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CfP: BUCC, extended deadline, 17th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora
by Pierre Zweigenbaum 22 Feb '24

22 Feb '24

17th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora Co-located with LREC-COLING 2024 Torino, Italia, 20 May 2024 *Extended deadline: 6 March 2024* Invited speaker: François Yvon, Sorbonne Université, CNRS, ISIR Workshop website: https://comparable.limsi.fr/bucc2024/ LREC-COLING website: https://lrec-coling-2024.org/ Workshop proceedings to be published in the ACL Anthology MOTIVATION In the language engineering and linguistics communities, research in comparable corpora has been motivated by two main reasons. In language engineering, on the one hand, it is chiefly motivated by the need to use comparable corpora as training data for statistical NLP applications such as statistical and neural machine translation or cross-lingual retrieval. In linguistics, on the other hand, comparable corpora are of interest because they enable cross-language discoveries and comparisons. It is generally accepted in both communities that comparable corpora consist of documents that are comparable in content and form in various degrees and dimensions across several languages. Parallel corpora are on the one end of this spectrum, unrelated corpora on the other. Comparable corpora have been used in a range of applications, including Information Retrieval, Machine Translation, Cross-lingual text classification, etc. The linguistic definitions and observations related to comparable corpora can improve methods to mine such corpora for applications of neural NLP, for example, to extract parallel corpora from comparable corpora for neural machine translation. As such, it is of great interest to bring together builders and users of such corpora. TOPICS We solicit contributions on all topics related to comparable (and parallel) corpora, including but not limited to the following: Building Comparable Corpora: - Automatic and semi-automatic methods - Methods to mine parallel and non-parallel corpora from the web - Tools and criteria to evaluate the comparability of corpora - Parallel vs non-parallel corpora, monolingual corpora - Rare and minority languages, across language families - Multi-media/multi-modal comparable corpora Applications of Comparable Corpora: - Human translation - Language learning - Cross-language information retrieval & document categorization - Bilingual and multilingual projections - (Unsupervised) Machine translation - Writing assistance - Machine learning techniques using comparable corpora Mining from Comparable Corpora: - Cross-language distributional semantics, word embeddings and pre-trained multilingual transformer models - Extraction of parallel segments or paraphrases from comparable corpora - Methods to derive parallel from non-parallel corpora (e.g. to provide for low-resource languages in neural machine translation) - Extraction of bilingual and multilingual translations of single words, multi-word expressions, proper names, named entities, sentences, paraphrases etc. from comparable corpora - Induction of morphological, grammatical, and translation rules from comparable corpora - Induction of multilingual word classes from comparable corpora Comparable Corpora in the Humanities: - Comparing linguistic phenomena across languages in contrastive linguistics - Analyzing properties of translated language in translation studies - Studying language change over time in diachronic linguistics - Assigning texts to authors via authors' corpora in forensic linguistics - Comparing rhetorical features in discourse analysis - Studying cultural differences in sociolinguistics - Analyzing language universals in typological research IMPORTANT DATES Deadlines are "anywhere on Earth". 6 Mar 2024: *Extended* paper submission deadline 24 Mar 2024: Notification of acceptance 7 Apr 2024: Camera-ready final papers 20 May 2024: Workshop date For updates, please see the workshop website at https://comparable.limsi.fr/bucc2024/ PRACTICAL INFORMATION The workshop is an in-person event. Workshop registration is via the main conference registration site, see https://lrec-coling-2024.org/ The workshop proceedings will be published in the ACL Anthology. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Please follow the style sheet and templates (for LaTeX, Overleaf and MS-Word) provided for the main conference at https://lrec-coling-2024.org/authors-kit/ Papers should be submitted as a PDF file using the START conference manager at https://secure-web.cisco.com/1UaJIr7ltEdbVzt8EpJCgpyj2ZyxfgFf-boU68G__QPUm2… Submissions must describe original and unpublished work and range from 4 to 8 pages plus unlimited references. Reviewing will be double blind, so the papers should not reveal the authors' identity. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings, which will be included in the ACL Anthology. Double submission policy: Parallel submission to other meetings or publications is possible but must be immediately (i.e. as soon as known to the authors) notified to the workshop organizers by e-mail. For further information and updates, please see the BUCC 2024 website: https://comparable.limsi.fr/bucc2024/ WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS - Pierre Zweigenbaum (Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, LISN, Orsay, France) - Reinhard Rapp (University of Mainz and Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences, Germany) - Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds, United Kingdom) Contact: pz (at) lisn (dot) fr PROGRAMME COMMITTEE - Ebrahim Ansari (Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Iran) - Thierry Etchegoyhen (Vicomtech, Spain) - Kyo Kageura (University of Tokyo, Japan) - Natalie Kübler (Université Paris Cité, France) - Philippe Langlais (Université de Montréal, Canada) - Yves Lepage (Waseda University, Japan) - Shervin Malmasi (Amazon, USA) - Michael Mohler (Language Computer Corporation, USA) - Emmanuel Morin (Nantes Université, France) - Dragos Stefan Munteanu (Language Weaver, Inc., USA) - Ted Pedersen (University of Minnesota, Duluth, USA) - Ayla Rigouts Terryn (KU Leuven, Belgium) - Reinhard Rapp (University of Mainz and Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences, Germany) - Nasredine Semmar (CEA LIST, Paris, France) - Silvia Severini (Leonardo Labs, Italy) - Serge Sharoff (University of Leeds, UK) - Richard Sproat (OGI School of Science & Technology, USA) - Tim Van de Cruys (KU Leuven, Belgium) - Pierre Zweigenbaum (Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, LISN, Orsay, France)

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2nd Call for Papers MMSYM 2014
by Andy Lücking 22 Feb '24

22 Feb '24

*Apologies for cross-postings* Call for Papers MMSYM 2024 (http://mmsym.org/) 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS 2nd International MultiModal communication SYMposium (MMSYM 2024) Frankfurt, Germany; 25.09.-27.09.2024 STRICT ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 08th, 2024 (anywhere on earth)! The 2nd edition of MMSYM continues the symposium series on multimodal communication previously held as the 1st MMSYM in Barcelona (2023), as European Symposia in Leuven (2019), Bielefeld (2017), Copenhagen (2016), Tartu (2014) and Malta (2013), and even earlier as Nordic (2003-2012) and Swedish Symposia (1997-2000). The symposium aims at gaining insights into the interaction and/or co-dependence of visual and acoustic modes of communication. To advance our understanding of communication, the symposium aims at further integrating multimodality as an integral part of linguistics and cognitive science. We welcome innovative contributions in the broader field of multimodal communication. Investigating multimodality extends our knowledge about various ways of communication beyond (spoken) language. This year’s symposium has a particular interest in three main research themes: (1) The gesture-speech integration, in particular the prosody-gesture link, (2) formal, automatic and machine-learning approaches to multimodality, and (3) psycholinguistic approaches in multimodal settings. For MMSYM 2024, we particularly encourage contributions relating to the conference themes. Topics include, but are not limited to: • Annotation schemes and tools for multimodal data • Articulation-Gesture-coordination • Automatic recognition and interpretation of different modalities and their interaction • Formal implementation of multimodality • Intercultural aspects of multimodal behavior • Kinematics of bodily movements • Machine and deep learning techniques applied to multimodal data • Memory effects in multimodal settings • Multimodal aspects of language acquisition and learning (both L1 and L2) • Multimodal communication disorders and communication support • Multimodal corpora • Multimodal dialogue systems • Multimodal health communication • Multimodal human-computer interaction and conversational agents • Multimodal language processing • Prosody-Gesture-Integration • Semantic and pragmatic functions of multimodality • Speech and gestures in human communication Invited speakers: - Petra Wagner (Bielefeld University) - Judith Holler (Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition & Behaviour, Radboud University; MPI for Psycholinguistics Nijmegen) - Julie Hunter (LinaGora Labs, Toulouse)

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Semantic Methods for Events and Stories, 2nd Edition (SEMMES 2024) – 2nd Call for Papers
by Pasquale Lisena 22 Feb '24

22 Feb '24

Apologies for cross posting *************** Semantic Methods for Events and Stories, 2nd Edition (SEMMES 2024) – 2nd Call for Papers *************** Website: https://anr-kflow.github.io/semmes/ Workshop co-located with the Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) in Hersonissos, Greece Submission deadline: March 7th, 2024 Scope *************** An important part of human history and knowledge is made of events, which can be aggregated and connected to create stories, be they real or fictional. These events as well as the stories created from them can typically be inherently complex, reflect societal or political stances and be perceived differently across the world population. The Semantic Web offers technologies and methods to represent these events and stories, as well as to interpret the knowledge encoded into graphs and use it for different applications, spanning from narrative understanding and generation to fact-checking. The aim of the 2nd edition of our workshop on Semantic Methods for Events and Stories (SEMMES) is to offer an opportunity to discuss the challenges related to dealing with events and stories, and how we can use semantic methods to tackle them. We welcome approaches which combine data, methods and technologies coming from the Semantic Web with methods from other fields, including machine learning, narratology or information extraction. This workshop wants to bring together researchers working on complementary topics, in order to foster collaboration and sharing of expertise in the context of events and stories. Topics *************** Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Ontologies and data models for representing events, event relations, and narratives; - Event extraction, co-reference and linking; - Event Relation extraction and linking (e.g. temporal, causal, modal relationships); - Methods combining KGs and LLMs targeting event- or narrative-related research; - Fake events detection and event verification; - Event-centric question answering; - Event information visualisation; - Event-centric knowledge graphs and vocabularies; - Completion of event-centric knowledge graphs and reasoning; - Event summarisation; - Automatic narrative understanding and generation; - Storytelling Applications/Demos. Submission Guidelines *************** We welcome the following types of contributions. - Long papers (10-15 pages including references) - Short papers (5-9 pages including references) We welcome any types of research, resource and application papers, as well as (short only) demonstration submissions. Submissions must be written in English and formatted using the template for submissions to CEUR Workshop Proceedings (https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-submissions-to-ceur-w…) All papers and abstracts have to be submitted electronically via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semmes2024. Each accepted paper needs to be presented by one of the authors, who agrees to register and participate in SEMMES. Authors may be requested to serve as reviewers for max 2 papers. Important Dates *************** - Submission deadline: March 7th, 2024 - Notifications: April 4th, 2024 - Camera-ready version: April 18th, 2024 - Workshop day: May 26th or 27th, 2024 (half-day, TBA) All deadlines are 23:59 anywhere on earth (UTC-12). Proceedings *************** The complete set of papers will be published with the joint CEUR ESWC Workshop Proceedings (http://CEUR-WS.org), listed by the DBLP. -- Pasquale Lisena EURECOM, Campus SophiaTech 450 route des Chappes, 06410 Biot, France e-mail: pasquale.lisena(a)eurecom.fr site: http://pasqlisena.github.io/

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CHANGE OF DATE for sign-lang@LREC 2024
by Schulder, Dr. Marc 22 Feb '24

22 Feb '24

Dear all, the date for the sign-lang@LREC 2024 workshop has changed. It will now be on Saturday, 25 May, the day after the LREC-COLING 2024 main conference. We are also pleased to confirm that the workshop will be a hybrid event. Similar to the 2022 workshop, participants will be given access to an online text chat before and during the event for online participants to present their work as well as for discussion of all workshop contributions. On-stage presentations will be live streamed (including International Sign/English interpretation) with opportunity for questions from online and on-site participants. The live poster sessions will be held on-site only, but posters will be made available online for discussion via text chat. For further information, please visit the workshop website at https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/lrec2024/ Yours, the sign-lang@LREC 2024 workshop committee

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Edge Hill Corpus Research Group, Thursday 29 February 2024
by Costas Gabrielatos 22 Feb '24

22 Feb '24

Edge Hill Corpus Research Group The next meeting of the Edge Hill Corpus Research Group will take place online (via MS Teams) on Thursday 29 February 2024, 2:00-3:30 pm (GMT). Attendance is free. Registration closes on Wednesday 28 February, 11 am (GMT) You can register here: https://store.edgehill.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/conferences/events/edge… Topic: Corpus Methodology Speaker: Matteo Di Cristofaro<https://infogrep.it/site/> (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy) Title: One dataset, many corpora: Problems of scientific validity in corpora and corpus-derived results Abstract Corpus linguistics has, since its inception, recognised the relevance of digital technologies as a major driving force behind corpus techniques and their (r)evolution in the study of language (cf. Tognini-Bonelli 2012). And yet, while both corpus linguistics and digital technologies have frequently benefited from each other (the case of NLP/NLU is one such macro example), their pathways have often diverged. The result is a disconnect between corpus linguistics and digital data processing whose effects directly impinge on the ability to analyse language through software tools. A disconnect becoming more and more relevant as corpus linguistics is being applied to vast amounts of data obtained from manifold sources – including a wide array of social media platforms, each one with its unique linguistic and technical peculiarities. As the ground-truth of an ever-increasing number of language studies, corpora must be able to correctly treat and represent such peculiarities: e.g. the dialogic dimension of comments or forum posts; the presence (and potential subsequent normalisation) of spelling variations; the use of hashtags and emojis. Failing to do so, the corpus-derived results will likely present researchers with a falsified view of the language under scrutiny. What is at stake is not the ability to “count” what is in a corpus, but rather whether what is being counted is or is not a feature present in the original data – of which the corpus should be a faithful representation. The presentation is consequently devoted to tackling digital technicalities, i.e. “those notions and mechanisms that – while not classically associated with natural language – are i) foundational of the digital environments in which language production and exchanges occur and ii) at the core of the techniques that are used to produce, collect, and process the focus of investigation, that is, digital textual data.” (Di Cristofaro 2023:5). One such example is represented by character encodings: although at the “core” of the whole corpus linguistics enterprise (cf. McEnery and Xiao 2005; Gries 2016:39,111) – since they allow written language to be processed by a computer and understood by humans -, these are often overlooked at all stages of corpus compilation and analysis, potentially leading linguists to involuntarily tampering with the data and its linguistic contents. Starting from practical examples, the presentation discusses the implications that digital technicalities have on corpora and their analyses – or rather, what happens when they are not properly treated – while outlining (also in the form of Python scripts and practical tools) potential new pathways that a “digital-aware” perspective of corpus linguistics can open up. References Di Cristofaro, Matteo. Corpus Approaches to Language in Social Media. Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics. New York: Routledge, 2023. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003225218<https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003225218>. Gries, Stefan Th. Quantitative Corpus Linguistics with R: A Practical Introduction. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 2016. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315746210<https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315746210>. McEnery, Tony, and Richard Xiao. ‘Character Encoding in Corpus Construction’. In Developing Linguistic Corpora: A Guide to Good Practice, edited by Martin Wynne, 47–58. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2005. https://users.ox.ac.uk/~martinw/dlc/index.htm<https://users.ox.ac.uk/~martinw/dlc/index.htm>. Tognini Bonelli, Elena. ‘Theoretical Overview of the Evolution of Corpus Linguistics’. In The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics, edited by Anne O’Keeffe and Michael McCarthy, 14–27. Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York: Routledge, 2012. ________________________________ Edge Hill University<http://ehu.ac.uk/home/emailfooter> Modern University of the Year, The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2022<http://ehu.ac.uk/tef/emailfooter> University of the Year, Educate North 2021/21 ________________________________ This message is private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it from your system. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Edge Hill or associated companies. Edge Hill University may monitor email traffic data and also the content of email for the purposes of security and business communications during staff absence.<http://ehu.ac.uk/itspolicies/emailfooter>

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2 Assistant/Associate Professors in Artificial Intelligence at Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS)
by Wijnholds, G.J. (Gijs) 22 Feb '24

22 Feb '24

Dear all, My institute is looking to recruit two assistant or associate professors in AI, which may be relevant to people on this list. Here’s the beginning of the vacancy: "The Faculty of Science, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), is looking for: 2 Assistant/Associate Professors in Artificial Intelligence (0.8-1.0 FTE) The rapid evolution and expansion of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science and the increasing integration with other disciplines creates new challenges in developing and understanding modern computation in its foundations, applications, and societal consequences. Our institute is at the center of this transformation, and we aim to strengthen our research and education in artificial intelligence. We are looking for candidates with expertise complementary to the one that is already present at LIACS and related to generative AI, human centered AI, interactive machine learning, and computational creativity." Here’s the full vacancy: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/2024/q1/14490-2-assistant_assoc… Best, dr. Gijs Wijnholds Assistant Professor in Natural Language Processing Text Mining and Retrieval Group<https://tmr.liacs.nl/> Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science https://gijswijnholds.github.io

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[CfP] e-Commerce and NLP Workshop @ LREC-COLING 2024
by besnikf＠amazon.com 22 Feb '24

22 Feb '24

The Seventh Workshop on e-Commerce and NLP (ECNLP 7) Co-located with LREC-COLING 2024 in Torino, Italy – May 21, 2024 https://sites.google.com/view/ecnlp/ Submission Deadline: Friday Feb 23, 2024 - 23:59pm (AoE) ECNLP focuses on NLP for e-Commerce and online shopping applications. We welcome papers covering all aspects on online commerce and data, including search, retrieval, and customer-facing applications and tasks. Important Dates Submission Deadline: Friday Feb 23, 2024 - 23:59pm (AoE) Acceptance Notification: Friday March 29, 2024 Camera-ready versions: Friday April 12, 2024 Workshop: Tuesday May 21, 2024 Instructions for Authors Papers must be submitted in PDF format using the official LREC-COLING template. More details available on the website. Additional Information and Contact Details https://sites.google.com/view/ecnlp/home/ Workshop Scope ECNLP invites quality research contributions as short or long papers. All submissions will undergo a double-blind review process, and accepted submissions will be presented at the workshop. NLP and IR have been powering e-Commerce applications since the early days of the fields. Today, NLP and IR already play a significant role in e-commerce tasks, including product search, recommender systems, product question answering, machine translation, sentiment analysis, product description and review summarization, and customer review processing, among many other tasks. With the exploding popularity of chatbots and shopping assistants – both text- and voice-based – NLP, IR, question answering, and dialogue systems research is poised to transform e-commerce once again, but requires a forum where new and unfinished ideas could be discussed. The ECNLP workshop will provide a venue for the dissemination of NLP and IR research results related to e-commerce and online shopping, bringing together researchers from both academia and industry. The workshop welcomes submission of late-breaking and preliminary research results, as well as opinion and position papers. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Product classification and cataloguing (including into types and hierarchies) - NER for products, brands, attributes, and part names - Search and product query auto-completion - Recommender systems and product suggestions - Machine Translation applied to e-commerce (e.g. translating product titles/reviews) - Voice & dialogue-based e-commerce applications; ASR for e-commerce - Advertising and ad prediction/forecasting models - Fraud and spam detection in e-commerce (e.g. in customer reviews/comments) - Product description and review summarization - Product similarity and matching of seller-provided listings to catalog products - Technical support request processing (user emails, chat agents, etc.) - E-commerce related social media processing - The intersection of Computer Vision and NLP (e.g. product images and text) - Product Question Answering - Shopping assistants, agents, and chat bots - Sentiment analysis, opinion mining, and stance detection in user-generated content - Relevant resources and datasets Thank you, The ECNLP Organizing Committee

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Discharge Me! shared task
by dina demner 22 Feb '24

22 Feb '24

The Discharge Me! shared task invites participants to streamline the generation of discharge summary sections in the EHR, with the goal of alleviating clinician burden and enhancing patient care quality. Leveraging a dataset derived from MIMIC-IV, participants are tasked with generating the "Brief Hospital Course" and "Discharge Instructions" sections using over 100,000 admissions from the Emergency Department (ED). Submission guidelines and data access agreements are detailed on the task and competition website (https://stanford-aimi.github.io/discharge-me <https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstanford-…>), with system submissions due by May 10th, 2024. Accepted papers will be presented at the 23rd Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing at ACL 2024. Join us in revolutionizing clinical documentation and improving healthcare workflows! For further details and registration, please visit the Codabench competition page linked on the task website.

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special issue of SNAM journal - Datasets, Language Resources and Algorithmic Approaches on Online Wellbeing and Social Order in Asian Languages - Deadline July 2024
by Rajesh Sharma 21 Feb '24

21 Feb '24

Hello All, Special issue of the *Social Network Analysis and Mining (SNAM)* journal: *Datasets, Language Resources and Algorithmic Approaches on Online Wellbeing* *and Social Order in Asian Languages* https://link.springer.com/journal/13278/updates/26741080 *** Deadline for submission: July 2024 *** *** Guest Editors *** Vivek Kumar Singh, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India David Pinto, Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla, Mexico Dr Sriparna Saha, Indian Institute of Technology, Patna, India Dr. Vedika Gupta, OP Jindal Global University, Haryana, India. Dr. Rajesh Sharma, University of Tartu, Estonia. *** Context *** The phenomenal growth of social media platforms has resulted in their becoming ubiquitous in the sense that now almost everyone on the planet is using or is being affected by content on social media platforms. Social media platforms have become so influential that they are not only affecting individual thoughts and behaviours but also guiding collective behaviours of groups and societies. There are now innumerable instances of hate speech, abusive content, cyberbullying, misogyny, fake news and disinformation etc. on social media platforms. Such content can severely impact our emotions, mental health, and well-being. The spread of hate speech, misinformation, fundamentalist propaganda, religious hate campaigns etc. on social media platforms can be furthermore dangerous as it could disturb the social order and harmony. The hateful and targeted campaigns can affect social structures and institutions, values, and norms. Therefore, it is extremely important that such content is identified and appropriately dealt with. However, due the huge volume and speed of creation of such content, it can only be done by using sophisticated computational methods that can automatically detect and identify harmful content. Taking into account the fact that the social media is accessible in large number of languages across the world, the task becomes more challenging. Availability of enough and suitable data and resources is a fundamental requirement towards this endeavour. Asia, being the largest continent, embraces diverse cultures, ethnicities and languages. There are around 2300 languages spoken in Asia. Though there has been substantial research on the above mentioned aspects in the English language, research in Asian languages is still in its infancy. The limited or availability of no datasets and resources in these languages is a primary reason for this. This special issue aims to bring together contributions that advance the research in the area of computational methods for automatic detection and identification of harmful content on the social media platforms, such as those reporting: · Algorithmic approaches · Computational resources · Datasets · Dictionaries and Lexicons · Software Resources Contributions that report novel methods and techniques, datasets and application of various state of the art methods for different tasks in the social media text analytics, including those in low resource languages are also welcome. Though the main focus area of the special issue is on the analysis of the textual content, studies and resources that report multimodal data (with text being the major part) will also be considered. ***Topics of Interest*** The special issue invites original, unpublished contributions on datasets (elicitation, processing, annotation) and resources (corpora, lexica, database, ontologies, computational approaches, and methodologies) on the following non-exhaustive list of indicative topics: · Aggression and Abusive Content detection · Cognitive Analytics of Social Media Services · Collective Idea Generation and Opinion Dynamics · Depression Intensity Estimation · Detection of Hate Speech, Profanity, Hostility, Cyberbullying · Disinformation, Misinformation, Fake News and Rumours · Emotion analysis, Emotional conversation generation · Fraud detection in online social network · Making online environments safer · Personality trait assessment · Polarization in online discussions · Protecting Children from abusive content · Racial and targeted abuse detection · Religious abuse and bias detection · Sentiment Analysis · Sexism and Misogynistic attitude detection · Social Alignment Contagion in Online Social Networks · Social biases in online texts · Social Perception and Social Influence in social media · Suicide Ideation detection in the Online Environment · Violent Incident detection *** Important dates *** • Submission deadline: July 2024 • Notification to the authors after the first review: December 2024 • Notification to the authors after the second review: March 2025 • Publication: December 2024 *** Submission Guidelines *** Articles reporting original and unpublished research results pertaining to the above topics are solicited. Submitted articles will follow an academic review process. Manuscripts must be prepared according to the instructions for authors available at the journal webpage and submitted through the publisher's online submission system, available here <https://idp-personal-authenticator.springernature.com/gateway?response_type…> . Kind Regards Rajesh Sharma, Associate Professor, Head, Computational Social Science Lab, Institute of Computer Science, University of Tartu, Estonia Group webpage: https://css.cs.ut.ee/ Personal Webpage: https://rajeshsharma.cs.ut.ee/

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Call for applications - Summer School 2024 - Digital Humanities and Digital Communication: Challenges and opportunities of interacting with and through technology
by jessicajane.nocella1＠gmail.com 21 Feb '24

21 Feb '24

Summer School 2024 Digital Humanities and Digital Communication: Challenges and opportunities of interacting with and through technology Host Institution: University of Modena and Reggio Emilia Coordinating Institution: Department of Studies on Language and Culture Website: https://www.summerschooldigitalhumanities.unimore.it/ Dates: 3 June 2024—7 June 2024 Location: Modena, Emilia Romagna, Italy CALL FOR APPLICATIONS We are happy to announce the 6th edition of our Summer School in Digital Humanities and Digital Communication, which will be hosted by the Department of Studies on Language and Culture of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, in collaboration with the Fondazione Marco Biagi. As part of the Doctoral Programme in Human Sciences, the Summer School aims to provide PhD students and young researchers with methodological tools for the study of digital communication and data analysis. This year’s focus is on challenges and opportunities of interacting through technology, with topics ranging from digital resources for research in the humanities to the use of new information technologies for data analysis; from tools for analysing communication in new media to ways of processing, accessing, and disseminating knowledge. SUMMER SCHOOL THEMES The digital world in which we live opens up numerous opportunities, but also challenges and risks. In recent years the impact of technology has been profound and far-reaching and the speed at which innovations have been introduced has radically changed the landscape of research and communication. New forms of media have transformed our working and social habits and the dynamics of interpersonal relationships. Digital technology has also facilitated the production, storage and access to information. Research, especially in the humanities, has benefited from increasingly complex digital archives, the flexibility and the multimodality of digital publishing, the wealth of tools for the compilation, annotation and analysis of corpora etc. The object itself of research has changed, often including digital data or focusing on digital communication and user- generated content in particular. Dissemination of knowledge has expanded its potential with the use of augmented reality and gaming. Indeed, generative AI is opening the whole field of the humanities to new methods and new research questions. However, these trends often pull in opposite directions, creating paradoxes and contradictions. For example, whilst an infinite amount of information is guaranteed, the reliability, trustworthiness and source of that information is unknown, with AI in the background and the legal issues associated with it (data leaks, misrepresenting information, unintended uses etc.). Access to global systems of communication bring potentially an infinite number of people into contact, but at the same time, alone with our computers or mobile phones, we can become detached and solitary. Contemporary forms of communication have blurred the distinction between what is real and what is virtual. What kind of demands do the new forms of technology pose on researchers in the humanities? What role does literacy play in fostering ethical understanding and critical thinking in today’s technologically evolving society? Is there a risk of undermining the active role of human agents with AI? May too much trust be placed on the machine? The summer school will try to discuss the challenges and opportunities of interacting with and through technology, considering new fields of study, new tools and resources, new forms of collaboration in research, while at the same time allowing participants to explore some of the recent advances in the field of digital humanities in hands-on workshops. APPLICATIONS AND SUBMISSION GUIDELINES https://www.summerschooldigitalhumanities.unimore.it/application/ IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for applications: March 28, 2024 Notification of acceptance: April 10, 2024 Conference website: https://www.summerschooldigitalhumanities.unimore.it/ For any inquiry, please contact the organisers at: digitalhumanities(a)unimore.it

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