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2nd Call for Demonstrations PROPOR 2024 - 16th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese
by Iria de Dios Flores 15 Sep '23

15 Sep '23

[Apologies for cross-postings] ******************************************************** *2nd Call for Demonstrations* PROPOR 2024: 16th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (Santiago de Compostela - Galicia) March 14th & 15th 2024 https://propor2024.citius.gal/ ******************************************************** The PROPOR 2024 demonstration program committee invites submissions for demonstrations. Following the spirit of previous PROPOR editions, the demonstration track aims at bringing together academia and industry, creating a forum where more than written or spoken descriptions of research are available. Thus, demos should allow attendees to try and test them during their presentation in a dedicated session that will provide a more informal and interactive setting. Products, systems, or tools are examples of acceptable demos. Both early-research prototypes and mature systems may also be considered. Demos Submission: December 10 2023 Notification of acceptance or rejection: January 21 2024 Camera-ready demo paper: January 28 2024 Conference: March 14 and 15 2024 *Topics:* The areas of interest include all topics related to theoretical and applied issues of written and spoken Portuguese and Galician, such as, but not limited to, the same topics as for the conference paper submission: - Natural language processing tasks (e.g. parsing, word sense disambiguation, coreference resolution) - Natural language processing applications (e.g. question answering, subtitling, summarization, sentiment analysis) - Natural language generation - Information extraction and information retrieval - Speech technologies (e.g. spoken language generation, speech and speaker recognition, spoken language understanding) - Speech applications (e.g. spoken language interfaces, dialogue systems, speech-to-speech translation) - Resources, standardization and evaluation (e.g. corpora, ontologies, lexicons, grammars) - NLP-oriented linguistic description or theoretical analysis - Distributional semantics and language modeling - Portuguese language varieties and dialect processing (including the language varieties of Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Galicia, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé, and Principe) - Multilingual studies, methods, applications, and resources including Portuguese/Galician The systems may be of the following kinds: - Natural Language Processing systems or system components - Application systems using language technology components - Software tools for computational linguistics research - Software for demonstration or evaluation - Development tools *Submissions:* Submissions should consist of a non-anonymous brief description document of up to *three pages of content, including references*. Developers must outline the main characteristics of their system/product/tool, provide sufficient details to allow its evaluation, and give information on how they plan to demonstrate it. Developers are encouraged to focus their description on the relevance of the computational processing component of Portuguese or Galician in the proposed system. Submissions should be written in English. At submission time, only PDF format is accepted. For the final versions, authors of accepted papers will be given one extra content page to take the reviews into account. Authors of accepted papers will be requested to send the source files for the production of the proceedings. Submissions must be sent via EasyChair ( https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=propor2024) — please select the track: *PROPOR2024 Demo Paper*. All submitted papers must conform to the official ACL style guidelines. ACL provides style files for LaTeX and Microsoft Word that meet these requirements. They can be found at: LaTeX stylesheet: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files/tree/master/latex MS Word stylesheet: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files/tree/master/word The URL for paper submission will be available soon. *Publication:* Accepted demo papers are expected to be published by ACL as a volume in ACL Anthology (https://aclanthology.org/) as part of the PROPOR 2024 proceedings. They will be available online. To ensure publication, at least one author of each accepted paper must complete an adequate registration for PROPOR 2024 by the early registration deadline. *Presentation format:* Accepted demos will be presented at a designated demo session with an optional accompanying poster. Developers should make sure they could run their demos properly. Thus, it is the authors’ responsibility to provide the necessary technical conditions (i.e. equipment) for the demo at the conference. Note that the local organizers will not provide any hardware or software. Free high-speed Internet access will be available. There will be a best demo award for the best-presented project. Further details on the date, time, and instructions of the demonstration session(s) will be determined and provided at a later date. *Demo chairs:* Marlo Souza (Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil) Iria de-Dios-Flores (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain) -- *Iria de-Dios-Flores (PhD)* *https://sites.google.com/view/iriadediosflores/ <https://sites.google.com/view/iriadediosflores/>*

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September 2023 Newsletter - LDC
by Penn LDC 15 Sep '23

15 Sep '23

In this newsletter: LDC data and commercial technology development New publications: CALLFRIEND Russian Speech<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2023S08> CALLFRIEND Russian Text<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2023T09> ________________________________ 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: CALLFRIEND Russian Speech<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2023S08> was developed by LDC and consists of 48 hours of telephone conversations (100 recordings) between native speakers of Russian. The calls were recorded in 1999 as part of the CALLFRIEND collection, a project designed primarily to support research in automatic language identification. One hundred native Russian speakers living in the continental United States each made a single phone call, lasting up to 30 minutes, to a family member or friend living in the United States. All recordings involved domestic calls routed through LDC's automated telephone collection platform and stored as 2-channel (4-wire) 8-KHz mu-law samples taken directly from a public telephone network via a T-1 circuit. Each audio file is a FLAC-compressed MS-WAV (RIFF) format audio file containing 2-channel, 8-KHz, 16-bit PCM sample data. This release includes call metadata, including speaker gender, the number of speakers on each channel, and call duration. Corresponding transcripts and a lexicon are available in CALLFRIEND Russian Text (LDC2023T09<http://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2023T09>). 2023 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee. * CALLFRIEND Russian Text<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2023T09> contains the corresponding transcripts and a lexicon for CALLFRIEND Russian Speech<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2023S08>, that is, 48 hours of telephone conversations (100 recordings) between native Russian speakers. The transcripts have four main fields on each line (begin_offset, end_offset, speaker_label, transcript_text) separated by tabs. Each contains a list of time-stamped segments in order according to their begin_offset values, with no blank lines. The lexicon covers the word forms in the 97 transcript files. The main lexicon table contains three columns per row: Cyrillic orthography, phonetic transliteration, and numeric representation of syllabic stress. Corresponding speech data is available as CALLFRIEND Russian Speech (LDC2023S08<http://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2023S08>). 2023 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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Second CFP and Revised Timeline: 2nd Shared Task on Indian Language Summarization (ILSUM 2023)
by Parth Mehta 15 Sep '23

15 Sep '23

Apologies for the multiple postings. ----------------------------- *Indian Language Summarization (ILSUM 2023)* Website: https://ilsum.github.io/ To be organized in conjunction with FIRE 2023 (fire.irsi.res.in) 15th-18th December 2023, Goa, India ------------------------------ The second shared task on Indian Language Summarization (ILSUM) aims at creating an evaluation benchmark dataset for Indian Languages. This year ILSUM consists of two subtasks Subtask 1: This task builds upon the task from ILSUM 2022. In the first edition, we covered two major Indian languages Hindi and Gujarati alongside Indian English, a widely recognized dialect of the English Language. This year's edition adds the Bengali language and an expanded dataset for the languages from last year. Further, we will provide abstractive summaries for a subset of each language (~1000 per language) apart from the headlines which are semi-extractive summaries in nature. Like the previous edition, this will be a classic summarization task, where we will provide ~15,000 article-summary pairs for each language and the participants are expected to generate a fixed-length summary. Subtask 2: The task is centred around identifying factual errors in machine-generated summaries. With the recent implosion of Large Language models, . While these LLMs are very good at summarization, among other NLP tasks, they are often prone to hallucinations. This means the model generates information that is not accurate, not based on its training data, or is completely made up but looks accurate and reliable. Further, such tools can be misused to generate misleading or outright incorrect information. Identifying such inaccuracies can be a challenging task. Through this subtask, we aim to address the problem of identifying factually incorrect information in LLM-generated summaries. Participants will be provided with an article and its corresponding machine-generated summary. The objective is to identify the presence of factual incorrectness in the summaries if any, and classify them in one of the predefined categories. *Tentative Timeline* ------------- 7st August - Training Data Released and Registrations open 10th October - Test Data Release 20th October - Run Submission Deadline 25th October - Results Declared 10th Novemebr - Working notes due 20th November - Reviews Due 30th November - Camera Ready Submissions due 15th-18th December - FIRE 2023 at Goa, India *Organisers* ---------------- Shrey Satapara, Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, India Sandip Modha, LDRP-ITR, Gandhinagar, India Parth Mehta, Parmonic, USA Debasis Ganguly, University of Glasgow, Scotland *For regular updates subscribe to our mailing list: **ilsum(a)googlegroups.com**

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AVI 2024 Announcement: 3-7 June 2024, Genoa, Italy
by Gualtiero Volpe 15 Sep '23

15 Sep '23

International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI2024) ================================================================ 3-7 June 2024 Genoa, Italy https://avi2024.dibris.unige.it ================================================================ IMPORTANT DATES Workshop and tutorial proposals: Friday, December 1, 2023 Long and short papers: Abstract submission: Wednesday, January 10, 2024 Paper submission: Wednesday, January 17, 2024 Posters and Demos: Paper submission: Thursday, February 29, 2024 Doctoral Consortium: Paper submission: Wednesday, March 27, 2024 (all deadlines are 23:59, AoE) Submission webpage: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=avi2024 ---------------------------------------------------------------- International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI) Since 1992, AVI has been a biennial appointment for a vast international community of experts with a broad range of backgrounds. Throughout three decades, the Conference has attracted leading researchers of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) from all over the world, offering a forum to present and disseminate new technological results, paradigms, and visions for HCI and user interfaces. Because of advanced technology and new possibilities for user interaction, AVI has broadened the topics it covers, still keeping its primary focus on the conception, design, implementation, and evaluation of novel visual interfaces. While rooted in Italy, AVI is an actual international conference concerning the nationality of participants, authors of papers, and program committee members. The mixture of carefully selected research contributions paired with cordial Italian hospitality creates a unique conference atmosphere, which has made AVI an internationally recognized brand. AVI 2024 is under the patronage of University of Genoa, Department of Informatics, Bioengineering, Robotics and Systems Engineering, Italy. We look forward to your participation in AVI 2024! Cristina Conati, AVI 2024 General Chair Gulatiero Volpe, AVI 2024 General Chair Ilaria Torre, AVI 2024 Program Chair ---------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following: Adaptive and Context-Aware Interfaces Affective Visual Interfaces Computer Supported Cooperative Work Conversational Interfaces Full-body Interaction Human-AI Interaction Information Visualization Intelligent Interfaces Engineering of Visual Interfaces and Interaction Interaction Design Tools Building Interactions: Hardware, Materials, and Fabrication Interaction for the environment and environmental awareness Interface Metaphors Interfaces for Automotive Interfaces for Big Data Interfaces for e-Commerce and e-Branding Interfaces for e-Culture and e-Tourism Interfaces for End-User Development Interfaces for i-TV Interfaces for Recommender Systems Interfaces for Social Interaction and Cooperation Interfaces and Interactions for Inclusion, Accessibility and Aging Interfaces for children Learning, Education, and Families Mobile Interaction Motion-based Interaction Multimodal Interfaces (Multi)Sensory Interfaces (Multi)Touch Interaction Search Interfaces Shape-Changing Devices User Interfaces for the Internet of Things Usability and Accessibility Usability and (Cyber)Security Virtual and Augmented Reality Visual Analytics ---------------------------------------------------------------- **LONG AND SHORT RESEARCH PAPERS** We solicit high-quality original research papers in the area of advanced visual interfaces and Human-Computer Interaction in general. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by an international panel of experts. Accepted long and short research papers will be included in the Proceedings published by ACM Press and available in the ACM Digital Library. Long and Short papers are publications that address AVI 2024 topics and describe original, unpublished research. Submissions must be anonymized. The maximum length of long papers is 8 pages (with one additional page for references). The maximum length of short papers is 4 pages (with one additional page for references). Authors are required to send a 250-word abstract by the abstract deadline, one week before final submission, to speed up the paper assignment to reviewers. **POSTER PAPERS** The AVI 2024 Poster Track allows researchers and practitioners to present their work in progress and obtain precious feedback from their peers in an informal setting. Poster submissions must be up to 2 pages (with one additional page for references), not anonymized. **DEMO PAPERS** The demo track is intended to provide a forum to showcase innovative implementations, systems and technologies demonstrating new ideas about interactive visual interfaces. We are looking for implementations of novel and exciting concepts or systems related to the main topics of AVI. Demo papers must be up to 2 pages (with one additional page for references), not anonymized. **WORKSHOP PROPOSALS** We invite proposals for workshops that will facilitate the exchange of new ideas in all areas related to advanced visual interfaces and Human-Computer Interaction. We invite organizers to propose either half-day or one-day long workshops held on June 3 or June 4, 2024, at the AVI2024 venue. **TUTORIALS** We encourage the proposal of tutorials on specific topics related to AVI and general HCI approaches, methodologies, or technologies. **DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM** The goal of the Doctoral Consortium is to provide a setting for PhD students to present their work and receive feedback on their doctoral research plan and progress. Students will be offered the opportunity to articulate and discuss their problem statement, goals, methods, and results. The Doctoral Consortium also aims at providing students with guidance on various aspects of their research from established researchers and the other students participating in the sessions. Finally, the Doctoral Consortium seeks to motivate students in the development of their scientific curiosity and facilitate their networking within the research community. ---------------------------------------------------------------- AVI 2024 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chairs Cristina Conati, University of British Columbia, Vancouver Gualtiero Volpe, University of Genoa Program Chair Ilaria Torre, University of Genoa Long Papers Chairs Giuseppe Desolda, University of Bari Michail Giannakos, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Short Papers Chairs Elisabetta Bevacqua, National Engineering School of Brest Maurizio Mancini, Sapienza University of Rome Workshop & Tutorial Chairs Ignacio Aedo, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Rosella Gennari, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Poster Chairs Masood Masoodian, Aalto University Giovanna Varni, University of Trento Demo Chairs Radoslaw Niewiadomski, University of Genoa Fabiana Vernero, University of Turin Doctoral Consortium Chair Fabio Paternò, CNR ISTI Giuliana Vitiello, University of Salerno Publicity Chairs Beatrice Biancardi, LINEACT CESI Federica Delprino, University of Genoa Proceedings Chairs Eleonora Ceccaldi, University of Genoa Cigdem Beyan, University of Trento Web Chair Paola Barra, University of Naples Parthenope AVI STEERING COMMITTEE Paolo Bottoni, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Paolo Buono University of Bari, Italy Tiziana Catarci Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Maria Francesca Costabile University of Bari, Italy Maristella Matera Polytechnic of Milan, Italy Massimo Mecella Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Kent Norman University of Maryland, USA Emanuele Panizzi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Genny Tortora University of Salerno, Italy Giuliana Vitiello University of Salerno, Italy Marco Winckler Université Côte d'Azur, France

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North Africans in Machine Learning Affinity Workshop at NeurIPS 2023
by Hatem Haddad 14 Sep '23

14 Sep '23

We are thrilled to announce the *Call for Papers for the North Africans in Machine Learning Affinity Workshop*, which will be held at* NeurIPS 2023*. This is your chance to share your groundbreaking research, insights, and discoveries with a vibrant community of peers in the field of Machine Learning. Whether you're a junior researcher or a seasoned expert, and of North African origins. If you have a passion for advancing the theory and applications of ML, we want to hear from you! *Why submit your paper:* - Showcase your work on a prestigious stage. - Gain valuable feedback from experts in the ML community. - Connect with like-minded professionals from North African institutions and beyond. - Contribute to the collective knowledge of the ML field. *Submission Guidelines:* - Papers related to all aspects of Machine Learning are welcome. - Submissions from all North Africans (or with North African origins) are encouraged. - The workshop is open to academia and industry professionals. *Submission Link and Deadlines:* https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSedy0Q7neQsSKV1XmPphEiZmaQuH-QblED… *Website*: https://sites.google.com/view/north africans in ml <https://sites.google.com/view/northafricansinml> *Awards and Recognition:* Outstanding contributions will be recognized, and selected papers may have the opportunity to be featured prominently during the workshop. Join us in making the North Africans in Machine Learning Affinity Workshop at NeurIPS 2023 a resounding success! Submit your paper, share your insights, and be part of this exciting journey in advancing the field of Machine Learning. Stay tuned for more updates and mark your calendars for NeurIPS 2023! Let's shape the future of ML together. *NAML Organizer Team* *--------------------------------------------------------* *Hatem Haddad* Assistant Professor, Manouba University, Tunisia

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Second CFP: PROPOR 2024 - 16th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese
by Pablo Gamallo 14 Sep '23

14 Sep '23

Subject: Second CFP: PROPOR 2024 - 16th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese [Apologies for cross-postings] ******************************************************** PROPOR 2024: 16th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (Santiago de Compostela - Galicia) March 14th to 15th 2024 2nd Call for Papers https://propor2024.citius.gal/ ******************************************************** The International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese (PROPOR), whose next edition will take place for the first time in Galicia, birthplace of the Portuguese language, is the main event in the area of natural language processing that is focused on theoretical and technological issues of written and spoken Portuguese and Galician (considered as a local variety of the former). The meeting has been a very rich forum for the exchange of ideas and partnerships for the research and industry communities dedicated to the automated processing of this language, promoting the development of methodologies, resources and projects that can be shared among researchers and practitioners in the field. We call for papers describing work on any topic related to computational language and speech processing of Portuguese/Galician by researchers in the industry or academia. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Natural language processing tasks (e.g. parsing, word sense disambiguation, coreference resolution) * Natural language processing applications (e.g. question answering, subtitling, summarization, sentiment analysis) * Natural language generation * Information extraction and information retrieval * Speech technologies (e.g. spoken language generation, speech and speaker recognition, spoken language understanding) * Speech applications (e.g. spoken language interfaces, dialogue systems, speech-to-speech translation) * Resources, standardization and evaluation (e.g. corpora, ontologies, lexicons, grammars) * NLP-oriented linguistic description or theoretical analysis * Distributional semantics and language modeling * Portuguese language varieties and dialect processing (including the language varieties of Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Galicia, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, and Sao Tome and Principe) * Multilingual studies, methods, applications and resources including Portuguese/Galician PROPOR 2024 will be held at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Santiago de Compostela - Galicia, Spain) from March 14th to March 15th. PROPOR 2024 will be the 16th edition of the biennial PROPOR conference, hosted alternately in Brazil and in Europe (Portugal/Galicia). Past meetings were held in Lisbon, PT (1993); Curitiba, BR (1996); Porto Alegre, BR (1998); Évora, PT (1999); Atibaia, BR (2000); Faro, PT (2003); Itatiaia, BR (2006); Aveiro, PT (2008); Porto Alegre, BR (2010); Coimbra, PT (2012); São Carlos, BR (2014), Tomar, PT (2016), Canela, BR (2018), Évora, PT (2020), and Fortaleza, BR (2022). Submissions Submissions should describe original, unpublished work. Authors are invited to submit two kinds of papers: * Full papers – Reporting substantial and completed work, especially those that may contribute in a significant way to the advancement of the area. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation results should be included. Full papers may consist of up to 8 pages of content, plus unlimited pages of references. * Short papers – Reporting small, focused contributions such as ongoing work, position papers, potential ideas to be discussed, or negative results. Short papers may consist of up to 4 pages of content, plus unlimited pages of references. Both Full and Short papers will be published in the proceedings of the main conference. Each submission will be evaluated by at least three reviewers. As reviewing will be double-blind, submitted papers must be anonymized, that is, they should not contain the authors’ names and affiliations. Authors must avoid self-references that reveal identity, like, “We previously showed (Smith, 1991) …”. Instead, they should prefer citations such as “Smith (1991) previously showed …”. Separate author identification information will be required as part of the submission process. Submissions to PROPOR 2024 may not be made available online (e.g. via a preprint server), and may not be submitted for review elsewhere while being under review for this conference. Submissions should be written in English. At submission time, only PDF format is accepted. For the final versions, authors of accepted papers will be given 1 extra content page to take the reviews into account. Authors of accepted papers will be requested to send the source files for the production of the proceedings. All submitted papers must conform to the official ACL style guidelines. ACL provides style files for LaTeX and Microsoft Word that meet these requirements. They can be found at: * LaTeX styelesheet * MS Word stylesheet Paper should be submitted here in the following URL: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=propor2024 Important dates * Full and short paper submission deadline: 15/10/2023 (23:59 GMT-3) * Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: 15/11/2023 * Camera-ready papers due: 29/11/2023 * Conference: March 14th - 15th, 2024 Publication The proceedings of PROPOR 2024 will be published by ACL as a volume in ACL Anthology (https://aclanthology.org/ ). They will be available online. To ensure publication, at least one author of each accepted paper must complete an adequate registration for PROPOR 2024 by the early registration deadline. Kindest regards, António Teixeira, Livy Real & Marcos Garcia PROPOR 2024 Program Chairs

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Life Narrative and the Digital 2023: programme and registration
by Dimitra Grigoriou 13 Sep '23

13 Sep '23

Dear colleagues, We cordially invite you to the one-day conference "Life Narrative and the Digital 2023", which will take place on 27 September 2023 and will be hosted by the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage. Date: 27 September 2023, 09:00-18:30 Venue: Sitzungssaal, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Dr.-Ignaz-Seipel-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna Website: https://digital-bio-2023.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/ The final programme for the event, in which we will explore the possibilities, uses, and challenges of digital methods and technologies for auto/biographical research and practice, is available here: https://digital-bio-2023.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/data/html/program.html. Registration for the conference is free of charge and open until 20 September: https://pretix.eu/digitalbio/. Please note that this is a hybrid event and that you should indicate your preference for either in-person or online participation. For more information, please consult our conference website, or contact us at amp(a)oeaw.ac.at<mailto:amp@oeaw.ac.at>. With all best wishes, Timo Frühwirth, Dimitra Grigoriou, Sandra Mayer (conference organisers) Dr Sandra Mayer Elise Richter Fellow: “Authors as Activists: Literature, Politics and Celebrity” (FWF V911) Project Lead: “Auden Musulin Papers: A Digital Edition of W. H. Auden’s Letters to Stella Musulin (FWF P33754)” Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage (ACDH-CH) Austrian Academy of Sciences | Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW) Bäckerstraße 13, 1010 Wien | Vienna, Austria T: +43 1 51581-2251 Twitter: @AMP_OeAW https://amp.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/ www.sandramayer.org<http://www.sandramayer.org>

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[ArgMining-23] CALL FOR ARR Commitment
by milad.alshomary＠uni-paderborn.de 13 Sep '23

13 Sep '23

CALL FOR ARR Commitment The 10th Workshop on Argument Mining @ EMNLP 2023 December 7, 2023 https://argmining-org.github.io/2023/ The 10th Workshop on Argument Mining will be held on December 7, 2023 in Singapore together with EMNLP 2023. This will be a hybrid event. ArgMining 2023 will accept submissions of ARR-reviewed papers, provided that the ARR reviews and meta-reviews are available by the ARR commitment deadline (September 25). The Workshop on Argument Mining provides a regular forum for the presentation and discussion of cutting-edge research in argument mining (a.k.a argumentation mining) to both academic and industry researchers. By continuing a series of nine successful previous workshops, this edition will welcome the submission of long, short, and demo papers. It will feature two shared tasks, a panel on the last ten years of Argument Mining, and a keynote talk. IMPORTANT DATES Paper commitment from ARR: September 25, 2023 Notification of acceptance: October 7, 2023 Camera-ready submission: October 18, 2023 Workshop: December 7, 2023 TOPICS OF INTEREST The topics for submissions include but are not limited to: Automatic identification of argument components (e.g., premises and conclusions), the structure in which they form an argument, and relations between arguments and counterarguments (e.g., support and attack) in as well as across documents Automatic assessment of arguments and argumentation with respect to various properties, such as stance, clarity, and persuasiveness Automatic generation of arguments and their components, including the consideration of discourse goals (e.g., stages of a critical discussion or rhetorical strategies) Creation and evaluation of argument annotation schemes, relationships to linguistic and discourse annotations, (semi-) automatic argument annotation methods and tools, and creation of argumentation corpora Argument mining in specific genres and domains (e.g., social media, education, law, and scientific writing), each with a unique style (e.g., short informal text, highly structured writing, and long-form documents) Argument mining and generation from multi-modal and/or multilingual data Integration of commonsense and domain knowledge into argumentation models for mining and generation Combination of information retrieval methods with argument mining, e.g., in order to build the next generation of argumentative (web) search engines Real-world applications, including argument web search, opinion analysis in customer reviews, argument analysis in meetings, misinformation detection Perspectivist approaches to subjective argument mining tasks for which multiple ”ground truths” may exist, including multi-perspective machine learning and the creation of non-aggregated datasets Reflection on the ethical aspects and societal impact of argument mining methods Reflection on the future of argument mining in light of the fast advancement of large language models (LLMs). SUBMISSIONS The organizing committee welcomes the submission of long papers, short papers, and demo descriptions. Accepted papers will be presented either via oral or poster presentations. They will be included in the EMNLP proceedings as workshop papers. - Long paper submissions must describe substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis should be included. Long papers must be no longer than eight pages, including title, text, figures and tables. An unlimited number of pages is allowed for references. Two additional pages are allowed for appendices, and an extra page is allowed in the final version to address reviewers’ comments. - Short paper submissions must describe original and unpublished work. Please note that a short paper is not a shortened long paper. Instead, short papers should have a point that can be made in a few pages, such as a small, focused contribution; a negative result; or an interesting application nugget. Short papers must be no longer than four pages, including title, text, figures and tables. An unlimited number of pages is allowed for references. One additional page is allowed for the appendix, and an extra page is allowed in the final version to address reviewers’ comments. - Demo descriptions must be no longer than four pages, including title, text, examples, figures, tables, and references. A separate one-page document should be provided to the workshop organizers for demo descriptions, specifying furniture and equipment needed for the demo. Submission Format All long, short, and demonstration submissions must follow the two-column EMNLP 2023 format. Authors are expected to use the LaTeX or Microsoft Word style template (https://2023.emnlp.org/calls/style-and-formatting/). Submissions must conform to the official EMNLP style guidelines, which are contained in these templates. Submissions must be electronic, in PDF format. Submission Link Authors have to fill in the submission form in the START system indicating relevant information to their ARR paper before September 25, 2023, 11:59 pm UTC-12h (anywhere on earth). https://softconf.com/emnlp2023/ArgMining2023/ Double Blind Review ArgMining 2023 will follow the ACL policies for preserving the integrity of double-blind review for long and short paper submissions. Papers must not include authors’ names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references or links (such as github) that reveal the author’s identity, e.g., “We previously showed (Smith, 1991) …” must be avoided. Instead, use citations such as “Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) …” Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. Papers should not refer, for further detail, to documents that are not available to the reviewers. For example, do not omit or redact important citation information to preserve anonymity. Instead, use third person or named reference to this work, as described above (“Smith showed” rather than “we showed”). If important citations are not available to reviewers (e.g., awaiting publication), these paper/s should be anonymised and included in the appendix. They can then be referenced from the submission without compromising anonymity. Papers may be accompanied by a resource (software and/or data) described in the paper, but these resources should also be anonymized. Unlike long and short papers, demo descriptions will not be anonymous. Demo descriptions should include the authors’ names and affiliations, and self-references are allowed. BEST PAPER AWARDS In order to recognize significant advancements in argument mining science and technology, ArgMining 2023 will include best paper awards. All papers at the workshop are eligible for the best paper awards and a selection committee consisting of prominent researchers in the fields of interest will select the recipients of the awards. ArgMining 2023 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Milad Alshomary, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany Chung-Chi Chen, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan Smaranda Muresan, Columbia University, USA Joonsuk Park, University of Richmond, USA Julia Romberg, Heinrich Heine University of Duesseldorf, Germany

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ACL Survey on Anonymity Period Policy
by ACL Announcements 13 Sep '23

13 Sep '23

Dear ACL Community, ACL is considering multiple proposals to change its anonymity period policy. We seek immediate feedback from our community about two specific proposed changes. The first proposed change would allow authors to freely make versions of their submitted papers available online at any time, for example, on preprint servers such as arXiv or on their personal websites. The second proposed change would allow authors to mention their preprints at any time, including on social media. Taken together, these changes amount to canceling the anonymity period. ACL Call for participation: https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/survey-anonymity-period-policy Submission Deadline: Friday, 22 September 2023 Please use this link to submit your feedback: https://tinyurl.com/aclarxivpolicy. The survey might take 5 to 10 minutes, and your responses will remain anonymous. Feel free to forward this as you think appropriate. For additional information or suggestions, please feel free to contact any of us. Your contribution is greatly appreciated, and we look forward to hearing from you! Sincerely, ACL Working Group

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Call for abstracts: Special issue on Questionable Research Practice (QRPs)
by Luke Plonsky 12 Sep '23

12 Sep '23

Dear Colleagues, Please see below a call for abstracts for a special issue that my collaborators and I are putting together for *Journal of Second Language Studies* on QRPs in the context of applied linguistics. Thanks for considering this call. Please feel free to share with anyone else who you think might be interested. Best, Luke ### *Call for abstracts for special issue in Journal of Second Language Studies on* *Questionable Research Practices* Questionable research practices (QRPs) comprise the vast gray area in between ideal researcher behavior, on the one hand, and behaviors that are clearly unethical or inappropriate, on the other (see Yaw et al., 2022 <https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261444823000010>). Building on a growing body of QRP-based research both within and beyond applied linguistics (e.g., Fanelli, 2009; Isbell et al., 2022), Larsson et al. (2023) <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rmal.2023.100064> present a taxonomy of 58 QRPs (found here) <https://sites.google.com/view/qrp-humanities/home/what-are-qrps?authuser=0> for applied linguistics along with ratings for their corresponding frequency and severity. These and other efforts have sought to raise awareness of QRPs in applied linguistics, noting that many present potentially serious threats to the validity of our findings. Nevertheless, this set of QRPs—both individually and in the aggregate—needs to be more fully examined in order to gain a clearer understanding of (a) how, when, and to what extent QRPs occur, (b) when and to what extent they may be problematic, and (c) their context-dependent nature. For example, one QRP is “excessive self-citation”. But what is “excessive” in the context of applied linguistics? Under what circumstances is it all right to frequently cite your own work? Do (excessive) self-citation practices vary across journals, author demographics, and so forth? For this special issue of the *Journal of Second Language Studies* <https://benjamins.com/catalog/jsls>, we invite proposals for articles that explore one or multiple QRPs in applied linguistics, going beyond Larsson et al.’s findings of QRP frequency and perceived severity. We invite contributions applying any methodological approach including surveys, corpus-based techniques, coding of primary studies for evidence of QRPs (i.e., synthetic/meta-analytic techniques), case studies, reviews of curricula and training materials, and interviews (e.g., with researchers at different career stages). The following article types/lengths will be considered: - Full-length articles (maximum 9000 words) - Short reports (3000-5000 words) - Position papers (max 9000 words) *Timeline* October 10, 2023 Abstracts (300 words max + references) sent to luke.plonsky(a)nau.edu November 10, 2023 Decisions with invitations to submit sent to authors July 1, 2024 Initial submission of complete manuscripts for editorial and peer review October 1, 2024 Final submission of manuscripts 2025 Anticipated publication *Special issue editors* Luke Plonsky, Northern Arizona University Tove Larsson, Northern Arizona University Scott Sterling, Indiana State University Kate Yaw, University of South Florida Merja Kytö, Uppsala University

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[CfP] FOCAL Shared Task on Citation Classification at WIESP @ IJCNLP-AACL 2023
by Tirthankar Ghosal 11 Sep '23

11 Sep '23

Dear Colleagues, The deadline to submit a paper in the WIESP workshop is TODAY! https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/WIESP/2023/ We have a new shared task on *Citation Classification*. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/WIESP/2023/shared_task_1 If you are interested, please register to participate: https://forms.office.com/g/cUyC00LnWB All the participating teams would be invited to submit a paper describing their system and those would be published as part of WIESP @ IJCNLP-AACL 2023 proceedings in the ACL Anthology. Please feel free to reach us for any questions. Thank you. Best regards, Tirthankar Ghosal -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Tirthankar Ghosal https://elitr.eu/tirthankar-ghosal/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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2nd CFP: Special Issue of Computational Linguistics: Language Learning, Representation, and Processing in Humans and Machines
by Marianna Apidianaki 11 Sep '23

11 Sep '23

Second Call for Papers Special Issue of Computational Linguistics: Language Learning, Representation, and Processing in Humans and Machines ** Guest Editors ** Marianna Apidianaki (University of Pennsylvania) Abdellah Fourtassi (Aix Marseille University) Sebastian Padó (University of Stuttgart) ** NEW: Abstract submission deadline: November, 10 ** ** Paper submission deadline: December, 10 ** Large language models (LLMs) acquire rich world knowledge from the data they are exposed to during training, in a way that appears to parallel how children learn from the language they hear around them. Indeed, since the introduction of these powerful models, there has been a general feeling among researchers in both NLP and cognitive science that a systematic understanding of how these models work and how they use the knowledge they encode, would shed light on the way humans acquire, represent, and process this same knowledge (and vice versa). Yet, despite the similarities, there are important differences between machines and humans that have prevented a direct translation of insights from the analysis of LLMs to a deeper understanding of human learning. Chief among these differences is that the size of data required to train LLMs far exceeds -- by several orders of magnitude -- the data children need to acquire sophisticated conceptual structures and meanings. Besides, the engineering-driven architectures of LLMs do not appear to have obvious equivalents in children's cognitive apparatus, at least as studied by standard methods in experimental psychology. Finally, children acquire world knowledge not only via exposure to language but also via sensory experience and social interaction. This edited volume aims to create a forum of exchange and debate between linguists, cognitive scientists and experts in deep learning, NLP and computational linguistics, on the broad topic of learning in humans and machines. Experts from these communities can contribute with empirical and theoretical papers that advance our understanding of this question. Submissions might address the acquisition of different types of linguistic and world knowledge. Additionally, we invite contributions that characterize and address challenges related to the mismatch between humans and LLMs in terms of the size and nature of input data, and the involved learning and processing mechanisms. Topics include, but are not limited to: • Grounded learning: comparison of unimodal (e.g., text) vs multimodal (e.g., images and video) learning. • Social learning: comparison of input-driven mechanisms vs. interaction-based learning. • Exploration of different knowledge types (e.g., procedural / declarative); knowledge integration and inference in LLMs. • Methods to characterize and quantify human-like language learning or processing in LLMs. • Interpretability/probing methods addressing the linguistic and world knowledge encoded in LLM representations. • Knowledge enrichment methods aimed at improving the quality and quantity of the knowledge encoded in LLMs. • Semantic representation and processing in humans and machines in terms of, e.g., abstractions made, structure of the lexicon, property inheritance and generalization, geometrical approaches to meaning representation, mental associations, and meaning retrieval. • Bilingualism in humans and machines; second language acquisition in children and adults; construction of multi-lingual spaces and cross-lingual correspondences. • Exploration of language models that incorporate cognitively plausible mechanisms and reasonably-sized training data. • Use of techniques from other disciplines (e.g., neuroscience or computer vision) for analyzing and evaluating LLMs. • Open-source tools for analysis, visualization, or explanation. Submission Instructions ** NEW ** Authors are strongly encouraged to submit a short (max 1 page) abstract of their paper by November 10. Abstracts will be sent to the Guest Editors (e-mails below). Minor modifications to the abstract will still be possible until final submission. Papers should be formatted according to the Computational Linguistics style guidelines: http://cljournal.org/ We accept both long and short papers. Long papers are between 30 and 40 journal pages in length; short papers are between 15 and 25 pages in length. Papers for this special issue will be submitted through the CL electronic submission system, just like regular papers: http://cljournal.org/submissions.html Authors of special issue papers will need to select “Special Issue on LLPR” under the Journal Section heading in the CL submission system. Please note that papers submitted to a special issue undergo the same reviewing process as regular papers. Timeline Deadline for abstract submission: November, 10 2023 Deadline for paper submission: December, 10 2023 Notification after 1st round of reviewing: February, 10 2024 Revised versions of the papers: April, 30 2024 Final decisions: June, 10 2024 Final version of the papers: July, 1 2024 Inquiries All inquiries should be directed to the guest editors of this special issue. Guest Editors Marianna Apidianaki marapi(a)seas.upenn.edu <mailto:marapi@seas.upenn.edu> Abdellah Fourtassi abdellah.fourtassi(a)gmail.com <mailto:abdellah.fourtassi@gmail.com> Sebastian Padó pado(a)ims.uni-stuttgart.de <mailto:pado@ims.uni-stuttgart.de> Reviewers Afra Alishahi, Tilburg University Rachel Bawden, INRIA Philippe Blache, Aix-Marseille University, CNRS Idan Blank, UCLA Gemma Boleda, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, UCLouvain, FNRS, The Ohio State University Katrin Erk, University of Texas at Austin Benoit Favre, Aix-Marseille University Richard Futrell, UC Irvine Aina Garí Soler, Télécom-Paris Mario Giulianelli, University of Amsterdam Gabriel Grand, MIT Dieuwke Hupkes, META Anna Ivanova, MIT Jordan Kodner, Stony Brook University Andrew Lampinen, DeepMind Roger Levy, MIT Tal Linzen, New York University (NYU) Barbara Plank, LMU Munich Christopher Potts, Stanford University Veronica Qing Lyu, University of Pennsylvania Okko Räsänen, Tampere University Anna Rogers, IT University of Copenhagen Thomas Schatz, Aix-Marseille University Sebastian Schuster, Saarland University Cory Shain, Stanford University Jörg Tiedemann, University of Helsinki Sean Trott, University of California, San Diego Ivan Vuliç, University of Cambridge Computational Linguistics is the longest-running flagship journal of the Association for Computational Linguistics. The journal has a high impact factor: 9.3 in 2022 and 7.778 in 2021. Average time to first decision of regular papers and full survey papers (excluding desk rejects) is 34 days for the period January to May 2023, and 47 days for the period January to December 2022.

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[Call for participation] Test a Dialogue System for Automata Accessibility
by Elisa Di Nuovo 11 Sep '23

11 Sep '23

Dear Esteemed Colleagues, We are a research group of the Computer Science Department and Polin Laboratory at University of Turin. We need your contribution to test a dialogue system for exploring finite automata with the accessibility goal in mind. *Introducing the NoVAGraphS Research Experiment* Our research team comprising Alessandro Mazzei, Luca Anselma, Pier Felice Balestrucci, Cristian Bernareggi, Elisa Di Nuovo and Manuela Sanguinetti, is thrilled to extend a heartfelt invitation to individuals with a basic knowledge of *English* and* finite state automata*. We need your valuable insights to evaluate our prototype system designed to enhance the accessibility of automata, a graphical structure usually taught in Computer Science courses which is not yet fully accessible for individuals with visual impairments. *What would you expect?* - You will interact with a prototype dialogue system using a web interface to explore a simple automaton. - Moreover, you will explore another simple automaton using a state transition table. - Finally, we will ask you some questions to assess your understanding of the two automata and collect your precious feedback on the usability of the dialogue system. Rest assured, any personal information collected will remain completely anonymous. - It will take approximately 15 minutes (standard deviation = 5 minutes :D). *Interested in participating or needing more information to decide?* In both cases, please contact Pier at the following email address: pierfelice.balestrucci[at]unito.it Kind regards, Elisa Di Nuovo on behalf of NoVAGraphS Research Group -- Alessandro Mazzei, Luca Anselma, Pier Felice Balestrucci, Cristian Bernareggi, Elisa Di Nuovo, Manuela Sanguinetti http://www.integr-abile.unito.it/progetto-novagraphs/ (website only in Italian)

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[FinNLP@IJCNLP-AACL-2023] Deadline Extended: 15 Sep, 2023
by CHUNG-CHI CHEN 09 Sep '23

09 Sep '23

Dear Colleagues, We received some requests about the extension of the submission deadline. Because we still have some time to wait for more interesting submissions, we have decided to extend the submission deadline to 15 Sep. 2023 (AoE). FinNLP@IJCNLP-AACL-2023 will be held in hybrid mode. While we encourage in-person attendance, we understand the need for flexibility and will also be accommodating live online presentations. We also have a Multi-Lingual ESG Impact Type Identification (ML-ESG-2) shared task. Please join us if you are interested in ESG topics. We are looking forward to your participation in FinNLP@IJCNLP-AACL-2023. For more details, please refer to FinNLP-2023 website: https://sites.google.com/nlg.csie.ntu.edu.tw/finnlp2023/home Best Regards, Chung-Chi Chen --- 陳重吉 (Chung-Chi Chen), Ph.D. Researcher Artificial Intelligence Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan E-mail: c.c.chen(a)acm.org Website: http://cjchen.nlpfin.com

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Job Announcement: Researcher
by Siegel, Melanie, Prof. Dr. 08 Sep '23

08 Sep '23

Hello, in the research project "BoTox - Bot and context detection in the environment of hate speech" a position for a research assistant is advertised. https://h-da.de/fileadmin/h_da/Hochschule/Stellenangebote/Mitarbeiter/378_2… There is a possibility to do a PhD in the Hessian PhD Center for Applied Computer Science. For questions about the position and the project, please do not hesitate to contact me. Best regards, Melanie Siegel /*****************************************************/ Prof. Dr. Melanie Siegel Information Science Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences Schöfferstraße 3 D-64295 Darmstadt https://sis.h-da.de<https://sis.h-da.de/> www.melaniesiegel.de<http://www.melaniesiegel.de/> https://fz.h-da.de/detox /*****************************************************/

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Final CFP: Normalization of Genetic Phenotypes from Dysmorphology Physical Examinations @ BioCreative VIII - track 3
by Davy Weissenbacher 07 Sep '23

07 Sep '23

*Task:* We call for automated systems to extract and normalize the findings of dysmorphology physical examinations. The dataset consists of 3136 de-identified observations with dysmorphic findings manually annotated and normalized with their corresponding HumanPhenotype Ontology <https://hpo.jax.org/app/> (HPO) terms. *Motivation:* Dysmorphology physical examinations catalog minor morphological differences of patients’ bodies and may also identify general medical signs such as neurologic dysfunction. These findings enable correlations of patients with known rare genetic diseases and allow researchers to delineate undescribed genetic conditions. These medical findings are nearly always captured as unstructured free text within the electronic health record, making them unavailable for downstream computational analysis. Advanced natural language processing methods are therefore required to retrieve the information from the records. *Challenge:* Both extraction and normalization are challenging. The extraction is challenging due to the descriptive style of the examinations which, for conciseness, report findings with disjoint and overlapping mentions. The normalization is challenging due to the large scale of the HPO ontology which requires a normalizer to learn the task without supervision since our training set does not provide examples of all terms in the HPO. See https://biocreative.bioinformatics.udel.edu/tasks/biocreative-viii/track-3/ for details., in short: - 3136 de-identified observations with dysmorphic and normal findings manually annotated and normalized with their corresponding Human Phenotype Ontology <https://hpo.jax.org/app/> terms - Baseline systems available (e.g. doc2HPO <https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefens…> , NeuralCR <https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefens…> , PhenoTagger <https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefens…> , PhenoBERT <https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefens…>, and txt2HPO <https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefens…> ) - Codalab opened at https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/11351 - Evaluation period: Sept. 15, 9:00 UTC - Sept. 18, 23:59 UTC [Apologies for cross-posting] Best regards, Davy

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2nd CfP: NLP4DH & IWCLUL 2023
by Mika Hämäläinen 07 Sep '23

07 Sep '23

NLP4DH 2023 & IWCLUL 2023 The Joint 3rd International Conference on Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities and 8th International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages will be held in Tokyo, Japan. The proceedings will be published in the ACL anthology<https://aclanthology.org/>. The workshop will take place on December 1-3 2023. https://rootroo.com/en/joint-nlp4dh-iwclul-2023/ Submission deadline: October 1, 2023 Registration/publication fees: 0€! The focus of NLP4DH is on applying natural language processing techniques to digital humanities research. The topics can be anything of digital humanities interest with a natural language processing or generation aspect. A list of suitable NLP4DH topics include but are not limited to: -Text analysis and processing related to humanities using computational methods -Dataset creation and curation for NLP (e.g. digitization, digitalization, datafication, and data preservation). -Research on cultural heritage collections such as national archives and libraries using NLP -NLP for error detection, correction, normalization and denoising data -Generation and analysis of literary works such as poetry and novels -Analysis and detection of text genres -Submissions are not limited to Uralic languages! In addition, IWCLUL solicits papers that focus on NLP methods for Uralic languages. Many of these languages are endangered and call for innovative NLP approaches that can deal with small amounts of data. A list of suitable IWCLUL topics include but are not limited to: -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 We solicit original and unpublished work related to digital humanities and natural language processing (NLP4DH) or NLP methods for Uralic languages (IWCLUL). 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 not be published or indexed and will only be made available on the conference website. All submission formats can have an unlimited number of pages for references. All submissions must follow the ACL stylesheet<https://2023.aclweb.org/calls/style_and_formatting/>. 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. The authors of the accepted papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper to a special issue in the Journal of Data Mining & Digital Humanities<https://jdmdh.episciences.org/>. Important dates -Paper submission (full and short): October 1, 2023 -Notification of acceptance: November 3, 2023 -Camera ready deadline: November 17, 2023 -NLP4DH & IWCLUL in Tokyo: December 1-3, 2023

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[Final CfP] [Deadline Extended] Second Workshop on Information Extraction from Scientific Publications (WIESP) at IJCNLP-AACL 2023
by Tirthankar Ghosal 06 Sep '23

06 Sep '23

*** Second Workshop on Information Extraction from Scientific Publications ( WIESP) at IJCNLP-AACL 2023 *** *** Website: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/WIESP/2023/ *** *** Twitter: https://twitter.com/wiesp_nlp *** Building on the success of the First WIESP at AACL-IJCNLP 2022, the Second Workshop on Information Extraction from Scientific Publications (WIESP) will provide a platform to researchers to foster discussion and research on information extraction, mining, generation, and knowledge discovery from scientific publications using Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning techniques. A lot of technological change happened in one year (since the 1st WIESP), especially with Generative Artificial Intelligence research. We are incorporating a few additional topics to stay abreast with the latest developments and research in the community. The 2nd iteration of WIESP would focus on the following topics (but not limited to): - Large Language Models (LLMs) for Science - Application of LLMs on information extraction, generation, mining and knowledge discovery from scientific publications - Probing LLMs for scientific fact checking and misinformation - Scientific document parsing - Scientific named-entity recognition - Scientific article summarization - Question-answering on scientific articles - Citation context/span extraction - Structured information extraction from full-text, tables, figures, bibliography - Novel datasets curated from scientific publications - Argument extraction and mining - Challenges in information extraction from scientific articles - Building knowledge graphs via mining scientific literature; querying scientific knowledge graphs - Novel tools for IE on scientific literature and interaction with users - Mathematical information extraction - Scientific concepts, facts extraction - Visualizing scientific knowledge - Bibliometric and Altmetric studies via information extraction from scientific articles and metadata In addition to research paper presentations, WIESP will also feature keynote talks, a panel discussion on “Large Language Models and Scientific Literature Mining'', and shared tasks. We will update the details on our website as and when they become available. We especially welcome participation from academic and research institutions, government and industry labs, publishers, and information service providers. Projects and organizations using NLP/ML techniques in their text mining and enrichment efforts are also welcome to participate. We strongly encourage the participation of students, researchers, and science practitioners from diverse backgrounds, especially from underrepresented groups and communities, to be a part of WIESP events, and pro-actively make the workshop a diverse and inclusive one. ****Call for Papers**** We invite papers of the following categories: ***Long papers*** must describe substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis should be included. Papers must not exceed eight (8) pages of content, plus unlimited pages of references. The final versions of long papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account. ***Short papers*** must describe original and unpublished work. Please note that a short paper is not a shortened long paper. Instead, short papers should have a point that can be made in a few pages, such as a small, focused contribution, a negative result, or an interesting application nugget. Short papers must not exceed four (4) pages, plus unlimited pages of references. The final versions of short papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 5 pages) so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account. In addition to papers, WIESP will also host shared tasks. More details on the WIESP shared tasks will be available on our website shortly. Also, we will publish separate CfPs on the shared tasks. Shared task authors will be invited to write their system descriptions and those will be subjected to peer review. ***Shared Task: Function of Citation in Astrophysics Literature (FOCAL)*** The citation graph is an essential tool for helping researchers find relevant literature. To further empower discovery, we aim to label the edges of the graph with the function of the citation: e.g. is the cited work necessary background knowledge, or is it used as a comparison, to the citing work? To start this process, we propose a shared task of automatically labelling citations with a function based on the textual context of the citation. A sample dataset and more instructions can be found at: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/WIESP/2023/SharedTasks *All accepted papers would be published in the WIESP proceedings as part of IJCNLP-AACL 2023 and indexed in the ACL Anthology.* ***Important Dates*** - Paper Submission Deadline: *September 11, 2023 (final extended deadline)* - Notification of workshop paper/abstract acceptance: October 5, 2023 - Camera-ready Submission Deadline: October 12, 2023 - Workshop: November 1, 2023 (online) ***All submission deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h ("Anywhere on Earth")*** ****Submission Website and Format**** Submission Link: https://softconf.com/ijcnlp2023/WorkshopWIESP2023/ Submission will be via softconf. Submissions should follow the ACLPUB formatting guidelines (https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html) and template files (https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files/tree/master). Submissions (Long and Short Papers) will be subject to a double-blind peer-review process. We follow the same policies as IJCNLP-AACL 2023 regarding anonymity, preprints and double submissions. ***Organizers*** - Tirthankar Ghosal, National Center for Computational Sciences| Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Felix Grezes, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, USA - Thomas Allen, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, USA - Kelly Lockhart, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, USA - Alberto Accomazzi, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, USA -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Tirthankar Ghosal https://member.acm.org/~tghosal ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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FOIS 2023 Online: Call for Participation
by Selja Seppälä 06 Sep '23

06 Sep '23

===== Call for Participation to online FOIS 2023 conference, showcases and demos ===== Program: https://fois2023.griis.ca/online-conference/ Registration: https://event.fourwaves.com/fr/fois2023/inscription (free registration for students) ==================================================================================== 13th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2023), September 18-20, 2023 (Online) Definition and scope ==================== The FOIS conference is a meeting point for all researchers with an interest in formal ontology. Formal ontology is the systematic study of the types of entities and relations making up the domains of interest represented in modern information systems. FOIS 2023 will have distinct tracks for foundational issues, ontology applications and methods, and domain ontologies. FOIS aims to be a nexus of interdisciplinary research and communication for researchers from many domains engaging with formal ontology. Common application areas include conceptual modeling, database design, knowledge engineering and management, software engineering, organizational modeling, artificial intelligence, robotics, computational linguistics, the life sciences, bioinformatics and scientific research in general, geographic information science, information retrieval, library and information science, as well as the Semantic Web. FOIS is the flagship conference of the International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA: http://iaoa.org/), which is a non-profit organization promoting interdisciplinary research and international collaboration in formal ontology. Program ==================== Monday September, 18th EDT (UTC -4) CEST (UTC +2) 08:15-08:30 14:15-14:30 FOIS online Welcome Zoom 08:30-10:30 14:30-16:30 Session 1: Foundational concepts (Chair: Laure Vieu) Zoom 10:30-11:00 16:30-17:00 Coffee break gather.town 11:00-12:00 17:00-18:00 Ontology showcases and demos gather.town Tuesday September, 19th 08:30-09:00 14:30-15:00 Invited talks special session (TBC) Zoom 09:00-10:30 15:00-16:30 Session 2: Methodological issues (TBA) Zoom 10:30-11:00 16:30-17:00 Coffee break gather.town 11:00-12:00 17:00-18:00 ESAO panel Zoom Wednesday September, 20th 09:00-10:30 15:00-16:30 Session 3: Domain ontologies (TBA) Zoom 10:30-11:00 16:30-17:00 Coffee break gather.town 11:00-12:00 17:00-18:00 IAOA General Assembly Zoom 12:00-12:15 18:00-18:15 Closing Zoom Details: https://fois2023.griis.ca/onlinesession/ Registration fees ==================== Online presenter: 500 CAN / 340 EUR Listener - regular fee (academia or industry): 100 CAN / 70 EUR Listener - reduced fee (student or participant from less developed contry): free More information: https://fois2023.griis.ca/registration/ Conference Organization ======================= General Chair: Antony Galton, University of Exeter, UK PC Chairs: Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, IRIT-CNRS Toulouse, France Torsten Hahmann, University of Maine, USA Local Organization Chair: Jean-François Ethier, University of Sherbrooke, Canada Online Chair: Cassia Trojahn, IRIT Université Toulouse 2, France Workshop and Tutorial Chairs: Megan Katsumi, University of Toronto, Canada Emilio Sanfilippo, ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy Early Career Chairs: Antoine Zimmermann, École des Mines de Saint-Étienne (EMSE), France Guendalina Righetti, Free University Bozen/Bolzano, Italy Demo & Showcase Chairs: Sergio de Cesare, University of Westminster, UK Tiago Prince Sales, University of Twente, Netherlands Publicity Chairs: Lucia Gomez Alvarez, TU Dresden, Germany Selja Seppälä, University College Cork, Ireland Proceedings Chair: Maria Hedblom, Jönköping University, Sweden Program committee: https://fois2023.griis.ca/conference-organization/

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CFP, the 8th Biomedical Linked Annotation Hackathon (BLAH8)
by Jin-Dong Kim 05 Sep '23

05 Sep '23

The 8th Biomedical Linked Annotation Hackathon (BLAH8) 15 - 19 January, 2024 Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan https://blah8.linkedannotation.org/ Submission due of project proposals : 20 Oct., 2023 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. Within the scope of BLAH, the term "resources" encompasses a wide range of elements including corpora, annotation datasets, databases, language models, software tools, web services, terminologies, ontologies, graphical representations, movies, and more. The aspiration of BLAH is to create connections between all these resources, allowing them to interoperate seamlessly. We believe this integration will foster a more cohesive and effective environment for all stakeholders. Unfortunately, the pandemic led to a temporary halt in the organization of BLAH events. However, with the world gradually reopening, BLAH is excited to announce its return with the 8th edition (BLAH8). In recognition of the era of Large Language Models (LLMs), BLAH8 will center around a special theme: "Biomedical Annotations in the Age of LLMs." This theme represents a contemporary focus for the community and signals a commitment to staying at the forefront of technological advancements in the biomedical field. Through BLAH8, we aspire to explore the potential synergy between LLMs and literature annotations, diving deep into various facets of biomedical applications. CALL FOR PROJECT PROPOSALS We invite submission of project proposals from those who are interested in contributing biomedical literature annotation with their literature annotation resources, and expertise, particularly this year with a connection to LLMs. We invite projects which can be accomplished during the hackathon. The type of contribution may include, but not restricted to - Integration of annotation resources - Evaluation of annotation resources - Application of annotation resources - ... Submission due of project proposals is 20 Oct., 2023 TRAVEL SUPPORT Those who submit project proposals are eligible to apply for travel support. See the homepage for detailed information. PUBLICATION Immediately after BLAH8, participants will be invited to submit papers, e. g., report of the hackathon outputs, to either of the two venues: - Genomics & Informatics : an open access journal, which is indexed by PubMed. All the papers of the journal will be immediately included in the PMC open access subset. - BioHackrxiv : a preprint server, which is powered by OSF preprints and indexed by EuropeanPMC. PROGRAM COMMITTEE - Jin-Dong Kim (DBCLS, ROIS-DS) - Fabio Rinaldi (IDSIA) - Lars Juhl Jensen (Univ. Copenhagen) - Zhiyong Lu (NCBI, NLM)

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2nd CFP: EACL 2024
by sungho.jeon＠h-its.org 05 Sep '23

05 Sep '23

- Event Notification Type: Call for Papers - Abbreviated Title: [CFP 2nd] EACL 2024 - Location: Hotel Radisson Blu, St. Julians Sunday, 17 March 2024 to Friday, 22 March 2024 - Country: Malta - Contact Email: michael.strube(a)h-its.org YGRAHAM(a)tcd.ie m.purver(a)qmul.ac.uk - Contact: Michael Strube Yvette Graham Matthew Purver - Website: https://2024.eacl.org/ - Submission Deadline: Sunday, 15 October 2023 ============================ * Second Call for Papers: EACL 2024 The 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2024) invites the submission of long and short papers on substantial, original, and unpublished research on Natural Language Processing. EACL 2024 will be held at the Hotel Radisson Blu, St. Julians, in Malta on 17th-22nd March 2024, with online attendance possible. Papers must be submitted to EACL 2024 via the ACL Rolling Review (ARR) system. As in recent years, some of the presentations at the conference will be for papers accepted by the Transactions of the ACL (TACL) and Computational Linguistics (CL) journals. * Important Dates - Anonymity period begins: Friday, 15 September 2023 - Paper submission deadline (via ARR): Sunday, 15 October 2023 - Author response period: Friday-Tuesday, 8-12 December 2023 - Paper commitment deadline: Sunday, 20 December 2023 - Notification of acceptance: (long & short papers): Monday, 15 January 2024 - Withdrawal deadline (long & short papers): Monday, 22 January 2024 - Camera-ready papers due (long & short papers): Wednesday, 31 January 2024 - Workshops & Tutorials: Sunday; Thu-Fri, 17 & 21-22 March 2024 - Main Conference: Monday-Wed, 18-20 March 2024 All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h (“anywhere on Earth”). ============================ * Paper Submission Information * Topics of Interest EACL 2024 has the goal of 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 in NLP - Ethics and NLP - Generation - Information Retrieval and Text Mining - Information Extraction - Interpretability and Model Analysis in NLP - Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond - Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics - Machine Learning for NLP - Machine Translation - Multilinguality and Language Diversity - NLP Applications - Phonology, Morphology, and Word Segmentation - Question Answering - Resources and Evaluation - Semantics: Lexical - Semantics: Sentence-level Semantics, Textual Inference and other areas - Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis and Argument Mining - Speech and Multimodality - Summarization - Syntax: Tagging, Chunking and Parsing * Long Papers Long paper submissions must describe substantial, original, completed and unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis should be included. Long papers may consist of up to 8 pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references and appendices. Upon acceptance, long papers will be given one additional page of content (i.e. up to 9 pages) in the proceedings so that reviewers’ comments can be taken into account. * Short Papers Short paper submissions must describe original and unpublished work. Please note that a short paper is not a shortened long paper. Instead, short papers should have a point that can be made in a few pages. Short papers may consist of up to 4 pages of content, plus unlimited references and appendices. Upon acceptance, short papers will be given one additional page of content (i.e. up to 5 pages) in the proceedings so that reviewers’ comments can be taken into account. * Findings of the ACL Papers submitted to EACL 2024, but not selected for the main conference, will also automatically be considered for publication in the Findings of the Association of Computational Linguistics. Acceptance notifications for the main track and Findings will come out simultaneously. * Presentation Mode Long and short papers will be presented orally or as posters, as determined by the programme committee based on the nature rather than the quality of the work. 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 as posters. Papers accepted to the Findings of the ACL may present a poster. * Presentation Requirements All accepted papers must be presented at the conference—either online or in-person—in order to appear in the proceedings. Authors of papers accepted for presentation at EACL 2024 must notify the program chairs by the withdrawal deadline if they wish to withdraw the paper. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for EACL 2024 by the early registration deadline. * Paper Submission and Anonymity Following standard ACL and ARR policy, submitted papers must be prepared for two-way anonymized review, and no deanonymized preprint may be posted in the month prior to submission. Please see the ARR CfP for more detail. https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp * Policies on Authorship, Citation and Ethics EACL 2024 follows the ARR policies on authorship, citation and comparison and ethics - please see the ARR CfP. * Multiple Submission Policy EACL 2024 follows the ARR policy on multiple submission: we will not consider any paper that is under review in a journal or another conference at the time of submission, and submitted papers must not be submitted elsewhere during the review period. See the ARR CfP for more detail. Please note that the EACL 2024 submission deadline is currently timed to come after EMNLP 2023 decisions have been announced, and that EACL 2024 acceptance decisions will be announced before the likely submission deadline for ACL 2024, although after that for NAACL 2024. * Mandatory Discussion of Limitations We believe that it is also important to discuss the limitations of your work, in addition to its strengths. Following EACL 2023, EACL 2024 requires all papers to have a clear discussion of limitations, in a dedicated section titled “Limitations”. This section will appear at the end of the paper, after the discussion/conclusions section and before the references, and will not count towards the page limit. Papers without a limitations section will be automatically rejected without review. Papers resubmitted from previous ARR review rounds that did not include a limitations section must ensure that such a section is included in the EACL 2024 version. While we are open to different types of limitations, just mentioning that a set of results have been shown for English only probably does not reflect what we expect. Mentioning that the method works mostly for languages with limited morphology, like English, is a much better alternative. In addition, limitations such as low scalability to long text, the requirement of large GPU resources, or other things that inspire further investigation are welcome.

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Google DeepMind PhD Scholarship
by Mirella Lapata 05 Sep '23

05 Sep '23

The School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, is thrilled to announce a PhD scholarship funded by Google DeepMind. The scholarship covers tuition fees (at the Home/International tuition fee rate), provides an annual stipend of £18,622 per annum (for 3.5 years full time study) and provides a research training and support grant. The student will be supervised by Dr. Mirella Lapata and will also benefit from mentoring from DeepMind staff during their period of study.  Applicants would be expected to work on a topic drawn from the following research areas: - multimodal natural language understanding and generation - long-form and retrieval-augmented text generation - multilingual generation Applicants wishing to apply for the scholarship should meet one OR both of the following criteria: - are resident of a country and/or region underrepresented in AI; - identify as women including cis and trans people and non-binary or gender fluid people who identify in a significant way as women or female; - and/or identify as Black or other minority ethnicity. The successful candidate will have a good honours degree or equivalent in artificial intelligence, computer science, machine learning, or a related discipline; or have a breadth of relevant experience in industry/academia/public sector, etc. They will have strong programming skills and previous experience in natural language processing. If you have further questions, please contact Dr. Mirella Lapata: mlap(a)inf.ed.ac.uk. To apply, please follow the instructions at: http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/postgraduate/apply.html As your research area, please select "Informatics: ILCC: Language Processing, Speech Technology, Information Retrieval, Cognition". On the application form under "Research Project", please state "DeepMind Scholarship". IMPORTANT: After submitting your application through the website, please email your applicant number to mlap(a)inf.ed.ac.uk. Application deadline: 24 November 2023 received after the deadline may be considered, but this cannot be guaranteed].

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CFP North Africans in Machine Learning Affinity Workshop at NeurIPS 2023
by saad benjelloun 05 Sep '23

05 Sep '23

Call for Papers: North Africans in Machine Learning Affinity Workshop at NeurIPS 2023! We are thrilled to announce the Call for Papers for the North Africans in Machine Learning Affinity Workshop, which will be held at NeurIPS 2023. This is your chance to share your groundbreaking research, insights, and discoveries with a vibrant community of peers in the field of Machine Learning. Whether you're a junior researcher or a seasoned expert, and of North African origins. if you have a passion for advancing the theory and applications of ML, we want to hear from you! Why submit your paper? - Showcase your work on a prestigious stage. - Gain valuable feedback from experts in the ML community. - Connect with like-minded professionals from North African institutions and beyond. - Contribute to the collective knowledge of the ML field. 📜 Submission Guidelines: - Papers related to all aspects of Machine Learning are welcome. - Submissions from North Africans are encouraged. - The workshop is open to academia and industry professionals. 🔗 Submission Link and Deadlines: https://lnkd.in/eSKVv2H5 🏆 Awards and Recognition: Outstanding contributions will be recognized, and selected papers may have the opportunity to be featured prominently during the workshop. Join us in making the North Africans in Machine Learning Affinity Workshop at NeurIPS 2023 a resounding success! Submit your paper, share your insights, and be part of this exciting journey in advancing the field of Machine Learning. Stay tuned for more updates and mark your calendars for NeurIPS 2023! Let's shape the future of ML together.

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CFP SYMPTEMIST (BioCreative VIII @ AMIA 2023): Named entity recognition & linking of symptoms (incl. multilingual dataset)
by Martin Krallinger 05 Sep '23

05 Sep '23

(Apologies for cross-posting) CFP: SYMPTEMIST Shared Task (BioCreative VIII run with AMIA 2023) Named entity recognition and linking of symptoms, signs & findings (incl. multilingual dataset) https://temu.bsc.es/SYMPTEMIST/ <https://temu.bsc.es/distemist/> The SYMPTEMIST track focuses on the automatic detection of mentions of clinical symptoms (NER) and mapping to concept identifiers in clinical case reports in Spanish (entity linking). Also a multilingual version of the dataset will be released including versions in English, French, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Romanian and Swedish. Key information: - Web: https://temu.bsc.es/symptemist - Data: <https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6408476> https://zenodo.org/record/8223654 - Annotation guidelines: https://zenodo.org/record/8246440 - BioCreative web: https://biocreative.bioinformatics.udel.edu - Registration form (Track 2- SYMPTEMIST): <https://temu.bsc.es/distemist/registration/> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScoSNulOoxRju3c8v9Q-CSv-w5jJcXu93G… Motivation Systems able to detect and normalize clinical symptom mentions from medical texts are crucial for almost any healthcare data mining, AI, medical analytics or predictive application. As opposed to other clinical information types, such as diagnoses (diseases/procedures), lab test results or even medications, clinical symptoms can only be recovered directly from written clinical narratives. Due to the high complexity, variability and difficulty in generating annotated corpora for clinical symptoms, only few large manually annotated data collections have been constructed so far, with certain underlying limitations in terms of a) entity linking / normalization of the symptom mentions to controlled vocabularies and b) a lack of attempts to promote the development of multilingual solutions and b) provide detailed annotation criteria and guidelines. To address these issues, we have posed the SYMPTEMIST track at the upcoming BioCreative VIII initiative, which will be run in the context of the prestigious AMIA 2023 conference, which received over 1400 submissions this year. Automatic detection of symptoms mentions are key for a range of clinical use cases and real world applications like: - Predictive modeling of diseases - Differential diagnosis of complex diseases - Rare disease characterization & analysis - Selection of appropriate treatment & therapy - Study of disease-symptom associations - Early detection of disease outbreaks & epidemiological surveillance - Extraction of phenotypes - Drug repurposing & off label indications The SYMPTEMIST organizers will also release multilingual resources to foster the development of multilingual tools and generate systems not only for Spanish but also for content in English and Romance languages (French, Portuguese, Italian, Romanian and Catalan) as well as versions in Dutch, Swedish and Czech. Inspired by previous initiatives (e.g. n2c2, CLEF or TREC) and shared tasks (CANTEMIST, PharmaCoNER, or CodiEsp), we are launching the SYMPTEMIST shared task as part of the BioCreative 2023 evaluation initiative, with the following three sub-tracks: - SYMPTEMIST-entities: automatic detection of mentions of symptoms. - SYMPTEMIST-linking: finding mentions of symptoms and normalizing them to their Snomed-CT concept identifiers. - SYMPTEMIST-multilingual: automatic detection of mentions of symptoms in versions of the corpus generated in English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Catalan, Dutch, Swedish and Czech. Tentative schedule - Annotation Guidelines: August 8th 2023 - Train Set Subtask 1 (NER): August 8th, 2023 - Train Set Subtask 2 (Linking): September 10th 2023 - Train Set Subtask 3 (Multilingual): September 10th 2023 - SympTEMIST Test Set: September 30th 2023 - Participants Test Predictions Deadline: October 5th 2023 - Participants Evaluation Results Release. October 10th 2023 - Submission of Participant Papers Deadline: October 22nd 2023 - Notification of Acceptance Participant Papers: October 30 2023 - Submission of Camera-ready Participant Papers Deadline. November 1st 2023 - BioCreative VIII workshop @ AMIA 2023: November 11-15, 2023, In New Orleans, LA. BioCreative proceedings and AMIA workshop Teams participating in SYMPTEMIST will be invited to contribute a systems description paper for the BioCreative 2023 Working Notes proceedings and a flash presentation of their approach at the BioCreative 2023 session. The BioCreative VIII workshop will run with AMIA 2023, November 11-15, 2023, In New Orleans, LA. See: https://amia.org/education-events/amia-2023-annual-symposium Workshop Proceedings and Special Issue: The BioCreative VIII Proceedings will host all the submissions from participating teams, and it will be freely available by the time of the workshop. In addition, we are happy to announce that the journal Database will host the BioCreative VIII special issue for work that has passed their peer-review process. Invitation to submit will be sent after the workshop. All BioCreative VIII tracks Track 1: BioRED (Biomedical Relation Extraction Dataset) *Track 2: SYMPTEMIST (Symptom TExt Mining Shared Task) Track 3: Genetic Phenotype Extraction and Normalization from Dysmorphology Physical Examination Entries Track 4: Clinical Annotation Tool Track Main Organizers - Martin Krallinger, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain - Eulàlia Farré-Maduell, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain - Luis Gascó, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain - Salvador Lima, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain - Jan Rodriguez, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain ======================================= 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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Professor (m/f/d) (W3) of Natural Language Processing at the University of Technology Nuremberg
by gregor.faltl＠utn.de 05 Sep '23

05 Sep '23

We are innovating university! Interdisciplinary, international and digital – these are the pillars of the University of Technology Nuremberg. The aim is to combine and interlink engineering science with other topics of society. Besides the outlined interdisciplinary approach, the university will put its emphasis on courses in English, on digital learning as well as future-oriented research. In the medium term, the university is to provide a place for learning and personal development for up to 6,000 students – on a campus combining research, learning, and living. The project is currently one of the most important higher education projects of the Free State of Bavaria (Germany). The University of Technology Nuremberg is looking to fill, at the earliest possible date, a position as a Professor (m/f/d) (W3) of Natural Language Processing at the Department of Engineering. You represent the subject Natural Language Processing in research and teaching. You will play a key role in establishing the first main research area of the Department, which will focus on "Robotics and Artificial Intelligence". Here you will collaborate, among others, with excellent international researchers from the fields of Robotics, Machine Learning, Data Science and Computer Vision. The interdisciplinary collaboration with humanities scholars and social and natural scientists at the Department of Liberal Arts and Sciences, within the topics of “Human and Artificial Intelligence” and “Rhetoric and Political Communication” is a further goal. To find the complete advertisement follow this link: https://www.utn.de/en/career/professorships/

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