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CFW: Call for Workshop Proposals COLING 2025 - Deadline is May 31, 2024
by sakhar＠cs.columbia.edu 25 May '24

25 May '24

Dear colleagues, This is the second Call for Workshops for the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics, scheduled to take place from 19th to 24th January 2025 in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Website: https://coling2025.org submission link: https://softconf.com/coling2025/wsCL25/ Proposal submission due May 31, 2024 Call for Workshop Proposals: https://coling2025.org/calls/workshop_proposals/ The International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING) invites proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the 31st edition of COLING in 2025 in Abu Dhabi (UAE). We solicit proposals in all areas of computational linguistics, language resources and evaluation, broadly conceived to include related disciplines such as linguistics, language documentation, natural language processing, speech and multimodal processing, computational social science, and the digital humanities. Note: for this edition of COLING, we will not be conducting a joint call for workshops with the ACL conferences (AACL, ACL, EACL, EMNLP, NAACL). This is due to scheduling differences between COLING and the ACL conferences in 2025. COLING is happening much earlier than the *ACL conferences, which makes it impractical to coordinate a joint call. However, we anticipate a return to joint workshop calls in the future. IMPORTANT DATES All deadlines are 11:59 PM UTC-11:00 (“anywhere on Earth”). Proposal submission due May 31, 2024 Notification of acceptance June 30, 2024 COLING-2025 Workshops January 19-20, 2025 COLING-2025 conference January 21-24, 2025 SUBMISSION INFORMATION Proposals should be submitted as PDF documents. Note that submissions should essentially be ready to be turned into a Call for Workshop Papers shortly after the notification. The proposals should be at most two pages long for the main proposal, with additional two pages permitted for information about organisers, tentative program committee, and references. Hence, the entire proposal should not exceed FOUR pages in length, excluding references. Please note that workshops should either be 100% in-person or 100% virtual; hybrid formats will not be allowed. For in-person workshops, at least one workshop organiser should be physically present to run the workshop at COLING. More information about the CFW submission can be found on the website: https://coling2025.org/calls/workshop_proposals/ CONTACT For any questions related to the workshop proposals only, please send your email to coling2025-programchairs(a)googlegroups.com Please do not email the workshop chairs directly. Sincerely, COLING 2025 Website/Publicity/Social Media Chairs Hasan Iqbal (MBZUAI, UAE) Zain Muhammad Mujahid (MBZUAI, UAE) Sakhar AlKhereyf (KACST, Saudi Arabia)

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Looking for Editorial Assistant for TACL Journal
by ACL Announcements 25 May '24

25 May '24

Looking for EDITORIAL ASSISTANT for an ACADEMIC JOURNAL IN COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) is seeking an Editorial Assistant for Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL), an ACL-sponsored journal published by MIT Press that publishes papers in all areas of computational linguistics and natural language processing. This position provides an experience in the world of academic publishing and the peer-review process and a first-hand engagement with the most current and impactful work on computational linguistics. POSITION SUMMARY The Editorial Assistant will: Manage the submission process using a web-based workflow management system (WMS) Correspond with authors, in coordination with the Editors-in-Chief (EiC), regarding submissions of articles, revisions and possibility of presentation at ACL conferences for eligible papers Correspond with action editors and reviewers, in coordination with the EiC, regarding submissions of reviews and decisions Prepare monthly Activity Report for EiCs Consult with EiCs when issues arise Interact with the API developers and oversee updates to the WMS REQUIRED SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE Candidates are required to have: Strong organizational and time-management skills Demonstrated attention to detail Strong written communication skills Knowledge and experience with using APIs The work is done remotely; interaction with the team of Editors-in-Chief, reviewers, and authors will be electronic. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION The Editorial Assistant is named on the masthead of each issue of TACL and works closely and directly with the Editors-In-Chief. The start date of this position is June 1, 2024. The workload varies somewhat over the course of the journal’s annual cycle but averages approximately 20 hours weekly. To apply, submit a cover letter, CV/resume, and three references. If you have questions about this position or to submit an application, contact us via email at: editors-in-chief(a)transacl.org and roireichart(a)gmail.com.

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[Call for Papers] NLP4MusA - 3rd Workshop on NLP for Music and Audio @ ISMIR 2024
by Sergio Oramas 24 May '24

24 May '24

Dear MIR community, We are excited to announce NLP4MusA 2024, the 3rd Workshop on NLP for Music and Audio <https://sites.google.com/view/nlp4musa-2024>, co-located with ISMIR 2024. =================================== *When*: November, 15 *Where*: San Francisco (ISMIR) *Submission deadline*: July, 5 *Proceedings*: Accepted papers will be published on the ACL Anthology *Website*: https://sites.google.com/view/nlp4musa-2024 *Submission link:* https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=nlp4musa2024 =================================== *Topics of Interest* We welcome both academic and industry submissions at the crossroads of NLP and music and audio, including (but not limited to) topics such as: - NLP for Music Understanding - Tagging and meta-tagging - Knowledge graph construction - Information extraction - Named entity recognition and linking - Speech to text - Song and podcast segmentation - Topic modeling - Sentiment analysis - Representation learning - Bias in music and audio corpora - Audio captioning - Debiasing music entity embeddings - Evaluation and adaptation of LLMs for music understanding - NLP for Music Retrieval and Personalization - Conversational AI - Slot filling and intent prediction - Information retrieval - Cross-modal retrieval - Recommender systems - Ads personalization - Responsible recommendations - Fairness and transparency - NLP for Music and Audio Generation - Lyrics generation - Music generation with (Large) Language models - Spoken audio/podcast generation *Submission Instructions* We invite short-papers of up to 4 pages (excluding references). The review process will be double-blind. Submissions should adhere to the ACL Anthology formatting guidelines. A LaTeX template is available here <https://drive.google.com/file/d/10sSh9JR6Q1644h6XP21lYEyCEoMyB0gQ/view>. Papers should be submitted via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=nlp4musa2024. Accepted submissions will be published as ACL anthology papers. *Important dates* - Submission Deadline: *July 5, 2024* - Notification of Acceptance: August 2, 2024 - Camera-Ready Deadline: September 6, 2024 - Workshop Date: November 15, 2024 NLP4MusA Organizing Committee

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[Open position] Postdoc in NLP and computational social science
by khuram shehzad 24 May '24

24 May '24

Dear all, An exciting opportunity awaits in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Behavioural Data Analytics at GESIS in Cologne, Germany. We are currently seeking a Senior Researcher Postdoc to join our team. https://www.hidden-professionals.de/HPv3.Jobs/gesis/stellenangebot/37621/Se… The position is limited to 4 years, with option for further extension. Best regards Hajira *GESIS-Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften* Team Lead Big Data Analytics Tel: 49 (0)221-47694-517 https://hajirajabeen.github.io/

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[Online Panel] Modelling Climate Change: An Overview of the Crisis and Reconstruction Plans in Southern Brazil (May 24th, 3pm UK time)
by Aline Villavicencio 23 May '24

23 May '24

Dear all, reposting including link information for joining online. We are hosting a rapid response online panel on Friday 24 May 2024 at 15:00 (BST) about the recent and devastating floods in South Brazil and the role of science in modelling, predicting and responding to extreme climate events, and how it can inform and support response and replanning efforts. This online event is open to all, and details about how to join are included below. ------------------------------ Modelling Climate Change: An Overview of the Crisis and Reconstruction Plans in Southern Brazil Date: May 24, 2024, 3pm UK Website: https://sites.google.com/view/climate-change-southern-brazil <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsites.goo…> Location: Join the Zoom Meeting <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Funiversit…> https://Universityofexeter.zoom.us/j/94995645524?pwd=bnhlcThXalBsTWpYWXZrZF… <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Funiversit…> Meeting ID: 949 9564 5524 Password: 409333 Climate change and the increase in extreme climatic events present a pressing challenge globally. This panel focuses on the environmental, social, and economic ramifications of climate change in the recent floods in Southern Brazil. With over 2 million people and more than 90% of the region's municipalities affected, heavy rainfalls have disrupted both electricity and treated water supplies, closed the main airport for months and caused extensive damage to traffic on highways. A substantial impact on economic activity is expected. We discuss the role of science in monitoring and preventing these crises and in supporting emergency actions and reconstruction plans. Panellists include: Márcia Barbosa <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.if.uf…> (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) Rob Chadwick <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.metof…> (Met Office, UK) Andrew Hartley <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.metof…> (Met Office, UK) José Marengo <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fscholar.g…> (National Centre for Monitoring and Early Warning of Natural Disasters, Brazil) Moderator: Carolina Brito <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fscholar.g…> (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)

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Call for short papers - DAAfrica 2024 - Bejaia, Algeria
by Mathieu ROCHE 23 May '24

23 May '24

============================================================= Call for short papers DAAfrica - Workshop on Data Science for Agriculture in Africa November 23, 2024 Bejaia, Algeria (hybrid) Event affiliated with CARI’2024 Workshop supported by ASDS, #DigitAg and the MOOD project ============================================================= === SCOPE === Data science in agriculture has evolved with the accessibility of data by farmers that allow them to analyze and facilitate decision making. Today new technology like Internet of Things (IoT) enables us to collect and store farm and environmental data (e.g. soil data, water data, etc.) in dedicated databases and/or data warehouses. This agricultural data can be combined with other data sources (e.g. remote sensing, weather stations, web and social media, etc.) that need to address new challenges like ingestion of heterogeneous data. Data science in agriculture aims to explore and mine agricultural data using different techniques like machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, text-mining, large language models (LLM), etc. For instance, data science can predict crop yields and plant and animal diseases with different variables, including rainfall, temperature fluctuations, and soil conditions by using a variety of data (e.g. sensor data, texts, satellite images, plant images, etc.). So, agriculture professionals and decision-makers can use data science to provide information and knowledge in order to make decisions about agricultural activities in Africa. === TOPICS OF INTEREST === The topics of the workshop encompass all aspects concerning the intersection of data science and agriculture in Africa with different applications: - Smart Farming - Yield and production - Plant specie identification - Land cover monitoring - Crop recommendation - Crop monitoring & forecasting - Animal and plant health monitoring - Water management - Food safety & security - Agroecology - etc. === SUBMISSIONS === Researchers, academics, and students working on the field of data science with application in agriculture in Africa are invited to submit short papers for oral presentations or posters. Submitted abstracts must be in English and will be reviewed by the workshop committees for suitability and interest to the DAAfrica audience. The authors can submit papers of unpublished work reporting original and early results, introducing new ideas or describing prototypes. Every accepted submission must have at least one author registered for the workshop. All submitted extended abstracts must follow the LNCS format (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…) with a page limit of up to 6 pages including the title page, figures, references, and an optional appendix. The abstracts should be submitted electronically in PDF format via EasyChair via the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=daafrica2024 Accepted extended abstract will be published as CEUR proceedings. Selected contributions will be invited to submit full papers to ARIMA Journal (indexed by DBLP and DOAJ) for a peer-review according to its usual reviewing process. === IMPORTANT DATES === - Submission deadline: July 31, 2024 - Notification to authors: September 23, 2024 - Workshop date: November 23, 2024 === PARTICIPATION === The workshop will be held in Bejaia, Algeria, as an event affiliated to CARI’2024 (https://www.cari-info.org). This workshop will be a hybrid event that combines a "live" in-person event with a "virtual" online component. Further information related to registration is available on the ASDS website: https://asds.africa/daafrica2024 === WORKSHOP CHAIRS === - Paulin Melatagia, University of Yaoundé I, Cameroun - Mathieu Roche, CIRAD, UMR TETIS, France

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[CFP] International Combined Workshop on Spatial Language Understanding (SpLU) and Grounded Communication for Robotics (RoboNLP) @ACL 2024
by Kordjamshidi, Parisa 23 May '24

23 May '24

--------------------------------------------------------------- First CALL FOR PAPERS ---------------------------------------------------------------- International Combined Workshop on Spatial Language Understanding (SpLU) and Grounded Communication for Robotics (RoboNLP) @ACL 2024 (https://splu-robonlp-2024.github.io/ <https://splu-robonlp-2024.github.io/>) Location: Bangkok, Thailand Date: August 16, 2024 --------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES --------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates - Submission Deadline: 17 May 2024 (Anywhere on Earth) - Notification of Acceptance: 17 June 2024 (Anywhere on Earth) - Camera Ready Deadline: 1 July 2024 (Anywhere on Earth) - Workshop Day: 16 August 2024 (co-located with ACL 2024) --------------------------------------------------------------- AIM AND SCOPE --------------------------------------------------------------- Leveraging the foundation built in the prior workshops SpLU-RoboNLP 2023, SpLU-RoboNLP 2021, SpLU 2020, SpLU-RoboNLP 2019, SpLU 2018, and RoboNLP 2017, we propose the fourth combined workshop on Spatial Language Understanding and Grounded Communication for Robotics. Natural language communication with general-purpose embodied robots has long been a dream inspired by science fiction, and natural language interfaces have the potential to make robots more accessible to a wider range of users. Achieving this goal requires the continuous improvement of and development of new technologies for linking language to perception and action in the physical world. In particular, given the rise of large vision and language generative models, spatial language understanding and natural interactions have become more exciting topics to explore. This joint workshop aims to bring together the perspectives of researchers working on physical robot systems with human users, simulated embodied environments, multimodal interaction, and spatial language understanding to forge collaborations. --------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS OF INTEREST --------------------------------------------------------------- We are interested in but not limited to original research in developing computational models, benchmarks, evaluation metrics, analysis, surveys, and position papers on the following topics: - Deployment of Large Language Models for Situated Dialogue and Language Grounding - Spatial Reasoning with Large Language Models - Aligning and Translating Language to Situated Actions - Evaluation Metrics for Language Grounding and Human-Robot Communication - Human-Computer Interactions Through Natural or Structural Language - Instruction Understanding and Spatial Reasoning based on Multimodal Information for Navigation, Articulation, and Manipulation - Interactive Situated Dialogue for Physical Tasks - Language-based Game Playing for Grounding - Spatial Language and Skill Learning via Grounded Dialogue - (Spatial) Language Generation for Embodied Tasks - (Spatially-) Grounded Knowledge Representations - Spatial Reasoning in Image and Video Diffusion Models - Qualitative Spatial Representations and Neuro-symbolic Modeling - Utilization and Limitations of Large (Multimodal-)Language Models in Spatial Understanding and Grounded Communication --------------------------------------------------------------- INVITED SPEAKERS --------------------------------------------------------------- We are open to the nomination of speakers and encourage self-nomination. The speakers are REQUIRED to attend the workshop in person. We aim to gather a diverse set of senior/junior speakers from academia/industry who work on related topics in language, vision and robotics and did not have a chance to speak in the past versions of the workshop. If you are interested, please email splu-robonlp2024(a)googlegroups.com <mailto:splu-robonlp2024@googlegroups.com> and include your tentative topic. --------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION AND SELECTION PROCESS --------------------------------------------------------------- * Long Papers * Technical papers: ACL style, 8 pages excluding references * Short Papers * Position statements describing previously unpublished work or demos: ACL style, 4 pages excluding references ACL Style Files (GitHub): https://github.com/acl-org/ACLPUB/tree/master/templates <https://github.com/acl-org/ACLPUB/tree/master/templates> ACL Style Files (Overview): https://www.overleaf.com/read/crtcwgxzjskr <https://www.overleaf.com/read/crtcwgxzjskr> OpenReview Submission: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2024/Workshop/SpLU-RoboNLP <https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2024/Workshop/SpLU-RoboNLP> Non-Archival Option: ACL workshops are traditionally archival. To allow dual submission of your work to SpLU-RoboNLP 2024 from *ACL Findings and other conferences/journals, we are also including a non-archival track. Space permitting, these submissions will still participate and present their work in the workshop, and will be hosted on the workshop website, but will not be included in the official proceedings. Please apply the ACL format and submit through OpenReview, but indicate that this is a cross-submission (non-archival) at the bottom of the submission form. --------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE --------------------------------------------------------------- Parisa Kordjamshidi, Michigan State University Malihe Alikhani, Northeastern University Xin Eric Wang, University of California Santa Cruz Yue Zhang, Michigan State University Ziqiao Ma, University of Michigan Mert Inan, Northeastern University --------------------------------------------------------------- ADVISING COMMITTEE --------------------------------------------------------------- Raymond J. Mooney, The University of Texas at Austin Joyce Y. Chai, University of Michigan Anthony G. Cohn, University of Leeds --------------------------------------------------------------- CONTACT --------------------------------------------------------------- Feel free to contact the Organizing Committee at splu-robonlp2024(a)googlegroups.com <mailto:splu-robonlp2024@googlegroups.com>. ------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------ Kordjamshidi, Parisa Assistant Professor Computer Science and Engineering Michigan State University http://www.cse.msu.edu/~kordjams/ <http://www.cse.msu.edu/~kordjams/> Heterogeneous Learning & Reasoning Lab: https://hlr.github.io/ Woman, Life, Freedom

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[CFP] 3rd Call for Participation and Extended Timeline - ISWC-LLMs4OL 2024 Challenge: Large Language Models for Ontology Learning
by Jennifer D'Souza 22 May '24

22 May '24

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

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[CIKM 2024] - Call for Resource Papers
by antonela.tommasel＠isistan.unicen.edu.ar 22 May '24

22 May '24

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

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[CIKM 2024] - Final Call for Demo Papers
by antonela.tommasel＠isistan.unicen.edu.ar 22 May '24

22 May '24

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

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[CIKM 2024] - Final Call for Short Research Papers
by antonela.tommasel＠isistan.unicen.edu.ar 22 May '24

22 May '24

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

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PhD position in Modelling Word Order and Cognitive Constraints (4 years)
by Jelke Bloem 21 May '24

21 May '24

Dear colleagues, Please disseminate our PhD position vacancy to any interested students: https://vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/PhD-Position-in-Modelling-Word-Order-and-C… It is a 4-year PhD position starting in September or October and the deadline is May 31st, 2024. --- Do you enjoy working in an interdisciplinary research environment? Are you interested in using state of the art language technology to advance research in cognitive science and linguistics? If you imagine yourself in a PhD position at the crossroads of experimental research and natural language processing, then you should apply for this position at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) (https://www.illc.uva.nl/) of the University of Amsterdam. We work on understanding the nature of human language using state-of-the-art language models as tools. In this project you will combine experiments and distributional semantic modelling to investigate patterns of variation in word order (e.g. the order of Subject, Object and Verb) in the languages of the world, and the cognitive/learning biases that drive these patterns. Have a look at the full vacancy text for more information. Applications can also be submitted on the vacancy webpage: https://vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/PhD-Position-in-Modelling-Word-Order-and-C… --- Best regards, Jelke Bloem University of Amsterdam

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2nd CfP: AI in Digital Humanities, Computational Social Sciences and Economics Research (AI‑HuSo)
by Johanna Binnewitt 21 May '24

21 May '24

Dear corpora-list, We would like to draw your attention to the Thematic Track "AI in Digital Humanities, Computational Social Sciences and Economics Research (AI-HuSo)", which will take place at FedCSIS 2024 in Belgrade from September 8-11, 2024. Submission deadline is on *May 28th 2024*. The event aims to bring together research from various disciplines in the humanities, social sciences and economics, focusing on the use of computational methods, machine learning and AI. Further information on the topics and the deadlines can be found here: https://2024.fedcsis.org/thematic/ai-huso Contact: ai-huso(a)fedcsis.org ======================================================================= AI in Digital Humanities, Computational Social Sciences and Economics Research (AI‑HuSo) ======================================================================= Belgrade, Serbia, 8–11 September, 2024 This thematic track is dedicated to the computational study of Social Sciences, Economics and Humanities, including all subjects like, for example, education, labour market, history, religious studies, theology, cultural heritage, and informative predictions for decision-making and behavioural-science perspectives. While digital methods and AI have been emerging topics in these fields for several decades, this thematic track is not only limited to discoveries in these domains, but also dedicated to the reflections of these methods and results within the field of computer science. Thus, we are in particular interested in interdisciplinary exchange and dissemination with a clear focus on computational and AI methods. Since there is a clear methodological overlap between these three domains and often similar algorithms and AI approaches are considered, we see this thematic track as place for interdisciplinary learning, discussing a joint toolbox as a support for scholars from these field with human and context-aware agents. The aim of this thematic track is thus to bridge the gap between scientific domains, foster interdisciplinary exchange and discuss how research questions from other domains challenge current computer science. In particular, we are interested in communications between researchers from different fields of computer science, social sciences, economics, humanities, and practitioners from different fields. Topics The list of topics includes, but is not limited to: - AI and computational approaches for the interdisciplinary work of the social sciences, economics, and humanities: report on theoretical, methodological, experimental, and applied research. - AI and computational approaches for linking data from different digital resources, including online social networks, web and data mining, Knowledge Graphs, Ontologies. - AI and computational methods for text mining and textual analysis, for example texts within social sciences, digital literary studies, computational stylistics and stylometry. - Text encoding, computational linguistics, annotation guidelines, OCR for humanities, economics, and social sciences. - Network analysis, including social and historical network analysis. While we encourage submissions from a broad background, every year we also encourage submissions to two special topics. In 2024 these will be: - Ethical and philosophical considerations of AI in society and research. - Sociological challenges for AI in society, e.g., labour market, education or media. In general, the applications of interest are included in the list below, but are not limited to: - Labour market research and qualification, including behavioral-science perspectives. - Education: Digital methods and systems, e-learning, adult education, etc. - Contributions to the application of technology to culture, history, and societal issues: For example, computational text analysis, analytical and visualization, databases, etc. - In particular, we welcome submissions which focus on a critical reflection of digital methods in the humanities, economics and social sciences within computer science. - Linking of digital resources, a discussion of data sets, their quality and reliability, combining quantitative and qualitative data, anonymization and data protection.

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HealTAC 2024 - Registration and Accommodation
by Jaya Chaturvedi 21 May '24

21 May '24

---------------------------- HealTAC 2024 June 12-14th, 2024, Lancaster (UK) https://healtac2024.github.io/ [healtac2024.github.io]<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://healtac2024.github.io/__;!!PDiH4ENfjr2_…> ---------------------------- 1) Full conference programme is out. 2) Registration fees, travel and accommodation details announced. Conference programme The 7th Healthcare Text Analytics Conference (HealTAC 2024) is pleased to announce the full programme of the conference, including - Keynotes by Suzan Verberne ("Large Language Models in healthcare: should we care more?") and Alistair Johnson ("The bottleneck has always been data!"); - Panels on "Secure data environments for healthcare NLP" and "Collaboration models for clinical large language modelling"; - 8 talks, 4 PhD projects, 24 posters and 2 demos. - Tutorial on "Healthcare Text Analytics in the Era of LLMs" (Wednesday 12 June) Registration The (expected) fees will be £100 for students and £200 for others, and will include lunch on June 13th and 14th, and dinner on June 13th. The registration site will be open shortly. Travel and accommodation Travel and accommodation details are available on the web site (https://healtac2024.github.io/venue/ [healtac2024.github.io]<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://healtac2024.github.io/venue/__;!!PDiH4E…> and https://healtac2024.github.io/accommodation/ [healtac2024.github.io]<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://healtac2024.github.io/accommodation/__;…>). Announcements Follow the conference announcements on social media: #HEALTAC2024 We are looking forward to welcoming you to HealTAC 2024. Jaya Chaturvedi Research Associate in Health Related Natural Language Processing Department of Biostatistics and Health Informatics C3.15, Social Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience King’s College London PO Box 80, De Crespigny Park London SE5 8AF Pronunciation: Juh-yaa Pronouns: she/her GitHub: https://github.com/jayachaturvedi X: @JayaChatur Project website: https://sites.google.com/view/pain-mental-health/home If you receive an email from me outside of normal working hours, please do not feel the need to respond outside of your own working hours.

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3rd CfP MILLing 2024 [UPDATE: Non-archival track]
by William Noble 21 May '24

21 May '24

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

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JOB OPENING: TACL EDITORIAL ASSISTANT
by dilek.iataslp＠gmail.com 21 May '24

21 May '24

Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) is seeking an Editorial Assistant for Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL), an ACL-sponsored journal published by MIT Press that publishes papers in all areas of computational linguistics and natural language processing. This position provides an experience in the world of academic publishing and the peer-review process and a first-hand engagement with the most current and impactful work on computational linguistics. POSITION SUMMARY The Editorial Assistant will: - Manage the submission process using a web-based workflow management system (WMS) - Correspond with authors, in coordination with the Editors-in-Chief (EiC), regarding submissions of articles, revisions and possibility of presentation at ACL conferences for eligible papers - Correspond with action editors and reviewers, in coordination with the EiC, regarding submissions of reviews and decisions - Prepare monthly Activity Report for EiCs - Consult with EiCs when issues arise - Interact with the API developers and oversee updates to the WMS REQUIRED SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE Candidates are required to have: - Strong organizational and time-management skills - Demonstrated attention to detail - Strong written communication skills - Knowledge and experience with using APIs The work is done remotely; interaction with the team of Editors-in-Chief, reviewers, and authors will be electronic. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION The Editorial Assistant is named on the masthead of each issue of TACL. The Editorial Assistant works under the direct supervision of the Editors-in-Chief. The start date of this position is June 1, 2024. The workload varies somewhat over the course of the journal’s annual cycle but averages approximately 20 hours weekly. To apply, submit a cover letter, CV/resume, and three references. If you have questions about this position or to submit an application, contact us via email at: editors-in-chief(a)transacl.org and roireichart(a)gmail.com.

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Last call for participation at the Third Ukrainian NLP Workshop @ LREC-Coling 2024
by Mariana Romanyshyn 20 May '24

20 May '24

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

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SemDial 2024: EXTENDED Submission Deadline: June 2, 2024
by Raffaella Bernardi 20 May '24

20 May '24

SemDial 2024 -- TrentoLogue The 28th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue 11 and 12 September 2024 University of Trento, Italy https://tinyurl.com/3c7rracn TrentoLogue will be the 28th edition of the SemDial workshop series which aim to bring together researchers working on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue in fields such as formal semantics and pragmatics, computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience. Keynote speakers Uri Hasson, Princeton University Azzurra Ruggeri, Technical University Munich and CEU, Vienna Bernardo Magnini, Fondazone Bruno Kessler (FBK), Italy # IMPORTANT DATES: * *EXTENDED* l*ong paper submission deadline: June 2, 2024* * Reviews due to: June 24, 2024 * Notification for long papers: July 1, 2024 * Short paper submissions: July 11, 2024 * Notification for short papers: July 17, 2024 * Camera Ready: August 26, 2024 * Registration Deadline: August 27, 2024 Note: All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 ("Anywhere on Earth"). #TOPICS We welcome submissions with formal, computational, and empirical approaches to the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue, including, but not limited to: * the dynamics of agents' information states in dialogue * common ground/mutual belief * goals, intentions, and commitments in communication * turn-taking and interaction control * semantic/pragmatic interpretation in dialogue * dialogue and discourse structure * categorization of dialogue phenomena in corpora * child-adult interaction * language learning through dialogue * gesture, gaze, and intonational meaning in communication * multimodal dialogue * interpretation and reasoning in spoken dialogue systems * dialogue management * designing and evaluating dialogue systems * modelling miscommunication, disfluency, and repair * dialogue/interaction studies from a psychological perspective * neuroscience of dialogue * Interactivist approaches to dialogue * animal communication # SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: Long papers: Authors should submit an anonymous paper of at most 8 pages of content (up to 2 additional pages are allowed for references). Short papers: Authors should submit a non-anonymized paper of at most 2 pages of content (up to 1 additional page allowed for references). Submissions to this track can be non-archival on request. Submissions should be pdf files and use the LaTeX or Word ( https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files) templates provided for ACL. Concurrent submission policy: Papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications must provide this information, using a footnote on the title page of the submissions. SemDial 2024 cannot accept work for publication or presentation that will be (or has been) published elsewhere. Submission is electronic, using the EasyChair conference management system at our Easychair submission site https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semdial2024trentolog Organizing Committee Raffaella Bernardi Vanessa Maria Caleca Jakub Szymanik Roberto Zamparelli Programme Committee Chairs Raffaella Bernardi, University of Trento Ellen Breitholtz, University of Gothenburg Giuseppe Riccardi, University of Trento TrentoLogue is endorsed by SIGdial and SIGsem. ============================================================== University of Trento CIMeC: C225, second floor, Corso Bettini 31, 38068 Rovereto (TN), DISI: Povo 2, Room: 110, Via Sommarive 9, I 38123, Povo (TN) Tel. +39 0464 80 8704 (CIMeC) http://disi.unitn.it/~bernardi/ ==============================================================

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CFP: Special Track - Enhancing Online Safety and Wellbeing through AI (WISE 2024)
by Wajdi Zaghouani 19 May '24

19 May '24

**CFP Special Track: Enhancing Online Safety and Wellbeing through AI ** Are you passionate about leveraging AI for a safer, healthier digital world? Join us for an exciting special track that delves into how Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Large Language Models (LLMs) can transform online safety and user wellbeing. All accepted papers will be published in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Topics Include but not limited to: ---------------- - AI-driven user experience & safety - Detecting & mitigating online harassment - Mental health support via AI - Combating misinformation & fact-checking - Digital literacy & education - Ethical AI deployment - Advanced content moderation - Privacy & data security - Cyberbullying prevention - Empowering vulnerable populations - AI in emergency response - Community building - Regulatory & policy impacts Key Dates: ----------- - Submission Deadline: 30 June, 2024 - Acceptance Notification: 30 August, 2024 - Camera-Ready Submission: 07 September, 2024 For more details and to submit your papers, visit the Special Track Webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/onlinesafetyandwellbeing/home Join us in advancing the dialogue on AI's role in creating a secure and empowering digital space! Organizers: ------------ - Wajdi Zaghouani, Hamad Bin Khalifa University (wzaghouani(a)hbku.edu.qa) - Firoj Alam, QCRI, Hamad Bin Khalifa University (fialam(a)hbku.edu.qa) - Reem Suwaileh, Hamad Bin Khalifa University (rs081123(a)student.qu.edu.qa) - Venus Jin, Northwestern University Qatar (venus.jin(a)northwestern.edu) - Raian Ali, Hamad Bin Khalifa University (raali2(a)hbku.edu.qa) - Anis Charfi, Carnegie Mellon University (acharfi(a)andrew.cmu.edu) Submission Guidelines: ------------------------ - Papers should be in PDF format, unpublished, and not under review elsewhere. - Submissions must conform to Springer's LNCS format, not exceeding 15 pages. - Submit via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wise20240 We look forward to your contributions! ---- *Wajdi Zaghouani, Ph.D.* *Associate Professor in Digital Humanities* College of Humanities and Social Sciences P.O. Box 34110 | Education City | Doha, Qatar tel: +974 4454 5601 | mob: +974 33454992 wzaghouani(a)hbku.edu.qa| Office A141, LAS Building

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ICON 2024
by Asif Ekbal 19 May '24

19 May '24

Dear Colleague, Please disseminate the following. Best regards Asif ================================================================ *First Call for Papers- ICON 2024* The 21st International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON-2024) will be held at AU-KBC Research Centre, Chennai, India during December 19-22, 2024. The ICON Conference series is a forum for promoting interaction among researchers in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computational linguistics (CL) in India and abroad. The main conference is from 20th December 2024 to 21st December 2024. This will be preceded by one day of pre-conference tutorials / workshops on 19th December 2024 and one day of post conference shared tasks / tools / demos on 22nd December 2024. The papers published in ICON proceedings will be indexed in ACL Anthology. ACL Anthology is a digital archive of research papers in Computational Linguistics for major international conferences under Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), which is one of the most well-known associations for NLP and CL. The previous proceedings of ICON 2014 <https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/volumes/W14-51/>, ICON 2015 <https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/volumes/W15-59/>, ICON 2016 <https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/volumes/W16-63/>, ICON 2017 <https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/volumes/W17-75/>, ICON 2019 <https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/events/icon-2019/> , ICON 2020 <https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/events/icon-2020/> , ICON 2021 and ICON 2022 can be found in ACL Anthology. *Call for Papers* Papers are invited on substantial, original and unpublished research work on all aspects of Natural Language Processing. We encourage submissions from all language families but special emphasis is given for South Asian languages and other less resourced languages, their issues and applications. The areas of interest include, but are not restricted to: Language Resources Morphology, Syntax, Semantics and Discourse Machine Translation Large Language Models (LLMs) Interpretability and Explainability of NLP models Summarization Information Extraction Named Entity Recognition Sentiment and Emotion Analysis Question Answering Natural Language Generation Natural Language Understanding Information Retrieval Text Mining Multilingual systems Multimodality Dialogue Systems NLP for Digital Humanities Ethics in NLP NLP for Education Medical NLP NLP Language Documentation and Preservation Speech Recognition Speech Synthesis Video to Text Machine Learning Applications to NLP Cognitive Modeling Psycholinguistics Computational Social Science and Social Media. *Call for Tutorials / Workshops* Proposals are invited for pre-conference tutorials/workshops. Tutorials/Workshops can be of half-day or full-day duration. The proposal should be presented in the form of an extended abstract (1-2 pages) as per the ICON 2024 template (ACL template). This should contain a topical outline of the content, description of the proposers and their qualifications relating to the tutorial content. Proposals for Tutorial/Workshop can be submitted at this link <https://www.softconf.com/icon2021/WS-TUT-ICON2021/>. Send tutorial/workshop proposals to the ICON-2024 Secretariat by email to icon2024(a)gmail.com. For further information, please refer to the Conference URL or contact the ICON-2024 Secretariat. *Call for Doctoral Consortium* The ICON organising committee is pleased to call for papers for the 3rd Doctoral Consortium. This event extends an opportunity for doctoral candidates to present and discuss their research with a panel of experts. The discussion would include feedback on the evolution and progress of their research. It also helps them to identify the roadmap and additional studies, which could help refine the shape of their doctoral thesis. The doctoral consortium will be a one-day or half day event being organised on December 19, 2024, as part of the ICON-2024 conference. The applicants are required to submit a two-page extended abstract of their PhD research work. Submit your abstracts at this link <https://www.softconf.com/icon2021/Doc-Consort-ICON2021/>. The shortlisted candidates would be invited to the consortium where they are required to present a summary of their research. Each candidate will be given 30 minutes for the presentation, which will be followed by a discussion of 15 minutes, led by a panel of experts. Prospective doctoral students from language technologies related disciplines are invited to apply. The selection of participants will be based on the submitted abstracts. *Guidelines* The invitation is open to all participants of ICON 2024. The applicants are required to submit an extended two-page abstract on their ongoing doctoral research. The submission can be extended to a maximum of two pages including all text, figures and tables, plus an additional third page exclusively for references. The submissions must follow the ICON template provided in the author's kit. The abstracts may incorporate published and in-progress work from the authors. Submissions are expected to present a fair picture of the research undertaken towards the thesis. Participants are advised to refrain from submitting a shorter version of their conference papers. Submissions must have the participant as the sole author. Acknowledgements to their supervisors, supporting agencies/bodies, and contributors to the work, can be made in a separate section. The submission must highlight the following: The motivation of the research; Key issues identified/addressed; Major contributions; Methodologies, Experiments; Discussion of results; Future plans and Roadmap for the thesis. *Call for Shared Tasks /Tools / Demos* Proposals are invited for post-conference shared tasks / tools / demos. Shared Tasks /Tools / Demos can be of half-day or full-day duration. The proposal should be presented in the form of an extended abstract (1-2 pages) as per the ICON 2024 template (ACL template). This should contain a topical outline of the content, description of the proposers and their qualifications relating to the shared tasks / tools / demos content. Proposals for Shared Tasks /Tools / Demos can be submitted at this link <https://www.softconf.com/icon2021/Shared-Demo-ICON2021/>. Send shared task / tool / demo proposals to the ICON-2024 Secretariat by email to icon2024(a)gmail.com. For further information, please refer to the Conference URL or contact the ICON-2024 Secretariat. *Important Dates* Event Date Paper Submission Deadline September 15, 2024 Paper Acceptance Notification November 1, 2024 Paper Camera Ready Paper Submission December 10, 2024 Doctoral Consortium Deadline October 1, 2024 Paper Acceptance Notification (Doctoral Consortium) November 10, 2024 Workshop Proposal Submission September 15, 2024 Workshop Acceptance Notification October 15, 2024 Tutorial Proposal Submission September 15, 2024 Tutorial Acceptance Notification October 15, 2024 Shared Task /Tool/ Demo Proposal Submission September 15, 2024 Shared Task /Tool/ Demo Acceptance Notification October 15, 2024 Conference December 19-22, 2024 *Paper Submission Information* *Long Papers* Long paper submissions must describe substantial, original, completed and unpublished work. Long papers may consist of up to 8 pages of content, plus unlimited references. Final versions of long papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) plus any no of pages for the references. *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 are: A small, focused contribution A negative result An opinion piece An interesting application nugget Short papers may consist of up to 4 pages of content, plus unlimited references. Upon acceptance, short papers will be given 5 content pages in the proceedings. Authors are encouraged to use this additional page to address reviewers' comments in their final versions. *Instructions for Double-Blind Review* As reviewing will be double blind, papers must not include authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references or links (such as github) that reveal the author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) .." must be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ..." Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. Papers should not refer, for further detail, to documents that are not available to the reviewers. For example, do not omit or redact important citation information to preserve anonymity. Instead, use third person or named reference to this work, as described above ("Smith showed" rather than "we showed"). Papers may be accompanied by a resource (software and/or data) described in the paper, but these resources should be anonymized as well. *Authorship* The author list for submissions should include all (and only) individuals who made substantial contributions to the work presented. Each author listed on a submission to ICON 2021 will be notified of submissions, revisions and the final decision. No changes to the order or composition of authorship may be made to submissions to ICON 2021 after the paper submission deadline. *Paper Submission and Templates* Submission is electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system. The submission will be available here: The deadline for submission of both long and short papers is September 15, 2024 (GMT -12). Both long and short papers must follow the ACL Author Guidelines <https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Author_Guidelines> Style sheets (Latex, Word) are available here: https://acl2020.org/downloads/acl2020-templates.zip The Overleaf template is also available here: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/acl-2020-proceedings-template/zsrk… Please do 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. ====================================================================== -- Asif Ekbal Associate Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering IIT Patna Email ids: asif@iitp.ac.in,asif.ekbal@gmail.com Ph no: +91-6115-2338090 <callto:+91-6115-2338090> (office), +91-8521274830 <callto:+91-8521274830> Web: http://www.iitp.ac.in/~asif/

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[Online Panel] Modelling Climate Change: An Overview of the Crisis and Reconstruction Plans in Southern Brazil (May 24th, 3pm UK time)
by Carol Scarton 17 May '24

17 May '24

Modelling Climate Change: An Overview of the Crisis and Reconstruction Plans in Southern Brazil Date: May 24, 2024, 3pm UK Location: Join the Zoom Meeting <http://join%20zoom%20meeting%20https//Universityofexeter.zoom.us/j/94995645…> Climate change and the increase in extreme climatic events present a pressing challenge globally. This panel focuses on the environmental, social, and economic ramifications of climate change in the recent floods in Southern Brazil. With over 2 million people and more than 90% of the region's municipalities affected, heavy rainfalls have disrupted both electricity and treated water supplies, closed the main airport for months and caused extensive damage to traffic on highways. A substantial impact on economic activity is expected. We discuss the role of science in monitoring and preventing these crises and in supporting emergency actions and reconstruction plans. Panellists include: - Márcia Barbosa <https://www.if.ufrgs.br/~barbosa/> (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) - Rob Chadwick <https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/people/rob-chadwick> (Met Office, UK) - Andrew Hartley <https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/people/andrew-hartley> (Met Office, UK) - José Marengo <https://scholar.google.com.br/citations?user=uGuYY_gAAAAJ&hl=en> (National Centre for Monitoring and Early Warning of Natural Disasters, Brazil) Moderator: Carolina Brito <https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=GS2zeM0AAAAJ&view_op=list_w…> (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) -- *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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ALT-EDIC seeks a Director
by info＠elda.org 17 May '24

17 May '24

[Apologies for multiple postings] ALT-EDIC seeks a Director who will lead the Alliance for Language Technologies – European Digital Infrastructure Consortium (ALT-EDIC). Application deadline (CET): 31^st May 2024, 12:00 CET Check the full description @ https://language-data-space.ec.europa.eu/related-initiatives/alt-edic/alt-e…

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1st Call for Participation AthNLP 2024 - 2nd ATHENS NLP SUMMER SCHOOL
by A. Vlachos 17 May '24

17 May '24

1st Call for Participation AthNLP 2024 - 2nd ATHENS NLP SUMMER SCHOOL ============================================================== ** Application Deadline: June 20, 2024 ** Preliminary schedule: https://athnlp.github.io/2024/schedule.html ** CFP webpage: https://athnlp.github.io/2024/cfp.html <https://athnlp.github.io/2024/cfp.html> ** Info for sponsors: see here<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MuSzi7hvT7AwE_8bwhbIymh-ZWNq3noR/view?usp=…> We invite everyone interested in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning to attend the 2nd Athens Natural Language Processing Summer School - AthNLP 2024: https://athnlp.github.io/2024/ Important Dates --------------- * Application Deadline: June 20, 2024 * Decision: June 30, 2024 * Early Registration: July 30, 2024 * Late Registration: September 15, 2024 * Summer School: September 19-25, 2024 Description --------------- Following on from the success of the 1st AthNLP in 2019, AthNLP 2024 will take place at the campus of NCSR “Demokritos" in Athens and is organised jointly by NCSR "Demokritos", the Athens University of Economics and Business, RC "Athena", and Heriot-Watt University. AthNLP cooperates closely with the organisers of LxMLS, taking place in Lisbon, in July 11-17. The school will cover a range of NLP topics focusing on machine learning (ML) methods. There will be morning lectures focusing on theoretical aspects, afternoon lab sessions focusing on implementation and experimentation, and evening talks on research topics and perspectives, as well as demos and posters from the participants and industry research labs. The lectures and the evening talks will be given by internationally recognized researchers from academic and industrial research labs. The topics to be covered include: classification, sequence prediction, linear models, neural networks, encoder-decoder architectures, machine translation, large language models, and multimodality. Our target audience is: * Researchers and students in the fields of NLP and Computational Linguistics; * Computer scientists who have interests in natural language processing and machine learning; * Industry practitioners who desire a more in-depth understanding of these subjects. While previous experience with the topics will be helpful, the school assumes no previous knowledge of natural language processing and machine learning. The only background required is basic mathematics and Python programming. Features of AthNLP: * Attendance at the Social Event, daily lunch as well as morning and afternoon coffee breaks are included in the application fee. * Lecturers are leading researchers in machine learning and natural language processing. * Students will be able to (optionally) show their current work in poster sessions during coffee breaks. * In the demo day, students will be able to interact with technical companies and research institutions working in machine learning. Confirmed Speakers --------------- * Antonis Anastasopoulos, George Mason Computer Science * Raquel Fernández, University of Amsterdam * Ferenc Huszár, University of Cambridge * Martin Krallinger, Barcelona Supercomputing Center * Mirella Lapata, University of Edinburgh * Ryan McDonald, ASAPP * Aida Nematzadeh, Google DeepMind * Vlad Niculae, University of Amsterdam * Barbara Plank, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich * Anna Rogers, IT University of Copenhagen Participation ----------------- To apply, please fill the form here<https://openreview.net/group?id=demokritos.gr/NCSR_Demokritos/Athens_NLP/20…> on OpenReview. The fees are the following: 300 EUR for students 400 EUR for university professors or researchers at a public institute 500 EUR for everyone else Any questions should be directed to: athnlp2024(a)athenarc.gr We are looking forward to your participation! -- The organisers of AthNLP 2024

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Deadline Extension: LoResMT 2024 at ACL 2024
by Atul K. Ojha 17 May '24

17 May '24

Apologies for cross-posting. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Seventh Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource Languages (LoResMT 2024) https://www.loresmt.org/ @ ACL 2024 (August 11–16, 2024) Bangkok, Thailand SUBMISSION https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2024/Workshop/LoResMT TIMELINE Paper submission due: *May 30 (**Thursday**)*, 2024, at 23:59 (Anywhere on Earth) Notification of acceptance: June 24 (Monday), 2024 Camera-ready papers due: July 1 (Monday), 2024, at 23:59 (Anywhere on Earth) Workshop dates at ACL: August 15, 2024 SCOPE Based on the success of past low-resource machine translation (MT) workshops at AMTA 2018 (https://amtaweb.org/), MT Summit 2019 ( https://www.mtsummit2019.com), AACL-IJCNLP 2020 (http://aacl2020.org/), AMTA 2021, COLING 2022 and EACL 2023, we introduce the Seventh LoResMT Workshop at ACL 2024. The workshop provides a discussion panel for researchers working on MT systems/methods for low-resource and under-represented languages in general. We would like to help review/overview the state of MT for low-resource languages and define the most important directions. We also solicit papers dedicated to supplementary NLP tools that are used in any language and especially in low-resource languages. Overview papers on these NLP tools are very welcome. It will be beneficial if the evaluations of these tools in research papers include their impact on the quality of MT output. TOPICS We are highly interested in (1) original research papers, (2) review/opinion papers, and (3) online systems on the topics below; however, we welcome all novel ideas that cover research on low-resource languages. - Neural machine translation (NMT) for low-resource languages - Use of LLMs (large language models) for low-resource MT systems - COVID-related corpora, their translations and corresponding NLP/MT systems - Work that presents online systems for practical use by native speakers - Word tokenizers/de-tokenizers for specific languages - Word/morpheme segmenters for specific languages - Alignment/Re-ordering tools for specific language pairs - Use of morphology analyzers and/or morpheme segmenters in MT - Multilingual/cross-lingual NLP tools for MT - Corpora creation and curation technologies for low-resource languages - Review of available parallel corpora for low-resource languages - Research and review papers on MT methods for low-resource languages - MT systems/methods (e.g. rule-based, SMT, NMT) for low-resource languages - Pivot MT for low-resource languages - Zero-shot MT for low-resource languages - Fast building of MT systems for low-resource languages - Re-usability of existing MT systems for low-resource languages - Machine translation for language preservation SUBMISSION INFORMATION We are soliciting two types of submissions: (1) research, review, and position papers and (2) system demonstration papers. For research, review and position papers, the length of each paper should be at least four (4) and not exceed eight (8) pages, plus unlimited pages for references. For system demonstration papers, the limit is four (4) pages. Submissions should be formatted according to the official ACL 2024 style templates. Accepted papers will be published online in the ACL 2024 proceedings and will be presented at the conference. Submissions must be anonymized and should be done using the provided submission system. Scientific papers that have been or will be submitted to other venues must be declared as such and must be withdrawn from the other venues if accepted and published at LoResMT. The review will be double-blind. Authors of an accepted paper should present their paper in person at ACL 2024. Papers should be submitted in PDF to the LoResMT Open Review. We would like to encourage authors to cite papers written in ANY language that are related to the topics, as long as both original bibliographic items and their corresponding English translations are provided. Registration is handled by the main conference (https://2024.aclweb.org/). ORGANIZING COMMITTEE (LISTED ALPHABETICALLY) Atul Kr. Ojha, University of Galway & Panlingua Language Processing LLP Chao-Hong Liu, Potamu Research Ltd Ekaterina Vylomova, University of Melbourne, Australia Jade Abbott, Retro Rabbit Jonathan Washington, Swarthmore College Nathaniel Oco, National University (Philippines) Tommi A Pirinen, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø Valentin Malykh, Huawei Noah’s Ark lab and Kazan Federal University Varvara Logacheva, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology Xiaobing Zhao, Minzu University of China PROGRAM COMMITTEE (LISTED ALPHABETICALLY) Abigail Walsh, ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University, Ireland Alberto Poncelas, Rakuten, Singapore Alina Karakanta, Leiden University Amirhossein Tebbifakhr, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Anna Currey, Amazon Web Services Aswarth Abhilash Dara, Amazon Arturo Oncevay, University of Edinburgh Atul Kr. Ojha, DSI, University of Galway & Panlingua Language Processing LLP Barry Haddow, University of Edinburgh Bogdan Babych, Heidelberg University Chao-Hong Liu, Potamu Research Ltd Constantine Lignos, Brandeis University, USA Daan van Esch, Google Diptesh Kanojia, University of Surrey, UK Duygu Ataman, University of Zurich Ekaterina Vylomova, University of Melbourne, Australia Eleni Metheniti, CLLE-CNRS and IRIT-CNRS Flammie Pirinen, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø Koel Dutta Chowdhury, Saarland University (Germany) Jade Abbott, Retro Rabbit Jasper Kyle Catapang, University of the Philippines Jindřich Libovicky, Charles University John P. McCrae, DSI, University of Galway Liangyou Li, Noah’s Ark Lab, Huawei Technologies Majid Latifi, University of York, York, UK Maria Art Antonette Clariño, University of the Philippines Los Baños Mathias Müller, University of Zurich Nathaniel Oco, De La Salle University (Philippines) Rajdeep Sarkar, Yahoo Rico Sennrich, University of Zurich Saliha Muradoglu, The Australian National University Sangjee Dondrub, Qinghai Normal University Santanu Pal, WIPRO AI Sardana Ivanova, University of Helsinki Shantipriya Parida, Silo AI Sunit Bhattacharya, Charles University Surafel Melaku Lakew, Amazon AI Wen Lai, Center for Information and Language Processing, LMU Munich Valentin Malykh, Huawei Noah’s Ark lab and Kazan Federal University CONTACT Please email loresmt(a)googlegroups.com if you have any questions/comments/suggestions.

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WASSA@ACL 2024 Shared Task on Empathy, Emotion and Personality Detection in Interactions
by valbarrierepro＠gmail.com 17 May '24

17 May '24

[Apologies for cross-posting] We invite you to participate in the shared task on Empathy and Personality Detection in interactions, organized as part of WASSA 2024 at ACL 2024. This task aims to develop models that can predict Empathy, Emotion, and Personality recognition in short text and at the speech-turn in a conversation. Task Description You can participate in five different tracks: Track 1: Empathy Prediction in Conversations (CONV-dialog), which consists in predicting the perceived empathy at the dialog-level Track 2: Empathy and Emotion Prediction in Conversations Turns (CONV-turn), which consists in predicting the perceived empathy, emotion polarity, and emotion intensity at the speech-turn-level in a conversation Track 3: Empathy Prediction (EMP), which consists in predicting both the empathy concern and the personal distress at the essay-level Track 4: Personality Prediction (PER), which consists in predicting the personality (openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and emotional stability; OCEAN) of the essay writer, knowing all of their essays, dialogs, and the news article from which they reacted Note: You are free to participate in any or both tracks. For participation, please check: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/18810 Important Dates April 24, 2024: Codalab competition website goes online, and training/development data released May 29, 2024: Evaluation phase begins: test data released June 1, 2024: Evaluation phase ends: Deadline for final submission on Codalab June 12, 2024: Deadline system description paper (max. 4p) June 22, 2024: Notification of acceptance July 1, 2024: Camera-ready papers due Task Organizers Salvatore Giorgi - National Institute on Drug Abuse [C], USA Valentin Barriere - Universidad de Chile , Chile Joao Sedoc - New York University, USA Shabnam Tafreshi - Evernorth Healthcare, USA Contact wassa24empathy [at] gmail [dot] com Join Google Group wassa24empathy(a)googlegroups.com

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2nd CfP: The 4th Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Political and Social Sciences (CPSS 2024)
by Ines 17 May '24

17 May '24

2nd Call for Papers: 4th Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Political and Social Sciences (CPSS 2024) [With apologies for cross-posting] We welcome submissions for the **4th edition of the CPSS workshop,**co-located with KONVENS'24, in Vienna, Austria on 13th September 2024*.* Keeping with the theme of text-as-data and NLP techniques for studying political and social phenomena, you can submit both archival papers (short or long) or non-archival abstracts. Closely related themes include (but are not limited to): * Modelling political communication with NLP (e.g. topic classification, position measurement) * Mining policy debates from heterogeneous textual sources * Modelling complex social constructs (e.g. populism, polarisation,identity) with NLP methods * Political and social bias in language models * Methodological insights in interdisciplinary collaboration: workflows, challenges, best practices * NLP support to understand and support democratic decision making * Resources and tools for political/social science research * ... and more! Important Dates Workshop papers due 14.06.2024 Notification of acceptance 02.08.2024 Camera-ready papers due 12.08.2024 Workshop date 13.09.2024 Papers can be submitted through Easychair via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cpss2024 More details: https://sites.google.com/view/cpss2024konvens/home-page Best, CPSS'24 organizers (Christopher Klamm, Gabriella Lapesa, Simone Paolo Ponzetto, Ines Rehbein, Indira Sen)

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[CFP] EvalLAC 2024 Final Call For Papers – AIED 24 workshop
by Shiva Taslimipoor 17 May '24

17 May '24

[Apologies for cross-posting] *1st Workshop on Automated Evaluation of Learning and Assessment Content* AIED 2024 workshop | Recife (Brazil) & Hybrid | 8 July 2024 https://sites.google.com/view/eval-lac-2024/ The submission deadline for the Workshop on Automated Evaluation of Learning and Assessment Content, which will be held in Recife (Brazil) & online during the AIED 2024 conference, is fast approaching! About the workshop The evaluation of learning and assessment content has always been a crucial task in the educational domain, but traditional approaches based on human feedback are not always usable in modern educational settings. Indeed, the advent of machine learning models, in particular Large Language Models (LLMs), enabled to quickly and automatically generate large quantities of texts, making human evaluation unfeasible. Still, these texts are used in the educational domain -- e.g., as questions, hints, or even to score and assess students -- and thus the need for accurate and automated techniques for evaluation becomes pressing. This hybrid workshop aims to attract professionals from both academia and the industry, and to to offer an opportunity to discuss which are the common challenges in evaluating learning and assessment content in education. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Question evaluation (e.g., in terms of alignment to learning objectives, factual accuracy, language level, cognitive validity, etc.). - Estimation of question statistics (e.g., difficulty, discrimination, response time, etc.). - Evaluation of distractors in Multiple Choice Questions. - Evaluation of reading passages in reading comprehension questions. - Evaluation of lectures and course material. - Evaluation of learning paths (e.g., in terms of prerequisites and topics taught before a specific exam). - Evaluation of educational recommendation systems (e.g., personalised curricula). - Evaluation of hints and scaffolding questions, as well as their adaptation to different students. - Evaluation of automatically generated feedback provided to students. - Evaluation of techniques for automated scoring. - Evaluation of bias in educational content and LLM outputs. Human-in-the-loop approaches are welcome, provided that there is also an automated component in the evaluation and there is a focus on the scalability of the proposed approach. Papers on generation are also very welcome, as long as there is an extensive focus on the evaluation step. The workshop will feature two keynote speakers: - Zachary A. Pardos, Associate Professor of Education at UC Berkeley - Victoria Yaneva, Manager of NLP research at NBME. Important dates Submission deadline: May 17, 2024 Notification of acceptance: June 4, 2024 Camera ready: June 11, 2024 Workshop: 8 July 2024 Submission guidelines Submission URL: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=evallac2024 Authors are invited to submit short papers (5 pages, excluding references) and long papers (10 pages, excluding references), formatted according to the workshop style available on the website. Submissions should contain mostly novel work, but there can be some overlap between the submission and work submitted elsewhere (e.g., summaries, focus on the evaluation phase of a broader work). Each of the submissions will be reviewed by the members of the Program Committee, and the proceedings volume will be submitted for publication to CEUR Workshop Proceedings. Organisers Luca Benedetto (1), Andrew Caines (1), George Dueñas (2), Diana Galvan-Sosa (1), Anastassia Loukina (3), Shiva Taslimipoor (1), Torsten Zesch (4) (1) ALTA Institute, Dept. of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge (2) National Pedagogical University, Colombia (3) Grammarly, Inc. (4) FernUniversität in Hagen

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ACM GoodIT'24: Special Track on Educating for a Sustainable Digital Future -- Last Mile for Paper Submission
by Announce 17 May '24

17 May '24

*** Last Mile for Paper Submission *** ACM 4th International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good (GoodIT''24) Special Track on Educating for a Sustainable Digital Future https://blogs.uni-bremen.de/goodit2024/ ( *** Submission Deadline: 31 May 2024 (extended) ***) SCOPE Exploring the development of our digital future requires a comprehensive examination of both individual and societal consequences. Placing excessive emphasis on individual gains, a common practice in individualistic societies for many years, has hindered the ability to grasp the complex dynamics and forward-thinking mindset essential for the sustainability of a contemporary society. The evolving landscape of technology and the ongoing digital advancements have paved the way for creative applications in the field of education, allowing us to adapt to the ever-changing circumstances. When shaping a new approach for Information Systems and Information Technology education, it is crucial to emphasize the significance of individuals as key stakeholders and integral members of the wider community, while also recognizing the pivotal role of collaboration. In this track, we are searching for papers employing innovative technology and approaches to educate the future generation towards world equality, collegiality, inclusion and a more cooperative learning for a sustainable digital future. Values which are emphasized in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which overall aim towards creating a more equitable, sustainable, and peaceful world. This track is particularly relevant to IS/IT educators and those creative IT practitioners who care about developing a sustainable digital future. TOPICS Potential topics for papers include (but are not limited to): • Sustainable and innovative education technologies and practices • Universal access to quality education • The new role for IS/IT in society and education and the value of information and knowledge • The role of cooperative learning for life-long learning and societal developments • Digital transformation: opportunities and challenges for education, work, and society • Digital learning environments: Innovations and trends • Equality, diversity, and inclusion in education, work, and society • The use of large language models and generative AI in education • New topics and domains in IT-enhanced education We hope to attract the interest of IS/IT educators and those creative IT practitioners who care about developing a sustainable digital future. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Please refer to the instructions on the conference web site: https://blogs.uni-bremen.de/goodit2024/submission-of-papers/ . All accepted papers will be included in the ACM Digital Library . IMPORTANT DATES • Submission deadline: 31 May 2024 (AoE) (***extended***) • Notification of acceptance: 8 July 2024 • Camera ready: 19 July 2024 TRACK CHAIRS • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • Vasso Stylianou, University of Nicosia, Cyprus CONTACT DETAILS Vasso Stylianou, stylianou.v(a)unic.ac.cy

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*Call for Participation WMT2024: English-to-Lowres Multi-Modal Translation Task*
by Shantipriya Parida 17 May '24

17 May '24

Dear All, We invite you to participate in the "*English-to-Lowres Multi-Modal Translation Task" *at the Ninth Conference on Machine Translation (WMT2024). The task relies on our “{Hindi, Bengali, Malayalam, Hausa} Visual Genome” datasets, all of which provide text and images suitable for English-{Hindi, Bengali, Malayalam, Hausa} machine translation tasks and multimodal research. Timeline: Please refer to the task website. Websites: https://www2.statmt.org/wmt24/multimodallowresmt-task.html Contact: email: wat-multimodal-task(a)ufal.mff.cuni.cz Organizers: - Shantipriya Parida (Silo AI, Finland) - Ondřej Bojar (Charles University, Czech Republic) - Idris Abdulmumin (University of Pretoria, South Africa) - Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad (Imperial College London, UK) - Ibrahim Said Ahmad (Institute for Experimental AI, Northeastern University, USA) Request to share among the interested participants. Regards, Shantipriya -- Shantipriya Parida Senior AI Scientist @ Silo AI <http://www.silo.ai/> Mobile:# +358 (0465454193) LinkedIn <http://linkedin.com/>*Shantipriya Parida <https://www.linkedin.com/in/shantipriya-parida-9781a9127/>* *http://www.shantipriya.me/ <http://www.shantipriya.me/>*

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Work of literature without copyright issues
by Surangika Ranathunga 16 May '24

16 May '24

Dear Colleagues We are currently working on manually translating domain-specific English data to multiple low-resource languages. Literature is one such selected domain. We started with novels in project Gutenberg. However, most of those books are from the 1800's and our translators struggle to comprehend the language used in those books. I would like to know whether there are story books written in modern simple English that are free of copyrights to be used for this task. Regards Surangika

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Deadline Extension: Field Matters 2024 - The Third Workshop on NLP Applications to Field Linguistics
by fieldmattersworkshop＠gmail.com 16 May '24

16 May '24

Dear colleagues, We are extending the submission deadline for Field Matters workshop. The new deadline is May 22. The Third Workshop on NLP Applications to Field Linguistics (Field Matters 2024) will take place at ACL 2024 [https://2024.aclweb.org/] in Bangkok, Thailand on August 16. Please find call for papers bellow: === The Third Workshop on NLP Applications to Field Linguistics === Field linguistics plays a crucial role in the development of linguistic theory and universal language modeling, as it provides uncontested, the only way to obtain structural data about the rapidly diminishing diversity of natural languages. The Field matters workshop aims to bring together the urgent needs of field linguists and the vast community of NLP practitioners, developing up-to-date NLP tools for easier, faster, more reliable data collection and annotation. This year we are adding a special track dedicated to the indigenous languages of Thailand and South-East Asia. We encourage you to submit theses on this topic, although general submissions are also welcomed. We are particularly interested in the following topics: - Application of NLP to field linguistics workflow; - The impact, benefits and harms of NLP-assisted fieldwork; - Transfer learning for under-resourced language processing; - The use of fieldwork data to build NLP systems; - Modeling morphology and syntax of typologically diverse languages in the low-resource setting; - Speech processing for under-resourced languages; - Machine-readable field linguistic datasets and computational analysis of field linguistics datasets; - Using technology to preserve culture via language; - Improving ways of interaction with Indigenous communities; - Special track: Indigenous languages of Thailand and South-East Asia. We accept three types of papers: - non-archival submissions: abstracts (2-page) or papers (up to 8-page) that can present already published work or work in progress (note that we accept non-archival submissions even after the main deadline); - short archival submissions: 4-page papers that present new work; - long archival submissions: 8-page papers that present new work. The special track submissions can be either long or short and either archival or non-archival. We offer the following ways of presenting the papers: - the main section; - poster sections. The way a paper will be presented will be determined during the review process. All submissions should be anonymized. We are subjected to the ACL Anonymity Policy. ACL changed its policy for review and citation, and no anonymity period will be required. Dual submissions with the main conference are allowed, but authors must declare dual submission by entering the paper’s main conference submission id. The reviews for the submission for the main conference will be automatically forwarded to the workshop and taken into consideration when your paper is evaluated. Authors of dual-submission papers accepted to the main conference should retract them from the workshop by. Papers posted to preprint servers such as arxiv can be submitted without any restrictions on when they were posted. The workshop will run its own review process, and papers can be submitted directly to the workshop via OpenReview (https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2024/Workshop/Field_Matters). The workshop will take place at ACL 2024 (https://2024.aclweb.org/). Both papers and abstracts must follow the ACL 2024 format (https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files). Please do not modify these style files. Workshop webpage: https://field-matters.github.io/2024 Contact email: [fieldmattersworkshop@gmail.com](mailto:fieldmattersworkshop@gmail.com) Important dates: - Paper submission deadline: May 22 (Wednesday), 2024 - Notification of acceptance: June 17 (Monday), 2024 - Camera-ready paper due: July 1 (Monday), 2024 - Workshop dates: August 15–16, 2024 Organizers - Oleg Serikov (KAUST, HSE University) - Elena Klyachko (HSE University) - Francis Tyers (Indiana University) - Ekaterina Vylomova (University of Melbourne) - Éric Le Ferrand (Boston College) - Saliha Muradoğlu (The Australian National University (ANU)) - Ekaterina Voloshina (Independent Researcher) - Anna Postnikova (Independent Researcher) --- Best regards, Anna Postnikova Field Matters organizing committee

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Postdoc in NLP/ML at Technical University of Munich
by Alexander Fraser 16 May '24

16 May '24

Job Title: Postdoctoral Researcher in Natural Language Processing Institution: Technical University of Munich (TUM) Location: Heilbronn, Germany Salary: TVL E-13 (possible option: E-14) Contract: 100%, two years, renewal is possible Start Date: September 1st, 2024 Responsibilities: Conduct independent research in the area of Natural Language Processing (NLP) Develop and apply new NLP techniques to solve real-world problems Publish high-quality research papers in top-tier journals and conferences Supervise PhD students Teach Bachelors and Masters courses in Machine Learning and/or Natural Language Processing Qualifications: PhD in NLP or a related field Strong publication record in top-tier NLP conferences and journals Expertise in one or more NLP techniques, such as machine translation, natural language understanding, or natural language generation Excellent programming skills in Python and other relevant programming languages Strong communication and presentation skills in English (German is not necessary, but would be a plus; other languages are also of strong interest) Not required, but a big plus: teaching experience, supervising experience Benefits: Competitive salary and benefits package Opportunity to work with leading researchers in the field of NLP Access to state-of-the-art research facilities Opportunity to publish your research in top-tier journals and conferences Opportunity to teach and mentor students About the School: The School of Computation, Information and Technology at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) is one of the leading research institutions in the fields of Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning. The new Fraser NLP lab at TUM is seeking a highly motivated and talented postdoctoral researcher to join our team. We are located at the new multi-university campus (the Bildungscampus, where the ETH Zurich center will also be located in the future) in Heilbronn, near Stuttgart. The research interests of the lab include all areas of NLP, with a particular focus on multilingual language models and machine translation. The postdoc position will involve work on low-resource languages in both machine translation and multilingual language models. To Apply: Please submit a brief application letter, your CV, a research statement, contact information for two references, and a list of publications in a single PDF named postdoc_lastname_firstname.pdf (e.g., postdoc_fraser_alexander.pdf). Please send the PDF (or any questions) to Dr. Lukas Edman at: lukas(a)cis.lmu.de Deadline: Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis. We encourage you to apply early. -- Prof. Dr. Alexander Fraser Chair for Data Analytics & Statistics Technical University of Munich School of Computation, Information and Technology Heilbronn Campus Web: http://alexfraser.github.io

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PhD Student Researcher in NLP at Technical University of Munich
by Alexander Fraser 16 May '24

16 May '24

Job Title: PhD Student Researcher in Natural Language Processing Institution: Technical University of Munich (TUM) Location: Heilbronn, Germany Salary: TVL E-13 Contract: 100%, three years Start Date: September 1st, 2024 Responsibilities: Conduct research in the area of Natural Language Processing (NLP) Develop and apply new NLP techniques to solve real-world problems Publish high-quality research papers in top-tier journals and conferences Supervise Bachelors and Masters students Assist teaching Bachelors and Masters courses in Machine Learning and/or Natural Language Processing Qualifications: Masters in NLP, Computer Science or a related field Projects in NLP or machine learning Excellent programming skills in Python and other relevant programming languages Strong communication and presentation skills in English (German is not necessary, but would be a plus; other languages are also of strong interest) Benefits: Competitive salary and benefits package Opportunity to work with leading researchers in the field of NLP Access to state-of-the-art research facilities Opportunity to publish your research in top-tier journals and conferences About the School: The School of Computation, Information and Technology at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) is one of the leading research institutions in the fields of Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning. The new Fraser NLP lab at TUM is seeking a highly motivated and talented phd student / researcher to join our team. We are located at the new multi-university campus (the Bildungscampus, where the ETH Zurich center will also be located in the future) in Heilbronn, near Stuttgart. The research interests of the lab include all areas of NLP, with a particular focus on multilingual language models and machine translation. For the PhD student position, two possible research foci are: machine translation of metaphors and machine translation of low-resource languages. To Apply: Please submit a brief application letter, your CV, a research statement, contact information for two references, and a list of publications in a single PDF named phd_lastname_firstname.pdf (e.g., phd_fraser_alexander.pdf). Please send the PDF (or any questions) to Wen Lai at: lavine(a)cis.lmu.de Deadline: Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis. We encourage you to apply early. -- Prof. Dr. Alexander Fraser Chair for Data Analytics & Statistics Technical University of Munich School of Computation, Information and Technology Heilbronn Campus Web: http://alexfraser.github.io

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May 2024 Newsletter - LDC
by Penn LDC 15 May '24

15 May '24

In this newsletter: LDC at LREC-COLING 2024 New publications: Call My Net 1<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2024S05> Automatic Content Extraction for Portuguese<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2024T05> ________________________________ LDC at LREC-COLING 2024 LDC will be exhibiting at LREC-COLING 2024<https://lrec-coling-2024.org/> hosted by the European Language Resources Association (ELRA) and the International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL) May 20-25 in Turin, Italy. Stop by our table to learn more about recent developments at the Consortium and the latest publications. LDC staff members will also be presenting current work on topics including Spanless Event Annotation for Corpus-Wide Complex Event Understanding; Schema Learning Corpus: Data and Annotation Focused on Complex Events; and KoFREN: Comprehensive Korean Word Frequency Norms Derived from Large Scale Free Speech Corpora. LDC will post conference updates via social media. We look forward to seeing you in Italy! ________________________________ New publications: Call My Net 1<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2024S05> was developed by LDC and contains 364 hours of conversational telephone speech in four languages (Tagalog, Cebuano, Cantonese, and Mandarin) collected in 2015 from 221 native speakers located in the Philippines and China along with metadata and speaker demographic information. Recordings and data from this collection were used to support the NIST 2016 Speaker Recognition Evaluation<https://www.nist.gov/itl/iad/mig/speaker-recognition-evaluation-2016>. Speakers made 10 telephone calls each to people within their existing social networks, using different handsets and under a variety of noise conditions. Speakers were connected through a robot operator to carry on casual conversations on topics of their choice. All recordings were manually audited to confirm language and speaker requirements. The documentation for this release includes metadata about phone type, noise conditions, and call quality. Speaker demographic information on year of birth, sex, and native language is also included. 2024 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee. * Automatic Content Extraction for Portuguese<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2024T05> was developed at INESC TEC - Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Tecnologia e Ciência<https://www.inesctec.pt/en> and consists of automatic Brazilian Portuguese and European Portuguese translations of the English text and annotations in ACE 2005 Multilingual Training Corpus (LDC2006T06)<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2006T06>. ACE 2005 Multilingual Training Corpus was developed by LDC to support the Automatic Contract Extraction (ACE)<https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/collaborations/past-projects/ace> program, specifically, by providing training data for the 2005 technology evaluation. It contains 1,800 files of mixed genre text in Arabic, English, and Chinese annotated for entities, relations, and events. The objective of the ACE program was to develop automatic content extraction technology to support automatic processing of human language in text form. Text genres included newswire, broadcast news, broadcast conversation, weblog, discussion forums, and conversational telephone speech. For this translation, the English data was partitioned into training, development, and test sets. The documents were split into sentences and each event mention was assigned to its sentence. Source sentences and their annotations were translated into Brazilian Portuguese using Google Translate<https://translate.google.com/> and into European Portuguese using DeepL Translate<https://www.deepl.com/en/translator>. An alignment algorithm and a parallel corpus word aligner were used to handle mismatches between translated annotations and their translated sentences. 2024 members can access this corpus through their LDC account. Non-members may license this data for a fee. To unsubscribe from this newsletter, log in to your LDC account<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/login> and uncheck the box next to "Receive Newsletter" under Account Options or contact LDC for assistance. Membership Coordinator Linguistic Data Consortium<ldc.upenn.edu> University of Pennsylvania T: +1-215-573-1275 E: ldc(a)ldc.upenn.edu<mailto:ldc@ldc.upenn.edu> M: 3600 Market St. Suite 810 Philadelphia, PA 19104

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[PAN'24 - Oppositional Thinking Analysis] Test set and submission instructions released
by Francisco Manuel Rangel Pardo 15 May '24

15 May '24

Event Notification Type: Test set and submission instructions released. Website: https://pan.webis.de/clef24/pan24-web/oppositional-thinking-analysis.html#s… *TEST SET AND INSTRUCTIONS RELEASED* *Oppositional Thinking Analysis PAN@CLEF* Dear all, As announced, we are excited to communicate that the test set for the evaluation phase together with the instructions on how to participate are released and can be consulted on the shared task website: https://pan.webis.de/clef24/pan24-web/oppositional-thinking-analysis.html#s… Please, find below some important dates to keep in mind: - February 23rd, 2024: Training Set Release - May 15th, 2024: Test Set Release - May 30th, 2024: Submission Deadline - June 15th, 2024: Participant paper submission Midnight CEST - July 1st, 2024: Peer review notification - July 7th, 2024: Camera-ready participant papers submission Midnight CEST Once again, thank you for your interest and support. If you have any questions or need assistance at any point during the campaign, please feel free to reach out to us. Warm regards, Francisco Rangel on behalf of the Oppositional Thinking Analysis Task Committee

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Universal Dependencies, release 2.14
by Dan Zeman 15 May '24

15 May '24

We are very happy to announce the twentieth release of annotated treebanks in Universal Dependencies, v2.14, available at https://universaldependencies.org/. Universal Dependencies is a project that seeks to develop cross-linguistically consistent treebank annotation for many languages with the goal of facilitating multilingual parser development, cross-lingual learning, and parsing research from a language typology perspective (de Marneffe et al., 2021; Nivre et al., 2020). The annotation scheme is based on (universal) Stanford dependencies (de Marneffe et al., 2006, 2008, 2014), Google universal part-of-speech tags (Petrov et al., 2012), and the Interset interlingua for morphosyntactic tagsets (Zeman, 2008). The general philosophy is to provide a universal inventory of categories and guidelines to facilitate consistent annotation of similar constructions across languages, while allowing language-specific extensions when necessary. The *283* treebanks in v2.14 are annotated according to version 2 of the UD guidelines and represent the following *161* languages: Abaza, Abkhaz, Afrikaans, Akkadian, Akuntsu, Albanian, Amharic, Ancient Greek, Ancient Hebrew, Apurina, Arabic, Armenian, Assyrian, Azerbaijani, Bambara, Basque, Bavarian, Beja, Belarusian, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Bororo, Breton, Bulgarian, Buryat, Cantonese, Cappadocian, Catalan, Cebuano, Chinese, Chukchi, Classical Armenian, Classical Chinese, Coptic, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Egyptian, English, Erzya, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French, Frisian Dutch, Galician, Georgian, German, Gheg, Gothic, Greek, Guajajara, Guarani, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hebrew, Highland Puebla Nahuatl, Hindi, Hittite, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kaapor, Kangri, Karelian, Karo, Kazakh, Khunsari, Kiche, Komi Permyak, Komi Zyrian, Korean, Kurmanji, Kyrgyz, Latgalian, Latin, Latvian, Ligurian, Lithuanian, Livvi, Low Saxon, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Madi, Maghrebi Arabic French, Makurap, Malayalam, Maltese, Manx, Marathi, Mbya Guarani, Middle French, Moksha, Munduruku, Naija, Nayini, Neapolitan, Nheengatu, North Sami, Norwegian, Old Church Slavonic, Old East Slavic, Old French, Old Irish, Old Turkish, Ottoman Turkish, Paumari, Persian, Polish, Pomak, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sanskrit, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Sinhala, Skolt Sami, Slovak, Slovenian, Soi, South Levantine Arabic, Spanish, Swedish, Swedish Sign Language, Swiss German, Tagalog, Tamil, Tatar, Teko, Telugu, Telugu English, Thai, Tswana, Tupinamba, Turkish, Turkish German, Ukrainian, Umbrian, Upper Sorbian, Urdu, Uyghur, Veps, Vietnamese, Warlpiri, Welsh, Western Armenian, Western Sierra Puebla Nahuatl, Wolof, Xavante, Xibe, Yakut, Yoruba, Yupik and Zaar. The 161 languages belong to *31* families: Afro-Asiatic, Arawakan, Arawan, Austro-Asiatic, Austronesian, Basque, Bororoan, Chukotko-Kamchatkan, Code switching, Creole, Dravidian, Eskimo-Aleut, Indo-European, Japanese, Kartvelian, Korean, Macro-Je, Mande, Mayan, Mongolic, Niger-Congo, Northwest Caucasian, Pama-Nyungan, Sign Language, Sino-Tibetan, Tai-Kadai, Tungusic, Tupian, Turkic, Uralic and Uto-Aztecan. Depending on the language, the treebanks range in size from less than 1,000 tokens to over 3 million tokens. We expect the next release to be available in November 2024. The size of the following 39 treebanks changed significantly since the last release: Abkhaz AbNC : 0 → 2444 Azerbaijani TueCL : 0 → 656 Bavarian MaiBaam : 0 → 15024 Beja NSC : 1206 → 5888 Bororo BDT : 1905 → 6993 Cappadocian TueCL : 0 → 4118 Classical Armenian CAVaL: 13522 → 81996 Classical Chinese TueCL : 0 → 648 Dutch LassySmall : 98241 → 297486 Egyptian UJaen : 0 → 5515 English CTeTex : 0 → 9273 English GUM : 187522 → 212035 Galician PUD : 0 → 23510 Gujarati GujTB : 0 → 1885 Hausa NorthernAutogramm : 0 → 3919 Hausa SouthernAutogramm : 0 → 14585 Italian Old : 41367 → 82644 Kyrgyz TueCL : 0 → 1001 Latgalian Cairo : 0 → 173 Latin CIRCSE : 0 → 18968 Latvian Cairo : 0 → 171 Low Saxon LSDC : 4683 → 22639 Luxembourgish LuxBank : 0 → 206 Nheengatu CompLin : 12743 → 15036 Old East Slavic RNC : 48647 → 95551 Old Turkish Clausal : 0 → 158 Old Turkish Tonqq : 158 → 0 Ottoman Turkish BOUN : 0 → 8814 Ottoman Turkish DUDU : 0 → 813 Paumari TueCL : 0 → 504 Pomak Philotis : 86780 → 34348 Romanian TueCL : 0 → 4417 Sanskrit Vedic : 27117 → 206440 Slovenian SST : 29488 → 76341 Spanish COSER : 0 → 8073 Telugu English TECT : 0 → 456 Tswana Popapolelo : 0 → 214 Vietnamese TueCL : 0 → 1888 Zaar Autogramm : 7625 → 17682 In total, the new release contains *1,906,050* sentences, 31,541,523 surface tokens and *32,179,731* syntactic words. Daniel Zeman, Joakim Nivre, Mitchell Abrams, Elia Ackermann, Noëmi Aepli, Hamid Aghaei, Željko Agić, Amir Ahmadi, Lars Ahrenberg, Chika Kennedy Ajede, Salih Furkan Akkurt, Gabrielė Aleksandravičiūtė, Ika Alfina, Avner Algom, Khalid Alnajjar, Chiara Alzetta, Erik Andersen, Lene Antonsen, Tatsuya Aoyama, Katya Aplonova, Angelina Aquino, Carolina Aragon, Glyd Aranes, Maria Jesus Aranzabe, Bilge Nas Arıcan, Þórunn Arnardóttir, Gashaw Arutie, Jessica Naraiswari Arwidarasti, Masayuki Asahara, Katla Ásgeirsdóttir, Deniz Baran Aslan, Cengiz Asmazoğlu, Luma Ateyah, Furkan Atmaca, Mohammed Attia, Aitziber Atutxa, Liesbeth Augustinus, Mariana Avelãs, Elena Badmaeva, Keerthana Balasubramani, Miguel Ballesteros, Esha Banerjee, Sebastian Bank, Verginica Barbu Mititelu, Starkaður Barkarson, Rodolfo Basile, Victoria Basmov, Colin Batchelor, John Bauer, Seyyit Talha Bedir, Shabnam Behzad, Juan Belieni, Kepa Bengoetxea, İbrahim Benli, Yifat Ben Moshe, Ansu Berg, Gözde Berk, Riyaz Ahmad Bhat, Erica Biagetti, Eckhard Bick, Agnė Bielinskienė, Esma Fatıma Bilgin Taşdemir, Kristín Bjarnadóttir, Verena Blaschke, Rogier Blokland, Victoria Bobicev, Loïc Boizou, Johnatan Bonilla, Emanuel Borges Völker, Carl Börstell, Cristina Bosco, Gosse Bouma, Sam Bowman, Adriane Boyd, Anouck Braggaar, António Branco, Kristina Brokaitė, Aljoscha Burchardt, Marisa Campos, Marie Candito, Bernard Caron, Gauthier Caron, Catarina Carvalheiro, Rita Carvalho, Lauren Cassidy, Maria Clara Castro, Sérgio Castro, Tatiana Cavalcanti, Gülşen Cebiroğlu Eryiğit, Flavio Massimiliano Cecchini, Giuseppe G. A. Celano, Slavomír Čéplö, Neslihan Cesur, Savas Cetin, Özlem Çetinoğlu, Fabricio Chalub, Liyanage Chamila, Shweta Chauhan, Yifei Chen, Ethan Chi, Taishi Chika, Yongseok Cho, Jinho Choi, Bermet Chontaeva, Jayeol Chun, Juyeon Chung, Alessandra T. Cignarella, Silvie Cinková, Aurélie Collomb, Çağrı Çöltekin, Miriam Connor, Claudia Corbetta, Daniela Corbetta, Francisco Costa, Marine Courtin, Benoît Crabbé, Mihaela Cristescu, Vladimir Cvetkoski, Ingerid Løyning Dale, Philemon Daniel, Elizabeth Davidson, Leonel Figueiredo de Alencar, Mathieu Dehouck, Martina de Laurentiis, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Valeria de Paiva, Mehmet Oguz Derin, Elvis de Souza, Arantza Diaz de Ilarraza, Roberto Antonio Díaz Hernández, Carly Dickerson, Arawinda Dinakaramani, Elisa Di Nuovo, Bamba Dione, Peter Dirix, Hoa Do, Kaja Dobrovoljc, Caroline Döhmer, Adrian Doyle, Timothy Dozat, Kira Droganova, Magali Sanches Duran, Puneet Dwivedi, Christian Ebert, Hanne Eckhoff, Masaki Eguchi, Sandra Eiche, Roald Eiselen, Marhaba Eli, Ali Elkahky, Binyam Ephrem, Olga Erina, Tomaž Erjavec, Soudabeh Eslami, Farah Essaidi, Aline Etienne, Wograine Evelyn, Sidney Facundes, Richárd Farkas, Federica Favero, Jannatul Ferdaousi, Marília Fernanda, Hector Fernandez Alcalde, Amal Fethi, Jennifer Foster, Theodorus Fransen, Cláudia Freitas, Kazunori Fujita, Katarína Gajdošová, Daniel Galbraith, Edith Galy, Federica Gamba, Marcos Garcia, Moa Gärdenfors, Tanja Gaustad, Efe Eren Genç, Fabrício Ferraz Gerardi, Kim Gerdes, Luke Gessler, Filip Ginter, Gustavo Godoy, Iakes Goenaga, Koldo Gojenola, Memduh Gökırmak, Yoav Goldberg, Xavier Gómez Guinovart, Berta González Saavedra, Bernadeta Griciūtė, Matias Grioni, Loïc Grobol, Normunds Grūzītis, Bruno Guillaume, Kirian Guiller, Céline Guillot-Barbance, Tunga Güngör, Nizar Habash, Hinrik Hafsteinsson, Jan Hajič, Jan Hajič jr., Mika Hämäläinen, Linh Hà Mỹ, Na-Rae Han, Muhammad Yudistira Hanifmuti, Takahiro Harada, Sam Hardwick, Kim Harris, Naïma Hassert, Dag Haug, Johannes Heinecke, Oliver Hellwig, Felix Hennig, Barbora Hladká, Jaroslava Hlaváčová, Florinel Hociung, Diana Hoefels, Petter Hohle, Yidi Huang, Marivel Huerta Mendez, Jena Hwang, Takumi Ikeda, Inessa Iliadou, Anton Karl Ingason, Radu Ion, Elena Irimia, Ọlájídé Ishola, Artan Islamaj, Kaoru Ito, Federica Iurescia, Sandra Jagodzińska, Siratun Jannat, Tomáš Jelínek, Apoorva Jha, Katharine Jiang, Mayank Jobanputra, Anders Johannsen, Hildur Jónsdóttir, Fredrik Jørgensen, Markus Juutinen, Hüner Kaşıkara, Nadezhda Kabaeva, Sylvain Kahane, Hiroshi Kanayama, Jenna Kanerva, Neslihan Kara, Ritván Karahóǧa, Andre Kåsen, Tolga Kayadelen, Sarveswaran Kengatharaiyer, Václava Kettnerová, Lilit Kharatyan, Jesse Kirchner, Elena Klementieva, Elena Klyachko, Petr Kocharov, Arne Köhn, Abdullatif Köksal, Kamil Kopacewicz, Timo Korkiakangas, Mehmet Köse, Alexey Koshevoy, Natalia Kotsyba, Barbara Kovačić, Jolanta Kovalevskaitė, Simon Krek, Parameswari Krishnamurthy, Sandra Kübler, Adrian Kuqi, Oğuzhan Kuyrukçu, Aslı Kuzgun, Sookyoung Kwak, Kris Kyle, Käbi Laan, Veronika Laippala, Lorenzo Lambertino, Tatiana Lando, Septina Dian Larasati, Alexei Lavrentiev, John Lee, Phương Lê Hồng, Alessandro Lenci, Saran Lertpradit, Herman Leung, Maria Levina, Lauren Levine, Cheuk Ying Li, Josie Li, Keying Li, Yixuan Li, Yuan Li, KyungTae Lim, Bruna Lima Padovani, Yi-Ju Jessica Lin, Krister Lindén, Yang Janet Liu, Nikola Ljubešić, Irina Lobzhanidze, Olga Loginova, Lucelene Lopes, Stefano Lusito, Anne-Marie Lutgen, Andry Luthfi, Mikko Luukko, Olga Lyashevskaya, Teresa Lynn, Vivien Macketanz, Menel Mahamdi, Jean Maillard, Ilya Makarchuk, Aibek Makazhanov, Francesco Mambrini, Michael Mandl, Christopher Manning, Ruli Manurung, Büşra Marşan, Cătălina Mărănduc, David Mareček, Katrin Marheinecke, Stella Markantonatou, Héctor Martínez Alonso, Lorena Martín Rodríguez, André Martins, Cláudia Martins, Jan Mašek, Hiroshi Matsuda, Yuji Matsumoto, Alessandro Mazzei, Ryan McDonald, Sarah McGuinness, Maitrey Mehta, Pierre André Ménard, Gustavo Mendonça, Tatiana Merzhevich, Paul Meurer, Niko Miekka, Emilia Milano, Aaron Miller, Karina Mischenkova, Anna Missilä, Cătălin Mititelu, Maria Mitrofan, Yusuke Miyao, AmirHossein Mojiri Foroushani, Judit Molnár, Amirsaeid Moloodi, Simonetta Montemagni, Amir More, Laura Moreno Romero, Giovanni Moretti, Shinsuke Mori, Tomohiko Morioka, Shigeki Moro, Bjartur Mortensen, Bohdan Moskalevskyi, Kadri Muischnek, Robert Munro, Yugo Murawaki, Kaili Müürisep, Pinkey Nainwani, Mariam Nakhlé, Juan Ignacio Navarro Horñiacek, Anna Nedoluzhko, Gunta Nešpore-Bērzkalne, Manuela Nevaci, Lương Nguyễn Thị, Huyền Nguyễn Thị Minh, Yoshihiro Nikaido, Vitaly Nikolaev, Rattima Nitisaroj, Victor Norrman, Alireza Nourian, Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes, Hanna Nurmi, Stina Ojala, Atul Kr. Ojha, Hulda Óladóttir, Adédayọ̀ Olúòkun, Mai Omura, Emeka Onwuegbuzia, Noam Ordan, Petya Osenova, Robert Östling, Annika Ott, Lilja Øvrelid, Şaziye Betül Özateş, Merve Özçelik, Arzucan Özgür, Balkız Öztürk Başaran, Teresa Paccosi, Alessio Palmero Aprosio, Anastasia Panova, Thiago Alexandre Salgueiro Pardo, Hyunji Hayley Park, Niko Partanen, Elena Pascual, Marco Passarotti, Agnieszka Patejuk, Guilherme Paulino-Passos, Giulia Pedonese, Angelika Peljak-Łapińska, Siyao Peng, Siyao Logan Peng, Rita Pereira, Sílvia Pereira, Cenel-Augusto Perez, Natalia Perkova, Guy Perrier, Slav Petrov, Daria Petrova, Andrea Peverelli, Jason Phelan, Claudel Pierre-Louis, Jussi Piitulainen, Yuval Pinter, Clara Pinto, Rodrigo Pintucci, Tommi A Pirinen, Emily Pitler, Magdalena Plamada, Barbara Plank, Alistair Plum, Thierry Poibeau, Larisa Ponomareva, Martin Popel, Lauma Pretkalniņa, Rigardt Pretorius, Sophie Prévost, Prokopis Prokopidis, Adam Przepiórkowski, Robert Pugh, Tiina Puolakainen, Christoph Purschke, Sampo Pyysalo, Peng Qi, Andreia Querido, Andriela Rääbis, Alexandre Rademaker, Mizanur Rahoman, Taraka Rama, Loganathan Ramasamy, Carlos Ramisch, Joana Ramos, Fam Rashel, Mohammad Sadegh Rasooli, Vinit Ravishankar, Livy Real, Petru Rebeja, Siva Reddy, Mathilde Regnault, Georg Rehm, Arij Riabi, Ivan Riabov, Michael Rießler, Erika Rimkutė, Larissa Rinaldi, Laura Rituma, Putri Rizqiyah, Luisa Rocha, Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson, Ivan Roksandic, Mykhailo Romanenko, Rudolf Rosa, Valentin Roșca, Davide Rovati, Ben Rozonoyer, Olga Rudina, Jack Rueter, Paolo Ruffolo, Kristján Rúnarsson, Shoval Sadde, Pegah Safari, Aleksi Sahala, Shadi Saleh, Alessio Salomoni, Tanja Samardžić, Stephanie Samson, Xulia Sánchez-Rodríguez, Manuela Sanguinetti, Ezgi Sanıyar, Dage Särg, Marta Sartor, Albina Sarymsakova, Mitsuya Sasaki, Baiba Saulīte, Agata Savary, Yanin Sawanakunanon, Shefali Saxena, Kevin Scannell, Salvatore Scarlata, Emmanuel Schang, Nathan Schneider, Sebastian Schuster, Lane Schwartz, Djamé Seddah, Wolfgang Seeker, Sven Sellmer, Mojgan Seraji, Syeda Shahzadi, Mo Shen, Atsuko Shimada, Hiroyuki Shirasu, Yana Shishkina, Muh Shohibussirri, Maria Shvedova, Janine Siewert, Einar Freyr Sigurðsson, João Silva, Aline Silveira, Natalia Silveira, Sara Silveira, Maria Simi, Radu Simionescu, Katalin Simkó, Mária Šimková, Haukur Barri Símonarson, Kiril Simov, Dmitri Sitchinava, Ted Sither, Aaron Smith, Isabela Soares-Bastos, Per Erik Solberg, Barbara Sonnenhauser, Shafi Sourov, Rachele Sprugnoli, Vivian Stamou, Steinþór Steingrímsson, Antonio Stella, Abishek Stephen, Milan Straka, Emmett Strickland, Jana Strnadová, Alane Suhr, Yogi Lesmana Sulestio, Umut Sulubacak, Shingo Suzuki, Daniel Swanson, Zsolt Szántó, Chihiro Taguchi, Dima Taji, Fabio Tamburini, Mary Ann C. 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CfP GenChal proposals @INLG 2024
by Simon Mille 15 May '24

15 May '24

Dear colleagues, Please find below the first call for proposals for this year's new shared task proposals to be presented during the Generation Challenges session of INLG. ======================================= GenChal @ 17th International Conference on Natural Language Generation Tokyo, Japan, September 23-27 2024 INLG Twitter: @inlgmeeting INLG website:https://inlg2024.github.io/ <https://inlg2023.github.io/> ======================================= Submission deadline: June 24th 2024 We invite submissions of papers describing ideas for future shared tasks in the general area of language generation (Generation Challenges 2024). Proposed tasks can be in the area of core NLG, or in other research areas in which language is generated. Examples include, but are not limited to: data-to-text NLG, text-to-text generation (including MT and summarisation), combining core NLG and MT, combining core NLG and text summarisation, NLG quality estimation, NLG evaluation metrics, and/or generating language from heterogeneous data, including image and video. The Generation Challenges (GenChal) are an umbrella event designed to bring together a variety of shared-task efforts that involve the generation of natural language. This year, Generation Challenges will be held as a workshop at the 17th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG 2024 <https://inlg2024.github.io/>), scheduled on September 23-27 2024. The workshop will follow the format of previous GenChal results sessions, with presentations of results by the organisers of the generation challenges that are currently running, a poster session for task participants to present their submissions, as well as presentations of proposals for new shared tasks in the Task Proposals Track, and discussion sessions. You can see some of the previous GenChal tasks in the past GenChal proceedings on the ACL Anthology (see e.g. 2022 <https://aclanthology.org/volumes/2022.inlg-genchal/> or 2023 <https://aclanthology.org/volumes/2023.inlg-genchal/>) or on the dedicated repository <https://sites.google.com/view/genchalrepository/home>. Submissions should describe possible future tasks in detail, including information regarding organisers, task description, motivating theoretical interest and/or application context, size and state of completion of data to be used, schedule and evaluation plans. Accepted shared tasks will be run in the 2025 iteration of INLG. Important dates - Submission deadline: June 24th 2024 - Notification: July 15th 2024 - Camera-ready submission: August 16th 2024 - Workshop at INLG conference: September 23rd-24h 2024 All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h ("anywhere on Earth"). Submissions and format Submissions in the Shared Task Proposals track should be no more than 4 (four) pages long excluding citations, and should follow the ACLPUB formatting guidelines <https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html> (you will find LaTeX style files and Microsoft Word templates under this link). Proposals should be uploaded to the SoftConf <https://softconf.com/n/inlg2024/user/scmd.cgi?scmd=submitPaperCustom&pageid…> GenChal submission page, using the Submission type New shared task proposal. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by the program committee. As reviewing will not be blind, there is no need to anonymise papers. This is not intended to be a selective process, since the aim is to discuss new potential shared tasks with INLG delegates. However, the organisers reserve the right to reject proposals which do not fall within the scope of the GenChal initiative, or which do not follow guidelines. Accepted submissions will be published in separate GenChal 2023 proceedings on the ACL Anthology, as was done in 2022 <https://aclanthology.org/volumes/2022.inlg-genchal/> and 2023 <https://aclanthology.org/volumes/2023.inlg-genchal/>. Looking forward to seeing you at INLG! Miruna and Simon, GenChal chairs, on behalf of the INLG'24 organisers *ADAPT Research Centre / Ionaid Taighde ADAPT* *School of Computing, Dublin City University, Glasnevin Campus / Scoil na Ríomhaireachta, Campas Ghlas Naíon, Ollscoil Chathair Bhaile Átha Cliath*

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[Extended deadline] Final Call For Papers, Fifth Workshop on Privacy in Natural Language Processing at ACL 2024
by Ivan Habernal 15 May '24

15 May '24

PrivateNLP 2024: Fifth Workshop on Privacy in Natural Language Processing at ACL 2024 Final Call For Papers ACL PrivateNLP is a full day workshop taking place on August 15, 2024 in conjunction with ACL 2024. Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/privatenlp/ Important Dates: • [Extended] Submission Deadline: May 30, 2024 • Acceptance Notification: June 17, 2024 • Camera-ready versions: July 01, 2024 • Workshop: August 15, 2024 Privacy-preserving data analysis has become essential in the age of Large Language Models (LLMs) where access to vast amounts of data can provide gains over tuned algorithms. A large proportion of user-contributed data comes from natural language e.g., text transcriptions from voice assistants. It is therefore important to curate NLP datasets while preserving the privacy of the users whose data is collected, and train LLMs models that only retain non-identifying user data. The workshop aims to bring together practitioners and researchers from academia and industry to discuss the challenges and approaches to designing, building, verifying, and testing privacy preserving systems in the context of Natural Language Processing. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Privacy in Large Language Models * Generating privacy preserving test sets * Inference and identification attacks * Generating Differentially private derived data * NLP, privacy and regulatory compliance * Private Generative Adversarial Networks * Privacy in Active Learning and Crowdsourcing * Privacy and Federated Learning in NLP * User perceptions on privatized personal data * Auditing provenance in language models * Continual learning under privacy constraints * NLP and summarization of privacy policies * Ethical ramifications of AI/NLP in support of usable privacy * Homomorphic encryption for language models Submissions: Accepted papers will be presented orally or as posters and included in the workshop proceedings. Submissions are open to all, and are to be submitted anonymously. All papers will be refereed through a double-blind peer review process by at least three reviewers with final acceptance decisions made by the workshop organizers. OpenReview direct submission: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2024/Workshop/PrivateNLP Organizers: Sepideh Ghanavati, University of Maine Abhilasha Ravichander, Allen AI Niloofar Mireshghallah, University of Washington Ivan Habernal, Paderborn University Seyi Feyisetan, Amazon Patricia Thaine, Private AI Vijayanta Jain, University of Maine Timour Igamberdiev, Technical University of Darmstadt Contact us: privatenlp24-orga(a)lists.uni-paderborn.de

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2nd CfP: GermEval2024 Shared Task GerMS-Detect - Sexism Detection and Annotator Disagreement Prediction in German Online News Fora @Konvens 2024
by stephanie.gross＠ofai.at 15 May '24

15 May '24

GermEval2024 Shared Task: GerMS-Detect -- Sexism Detection and Annotator Disagreement Prediction in German Online News Fora ===================================================================================== 2nd CALL FOR PARTICIPATION We would like to invite you to the GermEval Shared Task GerMS-Detect on Sexism Detection and Annotator Disagreement Prediction in German Online News Fora collocated with Konvens 2024 (https://konvens-2024.univie.ac.at/). Competition Website: https://ofai.github.io/GermEval2024-GerMS/ Important Dates ------------------ Development phase: May 1 - June 5, 2024 (ongoing) Competition phase: June 7 - June 25, 2024 Paper submission due: July 1, 2024 Camera ready due: July 20, 2024 Shared Task @KONVENS: 10 September, 2024 Task description ------------------ This shared task is not just about the detection of sexism/misogyny in comments posted in (mostly) German language to the comment section of an Austrian online newspaper: many of the texts to be classified contain ambiguous language, very subtle ways to express misogyny or sexism or lack important context. For these reasons, there can be quite some disagreement between annotators on the appropriate label. In many cases, there is no single correct label. For this reason the shared task is not just about correctly predicting a single label chosen from all the labels assigned by human annotators, but about models which can predict the level of disagreement, the range of labels assigned by annotators or the distribution of labels to expect for a specific group of annotators. For details see the Competition Website (https://ofai.github.io/GermEval2024-GerMS/). Organizers ------------ The task is organized by the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI). Organizing team ------------------ Brigitte Krenn (brigitte.krenn (AT) ofai.at) Johann Petrak (johann.petrak (AT) ofai.at) Stephanie Gross (stephanie.gross (AT) ofai.at)

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Seeking alpha/beta testers for text manipulation software
by Greg Lessard 15 May '24

15 May '24

I have written several little text manipulation tools that I would like anyone interested to try out and give me comments and suggestions on. They are pure JavaScript (no libraries) and work using arrays so they can handle texts up to about the size of a novel. They can be used from their website or alternatively saved and used offline on any device from a phone to a laptop. The tools include: vlviewtext.html: a tool for viewing a text file in either text or concordance mode with fast switching between the two views. vlmakelist.html: a tool for creating a wordlist or frequency list from a text file, the former as a csv file, the latter as html or csv vltaglist.html: a tool for creating or editing tagged wordlists with up to three levels of tags The tools may be found at: https://vincilingua.ca/Tools/index.html Each comes with a basic online manual and sample texts in English and French may be found on the site. Please send any comments or suggestions to me directly at lessardg(a)protonmail.com. With thanks in advance, Greg Lessard

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Workshop on COuntering Disinformation with AI @ECAI: CFP (Deadline extended)
by Rajesh Sharma 15 May '24

15 May '24

Dear All, We invite paper submissions to the Workshop on COuntering Disinformation with AI (CODAI), which will take place on 20 October at ECAI 2024. *Website:* https://codai2024.github.io/ *Important dates* Submission deadline: 24th May 2024 Accept/Reject Communications: 1st July 2024 Camera-ready papers due: 22nd July 2024 Workshop date: 20 October 2024 All deadlines are 11:59 pm UTC-12 (“anywhere on earth”). *Overview* Social media platforms which have been designed primarily to allow users to create and share content with others, have become integral parts of modern communication, enabling people to connect with each other as well as for broadcasting information to a wider audience. On one side these platforms provide an opportunity to facilitate discussions in an open and free environment. On the flip side, new societal issues have started emerging on these platforms. Among all the issues, the topic of misinformation has been prevalent on these platforms. The term misinformation is an umbrella term which encompasses various entities such as fake news, hoaxes, rumors to name a few. While misinformation refers to non-intentional spread of non-authentic information, the term disinformation points to spreading of a piece of inauthentic information with certain malign intentions. *Topics* Areas of interest to include, but are not limited to, the following: - Information diffusion models for understanding and thwarting the spread of low-quality information; - Characterization and detection of coordinated inauthentic behavior; - Novel techniques for detecting malicious accounts (e.g., bots, cyborgs and trolls); - Information diffusion models for understanding and thwarting the spread of low-quality information; - Understanding and detection of disinformation; - Study, inference and detection of narratives in disinformation campaigns; - Impact/Harm of misinformation on society. - Case-studies on the spread and impact of fake news in controversial topics such as politics, health, climate change, economics, migration. - Social and psychological studies, or data analytics related to misinformation spreaders. - Metrics, tools and methods for measuring the impact of fake news and of coordinated inauthentic behaviors; - Datasets for evaluation. *Submission Link:* https://chairingtool.com/ *Submission Types* *Original submissions:* The submissions will be reviewed through a double-blind process and must remain anonymous. They can be either short papers (2-4 pages) or long papers (6-8 pages), with additional pages allowed for references. . *Non-archival option:* In addition to regular paper submissions, authors have the option of submitting previous research or abstract as non-archival. Accepted submissions will be presented at the workshop as oral presentations. *Format and styling* Submissions should be formatted according to the ECAI formatting instructions and not exceed 7 pages (plus 1 extra page for references). All submissions should use the ECAI 2024 template and formatting requirements specified by ECAI. Please send any questions about the workshop to codaihelp(a)gmail.com *Organisers* Rajesh Sharma, University of Tartu, Estonia Anselmo Peñas, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Spain

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[CFP] ACM TORS: Special Issue on Recommender Systems for Good
by antonela.tommasel＠isistan.unicen.edu.ar 14 May '24

14 May '24

CALL FOR PAPERS: ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems Special Issue on Recommender Systems for Good Submission deadline: 1 September 2024 Guest Editors: - Marko Tkalčič, University of Primorska, Slovenia - Noemi Mauro, University of Turin, Italy - Alan Said, University of Gothenburg, Sweden - Nava Tintarev, University of Maastricht, Netherlands - Antonela Tommasel, ISISTAN, CONICET-UNCPBA, Argentina Recommender systems are among the most widely used applications of machine learning. Since they are so widely used, it is important that we, as practitioners and researchers, think about the impact these systems may have on users, society, and other stakeholders. In practice, the focus is often on systems and values of improving key performance indicators (KPIs), such as increased sales or customer retention. Recommendation technology is currently underutilized to serve societal goals that go beyond the business objectives of individual corporations. However, other values, bound more to societal good, could be considered in the development and goals of a recommender system. In fact, recommender systems have already been explored to stimulate healthier eating behavior and for improved health and well-being in general, to help low-income families make school choices, to suggest successful learning paths for students, to entice climate-protecting energy-saving behavior, to support fair micro-lending, or improve the information diets of news readers. Research in these areas is however limited in numbers, compared to the many papers that are published every year that propose new models for improved movie recommendations. Moreover, concerning the methodology and evaluation perspective in this area, it is essential to find a clear methodology and criteria for evaluating the effectiveness and "goodness" of the proposed algorithms. This includes acknowledging that different values may be conflicting, as well as resolving how and when (and by whom) certain values should be prioritized over others. Research on "Recommender Systems for Good" may benefit from an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on insights from fields such as computer science, ethics, sociology, psychology, law, and economics. Collaborations with stakeholders from diverse backgrounds can enrich the research and ensure that recommendations are grounded in real-world needs and values. This special issue aims to present state-of-the-art research works where recommender systems have a positive societal impact and help us address urgent societal challenges. It will thereby serve as a call to action for more research in these areas. Ultimately, through this special issue, we hope to establish a vision of "Recommender Systems for Good', following the spirit of the "AI for Good" initiative (https://aiforgood.itu.int) to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (2015) and the more recent UNESCO recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (2024) (https://www.unesco.org/en/artificial-intelligence/recommendation-ethics). Topics: We aim to collect the latest research on recommender systems for societal good. The topics of the special issues include (but are not limited to): - Recommender systems for safety, security, and privacy (e.g., reducing poverty and inequality) - Recommender systems that protect the environment and ecosystems (e.g., lower energy consumption, water and energy management) - Recommender systems that give control of data back to the users (e.g., transparency of data, models, and outputs) - Recommender systems for the interconnected society (e.g., increase of solidarity, online conversational health, multi-stakeholder recommenders) - Accountability in recommender systems, including addressing emerging regulations, such as the DSA (Digital Service Act) - Recommender systems for the public good (e.g., mental and physical health, welfare, digital literacy, stakeholder engagement, e-learning) - Introspective studies on the current state of RSs concerning societal good - Fairness-preserving and fairness-enhancing recommender systems, unbiased recommendations (e.g. to preserve gender equality) - Responsible recommendation (e.g., in social media and traditional news, avoiding filter bubbles and echo chambers) - Sustainability and Cultural recommendations (e.g., art, cultural heritage) - Recommendations to support disadvantaged groups (e.g., elderly, minorities) - Recommender systems for personal development and well-being (e.g., behavioral change, fitness, self-actualization, personal growth) Important Dates: - Submission deadline: September 1, 2024 - First-round review decisions: December 1, 2024 - Deadline for revision submissions: February 1, 2025 - Notification of final decisions: April 1, 2025 Submissions that are received before the first deadline will be directly sent out for review; papers will be immediately published online after acceptance. Submission Information: The special issue welcomes technical research papers, survey papers, and opinion/reflective papers. Each paper should address one or more of the abovementioned topics or be in other scopes of Recommender Systems for Good. The special issue will also consider peer-reviewed journal versions (at least 30% new content) of top papers from related recommender system conferences such as RecSys, SIGIR, KDD, CIKM, IUI, UMAP, CHI, WSDM, ACL, etc. The new content must be in terms of intellectual contributions, technical experiments, and findings. Submissions must be prepared according to the TORS submission guidelines (https://dl.acm.org/journal/tors/author-guidelines) and must be submitted via Manuscript Central (https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tors). For questions and further information, please contact the guest editors at rs4good [at] acm [dot] org.

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Deadline Extension: Language Technologies and Digital Humanities Conference (JT-DH 2024)
by Špela Arhar Holdt 14 May '24

14 May '24

We have **extended the submission deadline** for the Language Technologies and Digital Humanities Conference (JT-DH 2024), which will take place on September 19 and 20, 2024, in Ljubljana, Slovenia. More about the venue, topics, templates, and programme is available here: https://www.sdjt.si/wp/jtdh-2024-en. Important dates - May 31, 2024: **Extended deadline for abstract/paper submission** - July 5, 2024: Notification of acceptance - August 23, 2024: Final abstract/paper submission - August 23, 2024: Registration deadline - September 18, 2024: Pre-conference events and workshops - September 19 & 20, 2024: JTDH 2024 Conference.

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PhD position in Language Technology (3 years)
by Samia Touileb 14 May '24

14 May '24

-- Reminder -- We are seeking a motivated candidate to join our research team in MediaFutures, at the University of Bergen, Norway. The primary task of this position will be to develop novel techniques for generating news articles. This involves creating resources that adapt lexical, grammatical, and stylistic choices based on various parameters, including user profiles, cognitive accessibility, and journalistic formats. We are also interested in exploring how news content can be versioned and adapted dynamically. This includes tailoring news articles to different user preferences and user segments, ensuring readability, and optimizing content delivery across various platforms. We expect that the candidate will explore how large language models can be used for news generation while maintaining ethical and responsible practices. The position also offers the opportunity to collaborate with industry partners and gather domain-specific datasets from leading Norwegian media houses. This real-world collaboration will enhance the relevance and impact of the produced research. The PhD candidate will work at MediaFutures in Work Package 5 and will cooperate with researchers and partners in the work package, including the Language Technology Group at the University of Oslo, the National Library of Norway, Schibsted, Amedia, and TV 2. In addition to relevant researchers and partners in other work packages. As an applicant you should have an excellent written and spoken command of English. Proficiency in Norwegian is an important advantage, but *not* a requirement. The deadline is 25th May 2024. For more details about the position and how to apply see: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/262259/phd-position-in-langu… If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact me. Best, Samia *---* *Samia Touileb* *Associate Professor in Natural Language Processing* *Department of Information Science and Media Studies,* *University of Bergen* *MediaFutures: Research Center for Responsible Media Technology & Innovation*

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[CfP] Call for Posters and Demos || SEMANTiCS 2024 EU || Sep 17 - 19, 2024 || Amsterdam, Netherlands
by SEMANTiCS 14 May '24

14 May '24

==== SEMANTiCS - 20th International Conference on Semantic Systems Amsterdam, Netherlands Call for Posters and Demos September 17 - 19, 2024 https://2024-eu.semantics.cc/page/cfp_posters_demos ==== The Posters & Demos Track provides a platform for researchers to present their latest findings, ongoing projects, and cutting-edge work in progress. This track is open to a range of submissions on innovative applications, the latest results, unpublished ideas, prototypes of semantic technologies, and their use in various domains. It also welcomes contributions related to applications, use cases, and datasets that may attract developers and potential research or business partners. The Posters & Demos Track offers an informal setting that promotes engagement and dialogue between presenters and attendees. These discussions can provide valuable feedback for presenters' future work, while also allowing participants to gain insight into emerging research trends and network with other researchers. =Important Dates= * Paper Submission Deadline: June 25, * Notification of Acceptance: July 29, 2024 * Camera-Ready Paper Deadline: August 6, 2024 All deadlines are set for 11:59 pm, Anywhere On Earth time (UTC-12) Submission via Easychair on https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=sem24 Proceedings of SEMANTiCS 2024 EU will be made available open access by CEUR-WS.org. =Topics of Interest= We welcome contributions in the context of semantic-based research and systems, which address – but are not limited to – the topics of the Research Track ttps://2024-eu.semantics.cc/page/cfp_rev_rep. Additionally, we encourage submissions of visionary ideas, position statements, negative results, and unconventional ideas. Demos should showcase innovative implementations and technologies both, from academia and industry. We warmly welcome contributions from industry professionals, provided that they concentrate on introducing innovative solutions to particular challenges, rather than serving as promotional material or descriptions of commercial products. =Author Guidelines and Submission= Poster and demo submissions should consist of a paper that describes the work, its contribution to the field or innovative aspects. * Poster and demo submissions are at most 5 pages long, including references. * No double-blind submissions required. * Submissions must be either in PDF or HTML. * Submissions must be formatted in the style of CEUR-ART (https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html). An Overleaf page for LaTeX users is available. * For demos, we ask authors to include links enabling the reviewers to test the application or review the component. The absence of a pointer affects the overall rating of the contribution. * Submissions must be original and must not have been submitted for publication elsewhere. * At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference and present the paper. We look forward to receiving your contributions! =Poster and Demo Chairs= * Francesco Osborne & Anelia Kurteva

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Shared Task on Machine Translation Gender Bias Evaluation with Multilingual Holistic Bias
by Agnieszka Falenska 14 May '24

14 May '24

*Apologies for crossposting* We are proud to announce that the Multilingual Holistic Bias task is now open in Dynabench <https://dynabench.org/>. The main objectives of this task are: To investigate the quality of MT systems on the particular case of gender preservation for tens of languages To examine and understand special gender challenges in translating in different language families. To investigate the performance of gender translation of low-resource, morphologically rich languages To open to the community the first challenge of this kind While the task is intended to be open without a particular deadline, we encourage you to submit models by April 15th and participate in the shared task from the 5th Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing <https://genderbiasnlp.talp.cat/gebnlp-2024/shared-task-on-machine-translati…>. We are looking forward to having your participation! Shared Task organizers

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Deadline Extension: Sixth Workshop on Teaching NLP
by Biester, Laura 13 May '24

13 May '24

Second Call For Papers: Sixth Workshop on Teaching NLP at ACL 2024 The Sixth Workshop on Teaching NLP will be co-located with the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics in Bangkok, Thailand. The workshop will occur on August 15 (hybrid option available). The one-day workshop will combine a program of traditional keynotes, posters, and oral presentations, with discourse through panel discussion, and focus on building a community for sharing resources. The submission deadline is being extended to May 19th, 2024 AOE. Call for Papers The field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) is growing rapidly, with new state-of-the-art methods emerging every year. This rapid growth challenges educators of NLP courses and degree programs to constantly revise their old material and create fresh NLP courses and degree programs, as well as new best practices and educational materials focused on emerging subareas of NLP. To support those facing these challenges, our one-day workshop will bring together the communities of NLP research and education to facilitate active discussion on questions including (but not limited to): * How can we facilitate meaningful conversations about language among Computer Science students? * How do we include user-centered design in core NLP curricula? * How should NLP educators design curricula that equip students with the ability to advance responsible and ethical NLP? * How can we design assignments that require GPU access or the use of paid APIs? * What are best practices that NLP educators from universities, industry groups, and Massive OpenOnline Courses (MOOCs) can use to share tools and resources for NLP education? This timely sixth edition of the Teaching NLP Workshop builds on prior successful offerings to tackle the most pressing issues in how to design NLP courses and bring together instructors from various backgrounds to discuss, create, and refine instructional design and material. Submission Information We welcome two submission types: teaching materials and papers: Teaching Materials (short papers) We invite short paper submissions of 1-2 pages that describe teaching materials such as curricula, course GitHub repositories, Jupyter notebooks, slides, homework, and assignments. These short papers do not need to be anonymised, but will be peer-reviewed and published in workshop proceedings, as well as presented in posters or demos. The corresponding teaching materials, while not being part of proceedings, should be submitted in addition to the short paper. We will create a Teaching NLP repository/wiki where authors may opt-in to make their materials available for the community after the workshop. Papers We invite papers of up to 8 pages discussing pedagogical aspects of NLP, focusing on (but not limited to) any of the following general topics: * Tools and methodologies (e.g., active learning, flipped classroom) * Scaling curricula to fit large class sizes * Adapting existing curricula to incorporate new NLP advancements * Teaching online NLP courses or adjusting courses to become remote * Challenges of designing the first NLP course or related degree program at a college, university, or on a MOOC platform * Teaching heterogenous groups of students (e.g., with respect to prior experience in computer science and linguistics) * Teaching underrepresented students * Bridging the gap between academic training and industry needs * Incorporating ethics, reproducibility, and responsible practices in NLP courses * Teaching multilingual NLP All submissions will be processed through OpenReview<https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2024/Workshop/TeachNLP>. Important Dates * Paper Submission: May 19, 2024 AOE [Extended] * Notification of Acceptance: June 17, 2024 * Camera-Ready Deadline: July 1, 2024 * Teaching NLP Workshop: August 15, 2024 Website: https://sites.google.com/view/teachingnlpacl2024/ Contact: teachingnlp.yt(a)gmail.com<mailto:teachingnlp.yt@gmail.com> Best, TeachingNLP 2024 Organizers (Sana Al-azzawi, Laura Biester, György Kovács, Ana Marasović, Leena Mathur, Margot Mieskes, Leonie Weissweiler)

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DEADLINE EXTENSION: The First Workshop on Data Contamination (CONDA) @ ACL 2024
by Eneko Agirre 13 May '24

13 May '24

*New paper submission and ARR commitment deadlines (see below)* We invite you to participate and submit your work to the First Workshop on Data Contamination (CONDA) co-located with ACL 2024 in Bangkok, Thailand. Data contamination, where evaluation data is inadvertently included in pre-training corpora of large scale models, and language models (LMs) in particular, has become a concern in recent times. The growing scale of both models and data, coupled with massive web crawling, has led to the inclusion of segments from evaluation benchmarks in the pre-training data of LMs. The scale of internet data makes it difficult to prevent this contamination from happening, or even detect when it has happened. Crucially, when evaluation data becomes part of pre-training data, it introduces biases and can artificially inflate the performance of LMs on specific tasks or benchmarks. This poses a challenge for fair and unbiased evaluation of models, as their performance may not accurately reflect their generalization capabilities. Although a growing number of papers and state-of-the-art models mention issues of data contamination, there is no agreed-upon definition or standard methodology to ensure that a model does not report results on contaminated benchmarks. Addressing data contamination is a shared responsibility among researchers, developers, and the broader community. By adopting best practices, increasing transparency, documenting vulnerabilities, and conducting thorough evaluations, we can work towards minimizing the impact of data contamination and ensuring fair and reliable evaluations. We welcome paper submissions on all topics related to data contamination, including but not limited to: * Definitions, taxonomies, and gradings of contamination * Contamination detection (both manual and automatic) * Community efforts to discover, report, and organize contamination events * Documentation frameworks for datasets or models * Methods to avoid data contamination * Methods to forget contaminated data * Scaling laws and contamination * Memorization and contamination * Policies to avoid impact of contamination in publication venues and open source communities * Reproducing and attributing results from previous work to data contamination * Survey work on data contamination research * Data contamination in other modalities */ /* */Submission Instructions/* We welcome two types of papers: regular workshop papers and non-archival submissions. Regular workshop papers will be included in the workshop proceedings. All submissions must be in PDF format and made through OpenReview. * * *Regular workshop papers:*Authors can submit papers up to 8 pages, with unlimited pages for references. Authors may submit up to 100 MB of supplementary materials separately and their code for reproducibility. All submissions undergo a double-blind single-track review. Best Paper Award(s) will be given based on nomination by the reviewers. Accepted papers will be presented as posters with the possibility of oral presentations. * * *Non-archival submissions:*Cross-submissions are welcome. Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop but not included in the workshop proceedings. Papers must be in PDF format and will be reviewed in a double-blind fashion by workshop reviewers. We also welcome extended abstracts (up to 2 pages) of papers that are work in progress, under review or to be submitted to other venues. Papers in this category need to follow the ACL format. * In addition to papers submitted directly to the workshop, which will be reviewed by our Programme Committee. We also accept papers reviewed through ACL Rolling Review and committed to the workshop. Please, check the relevant dates for each type of submission. */ /* */Important dates/* Relevant deadlines to consider when submitting your paper are: * *Paper submission deadline: May 31 (Friday), 2024* * *ARR pre-reviewed commitment deadline: June 14 (Friday), 2024* * Notification of acceptance: June 17 (Monday), 2024 * Camera-ready paper due: July 1 (Monday), 2024 * Workshop date: August 16, 2024 */ /* */Sponsors/* * AWS AI and Amazon Bedrock * HuggingFace * Google */ /* */Contact/* * Website:https://conda-workshop.github.io/ <https://conda-workshop.github.io/> * Email:conda-workshop@googlegroups.com<mailto:conda-workshop@googlegroups.com> */ /* */Organizers/* Oscar Sainz, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) Iker García Ferrero, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) Eneko Agirre, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) Jon Ander Campos, Cohere Alon Jacovi, Bar Ilan University Yanai Elazar, Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence and University of Washington Yoav Goldberg, Bar Ilan University and Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence -- Eneko Agirre HiTZ Hizkuntza Teknologiako Zentroa - Ixa Taldea Centro Vasco de Tecnología de la Lengua - Grupo Ixa Basque Center for Language Technology - Ixa NLP Group University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) hitz.ehu.eus/eneko <https://hitz.ehu.eus/eneko>

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[EXTENDED DEADLINE] METAPOL3: DISCOURSE, IDEOLOGIES AND SUB-STATE NATIONALISM
by Raymond Echitchi 13 May '24

13 May '24

IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: 16/06/24 Notification of acceptance: 15/07/24 More information on https://metapol3.sciencesconf.org/ _____________ CALL FOR PAPERS METAPOL3: DISCOURSE, IDEOLOGIES AND SUB-STATE NATIONALISM 21-22 November 2024, University of Liège, Belgium Despite attempts to discourage sub-state nationalism and keep the political map of the world in its present form, the struggle for separate identities still remains a serious issue in modern-day countries. Sub-state nationalism has led to violent conflicts in postcolonial Africa, the former Yugoslavia and Soviet Union, and has been one of the main causes of political upheaval in Belgium, Britain, Spain, China, etc. As Anderson (1983) indicates, nations are imagined communities whose formation involves the spread of discourses aimed at establishing a clear difference between in-groups and out-groups. While national identity has attracted a fair amount of scholarly interest in the field of political science, it is only in the early 90s that studies emphasizing the discursive manifestations of nationalism started being conducted (Wodak & Matouschek, 1993; Wodak & Reisigl, 1999; Wodak et al. 1999). These last two decades, the study of political discourse has been consolidated by metaphor analysis (Musolff, 2006; 2016; Saric & Stanojevic, 2019), and even though great strides have indeed been made in political discourse analysis, research on sub-state nationalism remains scant. It is thus in an attempt to fill this gap that we are organizing this conference which will hopefully bring together researchers from different fields (linguistics, sociology, political science, cognitive science), interested in discourse, metaphor and nationalist ideologies. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, - The discursive construction of (sub-state) national identity - Characteristics of separatist discourse - Conceptualisations of the body politic - Metaphor scenarios in national identity discourse - Visual metaphor in (sub-state) nationalist discourse - Gender and metaphor in (sub-state) nationalist discourse - ... KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Catherine Xhardez, University of Montreal Martin Reisigl, University of Vienna SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS The conference will be held in person at the University of Liège, Belgium. Each presentation will last 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes of Q&A. Conference proposals should include: - A title (max. 15 words) - Key words (max. 5 words) - An abstract (300 words, excluding references) Guide for submitting a proposal To submit a proposal, you must create a user account on sciencesconf.org and log in as a registered user. It is possible to create an account either directly on the SciencesConf portal or by clicking on the Login button on top right of the conference website (https://metapol3.sciencesconf.org/). Once connected, access "My submissions" and then go to New submission > Submit an abstract. Individual and co-authored papers in English or French are welcome. All abstracts will go through double-blind peer review. CONTACT Do not hesitate to email us at metapol3(a)sciencesconf.org.

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Call for Workshops: NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025
by Sara Stymne 13 May '24

13 May '24

***Apologies for possible cross-posting *** The two major conferences in the Baltic and Nordic regions, NoDaLida, organized by The Northern European Association for Language Technology (NEALT) and Baltic HLT are joining forces to organize NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025 – The Joint 25th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics and 11th Baltic Conference on Human Language Technologies, to be held in Tallinn, Estonia, on March 2–5, 2025. We would like to invite proposals for workshops, to be held on Sunday, March 2, immediately before the main conference, or on Wednesday, March 5, immediately after the main conference. Workshops can be scheduled either for a full day (morning and afternoon) or for half a day. The main conference will be held on-site only, without an online option, in order to facilitate networking. Workshops are free to offer online presentations if they wish to do so. NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT addresses all aspects of natural language processing, speech processing, and computational linguistics, including work in closely related neighboring disciplines (such as, for example, machine learning, linguistics, digital humanities, or psychology) that is sufficiently formalized or applied to bear relevance to speech and language technologies. Workshop proposals can be submitted in free-text form as a pdf file, by email to ‘nodalida_baltichlt_2025-workshops(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:nodalida_baltichlt_2025-workshops@googlegroups.com>’. Workshop proposals must include adequate information on at least the following aspects: - proposed workshop title - topic and goals of the workshop - target group and estimated attendance - workshop organizer(s) and contact(s) - mode of organization and program design, including: - information on full versus half-day workshop - information on the preference of workshop day: March 2, March 5, or either - information on whether you plan an on-site only or hybrid event SCHEDULE * Monday, August 26, 2024: Submission of workshop proposals * Tuesday, September 10, 2024: Notification of workshop selection * Monday, December 16, 2024: Recommended workshop paper submission deadline * Monday, February 3, 2025: Camera-ready workshop papers due * Sunday, March 2, 2025: Pre-conference workshops * Sunday, March 5, 2025: Post-conference workshops Organizers of accepted proposals will be responsible for publicizing and running the workshop, including sending out calls for papers, reviewing submissions, producing the camera-ready workshop proceedings, and organizing the meeting day. SELECTION The assessment and selection of workshop proposals will be made by the NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025 Workshop Chairs: * Normunds Grūzītis, University of Latvia, Latvia * Samia Touileb, University of Bergen, Norway To inquire about the workshop submission process or any practical aspect of the organization of workshops, please email ‘nodalida_baltichlt_2025-workshops(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:nodalida_baltichlt_2025-workshops@googlegroups.com>’. For any question about the conference in general, please email ‘nodalida_baltichlt_2025-pc(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:nodalida_baltichlt_2025-pc@googlegroups.com>’ and for any general practical inquiries, please email ‘nodalida_baltichlt_2025-loc(a)eki.xn--ee-o2t. Looking forward to your workshop proposals which will help make NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025 a success! Sara Stymne, NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 20205 general chair När du har kontakt med oss på Uppsala universitet med e-post så innebär det att vi behandlar dina personuppgifter. För att läsa mer om hur vi gör det kan du läsa här: http://www.uu.se/om-uu/dataskydd-personuppgifter/ E-mailing Uppsala University means that we will process your personal data. For more information on how this is performed, please read here: http://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/data-protection-policy

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