2nd CALL FOR PAPERS
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The Foundation for Endangered Languages (FEL) and the
Forum for Language Initiatives (FLI), in collaboration with
Allama Iqbal Open University Islamabad
will hold the 28th Annual Conference - FEL XXVIII
in Islamabad, Pakistan, 25 – 27 September 2024
Main theme of the conference: Endangered Languages and Oral Traditions.
Conference topics include, but are not limited to:
1. Endangered oral literatures: heritage preservation (music, poetry,
mushaira, contests...)
2. Oral cultures and traditional knowledge
3. Documentation and digitalization of oral art and literature
4. Language policy, planning, and oral art
5. Oral art and mother tongue education
6. Mother-tongue education policies: oral art and literature
7. Rediscovering oral traditions and expressions
8. Oral Traditions as vehicle for transmission of culture and language
The main focus of the conference will be on the dynamic
relationship between language endangerment and the role of oral
traditions and expressions in safeguarding them. While it has a
universal scope, it specifically aims to highlight interesting
and creative oral traditions and expressions of the indigenous
communities of Pakistan and encourage scholarship and accounts of
community initiatives for preserving and promoting them. Studies
highlighting the oral traditions of indigenous communities from
anywhere are welcome.
Abstracts in PDF of 600 - 800 words are invited for submission
on EasyChair at this address:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=felxxviii2024
by the deadline of 15 May 2024 at 23:59 GMT
Important Dates
▪ 15 May 2024: Deadline for submission of abstract
▪ 21 June 2024: Selected applicants informed
▪ 31 July 2024: Deadline for extended version of accepted abstract
▪ 25-27 September 2024: Conference dates
▪ 28 September: Excursion to a local community
Conference website:
https://fli-online.org/site/conference-of-the-foundation-for-endangered-lan…
For more information please contact:
felconf2024.islamabad(a)gmail.com
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Steven Krauwer, CLARIN / FEL / ELSNET / ILS, Utrecht, NL, s.krauwer(a)uu.nl
At Law and Tech Lab (Maastricht University) we look for a PhD candidate to work on the RegTech4AI project<https://regtech4ai.maastrichtlawtech.eu/> led by Konrad Kollnig (funded by the AiNed fellowship program for AI talent). The project combines expertise in law and technology to develop regulatory technologies for citizens, enforcement agencies, and businesses in the domain of artificial intelligence (AI).
Deadline is May 30th (interviews to be held in June)
Website to read more and apply here<https://vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastricht-PhD-position-on-Ma…> and below
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Maastricht University invites applications for a fully-funded PhD position focused on using technical methods to make digital technologies safer and follow relevant laws.
Job Description
Law affects us all, but it still struggles to address widespread harms in digital technologies. The massive adoption of (often) annoying – and usually illegal – “cookie banners” on websites is just one symptom of this. In your PhD project, you will seek to contribute to a better understanding of how technical methods can help study how cutting-edge digital technologies affect society – and what can be done in response. Your work will aim to better protect the digital lives of ordinary citizens, who are commonly exposed to deceptive software designs, abuse of their data and privacy, and the will of large tech companies in determining how foundational digital infrastructure – that we use daily – is built. To this end, you will work closely with relevant industry partners and public authorities. Ultimately, the ability to find innovative technical solutions to legal challenges – the foundation of this PhD position – could become a key skill of your future career, whether as a researcher, entrepreneur, or engineer.
The PhD position will be carried out as part of the RegTech4AI project, which brings together six full-time researchers to work on a shared vision. Your primary task is conducting the research for your PhD project under the supervision of professors of the Maastricht Law & Tech Lab. Your exact project will be determined in consultation with you and according to your interests and skills. As such, you will be expected to develop your own independent research agenda with the support of our experienced researchers in the Law & Tech Lab. A small proportion of the appointment may be devoted to teaching activities, which commonly amount to teaching activities in eight weeks per year.
You will be allowed to collaborate with researchers from different disciplines, including machine learning, data science, and law. You will be part of an exciting, vibrant, and quickly growing community where researchers from different disciplines meet and form interdisciplinary teams that conduct academically and societally relevant research. You will be offered the opportunity to gain insights not only on applying computational techniques but also on law, regulation, and ethics. For this, you will be encouraged, coached, and allowed to attend courses, conferences, and workshops that will add social and legal knowledge to your skill set. PhD researchers participate in the Maastricht University Graduate School of Law.
Requirements
* MSc degree in Computer Science, AI, Machine Learning, or Data Science (or equivalent).
* Fluency with Python programming for data analysis or machine learning.
* Interest in learning about other disciplines, law in particular.
* Community-friendly team player.
* Excellent oral and written English communication.
What we offer
As PhD at Faculty of Law, you will be employed by the most international university in the Netherlands, located in the beautiful city of Maastricht. In addition, we offer you:
* Good employment conditions. The position is graded in scale Promovendus/PhD, according to UFO profile PhD, with corresponding salary from €2770,00 in the first year and increaseing to €3539,00 gross per month in the fourth year (based on a full-time employment of 38 hours per week). In addition to the monthly salary, an 8.0% holiday allowance and an 8.3% year-end bonus apply.
* An employment contract for a period of 12 months with a scope of 1.0 FTE. Upon a positive evaluation, an extension of 3 years will follow.
* At Maastricht University, the well-being of our employees is of utmost importance, we offer flexible working hours and the possibility to work partly from home if the nature of your position allows it. You will receive a monthly commuting and internet allowance for this. If you work full-time, you will be entitled to 29 vacation days and 4 additional public holidays per year, namely carnival Monday, carnival Tuesday, Good Friday, and Liberation Day. If you choose to accumulate compensation hours, an additional 12 days will be added. Furthermore, you can personalize your employment conditions through a collective labor agreement (CAO) choice model.
* As Maastricht University, we offer various other excellent secondary employment conditions. These include a good pension scheme with the ABP and the opportunity for UM employees to participate in company fitness and make use of the extensive sports facilities that we also offer to our students.
* Last but certainly not least, we provide the space and facilities for your personal and professional development. We facilitate this by offering a wide range of training programs and supporting various well-established initiatives such as 'acknowledge and appreciate'.
The terms of employment at Maastricht University are largely set out in the collective labor agreement of Dutch Universities. In addition, local provisions specific to UM apply. For more information, click here<https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/working-um>.
Maastricht University
Why work at Maastricht University?
At Maastricht University (UM), everything revolves around the future. The future of our students, as we work to equip them with a solid, broad-based foundation for the rest of their lives. And the future of society, as we seek solutions through our research to issues from all around the world. Our six faculties combined provide a comprehensive package of study programmes and research.
In our teaching, we use the Problem-Based Learning (PBL) method. Students work in small groups, looking for solutions to problems themselves. By discussing issues and working together to draw conclusions, formulate answers and present them to their peers, students develop essential skills for their future careers.
With over 22,300 students and more than 5,000 employees from all over the world, UM is home to a vibrant and inspiring international community.
Are you drawn to an international setting focused on education, science and scholarship? Are you keen to contribute however your skills and qualities allow? Our door is open to you! As a young European university, we value your talent and look forward to creating the future together.
Click here<http://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/> for more information about UM.
Faculty of Law
The Faculty of Law at Maastricht University is a top-quality provider of challenging and rewarding Dutch and European legal education at bachelor’s, masters and PhD-level. A true pioneer in small-scale education and the teaching of legal skills for a broad range of future legal professionals.
The clear research focus on European and international aspects of law and technology. On the empirical dimension of law provides both students and staff with a stimulating work environment. The faculty values its open and inclusive community, which contributes to creating a productive and pleasant place for work and study.
The Faculty of Law offers a wide range of bachelor and master's programs. Would you like to learn more about our programs? Visit our website for more information on the courses, career perspectives, and admission requirements of our programs.
Curious?
Are you interested in this exciting position but still have questions? Feel free to contact Dr. Konrad Kollnig via konrad.kollnig(a)maastrichtuniversity.nl<mailto:konrad.kollnig@maastrichtuniversity.nl> or via +31 43 388 1835 for more information. Do you have any questions regarding the procedure, please contact Lisa Turcotte (Recruiter) at lisa.turcotte(a)maastrichtuniversity.nl<mailto:lisa.turcotte@maastrichtuniversity.nl>.
Applying?
Or are you already convinced and ready to become our new PhD? Apply now, no later than May 30, 2024, for this position. The interviews will be held in June 2024.
Applications should include:
* a letter of motivation
* a curriculum vitae
* representative work (e.g. a master thesis).
The vacancy is open for internal and external candidates. In case of equal qualifications, internal candidates will be prioritized.
Maastricht University is committed to promoting and nurturing a diverse and inclusive community. We believe that diversity in our staff and student population contributes to the quality of research and education at UM, and strive to enable this through inclusive policies and innovative projects led by teams of staff and students. We encourage you to apply for this position.
We are seeking a motivated candidate to join our research team in
MediaFutures, at the University of Bergen, Norway. The primary task of this
position will be to develop novel techniques for generating news articles.
This involves creating resources that adapt lexical, grammatical, and
stylistic choices based on various parameters, including user profiles,
cognitive accessibility, and journalistic formats. We are also interested
in exploring how news content can be versioned and adapted dynamically.
This includes tailoring news articles to different user preferences and
user segments, ensuring readability, and optimizing content delivery across
various platforms.
We expect that the candidate will explore how large language models can be
used for news generation while maintaining ethical and responsible
practices. The position also offers the opportunity to collaborate with
industry partners and gather domain-specific datasets from leading
Norwegian media houses. This real-world collaboration will enhance the
relevance and impact of the produced research.
The PhD candidate will work at MediaFutures in Work Package 5 and will
cooperate with researchers and partners in the work package, including the
Language Technology Group at the University of Oslo, the National Library
of Norway, Schibsted, Amedia, and TV 2. In addition to relevant researchers
and partners in other work packages.
- As an applicant you should have an excellent written and spoken command
of English. Proficiency in Norwegian is an important advantage, but *not* a
requirement.
The deadline is 25th May 2024. For more details about the position and how
to apply see:
https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/262259/phd-position-in-langu…
If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact me.
Best,
Samia
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*Samia Touileb*
*Associate Professor in Natural Language Processing*
*Department of Information Science and Media Studies,* *University of
Bergen*
*MediaFutures: Research Center for Responsible Media Technology &
Innovation*
Second Call For Papers: Sixth Workshop on Teaching NLP at ACL 2024
The Sixth Workshop on Teaching NLP will be co-located with the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics in Bangkok, Thailand. The workshop will occur on August 15 (hybrid option available).
The one-day workshop will combine a program of traditional keynotes, posters, and oral presentations, with discourse through panel discussion, and focus on building a community for sharing resources.
Call for Papers
The field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) is growing rapidly, with new state-of-the-art methods emerging every year. This rapid growth challenges educators of NLP courses and degree programs to constantly revise their old material and create fresh NLP courses and degree programs, as well as new best practices and educational materials focused on emerging subareas of NLP. To support those facing these challenges, our one-day workshop will bring together the communities of NLP research and education to facilitate active discussion on questions including (but not limited to):
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How can we facilitate meaningful conversations about language among Computer Science students?
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How do we include user-centered design in core NLP curricula?
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How should NLP educators design curricula that equip students with the ability to advance responsible and ethical NLP?
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How can we design assignments that require GPU access or the use of paid APIs?
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What are best practices that NLP educators from universities, industry groups, and Massive OpenOnline Courses (MOOCs) can use to share tools and resources for NLP education?
This timely sixth edition of the Teaching NLP Workshop builds on prior successful offerings to tackle the most pressing issues in how to design NLP courses and bring together instructors from various backgrounds to discuss, create, and refine instructional design and material.
Submission Information
We welcome two submission types: teaching materials and papers:
Teaching Materials (short papers)
We invite short paper submissions of 1-2 pages that describe teaching materials such as curricula, course GitHub repositories, Jupyter notebooks, slides, homework, and assignments. These short papers do not need to be anonymised, but will be peer-reviewed and published in workshop proceedings, as well as presented in posters or demos. The corresponding teaching materials, while not being part of proceedings, should be submitted in addition to the short paper. We will create a Teaching NLP repository/wiki where authors may opt-in to make their materials available for the community after the workshop.
Papers
We invite papers of up to 8 pages discussing pedagogical aspects of NLP, focusing on (but not limited to) any of the following general topics:
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Tools and methodologies (e.g., active learning, flipped classroom)
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Scaling curricula to fit large class sizes
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Adapting existing curricula to incorporate new NLP advancements
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Teaching online NLP courses or adjusting courses to become remote
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Challenges of designing the first NLP course or related degree program at a college, university, or on a MOOC platform
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Teaching heterogenous groups of students (e.g., with respect to prior experience in computer science and linguistics)
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Teaching underrepresented students
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Bridging the gap between academic training and industry needs
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Incorporating ethics, reproducibility, and responsible practices in NLP courses
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Teaching multilingual NLP
All submissions will be processed through OpenReview<https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2024/Workshop/TeachNLP>.
Important Dates
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Paper Submission: May 17, 2024
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Notification of Acceptance: June 17, 2024
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Camera-Ready Deadline: July 1, 2024
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Teaching NLP Workshop: August 15, 2024
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/teachingnlpacl2024/
Contact: teachingnlp.yt(a)gmail.com<mailto:teachingnlp.yt@gmail.com>
Best,
TeachingNLP 2024 Organizers (Sana Al-azzawi, Laura Biester, György Kovács, Ana Marasović, Leena Mathur, Margot Mieskes, Leonie Weissweiler)
We invite you to participate in the 35th European Summer School in
Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI), taking place from 29 July - 9
August, 2024 at the University of Leuven, Belgium.
https://2024.esslli.eu/
* Overview
The European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI)
is a yearly recurring event, organized under the auspices of the
Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI), and has been
running since 1989. The ESSLLI Summer School provides an
interdisciplinary setting in which courses and workshops are offered in
logic, linguistics and computer science, also from wider scientific,
historical, and philosophical perspectives.
ESSLLI attracts around 400 participants from Europe, the Middle East,
Asia and Africa, as well as from North America and Latin America. ESSLLI
has become the main meeting place for young researchers and students in
logic, linguistics and computer science to discuss current research and
to share knowledge. The event is unique in its interdisciplinary set-up,
with no equivalents in Europe.
* Programme
The ESSLLI Summer School offers an exciting two-week programme,
consisting of the following:
- Foundational, introductory and advanced courses in three areas:
Language and Computation, Logic and Computation, and Logic and Language
- Workshops in logic, linguistics and computer science
- Student session
- Evening lectures
- Social activities
The full program can be found on the website.
* Registration:
Registration for attendees, course lecturers, student session and
workshop organizers and speakers is now open. The early-registration
deadline is Friday, 31st May.
https://2024.esslli.eu/registration/registration.html
* Accommodation
ESSLLI is offering affordable accommodation to all participants who book
before 31st May. We cannot guarantee accommodation for registrations
received after this date.
(apologies for cross-posting)
Dear colleague,
We have launched the test stage of the CheckThat! 2024 lab at CLEF. The
test datasets and the submission websites are ready. Please, visit the
CheckThat! website to download the data/notebooks and read the instructions
to submit your runs:
http://checkthat.gitlab.io/clef2024/
Do notice that each of the 6 tasks runs independently and that you can
participate in one or more of them. Do not hesitate to get in touch, would
you face any issue.
The deadline to submit your runs is on 6 May 2024 (23:59 AOE).
Further information: https://checkthat.gitlab.io/
Datasets: https://gitlab.com/checkthat_lab/clef2024-checkthat-lab
<https://gitlab.com/checkthat_lab/clef2023-checkthat-lab>
Best regards,
The CheckThat! organisers
[Apologies for cross-posting]
We invite you to participate in the shared task on Empathy and Personality
Detection in interactions, organized as part of WASSA 2024
<https://workshop-wassa.github.io/>at ACL 2024 <https://2024.aclweb.org/>.
This task aims to develop models that can predict Empathy, Emotion, and
Personality recognition in short text and at the speech-turn in a
conversation.
Task Description
You can participate in five different tracks:
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Track 1: Empathy Prediction in Conversations (CONV-dialog), which
consists in predicting the perceived empathy at the dialog-level
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Track 2: Empathy and Emotion Prediction in Conversations Turns
(CONV-turn), which consists in predicting the perceived empathy, emotion
polarity, and emotion intensity at the speech-turn-level in a conversation
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Track 3: Empathy Prediction (EMP), which consists in predicting both the
empathy concern and the personal distress at the essay-level
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Track 4: Personality Prediction (PER), which consists in predicting the
personality (openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and
emotional stability; OCEAN) of the essay writer, knowing all of their
essays, dialogs, and the news article from which they reacted
Note: You are free to participate in any or both tracks.
For participation, please check:
https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/18810
Important Dates
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April 24, 2024: Codalab competition website goes online, and
training/development data released
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May 29, 2024: Evaluation phase begins: test data released
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June 1, 2024: Evaluation phase ends: Deadline for final submission on
Codalab
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June 12, 2024: Deadline system description paper (max. 4p)
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June 22, 2024: Notification of acceptance
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July 1, 2024: Camera-ready papers due
Task Organizers
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Salvatore Giorgi - National Institute on Drug Abuse [C], USA
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Valentin Barriere - Universidad de Chile , Chile
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Joao Sedoc - New York University, USA
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Shabnam Tafreshi - Evernorth Healthcare, USA
Contact
wassa24empathy [at] gmail [dot] com
Join Google Group
wassa24empathy(a)googlegroups.com
*Call for Participation: The Workshop on Holocaust Testimonies as Language
Resources*
Date: 21 May 2024 (full day)
Venue: Lingotto Conference Centre, Turin, Italy
Webpage and programme: https://www.clarin.eu/HTRes2024
<https://url6.mailanyone.net/scanner?m=1rX22L-0002ym-4R&d=4%7Cmail%2F90%2F17…>
<https://url6.mailanyone.net/scanner?m=1rX22L-0002ym-4R&d=4%7Cmail%2F90%2F17…>
*Registration*
Registration is obligatory and can be carried out via the LREC-COLING 2024
website: https://lrec-coling-2024.org/.
Workshop description
Holocaust testimonies serve as a bridge between survivors and history’s
darkest chapters, providing a connection to the profound experiences of the
past. Testimonies stand as the primary source of information that describe
the Holocaust, offering first-hand accounts and personal narratives of
those who experienced it. The majority of testimonies are captured in an
oral format, as survivors vividly explain and share their personal
experiences and observations from that time period. Transforming Holocaust
testimonies into a machine-processable digital format can be a difficult
task owing to the unstructured nature of the text. The creation of
accessible, comprehensive, and well-annotated Holocaust testimony
collections is of paramount importance to our society. These collections
empower researchers and historians to validate the accuracy of socially and
historically significant information, enabling them to share critical
insights and trends derived from these data. This workshop will investigate
a number of ways in which techniques and tools from natural language
processing and corpus linguistics can contribute to the exploration,
analysis, dissemination and preservation of Holocaust testimonies.
*Programme*
Please refer to the website for the details of the programme:
https://www.clarin.eu/HTRes2024
Contact Email: holocausttlr(a)gmail.com
*Invited speakers*
Silvia Calamai (Siena University)
Michal Frankl (Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of
Sciences)
*Organising Committee*
Isuri Anuradha, University of Wolverhampton, UK
Ingo Frommholz, University of Wolverhampton
Francesca Frontini, CNR-ILC, Italy & CLARIN
Martin Wynne, Oxford University, UK
Ruslan Mitkov, Lancaster University, UK
Paul Rayson, Lancaster University, UK
Alistair Plum, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
*Summary*
• Subject: Language & vision-based mobility assistance for visually
impaired people
• Keywords: Assistive Technologies, Visual Impairment, Computer Vision,
Image Captioning
• Research Unit: Lab-STICC (UMR CNRS 6285)
• Team: RAMBO - Robot interaction, Ambient system, Machine learning,
Behaviour, Optimization
• Location: IMT Atlantique, Brest
• Start: September/October 2024
• Duration: 3 years
• Supervision: Panagiotis Papadakis, Christophe Lohr
*Full subject description:*
https://www.imt-atlantique.fr/sites/default/files/recherche/Offres%20de%20t…
*Application *
The candidate must hold (or is about to obtain) a Master Degree in
Computer Science with theoretical and practical skills in AI algorithms
and associated deep-learning tools (e.g. Pytorch), and a solid
background in Computer Vision.
The candidate should be fluent in English (working and publishing main
language), but French speaking is an advantage (meetings with end-users
representatives).
A detailed application should be addressed to
thesis-application-rambo(a)imt-atlantique.fr, including a cover letter, an
up-to-date CV, transcripts of grades (last two years), and a list of
referees.
*Deadline: 17 May 2024
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SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
*The Second Workshop on Multimodal Semantic Representations (MMSR II)*
Co-located with ECAI 2024 (https://www.ecai2024.eu/)
19-24 October, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
(workshop on 19 or 20 October)
*Workshop website*: https://mmsr-workshop.github.io/
*Description*
The demand for more sophisticated natural human-computer and human-robot
interactions is rapidly increasing as users become more accustomed to
conversation-like interactions with AI and NLP systems. Such interactions
require not only the robust recognition and generation of expressions
through multiple modalities (language, gesture, vision, action, etc.), but
also the encoding of situated meaning.
When communications become multimodal, each modality in operation provides
an orthogonal angle through which to probe the computational model of the
other modalities, including the behaviors and communicative capabilities
afforded by each. Multimodal interactions thus require a unified framework
and control language through which systems interpret inputs and behaviors
and generate informative outputs. This is vital for intelligent and often
embodied systems to understand the situation and context that they inhabit,
whether in the real world or in a mixed-reality environment shared with
humans.
Furthermore, multimodal large language models appear to offer the
possibility for more dynamic and contextually rich interactions across
various modalities, including facial expressions, gestures, actions, and
language. We invite discussion on how representations and pipelines can
potentially integrate such state-of-the-art language models.
We solicit papers on multimodal semantic representation, including but not
limited to the following topics:
- Semantic frameworks for individual linguistic co-modalities (e.g.
gaze, facial expression);
- Formal representation of situated conversation and embodiment,
including knowledge graphs, designed to represent epistemic state;
- Design, annotation, and corpora of multimodal interaction and meaning
representation;
- Challenges (including cross-lingual and cross-cultural) in multimodal
representation and/or processing;
- Criteria or frameworks for evaluation of multimodal semantics;
- Challenges in aligning co-modalities in formal representation and/or
NLP tasks;
- Design and implementation of neurosymbolic or fusion models for
multimodal processing (with a representational component);
- Methods for probing knowledge of multimodal (language and vision)
models;
- Virtual and situated agents that embody multimodal representations of
common ground.
*Submission Information*
Two types of submissions are solicited: long papers and short papers. Long
papers should describe original research and must not exceed 8 pages,
excluding references. Short papers (typically system or project
descriptions, or ongoing research) must not exceed 4 pages, excluding
references. Both types will be published in the workshop proceedings.
Accepted papers get an extra page in the camera-ready version.
We strongly encourage students to submit to the workshop.
*Important Dates*
May 15, 2024: Submissions due
July 1, 2024: Notification of acceptance decisions
August 2, 2024: Camera-ready papers due
Papers should be formatted using the ECAI style files, available at:
https://www.ecai2024.eu/calls/main-track
Papers will be submitted in PDF format via Chairing Tool at the following
link: https://chairingtool.com/conferences/2MMSR24/MainTrack
Please do not hesitate to reach out with any questions.
Best regards,
Richard Brutti, Lucia Donatelli, Nikhil Krishnaswamy, Kenneth Lai, & James
Pustejovsky
MMSR II organizers
Web page: https://mmsr-workshop.github.io/