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CLEF-2024 TextDetox Shared Task -- Call for Participation
by Daryna Dementieva 01 Mar '24

01 Mar '24

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

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8th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms @NAACL: Final CFP (Deadline extended)
by Yi-Ling Chung 01 Mar '24

01 Mar '24

*** Final Call for Papers (Deadline extended to March 17th) *** We invite paper submissions to the 8th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH), which will take place on June 20/21 at NAACL 2024. Website: https://www.workshopononlineabuse.com/cfp.html Join our WOAH community Slack channel<https://hatespeechdet-47d7560.slack.com/join/shared_invite/zt-2a8d96j4z-gkN…>! Important Dates Submission due: March 17, 2024 ARR reviewed submission due: April 7, 2024 Notification of acceptance: April 14, 2024 Camera-ready papers due: April 24, 2024 Workshop: June 20/21, 2024 Overview Digital technologies have brought many benefits for society, transforming how people connect, communicate and interact with each other. However, they have also enabled abusive and harmful content such as hate speech and harassment to reach large audiences, and for their negative effects to be amplified. The sheer amount of content shared online means that abuse and harm can only be tackled at scale with the help of computational tools. However, detecting and moderating online abuse and harms is a difficult task, with many technical, social, legal and ethical challenges. The Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms invites paper submissions from a wide range of fields, including natural language processing, machine learning, computational social sciences, law, politics, psychology, sociology and cultural studies. We explicitly encourage interdisciplinary submissions, technical as well as non-technical submissions, and submissions that focus on under-resourced languages. We also invite non-archival submissions and civil society reports. The topics covered by WOAH include, but are not limited to: * New models or methods for detecting abusive and harmful online content, including misinformation; * Biases and limitations of existing detection models or datasets for abusive and harmful online content, particularly those in commercial use; * New datasets and taxonomies for online abuse and harms; * New evaluation metrics and procedures for the detection of harmful content; * Dynamics of online abuse and harms, as well as their impact on different communities * Social, legal, and ethical implications of detecting, monitoring and moderating online abuse In addition, we invite submissions related to the theme for this eighth edition of WOAH, which will be online harms in the age of large language models. Highly capable Large Language Models (LLMs) are now widely deployed and easily accessible by millions across the globe. Without proper safeguards, these LLMs will readily follow malicious instructions and generate toxic content. Even the safest LLMs can be exploited by bad actors for harmful purposes. With this theme, we invite submissions that explore the implications of LLMs for the creation, dissemination and detection of harmful online content. We are interested in how to stop LLMs from following malicious instructions and generating toxic content, but also how they could be used to improve content moderation and enable countermeasures like personalised counterspeech. To support our theme, we have invited an interdisciplinary line-up of high-profile speakers across academia, industry and public policy. Submission Submission is electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system. Submission link: https://softconf.com/naacl2024/WOAH2024/manager/scmd.cgi?scmd=submitPaperCu… The workshop will accept three types of papers. * Academic Papers (long and short): Long papers of up to 8 pages, excluding references, and short papers of up to 4 pages, excluding references. Unlimited pages for references and appendices. Accepted papers will be given an additional page of content to address reviewer comments. Previously published papers cannot be accepted. * Non-Archival Submissions: Up to 2 pages, excluding references, to summarise and showcase in-progress work and work published elsewhere. * Civil Society Reports: Non-archival submissions, with a minimum of 2 pages and no upper limit. Can include work published elsewhere. Format and styling All submissions must use the official ACL two-column format, using the supplied official style files. The templates can be downloaded in Style Files and Formatting<https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files>. Please send any questions about the workshop to organizers(a)workshopononlineabuse.com<mailto:organizers@workshopononlineabuse.com> Organisers Paul Röttger, Bocconi University Yi-Ling Chung, The Alan Turing Institute Debora Nozza, Bocconi University Aida Mostafazadeh Davani, Google Research Agostina Calabrese, University of Edinburgh Flor Miriam Plaza-del-Arco, Bocconi University Zeerak Talat, MBZUAI The Alan Turing Institute is a limited liability company, registered in England with registered number 09512457. Our registered office is at British Library, 96 Euston Road, London, England, NW1 2DB. We are also a charity registered in England with charity number 1162533. This email and any attachments are confidential and may be legally privileged. If you have received it in error, you are on notice of its status. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to us, and immediately and permanently delete it. 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[Final CfP] Deadline Extension - Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics @ LREC-COLING 2024
by Patricia Martín Chozas 01 Mar '24

01 Mar '24

[Apologies for cross-posting]The 9th Workshop on Linked Data in Linguistics: Resources, Applications, Best PracticesFinal Call for Papers Workshop colocated with *LREC-COLING 2024*, Date: *May 25, 2024* Venue: Torino, Italy and online Submissions due: *March 8, 2024* For up to date info, check: https://ldl2024.linguistic-lod.org/ The Linked Data in Linguistics (LDL) workshop series has established itself as the premier venue for discussing the application of Semantic Web technologies to the fields of linguistics, digital lexicography, and digital humanities (DH). While recent years have witnessed a steady growth in adoption of the technology in these areas, its uptake in other relevant domains, most notably in the case of natural language processing (NLP), continues to lag behind. This year, aside from embracing the full bandwidth of applications of LLOD technologies and the closely related area of knowledge graphs in linguistics, we welcome contributions addressing the application of LLOD technologies to NLP applications, as well as those dealing with emerging hot topics of future bridges between structured (linguistic) knowledge and neural methods. In addition, this year’s edition of the workshop will be a venue for in-depth discussions on community standards and best practices, and, above all, those related to the work of the W3C community groups OntoLex [1], LD4LT [2] and BPMLOD [3]. To this end, it will include featured talks on the latest achievements, developments, and perspectives of these W3C Community Groups. [1] Ontology-Lexica Community Group [2] Linked Data in Language Technology Community Group [3] Best Practices in Multilingual Linked Open Data *Topics of interest* We invite presentations of algorithms, methodologies, experiments, tools, use cases, descriptions of ongoing or planned research projects as well as position papers that describe the creation, publication or application of linked linguistic data collections and their linking with other resources. Descriptions of such data, and in particular, its uses in research (linguistics, lexicology, digital humanities) and technology (NLP, e-lexicography, localization) are also welcome. The following is a non-exhaustive list of relevant topics: 1) Building, managing and linking language resources - Lexicons and Lexical Data, including Dictionaries and Lexicographic Resources - Annotations and Annotated Corpora - Entity Linking 2) Technologies, challenges and best practices for language technology and language resources on the web: - Interoperability - Sustainability - FAIRness 3) Structured data in language technology: - Knowledge Graphs - Machine Learning - Multilingual Technologies - Language Knowledge Injection in LLMs 4) Show cases, case studies and applications by different communities of practice: - Multimodality - Corpus Linguistics - Lexicography - Digital Humanities 5) Current directions and critical reflection. Position papers on: - Ethical, legal, technological aspects of structured data in the age of LLMs - The role of LLOD in promoting low-resource languages - Extensions of RDF and graph formalisms We invite both long (8 pages and 2 pages of references) and short papers (4 pages and 2 pages of references) representing original research, innovative approaches and resource descriptions. Short papers may also represent project descriptions. These do not have to be implemented but discuss to what extent and for which purposes Linguistic Linked Open Data is reused or created. Projects that are still in their early stages and seek advice from the broader Linguistic Linked Data community are welcome, especially if they include underrepresented fields of study. Papers should be formatted according to the LREC-COLING guidelines, please see https://lrec-coling-2024.org/authors-kit/. Please note that the review process will be *single-blind*. *Identify, Describe and Share your LRs!* When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC-COLING authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones). *Important Dates* - Submission Date: March 1, 2024 *March 8, 2024* - Notification of Acceptance: March 22, 2024 - Camera-Ready: April 2, 2024 - Workshop: May 25, 2024 *Workshop Organizers* - Christian Chiarcos (University of Augsburg, Germany) - Katerina Gkirtzou (Athena Research Center, Greece) - Maxim Ionov (University of Cologne, Germany) - Fahad Khan (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy) - John P. McCrae, (University of Galway, Ireland) - Elena Montiel Ponsoda (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain) - Patricia Martín Chozas (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain) Please get in contact via ldl2024(a)linguistic-lod.org. *Program Committee* - Sina Ahmadi (George Mason University, USA) - Verginica Barbu Mititelu (Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence of the Romanian Academy, Romania) - Paul Buitelaar (Insight, Ireland) - Sara Carvalho (University of Aveiro, Portugal) - Rute Costa (NOVA FCSH/NOVA CLUNL, Portugal) - Milan Dojchinovski (Czech Technical University, Czech Republic) - Agata Filipowska (Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Poznaniu, Poland) - Francesca Frontini (CNR-ILC, Italy) - Frances Gillis Webber (University of Cape Town, South Africa) - Voula Giouli (Athena Research Center, Greece) - Dagmar Gromann (University of Vienna, Austria) - Yoshihiko Hayashi (Waseda University, Japan) - Alik Kirillovich (Higher School of Economics, Russia) - Penny Labropoulou (Athena Research Center, Greece) - Chaya Liebeskind (Jerusalem College of Technology, Israel) - David Lindemann (University of the Basque Country, Spain) - Francesco Mambrini (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy) - Monica Monachini (CNR-ILC, Italy) - Steven Moran (Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland) - Diego Moussallem (Paderborn University, Germany) - Roberto Navigli (“La Sapienza” Università di Roma, Italy) - Petya Osenova (IICT-BAS, Bulgaria) - Ana Ostroški Anić (Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics, Croatia) - Giulia Pedonese (CNR-ILC, Italy) - Sigita Rackevičienė (Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania) - Felix Sasaki (SAP, Germany) - Andrea Schalley (Karlstad University, Sweden) - Gilles Sérasset (University Grenoble Alpes, France) - Milena Slavcheva (IICT-BAS, Bulgaria) - Blerina Spahiu (Bicocca University, Italy) - Ranka Stanković (University of Belgrade, Serbia) - Armando Stellato (University of Rome, Italy) - Federica Vezzani (University of Padua, Italy) *Patricia Martín Chozas - Postdoctoral Researcher* * Ontology Engineering Group* Artificial Intelligence Department ETSI Informáticos - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Phone: (+34) 910673091

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CFP - SIGIR 2024 Workshop on eCommerce
by Surya Kallumadi 01 Mar '24

01 Mar '24

Call For Papers - SIGIR eCom'24 - https://sigir-ecom.github.io/ The SIGIR Workshop on eCommerce will serve as a platform for publication and discussion of Information Retrieval, NLP and Vision research relative to their applications in the domain of eCommerce. This workshop will bring together practitioners and researchers from academia and industry to discuss the challenges and approaches to product search and recommendation in eCommerce. The deadline for paper submission is April 25, 2024 (11:59 P.M. AoE) The special theme of this year's workshop is eCommerce Search in the Age of Generative AI and LLMs. The workshop will also include a data challenge. This year we will collaborate with TREC on a product search data challenge ( https://trec-product-search.github.io/index.html). The overarching goal is to study how end-to-end retrieval systems can be built and evaluated given a large set of products. The data challenge provides a corpus of products and a set of user intents (queries): the goal is to find the product that suits the user’s needs. SIGIR eCom is a full day workshop taking place on Thursday, July 18, 2024 in conjunction with SIGIR 2024. SIGIR eCom'24 will be an in-person workshop. ________________ Important Dates: Paper submission deadline - April 25, 2024 (11:59 P.M. AoE) Notification of acceptance - May 23, 2024 Camera Ready Version of Papers Due - June 24, 2024 SIGIR eCom Full day Workshop - July 18, 2024 We invite quality research contributions, position and opinion papers addressing relevant challenges in the domain of eCommerce. We invite submission of both papers and posters. All submitted papers and posters will be single-blind and will be peer reviewed by an international program committee of researchers of high repute. Accepted submissions will be presented at the workshop. Topics: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - eCommerce search in the age of Generative AI and LLMs (2024 special theme) - Ranking and Whole Page Relevance - Optimization for IR and business metrics - Diversity in product search and recommendations - Relevance models for multi-faceted entities - Relevance vs. revenue - Deterministic sorts (e.g. price low to high) - Temporal dynamics and seasonality - Query and Document Understanding - Query intent, query suggestions, and auto-completion - Strategies for resolving low or zero recall queries - Converting across modalities (e.g., text, structured data, images) - Categorization and facets - Reviews and sentiment analysis - Recommendation and Personalization - Personalization & contextualization, including the use of personal facets such as age, gender, location - Privacy, bias and ethics in eCommerce IR - Blending recommendations and search results - Representations and Data - Semantic representation of products, queries, and customers - Construction and use of knowledge graphs for eCommerce - IR Fundamentals for eCommerce - Unified and universal search and recommendations - Cross-lingual search and machine translation - Indexing and search in rapidly changing environments (e.g., auction sites) - Experimentation techniques including AB testing and multi-armed bandits - Visual Search in ecommerce - Large-scale Visual Search Challenges and Solutions - Multimodal Search and combining visual and textual information - Combining Vision and language models - Explainable AI for Visual Search - Other challenges - Trust, transparency, and fairness in eCommerce - UX for eCommerce - The role of search in trust and security for marketplaces - Question answering and chatbots for eCommerce Data/Resource Track: In order to promote academic research in the eCommerce domain, we plan to accept a small number of high quality dataset contributions. These submissions should be accompanied by a clear and detailed description of the dataset, some potential questions and applications that arise from it. Preliminary empirical investigations conveying any insight about the data will increase the quality of the submission. Submission Instructions: All papers will be peer reviewed (single-blind) by the program committee and judged by their relevance to the workshop, especially to the main themes identified above, and their potential to generate discussion. Submissions must describe work that is not previously published, not accepted for publication elsewhere, and not currently under review elsewhere. All submissions must be in English. The workshop follows a single-blind reviewing process, i.e. author names must be on the papers. We do not accept anonymized submissions. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper must register for the workshop and present the paper. All submissions must be in PDF formatted according to the latest CEUR single column format; the short (8-page) and long (15-page) limits are extended to account for this. For instructions and LaTeX/Overleaf/docx templates, see: https://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html#CEURART Read up to and including the “License footnote in paper PDFs” section. Please Use Emphasizing Capitalized Style for Paper Titles. Submit your paper PDF through the SIGIR eCom’24 Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sigirecom24 Long paper limit: 15 pages. References are not counted in the page limit. Short paper limit: 8 pages. References are not counted in the page limit. The deadline for paper submission is April 25, 2024 (11:59 P.M. AoE) https://sigir-ecom.github.io/

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CFP: DHOW: Diffusion of Harmful Content on Online Web Workshop
by Gautam Kishore Shahi 01 Mar '24

01 Mar '24

The 1st Workshop on DHOW: Diffusion of Harmful Content on Online Web Workshop The workshop will be conducted in a *hybrid* format to ensure maximum participation, accommodating attendees both *online* and in person. Submission deadline: extended to *March 22 2024 AOE* *Workshop site*: https://dhow-workshop.github.io/ *Co-located with WebSci 2024* https://websci24.org/ <https://lrec-coling-2024.org/> Stuttgart, Germany, 21-24 May 2024 *Important Dates* Submission deadline: extended to *March 22, 2024* Notification of acceptance: April 12, 2024 Camera-ready papers due: April 22, 2024 Workshop date: May 21, 2024 *Workshop Description* With the advancement of digital technologies and gadgets, online content is easily accessible. At the same time, harmful content also gets spread. There are different harmful content available on different platforms in multiple languages. The topic of harmful content is broad and covers multiple research directions. But from the user’s aspect, they are affected by them all. Often, it is studied individually, like misinformation and hate speech. Research has been done on one platform, monolingual, on a particular issue. It leads to harmful content spreaders switching platforms and languages to reach the user base. Harmful is not limited to social media but also news media. Spreader shares harmful content in posts, news articles, comments, and hyperlinks. So, there is a need to study the harmful content by combining cross-platform, language, multimodal data and topics. We will bring the research on harmful content under one umbrella so that research on different topics (hate speech, misinformation, disinformation, self-harm, offensive content, etc.) can bring some novel methods and recommendations for users, leveraging text analysis with image, audio, and video recognition to detect harmful content in diverse formats. The workshop will cover the ongoing issue of war or elections in 2024. We believe this workshop will provide a unique opportunity for researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas, share latest developments, and collaborate on addressing the challenges associated with harmful contents spread across the Web. We expect that the workshop will generate insights and discussions that will help advance the field of societal artificial intelligence (AI) for the development of safer internet. In addition to attracting high quality research contributions to the workshop, one of the aims of the workshop is to mobilise the researchers working on the related areas to form a community. *Submissions Topics* - Analysis of different types of harmful content(fake news, misinformation, hate speech) - Computational fact-checking - Role of Generative AI in Mitigating Harmful Content - Identifying harassment/bullying/hate speech, and misinformation/disinformation - Role of Explainable AI in Studying Harmful Content - Multi-modal harmful content (fake news, misinformation, hate speech) - Deepfake and its influence - Multi-lingual harmful content like Hate speech, Fake News, Bot, spam, troll detection *Submissions* - Submission Instructions: https://dhow-workshop.github.io/#call - Submission Link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dhow2024 * Workshop organizers* - Thomas Mandl (University of Hildesheim, Germany) - Haiming Liu (University of Southampton, United Kingdom) - Gautam Kishore Shahi (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany) - Amit Kumar Jaiswal (University of Surrey, United Kingdom ) - Luis-Daniel Ibáñez (University of Southampton, United Kingdom) - Durgesh Nandini (University of Bayreuth, Germany) Organisers, DHOW 2024 Web: DHOW <https://websci24.org/workshops-and-tutorials/>

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Call for Papers: 2024 IEEE ICEBE: The IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering
by fiona.li.lucky＠gmail.com 29 Feb '24

29 Feb '24

Call for Papers: 2024 IEEE ICEBE: The IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering Dates: 11 - 13 October 2024 Venue: Shanghai, China Conference URL: https://conferences.computer.org/icebe/2024/index.html The IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE) is a prestigious conference, and a flagship event co-sponsored by IEEE Technical Committee on Business Informatics and Systems (TCBIS, formerly known as TC on Electronic Commerce), and the National Engineering Laboratory for E-Commerce Technologies (NELECT). Since 2003, ICEBE has been provided as a high-quality international forum for researchers, engineers and business specialists to exchange the cutting-edge ideas, findings and experiences of e-business. New IT breakthrough always brings the evolution of e-business in wide spectrum, e.g. innovative business model, new marketing and sales channel, rapid sense-and-response, etc. How to adapt the changing computing paradigm and adopt new IT technologies for keeping competitive is a great challenge for modern enterprises. Based on the essential complexities in e-business, ICEBE 2024 invites an extensive coverage of system, software, service, business, combinations of the aforementioned, etc. to address related issues and promote research opportunities. All of the accepted and presented papers in the conference will be included in the conference proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society. The proceedings will be submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library and will also be submitted to EI and INSPEC for indexing. The best quality papers presented in the conference will be selected and invited for journal special issues by creating an extended version. We invite submissions of high-quality papers describing fully developed results or on-going foundational and applied work on the various tracks. Important Date: Abstract Due: 12 June 2024 Full Paper Due: 15 June 2024 Notification Due: 31 July 2024 Camera-Ready Due: 07 August 2024 Registration Due: 09 August 2024 Conference start: 11 October 2024 Technical Tracks Agent Big Data/Machine Learning Internet of Things(IoTs) Mobile and Autonomous Computing Security, Privacy and Blockchain Service-Oriented and Cloud Software Engineering ECommerce Trading Technologies Diversity, Accessibility and Inclusivity Steering Committee Jen-Yao Chung, Inventec Corportation (USA) Kwei-Jay Lin, Universaity of California, Irvine (USA) Yinsheng Li, Fudan University (China) Liangzhao Zeng, Apple Inc. (USA) Kuo-Ming Chao, University of Roehampton (UK) Zhiyuan Fang, Sun Yat-sen University (China) Shang-Pin Ma, National Taiwan Ocean University (Taiwan) Omar Hussain, University of New South Wales (Australia) Qingyao Wu, South China University of Technology (China) Jingzhi Guo, University of Macua (China) Feng Tian, Xi'An Jiaotong University (China) Lihong Jiang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China) Nan Jiang, Bournemouth University (UK)

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Call for Papers: 2024 IEEE ICEBE: The IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering
by wei li 29 Feb '24

29 Feb '24

*Call for Papers: 2024 IEEE ICEBE: The IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering* *Dates*: 11 - 13 October 2024 *Venue*: Shanghai, China *Conference URL*: https://conferences.computer.org/icebe/2024/index.html The IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE) is a prestigious conference, and a flagship event co-sponsored by IEEE Technical Committee on Business Informatics and Systems <https://tc.computer.org/tcbis/> (TCBIS, formerly known as TC on Electronic Commerce), and the National Engineering Laboratory for E-Commerce Technologies (NELECT) <http://www.nelect.cn/>. Since 2003, ICEBE has been provided as a high-quality international forum for researchers, engineers and business specialists to exchange the cutting-edge ideas, findings and experiences of e-business. New IT breakthrough always brings the evolution of e-business in wide spectrum, e.g. innovative business model, new marketing and sales channel, rapid sense-and-response, etc. How to adapt the changing computing paradigm and adopt new IT technologies for keeping competitive is a great challenge for modern enterprises. Based on the essential complexities in e-business, ICEBE 2024 invites an extensive coverage of system, software, service, business, combinations of the aforementioned, etc. to address related issues and promote research opportunities. All of the accepted and presented papers in the conference will be included in the conference proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society <https://www.computer.org/>. The proceedings will be submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library and will also be submitted to EI and INSPEC for indexing. The best quality papers presented in the conference will be selected and invited for journal special issues by creating an extended version. We invite submissions of high-quality papers describing fully developed results or on-going foundational and applied work on the various tracks. *Important Date:* Abstract Due: 12 June 2024 Full Paper Due: 15 June 2024 Notification Due: 31 July 2024 Camera-Ready Due: 07 August 2024 Registration Due: 09 August 2024 Conference start: 11 October 2024 *Technical Tracks* Agent Big Data/Machine Learning Internet of Things(IoTs) Mobile and Autonomous Computing Security, Privacy and Blockchain Service-Oriented and Cloud Software Engineering ECommerce Trading Technologies Diversity, Accessibility and Inclusivity *Steering Committee* Jen-Yao Chung, Inventec Corportation (USA) Kwei-Jay Lin, Universaity of California, Irvine (USA) Yinsheng Li, Fudan University (China) Liangzhao Zeng, Apple Inc. (USA) Kuo-Ming Chao, University of Roehampton (UK) Zhiyuan Fang, Sun Yat-sen University (China) Shang-Pin Ma, National Taiwan Ocean University (Taiwan) Omar Hussain, University of New South Wales (Australia) Qingyao Wu, South China University of Technology (China) Jingzhi Guo, University of Macua (China) Feng Tian, Xi'An Jiaotong University (China) Lihong Jiang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China) Nan Jiang, Bournemouth University (UK)

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CLEF-2024 CheckThat! Lab -- Call for Participation (training set available for all tasks)
by Firoj Alam 29 Feb '24

29 Feb '24

(apologies for cross-posting) Dear colleague, Once again, we invite you to participate in the 2024 edition of the CheckThat! Lab at CLEF 2024. This year, we feature six tasks ---two follow-up and four new--- that correspond to important components within and around the full fact-checking pipeline in multiple languages: Task 1 Check-worthiness in tweets. to identify claims that could be important to verify on social- and mainstream media. Available in Arabic, English, Dutch and Spanish. Task 2 Subjectivity in news articles. to spot text that should be processed with specific strategies; benefiting the fact-checking pipeline. Available in Arabic, English, German, Italian, and Multilingual. Task 3 Persuasion Techniques. to identify text spans in which a persuasion technique is being issued to influence the reader. This task is offered in four languages: Arabic, Bulgarian, English, Portuguese and Slovene. Task 4 Detecting hero, villain, and victim from memes. Detecting hero, villain, and victim from memes:} to predict the role of each entity: hero, villain, victim, or other in a given meme and a list of entities. Available in Arabic, English and Code-mixed. Task 5 Rumor Verification using Evidence from Authorities. to retrieve evidence from trusted sources (authorities that have “real knowledge'' on the matter) and determine if the rumor is supported, refuted, or unverifiable according to the evidence. Available in Arabic and English. Task 6 Robustness of Credibility Assessment with Adversarial Examples. to discover small changes that could be applied to the misinformation text, causing the provided classifiers to make wrong predictions. Available for news articles, tweets, propaganda techniques and claims (including regarding COVID-19) in English. Further information: https://checkthat.gitlab.io/ Datasets: https://gitlab.com/checkthat_lab/clef2024-checkthat-lab <https://gitlab.com/checkthat_lab/clef2023-checkthat-lab> Register and participate: https://clef2024-labs-registration.dei.unipd.it/registrationForm.php <https://clef2023-labs-registration.dei.unipd.it/registrationForm.php> Important Dates --------------------- - 22 April 2024: Lab registration closes - 2 May 2024: Beginning of the evaluation cycle (test sets release) - 6 May 2024 (23:59 AOE): End of the evaluation cycle (run submission) - 31 May 2024: Deadline for the submission of working notes - 10 June 2024: Submission of Condensed Lab Overviews [LNCS] - 21 June 2024: Camera Ready Copy of Condensed Lab Overviews [LNCS] due - 24 June 2024: Notification of acceptance of working notes - 8 July 2024: Deadline for submission of camera-ready working notes - 22-26 July 2024: Preview of working notes - 9-12 September 2024: CLEF 2024 Conference in Grenoble, France Best regards, The CLEF-2024 CheckThat! Lab Shared Task Organizers

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[3rd CfP]: CALD-pseudo workshop @ EACL 2024
by Elena Volodina 29 Feb '24

29 Feb '24

Third Call for Papers: CALD-pseudo workshop on Computational Approaches to Language Data Pseudonymization @ EACL 2024, March 21 or 22, 2024 Website: https://mormor-karl.github.io/events/CALD-pseudo/ Submission website: https://softconf.com/eacl2024/CALD-pseudo-2024/ Submission Deadline: Monday, 18 December 2023 (anywhere on earth) We invite submissions to the first edition of the CALD-pseudo workshop on Computational Approaches to Language Data Pseudonymization, to be held at EACL 2024 on March 21 or 22, 2024. [Important Dates] * December 18, 2023: paper submission deadline * January 17, 2024: resubmission of already pre-reviewed ARR papers * January 20, 2024: notification of acceptance * January, 30 2024: camera-ready papers due * March 21 or 22, 2024: workshop date (the date to be confirmed by the EACL) [Introduction] Accessibility of research data is critical for advances in many research fields, but textual data often cannot be shared due to the personal and sensitive information which it contains, e.g names, political opinions, sensitive personal information and medical data. General Data Protection Regulation, GDPR (EU Commission, 2016), suggests pseudonymization as a solution to secure open access to research data but we need to learn more about pseudonymization as an approach before adopting it for manipulation of research data (Volodina et al., 2023). The main challenge is how to effectively pseudonymize data so that individuals cannot be identified, while at the same time keeping the data usable for research in, among others, computational linguistics, linguistics and natural language processing, for which it was collected. [Topics of Interest] CALD-pseudo workshop invites a broad community of researchers in all concerned cross-disciplinary fields to jointly discuss challenges within pseudonymization, such as * automatic approaches to detection and labelling of personal information in unstructured language data, including events and other context-dependent cues revealing a person; * developing context-sensitive algorithms for replacement of personal information in unstructured data; * studies into the effects of pseudonymization on unstructured data, e.g. applicability of pseudonymised data for the intended research questions, readability of pseudonymised data or addition of unwelcome biases through pseudonymization; * effectiveness of pseudonymization as a way of protecting writer identity; * reidentification studies; e.g. adversarial learning techniques that attempt to breach the privacy protections of pseudonymized data; * constructing datasets for automatic pseudonymization, including methodological and ethical aspects of those; * approaches to the evaluation of automatic pseudonymization both in concealing the private information and preserving the semantics of the non-personal data; * pseudonymization tools and software: evaluating the available tools and software for pseudonymization in different languages, and their ease of use, scalability, and performance; * and numerous other open questions. [Submission Guidelines] Authors are invited to submit by December 18, 2023 original and unpublished research papers in the following categories: * Full papers (up to 8 pages) for substantial contributions * Short papers (up to 4 pages) for ongoing or preliminary work All submissions must be in PDF format, must follow the EACL 2024 guidelines described in the ARR CfP (https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp), and use the official ACL style templates available here: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files Direct submission deadline: December 18, 2023 at https://softconf.com/eacl2024/CALD-pseudo-2024/ Deadline for registration of ARR reviewed papers: January 17, 2023. (Further instructions will follow.) We also invite authors of papers on the topics of the workshop accepted to Findings to reach out to the organizing committee of CALD-pseudo to present them at the workshop. [Invited speakers] We are happy to announce that the workshop will host two invited speakers: * Anders Søgaard, University of Copenhagen, Denmark * Ildikó Pilán, the Norwegian Computing Center, Norway [Workshop Organizers] * Elena Volodina, University of Gothenburg, Sweden * Therese Lindström Tiedemann, University of Helsinki, Finland * Simon Dobnik, University of Gothenburg, Sweden * Xuan-Son Vu, Umeå university, Sweden [Program Committee] A list of program committee members is available on the workshop website. [Contact] For inquiries, please contact mormor.karl(a)svenska.gu.se ACL link to the call: https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/computational-approaches-language-dat… ___________________ Elena Volodina, PhD, Docent https://spraakbanken.gu.se/en/about/staff/elena Life is like a mirror. Smile at it and it smiles back at you. Peace Pilgrim

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2nd CfPs 17th Workshop on Graph-based Natural Language Processing (TextGraphs 2024)
by Yanjun Gao 29 Feb '24

29 Feb '24

2nd Call for Papers: 17th Workshop on Graph-based Natural Language Processing (TextGraphs 2024) Venue: ACL 2024 Location: Bangkok, Thailand Date: August 15, 2024 Papers Due: May 7, 2024 Website: https://sites.google.com/view/textgraphs2024 Workshop Description For the past seventeen years, the workshops in the TextGraphs series have published and promoted the synergy between the field of Graph Theory (GT) and Natural Language Processing (NLP). The mix between the two started small, with graph-theoretical frameworks providing efficient and elegant solutions for NLP applications. Graph-based solutions initially focused on single-document part-of-speech tagging, word sense disambiguation, and semantic role labeling. They became progressively larger to include ontology learning and information extraction from large text collections. Nowadays, graph-based solutions also target Web-scale applications such as information propagation in social networks, rumor proliferation, e-reputation, multiple entity detection, language dynamics learning, and future events prediction, to name a few. We plan to encourage the description of novel NLP problems or applications that have emerged in recent years, which can be enhanced with existing and new graph-based methods. We widen the workshop topics beyond the familiar graph domain, encompassing a broader range of less examined structured data domains as well. The seventeenth edition of the TextGraphs workshop aims to extend the focus on exploring rising topics of large language models (LLMs) prompting from the unique perspective of GT. Therefore, our workshop aims to foster stronger, mutually advantageous connections between NLP and structured data, tackling key challenges inherent in each field. This year's TextGraphs workshop will feature a dedicated session to commemorate the memory of Dragomir R. Radev, one of the founders of the TextGraphs workshop series. This session will honor his significant work and contributions to the field. TextGraphs-17 invites submissions on (but not limited to) the following topics: 1. Knowledge Graphs Meet LLMs. A proper utilization of graph-based methods for reasoning over a Knowledge Graph (KG) is a prospective way to overcome critical limitations of the existing LLMs which lack interpretability and factual knowledge and are prone to the hallucination problem. Vice versa, the incorporation of LLM knowledge learnt from large textual collections may help many graph-related tasks, such as KG completion and graph representation learning. Thus, we are highly interested in novel research on the joint use of KG and LLM for an improved processing of either the NLP or graph domain (preferably both). 2. Chain Prompting of LLMs. Recent studies show that prompting strategies like Chain-of-Thought and Graph-of-Thought enhance language understanding and generation tasks compared to the traditional few-shot methods. We welcome submissions developing advanced prompting schemes and software for LLMs and other pre-trained machine learning models. 3. Learning from Structured Data. We greet novel efforts to build a bridge between NLP and various structured data formats including relational and non-relational databases, as well as standardized data formats (such as XML, JSON, RDF, etc.) 4. Interpretability of NLP Systems. The question of interpretability poses a fundamental challenge for the practical application of NLP methods. We invite researchers to adopt structured data and employ graph-based methods to shed light on decision-making and logic behind modern LLMs. Any work on applying a KG or any other structured knowledge to explore and evaluate factual awareness, treating the interpretability problem from the GT perspective, or any other topic that utilizes graphs and other structured data to make LLMs more understandable, is met with appreciation. Important dates - Papers due: May 7, 2024 - Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2024 - Camera-ready papers due: July 1, 2024 - Conference date: August 15, 2024 Submission We invite submissions of up to eight (8) pages maximum, plus bibliography for long papers and four (4) pages, plus bibliography, for short papers. The ACL 2024 templates must be used; these are provided in LaTeX and also Microsoft Word format. Submissions will only be accepted in PDF format. This year, TextGraph submission is managed through OpenReview. Submit papers by the end of the deadline day (timezone is UTC-12; AoE) via the submission link on our site: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2024/Workshop/TextGraphs-17<https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2024/Workshop/TextGraphs-17#…> Shared Task We invite participation in the task of Knowledge Graph Question Answering (KGQA). We will ask the participants to analyze candidate answers with text and graph features. For each query-answer candidate, a graph characterizing paths in Wikidata from entity from the query to the answer entity will be given. Please find the shared task github in this link: https://github.com/uhh-lt/TextGraphs17-shared-task Contact Please direct all questions and inquiries to our official e-mail address (textgraphsOC(a)gmail.com<mailto:textgraphsOC@gmail.com>) or contact any of the organizers via their individual emails. Also you can join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/900711756665369. Organizers - Dmitry Ustalov, JetBrains - Arti Ramesh, Binghamton University - Alexander Panchenko, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology - Yanjun Gao, University of Wisconsin-Madison - Andrey Sakhovskiy, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology - Elena Tutubalina, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute - Gerald Penn, University of Toronto - Marco Valentino, Idiap Research Institute

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