First CFP: PROPOR 2024 - 16th International Conference on
Computational Processing of Portuguese
[Apologies for cross-postings]
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PROPOR 2024: 16th International Conference on Computational Processing
of Portuguese
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (Santiago de Compostela - Galicia)
March 14th to 15th 2024
1st Call for Papershttps://propor2024.citius.gal/
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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 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
[https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files/tree/master/latex]
* MS Word stylesheet
[https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files/tree/master/word]
The URL for paper submission will be available soon.
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
A fully funded PhD position (up to 4 years) in computational social
science/digital humanities is open. We are looking for candidates with
either computer science or social sciences/humanities background,
interested in interdisciplinary research on hate speech.
The candidate will be employed at the Peace Institute, Slovenia
https://www.mirovni-institut.si/en/), and work in close collaboration with
the natural language processing group at the Jožef Stefan Institute.
Application deadline: 30 April 2023.
Please see this page for details:
https://www.mirovni-institut.si/en/public-call-for-candidates-for-junior-re…
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School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science
Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, UK
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Hello All,
*** Apologies for Cross-Posting ***
The First Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (WANLP 2023)
Co-located with EMNLP 2023 in Singapore.
Conference URL: https://wanlp2023.sigarab.org/
Submission URL: <https://softconf.com/emnlp2022/WANLP2022>TBD
WANLP 2023 invites the submission of original long, short or demo papers in
the area of Arabic Natural Language Processing.WANLP 2023 builds on seven
previous workshop editions, which have been extremely successful drawing in
a large active participation in various capacities. This conference is
timely given the continued rise in research projects focusing on Arabic
NLP. WANLP 2023 will also feature shared tasks, allowing participants to
work on specific NLP challenges related to Arabic language processing. The
conference is organized by the Special Interest Group on Arabic NLP
(SIGARAB), an Association for Computational Linguistics Special Interest
Group on Arabic Natural Language Processing.
Shared Tasks
We are also inviting proposals for shared tasks related to the topics
below. The proposals should provide an overview of the proposed task,
motivation, data/resources (how the data will be collected), task
description, pilot run (if available), tentative timeline that matches the
submission dates below, and task organizers (name, affiliation). Proposals
(up to 4 pages) should be sent to: wanlp-shared-task-chair(a)sigarab.org
Important Dates
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May 7, 2023: submission of shared tasks proposals
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May 14, 2023: notification of acceptance of shared tasks
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September 5, 2023: conference paper & shared task papers due date
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October 12, 2023: notification of acceptance
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October 20, 2023: camera-ready papers due
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Conference Date (one day): TBD (timeframe: December 6-10)
All deadlines are 11:59 pm UTC -12h
<https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zone/timezone/utc-12> (“Anywhere on
Earth”).
We accept long (up to 8 pages), short (up to 4 pages), and demo paper (up
to 4 pages) submissions.
Presentation Mode
Long and short papers will be presented orally or as posters as determined
by the program committee.
Submissions are invited on topics that include, but are not limited to, the
following:
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Enabling core technologies: language models and large language models,
morphological analysis, disambiguation, tokenization, POS tagging, named
entity detection, chunking, parsing, semantic role labeling, sentiment
analysis, Arabic dialect modeling, etc.
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Applications: dialog modeling, machine translation, speech recognition,
speech synthesis, optical character recognition, pedagogy, assistive
technologies, social media, etc.
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Resources: dictionaries, annotated data, corpora, etc.
Submissions may include work in progress as well as finished work.
Submissions must have a clear focus on specific issues pertaining to the
Arabic language whether it is standard Arabic, dialectal, classical, or
mixed. Papers on other languages sharing problems faced by Arabic NLP
researchers, such as Semitic languages or languages using Arabic script,
are welcome provided that they propose techniques or approaches that would
be of interest to Arabic NLP, and they explain why this is the case.
Additionally, papers on efforts using Arabic resources but targeting other
languages are also welcome. Descriptions of commercial systems are welcome,
but authors should be willing to discuss the details of their work.
If you have any questions, please contact us at: wanlp-pc-chairs(a)sigarab.org
The WANLP 2023 Organizing Committee
Best,
WANLP publicity chairs: Salam Khalifa and Amr Keleg
Second CFP: SemInOrgCom: Semantics in Organisational Communication
https://sodestream.github.io/seminorgcom/
June 20th, Nancy, France
Co-located with IWCS 2023
Important dates:
Regular and non-archival submissions:
* May 5th (extended from April 14th) Submission deadline
* June 2nd (extended from May 12th) Notification of acceptance
* June 9th Camera ready deadline for regular papers
Hackathon:
* March 8th – May 31st Participants working on Hackathon
* March 31st First meeting with Hackathon participants
* May 2nd Second meeting with Hackathon participants
* June 7th Submission deadline for system description papers
* June 9th Camera ready deadline for hackathon system description papers
Workshop:
* 20th Jun Workshop date
Keynote speakers:
Dr. Colin Perkins (University of Glasgow; chair, Internet Research Task
Force)
Prof. Magda Osman (University of Cambridge)
Workshop description:
Interaction and communication are at the heart of every organisation, from
small to large, and take many forms: email, group messaging applications,
face-to-face and online meetings of various sizes, and others. Insights
into how people express complex issues, discuss their own and others’
intentions and make decisions could help make these processes more
efficient and/or transparent and lead to a range of assistive tools.
However, the group interaction involved is often at a scale between the
small scales usually assumed in computational semantics or dialogue
modelling, and the very large scales usually studied in social networks.
The organisational nature also brings important factors that affect
language and the meaning expressed or understood – explicit or implicit
hierarchy, shared or disputed goals, and social groupings with competitive
or collaborative agendas – well known in other disciplines but not often
taken into account in computational semantics. The computational
linguistics community has looked at various relevant phenomena and tasks
(e.g., meeting summarization, intention detection, intention detection,
argument mining, agreement/disagreement detection, persuasiveness
detection), and some relevant datasets have been produced (e.g., the Enron
email dataset). However, there are still relatively few attempts and few
resources or approaches to semantics in organisational communication in
general. This workshop aims to fill this gap to model, analyse and
understand overall organisational communication, and encourage
collaboration between researchers from diverse backgrounds, including
computational linguistics, organisational psychology, and computational
social science.
Main topics:
We welcome work broadly in the area of natural language processing,
computational linguistics, computational social science, sociolinguistics,
organisational psychology, and related fields with the aim of better
understanding organisational communication. Cross-disciplinary
collaborations between computer scientists and other social scientists in
order to reach richer insights are especially welcome. We also encourage
contributions that address multilingual settings as well as low-resource
languages. The workshop topics include but are not limited to:
* Summarization of meetings and other organisational communication
* Models of argument, (dis)agreement and decision-making
* Analysis of influence, persuasiveness and power relations
* Effects of organisational culture and hierarchy
* Communication across different modalities and timescales
* Differences between organisational communication and other forms of
communication
* Datasets and annotation schemas for organisational communication
* Social network analysis in organisations as applied to communication
* Diachronic analysis of organisational communication
* Application and adaptation of NLP models to organisational communication.
Format:
Regular submissions (long and short)
Authors are invited to submit full papers of up to 8 pages of content and
short papers of up to 4 pages of content, with unlimited pages for
references. Accepted papers will be given an additional page of content to
address reviewer comments and will be published in the ACL Anthology.
Previously published papers cannot be accepted. Dual submissions are
allowed; papers that are currently undergoing review at other venues are
welcome but must declare this on submission.
Non-archival submissions
We welcome two types of non-archival submissions. First, you can submit an
extended abstract of work not published elsewhere. These can include
position papers, or early-stage work that would benefit from peer feedback.
Second, work previously accepted/published elsewhere, along with details
about the venue or journal where it is accepted, and a link to the archived
version, if available. In both cases there are no page limits, or
style/anonymity requirements, and the submissions will be reviewed only for
the fit to the workshop theme. Papers accepted as non-archival will be
given an opportunity to present the work at the workshop but will not be
published in the ACL Anthology (they will be available on the workshop
website).
Hackathon submissions
An active, experimentation-based track where hackathon-type online
activities precede the workshop, and teams/individuals present their work
in the workshop. The hackathon organisers will provide data, task
suggestions, and periodic feedback. Though, participants are free to work
on any relevant task or dataset during their hackathon project. Hackathon
activities are by design online, while the rest of the workshop will be in
person. Hackathon participants are invited (but not required) to submit a
system description paper (up to 4 pages + unlimited pages for references);
authors will be able to choose whether these are published in the ACL
anthology.
Journal special issue
After the workshop, we will explore the possibility of inviting selected
authors to submit a paper to a special issue of the Dialogue & Discourse
journal. The journal submissions would undergo further review, and the
paper should be substantially different from the original work.
Submission instructions:
Similar to IWCS, regular submissions should be fully anonymous to ensure
double-blind reviewing. All submissions should follow the IWCS conference
template (see https://iwcs2023.loria.fr/call-for-papers/)
Submission link: https://softconf.com/iwcs2023/seminorgcom/
Program committee:
Ignacio Castro, Queen Mary University of London
Goran Glavaš, University of Würzburg
Patrick Healey, Queen Mary University of London
Mladen Karan, Queen Mary University of London
Stephen McQuistin, University of Glasgow
Paul Piwek, Open University
Matthew Purver, Queen Mary University of London and Jožef Stefan Institute
Ravi Shekhar, University of Essex
Gareth Tyson, Hong Kong University of Science of Science and Technology
Andreas Vlachos, University of Cambridge
Ivan Vulić, University of Cambridge
(more TBA)
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School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science
Queen Mary University of London, London E1 4NS, UK
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We are pleased to announce that the 2023 edition of Lectures on
Computational Linguistics organized by the Italian Association for
Computational Linguistics will take place on 29, 30, and 31 May in Pisa
(IT).
The 2023 edition of the Lectures will focus on the latest models of
learning and knowledge representation in mono- and multi-modal contexts,
with particular reference to the latest generation of neural language
models. Aspects related to the processes of knowledge generation and
transfer, their interpretation and explicability will be addressed. The
topics will be declined both from a theoretical perspective of linguistic
and computer studies and in application scenarios oriented to Digital
Humanities.
The program is available at: https://www.ai-lc.it/lectures/lectures-2023-it/
*Tutorials*:
- *Computational linguistic methods for linguistic analyses – *Ellie Pavlick
- *Grounding language in visual data: Models, datasets and recent results
– *Albert Gatt
- Transfer and Multi-Task Learning in Natural Language Processing – Barbara
Plank
- * Interpretability of linguistic knowledge in neural language models – *Afra
Alishahi
*Lab activities:*
- *Multimodality and NLP* – Alessandro Bondielli & Lucia Passaro
- *Explaining Neural Language Models from Internal Representations to
Model Predictions – *Alessio Miaschi & Gabriele Sarti
*Evening Lecture:*
- *Computational linguistics for the humanities – *Simonetta Montemagni
The school is aimed primarily at doctoral and master's students, but is
open to all interested. Participation is free but subject to registration.
The event is organized by the Italian Association of Computational
Linguistics (AILC) in collaboration with the Department of Philology,
Literature and Linguistics of the University of Pisa and the Institute of
Computational Linguistics "A. Zampolli" of the National Research Council.
The event is coordinated with the parallel event Ital-IA, the conference on
artificial intelligence organized by the National Interuniversity
Consortium for Informatics (CINI).
Students who wish to present aspects of their work in the "Student
Presentations" sessions are asked to submit a 500-word abstract by April
27, 2023 to ailc.lectures(a)gmail.com. Acceptance notifications will be sent
by May 8.
Participation is free of charge but subject to registration:
https://www.ai-lc.it/en/lcl-registration-procedure/
Scientific Committee.
Raffaella Bernardi (University of Trento)
Tommaso Caselli (University of Groningen)
Francesco Cutugno (University of Naples Federico II)
Felice Dell'Orletta (Institute of Computational Linguistics CNR - Pisa)
Elisabetta Jezek (University of Pavia)
Local Organizing Committee
Felice Dell'Orletta (Institute of Computational Linguistics "A. Zampolli")
Alessandro Lenci (University of Pisa)
Secretariat
Chiara Alzetta (Institute of Computational Linguistics CNR - Pisa)
Irene Sucameli (University of Pisa)
Contact: ailc.lectures(a)gmail.com
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Senior Assistant Professor in Computational Semantics
Faculty of Arts, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
The Netherlands
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2nd Call for papers: SemDial 2023
Submissions date: June 16th, 2023
Submissions website:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semdial2023marilogue
# CALL FOR PAPERS
SemDial 2023 -- MariLogue
The 27th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue
16--17 August, University of Maribor, Slovenia
https://mezzanine.um.si/en/conference/semdial-2023-marilogue/
MariLogue will be the 27th edition of the SemDial workshop series,
which aims to bring together researchers working on the semantics and
pragmatics of dialogue in fields such as formal semantics and
pragmatics, computational linguistics, artificial intelligence,
philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience.
We welcome submissions with formal, computational and empirical
approaches to the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue, including, but
not limited to:
* the dynamics of agents' information states in dialogue
* common ground/mutual belief
* goals, intentions and commitments in communication
* turn-taking and interaction control
* semantic/pragmatic interpretation in dialogue
* dialogue and discourse structure
* categorisation of dialogue phenomena in corpora
* child-adult interaction
* language learning through dialogue
* gesture, gaze, and intonational meaning in communication
* multimodal dialogue
* interpretation and reasoning in spoken dialogue systems
* dialogue management
* designing and evaluating dialogue systems
* modelling miscommunication, disfluency and repair
* dialogue/interaction studies from a psychological perspective
* neuroscience of dialogue
* Interactivist approaches to dialogue
* animal communication
# SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:
Long papers: Authors should submit an anonymous paper of at most 8
pages of content (up to 2 additional pages are allowed for references).
Short papers: Authors should submit a non-anonymized paper of at most
2 pages of content (up to 1 additional page allowed for references).
Submission to this track can be non-archival on request.
Submissions should be pdf files and use the LaTeX
(https://2023.aclweb.org/downloads/acl2023.zip) or Word
(https://2023.aclweb.org/downloads/acl2023.docx) templates provided
for ACL 2023 submissions. The LaTeX template is readily available on
Overleaf
(https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/acl-2023-proceedings-template/qjdg…).
Concurrent submission policy: Papers that have been or will be
submitted to other meetings or publications must provide this
information, using a footnote on the title page of the submissions.
SemDial 2023 cannot accept work for publication or presentation that
will be (or has been) published elsewhere.
Submission is electronic, using the EasyChair conference management
system at our Easychair submission site
(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semdial2023marilogue).
# IMPORTANT DATES:
Note: All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth").
* Long paper submissions due: June 16th, 2023
* Notification: July 14th, 2023
* Short paper submissions due: July 21st, 2023
* Final versions due: August 4th, 2023
* Registration Deadline for presenters/refund deadline: August 4th, 2023
* MariLogue Conference: August 16th--17th, 2023
Dear colleagues,
Thank you for opening this message. EACL 2023 <https://2023.eacl.org/> is
quickly approaching (May 1 - 6) and we hope you can make it. Frankly
speaking, there is no better conference covering the latest advances in
NLP, held in beautiful Croatia, named EACL, and held during the first week
of May. I actively challenge anyone to find a better one.
Which means you would be remiss not to attend. You can right that
potential wrong by registering today! Early registration ends tomorrow *April
11*, as well as the hotel block.
https://2023.eacl.org/registration
In addition, volunteer applications end today, *April 10*!
https://2023.eacl.org/calls/volunteers/
Don't miss out. Act now!
Yours truly in exaggeration,
EACL Publicity Chairs
Dear all,
Our Chair of Multilingual Computational Linguistics is offering a
position for an Akademischer Rat (research assistant) for 3 years with
the possibility of extension by 3 more years. We look for a candidate
who can teach topics in Multilingual Computational Linguistics with a
specific focus on machine learning and data management.
Deadline for application is May 16, more information can be found here:
https://www.uni-passau.de/fileadmin/dokumente/beschaeftigte/Stellenangebote…
Sincerely,
Mattis List
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Chair of Multilingual Computational Linguistics
University of Passau
Dr.-Hans-Kapfinger-Str. 16
04032 Passau
Germany
Chair Website: https://phil.uni-passau.de/multilinguale-computerlinguistik/
Personal Website: https://lingulist.de
Telephone: +49(0)851/509-3480
Call for papers
6th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing
<http://icnlsp.org>
We are delighted to invite you to ICNLSP 2023, which will be held virtually
from December 16th to 17th, 2023.
ICNLSP 2023 offers the opportunity for attendees (researchers, academics
and students, and industrials) to share their ideas and to connect to each
other and make them up to date on the ongoing research in the field.
ICNLSP 2023 aims to attract contributions related to natural language and
speech processing. Authors are invited to present their work relevant to
the topics of the conference.
The following list includes the topics of ICNLSP 2023 but not limited to:
Signal processing, acoustic modeling.
Architecture of speech recognition system.
Deep learning for speech recognition.
Analysis of speech.
Paralinguistics in Speech and Language.
Pathological speech and language.
Speech coding.
Speech comprehension.
Summarization.
Speech Translation.
Speech synthesis.
Speaker and language identification.
Phonetics, phonology and prosody.
Cognition and natural language processing.
Text categorization.
Sentiment analysis and opinion mining.
Computational Social Web.
Arabic dialects processing.
Under-resourced languages: tools and corpora.
New language models.
Arabic OCR.
Lexical semantics and knowledge representation.
Requirements engineering and NLP.
NLP tools for software requirements and engineering.
Knowledge fundamentals.
Knowledge management systems.
Information extraction.
Data mining and information retrieval.
Machine translation.
NLP for Arabic heritage documents.
*IMPORTANT DATES*
Submission deadline: *31 August 2023*
Notification of acceptance: *31 October 2023*
Camera-ready paper due: *20 November 2023*
Conference dates: *16, 17 December 2023*
*PUBLICATION*
1- All accepted papers will be published in ACL Anthology.
2- Selected papers will be published in Signals and Communication
Technology (Springer) (https://www.springer.com/series/4748), indexed by
Scopus and zbMATH.
For more details, visit the conference website: https://www.icnlsp.org
*CONTACT*
icnlsp(at)gmail(dot)com