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Final Call for Papers: EvoNLP Workshop (co-located with EMNLP 2022) + Shared task
by Jose Camacho Collados 08 Sep '22

08 Sep '22

************************************ Final Call for Papers: EMNLP EvoNLP Workshop (The First Workshop on Ever Evolving NLP) + Shared task (TempoWiC) Workshop: https://sites.google.com/view/evonlp/ Shared Task (evaluation period still open!): https://sites.google.com/view/evonlp/shared-task Submission deadline (for papers requiring review / non-archival): 10 October, 2022 Submission deadline (with ARR reviews): 25 October, 2022 Notification of acceptance: 31 October, 2022 Camera-ready paper deadline: 11 November, 2022 Workshop date: 7 December, 2022 (co-located with EMNLP) ************************************ Advances in language modeling have led to remarkable accuracy on several NLP tasks, but most benchmarks used for evaluation are static, ignoring the practical setting under which training data from the past and present must be used for generalizing to future data. Consequently, training paradigms also ignore the time sensitivity of language and essentially treat all text as if it was written at a single point in time. Recent studies have shown that in a dynamic setting, where the test data is drawn from a different time period than the training data, the accuracy of such static models degrades as the gap between the two periods increases. -------------------------------------------------------------- This workshop focuses on these time-related issues in NLP models and benchmarks. We invite researchers from both academia and industry to redesign experimental settings, benchmark datasets, and modeling by especially focusing on the “time” variable. We will welcome papers / work-in-progress on several topics including (but not limited to): - Dynamic Benchmarks: Evaluation of Model Degradation in Time Measuring how NLP models age Random splits vs time-based splits (past/future) Latency (days vs years) at which models need to be updated for maintaining task accuracy Time-sensitivity of different tasks and the type of knowledge which gets stale Time-sensitivity of different domains (e.g., news vs scientific papers) and how domain shifts interact with time shifts Sensitivity of different models and architectures to time shifts - Time-Aware Models Incorporating time information into NLP models Techniques for updating / replacing models which degrade with time Learning strategies for improving temporal degradation Trade-offs between updating a degraded model vs replacing it altogether Mitigating catastrophic forgetting of old knowledge as we update models with new knowledge Improving plasticity of models so that they can be easily updated Retrieval based models for improving temporal generalization - Analysis of existing models / datasets Characterizing whether degradation on a task is due to outdated facts or changes in language use Effect of model scale on temporal degradation – do large models exhibit less degradation? Efficiency / accuracy trade-offs when updating models -------------------------------------------------------------- All accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings unless requested otherwise by the authors. Submissions can be made either via OpenReview where they will go through the standard double-blind process, or through ACL Rolling Review with existing reviews. See details below. ---- Submission guidelines ---- We seek submissions of original work or work-in-progress. Submissions can be in the form of long/short papers and should follow the ACL main conference template. Authors can choose to make their paper archival/non-archival. All accepted papers will be presented at the workshop. Archival track We will follow double-blind review process and use OpenReview for the submissions. We also will accept ACL rolling review (ARR) submissions with reviews. Since these submissions already come with reviews, the submission deadline is much later than the initial deadline. We will use Open Review for the submissions. Submission link: https://openreview.net/group?id=EMNLP/2022/Workshop/EvoNLP For papers needing review click “EMNLP 2022 Workshop EvoNLP submission” For papers from ARR click “EMNLP 2022 Workshop EvoNLP commitment Submission” ---- Non-archival track ---- Non-archival track seeks recently accepted / published work as well as work-in-progress. It does not need to be anonymized and will not go through the review process. The submission should clearly indicate the original venue and will be accepted if the organizers think the work will benefit from exposure to the audience of this workshop. Submission: Please email your submission as a single PDF file to evonlp(a)googlegroups.com. Include “EvoNLP Non-Archival Submission” in the title and the author names and affiliation within the body of your email. ---- Shared task (TempoWiC) ---- The workshop features a shared task on meaning shift detection in social media. Data is already available and the evaluation phase ends on September 12. Winners of the shared task will also receive a cash prize. More details at the workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/evonlp/shared-task -- Jose Camacho Collados http://www.josecamachocollados.com<http://www.josecamachocollados.com/>

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Reminder: Application deadline today - PhD & Postdoc positions in NLP and Deep Learning at CIS/LMU Munich
by Barbara Plank 08 Sep '22

08 Sep '22

Application deadline *today* (AOE): September 8th, 2022 The Center for Information and Language Processing (CIS) at LMU Munich has several fully-funded positions in Natural Language Processing and Deep Learning available in the groups of Barbara Plank and Hinrich Schütze. Details and application: https://www.cis.lmu.de/web/jobs2022.html

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[FinNLP-2022 @ EMNLP] Deadline Extended: 14 Sep, 2022
by CHUNG-CHI CHEN 08 Sep '22

08 Sep '22

Dear colleagues, We received a lot of 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* 14 Sep. 2022 (AoE).* EMNLP-2022 at Abu Dhabi is a hybrid conference. We will also provide both online and offline choices for FinNLP workshop participants. We are looking forward to your participation in FinNLP-2022@EMNLP. FinNLP-2022: https://sites.google.com/nlg.csie.ntu.edu.tw/finnlp-2022-emnlp/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 <cjchen(a)nlg.csie.ntu.edu.tw> Website: http://cjchen.nlpfin.com FinNLP-2022: The 4th Workshop on Financial Technology and Natural Language Processing Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre Abu Dhabi, UAE, December 8, 2022 Conference website https://sites.google.com/nlg.csie.ntu.edu.tw/finnlp-2022-emnlp/home Submission deadline September 14, 2022 *FinNLP has become a twice-a-year workshop since 2022.* In H1, it keeps in conjunction with IJCAI; in H2, it starts to colocated with EMNLP. The aim of this workshop is to provide a forum where international participants share knowledge on applying NLP to the FinTech domain. Recently, analyzing documents related to finance and economics has attracted much attention in the AI community. In the financial field, FinTech is a new industry that focuses on improving financial activity with technology. Thus, in order to bridge the gap between the NLP research and the financial applications, we organize FinNLP workshop series. One of the expected accomplishments of FinNLP is to introduce insights from the financial domain to the NLP community. With the sharing of the researchers in FinNLP, the challenging problems of blending FinTech and NLP will be identified, and the future research direction will be shaped. That can broaden the scope of this interdisciplinary research area. Submission Guidelines All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome: - *Long Paper:* May consist of up to 8 pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references and appendix. - *Short Paper and Demo Paper: *May consist of up to 4 pages of content, plus unlimited references and appendix. List of Topics We invite submissions of research papers on all topics related to NLP for Financial Technology (FinTech) applications. Besides, one of our goals of this workshop is to foster collaboration between researchers and developers from computational linguistics and finance and economic areas. Original studies reporting joint work are therefore especially encouraged. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Text-based Market Provisioning - NLP-based Investment Management - Crowdfunding Analysis with Text Data - Text-oriented Customer Preference Analysis - Insurance Application with Textual Information - NLP-based Know Your Customer (KYC) Approach - Applications or Systems for FinTech with NLP Methods CommitteesProgram Committee - Hiroki Sakaji - The University of Tokyo - Emmanuele Chersoni - The Hong Kong Polytechnic University - Kiyoshi Izumi - The University of Tokyo - Pablo Duboue - Textualization Software Ltd. - Juyeon Kang - Fortia Financial Solutions - Paulo Alves - Católica Porto Business School - Luciano Del Corro - Microsoft Research - Chuan-Ju Wang - Academia Sinica - Ismail El Maarouf - Imprevicible - Damir Cavar - Indiana University Organizing Committee - Chung-Chi Chen <http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fnlg.csie.ntu.edu.tw%2F~cjchen%2F&s…> - Artificial Intelligence Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan - Hen-Hsen Huang <http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fnlg.csie.ntu.edu.tw%2F~hhhuang%2F&…> - Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan - Hiroya Takamura <http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lr.pi.titech.ac.jp%2F~takamura…> - Artificial Intelligence Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan - Hsin-Hsi Chen <http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fnlg.csie.ntu.edu.tw%2Fadvisor.php&…> - Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Venue The conference will be held in conjunction with EMNLP-2022 on December 8, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Contact All questions about submissions should be emailed to finnlp(a)nlg.csie.ntu.edu.tw

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Onto4FAIR Workshop at SEMANTICS 2022: programme
by Cassia TROJAHN 07 Sep '22

07 Sep '22

** With apologies for multiple postings ** -------------- Onto4FAIR Workshop at SEMANTICS 2022 Programme -------------- 13 September 2022 - Hybrid event Programme: https://2022-eu.semantics.cc/programme Registration: https://2022-eu.semantics.cc/prices 09:45 CEST: Welcome from the organisers 09:50-10:20: Invited presentation *O'FAIRe: Ontology FAIRness Evaluator in the AgroPortal semantic resource repository* Emna Amdouni, Syphax Bouazzouni and Clement Jonquet 10:25-10:55 Short papers session *Building a community-based FAIR metadata schema for Brazilian agriculture and livestock trading data* Filipi Miranda Soares, Fernando Elias Corrêa, Luis Ferreira Pires, Luiz Olavo Bonino da Silva Santos, Debora Pignatari Drucker, Kelly Rosa Braghetto, Dilvan de Abreu Moreira, Alexandre Cláudio Botazzo Delbem, Roberto Fray da Silva, Celso Oviedo da Silva Lopes and Antonio Mauro Saraiva *Persistent Identifiers and their limitations in a dynamic Web* Marcos Da Silveira and Cédric Pruski 10:55-11:10: Break 11:10-12:10: Long papers session *FAIR Data APIs in the FAIR in vivo data sharing* Felix Schwagereit, Martin Romacker, Fabien Richard, Robert Trypuz, Thomas Liener and Olivier Roche *CALLISTO: A semantics-based platform for sharing FAIR scientific data* Thierry Louge, Emmanuel Courcelle, Michelle Sibilla, Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, Christophe Marteau, Marianna Braza, Jean-Baptiste To, Laurent Orgogozo 12:10-13:00 Panel and discussion 13:00-14:00 Lunch -------------------------------- Best Onto4FAIR organisers

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Online free event Corpus & applied linguistics research 2022 - October 2022
by Pascual Pérez-Paredes 07 Sep '22

07 Sep '22

[Apologies for multiple postings] Corpus & applied linguistics research 2022 https://www.um.es/languagecorpora/corpus-applied-linguistics-research-2022/ Talks and dates: –Corpus linguistics and Second Language Acquisition Prof Tony McEnery, University of Lancaster October 5, 18:00 (Madrid time) / 17:00 (UK time) –Who’s in this corpus? Looking at language and identity with (and without) demographic metadata Dr Gavin Brookes, University of Lancaster October 12, 18:00 (Madrid time) / 17:00 (UK time) –Corpus linguistics and the discursive construction of migrants Dr Charlotte Taylor, University of Sussex October 19, 18:00 (Madrid time) / 17:00 (UK time) –A corpus-friendly analysis of fragmentary constructions in English Prof Javier Pérez Guerra, Universidad de Vigo October 26, 18:00 (Madrid time) / 17:00 (UK time) Event registration link: https://umurcia.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ey8fEpC3RkC7_vAUKEpAgg After registration, you’ll receive an email with the webinar link for the four talks. You can check out the 2021 talks here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKjKIIQL6u1mXD2V9ZaT-_Q/featured This online event is organized by Universidad de Murcia and the E020-07 research group @languagecorpora (Lenguajes de especialidad, corpus lingüísticos y lingüística inglesa aplicada a la ingeniería del conocimiento). Prof Pascual Pérez-Paredes https://webs.um.es/pascualf/

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[DEADLINE EXTENSION: 14 SEPTEMBER 2022] Final Call for Papers: 13th International Workshop on Health Text Mining and Information Analysis (LOUHI 2022) at EMNLP 2022
by Alberto Lavelli 07 Sep '22

07 Sep '22

[Apologies for multiple postings] *** FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS - EXTENDED DEADLINE*** EMNLP 2022 Workshop - The 13th International Workshop on Health Text Mining and Information Analysis (LOUHI 2022) https://louhi2022.fbk.eu/ Colocated with EMNLP 2022, Abu Dhabi (7 December 2022) but also accessible online EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 14 SEPTEMBER 2022 ** Call for Papers ** The 13th International Workshop on Health Text Mining and Information Analysis provides an interdisciplinary forum for researchers interested in automated processing of health documents. Health documents encompass textual content of electronic health records, clinical guidelines, spontaneous reports for pharmacovigilance, biomedical literature, health forums/blogs or any other type of health-related documents. The LOUHI workshop series fosters interactions between the Computational Linguistics, Medical Informatics, and Artificial Intelligence communities. It started in 2008 in Turku, Finland and has been organized 12 times: LOUHI 2010 was co-located with NAACL in Los Angeles, CA; LOUHI 2011 was co-located with Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME) in Bled, Slovenia; LOUHI 2013 was held in Sydney, Australia during NICTA Techfest; LOUHI 2014 was co-located with EACL in Gothenburg, Sweden; LOUHI 2015 was co-located with EMNLP in Lisbon, Portugal; LOUHI 2016 was co-located with EMNLP in Austin, Texas; LOUHI 2017 was held in Sydney, Australia; LOUHI 2018 was co-located with EMNLP in Brussels, Belgium; LOUHI 2019 was co-located with EMNLP-IJCNLP in Hong Kong; LOUHI 2020 was co-located with EMNLP; and LOUHI 2021 was co-located with EACL. LOUHI 2022 is soliciting papers describing original research. Papers must describe substantial and completed work but could also focus on other contributions, such as a negative result, a software package or work in progress. The topics include, but are not limited to, the following language processing techniques and related areas: - Techniques supporting information extraction, e.g., named entity recognition, negation and uncertainty detection - Classification and text mining applications (e.g., diagnostic classifications such as ICD-10 and nursing intensity scores) and problems (e.g., handling of unbalanced data sets) - Text representation, including dealing with issues of data sparsity and dimensionality - Domain adaptation, e.g., adaptation of standard NLP tools (incl. tokenizers, PoS-taggers, etc) to the medical domain - Information fusion, i.e. integrating data from various sources, e.g. structured and narrative documentation - Unsupervised methods, including distributional semantics - Evaluation, gold/reference standard construction and annotation - Syntactic, semantic and pragmatic analysis of health documents - Anonymization / de-identification of health records and ethics - Supporting the development of medical terminologies and ontologies - Individualization of content, consumer health vocabularies, summarization and simplification of text - NLP for supporting documentation and decision making practices - Predictive modeling of adverse events, e.g., adverse drug events and hospital acquired infections - Terminology and information model standards (SNOMED CT, FHIR) for health text mining - Bridging gaps between formal ontology and biomedical NLP We welcome submissions on topics related to text mining of health documents, particularly emphasizing multidisciplinary aspects of health documentation and the interplay between nursing and medical sciences, information systems, computational linguistics and computer science. We also encourage submissions reporting work on low-resourced languages, addressing the challenges of data sparsity and language characteristic diversity. ** Important Dates ** Paper submission deadline: 14 September 2022 Notification to authors: October 9, 2022 Camera-ready papers due: October 16, 2022 Workshop: December 7, 2022 ** Submission Instructions ** Submissions go through a double-blind review process, where each submission is reviewed by three program committee members. Accepted papers will be presented by the authors in a regular workshop session either as a talk or a poster. All accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. The submissions should be in PDF format and anonymized for review. All submissions must be written in English and follow the EMNLP 2022 style guidelines: https://2022.emnlp.org/calls/style-and-formatting/ * Long paper submission: up to 8 pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references and appendix; final versions of long papers: one additional page (so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account): up to 9 pages with unlimited pages for references * Short paper submission: up to 4 pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references and appendix; final version of short papers: up to 5 pages with unlimited pages for references Note that appendices are material that can be read, and include lemmas, formulas, proofs, and tables that are not critical to the reading and understanding of the paper. LOUHI 2022 will accept electronic submission via Softconf ( https://www.softconf.com/emnlp2022/louhi2022/). ** Invited Speaker ** TO BE ANNOUNCED Workshop Organizers: Alberto Lavelli (FBK, Trento, Italy) James Pustejovsky (Brandeis University, USA) Eben Holderness (Brandeis University, USA) Antonio Jimeno Yepes (RMIT University, Australia) Anne-Lyse Minard (University of Orleans, LLL CNRS, France) Fabio Rinaldi (Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research - IDSIA, Switzerland & FBK, Trento, Italy) -- -- Le informazioni contenute nella presente comunicazione sono di natura privata e come tali sono da considerarsi riservate ed indirizzate esclusivamente ai destinatari indicati e per le finalità strettamente legate al relativo contenuto. Se avete ricevuto questo messaggio per errore, vi preghiamo di eliminarlo e di inviare una comunicazione all’indirizzo e-mail del mittente. -- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material.

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Ausschreibung: Förderung einer Open-Access-Publikation „Einführung in die Computerlinguistik“
by Josef Ruppenhofer 06 Sep '22

06 Sep '22

(Apologies if you end up receiving this multiple times. The text below appears only in German as it concerns a call for a German language book proposal.) Aufforderung zur Konzepteinreichung Zum Hintergrund Das letzte Jahrzehnt hat weltweit zahlreiche neue Aktivitäten und Entwicklungen auf dem Feld der Computerlinguistik erbracht. Nicht nur haben sich neue Ansätze und Methoden durchgesetzt; die Computerlinguistik als solche hat sich auch disziplinär stark ausdifferenziert. Dessen ungeachtet ist festzustellen, dass für Forschung und Lehre kein aktuelles deutschsprachiges Lehrbuch zur Verfügung steht, das ein umfassendes Bild des aktuellen Standes der Computerlinguistik zu zeichnen vermag. Die GSCL möchte deshalb dazu beitragen, diese Lücke zu füllen und hat beschlossen, Mittel zur Veröffentlichung eines umfassenden einführenden Lehrbuches oder einander ergänzender Lehrbücher zur Verfügung stellen. Was wird gefördert? Die Einführung soll sich vorrangig an den wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs, insbesondere an Studierende in einem Bachelor-Studiengang, richten. Diese allgemeine Einführung in den Forschungsgegenstand sollte zudem die Trends der letzten Jahre thematisieren. Der Fokus der Publikation oder der Publikationen könnte beispielsweise auf anwendungsorientierte Fragestellungen der Informatik gelegt werden. Alternativ könnten auch Schwerpunktsetzungen in den Bereichen Linguistik oder Digital Humanities erfolgen. Die GSCL wird die finanziellen Mittel bereitstellen, die zur Deckung der Publikationskosten eines oder mehrerer sich ergänzender deutschsprachiger Open- Access-Bände zur Einführung in die Computerlinguistik in einem renommierten Verlag benötigt werden. Sofern die Autorinnen und Autoren bzw. Herausgeberinnen und Herausgeber die Publikation bei einem kostenfreien Non-Profit-Verlag bevorzugen, unterstützt die GSCL auch solche Vorhaben, kann die dadurch freiwerdenden finanziellen Mittel allerdings nicht umwidmen. Momentan steht die GSCL mit renommierten Verlagen in Kontakt, die Autorinnen und Autoren nicht nur ein breitgefächertes Distributionsnetz, sondern auch deutliche Mehrwerte für die Sichtbarkeit und Reichweite ihrer Forschung bieten. Die Einführung soll so konzipiert werden, dass sie sowohl in digitaler Fassung als PDF über Bibliotheken und Gedächtnisorganisationen barrierefrei zur Verfügung steht, als auch als Druckversion über den Buchhandel verbreitet und von Bibliotheken angeschafft werden kann. Die GSCL wird alle mit der Publikation anfallenden Kosten von professionellem Lektorat, Satz und dauerhafter Bereitstellung des Bandes übernehmen. Es steht zu erwarten, dass ein Zuschlag für die erfolgreichen Autorinnen und Autoren erhebliche Reputationsgewinne infolge der Schließung einer Lücke in der deutschsprachigen Computerlinguistik zur Folge haben wird. Weitere Anreize, insbesondere Honorare für das Verfassen von Texten oder die Herausgabe des Bandes werden von der GSCL explizit nicht ausgelobt. Zur Antragstellung Die GSCL bittet einschlägig erfahrene Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler um Einreichung eines Essays zur thematischen Ausrichtung einer Einführung. Die Einführung kann sowohl als monographische Schrift als auch als Sammelband konzipiert werden. Bis zum 15.12.2022 sind Autorinnen und Autoren oder Herausgeberinnen und Herausgeber aufgerufen, eine entsprechende kurze Konzeption einzureichen, welche die thematische Ausrichtung des Lehrbuches konzise skizziert und, im Falle von Sammelbänden, Einzelthemen und potenzielle Autorinnen und Autoren aufführt. Erwartet wird überdies ein straffer, aber umsetzbarer Zeitplan zur Durchführung der Publikation, die idealerweise innerhalb eines Jahres abzuschließen sein wird. Die Auswahl der Einreichungen wird bis zum 31.01.2023 erfolgen; entsprechende Vorschläge sind bitte unter dem Betreff „GSCL: Einführung in die Computerlinguistik“ an die Adresse informationsreferent(a)gscl.org zu richten -- ** * Dr. Josef Ruppenhofer * Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache * Archiv für Gesprochenes Deutsch *http://agd.ids-mannheim.de/ * * R5, 6-13 * 68161 Mannheim * +49 (0)621 / 1581-108 * **

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Job: research and teaching positions at the University of Hildesheim (Germany)
by Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski 06 Sep '22

06 Sep '22

The Institute of Translation Studies and Specialised Communication (Linguistic and Information Science) at the University of Hildesheim is seeking to appoint two research associates (German salary of TV-L E 13 with 65% of working load each). The knowledge of German and English is required. A detailed description (in German), contact details, as well as the application link can be found here https://bewerbung.uni-hildesheim.de/jobposting/7889b5c712886e0a48fa0973a949… -- PD Dr. Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski Sprachwissenschaft und Sprachtechnologie/ Language Science and Technology Universität des Saarlandes Building A2.2, Room 1.02 Campus, 66123 Saarbrücken Tel. +49 681 302 2563 E-Mail: e.lapshinova(a)mx.uni-saarland.de

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The 21st International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories – FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
by Kilian Evang 06 Sep '22

06 Sep '22

The 21st International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories – FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS The 21st International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT) will bring together developers and users of linguistically annotated natural language corpora and take place during the week of March 9th–12th, 2023 in Washington D.C. on the campus of Georgetown University as part of GURT 2023. VENUE The Georgetown University Round Table on Linguistics (GURT) is a peer-reviewed annual linguistics conference held continuously since 1949 at Georgetown University in Washington D.C., with topics and co-located events varying from year to year. Under an overarching theme of ‘Computational and Corpus Linguistics’, GURT 2023 will feature four events, which are workshops or conferences focused on computational and corpus approaches to syntax but also covering theoretical issues: Universal Dependency Workshop (UDW), Depling, Treebanks and Linguistic Theory (TLT), and CxGs+NLP. All talks from all events will take place in a single (non-parallel) plenary session, with the papers from one event being presented contiguously. The goal of co-locating these events is to promote cross-fertilization of ideas across subcommunities. Proceedings will be published separately for each event, and will be available in the ACL Anthology. In order to support rich discussions and networking with minimal overhead and cost, GURT will be primarily an in-person event; we will, however, accommodate a limited number of live/synchronous remote presentations, prioritizing those with circumstances that prevent travel. University policies regarding COVID safety will be in force during the event. Georgetown University is located in a historic neighborhood in the heart of the nation’s capital. The city is a premier tourist destination, and the region is served by Reagan National (DCA), Dulles (IAD), and Baltimore-Washington (BWI) airports. SUBMISSION INFORMATION TLT addresses all aspects of treebank design, development, and use. As ‘treebanks’ we consider any pairing of natural language data (spoken, signed, or written) with annotations of linguistic structure at various levels of analysis, including, e.g., morpho-phonology, syntax, semantics, and discourse. Annotations can take any form (including trees or general graphs), but they should be encoded in a way that enables computational processing. Reflections on the design of linguistic annotations, methodology studies, resource announcements or updates, annotation or conversion tool development, or reports on treebank usage are but some examples of the types of papers we anticipate for TLT. Papers should describe original work; they should emphasize completed work rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance and relevance to the conference, and interest to the attendees. We invite paper submissions in two distinct tracks: - long papers on substantial, original, and unpublished research, including empirical evaluation results, where appropriate; - short papers on smaller, focused contributions, work in progress, negative results, surveys, or opinion pieces. All papers accepted for presentation at the workshop will be included in the TLT 2023 proceedings volume, which will be part of the ACL Anthology. Long papers may consist of up to 8 pages of content (excluding references and appendices). Short papers may consist of up to 4 pages of content (excluding references and appendices). Accepted papers will be given an additional page to address reviewer comments. All submissions should follow the two-column format and the ACL style guidelines. We strongly recommend the use of the LaTeX style files, OpenDocument, or Microsoft Word templates created for ACL: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files All papers must be anonymous, i.e., not reveal author(s) on the title page or through self-references. So, e.g., “We previously showed (Smith, 2020) …”, should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as “Smith (2020) previously showed …”. Papers must be submitted digitally, in PDF, and uploaded through the on-line conference system (link forthcoming). Double submission policy: We will accept submissions that have been or will be submitted elsewhere, but require that the authors notify us, including information on where else they are submitting. We also require that authors withdraw work that will be published elsewhere (no double publication). Submissions that violate these requirements will be rejected without review. All papers will be refereed through a double-blind peer review process with final acceptance decisions made by the workshop organizers. Submissions may be selected for publication in a GURT venue other than TLT at the discretion of the organizers. IMPORTANT DATES Long and short paper submission deadlines: November 1st, 2022 Reviews Due: December 10th, 2022 Notification of acceptance: January 9th, 2023 Final version of papers due: January 28th, 2023 GURT2023: March 9th-12th, 2023 TLT WORKSHOP CHAIRS Daniel Dakota, Indiana University Kilian Evang, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf Sandra Kübler, Indiana University Lori Levin, Carnegie Mellon University Contact: ddakota(a)iu.edu Website: https://cl.indiana.edu/tlt2023 GURT Website: https://gurt.georgetown.edu/

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Baltic HLT 2022: Call for Participation
by inguna.skadina＠lumii.lv 06 Sep '22

06 Sep '22

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Baltic HLT 2022: The Tenth Baltic Conference "Human Language Technologies - the Baltic Perspective" October 6-7, 2022 Riga, Latvia Conference Web page: http://hlt2022.tilde.eu/ The Tenth International Conference "Human Language Technologies - the Baltic Perspective" will be held at the University of Latvia. The conference aims to provide a forum for the sharing of new ideas and recent advances in human language processing and to promote cooperation between the research communities of computer science and linguistics. The conference brings together scientists, developers, providers and users to discuss state-of-the-art of HLT in the Baltic sea states, to exchange information and to discuss problems, to find new synergies and to promote initiatives for international cooperation. Accepted papers: http://hlt2022.tilde.eu/node/26 REGISTRATION The early-bird registration closes on September 23, 2022. To register visit http://hlt2022.tilde.eu/registration. Contact: hlt2022(a)tilde.lv

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[CFP] Cambridge NLE - Special Issue - "Natural Language Processing Applications for Low-Resource Languages"
by Sivaji Bandyopadhyay 06 Sep '22

06 Sep '22

Dear Colleagues and Friends, We welcome submissions to the special issue of the Cambridge University Press journal <https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/natural-language-engineering>Natural Language Engineering <https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/natural-language-engineering> on Natural Language Processing Application on Low-Resource Languages. *Cambridge NLE - Special Issue* *Natural Language Processing Applications for Low-Resource Languages* *The deadline for submissions is November 30, 2022.* *Call for Papers* We welcome papers dealing with one or more of the following topics: ● *Machine Translation for Low-Resource Languages* ● *Caption Generation for Low-Resource Languages* ● *POS Tagging on Low-Resource Languages* ● *Optical character recognition and generation of Low-Resource Languages.* ● *Chatbot assistant for Low-Resource Languages* ● *Speech/Language recognition* ● *Regional music identification and classification* ● *Textual Entailment of Low-Resource Languages* ● *Face-to-Face Translation of Low-Resource Languages* ● *News/Social media analysis* ● *Text prediction and suggestion* ● *Sentiment analysis* ● *Text classification* *Important Dates* *Deadline for submissions*: November 30, 2022 *First-round author notification*: Between March 30, 2023 and April 30, 2023 *Submission of revised versions*: Between June 30, 2023 and July 30, 2023 *Second-round author notification (final)*: Between August 30, 2023 and September 30, 2023 *Camera-ready versions*: Between Oct 01, 2023 and Oct 30, 2023 *Submissions* Instructions for preparing your manuscript for the *Journal of Natural Language Engineering* are available <https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/natural-language-engineering/inform…> here <https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/natural-language-engineering/inform…> . Please submit your article through the NLE <https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/nle>manuscript submission system <https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/nle>. When submitting your manuscript, please select *Natural Language Processing Applications for Low-Resource Languages *in the field *Special Issue Designation.* *Guest Editors* *Dr. Partha Pakray, National Institute of Technology Silchar* *Prof. Alexander Gelbukh, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico City, Mexico* *Prof. Sivaji Bandyopadhyay, National Institute of Technology Silchar* Yours Cordially, Professor Sivaji Bandyopadhyay Guest Editors Director, National Institute of Technology(NIT) Silchar (Assam) Professor, Computer Science and Engineering Department NIT Silchar (Assam) Professor, Computer Science and Engineering Department (on lien) Jadavpur University, Kolkata - 700032 INDIA

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[CFP - due Sep 13] EMNLP Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility, and Readability
by Xu, Wei 05 Sep '22

05 Sep '22

Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility, and Readability (TSAR) at EMNLP 2022 website: https://taln.upf.edu/pages/tsar2022-ws Call for Papers The web provides an abundance of knowledge and information that can reach large populations. However, the way in which a text is written (vocabulary, syntax, or text organization/structure), or presented, can make it inaccessible for many people, especially for non-native speakers, people with low literacy, and people with some type of cognitive or linguistic impairments. The results of the Adult Literacy Survey (OECD, 2013) indicate that approximately 16.7% of the adult population (averaged over 24 highly-developed countries) requires lexical, 50% syntactic, and 89.4% conceptual simplification of everyday texts (Štajner, 2021). Research on automatic text simplification (TS), textual accessibility, and readability have the potential to improve the social inclusion of marginalized populations. These related research areas have attracted attention in the past ten years, as evidenced by the growing number of publications in NLP conferences. While only about 300 articles in Google Scholar mentioned TS in 2010, this number has increased to about 600 in 2015 and greater than 1000 in 2020 (Štajner, 2021). Recent research in automatic text simplification has mostly focused on proposing the use of methods derived from the deep learning paradigm (Glavaš and Štajner, 2015; Paetzold and Specia, 2016; Nisioi et al., 2017; Zhang and Lapata, 2017; Martin et al., 2020; Maddela et al., 2021; Sheang and Saggion, 2021). However, there are many important aspects of automatic text simplification that need the attention of our community: the design of appropriate evaluation metrics, the development of context-aware simplification solutions, the creation of appropriate language resources to support research and evaluation, the deployment of simplification in real environments for real users, the study of discourse factors in text simplification, the identification of factors affecting the readability of a text, etc. To overcome those issues, there is a need for the collaboration of CL/NLP researchers, machine learning and deep learning researchers, UI/UX and Accessibility professionals, as well as public organizations representatives (Štajner, 2021). The proposed TSAR workshop builds upon the recent success of several regional workshops that covered a subset of our topics of interest, including READI Workshops at LREC 2022 and LREC 2022, SEPLN 2021 Workshop on Current Trends in Text Simplification (CTTS), and the SimpleText workshop at CLEF 2021, as well as the birds-of-a-feather events on Text Simplification at NAACL 2021 (over 50 participants) and ACL 2022. The TSAR workshop aims to foster collaboration among all parties interested in making information more accessible to all people. Through the two invited talks, a shared task on lexical simplification, the round table discussion, oral and poster presentations of novel research, we will discuss recent trends and developments in the area of automatic text simplification, text accessibility, automatic readability assessment, language resources and evaluation for text simplification, etc. Topics We invite contributions on the following topics (among others): * Lexical simplification; * Syntactic simplification; * Modular and end-to-end TS; * Sequence-to-sequence and zero-shot TS; * Controllable TS; * Text complexity assessment; * Complex word identification and lexical complexity prediction; * Corpora, lexical resources, and benchmarks for TS; * Evaluation of TS systems; * Domain-specific/adaptable TS (e.g. health, legal); * Other related topics (e.g. empirical and eye-tracking studies); * Assistive technologies for improving readability and comprehension including those going beyond text. * Text Simplification in Languages other than English * Multilingual TS * Readability Controlled MT Submissions We welcome two types of papers: long papers and short papers. Submissions should be made to the Softconf submission management system: https://softconf.com/emnlp2022/tsar. The papers should present novel research. The review will be double-blind and thus all submissions should be anonymized. Format: Paper submissions must use the official EMNLP template, which is available as an Overleaf template and also downloadable directly (Latex and Word) (see here: https://2022.emnlp.org/calls/style-and-formatting/). Authors may not modify these style files or use templates designed for other conferences. Submissions that do not conform to the required styles, including paper size, margin width, and font size restrictions, will be rejected without review. Long Papers: Long papers must describe substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis should be included. Long papers may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus unlimited pages of references. Final versions of long papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages), so that reviewers’ comments can be taken into account. Long papers will be presented orally or as posters as determined by the program committee. The decisions as to which papers will be presented orally and which as poster presentations will be based on nature rather than the quality of the work. There will be no distinction in the proceedings between long papers presented orally and long papers presented as posters. Short Papers: Short paper submissions must describe original and unpublished work. Please note that a short paper is not a shortened long paper. Instead, short papers should have a point that can be made in a few pages. Some kinds of short papers include: a small, focused contribution; a negative result; an opinion piece; an interesting application nugget Short papers may consist of up to four (4) pages of content, plus unlimited pages of references. Final versions of short papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 5 pages), so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account. Short papers will be presented orally or as posters as determined by the program committee. While short papers will be distinguished from long papers in the proceedings, there will be no distinction in the proceedings between short papers presented orally and short papers presented as posters. Important Dates 13 September 2022 (extended): paper submission deadline 2 October 2022: acceptance notification deadline 16 October 2022: camera-ready deadline 8 December 2022: Workshop at EMNLP Proceedings All accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings and published in ACL Anthology. Extended versions of the best papers will be invited for a special issue of Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence focused on: applied research for TS and readability assessment in the context of TS. Organizers * Sanja Štajner, NLP Researcher, Germany * Horacio Saggion, Chair in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence and Head of the LaSTUS Lab in the TALN-DTIC, Universitat Pompeu Fabra * Wei Xu, Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology * Marcos Zampieri, Assistant Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology * Matthew Shardlow, Senior Lecturer, Manchester Metropolitan University * Daniel Ferrés, Post-Doctoral Research Assistant, Universitat Pompeu Fabra * Kai North, Ph.D. student, Rochester Institute of Technology * Kim Cheng Sheang, PhD student, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

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Discours Journal, Issue 32 (deadline 10/15/2022), Publication June 2023
by Nicolas Hernandez 05 Sep '22

05 Sep '22

Discours Journal, Issue 32, Publication June 2023 Deadline: October 15th 2022 Coordinators: Lydia-Mai Ho-Dac and Nicolas Hernandez Dear colleagues, we are inviting submissions for the next issue of Discours, to appear in June 2023. THE DISCOURS JOURNAL Discours is an international and interdisciplinary peer-reviewed e-journal, which publishes two issues a year in open access. The journal is intended as a forum for exchanging and comparing data, analyses and opinions for all linguists, psycholinguists and computer linguists working in fields involving the description, comprehension, formalization and processing of text organization. EDITORIAL LINE It focuses on the following topics (not limited to): discourse structure and discursive markers, discourse relations, coherence, cohesion, linearization, indexation, information structure, word order, discourse comprehension and production, and other related topics. For this issue, we are particularly interested in studies that investigate the following topics: - discourse and dialogue-level annotated corpora (e.g. rhetorical and argumentative structures, dialogue acts, reference chains, enumerative structures, document structures, thematic segmentation) - studies on discourse and dialogue structures in (very) large corpora - tools and methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics for discourse and dialogue-level processing - exploitation of discourse or dialogue-level processing in end-user applications (e.g. human language technology, education, health, risk management) SUBMISSION Papers (in English or French) should be sent to discours(a)univ-nantes.fr Full instructions can be found on https://journals.openedition.org/discours/224 IMPORTANT DATES - Manuscript submission: October 15th 2022 - Final decision of the editorial board: First quarter of 2023 - Online publication: June 2023 SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE - Scientific Committee https://journals.openedition.org/discours/122 - Referees outside the Scientific Committee https://journals.openedition.org/discours/8977 -- Dr. Nicolas Hernandez Associate Professor (Maître de Conférences) Nantes Université - LS2N UMR6004 https://nicolashernandez.github.io/ <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fnicolashernandez.github.io%2F&sa…> +33 (0)2 51 12 53 94 +33 (0)2 40 30 60 67 https://sciences-techniques.univ-nantes.fr/programme-du-m1-atal

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[CFP] Special Issue on "Information Extraction and Language Discourse Processing" of Journal Information (ISSN 2078-2489)
by Jennifer D'Souza 05 Sep '22

05 Sep '22

Dear colleagues and friends, *We invite submissions to a special issue on "Information Extraction and Language Discourse Processing" of journal Information <https://www.mdpi.com/journal/information> (ISSN 2078-2489).* *Special Issue Information* This Special Issue seeks novel research reports on the spectrum that blends information extraction and language discourse processing research in diverse communities. The editors welcome submissions along various dimensions derived from the nature of the extraction task, the advanced neural techniques used for extraction, the variety of input resources exploited, and the type of output produced. Quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods studies are welcome, as are case studies and experience reports if they describe an impactful application at a scale that delivers useful lessons to the journal readership. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Knowledge base population with discourse-centric information extraction (IE) - Coreference resolution and its impact on discourse-centric IE - Relationship extraction leveraging linguistic discourse - Template filling - Impact of pragmatics or rhetorics on information extraction - Discourse-centric IE at scale - Intelligent and novel assessment models of discourse-centric IE - Survey of discourse-centric IE in natural language processing (NLP) - Challenges implementing discourse-centric IE in real-world scenarios - Modeling domains using discourse-centric IE - Human–AI hybrid systems for learning discourse and IE *Submission Instructions* https://www.mdpi.com/journal/information/special_issues/WYS02U2GTD *Deadline for manuscript submissions* Submissions to the SI will be accepted and published on a rolling basis until the close of the issue on 10 December 2022 Yours cordially, Dr. Jennifer D'Souza Prof. Dr. Chengzhi Zhang *Guest Editors*

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Open call for tenders - Corpus collection + Use case study for a technology-based scientific translation service
by susanna.fiorini＠operas-eu.org 05 Sep '22

05 Sep '22

***Translations & Open Science calls for tenders*** The OPERAS Research Infrastructure launches a series of calls for tenders in order to lay the foundation of a technology-based scientific translation service to foster multilingualism in scholarly communication and thus help to remove language barriers according to Open Science principles. The first two calls are now open (submission deadline: 7 October 2022) 1. Mapping and collection of scientific bilingual corpora: identifying, collecting and preparing corpora of bilingual scientific texts which will serve as training dataset for specialised translation engines, source data for terminology extraction, and translation memory creation Link to call 1: https://www.operas-eu.org/mapping-and-collection-of-scientific-bilingual-co… 2. Use case study for a technology-based scientific translation service: drafting an overview of the current translation practices and challenges in scholarly communication and defining the use cases of a technology-based scientific translation service (expected users and usage scenarios, features, quality requirements, editorial and technical workflows) Link to call 2: https://www.operas-eu.org/use-case-study-for-a-technology-based-scientific-… Please note that two additional calls will be released in the coming months in the following areas: Machine translation output evaluation and Roadmap and budget projections. For any information about ongoing and future calls, please feel free to contact Susanna Fiorini at susanna.fiorini(a)operas-eu.org

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2nd CfP: Special Issue on Trends in Social Media Analysis to Address Fake News, Hate Speech, or Bias (Springer Datenbank-Spektrum)
by Wiegand, Michael 05 Sep '22

05 Sep '22

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

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Call for bids to host EACL 2024
by Georg Rehm 04 Sep '22

04 Sep '22

*CALL FOR BIDS TO HOST EACL 2024* The European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL) invites expressions of interest to host the 2024 EACL conference, to be held in Europe, the Middle East or Africa (EMEA) in Spring (preferably April/May) 2024. The 2024 conference will be the 18th meeting of the EACL. *At this stage, we seek draft proposals from prospective bidders.* These will be evaluated and promising bidders will be asked to provide additional information for the final selection. The EACL Board will appoint the general chair for the conference, the programme committee co- chairs, and all other chairs (tutorial co-chairs, workshop co-chairs, etc.), except for the local arrangements chair. Draft bid proposals (due *October 15th, 2022*) should include information on all of the following items: 1. *Proposed dates:* in Spring (preferably April/May) 2024 2. *Location:* city and conference venue. Indicate whether the conference would be held at a university, hotel or convention center. Bear in mind that EACL is growing. While Gothenburg (EACL 2014) had 520 registered participants, Valencia (EACL 2017, the last Conference held in person) had 680 registered participants. So please suggest a location that could host 800+ people for plenary sessions, plus at least 4 conference rooms hosting parallel sessions (200-250 people each), a large poster or exhibit room; 11 rooms on the workshops/tutorials days among which at least two host 200 people and the others 60 persons; and rooms for demos, small meetings and registration 3. *Local arrangements team:* local chair/co-chair, committee, volunteer labour (e.g. students), registration handling. The local arrangements team will be responsible for activities such as arranging meeting rooms, equipment, refreshments, accommodation, on-site registration, participant internet access, the reception, the conference dinner, and working with the other chairs and the EACL Board to develop the budget and registration materials. Indicate whether a professional conference organizer (PCO) will be involved in the organization. Also, indicate whether any national/regional Computational Linguistics association would be on board of the local organization *The final bids will also include detailed information on the following items:* 1. Computing/wifi/audiovisual: whether there will be desktop/laptop in conference rooms and high-speed wireless Internet access, what the audiovisual facilities are 2. Printing of conference booklet 3. Food catering including breaks, reception, poster sessions and conference dinner 4. Accommodation options at the venue, including low-cost student accommodation 5. Travel alternatives to the venue from Europe and beyond 6. Social events including infrastructure for banquet/other social event and reception 7. Potential for local sponsorships 8. Opportunities for co-location with other meetings 9. The costs related to all of the above items, which should be indicated in the expenses spreadsheet (template provided below). Proposals will be evaluated with respect to a number of criteria (unordered): - Adequacy of conference and exhibit facilities for the anticipated number of registrants - Adequacy of accommodations and food services (in a range of price categories) and proximity to the conference facilities - Adequacy of expenses projections and expected surplus - Appropriateness of proposed dates - Geographical and national balance with regard to previous EACL and ACL conferences, and other major Natural Language Processing conferences held in EMEA - Co-location with national/regional conferences - Experience of the local arrangements team - Local CL community support - Local government and industry support - Appropriateness of expected registration fees - Accessibility of proposed site To help with your bid, you can check: - Bid Guidelines <https://wiki.coli.uni-saarland.de/eacl/Bid%20guidelines?highlight=%28bids%29> - EACL 17 report <http://aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2017Q3_Reports:_EACL_2017> Reports, lessons learnt and successful bids from previous years: - Previous Calls for Conference Bids <https://wiki.coli.uni-saarland.de/eacl/Call%20for%20conference%20bids> The EACL conference handbook: - EACL conference handbook <https://wiki.coli.uni-saarland.de/eacl/EACL_conference_handbook> Please send your expressions of interest electronically to the EACL Chair-elect: Roberto Basili, University of Rome, Tor Vergata, Italy – basili(a)info.uniroma2.it The EACL board encourages groups who intend to submit a proposal to ask questions about how to prepare the proposal. *Important Dates:* - *October 15th, 2022:* Deadline for draft bids - *October 31st, 2022:* Feedback to bidders and announcement of shortlist of bidders - *December 22nd, 2022:* Deadline for final bids - *January 15th, 2023:* Final bid chosen - *April or May, 2024:* EACL Conference Best regards, Georg Rehm – Secretary of EACL – -- *Prof. Dr. Georg Rehm <http://georg-re.hm/>* Principal Researcher and Research Fellow DFKI GmbH <http://www.dfki.de/>, Alt-Moabit 91c, 10559 Berlin, Germany Phone: +49 30 23895-1833 – Fax: -1810 georg.rehm(a)dfki.de Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz GmbH Firmensitz: Trippstadter Strasse 122, D-67663 Kaiserslautern Geschäftsführung: Prof. Dr. Antonio Krüger (Vorsitzender), Helmut Ditzer Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Dr. Gabriël Clemens Amtsgericht Kaiserslautern, HRB 2313

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2nd Call for Participation - EmoThreat: Emotions & Threat Detection in Urdu - CICLing 2022 track @FIRE 2022
by Maaz Amjad 04 Sep '22

04 Sep '22

*[Apologies for cross-posting]* *EmoThreat: Emotions & Threat Detection in Urdu* CICLing 2022 track @FIRE 2022* Website: Link <https://sites.google.com/view/multi-label-emotionsfire-task/home> Registration is now open: Link <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfWSPSM5wlgkucnhq3lDEsnWdaitwfq2EF…> The training set is now available. Participants are invited to publish Working Notes of FIRE 2022* *Task Description* With the growth of the spread and importance of social media platforms, the effect of their misuse became more and more impactful. In particular, numerous posts contain abusive language towards certain users and hence worsen users’ experience from communication via such platforms, while other posts contain actual threats that potentially put platform users in danger. The Urdu language has more than 230 million speakers worldwide, with vast representation on social networks and digital media. We encourage participants to participate in *EmoThreat: Emotion and Threat detection in Urdu (Nastaliq)* *Task A: Multi-label emotion classification in Urdu *Link <https://sites.google.com/view/multi-label-emotionsfire-task/home/task-a> Task A requires you to classify the tweet as one, or more of the six basic emotions (plus neutral), which is the best representation of the emotion of the person tweeting. *Task B: Threatening Language Detection Task in Urdu *Link <https://sites.google.com/view/multi-label-emotionsfire-task/home/task-b> Task B focuses on detecting Threatening language using Twitter tweets in Urdu language. This is a binary classification task in which participating systems are required to classify tweets into two classes, namely: Threatening and Non-Threatening. *Note: Participants in this year’s shared task can choose to participate in either one or both subtasks. Please visit the website for more information.* *Important Dates* 30th June – Training data release 25th July – Codalab submission link release (Task A) 7th September - Test set release (Task B) 20th September – Run submission deadline 30th September – Results Declared 12th October - Working Note submission 26th October - Review Notifications 2nd November – Camera Ready Due 9th - 13th December - FIRE 2022 (Online Event) *Organizers* Sabur Butt, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico Maaz Amjad, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico Noman Ashraf, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, United States Fazlourrahman Balouchzahi, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico Rajesh Sharma, University of Tartu, Estonia Grigori Sidorov, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico Alexander Gelbukh, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico *Contact* Email: emothreat2022(a)gmail.com Google-group: Link <https://groups.google.com/g/emothreat> *FIRE 2022: Link <http://fire.irsi.res.in/fire/2022/home> -- *With my best regards,* *Maaz Amjad**, PhD* ================================================ *LinkedIn <http://www.linkedin.com/in/maazmjad> **Twitter <https://twitter.com/maazamjad13?lang=en> * *Skype: maaz.amjad72Mobile: +5215567332662* *Email: h.maazamjad(a)gmail.com <h.maazamjad(a)gmail.com>*

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[Final Deadline Extension] First Workshop on Information Extraction from Scientific Publications (WIESP) at AACL-IJCNLP 2022
by Tirthankar Ghosal 03 Sep '22

03 Sep '22

*** First Workshop on Information Extraction from Scientific Publications ( WIESP) at AACL-IJCNLP 2022 *** *** Website: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/WIESP/ *** Twitter: https://twitter.com/wiesp_nlp The number of scientific papers published per year has exploded in recent years. Indexing the article's full text in search engines helps discover and retrieve vital scientific information to continue building on the shoulders of giants, informing policy, and making evidence-based decisions. Nevertheless, it is difficult to navigate this ocean of data. Using simple string matching has substantial limitations: human language is ambiguous in nature, context matters, and we frequently use the same word and acronyms to represent a multitude of different meanings. Extracting structured and semantically relevant information from scientific publications (e.g., named-entity recognition, summarization, citation intention, linkage to knowledge graphs) allows for better selection and filter articles. The First Workshop on Information Extraction from Scientific Publications ( WIESP) will create the necessary forum to foster discussion and research using Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning. WIESPwould specifically focus on topics related to information extraction from scientific publications, including (but not limited to): - 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 - Information extraction from COVID-19 articles to inform public health policy In addition to research paper presentations, WIESP would also feature keynote talks, a panel discussion, and a shared task. 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. ***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. ***Position papers*** will give voice to authors who wish to take a position on a topic listed above or the field of scholarly information extraction. Submissions need not present original work and should be two to four pages in length, including title, text, figures and tables, and references. ***Demo papers*** should be no more than four (4) pages in length, including references, and should describe implemented systems that are of relevance to the theme of the workshop. Authors of demo papers should be willing to present a demo of their system during WIESP at AACL-IJCNLP 2022. ***Extended Abstracts*** We welcome submissions of extended abstracts (2 pages max) related to the research topics mentioned above. Submissions may include previously published results, late-breaking results, or a description of ongoing projects in the broad field of information extraction and mining from scientific publications. Extended abstracts can also summarize existing work, work in progress, or a collection of works under a unified theme (e.g., a series of closely related papers that build on each other or tackle a common problem). ***Shared Task: Detecting Entities in the Astrophysics Literature (DEAL)*** A good amount of astrophysics research makes use of data coming from missions and facilities such as ground observatories in remote locations or space telescopes, as well as digital archives that hold large amounts of observed and simulated data. These missions and facilities are frequently named after historical figures or use some ingenious acronym which, unfortunately, can be easily confused when searching for them in the literature via simple string matching. For instance, Planck can refer to the person, the mission, the constant, or several institutions. Automatically recognizing entities such as missions or facilities would help tackle this word sense disambiguation problem. The shared task consists of Named Entity Recognition (NER) on samples of text extracted from astrophysics publications. The labels were created by domain experts and designed to identify entities of interest to the astrophysics community. They range from simple to detect (ex: URLs) to highly unstructured (ex: Formula), and from useful to researchers (ex: Telescope) to more useful to archivists and administrators (ex: Grant). Overall, 31 different labels are included, and their distribution is highly unbalanced (ex: ~100x more Citations than Proposals). Submissions will be scored using both the CoNLL-2000 shared task seqeval F1-Score at the entity level and scikit-learn's Matthews correlation coefficient method at the token level. We also encourage authors to propose their own evaluation metrics. A sample dataset and more instructions can be found at: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/WIESP/2022/SharedTasks Participants (individuals or groups) will have the opportunity to present their findings during the workshop and write a short paper. The best performant or interesting approaches might be invited to further collaborate with the NASA Astrophysical Data System ( https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/). ***Important Dates*** - Paper/Abstract Submission Deadline: September 12, 2022 (Final extension) - Notification of workshop paper/abstract acceptance: October 7, 2022 - Camera-ready Submission Deadline: October 24, 2022 - Workshop: November 20, 2021 (online) ***All submission deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h ("Anywhere on Earth")*** ***Submission Website and Format*** Submission Link: https://softconf.com/aacl2022/WIESP/ 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. Position papers, Demo papers, and Extended Abstracts need not be anonymized. The authors will present accepted papers at the workshop either as a talk or a poster. All accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings. We follow the same policies as AACL-IJCNLP 2022 regarding preprints and double submissions. The anonymity period for WIESP 2022 is from July 15 to September 25. ***Organizers*** - Tirthankar Ghosal, Charles University, CZ - Sergi Blanco-Cuaresma, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, USA - Alberto Accomazzi, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, USA - Robert M. Patton, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Felix Grezes, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, USA - Thomas Allen, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, USA -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Tirthankar Ghosal Researcher at UFAL, Charles University, CZ https://member.acm.org/~tghosal +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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1st CFP: Crowdsourcing & Human Computation Track @TheWebConf 2023
by Matt Lease 02 Sep '22

02 Sep '22

https://www2023.thewebconf.org/calls/research-tracks/crowdsourcing-hc/ We invite research contributions to the Crowdsourcing and Human Computation track at the 32nd edition of The Web Conference series (formerly known as WWW), to be hosted at Austin, TX, US, on April 30 - May 4, 2023 ( https://www2023.thewebconf.org/ <https://www2023.thewebconf.org/>) Fifteen years ago, a 2007 WWW paper entitled “Internet-Scale Collection of Human-Reviewed Data <https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/1242572.1242604>” was one of several forerunners to signal a new, emerging area of research on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP). Growing excitement and work in this new area would eventually lead to four years of HCOMP workshops across KDD and AAAI (2009-2012), a new annual AAAI HCOMP conference <https://www.humancomputation.com/> (2013 onward), and a new, annual HCOMP track at the WebConference (2014 onward). Today, the world and research landscape looks remarkably different than it did in 2007, with the Web playing a central role in orchestrating such advances. Of particular note, modern neural models have transformed AI capabilities, along with far greater ubiquity and significance of AI systems now in practical deployment around the world. As one effect of this, the commoditization and democratization of AI models today has also brought a new focus to “data-centric AI” in which AI models can succeed or fail based on the quality of underlying data and human annotations. The nature of human-AI interactions are also continually evolving in response to AI advances, posing an ever-changing frontier of new challenges for researchers and practitioners. Furthermore, the growth of AI power has brought a commensurate recognition of the need for responsible AI systems that are fair, accountable, transparent, and trustworthy – across diverse, global communities of human stakeholders who interact with or are impacted by AI systems. Given the central role of HCOMP in AI (creating reliable training and benchmark annotations, as well as enabling hybrid, human-in-the-loop systems), continuing innovation in HCOMP remains a key challenge for the further advancement of AI. HCOMP itself has made tremendous strides forward in the past fifteen years, yet many research challenges remain. *We invite AI, HCI, and related contributions that advances the broad spectrum of crowdsourcing and human computation (HCOMP) in the scope of the Web*: - algorithms, analysis, applications, methods, systems, and techniques - conceptual, empirical, theoretical, and mixed-methods - spanning fields (e.g, psychology, sociology, economics, ethics, etc.) - system-centered, human-centered, and hybrid More specifically, we invite work addressing contemporary HCOMP challenges including (but not limited to) the following Web-related themes: - Fundamental research challenges in Web-based HCOMP - *Data collection, generation, labeling, and cleaning*: data-centric AI; human and AI-assisted annotation; annotator agreement, aggregation, and modeling; annotation subjectivity and ambiguity, data excellence; human-in-the-loop data augmentation, generation, and adversarial attacks; label noise and bias detection and reduction; task decomposition, task and workflow design, novel modalities for input acquisition, etc. - *Human-centered explainability *: algorithmic/model explanations, interpretability, and transparency to enhance human success in using AI in decision-making, model and data debugging, task performance, trust in AI systems, appropriate reliance, etc. (please also read the CFP of the “Fairness, Accountability, Transparency and Ethics” track) - *Human-centered studies*: collaborative systems, computer-supported cooperative work, human-computer interaction, human factors, interaction design, usability, user experience, etc. - *Resources, benchmarking, reproducibility*: New resources for the community (e.g., datasets, open source toolkits, etc.), benchmarking studies comparing state of the art methods, and/or reproducibility studies of prior work. - *Addressing bias and diversity in annotation and human computation*: Methods and algorithms to identify and mitigate biases in annotations; bias-aware annotation workflows; diversity in annotators and workers, data labeling, and hybrid, human-in-the-loop systems; downstream effects of annotator diversity on bias and fairness measures; impact on evaluation of various systems (e.g. information retrieval systems, recommender systems, etc.); ethics and fairness of HCOMP practices - Underlying workforce powering Web-based HCOMP - *Social and economic impacts of human computation and crowdsourcing*: societal and methodological challenges around crowdsourcing labor and workforces; inequalities in access and representation in crowdsourcing workforces; platform affordances and economic impact - *Supporting HCOMP workers*: collective action; design activism; fair work <https://fair.work/en/fw/homepage/>; ghost work, heteromation, and invisible work; human computation, digital colonialism, and the global south; impact sourcing <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_sourcing> and responsible sourcing <https://partnershiponai.org/workstream/responsible-sourcing/>; regulation; worker empowerment, organization, protection and wellness; and workforce diversity, equity, and inclusion, etc. - *Future of work*: AI-assisted human coordination, team formation and work, distributed work, freelancer economy, hybrid, human+AI work and complementarity, etc. - Web-based HCOMP systems, frameworks, or architectures - *Crowd-powered systems*: data management, marketplace design and sustainability, platforms, scalability, security, privacy, programming languages, real-time crowdsourcing, etc. - *Human-in-the-loop architectures*: decision support; human-AI collaboration, interaction, and teaming; hybrid systems; mixed-initiative design, etc. - *Crowdsourcing*: citizen science, collective intelligence, crowd computing, crowd creativity, crowdfunding, crowd ideation, crowd intelligence, crowd sensing, crowdsourcing contests, crowd phenomena, crowd science, incentive schemes, gamification, human flesh search, open innovation, peer production, prediction markets, reputation systems, social web, wisdom of crowds, etc. - *Human computation*: decision-theoretic and game-theoretic design, design patterns, human algorithm design and complexity, mechanism and incentive design, etc. - Web-based Applications of HCOMP - *Machine learning for HCOMP*: aggregation, answer fusion, annotator and user modeling, quality assurance, optimization, task assignment and recommendation, truth inference, etc. - *New Applications and Services*: delivering beyond state-of-the-art AI capabilities and enhanced services through human computation and human-in-the-loop systems. Authors should consult the conference’s main Research Track CFP <https://www2023.thewebconf.org/calls/research-tracks/> to ensure their submissions are aligned with broader conference expectations, scope, and theme: “Web Research with Openness, Fairness and Reproducibility”. The CFP also details submission guidelines, relevant dates, and important policies. Review criteria <https://www.humancomputation.com/2016/review-criteria.html> will include considerations typical of those in past years of this track and the AAAI HCOMP conference. Submissions that are out of scope or unresponsive to the call above will be rejected early during the reviewing process (“desk rejected”) with minimal feedback.This includes submissions that: - merely apply HCOMP methods in standard, previously known ways, without novel contributions to advance the methodology itself; - do not relate to the web or web-based human computation platforms, methods, or applications. In case you have doubts whether your paper fits the scope of this track, please contact the track chairs hcomp-webconf2023(a)easychair.org Important dates - Abstract submission: October 6, 2022. This is compulsory for all papers. - Full papers submission: October 13, 2022 - Rebuttal: December 15 - 22, 2022 - Notification: January 25, 2023 Track chairs: - Ujwal Gadiraju <http://ujwalgadiraju.com/>(Delft University of Technology) - Matthew Lease <https://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~ml/>(University of Texas at Austin and Amazon) - Besmira Nushi <https://besmiranushi.com/>(Microsoft Research) *Senior Program Committee & Program Committee*: Stay Tuned! -- Matt Lease Professor School of Information University of Texas at Austin Voice: (512) 471-9350 · Fax: (512) 471-3971 · Office: UTA 5.536 http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~ml

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2nd call: EAMT Sponsorship of Activities (Students' edition) for 2023 (deadline 07/10/2022)
by Carol Scarton 02 Sep '22

02 Sep '22

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

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2nd call: EAMT Sponsorship of Activities for 2023 (deadline 07/10/2022)
by Carol Scarton 02 Sep '22

02 Sep '22

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

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Monthly online ILFC Seminar: interactions between formal and computational linguistics
by Timothée Bernard 02 Sep '22

02 Sep '22

*Monthly online ILFC Seminar: interactions between formal and computational linguistics* https://gdr-lift.loria.fr/monthy-online-ilfc-seminar/ GdR LIFT is happy to announce the two forthcoming sessions of the ILFC seminar on the interactions between formal and computational linguistics (note that they will both be held on a *Wednesday*): - 2022/09/14 17:00-18:00 UTC+2: *Ellie Pavlick* (Brown University & Google; 11:00-12:00 UTC-4) Title: *Implementing Symbols and Rules with Neural Networks* Abstract: *Many aspects of human language and reasoning are well explained in terms of symbols and rules. However, state-of-the-art computational models are based on large neural networks which lack explicit symbolic representations of the type frequently used in cognitive theories. One response has been the development of neuro-symbolic models which introduce explicit representations of symbols into neural network architectures or loss functions. In terms of Marr’s levels of analysis, such approaches achieve symbolic reasoning at the computational level (“what the system does and why”) by introducing symbols and rules at the implementation and algorithmic levels. In this talk, I will consider an alternative: can neural networks (without any explicit symbolic components) nonetheless implement symbolic reasoning at the computational level? I will describe several diagnostic tests of “symbolic” and “rule-governed” behavior and use these tests to analyze neural models of visual and language processing. Our results show that on many counts, neural models appear to encode symbol-like concepts (e.g., conceptual representations that are abstract, systematic, and modular), but not perfectly so. Analysis of the failure cases reveals that future work is needed on methodological tools for analyzing neural networks, as well as refinement of models of hybrid neuro-symbolic reasoning in humans, in order to determine whether neural networks’ deviations from the symbolic paradigm are a feature or a bug.* - 2022/10/12 17:00-18:00 UTC+2: *Dan Lassiter* (University of Edinburgh; 16:00-17:00 UTC+1) Title: *Modelling suppositional meaning in discourse* The seminar is held on Zoom. To attend the seminar and get updates, please register to be on our mailing list: https://sympa.inria.fr/sympa/subscribe/seminaire_ilfc

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Fwd: [parole] ALPS 2023 **WINTER** School, 2d Call for Participation
by François Portet 02 Sep '22

02 Sep '22

-------- Message transféré -------- Sujet : [parole] ALPS 2023 **WINTER** School, 2d Call for Participation Date : Fri, 2 Sep 2022 11:49:29 +0200 De : Laurent Besacier <laurent.besacier(a)univ-grenoble-alpes.fr> Répondre à : Laurent Besacier <laurent.besacier(a)univ-grenoble-alpes.fr> Pour : sigul(a)list.elra.info, ln(a)groupes.renater.fr <ln(a)groupes.renater.fr>, parole(a)listes.afcp-parole.org <parole(a)listes.afcp-parole.org>, gdrtal-multilinguisme(a)services.cnrs.fr, gdrtal-intermodalite(a)services.cnrs.fr, moses-support <moses-support(a)mit.edu>, mt-list(a)eamt.org =/=/=/= Parole, la liste de diffusion de l'AFCP =\=\=\=

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Open position for a doctoral student in NLP at Språkbanken Text (Gothenburg, Sweden)
by Elena Volodina 01 Sep '22

01 Sep '22

Dear all, Språkbanken Text (Gothenburg, Sweden) has an open position for a doctoral student in Natural Language Processing. It is a fully-paid 4-year position with a possibility to extend to 5 years. See the full announcement here (note a link to detailed instructions under the Section "Application"): Eng: https://web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/1035/job?site=7&lang=UK&validator=9b89… Swe: https://web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/1035/job?site=6&lang=SE&validator=3038… Timeline: Application deadline : September, 29th Preliminary decision : December, 21st Start of the position : February, 1st or as soon as possible after that date Please forward this announcement to relevant people and channels. Looking forward to great candidates! ___________________ Elena Volodina, PhD, Docent https://spraakbanken.gu.se/en/about/staff/elena Life is like a mirror. Smile at it and it smiles back at you. Peace Pilgrim

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