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

03 Oct '24

----------------------------------------------------- Workshop on Multilingual Counterspeech Generation ----------------------------------------------------- Background and Scope --------------------- While interest in automatic approaches to Counterspeech generation has been steadily growing, including studies on data curation (Chung et al., 2019a; Fanton et al., 2021), detection (Chung et al., 2021a; Mathew et al., 2018), and generation (Tekiroglu et al., 2020; Chung et al., 2021b; Zhu and Bhat, 2021; Tekiroglu et al., 2022), the large majority of the published experimental work on automatic Counterspeech generation has been carried out for English. This is due to the scarcity of both non-English manually curated training data and to the crushing predominance of English in the generative Large Language Models (LLMs) ecosystem. A workshop on exploring Multilingual Counterspeech Generation is proposed to promote and encourage research on multilingual approaches for this challenging topic. Thus, this workshop aims to test monolingual and multilingual LLMs in particular and Language Technology in general to automatically generate counterspeech not only in English but also in languages with fewer resources. In this sense, an important goal of the workshop will be to understand the impact of using LLMs, considering for example how to deal with pressing issues such as biases, hallucinated content, data scarcity or data contamination. We seek to maximize the scientific and social impact of this workshop by promoting the creation of a community of researchers from diverse fields, such as computer and social sciences, as well as policy makers and other stakeholders interested in automatic counterspeech generation. By doing so we aim to gain a deeper understanding of how counterspeech is currently used to tackle abuse by individuals, activists, and organizations and how Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Generation (NLG) may be best applied to counteract it. Call for Papers --------------------- We welcome submissions on the following topics (but not limited to): - Models and methods for generating counterspeech in different languages. - Automatic Counterspeech generation for low resource languages with scarce training data. - Dialogue agents that use counterspeech to combat offensive messages that are directed to individuals or groups, targeted based on various aspects such as ideology, gender, sexual orientation and religion. - Methods for human and automatic evaluation of counterspeech. - Multidisciplinary studies providing different perspectives on the topic such as computer science, social science, psychology, etc. - Development of taxonomies and quality datasets for counterspeech in multiple languages. - Potentials and limitations (e.g., fairness, biases, hallucinated content) of applying different NLP methods, such as LLMs, to generate counterspeech. - Social impact and empirical studies of counterspeech in social networks, including research on the effectiveness and consequences for users of using counterspeech to combat hate online. Submission --------------------- We welcome two types of papers: regular workshop papers and non-archival submissions. Regular workshop papers will be included in the workshop proceedings. All submissions must be in PDF format and made through START [https://softconf.com/coling2025/MCG25/] - Regular workshop papers: Authors can submit papers up to 8 pages, with unlimited pages for references. Authors may submit up to 100 MB of supplementary materials separately and their code for reproducibility. All submissions undergo an double-blind single-track review. Accepted papers will be presented as posters with the possibility of oral presentations. - Non-archival submissions: Cross-submissions are welcome. Accepted papers will be presented at the workshop, but will not be included in the workshop proceedings. Papers must be in PDF format and will be reviewed in a double-blind fashion by workshop reviewers. We also welcome extended abstracts (up to 2 pages) of papers that are work in progress, under review or to be submitted to other venues. Papers in this category need to follow the COLING format. Important Dates --------------------- - Submission: November 20th, 2024 - Notification of Acceptance: December 2nd, 2024 - Camera-Ready Papers Due: December 10th, 2024 ----------------------------------------------------- Shared Task on Multilingual Counterspeech Generation ----------------------------------------------------- *TRAIN DATA RELEASED!* In addition to paper contributions, we are organizing a shared task on multilingual counterspeech generation with the aim of sharing in a central space current efforts, especially those for languages different to English. It is envisaged that the shared task would allow the community to study how we can improve counterspeech generation for both lower resource languages but also to reinforce the strong body of research already existing for English. The counterspeech generated by participants should be respectful, non-offensive, and contain information that is specific and truthful with respect to the following targets: Jews, LGBT+, immigrants,, people of color, women. Data --------------------- We release new data consisting of 596 Hate Speech-Counter Narrative (HS-CN) pairs. In this dataset, the HS are taken from MTCONAN [https://github.com/marcoguerini/CONAN/tree/master/Multitarget-CONAN], while the CN are newly generated. Together with each HS-CN pair, we also provide 5 background knowledge sentences, some of which are relevant for obtaining the Counter Narratives. The dataset is available in 4 different languages (Basque, English, Italian and Spanish) and divided in the following splits: - Development: 100 pairs. [AVAILABLE NOW!] [https://huggingface.co/datasets/LanD-FBK/ML_MTCONAN_KN] - Train: 396 pairs [AVAILABLE NOW!] [https://huggingface.co/datasets/LanD-FBK/ML_MTCONAN_KN] - Test: 100 pairs [AVAILABLE ON 21st OCTOBER] In order to score the shared task participants, the CNs will be kept hidden during the shared task while the HS and the background knowledge will be released for participants to prepare their submissions. The languages, Basque, English, Italian and Spanish, offer a varied spectrum of complexity including an agglutinative language isolate (Basque), two romance languages (Italian, Spanish) and a Germanic one (English). The choice of languages obeys to the existing linguistic expertise among the organizers required to successfully run the shared task. Additional Multilingual Data --------------------- Participants also have available the English, Italian, Basque and Spanish CONAN manually curated data: - CONAN (English and Italian) [https://github.com/marcoguerini/CONAN/tree/master/CONAN] - CONAN (Basque and Spanish) [https://huggingface.co/datasets/HiTZ/CONAN-EUS] - CONAN-MT-SP (Spanish) [https://github.com/sinai-uja/CONAN-MT-SP] or [https://huggingface.co/datasets/SINAI/CONAN-MT-SP] - Multitarget-CONAN (English) [https://github.com/marcoguerini/CONAN/tree/master/Multitarget-CONAN] Participation --------------------- The aim of the shared task is, given a HS (and optionally any additional knowledge the participants may like to use), generate a CN to counteract the HS. An example of CN appear bellow: - English: + HS: We should ban all homosexuals. + CN: When will the love prosper and the hatred start to dissipate? I will not only respect my fellow LGBT+ people, I will promote their rights. - Italian: + HS: Dovremmo espellere tutti gli omosessuali. + CN: Quand'è che l'amore prospererà e l'odio inizierà a dissiparsi? Non solo rispetterò i miei compagni LGBT+, ma promuoverò i loro diritti. - Spanish: + HS: Deberíamos prohibir a todos los homosexuales. + CN: ¿Cuándo prosperará el amor y empezará a disiparse el odio? No sólo respetaré a mis compañeros LGBT+, sino que promoveré sus derechos. - Basque: + HS: Homosexual guztiak debekatu beharko genituzke. + CN: Noiz hasiko da maitasuna irabazten eta gorrotoa desagertzen? LGBT+ pertsonak errespetatzeaz gain, haien eskubideak sustatuko ditut. Participants will download the test HS for the 4 languages and generate at most three different CNs per HS for each language). The test window will last 5 days. Participants are allowed to use any resource (language model, data, etc.) to generate the CN. **Note:** If you are going to participate in the shared task, please fill the following form: [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeAZTJsrEXt35HfFFchPNdPi289q5kKerq…] Evaluation --------------------- The CNs submitted by the participants will be evaluated: - Using traditional automatic metrics as in Tekiro ̆glu et al.( 2022), which include BLEU, ROUGE, Novelty and Repetition Rate. - Using LLM as a Judge following the approach described in this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.15227 Important Dates --------------------- - Test dataset release: October 21st, 2024 - Results submission: October 25th, 2024 - Results notification: November 10th, 2024 - Working papers submission: November 20th, 2024 - Notification of Acceptance: December 3rd, 2024 - Camera-Ready Papers Due: December 10th, 2024 - Workshop: January 19th, 2025 For more information you can joint the Google group [https://groups.google.com/g/multilingual-cs-generation-coling2025] or visit our website [https://sites.google.com/view/multilang-counterspeech-gen/home] [https://sites.google.com/view/multilang-counterspeech-gen/shared-task] Best regards, The Multilingual Counterspeech Generation Workshop Organizers.

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

03 Oct '24

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

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

02 Oct '24

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

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

02 Oct '24

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

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

02 Oct '24

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

02 Oct '24

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

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

02 Oct '24

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

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

02 Oct '24

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

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

01 Oct '24

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

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Language data engineer
by Vincent Vandeghinste 30 Sep '24

30 Sep '24

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

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