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Postdoc in Low-Resource NLP & Modeling of Language Learning, University of Groningen
by Bisazza, A. 07 Feb '24

07 Feb '24

Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Researcher position within the project “Polyglot Machines: Human-like Learning of Morphologically Rich Languages”, financed by a NWO-VIDI Talent Grant and coordinated by Principal Investigator (PI) dr. Arianna Bisazza. This is an interdisciplinary project at the intersection of Computational Linguistics/Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computational Psycholinguistics and Language Acquisition. Despite the impressive advances made possible by neural networks, current NLP systems are still far from displaying the learning abilities of humans in many languages. By contrast, children around the world acquire extremely diverse languages in comparable time spans and from considerably less linguistic input than that required by neural models. This project aims to improve language modeling for low-resource morphologically rich languages, taking inspiration from child language acquisition insights. Among other methodologies, an artificial language learning paradigm will be used to simulate the learning of typologically diverse languages and evaluate the effect of known child-directed language properties on the acquisition of morphology and other language aspects. You will be carrying out your research in the context of the Computational Linguistics group, which is part of the Centre for Language and Cognition of the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. An important part of your work will be conducted together with the PI and the PhD student that will be hired for the same project. Collaboration is also possible with other PhD students supervised by the PI, as well as other members of CLCG. Main requirement: A PhD degree in any area related to the tasks (such as Computational Linguistics, Computational Psycholinguistics and Language Acquisition). Find more details and apply here by 15 February 2024: https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-0… Starting date: Negotiable. Ideally 1 September 2024. The appointment will be for a specified period of 1 year, renewable for up to 2 more years (so up to 3 years in total) following positive evaluation. For questions about the position: A. Bisazza (do not use email for applications) a.bisazza(a)rug.nl -- Arianna Bisazza Associate Professor University of Groningen http://www.cs.rug.nl/~bisazza

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2nd CFP: 8th Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon @LREC-COLING 2024 in Turin (Italy)
by Emmanuele Chersoni 07 Feb '24

07 Feb '24

*The 8th International Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon* https://sites.google.com/view/cogalex-viii-2024 *Co-located with LREC-COLING 2024* https://lrec-coling-2024.org/ Turin, Italy, 20-25 May 2024 * Important Dates* Submission deadline: February 23, 2024 Date of notification: March 20, 2024 Camera ready deadline: March 29, 2024 CogALex workshop: May 20, 2024 *Meeting Description* The way we look at the lexicon has changed dramatically over the last few decades. While in the past being considered as an appendix to grammar, the lexicon has now moved to the center stage. Indeed, there is hardly any task in NLP that can be conducted without it. Also, many new proposals have emerged during the last few years. Living in a fast-moving world, it is hard for anyone to stay on top of the wave. Hence the reason for organizing events like this. The goal of this workshop is to provide builders and users of lexical resources (researchers in NLP, psychologists, computational lexicographers) a forum to share their knowledge and needs concerning the construction, organization, and use of a lexicon by people (lexical access) and machines (NLP, IR, data mining). Like in the past, we invite researchers to address unsolved problems concerning the lexicon, by considering this time however also Large Language Models (LLMs). More precisely, we would like to explore their potential for building and using lexical resources as well as their ability to shed new light on the cognitive aspects of the lexicon. We solicit contributions including, but not limited to, the topics listed below, topics, which can be considered from any of the following points of view: - traditional-, computational- or corpus linguistics, - neuro- or psycholinguistics (tip of the tongue problem, word associations), - mathematics (embedding-based approaches, graph theory, small-world problems), etc. *Submissions* Possible submission topics are: - The potential of Large Language Models for the creation and use of lexical resources; - Organization, i.e., structure of the lexicon; - The meaning of words and how to reveal it; - Analysis of the conceptual input given by a dictionary user; - Methods for crafting dictionaries or indexes; - Creation of new types of dictionaries; - Dictionary access (navigation and search strategies), interface issues Short papers can be up to 4 pages in length and long papers up to 8 pages. Both submission formats can have an unlimited number of pages for references. To create your document, please follow the guidelines defined by COLING using their style sheets ( https://lrec-coling-2024.org/authors-kit/). The submissions must be anonymous and they will be peer-reviewed by our program committee. The peer review is double blinded. Accepted papers will also be given an additional page to address the reviewers’ comments. Notice that at least one of the authors of an accepted paper must register for the main conference and present the paper. *Submission Page* https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/cogalex2024/ *Dual Submission Policy* Papers may not be submitted to the workshop if they are or will be concurrently submitted to another meeting or publication. *Invited Speaker* Prof. Gilles-Maurice de Schryver (Ghent University, Belgium) https://tshwanedje.com/members/gmds/cv.html *Workshop organizers* - Michael Zock (CNRS, LIS, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France) - Emmanuele Chersoni (Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China) - Yu-Yin Hsu (Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China) - Simon de Deyne (University of Melbourne / School of Psychological Sciences, University of Adelaide)

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LREC-COLING 2024 - Call for Participation to the Industry Day on May 22, 2024 in Turin (Italy)
by info＠elda.org 06 Feb '24

06 Feb '24

[Apologies for multiple postings] The Industry Day will take place on May 22, 2024, during the LREC-COLING 2024 conference week in Turin (Italy). As a joint conference, LREC and COLING wish to continue to provide a unique forum for researchers, industrials, and funding agencies from across a wide spectrum of areas to discuss issues and opportunities, find new synergies and promote initiatives for international cooperation, in support to investigations in language sciences, progress and innovation in language technologies and development of corresponding products, services and applications, and standards. LREC-COLING 2024 invites proposals for the Industry Day to be held in conjunction with the Main Conference. The objective of the Industrial Day is to devote time to industrial achievements and perspectives with presentations by the industrials of their applications and innovation in the field of AI, NLP, and Speech processing. This dedicated Day/Track is also designed to bridge the gap between academic research and real-world industry practices, including evaluation methodologies, and understand better the challenges, including ethics and data protection, and opportunities in the current industrial landscape. Finally, this Day is also meant as a networking platform for conference participants, experts, and professionals to foster collaborations. Topics of interest * (Large) Language Modelling * Integrated Systems and Applications * Dialogue, Conversational Systems, Chatbots, Human-Robot Interaction * Machine Learning Models and Techniques for Language Technologies * Applications of Language technologies less-resourced languages or in crisis and emergency time * Importance of language resources and building blocks * Policy issues, Ethics, Legal Issues, Bias Analysis * Evaluation and Validation Methodologies Proposal Format Please submit the following information: ·Presentation of the company/Short biography ·Title and Brief abstract of talk (150-200 words) ·Motivation: ex) Start-up company, Standardization, General Technology, Specific Technology associated with Products. ·Any specific requirements or considerations Submission link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1wJnERzsTqucjKVAqCXKNm-u_piaed24gSj4H_NfWwh… Submission Deadline: February 29, 2024 Notification of acceptance: March 29, 2024 Contact: choukri(a)elda.org <mailto:choukri@elda.org> LREC-COLING 2024: https://lrec-coling-2024.org/

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Deadline Feb 15: Tenure Stream Assistant Professor Positions
by Hassan Sajjad 06 Feb '24

06 Feb '24

*Apologies for Resharing* Full Ad: https://dal.peopleadmin.ca/postings/14872 The Faculty of Computer Science at Dalhousie University ( https://www.cs.dal.ca) invites applications for up to three tenure-stream Assistant Professor positions in any area of Computer Science. We are seeking candidates whose research focuses on one of our five *research clusters* <https://www.dal.ca/faculty/computerscience/research-industry/fcs_research.h…>: 1) Big Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, 2) Human Computer Interaction, Visualization & Graphics, 3) Systems, 4) Algorithms & Bioinformatics and 5) Computer Science Education. Research areas of particular interest include but are not limited to: Computer Vision and Signal Understanding, Qualitative and Design Research in HCI, Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. *About Dalhousie University: *Dalhousie University is one of Canada’s U15 group of research-intensive universities. The funding situation is excellent: active researchers have many opportunities for both investigator-led operating grants and support for industry collaboration. *Application Instructions: *Applications must include a cover letter, curriculum vitae, statements of research and teaching interests, sample publications, and the names and full contact information of three referees. Applications are due by *February 15, 2024*. All application materials should be submitted directly at *https://dal.peopleadmin.ca/postings/14872* <https://dal.peopleadmin.ca/postings/14872>. -- Regards; Hassan Sajjad

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2nd CFP: Third Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient LAnguages (LT4HALA 2024)
by Passarotti Marco Carlo (marco.passarotti) 06 Feb '24

06 Feb '24

2nd CFP: Third Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient LAnguages (LT4HALA 2024) Website: https://circse.github.io/LT4HALA/2024/ Submission page: https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/lt4hala2024/ Place: co-located with LREC-COLING 2024, Torino, Italy Date: Saturday, May 25 2024 DESCRIPTION LT4HALA 2024 is a one-day workshop that seeks to bring together scholars who are developing and/or are using Language Technologies (LTs) for historically attested languages, so to foster cross-fertilization between the Computational Linguistics community and the areas in the Humanities dealing with historical linguistic data, e.g. historians, philologists, linguists, archaeologists and literary scholars. LT4HALA 2024 follows LT4HALA 2020 and 2022 that was organized in the context of LREC 2022 and LREC 2022, respectively. Despite the current availability of large collections of digitized texts written in historical languages, such interdisciplinary collaboration is still hampered by the limited availability of annotated linguistic resources for most of the historical languages. Creating such resources is a challenge and an obligation for LTs, both to support historical linguistic research with the most updated technologies and to preserve those precious linguistic data that survived from past times. Relevant topics for the workshop include, but are not limited to: - handling spelling variation, - detection and correction of OCR errors, - creation and annotation of linguistic resources, - deciphering, - morphological/syntactic/semantic analysis of textual data, - adaptation of tools to address diachronic/diatopic/diastratic variation in texts, - teaching ancient languages with LTs, - NLP-driven theoretical studies in historical linguistics, - NLP-driven analysis of literary ancient texts, - evaluation of LTs designed for historical and ancient languages, - Large Language Models for the automatic analysis of ancient texts. LT4HALA 2024 will host: - the third edition of EvaLatin (https://circse.github.io/LT4HALA/2024/EvaLatin), an evaluation campaign entirely devoted to the evaluation of NLP tools for Latin, focusing on dependency parsing and emotion polarity detection; - the third edition of EvaHan (https://circse.github.io/LT4HALA/2024/EvaHan), the evaluation campaign for the evaluation of NLP tools for Ancient Chinese, focusing on sentence segmentation and punctuation prediction. SUBMISSIONS Submissions of three forms of papers will be considered: - Regular long papers – up to eight (8) pages maximum*, presenting substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. - Short papers – up to four (4) pages*, describing a small focused contribution, negative results, system demonstrations, etc. - Position papers – up to eight (8) pages*, discussing key hot topics, challenges and open issues, as well as cross-fertilization between computational linguistics and other disciplines. *Excluding any number of additional pages for references, ethical consideration, conflict-of-interest, as well as data, and code availability statements. We encourage the authors of papers reporting experimental results to make their results reproducible and the entire process of analysis replicable, by making the data and the tools they used available. The form of the presentation may be oral or poster, whereas in the proceedings there is no difference between the accepted papers. The submission is anonymous. The LREC-COLING 2024 official format is requested. Each paper will be reviewed by three independent reviewers. IMPORTANT DATES Workshop - 26 February 2024: submission due - 18 March 2024: reviews due - 22 March 2024: notifications to authors - 5 April 2024: camera-ready (PDF) due SHARED TASKS EvaLatin - 22 December 2023: guidelines available - Evaluation Window I - Task: Dependency Parsing - 1 February 2024: test data available - 8 February 2024: system results due to organizers - Evaluation Window II - Task: Emotion Polarity Detection - 12 February 2024: test data available - 19 February 2024: system results due to organizers - 11 March 2024: reports due to organizers - 22 March 2024: short report review deadline - 5 April 2024: camera ready version of reports due to organizers EvaHan - 22 December 2023: training data available - Evaluation Window - 12 February 2024: test data available - 19 February 2024: system results due to organizers - 11 March 2024: reports due to organizers - 22 March 2024: short report review deadline - 5 April 2024: camera ready version of reports due to organizers Identify, Describe and Share your LRs! When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC-COLING authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones). WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Marco Passarotti, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milan, Italy Rachele Sprugnoli, Università di Parma, Italy PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Adam Anderson, FactGrid Cuneiform Project, USA Yannis Assael, Google DeepMind Monica Berti, University of Leipzig, Germany Luca Brigada Villa, Università di Bergamo, Italy Flavio Massimiliano Cecchini, University of Leuven, Belgium Margherita Fantoli, University of Leuven, Belgium Shai Gordin, Ariel University, Israel Federica Iurescia, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano, Italy Bin Li, School of Chinese Language and Literature at Nanjing Normal University, P.R. China Eleonora Litta, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano, Italy Yudong Liu, Western Washington University Barbara McGillivray, Turing Institute, UK Beáta Megyesi, Uppsala University, Sweden Chiara Palladino, Furman University, USA John Pavlopoulos, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Eva Pettersson, Uppsala University, Sweden Sophie Prévost, Laboratoire Lattice, France Thea Sommerschield, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy James Tauber, Eldarion, USA Toon Van Hal, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Tariq Yousef, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark CONTACT rachele.sprugnoli[AT]unipr.it<http://unipr.it> Please, write “LT4HALA” or “EvaLatin” in the subject of your e-mail. For more information on EvaHan, please write to libin.njnu[AT]gmail.com<http://gmail.com> writing “EvaHan” in the subject of the e-mail. Prof. Marco C. Passarotti Computational Linguistics Index Thomisticus Treebank https://itreebank.marginalia.it/ ERC Grantee, P.I. LiLa https://lila-erc.eu/ (Grant Agreement No. 769994) CIRCSE Research Centre https://centridiricerca.unicatt.it/circse_index.html [cid:38DBA4B0-3169-48DD-B59A-4F3A679F9DD9@lan] [cid:D415BF3A-E244-4BC4-9FB5-064066B300AD@lan] [cid:13BA173A-59CB-4F2D-9B90-DE302E870A50@lan] Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Largo Gemelli, 1 20123 Milan, Italy marco.passarotti(a)unicatt.it<mailto:marco.passarotti@unicatt.it> tel. +39-02-72342380 [http://static.unicatt.it/ext-portale/5xmille_firma_mail_2023.jpg] <https://www.unicatt.it/uc/5xmille>

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***Graduate Student Position in Natural Language Processing***
by Maede Ashofteh Barabadi 06 Feb '24

06 Feb '24

Fully funded PhD and Master’s positions in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning are available at the Text Analytics and Machine Learning Group (TAML), led by Dr. Xiaodan Zhu (www.xiaodanzhu.com), at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Queen’s University, Canada. The student will also be affiliated with the Ingenuity Labs Research Institute at Queen’s University (https://ingenuitylabs.queensu.ca/). Starting date: Sep. 1, 2024 or Jan. 1, 2025 Contact: xiaodan.zhu(a)queensu.ca Webpage: www.xiaodanzhu.com Application: https://smithengineering.queensu.ca/ece/graduate/index.html Deadline for application: March. 31st, 2024 (We have started to review the applications and it is highly recommended that you submit your applications at your earliest convenience.) Our students come from top universities across the globe and in Canada. Our graduates work at top research and industrial organizations and companies in Canada and the U.S. We aim to create a diverse and inclusive learning and research environment. About Queen’s University: Queen’s University (https://www.queensu.ca/) has over 180 years of history and is one of Canada’s oldest universities. It is a public research university famous for many subjects such as engineering, science, and business. As of 2023, five Nobel Laureates and one Turing Award winners have been affiliated with the university. Queen’s University’s campus is located by the Ontario Lake and is one of the most beautiful campuses in Canada. Queen’s University is located in Kingston, a tourist hotspot, and is situated between several big cities in Canada: Toronto, Montreal, and Ottawa, which are centers for artificial intelligence research and dynamic cities to live and visit.

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CAiSE'24 Ph.D. Award: Last Call for Applications
by Announce 06 Feb '24

06 Feb '24

*** Ph.D. Award: Last Call for Applications *** 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: 1st March, 2024 AoE ***) The deadline to apply for the CAiSE 2024 PhD Award is March 1st 2024. The conditions to apply are: • having participated as an author in a previous CAiSE Doctoral Consortium or at a main CAiSE Event: either the main conference, the CAiSE Forum, EMMSAD, or BPMDS; • having successfully defended the PhD thesis in the last two years (i.e., since January 2022). The application must be submitted electronically to the PhD Awards track of CAiSE 2024 via EasyChair <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=caise2024> . The application must be a single PDF file containing: • a short cover letter that includes the list of PhD committee members, • a support letter from the thesis advisor, • the candidate's defended PhD thesis, • the candidate’s CV. ABOUT THE PHD AWARD The CAiSE PhD Award 2024 is granted annually to an outstanding recent PhD thesis in the field of Information Systems Engineering. The award is co-sponsored by the CAiSE Steering Committee and Springer. It consists of a certificate, free full registration (5 days) to the next two editions of the CAiSE conference, and a book voucher for a free selection worth EUR 500 from Springer’s printed books collection. In addition, the selected thesis will be recommended for publication as a monograph in the LNBIP series published by Springer, provided that Springer’s publication conditions are met. The PhD theses submitted for the award will be reviewed by a standing committee of senior members selected from the CAiSE Advisory Committee, the CAiSE Steering Committee, and the CAiSE Program Committee. AWARD CHAIR Professor Andreas L Opdahl, University of Bergen, Norway IMPORTANT DATES • Submission of application: 1st March, 2024 (AoE) • Notification: 15th April, 2024 PAST RECIPIENTS • 2023: Anna Bernasconi, PhD from Politecninco Milano (Italy), thesis title “Model, Integrate, Search... Repeat: a Sound Approach to Building Integrated Repositories of Genomic Data” (link to the forthcoming monograph: https://link.springer.com/book/9783031449062) • 2022: Volodymyr Leno, PhD from University of Melbourne (Australia), thesis title “Robotic Process Mining: Accelerating the adoption of Robotic Process Automation” (link to the thesis: https://minerva-access.unimelb.edu.au/bitstream/handle/ 11343/297274/98f9efca-4dd2-eb11-94dc-0050568d0279_manuscript.pdf) • 2021: Orlenys Lopez Pintado, PhD from University of Tartu (Estonia), thesis title “Collaborative Business Process Execution on the Block Chain: the Caterpillar System” (link to the thesis: https://dspace.ut.ee/items/1e09072c-5442-463a-b8c6-0425951cb90b) • 2020: Steven Mertens, PhD from Ghent University (Belgium), thesis title “Enabling process management for loosely framed knowledge-intensive processes” (link to the published monograph: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030661922) • 2019: Giovanni Meroni, PhD from Politecnico di Milano (Italy), thesis title “Artifact-driven business process monitoring” (link to the published monograph: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030324117) • 2018: Wei Wang, PhD from University of Queensland (Australia) thesis title “Integrated Modeling of Business Processes and Business Rules” (link to the published monograph: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030118082) • 2017: Marcela Ruiz, PhD from the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Spain), thesis title “TraceME: A Traceability-Based Method for Conceptual Model Evolution” (link to the published monograph: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319897158) • 2016: Le Minh Sang Tran, PhD from University of Trento (Italy), thesis title “Managing the Uncertainty of the Evolution of Requirements Models” (testimony of the 2016 CAiSE PhD Award winner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-vvlH66lC4)

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Postdoc positions available at Université de Lorraine - NLP and Humanities
by Maxime Amblard 06 Feb '24

06 Feb '24

Postdoc positions available at Université de Lorraine Lorraine Université d’Excellence (LUE) is an initiative carried by Université de Lorraine, in association with CNRS, Inria, Inserm, INRAE, the Nancy campus of AgroParisTech, and Georgia-Tech Europe, and funded by the France 2030 program of investments for the future. LUE’s ambition over the next 10 years is to assert itself as a major world-class research university, with a core positioning in systemic engineering for a healthy planet. To achieve this ambition, a major lever is to develop a sustainable interdisciplinary momentum that will enable the academic site to position itself on major societal and socio-economic challenges, both in research and in education. For that purpose, we will fund a few major interdisciplinary programs and projects; they will propose global directions to answer the following six major challenges: • The evolution of materials issues in the 21st century (from resource issues to those related to the circular economy, via metallurgy and new materials) • The ecological transition (One Earth) • The energy transition • The digital transition of industry and society • The global challenges of health in the 21st century, including the "One Health" systemic approach • Transitions in society At this moment, a number of major interdisciplinary programs are currently emerging, led by groups of scientists from the Lorraine site, as well as smaller and more narrowly targeted projects, known as "IMPACT projects ». This call plans to recruit up to 10 international post-docs who can contribute to one 12 open tracks. One of the emerging topics in the broadest sense concerns NLP and the Humanities. This includes the analysis of political activity, the evolution of law, the ethical aspects of NLP and AI, language learning, and the analysis of literary texts from the Bible to contemporary literature, sociological analysis, health care. Research based on natural language corpora is encouraged. The post-doctoral position should be for 24 to 30 months, and should bring a new and original momentum to the site, complementing existing strengths and enriching one of the existing emerging projects with highly original and exciting research objectives. The aim of this call is to welcome young researchers who can contribute to one or other of the above projects in an original, and even unexpected, way in relation to the current mapping of skills present on the Lorraine site. There is therefore no predefinition of the host project, nor have the host projects predefined the topics on which they would be willing to host a postdoc. The selection panel will take the following factors into account: • Scientific excellence of the applicant • Originality and relevance of the proposed scientific project • Contribution of the proposed project to one or several of the existing or emerging projects. • Compatibility of the candidate and his/her project with the site's research structures – in balance with the previous point, we still wish to recruit post-docs who fit naturally into an adequate research environment. Candidates are not, however, asked to pre-identify one single host research structure, although they are not forbidden to mention any links or knowledge they may have of the site's research groups. Salary : from 2 271€ to 2 900€ (Gross) / month Successful candidates will be granted operating credits in addition to their salary. They may also be offered the opportunity to contribute to educational modules linked to the interdisciplinary topic to which they are contributing. Application Applications should be submitted to https://enquetes.univ-lorraine.fr/index.php/573736?lang=en and should include the following information: • CV with list of publications and description of involvement in research projects • Proposed scientific project for the stay at Université de Lorraine • When appropriate (not a prerequisite): existing contacts and collaborations with Université de Lorraine researchers • Persons who can be contacted for additional information / recommendation letters contact person: Pr Maxime Amblard, Loria and IDMC maxime.amblard(a)univ-lorraine.fr please start the object of your mail with [LUE-postdoc] ---------------------- Maxime Amblard Université de Lorraine https://members.loria.fr/mamblard http://espoir-ul.fr

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Call for papers: 3rd Conference on Digital Data and Human Sciences (DRDHum 2024)
by Michael Pace-Sigge 06 Feb '24

06 Feb '24

Dear colleagues, I hope you find this of interest and I hope you can pass it on to your colleagues and students. 1st Call for Papers. 3rd Conference on Digital Data and Human Sciences (DRDHum 2024): Digital Research Data and Human Sciences in the Age of A.I. University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu campus, December 10 ̶ 12, 2024 https://sites.uef.fi/drd-hum-2024/ Today, there are many ways in which the human and social sciences use digital tools to investigate different aspects of human life and society. As the significance and use of digital resources continually expands into new fields of study, there are some disciplines which have already been working with digital methods for decades. This conference aims to present an overview of the current state of research in fields such as archival studies, cultural studies, history, linguistics, literature, performing and visual arts, philosophy where novel approaches are being made available through digital tools. The 2024 conference focusses on novel and innovative approaches to make use of digital applications, in particular in the light of the advent of machine learning and A.I. solutions. The Digital Research Data and Human Sciences (DRDHum 2024) conference aims to bring together researchers who have different areas of interest and expertise to discuss the themes of data compilation and management, and to share their knowledge and experience. We encourage contributions from researchers and research groups who have implemented interdisciplinary research to participate in the event. DRDHum 2024 is organized by the University of Eastern Finland. The first (D)RDHum Conference was hosted at the University of Oulu in 2019, where the focus was specifically on linguistic text corpora. The second conference, 2022 at the University of Jyväskylä was more expansive, looking at digital resources and technologies within the humanities and include multi-modal approaches. Submissions of individual papers, posters, and workshops are welcome but not limited to: Humanities and social research in the fields of e.g. o digital cultural, gender and ethnic studies o digital discourse analysis o digital history o digital literary studies o data-rich literary history o digital solutions in logopedics o digital media studies o digital pedagogies o spatial humanities o spoken and written linguistics Theoretical and methodological aspects of digital humanities and social studies, e.g. o computational and machine-learning systems o corpus-assisted and other corpus analyses o digital discourse analyses o Geographic Information Systems (GIS) o literary cartography o tools for digital data analysis Plenary speakers Professor Katherine Bode, Professor, Australian National University https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/bode-k ARC Future Fellow, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences Professor Anna Foka, Uppsala University, Sweden https://www.katalog.uu.se/profile/?id=N18-926 Professor at Department of ALM Professor Michaela Mahlberg, University of Birmingham, UK https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/elal/mahlberg-michaela.aspx Department of English Language and Linguistics Chair in Corpus Linguistics Professor Tony McEnery, University of Lancaster, UK https://www.lancaster.ac.uk<https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/> Distinguished Professor Submission guidelines Authors are invited to submit an abstract for theoretical or empirical work of 250-400 words (excluding references), which should indicate the research questions, data and methods used, and give a brief indication of the results. Besides oral and poster presentations, the conference will be happy to be the venue for select thematic workshops. Workshops will address a particular topic within the general theme of the conference. The chair/s of the workshop will be required submit an abstract, maximum 500 words (excluding references) introducing the proposed topic, the aim of the event and the expected audience. These workshops must include a practical part, it is therefore essential that the maximum number of participants (and any particular requirements) is given in the proposal. These workshops must be, furthermore, open to conference participants only. A list of those workshops and tutorials which have been accepted will then be announced on the conference website. After this, submissions to the workshops or tutorials themselves can then be made, following further instructions that will have been given by the organizers. We therefore invite the following types of submissions: 1. Abstract for an oral presentation (20 min + 10 min for discussion) 2. Proposal for a workshop (2 hours in length) 3. Abstract for a poster presentation (A0) Please access the submission forms at: https://openreview.net/group?id=uef.fi/University_of_Eastern_Finland/DRDHum… (Please note that you will need to request an OpenReview registration if you do not already have one. We have been advised that this process might take up to two weeks.) Important dates * Submission of oral presentations and posters: opens 07.02.2024 * Submission of oral presentations and posters: closes 15.3.2024 * Acceptance of abstracts: 01.05.2024 * Conference: 10.–12.12.2024 We aim to organise the event on-site and in-person in Joensuu and plan to make the plenaries available online. For more information, please send inquiries to: drdhum2024(a)uef.fi<mailto:drdhum2024@uef.fi> On behalf of the organising committee- Dr Michael Pace-Sigge (he/him/his) School of Humanities Dept. of English Language and Culture University of Eastern Finland Room 155 Agora Tel.+ 358 (0) 504423473 P.O. Box 111 FI-80101 Joensuu Finland https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5164-5242

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Fully-funded PhD in Generative AI and Creativity (University of Sydney/CSIRO)
by Wan, Stephen (Data61, Eveleigh) 06 Feb '24

06 Feb '24

Are you interested in a fully-funded PhD in Generative AI and Creativity? The University of Sydney’s Designing with AI Lab and CSIRO’s Collaborative Intelligence program have teamed up to explore the future of creativity and ideation in science. Can AI help scientists have ideas? Can it help formulate hypotheses or help inspire discoveries? This scholarship provides a stipend of $38,500 AUD/yr for up to 3.5 years for a full-time enrolled student, along with a tuition fee waiver if the applicant is an International student whose enrollment requires a fee to be paid. The applicant will also be able to work with a community of researchers in design, computational creativity, machine learning across both the CSIRO and the University of Sydney. This offer is open to those with prior research experience (in an eligible Masters or Honours program), either Australian or International. Successful applicants will have experience with AI and an interest in science and creativity. Applicants could come from any discipline — computing, science, psychology, design, engineering, business, or anywhere further afield. Applicant would ideally have experience in, or familiarity with concepts from, computational linguistics, machine learning/AI, and natural language processing. Apply <https://forms.gle/dAEZWxrLymo65y436> here<https://forms.gle/dAEZWxrLymo65y436> before 11:59pm February 22nd.<https://forms.gle/dAEZWxrLymo65y436> Contact Kaz Grace at kazjon.grace(a)sydney.edu.au<mailto:kazjon.grace@sydney.edu.au> with any questions. After selection, we will help the applicant through the application and enrollment process for commencing a PhD at the University of Sydney. Please note that the selected applicant will be offered the scholarship only once they have successfully enrolled in a PhD program at the University of Sydney. If, for any reason, the applicant is unable to commence a PhD, they will not be eligible for this scholarship.

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