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Workshop on the Scaling Behavior of Large Language Models
by Shay Cohen 24 Nov '23

24 Nov '23

(Apologies for cross-posting) Second Call for Papers for the WORKSHOP ON THE SCALING BEHAVIOR OF LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS (SCALE-LLM 2024) https://scale-llm-24.pages.dev/ [1] Submission deadline: December 18, 2023. The purpose of the SCALE-LLM workshop is to provide a venue to share and discuss results of investigations into the scaling behavior of Large Language Models (LLMs). We are particularly interested in results displaying "interesting" scaling curves (e.g., inverse, u-shaped, or inverse u-shaped scaling curves) for a variety of tasks. These results, where the performance of the LLMs decreases with increasing model size or follows a non-monotonic trend, deviating from the expected "the bigger, the better" positive scaling laws, are of great scientific interest as they can reveal intrinsic limitations of current LLM architectures and training paradigms and they provide novel research directions towards a better understanding of these models and of possible approaches to improve them. Recently, there has been an increasing interest in these phenomena from the research community, culminating in the Inverse Scaling Prize (McKenzie et al. 2023), which solicited tasks to be systematically evaluated according to a standardized protocol in order to perform a systematic study. The SCALE-LLM Workshop will expand these efforts. In contrast to the Inverse Scaling Prize, which focused on zero-shot tasks with a fixed format, we are also interested in, for example, few-shot and alternate prompting strategies (e.g. Chain-of-Thoughts), multi-step interactions (e.g. Tree-of-Thoughts, self-critique), hardening against prompt injection attacks (e.g. user input escaping, canary tokens), etc. MAIN TOPICS The workshop will provide focused discussions on multiple topics in the general field of Scaling behavior of Large Language Models, including, but not limited to the following: 1. Novel tasks that exhibit Inverse, U-shaped, Inverse U-shaped or other types of scaling; 2. Scaling behavior of fine-tuned or purpose-built models, in particular in-distribution (w.r.t. the fine-tuning dataset) vs. out-of-distribution; 3. Scaling with adaptive prompting strategies, e.g. allowing intermediate reasoning steps, model self-critique or use of external tools; 4. Scaling w.r.t. additional dimensions, such as the number of in-context/fine-tuning examples, the number of easoning steps, or the intrinsic task complexity; 5. Scaling on non-English language tasks, in particular low-resource languages, where models might exhibit tradeoffs as high-resource language training data overwhelms low-resource language capabilities; 6. Scaling w.r.t. qualitative characteristics: internal aspects (e.g. modularity, mechanistic interpretability), calibration, uncertainty, effectiveness of various techniques (pruning, defences against adversarial attacks, etc.). IMPORTANT DATES - Workshop paper submission deadline: December 18, 2023 - EACL rejected paper submission deadline (ARR pre-reviewed): January 17, 2024 - Notification of acceptance: January 20, 2024 - Camera-ready papers due: January 30 2024 - Workshop dates: March 21 or 22, 2024 SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS We solicit short and long paper submissions with no more than 4 and 8 pages, respectively, plus unlimited pages for references and appendices. Papers must contain "Limitations" and "Ethics Statement" sections which will not count towards the page limit. Upon acceptance, one additional page will be provided to address the reviewers' comments. Paper submissions must use the official ACL style templates (https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files [2]) and must follow the ACL formatting guidelines (https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html [3]). All submissions must be anonymous. De-anonymized versions of the submitted papers may be released on pre-print servers such as arXiv, however, we kindly ask the authors not discuss these papers on social media during the review period. Please, send your submissions to our OpenReview interface: https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2024/Workshop/SCALE-LLM [4] We can also consider papers submitted via ACL Rolling Reviews (ARR) to EACL and rejected. A paper may not be simultaneously under review through ARR and SCALE-LLM. A paper that has or will receive reviews through ARR may not be submitted for review to SCALE-LLM. Keep in mind that ARR has stricter anonymity requirements regarding pre-print servers and social media, so make sure you do not de-anonymize papers submitted through ARR by posting them on arXiv or social media. Please refer to the ARR instructions for autors (https://aclrollingreview.org/authors [5]) for more information. STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP Thanks to our Platinum sponsor Google, we can offer financial support to a limited number of students from low-income countries or other disadvantaged financial situation who would like to participate to the SCALE-LLM workshop. We may able to cover the EACL virtual conference registration fee. We will prioritize students who are authors of one of the accepted papers. If you are interested in receiving financial support, please contact us before January 30 2024, explaning your situation. INVITED SPEAKERS Najoung Kim will give a keynote talk. Dr. Kim is an Assistant Professor at Boston University and a researcher at Google. She is one of the authors of the Inverse Scaling Prize paper as well as other foundational works in this field. Additional speakers will be announced at a later date. SCHEDULE To be decided. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE - Antonio Valerio Miceli-Barone, Research Associate, University of Edinburgh - Fazl Barez, Research fellow, University of Oxford - Shay Cohen, Reader, University of Edinburgh - Elena Voita, Research Scientist, Meta - Ulrich Germann, Senior Computing Officer (Research), University of Edinburgh - Michal Lukasik, Researcher, Google Research CONTACTS Workshop website: https://scale-llm-24.pages.dev/ [6] Email: amiceli [at] ed.ac.uk Best Regards, The SCALE-LLM organizers Antonio Valerio Miceli-Barone, Fazl Barez, Shay Cohen, Elena Voita, Ulrich Germann, Michal Lukasik Read more: https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/workshop-scaling-behavior-large-langu… [1] https://scale-llm-24.pages.dev/ [2] https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files [3] https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html [4] https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2024/Workshop/SCALE-LLM [5] https://aclrollingreview.org/authors [6] https://scale-llm-24.pages.dev/ The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. Is e buidheann carthannais a th’ ann an Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann, clàraichte an Alba, àireamh clàraidh SC005336.

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36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2024): Final Call for Papers
by Announce 24 Nov '23

24 Nov '23

*** Final Call for 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: Abstract: December 1, 2023 AoE; Paper: December 8, 2023 AoE ***) The CAiSE’24 organization calls for full papers with a special emphasis on the theme of Information Systems in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as a transformative technology, revolutionizing various industries, and its significance in Information Systems cannot be overstated. AI-powered systems have the potential to streamline operations, enhance decision-making processes, and drive innovation across organizations. From data analysis to automated processes, AI is reshaping the way we leverage information in the digital age. The relevance of AI in IS extends beyond internal operations. AI-powered predictive analytics enables organizations to forecast trends, anticipate customer needs, and optimize resource allocation. This empowers businesses to adapt swiftly to changing market dynamics, gain a competitive edge, and make proactive decisions. AI algorithms can also detect anomalies and patterns that indicate potential security breaches, contributing to robust cybersecurity measures in information systems. However, while acknowledging the benefits, it is essential to consider the ethical implications of AI in information systems. Ensuring data privacy, addressing bias in algorithms, and maintaining transparency are vital aspects that need to be carefully managed and regulated to foster trust and accountability. In addition to offering an exciting scientific program, CAiSE’24 will feature a best paper award, a journal special issue, and a PhD-thesis award: • Best Paper Award‚ prize EUR 1000 (sponsored by Springer) • A small selection of best papers will be invited to submit enhanced versions for consideration in a special issue of Elsevier Information Systems journal dedicated to this conference. • PhD-Thesis Award • Best PhD thesis of a past CAiSE Doctoral Consortium author (co-sponsored by the CAiSE Steering Committee and Springer) Papers should be submitted in PDF format. Submissions must conform to Springer‚ LNCS format and should not exceed 15 pages, including all text, figures, references, and appendices. Submissions not conforming to the LNCS format, exceeding 15 pages, or being obviously out of the scope of the conference, will be rejected without review. See the guidelines here: https://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/authors.html . The results described must be unpublished and must not be under review elsewhere. Three to five keywords characterizing the paper should be listed at the end of the abstract. Each paper will be reviewed by at least two program committee members and, if positively evaluated, by one additional program board member. The selected papers will be discussed among the paper reviewers online and during the program board meeting. As the review process is not blind, please indicate your name and affiliation on your submission. Accepted papers will be presented at CAiSE’24 and published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) conference proceedings. We invite three types of original and scientific papers. The type of submission must be indicated in the submission system. Each contribution should explicitly address the engineering or the operation of information systems, clearly identify the information systems problem addressed, the expected impact of the contribution to information system engineering or operation, and the research method used. We strongly advise authors to clearly emphasize these aspects in their paper, including the abstract. Technical papers describe original solutions (theoretical, methodological or conceptual) in the field of IS Engineering. A technical paper should clearly describe the situation or problem tackled, the relevant state of the art, the position or solution suggested and its potential‚ as well as demonstrate the benefits of the contribution through a rigorous evaluation. Empirical papers evaluate existing problem situations including problems encountered in practice, or validate proposed solutions with scientific means, i.e., by empirical studies, experiments, case studies, experience reports, simulations, etc. Scientific reflection on problems and practices in industry also falls into this category. The topic of the evaluation presented in the paper as well as its causal or logical properties must be clearly stated. The research method must be sound and appropriate. Exploratory papers describe completely new research positions or approaches, in order to face a generic situation arising because of new ICT tools, new kinds of activities, or new IS challenges. They must precisely describe the situation and demonstrate why current methods, tools, ways of reasoning, or meta-models are inadequate. They must also rigorously present their approach and demonstrate its pertinence and correctness in addressing the identified situation. The topics of contribution include but are not limited to: • Novel Approaches to IS Engineering ◦ Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning ◦ Robotic Process Automation (RPA) ◦ Big Data, Data Science and Analytics ◦ Blockchain applications in IS ◦ Simulation and Digital Twins  ◦ IS for collaboration and social computing  ◦ Virtual reality / Augmented Reality ◦ Context-aware, autonomous and adaptive IS • Models, Methods and Techniques in IS Engineering ◦ Ontologies and Ontology Engineering ◦ Conceptual modeling, languages and design ◦ Requirements engineering ◦ Process modeling, analysis and improvement ◦ Process automation, mining and monitoring ◦ Models and methods for evolution and reuse ◦ Domain and method engineering ◦ Product lines, variability and configuration management ◦ Compliance and alignment handling ◦ Active and interactive models ◦ Quality of IS models for analysis and design ◦ Visualization techniques in IS ◦ Decision models and business intelligence ◦ Knowledge graphs ◦ Human-centered techniques • Architectures and Platforms for IS Engineering ◦ Distributed, mobile and open architecture ◦ Big Data architectures ◦ Cloud- and edge-based IS engineering ◦ Service oriented and multi-agent IS engineering ◦ Multi-platform IS engineering ◦ Cyber-physical systems and Internet of Things (IoT) ◦ Workflow and Process Aware Information Systems (PAIS) ◦ Handling of real time data streams ◦ Content management and semantic Web ◦ Crowdsourcing platforms ◦ Conversational agents (chatbots) ◦ Microservices design and deployment • Domain-specific and Multi-aspect IS Engineering ◦ IT governance ◦ eGovernment ◦ Autonomous and smart systems (smart city management, smart vehicles, etc.) ◦ IS for healthcare ◦ Educational Systems and Learning Analytics ◦ Value and supply chain management ◦ Industry 4.0 ◦ Sustainability and social responsibility management ◦ Privacy, security, trust, and safety management ◦ IS in the post-COVID world Submit your paper using the Easy Chair link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=caise2024 . IMPORTANT DATES • Abstract Submission: 1st December 2023 (AoE, extended and firm) • Paper Submission: 8th December 2023 (AoE, extended and firm) • Notification of Acceptance: 23rd February 2024 • Camera-ready Papers: 5th April 2024 • Author registration: 5th April 2024 ORGANISATION General Chairs • Haris Mouratidis, University of Essex, UK • Pnina Soffer, University of Haifa, Israel Local Organizing and Finance Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs • Giancarlo Guizzardi, University of Twente, The Netherlands • Flavia Maria Santoro, University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Other Committee Members https://cyprusconferences.org/caise2024/committees/

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Call for Participation - ArabicNLP 2023
by Salam Khalifa 23 Nov '23

23 Nov '23

Hello All, **Apologies for cross-posting** We are happy to invite you to the first ArabicNLP 2023 conference, the successor of the long-standing Workshop of Arabic Natural Language Processing (WANLP). The conference will take place in Singapore on the 7th of December 2023, co-located with EMNLP 2023. For this year’s edition of ArabicNLP, we received a total of 80 main conference submissions and accepted 38 papers (32 long and 6 short), which brings us to an acceptance rate of 47.5%. ArabicNLP 2023 included five shared tasks with 48 submissions in total: (i) The Nuanced Arabic Dialect Identification (NADI), (ii) ArAIEval (Persuasion Techniques and Disinformation Detection in Arabic Text), (iii) Qur’an QA, (iv) WojoodNER, and (v) Arabic Reverse Dictionary. ArabicNLP 2023 will also include a panel discussing the hot topic “Arabic LLMs: Challenges and Opportunities” by leaders in the field, like Areeb Alowisheq, Kareem Darwish, and Preslav Nakov, moderated by Mona Diab. To view the program and the full list of accepted papers, visit: https://arabicnlp2023.sigarab.org/program. The ArabicNLP 2023 conference is held in hybrid mode, and we look forward to seeing you soon! For registration information, visit: https://arabicnlp2023.sigarab.org/registration Lastly, we thank all our sponsors: King Salman Global Academy for Arabic Language, aiXplain, Lisan.ai, SCAI, Majarra, and Big IR, for their generous support and help building up the Arabic NLP community. Best Regards, ArabicNLP 2023's publicity chairs -- Salam Khalifa PhD Student at Stony Brook Linguistics <https://www.linguistics.stonybrook.edu/>.

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Postdoc position in L3i La Rochelle - Emotion detection in comics speech balloons
by Antoine Doucet 23 Nov '23

23 Nov '23

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *-- Post-doctoral research position - L3i - La Rochelle France* --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Title :*Emotion detection by semantic analysis of the text in comics speech balloons The L3i laboratory has one open post-doc position in computer science, in the specific field of natural language processing in the context of digitised documents. *Duration*: 12 months (an extension of 12 months will be possible) *Position available from*: as soon as possible *Salary*: approximately 2100 € / month (net) *Place*: L3i lab, University of La Rochelle, France *Specialty*: Computer Science/ Document Analysis/ Natural Language Processing *Contact*: Jean-Christophe BURIE (jcburie [at] univ-lr.fr) / Antoine Doucet (antoine.doucet [at] univ-lr.fr) ** *Position Description* The L3i is a research lab of the University of La Rochelle. La Rochelle is a city in the south west of France on the Atlantic coast and is one of the most attractive and dynamic cities in France. The L3i works since several years on document analysis and has developed a well-known expertise in ‘Bande dessinée”, manga and comics analysis, indexing and understanding. The work done by the post-doc will take part in the context of *SAiL* (Sequential Art Image Laboratory) a joint laboratory involving L3i and a private company. The objective is to create innovative tools to index and interact with digitised comics. The work will be done in a team of 10 researchers and engineers. The team has developed different methods to extract and recognise the text of the speech balloons. The specific task of the recruited researcher will be to use Natural Language Processing strategies to analyse the text in order to identify emotions expressed by a character (reacting to the utterance of another speaking character) or caused by it (talking to another character). The datasets will be collections of comics in French and English. *Qualifications* Candidates must have a completed PhD and a research experience *in natural language processing*. Some knowledge and experience in deep learning is also recommended. *General Qualifications* • Good programming skills mastering at least one programming language like Python, Java, C/C++ • Good teamwork skills • Good writing skills and proficiency in written and spoken English or French *Applications* Candidates should send a CV and a motivation letter to jcburie [at] univ-lr.fr and antoine.doucet [at] univ-lr.fr.

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Workshop on Training and Evaluation Data for Italian/Multilingual LLMs - 18 December, Rome
by Roberto Navigli 23 Nov '23

23 Nov '23

*Workshop on Training and Evaluation Data for Italian (and Multilingual) Large Language Models* Call for Participation When: 18/12/2023, Where: DIAG, Sapienza - Aula Magna (first floor), Via Ariosto 25, Roma Organizers: Roberto Navigli (Sapienza University of Rome) Rita Cucchiara (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia; CNR) We are pleased to invite you to the inaugural workshop dedicated to the creation and development of Large Language Models (LLM) for the Italian language (the first step towards an Italian Large Multimodal Model). The event is part of the "Vision, Language, and Multimodal Challenges" Transversal Project of the big PNRR Next-Gen EU project "Future Artificial Intelligence Research" (FAIR) <https://future-ai-research.it/> and is organized in collaboration with the National CINI AIIS laboratory <https://www.consorzio-cini.it/index.php/it/labaiis-home/194-italiano/labora…> (Artificial Intelligence and Information Systems), which serves as the hub of the entire Italian AI community. The workshop, aimed at discussing the collection and selection of training and evaluation datasets for LLMs, will feature the project presentation and several keynote speakers (see agenda below). Should you be interested, please fill in this form <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdNte858PJ9_ltHidhA5VmYZ6-QGd_lh7m…>. Seat availability is limited, so before filling the form, if you have any doubt just contact me directly by replying to this email. I hope to see you there! Ciao, Roberto Agenda Introductory session: 14:00 - 14:20 - 14:00 - 14:20 | Project Introduction, Roberto Navigli, Sapienza University of Rome Invited Talks - 1st part: 14:20 - 16:00 - 14:20 - 14:40 | Marta Villegas, Barcelona Supercomputing Center - 14:40 - 15:00 | Georg Rehm, DFKI - 15:00 - 15:20 | Malte Ostendorff, DFKI - 15:20 - 15:40 | Barry Haddow, University of Edinburgh - 15:40 - 16:00 | Sampo Pyysalo, University of Turku Coffee break: 16:00 - 16:30Invited Talks - 2nd part: 16:30 - 17:30 - 16:30 - 16:50 | Pedro Ortiz, DFKI - 16:50 - 17:10 | Magnus Sahlgren, AI Sweden - 17:10 - 17:30 | Roberto Lattanzi, Dip. AI, Garante per la Protezione dei Dati Personali Participant Presentations and Closing: 17:30-18:45 - 17:30 - 18:30 | Presentations by participants (Program under development) - 18:30 - 18:45 | Closing

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Second CfP: MOOMIN @ EACL 2024 - the first workshop on Modular and Open Multilingual NLP
by Tiedemann, Jörg 22 Nov '23

22 Nov '23

Second Call for papers: MOOMIN - the first workshop on Modular and Open Multilingual NLP collocated with EACL 2024, March 21 or 22, 2024 Website: https://moomin-workshop.github.io/ Submission website: https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2024/Workshop/MOOMIN Invited speakers: Edoardo M. Ponti<https://ducdauge.github.io/> (University of Edinburgh) and Angela Fan<https://ai.meta.com/people/angela-fan/> (Meta AI) We invite submissions to the first edition of the MOOMIN workshop on Modular and Open Multilingual NLP, to be held at EACL 2024 on March 21 or 22, 2024. [Important Dates] * Workshop paper due: December 18, 2023 * Resubmission deadline (for pre-reviewed ARR & main conference submissions): January 17, 2024 * Notification of acceptance: January 20, 2024 * Camera-ready papers due: January 30 2024 * Workshop dates: March 21-22, 2024 [Introduction] NLP in the age of monolithic large language models starts to hit the limits in terms of size and information that can be handled. The trend goes to modularization, a necessary step into the direction of designing smaller sub-networks and components with specialized functionality. This allows researchers to design scalable, wide-coverage, efficient and reusable models. Multilingual NLP is today faced with a number of difficult challenges. Scaling a multilingual model to a high number of languages is prone to suffer from negative interference, also known as the curse of multilinguality, leading to degradation in per-language performance, while earlier approaches to improving model capacity have hit the ceiling in terms of hardware, data and training algorithms. At the same time, we as a community wish to foster the development of open components that can be shared, deployed and widely integrated within the broader research community without incurring computational costs that add to the overall carbon footprint of NLP engineering. Modularity is a practical solution to answer all of these challenges and more, as it offers a very promising set of tools towards increased multilinguality of larger foundation models, either during their pretraining or in a post-hoc post-pretraining manner. [Topics of Interest] With this in mind, the MOOMIN workshop invites contributions related but not limited to the following topics: * mixture of expert models and gated routing * modular pre-training of multilingual language and translation models * effective transfer with modular architectures such as adapters and hypernetworks * efficient parallelization and distribution of modular model training * modular frameworks and architecture implementations * massively multilingual models with large language coverage * subnet selection and pruning * modular distillation * modular extensions of existing NLP models systems, especially in low-resource settings and for low-resource languages * evaluation of modular systems in terms of performance, efficiency, and computational costs * platforms for distributing, sharing, and integrating NLP components [Submission Guidelines] Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished research papers in the following categories: * Full papers (up to 8 pages) for substantial contributions. * Short papers (up to 4 pages) for ongoing or preliminary work. All submissions must be in PDF format, submitted electronically via OpenReview (https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2024/Workshop/MOOMIN) and should follow the EACL 2024 formatting guidelines (following the ARR CfP<https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp>: use the official ACL style templates, which are available here<https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files>). We also intend to invite papers accepted to Findings to reach out to the organizing committee of MOOMIN to present their papers at the workshop, if in line with the topics as described above. [Workshop Organizers] * Timothee Mickus, University of Helsinki * Jörg Tiedemann, University of Helsinki * Ahmet Üstün, Cohere For AI * Raúl Vázquez, University of Helsinki * Ivan Vulić, University of Cambridge & PolyAI [Program Committee] A list of program committee members will be available on the workshop website. [Contact] For inquiries, please contact moomin.nlp.workshop(a)gmail.com<mailto:moomin.nlp.workshop@gmail.com>

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2nd Call for abstracts UniDive 2nd general meeting, University of Naples L’Orientale, Italy, 7-9 February 2024
by jmonti＠unior.it 22 Nov '23

22 Nov '23

UniDive is a COST action, i.e. a scientific network, dedicated to universality, diversity and idiosyncrasy in language technology (https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/doku.php?id=start) . It is structured around 4 Working Groups: - WG1: Corpus annotation - WG2: Lexicon-corpus interface - WG3: Multilingual and cross-lingual language technology - WG4: Quantifying and promoting diversity The second general meeting of the action will take place on February 7-9, 2024 at the University of Naples L’Orientale in Italy (www.unior.it). We invite UniDive WG members to submit abstract proposals related to the scientific program of the WGs. Proposals may describe diverse types of contributions, according to 3 different tracks: - Planned work - Work in progress - Complete work, also previously published A proposal should be anonymous, written in English and submitted in pdf only. It should include (on the title page) the list of the relevant WGs, but in the submission form only one WG can be selected as the main one. It should not exceed 2 pages, including figures and tables (bibliographic references may go beyond the 2-page limit). If linguistic examples from languages other than English are included, those should be glossed and translated into English, and an extra half page is allowed for this purpose. For the sake of uniformity and easing the reviewers’ effort, we encourage authors to use the Overleaf Latex template. Other formats (not necessarily Latex-based) can also be used, provided that they conform to the following specifications: A4 paper, 11pt font, 1in margins. The submission link is: https://openreview.net/group?id=UniDive/2024/General_Meeting The reviewing process is double-blind. The selection of proposals will be done by UniDive Program Committee according to the following criteria: - relevance to UniDive and the work program of its Working Groups (see pp. 18-20 of the Memorandum of Understanding), - clarity - diversity of the languages covered by the workshop program The selected proposals will be presented at the 2nd UniDive general meeting as posters and/or oral presentations. At least one author per selected proposal will be reimbursed for their travel and stay. Important dates - 26 October 2023: Call for abstracts - 24 November 2023: Submission deadline - 15 December 2023: Notification of acceptance - 20 December 2023: Communication of the names of the presenters - 12 January 2024: Final versions of abstracts - 7-9 February 2024: UniDive 2nd general meeting The time zone for all deadlines is anywhere on Earth (UTC-12). Due to the tight schedule, no extension of the submission deadline is foreseen. Program Chairs - Victoria Bobicev, Technical University of Moldova (Moldova) - Johanna Monti, University of Naples L’Orientale (Italy) - Ranka Stanković, University of Belgrade (Serbia)

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Call for Participation - Semeval-2024 Task 4: Multilingual Detection of Persuasion Techniques in Memes
by mitko.bg.ss＠gmail.com 22 Nov '23

22 Nov '23

SemEval 2024 Task 4: Multilingual Detection of Persuasion Techniques in Memes First Call for Participation Memes that are part of a disinformation campaign achieve their goal of influencing social media users through a number of rhetorical and psychological techniques, such as causal oversimplification, name calling, appeal to fear, straw man, loaded language, and smears. The goal of the shared task is to build models for identifying such techniques in the textual content of a meme as well as in a multimodal setting (in many cases requiring to make complex inferences using both textual and visual content). Additionally, the task offers a hierarchy of these techniques, which allows the use of more complex approaches when building models. Finally, there will be three surprise test datasets in different languages (a fourth one in English will be released as well), which will be revealed only at the final stages of the shared task. Specifically, we offer the following subtasks: Subtask 1 (multilabel classification problem; text only; multilingual test set): Given only the "textual content" of a meme, identify which of the 20 persuasion techniques, organized in a hierarchy, it uses. Subtask 2a (multilabel classification problem; multimodal; multilingual test set): Given a meme, identify which of the 22 persuasion techniques, organized in a hierarchy, are used both in the textual and in the visual content of the meme Subtask 2b (binary classification problem; multimodal): Given a meme (both the textual and the visual content), identify whether it contains a persuasion technique, or no technique. The data is annotated with the following persuasion techniques: Loaded Language; Name Calling/Labeling; Exaggeration/Minimization; Appeal to fear/prejudice; Flag-Waving; Slogans; Repetition; Doubt; Reductio ad Hitlerum; Obfuscation/Intentional Vagueness/Confusion; Smears; Glittering Generalities; Causal Oversimplification; Black-and-White Fallacy; Appeal to Authority; Bandwagon; Red Herring; Whataboutism; Thought-terminating Cliches; Straw Men. We believe the tasks would be appealing to various NLP communities, including researchers working on sentiment analysis, fact-checking, argumentation mining, tagging, sequence modeling, as well as researchers working on image analysis in a multimodal scenario. A live leaderboard will allow participants to track their progress on both tasks. All participants will be invited to submit a paper to the SemEval-2024 workshop. Shared task website: https://propaganda.math.unipd.it/semeval2024task4 Competition dates: 4 September 2023 - 31 January 2024 Schedule October, Release of train labels January 13, 2023 (tentative) Release of the gold labels of the dev set January 20, 2024 (tentative) Release of the test set January 31, 2024 at 23:59 (Anywhere on Earth) Test submission site closes February 29, 2024 Paper Submission Deadline April 1, 2024 Notification to authors April 22, 2024 Camera ready papers due June 16–21, 2024 SemEval 2024 workshop (co-located with NAACL 2024 in Mexico City, Mexico) Task Organisers: Dimitar Dimitrov, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohrdiski" Giovanni Da San Martino, University of Padova, Italy Preslav Nakov, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, UAE Firoj Alam, Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU, Qatar Maram Hasanain, Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU, Qatar Abul Hasnat, Blackbird.ai Fabrizio Silvestri, Sapienza University, Rome

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2nd call for papers: : CODI, 5th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse
by Chloé Braud 22 Nov '23

22 Nov '23

CODI, 5th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Discourse: 2nd 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

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Second call for papers: The 9th Workshop on Noisy and User-generated Text (WNUT 2024)
by rob van der goot 22 Nov '23

22 Nov '23

The WNUT Workshop will be collocated with EACL 2024 (Malta). The website for the workshop is at: http://noisy-text.github.io/ The WNUT workshop focuses on core NLP tasks (e.g., POS/NER tagging and translation; not computational social science) over user-generated text, such as that found on social media, web forums, online reviews, digital health records, or language learner essays. We seek submissions of long and short papers on original and unpublished work (same format and page limit as EACL main conference). All accepted submissions will be presented as posters. Additionally, selected submissions will be presented orally. There will be best paper awards for both short and long papers. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * NLP of noisy text, e.g. POS, NER tagging, Parsing * Text normalization and error correction * Paraphrase identification and semantic similarity of short text or noisy text * Extracting user demographics, profiles, and major life events * Machine translation and Multilingual NLP over noisy text * Information extraction from noisy text, global and regional trend detection, and event extraction * Colloquial language, e.g. idiom detection * Domain adaptation to user-generated text * Detecting rumors, contradictory information, sarcasm and humor on social media * Sentiment analysis * Temporal aspects of user-generated content (resolving time expressions, concept drift, etc...) * Representing and mining language variation in user-generated content * Processing of automatically generated data * Robustness to Noise, both Natural and Adversarial [IMPORTANT DATES] * Submission Deadline: December 18, 2023 (anytime on earth; dual-submission allowed) * Acceptance Notification: January 20, 2024 * Camera-Ready Deadline: january 30, 2024 * Workshop Day: March 21/22, 2024 [INVITED SPEAKERS] * Su Lin Blodgett * Jennifer Foster [ORGANIZERS] * Tim Baldwin (University of Melbourne) * Wei Xu (Georgia Institute of Technology) * Alan Ritter (Georgia Institute of Technology) * Rob van der Goot (IT University of Copenhagen) * Max Müller-Eberstein (IT University of Copenhagen) [SUBMISSION] Submissions should conform to the ACL style guidelines. Long and short paper submissions must be anonymized. Please submit your papers via OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2024/Workshop/WNUT

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