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2nd Call for workshop / course proposals -- ESSLLI 2024 (extended deadline)
by Tatjana Scheffler 12 Dec '23

12 Dec '23

35th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information 29 July – 9 August 2024, Leuven, Belgium https://2024.esslli.eu/ Important Dates =============== 22 December 2023: * (Extended) Deadline for submitting Workshop proposals * (Extended) Deadline for submitting Course Titles 12 January 2024: Deadline for submitting Course proposals 9 February 2024: Notification sent to Workshop proposers 4 March 2024: Notification sent to Course proposers The deadline for Workshop submissions and notification differs from those for Course submissions and notification, to allow participants who need a visa to attend a workshop, sufficient time to apply for one. Topics and Format ================= Proposals for courses and workshops at ESSLLI 2024 are invited in all areas of Logic, Linguistics and Computer Science. Cross-disciplinary and innovative topics are particularly encouraged. Each course and workshop will consist of five 90 minute sessions, offered daily (Monday-Friday) in a single week. Proposals for two-week courses should be structured and submitted as two independent one-week courses, e.g. as an introductory course followed by an advanced one. In such cases, the ESSLLI Program Committee reserves the right to accept just one of the two proposals. All instructional and organizational work at ESSLLI is performed completely on a voluntary basis, so as to keep participation fees to a minimum. However, organizers and instructors have their registration fees waived, and are reimbursed for travel and accommodation expenses up to a level to be determined and communicated with the proposal notification. ESSLLI can only guarantee reimbursement for at most one course/workshop organizer, and cannot guarantee full reimbursement of travel costs for lecturers or organizers from outside of Europe. The ESSLLI organizers would appreciate any help in controlling the School's expenses by seeking partial or complete coverage of travel and accommodation expenses from other sources. Categories ========== Each proposal should fall under one of the following categories. Foundational Courses -------------------- Such courses are designed to present the basics of a research area, to people with no prior knowledge in that area. They should be of elementary level, without prerequisites in the course's topic, though possibly assuming a level of general scientific maturity in the relevant discipline. They should enable researchers from related disciplines to develop a level of comfort with the fundamental concepts and techniques of the course's topic, thereby contributing to the interdisciplinary nature of our research community. Introductory Courses -------------------- Introductory courses are central to ESSLLI's mission. They are intended to introduce a research field to students, young researchers, and other non-specialists, and to foster a sound understanding of its basic methods and techniques. Such courses should enable researchers from related disciplines to develop some comfort and competence in the topic considered. Introductory courses in a cross-disciplinary area may presuppose general knowledge of the related disciplines. Advanced Courses ---------------- Advanced courses are targeted primarily to graduate students who wish to acquire a level of comfort and understanding in the current research of a field. Workshops --------- Workshops focus on specialized topics, usually of current interest. Workshop organizers are responsible for soliciting papers and selecting the workshop program. They are also responsible for publishing proceedings if they decide to have proceedings. Proposal Guidelines =================== Course and workshop proposals should closely follow these guidelines to ensure full consideration. Course and Workshop proposals can be submitted by no more than two lecturers/organizers and can be presented by no more than these two lecturers/organizers. All instructors and organizers must possess a PhD or equivalent degree by the submission deadline. Course proposals should mention explicitly the intended course category. Proposals for introductory courses should indicate the intended level, for example as it relates to standard textbooks and monographs in the area. Proposals for advanced courses should specify the prerequisites in detail. Proposals of Courses given at ESSLLI in the previous year will have a lower priority of being accepted in the current year. Proposals must be in PDF format and include all the following information: 1. Personal information for each proposer: Name, affiliation, contact address, email, homepage (optional) 2. General proposal information: Title, category 3. Contents information: a. Abstract of up to 150 words b. Motivation and description (up to two pages) c. Tentative outline d. Expected level and prerequisites e. Appropriate references (e.g. textbooks, monographs, proceedings, surveys) 4. Information required of course proposers: a. Will the course appeal to students outside of the main discipline of the course? b. What experience does the proposer have in presenting an intensive one-week interdisciplinary setting? c. What evidence is there that the course proposer is an excellent lecturer? 5. Information required of workshop organizers: a. Information on relevant preceding meetings and events, if applicable b. Information about potential external funding for participants. Submission Information ====================== Workshops We have extended the deadline for Workshop proposals. By 22 December 2023, people proposing workshops should upload a PDF with the actual proposal as detailed above. Courses We have extended the deadline for initial submission of course proposals. By 22 December 2023, proposers are asked to submit (via EasyChair) at least the name(s) of the instructor(s), the ESSLLI area+course level and a title and short abstract for the proposed course. By 12 January 2024, course proposers must complete their submission by uploading a PDF with the actual proposal as detailed above. Submission Portal ================= Please submit your proposals to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esslli2024 EACSL Sponsorship ================= The EACSL will support one Logic and Computation course or workshop addressing topics of interest to Computer Science Logic (CSL) conferences. The selected course or workshop will be designated an EACSL course/workshop in the programme. If you wish to be considered for this, please indicate it in your proposal. Organizing Committee ==================== Tim Van de Cruys (KU Leuven, Department of Linguistics) (chair) Lorenz Demey (KU Leuven Institute of Philosophy) Marie-Francine (Sien) Moens (KU Leuven, Department of Computer Science) Walter Schaeken (KU Leuven Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences) Hans Smessaert (KU Leuven, Department of Linguistics) Dirk Speelman (KU Leuven, Department of Linguistics) Program Committee ================= Bonnie Webber (Edinburgh University) (chair) Marie-Francine (Sien) Moens (KU Leuven) (local co-chair) Area Chairs Language and Computation (LaCo) ------------------------------------------- Tatjana Scheffler (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) Carina Silberer (IMS Stuttgart) Ivan Vulic (Cambridge University) Area Chairs Language and Logic (LaLo) ------------------------------------- Heather Burnett (CNRS) Dan Lassiter (Edinburgh University) Bob van Tiel (Radboud University, Nijmegen) Area Chairs Logic and Computation (LoCo) ---------------------------------------- Beniamino Accattoli (INRIA) Louwe Kuijer (University of Liverpool) Fan Yang (Utrecht University) ESSLLI Steering Committee ========================= Jakub Szymanik (University of Trento) (chair) Phokion Kolaitis (University of California, Santa Cruz) (vice-chair) Roman Kuznets (TU Wien) (secretary) Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (University College London) Lonneke van der Plas (Idiap) --- Jun.-Prof. Dr. Tatjana Scheffler (she/her) GB 5/157 Ruhr-Universität Bochum Digital Forensic Linguistics Fakultät für Philologie, Germanistik Universitätsstraße 150 44801 Bochum Germany Mail: tatjana.scheffler(a)rub.de Web: http://staff.germanistik.rub.de/digitale-forensische-linguistik/ Tel.: +49 234 32-21471

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LAST CALL SEPLN issue 72 ***15th December***
by aitziber.atucha＠ehu.eus 12 Dec '23

12 Dec '23

[Spanish version below] Please consider contributing and/or forwarding to appropriate colleagues and groups. *******We apologize for the multiple copies of this e-mail****** SEPLN: CFP Deadline extension from 1st to 15th December for the issue 72 of the Journal Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural http://www.sepln.org/en/journal http://www.sepln.org/en/journal/author-guidelines Introduction The aim of the journal Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural is to provide a forum for the publication of scientific-technical articles in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), for both the national and international scientific community. The articles must be unpublished and cannot be simultaneously submitted for publication in other journals or conference proceedings. The journal also aims to promote the development of areas related to NLP, disseminate research carried out, identify future guidelines for basic research, and present software applications in this field. Every year the Sociedad Española de Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (SEPLN) (Spanish Society for the Natural Language Processing) publishes two issues of the journal, including original articles, presentations of R&D projects, book reviews and summaries of PhD theses. The scientific quality of the Journal is supported by the 2022 JCR index (JCI: 0.31, Q4-Linguistics - ESCI), the SCImago Journal Ranking (2022 SJR: 0.421, Q3-Computer Science Applications, Q1-Linguistics and Language), the Scopus Index (2022 CiteScore: 2.9, Q3-Computer Science Applications, Q1-Linguistics and Language) and the index SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper) with 0.93 points. More information at: http://www.sepln.org/en/journal/quality. Topics Linguistic, mathematical and psycholinguistic models of language Machine learning in NLP Computational lexicography and terminology Corpus linguistics Development of linguistic resources and tools Grammars and formalisms for morphological and syntactic analysis Semantics, pragmatics and discourse Word sense disambiguation Monolingual and multilingual text generation Machine translation Knowledge and common sense Multimodality Speech synthesis and recognition Dialogue systems and interactive systems/ Conversational assistants Audio indexing and retrieval Monolingual and multilingual information extraction and retrieval Question answering systems Evaluation of NLP systems Automatic textual content analysis Sentiment analysis, opinion mining and argument mining Plagiarism detection Negation and speculation processing Text mining in blogosphere and social networks Text summarization Text simplification Image retrieval NLP in biomedical domain NLP-based generation of teaching resources NLP for languages with limited resources NLP industrial applications Low-resource NLP tasks, data augmentation Submission Information The proposal must be submitted by December 15th, 2023 and must meet certain format and style requirements. All submissions must be in PDF format and submitted electronically using the Myreview system available at: http://myreview.sepln.org/myreview-sepln72 Submitted papers will be subjected to a blind review by at least three members of the program committee. Categories of papers Regular papers with original contributions. Summary of PhD thesis. Information for Authors The proposals can be written in Spanish or English and should be at most 10 A4-size pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references, and 4 pages maximum for summaries of PhD theses. The papers must include the following sections: The title of the communication (in English and Spanish). An abstract in English and Spanish (maximum 150 words). A list of keywords or related topics (in English and Spanish). The documents must not include headers or footers. As reviewing will be blind, the paper should not include the authors’ names and affiliation. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author’s identity should be avoided. The articles should only include the title, the abstract, the keywords and the proposal. We recommend using the LaTeX and Word templates that can be downloaded from the SEPLN web (author guidelines have been updated): http://www.sepln.org/index.php/en/journal/author-guidelines Note on camera ready The final version of the paper (camera ready) should be submitted together with a cover letter explaining how the suggestions of the reviewers were implemented in the final version. This cover letter will be considered in order to accept or finally reject the selected paper. Preprint policy The Journal allows the publication of preprints (non-refereed paper posted online, such as ArXiv) anytime, but during the review period the preprint must indicate that the paper it is “under review” in the Journal Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural. Likewise, if the paper is accepted, the preprint must be updated with the DOI, name of the Journal and the bibliographic information of the paper. Important dates Submission deadline: 15th December 2023 Notification of acceptance: 5th February 2024 Camera ready: 12th February 2024 Publication: March 2024 Contact person: Aitziber Atutxa (aitziber.atucha(a)ehu.eus) Editorial Committee of the Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***********Disculpen si reciben varias copias de este mensaje ************ Por favor, si lo considera oportuno, distribuya este llamamiento entre sus colegas. SEPLN: Extensión de entrega del 1 al 15 de Diciembre de artículos para la revista Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural nº 72. http://www.sepln.org/la-revista http://www.sepln.org/la-revista/informacion-para-autores Objetivos de la revista La revista Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural es un foro de publicación de artículos científico-técnicos en el ámbito del Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (PLN), tanto para la comunidad científica nacional como internacional. Los artículos tienen que ser inéditos y no haber sido postulados para ser publicados simultáneamente en otras revistas o actas de congresos. La revista quiere potenciar el desarrollo de las diferentes áreas relacionadas con el PLN, mejorar la divulgación de las investigaciones que se llevan a cabo, identificar las futuras directrices de la investigación básica y mostrar las posibilidades reales de aplicación en este campo. Anualmente la SEPLN (Sociedad Española para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural) publica dos números de la revista, que incluyen artículos originales, presentaciones de proyectos, reseñas bibliográficas y resúmenes de tesis doctorales. La calidad científica de la Revista está respaldada por el índice del JCR 2022 (JCI: 0,31, Q4-Linguistics - ESCI), el índice SCImago Journal Ranking (SJR: 0,421, Q3-Computer Science Applications, Q1-Linguistics and Language), el índice de Scopus (CiteScore: 2,9, Q3-Computer Science Applications, Q1-Linguistics and Language) y el índice SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper) con 0,93 puntos. Más información en http://www.sepln.org/la-revista/calidad. Áreas temáticas Modelos de lenguaje matemáticos y psicolingüísticos Aprendizaje automático en PLN Lexicografía y terminología computacional Lingüística de corpus Desarrollo de recursos y herramientas lingüísticas Gramáticas y formalismos para análisis morfológico y sintáctico Semántica, pragmática y discurso Resolución de ambigüedad léxico-semántica Generación de texto monolingüe y multilingüe Traducción automática Multimodalidad Reconocimiento y síntesis de habla Sistemas de diálogo/ asistentes conversacionales Auto-indexación Recuperación y extracción de información monolingüe y multilingüe Sistemas de búsqueda de respuestas Evaluación de sistemas de PLN Análisis automático de contenido textual Análisis de sentimiento y minería de opiniones Detección de plagio Procesamiento de la negación y la especulación Minería de texto en la blogosfera y las redes sociales Resumen automático de texto Simplificación de texto Recuperación de imágenes Conocimiento y sentido común PLN en el ámbito biomédico Generación de recursos didácticos basada en PLN PLN para lenguas con recursos limitados Aplicaciones industriales del PLN Tratamiento del Lenguaje Hablado Envío de trabajos Las propuestas de trabajos (artículos y resúmenes de tesis) podrán ser enviadas hasta la fecha límite del 15 de diciembre de 2023. El envío y la revisión de las propuestas se realizarán exclusivamente en formato PDF y se gestionarán a través del sistema Myreview: http://myreview.sepln.org/myreview-sepln72. La evaluación de los trabajos pasará por un proceso de revisión ciego realizado como mínimo por tres miembros del consejo asesor de la SEPLN. Tipos de trabajos Artículos sobre contribuciones originales. Reseñas de tesis doctorales. Instrucciones para los Autores Los trabajos pueden estar escritos en español o en inglés y su longitud máxima será de 10 páginas de contenido más un número ilimitado de páginas de referencias para los artículos científicos, y de un máximo de 4 páginas para los resúmenes de tesis. Las propuestas deben contener los siguientes apartados: El título del artículo (en español e inglés). Un resumen en español y un abstract en inglés de un máximo de 150 palabras. Un listado de temas relacionados o palabras clave (en español e inglés). Los documentos no podrán incluir cabeceras ni pies de página. Como la fase de revisión de los trabajos es ciega, en los artículos que se envíen no se debe incluir ninguna referencia a los autores ni referencias propias que revelen la identidad de los mismos. Todas las contribuciones deben contener únicamente el título, el resumen, las palabras claves y la propuesta. En el caso de los resúmenes de tesis, el anonimato no es necesario. Los trabajos deben seguir el formato de las revistas de la SEPLN disponible en la siguiente dirección: http://www.sepln.org/la-revista/informacion-para-autores Las guías se han actualizado, por favor, utilicen las que están disponibles en la página web de la revista. Nota sobre la versión final La versión final del trabajo (camera ready) debe enviarse con un documento en el que se explique cómo se han implementado las sugerencias de los revisores. Dicho documento se tendrá en cuenta para aceptar o rechazar el trabajo en cuestión. Política de prepublicación La revista permite publicar una versión no revisada de los artículos en plataformas de prepublicación (plataformas de artículos no evaluados como ArXiv). Sin embargo, durante el periodo de revisión se debe indicar que el artículo está “en revisión” en la revista Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural. Si el artículo es aceptado, se debe actualizar la publicación en la plataforma de prepublicación con el DOI, nombre de la revista y la información bibliográfica del artículo. Fechas importantes Envío de trabajos: 15 de diciembre de 2023 Notificación de aceptación o rechazo: 5 de febrero de 2024 Versión final: 12 de febrero de 2024 Publicación: Marzo de 2024 Persona de contacto:Aitziber Atutxa (aitziber.atucha(a)ehu.eus) Consejo de redacción de la revista Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural.

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1st CFP: First Workshop on Patient-Oriented Language Processing (CL4Health) @ LREC-COLING 2024
by Paul Thompson 12 Dec '23

12 Dec '23

First Workshop on Patient-Oriented Language Processing (CL4HEALTH) @ LREC-COLING 2024 https://bionlp.nlm.nih.gov/cl4health2024/ Torino, Italy (co-located with LREC-COLING 2024) SCOPE This first workshop on patient-oriented language processing aims to establish a general venue for presenting research and applications focused on patients’ needs, including summarizing health records for the patients, answering consumer-health questions using reliable resources, detecting misinformation or potentially harmful information, and providing multi-modal information, such as video, if it better satisfies patients’ needs. Such a venue is needed both to invigorate patient-oriented language processing research and to build a community of researchers interested in this area. The growing interest in this topic is fueled by several current trends: - a proliferation of online services that target patients but do not always act in their best interests - policy changes that allow patients to access their health records written in the professional vernacular, which may confuse the patients or lead to misinterpretation; - replacement of customer services with chat bots; and - the increasing tendency of patients to consult online resources as a second or even first opinion on their health problems. We invite papers concerning all areas of language processing focused on patients’ health. The workshop will be centered on language technologies for health-related issues concerning the public that include, but are not limited to: - accessibility and trustworthiness of health information provided to the public - explainable and evidence-supported answers to consumer-health questions - accurate summarization of patients’ health records at their health-literacy level - understanding patients' non-informational needs through their language, and accurate and accessible interpretations of biomedical research Broadly, CL4Health is concerned with the resources, computational approaches, and behavioral and socio-economic aspects of the public interactions with digital resources in search of health-related information that satisfies their information needs and guides their actions. The topics of interest for the workshop include but are not limited to the following: - Health-related information needs and online behaviors of the public - Quality assurance and ethics considerations in language technologies and approaches applied to text and other modalities for public consumption - Summarization of EHR data for patients - Detection of misinformation in health-related resources and mitigation of potential harms - Consumer-health question answering - Biomedical text simplification/adaptation - Dialogue systems to support patients’ interactions with clinicians, healthcare systems, and online resources - Linguistic resources, data and tools for language technologies focusing on consumer health - Resources, strategies and metrics for system testing and evaluation - Infrastructures and pre-trained language models for consumer health - Processing and annotation platforms - Synthetic data generation and data augmentation. IMPORTANT DATES (Tentative) March 15, 2024 - Paper submissions due April 5, 2024 - Camera-ready papers due May 20, 2024 - Workshop @ LREC-COLING SUBMISSIONS Two types of submissions are invited: - Full papers: should not exceed eight (8) pages of text, plus unlimited references. These are intended to be reports of original research. - Short papers: may consist of up to four (4) pages of content, plus unlimited references. Appropriate short paper topics include preliminary results, application notes, descriptions of work in progress, etc. Electronic Submission: Submissions must be electronic and in PDF format, using the Softconf START conference management system. Submissions need to be anonymous. The submission site will be announced shortly. Dual submission policy: papers may NOT be submitted to the workshop if they are or will be concurrently submitted to another meeting or publication. INVITED TALKS - Barbara Di Eugenio, University of Illinois Chicago - Abeed Sarker, Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Research in Biomedical Informatics @ Emory School of Medicine - Natalia Grabar, CNRS Researcher, Université de Lille ORGANIZERS - Dina Demner-Fushman, US National Library of Medicine - Sophia Ananiadou, National Centre for Text Mining and University of Manchester, UK - Paul Thompson, National Centre for Text Mining and University of Manchester, UK - Brian Ondov, US National Library of Medicine

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**3rd CFP**- Towards Ethical and Inclusive Conversational AI (TEICAI) at EACL 2024 (Malta)
by Nina Hosseini-Kivanani 12 Dec '23

12 Dec '23

Towards Ethical and Inclusive Conversational AI: Language Attitudes, Linguistic Diversity, and Language Rights (TEICAI) at EACL 2024 on Malta-March 17-22, 2024. Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/teicai2024 Submission link: https://softconf.com/eacl2024/TEICAI-2024/ Submission Deadline: Monday, 18 December 2023 (anywhere on earth) Conversational language technologies (chatbots, voice assistants, and multimodal conversational interfaces) are becoming increasingly complex and common in everyday life. Various language theories (such as speech act theory, politeness theory, conversation analysis, and interaction theory) have started influencing their development. At the same time, the development of these technologies is often driven by technology-related concerns and tends to overlook users’ needs and socio-cultural contexts. This, combined with the scarcity of human rights regulation of AI, raises concerns about linguistic discrimination, exclusion, surveillance, and security risks. In addition, training data for conversational AI mostly comes from written rather than interaction-based language data sets and often does not include gestural, social, and emotional aspects that are fundamental to human interaction. In the same vein, Sign Language is rarely facilitated. To promote a positive impact of conversational technology on linguistic diversity and inclusion, it is imperative to strike a balance between technological concerns and socially relevant matters. Our workshop aims to address these issues by using a holistic approach that involves dialogue and collaboration among technologists, linguists, policymakers, and communities involved in the development and commissioning of conversational AI systems. To foster dialogue towards a multidisciplinary approach to the development of conversational AI that can better serve diverse global audiences, we welcome submissions on a range of topics related to language ideologies and language rights in relation to conversational language technology and AI (e.g., chatbots, voice assistants, multimodal conversational interfaces). Possible topics may include: - Language ideologies in conversational AI - Language rights in conversational AI - Socio-cultural context in conversational AI - Language inclusion in training data for enhancing inclusivity - Incorporating non-verbal communication elements (gestures, emotions) in AI - Sign language and multimodal conversational AI - Audience design in conversational AI (tailoring systems to meet specific audiences’ needs and preferences) - The sense of human agency and identity while interacting with conversational AI - Addressing challenges and opportunities of conversational AI development (case studies, models of effective collaborations) - Linguistic discrimination in conversational AI - Perspectives of communities affected by conversational AI systems: needs, concerns, and expectations We invite authors to submit original, unpublished work (long, short, and position papers). Each submission will be reviewed by 2-3 members of the Programme Committee. Participants should format their submissions using the EACL template, available for LaTeX/Overleaf, and all submissions must be in PDF format. All accepted papers (long, short, and position papers) will be included in the workshop proceedings. The proceedings will be published in the ACL anthology. Important dates: Workshop paper due: December 18, 2023 Direct Submission deadline (pre-reviewed ARR & main conference): January 17, 2024 Notification of acceptance: January 20, 2024 Camera-ready papers due: January 30, 2024 Proceedings due: February 7, 2024 Workshop dates: March 21-22, 2024 Workshop Organizers: Sviatlana Höhn, LuxAI, Luxembourg Nina Hosseini-Kivanani, Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine (FSTM), University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Dimitra Anastasiou, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg Angela Soltan, State University of Moldova, Moldova Bettina Migge, University College Dublin, Ireland Doris Dippold, University of Surrey, UK Fred Philippy, Zortify, Luxembourg Ekaterina Kamlovskaya, Translatables Program Committee: A list of program committee members is available on the workshop website. For any preliminary questions, you're welcome to reach out to teicai2024(a)gmail.com . You can follow us on LinkedIn (TEICAI) and Twitter (teicai2024) to get more updates about the workshop. On behalf of the organizers Nina Hosseini-Kivanani University of Luxembourg

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Post Doc Researcher with the Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics (FATE) research group at Microsoft Research; Review of applications begins January 3, 2024
by Solon Barocas 12 Dec '23

12 Dec '23

The Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics (FATE) research group at Microsoft Research New York City is looking for a Post Doc Researcher to start July 2024: https://jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/job/1667778/Post-Doc-Researche… We will begin to review applications for the position on January 3, 2024. This two-year position is an ideal opportunity for an emerging scholar whose work focuses on the social implications of machine learning and AI. As a Postdoctoral Researcher, you will define your own research agenda, driving forward an effective program of basic, fundamental, and applied research. You will also have the opportunity to collaborate with members of the research group, including Solon Barocas, Alexandra Chouldechova, Kate Crawford, Hal Daumé, Miro Dudík, Hanna Wallach, and Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, as well as others in the New York City lab and other Microsoft Research labs. Microsoft Research offers an exhilarating and supportive environment for cutting-edge, multidisciplinary research, both theoretical and applied, with access to an extraordinary diversity of data sources, an open publications policy, and close links to top academic institutions around the world. Additionally, the position offers unique opportunities to engage with the broader responsible AI (RAI) ecosystem within Microsoft, including product teams, AI policy teams, and RAI practitioners. We seek applicants with a demonstrated interest in FATE-related topics and a desire to work in a highly interdisciplinary environment that includes researchers from computer science, statistics, the social sciences, the humanities, and other fields. Successful candidates will also have an established research track record, evidenced by notable journal or conference publications and broader contributions to the research community. We will consider candidates with a background in a technical field such as computer science (especially AI, machine learning, NLP, and computer vision), statistics, economics, and decision sciences as well as candidates with a socio-technical orientation, such as those in information science, sociology, anthropology, science and technology studies, media studies, law, and related fields. We are especially interested in candidates who would like to pursue research aligned with one or more of the following themes: • Computational, statistical, and sociotechnical approaches to fairness assessment: Data collection, experimental design, sample-efficient statistical methods, measurement, and visualization for fairness assessment; mixed-methods approaches, including participatory methods, for measuring fairness-related harms caused by AI and human-AI systems. • Human-centered AI transparency: Explanation, evaluation, and uncertainty communication approaches to improve stakeholder understanding of AI models or systems; transparency approaches for improving human control, autonomy, oversight, and mitigation of AI harms; transparency in human-AI collaboration. • Institutional, organizational, and economic challenges of AI development, deployment, and use: Challenges of translating real-world problems into machine learning tasks and integrating AI with existing institutional processes; incentives for and resistance to contributing training data; impacts of generative AI on the cultural industries; environmental impacts of generative AI systems. • AI law and policy; AI for policymaking and regulation: How existing laws and policies apply to AI, and where new regulations might be necessary; AI as a tool for effective policymaking, regulation, and enforcement. • Responsible AI in practice: Turning RAI principles into policies and practices; translating RAI research into practice; navigating organizational dynamics, competing incentives, and decision-making under uncertainty. Candidates must have completed their PhD, including submission of their dissertation, prior to the start of the position (i.e., dissertation submitted and degree preferably conferred by July 2024). We encourage candidates with tenure-track job offers from other institutions to apply, provided they are able to defer their start date by at least one year to accept our position. To be assured of full consideration, all application materials, including reference letters, need to be received by January 3, 2024. Applications received after that date may be considered until the position is filled. This role is not to exceed two years.

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Final call for papers: CODI, 5th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse
by Amir Zeldes 11 Dec '23

11 Dec '23

CODI, 5th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse: Final Call for Papers 2024-03-21 or 22 - EACL 2024 - Malta ** Submission deadline: December 20th, 2023 - No deadline extension ** Website link: https://sites.google.com/view/codi2024 Aims and scope The last ten years have seen a dramatic improvement in the ability of NLP systems to understand and produce words and sentences. This development has created a renewed interest in discourse phenomena as researchers move towards the processing of long-form text and conversations. There is a surge of activity in discourse parsing, coherence models, text summarization, corpora for discourse level reading comprehension, and discourse related/aided representation learning, to name a few, but the problems in computational approaches to discourse are still substantial. At this juncture, we have organized four Workshops on Computational Approaches to Discourse (CODI) at EMNLP 2020, EMNLP 2021, COLING 2022 and ACL 2023 to bring together discourse experts and upcoming researchers. These workshops have catalyzed work to advance research on discourse level problems and have served as a forum for the discussion of suitable datasets and reliable evaluation methods. The previous workshops on discourse in machine translation (DiscoMT), linking lexical, sentential and discourse semantics (LSDSem), discourse structure in natural language generation (DSNNLG), discourse relation parsing and treebanking (DISRPT) and coreference (CORBON/CRAC), have shown that there is considerable interest and success in bringing together the community working on specific problems in discourse. We believe that the discourse community will also benefit from a general forum where work ranging from corpus development/analysis to computational models, and evaluation is discussed, and desiderata can be drawn for future progress. The 5th CODI workshop is planned as a 1 day event which brings together different subcommunities. It will feature invited talks and regular papers. We also accept papers accepted at other major conferences for non-archival presentation, including Findings papers. Topics of interest We welcome papers on symbolic and probabilistic approaches, corpus development and analysis, as well as machine and deep learning approaches to discourse. We appreciate theoretical contributions as well as practical applications, including demos of systems and tools. The goal of the workshop is to provide a forum for the community of NLP researchers working on all aspects of discourse. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - discourse structure - discourse connectives - discourse relations - annotation tools and schemes for discourse phenomena - corpora annotated with discourse phenomena - discourse parsing - cross-lingual discourse processing - cross-domain discourse processing - anaphora and coreference resolution - event coreference - argument mining - coherence modeling - discourse and semantics - discourse in applications such as machine translation, summarization, etc. - evaluation methodology for discourse processing Submissions We solicit three categories of papers: regular (long and short) workshop papers, demos and extended abstracts. Only regular workshop papers and demos will be included in the proceedings as archival publications. Double submission of papers is allowed but will need to be indicated at submission. Regular papers must describe original unpublished research. Long papers may consist of up to 8 pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references. Short papers can be up to 4 pages, plus unlimited pages for references. Demo submissions may describe systems, tools, visualizations, etc., and may consist of up to 4 pages, plus unlimited pages for references. Each submission can contain unlimited pages for Appendices but the paper submissions need to remain fully self-contained, as these supplementary materials are completely optional, and reviewers are not even asked to review them. Extended abstracts can describe work in progress. These may be two pages long (without references). Extended abstracts are non-archival. They will be included in the workshop program and handbook, but will not appear in the workshop proceedings. Paper accepted or rejected at one of the main conferences We also invite presentations of paper accepted at another main conference, a specific deadline and submission process will be communicated later on. They will be included in the workshop program and handbook, but will not appear in the workshop proceedings. We will also consider for publication papers rejected at one of the main conferences (see the direct submission deadline below), authors will have to submit both the paper and the reviews. The submission process will be communicated later on. Submission website All submissions must be anonymous and follow the EACL 2024 formatting instructions described here: � https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp Please submit your workshop papers at https://softconf.com/eacl2024/CODI-2024/ Important dates 2023-12-20: CODI papers due 2024-01-17: Direct submission (papers rejected at a main conference) 2024-01-20: Notification of acceptance 2024-01-30: Camera ready deadline for main conference and CODI 2024-03-17 – 2024-03-22: CODI workshop All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h ("anywhere on Earth"). Due to the tight schedule, there will be no deadline extension. Invited Speakers - Hannah Rohde, University of Edinburgh - Manfred Stede, Potsdam University Organizers Chloé Braud, CNRS-IRIT Christian Hardmeier, IT University of Copenhagen Chuyuan (Lisa) Li, � University of British Columbia Jessy Li, University of Texas, Austin Sharid Loáiciga, University of Gothenburg Michael Strube, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies Amir Zeldes, Georgetown University To contact the organizers, please send an email to: codi-workshop(a)googlegroups.com <mailto:codi-workshop@googlegroups.com> �

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Tenure-Track Position in Data Curation & Responsible Data Science (Open Rank) - Information Sciences
by Halil Kilicoglu 11 Dec '23

11 Dec '23

*** Apologies for cross-posting *** Dear colleagues, The School of Information Sciences (iSchool) at the University of Illinois-Champaign is hiring for a tenure-track position in Data Curation & Responsible Data Science (open rank). The application deadline is January 05, 2024. The expected start date is August 16, 2024. For the full job announcement and application link, please see https://illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/1/home/requisition/8864?c=illin…. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Best regards, --Halil *HALIL KILICOGLU* *Associate Professor* School of Information Sciences University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign halil(a)illinois.edu https://ischool.illinois.edu/people/halil-kilicoglu

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UMRs in Boulder Summer School - First Call for Applications
by kristine.stenzel＠colorado.edu 11 Dec '23

11 Dec '23

June 10-13, 2024, University of Colorado, Boulder Held in conjunction with the UMR Parsing Workshop, June 14, 2024 https://umr4nlp.github.io/web/UMRParsingWorkshop.html Impressive progress has been made in many aspects of natural language processing (NLP) in recent years. Most notably, the achievements of transformer-based large language models such as ChatGPT would seem to obviate the need for any type of semantic representation beyond what can be encoded as contextualized word embeddings of surface text. Advances have been particularly notable in areas where large training data sets exist, and it is advantageous to build an end-to-end training architecture without resorting to intermediate representations. For any truly interactive NLP applications, however, a more complete understanding of the information conveyed by each sentence is needed to advance the state of the art. Here, "understanding'' entails the use of some form of meaning representation. NLP techniques that can accurately capture the required elements of the meaning of each utterance in a formal representation are critical to making progress in these areas and have long been a central goal of the field. As with end-to-end NLP applications, the dominant approach for deriving meaning representations from raw textual data is through the use of machine learning and appropriate training data. This allows the development of systems that can assign appropriate meaning representations to previously unseen text. In this four-day course, instructors from the University of Colorado and Brandeis University will describe the framework of Uniform Meaning Representations (UMRs), a recent cross-lingual, multi-sentence incarnation of Abstract Meaning Representations (AMRs), that addresses these issues and comprises such a transformative representation. Incorporating Named Entity tagging, discourse relations, intra-sentential coreference, negation and modality, and the popular PropBank-style predicate argument structures with semantic role labels into a single directed acyclic graph structure, UMR builds on AMR and keeps the essential characteristics of AMR while making it cross-lingual and extending it to be a document-level representation. It also adds aspect, multi-sentence coreference and temporal relations, and scope. Each day will include lectures and hands-on practice. Topics to be covered June 10-13: 1. The basic structural representation of UMR and its application to multiple languages; 2. How UMR encodes different types of MWE (multi-word expressions), discourse and temporal relations, and TAM (tense-aspect-modality) information in multiple languages, and differences between AMR and UMR; 3. Going from IGT (interlinear glossed text) to UMR graphs semi-automatically; 4. Formal semantic interpretation of UMR incorporating a continuation-based semantics for scope phenomena involving modality, negation, and quantification; 5. Extension to UMR for encoding gesture in multimodal dialogue, Gesture AMR (GAMR), which aligns with speech-based UMR to account for situated grounding in dialogue. The fifth day of the summer school, June 14, will be co-located with a UMR Parsing Workshop, focusing on parsing algorithms that generate AMR and UMR representations over multiple languages. https://umr4nlp.github.io/web/UMRParsingWorkshop.html To apply, please complete this form by Jan. 30, 2024. https://www.colorado.edu/linguistics/umrs-boulder-summer-school-application Other important dates: ● Notification of acceptance: Feb. 20, 2024 ● Confirmation of participation: Mar. 1, 2024 ● Arrival in Boulder June 9, departure June 15, 2024. Participation will be fully funded (reasonable airfare, lodging, and meals). This summer school has been made possible by funding from NSF Collaborative Research: Building a Broad Infrastructure for Uniform Meaning Representations (Award # 2213805), with additional support from the University of Colorado Boulder and the CLEAR Center.

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UMR Parsing Workshop 2024 - First Call
by kristine.stenzel＠colorado.edu 11 Dec '23

11 Dec '23

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

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Call for Papers - 11th Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies (IVACS) Biennial Conference - University of Cambridge - 16th & 17th July 2024
by Andrew Caines 11 Dec '23

11 Dec '23

Dear Colleagues, We are delighted to launch the Call for Paper for the *11th Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies (IVACS) Biennial Conference *which will be hosted by the University of Cambridge, U.K., on Tuesday 16th and Wednesday 17th July 2024. Conference website: https://www.ivacs2024.com/ Abstract deadline 20th December, 2023. *Plenary Speakers* We are delighted that the following researchers will be giving plenary talks at the conference: - Dr Brian Clancy <https://www.mic.ul.ie/staff/276-brian-clancy> - Dr Geraldine Mark <https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/markg2> Please spread the word! Best wishes, Anne and Andrew *Dr Andrew Caines, Conference Convenor, University of Cambridge* *Prof. Anne O'Keeffe, Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies (IVACS) Network Director* *Call for Papers* *The 11th Inter-Varietal Applied Corpus Studies (IVACS) Biennial Conference* We are particularly interested in papers in but not limited to the following areas: Strand 1 – Corpus Methods and Innovations: Innovations in Corpus Design, Analysis and Annotation Tools; Critical Reflections on Corpus Methods; Advances in Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches to Analysing Corpora; Innovations in Statistics for CL. Strand 2 – Corpus Linguistics, Pragmatics and Discourse: Corpus Approaches to Discourse Analysis, Conversation Analysis, Critical Discourse Analysis; Corpus Pragmatics; CL and Real-World Contexts (e.g. Media Discourse, Classroom Discourse; Workplace Discourse). Strand 3 – Corpus Linguistics and Applied Linguistics: Learner Corpus Research; CL and Second Language Acquisition; Data-Driven Learning; CL for Materials Development; CL and Teacher Education; CL and Lexicography. Strand 4 – Corpus Linguistics, Literature, Texts and Register: CL and Register Studies; Corpus Stylistics; CL and Literary Linguistics; CL and Translation Studies; Forensic Linguistics. Strand 5 – Corpus Linguistics and Speech: CL Speech Technology; CL and Multimodality; Spoken Corpora; Corpus Phonology. Strand 6 – Corpus Linguistics and Sociolinguistics: CL and Language Change; Language Varieties and Variation; CL and Minority Language Studies. Strand 7 – Computational Linguistics and Corpora: The use of Corpora for Computational Linguistics research; Exploration and analyses of Corpora using Computational Linguistic methods; Data collection and annotation for Computational Linguistics. *Abstract Submission and Timeline* Full papers will involve a 20-minute presentation, plus 10 minutes for questions and discussion. Posters can present work in progress or summaries of completed studies, research projects or other innovations. Posters will be printed in portrait A0 size. Abstracts will be 300 words (not including reference list, if any). Note that the deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h <https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zone/timezone/utc-12> (“anywhere on Earth”). Abstract deadline 20th December, 2023 Notification 31st January, 2024 Conference 16th-17th July, 2024 Submission of abstracts: OpenReview <https://openreview.net/group?id=IVACS/2024/Conference> *Seeking Reviewers* Would you have time to help us review the abstracts in January? Maximum 5 per person. Please sign up here <https://forms.gle/BkopQZ12esXMAnv36>

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