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Jobs at the University of Groningen: Assistant Professors in Language Technology & Humane AI
by Bos, Johan 08 Jan '24

08 Jan '24

We are looking for new colleagues to strengthen our amazing computational linguistics research group at the University of Groningen. Please follow the link below for more information: https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-0… Application deadline: Feb 1, 2024

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Second Call for Papers - International Conference ‘New Trends in Translation and Technology’ (NeTTT’2024)
by t.ranasinghe＠aston.ac.uk 08 Jan '24

08 Jan '24

International Conference ‘New Trends in Translation and Technology’ (NeTTT’2024) Varna, Bulgaria, 3-6 July 2024 Second Call for Papers The conference The second edition of the forthcoming International Conference ‘New Trends in Translation and Technology’ (NeTTT’2024) will take place in Varna, Bulgaria, 3-6 July 2024. The objective of the conference is (i) to bridge the gap between academia and industry in the field of translation and interpreting by bringing together academics in linguistics, translation studies, machine translation and natural language processing, developers, practitioners, language service providers and vendors who work on or are interested in different aspects of technology for translation and interpreting, and (ii) to be a distinctive event for discussing the latest developments and practices. NeTTT’2024 invites all professionals who would like to learn about the new trends, present the latest work or/and share their experience in the field, and who would like to establish business and research contacts, collaborations and new ventures. The conference will take the form of presentations (peer-reviewed research and user presentations, keynote speeches), and posters; it will also feature panel discussions. The accepted papers will be published as open-access conference e-proceedings. Conference topics Contributions are invited on any topic related to latest technology and practices in machine translation, translation, subtitling, localisation and interpreting. NeTTT’2024 will feature a Special Theme Track "Future of Translation Technology in the Era of LLMs and Generative AI". The conference topics include but are not limited to: CAT tools - Translation Memory (TM) systems - NLP and MT for translation memory systems - Terminology extraction tools - Localisation tools Machine Translation - Latest developments in Neural Machine Translation - MT for under-resourced languages - MT with low computing resources - Multimodal MT - Integration of MT in TM systems - Resources for MT Technologies for MT deployment - MT evaluation techniques, metrics and evaluation results - Human evaluations of MT output - Evaluating MT in a real-world setting - Quality estimation for MT - Domain adaptation Translation Studies - Corpus-based studies applied to translation - Corpora and resources for translation - Translationese - Cognitive effort and eye-tracking experiments in translation Interpreting studies - Corpus-based studies applied to interpreting - Corpora and resources for interpreting - Interpretese - Resources for interpreting and interpreting technology applications - Cognitive effort and eye-tracking experiments in interpreting Interpreting technology - Machine interpreting - Computer-aided interpreting - NLP for dialogue interpreting - Development of NLP based applications for communication in public service settings (healthcare, education, law, emergency services) Emerging Areas in Translation and Interpreting - MT and translation tools for literary texts and creative texts - MT for social media and real-time conversations - Sign language recognition and translation Subtitling - NLP and MT for subtitling - Latest technology for subtitling User needs - Analysis of translators’ and interpreters’ needs in terms of translation and interpreting technology - User requirements for interpreting and translation tools - Incorporating human knowledge into translation and interpreting technology - What existing translators’ (including subtitlers’) and interpreters’ tools do not offer - User requirements for electronic resources for translators and interpreters - Translation and interpreting workflows in larger organisations and the tools for translation and interpreting employed The business of translation and interpreting - Translation workflow and management - Technology adoption by translators and industry - Setting up translation /interpreting / language provider company Teaching translation and interpreting - Teaching Machine Translation - Teaching translation technology - Teaching interpreting technology - Latest AI developments in the syllabi of translation and interpreting curricula Ethical issues in translation and technology - Bias and fairness in MT - Privacy and security in cloud MT systems - Transparency and explainability of MT systems - Environmental impact on MT systems Special Theme Track - Future of Translation Technology in the Era of LLMs and Generative AI We are excited to share that NeTTT’2024 will have a special theme with the goal of stimulating discussion around Large Language Models, Generative AI and the Future of Translation and Interpreting Technology. While the new generation of Large Language Models such as CHATGPT and LLAMA showcase remarkable advancements in language generation and understanding, we find ourselves in uncharted territory when it comes to their performance on various Translation and Interpreting Technology tasks with regards to fairness, interpretability, ethics and transparency. The theme track invites studies on how LLMs perform on Translation and Interpreting Technology tasks and applications, and what this means for the future of the field. The possible topics of discussion include (but are not limited to) the following: - Changes in the translators and interpreters’ professions in the new AI era especially as a result of the latest developments in LLMSs and Generative AI - Generative AI and translation - Generative AI and interpreting - Augmenting machine translation systems with generative AI - Domain and terminology adaptation with Large Language Models - Literary translation with Large Language Models - Improving Machine Translation Quality with Contextual Prompts in Large Language Models - Prompt engineering for translation - Generative AI for professional translation - Generative AI for professional interpreting We anticipate having a special session on this theme at the conference. Submissions and publication NETTT’2024 invites the following types of submissions: User papers – for industry and practitioners. References to related work are optional. Allowed paper length: between 1 and 4 pages. Academic submissions, in three different categories (have to follow formatting requirements, references to related work are required): • (academic) full papers – describing original completed research. Allowed paper length: maximum 12 pages + unlimited references. • (academic) work-in-progress papers/posters – describing work in progress, late breaking research, papers at a more conceptual stage, and other types of papers that do not fit in the ‘full’ papers category. Allowed paper length: maximum 7 pages + unlimited references. • (academic) demo papers – describing working systems. Allowed paper length: maximum 5 pages + unlimited references. In addition to the papers, the authors will be expected to demonstrate the systems at the workshop. The conference will not consider and evaluate abstracts only. Each submission will be reviewed by three members of the Programme Committee. Submission is organised via Softconf START conference management system at https://softconf.com/n/nettt2024. For submitting the papers, we invite the authors to comply with the Springer format, following the templates: • LaTeX, - https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/192386… • Overleaf, - https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/springer-lecture-notes-in-computer… • Word. - https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/192387… The accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and made available online on the conference website. Authors of accepted papers will receive guidelines regarding how to produce camera-ready versions of their papers. The final version of the accepted papers will be published in e-proceedings with assigned ISBN and DOI. All accepted papers will be included in the conference e-proceedings which will be available at the conference website. Schedule Submission deadline: 31 March 2024 Notification: 5 June 2024 Final version due: 20 June 2024 All deadlines are valid for 23.59 Anywhere on Earth. Venue The conference will take place at Conference Hotel Cherno More, Varna, situated only 200 m away from the fine sandy Black Sea beach. Further information and contact details Registration will open on 15 January 2024. The follow-up calls will list keynote speakers and members of the programme committee once confirmed. The conference website is https://nettt-conference.com and will be updated on a regular basis. For further information, please contact us at nettt2024(a)nettt-conference.com

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Touché 2024: Shared Tasks on Argumentation Systems.
by Johannes Kiesel 08 Jan '24

08 Jan '24

Touché 2024: Shared Tasks on Argumentation Systems. Call for Participation. Touché is a series of shared tasks on argumentation systems, now in its 5th year. It is held in conjunction with the CLEF'24 conference in Grenoble, France, September 9-12. This year, Touché features a selection of three tasks: 1. Human Value Detection (a continuation of ValueEval’23 @ SemEval) features two subtasks in ethical argumentation on the detection of human values in texts and their attainment, respectively https://touche.webis.de/clef24/touche24-web/human-value-detection.html 2. Ideology and Power Identification in Parliamentary Debates (new task) features two subtasks in debate analysis on the detection of the ideology and position of power of the speaker’s party, respectively https://touche.webis.de/clef24/touche24-web/ideology-and-power-identificati… 3. Image Retrieval for Arguments (third edition, joint with ImageCLEF) features a task on the retrieval or generation of images to help convey an argument’s premise https://touche.webis.de/clef24/touche24-web/image-retrieval-for-arguments.h… Registration is now open (via CLEF): https://clef2024-labs-registration.dei.unipd.it/ Important Dates --------------- May 6, 2024: Approaches submission deadline. May 31, 2024: Participant paper submission. June 21, 2024: Participant paper notification. July 8, 2024: Camera-ready participant papers submission. Sep. 9-12, 2024: Conference Links ----- Touché: https://touche.webis.de/ Contact: touche(a)webis.de CLEF: https://clef2024.clef-initiative.eu/ Registration: https://clef2024-labs-registration.dei.unipd.it/ We are looking forward to your submission! The Touché team

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What is going to be the ending of the LLM movie ?
by Giuseppe Riccardi 08 Jan '24

08 Jan '24

Dear Friends and Colleagues, Whether you are a champ or skeptic of LLMs, they are here to stay. The ending of the movie is still unknown. We believe a critical aspect in the plot development will be the progress we make in the evaluation process of LLMs both in the training and testing ( inference ) phases. We lack appropriate, shared, and transparent evaluation methodologies and metrics. We would like to invite you to review and contribute to the proposed open model for LLM evaluations. It is a framework you can use as-is, in part, or contribute to modifying and extending. Article: Evaluation of Response Generation Models: Shouldn’t It Be Shareable and Replicable? <https://aclanthology.org/2022.gem-1.12/>. In Proceedings of the 2nd GEM Workshop @EMNLP 2022. Repo (codes, UI, guidelines, etc.): https://github.com/sislab-unitn/Human-Evaluation-Protocol Publications utilizing the proposed protocol: 1. Response Generation in Longitudinal Dialogues: Which Knowledge Representation Helps? <https://aclanthology.org/2023.nlp4convai-1.1/> (Mousavi et al., NLP4ConvAI 2023) 2. Are LLMs Robust for Spoken Dialogues? <https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.02297> (Mousavi et al., IWSDS2024) Best Regards ---- Prof. Dr.-Ing. Giuseppe Riccardi Founder and Director of the Signals and Interactive Systems Lab Department of Computer Science and Engineering Department University of Trento

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21st International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse (ICSR 2024): Fourth Call for Papers
by Announce 05 Jan '24

05 Jan '24

*** Fourth Call for Papers *** 21st International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse (ICSR 2024) June 10-12, 2024, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/icsr2024/ (*** Submission Deadline: 12th February, 2024 AoE ***) The International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse (ICSR) is a biannual conference in the field of software reuse research and technology. ICSR is a premier event aiming to present the most recent advances and breakthroughs in the area of software reuse and to promote an intensive and continuous exchange among researchers and practitioners. The guiding theme of this edition is Sustainable Software Reuse. We invite submissions on new and innovative research results and industrial experience reports dealing with all aspects of software reuse within the context of the modern software development landscape. Topics include but are not limited to the following. 1 Technical aspects of reuse, including • Reuse in/for Quality Assurance (QA) techniques, testing, verification, etc. • Domain ontologies and Model-Driven Development • Variability management and software product lines • Context-aware and Dynamic Reuse • Reuse in and for Machine Learning • Domain-specific languages (DSLs) • New language abstractions for software reuse • Generative Development • COTS-based development and reuse of open source assets • Retrieval and recommendation of reusable assets • Reuse of non-code artefacts • Architecture-centric reuse approaches • Service-oriented architectures and microservices • Software composition and modularization • Sustainability and software reuse • Economic models of reuse • Benefit and risk analysis, scoping • Legal and managerial aspects of reuse • Reuse adoption and transition to software reuse • Lightweight reuse approaches • Reuse in agile projects • Technical debt and software reuse 2 Software reuse in industry and in emerging domains • Reuse success stories • Reuse failures, and lessons learned • Reuse obstacles and success factors • Return on Investment (ROI) studies • Reuse in hot topic domains (Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, Virtualization, Network functions, Quantum Computing, etc.) We welcome research (16 pages) and industry papers (12 pages) following the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science format. Submissions will be handled via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=icsr2024). Submissions will be **double-blindly** reviewed, meaning that authors should: • Omit all authors’ names and affiliations from the title page • Do not include the acknowledgement section, if you have any, in the submitted paper • Refer to your own work in the third person • Use anonymous GitHub, Zenondo, FigShare or equivalent to provide access to artefacts without disclosing your identity Both research and industry papers will be reviewed by members of the same program committee (check the website for details). Proceedings will be published by Springer in their Lecture Notes for Computer Science (LNCS) series. An award will be given to the best research and the best industry papers. The authors of selected papers from the conference will be invited to submit an extended version (containing at least 30% new material) to a special issue in the Journal of Systems and Software (Elsevier). More details will follow. IMPORTANT DATES • Abstract submission: February 12, 2024, AoE • Full paper submission: February 19, 2024, AoE • Notification: April 8, 2024, AoE • Camera Ready: April 15, 2024, AoE • Author Registration: April 15, 2024 AoE ORGANISATION Steering Committee • Eduardo Almeida, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil • Goetz Botterweck, Lero, University of Limerick, Ireland • Rafael Capilla, Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain • John Favaro, Trust-IT, Italy • William B. Frakes, IEEE TCSE committee on software reuse, USA • Martin L. Griss, Carnegie Mellon University, USA • Oliver Hummel, University of Applied Sciences, Germany • Hafedh Mili, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada • Nan Niu, University of Cincinnati, USA • George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • Claudia M.L. Werner, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil General Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Co-Chairs • Achilleas Achilleos, Frederick University, Cyprus • Lidia Fuentes, University of Malaga, Spain

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3-year postdoc in NLP
by Slava Jankin 05 Jan '24

05 Jan '24

The Centre for Artificial Intelligence in Government (CAIG) <https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/centre-for-artificial-intelligence-in…> at the University of Birmingham invites applications for a Research Fellow with background in Machine Learning or Natural Language Processing to work on data science and AI applications across various research themes in the Centre <https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/centre-for-artificial-intelligence-in…>: AI for Democracy; AI for Global Affairs; AI for Government and Policy; and AI for the Health and Climate change Nexus. This is a 3-year position. This position is an excellent opportunity for a highly motivated and skilled researcher to play a pivotal role in the Centre's mission to expand the role of AI and data science in the social sciences. This mission is institutionally supported through the Data Science and AI Initiative in the College of Social Sciences. The Centre is based within the Institute for Interdisciplinary Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (IIDSAI) <https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/data-science/index.aspx>, which coordinates AI research and education at the University of Birmingham. As a Fellow you will have opportunities to obtain funding, lead projects, mentor students, and collaborate with governments and industry. You will work with an interdisciplinary team of computational social scientists, research software engineers and research data scientists <https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/arc/rsg/staff/index.aspx>. You will collaborate with colleagues from the School of Government and College of Social Sciences. Through IIDSAI you will also collaborate with colleagues from other AI-related disciplines. For example, Computer Science, Mathematics, Linguistics, Psychology, Medicine, Energy and Sustainability. You will have access to Baskerville, a UKRI National Tier-2 HPC facility <https://www.baskerville.ac.uk/index.html>, and BlueBEAR, the University HPC and HTC facility <https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/arc/bear/bluebear/index.aspx>. You will benefit from advanced training opportunities facilitated by IIDSAI. Responsibilities - Conduct innovative research on data science and AI applications in the social sciences - Contribute to projects under the Centre research themes - Pursue personal research and funding opportunities - Publish high quality research - Make substantial contributions to knowledge transfer and public engagement Requirements - PhD in NLP/ML/AI or related field - Strong publication record and research vision - Extensive experience with NLP and ML applications, including frontier models - Passion for interdisciplinary collaborative work Application Process To apply, please submit the following materials: Cover letter, detailing your proposed contribution to research themes of the Centre. Curriculum vitae, including a list of publications. Two representative publications or preprints. Contact details for two academic referees. The deadline for applications is 24 January 2024. We will invite shortlisted candidates for an interview shortly thereafter. Please direct any questions about the position to Professor Slava Jankin (v.jankin(a)bham.ac.uk <mailto:v.jankin@bham.ac.uk>) or Dr Timea Nochta (t.nochta(a)bham.ac.uk <mailto:t.nochta@bham.ac.uk>). The Centre for AI in Government is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment and encourages applications from all qualified candidates, including women, minorities, and individuals with disabilities. _________ Slava Jankin Professor of Data Science and Government School of Government and School of Computer Science Turing Academic Lead University of Birmingham Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK

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Fwd: OPENCOR Forum 2024 --2nd Call for Papers
by Livy Real 04 Jan '24

04 Jan '24

Dear all, OPENCOR: Latin American and Iberian Languages Open Corpora Forum This year's OpenCor Forum will be held as a part of The 16th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese (PROPOR 2024) <https://propor2024.citius.gal/> in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. OpenCor is a *collaborative* list of open corpora for Latin American and Iberian Languages. OpenCor is also a discussion group aiming to have annual meetings to integrate these communities. The full Call for Papers can be found at https://opencor.gitlab.io/cfp-opencor-2024/ The important dates are: Deadline for submission: January 17th Acceptance notification: February 1st Workshop: Day to be announced, March 14th or 15th, 2024 Looking forward to your submissions, Livy, Ivan, and Valeria -- Livy Real GLiC/USP https://livyreal.github.io/

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Edge Hill Corpus Research Group, 11 January 2024
by Costas Gabrielatos 04 Jan '24

04 Jan '24

The next meeting of the Edge Hill Corpus Research Group will take place online (via Teams) on Thursday 11 January 2024, 2:00-3:00 pm (GMT). Attendance is free. You can register here: https://store.edgehill.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/conferences/events/edge… Registration closes on Wednesday 10 January, 12 noon (GMT) Topics: Corpus Methodology, Phraseology Speaker: Benet Vincent<https://www.coventry.ac.uk/life-on-campus/staff-directory/arts-and-humaniti…> (Coventry University, UK) Title: Methodological issues and challenges in the use of phrase-frames to investigate phraseology Abstract The importance of gaining a better understanding of phraseology has been recognised for some time now in the area of English for Academic Purposes (EAP). A widespread approach is to extract from a corpus frequently-occurring fixed strings (lexical bundles, or clusters) of potentially useful phrases/multi-word units (see e.g. Gilmore and Millar's 2018). A limitation of this sort of study is the focus on fixed continuous sequences when phrases are well-known to allow a degree of variation (see e.g. Gries, 2008). One proposal to address this limitation is the 'phrase frame' (p-frame), a fixed sequence of items occurring frequently in a corpus with one or two empty slots (Lu, Yoon & Kisselev, 2021). This approach allows researchers to retrieve the most frequent p-frames in a particular corpus, then identify which items typically fill these slots and what meanings / functions might be associated with them. The idea is that the results of such research can help us better understand how members of a specific discourse community typically express themselves, which in turn may inform EAP pedagogy (Lu, Yoon, & Kisselev, 2018). Our project aimed to use a p-frame approach to create a list of pedagogically useful phrases to help novice writers of RA introductions in Health Sciences. A number of studies have used a p-frame approach with similar aims though for different discipline areas, including Fuster-Márquez and Pennock-Speck (2015), Cunningham (2017) and Lu et al., (2018, 2021). However, analysis of these studies indicates that they lack consensus on a number of issues central to p-frame methodology, presenting a challenge for new work in this area. This presentation will provide an overview of the key issues in p-frame research which we have identified and show how we have addressed them. The main aim will be to underline the importance of ensuring that the methods applied by a p-frame study align with the aims of the project. References Cunningham, K. J. (2017). A phraseological exploration of recent mathematics research articles through key phrase frames. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 25, 71. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeap.2016.11.005 Fuster-Márquez, M., & Pennock-Speck, B. (2015). Target frames in British hotel websites. International Journal of English Studies, 15(1), 51-69. https://doi.org/10.6018/ijes/2015/1/213231 Gilmore, A., & Millar, N. (2018). The language of civil engineering research articles: A corpus-based approach. English for Specific Purposes, 51, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esp.2018.02.002 Gries, S. (2008). Phraseology and linguistic theory. In Phraseology: An interdisciplinary perspective, S. Granger & F. Meunier (eds.), 3-26. Lu, X., Yoon, J., & Kisselev, O. (2018). A phrase-frame list for social science research article introductions. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 36, 76-85. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeap.2018.09.004 Lu, X., Yoon, J., & Kisselev, O. (2021). Matching phrase-frames to rhetorical moves in social science research article introductions. English for Specific Purposes, 61, 63-83. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esp.2020.10.001 ________________________________ 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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Call for Papers with Publication Opportunities for Linguists
by THE 18TH NOOJ INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2024 04 Jan '24

04 Jan '24

Dear linguists, We would like to give our warmest wishes to you! Happy 2024! In the spirit of new beginnings, we are thrilled to invite you again to apply for the Call for Papers for the 18th NooJ International Conference, taking place in Bergamo from June 4th to 7th, 2024. This conference is for linguists, scholars, and professionals to engage in thought-provoking discussions on a myriad of topics encompassing Natural Language Processing (NLP), Linguistic Resources, Digital Humanities, and Language in Society. Website: https://nooj2024.x-23.org/ Submission website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=18nj Abstract submission deadline: 4th Feb 2024 We are currently calling papers on the following topics: 📚NLP Societal applications and citizen science: Typography, Spelling, Syllabification, Phonemic and Prosodic Transcription, Morphology, Lexical Analysis, Local Syntax, Structural Syntax, Transformational Analysis, Paraphrase Generation, Semantic Annotations, Semantic Analysis. 🗣️Linguistic Resources: Corpus Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Sentiment analysis, Literature Studies, Second-Language Teaching, Narrative content analysis, Corpus processing for the Social Sciences. 🧠Digital Humanities: Business Intelligence, Text Mining, Text Generation. Language Teaching Software, Automatic Paraphrasing, Machine Translation, etc. 💻Natural Language Processing Applications: Computational Socio-Linguistic (migration, geography, tourism, political discourse, cinema, social media, gender studies…) Important dates! Abstract Submission: Feb 4 2024 Notification of accept: March 10 2024 Camera ready: March 24 2024 Early bird registrations: From March 11 to March 31st 2024 Deadline for the other registrations: April 15 2024 Selected papers submission: Sept 15 2024 Opportunity for publication A selection of the papers presented at the 18th NooJ International Conference 2024 will be published by Springer Verlag in their CCIS Series (Communication in Computer and Information Sciences). CCIS is abstracted/indexed in DBLP, Google Scholar, EI-Compendex, Mathematical Reviews, SCImago, Scopus. CCIS volumes are also submitted for the inclusion in ISI Proceedings. Deadline for submission of full camera-ready papers is September 15th, 2024. Please feel free to contact us in case of any question. Best, The 18th NooJ Conference Organisation Board __________________ THE 18TH NOOJ INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2024 JUN 4th to 7th, 2024 — Bergamo, Italy Managed by The Nooj Association Powered and hosted by X23 Srl

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CfP: Workshop on Advanced analysis and recognition of parliamentary corpora (ARPC)
by George Mikros 04 Jan '24

04 Jan '24

Apologies for cross-posting ======================= CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on Advanced analysis and recognition of parliamentary corpora (ARPC) The ARPC organizing committee invites papers for the workshop to be held in physical format during the ICDAR 2024 conference (August 30 - September 4, 2024) in Athens, Greece (https://icdar2024.net/). The exact date of the ARPC workshop will be communicated soon. Workshop Context Data-driven insights from archives have the potential to steer academic research in a variety of fields. This workshop attempts to address the growing importance of employing advanced recognition and analytical methods and tools to decode the complexities within legislative and administrative documents of parliamentary origin. The workshop will deep dive into cutting-edge OCR techniques for parliamentary corpora. Further attention will be placed into recognizing patterns, extracting meaningful insights and understanding the intricate dimensions of contemporary and historical parliamentary discourse. The relevance of this topic lies in its potential to bridge previously isolated domains of research, fostering interdisciplinary collaboration. By connecting history, political science, and linguistics, participants will unlock a richer understanding of legislative evolution, political trends, and linguistic nuances embedded in parliamentary proceedings. A keynote presentation will open the workshop, followed by a couple of sessions dedicated to specific topics related to the analysis and recognition of parliamentary corpora. Each session will be concluded by a structured panel discussion. The organization of the ARPC workshop is supported by the Hellenic OCR Team. We encourage the authors to submit papers on the topics detailed below. Topics - The recognition of polytonic Greek fonts - Recognition of mixed text (printed and handwritten) - Parliamentary discourse analysis - Historical trends in parliamentary language use - Integration of linguistic and political science methodologies in OCR - Cross-lingual OCR challenges in parliamentary texts - Machine learning approaches for semantic analysis of parliamentary proceedings - Ethical considerations in the digitization and analysis of parliamentary records - Developing standardized formats for parliamentary data preservation - The role of OCR technology in enhancing public access to parliamentary archives - Comparative analysis of parliamentary rhetoric across different eras - The impact of digital humanities tools on legislative studies - Application of Natural Language Processing techniques in political discourse analysis - Automated categorization and indexing of parliamentary documents - Challenges and solutions in digitizing non-standard parliamentary texts. Paper Tracks There is both a standard conference paper track and a journal track at ICDAR 2024; details regarding the journal track may be found in a separate Call for Papers on the conference website, https://icdar2024.net/. ICDAR 2024 will follow a double blind review process. Authors should not include their names and affiliations anywhere in the manuscript. Authors should also ensure that their identity is not revealed indirectly by citing their previous work in the third person and omit acknowledgements until the camera-ready version. Important Dates 1 February 2024 - Paper submission deadline 15 April 2024 - Paper acceptance notification 30 April 2024 - Camera-ready paper Date TBC - Workshop Submission Guidelines & Enquiries All proposals should be submitted electronically via an easychair online submission form: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icdar2024 . Enquiries should be sent to pc-chairs(a)icdar2024.net <mailto:pc-chairs@icdar2024.net> . The submitted papers will respect the same policy and conditions of ICDAR 2023 conference papers. Papers should be formatted according to the instructions and style files provided by Springer. Papers accepted for the conference will be allocated up to 15 pages (usually not counting references) in the proceedings. Submissions are expected to be in the range of 10-15 pages. Each accepted paper requires at least one author to perform a full registration. The registration fee for only workshop participants will be discounted. Publisher ICDAR 2024 proceedings will be published under the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. This provides the proceedings of the conference and the workshops with an excellent online accessibility, including free access to SpringerLink via links on the conference website during one year after the publication and free access for everyone in SpringerLink four years after the publication. Organizing Committee Dr. Fotios Fitsilis (Scientific Service, Hellenic Parliament) Email: fitsilisf(a)parliament.gr <mailto:fitsilisf@parliament.gr> Prof. George Mikros (College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hamad Bin Khalifa University), Email: gmikros(a)hbku.edu.qa <mailto:gmikros@hbku.edu.qa>

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