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[CfP] SEMANTiCS 2023 – Open Call for Workshop Papers
by Anisa Rula & Jennifer D'Souza 13 Jul '23

13 Jul '23

* We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP * * For the online version of this call, visit: https://2023-eu.semantics.cc/page/workshops * SEMANTiCS 2023 (20th-22nd September - Leipzig, Germany) is hosting an enriched collection of three workshops. Please find the relevant workshops still open for accepting your submissions as long and short paper contributions below. # Onto4FAIR: 3rd Workshop on Ontologies for FAIR and FAIR Ontologies Organizers: Cassia Trojahn (Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, France), Luiz Olavo Bonino da Silva Santos (University of Twente, Leiden University Medical Centre, the Netherlands), Giancarlo Guizzardi (University of Twente, the Netherlands), Clement Jonquet (French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment, Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics for Environment and Agronomy research unit, Montpellier, France) https://onto4fair.github.io/2023-semantics.html # NLP4KGC: 2nd Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Knowledge Graph Construction Organizers: Edlira Vakaj (Birmingham City University, Bermingham, UK), Sanju Tiwari (Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas, Tamaulipas, Mexico), Rizou Stamatia (Singular Logic, Athens, Greece), Nandana Mihindukulasooriya (IBM Research, Dublin, Ireland), Fernando Ortiz-Rodríguez (Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas, Tamaulipas, Mexico), Ryan Mcgranaghan (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California, United States) https://sites.google.com/view/2nd-nlp4kgc/home We are looking forward to your contribution! Workshop & Tutorial Chairs

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Faculty positions available at Queen Mary University of London
by Matthew Purver 13 Jul '23

13 Jul '23

The School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Queen Mary University of London is currently advertising up to 15 faculty positions at Lecturer (= Assistant Professor) or Senior Lecturer (= Associate Professor) levels, seeking candidates with experience and research interests in a range of topics generative AI, explainable AI and responsible AI. Please see this link for more information: https://www.qmul.ac.uk/jobs/vacancies/items/8638.html Closing date is 1st August 2023. -- Matthew Purver - http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~mpurver/ Computational Linguistics Lab - http://compling.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/ Cognitive Science Research Group - http://cogsci.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/ School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, UK *My working days for QMUL are Monday-Wednesday; responses to mail on other days may be delayed.*

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Extended Deadline, CASE @ RANLP 2023: CFP: Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text - CASE @ RANLP 2023
by ali hürriyetoglu 12 Jul '23

12 Jul '23

Call for workshop papers: the 6th workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text - CASE @ RANLP 2023 ************************************************************************************ URL: https://emw.ku.edu.tr/case-2023/ (new) Paper submission deadline: 24 July 2023 Paper acceptance notification: 5 August 2023 Paper camera-ready: 25 August 2023 Workshop dates: 7-8 September 2023 Softconf page of the workshop: https://softconf.com/ranlp23/CASE/ ************************************************************************************ We invite contributions from researchers in computer science, NLP, ML, DL, AI, socio-political sciences, conflict analysis and forecasting, peace studies, as well as computational social science scholars involved in the collection and utilization of socio-political event data. This includes (but is not limited to) the following topics 1) Extracting events and their arguments such as time and location in and beyond a sentence or document, event coreference resolution. 2) Research in NLP technologies in relation to event detection: geocoding, temporal reasoning, argument structure detection, syntactic and semantic analysis of event structures, text classification, for event type detection, learning event-related lexica, event co-reference resolution, fake news analysis, and others with a focus on real or potential event detection applications. 3) New datasets, training data collection, and annotation for event information. 4) Event-event relations, e.g., subevents, main events, spatio-temporal relations, causal relations. 5) Event dataset evaluation in light of reliability and validity metrics. 6) Defining, populating, and facilitating event schemas and ontologies. 7) Automated tools and pipelines for event collection related tasks. 8) Lexical, syntactic, semantic, discursive, and pragmatic aspects of event manifestation. 9) Methodologies for development, evaluation, and analysis of event datasets. 10) Applications of event databases, e.g. early warning, conflict prediction, and policymaking. 11) Estimating what is missing in event datasets using internal and external information. 12) Detection of new and emerging socio-political event (SPE) types, e.g. creative protests. 13) Release of new event datasets. 14) Bias and fairness of the sources and event datasets. 15) Ethics, misinformation, privacy, and fairness concerns pertaining to event datasets. 16) Copyright issues on event dataset creation, dissemination, and sharing. 17) Cross-lingual, multilingual and multimodal aspects in event analysis. 18) Resources and approaches related to contentious politics around climate change. **** Shared tasks **** Please check the workshop page and Github repositories of the respective task for additional details. Task 1 - Multilingual protest news detection: Contact person: Ali Hürriyetoğlu (ali.hurriyetoglu(a)gmail.com), Github: https://github.com/emerging-welfare/case-2022-multilingual-event Task 2 - Collecting and Geocoding Armed Clash Events in Russian Ukrainian Conflict: Contact person: Hristo Tanev (hristo.tanev(a)ec.europa.eu) and Onur Uca (onuruca(a)mersin.edu.tr), Github: https://github.com/zavavan/case2023_task2 Task 3 - Event causality identification: Contact person: Fiona Anting Tan ( tan.f(a)u.nus.edu) Github: https://github.com/tanfiona/CausalNewsCorpus Task 4 - Multimodal Hate Speech Event Detection: Contact person: Surendrabikram Thapa (surendrabikram(a)vt.edu), Github: https://github.com/therealthapa/case2023_task4 *** Keynotes *** We will continue our tradition of inviting keynote speakers from both social and computational sciences. The social science keynote will be delivered by Erdem Yörük with the title “Using Automated Text Processing to Understand Social Movements and Human Behaviour” and the computational ones will be delivered by Ruslan Mitkov and Kiril Simov. Please see the workshop webpage (https://emw.ku.edu.tr/case-2023/) for additional details.

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FINAL CALL: ML/NLP Competition on Automatic Classification of Literary Epochs (CoLiE)
by Marina Litvak 12 Jul '23

12 Jul '23

** apologies for cross-posting *** ================================================== *FINAL CALL: ML/NLP Competition on Automatic Classification of Literary Epochs (CoLiE)* To advance the field of implicit temporal information retrieval from a text, this competition aims to challenge participants to develop automatic methods to identify the literary epochs of a given text, which is considered here as an implicit temporal context of a book. The task on Automatic Classification of Literary Epochs (CoLiE) aims at automatic identification of the literary epoch of a given text from its writing style: (1) Romanticism (1798-1837), (2) Victorian Literature (1837-1901), (3) Modernism (1900-1945), (4) Postmodernism (1945-2000), and (5) our days (from 2000). The competition is held as a part of the IACT’23 <https://en.sce.ac.il/news/iact23> workshop, held on July 27, 2023, in conjunction with the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval This competition is open to anyone with a passion for information retrieval, machine learning, and natural language processing. Whether you are a seasoned expert or a newcomer to the field, we welcome you to participate and extend the boundaries of automated text analysis! Competition site: http://www.kaggle.com/competitions/colie Competition Timeline - May 28, 2023: The competition is open to participants. Training and validation sets together with their labels are available. - July 10, 2023: Test dataset available. - July 17, 2023, 23:59 UTC: Final submission deadline. - July 27, 2023: The winners are announced at the special session at the IACT'23 <https://en.sce.ac.il/news/iact23> workshop. *The organizing team* - Dr. Marina Litvak (marinal(a)ac.sce.ac.il), Software Engineering Department, Shamoon College of Engineering, Beer Sheva, 84100, Israel - Dr. Irina Rabaev (irinar(a)ac.sce.ac.il), Software Engineering Department, Shamoon College of Engineering, Beer Sheva, 84100, Israel - Prof. Ricardo Campos (ricardo.campos(a)ipt.pt), Ci2 - Smart Cities Research Center, Polytechnic Institute of Tomar INESC TEC, Porto Porto, Portugal - Prof. Alípio Mário Jorge (amjorge(a)fc.up.pt) University of Porto Porto, Portugal - Prof. Adam Jatowt (adam.jatowt(a)uibk.ac.at) University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria - Mr. Vladimir Younkin (vladiyo(a)ac.sce.ac.il), Software Engineering Department, Shamoon College of Engineering, Beer Sheva, 84100, Israel -- Best regards, Marina Litvak

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1st CfP: 7th Workshop on Natural Language for Artificial Intelligence (NL4AI)
by Dominique Brunato 12 Jul '23

12 Jul '23

[Apologies for cross-posting] ***************************************************************************************************** *CALL FOR PAPERS* 7th Workshop on Natural Language for Artificial Intelligence (NL4AI) at the 22nd International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA 2023) November 6th - 9th, 2023, Rome, Italy Website: http://sag.art.uniroma2.it/NL4AI/ http://www.aixia2023.cnr.it/ ***************************************************************************************************** *IMPORTANT DATES* Paper submission deadline: September 11th, 2023 Notification of paper acceptance: September 29th, 2023 Camera-ready version deadline: October 9th, 2023 Workshop (at AI*IA 2023): November 6th - 9th, 2023 ***************************************************************************************************** *INTRODUCTION* The goal of the NL4AI workshop is to explore the role of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing in Artificial Intelligence applications. We believe that new technological challenges and opportunities rise at the boundary between NLP and AI. On the one hand, AI applications benefit from a deeper understanding of problems related to Natural Language, and thus the integration of advanced NLP techniques. On the other hand, NLP benefits greatly from being used in wider areas of AI where problems and methodologies related to NL can be evaluated in new contexts. * *** *TOPICS OF INTEREST* We invite papers that pertain to the workshop theme including, but not limited, to: * NLP and AI Applications (health, legal domain, social media and journalism, etc.) * Natural Language Interfaces for Human Robot Interaction * Resources and Evaluation * Discourse and Pragmatics * Natural Language Generation * Information extraction in AI applications * Machine Learning for NLP * Sentiment analysis and Opinion mining * Natural Language Inference * NLP and Industrial Challenges * Semantics * Conversational Agents in Human-Computer Interaction * Cognitive modeling and psycholinguistics * Language and other Multimodality * Speech and Spoken language processing * Ethics and NLP * Interpretability, Explainability and Analysis of Models for NLP * Abusive Language Detection and Analysis * Machine Translation and Multilinguality * Question Answering * Summarization * NLP for Fact Checking, Fake News Detection and Analysis * LLMs and Applications * Multimodal (text-image) data sources Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings via CEUR Workshop Proceedings. Depending on the number and quality of papers received, we will consider proposing a special issue in relevant journals. The Program Committee will select the Best Workshop Paper from the accepted papers. *HOW TO SUBMIT* We encourage submissions that describe new theoretical models, applied techniques, and research in progress. Substantial extensions to works already published or presented in other locations are also welcomed. We will invite two kinds of submissions, which address novel interface issues in recommender systems by following the new 2022 CEUR-ART – 1 Column papers style (http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip). Short/Demo papers: The maximum length is 6 pages (plus up to 2 pages of references). Long papers: The maximum length is 12 pages (plus up to 2 pages of references). Please note that papers with less than 25000 characters will be considered short papers in the CEUR proceedings. Submissions will be peer-reviewed (single-blind) by the program committee members. Evaluation criteria will include novelty, significance for theory/practice, technical soundness, and quality of presentation. All the submissions should be submitted via EasyChair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nl4ai2023 *WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS* Elisa Bassignana, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Dominique Brunato, Institute for Computational Linguistics “A. Zampolli” (CNR-ILC), Italy Marco Polignano, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy Alan Ramponi, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy

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Second call for papers DHASA Conference 2023
by Menno Van Zaanen 12 Jul '23

12 Jul '23

Second call for papers DHASA Conference 2023 https://dh2023.digitalhumanities.org.za/ Theme: "Digital Humanities for Inclusion" The Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa (DHASA) is pleased to announce its fourth conference, focusing on the theme "Digital Humanities for Inclusion." In a region where the field of Digital Humanities is still relatively underdeveloped, this conference aims to address this gap and foster growth and collaboration in the field. The conference offers an opportunity for researchers interested in showcasing their work in the broad field of Digital Humanities to come together. By doing so, the conference provides a comprehensive overview of the current state-of-the-art in Digital Humanities, particularly within the Southern Africa region. As such, we welcome submissions related to Digital Humanities research conducted by individuals from Southern Africa or research focused on the geographical area of Southern Africa. Furthermore, the conference serves as a platform for information sharing and networking among researchers passionate about Digital Humanities. By bringing together experts working on Digital Humanities in Southern Africa or with a focus on Southern Africa, we aim to promote collaboration and facilitate further research in this dynamic field. In addition to the main conference, affiliated workshops and tutorials will be organized, providing researchers with valuable insights into novel technologies and tools. These supplementary events are designed for researchers interested in specific aspects of Digital Humanities or seeking practical information to enter or advance their knowledge in the field. The DHASA conference welcomes interdisciplinary contributions from researchers in various domains of Digital Humanities, including, but not limited to, language, literature, visual art, performance and theatre studies, media studies, music, history, sociology, psychology, language technologies, library studies, philosophy, methodologies, software and computation, and more. Our goal is to cultivate an inclusive scientific community of practice within Digital Humanities. Suggested topics include the following: * Digital archives and the preservation of marginalized voices; * Intersectionality and the digital humanities: exploring the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and class in digital research and activism; * Activism and social change through digital media: how digital humanities tools and methodologies can be used to promote inclusion; * Engaging marginalized communities in the creation and use of digital tools and resources; * Exploring the role of digital humanities in decolonizing knowledge and promoting indigenous perspectives; * The ethics of data collection and analysis in digital humanities research related; * The role of digital humanities in promoting inclusive and equitable pedagogy; * Digital humanities and inclusion in the context of global perspectives and international collaborations; * Critical approaches to digital humanities and inclusion: examining the limitations and possibilities of digital tools and methodologies in promoting inclusion; and * Collaborative digital humanities projects with non-profit organizations, community groups, and cultural institutions; * Any other digital humanities-related topic that serves the Southern African community. Submission Guidelines The DHASA conference 2023 asks for three types of submissions: * Long papers: Authors may submit long papers consisting of a maximum of 8 content pages and unlimited pages for references and appendix. The final versions of accepted long papers will be granted an additional page (up to 9 pages) to incorporate reviewers' comments. * Short papers: Authors may submit short papers with a maximum of 5 content pages and unlimited pages for references and appendix. The final versions of accepted short papers will be allowed an extra page (up to 6 pages) to accommodate reviewers' comments. Short papers accepted for the conference will be presented as posters. * Abstracts: Authors can submit abstracts of 250-300 words. Note that before submitting your contribution, you are required to submit an abstract before the abstract submission deadline. This holds for *all* submissions. The actual submission will need to be submitted before the submission deadline. More information on the submission process can be found on the submission page: https://dh2023.digitalhumanities.org.za/submission/ We particularly encourage student submissions where the first author is a student. All accepted long and short paper submissions that are presented at the conference will be published in the Journal of Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa, see https://upjournals.up.ac.za/index.php/dhasa. In addition, the abstracts of the full papers and the lightning talks will be published in a book of abstracts before the conference. Important dates Abstract submission deadline: 8 August 2023 Submission deadline: 15 August 2023 Date of notification: 30 September 2023 Camera-ready copy deadline: 6 November 2023 Conference: 27 November 2023 - 1 December 2023 Conference format: Face-to-face Conference venue: Nelson Mandela University, Eastern Cape South Africa NOTE: Non-presenting delegates have the option to attend online. Co-located events Several co-located events are currently being prepared, including workshops and tutorials. These will be updated on the conference website. Organizing Committee * Johannes Sibeko, Nelson Mandela University * Aby Louw, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research * Alan Murdoch, Nelson Mandela University * Amanda du Preez, University of Pretoria * Andiswa Bukula, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources * Andiswa Mvanyashe, Nelson Mandela University * Avashna Govender, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research * Gabby Dlamini, Nelson Mandela University * Ilana Wilken, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research * Jonathan van der Walt, Nelson Mandela University * Laurette Marais, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research * Mukhtar Raban, Nelson Mandela University * Nomfundo Khumalo, Nelson Mandela University * Menno Van Zaanen, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources -- Prof Menno van Zaanen menno.vanzaanen(a)nwu.ac.za Professor in Digital Humanities South African Centre for Digital Language Resources https://www.sadilar.org ________________________________ NWU PRIVACY STATEMENT: http://www.nwu.ac.za/it/gov-man/disclaimer.html DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message and attachments thereto are intended solely for the recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. 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Fwd: Shared Task On Propaganda And Disinformation Detection In Arabic (co-located with EMNLP 2023)
by Firoj Alam 12 Jul '23

12 Jul '23

Dear colleagues, You are invited to participate ArAIEval shared task on (i) persuasion technique, and (ii) disinformation detection, in Arabic, which will held with the First Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (WANLP 2023) co-located this with the EMNLP2023 Conference in Singapore (6-10 Dec, 2023). You can find detailed information here: https://araieval.gitlab.io/. Tasks Task 1: Persuasion Technique Detection: Given a multigenre (tweet and news paragraph) text snippet, identify whether it contains content with persuasion technique in a binary or multilabel classification settings. Task 2: Disinformation Detection Definition: Given only the “text” of a tweet, classify binary and/or fine-grained disinformation categories. Website: https://araieval.gitlab.io/ Dataset and relevant scripts: The datasets are hosted on the Gitlab repository: https://gitlab.com/araieval/wanlp2023_araieval/ Important Dates 13 July 2023: Started registration on codalab and beginning of the development cycle 12 August 2023: Beginning of the evaluation cycle (test sets release and run submission) 15 August 2023 23:59 AOE: End of the evaluation cycle (run submission) 29 August 2023: Deadline for the submission of working notes 12 October 2023: Notification of acceptance of working notes 20 October 2023: Deadline for submission of camera-ready working notes 7 December 2023: WANLP Conference (colocated with EMNLP-2023) Organizers - Firoj Alam, Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU - Hamdy Mubarak, Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU - Maram Hasanain, Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU - Samir Abdaljalil, Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU - Wajdi Zaghouani, HBKU - Preslav Nakov, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence - Giovanni Da San Martino, University of Padova - Abdelhakim Freihat, University of Trento The ArAiEval shared task organizers -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SIGLEX members" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to siglex-members+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/siglex-members/cdd368d7-c8c1-401a-825c-a3… <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/siglex-members/cdd368d7-c8c1-401a-825c-a3…> . For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

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10th International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC 2023): Final Call for Papers
by georgeangelos60＠gmail.com 12 Jul '23

12 Jul '23

*** Final Call for Papers *** 10th International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC 2023) October 30 - November 1, 2023, 5* Golden Bay Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus http://besc-conf.org/2023/ (*** Submission Deadline: 29 July, 2023 AoE ***) The International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC) is a major international forum that brings together academic researchers and industry practitioners from artificial intelligence, computational social sciences, natural language processing, business and marketing, and behavioural and psychological sciences to present updated research efforts and progresses on foundational and emerging interdisciplinary topics of BESC, exchange new ideas and identify future research directions. The BESC series of conferences are technically sponsored by IEEE SMC (Systems, Man and Cybernetics) Society as well as IEEE CIS (Computational Intelligence Society) and the proceedings are published by IEEE BESC 2023 invites submissions of original, high-quality research papers addressing cutting-edge developments from all areas of behavioural and social computing. The conference aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to share their knowledge, experience, and perspectives on the latest trends, challenges, and opportunities in this rapidly evolving field. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Social Computing, Computational Social Science and Applications • Computational models of social phenomena • Social behaviour • Social network analysis • Semantic web • Collective intelligence • Security, privacy, trust in social contexts • Social recommendation • Social influence and social contagions • Quantifying offline phenomena through online data • Forecasting of social phenomena • Science and technology studies approaches to computational social science • Social media and health behaviours • Social psychology and personality • New theories, methods, and objectives in computational social science Digital Humanities • Digital media • Digital humanities • Digital games and learning • Digital footprints and privacy • Crowd dynamics • Digital arts • Digital healthcare • Activity streams and experience design • Virtual communities (e.g., open-source, multiplayer gaming, etc.) Information Management and Information Systems (IS) • Decision analytics • E-Business • Decision analytics • Computational finance • Societal impacts of IS • Human behaviour and IS • IS in healthcare • IS security and privacy • IS strategy, structure and organizational impacts • Service science and IS Natural Language Processing • Web mining and its social interpretations • Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining • Opinion mining and social media analytics • Credibility of online content • Computational Linguistics • Mining big social data • Cognitive Modelling and Psycholinguistics Behaviour and User Modelling, Privacy, and Ethics • Behaviour change • Positive technology • Personalization for individuals, groups and populations • Large scale personalization, adaptation and recommendation • Web dynamics and personalization • Privacy, perceived security and trust • Technology and Wellbeing • Ethics of computational research on human behaviour Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) • E-Learning and M-Learning • Open and Distance Learning • User modeling and personalization in TEL • TEL in secondary and in higher education • New tools for TEL BESC 2023 will also host the following Special Sessions. Papers accepted in any of the Special Sessions will be included in the same IEEE conference proceedings with the papers accepted for the general technical program. ● Computational Social Psychology in Post Covid-19 Period ● Artificial Intelligence for Mental Health, Mental Illness, Psychiatic Diagnosis, and Prediction ● Intelligent E-Learning at Post Covid-19 Era ● Big Data and AI-Powered Decision Support Systems in Business ● Understanding the Citizen's Behavior in Cognitive Cities ● Nudges and Behavioural Computing Models for a Sustainable and Equitable Development SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS The paper submission system is using Easy Chair and the submission link is: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=besc2023 . All papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance to BESC 2023, originality, significance and clarity. Please note: • All submissions should use IEEE two-column style. Templates are available here: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html • All papers must be submitted electronically through the paper submission system in PDF format only. BESC 2023 accepts research papers (6 pages), special session papers (6 pages) and Doctoral Symposium papers (4 pages). • The page count above excludes the references (but includes any appendices). • Paper review will be double-blind, and submissions not properly anonymized will be desk-rejected without review. • Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. • Papers must be clearly submitted in English and will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. • Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. • The use of artificial intelligence (AI)–generated text in an article shall be disclosed in the acknowledgements section of any paper submitted to an IEEE Conference or Periodical. The sections of the paper that use AI-generated text shall have a citation to the AI system used to generate the text. • All accepted papers will be included in IEEE Xplore and indexed by EI. Top quality papers after presented in the conference will be selected for extension and publication in several special issues of international journals, e.g., World Wide Web Journal (Springer), Web Intelligence (IOS Press), and Social Network Analysis and Mining (Springer), Human-Centric Intelligent Systems (Springer), Information Discovery and Delivery (Emerald Publishing). IMPORTANT DATES • Submission of all papers: 29 July 2023 AoE (*** extended ***) • Notification of acceptance for submitted papers: 15 September 2023 • Camera-Ready Submission: 1 October 2023 • Author Registration: 1 October 2023 ORGANISATION Steering Committee Chair • Guandong Xu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia General Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs • Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • Ji Zhang, University of Southern Queensland, Australia Special Session Chairs • Taotao Cai, University of Southern Queensland, Australia • Ting Yu, Zhejiang Lab, China Doctoral Symposium Chair • Barbara Caci, University of Palermo, Italy Panel and Tutorial Chair • Philippe Fournier-Viger, Shenzhen University, China Proceedings Chair • Md Rafiqul Islam, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Publicity Chairs • Chandan Gautam, Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR, Singapore • Thanveer Shaik, University of Southern Queensland, Australia • Sanjay Sonbhadra, ITER, Siksha 'O' Anusandhan, India Webmaster • Shiqing Wu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

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Final call for papers: 3rd Workshop on Human Evaluation of NLP Systems
by Maja Popovic 11 Jul '23

11 Jul '23

Third Workshop on Human Evaluation of NLP Systems (HumEval’23) ############################################################### https://humeval.github.io/ RANLP’23, Varna, Bulgaria, 7 September 2023 submission deadline: 20 July 2023, 23:59 UTC-12 Final Call for Papers ++++++++++++++++++++++ The Third Workshop on Human Evaluation of NLP Systems (HumEval’23) invites the submission of long and short papers on substantial, original, and unpublished research on all aspects of human evaluation of NLP systems with a focus on NLP systems which produce language as output. We welcome work on any quality criteria relevant to NLP, on both intrinsic evaluation (which assesses systems and outputs directly) and extrinsic evaluation (which assesses systems and outputs indirectly in terms of its impact on an external task or system), on quantitative as well as qualitative methods, score-based (discrete or continuous scores) as well as annotation-based (marking, highlighting). Important dates ---------------- Workshop paper submission deadline: 20 July 2023 Workshop paper acceptance notification: 5 August 2023 Workshop paper camera-ready versions: 25 August 2023 Workshop camera-ready proceedings ready: 31 August 2023 All deadlines are 23:59 UTC-12. Topics ------- We invite papers on topics including, but not limited to, the following: Experimental design and methods for human evaluations Reproducibility of human evaluations Work on inter-evaluator and intra-evaluator agreement Ethical considerations in human evaluation of computational systems Quality assurance for human evaluation Crowdsourcing for human evaluation Issues in meta-evaluation of automatic metrics by correlation with human evaluations Alternative forms of meta-evaluation and validation of human evaluations Comparability of different human evaluations Methods for assessing the quality and the reliability of human evaluations Role of human evaluation in the context of Responsible and Accountable AI We welcome work from any subfield of NLP (and ML/AI more generally), with a particular focus on evaluation of systems that produce language as output. ReproNLP shared task --------------------- The workshop will also host a shared Task on Reproducibility of Evaluations in NLP (ReproNLP). Papers ------ Long papers - - - - - - Long papers must describe substantial, original, completed and unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis should be included. Long papers may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus unlimited pages of references. Final versions of long papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers’ comments can be taken into account. Long papers will be presented orally or as posters as determined by the programme committee. Decisions as to which papers will be presented orally and which as posters will be based on the nature rather than the quality of the work. There will be no distinction in the proceedings between long papers presented orally and as posters. Short papers - - - - - - - Short paper submissions must describe original and unpublished work. Short papers should have a point that can be made in a few pages. Examples of short papers are a focused contribution, a negative result, an opinion piece, an interesting application nugget, a small set of interesting results. Short papers may consist of up to four (4) pages of content, plus unlimited pages of references. Final versions of short papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 5 pages) so that reviewers’ comments can be taken into account. Short papers will be presented orally or as posters as determined by the programme committee. While short papers will be distinguished from long papers in the proceedings, there will be no distinction in the proceedings between short papers presented orally and as posters. Multiple submission policyPermalink HumEval’23 allows multiple submissions. However, if a submission has already been, or is planned to be, submitted to another event, this must be clearly stated in the submission form. Submission procedure and templates ----------------------------------- To submit, go directly to the workshop page at the Softconf START system https://softconf.com/ranlp23/HumEval/ The papers should follow the format of the main conference, described at the RANLP website, Submissions page. http://ranlp.org/ranlp2023/index.php/submissions/ Organisers Anya Belz, ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University, Ireland Maja Popović, ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University, Ireland Ehud Reiter, University of Aberdeen, UK João Sedoc, New-York University Craig Thomson, University of Aberdeen, UK For questions and comments regarding the workshop please contact the organisers at humeval.ws(a)gmail.com.

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CfP Corpus Phonology Workshop bei BICLCE 2024
by philipp.meer＠uni-muenster.de 10 Jul '23

10 Jul '23

Dear all, On behalf of Ulrike Gut and myself, I would like to forward you a CfP for a thematic workshop on "Corpus Phonology: Current Approaches and Future Directions" (see below), which we are organizing at the BICLCE Conference 2024 in Alicante, Spain (https://web.ua.es/es/biclce2024/presentacion.html). The workshop has already been accepted. Please feel free to forward the CfP to anyone who you think might be interested in contributing to the workshop. ********** Thematic workshop: Corpus Phonology: Current Approaches and Future Directions 10th Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English (BICLCE) Organizer(s): Philipp Meer (University of Münster, philipp.meer(a)uni-muenster.de); Ulrike Gut (University of Münster, gut(a)uni-muenster.de) Important dates: August 27, 2023 Deadline proposed title December 15, 2023 Deadline abstract September 26-28, 2024 Conference dates Description: We invite submissions for a workshop on "Corpus Phonology: Current Approaches and Future Directions" to be held at the 10th Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English (BICLCE) in Alicante, Spain (September 26-28, 2024). The workshop aims to bring together researchers from various fields of English linguistics to share their research and discuss the latest developments in corpus phonology. Corpus phonology refers to the study of phonetic and phonological phenomena in naturally occurring speech data using corpus-based approaches (Gut 2009; Durand et al. 2014; Gut & Fuchs 2017; Liberman 2019). The field combines methods and approaches from corpus linguistics, phonetics and phonology, speech processing technology, statistics, and related fields. With the increasing availability of large-scale corpora and advances in computational tools, corpus phonology has become an important area of research in English phonetics and phonology (e.g. Rosenfelder et al. 2014; McAuliffe et al. 2017; Jansen & Langstrof 2019; Stuart-Smith et al. 2019; Meer 2020; Gorisch et al. 2020; Meer 2020; Meer et al. 2021; Li et al. 2021; Coto-Solano 2022; Coats 2023). At the same time, new types of questions and challenges for research arise. In this workshop, we aim to explore both current approaches and future directions in corpus phonology. Specifically, the workshop aims to address the following research questions: (1) How can large-scale speech corpora be effectively compiled? (2) How can large-scale speech corpora be effectively used to investigate phonetic and phonological properties of English? (3) How can corpus phonology contribute to our understanding of sociolinguistic phenomena, such as language change and contact? (4) What are the benefits and challenges in using state-of-the art computational tools in corpus phonology research, and what new research opportunities do they create? Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Corpus-based study of phonological variation • Corpus phonology and phonological theory • Phonological corpus compilation and computational tools (such as automatic speech recognition (ASR), forced alignment, machine learning, etc.) • The use of corpora in analyzing phonetic detail • Corpus phonology and sociolinguistics • Corpus phonology and L2/L3 research • Corpus-based approaches to prosody and intonation We welcome submissions from both established academics and early career researchers working on these and related topics. We encourage submissions that draw on data from a wide range of varieties of English, as well as those that present novel methodologies or theoretical frameworks. We would be grateful if you could confirm your willingness to contribute – together with a proposed title – by August 27, 2023. Abstract submissions should be in the form of abstracts of no more than 500 words, excluding references. Abstracts should be submitted as a PDF to the workshop organizers at philipp.meer(a)uni-muenster.de and gut(a)uni-muenster.de by December 15, 2023. Accepted abstracts will be allotted 20-minute presentation slots, followed by 10 minutes for questions and discussion. We will also allocate time for a general discussion of the research questions at the end of the workshop. The publication of an edited volume of papers presented as part of the workshop is envisaged. We look forward to receiving your submissions and to an exciting workshop on "Corpus Phonology: Current Approaches and Future Directions". Keywords: corpus phonology; corpus linguistics; speech technology; sociolinguistics; L2 research ********** Best wishes, Philipp __________ Philipp Meer Research Associate (Postdoc) University of Münster – English Department Johannisstr. 12-20, D-48143 Münster, Germany Email: philipp.meer(a)uni-muenster.de Website: https://www.uni-muenster.de/Anglistik/Staff/Meer.shtml Visiting Researcher Speech Prosody Studies Group University of Campinas (UNICAMP) – Institute of Language Studies (IEL) Rua Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, no 571, Campinas – São Paulo - Brazil External profiles: ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Philipp_Meer Academia.edu: https://uni-muenster.academia.edu/PhilippMeer

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