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CLiC-it 2023 - Ninth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics - 2nd CfP
by Magnini Bernardo 07 Jul '23

07 Jul '23

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ninth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 30 November - 2 December, 2023, Venice, Italy Second Call for Papers (and deadline extension) https://clic2023.ilc.cnr.it/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics, CLiC-it, aims at establishing a reference forum for the Italian community of researchers working in the fields of Computational Linguistics (CL) and Natural Language Processing (NLP). CLiC-it promotes and disseminates high-level, original research on all aspects of automatic language processing, both written and spoken, and targets state-of-the-art theoretical results, experimental methodologies, technologies, as well as application perspectives, which may contribute to the advancement of the CL and NLP fields. The spirit of the conference is inclusive. In the conviction that the complexity of language phenomena needs cross-disciplinary competences, CLiC-it intends to bring together researchers of related disciplines such as Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Machine Learning, Computer Science, Knowledge Representation, Information Retrieval, and Digital Humanities. CLiC-it is open to contributions on all languages, with a particular emphasis on Italian. The ninth edition of CLiC-it will be held in Venice, on 30 November - 2 December, 2023. CLiC-it is organised by the Italian Association of Computational Linguistics (AILC -- www.ai-lc.it). Submission Format ------------------------- CLiC-it 2023 invites the submission of long and short papers in all aspects of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing. CLiC-it 2023 aims to have a broad technical program. Relevant topics for the conference include, but are not limited to (in alphabetical order): - Computational Historical Linguistics - Computational Social Science and Cultural Analytics - Dialogue and Interactive Systems - Discourse and Pragmatics - Ethics and NLP - Generation - Handwritten Text Recognition - Information Extraction - Information Retrieval and Text Mining - Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP - Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond - Large Language Models - Linguistic Diversity - Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling, and Psycholinguistics - Machine Learning for NLP - Machine Translation - Multilingualism and Cross-Lingual NLP - NLP Applications - NLP for the Humanities - Phonology, Morphology, and Word Segmentation - Pragmatics and Creativity - Question Answering - Resources and Evaluation - Semantics: Lexical, Sentence-level Semantics, Textual Inference, and Other Areas - Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining - Speech and Multimodality - Summarization - Syntax: Tagging, Chunking and Parsing Paper Types and Formats --------------------------------- - 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 six (6) pages of content, plus unlimited pages of references and appendices. Final versions of long papers will be given one additional page of content (up to seven (7) pages), so that reviewers’ comments can be taken into account. Please note that, following CEUR specifications, the minimum length of the camera-ready version of a long paper is 25,000 characters, spaces and references included. - Short paper submissions must describe original and unpublished work. Please note that a short paper is not a shortened long paper. Instead, short papers should have a small, focused contribution - a point that can be made in a few pages with sufficient level of detail. Short papers may consist of up to three (3) pages of content, plus unlimited pages of references and appendices. Final versions of short papers will be given one additional page of content (up to four (4) pages), so that reviewers’ comments can be taken into account. Please note that, following CEUR specifications, the minimum length of the camera-ready version of a short paper is 12,500 characters, spaces and references included. In particular, CLiC-it 2023 welcomes the following kinds of contributions: - Computationally-aided linguistic and literary analysis (of either models or data resources) - NLP engineering experiment - Reproduction study - New data resources, particularly for Italian and for low-resource languages - Approaches for data- and compute efficiency - Position papers - Surveys - Publicly available software and pre-trained models Both, long and short papers, will be evaluated according to the following criteria: - soundness of approach - relevance to computational linguistics - novelty and clarity of relation with related work - quality of presentation - quality of evaluation (only for long papers, if applicable) - verifiability and ability to replicate (only for long papers, if applicable) While there is no direct mapping between types of contributions and paper length, some kinds of papers naturally gravitate towards a certain length: e.g. surveys are more likely to be long rather than short papers. One paper can make more than one contribution of different types (e.g., a paper presenting a new resource and experiments using the resource). Papers can be either in English or Italian, with the abstract both in English and Italian. Papers must be submitted through the OpenReview platform using the following link: https://openreview.net/group?id=AI-LC.it/CLiC-it/2023/Conference Both long and short papers must follow the CLiC-it two-column format, using the supplied official style files. We strongly recommend the use of LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word style files according to the following formats: - LaTex Template: https://clic2023.ilc.cnr.it/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/clic2023.zip - Word Template: https://clic2023.ilc.cnr.it/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/clic2023.odt Please do not modify these style files, nor should you use templates designed for other conferences. Submissions that do not conform to the required styles, including paper size, margin width, and font size restrictions, will be rejected without review. Reviewing will NOT be blind, so there is no need to remove author information from manuscripts. Research Communication Papers ------------------------------------------- CLiC-it 2023 favours a parallel submission policy for outstanding papers that have been submitted and accepted elsewhere in 2022 and 2023. If you are the author of a paper accepted at a major international CL conference or journal in 2022 or 2023, you can submit your work at CLiC-it 2023 in the form of a short research communication, within a dedicated session at the conference. Research communications will not be published in the proceedings, but are mostly intended to enforce dissemination of excellence in research within the Italian CL community. The papers submitted must be in scope for the CLiC-it 2023 conference. The authors of any paper that meets the above criteria are invited to submit a written (maximum) one-page document with the abstract of the original paper, the paper’s title, the paper’s authors, and a pointer to the original journal paper at the conference or journal Web site. Authors will be invited to present their papers at CLiC-it 2023 after a check that the paper satisfies the above listed criteria. As the papers have already been reviewed and published, they will not be reviewed again. In the case that an exceptionally high number of submissions is received, a selection will be made, also based on the original publication venue. Priority will be given to papers that better fit the conference program, offering a balance across the conference topics. Awards ---------- In order to award the work of young researchers, the title of “best paper” will be attributed to the best papers in different research areas with a Master/PhD student among the authors and presenting the work at the conference. The awarded authors will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers to the Italian Journal of Computational Linguistics (IJCoL). To recognise excellence in student research as well as promote awareness of our field and with the endorsement of AILC, we are conferring the “Emanuele Pianta” prize for the best Master Thesis (Laurea Magistrale) in Computational Linguistics submitted at an Italian University. The prize consists of 500 euro plus free membership to AILC for one year and free registration to the upcoming CLiC-it, where the author will have the chance to present her/his thesis. The complete call is available on the conference website at: “Calls > AILC Master Thesis Award”. Multiple Submission Policy ----------------------------------- CLiC-it 2023 allows for a multiple submission policy. In case of acceptance of the paper in other venues, the authors must communicate this information to the CLiC-it 2023 Chairs as soon as possible. Important Dates ---------------------- 20/07/2023 31/07/2023 at 10AM (extended): Paper submission deadline: long, short, research communications 29/09/2023: Notification to authors of reviewing outcome 20/10/2023: Camera ready version of accepted papers 30/11 - 2/12/2023: CLiC-it Conference, Venice People --------- Conference Chairs: - Federico Boschetti (Institute for Computational Linguistics "A. Zampolli", CNR / Ca' Foscari University of Venice) - Gianluca E. Lebani (Ca' Foscari University of Venice) - Bernardo Magnini (Fondazione Bruno Kessler) - Nicole Novielli (University of Bari "Aldo Moro") Local Organizing Committee: - Franz Fischer (Ca' Foscari University of Venice) - Francesca Dall’Igna (IUSS, School for Advanced Studies Pavia) - Luca Molinari (Ca' Foscari University of Venice / University of Warsaw) - Cristina Procentese (Ca' Foscari University of Venice) Proceedings Chairs: - Alice Suozzi (Ca' Foscari University of Venice) - Andrea Zaninello (Fondazione Bruno Kessler) Webmasters: - Eleonora Ghizzota (University of Bari "Aldo Moro") - Tiziano Labruna (Fondazione Bruno Kessler) Publicity Chair - Sofia Brenna (Fondazione Bruno Kessler) Further information -------------------------- Conference website: https://clic2023.ilc.cnr.it/ Mail: clicit2023(a)gmail.com Twitter: @CLiC_it_conf -- -- Le informazioni contenute nella presente comunicazione sono di natura privata e come tali sono da considerarsi riservate ed indirizzate esclusivamente ai destinatari indicati e per le finalità strettamente legate al relativo contenuto. 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Deadline extension: The 1st Workshop on Computational Terminology in NLP and Translation Studies (ConTeNTs)
by amalhaddad＠ugr.es 07 Jul '23

07 Jul '23

The 1st Workshop on Computational Terminology in NLP and Translation Studies (ConTeNTs) Varna, 7th-8th September, 2023 In conjunction with RANLP 2023 - International Conference "Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing" Final call for papers Computational Terminology and new technologies applied to translation studies have attracted the interest of researchers with very different multidisciplinary backgrounds and motivations. Those fields cover a range of areas in Natural Language Processing (NLP) such as information retrieval, terminology extraction, question-answering systems, ontology building, machine translation, computer-aided translation, automatic or semi-automatic abstracting, text generation, etc. Terminological identification, extraction and coinage of new terms are essential for knowledge mining from texts, both in high and low resources languages. Quick evolutions and new developments in specialised domains require efficient and systematic automatic term management. New terms need to be coined and translated to ensure the equitable development of domains in all languages. During the last decade, deep learning and neural methods have become the state of the art for most NLP applications. Those applications were shown to outperform previous methods on various tasks, including automatic term extraction, language mining, assessment of quality in machine translation, accessibility of terminology, etc. On the one hand, NLP and computational linguistics try to improve the work of translators and interpreters by developing Computer-Assisted Translation (CAT) tools, Translation Memories (TMs), terminological databases and terminology extraction tools, etc. On the other hand, the NLP field still needs the efforts and knowledge of translators, interpreters and linguists to provide better services and tools based on the real necessities of those language professionals. The aim of this workshop is to promote new insights into the ongoing and forthcoming developments in computational terminology by bringing together NLP experts, as well as terminologists and translators. By uniting researchers with such diverse profiles, we hope to bridge some of the gaps between these disciplines and inspire a dialogue between various parties, thus paving the way to more artificial intelligence applications based on mutual collaboration between language and technology. Topics of Interest The ConTeNTs workshop invites the submission of papers reporting on original and unpublished research on topics related to Computational Terminology in NLP and Translation Studies, including but not limited to: * Automatic term extraction: monolingual and multilingual extraction of terms from parallel and comparable corpora, including single and multiword expressions; * Extraction and acquisition of semantic relations between terms; * Extraction and generation of domain specific definitions and disambiguation of terms; * Representation of terms, management of term variation and the discovery of synonym terms or term clusters and its relation to NLP applications; * Extraction of terminological context, through the use of comparable and parallel corpus; * Accessibility of terminology in certain domains, relevant to non-experts or to laypersons, and its relevance to NLP applications such as, chatbots, automatic email generation or spoken language interface; * The impact of terminology on MT (applying terminology constraints, evaluation of MT in domain-specific settings, etc.); * The creation of domain ontologies, thesaurus, terminological resources in specialised domains; * The use of new technologies in translation studies and research and the use of terminological resources in specialised translation; * Identification of key problems in terminology and new technologies used in translation studies; * Evaluation of terminological resources in various NLP applications and the impact of these resources have on the performance of the automatic systems; * Emerging language technologies: how the increased reliance on real-time language technologies would change the structure of language; * Corpus based studies applied to translation and interpreting: the use of parallel and comparable corpora for translating phraseological units; * Phraseology and multiword expressions in cross-linguistic studies; * Translation and interpreting tools, such as translation memories, machine translation and alignment tools; * User requirements for interpreting and translation tools. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Submissions must consist of full-text papers and should not exceed 7 pages excluding references, they should be a minimum of 5 pages long. The accepted papers will be published as ConTeNTs workshop e-proceedings with ISBN, will be assigned a DOI and will be also available at the time of the conference. The papers should be in English. Authors of accepted papers will receive guidelines regarding how to produce camera-ready versions of their papers for inclusion in the proceedings. Each submission will be reviewed by at least two programme committee members. Accepted papers will be presented orally as part of the programme of the workshop. Submissions Link to START system: https://softconf.com/ranlp23/ConTeNTS Website of the workshop: https://contents2023.kulak.kuleuven.be/ Should you require any assistance with the submission, please do not hesitate to contact us at amalhaddad(a)ugr.es and ayla.rigoutsterryn(a)kuleuven.be. Important Dates Deadline for paper submission: 10 July 2023 31 July 2023 Acceptance notification: 5 August 2023 Final camera-ready version: 25 August 2023 Workshop camera-ready proceedings ready: 31 August 2023 ConTeNTs workshop: 7/8 September 2023 Workshop Chairs & Organising Committee Ayla Rigouts Terryn, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Amal Haddad Haddad, Universidad de Granada, Spain Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom Programme Committee * Sophia Ananiadou (University of Manchester) * Maria Andreeva Todorova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) * Silvia Bernardini (University of Bologna) * Melania Cabezas García (Universidad de Granada) * Rute Costa (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) * Esther Castillo Pérez (Universidad de Granada) * Patrick Drouin (Université de Montréal) * Pamela Faber (Universidad de Granada) * Mercedes García de Quesada (Universidad de Granada) * Dagmar Gromann (Centre for Translation Studies - University of Vienna) * Tran Thi Hong Hanh (L3i Laboratory, University of La Rochelle) * Rejwanul Haque (National College of Ireland) * Amir Hazem (Nantes University) * Kyo Kageura (University of Tokyo) * Barbara Karsch (BIK Terminology - USA) * Dorothy Kenny (Dublin City University) * Miloš Jakubíček (Sketch Engine) * Hendrik Kockaert (KU Leuven) * Philipp Koehn (Johns Hopkins University) * Maria Kunilovskaya (Saarland University) * Marie-Claude L'Homme (Université de Montréal) * Hélène Ledouble (Université de Toulon) * Pilar León-Araúz (Universidad de Granada) * Rodolfo Maslias (former Head of TermCoord, European Parliament) * Silvia Montero Martínez (Universidad de Granada) * Emmanuel Morin (LS2N-TALN) * Rogelio Nazar (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso) * Sandrine Peraldi (University College Dublin) * Silvia Piccini (Italian National Research Council) * Thierry Poibeau (CNRS) * Senja Pollak (Jožef Stefan Institute) * Maria Pozzi Pardo (El Colegio de México) * Tharindu Ranasinghe (Aston University) * Arianne Reimerink (Universidad de Granada) * Andres Repar (Jožef Stefan Institute) * Christophe Roche (Université Savoie Mont-Blanc) * Antonio San Martín Pizarro (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières) * Beatriz Sánchez Cárdenas (Universidad de Granada) * Vilelmini Sosoni (Ionian University) * Irena Spasic (Cardiff University) * Elena Isabelle Tamba (Romanian Academy, Iași Branch) * Rita Temmerman (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) * Jorge Vivaldi Palatresi (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

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Second CfPs PHRAME project closing event (deadline: 16/07/2023)
by Luciana Forti 07 Jul '23

07 Jul '23

PHRAME: Phraseological complexity measures in learner Italian. Integrating eye tracking, computational and learner corpus methods to develop second language pedagogical resources Closing event Perugia, 27-28 November 2023 SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS We invite contributions including, but not limited to, the following areas of research: - Corpus-based approaches in the study of L2 phraseology - Psycholinguistic approaches in the study of L2 phraseology - Computational and NLP approaches in the study of L2 phraseology - Complexity theory and second language acquisition studies - Mixed-methods approaches in the study of L2 phraseology - Syllabus design for the development of phraseological competence - Testing and assessing L2 phraseological competence Keynote speakers of the event will be: - Philip Durrant (University of Exeter) - Gabriele Pallotti (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) - Anna Siyanova-Chanturia (University of Wellington and Ocean University of China) Guidelines - The event will be in-person only, with live-streaming.- Paper proposals may refer to languages other than Italian.- The abstracts for full paper presentations should be written in English. They should not exceed 500 words, references included. The abstract should be sent to progettophrame(a)gmail.com in a Word document containing the following information: - Title of the proposed presentation - Name of the author(s) - Affiliation of the author(s) - The presented papers will be collected and published.- Registration for in-person participation will open on 4th September and close on 10th November 2023.- The official languages of the event are Italian and English. Important dates 16 July 2023: Abstract submission closes.30 August 2023: Abstract reviews assigned.17 September 2023: Abstract reviews completed.22 September 2023: Notification to authors.10 November 2023: Registration for in-person participation closes.27-28 November 2023: PHRAME closing event. Any questions regarding the call for papers and the event may be directed to progettophrame(a)gmail.com. Scientific and organising Committee: Giulio Biondi, Veronica D’Alesio, Irene Fioravanti, Luciana Forti, Valentina Franzoni, Sabine Koesters Gensini, Francesca La Russa, Francesca Malagnini, Alfredo Milani, Maria Roccaforte, Valentino Santucci, Stefania Spina, Fabio Zanda. References - Altenberg, B. (1998). On the phraseology of spoken English: The evidence of recurrent word-combinations. In A. P. Cowie (Ed.), Phraseology: Theory, analysis and applications (pp. 101–122). Oxford University Press. - Paquot, M. (2018). Phraseological Competence: A Missing Component in University Entrance Language Tests? Insights From a Study of EFL Learners’ Use of Statistical Collocations. Language Assessment Quarterly, 1–15.< - Sinclair, J. M. (1991). Corpus, Concordance, Collocation. Oxford University Press. - Siyanova-Chanturia, A., & Pellicer-Sánchez, A. (2019). Understanding Formulaic Language A Second Language Acquisition Perspective. Routledge. Web page of the event: PHRAME: Phraseological complexity Measures in learner Italian (Closing event) | | | | | | | | | | | PHRAME: Phraseological complexity Measures in learner Italian (Closing e... Second Call for Papers We invite contributions including, but not limited to, the following areas of research: C... | | |

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Call for Abstracts - NARNiHS 2024 Annual Meeting New York City
by NAm Research Network in HistSocio 07 Jul '23

07 Jul '23

NARNiHS 2024 North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics Sixth Annual Meeting Co-Located with the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Annual Meeting 100 % IN PERSON New York, NY USA. After three all-online editions, the NARNiHS Annual Meeting is back in person! We encourage our fellow historical sociolinguists and scholars from related fields from our global scholarly community (in addition to North America) to join us in New York City for our Sixth Annual Meeting. Abstract submission deadline: Friday, 11 August 2023, 11:59 PM US Eastern Time. Please see our call for abstracts below and send us your latest work in historical sociolinguistics! —————————— Call for Abstracts —————————— The North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics (NARNiHS) is accepting abstracts for its Sixth Annual Meeting (NARNiHS 2024), Thursday, January 4 – Sunday, January 7, 2024. Deadline for receipt of abstracts: Friday, 11 August 2023, 11:59 PM US Eastern Time. Late abstracts will not be considered. NARNiHS welcomes abstracts in all areas of historical sociolinguistics, which is understood as the application/development of sociolinguistic theories, models, and methods for the study of historical language variation and change over time, or more broadly, the study of the interaction of language and society in historical periods and from historical perspectives. Thus, a wide range of linguistic areas, subdisciplines, and methodologies easily find their place within the field, and we encourage submission of abstracts that reflect this broad scope. Abstracts will be accepted for both 20-minute papers and posters. Please note that, at the NARNiHS annual meeting, poster presentations are an integral part of the conference (not second-tier presentations). Abstracts will be assigned a paper or a poster presentation based on determinations in the review process about the most effective format for the submission. However, if you prefer that your submission be considered primarily for poster presentation, please specify this in your abstract. Abstracts will be evaluated on the following criteria: ● explicit discussion of which theoretical frameworks, methodological protocols, and analytical strategies are being applied or critiqued; ● sufficient (if brief) presentation of data sources and examples to allow reviewers a clear understanding of the scope and claims of the research; ● clear articulation of how the research advances knowledge in the field of historical sociolinguistics. Abstracts should also be anonymized to allow for blind peer review. Failure to adhere to these criteria will significantly increase the likelihood of non-acceptance (see point iii below). General Requirements: 1) Abstracts must be submitted electronically, using the following link: https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/NARNiHS2024 <https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Feasyabs.l…> 2) Authors may submit a maximum of two abstracts: one single-author abstract and one co-authored abstract. 3) Authors may not submit identical abstracts for presentation at the NARNiHS meeting and at the LSA Annual Meeting or one of the other LSA Sister Societies (ADS, ANS, NAAHoLS, SCiL, SPCL, SSILA). 4) Specify in the abstract if you prefer that your submission be considered primarily for a poster presentation. 5) After an abstract has been submitted, no changes of author, title, or wording of the abstract, other than those due to typographical errors, are permitted. If accepted, authors will be contacted for a final version for the abstract booklet. 6) Papers or posters must be delivered as projected in the abstract or represent bona fide developments of the same research. 7) Authors are expected to attend the conference in-person and present their own papers and posters. This will not be a hybrid event. 8) We are planning for an LCD projector with sound to be available for all paper presentations. Abstract Format Guidelines: i. Abstracts must be submitted in PDF format. ii. Abstracts must fit on one standard 8.5×11 inch page, with margins no smaller than 1 inch and a font style and size no smaller than Times New Roman 12 point. All additional content (visualizations, trees, tables, figures, captions, examples, and references) must fit on a single (1) additional page. No exceptions to these requirements are allowed. iii. Anonymize your abstract. We realize that sometimes it is not possible to attain complete anonymity, but there is a difference between “inability to anonymize completely” (due to the nature of the research) and “careless non-anonymizing” (for example: “In Jones 2021, I describe…”). In addition, be sure to anonymize your PDF file (you may do so in Adobe Acrobat Reader by clicking on “File”, then “Properties”, removing your name if it appears in the “Author” line of the “Description” tab, and re-saving before submitting it). Please be aware that abstract file names might not be automatically anonymized by the system; do not use your name (e.g. Smith_Abstract.pdf) when saving your abstract in PDF format, rather, use non-identifying information (e.g. HistSoc4Lyfe_NARNiHS.pdf). Your name should only appear in the online form accompanying your abstract submission. Papers that are not sufficiently anonymized wherever possible (whether in the text of the abstract or in the metadata of the digital file) risk being rejected. Contact us at NARNiHistSoc(a)gmail.com with any questions.

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ALSFAL2023: Prazos/plazos/Deadlines
by Rodrigo Esteves de Lima Lopes 07 Jul '23

07 Jul '23

*Versões em Português, Espanhol e Inglês* *Versions in Portuguese, Spanish, and English* *Versiones en Portugués, Español e Inglés* English Dear Colleagues, It is a pleasure to inform deadline extensions and publication opportunities for ALSFAL2023: 18th Congress of the Latin American Systemic Functional Linguistics Association. Abstract Submissions: The submission deadline for abstracts (in all categories) and workshop registrations has been extended until July 29, 2023. Publication ALSFAL2023 will organize a book containing selected works from the event. Further information will be announced soon. About the event: ALSFAL2023 will take place at UNICAMP from September 25 to 29, 2023. For further information, please refer to our website: https://www2.iel.unicamp.br/alsfal2023/ Português Caros colegas, É com prazer que trazemos informações sobre prorrogações de prazos e oportunidade de publicação no ALSFAL2023: Congresso da Associação de Linguística Sistêmico-Funcional da América Latina. Submissões de trabalhos e minicursos A submissão de trabalhos (em todas as modalidades) e inscrições em minicursos está prorrogada até 29/07/2023. Publicações A ALSFAL2023 organizará um livro com um conjunto de trabalhos selecionados no evento. Mais informações serão divulgadas em breve. Sobre o evento: A ALSFAL2023 será realizada na UNICAMP entre 25 e 29 de setembro de 2023. Maiores informações em nosso endereço eletrônico: https://www2.iel.unicamp.br/alsfal2023/ Español Estimados colegas, Es un placer informarles sobre la ampliación de plazos de presentación y oportunidades de publicación para ALSFAL2023: 18º Congreso de la Asociación Latinoamericana de Lingüística Sistémico-Funcional. Envío de resúmenes: El plazo de envío de resúmenes (en todas las categorías) e inscripciones a talleres se ha extendido hasta el 29 de julio de 2023. Publicación: ALSFAL2023 organizará un libro que contendrá trabajos seleccionados del evento. Próximamente se anunciará más información al respecto. Sobre el evento: ALSFAL2023 se llevará a cabo en la UNICAMP del 25 al 29 de septiembre de 2023. Para más información, les invitamos a visitar nuestro sitio web: https://www2.iel.unicamp.br/alsfal2023/. --- *Rodrigo Esteves de Lima Lopes* rll307(a)unicamp.br Professor Associado *||* Associate Professor Universidade Estadual de Campinas *||* State University of Campinas Depto. de Linguística Aplicada *|| *Dept. of Applied Linguistics CV (Português) <http://lattes.cnpq.br/1654734521861377> || ORCID <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3681-1553> || Google Scholar <https://scholar.google.com.br/citations?user=q1V4jksAAAAJ&hl=pt-BR>

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PhD position in NLP for Health Data Science at Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam
by Coimbra Alves Cavalcanti, I. (Iacer) 07 Jul '23

07 Jul '23

*** Apologies for cross-posting *** Dear colleagues, We have a fully-funded PhD position in the exciting area of Natural Language Processing for Health Data Science in the Amsterdam UMC<https://www.amsterdamumc.org/en/research.htm> at the University of Amsterdam<https://www.uva.nl/en>! Do you have a strong background in NLP, ML and AI, and a keen interest in applications of large language models for health data science? Please consider applying, we are accepting applications until July 16! You will be part of the DataTools4Heart project<https://www.datatools4heart.eu/> and will have real impact on healthcare applications with a focus on cardiology. You will develop novel state-of-the-art large language models for Dutch and/or more languages, and will have the opportunity to collaborate with the many partners of the project across many countries and institutions within Europe. The PhD will be jointly supervised by myself<https://iacercalixto.github.io/> and a great interdisciplinary team! The researcher will be embedded in the Medical Informatics and Cardiology departments at the Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam. Apply here: https://werkenbij.amsterdamumc.org/en/vacatures/research/phd-natural-langua… (Please feel free to share with your students/communities) Have a great week, Iacer. Iacer Calixto | Assistant professor in the Department of Medical Informatics, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam. i.coimbra(a)amsterdamumc.nl<mailto:i.coimbra@amsterdamumc.nl> | iacer.calixto(a)uva.nl<mailto:iacer.calixto@uva.nl> | iacercalixto.github.io.<http://iacercalixto.github.io/> Member of the ACL<https://www.aclweb.org/portal/> and the ELLIS Society<https://ellis.eu/>. ______________________________________________________ AmsterdamUMC disclaimer : www.amsterdamumc.org/disclaimers

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EACL 2024: First Call for Papers
by Yuval Pinter 07 Jul '23

07 Jul '23

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

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* Extended deadline * Call for Late Breaking Results, ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI2023)
by Gualtiero Volpe 06 Jul '23

06 Jul '23

*** Deadline extended to July 21st, 2023 *** ======================================================== ACM ICMI 2023 CALL FOR LATE-BREAKING RESULTS 9-13 October 2023, Paris - France https://icmi.acm.org/2023/late-breaking-results/ ======================================================== Based on the success of the LBR in the past ICMI, the ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) 2023 continues soliciting submissions for the special venue titled Late-Breaking Results (LBR). The goal of this venue is to provide a way for researchers to share emerging results at the conference. Accepted submissions will be presented in a poster session at the conference, and the extended abstract will be published in the new Adjunct Proceedings (Companion Volume) of the main ICMI Proceedings. Like similar venues at other conferences, the LBR venue is intended to allow sharing of ideas, getting formative feedback on early-stage work, and furthering collaborations among colleagues. Online Submission For online paper submissions, please click on the following link: https://new.precisionconference.com/user/login?next=https%3A//new.precision… Highlights * Submission deadline: July 21st, 2023, 23:59 PDT (GMT-7) *** EXTENDED *** * Notifications: August 13th, 2023 * Camera-ready deadline: September 3rd, 2023 * Conference Dates: October 9-13, 2023 * Submission format: Anonymized, short paper (four-page paper in a double column format, not including references), following the submission guidelines, available here: https://icmi.acm.org/2023/guidelines-for-authors/ * Selection process: Peer-Reviewed * Presentation format: Participation in the conference poster session * Proceedings: Included in Adjunct Proceedings and ACM Digital Library * LBR Co-chairs: Jean-Marc Odobez and Chi-Chun Lee What are Late-Breaking Results? Late-Breaking Work (LBR) submissions represent work such as preliminary results, provoking and current topics, novel experiences or interactions that may not have been fully validated yet, cutting edge or emerging work that is still in exploratory stages, smaller-scale studies, or in general, work that has not yet reached a level of maturity expected for the full-length main track papers. However, LBR papers are still expected to bring a contribution to the ICMI community, commensurate with the preliminary, short, and quasi-informal nature of this track. Why submit to the Late-Breaking Results track at ICMI? Accepted LBR papers will be presented as posters during the conference. This provides an opportunity for researchers to receive feedback on early-stage work, explore potential collaborations, and otherwise engage in exciting thought-provoking discussions about their work in an informal setting that is significantly less constrained than a paper presentation. The LBR (posters) track also offers those new to the ICMI community a chance to share their preliminary research as they become familiar with this field. Late-Breaking Results papers appear in the Adjunct Proceedings (Companion Volume) of the ICMI Proceedings. Copyright is retained by the authors, and the material from these papers can be used as the basis for future publications as long as there are "significant" revisions from the original, as per the ACM and ACM SIGCHI policies. Submission Guidelines Extended Abstract: An anonymized short paper, four-page paper in a double column ACM conference format, using LaTeX or Word (excluding references). Papers should follow the same guidelines as papers published in the proceedings of the ACM ICMI conference: https://icmi.acm.org/2023/guidelines-for-authors/. The paper should be submitted in PDF format and through the ICMI submission system in the “Late-Breaking Results” track. Due to the tight publication timeline, it is recommended that authors submit a very nearly finalized paper that is as close to camera-ready as possible, as there will be a very short timeframe for preparing the final camera-ready version and no deadline extensions can be granted. Anonymization: Authors are instructed not to include author information in their submission. In order to help reviewers judge the situation of the LBR to prior work, authors should not remove or anonymize references to their own prior work. Instead, we recommend that authors obscure references to their own prior work by referring to it in the third person during submission. If desired, after acceptance, such references can be changed to first-person. Review Process LBRs will be evaluated to the extent that they are presenting work still in progress, rather than complete work which is under-described in order to fit into the LBR format. The LBR track will undergo an external peer review process. Submissions will be evaluated by a number of factors including (1) the relevance of the work to ICMI, (2) the quality of the submission, and (3) the degree to which it "fits" the LBR track (e.g., in-progress results). More particularly, the quality of the submission will be evaluated based on the potential contributions of the research to the field of multimodal interfaces and its impact on the field and beyond. Authors should clearly justify how the proposed ideas can bring some measurable breakthroughs compared to the state-of-the-art of the field. Attendance Similar rules for registration and attendance will be applied for authors of LBR papers as for regular papers. Further information will be available later on and given on the main page of the website. Questions? For more information and updates on the ICMI 2023 Late-Breaking Results (LBR), visit the LBR page of the main conference website: https://icmi.acm.org/2023/late-breaking-results/. For further questions, contact the LBR co-chairs (Jean-Marc Odobez and Chi-Chun Lee) at icmi2023-late-breaking-results-chairs(a)acm.org

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NEW DEADLINE - CFP - Second Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility and Readability - TSAR 2023 @ RANLP
by Horacio Saggion 06 Jul '23

06 Jul '23

Second Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility and Readability - TSAR 2023 @ RANLP Jointly with the Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing Conference RANLP 2023 https://tsar-workshop.github.io/http://ranlp.org/ranlp2023/First Call for PapersImportant Dates Submission deadline: 10 July 2023 17/7/2023 Notification of acceptance: 5 August 2023 Camera-ready papers due: 25 August 2023 Workshop: 7 or 8 September 2023 Web provides an abundance of knowledge and information that can reach large populations. However, the way in which a text is written (vocabulary, syntax, or text organization/structure), or presented, can make it inaccessible to many people, especially to non-native speakers, people with low literacy, and people with some type of cognitive or linguistic impairments. The results of Adult Literacy Survey (OECD, 2023) indicate that approximately 16.7% of the adult population (averaged over 24 highly-developed countries) requires lexical, 50% syntactic, and 89.4% conceptual simplification of everyday texts (Štajner, 2021). Research on automatic text simplification (TS), textual accessibility, and readability thus have the potential to improve social inclusion of marginalised populations. These related research areas have increasingly attracted more and more attention in the past ten years, evidenced by the growing number of publications in NLP conferences. While only about 300 articles in Google Scholar mentioned TS in 2010, this number has increased to about 600 in 2015 and is greater than 1000 in 2020 (Štajner, 2021). Recent research in automatic text simplification has mostly focused on proposing the use of methods derived from the deep learning paradigm (Glavaš and Štajner, 2015; Paetzold and Specia, 2016; Nisioi et al., 2017; Zhang and Lapata, 2017; Martin et al., 2020; Maddela et al., 2021; Sheang and Saggion, 2021). However, there are many important aspects of the automatic text simplification that need the attention of our community: the design of appropriate evaluation metrics, the development of context-aware simplification solutions, the creation of appropriate language resources to support research and evaluation, the deployment of simplification in real environments for real users, the study of discourse factors in text simplification, the identification of factors affecting the readability of a text, etc. To overcome those issues, there is a need for collaboration of CL/NLP researchers, machine learning and deep learning researchers, UI/UX and Accessibility professionals, as well as public organisations representatives (Štajner, 2021). The proposed TSAR workshop builds upon the recent success of several workshops that covered a subset of our topics of interest, including the SEPLN 2021 Current Trends in Text Simplification (CTTS) and the SimpleText workshop at CLEF 2021, the TSAR-2022 at EMNLP 2022, the recent Special Issue on Text Simplification, Accessibility, and Readability at Frontiers in AI, as well as the birds-of-a-feather event on Text Simplification at NAACL 2021 (over 50 participants). The TSAR workshop aims to foster collaboration among all parties interested in making information more accessible to all people. We will discuss recent trends and developments in the area of automatic text simplification, text accessibility, automatic readability assessment, language resources and evaluation for text simplification, etc. Topics We invite contributions on the following topics (among others): - Lexical simplification; - Syntactic simplification; - Modular and end-to-end TS; - Sequence-to-sequence and zero-shot TS; - Controllable TS; - Text complexity assessment; - Complex word identification and lexical complexity prediction; - Corpora, lexical resources, and benchmarks for TS; - Evaluation of TS systems; - Domain specific TS (e.g. health, legal); - Other related topics (e.g. empirical and eye-tracking studies); - Assistive technologies for improving readability and comprehension including those going beyond text. Submissions We welcome two types of papers: long papers and short papers. Submissions should be made to: https://softconf.com/ranlp23/TSAR/ The papers should present novel research. The review will be double blind and thus all submissions should be anonymized. Format: Paper submissions must use the official RANLP 2023 Templates <http://ranlp.org/ranlp2023/index.php/submissions/>, which are available as an Overleaf <https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/instructions-for-ranlp-2023-procee…> template and also downloadable directly (Latex <http://ranlp.org/ranlp2023/Templates/ranlp2023-LaTeX.zip> and Word <http://ranlp.org/ranlp2023/Templates/ranlp2023-word.docx>). Authors may not modify these style files or use templates designed for other conferences. Submissions that do not conform to the required styles, including paper size, margin width, and font size restrictions, will be rejected without review. 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 program committee. The decisions as to which papers will be presented orally and which as poster presentations 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 long papers presented as posters. Short Papers: Short paper submissions must describe original and unpublished work. Please note that a short paper is not a shortened long paper. Instead, short papers should have a point that can be made in a few pages. Some kinds of short papers include: a small, focused contribution; a negative result; an opinion piece; an interesting application nugget. 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 program 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 short papers presented as posters. Demo papers: should be no more than two (2) pages, including references, and should describe implemented systems related to the topics of interest of the workshop. It also should include a link to a short screencast of the working software. In addition, authors of demo papers must be willing to present a demo of their system during TSAR 2023. -- Professor Horacio Saggion Head of the Large Scale Text Understanding Systems Lab Full Professor / Chair in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence TALN / DTIC Deputy Director for Recruitment Universitat Pompeu Fabra [image: https://twitter.com/h_saggion] [image: https://www.linkedin.com/in/horacio-saggion-1749b916]

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Last CfP and deadline extension: Linguistic Insights from and for Multimodal Language Processing Workshop @KONVENS 2023
by Ozge Alacam 06 Jul '23

06 Jul '23

Apologies for cross-posting ------------------------------------------------------ Dear colleagues, We invite you to submit to the first edition of our workshop on "Linguistic Insights from and for Multimodal Language Processing" that will be co-located with KONVENS 2023 in Ingolstadt. The deadline is extended by a week until July 14th, 2023. We are looking forward to your contribution. Our website is available at https://sites.google.com/view/limo2023/home Please find the last CfP below. Best wishes, LIMO 2023 organizers ------------------------------------------------------ Last Call for Papers: Linguistic Insights from and for Multimodal Language Processing @KONVENS 2023 Processing multimodal information (like visual representations of the environment, auditory cues, images, gestures, gaze etc.) and integrating them is a constant and effortless process in human language processing. Recent progress in the area of language & vision, large-scale visually grounded language models, and multimodal learning have led to breakthroughs in challenging multimodal NLP applications like image–text retrieval, image captioning or visual question answering. Yet, modeling the semantics and pragmatics of situated language understanding and generation and, generally, language processing beyond the linguistic context, i.e. in combination with multiple other modalities, is still one of the biggest challenges in NLP and Computational Linguistics. While there have been recent venues and workshops targeting multimodal representation learning and large-scale Language and Vision models, there is a lack of discussion in the community that focuses on linguistic multimodal phenomena, domain- and task-specific analyses of multimodality and, generally, contributions of computational linguistics to multimodal learning and vice versa. With this workshop, we aim to bring together researchers who work on various linguistic aspects of multimodal language processing to discuss and share the recent advances in this interdisciplinary field. Topics of interest: ▪ New multimodal datasets and training schemes in text and dialogue ▪ Multimodal tasks and frameworks in CL ▪ Annotation of multimodal datasets ▪ Modeling and analysis of linguistic phenomena in multimodal datasets ▪ Analysis and discussion of shortcomings of existing multimodal language models ▪ Approaches to multimodality in different domains, e.g., documents, social media, visual dialogue, situated dialogue, etc. ▪ Work on cross-modal and inter-modal representations, relationships, and dependencies ▪ Opinion pieces and (theoretical) reflections on multimodality in NLP/Computational Linguistics Keynote Speakers --------------- Sandro Pezzelle, University of Amsterdam Letitia Parcalabescu, Heidelberg University Important Dates --------------- July 14, 2023 – Paper Submission Deadline (Extended) August 21, 2023 – Notification of Acceptance September 04, 2023 – Camera-ready Deadline September 22, 2023 – Workshop Day (one of these days) * All deadlines are 11:59 PM UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth") Paper Submission: ----------------- All paper submissions must use the official KONVENS 2023 style templates. ▪ Long papers must not exceed eight (8) pages of content. ▪ Short papers and demonstration papers must not exceed four (4) pages of content. ▪ Non-archival abstracts must not exceed one (1) page. Organizers: --------------- Piush Aggarwal, FernUniversität in Hagen, piush.aggarwal(a)fernuni-hagen.de Özge Alaçam, Universität Bielefeld, oezge.alacam(a)uni-bielefeld.de Carina Silberer, Universität Stuttgart, carina.silberer(a)ims.uni-stuttgart.de Sina Zarrieß, Universität Bielefeld, sina.zarriess(a)uni-bielefeld.de Torsten Zesch, FernUniversität in Hagen, torsten.zesch(a)fernuni-hagen.de Contact: --------- Özge Alaçam (oezge.alacam(a)uni-bielefeld.de), Piush Aggarwal (piush.aggarwal(a)fernuni-hagen.de) Workshop webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/limo2023/home KONVENS 2023 webpage: https://www.thi.de/konvens-2023/

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