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Job Opportunities – Reader (Assoc Prof), Senior Lecturer, Lecturer in Data Science, AI, Cybersecurity and CS – Wolverhampton, UK
by Ingo Frommholz 21 Mar '24

21 Mar '24

The School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematical Sciences at the University of Wolverhampton in the UK is seeking for new high calibre staff members in Data Science, AI, Cybersecurity and Computer Science. Please find further information below. We also appreciate applications from people with an IR and NLP background. 1 Reader in DS - https://jobs.wlv.ac.uk/vacancy/reader-in-data-science-550825.html 1 Reader in AI - https://jobs.wlv.ac.uk/vacancy/reader-in-artificial-intelligence-553738.html 2 SL in Computer Science - https://jobs.wlv.ac.uk/vacancy/senior-lecturer-in-computer-science-2-posts-… 2 SL in AI/DS - https://jobs.wlv.ac.uk/vacancy/senior-lecturer-in-artificial-intelligence-d… 2 SL in Cybersecurity – https://jobs.wlv.ac.uk/vacancy/senior-lecturer-in-cyber-security-x-2-posts-… 4 L in Computer Science (various) - https://jobs.wlv.ac.uk/vacancy/lecturer-in-computer-science-4-posts-554467.… Please contact me in case you have any enquiries. Kind regards, Ingo -- Ingo Frommholz (he/him), PhD, FBCS, FHEA Reader (~Associate Professor) in Data Science ACM CIKM 2023 General Chair Head of Data, AI, Interaction, Retrieval and Language Group http://dairel.org Deputy Head Digital Innovations and Solutions Centre (DISC) University of Wolverhampton, UK Adjunct Professor, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland Web: http://www.frommholz.org/ | Email: ifrommholz(a)acm.org Twitter: @iFromm | Mastodon: @ingo@idf.social PGP/GPG fingerprint: B74E A422 C7B2 A5BB 2BC2 523B 2790 216E F8F8 D166 http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x2790216EF8F8D166

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[CfP] Now Hybrid and NEW Deadline! TermTrends @ MDTT24: Models and Best Practices for Terminology Representation in the Semantic Web
by Patricia Martín Chozas 21 Mar '24

21 Mar '24

*Apologies for crossposting* TermTrends24: Models and Best Practices for Terminology Representation in the Semantic Web Workshop colocated with MDTT 2024 <https://mdtt2024.dei.unipd.it/en/> *(Hybrid)* Date: 26th June, 2024 Venue: Granada, Spain More info: https://termtrends.linkeddata.es/ 7th April - *30**th April (Extended)**: Deadline for paper submission* *About TermTrendsTermTrends 2024 will now be a hybrid workshop!* Co-located with MDTT 2024, TermTrends aims to provide a discussion forum on the theoretical and methodological approaches for the representation of terminological data, both at a conceptual and a linguistic level. In particular, we would like to focus on their connection to the Linguistic Linked (Open) Data (LLOD) paradigm through the representation of these data according to Semantic Web formats. By adopting models or vocabularies proposed for the representation of linguistic data, we would contribute to the creation of interoperable and reusable terminological resources. With this objective, the workshop intends to explore the advantages and challenges underlying various Terminology-related standardisation approaches, ranging from the initially proposed standards to represent terminology within the International Standardisation Organisation (ISO), such as the TermBase eXchange (TBX) format, to models that represent linguistic descriptions associated with ontologies in the Semantic Web, such as SKOS and Ontolex-lemon. Being multidisciplinary in scope, it focuses on identifying terminological representation needs, as well as limitations of current models in addressing such needs, with the aim of also exploring the development of an extension of the Ontolex-lemon vocabulary and how that may contribute to overcoming such challenges. *Call for Papers*The topics of interest for this workshop include, but are not limited to, the following topics: - Terminology Representation Standards - Terminology as Linguistic Linked (Open) Data - Interoperability of Terminological Resources - Reusability of Terminological Resources - Challenges in Terminology Representation - Analysis of the structure of Terminological Resources *Submissions* Papers proposals should follow the CEUR template. Short and long papers will be accepted. Following CEUR guidelines, short papers should be 5-6 pages long and long papers 8-10 pages long. Authors must submit their papers through the EasyChair platform following this link. *Important Dates*7th April - *30**th April (Extended)**: Deadline for paper submission* *20 April 2024* - Deadline for notification for paper submission *15 May 2024* - Deadline for camera-ready paper submission *26 June 2024 *- TermTrends Workshop *Workshop Organisers* Rute Costa, NOVA FCSH / NOVA CLUNL (Portugal) Elena Montiel-Ponsoda, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain) Sara Carvalho, Univ. de Aveiro / NOVA CLUNL (Portugal) Patricia Martín-Chozas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain) Federica Vezzani, University of Padova (Italy) *Patricia Martín Chozas - Postdoctoral Researcher* * Ontology Engineering Group* Artificial Intelligence Department ETSI Informáticos - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Phone: (+34) 910673091

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[CIKM 2024] - Call for Applied Research Papers
by antonela.tommasel＠isistan.unicen.edu.ar 21 Mar '24

21 Mar '24

* We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CfP * * For the online version of this Call, visit: https://cikm2024.org/call-for-applied-research-papers =============== CIKM 2024: 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management Boise, Idaho, USA October 21–25, 2024 =============== The 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) offers a forum for academia and industry to present cutting-edge research on artificial intelligence, search and discovery, text and data mining, and database systems. The Applied Research Track invites submissions from both academia and industry that focus on advancing the understanding of issues related to deploying IR, NLP and AI at scale. Unlike the Research Track, the Applied Research Track concentrates on applied work, such as describing the implementation of a system, data acquisition, or application of a methodology that addresses a significant real-world problem and demonstrates measurable benefits and impact. We invite authors to submit papers that showcase their research work’s real-world impact and demonstrate practicality and scalability. Submissions should clearly outline how the work has been deployed or released and for how long, or how the work is planned to be deployed or released and what is its potential impact in the real world -------------------------- Key Dates -------------------------- * Applied Research Papers abstract: 13 May 2024 * Applied Research Papers: 20 May 2024 * Applied Research Papers notifications: 16 July 2024 * Camera ready: 8 August 2024 (All deadlines are at 11:59 pm AOE) -------------------------- Topics of Interest -------------------------- We invite submissions along the same topics of interest lines as the CIKM 2024 Research Track, but with a focus on applied and deployed work, substantiated by a system launch, data release, or other practical application evidence. * Data and information acquisition and preprocessing (e.g., data crawling, IoT data, data quality, data privacy, mitigating biases, data wrangling) * Integration and aggregation (e.g., semantic processing, data provenance, data linkage, data fusion, knowledge graphs, data warehousing, privacy and security, modeling, information credibility) * Efficient data processing (e.g., serverless, data-intensive computing, database systems, indexing and compression, architectures, distributed data systems, dataspaces, customized hardware) * Special data processing (e.g., multilingual text, sequential, stream, spatio-temporal, (knowledge) graph, multimedia, scientific, and social media data) * Analytics and machine learning (e.g., OLAP, data mining, machine learning and AI, scalable analysis algorithms, algorithmic biases, event detection and tracking, understanding, interpretability) * Neural Information and knowledge processing (e.g., graph neural networks, domain adaptation, transfer learning, network architectures, neural ranking, neural recommendation, and neural prediction) * Data processing enabled by large language models and other foundation models (e.g. information retrieval or data management facilitated by the use of LLMs) * Information access and retrieval (e.g., ad hoc and web search, facets and entities, question answering and dialogue systems, retrieval models, query processing, personalization, recommender and filtering systems) * Users and interfaces for information and data systems (e.g., user behavior analysis, user interface design, perception of biases, personalization, interactive information retrieval, interactive analysis, spoken interfaces) * Evaluation, performance studies, and benchmarks (e.g., online and offline evaluation, best practices) Crowdsourcing (e.g. task assignment, worker reliability, optimization, trustworthiness, transparency, best practices) * Understanding multi-modal content (e.g., natural language processing, speech recognition, computer vision, content understanding, knowledge extraction, knowledge graphs, and knowledge representations) * Data presentation (e.g., visualization, summarization, readability, VR, speech input/output) * Network and graph mining (e.g., social network analysis, mining important nodes in networks, subgraphs and graph motifs mining, community detection) * Applications (e.g., urban systems, biomedical and health informatics, legal informatics, crisis informatics, computational social science, data-enabled discovery, social media) -------------------------- Paper Submissions -------------------------- We welcome original applied research submissions that are not previously published, accepted to be published, or being considered for publication in any other forum. Full-length papers should satisfy the standard requirements of top-tier international research conferences. Authors should include their names and affiliations in the manuscript (i.e. submissions are single-blind). Submissions are limited to 7 pages plus unlimited references (note that additional appendices are not allowed) and must be formatted using ACM’s 2-column template “sig-conf”, see https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. Papers that include text generated from a large-scale language model (LLM), such as ChatGPT, are prohibited unless this produced text is presented as a part of the paper’s experimental analysis. AI tools may be used to edit and polish authors’ work, such as using LLMs for light editing of their text (e.g., automate grammar checks, word autocorrect, and other editing of author-written text), but text “produced entirely” by generative/AI models is not allowed. At least one author of each accepted paper must register to present the work on-site in Boise, Idaho, USA, as scheduled in the conference program. The official publication date is when the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks before the first day of the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. -------------------------- Dual Submission Policy -------------------------- Submitting papers that are identical (or substantially similar) to versions that have been published, accepted for publication, or submitted in parallel to other conferences (or any venue with published proceedings) is not allowed. However, it is allowed to make an abstract submission by May 13, 2024 (without uploading the paper PDF) for a paper that is still under review as long as the ongoing review process ends by the full paper final deadline of May 20, 2024. You need to withdraw your submission in case the paper is accepted or still under review by May 20, 2024. Authors are allowed to submit papers that have been presented or are to be presented at conferences or workshops without proceedings, or with only abstracts published. Authors may also submit anonymized work already available as a preprint (e.g., in arXiv). In this case, the authors must modify the title and abstract while refraining from citing the manuscript to preserve anonymity. -------------------------- Authorship Policy -------------------------- Before paper submission, authors are advised to review ACM’s authorship policy carefully. Please ensure that all authors are identified in EasyChair before the submission deadline. To help reviewers identify potential conflicts of interest, the full author list must be specified by the abstract submission deadline. Consequently, no changes to authorship will be allowed under any circumstance after the abstract submission deadline; neither update will be permitted for camera-ready versions. -------------------------- Desk Rejection Policy -------------------------- Submissions that fail to adhere to the anonymity, length, or formatting requirements, or violate ACM’s policies on academic dishonesty—such as plagiarism, author misrepresentation, or falsification—may be subject to desk rejection by the chairs. -------------------------- ACM Policy Against Harassment -------------------------- All authors and participants must adhere to the ACM Policy Against Harassment. For full details, please visit this site: https://www.acm.org/about-acm/policy-against-harassment -------------------------- Chairs Contact Information -------------------------- For more information, contact the Applied Research Track PC chairs at: CIKM2024-applied [at] easychair [dot] org Wei Chen (Microsoft Research Asia) Yinglong Xia (Meta)

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[CIKM 2024] - Call for Short Research Papers
by antonela.tommasel＠isistan.unicen.edu.ar 21 Mar '24

21 Mar '24

* We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CfP * * For the online version of this Call, visit: https://cikm2024.org/call-for-short-research-papers/ =============== CIKM 2024: 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management Boise, Idaho, USA October 21–25, 2024 =============== The Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) provides a unique venue for industry and academia to present and discuss state-of-the-art research on artificial intelligence, search and discovery, data mining, and database systems, all at a single conference. CIKM is uniquely situated to highlight technologies and insights that materialize the big data and artificial intelligence vision of the future. CIKM 2024 will take place between October 21-25, 2024 in Boise, Idaho, USA. -------------------------- Key Dates -------------------------- * Short Papers abstract: 27 May 2024 * Short Papers: 3 June 2024 * Short Papers notifications: 16 July 2024 * Camera ready: 8 August 2024 (All deadlines are at 11:59 pm AOE) -------------------------- Topics of Interest -------------------------- We encourage submissions of high-quality research papers on all topics in the general areas of artificial intelligence, data science, databases, information retrieval, and knowledge management. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas: * Data and information acquisition and preprocessing (e.g., data crawling, IoT data, data quality, data privacy, mitigating biases, data wrangling) * Integration and aggregation (e.g., semantic processing, data provenance, data linkage, data fusion, knowledge graphs, data warehousing, privacy and security, modeling, information credibility) * Efficient data processing (e.g., serverless, data-intensive computing, database systems, indexing and compression, architectures, distributed data systems, dataspaces, customized hardware) * Special data processing (e.g., multilingual text, sequential, stream, spatio-temporal, (knowledge) graphs, multimedia, scientific, and social media data) * Analytics and machine learning (e.g., OLAP, data mining, machine learning and AI, scalable analysis algorithms, algorithmic biases, event detection and tracking, understanding, interpretability) * Neural Information and knowledge processing (e.g., graph neural networks, domain adaptation, transfer learning, network architectures, neural ranking, neural recommendation, and neural prediction) * Information access and retrieval (e.g., ad hoc and web search, facets and entities, question answering and dialogue systems, retrieval models, query processing, personalization, recommender and filtering systems) * Users and interfaces for information and data systems (e.g., user behavior analysis, user interface design, perception of biases, personalization, interactive information retrieval, interactive analysis, spoken interfaces) * Evaluation, performance studies, and benchmarks (e.g., online and offline evaluation, best practices) Crowdsourcing (e.g. task assignment, worker reliability, optimization, trustworthiness, transparency, best practices) * Understanding multi-modal content (e.g., natural language processing, speech recognition, computer vision, content understanding, knowledge extraction, knowledge graphs, and knowledge representations) * Data presentation (e.g., visualization, summarization, readability, VR, speech input/output) * Applications (e.g., urban systems, biomedical and health informatics, legal informatics, crisis informatics, computational social science, data-enabled discovery, social media) -------------------------- Paper Submissions -------------------------- Authors are invited to submit original short papers that have not been previously published, and are not being considered for publication in any other forum. Short papers should describe ongoing work, recent insights, or summaries of significant research, that address research problems targeting top-tier research venues. Short papers should be particularly well suited to poster presentations.Manuscripts should be submitted to the CIKM 2024 Easychair site in PDF format, using the ACM sigconf template, see https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. Submissions should be in 2-column sigconf format. Short papers cannot exceed 4 pages plus unlimited references. Papers should be submitted through the CIKM 2024 online submission system. The review of short papers will be double-blind, and those submissions that have not been properly anonymized will be desk-rejected without review. Papers that include text generated from a large-scale language model (LLM) such as ChatGPT are prohibited unless this produced text is presented as a part of the paper’s experimental analysis. AI tools may be used to edit and polish authors’ work, such as using LLMs for light editing of their own text (e.g., automate grammar checks, word autocorrect, and other editing work), but text “produced entirely” by AI is not allowed. At least one author of each accepted paper must register to present the work on-site in Boise, Idaho, USA, as scheduled in the conference program. The official publication date is when the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks before the first day of the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. -------------------------- Dual Submission Policy -------------------------- It is not allowed to submit papers that are identical (or substantially similar) to versions that have been previously published, or accepted for publication, or that have been submitted in parallel to other conferences (or any venue with published proceedings). Such submissions violate our dual-submission policy. There are several exceptions to this rule: Submission is permitted for papers presented or to be presented at conferences or workshops without proceedings, or with only abstracts published. Submission is permitted for papers that have previously been made available as a technical report or similar, e.g., in arXiv. In this case, the authors should not cite the report, so as to preserve anonymity. -------------------------- Authorship Policy -------------------------- Before paper submission, authors are advised to review ACM’s authorship policy carefully. Please ensure that all authors are identified in EasyChair before the submission deadline. To help reviewers identify potential conflicts of interest, the full author list must be specified by the abstract submission deadline. Consequently, no changes to authorship will be allowed under any circumstance after the abstract submission deadline; neither update will be permitted for camera-ready versions. -------------------------- Desk Rejection Policy -------------------------- Submissions that fail to adhere to the anonymity, length, or formatting requirements, or violate ACM’s policies on academic dishonesty—such as plagiarism, author misrepresentation, or falsification—may be subject to desk rejection by the chairs. -------------------------- ACM Policy Against Harassment -------------------------- All authors and participants must adhere to the ACM Policy Against Harassment. For full details, please visit this site: https://www.acm.org/about-acm/policy-against-harassment -------------------------- Chairs Contact Information -------------------------- For more information, contact the short paper chairs at: CIKM2024-short [at] easychair [dot] org Arijit Khan, Aalborg University, Denmark Barbara Poblete, University of Chile, Chile/Amazon, USA. Hua Wen, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China

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[CIKM 2024] - Call for Full Research Papers
by antonela.tommasel＠isistan.unicen.edu.ar 21 Mar '24

21 Mar '24

* We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CfP * * For the online version of this Call, visit: https://cikm2024.org/call-for-papers/ =============== CIKM 2024: 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management Boise, Idaho, USA October 21–25, 2024 =============== The Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) provides a unique venue for industry and academia to present and discuss state-of-the-art research on artificial intelligence, search and discovery, data mining, and database systems, all at a single conference. CIKM is uniquely situated to highlight technologies and insights that materialize the big data and artificial intelligence vision of the future. CIKM 2024 will take place between October 21-25, 2024 in Boise, Idaho, USA. -------------------------- Key Dates -------------------------- * Full Papers abstract: 13 May 2024 * Full Papers: 20 May 2024 * Papers notifications: 16 July 2024 * Camera ready: 8 August 2024 (All deadlines are at 11:59 pm AOE) -------------------------- Topics of Interest -------------------------- We encourage submissions of high-quality research papers on the general areas of artificial intelligence, data science, databases, information retrieval, and knowledge management. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas: * Data and information acquisition and preprocessing (e.g., data crawling, IoT data, data quality, data privacy, mitigating biases, data wrangling) * Integration and aggregation (e.g., semantic processing, data provenance, data linkage, data fusion, knowledge graphs, data warehousing, data lake, privacy and security, modeling, information credibility) * Efficient data processing (e.g., serverless, data-intensive computing, database systems, indexing and compression, architectures, distributed data systems, dataspaces, customized hardware) * Special data processing (e.g., multilingual text, sequential, stream, time series, spatio-temporal, (knowledge) graph, multimedia, scientific, and social media data) * Analytics and machine learning (e.g., OLAP, data mining, machine learning and AI, scalable analysis algorithms, algorithmic biases, event detection, and tracking, understanding, and interpretability) * Neural Information and knowledge processing (e.g., graph neural networks, domain adaptation, transfer learning, network architectures, neural ranking, neural recommendation, and neural prediction) * Data preparation, Valuation, and Trading * Information access and retrieval (e.g., web search, question answering and dialogue systems, retrieval models, query processing, personalization, recommender, and filtering systems) * Users and interfaces for information systems (e.g., user behavior analysis, user interface design, perception of biases, personalization, interactive information retrieval, interactive analysis, spoken interfaces) * Evaluation, performance studies, and benchmarks (e.g., online and offline evaluation, best practices) * Crowdsourcing (e.g. task assignment, worker reliability, optimization, trustworthiness, transparency, best practices) * Mining multi-modal content (e.g., natural language processing, speech recognition, computer vision, content understanding, knowledge extraction, knowledge graphs, and knowledge representations) * Data presentation (e.g., visualization, summarization, readability, VR, speech input/output) * Applications (e.g., urban systems, biomedical and health informatics, legal informatics, crisis informatics, computational social science, data-enabled discovery, social media) * Knowledge graphs support data representation and manipulation * Generation of knowledge graphs using unstructured data * Information retrieval in the era of LLMs * Open-ended QA systems * Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, Ethics, and Explainability in Information and Knowledge Management -------------------------- Paper Submissions -------------------------- Authors are invited to submit original, full-length research papers that are not previously published, accepted to be published, or being considered for publication in any other forum. Full-length papers should satisfy the standard requirements of top-tier international research conferences. Manuscripts should be submitted to CIKM 2024 Easychair site in PDF format, using the 2-column ACM sigconf template, see https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template . Full papers cannot exceed 9 pages, including an appendix, plus unlimited references. Rejected full papers will not be considered for publication as short papers. The review of manuscripts will be double-blind, and submissions not properly anonymized will be desk-rejected without review. Papers that include text generated from a large-scale language model (LLM), such as ChatGPT, are prohibited unless this produced text is presented as a part of the paper’s experimental analysis. AI tools may be used to edit and polish authors’ work, such as using LLMs for light editing of their text (e.g., automate grammar checks, word autocorrect, and other editing of author-written text), but text “produced entirely” by generative/AI models is not allowed. At least one author of each accepted paper must register to present the work on-site in Boise, Idaho, USA, as scheduled in the conference program. The official publication date is when the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks before the first day of the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. -------------------------- Dual Submission Policy -------------------------- Submitting papers that are identical (or substantially similar) to versions that have been published, accepted for publication, or submitted in parallel to other conferences (or any venue with published proceedings) is not allowed. However, it is allowed to make an abstract submission by May 13, 2024 (without uploading the paper PDF) for a paper that is still under review as long as the ongoing review process ends by the full paper final deadline of May 20, 2024. You need to withdraw your submission in case the paper is accepted or still under review by May 20, 2024. Authors are allowed to submit papers that have been presented or are to be presented at conferences or workshops without proceedings, or with only abstracts published. Authors may also submit anonymized work already available as a preprint (e.g., in arXiv). In this case, the authors must modify the title and abstract while refraining from citing the manuscript to preserve anonymity. -------------------------- Authorship Policy -------------------------- Before paper submission, authors are advised to review ACM’s authorship policy carefully. Please ensure that all authors are identified in EasyChair before the submission deadline. To help reviewers identify potential conflicts of interest, the full author list must be specified by the abstract submission deadline. Consequently, no changes to authorship will be allowed under any circumstance after the abstract submission deadline; neither update will be permitted for camera-ready versions. -------------------------- Desk Rejection Policy -------------------------- Submissions that fail to adhere to the anonymity, length, or formatting requirements, or violate ACM’s policies on academic dishonesty—such as plagiarism, author misrepresentation, or falsification—may be subject to desk rejection by the chairs. -------------------------- ACM Policy Against Harassment -------------------------- All authors and participants must adhere to the ACM Policy Against Harassment. For full details, please visit this site: https://www.acm.org/about-acm/policy-against-harassment -------------------------- Chairs Contact Information -------------------------- For more information, contact the PC chairs at: CIKM2024-pc [at] easychair [dot] org Carlotta Domeniconi, George Mason University, USA Zhifeng Bao, RMIT University, Australia Sole Pera, TU Delft, Netherlands

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Call for Participation - HOPE@IberLEF 2024: Approaching Hope Speech Detection in Social Media from Two Perspectives, for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and as Expectations
by Sabur B 20 Mar '24

20 Mar '24

****We apologize for multiple postings of this e-mail**** IberLEF 2024 Task - HOPE: Approaching Hope Speech Detection in Social Media from Two Perspectives, for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and as Expectations Held as part of the evaluation forum IberLEF 2024 <https://sites.google.com/view/iberlef-2024/home?authuser=0> in the 40th edition of the International Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN 2024 <http://sepln2024.infor.uva.es/en/front-page-english/>) Valladolid, Spain, 24-27 September 2024 Codalab link: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/17714 Dear All, Hope, a crucial aspect of human psychology, profoundly shapes emotions, behavior, and mood, influencing how individuals perceive and navigate challenges (Bruininks and Malle, 2005; Snyder, 1994, 2000). High levels of hope correlate with positive outcomes such as academic success and lower depression rates, while low hope is associated with diminished well-being (Snyder, 2002; Snyder et al., 1997; Diener, 2009). Despite its significance, hope has been underexplored in Natural Language Processing (NLP) until recent years. Efforts have been made to integrate NLP techniques into the analysis of hope through shared tasks, like those organized in ACL 2022, RANLP 2023, and IberLEF 2023 (Chakravarthi et al., 2022; Kumaresan et al., 2023; Jiménez-Zafra et al., 2023). The upcoming IberLEF 2024 edition aims to delve deeper into hope from two angles: hope for equality, diversity, and inclusion, and hope as expectations. This edition promises to expand understanding by examining hope across different domains and languages, thus addressing crucial questions in hope speech detection research. Two tasks are outlined in this description, each focusing on different aspects of hope. - Task 1: It centers on "Hope for Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion," emphasizing the importance of hope speech in mitigating hostility and supporting individuals facing challenges like illness, stress, or loneliness, particularly within vulnerable groups such as the LGBT community and racial minorities. This task consists of giving a Spanish tweet, identifying whether it contains hope speech or not. The possible categories for each text are: - hs: hope speech. - nhs: non hope speech. - Task 2: It delves into "Hope as Expectations," highlighting hope's role as an anticipatory mindset shaping human emotions and behaviors, especially in the context of social media where expressions are abundant. This task aims to analyze hope speech's presence in English and Spanish texts, focusing on binary hope speech detection and multiclass hope speech detection.The subtask are presented as follows, - Subtask 2a- Binary Hope speech detection: A given text in English/Spanish will be classified as: - Hope - Not Hope - Subtask 2b- Multiclass Hope speech detection: A given text in English/Spanish will be classified as: - Generalized Hope - Realistic Hope - Unrealistic Hope - Not Hope In both tasks, there will be a real-time leaderboard and the participants will be allowed to make a maximum of 10 submissions through CodaLab, from which each team will have to select the best one for ranking. The dataset details and registration are available at: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/17714 Best regards, The HOPE 2024 organizing committee Important dates - Release of training + development corpora: Feb 16, 2024. - Release of test corpora and start of evaluation campaign: Mar 23, 2024. - End of evaluation campaign (deadline for runs submission): Apr 7, 2024. - Publication of official results: Apr 9, 2024. - Paper submission: May 5, 2024. - Review notification: Jun 2, 2024. - Camera-ready submission: Jun 19, 2024. - IberLEF Workshop (SEPLN 2024): Sep 27, 2024. - Publication of proceedings: Sep ??, 2024. Organizing Committee - Daniel García-Baena, SINAI, Universidad de Jaén, Spain. - Fazlourrahman Balouchzahi, CIC IPN, Mexico. - Salud María Jiménez-Zafra, SINAI, Universidad de Jaén, Spain. - Sabur Butt, Institute for the Future of Education (IFE) at Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico. - Miguel Ángel García-Cumbreras, SINAI, Universidad de Jaén, Spain. - Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Centro de Investigación en Computación, Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN), Mexico. - José Antonio García-Díaz, UMUTeam, Universidad de Murcia, Spain. - Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, University of Galway, Ireland. - Hector G. Ceballos, Institute for the Future of Education (IFE) at Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico. - Rafael Valencia-García, UMUTeam, Universidad de Murcia, Spain. - Grigori Sidorov, CIC IPN, Mexico. - L. Alfonso Ureña-López, SINAI, Universidad de Jaén, Spain. - Alexander Gelbukh, CIC IPN, Mexico. *Sabur Butt, Ph.D. *(He/Him) Institute for the Future of Education (IFE) *Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico* Address: Av. Eugenio Garza Sada 2501 Sur Tecnológico, 64849 Monterrey, N.L. LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/saburb> - GitHub <https://github.com/saburbutt> - Scholar <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=re7md-0AAAAJ&hl=en> - Website <https://saburbutt.github.io/>

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Webinar: Peter Crosthwaite, Methodological considerations in selecting and designing corpus tools, Thursday, April 25, 2024, 4:15pm (Sao Paulo time)
by Tony Berber-Sardinha 20 Mar '24

20 Mar '24

CEPRIL Talks Peter Crosthwaite Methodological considerations in selecting and designing corpus tools University of Queensland Brisbane, Australia Date: Thursday, April 25, 2024 Time: 4:15pm (Sao Paulo time) Online Zoom webinar Register for free: https://forms.gle/mPGQVDNWTNzfgNT87 Upon registration, you will receive the link to join the Zoom session by email. This may take a few days, because manual screening is involved. Support: Projeto Temático Fapesp 2022/05908-0 CEPRIL, LAEL, PUCSP

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Second call for participation - MentalRiskES@IberLEF2024: Early detection of mental
by María Dolores Molina González 20 Mar '24

20 Mar '24

*Training* *set* *released**!* Please, consider participating and/or forwarding to colleagues and groups. ****We apologize for multiple postings of this e-mail**** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ MentalRiskES at IberLEF 2024: Call for Participation Website: https://sites.google.com/view/mentalriskes2024 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MentalRiskEs describes the second edition of a novel task on early risk identification of mental disorders in Spanish comments from social media sources. The first edition took place last year in the IberLEF evaluation forum as part of the SEPLN 2023. The task was resolved as an online problem, that is, the participants had to detect a potential risk as early as possible in a continuous stream of data. Therefore, the performance not only depended on the accuracy of the systems but also on how fast the problem was detected. These dynamics are reflected in the design of the tasks and the metrics used to evaluate participants. For this second edition, we propose three novel tasks, the first subtask is about the detection of the disorder, the second subtask consists of detecting the context that may be associated with the disorder, and the third subtask is about suicidal ideation detection. We would like to invite you to participate in the following tasks: 1. Disorders detection (multi-class classification) 2. Disorder contextualization (fine-grained classification) 3. Suicidal ideation detection (binary classification) Find out more at https://sites.google.com/view/mentalriskes2024. MentalRiskES 2024 is part of the IberLEF Workshop and will be held in conjunction with the SEPLN 2024 conference in Valladolid (Spain). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Feb 16th Registration open Feb 21st Release of trial corpora (trial server available) *Mar 20th Release of training corpora* Mar 29th Registration closed Apr 8th Release of test corpora and start of the evaluation campaign (test server available and trial submissions closed) Apr 12th End of evaluation campaign (deadline for submission of runs) Apr 18th Publication of official results and release of test gold labels May 10th Deadline for paper submission May 31st Acceptance notification Jun 17th Camera-ready submission deadline July 11th Final camera-ready submission deadline (to IberLEF organisers) Please reach out to the organizers at MentalRiskEs@IberLEF2024. The MentalRiskES 2024 organizing committee. -- M. Dolores Molina González

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[CFP] 1st Call for Participation - ISWC-LLMs4OL 2024 Challenge: Large Language Models for Ontology Learning
by Jennifer D'Souza 20 Mar '24

20 Mar '24

Dear colleagues and friends, *We are pleased to release the 1st Call for Participation - LLMs4OL Challenge collocated with The International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2024)* *Overview:* LLMs4OL stands for "Large Language Models for Ontology Learning." The LLMs4OL paradigm was first introduced in our research paper ( https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-47240-4_22) published in the ISWC 2023 main conference proceedings. In this context, we aimed to test the readiness of LLMs to address the Ontology Learning (OL) task w.r.t. three main subtasks: 1) Term Typing, 2) Type Taxonomy Discovery, and 3) Non-Taxonomic Relation Extraction. Therein our evaluations included ontolgies from various knowledge domains, i.e. lexicosemantics (WordNet), geography (GeoNames), biomedicine (NCI, MEDICIN, SNOMEDCT), and web content types (schema.org). With the ISWC-LLMs4OL 2024 challenge, we aim to catalyze community-wide engagement in validating and expanding the use of LLMs in OL by releasing our evaluation datasets publicly in the community. This initiative is poised to advance our comprehension of LLMs’ roles within the Semantic Web, encouraging innovation and collaboration in developing scalable and accurate OL methods. More info on the task website: https://sites.google.com/view/llms4ol/ The LLMs4OL Challenge will be divided into two evaluation phases: - Evaluation Phase 1: Few-shot Testing; - Evaluation Phase 2: Zero-shot Testing *Dates* Training datasets available: March 30, 2024 Test data available (Task A): May 27, 2024 Evaluation ends (Task A): June 4, 2024 Test data available (Tasks B & C): June 5, 2024 Evaluation ends (Tasks B & C): June 18, 2024 Participant papers due: June 28, 2024 Notification to authors: July 19, 2024 Camera ready due: July 30, 2024 ISWC 2024, Baltimore, Maryland, USA: 11-15 November 2024 *Task Organizers* Hamed Babaei Giglou (TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology - Germany) Jennifer D’Souza (TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology - Germany) Sören Auer (TIB Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology - Germany) We look forward to having you on board! *Contact:* llms4ol.challenge [at] gmail.com

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2nd CfP: 5th International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change 2024 (LChange’24) + AXOLOTL-24 Shared Task
by Syrielle Montariol 19 Mar '24

19 Mar '24

***Apologies for possible cross-posting *** Second Call for Papers: 5th International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change (LChange’24) We will organize a full-day workshop co-located with the ACL conference on Aug 15, 2024 in Bangkok and online. We hope to make this fifth edition another resounding success! This year, we are happy to host a *shared task* within LChange: the *AXOLOTL-24* Shared Task on Explainable Semantic Change Modeling. Workshop: https://www.changeiskey.org/event/2024-acl-lchange/ Shared task: https://github.com/ltgoslo/axolotl24_shared_task/. Contact email: lchange(a)changeiskey.org Workshop description The LChange workshop targets all aspects of computational modeling of language change, historical as well as synchronic change. It is running in its fifth iteration following successful workshops in 2019 <https://languagechange.org/events/2019-acl-lcworkshop/>, 2021 <https://languagechange.org/events/2021-acl-lcworkshop/>, 2022 <https://languagechange.org/events/2022-acl-lchange/>, and 2023 <https://languagechange.org/events/2023-emnlp-lchange/>, and will be co-located with ACL 2024 in Bangkok (Thailand), as a hybrid event. The workshop will take place on Thursday 15 August 2024. The main topics of the workshop remain the same: all aspects around computational approaches to language change with a focus on digital text corpora. LChange explores state-of-the-art computational methodologies, theories and digital text resources on exploring the time-varying nature of human language. The aim of this workshop is to provide pioneering researchers who work on computational methods, evaluation, and large-scale modeling of language change an outlet for disseminating research on topics concerning language change. Besides these goals, this workshop will also support discussion on evaluating computational methodologies for uncovering language change. We’ll also be offering mentorship to students, to discuss their research topic with a member of the field, regardless of whether they are submitting a paper or not. Important Dates * May 10, 2024: Paper submission * June 20, 2024: Notification of acceptance * June 30, 2024: Camera-ready papers due * August 15, 2024: Workshop date AXOLOTL-24 Shared Task AXOLOTL-24 stands for “Ascertain and eXplain Overhauls of the Lexicon Over Time at LChange'24” and is organized by Mariia Fedorova and Andrey Kutuzov (University of Oslo), Timothee Mickus, Niko Partanen and Janine Siewert (University of Helsinki), and Elena Spaziani (Sapienza University Rome). Note that the papers describing the shared task submissions will be peer-reviewed and published in the LChange proceedings along with the rest of the workshop papers. The shared task presents two subtasks: - Subtask 1: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/18009 Finding the target word usages associated with new, gained senses - Subtask 2: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/18008 Describing these senses in a way that facilitates understanding and lexicographical research. More information, including a timeline and instructions, is available here: https://github.com/ltgoslo/axolotl24_shared_task/. Submissions We accept two types of submissions, long and short papers, consisting of up to eight (8) and four (4) pages of content, respectively, plus unlimited references; final versions will be given one additional page of content so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account. We also welcome papers focusing on releasing a dataset or a model; these papers fall into the short paper category. We invite original research papers from a wide range of topics, including but not limited to: - Novel methods for detecting diachronic semantic change and lexical replacement - Automatic discovery and quantitative evaluation of laws of language change - Computational theories and generative models of language change - Sense-aware (semantic) change analysis - Diachronic word sense disambiguation - Novel methods for diachronic analysis of low-resource languages - Novel methods for diachronic linguistic data visualization - Novel applications and implications of language change detection - Quantification of sociocultural influences on language change - Cross-linguistic, phylogenetic, and developmental approaches to language change - Novel datasets for cross-linguistic and diachronic analyses of language Accepted papers will be presented orally or as posters and included in the workshop proceedings. Submissions are open to all and are to be submitted anonymously. All papers will be refereed through a double-blind peer review process by at least three reviewers with final acceptance decisions made by the workshop organizers. If you have published in the field previously, and are interested in helping out in the program committee to review papers, please send us an email! Workshop organizers Nina Tahmasebi, University of Gothenburg Syrielle Montariol, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne Andrey Kutuzov, University of Oslo Simon Hengchen, iguanodon.ai and Université de Genève David Alfter, University of Gothenburg Francesco Periti, University of Milan Pierluigi Cassotti, University of Gothenburg

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