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[CIIAM] Postdoc on Contextual Information Inference for Argument Mining
by Anaïs Ollagnier 12 Mar '24

12 Mar '24

*Bonjour,*** ** * (english announcement follows) Dans le cadre du projet CIIAM (Contextual Information Inference for Argument Mining) financé par l’Académie d’Excellence Réseaux, Information et Société Numérique, visant à renforcer la robustesse des techniques de fouille d'arguments par la synthétisation d’informations contextuelles relevant des aspects multimodaux de la communication. Nous invitons les doctorant(e)s en fin de thèse et les jeunes docteur(e)s à candidater à un postdoctorat sur "l'Amélioration de la fouille d’argument par la synthétisation d’information contextuelle" (12 mois). -------- Contexte -------- Parvenir à appréhender les structures argumentatives dans les entrées en langage naturel constitue une étape clé pour de nombreuses tâches relevant du domaine du Traitement Automatique des Langues (TAL), telles que le résumé automatique ou l'analyse de débats politiques. Bien que des progrès significatifs aient été réalisés grâce à l'avènement des modèles de langue pré-entraînés, ils ne saisissent pas toujours l'ensemble des connaissances linguistiques nécessaires pour une compréhension contextuelle fine et l'établissement d'inférences pertinentes. Face à ces limitations, notre projet vise à explorer l'inclusion de la dimension d'analyse linguistique liée à la pragmatique. Cette approche se veut particulièrement novatrice, car la pragmatique, en raison de sa complexité à être formalisée, est très peu étudiée d'un point de vue computationnel. C’est à travers l'utilisation des dernières techniques de pointe en matière de "prompting" que nous souhaitons pallier les écueils des méthodes existantes, tels que la variabilité culturelle et l’implicite. --------------- Pour candidater --------------- Sujet détaillé : https://aollagnier.github.io/publications/CIIAM%20PostDoc%20DETAILS.pdf Début du contrat : Octobre 2024, au plus tard Durée du contrat : 12 mois Les candidatures comprenant un CV scientifique, une lettre de motivation et des lettres de recommandation doivent être envoyées à Anaïs Ollagnier (ollagnier(a)i3s.unice.fr) Date limite : 14 Juin 2024 Laboratoire d'accueil : I3S, Sophia-Antipolis, France Au plaisir de vous lire. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ In the context of the CIIAM project (Contextual Information Inference for Argument Mining), funded through the France 2030 investment plan managed by the National Research Agency (ANR), as part of the Initiative of Excellence Université Côte d’Azur, aiming to enhance the robustness of argument mining techniques through the synthesis of contextual information relevant to multimodal aspects of communication. We invite doctoral candidates nearing completion of their thesis and young PhD graduates to apply for a postdoctoral position on "Improving Argument Mining through the Synthesis of Contextual Information" (12 months). -------- Context -------- Understanding argumentative structures in natural language inputs is a key step for many tasks in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), such as automatic summarization or analysis of political debates. Although significant progress has been made with the advent of pre-trained language models, they do not always grasp all the linguistic knowledge necessary for fine contextual understanding and the establishment of relevant inferences. Faced with these limitations, our project aims to explore the inclusion of linguistic analysis dimension related to pragmatics. This approach is particularly innovative because pragmatics, due to its complexity in formalization, has been scarcely studied from a computational perspective. It is through the use of the latest cutting-edge prompting techniques that we aim to overcome the pitfalls of existing methods, such as cultural variability and implicit knowledge. --------------- To Apply --------------- Detailed subject: https://aollagnier.github.io/publications/CIIAM%20PostDoc%20DETAILS.pdf Contract start: October 2024, at the latest Contract duration: 12 months Applications including a scientific CV, a motivation letter, and recommendation letters should be sent to Anaïs Ollagnier (ollagnier(a)i3s.unice.fr) Deadline: June 14, 2024 Hosting laboratory: I3S, Sophia-Antipolis, France * -- Anaïs OLLAGNIER Junior Fellow in AI 3IA Université Côte d'Azur (Polytech Nice) | I3S | INRIA wimmics team -------------------------------------------- Templiers 1, Bureau 414, 930 Route des Colles, BP 145 06903 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France anais.ollagnier(a)inria.fr |https://aollagnier.github.io/

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Language Technologies and Digital Humanities Conference - JTDH 2024 (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
by Špela Arhar Holdt 12 Mar '24

12 Mar '24

The Language Technologies and Digital Humanities Conference - JTDH 2024 ( https://www.sdjt.si/wp/jtdh-2024-en/) is organized by the Slovenian Language Technologies Society, CLARIN.SI, DARIAH-SI and Centre for Language Resources and Technologies at the University of Ljubljana. This year, the conference's organizational committee is led by ZRC SAZU. The event is organized in collaboration with the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the University of Ljubljana, which will host the event on September 19 and 20, 2024. The conference is thematically broad and aims to bring together researchers from various backgrounds and methodological frameworks. The main topics include but are not limited to: speech and other mono- and multilingual language technologies; digital linguistics: translation studies, corpus linguistics, lexicology and lexicography, standardisation; digital humanities and historical studies, ethnology, musicology, cultural heritage, archaeology, and fine arts; digital humanities in education and digital publishing. We are accepting submissions in the form of extended abstracts and full papers. We are also accepting full papers for the Student Session. Student papers can be submitted by students of all levels of university programmes and will be eligible for the best student paper award. All co-authors of student papers must be students. Submissions co-authored by students and their supervisors are welcome in the regular session. The full instructions for authors are given on the conference web page: https://www.sdjt.si/wp/jtdh-2024-en/. Two pre-conference events will be held on the 18th of September, 2024: The final stop of CLASSLA Express – a series of workshops on investigating South Slavic corpora using CLARIN.SI concordancers. A joint business meeting of the CLASSLA knowledge centre for South Slavic languages and the ReLDI Centre Belgrade. Important dates: March 1, 2024: First call for papers May 17, 2024: Deadline for abstract/paper submission July 5, 2024: Notification of acceptance August 23, 2024: Final abstract/paper submission August 23, 2024: Registration deadline September 18, 2024: Pre-conference events and workshops September 19 & 20, 2024: JTDH 2024 Conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia

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CALL FOR PAPERS: Special Issue Natural Language for Artificial Intelligence in the Era of LLMs
by Dominique Brunato 12 Mar '24

12 Mar '24

[Apologize for cross-posting] SPECIAL ISSUE: NATURAL LANGUAGE FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN THE ERA OF LLMS IJCoL - Italian Journal of Computational Linguistics, OpenEdition Journal, ISSN 2499-4553, https://www.ai-lc.it/en/journal/ [1] Manuscript Submission Deadline: 1ST JULY 2024 Latest Acceptance Deadline for all papers: 1ST OCTOBER 2024 ======================================================================== ########### GUEST EDITORS: ########### • Elisa Bassignana, IT University of Copenhagen (Denmark), https://elisabassignana.github.io/ [2] • Dominique Brunato, Institute for Computational Linguistics “A. Zampolli” (CNR-ILC) (Italy), http://www.italianlp.it/people/dominique-brunato/ [3] • Marco Polignano, University of Bari Aldo Moro (Italy), https://marcopoli.github.io/ [4] • Alan Ramponi, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Italy), https://alanramponi.github.io/ [5] ########### SPECIAL ISSUE INFORMATION: ########### The advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) has revolutionized the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in recent years. Transformer-based models such as GPT-3 and BERT have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in modeling and generating human-like text. These models have significantly impacted various applications, including machine translation, sentiment analysis, question answering, and more. The era of LLMs has opened up new opportunities and challenges in harnessing natural language for AI systems. The motivation behind this special issue is to provide a platform for researchers and practitioners to explore and discuss the latest advancements, methodologies, and applications of Natural Language for Artificial Intelligence in the Era of LLMs. The aim is to foster collaboration and knowledge sharing among the NLP and AI communities, enabling them to leverage LLMs effectively and ethically for solving real-world problems, as well as for tackling open research questions that contribute to a deeper understanding of the similarities and differences between human and machine learning. This special issue invites original research papers, reviews, and case studies that focus on utilizing LLMs in various natural language processing tasks and applications within the context of Artificial Intelligence. This is a natural extension of the topics covered in the NL4AI 2023 workshop at AIxIA 2023, where the primary focus of discussion among the many papers received was related to the use of LLMs to tackle many typical tasks in natural language understanding and generation. We invite researchers from both academia and industry to submit their cutting-edge research findings, unearthing novel insights and pushing the boundaries of knowledge. We hope to receive submissions not only from people attending NL4AI but also from researchers outside this ring to enrich the discourse with a broader spectrum of perspectives. ########### TOPICS: ########### Relevant topics for the proposed special issue include, but are not limited to: • Robustness and generalization of LLMs • Diversity and inclusion of LLMs • The role of linguistics in the era of LLMs • Benchmarking and evaluation of LLMs • Explainability and interpretability of LLMs through Computational Linguistics and related disciplines • Domain-specific applications of LLMs (e.g., healthcare, education, cultural heritage) • Knowledge representation and reasoning with LLMs • Machine translation and cross-lingual applications with LLMs • Applications to the Italian language and under-studied languages • Dialogue systems and conversational agents using LLms • Ethical and social implications of LLMs • Exploration of multimodality and data augmentation approaches in the era of LLMs ########### SUBMISSION INFORMATION: ########### Contributions will be processed as they are submitted no later than 1ST JULY, 2024. The latest acceptance deadline for all papers is 1ST OCTOBER, 2024. Submissions must be prepared according to the submission guidelines: • https://www.ai-lc.it/en/journal/instructions-for-authors/ [6] and must be submitted via the dedicated web page: • https://www.ai-lc.it/ijcolreview/index.php/ijcol/about/submissions • On the platform, select the menu option: “Special Issue: Natural Language for Artificial Intelligence in the Era of LLMs” The special issue will also consider extended versions (at least 30% new content) of papers published at conferences or on preprint platforms (i.e., arXiv.org). The Editors of the Journal will pre-screen all submitted articles. Articles that do not reach the scientific standards of the journal will be desk-rejected. Articles that meet the requirements will be sent to expert reviewers and will then be reviewed for publication. The peer-review procedure will involve two experts (or three, in the rare case of disagreement). IJCoL Editors avoid engaging reviewers who are close to – or have any sort of conflict of interest with – a given author. Referees may request a major or minor revision of the article. The final decision on acceptability is the Editors’ responsibility. For questions and further information, please contact the Guest Editors: Elisa Bassignana (elba(a)itu.dk), Dominique Brunato (dominique.brunato(a)ilc.cnr.it), Marco Polignano (marco.polignano(a)uniba.it), Alan Ramponi (alramponi(a)fbk.eu) More details will be provided at: https://www.ai-lc.it/en/journal/ [1] Link: ----- [1] https://www.ai-lc.it/en/journal/ [2] https://elisabassignana.github.io/ [3] http://www.italianlp.it/people/dominique-brunato/ [4] https://marcopoli.github.io/ [5] https://alanramponi.github.io/ [6] https://www.ai-lc.it/en/journal/instructions-for-authors/

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TextDetox 2024 Call for participants
by Daryna Dementieva 12 Mar '24

12 Mar '24

TextDetox CLEF 2024 We are glad to invite you to participate in the first of its kind multilingual Text Detoxification shared task! https://pan.webis.de/clef24/pan24-web/text-detoxification.html TL;DR Task formulation: transfer a text style from toxic to neutral (i.e. what a f**k is this about? -> what is this about?) 9 Languages: English, Spanish, Chinese, Hindi, Arabic, German, Russian, Ukrainian, and Amharic More details: Identification of toxicity in user texts is an active area of research. Today, social networks such as Facebook, Instagram are trying to address the problem of toxicity. However, they usually simply block such kinds of texts. We suggest a proactive reaction to toxicity from the user. Namely, we aim at presenting a neutral version of a user message which preserves meaningful content. We denote this task as text detoxification. In this competition, we suggest you create detoxification systems for 9 languages from several linguistic families. However, the availability of training corpora will differ between the languages. For English and Russian, the parallel corpora of several thousand toxic-detoxified pairs (as presented above) are available. So, you can fine-tune text generation models on them. For other languages, for the dev phase, no such corpora will be provided. The main challenge of this competition will be to perform both supervised and unsupervised cross-lingual detoxification. You are very welcome to test all modern LLMs on text detoxification and safety with our data as well as experiment with different unsupervised approaches based on MLMs or other paraphrasing methods! The final leaderboard will be built on a manual evaluation of a test set subset performed via crowdsourcing at Toloka.ai platform. In the end, you will have an opportunity to write and then present a paper at CLEF 2024 (https://clef2024.imag.fr/) which will take place in Grenoble, France! Important Dates February 1, 2024: First data available and run submission opens. April 22, 2024: Registration closes. May 6, 2024: Run submission deadline and results out. May 31, 2024: Participants paper submission. July 8, 2024: Camera-ready participant papers submission. September 9-12, 2024: CLEF Conference in Grenoble and Touché Workshop. On behalf of TextDetox Shared Task Organizers, Daryna Dementieva https://dardem.github.io/

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Free online taster session - 21 March
by Brezina, Vaclav 12 Mar '24

12 Mar '24

Hi all, It is still possible to register for a free taster session, which will introduce corpus linguistics and other training offered at Lancaster University as part of our flexible online programmes (2-year Master's, 1-year Postgraduate Certificate and 3-month specialization courses). When: Thursday 21 March 2024, 10:00am to 11:00am UK time https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/events/study-online-corpus-linguist… Best, Vaclav

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32nd International Conference on Information Systems Development (ISD 2024): Track on Learning, Education, and Training
by Announce 12 Mar '24

12 Mar '24

================= CALL FOR PAPERS ================= Track on Learning, Education, and Training at the 32nd International Conference on Information Systems Development (ISD 2024) ISD is recognized as a premier international venue that brings together the fields of Information Systems, Software Engineering, and Data Science. The theme for ISD 2024 is "Harnessing Opportunities: Reshaping ISD in the Post-COVID-19 and Generative AI Era." August 26-28, 2024 Sopot/Gdansk, Poland https://isd2024.ug.edu.pl/call-for-papers/tracks/#track_6 ============ TRACK TOPICS OF INTEREST ============= ** Activity theory approaches to IS development education ** Computer-supported collaborative learning ** Creativity and innovation in IT-based education ** Curriculum development, including local implementation of AIS/IEEE/ACM curricula ** Digital literacy ** IS Education Managementa ** Generative AI Assistants in IS Education ** Educational systems design, development, and evaluation ** HCI issues in IS development for education ** Instructional design ** Integrated IS application in education ** IS for online education ** Learning platforms: mobile apps, MOOC ** Longitudinal and comparative studies of learning ** Open educational resources in IS development education ** Serious games, gamification, and virtual worlds for learning ** Social and crowd computing in educational contexts ** Social media and learning ** Socio-constructivism in IS development education ** User-generated content in IS development education ** Work-integrated learning =============== IMPORTANT DATES =================== Paper Submission: April 16, 2024 Author Notification: June 4, 2024 Final Paper Submission: June 30, 2024 =============== CONFERENCE FEES =================== The registration fee for presenting authors is 500 EUR, with a 100 EUR discount for active AIS members and students. Discounts apply for additional papers and non-presenting participants. The registration fee includes lunch, coffee breaks, welcome reception and a gala dinner. =============== TYPES OF SUBMISSION =============== ** Full research papers: 12 pages ** Short research papers: 8 pages ** Posters: 4 pages ** Journal-First papers The ISD Proceedings will be available as open access in the Association for Information Systems (AIS) eLibrary. Additionally, Springer will publish a selection of the best papers (by invitation) as a separate volume of the Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organization (LNISO) series. The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Scopus, Google Scholar, DBLP, Semantic Scholar, and Web of Science. We are looking forward to receiving your contributions! Muhammad Ovais Ahmad, Karlstad University, Sweden Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

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[CFP] Shared Task on Text-Graph Representations for KGQA @TextGraphs-17 @ACL 2024
by xi.yan＠uni-hamburg.de 12 Mar '24

12 Mar '24

*Venue*: ACL 2024, TextGraph workshop *Website*: https://sites.google.com/view/textgraphs2024/home/shared-task TextGraph-17 workshop co-located with ACL-2024 features a shared task. TextGraph fosters the investigation of synergies between methods for text and graph processing. This edition focuses on the fusion of LLMs with KGs. In line with this goal, we propose a shared task on Text-Graph Representations for Knowledge Graph Question Answering (KGQA). The shared task is to select a KG entity (out of several candidates) that corresponds to an answer given a textual question. The specificity of the task is that for each question-answer (Q-A) pair not only a textual Q-A pair is given but also a graph of shortest paths in the KG from entities in the query to the LLM-generated candidate entity (including links of the intermediate nodes). This way, participants easily may experiment with various strategies of text-graph modality fusion for the given task in a controllable manner. Participants can submit reports about their participation to the TextGraphs workshop. An example of a previous TextGraphs shared task can be found here: https://aclanthology.org/volumes/2022.textgraphs-1/. *Task Description* Participants are given: - text: question with a list of Wikidata entities mentioned, - text: 5-10 answer candidates in the form of Wikidata entities, - graph: a Wikidata sub-graph composed of the shortest paths between entities in question and entities in answer is provided. One of the candidates is correct, others are incorrect. The goal is to find the correct answer ie. perform a binary classification. Participants are provided a train and development dataset in the form of Q-A-Subgraph triples. Besides, a submission to Codalab public and private leaderboard of the test set Q-A solutions will be available. Examples of visualization for the question "Who was formerly an actor and now a Republican senator?" can be found on our challenge website (https://sites.google.com/view/textgraphs2024/home/shared-task). The participants are provided both textual labels of candidates and such graphs so additional features can be extracted from them, such as graph density, length of paths, textual labels on the paths, etc. * Important Dates* - Training dataset released: 10th March 2024 - Test set released: 25 March 2024 - End of evaluation: 25 April 2024 - Submission deadline for technical reports: 17 May 2024 Contact Please write all questions about the shared task to textgraphs17(a)googlegroups.com. Also, you are invited to join our Telegram group where you can connect to organizers and get updates: https://t.me/+kRTCZYTrpJ5jZGVi Organizers: Irina Nikishina, Universität Hamburg Aida Usmanova, Leuphana University Lüneburg Angelie Kraft, Universität Hamburg Cedric Möller, Universität Hamburg Debayan Banerjee, Universität Hamburg Junbo Huang, Universität Hamburg Longquan Jiang, Universität Hamburg Rana Abdullah, Universität Hamburg Xi Yan, Universität Hamburg Andrey Sakhovskiy, KFU Elena Tutubalina, KFU Mikhail Salnikov, AIRI Alexander Panchenko, AIRI Ricardo Usbeck, Universität Hamburg Xi Yan and Cedric Möller, On behalf of the Organizing Committee

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Deadline approaching: Epidemic Remedies In Medical Writing (1500 - 1920)
by Dario Del Fante 12 Mar '24

12 Mar '24

Please forward as appropriate. The deadline is due on March 15th. *Epidemic Remedies In Medical Writing - 18th - 19th June 2024 - University of Ferrara* This conference aims to discuss the representation of epidemic remedies in medical writing in England and in France between 1500 and 1920. Prospective presenters are invited to address epidemic remedies across five centuries, bearing three main methodological observations in mind. Firstly, the pivotal role of the plague and the Spanish influenza as opening and closing points to the selected timeframe. Secondly, the working definition of “remedy” as a cure “for a disease, disorder, injury, etc.; a medicine or treatment that promotes healing or alleviates symptoms.” (OED, remedy 2). This comprehensive definition intends to allow for historical specification and diachronic terminological variation, which the prospective presenters are invited to explore and specify. Thirdly, the definition of representation as “the process by which members of a culture use language (broadly defined as any system which deploys signs, any signifying system) to produce meaning” (Hall 1997: 61), with particular emphasis on language use at lexical and discourse level, as well as the interaction between semiotic systems (e.g. word and image). The present aim is not only to offer a diachronic perspective on the linguistic and visual representation of remedies, but also to focus on remedies prescribed during epidemics, with a view to better understanding the history of medical and health communication. Potential research questions straddle multiple standpoints - historical linguistics, the analysis of discourse, the analysis of lexis, as well as images - and multiple text types (medical treatises, medical dictionaries, periodical publications, medical advertisements through time). They include but are not limited to: - The lexical description of remedies in medical writing - The metaphorical description of remedies in medical writing - The rhetorical construction of ethos in medical writing dealing with epidemic remedies - The visual representation of remedies in medical writing - The visual representation of remedies in newspapers/magazines - The linguistic-visual construal of remedies in texts containing multiple semiotic systems (i.e. advertisements) - the insurgence of misinformation and disinformation in/about health communication (these categories may be epistemologically relevant in papers dealing with the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries) We invite proposals from a wide range of methodological perspectives. To name but a few: corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis, critical discourse analysis, multimodal discourse analysis, historical lexicography and terminology, new historicism, cultural theory, epistemology, philosophy of science, gender medicine, and gender theory. Please submit a *one-page abstract *(*ca. 200 – 300 words excluding references*). Presentations (*in English or in French*) will consist of a 20-minute talk followed by 10 minutes for questions and discussion. Please note, there is no fee for registration. All research papers should be delivered in person. All abstracts should be submitted to *remediesconference2023(a)unife.it <remediesconference2023(a)unife.it>*. All abstracts should be *anonymised *and include *a title * and up to *five keywords*. Conference Website <https://www.unife.it/it/cla/progetti/epidemic-remedies-in-medical-writing-1…> -- *Dario Del Fante, PhD* Junior Assistant Professor (Rtd-A) English Language and Linguistics *Humanities Department - University of Ferrara* Via Paradiso 12 - 44121 Ferrara E-mail: dario.delfante(a)unife.it

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[CFP] SIGIR Workshop on eCommerce: paper deadline Apr 25, 2024
by Yubin Kim 11 Mar '24

11 Mar '24

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 April 25, 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 - April 25, 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 April 25, 2024 (11:59 P.M. AoE) https://sigir-ecom.github.io/

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SEPLN AWARD to the best Doctoral Thesis in Natural Language Processing
by aitziber.atucha＠ehu.eus 11 Mar '24

11 Mar '24

[Apologies for cross-posting] EDICIÓN XXIII PREMIO SEPLN A LA MEJOR TESIS DOCTORAL EN PROCESAMIENTO DEL LENGUAJE NATURAL [Plazo de presentación: 2 de mayo de 2024] La Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural convoca la Edición XXIII del Premio SEPLN a la Mejor Tesis Doctoral en Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, que se regirá por las siguientes bases: La finalidad de este premio es la promoción y divulgación de la investigación en el campo del procesamiento del lenguaje natural. La tesis será premiada con una computadora portátil compacta (tablet) y 300€ para la asistencia al congreso. Se dará entrega del premio en el 40 Congreso Internacional de la Sociedad Española del Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (SEPLN 2024), tras una breve presentación del trabajo premiado por parte del autor. Para poder concursar, el autor de la tesis doctoral debe ser socio de la SEPLN en el momento de presentar el trabajo. Ninguna persona concursante podrá participar como autora en más de un trabajo. Se podrán presentar a concurso tesis doctorales leídas durante el año 2023, escritas en una lengua del Estado español o en lengua inglesa. Además de la tesis completa, es imprescindible enviar: Un breve resumen de 4 páginas donde claramente se indique el tema y la relevancia de la investigación, los objetivos, métodos, resultados alcanzados y contribuciones. Una breve descripción de la trayectoria científica del autor de la tesis, en la que se describa la participación en actividades científicas como organización de de tareas competitivas, congresos, generación de recursos open access como conjuntos de datos, modelos de lenguaje, etc, y participación en proyectos, contratos, y/o patentes. La calidad de la presentación, la corrección técnica y metodológica, la relevancia, originalidad, la generación, evaluación y publicación de recursos, así como la trayectoria investigadora durante el periodo predoctoral serán los criterios empleados para la adjudicación del premio por parte del jurado. Los trabajos se enviarán a través de la web de la revista de la Sociedad (http://journal.sepln.org) en formato PDF antes del 2 de mayo de 2024. La resolución del premio se comunicará durante el 40 Congreso Internacional de la Sociedad Española del Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (SEPLN 2024). Documento con las instrucciones (aquí) Para más información dirigirse a aitziber.atucha(a)ehu.eus 23rd EDITION OF THE SEPLN AWARD TO THE BEST DOCTORAL THESIS IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING [Submission deadline: May 2nd, 2024] The Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing announces the 23rd Edition of the SEPLN Award for the Best Doctoral Thesis in Natural Languag e Processing, which will be governed by the following bases: The purpose of this award is the promotion and dissemination of research in the field of natural language processing. The thesis will be awarded with a compact laptop (tablet) and 300€ grant to help cover the cost of attending the conference. The award will be presented at the 40th International Congress of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN 2024), after a brief presentation of the award-winning work by the author. In order to compete, the author of the doctoral thesis must be a member of the SEPLN at the time of submitting the work. No contestant may participate as an author in more than one work. Doctoral theses read during the year 2023, written in a language of the Spanish State or in English, may be submitted to competition. In addition to the complete thesis, it is essential to send: a 4-page summary of the thesis, clearly describing the topic and the relevance of the research, the objectives, methods, results achieved and contributions. a brief description of the scientific career of the author of the thesis, detailing the participation in scientific activities such as organization of competitive tasks, congresses, generation of open access resources such as sets of data, language models, etc., and participation in projects, contracts, and/or patents. The quality of the presentation, the technical and methodological correctness, the relevance, originality, the generation, evaluation and publication of resources, as well as the research trajectory during the pre-doctoral period will be the criteria used for the award of the prize by the jury. The works will be submitted through the website of the Society's magazine (http://journal.sepln.org) in PDF format before May 2nd 2024. The final decision will be communicated during the 40th International Congress of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN 2024). Submission instructions (here) For more information aitziber.atucha(a)ehu.eus

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