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AIWolfDial Shared Task 2024 @ INLG 2024 - First call for participation
by Yoshinobu Kano 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

Call for Participation Shared Task for the 2nd Workshop of AI Werewolf and Dialog System (AIWolfDial2024) at the 17th International Natural Language Generation conference (INLG 2024) # Summary Recent achievements of generation models, e.g. ChatGPT, are gathering greater attentions. However, there is still room to investigate LLMs could sufficiently able to handle coherent responses, longer contexts, common grounds, and logics. Werewolf is a social, hidden identity game that requires debate between players and coalition building. The goal of our AIWerewolf contest is to build an AI agent that is able to play this game against other AI. # Schedule Shared tasks July 28th, 2024 Registration August 4th, 2024 Preliminary run (self-match game) mid August, 2024 Formal run (multi-agent game) Workshop August 18th, 2024 Paper submission deadline (submissions should be via the Sontconf system, see our Call for Papers) August 25th, 2024 Notifications of the paper accpetance August 30th, 2024 Camera ready paper deadline Sep 24th, 2024 Workshop (planned in pm) in Tokyo Sep 23-27, 2024 INLG conference Our shared task is held as a part of our AIWolfDial 2024 workshop at INLG 2024 (17th International Natural Language Generation Conference), which will be held in Tokyo from September 23th to 27th. It is not mandatry for our shared task participants to attend the INLG 2024 conference, but encouraged to submit thier papers to the workshop. Please refer to our websites for the details including technical requirments: https://sites.google.com/view/aiwolfdial2024-inlg We have a seperate call for papers of our workshop. # Why AI Werewolf? Recent achievements of generation models, e.g. ChatGPT, are gathering greater attentions. However, such a huge language model would not be sufficiently able to handle coherent responses, longer contexts, common grounds, and logics. The AIWolfDial 2024 contest, which is an international open contest for automatic players of the conversation game "Mafia", requires players not just to communicate but to infer, persuade, deceive other players via coherent logical conversations, while having the role-playing non-task-oriented chats as well. We believe that this contest reveals current issues in the recent huge language models, showing directions of next breakthrough in the NLP area. From the viewpoint of Game AI area, players must hide information, in contrast to perfect information games such as chess or Reversi. Each player acquires secret information from other players' conversations and behavior and acts by hiding information to accomplish their objectives. Players are required persuasion for earning confidence, and speculation for detecting fabrications. Participants must build an artificial intelligence agent that can play the werewolf game as humans do, using natural language. Participant agents will be evaluated by a panel of judges, who will grade the subjective quality of the dialog generated by the agent, in addition to their win rates. Agents must communicate in Japanese or English. # Registration A team should send a mail to aiwolf [at] kanolab.net (replace at by @), describing your team name, a contact e-mail address, names and affiliations of its members (please mark a contact person when a team consists of multiple members), communication language (English and/or Japanese) of your agent, ssh public key and your preferred user name to connect to our game server. Registration is free. # System Evaluation Participants should submit a paper to the workshop, or a system design description document to the organizers. In addition to the win rates, reviewers will perform subjective evaluations on the game logs of a self-match games and multi-agent games, using following criteria: A Natural utterance expressions B Contextually natural conversation C Coherent (not contradictory) conversation D Coherent game actions (vote, attack, divine) with conversation contents E Diverse utterance expressions, including coherent characterization Please note that vague utterances that could be used regardless of context are not always natural in the werewolf game. The top-ranking teams will be awarded prizes and gifts from SpiralAI, a company developing its own LLM for colloquial multi-turn conversations. # Sponser Spiral.AI Inc, Japan # Organizers Organizers and Program Commitee: Yoshinobu Kano, Shizuoka University, Japan Claus Aranha, Tsukuba University Takashi Otsuki, Yamagata University, Japan Fujio Toriumi, The University of Tokyo, Japan Hirotaka Osawa, Keio University, Japan Daisuke Katagami, Tokyo Polytechnic University, Japan Michimasa Inaba, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan Kei Harada, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan Takeshi Ito, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan Local Organizers: Neo Watanabe, Shizuoka University, Japan Kaito Kagaminuma, Shizuoka University, Japan Yuto Sahashi, Shizuoka University, Japan On behalf of the AIWolf organizers, Yoshinobu Kano Associate Professor, Shizuoka University kano(a)inf.shizuoka.ac.jp

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AIWolfDial 2024 workshop @ INLG 2024 - First call for papers
by Yoshinobu Kano 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers The 2nd International Workshop of AI Werewolf and Dialog System (AIWolfDial2024) Collocated with INLG 2024 conference, September 23-27, 2024, Tokyo, Japan https://sites.google.com/view/aiwolfdial2024-inlg -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- < Workshop aims > Recent achievements of generation models, e.g. ChatGPT, are gathering greater attentions. However, such a huge language model would not be sufficiently able to handle coherent responses, longer contexts, common grounds, and logics. The AIWolfDial 2024 contest is held as a part of this AIWolfDial2024 workshop. This is an international open contest for automatic players of the conversation game "Mafia", requires players not just to communicate but to infer, persuade, deceive other players via coherent logical conversations, while having the role-playing non-task-oriented chats as well. We believe that this contest reveals current issues in the recent huge language models, showing directions of next breakthrough in the NLP area. From the viewpoint of Game AI area, players must hide information, in contrast to perfect information games such as chess or Reversi. Each player acquires secret information from other players' conversations and behavior and acts by hiding information to accomplish their objectives. Players are required persuasion for earning confidence, and speculation for detecting fabrications. We call for papers which include following topics but not limited to: - AI werewolf agents for natural language and/or protocols - Natural language processing and LLMs for games - Corpora, resources, analysis on conversation games - Natural language processing for human relationships - Natural language processing for logic and strategy - Imperfect information game and natural language - Deceiving and persuasion by automatic agents - Evaluation of dialog systems using games < Important dates > August 18th, 2024 Paper submission deadline (submissions should be via the Sontconf system, see our Call for Papers) August 25th, 2024 Notifications of the paper accpetance August 30th, 2024 Camera ready paper deadline Sep 24th, 2024 Workshop (planned in pm) in Tokyo Sep 23-27, 2024 INLG conference < Submission > We call for short papers and long papers as same as the INLG main conference, both for shared task papers and papers in general. Please use the ACL format as specified in the INLG conference webpage. Submission site will open soon. < Website > https://sites.google.com/view/aiwolfdial2024-inlg < Shared task > Please refer to our call for participation sent separately, which is shown in our workshop website. < Committee > Contact E-mail to aiwolf at kanolab.net (replace at by @) # Organizers Organizers and Program Commitee: Yoshinobu Kano, Shizuoka University, Japan Claus Aranha, Tsukuba University Takashi Otsuki, Yamagata University, Japan Fujio Toriumi, The University of Tokyo, Japan Hirotaka Osawa, Keio University, Japan Daisuke Katagami, Tokyo Polytechnic University, Japan Michimasa Inaba, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan Kei Harada, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan Takeshi Ito, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan Local Organizers: Neo Watanabe, Shizuoka University, Japan Kaito Kagaminuma, Shizuoka University, Japan Yuto Sahashi, Shizuoka University, Japan On behalf of the AIWolf organizers, Yoshinobu Kano Associate Professor, Shizuoka University kano(a)inf.shizuoka.ac.jp

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NLP4CALL 2023 Final call for papers
by David Alfter 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

== 12th NLP4CALL, Tórshavn, Faroe Islands== The workshop series on Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (NLP4CALL) is a meeting place for researchers working on the integration of Natural Language Processing and Speech Technologies in CALL systems and exploring the theoretical and methodological issues arising in this connection. The latter includes, among others, insights from Second Language Acquisition (SLA) research, on the one hand, and promote development of “Computational SLA” through setting up Second Language research infrastructure(s), on the other. The intersection of Natural Language Processing (or Language Technology / Computational Linguistics) and Speech Technology with Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) brings “understanding” of language to CALL tools, thus making CALL intelligent. This fact has given the name for this area of research – Intelligent CALL, ICALL. As the definition suggests, apart from having excellent knowledge of Natural Language Processing and/or Speech Technology, ICALL researchers need good insights into second language acquisition theories and practices, as well as knowledge of second language pedagogy and didactics. This workshop invites therefore a wide range of ICALL-relevant research, including studies where NLP-enriched tools are used for testing SLA and pedagogical theories, and vice versa, where SLA theories, pedagogical practices or empirical data are modeled in ICALL tools. The NLP4CALL workshop series is aimed at bringing together competences from these areas for sharing experiences and brainstorming around the future of the field. We welcome papers: - that describe research directly aimed at ICALL; - that demonstrate actual or discuss the potential use of existing Language and Speech Technologies or resources for language learning; - that describe the ongoing development of resources and tools with potential usage in ICALL, either directly in interactive applications, or indirectly in materials, application or curriculum development, e.g. learning material generation, assessment of learner texts and responses, individualized learning solutions, provision of feedback; - that discuss challenges and/or research agenda for ICALL - that describe empirical studies on language learner data. This year a special focus is given to work done on error detection/correction and feedback generation. We encourage paper presentations and software demonstrations describing the above- mentioned themes primarily, but not exclusively, for the Nordic languages. ==Shared task== NEW for this year is the MultiGED shared task on token-level error detection for L2 Czech, English, German, Italian and Swedish, organized by the Computational SLA working group. For more information, please see the Shared Task website: https://github.com/spraakbanken/multiged-2023 ==Invited speakers== This year, we have the pleasure to announce two invited talks. The first talk is given by Marije Michel from the University of Amsterdam. The second talk is given by Pierre Lison from the Norwegian Computing Center. ==Submission information== Authors are invited to submit long papers (8-12 pages) alternatively short papers (4-7 pages), page count not including references. We will be using the NLP4CALL template for the workshop this year. The author kit can be accessed here, alternatively on Overleaf: <https://spraakbanken.gu.se/sites/default/files/2023/NLP4CALL%20workshop%20t…> <https://spraakbanken.gu.se/sites/default/files/2023/nlp4call%20template.doc> <https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/nlp4call-workshop-template/qqqzqqy…> Submissions will be managed through the electronic conference management system EasyChair <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nlp4call2023>. Papers must be submitted digitally through the conference management system, in PDF format. Final camera-ready versions of accepted papers will be given an additional page to address reviewer comments. Papers should describe original unpublished work or work-in-progress. Papers will be peer reviewed by at least two members of the program committee in a double-blind fashion. All accepted papers will be collected into a proceedings volume to be submitted for publication in the NEALT Proceeding Series (Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings) and, additionally, double-published through the ACL anthology, following experiences from the previous NLP4CALL editions (<https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/venues/nlp4call/>). ==Important dates== 03 April 2023: paper submission deadline 21 April 2023: notification of acceptance 01 May 2023: camera-ready papers for publication 22 May 2023: workshop date ==Organizers== David Alfter (1), Elena Volodina (2), Thomas François (3), Arne Jönsson (4), Evelina Rennes (4) (1) Gothenburg Research Infrastructure for Digital Humanities, Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion, University of Gothenburg, Sweden (2) Språkbanken, Department of Swedish, Multilingualism, Language Technology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden (3) CENTAL, Institute for Language and Communication, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium (4) Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköping University, Sweden ==Contact== For any questions, please contact David Alfter, david.alfter(a)gu.se For further information, see the workshop website <https://spraakbanken.gu.se/en/research/themes/icall/nlp4call-workshop-serie…> Follow us on Twitter @NLP4CALL <https://twitter.com/NLP4CALL/>

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DGfS Computational Linguistics Poster Session
by Annette Hautli-Janisz 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS The Annual Meeting of the German Society for Linguistics (https://dgfs.de/en/) features a poster session for presenting work in computational linguistics. We invite the submission of abstracts for the Computational Linguistics poster session of the 47th annual meeting of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS), hosted by the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. We invite submissions from all areas of computational linguistics and natural language processing, ranging from machine translation and information retrieval to speech and dialogue systems and cognitive modeling. We especially encourage students and junior researchers to participate. The poster session is organized by the Special Interest Group on Computational Linguistics of the DGfS (https://dgfs.de/en/cl/general). Conference webpage: https://converia.uni-mainz.de/frontend/index.php?sub=167 DATES - Abstract submission due: October 25, 2024 - Notification of acceptance: November 8, 2024 - Short abstract (for conference website/brochure) due: November 15, 2024 - Conference dates: March 4-7, 2025 SUBMISSION Anonymous one-page abstract (A4) in PDF format (12pt). Submissions can be in German or English. Please submit your abstract via email to: annette.hautli-janisz(a)uni-passau.de

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EMNLP 2024 - Call for Ethics Reviewing Volunteers
by ACL Announcements 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

Dear all, EMNLP 2024 organisers are committed to making EMNLP 2024 a huge success. As we commence the review process, we are looking for volunteers for ethics reviewing of EMNLP submissions. Please consider applying through 'https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScLyoxN3CDIeUbQbluh4XQK38fg8AMMNqe…'. Everyone is welcome! We especially invite people from diverse geographical locations and demographic identities to ensure diversity of opinions in the review process.

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PostDoc Opening(s) in University of Rome Tor Vergata
by znzfms00＠uniroma2.it 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

Can you force a single-layer transformer with attention to emit a token given an input sequence? If you can, YOU are the right person to work with us! Drop me an e-mail. We are hiring up to two PostDocs with a competitive salary for Italian PostDoc standards (assegno di ricerca 4 fascia). Here's the challenge: UnboxingChallenge.pdf<https://uniroma2-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/personal/fabio_zanzotto_uniroma2_e…> Here's the supporting Excel file simulating a single-layer transformer with attention: Challenge_1.xlsx<https://uniroma2-my.sharepoint.com/:x:/g/personal/fabio_zanzotto_uniroma2_e…> Research Group: Human-centric ART Institution: University of Rome Tor Vergata Location: Rome Required: a PhD in CS or a competitive publications' record track Desired: Willingness to work in team To stay up-to-date: X: https://x.com/HumanCentricArt LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/fabio-massimo-zanzotto-b027831<http://www.linkedin.com/in/fabio-massimo-zanzotto-b027831> Chek what we do: ‪Fabio Massimo Zanzotto‬ - ‪Google Scholar‬<https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=azv7Qr4AAAAJ&hl=en> Prof. Fabio Massimo Zanzotto Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Impresa "Mario Lucertini" University of Rome Tor Vergata

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Second CfProposals: ESSLLI 2025, July 28 - August 8, 2025, Bochum (Germany)
by ESSLLI Publicity 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

36th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI 2025) July 28-August 8, 2025, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany https://2025.esslli.eu/ (Please note that the Website is not currently online, but will soon be.) Important Dates ========================= *July 10, 2024:* Deadline for submitting course/workshop titles *July 24, 2024:* Deadline for submitting course/workshop proposals *October 15, 2024:* Notification sent to course/workshop proposers Note that submitting a proposal requires that the person submitting it has an OpenReview profile. Profiles created without an institutional email may go through a moderation process that can take up to two weeks to be activated. Profiles created with an institutional email are activated automatically. Introduction ========================= Under the auspices of the Association for Logic, Language, and Information (FoLLI), the European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (ESSLLI) runs every year. Except for 2021, when the school was virtual, it runs in a different European country each year. It takes place over two weeks in the summer, hosts approximately 50 different courses at levels that run from foundational to introductory to advanced, and attracts around 400 participants from all over the world. Since 1989, ESSLLI has been providing outstanding interdisciplinary educational opportunities in the fields of Computer Science, Cognitive Science, Linguistics, Logic, Philosophy, and beyond. It comes from a community which recognizes that advances in our common areas require the contributions of multiple interrelated disciplines. The main focus of ESSLLI is the interface between linguistics, logic and computation, with special emphasis on human linguistic and cognitive ability. Courses, both introductory and advanced, cover a wide variety of topics within the combined areas of interest: Logic and Computation, Computation and Language, and Language and Logic. Workshops are also organized, providing opportunities for in-depth discussion of issues at the forefront of research, as well as a series of invited evening lectures. Topics and Format ========================= Proposals for courses and workshops at ESSLLI 2025 are invited in all areas of Logic, Linguistics and Computer Science. Cross-disciplinary and innovative topics are particularly encouraged. During submission you will be asked to select one of three tracks “Language and Computation (LaCo)”, “Language and Logic (LaLo)”, “Logic and Computation (LoCo)”. Each course and workshop will consist of five 90 minute sessions, offered daily (Monday-Friday) in a single week. Proposals for two-week courses should be structured and submitted as two independent one-week courses, e.g. as an introductory course followed by an advanced one. In such cases, the ESSLLI Program Committee reserves the right to accept just one of the two proposals. All instructional and organizational work at ESSLLI is performed completely on a voluntary basis, so as to keep participation fees to a minimum. However, organizers and instructors have their registration fees waived, and are reimbursed for travel and accommodation expenses up to a level to be determined and communicated with the proposal notification. ESSLLI can only guarantee reimbursement for at most one course/workshop organizer, and cannot guarantee full reimbursement of travel costs for lecturers or organizers from outside of Europe. The ESSLLI organizers would appreciate any help in controlling the School's expenses by seeking partial or complete coverage of travel and accommodation expenses from other sources. Categories ========================= Each proposal should fall under one of the following categories. Foundational Courses ------------------------------------------- Such courses are designed to present the basics of a research area, to people with no prior knowledge in that area. They should be of elementary level, without prerequisites in the course's topic, though possibly assuming a level of general scientific maturity in the relevant discipline. They should enable researchers from related disciplines to develop a level of comfort with the fundamental concepts and techniques of the course's topic, thereby contributing to the interdisciplinary nature of our research community. Introductory Courses ------------------------------------------- Introductory courses are central to ESSLLI's mission. They are intended to introduce a research field to students, young researchers, and other non-specialists, and to foster a sound understanding of its basic methods and techniques. Such courses should enable researchers from related disciplines to develop some comfort and competence in the topic considered. Introductory courses in a cross-disciplinary area may presuppose general knowledge of the related disciplines. Advanced Courses ------------------------------------------- Advanced courses are targeted primarily to graduate students who wish to acquire a level of comfort and understanding in the current research of a field. Workshops ------------------------------------------- Workshops focus on specialized topics, usually of current interest. Workshop organizers are responsible for soliciting papers and selecting the workshop program. They are also responsible for publishing proceedings if they decide to have proceedings. Proposal Guidelines ========================= Course and workshop proposals should closely follow these guidelines to ensure full consideration. Course and Workshop proposals can be submitted by no more than two lecturers/organizers and can be presented by no more than these two lecturers/organizers. All instructors and organizers must possess a PhD or equivalent degree by the submission deadline. Course proposals should mention explicitly the intended course category. Proposals for introductory courses should indicate the intended level, for example as it relates to standard textbooks and monographs in the area. Proposals for advanced courses should specify the prerequisites in detail. Proposals of Courses given at ESSLLI in the previous year will have a lower priority of being accepted in the current year. Proposals must be in PDF format and include all the following information: 1. Personal information for each proposer: Name, affiliation, contact address, email, homepage (optional) 2. General proposal information: Title, category 3. Contents information: a. Abstract of up to 150 words b. Motivation and description (up to two pages) c. Tentative outline d. Expected level and prerequisites e. Appropriate references (e.g. textbooks, monographs, proceedings, surveys) 4. Information required of course proposers: a. Will the course appeal to students outside of the main discipline of the course? b. What experience does the proposer have in presenting an intensive one-week interdisciplinary setting? c. What evidence is there that the course proposer is an excellent lecturer? 5. Information required of workshop organizers: a. Information on relevant preceding meetings and events, if applicable b. Information about potential external funding for participants. Submission Information ========================= By *July 10, 2024*, proposers are asked to submit at least the name(s) of the instructor(s), the ESSLLI area+course level and a title and short abstract for the proposed course/workshop. By *July 24, 2024*, course proposers must complete their submission by uploading a PDF with the actual proposal as detailed above. Submission Portal ========================= Please* submit your proposals to* https://openreview.net/group?id=ESSLLI.eu/2025/Summer_School_Proposals Note that submitting a proposal requires that the person submitting it has an OpenReview profile. Profiles created without an institutional email may go through a moderation process that can take up to two weeks to be activated. Profiles created with an institutional email are activated automatically. EACSL Sponsorship ================= The EACSL will support one Logic and Computation course or workshop addressing topics of interest to Computer Science Logic (CSL) conferences. The selected course or workshop will be designated an EACSL course/workshop in the programme. If you wish to be considered for this, please indicate it in your proposal. Organizing Committee ========================= Tatjana Scheffler (Ruhr University Bochum, chair) Maria Berger (Ruhr University Bochum) Maike Buchin (Ruhr University Bochum) Daniel Gutzmann (Ruhr University Bochum) Stephanie Heimgartner (Ruhr University Bochum) Kristina Liefke (Ruhr University Bochum) Hannah Seemann (Ruhr University Bochum) Christian Straßer (Ruhr University Bochum) Katharina Turgay (Ruhr University Bochum) Thomas Zeume (Ruhr University Bochum) Program Committee ========================= Balder ten Cate (ILLC, University of Amsterdam, chair) Daniel Gutzman (Ruhr University of Bochum, local co-chair) Area Chairs Language and Computation (LaCo) ------------------------------------------- - Nicholas Asher (IRIT/CNRS Toulouse) - Martha Lewis (ILLC, University Amsterdam) - Valerio Basile (University of Turin) Area Chairs Language and Logic (LaLo) ------------------------------------------- - Daniel Altshuler (Oxford University) - Elin McCready (Aoyama Gakuin University) - Judith Tonhauser (University of Stuttgart) Area Chairs Logic and Computation (LoCo) ------------------------------------------- - Luca Reggio (University College London) - Leopoldo Bertossi (Skema Business School & Carleton University) - Anupam Das (University of Birmingham) Publicity Chair: Søren Knudstorp (ILLC, University of Amsterdam) ESSLLI Steering Committee ========================= Jakub Szymanik (University of Trento) (chair) Magdalena Ortiz (TU Wien) Roman Kuznets (TU Wien) (secretary) Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (University College London) Lonneke van der Plas (Idiap Research Institute)

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2nd CFP: CLiC-it 2024 - Tenth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics
by Simonetta Montemagni 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CLiC-it 2024 - Tenth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 4 - 6 December 2024, Pisa, Italy https://clic2024.ilc.cnr.it/ This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics, CLiC-it! To commemorate this milestone, CLiC-it will be hosted in Pisa, just as it was in 2014. Over the years, CLiC-it has evolved into an important forum for the Italian community of researchers in Computational Linguistics (CL) and Natural Language Processing (NLP). CLiC-it aims to promote and disseminate high-quality, original research covering different aspects of automatic language processing, involving both written and spoken language. Furthermore, it seeks to showcase cutting-edge theoretical findings, experimental methodologies, technologies, and application perspectives. The spirit of the conference is inclusive. Recognizing the multifaceted nature of language phenomena and the need for interdisciplinary expertise, CLiC-it aims to bring together researchers from different fields including Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing, Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Machine Learning, Computer Science, Knowledge Representation, Information Retrieval, and Digital Humanities. CLiC-it welcomes contributions focusing on all languages, with a particular emphasis on Italian. CLiC-it 2024 will be held in Pisa, from the 4th to the 6th of December. CLiC-it is organised by the Italian Association of Computational Linguistics (AILC -- http://www.ai-lc.it/). Conference topics ----------------------------- CLiC-it 2024 aims to have a broad technical program. Relevant topics for the conference include, but are not limited to (in alphabetical order): - Computational Historical Linguistics - Computational Social Science and Cultural Analytics - Dialogue and Interactive Systems - Discourse and Pragmatics - Ethics and NLP - Generation - Handwritten Text Recognition - Information Extraction - Information Retrieval and Text Mining - Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP - Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond - Large Language Models - Linguistic Diversity - Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling, and Psycholinguistics - Machine Learning for NLP - Machine Translation - Multilingualism and Cross-Lingual NLP - NLP Applications - NLP for the Humanities - Phonology, Morphology, and Word Segmentation - Pragmatics and Creativity - Question Answering - Resources and Evaluation - Semantics: Lexical, Sentence-level Semantics, Textual Inference, and Other Areas - Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining - Speech and Multimodality - Summarization - Syntax: Tagging, Chunking and Parsing Paper Submission ----------------------- Submitted papers must describe substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis should be included. CLiC-it 2024 allows for a multiple submission policy. In case of acceptance of the paper in other venues, the authors must communicate this information to the CLiC-it 2024 Chairs as soon as possible. Papers may consist of up to five (5) pages of content, plus unlimited pages of acknowledgments, references and appendices. Upon acceptance, final versions of papers will be given one additional page of content, so that reviewers’ comments can be taken into account. Papers will be evaluated according to the following criteria: - soundness of approach - relevance to computational linguistics - novelty and clarity of relation with related work - quality of presentation - quality of evaluation (if applicable) - verifiability and ability to replicate (if applicable) Papers can be either in English or Italian, with the abstract in English. Accepted papers will be published on-line and will be presented at the conference either orally or as a poster. Reviewing will NOT be blind, so there is no need to remove author information from manuscripts. Research Communications ---------------------------------- CLiC-it 2024 adopts a parallel submission policy for outstanding papers accepted in 2023 by major publication venues, namely the major international CL conferences (workshops excluded) or international journals. These contributions can be submitted to CLiC-it 2024 as short research communications. Research communications will not be published in the conference proceedings, they serve primarily to promote the dissemination of high-quality research within the Italian CL community. Submitted research communications must be in the scope of the CLiC-it 2024 conference. The authors of papers that meet the above criteria are invited to submit a written (maximum) one-page abstract of the original paper, including the paper’s title and authors as well as a pointer to the original conference or journal where the paper was published. If needed, research communications will undergo a selection process overseen by the conference chairs. Since these papers have already been reviewed, the selection criteria will primarily consider their original publication venue. Priority will be granted to papers that align most closely with the conference program, ensuring a balanced representation across various conference topics. Submission template and procedure —--------------------------------------------- The required template for CLiC-it submissions must be compatible with CEUR (https://ceur-ws.org/). You can download the conference-adapted version at the following links: LaTeX template: https://clic2024.ilc.cnr.it/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/CLiC-it-2024-templat… Word template: https://clic2024.ilc.cnr.it/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/CLiC_it_2024_templat… Should you encounter any issues with the compilation (as the CEUR template has historically presented some challenges and is not modifiable without risking exclusion from the proceedings), we provide a read-only Overleaf template (https://www.overleaf.com/read/sjxmxsssfvyb#c76746). This template can be accessed and cloned to help resolve any technical difficulties. Papers and research communications must be submitted through the START platform using the following link: https://softconf.com/p/clic-it2024 For research communications the appropriate track should be selected. Awards --------- To acknowledge the contribution of young researchers to the field, the title of "best paper" will be awarded to outstanding papers, provided that a Master's or PhD student is among the authors and presents the work at the conference. Recipients of this award will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers to the Italian Journal of Computational Linguistics (IJCoL). To recognise excellence in student research as well as promote awareness of our field, AILC is also conferring the “Emanuele Pianta” prize for the best Master Thesis (Laurea Magistrale) in Computational Linguistics submitted at an Italian University. The prize consists of 500 Euros plus free membership to AILC for one year and free registration to the upcoming CLiC-it. The complete call is available on the conference website at: “Calls > AILC Master Thesis Award”. Invited Speakers --------- - Giosuè Baggio, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway - Dieuwke Hupkes, Meta AI Research, Paris, France Important Dates --------------- - 15/07/2024: Paper submission deadline: regular papers and research communications - 23/09/2024: Notification to authors of reviewing/selection outcome - 21/10/2024: Camera ready version of accepted papers - 4-6/12/2024: CLiC-it 2024 Conference, Pisa People ------ Conference Chairs: - Felice Dell’Orletta (CNR-ILC) - Alessandro Lenci (University of Pisa) - Simonetta Montemagni (CNR-ILC) - Rachele Sprugnoli (University of Parma) Program Committee: - Dominique Brunato (CNR-ILC) - Cristiano Chesi (IUSS Pavia) - Roberta Claudia Combei (University of Pavia) - Diego Frassinelli (University of Konstanz) - Marco Guerini (Fondazione Bruno Kessler) - Gianluca Lebani (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) - Alessandro Mazzei (University of Torino) - Johanna Monti (Orientale University of Naples) - Malvina Nissim (University of Groningen) - Debora Nozza (Bocconi University) - Lucia Passaro (University of Pisa) - Marco Polignano (University of Bari) - Roberto Zamparelli (University of Trento) - Fabio Massimo Zanzotto (University of Rome “Tor Vergata”) Local Organizing Committee: - Chiara Alzetta (CNR-ILC) - Serena Auriemma (University of Pisa) - Alessandro Bondielli (University of Pisa) - Luca Dini (CNR-ILC) - Chiara Fazzone (CNR-ILC) - Martina Miliani (University of Pisa) Proceedings Chairs: - Danilo Croce (University of Rome “Tor Vergata”) - Andrea Zaninello (FBK) Webmaster: - Alessio Miaschi (CNR-ILC) - Marta Sartor (CNR-ILC) Publicity Chair: - Sofia Brenna (Fondazione Bruno Kessler) Further information ------------------- - Conference website: https://clic2024.ilc.cnr.it/ - Mail: clicit2024(a)gmail.com - X: https://x.com/CLiC_it_conf -- Simonetta Montemagni Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "Antonio Zampolli" (ILC) - CNR Area della Ricerca di Pisa Via Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, ITALY e-mail simonetta.montemagni(a)ilc.cnr.it direct tel. no +39 050 3152850 fax no. +39 050 3152839 cell. +39 349 7656651

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Postdoctoral researcher in computational linguistics with a focus on grounding language in computer vision and robotics, application deadline: 15 August
by Simon Dobnik 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

[apologies for x-posting] We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher in computational linguistics and/or natural language processing to work on the project "Beyond pixels and words: language technology generation and understanding of spatial language in interaction" (2023-01552) funded by the Swedish Research Council (VR). Application deadline on August 15, 2023 23:59 (CEST, UTC+2) Project description: https://web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/1035/job?site=7&lang=UK&validator=9b89… (English) and https://web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/1035/job?site=6&lang=SE&validator=3038… (Swedish) and from my personal page (coming soon) I am looking for candidates with a strong background in computational linguistics, natural language processing (or neighbouring fileds such computer vision and robotics) and machine learning, ideally with experience of computational semantics, language modelling and working with multi-modal representations. Best regards, Simon — Simon Dobnik Professor of Computational Linguistics CLASP & FLoV, University of Gothenburg https://www.gu.se/en/about/find-staff/simondobnik

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CFP: TRANSLATING AND THE COMPUTER CONFERENCE 2024 (TC46) – Call for Presentations and Papers
by amalhaddad 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

TRANSLATING AND THE COMPUTER CONFERENCE 2024 (TC46) - CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS AND PAPERS "NAVIGATING THE FUTURE OF LANGUAGE: INNOVATION, INTEGRATION, INSPIRATION" https://asling.org/tc46/call-for-papers-cfp/ Embracing innovation in language technologies - From AI to traditional practices -, TC46 welcomes submissions on a broad spectrum of topics related to language technologies in the provision of language services. While there is a special emphasis on the advancements and implications of AI and Generative AI, we strongly encourage contributions that cover a wide range of interests and perspectives in the language services field. Whether you are deeply involved in AI-driven projects or are focused on traditional or emerging practices independent of AI, your insights are invaluable. * Deadline for submitting proposals for full length talks (academic and user-experience) and short/Poster talks for TC46 is extended to 15 July * Deadline for submitting proposals for workshops and panels is extended to 15 August https://asling.org/tc46/call-for-papers-cfp/ Kind regards, Amal Haddad

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