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Open RA/PhD Funded Positions in Conversational AI ( U. Trento Italy )
by Giuseppe Riccardi 27 Apr '23

27 Apr '23

Dear Candidate, At the Signals and Interactive Systems Lab (University of Trento, Italy) we are looking for highly motivated and talented graduate students to join our research team and work on Conversational Artificial Intelligence. Conversational Artificial Intelligence includes the following research areas: - Natural Language Processing - Dialogue Modeling and Systems - Affective Computing The SIS Lab has been training intelligent machines and evaluating AI-based systems in the last three decades in many industry sectors from fintech to health. The lab research team is interdisciplinary and attracts researchers from computational linguistics, psychology, applied math, biomedical and electrical engineering and computer science. Research projects and demos can be found at the lab website : http://sisl.disi.unitn.it <http://sisl.disi.unitn.it/> . The candidates should have strong background, past achievement records in the areas of Conversational Research and/or Engineering. The official language (research and graduate teaching) of the department is English. AVAILABLE POSITIONS • Six months funded research fellowships: approximately 1600 Euro/month gross amount . • Three-year funded Phd fellowships: approximately 1600 Euro/month gross amount . For more information about cost of living in the area please visit the website :https://iecs.unitn.it/prospective-student <https://iecs.unitn.it/prospective-student> DEADLINES Openings with start date as early as June 2023. Positions open until filled. REQUIREMENTS MANDATORY ( for both positions ) - Master degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computational Linguistics, Machine Learning or similar or related disciplines. - Proficiency in Machine Learning - Excellent academic records - Excellent programming skills - Excellent command of oral and written English - Good knowledge of most of the following: experimental design methodology and statistics, natural language processing , machine learning methods - Excellent team-work skills HOW TO APPLY Interested applicants should mention the position they are applying and send their CV to: Email: sisl-jobs(a)disi.unitn.it <mailto:sisl-jobs@disi.unitn.it> For more info: The Signals and Interactive Systems Lab: http://sisl.disi.unitn.it <http://sisl.disi.unitn.it/> The PhD School: https://iecs.unitn.it <https://iecs.unitn.it/> The Department Information Engineering and Computer Science Department @ University of Trento: www.disi.unitn.it <http://www.disi.unitn.it/>

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Webminar by Martin Cooke (Ikerbasque – Basque Foundation for Science)
by HiTZ zentroa 27 Apr '23

27 Apr '23

**** We apologize for the multiple copies of this email. In case you are already registered to the next webinar, you do not need to register again. **** Dear colleague, We are happy to announce the next webinar in the Language Technology webinar series organized by the HiTZ research center (Basque Center for Language Technology, http://hitz.eus). We are organizing one seminar every month. You can check the videos of previous webinars and the schedule for upcoming webinars here: http://www.hitz.eus/webinars Next webinar: * *Speaker*: Martin Cooke (Ikerbasque – Basque Foundation for Science) * *Title*: Who needs big data? Listeners' adaptation to extreme forms of variability in speech * *Date*: May 4, 2023, 15:00 CET * *Summary*: No theory of speech perception can be considered complete without an explanation of how listeners are able to extract meaning from severely degraded forms of speech. Starting with a brief overview of a century of research which has seen the development of many types of distorted speech, followed by some anecdotal evidence that automatic speech recognisers still have some way to go to match listeners' performance in this area, I will describe the outcome of one recent [1] and several ongoing studies into the detailed time course of a listener's response to distorted speech. These studies variously consider the rapidity of adaptation, whether adaptation can only proceed if words are recognised, the degree to which the response to one form of distortion is conditioned on prior experience with other forms, and the nature of adaptation in a language other than one's own native tongue. Taken together, findings from these experiments suggest that listeners are capable of continuous and extremely rapid adaptation to novel forms of speech that differ greatly from the type of input that makes up the vast bulk of their listening experience. It is an open question as to whether big-data-based automatic speech recognition can offer a similar degree of flexibility. [1] Cooke, M, Scharenborg, O and Meyer, B (2022). The time course of adaptation to distorted speech. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 151, 2636-2646. 10.1121/10.0010235 *Bio:* Martin Cooke is Ikerbasque Research Professor. After starting his career in the UK National Physical Laboratory, he worked at the University of Sheffield for 26 years before taking up his current position. His research has focused on analysing the computational auditory scene, devising algorithms for robust automatic speech recognition and investigating human speech perception. His interests also include the effects of noise on talkers as well as listeners, and second language listening in noise. # *Upcoming webinars*: * Pascale Fung (June 1) Check past and upcoming webinars at the following url: http://www.hitz.eus/webinars If you are interested in participating, please complete this registration form: http://www.hitz.eus/webinar_izenematea If you cannot attend this seminar, but you want to be informed of the following HiTZ webinars, please complete this registration form instead: http://www.hitz.eus/webinar_info Best wishes, HiTZ Zentroa

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Research Assistant for Medical Data Anonymization at TU Berlin
by Roland Roller 26 Apr '23

26 Apr '23

We are looking for a highly motivated research assistant to work on a BMBF-funded project focused on anonymization techniques for semi-structured, longitudinal patient data. The successful candidate will work closely with partners at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) and the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin. Responsibilities will include developing and testing different anonymization techniques, analyzing the performance of machine learning models in the context of anonymization, and communicating project progress and results to relevant stakeholders. The position offers opportunities for pursuing a doctorate and publishing research results in scientific journals and conferences. Qualified candidates will have a completed university degree in computer science or computational linguistics, excellent programming skills in Python, and a strong background in machine learning/NLP. Previous experience in the field of anonymization and/or synthesization of data is an advantage. The Quality and Usability Lab offers an agile and lively international and interdisciplinary environment for working in a self-determined manner. If you are interested in contributing to cutting-edge research and working with a dynamic team, please apply! More information can be found here: https://www.jobs.tu-berlin.de/stellenausschreibungen/164717?language=en If you have got questions, do not hesitate to contact me. ------ Dr. Roland Roller Senior Researcher DFKI Lab Berlin, Alt Moabit 91c, D-10559 Berlin, Germany Phone +49 30 23895 1847 Email: roland.roller(a)dfki.de

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CMC-Corpora 2023: Final CfP and extended submission deadline 21 May 2023
by cotgrove＠ids-mannheim.de 26 Apr '23

26 Apr '23

3rd and Final Call for Papers *International Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities* 14–15th September 2023, University of Mannheim, Germany The 10th International Conference on Ccomputer-mediated Communication and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities (CMC-Corpora) will be held at the University of Mannheim, Germany in collaboration with the Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS). Specialized corpora of the language of CMC and social media are increasingly vital for the analysis of the “unparalleled and rapidly evolving diversity in terms of speakers and settings” in digital contexts, as well as of “language evolution seen through the lens of user-generated content, which gives access to a number of variants, socio- and idiolects” (Barbaresi 2019: 29-30). The conference brings together language-centered research on CMC and social media in linguistics, philologies, communication sciences, media, and social sciences with research questions from the fields of corpus and computational linguistics, language technology, text technology, and machine learning. It features research in which computational methods and tools are used for language-centered empirical analysis of CMC and social media phenomena as well as research on building, processing, annotating, representing, and exploiting CMC and social media corpora, including their integration in digital research infrastructures. We adhere to a wide definition of CMC and Social Media, covering various media of digital communication, including email, newsgroups, forums, chat and messenger applications (e.g. WhatsApp), social networks (Facebook, Instagram), gaming platforms, as well as interactions in the communication areas of video portals (YouTube), learning platforms, gaming apps, online games and virtual worlds. We invite submissions on CMC-related topics, including but not limited to: * Development of CMC corpora / social media corpora * Building CMC corpora: from data collection to publication * Open access data for CMC research: ethical and GDPR issues * Annotating CMC data: genres, linguistic aspects, metadata * Multimodal corpora * Big data corpora * Legal issues concerning the sampling, distribution and (long-term) archiving of social media data * Analysis of CMC corpora / social media corpora * Sociolinguistic studies of CMC * Discourse analysis of CMC * Linguistic characteristics of CMC * Multimodal (incl. visual) aspects of CMC * Multilingualism and code-switching in CMC * CMC in language education * Natural language processing (NLP) of CMC data / social media data * Normalization * PoS tagging * Anonymisation and Pseudonymisation * Lemmatization * Syntactic parsing * Semantic Annotation ============================ *Confirmed keynote speakers* ============================ Unn Røyneland, University of Oslo Tatjana Scheffler, Ruhr-Universität Bochum ================= *Important Dates* ================= * Abstract submission: Extended deadline 21 May, 23:59 CEST * Notification of acceptance: Friday, 30 June 2023, 23:59 CEST * Deadline revised abstract submission: Sunday, 6 August 2023, 23:59 CEST * Deadline registration for participation: Sunday, 20 August 2023, 23:59 CEST * Arrival, Get-together: Wednesday, 13 September 2023 * Conference: Thursday 14 - Friday 15 September 2023 ============ *Submission* ============ We invite submissions for talks and for posters or software/corpus demonstrations on any topic relevant to the list of themes mentioned above. We invite two types of submissions: * short papers (2-4 pages including references, following the existing template) for oral presentations * abstracts (max. 300 words) for poster presentations Each paper and abstract will be double blind peer reviewed by two or three members of the scientific committee. Authors of accepted papers can present their work at the conference (30 minute time slots: 20 minute talks, followed by 10 minutes of discussion). Authors of accepted abstracts can present their work in progress, early-stage research, software/corpus demonstrations during the poster session. At the start of the conference, all accepted papers will be made available in online proceedings. After the conference, speakers with the best short papers will be invited to submit extended papers for a special issue journal or a volume publication. *Instructions for authors* All submissions have to be written in English and have to be anonymised. The short papers for oral presentations should not exceed 4 pages and the paper format should adhere to the template which you can download from the links below. The abstracts for poster presentations should not exceed 300 words, bibliographical references not included. All contributions will be collected through the online platform EasyChair under the link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cmc2023). (If you do not have an EasyChair account, you need to create one first.) Template for MSWord (40 kB): https://www.uni-mannheim.de/media/Lehrstuehle/phil/deutsche_philologie/LS_G… Template for LaTeX (260 kB): https://www.uni-mannheim.de/media/Lehrstuehle/phil/deutsche_philologie/LS_G… For all enquiries, please contact the organizers at cmc-corpora2023(a)uni-mannheim.de We look forward to seeing you there! The organizing committee: Jutta Bopp, Louis Cotgrove, Laura Herzberg, Harald Lüngen, Andreas Witt Conference website: https://www.uni-mannheim.de/cmc-corpora2023/ ====================== *Scientific Committee* ====================== * Paul Baker (Lancaster University) * Adrien Barbaresi (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften) * Michael Beißwenger (University of Duisburg-Essen) * Mario Cal-Varela (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela) * Steven Coats (University of Oulu) * Luna DeBruyne (Ghent University) * Orphée DeClercq (Ghent University) * Francisco-Javier Fernández-Polo (University of Santiago de Compostela) * Jenny Frey (European Academy of Bozen) * Alexandra Georgakopoulou-Nunes (King's College London) * Klaus Geyer (University of Southern Denmark) * Aivars Glaznieks (Eurac Research Bolzano) * Claire Hardaker (Lancaster University) * Iris Hendrickx (Radboud University Nijmegen) * Axel Herold (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften) * Lisa Hilte (University of Antwerp) * Mai Hodac (Université Toulouse) * Wolfgang Imo (University of Hamburg) * Pawel Kamocki (IDS Mannheim) * Erik-Tjong Kim-Sang (Netherlands eScience Center) * Alexander Koenig (CLARIN ERIC) * Florian Kunneman (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) * Marc Kupietz (IDS Mannheim) * Els Lefever (Ghent University) * Julien Longhi (Cergy Paris Université) * Maja Miličević-Petrović (University of Bologna) * Nelleke Oostdijk (Radboud University) * Celine Poudat (Université Côte d'Azur) * Thomas Proisl (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) * Ines Rehbein (University of Mannheim) * Sebastian Reimann (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) * Unn Røyneland (University of Oslo) * Müge Satar (Newcastle University) * Tatjana Scheffler (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) * Stefania Spina (Università per Stranieri di Perugia) * Egon Stemle (Eurac Research) * Caroline Tagg (The Open University) * Simone Ueberwasser (University of Zurich) * Lieke Verheijen (Radboud University)

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3rd CFP and deadline extension: CMLC-11 at Corpus Linguistics 2023
by Piotr Banski 26 Apr '23

26 Apr '23

11^th Workshop on the Challenges in the Management of Large Corpora (CMLC) The next meeting of CMLC will be held as part ofCorpus Linguistics 2023 <https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/cl2023/> in Lancaster, UK, on the 2^nd of July, 2023. See https://corpora.ids-mannheim.de/cmlc-2023.html for up-to-date information. Important dates * Deadline for abstract submission: the 3^rd of May 2023 (Wednesday, 23:59 UTC) * Notification of acceptance: the 19^th of May 2023 (Thursday) * Deadline for the submission of camera-ready papers: the 4^th of June 2023 (Sunday) * Meeting: Sunday, the 2nd of July 2023, 9.30-12.30 in George Fox LT2 (Lancaster University Campus) Abstract submission * We invite anonymised extended abstracts for/oral presentations/on the topics listed below (/ideally/using theACL-2023 templates <https://2023.aclweb.org/calls/style_and_formatting/>, or PDF, 750-1000 words excluding references, font preferably 11 pt, line spacing 1.5). * CMLC has always reserved a track for national corpus project reports, and to this end, we invite/poster proposals/of 500-750 words. National project reports need not be anonymised. Submissions are accepted through the EasyChair submission system, athttps://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cmlc11. Please note that each CMLC event produces a volume of proceedings (published in Open Access before the meeting), where both oral and poster contributions have equal status./All/final submissions to the 2023 proceedings volume will be expected to be formatted according to theACLPUB guidelines <https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html>and to pass theaclpubcheck <https://github.com/acl-org/aclpubcheck>. Workshop description The upcoming CMLC meeting continues the successful series of “Challenges in the management of large corpora” events, previously hosted at LREC (since 2012) and CL (since 2015) conferences. As in the previous meetings, we wish to explore common areas of interest across a range of issues in language resource management, corpus linguistics, natural language processing, and data science. Large textual datasets require careful design, collection, cleaning, encoding, annotation, storage, retrieval, and curation to be of use for a wide range of research questions and to users across a number of disciplines. A growing number of national and other very large corpora are being made available, many historical archives are being digitised, numerous publishing houses are opening their textual assets for text mining, and many billions of words can be quickly sourced from the web and online social media. A number of key themes and questions emerge of interest to the contributing research communities: (a) what can be done to deal with IPR and data protection issues? (b) what sampling techniques can we apply? (c) what quality issues should we be aware of? (d) what infrastructures and frameworks are being developed for the efficient storage, annotation, analysis and retrieval of large datasets? (e) what affordances do visualisation techniques offer for the exploratory analysis approaches of corpora? (f) what kinds of APIs or other means of access would make the corpus data as widely usable as possible without interfering with legal restrictions? (g) how to guarantee that corpus data remain available and usable in a sustainable way? Motivation and topics of interest This year’s event will cover the entire range of the standard CMLC themes, with some new additions: * New and hot topics o Language Models + What linguistic insights can we gain by post-hoc language model analysis in the age of ChatGPT? + How can we avoid the proliferation of stereotypes in terms of both linguistic surface form and content when using language models for linguistic analysis? o Societal and legal issues relevant for corpora and studies + political and sociological balance + social media bubbles, hate speech and fake news + proliferation of stereotypes via corpora and language models + corpora as archives of the past: evolution in mentalities or laws, personality rights o How to make corpora as accessible as possible despite big data issues, application heterogeneity, and IPR issues + What are the most interesting APIs and libraries to build, analyse and access very large corpora? + How can we get us researchers to use existing research tools, infrastructures, libraries and APIs in research and teaching? * Linguistic content challenges o Dealing with the variety of language resources: multilinguality, historical texts, noisy OCR texts, user-generated content, etc. o Integration of human computation (crowdsourcing) and automatic annotation o Quality management of annotations * Technical challenges o Storage and retrieval solutions for big textual data corpora: primary data, metadata, and annotation data o Scalable and efficient NLP tooling for annotating and analysing large datasets: distributed and GPGPU computing; using big data analysis frameworks for language processing o Dealing with streaming (e.g. Social Media) and rapidly changing underlying data * Exploitation challenges o Legal and privacy issues o Query languages, data models, and standardisation o Licensing models of open and closed data, coping with intellectual property restrictions o Innovative approaches for aggregation and visualisation of text analytics In the tradition of CMLC, we invite reports on national corpus initiatives; submitters of these reports should be prepared to present a poster along with a short presentation. Programme Committee Names are being added as Programme Committee members confirm their participation. * Laurence Anthony (Waseda University, Japan) * Vladimír Benko (Slovak Academy of Sciences) * Tomaž Erjavec (Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana) * Stephanie Evert (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) * Johannes Graën (University of Zurich, Switzerland) * Andrew Hardie (Lancaster University, UK) * Serge Heiden (ENS de Lyon) * Dawn Knight (Cardiff University) * Paweł Kamocki (IDS Mannheim) * Natalia Kotsyba (Samsung Poland) * Michal Křen (Charles University, Prague) * Paul Rayson (Lancaster University) * Martin Reynaert (Tilburg University) * Kevin Scannell (Saint-Louis University) * Marko Tadić (University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences) Organising Committee Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim 📩 Piotr Bański,Marc Kupietz,Harald Lüngen Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences 📩 Adrien Barbaresi Institute of Computational Linguistics, University of Zurich Simon Clematide Homepage CMLC series homepage is located athttp://corpora.ids-mannheim.de/cmlc.html

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(WANLP2023) Call for Task Proposals - The 1st Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference
by Salam Khalifa 26 Apr '23

26 Apr '23

Hello All, *** Apologies for Cross-Posting *** The First Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (WANLP 2023) Co-located with EMNLP 2023 in Singapore. Conference URL: https://wanlp2023.sigarab.org/ We invite you to submit proposals for shared tasks to be run as part of WANLP 2023. WANLP 2023 will run as a conference for the first time. WANLP 2023 builds on seven previous workshop editions, which have been extremely successful drawing in a large active participation in various capacities. With the move to a conference format, we aim to bring a larger participation from the Arabic NLP community. The conference is organized by the Special Interest Group on Arabic NLP (SIGARAB), an Association for Computational Linguistics Special Interest Group on Arabic Natural Language Processing. Submission Details The proposals should provide an overview of the proposed task, motivation, data/resources (how the data will be collected), task description (what are the tasks to be included), evaluation (proposed evaluation method for each task), pilot run (if available), tentative timeline that matches the submission dates below, and task organizers (name, affiliation). Proposals (up to 4 pages) should be sent to: wanlp-shared-task-chair(a)sigarab.org Please use the ACL template files: https://2023.emnlp.org/calls/style-and-formatting/ Selection Process The proposals will be reviewed by the organizing committee and will be selected based on multiple factors such as the novelty of the task, the expected interest from the community, how convincing the data collection plans are, the soundness of the evaluation method, and the expected impact of the task. Task Organization Upon acceptance, the task organizers are expected to verify that the task organization and data delivery to participants are happening in a timely manner, provide the participants with all needed resources related to the task, create a mailing list and maintain communication and support to participants, create and manage CodaLab or similar competition website, manage submissions to CodaLab, write a task description paper, manage participants submissions of system description papers, and review and maintain the quality of submitted system description papers. Important Dates - May 7, 2023: submission of shared tasks proposals - May 14, 2023: notification of acceptance of shared tasks - September 5, 2023: conference paper & shared task papers due date - October 12, 2023: notification of acceptance - October 20, 2023: camera-ready papers due - Conference Date (one day): TBD (timeframe: December 6-10) All deadlines are 11:59 pm UTC -12h <https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zone/timezone/utc-12> (“Anywhere on Earth”). If you have any questions, please contact us at: wanlp-shared-task-chair(a)sigarab.org The WANLP 2023 Organizing Committee Best regards, WANLP publicity chairs: Salam Khalifa and Amr Keleg

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[CfP] Call for Tutorials || SEMANTiCS 2023 EU || Sep 20 - 22, 2023 || Leipzig, Germany
by Anisa Rula & Jennifer D'Souza 26 Apr '23

26 Apr '23

==== SEMANTiCS - 19th International Conference on Semantic Systems Leipzig, Germany Call for Tutorials September 20 - 22, 2023 https://2023-eu.semantics.cc/page/cfp_ws ==== SEMANTiCS 2023 is a major venue for research and industrial innovation and features a workshop and tutorial program addressing the diverse practical interests of its audience. This program is intended to offer a rich diversity of topics to conference attendees and local participants seeking to pick up new skills and stay up-to-date regarding the latest developments in the community. We encourage submissions of proposals on all topics in the general areas of SEMANTiCS 2023 and proposals bridging or introducing new perspectives in these areas. =Important Dates for Tutorials (and other meetings, e.g. seminars, show-cases, etc., without call for papers)= * Proposals Tutorial Deadline: June 06, 2023 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) * Notification of Acceptance: June 20, 2023 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) Submission via Easychair on https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sem23 =Scope & Goals= Tutorials at SEMANTiCS 2023 allow your organisation or project to advance and promote your topics and gain increased visibility. The tutorials will be announced on the SEMANTiCS website and they will be seen by all participants. SEMANTiCS 2023 tutorials can be incubators for industrial and scientific communities that form and share a particular research and development agenda. They provide a forum for presenting contributions and findings to a diverse and knowledgeable community. Furthermore, the event can be used as a dissemination activity in the scope of large research projects or as a closed format for research/commercial project consortia meetings. =Setup and Requirements= SEMANTiCS 2023 tutorials may be either half or full day long. Tutorials take place on the days before and/or after the main SEMANTiCS 2023 EU conference (20th, 21st, and/or 22nd of September 2023). Details will be communicated on time. Organizers of tutorials will be granted three free tickets (only for the workshop & tutorial day) for organization purposes or keynotes. Participants of tutorials will be charged a marginal fee to cover the basic costs. Tutorial proposals must include the following information: * outline of the themes and goals of the event, including a title and a brief abstract (less than 200 words) intended for the SEMANTiCS 2023 website * a statement addressing why the event is important, why the event is timely, how it is relevant to SEMANTiCS 2023 and the field of semantic web. For the tutorials, why the presenters are qualified for a high-quality introduction of the topic * a statement addressing the quality assurance criterion that will be used for the tutorial presenters.. * structure of the event and plans for generating and stimulating discussion; how will the interaction be organized in case of a hybrid event * desired minimum and maximum number of event participants, expected number of participants, and (in case of previously held events) number of registered attendees and web site for previous editions of the event * a description of the intended audience and the expected learning outcomes * desired prerequisite knowledge of the audience * proposed duration of the event (i.e., half or full day), different sessions if applicable (final time slot will be assigned in accordance with the SEMANTiCS program) * any equipment, room capacity, or other logistic constraints * full contact information of all organizers of the event and main contact person; a brief description of each organizer's background, including relevant past experience in organizing events Proposals for tutorials must be submitted via Easychair: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=sem23 =Review and Evaluation Criteria= Tutorial proposals will be reviewed by the SEMANTiCS 2023 Workshop & Tutorial Chairs, as well as by the SEMANTiCS 2023 organizing committee, according to the following criteria: * The potential to advance the state of semantic web research and practice * The quality assurance criterion proposed by the organizers to select high-quality presenters for tutorials * The organizers' experience and ability to lead a successful event * Timeliness and expected interest in the event topics * The balance and synergy between all SEMANTiCS 2023 events =Topics of interest include (but are not limited to)= * Web Semantics & Linked (Open) Data * Enterprise Knowledge Graphs, Graph Data Management and Deep Semantics * Machine Learning & Deep Learning Techniques * Semantic Information Management & Knowledge Integration * Terminology, Thesaurus & Ontology Management * Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery * Reasoning, Rules and Policies * Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics * Social and Human aspects of Semantic Web * Data Quality Management and Assurance * Explainable Artificial Intelligence * Semantics in Data Science * Semantics of Blockchain & Distributed Ledger Technologies * Trust, Data Privacy, and Security with Semantic Technologies * Economics of Data, Data Services and Data Ecosystems * Applications of Semantic Web technologies in domains such as law, medicine, life sciences, digital humanities, mobility and smart cities, etc. We especially invite contributions that illustrate the applicability of the topics mentioned above for industrial purposes and/or illustrate the business relevance of their contribution for specific industries. Workshop proposals on emerging themes for the topics listed above are encouraged. In case you have additional questions concerning the submission process, please do not hesitate to contact us via Easychair. We are looking forward to your contribution! Jennifer D’Souza - jennifer.dsouza(a)tib.eu Anisa Rula - anisa.rula(a)unibs.it Workshop & Tutorial Chairs

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Call for Participation: EMit - Categorical Emotions Detection in Italian shared task at EVALITA 2023
by Simona Frenda 25 Apr '23

25 Apr '23

*Apologies for cross-posting* _____________________________________________________________________ EMit Categorical Emotions Detection in Italian shared task at EVALITA 2023 Info: http://www.di.unito.it/~tutreeb/emit23/index.html EVALITA 2023, the 8th evaluation campaign of Natural Language Processing and Speech tools for Italian, 7-8 September 2023, Parma, Italy Registration is required to obtain data and participate in the shared task. Subscribe to the google group: emit_evalita2023(a)googlegroups.com _____________________________________________________________________ CALL FOR PARTICIPATION The detection of emotions in texts has a long history in international evaluation campaigns (at SemEval in 2007, 2018 and 2019, or TASS 2020, EmoEvalEs 2021, EmotionX 2018 and 2019, and WASSA 2022 and 2023), but has never been addressed in EVALITA where the only shared task to deal with emotions was about emotional speech recognition systems (ERT 2014). In this context, the EMit (Emotions in Italian) task aims at providing the first evaluation framework for categorical emotion detection in Italian texts (with a specific attention on the entertainment sector) and make new annotated data available to the community. Task Description EMit is organized according to two subtasks, both designed as multilabel classification problems: 1. SUBTASK A: Categorial Emotion Detection (mandatory). The main proposed subtask concerns the detection of emotions in social media messages about TV shows emitted by RAI (Radiotelevisione italiana, the national public broadcasting company of Italy) and other out-of-domain texts. 1. SUBTASK B: Target Detection (optional). The second subtask is about the detection of the target addressed by the author of the message: the topic or the direction. In each text, it should be indicated whether this refers to what the broadcast is about (the topic) or whether it refers to something that is under control of the broadcast itself (the direction). *Important Dates* 7th February 2023: training data available to participants 30th April 2023: registration closes 2nd-19th May 2023: evaluation window and collection of participants’ results 30th May 2023: assessment returned to participants 14th June 2023: final reports from task participants due to task organizers 25th July 2023: camera ready version deadline 7th-8th September 2023: final workshop in Parma *Organizers* Oscar Araque: Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain Simona Frenda: Università degli Studi di Torino, Turin, Italy Debora Nozza: Università Bocconi, Milan, Italy Viviana Patti: Università degli Studi di Torino, Turin, Italy Rachele Sprugnoli: Università di Parma, Parma, Italy If you have any enquiries/comments, contact us via: emit_evalita2023(a)googlegroups.com

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2nd Workshop on Perspectivist Approaches to Disagreement in NLP: Second Call for Papers
by Simona Frenda 25 Apr '23

25 Apr '23

****NLPerspectives**** 2nd Workshop on Perspectivist Approaches to Disagreement in NLP (and Beyond) https://nlperspectives.di.unito.it/w/2nd-workshop-on-perspectivist-approach… Until recently, the dominant paradigm in natural language processing (and other areas of artificial intelligence) has been to resolve observed label disagreement into a single “ground truth” or “gold standard” via aggregation, adjudication, or statistical means. However, in recent years, the field has increasingly focused on subjective tasks, such as abuse detection or quality estimation, in which multiple points of view may be equally valid, and a unique ‘ground truth’ label may not exist (Plank, 2022). At the same time, as concerns have been raised about bias and fairness in AI, it has become increasingly apparent that an approach which assumes a single “ground truth” can erase minority voices. Strong perspectivism in NLP (Cabitza et al., 2023) pursues the spirit of recent initiatives such as Data Statements (Bender and Friedman, 2018), extending their scope to the full NLP pipeline, including the aspects related to modelling, evaluation and explanation. In line with the first edition <https://nlperspectives.di.unito.it/w/w2022/>, the NLPerspectives (Perspectivist Approaches to Disagreement in NLP) workshop will explore current and ongoing work on: the collection and labelling of non-aggregated datasets; and approaches to modelling and including these perspectives, as well as evaluation and applications of multi-perspective Machine Learning models. We also welcome opinion pieces and literature reviews, e.g., in the context of fairness and inclusion. A key outcome of this second edition will be to build on the work begun at https://pdai.info/ to create a repository of perspectivist datasets with non-aggregated labels for use by researchers in perspectivist NLP modelling. Authors are, therefore, invited to share their LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) and provide essential information about resources (i.e., also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work or are a result of their research. In addition, authors will be required to adhere to ethical research policies on AI and may include an ethics statement in their papers. The NLPerspectives workshop will be hosted in person during the 26th edition of ECAI 2023 <https://ecai2023.eu/> in Kraków, Poland, on 30 September or 1 October 2023. Submissions The contributions cannot exceed 7 pages (4 for research communications, see below) not including references, and as established by ECAI 2023 conference, the over length submissions will be rejected without review. The papers should be submitted as a PDF document, conforming to the formatting guidelines provided in the call for papers of ECAI 2023 conference: https://ecai2023.eu/ECAI2023 We accept three types of submissions: - Regular research papers; - Non-archival submissions: like research papers, but will not be included in the proceedings; - Research communications: 4-page abstracts summarising relevant research published elsewhere. Topics We invite original research papers from a wide range of topics, including but not limited to: - Non-aggregated data collection and annotation frameworks - Descriptions of corpora collected under the perspectivist paradigm - Multi-perspective Modelling and Machine Learning - Evaluation of multi-perspective models/ models of disagreement - Multi-perspective disagreement as applied to NLP evaluation - Fairness and inclusive modelling - Perspectivist approaches for social good - Applications of multi-perspective modelling - Computing with (dis)agreement - Perspectivist Natural Language Generation - Foundational aspects of perspectivism - Opinion pieces and reviews on perspectivist approaches to NLP Submissions are open to all, and are to be submitted anonymously (and must conform to the instructions for double-blind review). All papers will be refereed through a double-blind peer review process by at least three reviewers, with final acceptance decisions made by the workshop organisers. Scientific papers will be evaluated based on relevance, significance of contribution, impact, technical quality, scholarship, and quality of presentation. More information about the submission, publication of proceedings and date of the workshop will be provided soon. We are seeking sponsors in order to provide financial support for conference registration, travel, and accommodation for participants. Attendance At least one author of each accepted paper is required to participate in the conference and present the work. Important Dates * Friday June 23, 2023: Paper submission * Friday August 4, 2023: Notification of acceptance * Friday September 1, 2023: Camera-ready papers due * Saturday September 30 or Sunday October 1, 2023: Workshop Workshop organisers: Gavin Abercrombie, Heriot-Watt University Valerio Basile, University of Turin Davide Bernardi, Amazon Alexa Shiran Dudy, University of Colorado, Boulder Simona Frenda, University of Turin Lucy Havens, University of Edinburgh Elisa Leonardelli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Sara Tonelli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Contact us at g.abercrombie(a)hw.ac.uk if you have any questions. Website: https://nlperspectives.di.unito.it/

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2nd Call for Papers: TwinTalks 4: Understanding and Facilitating Remote Collaboration in DH
by Gorgaini, E. (Elisa) 25 Apr '23

25 Apr '23

2nd Call for Papers: 'TwinTalks 4: Understanding and Facilitating Remote Collaboration in DH' The workshop is a joint initiative by the European Social Sciences and Humanities Research Infrastructures CLARIN <http://www.clarin.eu> and DARIAH<https://www.dariah.eu/> and it will be organised as part of the DH 2023 Collaboration and Opportunity Conference<https://dh2023.adho.org/> that will take place on July 10-14 in Graz, Austria. Dates and Location Main conference: 10-14 July, Messe Congress Graz convention centre<http://www.mcg.at/messegraz.at/en/locations/messecongress-graz/veranstalter…> TwinTalks workshop: 10 July, 9:00 - 12:30, University of Graz<https://www.uni-graz.at/en/> Important Dates * 15 March 2023: Call for Papers * 15 May 2023: Submission deadline * 15 June 2023: Notification of acceptance * 30 June 2023: Deadline for the final version of extended abstracts * 10 July 2023 (9:00 - 12:30): Workshop Workshop Aims The main objective of the workshop is to develop a better understanding of the dynamics on the Digital Humanities work floor when researchers, teachers and/or professionals with different – but often overlapping – areas of competence engage in remote collaboration to solve humanities research questions, and to explore how education and training of humanities scholars, cultural heritage professionals and technical experts can help to make remote collaboration across disciplines more efficient and effective, more creative and innovative, and more inclusive and rewarding for all participants. To this end, we invite submissions reporting on all aspects and stages of engaging in remote collaborative research and teaching in DH, including the obstacles encountered and solutions found. We also welcome position papers on the role of research infrastructures in facilitating remote collaboration in DH. The insights gained should help those involved in the education of humanities scholars, professionals and technical experts alike to develop better training programmes, tailored towards the needs of a diverse group of potential learners. The workshop is a follow-up of three previous successful TwinTalks workshops that have taken place at various DH conferences from 2019 onwards (TwinTalks 1 proceedings<https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2365/>; TwinTalks 1 blog<http://www.parthenos-project.eu/clarin-and-parthenos-twintalks>; TwinTalks 2+3 proceedings<https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2717/>). Audience Researchers, cultural heritage professionals, educators, scientific programmers, research infrastructure operators and policy-makers with a special interest in creating the conditions where people with humanities research skills and technical expertise (or both) can fruitfully collaborate in answering humanities research questions remotely. Workshop Format The programme starts with an invited talk by a prominent speaker, which will set the scene for the rest of the day. The main component of the workshop programme consists of two types of (submitted) talks: * Twin talks, i.e. talks presented by pairs or teams consisting of someone rooted primarily in humanities research (with a humanities research problem, i.e. not a technical problem or tool), someone with a background in a totally different discipline (e.g. technical) who has contributed their specific capabilities to arrive at the answers, and/or a cultural heritage professional whose collection knowledge has contributed to the development of the research corpus. Talks will usually consist of three parts, followed by questions from the audience: In the first part, the humanities research question is the point of focus, while in the second part, it is shown how the joint effort resulted in an answer to the respective question. In the third part, these perspectives come together, as the team describes how the remote collaboration went, including obstacles that were encountered, and how better training and education could help to make remote collaboration more efficient and effective. * Teach talks by people with experience with or interesting ideas about how remote cross-discipline collaboration is or can be addressed in curricula or other training activities. Submissions The language of the workshop is English. What we expect from the submissions for the Twin Talks track: * They are authored and presented by one or more humanities scholars and one or more digital experts * They start from a humanities research question (i.e. not a technical question, a presentation of a tool, a platform or a data collection) * They describe the remote research carried out jointly and its results * They describe the technical aspects of the methods used and the results obtained * They analyse the way the scholars and the technicians collaborated remotely, addressing issues such as (but not limited to): * What was easy and what was difficult, and why? * How did the researchers, technicians or cultural heritage professionals change each other’s way of looking at things? * Did they, for instance, make each other aware of blind spots they had? * Did the combination of thinking from a DH research question and thinking from a technical solution lead to new insights? * How could better training or education of scholars and digital experts make remote collaboration easier, more effective and more efficient? With regards to the TeachTalks track, one single author and presenter is sufficient. Of course, multi-author papers are equally welcome. Submission instructions * Format: PDF. For format instructions, see http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip * Size: Extended abstracts, size ca 4-8 pages (between 2000-4000 words), covering research questions and answers, technical aspects and collaboration experience for Twin Talks, or relevant educational experience for Teach Talks. * Publication: The workshop proceedings will be published at CEUR-WS<https://ceur-ws.org/>. * Submission URL: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=twintalksdh2023 Workshop Programme Committee * Bente Maegaard (CLARIN ERIC / University of Copenhagen, Denmark) * Barbara McGillivray (King's College London & The Alan Turing Institute, UK) * Benjamin Wiggins (University of Manchester, UK) * Eleni Gouli (Academy of Athens, Greece) * Francesca Frontini (CNR, Italy & CLARIN ERIC) * Frank Uiterwaal (EHRI / NIOD / KNAW, Netherlands) * Folgert Karsdorp (Meertens Institute, KNAW, Netherlands) * Geoffrey Rockwell (University of Alberta, Canada) * Hitoshi Isahara (Center for IT-Based Education, Japan) * Jennifer Edmond (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) * Koenraad De Smedt (CLARINO, University of Bergen, Norway) * Maria Gavrilidou (Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Athens, Greece) * Menno Van Zaanen (South African Centre for Digital Language Resources, South Africa) * Milena Dobreva (Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Bulgaria) * Mikko Tolonen (University of Helsinki, Finland) * Radim Hladik (Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic) * Ulrike Wuttke (University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, Germany) * Vicky Garnett (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) Chairs and Organisers The workshop is a joint initiative by European SSH Research Infrastructures CLARIN (www.clarin.eu<http://www.clarin.eu/>) and DARIAH (https://www.dariah.eu/). * Steven Krauwer (CLARIN ERIC / Utrecht University, Netherlands) * Darja Fišer (CLARIN ERIC / Institute of Contemporary History, Slovenia) * Iulianna van der Lek-Ciudin (CLARIN ERIC, Netherlands) * Sally Chambers (DARIAH-EU / Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities, Belgium) * Agiatis Benardou (DARIAH-EU / Digital Curation Unit, ATHENA R.C., Athens, Greece) Contact Information For any questions, please contact Iulianna van der Lek at events(a)clarin.eu<https://mailto:events@clarin.eu>. — Elisa Gorgaini CLARIN ERIC External Relation Officer elisa(a)clarin.eu +31648213015 www.clarin.eu

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