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First Call For Papers: 17th International Natural Language Generation Conference INLG 2024
by Saad Mahamood 23 Apr '24

23 Apr '24

*First Call For papers: 17th International Natural Language Generation Conference INLG 2024* We invite the submission of long and short papers, as well as system demonstrations, related to all aspects of Natural Language Generation (NLG), including data-to-text, concept-to-text, text-to-text and vision-to-text approaches. Accepted papers will be presented as oral talks or posters. The event is organized under the auspices of the Special Interest Group on Natural Language Generation (SIGGEN) (https://aclweb.org/aclwiki/SIGGEN) of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) (https://aclweb.org/). The event will be held from 23-27 September in Tokyo, Japan. INLG 2024 will be taking place after SIGDial 2024 (18-20 September) nearby in Kyoto. **Important dates** All deadlines are Anywhere on Earth (UTC-12) • START system regular paper submission deadline: May 31, 2024 • ARR commitment to INLG deadline via START system: June 24, 2024 • START system demo paper submission deadline: June 24, 2024 • Notification: July 15, 2024 • Camera ready: August 16, 2024 • Conference: 23-27 September 2024 **Topics** INLG 2024 solicits papers on any topic related to NLG. General topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Large Language Models (LLMs) for NLG • Affect/emotion generation • Analysis and detection of automatically generated text • Bias and fairness in NLG systems • Cognitive modelling of language production • Computational efficiency of NLG models • Content and text planning • Corpora and resources for NLG • Ethical considerations of NLG • Evaluation and error analysis of NLG systems • Explainability and Trustworthiness of NLG systems • Generalizability of NLG systems • Grounded language generation • Lexicalisation • Multimedia and multimodality in generation • Natural language understanding techniques for NLG • NLG and accessibility • NLG in speech synthesis and spoken language models • NLG in dialogue • NLG for human-robot interaction • NLG for low-resourced languages • NLG for real-world applications • Paraphrasing, summarization and translation • Personalisation and variation in text • Referring expression generation • Storytelling and narrative generation • Surface realization • System architectures **Submissions & Format** Three kinds of papers can be submitted: • Long papers are most appropriate for presenting substantial research results and must not exceed eight (8) pages of content, plus unlimited pages of ethical considerations, supplementary material statements, and references. The supplementary material statement provides detailed descriptions to support the reproduction of the results presented in the paper (see below for details). The final versions of long papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account. • Short papers are more appropriate for presenting an ongoing research effort and must not exceed four (4) pages, plus unlimited pages of ethical considerations, supplementary material statements, and references. The final versions of short papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 5 pages) so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account. • Demo papers should be no more than two (2) pages, including references, and should describe implemented systems relevant to the NLG community. It also should include a link to a short screencast of the working software. In addition, authors of demo papers must be willing to present a demo of their system during INLG 2024. Submissions should follow ACL Author Guidelines (https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Author_Guidelines) and policies for submission, review and citation, and be anonymised for double blind reviewing. Please use ACL 2023 style files; LaTeX style files and Microsoft Word templates are available at: https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html Authors must honor the ethical code set out in the ACL Code of Ethics (https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/acl-code-ethics). If your work raises any ethical issues, you should include an explicit discussion of those issues. This will also be taken into account in the review process. You may find the following checklist of use: https://aclrollingreview.org/responsibleNLPresearch/ Authors are strongly encouraged to ensure that their work is reproducible; see, e.g., the following reproducibility checklist (https://2021.aclweb.org/calls/reproducibility-checklist/). Papers involving any kind of experimental results (human judgments, system outputs, etc) should incorporate a data availability statement into their paper. Authors are asked to indicate whether the data is made publicly available. If the data is not made available, authors should provide a brief explanation why. (E.g. because the data contains proprietary information.) A statement guide is available on the INLG 2024 website: https://inlg2024.github.io/ To submit a long or short paper to INLG 2024, authors can either submit directly or commit a paper previously reviewed by ARR via the same paper submission site (https://softconf.com/n/inlg2024/). For direct submissions, the deadline for submitting papers is May 31, 2024, 11:59:59 AOE. If committing an ARR paper to INLG, the submission is also made through the INLG 2024 paper submission site, indicating the link of the paper on OpenReview. The deadline for committing an ARR paper to INLG is June 24, 2024, 11:59:59 AOE, and the last eligible ARR paper submission deadline for INLG 2024 is May 24, 2024. It is important to note that when committing an ARR paper to INLG, it should be submitted through the INLG 2024 paper submission site, just like a direct submission paper, with the only difference being the need to provide the OpenReview link to the paper and to provide an optional author response to reviews. Demo papers should be submitted directly through the INLG 2024 paper submission site (https://softconf.com/n/inlg2024/) by June 24, 2024, 11:59:59 AOE. All accepted papers will be published in the INLG 2024 proceedings and included in the ACL anthology. A paper accepted for presentation at INLG 2024 must not have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available proceedings. Dual submission to other conferences is permitted, provided that authors clearly indicate this in the submission form. If the paper is accepted at both venues, the authors will need to choose which venue to present at, since they can not present the same paper twice. Finally, at least one of the authors of an accepted paper must register to attend the conference. **Awards** INLG 2024 will present several awards to recognize outstanding achievements in the field. These awards are: • Best Long Paper Award: This award will be given to the best long paper submission based on its originality, impact, and contribution to the field of NLG. • Best Short Paper Award: This award will be given to the best short paper submission based on its originality, impact, and contribution to the field of NLG. • Best Demo Paper Award: This award will recognize the best demo paper submitted to the conference. This award considers not only the paper's quality but also the demonstration given at the conference. The demonstration will play a significant role in the judging process. • Best Evaluation Award: The award is a new addition to INLG 2024. This award is designed to honor authors who have demonstrated the most comprehensive and insightful analysis in evaluating their results. This award aims to highlight papers where the authors have gone the extra mile in providing a thorough and detailed analysis of their results, offering a nuanced understanding of their findings.

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RiCL indexed as Q2 in SJR
by Paula Rodríguez-Puente 22 Apr '24

22 Apr '24

Dear colleagues, We are happy to announce that the journal *Research in Corpus Linguistics,* sponsored by the *Spanish Association for Corpus Linguistics**, has been indexed in Scimago Journal and Country Rank. The journal has been ranked in Quartile 2 (Q2) for the period 2019–2023.* As SJR’s indexing criteria show, there is no doubt that RiCL has been an academically relevant linguistic journal since 2019. The editorial team is particularly happy with the coverage (2019–2023), which is beneficial for authors who have published in RiCL over the time-frame (2019–2023), and evidence of the substantial work carried out by the team since 2018. We would like to thank all contributors, guest editors and reviewers for their collaboration with the journal and invite scholars to submit their submission proposals to the journal. Specific areas of interest include corpus design, compilation, and typology; discourse, literary analysis and corpora; corpus-based grammatical studies; corpus-based lexicology and lexicography; corpora, contrastive studies and translation; corpus and linguistic variation; corpus-based computational linguistics; corpora, language acquisition and teaching; and special uses of corpus linguistics. Further information at: *https://ricl.aelinco.es <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://ricl.aelinco.es/__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!XdCA4T…>* All the best, Paula Rodríguez-Puente and Carlos Prado-Alonso (editors of RiCL) -- Paula Rodríguez Puente rodriguezppaula(a)uniovi.es <paula.r.puente(a)gmail.com> http://www.usc-vlcg.es/PRP.htm <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_cam…> Libre de virus.www.avg.com <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_cam…> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>

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3rd CfP: 5th International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change 2024 (LChange’24)
by Syrielle Montariol 22 Apr '24

22 Apr '24

***Apologies for possible cross-posting *** Third Call for Papers: 5th International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change (LChange’24) /!\ Less than 3 weeks before the submission deadline /!\ We're organizing 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). The AXOLOTL'24 shared task itself is finished, and the leaderboards are published. But you can still participate in the post-evaluation phase and submit a paper to LChange. The shared task presents two subtasks: - Subtask 1: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/18570 Finding the target word usages associated with new, gained senses - Subtask 2: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/18572 <https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/18008>Describing these senses in a way that facilitates understanding and lexicographical research. 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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[Call for Participation]: GermEval2024 Shared Task GerMS-Detect - Sexism Detection in German Online News Fora @Konvens 2024
by stephanie.gross＠ofai.at 22 Apr '24

22 Apr '24

1st CALL FOR PARTICIPATION We are pleased to announce the GermEval Shared Task GerMS-Detect on Sexism Detection in German Online News Fora collocated with Konvens 2024. Competition Website: https://ofai.github.io/GermEval2024-GerMS/ Important Dates: Trial phase: April 20 - April 29, 2024 Development phase: May 1 - June 5, 2024 Competition phase: June 7 - June 25, 2024 Paper submission due: July 1, 2024 Camera ready due: July 20, 2024 Shared Task @KONVENS: 10 September, 2024 Task description: This shared task is about the detection of sexism/misogyny in comments posted in (mostly) German language to the comment section of an Austrian online newspaper. The data was originally collected for the development of a classifier that supports human moderators in detecting potentially sexist comments or identify comment fora with a high rate of sexist comments. For details see the Competition Website (https://ofai.github.io/GermEval2024-GerMS/). Organizers: The task is organized by the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI) (www.ofai.at). Organizing team: Brigitte Krenn (brigitte.krenn (AT) ofai.at) Johann Petrak (johann.petrak (AT) ofai.at) Stephanie Gross (stephanie.gross (AT) ofai.at)

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[2nd CFP] Special issue on Abusive Language Detection of the journal Traitement Automatique des Langues (TAL)
by Farah Benamara 22 Apr '24

22 Apr '24

================[Apologies for any cross-posting]================ **Special issue of the journal Traitement Automatique des Langues (TAL) Abusive Language Detection : Linguistic Resources, Methods and Applications ** **Guest Editors** Farah Benamara (IRIT-Toulouse University, IPAL Singapore), Delphine Battistelli (MoDyCo, Paris Nanterre University) and Viviana Patti (Turin University) **Motivations** Abusive language - or, in another very common terminology, hate speech - and the propagation of harmful stereotypes have unfortunately become commonplace occurrences on various social media platforms, partly due to users’ freedom and anonymity and the lack of regulation provided by these platforms. The sheer volume and often implicit nature of such unwanted content make manual moderation of these user spaces a formidable task. Various scientific communities interested in its at least partial automation have taken up the problem over the past ten years. In particular, Computational Social Science, Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics have proposed numerous works to create resources, datasets, and models aimed at automating the task of abusive language detection (henceforth ALD). In fact, we see that ALD has become a research theme in its own right in the field of Natural Language Processing with an abundant literature. Abusive language (umbrella term to refer to the various forms of harmful language, such as toxic, offensive language, hate speech, and stereotypes) is topically focused and each specific manifestation of abusive language targets different vulnerable groups based on characteristics such as gender (misogyny, sexism), ethnicity, race, religion (xenophobia, racism, Islamophobia), sexual orientation (homophobia), and so on. Most automatic ALD approaches cast the problem into a binary classification task but important considerations should be taken into account, in particular: (1) the topical focus or the target-oriented nature of hate speech ; (2) the degree of engagement of users in abusive content (e.g., denunciation, approbation, reporting, neutral attitude) ; (3) the question of stereotypes and dominant ideologies ; (4) the question of linguistic strategies more particularly linked or born with social networks (e.g., emoticons, hashtags). Furthermore, most of the work (resources, classifiers) is developed for English. **Topics** Motivated by the interest of the community in the problem of ALD, we invite papers from Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning and Computational Social Sciences. We explicitly encourage interdisciplinary submissions (resources, computational methods, and user applications at the interface of linguistics/psychology/socio-linguistics/sociology) but also position papers on the actual state of the art in the field discussing the limitations of the current approaches and directions for future work. The topics covered by the special issue include, but are not limited to: -- Linguistic resources and evaluation: annotation schemes, corpus linguistics studies, new datasets, with a particular interest in French language and/or multilingual resources. In the case of strictly lexical resources: methods for constituting them and coverage, semantic categories retained. -- Formal/Conceptual approaches for ALD as inspired by models in sociology, socio-linguistics and psychology. -- Models and Methods: supervised and unsupervised approaches, including LLMs. -- Role of contextual phenomena, including discourses, extra-linguistic contexts (e.g., cultural aspects). -- Models for cross-lingual and multimodal detection. -- New approaches beyond binary classification: target-oriented ALD, degrees of user engagement, etc. -- Dynamics of online AL in social media, propaganda propagation. -- Bias detection and removal in resource creation, datasets and methods. -- Application of ALD tools in education, social media content moderation, etc. -- Social, legal, and ethical implications of detecting, monitoring and moderating AL. **Important dates** May 31th, 2024: Submission deadline July 15th, 2024: Notification of acceptance after first rereading End of September 2024: Revised version Mid October 2024: Final decision End of November 2024: Camera ready January 2025: Publication of the special issue **Submission** Submissions can either be in French or English and should follow the journal templates: https://tal-65-3.sciencesconf.org/ **About the journal** Traitement Automatiques des Langues Journal (TAL) is the international French journal of Natural Language Processing (https://www.atala.org/revuetal) published by ATALA (French Association for Natural Language Processing, http://www.atala.org) since 1959 with the support of CNRS (National Centre for Scientific Research). It is indexed by ACL Anthology as well as DBLP. It is also supported by the Institute of Human and Social Sciences of the CNRS. **Contact** For any question, please contact tal-65-3(a)sciencesconf.org **External committee** -- Cristina Bosco, University of Turin -- Elena Cabrio, University of Côte d'Azur -- Tommaso Caselli, Faculty of Arts, Rijksuniveristeit Groningen -- Valentina Dragos, ONERA -- Karën Fort, Sorbonne University -- Claire Hugonnier, University of Grenoble Alpes -- Irina Illina, University of Lorraine -- Roy Ka-Wei Lee, Singapore University of Technology and Design -- Véronique Moriceau, IRIT, University of Toulouse -– Frédérique Segond, INRIA Paris -- Mariona Taulé, University of Barcelona -- Samuel Vernet, Aix-Marseille University -- Mathieu Valette, Paris Sorbonne Nouvelle University -- Marcos Zampieri, George Mason University -- ======================== Farah Benamara Zitoune Professor in Computer Science, Université Paul Sabatier IRIT-CNRS 118 Route de Narbonne, 31062, Toulouse. Tel : +33 5 61 55 77 06 http://www.irit.fr/~Farah.Benamara ================================== -- ======================== Farah Benamara Zitoune Professor in Computer Science, Université Paul Sabatier IRIT-CNRS 118 Route de Narbonne, 31062, Toulouse. Tel : +33 5 61 55 77 06 http://www.irit.fr/~Farah.Benamara ==================================

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Final CPF: SIGIR eCom'24: May 3rd
by Tracy Holloway King 21 Apr '24

21 Apr '24

Final Call For Papers - SIGIR eCom'24 - https://sigir-ecom.github.io/ The SIGIR Workshop on eCommerce will serve as a platform for publication and discussion of Information Retrieval, NLP and Vision research relative to their applications in the domain of eCommerce. This workshop will bring together practitioners and researchers from academia and industry to discuss the challenges and approaches to product search and recommendation in eCommerce. The deadline for paper submission is May 3rd, 2024 (11:59 P.M. AoE) The special theme of this year's workshop is eCommerce Search in the Age of Generative AI and LLMs. The workshop will also include a data challenge. This year we will collaborate with TREC on a product search data challenge ( https://trec-product-search.github.io/index.html). The overarching goal is to study how end-to-end retrieval systems can be built and evaluated given a large set of products. The data challenge provides a corpus of products and a set of user intents (queries): the goal is to find the product that suits the user’s needs. SIGIR eCom is a full day workshop taking place on Thursday, July 18, 2024 in conjunction with SIGIR 2024. SIGIR eCom'24 will be an in-person workshop. ________________ Important Dates: Paper submission deadline - May 3rd, 2024 (11:59 P.M. AoE) Notification of acceptance - May 23, 2024 Camera Ready Version of Papers Due - June 24, 2024 SIGIR eCom Full day Workshop - July 18, 2024 We invite quality research contributions, position and opinion papers addressing relevant challenges in the domain of eCommerce. We invite submission of both papers and posters. All submitted papers and posters will be single-blind and will be peer reviewed by an international program committee of researchers of high repute. Accepted submissions will be presented at the workshop. Topics: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * eCommerce search in the age of Generative AI and LLMs (2024 special theme) - Ranking and Whole Page Relevance - Optimization for IR and business metrics - Diversity in product search and recommendations - Relevance models for multi-faceted entities - Relevance vs. revenue - Deterministic sorts (e.g. price low to high) - Temporal dynamics and seasonality * Query and Document Understanding - Query intent, query suggestions, and auto-completion - Strategies for resolving low or zero recall queries - Converting across modalities (e.g., text, structured data, images) - Categorization and facets - Reviews and sentiment analysis * Recommendation and Personalization - Personalization & contextualization, including the use of personal facets such as age, gender, location - Privacy, bias and ethics in eCommerce IR - Blending recommendations and search results - Representations and Data - Semantic representation of products, queries, and customers - Construction and use of knowledge graphs for eCommerce * IR Fundamentals for eCommerce - Unified and universal search and recommendations - Cross-lingual search and machine translation - Indexing and search in rapidly changing environments (e.g., auction sites) - Experimentation techniques including AB testing and multi-armed bandits * Visual Search in ecommerce - Large-scale Visual Search Challenges and Solutions - Multimodal Search and combining visual and textual information - Combining Vision and language models - Explainable AI for Visual Search * Other challenges - Trust, transparency, and fairness in eCommerce - UX for eCommerce - The role of search in trust and security for marketplaces - Question answering and chatbots for eCommerce Data/Resource Track: In order to promote academic research in the eCommerce domain, we plan to accept a small number of high quality dataset contributions. These submissions should be accompanied by a clear and detailed description of the dataset, some potential questions and applications that arise from it. Preliminary empirical investigations conveying any insight about the data will increase the quality of the submission. Submission Instructions: All papers will be peer reviewed (single-blind) by the program committee and judged by their relevance to the workshop, especially to the main themes identified above, and their potential to generate discussion. Submissions must describe work that is not previously published, not accepted for publication elsewhere, and not currently under review elsewhere. All submissions must be in English. The workshop follows a single-blind reviewing process, i.e. author names must be on the papers. We do not accept anonymized submissions. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper must register for the workshop and present the paper. All submissions must be in PDF formatted according to the latest CEUR single column format; the short (8-page) and long (15-page) limits are extended to account for this. For instructions and LaTeX/Overleaf/docx templates, see: https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html#CEURART Read up to and including the “License footnote in paper PDFs” section. Please Use Emphasizing Capitalized Style for Paper Titles. Submit your paper PDF through the SIGIR eCom’24 Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sigirecom24 Long paper limit: 15 pages. References are not counted in the page limit. Short paper limit: 8 pages. References are not counted in the page limit. The deadline for paper submission is May 3rd, 2024 (11:59 P.M. AoE) https://sigir-ecom.github.io/

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WMT 2024: Low-Resource Indic Language Translation.
by Santanu Pal 21 Apr '24

21 Apr '24

Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to inform you that we will be hosting the "Shared Task: Low-Resource Indic Language Translation" again this year as part of WMT 2024. Following the outstanding success and enthusiastic participation witnessed in the previous year's edition, we are excited to continue this important initiative. Despite recent advancements in machine translation (MT), such as multilingual translation and transfer learning techniques, the scarcity of parallel data remains a significant challenge, particularly for low-resource languages. The WMT 2024 Indic Machine Translation Shared Task aims to address this challenge by focusing on low-resource Indic languages from diverse language families. Specifically, we are targeting languages such as Assamese, Mizo, Khasi, Manipuri, Nyishi, Bodo, Mising, and Kokborok. For inquiries and further information, please contact us at lrilt.wmt24(a)gmail.com. Additionally, you can find more details and updates on the task through the following link: Task Link: https://www2.statmt.org/wmt24/indic-mt-task.html. We highly encourage participants to register in advance so that we can provide updates regarding release dates of data and other relevant information periodically To register for the event, please fill out the registration form available here. ( https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd8LwriqdLLhVNAvUWEcGRJmKuBFQZ9BR_… ) We look forward to your participation and contributions to advancing low-resource Indic language translation. with best regards, Santanu

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[CIKM-2024] 2nd Call for Tutorials / Workshops
by antonela.tommasel＠isistan.unicen.edu.ar 20 Apr '24

20 Apr '24

* We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CfP * * For the online version of this Call, visit: https://cikm2024.org/ =============== CIKM 2024: 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management Boise, Idaho, USA October 21–25, 2024 =============== The ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) is the premier international conference on topics at the confluence of information retrieval, databases, and knowledge management. Running annually since 1992, CIKM attracts top talent from industry and academia with the goal of fostering collaboration and bridging the academic-commercial gap in the database, information retrieval, machine learning, and knowledge management communities. CIKM 2024 solicits proposals of highly interactive full-/half-day workshops proposing novel research, deepening established research topics, or presenting practical applications on the many aspects of the data lifecycle (data acquisition, pre-processing, modelling, integration/aggregation, storage, analysis, and consumption). Interdisciplinary workshops bridging across different communities are also highly encouraged. CIKM 2024 solicits proposals for both half and full-day tutorials from active and experienced researchers and practitioners covering topics relevant to CIKM. Areas of interest include information retrieval, knowledge management, data science, artificial intelligence, and other related areas of relevance to the CIKM community. -------------------------- Key Dates -------------------------- * Workshop/Tutorials proposal: 14 June 2024 * Workhshop/Tutorials notification: 5 July 2024 * Camera ready: 8 August 2024 * Tutorial day: 21 October 2024 (Monday) * Workshop day: 25 October 2024 (Friday) (All deadlines are at 11:59 pm AOE) -------------------------- Paper Submissions -------------------------- Please use the CIKM 2024 Workshop Proposal Template for your submission. Workshop proposals are reviewed based on the quality of the proposal, their relation to the main CIKM topics, the likelihood of attracting enough participants, and the hosting capacity of the conference. The length of the whole Tutorial proposal should be limited to 4 pages in the ACM proceedings template (double column). Instructions and suitable LATEX, Microsoft Word, and Overleaf templates are available from the ACM Website (use the “sigconf” proceedings template): ACM Primary Article Template. Please note that the organizers of accepted tutorials will be invited to submit a camera-ready summary of the tutorial, to be included in the CIKM 2024 conference proceedings. Proposals should be submitted through Easychair: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=cikm2024 -------------------------- Chairs Contact Information - Workshops -------------------------- For the online version of this Call, visit: https://cikm2024.org/call-for-workshops/ For more information, contact the Workshop Chairs at cikm2024-workshop [at] easychair [dot] org Vanessa Braganholo, Instituto de Computação Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil Yangqiu Song,Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong -------------------------- Chairs Contact Information - Tutorials -------------------------- For the online version of this Call, visit: https://cikm2024.org/call-for-tutorials/ For further information, please contact the Tutorial Chairs at: CIKM2024-tutorial [at] easychair [dot] org Dafna Shahaf, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Isreal Mahantesh Halappanavar, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA

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[CIKM-2024] - 2nd Call for Demo / Resource papers
by antonela.tommasel＠isistan.unicen.edu.ar 20 Apr '24

20 Apr '24

* We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CfP * * For the online version of this Call, visit: https://cikm2024.org/ =============== 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) is a premier forum for researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government bodies to share technologies and state-of-the-art research on the emerging aspects of artificial intelligence, data mining, data management, and information retrieval. The resource track at CIKM 2024 provides a unique opportunity to researchers to share and highlight their latest technologies that enable intelligent decision-making, predictive analytics, and machine learning. The demo track at CIKM 2024 provides a unique opportunity to share research ideas through prototypes. Accepted demo papers will be part of the main conference proceeding. -------------------------- Key Dates -------------------------- * Resource/Demo Papers abstract: 27 May 2024 * Resource/Demo Papers: 3 June 2024 * Resource/Demo Papers notifications: 16 July 2024 * Camera Ready: 8 August 2024 (All deadlines are at 11:59 pm AOE) -------------------------- Topics of Interest - Resource papers -------------------------- We welcome submissions on all topics in the general areas of artificial intelligence, machine learning, data science, databases, information retrieval, and knowledge management. An ideal resource paper’s topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following areas: * Data resources comprising a new and innovative dataset or protocol, or one created using novel methods and/or algorithms * Data resources labelled using novel and well-described annotation and/or crowdsourcing approaches * Software resources to support research on novel application domains or support novel evaluation or benchmark tasks * Software resources such as prototypes and services, open source frameworks, or tools and libraries which support computing, visualization, evaluation and other exploration tasks in data science, data engineering, or information & knowledge management -------------------------- Topics of Interest - Demo papers -------------------------- We seek demonstrations that showcase exciting new technologies and early prototypes within the scope of CIKM, as well as case studies from more mature systems with innovative features and functionalities. We welcome submissions on all topics in the general areas of artificial intelligence, data mining, data management, information retrieval, and knowledge management. -------------------------- Paper Submissions -------------------------- * Resourse papers must be no more than 4 pages long including appendices, plus unlimited pages for references. It is allowed to cite supplementary materials including source code, videos, datasets, and demonstration prototypes that are accessible via online platforms like GitHub. Reviewers have the discretion to decide whether or not they will review such materials. * Demo papers must be no more than 4 pages long including appendices, plus unlimited pages for references. Authors should also prepare a 3 minutes long demonstration video, showcasing the main features of the system. A URL of the video (e.g., YouTube, Dropbox, etc.) should be included in the paper. Manuscripts should be submitted to CIKM 2024’s Easychair page in PDF format using the ACM’s two-column template “sigconf”, see https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template. All papers should be submitted via Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cikm24 The review of the resource/demo papers will be single-blind, which means that the authors should include their names and affiliations in the paper. All submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee of the Resource/Demo track, who will evaluate the novelty of the technical features and/or research being presented, the research and/or development challenges, its expected impact, and its timeliness and relevance for the CIKM audience of practitioners and researchers. 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. -------------------------- Authorship Policy -------------------------- Before paper submission, authors should carefully review ACM’s authorship policy, including ACM’s new Publications Policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/research-involving-human-particip… At least one author of each accepted paper must register to present the work at the conference. -------------------------- 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. However, submissions are permitted for papers presented or to be presented at conferences or workshops without proceedings or with only abstracts published. Authors may also submit work already available as a preprint (e.g., in arXiv). -------------------------- Desk Rejection Policy -------------------------- Submissions that fail to adhere to the 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’s discrimination policy. For full details, please visit this site: https://www.acm.org/special-interest-groups/volunteer-resources/officers-ma… -------------------------- Chairs Contact Information -------------------------- * For the online version of this Call, visit: https://cikm2024.org/call-for-demo-papers/ * For the online version of this Call, visit: https://cikm2024.org/call-for-resource-papers/ For more information, contact the Demo chairs at: CIKM2024-demo [at] easychair [dot] org For more information, contact the resource chairs at: CIKM2024-resources [at] easychair [dot] org Nicolas Kourtellis, Telefonica, Spain Davide Mottin, Aarhus University, Denmark

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[CIKM-2024] - 2nd Call for Full / Short / Applied papers
by antonela.tommasel＠isistan.unicen.edu.ar 20 Apr '24

20 Apr '24

* We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CfP * * For the online version of this Call, visit: https://cikm2024.org/ =============== 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 -------------------------- * 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) -------------------------- Key Dates - Short papers -------------------------- * 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) -------------------------- Key Dates - Applied papers -------------------------- * 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 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/short/applied research papers that are not previously published, accepted to be published, or being considered for publication in any other forum. 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. * Short papers cannot exceed 4 pages plus unlimited references. The review of manuscripts will be double-blind. * Appied papers are limited to 7 pages plus unlimited references (note that additional appendices are not allowed). Authors should include their names and affiliations in the manuscript (i.e. submissions are single-blind). 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 - Full papers -------------------------- For the online version of this Call, visit: https://cikm2024.org/call-for-papers/ 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 -------------------------- Chairs Contact Information - Short papers -------------------------- For the online version of this Call, visit: https://cikm2024.org/call-for-short-research-papers/ 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 -------------------------- Chairs Contact Information - Applied papers -------------------------- For the online version of this Call, visit: https://cikm2024.org/call-for-applied-research-papers 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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