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EAMT 2023: Support for participants from low-income countries and war zones
by Carol Scarton 03 Apr '23

03 Apr '23

============================================================ EAMT 2023: Support for participants from low-income countries and war zones ============================================================ * Call for Participation * The European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT) is an organisation that serves the growing community of people interested in MT and translation tools, including translators, users, developers, and researchers of this increasingly viable technology. As part of its commitment to promote research, development and awareness about translation technologies, the EAMT opens a call for a small number of bursaries to support EAMT 2023 attendees from areas affected by war and low-income countries. The 24th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT 2023) conference will be held in Tampere, Finland, from June 12th to June 15th. * Purpose of the Call * This call is dedicated to support EAMT 2023 attendees that do not have fundings to attend the conference, from areas affected by war or low-income countries in Europe, Middle East or Africa. The EAMT particularly encourages applications from early career researchers. All applications will be screened by EAMT executive committee members. * Application information * - Eligibility requirements In order to qualify for this call, the individual must be a student or an employee of an institution located in areas affected by war or in low-income countries in Europe, Middle East or Africa, that would not be able to attend the conference without this support. Students and early-career researchers/academics will have priority. We will also give priority to people with accepted papers in the main conference. - Selection criteria The selection will be made based on the information submitted to the provided Google Forms (link below). One of the fields in the form is a "motivation letter", where you should describe your motivation for attending the EAMT 2023 conference and explain why you do not have other funds to sponsor your attendance. You should also submit a CV, highlighting your years of experience in the MT area. * Bursaries * EAMT anticipates funding several applications. Selected participants will be announced on the 21st April 2023 and will receive complimentary membership in the EAMT for 2023 and 2024, free registration at the EAMT 2023 conference and paid accommodation in Tampere. * Contact for enquiries * Carolina Scarton EAMT Secretary e-mail: c.scarton(a)sheffield.ac.uk * Applications * Candidates should submit their applications via a Google Form: https://forms.gle/HQNF5jwEDT1bG1NK6 * Important Dates * - Circulation of the Call: April 3rd, 2023 - Submission deadline for applications: April 14th, 2023, 23:59 CEST - Notification: April 21st, 2023 * Additional provisions * - Only complete applications will be reviewed. - All information submitted with applications will be regarded as confidential and will only be used in the context of this call. - You may be asked to share the accommodation room with other awardees. However, we will commit to respect any requirements / concerns that you inform us (e.g. religion, gender, etc). * No obligation to award the bursaries * The EAMT shall be under no obligation to fund the applications pursuant to this call for participation. EAMT shall not be liable for any compensation with respect to candidates whose applications have not been approved. Nor shall it be liable in the event of it deciding not to award the bursaries. -- *Carolina Scarton* Senior Lecturer in Natural Language Processing Department of Computer Science University of Sheffield http://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/C.Scarton/

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EAMT 2023: Bursaries for Translators
by Carol Scarton 03 Apr '23

03 Apr '23

============================= EAMT 2023: Bursaries for Translators ============================= * Call for Participation * The European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT) is an organisation that serves the growing community of people interested in MT and translation tools, including translators, users, developers, and researchers of this increasingly viable technology. As part of its commitment to promote research, development and awareness about translation technologies, the EAMT opens a call for a small number of bursaries to support translators and Translation Studies' students, in attending the 24th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT 2023) conference will be held in Tampere, Finland, from June 12th to June 15th. * Purpose of the Call * This call is dedicated to support translators and Translation Studies' students, working or studying in European, Middle-Eastern or African countries, that do not have fundings to attend the conference. The EAMT particularly encourages applications from early-career translators. All applications will be screened by EAMT executive committee members. * Application information * - Eligibility requirements In order to qualify for this call, the individual must be a translator or enrolled in a Master or PhD course in Translation Studies. The support is only available to individuals working or studying in European, Middle-Eastern or African countries. Freelance translators and students will have priority. We will also give priority to people with accepted papers in the main conference. - Selection criteria The selection will be made based on the information submitted to the provided Google Forms (link below). One of the fields in the form is a "motivation letter", where you should describe your motivation for attending the EAMT 2023 conference and explain why you do not have other funds to sponsor your attendance. You should also submit a CV, highlighting your years of experience in the translation area and your experience working with MT. For students: you should also submit an official proof of student status, signed by your University. * Bursaries * EAMT anticipates funding several applications. Selected participants will be announced on the 21st April 2023 and will receive complimentary membership in the EAMT for 2023 and 2024, free registration at the EAMT 2023 conference and paid accommodation in Tampere. * Contact for enquiries * Carolina Scarton EAMT Secretary e-mail: c.scarton(a)sheffield.ac.uk * Applications * Candidates should submit their applications via a Google Form: https://forms.gle/TzXQaRLypJD1t7qB7 * Important Dates * - Circulation of the Call: April 3rd, 2023 - Submission deadline for applications: April 14th, 2023, 23:59 CEST - Notification: April 21st, 2023 * Additional provisions * - Only complete applications will be reviewed. - All information submitted with applications will be regarded as confidential and will only be used in the context of this call. - You may be asked to share the accommodation room with other awardees. However, we will commit to respect any requirements / concerns that you inform us (e.g. religion, gender, etc). * No obligation to award the bursaries * The EAMT shall be under no obligation to fund the applications pursuant to this call for participation. EAMT shall not be liable for any compensation with respect to candidates whose applications have not been approved. Nor shall it be liable in the event of it deciding not to award the bursaries. -- *Carolina Scarton* Senior Lecturer in Natural Language Processing Department of Computer Science University of Sheffield http://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/C.Scarton/

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list of authors and their work ...
by Albretch Mueller 02 Apr '23

02 Apr '23

there are all kinds of lists on wikipedia of various kinds of authors: linguists, philosophers, mathematicians ... In most (almost all?) cases there is a brief page about the authors biography and their work. As you could expect some folks (isbndb.com) would come up with the great idea of selling you the air you breathe. exaly.com, worldcat, freelibrary.org ... do a minimally better job, but their web interface I find too constraining and, "of course", you don't find a "download the whole damn thing" option. What I am looking for is an openly and collectively maintained DB a la wikipedia from which interface you could download all search hits as well-formatted, parsable lines in a text file without having to "click next", copy and paste, and all that kind of nonsense. I could imagine someone in the corpora research community has taken the time to compile a database which IMO should include: a) work: a.1) original name a.2) original language a.3) topical bags index a.4) received category index (a children book, book review, degree theses, article in periodical, ...) a.5) publications: a.5.1) date a.5.2) metadata RDF including: language, "co-"authors (preface, those writing back-cover blurbs), editors, translators, ISBNs, publisher, copyright notice, ... b) name(s): b.1) first/given name(s) (at Birth) b.2) last name(s) (at Birth) b.3) pen name(s) b.3) also known as c) birth place d) date of birth e) languages f) date of death Authorship - work pairs should be prioritized. In case of compilations of various auth-work pairs in a single book, the compilation in which an article appears should be specified in the metadata. Please, let me know where could I find such a database (even if partially) which could be downloaded. In case you don't know such a general registry of published books/texts, which other entries would you think are important? lbrtchx

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10th European Conference On Service-Oriented And Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2023): Fourth Call for Submissions
by georgeangelos60＠gmail.com 01 Apr '23

01 Apr '23

*** Fourth Call for Submissions *** 10th European Conference On Service-Oriented And Cloud Computing (ESOCC 2023) October 24-26, 2023, Golden Bay Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/esocc2023/ (Proceedings to be published in Springer LNCS; Journal Special Issue with Springer Computing) AIM AND SCOPE Nowadays, Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing are the primary approaches to build large-scale distributed systems and deliver software services to end users. Cloud-native software is pervading the delivery of enterprise applications, as they are composed of (micro)services that can be independently developed and deployed by exploiting multiple heterogeneous technologies. Resulting applications are polyglot service compositions that can then be shipped in serverful or serverless platforms (e.g., using virtualization technologies). These characteristics make Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing the natural answers for fulfilling the industry’s need for flexibly scalable and maintainable enterprise applications, to be delivered through state-of-the-art methodologies, like DevOps. To further support this, researchers and practitioners need to create methods, tools and techniques to support cost-effective and secure development as well as use of dependable devices, platforms, services and service-oriented applications in the Cloud, now also considering the Cloud-IoT computing continuum to exploit widespread adoption of smart connected things and the increasing growth of their computing capabilities. The European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (ESOCC) is the premier conference on advances in the state-of-the-art and practice of Service-Oriented Computing and Cloud Computing in Europe. ESOCC aims to facilitate the exchange between researchers and practitioners in the areas of Service-Oriented Computing and Cloud Computing, as well as to explore the new trends in those areas and foster future collaborations in Europe and beyond. TOPICS OF INTEREST ESOCC 2023 seeks original, high-quality contributions related to all aspects of Service-Oriented and Cloud computing. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Applications for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, e.g., big data, commerce, energy, finance, health, scientific computing, smart cities • Blockchains for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Business aspects of Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, e.g., business models, brokerage, marketplaces, costs, pricing • Business processes, e.g., service-based workflow deployment and management • Cloud interoperability, service and Cloud standards, • Cloud-IoT computing continuum, e.g., edge computing, fog computing, mobility computing, next generation services/IoT • Cloud-native architectures and paradigms, e.g., microservices and DevOps • Cloud service models, e.g., IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, DBaaS, FaaS, etc. • Deployment, composition, and management of applications in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Foundations and formal methods for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Enablers for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, e.g., service discovery, orchestration, matchmaking, monitoring, and analytics • Model-Driven Engineering for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Multi-Cloud, cross-Cloud, and federated Cloud solutions • Requirements engineering, design, development, and testing of applications in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Semantic services and service mining • Service and Cloud middlewares and platforms • Software/service adaptation and evolution in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Storage, computation and network Clouds • Sustainability and energy issues in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Quality aspects (e.g., governance, privacy, security, and trust) of Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Quality of Service (QoS) and Service-Level Agreement (SLA) for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing • Social aspects of Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, e.g., crowdsourcing services, social and crowd-based Clouds • Virtualization for Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, e.g., serverless, container-based virtualization, VMs IMPORTANT DATES • Submission of abstracts: June 4th, 2023 (AoE) • Submission of full papers: June 11th, 2023 (AoE) • Notification to authors: July 14th, 2023 (AoE) • Camera-ready versions due: July 31st, 2023 (AoE) TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS ESOCC 2023 invites submissions of the following kinds: • Regular Research Papers (15 pages including references, for the technical and special tracks) • PhD Symposium (12 pages including references) • Projects and Industry Reports (Projects and Industry Reports (1 to 6 pages including references, describing an ongoing EU or national project, or providing industrial perspectives on innovative applications, technologies, or methods in ESOCC’s scope) We only accept original papers, not submitted for publication elsewhere. The papers must be formatted according to the proceedings guidelines of Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series (http://www.springer.com/lncs). They must be submitted to the EasyChair site at:  https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esocc2023 by selecting the right track. Accepted papers from all tracks will be published in the main conference proceedings by Springer in the LNCS series. For publication to happen, at least one author of each accepted paper is expected to register and present the work at the conference. The best papers accepted will be invited to submit extended versions for a Journal Special Issue to be published by Springer Computing. ORGANISATION General Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, CY (george at ucy.ac.cy) Program Chairs • Florian Rademacher, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund, DE (florian.rademacher at fh-dortmund.de) • Jacopo Soldani, University of Pisa, IT (jacopo.soldani at unipi.it) Steering and Program Committee https://cyprusconferences.org/esocc2023/committees/

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LREC-COLING 2024 Announcement
by Sara Goggi 31 Mar '23

31 Mar '23

Dear Jennifer, I am Sara Goggi from Pisa, working on the organization of the LREC conferences (and involved in ARR as well). We met last year in Dublin at ACL 2022. In the past I used to contact Priscilla for asking her the favour to disseminate the LREC posts and she has always been very responsive in posting our announcements/CfPs within the ACL community. Please note that David Yarowsky (cc'ed here) supports using ACL's publicity mechanism for both LREC and COLING announcements. Thanks very much in advance! Sara ++++++ * ***LREC-COLING 2024 Announcement**** _LREC-COLING 2024 - The 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation__ __Lingotto Conference Centre - Turin (Italy)__ __20-25 May, 2024_ *Conference website: https://lrec-coling-2024.lrec-conf.org/ *Twitter: @LrecColing2024 Two major international key players in the area of computational linguistics, the ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA) and the International Committee on Computational Linguistics (ICCL), are joining forces to organize the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024) to be held in Turin (Italy) on 20-25 May, 2024. The hybrid conference will bring together researchers and practitioners in computational linguistics, speech, multimodality, and natural language processing, with special attention to evaluation and the development of resources that support work in these areas. Following in the tradition of the well-established parent conferences COLING and LREC, the joint conference will feature grand challenges and provide ample opportunity for attendees to exchange information and ideas through both oral presentations and extensive poster sessions, complemented by a friendly social program. The three-day main conference will be accompanied by a total of three days of workshops and tutorials held in the days immediately before and after. *General Chairs* Nicoletta Calzolari, CNR-ILC, Pisa Min-Yen Kan, National University of Singapore *Advisors to General Chairs* Chu-Ren Huang, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Joseph Mariani, LISN-CNRS, Paris-Saclay University *Programme Chairs* Veronique Hoste, Ghent University Alessandro Lenci, University of Pisa Sakriani Sakti, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Nianwen Xue, Brandeis University *Management Chair* Khalid Choukri, ELDA/ELRA, Paris *Local Chairs* Valerio Basile, University of Turin Cristina Bosco, University of Turin Viviana Patti, University of Turin

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Research fellowships in NLP, University of Oslo
by Erik Velldal 31 Mar '23

31 Mar '23

[Apologies for cross-posting] Two positions as Research Fellow in Natural Language Processing are available in the Language Technology Group (LTG) in the Machine Learning Section at the Department of Informatics, University of Oslo (UiO), Norway. The two 3-year positions are affiliated with a new research project focusing on event extraction in the domain of armed conflicts, a cross-disciplinary collaboration bridging NLP and political science / conflict research. For more information, please see the full announcement here: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/243246/researcher-in-natural… The closing date is May 7th, 2023. Please do not hesitate to contact me for any further information. Best regards, -erik -- Erik Velldal Language Technology Group Section for Machine Learning Department of Informatics, University of Oslo

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2nd Workshop on Perspectivist Approaches to Disagreement in NLP: First Call for Papers
by simona.frenda＠gmail.com 31 Mar '23

31 Mar '23

***NLPerspectives*** 2nd Workshop on Perspectivist Approaches to Disagreement in NLP (and Beyond) https://nlperspectives.di.unito.it/w/2nd-workshop-on-perspectivist-approach… Until recently, the dominant paradigm in natural language processing (and other areas of artificial intelligence) has been to resolve observed label disagreement into a single “ground truth” or “gold standard” via aggregation, adjudication, or statistical means. However, in recent years, the field has increasingly focused on subjective tasks, such as abuse detection or quality estimation, in which multiple points of view may be equally valid, and a unique ‘ground truth’ label may not exist (Plank, 2022). At the same time, as concerns have been raised about bias and fairness in AI, it has become increasingly apparent that an approach which assumes a single “ground truth” can erase minority voices. Strong perspectivism in NLP (Cabitza et al., 2023) pursues the spirit of recent initiatives such as Data Statements (Bender and Friedman, 2018), extending their scope to the full NLP pipeline, including the aspects related to modelling, evaluation and explanation. In line with the first edition, the NLPerspectives (Perspectivist Approaches to Disagreement in NLP) workshop will explore current and ongoing work on: the collection and labelling of non-aggregated datasets; and approaches to modelling and including these perspectives, as well as evaluation and applications of multi-perspective Machine Learning models. We also welcome opinion pieces and literature reviews, e.g., in the context of fairness and inclusion. A key outcome of this second edition will be to build on the work begun at https://pdai.info/ to create a repository of perspectivist datasets with non-aggregated labels for use by researchers in perspectivist NLP modelling. Authors are, therefore, invited to share their LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) and provide essential information about resources (i.e., also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work or are a result of their research. In addition, authors will be required to adhere to ethical research policies on AI and may include an ethics statement in their papers. The NLPerspectives workshop will be hosted in person during the 26th edition of ECAI 2023 in Kraków, Poland, on 30 September or 1 October 2023. -->Submissions The contributions cannot exceed 7 pages (4 for research communications, see below) not including references, and as established by ECAI 2023 conference, the over length submissions will be rejected without review. The papers should be submitted as a PDF document, conforming to the formatting guidelines provided in the call for papers of ECAI 2023 conference: https://ecai2023.eu/ECAI2023 We accept three types of submissions: - Regular research papers; - Non-archival submissions: like research papers, but will not be included in the proceedings; - Research communications: 4-page abstracts summarising relevant research published elsewhere. -->Topics We invite original research papers from a wide range of topics, including but not limited to: - Non-aggregated data collection and annotation frameworks - Descriptions of corpora collected under the perspectivist paradigm - Multi-perspective Modelling and Machine Learning - Evaluation of multi-perspective models/ models of disagreement - Multi-perspective disagreement as applied to NLP evaluation - Fairness and inclusive modelling - Perspectivist approaches for social good - Applications of multi-perspective modelling - Computing with (dis)agreement - Perspectivist Natural Language Generation - Foundational aspects of perspectivism - Opinion pieces and reviews on perspectivist approaches to NLP Submissions are open to all, and are to be submitted anonymously (and must conform to the instructions for double-blind review). All papers will be refereed through a double-blind peer review process by at least three reviewers, with final acceptance decisions made by the workshop organisers. Scientific papers will be evaluated based on relevance, significance of contribution, impact, technical quality, scholarship, and quality of presentation. More information about the submission, publication of proceedings and date of the workshop will be provided soon. We are seeking sponsors in order to provide financial support for conference registration, travel, and accommodation for participants. -->Attendance At least one author of each accepted paper is required to participate in the conference and present the work. -->Important Dates * Friday June 23, 2023: Paper submission * Friday August 4, 2023: Notification of acceptance * Friday September 1, 2023: Camera-ready papers due * Saturday September 30 or Sunday October 1, 2023: Workshop -->Workshop organisers: Gavin Abercrombie, Heriot-Watt University Valerio Basile, University of Turin Davide Bernardi, Amazon Alexa Shiran Dudy, University of Colorado, Boulder Simona Frenda, University of Turin Lucy Havens, University of Edinburgh Elisa Leonardelli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Sara Tonelli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Contact us at g.abercrombie(a)hw.ac.uk if you have any questions. Website: https://nlperspectives.di.unito.it/

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Journal of Open Humanities Data: call for papers
by Barbara McGillivray 31 Mar '23

31 Mar '23

(Apologies for cross-postings) Call for Papers for 2023 The Journal of Open Humanities Data (JOHD)<https://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/> features peer-reviewed publications describing humanities research objects with high potential for reuse. These might include curated resources like (annotated) linguistic corpora, ontologies, and lexicons, as well as databases, maps, atlases, linked data objects, and other data sets created with qualitative, quantitative, or computational methods. We are currently inviting submissions of two varieties: 1. Short data papers contain a concise description of a humanities research object with high reuse potential. These are short (1000 words) highly structured narratives. A data paper does not replace a traditional research article, but rather complements it. 2. Full length research papers discuss and illustrate methods, challenges, and limitations in humanities research data creation, collection, management, access, processing, or analysis. These are intended to be longer narratives (3,000 - 5,000 words), which give authors the ability to contribute to a broader discussion regarding the creation of research objects or methods. Humanities subjects of interest to the JOHD include, but are not limited to Art History, Classics, History, Linguistics, Literature, Modern Languages, Music and musicology, Philosophy, Religious Studies, etc. Research that crosses one or more of these traditional disciplinary boundaries is highly encouraged. Authors are encouraged to publish their data in recommended repositories<https://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/about/#repo>. More information about the submission process<https://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/about/submissions>, editorial policies<https://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/about/editorialpolicies/> and archiving<https://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/about/> is available on the journal’s web pages. JOHD provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. We accept online submissions via our journal website. See Author Guidelines <https://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/about/submissions/> for further information. Alternatively, please contact the editor<https://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/contact/> if you are unsure as to whether your research is suitable for submission to the journal. Authors remain the copyright holders and grant third parties the right to use, reproduce, and share the article according to the Creative Commons<http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/> licence agreement. Barbara McGillivray | @BarbaraMcGilli<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.c…> Lecturer in Digital Humanities and Cultural Computation Group lead of the Computational Humanities Research Group<https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/computational-humanities-research-group> Strand Campus, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS, Room 3.28, Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London Group lead of the Computational Humanities Research Group at King’s College London<https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/computational-humanities-research-group> Turing Fellow<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.turin…>, The Alan Turing Institute Editor-in-chief of Journal of Open Humanities Data<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fopenhuman…>

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[SEBD 2023] Extension Deadlines - Regular, Discussion, and Doctoral Consortium Papers
by Stefano Marchesin 31 Mar '23

31 Mar '23

[APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE POSTINGS] ================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS - SEBD 2023 31st Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems (SEBD 2023) Galzignano Terme, Padova, Italy - 2-5 July 2023 Venue: Galzignano Resort Terme & Golf, Galzignano Terme, Padova, Italy Website: http://sebd2023.dei.unipd.it/ ================================================================== The SEBD Symposium is the major annual event of the Italian database research community. It is designed as a gathering forum to meet, discuss, and exchange experiences among all people from the academy and industry who are interested in database systems and all their broad range of applications. IMPORTANT DATES - EXTENDED DEADLINES --------------- Regular and Discussion Paper Submission Deadline: April 14, 2023 Notifications: May 10, 2023 - Doctoral Consortium Submission Deadline: April 14, 2023 Papers Notification: May 10, 2023 - Early Registration Deadline: May 26, 2023 Camera-Ready Submission Deadline: Thursday, June 08, 2023 (AoE) All deadlines are Anywhere on Earth (AoE) standard time. TOPICS ------ The conference covers a broad range of topics, including traditional database management and new challenges for data management in any possible domain. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to) the following: - Big Data and Smart Computing; - Data integration, Heterogeneous and Federated Databases; - Data mining, knowledge discovery, information extraction, and machine learning; - Data provenance, publishing, and citation; - Data visualization; - Data warehousing; - Distributed and parallel databases; - Grid, peer-to-peer databases and Cloud Computing; - Incompleteness, inconsistency, and uncertainty in databases; - Keyword-based and natural language access to structured data; - Knowledge representation and reasoning; - Ontology-based data management; - Privacy, security, and trust management; - Query processing and optimization, approximate query answering; - Real-time, embedded, sensor, and mobile databases; - Scientific and Statistical Databases; - Semantic Web and Open Linked Data; - Social networks and Graph databases; - Transaction and workflow management, interoperability, and Web services; - Big Data and AI. SUBMISSIONS INSTRUCTIONS ------------------------ SEBD 2023 invites research, industry, application contributions, and software demonstrations submissions. Regular papers presenting original work are solicited. Moreover, discussion papers containing descriptions of results already published are also welcomed. There are three submission formats: - Regular papers (up to 12 pages + references). Original research works. Regular papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. - Discussion papers (up to 8 pages + references). Results and ideas of interest to the SEBD audience, including extended abstracts of recent publications of the authors, papers currently under submission, position papers, system and application descriptions and presentations of preliminary results. - Doctoral Consortium papers (up to 6-7 pages, including selected references). The papers should be singly authored by a current Ph.D. student or a Ph.D. student who submitted the thesis between September and December 2022; if accepted, it will be presented at the Doctoral Consortium session. Selection will be based on originality, clarity, and technical quality. To accommodate a potentially large number of papers, this year, we introduce poster sessions as an alternative to present the accepted regular and discussion papers. The authors of an accepted paper will be asked if they prefer a classic oral or poster presentation. Nevertheless, the program committee will suggest the best way to present a paper based on the contribution type and the number of accepted papers from the same institution/research group. The program chairs will make the final decision on the presentation format. Please note that oral or poster presentations have the same "importance" within the conference. Also, there will be no difference between a paper presented orally or as a poster in the proceedings. A booster session will introduce all poster presentations where the authors can pitch the contribution with a 1-2 minute presentation. Submissions of papers must be in English, in PDF format, and formatted following the new CEUR-ART 1-column style, which is the style requested for the camera-ready preparation. Please download the template here: http://sebd2023.dei.unipd.it/file/CEURART_SEBD2023 Submission system: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/SEBD2023/ All accepted works will be included in the proceedings, with Discussion Papers clearly marked as such. Proceedings will be published on WS-CEUR.org and indexed in Scopus. After acceptance, authors are required to re-submit the final PDF. No different format is allowed. All accepted papers are expected to be presented at the conference,and at least one author is required to register for the conference. DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM ----------- The SEBD 2023 Doctoral Consortium will take place in a dedicated session during the 31st Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems (SEBD 2023), Galzignano Terme, Padova (Italy), July 02-05, 2023, http://sebd2023.dei.unipd.it/. The goal is to provide a forum for Ph.D. candidates to present their ongoing research and receive feedback from renowned and experienced research community members. The Consortium fosters a collaborative environment, encouraging constructive discussions and sharing of ideas. It will be an excellent opportunity for developing person-to-person networks to the benefit of the Ph.D. students in their future careers – as well as of the community. Doctoral Consortium Day: Sunday, July 02, 2023 A separate call for papers will be issued for the doctoral consortium. ORGANIZATION COMMITTEES ----------------------- General Chairs: - Diego Calvanese (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano) - Nicola Ferro (University of Padua) Program Committee Chairs: - Claudia Diamantini (Università Politecnica delle Marche) - Gianmaria Silvello (University of Padua) Doctoral Consortium Chairs - Stefano Marchesin (University of Padua) - Letizia Tanca (Politecnico di Milano) LOCATION -------- The SEBD 2023 conference will be in Galzignano Terme, Padova, Italy, at The Galzignano Resort Terme & Golf. The resort is located in the very heart of this stunning area, a unique complex with three 4-star hotels and one of the largest Spa centers in Europe, with natural waters at 37°C, a new Galzignano Wellness Spa, Beauty & Medical Center, a 9-hole golf course, haute cuisine and all amenities for an unbelievable stay. Its location makes the resort an ideal base for visiting the cultural treasures of some of Italy’s finest historical cities, such as Venice, Padua, and Verona, and appreciating the Veneto area's fine food and wine trails. Get to Padua: https://www.unipd.it/en/university-0/getting-here -- Stefano Marchesin, PhD Postdoctoral Researcher Information Management Systems (IMS) Group Department of Information Engineering University of Padua Via Gradenigo 6/a, 35131 Padua, Italy Home page: http://www.dei.unipd.it/~marches1/

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Postdoc position at Cardiff University
by Steven Schockaert 31 Mar '23

31 Mar '23

Location: Cardiff, UK Deadline for applications: 19th April 2023 Start date: as soon as possible Duration: 30 months Keywords: natural language processing, neurosymbolic AI, graph neural networks, commonsense reasoning Details about the post Applications are invited for a Research Associate post in the Cardiff University School of Computer Science & Informatics, to work on the EPSRC Open Fellowship project ReStoRe (Reasoning about Structured Story Representations), which is focused on story-level language understanding. The overall aim of this project is to develop methods for learning graph-structured representations of stories. For this post, the specific focus will be on developing common sense reasoning strategies, based on graph neural networks, to fill the gap between what is explicitly stated in a story and what a human reader would infer by “reading between the lines”. More details about the post and instructions on how to apply are available here: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CYR611/research-associate Background about the ReStoRe project When we read a story as a human, we build up a mental model of what is described. Such mental models are crucial for reading comprehension. They allow us to relate the story to our earlier experiences, to make inferences that require combining information from different sentences, and to interpret ambiguous sentences correctly. Crucially, mental models capture more information than what is literally mentioned in the story. They are representations of the situations that are described, rather than the text itself, and they are constructed by combining the story text with our commonsense understanding of how the world works. The field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) has made rapid progress in the last few years, but the focus has largely been on sentence-level representations. Stories, such as news articles, social media posts or medical case reports, are essentially modelled as collections of sentences. As a result, current systems struggle with the ambiguity of language, since the correct interpretation of a word or sentence can often only be inferred by taking its broader story context into account. They are also severely limited in their ability to solve problems where information from different sentences needs to be combined. As a final example, current systems struggle to identify correspondences between related stories (e.g. different news articles about the same event), especially if they are written from a different perspective. To address these fundamental challenges, we need a method to learn story-level representations that can act as an analogue to mental models. Intuitively, there are two steps involved in learning such story representations: first we need to model what is literally mentioned in the story, and then we need some form of commonsense reasoning to fill in the gaps. In practice, however, these two steps are closely interrelated: interpreting what is mentioned in the story requires a model of the story context, but constructing this model requires an interpretation of what is mentioned. The solution that is proposed in this fellowship is based on representations called story graphs. These story graphs encode the events that occur, the entities involved, and the relationships that hold between these entities and events. A story can then be viewed as an incomplete specification of a story graph, similar to how a symbolic knowledge base corresponds to an incomplete specification of a possible world. The proposed framework will allow us to reason about textual information in a principled way. It will lead to significant improvements in NLP tasks where a commonsense understanding is required of the situations that are described, or where information from multiple sentences or documents needs to be combined. It will furthermore enable a step change in applications that directly rely on structured text representations, such as situational understanding, information retrieval systems for the legal, medical and news domains, and tools for inferring business insights from news stories and social media feeds.

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