We invite you to participate in the 35th European Summer School in
Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI), taking place from 29 July - 9
August, 2024 at the University of Leuven, Belgium.
https://2024.esslli.eu/
* Overview
The European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI)
is a yearly recurring event, organized under the auspices of the
Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI), and has been
running since 1989. The ESSLLI Summer School provides an
interdisciplinary setting in which courses and workshops are offered in
logic, linguistics and computer science, also from wider scientific,
historical, and philosophical perspectives.
ESSLLI attracts around 400 participants from Europe, the Middle East,
Asia and Africa, as well as from North America and Latin America. ESSLLI
has become the main meeting place for young researchers and students in
logic, linguistics and computer science to discuss current research and
to share knowledge. The event is unique in its interdisciplinary set-up,
with no equivalents in Europe.
* Programme
The ESSLLI Summer School offers an exciting two-week programme,
consisting of the following:
- Foundational, introductory and advanced courses in three areas:
Language and Computation, Logic and Computation, and Logic and Language
- Workshops in logic, linguistics and computer science
- Student session
- Evening lectures
- Social activities
The full program can be found on the website.
* Registration:
Registration for attendees, course lecturers, student session and
workshop organizers and speakers is now open. The early-registration
deadline is Friday, 31st May.
https://2024.esslli.eu/registration/registration.html
* Accommodation
ESSLLI is offering affordable accommodation to all participants who book
before 31st May. We cannot guarantee accommodation for registrations
received after this date.
(apologies for cross-posting)
Dear colleague,
We have launched the test stage of the CheckThat! 2024 lab at CLEF. The
test datasets and the submission websites are ready. Please, visit the
CheckThat! website to download the data/notebooks and read the instructions
to submit your runs:
http://checkthat.gitlab.io/clef2024/
Do notice that each of the 6 tasks runs independently and that you can
participate in one or more of them. Do not hesitate to get in touch, would
you face any issue.
The deadline to submit your runs is on 6 May 2024 (23:59 AOE).
Further information: https://checkthat.gitlab.io/
Datasets: https://gitlab.com/checkthat_lab/clef2024-checkthat-lab
<https://gitlab.com/checkthat_lab/clef2023-checkthat-lab>
Best regards,
The CheckThat! organisers
[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
<https://workshop-wassa.github.io/>at ACL 2024 <https://2024.aclweb.org/>.
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:
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Track 1: Empathy Prediction in Conversations (CONV-dialog), which
consists in predicting the perceived empathy at the dialog-level
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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
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Track 3: Empathy Prediction (EMP), which consists in predicting both the
empathy concern and the personal distress at the essay-level
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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
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April 24, 2024: Codalab competition website goes online, and
training/development data released
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May 29, 2024: Evaluation phase begins: test data released
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June 1, 2024: Evaluation phase ends: Deadline for final submission on
Codalab
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June 12, 2024: Deadline system description paper (max. 4p)
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June 22, 2024: Notification of acceptance
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July 1, 2024: Camera-ready papers due
Task Organizers
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Salvatore Giorgi - National Institute on Drug Abuse [C], USA
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Valentin Barriere - Universidad de Chile , Chile
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Joao Sedoc - New York University, USA
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Shabnam Tafreshi - Evernorth Healthcare, USA
Contact
wassa24empathy [at] gmail [dot] com
Join Google Group
wassa24empathy(a)googlegroups.com
*Call for Participation: The Workshop on Holocaust Testimonies as Language
Resources*
Date: 21 May 2024 (full day)
Venue: Lingotto Conference Centre, Turin, Italy
Webpage and programme: https://www.clarin.eu/HTRes2024
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*Registration*
Registration is obligatory and can be carried out via the LREC-COLING 2024
website: https://lrec-coling-2024.org/.
Workshop description
Holocaust testimonies serve as a bridge between survivors and history’s
darkest chapters, providing a connection to the profound experiences of the
past. Testimonies stand as the primary source of information that describe
the Holocaust, offering first-hand accounts and personal narratives of
those who experienced it. The majority of testimonies are captured in an
oral format, as survivors vividly explain and share their personal
experiences and observations from that time period. Transforming Holocaust
testimonies into a machine-processable digital format can be a difficult
task owing to the unstructured nature of the text. The creation of
accessible, comprehensive, and well-annotated Holocaust testimony
collections is of paramount importance to our society. These collections
empower researchers and historians to validate the accuracy of socially and
historically significant information, enabling them to share critical
insights and trends derived from these data. This workshop will investigate
a number of ways in which techniques and tools from natural language
processing and corpus linguistics can contribute to the exploration,
analysis, dissemination and preservation of Holocaust testimonies.
*Programme*
Please refer to the website for the details of the programme:
https://www.clarin.eu/HTRes2024
Contact Email: holocausttlr(a)gmail.com
*Invited speakers*
Silvia Calamai (Siena University)
Michal Frankl (Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of
Sciences)
*Organising Committee*
Isuri Anuradha, University of Wolverhampton, UK
Ingo Frommholz, University of Wolverhampton
Francesca Frontini, CNR-ILC, Italy & CLARIN
Martin Wynne, Oxford University, UK
Ruslan Mitkov, Lancaster University, UK
Paul Rayson, Lancaster University, UK
Alistair Plum, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
*Summary*
• Subject: Language & vision-based mobility assistance for visually
impaired people
• Keywords: Assistive Technologies, Visual Impairment, Computer Vision,
Image Captioning
• Research Unit: Lab-STICC (UMR CNRS 6285)
• Team: RAMBO - Robot interaction, Ambient system, Machine learning,
Behaviour, Optimization
• Location: IMT Atlantique, Brest
• Start: September/October 2024
• Duration: 3 years
• Supervision: Panagiotis Papadakis, Christophe Lohr
*Full subject description:*
https://www.imt-atlantique.fr/sites/default/files/recherche/Offres%20de%20t…
*Application *
The candidate must hold (or is about to obtain) a Master Degree in
Computer Science with theoretical and practical skills in AI algorithms
and associated deep-learning tools (e.g. Pytorch), and a solid
background in Computer Vision.
The candidate should be fluent in English (working and publishing main
language), but French speaking is an advantage (meetings with end-users
representatives).
A detailed application should be addressed to
thesis-application-rambo(a)imt-atlantique.fr, including a cover letter, an
up-to-date CV, transcripts of grades (last two years), and a list of
referees.
*Deadline: 17 May 2024
*
SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
*The Second Workshop on Multimodal Semantic Representations (MMSR II)*
Co-located with ECAI 2024 (https://www.ecai2024.eu/)
19-24 October, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
(workshop on 19 or 20 October)
*Workshop website*: https://mmsr-workshop.github.io/
*Description*
The demand for more sophisticated natural human-computer and human-robot
interactions is rapidly increasing as users become more accustomed to
conversation-like interactions with AI and NLP systems. Such interactions
require not only the robust recognition and generation of expressions
through multiple modalities (language, gesture, vision, action, etc.), but
also the encoding of situated meaning.
When communications become multimodal, each modality in operation provides
an orthogonal angle through which to probe the computational model of the
other modalities, including the behaviors and communicative capabilities
afforded by each. Multimodal interactions thus require a unified framework
and control language through which systems interpret inputs and behaviors
and generate informative outputs. This is vital for intelligent and often
embodied systems to understand the situation and context that they inhabit,
whether in the real world or in a mixed-reality environment shared with
humans.
Furthermore, multimodal large language models appear to offer the
possibility for more dynamic and contextually rich interactions across
various modalities, including facial expressions, gestures, actions, and
language. We invite discussion on how representations and pipelines can
potentially integrate such state-of-the-art language models.
We solicit papers on multimodal semantic representation, including but not
limited to the following topics:
- Semantic frameworks for individual linguistic co-modalities (e.g.
gaze, facial expression);
- Formal representation of situated conversation and embodiment,
including knowledge graphs, designed to represent epistemic state;
- Design, annotation, and corpora of multimodal interaction and meaning
representation;
- Challenges (including cross-lingual and cross-cultural) in multimodal
representation and/or processing;
- Criteria or frameworks for evaluation of multimodal semantics;
- Challenges in aligning co-modalities in formal representation and/or
NLP tasks;
- Design and implementation of neurosymbolic or fusion models for
multimodal processing (with a representational component);
- Methods for probing knowledge of multimodal (language and vision)
models;
- Virtual and situated agents that embody multimodal representations of
common ground.
*Submission Information*
Two types of submissions are solicited: long papers and short papers. Long
papers should describe original research and must not exceed 8 pages,
excluding references. Short papers (typically system or project
descriptions, or ongoing research) must not exceed 4 pages, excluding
references. Both types will be published in the workshop proceedings.
Accepted papers get an extra page in the camera-ready version.
We strongly encourage students to submit to the workshop.
*Important Dates*
May 15, 2024: Submissions due
July 1, 2024: Notification of acceptance decisions
August 2, 2024: Camera-ready papers due
Papers should be formatted using the ECAI style files, available at:
https://www.ecai2024.eu/calls/main-track
Papers will be submitted in PDF format via Chairing Tool at the following
link: https://chairingtool.com/conferences/2MMSR24/MainTrack
Please do not hesitate to reach out with any questions.
Best regards,
Richard Brutti, Lucia Donatelli, Nikhil Krishnaswamy, Kenneth Lai, & James
Pustejovsky
MMSR II organizers
Web page: https://mmsr-workshop.github.io/
Event Notification Type: Test set released.
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/iberautextification
*TEST SET RELEASED*
*IberAuTexTification*
*Automated Text Identification on Languages of the Iberian Peninsula*
Dear All,
The test dataset for the IberAuTexTification 2024 shared task has been
released. It can be found on the shared task website (
https://sites.google.com/view/iberautextification/data), in Genaios Github
repository (https://github.com/Genaios/IberAuTexTification) and Zenodo (
https://zenodo.org/records/11034382).
Please, remember that registration is on a per-team basis, meaning only one
member from each team needs to sign up. Once requested the test dataset on
one of the previous links, you will receive the download permission and a
password to decompress the data within 24 hours. Please, make sure to write
your email address correctly, since we will send passwords, as well as
future notifications to that address.
Please reach out to the organizers or join the Slack workspace to connect
with the other participants and organizers.
Best regards on behalf of
IberAuTexTification shared tasks organizers
SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
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The First Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Turkic
Languages (SIGTURK)
August 15-16 2024, Bangkok (Co-located with ACL)
INTRODUCTION
We present the first edition of the SIGTURK Workshop representing the
annual meeting of the ACL Special Interest Group on Turkic Languages,
which aims to provide a new venue that will promote studies on
computational linguistics in Turkic languages. Our main objective is to
bring together an interdisciplinary community of researchers working on
different aspects of natural language processing (NLP) models and
corpora in Turkic languages, providing the recently growing number of
researchers working on the topic with a means of communication and an
opportunity to present their work and exchange ideas.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
We welcome submissions on, but not limited to, the following topics:
* Computational linguistics: models of all aspects of linguistics in
Turkic languages (e.g., semantics, syntax, lexicon, morphology)
* Systems: Case studies on the construction of NLP systems for Turkic
languages
* Evaluation: Understanding the applicability of current NLP methods
in Turkic languages
* Metrics: New metrics and measures for evaluating NLP systems
suitable to Turkic languages
* Learning from sparse data: Novel methods for learning from small or
sparse data in Turkic languages
* Resources: Datasets, benchmarks, and software libraries for NLP
models in Turkic languages
IMPORTANT DATES
* First call for papers: February 9, 2024 (Friday)
* Second call for papers: March 4, 2024 (Monday)
* Paper submission deadline: May 31, 2024 (Friday)
* Notification of acceptance: June 16, 2024 (Monday)
* Camera-ready submission deadline: July 1, 2024 (Monday)
* Workshop dates: August 15-16 (Thursday - Friday)
Note: All deadlines are 11:59 pm UTC -12h (“anywhere on Earth”).
CONTACT INFORMATION
* Email: workshop(a)sigturk.com
* Submission Portal:
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__openreview.net_group-3…
* Official Website:
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sigturk.com_workshop&d…
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Research papers
We invite all potential participants to submit their novel research
contributions in the related fields as long papers following the ACL
2024 long paper format (anonymized with 8 pages excluding the
references, and an additional page for the camera-ready versions for the
accepted papers). All accepted research papers will be published as part
of our workshop proceedings and will be presented either through oral
presentations or poster sessions. Our research paper track will accept
submissions through our own submission system available at
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__openreview.net_group-3…
.
Extended abstracts
Besides long paper submissions, we also invite previously published or
ongoing and incomplete research contributions to our non-archival
extended abstract track. All extended abstracts can use the same EMNLP
template with a 2-page limit, excluding the bibliography. Extended
abstracts can be submitted to the workshop submission system using the
link:
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__openreview.net_group-3…
.
"HACK TOGETHER" PROGRAMMING EVENT
In addition to the workshop itself, the second day will be devoted to a
full-day collaborative hybrid programming event "Hack Together". Our
goal is to
demonstrate the SIGTURK NLP library and interested parties can
contribute to the integration of new NLP methods and models into the
SIGTURK pipeline. The SIGTURK infrastructure can be found at
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_sigturk&d=D…
. Findings of the event will be combined into
a system demonstration paper.
INVITED SPEAKERS
Kemal Oflazer, Carnegie Mellon University
MORE INFORMATION
For further details and updates, please visit our workshop website:
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sigturk.com_workshop&d…
ORGANIZERS
Duygu Ataman, New York University
Deniz Zeyrek Bozşahin, Middle East Technical University
Mehmet Oguz Derin
Sardana Ivanova, University of Helsinki
Abdullatif Köksal, LMU Munich
Jonne Sälevä, Brandeis University
The College of Humanities & Social Sciences (CHSS) at Hamad Bin Khalifa
University (HBKU) in Qatar invites applications for the following positions:
1. Full Professor in Digital Humanities with expertise in AI ethics,
bias, and fairness.
2. Associate Professor in Digital Humanities with expertise in Digital
Cultural Heritage, or Digital Media and Communication with a particular
emphasis on the analysis of mis/disinformation (2 positions).
Successful applicants will work closely with our established Digital
Humanities and Societies Program, as well as other programs in the college,
and will develop academic and research collaborations with potential
national, regional, and international partners. They will teach graduate
courses at the MA level, contribute to curriculum development in their
area(s) of specialty, supervise MA and Ph.D. students, and maintain an
active research agenda. The ideal candidates will be dynamic, experienced,
and internationally recognized scholars with an innovative research agenda,
as demonstrated through a strong record of peer-reviewed publications and
funding/grant acquisitions.
Candidates for both positions should hold a Ph.D. or terminal degree from
an accredited university. For the Full Professor position, applicants
should have 10-12 years of relevant full-time university teaching
experience in research, higher education, or closely related areas in
industry (additional experience may be required to show equivalency), with
evidence of increasing professional maturity and productivity. For the
Associate Professor position, applicants should have 6-8 years of relevant
full-time university teaching experience, with evidence of increasing
professional maturity and productivity.
All candidates should demonstrate proficiency in teaching, student
supervision, curriculum development, and have a strong portfolio of
scholarly endeavors. They should also show evidence of participation in
scholarly and academic affairs, an established regional and international
reputation in their discipline, and the ability to work with diverse
groups, cultures, and communities.
To apply, please submit your CV, cover letter, teaching philosophy,
research statement, and the names of three references via the provided link
at the end of this post. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis
until the positions are filled, with the first review stage starting in May.
Full Professor position: https://www.hbku.edu.qa/en/CHSS-P
Associate professor positions: https://www.hbku.edu.qa/en/CHSS-APR