CSIRO and Queensland University of Technology are offering a PhD scholarship on the topic of Human-Robot Collaboration. The goal of this project is to investigate how to process logs of raw information coming from the robot to present to the human operator an appropriate and relevant summary. The project will combine natural language processing (and using large language models), robotics and user-centred design.
Expressions of Interest close: 20th May 2024
https://www.australiancobotics.org/project/project-2-5-spot-whats-happening…
For informal enquiries please contact: Xiang Dai (dai.dai(a)csiro.au) Stephen Wan (stephen.wan(a)csiro.au)
Dear all,
‘Language in the Human-Machine Era’ (https://lithme.eu/) welcomes everyone interested in the impact of new and emerging language technologies that integrate with human senses. Whether you are a tech developer who wants to learn more about linguistics, or a linguist who wants to know more about tech, we want to hear from you! You can find out more about our themes of interest from our published forecast report (https://doi.org/10.17011/jyx/reports/20210518/1) and our animations (https://lithme.eu/animations).
Our 4th annual conference will be held at UCLouvain (Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium) on 2-3 September 2024. This year's theme is: ‘Exploring the Dark Side of Future Language Technologies: Linguistic (In)security, Ethics, and Privacy in the Human-Machine Era’.
The call for papers is now open, and we warmly encourage submissions from any eligible researcher or practitioner who is interested in exploring these timely topics. We welcome experienced developers, but no technological expertise is required, only an interest in exploring the possible effects of these near-future advances in language technology.
Presentations can address any of the topics that fall within the interests of LITHME. Selection for funded places will be made by the conference scientific committee. The deadline for submitting your abstract is June 8th, 2024. More details of funding eligibility, the conference theme, and a link to the abstract submission form are on our website: https://lithme.eu/conference2024/
Please forward this message to anyone who may be interested, and please repost the social media announcements here:
https://twitter.com/LgHumanMachine/status/1787799682338390457https://bsky.app/profile/lghumanmachine.bsky.social/post/3krvwfjaqpk2f
We hope to see you at the conference!
All best,
Rui Sousa Silva
Faculdade de Letras, Universidade do Porto
Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Porto
www.linguisticaforense.pt | https://s.up.pt/qjur | http://tinyurl.com/37w2ec6x
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*Special Issue on 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/
Manuscript Submission Deadline: *1st July 2024*
Latest Acceptance Deadline for all papers: *1st October 2024*
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########### *Guest Editors:* ###########
• Elisa Bassignana, IT University of Copenhagen (Denmark),
https://elisabassignana.github.io/
• Dominique Brunato, Institute for Computational Linguistics “A.
Zampolli” (CNR-ILC) (Italy),
http://www.italianlp.it/people/dominique-brunato/
• Marco Polignano, University of Bari Aldo Moro (Italy),
https://marcopoli.github.io/
• Alan Ramponi, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Italy),
https://alanramponi.github.io/
########### *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/
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/
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The Seventh Workshop on Technologies for Machine Translation of Low-Resource
Languages (LoResMT 2024)
https://www.loresmt.org/
@ ACL 2024 (August 11–16, 2024)
Bangkok, Thailand
SUBMISSION
https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2024/Workshop/LoResMT
TIMELINE
Paper submission due: May 17 (Friday), 2024, at 23:59 (Anywhere on Earth)
Notification of acceptance: June 17 (Monday), 2024
Camera-ready papers due: July 1 (Monday), 2024, at 23:59 (Anywhere on Earth)
Workshop dates at ACL: August 15, 2024
SCOPE
Based on the success of past low-resource machine translation (MT)
workshops at AMTA 2018 (https://amtaweb.org/), MT Summit 2019 (
https://www.mtsummit2019.com), AACL-IJCNLP 2020 (http://aacl2020.org/),
AMTA 2021, COLING 2022 and EACL 2023, we introduce the Seventh LoResMT
Workshop at ACL 2024. The workshop provides a discussion panel for
researchers working on MT systems/methods for low-resource and
under-represented languages in general. We would like to help
review/overview the state of MT for low-resource languages and define the
most important directions. We also solicit papers dedicated to
supplementary NLP tools that are used in any language and especially in
low-resource languages. Overview papers on these NLP tools are very
welcome. It will be beneficial if the evaluations of these tools in
research papers include their impact on the quality of MT output.
TOPICS
We are highly interested in (1) original research papers, (2)
review/opinion papers, and (3) online systems on the topics below; however,
we welcome all novel ideas that cover research on low-resource languages.
- Neural machine translation (NMT) for low-resource languages
- Use of LLMs (large language models) for low-resource MT systems
- COVID-related corpora, their translations and corresponding NLP/MT systems
- Work that presents online systems for practical use by native speakers
- Word tokenizers/de-tokenizers for specific languages
- Word/morpheme segmenters for specific languages
- Alignment/Re-ordering tools for specific language pairs
- Use of morphology analyzers and/or morpheme segmenters in MT
- Multilingual/cross-lingual NLP tools for MT
- Corpora creation and curation technologies for low-resource languages
- Review of available parallel corpora for low-resource languages
- Research and review papers on MT methods for low-resource languages
- MT systems/methods (e.g. rule-based, SMT, NMT) for low-resource languages
- Pivot MT for low-resource languages
- Zero-shot MT for low-resource languages
- Fast building of MT systems for low-resource languages
- Re-usability of existing MT systems for low-resource languages
- Machine translation for language preservation
SUBMISSION INFORMATION
We are soliciting two types of submissions: (1) research, review, and
position papers and (2) system demonstration papers. For research, review
and position papers, the length of each paper should be at least four (4)
and not exceed eight (8) pages, plus unlimited pages for references. For
system demonstration papers, the limit is four (4) pages. Submissions
should be formatted according to the official ACL 2024 style templates.
Accepted papers will be published online in the ACL 2024 proceedings and
will be presented at the conference.
Submissions must be anonymized and should be done using the provided
submission system. Scientific papers that have been or will be submitted to
other venues must be declared as such and must be withdrawn from the other
venues if accepted and published at LoResMT. The review will be
double-blind. Authors of an accepted paper should present their paper in
person at ACL 2024. Papers should be submitted in PDF to the LoResMT Open
Review.
We would like to encourage authors to cite papers written in ANY language
that are related to the topics, as long as both original bibliographic
items and their corresponding English translations are provided.
Registration is handled by the main conference (https://2024.aclweb.org/).
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE (LISTED ALPHABETICALLY)
Atul Kr. Ojha, University of Galway & Panlingua Language Processing LLP
Chao-Hong Liu, Potamu Research Ltd
Ekaterina Vylomova, University of Melbourne, Australia
Jade Abbott, Retro Rabbit
Jonathan Washington, Swarthmore College
Nathaniel Oco, National University (Philippines)
Tommi A Pirinen, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø
Valentin Malykh, Huawei Noah’s Ark lab and Kazan Federal University
Varvara Logacheva, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology
Xiaobing Zhao, Minzu University of China
PROGRAM COMMITTEE (LISTED ALPHABETICALLY)
Abigail Walsh, ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University, Ireland
Alberto Poncelas, Rakuten, Singapore
Alina Karakanta, Leiden University
Amirhossein Tebbifakhr, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
Anna Currey, Amazon Web Services
Aswarth Abhilash Dara, Amazon
Arturo Oncevay, University of Edinburgh
Atul Kr. Ojha, DSI, University of Galway & Panlingua Language Processing LLP
Barry Haddow, University of Edinburgh
Bogdan Babych, Heidelberg University
Chao-Hong Liu, Potamu Research Ltd
Constantine Lignos, Brandeis University, USA
Daan van Esch, Google
Diptesh Kanojia, University of Surrey, UK
Duygu Ataman, University of Zurich
Ekaterina Vylomova, University of Melbourne, Australia
Eleni Metheniti, CLLE-CNRS and IRIT-CNRS
Flammie Pirinen, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø
Koel Dutta Chowdhury, Saarland University (Germany)
Jade Abbott, Retro Rabbit
Jasper Kyle Catapang, University of the Philippines
Jindřich Libovicky, Charles University
John P. McCrae, DSI, University of Galway
Liangyou Li, Noah’s Ark Lab, Huawei Technologies
Majid Latifi, University of York, York, UK
Maria Art Antonette Clariño, University of the Philippines Los Baños
Mathias Müller, University of Zurich
Nathaniel Oco, De La Salle University (Philippines)
Rajdeep Sarkar, Yahoo
Rico Sennrich, University of Zurich
Saliha Muradoglu, The Australian National University
Sangjee Dondrub, Qinghai Normal University
Santanu Pal, WIPRO AI
Sardana Ivanova, University of Helsinki
Shantipriya Parida, Silo AI
Sunit Bhattacharya, Charles University
Surafel Melaku Lakew, Amazon AI
Wen Lai, Center for Information and Language Processing, LMU Munich
Valentin Malykh, Huawei Noah’s Ark lab and Kazan Federal University
CONTACT
Please email loresmt(a)googlegroups.com if you have any
questions/comments/suggestions.
Dear all,
We are very pleased to announce that the first issue of volume 12 (2024) of Research in Corpus Linguistics (RiCL) has just come out.
The issue can be found at: https://ricl.aelinco.es/index.php/ricl/issue/view/25
Please find below the table of contents.
With best wishes,
Paula Rodríguez-Puente & Carlos Prado-Alonso
Editors of RiCL
ARTICLES:
•A corpus-assisted approach to discursive news values analysis.
Arash Javadinejad 1–29
•The contribution of aspectual auxiliary verbs to the factual value of verb periphrases in Spanish: An empirical study.
Ana Fernández-Montraveta, Glòria Vázquez, Hortènsia Curell 30–58
•Recent trends in corpus design and reporting: A methodological synthesis.
Brett Hashimoto, Kyra Nelson 59–88
•Adjective comparison in African varieties of English.
Cristina Suárez-Gómez, Cristhian Tomàs-Vidal 89–113
•Constructions and representations of Chinese identity through England’s curatorial imagination: A corpus-assisted analysis.
JJ Chan, Mathew Gillings 114–139
•A semantic analysis of bilingual compound verbs in two contact Spanish communities.
Osmer Balam, Lidia Pérez Leutza, Ian Michalski, María del Carmen Parafita Couto 140–170
BOOK REVIEWS:
•Review of Peters, Pam and Kate Burridge eds. 2023. Exploring the Ecology of World Englishes in the Twenty-first Century: Language, Society and Culture. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. ISBN: 978-1-474-46286-0. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474462853.001.0001.
Philip Shaw 171–179
•Review of Leńko-Szymańska, Agnieszka and Sandra Götz eds. 2022. Complexity, Accuracy and Fluency in Learner Corpus Research. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. ISBN: 978-9-027-21258-0. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.104.
Paweł Szudarski 180–188
•Review of Mattiello, Elisa. 2022. Transitional Morphology: Combining Forms in Modern English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 978-1-009-16828-1. DOI: https://doi. org/10.1017/9781009168274.
Cristina Lara-Clares, Salvador Valera 189–195
•Review of Taavitsainen, Irma, Turo Hiltunen, Jeremy J. Smith and Carla Suhr eds. 2022. Genre in English Medical Writing, 1500–1820: Sociocultural Contexts of Production and Use. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 978-1-009-10534-7. DOI: https:// doi.org/10.1017/9781009105347.
Irene Diego Rodríguez 196–204
•Review of Sánchez Fajardo, José A. 2022. Pejorative Suffixes and Combining Forms in English. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. ISBN: 978-9-027-25822-9. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.222.
Anke Lensch 205–211
•Review of Zihan Yin and Elaine Vine eds. 2022. Multifunctionality in English: Corpora, Language and Academic Literacy Pedagogy. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-367-72509-9. DOI: https://doi. org/10.4324/9781003155072.
Pascual Pérez-Paredes 212–219
Dear colleagues,
Apologies for cross-posting.
We want to invite you to submit the unpublished results of your research on
Knowledge Graphs and Large Language Models to:
*The 1st Workshop on Knowledge Graphs and Large Language Models (KaLLM)*,
to be held on *August 15, 2024*, co-located with *ACL 2024*, Bangkok,
Thailand.
Call for Participation
*Submission Deadline: May 20, 2024 at 23:59, UTC -12h, AoE*
*Website*: https://kallmworkshop.github.io/kallm2024/
*Contact email*: kallmworkshop2024(a)googlegroups.com
The workshop intends to provide a platform for researchers, practitioners,
and industry professionals to explore the synergies between LLMs and KGs.
We aim to provide a space for the LLM community and the community of KG
researchers to interact and explore how these two communities could
collaborate and support one another.
*Important Dates*
Submission Deadline: *May 20, 2024*
Author Notifications: June 17, 2024
Camera-Ready Deadline: July 1, 2024
Workshop Date: August 15, 2024
*Submission Guidelines:*
Papers must be submitted in PDF format using the official ACL template.
More details are available on the website.
*Scope of the workshop:*
KaLLM invites quality research contributions as short or long papers and
resource papers. All submissions will undergo a double-blind review
process, and accepted submissions will be presented at the workshop.
The submissions should focus on the interaction between LLMs and KGs in the
context of NLP. The workshop will cover a diverse range of topics related
to the integration of LLMs and KGs, including but not limited to:
- Knowledge-enhanced language generation
- KG-based question answering using LLMs
- Fact validation and bias mitigation
- KG creation and completion using LLMs
- Privacy considerations in LLM-KG integration
- Interpretability and explainability
- Cross-domain applications
- KG-based text summarisation with LLMs
- Ethical implications of LLM-KG technologies
- Multimodality of KGs and LLMs
- Multilingual LLMs for KGs and vice-versa
We look forward to receiving your submissions and having your valuable
contribution to the success of the workshop. If you have any questions or
require further information, please do not hesitate to contact us at
kallmworkshop2024(a)googlegroups.com or visit
https://kallmworkshop.github.io/kallm2024/.
Thank you and best regards,
Workshop Organisers
Russa Biswas, Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany
Lucie Aimée Kaffee, Hugging Face
Oshin Agarwal, Bloomberg, USA
Pasquale Minervini, University of Edinburgh, UK
Sameer Singh, University of California, Irvine, USA
Gerard de Melo, Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Germany
The 3rd Workshop on Perspectivist approaches to NLP (NLPerspectives)
Co-located with LREC-COLING, Turin, Italy or online. May 21st 2024 (full day)
Keynote presentation:
Barbara Plank (LMU Munich)
“From Human Label Variation and Model Uncertainty to Error Detection (and Back)”
Panel discussion:
Barbara Plank (LMU Munich)
Alicia Parish (Google)
Massimo Poesio (QMU London)
Plus lightning talks and poster presentations of 22 perspectivist NLP papers.
Registration: https://lrec-coling-2024.org/https://nlperspectives.di.unito.it/w/3rd-workshop-on-perspectivist-approach…
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We invite the community to participate in a text labelling Shared Task
regarding the segmentation of statements in German Easy Language
(STaGE), co-located at KONVENS 2024 [1] in Vienna, Austria.
For more information, visit:
https://german-easy-to-read.github.io/statements
Motivation:
Assessing the complexity of sentences is still an object of ongoing
research. One aspect of sentence complexity is the number of statements.
Knowing the different statements conveyed in a sentence is important for
numerous NLP tasks, such as extracting the different statements to
further simplify the original sentence by separating it into
statement-reduced sentences. Another use case is in-depth fact-checking
of the isolated statements or the readability evaluation of the text in
accordance with Easy Languages guidelines.
However, for German, there exists no implementation to extract
statements automatically. Our shared task aims to analyze and annotate
the number of statements in German Easy language (DE: "Leichte Sprache")
texts. We have decided on German Easy Language, since this language
variety recommends the usage of sentences with a reduced number of
statements. Therefore, it profits from the results and automated
analysis implemented in our task.
Important dates:
* 09.03.2024: Trial data ready
* 14.04.2024: Train data ready
* 18.05.2024: Test data ready
* 06.2024: Evaluation
* 07.2024: Paper submission due
* 13.09.2024: Workshop date
Feel free to contact us via statements(a)soc.cit.tum.de
We are looking forward to your participation!
Best regards,
Miriam Anschütz, Thorben Schomacker & Regina Stodden
Links:
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[1] https://konvens-2024.univie.ac.at/
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The two major conferences in the Baltic and Nordic regions, NoDaLiDa, organized by The Northern European Association for Language Technology (NEALT) and Baltic HLT are joining forces to organize NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025 – The Joint 25th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics and 11th Baltic Conference on Human Language Technologies, to be held in Tallinn, Estonia, on March 2–5, 2025.
https://www.nodalida-bhlt2025.eu/conference
SUBMISSIONS
NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025 addresses all aspects of natural language processing, speech recognition and synthesis, and computational linguistics, including work in closely related neighboring disciplines (such as, for example, machine learning, linguistics, digital humanities, or psychology) that is sufficiently formalized or applied to bear relevance to speech and language technologies.
We invite paper submissions of three types:
* regular papers on substantial, original, and unpublished research, including empirical evaluation results, where appropriate;
* short papers on smaller, focused contributions, work in progress, negative results, surveys, or opinion pieces; and
* demonstration papers on software or resource demonstrations, e.g. of systems, interfaces, infrastructures, data collections, or annotations.
We particularly encourage submission of papers on completed or ongoing work, where the first author is a Master's or PhD student. This should be indicated at submission time.
Papers accepted for presentation at the conference will be included in the NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025 proceedings, which are published in the ACL Anthology and the NEALT Proceedings Series at DSpace at Tartu University Library (negotiations for indexation are ongoing and expected to be in place at publication time)
SCHEDULE
* Monday, October 21, 2024: Submission of Papers
* Monday, December 9, 2024: Notification of Acceptance
* Monday, January 13, 2025: Camera-Ready Manuscripts
* Monday and Tuesday, March 3–4, 2025: Main Conference
The main conference will be held on-site only, without an online option, in order to facilitate networking.
SUBMISSION FORMATS
All submissions must follow the NoDaLiDa 2025 style files, which will be available for LaTeX (preferred) and MS Word.
Submissions must be anonymous, i.e. not reveal author(s) on the title page or through self-references. Papers must be submitted digitally, in PDF, and uploaded through the online conference system. Paper submissions that violate either of these requirements will be returned without review.
The page limits for submissions are: up to eight pages for regular papers and up to four pages for short papers and demo papers. For all three submission types, these page limits do not include additional pages with bibliographic references. We do not allow any extra pages for appendices.
DOUBLE SUBMISSION and PRE-PUBLICATION
Papers that have been or will be submitted to other venues must indicate this at submission time and must be withdrawn from the other venues if accepted to NoDALiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025. Authors of papers accepted for presentation at NoDALiDa/Baltic_HLT must notify the program chairs by the camera-ready deadline as to whether the paper will be presented. We will not accept for publication or presentation papers that overlap significantly in content or results with papers that will be (or have been) published elsewhere.
SUBMISSION MANAGEMENT
Submissions to the conference must be uploaded electronically, obeying the above requirements, and no later than (end of day, anywhere on earth): Monday, October 21, 2024.
NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025 uses the OpenReview conference management system for the submission, reviewing, and preparation of proceedings.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
General Chair
* Sara Stymne, Uppsala University, Sweden
Program Chairs
* Mark Fišel, University of Tartu, Estonia
* Daniel Hershcovich, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
* Jenna Kanerva, University of Turku, Finland
* Pierre Lison, Norwegian Computing Centre, Norway
* Inguna Skadiņa, University of Latvia, Lativa
* Andrius Utka, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania
Workshop chairs * Normunds Grūzītis, University of Latvia, Latvia
* Samia Touileb, University of Bergen, Norway
Publication chair
* Richard Johansson, Chalmers Technical University, Sweden
Social media chair
* Mike Zhang, Aalborg University, Denmark
To inquire about the submission and reviewing process or the scientific program of the conference, please email ‘nodalida_baltichlt_2025-pc(a)googlegroups.xn--com-to0a.
Local Chairs
* Helen Kaljumäe, Institute of the Estonian Language, Estonia
* Kadri Vare, Institute of the Estonian Language, Estonia
* Merily Remma, Institute of the Estonian Language, Estonia
For all practical inquiries, please email ‘nodalida_baltichlt_2025-loc(a)eki.xn--ee-o2t.
Follow us on X: https://twitter.com/NoDaLiDa
Web page: https://www.nodalida-bhlt2025.eu/conference
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BCS SEARCH INDUSTRY AWARDS 2024
We are delighted to announce this year's Search Industry Awards, celebrating the best search innovations of 2024. Presented by the Information Retrieval Specialist Group of the BCS, these awards recognize people, projects, and organisations around the world that have excelled in the design of search and information retrieval products and services.
If you know of any people, projects, or products that deserve recognition, let us know by submitting a nomination. Alternatively, if you're involved with something special yourself, you can submit an application today.
CATEGORIES
This year we are offering four awards:
1. Best search project recognises the most impactful implementation of search technology or methodology in solving a specific problem or need. Previous winners include:
* Wikiframe Visual Graph, a search capability for Special Collections data stored on Wikidata (wikidata.org)
* CiteSeerX, one of the largest open source academic search engines with over 10 million documents
* LexisNexis for their work on Open question answering on Lexis+
2. Search professional of the year is made to an individual who has made a significant contribution through their work and professionalism. Previous winners include:
* Amey Porobo Dharwadker, Machine Learning Tech Lead Manager at Meta
* Adam Tocock, Library Assistant at NHS
* Stuart Mackie, Lead Data Scientist at BiP Solutions
3. Most promising start up (or new enterprise) recognises the innovative and disruptive potential of a business model, technology, or solution. Previous winners include:
* batteryincluded.ai, First BI Product Discovery Framework incl. 3 pillars for highest relevancy within global product listings
* Giotto AI, an all-in-one platform to automatize, digitalize, and standardize the data collection, analysis and writing of a Clinical Evaluation Report
* Resolute.AI, an AI driven platform to search major FDA databases in the public domain in a federated way
4. Best paper / presentation (at Search Solutions). Previous winners include:
* Charlie Hull, OSC: “Pragmatic AI-powered Search – Keeping it Simple, not Stupid”.
* Filip Radlinski, Google: “Challenges with Really Understanding Natural Language in Conversational Recommendation”
* Olivia Foulds, University of Strathclyde: “Crossing the 49th Parallel in Data and Information Science”
The last award is open only to presenters at Search Solutions, and will be judged on the day of the event. For all others, apply today!
JUDGING PANEL
Winners will be selected by our panel of judges (details to be announced shortly).
AWARDS CEREMONY
The awards ceremony will take place during Search Solutions 2024.
APPLY
We’ve designed the application process to be simple to complete:
https://forms.gle/W54kx6t5jPVp8dkQ7
If you are unsure which category to apply for, or have questions about the application process, contact us via the address below. For further details, see: https://www.bcs.org/membership-and-registrations/member-communities/informa…
Nominations will remain open until 31st October.
CONTACT
If you have any questions on the above, please contact the IRSG Events Organiser at tgr2uk+irsg(a)gmail.com
ABOUT IRSG
The IRSG is a Specialist Group of BCS. Its mission is to provide a focus for the European IR community, facilitate communication between researchers and practitioners and promote the adoption of IR research within industry. We host a major European conference (ECIR) and provide an associated programme of workshops, seminars and events. The IRSG is free to join via the BCS website, which provides access to further IR articles, events and resources.
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