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AVI 2024 Announcement: 3-7 June 2024, Genoa, Italy
by Gualtiero Volpe 15 Sep '23

15 Sep '23

International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI2024) ================================================================ 3-7 June 2024 Genoa, Italy https://avi2024.dibris.unige.it ================================================================ IMPORTANT DATES Workshop and tutorial proposals: Friday, December 1, 2023 Long and short papers: Abstract submission: Wednesday, January 10, 2024 Paper submission: Wednesday, January 17, 2024 Posters and Demos: Paper submission: Thursday, February 29, 2024 Doctoral Consortium: Paper submission: Wednesday, March 27, 2024 (all deadlines are 23:59, AoE) Submission webpage: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=avi2024 ---------------------------------------------------------------- International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI) Since 1992, AVI has been a biennial appointment for a vast international community of experts with a broad range of backgrounds. Throughout three decades, the Conference has attracted leading researchers of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) from all over the world, offering a forum to present and disseminate new technological results, paradigms, and visions for HCI and user interfaces. Because of advanced technology and new possibilities for user interaction, AVI has broadened the topics it covers, still keeping its primary focus on the conception, design, implementation, and evaluation of novel visual interfaces. While rooted in Italy, AVI is an actual international conference concerning the nationality of participants, authors of papers, and program committee members. The mixture of carefully selected research contributions paired with cordial Italian hospitality creates a unique conference atmosphere, which has made AVI an internationally recognized brand. AVI 2024 is under the patronage of University of Genoa, Department of Informatics, Bioengineering, Robotics and Systems Engineering, Italy. We look forward to your participation in AVI 2024! Cristina Conati, AVI 2024 General Chair Gulatiero Volpe, AVI 2024 General Chair Ilaria Torre, AVI 2024 Program Chair ---------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following: Adaptive and Context-Aware Interfaces Affective Visual Interfaces Computer Supported Cooperative Work Conversational Interfaces Full-body Interaction Human-AI Interaction Information Visualization Intelligent Interfaces Engineering of Visual Interfaces and Interaction Interaction Design Tools Building Interactions: Hardware, Materials, and Fabrication Interaction for the environment and environmental awareness Interface Metaphors Interfaces for Automotive Interfaces for Big Data Interfaces for e-Commerce and e-Branding Interfaces for e-Culture and e-Tourism Interfaces for End-User Development Interfaces for i-TV Interfaces for Recommender Systems Interfaces for Social Interaction and Cooperation Interfaces and Interactions for Inclusion, Accessibility and Aging Interfaces for children Learning, Education, and Families Mobile Interaction Motion-based Interaction Multimodal Interfaces (Multi)Sensory Interfaces (Multi)Touch Interaction Search Interfaces Shape-Changing Devices User Interfaces for the Internet of Things Usability and Accessibility Usability and (Cyber)Security Virtual and Augmented Reality Visual Analytics ---------------------------------------------------------------- **LONG AND SHORT RESEARCH PAPERS** We solicit high-quality original research papers in the area of advanced visual interfaces and Human-Computer Interaction in general. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by an international panel of experts. Accepted long and short research papers will be included in the Proceedings published by ACM Press and available in the ACM Digital Library. Long and Short papers are publications that address AVI 2024 topics and describe original, unpublished research. Submissions must be anonymized. The maximum length of long papers is 8 pages (with one additional page for references). The maximum length of short papers is 4 pages (with one additional page for references). Authors are required to send a 250-word abstract by the abstract deadline, one week before final submission, to speed up the paper assignment to reviewers. **POSTER PAPERS** The AVI 2024 Poster Track allows researchers and practitioners to present their work in progress and obtain precious feedback from their peers in an informal setting. Poster submissions must be up to 2 pages (with one additional page for references), not anonymized. **DEMO PAPERS** The demo track is intended to provide a forum to showcase innovative implementations, systems and technologies demonstrating new ideas about interactive visual interfaces. We are looking for implementations of novel and exciting concepts or systems related to the main topics of AVI. Demo papers must be up to 2 pages (with one additional page for references), not anonymized. **WORKSHOP PROPOSALS** We invite proposals for workshops that will facilitate the exchange of new ideas in all areas related to advanced visual interfaces and Human-Computer Interaction. We invite organizers to propose either half-day or one-day long workshops held on June 3 or June 4, 2024, at the AVI2024 venue. **TUTORIALS** We encourage the proposal of tutorials on specific topics related to AVI and general HCI approaches, methodologies, or technologies. **DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM** The goal of the Doctoral Consortium is to provide a setting for PhD students to present their work and receive feedback on their doctoral research plan and progress. Students will be offered the opportunity to articulate and discuss their problem statement, goals, methods, and results. The Doctoral Consortium also aims at providing students with guidance on various aspects of their research from established researchers and the other students participating in the sessions. Finally, the Doctoral Consortium seeks to motivate students in the development of their scientific curiosity and facilitate their networking within the research community. ---------------------------------------------------------------- AVI 2024 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chairs Cristina Conati, University of British Columbia, Vancouver Gualtiero Volpe, University of Genoa Program Chair Ilaria Torre, University of Genoa Long Papers Chairs Giuseppe Desolda, University of Bari Michail Giannakos, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Short Papers Chairs Elisabetta Bevacqua, National Engineering School of Brest Maurizio Mancini, Sapienza University of Rome Workshop & Tutorial Chairs Ignacio Aedo, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Rosella Gennari, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Poster Chairs Masood Masoodian, Aalto University Giovanna Varni, University of Trento Demo Chairs Radoslaw Niewiadomski, University of Genoa Fabiana Vernero, University of Turin Doctoral Consortium Chair Fabio Paternò, CNR ISTI Giuliana Vitiello, University of Salerno Publicity Chairs Beatrice Biancardi, LINEACT CESI Federica Delprino, University of Genoa Proceedings Chairs Eleonora Ceccaldi, University of Genoa Cigdem Beyan, University of Trento Web Chair Paola Barra, University of Naples Parthenope AVI STEERING COMMITTEE Paolo Bottoni, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Paolo Buono University of Bari, Italy Tiziana Catarci Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Maria Francesca Costabile University of Bari, Italy Maristella Matera Polytechnic of Milan, Italy Massimo Mecella Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Kent Norman University of Maryland, USA Emanuele Panizzi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Genny Tortora University of Salerno, Italy Giuliana Vitiello University of Salerno, Italy Marco Winckler Université Côte d'Azur, France

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North Africans in Machine Learning Affinity Workshop at NeurIPS 2023
by Hatem Haddad 14 Sep '23

14 Sep '23

We are thrilled to announce the *Call for Papers for the North Africans in Machine Learning Affinity Workshop*, which will be held at* NeurIPS 2023*. This is your chance to share your groundbreaking research, insights, and discoveries with a vibrant community of peers in the field of Machine Learning. Whether you're a junior researcher or a seasoned expert, and of North African origins. If you have a passion for advancing the theory and applications of ML, we want to hear from you! *Why submit your paper:* - Showcase your work on a prestigious stage. - Gain valuable feedback from experts in the ML community. - Connect with like-minded professionals from North African institutions and beyond. - Contribute to the collective knowledge of the ML field. *Submission Guidelines:* - Papers related to all aspects of Machine Learning are welcome. - Submissions from all North Africans (or with North African origins) are encouraged. - The workshop is open to academia and industry professionals. *Submission Link and Deadlines:* https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSedy0Q7neQsSKV1XmPphEiZmaQuH-QblED… *Website*: https://sites.google.com/view/north africans in ml <https://sites.google.com/view/northafricansinml> *Awards and Recognition:* Outstanding contributions will be recognized, and selected papers may have the opportunity to be featured prominently during the workshop. Join us in making the North Africans in Machine Learning Affinity Workshop at NeurIPS 2023 a resounding success! Submit your paper, share your insights, and be part of this exciting journey in advancing the field of Machine Learning. Stay tuned for more updates and mark your calendars for NeurIPS 2023! Let's shape the future of ML together. *NAML Organizer Team* *--------------------------------------------------------* *Hatem Haddad* Assistant Professor, Manouba University, Tunisia

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Second CFP: PROPOR 2024 - 16th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese
by Pablo Gamallo 14 Sep '23

14 Sep '23

Subject: Second CFP: PROPOR 2024 - 16th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese [Apologies for cross-postings] ******************************************************** PROPOR 2024: 16th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (Santiago de Compostela - Galicia) March 14th to 15th 2024 2nd Call for Papers https://propor2024.citius.gal/ ******************************************************** The International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese (PROPOR), whose next edition will take place for the first time in Galicia, birthplace of the Portuguese language, is the main event in the area of natural language processing that is focused on theoretical and technological issues of written and spoken Portuguese and Galician (considered as a local variety of the former). The meeting has been a very rich forum for the exchange of ideas and partnerships for the research and industry communities dedicated to the automated processing of this language, promoting the development of methodologies, resources and projects that can be shared among researchers and practitioners in the field. We call for papers describing work on any topic related to computational language and speech processing of Portuguese/Galician by researchers in the industry or academia. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Natural language processing tasks (e.g. parsing, word sense disambiguation, coreference resolution) * Natural language processing applications (e.g. question answering, subtitling, summarization, sentiment analysis) * Natural language generation * Information extraction and information retrieval * Speech technologies (e.g. spoken language generation, speech and speaker recognition, spoken language understanding) * Speech applications (e.g. spoken language interfaces, dialogue systems, speech-to-speech translation) * Resources, standardization and evaluation (e.g. corpora, ontologies, lexicons, grammars) * NLP-oriented linguistic description or theoretical analysis * Distributional semantics and language modeling * Portuguese language varieties and dialect processing (including the language varieties of Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Galicia, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, and Sao Tome and Principe) * Multilingual studies, methods, applications and resources including Portuguese/Galician PROPOR 2024 will be held at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Santiago de Compostela - Galicia, Spain) from March 14th to March 15th. PROPOR 2024 will be the 16th edition of the biennial PROPOR conference, hosted alternately in Brazil and in Europe (Portugal/Galicia). Past meetings were held in Lisbon, PT (1993); Curitiba, BR (1996); Porto Alegre, BR (1998); Évora, PT (1999); Atibaia, BR (2000); Faro, PT (2003); Itatiaia, BR (2006); Aveiro, PT (2008); Porto Alegre, BR (2010); Coimbra, PT (2012); São Carlos, BR (2014), Tomar, PT (2016), Canela, BR (2018), Évora, PT (2020), and Fortaleza, BR (2022). Submissions Submissions should describe original, unpublished work. Authors are invited to submit two kinds of papers: * Full papers – Reporting substantial and completed work, especially those that may contribute in a significant way to the advancement of the area. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation results should be included. Full papers may consist of up to 8 pages of content, plus unlimited pages of references. * Short papers – Reporting small, focused contributions such as ongoing work, position papers, potential ideas to be discussed, or negative results. Short papers may consist of up to 4 pages of content, plus unlimited pages of references. Both Full and Short papers will be published in the proceedings of the main conference. Each submission will be evaluated by at least three reviewers. As reviewing will be double-blind, submitted papers must be anonymized, that is, they should not contain the authors’ names and affiliations. Authors must avoid self-references that reveal identity, like, “We previously showed (Smith, 1991) …”. Instead, they should prefer citations such as “Smith (1991) previously showed …”. Separate author identification information will be required as part of the submission process. Submissions to PROPOR 2024 may not be made available online (e.g. via a preprint server), and may not be submitted for review elsewhere while being under review for this conference. Submissions should be written in English. At submission time, only PDF format is accepted. For the final versions, authors of accepted papers will be given 1 extra content page to take the reviews into account. Authors of accepted papers will be requested to send the source files for the production of the proceedings. All submitted papers must conform to the official ACL style guidelines. ACL provides style files for LaTeX and Microsoft Word that meet these requirements. They can be found at: * LaTeX styelesheet * MS Word stylesheet Paper should be submitted here in the following URL: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=propor2024 Important dates * Full and short paper submission deadline: 15/10/2023 (23:59 GMT-3) * Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: 15/11/2023 * Camera-ready papers due: 29/11/2023 * Conference: March 14th - 15th, 2024 Publication The proceedings of PROPOR 2024 will be published by ACL as a volume in ACL Anthology (https://aclanthology.org/ ). They will be available online. To ensure publication, at least one author of each accepted paper must complete an adequate registration for PROPOR 2024 by the early registration deadline. Kindest regards, António Teixeira, Livy Real & Marcos Garcia PROPOR 2024 Program Chairs

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Life Narrative and the Digital 2023: programme and registration
by Dimitra Grigoriou 13 Sep '23

13 Sep '23

Dear colleagues, We cordially invite you to the one-day conference "Life Narrative and the Digital 2023", which will take place on 27 September 2023 and will be hosted by the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage. Date: 27 September 2023, 09:00-18:30 Venue: Sitzungssaal, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Dr.-Ignaz-Seipel-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna Website: https://digital-bio-2023.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/ The final programme for the event, in which we will explore the possibilities, uses, and challenges of digital methods and technologies for auto/biographical research and practice, is available here: https://digital-bio-2023.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/data/html/program.html. Registration for the conference is free of charge and open until 20 September: https://pretix.eu/digitalbio/. Please note that this is a hybrid event and that you should indicate your preference for either in-person or online participation. For more information, please consult our conference website, or contact us at amp(a)oeaw.ac.at<mailto:amp@oeaw.ac.at>. With all best wishes, Timo Frühwirth, Dimitra Grigoriou, Sandra Mayer (conference organisers) Dr Sandra Mayer Elise Richter Fellow: “Authors as Activists: Literature, Politics and Celebrity” (FWF V911) Project Lead: “Auden Musulin Papers: A Digital Edition of W. H. Auden’s Letters to Stella Musulin (FWF P33754)” Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage (ACDH-CH) Austrian Academy of Sciences | Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW) Bäckerstraße 13, 1010 Wien | Vienna, Austria T: +43 1 51581-2251 Twitter: @AMP_OeAW https://amp.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/ www.sandramayer.org<http://www.sandramayer.org>

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[ArgMining-23] CALL FOR ARR Commitment
by milad.alshomary＠uni-paderborn.de 13 Sep '23

13 Sep '23

CALL FOR ARR Commitment The 10th Workshop on Argument Mining @ EMNLP 2023 December 7, 2023 https://argmining-org.github.io/2023/ The 10th Workshop on Argument Mining will be held on December 7, 2023 in Singapore together with EMNLP 2023. This will be a hybrid event. ArgMining 2023 will accept submissions of ARR-reviewed papers, provided that the ARR reviews and meta-reviews are available by the ARR commitment deadline (September 25). The Workshop on Argument Mining provides a regular forum for the presentation and discussion of cutting-edge research in argument mining (a.k.a argumentation mining) to both academic and industry researchers. By continuing a series of nine successful previous workshops, this edition will welcome the submission of long, short, and demo papers. It will feature two shared tasks, a panel on the last ten years of Argument Mining, and a keynote talk. IMPORTANT DATES Paper commitment from ARR: September 25, 2023 Notification of acceptance: October 7, 2023 Camera-ready submission: October 18, 2023 Workshop: December 7, 2023 TOPICS OF INTEREST The topics for submissions include but are not limited to: Automatic identification of argument components (e.g., premises and conclusions), the structure in which they form an argument, and relations between arguments and counterarguments (e.g., support and attack) in as well as across documents Automatic assessment of arguments and argumentation with respect to various properties, such as stance, clarity, and persuasiveness Automatic generation of arguments and their components, including the consideration of discourse goals (e.g., stages of a critical discussion or rhetorical strategies) Creation and evaluation of argument annotation schemes, relationships to linguistic and discourse annotations, (semi-) automatic argument annotation methods and tools, and creation of argumentation corpora Argument mining in specific genres and domains (e.g., social media, education, law, and scientific writing), each with a unique style (e.g., short informal text, highly structured writing, and long-form documents) Argument mining and generation from multi-modal and/or multilingual data Integration of commonsense and domain knowledge into argumentation models for mining and generation Combination of information retrieval methods with argument mining, e.g., in order to build the next generation of argumentative (web) search engines Real-world applications, including argument web search, opinion analysis in customer reviews, argument analysis in meetings, misinformation detection Perspectivist approaches to subjective argument mining tasks for which multiple ”ground truths” may exist, including multi-perspective machine learning and the creation of non-aggregated datasets Reflection on the ethical aspects and societal impact of argument mining methods Reflection on the future of argument mining in light of the fast advancement of large language models (LLMs). SUBMISSIONS The organizing committee welcomes the submission of long papers, short papers, and demo descriptions. Accepted papers will be presented either via oral or poster presentations. They will be included in the EMNLP proceedings as workshop papers. - Long paper submissions must describe substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis should be included. Long papers must be no longer than eight pages, including title, text, figures and tables. An unlimited number of pages is allowed for references. Two additional pages are allowed for appendices, and an extra page is allowed in the final version to address reviewers’ comments. - Short paper submissions must describe original and unpublished work. Please note that a short paper is not a shortened long paper. Instead, short papers should have a point that can be made in a few pages, such as a small, focused contribution; a negative result; or an interesting application nugget. Short papers must be no longer than four pages, including title, text, figures and tables. An unlimited number of pages is allowed for references. One additional page is allowed for the appendix, and an extra page is allowed in the final version to address reviewers’ comments. - Demo descriptions must be no longer than four pages, including title, text, examples, figures, tables, and references. A separate one-page document should be provided to the workshop organizers for demo descriptions, specifying furniture and equipment needed for the demo. Submission Format All long, short, and demonstration submissions must follow the two-column EMNLP 2023 format. Authors are expected to use the LaTeX or Microsoft Word style template (https://2023.emnlp.org/calls/style-and-formatting/). Submissions must conform to the official EMNLP style guidelines, which are contained in these templates. Submissions must be electronic, in PDF format. Submission Link Authors have to fill in the submission form in the START system indicating relevant information to their ARR paper before September 25, 2023, 11:59 pm UTC-12h (anywhere on earth). https://softconf.com/emnlp2023/ArgMining2023/ Double Blind Review ArgMining 2023 will follow the ACL policies for preserving the integrity of double-blind review for long and short paper submissions. Papers must not include authors’ names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references or links (such as github) that reveal the author’s identity, e.g., “We previously showed (Smith, 1991) …” must be avoided. Instead, use citations such as “Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) …” Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. Papers should not refer, for further detail, to documents that are not available to the reviewers. For example, do not omit or redact important citation information to preserve anonymity. Instead, use third person or named reference to this work, as described above (“Smith showed” rather than “we showed”). If important citations are not available to reviewers (e.g., awaiting publication), these paper/s should be anonymised and included in the appendix. They can then be referenced from the submission without compromising anonymity. Papers may be accompanied by a resource (software and/or data) described in the paper, but these resources should also be anonymized. Unlike long and short papers, demo descriptions will not be anonymous. Demo descriptions should include the authors’ names and affiliations, and self-references are allowed. BEST PAPER AWARDS In order to recognize significant advancements in argument mining science and technology, ArgMining 2023 will include best paper awards. All papers at the workshop are eligible for the best paper awards and a selection committee consisting of prominent researchers in the fields of interest will select the recipients of the awards. ArgMining 2023 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Milad Alshomary, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany Chung-Chi Chen, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan Smaranda Muresan, Columbia University, USA Joonsuk Park, University of Richmond, USA Julia Romberg, Heinrich Heine University of Duesseldorf, Germany

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ACL Survey on Anonymity Period Policy
by ACL Announcements 13 Sep '23

13 Sep '23

Dear ACL Community, ACL is considering multiple proposals to change its anonymity period policy. We seek immediate feedback from our community about two specific proposed changes. The first proposed change would allow authors to freely make versions of their submitted papers available online at any time, for example, on preprint servers such as arXiv or on their personal websites. The second proposed change would allow authors to mention their preprints at any time, including on social media. Taken together, these changes amount to canceling the anonymity period. ACL Call for participation: https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/survey-anonymity-period-policy Submission Deadline: Friday, 22 September 2023 Please use this link to submit your feedback: https://tinyurl.com/aclarxivpolicy. The survey might take 5 to 10 minutes, and your responses will remain anonymous. Feel free to forward this as you think appropriate. For additional information or suggestions, please feel free to contact any of us. Your contribution is greatly appreciated, and we look forward to hearing from you! Sincerely, ACL Working Group

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Call for abstracts: Special issue on Questionable Research Practice (QRPs)
by Luke Plonsky 12 Sep '23

12 Sep '23

Dear Colleagues, Please see below a call for abstracts for a special issue that my collaborators and I are putting together for *Journal of Second Language Studies* on QRPs in the context of applied linguistics. Thanks for considering this call. Please feel free to share with anyone else who you think might be interested. Best, Luke ### *Call for abstracts for special issue in Journal of Second Language Studies on* *Questionable Research Practices* Questionable research practices (QRPs) comprise the vast gray area in between ideal researcher behavior, on the one hand, and behaviors that are clearly unethical or inappropriate, on the other (see Yaw et al., 2022 <https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261444823000010>). Building on a growing body of QRP-based research both within and beyond applied linguistics (e.g., Fanelli, 2009; Isbell et al., 2022), Larsson et al. (2023) <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rmal.2023.100064> present a taxonomy of 58 QRPs (found here) <https://sites.google.com/view/qrp-humanities/home/what-are-qrps?authuser=0> for applied linguistics along with ratings for their corresponding frequency and severity. These and other efforts have sought to raise awareness of QRPs in applied linguistics, noting that many present potentially serious threats to the validity of our findings. Nevertheless, this set of QRPs—both individually and in the aggregate—needs to be more fully examined in order to gain a clearer understanding of (a) how, when, and to what extent QRPs occur, (b) when and to what extent they may be problematic, and (c) their context-dependent nature. For example, one QRP is “excessive self-citation”. But what is “excessive” in the context of applied linguistics? Under what circumstances is it all right to frequently cite your own work? Do (excessive) self-citation practices vary across journals, author demographics, and so forth? For this special issue of the *Journal of Second Language Studies* <https://benjamins.com/catalog/jsls>, we invite proposals for articles that explore one or multiple QRPs in applied linguistics, going beyond Larsson et al.’s findings of QRP frequency and perceived severity. We invite contributions applying any methodological approach including surveys, corpus-based techniques, coding of primary studies for evidence of QRPs (i.e., synthetic/meta-analytic techniques), case studies, reviews of curricula and training materials, and interviews (e.g., with researchers at different career stages). The following article types/lengths will be considered: - Full-length articles (maximum 9000 words) - Short reports (3000-5000 words) - Position papers (max 9000 words) *Timeline* October 10, 2023 Abstracts (300 words max + references) sent to luke.plonsky(a)nau.edu November 10, 2023 Decisions with invitations to submit sent to authors July 1, 2024 Initial submission of complete manuscripts for editorial and peer review October 1, 2024 Final submission of manuscripts 2025 Anticipated publication *Special issue editors* Luke Plonsky, Northern Arizona University Tove Larsson, Northern Arizona University Scott Sterling, Indiana State University Kate Yaw, University of South Florida Merja Kytö, Uppsala University

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[CfP] FOCAL Shared Task on Citation Classification at WIESP @ IJCNLP-AACL 2023
by Tirthankar Ghosal 11 Sep '23

11 Sep '23

Dear Colleagues, The deadline to submit a paper in the WIESP workshop is TODAY! https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/WIESP/2023/ We have a new shared task on *Citation Classification*. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/WIESP/2023/shared_task_1 If you are interested, please register to participate: https://forms.office.com/g/cUyC00LnWB All the participating teams would be invited to submit a paper describing their system and those would be published as part of WIESP @ IJCNLP-AACL 2023 proceedings in the ACL Anthology. Please feel free to reach us for any questions. Thank you. Best regards, Tirthankar Ghosal -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Tirthankar Ghosal https://elitr.eu/tirthankar-ghosal/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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2nd CFP: Special Issue of Computational Linguistics: Language Learning, Representation, and Processing in Humans and Machines
by Marianna Apidianaki 11 Sep '23

11 Sep '23

Second Call for Papers Special Issue of Computational Linguistics: Language Learning, Representation, and Processing in Humans and Machines ** Guest Editors ** Marianna Apidianaki (University of Pennsylvania) Abdellah Fourtassi (Aix Marseille University) Sebastian Padó (University of Stuttgart) ** NEW: Abstract submission deadline: November, 10 ** ** Paper submission deadline: December, 10 ** Large language models (LLMs) acquire rich world knowledge from the data they are exposed to during training, in a way that appears to parallel how children learn from the language they hear around them. Indeed, since the introduction of these powerful models, there has been a general feeling among researchers in both NLP and cognitive science that a systematic understanding of how these models work and how they use the knowledge they encode, would shed light on the way humans acquire, represent, and process this same knowledge (and vice versa). Yet, despite the similarities, there are important differences between machines and humans that have prevented a direct translation of insights from the analysis of LLMs to a deeper understanding of human learning. Chief among these differences is that the size of data required to train LLMs far exceeds -- by several orders of magnitude -- the data children need to acquire sophisticated conceptual structures and meanings. Besides, the engineering-driven architectures of LLMs do not appear to have obvious equivalents in children's cognitive apparatus, at least as studied by standard methods in experimental psychology. Finally, children acquire world knowledge not only via exposure to language but also via sensory experience and social interaction. This edited volume aims to create a forum of exchange and debate between linguists, cognitive scientists and experts in deep learning, NLP and computational linguistics, on the broad topic of learning in humans and machines. Experts from these communities can contribute with empirical and theoretical papers that advance our understanding of this question. Submissions might address the acquisition of different types of linguistic and world knowledge. Additionally, we invite contributions that characterize and address challenges related to the mismatch between humans and LLMs in terms of the size and nature of input data, and the involved learning and processing mechanisms. Topics include, but are not limited to: • Grounded learning: comparison of unimodal (e.g., text) vs multimodal (e.g., images and video) learning. • Social learning: comparison of input-driven mechanisms vs. interaction-based learning. • Exploration of different knowledge types (e.g., procedural / declarative); knowledge integration and inference in LLMs. • Methods to characterize and quantify human-like language learning or processing in LLMs. • Interpretability/probing methods addressing the linguistic and world knowledge encoded in LLM representations. • Knowledge enrichment methods aimed at improving the quality and quantity of the knowledge encoded in LLMs. • Semantic representation and processing in humans and machines in terms of, e.g., abstractions made, structure of the lexicon, property inheritance and generalization, geometrical approaches to meaning representation, mental associations, and meaning retrieval. • Bilingualism in humans and machines; second language acquisition in children and adults; construction of multi-lingual spaces and cross-lingual correspondences. • Exploration of language models that incorporate cognitively plausible mechanisms and reasonably-sized training data. • Use of techniques from other disciplines (e.g., neuroscience or computer vision) for analyzing and evaluating LLMs. • Open-source tools for analysis, visualization, or explanation. Submission Instructions ** NEW ** Authors are strongly encouraged to submit a short (max 1 page) abstract of their paper by November 10. Abstracts will be sent to the Guest Editors (e-mails below). Minor modifications to the abstract will still be possible until final submission. Papers should be formatted according to the Computational Linguistics style guidelines: http://cljournal.org/ We accept both long and short papers. Long papers are between 30 and 40 journal pages in length; short papers are between 15 and 25 pages in length. Papers for this special issue will be submitted through the CL electronic submission system, just like regular papers: http://cljournal.org/submissions.html Authors of special issue papers will need to select “Special Issue on LLPR” under the Journal Section heading in the CL submission system. Please note that papers submitted to a special issue undergo the same reviewing process as regular papers. Timeline Deadline for abstract submission: November, 10 2023 Deadline for paper submission: December, 10 2023 Notification after 1st round of reviewing: February, 10 2024 Revised versions of the papers: April, 30 2024 Final decisions: June, 10 2024 Final version of the papers: July, 1 2024 Inquiries All inquiries should be directed to the guest editors of this special issue. Guest Editors Marianna Apidianaki marapi(a)seas.upenn.edu <mailto:marapi@seas.upenn.edu> Abdellah Fourtassi abdellah.fourtassi(a)gmail.com <mailto:abdellah.fourtassi@gmail.com> Sebastian Padó pado(a)ims.uni-stuttgart.de <mailto:pado@ims.uni-stuttgart.de> Reviewers Afra Alishahi, Tilburg University Rachel Bawden, INRIA Philippe Blache, Aix-Marseille University, CNRS Idan Blank, UCLA Gemma Boleda, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, UCLouvain, FNRS, The Ohio State University Katrin Erk, University of Texas at Austin Benoit Favre, Aix-Marseille University Richard Futrell, UC Irvine Aina Garí Soler, Télécom-Paris Mario Giulianelli, University of Amsterdam Gabriel Grand, MIT Dieuwke Hupkes, META Anna Ivanova, MIT Jordan Kodner, Stony Brook University Andrew Lampinen, DeepMind Roger Levy, MIT Tal Linzen, New York University (NYU) Barbara Plank, LMU Munich Christopher Potts, Stanford University Veronica Qing Lyu, University of Pennsylvania Okko Räsänen, Tampere University Anna Rogers, IT University of Copenhagen Thomas Schatz, Aix-Marseille University Sebastian Schuster, Saarland University Cory Shain, Stanford University Jörg Tiedemann, University of Helsinki Sean Trott, University of California, San Diego Ivan Vuliç, University of Cambridge Computational Linguistics is the longest-running flagship journal of the Association for Computational Linguistics. 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[Call for participation] Test a Dialogue System for Automata Accessibility
by Elisa Di Nuovo 11 Sep '23

11 Sep '23

Dear Esteemed Colleagues, We are a research group of the Computer Science Department and Polin Laboratory at University of Turin. We need your contribution to test a dialogue system for exploring finite automata with the accessibility goal in mind. *Introducing the NoVAGraphS Research Experiment* Our research team comprising Alessandro Mazzei, Luca Anselma, Pier Felice Balestrucci, Cristian Bernareggi, Elisa Di Nuovo and Manuela Sanguinetti, is thrilled to extend a heartfelt invitation to individuals with a basic knowledge of *English* and* finite state automata*. We need your valuable insights to evaluate our prototype system designed to enhance the accessibility of automata, a graphical structure usually taught in Computer Science courses which is not yet fully accessible for individuals with visual impairments. *What would you expect?* - You will interact with a prototype dialogue system using a web interface to explore a simple automaton. - Moreover, you will explore another simple automaton using a state transition table. - Finally, we will ask you some questions to assess your understanding of the two automata and collect your precious feedback on the usability of the dialogue system. Rest assured, any personal information collected will remain completely anonymous. - It will take approximately 15 minutes (standard deviation = 5 minutes :D). *Interested in participating or needing more information to decide?* In both cases, please contact Pier at the following email address: pierfelice.balestrucci[at]unito.it Kind regards, Elisa Di Nuovo on behalf of NoVAGraphS Research Group -- Alessandro Mazzei, Luca Anselma, Pier Felice Balestrucci, Cristian Bernareggi, Elisa Di Nuovo, Manuela Sanguinetti http://www.integr-abile.unito.it/progetto-novagraphs/ (website only in Italian)

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