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Re: math and language/text data (continued from thread "Re: Re: Any literature about tensors-based corpora NLP research with actual examples (and homework ;-)) you would suggest? ...")
by Anil Singh 14 Aug '23

14 Aug '23

Re "Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: The Story of India through Its Languages by Peggy Mohan": look forward to reading it. (History or historical events aside, does it have to do with how language(s) became an indicator of power/privilege/status? If humankind has anything in common, this could be one general observation...) It does to some extent, particularly with regard to the history of languages and related things in India. Re "If people are used to writing in their own language on computers, then that language is more likely to survive": I don't disagree, but --- [Forewarning: one might not like my reply to the following, but I ask for it to be interpreted with a scientific mindset rather, not with emotions and sentiments related to language identity and particular cultural practices.] "Languages" (as in, particular language varieties, not "language" as in language-at-large) come and go, born and die (and, sometimes, come back), like trends, styles, cultures ("culture" as in a particular way of living, a set of habits...). Esp. for users of varieties that have undergone oppression/suppression, I understand that there is or can be much meaning to many users in having the varieties be alive or in use. It is important to the users. It is a symbol of their existence. Yes, that is important. But having witnessed how language has been abused (e.g. with research greed by some CL/NLPers), I sometimes think one might have gone too far with how much identity one attaches to any particular language. Coming trom the background that I do, your statement above seems very similar to saying that we might have gone too far with political correctness or about opposing racism/misogyny/etc. Like most Europeans or Americans, you seem to have no (or very little) idea about the toll that discrimination -- even unintended discrimination -- takes on a very large part of the human population. In early 2009, I had written a rant in a blog post and the title of the post was "English is Language Independent". I had made roughly the same points which the now famous Bender Rule makes. I have been writing about it, although that blog is now defunct. I did not, however, make any proposal, as the Bender Rule does. I just pointed out the problem, so I am in no way undermining the importance of that. And one anonymous comment on this blog post was this: "Why don't you work on a good project. I don't see the prejudice persisting for long once you do that." It is like saying about gender or racism: "Why don't you make accomplishments equal to us? Once you do that, I don't see the prejudice persisting for long." Not to be picky here, but "I have heard some native speakers *users *of some "Dravidian languages" say that there are some (I guess minor) problems with Unicode for their languages": using the terms "native" and "speakers" to refer to "users" (or as I sometimes use among knowers of language: "languagers") has been an unhealthy baggage from our past practices in the language space. I can't comment on the issue of "Dravidian languages" and Unicode, but it seems one might need more info/details on the complaints to act further. Well, yes, the word "native" has indeed a very dark history. How could I not know it? But, the manner in which linguists use the term "native speaker" is very different. At least I think so. Note that I am only mentioning linguists here, not "CL/NLPer". By the way, I thought I had coined the term "NLPer" in my blog long ago, but I may be wrong about that. I am pretty sure one can find out these details in some online forum or some academic publication etc. I have not so far done that, but it is a good idea to do that. I will try. Re "psycholinguistic validity from computational validity": in (cognitive/psycholinguistic) modeling, there is / can be not much difference between the two. (When one has enough experiences with modeling or with language/psycholinguistic phenomena, it's not hard to to see that results from computational modeling could also hold elsewhere. The art then is to be able to connect the two "realms". But then again, it depends on the claims, of course.) Yes, of course, it depends on the claim. The two realms can definitely be connected. We don't disagree about that. In fact, I think, we don't really disagree about that many things it seems. Even so, isn't it possible to implement the same thing in many different ways when it comes to computation? That is not the case with the brain/mind, of course. Here, I am again making a distinction between computation and mathematics. Perhaps you don't agree with that? In that case, perhaps we mean different things by the term "computation". Re science and engineering: I am not sure if engineering has to be "just about" heuristics or short cuts. There is good engineering and there is bad engineering, for the sake of my arguments here. In the context of ML with language/textual data, one ought to be careful with "computing based on values of surface elements/strings". Much of what the CL/NLP community/communities have been doing for the past few decades has been "computing based on values of surface elements/strings". This practice deserves serious re-evaluation (there are lots of grey areas here and opportunities to compare processing across finer granularities (without all the preprocessing hacks/"heuristics"/"engineering") for various tasks and data types/formats, without "words", "sentences", "linguistic structure(s)", "grammar" et al.). I don't think of it as "it's engineering!", but some bad practices/culture having been promoted as such and normalized (for a couple of decades?). Good engineering can also be fine, thoughtful, and robust. I completely agree. But sometimes I do work on things which, theoretically, seem ridiculous to me, but they may be practically useful. At least half (perhaps more) of my motive to work on language processing is to address somehow, to any extent, the issue of linguistic empowerment. I am prepared to compromise theoretically for that purpose. Re "I don't think there is anything wrong with what you call grammar hacking from the engineering point of view": I do (think there is something wrong), because: i. "all grammars leak" (from Sapir, also in Manning and Schütze (1999)); I know. I tell this to students every time I teach NLP or any related subject. ii. "words" (whatever they are) are too coarse-grained for computing. I already agreed to that, but if they help in my benign motives, I am prepared to use them. Re "it [language(s)] is still likely to have an 'organic' structure": couldn't that structure (one not associated with "words"/"sentences"/"grammar") be one from math or computing? Or one that is a by-product of a combination of these factors? It certainly could. Some CL/NLPers have made various claims concerning "structures" in the past, borrowing the concepts from "linguistic structure(s)", from "grammar". There was a lot of chiming along, many often have neglected the fact that grammar could effect the impression of "structures" through "words" etc. or that it all in turn patterns some of our thoughts/judgments sub-/unconsciously. And the loop goes on. (See also: See also: https://twitter.com/adawan919/status/1532335891448057858) Well, if you prefer the term "patterns" to "grammar" or "structure", I am completely fine with that. As I said earlier, I am moving towards the language games view of language, even for this exchange. We can't avoid that if we are talking in a human/natural language. The only way to avoid that, if there is a way, is to use only mathematical notation, but I don't think we have reached that stage so far with the study of language. Re "in English "John loves Mary" is in fact a very different thing than "Mary loves John"": one has to re-evaluate to which extent this matters in whichever form of computing/computation one is engaged in and how often this "canonical form" that you are implicitly referring to really occurs in data as well as how this actually surfaces in data. One should look at the data in front of one, not the framework/theory in one's mind. (I believe in achieving better designs/systems through testing from both a data-centric as well as an algorithm-centric perspective. Hardware counts too!) I mostly agree, but I am not sure whether you are saying that "John loves Mary" may not perhaps be different from "Mary loves John"? Re " it is unfair to blame Linguistics for that": My focus in "[t]he "non-native speakers of X" has been a plague in Linguistics" was on the "native" part. That has been my understanding, at least to a great extent "nativeness" was so promoted/reinforced, esp. within the school of generative Linguistics in the 2nd half of the 20th century, when it comes to "linguistic judgments". I thought the propagation stemmed from there. Who/What else do you think started it? I think the word "native" was used in a derogatory/condescending way throughout the English speaking world, even before the "birth of Modern Linguistics". It was, in fact, the more polite word. One other common word was "savage". I remember being shocked to find (very long ago) in Jane Eyre the phrase "savages living on the banks of the Ganges". Savages? On the bank of the Ganges? But these usages are much older (than "Modern Linguistics"). The matter of "linguistic judgements" or "grammaticality" is very different from that, regardless of what one's opinions are about the existence of grammar. All in all, your replies remind me of many of the reviewers' responses "typical" of (i.e. I often got from) the *CL circle (of those who remained in the past decade or so). I don't know about that. I thought I had very unconventional views of NLP, but I could be wrong about that, at least relatively. If I may guess: i. you don't have an academic background in Linguistics (esp. general Linguistics, That is true. I have learned about language(s) mostly on my own. So, if you want me to show my degree in Linguistics, I have none, except a PhD in Computational Linguistics. I was the second person to get a PhD specifically in CL in India. note that there is a difference between linguistics of particular languages and that in a more general/theoretical manner (not about (p-)language grammatical particularities), Of course there is. What makes you think I don't know that? The fact is, my knowledge of "(p)-language" is relatively very limited. Even my knowledge of the syntax of Hindi (my "mother tongue"), in a formal sense, is very limited. I mostly know about language in general. ii. you learn about language(s) through mostly non-academic books or through your own language experience(s) (which counts too, I am not invalidating it/them here), I have no idea what makes you say that. Am I supposed to list the Linguistics books I have read, in addition to showing my Linguistics degree? (Sorry if that sounds bitter, but it has happened in the past, not literally, but effectively). I can only say -- and it is strange to even have to say this -- that I definitely know more about language in general and linguistic theory than -- at least -- most graduates and postgraduates (including PhDs) of Linguistics in India. iii. you never had phonetics and phonology, nor In my replies on this thread I have not mentioned anything related to phonetics or phonology. So it must be from somewhere else that you have this impression(?). Is it from some of the papers co-authored by me? I think there are some which could give that impression. Explaining why that could be so, will take this discussion somewhere else. I don't think it is relevant here at all. Is your point that I don't know about phonetics or phonology? If it is, I would prefer not to answer that. iv. do you realize how you can practice without "words" I do. But I am also prepared to use "words" wherever they help. As I wrote earlier, I have worked without "words" sometimes and have argued against them. --- did I get any right? You got -- sort of -- the first and the third, assuming you were asking me to show my Linguistics degree and whether I had formally taken courses on Phonetics and Phonology. I wanted to note this because --- and please do not take offense, it is not meant personally for I respect your expertise and appreciate our exchanges --- for a while, I didn't know where(else) to submit my findings. It wasn't until I got all the rejections with rather shallow comments about language (or language and computing) did I realize the "solidarity" one has built with people with a background similar to yours might have been the driving force of how some computational (general) linguists (as in, "general language scientists" who also do computational work --- there are only a few of us) got chased out of the arena. The "typical" excuses for practices of this "culture" have been "engineering", "useful", "it works" --- but without any/much grounding/interest in good generalizations. One puts excess focus on processing but not on evaluation or interpretation. I think it's time for a "culture" change in this regard. To your other reply below (in triple quotes): Sorry, but I didn't understand what you mean by triple quotes. I could find any triple quotes in your comments. re "language policy": not everything has to be or can be regulated. Policies can help with promoting/reinforcing/rectifying a particular situation/initiative. I agree. Forcing people e.g. to use language in one particular way or to use "one language" only (whatever "language" "means"*)? Again, I agree. However, like most Europeans and Americans, you seem to have no (or very little) idea how people are already being forced to use some language or another. And it is hardly a new phenomenon, but it has become much more serious now due mainly to colonization and all its effects. Do you have any idea how much hundreds of millions of Indians suffer simply from being forced to use English? My primary motive in my whole life, for good reasons, has been to counter linguistic discrimination, mainly due to the imposition of English on any Indian who has any ambition at all. I think that alone makes me sufficiently qualified to "work on language". This is analogous to any other kind of discrimination or prejudice. I do not think that would be a good direction to go. For any regions, we have seen both good/better and bad/worse policies throughout the course of history. One would really have to evaluate the proposed policy in question carefully. I never said anything about forcing people to speak one language. That's why I said I don't know what exactly the connection is with the language policy. But it sure has a very strong connection, because the problem in the first place is due to language policy, written and unwritten. Do you know that there are and have been schools in the world, including India, where students are punished if they are caught speaking in their mother tongue (or first, "native" language). I still remember feeling recognition and the impression it had on me when I read the famous novel about life in Wales, How Green was My Valley. I had just become fluent in English then. Depending on the situation, some may best change things through the economy, some through government support, some through education and/or grassroot-type of initiatives, some a combination of all these and more.... I agree. *I have an answer to this... please wait for my next pub or so. I would love to read it. I am eternally hungry for any fresh look on language in general. Not so much for particular languages or varieties. That is to me, to some extent, boring. Re "it is very much like conservation of ecology or of species. I don't think it (the latter) will be considered unwarranted prescriptivism": see my 2nd response above. The same for my reply to that comment. Also, with language documentation, one can just document data without promoting grammar. (That's probably the less unethical thing one can do with language or language data.) Again I agree. I never said anything about promoting grammar. I don't like to read grammar books. It's painful to me, compared to almost any other topic under the sun, except perhaps finance, commerce, and the intricacies of legal procedures. For the sake of completeness, I should clarify -- as it seems to matter -- that I have "never had Syntax or even Semantics or Pragmatics". I am mostly self-taught, not just in Linguistics, but also in Computer Science and almost everything else. Do you really think it matters in the context of this discussion? Again, for the sake of completeness, I should mention that for decades, I have been reading all kinds of books that had anything to do with language, mostly in general, but also about Hindi or Indian languages, not to mention English. These have included what you call academic books on language in general and about Linguistics. I still keep reading, as I know very well that, being self-taught, I have some gaps in my knowledge of Linguistics and Computer Science. My undergraduate degree was in Mechanical Engineering (from 1990), but I hardly remember anything in that area. I have similarly been reading all kinds of books for decades about computers and Computer Science. I am unable to see how any of this matters in the context of this discussion. By the way, I like the metaphor you use for language: It being like a graphical user interface for the brain. That reminds me of the views of Daniel Dennett about consciousness. He constantly compares elements making up consciousness to graphical user interfaces on computers. Not that I completely agree with him about consciousness, but I still find the metaphor quite good, perhaps as an approximation.

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Call for Book Chapter Submissions: "Empowering Low-Resource Languages With NLP Solutions"
by Pankaj Dadure 14 Aug '23

14 Aug '23

Dear Sir/Ma'am, I hope you are doing well and in good health. We are excited to announce a call for a book chapter for an upcoming book titled "*Empowering Low-Resource Languages With NLP Solutions.*" Link: https://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/6596 The objective of this book is to provide an in-depth understanding of Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques and applications specifically tailored for low-resource languages. We believe that your valuable insights and research in this domain would greatly enrich the content of this book. To ensure a comprehensive and high-quality book, all submitted chapters will undergo a rigorous peer-review process. The accepted book will be *indexed in Scopus and Web of Science*, thereby enhancing the visibility and impact of your work. The book aims to cover a wide range of topics related to NLP in low-resource languages. Some of the suggested topics, although not limited to, include: · Introduction to Low-Resource Languages in NLP · Language Resource Acquisition for Low-Resource Languages · Morphological Analysis and Morpho-Syntactic Processing · Named Entity Recognition and Entity Linking for Low-Resource Languages · Part-of-Speech Tagging and Syntactic Parsing · Machine Translation for Low-Resource Languages · Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining for Low-Resource Languages · Speech and Audio Processing for Low-Resource Languages · Text Summarization and Information Retrieval for Low-Resource Languages · Multimodal NLP for Low-Resource Languages · Code-switching and Language Identification for Low-Resource Languages · Evaluation and Benchmarking for NLP in Low-Resource Languages · Applications of NLP in Low-Resource Language Settings · Future Directions and Challenges in NLP We encourage you to contribute a book chapter focusing on any of the above-mentioned topics or related areas within the scope of NLP in low-resource languages. The submission guidelines are as follows: 1. Please submit a chapter proposal (maximum 500 words) outlining the objective, methodology, and expected outcomes of your proposed chapter by August 15, 2023, to the submission portal: https://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/6596 2. Chapter proposals should include the title of the chapter, the author(s) name, and their affiliations. 3. All submissions should be original and should not have been previously published or currently under review elsewhere. 4. The chapters should be written in English and adhere to the formatting guidelines provided after the acceptance of the proposal. *Important Dates:* August 15, 2023: Proposal Submission Deadline August 25, 2023, 2023: Notification of Acceptance September 17, 2023: Full Chapter Submission October 31, 2023: Review Results Returned December 12, 2023: Final Acceptance Notification December 26, 2023: Final Chapter Submission Thank you for considering this invitation, and we look forward to receiving your valuable contribution to this book. If you have any further questions or require additional information, please do not hesitate to contact us. Best regards, Editorial Team Dr. Partha Pakray National Institute of Technology Silchar Email: partha(a)cse.nits.ac.in Dr. Pankaj Dadure University of Petroleum and Energy Studies Dehradun Email: pankajk.dadure(a)ddn.upes.ac.in Prof. Sivaji Bandyopadhyay Jadavpur University, Kolkata Email: sivaji.cse.ju(a)gmail.com -- With Best Regards Pankaj Dadure Mobile: 9545757478

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3rd CALL FOR PAPERS: ICNLSP 2023, 6th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing, December 16-17, 2023
by Mourad Abbas 14 Aug '23

14 Aug '23

Third 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 ( https://aclanthology.org/venues/icnlsp/). 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 Best regards, Mourad Abbas

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DGfS2024 workshop 'Towards Linguistically Motivated Computational Models of Framing' (dgfs2024-framing)
by Ines Rehbein 14 Aug '23

14 Aug '23

*Call for Abstracts* *'Towards Linguistically Motivated Computational Models of Framing'* Date: Feb 28 - Mar 1, 2024 Location: Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany Organizers: Annette Hautli-Janisz (University of Passau), Gabriella Lapesa (University of Stuttgart), Ines Rehbein (University of Mannheim) Homepage: https://sites.google.com/view/dgfs2024-framing Call for Papers: Framing is a central notion in the study of language use to rhetorically package information strategically to achieve conversational goals (Entman, 1993) but also, more broadly, in the study of how we organize our experience (Goffman, 1974). In his seminal article, Entman (1993) defines framing as "to select some aspects of a perceived reality and make them more salient in a communicating text, in such a way as to promote problem definition, causal interpretation, moral evaluation, and/or treatment recommendation for the item described." This frame definition has recently been operationalized in NLP in terms of coarse-grained topic dimensions (Card et al., 2015), e.g., by modeling the framing of immigration in the media as a challenge to economy vs. a human rights issue. But there is more to frames than just topics. The breadth of the debate on what constitutes a frame and on its (formal and cognitive) definition naturally correlates to the interdisciplinary relevance of this phenomenon: a theoretically motivated (computational) model for framing is still needed, and this is precisely the goal of this workshop, which will bring together researchers from theoretical, applied and computational linguistics interested in framing analysis. Our main interest is in furthering our understanding of how different linguistic levels contribute to the framing of messages, and to pave the way for the development of linguistically-driven computational models of how people use framing to communicate their attitudes, preferences and opinions. We thus invite contributions that cover all levels of linguistic analysis and methods: from phonetics (e.g., euphony: the use of repetition, alliteration, rhymes and slogans to create persuasive messages) and syntax (e.g., topicalization, passivization) to semantics (lexical choices, such as Pro-Life vs. Pro-Choice; the use of pronouns to create in- vs. out-groups; the use of metaphors; different types of implicit meaning) to pragmatics (e.g., pragmatic framing through the use of presupposition-triggering adverbs). We also invite work on experimental and computational studies on framing which employ linguistic structure to better understand instances of framing. The workshop is part of the 46th Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS 2024), held from 28 Feb - 1 March 2024 at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany. *Submission instructions*: We invite the submission of anonymous abstracts for 30 min talks including discussion. Submissions should not exceed one page, 11pt single spaced (abstract + references), with an optional additional page for images. The reviewing process is double-blind; please ensure that the paper does not include the authors' names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...", should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) …". *Submission deadline:* *August 25, 2023* Abstract review period: Aug. 26, 2023 - Sept. 5, 2023 Meeting email: dgfs2024-framing(a)fim.uni-passau.de -- Ines Rehbein Data and Web Science Group University of Mannheim, Germany

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Second Call for Papers: Deep Learning Summer School at RANLP 2023
by Nanomi Arachchige, Isuri 14 Aug '23

14 Aug '23

DLinNLP 2023 - Deep Learning Summer School at RANLP 2023 Second Call for Participation Varna, Bulgaria 30th August - 1st September https://dlinnlp2023.github.io/ We invite everyone interested in Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing to attend the Deep Learning Summer School at 14th biennial RANLP conference (RANLP 2023). Purpose: Deep Learning is a branch of machine learning that has gained significant traction in the field of Artificial Intelligence, pushing the envelope in the state-of-the-art, with many sub-areas including natural language, image, and speech processing employing it widely in their best-performing models. This summer school will feature presentations from outstanding researchers in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Deep Learning. These will include coverage of recent advances in theoretical foundations and extensive practical coding sessions showcasing the latest relevant technology. The summer school would be of interest to novices and established practitioners in the fields of NLP, corpus linguistics, language technologies, and similar related areas. Important Dates: 30 August - 1 September: Deep Learning Summer School in NLP Lectures: * Lucas Beyer (Google Brain) * Tharindu Ranasinghe (Aston University, UK) * Iacer Calixto (University of Amsterdam, Holland) Practical Sessions: * Damith Premasiri (practical sessions) (University of Wolverhampton, UK) * Isuri Anuradha (practical sessions) (University of Wolverhampton, UK) * Anthony Hughes (practical sessions) (University of Wolverhampton, UK) Registration: **** Registration is now open: ****** https://ranlp.org/ranlp2023/index.php/fees-registration/ Programme: Please refer to the website for the details of the programme: https://dlinnlp2023.github.io/#programme ***There will be an informal poster presentation session where attendees can present their research work and get feedback from the experts in the field. *** Contact Email: dlinnlp2023(a)gmail.com<mailto:dlinnlp2023@gmail.com>

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[Final call] Four fully-funded 5-year PhD positions at University of Gothenburg, Sweden
by Peter Ljunglöf 14 Aug '23

14 Aug '23

[Note: the application deadline is Sunday 20 August] The University of Gothenburg, Sweden, is offering four fully-funded PhD positions in computer science and engineering where the candidates can choose the project themselves out of fourteen options. Two of the projects are related to NLP, one about efficient algorithms for corpus searching, and another about automatic generation of Wikipedia articles. See the ad for more information: https://web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/1035/job?site=7&lang=UK&validator=9b89… The positions are fully funded for 5 years, including 20% teaching or other departemental duties. Application deadline: 20 August 2023 best regards, Peter Ljunglöf ------- ------ ----- ---- --- -- - - - - - peter ljunglöf peter.ljunglof(a)gu.se data- och informationsteknik, och språkbanken göteborgs universitet och chalmers tekniska högskola -------------- --------- -------- ------- ------ ----- ---- --- -- - - - - -

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Fully-funded PhD position “Computer Science: Knowledge Graphs & Natural Language Processing” (m/f/d), Leibniz University Hannover, Germany
by Jennifer D'Souza 14 Aug '23

14 Aug '23

Dear colleagues and friends, The Research Center L3S invites applications for the position of a Research Associate / PhD Candidate (m/f/d) “Computer Science: Knowledge Graphs & Natural Language Processing” (Salary Scale 13 TV-L; 100 %) starting at the earliest possible date. The position is limited to 3 years with the possibility of extension. The regular weekly working time is 39.8 hours (full-time). *Description:* The PhD topic will be in the context of the HybrInt project and the Open Research Knowledge Graph (https://orkg.org/) focusing on building knowledge graphs for the agricultural domain. The aim of these projects is to research and develop NLP solutions as large language models (LLMs) for crowdsourcing, representing and managing semantically structured, rich representations of scholarly contributions and research data in knowledge graphs and thus develop a novel model for scholarly communication. In the context of the PhD thesis you will be responsible for building and maintaining the ORKG data ingestion and processing pipelines to ensure the flow of high-quality semantified resources from academic publications. Your main responsibility in this position will be to build scalable solutions that crawl, ingest, process publications, and thereby enrich the ORKG. You will work alongside the ORKG engineering team to setup the AI/NLP ecosphere. The tasks will focus on: * Working in the areas of Natural Language Processing (text mining, information extraction, information retrieval/search) and Machine Learning of scholarly communication media (digital) data * Research and development of suitable Large Language Models (LLMs) as NLP solutions * Conceptually designing, modeling, and implementing data-driven services in one or more areas of information retrieval and extraction, data enrichment, and linking of data *Application Deadline:* 15.09.2023 *Web Address for Applications:* https://www.uni-hannover.de/en/jobs/id/6435/ (en); https://www.uni-hannover.de/de/jobs/id/6435/ (de) Yours cordially, Jennifer

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Release of the AIGC corpus - The aiTECCL Corpus
by Xu, Jiajin 12 Aug '23

12 Aug '23

Dear list members, We are excited to announce that the AIGC corpus - The aiTECCL Corpus, is now available to all members of the research community. The aiTECCL Corpus was compiled by Jiajin Xu and Mingchen Sun of the Corpus Research Group of the National Research Centre for Foreign Language Education at Beijing Foreign Studies University. The corpus consisting of two million words generated by the GPT-3.5 model, using identical writing prompts to those employed in *the TECCL Corpus* <http://corpus.bfsu.edu.cn/info/1070/1449.htm>, aims to serve as a reference corpus that exhibits a native-like linguistic quality. The corpus is made available online on 9 August, 2023. URL: http://114.251.154.212/cqp/ Username: test Password: test Please cite: Xu, Jiajin & Mingchen Sun. 2023. aiTECCL: An AIGC English Essay Corpus. Beijing: National Research Centre for Foreign Language Education, Beijing Foreign Studies University. Available online: http://corpus.bfsu.edu.cn/info/1082/1913.htm *Justifying the concept of "AIGC Corpus" (Artificial Intelligence Generated Content Corpus) or Generative Corpus* The creation of the AIGC Corpus helps expand the concept of "corpus". In the classic definition of a corpus, the included materials must be language samples that are authentically or naturally occurring in real-life communication. Clearly, generative texts do not fall under this category. We believe that the rationale for the generative corpus can be viewed from at least three aspects: 1. The so-called principle of "authenticity" itself is a matter of degree. For example, whether essays written by learners under exam conditions belong to genuine communication is questionable. In existing research, some elicited data also has authenticity issues similar to those found in learners' interlanguage. Therefore, from the perspective of existing corpora, there are texts with varying degrees of authenticity. 2. The generative corpus can serve as an essential complement to existing corpora. The emergence of the generative corpus can reconcile the distinction between "probable language" and "possible language." For linguistic instances that have not yet appeared in reality, they can be generated using large language models. 3. Creating a corpus using artificial intelligence technology is a second-to-best solution under the current conditions for building specific types of corpora. For example, the aiTECCL corpus simulates a reference corpus of approximately 10,000 essays, close to the English native speaker language quality, and written on the same topics as Chinese learners. Without the use of artificial intelligence methods for generation, it might be impossible to obtain a reference corpus of such quality and comparability. Similarly, for corpus construction of languages from least-developed countries or countries with extremely small populations, without generative technology, it would be impossible to establish in the short term. Further details about the prompt and the Python script we utilised to create the corpus will be provided on the site soon <http://corpus.bfsu.edu.cn/info/1082/1913.htm>. Best wishes, Jiajin Xu Ph.D., Professor National Research Centre for Foreign Language Education Beijing Foreign Studies University, China

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CFP: 2nd Shared Task on Indian Language Summarization (ILSUM 2023)
by Parth Mehta 12 Aug '23

12 Aug '23

Apologies for the multiple postings. ---- *Indian Language Summarization (ILSUM 2023)* Website: https://ilsum.github.io/ To be organized in conjunction with FIRE 2023 (fire.irsi.res.in) 15th-18th December 2023, Goa, India ------------------------------------------------------- The second shared task on Indian Language Summarization (ILSUM) aims at creating an evaluation benchmark dataset for Indian Languages. This year ILSUM consists of two subtasks Subtask 1: This task builds upon the task from ILSUM 2022. In the first edition, we covered two major Indian languages Hindi and Gujarati alongside Indian English, a widely recognized dialect of the English Language. This year's edition adds the Bengali language and an expanded dataset for the languages from last year. Further, we will provide abstractive summaries for a subset of each language (~1000 per language) apart from the headlines which are semi-extractive summaries in nature. Like the previous edition, this will be a classic summarization task, where we will provide ~15,000 article-summary pairs for each language and the participants are expected to generate a fixed-length summary. Subtask 2: The task is centred around identifying factual errors in machine-generated summaries. With the recent implosion of Large Language models, . While these LLMs are very good at summarization, among other NLP tasks, they are often prone to hallucinations. This means the model generates information that is not accurate, not based on its training data, or is completely made up but looks accurate and reliable. Further, such tools can be misused to generate misleading or outright incorrect information. Identifying such inaccuracies can be a challenging task. Through this subtask, we aim to address the problem of identifying factually incorrect information in LLM-generated summaries. Participants will be provided with an article and its corresponding machine-generated summary. The objective is to identify the presence of factual incorrectness in the summaries if any, and classify them in one of the predefined categories. *Tentative Timeline* ------------- 7st August - Training Data Released and Registrations open 10th September - Test Data Release 20th September - Run Submission Deadline 25th September - Results Declared 10th October - Working notes due 25th October - Reviews Due 30th October - Camera Ready Submissions due 15th-18th December - FIRE 2023 at Goa, India *Organisers* ---------------- Jagrat Patel, LDRP-ITR, Gandhinagar, India Jaivin Barot, LDRP-ITR, Gandhinagar, India Tanishka Gaur, LDRP-ITR, Gandhinagar, India Shrey Satapara, Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, India Sandip Modha, LDRP-ITR, Gandhinagar, India Parth Mehta, Parmonic, USA Debasis Ganguly, University of Glasgow, Scotland *For regular updates subscribe to our mailing list: **ilsum(a)googlegroups.com**

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Second Call for Papers: The 10th Workshop on Argument Mining @ EMNLP 2023 December 7, 2023
by milad.alshomary＠uni-paderborn.de 11 Aug '23

11 Aug '23

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS The 10th Workshop on Argument Mining @ EMNLP 2023 December 7, 2023 https://argmining-org.github.io/2023/ The 10th Workshop on Argument Mining will be held on December 7, 2023 in Singapore together with EMNLP 2023. This will be a hybrid event. The Workshop on Argument Mining provides a regular forum for the presentation and discussion of cutting-edge research in argument mining (a.k.a argumentation mining) to both academic and industry researchers. By continuing a series of nine successful previous workshops, this edition will welcome the submission of long, short, and demo papers. It will feature two shared tasks, a panel on the last ten years of Argument Mining, and a keynote talk. IMPORTANT DATES - Direct paper submission deadline (Softconf): September 1, 2023 - Paper commitment from ARR: September 15, 2023 - Notification of acceptance: October 7, 2023 - Camera-ready submission: October 18, 2023 - Workshop: December 7, 2023 TOPICS OF INTEREST The topics for submissions include but are not limited to: - Automatic identification of argument components (e.g., premises and conclusions), the structure in which they form an argument, and relations between arguments and counterarguments (e.g., support and attack) in as well as across documents - Automatic assessment of arguments and argumentation with respect to various properties, such as stance, clarity, and persuasiveness - Automatic generation of arguments and their components, including the consideration of discourse goals (e.g., stages of a critical discussion or rhetorical strategies) - Creation and evaluation of argument annotation schemes, relationships to linguistic and discourse annotations, (semi-) automatic argument annotation methods and tools, and creation of argumentation corpora - Argument mining in specific genres and domains (e.g., social media, education, law, and scientific writing), each with a unique style (e.g., short informal text, highly structured writing, and long-form documents) - Argument mining and generation from multi-modal and/or multilingual data - Integration of commonsense and domain knowledge into argumentation models for mining and generation - Combination of information retrieval methods with argument mining, e.g., in order to build the next generation of argumentative (web) search engines - Real-world applications, including argument web search, opinion analysis in customer reviews, argument analysis in meetings, misinformation detection - Perspectivist approaches to subjective argument mining tasks for which multiple ”ground truths” may exist, including multi-perspective machine learning and the creation of non-aggregated datasets - Reflection on the ethical aspects and societal impact of argument mining methods - Reflection on the future of argument mining in light of the fast advancement of large language models (LLMs). SUBMISSIONS The organizing committee welcomes the submission of long papers, short papers, and demo descriptions. Accepted papers will be presented either via oral or poster presentations. They will be included in the EMNLP proceedings as workshop papers. - Long paper submissions must describe substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis should be included. Long papers must be no longer than eight pages, including title, text, figures and tables. An unlimited number of pages is allowed for references. Two additional pages are allowed for appendices, and an extra page is allowed in the final version to address reviewers’ comments. - Short paper submissions must describe original and unpublished work. Please note that a short paper is not a shortened long paper. Instead, short papers should have a point that can be made in a few pages, such as a small, focused contribution; a negative result; or an interesting application nugget. Short papers must be no longer than four pages, including title, text, figures and tables. An unlimited number of pages is allowed for references. One additional page is allowed for the appendix, and an extra page is allowed in the final version to address reviewers’ comments. - Demo descriptions must be no longer than four pages, including title, text, examples, figures, tables, and references. A separate one-page document should be provided to the workshop organizers for demo descriptions, specifying furniture and equipment needed for the demo. Multiple Submissions ArgMining 2023 will not consider any paper that is under review in a journal or another conference or workshop at the time of submission, and submitted papers must not be submitted elsewhere during the review period. ArgMining 2023 will also accept submissions of ARR-reviewed papers, provided that the ARR reviews and meta-reviews are available by the ARR commitment deadline (September 15). However, ArgMining 2023 will not accept direct submissions that are actively under review in ARR, or that overlap significantly (>25%) with such submissions. Submission Format All long, short, and demonstration submissions must follow the two-column EMNLP 2023 format. Authors are expected to use the LaTeX or Microsoft Word style template (https://2023.emnlp.org/calls/style-and-formatting/). Submissions must conform to the official EMNLP style guidelines, which are contained in these templates. Submissions must be electronic, in PDF format. Submission Link and Deadline For Direct Submissions Authors have to fill in the submission form in the START system and upload a PDF of their paper before September 1, 2023, 11:59 pm UTC-12h (anywhere on earth). https://softconf.com/emnlp2023/ArgMining2023/ For the ARR commitment process, we will provide details in our second call for paper later in the summer. Double Blind Review ArgMining 2023 will follow the ACL policies for preserving the integrity of double-blind review for long and short paper submissions. Papers must not include authors’ names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references or links (such as github) that reveal the author’s identity, e.g., “We previously showed (Smith, 1991) …” must be avoided. Instead, use citations such as “Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) …” Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. Papers should not refer, for further detail, to documents that are not available to the reviewers. For example, do not omit or redact important citation information to preserve anonymity. Instead, use third person or named reference to this work, as described above (“Smith showed” rather than “we showed”). If important citations are not available to reviewers (e.g., awaiting publication), these paper/s should be anonymised and included in the appendix. They can then be referenced from the submission without compromising anonymity. Papers may be accompanied by a resource (software and/or data) described in the paper, but these resources should also be anonymized. Unlike long and short papers, demo descriptions will not be anonymous. Demo descriptions should include the authors’ names and affiliations, and self-references are allowed. ANONYMITY PERIOD (taken from the EMNLP call for papers in verbatim for the most part) The following rules and guidelines are meant to protect the integrity of double-blind review and ensure that submissions are reviewed fairly. The rules make reference to the anonymity period, which runs from 1 month before the direct submission deadline (starting August 1, 2023) up to the date when your paper is accepted or rejected (October 7, 2023). For papers committed from ARR, the anonymity period starts August 15, 2023. Papers that are withdrawn during this period will no longer be subject to these rules. You may not make a non-anonymized version of your paper available online to the general community (for example, via a preprint server) during the anonymity period. Versions of the paper include papers having essentially the same scientific content but possibly differing in minor details (including title and structure) and/or in length. If you have posted a non-anonymized version of your paper online before the start of the anonymity period, you may submit an anonymized version to the conference. The submitted version must not refer to the non-anonymized version, and you must inform the programme chairs that a non-anonymized version exists. You may not update the non-anonymized version during the anonymity period, and we ask you not to advertise it on social media or take other actions that would further compromise double-blind reviewing during the anonymity period. You may make an anonymized version of your paper available (for example, on OpenReview), even during the anonymity period. For arXiv submissions, August 1, 2023 11:59pm UTC-12h (anywhere on earth) is the latest time the paper can be uploaded if you plan a direct submission to the workshop (or August 15, 2023 for papers from ARR committed to the workshops on September 15, 2023). BEST PAPER AWARDS In order to recognize significant advancements in argument mining science and technology, ArgMining 2023 will include best paper awards. All papers at the workshop are eligible for the best paper awards and a selection committee consisting of prominent researchers in the fields of interest will select the recipients of the awards. SHARED TASKS (Submission closed!) We will be hosting two shared tasks this year: - ImageArg-Shared-Task-2023: The First Shared Task in Multimodal Argument Mining - PragTag-2023: The First Shared Task on Pragmatic Tagging of Peer Reviews ArgMining 2023 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Milad Alshomary, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany Chung-Chi Chen, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan Smaranda Muresan, Columbia University, USA Joonsuk Park, University of Richmond, USA Julia Romberg, Heinrich Heine University of Duesseldorf, Germany

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