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Call for papers - Natural Language Processing, Text Mining and Applications (PLN-TeMA'23) Track of EPIA'23
by Pablo Gamallo 10 Apr '23

10 Apr '23

Call for papers - Natural Language Processing, Text Mining and Applications (PLN-TeMA'23) Track of EPIA'23 Important dates: Paper submission EXTENDED DEADLINE April 28, 2023 Notification of paper acceptance May 26, 2023 Camera-ready papers deadline June 15, 2023 Conference dates September 5-8, 2023 NLP-TEMA’23 will be held at the 22th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA 2023) taking place at Horta, Faial island, Azores, between September 5th-8th 2023. This track is organized under the auspices of the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA), and part of the EPIA 2023 Conference on Artificial Intelligence, URL: https://epia2023.inesctec.pt/ This announcement contains the following: [1] Track description; [2] Topics of interest; [3] Important dates; [4] Paper submission; [5] Track fees; [6] Organizing Committee; [7] Program Committee and [8] Contacts. [1] Track Description The Track of Natural Language Processing, Text Mining and Applications (NLP- TeMA 2023) is a forum for researchers working in Human Language Technologies, i.e. Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computational Linguistics (CL), Natural Language Engineering (NLE), Text Mining (TM), Information Retrieval (IR), and related areas. A huge amount of information is openly published every day, on many different topics and written in natural language, thus offering new insights and many opportunities for innovative applications of Human Language Technologies. Following advances in AI sub-fields such as NLP, Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL), NLP and TM are now even more valuable for bridging the gap between language theories and effective use of natural language contents, for harnessing the power of semi-structured and unstructured data, and to enable important applications in real-world heterogeneous environments. Both hidden and new knowledge can be discovered by using NLP and TM methods, at multiple levels and in multiple dimensions, and often with high commercial value. Authors are invited to submit their papers on any of the issues identified in section [2]. Submitted papers will be subject to a double-blind review process and will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of the track Program Committee. It is the responsibility of the authors to remove names and affiliations from the submitted papers, and to take reasonable care to assure anonymity during the review process. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings (a volume of Springer’s LNAI-Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence), provided that at least one author is registered in EPIA 2023 by the early registration deadline. EPIA 2023 proceedings are indexed in Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science, Scopus, DBLP and Google Scholar. Each accepted paper must be presented by one of the authors in a track session. The conference will grant the following awards: * Best Paper Award, for the best research paper presented at the conference * Best Student Paper Award, for the best research paper presented at the conference where the first author is a student [2] Topics of Interest Natural Language Processing • Language and Cognitive Modeling • Sentence-level Semantics and Text Inference • Language Resources: Acquisition and Usage. • Entailment and Paraphrase Recognition • Entity Recognition and Word Sense Disambiguation • Distributional Models and Semantics • Mathematical Properties of Language • Tagging, Chunking and Parsing • Morphology and Word Segmentation • Natural Language Generation • Discourse and Pragmatics • NLP for Low-Resource Languages Text Mining and Applications • Text Clustering, Classification and Summarization • Sentiment Analysis and Argument Mining • Computational Social Science • Multi-Word Units • Machine Learning for NLP and Text Mining • Spatio-Temporal and Big Text Mining • Cross-Lingual Approaches • Algorithms and Data Structures for Text Mining • Information Retrieval and Information Extraction • Question-Answering and Dialogue Systems • Text-Based Prediction and Forecasting • Web Content Annotation • Health/Biomedical/Legal and other Text Mining Applications [3] Important dates Paper submission deadline April 16, 2023 Notification of paper acceptance May 9, 2023 Camera-ready papers deadline June 15, 2023 Conference dates September 5-8, 2023 [4] Paper submission Submissions must be full technical papers on substantial, original, and previously unpublished research. Papers can have a maximum length of 12 pages. All papers should be prepared according to the formatting instructions of Springer LNCS format and submitted in PDF format through the EPIA 2023 EasyChair submission page https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=epia2023. For the preparation of their papers, authors should consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines and use their proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for Word. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers. In addition, the corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form. The corresponding author signing the copyright form should match the corresponding author marked on the paper. Once the files have been sent to Springer, changes relating to the authorship of the papers cannot be made. [5] Track Fees: Track participants must register at the main EPIA 2023 conference. [6] Organizing Committee: Joaquim Silva, jfs(a)fct.unl.pt, DI – FCT/UNL, Quinta da Torre, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal (Contact person). Pablo Gamallo, Pablo.gamallo(a)usc.es, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Praza do Obradoiro, 0, 15705 Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Paulo Quaresma, pq(a)uevora.pt, DI – Uviversidade de Évora, Largo dos Colegiais 2, 7000-645 Évora, Portugal. Irene Rodrigues, ipr(a)uevora.pt, DI – Uviversidade de Évora, Largo dos Colegiais 2, 7000-645 Évora, Portugal Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira, hroliv(a)dei.uc.pt – Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal, Polo II, Pinhal de Marrocos, 3030-290 Coimbra [7] Program Committee: Adam Jatowt – Universit of Kioto, Japan Alverto Simões – 2Ai Lab – IPCA Alexandre Rademaker – IBM / FGV, Brazil Antoine Doucet – University of Caen, France Altigran Silva – Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Brazil António Branco – Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Antoine Doucet – University of Caen, France Béatrice Daille – University of Nantes, France Bruno Martins – Instituto Superior Técnico – Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Fernando Batista – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal Gaël Dias – University of Caen Basse-Normandie Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira – Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal Irene Rodrigues – Universidade de Évora, Portugal Jesús Vilares – University of A Coruña, Spain Joaquim Ferreira da Silva – Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia – Universidade Nova de Lisboa Luísa Coheur – IST/INESC–ID Lisboa Manuel Vilares Ferro – University of Vigo, Spain Marcos Garcia – Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Galiza/Spain Mário Silva – Instituto Superior Técnico – Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Nuno Marques – Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Pablo Gamallo – Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Galiza/Spain Paulo Quaresma – Universidade de Évora, Portugal Pavel Brazdil – University of Porto, Portugal Sophia Ananiadou –University of Manchester Sérgio Nunes – Faculdade de Engenharia – Universidade do Porto, Portugal [8] Contacts Joaquim Francisco Ferreira da Silva, DI/FCT/UNL, Quinta da Torre, 2829‐516, Caparica, Portugal. Tel: +351 21 294 8536 (ext. 10732) ‐ Fax: +351 21 294 8541 ‐ E‐mail: jfs [at]fct [dot] unl [dot] pt

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CfP: Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar (LxGr2023)
by Costas Gabrielatos 09 Apr '23

09 Apr '23

Symposium: Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar (LxGr2023) CALL FOR PAPERS Extended deadline for abstract submission: 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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Call for Letters: Northern European Journal of Language Technology
by Leon Derczynski 07 Apr '23

07 Apr '23

CALL FOR LETTERS The Northern European Journal of Language Technology (NEJLT) invites submissions of letters on natural language processing for review. NEJLT is a global journal that publishes peer-reviewed language technology and computational linguistics research on all languages. https://www.nejlt.org NEJLT Letters on computational linguistics and natural language processing may be up to six pages, and are reviewed rapidly. A NEJLT Letter may convey: * A comment on the field * A methodological note * A sharp and timely empirical result NEJLT articles are free to submit, free to publish, and free to read. More information about submission types and information for authors is at: https://www.nejlt.org/authorinfo/ ### SCOPE NEJLT invites manuscripts from anywhere in the world that present excellent research in the field of language technology and natural language processing. Work on all languages is welcome. * Language focus: * Global; no specific focus. Research on all and any languages is invited. * Topics of interest: including but not limited to * Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics * Computational Social Science and Social Media * Dialogue and Interactive Systems * Discourse and Pragmatics * Ethics and NLP * Efficient NLP * Generation of language * Information Extraction * Information Retrieval and Text Mining * Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP * Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond * Theory and Formalism in NLP (Linguistic and Mathematical) * Machine Learning for NLP * Machine Translation * NLP Applications * Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation * Question Answering * Resources and Evaluation * Semantics: Lexical * Semantics: Sentence Level * Semantics: Textual Inference and Other Areas of Semantics * Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining * Speech and Multimodality * Summarization * Syntax: Tagging, Chunking and Parsing * Works focusing on Northern European languages are encouraged, with the same requirements of excellence The editor-in-chief of NEJLT is appointed by the North European Association for Language Technology. This geographical connection gives the journal its name, though the journal itself does not have a Northern European language focus. More on NEJLT's scope is at: https://www.nejlt.org/ ### PUBLICATION AND OPEN ACCESS NEJLT is full open access. This means that accepted papers may be downloaded directly from the web and will not be charged for. There are also no fees for submitting or for publishing. There are no plans to collect fees at any point in the future at any part of the NEJLT process. Papers are published under the CC-BY 4.0 license. NEJLT is a free Open Access Gold journal. Articles published in NEJLT also appear in the ACL Anthology: https://aclanthology.org/venues/nejlt/ The journal is published by Linköping University press. The editor-in-chief of NEJLT is appointed by the North European Association for Language Technology. More details on NEJLT policies at: https://www.nejlt.org/policies/ ### REVIEWING NEJLT is committed to rapid and fair reviewing. NEJLT strives to preserve anonymity throughout the review process. ### ABOUT THE JOURNAL NEJLT publishes in the field of language technology, i.e. Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, and related topics. Research focused on any natural language is invited. NEJLT invites both journal articles and academic letters, and has a multi-iteration reviewing process, where revisions are a possibility. The reviewing philosophy of the journal is to minimise reviewing biases, and also to provide constructive, helpful feedback during the review process. NEJLT is a global journal with global focus. The journal’s publisher is located in Northern Europe, hence its name, and supports the journal without charge, enabling open access publication with no costs. NEJLT is indexed by many publication indexing services, and ranked by many national bibliographic ranking systems. NEJLT accepts submissions continuously all year round. More at: https://www.nejlt.org/about/ ### ORGANIZATION * Editor-in-Chief: * Leon Derczynski, ITU Copenhagen; ld(a)itu.dk * Editorial board: * Isabelle Augenstein, University of Copenhagen * Nikolaos Aletras, University of Sheffield * Francesco Barbieri, Snap * Jasmijn Bastings, Google * Rachel Bawden, INRIA, Paris * Yonatan Belinkov, Technion * Emily M. Bender, University of Washington * Nicoletta Calzolari, Institute for Computational Linguistics, NRC Italy * Christos Christodoulopoulos, Amazon * Manuel R. Ciosici, USC Information Sciences Institute * Miryam de Lhoneux, University of Copenhagen * Lucia Donatelli, Saarland University * Yanai Elazar, University of Washington * Angela Fan, Meta * Yang Feng, Chinese Academy of Sciences * Mark Fishel, University of Tartu * Hila Gonen, Meta / University of Washington * Eva Hajičová, Charles University * Yufang Hou, IBM * Zhijing Jin, Max Planck Institute & ETH Zurich * Marco Kuhlmann, Linköping University * Sasha Luccioni, Hugging Face * Benjamin Marie, 4i * Yuji Matsumoto, NAIST/Riken AIP * Nafise Sadat Moosavi, The University of Sheffield * Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University * Debora Nozza, Bocconi University * Ellie Pavlick, Brown University * Verena Rieser, Heriot Watt University * Kay Rottmann, Amazon Alexa AI * Vered Shwartz, Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) * Thamar Solorio, University of Houston * Song Linfeng, Tencent * Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh * Dhanasekar Sundararaman, Microsoft * Jörg Tiedemann, University of Helsinki * Emiel van Miltenburg, Tilburg University * Bonnie Webber, Universty of Edinburgh * Adina Williams, Meta * Steve Wilson, Oakland University NEJLT's editorial team is detailed at: https://www.nejlt.org/team/ ### CONTACT Please, see www.nejlt.org for further information. We look forward to receiving your manuscripts.

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2023 NARNiHS Research Incubator - program
by NAm Research Network in HistSocio 07 Apr '23

07 Apr '23

Dear colleagues, The *North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics 2023 Research Incubator (Apr 20-22) program* is now "live" on our website! ==> https://narnihs.org/?page_id=2409 <==. Note that *NO** registration is necessary for NARNiHS members* to attend the fully online NARNiHS 2023. Conference access information as well as a link to consult presenters' drafts will be sent to all NARNiHS members in a separate message as we get closer to the conference dates (20-22 April 2023 ). *Not a member yet, but interested in joining NARNiHS? Membership is free!* Check out https://narnihs.org/?page_id=2 <https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnarnihs.o…> for details on how to join NARNiHS. Sandrine Tailleur (2023 NARNiHS Convenor), on behalf of the NARNiHS 2023 Research Incubator organizing committee (Carolina Amador-Moreno, Israel Sanz, Sandrine Tailleur)

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Postdoc position in semantic parsing at Linköping University
by Marco Kuhlmann 07 Apr '23

07 Apr '23

The Natural Language Processing Group at Linköping University is announcing a two-year, full-time position as Postdoc in Computer Science in a research project aimed at extending existing discrete transducer models for semantic parsing with continuous inputs, outputs, and control mechanisms. For more information about this position and how to apply, see https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/21739 Please do not hesitate to contact me for details and discussion. Best regards Marco Kuhlmann Professor Department of Computer and Information Science Linköping University

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International Conference on Human-Informed Translation and Interpreting Technology (HiT-IT 2023)
by amalhaddad＠ugr.es 07 Apr '23

07 Apr '23

International Conference on Human-Informed Translation and Interpreting Technology (HiT-IT 2023) Naples, Italy, 7, 8 and 9 July 2023 http://hit-it-conference.org/ Third Call for Papers The International Conference on Human-Informed Translation and Interpreting Technology (HiT-IT 2023) will take place in Naples, Italy between 7 and 9 July 2023. The conference will be preceded by tutorials on 6 July 2023. HiT-IT seeks to act as a meeting point for (and invites) researchers working in translation and interpreting technologies, practicing technology-minded translators and interpreters, companies and freelancers providing services in translation and interpreting as well as companies developing tools for translators and interpreters. In addition to the accepted papers for presentation, HiT-IT will feature invited talks by prominent experts as well as presentations and panels hosted by practitioners. Most of the existing conferences are either focused too much on the automatic side of translation or concentrate largely on translators’ and interpreters’ professions. HiT-IT seeks to fill in this gap by allowing the discussion, the scientific comparison, and the mutual enrichment of professionals from both fields. HiT-IT 2023 addresses the development of translation tools and the experience translators and interpreters have with these tools as well as the development of machine translation engines, incorporating human (translators and interpreters’) expertise. The conference also offers a discussion forum and publishing opportunity for professionals from the human translation and interpreting fields (e.g. translators including subtitlers, interpreters, respeakers, researchers in translation and interpreting studies) and for researchers and developers working on translation and interpreting technology and machine translation. The idea behind this conference attendees to hear the other side’s position and to voice their opinions on how to make translation technologies closer to what would be accepted by large audiences, by incorporating human expertise into them. Conference topics While we invite papers on the following four main themes, submissions on any topic related to translation and interpreting technology and natural language processing for translation and interpreting technology will be considered. Both theoretical ideas and practical applications are welcome. Position papers promoting new ideas, challenging the current status of the fields and proposing how to take them forward are also encouraged. 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 Existing methods and resources: - latest developments in translation and interpreting technology - latest advances in (Neural) Machine Translation - latest advances in Translation Memory systems - latest advances in post-editing and automatic post-editing - electronic resources for translators and interpreters - annotation of corpora for translation and interpreting technology - crowdsourcing techniques for creating resources for translation and interpreting - latest advances in pre-editing and post-editing of machine translation - human-informed (semi-)automatic generation of interlingual subtitles - latest advances in technology for subtitling - Machine Translation for literary texts Evaluation: - (human) evaluation of translation and interpreting technology - crowdsourcing techniques for evaluating translation and interpreting - evaluation of discourse and other linguistic phenomena in (machine) translation and interpreting - evaluation of existing resources for translators and interpreters - human evaluation of neural machine translation - automatic evaluation of neural machine translation More: - position papers discussing how machine translation should be improved to incorporate translators’/interpreters’ expertise - translation and interpreting technologies’ impact on the market - comparison between human and machine translation - changes in the translators and interpreters’ professions in the new technology era especially as a result of the latest developments in Neural Machine Translation Besides the above topics, submissions from industry and practitioners could discuss: distinctive work experience, ongoing practical work, in-house procedures or software, in-house processing pipelines, technology needs, managing a translation (technology) company, interpreters in the technology era, IP issues or any topic related to their professional activities in the field of (technology for) translation and interpreting, etc. Submissions and publication The conference invites the following types of submissions reporting original unpublished work. User papers for industry and practitioners ranging between 2 and 4 pages (without references). References to related work are optional. 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 (without references). • (academic) work-in-progress papers – 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 (without references). • (academic) demo papers – describing working systems. Allowed paper length: maximum 5 pages (without references). In addition to the papers, the authors will be expected to demonstrate the systems at the conference. The conference will not consider the submission and evaluation of abstracts only. Each submission will be reviewed by 3 members of the Programme Committee. Submission is electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system. For further instructions please follow the submission guidelines at the conference website. 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. We plan to invite the authors of the best papers to submit extended versions to a special issue of a prestigious journal. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: 20 April 2023 Notification of acceptance: 31 May 2023 Final version due: 10 June 2023 Early fee deadline: 20 June 2023 Conference dates: 7, 8 and 9 July 2023 Tutorials: 6 July 2023 Keynote speakers Jochen Hummel (Coreon) Tharindu Ranasinghe (Aston University) Invited tutorials Felix do Carmo (University of Surrey): Neural Machine Translation Alina Karakanta (Leiden University Centre for Linguistics): Automatic subtitling Conference Chairs Gloria Corpas Pastor (University of Malaga) Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton) Johanna Monti (University of Naples L’Orientale) Constantin Orasan (University of Surrey) Organising Committee Dayana Abuin Rios (University of Malaga) Khadija Ait Elqih (University of Naples l’Orientale) Anastasia Bezobrazova (University of Malaga) Meriem Boulekhoukh (University of Oran) Rocío Caro Quintana (University of Wolverhampton) Amal El Farhmat (University of Malaga) Lilit Kharatian (University of Malaga) Alfiya Khabibullina (University of Malaga) Nikolai Nikolov (INCOMA Ltd.) Daria Sokova (New Bulgarian University) Giulia Speranza (University of Naples l’Orientale) Programme Committee Khetam Al Sharou (University of Antwerp, Belgium and Imperial College, United Kingdom) Eithar Alangari (Shaqra University, Saudi Arabia) Isabelle Andrieu (Translated, Italy) Silvia Bernardini (University of Bologna, Italy) Fred Blain (Tilburg University, Netherlands) Lynne Bowker (University of Ottawa, Canada) Sheila Castilho (Dublin City University, Ireland) Yves Champollion (Wordfast, France) Jaleh Delfani (University of Surrey, United Kingdom) Felix do Carmo (University of Surrey, United Kingdom) Maria Pia Di Buono (University of Naples ‘L’Orientale’, Italy) Anna Dimas Furtado (University of Galway, Ireland) Joanna Druggan (Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom) Marie Escribe (LanguageWire, Spain) Federico Gaspari (University of Naples Federico II, Italy) Amal Haddad Haddad (University of Granada, Spain) Najeh Hajlaoui (European Commission, Belgium) Manuel Herranz (Pangeanic, Spain) Maarit Koponen (University of Eastern Finland, Finland) Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski (Saarland University, Germany) Raquel Lázaro Gutiérrez (University of Alcala, Spain) William D. Lewis (University of Washington, United States of America) Judyta Mężyk (University of Silesia, Poland) Núria Molines Galarza (Jaume I University, Spain) Helen Moniz (University of Lisbon, Portugal) Joss Moorkens (Dublin City University, Ireland) Elena Murgolo (Orbital14, Italy) John Ortega (Northeastern University, United States of America) Tímea Palotai-Torzsás (Juremy, Hungary) Bianca Prandi (University of Innsbruck, Austria) Sara Ramos Pinto (University of Leeds, United Kingdom) Paola Ruffo (Ghent University, Belgium) Vilelmini Sosoni (Ionian University, Greece) Isabelle Tamba (Romanian Academy, Romania) Eleanor Taylor-Stilgoe (University of Surrey, United Kingdom) Antonio Toral (University of Groningen, Netherlands) Irina Temnikova (Big Data for Smart Society Institute, Bulgaria) Eva Vanmassenhove (University of Tilburg, Netherlands) Mihaela Vela (Saarland University, Germany) Eleni Zisi (El-translations, Greece) Organisation and sponsors The forthcoming international conference HiT-It 2023 is jointly organised by the University of Wolverhampton, the University of Surrey (United Kingdom), the University of Malaga (Spain), and the University of Naples L’Orientale, (Italy), and the Association of Computational Linguistics (Bulgaria). Pangeanic, El-Translations and Juremy are the official sponsors of the conference. Venue The conference will take place at the Palazzo del Mediterraneo, University of Naples Further information and contact details Registration for HiT-IT 2023 is now open. To register, please complete the registration form. The conference website (http://hit-it-conference.org/home) will be updated on a regular basis. For further information, please email 2023(a)hit-it-conference.org.

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[FinNLP@IJCAI-2023] Call for Paper and ESG Shared Task Participants
by CHUNG-CHI CHEN 07 Apr '23

07 Apr '23

Dear colleagues, We are delighted to announce that FinNLP-2023 will be in conjunction with IJCAI-2023 from 19th-25th August 2023, Macao. This year, we organize a Joint Workshop of The 5th Financial Technology And Natural Language Processing (*FinNLP*) and 2nd *Multimodal AI For Financial Forecasting* (Muffin). Thus, papers related to NLP or multimodal AI in finance are welcome. This year, we have a shared task related to *multilingual ESG issue identification*. Registration is open now, and the dataset will be released soon. Please refer to our website for more details - FinNLP-2023: https://sites.google.com/nlg.csie.ntu.edu.tw/finnlp-2023/home *Submission Deadline: April 26, 2023* Accepted papers proceedings will be published at ACL Anthology. Best Regards, FinNLP-2023 Organizers FinNLP-MUFFIN-2023: The Joint Workshop of the 5th Financial Technology and Natural Language Processing (FinNLP) and 2nd Multimodal AI For Financial Forecasting (MUFFIN) IJCAI-2023 Macao, August 19-25, 2023 Conference website https://finnlp-muffin-ijcai23.github.io/ Submission link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=finnlpmuffin2023 Submission deadline April 26, 2023 *About The FinNLP Workshop* The aim of this workshop is to provide a forum where international participants share knowledge on applying NLP to the FinTech domain. Recently, analyzing documents related to finance and economics has attracted much attention in the AI community. In the financial field, FinTech is a new industry that focuses on improving financial activity with technology. Thus, in order to bridge the gap between the NLP research and the financial applications, we organize FinNLP workshop series. One of the expected accomplishments of FinNLP is to introduce insights from the financial domain to the NLP community. With the sharing of the researchers in FinNLP, the challenging problems of blending FinTech and NLP will be identified, and the future research direction will be shaped. That can broaden the scope of this interdisciplinary research area. *About The Muffin Workshop* The Workshop aims to explore recent advances and challenges of multimodal AI for finance. Financial forecasting is an essential task that helps investors make sound investment decisions and wealth creation. With increasing public interest in trading stocks, cryptocurrencies, bonds, commodities, currencies, crypto coins and non-fungible tokens (NFTs), there have been several attempts to utilize unstructured data for financial forecasting. Unparalleled advances in multimodal deep learning have made it possible to utilize multimedia such as textual reports, news articles, streaming video content, audio conference calls, user social media posts, customer web searches, etc for identifying profit creation opportunities in the market. E.g., how can we leverage new and better information to predict movements in stocks and cryptocurrencies well before others? However, there are several hurdles towards realizing this goal - (1) large volumes of chaotic data, (2) combining text, audio, video, social media posts, and other modalities is non-trivial, (3) long context of media spanning multiple hours, days or even months, (4) user sentiment and media hype-driven stock/crypto price movement and volatility, (5) difficulties with traditional statistical methods (6) misinformation and non-interpretability of financial systems leading to massive losses and bankruptcies. At the IJCAI-2023 Joint Workshop of the 5th Financial Technology and Natural Language Processing (FinNLP) and 2nd Multimodal AI For Financial Forecasting (MUFFIN), we aim to bring bring together researchers from natural language processing, computer vision, speech recognition, machine learning, statistics and quantitative trading communities to expand research on the intersection of AI and finance.Please select a suitable track (“NLP” or “Multimodal”) for best considerations and reviewer matching.We will also organize 2 shared tasks in this workshop – (1) ESG Issue Identification (2) Price and Volatility Prediction From Conference Call Videos. Submission Guidelines Papers submitted to the main track must be formatted according to ACL Guidelines <https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html> - *Long Paper*: May consist of up to 8 pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references and appendix. - *Short Paper and Demo Paper*: May consist of up to 4 pages of content, plus unlimited references and appendix. 1. The reviewing process will be double-blind for Long and Short Paper, and single-blind for Demo Paper. Submissions must be in electronic form using the FinNLP-2023 paper submission link above. 2. *No Show Policy*: At least one author of each accepted paper *must* travel to the IJCAI venue in person. Papers with “No Show” will be redacted. Authors will be required to agree to this requirement at the time of submission. Committees *General Chairs - FinNLP* - Chung-Chi Chen <http://nlg.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~cjchen/>, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan - Hiroya Takamura <http://www.lr.pi.titech.ac.jp/~takamura/>, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan *General Chairs - Muffin* - Puneet Mathur <http://www.cs.umd.edu/~puneetm/>, University of Maryland College Park, USA - Ramit Sawhney <https://sites.google.com/iiitd.ac.in/ramitsawhney/home?authuser=0>, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, Abu Dhabi *Organizing Committee* - Dinesh Manocha <https://www.cs.umd.edu/people/dmanocha>, University of Maryland College Park, USA - Preslav Nakov <https://mbzuai.ac.ae/study/faculty/preslav-nakov/>, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, Abu Dhabi - Hen-Hsen Huang <http://nlg.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~hhhuang/>, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan - Hsin-Hsi Chen <http://nlg.csie.ntu.edu.tw/advisor.php>, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan - Hiroki Sakaji <https://tetsuwaka.net/>, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Japan - Kiyoshi Izumi <http://kinba.sakura.ne.jp/mainj/>, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Japan *Advisory Committee* - Franck Dernoncourt <https://research.adobe.com/person/franck-dernoncourt/>, Adobe Research, USA - Fu-Ming Guo <https://www.linkedin.com/in/fumingguo>, Fidelity Investments, USA - Lucie Flek <https://lucieflek.github.io/>, University of Marburg, Germany - Sanghamitra Dutta <https://ece.umd.edu/clark/faculty/1711/Sanghamitra-Dutta>, University of Maryland College Park, USA - Sudheer Chava <https://research.gatech.edu/sudheer-chava>, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Publication FinNLP-MUFFIN-2023 proceedings will be published in ACL Anthology <https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/>. Venue In conjunction with IJCAI-2023 <https://ijcai-23.org/>, 19th-25th August 2023, Macao Contact All questions about submissions should be emailed to *finnlp.muffin.ijcai2023(a)gmail.com* <finnlp.muffin.ijcai2023(a)gmail.com>

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CFP: TRUEHEALTH 2023: Workshop on Combating Health Misinformation for Social Wellbeing [ICWSM 2023]
by Rishabh Upadhyay 06 Apr '23

06 Apr '23

[Apologies for multiple submissions] Submission deadline EXTENDED to APRIL 09! Papers will be published in the ICWSM Workshop Proceedings. Long Papers are welcome, but also Short Papers and Abstracts are great for discussing ongoing work. Call for Papers TrueHealth 2023: Combating Health Misinformation for Social Wellbeing Workshop @ ICWSM 2023, the 17th International Conference on Web and Social Media June 5th – 8th 2023, Limassol, Cyprus https://truehealth.disco.unimib.it/ Scope and topics In recent years, people have increasingly referred to the Web and social media as sources of information about health-related problems and solutions, as confirmed by the U.S. Pew Research Center, and other European and international studies. Although, on the one hand, these platforms favor easier and more direct access to information sources by users without the intermediation of experts, on the other hand, it is precisely such democratization of health information that constitutes a potential danger for people. As we have seen especially in the last period, linked to the pandemic, the proliferation of false information, conspiracy theories, and unreliable remedies risk compromising the health not only of individuals but that of the community as a whole. From this perspective, it becomes necessary to study and propose technological solutions to help users come into contact with genuine information, especially in a critical domain such as health, for social well-being. To this end, it is essential to promote research of an interdisciplinary nature, involving computer scientists, physicians, lawyers, and communication experts who can address the problem of health misinformation from different points of view by combining their expertise. The topics of interest of the TrueHealth 2023 Workshop at ICWSM include, but are not limited to: Assessing the genuineness of Online Health Information (OHI); Consumer Health Search (CHS) and genuine information access; Debunking health misinformation; Fake news/rumors and healthcare; Measures, evaluation methods, and datasets for health misinformation detection; Health misinformation detection; Health literacy and information genuineness; Fact-checking in Online Health Information (OHI); Misinformation and public opinion on health; Relationship between access to non-genuine information and danger to public health; Relationship between psychological characteristics and perceptions of health misinformation; Techniques for accessing and retrieving genuine Online Health Information (OHI). Submission Instructions We welcome both 2-page abstracts, as well as Long (8 pages) and Short (4 pages) papers – excluding references (11 pages max with references and ethics statement). Abstracts are ideal as Demo or Position papers, Short papers as presentations of ongoing research with preliminary results or summaries of previous work, and Long papers as presentations of novel research and results. Long and Short papers will be published in ICWSM Workshop Proceedings (http://workshop-proceedings.icwsm.org/). All submissions should be double-blind. Papers have to follow the AAAI format, as outlined here: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/aaai-2023-author-kit/wxnmhzcrjbpc Submit here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=truehealth2023 Other ICWSM submission instructions: https://www.icwsm.org/2023/index.html/call_for_submissions.html Important Dates Workshop Papers Submissions: April 09, 2023 Workshop Paper Acceptance Notification:April 23, 2023 Workshop Final Camera-Ready Paper Due: May 5, 2023 ICWSM-2023 Workshops Day: June 5, 2023 Organizers Gabriella Pasi (Full Professor), University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy Rishabh Upadhyay (Research Fellow), University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy Marco Viviani (Associate Professor), University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy Program Committee Lorraine Goeuriot, Université Grenoble Alpes, France Sanda Harabagiu, The University of Texas at Dallas, USA Liadh Kelly, Maynooth University, Ireland Dongwon Lee, The Pennsylvania State University, USA Yelena Mejova, ISI Foundation, Italy Marinella Petrocchi, Institute of Informatics and Telematics (CNR), Italy Michael Sirivianos, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus Xingyi Song, University of Sheffield, UK Hanna Suominen, Australian National University, Australia Francesca Spazzano, Boise State University, USA Angelo Spognardi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Bei Yu, Syracuse University, USA Arkaitz Zubiaga, Queen Mary University of London, UK

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Post-doc position in corpus linguistics and French linguistics at Neuchâtel
by DELL'ORO Francesca 06 Apr '23

06 Apr '23

Dear colleagues, I share with you this announcement for a position as a post-doc on behalf of Corinne Rossari. An excellent knowledge of French is mandatory. Best wishes, Francesca Dell’Oro [Université de Neuchâtel]<https://www.unine.ch/>[Facebook]<https://www.facebook.com/UniNeuchatel>[Instagram]<https://www.instagram.com/unineuchatel/>[Twitter]<https://twitter.com/unineuchatel>[Youtube]<https://www.youtube.com/user/uninepromotion>[LinkedIn]<https://www.linkedin.com/edu/school?id=10933&trk=edu-hp-follow-name> Francesca Dell'Oro Professeure assistante Institut des Sciences du Langage Université de Neuchâtel Bureau 106 Pierre-à-Mazel 7 CH-2000 Neuchâtel Tél. +41 32 718 1674 www.unine.ch<http://www.unine.ch> UN POSTE D'ASSISTANT.E POST-DOCTORANT.E, à 50% en linguistique française Exigences : Doctorat (PhD), bonnes connaissances des plateformes d’exploitation de corpus, des méthodes et outils statistiques appliqués à la linguistique ou à l’analyse du discours, excellentes compétences en français (pour les non natifs). Aptitude à travailler en équipe. Tâches : Responsabilité d’un séminaire sur la linguistique de corpus sur un semestre et soutien aux activités de recherche et d’enseignement de la chaire de linguistique française. Encadrement des étudiant.es<http://xn--tudiant-9xa.es> ; participation aux activités scientifiques de l’équipe de recherche en linguistique française (activités de formation doctorale, présentations scientifiques, publications, etc.) ; participation à des colloques et réunions scientifiques ; participation aux activités de la SciLAC (réunions, cycle de conférences) ; travail sur des corpus. Avantages: Un cadre de travail stimulant au sein d'une équipe dynamique, des collaborations internationales et des horaires flexibles. Rémunération : Légale (CHF 45'187.- pour un poste à 50%, avec augmentation annuelle) Entrée en fonction : 1 août 2023 ou à convenir. Durée : L'assistant(e) post-doctorant(e) est nommé(e) jusqu'au 31 juillet 2024. Le contrat est renouvelable à deux reprises (durée maximum 36 mois). Le dossier de candidature contiendra une lettre de motivation, un curriculum vitae avec la liste et les notes des cours/séminaires suivis à l'Université, une copie du diplôme de doctorat et des rapports des expert.es.sur la thèse. Prière d'envoyer le dossier en format pdf à Madame la professeure Corinne Rossari, corinne.rossari(a)unine.ch<mailto:corinne.rossari@unine.ch>, jusqu'au 1er mai 2023 à l'adresse suivante : Secretariat.ISLA(a)unine.ch<mailto:Secretariat.ISLA@unine.ch>. Pour plus de renseignements veuillez contacter Mme Corinne Rossari à l'adresse e-mail indiquée ci-dessus. Soucieuse de promouvoir la diversité au sein de son personnel, l’Université de Neuchâtel s’engage à offrir des conditions de travail non discriminatoires.

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Shared Task on Speaker Attribution: Call for Participation and Release of Training and Development data
by Fynn Petersen-Frey 06 Apr '23

06 Apr '23

Shared Task on Speaker Attribution in Newswire and Parliamentary Debates As previously announced, a new shared task on Speaker Attribution in German political discourse is taking place this spring and summer under the auspices of the GermEval Campaign. The goal of our shared task is the identification of speakers in political debates as well as in news articles, and the attribution of speech events to their respective speakers. Being able to identify this information automatically, i.e., identifying who says what to whom, is a necessary prerequisite for a deep semantic analysis of unstructured text. Training and development data for Task 1, which focuses on speeches from the German Bundestag, has now been released on github <https://github.com/umanlp/SpkAtt-2023>. Training and development data for Task 2, which focuses on speech in German news articles, has now been released on github <https://github.com/uhh-lt/news-speaker-attribution-2023>. For more details about the shared task, including the task settings, datasets, evaluation metrics and link to the *registration* form, please visit the shared task website at CodaLab <https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/10431>. The SpkAtt-2023 shared task is partially supported by the German Society for Computational Linguistics and endorsed by two of its Special Interest Groups, CPSS <https://gscl.org/activities/politicssocialsciences/> and IGGSA <https://sites.google.com/site/iggsahome>. The workshop for the shared task will be held as part of the Conference for Natural Language Processing (KONVENS <https://www.thi.de/konvens-2023/> 2023) in Ingolstadt, Germany, in Sep 2023. Important Dates April 1, 2023 - *Training and development data release* 🗸 June 15, 2023 - Test data release (blind) July 1, 2023 - Submissions open July 31, 2023 - Submissions close August 14, 2023 - System descriptions due September 7, 2023 - Camera-ready system paper deadline September 18-22, 2023 - Workshop at KONVENS 2023 Organizing team Ines Rehbein, Simone Ponzetto (U-Mannheim) Fynn Petersen-Frey, Chris Biemann (U-Hamburg) Josef Ruppenhofer, Annelen Brunner (IDS Mannheim) Contact fynn.petersen-frey at uni-hamburg.de, rehbein at uni-mannheim.de

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