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Fully funded PhD Opportunities in AI (NLP) for Science at the Bredesen Center, University of Tennessee Knoxville and ORNL
by Tirthankar Ghosal 20 Dec '23

20 Dec '23

****Fully funded PhD Opportunities in AI (NLP) for Science at the Bredesen Center, University of Tennessee Knoxville and ORNL*** * The Bredesen Center brings together the extensive scientific resources of the University of Tennessee (UT) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). We are looking for candidates interested in working on #nlp <https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=nlp&highlightedUpdateUrns=u…> for #scientificdiscovery <https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=scientificdiscovery&highlig…> #aiforscience <https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=aiforscience&highlightedUpd…> #llmforscience <https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=llmforscience&highlightedUp…> applications. Successful candidates will have the opportunity to use world-class research facilities at #ORNL <https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=ornl&highlightedUpdateUrns=…>, including the Frontier #Exascale <https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=exascale&highlightedUpdateU…> #supercomputer <https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=supercomputer&highlightedUp…> . Students at the Bredesen Center, UTK, will benefit from a unique experience, working jointly with ORNL, UTK, and our industry partners on research projects that significantly contribute to advancements in trustworthy AI for scientific discovery. *Application Deadline: January 15th, 2024.* Note: The GRE is optional. Please reach out to me at ghosalt(a)ornl.gov if you have questions. We are also hiring #interns <https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=interns&highlightedUpdateUr…> #postdocs <https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=postdocs&highlightedUpdateU…> on the above topic! https://bredesencenter.utk.edu/data-science/ <https://lnkd.in/gqeMRJM9> #sdp <https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=sdp&highlightedUpdateUrns=u…> #llms <https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=llms&highlightedUpdateUrns=…> #sciNLP <https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=scinlp&highlightedUpdateUrn…> Relevant Links: https://utorii.com https://bredesencenter.utk.edu https://www.ornl.gov/staff-profile/tirthankar-ghosal https://www.ornl.gov/ai-initiative -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ *Tirthankar Ghosal* Scientist National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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*SEM 2024 Call for Papers
by jodiechou001＠gmail.com 20 Dec '23

20 Dec '23

*SEM brings together researchers interested in the semantics of (many and diverse!) natural languages and its computational modeling. The conference embraces data-driven, neural, and probabilistic approaches, as well as symbolic approaches and everything in between; practical applications as well as theoretical contributions are welcome. The long-term goal of *SEM is to provide a stable forum for the growing number of NLP researchers working on all aspects of semantics of (many and diverse!) natural languages. Topics of interest: Lexical semantics and word representations Compositional semantics and sentence representations Statistical, machine learning, and deep learning methods in semantic tasks Multilingual and cross-lingual semantics Word sense disambiguation and induction Semantic parsing, and syntax-semantics interface Frame semantics and semantic role labeling Textual inference, textual entailment, and question answering Formal approaches to semantics Extraction of events and of causal and temporal relations Entity linking, pronouns and coreference Discourse, pragmatics, and dialogue Machine reading Extra-propositional aspects of meaning Multiword and idiomatic expressions Metaphor, irony, and humor Knowledge mining and acquisition Common sense reasoning Language generation Semantics in NLP applications: sentiment analysis, abusive language detection, summarization, fact-checking, etc. Multidisciplinary research on semantics Grounding and multimodal semantics Psycholinguistics Interpretability and Explainability Human semantic processing Semantic annotation, evaluation, and resources Ethical aspects and bias in semantic representations We encourage authors to think about the ethical aspects of their work, and to address and discuss all ethical questions and implications relevant to their research. STARSEM values reproducibility and particularly welcomes submissions that adhere to the reproducibility guidelines as specified here. Submission Instructions Submissions must describe unpublished work and be written in English. We solicit both long and short papers. Please note that double submission of papers will need to be notified at submission. Long papers describe original research and may consist of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references. Appendices are allowed after the references, but the paper should be self-contained and reviewers will not be required to check the appendices, if any. Final versions of long papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account. Short papers describe original focused research and may consist of up to four (4) pages, plus unlimited pages for references. Upon acceptance, short papers will be given five (5) content pages in the proceedings. Authors are encouraged to use this additional page to address reviewers comments in their final versions. Submissions should follow the ARR formatting requirements. The deadline for direct submissions is Feb 22, 2024, and these submissions will be reviewed by the *SEM-2024 program committee. ACL Rolling Review (ARR) submissions can be committed to *SEM up to March 22, 2024 (authors of ARR-reviewed papers need to include their OpenReview link with reviews in the submission form). Both types of submissions are through OpenReview. Limitations and Ethics Statement sections are allowed and encouraged, but they are not mandatory. They should be placed after the conclusion and they will not count towards the overall page limit.). In *SEM there is no special policy against multiple submissions, but this should be notified to the Program Chairs. Submission link: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/StarSEM/2024/Conference Important Dates Anonymity period for direct submissions begins Jan 22, 2024 Direct submission deadline Feb 22, 2024 ARR-reviewed paper submission deadline Mar 22, 2024 Notification of acceptance Apr 22, 2024 Camera-ready deadline May 5, 2024 Conference date Jun 16, 2024 Anonymity period To protect the integrity of double-blind review and ensure that submissions are reviewed fairly, we adopt the rules and guidelines for ACL conferences. The following rules and guidelines make reference to the anonymity period, which runs from 1 month before the submission deadline (starting February 22, 2024 11:59PM UTC-12:00) up to the date when your paper is either accepted, rejected (Apr 22, 2024), or withdrawn. You may not make a non-anonymized version of your paper available online to the general community (for example, via a preprint server) during the anonymity period. By a version of a paper we understand another paper having essentially the same scientific content but possibly differing in minor details (including title and structure) and/or in length (e.g., an abstract is a version of the paper that it summarizes). If you have posted a non-anonymized version of your paper online before the start of the anonymity period, you may submit an anonymized version to the conference. The submitted version must not refer to the non-anonymized version, and you must inform the program chair(s) that a non-anonymized version exists. You may not update the non-anonymized version during the anonymity period, and we ask you not to advertise it on social media or take other actions that would further compromise double-blind reviewing during the anonymity period. Note that, while you are not prohibited from making a non-anonymous version available online before the start of the anonymity period, this does make double-blind reviewing more difficult to maintain, and we therefore encourage you to wait until the end of the anonymity period if possible. Alternatively, you may consider submitting your work to the Computational Linguistics journal, which does not require anonymization and has a track for “short” (i.e., conference-length) papers.

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2nd Call for Participation - SHROOM: Shared-task on Hallucinations and Related Observable Overgeneration Mistakes at SemEval-2024
by Mickus, Timothee 20 Dec '23

20 Dec '23

Welcome to SHROOM, a Shared-task on Hallucinations and Related Observable Overgeneration Mistakes! Task description: SHROOM participants will need to detect grammatically sound output that contains incorrect semantic information (i.e. unsupported or inconsistent with the source input), with or without having access to the model that produced the output. Overview of the task: The modern NLG landscape is plagued by two interlinked problems: On the one hand, our current neural models have a propensity to produce inaccurate but fluent outputs; on the other hand, our metrics are most apt at describing fluency, rather than correctness. This leads neural networks to “hallucinate”, i.e., produce fluent but incorrect outputs that we currently struggle to detect automatically. For many NLG applications, the correctness of an output is however mission critical. For instance, producing a plausible-sounding translation that is inconsistent with the source text puts in jeopardy the usefulness of a machine translation pipeline. With our shared task, we hope to foster the growing interest in this topic in the community. With SHROOM we adopt a post hoc setting, where models have already been trained and outputs already produced: participants will be asked to perform binary classification to identify cases of fluent overgeneration hallucinations in two different tracks: a model-aware and a model-agnostic track. In the former, participants have access to the model that produced the output; in the latter, they do not. To ensure a low-barrier to entry, we format the task as a binary classification problem. We now also provide a baseline kit, containing a baseline system, a format checker and the scoring program. All systems will be rated on accuracy (i.e., the proportion of test examples correctly labeled) and calibration (i.e., the correlation between the probability assigned by a system and the proportion of annotators marking a production as hallucinatory). We provide to participants a collection of checkpoints, inputs, references and outputs of systems covering three NLG tasks: definition modeling (DM), machine translation (MT), and paraphrase generation (PG), trained with varying degrees of accuracy. The development set provides binary annotations from five different annotators and a majority vote gold label. Anyone wishing to participate in the task is welcome! Participants will have to * Submit at least once during the evaluation phase on January; * Write a system description paper before February 19; * Review other system description papers (max. 2). Trial, dev and train data are now available on the task website: https://helsinki-nlp.github.io/shroom/ Codalab competition: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/15726 Join the mailing group: https://groups.google.com/u/1/g/semeval-2024-task-6-shroom Updates on Twitter: @shroom2024<https://twitter.com/shroom2024> Important dates: * Sample data ready: July 15th, 2023 * Validation data ready: September 11th, 2023 * Unlabeled train data ready: September 22nd, 2023 * Evaluation period starts (test set released): January 10th, 2024 * Evaluation period ends: January 31st, 2024 * Workshop paper submission deadline: February 19th, 2024 * Notification to authors: March 18th, 2024 * SemEval workshop: 16–21 June, Mexico (collocated with NAACL 2024) Task organizers * Elaine Zosa, Silo AI, Finland * Raúl Vázquez, University of Helsinki, Finland * Jörg Tiedemann, University of Helsinki, Finland * Vincent Segonne, Southern Brittany University, France * Teemu Vahtola, University of Helsinki, Finland * Alessandro Raganato, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy * Timothee Mickus, University of Helsinki, Finland * Marianna Apidianaki, University of Pennsylvania, USA

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CfP: HTRes 2024 – Holocaust Testimonies as Language Resources at LREC-COLING 2024
by Martin Wynne 20 Dec '23

20 Dec '23

Call for Papers: * HTRes 2024 – Holocaust Testimonies as Language Resources *Pre-conference workshop at LREC-COLING 2024 (https://lrec-coling-2024.org/) Tuesday, 21st May, 2024 in Torino, Italy Workshop webpage: https://www.clarin.eu/HTRes2024 ** Final date for paper submission: 21 February 2024 ** 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. Topics of interest: We expect contributions related to the following topics: * Creation of datasets and development of tools for the study of Holocaust testimonies: * Creation of language corpora of Holocaust testimonies * Digitisation and enhancement of oral and written testimonies (including automatic speech recognition, alignment of text and speech, format conversion, OCR, handwriting recognition, machine translation) * Named entity recognition for identifying people, places, and events in testimonies * Standards, representation formats, and guidelines for annotations and vocabularies relevant to the Holocaust testimonies * Creation, adaptation and tuning of software applications for the creation, annotation, enhancement and use of Holocaust testimonies as language resources Research using NLP and Holocaust testimonies * Applications of NLP in analysing Holocaust survivor testimonies * Sentiment analysis and emotional content extraction from survivor narratives. Data Visualisation, Knowledge Representation and Information Extraction: * Visualising complex data structures from Holocaust testimonies * Building knowledge graphs and networks to represent historical relationships * Interactive data visualisations for education and research * Extracting biographical and temporal information relevant to the Holocaust * Deep learning and large language models Digital Archiving and Long-Term Preservation: * Methods and tools for digitising and preserving Holocaust testimonies * Best practices for metadata standards and cataloguing * Ensuring long-term accessibility and data integrity Ethical Considerations and Privacy * Ethical challenges in digitising and sharing sensitive testimonies * Anonymisation and privacy protection in Holocaust data * Community engagement and consent in digital projects User and application aspects * Development of tools and interfaces for the search, analysis and exploration of Holocaust testimonies * Other relevant use cases and application scenarios All papers must clearly state and explain their relevance to the topic of 'Holocaust Testimonies as Language Resources'. All papers must represent original and unpublished work that is not currently under review. Papers will be evaluated according to their significance, originality, technical content, style, clarity, and relevance to the workshop. We welcome the following types of contributions: Standard research papers (up to 8 pages, plus more pages for references if needed); Short research papers (from 4 to 6 pages, plus more pages for references if needed). Submissions should strictly follow the LREC2024 stylesheet formatting guidelines. All papers should be electronically submitted in PDF format via the main conference platform via START (https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/htres2024/) Important Dates: Final date for paper submission: 21 February 2024 Notification of Acceptance: 20 March 2024 Camera-ready version submission: 15 April 2024 Workshop date: 21 May 2024 Programme: Please refer to the website for the details of the programme, plus the organizing and programme committees: https://www.clarin.eu/HTRes2024 -- Senior Researcher in Corpus Linguistics Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics, University of Oxford National Co-ordinator, CLARIN-UK martin.wynne(a)ling-phil.ox.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4155-0530

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NLP positions / CS @ Max Planck PhD Program - Call for Applicants
by Vera Demberg 20 Dec '23

20 Dec '23

Please note that students in NLP are also very welcome to apply to the CS @ Max Planck PhD Program; NLP Faculty in this program include e.g. Mariya Toneva and Vera Demberg. CS @ Max Planck is a selective doctoral program that grants admitted students full financial support to pursue doctoral research in the field of computer and information science, with faculty at Max Planck Institutes and some of the best German universities. To qualify for the program, students must hold a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science (or a related field) and have an outstanding academic record. We especially encourage applications from students who wish to explore research across the CS spectrum before committing to a topic and advisor. For more information about the program, see: https://www.cis.mpg.de/graduate-programs/cs-max-planck The next application deadline is December 31, 2023. For further information, please contact Gretchen Gravelle (MPI-SWS Grad Office, grad-office(a)mpi-sws.org)

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First Call for Participation- IWSLT 2024
by Atul K. Ojha 20 Dec '23

20 Dec '23

Apologies for cross-posting. ---------------------------------------- *The International Conference on Spoken Language Translation* *21st IWSLT 2024 – First Call for Participation* *August 15-16, 2024 – Bangkok, Thailand* *http://iwslt.org <http://iwslt.org/>* The International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT) is the premier annual conference for all aspects of Spoken Language Translation. Every year, the conference organizes and sponsors open evaluation campaigns around key challenges in simultaneous and consecutive translation, under real-time/low latency or offline conditions and under low-resource or multilingual constraints. System descriptions and results from participants’ systems and scientific papers related to key algorithmic advances and best practices are presented. IWSLT is the venue of the SIGSLTs, the Special Interest Group on Spoken Language Translation of ACL, ISCA and ELRA. With a track record of 20 years, IWSLT benchmarks and proceedings serve as reference for all researchers and practitioners working on speech translation and related fields. The 21st edition of IWSLT will be run as an *ELRA/ACL* event and co-located with ACL 2024 <https://2024.aclweb.org/> on August 15-16, 2024. It will be run as a hybrid event. Important Dates January 15, 2024: Release of shared task training and dev data April 01-15, 2024: Evaluation period April 29, 2024: Paper submission due (all papers) June 4, 2024: Notification of acceptance June 24, 2024: Camera-ready paper due July 22, 2024: Pre-recorded video due August 15-16, 2024: Conference Evaluation The IWSLT 2024 features shared tasks <https://iwslt.org/2024/#shared-tasks> that address the following focus areas: - Speech-to-speech track - Simultaneous track - Subtitling track - Offline track - Dubbing track - Low-resource track - Indic track Training, development and test data for each shared task will be prepared and released by the respective organizers (for further information on this initiative, please refer to the website <https://iwslt.org/2024/>). Participants will receive instructions about how to submit their runs. In addition, participants have the opportunity to present their work through a system paper that will be published in the ACL Proceedings. Conference IWSLT also invites submissions of scientific papers to be published in the ACL Proceedings and presented either in oral or poster format. The conference selects high-quality, original contributions on theoretical and practical issues of spoken language translation research, technologies and applications. For further information on this initiative, please refer to the website <https://iwslt.org/2024/#paper-submission> Contact Please send an email to iwslt-evaluation-campaign(a)googlegroups.com if you have any questions related to the shared tasks.

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CfP: The First Workshop on Language-driven Deliberation Technology (DELITE2024) - LREC-COLING, May 20th 2024
by Gabriella Lapesa 19 Dec '23

19 Dec '23

CfP: The First Workshop on Language-driven Deliberation Technology (DELITE2024) Date: 20 May 2024 Co-located with LREC-COLING 2024, Torino, Italy Website: https://idea.kmi.open.ac.uk/the-first-workshop-on-language-driven-deliberat… ********************************************************************************* Deliberation is ubiquitous: from navigating divergent interests in everyday personal life to reaching consensus in the political decision making process, deliberation describes the communicative process by which a group of people exchange ideas, weigh different arguments, and ultimately reach mutual understanding. In recent years, deliberative processes have gained momentum and shown to improve everyday and political decision-making. For the first time, technological solutions are maturing to the point that they can be deployed to support deliberation. In this context, we want to establish the foundations for collecting and curating data for deliberation domains and for evaluating technology in deliberative settings. The DELITE workshop provides a forum for presenting new advances in technology around deliberation by addressing researchers in Natural Language Processing, human-computer interaction, corpus linguistics, political science and philosophy, as well as stakeholders and domain experts involved in integrating such technology into decision-making processes. Topics for DELITE2024 include, but are not limited to: - Technological advances for public decision making - Deliberation theory in NLP models - In-domain versus across domain resources and corpora - Data-driven theory development - Integration of language systems into deliberation processes and interfaces - Technological solutions for online deliberation at scale - Argument mining for deliberation scenarios - Visual Analytics for human sensemaking - Empirical foundations for evaluation - Integration and reflection on recent advances in LLMs for deliberation scenarios - Explainability - Ethical questions - Addressing bias Application areas include, but are not limited to: - Public policy making - Democratic innovations - Deliberative democracy - Political decision making - Participatory urban planning - Citizen engagement and co-creation - Intelligence services and military - Conflict resolution/mitigation - Case analysis in healthcare - Legal decision making - Scholarly discourse (written and spoken) Submissions *************** Papers must describe original (completed or in progress) and unpublished work. We invite long (8 pages, excluding references) and short papers (4 pages, excluding references). Papers must be anonymized to support double-blind reviewing, i.e., they must not include authors’ names and affiliations and should avoid links to non-anonymized repositories. Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. Upon acceptance, the papers will be given one additional page – for long papers, up to nine (9) pages of content plus unlimited pages for acknowledgments and references and five (5) pages for short papers. We also invite non-archival, non-anonymous papers (4 pages, including references) for a poster session where ongoing projects are presented in order to serve community building. Submission of all papers is electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system (https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/delite2024/). Papers must follow the LREC-COLING 2024 two-column format, using the supplied official style files. The templates can be downloaded from the Style Files and Formatting page provided on the website. Please do not modify these style files, nor should you use templates designed for other conferences. Submissions that do not conform to the required styles, including paper size, margin width, and font size restrictions, will be rejected without review. Important Dates ****************** Paper submission deadline: 23 February 2024 Notification of acceptance: 13 March 2024 Camera-ready versions due: 20 March 2024 Workshop date: 20 May 2024 (half-day) Workshop organizers: ************************** Annette Hautli-Janisz (University of Passau) Gabriella Lapesa (Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences (GESIS), Köln, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf) Valentin Gold (University of Göttingen) Anna de Liddo (The Open University) Chris Reed (University of Dundee) Program Committee: ********************* Lucas Anastasiou (The Open U.) Miriam Butt (U. Konstanz) Philipp Cimiano (U. Bielefeld) Katharina Esau (Queensland U. of Technology) Neele Falk (U. Stuttgart) Iman Jundi (U. Stuttgart) Zlata Kikteva (U. Passau) John Lawrence (U. Dundee) Marcin Lewinsky (U. Lisbon) Steve Oswald (U. Fribourg) Joonsuk Park (U. Richmond) Brian Plüss (U. Dundee) Julia Romberg (U. Düsseldorf) Paolo Spada (U. Southampton) Manfred Stede (U. Potsdam) Sebastian Stier (GESIS, Köln) Eva Maria Vecchi (U. Stuttgart) Jacky Visser (U. Dundee) Henning Wachsmuth (U. Hannover) Timon Ziegenbein (U. Hannover) Contact: ******** delite(a)fim.uni-passau.de https://idea.kmi.open.ac.uk/the-first-workshop-on-language-driven-deliberat… The "Share your LRs!" initiative: ********************************* 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).

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Ukrainian NLP Workshop @ LREC-Coling 2024: First CFP
by Mariana Romanyshyn 19 Dec '23

19 Dec '23

*The Third Ukrainian Natural Language Processing Workshop (UNLP 2024)* <https://unlp.org.ua/> *Call For Papers* UNLP 2024 <https://unlp.org.ua/> will be held *online* on May 25, 2024, in conjunction with LREC-COLING 2024. The workshop will bring together academics, researchers, and practitioners in the fields of Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics who work with the Ukrainian language or do cross-Slavic research that can be applied to the Ukrainian language. We hope that the workshop will facilitate developments in the processing of the Ukrainian language, as well as provide a platform for discussion and sharing of ideas, encourage collaboration between different research groups, and improve the visibility of the Ukrainian research community. Topics of interest lie in the area of Ukrainian NLP and Computational Linguistics and include, but are not limited to, the following tasks: - morphosyntactic tagging, - named-entity recognition, - syntactic and semantic parsing, - coreference resolution, - information extraction and text mining, - automated question answering and information retrieval, - language modelling and natural language generation, - grammatical error correction, - text summarization, - machine translation, - sentiment analysis, - argument mining, - disinformation detection and fact verification, - development of language resources and evaluation methods, - speech recognition and generation, - knowledge representation and computational pragmatics, - computational semantics, - computational methods for phonology, - cross-Slavic models, - code-switching and Ukrainian dialects, - Ukrainian NLP in interaction with other artificial intelligence technologies. *Note:* The workshop will accept research papers for the Crimean Tatar language with the aim of supporting this severely endangered language of the indigenous people of Ukraine. The workshop will also accept papers with negative results. *Important dates* March 1, 2024 — Workshop paper due March 29, 2024 — Notification of acceptance TBD (mid-April) — Camera-ready papers due May 25, 2024 — Workshop *Submissions* UNLP invites submissions of completed and ongoing projects. Submissions describing resources or solutions that have been made available to the broader public are strongly encouraged. We invite two types of submissions: long and short papers. Long papers should describe original, unpublished, and completed work. The short papers may describe work in progress, small focused contributions, system demonstrations, new linguistic resources, or experiments based on existing software and resources. The workshop will provide *Grammarly Premium* to all authors. To request Grammarly Premium, please submit the form provided on the website home page <https://unlp.org.ua/>. Learn more at https://unlp.org.ua/call-for-papers/. Link for paper submission: https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/unlp2024/. *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* Andrii Hlybovets, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine Mariana Romanyshyn, Grammarly, Ukraine Nataliia Romanyshyn, Ukrainian Catholic University, Ukraine Oleksii Ignatenko, Ukrainian Catholic University, Ukraine Find our program committee members at https://unlp.org.ua/committees/. *Follow us* Website: https://unlp.org.ua/. Twitter: https://twitter.com/UNLP_workshop. Telegram: https://t.me/UNLP_workshop. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UNLPworkshop. Email: info(a)unlp.org.ua.

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Deadline extension (Dec 22)-Towards Ethical and Inclusive Conversational AI: Language Attitudes, Linguistic Diversity, and Language Rights (TEICAI)
by Nina Hosseini-Kivanani 19 Dec '23

19 Dec '23

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

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Third CFPs: The First Workshop on Natural Language Processing For Human Resources @ EACL 2024
by Estevam Rafael Hruschka Junior 19 Dec '23

19 Dec '23

The First Workshop on Natural Language Processing For Human Resources will be held on 21 or 22 March (TBD) in Malta together with EACL 2024. The Human Resources (HR) field involves a range of diverse tasks where Natural Language Processing (NLP) can provide valuable assistance. These tasks include talent acquisition, career growth guidance, performance management, continuous education and training, among others. At the same time, the adoption of automated techniques for HR applications can also pose certain risks and concerns, such as fairness, privacy, reproducibility, controllability, and transparency among others, for which, again, NLP research can play a pivotal role. The NLP4HR workshop aims to bring together research communities from academia and industry in these interconnected areas to discuss related challenges and opportunities. The workshop will feature invited talks, a panel discussion, and presentations of submitted long and short papers. It will also provide a platform for researchers and practitioners to come together and exchange their ideas and experiences through open discussions. * Important Dates * Mentorship program deadline: December 15, 2023 Workshop submission deadlines: - Direct submission: December 18, 2023 - Mentorship paper submission: January 5, 2024 - Paper commitment via ARR: January 17, 2024 Notification of acceptance for all submissions: January 20, 2024 Camera-ready paper due: January 30, 2024 Workshop: 21 or 22 March 2024 (TBD) *All deadlines are 11:59 PM AoE * Topics of Interest * The topics for submissions include but are not limited to: - Acquiring HR-specific knowledge from a variety of sources - Information extraction from HR documents, including job descriptions and resumes - Representation learning for HR entities like jobs, job seekers, and employers - Analysis of opinions on companies - Search and recommendation systems for recruiters and job seekers - Conversational HR assistants - Generation of HR-related documents - Question answering systems for HR-related inquiries - Identification and rectification of biases * Submissions * We invite submissions of both long and short papers that present original and previously unpublished research addressing the challenges associated with the application of NLP for HR. We also consider non-archival submissions upon request (*Please inform the organizers before submitting). Accepted papers will be presented either through oral presentations or poster sessions and will be included in the EACL proceedings as workshop papers. All regular papers and short papers should adhere to the EACL 2024 submission guidelines, with the only exception being the mandatory inclusion of a limitations section. While we strongly encourage authors to discuss the limitations of their work, we will not reject papers solely for lacking a limitations section. - Long papers can have up to 8 pages of content, with unlimited references and appendices. Accepted long papers will also receive an additional page of content (up to 9 pages) in the proceedings to incorporate feedback from the reviewers. - Short papers can have up to 4 pages of content, with unlimited references and appendices. Accepted short papers will also receive an additional page of content (up to 5 pages) in the proceedings to incorporate feedback from the reviewers. - All submissions must follow the official ACL style format, which can be found at this link: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files - Unlike the main track of EACL 2024, papers without a limitations section will still undergo review for the NLP4HR workshop. Nevertheless, we strongly encourage authors to address the limitations of their work in a dedicated section titled "Limitations." This section should be placed at the end of the main content of the paper, following the discussion/conclusions section and preceding the references, and will not count towards the page limit. For more detailed information, please refer to the EACL 2024 website ( https://2024.eacl.org). Important Notes: - No dual submission: NLP4HR will not consider any paper that is currently under review in a journal, another conference, or workshop at the time of submission, and submitted papers must not be simultaneously submitted elsewhere during the review period. - Presentation: All accepted papers must be presented either in person or virtually at the workshop. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for EACL 2024 and participate in the workshop. Submission links: - Direct submission: https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2024/Workshop/NLP4HR - Paper commitment (ARR): https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2024/Workshop/NLP4HR_ARR_Comm… * Mentorship Program and Student Scholarship Program * The workshop will offer two programs aimed at promoting diversity, fairness, and equality for all participants who submit to and attend the workshop. (1) We host a mentorship program, designed to foster valuable exchanges between prospective workshop attendees and experts working in fields relevant to the workshop theme. (2) We will cover the registration fees for up to four deserving student researchers. Further details regarding this will be announced on the workshop website. Applications to the mentorship program are due December 15th, 2023. Applications and more details can be found at https://forms.gle/8AycB9rgpkpt7oiu9 * NLP4HR 2024 Organizing Committee * - Estevam Hruschka, Megagon Labs, USA - Thom Lake, Indeed, USA - Naoki Otani, Megagon Labs, USA - Tom Mitchell, Carnegie Mellon University, USA For more details, visit the workshop website at https://megagon.ai/nlp4hr-2024/ -- Estevam Hruschka Lab Director and Staff Research Scientist Megagon Labs - www.megagon.ai

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