posters – 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 7 pages + unlimited references. • (academic) demo papers – describing working systems. Allowed paper length: maximum 5 pages + unlimited references. In addition to the papers, the authors will be expected to demonstrate the systems at the workshop. The conference will not consider and evaluate abstracts only. Each submission will be reviewed by three members of the Programme Committee. Submission is organised via Softconf START conference management system at https://softconf.com/n/nettt2024. For submitting the papers, we invite the authors to comply with the Springer format, following the templates: • LaTeX: https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/192386…, • Overleaf: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/springer-lecture-notes-in-computer…, • Word: https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/192387…. The accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and made available online on the conference website. Authors of accepted papers will receive guidelines regarding how to produce camera-ready versions of their papers. The final version of the accepted papers will be published in e-proceedings with assigned ISBN and DOI. All accepted papers will be included in the conference e-proceedings which will be available at the conference website. # Schedule - Submission deadline: 30 April 2024 - Notification: 5 June 2024 - Final version due: 20 June 2024 All deadlines are valid for 23.59 Anywhere on Earth. # Registration Conference registration is open on https://nettt-conference.com/fees-registration/ The promotional early registration fee has been extended to 17 March 2024. # Venue The conference will take place at https://www.chernomorebg.com/en/conference-centre.html, Varna, situated only 200 m away from the fine sandy Black Sea beach. # Further information and contact details The conference website is https://nettt-conference.com and will be updated on a regular basis. For further information, please contact us at nettt2024(a)nettt-conference.com Dr Tharindu Ranasinghe Lecturer in Computer Science School of Informatics and Digital Engineering Birmingham, B4 7ET, UK aston.ac.uk

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Job Opportunities – Reader (Assoc Prof), Senior Lecturer, Lecturer in Data Science, AI, Cybersecurity and CS – Wolverhampton, UK
by Ingo Frommholz 21 Mar '24

21 Mar '24

The School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematical Sciences at the University of Wolverhampton in the UK is seeking for new high calibre staff members in Data Science, AI, Cybersecurity and Computer Science. Please find further information below. We also appreciate applications from people with an IR and NLP background. 1 Reader in DS - https://jobs.wlv.ac.uk/vacancy/reader-in-data-science-550825.html 1 Reader in AI - https://jobs.wlv.ac.uk/vacancy/reader-in-artificial-intelligence-553738.html 2 SL in Computer Science - https://jobs.wlv.ac.uk/vacancy/senior-lecturer-in-computer-science-2-posts-… 2 SL in AI/DS - https://jobs.wlv.ac.uk/vacancy/senior-lecturer-in-artificial-intelligence-d… 2 SL in Cybersecurity – https://jobs.wlv.ac.uk/vacancy/senior-lecturer-in-cyber-security-x-2-posts-… 4 L in Computer Science (various) - https://jobs.wlv.ac.uk/vacancy/lecturer-in-computer-science-4-posts-554467.… Please contact me in case you have any enquiries. Kind regards, Ingo -- Ingo Frommholz (he/him), PhD, FBCS, FHEA Reader (~Associate Professor) in Data Science ACM CIKM 2023 General Chair Head of Data, AI, Interaction, Retrieval and Language Group http://dairel.org Deputy Head Digital Innovations and Solutions Centre (DISC) University of Wolverhampton, UK Adjunct Professor, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland Web: http://www.frommholz.org/ | Email: ifrommholz(a)acm.org Twitter: @iFromm | Mastodon: @ingo@idf.social PGP/GPG fingerprint: B74E A422 C7B2 A5BB 2BC2 523B 2790 216E F8F8 D166 http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x2790216EF8F8D166

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[CfP] Now Hybrid and NEW Deadline! TermTrends @ MDTT24: Models and Best Practices for Terminology Representation in the Semantic Web
by Patricia Martín Chozas 21 Mar '24

21 Mar '24

*Apologies for crossposting* TermTrends24: Models and Best Practices for Terminology Representation in the Semantic Web Workshop colocated with MDTT 2024 <https://mdtt2024.dei.unipd.it/en/> *(Hybrid)* Date: 26th June, 2024 Venue: Granada, Spain More info: https://termtrends.linkeddata.es/ 7th April - *30**th April (Extended)**: Deadline for paper submission* *About TermTrendsTermTrends 2024 will now be a hybrid workshop!* Co-located with MDTT 2024, TermTrends aims to provide a discussion forum on the theoretical and methodological approaches for the representation of terminological data, both at a conceptual and a linguistic level. In particular, we would like to focus on their connection to the Linguistic Linked (Open) Data (LLOD) paradigm through the representation of these data according to Semantic Web formats. By adopting models or vocabularies proposed for the representation of linguistic data, we would contribute to the creation of interoperable and reusable terminological resources. With this objective, the workshop intends to explore the advantages and challenges underlying various Terminology-related standardisation approaches, ranging from the initially proposed standards to represent terminology within the International Standardisation Organisation (ISO), such as the TermBase eXchange (TBX) format, to models that represent linguistic descriptions associated with ontologies in the Semantic Web, such as SKOS and Ontolex-lemon. Being multidisciplinary in scope, it focuses on identifying terminological representation needs, as well as limitations of current models in addressing such needs, with the aim of also exploring the development of an extension of the Ontolex-lemon vocabulary and how that may contribute to overcoming such challenges. *Call for Papers*The topics of interest for this workshop include, but are not limited to, the following topics: - Terminology Representation Standards - Terminology as Linguistic Linked (Open) Data - Interoperability of Terminological Resources - Reusability of Terminological Resources - Challenges in Terminology Representation - Analysis of the structure of Terminological Resources *Submissions* Papers proposals should follow the CEUR template. Short and long papers will be accepted. Following CEUR guidelines, short papers should be 5-6 pages long and long papers 8-10 pages long. Authors must submit their papers through the EasyChair platform following this link. *Important Dates*7th April - *30**th April (Extended)**: Deadline for paper submission* *20 April 2024* - Deadline for notification for paper submission *15 May 2024* - Deadline for camera-ready paper submission *26 June 2024 *- TermTrends Workshop *Workshop Organisers* Rute Costa, NOVA FCSH / NOVA CLUNL (Portugal) Elena Montiel-Ponsoda, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain) Sara Carvalho, Univ. de Aveiro / NOVA CLUNL (Portugal) Patricia Martín-Chozas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain) Federica Vezzani, University of Padova (Italy) *Patricia Martín Chozas - Postdoctoral Researcher* * Ontology Engineering Group* Artificial Intelligence Department ETSI Informáticos - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Phone: (+34) 910673091

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[CIKM 2024] - Call for Applied Research Papers
by antonela.tommasel＠isistan.unicen.edu.ar 20 Mar '24

20 Mar '24

* We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CfP * * For the online version of this Call, visit: https://cikm2024.org/call-for-applied-research-papers =============== CIKM 2024: 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management Boise, Idaho, USA October 21–25, 2024 =============== The 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) offers a forum for academia and industry to present cutting-edge research on artificial intelligence, search and discovery, text and data mining, and database systems. The Applied Research Track invites submissions from both academia and industry that focus on advancing the understanding of issues related to deploying IR, NLP and AI at scale. Unlike the Research Track, the Applied Research Track concentrates on applied work, such as describing the implementation of a system, data acquisition, or application of a methodology that addresses a significant real-world problem and demonstrates measurable benefits and impact. We invite authors to submit papers that showcase their research work’s real-world impact and demonstrate practicality and scalability. Submissions should clearly outline how the work has been deployed or released and for how long, or how the work is planned to be deployed or released and what is its potential impact in the real world -------------------------- Key Dates -------------------------- * Applied Research Papers abstract: 13 May 2024 * Applied Research Papers: 20 May 2024 * Applied Research Papers notifications: 16 July 2024 * Camera ready: 8 August 2024 (All deadlines are at 11:59 pm AOE) -------------------------- Topics of Interest -------------------------- We invite submissions along the same topics of interest lines as the CIKM 2024 Research Track, but with a focus on applied and deployed work, substantiated by a system launch, data release, or other practical application evidence. * Data and information acquisition and preprocessing (e.g., data crawling, IoT data, data quality, data privacy, mitigating biases, data wrangling) * Integration and aggregation (e.g., semantic processing, data provenance, data linkage, data fusion, knowledge graphs, data warehousing, privacy and security, modeling, information credibility) * Efficient data processing (e.g., serverless, data-intensive computing, database systems, indexing and compression, architectures, distributed data systems, dataspaces, customized hardware) * Special data processing (e.g., multilingual text, sequential, stream, spatio-temporal, (knowledge) graph, multimedia, scientific, and social media data) * Analytics and machine learning (e.g., OLAP, data mining, machine learning and AI, scalable analysis algorithms, algorithmic biases, event detection and tracking, understanding, interpretability) * Neural Information and knowledge processing (e.g., graph neural networks, domain adaptation, transfer learning, network architectures, neural ranking, neural recommendation, and neural prediction) * Data processing enabled by large language models and other foundation models (e.g. information retrieval or data management facilitated by the use of LLMs) * Information access and retrieval (e.g., ad hoc and web search, facets and entities, question answering and dialogue systems, retrieval models, query processing, personalization, recommender and filtering systems) * Users and interfaces for information and data systems (e.g., user behavior analysis, user interface design, perception of biases, personalization, interactive information retrieval, interactive analysis, spoken interfaces) * Evaluation, performance studies, and benchmarks (e.g., online and offline evaluation, best practices) Crowdsourcing (e.g. task assignment, worker reliability, optimization, trustworthiness, transparency, best practices) * Understanding multi-modal content (e.g., natural language processing, speech recognition, computer vision, content understanding, knowledge extraction, knowledge graphs, and knowledge representations) * Data presentation (e.g., visualization, summarization, readability, VR, speech input/output) * Network and graph mining (e.g., social network analysis, mining important nodes in networks, subgraphs and graph motifs mining, community detection) * Applications (e.g., urban systems, biomedical and health informatics, legal informatics, crisis informatics, computational social science, data-enabled discovery, social media) -------------------------- Paper Submissions -------------------------- We welcome original applied research submissions that are not previously published, accepted to be published, or being considered for publication in any other forum. Full-length papers should satisfy the standard requirements of top-tier international research conferences. Authors should include their names and affiliations in the manuscript (i.e. submissions are single-blind). Submissions are limited to 7 pages plus unlimited references (note that additional appendices are not allowed) and must be formatted using ACM’s 2-column template “sig-conf”, see https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. Papers that include text generated from a large-scale language model (LLM), such as ChatGPT, are prohibited unless this produced text is presented as a part of the paper’s experimental analysis. AI tools may be used to edit and polish authors’ work, such as using LLMs for light editing of their text (e.g., automate grammar checks, word autocorrect, and other editing of author-written text), but text “produced entirely” by generative/AI models is not allowed. At least one author of each accepted paper must register to present the work on-site in Boise, Idaho, USA, as scheduled in the conference program. The official publication date is when the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks before the first day of the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. -------------------------- Dual Submission Policy -------------------------- Submitting papers that are identical (or substantially similar) to versions that have been published, accepted for publication, or submitted in parallel to other conferences (or any venue with published proceedings) is not allowed. However, it is allowed to make an abstract submission by May 13, 2024 (without uploading the paper PDF) for a paper that is still under review as long as the ongoing review process ends by the full paper final deadline of May 20, 2024. You need to withdraw your submission in case the paper is accepted or still under review by May 20, 2024. Authors are allowed to submit papers that have been presented or are to be presented at conferences or workshops without proceedings, or with only abstracts published. Authors may also submit anonymized work already available as a preprint (e.g., in arXiv). In this case, the authors must modify the title and abstract while refraining from citing the manuscript to preserve anonymity. -------------------------- Authorship Policy -------------------------- Before paper submission, authors are advised to review ACM’s authorship policy carefully. Please ensure that all authors are identified in EasyChair before the submission deadline. To help reviewers identify potential conflicts of interest, the full author list must be specified by the abstract submission deadline. Consequently, no changes to authorship will be allowed under any circumstance after the abstract submission deadline; neither update will be permitted for camera-ready versions. -------------------------- Desk Rejection Policy -------------------------- Submissions that fail to adhere to the anonymity, length, or formatting requirements, or violate ACM’s policies on academic dishonesty—such as plagiarism, author misrepresentation, or falsification—may be subject to desk rejection by the chairs. -------------------------- ACM Policy Against Harassment -------------------------- All authors and participants must adhere to the ACM Policy Against Harassment. For full details, please visit this site: https://www.acm.org/about-acm/policy-against-harassment -------------------------- Chairs Contact Information -------------------------- For more information, contact the Applied Research Track PC chairs at: CIKM2024-applied [at] easychair [dot] org Wei Chen (Microsoft Research Asia) Yinglong Xia (Meta)

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[CIKM 2024] - Call for Short Research Papers
by antonela.tommasel＠isistan.unicen.edu.ar 20 Mar '24

20 Mar '24

* We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CfP * * For the online version of this Call, visit: https://cikm2024.org/call-for-short-research-papers/ =============== CIKM 2024: 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management Boise, Idaho, USA October 21–25, 2024 =============== The Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) provides a unique venue for industry and academia to present and discuss state-of-the-art research on artificial intelligence, search and discovery, data mining, and database systems, all at a single conference. CIKM is uniquely situated to highlight technologies and insights that materialize the big data and artificial intelligence vision of the future. CIKM 2024 will take place between October 21-25, 2024 in Boise, Idaho, USA. -------------------------- Key Dates -------------------------- * Short Papers abstract: 27 May 2024 * Short Papers: 3 June 2024 * Short Papers notifications: 16 July 2024 * Camera ready: 8 August 2024 (All deadlines are at 11:59 pm AOE) -------------------------- Topics of Interest -------------------------- We encourage submissions of high-quality research papers on all topics in the general areas of artificial intelligence, data science, databases, information retrieval, and knowledge management. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas: * Data and information acquisition and preprocessing (e.g., data crawling, IoT data, data quality, data privacy, mitigating biases, data wrangling) * Integration and aggregation (e.g., semantic processing, data provenance, data linkage, data fusion, knowledge graphs, data warehousing, privacy and security, modeling, information credibility) * Efficient data processing (e.g., serverless, data-intensive computing, database systems, indexing and compression, architectures, distributed data systems, dataspaces, customized hardware) * Special data processing (e.g., multilingual text, sequential, stream, spatio-temporal, (knowledge) graphs, multimedia, scientific, and social media data) * Analytics and machine learning (e.g., OLAP, data mining, machine learning and AI, scalable analysis algorithms, algorithmic biases, event detection and tracking, understanding, interpretability) * Neural Information and knowledge processing (e.g., graph neural networks, domain adaptation, transfer learning, network architectures, neural ranking, neural recommendation, and neural prediction) * Information access and retrieval (e.g., ad hoc and web search, facets and entities, question answering and dialogue systems, retrieval models, query processing, personalization, recommender and filtering systems) * Users and interfaces for information and data systems (e.g., user behavior analysis, user interface design, perception of biases, personalization, interactive information retrieval, interactive analysis, spoken interfaces) * Evaluation, performance studies, and benchmarks (e.g., online and offline evaluation, best practices) Crowdsourcing (e.g. task assignment, worker reliability, optimization, trustworthiness, transparency, best practices) * Understanding multi-modal content (e.g., natural language processing, speech recognition, computer vision, content understanding, knowledge extraction, knowledge graphs, and knowledge representations) * Data presentation (e.g., visualization, summarization, readability, VR, speech input/output) * Applications (e.g., urban systems, biomedical and health informatics, legal informatics, crisis informatics, computational social science, data-enabled discovery, social media) -------------------------- Paper Submissions -------------------------- Authors are invited to submit original short papers that have not been previously published, and are not being considered for publication in any other forum. Short papers should describe ongoing work, recent insights, or summaries of significant research, that address research problems targeting top-tier research venues. Short papers should be particularly well suited to poster presentations.Manuscripts should be submitted to the CIKM 2024 Easychair site in PDF format, using the ACM sigconf template, see https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. Submissions should be in 2-column sigconf format. Short papers cannot exceed 4 pages plus unlimited references. Papers should be submitted through the CIKM 2024 online submission system. The review of short papers will be double-blind, and those submissions that have not been properly anonymized will be desk-rejected without review. Papers that include text generated from a large-scale language model (LLM) such as ChatGPT are prohibited unless this produced text is presented as a part of the paper’s experimental analysis. AI tools may be used to edit and polish authors’ work, such as using LLMs for light editing of their own text (e.g., automate grammar checks, word autocorrect, and other editing work), but text “produced entirely” by AI is not allowed. At least one author of each accepted paper must register to present the work on-site in Boise, Idaho, USA, as scheduled in the conference program. The official publication date is when the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks before the first day of the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. -------------------------- Dual Submission Policy -------------------------- It is not allowed to submit papers that are identical (or substantially similar) to versions that have been previously published, or accepted for publication, or that have been submitted in parallel to other conferences (or any venue with published proceedings). Such submissions violate our dual-submission policy. There are several exceptions to this rule: Submission is permitted for papers presented or to be presented at conferences or workshops without proceedings, or with only abstracts published. Submission is permitted for papers that have previously been made available as a technical report or similar, e.g., in arXiv. In this case, the authors should not cite the report, so as to preserve anonymity. -------------------------- Authorship Policy -------------------------- Before paper submission, authors are advised to review ACM’s authorship policy carefully. Please ensure that all authors are identified in EasyChair before the submission deadline. To help reviewers identify potential conflicts of interest, the full author list must be specified by the abstract submission deadline. Consequently, no changes to authorship will be allowed under any circumstance after the abstract submission deadline; neither update will be permitted for camera-ready versions. -------------------------- Desk Rejection Policy -------------------------- Submissions that fail to adhere to the anonymity, length, or formatting requirements, or violate ACM’s policies on academic dishonesty—such as plagiarism, author misrepresentation, or falsification—may be subject to desk rejection by the chairs. -------------------------- ACM Policy Against Harassment -------------------------- All authors and participants must adhere to the ACM Policy Against Harassment. For full details, please visit this site: https://www.acm.org/about-acm/policy-against-harassment -------------------------- Chairs Contact Information -------------------------- For more information, contact the short paper chairs at: CIKM2024-short [at] easychair [dot] org Arijit Khan, Aalborg University, Denmark Barbara Poblete, University of Chile, Chile/Amazon, USA. Hua Wen, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China

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[CIKM 2024] - Call for Full Research Papers
by antonela.tommasel＠isistan.unicen.edu.ar 20 Mar '24

20 Mar '24

* We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CfP * * For the online version of this Call, visit: https://cikm2024.org/call-for-papers/ =============== CIKM 2024: 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management Boise, Idaho, USA October 21–25, 2024 =============== The Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) provides a unique venue for industry and academia to present and discuss state-of-the-art research on artificial intelligence, search and discovery, data mining, and database systems, all at a single conference. CIKM is uniquely situated to highlight technologies and insights that materialize the big data and artificial intelligence vision of the future. CIKM 2024 will take place between October 21-25, 2024 in Boise, Idaho, USA. -------------------------- Key Dates -------------------------- * Full Papers abstract: 13 May 2024 * Full Papers: 20 May 2024 * Papers notifications: 16 July 2024 * Camera ready: 8 August 2024 (All deadlines are at 11:59 pm AOE) -------------------------- Topics of Interest -------------------------- We encourage submissions of high-quality research papers on the general areas of artificial intelligence, data science, databases, information retrieval, and knowledge management. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas: * Data and information acquisition and preprocessing (e.g., data crawling, IoT data, data quality, data privacy, mitigating biases, data wrangling) * Integration and aggregation (e.g., semantic processing, data provenance, data linkage, data fusion, knowledge graphs, data warehousing, data lake, privacy and security, modeling, information credibility) * Efficient data processing (e.g., serverless, data-intensive computing, database systems, indexing and compression, architectures, distributed data systems, dataspaces, customized hardware) * Special data processing (e.g., multilingual text, sequential, stream, time series, spatio-temporal, (knowledge) graph, multimedia, scientific, and social media data) * Analytics and machine learning (e.g., OLAP, data mining, machine learning and AI, scalable analysis algorithms, algorithmic biases, event detection, and tracking, understanding, and interpretability) * Neural Information and knowledge processing (e.g., graph neural networks, domain adaptation, transfer learning, network architectures, neural ranking, neural recommendation, and neural prediction) * Data preparation, Valuation, and Trading * Information access and retrieval (e.g., web search, question answering and dialogue systems, retrieval models, query processing, personalization, recommender, and filtering systems) * Users and interfaces for information systems (e.g., user behavior analysis, user interface design, perception of biases, personalization, interactive information retrieval, interactive analysis, spoken interfaces) * Evaluation, performance studies, and benchmarks (e.g., online and offline evaluation, best practices) * Crowdsourcing (e.g. task assignment, worker reliability, optimization, trustworthiness, transparency, best practices) * Mining multi-modal content (e.g., natural language processing, speech recognition, computer vision, content understanding, knowledge extraction, knowledge graphs, and knowledge representations) * Data presentation (e.g., visualization, summarization, readability, VR, speech input/output) * Applications (e.g., urban systems, biomedical and health informatics, legal informatics, crisis informatics, computational social science, data-enabled discovery, social media) * Knowledge graphs support data representation and manipulation * Generation of knowledge graphs using unstructured data * Information retrieval in the era of LLMs * Open-ended QA systems * Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, Ethics, and Explainability in Information and Knowledge Management -------------------------- Paper Submissions -------------------------- Authors are invited to submit original, full-length research papers that are not previously published, accepted to be published, or being considered for publication in any other forum. Full-length papers should satisfy the standard requirements of top-tier international research conferences. Manuscripts should be submitted to CIKM 2024 Easychair site in PDF format, using the 2-column ACM sigconf template, see https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template . Full papers cannot exceed 9 pages, including an appendix, plus unlimited references. Rejected full papers will not be considered for publication as short papers. The review of manuscripts will be double-blind, and submissions not properly anonymized will be desk-rejected without review. Papers that include text generated from a large-scale language model (LLM), such as ChatGPT, are prohibited unless this produced text is presented as a part of the paper’s experimental analysis. AI tools may be used to edit and polish authors’ work, such as using LLMs for light editing of their text (e.g., automate grammar checks, word autocorrect, and other editing of author-written text), but text “produced entirely” by generative/AI models is not allowed. At least one author of each accepted paper must register to present the work on-site in Boise, Idaho, USA, as scheduled in the conference program. The official publication date is when the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks before the first day of the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. -------------------------- Dual Submission Policy -------------------------- Submitting papers that are identical (or substantially similar) to versions that have been published, accepted for publication, or submitted in parallel to other conferences (or any venue with published proceedings) is not allowed. However, it is allowed to make an abstract submission by May 13, 2024 (without uploading the paper PDF) for a paper that is still under review as long as the ongoing review process ends by the full paper final deadline of May 20, 2024. You need to withdraw your submission in case the paper is accepted or still under review by May 20, 2024. Authors are allowed to submit papers that have been presented or are to be presented at conferences or workshops without proceedings, or with only abstracts published. Authors may also submit anonymized work already available as a preprint (e.g., in arXiv). In this case, the authors must modify the title and abstract while refraining from citing the manuscript to preserve anonymity. -------------------------- Authorship Policy -------------------------- Before paper submission, authors are advised to review ACM’s authorship policy carefully. Please ensure that all authors are identified in EasyChair before the submission deadline. To help reviewers identify potential conflicts of interest, the full author list must be specified by the abstract submission deadline. Consequently, no changes to authorship will be allowed under any circumstance after the abstract submission deadline; neither update will be permitted for camera-ready versions. -------------------------- Desk Rejection Policy -------------------------- Submissions that fail to adhere to the anonymity, length, or formatting requirements, or violate ACM’s policies on academic dishonesty—such as plagiarism, author misrepresentation, or falsification—may be subject to desk rejection by the chairs. -------------------------- ACM Policy Against Harassment -------------------------- All authors and participants must adhere to the ACM Policy Against Harassment. For full details, please visit this site: https://www.acm.org/about-acm/policy-against-harassment -------------------------- Chairs Contact Information -------------------------- For more information, contact the PC chairs at: CIKM2024-pc [at] easychair [dot] org Carlotta Domeniconi, George Mason University, USA Zhifeng Bao, RMIT University, Australia Sole Pera, TU Delft, Netherlands

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Call for Participation - HOPE@IberLEF 2024: Approaching Hope Speech Detection in Social Media from Two Perspectives, for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and as Expectations
by Sabur B 20 Mar '24

20 Mar '24

****We apologize for multiple postings of this e-mail**** IberLEF 2024 Task - HOPE: Approaching Hope Speech Detection in Social Media from Two Perspectives, for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and as Expectations Held as part of the evaluation forum IberLEF 2024 <https://sites.google.com/view/iberlef-2024/home?authuser=0> in the 40th edition of the International Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN 2024 <http://sepln2024.infor.uva.es/en/front-page-english/>) Valladolid, Spain, 24-27 September 2024 Codalab link: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/17714 Dear All, Hope, a crucial aspect of human psychology, profoundly shapes emotions, behavior, and mood, influencing how individuals perceive and navigate challenges (Bruininks and Malle, 2005; Snyder, 1994, 2000). High levels of hope correlate with positive outcomes such as academic success and lower depression rates, while low hope is associated with diminished well-being (Snyder, 2002; Snyder et al., 1997; Diener, 2009). Despite its significance, hope has been underexplored in Natural Language Processing (NLP) until recent years. Efforts have been made to integrate NLP techniques into the analysis of hope through shared tasks, like those organized in ACL 2022, RANLP 2023, and IberLEF 2023 (Chakravarthi et al., 2022; Kumaresan et al., 2023; Jiménez-Zafra et al., 2023). The upcoming IberLEF 2024 edition aims to delve deeper into hope from two angles: hope for equality, diversity, and inclusion, and hope as expectations. This edition promises to expand understanding by examining hope across different domains and languages, thus addressing crucial questions in hope speech detection research. Two tasks are outlined in this description, each focusing on different aspects of hope. - Task 1: It centers on "Hope for Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion," emphasizing the importance of hope speech in mitigating hostility and supporting individuals facing challenges like illness, stress, or loneliness, particularly within vulnerable groups such as the LGBT community and racial minorities. This task consists of giving a Spanish tweet, identifying whether it contains hope speech or not. The possible categories for each text are: - hs: hope speech. - nhs: non hope speech. - Task 2: It delves into "Hope as Expectations," highlighting hope's role as an anticipatory mindset shaping human emotions and behaviors, especially in the context of social media where expressions are abundant. This task aims to analyze hope speech's presence in English and Spanish texts, focusing on binary hope speech detection and multiclass hope speech detection.The subtask are presented as follows, - Subtask 2a- Binary Hope speech detection: A given text in English/Spanish will be classified as: - Hope - Not Hope - Subtask 2b- Multiclass Hope speech detection: A given text in English/Spanish will be classified as: - Generalized Hope - Realistic Hope - Unrealistic Hope - Not Hope In both tasks, there will be a real-time leaderboard and the participants will be allowed to make a maximum of 10 submissions through CodaLab, from which each team will have to select the best one for ranking. The dataset details and registration are available at: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/17714 Best regards, The HOPE 2024 organizing committee Important dates - Release of training + development corpora: Feb 16, 2024. - Release of test corpora and start of evaluation campaign: Mar 23, 2024. - End of evaluation campaign (deadline for runs submission): Apr 7, 2024. - Publication of official results: Apr 9, 2024. - Paper submission: May 5, 2024. - Review notification: Jun 2, 2024. - Camera-ready submission: Jun 19, 2024. - IberLEF Workshop (SEPLN 2024): Sep 27, 2024. - Publication of proceedings: Sep ??, 2024. Organizing Committee - Daniel García-Baena, SINAI, Universidad de Jaén, Spain. - Fazlourrahman Balouchzahi, CIC IPN, Mexico. - Salud María Jiménez-Zafra, SINAI, Universidad de Jaén, Spain. - Sabur Butt, Institute for the Future of Education (IFE) at Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico. - Miguel Ángel García-Cumbreras, SINAI, Universidad de Jaén, Spain. - Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Centro de Investigación en Computación, Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN), Mexico. - José Antonio García-Díaz, UMUTeam, Universidad de Murcia, Spain. - Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, University of Galway, Ireland. - Hector G. Ceballos, Institute for the Future of Education (IFE) at Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico. - Rafael Valencia-García, UMUTeam, Universidad de Murcia, Spain. - Grigori Sidorov, CIC IPN, Mexico. - L. Alfonso Ureña-López, SINAI, Universidad de Jaén, Spain. - Alexander Gelbukh, CIC IPN, Mexico. *Sabur Butt, Ph.D. *(He/Him) Institute for the Future of Education (IFE) *Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico* Address: Av. Eugenio Garza Sada 2501 Sur Tecnológico, 64849 Monterrey, N.L. LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/saburb> - GitHub <https://github.com/saburbutt> - Scholar <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=re7md-0AAAAJ&hl=en> - Website <https://saburbutt.github.io/>

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Webinar: Peter Crosthwaite, Methodological considerations in selecting and designing corpus tools, Thursday, April 25, 2024, 4:15pm (Sao Paulo time)
by Tony Berber-Sardinha 20 Mar '24

20 Mar '24

CEPRIL Talks Peter Crosthwaite Methodological considerations in selecting and designing corpus tools University of Queensland Brisbane, Australia Date: Thursday, April 25, 2024 Time: 4:15pm (Sao Paulo time) Online Zoom webinar Register for free: https://forms.gle/mPGQVDNWTNzfgNT87 Upon registration, you will receive the link to join the Zoom session by email. This may take a few days, because manual screening is involved. Support: Projeto Temático Fapesp 2022/05908-0 CEPRIL, LAEL, PUCSP

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Second call for participation - MentalRiskES@IberLEF2024: Early detection of mental
by María Dolores Molina González 20 Mar '24

20 Mar '24

*Training* *set* *released**!* Please, consider participating and/or forwarding to colleagues and groups. ****We apologize for multiple postings of this e-mail**** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ MentalRiskES at IberLEF 2024: Call for Participation Website: https://sites.google.com/view/mentalriskes2024 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MentalRiskEs describes the second edition of a novel task on early risk identification of mental disorders in Spanish comments from social media sources. The first edition took place last year in the IberLEF evaluation forum as part of the SEPLN 2023. The task was resolved as an online problem, that is, the participants had to detect a potential risk as early as possible in a continuous stream of data. Therefore, the performance not only depended on the accuracy of the systems but also on how fast the problem was detected. These dynamics are reflected in the design of the tasks and the metrics used to evaluate participants. For this second edition, we propose three novel tasks, the first subtask is about the detection of the disorder, the second subtask consists of detecting the context that may be associated with the disorder, and the third subtask is about suicidal ideation detection. We would like to invite you to participate in the following tasks: 1. Disorders detection (multi-class classification) 2. Disorder contextualization (fine-grained classification) 3. Suicidal ideation detection (binary classification) Find out more at https://sites.google.com/view/mentalriskes2024. MentalRiskES 2024 is part of the IberLEF Workshop and will be held in conjunction with the SEPLN 2024 conference in Valladolid (Spain). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Feb 16th Registration open Feb 21st Release of trial corpora (trial server available) *Mar 20th Release of training corpora* Mar 29th Registration closed Apr 8th Release of test corpora and start of the evaluation campaign (test server available and trial submissions closed) Apr 12th End of evaluation campaign (deadline for submission of runs) Apr 18th Publication of official results and release of test gold labels May 10th Deadline for paper submission May 31st Acceptance notification Jun 17th Camera-ready submission deadline July 11th Final camera-ready submission deadline (to IberLEF organisers) Please reach out to the organizers at MentalRiskEs@IberLEF2024. The MentalRiskES 2024 organizing committee. -- M. Dolores Molina González

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[CFP] 1st Call for Participation - ISWC-LLMs4OL 2024 Challenge: Large Language Models for Ontology Learning
by Jennifer D'Souza 20 Mar '24

20 Mar '24

Dear colleagues and friends, *We are pleased to release the 1st Call for Participation - LLMs4OL Challenge collocated with The International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2024)* *Overview:* LLMs4OL stands for "Large Language Models for Ontology Learning." The LLMs4OL paradigm was first introduced in our research paper ( https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-47240-4_22) published in the ISWC 2023 main conference proceedings. In this context, we aimed to test the readiness of LLMs to address the Ontology Learning (OL) task w.r.t. three main subtasks: 1) Term Typing, 2) Type Taxonomy Discovery, and 3) Non-Taxonomic Relation Extraction. Therein our evaluations included ontolgies from various knowledge domains, i.e. lexicosemantics (WordNet), geography (GeoNames), biomedicine (NCI, MEDICIN, SNOMEDCT), and web content types (schema.org). With the ISWC-LLMs4OL 2024 challenge, we aim to catalyze community-wide engagement in validating and expanding the use of LLMs in OL by releasing our evaluation datasets publicly in the community. This initiative is poised to advance our comprehension of LLMs’ roles within the Semantic Web, encouraging innovation and collaboration in developing scalable and accurate OL methods. More info on the task website: https://sites.google.com/view/llms4ol/ The LLMs4OL Challenge will be divided into two evaluation phases: - Evaluation Phase 1: Few-shot Testing; - Evaluation Phase 2: Zero-shot Testing *Dates* Training datasets available: March 30, 2024 Test data available (Task A): May 27, 2024 Evaluation ends (Task A): June 4, 2024 Test data available (Tasks B & C): June 5, 2024 Evaluation ends (Tasks B & C): June 18, 2024 Participant papers due: June 28, 2024 Notification to authors: July 19, 2024 Camera ready due: July 30, 2024 ISWC 2024, Baltimore, Maryland, USA: 11-15 November 2024 *Task Organizers* Hamed Babaei Giglou (TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology - Germany) Jennifer D’Souza (TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology - Germany) Sören Auer (TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology - Germany) We look forward to having you on board! *Contact:* llms4ol.challenge [at] gmail.com

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2nd CfP: 5th International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change 2024 (LChange’24) + AXOLOTL-24 Shared Task
by Syrielle Montariol 19 Mar '24

19 Mar '24

***Apologies for possible cross-posting *** Second Call for Papers: 5th International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change (LChange’24) We will organize a full-day workshop co-located with the ACL conference on Aug 15, 2024 in Bangkok and online. We hope to make this fifth edition another resounding success! This year, we are happy to host a *shared task* within LChange: the *AXOLOTL-24* Shared Task on Explainable Semantic Change Modeling. Workshop: https://www.changeiskey.org/event/2024-acl-lchange/ Shared task: https://github.com/ltgoslo/axolotl24_shared_task/. Contact email: lchange(a)changeiskey.org Workshop description The LChange workshop targets all aspects of computational modeling of language change, historical as well as synchronic change. It is running in its fifth iteration following successful workshops in 2019 <https://languagechange.org/events/2019-acl-lcworkshop/>, 2021 <https://languagechange.org/events/2021-acl-lcworkshop/>, 2022 <https://languagechange.org/events/2022-acl-lchange/>, and 2023 <https://languagechange.org/events/2023-emnlp-lchange/>, and will be co-located with ACL 2024 in Bangkok (Thailand), as a hybrid event. The workshop will take place on Thursday 15 August 2024. The main topics of the workshop remain the same: all aspects around computational approaches to language change with a focus on digital text corpora. LChange explores state-of-the-art computational methodologies, theories and digital text resources on exploring the time-varying nature of human language. The aim of this workshop is to provide pioneering researchers who work on computational methods, evaluation, and large-scale modeling of language change an outlet for disseminating research on topics concerning language change. Besides these goals, this workshop will also support discussion on evaluating computational methodologies for uncovering language change. We’ll also be offering mentorship to students, to discuss their research topic with a member of the field, regardless of whether they are submitting a paper or not. Important Dates * May 10, 2024: Paper submission * June 20, 2024: Notification of acceptance * June 30, 2024: Camera-ready papers due * August 15, 2024: Workshop date AXOLOTL-24 Shared Task AXOLOTL-24 stands for “Ascertain and eXplain Overhauls of the Lexicon Over Time at LChange'24” and is organized by Mariia Fedorova and Andrey Kutuzov (University of Oslo), Timothee Mickus, Niko Partanen and Janine Siewert (University of Helsinki), and Elena Spaziani (Sapienza University Rome). Note that the papers describing the shared task submissions will be peer-reviewed and published in the LChange proceedings along with the rest of the workshop papers. The shared task presents two subtasks: - Subtask 1: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/18009 Finding the target word usages associated with new, gained senses - Subtask 2: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/18008 Describing these senses in a way that facilitates understanding and lexicographical research. More information, including a timeline and instructions, is available here: https://github.com/ltgoslo/axolotl24_shared_task/. Submissions We accept two types of submissions, long and short papers, consisting of up to eight (8) and four (4) pages of content, respectively, plus unlimited references; final versions will be given one additional page of content so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account. We also welcome papers focusing on releasing a dataset or a model; these papers fall into the short paper category. We invite original research papers from a wide range of topics, including but not limited to: - Novel methods for detecting diachronic semantic change and lexical replacement - Automatic discovery and quantitative evaluation of laws of language change - Computational theories and generative models of language change - Sense-aware (semantic) change analysis - Diachronic word sense disambiguation - Novel methods for diachronic analysis of low-resource languages - Novel methods for diachronic linguistic data visualization - Novel applications and implications of language change detection - Quantification of sociocultural influences on language change - Cross-linguistic, phylogenetic, and developmental approaches to language change - Novel datasets for cross-linguistic and diachronic analyses of language Accepted papers will be presented orally or as posters and included in the workshop proceedings. Submissions are open to all and are to be submitted anonymously. All papers will be refereed through a double-blind peer review process by at least three reviewers with final acceptance decisions made by the workshop organizers. If you have published in the field previously, and are interested in helping out in the program committee to review papers, please send us an email! Workshop organizers Nina Tahmasebi, University of Gothenburg Syrielle Montariol, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne Andrey Kutuzov, University of Oslo Simon Hengchen, iguanodon.ai and Université de Genève David Alfter, University of Gothenburg Francesco Periti, University of Milan Pierluigi Cassotti, University of Gothenburg

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AMTA 2024 - Second Call for Papers
by derickofajardo＠gmail.com 19 Mar '24

19 Mar '24

Dear Colleagues, The Association for Machine Translation in the Americas is pleased to announce the Second Call for Papers, Presentations, Tutorials, Workshops and Best Thesis Award Submissions for AMTA 2024. AMTA 2024 will be a three-day hybrid event under the auspices of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas to be held on Monday, 30 September 2024 through Wednesday, 2 October 2024 at the Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center in Chicago, Illinois, USA. The organizing committee of AMTA 2024 is seeking proposals for papers and presentations on all topics related to research, development, application, and evaluation of Machine Translation and cross-lingual technologies. A sample list of topics of interest, additional conference details, and complete submission guidelines can be found here: https://amtaweb.org/amta-2024-call-for-proposals/ This year's workshops and tutorials will be held online on September 18. For details about topics of interest and submission guidelines for Workshops and Tutorials, please see: https://amtaweb.org/amta-2024-call-for-proposals/ The AMTA Board of Directors is also pleased to sponsor the first edition of the AMTA Best Thesis Award, which aims to highlight the achievements of a recent PhD graduate whose thesis has focused on a topic or topics related to machine translation. This award includes a $1000 USD prize, free conference registration and AMTA membership, among other benefits. For more information about eligibility and submission details, please see: https://amtaweb.org/amta-2024-call-for-proposals/ Important dates Submission deadline: 6 June 2024 Notification of acceptance: 18 July 2024 Final submission of materials: 16 August 2024 Please direct any questions you may have to organizing.committee(a)amtaweb.org. We look forward to receiving your submission! AMTA Board of Directors

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Call for Participation: Shared Task on Low-Resource Indic Language Translation at WMT 2024
by Pankaj Dadure 19 Mar '24

19 Mar '24

Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to inform you that we will be hosting the "Shared Task: Low-Resource Indic Language Translation" again this year as part of WMT 2024. Following the outstanding success and enthusiastic participation witnessed in the previous year's edition, we are excited to continue this important initiative. Despite recent advancements in machine translation (MT), such as multilingual translation and transfer learning techniques, the scarcity of parallel data remains a significant challenge, particularly for low-resource languages. The WMT 2024 Indic Machine Translation Shared Task aims to address this challenge by focusing on low-resource Indic languages from diverse language families. Specifically, we are targeting languages such as Assamese, Mizo, Khasi, Manipuri, Nyishi, Bodo, Mising, and Kokborok. The task for this year features two categories based on the availability of training data: *Category 1: Moderate Training Data Available* - en-as: English ⇔ Assamese - en-lus: English ⇔ Mizo - en-kha: English ⇔ Khasi - en-mni: English ⇔ Manipuri - en-nshi: English ⇔ Nyishi *Category 2: Very Limited Training Data* - en-bodo: English ⇔ Bodo - en-mrp: English ⇔ Mising - en-trp: English ⇔ Kokborok Participants are encouraged to develop MT systems that can produce high-quality translations despite limited data availability. Key areas for exploration include leveraging monolingual data, investigating multilingual approaches, and exploring transfer learning techniques. *Important Dates:* - Release of training/dev data: 25 May, 2024 - Test data release: 13 July, 2024 - Run Submission deadline: 28 July, 2024 - System description/workshop paper submission deadline: TBA, 2024 (follow EMNLP/WMT page) - Notification of Acceptance: TBA, 2024 (follow EMNLP/WMT page) - Camera-ready: TBA, 2024 (follow EMNLP/WMT page) - Workshop Dates: follow EMNLP/WMT main page The organizing committee comprises experts from various institutions dedicated to advancing MT research in low-resource language settings. *Organizers:* - Santanu Pal, Wipro AI Lab, London, UK - Partha Pakray, National Institute of Technology, Silchar, India - Sandeep Kumar Dash, National Institute of Technology, Mizoram, India - Lenin Laitonjam, National Institute of Technology, Mizoram, India - Pankaj Kundan Dadure, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, India - Arnab Maji, North-Eastern Hill University, India - Lyngdoh Sarah, North-Eastern Hill University, India - Anupam Jamatia, National Institute of Technology Agartala, India - Koj Sambyo, National Institute of Technology Arunachal Pradesh, India For inquiries and further information, please contact us at lrilt.wmt24(a)gmail.com. Additionally, you can find more details and updates on the task through the following link: Task Link: https://www2.statmt.org/wmt24/indic-mt-task.html <https://www2.statmt.org/wmt24/indic-mt-task.html>. To register for the event, please fill out the registration form available here <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd8LwriqdLLhVNAvUWEcGRJmKuBFQZ9BR_…>. ( https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd8LwriqdLLhVNAvUWEcGRJmKuBFQZ9BR_… ) We look forward to your participation and contributions to advancing low-resource Indic language translation. Best regards Team Low-Resource Indic Language Translation WMT 2024

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Call for Participation: ArAIEval Shared Task at the ArabicNLP conference 2024 (co-located with ACL 2024): Propagandistic Techniques Detection in Unimodal and Multimodal Arabic Content
by Wajdi Zaghouani 19 Mar '24

19 Mar '24

Dear colleagues, You are invited to participate in the *ArAIEval Shared Task *at the *ArabicNLP 2024*: (i) detection of propagandistic textual spans with persuasion techniques identification (unimodal) on Arabic news articles and tweets. (ii) distinguishing between propagandistic and non-propagandistic memes (multimodal) in Arabic. The shared task will be held alongside the Second Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP 2024), co-located with the ACL2024 Conference in Bangkok, Thailand (11-16 Aug, 2024). *Tasks* Task 1: Unimodal (Text) Propagandistic Technique Detection: The task is to detect the propaganda techniques used in a text and identify the exact span(s) in which each propaganda technique appears. You will be given text snippets from news paragraphs or tweets (multigenre). This is a sequence tagging task. Task 2: Multimodal propagandistic memes classification: We offer the three subtasks as defined below: - Subtask 2A: Given a text extracted from a meme, detect whether it is propagandistic or not. - Subtask 2B: Given a meme (text overlayed image), the task is to detect whether the content is propagandistic. - Subtask 2C: Given multimodal content (text extracted from meme and the meme itself) the task is to detect whether the content is propagandistic. Website for detailed information: https://araieval.gitlab.io/ Registration and submission: Task 1: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/18111 Task 2: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/18099 Important Dates - 15 Mar 2024: Registration on CodaLab and the start of the development cycle (release of training and development datasets, along with submission for the development phase on CodaLab) - 27 April 2023 23:59 AOE: Beginning of the evaluation cycle (test sets release) - 1 May 2024 23:59 AOE: End of the evaluation cycle (run submission) - 5 May 2024: Release leaderboard - 15 May 2024: Deadline for the submission of shared task papers - 17 June 2024: Notification of acceptance of shared task papers - 1 July 2024: Deadline for submission of camera-ready papers - 16 August 2023: ArabicNLP Conference (colocated with ACL-2024) Organizers - Firoj Alam, Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU, Qatar - Maram Hasanain, Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU, Qatar - Reem Suwaileh, HBKU, Qatar - Md. Arid Hasan, University of New Brunswick, Canada - Fatema Ahmed, Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU, Qatar - Md. Rafiul Biswas, HBKU, Qatar - Wajdi Zaghouani, HBKU, Qatar Regards, The ArAIEval Shared Task Organizers ---- *Wajdi Zaghouani, Ph.D.* *Associate Professor in Digital Humanities* 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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CfP: The EPIA Track of Natural Language, Text Mining and Applications (NLP-TeMA 2024)
by Pablo Gamallo 18 Mar '24

18 Mar '24

The EPIA Track of Natural Language, Text Mining and Applications (NLP-TeMA 2024) Important date: Paper submission deadline: April 30, 2024 The EPIA Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a well-established European conference in the field of AI. The 23st edition, EPIA 2024, will take place in Viana do Castelo from 3th to 6th of September, 2024. As in previous editions, this international conference is hosted with the patronage of the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA). The Track of Natural Language, Text Mining and Applications (NLP-TeMA 2024) of EPIA is a forum for researchers working in Human Language Technologies, i.e. Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computational Linguistics (CL), Natural Language Engineering (NLE), Text Mining (TM), Information Retrieval (IR), and related areas. The most natural form of sharing knowledge is indeed through textual documents. Especially on the Web, a huge amount of textual information is openly published every day, on many different topics and written in natural language, thus offering new insights and many opportunities for innovative applications of Human Language Technologies. Following advances in general AI sub-fields such as NLP, Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL), text mining is now even more valuable as tool for bridging the gap between language theories and effective use of natural language contents, for harnessing the power of semi-structured and unstructured data, and to enable important applications in real-world heterogeneous environments. Both hidden and new knowledge can be discovered by using NLP and Text Mining methods, at multiple levels and in multiple dimensions, and often with high commercial value. Topics of Interest Natural Language Processing: Language and Cognitive Modeling Tagging, Chunking and Parsing Morphology and Word Segmentation Natural Language Generation Discourse and Pragmatics Sentence-level Semantics and Text Inference Language Resources: Acquisition and Usage. Lexical Knowledge Acquisition Entailment and Paraphrases Entity Recognition and Word Sense Disambiguation Natural Language Understanding Language Modeling Mathematical Properties of Language NLP for Low-Resource Languages Text Mining and Applications: Text Clustering, Classification and Summarization Sentiment Analysis and Argument Mining Computational Social Science Multi-Word Units Machine Learning for NLP and Text Mining Spatio-Temporal and Big Text Mining Cross-Lingual Approaches Algorithms and Data Structures for Text Mining Information Retrieval and Information Extraction Question-Answering and Dialogue Systems Text-Based Prediction and Forecasting Web Content Annotation Health/Biomedical/Legal and other Text Mining Applications The Track Organizing Committee: Joaquim Silva Pablo Gamallo Irene Rodrigues Paulo Quaresma Alípio Jorge Joaquim Ferreira da Silva Departamento de Informática, Nova School of Science and Technology, Quinta da Torre, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal. Tel: +351 21 294 8536 ext. 10732 Fax; +351 21 294 8541; e-mail: jfs(a)fct.unl.pt

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TSD 2024 - 2nd Call for Papers
by TSD 2024 18 Mar '24

18 Mar '24

[Apologies for cross-postings] ********************************************************* TSD 2024 - SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS ********************************************************* Twenty-seventh International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2024) Brno, Czech Republic, 9-13 September 2024 http://www.tsdconference.org/ The conference is organized by the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, and the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen. The conference is supported by International Speech Communication Association. Venue: Brno, Czech Republic THE SUBMISSION DEADLINES: April 10 2024 ............ Submission of abstracts April 17 2024 ............ Submission of full papers Submission of abstracts serves for better organization of the review process only - for the actual review a full paper submission is necessary. It is still possible to submit both by the full paper deadline. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Hynek Hermansky, Johns Hopkins University, USA Preslav Nakov, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, Abu Dhabi TSD SERIES TSD series evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in both spoken and written language processing from all over the world. Proceedings of TSD form a book published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. TSD Proceedings are regularly indexed by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index/Web of Science. Moreover, LNAI series are listed in all major citation databases such as DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC or COMPENDEX. CALL for SATELLITE WORKSHOP PROPOSALS https://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2024/conf_workshop_proposals.html The TSD 2024 conference will be accompanied by one-day satellite workshops or project meetings with organizational support by the TSD organizing committee. The organizing committee can arrange for a meeting room at the conference venue and prepare a workshop proceedings as a book with ISBN by a local publisher. The workshop papers that will pass also the standard TSD review process will appear in the Springer proceedings. Each workshop is a subject to proposal that should be sent via the proposal submission form or discussed via the contact e-mail tsd2024(a)tsdconference.org ahead of the respective deadline. TOPICS Topics of the conference will include (but are not limited to): Corpora and Language Resources (monolingual, multilingual, text and spoken corpora, large web corpora, large language models, disambiguation, specialized lexicons, dictionaries) Speech Recognition (multilingual, continuous, emotional speech, handicapped speaker, out-of-vocabulary words, alternative way of feature extraction, new models for acoustic and language modelling) Tagging, Classification and Parsing of Text and Speech (morphological and syntactic analysis, synthesis and disambiguation, multilingual processing, sentiment analysis, credibility analysis, automatic text labeling, summarization, authorship attribution) Speech and Spoken Language Generation (multilingual, high fidelity speech synthesis, computer singing) Semantic Processing of Text and Speech (information extraction, information retrieval, data mining, semantic web, knowledge representation, inference, ontologies, sense disambiguation, plagiarism detection, fake news detection) Integrating Applications of Text and Speech Processing (machine translation, natural language understanding, question-answering strategies, assistive technologies) Automatic Dialogue Systems (self-learning, multilingual, question-answering systems, dialogue strategies, prosody in dialogues) Multimodal Techniques and Modelling (video processing, facial animation, visual speech synthesis, user modelling, emotions and personality modelling) Papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Elmar Noeth, Germany (general chair) Rodrigo Agerri, Spain Eneko Agirre, Spain Vladimir Benko, Slovakia Archna Bhatia, USA Jan Cernocky, Czech Republic Simon Dobrisek, Slovenia Kamil Ekstein, Czech Republic Karina Evgrafova, Russia Yevhen Fedorov, Ukraine Volker Fischer, Germany Darja Fiser, Slovenia Lucie Flek, Germany Bjorn Gamback, Norway Radovan Garabik, Slovakia Alexander Gelbukh, Mexico Louise Guthrie, USA Jan Hajic, Czech Republic Eva Hajicova, Czech Republic Yannis Haralambous, France Hynek Hermansky, USA Ales Horak, Czech Republic Eduard Hovy, USA Milos Jakubicek, Czech Republic Maria Khokhlova, Russia Aidar Khusainov, Russia Daniil Kocharov, Russia Miloslav Konopik, Czech Republic Valia Kordoni, Germany Evgeny Kotelnikov, Russia Pavel Kral, Czech Republic Siegfried Kunzmann, USA Nikola Ljubesic, Croatia Natalija Loukachevitch, Russia Bernardo Magnini, Italy Vaclav Matousek, Czech Republic Roman Moucek, Czech Republic Agnieszka Mykowiecka, Poland Hermann Ney, Germany Joakim Nivre, Sweden Juan Rafael Orozco-Arroyave, Colombia Maciej Piasecki, Poland Josef Psutka, Czech Republic James Pustejovsky, USA German Rigau, Spain Paolo Rosso, Spain Leon Rothkrantz, The Netherlands Anna Rumshisky, USA Milan Rusko, Slovakia Pavel Rychly, Czechia Mykola Sazhok, Ukraine Pavel Skrelin, Russia Pavel Smrz, Czech Republic Petr Sojka, Czech Republic Georg Stemmer, Germany Marko Robnik Sikonja, Slovenia Marko Tadic, Croatia Jan Trmal, Czechia Tamas Varadi, Hungary Zygmunt Vetulani, Poland Aleksander Wawer, Poland Pascal Wiggers, The Netherlands Alina Wroblewska, Poland Jerneja Zganec Gros, Slovenia FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE The conference program will include presentation of invited papers, oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions. Papers will be presented in plenary or topic oriented sessions. Social events including a trip in the vicinity of Brno will allow for additional informal interactions. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 12 pages formatted in the LNCS style (including references). Those accepted will be presented either orally or as posters. The decision about the presentation format will be based on the recommendation of the reviewers. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the on-line form accessible from the conference website. Papers submitted to TSD 2024 must not be under review by any other conference or publication during the TSD review cycle, and must not be previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere. Publishing on preprint servers is not forbidden, but authors are warned that when doing so this might influence the blind reviewing conditions. As reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...", should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...". Papers that do not conform to the requirements above are subject to be rejected without review. The paper format for review has to be a PDF file with all required fonts included. Upon notification of acceptance, presenters will receive further information on submitting their camera-ready and electronic sources (for detailed instructions on the final paper format see https://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2024/paper_instr.html). Authors are also invited to present actual projects, developed software or interesting material relevant to the topics of the conference. The presenters of demonstrations should provide an abstract not exceeding one page. The demonstration abstracts will not appear in the conference proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES April 10 2024 ............ Submission of abstracts April 17 2024 ............ Submission of full papers June 5 2024 .............. Notification of acceptance June 15 2024 ............. Final papers (camera ready) and registration August 8 2024 ............ Submission of demonstration abstracts August 15 2024 ........... Notification of acceptance for demonstrations sent to the authors September 9-13 2024 ...... Conference date Submission of abstracts serves for better organization of the review process only - for the actual review a full paper submission is necessary. The accepted conference contributions will be published in Springer proceedings that will be made available to participants at the time of the conference. OFFICIAL LANGUAGE The official language of the conference is English. ACCOMMODATION The organizing committee will arrange discounts on accommodation in the 4-star hotel at the conference venue. The current prices of the accommodation will be available at the conference website. ADDRESS All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to Ales Horak, TSD 2024 Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University Botanicka 68a, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic phone: +420-5-49 49 18 63 fax: +420-5-49 49 18 20 email: tsd2024(a)tsdconference.org The official TSD 2024 homepage is: http://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2024 LOCATION Brno is the second largest city in the Czech Republic with a population of almost 400.000 and is the country's judiciary and trade-fair center. Brno is the capital of South Moravia, which is located in the south-east part of the Czech Republic and is known for a wide range of cultural, natural, and technical sights. South Moravia is a traditional wine region. Brno had been a Royal City since 1347 and with its six universities it forms a cultural center of the region. Brno can be reached easily by direct flights from London and Milano, and by trains or buses from Vienna (150 km) or Prague (230 km). For the participants with some extra time, nearby places may also be of interest. Local ones include: Brno Castle now called Spilberk, Veveri Castle, the Old and New City Halls, the Augustine Monastery with St. Thomas Church and crypt of Moravian Margraves, Church of St. James, Cathedral of St. Peter & Paul, Cartesian Monastery in Kralovo Pole, the famous Villa Tugendhat (UNESCO) designed by Mies van der Rohe along with other important buildings of between-war Czech architecture. For those willing to venture out of Brno, Moravian Karst with Macocha Chasm and Punkva caves, battlefield of the Battle of three emperors (Napoleon, Russian Alexander and Austrian Franz - Battle by Austerlitz), Chateau of Slavkov (Austerlitz), Pernstejn Castle, Buchlov Castle, Lednice Chateau, Buchlovice Chateau, Letovice Chateau, Mikulov with one of the largest Jewish cemeteries in Central Europe, Telc - a town on the UNESCO heritage list, and many others are all within easy reach.

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Deadline extension: Epidemic Remedies In Medical Writing
by Dario Del Fante 18 Mar '24

18 Mar '24

Please forward as appropriate. *The deadline is due on April 1st. * *Epidemic Remedies In Medical Writing* *18th - 19th June 2024* *University of Ferrara - Ferrara - Italy* This conference aims to discuss the representation of epidemic remedies in medical writing in England and in France between 1500 and 1920. Prospective presenters are invited to address epidemic remedies across five centuries, bearing three main methodological observations in mind. Firstly, the pivotal role of the plague and the Spanish influenza as opening and closing points to the selected timeframe. Secondly, the working definition of “remedy” as a cure “for a disease, disorder, injury, etc.; a medicine or treatment that promotes healing or alleviates symptoms.” (OED, remedy 2). This comprehensive definition intends to allow for historical specification and diachronic terminological variation, which the prospective presenters are invited to explore and specify. Thirdly, the definition of representation as “the process by which members of a culture use language (broadly defined as any system which deploys signs, any signifying system) to produce meaning” (Hall 1997: 61), with particular emphasis on language use at lexical and discourse level, as well as the interaction between semiotic systems (e.g. word and image). The present aim is not only to offer a diachronic perspective on the linguistic and visual representation of remedies, but also to focus on remedies prescribed during epidemics, with a view to better understanding the history of medical and health communication. Potential research questions straddle multiple standpoints - historical linguistics, the analysis of discourse, the analysis of lexis, as well as images - and multiple text types (medical treatises, medical dictionaries, periodical publications, medical advertisements through time). They include but are not limited to: - The lexical description of remedies in medical writing - The metaphorical description of remedies in medical writing - The rhetorical construction of ethos in medical writing dealing with epidemic remedies - The visual representation of remedies in medical writing - The visual representation of remedies in newspapers/magazines - The linguistic-visual construal of remedies in texts containing multiple semiotic systems (i.e. advertisements) - the insurgence of misinformation and disinformation in/about health communication (these categories may be epistemologically relevant in papers dealing with the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries) We invite proposals from a wide range of methodological perspectives. To name but a few: corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis, critical discourse analysis, multimodal discourse analysis, historical lexicography and terminology, new historicism, cultural theory, epistemology, philosophy of science, gender medicine, and gender theory. Please submit a *one-page abstract *(*ca. 200 – 300 words excluding references*). Presentations (*in English or in French*) will consist of a 20-minute talk followed by 10 minutes for questions and discussion. Please note, there is no fee for registration. All research papers should be delivered in person. All abstracts should be submitted to *remediesconference2023(a)unife.it <remediesconference2023(a)unife.it>*. All abstracts should be *anonymised *and include *a title * and up to *five keywords*. Conference Website <https://www.unife.it/it/cla/progetti/epidemic-remedies-in-medical-writing-1…> -- *Dario Del Fante, PhD* Junior Assistant Professor (Rtd-A) English Language and Linguistics *Humanities Department - University of Ferrara* Via Paradiso 12 - 44121 Ferrara E-mail: dario.delfante(a)unife.it

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2nd Call for Papers & Workshop Proposals, DRDHum 2024
by Michael Pace-Sigge 18 Mar '24

18 Mar '24

Dear colleagues, I hope you find this of interest and I hope you can pass it on to your colleagues and students. 2nd Call for Papers & Workshop Proposals 3rd Conference on Digital Data and Human Sciences (DRDHum 2024): Digital Research Data and Human Sciences in the Age of A.I. University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu campus https://sites.uef.fi/drd-hum-2024/ Important dates * Submission of oral presentations and posters: opens 07.02.2024 * Submission of oral presentations and posters: closes 15.3.2024 * Acceptance of abstracts: 01.05.2024 * Conference: 10.–12.12.2024 Today, there are many ways in which the human and social sciences use digital tools to investigate different aspects of human life and society. As the significance and use of digital resources continually expands into new fields of study, there are some disciplines which have already been working with digital methods for decades. This conference aims to present an overview of the current state of research in fields such as archival studies, cultural studies, history, linguistics, literature, performing and visual arts, philosophy where novel approaches are being made available through digital tools. The 2024 conference focusses on novel and innovative approaches to make use of digital applications, in particular in the light of the advent of machine learning and A.I. solutions. The Digital Research Data and Human Sciences (DRDHum 2024) conference aims to bring together researchers who have different areas of interest and expertise to discuss the themes of data compilation and management, and to share their knowledge and experience. We encourage contributions from researchers and research groups who have implemented interdisciplinary research to participate in the event. DRDHum 2024 is organized by the University of Eastern Finland. The first (D)RDHum Conference was hosted at the University of Oulu in 2019, where the focus was specifically on linguistic text corpora. The second conference, 2022 at the University of Jyväskylä was more expansive, looking at digital resources and technologies within the humanities and include multi-modal approaches. Submissions of individual papers, posters, and workshops are welcome but not limited to: Humanities and social research in the fields of e.g. o digital cultural, gender and ethnic studies o digital discourse analysis o digital history o digital literary studies o data-rich literary history o digital solutions in logopedics o digital media studies o digital pedagogies o spatial humanities o spoken and written linguistics Theoretical and methodological aspects of digital humanities and social studies, e.g. o computational and machine-learning systems o corpus-assisted and other corpus analyses o digital discourse analyses o Geographic Information Systems (GIS) o literary cartography o tools for digital data analysis Plenary speakers Professor Katherine Bode, Professor, Australian National University https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/bode-k ARC Future Fellow, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences Professor Anna Foka, Uppsala University, Sweden https://www.katalog.uu.se/profile/?id=N18-926 Professor at Department of ALM Professor Michaela Mahlberg, University of Birmingham, UK https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/elal/mahlberg-michaela.aspx Department of English Language and Linguistics Chair in Corpus Linguistics Professor Tony McEnery, University of Lancaster, UK https://www.lancaster.ac.uk<https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/> Distinguished Professor Submission guidelines Authors are invited to submit an abstract for theoretical or empirical work of 250-400 words (excluding references), which should indicate the research questions, data and methods used, and give a brief indication of the results. Besides oral and poster presentations, the conference will be happy to be the venue for select thematic workshops. Workshops will address a particular topic within the general theme of the conference. The chair/s of the workshop will be required submit an abstract, maximum 500 words (excluding references) introducing the proposed topic, the aim of the event and the expected audience. These workshops must include a practical part, it is therefore essential that the maximum number of participants (and any particular requirements) is given in the proposal. These workshops must be, furthermore, open to conference participants only. A list of those workshops and tutorials which have been accepted will then be announced on the conference website. After this, submissions to the workshops or tutorials themselves can then be made, following further instructions that will have been given by the organizers. We therefore invite the following types of submissions: 1. Abstract for an oral presentation (20 min + 10 min for discussion) 2. Proposal for a workshop (2 hours in length) 3. Abstract for a poster presentation (A0) Please access the submission forms at: https://openreview.net/group?id=uef.fi/University_of_Eastern_Finland/DRDHum… (Please note that you will need to request an OpenReview registration if you do not already have one. We have been advised that this process might take up to two weeks.) We aim to organise the event on-site and in-person in Joensuu and plan to make the plenaries available online. For more information, please send inquiries to: drdhum2024(a)uef.fi<mailto:drdhum2024@uef.fi> On behalf of the organising committee- Dr Michael Pace-Sigge (he/him/his) Dr Michael Pace-Sigge (he/him/his) School of Humanities Dept. of English Language and Culture University of Eastern Finland Room 155 Agora Tel.+ 358 (0) 504423473 P.O. Box 111 FI-80101 Joensuu Finland https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5164-5242 https://sites.uef.fi/drd-hum-2024/

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[Call for Participation] CL Fall School 2024
by Annette Hautli-Janisz 18 Mar '24

18 Mar '24

Call for Participation: Computational Linguistics Fall School 2024 Dates: September 16 - 27, 2024 Location: Passau, Germany Website: https://cl-fallschool-2024.github.io <https://cl-fallschool-2024.github.io/> ***************************************************************** The Computational Linguistics Fall School is a biennial event for Master and early PhD students in the humanities and computer science who want to broaden their knowledge of Computational Linguistics (CL) and Natural Language Processing (NLP). The focus lies on offering courses which are not traditionally taught in standard degree programs. This year we will offer 4 courses: Python for Language Processing (Jakob Prange, University of Augsburg) Multimodal CL and NLP: Combining Language and Vision for (Computational) Semantics (Carina Silberer, IMS Stuttgart) Argument Mining: From argument diagramming to automatic reconstruction of reasoning (John Lawrence, University of Dundee) Visual Analytics for Linguistics (Mennatallah El-Assady, ETH Zurich) Tuition fee: • Early bird fee: 100 EUR (non-students: 150 EUR) • Regular fee: 150 EUR (non-students: 200 EUR) The registration fee includes admission to all courses and events of the fall school and coffee breaks throughout the fall school. DGfS-CL and GSCL are going to award at least 5 grants of around 100–300 EUR to support participation in the fall school. The grant holders will be chosen on the basis of several criteria considering the need of support. Once we open registration, you are very welcome to fill out our grant application web form if you think you might be eligible. Registration will open in April 2024. Please check the website for more information. Contact: clfallschool2024(a)fim.uni-passau.de The CL Fall School 2024 is co-organized and -sponsored by DGfS-CL and GSCL.

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Third Call for Task Proposals: SemEval-2025
by Semeval Organizers 17 Mar '24

17 Mar '24

We invite proposals for tasks to be run as part of SemEval-2025 <https://semeval.github.io/SemEval2025/>. SemEval (the International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation) is an ongoing series of evaluations of computational semantics systems, organized under the umbrella of SIGLEX <https://siglex.org/>, the Special Interest Group on the Lexicon of the Association for Computational Linguistics. SemEval tasks explore the nature of meaning in natural languages: how to characterize meaning and how to compute it. This is achieved in practical terms, using shared datasets and standardized evaluation metrics to quantify the strengths and weaknesses and possible solutions. SemEval tasks encompass a broad range of semantic topics from the lexical level to the discourse level, including word sense identification, semantic parsing, coreference resolution, and sentiment analysis, among others. For SemEval-2025 <https://semeval.github.io/SemEval2025/cft>, we welcome tasks that can test an automatic system for the semantic analysis of text (e.g., intrinsic semantic evaluation, or an application-oriented evaluation). We especially encourage tasks for languages other than English, cross-lingual tasks, and tasks that develop novel applications of computational semantics. See the websites of previous editions of SemEval to get an idea about the range of tasks explored, e.g. SemEval-2020 <http://alt.qcri.org/semeval2020/> and SemEval-2021-/2023/2024 <https://semeval.github.io/>. We strongly encourage proposals based on pilot studies that have already generated initial data, evaluation measures and baselines. In this way, we can avoid unforeseen challenges down the road which that may delay the task. For example, you may see this task proposal <https://semeval.github.io/semeval2024_shared_task6_proposals_template.pdf>as a sample. In case you are not sure whether a task is suitable for SemEval, please feel free to get in touch with the SemEval organizers at semevalorganizers(a)gmail.com to discuss your idea. === Task Selection === Task proposals will be reviewed by experts, and reviews will serve as the basis for acceptance decisions. Everything else being equal, more innovative new tasks will be given preference over task reruns. Task proposals will be evaluated on: - Novelty: Is the task on a compelling new problem that has not been explored much in the community? Is the task a rerun, but covering substantially new ground (new subtasks, new types of data, new languages, etc.)? - Interest: Is the proposed task likely to attract a sufficient number of participants? - Data: Are the plans for collecting data convincing? Will the resulting data be of high quality? Will annotations have meaningfully high inter-annotator agreements? Have all appropriate licenses for use and re-use of the data after the evaluation been secured? Have all international privacy concerns been addressed? Will the data annotation be ready on time? - Evaluation: Is the methodology for evaluation sound? Is the necessary infrastructure available or can it be built in time for the shared task? Will research inspired by this task be able to evaluate in the same manner and on the same data after the initial task? - Impact: What is the expected impact of the data in this task on future research beyond the SemEval Workshop? - Ethical: The data must be compliant with privacy policies. e.g. a) avoid personally identifiable information (PII). Tasks aimed at identifying specific people will not be accepted, b) avoid medical decision making (compliance with HIPAA, do not try to replace medical professionals, especially if it has anything to do with mental health) c) these are representative and not exhaustive === New Tasks vs. Task Reruns === We welcome both new tasks and task reruns. For a new task, the proposal should address whether the task would be able to attract participants. Preference will be given to novel tasks that have not received much attention yet. For reruns of previous shared tasks (whether or not the previous task was part of SemEval), the proposal should address the need for another iteration of the task. Valid reasons include: a new form of evaluation (e.g. a new evaluation metric, a new application-oriented scenario), new genres or domains (e.g. social media, domain-specific corpora), or a significant expansion in scale. We further discourage carrying over a previous task and just adding new subtasks, as this can lead to the accumulation of too many subtasks. Evaluating on a different dataset with the same task formulation, or evaluating on the same dataset with a different evaluation metric, typically should not be considered a separate subtask. === Task Organization === We welcome people who have never organized a SemEval task before, as well as those who have. Apart from providing a dataset, task organizers are expected to: - Verify the data annotations have sufficient inter-annotator agreement - Verify licenses for the data allow its use in the competition and afterwards. In particular, text that is publicly available online is not necessarily in the public domain; unless a license has been provided, the author retains all rights associated with their work, including copying, sharing and publishing. For more information, see: https://creativecommons.org/faq/#what-is-copyright-and-why-does-it-matter - Resolve any potential security, privacy, or ethical concerns about the data - Commit to make the data available after the task - Provide task participants with format checkers and standard scorers. - Provide task participants with baseline systems to use as a starting point (in order to lower the obstacles to participation). A baseline system typically contains code that reads the data, creates a baseline response (e.g. random guessing, majority class prediction), and outputs the evaluation results. Whenever possible, baseline systems should be written in widely used programming languages and/or should be implemented as a component for standard NLP pipelines. - Create a mailing list and website for the task and post all relevant information there. - Create a CodaLab or other similar competition for the task and upload the evaluation script. - Manage submissions on CodaLab or a similar competition site. - Write a task description paper to be included in SemEval proceedings, and present it at the workshop. - Manage participants’ submissions of system description papers, manage participants’ peer review of each others’ papers, and possibly shepherd papers that need additional help in improving the writing. - Review other task description papers. - Define Roles for each Organizer: - Lead Organizer - main point of contact, expected to ensure deliverables are met on time and participate in contributing to task duties (see below). - Co-Organizers - provide significant contributions to ensuring the task runs smoothly. Some examples include, maintaining communication with task participants, preparing data, creating and running evaluation scripts, and leading paper reviewing and acceptance. - Advisory Organizers - more of a supervisor role, may not contribute to detailed tasks but will provide guidance and support. === Important dates === - Task proposals due March 31, 2024 (Anywhere on Earth) - Task selection notification May 18, 2024 === Preliminary timetable === - Sample data ready July 15, 2024 - Training data ready September 1, 2024 - Evaluation data ready December 1, 2024 (internal deadline; not for public release) - Evaluation starts January 10, 2025 - Evaluation end by January 31, 2025 (latest date; task organizers may choose an earlier date) - Paper submission due February 2025 - Notification to authors on March 2025 - Camera-ready due April 2025 - SemEval workshop Summer 2025 (co-located with a major NLP conference) Tasks that fail to keep up with crucial deadlines (such as the dates for having the task and CodaLab website up and dates for uploading sample, training, and evaluation data) or that diverge significantly from the proposal may be cancelled at the discretion of SemEval organizers. While consideration will be given to extenuating circumstances, our goal is to provide sufficient time for the participants to develop strong and well-thought-out systems. Cancelled tasks will be encouraged to submit proposals for the subsequent year’s SemEval. To reduce the risk of tasks failing to meet the deadlines, we are unlikely to accept multiple tasks with overlap in the task organizers. === Submission Details === The task proposal should be a self-contained document of no longer than 3 pages (plus additional pages for references). All submissions must be in PDF format, following the ACL template <https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files>. Each proposal should contain the following: - Overview - Summary of the task - Why this task is needed and which communities would be interested in participating - Expected impact of the task - Data & Resources - How the training/testing data will be produced. Please discuss whether existing corpora will be re-used. - Details of copyright, so that the data can be used by the research community both during the SemEval evaluation and afterwards - How much data will be produced - How data quality will be ensured and evaluated - An example of what the data would look like - Resources required to produce the data and prepare the task for participants (annotation cost, annotation time, computation time, etc.) - Assessment of any concerns with respect to ethics, privacy, or security (e.g. personally identifiable information of private individuals; potential for systems to cause harm) - Pilot Task (strongly recommended) - Details of the pilot task - What lessons were learned and how these will impact the task design - Evaluation - The evaluation methodology to be used, including clear evaluation criteria - For Task Reruns - Justification for why a new iteration of the task is needed (see criteria above) - What will differ from the previous iteration - Expected impact of the rerun compared with the previous iteration - Task organizers - Names, affiliations, email addresses - (optional) brief description of relevant experience or expertise - (if applicable) years and task numbers, of any SemEval tasks you have run in the past - Role of each organizer Proposals will be reviewed by an independent group of area experts who may not have familiarity with recent SemEval tasks, and therefore all proposals should be written in a self-explanatory manner and contain sufficient examples. *The submission webpage is:* SemEval2025 Task Proposal Submission <https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2024/Workshop/SemEval> ( https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2024/Workshop/SemEval) For further information on this initiative, please refer to https://semeval.github.io/SemEval2025/cft === Chairs === Atul Kr. Ojha, Insight SFI Centre for Data Analytics, DSI, University of Galway A. Seza Doğruöz, Ghent University Giovanni Da San Martino, University of Padua Harish Tayyar Madabushi, The University of Bath Sara Rosenthal, IBM Research AI Aiala Rosá, Universidad de la República - Uruguay Contact: semevalorganizers(a)gmail.com

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