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Workshop on the Future of Event Detection: 2nd Call for Papers (Aug 15 deadline)
by Joel Tetreault 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

Second Call for Papers Workshop on the Future of Event Detection Miami, USA November 15 or 16, 2024 (co-located with EMNLP 2024 <https://2024.emnlp.org/>) https://future-of-event-detection.github.io/ Submission Deadline: Thursday, August 15, 2024 11:59PM AoE Workshop Description In recent years, there has been a significant increase in the amount of publicly generated digital data. One prominent category of this data, and arguably the largest in terms of daily generation, pertains to various real-world events, ranging from natural disasters to political occurrences to sports events. Detecting these events serves various crucial purposes, including early warning systems, emergency response, situational awareness, tracking public health trends, and understanding societal shifts, among others. However, automatic real-time event detection presents intriguing challenges, primarily stemming from the characteristics of the data. These challenges include the diversity of public online data (multimodal nature), the rapid pace at which data is produced (velocity), the sheer volume of data generated, and the reliability of the data (veracity). Moreover, the recent advancements in powerful Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI Systems offer new opportunities to revise event detection pipelines, enabling novel approaches and applications across various domains. The workshop focuses on: - Looking forward and looking back: The workshop will solicit ideas on how the field of event detection should evolve over the next twenty years, as well as solicit papers reflecting on what has worked and not worked in the field thus far. - Expanding Beyond NLP: As noted above, there are many sibling areas that actively research event detection. Many of these areas have remained siloed and there is not much cross-communication though they are working on similar problem areas. This workshop seeks to address this by actively soliciting research and invited speakers from these areas. - Theory to Application: Finally, this workshop will emphasize how event detection technology can be used in real-world applications. We will solicit novel papers, including, but not limited to the following topics: - Position and opinion papers on the state and future of event detection - Retrospectives - Multimodal event detection - Large language models (LLMs) and their applications for event detection and related areas - Event detection on non-traditional sources of data - Inferring causal, temporal, coreference, and sub-event relations for events - Multilingual event detection - Event representation - Event ontology - Never-ending learning - Streaming algorithms for event detection - Interpretability of event detection methods - Bias detection and mitigation - Human-AI Interaction for event detection frameworks - Information visualization for events - Anomaly detection - Practical application of event detection for different domains such as emergency response - Usability of event detection systems - Datasets for Event Detection Important Dates All deadlines are 11:59 pm UTC-12 (anywhere on Earth). - Submission Deadline: Thursday, August 15 - Notification of Acceptance: Friday, September 20 - Camera Ready Deadline: Friday, October 4 - Workshop: either November 15 or 16 Submission Information We will be using the EMNLP Submission Guidelines <https://2024.emnlp.org/calls/main_conference_papers/#paper-submission-detai…> for the workshop. Authors are invited to submit a full paper of up to 8 pages of content with unlimited pages for references. We also invite short papers of up to 4 pages of content, including unlimited pages for references. Final camera ready versions of accepted papers will be given an additional page of content to address reviewer comments. Previously published papers cannot be accepted. The submissions will be reviewed by the program committee. As reviewing will be blind, please ensure that papers are anonymous. Self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...", should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...". Please note that unlike EMNLP, which uses ARR for submission management, we will be using the START conference system. The link will be made live when available. https://softconf.com/emnlp2024/FuturED/ Organizing Committee - Joel Tetreault <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Fn52EXUAAAAJ&hl=en>, Dataminr - Thien Huu Nguyen <https://ix.cs.uoregon.edu/~thien/>, University of Oregon - Hemank Lamba <https://sites.google.com/site/hemanklamba/home>, Dataminr - Amanda Hughes <https://cs.byu.edu/department/directory/faculty-directory/amanda-hughes/>, Brigham Young University Contact Information - Workshop contact email address: futureofeventdetection(a)googlegroup.com - Workshop Twitter: @FuturED2024 <https://x.com/FuturED2024>

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[CIKM-2024] - Workshop program announced
by antonela.tommasel＠isistan.unicen.edu.ar 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

=============== =============== * We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this Workshop program * * For the online version of this Call, visit: https://cikm2024.org/workshops/ =============== CIKM 2024: 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management Boise, Idaho, USA October 21–25, 2024 =============== The workshop program of CIKM 2024 has been published. Workshops are planned to take place on 25 October 2024. Here you can find a summary of each accepted workshop and the website for more information. Deadlines start on July 29th. =============== AI Agent for Information Retrieval =============== The field of information retrieval has significantly transformed with the integration of AI technologies. AI agents, especially those leveraging LLMs and vast computational power, have revolutionized information retrieval, processing, and presentation. Despite these advancements, challenges such as ensuring relevance and accuracy, mitigating biases, providing real-time responses, and maintaining data security remain. This workshop is motivated by the need to explore these challenges, share innovative solutions, and discuss future directions. More information at: https://sites.google.com/view/ai4ir/ =============== DCAI: The 4th International Workshop on Data-Centric AI =============== Machine learning focuses on developing models for datasets, but real-world data is often messy. Improving the dataset itself can be a better way to enhance performance instead of just improving the models. Data-Centric AI (DCAI) is an emerging field that systematically improves datasets, resulting in significant improvements in ML applications. This workshop aims to build an interdisciplinary DCAI community to tackle data problems such as collection, labeling, preprocessing, quality evaluation, debt, and governance. More information at: https://data-centric-ai-dev.github.io/CIKM2024/ =============== GenAI and RAG Systems for Enterprise =============== Generative AI (GenAI) represented by large language models (LLMs) is revolutionizing the way we approach problem-solving and content creation in various domains. This workshop aims to bring together academic researchers and industrial practitioners who are interested in building GenAI solutions for enterprise AI, with a special focus on RAG systems. The workshop will provide a platform for sharing the latest research advances, practical experiences, and real-world challenges in this emerging field. More information at: https://sites.google.com/view/cikm2024-rag/home =============== Knowledge Graphs for Responsible AI =============== As AI systems become increasingly sophisticated, including the explosion of Generative AI, there is a growing need to address ethical considerations and potential societal impacts of their uses. The workshop aims to investigate the role of Knowledge Graphs (KGs) in promoting Responsible AI principles and creating a cooperative space for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to exchange insights and enhance their comprehension of KGs' impact on achieving Responsible AI solutions. It seeks to facilitate collaboration and idea-sharing to advance the understanding of how KGs can contribute to Responsible AI. More information at: https://deepa-tilwani.github.io/kg-for-responsible-ai-workshop-cikm-2024.gi… =============== LLMs Beyond the Cutoff =============== The workshop provides an interdisciplinary forum for discussing the temporal limitations of LLMs and proposing technical solutions of how to apply and develop LLMs beyond their cutoff dates. We explore two prominent scenarios, where contexts tend to evolve faster than the LLMs that are used to analyze them: (1) journalism and (2) industry. More information at: https://llmsbeyondthecutoff2024.wordpress.com/ =============== The 1st Workshop on Multimodal Search and Recommendations (CIKM MMSR ‘24) =============== The advent of multimodal LLMs like GPT-4o and Gemini has significantly boosted the potential for multimodal search and recommendations. Traditional search engines rely mainly on textual queries, supplemented by session and geographical data. In contrast, multimodal systems create a shared embedding space for text, images, audio, and more, enabling next-gen customer experiences. These advancements lead to more accurate and personalized recommendations, enhancing user satisfaction and engagement. More information at: https://cikm-mmsr.github.io/ =============== The 3rd International Workshop on Industrial Recommendation Systems =============== The gap in constraints and requirements between academic research and industry limits the broad applicability of many of academia’s contributions for industrial recommendation systems. This workshop aspires to bridge this gap by bringing together researchers from both academia and industry. Its goal is to serve as a platform via which academic researchers become aware of the additional factors that may affect the chances of algorithm adoption into real production systems, and the performance of the algorithms if deployed. Industrial researchers will also benefit from sharing the practical frameworks at an industrial level. More information at: https://irsworkshop.github.io/2024/ =============== The 4th International Workshop on Online and Adaptive Recommender Systems =============== The international workshop on Online and Adaptive Recommender Systems (OARS) will serve as a platform for publication and discussion of OARS. This workshop will bring together practitioners and researchers from academia and industry to discuss the challenges and approaches to implement OARS algorithms and systems, and improve user experiences by better modeling and responding to user intent. More information at: https://oars-workshop.github.io/ =============== The 8th Workshop on Graph Techniques for Adversarial Activity Analytics (GTA³ 2024) =============== Graphs are powerful analytic tools for modeling adversarial activities across a wide range of domains and applications. With the rapid development of generative AI, the lifecycle and throughput of adversarial activities, such as generating attacks or synthesizing deceptive signals, have accelerated significantly. The purpose of this workshop is to provide a forum to discuss emerging research problems and novel approaches in graph analysis for modeling adversarial activities in the age of generative AI. More information at: https://gta3.hrl.com/ =============== Trustworthy and Responsible AI for Information and Knowledge Management System =============== The way research and business manage and utilize knowledge is undergoing a significant transformation, driven by Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI offers a unique solution for organizations struggling with information overload and inefficient knowledge transfer. However, such AI systems solicit a trustworthy and responsible solution that can cater the potential misuse and malfunction. In this workshop, we aim to gather researchers and engineers from academia and industry to discuss the latest advances for trustworthy and responsible AI solutions for information and knowledge management systems. More information at: https://responsible-ai.wiki/cikm24/index.html =============== Workshop on Generative AI for E-Commerce =============== The “Gen AI for E-commerce” workshop explores the role of Generative Artificial Intelligence in transforming e-commerce through enhanced user experience and operational efficiency. E-commerce companies grapple with multiple challenges such as lack of quality content for products, subpar user experience, sparse datasets... This workshop will bring together experts from academia and industry to discuss these challenges and opportunities, aiming to showcase case studies, breakthroughs, and insights into practical implementations of Gen AI in e-commerce. More information at: https://genai-ecommerce.github.io/GenAIECommerce2024

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

22 Aug '24

Deadline extended: 31 July 2024 TRANSLATING AND THE COMPUTER CONFERENCE 2024 (TC46) - Call for Presentations and Papers https://asling.org/tc46/call-for-papers-cfp/ "Navigating the future of language: Innovation, integration, inspiration" 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. 1. Deadline for submitting proposals for full length talks (academic and user-experience) and short/Poster talks for TC46 is extended to 31 July 2. Deadline for submitting proposals for workshops and panels is extended to 15 August https://asling.org/tc46/call-for-papers-cfp/

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Call For Papers: 1st Workshop on Multimodal Search and Recommendations (CIKM MMSR ‘24)
by Aditya Nandkishore Chichani 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

1st Workshop on Multimodal Search and Recommendations (CIKM MMSR ‘24) Date: October 25, 2024 (Full day workshop) Venue: ACM CIKM 2024 <https://cikm2024.org/> (Boise, Idaho, United States) Website: https://cikm-mmsr.github.io/ Organizers: Aditya Chichani, Surya Kallumadi, Tracy Holloway King, Andrei Lopatenko Paper submission deadline: August 10, 2024 (23:59 P.M. GMT) Overview: The advent of multimodal LLMs like GPT-4o and Gemini has significantly boosted the potential for multimodal search and recommendations. Traditional search engines rely mainly on textual queries, supplemented by session and geographical data. In contrast, multimodal systems create a shared embedding space for text, images, audio, and more, enabling next-gen customer experiences. These advancements lead to more accurate and personalized recommendations, enhancing user satisfaction and engagement. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Cross-modal retrieval techniques Strategies for efficiently indexing and retrieving multimodal data. Approaches to ensure cross-modal retrieval systems can handle large-scale data. Development of metrics to measure similarity across different data modalities. Applications of Multimodal Search and Recommendations to Verticals (e.g. E-commerce, real estate) Implementing and optimizing image-based product searches. Creating multimodal conversational systems to enhance user experience and make search more accessible. Utilizing AR to enhance product discovery and user interaction. Leveraging multimodal search for efficient customer service and support. User-centric design principles for multimodal search interfaces Best practices for designing user-friendly interfaces that support multimodal search. Methods for evaluating the usability of multimodal search interfaces. Personalizing multimodal search interfaces to individual user preferences. Ensuring multimodal search interfaces are accessible to users with disabilities. Ethical Considerations and Privacy Implications of Multimodal Search and Recommendations Strategies for ensuring user data privacy in multimodal applications. Identifying and mitigating biases in multimodal algorithms. Ensuring transparency in how multimodal results are generated and presented. Approaches for obtaining and managing user consent for using their data. Modeling for Multimodal Search and Discovery Multi-modal representation learning Utilizing GPT-4o, Gemini, and other advanced pre-trained multimodal LLMs Dimensionality reduction techniques to reduce complexity of multimodal data. Techniques for fine-tuning pre-trained vision-language models. Developing and standardizing metrics to evaluate the performance of vision-language models in multimodal search. Submission Instructions: All papers will be peer-reviewed by the program committee and judged based on their relevance to the workshop and their potential to generate discussion. Submissions must be in PDF format, following the latest CEUR single column format. For instructions and LaTeX/Overleaf/docx templates, refer to CEUR’s submission guidelines ( https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html#CEURART), reading up to and including the “License footnote in paper PDFs” section. Use Emphasizing Capitalized Style for Paper Titles. Submissions must describe original work not previously published, not accepted for publication, and not under review elsewhere. All submissions must be in English. The workshop follows a single-blind review process and does not accept anonymous submissions. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop and present the paper. Long paper limit: 15 pages. Short paper limit: 8 pages. References are not counted in the page limit. Submit to CIKM MMSR’24: https://openreview.net/group?id=ACM.org/CIKM/2024/Workshop/MMSR Contact: Aditya Chichani E-mail: aditya_chichani(a)berkeley.edu

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[CFP] COLING 2025 - 2nd Call for Main Conference Papers
by sakhar＠cs.columbia.edu 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

Second Call for Main Conference Papers (COLING 2025) Important Dates All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”). Deadline for direct submissions September 16, 2024 Commitment deadline for ARR papers October 20, 2024 Author rebuttal phase (for direct submissions) October 30 - November 1, 2024 Notification of acceptance for COLING 2025 November 29, 2024 Tutorials and Workshops January 19-20, 2025 Main Conference January 21-24, 2025 ---------- CFP: The 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2025) will take place in Abu Dhabi, UAE, January 19-24 2025. COLING 2025 invites the submission of long and short papers featuring substantial, original, and unpublished research in all aspects of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to, the following areas: Dialogue and Interactive Systems Discourse and Pragmatics Document Classification and Topic Modeling Ethics, Bias, and Fairness Information Extraction Information Retrieval and Text Mining Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP Language Modeling Language Resources and Evaluation Linguistic Insights Derived using Computational Techniques Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics Low-Resource and Efficient Methods for NLP Machine Learning for Computational Linguistics and NLP Machine Translation and Translation Aids Multilingualism and Language Diversity Multimodal and Grounded Language Acquisition NLP and LLM Applications (such as Education, Healthcare, Finance, Legal NLP, Computational Social Science, etc.) Natural Language Generation Offensive Speech Detection and Analysis Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation Question Answering Lexical Semantics Sentence-level Semantics (Textual Inference, Paraphrasing, etc) Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, Opinion and Argument Mining Speech Recognition and Synthesis, and Spoken Language Understanding Summarization and Simplification Syntactic analysis (Tagging, Chunking, Parsing) Vision and Robotics Papers targeting any of these topics from the perspective of the Sustainability Goals of the UN are especially welcome. Submission Details COLING 2025 invites the submission of long papers of up to eight pages and short papers of up to four pages. These page limits only apply to the main body of the paper. At the end of the paper (after the conclusions but before the references) papers need to include a mandatory section discussing the limitations of the work and, optionally, a section discussing ethical considerations. Papers can include unlimited pages of references and an unlimited appendix. Authors should follow the general instructions for COLING 2025 proceedings, which are an adaptation of the general instructions for *ACL proceedings. To prepare your submission, please make sure to use the COLING 2025 style files available here: LaTeX Word Overleaf Papers deviating from the provided style files will be rejected without review. COLING 2025 adopts the ACL Ethics Policy. There are two routes for paper submission: Direct submission Papers should be submitted through Softconf/START using the following link: https://softconf.com/coling2025/papers/ Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews. Authors will have the opportunity to provide a short rebuttal to clarify any misunderstandings. The review process will be double-blind. Reviewers will not see authors, authors will not see reviewers. Reviews and submissions will not be made publicly visible. ACL Rolling Review (ARR) Papers Papers which have already been reviewed through the ACL Rolling Review (ARR) system can be committed to COLING 2025. These papers will not be re-reviewed. Senior Area Chairs and Program Chairs will make acceptance decisions based on the ARR reviews and meta-reviews. Optional Supplementary Materials: Appendices, Software and Data Each COLING 2025 submission can be accompanied by a single .tgz or .zip archive containing supplementary materials, such as program code and datasets. COLING 2025 encourages the submission of such supplementary materials to improve the reproducibility of results. For the main track, the supplementary materials need to be fully anonymized to preserve the double-blind reviewing policy. Additional information, such as preprocessing decisions, model parameters or proofs should be put into the appendix of the main PDF submission. Note that submissions need to remain fully self-contained. In particular, any details that are important for reviewers to assess the technical correctness of the work should be included in the main body of the paper. Anonymity Period COLING 2025 will follow the ACL Anonymity Policy. As a result, no anonymity period will be required, although authors are still cautioned against extensive advertising. The submissions themselves must still be fully anonymized. Multiple Submission Policy Papers which are submitted to COLING 2025 cannot be under review for other conferences or journals at the same time. The commitment process is treated as being under review for a conference. Authors can either commit their paper through ARR or directly submit it to the conference. Papers reviewed and committed to the conference through ARR cannot be submitted directly to the conference. In addition, we will not consider any paper that overlaps significantly in content or results with papers that will be (or have been) published elsewhere. Submissions that violate these requirements will be desk rejected. General chairs, Owen Rambow, Stony Brook University Leo Wanner, ICREA, Pompeu Fabra University Program co-chairs Marianna Apidianaki, University of Pennsylvania Hend Al-Khalifa, King Saud University Barbara Di Eugenio, University of Illinois Chicago Steven Schockaert, Cardiff University For questions about submissions: coling2025-programchairs(a)googlegroups.com

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[CIKM-2024] - Student Travel Awards
by antonela.tommasel＠isistan.unicen.edu.ar 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

=============== =============== * We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this Travel Award call* * For the online version of this Call, visit: https://cikm2024.org/cikm-2024-student-travel-awards-faq/ =============== CIKM 2024: 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management Boise, Idaho, USA October 21–25, 2024 =============== Thanks to the generous support from the National Science Foundation, ACM SIGIR and ACM SIGWEB, CIKM will provide travel awards to selected students attending the CIKM 2024 conference. =============== NSF Student Travel Awards =============== Thanks to the generous support from the National Science Foundation, we will provide travel awards to selected US-based students attending the CIKM 2024 conference. The travel award will cover the cost of the conference registration (main conference and workshops/tutorials if desired) and some travel expenses. The awards will be competitive in the sense that only some applicants are guaranteed to receive a travel award. Awardees are expected to register for the main conference and arrange travel and accommodation. Recipients will be reimbursed after the conference upon submission of the expense receipts. --- Eligibility Applicants need to be full-time students (graduate or undergraduate) at a US-based academic institution. Applicants do not need to have an accepted paper to be eligible. The selection will be made based on the following criteria: * Students selected to present at the PhD Symposium will be given priority * Students from under-represented groups will be given priority * Students with accepted papers (main conference, tutorials, or workshops) will be prioritized. – PhD students will be prioritized. --- Application Procedure Please submit the following materials (in a single PDF file) with your application: * Student’s full name and email address * Name and address of student’s school * (If available) Advisor’s full name and email address * 1-2 page CV including the duration of the program (Ph.D., Master) along with reference to the accepted paper(s) * A brief statement from the student about (i) their research (summarizing a broad view of his/her research with motivation, problem description, approach, and progress), and (ii) how they would benefit from attending CIKM, enriching CIKM and their local community; the statement must be written in English and needs to comply with the two-column ACM proceedings format. * A letter of endorsement from the student’s advisor (is available) or department chair * (Optional) demographic data for reporting purposes: Gender, Ethnic background The student must submit the necessary materials to apply for a grant through the button below --- Important dates * Award Application Submission Due July, 31 2024 * Award Acceptance Notification: August, 10 2024 All deadlines are 11:59 pm anywhere on earth --- Special Notes from US NSF Grants * To get reimbursement of the airfare by using US NSF, you must book flights with US-flagged carriers (a carrier operating under a code share agreement with a US carrier is considered a US flag carrier, as long as the ticket is issued using the US flag carrier’s airline designator and flight number). * Your airline ticket purchases must comply with the Fly America Act (U.S. carrier or code shared flights are used). Enclosed please find links to the GSA Fly America Act and Code Share fact sheet. * For eligible flights with US-flagged carriers, we suggest you book flights directly from USA airlines, e.g., United Airlines, American Airlines, Delta Airlines, Hawaii Airlines, Southwest Airlines, Alaska Airlines, etc. Even if the flights are operated by a foreign airline (e.g., Air Canada), it is still eligible as long as you book the flights from USA airlines. However, it may not be eligible if you book a flight from travel agencies (e.g., priceline). More information at: https://cikm2024.org/nsf-student-travel-awards/ =============== ACM SIGIR Student Travel Awards =============== The SIGIR Student Travel Award Program (https://sigir.org/general-information/travel-grants/) provides funding for students who are members of ACM SIGIR to help cover the cost of travel and lodging to attend and contribute to CIKM 2024. SIGIR is pleased to offer Student Travel Award for students presenting their accepted contributions at CIKM 2024. For awardees, the award will cover the cost of in-person registration (main conference and workshops/tutorials if desired) and U$D 1,000 stipend towards travel and accommodation costs. --- Eligibility To be eligible, the student must: * Be a SIGIR member. (SIGIR student travel awards are only open to SIGIR members. If you are not, you can click here to join SIGIR before continuing.) * Be an author of an accepted contribution. * Be the author presenting said contribution. These awards are competitive (i.e., not every applicant will receive an award).  We will prioritize students presenting with accepted contributions on the main conference track; students from underrepresented countries; and students who have not received an award in the past. --- Application Procedure To be considered for an award, the student must submit an application and their academic advisor must complete a statement of support (a link to the advisor will be sent directly as soon as the student provides all the information requested in their application). --- Important dates * Award Application Submission Deadline: July 31 2024 * Award Acceptance Notification: August 10 2024 All deadlines are 11:59 pm anywhere on earth Please do not register for the conference ahead of the notification date as SIGIR Awards cannot reimburse you for the registration. If awarded a travel award, you will receive a code for a registration fee waiver. More information at: https://cikm2024.org/acm-sigir-student-travel-awards/ =============== ACM SIGWEB Student Travel Awards =============== Thanks to the generous support of ACM SIGWEB, we will provide travel awards to select students attending the CIKM 2024 conference. This award is designated to support student diversity and students from underrepresented regions. The travel award will cover the cost of the conference registration (main conference and workshops/tutorials if desired) and some travel expenses. The awards will be competitive in the sense that only some applicants are guaranteed to receive a travel award. Awardees are expected to register for the main conference and arrange travel and accommodation. Awardees will receive a complimentary registration code to cover their registration. Recipients will be reimbursed for travel expenses after the conference is over upon submission of the expense receipts. --- Eligibility Applicants need to be full-time students (graduate or undergraduate). Applicants do not need to have an accepted paper to be eligible. --- Application Procedure * Please submit the following materials (in a single PDF file) with your application: * Student’s full name and email address * Name and address of student’s school * (If available) Advisor’s full name and email address * 1-2 page CV including the duration of the program (Ph.D., Master) along with reference to the accepted paper(s) * A brief statement from the student about (i) their research (summarizing a broad view of his/her research with motivation, problem description, approach, and progress), and (ii) how they would benefit from attending CIKM, enriching CIKM and their local community; the statement must be written in English and needs to comply with the two-column ACM proceedings format * A letter of endorsement from the student’s advisor (if available) or department chair * (Optional) demographic data for reporting purposes: Gender, Ethnic background The student must submit the necessary materials to apply for a grant through the button below. --- Important dates Award Application Submission Due July, 31 2024 Award Acceptance Notification: August, 10 2024 All deadlines are 11:59 pm anywhere on earth More information at: https://cikm2024.org/acm-sigweb-student-travel-awards/ =============== Travel Award Selection Committee =============== * Tyler Derr Vanderbilt University * Sumit Purohit Pacific Northwest National Lab * Giovanni Stilo University of L’Aquila * Yu Wang Vanderbilt University For further information (please check the FAQ document first), please contact the CIKM2024 Travel Awards Selection Committee by email to cikm2024-travelawards [at] easychair [dot] org

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Call for Papers: The 1st Workshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic Script (AbjadNLP 2025)
by amalhaddad 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

URL: https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/abjad/ [1] AbjadNLP 2025 aims to advance innovation in Natural Language Processing (NLP) for languages using the Arabic script, focusing on Abjad and Ajami languages. These languages represent a significant segment of the global linguistic mosaic, spanning numerous countries and regions. By focusing on these languages, we aim to enhance the versatility and adaptability of NLP models and applications, fostering multilingualism and multiculturalism in NLP research. This workshop will address the unique challenges and solutions associated with these languages, promoting inclusive and equitable advancements in NLP. Ajami languages, representing a myriad of African languages that have adopted the Arabic script, span at least 43 distinct languages, including Hausa, Fulfulde, Mandingo, Swahili, Wolof, Kanuri, and Tamazight. The combined number of speakers of these languages is estimated to exceed 200 million within Africa alone. Although Abjad has been traditionally associated with Semitic languages such as Arabic, Hebrew and Syriac, it has been adopted for writing by many other language communities as in Perso-Arabic scripts used in Persian, Urdu, Pashto, Sorani Kurdish, Azeri Turkish, Sindhi, and Uyghur, with a collective estimated speaker population exceeding 500 million. Altogether, these languages represent an approximate global aggregate of 1 billion speakers. >> We invite submissions on the following topics: Core Technologies: morphological analysis, disambiguation, tokenisation, POS tagging, named entity detection, chunking, parsing, semantic role labelling, sentiment analysis, language modelling, etc. Applications: machine translation, speech recognition, speech synthesis, optical character recognition, assistive technologies, social media, etc. Resources and Tools: dictionaries, annotated data, corpora, orthography descriptions, font technology, glyph rendering, text input methodologies, spell-checking, speech-to-text solutions, BLARK descriptions, open access corpora. Cultural and Sociolinguistic Considerations: text processing, transliteration challenges, and solutions, cultural contexts in NLP applications. >> Submission Guidelines: We follow the COLING 2025 standards for submission format and guidelines. Submissions should conform to the following types: Long papers: Up to eight (8) pages, presenting substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. Short papers: Up to four (4) pages, describing a small focused contribution, negative results, system demonstrations, etc. >> Key Dates: 1st Call for Papers Announcement: 16 July 2024 2nd Call for Papers Announcement: 16 August 2024 Paper Submission Deadline: 15 November 2024 Notification of Paper Acceptance: 6 December 2024 Camera-ready Paper Deadline: 13 December 2024 Workshop Date: 19 or 20 January 2025 >> Organising Committee: General Chair: - Mo El-Haj, Lancaster University Programme Chairs: - Hugh Paterson III, Collaborative Scholar - Saad Ezzini, Lancaster University - Ignatius Ezeani, Lancaster University Review Committee: - Manum Hayat Khan, University of La Rioja - Muhammad Sharjeel, COMSATS University Islamabad Publication Chair: - Sina Ahmadi, University of Zurich Publicity Chairs: - Cynthia Amol, Maseno University - Amal Haddad Haddad, University of Granada - Jaleh Delfani, University of Surrey Advisory Committee: - Ruslan Mitkov, Lancaster University - Paul Rayson, Lancaster University URL: https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/abjad/ [1] Submission URL: https://softconf.com/coling2025/AbjadNLP25/ [2] Links: ------ [1] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/wp.lancs.ac.uk/abjad/__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!VA… [2] https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/softconf.com/coling2025/AbjadNLP25/__;!!…

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July 2024 Newsletter - LDC
by Penn LDC 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

In this newsletter: LDC at IC2S2 Fall 2024 LDC Data Scholarship Program New publications: MATERIAL Bulgarian-English Language Pack<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2024S07> Dialogs Re-Enacted Across Languages<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2024S08> ________________________________ LDC at IC2S2 LDC is delighted to be a bronze sponsor for the 10th International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2<https://ic2s2-2024.org/>) held this year on Penn's campus July 17-20. The conference will feature research from around the world across a broad range of relevant fields to advance the many frontiers of computational social science. Be sure to visit LDC's table during the poster sessions July 18 and 19 from 1:30-2:30 pm. Fall 2024 LDC Data Scholarship Program Student applications for the Fall 2024 LDC Data Scholarship program are being accepted now through September 15, 2024. This program provides eligible students with no-cost access to LDC data. Students must complete an application consisting of a data use proposal and letter of support from their advisor. For application requirements and program rules, visit the LDC Data Scholarships page<https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/language-resources/data/data-scholarships>. ________________________________ New publications: MATERIAL Bulgarian-English Language Pack<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2024S07> was developed by Appen<http://www.appen.com/> for the IARPA (Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity) MATERIAL<https://www.iarpa.gov/index.php/research-programs/material> (Machine Translation for English Retrieval of Information in Any Language) program. It contains 80 hours of Bulgarian conversational telephone speech, transcripts, English translations, annotations, and queries. Calls were made using different telephones (e.g., mobile, landline) from a variety of environments. Transcripts cover approximately 40% of the speech files, and approximately 10% of the speech files were translated into English. This release also includes domain annotations, English queries, and their relevance annotations. The MATERIAL program focused on underserved languages with the ultimate goal to build cross language information retrieval systems to find speech and text content using English search queries. 2024 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts provided they have submitted a completed copy of the special license agreement. Non-members may license this data for a fee. * Dialogs Re-Enacted Across Languages<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2024S08> was developed at the University of Texas at El Paso<https://www.utep.edu/>. It contains 17 hours of conversational speech in English and Spanish by 129 unique bilingual speakers, specifically, short fragments extracted from spontaneous conversations and close re-enactments in the other language by the original speakers, for 3816 pairs of matching utterances. Data was collected in 2022-2023. Participants were recruited from among students at the University of Texas at El Paso; all were bilingual speakers of General American English and of Mexico-Texas Border Spanish. Each speaker pair had a 10 minute conversation in one language. Various fragments from these conversations were chosen for re-enactment, and the original speakers produced equivalents in the other language. Each re-enactment was vetted for fidelity to the original and naturalness in the target language. Also included is metadata about conversations, participants, re-enactments and utterances. 2024 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee. To unsubscribe from this newsletter, log in to your LDC account<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/login> and uncheck the box next to "Receive Newsletter" under Account Options or contact LDC for assistance. Membership Coordinator Linguistic Data Consortium<ldc.upenn.edu> University of Pennsylvania T: +1-215-573-1275 E: ldc(a)ldc.upenn.edu<mailto:ldc@ldc.upenn.edu> M: 3600 Market St. Suite 810 Philadelphia, PA 19104

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PhD fellowship at the intersection of corpus linguistics, second language acquisition and language testing
by Magali Paquot 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

The Centre for English Corpus Linguistics (CECL, UCLouvain, Belgium) has an opening for a PhD fellowship in linguistics. * Full-time (100%) PhD fellowship for one year, renewable (max. 4 years) * Start date: October 2024 The main objective of the PhD project will be to use the method of Comparative Judgment to explore whether the theoretical construct of ‘phraseological complexity’ (Paquot, 2019) is reflective of collective understandings of the linguistic phenomena we wish to measure with such a construct. The project will centre around two main objectives: (1) test empirically whether reliable human judgments of phraseological complexity are attainable (both at the level of multi-word units and at the text level); (2) explore the degree to which various automated measures of phraseological complexity align with human judgments of phraseological complexity, which is to be understood as our ‘gold standard’ to assess construct validity. For more information about phraseological complexity, the method of Comparative Judgment and the use of human judgments to explore the multidimensionality of our research constructs, see: * Kyle, K., Crossley, S. A., & Jarvis, S. (2021). Assessing the Validity of Lexical Diversity Indices Using Direct Judgements. Language Assessment Quarterly, 18(2), 154‑170. https://doi.org/10.1080/15434303.2020.1844205 * Paquot, M. (2019). The phraseological dimension in interlanguage complexity research. Second Language Research, 35(1), 121–145. https://doi.org/10.1177/0267658317694221 * Paquot, M., Rubin, R. & Vandeweerd, N. (2022). Crowdsourced Adaptive Comparative Judgment: A community-based solution for proficiency rating. Language Learning 72(3), 853-885. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/lang.12498 Qualifications and expected profile The candidate will meet the following qualifications: * Master degree in (Applied) Linguistics or Natural Language Processing * Excellent record of BA and MA level study * Excellent oral and written English (minimum level: C1) * Excellent analytic skills * Knowledge of corpus linguistic techniques is a requirement * Knowledge of statistics and R is an asset * Autonomy, sense of teamwork, ability to listen and analyse needs, responsiveness * Willingness to live in Belgium and to travel abroad (to attend international academic conferences) Conditions of engagement This doctoral fellowship is subject to the following conditions: * The contract will initially be for one year, three times renewable, with a total of four years. * The candidate receives a doctoral fellowship grant (starting at approx. EUR 2400 net per month) and full medical insurance. * This position requires residence in Belgium for the duration of the mandate. * Applicants from outside the EU are responsible for obtaining the necessary visa or permits, with the assistance of UCLouvain staff department. Application Application deadline: 1 September 2024 The application file should include : * a cover letter in English, in which you specify why you are interested in this position and how you meet the job requirements outlined above; * a curriculum vitae in English; * a concise academic statement in English, in which you outline your expectations about and plans for graduate study and career goals; * a copy of BA and MA diplomas and degrees; * a copy of your master thesis and academic publications (if applicable); * the names and full contact details of two academic referees. Shortlisted candidates will be invited for an interview (in situ or via video conferencing) in the second half of September 2024. Applications (as an email attachment) and inquiries should be addressed to Dr. Magali Paquot (<magali.paquot(a)uclouvain.be<mailto:magali.paquot@uclouvain.be>>)

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Postdoc position in Natural Language Processing at LISN
by nona.naderi＠universite-paris-saclay.fr 22 Aug '24

22 Aug '24

Dear All, We are recruiting a postdoc in information extraction as part of the European FAIRClinical project at LISN. Details are available here: https://emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/UMR9015-NONNAD-002/Default.aspx?lang=EN Nona NADERI Associate Professor Department of Computer Science Université Paris-Saclay

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