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Final CfP: 1st Workshop on Computational Humor (CHum @ COLING 2025)
by Tristan Miller 26 Oct '24

26 Oct '24

Call for papers: 1st Workshop on Computational Humor (CHum 2025) ================================================================ The 1st Workshop on Computational Humor (CHum 2025) will take place virtually on January 19, 2025 as part of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2025). Scope and topics ---------------- 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 ----------------------- 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 --------------- 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, 2025 Organizers ---------- * Christian F. Hempelmann, Texas A&M University-Commerce * Julia Rayz, Purdue University * Tiansi Dong, Fraunhofer IAIS * Tristan Miller, University of Manitoba Further information ------------------- * Website: <https://chum2025.github.io/> * E-mail: chum(a)groups.io -- Dr. Tristan Miller, Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba https://clam.cs.umanitoba.ca/ | Tel. +1 204 474 6792

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Lin Lougheed Doctoral Fellowship in Language & Technology
by Voss, Erik 25 Oct '24

25 Oct '24

Apologies for cross posting *Lin Lougheed Doctoral Fellowship in Language & Technology* The Applied Linguistics & TESOL program at Teachers College, Columbia University announces the Lin Lougheed Doctoral Fellowship in Language & Technology. The fellowship will be offered to one student to develop and research AI technologies for language learning or language assessment. This 4-year fellowship will provide tuition and a stipend for a student in good standing during the program. Teachers College Application Portal: https://apply.tc.edu/apply/ The application deadline is December 1, 2024. Contact Prof. Erik Voss at ev2449(a)tc.columbia.edu with questions about this fellowship. -- Erik Voss, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Applied Linguistics & TESOL program Language & Technology Specialization Department of Arts & Humanities Teachers College, Columbia University TC Faculty Profile <https://www.tc.columbia.edu/faculty/ev2449/>, Linkedin Profile <https://www.linkedin.com/in/erik-voss-ph-d-941a3ab9>, Google Scholar <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=FMnVdjcAAAAJ&hl=en> ALTESOL Language & Technology Research Group <https://sites.google.com/tc.columbia.edu/al-tesol-language-technology/home> Editor-in-Chief of NYS TESOL Journal Associate Editor of Language Assessment Quarterly *Latest Publications* Voss, E. et al. (2023). The Use of Assistive Technologies Including Generative AI by Test Takers in Language Assessment: A Debate of Theory and Practice. <https://doi.org/10.1080/15434303.2023.2288256> LAQ Journal Voss, E. (2024) Duolingo Webinar: Current Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Language Assessment <https://youtu.be/b-mjLmvXLBU?si=nmph76-lizkfzi1J> (1 hour) Voss, E. (2024). Language Assessment and Artificial Intelligence. <https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=ht8aEQAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA112&ot…> The Concise Companion to Language Assessment.

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New issue of Research in Corpus Linguistics
by Paula Rodríguez-Puente 25 Oct '24

25 Oct '24

We are very pleased to announce that the second issue of volume 12 (2024) of *Research in Corpus Linguistics *(RiCL) has just been published. This is an issue guest edited by Robbie Love (Aston University) which includes a compilation of fantastic articles intended to shed new light on *"Innovations in the compilation and analysis of spoken corpora". *Please, visit our website <https://ricl.aelinco.es/index.php/ricl/issue/view/26> to see the whole volume. The table of contents can be found below. With best wishes, Paula Rodríguez-Puente & Carlos Prado-Alonso Editors of RiCL *Articles* - *Introduction: Innovation in spoken corpus linguistics <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/ricl.aelinco.es/index.php/ricl/article/v…>*. Robbie Love - *“We’ve lost you Ian”: Multi-modal corpus innovations in capturing, processing and analysing professional online spoken interactions <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/ricl.aelinco.es/index.php/ricl/article/v…>*. Anne O'Keeffe, Dawn Knight, Geraldine Mark, Christopher Fitzgerald, Justin McNamara, Svenja Adolphs, Benjamin Cowan, Tania Fahey Palma, Fiona Farr, Sandrine Peraldi - *Building LANA-CASE, a spoken corpus of American English conversation: Challenges and innovations in corpus compilation <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/ricl.aelinco.es/index.php/ricl/article/v…>*. Elizabeth Hanks, Tony McEnery, Jesse Egbert, Tove Larsson, Douglas Biber, Randi Reppen, Paul Baker, Vaclav Brezina, Gavin Brookes, Isobelle Clarke, Raffaella Bottini - *Compiling a corpus of African American Language from oral histories <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/ricl.aelinco.es/index.php/ricl/article/v…>*. Sarah Moeller, Alexis Davis, Wilermine Previlon, Michael Bottini, Kevin Tang - *Addressing comparability and retrieval issues in conversation corpora: A case study on the Spoken British National Corpora (1994 and 2014), using the past perfect <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/ricl.aelinco.es/index.php/ricl/article/v…>*. Nicholas Smith, Cristiano Broccias, Cathleen Waters - *Rethinking interviews as representations of spoken language in learner corpora <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/ricl.aelinco.es/index.php/ricl/article/v…>*. Pascual Pérez-Paredes, Geraldine Mark - *Developing a coding scheme for annotating opinion statements in L2 interactive spoken English with application for language teaching and assessment <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/ricl.aelinco.es/index.php/ricl/article/v…>*. Yejin Jung, Dana Gablasova, Vaclav Brezina, Hanna Schmück - *Corpus as a slice of life: Representing naturally occurring language and its speakers <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/ricl.aelinco.es/index.php/ricl/article/v…>*. Giorgia Troiani, John W. Du Bois, Andrey Filchenko - *Design and construction of a social media corpus: Influencers’ speech in vlogs <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/ricl.aelinco.es/index.php/ricl/article/v…>*. Hülya Mısır *Book Reviews* - *Review of Gillings, Mathew, Gerlinde Mautner and Paul Baker. 2023. Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 978-1-009-16815-1. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009168144 <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/ricl.aelinco.es/index.php/ricl/article/v…>*. Tamsin Parnell - *Review of Brookes, Gavin and Luke C. Collins. 2023. Corpus Linguistics for Health Communication: A Guide for Research. London: Routledge. ISBN: 978-1-003-09965-9 https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003099659 <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/ricl.aelinco.es/index.php/ricl/article/v…>*. Ovidia Martínez Sánchez - *Review of Pettersson-Traba, Daniela. 2022. The Development of the Concept of SMELL in American English. A Usage-Based View of Near-Synonymy. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. ISBN: 978-3-11079-2201. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110792294 <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/ricl.aelinco.es/index.php/ricl/article/v…>*. Daniel Granados-Meroño - *Review of Izquierdo, Marlén and Zuriñe Sanz-Villar eds. 2023. Corpus Use in Cross-linguistic Research: Paving the Way for Teaching, Translation and Professional Communication. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. ISBN: 978-9-027-21430-0. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.113 <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/ricl.aelinco.es/index.php/ricl/article/v…>*. Isabel Pizarro-Sánchez - *Review of Viana, Vander ed. 2023. Teaching English with Corpora: A Resource Book. London: Routledge. ISBN: 978-1-032-25297-1. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/b22833 <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/ricl.aelinco.es/index.php/ricl/article/v…>*. Gaëtanelle Gilquin *Paula Rodríguez-Puente* Departamento de Filología Inglesa, Francesa y Alemana Universidad de Oviedo Campus El Milán C/ Amparo Pedregal s/n 33011 Oviedo *Tlf*. 985-104570 Variation, Linguistic Change and Grammaticalization <http://www.usc-vlcg.es/PRP.htm> LINGUO <https://linguo.grupos.uniovi.es/presentacion/miembros/detalle/-/asset_publi…> Academia <https://uniovi.academia.edu/PaulaRodr%C3%ADguezPuente> Scholar <https://scholar.google.es/citations?user=I4axNDUAAAAJ&hl=es>

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Genre-enriched web corpora and multilingual genre classifier
by Taja Kuzman 25 Oct '24

25 Oct '24

Dear all, If you are involved in (web) corpora creation and curation, interested in large multilingual corpora for European languages, or working with automatic genre annotation, the following resources might be useful for you. Multiple multilingual genre-related resources and technologies are now available on the CLARIN.SI and Hugging Face repositories: - 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗿𝗲-𝗲𝗻𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝗠𝗮𝗖𝗼𝗖𝘂-𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗲𝗯 𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗽𝗼𝗿𝗮 - MaCoCu web corpora for 13 European languages (Albanian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Greek, Icelandic, Macedonian, Montenegrin, Serbian, Slovenian, Turkish, and Ukrainian), automatically annotated with genre labels. In total, the corpus collection comprises 67 million texts and 28.5 billion words. They are available on the CLARIN.SI repository: http://hdl.handle.net/11356/1969 - 𝗫-𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗥𝗘 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗲𝗿 - multilingual text genre classifier, applicable to any of the 100 languages that are included in the XLM-RoBERTa model - available on Hugging Face (https://huggingface.co/classla/xlm-roberta-base-multilingual-text-genre-cla…) and CLARIN.SI repository (http://hdl.handle.net/11356/1961) - 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵-𝗦𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗫-𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗥𝗘 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘁 - manually-annotated genre dataset, used for training and evaluation of the X-GENRE classifier - available on Hugging Face (https://huggingface.co/datasets/TajaKuzman/X-GENRE-text-genre-dataset) and CLARIN.SI repository (http://hdl.handle.net/11356/1960). Additionally, we set up a 𝗯𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗵𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 (https://github.com/TajaKuzman/AGILE-Automatic-Genre-Identification-Benchmark) for continuous evaluation of the emerging technologies on this task. The benchmark is based on unpublished manually-annotated datasets - if you wish to test your own systems on the task, let me know, and we'll be happy to share them with you. Best regards, -- TajaKuzman Research Assistant Department of Knowledge Technologies | Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia CLASSLA Knowledge Centre for South Slavic languages | CLARIN.SI twitter <https://twitter.com/TajaKuzman> linkedin <https://www.linkedin.com/in/taja-kuzman/>

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COLING 2025 - Call for Emergency Reviewers
by sakhar＠cs.columbia.edu 24 Oct '24

24 Oct '24

Dear Colleagues, The COLING2025 conference aims for a high-quality peer reviewing process by experts on a wide range of topics. We are looking for people who are willing to serve as emergency reviewers for COLING 2025. Emergency reviewing will take place between 23 and 29 October. We are counting on your help to provide 1 or 2 reviews with a quick turnaround time during this period. To volunteer, please fill in your information on this link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfDIxZGeyKOe5nV8YFUreNxA4Uw367oYpP…

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3 open PhD or PostDoc Positions University of Technology Nuremberg [UTN]
by Steffen Eger 24 Oct '24

24 Oct '24

The Natural Language Learning Group (NLLG) at University of Technology Nuremberg (UTN) has three fully funded PhD / PostDoc positions in Natural Language Processing. Deadlines: 31.11.2024, 02.11.2024, 04.11.2024 Topics are: Next Generation LLMs, Multimodal Evaluation Metrics for Generative AI, NLP for science Detailed information: https://nl2g.github.io/positions Please direct all inquiries regarding scientific content to Steffen Eger (steffen.eger(a)utn.de<mailto:steffen.eger@utn.de>). For general questions, contact stars(a)utn.de<mailto:stars@utn.de>. Applications must be made to stars(a)utn.de with the corresponding reference numbers. --------------------------------------------- Heisenberg Professor Natural Language Learning & Generation (NLLG) University of Technology Nuremberg (UTN) https://nl2g.github.io/ <https://nl2g.github.io/>https://www.utn.de/en/person/prof-dr-steffen-eger/<https://www.utn.de/person/prof-dr-steffen-eger/> https://www.utn.de/en/departments/department-engineering/nllg-lab/ <https://nl2g.github.io/> Ulmenstraße 52i 90443 Nürnberg

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Call for Bids to Host TPDL 2026 - applications due 13 December 2024
by Antoine Doucet 24 Oct '24

24 Oct '24

Invitation to Tender for a TPDL Conference The Steering Committee of the TPDL conference invites interested parties to submit bids to host the TPDL 2026 Conference, held in conjunction as an event of the duration of 3 days. One additional day for workshops can be proposed. Please note that proposals may also may considered for TPDL 2027. Institutions submitting a bid for TPDL 2026 also commit themselves to collect the fees and manage the conference budget. TPDL is an international forum focused on digital libraries and their associated technical, practical, and social issues. The conference encompasses the many meanings of the term “digital libraries,” embracing the whole spectrum of the LAM (Library, Archive, and Museum) community; operational information systems with all manner of digital content; new means of selecting, collecting, organizing, and distributing digital content; and theoretical models of information media, including document genres and electronic publishing. From 2024, TPDL is expanding its scope to prominently include Document Analysis, Recognition and Information Retrieval, acknowledging the vital role of those research areas in the creation (by means of digitization and information extraction from heterogeneous sources), access, discovery, and dissemination of digital content. Parties interested in hosting TPDL are invited to submit proposals, in PDF format, by email to the TPDL Steering Committee Chair (Antoine Doucet <antoine.doucet(a)univ-lr.fr <mailto:<antoine.doucet(a)univ-lr.fr>>) and Deputy Chair (Gianmaria Silvello<gianmaria.silvello(a)unipd.it <mailto:<gianmaria.silvello(a)unipd.it>>) by Friday, December 13th, 2024. The Steering Committee will review and select the proposals. The Steering Committee can ask for modifications and changes to the proposals, if deemed necessary. Important dates: - Bid submission deadline: Friday, December 13th, 2024 - Feedback to bidders and discussion (if needed): January 2025 - Bid selection: February 2025 Proposals should cover the topics covered by the attached (proposed) template. Feel free to get in touch well ahead of submission. Best regards, Antoine Doucet and Gianmaria Sivello (Chair and Deputy Chair of the TPDL steering committee)

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Call for Postdoctoral Research Fellowships
by Menno Van Zaanen 23 Oct '24

23 Oct '24

Call for Postdoctoral Research Fellowships The South African Centre for Digital Language Resources, a national research infrastructure hosted at the North-West University within the Faculty of Humanities is inviting applications from outstanding early career researchers for Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (PDRF) in applied linguistics in general and language for academic purposes in particular. Full details available here: https://bit.ly/3UeRf7h -- Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za Professor in Digital Humanities South African Centre for Digital Language Resources https://www.sadilar.org ________________________________ NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT: http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorised review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you have received the e-mail by mistake, please contact the sender or reply e-mail and delete the e-mail and its attachments (where appropriate) from your system. ________________________________

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Webminar by Ekaterina Shutova (University of Amsterdam)
by HiTZ zentroa 21 Oct '24

21 Oct '24

Estimado Manuel, adjunto información sobre un webinar relevante para los miembros de AEPIA. Agradecería que se distribuyera en la lista. gracias! un saludo oier & eneko **** We apologize for the multiple copies of this email. In case you are already registered to the next webinar, you do not need to register again. **** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dear colleague, We are happy to announce the next webinar in the Language Technology webinar series organized by the HiTZ Chair of AI&LT (https://hitz.eus). You can check the videos of previous webinars and the schedule for upcoming webinars here: http://www.hitz.eus/webinars Next webinar: *Speaker:* Ekaterina Shutova (University of Amsterdam) *Title:* Cross-lingual information sharing in multilingual language models *Date: *Thursday, October 24, 2024 - 15:00 CET *Summary:* Multilingual language models (MLMs), such as XLM-R or BLOOM, are pretrained on data covering many languages and share their parameters across all languages. This modeling approach has several powerful advantages, such as allowing similar languages to exert positive influence on each other, and enabling cross-lingual task transfer (i.e., fine-tuning on some source language(s), then using the model on different target languages). The success of such transfer, however, depends on the model's ability to effectively share information between different languages in its parameter space. Yet, the cross-lingual information sharing mechanisms within MLMs are still not fully understood. In this talk, I will present our recent research that investigates this question from three different perspectives: encoding of typological relationships between languages within MLMs, language-wise modularity of MLMs and the influence of training examples in specific languages on predictions made in others. *Bio* Ekaterina Shutova is an Associate Professor at the ILLC, University of Amsterdam, where she leads the Amsterdam Natural Language Understanding Lab and the Natural Language Processing & Digital Humanities research unit. She received her PhD from the University of Cambridge, and then worked as a research scientist at the University of California, Berkeley. Ekaterina’s current research focuses on few-shot learning for language interpretation tasks, multilingual NLP, generalisability and robustness of NLP models and interpretability in deep learning. Her prominent service roles include Program Chair of ACL 2025, Senior Action Editor of ACL Rolling Review, Action Editor of Computational Linguistics and Demonstrations chair at EMNLP 2022. She is also an ELLIS scholar. * Upcoming webinars:* ·Elena Sokolova (November 7, 2024) ·Javier de la Rosa (December 12, 2024) ·Sebastian Ruder (February 6, 2025) Check past and upcoming webinars at the following url: http://www.hitz.eus/webinars. If you are interested in participating, please complete this registration form: http://www.hitz.eus/webinar_izenematea If you cannot attend this seminar, but you want to be informed of the following HiTZ webinars, please complete this registration form instead: http://www.hitz.eus/webinar_info Best wishes, HiTZ Zentroa P.S: HiTZ will not grant any type of certificate for attendance at these webinars.

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Webminar by Ekaterina Shutova (University of Amsterdam)
by HiTZ zentroa 21 Oct '24

21 Oct '24

**** We apologize for the multiple copies of this email. In case you are already registered to the next webinar, you do not need to register again. **** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dear colleague, We are happy to announce the next webinar in the Language Technology webinar series organized by the HiTZ Chair of AI&LT (https://hitz.eus). You can check the videos of previous webinars and the schedule for upcoming webinars here: http://www.hitz.eus/webinars Next webinar: *Speaker:* Ekaterina Shutova (University of Amsterdam) *Title:* Cross-lingual information sharing in multilingual language models *Date: *Thursday, October 24, 2024 - 15:00 CET *Summary:* Multilingual language models (MLMs), such as XLM-R or BLOOM, are pretrained on data covering many languages and share their parameters across all languages. This modeling approach has several powerful advantages, such as allowing similar languages to exert positive influence on each other, and enabling cross-lingual task transfer (i.e., fine-tuning on some source language(s), then using the model on different target languages). The success of such transfer, however, depends on the model's ability to effectively share information between different languages in its parameter space. Yet, the cross-lingual information sharing mechanisms within MLMs are still not fully understood. In this talk, I will present our recent research that investigates this question from three different perspectives: encoding of typological relationships between languages within MLMs, language-wise modularity of MLMs and the influence of training examples in specific languages on predictions made in others. *Bio* Ekaterina Shutova is an Associate Professor at the ILLC, University of Amsterdam, where she leads the Amsterdam Natural Language Understanding Lab and the Natural Language Processing & Digital Humanities research unit. She received her PhD from the University of Cambridge, and then worked as a research scientist at the University of California, Berkeley. Ekaterina’s current research focuses on few-shot learning for language interpretation tasks, multilingual NLP, generalisability and robustness of NLP models and interpretability in deep learning. Her prominent service roles include Program Chair of ACL 2025, Senior Action Editor of ACL Rolling Review, Action Editor of Computational Linguistics and Demonstrations chair at EMNLP 2022. She is also an ELLIS scholar. * Upcoming webinars:* ·Elena Sokolova (November 7, 2024) ·Javier de la Rosa (December 12, 2024) ·Sebastian Ruder (February 6, 2025) Check past and upcoming webinars at the following url: http://www.hitz.eus/webinars. If you are interested in participating, please complete this registration form: http://www.hitz.eus/webinar_izenematea If you cannot attend this seminar, but you want to be informed of the following HiTZ webinars, please complete this registration form instead: http://www.hitz.eus/webinar_info Best wishes, HiTZ Zentroa P.S: HiTZ will not grant any type of certificate for attendance at these webinars.

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