Friday, November 8 - Saturday, November 9
Brown Computer Science Department, Providence, RI
https://cs.brown.edu/people/in-memorium/eugene_charniak/
Brown University invites you to attend an academic memorial event to
commemorate the research and legacy of Eugene Charniak. Eugene, an ACL
Lifetime Achievement Award winner and ACL fellow, passed away in June
2023. His colleagues and students have organized a two-day workshop of
invited presentations of cutting-edge research with an emphasis on the
themes which defined Eugene's career: the legacy of classic statistical
NLP/ML, the sometimes-surprising effectiveness of simple baselines,
clever tricks for dealing with data sparsity such as self-training or
distant supervision, and unsupervised learning.
A full program will be posted later this summer. Mark Johnson will give
a keynote presentation, along with research talks by Regina Barzilay,
Michael Collins, Jason Eisner, Lillian Lee, Ani Nenkova, Ellie Pavlick,
Brian Roark, Chris Tanner and Byron Wallace. There will also be
opportunities to remember Eugene in a social setting, and a panel
discussion of the workshop's research themes.
The event will take place at the Brown Computer Science Department in
Providence, RI; attendees are responsible for finding their own
accommodations. Instructions for travel to Providence are available
here: https://cs.brown.edu/about/directions/. The program will begin at
9am on Friday the 8th, and conclude at 1:30pm on Saturday the 9th. All
members of the ACL community are welcome, whether you knew Eugene well
or not. Please mark your calendars now!
To stay in the loop about the event, please fill out this form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe_7LZBSjP3Ur2XCTtsDtwnL_Jbxgh5Wfi…
If you have questions about the event, contact the organizers, Micha
Elsner (melsner0(a)gmail.com) and David McClosky
(david.mcclosky(a)gmail.com).
[With apologies for cross-posting]
We are excited to announce the 22nd International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT 2024), which will bring together developers and users of linguistically annotated natural language corpora. The workshop is endorsed by ACL SIGPARSE and will be hosted by Universität Hamburg in Germany on December 5th-6th, 2024.
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VENUE
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TLT 2024 will take place at the guest house of Universität Hamburg. In order to support rich discussions and networking, TLT 2024 will primarily be an in-person event; we will, however, accommodate a limited number of live / synchronous remote presentations, prioritizing those with circumstances that prevent travel.
Universität Hamburg and its guest house are conveniently located near the Dammtor train station / metro station Stephansplatz which are well-connected with many parts of the city and beyond, providing an easy commute for attendees.
Hamburg is a vibrant city known for its rich maritime history as one of the leading cities in the medieval Hanseatic League, as well as its modern cultural diversity, including events at the world-famous Elbphilharmonie Concert Hall. The city is easily accessible by train or plane (Hamburg Airport (HAM); about 1 to 1.5 hours train ride: Bremen Airport (BRE) and Hannover Airport (HAJ)).
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SUBMISSION INFORMATION
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TLT addresses all aspects of treebank design, development, and use. As ‘treebanks’ we consider any pairing of natural language data (spoken, signed, or written) with annotations of linguistic structure at various levels of analysis, including, e.g., morpho-phonology, syntax, semantics, and discourse. Annotations can take any form (including trees or general graphs), but they should be encoded in a way that enables computational processing. Reflections on the design of linguistic annotations, methodology studies, resource announcements or updates, annotation or conversion tool development, or reports on treebank usage including probing the leakage of treebanks into large language models are but some examples of the types of papers we anticipate for TLT.
Papers should describe original work; they should emphasize completed work rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance and relevance to the conference, and interest to the attendees.
We invite paper submissions in two distinct tracks:
* regular papers on substantial and original research, including empirical evaluation results, where appropriate;
* short papers on smaller, focused contributions, work in progress, negative results, surveys, or opinion pieces.
Submissions (in both tracks) may either be archival—in case of unpublished work—or non-archival, based on the wish of the authors. All archival papers accepted for presentation at the workshop will be included in the TLT 2024 proceedings volume, which will be part of the ACL Anthology. Non-archival papers must have been published or accepted for publication at another CL conference.
Long papers may consist of up to 8 pages of content (excluding references and appendices). Short papers may consist of up to 4 pages of content (excluding references and appendices). Accepted papers will be given an additional page to address reviewer comments.
All submissions should follow the two-column format and the ACL style guidelines. We strongly recommend the use of the LaTeX style files, OpenDocument, or Microsoft Word templates created for ACL: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files
Submissions will be reviewed double-blind, and all full and short papers must be anonymous, i.e. not reveal author(s) on the title page or through self-references. So e.g., “We previously showed (Smith, 2020) …”, should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as “Smith (2020) previously showed …. Papers must be submitted digitally, in PDF, and uploaded through the on-line conference system (link forthcoming).
Submissions that violate these requirements will be rejected without review.
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IMPORTANT DATES
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* Long and short paper submission deadlines: August 15th, 2024
* Reviews Due: September 26th, 2024
* Notification of acceptance: October 6th, 2024
* Final version of papers due: November 6th, 2024
* TLT2024: December 5th-6th, 2024 in Hamburg
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TLT2024 WORKSHOP CHAIRS
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Daniel Dakota, Indiana University
Sandra Kübler, Indiana University
Heike Zinsmeister, Universität Hamburg
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TLT2024 COMMUNICATION CHAIR
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Sarah Jablotschkin, Universität Hamburg
Contact: tlt2024.gw(a)uni-hamburg.de
Website: https://www.korpuslab.uni-hamburg.de/en/tlt2024.html
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Prof. Dr. Heike Zinsmeister (sie/ihr)
Linguistik des Deutschen / Korpuslinguistik
Universität Hamburg, Institut für Germanistik, Raum C7012
Von-Melle-Park 6, Postfach #15, D-20146 Hamburg
Tel.: 040 42838-7119
heike.zinsmeister(a)uni-hamburg.de
http://www.slm.uni-hamburg.de/germanistik/personen/zinsmeister.html
Hi all,
I have a postdoc job to share, see below. Thank you for sharing the offer in potentially interested circles.
Best,
Peeter
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Post doc job(s) available for text and data mining and social history / sustainability transitions.
The project “The Crisis and Transformation of Industrial Modernity, 1900-2055”, is a five-year project at the University of Tartu. It is based on the Deep Transitions framework which theorizes industrialization as a long-term co-evolution of various socio-technical systems.
Website: https://www.deeptransitions.ut.ee/.
Job description: https://www.deeptransitions.ut.ee/jobs/
Job call PDF: http://tiny.cc/dt_postdoc_call_2024<http://tiny.cc/dt_postdoc_call_2024>
1,5 FTE available for jobs. Some flexibility in workload and work location based on the exact focus. Contact laur.kanger(a)ut.ee<mailto:laur.kanger@ut.ee> for more details.
Hello everyone,
I have an open postdoc position at Saarland University (initially two years, with the possibility of extension). I would like to fill it around the end of the year, in October or later.
The position offers a lot of flexibility in developing your own research agenda and scientific network. It is also flexible with respect to topic. Current topics of interest in our group include accurate reasoning and planning with LLMs (including tool use); dialogue systems (in particular user adaptation and joint problem solving); and neurosymbolic models for NLP.
If you are interested, please see the website for details: https://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/groups/AK/jobs/
I look forward to hearing from you!
Best,
Alexander Koller.
** Apologies for cross-posting **
Dear Colleagues,
This is the last call for tutorial proposals for COLING 2025.
Due: July, 31, 2024
CFT:
The 2025 International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2025) invites proposals for tutorials to be held in conjunction with the conference. We seek proposals in all areas of natural language processing and computation, language resources (LRs) and evaluation, including spoken language, sign language, and multimodal interaction.
We invite proposals for three types of tutorials, and we especially encourage submissions from early-career researchers:
Cutting-edge: tutorials that cover advances in newly emerging areas. The tutorials are expected to give a brief introduction to the topic, but participants are assumed to have some prior knowledge of the topic. The focus of the class will be on discussing the most recent developments in the field, and it will spend a considerable amount of time pointing out open research questions and important novel research directions.
Introductory to computational linguistics/NLP topics: tutorials that provide introductions to topics that are established in the COLING communities. The lecturers provide an overview of the development of the field from the beginning until now. Attendees are not expected to come with prior knowledge. They acquire sufficient understanding of the topic to understand the most recent research in the field.
Introduction to Key Concepts in Linguistics including Semantics, Syntax, Psycholinguistics, Neurolinguistics, and Sociolinguistics: tutorials that provide introductions to topics that are established or emerging in areas adjacent to CL/NLP. The lecturers provide an overview of the development of the field from the beginning until now. Attendees are not expected to come with prior knowledge. They acquire a sufficient understanding of the topic to understand the most recent research in the field and the relevance for the CL/NLP domains.
Each of these types of tutorials can either be half-day (4h long including a coffee break (30m long)) or full-day (8h long including two coffee breaks (1h long in total) but excluding a lunch break).
In all cases, the aim of a tutorial is primarily to help understand a scientific problem, its tractability, and its theoretical and practical implications. Presentations of particular technological solutions or systems are welcome, provided that they serve as illustrations of broader scientific considerations. None of the tutorial types are expected to be “self-invited” long talks – the content should be a good balance between research from multiple groups and perspectives, not only fromof the teachers of the tutorial.
The tutorials will be held at COLING 2025 in Abu Dhabi, UAE, on 19 and 20 January, 2025.
Important Dates
All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”).
Proposal submission due July 31, 2024
Notification of acceptance August 31, 2024
COLIING2025 tutorials January 19-20, 2025
COLING2025 conference January 21-24, 2025
Diversity and Inclusion
We particularly encourage submissions of underrepresented groups in computational linguistics, researchers from any demographic or geographic minority, with disabilities, or others. In the evaluation of the proposal, we will take these aspects into account to create a varied and balanced set of tutorials.
This includes several aspects of diversity, namely (1) how the topic of the tutorial contributes to improved diversity and increased fairness in the field, (2) if the topic is particularly relevant for a specific underrepresented group of potential participants, (3), if the presenters are from an underrepresented group.
Submission Details
They should contain:
A title that helps the potential attendees to understand what the tutorial will be about.
An abstract that summarizes the topics, goals, target audience, and type (see above) of the tutorial (this abstract will also be on the LREC-COLING website).
A section called “Introduction” that explains the topic and summarizes the starting point and relevance for our community and in general.
A section called “Target Audience” that explains for whom the tutorial will be developed and what the expected prior knowledge is. Clearly specify what attendees should know and be able to practically do to get the most out of your tutorial. Examples of what to specify include prior mathematical knowledge, knowledge of specific modeling approaches and methods, programming skills, or adjacent areas like computer vision. Also specify the number of expected participants.
A section called “Outline” in which the various topics are explained. This can be a list of bullet points or a set of paragraphs explaining the content. Explain what you intend and how long the tutorial will be.
A section called “Diversity Considerations”, discussing each of the three aspects of diversity mentioned above or others.
A section called “Reading List”: What are introductory papers or books that potential attendees can read to get a first impression of the tutorial content? What do you expect them to have read before attending? What does provide further information beyond the content of the tutorial?
A section called “Presenters” in which each tutorial presenter is briefly introduced in one paragraph, including their research interests, their areas of expertise for the tutorial topic, and their experience in teaching a diverse and international audience.
A section called “Other Information” which should include information on how many people are expected to participate and how you came to this estimate. You can also explain any other aspects that you find important, including special equipment that you would need.
A section called “Ethics Statement” which discusses ethical considerations related to the topics of the tutorial.
The proposals should be submitted no later than 31 July, 2024, 11:59 PM Samoa Standard Time (SST) (UTC/GMT-11, “anywhere on Earth”).
Submission is electronic. Please submit the proposals using the START system at this URL: https://softconf.com/coling2025/tutorialsCL25 <https://softconf.com/coling2025/tutorialsCL25>
Please note that tutorials should either be 100% in-person or 100% virtual; hybrid formats will not be allowed. For in-person tutorials, at least one tutorial organiser should be physically present to run the tutorial at COLING.
Evaluation Criteria
The tutorial proposals will be evaluated according to their originality and impact, the expected interest level of participants, as well as the quality of the organizing team and Program Committee and their contribution to the diversity of the conference.
Each tutorial will be evaluated regarding its clarity and preparedness, novelty or timely character of the topic, the instructor’s experience, the audience interest, and the potential to increase diversity in our community.
Instructor Responsibilities
Accepted tutorial presenters will be notified by the date mentioned above. They must then provide abstracts of their tutorials for inclusion in the conference registration material by the specific deadlines. The abstract needs to be provided in ASCII format. The summary will be submitted in PDF format and can be updated from the version submitted for review. The instructors will make their material available in an appropriate way, for instance, by setting up a website. They will be invited to submit their slides to the ACL Anthology.
Tutorial Chairs
Email: coling25tutorialchairs(a)gmail.com
The tutorial chairs are:
Djamé Seddah, Senior Researcher, INRIA, Paris, Frace (on leave from Sorbonne University)
Shaonan Wang, Associate Professor at the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Call for papers: 1st Workshop on Computational Humor (CHum 2025)
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The 1st Workshop on Computational Humor (CHum 2025) will take place
virtually on January 19 or 20, 2025 (exact date TBD) as part of the 31st
International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2025).
Scope and topics
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CHum 2025 aims to foster further work on modeling the processes of humor
with current methods in computational linguistics and natural language
processing, against the theoretical backdrop of humor research and with
reference to relevant corpora of textual, visual, and multimodal
materials. A principal goal of the workshop is to unite researchers who
can together probe the limits of various meaning representations --
symbolic, neural, and hybrid -- for humor processing.
We welcome contributions on any topic relevant to the computational
processing of humor, including but not limited to the following:
* LLMs, knowledge representation
* Resources and evaluation
* Human-computer interaction
* Computer-mediated communication
* Assisted content creation
* Machine and computer-assisted translation
* Digital humanities applications
* Formal modeling of humor
* Proof-of-concept humor detection and classification
Particularly encouraged are submissions describing inter- or
multi-disciplinary work, whether completed or in progress, and position
papers that critically discuss the past, present, and future of
computational humor systems.
Submission instructions
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Long and short papers should be formatted according to the same
guidelines for the main COLING 2025 conference papers
<https://coling2025.org/calls/submission_guidlines/> and submitted
through START: <https://softconf.com/coling2025/CompHum25/>
Important dates
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All deadlines are at 23:59 UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth").
* Initial submission: November 15, 2024
* Notification of acceptance: December 2, 2024
* Camera-ready submission: December 13, 2024
* Workshop: January 19 or 20, 2025
Organizers
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* Christian F. Hempelmann, Texas A&M University-Commerce
* Julia Rayz, Purdue University
* Tiansi Dong, Fraunhofer IAIS
* Tristan Miller, University of Manitoba
Further information
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* Website: <https://chum2025.github.io/>
* E-mail: chum(a)groups.io
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Dr. Tristan Miller, Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba
https://logological.org/ | Tel. +1 204 474 6792
Deadline: 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.
* Deadline for submitting proposals for full length talks (academic
and user-experience) and short/Poster talks for TC46 is extended to 31
July
* Deadline for submitting proposals for workshops and panels is
extended to 15 August
*****We apologize for possible cross-posting*****
*************** Last Call for Papers ***************
The 19th International Workshop on
ONTOLOGY MATCHING
(OM-2024)
http://om.ontologymatching.org/2024/
November 11th or 12th, 2024,
International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) Workshop Program,
Live! Casino & Hotel Maryland, Baltimore, USA.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVES
Ontology matching is a key interoperability enabler for the Semantic Web,
as well as a useful technique in some classical data integration tasks
dealing with the semantic heterogeneity problem. It takes ontologies
as input and determines as output an alignment, that is, a set of
correspondences between the semantically related entities of those ontologies.
These correspondences can be used for various tasks, such as ontology
merging, data interlinking, query answering or navigation over knowledge graphs.
Thus, matching ontologies enables the knowledge and data expressed
with the matched ontologies to interoperate.
The workshop has three goals:
1.
To bring together leaders from academia, industry and user institutions
to assess how academic advances are addressing real-world requirements.
The workshop will strive to improve academic awareness of industrial
and final user needs, and therefore, direct research towards those needs.
Simultaneously, the workshop will serve to inform industry and user
representatives about existing research efforts that may meet their
requirements. The workshop will also investigate how the ontology
matching technology is going to evolve, especially with respect to
data interlinking, knowledge graph and web table matching tasks.
2.
To conduct an extensive and rigorous evaluation of ontology matching
and instance matching (link discovery) approaches through
the OAEI (Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative) 2024 campaign:
http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2024/
3.
To examine similarities and differences from other, old, new and emerging,
techniques and usages, such as web table matching or knowledge embeddings.
TOPICS of interest include but are not limited to:
Business and use cases for matching (e.g., big, open, closed data);
Requirements to matching from specific application scenarios;
Formal foundations and frameworks for matching;
Novel matching methods, including link prediction, ontology-based access;
Matching and knowledge graphs;
Matching and deep learning;
Matching and embeddings;
Matching and big data;
Matching and linked data;
Instance matching, data interlinking and relations between them;
Privacy-aware matching;
Process model matching;
Large-scale and efficient matching techniques;
Matcher selection, combination and tuning;
User involvement (including both technical and organizational aspects);
Explanations in matching;
Social and collaborative matching;
Uncertainty in matching;
Expressive alignments;
Reasoning with alignments;
Alignment coherence and debugging;
Alignment management;
FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) alignments;
Matching for traditional applications (e.g., data science);
Matching for emerging applications (e.g., web tables, knowledge graphs).
SUBMISSIONS
Contributions to the workshop can be made in terms of technical papers and
posters/statements of interest addressing different issues of ontology matching
as well as participating in the OAEI 2024 campaign. Long technical papers should
be of max. 12 pages. Short technical papers should be of max. 6 pages.
Posters/statements of interest should not exceed 3 pages.
All contributions have to be prepared using the CEUR-ART, 1-column style.
Overleaf page for LaTeX users is available at
https://www.overleaf.com/read/gwhxnqcghhdt,
while offline version with the style files is available from
http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip.
Submissions should be uploaded in PDF format
through the workshop submission site at:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=om2024
Contributors to the OAEI 2024 campaign have to follow the campaign conditions
and schedule at http://oaei.ontologymatching.org/2024/.
DATES FOR TECHNICAL PAPERS AND POSTERS:
August 9th, 2024: Deadline for the submission of papers.
August 30th, 2024: Deadline for the notification of acceptance/rejection.
September 9th, 2024: Workshop camera ready copy submission.
November 11th or 12th, 2024: OM-2024, Live! Casino & Hotel Maryland, Baltimore, USA.
Contributions will be refereed by the Program Committee.
Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings as a volume of CEUR-WS as well as indexed on DBLP.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
1. Pavel Shvaiko
Trentino Digitale, Italy
2. Jérôme Euzenat
INRIA & Univ. Grenoble Alpes, France
3. Ernesto Jiménez-Ruiz
City, University of London, UK & SIRIUS, University of Oslo, Norway
4. Oktie Hassanzadeh
IBM Research, USA
5. Cássia Trojahn
IRIT, France
6. Sven Hertling
FIZ Karlsruhe, Germany
7. Huanyu Li
Linköping University, Sweden
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Alsayed Algergawy, Jena University, Germany
Manuel Atencia, Universidad de Málaga, Spain
Jiaoyan Chen, University of Oxford, UK
Jérôme David, University Grenoble Alpes & INRIA, France
Gayo Diallo, University of Bordeaux, France
Daniel Faria, INESC-ID&IST, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Alfio Ferrara, University of Milan, Italy
Marko Gulić, University of Rijeka, Croatia
Wei Hu, Nanjing University, China
Ryutaro Ichise, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & Europeana, Netherlands
Naouel Karam, Fraunhofer, Germany
Prodromos Kolyvakis, EPFL, Switzerland
Patrick Lambrix, Linköpings Universitet, Sweden
Oliver Lehmberg, University of Mannheim, Germany
Fiona McNeill, University of Edinburgh, UK
Hoa Ngo, CSIRO, Australia
George Papadakis, University of Athens, Greece
Catia Pesquita, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Henry Rosales-Méndez, University of Chile, Chile
Booma Sowkarthiga, Microsoft, USA
Kavitha Srinivas, IBM, USA
Giorgos Stoilos, University of Oxford, UK
Valentina Tamma, University of Liverpool, UK
Ludger van Elst, DFKI, Germany
Xingsi Xue, Fujian University of Technology, China
Ondřej Zamazal, Prague University of Economics, Czech Republic
Songmao Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Lu Zhou, TigerGraph, USA
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More about ontology matching:
http://www.ontologymatching.org/http://book.ontologymatching.org/
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