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Emerging Researcher: Data Analyst (British Council)
by Felice, Mariano (Exams) 08 Dec '23

08 Dec '23

An opportunity to join the Assessment Research Group at the British Council as Emerging Researcher: Data Analyst. Full details and link to application here: https://careers.britishcouncil.org/job/London-Emerging-Researcher-Data-Anal… For any enquiries, please contact Dr Karen Dunn at Karen.Dunn(a)britishcouncil.org<mailto:Karen.Dunn@britishcouncil.org>. Deadline for applications is 8th January. The British Council is the United Kingdom's international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities. A registered charity: 209131 (England and Wales) SC037733 (Scotland). This message is for the use of the intended recipient(s) only and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and delete it. The British Council accepts no liability for loss or damage caused by viruses and other malware and you are advised to carry out a virus and malware check on any attachments contained in this message.

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Job posting: Research Fellow in NLP for Clinical Linguistics
by Gloria Gagliardi 08 Dec '23

08 Dec '23

**With apologies for cross-posting** The Clinical Linguistics@LLiS Group at the University of Bologna, Italy, invites applications for a research position in NLP for Clinical Linguistics. The research activities will be carried out within the ReMind project - an ecological, cost-effective AI platform for early detection of prodromal stages of cognitive impairment, founded by MUR with the PRIN 2022 grant (CUP J53D23008380006), under the supervision of Prof. Gloria Gagliardi. We are looking for a proactive team member with a master’s degree or a PhD in Computer Science/Computational Linguistics. The candidate should have a strong background in corpus linguistics, machine learning and Natural Language Processing and good programming skills (i.e., Python). What we offer: - Duration: 18 months - Salary: 22.293,68 EUR/year (gross), around 1650 EUR/month (net) - Flexible working hours and home office arrangements For further information please contact Gloria Gagliardi (gloria.gagliardi(a)unibo.it). Interested? Apply here: https://bandi.unibo.it/ricerca/assegni-ricerca?id_bando=66888

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Postdoctoral position in natural language processing, Univ. Lorraine, Nancy, France
by Mathieu Constant 07 Dec '23

07 Dec '23

The Research unit ATILF (Computer Processing and Analysis of the French Language) offers a postdoctoral position in natural language processing (NLP). Topic: Discovery of multiword expressions, their meaning and their linguistic properties in texts using large language models Location: ATILF, Nancy, France Starting date: from February 2024 Duration: 12 months (possibility to extend the duration for one more year) Supervisors: Mathieu Constant (Univ. Lorraine, France) and Agata Savary (Univ. Paris-Saclay, France) Salary: depends on experience after PhD and salary grids, from 3070 (<2-year experience) to 4465 euros (>7-year-experience) before tax Application deadline: 14th December 2023 (extended deadline) Subject. The term « multiword expression » refers to a combination of multiple lexical items that displays irregular composition possibly on different linguistic levels (morphology, syntax, semantics, …). They include a large variety of phenomena such as idioms (run around in circles), support verb constructions (take a walk), nominal compounds (dry run), complex function units (in spite of). They have been the subject of extensive research work in the NLP community over the last 50 years. The goal of this post-doc position is to investigate new methods for discovering multiword expressions, their meaning and their linguistic properties in texts, in order to enrich an induced semantic lexicon with new multiword entries, definitions, argumental structure, and other properties. The emergence of Large Language Models (LLM) opens new promising perspectives for multiword expressions, not only regarding their semantic compositionality but also their linguistic characterization. The methods will be primarily experimented on French, but other languages are also possible. Context. The position is part of the SELEXINI project (https://selexini.lis-lab.fr <https://selexini.lis-lab.fr/>, 2022-2026) funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR). The goal of the SELEXINI project is to develop next-generation lexicon induction methods for natural language processing. The induced lexicons will not only cluster word usages according to their senses, but also contain multiword expressions, argumental structure, generated definitions, etc, combining the power of large pre-trained language models and existing lexical resources to address the lack of interpretability and diversity in current language technology. The hired researcher will be fully integrated in the project team. Requirements. Applicants should hold a PhD thesis in computer science, in applied mathematics, in natural language processing, or in computational linguistics. Applications from PhD students planning their defense by December 31st, 2023 are also welcome. The hired post-doc researcher should have the following skills: expertise in deep learning for NLP and notably large language models excellent programming skills good linguistic skills good knowledge of French would be a plus team spirit Application. The applicants should submit a cover letter, a CV including their publications, a list of references for recommendation, a transcript of Master grades, on the following official web site: https://emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/UMR7118-SABMAR-017/Default.aspx?Lang=EN <https://emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/UMR7118-SABMAR-017/Default.aspx?Lang=EN>. The applications should be submitted not later than December 14.

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ELRA Catalogue of Language Resources - Update
by info＠elda.org 07 Dec '23

07 Dec '23

[Apologies for multiple postings] We are happy to announce that 3 new monolingual lexicons are now available in our catalogue. DiaLEX – Egyptian (DiaLEX-EA) <https://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0206/> ISLRN: 697-328-151-668-9 <http://www.islrn.org/resources/697-328-151-668-9> A comprehensive full-form lexicon of Egyptian Arabic general vocabulary (DiaLEX-EA) including 78 million entries for 31,000 lemmas with all inflected forms, enclitics, proclitics, case endings, declensions, and conjugated forms. Each entry is accompanied by a full and accurate diacriticization (vocalization) as well as an extensive coverage of variants. The lexicon is ideally suited to support natural language processing applications for Egyptian Arabic, especially morphological analysis and speech technology. Quantity and size: 75,204,644 lines / 11,217 MB (11.0 GB) DiaLEX – Emirati (DiaLEX-UA) <https://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0207/> ISLRN: 836-793-503-213-8 <http://www.islrn.org/resources/836-793-503-213-8> A comprehensive full-form lexicon of Emirati Arabic general vocabulary (DiaLEX-UA) including 28 million entries for 29,000 lemmas with all inflected forms, enclitics, proclitics, case endings, declensions, and conjugated forms. Each entry is accompanied by a full and accurate diacriticization (vocalization) as well as an extensive coverage of variants. The lexicon is ideally suited to support natural language processing applications for Emirati Arabic, especially morphological analysis and speech technology. Quantity and size: 24,976,871 lines / 3,841 MB (3.8 GB) DiaLEX – Saudi Arabian Hijazi (DiaLEX-HA) <https://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-L0208/> ISLRN: 849-157-479-216-3 <http://www.islrn.org/resources/849-157-479-216-3> A comprehensive full-form lexicon of Hijazi Arabic general vocabulary (DiaLEX-HA) including 21 million entries for 30,000 lemmas with all inflected forms, enclitics, proclitics, case endings, declensions, and conjugated forms. Each entry is accompanied by a full and accurate diacriticization (vocalization) as well as an extensive coverage of variants. The lexicon is ideally suited to support natural language processing applications for Hijazi Arabic, especially morphological analysis and speech technology. Quantity and size: 20,247,655 lines / 2,835 MB (2.8 GB) For more information on the catalogue or if you would like to enquire about having your resources distributed by ELRA, please contact us <mailto:contact@elda.org>. _________________________________________ Visit the ELRA Catalogue of Language Resources <http://catalog.elra.info> Visit the Universal Catalogue <http://universal.elra.info> Archives <http://www.elra.info/en/catalogues/language-resources-announcements> of ELRA Language Resources Catalogue Updates

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Announcement: Release of BabelNet 5.3
by Roberto Navigli 07 Dec '23

07 Dec '23

Release of BabelNet 5.3 https://babelnet.org We are proud to announce the release of a new version of BabelNet <https://babelnet.org/> and its programmatic *Java and Python API*, developed jointly by the Sapienza NLP Group <http://nlp.uniroma1.it> of *Sapienza University of Rome* under the supervision of prof. Roberto Navigli <https://www.diag.uniroma1.it/navigli/> and Babelscape <http://babelscape.com/>, *a deep-tech multilingual NLP company* providing innovative solutions for natural language understanding. BabelNet -- winner of the *prominent paper award 2017* from the Artificial Intelligence Journal and the META prize 2015, and covered in media such as The Guardian <https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/feb/23/oxford-english-dictionary-can-…> and Time Magazine <http://wwwusers.di.uniroma1.it/~navigli/img/Redefining_the_modern_dictionar…> -- is today's *most far-reaching multilingual lexical-semantic knowledge graph* which, according to need, can be used as an *encyclopedic dictionary*, or a *semantic network* or a huge *knowledge base/ontology* e.g. to be integrated into *deep learning solutions*. It has been used by more than *1000 universities and research institutions*, enabling multilinguality in several fields of AI and NLP, such as multilingual semantic search, Word Sense Disambiguation and Entity Linking, Semantic Role Labeling, image tagging and semantically-enhanced multimodality. BabelNet was created by means of the seamless integration and interlinking of the largest multilingual Web encyclopedia - i.e., Wikipedia - with the most popular computational lexicon of English - i.e., WordNet, and other lexical-semantic resources such as Wikidata, Wiktionary, OmegaWiki, dozens of wordnets (including Open English WordNet), GeoNames, and ImageNet. The BabelNet model is centered around *multilingual synsets*, i.e., concepts and named entities lexicalized in many languages, and connected with large amounts of semantic relations. *Version 5.3* ships with the following features: - *80 new languages* for a grand total of *600 languages*; - *23 million synsets* covered; - *Lemma casing updated in 24 languages*; - *Wikipedia and Wikidata updated* thanks to BabelNet live (November 2023 dump); - *Open English WordNet* has been updated to version 2023; - *Images* associated with synsets have been updated; - *Wiktionary* has been *updated* and *20k new concepts* have been integrated (November 2023 dump); - *Significantly improved cross-lingual resource mapping*, ensuring more accurate and contextually relevant lexicalizations and translations; - *General data cleanup* (glosses, senses, Named Entity vs. Concept labels); - *Wikipedia multilingual labels updated.* More statistics are available at: babelnet.org/statistics. Kind regards, The BabelNet group -- ============================================== Roberto Navigli* - Professor* Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering Sapienza University of Rome Via Ariosto, 25 00185 Roma Italy Phone: +39 06 77274109 Home Page: https://www.diag.uniroma1.it/navigli/ Sapienza NLP Group: http://nlp.uniroma1.it Co-founder of Babelscape <https://babelscape.com> ==============================================

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Third CFP-Fourth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion (LT-EDI-2024) at EACL 2024-reg
by Bharathi Raja Asoka Chakravarthi 06 Dec '23

06 Dec '23

Apologies for cross posting *Fourth Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion (LT-EDI-2024) at EACL 2024* *Website link: https://sites.google.com/view/lt-edi-2024/ <https://sites.google.com/view/lt-edi-2024/>* Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) is an important agenda across every field throughout the world. Language as a major part of communication should be inclusive and treat everyone with equality. Today’s large internet community uses language technology (LT) and has a direct impact on people across the globe. EDI is crucial to ensure everyone is valued and included, so it is necessary to build LT that serves this purpose. Recent results have shown that big data and deep learning are entrenching existing biases and that some algorithms are even naturally biased due to problems such as ‘regression to the mode’. Our focus is on creating LT that will be more inclusive of gender, racial, sexual orientation, persons with disability. The workshop will focus on creating speech and language technology to address EDI not only in English, but also in less resourced languages. The broader objective of LT-EDI-2024 will be - To investigate challenges related to speech and language resource creation for EDI. - To promote research in inclusive LT. - To adopt and adapt appropriate LT models to suit EDI. - To provide opportunities for researchers from the LT community around the world to collaborate with other researchers to identify and propose possible solutions for the challenges of EDI. Our workshop theme focuses on being more inclusive and providing a platform for researchers to create LT of a more inclusive nature. We hope that through these engagements we can develop LT tools to be more inclusive of everyone, including marginalized people. *Call for Papers:* Our main theme in this workshop is equality, diversity, and inclusivity in LT. We invite researchers and practitioners to submit papers reporting on these issues and datasets to avoid these issues. We also encourage qualitative studies related to these issues and how to avoid them. LT-EDI- 2024 welcomes theoretical and practical paper submissions on any languages that contribute to research in Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. We will particularly encourage studies that address either practical application or improving resources. *Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:* - Data set development to include EDI - Gender inclusivity in LT - LGBTQ+ inclusivity in LT - Racial inclusivity in LT - Persons with disability inclusivity in LT - Speech and language recognition for minority groups - Unconscious bias and how to avoid them in natural language processing, machine learning and other LT technologies. - Tackling rumours and fake news about gender, racial, and LGBTQ+ minorities. - Tackling discrimination against gender, racial, and LGBTQ+ minorities. Submissions: At LTEDI we accept the following submission types: - 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 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. - Poster and demo submissions should be no longer than 4 pages (plus unlimited number of pages for references and ethics/broader impact statement). More information on submission can be found at https://sites.google.com/view/lt-edi-2024/submission For electronic submission of all papers, please use: https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2024/Workshop/LTEDI *Important Dates* - Workshop paper due: December 12, 2023 - Direct Submission deadline (pre-reviewed ARR & main conference) January 17, 2024 - Notification of acceptance: January 15, 2024 - Camera-ready papers due: January 25 2024 - Workshop dates: March 21-22, 2024 with regards, Dr. Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Assistant Professor / Lecturer-above-the-bar School of Computer Science, University of Galway, Ireland Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, Data Science Institute, University of Galway, Ireland E-mail: bharathiraja.akr(a)gmail.com , bharathi.raja(a)universityofgalway.ie <bharathiraja.asokachakravarthi(a)universityofgalway.ie> Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=irCl028AAAAJ&hl=en Website: https://www.universityofgalway.ie/our-research/people/computer-science/bhar… <https://www.universityofgalway.ie/our-research/people/computer-science/bhar…>

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ILLC-NLP 2024 - First Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of Lusophone Countries
by Aline Paes 06 Dec '23

06 Dec '23

With great enthusiasm, we announce the first edition of the *Natural Language Processing (NLP) Workshop for Indigenous Languages of Lusophone Countries*. The workshop aims to explore, discuss, and enhance the development of resources, methods, and applications of NLP for indigenous languages, especially those spoken or that have influenced languages spoken in countries where Portuguese is currently the official language. We hope to contribute to the preservation and promotion of these languages. The workshop will be held in conjunction with PROPOR 2024. *Workshop Date: 13 or 14 March 2024, in Santiago de Compostela.* *Paper Submission: 5 January 2024 AoE.* *More information: *https://sites.google.com/view/illc-nlp-2024/home This event aims to expand knowledge and research in NLP for underrepresented languages. We encourage the participation of everyone who shares an interest in preserving and enriching the linguistic and cultural heritage of indigenous languages in a broad sense. This way, we welcome the submission of works including languages from all Portuguese-speaking nations, like those of African origin in Angola, Mozambique, and the Atlantic islands, as well as minority languages in Portugal. Please help us spread the word about this event by sharing this call with your contacts and institutions. Your participation and support are crucial for the success of this workshop. We are excited to see your contributions and active participation. Sincerely, Aline Paes, Aline Villavicencio, Claudio Pinhanez, Edward Gow-Smith, Paulo Rodrigo Cavalin (Workshop organisers) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Profa. Dra. Aline Paes (she/her)* *Associate professor - Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence)* Institute of Computing / Universidade Federal Fluminense (IC/UFF) Member of CE-PLN <https://sites.google.com/view/ce-pln/inicio> and BPLN <https://brasileiraspln.com/> CNPq PQ-2 and FAPERJ JCNE __________________________________________________________ url: www.ic.uff.br/~alinepaes Av Gal Milton Tavares de Souza, S/N, Computing Building, Office 504 São Domingos, Niterói, RJ, Brazil. ZIP 24210-346 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ****Please do not feel any pressure to respond out of your own regular working hours. Remember that this is supposed to be an asynchronous tool***

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Comparable CLASSLA web corpora of South Slavic languages
by Taja Kuzman 06 Dec '23

06 Dec '23

** *Dear all,* ***The CLASSLA Knowledge centre for South Slavic languages <https://www.clarin.si/info/k-centre/>is delighted to announce the release of comparable web corpora for all official South Slavic languages, namely Slovenian <https://www.clarin.si/ske/#concordance?corpname=classlaweb_sl>(1.8 billion words), Croatian <https://www.clarin.si/ske/#concordance?corpname=classlaweb_hr>(2.2 billion words), Bosnian <https://www.clarin.si/ske/#concordance?corpname=classlaweb_bs>(802 million words), Montenegrin <https://www.clarin.si/ske/#concordance?corpname=classlaweb_cnr>(151 million words), Serbian <https://www.clarin.si/ske/#concordance?corpname=classlaweb_sr>(2.3 billion words), Macedonian <https://www.clarin.si/ske/#concordance?corpname=classlaweb_mk>(479 million words) and Bulgarian <https://www.clarin.si/ske/#concordance?corpname=classlaweb_bg>(3.3 billion words), all these corpora summing up to almost 11 billion words! The linguistic annotation was performed with the state-of-the-art CLASSLA-Stanza <https://pypi.org/project/classla/>toolkit, which you can now try out also through the CLASSLA annotator web interface <https://clarin.si/oznacevalnik/eng>! Additionally, each of the 26 million documents in these seven corpora is annotated with the X-GENRE multilingual genre classifier <https://huggingface.co/classla/xlm-roberta-base-multilingual-text-genre-cla…>, enabling creation of subcorpora based on genre information. Interestingly, while the corpora were developed with the same pipeline, the genre distribution across corpora is rather varying. If you are interested in more details on the sizes, genre distributions and additional insights, we warmly invite you to read our blog post <https://www.clarin.si/info/k-centre/comparable-classla-web-corpora-of-south…>.* **** Best regards, Nikola Ljubešić, Taja Kuzman and many other CLASSLAers

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36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
by Announce 06 Dec '23

06 Dec '23

*** First Call for Workshop Papers *** 36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'24) June 3-7, 2024, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/caise2024/ (*** Submission Deadline: 26th February, 2024 AoE ***) CAiSE is a well-established, highly visible conference series on Advanced Information Systems (IS) Engineering. It covers all relevant topics in the area, including methodologies and approaches for IS engineering, innovative platforms, architectures and technologies, and engineering of specific kinds of IS. CAiSE conferences also have the tradition of hosting workshops in related fields. Workshops are intended to focus on particular topics and provide ample room for discussions of new ideas and developments. CAiSE'24, the 36th edition of the CAiSE series, will host the following workshops. For more information including important dates for each workshop, please visit the workshops' web sites. CAiSE'24 Workshops • 3rd International Workshop on Agile Methods for Information Systems Engineering (Agil-ISE) https://agilise.github.io/2024/index.html • International Workshop on Blockchain for Information Systems (BC4IS24) and Blockchain for Trusted Data Sharing (B4TDS) https://pros.unicam.it/bc4isb4tds/ • 2nd International Workshop on Hybrid Artificial Intelligence and Enterprise Modelling for Intelligent Information Systems (HybridAIMS) https://hybridaims.com/ • 2nd Workshop on Knowledge Graphs for Semantics-driven Systems Engineering https://www.omilab.org/activities/events/caise2024_kg4sdse/ • 16th International Workshop on Enterprise & Organizational Modeling and Simulation (EOMAS 2024) https://eomas2024.fel.cvut.cz/ • Digital Transformation with Business Process Mining (DigPro2024) https://digpro.iiita.ac.in/ IMPORTANT DATES • Paper Submission Deadline: 26th February, 2024 (AoE) • Notification of Acceptance: 27th March, 2024 • Camera-ready Deadline: 5th April, 2024 • Author Registration Deadline: 5th April, 2024 Workshop Chairs • João Paulo A. Almeida, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil • Claudio di Ciccio, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy • Christos Kalloniatis, University of the Aegean, Greece

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5th HPLT & NLPL Winter School on Large Language Models: Creation, Customization, Evaluation, and Use
by Stephan Oepen 05 Dec '23

05 Dec '23

Dear colleagues: We invite participants to a three-day winter school on large-scale neural NLP research – with special emphasis on language modeling for non-English languages – using massive Web data. The school will provide lectures and space for discussion by, among others, Afra Alishahi (Tilburg University), Desmond Elliot (University of Copenhagen), Aurélie Névéol (LISN, CNRS), and a few more international experts. The winter school is organized as a collaboration between the Horizon Europe project High-Performance Language Technologies (HPLT) and the Nordic Language Processing Laboratory (NLPL). The event will be held ‘in real life’ on February 4–6, 2024, in Norway. For additional information, please see: http://wiki.nlpl.eu/Community/training There is no participant fee for the winter school, and HPLT will provide free bus transfer between the Oslo airport and the conference hotel (about two hours north of Oslo, with skiing facilities just outside the door). Participants will need to cover their own travel to Oslo and accommodation at the hotel (NOK 3745 for two nights in a single room, including all meals and conference facilities). We kindly invite expressions of interest in participation in the winter school. Please register through the on-line form linked up from the above overview page. We will process requests for participation on a first-come, first-served basis, with an eye toward regional balance. Participation will be confirmed in three batches, one on December 8, another one on December 15, and finally after the closing date for registration, which is Thursday, December 22, 2023. Welcome to Skeikampen in February 2024! Andrey Kutuzov & Stephan Oepen (for the organizing team)

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