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[Call for participation] Test a Dialogue System for Automata Accessibility
by Elisa Di Nuovo 11 Sep '23

11 Sep '23

Dear Esteemed Colleagues, We are a research group of the Computer Science Department and Polin Laboratory at University of Turin. We need your contribution to test a dialogue system for exploring finite automata with the accessibility goal in mind. *Introducing the NoVAGraphS Research Experiment* Our research team comprising Alessandro Mazzei, Luca Anselma, Pier Felice Balestrucci, Cristian Bernareggi, Elisa Di Nuovo and Manuela Sanguinetti, is thrilled to extend a heartfelt invitation to individuals with a basic knowledge of *English* and* finite state automata*. We need your valuable insights to evaluate our prototype system designed to enhance the accessibility of automata, a graphical structure usually taught in Computer Science courses which is not yet fully accessible for individuals with visual impairments. *What would you expect?* - You will interact with a prototype dialogue system using a web interface to explore a simple automaton. - Moreover, you will explore another simple automaton using a state transition table. - Finally, we will ask you some questions to assess your understanding of the two automata and collect your precious feedback on the usability of the dialogue system. Rest assured, any personal information collected will remain completely anonymous. - It will take approximately 15 minutes (standard deviation = 5 minutes :D). *Interested in participating or needing more information to decide?* In both cases, please contact Pier at the following email address: pierfelice.balestrucci[at]unito.it Kind regards, Elisa Di Nuovo on behalf of NoVAGraphS Research Group -- Alessandro Mazzei, Luca Anselma, Pier Felice Balestrucci, Cristian Bernareggi, Elisa Di Nuovo, Manuela Sanguinetti http://www.integr-abile.unito.it/progetto-novagraphs/ (website only in Italian)

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[FinNLP@IJCNLP-AACL-2023] Deadline Extended: 15 Sep, 2023
by CHUNG-CHI CHEN 08 Sep '23

08 Sep '23

Dear Colleagues, We received some requests about the extension of the submission deadline. Because we still have some time to wait for more interesting submissions, we have decided to extend the submission deadline to 15 Sep. 2023 (AoE). FinNLP@IJCNLP-AACL-2023 will be held in hybrid mode. While we encourage in-person attendance, we understand the need for flexibility and will also be accommodating live online presentations. We also have a Multi-Lingual ESG Impact Type Identification (ML-ESG-2) shared task. Please join us if you are interested in ESG topics. We are looking forward to your participation in FinNLP@IJCNLP-AACL-2023. For more details, please refer to FinNLP-2023 website: https://sites.google.com/nlg.csie.ntu.edu.tw/finnlp2023/home Best Regards, Chung-Chi Chen --- 陳重吉 (Chung-Chi Chen), Ph.D. Researcher Artificial Intelligence Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan E-mail: c.c.chen(a)acm.org Website: http://cjchen.nlpfin.com

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Job Announcement: Researcher
by Siegel, Melanie, Prof. Dr. 08 Sep '23

08 Sep '23

Hello, in the research project "BoTox - Bot and context detection in the environment of hate speech" a position for a research assistant is advertised. https://h-da.de/fileadmin/h_da/Hochschule/Stellenangebote/Mitarbeiter/378_2… There is a possibility to do a PhD in the Hessian PhD Center for Applied Computer Science. For questions about the position and the project, please do not hesitate to contact me. Best regards, Melanie Siegel /*****************************************************/ Prof. Dr. Melanie Siegel Information Science Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences Schöfferstraße 3 D-64295 Darmstadt https://sis.h-da.de<https://sis.h-da.de/> www.melaniesiegel.de<http://www.melaniesiegel.de/> https://fz.h-da.de/detox /*****************************************************/

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Final CFP: Normalization of Genetic Phenotypes from Dysmorphology Physical Examinations @ BioCreative VIII - track 3
by Davy Weissenbacher 07 Sep '23

07 Sep '23

*Task:* We call for automated systems to extract and normalize the findings of dysmorphology physical examinations. The dataset consists of 3136 de-identified observations with dysmorphic findings manually annotated and normalized with their corresponding HumanPhenotype Ontology <https://hpo.jax.org/app/> (HPO) terms. *Motivation:* Dysmorphology physical examinations catalog minor morphological differences of patients’ bodies and may also identify general medical signs such as neurologic dysfunction. These findings enable correlations of patients with known rare genetic diseases and allow researchers to delineate undescribed genetic conditions. These medical findings are nearly always captured as unstructured free text within the electronic health record, making them unavailable for downstream computational analysis. Advanced natural language processing methods are therefore required to retrieve the information from the records. *Challenge:* Both extraction and normalization are challenging. The extraction is challenging due to the descriptive style of the examinations which, for conciseness, report findings with disjoint and overlapping mentions. The normalization is challenging due to the large scale of the HPO ontology which requires a normalizer to learn the task without supervision since our training set does not provide examples of all terms in the HPO. See https://biocreative.bioinformatics.udel.edu/tasks/biocreative-viii/track-3/ for details., in short: - 3136 de-identified observations with dysmorphic and normal findings manually annotated and normalized with their corresponding Human Phenotype Ontology <https://hpo.jax.org/app/> terms - Baseline systems available (e.g. doc2HPO <https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefens…> , NeuralCR <https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefens…> , PhenoTagger <https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefens…> , PhenoBERT <https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefens…>, and txt2HPO <https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefens…> ) - Codalab opened at https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/11351 - Evaluation period: Sept. 15, 9:00 UTC - Sept. 18, 23:59 UTC [Apologies for cross-posting] Best regards, Davy

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2nd CfP: NLP4DH & IWCLUL 2023
by Mika Hämäläinen 07 Sep '23

07 Sep '23

NLP4DH 2023 & IWCLUL 2023 The Joint 3rd International Conference on Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities and 8th International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages will be held in Tokyo, Japan. The proceedings will be published in the ACL anthology<https://aclanthology.org/>. The workshop will take place on December 1-3 2023. https://rootroo.com/en/joint-nlp4dh-iwclul-2023/ Submission deadline: October 1, 2023 Registration/publication fees: 0€! The focus of NLP4DH is on applying natural language processing techniques to digital humanities research. The topics can be anything of digital humanities interest with a natural language processing or generation aspect. A list of suitable NLP4DH topics include but are not limited to: -Text analysis and processing related to humanities using computational methods -Dataset creation and curation for NLP (e.g. digitization, digitalization, datafication, and data preservation). -Research on cultural heritage collections such as national archives and libraries using NLP -NLP for error detection, correction, normalization and denoising data -Generation and analysis of literary works such as poetry and novels -Analysis and detection of text genres -Submissions are not limited to Uralic languages! In addition, IWCLUL solicits papers that focus on NLP methods for Uralic languages. Many of these languages are endangered and call for innovative NLP approaches that can deal with small amounts of data. A list of suitable IWCLUL topics include but are not limited to: -Parsers, analysers and processing pipelines of Uralic languages -Lexical databases, electronic dictionaries -Finished end-user applications aimed at Uralic languages, such as spelling or grammar checkers, machine translation or speech processing -Evaluation methods and gold standards, tagged corpora, treebanks We solicit original and unpublished work related to digital humanities and natural language processing (NLP4DH) or NLP methods for Uralic languages (IWCLUL). Short papers can be up to 4 pages in length (5 for camera-ready version). Short papers can report on work in progress or a more targeted contribution such as software or partial results. Long papers can be up to 8 pages in length (9 for camera-ready version). Long papers should report on previously unpublished, completed, original work. Lightning talks submitted as 750-word abstracts. Lightning talks are suited for discussing ideas or presenting work in progress. The abstracts will not be published or indexed and will only be made available on the conference website. All submission formats can have an unlimited number of pages for references. All submissions must follow the ACL stylesheet<https://2023.aclweb.org/calls/style_and_formatting/>. The submissions must be anonymous and they will be peer-reviewed by our program committee. The peer review is double blinded. Papers must be submitted using the conference submission system by the deadline. At least one of the authors of an accepted paper must attend the event and present their paper. Accepted papers (short and long) will be published in the joint proceedings that will appear in the ACL Anthology. Accepted papers will also be given an additional page to address the reviewers’ comments. The length of a camera ready submission can then be 5 pages for a short paper and 9 for a long paper with an unlimited number of pages for references. The authors of the accepted papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper to a special issue in the Journal of Data Mining & Digital Humanities<https://jdmdh.episciences.org/>. Important dates -Paper submission (full and short): October 1, 2023 -Notification of acceptance: November 3, 2023 -Camera ready deadline: November 17, 2023 -NLP4DH & IWCLUL in Tokyo: December 1-3, 2023

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[Final CfP] [Deadline Extended] Second Workshop on Information Extraction from Scientific Publications (WIESP) at IJCNLP-AACL 2023
by Tirthankar Ghosal 06 Sep '23

06 Sep '23

*** Second Workshop on Information Extraction from Scientific Publications ( WIESP) at IJCNLP-AACL 2023 *** *** Website: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/WIESP/2023/ *** *** Twitter: https://twitter.com/wiesp_nlp *** Building on the success of the First WIESP at AACL-IJCNLP 2022, the Second Workshop on Information Extraction from Scientific Publications (WIESP) will provide a platform to researchers to foster discussion and research on information extraction, mining, generation, and knowledge discovery from scientific publications using Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning techniques. A lot of technological change happened in one year (since the 1st WIESP), especially with Generative Artificial Intelligence research. We are incorporating a few additional topics to stay abreast with the latest developments and research in the community. The 2nd iteration of WIESP would focus on the following topics (but not limited to): - Large Language Models (LLMs) for Science - Application of LLMs on information extraction, generation, mining and knowledge discovery from scientific publications - Probing LLMs for scientific fact checking and misinformation - Scientific document parsing - Scientific named-entity recognition - Scientific article summarization - Question-answering on scientific articles - Citation context/span extraction - Structured information extraction from full-text, tables, figures, bibliography - Novel datasets curated from scientific publications - Argument extraction and mining - Challenges in information extraction from scientific articles - Building knowledge graphs via mining scientific literature; querying scientific knowledge graphs - Novel tools for IE on scientific literature and interaction with users - Mathematical information extraction - Scientific concepts, facts extraction - Visualizing scientific knowledge - Bibliometric and Altmetric studies via information extraction from scientific articles and metadata In addition to research paper presentations, WIESP will also feature keynote talks, a panel discussion on “Large Language Models and Scientific Literature Mining'', and shared tasks. We will update the details on our website as and when they become available. We especially welcome participation from academic and research institutions, government and industry labs, publishers, and information service providers. Projects and organizations using NLP/ML techniques in their text mining and enrichment efforts are also welcome to participate. We strongly encourage the participation of students, researchers, and science practitioners from diverse backgrounds, especially from underrepresented groups and communities, to be a part of WIESP events, and pro-actively make the workshop a diverse and inclusive one. ****Call for Papers**** We invite papers of the following categories: ***Long papers*** must describe substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis should be included. Papers must not exceed eight (8) pages of content, plus unlimited pages of references. 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*** must describe original and unpublished work. Please note that a short paper is not a shortened long paper. Instead, short papers should have a point that can be made in a few pages, such as a small, focused contribution, a negative result, or an interesting application nugget. Short papers must not exceed four (4) pages, plus unlimited pages of 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. In addition to papers, WIESP will also host shared tasks. More details on the WIESP shared tasks will be available on our website shortly. Also, we will publish separate CfPs on the shared tasks. Shared task authors will be invited to write their system descriptions and those will be subjected to peer review. ***Shared Task: Function of Citation in Astrophysics Literature (FOCAL)*** The citation graph is an essential tool for helping researchers find relevant literature. To further empower discovery, we aim to label the edges of the graph with the function of the citation: e.g. is the cited work necessary background knowledge, or is it used as a comparison, to the citing work? To start this process, we propose a shared task of automatically labelling citations with a function based on the textual context of the citation. A sample dataset and more instructions can be found at: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/WIESP/2023/SharedTasks *All accepted papers would be published in the WIESP proceedings as part of IJCNLP-AACL 2023 and indexed in the ACL Anthology.* ***Important Dates*** - Paper Submission Deadline: *September 11, 2023 (final extended deadline)* - Notification of workshop paper/abstract acceptance: October 5, 2023 - Camera-ready Submission Deadline: October 12, 2023 - Workshop: November 1, 2023 (online) ***All submission deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h ("Anywhere on Earth")*** ****Submission Website and Format**** Submission Link: https://softconf.com/ijcnlp2023/WorkshopWIESP2023/ Submission will be via softconf. Submissions should follow the ACLPUB formatting guidelines (https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html) and template files (https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files/tree/master). Submissions (Long and Short Papers) will be subject to a double-blind peer-review process. We follow the same policies as IJCNLP-AACL 2023 regarding anonymity, preprints and double submissions. ***Organizers*** - Tirthankar Ghosal, National Center for Computational Sciences| Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Felix Grezes, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, USA - Thomas Allen, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, USA - Kelly Lockhart, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, USA - Alberto Accomazzi, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, USA -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Tirthankar Ghosal https://member.acm.org/~tghosal ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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FOIS 2023 Online: Call for Participation
by Selja Seppälä 06 Sep '23

06 Sep '23

===== Call for Participation to online FOIS 2023 conference, showcases and demos ===== Program: https://fois2023.griis.ca/online-conference/ Registration: https://event.fourwaves.com/fr/fois2023/inscription (free registration for students) ==================================================================================== 13th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2023), September 18-20, 2023 (Online) Definition and scope ==================== The FOIS conference is a meeting point for all researchers with an interest in formal ontology. Formal ontology is the systematic study of the types of entities and relations making up the domains of interest represented in modern information systems. FOIS 2023 will have distinct tracks for foundational issues, ontology applications and methods, and domain ontologies. FOIS aims to be a nexus of interdisciplinary research and communication for researchers from many domains engaging with formal ontology. Common application areas include conceptual modeling, database design, knowledge engineering and management, software engineering, organizational modeling, artificial intelligence, robotics, computational linguistics, the life sciences, bioinformatics and scientific research in general, geographic information science, information retrieval, library and information science, as well as the Semantic Web. FOIS is the flagship conference of the International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA: http://iaoa.org/), which is a non-profit organization promoting interdisciplinary research and international collaboration in formal ontology. Program ==================== Monday September, 18th EDT (UTC -4) CEST (UTC +2) 08:15-08:30 14:15-14:30 FOIS online Welcome Zoom 08:30-10:30 14:30-16:30 Session 1: Foundational concepts (Chair: Laure Vieu) Zoom 10:30-11:00 16:30-17:00 Coffee break gather.town 11:00-12:00 17:00-18:00 Ontology showcases and demos gather.town Tuesday September, 19th 08:30-09:00 14:30-15:00 Invited talks special session (TBC) Zoom 09:00-10:30 15:00-16:30 Session 2: Methodological issues (TBA) Zoom 10:30-11:00 16:30-17:00 Coffee break gather.town 11:00-12:00 17:00-18:00 ESAO panel Zoom Wednesday September, 20th 09:00-10:30 15:00-16:30 Session 3: Domain ontologies (TBA) Zoom 10:30-11:00 16:30-17:00 Coffee break gather.town 11:00-12:00 17:00-18:00 IAOA General Assembly Zoom 12:00-12:15 18:00-18:15 Closing Zoom Details: https://fois2023.griis.ca/onlinesession/ Registration fees ==================== Online presenter: 500 CAN / 340 EUR Listener - regular fee (academia or industry): 100 CAN / 70 EUR Listener - reduced fee (student or participant from less developed contry): free More information: https://fois2023.griis.ca/registration/ Conference Organization ======================= General Chair: Antony Galton, University of Exeter, UK PC Chairs: Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, IRIT-CNRS Toulouse, France Torsten Hahmann, University of Maine, USA Local Organization Chair: Jean-François Ethier, University of Sherbrooke, Canada Online Chair: Cassia Trojahn, IRIT Université Toulouse 2, France Workshop and Tutorial Chairs: Megan Katsumi, University of Toronto, Canada Emilio Sanfilippo, ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy Early Career Chairs: Antoine Zimmermann, École des Mines de Saint-Étienne (EMSE), France Guendalina Righetti, Free University Bozen/Bolzano, Italy Demo & Showcase Chairs: Sergio de Cesare, University of Westminster, UK Tiago Prince Sales, University of Twente, Netherlands Publicity Chairs: Lucia Gomez Alvarez, TU Dresden, Germany Selja Seppälä, University College Cork, Ireland Proceedings Chair: Maria Hedblom, Jönköping University, Sweden Program committee: https://fois2023.griis.ca/conference-organization/

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CFP, the 8th Biomedical Linked Annotation Hackathon (BLAH8)
by Jin-Dong Kim 05 Sep '23

05 Sep '23

The 8th Biomedical Linked Annotation Hackathon (BLAH8) 15 - 19 January, 2024 Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan https://blah8.linkedannotation.org/ Submission due of project proposals : 20 Oct., 2023 INTRODUCTION BLAH (Biomedical Linked Annotation Hackathon) represents a series of annual hackathon events, specifically designed to foster open collaboration. The goal is to achieve a breakthrough in the sharing and linking of various resources for biomedical literature annotation and mining. By enhancing the interoperability of these resources, the initiative aims to substantially increase both the productivity and the impact within the community. Within the scope of BLAH, the term "resources" encompasses a wide range of elements including corpora, annotation datasets, databases, language models, software tools, web services, terminologies, ontologies, graphical representations, movies, and more. The aspiration of BLAH is to create connections between all these resources, allowing them to interoperate seamlessly. We believe this integration will foster a more cohesive and effective environment for all stakeholders. Unfortunately, the pandemic led to a temporary halt in the organization of BLAH events. However, with the world gradually reopening, BLAH is excited to announce its return with the 8th edition (BLAH8). In recognition of the era of Large Language Models (LLMs), BLAH8 will center around a special theme: "Biomedical Annotations in the Age of LLMs." This theme represents a contemporary focus for the community and signals a commitment to staying at the forefront of technological advancements in the biomedical field. Through BLAH8, we aspire to explore the potential synergy between LLMs and literature annotations, diving deep into various facets of biomedical applications. CALL FOR PROJECT PROPOSALS We invite submission of project proposals from those who are interested in contributing biomedical literature annotation with their literature annotation resources, and expertise, particularly this year with a connection to LLMs. We invite projects which can be accomplished during the hackathon. The type of contribution may include, but not restricted to - Integration of annotation resources - Evaluation of annotation resources - Application of annotation resources - ... Submission due of project proposals is 20 Oct., 2023 TRAVEL SUPPORT Those who submit project proposals are eligible to apply for travel support. See the homepage for detailed information. PUBLICATION Immediately after BLAH8, participants will be invited to submit papers, e. g., report of the hackathon outputs, to either of the two venues: - Genomics & Informatics : an open access journal, which is indexed by PubMed. All the papers of the journal will be immediately included in the PMC open access subset. - BioHackrxiv : a preprint server, which is powered by OSF preprints and indexed by EuropeanPMC. PROGRAM COMMITTEE - Jin-Dong Kim (DBCLS, ROIS-DS) - Fabio Rinaldi (IDSIA) - Lars Juhl Jensen (Univ. Copenhagen) - Zhiyong Lu (NCBI, NLM)

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2nd CFP: EACL 2024
by sungho.jeon＠h-its.org 05 Sep '23

05 Sep '23

- Event Notification Type: Call for Papers - Abbreviated Title: [CFP 2nd] EACL 2024 - Location: Hotel Radisson Blu, St. Julians Sunday, 17 March 2024 to Friday, 22 March 2024 - Country: Malta - Contact Email: michael.strube(a)h-its.org YGRAHAM(a)tcd.ie m.purver(a)qmul.ac.uk - Contact: Michael Strube Yvette Graham Matthew Purver - Website: https://2024.eacl.org/ - Submission Deadline: Sunday, 15 October 2023 ============================ * Second Call for Papers: EACL 2024 The 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2024) invites the submission of long and short papers on substantial, original, and unpublished research on Natural Language Processing. EACL 2024 will be held at the Hotel Radisson Blu, St. Julians, in Malta on 17th-22nd March 2024, with online attendance possible. Papers must be submitted to EACL 2024 via the ACL Rolling Review (ARR) system. As in recent years, some of the presentations at the conference will be for papers accepted by the Transactions of the ACL (TACL) and Computational Linguistics (CL) journals. * Important Dates - Anonymity period begins: Friday, 15 September 2023 - Paper submission deadline (via ARR): Sunday, 15 October 2023 - Author response period: Friday-Tuesday, 8-12 December 2023 - Paper commitment deadline: Sunday, 20 December 2023 - Notification of acceptance: (long & short papers): Monday, 15 January 2024 - Withdrawal deadline (long & short papers): Monday, 22 January 2024 - Camera-ready papers due (long & short papers): Wednesday, 31 January 2024 - Workshops & Tutorials: Sunday; Thu-Fri, 17 & 21-22 March 2024 - Main Conference: Monday-Wed, 18-20 March 2024 All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h (“anywhere on Earth”). ============================ * Paper Submission Information * Topics of Interest EACL 2024 has the goal of a broad technical program. Relevant topics for the conference include, but are not limited to, the following areas (in alphabetical order): - Computational Social Science and Cultural Analytics - Dialogue and Interactive Systems - Discourse and Pragmatics - Efficient/Low-resource methods in NLP - Ethics and NLP - Generation - Information Retrieval and Text Mining - Information Extraction - Interpretability and Model Analysis in NLP - Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond - Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics - Machine Learning for NLP - Machine Translation - Multilinguality and Language Diversity - NLP Applications - Phonology, Morphology, and Word Segmentation - Question Answering - Resources and Evaluation - Semantics: Lexical - Semantics: Sentence-level Semantics, Textual Inference and other areas - Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis and Argument Mining - Speech and Multimodality - Summarization - Syntax: Tagging, Chunking and Parsing * Long Papers Long paper submissions must describe substantial, original, completed and unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis should be included. Long papers may consist of up to 8 pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references and appendices. Upon acceptance, long papers will be given one additional page of content (i.e. up to 9 pages) in the proceedings so that reviewers’ comments can be taken into account. * Short Papers Short paper submissions must describe original and unpublished work. Please note that a short paper is not a shortened long paper. Instead, short papers should have a point that can be made in a few pages. Short papers may consist of up to 4 pages of content, plus unlimited references and appendices. Upon acceptance, short papers will be given one additional page of content (i.e. up to 5 pages) in the proceedings so that reviewers’ comments can be taken into account. * Findings of the ACL Papers submitted to EACL 2024, but not selected for the main conference, will also automatically be considered for publication in the Findings of the Association of Computational Linguistics. Acceptance notifications for the main track and Findings will come out simultaneously. * Presentation Mode Long and short papers will be presented orally or as posters, as determined by the programme committee based on the nature rather than the quality of the work. While short papers will be distinguished from long papers in the proceedings, there will be no distinction in the proceedings between papers presented orally and as posters. Papers accepted to the Findings of the ACL may present a poster. * Presentation Requirements All accepted papers must be presented at the conference—either online or in-person—in order to appear in the proceedings. Authors of papers accepted for presentation at EACL 2024 must notify the program chairs by the withdrawal deadline if they wish to withdraw the paper. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for EACL 2024 by the early registration deadline. * Paper Submission and Anonymity Following standard ACL and ARR policy, submitted papers must be prepared for two-way anonymized review, and no deanonymized preprint may be posted in the month prior to submission. Please see the ARR CfP for more detail. https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp * Policies on Authorship, Citation and Ethics EACL 2024 follows the ARR policies on authorship, citation and comparison and ethics - please see the ARR CfP. * Multiple Submission Policy EACL 2024 follows the ARR policy on multiple submission: we will not consider any paper that is under review in a journal or another conference at the time of submission, and submitted papers must not be submitted elsewhere during the review period. See the ARR CfP for more detail. Please note that the EACL 2024 submission deadline is currently timed to come after EMNLP 2023 decisions have been announced, and that EACL 2024 acceptance decisions will be announced before the likely submission deadline for ACL 2024, although after that for NAACL 2024. * Mandatory Discussion of Limitations We believe that it is also important to discuss the limitations of your work, in addition to its strengths. Following EACL 2023, EACL 2024 requires all papers to have a clear discussion of limitations, in a dedicated section titled “Limitations”. This section will appear at the end of the paper, after the discussion/conclusions section and before the references, and will not count towards the page limit. Papers without a limitations section will be automatically rejected without review. Papers resubmitted from previous ARR review rounds that did not include a limitations section must ensure that such a section is included in the EACL 2024 version. While we are open to different types of limitations, just mentioning that a set of results have been shown for English only probably does not reflect what we expect. Mentioning that the method works mostly for languages with limited morphology, like English, is a much better alternative. In addition, limitations such as low scalability to long text, the requirement of large GPU resources, or other things that inspire further investigation are welcome.

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Google DeepMind PhD Scholarship
by Mirella Lapata 05 Sep '23

05 Sep '23

The School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, is thrilled to announce a PhD scholarship funded by Google DeepMind. The scholarship covers tuition fees (at the Home/International tuition fee rate), provides an annual stipend of £18,622 per annum (for 3.5 years full time study) and provides a research training and support grant. The student will be supervised by Dr. Mirella Lapata and will also benefit from mentoring from DeepMind staff during their period of study.  Applicants would be expected to work on a topic drawn from the following research areas: - multimodal natural language understanding and generation - long-form and retrieval-augmented text generation - multilingual generation Applicants wishing to apply for the scholarship should meet one OR both of the following criteria: - are resident of a country and/or region underrepresented in AI; - identify as women including cis and trans people and non-binary or gender fluid people who identify in a significant way as women or female; - and/or identify as Black or other minority ethnicity. The successful candidate will have a good honours degree or equivalent in artificial intelligence, computer science, machine learning, or a related discipline; or have a breadth of relevant experience in industry/academia/public sector, etc. They will have strong programming skills and previous experience in natural language processing. If you have further questions, please contact Dr. Mirella Lapata: mlap(a)inf.ed.ac.uk. To apply, please follow the instructions at: http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/postgraduate/apply.html As your research area, please select "Informatics: ILCC: Language Processing, Speech Technology, Information Retrieval, Cognition". On the application form under "Research Project", please state "DeepMind Scholarship". IMPORTANT: After submitting your application through the website, please email your applicant number to mlap(a)inf.ed.ac.uk. Application deadline: 24 November 2023 received after the deadline may be considered, but this cannot be guaranteed].

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