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AT4SLL at EAMT 2023: Deadline extension to April, 24th 2023
by Fred Blain 14 Apr '23

14 Apr '23

Workshop on Automatic Translation for Signed and Spoken Languages ***** The submission deadline for AT4SLL has been extended to April, 24th 2023 ***** SCOPE According to the World Federation of the Deaf (WFD) over 70 million people are deaf and communicate primarily via Sign Language (SL). Currently, human interpreters are the main medium for sign-to-spoken, spoken-to-sign and sign-to-sign language translation. The availability and cost of these professionals is often a limiting factor in communication between signers and non-signers. Machine Translation (MT) is a core technique for reducing language barriers for spoken languages. Although MT has come a long way since its inception in the 1950s, it still has a long way to go to successfully cater to all communication needs and users. When it comes to the deaf and hard of hearing communities, MT is in its infancy. The complexity of the task to automatically translate between SLs or sign and spoken languages, requires a multidisciplinary approach. The rapid technological and methodological advances in deep learning, and in AI in general, that we see in the last decade, have not only improved MT, recognition of image, video and audio signals, the understanding of language, the synthesis of life-like 3D avatars, etc., but have also led to the fusion of interdisciplinary research innovations that lays the foundation of automated translation services between sign and spoken languages. This one-day workshop aims to be a venue for presenting and discussing (complete, ongoing or future) research on automatic translation between sign and spoken languages and bring together researchers, practitioners, interpreters and innovators working in related fields. We are delighted to confirm that two interpreters for English<>International Sign (IS) will be present during the event, to make it as inclusive as possible to anyone who wishes to participate. Theme of the workshop: Data is one of the key factors for the success of today’s AI, including language and translation models for sign and spoken languages. However, when it comes to SL, MT and Natural Language Processing, we face problems related to small volumes of (parallel) data, low veracity in terms of origin of annotations (deaf or hearing interpreters), non-standardized annotations (e.g. glosses differ across corpora), video quality or recording setting, and others. The theme of this edition of the workshop is Sign language parallel data – challenges, solutions and resolutions. The AT4SSL workshop aims to open a (guided) discussion between participants about current challenges, innovations and future developments related to the automatic translation between sign and spoken languages. To this extent, AT4SSL will host a moderated round table around the following three topics: (i) quality of recognition and synthesis models and user-expectations; (ii) co-creation -- deaf, hearing and hard-of-hearing people joining forces towards a common goal and (iii) sign-to-spoken and spoken-to-sign translation technology in media. TOPICS This workshop aims to focus on the following topics. However, submissions related to the general topic of automatic translation between signed and spoken languages that deviate from these topics are also welcome: * Data: resources, collection and curation, challenges, processing, data life cycle * Use-cases, applications * Ethics, privacy and policies * Sign language linguistics * Machine translation (with a focus on signed-to-signed, signed-to-spoken or spoken-to-signed language translation) * Natural language processing * Interpreting of sign and spoken languages * Image and video recognition (for the purpose of sign language recognition) * 3D avatar and virtual signers synthesis * Usability and challenges of current methods and methodologies * Sign language in the media SUBMISSION FORMAT Two types of submissions are going to be accepted for the AT4SSL workshop: * Research, review, position and application papers Unpublished papers that present original, completed work. The length of each paper should be at least four (4) and maximum eight (8) pages, with unlimited pages for references. * Extended abstracts Extended abstracts should present original, ongoing work or innovative ideas. The length of each extended abstract is four (4) pages, with unlimited pages for references. Both papers should be formatted according to the official EAMT 2023 style templates (LaTex<https://events.tuni.fi/uploads/2022/12/ee35fd56-latex_template.zip>. Overleaf<https://www.overleaf.com/read/mkjbkppndvxw>, MS Word<https://events.tuni.fi/uploads/2022/12/edd598d2-eamt23.docx>, Libre/Open Office<https://events.tuni.fi/uploads/2022/12/ece98f81-eamt23.odt>, PDF<https://events.tuni.fi/uploads/2022/12/6e89772e-eamt23.pdf>). Accepted papers and extended abstracts will be published in the EAMT 2023 proceedings and will be presented at the conference. SUBMISSION POLICY * Submissions must be anonymized. * Papers and extended abstracts should be submitted using EASY Chair<https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=at4ssl2023>. * Work that has been or is planned to be submitted to other venues must be declared as such. Upon acceptance at AT4SSL, it must be withdrawn from the other venues. * The review will be double-blind. IMPORTANT DATES: * First call for papers: 13-March-2023 * Second call for papers: 31-March-2023 * Submission deadline: 14-April-2023 24-April-2023 (Extended!) * Review process: between 25-April-2023 and 05-May-2023 * Acceptance notification: 12-May-2023 * Camera ready submission: 01-June-2023 * Submission of material for interpreters: 06-June-2023 * Programme will be finalised by: 01-June-2023 * Workshop date: 15-June-2023 ORGANISATION COMMITTEE: Dimitar Shterionov (TiU) Mirella De Sisto (TiU) Mathias Muller (UZH) Davy Van Landuyt (EUD) Rehana Omardeen (EUD) Shaun O’Boyle (DCU) Annelies Braffort (Paris-Saclay University) Floris Roelofsen (UvA) Frédéric Blain (TiU) Bram Vanroy (KU Leuven; UGent) Eleftherios Avramidis (DFKI) INTERPRETING: We will provide English to International Sign (IS) interpreting during the workshop. FOR CONTACTS: Dimitar Shterionov, workshop chair: d.shterionov(a)tilburguniversity.edu Registration will be handled by the EAMT2023 conference. (To be announced)

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Last Call for Papers: Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar (LxGr2023)
by Costas Gabrielatos 14 Apr '23

14 Apr '23

Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar (LxGr2023) LAST CALL FOR PAPERS Abstract submission closes tomorrow, 15 April 2023 The symposium will take place online on 7-8 July 2023. Invited Speakers: Gaëtanelle Gilquin<https://perso.uclouvain.be/gaetanelle.gilquin> (Université catholique de Louvain) Thomas Herbst<https://www.angam.phil.fau.de/fields/engling/herbst/> (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität) If you would like to present, send an abstract of 500 words (excluding references) to lxgr(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:lxgr@edgehill.ac.uk>. Make sure that the abstract clearly specifies the research focus (research questions or hypotheses), the corpus, the methodology (techniques and metrics), the theoretical orientation, and the main findings. Abstracts will be double-blind reviewed, and decisions will be communicated within four weeks. Full papers will be allocated 35 minutes (including 10 minutes for discussion). Work-in-progress reports will be allocated 20 minutes (including 5 minutes for discussion). There will be no parallel sessions. Participation is free. The focus of LxGr is the interaction of lexis and grammar. The focus is influenced by Halliday's view of lexis and grammar as "complementary perspectives" (1991: 32), and his conception of the two as notional ends of a continuum (lexicogrammar), in that "if you interrogate the system grammatically you will get grammar-like answers and if you interrogate it lexically you get lexis-like answers" (1992: 64). For more information and details of past symposia, see here: https://ehu.ac.uk/lxgr. If you have any questions, contact lxgr(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:lxgr@edgehill.ac.uk>. ________________________________ 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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deadline extension GITT-2023 at EAMT 2023
by bsavoldi＠fbk.eu 14 Apr '23

14 Apr '23

***** The submission deadline for GITT has been extended to April 24th for full papers and May 3th for extended abstracts and research communications ***** First International Workshop on Gender-Inclusive Translation Technologies (GITT) at EAMT 2023 15 June 2023, Tampere, Finland https://sites.google.com/tilburguniversity.edu/gitt2023 @GITT2023 *New timeline* (Time zone: Anywhere on Earth) - Submission deadline: - Papers: 24 April, 2023 - Research communications and extended abstracts: 3 May, 2023 - Notification of Acceptance: 12 May, 2023 - Camera Ready Copy due: 19 May, 2023 - Workshop: 15 June, 2023 *Aim and scope* The Gender-Inclusive Translation Technologies Workshop (GITT) is set out to be the first workshop that focuses on gender-inclusive language in translation and cross-lingual scenarios. The workshop aims to bring together researchers from diverse areas, including industry partners, MT practitioners, and language professionals. GITT aims to encourage multidisciplinary research that develops and interrogates both solutions and challenges for addressing bias and promoting gender inclusivity in MT and translation tools. *Topics* GITT invites technical as well as non-technical submissions, which consist of experimental, theoretical or methodological contributions. We explicitly welcome interdisciplinary submissions and submissions that focus on innovative, non-binary linguistic strategies and/or with sociolinguistically-informed perspectives. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Models or methods for assessing and mitigating gender bias - New resources for inclusive language and gender translation (e.g., datasets, translation memories, dictionaries) - Social, cross-lingual, and ethical implications of gender bias - Qualitative and quantitative analyses on the potential limits of current approaches to gender bias in translation and MT, error taxonomies as well as best practices and guidelines - User-centric case studies on the impact of biased language and/or mitigating approaches which can include translators, post-editors, or monolingual MT users GITT is also open to other non-listed topics aligned with the scope of the workshop and works focusing on non-textual modalities (e.g., audiovisual translation) *Submission* We welcome three types of submissions: - Research papers: of at least 4 up to 10 pages (including references) - Extended Abstracts: up to 2 pages (including references) Accepted papers and extended abstracts consisting of novel work will be published online as proceedings in the ACL Anthology. - Research Communications: up to 2 pages (including reference) We include a parallel submission policy for papers accepted in other venues in 2022. Research communications will not be included in the proceedings, but will serve to promote the dissemination of research aligned with the scope of the workshop. Submissions should adhere to the EAMT 2023 guidelines and style templates (PDF, LaTeX, Word) and be uploaded on EasyChair: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=gitt2023 *Activities* During the workshop, there will be a guided discussion starting from examples of gender bias in MT output collected via the DeBiasByUs website. Attendees are invited to contribute their own examples beforehand via DeBiasByUs (https://debiasbyus.ugent.be/share/) More information about the project and the activity can be found on the WS website. *Workshop organizers* Eva Vanmassenhove, University of Tilburg Beatrice Savoldi, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Luisa Bentivogli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Joke Daems, University of Ghent Janiça Hackenbuchner, Cologne University of Applied Sciences

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2nd CFP: CLEF 2023 - Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum
by Anastasia Giachanou 14 Apr '23

14 Apr '23

Second Call for papers for CLEF 2023: Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum 18-21 September 2023, Thessaloniki, Greece https://clef2023.clef-initiative.eu Important Dates (Time zone: Anywhere on Earth) - Submission of Long, Short, Best of 2023 Labs Papers: 12 May, 2023 - Notification of Acceptance: 9 June, 2023 - Camera Ready Copy due: 30 June, 2023 - Conference: 18-21 September, 2023 Aim and Scope The CLEF Conference addresses all aspects of Information Access in any modality and language. The CLEF conference includes presentation of research papers and a series of workshops presenting the results of lab-based comparative evaluation benchmarks. CLEF 2023 is the 14th CLEF conference continuing the popular CLEF campaigns which have run since 2000 contributing to the systematic evaluation of information access systems, primarily through experimentation on shared tasks. The CLEFconference has a clear focus on experimental IR as carried out within evaluation forums (e.g., CLEF Labs, TREC, NTCIR, FIRE, MediaEval, RomIP, SemEval, and TAC) with special attention to the challenges of multimodality, multilinguality, and interactive search also considering specific classes of users as children, students, impaired users in different tasks (e.g., academic, professional, or everyday-life). We invite paper submissions on significant new insights demonstrated on IR test collections, on analysis of IR test collections and evaluation measures, as well as on concrete proposals to push the boundaries of the Cranfield style evaluation paradigm. All submissions to the CLEF main conference will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance, and clarity. CLEF welcomes papers that describe rigorous hypothesis testing regardless of whether the results are positive or negative. CLEF also welcomes past runs/results/data analysis and new data collections. Methods are expected to be written so that they are reproducible by others, and the logic of the research design is clearly described in the paper. The conference proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Topics Relevant topics for the CLEF 2023 Conference include but are not limited to: - Information access in any language or modality: information retrieval, image retrieval, question answering, information extraction and summarisation, search interfaces and design, infrastructures, etc. - Analytics for information retrieval: theoretical and practical results in the analytics field that are specifically targeted for information access data analysis, data enrichment, etc. - User studies either based on lab studies or crowdsourcing. - Past results/run deep analysis both statistically and fine grain based. - Evaluation initiatives: conclusions, lessons learned, impact and projection of any evaluation initiative after completing their cycle. - Evaluation: methodologies, metrics, statistical and analytical tools, component based, user groups and use cases, ground-truth creation, impact of multilingual/multicultural/multimodal differences, etc. - Technology transfer: economic impact/sustainability of information access approaches, deployment and exploitation of systems, use cases, etc. - Interactive information retrieval evaluation: interactive evaluation of information retrieval systems using user-centered methods, evaluation of novel search interfaces, novel interactive evaluation methods, simulation of interaction, etc. - Specific application domains: information access and its evaluation in application domains such as cultural heritage, digital libraries, social media, health information, legal documents, patents, news, books, and in the form of text, audio and/or image data. - New data collection: presentation of new data collection with potential high impact on future research, specific collections from companies or labs, multilingual collections. - Work on data from rare languages, collaborative, social data. Format Authors are invited to electronically submit original papers, which have not been published and are not under consideration elsewhere, using the LNCS proceedings format: http://www.springer.com/it/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gui… Two types of papers are solicited: - Long papers: 12 pages max (excluding references). Aimed to report complete research works. - Short papers: 6 pages max (excluding references). Position papers, new evaluation proposals, developments and applications, etc. Review Process Authors of long and short papers are asked to submit the following TWO versions of their manuscript: Methodology version: This version does NOT report anything related to the results of the study. At this stage, the manuscripts will be evaluated based on the importance of the problem addressed and the soundness of the methodology. Manuscripts can include an introduction, description of the proposed methodology and datasets used. However, there should be no result and discussion sections. The authors should also remove mentions of results in the included sections (e.g., abstract, introduction) Experimental version: This is the full version of the manuscript that contains all the sections of the paper including the experiments and results. Papers will be peer-reviewed by 3 members of the program committee in two stages. At the first stage, the members will review the methodology version of the manuscripts based on originality and methodology. At the second stage, the full version of the manuscripts that passed from the first sage will be reviewed. Selection will be based on originality, clarity, and technical quality. The deadline for the submission of both versions is 12th of May. Paper submission Papers should be submitted in PDF format to the following address: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=clef2023 - Submit the methodology version at the Methodology Track - Submit the experimental version at the Experimental Track Organisation General Chairs Evangelos Kanoulas, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands Theodora Tsikrika, Information Technologies Institute, CERTH, GR Stefanos Vrochidis, Information Technologies Institute, CERTH, GR Avi Arampatzis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Program Chairs Anastasia Giachanou, Utrecht University, the Netherlands Dan Li, Elsevier Evaluation Lab Chairs Mohammad Aliannejadi, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands Michalis Vlachos, University of Lausanne, Switzerland Lab Mentorship Chair Jian-Yun Nie, University of Montreal, Canada

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[Call for participation] Cardiff NLP Workshop, 26-27 June 2023 (dates fixed!)
by Jose Camacho Collados 14 Apr '23

14 Apr '23

(Apologies for double posting, the previous version contained errors in the dates, and these are fixed here) ============================================================== Call for Participation 2nd Cardiff NLP Workshop, 26-27 June 2023 ============================================================== We are organising the 2nd Cardiff NLP Summer Workshop, an in-person workshop on Natural Language Processing. It will take place from June 26 to June 27 2023 in the Abacws building in Cardiff (Wales, UK). The workshop is especially designed for PhD students and early career researchers, and the registration is free for everyone. Please fill the following expression of interest form by April 24th if interested in joining the workshop: <https://forms.gle/zzvHetEvWBTJeVW8A> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeuxrsPy3qD6YdNSJiZ09rqQlnAGWzXQqL… Workshop Activities: * Invited speakers from academia and industry * Tutorials * Poster session and networking * Panel on large language models and NLP research Important Dates: * Application Period: 2 March-24 April * Notification of Acceptance: 28 April * Workshop: 26-27 June 2023 in Cardiff For more details, please check the workshop website: https://www.cardiffnlpworkshop.org/ Cardiff NLP Organisation team -- Jose Camacho Collados http://www.josecamachocollados.com<http://www.josecamachocollados.com/>

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[Call for participation] Cardiff NLP Workshop, 26-27 June 2023
by Jose Camacho Collados 14 Apr '23

14 Apr '23

============================================================== Call for Participation 2nd Cardiff NLP Workshop, 30 June and 1 July 2022 ============================================================== We are organising the 2nd Cardiff NLP Summer Workshop, a free in-person workshop on Natural Language Processing. It will take place from June 26 to June 27 2023 in the Abacws building in Cardiff (Wales, UK). The workshop is especially designed for PhD students and early career researchers, but everyone is welcome! Please fill the following expression of interest form by April 24th if interested in joining the workshop: <https://forms.gle/zzvHetEvWBTJeVW8A> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeuxrsPy3qD6YdNSJiZ09rqQlnAGWzXQqL… Workshop Activities: * Invited speakers from academia and industry * Tutorials * Poster session and networking * Panel on large language models and NLP research Important Dates: * Application Period: 2 March-24 April * Notification of Acceptance: 28 April * Registration deadline: 13 June * Workshop: 30 June and 1 July 2022 For more details, please check the workshop website: https://www.cardiffnlpworkshop.org/ Cardiff NLP Organisation team -- Jose Camacho Collados http://www.josecamachocollados.com<http://www.josecamachocollados.com/>

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Call for participation: Language Technologies and Digital Humanities: Resources and Applications (LTаDH-RA)
by Kiril Simov 13 Apr '23

13 Apr '23

Language Technologies and Digital Humanities: Resources and Applications (LTаDH-RA) CLaDA-BG 2023 Conference https://clada-bg.eu/en/dissemination/events/international-clada-bg-conferen… Sofia, Bulgaria 10-12 May 2023 Progamme https://clada-bg.eu/en/dissemination/events/international-clada-bg-conferen… CLaDA-BG is the Bulgarian national research infrastructure for resources and technologies for linguistic, cultural and historical heritage, integrated within CLARIN EU and DARIAH EU. Its mission is to provide access to the necessary resources and technologies that would support the research in Social Sciences and Humanities (SS&H). Modeling and linking of various types of knowledge and its contexts is crucial for the successful research in the interdisciplinary field of resources and technologies related to language, culture and history. Invited Speakers Agiatis Benardou, DARIAH EU. From Archives to Headsets: Digital Storytelling as Mediator of History (Abstract) Alessandro Lenci, Università di Pisa, Italy, TBA Erhard Hinrichs, Leibniz Institut für Deutsche Sprache Mannheim and Tübingen University, Germany. FAIRification of Research Data and Services and Incorporation of New Technologies in Text+ (Abstract) Milena Dobreva, Sofia University St Kliment Ohridski, Bulgaria, TBA The CLaDA-BG Organizer

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Ceremony of Life for Dragomir Radev - April 29, 2023 in NYC
by Joel Tetreault 13 Apr '23

13 Apr '23

Dear friends and colleagues, For those who might be in the NYC area at the end of the month, there will be a Ceremony of Life to honor Dragomir Radev held at St Paul's Chapel, Columbia University on April 29th, 10AM-11:30AM. A reception will follow. Please see the invitation below and, if you would like to attend, please RSVP yes. https://pp.events/ajYOJ3zn <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__pp.events_ajYOJ3zn&d=D…> Also, a reminder that there is a gofundme for Drago's family. Please take a look if you haven't yet: https://gofund.me/61a3d327 Thanks! We hope to see you there! Joel (with Kathy McKeown and Smara Muresan and others)

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Job Opening at CRC 1102, Saarbrücken (Postdoc or PhD)
by Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb 13 Apr '23

13 Apr '23

Job Title: Postdoctoral Researcher or PhD Candidate in Computational Linguistics/Digital Humanities/Corpus Linguistics Position Type: Full-time, fixed-term (2 years with the possibility of extension) Salary in accordance with the German TV-L salary scale, pay grade: E13 TV- L. Application Deadline: June 1, 2023 Start Date: earliest possible opportunity, subject to negotiation Location: Saarland University is a campus university with an international reputation for research excellence, particularly in computer science and in the life sciences and nanosciences. The university is also distinguished by its close ties to France and its strong European focus. Around 17,000 students, studying over one hundred different academic disciplines, are currently enrolled at Saarland University. Saarland University is officially recognized as one of Germanys family-friendly higher-education institutions and with a combined workforce of more than 4000 it is one of the largest employers in the region. Workplace/Department: The position is affiliated with project B1 of the DFG-funded Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 1102. The successful applicant will have the opportunity to collaborate closely with other researchers at the CRC and at Saarland University. CRC 1102 is a thriving research environment with over 30 PhD students and postdocs from many subfields of linguistics, computational linguistics and psycholinguistics. It is located at Saarland University, one of the leading centers for computational linguistics in Europe. The Department of Language Science and Technology consists of about 100 research staff in nine research groups in the fields of computational linguistics, psycholinguistics, speech processing, and corpus linguistics. It is part of Saarland Informatics Campus, which brings together computer science research at the university with world-class research institutions on campus. See https://sfb1102.uni-saarland.de/ for more information on the CRC. Project B1: Information Density in English Scientific Writing: A Diachronic Perspective PIs: Elke Teich ( <mailto:e.teich@mx.uni-saarland.de> e.teich(a)mx.uni-saarland.de), Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb ( <mailto:s.degaetano@mx.uni-saarland.de> s.degaetano(a)mx.uni-saarland.de) We are seeking a highly motivated Postdoctoral Researcher or PhD candidate with a strong background in computational linguistics or digital humanities and a keen interest in diachronic language studies. The position is situated in Project B1 on the Diachronic Development of Scientific English using information-theoretic approaches and considering rational communication accounts. Project B1 is concerned with the hypothesis of communicative optimization in the development of scientific English. Based on a diachronic corpus (Royal Society Corpus), we have applied selected types of computational language models (e.g. topic models, n-gram models, word embeddings) and combined them with information-based measures (e.g. entropy, surprisal) to capture diachronic variation. In the upcoming project phase, we intend to address the following research questions: (1) Is there evidence of a more general diachronic mechanism (beyond scientific language)? (2) Within scientific language, what are additional, typical imprints of conventionalization (register variables)? (3) How can we assess the overall communicative efficiency of scientific language (effects on working memory)? Focusing on selected linguistic phenomena (multi-word expressions, discourse markers, nominal vs. verbal phrases), we complement a corpus-based, production-oriented approach with selected behavioral, comprehension-oriented studies. Job requirements and responsibilities: * Conduct research on the diachronic development of scientific English using computational methods and information-theoretic approaches * Analyze linguistic data and develop models to understand the underlying principles of rational communication in scientific discourse * Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team of researchers in linguistics, computational linguistics, psycholinguistics, and related fields * Present research findings at conferences and publish in high-impact, peer-reviewed journals Your academic qualifications: * A completed MA/MSc in computational linguistics, digital humanities, or a closely related field (for Phd candidates) * A completed (or soon to be completed) PhD in computational linguistics, digital humanities, or a closely related field (for Postdoc candidates) The successful candidate will also be expected to: * Strong programming skills and experience with computational text analysis, natural language processing, or machine learning techniques * Familiarity with variationist/diachronic language studies * A solid understanding of information-theoretic approaches would be a plus * Familiarity with experimental linguistics would be a plus * Excellent written and verbal communication skills * A good command of English is mandatory * Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a multidisciplinary research environment What we can offer you: A flexible work schedule allowing you to balance work and family, among other things the possibility of teleworking Secure and future-oriented employment with attractive conditions A broad range of further education and professional development programs (for example language courses) An occupational health management model with numerous attractive options, such as our university sports program Supplementary pension scheme (RZVK) Discounted tickets on local public transport services (Job-Ticket Plus of the saarVV) To apply, please submit the following documents: 1. Cover letter detailing your research interests, qualifications, and motivation for applying 2. Curriculum vitae, including a list of publications 3. Names of two scholars who can be addressed for a letter of reference Please submit your application materials via email to e.teich(a)mx.uni-saarland.de <mailto:e.teich@mx.uni-saarland.de> and s.degaetano(a)mx.uni-saarland.de <mailto:s.degaetano@mx.uni-saarland.de> by June 1, 2023. For further information about the position or the research center visit our website at https://sfb1102.uni-saarland.de/ . We look forward to receiving your application and exploring the possibility of you joining our dynamic research team.

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Pros&Comps: ESSLLI Workshop announcement and call for abstracts
by Sonia Ramotowska 13 Apr '23

13 Apr '23

Pros&Comps: ESSLLI Workshop announcement and call for abstracts We are happy to announce the workshop: "Procedural and computational models of semantic and pragmatic processes" organized at the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) 2023. We would greatly appreciate your help in sharing this call for abstracts with potentially interested researchers! Location: University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Dates: 31 July – 4 August 2023 Submission deadline: 5 May 2023 Webpage: https://prosandcomps.github.io Contact: prosandcomps(a)gmail.com Workshop description: Computational methods in semantics and pragmatics have recently gained in merit and popularity. One of the reasons for increased interest in modeling is its usefulness in operationalizing abstract predictions of formal semantics and pragmatics theories and linking them with experimental data, yielding not only a good fit to empirical data but also insights of theoretical relevance. Different modeling frameworks have been proposed to explain various aspects of linguistic data. On the one hand, some computational models propose domain-general, unified computational-level (in the sense of Marr, 1982) characterizations of meaning-related processes in order to rationalize how speakers and listeners utilize language in communication. On the other hand, procedural models describe language processing as the execution of series of steps that speakers and listeners carry out during language processing to compute utterance meanings. Both of these approaches have specific strengths and weaknesses but they also have the potential to complement each other. In the field of experimental pragmatics, information theoretical and Bayesian models received much attention as they excel in capturing the dynamic interactions between speakers and listeners. Iterated response models (such as RSA, Frank & Goodman, 2012; or Franke, 2009), in particular, are able to explain linguistic phenomena at the semantics-pragmatics interface (e.g., scalar implicature computation), or effects of discourse and sociolinguistic factors (e.g., Questions Under Discussion or politeness; see Scontras, Tessler, & Franke, 2018, for review). These models provide an abstract explanation of how humans compute meaning but leave unspecified how this computation unfolds over time. Procedural models, by contrast, zoom in on the algorithms (in the sense of Marr’s, 1982, second level) underlying meaning computation and propose sequences of processing steps, potentially executed via different modules. For example, in the domain of experimental semantics, procedural models (e.g. Szymanik, 2016; Bott, Schlotterbeck & Klein, 2019) were applied to quantifier interpretation and cognitive architectures such as ACT-R (Anderson, 2007) can capture a broad range of complex linguistic processes (Brasoveanu & Dotlacil, 2019). Call for abstracts: The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers applying different modeling methodologies. We invite submissions that present state-of-the-art applications of computational and procedural models or discuss strengths and limitations of each of the mentioned methodologies. Moreover, because we see great potential for integrated computational and procedural models, we strongly encourage submissions that propose hybrid approaches. Such hybrid approaches may, for example, include sequential sampling decision models (e.g. Schlotterbeck et al., 2020; Ramotowska et al., 2023) or models of incremental interpretation (e.g. Cohn-Gorden et al., 2019; Waldon & Degen, 2021) as procedural extensions of Bayesian approaches. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): -procedural and/or computational models of incremental interpretation, -procedural and/or computational models of language comprehension and production, -procedural and/or computational models of verification or inferences, -behavioral and neurocognitive procedural and/or computational models, -procedural and/or computational models of the semantics-pragmatics interface, -procedural and/or computational models of context effects (e.g., politeness, conversation goals, informativeness) on interpretation, and -procedural and/or computational models of interaction between language-specific and domain-general interpretation mechanisms. Submissions guidelines: Abstracts should be anonymous and not exceed 2 pages (plus one extra page for figures, tables, glosses, references, etc.) with 11 pt font size. Submissions can be made at the workshop’s EasyChair site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=texmod2020 Submissions will be reviewed by at least two program committee members. Invited speakers: Bob van Tiel (Radboud University Nijmegen) tba Organizers: Sonia Ramotowska (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf) Fabian Schlotterbeck (University of Tuebingen)

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