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PhD positions in Computational Linguistics, University of Manitoba
by Tristan Miller 06 Nov '24

06 Nov '24

The Computational Linguistics at Manitoba (CLAM) Lab [1] at the University of Manitoba [2] is offering funded PhD positions starting in 2025 for the following research topics: 1. Computational humour, with a focus on validation of linguistic theories of humour, translation of humour, and/or classification of aggressive humour. 2. Historical born-digital corpora, with a focus on constructing and analyzing structured, annotated text corpora from Usenet or other pre-Web archives. 3. Indigenous language technology, with a focus on developing digital resources for text processing, writing, typesetting, and/or language revitalization. We are seeking highly motivated candidates with a strong interest in linguistically informed approaches to these topics. ROLE DESCRIPTION Successful candidates will pursue a doctoral degree in the Computer Science [3] or Individual Interdisciplinary Studies [4] program while working as a graduate research assistant. In these roles, and supported by their supervisor(s), they will design and carry out scientific experiments, construct and analyze text corpora or other data sets, develop and publish research software, collaborate with local and international researchers, and write papers for high-quality journals and conferences. The prospective starting date is September 2025. QUALIFICATIONS Required: * A research-based Master's degree in computer science or a related discipline, together with a strong background in (computational) linguistics or natural language processing. (Candidates with a Master's degree in linguistics and strong technical and programming skills may also be considered.) * Fulfillment of the admission requirements for the Computer Science PhD program or the Individual Interdisciplinary Studies PhD program. * Ability to work both independently and as part of a team. Highly desirable: * Past research publications in computer science or linguistics * Knowledge of any of the following: * theories of verbal humour or verbal aggression * text corpora * history of computing (pre-WWW) * language tools and resources (dictionaries, wordnets, parsers, etc.) * an indigenous language (particularly one of the Anishinaabeg, Ininiwak, Anisininewuk, Dakota Oyate, Dene, or Métis people) ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA The University of Manitoba [2] is consistently ranked among the top research-intensive universities in Canada [5]. Its strong and rapidly growing Department of Computer Science [6] advances research at the frontiers of artificial intelligence, human–computer interaction, autonomous agents, and other areas, with a track record of interdisciplinary and industry collaboration. Winnipeg [7], the sixth-largest city in Canada, and one of the most livable [8], boasts a vibrant, multicultural community and ample opportunities for sport, leisure, and entertainment. It is home to internationally renowned festivals, galleries, and museums; the historic Exchange District and The Forks; and ever-expanding research, education, and business sectors. From the Hudson Bay waters, across the farmland fields, to the pulse of the cities and towns, the province of Manitoba [9] has 100,000 lakes, 92 provincial parks, winding river valleys, and storied prairie skies. HOW TO APPLY Send the following to Dr. Tristan Miller [10] at Tristan.Miller(a)umanitoba.ca: * Your curriculum vitae * Copies of your degree certificates and transcripts * A copy of your Master's thesis and any academic publications * A cover e-mail that summarizes your interest in and aptitude for one of the three research topics above, with specific reference to your background and to any relevant projects or publications you were involved in. Applications will be accepted until December 1, 2024 or until the positions are filled. Applications are particularly encouraged from those who are women, non-binary, indigenous, or members of other underrepresented groups. Only those candidates who are shortlisted for an interview will be contacted. [1] https://clam.cs.umanitoba.ca/ [2] https://www.umanitoba.ca/ [3] https://umanitoba.ca/explore/programs-of-study/computer-science-phd [4] https://umanitoba.ca/explore/programs-of-study/individual-interdisciplinary… [5] https://u15.ca/about-us/our-members/ [6] https://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/ [7] https://www.tourismwinnipeg.com/ [8] https://www.economicdevelopmentwinnipeg.com/newsroom/read,post/1026/winnipe… [9] https://www.travelmanitoba.com/ [10] https://logological.org/ -- Dr. Tristan Miller, Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba https://clam.cs.umanitoba.ca/ | Tel. +1 204 474 6792

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Digital Research Data and Human Sciences in the Age of A.I. - call for registration
by Michael Pace-Sigge 06 Nov '24

06 Nov '24

Dear friends and colleagues (apologies for cross-posting) Digital Research Data and Human Sciences in the Age of A.I. Final Call for registration (ends 05/12/2024) University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu campus, December 10 ̶ 12, 2024 https://sites.uef.fi/drd-hum-2024/ Please register here: https://registration.contio.fi/uef/Registration/Login?id=7500-T_7500-8717 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. 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. Plenary Speakers: Professor Katherine Bode, Australian National University Professor Anna Foka, Uppsala University, Sweden Professor Michaela Mahlberg, FAU, Germany Professor Tony McEnery, University of Lancaster, UK 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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ENEOLI Survey on Studying and Documenting Neologisms: deadline extension
by kris.heylen＠ivdnt.org 05 Nov '24

05 Nov '24

Dear colleague, working on lexical innovation and neologisms, If you didn’t have the chance yet, we kindly invite you to participate in the ENEOLI survey on neology by November 15 and help us get valuable information about available resources for neology research and documentation: https://1ka.arnes.si/eneoli . The survey is being conducted as part of the European Network on Lexical Innovation (ENEOLI) Cost Action CA22126. Its objective is to gather insights into the methods, practices, tools, and resources used in neology, the study of lexical innovations, including both neologisms (new words or expressions) and new senses of existing words. We want to reach as many people as we can, so please share the survey with your colleagues, your local research and expert communities and through social media channels Best regards, On behalf of the ENEOLI action, Kris Heylen (Dutch Language Institute, Leiden, The Netherlands)

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[Extended Deadline] Call for Papers: The First Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2025@COLING)
by Ranasinghe, Tharindu 04 Nov '24

04 Nov '24

[Due to many requests, we have extended the submission deadline] Neural language models have revolutionised natural language processing (NLP) and have provided state-of-the-art results for many tasks. However, their effectiveness is largely dependent on the pre-training resources. Therefore, language models (LMs) often struggle with low-resource languages in both training and evaluation. Recently, there has been a growing trend in developing and adopting LMs for low-resource languages. LoResLM aims to provide a forum for researchers to share and discuss their ongoing work on LMs for low-resource languages. >> Topics LoResLM 2025 invites submissions on a broad range of topics related to the development and evaluation of neural language models for low-resource languages, including but not limited to the following. * Building language models for low-resource languages. * Adapting/extending existing language models/large language models for low-resource languages. * Corpora creation and curation technologies for training language models/large language models for low-resource languages. * Benchmarks to evaluate language models/large language models in low-resource languages. * Prompting/in-context learning strategies for low-resource languages with large language models. * Review of available corpora to train/fine-tune language models/large language models for low-resource languages. * Multilingual/cross-lingual language models/large language models for low-resource languages. * Applications of language models/large language models for low-resource languages (i.e. machine translation, chatbots, content moderation, etc. >> Important Dates * Paper submission due – 5th November 2024 12th November 2024 * Notification of acceptance – 25th November 2024 * Camera-ready due – 13th December 2024 * LoResLM 2025 workshop – 19th / 20th January 2025 co-located with COLING 2025 >> Submission Guidelines We follow the COLING 2025 standards for submission format and guidelines. LoResLM 2025 invites the submission of long papers of up to eight pages and short papers of up to four pages. These page limits only apply to the main body of the paper. At the end of the paper (after the conclusions but before the references), papers need to include a mandatory section discussing the limitations of the work and, optionally, a section discussing ethical considerations. Papers can include unlimited pages of references and an unlimited appendix. To prepare your submission, please make sure to use the COLING 2025 style files available here: * Latex - https://coling2025.org/downloads/coling-2025.zip * Word - https://coling2025.org/downloads/coling-2025.docx * Overleaf - https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/instructions-for-coling-2025-proce… Papers should be submitted through Softconf/START using the following link: https://softconf.com/coling2025/LoResLM25/ >> Organising Committee * Hansi Hettiarachchi, Lancaster University, UK * Tharindu Ranasinghe, Lancaster University, UK * Paul Rayson, Lancaster University, UK * Ruslan Mitkov, Lancaster University, UK * Mohamed Gaber, Birmingham City University, UK * Damith Premasiri, Lancaster University, UK * Fiona Anting Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore * Lasitha Uyangodage, University of Münster, Germany >> Programme Committee * Burcu Can - University of Stirling, UK * Çağrı Çöltekin - University of Tübingen, Germany * Debashish Das - Birmingham City University, UK * Alphaeus Dmonte - George Mason University, USA * Daan van Esch - Google * Ignatius Ezeani - Lancaster University, UK * Anna Furtado - University of Galway, Ireland * Amal Htait - Aston University, UK * Ali Hürriyetoğlu - Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands * Danka Jokic - University of Belgrade, Serbia * Diptesh Kanojia - University of Surrey, UK * Jean Maillard - Meta * Maite Melero - Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, Spain * Muhidin Mohamed - Aston University, UK * Nadeesha Pathirana - Aston University, UK * Alistair Plum - University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg * Sandaru Seneviratne - Australian National University, Australia * Ravi Shekhar - University of Essex, UK * Taro Watanabe - Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan * Phil Weber - Aston University, UK URL - https://loreslm.github.io/ Twitter - https://x.com/LoResLM2025 Best Regards Tharindu Ranasinghe

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UCCTS 2025 - First Call for Papers
by Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski 04 Nov '24

04 Nov '24

UCCTS 2025 - First Call for Papers The eighth edition of the UCCTS conference (www.uni-hildesheim.de/uccts2025) will be held on the 8-10th of September 2025 in Hildesheim, Germany. UCCTS conference series are meant to bring together researchers who collect, annotate, analyze corpora and/or use them to inform contrastive linguistics and translation theory and/or develop corpus-informed tools (in foreign language teaching, language testing and quality assessment, translation pedagogy, computer-aided/machine translation or other related NLP domains). We invite original submissions that open to various topics within empirical contrastive linguistics and translation studies (see below). We welcome interdisciplinary contributions that combine corpus data with other types of empirical data (e.g. experiment) and allow for an interplay between different methods and data types. Moreover, we encourage contributions applying information and computational technologies including Large Language Models (LLMs). Conference topics include: * Quantitative approaches in corpus-based contrastive and translation/interpreting studies, in particular with multi-methodological designs (corpus-based, corpus-driven, experimental) and advanced statistical modeling * Computational methods derived from NLP and data mining (e.g. computational semantics, pragmatics) applied to contrastive linguistics and translation studies * LLMs for contrastive linguistics and translation research (data annotation, data analysis, etc.) * Method and data triangulation: combined use of corpus data and methods and other sources of data * New or remodeled theoretical frameworks relevant to corpus-based contrastive and translation/interpreting studies * Presentation of new resources for contrastive and translation studies (spoken and multimodal corpora, sign language (interpreting) corpora, transcript datasets, corpora of low-resourced languages, lexicons, databases, etc.) * Linguistic variation of various types, e.g. variation driven by register or genre variation, learner language, target audience, mode of production, etc. * Cognitive approaches to translation (and other language product) properties * Analysis of non-canonical forms of (multilingual) communication * Corpus use in translator training, foreign language learning/teaching * Corpus use in multilingual (e-)lexicography and terminology * Quality assessment in (automatic) translation and interpreting * Non-canonical forms of translation/interpreting and multilingual communication * Corpus analysis of translation between close languages, from a third language, non-native translation, indirect/relay translation, etc. * Analysis of accessible communication (e.g. intralingual translation, audio-visual and audio-descriptive forms, etc.) The submissions are to be made in the form of anonymized extended abstracts (in PDF) that should be between 800 and 1000 words long (excluding references) by February 10, 2025. Apart from a clear outline of the aims and methods of the study, the abstracts should also provide (preliminary) results. The abstracts will be submitted through the Open review system and reviewed by at least two members of the scientific committee. The accepted contributions will be presented either as oral talks or as posters. All submissions must follow abstract submission instructions given below. Abstract text must be in single-spaced 12pt Arial font, with no indents and 1 inch borders on each side (2.54 cm). The title should be in 12pt Arial, bold and centered, in title case. Page numbers should be omitted. Figure and table captions should be in 10pt Arial font. Table and figure captions should appear below the table or figure. References must be in 9pt Arial font, in APA7 format.Publications The abstracts of the accepted papers will be published in an online book of abstracts. We also plan to publish selected papers in an edited volume or in a special issue of a journal. Further information will be communicated in due course. Important dates * Conference abstract submission due: Feb 10, 2025 * Notification of acceptance: April 14, 2025 * Final abstract version due: May 5, 2025 * Registration open: May 12, 2025 * Early-bird registration: July 7, 2025 * Conference date: September 8-10, 2025 -- Prof. Dr. Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski Mehrsprachige technische Fachkommunikation Institut für Übersetzungswissenschaft und Fachkommunikation Fachbereich 3: Sprach und Informationswissenschaften Stiftung Universität Hildesheim Lübecker Straße 3 31141 Hildesheim +49 5121 883-30934

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ACL 2025 Call for Papers
by ACL Announcements 04 Nov '24

04 Nov '24

ACL 2025 Call for Papers MAIN CONFERENCE ACL 2025 Website: https://2025.aclweb.org/ [1] Submission Deadline: February 15, 2025 Conference Dates: July 27 to August 1, 2025 Location: Vienna, Austria Special Theme: "Generalization of NLP Models" Contact: * Roberto Navigli [2] (General Chair) * Wanxiang Che [3], Joyce Nabende [4], Mohammad Taher Pilehvar [5], Ekaterina Shutova [6] (Program Chairs): For questions related to paper submission, email: editors(a)aclrollingreview.org For all other questions, email: acl2025pcs(a)gmail.com OVERVIEW ACL 2025 invites the submission of long and short papers featuring substantial, original, and unpublished research in all aspects of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing. ACL 2025 has a goal of a diverse technical program--in addition to traditional research results, papers may contribute negative findings, survey an area, announce the creation of a new resource, argue a position, report novel linguistic insights derived using existing computational techniques, and reproduce, or fail to reproduce, previous results. As in recent years, some of the presentations at the conference will be of papers accepted by the Transactions of the ACL (TACL) and by the Computational Linguistics (CL) journals. Papers submitted to ACL 2025, but not selected for the main conference, will also automatically be considered for publication in the Findings of the Association of Computational Linguistics. PAPER SUBMISSION INFORMATION Papers may be submitted to the ARR 2025 February cycle. Papers that have received reviews and a meta-review from ARR (whether from the ARR 2025 February cycle or an earlier ARR cycle) may be committed to ACL 2025 via the conference commitment site (TBA). SUBMISSION TOPICS ACL 2025 aims to have a broad technical program. Relevant topics for the conference include, but are not limited to, the following areas (in alphabetical order): * Computational Social Science and Cultural Analytics * Dialogue and Interactive Systems * Discourse and Pragmatics * Efficient/Low-Resource Methods for NLP * Ethics, Bias, and Fairness * Generation * Information Extraction * Information Retrieval and Text Mining * Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP * Language Modeling * Linguistic theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics * Machine Learning for NLP * Machine Translation * Multilinguality and Language Diversity * Multimodality and Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond * NLP Applications * Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation * Question Answering * Resources and Evaluation * Semantics: Lexical and Sentence-Level * Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining * Speech recognition, text-to-speech and spoken language understanding * Summarization * Syntax: Tagging, Chunking and Parsing * Special Theme: Generalization of NLP Models ACL 2025 Theme Track: Generalization of NLP Models Following the success of the ACL 2020-2024 Theme tracks, we are happy to announce that ACL 2025 will have a new theme with the goal of reflecting and stimulating discussion about the current state of development of the field of NLP. Generalization is crucial for ensuring that models behave robustly, reliably, and fairly when making predictions on data different from their training data. Achieving good generalization is critically important for models used in real-world applications, as they should emulate human-like behavior. Humans are known for their ability to generalize well, and models should aspire to this standard. The theme track invites empirical and theoretical research and position and survey papers reflecting on the Generalization of NLP Models. The possible topics of discussion include (but are not limited to) the following: * How can we enhance the generalization of NLP models across various dimensions--compositional, structural, cross-task, cross-lingual, cross-domain, and robustness? * What factors affect the generalization of NLP models? * What are the most effective methods for evaluating the generalization capabilities of NLP models? * While Large Language Models (LLMs) significantly enhance the generalization of NLP models, what are the key limitations of LLMs in this regard? The theme track submissions can be either long or short. We anticipate having a special session for this theme at the conference and a Thematic Paper Award in addition to other categories of awards. TWO-STAGE REVIEW: SUBMISSION TO ARR, COMMITMENT TO ACL 2025 ACL 2025 will use ACL Rolling Review [7] (ARR) https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp as a reviewing system, but final decisions will be made by the conference. Both submissions of articles for review and commitment of reviewed articles to the conference will be performed via the Open Review [8] platform. Specifically, authors will follow a two-step process: * Authors submit articles to ARR, where submissions receive reviews and meta-reviews from ARR reviewers and action editors; * Authors commit their reviewed articles to a publication venue (e.g., ACL 2025), where Senior Area Chairs and Program Chairs make acceptance decisions from the ARR reviews and meta-reviews. ACL 2025 has chosen this approach in coordination with *CL 2024 conferences, which are adopting the same procedure and a coordinated submission plan to allow maximum flexibility during their submission periods for the authors. At each cycle, after a paper has been fully reviewed, authors have the option to commit their paper to a conference or revise and resubmit for another round of reviews. The reviewing process will continue to be double-blind. Reviewers will not see authors, nor will authors see reviewers, and reviews on ARR will not be made publicly visible. However, authors will be given the option through ARR to make their anonymized submitted articles publicly visible. MANDATORY REVIEWING WORKLOAD AS THE PACE OF RESEARCH IN THE FIELD CONTINUES TO INCREASE, WE NEED TO STRENGTHEN THE COMMITMENT TO REVIEWING FOR EACH PAPER SUBMISSION. DURING THE ARR SUBMISSION PROCESS, AUTHORS WILL BE REQUIRED TO SPECIFY WHICH CO-AUTHORS ARE COMMITTING TO COVER REVIEWING IN THIS REVIEWING CYCLE. PLEASE SEE THE NEW ARR POLICY REGARDING REVIEWING WORKLOAD HERE. AS THIS IS AN ARR-WIDE POLICY FOR ALL *CL CONFERENCES, QUESTIONS OR CLARIFICATIONS SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO ARR DIRECTLY. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline (all papers are submitted to ARR) February 15, 2025 ARR reviews & meta-reviews available to authors of the February cycle April 15, 2025 Commitment deadline for ACL 2025 April 20, 2025 Notification of acceptance May 15, 2025 Withdrawal deadline May 30, 2025 Camera-ready papers due May 30, 2025 Tutorials July 27, 2025 Conference July 28 - 30, 2025 Workshops July 31 - August 1, 2025 Note: All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth"). Paper Submission Details Both long and short paper submissions should follow all of the ARR submission requirements [9], including: * Long Papers [10] (8 pages) and Short Papers [11] (4 pages) * Instructions for Two-Way Anonymized Review [12] * Authorship [13] * Citation and Comparison [14] * Multiple Submission Policy [15], Resubmission Policy [16], and Withdrawal Policy [17] * Ethics Policy [18] including the responsible NLP research checklist [19] * Limitations [20] * Paper Submission and Templates [21] * Optional Supplementary Materials [22] Final versions of accepted papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages for long papers, up to 5 pages for short papers) to address reviewers' comments. Following the ACL and ARR policies (https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/report-acl-committee-anonymity-policy) [23], there is no anonymity period requirement. At the time of submission to ARR, authors will be asked to select a preferred venue (e.g., ACL 2025). This is used only to calculate acceptance rates. Authors who selected ACL 2025 as a preferred venue when submitting to ARR may choose not to commit to ACL 2025 after receiving their reviews, and authors who selected a preferred venue other than ACL 2025 when submitting to ARR are still welcome to commit to ACL 2025. Presentation at the Conference All accepted papers must be presented at the conference to appear in the proceedings. The conference will include both in-person and virtual presentation options. Papers without at least one presenting author registered by the early registration deadline may be subject to desk rejection. Long and short papers will be presented orally or as posters as determined by the program committee. While short papers will be distinguished from long papers in the proceedings, there will be no distinction in the proceedings between papers presented orally and papers presented as posters. Links: ------ [1] https://2025.aclweb.org/ [2] https://www.diag.uniroma1.it/navigli/ [3] http://ir.hit.edu.cn/~car/ [4] https://sites.google.com/view/jnabende/home?authuser=0 [5] https://pilehvar.github.io/ [6] https://www.shutova.org/ [7] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp [8] https://openreview.net/ [9] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#paper-submission-information [10] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#long-papers [11] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#short-papers [12] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#instructions-for-two-way-anonymized-review [13] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#authorship [14] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#citation-and-comparison [15] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#multiple-submission-policy [16] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#resubmission-policy [17] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#withdrawal-policy [18] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#ethics-policy [19] https://aclrollingreview.org/responsibleNLPresearch [20] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#limitations [21] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#paper-submission-and-templates [22] https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp#optional-supplementary-materials-appendice… [23] https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/report-acl-committee-anonymity-policy

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CfP: Second Forlì International Workshop on Corpus-based Interpreting Studies and Applications: At the Interface of Data and Technology
by Nannan Liu 04 Nov '24

04 Nov '24

Second Forlì International Workshop on Corpus-based Interpreting Studies and Applications: At the Interface of Data and Technology 8–10 May 2025, Forlì, Italy, and online Call for Papers The Department of Interpreting and Translation at the University of Bologna is organising the Second Forlì International Workshop on Corpus-based Interpreting Studies and Applications on 8–10 May 2025 in Forlì, Italy, and online. Background The Forlì International Workshop series was launched in 2015 to stimulate the creation of interpreting corpora and corpus-based research projects. The first workshop gathered more than 100 scholars from around the world, resulting in a volume of state-of-the-art research (Russo et al. 2018<https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-10-6199-8>) and a special issue (Bendazzoli et al. 2018<https://www.intralinea.org/specials/cbis>). The tenth anniversary of the first workshop marks an opportune occasion to take stock of recent developments and chart new directions in light of corpora’s fundamental role in technological advancements. Theme Interpreting corpora serve as the descriptive foundation of research and the ground truth against which machine interpreting technologies are evaluated. Corpus-based interpreting studies, as envisaged by Shlesinger (1998<https://doi.org/10.7202/004136ar>), have developed into a highly productive line of inquiry with theoretical inputs from cognitive linguistics and sociology and methodological contributions from natural language processing, prosody research, and multimodality. Recently, large interpreting corpora have fuelled the deployment of machine interpreting technologies, together with deep learning algorithms that synthesise signing images and texts (e.g. Saunders et al. 2022<https://doi.org/10.1109/CVPR52688.2022.00508>). Amidst changing conceptual boundaries (Pöchhacker 2024<https://doi.org/10.1075/ts.23028.poc>), methodological developments, and technological landscape, a field-wide reflection on the role of corpora is necessary. In this context, we view the Second Forlì International Workshop as an opportunity to bring together researchers who create, analyse, and use corpora to study interpreting and develop tools and applications for corpus-based research, computer-assisted interpreting, machine interpreting, automated interpreting quality assessment, pedagogy, and other related domains. Submissions We particularly welcome abstracts addressing the following topics: * Theory testing and comparisons using corpora * Replication studies using corpora * Quantitative and qualitative approaches to corpus-based studies * Triangulating corpora with other data sources (e.g. user response, eye-tracking, EEG, and workplace ethnography) * Underrepresented corpora, e.g. those involving signed language interpreting and onsite versus remote interpreting * Corpora of constrained communication (Kotze & van Rooy 2024<https://doi.org/10.1075/coll.60.01kot>), e.g. those by untrained interpreters and learners * Multimodal and multiple interpreting corpora * Computer-assisted interpreting software and applications * Machine interpreting systems * Automated interpreting quality assessment based on corpora * Corpus design according to principles of scientific data management (e.g. FAIR principles; Wilkinson et al. 2016<https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2016.18>) The first page of the submission should contain each author’s name, affiliation (if any), and e-mail address. The abstract should be placed from the second page onwards, including the title, a text between 300 and 400 words (including examples, excluding references) that clearly states the research questions, methods, data, and (preliminary) results, and up to five keywords. The abstract should not contain any identifying information to allow for double-blind peer reviewing. There will be three types of presentations: * Full paper (20 minutes + 10 minutes Q & A) * Poster * Software demonstration Abstracts will be submitted to unic(a)dipintra.it<mailto:unic@dipintra.it>. Authors may indicate a full paper, a poster, or a software presentation upon submission. Posters will be displayed on Day 1 of the Workshop, and a time slot will be reserved in the programme for participants to discuss with poster presenters. Software demonstrations will be held on Day 2 in a dedicated time slot. A selection of papers will be published in an edited volume and a special issue in a scientific journal. Language of the conference English Important dates * Submission deadline: 1 February 2025 * Notification of acceptance and rejection: 1 March 2025 * Pre-workshop session on the Unified Interpreting Corpus (UNIC; https://unic.dipintra.it/) platform: 15:00–17:30, 8 May 2025 * Workshop: 9–10 May 2025 Pre-workshop session convenors * Nannan Liu * Mariachiara Russo Scientific committee members Claudia Angelelli (Herriot-Watt University) Alberto Barrón-Cedeño (University of Bologna) Claudio Bendazzoli (University of Verona) Silvia Bernardini (University of Bologna) Sabine Braun (University of Surrey) Agnieszka Chmiel (Adam Mickiewicz University) Elena Davitti (University of Surrey) Bart Defrancq (Ghent University) Adriano Ferraresi (University of Bologna) Min-hua Liu (Hong Kong Baptist University) Nannan Liu (University of Bologna) Bernd Meyer (Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz) Maja Miličević Petrović (University of Bologna) Koen Plevoets (Ghent University) Bianca Prandi (University of Bologna) Mariachiara Russo (University of Bologna) Annalisa Sandrelli (University of the International Studies of Rome) Elisabet Tiselius (Stockholm University) Ira Torresi (University of Bologna) Kim Wallmach (Stellenbosch University) Organising committee members Alberto Barrón-Cedeño (University of Bologna) Michela Bertozzi (University of Bologna) Silvia Bernardini (University of Bologna) Francesca D’Angelo (University of Bologna) Bart Defrancq (Ghent University) Adriano Ferraresi (University of Bologna) Serena Ghiselli (University of Bologna) Nannan Liu (University of Bologna) Marco Lobascio (University of Bologna) Natacha Niemants (University of Bologna) Maja Miličević Petrović (University of Bologna) Bianca Prandi (University of Bologna) Mariachiara Russo (University of Bologna) Nicoletta Spinolo (University of Bologna) Han Wang (University of Bologna) Contact unic(a)dipintra.it<mailto:unic@dipintra.it> Workshop website Website coming soon. Dr Nannan Liu Marie Curie Fellow Project FAITH<https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101108651> Department of Interpreting and Translation University of Bologna

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SwissText 2025: 1ST CALL FOR SHARED TASK, WORKSHOP AND TUTORIAL PROPOSALS
by Tuggener Don (tuge) 04 Nov '24

04 Nov '24

Dear colleagues, We cordially invite submissions of proposals for shared tasks, workshops, and tutorials to be held at the SwissText 2025 conference. SwissText will take place from June 17-18, 2025 at ZHAW in Winterthur. ABOUT SwissText SwissText is an annual conference that brings together text analytics experts from industry and academia. It is organized by the Swiss Association for Natural Language Processing (SwissNLP) in collaboration with the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW). SPECIAL EDITION This edition of SwissText will be special, since we celebrate its 10th anniversary! This is a great opportunity to look back. Hence, in addition to novel ideas for shared tasks, we also invite previous organizers of shared tasks to re-submit their ideas: What has changed since the last run of the shared task? Is the task still relevant? Do LLMs solve everything now? This offers us to see what progress has been made over the years. To give you some ideas, here is a list of previous shared tasks: * NLP for Sustainable Development Goals Monitoring * Swissdox Hackathon * Detecting greenwashing signals through a comparison of ESG reports and public media * Swiss German Speech to Standard German Text Shared Task * Low-Resource Speech-to-Text * The Sentence End and Punctuation Prediction in NLG text (SEPP-NLG) * German Text Summarization Challenge * .. and many more (see the SwissText website archive)! FORMAT FOR PROPOSALS Proposals for shared tasks should contain: * a title and a brief description of the topic of the task * a description of the data sets that will be used in the shared task and their readiness * a sketch of how the submitted systems will be evaluated * a tentative timeline Proposals for workshops should contain: * a title and a brief description of the topic * a description of the intended audience * workshop format (paper presentations, poster session, etc.) * a tentative timeline Proposals for tutorials should contain: * a title and a brief description of the topic and the goal of the tutorial * an introduction of the workshop speakers and their background and expertise * a description of the intended audience and the required level of expertise (beginners, experts, etc.) * a tentative outline of the tutorial schedule Note that the organization and running of the shared tasks, workshops, and tutorial is in the hands of the respective organizers. The SwissText organizers will provide infrastructure (rooms, paper submission platform) and assist where they can, of course. Interested? We are looking forward to your proposals. Submit your proposals by email to info(a)swisstext.org<mailto:info@swisstext.org> no later than November 30, 2024. Notifications will be sent out by December 15, 2024. Kind regards, Don ________________________________ ZHAW School of Engineering / CAI Dr. Don Tuggener Technikumstrasse 71 Postfach 8401 Winterthur Tel: +41 58 934 78 55 Web: https://www.zhaw.ch/de/ueber-uns/person/tuge/

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Call for Applications: Georgetown Linguistics PhD and MS Programs
by Ethan Wilcox 03 Nov '24

03 Nov '24

Call for Applications: Georgetown University MS and Ph.D. programs in Computational Linguistics Georgetown University (Washington, DC) invites applications to our MS and Ph.D. programs for students wishing to study Computational Linguistics starting in Fall 2025. Georgetown is strategically located in the nation's capital with proximity to government institutions, a thriving tech industry, and other major universities. Our programs offer advanced training and cutting-edge research opportunities in topics such as natural language processing, syntactic/semantic analysis, corpora, contemporary machine learning/deep learning methods for language, and applications of Large Language Models and AI technologies. Current research priorities include computational psycholinguistics, computational models of discourse, and linguistics-based language modeling. Students have the opportunity to learn from faculty across a range of departments and to participate in our interdisciplinary research community (http://gucl.georgetown.edu/). Additionally, students who apply to the Ph.D. program in Computational Linguistics may elect to participate in the university’s Interdisciplinary Concentration in Cognitive Science. Admitted Ph.D. applicants are offered full funding. Admissions and funding decisions are made without regard to domestic vs. international status. Our programs include: - MS in Computational Linguistics <https://linguistics.georgetown.edu/graduate/master-degree-programs/master-o…> (Dept. of Linguistics, Jan. 15 deadline) - Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics <https://linguistics.georgetown.edu/graduate/phd-programs> (Dept. of Linguistics, Dec. 1 deadline) - Optional: Interdisciplinary Concentration in Cognitive Science <https://cogsci.georgetown.edu/concentration/> Requirements: A bachelor’s degree by August 2025 is required to enter either program. Both programs include core courses in Linguistics, so a prior degree in Linguistics is not required. Ph.D. applicants are expected to have some programming experience and a commitment to participating in computational linguistics research. See recommendations for the Ph.D. Statement of Purpose <https://medium.com/@nschneid/inside-ph-d-admissions-what-readers-look-for-i…> . Applications: https://linguistics.georgetown.edu/programs/apply/ Questions about application requirements and procedures should be directed to Erin Esch Pereira (eee8(a)georgetown.edu), Graduate Program Coordinator, Dept. of Linguistics. Sincerely, Nathan Schneider <http://nathan.cl/>, Depts. of Linguistics and Computer Science; concentration director Amir Zeldes <https://gucorpling.org/amir/>, Dept. of Linguistics, Computational Linguistics Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox <https://wilcoxeg.github.io/>, Dept. of Linguistics, Computational Linguistics -- Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox Assistant Professor, Computational Linguistics Georgetown University www.wilcoxeg.github.io

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Edge Hill Corpus Research Group: Meeting #13
by Costas Gabrielatos 02 Nov '24

02 Nov '24

The next meeting of the Edge Hill Corpus Research Group will take place online (via MS Teams) on Friday 15 November 2024, 2-4 pm (GMT). Topic: Discourse-Oriented Corpus Studies 2-3 pm Katia Adimora (Edge Hill University) Mexican immigration/immigrants in American and Mexican newspapers 3-4 pm Dan Malone (Edge Hill University) When is the extreme also typical? Using prototypicality to investigate representations of the lone-wolf terrorist Attendance is free. The abstracts and registration link are here: https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/crg/next Registration closes on Wednesday 13 November, 11 am (GMT). If you have any questions, please contact 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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Final CFP : Workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages (CHiPSAL @ COLING 2025)
by Velayuthan Menan 01 Nov '24

01 Nov '24

Hello Everyone, Based on the emails received we have extended the submission deadline to November 7th 2024. Please read below for more information on the workshop and the updated timeline. ---- Don’t miss this unique opportunity to discuss key issues and contribute to the advancement of language processing in the South Asian region, home to 25% of the world’s population and rich in linguistic and cultural diversity. Submit your papers by October 30, 2024, and join us at the first Workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages (CHiPSAL), taking place at COLING 2025 on January 19, 2025. Please submit your papers via *https://softconf.com/coling2025/CHiPSAL25 https://softconf.com/coling2025/CHiPSAL25 * ---- *CHiPSAL 2025*, the First workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages (CHiPSAL), will be held as part of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2025) in Abu Dhabi, UAE, on *January 19, 2025*. The workshop will be conducted in *virtual mode*. CHiPSAL 2025 invites the submission of original research papers, review/opinion papers, and system demonstration papers, in short or long forms, on topics that highlight the challenges related to South Asian languages, including but not limited to the following areas: - Encoding and Unicode Issues in South Asian Scripts - Orthographic Complexities and Their Impact on Language Technology - Morphological Analysis and Generation in South Asian Languages - Dialectal Variations and Language Standardisation - Code-Mixing and Multilingualism in South Asian Contexts - Building Linguistic Resources for South Asian Languages - Speech Recognition and Synthesis for South Asian Languages - Preserving Linguistic Heritage through Technology - Benchmarking Models for South Asian Languages *Important Dates* All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“Anywhere on Earth”). The First CFP Monday, 15 July 2024 Submission Deadline October 30, 2024 *November 7, 2024* Notification of acceptance November 29, 2024 Camera-ready papers December 13, 2024 Pre-recorded video due January 5, 2024 Workshop (Virtual) January 19, 2025 *For more information: https://sites.google.com/view/chipsal https://sites.google.com/view/chipsal*

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Opening of the Faetar Low-Resource ASR Challenge 2025
by Ewan Dunbar 01 Nov '24

01 Nov '24

Opening of the Faetar Low-Resource ASR Challenge 2025 We are pleased to officially announce the opening of the Faetar Low-Resource ASR Challenge 2025. While we were not able to secure a special session dedicated to the challenge at the conference, we strongly encourage submission of papers describing your systems to Interspeech 2025. As such, we plan to adhere to a timeline that will allow us to return test results and announce winners in time for participants to prepare Interspeech papers (see below). Challenge website: https://perceptimatic.github.io/faetarspeech/ The Faetar Low-Resource ASR Challenge aims to focus researchers’ attention on several issues which are common to many archival collections of speech data: - noisy field recordings - lack of standard orthography, leading to noise in the transcriptions in the form of transcriber inconsistencies - only a few hours of transcribed data - a larger collection of untranscribed data - no additional data in the language (textual or speech) that is easily available - “dirty” transcriptions in documents, which contain matter that needs to be filtered out By focusing multiple research groups on a single corpus of this kind, we aim to gain deeper insights into these problems than can be achieved otherwise. The challenge uses the Faetar ASR Benchmark Corpus. Faetar (pronounced [fajdar]) is a variety of the Franco-Provençal language which developed in isolation in Italy, far from other speakers of Franco-Provençal, and in close contact with Italian. Faetar has less than 1000 speakers around the world, in Italy and in the diaspora. It is endangered, and preservation, learning, and documentation are a priority for many community members. The benchmark data represents the majority of all archived speech recordings of Faetar in existence, and it is not available from any other source. We propose four tracks: - Constrained ASR. Participants should focus on the challenge of improving ASR architectures to work with small, poor-quality sets. Participants may not use any resources to train / fine-tune their models beyond the files contained in the provided train set. No external pre-trained acoustic models or language models are allowed, and the use of the unlabelled portion of the Faetar challenge data set is not allowed either. Three other “thematic tracks” can be explored, and should not be considered mutually exclusive: - Using pre-trained acoustic models or language models. Participants focus on the most effective way to make use of models pre-trained on other languages. - Using unlabelled data. The challenge data also includes ~20 hrs of unlabelled data. Participants focus on finding the most effective way to make use of it. - Dirty data. The training data was extracted and automatically aligned from long-form audio and partial transcriptions in “cluttered” word processor files, relying on (error-prone) VAD, scraping, and alignment. Participants focus on improving the pipeline for extracting useful training data, with the ultimate goal of improving performance. Submissions will be evaluated on phone error rate (PER) on the test set. Participants are provided with a dev kit allowing them to calculate the PER on dev and train, as well as reproduce the baselines. For more information, and to register and obtain the data and the dev kit, please visit the challenge website: https://perceptimatic.github.io/faetarspeech/ For more information, or for questions, please contact us by writing to faetarasrchallenge(a)gmail.com.

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Deadline extension CFP: The 1st Workshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic Script (AbjadNLP 2025)
by Amal Haddad 31 Oct '24

31 Oct '24

CALL FOR PAPERS: THE 1ST WORKSHOP ON NLP FOR LANGUAGES USING ARABIC SCRIPT (ABJADNLP 2025) Co-located with COLING 2025 Conference, Abu Dhabi, UAE (19-20 January 2025) https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/abjad/ Submission URL [1] AbjadNLP is dedicated to advancing innovation and gaining deeper insights into Natural Language Processing (NLP) for languages that use the Arabic script. Our primary focus is on Abjad and Ajami languages that utilise the Arabic script or its variations. Traditionally associated with Semitic languages, Abjad scripts represent consonants in every syllable. In contrast, Ajami scripts denote the alphabetic use of the Arabic script in various African contexts, representing non-Arabic languages. We are interested in research on languages that fall under the Abjad or Ajami categories that use the Arabic script or any variations of it. We invite contributions, discussions, and explorations that delve deep into the unique linguistic structures, resources, challenges, and untapped potential presented by Abjad and Ajami languages within the realm of NLP and language resources. Our goal is to create synergies among researchers by addressing the diverse phenomena and challenges inherent in these rich linguistic traditions. The workshop is proud to highlight our connections with the Masakhane NLP community and collaborations with institutions worldwide, such as COMSATS on Urdu, and the long-standing UCREL NLP Group at Lancaster University, whose work encompasses over 20 languages worldwide, including Abjad and Ajami languages. Note: We chose the name Abjad for simplicity, but our focus includes Abjad and other languages that have adopted the Arabic and Perso-Arabic scripts, as well as Ajami languages. We acknowledge that Sorani Kurdish, when written in Arabic script, follows an alphabet style rather than an Abjad style. TOPICS OF INTEREST: * Core Technologies: morphological analysis, disambiguation, tokenisation, POS tagging, named entity detection, chunking, parsing, semantic role labelling, sentiment analysis, language modelling, etc. * Applications: machine translation, speech recognition, speech synthesis, optical character recognition, assistive technologies, social media, etc. * Resources and Tools: dictionaries, annotated data, corpora, orthography descriptions, font technology, glyph rendering, text input methodologies, spell-checking, speech-to-text solutions, BLARK descriptions, open access corpora. * Cultural and Sociolinguistic Considerations: text processing, transliteration challenges, and solutions, cultural contexts in NLP applications. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: We follow the COLING 2025 standards for submission format and guidelines. Submissions should conform to the following types: * Long papers: Up to eight (8) pages, presenting substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. * Short papers: Up to four (4) pages, describing a small focused contribution, negative results, system demonstrations, etc. KEY DATES: * 1st Call for Papers Announcement: 16 July 2024 * 2nd Call for Papers Announcement: 16 August 2024 * Paper Submission Deadline: 2 December 2024 * Workshop Date: 19 or 20 January 2025 ORGANISING COMMITTEE: General Chair: Mo El-Haj, Lancaster University Programme Chairs: * Hugh Paterson III, Collaborative Scholar * Saad Ezzini, Lancaster University * Ignatius Ezeani, Lancaster University Review Committee: * Mahum Hayat Khan, University of La Rioja * Muhammad Sharjeel, COMSATS University Islamabad Publication Chair: Sina Ahmadi, University of Zurich Publicity Chairs: * Cynthia Amol, Maseno University * Amal Haddad Haddad, University of Granada * Jaleh Delfani, University of Surrey Advisory Committee: * Ruslan Mitkov, Lancaster University * Paul Rayson, Lancaster University -- Amal Haddad Haddad (She/her) Facultad de Traducción e Interpretación Universidad de Granada |https://www.ugr.es/personal/amal-haddad-haddad Lexicon Research Group |http://lexicon.ugr.es/haddad Co-Convenor, BAAL SIG 'Humans, Machines, Language'|https://r.jyu.fi/humala Event Coordinator, BAAL SIG 'Language, Learning and Teaching' =============== Cláusula de Confidencialidad: "Este mensaje se dirige exclusivamente a su destinatario y puede contener información privilegiada o confidencial. 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UMRs in Boston 2025 Summer School - Second Call for Applications
by kristine.stenzel＠colorado.edu 31 Oct '24

31 Oct '24

UMRs in Boston Summer School – 2nd Call for Applications June 9-13, 2025 Brandeis University, Massachusetts, USA URL: https://umr4nlp.github.io/web/SummerSchool2025.html We invite applications for a five-day summer school on Uniform Meaning Representations (UMR). Impressive progress has been made in many aspects of natural language processing (NLP) in recent years. Most notably, the achievements of transformer-based large language models such as ChatGPT would seem to obviate the need for any type of semantic representation beyond what can be encoded as contextualized word embeddings of surface text. Advances have been particularly notable in areas where large training data sets exist, and it is advantageous to build an end-to-end training architecture without resorting to intermediate representations. For any truly interactive NLP applications, however, a more complete understanding of the information conveyed by each sentence is needed to advance the state of the art. Here, "understanding'' entails the use of some form of meaning representation. NLP techniques that can accurately capture the required elements of the meaning of each utterance in a formal representation are critical to making progress in these areas and have long been a central goal of the field. As with end-to-end NLP applications, the dominant approach for deriving meaning representations from raw textual data is through the use of machine learning and appropriate training data. This allows the development of systems that can assign appropriate meaning representations to previously unseen text. In this five-day course, instructors from the University of Colorado and Brandeis University will describe the framework of Uniform Meaning Representations (UMRs), a recent cross-lingual, multi-sentence incarnation of Abstract Meaning Representations (AMRs), that addresses these issues and comprises such a transformative representation. Incorporating Named Entity tagging, discourse relations, intra-sentential coreference, negation and modality, and the popular PropBank-style predicate argument structures with semantic role labels into a single directed acyclic graph structure, UMR builds on AMR and keeps the essential characteristics of AMR while making it cross-lingual and extending it to be a document-level representation. It also adds aspect, multi-sentence coreference and temporal relations, and scope. Each day will include lectures and hands-on practice. Topics to be covered may include the following, among others: 1. The basic structural representation of UMR and its application to multiple languages; 2. How UMR encodes different types of MWE (multi-word expressions), discourse and temporal relations, and TAM (tense-aspect-modality) information in multiple languages, and differences between AMR and UMR; 3. Going from IGT (interlinear glossed text) to UMR graphs semi-automatically; 4. Formal semantic interpretation of UMR incorporating a continuation-based semantics for scope phenomena involving modality, negation, and quantification; 5. Extension to UMR for encoding gesture in multimodal dialogue, Gesture AMR (GAMR), which aligns with speech-based UMR to account for situated grounding in dialogue. 6. UMR parsing and applications To apply, please complete this form by Nov. 15, 2024. https://www.colorado.edu/linguistics/umrs-boston-summer-school-application Other important dates: ● Notification of acceptance: Dec. 15, 2024 ● Confirmation of participation: Jan. 31, 2025 Participation will be fully funded (reasonable airfare, lodging, and meals). This summer school has been made possible by funding from NSF Collaborative Research: Building a Broad Infrastructure for Uniform Meaning Representations (Award # 2213805), with additional support from Brandeis University.

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Webminar by Elena Sokolova (Amazon Text-to-Speech Group)
by HiTZ zentroa 31 Oct '24

31 Oct '24

**** We apologize for the multiple copies of this email. In case you are already registered to the next webinar, you do not need to register again. **** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dear colleague, We are happy to announce the next webinar in the Language Technology webinar series organized by the HiTZ Chair of AI&LT (https://hitz.eus). You can check the videos of previous webinars and the schedule for upcoming webinars here: http://www.hitz.eus/webinars Next webinar: *Speaker:* Elena Sokolova (Amazon Text-to-Speech Group) *Title:* How we do research in Speech at Amazon *Date: * Thursday, November 7, 2024 - 15:00 CET *Summary:* In this talk we will present how Speech technology has developed in the past 20 years. We will take a dive deep into the research that we do at Amazon in our Text-to-Speech lab, describe the challenges that we face and how we solve them at scale. We will also give an overview of the internship opportunities we have in our department for those of you who want to join our team in 2025. *Bio:* Elena is a Machine Learning team manager at Amazon, where she leads novel research in the field of speech technology. Over the past five years, she has overseen the deployment of machine learning projects into production and collaborated with her team to publish cutting-edge research on text-to-speech technology. Before joining Amazon, Elena completed her PhD at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands and gained industry experience as a Senior Machine Learning Scientist at Booking.com. * Upcoming webinars:* · Javier de la Rosa (December 12, 2024) · Ekaterina Shutova (January 30, 2025) · Sebastian Ruder (February 6, 2025) If you are interested in participating, please complete this registration form: http://www.hitz.eus/webinar_izenematea If you cannot attend this seminar, but you want to be informed of the following HiTZ webinars, please complete this registration form instead: http://www.hitz.eus/webinar_info Best wishes, HiTZ Zentroa P.S: HiTZ will not grant any type of certificate for attendance at these webinars.

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2 year post-doc position available at Lattice (Paris/Montrouge, France) F/H
by Thierry Poibeau 31 Oct '24

31 Oct '24

Offer Description For the full description, see: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/286797 for the online description. Lattice is offering a two-year postdoctoral position starting on January 1, 2025 or soon thereafter. Candidates may choose from one of the following research topics: 1. AI and Society: impact of AI on society, including topics such as climate effects, changes in the workforce, issues around data access (especially. copyright challenges linked to large models), and more. 2. Interpretation of Large Language Models (LLMs) from a Linguistic Perspective: relationship between LLMs and linguistic theory. Topics might include what LLMs reveal about language, their (non) alignment with linguistic theory, etc. 3. Cultural Analytics Using Large Corpora: cultural analysis based on large datasets, particularly those from the Bibliothèque nationale de France (which include literature, but also newspapers and francophone web archives). The successful candidate should have completed their PhD in recent years or be close to completion. A relevant publication track record in a related field is required. To apply, please submit a CV (including a list of publications), a short research proposal (2–4 pages), a link to one or two relevant publications, and the names of two references to thierry.poibeau(a)ens.psl.eu by November 15, 2024. The proposal should clearly outline the research topic and the intended methodology. I can briefly answer questions (for ex. on the adequacy of a research topic), but the successful candidate will be selected through interviews after Nov 15. The position is based in Montrouge and Paris (Montrouge is a 5-minute walk from the Mairie de Montrouge metro station). Salary will be commensurate with experience and follows the ENS salary scale. Lattice is an interdisciplinary lab conducting research in linguistics, natural language processing, and computational humanities. International profiles are strongly encouraged to apply. Mastering French is a plus, but is not mandatory.

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PhD positions in Research Training Group KEMAI on Medical XAI
by Christiane Böhm 31 Oct '24

31 Oct '24

Dear all, starting January 2025, 9 doctoral positions are available within our DFG Research Training Group KEMAI (Knowledge Infusion and Extraction for Explainable Medical AI) at Ulm University in Germany. The KEMAI team aims at combining the benefits of knowledge- and learning-based systems, to not only allow for state-of-the-art accuracy in medical diagnosis, but to also clearly communicate the obtained predictions to physicians, considering ethical implications within the medical decision process. KEMAI’s main purpose is to interdisciplenarily train PhD students from computer science, medicine, and ethics in the area of explainable medical AI. The RTG offers a structured doctoral program that creates an environment in which young scientists can conduct research at the highest level in the field of medical AI. We invite highly motivated candidates with a passion for research and a desire to contribute to an interdisciplinary academic environment to apply for these positions. (The positions are fully funded for 3+1 years and come with an E13 salary.) Projects include: Data Exploitation • A1 – Harvesting Medical Guidelines using Pre-trained Language Models Project Leads: Prof. Scherp (Computer Science), Prof. Braun (Computer Science), Dr. Vernikouskaya (Medicine) This project focuses on researching multimodal pre-trained language models (LM) that extract symbolic knowledge on medical diagnosis and treatments from input documents. The models will incorporate structured knowledge and represent extracted information using an extended process ontology. The project applies these models to COVID-19 related imaging and treatments, contributing to OpenClinical’s COVID-19 Knowledge reference model and adapting to various benchmarks. • A2 – Stability Improved Learning with External Knowledge through Contrastive Pre-training Project Leads: Jun.-Prof. Götz (Medicine), Prof. Scherp (Computer Science) This project aims to improve machine learning reliability in small data settings by learning from disconnected datasets using contrastive learning. It investigates if contrastive learning can reduce classifier susceptibility to confounders, reverse confounding effects, and identify out-of-distribution test samples. The project seeks to find approaches that address these technical challenges. Knowledge Infusion • B2 – Semantic Design Patterns for High-Dimensional Diagnostics Project Leads: Prof. Kestler (Medicine), Prof. M. Beer (Medicine) This project defines semantic design patterns for incorporating SemDK in ML algorithms to improve clinical predictions and tumor characterization. The patterns will be categorized by their mechanisms and knowledge representation, providing guidelines for application. The project evaluates these patterns in image analysis and molecular diagnostics based on high-dimensional data. Knowledge Extraction • C2 – Learning Search and Decision Mechanisms in Medical Diagnoses Project Leads: Prof. Neumann (Computer Science), Jun.-Prof. Götz (Medicine) This project studies human attentive search and object attention principles for vision-based medical diagnosis. It investigates mechanisms of object-based attention and visual routines for task execution. The goal is to formalize human visual search strategies and integrate them into deep neural networks (DNNs) for improved medical diagnosis. Model Explanation • D1 – Accountability of AI-based Medical Diagnoses Project Leads: Prof. Steger (Ethics), Prof. Ropinski (Computer Science) This project addresses the ethical analysis of AI system designs for medical diagnoses. It focuses on determining which AI-supported processes need to be explainable and transparent, generating comprehensive information to help users understand AI-driven medical decisions. • D2 – Explainability, Understanding, and Acceptance Requirements Project Leads: Prof. Hufendiek (Philosophy), Prof. Glimm (Computer Science), Dr. Lisson (Medicine) This project applies philosophical insights on understanding and explanations to the use of AI in medical diagnosis. It clarifies the roles of understanding and abductive reasoning in medical diagnosis, identifies conflicts between stakeholders, and suggests ways to develop and integrate AI explanations with human experts' reasoning processes. Medical PhD Projects (10 months) The outlined PhD projects are complemented by medical PhD projects, which complement the technical and ethical projects, and which are targeted towards medical researchers. For further information on KEMAI and application please go to https://kemai.uni-ulm.de/ Best regards Christiane Böhm - Coordinator - RTG KEMAI Ulm University James-Franck-Ring - O27 Room 321 D-89081 Ulm Germany phone: +49 731 50 31321 christiane.boehm(a)uni-ulm.de kemai(a)uni-ulm.de

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[CfP] "Contemporary Trends in English-Language Studies 2" (Zielona Góra)
by Leszek Szymański 30 Oct '24

30 Oct '24

Dear Colleagues,the Institute of Modern Languages at the University of Zielona Góra announces the "Contemporary Trends in English-Language Studies 2" conference. This year's edition will be held in a hybrid mode on April 3-4, 2025.The abstract submission deadline is January 31, 2025.The 2025 edition of the conference is organized under the honorary patronage of the Polish Linguistic Society.More information is available at: https://sites.google.com/view/ctiels/ Thank you!Leszek Szymański

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Call for Papers: NAACL Student Research Workshop (SRW) 2025
by mengyan3＠andrew.cmu.edu 30 Oct '24

30 Oct '24

### Call for Papers The Student Research Workshop (SRW) provides a venue for student researchers to present their work in computational linguistics and natural language processing. Students receive feedback from the general conference audience as well as from mentors specifically assigned according to the topic of their work. We invite papers in two different categories: <b>Research Papers </b>: Papers in this category can describe completed work, or work in progress with preliminary results. For these papers, the first author must be a current student. Topics of interest for the SRW are the same as NAACL main conference. See the list of topics here. <b>Thesis Proposals</b>: This category is appropriate for advanced students who have decided on a thesis topic and wish to get feedback on their proposal and broader ideas for their continuing work. ### Submissions Papers should be submitted on OpenReview by December 1, 2024. OpenReview link: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/NAACL/2024/Workshop/Student_Rese… Submissions should be no more than five pages not including references. Make sure to read through the Author Guidelines on our website for detailed submission instructions. Not following the author guidelines may result in your paper being desk-rejected. Please use the standard ACL templates and style guide, though please keep in mind that the SRW page limit is 5 pages (not including references) ACL templates: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files ### Website Please see our CfP on the website for more details: https://naacl2025-srw.github.io/cfp

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[Deadline Extension] Call for Shared Task Proposals for RANLP 2025
by Ranasinghe, Tharindu 30 Oct '24

30 Oct '24

[Due to many requests, we have extended the deadlines.] We invite proposals for tasks to be run as part of RANLP 2025 (Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing): https://ranlp.org/ranlp2025/.<https://ranlp.org/ranlp2025/> RANLP is one of the most influential and competitive NLP conferences. RANLP 2025 will take place in September 2025 at the Black Sea city of Varna. For the first time in RANLP history, we are organising a shared task campaign as part of the main conference and inviting task organisers to submit their task proposals. Researchers and practitioners from all areas of Natural Language Processing and related communities are invited to submit task proposals. For RANLP 2025, we welcome any task that can evaluate an automatic system for natural language processing. We especially encourage tasks for languages other than English, multi-lingual tasks, and tasks that develop novel applications of natural language processing. We strongly encourage proposals based on already published datasets, as this can provide concrete examples and help minimise the challenges of organising the shared task. In the event of receiving many proposals, preference will be given to proposals based on already published datasets. If you are unsure whether a task is suitable, please contact the shared task chairs to discuss your idea. Task Selection Task proposals will be reviewed by at least two reviewers, and the reviews will serve as the basis for acceptance decisions. Task proposals will be evaluated on: * Novelty - Is the task based on a new problem that has not been explored much in the community? If similar tasks have been organised before, does this task cover new languages/ domains? * Data – Is the data available and published already? Do annotations have meaningfully high inter-annotator agreements? Have all appropriate licenses for the use and re-use of the data been secured? * Evaluation—Is the evaluation methodology sound? Is there an automated platform for the evaluation (e.g., CodaLab, Kaggle)? Task Organisation We specifically welcome task proposals from early career researchers. However, we strongly encourage tasks that have a diverse team of organisers as that will ease the task organisation. Apart from providing a dataset, task organisers are expected to: 1. Verify data quality in terms of annotator agreement. 2. Verify licenses for the data to allow its use in the competition. 3. Provide task participants with baseline systems. 4. Create a CodaLab or other similar evaluation platform for the task and manage automatic evaluation. 5. Promote the task within the target research community. 6. Manage and organise review process of participants’ submissions of system description papers. 7. Write a task description paper to be included in RANLP proceedings. 8. Contribute to the tasks overview paper written by shared task chairs and other task organisers which will also be included in RANLP proceedings. 9. Register and present the shared task description paper at RANLP 2025 on either 11th or 12th September 2025 (the exact date will be confirmed later) Important Dates * Task proposals due - November 20, 2024 * Task selection notification – November 25, 2024 Recommended Timeline for the Tasks * Sample data and task website ready - December 1, 2024 * Training data ready - December 15, 2024 * Evaluation data ready - March 1, 2025 * Evaluation starts – March 10, 2025 * Evaluation end - March 31, 2025 (latest date; task organisers may choose an earlier date) * Paper submission due – April 20, 2025 * Notification to authors – May 16, 2025 * Task overview paper due – May 25, 2025 * Camera-ready due - May 31, 2025 * Shared task presentation co-located with RANLP 2025 – September 11 and September 12, 2025 Tasks that do not meet critical deadlines, such as those for launching the task, setting up the CodaLab website, and uploading samples, training, and evaluation data, may be cancelled at the discretion of the shared task chairs. Submission Details The task proposal should be a self-contained document of no longer than 2 pages (plus additional pages for references). All submissions must be in PDF format, following the RANLP 2023 template available at https://ranlp.org/ranlp2023/index.php/submissions/ Each proposal should contain the following: * Overview * Summary of the task – What is the goal of the task * Expected number of participants and justification * Data & Resources * How the training/testing data will be produced. Discuss whether the dataset is already published * Details of license, so that the data can be used by the research community * How much data will be produced * How data quality will be ensured and evaluated * An example of what the data would look like * Evaluation * The evaluation methodology to be used, including clear evaluation criteria - * The evaluation platform (i.e. CodaLab, Kaggle etc.) * Task organisers * Names, affiliations, email addresses * brief description of relevant experience or expertise The submissions should be done via START - https://softconf.com/ranlp25/papers/user/scmd.cgi?scmd=submitPaperCustom&pa… Proceedings Tasks overview paper, task description papers and participant papers will be published as part of RANLP 2025 proceedings in ACLAnthology. Task organisers and participants are expected to attend RANLP 2025 on September 11 and September 12, 2025, and present their work in order to include it in the proceedings. Shared Task Chairs Dr Tharindu Ranasinghe, Lancaster University, UK Dr Saad Ezzini, Lancaster University, UK RANLP 2024 Chairs Programme Committee Chair: Prof Dr Ruslan Mitkov, Lancaster University, UK Organising Committee Chair: Prof Dr Galia Angelova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria Best Regards Dr Tharindu Ranasinghe | Lecturer in Security and Protection Science School of Computing and Communications | Lancaster University Contact me on Teams<https://teams.microsoft.com/l/chat/0/0?users=t.ranasinghe@lancaster.ac.uk> www.lancaster.ac.uk<https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/>

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PostDoc at TurkuNLP (NLP/Digital linguistics)
by Veronika Laippala 30 Oct '24

30 Oct '24

Dear colleagues, TurkuNLP at the University of Turku, Finland, has a fully funded open PostDoc position in NLP / digital linguistics. Term: 1.12.2024-31.12.2025 (or upon agreement) Deadline: 18.11. 2024 Topics: Web register (genre) identification / web register studies, processing massively multilingual web crawls, massively multilingual cross-linguistic comparisons of web registers. Detailed information: https://ats.talentadore.com/apply/tutkijatohtorin-projektitutkijan-maaraaik… Please contact me for further information. Applications must be made using the Talentadore system linked above. Best, Veronika Laippala Professor of Digital linguistics, TurkuNLP

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CfP: Workshop on Generative AI and Knowledge Graphs (GenAIK) co-located with COLING 2025 (with some travel grant for 2 students)
by Genet Asefa Gesese 28 Oct '24

28 Oct '24

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop on Generative AI and Knowledge Graphs (GenAIK), 19 January 2025, Abu Dhabi, UAE Web: https://genetasefa.github.io/GenAIK2025/ X: @GenAIK25 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/9868047 Mastodon: https://sigmoid.social/@GenAIK --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In conjunction with COLING 2025, January 19-24 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop Overview --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) is a branch of artificial intelligence capable of creating seemingly new, meaningful content, including text, images, and audio. It utilizes deep learning models, such as Large Language Models (LLMs), to recognize and replicate data patterns, enabling the generation of human-like content. Notable families of LLMs include GPT (GPT-3.5, GPT-3.5 Turbo, and GPT-4), LLaMA (LLaMA and LLaMA-2), and Mistral (Mistral and Mixtral). GPT, which stands for Generative Pretrained Transformer, is especially popular for text generation and is widely used in applications like ChatGPT. GenAI has taken the world by storm and revolutionized various industries, including healthcare, finance, and entertainment. However, GenAI models have several limitations, including biases from training data, generating factually incorrect information, and difficulty in understanding complex content. Additionally, their performance can vary based on domain specificity. In recent times, Knowledge Graphs (KGs) have attracted considerable attention for their ability to represent structured and interconnected information, and adopted by many companies in various domains. KGs represent knowledge by depicting relationships between entities, known as facts, usually based on formal ontological models. Consequently, they enable accuracy, decisiveness, interpretability, domain-specific knowledge, and evolving knowledge in various AI applications. The intersection between GenAI and KG has ignited significant interest and innovation in Natural Language Processing (NLP). For instance, by integrating LLMs with KGs during pre-training and inference, external knowledge can be incorporated for enhancing the model’s capabilities and improving interpretability. When integrated, they offer a robust approach to problem solving in diverse areas such as information enrichment, representation learning, conversational AI, cross-domain AI transfer, bias, content generation, and semantic understanding. This workshop aims at reinforcing the relationships between Deep Learning, Knowledge Graphs, and NLP communities and foster interdisciplinary research in the area of GenAI. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics of Interest --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Enhancing KG construction and completion with GenAI * Multimodal KG generation * Text-to-KG using LLMs * Multilingual KGs * GenAI for KG embeddings * GenAI for Temporal KGs * Dialogue systems enhanced by KG and GenAI * Cross-domain knowledge transfer with GenAI * Bias mitigation using KGs in GenAI * Explainability with KGs and GenAI * Natural language querying of KGs via GenAI * NLP tasks using KGs and GenAI * Prompt Engineering using KGs * GenAI for Ontology learning and schema induction in KGs * Hybrid QA systems combining KGs and GenAI * Recommendation systems and KGs with GenAI * Creating benchmark datasets relevant for tasks combining KGs and GenAI * Real-world applications on scholarly data, biomedical domain, etc. * Knowledge Graph Alignment * Applying to real-world scenarios ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Important Dates ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Submission deadline: 5 November 2024 - Notification of Acceptance: 5 December 2024 - Camera-ready paper due: 13 December 2024 - COLING2025 Workshop day: 19 January 2025 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Submissions ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Full research papers (6-8 pages) Short research papers (4-6 pages) Position papers (2 pages) These page limits only apply to the main body of the paper. At the end of the paper (after the conclusions but before the references) papers need to include a mandatory section discussing the limitations of the work and, optionally, a section discussing ethical considerations. Papers can include unlimited pages of references and an unlimited appendix. Papers must follow the two-column format of *ACL conferences, using the official templates ( https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/association-for-computational-ling… <https://goto-ng.fiz-karlsruhe.de/latex/templates/association-for-computatio…> ). The templates are available for download as style files and formatting guidelines. Submissions that do not adhere to the specified styles, including paper size, font size restrictions, and margin width, will be desk-rejected. Submissions are open to all and must be anonymous, adhering to COLING 2025's double-blind submission and reproducibility guidelines. All accepted papers (after double-blind review of at least 3 experts) will appear in the workshop proceedings that will be published in ACL Anthology. At least one of the authors of the accepted papers must register for the workshop to be included into the workshop proceedings. The workshop will be a 100% in-person 1-day event at COLING 2025. Submissions must be made using the START portal: https://softconf.com/coling2025/GenAIK25/ <https://goto-ng.fiz-karlsruhe.de/coling2025/GenAIK25/,DanaInfo=softconf.com…> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsors --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NFDI4DataScience (NFDI4DS - https://www.nfdi4datascience.de/ <https://goto-ng.fiz-karlsruhe.de/,DanaInfo=www.nfdi4datascience.de,SSL+> ) is a national research data infrastructure for Data Science and AI project. The overarching objective of the project is the development, establishment, and sustainment of a national research data infrastructure (NFDI) for the Data Science and Artificial Intelligence community in Germany. The vision of NFDI4DS is to support all steps of the complex and interdisciplinary research data lifecycle, including collecting/creating, processing, analyzing, publishing, archiving, and reusing resources in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. NFDI4ds is offering a total of €2000 in travel grants (€1000 each) to two selected students who will attend and present their work at GenAIK 2025! To be considered, submit your paper to the workshop, and if your paper is accepted, you’ll be eligible for a chance to receive one of the two grants. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Organization --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Genet Asefa Gesese, FIZ Karlsruhe, KIT, Germany - Harald Sack, FIZ Karlsruhe, KIT, Germany - Heiko Paulheim, University of Mannheim, Germany - Albert Meroño-Peñuela, King’s College London, UK - Lihu Chen, Imperial College London, UK If you have published in ACL conferences previously, and are interested to be part of the program committee of GenAIK2025, please fill in this form: https://forms.gle/t56dP6McD1VJmTfT9 <https://goto-ng.fiz-karlsruhe.de/,DanaInfo=forms.gle,SSL+t56dP6McD1VJmTfT9> -- *Dr.-Ing. **Genet Asefa Gesese* Head of Machine Learning Department (Abteilungsleitung Maschinelles Lernen) FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure ( *https://www.fiz-karlsruhe.de/en/bereiche/lebenslauf-und-publikationen-dr-ing-genet-asefa-gesese <https://www.fiz-karlsruhe.de/en/bereiche/lebenslauf-und-publikationen-dr-in…>* ) AND Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) *( https://www.aifb.kit.edu/web/Genet_Asefa_Gesese/en <https://www.aifb.kit.edu/web/Genet_Asefa_Gesese/en> )*

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SyntaxFest 2025 - First Announcement
by Dobrovoljc, Kaja 28 Oct '24

28 Oct '24

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce that SyntaxFest 2025 (https://syntaxfest.github.io/syntaxfest25/) will take place in Ljubljana, Slovenia, from 26 to 29 August 2025. SyntaxFest is a biennial event that brings together a series of events focusing on topics such as empirical syntax, linguistic annotation, statistical language analysis, and natural language processing. SyntaxFest 2025, organized by the University of Ljubljana, will host five events under a unified submission process and program: * TLT: 23rd Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories * DepLing: 8th International Conference on Dependency Linguistics * UDW: 8th Universal Dependencies Workshop * IWPT: 18th International Conference on Parsing Technologies * Quasy: 2nd Workshop on Quantitative Syntax In addition, the event will be co-located with the UniDive 1st Shared Task on Morphosyntactic Parsing, organized by the UniDive COST Action CA21167, on 26 August 2025. Preliminary timeline for paper submission procedure: * First call for papers: December 2024 * Submission deadline: April 2025 * Notification of acceptance: June 2025 * Conference dates: 26 to 29 August 2025 Workshop organizers / Programme chairs: TLT: * Heike Zinsmeister (University of Hamburg) * Sarah Jablotschkin (University of Hamburg) * Sandra Kübler (Indiana University) DepLing: * Eva Hajičová (Charles University, Prague) * Sylvain Kahane (Université Paris Nanterre) UDW: * Gosse Bouma (University of Groningen) * Cagri Coltekin (University of Tübingen) IWPT: * Kenji Sagae (University of California, Davis) * Stephan Oepen (University of Oslo) Quasy: * Xinying Chen (University of Ostrava) * Yaqin Wang (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies) Local Organizing Committee: * Kaja Dobrovoljc (University of Ljubljana, chair) * Špela Arhar Holdt (University of Ljubljana) * Marko Robnik Šikonja (University of Ljubljana) * Matej Klemen (University of Ljubljana) * Luka Terčon (University of Ljubljana) * Sara Kos (University of Ljubljana) We look forward to seeing you in Ljubljana! On behalf of SyntaxFest 2025 Organizing Committee, Kaja Dobrovoljc

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2nd Call for papers "WRAICogS1 - Writing Aids at the Crossroads of AI, Cognitive Science, and NLP" (COLING workshop)
by Michael Zock 27 Oct '24

27 Oct '24

(Apologies for cross-posting) Second call for papers: "WRAICogS1 - Writing Aids at the Crossroads of AI, Cognitive Science, and NLP" * Co-located with COLING 2025, Abu Dhabi, https://coling2025.org/ * SUBMISSION DEADLINE: November 25, 2024 * SUBMISSION LINK: https://softconf.com/coling2025/AAC-AI25/ KEYNOTE SPEAKER Cerstin Mahlow, Professor of Digital Linguistics and Writing Research, ZHAW School of Applied Linguistics, Winterthur, Switzerland MOTIVATION This workshop is dedicated to developing writing aids grounded in human cognition (limitations of attention and memory, typically observed habits, knowledge states, and information needs). In other words, we focus on the cognitive and engineering aspects of interactive writing. Our goal is not only to help people acquire and improve their writing skills but also to enhance their productivity. By leveraging computer technology, we aim to enable them to produce better texts in less time. Writing is one of the four cornerstones of communication. By leaving a trace, it allows us to reach many people, to transcend space and time, and to spare ourselves the trouble of memorization. Writing is undeniably important, whether as a communication tool, a thinking aid, or a memorial support. However, what is less obvious is the process—that is, the precise steps required to transform an intuition or vague idea into concrete, well-polished prose. Producing readable, well-written text requires many skills, deep and broad knowledge of various sorts (topic, language, audience, metaknowledge, i.e., how to use the information at hand?)— a lot of practice and appropriate feedback. No one can learn all this overnight. The quantity and diversity of knowledge to interiorize, as well as the variety of cognitive states encountered, may explain why writing is so difficult and why it takes time to gain control over the whole process and become an expert writer. Unfortunately, knowledge alone is not enough. Writing is also a time- and energy-consuming endeavor. It is very hard work. Since writing is difficult, and since there are now computer programs capable of doing it, one may wonder: - whether we should leave the job entirely to the machine, or - whether we could use these programs to help people write or to acquire the skill of writing. Indeed, there are situations where it makes sense to rely on machines (e.g., routine work, business letters), but there are also many situations where this strategy is not recommended (e.g., writing to understand, writing to enrich and clarify our thoughts, writing to support thinking). That being said, one may find a middle ground where humans and machines work together, each contributing their strengths. It remains to be seen where machines can assist in the process (e.g., idea generation, idea structuring, translation into language, revision, editing) and where it is better to leave control to humans. Hence, the main question is not whether we should use LLMs to produce texts, but rather how, when, and at what level to use them or other techniques to help people produce written text. In sum, our main goal is not to substitute machines for people or to have them do the job in people's place, but rather to have machines assist people. Specifically, we aim to help people learn to write, speed up the process, gain better control, and reduce stress and cognitive load. Our motivation is largely practical and educational. Obviously, we are not the first ones to pursue this goal. However, while many workshops focused on developing educational software, creating intelligent writing assistants, or evaluating written text, the submitted papers have primarily addressed formal aspects, such as grammatical error detection and spotting spelling mistakes. Yet good writing (text composition) requires much more than just the production of well-formed sentences. Our mission is to go beyond merely identifying errors or mistakes made at the very end of the writing process, such as those due to ignorance or inattention. Instead, we aim to evaluate the quality of the choices made at higher levels. In other words, we are interested in the full spectrum of writing, including technology-based writing aids that address all tasks involved in writing: conceptual planning (ideation, organization), linguistic expression, editing, and revision. Hence, we welcome papers that focus on the higher levels of composition—such as thinking, reasoning, and planning (idea generation, outline planning)—as well as those concerned with the lower levels (grammar, spelling, and punctuation). Arguably, this is the first workshop to: - Consider the entire spectrum of writing rather than only the lower levels, - Integrate humans right from the start into the development cycle of writing aids, and - Provide support and feedback at any moment —before, during, and after writing— rather than only at the very end. TOPICS We welcome contributions on all topics related to writing aids, including but not limited to the following: 1. THE HUMAN PERSPECTIVE: Cognitive scientific viewpoints, including education, psycholinguistics, and neuroscience. (a) Support: How can AI tools support critical thinking and logical reasoning in writing? How can writing assistants tailor feedback to individual writers, considering their unique needs and styles? How can we assess the quality and impact of AI-generated feedback on students' writing (methods, metrics, etc.)? (b) Topical coherence: How can we help people organize their ideas into a coherent whole? How do we model or operationalize the concept of a topic, the paragraph's most central element? How do we detect possible topics within our data? What are typical subtopics of a given topic, and how do we identify them? How do we cluster content/ideas into topics and give the clusters appropriate names? (c) Building software: How do we include humans in the development cycle of writing aids? How and at what level can engineers use insights from psycholinguistics and neuroscience? How can they model the writing process while accounting for human and technological factors? (d) Metacognition: What do people typically know about writing in general and their own writing in particular? What are their problems and needs? How do people manage to coordinate the different processes? What should an authoring ecosystem look like (components)? What could be automated, and what is best left for interactive processing? (e) Shared tasks: What kinds of shared task would be meaningful while being technically feasible? 2. THE ENGINEERING SIDE (a) LLMs: Where in the writing process could we use methods developed in AI (e.g., LLMs) or computational linguistics (e.g., content generation, content structuring, translation into language, revision)? What are the potential benefits, dangers, and limitations of LLMs as writing aids? How could revealing the 'knowledge' embedded within black-box models improve their effectiveness, particularly in terms of increasing the accuracy and relevance of the feedback they provide? How can we address challenges related to data collection, privacy, and ethical considerations in developing and deploying AI writing tools? (b) Tools and resources: What kinds of tools and resources (e.g., Sketch Engine, Rhetorical Structure Theory, knowledge graphs, and linked data) could be useful? (c) Quality assessment: How can we check the veracity of facts, relevance, cohesion, coherence, style, fluency, proper use of pronouns, grammar, word choice, spelling, and punctuation? (d) Enhancement and evaluation: How do we enhance text analysis during or after writing (e.g., quality of coherence, style) using corpus linguistic tools? How do we evaluate or compare existing writing assistants (e.g., adequacy, design features, ease of use, lessons learned)? SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Please submit your papers via the START/SoftConf submission portal (https://softconf.com/coling2025/AAC-AI25/), following the COLING 2025 templates. Submitted versions must be anonymous and should not exceed 8 pages for long papers and 4 pages for short papers. References do not count toward the page limit, and may be up to 4 pages long. Supplementary material and appendices are also allowed. We also invite papers discussing tools and applications (system demonstrations) related to our workshop topics. PUBLICATION All the accepted papers (be it for oral presentation or as poster) will be published as proceedings appearing in the ACL anthology. PARTICIPATION The workshop requires a physical presence. If any authors are unable to attend and present in person, alternative arrangements (such as remote presentations or video recordings) may be considered. However, we cannot guarantee these options, as the COLING organizers and local chairs have informed us that they will not provide technical support or online access. Generally, work presented in person will be given preference over work presented virtually. ORGANIZERS * Michael Zock (CNRS, LIS, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France) * Kentaro Inui (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, UAE; Tohoku University, Japan; RIKEN, Japan) * Zheng Yuan (King's College London and the University of Cambridge, UK) MORE DETAILS: * homepage : https://sites.google.com/view/wraicogs1 * better readable CFP : https://sites.google.com/view/wraicogs1/home/call-for-papers * program committee : https://sites.google.com/view/wraicogs1/home/programme-committee * background information : https://sites.google.com/view/wraicogs1/home/background-and-topics -- Michael ZOCK Emeritus Research Director CNRS LIS UMR 7020 (Group TALEP) Aix Marseille Université 163 avenue de Luminy - case 901 13288 Marseille / France Mail: michael.zock(a)lis-lab.fr <mailto:michael.zock@lis-lab.fr> Tel.: +33 (0)6 51.70.97.22 Secr.: +33 (0)4.86.09.04.60 http://pageperso.lif.univ-mrs.fr/~michael.zock/ <http://pageperso.lif.univ-mrs.fr/%7Emichael.zock/>

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[CFP] : Call for Tutorial : FIRE 2024
by Bhargav Dave 26 Oct '24

26 Oct '24

Apologies for the multiple postings. --------------------------------------------- *Call for Tutorial* *FIRE 2024: 16th meeting of the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation* 12th - 15th December 2024 DA-IICT, Gandhinagar, India *Submission Deadline: 15th November 2024* Website: fire.irsi.org.in Submission Link : https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/FIRE2024 ------------------------------ The 16th meeting of the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation 2024 will be held at Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT), Gandhinagar, India. It will be an in-person conference. We are inviting proposals for half-day tutorials covering topics relevant to information retrieval (IR) and its applications. We welcome topics that range from the theoretical foundations of IR to practical applications, as well as tutorials on IR and machine learning (ML) systems. Each tutorial should cover a single topic in depth. Tutorial proposals should include details according to guidelines below. *Submission Guidelines* Proposals should be *at most 4 pages (excluding references) * must follow ACM SIG's template available on https://authors.acm.org/proceedings/production-information/taps-production-…. The only accepted format of submissions is PDF. We strongly encourage the proposers to attend and present in-person. Submissions should include: - Title and abstract - Duration: Half Day - Proposed content of the tutorial - Target Audience - Speaker's bio: Name, affiliations, contact and short bio. Submissions are not anonymous (reviewing will be *single-blind*) and should contain speaker details. Proposals which do not conform to the requirements are likely to be rejected without review. All proposals should be submitted via Microsoft CMT: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/FIRE2024 *Important dates* Tutorial proposal due *Nov 15, 2024 * Tutorials notification *Nov 20, 2024 * Camera ready due *Nov 30, 2024 * Tutorial day *Dec 12-15, 2024* Note: All submission deadlines are 11:59 PM AoE Time Zone (Anywhere on Earth). *Presentation Requirements* If accepted, at least one author will have to register for the conference and present tutorial in-person. For queries related to conference please email us at [ clia(a)isical.ac.in ] For latest updates subscribe the FIRE mailing List [ https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/fire-list ]

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Final CfP: 1st Workshop on Computational Humor (CHum @ COLING 2025)
by Tristan Miller 26 Oct '24

26 Oct '24

Call for papers: 1st Workshop on Computational Humor (CHum 2025) ================================================================ The 1st Workshop on Computational Humor (CHum 2025) will take place virtually on January 19, 2025 as part of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2025). Scope and topics ---------------- CHum 2025 aims to foster further work on modeling the processes of humor with current methods in computational linguistics and natural language processing, against the theoretical backdrop of humor research and with reference to relevant corpora of textual, visual, and multimodal materials. A principal goal of the workshop is to unite researchers who can together probe the limits of various meaning representations -- symbolic, neural, and hybrid -- for humor processing. We welcome contributions on any topic relevant to the computational processing of humor, including but not limited to the following: * LLMs, knowledge representation * Resources and evaluation * Human-computer interaction * Computer-mediated communication * Assisted content creation * Machine and computer-assisted translation * Digital humanities applications * Formal modeling of humor * Proof-of-concept humor detection and classification Particularly encouraged are submissions describing inter- or multi-disciplinary work, whether completed or in progress, and position papers that critically discuss the past, present, and future of computational humor systems. Submission instructions ----------------------- Long and short papers should be formatted according to the same guidelines for the main COLING 2025 conference papers <https://coling2025.org/calls/submission_guidlines/> and submitted through START: <https://softconf.com/coling2025/CompHum25/> Important dates --------------- All deadlines are at 23:59 UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth"). * Initial submission: November 15, 2024 * Notification of acceptance: December 2, 2024 * Camera-ready submission: December 13, 2024 * Workshop: January 19, 2025 Organizers ---------- * Christian F. Hempelmann, Texas A&M University-Commerce * Julia Rayz, Purdue University * Tiansi Dong, Fraunhofer IAIS * Tristan Miller, University of Manitoba Further information ------------------- * Website: <https://chum2025.github.io/> * E-mail: chum(a)groups.io -- Dr. Tristan Miller, Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba https://clam.cs.umanitoba.ca/ | Tel. +1 204 474 6792

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Lin Lougheed Doctoral Fellowship in Language & Technology
by Voss, Erik 25 Oct '24

25 Oct '24

Apologies for cross posting *Lin Lougheed Doctoral Fellowship in Language & Technology* The Applied Linguistics & TESOL program at Teachers College, Columbia University announces the Lin Lougheed Doctoral Fellowship in Language & Technology. The fellowship will be offered to one student to develop and research AI technologies for language learning or language assessment. This 4-year fellowship will provide tuition and a stipend for a student in good standing during the program. Teachers College Application Portal: https://apply.tc.edu/apply/ The application deadline is December 1, 2024. Contact Prof. Erik Voss at ev2449(a)tc.columbia.edu with questions about this fellowship. -- 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* 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) Voss, E. (2024). Language Assessment and Artificial Intelligence. <https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=ht8aEQAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA112&ot…> The Concise Companion to Language Assessment.

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New issue of Research in Corpus Linguistics
by Paula Rodríguez-Puente 25 Oct '24

25 Oct '24

We are very pleased to announce that the second issue of volume 12 (2024) of *Research in Corpus Linguistics *(RiCL) has just been published. This is an issue guest edited by Robbie Love (Aston University) which includes a compilation of fantastic articles intended to shed new light on *"Innovations in the compilation and analysis of spoken corpora". *Please, visit our website <https://ricl.aelinco.es/index.php/ricl/issue/view/26> to see the whole volume. The table of contents can be found below. With best wishes, Paula Rodríguez-Puente & Carlos Prado-Alonso Editors of RiCL *Articles* - *Introduction: Innovation in spoken corpus linguistics <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/ricl.aelinco.es/index.php/ricl/article/v…>*. Robbie Love - *“We’ve lost you Ian”: Multi-modal corpus innovations in capturing, processing and analysing professional online spoken interactions <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/ricl.aelinco.es/index.php/ricl/article/v…>*. Anne O'Keeffe, Dawn Knight, Geraldine Mark, Christopher Fitzgerald, Justin McNamara, Svenja Adolphs, Benjamin Cowan, Tania Fahey Palma, Fiona Farr, Sandrine Peraldi - *Building LANA-CASE, a spoken corpus of American English conversation: Challenges and innovations in corpus compilation <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/ricl.aelinco.es/index.php/ricl/article/v…>*. Elizabeth Hanks, Tony McEnery, Jesse Egbert, Tove Larsson, Douglas Biber, Randi Reppen, Paul Baker, Vaclav Brezina, Gavin Brookes, Isobelle Clarke, Raffaella Bottini - *Compiling a corpus of African American Language from oral histories <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/ricl.aelinco.es/index.php/ricl/article/v…>*. Sarah Moeller, Alexis Davis, Wilermine Previlon, Michael Bottini, Kevin Tang - *Addressing comparability and retrieval issues in conversation corpora: A case study on the Spoken British National Corpora (1994 and 2014), using the past perfect <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/ricl.aelinco.es/index.php/ricl/article/v…>*. Nicholas Smith, Cristiano Broccias, Cathleen Waters - *Rethinking interviews as representations of spoken language in learner corpora <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/ricl.aelinco.es/index.php/ricl/article/v…>*. Pascual Pérez-Paredes, Geraldine Mark - *Developing a coding scheme for annotating opinion statements in L2 interactive spoken English with application for language teaching and assessment <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/ricl.aelinco.es/index.php/ricl/article/v…>*. Yejin Jung, Dana Gablasova, Vaclav Brezina, Hanna Schmück - *Corpus as a slice of life: Representing naturally occurring language and its speakers <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/ricl.aelinco.es/index.php/ricl/article/v…>*. Giorgia Troiani, John W. Du Bois, Andrey Filchenko - *Design and construction of a social media corpus: Influencers’ speech in vlogs <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/ricl.aelinco.es/index.php/ricl/article/v…>*. Hülya Mısır *Book Reviews* - *Review of Gillings, Mathew, Gerlinde Mautner and Paul Baker. 2023. Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 978-1-009-16815-1. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009168144 <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/ricl.aelinco.es/index.php/ricl/article/v…>*. Tamsin Parnell - *Review of Brookes, Gavin and Luke C. Collins. 2023. Corpus Linguistics for Health Communication: A Guide for Research. London: Routledge. ISBN: 978-1-003-09965-9 https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003099659 <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/ricl.aelinco.es/index.php/ricl/article/v…>*. Ovidia Martínez Sánchez - *Review of Pettersson-Traba, Daniela. 2022. The Development of the Concept of SMELL in American English. A Usage-Based View of Near-Synonymy. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. ISBN: 978-3-11079-2201. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110792294 <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/ricl.aelinco.es/index.php/ricl/article/v…>*. Daniel Granados-Meroño - *Review of Izquierdo, Marlén and Zuriñe Sanz-Villar eds. 2023. Corpus Use in Cross-linguistic Research: Paving the Way for Teaching, Translation and Professional Communication. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. ISBN: 978-9-027-21430-0. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.113 <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/ricl.aelinco.es/index.php/ricl/article/v…>*. Isabel Pizarro-Sánchez - *Review of Viana, Vander ed. 2023. Teaching English with Corpora: A Resource Book. London: Routledge. ISBN: 978-1-032-25297-1. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/b22833 <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/ricl.aelinco.es/index.php/ricl/article/v…>*. Gaëtanelle Gilquin *Paula Rodríguez-Puente* Departamento de Filología Inglesa, Francesa y Alemana Universidad de Oviedo Campus El Milán C/ Amparo Pedregal s/n 33011 Oviedo *Tlf*. 985-104570 Variation, Linguistic Change and Grammaticalization <http://www.usc-vlcg.es/PRP.htm> LINGUO <https://linguo.grupos.uniovi.es/presentacion/miembros/detalle/-/asset_publi…> Academia <https://uniovi.academia.edu/PaulaRodr%C3%ADguezPuente> Scholar <https://scholar.google.es/citations?user=I4axNDUAAAAJ&hl=es>

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Genre-enriched web corpora and multilingual genre classifier
by Taja Kuzman 25 Oct '24

25 Oct '24

Dear all, If you are involved in (web) corpora creation and curation, interested in large multilingual corpora for European languages, or working with automatic genre annotation, the following resources might be useful for you. Multiple multilingual genre-related resources and technologies are now available on the CLARIN.SI and Hugging Face repositories: - 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗿𝗲-𝗲𝗻𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝗠𝗮𝗖𝗼𝗖𝘂-𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗲𝗯 𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗽𝗼𝗿𝗮 - MaCoCu web corpora for 13 European languages (Albanian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Greek, Icelandic, Macedonian, Montenegrin, Serbian, Slovenian, Turkish, and Ukrainian), automatically annotated with genre labels. In total, the corpus collection comprises 67 million texts and 28.5 billion words. They are available on the CLARIN.SI repository: http://hdl.handle.net/11356/1969 - 𝗫-𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗥𝗘 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗲𝗿 - multilingual text genre classifier, applicable to any of the 100 languages that are included in the XLM-RoBERTa model - available on Hugging Face (https://huggingface.co/classla/xlm-roberta-base-multilingual-text-genre-cla…) and CLARIN.SI repository (http://hdl.handle.net/11356/1961) - 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵-𝗦𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗫-𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗥𝗘 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘁 - manually-annotated genre dataset, used for training and evaluation of the X-GENRE classifier - available on Hugging Face (https://huggingface.co/datasets/TajaKuzman/X-GENRE-text-genre-dataset) and CLARIN.SI repository (http://hdl.handle.net/11356/1960). Additionally, we set up a 𝗯𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗵𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 (https://github.com/TajaKuzman/AGILE-Automatic-Genre-Identification-Benchmark) for continuous evaluation of the emerging technologies on this task. The benchmark is based on unpublished manually-annotated datasets - if you wish to test your own systems on the task, let me know, and we'll be happy to share them with you. Best regards, -- TajaKuzman Research Assistant Department of Knowledge Technologies | Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia CLASSLA Knowledge Centre for South Slavic languages | CLARIN.SI twitter <https://twitter.com/TajaKuzman> linkedin <https://www.linkedin.com/in/taja-kuzman/>

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COLING 2025 - Call for Emergency Reviewers
by sakhar＠cs.columbia.edu 24 Oct '24

24 Oct '24

Dear Colleagues, The COLING2025 conference aims for a high-quality peer reviewing process by experts on a wide range of topics. We are looking for people who are willing to serve as emergency reviewers for COLING 2025. Emergency reviewing will take place between 23 and 29 October. We are counting on your help to provide 1 or 2 reviews with a quick turnaround time during this period. To volunteer, please fill in your information on this link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfDIxZGeyKOe5nV8YFUreNxA4Uw367oYpP…

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3 open PhD or PostDoc Positions University of Technology Nuremberg [UTN]
by Steffen Eger 24 Oct '24

24 Oct '24

The Natural Language Learning Group (NLLG) at University of Technology Nuremberg (UTN) has three fully funded PhD / PostDoc positions in Natural Language Processing. Deadlines: 31.11.2024, 02.11.2024, 04.11.2024 Topics are: Next Generation LLMs, Multimodal Evaluation Metrics for Generative AI, NLP for science Detailed information: https://nl2g.github.io/positions Please direct all inquiries regarding scientific content to Steffen Eger (steffen.eger(a)utn.de<mailto:steffen.eger@utn.de>). For general questions, contact stars(a)utn.de<mailto:stars@utn.de>. Applications must be made to stars(a)utn.de with the corresponding reference numbers. --------------------------------------------- Heisenberg Professor Natural Language Learning & Generation (NLLG) University of Technology Nuremberg (UTN) https://nl2g.github.io/ <https://nl2g.github.io/>https://www.utn.de/en/person/prof-dr-steffen-eger/<https://www.utn.de/person/prof-dr-steffen-eger/> https://www.utn.de/en/departments/department-engineering/nllg-lab/ <https://nl2g.github.io/> Ulmenstraße 52i 90443 Nürnberg

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Call for Bids to Host TPDL 2026 - applications due 13 December 2024
by Antoine Doucet 24 Oct '24

24 Oct '24

Invitation to Tender for a TPDL Conference The Steering Committee of the TPDL conference invites interested parties to submit bids to host the TPDL 2026 Conference, held in conjunction as an event of the duration of 3 days. One additional day for workshops can be proposed. Please note that proposals may also may considered for TPDL 2027. Institutions submitting a bid for TPDL 2026 also commit themselves to collect the fees and manage the conference budget. TPDL is an international forum focused on digital libraries and their associated technical, practical, and social issues. The conference encompasses the many meanings of the term “digital libraries,” embracing the whole spectrum of the LAM (Library, Archive, and Museum) community; operational information systems with all manner of digital content; new means of selecting, collecting, organizing, and distributing digital content; and theoretical models of information media, including document genres and electronic publishing. From 2024, TPDL is expanding its scope to prominently include Document Analysis, Recognition and Information Retrieval, acknowledging the vital role of those research areas in the creation (by means of digitization and information extraction from heterogeneous sources), access, discovery, and dissemination of digital content. Parties interested in hosting TPDL are invited to submit proposals, in PDF format, by email to the TPDL Steering Committee Chair (Antoine Doucet <antoine.doucet(a)univ-lr.fr <mailto:<antoine.doucet(a)univ-lr.fr>>) and Deputy Chair (Gianmaria Silvello<gianmaria.silvello(a)unipd.it <mailto:<gianmaria.silvello(a)unipd.it>>) by Friday, December 13th, 2024. The Steering Committee will review and select the proposals. The Steering Committee can ask for modifications and changes to the proposals, if deemed necessary. Important dates: - Bid submission deadline: Friday, December 13th, 2024 - Feedback to bidders and discussion (if needed): January 2025 - Bid selection: February 2025 Proposals should cover the topics covered by the attached (proposed) template. Feel free to get in touch well ahead of submission. Best regards, Antoine Doucet and Gianmaria Sivello (Chair and Deputy Chair of the TPDL steering committee)

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Call for Postdoctoral Research Fellowships
by Menno Van Zaanen 23 Oct '24

23 Oct '24

Call for Postdoctoral Research Fellowships The South African Centre for Digital Language Resources, a national research infrastructure hosted at the North-West University within the Faculty of Humanities is inviting applications from outstanding early career researchers for Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (PDRF) in applied linguistics in general and language for academic purposes in particular. Full details available here: https://bit.ly/3UeRf7h -- Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za Professor in Digital Humanities South African Centre for Digital Language Resources https://www.sadilar.org ________________________________ NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT: http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorised review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you have received the e-mail by mistake, please contact the sender or reply e-mail and delete the e-mail and its attachments (where appropriate) from your system. ________________________________

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Webminar by Ekaterina Shutova (University of Amsterdam)
by HiTZ zentroa 21 Oct '24

21 Oct '24

Estimado Manuel, adjunto información sobre un webinar relevante para los miembros de AEPIA. Agradecería que se distribuyera en la lista. gracias! un saludo oier & eneko **** We apologize for the multiple copies of this email. In case you are already registered to the next webinar, you do not need to register again. **** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dear colleague, We are happy to announce the next webinar in the Language Technology webinar series organized by the HiTZ Chair of AI&LT (https://hitz.eus). You can check the videos of previous webinars and the schedule for upcoming webinars here: http://www.hitz.eus/webinars Next webinar: *Speaker:* Ekaterina Shutova (University of Amsterdam) *Title:* Cross-lingual information sharing in multilingual language models *Date: *Thursday, October 24, 2024 - 15:00 CET *Summary:* Multilingual language models (MLMs), such as XLM-R or BLOOM, are pretrained on data covering many languages and share their parameters across all languages. This modeling approach has several powerful advantages, such as allowing similar languages to exert positive influence on each other, and enabling cross-lingual task transfer (i.e., fine-tuning on some source language(s), then using the model on different target languages). The success of such transfer, however, depends on the model's ability to effectively share information between different languages in its parameter space. Yet, the cross-lingual information sharing mechanisms within MLMs are still not fully understood. In this talk, I will present our recent research that investigates this question from three different perspectives: encoding of typological relationships between languages within MLMs, language-wise modularity of MLMs and the influence of training examples in specific languages on predictions made in others. *Bio* Ekaterina Shutova is an Associate Professor at the ILLC, University of Amsterdam, where she leads the Amsterdam Natural Language Understanding Lab and the Natural Language Processing & Digital Humanities research unit. She received her PhD from the University of Cambridge, and then worked as a research scientist at the University of California, Berkeley. Ekaterina’s current research focuses on few-shot learning for language interpretation tasks, multilingual NLP, generalisability and robustness of NLP models and interpretability in deep learning. Her prominent service roles include Program Chair of ACL 2025, Senior Action Editor of ACL Rolling Review, Action Editor of Computational Linguistics and Demonstrations chair at EMNLP 2022. She is also an ELLIS scholar. * Upcoming webinars:* ·Elena Sokolova (November 7, 2024) ·Javier de la Rosa (December 12, 2024) ·Sebastian Ruder (February 6, 2025) Check past and upcoming webinars at the following url: http://www.hitz.eus/webinars. If you are interested in participating, please complete this registration form: http://www.hitz.eus/webinar_izenematea If you cannot attend this seminar, but you want to be informed of the following HiTZ webinars, please complete this registration form instead: http://www.hitz.eus/webinar_info Best wishes, HiTZ Zentroa P.S: HiTZ will not grant any type of certificate for attendance at these webinars.

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Webminar by Ekaterina Shutova (University of Amsterdam)
by HiTZ zentroa 21 Oct '24

21 Oct '24

**** We apologize for the multiple copies of this email. In case you are already registered to the next webinar, you do not need to register again. **** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dear colleague, We are happy to announce the next webinar in the Language Technology webinar series organized by the HiTZ Chair of AI&LT (https://hitz.eus). You can check the videos of previous webinars and the schedule for upcoming webinars here: http://www.hitz.eus/webinars Next webinar: *Speaker:* Ekaterina Shutova (University of Amsterdam) *Title:* Cross-lingual information sharing in multilingual language models *Date: *Thursday, October 24, 2024 - 15:00 CET *Summary:* Multilingual language models (MLMs), such as XLM-R or BLOOM, are pretrained on data covering many languages and share their parameters across all languages. This modeling approach has several powerful advantages, such as allowing similar languages to exert positive influence on each other, and enabling cross-lingual task transfer (i.e., fine-tuning on some source language(s), then using the model on different target languages). The success of such transfer, however, depends on the model's ability to effectively share information between different languages in its parameter space. Yet, the cross-lingual information sharing mechanisms within MLMs are still not fully understood. In this talk, I will present our recent research that investigates this question from three different perspectives: encoding of typological relationships between languages within MLMs, language-wise modularity of MLMs and the influence of training examples in specific languages on predictions made in others. *Bio* Ekaterina Shutova is an Associate Professor at the ILLC, University of Amsterdam, where she leads the Amsterdam Natural Language Understanding Lab and the Natural Language Processing & Digital Humanities research unit. She received her PhD from the University of Cambridge, and then worked as a research scientist at the University of California, Berkeley. Ekaterina’s current research focuses on few-shot learning for language interpretation tasks, multilingual NLP, generalisability and robustness of NLP models and interpretability in deep learning. Her prominent service roles include Program Chair of ACL 2025, Senior Action Editor of ACL Rolling Review, Action Editor of Computational Linguistics and Demonstrations chair at EMNLP 2022. She is also an ELLIS scholar. * Upcoming webinars:* ·Elena Sokolova (November 7, 2024) ·Javier de la Rosa (December 12, 2024) ·Sebastian Ruder (February 6, 2025) Check past and upcoming webinars at the following url: http://www.hitz.eus/webinars. If you are interested in participating, please complete this registration form: http://www.hitz.eus/webinar_izenematea If you cannot attend this seminar, but you want to be informed of the following HiTZ webinars, please complete this registration form instead: http://www.hitz.eus/webinar_info Best wishes, HiTZ Zentroa P.S: HiTZ will not grant any type of certificate for attendance at these webinars.

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ACL Anthology Graph
by Hugh Paterson III 21 Oct '24

21 Oct '24

Greetings, Does anyone have a citation graph of the ACL Anthology? Kind regards, Hugh Paterson III

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Interspeech 2025: Call for papers
by Grzegorz Chrupała 21 Oct '24

21 Oct '24

============================================ Interspeech 2025 17 - 21 August, Rotterdam, The Netherlands https://www.interspeech2025.org/ ============================================ Call for Papers https://www.interspeech2025.org/call-for-papers ============================================ Important Dates =============== Paper Submission Portal Open: 18 December 2024 Paper Submission Deadline: 12 February 2025 Paper Update Deadline: 19 February 2025 Paper Acceptance Notification: 21 May 2025 Interspeech is the world’s largest and most comprehensive conference on the science and technology of spoken language processing. Interspeech conferences emphasize interdisciplinary approaches addressing all aspects of speech science and technology, ranging from psycholinguistic theories of human speech processing to advanced applications of speech technology. The theme of Interspeech 2025 is “Fair and Inclusive Speech Science and Technology” and aims to celebrate and incorporate the vast speech diversity both within and between individuals, as well as within and between languages. This theme emphasizes diversity as a source of richness and information, contributing to the development of fairer, more robust, and personalized speech technology applications and more accurate theories of human speech processing. By embracing this diversity, we can create theories and technologies that are inclusive of everyone, ensuring that speech science and technology benefit all individuals and communities. Interspeech 2025 will feature the usual oral and poster sessions, plenary talks by internationally renowned experts, tutorials, special sessions and challenges, show & tell, exhibits, and satellite events. Following Interspeech 2024 we will feature a Blue Sky track. New this year is a Speech Science Festival for the general public on the Sunday prior to Interspeech. Watch our website for more information in the coming months on how you can participate! Paper Submission Please note that the paper submission deadline is earlier than previous years because the conference is held in August. The paper submission deadline is February 12 2025. Interspeech 2025 seeks original and innovative papers covering all aspects of human and machine speech science and technology. The language of the conference is English, so papers must be written in English. The paper length is up to four pages in two columns with an additional page for references and acknowledgments only. Submitted papers must conform to the format defined in the paper kit provided on the conference website (and as an overleaf template) and may optionally be accompanied by multimedia files. Interspeech 2025 will follow a double-blind review process so papers submitted for review should not reveal the identity or affiliation of the authors. Authors must declare that their contributions are original and that they have not submitted their papers elsewhere for publication. Papers must be submitted electronically and will be evaluated through rigorous peer review on the basis of novelty and originality, technical correctness, clarity of presentation, key strengths, and quality of references. The Technical Programme Committee will decide which papers to include in the conference programme using peer review as the primary criterion, with secondary criteria of addressing the conference theme, and diversity across the programme as a whole. If accepted, each paper needs to be presented by one of the authors during the in-person conference. Blue Sky Track Interspeech 2024 introduced the new BLUE SKY track of highly innovative papers in fields or directions that have not yet been explored. Large-scale experimental evaluation will not be required for papers in this track. If you think your work satisfies these requirements, please consider submitting a paper to this challenging and competitive track. Please note that to achieve the objectives of this BLUE SKY track, we will ask the most experienced reviewers to assess the proposals. Venue Interspeech 2025 will take place at Rotterdam Ahoy Convention Center in the Netherlands. For more information, you can visit the website https://www.interspeech2025.org Scientific Areas and Topics Interspeech 2025 embraces a broad range of science and technology in speech, language and communication, including – but not limited to – the following topics: ● Human Speech Perception, Production and Acquisition ● Speech Synthesis ● Phonetics, Phonology, and Prosody ● Spoken Language Generation ● Paralinguistics in Speech and Language ● Automatic Speech Recognition ● Analysis of Conversation ● Spoken Dialogue and Conversational AI Systems ● Speech, Voice, and Hearing Disorders ● Spoken Language Translation, Information Retrieval, Summarization ● Speaker and Language Identification ● Technologies and Systems for New Applications ● Speech and Audio Signal Analysis ● Resources and Evaluation ● Speech Coding and Enhancement ● Speech and Language Processing for Health ● Beyond traditional speech topics (not limited to the provided list) Contact For questions regarding the technical programme: TPC-chairs(a)interspeech2025.org For general questions: pco(a)interspeech2025.org

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II Andaluz.IA Forum - Deadline extension
by Salud María Jiménez Zafra 21 Oct '24

21 Oct '24

==================================================================== CFP II Andaluz.IA Forum December 20, 2024, Antigua Escuela de Magisterio (Universidad de Jaén) *Deadline for submissions of papers extended to October 27, 2024* ==================================================================== From ten Andalusian universities, the Joint Research Center of the European Commission, and several Andalusian researchers currently at other national and international institutions, we are organizing the II Andaluz.IA Forum <https://sites.google.com/view/andaluzia/home>, a meeting whose main objective is to show the potential and give visibility to the academic and research community in Artificial Intelligence in our region. This forum seeks to highlight the work of Andalusian scientists, both those who are currently working in Andalusia, as well as those who have spent part of their training or career in the region, regardless of their current place of work. The first edition of the Andaluz.IA forum <https://sites.google.com/view/andaluzia2023/> was organized at Universidad Pablo Olavide in Seville and this year it will take place at Universidad de Jaén. With this second edition, we want to continue highlighting the great potential for research and academic development in Artificial Intelligence that Andalusia has, in areas such as machine learning, deep learning, robotics and natural language processing. The event will be held in person on December 20, 2024 at the Antigua Escuela de Magisterio (Universidad de Jaén). Interested researchers can participate by presenting their results in oral or poster format, provided that they have been accepted in relevant conferences or journals in the area. In addition, professionals and companies wishing to participate may do so through sponsorship or direct participation by registering on the event's website. For more information on registration, submission of papers and forms of sponsorship, please consult the following link: https://sites.google.com/view/andaluzia/call-for-papers <https://sites.google.com/view/andaluzia/call-for-papers>. IMPORTANT DATES ● *Deadline for submission of papers: October 15, 2024 October 27, 2024* ● Notification of acceptance: November 4, 2024 ● Deadline for registration at a reduced rate: November 15, 2024 CONTACT INFORMATION maite(a)ujaen.es sjzafra(a)ujaen.es ORGANIZING COMMITTEE https://sites.google.com/view/andaluzia/organisers [image: Universidad de Jaén] <http://www.uja.es/> *Salud María Jiménez Zafra* sjzafra(a)ujaen.es Universidad de Jaén Grupo de Investigación SINAI <http://sinai.ujaen.es/> | Departamento de Informática EPS Jaén, Edificio A3, Despacho 326 Campus Las Lagunillas s/n 23071 - Jaén | +34 953212992 [image: Universidad de Jaén] <http://www.uja.es/>

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Edge Hill Corpus Research Group: Meeting #13
by Costas Gabrielatos 20 Oct '24

20 Oct '24

The next meeting of the Edge Hill Corpus Research Group will take place online (via MS Teams) on Friday 15 November 2024, 2-4 pm (GMT) Topic: Discourse-Oriented Corpus Studies 2-3 pm Katia Adimora (Edge Hill University) Mexican immigration/immigrants in American and Mexican newspapers 3-4 pm Dan Malone (Edge Hill University) When is the extreme also typical? Using prototypicality to investigate representations of the lone-wolf terrorist Attendance is free. The abstracts and registration link are here: https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/crg/next Registration closes on Wednesday 13 November, 11 am (GMT). ________________________________ 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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2nd CfP: First workshop on Data Models, Citation, Access, and Re-usability impacting Historical Linguistic Datasets
by sil.linguist＠gmail.com 20 Oct '24

20 Oct '24

This workshop proposes to provide a forum to discuss the structures and models of information resources in historical-comparative linguistic research outputs through the integration of informatic models from library science and archivy. We want to address pertinent issues impacting the indexing (for citation) and interoperability of datasets (for sustainability). WS Title: First workshop on Data Models, Citation, Access, and Re-usability impacting Historical Linguistic Datasets Workshop at ICHL27, Santiago de Chile, 18-22 August 2025 Workshop Type: in-person Organizers: Hugh Paterson III & Oksana Zavalina Abstract Deadline: October 18th EXTENDED NEW DEADLINE NOV 7th. Abstract Details: up to 800 words excluding references. Submission: Email PDF of abstracts to both i(a)hp3.me and oksana.zavalina(a)unt.edu with [ICHL27 w8] in the subject line. Note: Workshops are in most cases restricted to 6 papers; all other papers, if accepted, will be given as part of the ICHL general sessions. Should there be sufficient interest for an extended workshop (up to 12 papers), we will lobby the local organizers to permit this format. Workshop Website: https://hughandbecky.us/Hugh-CV/project/2025-ichl27-historical-linguistic-d… Conference Website: https://ichl27santiago.cl PDF of Workshop abstract: https://hughandbecky.us/Hugh-CV/project/2025-ichl27-historical-linguistic-d… Publication: We are pursuing publication via edited volume post-workshop. ==Goal & Questions== The role of library models (e.g., IFLA-LRM: Riva, Le Bœuf, and Žumer 2017) and archival practice (e.g., lifecycle management: Higgins 2012) is under-explored in relation to the construction and reuse of Historical Linguistic Information Sources. This workshop proposes to provide a forum to discuss the structures and models of information resources in historical-comparative linguistic research outputs through the integration of informatic models from library science and archivy. We invite papers describing the information models used for assembling large corpora (including wordlists) used in historical linguistics, highlighting assumptions for citation, referencing, segmentation, and reusability of the assembled collection of texts and their digital surrogates. We encourage papers which present typologies of use cases, categories of tracked information, provenance of data content, citability of aggregate content, and the identifiers-for and permanence-of user-generated datasets on research platforms. What are the design patterns within datasets? What are the categories used? and what are their scopes? What are the kinds of objects subsumed into datasets? ==Background== Significant advances have been made in historical linguistics through the use of large compiled datasets (e.g., Kamholz et al. 2024; Tresoldi 2023; Arora et al. 2023; Dellert et al. 2020; Greenhill 2015; Segerer and Flavier 2013; Mielke 2008; Greenhill, Blust, and Gray 2008). While not precluding the contributions of single historical manuscripts and traditional manuscript consultation methods, the use of and creation of datasets (including corpora) has become the defacto way of generating new hypotheses (Wichmann and Saunders 2007; Steiner, Cysouw, and Stadler 2011; Segerer 2015). Datasets in historical linguistics generally do two things: (1) record critical researcher-created information such as reconstructed forms, cognacy judgments, confidence levels, along with contextual notes; and (2) contain foundational content from sources not created by the dataset compiler. Such source material often include historically published and unpublished resources including: maps (Hessle and Kirk 2020), language specific lexicons and published reconstructions (Kamholz et al. 2024), wordlists (Forkel et al. 2024; Segerer and Flavier 2013), transcriptions of manuscripts and texts (Weber et al. 2023; Genee and Junker 2018; Kytö 2011), and even reconstructions by other scholars, etc. Interactional platform-tools such as RefLex (Segerer and Flavier 2013) or OUTOFPAPUA (Kamholz et al. 2024) allow users to create custom datasets based on specific selected resources available to the platform. They do this without requiring users to interact with the complete set of underlying resources and/or the platforms allow users to create new derivative aggregate collections (reconstructed forms and cognacy relations) independent of other platform users. Citing, referencing, and redistributing these custom datasets is challenging and impacts the verifiability of claims. It is broadly accepted across linguistic research that scholarly work—including evidence— should be citable, accessable, and reusable (Bird and Simons 2003). Together these issues impact reproducibility, an important tenet in scholarship often overlooked in linguistics (Berez-Kroeker et al. 2018). However, it is also well acknowledged that the citation and reference of original source material for linguistic evidence is lacking across the field (Gawne et al. 2017). More specifically in historical-comparative linguistics, the context of citation and referencing of the evidentiary record along with current dataset assemblage and distribution practices generally do not support fine-grained or Work-oriented citation and referencing. This often means that specific and necessary details in comparative linguistics are not retrievable. Therefore, the data models embedded within historical comparative datasets become all the more important for the reproducibility of work and the testing, verification, and refinement of hypotheses (Bakro-Nagy 2010). With the exception of leading work around Cross-Linguistic Data Formats (CLDF) use with historical-comparative data (Forkel et al. 2018; Forkel, Swanson, and Moran 2024) and approaches using linked data in linguistics (Kesäniemi et al. 2018; Tittel, Gillis-Webber, and Nannini 2020), the literature has been silent about the storage formats for historical-comparative data. Undiscussed are the information categories represented in historical comparative linguistic datasets. The informatic arrangement and description of compiled datasets has generally been ad-hoc and served the needs of individually-funded projects. This has resulted in a proliferation of divergent data categories mitigating against ease-of-reuse. We set out to ignite discussion around compilations of manuscripts, wordlists, and other derivative resources which have become mainstream tools in hypothesis generation related to the language evolution. We explore the heretofore unapproached contribution that models such as Work-Expression-Manifestation-Item (WEMI), illustrated in figure 1, from library and information science (Coyle 2023; Riva, Le Bœuf, and Žumer 2017; IFLA, 1998) can offer those who compile, and cite/reference aggregate linguistic resources. Specifically, clarifying linking relationships between the literature and datasets, including dataset portions. We invite papers describing the information models used for assembling large corpora (including wordlists) used in historical linguistics, highlighting assumptions for citation, referencing, segmentation, and reusability of the assembled collection of texts and their digital surrogates. We encourage papers which present typologies of use cases, categories of tracked information, provenance of data content, citability of aggregate content, and the identifiers-for and permanence-of user-generated datasets on research platforms. Figure 1. Is available at the workshop website and the abstract in PDF form. ==References== Arora, Aryaman, Adam Farris, Samopriya Basu, and Suresh Kolichala. 2023. “Jambu: A Historical Linguistic Database for South Asian Languages.” arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2306.02514. Bakro-Nagy, Marianne. 2010. “Data in Historical Linguistics: On Utterances, Sources, and Reliability.” Sprachtheorie Und Germanistische Linguistik 20.2: 133-195., January. https://www.academia.edu/3629841/Data_in_historical_linguistics_On_utteranc…. Berez-Kroeker, Andrea L., Lauren Gawne, Susan Smythe Kung, Barbara F. Kelly, Tyler Heston, Gary Holton, Peter Pulsifer, et al. 2018. “Reproducible Research in Linguistics: A Position Statement on Data Citation and Attribution in Our Field.” Linguistics 56 (1): 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2017-0032. Bird, Steven, and Gary F. Simons. 2003. “Seven Dimensions of Portability for Language Documentation and Description.” Language 79 (3): 557–82. https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.2003.0149. Coyle, Karen. 2023. “openWEMI.” In Proceedings of the International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications. Dublin, Ohio: Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. https://doi.org/10.23106/DCMI.953115290. Dellert, Johannes, Thora Daneyko, Alla Münch, Alina Ladygina, Armin Buch, Natalie Clarius, Ilja Grigorjew, et al. 2020. “NorthEuraLex: A Wide-Coverage Lexical Database of Northern Eurasia.” Language Resources and Evaluation 54 (1): 273–301. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10579-019-09480-6. Forkel, Robert, Johann-Mattis List, Simon J. Greenhill, Christoph Rzymski, Sebastian Bank, Michael Cysouw, Harald Hammarström, Martin Haspelmath, Gereon A. Kaiping, and Russell D. Gray. 2018. “Cross-Linguistic Data Formats, Advancing Data Sharing and Re-Use in Comparative Linguistics.” Scientific Data 5 (1): 180205. https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2018.205. Forkel, Robert, Johann-Mattis List, Christoph Rzymski, and Guillaume Segerer. 2024. “Linguistic Survey of India and Polyglotta Africana: Two Retrostandardized Digital Editions of Large Historical Collections of Multilingual Wordlists.” In _Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), edited by Nicoletta Calzolari, Min-Yen Kan, Veronique Hoste, Alessandro Lenci, Sakriani Sakti, and Nianwen Xue, 10578–83. Torino, Italia: ELRA and ICCL. https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.925. Forkel, Robert, Daniel G. Swanson, and Steven Moran. 2024. “Converting Legacy Data to CLDF: A FAIR Exit Strategy for Linguistic Web Apps.” In Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), edited by Nicoletta Calzolari, Min-Yen Kan, Veronique Hoste, Alessandro Lenci, Sakriani Sakti, and Nianwen Xue, 3978–82. Torino, Italia: ELRA and ICCL. https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.353. Gawne, Lauren, Barbara F. Kelley, Andrea L. Berez-Kroeker, and Tyler Heston. 2017. “Putting Practice into Words: The State of Data and Methods Transparency in Grammatical Descriptions.” Language Documentation & Description 11:157–89. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24731. Genee, Inge, and Marie-Odile Junker. 2018. “The Blackfoot Language Resources and Digital Dictionary Project: Creating Integrated Web Resources for Language Documentation and Revitalization.” Language Documentation & Conservation 12:274–314. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24770. Greenhill, Simon J. 2015. “TransNewGuinea.Org: An Online Database of New Guinea Languages.” PLOS ONE 10 (10): e0141563. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0141563. Greenhill, Simon J., Robert Blust, and Russell D. Gray. 2008. “The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics.” Evolutionary Bioinformatics 4 (January):EBO.S893. https://doi.org/10.4137/EBO.S893. Hessle, Christian, and John Kirk. 2020. “Digitising Collections of Historical Linguistic Data: The Example of The Linguistic Atlas of Scotland.” Journal of Data Mining & Digital Humanities Special issue on Visualisations in Historical Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.46298/jdmdh.5611. Higgins, Sarah. 2012. “The Lifecycle of Data Managment.” In Managing Research Data, edited by Graham Pryor, 17–46. London, UK: Facet Publishing. IFLA Study Group on the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records and Plassard, Marie-France. 1998. “Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records: Final Report.” 2nd ed. [UBCIM Publications, New Series] IFLA Series on Bibliographic Control 19. Munich, Germany: K.G. Saur. http://www.ifla.org/VII/s13/frbr. Kamholz, David, Anne van Schie, Allahverdi Verdizade, Maria Zielenbach, and Antoinette Schapper. 2024. “OUTOFPAPUA.” Database. 2024. https://outofpapua.com. Kesäniemi, Joonas, Turo Vartiainen, Tanja Säily, and Terttu Nevalainen. 2018. “Exploring Meta-Analysis for Historical Corpus Linguistics Based on Linked Data.” Journal of Research Design and Statistics in Linguistics and Communication Science 5 (1–2): 4–47. https://doi.org/10.1558/jrds.36709. Kytö, Merja. 2011. “Corpora and Historical Linguistics.” Revista Brasileira de Linguística Aplicada 11 (2): 417–57. https://doi.org/10.1590/S1984-63982011000200007. Mielke, Jeff. 2008. The Emergence of Distinctive Features. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. Riva, Pat, Patrick Le Bœuf, and Maja Žumer, eds. 2017. IFLA Library Reference Model: A Conceptual Model for Bibliographic Information. December 2017. Den Haag, Netherlands: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA). https://www.ifla.org/publications/node/11412. Segerer, Guillaume. 2015. “How Databases Shape Research: Labial-Velars Distribution in Africa.” In 8th World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL8). Kyoto, Japan. https://inria.hal.science/halshs-01251122. Segerer, Guillaume, and Sébastien Flavier. 2013. “The RefLex Project: Documenting and Exploring Lexical Resources in Africa.” Oral Presentation presented at the Research, records and responsibility: Ten years of the Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures, Sydney, Australia. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9854. Steiner, Lydia, Michael Cysouw, and Peter Stadler. 2011. “A Pipeline for Computational Historical Linguistics,” January. https://doi.org/10.1163/221058211X570358. Tittel, Sabine, Frances Gillis-Webber, and Alessandro A. Nannini. 2020. “Towards an Ontology Based on Hallig-Wartburg’s Begriffssystem for Historical Linguistic Linked Data.” In Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics (LDL-2020), edited by Maxim Ionov, John P. McCrae, Christian Chiarcos, Thierry Declerck, Julia Bosque-Gil, and Jorge Gracia, 1–10. Marseille, France: European Language Resources Association. https://aclanthology.org/2020.ldl-1.1. Tresoldi, Tiago. 2023. “A Global Lexical Database (GLED) for Computational Historical Linguistics.” Journal of Open Humanities Data 9 (1): Article 2. https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.96. 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50th Anniversary Public Lecture Series: The shared anti-science discourses
by Hardaker, Claire (hardakec) 19 Oct '24

19 Oct '24

With the usual apologies for any cross-posting: In the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University, we’re celebrating our 50th anniversary in 2024. In a series of public lectures, we will showcase our recent research in different areas of linguistics. Everyone is welcome! Our next talk should be of particular interest to corpus linguists, forensic linguists, researchers broadly interested in the security and protection sciences: The shared anti-science discourses, by Dr Isobelle Clarke<https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/about/people/isobelle-clarke> Anti-science discourse has been studied through the optic of particular governments (Carter et al., 2019) or specific topics, such as anti-vaccination (Davis, 2019), anti-genetically modified organisms (Cook et al. 2004), stem cell research (Marcon, Murdoch and Caulfield, 2017), and climate denial discourse (Park, 2015). This research often details the development and content of the anti-science position and discourses. Yet, little is known about how the discourses compare across topics. Are there anti-science discourses that are shared across topics or does the discourse vary with the topic? In this talk, I will present the results of the common discourses which are shared between texts from websites known to promote pseudoscience and conspiracy on the topics of stem cells, climate change, vaccination and genetically modified organisms. For details of this talk and the upcoming programme, please visit our 50th anniversary website<https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/50th-anniversary/>. Register Register here<https://www.trybooking.com/uk/events/landing/68278> to attend. Date and time 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM (UTC+01), Thursday 24th October 2024 Location Faraday Lecture<https://use.mazemap.com/#v=1&config=lancaster&campusid=341&zlevel=1&center=…> Theatre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YW Getting to the University More information on ways to get to the university can be found here<https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/about-us/maps-and-travel/>. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask. Regards Claire Professor Claire Hardaker (she/her) Professor of Forensic Linguistics Director of the MSc in Forensic Linguistics & Speech Science<https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/postgraduate-courses/forensi…> Lancaster University, LA1 4YL

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Call for Papers: The First Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Indo-Aryan and Dravidian Languages (IndoNLP2025@COLING)
by Nanomi Arachchige, Isuri (Postgraduate Researcher) 19 Oct '24

19 Oct '24

Call for papers for the COLING-2025 workshop: The First Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Indo-Aryan and Dravidian Languages (IndoNLP2025) Date: 20th January 2025 (full day) Venue: Abu Dhabi, UAE Webpage: https://indonlp-workshop.github.io/IndoNLP-Workshop/ Submission Deadline: 5 November 2024 Submission Portal: https://softconf.com/coling2025/IndoNLP25/ Workshop description The rapid advancement of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Large Language Models (LLMs) has transformed the landscape of computational linguistics. However, Indo-Aryan and Dravidian Languages (IADL), which represent a significant portion of South Asia's linguistic heritage, remain under-resourced and under-researched in these technological developments. This workshop aims to bridge this gap by bringing together researchers, linguists, and technologists to focus on the unique challenges and opportunities. Participants will explore innovative methods for creating and annotating digital corpora, develop speech and language technologies suited to IADL, and promote interdisciplinary collaborations. By leveraging LLMs, we seek to address the complexities of syntax, morphology, and semantics in these languages to enhance the performance of NLP applications. Furthermore, the workshop will provide a platform for sharing best practices, tools, and resources, enhancing the digital infrastructure necessary for language preservation. Through collaborative efforts, we aim to build a research community to advance NLP for IADL, contributing to linguistic diversity and cultural preservation in the digital age. The topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to: - Large Language Models for Indo-Aryan Languages and Dravidian Languages. - Developing a cleaned Indo-Aryan and Dravidian language corpus (UNICODE) and digital linguistic resources. - Machine Translation and Cross-Lingual Systems - Speech Technologies: Recognition and Synthesis - Language Identification and Dialect Detection - Information Extraction, OCR systems and Knowledge Modelling - NLP Applications - Fake News, Spam, and Rumour Detection - Hate speech and Offensive Language Detection - Sentiment Analysis and Text Summarisation - NLP applications: Misinformation, Conspiracy theories. Rumours, SPAM, Phishing, and similar applications. Submission & Publication Papers will be evaluated according to their significance, originality, technical content, style, clarity, and relevance to the workshop. We welcome the following types of contributions: - Standard research papers (up to 8 pages, plus more pages for references if needed) - Short research papers (from 4 to 6 pages, plus more pages for references if needed) At the end of the paper (after the conclusions but before the references), papers need to include a mandatory section discussing the limitations of the work and, optionally, a section discussing ethical considerations. Papers can include unlimited pages of references and an unlimited appendix. To prepare your submission, please make sure to use the COLING 2025 style files available here: - Latex - https://coling2025.org/downloads/coling-2025.zip - Word - https://coling2025.org/downloads/coling-2025.docx - Overleaf - https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/instructions-for-coling-2025-proce… All papers should be electronically submitted in PDF format via the main conference platform via START<https://softconf.com/coling2025/IndoNLP25/>. Important Dates - Paper submission deadline: November 5, 2024 - Notification of acceptance: November 25, 2024 - Camera-ready paper: December 13, 2024 - Workshop date: January 20, 2025 Organising Committee - Ruvan Weerasinghe, Informatics Institute of Technology, Sri Lanka - Isuri Anuradha, Lancaster University, UK - Deshan Sumanathilaka, Swansea University, UK - Mo El-Haj, Lancaster University, UK - Chamila Liyanage, University of Colombo School of Computing, Sri Lanka - Fahad Khan, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale in CNR, Italy - Andrew Hardie, Lancaster University, UK - Asim Abbas, Birmingham University, UK - Ruslan Mitkov Lancaster University, UK - Julian Hough, Swansea University, UK - Nicholas Micallef, Swansea University, UK - Naomi Krishnarajah, Informatics Institute of Technology, Sri Lanka Programme Committee - Randil Pushpanandha, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka - Dulip Herath, Queensland University,Australia - Daisy Lal, Lancaster University, UK - Damith Premasiri, Lancaster University, UK - Venkatesh Raju, Stealth Mode AI Startup, India - Gayanath Chandrasena, University of Helsinki, Finland - Kaza Sri Sai Swaroop, IBM, India - Asanka Wasala,Dell Technologies, Ireland - Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran - University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka - Sinnathamby Mahesan - University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka - Nishantha Medagoda - Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand - Prasan Yapa, Kyoto University of Advance Science, Japan - Paul Rayson, Lancaster University, UK - Lochandaka Ranathunga, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka - Kaneeka Vidanage, General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University, Sri Lanka - Achala Aponso, Edith Cowan University, Australia - Rajitha Jayasinghe, University of Westminster, UK, - Arjumand Younus, University College Dublin, Ireland - Abdul Nazeer, National Institute of Technology, Calicut, India - Pabitra Mitra, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India - Tanmoy Chakraborty, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India - Tirthankar Dasgupta, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India - Girish Nath Jha, School for Sanskrit and Indic Studies, JNU, India - Arka Majhi, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India - Anand Kumar, National Institute of Technology, Karnataka, India - Kishorjit Nongmeikapam, Indian Institute of Information Technology, India - Abdullah Alzahrani, Swansea University, Wales, UK Gmail: indonlp2025(a)gmail.com<mailto:indonlp2025@gmail.com> Twitter: https://x.com/indo_nlp

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Postdoc (or PhD) position in NLU at the University of Technology Nuremberg
by Michael Roth 18 Oct '24

18 Oct '24

The University of Technology Nuremberg (UTN) is looking to fill a full-time position in the Department of Engineering as soon as possible: # Research Associate - Postdoc (m/f/d) in Natural Language Understanding (NLU) UTN is dedicated to harnessing the knowledge and innovation of the humanities to shape a sustainable future. The Department of Engineering seeks to establish strong, dynamic collaboration across disciplines, connecting engineering with the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. The position offers an opportunity for scientific qualification, allowing you to build your research profile and gain experience in line with your academic background and personal aspirations. The research project should make a contribution to one of the NLU Lab's key research areas listed below. ## Your tasks * Active collaboration in research and teaching * Participation in the lab's research areas "background knowledge in language understanding and misunderstanding" and "implicit and underspecified language" * Support in the conception and organization of scientific events and public engangement projects (in coordination with the Communication Unit) * Participation in research cooperations of the department ## Your profile * Very good academic degree (Master's or comparable) in computational linguistics or a related field * Doctorate in the field of computational linguistics * Proven research focus in natural language understanding, as demonstrated by relevant publications * Interest in interdisciplinary cooperation in research and teaching ## We offer * An employment contract or position as a civil servant for initially 3 years * Active support in the development of your own research agenda and corresponding applications for projects or an independent research group * Salary corresponding to group A13 of the Bavarian Salary Act or pay group E13 TV-L (https://oeffentlicher-dienst.info/tv-l/allg/) if the personal and pay scale requirements are met. * Opportunity to actively participate in the development of the newly founded University of Technology Nuremberg and to take on responsible tasks * A dynamic and flexible working environment * A modern workplace with all the attractive social benefits of the public sector * Flexible working hours to reconcile family and career * Mobile working opportunities * Attractive training and development opportunities The position is suitable for people with severe disabilities. Severely disabled applicants will be given preference if they have the same suitability, qualifications and professional performance. Women are encouraged to apply in accordance with Art. 7 Para. 3 of the Bavarian Equal Opportunities Act. The NLU Lab is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment and we highly welcome applications from minority groups and candidates of all backgrounds. The position is open to part-time arrangements, provided that the responsibilities can be fulfilled through job sharing. ## Are you interested? Please send us your detailed application by 03.11.2024. Please only use our application portal. Interviews for this vacancy are expected to take place in the week commencing 10.11.2024. Job portal: https://jobs.utn.de/en/jobposting/ead54f69ce980cfe6f7d04fba57812b88328f4a00… ## Do you have questions? We are happy to receive general questions by e-mail to jobs(a)utn.de, quoting the reference number ENG-2024-04, and we will call you back. If you have content related questions, please contact Prof. Dr. Michael Roth at michael.roth(a)utn.de The official version of this announcement is available in German on www.utn.de

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Join Us: EMNLP 2024 Tutorial on Countering Hateful and Offensive Speech Online - Open Challenges
by Flor Miriam Plaza Del Arco 18 Oct '24

18 Oct '24

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to invite you to the tutorial, “Countering Hateful and Offensive Speech Online—Open Challenges,” which will take place on Friday, November 15, from 9:00 to 12:30 at EMNLP 2024 in Miami. Overview: In today's digital age, hate speech and offensive speech online pose a significant challenge to maintaining respectful and inclusive online environments. This tutorial aims to provide attendees with a comprehensive understanding of the field by delving into essential dimensions such as: 1. Data Creation and Multilingualism. 2. Counter-narrative generation. 3. A hands-on session with one of the most popular APIs for detecting hate speech. 4. Fairness and ethics in AI. 5. The use of recent advanced approaches. For the full program and detailed agenda, please visit the tutorial website. https://nlp-for-countering-hate-speech-tutorial.github.io/ Tutorial Organizers * Flor Miriam Plaza-del-Arco, MilaNLP, Bocconi University, Italy. * Debora Nozza, MilaNLP, Bocconi University, Italy. * Marco Guerini, LanD_FBK, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy. * Jeffrey Sorensen, Jigsaw, USA. * Marcos Zampieri, Language Technology Group, George Masson University, USA. We look forward to your participation and hope to see you there! Best regards, The Tutorial Organizing Team ------------------------------------------------ Flor Miriam Plaza del Arco, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Researcher MilaNLP<https://milanlproc.github.io/>, Computing Sciences Department Bocconi University Via Röntgen, 1-2, 20136 Milan, MI, Italy Twitter: @florplaza22 Web: https://fmplaza.github.io/

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PhD position in multilingual NLP (4 years, fully funded) at USI, Lugano, Switzerland
by Lonneke van der Plas 18 Oct '24

18 Oct '24

We are looking for a PhD candidate for a fully-funded 4-year project focusing on multilingual NLP, including extremely low-resource languages. The PhD project is part of the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Evolving Language (www.evolvinglanguage.ch), a Swiss consortium with the ambitious goal of creating a new discipline, Evolutionary Language Science, that targets the past and future of language. The consortium consists of leading scientists from traditionally separated academic domains, which allows us to harvest the diverse expertise from the humanities, social sciences, computational sciences, natural sciences and medicine towards a broad-scale interdisciplinary collaboration. Within this framework, the successful candidate will be expected to investigate how new terms emerge in a given language and how they spread in different contexts, thereby comparing Western societies with hunter-gatherer societies. This task is led by computational linguists and evolutionary anthropologists from the USI Università della Svizzera italiana and the University of Zurich (UZH): Prof. Lonneke van der Plas, Prof. Lena Jäger, and Prof. Andrea Migliano. The ideal candidate should satisfy the following requirements: • A Master (or equivalent title) in Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, or related disciplines, such as Computer Science or Computational Cognitive Science • High personal interest in multilingual approaches to NLP, low-resource languages, and language change • Expertise in machine learning and computational modelling of language (change) • Good skills in oral and written English (official language of the Ph.D. program) • Good oral and writing skills in one (or more) national Swiss languages. Italian is particularly welcome. • Ability to work independently and to plan and direct own work • Motivation to engage in the elaboration of a PhD dissertation. Ability to work in team and autonomy in scheduling research steps. Interest in teaching and tutoring students and availability to collaborate with colleagues, especially with colleagues from the different disciplines of the NCCR Evolving Language (engage in scientific dialogue, listen and think critically) are required. More information and a link to apply for the position can be found here: https://sites.google.com/site/lonnekenlp/phd-positions-available

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Final Call for Papers: IWCLUL 2024 in Helsinki
by Mika Hämäläinen 18 Oct '24

18 Oct '24

The 9th International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages (IWCLUL 2024) will be organized by ACL SIGUR. The proceedings of the event will be published in the ACL anthology. The workshop will take place in November 28-29, 2024 in Helsinki, Finland at Metropolia University of Applied Sciences. https://acl-sigur.github.io/iwclul2024.html Submission deadline: October 25, 2024 (extended) Registration/publication fees: 0€! We solicit original and unpublished work related to NLP methods for Uralic languages, including multilingual methods that include at least one Uralic language (e.g. Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian etc). Appropriate topics include (but are not limited to): - Multilingual approaches in NLP presenting work on at least one Uralic language - LLMs and their use in the context of (endangered) Uralic languages - Position papers - Parsers, analysers and processing pipelines of Uralic languages - Lexical databases, electronic dictionaries - Finished end-user applications aimed at Uralic languages, such as spelling or grammar checkers, machine translation or speech processing - Evaluation methods and gold standards, tagged corpora, treebanks - Reports on language-independent or unsupervised methods as applied to Uralic languages - Surveys and review articles on subjects related to computational linguistics for one or more Uralic languages - Any work that aims at combining efforts and reducing duplication of work - How to elicit activity from the language community, agitation campaigns, games with a purpose Short papers can be up to 4 pages in length (5 for camera-ready version). Short papers can report on work in progress or a more targeted contribution such as software or partial results. Long papers can be up to 8 pages in length (9 for camera-ready version). Long papers should report on previously unpublished, completed, original work. Lightning talks submitted as 750-word abstracts. Lightning talks are suited for discussing ideas or presenting work in progress. The abstracts will be published in a lightning proceedings on Zenodo. All submission formats can have an unlimited number of pages for references. All submissions must follow the ACL stylesheet. The submissions must be anonymous, and they will be peer-reviewed by our program committee. The peer review is double blinded. Papers must be submitted using the conference submission system by the deadline. At least one of the authors of an accepted paper must attend the event and present their paper. Accepted papers (short and long) will be published in the joint proceedings that will appear in the ACL Anthology. Accepted papers will also be given an additional page to address the reviewers’ comments. The length of a camera-ready submission can then be 5 pages for a short paper and 9 for a long paper with an unlimited number of pages for references. Important dates: - Paper submission (full and short): October 25, 2024 (extended) - Notification of acceptance: November 3, 2024 - Camera ready deadline: November 10, 2024 - Registration deadline: November 10, 2024 - Workshop: November 28-29, 2024

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[CFP-Extended Shared Task deadlines] The First Workshop and Shared Task on Multilingual Counterspeech Generation at COLING-2025
by mevallec＠ujaen.es 18 Oct '24

18 Oct '24

----------------------------------------------------- Shared Task on Multilingual Counterspeech Generation ----------------------------------------------------- *WE HAVE EXTENDED THE DEADLINES!* (You can find the new deadlines in the "Important Dates" section of this CFP) In addition to paper contributions, we are organizing a shared task on multilingual counterspeech generation with the aim of sharing in a central space current efforts, especially those for languages different to English. It is envisaged that the shared task would allow the community to study how we can improve counterspeech generation for both lower resource languages but also to reinforce the strong body of research already existing for English. The counterspeech generated by participants should be respectful, non-offensive, and contain information that is specific and truthful with respect to the following targets: Jews, LGBT+, immigrants, people of color, women. Data --------------------- We release new data consisting of 596 Hate Speech-Counter Narrative (HS-CN) pairs. In this dataset, the HS are taken from MTCONAN [https://github.com/marcoguerini/CONAN/tree/master/Multitarget-CONAN], while the CN are newly generated. Together with each HS-CN pair, we also provide 5 background knowledge sentences, some of which are relevant for obtaining the Counter Narratives. The dataset is available in 4 different languages (Basque, English, Italian and Spanish) and divided in the following splits: - Development: 100 pairs. [AVAILABLE NOW!] [https://huggingface.co/datasets/LanD-FBK/ML_MTCONAN_KN] - Train: 396 pairs [AVAILABLE NOW!] [https://huggingface.co/datasets/LanD-FBK/ML_MTCONAN_KN] - Test: 100 pairs [AVAILABLE ON 28th OCTOBER] In order to score the shared task participants, the CNs will be kept hidden during the shared task while the HS and the background knowledge will be released for participants to prepare their submissions. The languages, Basque, English, Italian and Spanish, offer a varied spectrum of complexity including an agglutinative language isolate (Basque), two romance languages (Italian, Spanish) and a Germanic one (English). The choice of languages obeys to the existing linguistic expertise among the organizers required to successfully run the shared task. Additional Multilingual Data --------------------- Participants also have available the English, Italian, Basque and Spanish CONAN manually curated data: - CONAN (English and Italian) [https://github.com/marcoguerini/CONAN/tree/master/CONAN] - CONAN (Basque and Spanish) [https://huggingface.co/datasets/HiTZ/CONAN-EUS] - CONAN-MT-SP (Spanish) [https://github.com/sinai-uja/CONAN-MT-SP] or [https://huggingface.co/datasets/SINAI/CONAN-MT-SP] - Multitarget-CONAN (English) [https://github.com/marcoguerini/CONAN/tree/master/Multitarget-CONAN] Participation --------------------- The aim of the shared task is, given a HS (and optionally any additional knowledge the participants may like to use), generate a CN to counteract the HS. An example of CN appears bellow: - English: + HS: We should ban all homosexuals. + CN: When will the love prosper and the hatred start to dissipate? I will not only respect my fellow LGBT+ people, I will promote their rights. - Italian: + HS: Dovremmo espellere tutti gli omosessuali. + CN: Quand'è che l'amore prospererà e l'odio inizierà a dissiparsi? Non solo rispetterò i miei compagni LGBT+, ma promuoverò i loro diritti. - Spanish: + HS: Deberíamos prohibir a todos los homosexuales. + CN: ¿Cuándo prosperará el amor y empezará a disiparse el odio? No sólo respetaré a mis compañeros LGBT+, sino que promoveré sus derechos. - Basque: + HS: Homosexual guztiak debekatu beharko genituzke. + CN: Noiz hasiko da maitasuna irabazten eta gorrotoa desagertzen? LGBT+ pertsonak errespetatzeaz gain, haien eskubideak sustatuko ditut. Participants will download the test HS for the 4 languages and generate at most three different CNs per HS for each language). The test window will last 5 days. Participants are allowed to use any resource (language model, data, etc.) to generate the CN. **Note:** If you are going to participate in the shared task, please fill the following form: [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeAZTJsrEXt35HfFFchPNdPi289q5kKerq…] Evaluation --------------------- The CNs submitted by the participants will be evaluated: - Using traditional automatic metrics as in Tekiroglu et al.( 2022), which include BLEU, ROUGE, Novelty and Repetition Rate. - Using LLM as a Judge following the approach described in this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.15227 Important Dates --------------------- - Test dataset release: October 28th, 2024 - Results submission: November 4th, 2024 - Results notification: November 15th, 2024 - Working papers submission: November 25th, 2024 - Notification of Acceptance: December 8th, 2024 - Camera-Ready Papers Due: December 13th, 2024 - Workshop: January 19th, 2025 ----------------------------------------------------- Workshop on Multilingual Counterspeech Generation ----------------------------------------------------- The Shared Task is associated to the First Workshop on Multilingual Counterspeech Generation at COLING 2025. --------------------- Background and Scope --------------------- While interest in automatic approaches to Counterspeech generation has been steadily growing, including studies on data curation (Chung et al., 2019a; Fanton et al., 2021), detection (Chung et al., 2021a; Mathew et al., 2018), and generation (Tekiroglu et al., 2020; Chung et al., 2021b; Zhu and Bhat, 2021; Tekiroglu et al., 2022), the large majority of the published experimental work on automatic Counterspeech generation has been carried out for English. This is due to the scarcity of both non-English manually curated training data and to the crushing predominance of English in the generative Large Language Models (LLMs) ecosystem. A workshop on exploring Multilingual Counterspeech Generation is proposed to promote and encourage research on multilingual approaches for this challenging topic. Thus, this workshop aims to test monolingual and multilingual LLMs in particular and Language Technology in general to automatically generate counterspeech not only in English but also in languages with fewer resources. In this sense, an important goal of the workshop will be to understand the impact of using LLMs, considering for example how to deal with pressing issues such as biases, hallucinated content, data scarcity or data contamination. We seek to maximize the scientific and social impact of this workshop by promoting the creation of a community of researchers from diverse fields, such as computer and social sciences, as well as policy makers and other stakeholders interested in automatic counterspeech generation. By doing so we aim to gain a deeper understanding of how counterspeech is currently used to tackle abuse by individuals, activists, and organizations and how Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Generation (NLG) may be best applied to counteract it. Call for Papers --------------------- We welcome submissions on the following topics (but not limited to): - Models and methods for generating counterspeech in different languages. - Automatic Counterspeech generation for low resource languages with scarce training data. - Dialogue agents that use counterspeech to combat offensive messages that are directed to individuals or groups, targeted based on various aspects such as ideology, gender, sexual orientation and religion. - Methods for human and automatic evaluation of counterspeech. - Multidisciplinary studies providing different perspectives on the topic such as computer science, social science, psychology, etc. - Development of taxonomies and quality datasets for counterspeech in multiple languages. - Potentials and limitations (e.g., fairness, biases, hallucinated content) of applying different NLP methods, such as LLMs, to generate counterspeech. - Social impact and empirical studies of counterspeech in social networks, including research on the effectiveness and consequences for users of using counterspeech to combat hate online. Submission --------------------- 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 START [https://softconf.com/coling2025/MCG25/] - 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 an double-blind single-track review. Accepted papers will be presented as posters with the possibility of oral presentations. - Non-archival submissions: Cross-submissions are welcome. Accepted papers in other venues or journals will be presented at the workshop, but will not be 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 COLING format. Important Dates --------------------- - Submission: November 20th, 2024 - Notification of Acceptance: December 2nd, 2024 - Camera-Ready Papers Due: December 10th, 2024 For more information you can join the Google group [https://groups.google.com/g/multilingual-cs-generation-coling2025] or visit our website [https://sites.google.com/view/multilang-counterspeech-gen/home] [https://sites.google.com/view/multilang-counterspeech-gen/shared-task] Best regards, The Multilingual Counterspeech Generation Workshop Organizers.

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Computing Conference | London | 19-20 June 2025 - Call for Papers Now Open
by Supriya Kapoor 18 Oct '24

18 Oct '24

Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the *Computing Conference 2025 <https://saiconference.com/Computing>*, scheduled to take place from 19-20 June 2025 in London. The conference aims to bring together researchers, scholars, practitioners, and experts from around the world to share their insights, discoveries, and research outcomes. We invite you to submit your original research papers, posters, and proposals on a wide range of topics within the realm of computing, including but not limited to: - High-Performance Computing - Quantum Computing - Data Science and Analytics - Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems - Cybersecurity and Privacy - Emerging Technologies in Computing - Natural Language Processing and LLMs - Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning - Computer Vision and Image Processing - Intelligent Educational systems and e-Learning - Ambient Intelligence and IoT *Important Dates - Round 2:* Full Paper Submission Deadline: 15 November 2024 Notification of Acceptance: 15 December 2024 Camera-Ready Paper Submission: 15 January 2025 Conference Dates: 19-20 June 2025 Proceedings will be published in Springer series "Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems" and submitted for consideration to Web of Science, SCOPUS, INSPEC, WTI Frankfurt eG, zbMATH and SCImago. Submissions will undergo a rigorous double blind peer-review process by an esteemed panel of experts, ensuring the highest academic and technical standards. Detailed submission guidelines and conference updates are available on our official website at https://saiconference.com/Computing. Looking forward to your valuable contributions to the Computing Conference 2025. Sincerely, Kohei Arai Program Chair Computing Conference View 2024 Recap <https://youtu.be/Am9rE4tm3ms> | Unsubscribe <https://mailing.thesai.org/sendy/unsubscribe-success.php?c=9056>

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1st CfP: Asia Pacific Journal of Corpus Research (APJCR) Vol. 5, No. 2 (Deadline: 31 October 2024)
by Prof CK Jung 18 Oct '24

18 Oct '24

[Apologies for cross-posting] Dear colleagues We are inviting submissions for the next issue of Asia Pacific Journal of Corpus Research, to appear on 31 December 2024. *ABOUT*The Asia Pacific Journal of Corpus Research (APJCR, e-ISSN 2733-8096, DOI: https://doi.org/10.22925/apjcr) is an international and interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal intended to explore corpus research in the Asia Pacific region. APJCR addresses areas of methodological, applied and theoretical work in the field of corpus research. Examples of such include discourse analysis, lexical studies, grammatical studies, language acquisition, language learning, language education, lexicography, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, (machine) translation studies, (digital) literary studies, computational linguistics, speech, phonetics, deep learning and natural language understanding in conjunction with corpus. *NO ARTICLE PROCESS CHARGE*APJCR does not charge authors an Article Processing Fee (APF). *OPEN ACCESS POLICY*APJCR provides open access to its content under the principle in the academic field that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. *SUBMISSION* Papers (in English or Korean) should be sent to *apjcreditor(a)icr.or.kr <apjcreditor(a)icr.or.kr>* *Full instruction can be found on http://icr.or.kr/apjcr <http://icr.or.kr/apjcr>* *IMPORTANT DATES*- Manuscript submission: 31 October 2024 - First decision (articles assessed by editors): November 2024 - Final decision: November 2024 - Production: December 2024 - Online publication: 31 December 2024 *APJCR ARCHIVE*- *Google Scholar*: https://scholar.google.co.kr/scholar?hl=ko&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=apjcr&btnG= - *KoreaScience*: http://koreascience.or.kr/journal/CPSOBX/v1n1.page *ENQUIRIES* help(a)icr.or.kr --- *CK Jung BEng(Hons) Birmingham MSc Warwick EdD Warwick Cert Oxford* Associate Professor | Department of English Language and Literature, Incheon National University, *South Korea* President | The Korea Association of Secondary English Education, *South Korea *(http://kasee.org) Director | Institute for Corpus Research, Incheon National University, *South Korea* (http://icr.or.kr) Editor-in-Chief | Asia Pacific Journal of Corpus Research, ICR, *International* (http://icr.or.kr/apjcr) Editorial Board | Corpora, Edinburgh University Press, *UK* Editorial Board | English Today, Cambridge University Press, *UK* E: ckjung(a)inu.ac.kr / T: +82 (0)32 835 8129

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Second Call for papers: The 1st International Workshop on Nakba Narratives as Language Resources
by Amal Haddad 17 Oct '24

17 Oct '24

NAKBA-NLP 2025 The 1st International Workshop on Nakba Narratives as Language Resources Part of the COLING-2025 [1] Conference Abu Dhabi, UAE (Fully Virtual) January 20, 2025 https://sina.birzeit.edu/nakba-nlp/ OVERVIEW The narratives of the (ongoing) Palestinian Nakba possess significant historical, cultural, literary, and academic value. Preserving this content and empowring it with AI tools is crucial for ensuring its accessibility and usability for present and future generations. Nakba narratives and testimonies exist in diverse formats such as manuscripts, books, audio recordings, novels, and films. Converting this content into a machine-understandable format presents a notable challenge. Establishing accessible archives and well-annotated collections is essential for researchers and historians to verify and share meaningful information. This workshop aims to explore how artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and corpus linguistics can assist in understanding, disseminating and preserving, Nakba narratives and testimonies. The goal is to create accessible, comprehensive, and well-annotated collections that empower researchers and historians to validate and share critical insights derived from these data. The workshop targets datasets and narratives in Arabic, English, and other languages, however, submitted articles should be written in English. CALL FOR PAPERS We invite submissions for Nakba-NLP 2025, a workshop dedicated to the exploration and preservation of Nakba narratives through the application of artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and corpus linguistics. All submitted papers should explain their relevance to the topic of 'Nakba Narratives as Language Resources'. The organisers reserve the right to reject any papers that incite hatred, refute established facts, or undermine the suffering of individuals. We seek contributions on the following issues of interest: * Digitisation of oral and written narratives * Creation and labeling of language corpora and datasets * Digital archives, metadata, and semantic/content mark-up * Annotation tools and annotation guidelines * Document classification, topic modeling, and information retrieval * Named entity recognition for identifying people, places, organizations, and events * Entity linking and relationship extraction * Event detection and event argument extraction * Knowledge Graphs and Linked Data * Vocabularies, dictionaries, and ontologies * Data visualisation * Knowledge representation * Machine translation, summarisation, and paraphrasing * Natural Language Generation * Large Language Models * Sentiment analysis and emotional content extraction * Discourse analysis (e.g., bias, offensive language, and misinformation) related to Nakba narratives * Voice & dialogue-based systems; ASR * Palestinian dialects (written and spoken) Participants are invited to use the following archives: Institute for Palestine Studies [2], The Palestinian Museum [3], Nakba-Archive [4], POHA [5],Alhaq [6],ICHR [7], as well as Wikipedia and the Wikidata Knowledge Graph. SUBMISSION DETAILS All submitted papers must clearly state and explain their relevance to the topic of 'Nakba Narratives as Language Resources'. The organisers reserve the right to reject any papers that incite hatred, refute established facts, or undermine the suffering of individuals. Submissions may be of two types: * Long papers - up to eight (8) pages maximum, presenting substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. * Short papers - up to four (4) pages, describing a small focused contribution, negative results, system demonstrations, etc. The workshop supports the COLING anti-harassment policy Policy. [8] IMPORTANT DATES * Submission Deadline: 25 November 2024 * Notifications of Acceptance: 5 December 2024 * Camera Ready Deadline: 13 December 2024 (cannot be changed). Links: ------ [1] https://coling2025.org/ [2] https://www.palestine-studies.org/ [3] https://palmuseum.org/en [4] https://www.nakba-archive.org/ [5] https://libraries.aub.edu.lb/poha/ [6] https://www.alhaq.org/ [7] https://www.ichr.ps/en [8] https://coling2022.org/policy

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Second Call for Papers: The 4th Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics (WACL-4)
by Amal Haddad 17 Oct '24

17 Oct '24

WACL4 AT COLING’2025 WITH FOCUS ON ARABIC DIALECTS https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/wacl4/ ------------------------- The workshop will be held online on January 20th, 2025 in conjunction with the 31st edition of COLING in 2025 in Abu Dhabi (UAE). CALL FOR PAPERS THE WORKSHOP TOPICS INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO: * Development and Utilisation of Arabic Dialectal Corpora * Advancements in Natural Language Processing Techniques for Arabic Dialects * Applications and Challenges of Large Language Models in Understanding and Generating Arabic Dialects * Morphological and Syntactical Challenges in Arabic Dialects * Dialect Identification and Classification * Speech Recognition and Synthesis for Arabic Dialects * Machine Translation involving Arabic Dialects * Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining in Arabic Dialects * Named Entity Recognition and Information Extraction for Arabic Dialects * Development of Open Access Resources for Arabic Dialects * Text Processing and Transliteration Challenges for Arabic Dialects * Cultural and Sociolinguistic Considerations in NLP Applications for Arabic Dialects * Resources and Tools for Computational Analysis of Arabic Dialects * Applications of Arabic Dialects NLP in Real-World Scenarios Summary of the Call: We welcome submissions of papers centred around Arabic Dialects NLP and resources, focusing on supporting and advancing language technologies tailored to the diverse range of Arabic dialects. We encourage submissions that span a spectrum from theoretical investigations to practical applications, aiming to address the unique challenges, solutions, and insights that Arabic dialects introduce to the field of NLP. Submissions should adhere to the COLING 2025 standards. Authors are strongly encouraged to review and follow the COLING 2025 submission guidelines and author kit, available at https://coling2025.org/. If authors are describing dialectal variations, we request that they include relevant linguistic details and sociolinguistic contexts to enrich the understanding of the presented work. Submissions may be of two types: * Long papers - up to eight (8) pages excluding references, presenting substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. * Short papers - up to four (4) pages excluding references, describing a small focused contribution, negative results, or system demonstrations, etc. Important dates: * 1st Call for Papers Announcement: 13 August 2024 * 2nd Call for Papers Announcement: 01 October 2024 * Paper Submission Deadline: 8 November 2024 * Notification of Paper Acceptance: 6 December 2024 * Camera-ready Paper Deadline: 13 December 2024 * Workshop Date: 20th January 2025 Format: The workshop will consist of a mix of invited talks, contributed talks, and panel discussions. The workshop will be held 100% virtually, allowing for greater accessibility and participation from scholars and researchers around the world. We anticipate 30 attendees and 2 invited speakers to the workshop. Scheduled for 20 January 2025, the workshop will be held in conjunction with the 31st edition of COLING 2025 in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Anti-Harassment policy: The workshop supports the COLING anti-harassment policy https://coling2022.org/policy _Keynote Speakers:_ * _Speaker 1: Imed Zitouni, Google, USA_ (Confirmed) * _Speaker 2: Hend Alkhalifa, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia_ (Awaiting confirmation) ORGANIZATION ORGANISING COMMITTEE: * Saad Ezzini, Lancaster University, UK (General Chair) * Hamza Alami, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Morocco (Programme Co-Chair) * Ismail Berrada, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco (Programme Co-Chair) * Abdessamad Benlahbib, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Morocco (Programme Co-Chair) * Abdelkader El Mahdaouy, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco (Review Chair) * Salima Lamsiyah, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg (Publication Chair) * Nouran Khallaf, Leeds University, UK (Publicity Co-Chair) * Hatim Derrouz, Ibn Tofail University, Morocco (Publicity Co-Chair) * Amal Haddad, University of Granada, Spain (Publicity Co-Chair) * Mustafa Jarrar, Birzeit University, Palestine (Advisory Committee) * Mo El-Haj, Lancaster University, UK (Advisory Committee) * Ruslan Mitkov, Lancaster University, UK (Advisory Committee) * Paul Rayson, Lancaster University, UK (Advisory Committee) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: * Ahmed Ali, Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI), Qatar * Ahmed Abdelali, Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI), Qatar * Almoataz B. Al-Said, Cairo University, Egypt * Eric Atwell, Leeds University, UK * Haithem Afli, Dublin City University, Ireland * Hazem Hajj, American University of Beirut, Lebanon * Ignatius Ezeani, Lancaster University, UK * Imed Zitouni, Microsoft Research, USA * Karim Bouzoubaa, Mohamed Vth University, Morocco * Khaled Shaban, Qatar University, Qatar * Abdessamad Benlahbib, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Morocco * Lama Alsudias, Lancaster University, UK * Mo El-Haj, Lancaster University, UK * Mariam Aboelezz, Birkbeck, University of London, UK * Nadi Tomeh, University of Paris 13, France * Nizar Habash, New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE * Nora Al-Twairesh, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia * Abdelkader El Mahdaoui, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco * Paul Rayson, Lancaster University, UK * Scott Piao, Lancaster University, UK * Taha Zerrouki, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique, Algeria * Tamer Elsayed, Qatar University, Qatar * Violetta Cavalli-Sforza, Al Akhawayn University, Morocco * Wajdi Zaghouani, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar * Hanane El Faik, Chouaïb Doukkali University, Morocco * Wassim El-Hajj, American University of Beirut, Lebanon * Ashraf Boumhidi, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, University, Morocco * Khadidja Merakchi, Heriot-Watt University * Ed-Drissiya El-Allaly, University of Moulay Ismail, Morocco * Driss Aboulhoucine, EMRO, WHO * El Habib Nfaoui, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Morocco * Salima Lamsiyah, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg * Khaled Shaalan, The British University in Dubai, UAE * Ismail Berrada, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco * Maram Alharbi, Lancaster University, UK * Hatim Derrouz, Ibn Tofail University, Morocco * Nouran Khallaf, Leeds University, UK * Hamza Alami, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Morocco * Mustafa Jarrar, Birzeit University, Palestine * Hanane Grissette, Cadi Ayyad University, Morocco -------------------------

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12 PhD positions on Neuroexplicit models, Saarland University, Germany
by Vera Demberg 17 Oct '24

17 Oct '24

** *The Research Training Group 2853 “Neuroexplicit Models of Language, Vision, and Action” is looking for* * Twelve PhD Students - Fall 2025 Neuroexplicit models combine neural and human-interpretable (“explicit”) models in order to overcome the limitations that each model class has separately. They include neurosymbolic models, which combine neural and symbolic models, but also e.g. combinations of neural and physics-based models. In the RTG, we will improve the state of the art in natural language processing (“Language”), computer vision (“Vision”), and planning and reinforcement learning (“Action”). We also develop novel machine learning techniques for neuroexplicit models (“Foundations”). Our overarching aim is to contribute to a better understanding of the cross-cutting design principles of effective neuroexplicit models through interdisciplinary collaboration. The RTG is scheduled to grow to a total of 24 PhD students by 2025. An excellent and international group of twelve PhD students and one postdoc have already joined the RTG. Through the inclusion of ~20 associated PhD students and postdocs funded from other sources, it will be one of the largest research centers on neuroexplicit or neurosymbolic models in the world. The RTG brings together researchers at Saarland University, the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). All of these institutions are collocated on the same campus in Saarbrücken, Germany. The positions will be funded for four yearsat the TV-L E13 100% pay scale. They are intended to start in September 2025, but could start a little earlier or later depending on the student’s availability. You should have or be about to complete an MSc degree in computer science or a related field and have demonstrated expertise in one of the research areas of the RTG, e.g. through an excellent Master’s thesis or relevant publications. The RTG is part of the Saarland Informatics Campus, one of the leading centers for researchin computer science, artificial intelligence, and natural language processing in Europe. The Saarland Informatics Campus brings together 900 researchers and 2500 students from 81 countries. The CISPA Helmholtz Center, located on the same campus, is home to an additional 350 researchers and on track to grow to 800 by 2026. Researchers at SIC and CISPA are part of the ELLIS network and have been awarded more than 40 ERC grants. Each PhD student in the RTG will be jointly supervised by two PhD advisorsfrom the list of Principal Investigators below. Each student will freely define their own research topic; we encourage the choice of topics that cross the traditional boundaries of research fields. Students may be affiliated with Saarland University or with one of the participating institutes. Vera Demberg, Saarland University - Computational Linguistics Jörg Hoffmann, Saarland University - AI Planning Dietrich Klakow, Saarland University - Natural Language Processing Alexander Koller, Saarland University - Computational Linguistics Bernt Schiele, MPI for Informatics - Computer Vision, Machine Learning Philipp Slusallek, DFKI and Saarland University - Computer Graphics, Artificial Intelligence Christian Theobalt, MPI for Informatics - Visual Computing, Machine Learning Mariya Toneva, MPI for Software Systems - Computational Neuroscience, Machine Learning Isabel Valera, Saarland University - Machine Learning Jilles Vreeken, CISPA - Machine Learning, Causality Joachim Weickert, Saarland University - Mathematical Data Analysis Verena Wolf, DFKI and Saarland University - Modeling and Simulation, Reinforcement Learning Ellie Pavlick, Brown University and Google AI, will join us regularly as a Mercator Fellow. Please send your application by 26 November 2024to apply(a)neuroexplicit.org <mailto:apply@neuroexplicit.org>and include the reference number W2543. We aim to conduct job interviews in January 2025. For more details on the position, including what materials to submit with your application, please see our website: https://www.neuroexplicit.org/jobs/ <https://www.neuroexplicit.org/jobs/#phd-2023> *

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Post-Doc or Chair Assistant Position (Akademischer Rat) for 3+3 Years with the Chair for Multilingual Computational Linguistics in Passau
by Johann-Mattis List 17 Oct '24

17 Oct '24

Dear all, Our Chair of Multilingual Computational Linguistics is offering a position for an Akademischer Rat (research assistant) for 3 years with the possibility of extension by 3 more years. We look for a candidate who can teach topics in Multilingual Computational Linguistics with an open focus on any topic related to multilingual computational approaches to linguistic typology, historical linguistics, or psycholinguistics. Deadline for application is November 20, more information can be found here: https://www.uni-passau.de/fileadmin/dokumente/beschaeftigte/Stellenangebote… Sincerely, Mattis List -- Prof. Dr. Johann-Mattis List Chair of Multilingual Computational Linguistics University of Passau Dr.-Hans-Kapfinger-Str. 16 04032 Passau Germany Chair Website: https://phil.uni-passau.de/multilinguale-computerlinguistik/ Personal Website: https://lingulist.de Telephone: +49(0)851/509-3480

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First Call for Papers - Fifth Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK 2025)
by Andon Tchechmedjiev 17 Oct '24

17 Oct '24

** Apologies for cross-postings ** ============== Call for Papers @ Fifth Conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK 2025) Dates: 9-12 September 2025 Location: Naples, Italy Website: http://2025.ldk-conf.org Twitter/X: https://x.com/LDKconference Submission Deadline: 06/03/2025 Submission page: https://openreview.net/group?id=LDK/2025/Conference ============== We invite submissions to the fifth biennial conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK 2025) to be held in Naples, Italy in September 2025. This conference aims to bring together researchers from across different disciplines concerned with the acquisition, treatment, curation and the use of language data in the context of data science and knowledge-based applications. This edition builds upon the success of the inaugural event held in Galway, Ireland in 2017, the second LDK in Leipzig, Germany in 2019, the third LDK in Zaragoza, Spain in 2021, and the fourth LDK in Vienna, Austria in 2023. Paper Submission We welcome submissions of relevance to the topics listed below. Submissions can be in the form of: Long papers: 9–12 pages; Short papers: 4–6 pages. All submission lengths are given including references. Accepted submissions will be published in an open-access conference proceedings volume and indexed in ACL anthology and DBLP, free of charge for authors. The ACL templates should therefore be used for all conference submissions. As the reviewing process is single-blind, submissions should not be anonymised. Papers should be submitted via OpenReview at the following address: https://openreview.net/group?id=LDK/2025/Conference All papers must represent original work. When submitted, the submission must not have been previously published*, and the material in it must not have been/be submitted for review at another journal or conference while under review at LDK 2025. *This excludes papers on preprint archives, such as arXiv, which we do not consider to have been previously published. The conference will be hybrid (face-to-face and remote). Note that at least one author of each accepted paper must register to present the paper at the conference (either remotely or on-site). Topics Relevant topics for the conference include, but are not limited to, the following fields: Language Data >Language data construction and acquisition >Language data annotation >FAIR data practices for language data >Language data portals and metadata about language data >Organisational and infrastructural management of language data >Multilingual, multimedia and multimodal language data >Evaluation, provenance and quality of language data >Visualisation of language data >Standards and interoperability of language data >Legal aspects of publishing language data >Under-resourced languages >e-Lexicography >Semantic processing Knowledge Graphs >Linguistic Linked Data and the multilingual Semantic Web >Ontologies, terminologies, wordnets, framenets and related resources >Information and knowledge extraction (taxonomy extraction, ontology >learning) >Data, information and knowledge integration across languages >(Cross-lingual) ontology alignment >Entity linking and relatedness >Linked data profiling >Knowledge representation and reasoning >Knowledge graphs for corpora processing and analysis >Neuro Symbolic Artificial Intelligence Methods and Applications for Language, Data and Knowledge >Question answering and semantic search >Text analytics on big data >NLP for language documentation and preservation >Speech recognition and synthesis >Spoken language processing >Semantic content management >Computer-aided language learning >Natural language interfaces to big data >Knowledge-based NLP >Deep learning and machine learning for and on LLOD >Language Models and Foundation Models (Language and Multimodal Models). >Generative Artificial Intelligence and Language, Data, Knowledge Graphs >Use Cases in Language, Data and Knowledge > Contributions are welcome where the topics above - and others within the scope of Language, Data and Knowledge - are applied to domain-specific use cases, including but not limited to: social sciences and humanities, legal, life sciences, FinTech, cybersecurity. Organising Committee Conference Chairs: Jorge Gracia, University of Zaragoza, Spain Dagmar Gromann, University of Vienna, Austria Program Chairs: Mehwish Alam, Telecom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France Andon Tchechmedjiev, Institut Mines Telecom | EuroMov Digital Health in Motion Workshop and Tutorial Chairs: Katerina Gkirtzou, ILSP/Athena Research Center, Greece Slavko Zitnik, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Local Organisers: Maria Pia Buono - University of Naples “L’Orientale”, Italy Johanna Monti - University of Naples “L’Orientale”, Italy Important Dates: Paper submission deadline: 6th March, 2025 Acceptance/Rejection Notification: 8th May, 2025 Pre/Post Conference events: 9 to 12 September, 2025 Main conference: 10-11 September, 2025 All deadlines are 23:59 AoE (anywhere on Earth)

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Special Issue Update: Extended Deadline & Exciting News
by Rui Sousa Silva 16 Oct '24

16 Oct '24

Dear All, We're pleased to announce an extension for the special issue of Language and Law / Linguagem e Direito on "Language, Law and Rights: Balancing AI Driven Technology and Equity." Due to demand, the new deadline for submissions is November 15th, 2024. For this special issue, we particularly welcome both theoretical and empirical contributions that challenge prominent understandings, from a language, law and rights perspective, on: * relationships and tensions between language, law, rights, and technology; * linguistic imperialism via technology; * emerging digital divides and other social issues; * co-designing technology with diverse communities; * assistive technology for language access; * accessibility considerations for language rights; * best practice to balance innovation and equity by maintaining a dialogue with technology developers, communities, researchers and policymakers; * best practice for promoting linguistic equality and equity through regulations and policy. Keywords: Language, technology, human-machine interaction, minorities, human-centricity, law, rights, justice, equity Themes: * Co-creation between humans; co-creation with AI-driven technology (co-AI) * Non-converging goals (e. g. efficiency vs. customization, bias vs. fairness, short-term gains vs. long-term sustainability, commercial Interests vs. social good, power dynamics and control vs. individual choices) * Quality of life, law, regulation and ethics * Linguistic justice * Cultural issues * Sociological issues of language rights in relation to technology, its development, and deployment * Accessibility - access to services (public services and otherwise) * Language rights and language policy and planning * Glottopolitics and computer-assisted communication * Language rights and multilingual administrations * Minoritised languages and human geography * Technology-mediated communication in multilingual democracies * Participation of linguistic minority groups through remote interpreting * Minoritised/indigenous language media and social media * AI and data mining in under-resourced languages * Agency issues in human-machine interaction and language rights Language rights and international law (normative frameworks) * Linguistic Human Rights as individual and collective rights to choose the language/s for communication * Language Rights of vulnerable witnesses * Psychosocial factors in using linguistic varieties in public services * Human-Centred augmented translation * Machine translation, post-editing tools and minority languages Length: ≃ 7000-8000 words [Guidelines available here<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_9rd9r4XmgSY2twXSVab-ZQWFDjmevy8/view?usp=…>] Book reviews: Suggest books published recently to be reviewed for the special issue. Important Dates for Vol. 12(1), 2025 (June, 2025): Full article submission: November 15, 2024 For more information please follow the link: https://ojs.letras.up.pt/index.php/LLLD/announcement/view/158 For further information please contact: Angela Soltan <angela<mailto:angela@soltan.md>@soltan.md<mailto:angela@soltan.md>>. Or one of the other guest editors: Rebekah Rousi <rebekah.rousi(a)uwasa.fi<mailto:rebekah.rousi@uwasa.fi>>, Lucia Ruiz Rosendo <Lucia.Ruiz(a)unige.ch<mailto:Lucia.Ruiz@unige.ch>> On behalf of the editorial team, Angela Soltan Rui Sousa Silva Faculdade de Letras, Universidade do Porto | Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Porto www.linguisticaforense.pt | https://s.up.pt/qjur | http://tinyurl.com/37w2ec6x Publicação mais recente / Latest publication: Cyber Hate Speech Detection and Analysis: An Evidence-Based Forensic Linguistics Approach<https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-51248-3_8> AVISO DE CONFIDENCIALIDADE: Esta mensagem e os seus anexos são confidenciais e dirigidos unicamente aos destinatários da mesma. Se não for o destinatário, solicito que não faça qualquer uso do seu conteúdo e proceda à sua eliminação, notificando-me do sucedido. Obrigado. // CONFIDENTIALITY WARNING: This message and its attachments are confidential and exclusively addressed to the recipients above. Should you not be one of the recipients, I kindly ask you not to make use of its contents and delete the message and its attachments. Please reply to this e-mail to warn me about this incident. Thank you.

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Open position as Group Leader in Natural Language Processing, Bielefeld University
by cimiano＠cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de 16 Oct '24

16 Oct '24

Bielefeld University has an open position as group leader in Natural Language Processing at the Faculty of Technology. We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher who can independently set up and lead a group on Natural Language Processing. The group leader is expected to build up an independent research profile in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and to publish the research work at international conferences (e.g. ACL, EMNLP, COLING, AAAI, …). The group leader will be affiliated with the „Semantic Computing Lab“ [1] led by Prof. Philipp Cimiano The research of the group leader should be compatible with the research topics of the „Semantic Computing“ lab. Possible research topics include: • Robustness and safety of large language models for NLP • Ethical aspects and FAIRness of NLP systems • Fine-tuning and transfer learning for the adaptation of LLMs • LLMs for information extraction • Auto-ML for LLMs • Argument Mining • Common Sense Knowledge for NLP • Temporal Reasoning for NLP The successful candidate has an excellent track record in the field of NLP with demonstrated ability to publish at top tier conferences. Ideally, the candidate will have teaching experience and experience in third party funding acquisition. The position involves teaching duties corresponding to 4 hours per week. The position is available for 3 years and can be extended for up to 3 further years. Inquires and applications should be sent to cimiano(a)techfak.uni-bielefeld.de <mailto:cimiano@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de> <mailto:cimiano@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de>. The application deadline is October 25th. Applications should include a CV, research statement and teaching concept. [1] https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/technische-fakultaet/arbeitsgruppe… Prof. Dr. Philipp Cimiano AG Semantic Computing Coordinator of the Cognitive Interaction Technology Center (CITEC) Co-Director of the Joint Artificial Intelligence Institute (JAII) Universität Bielefeld Tel: +49 521 106 12249 Fax: +49 521 106 6560 Mail: cimiano(a)cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de Personal Zoom Room: https://uni-bielefeld.zoom-x.de/my/pcimiano Office CITEC-2.307 Universitätsstr. 21-25 33615 Bielefeld, NRW Germany

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SEPLN: CFP issue 74 of the journal Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural Deadline ***22nd November***
by aitziber.atucha＠ehu.eus 15 Oct '24

15 Oct '24

[Spanish version below] Please consider contributing and/or forwarding to appropriate colleagues and groups. *******We apologize for the multiple copies of this e-mail****** Call for papers for issue 74 of the journal Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural http://www.sepln.org/en/journal http://www.sepln.org/en/journal/author-guidelines Introduction The aim of the journal Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural is to provide a forum for the publication of scientific-technical articles in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), for both the national and international scientific community. The articles must be unpublished and cannot be simultaneously submitted for publication in other journals or conference proceedings. The journal also aims to promote the development of areas related to NLP, disseminate research carried out, identify future guidelines for basic research, and present software applications in this field. Every year the Sociedad Española de Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (SEPLN) (Spanish Society for the Natural Language Processing) publishes two issues of the journal, including original articles, presentations of R&D projects, book reviews, and summaries of PhD theses. The scientific quality of the Journal is supported by the 2023 JCR index (JIF: 1.2, JCI: 0.39, Q2-Linguistics - Q4-Computer Sciences, Artificial Intelligence ESCI), the SCImago Journal Ranking (2023 SJR: 0.677, Q2-Computer Science Applications, Q1-Linguistics and Language), the Scopus Index (2023 CiteScore: 5.4) and the index SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper) with 2.07 points. More information at: http://www.sepln.org/en/journal/quality. Topics NLP for low-resource languages Efficient and sustainable NLP methods Ethics, Bias and Fairness in NLP Truthworthy and explainability in NLP Security and privacy in NLP Text and Multimodal Generation Multimodality and Language Grounding to Vision Knowledge and common sense Computational lexicography and terminology Linguistic theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycolinguistics Morphological and Syntactic analysis Corpus linguistics Development of linguistic resources and tools Semantics, pragmatics, and discourse Machine translation Speech synthesis and recognition Audio indexing and retrieval Dialogue systems and interactive systems/ Conversational assistants Monolingual and multilingual information extraction and retrieval Question answering systems Automatic textual content analysis Sentiment analysis, opinion mining and argument mining Plagiarism detection Negation and speculation processing Text summarization Text simplification Image retrieval NLP in specific domains (Medicine, Law, Education) Submission Information The proposal must be submitted by November 22nd, 2024 and must meet certain format and style requirements. All submissions must be in PDF format and submitted electronically using the OpenReview system. Submitted papers will be subjected to a blind review by at least three members of the program committee. Categories of papers Regular papers with original contributions. Summary of PhD thesis. Information for Authors The proposals can be written in Spanish or English and should be at most 10 A4-size pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references, and 4 pages maximum for summaries of PhD theses. The papers must include the following sections: The title of the communication (in English and Spanish). An abstract in English and Spanish (maximum 150 words). A list of keywords or related topics (in English and Spanish). The documents must not include headers or footers. As reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the authors’ names and affiliation. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author’s identity should be avoided. The articles should only include the title, the abstract, the keywords and the proposal. We recommend using the LaTeX and Word templates that can be downloaded from the SEPLN web (author guidelines have been updated): http://www.sepln.org/index.php/en/journal/author-guidelines Note on camera ready The final version of the paper (camera ready) should be submitted together with a cover letter explaining how the suggestions of the reviewers were implemented in the final version. This cover letter will be considered in order to accept or finally reject the selected paper. Preprint policy The Journal allows the publication of preprints (non-refereed paper posted online, such as ArXiv) anytime, but during the review period the preprint must indicate that the paper it is “under review” in the Journal Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural. Likewise, if the paper is accepted, the preprint must be updated with the DOI, name of the Journal and the bibliographic information of the paper. Important dates Submission deadline: November 22nd, 2024 Notification of acceptance: January 27th, 2025 Camera ready: February 7th, 2025 Publication: March 2025 Contact person: Aitziber Atutxa (aitziber.atucha(a)ehu.eus) Editorial Committee of the Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***********Disculpen si reciben varias copias de este mensaje ************ Por favor, si lo considera oportuno, distribuya este llamamiento entre sus colegas. Petición de artículos para la revista Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural nº 74. http://www.sepln.org/la-revista http://www.sepln.org/la-revista/informacion-para-autores Objetivos de la revista La revista Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural es un foro de publicación de artículos científico-técnicos en el ámbito del Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (PLN), tanto para la comunidad científica nacional como internacional. Los artículos tienen que ser inéditos y no haber sido postulados para ser publicados simultáneamente en otras revistas o actas de congresos. La revista quiere potenciar el desarrollo de las diferentes áreas relacionadas con el PLN, mejorar la divulgación de las investigaciones que se llevan a cabo, identificar las futuras directrices de la investigación básica y mostrar las posibilidades reales de aplicación en este campo. Anualmente la SEPLN (Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural) publica dos números de la revista, que incluyen artículos originales, presentaciones de proyectos, reseñas bibliográficas y resúmenes de tesis doctorales. La calidad científica de la Revista está respaldada por el índice del JCR 2023 (JIF: 1.2, JCI: 0.39, Q2-Linguistics - Q4-Computer Sciences, Artificial Intelligence ESCI), el índice SCImago Journal Ranking (2023 SJR: 0.677, Q2-Computer Science Applications, Q1-Linguistics and Language), el índice de Scopus (2023 CiteScore: 5.4) y el índice SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper) con 2,07 puntos. Más información en http://www.sepln.org/la-revista/calidad. Áreas temáticas PLN para lenguas con recursos limitados Diversidad y PNL para lenguas de bajos recursos Métodos de PNL eficientes y sostenibles LLM: Diseño, Creación, Evaluación Ética, Sesgo y Equidad en la PNL PNL veraz y explicable Seguridad y Privacidad en PNL Generación Texto y Multimodal Multimodalidad y fundamento del lenguaje para la visión Conocimiento y sentido común Teorías lingüísticas, modelado cognitivo y psicolingüística Análisis Morfológico y Sintáctico Lingüística de corpus Desarrollo de recursos y herramientas lingüísticas Semántica, pragmática y discurso Traducción automática Reconocimiento y síntesis de habla Indexación y recuperación de Audio Sistemas de diálogo y sistemas interactivos/Asistentes conversacionales Recuperación y extracción de información monolingüe y multilingüe Sistemas de búsqueda de respuestas Análisis automático de contenido textual Análisis de opiniones, emociones y minería de la argumentación Detección de plagio Procesamiento de la negación y la especulación Resumen automático de texto Simplificación de texto Recuperación de imágenes PLN especifico al dominio (Medico, Juridico-administrativo, Educación, etc) Envío de trabajos Las propuestas de trabajos (artículos y resúmenes de tesis) podrán ser enviadas hasta la fecha límite del 22 de Noviembre de 2024. El envío y la revisión de las propuestas se realizarán exclusivamente en formato PDF y se gestionarán a través del sistema OpenReview. La evaluación de los trabajos pasará por un proceso de revisión ciego realizado como mínimo por tres miembros del consejo asesor de la SEPLN. Tipos de trabajos Artículos sobre contribuciones originales. Reseñas de tesis doctorales. Instrucciones para los Autores Los trabajos pueden estar escritos en español o en inglés y su longitud máxima será de 10 páginas de contenido más un número ilimitado de páginas de referencias para los artículos científicos, y de un máximo de 4 páginas para los resúmenes de tesis. Las propuestas deben contener los siguientes apartados: El título del artículo (en español e inglés). Un resumen en español y un abstract en inglés de un máximo de 150 palabras. Un listado de temas relacionados o palabras clave (en español e inglés). Los documentos no podrán incluir cabeceras ni pies de página. Como la fase de revisión de los trabajos es ciega, en los artículos que se envíen no se debe incluir ninguna referencia a los autores ni referencias propias que revelen la identidad de los mismos. Todas las contribuciones deben contener únicamente el título, el resumen, las palabras claves y la propuesta. En el caso de los resúmenes de tesis, el anonimato no es necesario. Los trabajos deben seguir el formato de las revistas de la SEPLN disponible en la siguiente dirección: http://www.sepln.org/la-revista/informacion-para-autores Las guías se han actualizado, por favor, utilicen las que están disponibles en la página web de la revista. Nota sobre la versión final La versión final del trabajo (camera ready) debe enviarse con un documento en el que se explique cómo se han implementado las sugerencias de los revisores. Dicho documento se tendrá en cuenta para aceptar o rechazar el trabajo en cuestión. Política de prepublicación La revista permite publicar una versión no revisada de los artículos en plataformas de prepublicación (plataformas de artículos no evaluados como ArXiv). Sin embargo, durante el periodo de revisión se debe indicar que el artículo está “en revisión” en la revista Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural. Si el artículo es aceptado, se debe actualizar la publicación en la plataforma de prepublicación con el DOI, nombre de la revista y la información bibliográfica del artículo. Fechas importantes Envío de trabajos: 22 de Noviembre 2024 Notificación de aceptación/rechazo: 27 de Enero 2025 Versión final: 7 de febrero de 2025 Publicación: Marzo de 2025 Persona de contacto:Aitziber Atutxa (aitziber.atucha(a)ehu.eus) Consejo de redacción de la revista Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural.

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October 2024 Newsletter - LDC
by Penn LDC 15 Oct '24

15 Oct '24

In this newsletter: LDC/Penn receives US Dept of Education research grant Membership year 2025 publication preview Fall 2024 data scholarship recipients New publications: RST Continuity Corpus<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2024T08> MultiTACRED<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2024T09> ________________________________ LDC/Penn receives US Dept of Education research grant LDC and Penn's Graduate School of Education and Department of Computer and Information Science are part of a team that was recently awarded a $10 million grant from the US Department of Education<https://ies.ed.gov/funding/grantsearch/details.asp?ID=6066> to develop the Using Generative Artificial Intelligence for Reading R&D Center (U-GAIN Reading) which will explore using generative AI to improve elementary school reading instruction for English learners. Led by the education nonprofit Digital Promise, U-GAIN Reading will build on an existing research-based tutoring platform, Amira Learning, that is used by more than 1 million students each year. The LDC/Penn team will contribute expertise in computational linguistics, computer science, and learning analytics. An evaluation team at MDRC will measure learner outcomes both to improve the R&D and to benchmark its eventual impacts. Additional experts in the science of reading, ethics, and strategies for national impact will support the project's work. Data developed in the project will be shared with the community through the LDC Catalog. Membership year 2025 publication preview The 2025 membership year is approaching and plans for next year's publications are in progress. Among the expected releases are: * Iraqi Arabic - English Lexical Database: a set of six interrelated tables (roots, lemmas, wordforms, multi-word expressions, English definitions, example phrases) presenting each Iraqi Arabic word in Arabic script and IPA format, a result of LDC's collaboration with Georgetown University Press to enhance and update three dialectal Arabic dictionaries * AIDA topic source data and annotations: multimodal source data and annotations in multiple languages (Russian, English, Spanish) for information and entity extraction * 2015 NIST Language Recognition Evaluation Test Set: 164,000+ segments of conversational telephone speech and broadcast narrow band speech in six linguistic varieties (Arabic, Spanish, English, Chinese, Slavic, French) representing 20 languages, used in NIST's 2015 language recognition evaluation * BOLT CALLFRIEND CALLHOME CTS Audio, Transcripts and Translations: previously unpublished Chinese and Egyptian Arabic telephone conversations from the CALLFRIEND and CALLHOME collections, with transcripts and translations developed by LDC for the DARPA BOLT program * Chinese Sentence Pattern Structure Treebank: 5,000+ sentences from ancient and modern Chinese texts with syntactic annotation based on sentence constituent analysis, developed by Beijing Normal University and Peking University * IARPA MATERIAL language packs: conversational telephone speech, transcripts, English translations, annotations, and queries in multiple languages (e.g., Georgian, Kazakh, Lithuanian) * LORELEI: representative and incident language packs containing monolingual text, bi-text, translations, annotations, supplemental resources, and related tools in various languages (e.g., Hungarian, Hindi, Amharic, Somali) Check your inbox for more information about membership renewal. Fall 2024 data scholarship recipients Congratulations to the recipients of LDC's Fall 2024 data scholarships: Yomma Gamaleldin: Alexandria University (Egypt): Master's student, Computer and Systems Engineering Department. Yomma is awarded a copy of Qatari Corpus of Argumentative Writing (LDC2022T04) for her work in Arabic automated essay scoring. Arhane Mahaganapathy: Jaffna University (Sri Lanka): Master's student, Department of Computer Science. Ahrane is awarded copies of IARPA Babel Tamil Language Pack (LDC2017S13) and Multi-Language Telephone Speech 2011 - South Asian (LDC2017S14) for her work in Tamil speech-to-text systems. Sivashanth Suthakar: Jaffna University (Sri Lanka): Master's student, Department of Computer Science. Sivashanth is awarded copies of CAMIO Transcription Languages (LDC2022T07) and LORELEI Tamil Representative Language Pack (LDC2023T03) for his work in Tamil OCR systems. Oshan Yalegama: University of Moratuwa (Sri Lanka): BSc, Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering. Oshan is awarded copies of CSR-I (WSJ0) Complete (LDC93S6A) and TIMIT Acoustic-Phonetic Continuous Speech Corpus (LDC93S1) for his work in audio signal processing. Samer Mohammed Yaseen: Sana'a University (Yemen): PhD candidate, Faculty of Computer and Information Technology. Samer is awarded a copy of Arabic Newswire Part 1 (LDC2001T55) for his work in Arabic information retrieval. ________________________________ New publications: RST Continuity Corpus<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2024T08> was developed at Åbo Akademi University and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and contains annotations for continuity dimensions added to RST Discourse Treebank (LDC2002T07)<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2002T07>. RST Discourse Treebank is a collection of English news texts from the Penn Treebank<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC99T42> annotated for rhetorical relations under the RST (Rhetorical Structure Theory) framework. In RST Continuity Corpus, the relations are annotated for the seven continuity dimensions: time, space, reference, action, perspective, modality, and speech act. The relations are also annotated for polarity, order of segments, nuclearity, and context. 2024 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee. * MultiTACRED<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2024T09> was developed by the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) Speech and Language Technology Lab<https://www.dfki.de/en/web/research/research-departments/speech-and-languag…> and is a machine translation of TAC Relation Extraction Dataset (LDC2018T24)<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2018T24> (TACRED) into twelve languages with projected entity annotations. TACRED is a large-scale relation extraction dataset containing 106,264 examples built over English newswire and web text used in the NIST TAC KBP English slot filling evaluations during the period 2009-2014. The training and evaluation data for the TAC KBP slot filling tasks was developed by the Linguistic Data Consortium. TACRED training, development, and test splits were translated into Arabic, Chinese, Finnish, French, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Spanish, and Turkish using DeepL<https://www.deepl.com/> or Google Translate<https://translate.google.com>. The test split was back-translated into English to generate machine-translated English test data. TACRED annotations are specified by token offsets. For translation, tokens were concatenated with white space, and the entity offsets were converted into XML-style markers to denote argument. 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. Membership Coordinator Linguistic Data Consortium<ldc.upenn.edu> University of Pennsylvania T: +1-215-573-1275 E: ldc(a)ldc.upenn.edu<mailto:ldc@ldc.upenn.edu> M: 3600 Market St. Suite 810 Philadelphia, PA 19104

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Release: 𝐒𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐓𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐬 – 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞 𝐓𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐢𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐀𝐫𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐜 𝐍𝐋𝐏 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐍𝐋𝐔
by Mustafa Jarrar 15 Oct '24

15 Oct '24

We are happy to release SinaTools - Open Source Toolkit for Arabic NLP and NLU We are excited to release SinaTools - Open Source Toolkit for Arabic NLP and NLU, which consists of Python APIs, command lines, online demos, and many datasets - free for both commercial and non-commercial purposes. It outperforms all related tools in all tasks in speed and accuracy. It includes the following modules: ▸ Morphology Tagger: Lemmatizer, POS tagger, root tagger. ▸ WSD Tagger: Pipeline of semantic taggers: single-word WSD, multi-word WSD, and NER ▸ Synonyms Generator: Extends a set of synonyms with more synonyms. ▸ Semantic Relatedness: Association between two sentences across various dimensions, meaning, underlying concepts, domain-specificity, etc. ▸ Named Entity Recognition: Nested and flat NER, 21 entity types. ▸ Relation Extraction: Extract events and their arguments (agents, locations, and dates). ▸ Diacritic-Based Matching: Decides whether two Arabic words are the same taking into account diacratization compatibility. ▸ Utilities: A set of useful NLP methods for sentence splitting, duplicate word removal, Arabic Jaccard similarity metrics, transliteration, and others. Try and Download: https://sina.birzeit.edu/sinatools. Article: Tymaa Hammouda, Mustafa Jarrar, Mohammed Khalilia: SinaTools: Open Source Toolkit for Arabic Natural Language Understanding <https://www.jarrar.info/publications/HJK24.pdf>. In Proceedings of the 2024 AI in Computational Linguistics (ACLING 2024), Procedia Computer Science, Dubai. ELSEVIER. https://www.jarrar.info/publications/HJK24.pdf --Mustafa __________________________ Mustafa Jarrar, PhD Professor of Artificial Intelligence Chair, PhD Program in Computer Science Birzeit University, Palestine Page: http://www.jarrar.info <http://www.jarrar.info/> SinaLab: https://sina.birzeit.edu <https://sina.birzeit.edu/>

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Job: Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Boston University (Computational Linguistics, AI cluster hiring at the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences)
by najoung＠bu.edu 15 Oct '24

15 Oct '24

The Department of Linguistics at Boston University seeks to hire an Assistant Professor specializing in Computational Linguistics as part of a cluster hiring initiative in AI led by the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences (CDS). The application will be handled centrally through CDS, and we encourage candidates interested in the Department of Linguistics to explicitly include the keyword "Linguistics" in their primary research interests in their AJO application. We will give full consideration to applications submitted by December 1, 2024, and will continue the review on a rolling basis until April 15, 2025. The candidate will hold a primary appointment in Linguistics, with a secondary appointment in or affiliation with CDS. We expect the candidate to conduct research and teach courses in Computational Linguistics and related areas at all levels, and advise undergraduate and graduate students. The candidate's research must be at the intersection of Linguistics and AI; this could include, but is not limited to: studying how linguistic theory and experimental linguistic methodology can productively inform the evaluation of new language technologies, how domain knowledge about specific languages---especially understudied languages---can help generalize the benefits of such technologies in more equitable ways, or how the newly emerging capacities of AI can expand the computational linguists' modeling and analysis toolkit, potentially leading to methodological innovations and discoveries that were not possible before. We furthermore expect the candidate to hold a secondary specialization in at least one subfield of Linguistics. Requirements for this position include a PhD in relevant disciplines (e.g., Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Computer Science) in hand by the start date, plus demonstrated excellence in teaching and research. For questions, please contact the search chair (Paul Hagstrom, hagstrom(a)bu.edu). For details on the cluster hiring initiative, and on how to apply, see the official advertisement from CDS below. Official CDS announcement: https://www.bu.edu/cds-faculty/culture-community/join-us/faculty-positions/… Application link: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28310 Najoung Kim Assistant Professor Department of Linguistics & Computer Science (affiliate), Boston University https://najoung.kim 🍪

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[Andaluz.IA 2024] II Andaluz.IA Forum - Deadline for submissions today
by Salud María Jiménez Zafra 15 Oct '24

15 Oct '24

==================================================================== CFP II Andaluz.IA Forum December 20, 2024, Antigua Escuela de Magisterio (Universidad de Jaén) *Deadline for submissions today* ==================================================================== From ten Andalusian universities, the Joint Research Center of the European Commission, and several Andalusian researchers currently at other national and international institutions, we are organizing the II Andaluz.IA Forum <https://sites.google.com/view/andaluzia/home>, a meeting whose main objective is to show the potential and give visibility to the academic and research community in Artificial Intelligence in our region. This forum seeks to highlight the work of Andalusian scientists, both those who are currently working in Andalusia, as well as those who have spent part of their training or career in the region, regardless of their current place of work. The first edition of the Andaluz.IA forum <https://sites.google.com/view/andaluzia2023/> was organized at Universidad Pablo Olavide in Seville and this year it will take place at Universidad de Jaén. With this second edition, we want to continue highlighting the great potential for research and academic development in Artificial Intelligence that Andalusia has, in areas such as machine learning, deep learning, robotics and natural language processing. The event will be held in person on December 20, 2024 at the Antigua Escuela de Magisterio (Universidad de Jaén). Interested researchers can participate by presenting their results in oral or poster format, provided that they have been accepted in relevant conferences or journals in the area. In addition, professionals and companies wishing to participate may do so through sponsorship or direct participation by registering on the event's website. For more information on registration, submission of papers and forms of sponsorship, please consult the following link: https://sites.google.com/view/andaluzia/call-for-papers. IMPORTANT DATES ● *Deadline for submission of papers: October 15, 2024* ● Notification of acceptance: November 4, 2024 ● Deadline for registration at a reduced rate: November 15, 2024 CONTACT INFORMATION maite(a)ujaen.es sjzafra(a)ujaen.es ORGANIZING COMMITTEE https://sites.google.com/view/andaluzia/organisers [image: Universidad de Jaén] <http://www.uja.es/> *Salud María Jiménez Zafra* sjzafra(a)ujaen.es Universidad de Jaén Grupo de Investigación SINAI <http://sinai.ujaen.es/> | Departamento de Informática EPS Jaén, Edificio A3, Despacho 326 Campus Las Lagunillas s/n 23071 - Jaén | +34 953212992 [image: Universidad de Jaén] <http://www.uja.es/>

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Call for Papers: Nordic-Baltic Responsible Evaluation and Alignment of Language Models Workshop 2025
by Annika Simonsen - HI 15 Oct '24

15 Oct '24

***Apologies for possible cross-posting *** We are pleased to invite submissions to the 1st Workshop on Nordic-Baltic Responsible Evaluation and Alignment of Language Models (NB-REAL), to be held on March 2, 2025, as part of the NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025 conference in Tallinn, Estonia. About the Workshop This half-day workshop focuses on the responsible evaluation and alignment of Large Language Models (LLMs) for Nordic and Baltic languages. Our goal is to bring together researchers, practitioners, and stakeholders to address the unique challenges and opportunities in this rapidly evolving field. Topics of Interest We welcome submissions on topics including, but not limited to: - Ethical benchmarks for evaluating LLMs in Nordic and Baltic languages - Methods for creating culturally sensitive and inclusive evaluation datasets - Responsible techniques for generating or collecting alignment data - Challenges and solutions in ethical LLM alignment for less-resourced languages - Case studies on responsible LLM evaluation or alignment projects - Ethical considerations in LLM evaluation and alignment - Comparative studies of LLM performance and fairness in Nordic and Baltic languages - Innovative approaches to leveraging limited language resources in evaluation or alignment of language models Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: December 16, 2024 Notification of Acceptance: January 13, 2025 Camera-Ready Deadline: February 3, 2025 Workshop Date: March 2, 2025 Workshop Format NB-REAL 2025 will be a half-day workshop held on March 2, 2025 (pre-conference). It will be a hybrid event with both on-site and online participation available. Organizers: Hafsteinn Einarsson, Associate Professor in Computer Science, University of Iceland (hafsteinne(a)hi.is) Annika Simonsen, PhD Student, University of Iceland (annika(a)hi.is) Dan Saattrup Nielsen, Senior AI Specialist, Alexandra Institute (dan.nielsen(a)alexandra.dk) For more information, please visit our website: https://nbreal.xyz/ We look forward to your contributions and to seeing you at NB-REAL 2025!

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Job: Lecturer(~Assistant Professor)/Associate Professor in Computational Linguistics at University College London
by Sebastian Schuster 14 Oct '24

14 Oct '24

Lecturer/Associate Professor in Computational Linguistics University College London Application link: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/search-ucl-jobs/details?nPostingId=11512&… The Department of Linguistics at University College London is looking for a Lecturer (~Assistant Professor)/Associate Professor in Computational Linguistics, beginning in September 2025. About us The UCL Linguistics department has a track record of innovative and excellent research in formal theoretical linguistics and the cognitive science of language. It is part of the UCL Division of Psychology and Language Sciences (PaLS), which is ranked second in the world for psychology (Shanghai Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2022) and UCL is the top-ranked university in the UK for research power in Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience according to the UK’s Research Excellence Framework 2021. Part of the Faculty of Brain Sciences, we lead the way in the fields of mind, behaviour and language. About the role The Department of Linguistics seeks to train the next generation of linguists who are comfortable integrating computational approaches into their research; and to offer our undergraduate students development in skills that are applicable in the information/data industries. Thus the expectations for the role will include carrying out computational research that makes substantive contact with language theory or research on cognitive science of language; advising masters and doctoral students; and contributing to the departmental teaching in natural language processing, computational linguistics, and linguistics, more generally. About you The successful candidate will have a clear program of research within computational linguistics which makes contact with language theory or cognitive science of language. The successful candidate will have an outstanding record of high-quality publications and research-related activity commensurate with the stage of their academic career. They should hold a PhD in computational linguistics or a closely related area. The successful applicant will be expected to commence their appointment at UCL on 1st September 2025. Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion As London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce. These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women. For informal queries about the role and the application process please contact PaLS HR (pals.hr(a)ucl.ac.uk <mailto:pals.hr@ucl.ac.uk>).

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Job: Assistant Professor of Computational Linguistics at Rochester Institute of Technolog
by Cecilia Alm 14 Oct '24

14 Oct '24

Assistant Professor of Computational Linguistics Rochester Institute of Technology Detailed Job Description The Department of Psychology and Department of Modern Languages and Cultures at the Rochester Institute of Technology jointly invite applications for a full-time, 9-month tenure-track Assistant Professor of Computational Linguistics, beginning in August 2025. Candidates are expected to have an earned doctoral degree (in hand by August 2025) in Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, or a related field. Successful candidates should demonstrate computational expertise, strong research talent, and initiative in grant writing. Candidates should also have a plan for excellence in teaching and student mentoring at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Applicants must be able to teach our courses in language technology, natural language processing, and/or speech processing. In addition, applicants should be able to teach foundational linguistics from a cross-linguistic perspective, as well as courses in one or more linguistics or cognitive science subfields. Proficiency in a language other than English is preferred, and we welcome research or teaching experience involving language learning. The position requires a strong commitment to teaching and mentoring, active research and publication, and a strong potential to attract external funding. Research and teaching are priorities for faculty at RIT, and all faculty are expected to mentor students through advising, research, and in-class experiences. The computational linguistics-related programs at RIT serve a rapidly expanding student population at a technical university. We are particularly looking for a faculty colleague who can also contribute to the interdisciplinary Ph.D. program in Cognitive Science and the M.S. in Artificial Intelligence. In addition, RIT provides many opportunities for collaborative research across the institute in areas such as linguistics of sign languages and languages other than English, artificial intelligence, human-centered computing, and cybersecurity. RIT faculty have access to extensive research computing resources. We are seeking an individual who has the ability and interest in contributing to a community committed to student centeredness; professional development and scholarship; integrity and ethics; respect, diversity and pluralism; innovation and flexibility; and teamwork and collaboration. Select to view links to RIT’s core values<https://www.rit.edu/policies/p040>, honor code<https://www.rit.edu/policies/p030>, and diversity commitment<https://www.rit.edu/diversity/>. Department/College Description The Department of Psychology at RIT offers B.S. and M.S. degrees, Advanced Certificates, minors, immersions, electives, and co-supports interdisciplinary graduate degrees including the Ph.D. program in Cognitive Science and the M.S. program in Artificial Intelligence. It also contributes to joint undergraduate degrees in Human-Centered Computing and Neuroscience. The Department of Modern Languages and Cultures offers a B.S. in Applied Modern Language and Culture with tracks in Chinese, French, Japanese, and Spanish, in addition to minors, immersions, and general education courses in Language Science<https://www.rit.edu/study/language-science-minor>, American Sign Language and Deaf Cultural Studies, Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Latino/Latina/Latin American Studies, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. The Department houses a Modern Language Technology Center where faculty and students actively integrate technology into language teaching and learning. The College of Liberal Arts is one of nine colleges within Rochester Institute of Technology. The College has over 150 faculty in 13 departments in the arts, humanities and social sciences. The College currently offers fourteen undergraduate degree programs and five Master degrees, serving over 800 students. The Ph.D. program in Cognitive Science, with language as one of the areas, is interdisciplinary with multiple partner units across the university. The College also jointly delivers the M.S. in Artificial Intelligence with other colleges of the university. We encourage the creation, development, dissemination, and application of human knowledge in the arts, humanities, and social sciences by promoting innovative teaching, scholarship, and research, thus providing a comprehensive education for all RIT students. We strive to prepare students for a lifetime of personal growth and responsible citizenship in an increasingly technological and rapidly changing society by maintaining and promoting the intellectual climate on campus, contributing to students’ awareness and understanding of diversity, and enhancing students’ abilities to reason critically and communicate effectively. We value a rigorous liberal arts education that encourages innovative experiential learning and active scholarship, the highest ethical standards, the educational and social benefits of diversity and global awareness, an interdisciplinary and collaborative environment of openness and academic freedom, a working environment in which all staff and faculty enjoy respect and recognition, and the active and meaningful participation of all members of the College community. Required Minimum Qualifications • Ph.D. (in hand by August 2025) in Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, or a related field. • Have demonstrated ability to conduct independent research in computational linguistics. • Have consistently and recently published. • Demonstrate potential for excellence in teaching language technology, natural language processing, and/or speech processing. • Demonstrate potential for excellence in teaching foundational linguistics from a cross-linguistic perspective, as well as courses in one or more linguistics or cognitive science subfields. • Demonstrate potential for excellence in supervising student research. • Demonstrate potential for external research grant attainment. • Show a career trajectory that emphasizes a balance between research and teaching. • Ability to contribute in meaningful ways to the College’s continuing commitment to cultural diversity, pluralism, and individual differences. How To Apply Apply online at http://careers.rit.edu/faculty; search openings, then Keyword Search 9260BR. Please submit your application, curriculum vitae, cover letter addressing the listed qualifications and upload the following attachments: * A research statement that includes information about previous grant work, the potential for future grants, and information about one-on-one supervision of student research * A brief teaching philosophy * The names, email addresses, and phone numbers of three references * Contribution to Diversity Statement You can contact the co-chairs of the search committee, Cecilia Alm, Ph.D. and Zhong Chen, Ph.D., with questions on the position at: cecilia.o.alm(a)rit.edu<mailto:cecilia.o.alm@rit.edu> and z.chen(a)rit.edu<mailto:z.chen@rit.edu>. Review of applications will begin November 15, 2024 and will continue until an acceptable candidate is found. RIT does not discriminate. RIT promotes and values diversity, pluralism and inclusion in the work place. RIT provides equal opportunity to all qualified individuals and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, age, marital status, sex, gender, religion, sexual orientations, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, veteran status or disability in its hiring, admissions, educational programs and activities.

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PhD & Postdoc positions in data attribution for LLMs at IT University of Copenhagen
by Anna Rogers 14 Oct '24

14 Oct '24

[apologies for cross-posting] IT University of Copenhagen has open positions for a postdoc and 2x PhD students in *data attribution for Large Language Models* (LLMs). These positions are a part of a large project on the problem of attribution for LLM outputs to the original data sources, on which the LLMs were trained. *Application deadlines are Nov 22 (PhD), Nov 15 (postdoc)*. Applications can be submitted via ITU job portal: - PhD (2x 3-year positions): https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx?cid=119&ProjectId=181… - Postdoc (2-year position): https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx?cid=119&ProjectId=181… IT University of Copenhagen is the leading Danish university dedicated to various aspects of IT technology, and Copenhagen is one of the happiest and most livable cities in the world. The candidates will be part of NLPNorth research group <https://nlpnorth.github.io/> (with 5 full-time faculty working in various areas of NLP), as well as Pioneer Center for AI <https://www.aicentre.dk/>. The project is led by Assoc. Prof. Anna Rogers <https://annargrs.github.io>, to whom inquires about the project can be directed (arog(a)itu.dk). The project has planned academic and industry collaborations (potentially with research stays for PhD students), with labs in Allen Institute for AI, Carnegie Mellon University, HuggingFace, and RIKEN high-performance computing center (Japan). -- Best regards, Anna Rogers Associate Professor IT University of Copenhagen http://annargrs.github.io/

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NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT Deadline extension
by Sara Stymne 14 Oct '24

14 Oct '24

*********** DEADLINE EXTENSION ************** The submission deadline has been extended! The new deadline is October 27, 2024 (23:59 anywhere on earth) ******************************************************* The two major conferences in the Baltic and Nordic regions, NoDaLiDa, organized by The Northern European Association for Language Technology (NEALT) and Baltic HLT are joining forces to organize NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025 – The Joint 25th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics and 11th Baltic Conference on Human Language Technologies, to be held in Tallinn, Estonia, on March 2–5, 2025 as an in-person conference. https://www.nodalida-bhlt2025.eu/conference KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Dirk Hovy, Bocconi University, Milan Arianna Bisazza, University of Groningen SUBMISSIONS NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025 addresses all aspects of natural language processing, speech recognition and synthesis, and computational linguistics, including work in closely related neighboring disciplines (such as, for example, machine learning, linguistics, digital humanities, or psychology) that is sufficiently formalized or applied to bear relevance to speech and language technologies. We invite paper submissions of three types: * regular papers on substantial, original, and unpublished research, including empirical evaluation results, where appropriate; * short papers on smaller, focused contributions, work in progress, negative results, surveys, or opinion pieces; and * demonstration papers on software or resource demonstrations, e.g. of systems, interfaces, infrastructures, data collections, or annotations. Demonstration papers do not need to be anonymous. We particularly encourage submission of papers on completed or ongoing work, where the first author is a Master's or PhD student. This should be indicated at submission time. Papers accepted for presentation at the conference will be included in the NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025 proceedings, which are published in the ACL Anthology and the NEALT Proceedings Series at DSpace at Tartu University Library (negotiations for indexation are ongoing and expected to be in place at publication time) SCHEDULE * Monday, October 21 October 27, 2024: Submission of Papers * Monday, December 9, 2024: Notification of Acceptance * Monday, January 13, 2025: Camera-Ready Manuscripts * Monday and Tuesday, March 3–4, 2025: Main Conference The main conference will be held on-site only, without an online option, in order to facilitate networking. SUBMISSION FORMATS All submissions must follow the NoDaLiDa 2025 style files, which will be available for LaTeX (preferred) and MS Word. Submissions must be anonymous, i.e. not reveal author(s) on the title page or through self-references. Papers must be submitted digitally, in PDF, and uploaded through the online conference system. Paper submissions that violate either of these requirements will be returned without review. The page limits for submissions are: up to eight pages for regular papers and up to four pages for short papers and demo papers. For all three submission types, these page limits do not include additional pages with bibliographic references. We do not allow any extra pages for appendices. DOUBLE SUBMISSION and PRE-PUBLICATION Papers that have been or will be submitted to other venues must indicate this at submission time and must be withdrawn from the other venues if accepted to NoDALiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025. Authors of papers accepted for presentation at NoDALiDa/Baltic_HLT must notify the program chairs by the camera-ready deadline as to whether the paper will be presented. We will not accept for publication or presentation papers that overlap significantly in content or results with papers that will be (or have been) published elsewhere. We follow the ACL Anonymity Policy, which means that we have no anonymity period. Authors are still cautioned against extensive advertising. SUBMISSION MANAGEMENT Submissions to the conference must be uploaded electronically, obeying the above requirements, and no later than (23:59, anywhere on earth): Sunday, October 27, 2024. Submission is done through OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT/2025/Conference Please note: To submit a paper, you need an account on OpenReview. For persons without an institutional email, it can take up to two weeks to have an account verified. Thus, please create an account early if you don’t have one already! PROGRAM COMMITTEE General Chair * Sara Stymne, Uppsala University, Sweden Program Chairs * Mark Fišel, University of Tartu, Estonia * Daniel Hershcovich, University of Copenhagen, Denmark * Jenna Kanerva, University of Turku, Finland * Pierre Lison, Norwegian Computing Centre, Norway * Inguna Skadiņa, University of Latvia, Lativa * Andrius Utka, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania Workshop chairs * Normunds Grūzītis, University of Latvia, Latvia * Samia Touileb, University of Bergen, Norway Publication chair * Richard Johansson, Chalmers Technical University, Sweden Social media chair * Mike Zhang, Aalborg University, Denmark To inquire about the submission and reviewing process or the scientific program of the conference, please email ‘nodalida_baltichlt_2025-pc(a)googlegroups.xn--com-to0a. Local Chairs * Helen Kaljumäe, Institute of the Estonian Language, Estonia * Kadri Vare, Institute of the Estonian Language, Estonia * Merily Remma, Institute of the Estonian Language, Estonia For all practical inquiries, please email ‘nodalida_baltichlt_2025-loc(a)eki.xn--ee-o2t. Follow us on X: https://twitter.com/NoDaLiDa Web page: https://www.nodalida-bhlt2025.eu/conference När du har kontakt med oss på Uppsala universitet med e-post så innebär det att vi behandlar dina personuppgifter. För att läsa mer om hur vi gör det kan du läsa här: http://www.uu.se/om-uu/dataskydd-personuppgifter/ E-mailing Uppsala University means that we will process your personal data. For more information on how this is performed, please read here: http://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/data-protection-policy

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Call for Data: Unidive Shared Task on Morphosyntactic Parsing
by Leonie Weissweiler 12 Oct '24

12 Oct '24

Dear members, We invite you to contribute data for UniDive’s shared task on morpho-syntactic parsing, to be hosted as part of SyntaxFest 2025 (August, Ljubljana). Data for this task largely resembles dependency trees as in Universal Dependencies, but bypasses wordhood debates by adopting the distinction between content and function elements to fully characterize sentences. The systems participating in this task will be required to output relations between content nodes and ascribe them morpho-syntactic features. Data and systems in this data format will allow easier cross-lingual studies and natural treatment of many additional languages, especially of the agglutinative type. We are looking for data contributors and annotators for data in various languages for this task. Our current team includes annotation teams in about a dozen of languages and we would like to expand the number and variety of the languages included. The data is set to be released around *February 2025*, and it can be either data tagged from scratch or semi-automatically converted from existing treebanks. Initial or partial data is to be available already *by the end of 2024*. Researchers interested in joining are welcome to reply to one or all the organizers (omer.goldman(a)gmail.com, weissweiler(a)utexas.edu, reut.tsarfaty(a)gmail.com) to hear more details of the data structure, including annotation guidelines and English example. Best regards, Omer Goldman, Leonie Weissweiler, and Reut Tsarfaty

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COLING 2025 Workshop on Detecting AI Generated Content, 3rd Call for participation
by Firoj Alam 12 Oct '24

12 Oct '24

(apologies for cross-posting) Dear colleague, We seek submissions of long and short papers on original and unpublished work (same page limit as the COLING 2025 main conference). In addition, there will be three shared tasks. All accepted submissions will be presented as talks and/or posters at the workshop, prior to the COLING 2025 main conference. Research Papers We invite original research papers from a wide range of topics, including but not limited to: - Detection methods for text, image, speech and other modalities - Multilingual detection methods - Detection Methods Image Modality - Detection Methods Multimodal Content - Real-time detection systems: real-time systems for detecting AI-generated content in live scenarios. - Attacks for detection systems - Datasets and resources - Benchmarking for AI generated content detection - AI generated fake news detection - Deep Fakes in audio, videos and images - Ethical and legal implications of AI generated content Shared Tasks We plan to run three shared tasks: - Task 1: Binary Multilingual Machine-Generated Text Detection (Human vs. Machine) - Task 2: AI vs. Human – Academic Essay Authenticity Challenge - Task 3: Cross-domain Machine-Generated Text Detection Important dates: Regular Submission (including shared tasks) Deadline: November 15, 2024 (dual-submission allowed) Resubmission (with a rebuttal) Deadline: December 2, 2024 Acceptance Notification: December 7, 2024 Camera-Ready Deadline: December 13, 2024 Workshop Day: January 19-20, 2025 All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”). Submission Details: Papers must describe original, completed or in-progress, and unpublished work. All papers will be refereed through a double-blind peer review process by multiple reviewers with final acceptance decisions made by the workshop organizers. Accepted papers will be given up to 9 pages (for full papers), 5 pages (for short papers and posters) in the workshop proceedings, and will be presented as oral paper or poster. We are seeking submissions under the following categories: - Full/long papers (8 pages) - Short papers (work in progress, innovative ideas/proposals: 4 pages) - Shared task papers (4 pages) Long, short, and shared task papers must follow the two-column format of *ACL conferences, using the official templates. The templates can be downloaded in style files and formatting. 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. Verification to guarantee conformance to publication standards, we will be using the ACL pubcheck tool. The PDFs of camera-ready papers must be run through this tool prior to their final submission, and we recommend its use also at submission time. Submissions are open to all, and are to be submitted anonymously. For the anonymity, double-blind submission, and reproducibility criteria please follow the COLING 2025 instructions. Submission portal Submissions must be made using the START portal: https://softconf.com/coling2025/DAIGenC25/ Website for further information: https://genai-content-detection.gitlab.io/ Best regards The Organizers

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Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Boston University (Computational Linguistics, AI cluster hiring at the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences)
by Najoung Kim 11 Oct '24

11 Oct '24

**apologies for cross-posting** The Department of Linguistics at Boston University <http://ling.bu.edu> seeks to hire an Assistant Professor specializing in Computational Linguistics as part of a cluster hiring initiative in AI led by the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences (CDS) <https://www.bu.edu/cds-faculty/>. The application will be handled centrally through CDS, and *we encourage candidates interested in the Department of Linguistics to explicitly include the keyword "Linguistics" in their primary research interests in their AJO application*. We will give full consideration to applications submitted by December 1, 2024, and will continue the review on a rolling basis until April 15, 2025. The candidate will hold a primary appointment in Linguistics, with a secondary appointment in or affiliation with CDS. We expect the candidate to conduct research and teach courses in Computational Linguistics and related areas at all levels, and advise undergraduate and graduate students. The candidate's research must be at the intersection of Linguistics and AI; this could include, but is not limited to: studying how linguistic theory and experimental linguistic methodology can productively inform the evaluation of new language technologies, how domain knowledge about specific languages---especially understudied languages---can help generalize the benefits of such technologies in more equitable ways, or how the newly emerging capacities of AI can expand the computational linguists' modeling and analysis toolkit, potentially leading to methodological innovations and discoveries that were not possible before. We furthermore expect the candidate to hold a secondary specialization in at least one subfield of Linguistics. Requirements for this position include a PhD in relevant disciplines (e.g., Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Computer Science) in hand by the start date, plus demonstrated excellence in teaching and research. For questions, please contact the search chair (Paul Hagstrom, hagstrom(a)bu.edu). For details on the cluster hiring initiative, and on how to apply, see the official advertisement from CDS below. Official CDS announcement: https://www.bu.edu/cds-faculty/culture-community/join-us/faculty-positions/… AJO Application link: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28310 -- Najoung Kim Assistant Professor Department of Linguistics & Computer Science (affiliated), Boston University https://najoung.kim 🍪

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FINAL EXTENSION October 13, 2024- ACM SAC 2025 - Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track
by Patrizio Bellan 11 Oct '24

11 Oct '24

The 40th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing ACM SAC 2025 March 31 - April 4, 2025 - Catania, Italy Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track ***************************************** Important Dates Author deadline for submissions: September 20, 2024 October 4, 2024 FINAL EXTENSION October 13, 2024 Author notification of acceptance: October 30, 2024 Author camera ready and registration due: November 29, 2024 ***************************************** Aim Aim of the Knowledge and Natural Language Processing (KNLP) track at ACM SAC is to investigate techniques and application of knowledge engineering and natural language processing, two extremely interdisciplinary and lively research areas at the core of Artificial Intelligence. In particular, the track welcomes contributions combining and complementing methods and approaches from both areas. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Natural Language Processing NLP tasks for Knowledge Extraction NLP for Ontology Population and Learning Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining for Knowledge Applications Interplay between Language and Ontologies NLP for Explainable Knowledge Machine Translation techniques for Multi-lingual Knowledge NLP for the Web (Large) Language Models and Knowledge - Knowledge Knowledge to improve NLP tasks Knowledge for Information Retrieval Knowledge-based Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining Combining Knowledge and Deep Learning for NLP Knowledge for Text Summarization and Generation Knowledge for Persuasion Knowledge-based Machine Translation Knowledge for the Web Linked Data for NLP Knowledge-based NL Explainability RAG and Knowledge injection for Language Models - Applications Real-world applications that exploit Knowledge and NLP Knowledge and NLP Systems for Big Data scenarios Knowledge and NLP technology for diverse, equitable, and inclusive society Deployment of Knowledge and NLP Systems in specific domains, such as: Digital Humanities and Social Sciences eGovernment and public administration Life sciences, health and medicine News and Data Streaming ***************************************** Paper Submission Research papers and experience reports related to the above topics are solicited. Submissions must not have been published or be concurrently considered for publication elsewhere. Papers should be submitted in PDF using the ACM-SAC proceedings format using the submission link on the SAC 2025 website (https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2025/&source=gma…). Authors' names and affiliations should be entered separately at the submission site and not appear in the submitted papers. Each submission will be reviewed in a DOUBLE-BLIND process according to the ACM-SAC Regulations. Student Research Competition (SRC) submissions are welcome (see SAC 2025 website for details). Full papers are limited to 8 pages, in camera-ready format, included in the registration fee. Authors have the option to include up to two (2) extra pages (paying an extra charge). Posters are limited to 2 pages, in camera-ready format, included in the registration fee. Authors have the option to include only one (1) extra page (paying an extra charge). SRC Abstracts are limited to 3 pages, in camera-ready format, included in the registration fee. No extra pages are allowed. Paper selection is based on originality, technical contribution, presentation quality, and relevance to the Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track. Some papers may be accepted as posters. Paper registration is required, allowing the inclusion of the paper/poster in the conference proceedings. An author or a proxy attending SAC MUST present the paper. This is a requirement for the paper/poster to be included in the ACM digital library. No-show of registered papers and posters will result in excluding them from the ACM digital library. ***************************************** Track Co-Chairs Patrizio Bellan, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) Marco Bombieri, Università degli Studi di Verona Mauro Dragoni, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) Marco Rospocher, Università degli Studi di Verona ***************************************** Programme Committee TBA ***************************************** General Inquiries For further information, please visit SAC Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track (https://www.google.com/url?q=https://knlp-sac.github.io/2025/&source=gmail-…) and SAC 2024 conference websites (https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2025/&source=gma…) or feel free to contact the Track Co-Chairs at knlp(a)fbk.eu<mailto:knlp@fbk.eu> . -- -- 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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Interspeech 2025: Call for Proposals for special sessions
by Grzegorz Chrupała 10 Oct '24

10 Oct '24

============================================ Interspeech 2025 17 - 21 August, Rotterdam, The Netherlands https://www.interspeech2025.org/ ============================================ Call for Special Sessions Proposals https://www.interspeech2025.org/call-for-special-sessions ============================================ Important Dates =============== Proposals of special sessions due: 8 November 2024 Notification of pre-selection for special sessions: 18 November 2024 Final list of special sessions: 14 May 2025 Submissions for special session proposals are invited for Interspeech 2025 https://interspeech2025.org/. Special Sessions should cover interdisciplinary topics and/or important new emerging areas in speech communication. Submissions related to the special focus of the conference's theme, Fair and Inclusive Speech Science and Technology, are particularly welcome. Proposals should describe why the topic is relevant to the conference regular topics, and if applicable, to the conference's theme. Each special session proposal must contain the following information: * Special session title * Names and affiliations of the organizers (including contact information and a brief biography for each organizer) * Up to five bullet points on what makes the session special * A summary (up to one page) stating the importance of the session's topic and objectives. The summary should also explain why the topic is not properly covered by regular conference sessions. * A tentative list of authors who could contribute papers to the session. Note that with an approximate 50% acceptance rate for Interspeech papers, special sessions should have a minimum of 12 anticipated submissions, unless their format allocates time to other formats than paper presentations. * Special sessions may have a different format from regular sessions, e.g., panel discussion, longer summary talks, or a mix thereof. The proposal's session format should be clearly defined (panel, oral, posters, etc.). * Additional or non-standard resources (e.g., data, equipment, poster stands, etc.) needed for organizing the special session. Proposals will be evaluated by the organizing committee in consultation with the ISCA Technical Committee for relevance and significance to the conference. Papers for approved Special Sessions must be submitted according to the same schedule and procedure as used for regular papers. Papers will undergo the same review process by anonymous and independent reviewers. Special Session organizers may suggest reviewers. Note that the ISCA board has decided that special sessions can run for a maximum of three years in total. If this rule makes your proposal ineligible, we encourage you to organize your event as an Interspeech Satellite Workshop instead. Proposals as well as any questions should be submitted to the Special Session Chairs: Rob van Son (Netherlands Cancer Institute, the Netherlands) and Heysem Kaya (Utrecht University, the Netherlands) at specialsessions(a)interspeech2025.org.

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Interspeech 2025: Call for Challenge Proposals
by Grzegorz Chrupała 10 Oct '24

10 Oct '24

============================================ Interspeech 2025 17 - 21 August, Rotterdam, The Netherlands https://www.interspeech2025.org/ ============================================ Call for Challenge Proposals https://www.interspeech2025.org/call-for-challenges ============================================ Important Dates =============== Proposals of challenges due: 21 October 2024 Notification of pre-selection for challenges: 31 October 2024 Challenge paper deadline (same as regular papers) : 12 February 2025 Final list of challenges: 14 May 2025 Submissions for challenge proposals are invited for Interspeech2025 https://interspeech2025.org/. Challenge proposals should cover interdisciplinary topics and/or important new emerging areas in speech communication. Submissions related to the special focus of the conference's theme, Fair and Inclusive Speech Science and Technology, are particularly welcome. Proposals should describe why the topic is relevant to the conference regular topics, and if applicable, to the conference's theme. Note that the deadline for challenge proposal submission is earlier than regular special sessions, namely on October 21 2024. This is to give the challenge organizers time to disseminate the call and give participants enough time to participate and submit their papers before the regular paper deadline. A Challenge proposal must contain the following information: * Challenge title * Challenge organizers (including contact information and a brief biography for each organizer) * Brief introduction of the challenge * Significance of the challenge * Rules for participation * Criteria for judging the submissions to the competition * Data sets to be used and, if applicable, planned baseline systems * Relevant dates (e.g., submission deadline, data available, and winner announcement) Proposals will be evaluated by the organizing committee in consultation with the ISCA Technical Committee for relevance and significance to the conference. Papers for approved Challenges must be submitted according to the same schedule and procedure as used for regular papers. Papers will undergo the same review process by anonymous and independent reviewers. Challenge organizers may suggest reviewers. Note that the ISCA board has decided that challenges can run for a maximum of three years in total. If this rule makes your proposal ineligible, we encourage you to organize your event as an Interspeech Satellite Workshop instead. Proposals as well as any questions should be submitted to the Special Session Chairs: Rob van Son (Netherlands Cancer Institute, the Netherlands) and Heysem Kaya (Utrecht University, the Netherlands) at specialsessions(a)interspeech2025.org.

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Postdoctoral Scholar Opening - ITAO Department at the University of Notre Dame
by John Lalor 09 Oct '24

09 Oct '24

Postdoctoral Scholar Opening - ITAO Department at the University of Notre Dame Apply here: https://apply.interfolio.com/156773 The Department of IT, Analytics, and Operations in the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame is hiring one postdoctoral fellow as part of an NSF-funded project under the supervision of Assistant Professor John Lalor. The position is for two years, with an anticipated start date of January 2025. The project’s scope includes personalization in large language models, human-LLM interaction, and instance hardness and data difficulty. The fellow will be expected to conduct research in these areas, assist with PhD student mentoring, and submit research for publication in top Information Systems and/or Computer Science venues. The position includes a travel allowance for collaborations and conference presentations. Qualifications - PhD received within the last five years in machine learning, information systems, or a closely related field. - History of publications in top ML/NLP/IS conferences or journals. - Experience with open-source software and reproducible research. Application Instructions - Updated CV, indicating date of PhD completion - Brief cover letter - Two letters of recommendation highlighting the candidate's research accomplishments. Equal Employment Opportunity Statement The University of Notre Dame seeks to attract, develop, and retain the highest quality faculty, staff and administration. The University is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and is committed to building a culturally diverse workplace. We strongly encourage applications from female and minority candidates and those candidates attracted to a university with a Catholic identity. Moreover, Notre Dame prohibits discrimination against veterans or disabled qualified individuals, and requires affirmative action by covered contractors to employ and advance veterans and qualified individuals with disabilities in compliance with 41 CFR 60-741.5(a) and 41 CFR 60-300.5(a). Apply here: https://apply.interfolio.com/156773 -- John Lalor Assistant Professor of IT, Analytics, and Operations University of Notre Dame http://www.nd.edu/~jlalor1

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DANTE resurrected: public release of the DANTE English lexical database
by Miloš Jakubíček 09 Oct '24

09 Oct '24

We proudly announce the public availability of the DANTE lexical database, developed originally by Sue Atkins, Adam Kilgarriff and Michael Rundell in 2010 for Foras na Gaeilge, which decided to release the dataset under the CC-BY licence recently. "DANTE – the Database of ANalysed Texts of English – is a lexical database which provides a corpus-based description of the core vocabulary of English. It records the semantic, grammatical, combinatorial, and text-type characteristics of over 42,000 single-word lemmas and 23,000 compounds and phrasal verbs, and it also includes over 27,000 idioms and phrases." (Rundell & Atkins, 2010) The dataset is provided in a Lexonomy instance running at https://dantedictionary.com/ (including API) as well as raw data at https://github.com/lexicalcomputing/dante. Regards, Miloš Jakubíček Lexical Computing References: * https://dantedictionary.com/ * https://github.com/lexicalcomputing/dante * Convery, C., Mianáin, P. O., Raghallaigh, M. O., Atkins, S., Kilgarriff, A., & Rundell, M. (2010). The DANTE Database (Database of ANalysed Texts of English) [Conference paper]. Proceedings of the XIV EURALEX International Conference

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Final Call for Papers: NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025
by Sara Stymne 09 Oct '24

09 Oct '24

***Apologies for possible cross-posting *** The two major conferences in the Baltic and Nordic regions, NoDaLiDa, organized by The Northern European Association for Language Technology (NEALT) and Baltic HLT are joining forces to organize NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025 – The Joint 25th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics and 11th Baltic Conference on Human Language Technologies, to be held in Tallinn, Estonia, on March 2–5, 2025. https://www.nodalida-bhlt2025.eu/conference KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Dirk Hovy, Bocconi University, Milan Arianna Bisazza, University of Groningen SUBMISSIONS NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025 addresses all aspects of natural language processing, speech recognition and synthesis, and computational linguistics, including work in closely related neighboring disciplines (such as, for example, machine learning, linguistics, digital humanities, or psychology) that is sufficiently formalized or applied to bear relevance to speech and language technologies. We invite paper submissions of three types: * regular papers on substantial, original, and unpublished research, including empirical evaluation results, where appropriate; * short papers on smaller, focused contributions, work in progress, negative results, surveys, or opinion pieces; and * demonstration papers on software or resource demonstrations, e.g. of systems, interfaces, infrastructures, data collections, or annotations. Demonstration papers do not need to be anonymous. We particularly encourage submission of papers on completed or ongoing work, where the first author is a Master's or PhD student. This should be indicated at submission time. Papers accepted for presentation at the conference will be included in the NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025 proceedings, which are published in the ACL Anthology and the NEALT Proceedings Series at DSpace at Tartu University Library (negotiations for indexation are ongoing and expected to be in place at publication time) SCHEDULE * Monday, October 21, 2024: Submission of Papers * Monday, December 9, 2024: Notification of Acceptance * Monday, January 13, 2025: Camera-Ready Manuscripts * Monday and Tuesday, March 3–4, 2025: Main Conference The main conference will be held on-site only, without an online option, in order to facilitate networking. SUBMISSION FORMATS All submissions must follow the NoDaLiDa 2025 style files, which will be available for LaTeX (preferred) and MS Word. Submissions must be anonymous, i.e. not reveal author(s) on the title page or through self-references. Papers must be submitted digitally, in PDF, and uploaded through the online conference system. Paper submissions that violate either of these requirements will be returned without review. The page limits for submissions are: up to eight pages for regular papers and up to four pages for short papers and demo papers. For all three submission types, these page limits do not include additional pages with bibliographic references. We do not allow any extra pages for appendices. DOUBLE SUBMISSION and PRE-PUBLICATION Papers that have been or will be submitted to other venues must indicate this at submission time and must be withdrawn from the other venues if accepted to NoDALiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025. Authors of papers accepted for presentation at NoDALiDa/Baltic_HLT must notify the program chairs by the camera-ready deadline as to whether the paper will be presented. We will not accept for publication or presentation papers that overlap significantly in content or results with papers that will be (or have been) published elsewhere. We follow the ACL Anonymity Policy, which means that we have no anonymity period. Authors are still cautioned against extensive advertising. SUBMISSION MANAGEMENT Submissions to the conference must be uploaded electronically, obeying the above requirements, and no later than (end of day, anywhere on earth): Monday, October 21, 2024. Submission is done through OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT/2025/Conference Please note: To submit a paper, you need an account on OpenReview. For persons without an institutional email, it can take up to two weeks to have an account verified. Thus, please create an account early if you don’t have one already! PROGRAM COMMITTEE General Chair * Sara Stymne, Uppsala University, Sweden Program Chairs * Mark Fišel, University of Tartu, Estonia * Daniel Hershcovich, University of Copenhagen, Denmark * Jenna Kanerva, University of Turku, Finland * Pierre Lison, Norwegian Computing Centre, Norway * Inguna Skadiņa, University of Latvia, Lativa * Andrius Utka, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania Workshop chairs * Normunds Grūzītis, University of Latvia, Latvia * Samia Touileb, University of Bergen, Norway Publication chair * Richard Johansson, Chalmers Technical University, Sweden Social media chair * Mike Zhang, Aalborg University, Denmark To inquire about the submission and reviewing process or the scientific program of the conference, please email ‘nodalida_baltichlt_2025-pc(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:nodalida_baltichlt_2025-pc@googlegroups.com>’. Local Chairs * Helen Kaljumäe, Institute of the Estonian Language, Estonia * Kadri Vare, Institute of the Estonian Language, Estonia * Merily Remma, Institute of the Estonian Language, Estonia For all practical inquiries, please email ‘nodalida_baltichlt_2025-loc(a)eki.ee<mailto:nodalida_baltichlt_2025-loc@eki.ee>’. Follow us on X: https://twitter.com/NoDaLiDa Web page: https://www.nodalida-bhlt2025.eu/conference När du har kontakt med oss på Uppsala universitet med e-post så innebär det att vi behandlar dina personuppgifter. För att läsa mer om hur vi gör det kan du läsa här: http://www.uu.se/om-uu/dataskydd-personuppgifter/ E-mailing Uppsala University means that we will process your personal data. For more information on how this is performed, please read here: http://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/data-protection-policy

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[CORPORA] Workshop: Large Language Models for the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science (2-4 April 2025, TU Berlin)
by Arno Simons 09 Oct '24

09 Oct '24

Large Language Models for the History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science (Workshop)* April 2-4, 2025, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany Organized jointly by: Gerd Graßhoff (HU Berlin), Arno Simons (TU Berlin), Adrian Wüthrich (TU Berlin), and Michael Zichert (TU Berlin) Summary We invite contributions to our workshop on using large language models (LLMs) in the history, philosophy, and sociology of science (HPSS). The workshop will focus on exploring use cases and proposals for how, and to what extent, LLMs might help overcome long-standing challenges in studies of how science works. The event will take place from April 2–4, 2025, at Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. Attendance (online and on site) will be free and open to the public but registration will be required. To contribute a talk, please submit abstracts of 300–600 words by December 31, 2024, to arno.simons(a)tu-berlin.de. Workshop topics Computational approaches to the history of science are in the process of establishing themselves among the standard repertoire of tools in the field and we have seen remarkable successes in their application already. Subfields of sociology of science have focused, since long, on quantitative methods such as bibliometrics and scientometrics. More recently, philosophy of science has experienced a shift towards allowing more empirical approaches including large-scale algorithmic analyses of scientific or methodological concepts. Computational tools can not only help reduce the workload in traditional research in these fields but, more importantly, also open up new avenues which to explore would otherwise be hopeless. Analyses of co-occurrences and word frequencies as well as more advanced techniques such as topic modeling have helped go beyond identifying only structural features of scientific activities and began scratching the surface of semantics. However, a deeper understanding of scientific concepts, the structure of scientific arguments, and the process of knowledge transformation and spread have remained formidable challenges for computational approaches in the mentioned fields. With the advent of LLMs this might change now. Natural language processing and machine learning have made a spectacular leap forward in their attempt to capture and analyze meaning and grammatical structures of texts. This promises that LLMs can help HPSS researchers meet the aforementioned challenges. However—besides general issues such as opacity, bias and interpretability—the use of LLMs for HPSS is likely to face unique obstacles arising from the specialized nature of scientific language as well as the specific perspectives and objectives of HPSS. It will be the main goal of this workshop to see how, given these obstacles, the most recent advances in LLM development can help overcome long-standing challenges in HPSS. Accordingly, the workshop will address two key themes, with the goal of synthesizing them over the course of the event. On one hand, contributions should articulate the specific needs and desiderata of HPSS researchers—what they hope LLMs can achieve for their work. On the other hand, the current state of LLM development should be critically examined to determine to what extent these research goals are becoming attainable. Ideally, contributions will address both these objectives, though submissions focused on only one of them are also welcome. We particularly encourage contributions that focus on: Use cases that demonstrate how LLMs can help resolve current issues in HPSS Examples of how LLMs allow researchers to ask and answer new types of questions in HPSS How new types of sources and data, made analyzable through LLMs, contribute to novel insights in HPSS research We look for contributions that help resolve questions like these: How can LLMs help gain new perspectives on long-standing problems in HPSS such as determining the relevant contexts of knowledge claims, the dynamics of scientific controversies, problems of incommensurability, and generalizability of case studies? How can LLMs handle the specialized language of scientific texts, including technical jargon, citations, and mathematical formulas? How can LLMs bridge the gap between qualitative and computational methods and help overcome their limitations? How can LLMs be integrated into existing theoretical and methodological frameworks in HPSS, or how should these frameworks evolve to accommodate LLM-based analysis? How can we evaluate the validity of results generated by LLMs, given their opacity? How can LLMs account for the temporal development of scientific language and knowledge over time? Format and practical information The workshop will take place from April 2-4, 2025 at Technische Universität Berlin. The program will consist of an invited keynote and contributed short talks (15+10 min) as well as additional sessions for discussions. Attendance (online and on site) will be free and open to the public but registration will be required. Information on this will follow closer to the date. To contribute a talk, please send an abstract of your planned contribution of 300-600 words by e-mail to arno.simons(a)tu-berlin.de by December 31, 2024. We encourage every contributor to present on site and to participate in the whole workshop program. In exceptional cases, we will offer the possibility to present remotely. Participation of underrepresented groups is particularly welcome, and we may be able to offer financial support to cover travel costs for contributing authors in exceptional cases. Please indicate in your submission if you would like to apply for financial support. We plan to publish the slides, videos, and abstracts on a suitable platform. We also plan to write a report on the workshop and on the perspectives resulting from it. Stable workshop URL: https://www.tu.berlin/hps-mod-sci/workshop-llms-for-hpss * The workshop is funded by the European Union through the project “Network Epistemology in Practice (NEPI)” (ERC Consolidator Grant, Project No. 101044932). Views and opinions expressed are however those of the organizers only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Council. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them. -- Arno Simons Technische Universität Berlin Institut für Philosophie, Literatur-, Wissenschafts- und Technikgeschichte https://www.tu.berlin/hps-mod-sci/arno-simons

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University of Cyprus -- Department of Computer Science: Reseaerch Vacancies
by Announce 09 Oct '24

09 Oct '24

University of Cyprus -- Department of Computer Science Postdoctoral Research Associates in Multi Robotic Systems Application Deadline: October 18, 2024 No. of Positions: Four (4) The University of Cyprus announces four (4) Postdoctoral Research Associate positions, focusing on Multi-robotic Systems (MRS), for full-time employment. The successful candidates are expected to conduct top-quality research on collaborative drone operations (including cooperative aerial robotic flight planning, task execution and reasoning, as well as cooperative distributed control) with applications in urban air mobility and disaster management. Job Details  The successful candidates are expected to: •Conduct research in the area of Multi-Robot Systems (MRS), within the context of research and/or innovation projects. •Use machine learning techniques including reinforcement learning, physics-informed neural networks (PINNs), and transformer models for MRS tasks and scenarios that are adaptable and reusable to exploit acquired knowledge and tools. •Develop next-generation autonomous systems for effective, safe, and secure operation during MRS missions, enhancing overall operational performance. •Execute simulation-based scenarios using ROS-Gazebo for dataset generation, training, testing, and evaluation of novel algorithms. •Implement and field-test state-of-the-art drone fleets using both open-source (Ardupilot/PX4) and proprietary (DJI) flight controller platforms. •Provide technical expertise for the development and implementation of multi-robotic systems. •Collaborate with external partners, including industry and first responder organizations, to evaluate newly developed technologies in these areas. •Engage in the preparation of research and/or innovation proposals. •Prepare reports and EU-funded project deliverables. Application  Interested candidates can submit their applications online through the following link: https://applications.ucy.ac.cy/recruitment •Cover letter explaining the interest of the applicant in pursuing a career at the KIOS CoE, along with employment availability date •Short summary of prior work experiences, activities and accomplishments (can be combined with the cover letter) (2 pages maximum) •A detailed curriculum vitae in English •Copies of transcripts of BSc/MSc/PhD or other degree(s) •Copy of an English language certificate •Identify at least two referees that can provide reference letters

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2nd call for project proposals, BLAH9 (deadline extended)
by Jin-Dong Kim 09 Oct '24

09 Oct '24

Apologies for multiple posting — The 9th Biomedical Linked Annotation Hackathon (BLAH9) 13 - 17 January, 2025 Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan https://blah9.linkedannotation.org/ Submission due of project proposals : 25 Oct., 2024 (Extended) SPECIAL THEME *Ensuring Robustness in LLM-based Research: Reproducibility, Interoperability, and Reliable Evaluation.* CALL FOR PROJECT PROPOSALS We are seeking project proposals from individuals and teams interested in advancing biomedical literature annotation and mining, with a particular focus this year on enhancing reproducibility, interoperability, and reliable evaluation in the context of using large language models (LLMs). Proposals should be structured to achieve measurable outcomes through collaboration during the hackathon, with clearly defined objectives that can lead to meaningful insights by the end of the event. Suggested proposal topics may include, but are not limited to: - Enhancing interoperability in LLM-based annotation and mining - Developing reliable evaluation frameworks for LLM-based annotation and mining - Improving reproducibility in LLM-based annotation and mining - ... Submission due of project proposals is 25 Oct., 2024 (Extended) TRAVEL SUPPORT Those who submit project proposals are eligible to apply for travel support. See the homepage for detailed information. PROGRAM COMMITTEE - Jin-Dong Kim - DBCLS, ROIS-DS - Fabio Rinaldi - IDSIA - Zhiyong Lu - NCBI, NLM - Lars Juhl Jensen - Univ. Copenhagen

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First Call for Shared Task Proposals for RANLP 2025
by Ranasinghe, Tharindu 08 Oct '24

08 Oct '24

We invite proposals for tasks to be run as part of RANLP 2025 (Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing): https://ranlp.org/ranlp2025/.<https://ranlp.org/ranlp2025/> RANLP is one of the most influential and competitive NLP conferences. RANLP 2025 will take place in September 2025 at the Black Sea city of Varna. For the first time in RANLP history, we are organising a shared task campaign as part of the main conference and inviting task organisers to submit their task proposals. Researchers and practitioners from all areas of Natural Language Processing and related communities are invited to submit task proposals. For RANLP 2025, we welcome any task that can evaluate an automatic system for natural language processing. We especially encourage tasks for languages other than English, multi-lingual tasks, and tasks that develop novel applications of natural language processing. We strongly encourage proposals based on already published datasets, as this can provide concrete examples and help minimise the challenges of organising the shared task. In the event of receiving many proposals, preference will be given to proposals based on already published datasets. If you are unsure whether a task is suitable, please contact the shared task chairs to discuss your idea. Task Selection Task proposals will be reviewed by at least two reviewers, and the reviews will serve as the basis for acceptance decisions. Task proposals will be evaluated on: * Novelty - Is the task based on a new problem that has not been explored much in the community? If similar tasks have been organised before, does this task cover new languages/ domains? * Data – Is the data available and published already? Do annotations have meaningfully high inter-annotator agreements? Have all appropriate licenses for the use and re-use of the data been secured? * Evaluation—Is the evaluation methodology sound? Is there an automated platform for the evaluation (e.g., CodaLab, Kaggle)? Task Organisation We specifically welcome task proposals from early career researchers. However, we strongly encourage tasks that have a diverse team of organisers as that will ease the task organisation. Apart from providing a dataset, task organisers are expected to: 1. Verify data quality in terms of annotator agreement. 2. Verify licenses for the data to allow its use in the competition. 3. Provide task participants with baseline systems. 4. Create a CodaLab or other similar evaluation platform for the task and manage automatic evaluation. 5. Promote the task within the target research community. 6. Manage and organise review process of participants’ submissions of system description papers. 7. Write a task description paper to be included in RANLP proceedings. 8. Contribute to the tasks overview paper written by shared task chairs and other task organisers which will also be included in RANLP proceedings. 9. Register and present the shared task description paper at RANLP 2025 on either 11th or 12th September 2025 (the exact date will be confirmed later) Important Dates * Task proposals due - October 28, 2024 * Task selection notification – November 4, 2024 Recommended Timeline for the Tasks * Sample data and task website ready - November 15, 2024 * Training data ready - December 15, 2024 * Evaluation data ready - March 1, 2025 * Evaluation starts – March 10, 2025 * Evaluation end - March 31, 2025 (latest date; task organisers may choose an earlier date) * Paper submission due – April 20, 2025 * Notification to authors – May 16, 2025 * Task overview paper due – May 25, 2025 * Camera-ready due - May 31, 2025 * Shared task presentation co-located with RANLP 2025 – September 11 and September 12, 2025 Tasks that do not meet critical deadlines such as those for launching the task, setting up the CodaLab website, and uploading samples, training, and evaluation data may be cancelled at the discretion of the shared task chairs. Submission Details The task proposal should be a self-contained document of no longer than 2 pages (plus additional pages for references). All submissions must be in PDF format, following the RANLP 2023 template available at https://ranlp.org/ranlp2023/index.php/submissions/ Each proposal should contain the following: * Overview * Summary of the task – What is the goal of the task * Expected number of participants and justification * Data & Resources * How the training/testing data will be produced. Discuss whether the dataset is already published * Details of license, so that the data can be used by the research community * How much data will be produced * How data quality will be ensured and evaluated * An example of what the data would look like * Evaluation * The evaluation methodology to be used, including clear evaluation criteria - * The evaluation platform (i.e. CodaLab, Kaggle etc.) * Task organisers * Names, affiliations, email addresses * brief description of relevant experience or expertise The submissions should be done via START - https://softconf.com/ranlp25/papers/user/scmd.cgi?scmd=submitPaperCustom&pa… Proceedings Tasks overview paper, task description papers and participant papers will be published as part of RANLP 2025 proceedings in ACLAnthology. Task organisers and participants are expected to attend RANLP 2025 on September 11 and September 12, 2025, and present their work in order to include it in the proceedings. Shared Task Chairs Dr Tharindu Ranasinghe, Lancaster University, UK Dr Saad Ezzini, Lancaster University, UK RANLP 2024 Chairs Programme Committee Chair: Prof Dr Ruslan Mitkov, Lancaster University, UK Organising Committee Chair: Prof Dr Galia Angelova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria Best Regards Dr Tharindu Ranasinghe School of Computing and Communications | Lancaster University

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Free Open Advanced methods in corpus linguistics research group [online]
by Brezina, Vaclav 08 Oct '24

08 Oct '24

Open Advanced methods in corpus linguistics research group. The ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science, Lancaster University offers an online fortnightly research group for current and prospective students, early career as well as senior researchers led by Prof. Vaclav Brezina. The focus this term is on the #LancsBox tool<https://lancsbox.lancs.ac.uk/> and statistical analyses. For the first time, we are making the research group open to students and researchers outside of Lancaster University (prospective MA/PhD students, researchers and educators) via MS Teams links. Register for free: https://forms.office.com/e/YT5md2fjka 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@01DB1993.CE61E290]@vaclavbrezina [cid:image002.jpg@01DB1993.CE61E290]<http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/arts-and-social-sciences/about-us/people/vaclav-…>

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[Andaluz.IA 2024] CFP II Andaluz.IA Forum
by Salud María Jiménez Zafra 08 Oct '24

08 Oct '24

==================================================================== CFP II Andaluz.IA Forum December 20, 2024, Antigua Escuela de Magisterio (Universidad de Jaén) ==================================================================== From ten Andalusian universities and the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission we are organizing the II Andaluz.IA Forum <https://sites.google.com/view/andaluzia/home>, a meeting whose main objective is to show the potential and give visibility to the academic and research community in Artificial Intelligence in our region. This forum seeks to highlight the work of Andalusian scientists, both those who are currently working in Andalusia, as well as those who have spent part of their training or career in the region, regardless of their current place of work. The first edition of the Andaluz.IA forum <https://sites.google.com/view/andaluzia2023/> was organized at Universidad Pablo Olavide in Seville and this year it will take place at Universidad de Jaén. With this second edition, we want to continue highlighting the great potential for research and academic development in Artificial Intelligence that Andalusia has, in areas such as machine learning, deep learning, robotics and natural language processing. The event will be held in person on December 20, 2024 at the Antigua Escuela de Magisterio (Universidad de Jaén). Interested researchers can participate by presenting their results in oral or poster format, provided that they have been accepted in relevant conferences or journals in the area. In addition, professionals and companies wishing to participate may do so through sponsorship or direct participation by registering on the event's website. For more information on registration, submission of papers and forms of sponsorship, please consult the following link: https://sites.google.com/view/andaluzia/call-for-papers <https://sites.google.com/view/andaluzia/call-for-papers>. IMPORTANT DATES ● Deadline for submission of papers: October 15, 2024. ● Notification of acceptance: November 4, 2024 ● Deadline for registration at a reduced rate: November 15, 2024 CONTACT INFORMATION maite(a)ujaen.es sjzafra(a)ujaen.es ORGANIZING COMMITTEE https://sites.google.com/view/andaluzia/organisers [image: Universidad de Jaén] <http://www.uja.es/> *Salud María Jiménez Zafra* sjzafra(a)ujaen.es Universidad de Jaén Grupo de Investigación SINAI <http://sinai.ujaen.es/> | Departamento de Informática EPS Jaén, Edificio A3, Despacho 326 Campus Las Lagunillas s/n 23071 - Jaén | +34 953212992 [image: Universidad de Jaén] <http://www.uja.es/>

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New Paper Submission Deadline: October 14, 2024
by Itziar Gonzalez Dios 08 Oct '24

08 Oct '24

[ Apologies for crossposting ] *Global WordNet Conference 2025 - GWC2025* The Global Wordnet Association is delighted to announce the *13th International Global Wordnet Conference* (GWC2025), to be held in *Pavia (Italy) from 27 to 31 January, 2025*. The GWC2025 conference will be hosted by the Department of Humanities, at the University of Pavia. 📍*Dates*: 27-Jan-2025 - 31-Jan-2025 *Location*: Pavia, Italy *Meeting Email*: gwc2025pavia(a)unipv.it *Web Site*: https://unipv-larl.github.io/GWC2025/ 🗓️ *New Paper Submission Deadline: October 14, 2024* We invite submissions of original research contributions addressing, though not limited to, the topics listed below. *Presentations of new WordNets *will be assigned to a dedicated panel. Additionally, proposals for tutorials and demonstrations or panel discussions on *WordNet for ancient languages* are encouraged. Conference topics: - Lexical semantics and meaning representation; - Architecture of lexical databases; - Tools and methods for WordNet development; - Applications of WordNet; - Standardization, distribution and availability of WordNet and WordNet tools See the full call for papers here: https://easychair.org/cfp/gwc2025

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UMR Summer School in Boston 2025 - First Call
by kristine.stenzel＠colorado.edu 07 Oct '24

07 Oct '24

UMRs in Boston Summer School – 1st Call for Applications June 9-13, 2025 Brandeis University, Massachusetts, USA We invite applications for a five-day summer school on Uniform Meaning Representations (UMR). Impressive progress has been made in many aspects of natural language processing (NLP) in recent years. Most notably, the achievements of transformer-based large language models such as ChatGPT would seem to obviate the need for any type of semantic representation beyond what can be encoded as contextualized word embeddings of surface text. Advances have been particularly notable in areas where large training data sets exist, and it is advantageous to build an end-to-end training architecture without resorting to intermediate representations. For any truly interactive NLP applications, however, a more complete understanding of the information conveyed by each sentence is needed to advance the state of the art. Here, "understanding'' entails the use of some form of meaning representation. NLP techniques that can accurately capture the required elements of the meaning of each utterance in a formal representation are critical to making progress in these areas and have long been a central goal of the field. As with end-to-end NLP applications, the dominant approach for deriving meaning representations from raw textual data is through the use of machine learning and appropriate training data. This allows the development of systems that can assign appropriate meaning representations to previously unseen text. In this five-day course, instructors from the University of Colorado and Brandeis University will describe the framework of Uniform Meaning Representations (UMRs), a recent cross-lingual, multi-sentence incarnation of Abstract Meaning Representations (AMRs), that addresses these issues and comprises such a transformative representation. Incorporating Named Entity tagging, discourse relations, intra-sentential coreference, negation and modality, and the popular PropBank-style predicate argument structures with semantic role labels into a single directed acyclic graph structure, UMR builds on AMR and keeps the essential characteristics of AMR while making it cross-lingual and extending it to be a document-level representation. It also adds aspect, multi-sentence coreference and temporal relations, and scope. Each day will include lectures and hands-on practice. Topics to be covered may include the following, among others: 1. The basic structural representation of UMR and its application to multiple languages; 2. How UMR encodes different types of MWE (multi-word expressions), discourse and temporal relations, and TAM (tense-aspect-modality) information in multiple languages, and differences between AMR and UMR; 3. Going from IGT (interlinear glossed text) to UMR graphs semi-automatically; 4. Formal semantic interpretation of UMR incorporating a continuation-based semantics for scope phenomena involving modality, negation, and quantification; 5. Extension to UMR for encoding gesture in multimodal dialogue, Gesture AMR (GAMR), which aligns with speech-based UMR to account for situated grounding in dialogue. 6. UMR parsing and applications To apply, please complete this form by Nov. 15, 2024. https://www.colorado.edu/linguistics/umrs-boston-summer-school-application Other important dates: ● Notification of acceptance: Dec. 15, 2024 ● Confirmation of participation: Jan. 31, 2025 Participation will be fully funded (reasonable airfare, lodging, and meals). This summer school has been made possible by funding from NSF Collaborative Research: Building a Broad Infrastructure for Uniform Meaning Representations (Award # 2213805), with additional support from Brandeis University.

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Tenure-Track Hiring in Human-Centered & Responsible AI @ UT Austin
by Matt Lease 07 Oct '24

07 Oct '24

The School of Information (iSchool) at The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) seeks to hire up to two tenure-track faculty in Building Human-Centered, Ethical, and Responsible AI Systems <https://apply.interfolio.com/156609>, with positions starting in Fall 2025. Application review and scheduling of initial zoom interviews will begin on November 1, 2024. The last day to apply is December 1, 2024. Questions about this faculty search should be directed to facultysearch(a)ischool.utexas.edu. Please see the job link above for full details, but below is an extract from it regarding the topic of the search. *Building AI Systems* We seek candidates who investigate human-centered artificial intelligence (AI) systems through designing, building, and technically evaluating such systems. Our call is intended to be broadly inclusive of the range of AI subdisciplines and areas such as (but not limited to): machine learning (ML), natural language processing (NLP), computer vision (CV), and generative AI and large language models (LLMs), etc. Candidates should develop AI systems in their research that advance support for human work or activities, e.g., by augmenting and amplifying the capabilities of individuals or groups of people. *Research directions in this area may include (but are not limited to)*: - Innovative methods and applications that integrate AI with human computation - Complementary human-AI teaming and supportive workflow design - Human-in-the-loop decision-making and decision-support - AI-assisted data annotation - Accelerating and improving human-centered AI evaluation protocols - Imagining other novel forms of human-AI partnerships *Potential outcomes of such research may include (but are not limited to)*: - Advancing fundamental understanding of the nature and range of human-AI partnerships, as well as how best to design, build, and evaluate them - Investigating potential productivity benefits, such as the speed, scale, quality, and/or economics of human labor with vs. without AI-augmentation - Advancing ethical and responsible design for system users, AI supply-chain workers, and/or society at-large around issues such as: trustworthiness and reliability; transparency and interpretability; fairness and social justice (for both AI users and workers); and accountability and algorithmic recourse - Protecting private and sensitive data; the information environment and information integrity; human safety, health, and wellbeing; and the environment, via sustainable, green computing We look forward to your application! -- *MATT LEASE (he/him) * Professor | School of Information Co-Director | NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins <https://oden.utexas.edu/news-and-events/news/New-CosmicAI-Institute-led-by-…> Leadership Team | UT Good Systems <http://goodsystems.utexas.edu/> (Responsible AI Initiative) Principal Investigator | Protecting Information Integrity <https://goodsystems.utexas.edu/information-integrity> *The University of Texas at Austin* p 512.471.9350 <%28512%29%20471-9350> | f 512.471.3971 | office: UTA <https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/campus/buildings/nlogon/maps/UTM/UTA/> 5.536 mattlease.com | X @mattlease <https://x.com/mattlease>

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Call for Papers: Corpus Linguistics 2025
by Robbie Love 07 Oct '24

07 Oct '24

Dear colleagues We are pleased to announce that the International Corpus Linguistics Conference 2025 (CL2025) - co-organised by Aston University, Birmingham City University, and the University of Birmingham - will take place from Tuesday 1st - Friday 4th July 2025 at Aston University<https://www.aston.ac.uk/>, preceded by a workshop day on Monday 30th June. The call for papers is now live on the CL2025 conference website: https://www.cl2025.co.uk/call-for-papers CL2025 welcomes submissions for paper presentations, poster presentations, thematic panels, and pre-conference workshops that engage in some way with the tools, methods, and techniques of corpus linguistics. KEY DATES * Submission deadline: 17th January 2025 * Notification of acceptance: 28th February 2025 * Early bird registration deadline: 2nd May 2025 * Conference dates: 1st - 4th July 2025 PLENARY SPEAKERS * Laurence Anthony (Waseda University, Japan) * Gavin Brookes (Lancaster University, UK) * Elizabeth Hanks (Northern Arizona University, USA) * Pascual Pérez-Paredes (University of Murcia, Spain) * Anna Marchi (University of Bologna, Italy) & Charlotte Taylor (University of Sussex, UK) For further information, please visit the conference website at www.cl2025.co.uk<http://www.cl2025.co.uk> or write to the CL2025 organising committee at corpuslinguistics2025(a)gmail.com<mailto:corpuslinguistics2025@gmail.com>. Best wishes Robbie Love On behalf of the CL2025 Organising Committee: Matt Gee (Birmingham City University), Andrew Kehoe (Birmingham City University), Joyce Lim (Aston University), Robbie Love (Aston University), Mark McGlashan (University of Liverpool), Akira Murakami (University of Birmingham), Paul Thompson (University of Birmingham) Dr Robbie Love (he/him) BA (Hons), ma, phd, cdls, fhea Senior Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics Programme Development Lead Department of English, Languages and Applied Linguistics School of Law and Social Sciences Aston University, Birmingham, UK [Aston University] Newsletter Editor, British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL)<https://www.baal.org.uk/> Communications Officer, BAAL Corpus Linguistics Special Interest Group<https://baal-clsig.weebly.com/> Organising Committee, Corpus Linguistics Conference 2025<https://www.cl2025.co.uk/> Research profile: research.aston.ac.uk/en/persons/robbie-love<https://research.aston.ac.uk/en/persons/robbie-love> Website: robbielove.org/<https://robbielove.org/>

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Job offer: Position as Administrative Employee - Application deadline: 15.10.2024
by Giuseppe Abrami 07 Oct '24

07 Oct '24

***Apologies for cross-postings*** 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, *one permanent position* for a *Administrative Employee (m/f/d) (E 8 TV-G-U, 50% part-time)* is available *at the next possible date*. 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). The duties of this secretarial position include in particular the organization and support of the professorship and its staff in all administrative tasks. These result from their teaching, research and self-administration activities. This includes in particular: * Communication between students, the professorship and the administration, scheduling and room management, support for (teaching) events, processing and control of order and payment transactions as well as administration of personal, material and financial data. * Planning and administration of budget and third-party funds for the professorship. * Administrative organization and support of events (e.g. guest lectures, colloquiums, conferences) and business trips. * Communication with external partners from research and industry. * Maintenance of the professorships’ websites and completion of entries in the Goethe University LSF system. Requirements * Completed training in the administrative or commercial field, or comparable knowledge. * Ability to work in a team, to work independently, and interest in new tasks. * Very good communication skills, flexible and reliable customer- and service-oriented work, competent work organization, engaging and confident appearance. * Very good knowledge of Word / Excel / Power Point. * Good written and spoken English skills. If you are interested, please send your application *by 15.10.2024* with the usual documents in a PDF to Prof. Dr. Alexander Mehler: mehler(a)em.uni-frankfurt.de. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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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Two open positions for: Data science and AI expert on NLP at Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
by Martin Krallinger 07 Oct '24

07 Oct '24

We have two open positions (start ASAP) here at my group at BSC: Data science and AI expert on NLP - Position 1: https://www.bsc.es/join-us/job-opportunities/67024lsnlpre2 <https://lnkd.in/dtBKEN9P> - Position 2: https://www.bsc.es/join-us/job-opportunities/66924lsnlpre2 <https://lnkd.in/dYBDVTqP> *Context And Mission:* The Natural Language Processing for Biomedical Information Analysis (NLP4BIA) group at BSC is an internationally renowned research group working on the development of NLP, language technology, and text mining solutions applied primarily to biomedical and clinical data. It is a highly interdisciplinary team, funded through competitive European and National projects requiring the implementation of natural language processing and advanced AI solutions making use of diverse technologies, including Transformers and recent advances in Large Language Models (LLM) to improve healthcare data analysis. The NLP4BIA-BSC is looking for a Research Engineer with experience in Language Technologies and Deep Learning. The candidate will be involved in technical work related to international projects, being part of a team of researchers working on topics related to clinical Language Models, multilingual NLP, benchmarking of language technology solutions and predictive content mining. The candidate will have the opportunity to advance the state of the art of biomedical language models and NLP methods working in a multidisciplinary environment alongside AI experts, computational linguists, clinical experts, and other engineers. *DUTIES*: - Predictive NLP model development: Development of advance content mining predictive solutions including clinical NLP, automatic text classification - Pre-training of medical language models for healthcare application scenarios and tasks. - Technical project coordination: Coordinate technical contributions inside the team and with clinical hospital site project collaborators. - Implementation and deployment of clinical NLP solutions: Collaborate in the implementation and technical deployment of NLP platform prototypes at clinical sites. - Documentation and Reporting: Contribute to technical reports and project documentation *REQUIREMENTS* *Education*: University degree in Computer Science, Computational Linguistic, or engineering discipline. Candidates with a minimum of a master's degree will be considered. *Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience:* - Demonstrated experience in Natural Language Processing technologies - Experience in developing and training models using transformer architectures. - Practical experience with deep learning libraries (e.g. Pytorch, TensorFlow, Spacy, Transformers…) - Knowledge of deep learning methods for pre-training large language models using transformer architectures (like BERT, RoBERTA, DeBERTA, GPT, Bloom) as well as learning to implement LLMs. - Advanced programming skills in Python. - Experience in software development resources (Git) ======================================= Martin Krallinger, Dr. Head of NLP for Biomedical Information Analysis Unit Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS) https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-krallinger-85495920/ =======================================

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CFP NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025 workshop on Automatic Assessment of Atypical Speech
by Kurimo Mikko 06 Oct '24

06 Oct '24

Dear all, We’re happy to invite you to participate and submit papers to our new workshop “Automatic Assessment of Atypical Speech (AAAS)” that has been accepted to a full day workshop in March 5, 2025 in Tallinn within the NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT conference. The papers can be short (4p + ref) or long (8p + ref) as in the main conference. Submission DL 16 Dec, 2024. Please also consider volunteering to review 2-3 papers. For details visit the workshop page: https://teflon.aalto.fi/aaas-2025/ and the main conference page: https://www.nodalida-bhlt2025.eu/ Best regards, Mikko Kurimo (chair) and the organizing committee

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CFP - VarDial 2025 and NorSID shared task
by Yves Scherrer 04 Oct '24

04 Oct '24

Co-located with COLING 2025, VarDial deals with computational methods and language resources for closely related languages, language varieties, and dialects. VarDial will be held on Sunday, January 19th, 2025. https://sites.google.com/view/vardial-2025/home 1. Call for Shared Task Participation As part of VarDial 2025, we are organizing a shared task on dialect identification and slot and intent detection for Norwegian varieties (NorSID). For further information and instructions for participants, please visit the shared task page: https://sites.google.com/view/vardial-2025/shared-tasks Important dates: - Training and development set release: October 7, 2024 - Test set release: November 4, 2024 - Submissions due: November 15, 2024 - Paper submission deadline: November 25, 2024 - Notification of acceptance: December 5, 2024 - Camera-ready papers due: December 13, 2024 2. Call for Workshop Papers We welcome papers dealing with one or more of the following topics: - Corpora, resources, and tools for similar languages, varieties and dialects; - Adaptation of tools (taggers, parsers) for similar languages, varieties and dialects; - Evaluation of language resources and tools when applied to language varieties; - Reusability of language resources in NLP applications (e.g., for machine translation, POS tagging, syntactic parsing, etc.); - Corpus-driven studies in dialectology and language variation; - Computational approaches to mutual intelligibility between dialects and similar languages; - Automatic identification of lexical variation; - Automatic classification of language varieties; - Text similarity and adaptation between language varieties; - Linguistic issues in the adaptation of language resources and tools (e.g., semantic discrepancies, lexical gaps, false friends); - Machine translation between closely related languages, language varieties and dialects. In addition to the topics listed above, we also welcome papers dealing with diachronic language variation (e.g. phylogenetic methods, historical dialects). Important dates: - Paper submission deadline: Tuesday, November 5th, 2024 - Notification of acceptance: Monday, November 25th, 2024 - Commitment deadline for pre-reviewed papers: TBD - Camera-ready papers due: Friday, December 13th, 2024 Detailed submission guidelines available on the COLING 2025 website. All submissions must use the official COLING templates. Contributions must be submitted to Softconf: https://softconf.com/coling2025/VarDial25/ Further information about submission is available on the workshop site: https://sites.google.com/view/vardial-2025/call-for-papers Organizers Yves Scherrer - University of Oslo (Norway) Tommi Jauhiainen - University of Helsinki (Finland) Nikola Ljubešić - Jožef Stefan Institute (Slovenia) and University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) Preslav Nakov - Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (UAE) Jörg Tiedemann - University of Helsinki (Finland) Marcos Zampieri - George Mason University (USA)

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PhD job offer: Language technology for cultural heritage (1.0 FTE; deadline 14 October)
by a.w.van.cranenburgh＠rug.nl 04 Oct '24

04 Oct '24

The Computational Linguistics group (GroNLP) of the Center for Language and Cognition Groningen (CLCG) is looking for a PhD student in “Language technology for cultural heritage: New discoveries with little data” within the HAICu research project. The HAICu project is a large-scale Dutch research project by universities and cultural-heritage institutions into new forms of Artificial Intelligence-based access to multimodal Cultural-Heritage data, both contemporary and historical. Within HAICu, AI researchers, Digital Humanities researchers and a wide range of public and private partners will co-develop scientific solutions to unlock the true societal potential of the current heterogeneous digital heritage collections. It will provide easier, richer and more reliable data access to citizens, journalists, civic organisations, and various other stakeholders. HAICu is funded by the NWO National Science Agenda (NWA) and has a budget of about EUR 10 million. HAICu has started in January 2024 and will last 6 years (until Jan 2030). For more information about HAICu, please see https://www.haicu.science/ The PhD Project This specific PhD position is about effectively dealing with missing and sparse labels in humanities datasets such as literature, history, philosophy. Cultural heritage institutions, and especially the National Library of the Netherlands, offer access to a lot of digitized data which can be leveraged through computational approaches. However, it is very common that the data is incomplete. This is a challenge for typical machine learning methods that rely on being fed with representative and complete data, leading to systems that cannot handle distribution shifts or extrapolating beyond their training set. Recent developments in artificial intelligence have shown that large language models are able to learn from small amounts of training data, or even none at all (few shot and zero shot learning). Paired with more and more accessible techniques for specializing existing models for target domains and tasks, a lot of new possibilities open up for cultural heritage data, which will be explored within this project. Examples of possible topics include - Investigating literary reception and prestige over time. - Detecting and mapping intertextuality within texts. - Uncovering the influences and biases over time in datasets. - Monitoring the evolution of concepts in textual datasets. - Improving the robustness of models to out-of-distribution data. The project will, in collaboration with the National Library of The Netherlands, be coordinated by Andreas van Cranenburgh, Tommaso Caselli, and Malvina Nissim at the University of Groningen. This is an interdisciplinary project at the intersection of Computational Linguistics/Natural Language Processing (NLP) and the humanities. You will be asked to - Develop a specific research proposal within the proposed theme. - Review the academic literature relevant to the project’s goals. - Carry out research, present your results and author scientific articles on the above mentioned topics. - Collaborate with members of the Computational Linguistics group at the University of Groningen, the National Library, and with the broader Haicu consortium. - Engage and collaborate with other researchers working on computational humanities research. - Complete a PhD thesis written in English in the specified timeframe (4 years). - Collaborate on outreach and public engagement activities. - Gain teaching experience. This PhD project offers a unique opportunity to work in an international environment and to acquire valuable research experience: You will be carrying out research in the context of the Computational Linguistics group of the Center for Language and Cognition (CLCG) of the University of Groningen, and will be spending at least one day a month at the National Library in The Hague. For more information, see https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-0…

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CFP - SemEval 2025 Task 8: Question Answering on Tabular Data
by Eugenio Martínez Camara 04 Oct '24

04 Oct '24

[apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call] CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - SemEval 2025 Task 8: Question Answering on Tabular Data We are pleased to announce the first SemEval task on Question Answering on Tabular Data. Our SemEval 2025 task consists of Question Answering over Tabular Data making use of the DataBench benchmark. DataBench is a benchmark composed of real-world table datasets from different domains and with large size of rows and columns, as well as a wide variety of data types that allow to assess distinct sort of questions related to each data type. We propose a task to encourage participants to develop a system that answers the questions of the kind present in DataBench over day-to-day datasets, where the answer is either a number, a categorical value, a boolean value or lists of several types. DataBench can be used as a training and validation set, while we will release another test set explicitly compiled for the task competition. The system developed by the participants will be provided by a series of (dataset, question) pairs and will need to provide an answer which would then be compared with a gold standard. The answer might be achieved through a variety of methods. In our paper we illustrate two different approaches: In-Context Learning and Code Generation. You may use any of these or come up with your own approach. There will be two subtasks: Subtask I : DataBench QA Participants will be provided with a dataset (of any size) and a question over it. The question should be answered using the data from the dataset only. Subtask II: DataBench Lite QA The task is essentially the same as the previous subtask, but involves using the sampled version of each dataset with a maximum of 20 rows per dataset (see explanation on DataBench Lite). The question should be answered using the data from the sampled dataset only. For the test set, we will similarly provide a reduced version of each dataset for this subtask. This task is especially relevant when testing for models with a smaller window size. Important Dates Official Competition start 10 January 2025 Competition end 31 January 2025 Task Organizers Jorge Osés Grijalba - Graphext L. Alfonso Ureña-López and Eugenio Martínez Cámara - University of Jaén Jose Camacho-Collados - Cardiff University Competition website: https://jorses.github.io/semeval/ Codabench: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/3360/ Google Group: https://groups.google.com/g/semeval-25-t8-tabularqa -- Suelo trabajar a deshoras por lo que este correo puede haberte llegado fuera de tu horario laboral, y al cual puedes responder en el momento que mejor se ajuste a tus hábitos de trabajo. | I sometimes work at irregular times and this email might arrive out of working hours so please be assured that I respect your working pattern and look forward to your response when it suits you. ------- Eugenio Martínez Cámara. Vicepresidente de la SEPLN <http://www.sepln.org/> | Vice President of the SEPLN <http://www.sepln.org/en>. Investigador en Proc. del Lenguaje Natural | Postdoctoral Researcher in Natural Language Proc. Grupo de Investigación SINAI <http://sinai.ujaen.es/> | SINAI <http://sinai.ujaen.es/> Research Group. Profesor Titular | Associate Professor. Dpto. de Informática | Computer Science Department. Universidad de Jaén.

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2nd Call for Papers: The First Workshop of Evaluation of Multi-Modal Generation
by mongyuansim＠gmail.com 04 Oct '24

04 Oct '24

Dear Colleagues, We are delighted to announce the second CfP for The First Workshop of Evaluation of Multi-Modal Generation @ COLING 2025. It is now open and closes on 20th November 2024 (11:59PM AoE UTC-12). Website link: https://evalmg.github.io/ The 1st Evaluation of Multi-Modal Generation Workshop @ COLING 2025 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Multimodal generation techniques have opened new avenues for creative content generation. However, evaluating the quality of multimodal generation remains underexplored and some key questions are unanswered, such as the contributions of each modal, the utility of pre-trained large language models for multimodal generation, and measuring faithfulness and fairness in multimodal outputs. This workshop aims to foster discussions and research efforts by bringing together researchers and practitioners in natural language processing, computer vision, and multimodal AI. Our goal is to establish evaluation methods for multimodal research and advance research efforts in this direction. Call for Papers ---------------------- Both long paper and short papers (up to 8 pages and 4 pages respectively with unlimited references and appendices) are welcomed for submission. A list of topics relevant to this workshop (but not limited to): - Evaluation metrics for multimodal text generation for assessing informativeness, factuality and faithfulness - New benchmark datasets, evaluation protocols and annotations - Challenges in evaluating multimodal coherence, relevance and contribution of modalities and inter- and intra-interactions - Assessing information integration and aggregation across multiple modalities - Adversarial evaluation approaches for testing the robustness and reliability of multimodal generation systems - Ethical considerations in the evaluation of multimodal text generation, including bias detection and mitigation strategies - Multilingual multimodal text generation systems for low-resource languages - Evaluating fairness and privacy in multimodal learning and applications Important Dates --------------------------- - Nov 20, 2024: Paper submission due date - Dec 05, 2024: Notification of acceptance - Dec 11, 2024: Camera-ready version due - Jan 20, 2025: Workshop Date Note: All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“Anywhere on Earth”) Submission Instructions ------------------------------------- You are invited to submit your papers in our START/SoftConf submission portal. All the submitted papers have to be anonymous for double-blind review. The content of the paper should not be longer than 8 pages for long papers and 4 pages for short papers, strictly following the COLING 2025 templates, with the mandatory limitation section not counting towards the page limit. Supplementary and appendices (either as separate files or appended after the main submission) are allowed. We encourage code link submissions for reproducibility. Submission Link: https://softconf.com/coling2025/EvalMG25 ACL style template: https://coling2025.org/calls/submission_guidlines/ Non-archival Option ------------------------------- To promote discussions within the community, our workshop includes non-archival track. Authors have the flexbility to submit their unpublished work or papers accepted to COLING main conference to our workshop. The organisers may offer the opportunity to give oral or poster presentation. Organisers ------------------------------- * Wei Emma Zhang, The University of Adelaide * Xiang Dai, CSIRO * Desmond Elliot, University of Copenhagen * Byron Fang, CSIRO * Haojie Zhuang, The University of Adelaide * Mong Yuan Sim, The University of Adelaide & CSIRO * Weitong Chen, The University of Adelaide Kind regards, COLING25 EvalMG Organisers

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ComputEL-8 workshop: regular + special sessions - final Call-for-Papers (DL postponed to Oct. 14)
by Antti Arppe 04 Oct '24

04 Oct '24

ComputEL-8: Eighth Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS for REGULAR SESSION (and SPECIAL SESSION) Submission deadline (POSTPONED): October 14, 2024 Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=computel8 REGULAR SESSION (For details about Special Session, scroll further below.) We encourage submissions that explore the interface and intersection of computational linguistics, documentary linguistics, and community-based efforts in language revitalization and reclamation. This includes submissions that: (i) propose or demonstrate new methods or technologies for tasks or applications focused on low-resource settings, and in particular, endangered languages (ii) examine the use of specific methods in the analysis of data from low-resource languages, or propose new methods for analysis of such data, oriented toward the goals of language reclamation and revitalization (iii) propose new models for the collection, management, and mobilization of language data in community settings, with attention to e.g. issues of data sovereignty and community protocols (iv) explore concrete steps for a more fruitful interaction among computer scientists, documentary linguists, and language communities IMPORTANT DATES 14-Oct-2024 Deadline for submission of papers or extended abstracts 22-Nov-2024 Notification of Acceptance 10-Jan-2025 Camera-ready papers due 4 & 5 March 2025 Workshop PRESENTATIONS Presentation of accepted papers will be in both oral sessions and a poster session. The decision on whether a presentation for a paper will be oral and/or poster will be made by the Organizing Committee on the advice of the Program Committee, taking into account the subject matter and how the content might be best conveyed. Oral and poster presentations will not be distinguished in the Proceedings. SUBMISSIONS In line with our goal of reaching multiple overlapping communities, we offer two modes of submission: extended abstract and full paper. The mode of submission does not influence the likelihood of acceptance. Either can be submitted to one of the workshop’s tracks: (a) language community perspective and (b) academic perspective. Submissions must be uploaded to EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=computel8) no later than October 14, 2024 11:59PM (UTC-12, “anywhere on earth”). Submissions may be considered for both the regular session and the special session. All submissions must be anonymous following ACL guidelines and will be peer-reviewed by the scientific Program Committee. A. Extended Abstract: Please submit anonymous abstracts of up to 1500 words, excluding references. Extended abstracts must be submitted as attached documents. B. Full Paper: Please submit anonymously either a) a long paper - max. 8 pages excluding references and appendices; or b) a short paper - max. 4 pages excluding references, according to the style and formatting guidelines provided in by ACL Style Files (download template files for LaTeX or Microsoft Word: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files). PROCEEDINGS The authors of selected accepted full papers (long or short) will be invited by the Organizing Committee to submit their papers for online publication via the open-access ACL Anthology. Final versions of long and short papers will be allotted one additional page (altogether 5 and 9 pages) excluding references. Proceedings papers should be revised and improved versions of the work that was submitted for, and which underwent, review. Any revisions should concern responses to reviewer comments or the addition of relevant details and clarifications, but not entirely new, unreviewed content. Camera-ready versions of the articles for publication will be due on January 10, 2025. Please see the ComputEL-8 website for further information: https://computel-workshop.org/computel-8/ SPECIAL THEME SESSION - BUILDING TOOLS TOGETHER In addition to the main session, ComputEL-8 invites self-identified submissions to a special themed session on “Building Tools Together”, oriented toward amplifying our shared understanding of how best to work together across disciplinary and cultural boundaries to build technological tools that support community language revitalization. We invite presentations that: (1) describe collaborations in the development of new tools and technologies; and/or (2) describe or identify technological or computational needs within community language reclamation contexts, and/or propose solutions. 1. For presentations that describe a collaboration among language communities, academic researchers, and (in some cases) industry or non-governmental organizations towards the development of new tools, resources, and technologies in, we encourage submissions which address questions such as: a. How did the idea for the tool or technology come about? b. How did the team members meet and come to work together? c. What has been the impact of this tool? How are you evaluating it? How has the project d. benefitted community efforts at language maintenance and revitalization? d. What are some challenges (logistical, technical, interdisciplinary, intercultural) that you encountered, and how did you address them? e. How have you balanced the needs and priorities of different team members through the lifespan of the project? f. What lessons have you learned that might benefit similar collaborations? 2. For presentations that identify technological or computational needs within community language reclamation contexts, and/or propose solutions, e we encourage submissions which address questions such as: a. What is the need that this tool would meet? Who will it serve? b. What is the blue-sky version of this tool? What is the minimum viable product version? c. What kinds of data, digital assets, or media content would be required to create the tool, and how would they be assembled? d. What challenges might the team face in the development process? e. How do you anticipate the collaborative process to best incorporate diverse areas of expertise from cultural and community-grounded knowledge to academic, technical, and production-oriented knowledge? Please submit anonymous extended abstracts of up to 1500 words, excluding references. Submissions representing community-led collaborations are strongly encouraged. Submissions must be uploaded to EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=computel8) no later than October 14, 2024 11:59PM (UTC-12, “anywhere on earth”). Submissions may be considered for both the regular session and the special session. Notification of acceptance to the Special Session will be sent out by November 22, 2024. All authors of papers in the Special Theme Session will be invited to contribute to a follow-up paper that synthesizes the findings of the Session. IMPORTANT DATES 14-Oct-2024 Deadline for submission of papers or extended abstracts 22-Nov-2024 Notification of Acceptance 10-Jan-2025 Camera-ready papers due 4 & 5 March 2025 Workshop Please see the ComputEL-8 website for further information: https://computel-workshop.org/special-theme-session-building-tools-together/ ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Godfred Agyapong (University of Florida) Antti Arppe (University of Alberta) Aditi Chaudhary (Google DeepMind) Jordan Lachler (University of Alberta) Sarah Moeller (University of Florida) Shruti Rijhwani (Google DeepMind) Daisy Rosenblum (University of British Columbia) Olivia Waring (University of Hawai'i Mānoa) CONTACT US WEB: https://computel-workshop.org/ComputEL-8/ EMAIL: computel.workshop(a)gmail.com -- ====================================================================== Antti Arppe - Ph.D (General Linguistics), M.Sc. (Engineering) Professor of Quantitative Linguistics Director, Alberta Language Technology Lab (ALTLab) Project Director, 21st Century Tools for Indigenous Languages (21C) Past President, ACL SIG for Endangered Languages (SIGEL) Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta E-mail: arppe(a)ualberta.ca, antti.arppe(a)iki.fi WWW: www.ualberta.ca/~arppe, altlab.artsrn.ualberta.ca Mānahtu ina rēdûti ihza ummânūti ihannaq - dulum ugulak úmun ingul ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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HPLT Datasets version 2.0 released
by Andrey Kutuzov 03 Oct '24

03 Oct '24

(Apologies for cross-posting) Version 2.0 of the HPLT Datasets is now published, with web-derived corpora in 193 languages. These collections are available under the Creative Commons CC0 license and bring significant improvements compared to previous releases (version 1.2). Similarly to 1.2, the release comes in two variants: de-duplicated (21 TB in size) and cleaned (15 TB in size). The cleaned variant contains the same documents as de-duplicated minus those filtered out by our cleaning heuristics. The cleaned variant is the recommended one, unless you want to try your own cleaning pipelines. Download the corpora here: https://hplt-project.org/datasets/v2.0 Similar to the previous releases, version 2.0 datasets are hosted by Sigma2 NIRD Data Lake (https://www.sigma2.no/service/nird-data-lake), and text extraction pipeline was run on LUMI supercomputer (https://lumi-supercomputer.eu/). *What's new* - The size of the source web collections has increased 2.5x: 4.5 petabytes of compressed web data in total, mostly from Internet Archive (https://archive.org/), but also from Common Crawl (https://commoncrawl.org/). - The text extraction pipeline now uses Trafilatura (https://trafilatura.readthedocs.io/), which results in more efficient boilerplate removal: thus, less noise in the data. - Language identification now uses a refined version of OpenLID (https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-short.75/). - This, in turn, allowed us to publish data in 193 languages, compared to 75 languages in version 1.2. - We switched from two-letter ISO 639-1 language codes to three-letter ISO 639-3 language codes, augmented with a postfix denoting writing system. For example, `pol_Latn` is Polish written in Latin script. Mapping from the old to the new codes is available at https://github.com/hplt-project/warc2text-runner/blob/main/stats/_langs/lan…. - The documents are now annotated with their compliance to the robots.txt file of the original website. This metadata field can be used to filter out documents explicitly forbidden for crawling by website owners, making the resulting corpora somewhat less prone to copyright violations . The cleaned variant contains only robots.txt compliant documents. More details at https://github.com/hplt-project/monotextor-slurm/blob/main/README.md#robots… - De duplication is done at collection-level, not at dataset level. - Documents have also been annotated for PII information with multilingual-pii-tool (https://github.com/mmanteli/multilingual-PII-tool). These are identified in the form of Unicode character offsets for every match. - Segment-level language-model-based scores have been replaced by document quality scores computed with web-docs-scorer. - Filtering and cleaning criteria have been simplified (https://github.com/hplt-project/monotextor-slurm?tab=readme-ov-file#filters). HPLT Monolingual Datasets version 2.0 (the de-duplicated variant) feature about 7.6 trillion whitespace-separated words and about 52 trillion characters extracted from 21 billion documents, compared to 5.6 trillion words and 42 trillion characters extracted from 5 billion documents in version 1.2. All in all, you can expect less noise and boilerplate, less duplicates, more unique documents, and generally better quality texts to train language models on or for other NLP tasks. *How was this dataset produced* You may want to read section 3 of our Deliverable HPLT pipeline and tools (https://hplt-project.org/HPLT_D7_2___HPLT_pipelines_and_tools.pdf) to have a full description on how did we produced this dataset. If you don't have much time for reading, maybe this chart is enough for your purposes: https://hplt-project.org/_next/static/media/dataset-pipeline-light.c2521ee1… Each language is accompanied with an HPLT Analytics report. These automated reports provide useful information and statistics about the clean version of the HPLT v.2.0 datasets. They are the result of running the HPLT Analytics Tool (https://github.com/hplt-project/data-analytics-tool) on them. They are helpful for inspecting the datasets even before downloading them. *What is HPLT?* HPLT (High Performance Language Technologies) is an EU Horizon Europe funded project which aims at collecting large quantities of data in many languages and training powerful and efficient language and translation models. An important feature of HPLT is openness and transparency: all the artifacts of the project are publicly available under permissive licenses. https://hplt-project.org/ -- Andrey Language Technology Group (LTG) University of Oslo

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Second Call for Papers: The First Workshop on Language Models for Low-Resource Languages (LoResLM 2025@COLING)
by Ranasinghe, Tharindu 03 Oct '24

03 Oct '24

Neural language models have revolutionised natural language processing (NLP) and have provided state-of-the-art results for many tasks. However, their effectiveness is largely dependent on the pre-training resources. Therefore, language models (LMs) often struggle with low-resource languages in both training and evaluation. Recently, there has been a growing trend in developing and adopting LMs for low-resource languages. LoResLM aims to provide a forum for researchers to share and discuss their ongoing work on LMs for low-resource languages. >> Topics LoResLM 2025 invites submissions on a broad range of topics related to the development and evaluation of neural language models for low-resource languages, including but not limited to the following. * Building language models for low-resource languages. * Adapting/extending existing language models/large language models for low-resource languages. * Corpora creation and curation technologies for training language models/large language models for low-resource languages. * Benchmarks to evaluate language models/large language models in low-resource languages. * Prompting/in-context learning strategies for low-resource languages with large language models. * Review of available corpora to train/fine-tune language models/large language models for low-resource languages. * Multilingual/cross-lingual language models/large language models for low-resource languages. * Applications of language models/large language models for low-resource languages (i.e. machine translation, chatbots, content moderation, etc. >> Important Dates * Paper submission due – 5th November 2024 * Notification of acceptance – 25th November 2024 * Camera-ready due – 13th December 2024 * LoResLM 2025 workshop – 19th / 20th January 2025 co-located with COLING 2025 >> Submission Guidelines We follow the COLING 2025 standards for submission format and guidelines. LoResLM 2025 invites the submission of long papers of up to eight pages and short papers of up to four pages. These page limits only apply to the main body of the paper. At the end of the paper (after the conclusions but before the references), papers need to include a mandatory section discussing the limitations of the work and, optionally, a section discussing ethical considerations. Papers can include unlimited pages of references and an unlimited appendix. To prepare your submission, please make sure to use the COLING 2025 style files available here: * Latex - https://coling2025.org/downloads/coling-2025.zip * Word - https://coling2025.org/downloads/coling-2025.docx * Overleaf - https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/instructions-for-coling-2025-proce… Papers should be submitted through Softconf/START using the following link: https://softconf.com/coling2025/LoResLM25/ >> Organising Committee * Hansi Hettiarachchi, Lancaster University, UK * Tharindu Ranasinghe, Lancaster University, UK * Paul Rayson, Lancaster University, UK * Ruslan Mitkov, Lancaster University, UK * Mohamed Gaber, Birmingham City University, UK * Damith Premasiri, Lancaster University, UK * Fiona Anting Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore * Lasitha Uyangodage, University of Münster, Germany >> Programme Committee * Burcu Can - University of Stirling, UK * Çağrı Çöltekin - University of Tübingen, Germany * Debashish Das - Birmingham City University, UK * Alphaeus Dmonte - George Mason University, USA * Daan van Esch - Google * Ignatius Ezeani - Lancaster University, UK * Anna Furtado - University of Galway, Ireland * Amal Htait - Aston University, UK * Ali Hürriyetoğlu - Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands * Diptesh Kanojia - University of Surrey, UK * Jean Maillard - Meta * Maite Melero - Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, Spain * Muhidin Mohamed - Aston University, UK * Nadeesha Pathirana - Aston University, UK * Alistair Plum - University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg * Sandaru Seneviratne - Australian National University, Australia * Ravi Shekhar - University of Essex, UK * Taro Watanabe - Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan * Phil Weber - Aston University, UK URL - https://loreslm.github.io/ Twitter - https://x.com/LoResLM2025 Best Regards Tharindu Ranasinghe

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[CFP] SemEval 2025 Task 5 - LLMs4Subjects - 1st Call for Shared Task Participation
by Jennifer D'Souza 03 Oct '24

03 Oct '24

[apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call] Dear colleagues and friends, *We are pleased to release the 1st Call for Participation to the LLMs4Subjects Shared Task organized as part of SemEval 2025.* *Overview:* As the first of its kind, LLMs4Subjects invites the research community to *develop cutting-edge LLM-based semantic solutions for the subject tagging of the Leibniz University's Technical Library's open-access collection*. The shared task provides an opportunity for the research community to creatively utilize LLMs for subject tagging of technical records. *Systems need to demonstrate bilingual language modeling in understanding technical documents in both German and English.* Moreover, successful solutions may be directly integrated into the operational workflows of the TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology University Library. *What we provide to participants:* a human-readable form of a subject's taxonomy (this is the *GND* or *Gemeinsame Normdatei*, the integrated authority file used for cataloging in German-speaking countries) and a large collection of technical records tagged with these subjects from the TIB's open-access collection called *TIBKAT*. More details on the task website: https://sites.google.com/view/llms4subjects/ *LLMs4Subjects defines the following three tasks:* - Task 1: Learn the GND - Task 2: Align subject tagging to the TIBKAT collection - (Optional and Fun) Task 3: Develop Elegant Frontend Interfaces for Subject Tagging *LLMs4Subjects will have three separate evaluations:* - Evaluation 1: Quantitative Metrics-based Evaluations - Evaluation 2: Qualitative Evaluations by the Human Subject Specialists - (Optional) Evaluation 3: HCI evaluations for subject indexing interfaces submitted *To participate in the LLMs4Subjects shared task,* 1. please submit your interest to participate using our online form ( https://forms.gle/YQzupcoySAyJi45c6), 2. sign up to the shared task Google Groups ( https://groups.google.com/u/6/g/llms4subjects) for FAQs, news, and announcements, and, 3. last but not the least, download the datasets ( https://github.com/jd-coderepos/llms4subjects/) to begin development. *Dates* Training and validation datasets available:October 2, 2024 Test data available/Evaluation starts: January 10, 2025 Evaluation ends: January 31, 2025 Participant paper submissions due: February 28, 2025 Notification to authors: March 31, 2025 Camera ready due: April 21, 2025 SemEval workshop: TBD *Task Organizers* Jennifer D'Souza, Sameer Sadruddin, Holger Israel, Mathias Begoin et al. All organizers are affiliated with the TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology - Germany (https://www.tib.eu/en/) *We look forward to having you on board!* *Contact: * llms4subjects [at] gmail.com

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eLex 2025: Intelligent lexicography - first announcement
by Iztok Kosem 03 Oct '24

03 Oct '24

Dear all, This is the first announcement for the eLex 2025 conference on electronic lexicography, so please mark your calendars. Dates: 18-20 November 2025 Location: Bled, Slovenia Website: https://elex.link/elex2025/ Organiser: Centre for Language Resources and Technologies, University of Ljubljana The theme of next year’s conference will be “Intelligent lexicography”. More information on the theme and the first call for papers will be published soon. We are also accepting proposals for pre- or postconference workshops. Looking forward to seeing you in Slovenia Iztok Kosem In the name of the organising committee

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[2nd CFP] The 1st Workshop and Shared Task on Multilingual Counterspeech Generation
by mevallec＠ujaen.es 03 Oct '24

03 Oct '24

----------------------------------------------------- Workshop on Multilingual Counterspeech Generation ----------------------------------------------------- Background and Scope --------------------- While interest in automatic approaches to Counterspeech generation has been steadily growing, including studies on data curation (Chung et al., 2019a; Fanton et al., 2021), detection (Chung et al., 2021a; Mathew et al., 2018), and generation (Tekiroglu et al., 2020; Chung et al., 2021b; Zhu and Bhat, 2021; Tekiroglu et al., 2022), the large majority of the published experimental work on automatic Counterspeech generation has been carried out for English. This is due to the scarcity of both non-English manually curated training data and to the crushing predominance of English in the generative Large Language Models (LLMs) ecosystem. A workshop on exploring Multilingual Counterspeech Generation is proposed to promote and encourage research on multilingual approaches for this challenging topic. Thus, this workshop aims to test monolingual and multilingual LLMs in particular and Language Technology in general to automatically generate counterspeech not only in English but also in languages with fewer resources. In this sense, an important goal of the workshop will be to understand the impact of using LLMs, considering for example how to deal with pressing issues such as biases, hallucinated content, data scarcity or data contamination. We seek to maximize the scientific and social impact of this workshop by promoting the creation of a community of researchers from diverse fields, such as computer and social sciences, as well as policy makers and other stakeholders interested in automatic counterspeech generation. By doing so we aim to gain a deeper understanding of how counterspeech is currently used to tackle abuse by individuals, activists, and organizations and how Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Generation (NLG) may be best applied to counteract it. Call for Papers --------------------- We welcome submissions on the following topics (but not limited to): - Models and methods for generating counterspeech in different languages. - Automatic Counterspeech generation for low resource languages with scarce training data. - Dialogue agents that use counterspeech to combat offensive messages that are directed to individuals or groups, targeted based on various aspects such as ideology, gender, sexual orientation and religion. - Methods for human and automatic evaluation of counterspeech. - Multidisciplinary studies providing different perspectives on the topic such as computer science, social science, psychology, etc. - Development of taxonomies and quality datasets for counterspeech in multiple languages. - Potentials and limitations (e.g., fairness, biases, hallucinated content) of applying different NLP methods, such as LLMs, to generate counterspeech. - Social impact and empirical studies of counterspeech in social networks, including research on the effectiveness and consequences for users of using counterspeech to combat hate online. Submission --------------------- 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 START [https://softconf.com/coling2025/MCG25/] - 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 an double-blind single-track review. 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 will not be 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 COLING format. Important Dates --------------------- - Submission: November 20th, 2024 - Notification of Acceptance: December 2nd, 2024 - Camera-Ready Papers Due: December 10th, 2024 ----------------------------------------------------- Shared Task on Multilingual Counterspeech Generation ----------------------------------------------------- *TRAIN DATA RELEASED!* In addition to paper contributions, we are organizing a shared task on multilingual counterspeech generation with the aim of sharing in a central space current efforts, especially those for languages different to English. It is envisaged that the shared task would allow the community to study how we can improve counterspeech generation for both lower resource languages but also to reinforce the strong body of research already existing for English. The counterspeech generated by participants should be respectful, non-offensive, and contain information that is specific and truthful with respect to the following targets: Jews, LGBT+, immigrants,, people of color, women. Data --------------------- We release new data consisting of 596 Hate Speech-Counter Narrative (HS-CN) pairs. In this dataset, the HS are taken from MTCONAN [https://github.com/marcoguerini/CONAN/tree/master/Multitarget-CONAN], while the CN are newly generated. Together with each HS-CN pair, we also provide 5 background knowledge sentences, some of which are relevant for obtaining the Counter Narratives. The dataset is available in 4 different languages (Basque, English, Italian and Spanish) and divided in the following splits: - Development: 100 pairs. [AVAILABLE NOW!] [https://huggingface.co/datasets/LanD-FBK/ML_MTCONAN_KN] - Train: 396 pairs [AVAILABLE NOW!] [https://huggingface.co/datasets/LanD-FBK/ML_MTCONAN_KN] - Test: 100 pairs [AVAILABLE ON 21st OCTOBER] In order to score the shared task participants, the CNs will be kept hidden during the shared task while the HS and the background knowledge will be released for participants to prepare their submissions. The languages, Basque, English, Italian and Spanish, offer a varied spectrum of complexity including an agglutinative language isolate (Basque), two romance languages (Italian, Spanish) and a Germanic one (English). The choice of languages obeys to the existing linguistic expertise among the organizers required to successfully run the shared task. Additional Multilingual Data --------------------- Participants also have available the English, Italian, Basque and Spanish CONAN manually curated data: - CONAN (English and Italian) [https://github.com/marcoguerini/CONAN/tree/master/CONAN] - CONAN (Basque and Spanish) [https://huggingface.co/datasets/HiTZ/CONAN-EUS] - CONAN-MT-SP (Spanish) [https://github.com/sinai-uja/CONAN-MT-SP] or [https://huggingface.co/datasets/SINAI/CONAN-MT-SP] - Multitarget-CONAN (English) [https://github.com/marcoguerini/CONAN/tree/master/Multitarget-CONAN] Participation --------------------- The aim of the shared task is, given a HS (and optionally any additional knowledge the participants may like to use), generate a CN to counteract the HS. An example of CN appear bellow: - English: + HS: We should ban all homosexuals. + CN: When will the love prosper and the hatred start to dissipate? I will not only respect my fellow LGBT+ people, I will promote their rights. - Italian: + HS: Dovremmo espellere tutti gli omosessuali. + CN: Quand'è che l'amore prospererà e l'odio inizierà a dissiparsi? Non solo rispetterò i miei compagni LGBT+, ma promuoverò i loro diritti. - Spanish: + HS: Deberíamos prohibir a todos los homosexuales. + CN: ¿Cuándo prosperará el amor y empezará a disiparse el odio? No sólo respetaré a mis compañeros LGBT+, sino que promoveré sus derechos. - Basque: + HS: Homosexual guztiak debekatu beharko genituzke. + CN: Noiz hasiko da maitasuna irabazten eta gorrotoa desagertzen? LGBT+ pertsonak errespetatzeaz gain, haien eskubideak sustatuko ditut. Participants will download the test HS for the 4 languages and generate at most three different CNs per HS for each language). The test window will last 5 days. Participants are allowed to use any resource (language model, data, etc.) to generate the CN. **Note:** If you are going to participate in the shared task, please fill the following form: [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeAZTJsrEXt35HfFFchPNdPi289q5kKerq…] Evaluation --------------------- The CNs submitted by the participants will be evaluated: - Using traditional automatic metrics as in Tekiro ̆glu et al.( 2022), which include BLEU, ROUGE, Novelty and Repetition Rate. - Using LLM as a Judge following the approach described in this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.15227 Important Dates --------------------- - Test dataset release: October 21st, 2024 - Results submission: October 25th, 2024 - Results notification: November 10th, 2024 - Working papers submission: November 20th, 2024 - Notification of Acceptance: December 3rd, 2024 - Camera-Ready Papers Due: December 10th, 2024 - Workshop: January 19th, 2025 For more information you can joint the Google group [https://groups.google.com/g/multilingual-cs-generation-coling2025] or visit our website [https://sites.google.com/view/multilang-counterspeech-gen/home] [https://sites.google.com/view/multilang-counterspeech-gen/shared-task] Best regards, The Multilingual Counterspeech Generation Workshop Organizers.

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Job offer: Researcher in Speech and Natural Language Processing (Junior and Senior Positions)
by Arantza Del Pozo Echezarreta 03 Oct '24

03 Oct '24

*** Apologies for cross-postings *** *Researcher positions in Speech and Natural Language Processing (Junior & Senior Positions) @ Vicomtech, San Sebastian/Bilbao, Spain* Vicomtech (https://www.vicomtech.org/en/), an international applied research centre specialised in Artificial Intelligence, Visual Computing and Interaction located in Spain, has several research positions in the field of speech and natural language processing. We are seeking talented and motivated individuals to join our dynamic Speech and Natural Language Technologies team in either our Donostia - San Sebastián or Bilbao premises. If you have experience in speech and/or natural language processing technologies and are passionate about applying cutting-edge research to solve real-world needs through advanced prototypes, this opportunity is for you! Whether you are a junior researcher (BSc/MSc graduate) looking to kickstart your career or a senior researcher (PhD graduate) eager to take on research leadership roles, we are interested in your profile. We offer the perfect environment with outstanding equipment and the best human team for growth. You will participate in advanced research and development projects, with opportunities to manage high-profile projects and/or lead technical teams depending on your experience. *Key Responsibilities: * - Conduct cutting-edge research in Speech and Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies such as automatic speech recognition and synthesis, audio deep fake detection, information extraction, machine translation, text simplification and dialogue systems, among others. - Contribute to national and international research projects. - Develop advanced prototypes that transfer technology to businesses and institutions. - Manage or lead research projects, depending on experience. *Requirements: * - Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Telecommunications Engineering or related fields. - For senior profiles, a PhD in Speech Processing, NLP, AI or related disciplines is preferred. A PhD is not required for junior candidates. - Strong programming skills (Python, Bash). - Fluency in both spoken and written Spanish and English. *Preferred Skills (Not Required but Valued): * - Experience with speech and natural language processing tools and libraries (e.g. Kaldi, Whisper, Marian NMT, HuggingFace Transformers, Rasa, etc.). Deep learning frameworks (Pytorch, Tensorflow, ONNX). - Virtualization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes). - Experience in industrial and/or European research projects. *What We Offer: * - A vibrant, innovative research environment with state-of-the-art AI, Visual Computing, and Interaction technologies. - Exciting national and international research projects. A multidisciplinary and renowned team in Speech and Language Technologies. - Creative freedom in research, aligned with the centre’s goals. - Opportunities for personal development through continuous learning. - Clear career progression paths and leadership opportunities. - Work-life balance policies and a commitment to equal employment opportunities. If you are passionate about research and eager to apply or develop your expertise to real-world challenges, we encourage you to send us your CV and join our forward-thinking team! To apply via LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4034768411 -- [image: Vicomtech] <https://www.vicomtech.org> Dr. Arantza del Pozo Echezarreta Director of Speech and Natural Language Technologies adelpozo(a)vicomtech.org +(34) 943 30 92 30 +(34) 619 910 422 The information contained in this electronic message is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the recipients. If you have received this e-mail by mistake, please, notify us and delete it. Avoid printing this message if it is not strictly necessary.

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CfP: SemEval task on hallucination detection Mu-SHROOM
by Tiedemann, Jörg 02 Oct '24

02 Oct '24

TL;DR Mu-SHROOM<https://helsinki-nlp.github.io/shroom/> is a non-English-centric SemEval-2025 shared task to advance the SOTA in hallucination detection for content generated with LLMs. We’ve annotated hallucinated content in 10 different languages from top -tier LLMs. Participate in as many languages as you’d like by accurately identifying spans of hallucinated content. Stay informed by joining our Google group<https://groups.google.com/g/semeval-2025-task-3-mu-shroom> or our Slack<https://join.slack.com/t/shroom-shared-task/shared_invite/zt-2mmn4i8h2-HvRB…> or follow our Twitter account<https://x.com/mushroomtask>! Full Invitation We are excited to announce the Mu-SHROOM shared task on hallucination detection (link to website<https://helsinki-nlp.github.io/shroom/>). We invite participants to detect hallucination spans in the outputs of instruction-tuned LLMs in a multilingual context. About This shared task builds upon our previous iteration, SHROOM<https://helsinki-nlp.github.io/shroom/2024>, with three key improvements: LLM-centered, multilingual annotations & hallucination-span prediction. LLMs frequently produce "hallucinations," where models generate plausible but incorrect outputs, while the existing metrics prioritize fluency over correctness. This results in an issue of growing concern as these models are increasingly adopted by the public. With Mu-SHROOM, we want to advance the state-of-the-art in detecting hallucinated content. This new iteration of the shared task is held in a multilingual and multimodel context: we provide data produced by a variety of open-weights LLMs in 10 different languages (Arabic (modern standard), Chinese (Mandarin), English, Finnish, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Spanish, and Swedish). Participants are invited to participate in any of the languages available and are expected to develop systems that can accurately identify and mitigate hallucinations in generated content. As is usual with SemEval shared tasks, participants will be invited to submit system description papers, with the option to present them in poster format during the next SemEval workshop (collocated with an upcoming *ACL conference). Participants that elect to write a system description paper will be asked to review their peers’ submissions (max 2 papers per author) Key Dates: All deadlines are “anywhere on Earth” (23:59 UTC-12). * Dev set available by: 02.09.2024 * Test set available by: 01.01.2025 * Evaluation phase ends: 31.01.2025 * System description papers due: 28.02.2025 (TBC) * Notification of acceptance: 31.03.2025 (TBC) * Camera-ready due: 21.04.2025 (TBC) * SemEval workshop: Summer 2025 (co-located with an upcoming *ACL conference) Evaluation Metrics: Participants will be ranked along two (character-level) metrics: 1. intersection-over-union of characters marked as hallucinations in the gold reference vs. predicted as such 2. how well the probability assigned by the participants' system that a character is part of a hallucination correlates with the empirical probabilities observed in our annotations. Rankings and submissions will be done separately per language: you are welcome to focus only on the languages you are interested in! How to Participate: * Register: Please register your team before making a submission on https://mushroomeval.pythonanywhere.com * Submit results: use our platform to submit your results before 31.01.2025 * Submit your system description: system description papers should be submitted by 28.02.2025 (TBC, further details will be announced at a later date). Want to be kept in the loop? Join our Google group mailing list<https://groups.google.com/g/semeval-2025-task-3-mu-shroom> or the shared task Slack<https://join.slack.com/t/shroom-shared-task/shared_invite/zt-2mmn4i8h2-HvRB…>! You can also follow us on Twitter<https://x.com/mushroomtask>. We look forward to your participation and to the exciting research that will emerge from this task. Best regards, Raúl Vázquez and Timothee Mickus On behalf of all the Mu-SHROOM organizers

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Call for Papers: 1st Workshop on Ecology, Environment, and Natural Language Processing (EcoNLP 2024 at NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025)
by Valerio Basile 02 Oct '24

02 Oct '24

We invite submissions to the *1st Workshop on Ecology, Environment, and Natural Language Processing <https://econlpws2025.di.unito.it/>*. This workshop will bring together the NLP community and stakeholders from various disciplines to explore how computational linguistics and NLP tools, methods, and applications can help address pressing climate change and environment-related challenges. We are particularly interested in contributions that push the boundaries of linguistics and NLP research in the context of ecological and environmental crises and that foster interdisciplinary collaboration. The *topics of interests* include, but are not limited to: *Sentiment Analysis of Environmental Topics*: Evaluating public opinions on environmental issues across platforms such as social media, news outlets, and other media (e.g., Bosco et al., 2023 <https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3596/paper11.pdf>; Ibrohimelmustafaelmustafa et al., 2023 <https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3604605>). Automated Linguistic Analysis: Studying grammatical, syntactical and lexical patterns from an ecolinguistic perspective (e.g., Widanti, 2022 <http://influence-journal.com/index.php/influence/article/view/18>), including analyses of corporate environmental reports and other institutional communications (e.g., Gong, 2019 <https://helda.helsinki.fi/server/api/core/bitstreams/5a38650d-71c2-4a62-a33…> ). Detection of Anthropocentric and Speciesist Biases Identifying harmful biases in language and NLP applications, and developing methods to mitigate them (e.g., Leach et al., 2021 <https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/bjso.12561>; Takeshita et al., 2022 <https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306457322001558?casa_to…> ). *Topic Modeling & Discourse/Frame Analysis*: Investigating how environmental issues are framed in media and political discourse and how these frames influence public perception and policymaking (e.g., Dehler-Holland et al., 2021 <https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666389920302336>). *Geo-tagging and sentiment mapping of environmental discussions*: Mapping environmental discussions and sentiments across geographical locations (e.g., Yao & Wang, 2020). *Ecofeminism, environmental justice, and language*: Exploring the intersections of gender, justice, and ecological narratives, and how NLP can help analyze language in these contexts. *Text Classification in Environmental Contexts*: Categorizing texts into specific environmental subfields such as biodiversity, climate change, and conservation, and using NLP to monitor compliance with environmental regulations (e.g., Schimanski et al., 2023 <https://aclanthology.org/2023.emnlp-main.975.pdf>; Grasso & Locci, 2024 <https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-70242-6_29>). Entity Recognition, Relation Extraction, and Environmental Monitoring Identifying and tracking mentions of species, habitats, pollutants, and ecological phenomena in text (e.g., Abdelmageed et al., 2022). Fact-checking & Greenwashing Detection Analyzing corporate sustainability reports for accuracy and detecting greenwashing practices (e.g., Moodaley & Telukdarie, 2023 <https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/15/2/1481>; Cojoianu et al., 2020 <https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3627157>). Further topics include: - Ecolinguistic applications of NLP. - Large Language Models (LLMs) application in Climata Change and Environmental domain. - Analyzing Social Media for Harmful Environmental Narratives. - Corpora creation and annotation. - Fairness and ethics in environmental data analysis. - Environmental communication in low-resource languages. - Multimodal analysis for ecological and environmental challenges. - Lexical analysis in the context of sustainability and environmental discourse. - Linked Data and Knowledge Graphs on ecological topics. - Language diversity and inclusion in environmental narratives. - Cognitive models and ecological narratives. - NLP for understanding indigenous knowledge in environmental contexts. - Machine learning techniques for analyzing environmental communication. - NLP for tracking environmental legislation and policy discourse. - NLP for analyzing environmental education and awareness campaigns. - Speech recognition technologies to support ecological field research; - Development of educational chatbots or FAQs for raising environmental awareness. Key Dates - *Paper Submission Deadline*: December 16, 2024 - *Notification of Acceptance*: TBA - *Camera-Ready Deadline*: February 3, 2025 - *Workshop Date*: March 2, 2025 *Submission Instructions:* The workshop will accept *archival* submissions, *non-archival* submissions, as well as *research communications* . *Non-archival submissions* refer to new work that will not appear in the proceedings, while *research communications* consist of work already published at other venues (e.g., conferences, journals) that can be presented at the workshop but will not be included in the proceedings. Submissions should follow the *NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025 <https://www.nodalida-bhlt2025.eu/call-for-papers> *formatting templates and guidelines; We invite paper submissions of three types: - Regular paper (up to 8 pages) - Short papers (up to 4 pages) - Demo papers (up to 4 pages) For all three submission types, these page limits do not include additional pages with bibliographic references. We do not allow any extra pages for appendices. *Submission and reviewing* will be conducted through *OpenReview* (link to submission TBA) All submissions will undergo *double-blind peer review*, adhering to professional standards.

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Extended Deadline - October 4 - ACM SAC 2025 - Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track
by Patrizio Bellan 02 Oct '24

02 Oct '24

The 40th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing ACM SAC 2025 March 31 - April 4, 2025 - Catania, Italy Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track ***************************************** Important Dates Author deadline for submissions: September 20, 2024 October 4, 2024 Author notification of acceptance: October 30, 2024 Author camera ready and registration due: November 29, 2024 ***************************************** Aim Aim of the Knowledge and Natural Language Processing (KNLP) track at ACM SAC is to investigate techniques and application of knowledge engineering and natural language processing, two extremely interdisciplinary and lively research areas at the core of Artificial Intelligence. In particular, the track welcomes contributions combining and complementing methods and approaches from both areas. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Natural Language Processing NLP tasks for Knowledge Extraction NLP for Ontology Population and Learning Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining for Knowledge Applications Interplay between Language and Ontologies NLP for Explainable Knowledge Machine Translation techniques for Multi-lingual Knowledge NLP for the Web (Large) Language Models and Knowledge - Knowledge Knowledge to improve NLP tasks Knowledge for Information Retrieval Knowledge-based Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining Combining Knowledge and Deep Learning for NLP Knowledge for Text Summarization and Generation Knowledge for Persuasion Knowledge-based Machine Translation Knowledge for the Web Linked Data for NLP Knowledge-based NL Explainability RAG and Knowledge injection for Language Models - Applications Real-world applications that exploit Knowledge and NLP Knowledge and NLP Systems for Big Data scenarios Knowledge and NLP technology for diverse, equitable, and inclusive society Deployment of Knowledge and NLP Systems in specific domains, such as: Digital Humanities and Social Sciences eGovernment and public administration Life sciences, health and medicine News and Data Streaming ***************************************** Paper Submission Research papers and experience reports related to the above topics are solicited. Submissions must not have been published or be concurrently considered for publication elsewhere. Papers should be submitted in PDF using the ACM-SAC proceedings format using the submission link on the SAC 2025 website (https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2025/&source=gma…). Authors' names and affiliations should be entered separately at the submission site and not appear in the submitted papers. Each submission will be reviewed in a DOUBLE-BLIND process according to the ACM-SAC Regulations. Student Research Competition (SRC) submissions are welcome (see SAC 2025 website for details). Full papers are limited to 8 pages, in camera-ready format, included in the registration fee. Authors have the option to include up to two (2) extra pages (paying an extra charge). Posters are limited to 2 pages, in camera-ready format, included in the registration fee. Authors have the option to include only one (1) extra page (paying an extra charge). SRC Abstracts are limited to 3 pages, in camera-ready format, included in the registration fee. No extra pages are allowed. Paper selection is based on originality, technical contribution, presentation quality, and relevance to the Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track. Some papers may be accepted as posters. Paper registration is required, allowing the inclusion of the paper/poster in the conference proceedings. An author or a proxy attending SAC MUST present the paper. This is a requirement for the paper/poster to be included in the ACM digital library. No-show of registered papers and posters will result in excluding them from the ACM digital library. ***************************************** Track Co-Chairs Patrizio Bellan, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) Marco Bombieri, Università degli Studi di Verona Mauro Dragoni, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) Marco Rospocher, Università degli Studi di Verona ***************************************** Programme Committee TBA ***************************************** General Inquiries For further information, please visit SAC Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track (https://www.google.com/url?q=https://knlp-sac.github.io/2025/&source=gmail-…) and SAC 2024 conference websites (https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2025/&source=gma…) or feel free to contact the Track Co-Chairs at knlp(a)fbk.eu<mailto:knlp@fbk.eu> . -- -- 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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ENEOLI Survey on Studying and Documenting Neologisms
by Kris Heylen 02 Oct '24

02 Oct '24

Dear colleague, working on lexical innovation and neologisms, We kindly invite you to participate in the following survey on neology: https://1ka.arnes.si/eneoli. This survey is being conducted as part of the European Network on Lexical Innovation (ENEOLI<https://eneoli.eu/>) Cost Action CA22126. Its objective is to gather insights into the methods, practices, tools, and resources used in neology, the study of lexical innovations, including both neologisms (new words or expressions) and new senses of existing words. The survey is intended for research groups, individual researchers, and language specialists involved in this field. It is organized around specific projects or research topics, which may include resource creation in lexicography and terminology, software development for neology tracking, or academic research in lexicology, linguistics, and translation studies. Additionally, a section is dedicated to teaching and training practices related to neology. The survey will be available for responses until November 1. The results will be disseminated through open-access scientific publications. At the end of the survey, you will have the option to indicate whether you would like to be acknowledged as a contributor. Best regards, On behalf of the ENEOLI action, Kris Heylen Dr. Kris Heylen senior onderzoeker/taalkundige (senior researcher/linguist) /instituut voor de Nederlandse taal/ (Dutch Language Institute) Postbus 9515 / 2300 RA / Leiden / Nederland (The Netherlands) Tel.+32 475844166 Email: kris.heylen(a)ivdnt.org<mailto:kris.heylen@ivdnt.org> Website: https://ivdnt.org/profile/?smid=5921 Google Scholar profile<https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=nl&user=aKUjl4sAAAAJ&view_op=list_w…> ________________________________ Denk je aan het milieu? Print alleen als het nodig is. Aan dit bericht kunnen geen rechten worden ontleend. Het bericht is alleen bestemd voor de geadresseerde. Indien het bericht niet voor u is bestemd, verzoeken wij u dit aan ons te melden en het bericht te verwijderen. This message shall not constitute any obligations. This message is intended solely for the addressee. If you have received this message in error, please inform us and delete the message. ________________________________

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PR: ELDA releases the ALLIES Corpus for the evaluation of Broadcast News across time diarization systems
by info＠elda.org 02 Oct '24

02 Oct '24

[Apologies for multiple postings] /Press Release - Immediate/ /Paris, France, October 2, 2024/ *ELDA releases the ALLIES Corpus for the evaluation of Broadcast News across time diarization systems* ELDA is pleased to announce the release of the ALLIES Corpus, as a result from the collaboration between the University of Le Mans (France) and ELDA.Overall, the ALLIES Corpus contains about 900 hours of news broadcast, including orthographic transcriptions, speaker annotations and segmentation. This corpus is based on the material that was used for the ESTER, REPERE and ETAPE evaluation packages (see ELRA Catalogue: http://catalogue.elra.info <http://catalogue.elra.info>for respective packages). The ALLIES corpus was built as an extension of the previous produced corpora. It contains corrected annotations from the previous evaluation materials as well as new audio data with corresponding transcriptions. Corrections include corrected names of speakers and re-segmentation. The dataset can be found in the ELRA Catalogue of Language Resources under the following links and references: ALLIES Corpus <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-S0486/>, *ISLRN: *397-116-696-859-2 <http://www.islrn.org/resources/397-116-696-859-2> For more information and/or questions, please write to contact(a)elda.org <mailto:contact@elda.org>. * * *About ALLIES project* The ALLIES Corpus was produced within the European CHIST-Era project ALLIES (Autonomous Lifelong learnIng intelLigent Systems). The ALLIES project enabled to carry out a campaign for the evaluation of Broadcast News across time diarization systems using French data. This project is an extension of the previous ESTER, REPERE and ETAPE evaluation campaigns that were carried out for the French language in this field. The University of Le Mans (France) and ELDA collaborated on the production of this new corpus. To find out more about ALLIES project, please visit: https://www.chistera.eu/projects/allies <https://www.chistera.eu/projects/allies> *About ELDA* The Evaluation and Language resources Distribution Agency (ELDA) identifies, collects, markets, and distributes language resources, along with the dissemination of general information in the field of Human Language Technologies (HLT). ELDA has considerable knowledge and skills in HLT applications. ELDA is part of major French, European and international projects in the field of HLT. To find out more about ELDA, please visit our web site: http://www.elda.org/ <http://www.elda.org/>

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LLT SIG: Invitation to join free webinar series on AI, new technologies and language learning and teaching
by amalhaddad 02 Oct '24

02 Oct '24

i teach with technology Join us for our free webinar series on AI, new technologies and language learning and teaching * Are you a language teacher? * Are you a language student? * Do you carry out research on language learning and teaching? Do you fancy a webinar on AI, new technologies and language learning and teaching? Do not hesitate to join our free webinar series. Register here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1FH7slIVVDrD4LtOGBqJnZ5ZQMh7UKk8ztSFr9rIYUb… The Language Learning and Teaching Special Interest Group of the British Association of Applied Linguists (LLT SIG) is pleased to announce the autumn 2024 Webinar Series, on AI, new technologies and language learning and teaching. The webinar series will consist of eight panels. In each panel, a researcher will present their recent research on technologies used in language learning and teaching, followed by a language teacher who will discuss the practical implications of these approaches in the classroom. A live question-and-answer period will conclude each session. Title of the webinar: What language educators need to know about Artificial Intelligence (AI): Introducing Artificial Intelligence (AI) for language learning & teaching Speakers: Zoe Handley and Ana Nino Date: Wednesday 30 October 2024 | Time: 5 pm GMT ========================================= Title of the webinar: Using the online CEDEL2 corpus to explore the learning and teaching of Spanish as a foreign/second language Speakers: Cristóbal Lozano and Ignacio López-Sako Date: 6 November 2024 | Time: 6 pm GMT ========================================= Title of the webinar: Theoretical Analyses and Natural Language Processing for and via Language Learning and Teaching Speakers: María Todorova and Nerina Piedra Date: 13 November 2024 | Time: 2 pm GMT ========================================= Title of the webinar: How to determine the added value of new technologies for the language learning, teaching and testing process? Speakers: Jozef Colpaert and Belén Sánchez Alonso Date: 20 November 2024 | Time: 5 pm GMT ========================================= Title of the webinar: Generative AI in language teaching and learning: opportunity and challenge' Speakers: Kate Borthwick and Antonio Martínez-Arboleda Date: 27 November 2024 | Time: 4 pm GMT ========================================= Title of the webinar: Digital stories and young language learners: Do they have benefits for linguistic and non-linguistic development? Speakers: Suzanne Graham, Alison Porter and María del Mar Albert de Carranza Date: 4 December 2024 | Time: 5 pm GMT ========================================= Title of the webinar: The application of ChatGPT in language and interpreting classroom Speakers: Macarena Pradas Macías and Isabel Hoffmann Date: 11 December 2024 | Time: 5 pm GMT ========================================= Title of the webinar: Promoting Diversity and Inclusion in ELT: Gamification Tools and the Pedagogy of Multiliteracies Speakers: Inmaculada Pineda Hernández and Sonia Li Date: 18 December 2024 | Time: 4 pm GMT ========================================= Registration To register, please use this registration link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1FH7slIVVDrD4LtOGBqJnZ5ZQMh7UKk8ztSFr9rIYUb… Please feel free to share this information with your colleagues who also may be interested. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to Amal Haddad Haddad (amalhaddad(a)ugr.es) Certificate available upon request. =========================================

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The 24th IFIP Conference e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society (I3E 2025): First Call for Papers
by Announce 01 Oct '24

01 Oct '24

*** First Call for Papers *** The 24th IFIP Conference e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society (I3E 2025) September 9-11, 2025, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/i3e2025/ (*** Proceedings to be published by Springer in LNCS ***) Conference theme: “Pervasive digital services for people’s well-being, inclusion and sustainable development” OVERVIEW Next-gen digital services contribute to people’s well-being, inclusion, and sustainable development, re-shaping e-business, e-services, and e-society. Such services are pervasive both since they run on a large variety of heterogeneous devices and they permeate various aspects of daily life, by offering accessible and personalised experiences to all individuals. The proposed theme advocates for the design, implementation and operations of novel digital solutions that satisfy the needs of different individuals, while contributing to their well-being and to preserving the Planet. I3E 2025 will collect contributions about the creation and management of user-centric accessible platforms, applications, and services that empower individuals to live healthier and more fulfilling lives. The proposed theme aims at emphasizing how it is possible to leverage different technologies to address pressing societal challenges such as, for instance, healthcare access, education, poverty alleviation, sustainable usage of resources, and social equity, towards a more inclusive and sustainable future. TOPICS OF INTEREST Areas of particular interest include but are not limited to: e-Business • Innovative e-business models • Inter-organizational systems • Business process integration • Business process re-engineering • e-Marketplaces, e-Hubs and portals • Digital goods and products • User behaviour modeling • Mobile business • Enterprise application integration • e-Negotiations, auctioning and contracting • Supply, demand, and value chains • e-Commerce content management • Dynamic pricing models • Trust and security • Mobile Commerce • Business Intelligence • Business Ontologies and Models • E-Business Models e-Services • e-Service composition • Inter-organizational services • e-Collaboration and e-Services • Service-oriented computing • Web services • Semantic web services • Service workflows • Virtual organizations and coalitions • Virtual enterprises and virtual markets • Web 2.0 applications • Agent-oriented e-Services • P2P co-operation models • Ubiquitous, mobile, and pervasive services • Application service management • Services and service management in the cloud-edge continuum • Next-gen AI services • Enterprise Ontologies • Accessibility • Usability e-Society • e-Government (e.g. G2G, G2B, or G2C) • Digital cities and regions • e-Democracy and e-Governance • e-Inclusion to information society • e-Health and e-Education • Public e-Services for citizens and enterprises • One-stop government service integration • Mobile public services • Multimedia and multilingualism • Digital culture and digital divide • Privacy and security • Legal societal and cultural issues • Public-private partnerships • International dimension of e-Gov • E-society and AI • Digital Transformation • Social Computing • Green Computing • Sustainable Technologies • Humanitarian & Emergency Management • Digital Inclusion • Digital Literacy SUBMISSION Authors should submit original, unpublished research papers. All papers must not simultaneously be submitted to another journal or conference. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Therefore, submissions should not be under consideration for any other conference or journal outlet. Authors should consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines and use their proceedings templates to prepare their papers (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…). Authors can submit their proceedings articles using the EasyChair platform. Please use the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=i3e2025 . Length of papers The most common types of papers accepted for publication are full papers (12 pages) and short papers (7 pages). We only wish to publish papers of significant scientific content. Special Issues Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended and revised version of their paper for fast-track review and publication in journal special issues (currently under negotiation). IMPORTANT DATES • Paper Submission: May 19, 2025 (AoE) • Author Notification: June 23, 2025 • Camera-ready: June 30, 2025 • Author Registration: June 30, 2025 ORGANISATION Conference Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus Conference Co-Chairs • Yogesh K. Dwivedi, Emerging Markets Research Centre (EMaRC) • Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus • Matti Mäntymäki, University of Turku • Ilias Pappas, Norwegian University of Science and Technology • Marinos Themistocleous, University of Nicosia Program Co-Chairs • Achilleas Achilleos, Frederick University of Cyprus • Stefano Forti, University of Pisa • Angelika Kokkinaki, University of Nicosia

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Language data engineer
by Vincent Vandeghinste 30 Sep '24

30 Sep '24

TAALDATA-ENGINEER Is het werken met taaldata iets waar je je hand niet voor omdraait? Ben je op zoek naar een uitdagende baan waarin je niet alleen data verwerkt maar ook verantwoordelijk bent voor dataprocessingworkflows en de infrastructuur om de data te beheren? Wil je bijdragen aan de taaldata die de grondslag vormen voor het beschrijven en het onderzoeken van het Nederlands? Dan heeft het Instituut voor de Nederlandse Taal (INT) dé baan voor jou. Meer informatie op https://ivdnt.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/vacature_taaldata-engineer_sep…

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Free online talks October 2024: Corpus linguistics & applied linguistics research 2024
by PASCUAL FRANCISCO PEREZ PAREDES 30 Sep '24

30 Sep '24

I’m sharing the following information about "Corpus linguistics & applied linguistics research 2024<https://www.um.es/languagecorpora/clresearch2024/>", a series of talks organised by the University of Murcia from 9 to 30 October 2024. The talks will take place via ZOOM. This is a free event. Registration links are provided for each of the talks below. After registration, you’ll receive an email with the webinar link. Click on the link of each of the talks for details. Teacher Knowledge and Corpus-Informed Language Teaching Prof Shelley Staples, The University of Arizona. October 9, 16:00 (Madrid time) https://www.um.es/languagecorpora/2024/09/25/teacher-knowledge/ Using GRAPE MARS for multimodal analysis Prof Inma Fortanet, U. Jaume I. October 16, 17:00 (Madrid time) https://www.um.es/languagecorpora/2024/09/15/16121/ Data-Driven learning and extensive reading in second language classrooms Prof Gregory Hadley, Niigata University. October 22, 11:00 am (Madrid time) https://www.um.es/languagecorpora/2024/09/15/data-driven-learning-and-exten… Learner corpora: Showcasing the CEDL2 corpus Dr Cristobal Lozano, U. Granada. October 30, 17:00 (Madrid time) https://www.um.es/languagecorpora/2024/09/15/learner-corpora-showcasing-the… You can check out the 2021, 2022 and 2023 talks here: https://www.youtube.com/@corporaappliedlinguistics8358/playlists Please feel free to share this information with anyone interested in these research areas. Best wishes, Pascual Pérez-Paredes https://webs.um.es/pascualf

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Postdoc Data Science and Machine Learning
by ali hürriyetoglu 30 Sep '24

30 Sep '24

Dear all, We are hiring a postdoc at Wageningen Food Safety Research (WFSR). Please see the details at https://www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/postdoc-datascience-and-machinelearning.htm. The data science team at WFSR conducts research and develops tools using advanced techniques and diverse data types. Here is a short list of our activities: https://bigdata-wfsr.wur.nl/applications/ In addition to these application,s explainability of machine learning models, federated learning, natural language processing, generative artificial intelligence, remote sensing, pest alarms, etc. are only a tiny subset of the techniques we apply and research. In addition to many internal projects, the main research projects we collaborate with international partners are: HOLiFOOD ( https://holifoodproject.eu), ECO-Ready (https://www.eco-ready.eu), and EFRA (https://efraproject.eu). Please reach out with any questions and apply for this and any upcoming possibilities (traineeships, project proposals, scientific programming and data science opportunities)! We are looking forward to hearing from you! Best wishes, Ali

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[ Global WordNet Conference 2025 ] Final Call for Papers
by Itziar Gonzalez Dios 30 Sep '24

30 Sep '24

[Apologies for crossposting] *Global WordNet Conference 2025 - GWC2025* The Global Wordnet Association is delighted to announce the *13th International Global Wordnet Conference* (GWC2025), to be held in *Pavia (Italy) from 27 to 31 January, 2025*. The GWC2025 conference will be hosted by the Department of Humanities, at the University of Pavia. 📍*Dates*: 27-Jan-2025 - 31-Jan-2025 *Location*: Pavia, Italy *Meeting Email*: gwc2025pavia(a)unipv.it *Web Site*: https://unipv-larl.github.io/GWC2025/ 🗓️ *Call Deadline*: 07-Oct-2024 We invite submissions of original research contributions addressing, though not limited to, the topics listed below. *Presentations of new WordNets *will be assigned to a dedicated panel. Additionally, proposals for tutorials and demonstrations or panel discussions on *WordNet for ancient languages* are encouraged. Conference topics: - Lexical semantics and meaning representation; - Architecture of lexical databases; - Tools and methods for WordNet development; - Applications of WordNet; - Standardization, distribution and availability of WordNet and WordNet tools See the full call for papers here: https://easychair.org/cfp/gwc2025

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2nd Call for Papers: #dm4myth Workshop
by Pannach, F.A. 30 Sep '24

30 Sep '24

#dm4myth Workshop: Call for Papers *** DEADLINE Extension: October 10th, 2024 *** Venue: Computational Humanities Research Conference - CHR2024, (Aarhus, Denmark) Website: https://dm4myth.github.io/ Organizers: Dr. Franziska Pannach, Dr. Bruno Sartini Important Dates *NEW* Paper submission deadline: October 10th, 2024 (23:59 anywhere on Earth) Notification of Acceptance: November 1st, 2024 Camera-Ready Deadline: November 15th, 2024 Date: December 3, 2024 (Full day workshop) Overview We are excited to announce the First Workshop on Digital Methods for Mythological Research (#dm4myth) taking place on December 3rd, 2024. The workshop aims to bring together a network of researchers from various disciplines and backgrounds who are passionate about mythological narratives and their study using digital methods. This includes research efforts such as the automatic or semi-automatic analysis and modeling of mythological narratives, comparative efforts using digital tools, or the study and representation of mythological characters. #dm4myth is co-located with Computational Humanities Research (CHR2024, Dec. 4th-6th), in Aarhus, Denmark. The workshop will consist of traditional presentations by the participants, a networking and interest group portion in the form of table discussions, and the kick-off of the #dm4myth network. We welcome contributions from various humanities disciplines, such as (but not limited to) Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Religious Studies, Classical Studies/Classical Philology, Archaeology and Art History; as well as technical approaches from Computer Scientists, including Semantic Web specialists, Computational Linguists, Academic Data Scientists, and others. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Dataset construction, maintenance and development - Knowledge representation (ontologies, knowledge graphs, controlled vocabularies) for the mythological domain - Application and development of NLP approaches for the study of mythological plots and characters - Approaches for automatic character disambiguation - Visualization of plots and characters - Knowledge extraction from narrative source materials - Annotation of textual and/or visual narrative material (including iconographic studies) in the domain - Creation, fine-tuning, reuse of (Large) Language Models for the analysis and narrative modeling of mythological sources Best Paper Award: The organizers and the programme committee will invite the authors of the best paper to extend their work into a chapter in an upcoming volume on Digital Mythological Studies. Goals of the Workshop #dm4myth aims to 1. Facilitate knowledge exchange, including the development of best practices, between researchers with different backgrounds who are interested in applying and developing digital tools and methods for the study of mythological narratives. 2. Create a network of researchers with shared interests across disciplines (e.g. Classics, Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Religious Studies, Computer Science, Computational Linguistics). 3. Pave the way for future interdisciplinary research on digital mythological studies, and facilitate networking for researchers from different backgrounds and disciplines. Submissions Papers should be submitted via the openreview <https://openreview.net/group?id=computational-humanities-research.org/CHR/2…> platform. Types of Submissions: Short Papers: 5-7 pages (excluding references) Short papers include early-stage project results, work in progress, negative results and critical reflections/tool criticism. Long Papers: 7-10 pages (excluding references) Long papers include full project reports, completed research, theoretical reflections and original and unpublished results. Submissions should be anonymised, written in English and must be formatted according to the <https://github.com/cohure/CHR2024-website/raw/main/data/chr2024_latex_templ…>Workshop CEUR template <https://github.com/FPannach/dm4myth/> (instructions: here <https://discourse.computational-humanities-research.org/t/chr-latex-instruc…>). The workshop proceedings will be published as an open access version under a Creative Commons License (CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en>) in a suitable venue (to be announced). Workshop Principles We welcome participants from all related disciplines and career stages. We specifically invite colleagues from under-represented communities, geographical, organizational or linguistic backgrounds and small disciplines to submit. At least one author should attend the workshop in person or virtually to present the work. The content of the submissions should be written by human author(s), i.e. substantial <https://ceur-ws.org/ACADEMIC-ETHICS.html> contributions to the submission by artificial intelligence agents are not allowed and will result in a rejection. The application of AI-assistants is allowed only for light editing (e.g. spell-checking) of sections that are authored by humans. In the interest of good scientific practice, the organizers recommend the publication of data and code repositories under creative commons (or comparable) licenses. All submissions under-go peer review from at least two members of the programme committee. We aim to provide at least one review each by a domain-expert and a technical expert. Programme Committee Franziska Pannach, University of Groningen Bruno Sartini, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Saskia Peels-Matthey, University of Groningen Christian Zgoll, University of Göttingen Robert Scott Smith, University of New Hampshire Greta Hawes, Macquarie University Jonathan Groß, Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen Anke Tornow, design digitaler medien (ddm) Valentina Pasqual, University of Bologna Sebastian Barzaghi, University of Bologna Fabio Mariani, Leuphana University of Lüneburg Arianna Graciotti, University of Bologna Sofia Baroncini, Leibniz Institute of European History Gianmarco Spinaci, I Tatti, Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies Contact For questions and comments, please contact the workshop organizers: Franziska Pannach f[dot]a[dot]pannach[at]rug[dot]nl or Bruno Sartini b[dot]sartini[at]lmu[dot]de -- Dr. Franziska Pannach Assistant Professor Center for Language and Cognition (CLCG) University of Groningen https://www.rug.nl/staff/f.a.pannach/

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Job offer: research assistant (m/f/d) (E 13 TV-G-U) in computer science at GU Frankfurt
by Andy Lücking 29 Sep '24

29 Sep '24

*** Apologies for cross-postings *** At the Institute for Computer Science (Prof. Dr. Alexander Mehler), Department of Computer Science and Mathematics at Goethe University Frankfurt, a position for a research assistant (m/f/d) (E 13 TV-G-U) is available at the earliest possible date research assistant (m/f/d) (E 13 TV-G-U) for a period of three years within the ENTAILab project – research infrastructure and innovation lab. The salary scale is based on the job characteristics of the collective agreement applicable to Goethe University (TV-G-U). The project is part of the priority program (SPP) New Data Spaces for the Social Sciences, which is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) (see https://www.new-data-spaces.de). The aim of the project is to establish a research-oriented infrastructure for novel data in survey research. To this end, a method-oriented innovation laboratory for novel methods in survey research is to be set up, which will develop and test methods of machine learning and artificial intelligence in cooperation with the projects of the SPP. The subject of the methods to be developed is multimodal data and thus not primarily or exclusively linguistic research data. You are expected to collaborate in the project and actively participate in the workshops and events of the SPP. We are looking for a highly qualified individual with a keen interest in working in the field of cutting-edge research infrastructures and in the team-oriented development and application of innovative, research-oriented methods in the field of survey research and the social sciences. With the SPP New Data Spaces for the Social Sciences and the Text-Technology Lab, in which the position will be embedded, we offer two research-strong, internationally oriented working environments in the areas of computational humanities, multimodal computing, machine learning and artificial intelligence. This also includes financial resources for conference participation and individual career development. Requirements: · Completed academic university degree (e.g. Master's) in a relevant subject with a focus on information science · Very good knowledge of English (C1) · Proven experience in the field of databases and machine learning or artificial intelligence methods · Extensive programming knowledge in Java, Python or similar · Knowledge of container technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes or similar · An interest in social science issues is desirable. Please send your application with the usual documents (cover letter, CV, copies of certificates) electronically in a combined PDF document by 08.10.2024 to Prof. Dr. Alexander Mehler: mehler(a)em.uni-frankfurt.de.

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Second Call for Papers: The 4th Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics (WACL-4)
by amalhaddad 28 Sep '24

28 Sep '24

THE 4TH WORKSHOP ON ARABIC CORPUS LINGUISTICS (WACL-4) [1] WACL4 AT COLING’2025 WITH FOCUS ON ARABIC DIALECTS https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/wacl4/ ------------------------- The workshop will be held online on January 20th, 2025 in conjunction with the 31st edition of COLING in 2025 in Abu Dhabi (UAE). CALL FOR PAPERS THE WORKSHOP TOPICS INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO: * Development and Utilisation of Arabic Dialectal Corpora * Advancements in Natural Language Processing Techniques for Arabic Dialects * Applications and Challenges of Large Language Models in Understanding and Generating Arabic Dialects * Morphological and Syntactical Challenges in Arabic Dialects * Dialect Identification and Classification * Speech Recognition and Synthesis for Arabic Dialects * Machine Translation involving Arabic Dialects * Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining in Arabic Dialects * Named Entity Recognition and Information Extraction for Arabic Dialects * Development of Open Access Resources for Arabic Dialects * Text Processing and Transliteration Challenges for Arabic Dialects * Cultural and Sociolinguistic Considerations in NLP Applications for Arabic Dialects * Resources and Tools for Computational Analysis of Arabic Dialects * Applications of Arabic Dialects NLP in Real-World Scenarios Summary of the Call: We welcome submissions of papers centred around Arabic Dialects NLP and resources, focusing on supporting and advancing language technologies tailored to the diverse range of Arabic dialects. We encourage submissions that span a spectrum from theoretical investigations to practical applications, aiming to address the unique challenges, solutions, and insights that Arabic dialects introduce to the field of NLP. Submissions should adhere to the COLING 2025 standards. Authors are strongly encouraged to review and follow the COLING 2025 submission guidelines and author kit, available at https://coling2025.org/. If authors are describing dialectal variations, we request that they include relevant linguistic details and sociolinguistic contexts to enrich the understanding of the presented work. Submissions may be of two types: * Long papers - up to eight (8) pages including references, presenting substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. * Short papers - up to four (4) pages including references, describing a small focused contribution, negative results, or system demonstrations, etc. Important dates: * 1st Call for Papers Announcement: 13 August 2024 * 2nd Call for Papers Announcement: 31 August 2024 * Paper Submission Deadline: 10 October 2024 * Notification of Paper Acceptance: 25 November 2024 * Camera-ready Paper Deadline: 10 December 2024 * Workshop Date: 20th January 2025 Format: The workshop will consist of a mix of invited talks, contributed talks, and panel discussions. The workshop will be held 100% virtually, allowing for greater accessibility and participation from scholars and researchers around the world. We anticipate 30 attendees and 2 invited speakers to the workshop. Scheduled for 20 January 2025, the workshop will be held in conjunction with the 31st edition of COLING 2025 in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Anti-Harassment policy: The workshop supports the COLING anti-harassment policy https://coling2022.org/policy _Keynote Speakers*:_ * _Speaker 1: Imed Zitouni, Google, USA_ * _Speaker 2: Hend Alkhalifa, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia_ _*Currently in contact with them._ ORGANIZATION ORGANISING COMMITTEE: * Saad Ezzini, Lancaster University, UK (General Chair) * Hamza Alami, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Morocco (Programme Co-Chair) * Ismail Berrada, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco (Programme Co-Chair) * Abdessamad Benlahbib, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Morocco (Programme Co-Chair) * Abdelkader El Mahdaouy, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco (Review Chair) * Salima Lamsiyah, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg (Publication Chair) * Nouran Khallaf, Leeds University, UK (Publicity Co-Chair) * Hatim Derrouz, Ibn Tofail University, Morocco (Publicity Co-Chair) * Amal Haddad, University of Granada, Spain (Publicity Co-Chair) * Mustafa Jarrar, Birzeit University, Palestine (Advisory Committee) * Mo El-Haj, Lancaster University, UK (Advisory Committee) * Ruslan Mitkov, Lancaster University, UK (Advisory Committee) * Paul Rayson, Lancaster University, UK (Advisory Committee) PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: * Ahmed Ali, Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI), Qatar * Ahmed Abdelali, Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI), Qatar * Almoataz B. Al-Said, Cairo University, Egypt * Eric Atwell, Leeds University, UK * Haithem Afli, Dublin City University, Ireland * Hazem Hajj, American University of Beirut, Lebanon * Ignatius Ezeani, Lancaster University, UK * Imed Zitouni, Microsoft Research, USA * Karim Bouzoubaa, Mohamed Vth University, Morocco * Khaled Shaban, Qatar University, Qatar * Abdessamad Benlahbib, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Morocco * Lama Alsudias, Lancaster University, UK * Mo El-Haj, Lancaster University, UK * Mariam Aboelezz, Birkbeck, University of London, UK * Nadi Tomeh, University of Paris 13, France * Nizar Habash, New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE * Nora Al-Twairesh, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia * Abdelkader El Mahdaoui, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco * Paul Rayson, Lancaster University, UK * Scott Piao, Lancaster University, UK * Taha Zerrouki, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique, Algeria * Tamer Elsayed, Qatar University, Qatar * Violetta Cavalli-Sforza, Al Akhawayn University, Morocco * Wajdi Zaghouani, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar * Hanane El Faik, Chouaïb Doukkali University, Morocco * Wassim El-Hajj, American University of Beirut, Lebanon * Ashraf Boumhidi, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, University, Morocco * Khadidja Merakchi, Heriot-Watt University * Ed-Drissiya El-Allaly, University of Moulay Ismail, Morocco * Driss Aboulhoucine, EMRO, WHO * El Habib Nfaoui, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Morocco * Salima Lamsiyah, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg * Khaled Shaalan, The British University in Dubai, UAE * Ismail Berrada, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco * Maram Alharbi, Lancaster University, UK * Hatim Derrouz, Ibn Tofail University, Morocco * Nouran Khallaf, Leeds University, UK * Hamza Alami, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Morocco * Mustafa Jarrar, Birzeit University, Palestine * Hanane Grissette, Cadi Ayyad University, Morocco Links: ------ [1] https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/wacl4

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Second Call for papers: The 1st International Workshop on Nakba Narratives as Language Resources
by amalhaddad 28 Sep '24

28 Sep '24

NAKBA-NLP 2025 The 1st International Workshop on Nakba Narratives as Language Resources Part of the COLING-2025 [1] Conference Abu Dhabi, UAE (Fully Virtual) January 20, 2025 CALL FOR PAPERS We invite submissions for Nakba-NLP 2025, a workshop dedicated to the exploration and preservation of Nakba narratives through the application of artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and corpus linguistics. All submitted papers should explain their relevance to the topic of 'Nakba Narratives as Language Resources'. The organisers reserve the right to reject any papers that incite hatred, refute established facts, or undermine the suffering of individuals. We seek contributions on the following issues of interest: * Digitisation of oral and written narratives * Creation and labeling of language corpora and datasets * Digital archives, metadata, and semantic/content mark-up * Annotation tools and annotation guidelines * Document classification, topic modeling, and information retrieval * Named entity recognition for identifying people, places, organizations, and events * Entity linking and relationship extraction * Event detection and event argument extraction * Knowledge Graphs and Linked Data * Vocabularies, dictionaries, and ontologies * Data visualisation * Knowledge representation * Machine translation, summarisation, and paraphrasing * Natural Language Generation * Large Language Models * Sentiment analysis and emotional content extraction * Discourse analysis (e.g., bias, offensive language, and misinformation) related to Nakba narratives * Voice & dialogue-based systems; ASR * Palestinian dialects (written and spoken) Participants are invited to use the following archives: Institute for Palestine Studies [2], The Palestinian Museum [3], Nakba-Archive [4], POHA [5],Alhaq [6],ICHR [7], as well as Wikipedia and the Wikidata Knowledge Graph. SUBMISSION DETAILS All submitted papers must clearly state and explain their relevance to the topic of 'Nakba Narratives as Language Resources'. The organisers reserve the right to reject any papers that incite hatred, refute established facts, or undermine the suffering of individuals. Submissions may be of two types: * Long papers - up to eight (8) pages maximum, presenting substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. * Short papers - up to four (4) pages, describing a small focused contribution, negative results, system demonstrations, etc. The workshop supports the COLING anti-harassment policy Policy. [8] IMPORTANT DATES * Submission Deadline: 25 November 2024 * Notifications of Acceptance: 5 December 2024 * Camera Ready Deadline: 13 December 2024 (cannot be changed). Links: ------ [1] https://coling2025.org/ [2] https://www.palestine-studies.org/ [3] https://palmuseum.org/en [4] https://www.nakba-archive.org/ [5] https://libraries.aub.edu.lb/poha/ [6] https://www.alhaq.org/ [7] https://www.ichr.ps/en [8] https://coling2022.org/policy

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Second Call for papers: The 1st Workshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic Script (AbjadNLP 2025)
by amalhaddad 28 Sep '24

28 Sep '24

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS CALL FOR PAPERS: THE 1ST WORKSHOP ON NLP FOR LANGUAGES USING ARABIC SCRIPT (ABJADNLP 2025) Co-located with COLING 2025 Conference, Abu Dhabi, UAE (19-20 January 2025) Submission URL [1] AbjadNLP is dedicated to advancing innovation and gaining deeper insights into Natural Language Processing (NLP) for languages that use the Arabic script. Our primary focus is on Abjad and Ajami languages that utilise the Arabic script or its variations. Traditionally associated with Semitic languages, Abjad scripts represent consonants in every syllable. In contrast, Ajami scripts denote the alphabetic use of the Arabic script in various African contexts, representing non-Arabic languages. We are interested in research on languages that fall under the Abjad or Ajami categories that use the Arabic script or any variations of it. We invite contributions, discussions, and explorations that delve deep into the unique linguistic structures, resources, challenges, and untapped potential presented by Abjad and Ajami languages within the realm of NLP and language resources. Our goal is to create synergies among researchers by addressing the diverse phenomena and challenges inherent in these rich linguistic traditions. The workshop is proud to highlight our connections with the Masakhane NLP community and collaborations with institutions worldwide, such as COMSATS on Urdu, and the long-standing UCREL NLP Group at Lancaster University, whose work encompasses over 20 languages worldwide, including Abjad and Ajami languages. Note: We chose the name Abjad for simplicity, but our focus includes Abjad and other languages that have adopted the Arabic and Perso-Arabic scripts, as well as Ajami languages. We acknowledge that Sorani Kurdish, when written in Arabic script, follows an alphabet style rather than an Abjad style. TOPICS OF INTEREST: * Core Technologies: morphological analysis, disambiguation, tokenisation, POS tagging, named entity detection, chunking, parsing, semantic role labelling, sentiment analysis, language modelling, etc. * Applications: machine translation, speech recognition, speech synthesis, optical character recognition, assistive technologies, social media, etc. * Resources and Tools: dictionaries, annotated data, corpora, orthography descriptions, font technology, glyph rendering, text input methodologies, spell-checking, speech-to-text solutions, BLARK descriptions, open access corpora. * Cultural and Sociolinguistic Considerations: text processing, transliteration challenges, and solutions, cultural contexts in NLP applications. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: We follow the COLING 2025 standards for submission format and guidelines. Submissions should conform to the following types: * Long papers: Up to eight (8) pages, presenting substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. * Short papers: Up to four (4) pages, describing a small focused contribution, negative results, system demonstrations, etc. KEY DATES: * 1st Call for Papers Announcement: 16 July 2024 * 2nd Call for Papers Announcement: 16 August 2024 * Paper Submission Deadline: 15 November 2024 * Notification of Paper Acceptance: 6 December 2024 * Camera-ready Paper Deadline: 13 December 2024 * Workshop Date: 19 or 20 January 2025 ORGANISING COMMITTEE: General Chair: Mo El-Haj, Lancaster University Programme Chairs: * Hugh Paterson III, Collaborative Scholar * Saad Ezzini, Lancaster University * Ignatius Ezeani, Lancaster University Review Committee: * Mahum Hayat Khan, University of La Rioja * Muhammad Sharjeel, COMSATS University Islamabad Publication Chair: Sina Ahmadi, University of Zurich Publicity Chairs: * Cynthia Amol, Maseno University * Amal Haddad Haddad, University of Granada * Jaleh Delfani, University of Surrey Advisory Committee: * Ruslan Mitkov, Lancaster University * Paul Rayson, Lancaster University Links: ------ [1] https://softconf.com/coling2025/AbjadNLP25/

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[CIKM2024] - Program announcement
by antonela.tommasel＠isistan.unicen.edu.ar 27 Sep '24

27 Sep '24

=============== =============== * We apologize if you receive multiple copies * * 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 program of the 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) has been announced. -------------------------- Program at a glance -------------------------- * Monday Oct. 21: Industry day - Tutorials * Tuesday Oct. 22: Keynote - Applied research, full and resource papers - Short paper and demo posters * Wednesday Oct. 23: Keynote - Applied research, full and resource papers - Banquet * Thursday Oct. 24: Keynote - Applied research, full and resource papers - Closing * Friday Oct. 25: Workshops - AnalytiCup - PhD Symposium The full program can be accessed here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RG32LErl82m841_0Foq1SHRt-vtGoWND-aSWHWA…

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NLP positions at the University of Alicante
by amalhaddad 27 Sep '24

27 Sep '24

NLP positions at the University of Alicante PhD position in Natural Language Processing at the University of Alicante The Natural Language Processing (NLP) group at the University of Alicante, one of the leading Spanish NLP research groups (https://gplsi.dlsi.ua.es/grupo/), is advertising a PhD position (investigador pre-doctoral) in NLP. The successful candidate will be working a project which will compare the impact of various rule-based, deep learning and large language models on different NLP applications. The position is offered for 4 years and will carry a gross monthly salary of EUR1,347.86. The successful candidate will receive 14 payments of the salary during each year of employment (or pro-rata if less than full year). We are seeking candidates with good NLP knowledge and excellent programming skills. The successful candidate will be required to start a process of having his/her degree officially validated by the Spanish Government if they do not have a Spanish degree or officially validated degree yet. Prospective candidates can familiarise themselves with the following calls which also outline the application procedure. https://ssp.ua.es/es/selecinvest/03-personal-investigador/2024/pi84/convoca… https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/275446 Non-extendable deadline for applications: 8 October 2024 For further information, please contact Alicia Picazo (alicia.picazo(a)ua.es) Research Assistant Natural Language Processing at the University of Alicante The Natural Language Processing (NLP) group at the University of Alicante, one of the leading Spanish NLP research groups (https://gplsi.dlsi.ua.es/grupo/), is advertising a research assistant position (especialista) in NLP. The successful candidate will be working a project which will compare the impact of various rule-based, deep learning and large language models on different NLP applications. The position is offered for 4 years and will carry a gross monthly salary of EUR1,177.09. The successful candidate will receive 14 payments of the salary during each academic year of employment (or pro-rata if less than full year). We are seeking candidates with NLP knowledge and good programming skills. Only candidates who have their degrees from Spanish universities or whose degrees are already officially validated by the Spanish Government, are eligible to apply for this position. Prospective candidates can familiarise themselves with the following calls which also outline the application procedure. https://ssp.ua.es/es/selecinvest/04-personal-tecnico/2024/pas47/convocatori… https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/275464 Non-extendable deadline for applications: 8 October 2024 For further information, please contact Alicia Picazo (alicia.picazo(a)ua.es)

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Book Announcement: Python for Natural Language Processing -- P. Nugues
by Pierre Nugues 27 Sep '24

27 Sep '24

Apologies for cross-postings. Book announcement: Python for Natural Language Processing By Pierre Nugues This book is available from Springer https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-57549-5 and the notebooks from GitHub: https://github.com/pnugues/pnlp Contents: An Overview of Language Processing A Tour of Python Corpus Processing Tools Encoding and Annotation Schemes Python for Numerical Computations Topics in Information Theory and Machine Learning Linear and Logistic Regression Neural Networks Counting and Indexing Words Word Sequences Dense Vector Representations Words, Parts of Speech, and Morphology Subword Segmentation Part-of-Speech and Sequence Annotation Self-Attention and Transformers Pretraining an Encoder: The BERT Language Model Sequence-to-Sequence Architectures: Encoder-Decoders and Decoders

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BCS SEARCH INDUSTRY AWARDS 2024 ***FINAL CALL***
by Tony Russell-Rose 26 Sep '24

26 Sep '24

BCS SEARCH INDUSTRY AWARDS 2024 ***FINAL CALL*** We are delighted to announce this year's Search Industry Awards, celebrating the best search innovations of 2024. Presented by the Information Retrieval Specialist Group of the BCS, these awards recognize people, projects, and organisations around the world that have excelled in the design of search and information retrieval products and services. If you know of any people, projects, or products that deserve recognition, let us know by submitting a nomination. Alternatively, if you're involved with something special yourself, you can submit an application today. CATEGORIES This year we are offering four awards: 1. Best search project recognises the most impactful implementation of search technology or methodology in solving a specific problem or need. Previous winners include: * Wikiframe Visual Graph, a search capability for Special Collections data stored on Wikidata (wikidata.org) * CiteSeerX, one of the largest open source academic search engines with over 10 million documents * LexisNexis for their work on Open question answering on Lexis+ 2. Search professional of the year is made to an individual who has made a significant contribution through their work and professionalism. Previous winners include: * Amey Porobo Dharwadker, Machine Learning Tech Lead Manager at Meta * Adam Tocock, Library Assistant at NHS * Stuart Mackie, Lead Data Scientist at BiP Solutions 3. Most promising start up (or new enterprise) recognises the innovative and disruptive potential of a business model, technology, or solution. Previous winners include: * batteryincluded.ai, First BI Product Discovery Framework incl. 3 pillars for highest relevancy within global product listings * Giotto AI, an all-in-one platform to automatize, digitalize, and standardize the data collection, analysis and writing of a Clinical Evaluation Report * Resolute.AI, an AI driven platform to search major FDA databases in the public domain in a federated way 4. Best paper / presentation (at Search Solutions). Previous winners include: * Charlie Hull, OSC: “Pragmatic AI-powered Search – Keeping it Simple, not Stupid”. * Filip Radlinski, Google: “Challenges with Really Understanding Natural Language in Conversational Recommendation” * Olivia Foulds, University of Strathclyde: “Crossing the 49th Parallel in Data and Information Science” The last award is open only to presenters at Search Solutions, and will be judged on the day of the event. For all others, apply today! JUDGING PANEL Winners will be selected by our panel of judges (details to be announced shortly). AWARDS CEREMONY The awards ceremony will take place during Search Solutions 2024. APPLY We’ve designed the application process to be simple to complete: https://forms.gle/W54kx6t5jPVp8dkQ7 If you are unsure which category to apply for, or have questions about the application process, contact us via the address below. For further details, see: https://www.bcs.org/membership-and-registrations/member-communities/informa… Nominations will remain open until 31st October. CONTACT If you have any questions on the above, please contact the IRSG Events Organiser at tgr2uk+irsg(a)gmail.com ABOUT IRSG The IRSG is a Specialist Group of BCS. Its mission is to provide a focus for the European IR community, facilitate communication between researchers and practitioners and promote the adoption of IR research within industry. We host a major European conference (ECIR) and provide an associated programme of workshops, seminars and events. The IRSG is free to join via the BCS website, which provides access to further IR articles, events and resources. BCS is the industry body for IT professionals. With members in over 100 countries around the world, BCS is the leading professional and learned society in the field of computers and information systems.

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German Linguist/Annotator Position
by Katarzyna Marszałek-Kowalewska 26 Sep '24

26 Sep '24

*ANNOTATOR / KNOWLEDGE ENGINEER (STUDENT/FREELANCER)* Berlin · Remote · Part-Time YUKKA Lab AG is looking for a German annotator/knowledge engineer to join our Data & Resources Team. *Requirements* - Student in linguistics, philology, or translation - Good understanding of language analysis, e.g. part-of-speech, morphology, syntax, semantics - Native (for native-like) fluency in German - Excellent English skills - Creativity and motivation to push product development - Technically-minded - Ability to research and collect information from a wide variety of resources - Interest in information extraction *Nice to have* - Experience with creating ontologies, knowledge bases - Knowledge of additional languages *Responsibilities* - Annotation of data with linguistic information - Development of language resources, such as lexica, gazetteers - Development of knowledge bases/ontologies *More About Us* We are a fast-growing FinTech and hiring talented engineers with a broad understanding of technology, and visionary and creative thinking for thrilling development tasks. We are unique in sentiment analysis by screening professional print and media content. Our focus is the financial market but we are enlarging our products for overall market sentiment detection. We understand the value of data. Our software analyses online and print news and derives market sentiments. We analyze sectors, indexes, and securities all over the financial markets. *Contact* Do you believe that you would be a good fit for YUKKA Lab? Great! Please send your application with a possible start date to Katarzyna Marszalek-Kowalewska (kmk(a)yukkalab.com). No recruiters, please.

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Registration open: Translating and the Computer (TC46) - Luxembourg - November
by amalhaddad 25 Sep '24

25 Sep '24

WELCOME TO THE TRANSLATING AND THE COMPUTER 2024 (TC46)! TC46 REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN REGISTER NOW [1] TO SHAPE THE FUTURE OF TRANSLATION AND HARNESS THE POWER OF TECHNOLOGY TO BRIDGE LANGUAGES AND CULTURES. DON’T MISS OUT – THE FUTURE OF TRANSLATION STARTS HERE! HTTPS://ASLING.ORG/TC46/REGISTER_TC46/ ARE YOU READY TO TRANSFORM YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF TRANSLATION TECHNOLOGY? JOIN US AT THE FOREFRONT OF INNOVATION AND DISCUSSION AT THIS YEAR’S ASLING CONFERENCE ON TRANSLATING AND THE COMPUTER. THIS IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO CONNECT WITH THOUGHT LEADERS, INNOVATORS, AND PEERS WHO ARE SHAPING THE FUTURE OF OUR INDUSTRY. FROM INTERACTIVE WORKSHOPS TO INSIGHTFUL KEYNOTES AND PANELS, YOU’LL LEAVE EQUIPPED WITH KNOWLEDGE AND IDEAS THAT WILL PROPEL YOUR PROFESSIONAL JOURNEY FORWARD. SPACES ARE LIMITED — SECURE YOUR SPOT NOW AND BE PART OF A COMMUNITY DRIVING ADVANCEMENTS IN TRANSLATION TECHNOLOGY! REGISTRATION* REGISTRATIONS COVER CONFERENCE COSTS, SUCH AS ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS, CATERING, AND OTHER OVERHEAD COSTS. IF YOU ARE A CITIZEN FROM OUTSIDE THE EU OR THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC REGION, PLEASE CHECK WHETHER YOU REQUIRE A VISA TO TRAVEL TO THE VENUE IN LUXEMBOURG. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE TO OBTAIN SUCH A VISA ON YOUR OWN. ASLING CANNOT ASSIST ANY PERSONS REQUIRING A VISA TO TRAVEL TO LUXEMBOURG. REGISTRATION FOR TC46 IS AS FOLLOWS: FIRST EARLY BIRD (AVAILABLE UNTIL AUGUST 31ST) * STUDENTS, EUR 190.00** * ALL OTHER REGISTRANTS, EUR 195.00 SECOND EARLY BIRD (FROM SEPTEMBER 1ST TO OCTOBER 15TH) * STUDENTS, EUR 200.00** * ALL OTHER REGISTRANTS, EUR 215.00 REGULAR CONTRIBUTION (FROM OCTOBER 16TH UNTIL NOVEMBER 18TH) * STUDENTS, EUR 210.00** * ALL OTHER REGISTRANTS, EUR 235.00 *REGISTRATIONS ARE CONFIRMED AFTER THE BANK CONFIRMS PAYMENT TO ASLING. **TO REGISTER AS A STUDENT, YOU MUST SUBMIT A CERTIFICATE CONFIRMING YOUR FULL-TIME STUDENT STATUS. Cancellation policy o Before 1 October 2024: full refund minus EUR 50 (administrative expenses) o Between 1 October and 31 October 2024: EUR 50 refund o From 1 November 2024 onward: NO refund. NETWORKING DINNER THE TC46 N [2]ETWORKING DINNER WILL BE HELD ON 19 NOVEMBER (ON THE 2ND DAY OF THE CONFERENCE) AT A RESTAURANT CLOSE TO THE CONFERENCE VENUE. THE PRICE IS EUR 69 PER PERSON. PLACES ARE RESTRICTED AND WILL BE ASSIGNED, AFTER COMPLETED PAYMENT, ON A FIRST-COME, FIRST-SERVE BASIS. PLEASE FILL IN THE DINNER RESERVATION FORM THAT YOU WILL FIND IN THE NETWORKING DINNER PAGE [2], AND REMEMBER TO CHOOSE “KEYNOTE SPEAKER”, “SPONSOR” OR “OC/PC MEMBERS & PARTICIPANTS” DEPENDING ON YOUR CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION STATUS. CONFERENCE COCKTAIL THIS EVENT [3] PROMISES AN EVENING OF ELEGANT, DELIGHTFUL COCKTAILS, AND ENRICHING CONVERSATIONS WITH INDUSTRY LEADERS AND FELLOW PROFESSIONALS. IT’S AN EXCELLENT OPPORTUNITY TO UNWIND, NETWORK, AND SHARE INSIGHTS IN A RELAXED AND SOPHISTICATED ATMOSPHERE. Links: ------ [1] https://asling.org/tc46/register_tc46/ [2] https://asling.org/tc46/networking-dinner/ [3] https://asling.org/tc46/networking-cocktail/

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2nd CfP: 8th Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages (ComputEL-8)
by Antti Arppe 25 Sep '24

25 Sep '24

EIGHTH WORKSHOP on the Use of COMPUTATIONAL METHODS in the Study of ENDANGERED LANGUAGES (ComputEL-8) Read to the end for the Special Session information and submission deadline. SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS - REGULAR SESSION Submission deadline: October 7, 2024 Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=computel8 The ComputEL-8 workshop focuses on the use of computational methods in the study, support, and revitalization of endangered languages. The primary aim of the workshop is to continue narrowing the gap between computational linguists interested in methods for endangered languages, academic linguists documenting languages, and the language communities who are striving to maintain their languages. We encourage submissions from scholars and activists representing any or all of these perspectives. The intention of the workshop is not merely to allow for the presentation of research, but also to build a network of computational linguists, documentary linguists, and community language activists who are able to effectively join together and serve their common interests. Workshop Venue ComputEL-8 will be co-located with the 9th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (ICLDC) in Honolulu, Hawaii (https://ling.lll.hawaii.edu/sites/icldc/). We anticipate being able to support travel costs in some cases for presenters without institutional support. Priority will be given to members of endangered language communities, scholars from low-income countries, and students. Please contact the organizers at computel.workshop(a)gmail.com for further information. The workshop will be a virtual/in-person hybrid event. Ability to attend in person will not affect consideration of submissions. SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS We encourage submissions that explore the interface and intersection of computational linguistics, documentary linguistics, and community-based efforts in language revitalization and reclamation. This includes submissions that: (i) propose or demonstrate new methods or technologies for tasks or applications focused on low-resource settings, and in particular, endangered languages (ii) examine the use of specific methods in the analysis of data from low-resource languages, or propose new methods for analysis of such data, oriented toward the goals of language reclamation and revitalization (iii) propose new models for the collection, management, and mobilization of language data in community settings, with attention to e.g. issues of data sovereignty and community protocols (iv) explore concrete steps for a more fruitful interaction among computer scientists, documentary linguists, and language communities IMPORTANT DATES 07-Oct-2024 Deadline for submission of papers or extended abstracts 22-Nov-2024 Notification of Acceptance 10-Jan-2025 Camera-ready papers due 4 & 5 March 2025 Workshop PRESENTATIONS Presentation of accepted papers will be in both oral sessions and a poster session. The decision on whether a presentation for a paper will be oral and/or poster will be made by the Organizing Committee on the advice of the Program Committee, taking into account the subject matter and how the content might be best conveyed. Oral and poster presentations will not be distinguished in the Proceedings. SUBMISSIONS In line with our goal of reaching multiple overlapping communities, we offer two modes of submission: extended abstract and full paper. The mode of submission does not influence the likelihood of acceptance. Either can be submitted to one of the workshop’s tracks: (a) language community perspective and (b) academic perspective. Submissions must be uploaded to EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=computel8) no later than October 7, 2024 11:59PM (UTC-12, “anywhere on earth”). Submissions may be considered for both the regular session and the special session. All submissions must be anonymous following ACL guidelines and will be peer-reviewed by the scientific Program Committee. A. Extended Abstract: Please submit anonymous abstracts of up to 1500 words, excluding references. Extended abstracts must be submitted as attached documents. B. Full Paper: Please submit anonymously either a) a long paper - max. 8 pages excluding references and appendices; or b) a short paper - max. 4 pages excluding references, according to the style and formatting guidelines provided in by ACL Style Files (download template files for LaTeX or Microsoft Word: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files). Proceedings The authors of selected accepted full papers (long or short) will be invited by the Organizing Committee to submit their papers for online publication via the open-access ACL Anthology. Final versions of long and short papers will be allotted one additional page (altogether 5 and 9 pages) excluding references. Proceedings papers should be revised and improved versions of the work that was submitted for, and which underwent, review. Any revisions should concern responses to reviewer comments or the addition of relevant details and clarifications, but not entirely new, unreviewed content. Camera-ready versions of the articles for publication will be due on January 10, 2025. SPECIAL THEME SESSION - BUILDING TOOLS TOGETHER In addition to the main session, ComputEL-8 invites self-identified submissions to a special themed session on “Building Tools Together”, oriented toward amplifying our shared understanding of how best to work together across disciplinary and cultural boundaries to build technological tools that support community language revitalization. We invite presentations that: (1) describe collaborations in the development of new tools and technologies; and/or (2) describe or identify technological or computational needs within community language reclamation contexts, and/or propose solutions. A. For presentations that describe a collaboration among language communities, academic researchers, and (in some cases) industry or non-governmental organizations towards the development of new tools, resources, and technologies in, we encourage submissions which address questions such as: 1. How did the idea for the tool or technology come about? 2. How did the team members meet and come to work together? 3. What has been the impact of this tool? How are you evaluating it? How has the project benefitted community efforts at language maintenance and revitalization? 4. What are some challenges (logistical, technical, interdisciplinary, intercultural) that you encountered, and how did you address them? 5. How have you balanced the needs and priorities of different team members through the lifespan of the project? 6. What lessons have you learned that might benefit similar collaborations? B. For presentations that identify technological or computational needs within community language reclamation contexts, and/or propose solutions, e we encourage submissions which address questions such as: 1. What is the need that this tool would meet? Who will it serve? 2. What is the blue-sky version of this tool? What is the minimum viable product version? 3. What kinds of data, digital assets, or media content would be required to create the tool, and how would they be assembled? 4. What challenges might the team face in the development process? 5. How do you anticipate the collaborative process to best incorporate diverse areas of expertise from cultural and community-grounded knowledge to academic, technical, and production-oriented knowledge? Please submit anonymous extended abstracts of up to 1500 words, excluding references. Submissions representing community-led collaborations are strongly encouraged. Submissions must be uploaded to EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=computel8) no later than October 7, 2024 11:59PM (UTC-12, “anywhere on earth”). Submissions may be considered for both the regular session and the special session. Notification of acceptance to the Special Session will be sent out by November 22, 2024. All authors of papers in the Special Theme Session will be invited to contribute to a follow-up paper that synthesizes the findings of the Session. IMPORTANT DATES 07-Oct-2024 Deadline for submission of papers or extended abstracts 22-Nov-2024 Notification of Acceptance 10-Jan-2025 Camera-ready papers due 4 & 5 March 2025 Workshop ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Godfred Agyapong (University of Florida) Antti Arppe (University of Alberta) Aditi Chaudhary (Google Research) Jordan Lachler (University of Alberta) Sarah Moeller (University of Florida) Shruti Rijhwani (Google DeepMind) Daisy Rosenblum (University of British Columbia) Olivia Waring (University of Hawai'i Mānoa) CONTACT US For further information, please consult our website: https://computel-workshop.org/ComputEL-8/ or email us at: computel.workshop(a)gmail.com -- ====================================================================== Antti Arppe - Ph.D (General Linguistics), M.Sc. (Engineering) Professor of Quantitative Linguistics Director, Alberta Language Technology Lab (ALTLab) Project Director, 21st Century Tools for Indigenous Languages (21C) Past President, ACL SIG for Endangered Languages (SIGEL) Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta E-mail: arppe(a)ualberta.ca, antti.arppe(a)iki.fi WWW: www.ualberta.ca/~arppe, altlab.artsrn.ualberta.ca Mānahtu ina rēdûti ihza ummânūti ihannaq - dulum ugulak úmun ingul ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Fwd: ESAO Webinar n.12 on Tuesday October 1st, 2024 16:00 CEST –- Call for Participation
by Cassia 24 Sep '24

24 Sep '24

Dear all, The Educational Series on Applied Ontology (ESAO) [1] is open for everyone and welcomes students, researchers and practitioners alike. The 12h ESAO webinar will be held on Tuesday October 1st, 2024 at 16:00 CET. --------------------------- When and how to connect Tuesday October 1st, 2024 14:00 UTC / 16:00 CEST / 16:00 SAST Duration: 90 minutes Video conference (via Zoom) : https://univ-tlse2.zoom.us/j/92895546685?pwd=DQD7Wzf3ZJw02LJ2hHmrVDwdN474PZ… --------------------------- Program 14:00-15:30 UTC / 16:00-17:30 CEST / 16:00-17:30 SAST / 11:00-12:30 UTC-3 Olivier Kutz, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Title: Concepts, concept combinations, and the tooth operator Abstract: We will discuss some of the approaches to model concepts and concept combinations with the help of logic, and illustrate how such modelling approaches are capable (or not) of modelling aspects of human reasoning with concepts. We will then explain the basic ideas underlying the framework of weighted description logics, also called perceptron or 'tooth' logic, and illustrate its key features and benefits for modelling and reasoning with concepts. Maria Hedblom, Jönköping University, Sweden Title: Cognitive foundations for KR Abstract: TBA Best regards Cassia Trojahn, Frank Loebe, Laure Vieu On behalf of the IAOA Education Committee [1] https://wiki.iaoa.org/index.php/Edu:ESAO

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Modeling Climate Change: Towards more harmonious and resilient human settlements
by Aline Villavicencio 23 Sep '24

23 Sep '24

Dear all, We are hosting an online panel about recent and devastating extreme climate events, the role of science in modelling, predicting and responding to these events, and how science can inform and support response and replanning efforts. Modeling Climate Change: Towards more harmonious and resilient human settlements The event is online and open to all, and details about how to join are included below. We hope to see you there. Aline Villavicencio (Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Exeter, and University of Sheffield, UK) Marco Idiart (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) On behalf of the organising committee ——————————————— Modeling Climate Change: Towards more harmonious and resilient human settlements Date: September 27, 2024, 3pm UK Website: https://sites.google.com/view/climate-change-southern-brazil Location: Join the Zoom Meeting <https://universityofexeter.zoom.us/j/91435912802?pwd=KC4M7HxkKljx8HJb3sE23H…> https://Universityofexeter.zoom.us/j/91435912802?pwd=KC4M7HxkKljx8HJb3sE23H… Meeting ID: 914 3591 2802 Password: 164009 Human settlements alter the course of rivers, narrow their banks, and eliminate forests and wetlands, ecosystems that retain water and allow its absorption into the soil. For decades or even centuries, it was possible to avoid natural disasters simply by erecting protective barriers to prevent the waters from returning to their natural beds. On the other hand, global warming destabilizes the climate and increases the frequency of extreme weather events such as excessive rainfall and floods. This makes the protections for villages and cities less effective, leading to major climatic disasters as observed in southern Brazil. There is consensus that the frequency and severity of these events will tend to increase in coming years, and therefore, we must consider what kind of planning we should make for the future. Either we continue to build increasingly larger dams, dikes and barriers, or we need to rethink human occupation of territories. In this panel, we discuss how to replan or relocate climate affected settlements, making them more harmonious with nature and resilient to climatic effects, and how data science and artificial intelligence can assist us in this. A Discussion with: Ricardo Campos (University of Exeter, UK) Marina Hirota (Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil) Tiago de Melo Cartaxo (University of Exeter, UK) Marcia Zilli (University of Oxford, UK) Moderator: Ronaldo Menezes (University of Exeter, UK) More information is available on the website <https://sites.google.com/view/climate-change-southern-brazil?usp=sharing>; registration is not required.

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Postdoctoral Research Fellow CL/NLP at MBZUAI, UAE; additionally affiliated with the UKP Lab, TU Darmstadt
by Niemann, Elisabeth 23 Sep '24

23 Sep '24

*** Postdoctoral Research Fellow at MBZUAI, UAE; additionally affiliated with the UKP Lab, TU Darmstadt *** We have an opening in Computational Linguistics/Natural Language Processing in the Natural Language Processing Department at MBZUAI, UAE to work together with Iryna Gurevych. The successful candidate will also be affiliated with the UKP Lab at the Technical University of Darmstadt. The initial contract will be for 2 years. Ideal candidates have a PhD in computational linguistics, AI, Machine Learning or a related discipline and are fluent in English. DUTIES 1. Developing your own research program, including publications in top CL/NLP venues. 2. Collaborative research between the NLP Department of MBZUAI and the UKP Lab in Darmstadt to help establish one of the most prominent CL/NLP bridges between Europe and MBZUAI in UAE. This is an opportunity for you to be part of the team that shapes the future of this collaboration. 3. Joint projects with other NLP and ML faculty members at MBZUAI. MBZUAI AND UKP LAB ECOSYSTEMS MBZUAI's NLP Department (Chair: Prof. Preslav Nakov) is quickly growing. It is supported by the government's investment in AI, which makes funds and infrastructure available to early-career researchers. The current MBZUAI NLP faculty is international and diverse and is engaged in cutting-edge projects with top partners worldwide. UKP lab is part of ELLIS (ELLIS NLP and the ELLIS unit in Darmstadt, the Konrad Zuse School of Excellence in Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELIZA), and the Hessian.AI (https://hessian.ai), a new center in which the faculty from the main Hessian universities collaborate on advancing machine learning, including NLP. ELLIS, ELIZA and Hessian.AI provide a rich environment for networking with other researchers in NLP and AI and for collaboration with other groups. TEAM This position is supervised by Iryna Gurevych, founder and director of the UKP Lab in Darmstadt and a recent recipient of the Milner 2024 Lecture Award recognizing one outstanding computer science researcher from Europe per year. UKP Lab is internationally recognized for its research on NLP including language representation learning, sentence transformers and conversational AI. We are a team of about 40 full-time researchers from a multitude of different nations. WAGES AND BENEFITS MBZUAI provides competitive salaries for postdoctoral fellows, sufficient academic freedom to engage in cutting-edge research and publish top-level papers in a research environment, and the infrastructural conditions required to start research immediately. LOCATION This position is in Abu-Dhabi, at MBZUAI, offering an unprecedented opportunity for gaining international experience. Due to a close collaboration with UKP Lab, the successful candidate will occasionally visit Darmstadt in Germany to advance joint projects. APPLICATION Please submit your application via the following form: https://careers.ukp.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/ukprecruitment Application deadline: October 15th, 2024. After that, the position will remain open until filled. We will consider applications as soon as they are submitted.

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Call for participation: Shared task on Predicting Disagreements in WiC Annotations
by Dominik Schlechtweg 23 Sep '24

23 Sep '24

Dear colleagues, The CoMeDi (Context and Meaning—Navigating Disagreements in NLP Annotations) workshop will host a shared task. We invite participants to solve two subtasks given a pair of words uses: Subtask 1: Ordinal Word-in-Context Detection (OGWiC) Subtask 2: Disagreement in Word-in-Context Detection (DisWiC) The task takes a different view on modeling of word meaning by (i) treating WiC as an ordinal classification task, and (ii) making disagreement the explicit detection aim (instead of removing it). The workshop will colocated with COLING 2025, where the results of the shared task will be presented. All information can be found on our website: https://comedinlp.github.io/ Everyone is cordially invited to participate. Feel free to approach us in case of any questions. Best, Dominik -- https://garrafao.github.io/ https://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/en/institute/team/Schlechtweg/

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Job offer: research assistant (m/f/d) (E 13 TV-G-U) in computer science at GU Frankfurt
by Andy Lücking 22 Sep '24

22 Sep '24

*** Apologies for cross-postings *** At the Institute for Computer Science (Prof. Dr. Alexander Mehler), Department of Computer Science and Mathematics at Goethe University Frankfurt, a position for a research assistant (m/f/d) (E 13 TV-G-U) is available at the earliest possible date research assistant (m/f/d) (E 13 TV-G-U) for a period of three years within the ENTAILab project – research infrastructure and innovation lab. The salary scale is based on the job characteristics of the collective agreement applicable to Goethe University (TV-G-U). The project is part of the priority program (SPP) New Data Spaces for the Social Sciences, which is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) (see https://www.new-data-spaces.de). The aim of the project is to establish a research-oriented infrastructure for novel data in survey research. To this end, a method-oriented innovation laboratory for novel methods in survey research is to be set up, which will develop and test methods of machine learning and artificial intelligence in cooperation with the projects of the SPP. The subject of the methods to be developed is multimodal data and thus not primarily or exclusively linguistic research data. You are expected to collaborate in the project and actively participate in the workshops and events of the SPP. We are looking for a highly qualified individual with a keen interest in working in the field of cutting-edge research infrastructures and in the team-oriented development and application of innovative, research-oriented methods in the field of survey research and the social sciences. With the SPP New Data Spaces for the Social Sciences and the Text-Technology Lab, in which the position will be embedded, we offer two research-strong, internationally oriented working environments in the areas of computational humanities, multimodal computing, machine learning and artificial intelligence. This also includes financial resources for conference participation and individual career development. Requirements: · Completed academic university degree (e.g. Master's) in a relevant subject with a focus on information science · Very good knowledge of English (C1) · Proven experience in the field of databases and machine learning or artificial intelligence methods · Extensive programming knowledge in Java, Python or similar · Knowledge of container technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes or similar · An interest in social science issues is desirable. Please send your application with the usual documents (cover letter, CV, copies of certificates) electronically in a combined PDF document by 08.10.2024 to Prof. Dr. Alexander Mehler: mehler(a)em.uni-frankfurt.de.

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One PhD Position and One Postdoc Position Open in Computational Social Science / Computational Linguistics, IMS Stuttgart, Germany
by Tanise Ceron 22 Sep '24

22 Sep '24

(Posted: September 13, 2024; Deadline: October 6, 2024) The Theoretical Computational Linguistics group [1] at the Institute for Natural Language Processing (IMS), University of Stuttgart, Germany, has two open positions as part of the MULTIVIEW project [2]: one for a PhD candidate and one for a postdoctoral researcher. The project, led by Amelie Wührl [3] and Tanise Ceron [4], focuses on diversifying news recommendation. The successful candidates will investigate methods for diversifying perspectives in news recommendation systems based on textual and discourse features. The general goals are to create datasets and develop methods that identify and rank news based on a variety of perspectives on the same events. The candidates should have a background in computer science, computational linguistics or similar with substantial knowledge of natural language processing including neural network modeling and strong programming and software engineering skills. They require excellent communication skills and knowledge of English, and interest in interdisciplinary and team work. Prior experience with recommendation systems and large language models are considered a plus. A master’s degree level of education is required for the PhD candidate and a PhD title is required for the postdoctoral candidate. The candidates will be employed by IMS at the University of Stuttgart. The PhD position is available for three years, starting in January 2025. It is a 75% position, following the German university pay scale (TV-L 13) [5]. The candidate will be co-supervised by Sebastian Padó [6] and Tanise Ceron. The postdoctoral position is for a duration of 13 months, beginning in January 2025. It is a full-time position (100%), also according to the German university pay scale (TV-L 13) [7]. To apply, please send a full CV and letter of motivation together in a single PDF document to Tanise Ceron (tanise.ceron at ims.uni-stuttgart.de). The motivation letter should highlight the candidate’s relevant research or work experience, explain their interest in the project, and outline how they can contribute to it. Applications received by October 6 will receive full consideration. For further clarification, please contact Amelie Wührl and Tanise Ceron (amelie.wuehrl, tanise.ceron at ims.uni-stuttgart.de) About Stuttgart and the University of Stuttgart: The University of Stuttgart is a technically oriented university in Germany. It is especially known for engineering and related topics, with its computer science department being ranked highly nationally and internationally. The Institute of Natural Language Processing (Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung, IMS), which forms part of the Faculty of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, is one of the largest academic research institutes for natural language processing in Germany. Its activities range from computational corpus linguistics to semantic processing, machine translation, psycholinguistics, and phonetics. The city of Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in the south-west of Germany and known for its strong economy, rich culture and its location across a variety of hills, many covered in vineyards. It is a lively place with an active bar and club scene and well-serviced public transport. By train, it is well-connected to many other interesting places, for instance Munich and Cologne (~2 hours), Paris (~3.5 hours), Berlin (~5.5 hours), Strasbourg (1 hour) or Lake Constance (2 hours). [1] https://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/en/institute/researchgroups/tcl/ [2] https://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/en/research/projects/multiview/ [3] https://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/institut/team/Wuehrl/ [4] https://tceron.github.io/ [5]* https://oeffentlicher-dienst.info/c/t/rechner/tv-l/allg?id=tv-l&g=E_13&s=1&… [6] https://nlpado.de/~sebastian/ [7]* https://oeffentlicher-dienst.info/c/t/rechner/tv-l/allg?id=tv-l&g=E_13&s=1&… * values are approximations which may vary depending on previous work experience.

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38th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS 2025) :Call for Special Tracks
by Announce 22 Sep '24

22 Sep '24

*** Call for Special Tracks *** 38th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (IEEE CBMS 2025) June 18-20, 2025, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Madrid, Spain https://2025.cbms-conference.org Attracting a worldwide audience, CBMS is the premier conference for computer-based medical systems, and one of the main conferences within the fields of medical informatics and biomedical informatics. IEEE CBMS 2025 invites proposals for organization of special tracks that will be held in parallel with the general conference track. The themes of the special tracks should not overlap with the general conference topics and should focus on emerging research fields. All tracks are expected to enable stimulating discussions of state-of-the-art, emerging, visionary, and perhaps controversial topics. Their papers should report on significant unpublished work and must meet the same standards as main conference papers. All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings. We expect all accepted tracks to adhere to the conference paper submission and reviewing schedule, as outlined in the dates indicated below. Special Tracks chair(s) will be interacting with organisers of accepted workshops to ensure a high-quality workshop program. In the case of detecting several similar submissions, the CBMS 2025 organization can propose the fusion of those proposals. Special Track requirements The organizers of a special track must comply with a set of principles and obligations, listed below: • A specific webpage with information about the special track will be created by CBMS after the acceptance notification. The organizers must provide the following information to be added to such webpage: special track description, list of topics, call for papers, submission information (must be the same as CBMS 2025 regular track), special track organizers, special track program committee members, any other relevant information. • The organizers of the special track are responsible for the peer-review process within their track. They must add their own Program committee members/reviewers to the submission platform, ensure that receive all the reviews on time, check the quality of the reviews, and establish the acceptance/rejection decision. The final decision will be sent by CBMS 2025 PC Chairs. They also must pay special attention to potential conflicts of interest and ensure that all the general ethical rules of research are followed. • At least one of the organizers of the special track must register and attend to CBMS 2025 in Madrid. The organizer(s) who attend CBMS will also chair the specific session that will be assigned in the agenda to their track. • The organizers of the special track are responsible for the publicity of their track to try to win as many submissions as possible. Please bear in mind that a special track with less than 4 accepted papers could be canceled. In this case, the accepted papers will be moved to the regular track. Important Dates • Deadline for special track proposal: November 8, 2024 (AoE) • Special track notification acceptance: November 15, 2024 Submission Guidelines Each proposal must include: • Special track title • Rough estimate of the expected ST size as number of sessions (with 4-5 papers per session) • A brief biography of ST organizer(s) • List of Special Track program committee members • A draft of Special Track “Call for papers” (important dates must be the same of the main conference) • One or two appropriate journals or follow up publications: tracks are expected to organize a special issue, if planned. The proposal must be sent to info[at]cbms-conference[dot]org CBMS 2025 Special Track Chairs • Alba García Seco de Herrera • Gilberto Ochoa-Ruiz • Sharib Ali Other Information For more information, please contact info[at]cbms-conference[dot]org.

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Survey on Arabic NLP Datasets
by Wajdi Zaghouani 22 Sep '24

22 Sep '24

Dear Colleagues, We are conducting a brief survey to assess the current state of Arabic NLP datasets and to explore the challenges involved in creating new ones. The survey consists of *7 short-answer questions* and should take less than 5* minutes* of your time. Your insights will be invaluable in helping to advance research and development in Arabic Natural Language Processing. Please consider participating by following this link: https://forms.gle/ukyGk9pEzegGtHW29 We truly appreciate your time and contribution to this important area of research. ---- Wajdi Zaghouani, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Communication Program Northwestern Qatar | Education City T +974 4454 5232 | M +974 3345 4992

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Release: 𝐐𝐚𝐛𝐚𝐬 - 𝐚𝐧 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧-𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞 𝐋𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐜𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐜 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐚𝐬
by Mustafa Jarrar 20 Sep '24

20 Sep '24

يسرنا الاعلان عن معجم قبس الحاسوبي We are very happy to release 𝐐𝐚𝐛𝐚𝐬 - 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧-𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞 𝐋𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐜𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐜 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐞 Qabas = 60k Lemmas + manually linked with 12 corpora (2.3 tokens) + 110 lexicons (~ 300k lemmas) Birzeit University’s SinaLab for Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence <https://sina.birzeit.edu/> has officially launched Qabas <https://sina.birzeit.edu/qabas>, an open-source lexicographic database for Arabic, designed specifically for Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications. Qabas stands out by linking its lexical entries (lemmas) with lemmas from 110 different lexicons and numerous morphologically annotated corpora (around 2 million tokens), creating an extensive lexicographic graph. This project has been under development for over fourteen years. Lexicons have evolved from being primarily hard-copy resources for human use to having substantial significance in NLP applications. Although Arabic is a highly resourced language in terms of traditional lexicons, not enough attention is given to developing AI-oriented lexicographic databases. Additionally, none of the Arabic lexicons are available open-source, due to copyright restrictions imposed by their owners. As for Qabas, it is an open-source Arabic lexicon designed for NLP applications, and its novelty lies in its synthesis of many lexical resources. Each lexical entry (i.e., lemma) in Qabas is linked with equivalent lemmas in 110 other lexicons, and with 12 morphologically-annotated corpora (about 2M tokens); The philosophy of Qabas is to construct a large lexicographic data graph by linking existing Arabic lexicons and annotated corpora. Qabas stands as the largest Arabic lexicon, encompassing about 58K lemmas (45K nominal lemmas, 12.5K verbal lemmas, and 500 function word lemmas). Prof. Mustafa Jarrar, the project’s manager and main author, emphasized the importance of making Qabas freely available as an open-source resource, allowing everyone to access and use it for both commercial and non-commercial purposes. Prof. Jarrar hopes that researchers, companies, and software developers will leverage the lexicon’s data to develop innovative content and applications that benefit humanity. Prof. Talal Shahwan, President of Birzeit University, stated that despite the challenging conditions in Palestine, the university remains committed to excellence and to its mission towards knowledge. He emphasized that this achievement was made possible by the dedication of the university’s faculty and researchers. Qabas is publicly available online at: https://sina.birzeit.edu/qabas To download Qabas and find out more, see: https://sina.birzeit.edu/qabas/about Article: https://www.jarrar.info/publications/JH24.pdf We’d love your feedback: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=880418097306662 LinkedIn: https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=880418097306662 Best --Mustafa __________________________ Mustafa Jarrar, PhD Professor of Artificial Intelligence Chair, PhD Program in Computer Science Birzeit University, Palestine Page: http://www.jarrar.info <http://www.jarrar.info/> SinaLab: https://sina.birzeit.edu <https://sina.birzeit.edu/>

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Call for Doctoral Consortium Papers : FIRE 2024
by Bhargav Dave 19 Sep '24

19 Sep '24

Apologies for the multiple postings. ------------------------------------- *Call for Doctoral Consortium Papers* *FIRE 2024: 16th meeting of the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation* 12th - 15th December 2024 DA-IICT, Gandhinagar, India Submission Deadline: 2nd October 2024 (Extended) Website: fire.irsi.org.in Submission Link : https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/FIRE2024 ------------------------------ *The goals of the symposium are to: * - provide the participants with an independent and constructive assessment of their current research and possible future research scopes; - develop a supportive community of scholars and a spirit of collaborative research; - provide a platform for the doctoral participants to share and discuss their ideas with distinguished researchers from their domain; and support the participants further with an individual mentorship session with a distinguished researcher. *Who should participate? * Students should consider participating in the Doctoral Consortium if they are at least twelve months away from completing their dissertation at the time of the event, but after having settled on a research area or thesis topic. In the area of research which largely covers AI / ML, and information science-related, we do not have any fixed set of research areas for the DC. However, it would be desirable to have information retrieval as a paradigm in your research that can be in any domain like software engineering, machine translation and image processing, etc. *Submission* Submissions can be based on early ideas or results (communicated elsewhere) for further feedback, or well-rounded study, results, and analysis, on approach to convert PhD work into a product, and the like. The paper should be 4 pages long (including references) and may contain the following aspects: - the problem to be solved in the research; a justification of why the problem is important; a summary of the previous research and related work has not yet solved that problem, - the expected contributions of the research, - how the student aims to evaluate and analyze the results; acceptable evidence of the results to the community, - an outline and characterization of the results achieved so far, and - the planned timeline for completion. Students, whose submissions are accepted, will be invited to present a poster at the consortium. They will also need to give a short talk at the consortium. Paper submission link: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/FIRE2024 *Format* The submitted papers must follow follow LNCS (Springer conference) template available on https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/springer-lecture-notes-in-computer…. The only accepted format of submissions is PDF. Papers which do not conform to the requirements may get rejected without review. Please note that it is the responsibility of the authors to ensure that the PDF submission has been uploaded successfully (we suggest that you try downloading your paper again yourself, to check). Authors are invited to submit in any of the following tracks: Paper Length: 4 page single column The author names and affiliations of the PhD Student or supervisors should be included in the paper during submission. The first author of the paper should be the PhD Student. *Review Process* Submissions will be reviewed by members of the Doctoral Symposium Committee. Participants will be selected on the basis of their anticipated contribution to the Doctoral Consortium goals as well as the potential benefit to the participants. Among the criteria that will be considered in reviewing submissions are: - the potential quality of the anticipated contributions - the stage of the research; - the diversity of backgrounds, research topics, and approaches. An additional review would be done to assess if the participants are eligible for the PhD clinic, where potential research work can be reviewed and discussed individually by a distinguished researcher. *Consortium and PhD Clinic* Authors of submissions selected for participation will have the opportunity to present their work during the Doctoral Consortium and to have a camera-ready version of their papers published in a companion volume to the FIRE 2024 Conference Proceedings. The presentation is expected to be delivered in person, unless this is impossible due to travel limitations (related to, e.g., health or visa). Selected participants will be also be eligible for the PhD clinic wherein they will be assigned to a distinguished researcher who will conduct an individual mentoring session with the participants. This session can be constructively used by the participants to discuss their ideas, get more insights and feedback and also directions forfuture work. *Important dates* *25th July 2024* DC Paper submission link <https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/FIRE2024> will be available * 20th September 2024 2nd October 2024 * Paper submission deadline *30th October 2024 * Paper acceptance notification *10th November 2024 * Camera ready copy submission deadline *12th-15th December 2023* In-person conference Note: All submission deadlines are 11:59 PM AoE Time Zone (Anywhere on Earth). *Presentation Requirements* If accepted, at least one author will have to register for the conference and present their work in-person. *Doctoral Consortium Co-ordinator * - Soumen Paul ( IIT Kharagpur, India) - Srijoni Majumdar, University of Leeds, UK For queries related to conference please email us at [ clia(a)isical.ac.in ] For latest updates subscribe the FIRE mailing List [ https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/fire-list ]

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Call for Participations: Regulations Challenge at FinNLP-FNP-LLMFinLegal Workshop @ COLING 2025
by jimin.huang＠thefin.ai 19 Sep '24

19 Sep '24

Dear all, The Regulations Challenge aims to push the boundaries of LLMs in understanding, interpreting, and applying regulatory knowledge in the finance industry. In this challenge, participants will participate in 9 tasks to explore key issues, including, but not limited to, regulatory complexity, ethical considerations, domain-specific terminology, industry standards, and interpretability. We welcome students, researchers, and practitioners who are passionate about finance and LLMs. We encourage participants to develop solutions that advance the capabilities of LLMs in addressing the challenges of financial regulations and industry standards. These tasks assess the LLM's ability to handle different types of questions within the regulatory domain which follow: - Abbreviation Recognition Task: Goal: Match an abbreviation with its expanded form. Input Template: "Expand the following acronym into its full form: {acronym}. Answer:" - Definition Recognition Task: Goal: Correctly define a regulatory term or phrase. Input Template: "Define the following term: {regulatory term or phrase}. Answer:" - Named Entity Recognition (NER) Task: Goal: Ensure the output correctly identifies entities and places them into groups that the user specifies. Input Template: "Given the following text, only list the following for each: specific Organizations, Legislations, Dates, Monetary Values, and Statistics: {input text}." - Question Answering Task: Goal: Ensure the output matches the correct answer to a detailed question about regulatory practices or laws. Input Template: "Provide a concise answer to the following question: {detailed question}? Answer:" - Link Retrieval Task: Goal: Ensure the link output matches the actual law. Input Template: "Provide a link for ____ law, Write in the format of ("{Law}: {Link}" or "{Law}: Not able to find a link for the law")" - Certificate Question Task: Goal: Select the correct answer choice to a question that may be based on additional context. Input Template: "(This context is used for the question that follows: {context}). Please answer the following question with only the letter and associated description of the correct answer choice: {question and answer choices}. Answer:" - XBRL Analytics Task: Goal: Ensure the output strictly matches the correct answer to a detailed question about financial data extraction and application tasks via XBRL filings. These standardized digital documents contain detailed financial information. Input Template: "Provide the exact answer to the following question: {detailed question}? Answer:" - Common Domain Model (CDM) Task: Goal: Deliver precise responses to questions about the Fintech Open Source Foundation's (FINOS) Common Domain Model (CDM). Input Template: "Provide a concise answer to the following question related to Financial Industry Operating Network's (FINO) Common Domain Model (CDM): {detailed question}? Answer:" - Model Openness Framework (MOF) Licenses Task: Goal: Deliver precise responses to questions concerning the requirement of license under the Model Openness Framework. Input Template: "Provide a concise answer to the following question about MOF's licensing requirements: {detailed question}? Answer:" The final score is determined by the weighted average of metrics for 9 tasks. We assign the weight of 10% to Task 1-5 each, 20% to Task 6, and 10% to Task 7-8 each. Important Dates Training Set Release: September 15, 2024 Training Data Details: Summary of Question Dataset Validation Set Release: October 30, 2024 Systems Submission: November 7, 2024 Release of Results: November 12, 2024 Paper Submission Deadline: November 25, 2024 Notification of Acceptance: December 5, 2024 Camera-ready Paper Deadline: December 13, 2024 Workshop Date: January 19-20, 2025 Task Organizers Keyi Wang, Columbia University, Northwestern University Lihang (Charlie) Shen, Columbia University Haoqiang Kang, Columbia University Xingjian Zhao, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Namir Xia, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Christopher Poon, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Jaisal Patel, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Andy Zhu, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Shengyuan Lin, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Daniel Kim, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Jaswanth Duddu, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Matthew Tavares, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Shanshan Yang, Stevens Institute of Technology Sai Gonigeni, Stevens Institute of Technology Kayli Gregory, Stevens Institute of Technology Katie Ng, Stevens Institute of Technology Andrew Thomas, Stevens Institute of Technology Dong Li, FinAI Supervisors Yanglet Xiao-Yang Liu, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Columbia University Steve Yang, School of Business at Stevens Institute of Technology Kairong Xiao, Roger F. Murray Associate Professor of Business at Columbia Business School Matt White, Executive Director, PyTorch Foundation. GM of AI, Linux Foundation Cailean Osborne, University of Oxford Wes Turner, Rensselaer Center for Open Source (RCOS), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Neha Keshan, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Luca Borella, PM of AI Strategic Initiative, FINOS Ambassador, Linux Foundation Karl Moll, Technical Project Advocate, FINOS, Linux Foundation For more details, please visit https://coling2025regulations.thefin.ai/ or contact colingregchallenge2025(a)gmail.com Best regards, Jimin Huang The Fin AI (https://thefin.ai)

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Financial Misinformation Detection Challenge: Training Datasets Release and Call for Participations
by jimin.huang＠thefin.ai 19 Sep '24

19 Sep '24

Dear All, We're excited to announce that we've just released all training datasets for Financial Misinformation Detection Challenge at FinNLP-FNP-LLMFinLegal Workshop @ COLING 2025, giving participants the resources needed to start building powerful models. This is your chance to explore, innovate, and contribute to the world of financial large language models. This task tests the ability of LLM to verify financial misinformation while generating plausible explanations. Participants need to develop or adapt LLMs to identify financial claims (True'/'False'/'Not Enough Information') and give explanations for their decision according to the related information, following the designed prompt template of the query. For more details: Contest Website: https://coling2025fmd.thefin.ai/ Team Registration: https://forms.gle/vh9MSQa31HwrS7Xm9 Shared Task Organizers: Zhiwei Liu - University of Manchester, UK Keyi Wang - Columbia University, Northwestern University, USA Zhuo Bao - Internet Domain Name System Beijing Engineering Research Center Co, China Xin Zhang - University of Manchester, UK Jiping Dong - University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Boyang Gu - Imperial College London, UK Kailai Yang - University of Manchester, UK Dong Li - FinAI, Singapore Sophia Ananiadou - University of Manchester, UK; Archimedes RC, Greece Important Dates: Schedule: from Aug 15 to Dec 13, 2024 Solution submission deadline: Nov 7, 2024 Paper submission deadline: Nov 25, 2024 Notifications of Acceptance: Dec 5, 2024 Camera-ready Paper Deadline: Dec 13, 2024 We look forward to your participation and your brilliant contributions to this event. Best regards, Jimin Huang The Fin AI (https://thefin.ai)

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SemEval 2025: Multilingual News Narrative Analysis Task
by ion＠aueb.gr 19 Sep '24

19 Sep '24

First call for participation in the SemEval 2025 shared task: Multilingual Characterization and Extraction of Narratives from Online News. This task challenges participants to analyze news articles and automatically identify narratives, classify them, and determine the roles played by relevant entities. The task is multilingual, covering five languages: Bulgarian, English, Hindi, Portuguese, and Russian. Participants can choose to participate in one or more of the following subtasks: - Subtask 1: Entity Framing – Classify the roles of named entities within news articles. - Subtask 2: Narrative Classification – Classify each article based on all the (sub)narratives given a specific domain. - Subtask 3: Narrative Extraction – Generate short textual explanations for dominant narratives in the articles. The task covers news articles from two domains, namely, Ukraine-Russia War and Climate Change. Important Dates: - 31 January 2025: Test submission deadline - 28 February 2025: System paper submission deadline - 31 March 2025: Notification to authors - 21 April 2025: Camera-ready papers due - Summer 2025: SemEval workshop For more details, visit https://propaganda.math.unipd.it/semeval2025task10/ or contact us at semeval2025narratives-task-participants(a)googlegroups.com. We look forward to your participation and to advancing the state of multilingual news narrative analysis together! -- Ion Androutsopoulos (http://www.aueb.gr/users/ion/) Professor of AI, Head of Department, Information Processing Lab Director, NLP Group Co-director Department of Informatics, Athens University of Economics and Business and Adjunct Researcher, "Archimedes" Research Unit, Research Center "Athena"

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Johns Hopkins: Tenure Track Faculty Positions
by Mark Dredze 19 Sep '24

19 Sep '24

The Computer Science department at Johns Hopkins University is hiring tenure-track faculty. Our search includes two tracks: 1) Data Science and AI, and 2) All other areas of Computer Science. We offer special support for *spousal/partner placement. *Additionally, starting October 1, *Early Action* hiring will consider candidates for fall semester interviews with potentially early offers that have typical spring deadlines. We encourage candidates to apply early to take advantage of flexible scheduling and potentially receive an early offer before they proceed to spring interviews. All applications submitted by December 1, 2024 will receive full consideration. Our search supports the large-scale expansion of the Whiting School of Engineering, which will add 150 new tenure-track professors at all ranks, including 30 Bloomberg Distinguished Professorships and 80 positions that will be part of the university’s new Data Science and AI Institute. This expansion includes a new building and extensive computational resources that will establish Johns Hopkins as one of the largest and leading engineering schools with a top AI research program. The expansion will grow JHU CS to become one of the largest computer science departments at a U.S. private university. Feel free to forward this to interested parties. Job Ad: https://www.cs.jhu.edu/about/employment-opportunities/ Applications: http://apply.interfolio.com/153420 Data Science AI: https://engineering.jhu.edu/Datascience-AI/ Computer Science DSAI: https://engineering.jhu.edu/Datascience-AI/CS/ Best, Mark Dredze ============== John C Malone Professor Associate Head of Research and Strategic Initiatives, Computer Science Johns Hopkins University

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2nd CfP: 1st Workshop on Computational Humor (CHum @ COLING 2025)
by Tristan Miller 18 Sep '24

18 Sep '24

Call for papers: 1st Workshop on Computational Humor (CHum 2025) ================================================================ The 1st Workshop on Computational Humor (CHum 2025) will take place virtually on January 19, 2025 as part of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2025). Scope and topics ---------------- CHum 2025 aims to foster further work on modeling the processes of humor with current methods in computational linguistics and natural language processing, against the theoretical backdrop of humor research and with reference to relevant corpora of textual, visual, and multimodal materials. A principal goal of the workshop is to unite researchers who can together probe the limits of various meaning representations -- symbolic, neural, and hybrid -- for humor processing. We welcome contributions on any topic relevant to the computational processing of humor, including but not limited to the following: * LLMs, knowledge representation * Resources and evaluation * Human-computer interaction * Computer-mediated communication * Assisted content creation * Machine and computer-assisted translation * Digital humanities applications * Formal modeling of humor * Proof-of-concept humor detection and classification Particularly encouraged are submissions describing inter- or multi-disciplinary work, whether completed or in progress, and position papers that critically discuss the past, present, and future of computational humor systems. Submission instructions ----------------------- Long and short papers should be formatted according to the same guidelines for the main COLING 2025 conference papers <https://coling2025.org/calls/submission_guidlines/> and submitted through START: <https://softconf.com/coling2025/CompHum25/> Important dates --------------- All deadlines are at 23:59 UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth"). * Initial submission: November 15, 2024 * Notification of acceptance: December 2, 2024 * Camera-ready submission: December 13, 2024 * Workshop: January 19, 2025 Organizers ---------- * Christian F. Hempelmann, Texas A&M University-Commerce * Julia Rayz, Purdue University * Tiansi Dong, Fraunhofer IAIS * Tristan Miller, University of Manitoba Further information ------------------- * Website: <https://chum2025.github.io/> * E-mail: chum(a)groups.io -- Dr. Tristan Miller, Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba https://logological.org/ | Tel. +1 204 474 6792

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HITS Independent Postdoc Program
by michael.strube＠h-its.org 18 Sep '24

18 Sep '24

The HITS Independent Postdoc Program offers a great opportunity for highly talented young scientists wanting to transition from PhD student to junior group leader. It supports young scientists in exploring their own ideas and testing new hypotheses. High-risk, high-gain projects are encouraged. Selected postdocs will collaborate with group leaders at HITS while developing and pursuing their independent research projects. What we offer: The Fellowship is awarded for 2 years, with an option for a 1-year extension after positive evaluation. We offer a vibrant research community and a highly interdisciplinary and international working environment, with close links to Heidelberg University and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). In addition, successful candidates benefit from outstanding computing resources and various courses offered at HITS. A competitive salary, relocation and childcare allowances are provided. Find the current job opening here: https://www.h-its.org/research/independent-postdoc-program/ 2024 Deadline: November 3rd, 2024 Please don't hesitate to get in contact with Michael Strube (michael.strube ät h-its.org) if you have any questions. -- Michael Strube NLP Group HITS gGmbH Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 35 69118 Heidelberg, Germany https://www.h-its.org/nlp

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Extended Deadline- ACM SAC 2025 - Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track
by Patrizio Bellan 18 Sep '24

18 Sep '24

The 40th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing ACM SAC 2025 March 31 - April 4, 2025 - Catania, Italy Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track ***************************************** Important Dates Author deadline for submissions: September 20, 2024 October 4, 2024: Author notification of acceptance: October 30, 2024 Author camera ready and registration due: November 29, 2024 ***************************************** Aim Aim of the Knowledge and Natural Language Processing (KNLP) track at ACM SAC is to investigate techniques and application of knowledge engineering and natural language processing, two extremely interdisciplinary and lively research areas at the core of Artificial Intelligence. In particular, the track welcomes contributions combining and complementing methods and approaches from both areas. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Natural Language Processing NLP tasks for Knowledge Extraction NLP for Ontology Population and Learning Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining for Knowledge Applications Interplay between Language and Ontologies NLP for Explainable Knowledge Machine Translation techniques for Multi-lingual Knowledge NLP for the Web (Large) Language Models and Knowledge - Knowledge Knowledge to improve NLP tasks Knowledge for Information Retrieval Knowledge-based Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining Combining Knowledge and Deep Learning for NLP Knowledge for Text Summarization and Generation Knowledge for Persuasion Knowledge-based Machine Translation Knowledge for the Web Linked Data for NLP Knowledge-based NL Explainability RAG and Knowledge injection for Language Models - Applications Real-world applications that exploit Knowledge and NLP Knowledge and NLP Systems for Big Data scenarios Knowledge and NLP technology for diverse, equitable, and inclusive society Deployment of Knowledge and NLP Systems in specific domains, such as: Digital Humanities and Social Sciences eGovernment and public administration Life sciences, health and medicine News and Data Streaming ***************************************** Paper Submission Research papers and experience reports related to the above topics are solicited. Submissions must not have been published or be concurrently considered for publication elsewhere. Papers should be submitted in PDF using the ACM-SAC proceedings format using the submission link on the SAC 2025 website (https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2025/). Authors' names and affiliations should be entered separately at the submission site and not appear in the submitted papers. Each submission will be reviewed in a DOUBLE-BLIND process according to the ACM-SAC Regulations. Student Research Competition (SRC) submissions are welcome (see SAC 2025 website for details). Full papers are limited to 8 pages, in camera-ready format, included in the registration fee. Authors have the option to include up to two (2) extra pages (paying an extra charge). Posters are limited to 2 pages, in camera-ready format, included in the registration fee. Authors have the option to include only one (1) extra page (paying an extra charge). SRC Abstracts are limited to 3 pages, in camera-ready format, included in the registration fee. No extra pages are allowed. Paper selection is based on originality, technical contribution, presentation quality, and relevance to the Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track. Some papers may be accepted as posters. Paper registration is required, allowing the inclusion of the paper/poster in the conference proceedings. An author or a proxy attending SAC MUST present the paper. This is a requirement for the paper/poster to be included in the ACM digital library. No-show of registered papers and posters will result in excluding them from the ACM digital library. ***************************************** Track Co-Chairs Patrizio Bellan, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) Marco Bombieri, Università degli Studi di Verona Mauro Dragoni, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) Marco Rospocher, Università degli Studi di Verona ***************************************** Programme Committee TBA ***************************************** General Inquiries For further information, please visit SAC Knowledge and Natural Language Processing Track (https://knlp-sac.github.io/2025/) and SAC 2024 conference websites (https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2025/) or feel free to contact the Track Co-Chairs at knlp(a)fbk.eu<mailto:knlp@fbk.eu> . -- -- 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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[CFP]: FIRE 2024, The 16th Annual meeting of Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation
by Bhargav Dave 17 Sep '24

17 Sep '24

*Call for Papers* *FIRE 2024: 16th meeting of the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation* 12th - 15th December 2024 DA-IICT, Gandhinagar, India *Submission Deadline: 22nd September 2024 (Extended)* Website: fire.irsi.org.in Submission Link : https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/FIRE2024 ------------------------------ The 16th meeting of the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation 2024 will be held at Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT), Gandhinagar, India. It will be an in-person conference. We are seeking submissions of high-quality and original papers. Submissions will be reviewed by experts on the basis of the originality of the work, the validity of the results, chosen methodology, writing quality and the overall contribution to the field of IR/NLP. Authors are also encouraged to describe work in progress and late-breaking research results. *Topics of interest include, but are not limited to* 1. Search and Ranking: Research on core algorithmic topics in IR: 1. Queries and query analysis (e.g., Query understanding, query reformulation, query representation etc.) 2. Retrieval models and ranking (e.g., Cross lingual IR with a particular focus on Indian languages, ranking algorithms, language models, retrieval algorithms, learning to rank etc) 3. Efficiency and scalability (e.g., distributed search, search engine architecture, indexing, crawling etc). 4. Supervised/Weakly supervised deep neural networks. 5. Other domain-specific applications of IR. 2. Evaluation: Research on evaluation of IR systems: 1. User centric evaluation (e.g., User experience, user engagement etc) 2. System centric evaluation (e.g., Evaluation metrics). 3. Query Performance Prediction and its applications. 3. Generative Models for IR/NLP. 1. Conversational and Interactive Search Systems 2. Simulated Data for Personalized IR. 3. Issues related to fairness and trustworthiness of IR/Recsys models 4. In-Context Learning or Retrieval Augmented Generation for Search and NLP downstream tasks, such as Question Answering, Summarization 5. Domain-specific generation, such as Code generation, Argument generation, Workflow generation. 4. Explainability, Fairness and Trust of IR/Recsys models 1. Explainable models for ranking, text classification/clustering, summarization etc. 2. User studies for explainable AI (XAI) applied to IR/Recsys 3. Issues related to fairness and trustworthiness of IR/Recsys models 5. Multimodal and Crossmodal IR/Recsys model 1. Visual Question Answering 2. Image search/recommendation 3. Question answering 4. Multimodal document summarization *Important dates* *25th July 2024* Paper submission link <https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/FIRE2024> will be available *5th September 2024 22nd September 2024 * Paper submission deadline *30th October 2024 * Paper acceptance notification *10th November 2024 * Camera ready copy submission deadline *12th-15th December 2024* In-person conference Note: All submission deadlines are 11:59 PM AoE Time Zone (Anywhere on Earth). *Submission Guidelines* Submissions must describe substantial, original and unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis must be included. If the paper being submitted is under review at any other venue, the same should be explicitly mentioned when making the submission. Such a paper, if accepted, should be withdrawn from all other places. The FIRE conference track, this year, is subdivided into 2 different subtracks (described later), each with a different scope and objective, and with different reviewing policy. Please make sure that you are submitting your paper in the correct track. No requests for switching papers across tracks will be entertained after the deadline for paper submission expires. Submissions will be taken through Microsoft CMT. Select the "Conference Track" while submitting the paper and in the subject area select the appropriate paper type (Regular Paper, Resource and Demo Paper, Extended Abstract). Please note that incorrect submission will be desk rejected. Link to submit the paper: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/FIRE2024 *Paper Template and Submission* The submitted papers must follow LNCS (Springer conference) template available on https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/springer-lecture-notes-in-computer… . The only accepted format of submissions is PDF. Papers which do not conform to the requirements may get rejected without review. Please note that it is the responsibility of the authors to ensure that the PDF submission has been uploaded successfully (we suggest that you try downloading your paper again yourself, to check). Authors are invited to submit in any of the following tracks: - *Regular paper* Similar to last year, this year, also we don’t make any explicit distinction between long and short papers. More time will be allocated for longer papers during the presentation. Submitted papers can be of *variable length* up to a *maximum of 12* pages of *content (excluding references)* . Reviewing policy: Double-blind. - *Resource and Demo paper* The papers submitted at this track should describe data or software resources towards a research problem that will be helpful to the IR/NLP/AI community. Such resources should ideally be made publicly available for reviewers to judge the merit of the resources. The demo papers should contain a link to a working software that demonstrates the application of existing research methods as a proof-of-the-concept. Reviewing policy: Single-blind. Number of pages: *variable length* up to a *maximum of 9* pages of *content (excluding references).*. *Double-blind Reviewing Policy* All submissions to the regular track of FIRE conference 2024 will be reviewed on the basis of originality, relevance, importance, and clarity. For papers submitted to the regular track, the authors must not mention their names or institutional details anywhere in the paper. Authors should refer to themselves in third person when citing their own work. Expressions like "In our earlier work..." or "We previously showed that..." must be avoided. *Presentation Requirements* If accepted, at least one author will have to register for the conference and present their work in-person. *Conference Track Co-ordinator* - Debasis Ganguly (University of Glasgow, UK) - Debarshi Kumar Sanyal (Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, India) For queries related to conference please email us at [ clia(a)isical.ac.in ] For latest updates subscribe the FIRE mailing List [ https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/fire-list ]

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Call for Papers for the 22nd Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA) extended to 27th September
by Kathy Reid 17 Sep '24

17 Sep '24

Dear Colleagues, The CfP for the 22nd Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association - ALTA 2024 - is now open and has been extended to 27th September (23:59hrs Anywhere on Earth UTC -12) Details are available on our website at https://alta2024.alta.asn.au/calls/papers and a summary follows. --- Important Dates * Submission deadline for short/long papers, presentation abstracts and industry demonstrations: 20 September 2024 (23:59 Anywhere On Earth UTC-12). * Main conference: 3 December and 4 December 2024, ANU, Canberra, ACT, hybrid (in person and online) Overview The 22nd Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA) will be held in a hybrid format at the Australian National University, Canberra, from 2 December to 4 December 2024 and also online. The ALTA 2024 workshop is the key local forum for socialising research results in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computational Linguistics (CL). It will feature presentations, posters, and demonstrations from students, industry, and academic researchers. Like previous years, we also encourage submissions and participation from industry and government researchers and developers. Note that ALTA is listed in the CORE 2023 Conference Rankings as Australasian C<https://www.core.edu.au/conference-portal>. Topics ALTA invites the submission of papers and presentations on all aspects of NLP and CL, including, but not limited to: * Commonsense Reasoning. * Computational Social Science and Cultural Analytics. * Dialogue and Interactive Systems. * Discourse and Pragmatics. * Efficient Methods for NLP. * Ethics in NLP. * Information Extraction. * Information Retrieval and Text Mining. * Interpretability, Interactivity and Analysis of Models for NLP. * Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond. * Language Modeling and Analysis of Language Models. * Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics. * Machine Learning for NLP. * Machine Translation. * Multilinguality and Linguistic Diversity. * Natural Language Generation. * NLP Applications. * Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation. * Question Answering. * Resources and Evaluation. * Semantics: Lexical, Sentence level, Document Level, Textual Inference, etc. * Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining. * Speech and Multimodality. * Summarisation. * Syntax, Parsing and their Applications. We particularly encourage submissions that broaden the scope of our community by considering practical applications of language technology and multidisciplinary research. We also specifically encourage submissions from the industry. Format and instructions for authors Please refer to our CfP webpage for specifics.<https://alta2024.alta.asn.au/calls/papers> We are using OpenReview for submissions, and invite submissions of three different formats: (1) Original Research Papers, (2) Abstract-based Presentations, and (3) Industry Demonstrations. --- You can follow ALTA on social media at the following links: * LinkedIn (page): https://www.linkedin.com/company/australasian-language-technology-associati… * LinkedIn (group):https://www.linkedin.com/groups/1849979/ * Twitter: https://twitter.com/altanlp * Mastodon: https://sigmoid.social/@ALTAnlp * Hashtag is #ALTA2024 With kind regards, on behalf of the ALTA 2024 Team: Dr Gabriela Ferraro, General Chair Professor Tim Baldwin, Program Chair Dr Sergio José Rodríguez Méndez, Program Chair Dr Nicholas Kuo, Program Chair Dr Anton Malko, Publication Chair Dr Dawei Chen, Technology Chair A/Prof Shunichi Ishihara, Finance Chair Charbel El-Khaissi, PhD candidate, Sponsorship Chair Ned Cooper, PhD candidate, Local Chair Kathy Reid, PhD candidate, Publicity Chair

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Artificial Intelligence Research in Applied Linguistics (AIRiAL) 2024 Conference
by Voss, Erik 17 Sep '24

17 Sep '24

Apologies for cross-posting! There’s still time to register for the Artificial Intelligence Research in Applied Linguistics (AIRiAL) 2024 Conference. Register here <https://sites.google.com/tc.columbia.edu/airialconference/airial-2024/regis…> for the conference. Theme AI in Education: Empowering Learners & Preparing Educators Location Teachers College, Columbia University Smith Learning Theater (in person) Dates September 27-28, 2024 Plenary Speakers Yanis Ben Amor, Columbia University Monica Arés, Imperial College Business School 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. We look forward to seeing you at the conference! For more details, visit our conference website here. <https://sites.google.com/tc.columbia.edu/airialconference/airial-2024-home> -- 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* 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) Voss, E. (2024). Language Assessment and Artificial Intelligence. <https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=ht8aEQAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA112&ot…> The Concise Companion to Language Assessment.

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CFP, the 9th Biomedical Linked Annotation Hackathon (BLAH9)
by Jin-Dong Kim 16 Sep '24

16 Sep '24

The 9th Biomedical Linked Annotation Hackathon (BLAH9) 13 - 17 January, 2025 Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan https://blah9.linkedannotation.org/ Submission due of project proposals : 18 Oct., 2024 SPECIAL THEME Ensuring Robustness in LLM-based Research: Reproducibility, Interoperability, and Reliable Evaluation. INTRODUCTION BLAH (Biomedical Linked Annotation Hackathon) represents a series of annual hackathon events, specifically designed to foster open collaboration. The goal is to achieve a breakthrough in the sharing and linking of various resources for biomedical literature annotation and mining. By enhancing the interoperability of these resources, the initiative aims to substantially increase both the productivity and the impact within the community. The 9th edition of BLAH (BLAH9) will be held under the special theme "Ensuring Robustness in LLM-based Research: Reproducibility, Interoperability, and Reliable Evaluation." Reproducibility and reliable evaluation are key to ensure that research remains robust and trustworthy. However, with the recent surge in research using large language models (LLMs), these important principles have become largely unclear. Interoperability, a vital component for fostering robust collaboration and promoting open science, has similarly faced challenges as LLM-based research expands. Now, two years into the surge of LLM-based research, it is an opportune moment to reassess and prioritize these critical aspects of research and development to ensure long-term sustainability and rigor in the field. CALL FOR PROJECT PROPOSALS We are seeking project proposals from individuals and teams interested in advancing biomedical literature annotation and mining, with a particular focus this year on enhancing reproducibility, interoperability, and reliable evaluation in the context of using large language models (LLMs). Proposals should be structured to achieve measurable outcomes through collaboration during the hackathon, with clearly defined objectives that can lead to meaningful insights by the end of the event. Suggested proposal topics may include, but are not limited to: - Enhancing interoperability in LLM-based annotation and mining - Developing reliable evaluation frameworks for LLM-based annotation and mining - Improving reproducibility in LLM-based annotation and mining - ... Submission due of project proposals is 18 Oct., 2024 TRAVEL SUPPORT Those who submit project proposals are eligible to apply for travel support. See the homepage for detailed information. PROGRAM COMMITTEE - Jin-Dong Kim - DBCLS, ROIS-DS - Fabio Rinaldi - IDSIA - Zhiyong Lu - NCBI, NLM - Lars Juhl Jensen - Univ. Copenhagen

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September 2024 Newsletter - LDC
by Penn LDC 16 Sep '24

16 Sep '24

In this newsletter: LDC data and commercial technology development New publications: L2-KSU Native and Non-Native Arabic Speech<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2024S11> MATERIAL Somali-English Language Pack<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2024S10> ________________________________ LDC data and commercial technology development For-profit organizations are reminded that an LDC membership is a pre-requisite for obtaining a commercial license to almost all LDC databases. Non-member organizations, including non-member for-profit organizations, cannot use LDC data to develop or test products for commercialization, nor can they use LDC data in any commercial product, or for any commercial purpose. LDC data users should consult corpus-specific license agreements for limitations on the use of certain corpora. Visit the Licensing<https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/data-management/using/licensing> page for further information. ________________________________ New publications: L2-KSU Native and Non-Native Arabic Speech<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2024S11> was developed by King Saud University<http://ksu.edu.sa/en/> (KSU) and contains approximately six hours of Modern Standard Arabic read speech from 80 subjects, along with transcripts and speaker metadata. The speech data was collected in 2022 from 40 native and 40 non-native speakers. Native speakers were from Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Palestine, and provided audio recordings through the crowd sourcing platform Khamsat<https://khamsat.com/>. Non-native speakers were Central and West African students enrolled in KSU's Arabic Linguistics Institute; they provided speech recordings on site. All subjects read a series of ten sentences, repeating each sentence multiple times. 2024 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts provided they have submitted a completed copy of the special license agreement. Non-members may license this data for a fee. * MATERIAL Somali-English Language Pack<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2024S10> was developed by Appen<http://www.appen.com/> for the IARPA (Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity) MATERIAL<https://www.iarpa.gov/index.php/research-programs/material> (Machine Translation for English Retrieval of Information in Any Language) program. It contains 80 hours of Somali conversational telephone speech, transcripts, English translations, annotations, and queries. Calls were made using different telephones (e.g., mobile, landline) from a variety of environments. Transcripts cover approximately 10% of the speech files, and approximately 4% of the speech files were translated into English. This release also includes domain annotations, English queries, and their relevance annotations. The MATERIAL program focused on underserved languages with the ultimate goal to build cross language information retrieval systems to find speech and text content using English search queries. 2024 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts provided they have submitted a completed copy of the special license agreement. Non-members may license this data for a fee. To unsubscribe from this newsletter, log in to your LDC account<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/login> and uncheck the box next to "Receive Newsletter" under Account Options or contact LDC for assistance. Membership Coordinator Linguistic Data Consortium<ldc.upenn.edu> University of Pennsylvania T: +1-215-573-1275 E: ldc(a)ldc.upenn.edu<mailto:ldc@ldc.upenn.edu> M: 3600 Market St. Suite 810 Philadelphia, PA 19104

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Call for for Participation: SemEval Shared Task 11 (Bridging the Gap in Text-Base Emotion Detection)
by Nedjma OUSIDHOUM 16 Sep '24

16 Sep '24

Dear corpora-list members, We are glad to announce SemEval shared task 11: Bridging the Gap in Text-Based Emotion Detection <https://github.com/emotion-analysis-project/SemEval2025-Task11>. New textual datasets will be provided for 33 languages: Afrikaans <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrikaans>, Algerian Arabic <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algerian_Arabic>, Amharic <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amharic>, Hausa <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hausa_language>, Igbo <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igbo_language>, Kinyarwanda <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinyarwanda>, Moroccan Arabic <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moroccan_Arabic>, Mozambican Portuguese <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozambican_Portuguese>, Nigerian-Pidgin <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian_Pidgin>, Oromo <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oromo_language>, Setswana <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tswana_language>, Somali <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somali_language>, Swahili <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swahili_language>, Tigrinya <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tigrinya_language>,Xitsonga <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsonga_language>, isiXhosa <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xhosa_language>, Yoruba <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoruba_language>, isiZulu <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zulu_language>, Modern Standard Arabic <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic>, Chinese <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_language>, Hindi <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindi>, Indonesian <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_language>, Javanese <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javanese_language>, Marathi <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathi_language> English <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language>, German <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_language>, Romanian <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_language>, Russian <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_language>, Latin American Spanish <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_language_in_the_Americas>, Tatar <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatar_language>, Ukrainian <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_language>, Swedish <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_language> Brazilian Portuguese <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_Portuguese>. This shared task is on perceived emotion and focuses on: - Determining what emotion most people will think the speaker may be feeling given a sentence or short text snippet uttered by the speaker. The task is *not about*: - The emotion evoked in the reader. - The emotion of someone else mentioned in the text. - Or even the true emotion of the speaker (which cannot be definitively known from just a short text snippet). We acknowledge the importance of this distinction as perceived emotions can differ from actual emotions due to various factors such as cultural context, individual differences in emotional expression, and the limitations of text-based communication. (See more here <https://github.com/emotion-analysis-project/SemEval2025-Task11?tab=readme-o…> .) Participants can participate in one or more of the following tracks: Track A: Multi-label Emotion Detection Given a target text snippet, predict the perceived emotion(s) of the speaker. A training dataset with gold emotion labels will be provided for this track. Track B: Emotion Intensity Given a target text and a target perceived emotion, predict the intensity for each of the classes. *Track C: Cross-lingual Emotion Detection* Given a labeled training set in one of the languages, predict the perceived emotion labels of a new text instance in a different target language. *Important Dates and Phases of the Task* Description Deadline Sample Data Ready 15 July 2024 Training Data Ready 10 September 2024 Evaluation Start 10 January 2025 Evaluation End 31 January 2025 System Description Paper Due 28 February 2025 Notification to authors 31 March 2025 Camera ready due 21 April 2025 SemEval workshop 2025 (co-located with a major NLP conference) *Note that our task is inclusive and junior-friendly. We will organise a QA session with the participants before the competition starts and we will organise a system description writing tutorial.*Data Available on https://github.com/emotion-analysis-project/SemEval2025-Task11 Useful Links for the participants *Contact Organisers *emotion-semeval-2025-organisers(a)googlegroups.com *Twitter/X* @EmoSemEval2025 <https://x.com/EmoSemEval2025> FAQs <https://github.com/emotion-analysis-project/SemEval2025-Task11?tab=readme-o…> and Terms and Conditions <https://github.com/emotion-analysis-project/SemEval2025-Task11?tab=readme-o…> *Competition webpage* https://www.codabench.org/competitions/3863/ *Discord* https://discord.gg/wnVUerj5Rz *Google Group* emotion-semeval-2025-participants(a)googlegroups.com Best regards, The Organisers: Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Seid Muhie Yimam , Nedjma Ousidhoum, Idris Abdulmumin, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Ibrahim Said Ahmad, Alham Fikri Aji, Felermino Ali, Vladimir Araujo, Abinew Ali Ayele, Tadesse Destaw Belay, Meriem Beloucif, Christine de Kock, Oana Ignat, Vukosi Marivate, Alexander Panchenko, Terry Ruas, Nirmal Surange, Daniela Teodorescu, Jan Philip Wahle, Yi Zhou, Saif M. Mohammad.

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Four-year post-doctoral position in computer science / digital humanities at the University of Helsinki, Finland
by Hiippala, Tuomo J 16 Sep '24

16 Sep '24

Dear all, I'm looking to recruit a post-doctoral researcher in computer science or digital humanities to my ERC-funded project, which started in May 2024: 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. This is a fixed-term position for 48 months, starting in January 2025 or as agreed, based in the Department of Languages at the University of Helsinki, Finland. The deadline for applications is October 21, 2024. RESPONSIBILITIES: The post-doctoral researcher is responsible for developing new methods for querying the multimodal corpora created in the project, which describe the structure of multimodal discourse using graphs that combine crowdsourced human insights and vector representations. 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 working with knowledge graphs or information retrieval is essential. For more information, see the full announcement here: https://jobs.helsinki.fi/job-invite/3513/ If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me. Best, Tuomo Hiippala --- Dr. Tuomo Hiippala | Professor of 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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Job opportunity - Professorship for Translation Studies
by Kunz, Prof. Dr. Kerstin 16 Sep '24

16 Sep '24

Dear all, the Faculty of Modern Languages at Heidelberg University invites applications for a Professorship for “Translation Studies“ (f/m/d) Open rank: Tenure Track Professorship (W1 to W3) or Full Professor (W3) to be occupied on October 1, 2025. The Institute for Translation and Interpreting at the University of Heidelberg offers the position of professor of translation studies with a focus on translation processes and translation workflow. We are seeking candidates with a first independent research profile after the doctorate for the tenure track level (W1). This position will initially be limited to six years and, following a positive tenure evaluation, will be converted to a permanent W3 full professorship. Candidates that are more qualified may be appointed directly on the full professor level. Applicants should have a track record of empirical research into the interfaces between different processes, resources and competences of translation and multilingual text production, such as interactions of human, computer-aided and machine translation, innovative forms of inter- and intralingual translation/communication, also in the continuum between spoken and written language (e.g. multimedia/ audiovisual translation, speech-to-text interpreting, translation into “Leichte Sprache”/ Easy Language). Experience in conducting major research projects, success in securing external funding, and a record of participation in academic self-governance will be advantageous. Deadline for applications: October 31, 2024 More information at: https://adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FDB$.startup?MODUL=LS&M1=1&M2=0… https://adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FDB$.startup?MODUL=LS&M1=1&M2=0… ----- Prof. Dr. Kerstin Kunz Institut für Übersetzen und Dolmetschen Plöck 57a, 69117 Heidelberg Tel.: 0049-(0)6221-547227 Email: kerstin.kunz(a)iued.uni-heidelberg.de<mailto:kerstin.kunz@iued.uni-heidelberg.de>

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Call for submissions: Conference on Rational Approaches in Language Science (RAILS)
by Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb 16 Sep '24

16 Sep '24

Call for submissions: Conference on Rational Approaches in Language Science (RAILS) The 2nd Conference on Rational Approaches in Language Science (RAILS) will be held in Saarbruecken, Germany, 13-15 February 2025. The central theme of this conference is rational communication, i.e. the idea that language users continuously strive to optimize their means of communication to effectively convey their intended messages. RAILS brings together research on (1) how interlocutors process and update information in diverse situational contexts, (2) how language use is adapted to certain contexts and intended referents, and (3) how linguistic and conceptual information is stored and maintained in short- and long-term memory. We invite submissions from researchers across the language sciences – including speech science, theoretical linguistics, empirical linguistics, psycholinguistics and neuroscience, computational linguistics, as well as language development, change and evolution – who apply rational probabilistic explanations to linguistic phenomena, or bring novel experimental findings to bear on such accounts. Keynote speakers: Mark Dingemanse (Radboud University) Richard Futrell (University of California, Irvine) Adele Goldberg (Princeton University) Rachel Ryskin (University of California, Merced) Submission guidelines: Abstracts should be submitted as a single PDF file via https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/43090/submissions/new <https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/43090/submissions/new?behalf=false&f…>, adhering to the guidelines listed on our conference website <https://sfb1102.uni-saarland.de/sfb-conference-2025/>. We accept submissions for posters and/or talks. Talks are slated for 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for questions. Submission of planned work is invited for poster presentation only. Note that, if accepted, we expect results to be presented at the conference. Important dates: Submissions open: 8 July, 2024 Submissions due: 16 September, 2024 Notification of acceptance: 4 November, 2024 Registration period: 11 November-16 December, 2024 De-anonymized abstracts due in final form: 2 December, 2024 Conference: 13-15 February, 2025 Scientific Committee: Regine Bader Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb Katja Haeuser Robin Lemke Ivan Yuen Scientific and financial support for this conference comes from the Collaborative Research Center SFB1102 Information Density and Linguistic Encoding <https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sfb110…>. For inquiries, please send an email to rails2025(a)lst.uni-saarland.de <mailto:rails2025@lst.uni-saarland.de>. Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb Associate Professor Universität des Saarlandes Language Science and Technology Campus A2.2, 1.06 66123 Saarbrücken Tel.: ++49 681 302 70077 E-Mail: s.degaetano(a)mx.uni-saarland.de www.stefaniadegaetano.com

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PhD/PostDoc Positions at the University of Augsburg (near Munich), Germany
by Annemarie Friedrich 16 Sep '24

16 Sep '24

Dear readers of corpora list, I am looking for two PhD students / PostDocs excited to work on computational semantics and discourse processing (both applications with a computer science focus and with a corpus linguistics focus are welcome) to join my young research group at the University of Augsburg (near Munich) in Germany. The positions are paid full-time positions and not tied to any specific project. More information on the research environment can be found here: https://hlt-augsburg.github.io/ If you are interested, please contact me directly. Professors & teachers of CL: I would be highly grateful if you would forward this job ad to students who are potentially interested! Many thanks! Here’s the official job ad: https://www.uni-augsburg.de/en/jobs-und-karriere/stellenangebote/2024/09/10… -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best Regards Prof. Dr. Annemarie Friedrich Natural Language Understanding with Applications to DH Fakultät für Angewandte Informatik, Universität Augsburg https://annefried.github.io

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COLING 2025 : [CFP] International Conference on Computational Linguistics - Last Call for Papers
by sakhar＠cs.columbia.edu 13 Sep '24

13 Sep '24

Last Call for Main Conference Papers (COLING 2025) Important Dates All deadlines are 11:59 PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”). Deadline for direct submissions September 16, 2024 Commitment deadline for ARR papers October 20, 2024 Author rebuttal phase (for direct submissions) October 30 - November 1, 2024 Notification of acceptance for COLING 2025 November 29, 2024 Tutorials and Workshops January 19-20, 2025 Main Conference January 21-24, 2025 Website: https://coling2025.org/calls/main_conference_papers/ ---------- CFP: The 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2025) will take place in Abu Dhabi, UAE, January 19-24 2025. COLING 2025 invites the submission of long and short papers featuring substantial, original, and unpublished research in all aspects of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to, the following areas: Dialogue and Interactive Systems Discourse and Pragmatics Document Classification and Topic Modeling Ethics, Bias, and Fairness Information Extraction Information Retrieval and Text Mining Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP Language Modeling Language Resources and Evaluation Linguistic Insights Derived using Computational Techniques Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics Low-Resource and Efficient Methods for NLP Machine Learning for Computational Linguistics and NLP Machine Translation and Translation Aids Multilingualism and Language Diversity Multimodal and Grounded Language Acquisition NLP and LLM Applications (such as Education, Healthcare, Finance, Legal NLP, Computational Social Science, etc.) Natural Language Generation Offensive Speech Detection and Analysis Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation Question Answering Lexical Semantics Sentence-level Semantics (Textual Inference, Paraphrasing, etc) Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, Opinion and Argument Mining Speech Recognition and Synthesis, and Spoken Language Understanding Summarization and Simplification Syntactic analysis (Tagging, Chunking, Parsing) Vision and Robotics Papers targeting any of these topics from the perspective of the Sustainability Goals of the UN are especially welcome. Submission Details COLING 2025 invites the submission of long papers of up to eight pages and short papers of up to four pages. These page limits only apply to the main body of the paper. At the end of the paper (after the conclusions but before the references) papers need to include a mandatory section discussing the limitations of the work and, optionally, a section discussing ethical considerations. Papers can include unlimited pages of references and an unlimited appendix. Authors should follow the general instructions for COLING 2025 proceedings, which are an adaptation of the general instructions for *ACL proceedings. To prepare your submission, please make sure to use the COLING 2025 style files available here: LaTeX Word Overleaf Papers deviating from the provided style files will be rejected without review. COLING 2025 adopts the ACL Ethics Policy. There are two routes for paper submission: Direct submission Papers should be submitted through Softconf/START using the following link: https://softconf.com/coling2025/papers/ Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews. Authors will have the opportunity to provide a short rebuttal to clarify any misunderstandings. The review process will be double-blind. Reviewers will not see authors, authors will not see reviewers. Reviews and submissions will not be made publicly visible. ACL Rolling Review (ARR) Papers Papers which have already been reviewed through the ACL Rolling Review (ARR) system can be committed to COLING 2025. These papers will not be re-reviewed. Senior Area Chairs and Program Chairs will make acceptance decisions based on the ARR reviews and meta-reviews. Optional Supplementary Materials: Appendices, Software and Data Each COLING 2025 submission can be accompanied by a single .tgz or .zip archive containing supplementary materials, such as program code and datasets. COLING 2025 encourages the submission of such supplementary materials to improve the reproducibility of results. For the main track, the supplementary materials need to be fully anonymized to preserve the double-blind reviewing policy. Additional information, such as preprocessing decisions, model parameters or proofs should be put into the appendix of the main PDF submission. Note that submissions need to remain fully self-contained. In particular, any details that are important for reviewers to assess the technical correctness of the work should be included in the main body of the paper. Anonymity Period COLING 2025 will follow the ACL Anonymity Policy. As a result, no anonymity period will be required, although authors are still cautioned against extensive advertising. The submissions themselves must still be fully anonymized. Multiple Submission Policy Papers which are submitted to COLING 2025 cannot be under review for other conferences or journals at the same time. The commitment process is treated as being under review for a conference. Authors can either commit their paper through ARR or directly submit it to the conference. Papers reviewed and committed to the conference through ARR cannot be submitted directly to the conference. In addition, we will not consider any paper that overlaps significantly in content or results with papers that will be (or have been) published elsewhere. Submissions that violate these requirements will be desk rejected. General chairs, Owen Rambow, Stony Brook University Leo Wanner, ICREA, Pompeu Fabra University Program co-chairs Marianna Apidianaki, University of Pennsylvania Hend Al-Khalifa, King Saud University Barbara Di Eugenio, University of Illinois Chicago Steven Schockaert, Cardiff University For questions about submissions: coling2025-programchairs(a)googlegroups.com

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PhD Studentships at the University of Exeter - NLP/AI for healthcare
by Aline Villavicencio 13 Sep '24

13 Sep '24

PhD Studentships at the University of Exeter We’re currently advertising 9 PhD studentships across the Exeter Biomedical Research Centre, including for projects involving AI/NLP for healthcare: Using natural language processing to understand and enhance therapeutic mechanisms in digital psychological therapy  <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.exete…> Unlocking the Power of UK Hospital Data: Leveraging Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing for High-Fidelity Clinical Research  <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.exete…> For more details: Website – link here <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.exete…> LinkedIn – link here <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linke…> ‘X’ – link here <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fx.com%2FE…> Fees and funding For eligible students, the studentship will cover Home tuition fees plus an annual tax-free stipend of at least £19,237 (in alignment with standard Research Council UK rate) for 3 years full-time, in addition to a Research Training and Support Grant (RTSG). *Students who pay international tuition fees are eligible to apply, but should note that the award will only provide payment for part of the international tuition fee and no stipend. International applicants need to be aware that you will have to cover the cost of your student visa, healthcare surcharge and other costs of moving to the UK to do a PhD. The conditions for eligibility of home fees status are complex and you will need to seek advice if you have moved to or from the UK (or Republic of Ireland) within the past 3 years or have applied for settled status under the EU Settlement Scheme. Timeline The closing date for applications is midnight on Tuesday 17th September 2024. Interview panels are anticipated to be held virtually week commencing the 30th September 2024. Expected start dates are between 1st November 2024 and 6th January 2025. Contact details If you would like to discuss the studentships further, please contact the primary supervisor as stated in the advert. If you have any queries surrounding the application process or the BRC more generally, please contact Dr Sophie Gould (NIHR Exeter BRC Training and Events Manager) at S.L.Gould(a)exeter.ac.uk <mailto:S.L.Gould@exeter.ac.uk>. Entry requirements Applicants for this studentship must have obtained, or be about to obtain, a First or Upper Second Class UK Honours degree, or the equivalent qualifications gained outside the UK, in an appropriate subject area. If English is not your first language you will need to meet the required level as per our guidance at https://www.exeter.ac.uk/pg-research/apply/english/ Our Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Commitment The NIHR Exeter Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) and Clinical Research Facility (CRF) strongly adhere to Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity (EDI) principles. They share a fundamental objective to empower better health outcomes for all patients and the public by translating scientific breakthroughs into potential new treatments, diagnostics and medical technologies. We are committed to ensuring that the consideration of EDI is second nature to all members of our experimental medicine and translational research community, fostering a fully inclusive environment where everyone feels supported, valued, and is provided the opportunity to reach their full potential. Our strategy purposefully shares overarching EDI visions with those of the NIHR, UoE and NHS Trust partners to allow for collaborative working to reach our mutual goals. Whilst all applicants will be judged on merit alone, we particularly welcome applications from groups currently underserved within our working community. Summary Application deadline: 17th September 2024 Value: For eligible students, the studentship will cover Home tuition fees plus an annual tax-free stipend of at least £19,237 (in alignment with standard Research Council UK rate) for 3 years full-time, in addition to a Research Training and Support Grant (RTS Duration of award: per year Contact: PGR Admissions pgrapplicants(a)exeter.ac.uk <mailto:pgrapplicants@exeter.ac.uk> ---------------------------------------------------- Aline Villavicencio <https://sites.google.com/view/alinev> (she/her) Professor in Natural Language Processing Director of the Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence <https://www.exeter.ac.uk/research/institutes/idsai/> University of Exeter (UK)

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Post-doctoral position in ML/XAI : 18 month at IMT Mines Alès or IMT Business School
by Andon Tchechmedjiev 13 Sep '24

13 Sep '24

Dear Corpora-list, We are advertising a post-doctoral position in ML/XAI : 18 month at IMT Mines Alès (south of France), or IMT Business School, Evry (near Paris) Last call for candidates, closing application date 20/09/2024. Subject: Evaluation of the impact of XAI techniques on Human-Machine collaboration Context: ENFIELD project, Horizon-funded European AI Network of Excellence on adaptive, sustainable, human-centered and trustworthy AI. Objectives : Evaluate the impact of XAI methods on Human-Machine collaboration through the study of : Performance of the human operator in performing a task, in different contexts: alone, with the help of a predictive model for which decisions will be explained/not explained, with the help of an XAI technique, Types of human-machine collaboration (e.g. delegation, substitution, mediation), Potential biases induced by XAI techniques. A focus will be made on specific contexts of study (e.g., image classification or NLP tasks, XAI techniques based on local interpretability using attribution methods). You will contribute to: Defining the study contexts (e.g. games, image classification) and test protocols to be considered. Selecting and implementing predictive models and XAI techniques. Set up the tools needed to carry out the experiments covered by the study protocols, e.g. development of simple games, decision interfaces. Implement the above-mentioned protocols on cohorts of human operators. Evaluate and promote the results obtained. Deadline for applications: 20/09/2024 Desired start date: 01/11/2024 Application and additional info: https://institutminestelecom.recruitee.com/o/post-doctorant-post-doctorante… Contacts : Sébastien Harispe, Associate Professor sebastien.harispe(a)mines-ales.fr Nicolas Soulié, Associate Professor nicolas.soulie(a)imt-bs.eu Best regards, Andon Tchechmedjiev -- Andon Tchechmedjiev, PhD. Associate Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Engineering at EuroMov Digital Health in Motion, IMT Mines Alès. Taxonomy and Semantics of Movement (SemTaxM) co-lead, Learning and Complexity group member. Research expertise: Deep Learning, Knowledge Engineering, Computational Linguistics and Semantics, Biomedical Informatics, Neuroengineering and Human Movement Processing

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Second call for abstracts: UniDive 3rd general meeting
by Atul K. Ojha 12 Sep '24

12 Sep '24

Second call for abstracts, UniDive 3rd general meeting, HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, Hungary, Budapest, 29-30. January 2025 *UniDive <https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/>*is a COST action, i.e. a scientific network, dedicated to universality, diversity and idiosyncrasy in language technology. It is structured around 4 Working Groups: - WG1: Corpus annotation - WG2: Lexicon-corpus interface - WG3: Multilingual and cross-lingual language technology - WG4: Quantifying and promoting diversity The *third general meeting <https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/doku.php?id=meetings:general_meetings:2rd_…>* of the action will take place on January 29-30 and will be preceded by a WG2 meeting on 28 January 2025 at the HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics in Budapest. We invite UniDive WG members to submit abstract proposals related to the scientific program of the WGs. The main venues will be in *Benczúr Hotel <https://www.hotelbenczur.hu/>*, Budapest, but some sessions will take place at the *Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics <https://nytud.hu/en%7CHUN-REN>*, Budapest, Hungary. To know more about the posters, see the *call <https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/doku.php?id=meetings:general_meetings:3rd_…>* . Proposals may describe diverse types of contributions, according to 3 different tracks: - Planned work - Work in progress - Complete work, also previously published A proposal should be anonymous, written in English and submitted in pdf only. It should include (on the title page) the list of the relevant WGs. It should not exceed 2 pages, including figures and tables (bibliographic references may go beyond the 2-page limit). If linguistic examples from languages other than English are included, those should be glossed and translated into English, and an extra half page is allowed for this purpose. For the sake of uniformity and easing the reviewers’ effort, we encourage authors to use the *Overleaf Latex template <https://www.overleaf.com/read/yqbpxcbjmjjw>*. Other formats (not necessarily Latex-based) can also be used, provided that they conform to the following specifications: A4 paper, 11pt font, 1in margins. The submission link will be announced soon. *The submission link is https://openreview.net/group?id=UniDive/2025/General_Meeting <https://openreview.net/group?id=UniDive/2025/General_Meeting> * The reviewing process is double-blind. The selection of proposals will be done by UniDive Program Committee according to the following criteria: - relevance to UniDive and the work program of its Working Groups (see pp. 18-20 of the Memorandum of Understanding), - clarity - diversity of the languages covered by the workshop program The selected proposals will be presented at the 3rd UniDive general meeting as posters and/or oral presentations. At least one author per selected proposal will be reimbursed for their travel and stay. Important dates - 26 July 2024: Call for abstracts - *30 September 2024: Submission deadline* - 21 October 2024: Notification of acceptance - 26 October 2024: Communication of the names of the presenters - 09 November 2024: Final versions of abstracts - 28 January 2025: WG2 meeting - 29-30 January 2025: UniDive 3rd general meeting The time zone for all deadlines is anywhere on Earth (UTC-12). Due to the tight schedule, there's no further submission deadline extension. Best regards Program Chairs - Olha Kanishcheva, SET University (Ukraine) and Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Germany) - Veronika Lipp, HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics (Hungary) - Ranka Stanković, University of Belgrade (Serbia)

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Reminder: Call for Papers for the 22nd Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association
by Kathy Reid 12 Sep '24

12 Sep '24

Dear Colleagues, We're delighted to announce that the CfP for the 22nd Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association - ALTA 2024 - is now open and closes on 20th September (23:59hrs Anywhere on Earth UTC -12) Details are available on our website at https://alta2024.alta.asn.au/calls/papers and a summary follows. --- Important Dates * Submission deadline for short/long papers, presentation abstracts and industry demonstrations: 20 September 2024 (23:59 Anywhere On Earth UTC-12). * Main conference: 3 December and 4 December 2024, ANU, Canberra, ACT, hybrid (in person and online) Overview The 22nd Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA) will be held in a hybrid format at the Australian National University, Canberra, from 2 December to 4 December 2024 and also online. The ALTA 2024 workshop is the key local forum for socialising research results in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computational Linguistics (CL). It will feature presentations, posters, and demonstrations from students, industry, and academic researchers. Like previous years, we also encourage submissions and participation from industry and government researchers and developers. Note that ALTA is listed in the CORE 2023 Conference Rankings as Australasian C<https://www.core.edu.au/conference-portal>. Topics ALTA invites the submission of papers and presentations on all aspects of NLP and CL, including, but not limited to: * Commonsense Reasoning. * Computational Social Science and Cultural Analytics. * Dialogue and Interactive Systems. * Discourse and Pragmatics. * Efficient Methods for NLP. * Ethics in NLP. * Information Extraction. * Information Retrieval and Text Mining. * Interpretability, Interactivity and Analysis of Models for NLP. * Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond. * Language Modeling and Analysis of Language Models. * Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics. * Machine Learning for NLP. * Machine Translation. * Multilinguality and Linguistic Diversity. * Natural Language Generation. * NLP Applications. * Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation. * Question Answering. * Resources and Evaluation. * Semantics: Lexical, Sentence level, Document Level, Textual Inference, etc. * Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining. * Speech and Multimodality. * Summarisation. * Syntax, Parsing and their Applications. We particularly encourage submissions that broaden the scope of our community by considering practical applications of language technology and multidisciplinary research. We also specifically encourage submissions from the industry. Format and instructions for authors Please refer to our CfP webpage for specifics.<https://alta2024.alta.asn.au/calls/papers> We are using OpenReview for submissions, and invite submissions of three different formats: (1) Original Research Papers, (2) Abstract-based Presentations, and (3) Industry Demonstrations. --- You can follow ALTA on social media at the following links: * LinkedIn (page): https://www.linkedin.com/company/australasian-language-technology-associati… * LinkedIn (group):https://www.linkedin.com/groups/1849979/ * Twitter: https://twitter.com/altanlp * Mastodon: https://sigmoid.social/@ALTAnlp * Hashtag is #ALTA2024 With kind regards, on behalf of the ALTA 2024 Team: Dr Gabriela Ferraro, General Chair Professor Tim Baldwin, Program Chair Dr Sergio José Rodríguez Méndez, Program Chair Dr Nicholas Kuo, Program Chair Dr Anton Malko, Publication Chair Dr Dawei Chen, Technology Chair A/Prof Shunichi Ishihara, Finance Chair Charbel El-Khaissi, PhD candidate, Sponsorship Chair Ned Cooper, PhD candidate, Local Chair Kathy Reid, PhD candidate, Publicity Chair

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Adam Kilgarriff Prize 2024 – in the fields of corpus linguistics, computational linguistics, and lexicography
by Michal Cukr 12 Sep '24

12 Sep '24

Dear corpus and computational linguists, We invite applications for the Adam Kilgarriff Prize [image: 🏆] for outstanding works in corpus linguistics, computational linguistics, and lexicography. Apply by 30th September 2024. The Prize will be awarded at the eLex Conference 2025. For more information, visit https://kilgarriff.co.uk/prize/ <https://kilgarriff.co.uk/prize/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR0cqURwXdon0Ksd1L…> On behalf of the Board of Trustees, Michal Cukr

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2 PhD positions in Computational Linguistics at Indiana University
by Francis Tyers 11 Sep '24

11 Sep '24

[Apologies for cross posting] I am currently recruiting two four-year PhD researchers in Computational Linguistics for the NSF funded project "ReDDDoT Phase 2: Inclusive American language technologies" under my supervision. The two areas of research are: 1) Data governance issues in voice collection collaborations between non-Indigenous researchers and Indigenous communities. 2) Technical and social issues in collecting data for English--Spanish translanguaging, codeswitching and code mixing. The positions are available in joint collaboration between Indiana University and the Mozilla Foundation. Researchers will be based in the Department of Linguistics at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana and work in collaboration with Mozilla Common Voice. Appointments are 50% FTE (20 hours/week) and include: - a stipend of $23k/year - health insurance Application deadline: - International: 1st December, 2024 - Domestic: 2nd January, 2025 General requirements: - https://linguistics.indiana.edu/graduate/how-to-apply.html For further details please feel free to contact me on ftyers(a)iu.edu. Francis M. Tyers Associate Professor Linguistics Indiana University, Bloomington

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Financial Causality Detection (FINCausal 2025) shared task -COLING 2025
by PALOMA MARTINEZ FERNANDEZ 11 Sep '24

11 Sep '24

--------Apologies for cross posting----- Dear Colleagues, We are excited to announce *Financial Causality Detection (FinCausal 2025) shared task* to be organized in the upcoming the *6th Financial Narrative Processing (FNP)* <https://www.lllf.uam.es/wordpress/fincausal-25/>held in conjunction with COLING-2025 in Abu Dhabi, UAE, on January 19-20, 2025. For the 6th FNP shared task, we will continue working in two languages ( *English*, *Spanish*) and we will introduce a new FinCausal Shared Task: Financial Causality Detection (FinCausal 2025) on hybrid question answering. The objective is to detect causal effects in financial disclosures in English and Spanish. The dataset is a combination of extractive and generative QA. Questions will be formulated abstractedly, while answers will be extractive. In certain segments, questions will either focus on causes or effects, and the answers will be directly extracted from the text. The evaluation metric for responses will encompass both exact matching and semantic similarity. The shared tasks attracted more than 150 participants within the last 3 FNP editions, for this year we are expanding the dataset by making the tasks more challenging. → *2 new datasets* will be developed, one in English and one in Spanish Access the CodaLab by clicking here <https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/19936> *Key Dates* First CFP: 15 July 2024 Second CFP: 15 August 2024 (FinCausal) Practice set release: *2 September 2024* (FinCausal) Training set release: *15 September 2024* (FinCausal) Blind test set release: *30 October 2024* (FinCausal) Systems submission: *7 November 2024* (FinCausal) Release of results: *12 November 2024* (FinCausal and general) Paper Submission Deadline: *25 November 2024* Notifications of Acceptance: *5 December 2024* Camera-ready Paper Deadline: *13 December 2024* As in previous editions, FNP 2025 will be on-site and in-person (there will be NO option for it to be virtual or hybrid). More info: https://www.lllf.uam.es/wordpress/fincausal-25/fnp-2025/ Best Regards, Paloma Martínez Full professor Human Language and Accessibility Technologies Group (hulat.inf.uc3m.es <http://labda.inf.uc3m.es>) Computer Science Department Universidad Carlos III de Madrid @Grupo_HULAT

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MessIRve: a large-scale Spanish Information Retrieval dataset
by Francisco Valentini 11 Sep '24

11 Sep '24

We're happy to announce the release of *MessIRve*, a new *large-scale IR dataset in Spanish!* MessIRve* contains around *730k queries from 20 Spanish-speaking countries* *and the United States*, with relevant documents sourced from Wikipedia. MessIRve's queries reflect diverse Spanish-speaking regions, unlike other datasets that are translated from English or do not consider dialectal variations. The large size of the dataset allows it to cover a wide variety of topics, unlike smaller datasets. The dataset is available in *HuggingFace*! 🤗 - Queries and relevance judgments: spanish-ir/messirve <https://huggingface.co/datasets/spanish-ir/messirve> - The collection of documents: spanish-ir/eswiki_20240401_corpus <https://huggingface.co/datasets/spanish-ir/eswiki_20240401_corpus> - Queries and qrels in TREC format: spanish-ir/messirve-trec <https://huggingface.co/datasets/spanish-ir/messirve-trec> For more details, check out our *arXiv paper*: MessIRve: A Large-Scale Spanish Information Retrieval Dataset <http://arxiv.org/abs/2409.05994> We hope MessIRve serves to spur more work in IR for the Spanish language and facilitate the development of efficient information access tools for Spanish speakers. * MessIRve means *works** for **me* in Spanish ("me sirve"). The reference to Lionel Messi, player of the most popular sport in Spanish-speaking countries, football, stresses the importance of using topics that are relevant to Spanish speakers.

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Invitation for Research article submission to Explainable AI for Understanding Online Behaviors and Mitigating Radicalization (XAI-OBRAD) 2024 Special Session
by Rajesh Sharma 10 Sep '24

10 Sep '24

Sorry for cross posting, We are delighted to invite you to submit your research to the Special Session on *Explainable AI for Understanding Online Behaviors and Mitigating Radicalization (XAI-OBRAD 2024)*, which will be held from *November 20-22, 2024*, in Porto, Portugal. This special session is part of the *1st International Conference on Explainable AI for Neural and Symbolic Methods (EXPLAINS 2024)*. As we are approaching the *paper submission deadline on September 20, 2024*, we encourage you to submit your work as soon as possible. This is a great opportunity to present your research in the growing field of Explainable Artificial Intelligence (xAI), particularly in its application to understanding and mitigating the impact of social media on user polarization and radicalization. This special session aims to explore the intersection of xAI and online behavior analysis, focusing on innovative research challenges and solutions to mitigate these adverse effects. We welcome contributions that align with our topics of interest, including but not limited to: - Exploring the Role of eXplainable AI in Understanding Online Behavior Dynamics - Detecting and Mitigating Echo Chambers through Interpretable AI Techniques - Leveraging xAI for Quantifying the Impact of Recommendation Systems on Radicalization Pathways - Combating Disinformation and Fake News with Transparent AI Solutions - Advancements in Explainable AI for Promoting Content Diversity and Reducing Polarization on Social Media Platforms *Important Dates:* - *Paper Submission Deadline: September 20, 2024* - Authors Notification: October 4, 2024 - Camera Ready and Registration: October 14, 2024 *Submission Details:* Prospective authors are invited to submit papers electronically via the web-based submission system. Detailed instructions for preparing the manuscript (in Word and Latex formats) are available on the conference website. *Publication:* All accepted papers will be published in a special section of the conference proceedings book, with an ISBN reference, and submitted for indexation by SCOPUS, Google Scholar, DBLP, Semantic Scholar, EI, and Web of Science/Conference Proceedings Citation Index. Each paper will receive a DOI from CrossRef, and all presented papers will be available in the SCITEPRESS Digital Library. For more details about the special session, please visit our webpage: https://explains.scitevents.org/XAI-OBRAD.aspx We believe your research could make a significant contribution to this session, and we look forward to receiving your submission. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the conference secretariat at explains.secretariat(a)insticc.org. Warm regards, Danilo Cavaliere, University of Salerno, Italy Giuseppe Fenza, University of Salerno, Italy Rajesh Sharma, University of Tartu, Estonia Co-Chairs, XAI-OBRAD 2024

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2 Fellow positions at PSL ML for the Sciences (5 years)
by A. Allauzen 10 Sep '24

10 Sep '24

If you are a young researcher (PhD holder) in core AI fields (mathematics or computer science) or in applied domains (natural language or speech processing, physics, astrophysics, chemistry, life sciences, cognitive sciences, etc.), join us ! PSL opens two Fellow positions. A fellow is an attractive postdoc position along with teaching activities in AI and datascience. PSL provides an exceptional environment for research in data science and artificial intelligence. Depending on your skills, you will will be attached to one of the institutions of PSL. In your application you can give wishes that correspond to your research project, or we can also guide you. - Application deadline: October 31st, 2024 - Candidates selected for an audition will be invited for an in-person or video interview. - Expected starting date: January 2025 If you need more information, feel free to contact me. Best regards, Alexandre Allauzen

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Call for Shared Task - RIRAG: Regulatory Information Retrieval and Answer Generation at RegNLP 2025
by Tuba Gokhan 10 Sep '24

10 Sep '24

The Regulatory Information Retrieval and Answer Generation (RIRAG) Shared Task will take place as part of the RegNLP 2025 Workshop on January 20th, 2025, in conjunction with the COLING 2025 conference in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Regulatory documents contain critical information that governs compliance and legal obligations across industries. However, retrieving relevant information and generating precise answers from these documents remains a challenging task due to their complex and diverse nature. The RIRAG Shared Task aims to address this challenge by encouraging the development of state-of-the-art systems for the retrieval and generation of answers from regulatory documents. ===Shared Task Objectives=== -Task 1: Regulatory Information Retrieval Participants will build models that retrieve relevant passages from a collection of regulatory documents, given a set of questions. -Task 2: Regulatory Answer Generation Participants will generate concise and accurate answers to regulatory questions based on the retrieved passages. ===Participation Details=== Participants will be provided with a comprehensive dataset, including regulatory documents and a set of questions related to compliance and obligations. The shared task will be divided into three phases: the Development Phase, the Testing and Submission Phase, and the Evaluation Phase. Participants will also be invited to describe their system in a paper for the RegNLP workshop proceedings. ===Important Dates=== -Development Phase: --Start: September 10, 2024 --End: November 10, 2024 Description: Participants can use all provided data for both Task 1 and Task 2. During this phase, test data will be made available for participants to evaluate their own models, but results will not determine final awards. -Testing and Submission Phase: --Start: November 10, 2024 --End: November 20, 2024 Description: Unseen questions will be released for participants to apply their models. Final submissions must be made during this period. -Evaluation Phase: --Start: November 20, 2024 --End: November 25, 2024 Description: Organizers will evaluate the submitted results, and winners will be determined based on their performance. -System Paper Submission Phase: Start: November 25, 2024 End: December 10, 2024 Description: Winning teams are expected to submit a detailed system paper, outlining their methodologies and findings. ===Join the Shared Task=== Interested participants can join the shared task and access more information by visiting our competition page on Codabench: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/3527/ ===Baseline System=== For reference, participants can access the baseline system : https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.05677 ===More Information=== For more information about RegNLP and RIRAG, please visit our website: https://regnlp.github.io/ ===Contact Information=== For inquiries related to the shared task, please contact us via email at: regnlp2025(a)gmail.com

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SEARCH SOLUTIONS 2024 - registration open
by Udo Kruschwitz 09 Sep '24

09 Sep '24

Search Solutions 2024 Wednesday 27 November 2024, London Innovations in Search and Information Retrieval Search Solutions is the BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group’s (BCS IRSG) annual event focused on practitioner issues in the arena of search and information retrieval (IR). We bring together practitioners, researchers, analysts and end users to discuss the latest developments in the IR community and to share insights between research and practice. The event consists of a Tutorial day (26 November) and a Conference day (27 November), each of which has a separate registration.The conference day includes presentations, panels and keynote talks by influential industry leaders on novel and emerging applications in search and information retrieval. 09:30 - 09:50 Registration and coffee SESSION 1: THE SEARCH EXPERIENCE: FOCUS ON THE USER 09:50 - 10:00 Introduction 10:00 - 10:20 Tanja Svarre (University of Aalborg) “People search in the enterprise” 10:20 - 10:40 Eugene Morozov (ISKO) “Search and Browse Use Cases in Data Governance” 10:40 - 10:55 Panel Q&A 10:55 - 11:10 BREAK SESSION 2: BEYOND KEYWORD SEARCH: RETRIEVAL-AUGMENTED GENERATION 11:10 - 11:30 Dyaa Albakour (SIGNAL AI) “Mapping the landscape of narratives in Global Media” 11:30 - 11:50 Alessandro Benedetti (Sease) “What I don’t like about RAG: can we do better?” 11:50 - 12:10 Taketomo Isazawa (Microsoft Research) “Beyond RAG: Integrating Knowledge with LLMs” 12:10 - 12:25 Panel Q&A 12:25 - 13:30 LUNCH SESSION 3: SEARCH WITH AN IMPACT: SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS 13:30 - 13:50 Maria-Inti Metzendorf (Cochrane Evidence Synthesis Unit Düsseldorf) “Searching for Living Systematic Reviews – overview and case report” 13:50 - 14:10 James Thomas (UCL) “The responsible use of AI in evidence synthesis: collaborative development of guidance and recommendations” 14:10 - 14:25 Panel Q&A 14:25 - 14:40 BREAK SESSION 4: SEARCH IN INDUSTRIAL SETTINGS: GETTING IT RIGHT 14:40 - 15:00 Gabriella Kazai (Amazon) “What Matters in a Measure? A Perspective from Large-Scale Search Evaluation” 15:00 - 15:20 Charlie Hull (OpenSource Connections) “Measure and Tune your Search with User Behaviour Insights” 15:20 - 15:40 Daniel Tunkelang (Consultant) & Aritra Mandal (eBay) “Modeling Queries as Bags of Documents” 15:40 - 15:55 Panel Q&A 15:55 - 16:30 BREAK 16:30 - 17:15 PANEL SESSION Panel topic: “Has generative AI removed the need for standalone search? A discussion” Panel chair: Michael Upshall (The Search Network) 17:15 - 17:25 BCS SEARCH INDUSTRY AWARDS 17:25 - 17:30 Closing words 17:30 EVENING RECEPTION LOCATION Search Solutions is organised by the Information Retrieval Specialist Group of the BCS (The Chartered Institute for IT) and ISKO (International Society for Knowledge Organization), and is held at the BCS Central London Office: BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT Ground Floor 25 Copthall Avenue London EC2R 7BP https://www.bcs.org/about-us/our-london-office-and-event-venue/ REGISTRATION Registration fees (including VAT at 20%) for Search Solutions are as follows: * BCS / ISKO member rate: £92 * Non-member rate: £110 * Students: £80 Registration fees include lunch. Tea and coffee will also be available throughout the day followed by a drinks reception in the evening. Register here: https://www.bcs.org/events-calendar/2024/november/search-solutions-2024-inf… TUTORIAL DAY Search Solutions also includes a Tutorial Programme on Tuesday, 26 November. A detailed programme will be announced in due course. A Call for Tutorials can be found here: https://www.bcs.org/membership-and-registrations/member-communities/informa… Tutorials are payable separately. PAST EVENTS Search Solutions has been held annually since 2007. For details of past events please see: https://www.bcs.org/membership-and-registrations/member-communities/informa…

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CFP - Workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages (CHiPSAL) @ COLING2025
by Kengatharaiyar Sarveswaran 09 Sep '24

09 Sep '24

Hello everyone, Don’t miss this unique opportunity to discuss key issues and contribute to the advancement of language processing in the South Asian region, home to 25% of the world’s population and rich in linguistic and cultural diversity. Submit your papers by October 30, 2024, and join us at the first Workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages (CHiPSAL), taking place at COLING 2025 on January 19, 2025. Please submit your papers via *https://softconf.com/coling2025/CHiPSAL25 <https://softconf.com/coling2025/CHiPSAL25> * ---- *CHiPSAL 2025*, the First workshop on Challenges in Processing South Asian Languages (CHiPSAL), will be held as part of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2025) in Abu Dhabi, UAE, on *January 19, 2025*. The workshop will be conducted in *virtual mode*. CHiPSAL 2025 invites the submission of original research papers, review/opinion papers, and system demonstration papers, in short or long forms, on topics that highlight the challenges related to South Asian languages, including but not limited to the following areas: - Encoding and Unicode Issues in South Asian Scripts - Orthographic Complexities and Their Impact on Language Technology - Morphological Analysis and Generation in South Asian Languages - Dialectal Variations and Language Standardisation - Code-Mixing and Multilingualism in South Asian Contexts - Building Linguistic Resources for South Asian Languages - Speech Recognition and Synthesis for South Asian Languages - Preserving Linguistic Heritage through Technology - Benchmarking Models for South Asian Languages *Important Dates* All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”). The First CFP Monday, 15 July 2024 Submission Deadline October 30, 2024 Notification of acceptance November 29, 2024 Camera-ready papers December 13, 2024 Pre-recorded video due January 5, 2024 Workshop (Virtual) January 19, 2025 *For more information: https://sites.google.com/view/chipsal <https://sites.google.com/view/chipsal>* Regards Sarves -- *Kengatharaiyer Sarveswaran (Sarves)* Department of Computer Science Faculty of Science University of Jaffna Sri Lanka sarves.github.io

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Celtic Language Technology Workshop 2025 (CFP)
by abigail.walsh＠adaptcentre.ie 09 Sep '24

09 Sep '24

Dear all, Apologies for cross-posting. ┌────────────────────────────────┐ │ ***The Fifth Celtic Language Technology Workshop*** │ │ Co-located at COLING 2025 in Abu Dhabi, UAE. │ │ │ │ Website: https://cltworkshop.github.io │ │ │ │ Important Dates │ │ * Call for Papers: 13th August 2024 │ │ * Paper Submission Deadline: 18th October 2024 │ │ * Notification of Paper Acceptance: 15th November 2024 │ │ * Camera-ready Paper Deadline: 2nd December 2024 │ │ * Workshop Date: 20th January 2025 │ │ │ │ Submission platform: https://softconf.com/coling2025/CLT25/ │ │ │ └────────────────────────────────┘ The CLTW community and workshop – inaugurated at COLING (Dublin) in 2014 – has become a critical focus and forum for researchers working in natural language processing (NLP) and language technologies for Celtic languages. We are delighted to announce that the fifth edition in the Celtic Language Technology Workshop series will be co-located with COLING 2025 in Abu Dhabi, UAE. We invite submissions of long and short papers featuring original contributions on resources, theories, systems, applications, and methods in Natural Language Processing for any of the Celtic languages. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following: * Knowledge-based NLP/ Neural NLP/Hybrid approaches to processing Celtic Languages * Fine-Tuning of Pre-Trained Language Models (PLM) * Experiments and Evaluations (Prompting and Fine-Tuning) of Large Languages Model (LLMs) * Evaluating Celtic Language NLP systems * Celtic Language Resources * Corpus Development/Analysis * Treebanking * Parsing/Chunking * Ontology-lexica * Linked Data Resources * Syntax, Semantics * Lexicons * Terminology and Knowledge Representation * Linguistic Annotation of Celtic-language Texts * Machine Translation * Natural Language Generation * Speech Processing/Generation * Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) * Celtic Digital Humanities * Information Extraction * Transfer Learning * Cross-lingual Methods * NLP/LT for historical Celtic languages For more information, including submission instructions, please see the website (https://cltworkshop.github.io/) or for queries, contact the email address (celticlanguagetechnology(a)gmail.com) Kind regards, Brian Davis, Theodorus Fransen, Elaine Uí Dhonnchadha, Abigail Walsh

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2ndCFP - Coling-Rel 25: New Horizons in Computational Linguistics for Religious Texts
by Majdi Sawalha 09 Sep '24

09 Sep '24

==================================================================================== COLING 2025 Workshop: New Horizons in Computational Linguistics for Religious Texts (Coling-Rel 25) ==================================================================================== Part of the COLING 2025 Conference Abu Dhabi, UAE January 19-24, 2025 https://tinyurl.com/Coling-Rel25 We invite submissions for the COLLING 2025 Workshop on New Horizons in Computational Linguistics for Religious Texts that will be held with the 31st edition of COLING in 2025 in Abu Dhabi (UAE) (COLING 2025). This workshop invites researchers exploring the intersection of language technology and religious texts. This workshop aims to foster discussion on cutting-edge applications of Natural Language Processing (NLP) to religious texts, including: • Analyzing faith-defining canons and authoritative interpretations • Extracting insights from sermons, liturgy, prayers, and poetry • Leveraging Large Language Models for novel research avenues The Coling-Rel25 workshop will explore the potential of NLP to unlock new understandings of religious traditions and chart the future of this exciting research area. The workshop welcomes researchers from computational linguistics, digital humanities, and related fields. 1. Workshop Topics and Contents We welcome submissions on a range of topics, including but not limited to: • Computational Morphology and Syntax for Religious texts; • analysis of ceremonial, liturgical, and ritual speech; recitation styles; speech decorum; discourse analysis for religious texts; • suitability of modal and other logics for knowledge representation and inference in religious texts; • issues in, and evaluation of, machine translation in religious texts; • text-mining, stylometry, and authorship attribution for religious texts; • corpus query languages and tools for exploring religious corpora; • dictionaries, thesaurai, Wordnet, and ontologies for religious texts; • measuring semantic relatedness between multiple religious texts; • (new) corpora and rich and novel annotation schemes for religious texts; • annotation and analysis of religious metaphor; • genre analysis for religious texts; • LLMs adaptation for religious texts; • ethical issues of LLMs for religious texts; • application of computer-supported methods in the analysis of religious texts in other disciplines (e.g., theology, classics, philosophy, literature). 2. Organizing Committee • Dr. Majdi Sawalha, Artificial Intelligence Department, The University of Jordan, Jordan • Prof. Sane Yagi, College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, University of Sharjah, UAE. • Dr. Faisal Alshargi, Magdeburg University, Germany. • Dr. Abdallah Al-Shdaifat, Arabic Language Department, Mohamad bin Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, UAE. • Prof. Ashraf Elnagar, Computer Science Department, University of Sharjah, UAE. • Dr. Bayan Abu Shawar, College of Engineering, Al-Ain University, Abu Dhabi, UAE. • Dr. Noorhan Abbas, School of Computing, The University of Leeds, Leeds, UK. 3. Important Dates - 15 July 2024: First Call for papers - 09 September 2024: Second Call for papers - 29 September 2024: Final Call for papers - 11 November 2024: Paper Submission due - 05 December 2024: Notification for Acceptance - 13 December 2024: Camera-ready format (cannot be changed) - 19 January 2025: COLING-2025 Workshops - 21-24 January 2025: COLING-2025 conference 4. Submission Information Coling-Rel25 workshop invites the submission of long papers of up to eight pages (limits only apply to the main body of the paper). We are following the instructions for COLING 25 proceedings which can be found on this page. At the end of the paper (after the conclusions but before the references) papers need to include a mandatory section discussing the limitations of the work and, optionally, a section discussing ethical considerations. Papers can include unlimited pages of references and an unlimited appendix. Direct submission Papers should be submitted through Softconf/START using the following link: https://softconf.com/coling2025/Coling-Rel25/ Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews. Authors will have the opportunity to provide a short rebuttal to clarify any misunderstandings. The review process will be double-blind. Reviewers will not see authors, authors will not see reviewers. Reviews and submissions will not be made publicly visible. 5. Contact Majdi Sawalha, sawalha.majdi(a)gmail.com or sawalha.majdi(a)ju.edu.jo Workshop link https://tinyurl.com/Coling-Rel25 -- =========================================================== Majdi Sawalha, *Associate professor,* Computer Information Systems Department, King Abdullah II School of Information Technology, The UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN, Amman, Jordan.

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free 8-week course on Corpus linguistics - starts 16 September
by Brezina, Vaclav 09 Sep '24

09 Sep '24

Dear all, The ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science, Lancaster University offers a free 8-week course on Corpus linguistics: Corpus MOOC. We start in one week's time on Monday 16 September. You can register at https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/corpus-linguistics 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@01DB029E.3C32EBA0]@vaclavbrezina [cid:image002.jpg@01DB029E.3C32EBA0]<http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/arts-and-social-sciences/about-us/people/vaclav-…>

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Journal of Digital Islamicate Research
by Mai Zaki 08 Sep '24

08 Sep '24

Dear list members, We are excited to announce the publication of the inaugural issue of the *Journal of Digital Islamicate Research* (JDIR <https://brill.com/view/journals/jdir/1/1-2/jdir.1.issue-1-2.xml>), a new peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the intersection of digital humanities and Islamicate studies, published by Brill. The *Journal of Digital Islamicate Research* offers an academic platform for exploring the ways in which digital methodologies are transforming the study of the Islamicate world. Our scope includes, but is not limited to: - Digital historical, religious and cultural studies of the Islamicate world - Islamic and Islamicate arts from a digital humanities perspective - Computational analysis of social, political, and religious dynamics within the Islamicate world - Manuscript studies and digital editions - Digital tools and methods for studying Islamicate heritage and languages - Digital methods in media and communication studies - Digital humanities explorations of literature - The intersection between AI and digital humanities Submissions are open on a rolling basis, and we encourage contributions from scholars across the globe. Manuscripts can be submitted in either English or Arabic through our editorial management system on the Journal website <https://brill.com/view/journals/jdir/jdir-overview.xml?contents=journaltoc>. For more information on how to submit, please visit our page: Submit Your Manuscript. In addition to individual papers, we welcome proposals for special issues on any topic within the scope of the journal. Special issue editors will have the opportunity to bring together a collection of cutting-edge research centered around a cohesive theme related to the digital study of the Islamicate world. We invite you to explore the first issue of JDIR and consider contributing your own work to this exciting and growing field. For inquiries or to discuss potential special issues, please feel free to reach out to the editors on the journal's email jdir(a)brill.com <%20jdir(a)brill.com>. We look forward to your contributions! Eid Mohamed and Mai Zaki Editors-in-chief

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COLING 2025 Workshop on Detecting AI Generated Content, 2nd Call for participation
by Firoj Alam 07 Sep '24

07 Sep '24

(apologies for cross-posting) Dear colleague, We seek submissions of long and short papers on original and unpublished work (same page limit as the COLING 2025 main conference). In addition, there will be three shared tasks. All accepted submissions will be presented as talks and/or posters at the workshop, prior to the COLING 2025 main conference. Research Papers We invite original research papers from a wide range of topics, including but not limited to: - Detection methods for text, image, speech and other modalities - Multilingual detection methods - Detection Methods Image Modality - Detection Methods Multimodal Content - Real-time detection systems: real-time systems for detecting AI-generated content in live scenarios. - Attacks for detection systems - Datasets and resources - Benchmarking for AI generated content detection - AI generated fake news detection - Deep Fakes in audio, videos and images - Ethical and legal implications of AI generated content Shared Tasks We plan to run three shared tasks: - Task 1: Binary Multilingual Machine-Generated Text Detection (Human vs. Machine) - Task 2: AI vs. Human – Academic Essay Authenticity Challenge - Task 3: Cross-domain Machine-Generated Text Detection Important dates: Regular Submission (including shared tasks) Deadline: November 15, 2024 (dual-submission allowed) Resubmission (with a rebuttal) Deadline: December 2, 2024 Acceptance Notification: December 7, 2024 Camera-Ready Deadline: December 13, 2025 Workshop Day: January 19-20, 2025 All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”). Submission Details: Papers must describe original, completed or in-progress, and unpublished work. All papers will be refereed through a double-blind peer review process by multiple reviewers with final acceptance decisions made by the workshop organizers. Accepted papers will be given up to 9 pages (for full papers), 5 pages (for short papers and posters) in the workshop proceedings, and will be presented as oral paper or poster. We are seeking submissions under the following categories: - Full/long papers (8 pages) - Short papers (work in progress, innovative ideas/proposals: 4 pages) - Shared task papers (4 pages) Long, short, and shared task papers must follow the two-column format of *ACL conferences, using the official templates. The templates can be downloaded in style files and formatting. 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. Verification to guarantee conformance to publication standards, we will be using the ACL pubcheck tool. The PDFs of camera-ready papers must be run through this tool prior to their final submission, and we recommend its use also at submission time. Submissions are open to all, and are to be submitted anonymously. For the anonymity, double-blind submission, and reproducibility criteria please follow the COLING 2025 instructions. Submission portal Submissions must be made using the START portal: https://softconf.com/coling2025/DAIGenC25/ Website for further information: https://genai-content-detection.gitlab.io/ Best regards The Organizers

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PhD-Position in Educational NLP
by Horbach, Andrea 06 Sep '24

06 Sep '24

1 PhD-Position in Educational NLP We invite applications for a fully funded PhD position (100%, TV-L E13 according to the German system) at the Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education in Kiel, Germany, at the newly established research group “Teaching and Learning in the Digital World” in the field of Educational NLP on topics such as automatic free-text assessment, feedback and exercise generation. The position starts in November, a later date is negotiable. It is initially funded for 3 years, an extension is possible. An ideal candidate has a master’s degree in computational linguistics, computer science, or a related discipline. Programming experience in Python and some experience in machine learning is expected. For more details including information on the application process, please refer to: https://www.leibniz-ipn.de/de/das-ipn/ueber-uns/karriere/stellenangebote/pa… The application deadline is September 30. I am happy to answer questions (andrea.horbach(a)fernuni-hagen.de). Best regards, Andrea Andrea Horbach CATALPA - Center of Advanced Technology for Assisted Learning and Predictive Analytics<https://www.fernuni-hagen.de/forschung/schwerpunkte/catalpa/index.shtml> Nachwuchsgruppenleitung / Junior Research Group Leader „EduNLP“ ________________________________ FernUniversität in Hagen Gebäude 5 (PRG) www.fernuni-hagen.de<https://www.fernuni-hagen.de/>

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CFP for Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE 2024)
by Bhargav Dave 06 Sep '24

06 Sep '24

Apologies for the multiple postings. ------------------------------------- *Call for Papers* *FIRE 2024: 16th meeting of the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation* 12th - 15th December 2024 DA-IICT, Gandhinagar, India *Extended Submission Deadline: 16th September 2024* Website: fire.irsi.org.in Submission Link : https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/FIRE2024 ------------------------------ The 16th meeting of the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation 2024 will be held at Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT), Gandhinagar, India. It will be an in-person conference. We are seeking submissions of high-quality and original papers. Submissions will be reviewed by experts on the basis of the originality of the work, the validity of the results, chosen methodology, writing quality and the overall contribution to the field of IR/NLP. Authors are also encouraged to describe work in progress and late-breaking research results. *Topics of interest include, but are not limited to* 1. Search and Ranking: Research on core algorithmic topics in IR: 1. Queries and query analysis (e.g., Query understanding, query reformulation, query representation etc.) 2. Retrieval models and ranking (e.g., Cross lingual IR with a particular focus on Indian languages, ranking algorithms, language models, retrieval algorithms, learning to rank etc) 3. Efficiency and scalability (e.g., distributed search, search engine architecture, indexing, crawling etc). 4. Supervised/Weakly supervised deep neural networks. 5. Other domain-specific applications of IR. 2. Evaluation: Research on evaluation of IR systems: 1. User centric evaluation (e.g., User experience, user engagement etc) 2. System centric evaluation (e.g., Evaluation metrics). 3. Query Performance Prediction and its applications. 3. Generative Models for IR/NLP. 1. Conversational and Interactive Search Systems 2. Simulated Data for Personalized IR. 3. Issues related to fairness and trustworthiness of IR/Recsys models 4. In-Context Learning or Retrieval Augmented Generation for Search and NLP downstream tasks, such as Question Answering, Summarization 5. Domain-specific generation, such as Code generation, Argument generation, Workflow generation. 4. Explainability, Fairness and Trust of IR/Recsys models 1. Explainable models for ranking, text classification/clustering, summarization etc. 2. User studies for explainable AI (XAI) applied to IR/Recsys 3. Issues related to fairness and trustworthiness of IR/Recsys models 5. Multimodal and Crossmodal IR/Recsys model 1. Visual Question Answering 2. Image search/recommendation 3. Question answering 4. Multimodal document summarization *Important dates* *25th July 2024* Paper submission link <https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/FIRE2024> will be available *5th September 202 16th September 2024 * Paper submission deadline *30th October 2024 * Paper acceptance notification *10th November 2024 * Camera ready copy submission deadline *12th-15th December 2024* In-person conference Note: All submission deadlines are 11:59 PM AoE Time Zone (Anywhere on Earth). *Submission Guidelines* Submissions must describe substantial, original and unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis must be included. If the paper being submitted is under review at any other venue, the same should be explicitly mentioned when making the submission. Such a paper, if accepted, should be withdrawn from all other places. The FIRE conference track, this year, is subdivided into 2 different subtracks (described later), each with a different scope and objective, and with different reviewing policy. Please make sure that you are submitting your paper in the correct track. No requests for switching papers across tracks will be entertained after the deadline for paper submission expires. Submissions will be taken through Microsoft CMT. Select the "Conference Track" while submitting the paper and in the subject area select the appropriate paper type (Regular Paper, Resource and Demo Paper, Extended Abstract). Please note that incorrect submission will be desk rejected. Link to submit the paper: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/FIRE2024 *Paper Template and Submission* The submitted papers must follow LNCS (Springer conference) template available on https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/springer-lecture-notes-in-computer… . The only accepted format of submissions is PDF. Papers which do not conform to the requirements may get rejected without review. Please note that it is the responsibility of the authors to ensure that the PDF submission has been uploaded successfully (we suggest that you try downloading your paper again yourself, to check). Authors are invited to submit in any of the following tracks: - *Regular paper* Similar to last year, this year, also we don’t make any explicit distinction between long and short papers. More time will be allocated for longer papers during the presentation. Submitted papers can be of *variable length* up to a *maximum of 12* pages of *content (excluding references)* . Reviewing policy: Double-blind. - *Resource and Demo paper* The papers submitted at this track should describe data or software resources towards a research problem that will be helpful to the IR/NLP/AI community. Such resources should ideally be made publicly available for reviewers to judge the merit of the resources. The demo papers should contain a link to a working software that demonstrates the application of existing research methods as a proof-of-the-concept. Reviewing policy: Single-blind. Number of pages: *variable length* up to a *maximum of 9* pages of *content (excluding references).*. *Double-blind Reviewing Policy* All submissions to the regular track of FIRE conference 2024 will be reviewed on the basis of originality, relevance, importance, and clarity. For papers submitted to the regular track, the authors must not mention their names or institutional details anywhere in the paper. Authors should refer to themselves in third person when citing their own work. Expressions like "In our earlier work..." or "We previously showed that..." must be avoided. *Presentation Requirements* If accepted, at least one author will have to register for the conference and present their work in-person. *Conference Track Co-ordinator* - Debasis Ganguly (University of Glasgow, UK) - Debarshi Kumar Sanyal (Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, India) For queries related to conference please email us at [ clia(a)isical.ac.in ] For latest updates subscribe the FIRE mailing List [ https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/fire-list ]

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First call for papers: "WR•AI•CogS•1 Writing Aids at the Crossroads of AI, Cognitive Science, and NLP"
by Michael Zock 06 Sep '24

06 Sep '24

First call for papers: WRAICogS1 - Writing Aids at the Crossroads of AI, Cognitive Science, and NLP https://sites.google.com/view/wraicogs1 Co-located with COLING 2025, Abu Dhabi, https://coling2025.org/ Paper submission deadline: November 25, 2024 Paper submission: https://softconf.com/coling2025/AAC-AI25/ *Keynote speaker: Cerstin Mahlow, Professor of Digital Linguistics and Writing Research, ZHAW School of Applied Linguistics, Winterthur, Switzerland MOTIVATION This workshop is dedicated to developing writing aids grounded in human cognition (limitations of attention and memory, typically observed habits, knowledge states, and information needs). In other words, we focus on the cognitive and engineering aspects of interactive writing. Our goal is not only to help people acquire and improve their writing skills but also to enhance their productivity. By leveraging computer technology, we aim to enable them to produce better texts in less time. Writing is one of the four cornerstones of communication. By leaving a trace, it allows us to reach many people, to transcend space and time, and to spare ourselves the trouble of memorization. Writing is undeniably important, whether as a communication tool, a thinking aid, or a memorial support. However, what is less obvious is the process—that is, the precise steps required to transform an intuition or vague idea into concrete, well-polished prose. Producing readable, well-written text requires many skills, deep and broad knowledge of various sorts (topic, language, audience, metaknowledge, i.e., how to use the information at hand?)— a lot of practice and appropriate feedback. No one can learn all this overnight. The quantity and diversity of knowledge to interiorize, as well as the variety of cognitive states encountered, may explain why writing is so difficult and why it takes time to gain control over the whole process and become an expert writer. Unfortunately, knowledge alone is not enough. Writing is also a time- and energy-consuming endeavor. It is very hard work. Since writing is difficult, and since there are now computer programs capable of doing it, one may wonder: (a) whether we should leave the job entirely to the machine, or (b) whether we could use these programs to help people write or to acquire the skill of writing. Indeed, there are situations where it makes sense to rely on machines (e.g., routine work, business letters), but there are also many situations where this strategy is not recommended (e.g., writing to understand, writing to enrich and clarify our thoughts, writing to support thinking). That being said, one may find a middle ground where humans and machines work together, each contributing their strengths. It remains to be seen where machines can assist in the process (e.g., idea generation, idea structuring, translation into language, revision, editing) and where it is better to leave control to humans. Hence, the main question is not whether we should use LLMs to produce texts, but rather how, when, and at what level to use them or other techniques to help people produce written text. In sum, our main goal is not to substitute machines for people or to have them do the job in people's place, but rather to have machines assist people. Specifically, we aim to help people learn to write, speed up the process, gain better control, and reduce stress and cognitive load. Our motivation is largely practical and educational. Obviously, we are not the first ones to pursue this goal. However, while many workshops focused on developing educational software, creating intelligent writing assistants, or evaluating written text, the submitted papers have primarily addressed formal aspects, such as grammatical error detection and spotting spelling mistakes. Yet good writing (text composition) requires much more than just the production of well-formed sentences. Our mission is to go beyond merely identifying errors or mistakes made at the very end of the writing process, such as those due to ignorance or inattention. Instead, we aim to evaluate the quality of the choices made at higher levels. In other words, we are interested in the full spectrum of writing, including technology-based writing aids that address all tasks involved in writing: conceptual planning (ideation, organization), linguistic expression, editing, and revision. Hence, we welcome papers that focus on the higher levels of composition—such as thinking, reasoning, and planning (idea generation, outline planning)—as well as those concerned with the lower levels (grammar, spelling, and punctuation). Arguably, this is the first workshop to: a) Consider the entire spectrum of writing rather than only the lower levels, b) Integrate humans right from the start into the development cycle of writing aids, and c) Provide support and feedback at any moment —before, during, and after writing— rather than only at the very end. TOPICS We welcome contributions on all topics related to writing aids, including but not limited to the following: 1. The Human Perspective: Cognitive scientific viewpoints, including education, psycholinguistics, and neuroscience. * Support: How can AI tools support critical thinking and logical reasoning in writing? How can writing assistants tailor feedback to individual writers, considering their unique needs and styles? How can we assess the quality and impact of AI-generated feedback on students' writing (methods, metrics, etc.)? * Topical coherence: How can we help people organize their ideas into a coherent whole? How do we model or operationalize the concept of a topic, the paragraph's most central element? How do we detect possible topics within our data? What are typical subtopics of a given topic, and how do we identify them? How do we cluster content/ideas into topics and give the clusters appropriate names? * Building software: How do we include humans in the development cycle of writing aids? How and at what level can engineers use insights from psycholinguistics and neuroscience? How can they model the writing process while accounting for human and technological factors? * Metacognition: What do people typically know about writing in general and their own writing in particular? What are their problems and needs? How do people manage to coordinate the different processes? What should an authoring ecosystem look like (components)? What could be automated, and what is best left for interactive processing? * Shared task: What kind of shared task would be meaningful while being technically feasible? 2. The Engineering Side * LLMs: Where in the writing process could we use methods developed in AI (e.g., LLMs) or computational linguistics (e.g., content generation, content structuring, translation into language, revision)? What are the potential benefits, dangers, and limitations of LLMs as writing aids? How could revealing the 'knowledge' embedded within black-box models improve their effectiveness, particularly in terms of increasing the accuracy and relevance of the feedback they provide? How can we address challenges related to data collection, privacy, and ethical considerations in developing and deploying AI writing tools? * Tools and resources: What kind of tools and resources (e.g., Sketch Engine, Rhetorical Structure Theory, knowledge graphs, and linked data) could be useful? * Quality assessment: How can we check the veracity of facts, relevance, cohesion, coherence, style, fluency, proper use of pronouns, grammar, word choice, spelling, and punctuation? * Enhancement and evaluation: How do we enhance text analysis during or after writing (e.g., quality of coherence, style) using corpus linguistic tools? How do we evaluate or compare existing writing assistants (e.g., adequacy, design features, ease of use, lessons learned)? SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Please submit your papers via the START/SoftConf submission portal (https://softconf.com/coling2025/AAC-AI25/), following the COLING 2025 templates. Submitted versions must be anonymous and should not exceed 8 pages for long papers and 4 pages for short papers. References do not count toward the page limit, and may be up to 4 pages long. Supplementary material and appendices are also allowed. We also invite papers discussing tools and applications (system demonstrations) related to our workshop topics. PARTICIPATION The workshop requires a physical presence. If any authors are unable to attend and present in person, alternative arrangements (such as remote presentations or video recordings) may be considered. However, we cannot guarantee these options, as the COLING organizers and local chairs have informed us that they will not provide technical support or online access. Generally, work presented in person will be given preference over work presented virtually. WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS * Michael Zock (CNRS, LIS, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France) * Kentaro Inui (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, UAE; Tohoku University, Japan; RIKEN, Japan) * Zheng Yuan (King's College London and the University of Cambridge, UK) PROGRAM COMMITTEE 1. Barbu Mititelu, Verginica (Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, RACAI, Bucharest, Romania) 2. Biemann, Chris (Language Technology Group, Universität Hamburg, Germany) 3. Bryant, Christopher (Writer Inc., USA; University of Cambridge, UK) 4. Bunt, Harry (Tilburg University, Department of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence) 5. Church, Ken (Northeastern University, USA) 6. Cristea, Dan (University of Iasi, Iasi, Romania) 7. Coyne, Steven (Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan) 8. Dale, Robert (Language Technology Group, Church Point, NSW, Australia) 9. Delmonte, Rodolfo (Department of Computer Science, Università Ca’ Foscari, Italy) 10. Evert, Stephani (Computational Corpus Linguistics at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany) 11. Ferret, Olivier (CEA LIST, France) 12. Fontenelle, Thierry (European Investment Bank, Luxembourg) 13. François, Thomas (CENTAL, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium) 14. Gadeau, Gabriella (Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge, UK) 15. Galván, Diana (University of Cambridge) 16. Guerraoui, Camélia (Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan) 17. Hernandez, Nicolas (University of Nantes, France) 18. Hovy, Edward (University of Melbourne, Australia, and Carnegie Mellon, USA) 19. Iacobacci, Ignacio (London's Speech and Semantics Lab, UK) 20. Ishii, Yutaka (Chiba University) 21. Ito, Takumi (Langsmith/Tohoku University ) 22. Lafourcade, Mathieu (Université de Montpellier, France) 23. Langlais, Felipe. (DIRO/RALI, University of Montreal, Canada) 24. Mahlow, Cerstin (ZHAW School of Applied Linguistics, Winterthur, Switzerland) 25. Matsubayashi, Yuichiro (Tohoku University) 26. Pease, Adam (Parallax Research, Beavercreek, OH, USA) 27. Pirrelli, Vito (Institute of Computational Linguistics, University of Pisa) 28. Raganato, Alessandro (DISCO, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy) 29. Redeker, Gisela (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) 30. Reed, Chris (University of Dundee, Scotland) 31. Reiter, Ehud (University of Aberdeen, Scotland) 32. Rosso, Paolo (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain) 33. Saggion, Horacio (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain) 34. Schwab, Didier (GETALP-LIG, Grenoble, France) 35. Strapparava, Carlo (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy) 36. Tesfaye, Debela (University of Dundee, Scotland) 37. Varzandeh, Mohsen (Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran) 38. Wanner, Leo (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain) 39. Winniwarter, Werner (CSLEARN, Educational Technologies, Vienna, Austria) 40. Zheng, Yuan (King's College London and University of Cambridge, UK) FOR MORE DETAILS * Background knowledge: https://sites.google.com/view/wraicogs1/home/background-and-topics -- Michael ZOCK Emeritus Research Director CNRS LIS UMR 7020 (Group TALEP) Aix Marseille Université 163 avenue de Luminy - case 901 13288 Marseille / France Mail: michael.zock(a)lis-lab.fr <mailto:michael.zock@lis-lab.fr> Tel.: +33 (0)6 51.70.97.22 Secr.: +33 (0)4.86.09.04.60 http://pageperso.lif.univ-mrs.fr/~michael.zock/ <http://pageperso.lif.univ-mrs.fr/%7Emichael.zock/>

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Asia Pacific Journal of Corpus Research (APJCR) Vol. 4, No. 1 is now available online
by Prof CK Jung 04 Sep '24

04 Sep '24

*Asia Pacific Journal of Corpus Research (APJCR) is now available online:* http://icr.or.kr/ejournals-apjcr *The Incredible Shrinking Noun Phrase: Ongoing Change in Japanese Word Formation*Kevin Heffernan, (Kwansei Gakuin University), JAPAN; Yusuke Imanishi (Kwansei Gakuin University), JAPAN DOI: https://doi.org/10.22925/apjcr.2023.4.1.1 ________________________________________ *Identifying Key Grammatical Errors of Japanese English as a Foreign Language Learners in a Learner Corpus: Toward Focused Grammar Instruction with Data-Driven Learning* Atsushi Mizumoto (Kansai University), JAPAN; Yoichi Watari (Chukyo University), JAPAN DOI: https://doi.org/10.22925/apjcr.2023.4.1.25 ________________________________________ *A Comparison of the Constructions Make / Take a Decision in Malaysian English with the Supervarieties * Christina Sook Beng Ong (Wawasan Open University), MALAYSIA DOI: https://doi.org/10.22925/apjcr.2023.4.1.43 ________________________________________ *Effects of Corpus Use on Error Identification in L2 Writing * Yoshiho Satake (Aoyama Gakuin University), JAPAN DOI: https://doi.org/10.22925/apjcr.2023.4.1.61 --- *CK Jung BEng(Hons) Birmingham MSc Warwick EdD Warwick Cert Oxford* Associate Professor | Department of English Language and Literature, Incheon National University, *South Korea* President | The Korea Association of Secondary English Education, *South Korea *(http://kasee.org) Vice President | The Korea Association of Primary English Education), *South Korea *(http://kapee.or.kr) Director | Institute for Corpus Research, Incheon National University, *South Korea* (http://icr.or.kr) Editor-in-Chief | Asia Pacific Journal of Corpus Research, ICR, *International* (http://icr.or.kr/apjcr) Editorial Board | Corpora, Edinburgh University Press, *UK* Editorial Board | English Today, Cambridge University Press, *UK* E: ckjung(a)inu.ac.kr / T: +82 (0)32 835 8129 H(EN): http://ckjung.org

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2nd Call for Papers: NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025
by Sara Stymne 03 Sep '24

03 Sep '24

***Apologies for possible cross-posting *** The two major conferences in the Baltic and Nordic regions, NoDaLiDa, organized by The Northern European Association for Language Technology (NEALT) and Baltic HLT are joining forces to organize NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025 – The Joint 25th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics and 11th Baltic Conference on Human Language Technologies, to be held in Tallinn, Estonia, on March 2–5, 2025. https://www.nodalida-bhlt2025.eu/conference SUBMISSIONS NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025 addresses all aspects of natural language processing, speech recognition and synthesis, and computational linguistics, including work in closely related neighboring disciplines (such as, for example, machine learning, linguistics, digital humanities, or psychology) that is sufficiently formalized or applied to bear relevance to speech and language technologies. We invite paper submissions of three types: * regular papers on substantial, original, and unpublished research, including empirical evaluation results, where appropriate; * short papers on smaller, focused contributions, work in progress, negative results, surveys, or opinion pieces; and * demonstration papers on software or resource demonstrations, e.g. of systems, interfaces, infrastructures, data collections, or annotations. Demonstration papers do not need to be anonymous. We particularly encourage submission of papers on completed or ongoing work, where the first author is a Master's or PhD student. This should be indicated at submission time. Papers accepted for presentation at the conference will be included in the NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025 proceedings, which are published in the ACL Anthology and the NEALT Proceedings Series at DSpace at Tartu University Library (negotiations for indexation are ongoing and expected to be in place at publication time) SCHEDULE * Monday, October 21, 2024: Submission of Papers * Monday, December 9, 2024: Notification of Acceptance * Monday, January 13, 2025: Camera-Ready Manuscripts * Monday and Tuesday, March 3–4, 2025: Main Conference The main conference will be held on-site only, without an online option, in order to facilitate networking. SUBMISSION FORMATS All submissions must follow the NoDaLiDa 2025 style files, which will be available for LaTeX (preferred) and MS Word. Submissions must be anonymous, i.e. not reveal author(s) on the title page or through self-references. Papers must be submitted digitally, in PDF, and uploaded through the online conference system. Paper submissions that violate either of these requirements will be returned without review. The page limits for submissions are: up to eight pages for regular papers and up to four pages for short papers and demo papers. For all three submission types, these page limits do not include additional pages with bibliographic references. We do not allow any extra pages for appendices. DOUBLE SUBMISSION and PRE-PUBLICATION Papers that have been or will be submitted to other venues must indicate this at submission time and must be withdrawn from the other venues if accepted to NoDALiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025. Authors of papers accepted for presentation at NoDALiDa/Baltic_HLT must notify the program chairs by the camera-ready deadline as to whether the paper will be presented. We will not accept for publication or presentation papers that overlap significantly in content or results with papers that will be (or have been) published elsewhere. We follow the ACL Anonymity Policy, which means that we have no anonymity period. Authors are still cautioned against extensive advertising. SUBMISSION MANAGEMENT Submissions to the conference must be uploaded electronically, obeying the above requirements, and no later than (end of day, anywhere on earth): Monday, October 21, 2024. Submission is done through OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT/2025/Conference Please note: To submit a paper, you need an account on OpenReview. For persons without an institutional email, it can take up to two weeks to have an account verified. Thus, please create an account early if you don’t have one already! PROGRAM COMMITTEE General Chair * Sara Stymne, Uppsala University, Sweden Program Chairs * Mark Fišel, University of Tartu, Estonia * Daniel Hershcovich, University of Copenhagen, Denmark * Jenna Kanerva, University of Turku, Finland * Pierre Lison, Norwegian Computing Centre, Norway * Inguna Skadiņa, University of Latvia, Lativa * Andrius Utka, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania Workshop chairs * Normunds Grūzītis, University of Latvia, Latvia * Samia Touileb, University of Bergen, Norway Publication chair * Richard Johansson, Chalmers Technical University, Sweden Social media chair * Mike Zhang, Aalborg University, Denmark To inquire about the submission and reviewing process or the scientific program of the conference, please email ‘nodalida_baltichlt_2025-pc(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:nodalida_baltichlt_2025-pc@googlegroups.com>’. Local Chairs * Helen Kaljumäe, Institute of the Estonian Language, Estonia * Kadri Vare, Institute of the Estonian Language, Estonia * Merily Remma, Institute of the Estonian Language, Estonia For all practical inquiries, please email ‘nodalida_baltichlt_2025-loc(a)eki.ee<mailto:nodalida_baltichlt_2025-loc@eki.ee>’. Follow us on X: https://twitter.com/NoDaLiDa Web page: https://www.nodalida-bhlt2025.eu/conference När du har kontakt med oss på Uppsala universitet med e-post så innebär det att vi behandlar dina personuppgifter. För att läsa mer om hur vi gör det kan du läsa här: http://www.uu.se/om-uu/dataskydd-personuppgifter/ E-mailing Uppsala University means that we will process your personal data. For more information on how this is performed, please read here: http://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/data-protection-policy

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[Job] Research Assistant Professor Position Available in JAIST (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
by naoya.inoue.lab＠gmail.com 03 Sep '24

03 Sep '24

Hello Everyone, RebelsNLU Lab (Reading between the Lines for Natural Language Understanding Lab) at JAIST (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) conducts extensive research in knowledge, reasoning, and natural language processing, spanning a broad spectrum from fundamental to application-oriented research. Our lab is set in a naturally rich environment and benefits from an internationally diverse atmosphere. We are pleased to announce that we have started accepting applications for a Research Assistant Professor position, as detailed below. If you are interested, we welcome informal discussions, so please feel free to contact Professor Inoue (naoya-i(a)jaist.ac.jp). We look forward to receiving your application. Thank you very much. === [Affiliation] School of Advanced Science and Technology, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), Computing Science Research Area [Position] Research Assistant Professor [Laboratory] RebelsNLU Lab (https://rebelsnlu.super.site) [Job Description] - Research: Conduct research related to natural language processing, focusing on knowledge and reasoning. - Education: Teach courses related to information science and supervise master’s and doctoral students in the lab, as well as students with secondary projects from other laboratories. [Term] April 1, 2025 – March 31, 2026 (renewable, up to a maximum of five years) [Application Deadline] September 13, 2024 (Friday) 17:00 (Japan Time) For more details, please refer to the following URLs: - https://jrecin.jst.go.jp/seek/SeekJorDetail?id=D124071630&ln=1 - https://www.jaist.ac.jp/top/data/cs20240722-2e.pdf === Naoya Inoue / 井之上直也 Associate Professor, School of Information Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) Address: Information Science Building #1 I-51, 1-1 Asahidai, Nomi, Ishikawa 923-1292 Japan Tel: (+81) 0761-51-1264 E-mail: naoya-i(a)jaist.ac.jp Web: https://naoya-i.info/ (personal), https://rebelsnlu.super.site/ (Lab)

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Senior Lecturer in Natural Language Processing Position Available at University of Sheffield
by n.s.moosavi＠sheffield.ac.uk 03 Sep '24

03 Sep '24

The SheffieldNLP group is pleased to announce an exciting opportunity for a Senior Lecturer in Natural Language Processing! As one of the largest and most productive NLP research groups in the UK, with 13 academic members, we are seeking a dedicated and passionate researcher to join our innovative and dynamic team. Our research covers a wide range of NLP areas, including foundational models, machine learning for NLP, various real-world applications, and much more. This is an excellent opportunity to contribute to groundbreaking research and advance the field. Located in the vibrant and green city of Sheffield, this role offers an exceptional quality of life, with affordable living, a thriving arts scene, and a welcoming community. Moreover, with a light teaching load, you will have more time to engage in impactful research and collaborative projects. More details and application link: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DJN226/senior-lecturer-in-natural-language-proce… 📅 Application Deadline: 6th October 2024

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Position as Team Lead/Senior Researcher in NLP for Computational Social Science
by Dietze, Stefan 03 Sep '24

03 Sep '24

Dear all, We are offering an exciting position as team lead / senior researcher within the department Knowledge Technologies for the Social Sciences (https://gesis.org/en/kts) at GESIS in Cologne, Germany. The position holder will lead and further develop a team of researchers working on innovative methods and infrastructures for computational social scientists based on research in information extraction, NLP, machine learning and web mining. The position is limited to 4 years, with option for tenure/permanency. Further information can be found at https://www.hidden-professionals.de/HPv3.Jobs/gesis/stellenangebot/39995/Se…. For any questions, please don't hesitate to get in touch with me. Best regards, Stefan -- Prof. Dr. Stefan Dietze Scientific Director Knowledge Technologies for the Social Sciences GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences Web: https://www.gesis.org/en/kts Chair of Data & Knowledge Engineering Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf Web: https://www.cs.hhu.de/en/research-groups/data-knowledge-engineering Phone: +49 (0)221-47694-421 Web: http://stefandietze.net

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Joint call for NAACL/ACL/EMNLP 2025 workshops
by z＠zeerak.org 02 Sep '24

02 Sep '24

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CFP SIMBig: Travel Awards of USD 750 and USD 450, Deadline Extended, Registration Fee USD 30
by Juan Antonio Lossio-Ventura 02 Sep '24

02 Sep '24

> [Apologies for cross-posting] > > *** Due to NEW TRAVEL AWARDS, we extended the submission deadline to September 7, 2024 *** > > *** 6 TRAVEL AWARDS of USD 750 and USD 450 to attend the conference. *** > > ========================================================================== > EXTENDED CALL FOR PAPERS - SIMBig 2024 > ========================================================================== > 11th International Conference on Information Management and Big Data - SIMBig 2024 > Where: Universidad Nacional de Moquegua, Ilo, PERU > When: November 20 - 22, 2024 > Website: https://simbig.org/SIMBig2024/ > Free Publication: No fees associated with publication > ========================================================================== > > OVERVIEW > ---------------------------------- > > SIMBig 2024 seeks to present new methods of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data Science, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Semantic Web, and related fields, for analyzing, managing, and extracting insights and patterns from large volumes of data. > > > KEYNOTE SPEAKERS > ---------------------------------- > Aaron Courville, Université de Montréal, Canada Mona Diab, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Anna Korhonen, University of Cambridge, UK Huan Liu, Arizona State University, USA > > TRAVEL AWARD > ---------------------------------- > > Thanks to the Artificial Intelligence Journal - AIJ <https://aij.ijcai.org/> support, SIMBig 2024 is offering six (6) travel awards for students/authors attending the conference. The purpose of the grant is to broaden participation to increase the diversity of attendants and help students present their contributions. > > Each award will consist of up to USD 750 for international students/authors and USD 450 for national students/authors. The allocation of the award will be based on the quality of the paper. All authors participating in the main conference or special tracks are eligible. > > > IMPORTANT DATES > ---------------------------------- > > August 10, 2024 September 07, 2024 --> Full papers and short papers due > September 30, 2024 --> Notification of acceptance > October 28, 2024 --> Camera-ready versions > November 20-22, 2024 --> Conference held in Moquegua, Peru > > PUBLICATION > ---------------------------------- > > All accepted papers of SIMBig 2024 (tracks including) will be published with Springer CCIS Series <https://www.springer.com/series/7899>. > > > CONFERENCE FEES > ---------------------------------- > > To disseminate new advances in data science, SIMBig 2034 offers a conference registration fee of 30 USD, which includes access to the conference, materials, and publication of the proceedings for the authors. Submit your articles HERE <https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/User/Login?ReturnUrl=%2FSIMBIG2024>. > > > TOPICS OF INTEREST > ---------------------------------- > > SIMBig 2024 has a broad scope. We invite contributions on theory and practice, including but not limited to the following technical areas: > > Artificial Intelligence > Data Science > Machine Learning > Deep Learning > Natural Language Processing > Big/Masive Data > Semantic Web > Data-driven Software Engineering > Healthcare Informatics > Biomedical Informatics > Data Privacy and Security > Information Retrieval > Ontologies and Knowledge Representation > Social Networks and Social Web > Information Visualization > > SPECIAL TRACKS > ---------------------------------- > > SIMBig 2024 proposes a special track in addition to the main conference: > > DISE <https://simbig.org/SIMBig2024/call-for-paper/track-on-data-driven-software-…> - Data-Driven Software Engineering > EE-AI-HPC <https://www.cri.ensmp.fr/conf/ee-ai-hpc2024/> - Efficieny Enhencement for Artificial Intelligence and High-Performance Computing > > CONTACT > ---------------------------------- > > SIMBig 2024 General Chairs > > Juan Antonio Lossio-Ventura, National Institutes of Health, USA (juan.lossio(a)nih.gov <mailto:juan.lossio@nih.gov>) > Hugo Alatrista-Salas, Léonard de Vinci Pôle Universitaire Research Center, Paris, France (hugo.alatrista_salas(a)devinci.fr <mailto:halatrista@pucp.pe>)

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[JOB] Open Post-Doc Position in Barcelona (BSC): Data science and AI expert for Clinical NLP and LMs
by Martin Krallinger 02 Sep '24

02 Sep '24

Dear All, The NLP4BIA group at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) is looking for a post-doctoral researcher with expertise in data science, NLP and LMs. *URL application*: https://www.bsc.es/join-us/job-opportunities/54824lsnlpr3 The position description is below. Please let me know if you or others you know are interested. Best wishes, Martin Krallinger ======================================= Martin Krallinger, Dr. Head of NLP for Biomedical Information Analysis Unit Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS) https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-krallinger-85495920/ ======================================= *About BSC* The Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) is the leading supercomputing center in Spain. It houses MareNostrum, one of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe. The mission of BSC is to research, develop and manage information technologies in order to facilitate scientific progress. BSC combines HPC service provision and R&D into both computer and computational science (life, earth and engineering sciences) under one roof, and currently has over 1000 staff from 60 countries. *Context And Mission* The Natural Language Processing for Biomedical Information Analysis (NLP4BIA) group at BSC is an internationally renowned research group working on the development of NLP, language technology, and text-mining solutions applied primarily to biomedical and clinical data. It is a highly interdisciplinary team, funded through competitive European and National projects requiring the implementation of natural language processing and advanced AI solutions making use of diverse technologies, including Transformers and recent advances in Large Language Models (LLM) to improve healthcare data analysis. The NLP4BIA-BSC is looking for a *Postdoctoral Research Engineer with experience in Language Technologies and Deep Learning*. The candidate will be involved in technical work related to international projects, being part of a team of researchers working on topics related to multilingual information extraction in the clinical field, including Named-Entity Recognition, Entity Linking and Language Modeling. The candidate will have the opportunity to advance the state of the art of cross-lingual biomedical NLP methods by working in a multidisciplinary environment alongside linguists, medical experts, and other engineers. The funding for these actions/fellowships and contracts comes from the European Union Recovery and Resilience Facility - Next Generation, within the framework of the General Invitation by the public business entity Red.es to participate in the talent attraction and retention programs within Investment 4 of Component 19 of the Recovery, Transformation, and Resilience Plan. For more information, please check: https://www.bsc.es/join-us/excellence-career-opportunities/ai4s *Key Duties* - Generation of Large Language Models - NLP system development: Development of monolingual and multilingual content classification and entity recognition systems - Pre-training of monolingual and multilingual language models for biomedicine - Managing projects and technical project coordination - Collaborate in drafting technical research proposals and writing scientific papers. *Requirements* - Education - University degree in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, or other engineering / science degree. - PhD in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, or similar - Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience - Experience in Natural Language Processing technologies, preferable with some publication track record or projects in the field of LLMs/Deep Learning/NLP - Ability to design, implement, and evaluate existing NLP and LMs models. - Experience in developing models using transformer architectures. - Practical experience with deep learning libraries (e.g. Pytorch, TensorFlow, Spacy, Transformers…) - Knowledge of deep learning methods for fine-tuning large language models. - Advanced programming skills in Python. - Experience in software development resources (Git) - Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience - Fluency in English is essential. Proficiency in Spanish and other European languages would be advantageous. - Competences - Ability to work in a team and in a multi-cultural environment. - Good communication and presentation skills. - Technical writing skills. - A proactive mindset, with creativity to design new solutions. - Ability to work effectively both autonomously and as part of an interdisciplinary team. - Comfortable working under pressure and meeting strict deadlines. Proactive working style. *Conditions* - The position will be located at BSC within the Life Sciences Department - We offer a full-time contract (37.5h/week), a good working environment, a highly stimulating environment with state-of-the-art infrastructure, flexible working hours, extensive training plan, restaurant tickets, private health insurance - Duration: 4 years - Holidays: 23 paid vacation days plus 24th and 31st of December per our collective agreement - Salary: 55.000,00 € - Additional Expenses Grant: Each fellowship will be associated with a grant for additional expenses, such as IT equipment, travel, training, stays, etc. - Starting date: asap - the incorporation for this vacancy must be before the 16th of December 2024

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IWSLT 2025 - Call for Task Proposals
by Atul K. Ojha 02 Sep '24

02 Sep '24

Dear all, The International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT) is the premier annual conference for all aspects of Spoken Language Translation. Every year, the conference organizes and sponsors open evaluation campaigns around key challenges in simultaneous and consecutive translation, under real-time/low latency or offline conditions, and for a variety of languages in under-resourced or multilingual conditions. System descriptions and results from participants’ systems and scientific papers related to key algorithmic advances and best practices are presented. IWSLT is the venue of the SIGSLT, the Special Interest Group on Spoken Language Translation of ACL, ISCA, and ELRA. With a track record of 20+ years, IWSLT benchmarks and proceedings serve as a reference for all researchers and practitioners working on speech translation and related fields. There are many challenges in speech translation that have not yet been addressed, among them, we are really interested in topics related to new applications scenarios (e.g. meetings, subtitling, dubbing), specific aspects (e.g. names, accents), different styles, multilingually, discourse and summarization, multimodal and multi-party speech translation, automatic evaluation metrics for speech translation. or many other ideas that researchers have not yet focused on. Therefore, we invite proposals for *shared tasks*. If you want to propose a new task to encourage researchers around the world to work on particular timely challenges in SLT, please fill out the following form <https://iwslt.org/assets/pdfs/IWSLT2025-Call_for_Tasks.pdf> and send it to *iwslt-organizers(a)googlegroups.com <iwslt-organizers(a)googlegroups.com> *by* September 30th, 2024. *Decisions about which tasks will run in 2025 will be announced by November 1st, 2024. For further information on this initiative, please refer to *https://iwslt.org/assets/pdfs/IWSLT2025-Call_for_Tasks.pdf <https://iwslt.org/assets/pdfs/IWSLT2025-Call_for_Tasks.pdf>.* Best, Marine, Marcello, Alex, Jan, Sebastian, Elizabeth, Atul IWSLT Organisers

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Job offer: Position as research assistant in the DFG project "Semiautomated Thematic Text Classification as a Basis for Corpus Linguistic Value-Added Services" at Goethe University Frankfurt - Application deadline: 20.09.2024
by Giuseppe Abrami 02 Sep '24

02 Sep '24

***Apologies for cross-postings*** 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, a PhD position for a *Research Assistant (m/f/d) (E 13 TV-G-U) * is available at the next possible date for a period of three years within the project Semiautomated Thematic Text Classification as a Basis for Corpus Linguistic Value-Added Services. The project 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). The aim of the project is to develop a deep learning-based topic classification system using the Wikipedia category system and data from the Wikidata project, and to develop and test topic models based on this classification system for the automatic classification of texts, including those from the Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS) in Mannheim. The project will be carried out in cooperation with the IDS and the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig. The research will focus on state-of-the-art AI methods, in particular generative AI methods. The applicant is expected to engage in the project and actively participate in courses, workshops, and events of the project. We are looking for a highly qualified individual with a strong interest in research methods in the fields of AI and topic modeling as well as in the team-oriented development and application of innovative, research-oriented methods in the field of text modeling. With the Text-Technology Lab, in which the position will be embedded, we offer a research-oriented, internationally focused working environment in the fields of computational humanities, multimodal computing, machine learning and artificial intelligence. This includes funding for conference attendance and individual career development. Requirements: • Completed academic degree (Master's or equivalent) in computer science, computational humanities, computational linguistics or a field related to text modelling and AI. • Experience in the development and testing of NLP or AI methods. • Extensive programming knowledge in Java, Python or similar. • An interest in issues relating to information science is desirable but not essential. Please send your application with the usual documents (cover letter, CV, copies of certificates) electronically in a summarized PDF document by 20.09.2024 to Prof. Dr. Alexander Mehler: mehler(a)em.uni-frankfurt.de. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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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PhD position in Computational Dialogue Modeling @ Bielefeld University, Germany
by Hendrik Buschmeier 02 Sep '24

02 Sep '24

Full PhD position in Computational Dialogue Modeling @ Bielefeld University, Germany Collaborative Research Center 1646 „Linguistic Creativity in Communication“ - Project B02: Computational linguistic creativity in reference games between interactive dialogue agents - PIs: Prof. Dr. Hendrik Buschmeier, Prof. Dr. Sina Zarrieß Explore how dialogue agents can develop creative strategies to solve tasks in interaction. - Collect+analyze data from humans playing reference games. - Develop state-of-the-art computational models combining neural and symbolic reasoning. - Contribute to groundbreaking research on human-machine co-creativity. More information and application link: https://uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/3653/research-position?page_lang=… -- Hendrik Buschmeier Digital Linguistics Lab Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies, Bielefeld University https://purl.org/net/hbuschme -- Hendrik Buschmeier Digital Linguistics Lab Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies, Bielefeld University https://purl.org/net/hbuschme

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Deadline Extension: Swedish Language Technology Conference (SLTC) 2024
by Jenny Kunz 02 Sep '24

02 Sep '24

The submission deadline to SLTC 2024 has been extended to **Sunday, September 15th**. For more information about the conference, see our website: https://sltc2024.github.io<https://sltc2024.github.io/> ## Updated call for papers: Welcome to the Tenth Swedish Language Technology Conference (SLTC), to be held in Linköping 27–29 November 2024. ### Submissions We invite submissions on all theoretical, practical, and applied aspects of language technology, including natural language processing, computational linguistics, speech technology, and neighbouring areas. Submissions can report on completed or ongoing research and practical applications of language technology and may be combined with system demonstrations. The conference does not publish proceedings (“non-archival”), but authors can opt to make their accepted contributions available on the conference webpage. Hence, it is possible to submit abstracts related to work that has been or will be published elsewhere as long as this is compatible with the conditions of the respective publication channels. ### Important Dates * Submission deadline: Sunday, 15 September * Notification of acceptance: Monday, 14 October * Camera-ready version: Friday, 1 November * Main conference: Wednesday–Thursday, 27–28 November * Workshops: Friday, 29 November ### Submission formats Submissions are extended abstracts using the style files of the *ACL conferences. They can, but do not need to be anonymous. Abstracts should be up to four pages, excluding references, and be submitted via OpenReview no later than Sunday, 15 September. Please see the conference webpage for more details: https://sltc2024.github.io/cfp. ### Organisers SLTC 2024 is organised by Linköping University. The organisation committee is chaired by: * Lars Ahrenberg * Arne Jönsson * Marco Kuhlmann * Jenny Kunz

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[CFP]: Call for Doctoral Consortium Papers : FIRE 2024
by Bhargav Dave 02 Sep '24

02 Sep '24

Apologies for the multiple postings. ------------------------------------- Call for Doctoral Consortium Papers FIRE 2024: 16th meeting of the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation 12th - 15th December 2024 DA-IICT, Gandhinagar, India Submission Deadline: 20th September 2024 Submission Link : https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/FIRE202 <https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/FIRE2023>4 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 16th meeting of the Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE) 2024 will be held at DA-IICT, India. It will be an in-person conference. FIRE brings in the Doctoral Consortium (DC) to provide a unique opportunity for doctoral students to share their work with peers as well as with senior researchers and also further shape their research and develop new ones under an extended mentorship program under the guidance of distinguished researchers from both academia and industry. The goals of the symposium are to: - provide the participants with an independent and constructive assessment of their current research and possible future research scopes; - develop a supportive community of scholars and a spirit of collaborative research; - provide a platform for the doctoral participants to share and discuss their ideas with distinguished researchers from their domain; and support the participants further with an individual mentorship session with a distinguished researcher. Who should participate? Students should consider participating in the Doctoral Consortium if they are at least twelve months away from completing their dissertation at the time of the event, but after having settled on a research area or thesis topic. In the area of research which largely covers AI / ML, and information science-related, we do not have any fixed set of research areas for the DC. However, it would be desirable to have information retrieval as a paradigm in your research that can be in any domain like software engineering, machine translation and image processing, etc. Submission Submissions can be based on early ideas or results (communicated elsewhere) for further feedback, or well-rounded study, results, and analysis, on approach to convert PhD work into a product, and the like. The paper should be 4 pages long (including references) and may contain the following aspects: - the problem to be solved in the research; a justification of why the problem is important; a summary of the previous research and related work has not yet solved that problem, - the expected contributions of the research, - how the student aims to evaluate and analyze the results; acceptable evidence of the results to the community, - an outline and characterization of the results achieved so far, and - the planned timeline for completion. Students, whose submissions are accepted, will be invited to present a poster at the consortium. They will also need to give a short talk at the consortium. Paper submission link: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/FIRE202 <https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/FIRE2023>4 Format The submitted papers must follow follow LNCS (Springer conference) template available on https://www.overleaf.com/project/66c745b6dd0f2aa8880bff51. The only accepted format of submissions is PDF. Papers which do not conform to the requirements may get rejected without review. Please note that it is the responsibility of the authors to ensure that the PDF submission has been uploaded successfully (we suggest that you try downloading your paper again yourself, to check). Authors are invited to submit in any of the following tracks: Paper Length: 4 page single column The author names and affiliations of the PhD Student or supervisors should be included in the paper during submission. The first author of the paper should be the PhD Student. Review Process Submissions will be reviewed by members of the Doctoral Symposium Committee. Participants will be selected on the basis of their anticipated contribution to the Doctoral Consortium goals as well as the potential benefit to the participants. Among the criteria that will be considered in reviewing submissions are: - the potential quality of the anticipated contributions - the stage of the research; - the diversity of backgrounds, research topics, and approaches. An additional review would be done to assess if the participants are eligible for the PhD clinic, where potential research work can be reviewed and discussed individually by a distinguished researcher. Consortium and PhD Clinic Authors of submissions selected for participation will have the opportunity to present their work during the Doctoral Consortium and to have a camera-ready version of their papers published in a companion volume to the FIRE 2024 Conference Proceedings. The presentation is expected to be delivered in person, unless this is impossible due to travel limitations (related to, e.g., health, visa, or COVID-19 prevention). Selected participants will be also be eligible for the PhD clinic wherein they will be assigned to a distinguished researcher who will conduct an individual mentoring session with the participants. This session can be constructively used by the participants to discuss their ideas, get more insights and feedback and also directions for future work. Important dates 25th July 2024 Paper submission link available 30th October 2024 Paper acceptance notification 10th November 2024 Camera ready copy submission deadline 12th-15th December 2024 In-person conference Note: All submission deadlines are 11:59 PM AoE Time Zone (Anywhere on Earth). Presentation Requirements If accepted, at least one author will have to register for the conference and present in person. Consortium Co-ordinators - Soumen Paul - Srijoni Majumdar For queries related to the conference please email us at [ clia(a)isical.ac.in ] For the latest updates subscribe to the FIRE Mailing List [ https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/fire-list ]

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CFP: The 4th Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics (WACL-4)
by amalhaddad 30 Aug '24

30 Aug '24

(apologies for cross-posting) Dear colleagues, We are delighted to announce the first CfP for The 4th Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics (WACL-4) @ COLING 2025. The 4th Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics (WACL-4) 20 January 2025, in conjunction with COLING'2025 in Abu Dhabi (UAE). URL: https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/wacl4/ [1] Description The 4th Workshop on Arabic Corpus Linguistics (WACL - 4) will serve as an outstanding international platform for exchanging knowledge and outcomes in the theory, methodology, and applications of language technologies tailored to the diverse range of Arabic dialects. We encourage submissions that span a spectrum from theoretical investigations to practical applications, aiming to address the unique challenges, solutions, and insights that Arabic dialects introduce to the field of NLP. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following * Development and Utilisation of Arabic Dialectal Corpora * Advancements in Natural Language Processing Techniques for Arabic Dialects * Applications and Challenges of Large Language Models in Understanding and Generating Arabic Dialects * Morphological and Syntactical Challenges in Arabic Dialects * Dialect Identification and Classification * Speech Recognition and Synthesis for Arabic Dialects * Machine Translation involving Arabic Dialects * Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining in Arabic Dialects * Named Entity Recognition and Information Extraction for Arabic Dialects * Development of Open Access Resources for Arabic Dialects * Text Processing and Transliteration Challenges for Arabic Dialects * Cultural and Sociolinguistic Considerations in NLP Applications for Arabic Dialects * Resources and Tools for Computational Analysis of Arabic Dialects * Applications of Arabic Dialects NLP in Real-World Scenarios Paper Submission Submissions should adhere to the COLING 2025 standards. Authors are strongly encouraged to review and follow the COLING 2025 submission guidelines and author kit, available at https://coling2025.org/ [2]. Submission link: https://softconf.com/coling2025/WACL-4/ [3] If authors are describing dialectal variations, we request that they include relevant linguistic details and sociolinguistic contexts to enrich the understanding of the presented work. Submissions may be of two types * Long papers - up to eight (8) pages including references, presenting substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. * Short papers - up to four (4) pages including references, describing a small focused contribution, negative results, or system demonstrations, etc. Important dates * Call for Papers Announcement: 07 August 2024 * Abstract Submission Deadline: 03 October 2024 * Paper Submission Deadline: 10 October 2024 * Notification of Paper Acceptance: 1 November 2024 * Camera-ready Paper Deadline: 15 November 2024 * Workshop Date: 20th January 2025 Organising Committee * Saad Ezzini, Lancaster University, UK (General Chair) * Hamza Alami, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Morocco (Programme Co-Chair) * Ismail Berrada, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco (Programme Co-Chair) * Abdessamad Benlahbib, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Morocco (Programme Co-Chair) * Abdelkader El Mahdaouy, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco (Review Chair) * Salima Lamsiyah, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg (Publication Chair) * Nouran Khallaf, Leeds University, UK (Publicity Co-Chair) * Hatim Derrouz, Ibn Tofail University, Morocco (Publicity Co-Chair) * Amal Haddad, University of Granada, Spain (Publicity Co-Chair) * Mustafa Jarrar, Birzeit University, Palestine (Advisory Committee) * Mo El-Haj, Lancaster University, UK (Advisory Committee) * Ruslan Mitkov, Lancaster University, UK (Advisory Committee) * Paul Rayson, Lancaster University, UK (Advisory Committee) Anti-Harassment policy The workshop supports the COLING anti-harassment policy https://coling2022.org/policy [4] Links: ------ [1] https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/wacl4/ [2] https://coling2025.org/ [3] https://softconf.com/coling2025/WACL-4/ [4] https://coling2022.org/policy

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CFP: International Workshop on Nakba Narratives as Language Resources (Nakba-NLP 2025)
by amalhaddad 30 Aug '24

30 Aug '24

Nakba-NLP 2025 International Workshop on Nakba Narratives as Language Resources Part of the COLING 2025 Conference Abu Dhabi (virtual) January 20, 2025 https://sina.birzeit.edu/nakba-nlp [1] We invite submissions for Nakba-NLP 2025, a workshop dedicated to exploring and preserving Nakba narratives through the application of artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and corpus linguistics. We seek contributions on the following topics: ◈ Digitization of oral and written narratives ◈ Creation and labeling of language corpora and datasets ◈ Digital archives, metadata, and semantic/content mark-up ◈ Annotation tools and annotation guidelines ◈ Document classification, topic modeling, and information retrieval ◈ Named entity recognition for identifying people, places, organizations, and events ◈ Entity linking and relationship extraction ◈ Event detection and event argument extraction ◈ Knowledge Graphs and Linked Data ◈ Vocabularies, dictionaries, and ontologies ◈ Data visualization ◈ Knowledge representation ◈ Machine translation, summarisation, and paraphrasing ◈ Natural Language Generation ◈ Large Language Models ◈ Sentiment analysis and emotional content extraction ◈ Discourse analysis (e.g., bias, offensive language, and misinformation) related to Nakba narratives ◈ Voice & dialogue-based systems; ASR ◈ Palestinian dialects (written and spoken) Suggested Datasets: a list of datasets can be found here https://t.ly/00Ul6 [2] Important Dates: ===================== All deadlines are 11:59 pm UTC-12 (anywhere on Earth). - Submission Deadline: 25 November 2024 - Notifications of Acceptance: 5 December 2024 - Camera Ready Deadline: 13 December 2024 (cannot be changed) Organizing Committee: ===================== - Mustafa Jarrar, Birzeit University, Palestine - Nizar Habash, New York University, UAE - Mo El-Haj, Lancaster University, UK - Zeina Jallad, Harvard Law School, USA - Camille Mansour, Paris-Sorbonne University, France - Diana Allan, McGill University, Canada - Paul Rayson, Lancaster University, UK Publicity Chairs ===================== - Amal Haddad, University of Granada, Spain - Sanad Malaysha, Birzeit University, Palestine Contact: Nakba-NLP25_coling2025(a)softconf.com Links: ------ [1] https://sina.birzeit.edu/nakba-nlp/ [2] https://t.ly/00Ul6

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CFP: The 1st Workshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic Script (AbjadNLP 2025)
by amalhaddad 30 Aug '24

30 Aug '24

CALL FOR PAPERS CALL FOR PAPERS: THE 1ST WORKSHOP ON NLP FOR LANGUAGES USING ARABIC SCRIPT (ABJADNLP 2025) https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/abjad/cfp/ Co-located with COLING 2025 Conference, Abu Dhabi, UAE (19-20 January 2025) Submission URL [1] AbjadNLP is dedicated to advancing innovation and gaining deeper insights into Natural Language Processing (NLP) for languages that use the Arabic script. Our primary focus is on Abjad and Ajami languages that utilise the Arabic script or its variations. Traditionally associated with Semitic languages, Abjad scripts represent consonants in every syllable. In contrast, Ajami scripts denote the alphabetic use of the Arabic script in various African contexts, representing non-Arabic languages. We are interested in research on languages that fall under the Abjad or Ajami categories that use the Arabic script or any variations of it. We invite contributions, discussions, and explorations that delve deep into the unique linguistic structures, resources, challenges, and untapped potential presented by Abjad and Ajami languages within the realm of NLP and language resources. Our goal is to create synergies among researchers by addressing the diverse phenomena and challenges inherent in these rich linguistic traditions. The workshop is proud to highlight our connections with the Masakhane NLP community and collaborations with institutions worldwide, such as COMSATS on Urdu, and the long-standing UCREL NLP Group at Lancaster University, whose work encompasses over 20 languages worldwide, including Abjad and Ajami languages. Note: We chose the name Abjad for simplicity, but our focus includes Abjad and other languages that have adopted the Arabic and Perso-Arabic scripts, as well as Ajami languages. We acknowledge that Sorani Kurdish, when written in Arabic script, follows an alphabet style rather than an Abjad style. TOPICS OF INTEREST: * Core Technologies: morphological analysis, disambiguation, tokenisation, POS tagging, named entity detection, chunking, parsing, semantic role labelling, sentiment analysis, language modelling, etc. * Applications: machine translation, speech recognition, speech synthesis, optical character recognition, assistive technologies, social media, etc. * Resources and Tools: dictionaries, annotated data, corpora, orthography descriptions, font technology, glyph rendering, text input methodologies, spell-checking, speech-to-text solutions, BLARK descriptions, open access corpora. * Cultural and Sociolinguistic Considerations: text processing, transliteration challenges, and solutions, cultural contexts in NLP applications. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: We follow the COLING 2025 standards for submission format and guidelines. Submissions should conform to the following types: * Long papers: Up to eight (8) pages, presenting substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. * Short papers: Up to four (4) pages, describing a small focused contribution, negative results, system demonstrations, etc. KEY DATES: * 1st Call for Papers Announcement: 16 July 2024 * 2nd Call for Papers Announcement: 16 August 2024 * Paper Submission Deadline: 15 November 2024 * Notification of Paper Acceptance: 6 December 2024 * Camera-ready Paper Deadline: 13 December 2024 * Workshop Date: 19 or 20 January 2025 ORGANISING COMMITTEE: General Chair: Mo El-Haj, Lancaster University Programme Chairs: * Hugh Paterson III, Collaborative Scholar * Saad Ezzini, Lancaster University * Ignatius Ezeani, Lancaster University Review Committee: * Mahum Hayat Khan, University of La Rioja * Muhammad Sharjeel, COMSATS University Islamabad Publication Chair: Sina Ahmadi, University of Zurich Publicity Chairs: * Cynthia Amol, Maseno University * Amal Haddad Haddad, University of Granada * Jaleh Delfani, University of Surrey Advisory Committee: * Ruslan Mitkov, Lancaster University * Paul Rayson, Lancaster University Links: ------ [1] https://softconf.com/coling2025/AbjadNLP25/

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Multilingual Encoder-Decoder models
by liling tan 29 Aug '24

29 Aug '24

Hi all, In the age of decoder-only LLMs, I'll like to ask if there's any competitive encoder-decoder architectures that are known to scale well for multilingual seq2seq tasks? - https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/en/model_doc/mt5 - https://huggingface.co/facebook/m2m100_418M - https://huggingface.co/google-bert/bert-base-multilingual-cased + https://www.kaggle.com/code/alvations/neural-plasticity-bert2bert-on-wmt14 - https://huggingface.co/Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-en-mul + https://huggingface.co/Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-mul-en - https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/en/model_doc/umt5 There's these that reported state-of-the-art NLI scores but they were not known to be multilingual - https://huggingface.co/google/ul2 - https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/en/model_doc/flan-t5 - https://huggingface.co/docs/transformers/en/model_doc/byt5 There's some ideas on doing encoder with mamba https://github.com/state-spaces/mamba/issues/78 but it looks like an open question. Other than the above, are there any competitive encoder-decoder architectures that are known to scale well for multilingual seq2seq tasks? Thank you in advance for the pointers! Regards, Liling

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corpora of technologies? ...
by Albretch Mueller 29 Aug '24

29 Aug '24

In the main, the Greek word "philology" has been taken as meaning "bibliosophy". I argue, it shouldn't mainly or just be about books. I have tried unsuccessful searches on: "corpora research" "technologies"; "corpora research" "patents"; ... to have search engines make sense of it in their own ways, not as meaning a corpus of technologies as such. Lewis Mumford in his worthwhile "Technics and Civilization" considers the first "eotechnic" phase of technologically civilized life approximately from AD 1000 AD 1800, a time frame during which the mechanical clock took relevance as a coordinating device. Yet, since around 600 BC Ancient Ionian/Greek philosophers had been pondering about techne and its relationship to concrete engineering and social technologies, including its intersubjective and moral aspects. Solon wondered about the relationship between techne and virtue and Plato dedicated in explicit and inferred way most of his dialogues to that theme. Mumford also pointed out that there have always been the kind of scientists and engineers such as Archimedes, Galileo, Agricola, Euler and Franz Reuleaux; who saw their business in "techne-like" ways. Basically, they take simple physical devices such as the lever, the wheel and the pulley (already more of a mechanism), to which the pressure gradient force in air naturally making windmills move and electromagnetic forces both as they happen in fields and on a quantum mechanical level on diodes, transistors and LEDs should be also included. Those most simple processes are seen as kinds of characters of an alphabet out of which mechanisms: "words" and "lexical bundles" of sort are contrived to create machines in a through and through "textual" way by chaining "kinematic pairs" in a way that at each juncture physical conservation laws apply. Cross correlating the pieces of such technological texts in a DAG kind of way you naturally build a corpus. So, as ancient philosophers intuited long ago the whole of society is a corpus. Do you know of any prior art relating to such corpora research? Please, if you do could you point me to such resources in a way that I can access them? I am what they call an independent researcher and it is virtually impossible for me to work. lbrtchx: corpora of technologies? ...

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23 fully funded PhD positions in The Finnish Doctoral Program Network in Artificial Intelligence
by Tiedemann, Jörg 28 Aug '24

28 Aug '24

The Finnish Doctoral Program Network in Artificial Intelligence (AI-DOC) is looking for new PhD students to work in fundamental AI and machine learning research and in five application areas. Come do a PhD tackling challenging research questions in a network that fosters industry and multidisciplinary collaboration! More information: https://fcai.fi/doctoral-program Application deadline: September 9 ***************************************************************** Jörg Tiedemann Language Technology https://blogs.helsinki.fi/language-technology/ University of Helsinki

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ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems CFP: RecSys 4 Good
by antonela.tommasel＠isistan.unicen.edu.ar 28 Aug '24

28 Aug '24

CALL FOR PAPERS: ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems Special Issue on Recommender Systems for Good Submission deadline: 24. December 2024 Guest Editors: - Marko Tkalčič, University of Primorska, Slovenia - Noemi Mauro, University of Turin, Italy - Alan Said, University of Gothenburg, Sweden - Nava Tintarev, University of Maastricht, Netherlands - Antonela Tommasel, ISISTAN, CONICET-UNCPBA, Argentina Recommender systems are among the most widely used applications of machine learning. Since they are so widely used, it is important that we, as practitioners and researchers, think about the impact these systems may have on users, society, and other stakeholders. In practice, the focus is often on systems and values of improving key performance indicators (KPIs), such as increased sales or customer retention. Recommendation technology is currently underutilized to serve societal goals that go beyond the business objectives of individual corporations. However, other values, bound more to societal good, could be considered in the development and goals of a recommender system. In fact, recommender systems have already been explored to stimulate healthier eating behavior and for improved health and well-being in general, to help low-income families make school choices, to suggest successful learning paths for students, to entice climate-protecting energy-saving behavior, to support fair micro-lending, or improve the information diets of news readers. Research in these areas is however limited in numbers, compared to the many papers that are published every year that propose new models for improved movie recommendations. Moreover, concerning the methodology and evaluation perspective in this area, it is essential to find a clear methodology and criteria for evaluating the effectiveness and "goodness" of the proposed algorithms. This includes acknowledging that different values may be conflicting, as well as resolving how and when (and by whom) certain values should be prioritized over others such as in the NORMalize workshop (https://sites.google.com/view/normalizeworkshop). Research on "Recommender Systems for Good" may benefit from an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on insights from fields such as computer science, ethics, sociology, psychology, law, and economics. Collaborations with stakeholders from diverse backgrounds can enrich the research and ensure that recommendations are grounded in real-world needs and values. This special issue aims to present state-of-the-art research works where recommender systems have a positive societal impact and help us address urgent societal challenges. It will thereby serve as a call to action for more research in these areas. Ultimately, through this special issue, we hope to establish a vision of "Recommender Systems for Good', following the spirit of the "AI for Good" initiative (https://aiforgood.itu.int) to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (2015) and the more recent UNESCO recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (2024) (https://www.unesco.org/en/artificial-intelligence/recommendation-ethics). Topics: We aim to collect the latest research on recommender systems for societal good. The topics of the special issues include (but are not limited to): - Recommender systems for safety, security, and privacy (e.g., reducing poverty and inequality) - Recommender systems that protect the environment and ecosystems (e.g., lower energy consumption, water and energy management) - Recommender systems that give control of data back to the users (e.g., transparency of data, models, and outputs) - Recommender systems for the interconnected society (e.g., increase of solidarity, online conversational health, multi-stakeholder recommenders) - Accountability in recommender systems, including addressing emerging regulations, such as the DSA (Digital Service Act) - Recommender systems for the public good (e.g., mental and physical health, welfare, digital literacy, stakeholder engagement, e-learning) - Introspective studies on the current state of RSs concerning societal good - Fairness-preserving and fairness-enhancing recommender systems, unbiased recommendations (e.g. to preserve gender equality) - Responsible recommendation (e.g., in social media and traditional news, avoiding filter bubbles and echo chambers) - Sustainability and Cultural recommendations (e.g., art, cultural heritage) - Recommendations to support disadvantaged groups (e.g., elderly, minorities) - Recommender systems for personal development and well-being (e.g., behavioral change, fitness, self-actualization, personal growth) Important Dates: - Submission deadline: December 24, 2024 - First-round review decisions: March 24, 2025 - Deadline for revision submissions: May 24, 2025 - Notification of final decisions: June 24, 2025 Submissions that are received before the first deadline will be directly sent out for review; papers will be immediately published online after acceptance. Submission Information: The special issue welcomes technical research papers, survey papers, and opinion/reflective papers. Each paper should address one or more of the abovementioned topics or be in other scopes of Recommender Systems for Good. The special issue will also consider peer-reviewed journal versions (at least 30% new content) of top papers from related recommender system conferences such as RecSys, SIGIR, KDD, CIKM, IUI, UMAP, CHI, WSDM, ACL, etc. Prospective authors may take advantage of submitting an early version of their work to the ACM RecSys RecSoGood Workshop https://recsogood.github.io/recsogood24/. The new content must be in terms of intellectual contributions, technical experiments, and findings. Submissions must be prepared according to the TORS submission guidelines (https://dl.acm.org/journal/tors/author-guidelines) and must be submitted via Manuscript Central (https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tors). For questions and further information, please contact the guest editors at rs4good [at] acm [dot] org.

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SemDial 2024: Online Participation
by Raffaella Bernardi 28 Aug '24

28 Aug '24

SemDial 2024 -- TrentoLogue The 28th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue 11 and 12 September 2024, University of Trento, Italy https://event.unitn.it/semdial2024/ Upon request, we have opened the registration form for online participation. Important information: Fee 30 EURO Deadline for registration: September 5th at 12:00 PM CEST Deadline for payment: September 9th at 11:59 CEST The Zoom link will be shared with the online participants on September 10th; it will let participants attend the three invited talks and the presentations of the full papers. *Keynote speakers* Uri Hasson, Princeton University Azzurra Ruggeri, Technical University Munich e Central European University Bernardo Magnini, Fondazone Bruno Kessler Full program available at: https://event.unitn.it/semdial2024/#programme Raffaella On behalf of the OC ============================================================== University of Trento CIMeC: C225, second floor, Corso Bettini 31, 38068 Rovereto (TN), DISI: Povo 2, Room: 110, Via Sommarive 9, I 38123, Povo (TN) Tel. +39 0464 80 8704 (CIMeC) http://disi.unitn.it/~bernardi/ ==============================================================

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Applied Sciences: Special Issue on Tokenization and related phenomena
by Yuval Pinter 28 Aug '24

28 Aug '24

Dear Colleagues, As language models take center stage not only in NLP but in a vast array of scientific applications, the question of how it is best to map natural language in textual form into vector space gains more and more interest. While most popular models still use subword tokens as their atomic units, “token-free” methods including character-level, byte-level, and encoding of visual text rendering have been making promising progress. Still, development and analysis of tokenization and untokenization methods is advancing at a slower rate than research in model architecture and optimization technologies, mostly due to the early stage at which representation is applied, which makes evaluation of new algorithms and techniques particularly challenging. Fundamental insights into the effect of representation atomicity on morphological modeling, on multilingual and crosslingual applications, on computation efficiency, on representations of groups in society, and on other aspects, are still being gained, making this research topic ripe for aggregation and integration of findings and methodologies. Our special issue, entitled *Atoms of Representation in Natural Language Processing*, aims to collect such findings and insights, to encourage diving deep into the relationships between language and computation, and to foster holistic approaches and collaboration in development and assessment of different aspects of representation in language models and other NLP systems and applications. Suggested themes and article types for submissions include: - Novel schemas for subword tokenization and for tokenizer application methodologies - Benchmarks and analyses of tokenizer effectiveness and quality, including crosslingual and multilingual setups, morphological aspects, information-theoretic constructions, correlation with quality of learned embeddings and downstream model performance, ability to handle linguistic phenomena, security implications, societal implications, etc. - Development, modification, evaluation, and analysis of token-free representation schemata based on textual input - Development, modification, evaluation, and analysis of token-free representation schemata utilizing multimodal input such as visual, spatial, or acoustic signals; combination of different linguistic signals (auditory, textual, sign language) into a single input framework - Theoretic contributions addressing expressive power or limitations of various textual representation methodologies - Analysis of the textual modality and its representation on the computational level, e.g. of Unicode standards The full call is available here: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/special_issues/2SHP0751R0. Several waiver discounts are available (contact me personally). -- - Yuval Pinter Guest Editor www.yuvalpinter.com

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CFP: 1st Shared Task on Spoken-Query Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval for the Indic Languages (SqCLIR 2024)
by Bhargav Dave 27 Aug '24

27 Aug '24

Apologies for the multiple postings. ----------------------------- Spoken-Query Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval for the Indic Languages (SqCLIR 2024) Website: https://sites.google.com/view/sqclir2024 To be organized in conjunction with FIRE 2024 (fire.irsi.org.in) 12th-15th December 2024, Gandhinagar, India ------------------------------ India is known for its linguistic diversity, featuring a multitude of languages. The Constitution of India recognizes 22 languages under the Eighth Schedule. These include Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Odia, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Bodo, Santhali, Maithili, and Dogri. Building a retrieval system that handles spoken queries in one of India's 22 officially recognized languages and locates relevant passages in a large knowledge base is multifaceted and complex. To our knowledge, spoken-query retrieval is a relatively underexplored area in information retrieval and natural language processing, and it is a multi-lingual version that includes under-resourced languages. In addressing this challenge and exploring a new area, we offer a novel shared task for FIRE 2024 that will allow the development and evaluation of retrieval systems that receive a spoken query as input and search for answers in a document corpus. Overview of Task Task 1: Spoken Query Ad-Hoc Retrieval Data - Monolingual Task Participants are required to develop a Spoken Query Retrieval System that handles monolingual queries. This task involves both the spoken queries and the corpus being in the same language, making the retrieval process more straightforward. The system should accurately interpret spoken queries and retrieve relevant passages from a corpus in the same language. This year, the languages involved in this task are English, Gujarati, Hindi, and Bengali. Task 2: Spoken Query Cross-Lingual Retrieval Participants are required to develop a Spoken Query Retrieval System capable of handling cross-lingual queries. In this task, the spoken queries and the corpus are in different languages, adding complexity to the retrieval process. The system should accurately interpret spoken queries in one language and retrieve the most relevant passages from a corpus in another language. This year, the task will involve English, Hindi, and Bengali. The language pairs for queries and corpus could be any combination of these languages, allowing participants to address various cross-lingual retrieval challenges. Tentative Timeline 20th August - Training Data Released and Registrations open 5th September - Test Data Release 30th September - Run Submission Deadline 10th October - Results Declared 20th October - Working notes due 20th November - Camera Ready Submissions due 12th-15th December - FIRE 2024 at Gandhinagar, India Organizers ---------------- Bhargav Dave, DA-IICT, Gandhinagar, India Debasis Ganguly, University of Glasgow, Scotland Evangelos Kanoulas, University of Amsterdam Prasenjit Majumder, DA-IICT, Gandhinagar, India For regular updates, subscribe to our mailing list: sqclir(a)googlegroups.com

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Job opportunity - Professor in Digital Humanities with focus on images & objects at FAU, Germany
by Michaela Mahlberg 27 Aug '24

27 Aug '24

Dear all, The Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) invites applications for a Full Professor of Digital Humanities with a focus on Images and Objects (salary group W3) at the Department of Digital Humanities and Social Studies (DHSS). This is a full-time and permanent position to be filled by the earliest possible starting date. We seek to appoint a leading expert with an internationally visible profile in research and teaching. The successful candidate must have expertise in several of the following areas: * methods for image and object-based digital humanities * distant viewing * computer-assisted techniques and analytical approaches for researching visual culture * hermeneutics of digital humanities * digitalization of cultural heritage * software development * infrastructures for visual computing. The successful candidate will have a track record in the acquisition of third-party funding and an excellent research profile, demonstrated with internationally visible publications and an established research network. Experience in interdisciplinary collaborative research is desirable, and your research must tie in with the key research priorities at FAU and the faculty. We also expect willingness to participate in innovative courses and to develop innovative teaching concepts. The newly launched Department of Digital Humanities and Social Studies pursues the goal of facilitating world-leading research into the opportunities and challenges of the datafication and algorithmization of society, culture, and human knowledge. The professor will assume a pivotal role in establishing the department and shaping its profile. The organizational structure of the department is based on team resources and encourages collaborative work. Deadline for applications September 29, 2024 More information at https://www.fau.eu/people/working-at-fau/professorships/ All good wishes Michaela -- Professor Michaela Mahlberg https://michaelamahlberg.com/ Alexander-von-Humboldt Professor & Professor of Digital Humanities<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgkKhcwvWgI> Head of Department of Digital Humanities and Social Studies (DHSS)<https://www.dhss.phil.fau.de/> FAU - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg<https://www.fau.de/> Werner-von-Siemens-Str. 61 91052 Erlangen, Germany Editor of the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics <https://benjamins.com/catalog/ijcl> Host of the Life and Language Podcast <https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/michaela-mahlberg/> @MichaMahlberg<https://twitter.com/MichaMahlberg> https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaela-mahlberg/

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JT-DH 2024 (Ljubljana, Slovenia) - Registration
by Špela Arhar Holdt 27 Aug '24

27 Aug '24

Dear Colleagues, If you are interested in attending the Language Technologies and Digital Humanities Conference (JT-DH 2024), please ensure you register by September 8, 2024: https://www.sdjt.si/wp/jtdh-2024/. The conference is organized by ZRC SAZU in collaboration with the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the University of Ljubljana, which will host the event on September 19-20, 2024. We warmly invite you to participate in both the conference and the pre-conference events. Best regards, Špela Arhar Holdt

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3rd Call for Papers for the 22nd Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop - ALTA2024
by Kathy Reid 27 Aug '24

27 Aug '24

Dear Colleagues, We're delighted to announce that the CfP for the 22nd Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association - ALTA 2024 - is now open and closes on 20th September (23:59hrs Anywhere on Earth UTC -12) Details are available on our website at https://alta2024.alta.asn.au/calls/papers and a summary follows. --- Important Dates * Submission deadline for short/long papers, presentation abstracts and industry demonstrations: 20 September 2024 (23:59 Anywhere On Earth UTC-12). * Main conference: 3 December and 4 December 2024, ANU, Canberra, ACT, hybrid (in person and online) Overview The 22nd Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA) will be held in a hybrid format at the Australian National University, Canberra, from 2 December to 4 December 2024 and also online. The ALTA 2024 workshop is the key local forum for socialising research results in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computational Linguistics (CL). It will feature presentations, posters, and demonstrations from students, industry, and academic researchers. Like previous years, we also encourage submissions and participation from industry and government researchers and developers. Note that ALTA is listed in the CORE 2023 Conference Rankings as Australasian C<https://www.core.edu.au/conference-portal>. Topics ALTA invites the submission of papers and presentations on all aspects of NLP and CL, including, but not limited to: * Commonsense Reasoning. * Computational Social Science and Cultural Analytics. * Dialogue and Interactive Systems. * Discourse and Pragmatics. * Efficient Methods for NLP. * Ethics in NLP. * Information Extraction. * Information Retrieval and Text Mining. * Interpretability, Interactivity and Analysis of Models for NLP. * Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond. * Language Modeling and Analysis of Language Models. * Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics. * Machine Learning for NLP. * Machine Translation. * Multilinguality and Linguistic Diversity. * Natural Language Generation. * NLP Applications. * Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation. * Question Answering. * Resources and Evaluation. * Semantics: Lexical, Sentence level, Document Level, Textual Inference, etc. * Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining. * Speech and Multimodality. * Summarisation. * Syntax, Parsing and their Applications. We particularly encourage submissions that broaden the scope of our community by considering practical applications of language technology and multidisciplinary research. We also specifically encourage submissions from the industry. Format and instructions for authors Please refer to our CfP webpage for specifics.<https://alta2024.alta.asn.au/calls/papers> We are using OpenReview for submissions, and invite submissions of three different formats: (1) Original Research Papers, (2) Abstract-based Presentations, and (3) Industry Demonstrations. --- You can follow ALTA on social media at the following links: * LinkedIn (page): https://www.linkedin.com/company/australasian-language-technology-associati… * LinkedIn (group):https://www.linkedin.com/groups/1849979/ * Twitter: https://twitter.com/altanlp * Mastodon: https://sigmoid.social/@ALTAnlp * Hashtag is #ALTA2024 With kind regards, on behalf of the ALTA 2024 Team: Dr Gabriela Ferraro, General Chair Professor Tim Baldwin, Program Chair Dr Sergio José Rodríguez Méndez, Program Chair Dr Nicholas Kuo, Program Chair Dr Anton Malko, Publication Chair Dr Dawei Chen, Technology Chair A/Prof Shunichi Ishihara, Finance Chair Charbel El-Khaissi, PhD candidate, Sponsorship Chair Ned Cooper, PhD candidate, Local Chair Kathy Reid, PhD candidate, Publicity Chair

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Job: Postdoctoral researcher (UClouvain): iRead4skills - Reminder
by Thomas François 26 Aug '24

26 Aug '24

Job : Postdoctoral researcher (UClouvain) : iRead4skills : Intelligent Reading Improvement System for Fundamental and Transversal Skills Development UCLouvain is looking for a post-doctoral researcher in natural language processing or computer science - Full-time (100%) post-doctoral funding for a period of approximately 18 months - for the Centre de traitement automatique du langage (CENTAL), of the Institut langage et communication (ILC) at UCLouvain (Louvain-la-Neuve) - start date: 1 October 2024 (negotiable) Full description of the offer : EN : https://uclouvain.be/en/research-institutes/ilc/cental/news/job-postdoctora… FR : https://uclouvain.be/fr/instituts-recherche/ilc/cental/actualites/job-post-… Application file Application deadline: 1 September 2024 If you are interested in this position, please send your application to Thomas François by email (thomas.francois(a)uclouvain.be<mailto:thomas.francois@uclouvain.be>). This should include : 1. a detailed curriculum vitae in French or English, including the various qualifications and skills required, details of your academic career (years of study, degrees obtained, honours), as well as scientific publications and other academic and scientific achievements; 2. a covering letter in French, describing your interest in the position ; how your profile meets the description of the position and the objectives of the project, etc. (maximum 2 pages); 3. one or two letters of reference in French or English, in particular from your thesis supervisor. Successful candidates will be invited to take part in a video-conference interview, the details of which will be sent to them by email. Pr. Thomas François Chargé de cours en linguistique appliquée Faculté de Philosophie, Arts et Lettres Université catholique de Louvain Institut Langage et Communication, PLIN, CENTAL et TeaMM Place Montesquieu, 3 - box L2.06.04 • B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve • Belgium Tél. : +32 (0)10 / 47 37 36

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Hard deadline - CFP - SIMBig 2024 in Peru - Artificial Intelligence
by Juan Antonio Lossio-Ventura 26 Aug '24

26 Aug '24

> [Apologies for cross-posting] > > *** Due to multiple requests, we decided to extend the deadline for paper submission!*** > *** The NEW and HARD deadline is set to August 31th, 2024 *** > > ========================================================================== > EXTENDED CALL FOR PAPERS - SIMBig 2024 > ========================================================================== > > 11th International Conference on Information Management and Big Data - SIMBig 2024 > Where: Universidad Nacional de Moquegua, Ilo, PERU > When: November 20 - 22, 2024 > Website: https://simbig.org/SIMBig2024/ > Free of Cost: no fees associated with Publication > ========================================================================== > > OVERVIEW > ---------------------------------- > > SIMBig 2024 seeks to present new methods of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data Science, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Semantic Web, and related fields, for analyzing, managing, and extracting insights and patterns from large volumes of data. > > > KEYNOTE SPEAKERS > ---------------------------------- > Aaron Courville, Université de Montréal, Canada Mona Diab, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Anna Korhonen, University of Cambridge, UK Huan Liu, Arizona State University, USA > > IMPORTANT DATES > ---------------------------------- > > August 10, 2024 August 31, 2024 --> Full papers and short papers due > September 30, 2024 --> Notification of acceptance > October 28, 2024 --> Camera-ready versions > November 20-22, 2024 --> Conference held in Moquegua, Peru > > PUBLICATION > ---------------------------------- > > All accepted papers of SIMBig 2024 (tracks including) will be published with Springer CCIS Series <https://www.springer.com/series/7899>. > > > CONFERENCE FEES > ---------------------------------- > > To disseminate new advances in data science, SIMBig 2034 offers a conference registration fee of 30 USD, which includes access to the conference, materials, and publication of the proceedings for the authors. Submit your articles HERE <https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/User/Login?ReturnUrl=%2FSIMBIG2024>. > > > TOPICS OF INTEREST > ---------------------------------- > > SIMBig 2024 has a broad scope. We invite contributions on theory and practice, including but not limited to the following technical areas: > > Artificial Intelligence > Big/Masive Data > Data Science > Machine Learning > Deep Learning > Natural Language Processing > Semantic Web > Data-driven Software Engineering > Healthcare Informatics > Biomedical Informatics > Data Privacy and Security > Information Retrieval > Ontologies and Knowledge Representation > Social Networks and Social Web > Information Visualization > > SPECIAL TRACKS > ---------------------------------- > > SIMBig 2024 proposes a special track in addition to the main conference: > > DISE <https://simbig.org/SIMBig2024/call-for-paper/track-on-data-driven-software-…> - Data-Driven Software Engineering > EE-AI-HPC <https://www.cri.ensmp.fr/conf/ee-ai-hpc2024/> - Efficieny Enhencement for Artificial Intelligence and High-Performance Computing > > CONTACT > ---------------------------------- > > SIMBig 2024 General Chairs > > Juan Antonio Lossio-Ventura, National Institutes of Health, USA (juan.lossio(a)nih.gov <mailto:juan.lossio@nih.gov>) > Hugo Alatrista-Salas, Léonard de Vinci Pôle Universitaire Research Center, Paris, France (hugo.alatrista_salas(a)devinci.fr <mailto:halatrista@pucp.pe>)

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FYI: DRDHum 2024 (Joensuu) - registration now open
by Michael Pace-Sigge 26 Aug '24

26 Aug '24

3rd Conference on Digital Data and Human Sciences (DRDHum 2024): Digital Research Data and Human Sciences in the Age of A.I. Now open for registration. Date: 10-Dec-2024 - 12-Dec-2024 Location: Joensuu, Finland Contact Person: Michael Pace-Sigge Contact Email: drdhum(a)uef.fi<mailto:drdhum@uef.fi> Web Site: https://sites.uef.fi/drd-hum-2024/ Please register here: https://registration.contio.fi/uef/Registration/Login?id=7500-T_7500-8717 Conference Description: 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. Please note that there will be a free pre-conference workshop. For details go to: https://sites.uef.fi/drd-hum-2024/programme/ 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, Professor of Digital Humanities & Head of Department https://michaelamahlberg.com/ Department of Digital Humanities and Social Sciences Friedrich Alexander Universität, Germany Professor Tony McEnery, University of Lancaster, UK https://www.lancaster.ac.uk<https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/> Distinguished Professor On behalf of the organising committee: 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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