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Call for Papers: FigLang 2024 (Workshop on Figurative Language Processing)
by dghosh＠ets.org 24 Jan '24

24 Jan '24

Processing of figurative language is a rapidly growing area in NLP, including computational modeling of metaphors, idioms, puns, irony, sarcasm, simile, and other figures. Characteristic to all areas of human activity (from poetic, ordinary, scientific, social media) and, thus, to all types of discourse, figurative language becomes an important problem for NLP systems. Its ubiquity in language has been established in a number of corpus studies and the role it plays in human reasoning has been confirmed in psychological experiments. This makes figurative language an important research area for computational and cognitive linguistics, and its automatic identification, interpretation and generation indispensable for any semantics-oriented NLP application. The proposed workshop will be the fourth edition of the biennial Workshop on Figurative Language Processing, whose first editions were held at NAACL 2018, ACL 2020 and EMNLP 2022, respectively. The workshop builds upon a long series of related workshops that the current organizers have been involved with: “Metaphor in NLP” series (2013-2016) and “Computational Approaches to Linguistic Creativity” series (2009-2010). We expand the scope to incorporate various types of figurative language, with the aim of maintaining and nourishing a community of NLP researchers interested in this topic. The main focus will be on computational modeling of figurative language, however papers on cognitive, linguistic, social, rhetorical, and applied aspects are also of interest, provided that they are presented within a computational, formal, or a quantitative framework. Recent advancement in language models have led to several works on figurative language understanding (Chakrabarty et al 2022a; Chakrabarty et al 2022b; Liu et al 2022; Hu et al 2023) and generation (Stowe et al 2021; Chakrabarty et al 2021; Sun et al 2022; Tian et al 2021) At the same time large language models have opened up opportunities to utilize figurative language in scientific (Kim et al 2023) as well as creative writing (Chakrabarty et al 2022c; Tian et al 2022). Additionally there have also been recent work on multimodal figurative language generation (Chakrabarty et al 2023; Akula et al 2023), understanding (Hessel et al 2023; Yosef et al 2023) and interpretation (Hwang et al 2023; Desai et al 2022; Kumar et al 2022). We encourage submissions along these axes. Topics of Interest The workshop will solicit both full papers and short papers for either oral or poster presentation. Topics will include, but will not be limited to, the following: Identification and interpretation of different types of figurative language: Linguistic, conceptual and extended metaphor; irony, sarcasm, puns, simile, metonymy, personification, synecdoche, hyperbole Generation of different types of figurative language: sarcasm, simile, metaphors, humor, hyperbole Multilingual and multimodal figurative language processing Resources and evaluation Annotation of figurative language in corpora Datasets for evaluation of tools Evaluation methodologies Figurative use in low-resource languages Processing of figurative language for NLP applications Figurative language in sentiment analysis; dialogue systems; computational social science; educational applications Figurative language and mental health Figurative language in digital humanities Figurative language in creative writing Figurative language and cognition Cognitive models of processing of figurative language by the human brain Human-AI collaboration for figurative language Shared Tasks Multilingual euphemisms detection: Euphemisms are a linguistic device used to soften or neutralize language that may otherwise be harsh or awkward to state directly (e.g. "between jobs" instead of "unemployed", "late" instead of "dead", "collateral damage" instead of "war-related civilian deaths"). By acting as alternative words or phrases, euphemisms are used in everyday language to maintain politeness, mitigate discomfort, or conceal the truth. While they are culturally-dependent, the need to discuss sensitive topics in a non-offensive way is universal, suggesting similarities in the way euphemisms are used across languages and cultures. We propose a shared task in which participants will need to disambiguate sentences in multiple languages as either euphemistic or not. The dataset will include English, Mandarin, Spanish, Yoruba, and possibly additional languages. Understanding of Figurative Language through Visual Entailment: One important modality that has gained interest recently is vision, namely the interpretation of figurative language in media such as memes, art, or comics. This task is challenging because it involves reasoning abstractly about images, and also involves understanding social commonsense and cultural context. We will frame this as a visual entailment task where a model not only has to predict if a caption entails the content in the image but also provide free text explanations justifying the label prediction. These tasks have proved difficult for state-of-the-art multimodal models in the past. We will have a paper and a baseline for the same. Important Dates Long, Short & Demonstration Paper Submission: March 10th, 2024 Long, Short & Demonstration Paper Notification: April 14th, 2024 Final Paper Submission: April 24th, 2024 Workshop: June 21/22, 2024 For more information, please check https://sites.google.com/view/figlang2024

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Annotator / Knowledge Engineer for Russian, German or Arabic
by Katarzyna Marszałek-Kowalewska 23 Jan '24

23 Jan '24

Dear Corpora-List Members, YUKKA Lab AG is looking for annotators/knowledge engineers (student/freelancer) to join our Data & Resources Team. *About Us* We are a fast-growing FinTech and hiring talented engineers with a broad understanding of technology, and visionary and creative thinking for thrilling development tasks. We are unique in sentiment analysis by screening professional print and media content. Our focus is the financial market but we are enlarging our products for overall market sentiment detection. We understand the value of data. Our software analyses online and print news and derives market sentiments. We analyze sectors, indexes, and securities all over the financial markets. *Responsibilities*: Annotation of data with linguistic information Development of language resources, such as lexica, gazetteers Development of knowledge bases/ontologies We are looking for the following language combinations: German/English Arabic/English Russian/English *Requirements*: Student in linguistics, philology, or translation Good understanding of language analysis, e.g. part-of-speech, morphology, syntax, semantics Native (for native-like) fluency in Russian, Arabic, or German Excellent English skills Creativity and motivation to push product development Technically-minded Ability to research and collect information from a wide variety of resources Interest in information extraction *Nice to have*: Experience with creating ontologies, knowledge graphs Knowledge of additional languages *We offer*: Flexibility / Hybrid Work-life balance Regular events Start-Up Flair Drinks / Fruit Headquarters in the heart of Berlin Bikini House Discount 10%-15% You believe that you would be a good fit for YUKKA Lab? Great! Please send your application with a possible start date to Katarzyna Marszalek-Kowalewska (kmk(a)yukkalab.com). Best, Katarzyna Marszalek-Kowalewska

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Call for presentations of EACL findings papers for WNUT 2024
by Rob van der Goot 23 Jan '24

23 Jan '24

Dear colleagues, WNUT 2024 is welcoming presentations of papers accepted at EACL 2024 findings. You can submit your application here: https://forms.gle/gQqDdvsLiioJjpWK9 The deadline for submitting is 29-01-2024 More information about the workshop can be found on: http://noisy-text.github.io/2024/ Best, Rob

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Research Fellow Position available in Natural Language Processing, University of Birmingham UK
by Mark Lee 23 Jan '24

23 Jan '24

Research Fellow Position available on a fixed term contract up to October 2025 to work on an interdisciplinary research project between Computer Science and Psychology and funded by the MRC. We are interested in the use of NLP to measure the development of social understanding in adolescents. The Research Fellow will develop and test an automated scoring procedure to quantify open-ended text-based responses to psychometric tests of social understanding. Specifically, the Research Fellow will be expected to develop and implement a machine learning framework for the given objective of this project. The Research Fellow will be responsible for disseminating the results of the project and will assist the project team in preparing applications for future research projects. Deadline for applications is the 13th of February 2024. Further details are in the link below and I welcome informal enquiries to my email. https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DFJ280/research-fellow With best regards, Mark Mark Lee Professor of Artificial Intelligence www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~mgl<http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~mgl> University of Birmingham School of Computer Science

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PhD position on Explainable and Factual Language Modelling (Copenhagen, DK)
by Johannes Bjerva 23 Jan '24

23 Jan '24

A fully funded PhD position is available at the Copenhagen campus of the Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University (AAU). The position is on the topic of Explainability and Factuality in Language Modelling [1]. The position is in a thriving NLP research community with interests in multilingual NLP, educational NLP, and NLP Security, currently consisting of three other PhD students and three postdoc. We are particularly interested in candidates with a strong technical background in terms of NLP, ML, or AI more broadly. There is a substantial amount of freedom in terms of research direction, and the conditions offered when doing a PhD in Denmark are hard to beat. Interested applicants are encouraged to reach out to me at jbjerva(a)cs.aau.dk<mailto:jbjerva@cs.aau.dk>. * Application deadline: 6 February 2024 * Interviews: 29 February 2024 * Starting date: Ideally between 1 May and 1 September 2024 * Salary is state-mandated and ranges from ca. 27k-34k DKK + pension and supplements per month. [2] The ratio of salary/cost-of-living is one of the best in the world. * Quality of life in Copenhagen is high, and getting around by bike is both safe and easy - the AAU campus in Copenhagen is located by the waterfront, close to the city, and easily accessible both by bike and public transport. We welcome applicants either with an MSc. or who will have finished their master's degree at latest by the summer (standard 3 year PhD position). We also have the opportunity to offer a position to a highly motivated candidate finishing their 1st year of their MSc. by this summer, under the Danish 4+4 PhD scheme. Applications must be submitted via this link [1]. [1] https://www.stillinger.aau.dk/phd-stillinger/vis-stilling/vacancyId/1217649 [2] https://dm.dk/din-loen/loenstatistik-og-loentabeller/forskning-og-undervisn… (only available in Danish) Johannes Bjerva Associate Professor | Natural Language Processing | Department of Computer Science Team Lead for CS CPH Aalborg University Copenhagen Office 2.2.089, A.C. Meyers Vænge 15, 2450 Copenhagen, Denmark

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2nd Call for Papers - First International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (NLPAICS’2024)
by t.ranasinghe＠aston.ac.uk 23 Jan '24

23 Jan '24

First International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (NLPAICS’2024) Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom 29-30 July 2024 https://www.nlpaics.com Second Call for Papers Recent advances in Natural Language Processing (NLP), Deep Learning and Large Language Models (LLMs) have resulted in improved performance of applications. . In particular, there has been a growing interest in employing AI methods in different Cyber Security applications. In today's digital world, Cyber Security has emerged as a heightened priority for both individual users and organisations. As the volume of online information grows exponentially, traditional security approaches often struggle to identify and prevent evolving security threats. The inadequacy of conventional security frameworks highlights the need for innovative solutions that can effectively navigate the complex digital landscape for ensuring robust security. NLP and AI in Cyber Security have vast potential to significantly enhance threat detection and mitigation by fostering the development of advanced security systems for autonomous identification, assessment, and response to security threats in real-time. Recognising this challenge and the capabilities of NLP and AI approaches to fortify Cyber Security systems, the First International Conference on Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Cyber Security (NLPAICS’2024) serves as a gathering place for researchers in NLP and AI methods for Cyber Security. We invite contributions that present the latest NLP and AI solutions for mitigating risks in processing digital information. Conference topics The conference invites submissions on a broad range of topics related to the employment of NLP and AI (and in general, language studies and models) for Cyber Security including but not limited to: Societal and Human Security and Safety · Content Legitimacy and Quality o Detection and mitigation of hate speech and offensive language o Fake news, deepfakes, misinformation and disinformation o Detection of machine generated language in multimodal context (text, speech and gesture) o Trust and credibility of online information · User Security and Safety o Cyberbullying and identification of internet offenders o Monitoring extremist fora o Suicide prevention o Clickbait and scam detection o Fake profile detection in online social networks · Technical Measures and Solutions o Social engineering identification, phishing detection o NLP for risk assessment o Controlled languages for safe messages o Prevention of malicious use of ai models o Forensic linguistics · Human Factors in Cyber Security Speech Technology and Multimodal Investigations for Cyber Security · Voice-based security: Analysis of voice recordings or transcripts for security threats · Detection of machine generated language in multimodal context (text, speech and gesture) · NLP and biometrics in multimodal context Data and Software Security · Cryptography · Digital forensics · Malware detection, obfuscation · Models for documentation · NLP for data privacy and leakage prevention (DLP) · Addressing dataset “poisoning” attacks Human-Centric Security and Support · Natural language understanding for chatbots: NLP-powered chatbots for user support and security incident reporting · User behaviour analysis: analysing user-generated text data (e.g., chat logs and emails) to detect insider threats or unusual behaviour · Human supervision of technology for Cyber Security Anomaly Detection and Threat Intelligence · Text-Based Anomaly Detection o Identification of unusual or suspicious patterns in logs, incident reports or other textual data o Detecting deviations from normal behaviour in system logs or network traffic · Threat Intelligence Analysis o Processing and analysing threat intelligence reports, news, articles and blogs on latest Cyber Security threats o Extracting key information and indicators of compromise (IoCs) from unstructured text Systems and Infrastructure Security · Systems Security o Anti-reverse engineering for protecting privacy and anonymity o Identification and mitigation of side-channel attacks o Authentication and access control o Enterprise-level mitigation o NLP for software vulnerability detection · Malware Detection through Code Analysis o Analysing code and scripts for malware o Detection using NLP to identify patterns indicative of malicious code Financial Cyber Security · Financial fraud detection · Financial risk detection · Algorithmic trading security · Secure online banking · Risk management in finance · Financial text analytics Ethics, Bias, and Legislation in Cyber Security · Ethical and Legal Issues o Digital privacy and identity management o The ethics of NLP and speech technology o Explainability of NLP and speech technology tools o Legislation against malicious use of AI o Regulatory issues · Bias and Security o Bias in Large Language Models (LLMs) o Bias in security related datasets and annotations Datasets and resources for Cyber Security Applications Specialised Security Applications and Open Topics · Intelligence applications · Emerging and innovative applications in Cyber Security Special Theme Track - Future of Cyber Security in the Era of LLMs and Generative AI We are excited to share that NLPAICS 2024 will have a special theme track with the goal of stimulating discussion around Large Language Models (LLMs), Generative AI and ensuring their safety. The latest generation of LLMs, such as CHATGPT, Gemini, LLAMA and open-source alternatives, has showcased remarkable advancements in text and image understanding and generation. However, as we navigate through uncharted territory, it becomes imperative to address the challenges associated with employing these models in everyday tasks, focusing on aspects such as fairness, ethics, and responsibility. The theme track invites studies on how to ensure the safety of LLMs in various tasks and applications and what this means for the future of the field. The possible topics of discussion include (but are not limited to) the following: · Detection of LLM-generated language in multimodal context (text, speech and gesture) · LLMs for forensic linguistics · Bias in LLMs · Safety benchmarks for LLMs · Legislation against malicious use of LLMs · Tools to evaluate safety in LLMs · Methods to enhance the robustness of language models Submissions and Publication NLPAICS welcomes high-quality submissions in English, which can take two forms: · Regular long papers: These can be up to eight (8) pages long, presenting substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. · Short papers: These can be up to four (4) pages long and are suitable for describing small, focused contributions, negative results, system demonstrations, etc. Note that the page limits mentioned above exclude additional pages for references, ethical considerations, conflict-of-interest statements, as well as data and code availability statements. Papers must be anonymised to support double-blind reviewing. Please submit your work as pdf using the following link: https://softconf.com/n/nlpaics2024/ Submission templates can be accessed here: LaTeX Overleaf, LaTeX , MS Office Accepted papers, including both long and short papers, will be published as part of the same e-proceedings to be uploaded on ACL Anthology. Important dates · Submissions due: 5 April 2024 · Reviewing process: 25 April-31 May 2024 · Notification of acceptance: 5 June 2024 · Camera-ready due: 20 June 2024 · Conference: 29-30 July 2024 Venue The First International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (NLPAICS’2024) will take place at Lancaster University and is organised by the Lancaster University UCREL NLP research group. Organisation · Conference Chair o Ruslan Mitkov (Lancaster University) · Conference Programme Chairs o Cengiz Acartürk (Jagiellonian University) o Matthew Bradbury (Lancaster University) o Mo El-Haj (Lancaster University) o Paul Rayson (Lancaster University) · Sponsorship Chair o Saad Ezzini (Lancaster University) · Publicity Chair o Tharindu Ranasinghe (Aston University) · Publication Chair o Ignatius Ezeani (Lancaster University)

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SIGTYP@EACL 2024: Inviting submission of EACL Findings papers looking for presentations slots, and of papers rejected from EACL
by Michael Hahn 23 Jan '24

23 Jan '24

The 6th Workshop on Research in Computational Linguistic Typology and Multilingual NLP (SIGTYP 2024) To be held at EACL 2024 (March 22, 2024 Malta) We are inviting submissions of EACL Findings papers looking for a presentation slot. We are also inviting submissions of papers that were rejected or withdrawn from EACL. _EACL Findings papers looking for a presentation slot:_ Submit by February 1st here: https://forms.gle/bm4HDxgyyr13HZN29 _Papers rejected or withdrawn from EACL:_ Submit by January 26th here: https://forms.gle/hke7StTEvVW3bzdF7 Acceptance decisions will be made based on the existing ARR reviews. Authors will be notified by February 1st, 2024. ----------------------------------------- The 6th Workshop on Research in Computational Linguistic Typology and Multilingual NLP (SIGTYP 2024) To be held at EACL 2024 (March 22, 2024 Malta) Website: https://sigtyp.github.io/ Submission website: https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2024/Workshop/SIGTYP <https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2024/Workshop/SIGTYP> We invite submissions to the 6th edition of the SIGTYP workshop on Research in Computational Linguistic Typology and Multilingual NLP, to be held at EACL 2024 on March 22, 2024. Workshop description The aim of the 6th edition of SIGTYP workshop is to act as a platform and a forum for the exchange of information between typology-related research, multilingual NLP, and other research areas that can lead to the development of truly multilingual NLP methods. The workshop is specifically aimed at raising awareness of linguistic typology and its potential in supporting and widening the global reach of multilingual NLP, as well as at introducing computational approaches to linguistic typology. It will foster research and discussion on open problems, not only within the active community working on cross- and multilingual NLP but also inviting input from leading researchers in linguistic typology. Our workshop will serve as a platform to enable fruitful discussions. In 2024, we additionally focus on bridging the gap between cross-linguistic and universal annotation, models, and technology. SIGTYP is the first dedicated venue for typology-related research and its integration in multilingual NLP. Appropriate topics include (but are not limited to) the following as they relate to the areas of the workshop: * Integration of typological features in language transfer and joint multilingual learning. In addition to established techniques such as “selective sharing”, are there alternative ways to encoding heterogeneous external knowledge in machine learning algorithms? * Development of unified taxonomy and resources. Building universal databases and models to facilitate understanding and processing of diverse languages. * Automatic inference of typological features. The pros and cons of existing techniques (e.g. heuristics derived from morphosyntactic annotation, propagation from features of other languages, supervised Bayesian and neural models) and discussion on emerging ones. * Typology and interpretability. The use of typological knowledge for interpretation of hidden representations of multilingual neural models, multilingual data generation and selection, and typological annotation of texts. * Improvement and completion of typological databases. Combining linguistic knowledge and automatic data-driven methods towards the joint goal of improving the knowledge on cross-linguistic variation and universals. * Linguistic diversity and universals. Challenges of cross-lingual annotation. Which linguistic phenomena or categories should be considered universal? How should they be annotated? * Language-specific studies to support or contradict universals. Framing a study on 1-3 languages that would shed more light on common linguistic structures and properties. * Extra topics also include: generation of constructed languages, universals in diachronic languages changes, information-theoretic approaches to typology, automated approaches to etymology. Important Dates (all deadlines are 23:59 AoE) — December 25, 2023: Paper submission deadline (submissions via OpenReview) — January 17, 2023: Deadline for submitting ARR submissions that were rejected or withdrawn from EACL — January 20, 2024: Notification of acceptance — January 30, 2024: Camera-ready deadline — March 21 or 22, 2024: Workshop *Shared Task* In 2024, SIGTYP is hosting a Word Embedding Evaluation for Ancient and Historical Languages. More details can be found here: https://sigtyp.github.io/st2024.html. Organizing Committee Michael Hahn, Rena Gao, Saliha Muradoglu, Yulia Otmakhova, Andreas Shcherbakov, Oleg Serikov, Jinrui Yang, Alexey Sorokin, Priya Rani, Ritesh Kumar, Ryan Cotterell, Edoardo M. Ponti, Kat Vylomova Anti-harassment policy The workshop follows the ACL anti-harassment policy: https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Anti-Harassment_Policy <https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Anti-Harassment_Policy>. Contact For any inquiries regarding the workshop, please send an email to the Organizing Committee at sigtyp(a)gmail.com

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2nd CALL for Papers - UMR Parsing Workshop at the University of Colorado, Boulder
by kristine.stenzel＠colorado.edu 22 Jan '24

22 Jan '24

Date: June 14, 2024 URL https://umr4nlp.github.io/web/UMRParsingWorkshop.html This workshop will focus on developing parsers for Uniform Meaning Representations. The goal is to start from raw text from real-world settings that could be in any one of many typologically different languages, even low-resource languages for which there is little or no training data. This can be achieved by exploiting a common semantic annotation standard. This workshop has been made possible by funding for NSF Collaborative Research: Building a Broad Infrastructure for Uniform Meaning Representations (Award # 2213805), which is aimed at developing guidelines and annotation for cross-lingual Uniform Meaning Representations, based on the original Abstract Meaning Representation guidelines for English, but ensuring cross-linguistically consistent annotation and recoverability of the original raw texts. This workshop will overlap with the last day of the Colorado UMR Annotation Summer School. https://umr4nlp.github.io/web/SummerSchool.html The workshop is open to everyone and will cover the fundamentals of UMR annotation and the differences between AMR and UMR. In addition to an invited speaker, there will be presentations on recent successful approaches to AMR parsing and how they can be applied to UMR parsing. We welcome submissions from anyone on related topics, such as: ● AMR or UMR parsing for any language ● AMR or UMR generation for any language ● Evaluation metrics for AMR or UMR parsing ● Bootstrapping of AMRs or UMRs from related semantic representations such as Propbanks ● Projections of English AMR onto other languages; ● Challenges of applying AMR annotation to languages other than English; ● Challenges of accurate multi-sentence coreference as a subtask of AMR parsing; ● Any other topic related to the parsing and generation of AMRs or UMRs. Important dates ● Workshop paper submissions due: March 30, 2024 ● Notification of acceptance: April 25, 2024 ● Camera-ready versions due: May 30, 2024 Submissions Submissions should report original and unpublished research on topics of interest to the workshop. Accepted papers are expected to be presented at the workshop and will be published in the workshop proceedings. They should emphasize obtained results rather than intended work and should clearly indicate the state of completion of the reported results. Submission is electronic, using the Workshop submission site in Easy Chair. https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=umrpw2024 Submissions must adhere to the two-column format of ACL venues, using the Overleaf template taken from ACL 2023. https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/acl-2023-proceedings-template/qjdg… Initial submissions should be fully anonymous to ensure double-blind reviewing. Long papers must not exceed eight (8) pages of content; short papers must not exceed four (4) pages of content. References and appendices do not count against these limits. To ensure double-blind reviews, papers must not include the authors’ names and affiliations or self-references that reveal any author’s identity. Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review.

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1st CFP: 8th International Conference Discourse Markers in Romance Languages - DISROM 8
by Amália Mendes 22 Jan '24

22 Jan '24

*The 8th International Conference 'Discourse Markers in Romance Languages' - DISROM 8* https://sites.google.com/view/disrom2024 Lisbon, Portugal, 19-21 June 2024 *Important Dates* 15 March 2024 Deadline for abstract submission 30 April 2024 Notification of acceptance 19-21 June 2024 Conference dates *Meeting Description* The Conference is one of a series of conferences on discourse markers in Romance languages (Madrid, 2010; Buenos Aires, 2011; Campinas, 2012; Heidelberg, 2015; Louvain-la- Neuve, 2017; Bergamo, 2019; Craiova 2022) and aims to build on the previous events, serving as a platform for internationally renowned linguists and young researchers alike to exchange views and ideas and to broaden their research perspectives. This Conference’s theme will deal specifically : 1. with interactions between DMs and their explicit/implicit context, overcoming the traditional divide between their textual and interpersonal functions; 2. with the subjective adjustment function of DMs. Researchers on discourse markers in Romance languages are invited to submit contributions on these topics, as well as on related subjects including (but not restricted to): - definition of the discourse marker category; - lexicons of discourse markers; - discourse markers and their relation to other pragmatic categories; - syntax-prosody-discourse interface; - sociolinguistic approaches to discourse markers; - variation of discourse markers across registers, languages and language varieties; - translation studies; - L1 and L2 acquisition of discourse markers; - diachronic studies; - experimental studies; - corpus-based and computational studies; - applied studies (business language, legal discourse, educational settings, etc.). *Submissions* The Conference will be on-site. Two presentation modalities will be possible: oral presentation and poster presentation. Abstracts should not exceed one page (single spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, not including figures and references, and must be uploaded as pdf). Abstracts can be written in any Romance language or in English. They should be anonymous. They will be submitted via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=disrom2024<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=disrom202419>). Authors must select the option oral presentation or poster presentation during the submission process on EasyChair. *Keynote Speakers (provisional list)* Denis Paillard (CNRS and Université Paris Diderot) Isabel Margarida Duarte (Universidade de Porto) *Workshop organizers (University of Lisbon)* - Pierre Lejeune - Marco Favaro - Fabrizio Macagno - Amália Mendes *Scientific Committee* Joanna Blochowiak (Université de Genève) Margarita Borreguero Zuloaga (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) Chloé Braud (University of Copenhague) Sorina Ciobanu (University of Iasi) Maria Antónia Diniz Caetano Coutinho (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) Maria Josep Cuenca (Universitat de València) Antonio Briz Gómez (Universitat de València) Conceição Carapinha (Universidade de Coimbra) Anna-Maria De Cesare (Universität Dresden) Iria da Cunha (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia) Gaétane Dostie (Université de Sherbrooke) Oana Adriana Duta (University of Craiova) Chiara Fedriani (Università di Genova) Mar Garachana Camarero (Universitat de Barcelona) Chiara Ghezzi (Universitá di Bergamo) Sonia Gómez-Jordana (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) Pedro Gras (Université d’Anvers) Martin Hummel (Universität Graz) Julia Lavid Lopez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) Diana Lewis (Université Aix-Marseille) Araceli López Serena (Universidad de Sevilla) José Pinto de Lima (Centro de Linguística da Universidade Nova de Lisboa) Maria Aldina Marques (Universidade do Minho) Piera Molinelli (Università di Bergamo) Silvia Murillo Ornat (Universidad de Zaragoza) Cornelia Plag (Universidade de Coimbra) Salvador Pons Bordería (Universitat de València) Cecilia Popescu (University of Craiova) Laurent Prévot (Université Aix-Marseille) Augusto Soares da Silva (Universidade Catolica Portuguesa) Laure Vieu (IRIT – Université de Toulouse III – Paul Sabatier) Jacqueline Visconti (Università di Genova) Sandrine Zufferey (Universität zu Bern)

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First Call for Participation: BioLaySumm 2024 Shared Task on the Lay Summarization of Biomedical Research Articles @ BioNLP Workshop, ACL 2024
by Tomas Goldsack 22 Jan '24

22 Jan '24

BioLaySumm 2024 The 2nd Shared Task on the Lay Summarization of Biomedical Research Articles @BioNLP Workshop, ACL 2024 Biomedical publications contain the latest research on prominent health-related topics, ranging from common illnesses to global pandemics. This can often result in their content being of interest to a wide variety of audiences including researchers, medical professionals, journalists, and even members of the public. However, the highly technical and specialist language used within such articles typically makes it difficult for non-expert audiences to understand their contents. The BioLaySumm shared task surrounds the abstractive summarization of biomedical articles, with an emphasis on catering to non-expert audiences through the generation of summaries that are more readable, containing more background information and less technical terminology (i.e., a “lay summary”). This is the 2nd iteration of BioLaySumm, following the success of the 1st edition of the task at BioNLP 2023 which attracted 56 submissions across 20 different teams. In this edition, which is again to be hosted by the BioNLP workshop <https://aclweb.org/aclwiki/BioNLP_Workshop> at ACL 2024, we aim to build on last year’s task by introducing a new test set, updating our evaluation protocol, and encouraging participants to explore novel approaches that will help to further advance the state-of-the-art for Lay Summarization. Accordingly, we will not only be offering a prize of £100 to the team with the top-ranking submission, but we will also offer a second prize of £50 to the team that proposes the most innovative approach (as decided upon by the task organizers). For more information, see: - Main site: https://biolaysumm.org/ - CodaBench site: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/1920/ Important dates: - First call for participation: 22nd January, 2024 - Releasing of task data: 22nd January, 2024 - System submission deadline: May 6th, 2024 - System papers due date: May 20th, 2024 - Notification of acceptance: June 17th, 2024 - Camera-ready system papers due: July 1st, 2024 - BioNLP Workshop Date: August 16th, 2024 Organizers: - Tomas Goldsack, University of Sheffield, UK - Matthew Shardlow, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK - Carolina Scarton, University of Sheffield, UK - Chenghua Lin, University of Manchester, UK

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