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Second Call For Papers: The Fourth Workshop on Insights from Negative Results (co-located with NAACL 2024)
by Shabnam Tafreshi 31 Jan '24

31 Jan '24

Dear colleagues, The Fifth Workshop on Insights from Negative Results in NLP Co-located with NAACL, June 16-21 2024 First Call for Participation Insights Website: <https://insights-workshop.github.io/> Contact email: insights-workshop-organizers(a)googlegroups.com *Overview Publication of negative results is difficult in most fields, but in NLP the problem is exacerbated by the near-universal focus on improvements in benchmarks. This situation implicitly discourages hypothesis-driven research, and it turns creation and fine-tuning of NLP models into art rather than science. Furthermore, it increases the time, effort, and carbon emissions spent on developing and tuning models, as the researchers have no opportunity to learn what has already been tried and failed. This workshop invites both practical and theoretical unexpected or negative results that have important implications for future research, highlight methodological issues with existing approaches, and/or point out pervasive misunderstandings or bad practices. In particular, the most successful NLP models currently rely on Transformer-based large language models (LLMs). To complement all the success stories, it would be insightful to see where and possibly why they fail. Any NLP tasks are welcome: sequence labeling, question answering, inference, dialogue, machine translation - you name it. A successful negative results paper would contribute one of the following: ** broadly applicable recommendations for training/fine-tuning/prompting, especially if X that didn’t work is something that many practitioners would think reasonable to try, and if the demonstration of X’s failure is accompanied by some explanation/hypothesis; ** ablation studies of components in previously proposed models, showing that their contributions are different from what was initially reported; ** datasets or probing tasks showing that previous approaches do not generalize to other domains or language phenomena; ** trivial baselines that work suspiciously well for a given task/dataset; ** cross-lingual studies showing that a technique X is only successful for a certain language or language family; ** experiments on (in)stability of the previously published results due to hardware, random initializations, preprocessing pipeline components, etc; ** theoretical arguments and/or proofs for why X should not be expected to work; ** demonstration of issues with data processing/collection/annotation pipelines, especially if they are widely used; ** demonstration of issues with evaluation metrics (e.g. accuracy, F1 or BLEU), which prevent their usage for fair comparison of methods; ** demonstration of issues with under-reporting of training details of pre-trained models, including test data contamination and invalid comparisons In 2024, we will invite the authors of accepted negative results papers to nominate the specific work reporting the original positive results. The goal is to organize joint discussion sessions, so that the community can learn the most from the specific insightful failure. * Important Dates ** Submission due: March 10, 2024 ** Submission due for papers reviewed through ACL Rolling Review: April 7, 2024 ** Notification of acceptance: April 14, 2024 ** Camera-ready papers due: April 24, 2024 ** Workshop: TBA, between June 21-22, 2024 * Submission Submission is electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system. Submission link: <https://softconf.com/naacl2024/Insights2024> The workshop will accept short papers (up to 4 pages, excluding references), as well as 1-2 page non-archival abstract submissions for papers published elsewhere (e.g. in one of the main conferences or in non-NLP venues). The goal of this event is to stimulate a meaningful community-wide discussion of the deep issues in NLP methodology, and the authors of both types of submissions will be welcome to take part in our get-togethers. The workshop will run its own review process, and papers can be submitted directly to the workshop by March 10, 2024. It is also possible to submit a paper accompanied with reviews from the ACL Rolling Review system by April 7, 2024. The submission deadline for ARR papers follows the ACL RR calendar. Both research papers and abstracts must follow the ACL two-column format. Official style sheets: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files Please do not modify these style files, nor should you use templates designed for other conferences. Submissions that do not conform to the required styles, including paper size, margin width, and font size restrictions, will be rejected without review. Please follow the formatting guidelines outlined here: https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html * Multiple Submission Policy The workshop cannot accept work for publication or presentation that will be (or has been) published elsewhere and that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications whose review periods overlap with that of Insights. Any questions regarding submissions can be sent to insights-workshop-organizers(a)googlegroups.com. If the paper has been rejected from another venue, the authors will have the option to provide the original reviews and the author response. The new reviewers will not have access to this information, but the organizers will be able to take into account the fact that the paper has already been revised and improved. * Anonymity Period The workshop will follow the new ACL policy: https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/ACL_Anonymity_Policy * Presentation All accepted papers must be presented at the workshop to appear in the proceedings. Authors of accepted papers must notify the program chairs by the camera-ready deadline if they wish to withdraw the paper. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop. Previous presentations of the work (e.g. preprints on arXiv.org) should be noted in a footnote in the camera-ready version (but not in the anonymized version of the paper). The workshop will take place during NAACL 2024 (June 16-21 2024). It will be hybrid, allowing for both in-person and virtual presentations. * Organization Committee ** Shabnam Tafreshi, inQbator AI at eviCore Healthcare ** Arjun Reddy Akula, Google Research ** João Sedoc, New York University ** Anna Rogers, IT University of Copenhagen ** Aleksandr Drozd, RIKEN ** Anna Rumshisky, University of Massachusetts Lowell / Amazon Alexa * Contact info Any questions regarding the workshop can be sent to insights-workshop-organizers(a)googlegroups.com. Please continue reading about: Authorship, Citation and Comparison, Ethics Policy, Reproducibility, and Presentation in the call for paper page on our website: https://insights-workshop.github.io/2024/cfp/ Regards, Insights 2024 Organizers -- *Shabnam Tafreshi, PhD* *Machine Learning Senior Advisor - NLP Researcher* *Computational Linguistics, NLP* *inQbator AI at eviCore Healthcare* *"All the problems of the world could be settled easily, if people only willing to think."* *-Thomas J. Watson*

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Call for Papers for a Special Issue in Register Studies
by mg2957＠nau.edu 31 Jan '24

31 Jan '24

Title of Special Issue: Situational Context in Register Studies Call for papers Situation of language use has been at the forefront of register studies. Register research in text-linguistics has documented systematic situational variation and its relationship to functional language use across culturally recognized register categories, among texts within register categories, and across hybrid registers (e.g., Biber, 1988; Biber & Egbert, 2018; Biber, Egbert, Keller, 2020). Situations of language use have also been explored by a variety of other research traditions (and referred to as ‘register,’ ‘communicative situation,’ ‘speech situation,’ ‘social situation,’or ‘situational context’). For example, the contribution of the situation of language use to explaining linguistic variation is examined alongside linguistic variables in variationist linguistics (e.g., Szmrecsanyi , 2019). In computational research, it has served as the basis for text classification (e.g., Argamon, 2019). The effect of situations of use on individual language use is being recognized in stylistics and stylometry (e.g., Marko, Reitbauer & Pickl, 2022). Additionally, some situational variables, such as the audience and their relative status to the addressor, have been central to sociolinguistic research (e.g., Rickford & McNair-Knox, 1994) and discourse analysis (e.g., Lorson et al., 2023). To synthesize the variety of perspectives, approaches, and conceptualizations, Register Studies invites proposals that elevate the role of situational context in register research. We welcome a wide range of empirical, methodological, or theoretical papers under this scope. Papers for this special issue should highlight situational context and its integration into register studies. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: Applications of situational analysis to corpus design and evaluation Analysis of situational variation across and within registers Detailed analyses of communicative events and their communicative strategies (e.g., conflict, celebration, social gathering, etc.) Descriptions of frameworks for situational analysis Approaches to coding for situational characteristics Generality and specificity of situational parameters Situation in applied research (e.g., pedagogy, medical discourse, legal discourse, etc.) The psycholinguistic reality of situational distinctions Interaction of the situation of language use with other predictor variables (e.g., social status, gender) New, unaccounted for (configurations of) situational parameters and/or novel/nonstandard situations of language use Cross-cultural situational differences and/or situations unique to particular linguistic communities Situation of language use and discourse-pragmatic variation Situation of technology-mediated interactions Important Dates Deadline for proposals: April 15, 2024 Invitations to submit a manuscript: May 1, 2024 Initial manuscripts due: October 1, 2024 Notification of review outcome: December 1, 2024 Final manuscripts due: February 28, 2025 Special issue publication: 7:2 - Fall 2025 Proposal Format & Submission Submit a one-page abstract for your proposed article to Associate Editors Larissa Goulart and Marianna Gracheva at Register.Studies(a)gmail.com. Please include your full contact information and a draft title. For empirical studies, the abstract should introduce the topic and motivate the study, summarize the methodological approach, describe the data to be analyzed, and summarize preliminary results. Abstracts for theoretical and methodological articles should introduce and motivate the issue to be addressed, and explain the main premises that will be included in the article. Please follow the style guide for Register Studies (available at the journal website: https://benjamins.com/catalog/rs). Peer Review All manuscripts will undergo double-blind peer review following the journal’s standard process. References: Biber, D. 1988. Variation across speech and writing. Cambridge University Press. Biber, D., & Egbert, J. (2018). Register variation online. Cambridge University Press. Biber, D., Egbert, J., & Keller, D. (2020). Reconceptualizing register in a continuous situational space. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, 16(3), 581–616. Argamon, S. (2019). Computational register analysis and synthesis. Computation and Language. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.1901.02543 Lorson, A., Rhode, H., & Cummins, C. (2023). Epistemicity and communicative strategies. Discourse Processes, 60(8), 556–593. Marko, K., Reitbauer, M., & Pickl, G. (2022). Same person, different platform. Challenges and implications for forensic authorship analysis. An exploratory study of Instagram and Twitter users. Register Studies, 4(2), 202–231. Rickford, J. R. & McNair-Knox, F. (1994). Addressee- and topic-influenced style shift: a quantitative sociolinguistic study. In D. Biber & E. Finegan (Eds.), Sociolinguistic perspectives on register (pp. 235–276). Oxford University Press. Szmrecsanyi, B. (2019). Register in variationist linguistics. Register Studies, 1(1), 76–99.

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[CfP] 1st CfP: SEMANTiCS 2024 EU || Sep 17 - 19, 2024 || Amsterdam, The Netherlands
by SEMANTiCS 30 Jan '24

30 Jan '24

==== SEMANTiCS - 20th International Conference on Semantic Systems Amsterdam, The Netherlands September 17 - 19, 2024 https://2024-eu.semantics.cc/ ==== The Research and Innovation track at SEMANTiCS 2024 welcomes papers on novel scientific research and innovations relevant to the Semantic Web, Semantic Technologies, and semantic-enabled AI. We also welcome submissions at the intersection between this field and other scientific disciplines. Submissions should be original and should not have been published elsewhere in any form or language. Papers must adhere to the instructions given in the submission guidelines, including references and optional appendices. Each submission will receive at least three independent reviews and will be evaluated based on their novelty, technical quality, reproducibility, and practical significance. SEMANTiCS 2024 calls for submissions of excellent quality addressing the following topics in the Semantic Web area, from both theoretical and practical perspectives. = Topics of Interest = * Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Web Semantics & Linked (Open) Data * Enterprise Knowledge Graphs, Graph Data Management * Machine Learning Techniques for/using Knowledge Graphs (e.g. reinforcement learning, deep learning, data mining and knowledge discovery) * Interplay between generative AI and Knowledge Graphs (e.g., RAG approach) * Knowledge Management (e.g. acquisition, capture, extraction, authoring, integration, publication) * Terminology, Thesaurus & Ontology Management, Ontology engineering * Reasoning, Rules, and Policies * Natural Language Processing for/using Knowledge Graphs (e.g. entity linking and resolution using target knowledge such as Wikidata and DBpedia, foundation models) * Crowdsourcing for/using Knowledge Graphs * Data Quality Management and Assurance * Mathematical Foundation of Knowledge-aware AI * Multimodal Knowledge Graphs * Semantics in Data Science * Semantics in Blockchain environments * Trust, Data Privacy, and Security with Semantic Technologies * IoT, Stream Processing, dealing with temporal data * Conversational AI and Dialogue Systems * Provenance and Data Change Tracking * Semantic Interoperability (via mapping, crosswalks, standards, etc.) * Linked Data storage, triple stores, graph databases * Robust and scalable management, querying and analysis of semantics and data * User interfaces for the Semantic Web & its management * Explainable and Interoperable AI * Decentralised and Federated Knowledge Graphs (e.g., Federated querying, link traversal) Application of Semantically-Enriched and AI-Based Approaches, such as, but not limited to: * Knowledge Graphs in Bioinformatics, Medical AI and preventive healthcare * Clinical Use Case of semantic-enabled AI-based Approaches * AI for Environmental Challenges * Semantics in Scholarly Communication and Scientific Knowledge Graphs * AI and LOD within GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) institutions * Knowledge Graphs & hybrid AI for predictive maintenance and Industry 4.0/5.0 * Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage * LegalTech, AI Safety, EU AI Act * Economics of Data, Data Services, and Data Ecosystems = Important Dates = * Abstract Submission Deadline: April 22, 2024 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) * Paper Submission Deadline: April 29, 2024 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) * Notification of Acceptance: June 11, 2024 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) * Camera-Ready Paper: July 09, 2024 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) Submissions will be through Easychair. Stay tuned for the submission link. = Author Guidelines and Submission = * The Research and Innovation Track welcomes long and short papers. Long papers should have 12-15 pages of content (excluding references) and short papers of a maximum length of 6 pages of content (excluding references). Since references are excluded from page counting, it is fine to have one or more additional pages for references if they are relevant to the study submitted. * Submissions should follow the guidelines of IOS Press. Details are available at https://www.iospress.com/book-article-instructions. * Abstract submission for all papers is a strict requirement. To facilitate bidding, we strongly suggest the authors submit structured abstracts. * All papers and abstracts have to be submitted electronically via EasyChair. * Submissions must be in English. * Submissions must adhere to the fair use of Large Language Models. Please refer to the SEMANTiCS full policy for more details.https://2024-eu.semantics.cc/page/llm-policy * Submissions must be anonymous; the reviewing process is double-blind, but reviewers will be able to disclose their identities if they wish, by signing their reviews. * Accepted papers will be published in open access proceedings by IOS Press, and the text of all the reviews (excluding the scores) of all the accepted papers will be posted on the conference website and will be archived on Zenodo as publicly available material. * At least one author of each accepted paper must present it in person and therefore register for the conference at the ONSITE rate. * All authors are strongly suggested to provide optional links to code, materials, and datasets during the submission process - we will have specific optional fields in the EasyChair submission form - the review process will take these into account when provided. To anonymise resources for the reviewing process, authors can use services like Anonymous GitHub https://anonymous.4open.science/ or figshare/Zenodo as described here. * The Research and Innovation Track will not accept papers that, at the time of submission, are under review or have already been published in or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. * All authors will have the opportunity to provide an ORKG comparison in the Open Research Knowledge Graph (https://orkg.org) during the submission process - we will have a specific optional field in the EasyChair submission form. = Review and Evaluation Criteria = Each submission will be reviewed by at least three Programme Committee members. The reviewing process is double-blind. However, reviewers can disclose their identity by signing their reviews and/or adding one of their persistent identifiers (e.g. their ORCID). The text of all the reviews (excluding the scores) of all the accepted papers will be posted on the conference website with the basic bibliographic metadata of the reviewed submission (i.e. title and authors), and it will be archived on Zenodo as publicly available material. All the signed reviews of the accepted papers will be licensed using a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC-BY, the copyright holder will be the reviewer), except the anonymous ones that will be released in CC0. Papers submitted to this track will be evaluated according to the following criteria: * Appropriateness * Originality, novelty, and innovativeness * Impact of results * Technical quality of the methods * Soundness of the evaluation * Proper comparison to related work * Clarity and quality of writing * Reproducibility of results and resources For details please go to: https://2024-eu.semantics.cc/ <https://2024-eu.semantics.cc/> We are looking forward to your contribution! Mehwish Alam, Femke Ongenae & Angelo Salatino Research and Innovation Track Chairs

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CfP: Workshop on Advanced Analysis and recognition of Parliamentary corpora (ARPC) [Updated Due Date for Paper Submission: 15 March 2024]
by George Mikros 30 Jan '24

30 Jan '24

Apologies for cross-posting ======================= CALL FOR PAPERS (Updated Due Date for Paper Submission: 15 March 2024) Workshop on Advanced analysis and recognition of parliamentary corpora (ARPC) The ARPC organizing committee invites papers for the workshop to be held in physical format during the ICDAR 2024 conference (August 30 - September 4, 2024) in Athens, Greece (https://icdar2024.net/). The exact date of the ARPC workshop will be communicated soon. Workshop Context Data-driven insights from archives have the potential to steer academic research in a variety of fields. This workshop attempts to address the growing importance of employing advanced recognition and analytical methods and tools to decode the complexities within legislative and administrative documents of parliamentary origin. The workshop will deep dive into cutting-edge OCR techniques for parliamentary corpora. Further attention will be placed into recognizing patterns, extracting meaningful insights and understanding the intricate dimensions of contemporary and historical parliamentary discourse. The relevance of this topic lies in its potential to bridge previously isolated domains of research, fostering interdisciplinary collaboration. By connecting history, political science, and linguistics, participants will unlock a richer understanding of legislative evolution, political trends, and linguistic nuances embedded in parliamentary proceedings. A keynote presentation will open the workshop, followed by a couple of sessions dedicated to specific topics related to the analysis and recognition of parliamentary corpora. Each session will be concluded by a structured panel discussion. The organization of the ARPC workshop is supported by the Hellenic OCR Team. We encourage the authors to submit papers on the topics detailed below. Topics - The recognition of polytonic Greek fonts - Recognition of mixed text (printed and handwritten) - Parliamentary discourse analysis - Historical trends in parliamentary language use - Integration of linguistic and political science methodologies in OCR - Cross-lingual OCR challenges in parliamentary texts - Machine learning approaches for semantic analysis of parliamentary proceedings - Ethical considerations in the digitization and analysis of parliamentary records - Developing standardized formats for parliamentary data preservation - The role of OCR technology in enhancing public access to parliamentary archives - Comparative analysis of parliamentary rhetoric across different eras - The impact of digital humanities tools on legislative studies - Application of Natural Language Processing techniques in political discourse analysis - Automated categorization and indexing of parliamentary documents - Challenges and solutions in digitizing non-standard parliamentary texts. Paper Tracks There is both a standard conference paper track and a journal track at ICDAR 2024; details regarding the journal track may be found in a separate Call for Papers on the conference website, https://icdar2024.net/. ICDAR 2024 will follow a double blind review process. Authors should not include their names and affiliations anywhere in the manuscript. Authors should also ensure that their identity is not revealed indirectly by citing their previous work in the third person and omit acknowledgements until the camera-ready version. Important Dates 15 March 2024 - Paper submission deadline 19 April 2024 - Paper acceptance notification 30 April 2024 - Camera-ready paper 31 August 2024 - ARPC Workshop Submission Guidelines & Enquiries All proposals should be submitted electronically via an easychair online submission form: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icdar2024 . Enquiries should be sent to pc-chairs(a)icdar2024.net <mailto:pc-chairs@icdar2024.net> . The submitted papers will respect the same policy and conditions of ICDAR 2023 conference papers. Papers should be formatted according to the instructions and style files provided by Springer. Papers accepted for the conference will be allocated up to 15 pages (usually not counting references) in the proceedings. Submissions are expected to be in the range of 10-15 pages. Each accepted paper requires at least one author to perform a full registration. The registration fee for only workshop participants will be discounted. Publisher ICDAR 2024 proceedings will be published under the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. This provides the proceedings of the conference and the workshops with an excellent online accessibility, including free access to SpringerLink via links on the conference website during one year after the publication and free access for everyone in SpringerLink four years after the publication. Organizing Committee Dr. Fotios Fitsilis (Scientific Service, Hellenic Parliament) Email: fitsilisf(a)parliament.gr <mailto:fitsilisf@parliament.gr> Prof. George Mikros (College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hamad Bin Khalifa University), Email: gmikros(a)hbku.edu.qa <mailto:gmikros@hbku.edu.qa>

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[CfP] e-Commerce and NLP Workshop @ LREC-COLING 2024
by besnikf＠amazon.com 30 Jan '24

30 Jan '24

The Seventh Workshop on e-Commerce and NLP (ECNLP 7) Co-located with LREC-COLING 2024 in Torino, Italy – May 21, 2024 https://sites.google.com/view/ecnlp/ Submission Deadline: Friday Feb 23, 2024 - 23:59pm (AoE) ECNLP focuses on NLP for e-Commerce and online shopping applications. We welcome papers covering all aspects on online commerce and data, including search, retrieval, and customer-facing applications and tasks. Important Dates Submission Deadline: Friday Feb 23, 2024 - 23:59pm (AoE) Acceptance Notification: Friday March 29, 2024 Camera-ready versions: Friday April 12, 2024 Workshop: Tuesday May 21, 2024 Instructions for Authors Papers must be submitted in PDF format using the official LREC-COLING template. More details available on the website. Additional Information and Contact Details https://sites.google.com/view/ecnlp/home/ Workshop Scope ECNLP invites quality research contributions as short or long papers. All submissions will undergo a double-blind review process, and accepted submissions will be presented at the workshop. NLP and IR have been powering e-Commerce applications since the early days of the fields. Today, NLP and IR already play a significant role in e-commerce tasks, including product search, recommender systems, product question answering, machine translation, sentiment analysis, product description and review summarization, and customer review processing, among many other tasks. With the exploding popularity of chatbots and shopping assistants – both text- and voice-based – NLP, IR, question answering, and dialogue systems research is poised to transform e-commerce once again, but requires a forum where new and unfinished ideas could be discussed. The ECNLP workshop will provide a venue for the dissemination of NLP and IR research results related to e-commerce and online shopping, bringing together researchers from both academia and industry. The workshop welcomes submission of late-breaking and preliminary research results, as well as opinion and position papers. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Product classification and cataloguing (including into types and hierarchies) - NER for products, brands, attributes, and part names - Search and product query auto-completion - Recommender systems and product suggestions - Machine Translation applied to e-commerce (e.g. translating product titles/reviews) - Voice & dialogue-based e-commerce applications; ASR for e-commerce - Advertising and ad prediction/forecasting models - Fraud and spam detection in e-commerce (e.g. in customer reviews/comments) - Product description and review summarization - Product similarity and matching of seller-provided listings to catalog products - Technical support request processing (user emails, chat agents, etc.) - E-commerce related social media processing - The intersection of Computer Vision and NLP (e.g. product images and text) - Product Question Answering - Shopping assistants, agents, and chat bots - Sentiment analysis, opinion mining, and stance detection in user-generated content - Relevant resources and datasets Thank you, The ECNLP Organizing Committee

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UMRs in Boulder Summer School - 3rd Call for Applications - DEADLINE EXTENDED to Feb. 9, 2024
by kristine.stenzel＠colorado.edu 29 Jan '24

29 Jan '24

UMRs in Boulder Summer School - 3rd Call for Applications - DEADLINE EXTENDED to Feb. 9, 2024 University of Colorado, Boulder, June 10-13, 2024 Held in conjunction with the UMR Parsing Workshop, June 14, 2024 https://umr4nlp.github.io/web/SummerSchool.html Impressive progress has been made in many aspects of natural language processing (NLP) in recent years. Most notably, the achievements of transformer-based large language models such as ChatGPT would seem to obviate the need for any type of semantic representation beyond what can be encoded as contextualized word embeddings of surface text. Advances have been particularly notable in areas where large training data sets exist, and it is advantageous to build an end-to-end training architecture without resorting to intermediate representations. For any truly interactive NLP applications, however, a more complete understanding of the information conveyed by each sentence is needed to advance the state of the art. Here, "understanding'' entails the use of some form of meaning representation. NLP techniques that can accurately capture the required elements of the meaning of each utterance in a formal representation are critical to making progress in these areas and have long been a central goal of the field. As with end-to-end NLP applications, the dominant approach for deriving meaning representations from raw textual data is through the use of machine learning and appropriate training data. This allows the development of systems that can assign appropriate meaning representations to previously unseen text. In this four-day course, instructors from the University of Colorado and Brandeis University will describe the framework of Uniform Meaning Representations (UMRs), a recent cross-lingual, multi-sentence incarnation of Abstract Meaning Representations (AMRs), that addresses these issues and comprises such a transformative representation. Incorporating Named Entity tagging, discourse relations, intra-sentential coreference, negation and modality, and the popular PropBank-style predicate argument structures with semantic role labels into a single directed acyclic graph structure, UMR builds on AMR and keeps the essential characteristics of AMR while making it cross-lingual and extending it to be a document-level representation. It also adds aspect, multi-sentence coreference and temporal relations, and scope. Each day will include lectures and hands-on practice. Topics to be covered June 10-13: 1. The basic structural representation of UMR and its application to multiple languages; 2. How UMR encodes different types of MWE (multi-word expressions), discourse and temporal relations, and TAM (tense-aspect-modality) information in multiple languages, and differences between AMR and UMR; 3. Going from IGT (interlinear glossed text) to UMR graphs semi-automatically; 4. Formal semantic interpretation of UMR incorporating a continuation-based semantics for scope phenomena involving modality, negation, and quantification; 5. Extension to UMR for encoding gesture in multimodal dialogue, Gesture AMR (GAMR), which aligns with speech-based UMR to account for situated grounding in dialogue. The fifth day of the summer school, June 14, will be co-located with a UMR Parsing Workshop, focusing on parsing algorithms that generate AMR and UMR representations over multiple languages. https://umr4nlp.github.io/web/UMRParsingWorkshop.html Participation will be fully funded (reasonable airfare, lodging, and meals). This summer school has been made possible by funding from NSF Collaborative Research: Building a Broad Infrastructure for Uniform Meaning Representations (Award # 2213805), with additional support from the University of Colorado Boulder and the CLEAR Center. To apply, please complete this form by Feb. 9, 2024. https://www.colorado.edu/linguistics/umrs-boulder-summer-school-application Other important dates: ● Notification of acceptance: Feb. 20, 2024 ● Confirmation of participation: Mar. 1, 2024 ● Arrival in Boulder June 9, departure June 15, 2024.

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CFP: Shared Task on Software Mention Detection in Scholarly Publications (SOMD2024)
by Stefan Dietze 29 Jan '24

29 Jan '24

/*SOMD: Shared Task on Software Mention Detection in Scholarly Publications*/ collocated with 1st Workshop on Natural Scientific Language Processing and Research Knowledge Graphs (NSLP 2024) 26 or 27 May 2024 (tbc) Hersonissos, Crete, Greece (co-located with ESWC2024) Website: https://nfdi4ds.github.io/nslp2024/docs/somd_shared_task.html * Task Description* *********************** Scientific research is almost exclusively published in unstructured text formats, which are not readily machine-readable. Thus, information extraction methods have been used widely to extract entities of different types from scholarly publication. While software are important parts of the scientific process and should therefore be recognized as first class citizen of research, methods for software mention detection are still not widely available and used. Given the scale and heterogeneity of software citations, robust methods are required to detect and disambiguate mentions of software and related metadata. The SOftware Mention Detection in Scholarly Publications (SOMD) task will utilise the SoMeSci – Software mentions in Science– corpus to address three different subtasks in the context of software citations. Participants can sign up for one or more subtasks. Automated evaluations of submitted systems are done through the Codalab platform. Subtask I: Software mention recognition. Subtask II: Additional information. Subtask III: Relation classification. More infos about the task and how to participate at https://nfdi4ds.github.io/nslp2024/docs/somd_shared_task.html * Important dates * ************************ * Training and test data: already released * Deadline for system submissions: February 22, 2024 * Organisers * ********************* * Stefan Dietze (GESIS Leibniz Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Cologne & Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Germany) * Frank Krüger (Wismar University of Applied Sciences, Germany) * Saurav Karmarkar (GESIS Leibniz Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Cologne Germany) * Contact * ***************** * Frank Krüger (frank.krueger(a)hs-wismar.de)

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Postdoc in Sociolinguistics at the University of Iceland
by Anton Karl Ingason 29 Jan '24

29 Jan '24

Postdoc in Sociolinguistics at the University of Iceland Job percentage: 100% Application deadline until end of: 15.02.2024 *See ad on Euraxess:*https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/189143 (Note that knowledge of Icelandic is not required at the time of applying.) The Language and Technology lab at the University of Iceland, led by associate professor Dr. Anton Karl Ingason, is seeking to hire a full time post-doctoral researcher in sociolinguistics. The position is initially for 12 months and can be extended by 12 additional months. The position is a part of the project Explaining Individual Lifespan Change (EILisCh); this is a five-year research project which is backed by the European Research Council (ERC). The goal of this project is to explain Individual Lifespan Change in linguistic behavior, drawing on recent advances in sociolinguistics, quantitative syntactic theory, clinical linguistics, as well as resources recently made available by Language Technology. Our group works at the intersection of Language and Technology. In addition to our work on Lifespan Change, we focus on automated assistance for language use (such as proofreading), corpora (especially treebanks), analysis of Cognitive Decline, and parsing, Language Technology infrastructure, and the interfaces between language, society, and technology. We emphasize work that is related to the Icelandic language but the methods we use are in general language-independent. Our group: http://linguist.is/language-and-technology-lab/ *Tasks:* The person that will be hired will be using Natural Language Processing tools to extract information about variables from transcribed speech and they will develop models that account for sociolinguistic trajectories in the data. *Requirements:* - PhD degree in a discipline related to Sociolinguistics and quantitative data analysis or an expected PhD award date (with evidence) before the start date of the position. - Python and R. - Ability to analyze quantitative findings using modern statistical methods - Effective collaboration skills and experience with working in a group. - Good written and spoken English language skills. - Ability to actively participate in preparing grant proposals. Wages according to the current collective agreement by the Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs and the relevant trade union. The position's start date is in the summer or fall of 2024. This is mostly an in-office, in Iceland, position, at a physical lab. Working remotely from abroad is only available to a limited extent, such as for shorter term travel, as agreed upon by the PI. The application materials must be submitted before the application deadline. The application must be in English or Icelandic and must include: - A letter that explains why you are the right candidate for the job. - A detailed CV with a list of publications and other relevant items. - Full text of your most important publications (in your opinion). In the case of co-authored work, describe your role in the work in question. - Documentation of academic degrees (degree certificates). - Names and emails of two references. All applications will be answered and applicants will be informed about the appointment when a decision has been made. We may request more information to help us assess your application. Applications may be valid for six months. Appointments to positions at the University of Iceland are made in consideration of the Equal Rights Policy <http://english.hi.is/university/equal_rights_policy> of the University of Iceland. The University of Iceland has a special Language Policy <https://english.hi.is/node/24581>. Note that knowledge of Icelandic is not required at the time of applying. *Specialized assistance and practical support is offered to all incoming international staff and their families on various issues related to moving to Iceland. More information can be found at the University of Iceland website, **International Staff Service* <https://english.hi.is/international_staff_services>*.* Job percentage: 100% Application deadline until end of: 15.02.2024 *More info provided by* Eiríkur Smári Sigurðarson - esmari(a)hi.is - Anton Karl Ingason - antoni(a)hi.is - *Where to apply:* https://radningarkerfi.orri.is/?s=36312&oj_Router=1N4IgTg9hAuIFwgPwGcC8BmAb… -- www.linguist.is

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Computational linguistics track in the master CogSUP: registration is open
by Benoît Crabbé 29 Jan '24

29 Jan '24

The Cog-SUP <https://cog-sup.fr/>master's degree is an interdisciplinary and collaborative master’s program in Cognitive Science, taught in English and heir of the Cogmaster <https://cogmaster.ens.psl.eu/en>. We offer a very broad interdisciplinary openness and a fundamentally collaborative spirit, bringing together professors, researchers and students from a wide range of backgrounds in the cognitive sciences and beyond. Among the various tracks offered by Cog-SUP, we would like to draw your attention to the Computational Linguistics track. The track enables students to acquire genuine expertise in the concepts, methods and techniques specific to the field. A common core curriculum and introductory courses to the other tracks create a common culture right from the first year. In the second year, most courses are taught in English, are entirely interdisciplinary and open to all tracks. In this way, we aim to train specialists in computational linguistics who possess both solid disciplinary expertise and a broad interdisciplinary culture, the two keys to fruitful collaboration between disciplines. The application procedure can be found here, <https://cog-sup.fr/application/> and the registration platform is open here <https://apply.cog-sup.fr/>. Please note that the registration period begins on January 17, 2024 and ends on March 10, 2024. Do not hesitate to spread the word! Benoit Crabbé and François Yvon. Useful links: Cog-SUP: https://cog-sup.fr/about/ Applications: https://cog-sup.fr/application/

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One week Countdown! Call for Papers for Linguists- 18th International NooJ Conference
by THE 18TH NOOJ INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2024 29 Jan '24

29 Jan '24

[Apologies for cross-posting] Dear linguists, We would like to remind you that this is the last week of submitting your abstract to the NooJ Conference! The linguistic software- NooJ, is organising its 18th International Conference in Bergamo, italy! This conference is for linguists, scholars, and professionals to engage in thought-provoking discussions on a myriad of topics encompassing Natural Language Processing (NLP), Linguistic Resources, Digital Humanities, and Language in Society. We are thrilled to invite you to apply for the Call for Papers by the 4th of FEB, which covers the following topics: 📚NLP Societal applications and citizen science: Typography, Spelling, Syllabification, Phonemic and Prosodic Transcription, Morphology, Lexical Analysis, Local Syntax, Structural Syntax, Transformational Analysis, Paraphrase Generation, Semantic Annotations, Semantic Analysis. 🗣️Linguistic Resources: Corpus Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Sentiment analysis, Literature Studies, Second-Language Teaching, Narrative content analysis, Corpus processing for the Social Sciences. 🧠Digital Humanities: Business Intelligence, Text Mining, Text Generation. Language Teaching Software, Automatic Paraphrasing, Machine Translation, etc. 💻Natural Language Processing Applications: Computational Socio-Linguistic (migration, geography, tourism, political discourse, cinema, social media, gender studies…) Important dates! Abstract Submission: Feb 4 2024 Notification of accept: March 10 2024 Camera ready: March 24 2024 Early bird registrations: From March 11 to March 31st 2024 Deadline for the other registrations: April 15 2024 Selected papers submission: Sept 15 2024 Important links! NooJ Conference website: https://nooj2024.x-23.org/ Submitting the paper via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=18nj https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=18nj A selection of the papers presented at the 18th NooJ International Conference 2024 will be published by Springer Verlag in their CCIS Series (Communication in Computer and Information Sciences). CCIS is abstracted/indexed in DBLP, Google Scholar, EI-Compendex, Mathematical Reviews, SCImago, Scopus. CCIS volumes are also submitted for the inclusion in ISI Proceedings. Deadline for submission of full camera-ready papers is September 15th, 2024. Please feel free to contact us in case of any questions. Best, The 18th NooJ Conference Organisation Board __________________ THE 18TH NOOJ INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2024 JUN 4th to 7th, 2024 — Bergamo, Italy Managed by The Nooj Association Powered and hosted by X23 Srl

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