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Jan Svartvik in memoriam
by Carita Paradis 07 Jul '24

07 Jul '24

It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Emeritus Professor Jan Svartvik, Lund University, Sweden. Jan was born on 18 August 1931 in the county of Värmland in Sweden and died in Lund on 18 June 2024. He studied at Uppsala and University College London (UCL) and became Professor of English Language at Lund University in 1970, a chair he held for 25 years till his retirement. Jan is well-known for his early and innovative development of machine-readable corpora in collaboration with the Survey of English Usage at UCL, in particular the world’s first spoken corpus, London–Lund Corpus of spoken British English, launched in the mid-1970s. He wrote many books and articles, both single-authored publications and publications in collaboration with colleagues. Best-known of them all is perhaps the impressive Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language (1985), which he co-authored with Randolph Quirk, Sidney Greenbaum and Geoffrey Leech. This grammar book is still one of the standard reference grammars of English. He was also known for working with Geoffrey Leech on A Communicative Grammar of English (third edition, 2002), English: One Tongue, Many Voices (2006). Jan played a leading role in the foundation of ICAME, the International Computer Archive of Medieval and Modern English, which he co-founded in 1977. ICAME grew into an important international organisation with a focus on the computational analysis of the English language. It has an annual conference which attracts scholars from all over the world. https://icame.info/history-the-beginnings/, Jan’s autobiography is here http://www.ucl.ac.uk/english-usage/about/svartvik.htm Carita Paradis Bas Aarts -- Professor Carita Paradis, PhD, MAE Centre for Languages and Literature Lund University Box 201, SE-221 00 Lund Website:http://www.sol.lu.se/en/person/CaritaParadis [1664519590158]<https://projekt.ht.lu.se/llc2> When you send emails to Lund University, we process your personal data in accordance with existing legislation. To find out more about the processing of your personal data, visit the Lund University website at: https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/about/contact-us/processing-of-personal-da… P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail

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CFP - SIMBig 2024 in Peru - Artificial Intelligence (Dates Correction)
by Juan Antonio Lossio-Ventura 03 Jul '24

03 Jul '24

> [Apologies for cross-posting] > Correction of conference date from previous announcement (Nov. instead of Oct.) > ========================================================================== > FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS - SIMBig 2024 > ========================================================================== > > 11th International Conference on Information Management and Big Data - SIMBig 2024 > Where: Universidad Nacional de Moquegua, Ilo, PERU > When: November 20 - 22, 2024 > Website: https://simbig.org/SIMBig2024/ > > ========================================================================== > > OVERVIEW > ---------------------------------- > > SIMBig 2024 seeks to present new methods of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data Science, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Semantic Web, and related fields, for analyzing, managing, and extracting insights and patterns from large volumes of data. > > > KEYNOTE SPEAKERS > ---------------------------------- > Aaron Courville, Université de Montréal, Canada Huan Liu, Arizona State University, USA > > and more to be announced soon... > > IMPORTANT DATES > ---------------------------------- > > August 10, 2024 --> Full papers and short papers due > September 30, 2024 --> Notification of acceptance > October 28, 2024 --> Camera-ready versions > November 20-22, 2024 --> Conference held in Moquegua, Peru > > PUBLICATION > ---------------------------------- > > All accepted papers of SIMBig 2024 (tracks including) will be published with Springer CCIS Series <https://www.springer.com/series/7899>. > > > TOPICS OF INTEREST > ---------------------------------- > > SIMBig 2024 has a broad scope. We invite contributions on theory and practice, including but not limited to the following technical areas: > > Artificial Intelligence > Big/Masive Data > Data Science > Machine Learning > Deep Learning > Natural Language Processing > Semantic Web > Data-driven Software Engineering > Healthcare Informatics > Biomedical Informatics > Data Privacy and Security > Information Retrieval > Ontologies and Knowledge Representation > Social Networks and Social Web > Information Visualization > > CONTACT > ---------------------------------- > > SIMBig 2024 General Chairs > > Juan Antonio Lossio-Ventura, National Institutes of Health, USA (juan.lossio(a)nih.gov <mailto:juan.lossio@nih.gov>) > Hugo Alatrista-Salas, Léonard de Vinci Pôle Universitaire Research Center, Paris, France (hugo.alatrista_salas(a)devinci.fr <mailto:halatrista@pucp.pe>)

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Call for Papers for the 22nd Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association is now open
by Kathy Reid 03 Jul '24

03 Jul '24

Dear Colleagues, We're delighted to announce that the CfP for the 22nd Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association - ALTA 2024 - is now open and closes on 20th September (23:59hrs Anywhere on Earth UTC -12) Details are available on our website at https://alta2024.alta.asn.au/calls/papers and a summary follows. --- Important Dates * Submission deadline for short/long papers, presentation abstracts and industry demonstrations: 20 September 2024 (23:59 Anywhere On Earth UTC-12). * Main conference: 3 December and 4 December 2024, ANU, Canberra, ACT, hybrid (in person and online) Overview The 22nd Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA) will be held in a hybrid format at the Australian National University, Canberra, from 2 December to 4 December 2024. The ALTA 2024 workshop is the key local forum for socialising research results in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computational Linguistics (CL). It will feature presentations, posters, and demonstrations from students, industry, and academic researchers. Like previous years, we also encourage submissions and participation from industry and government researchers and developers. Note that ALTA is listed in the CORE 2023 Conference Rankings as Australasian C<https://www.core.edu.au/conference-portal>. Topics ALTA invites the submission of papers and presentations on all aspects of NLP and CL, including, but not limited to: * Commonsense Reasoning. * Computational Social Science and Cultural Analytics. * Dialogue and Interactive Systems. * Discourse and Pragmatics. * Efficient Methods for NLP. * Ethics in NLP. * Information Extraction. * Information Retrieval and Text Mining. * Interpretability, Interactivity and Analysis of Models for NLP. * Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond. * Language Modeling and Analysis of Language Models. * Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics. * Machine Learning for NLP. * Machine Translation. * Multilinguality and Linguistic Diversity. * Natural Language Generation. * NLP Applications. * Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation. * Question Answering. * Resources and Evaluation. * Semantics: Lexical, Sentence level, Document Level, Textual Inference, etc. * Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining. * Speech and Multimodality. * Summarisation. * Syntax, Parsing and their Applications. We particularly encourage submissions that broaden the scope of our community by considering practical applications of language technology and multidisciplinary research. We also specifically encourage submissions from the industry. Format and instructions for authors Please refer to our CfP webpage for specifics.<https://alta2024.alta.asn.au/calls/papers> We are using OpenReview for submissions, and invite submissions of three different formats: (1) Original Research Papers, (2) Abstract-based Presentations, and (3) Industry Demonstrations. --- You can follow ALTA on social media at the following links: * LinkedIn (page): https://www.linkedin.com/company/australasian-language-technology-associati… * LinkedIn (group):https://www.linkedin.com/groups/1849979/ * Twitter: https://twitter.com/altanlp * Mastodon: https://sigmoid.social/@ALTAnlp * Hashtag is #ALTA2024 With kind regards, on behalf of the ALTA 2024 Team: Dr Gabriela Ferraro, General Chair Professor Tim Baldwin, Program Chair Dr Sergio José Rodríguez Méndez, Program Chair Dr Nicholas Kuo, Program Chair Dr Anton Malko, Publication Chair Dr Dawei Chen, Technology Chair A/Prof Shunichi Ishihara, Finance Chair Charbel El-Khaissi, PhD candidate, Sponsorship Chair Ned Cooper, PhD candidate, Local Chair Kathy Reid, PhD candidate, Publicity Chair

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CFP - SIMBig 2024 in Peru - Artificial Intelligence
by Juan Antonio Lossio-Ventura 01 Jul '24

01 Jul '24

> [Apologies for cross-posting] > ========================================================================== > FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS - SIMBig 2024 > ========================================================================== > > 11th International Conference on Information Management and Big Data - SIMBig 2024 > Where: Universidad Nacional de Moquegua, Ilo, PERU > When: October 20 - 22, 2024 > Website: https://simbig.org/SIMBig2024/ > > ========================================================================== > > OVERVIEW > ---------------------------------- > > SIMBig 2024 seeks to present new methods of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data Science, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Semantic Web, and related fields, for analyzing, managing, and extracting insights and patterns from large volumes of data. > > > KEYNOTE SPEAKERS > ---------------------------------- > Aaron Courville, Université de Montréal, Canada Huan Liu, Arizona State University, USA > > and more to be announced soon... > > IMPORTANT DATES > ---------------------------------- > > August 10, 2024 --> Full papers and short papers due > September 30, 2024 --> Notification of acceptance > October 28, 2024 --> Camera-ready versions > November 20-22, 2024 --> Conference held in Moquegua, Peru > > PUBLICATION > ---------------------------------- > > All accepted papers of SIMBig 2024 (tracks including) will be published with Springer CCIS Series <https://www.springer.com/series/7899>. > > > TOPICS OF INTEREST > ---------------------------------- > > SIMBig 2024 has a broad scope. We invite contributions on theory and practice, including but not limited to the following technical areas: > > Artificial Intelligence > Big/Masive Data > Data Science > Machine Learning > Deep Learning > Natural Language Processing > Semantic Web > Data-driven Software Engineering > Healthcare Informatics > Biomedical Informatics > Data Privacy and Security > Information Retrieval > Ontologies and Knowledge Representation > Social Networks and Social Web > Information Visualization > > CONTACT > ---------------------------------- > > SIMBig 2024 General Chairs > > Juan Antonio Lossio-Ventura, National Institutes of Health, USA (juan.lossio(a)nih.gov <mailto:juan.lossio@nih.gov>) > Hugo Alatrista-Salas, Léonard de Vinci Pôle Universitaire Research Center, Paris, France (hugo.alatrista_salas(a)devinci.fr <mailto:halatrista@pucp.pe>)

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Call for Participation - CoLI-Dravidian@FIRE 2024: Word-level Code-Mixed Language Identification in Dravidian Languages
by Sabur B 29 Jun '24

29 Jun '24

****We apologize for multiple postings of this e-mail**** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION FIRE 2024 Task - CoLI-Dravidian: Word-level Code-Mixed Language Identification in Dravidian Languages Held as a shared task in the 16th meeting of Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE 2024 <http://fire.irsi.org.in/fire/2024/home>) December 12-15, 2024. DAIICT, Gandhinagar, India Website: https://sites.google.com/view/coli-dravidian-2024/datasets?authuser=0 Codalab link: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/19357 Dear All, We are inviting researchers and students to participate in the shared task CoLI-Dravidian: Word-level Code-Mixed Language Identification in Dravidian Languages, which is held as a shared task in the 16th meeting of Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE 2024 <http://fire.irsi.org.in/fire/2024/home>). Language Identification (LI) involves detecting the language(s) used in a given text, which is a preliminary step for many applications such as sentiment analysis, machine translation, information retrieval, and natural language understanding. In multilingual India, especially among the youth, social media often features code-mixed text, blending local languages with English at various levels. However, this poses significant challenges for LI, particularly when languages are mixed within a single word. Dravidian languages, extensively spoken in southern India, are under-resourced despite their rich morphological structure. These languages face technological challenges, especially in script representation on digital platforms, leading users to prefer Roman or hybrid scripts for communication. This prevalent code-mixing offers vast linguistic data for research yet remains understudied. To address word-level LI challenges in code-mixed Dravidian languages, we are conducting a shared task by providing code-mixed datasets for four languages - Kannada, Tamil, Malayalam, and Tulu, to encourage the development of advanced LI models. There will be a real-time leaderboard, and the participants will be allowed to make a maximum of 10 submissions in the training phase and 5 submissions in the testing phase through CodaLab. Each team will have to select the best submission for ranking. To download the data and participate, go to: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/19357. Best regards, The CoLI-Dravidian 2024 Organizing Committee Important dates - 14th June 2024 - open track websites and training data release - 1st July 2024– test data release - 25th July – run submission deadline - 27th July – results declared - 27th August – Working notes due - 10th September - Reviews - 30th October – Camera-ready copies of working notes NOTE: All dates mentioned here are in the AoE (Anywhere on Earth) zone. Organizing Committee - Shashirekha Hosahalli Lakshmaiah, Department of Computer Science, Mangalore University, India. - Ameeta Agrawal, Department of Computer Science, Portland State University, USA. - Fazlourrahman Balouchzahi, CIC, IPN, Mexico. - Asha Hegde, Department of Computer Science, Mangalore University, India. - Sabur Butt, IFE, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico. - Sharal Coelho, Department of Computer Science, Mangalore University, India. - Kavya G, Department of Computer Science, Mangalore University, India. - Harshitha, Department of Computer Science, Mangalore University, India. - Sonith D, Department of Computer Science, Mangalore University, India. *Sabur Butt, Ph.D. *(He/Him) Institute for the Future of Education (IFE) *Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico* Address: Av. Eugenio Garza Sada 2501 Sur Tecnológico, 64849 Monterrey, N.L. LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/saburb> - GitHub <https://github.com/saburbutt> - Scholar <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=re7md-0AAAAJ&hl=en> - Website <https://saburbutt.github.io/>

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AthensNLP Summer School: applications deadline 1st JULY
by Georgios Moschovis 28 Jun '24

28 Jun '24

Call for Participation EXTENDED to Monday 1 July for the Athens Natural Language Processing Summer School! Applications: https://athnlp.github.io/2024/cfp.html Summer School dates: 19-15 September 2024 in Athens.

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LxGr2024: Call for Participation: one week to register [corrected]
by Costas Gabrielatos 26 Jun '24

26 Jun '24

[Reposting with the correct link to the symposium programme] 9th Symposium on Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar (LxGr2024) 5-6 July 2024. Online. Attendance is free. Registration closes in one week: https://store.edgehill.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/conferences/conferences… Symposium programme: https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/lxgr/lxgr202<https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/lxgr/lxgr2023>4 If you have any questions, please 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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LxGr2024: Call for Participation: one week to register
by Costas Gabrielatos 26 Jun '24

26 Jun '24

9th Symposium on Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar (LxGr2024) 5-6 July 2024. Online. Attendance is free. Registration closes in one week: https://store.edgehill.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/conferences/conferences… Symposium programme: https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/lxgr/lxgr2023 If you have any questions, please 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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CfP Second Austrian Meeting on Digital Linguistics
by Claudia Posch Gmail 25 Jun '24

25 Jun '24

Call: Second Austrian Meeting on Digital Linguistics Digital linguistics is a growing interdisciplinary field at the intersection of linguistics, information technology, and the social sciences. This is reflected by the growing number of new projects, publication series, and university courses. A central focus of digital linguistics is language data, i.e., digital artifacts that use human language as a form of expression. The range of this language data includes social media content, parliamentary transcripts, newspapers and medieval manuscripts, among others. Such data is processed, annotated, analyzed, curated, shared, archived, and reused, among other activities. Therefore, the topics covered in this workshop span from the creation of digital language resources (corpora, dictionaries, etc.) and their analysis (e.g., semantic change detection, emotion and sentiment analysis), to the use of standards and research infrastructures, as well as methods for long-term archiving or reuse of language data. The variety of research in this field in Austria was shown during the first Austrian Meeting on Digital Linguistics and the previous Austrian Meetings on Sentiment Inferenz (ÖTSI 2021, 2023), where 37 researchers from different Austrian and international research institutions presented their projects. This year’s workshop “Second Austrian Meeting on Digital Linguistics” is a follow-up of these workshops. Again, the aim of the workshop is to highlight recent developments in the Austrian research landscape and to connect different projects working with or on methods in digital linguistics, as well as the researchers involved. The workshop aims to facilitate the exchange of methodological insights and the creation of synergies through the mutual sharing of digital language resources, also within the framework of the research infrastructure CLARIAH-AT. Furthermore, the workshop also addresses international researchers, who are working in the field of digital linguistics and who want to present their research and exchange and connect with the Austrian research community. *Submissions* Abstracts (approx. 400 words, in PDF format) for presentations (20 minutes, in German or English) on topics related to digital linguistics can be submitted until September 15, 2024, to the following email address digital-linguistics(a)uibk.ac.at. All submissions will be reviewed by at least 2 workshop organizers. https://clariah.at/de/news/call-second-austrian-meeting-on-digital-linguist… <https://clariah.at/de/news/call-second-austrian-meeting-on-digital-linguist…> (Deutsch) https://clariah.at/en/news/call-second-austrian-meeting-on-digital-linguist… <https://clariah.at/en/news/call-second-austrian-meeting-on-digital-linguist…> (English) *Travel cost support* Upon acceptance of the abstract, travel cost support can be provided by CLARIAH-AT if needed. *Workshop organizers* Tanja Wissik, Austrian Academy of Sciences, tanja.wissik(a)oeaw.ac.at Karlheinz Mörth, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Karlheinz.Moerth(a)oeaw.ac.at Andreas Baumann, University Wien, andreas.baumann(a)univie.ac.at Julia Neidhardt, TU Wien, julia.neidhardt(a)tuwien.ac.at Claudia Posch, University Innsbruck, claudia.posch(a)uibk.ac.at Gerhard Rampl, University Innsbruck, gerhard.rampl(a)uibk.ac.at

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[CfP] LaCATODA 2024 at PRICAI 2024, Kyoto, Japan (Linguistic and Cognitive Approaches to Dialog Agents)
by Ptaszynski Michal 24 Jun '24

24 Jun '24

** Sorry for cross-postings ** This is Michal Ptaszynski from KIT, Japan. We are organizing LaCATODA workshop at PRICAI in Kyoto this year. Please, consider sending a paper. :) Best regards, Michal PTASZYNSKI, Ph.D., Associate Professor Text Information Processing Laboratory, Kitami Institute of Technology, 165 Koen-cho, Kitami, 090-8507, Japan TEL/FAX: +81-157-26-9327 michal(a)mail.kitami-it.ac.jp ========================================================== The Ninth Linguistic and Cognitive Approaches to Dialog Agents (LaCATODA 2024) (PRICAI 2024 Workshop) https://sites.google.com/view/lacatoda2024 Venue: Kyoto, Japan & online (in conjunction with PRICAI 2024, https://www.pricai.org/2024/) ========================================================== Short Description: A multidisciplinary workshop for researchers who develop more sophisticated dialog agents and methods for achieving more natural machine-generated conversation or study problems of human communication which are difficult to mimic algorithmically. Workshop Goals: The more human-like machine intelligence engineers develop, the more important is for them to be familiar with advances in fields traditionally focusing on humans — ethics, psychology, linguistics, or cognitive science. In the age of data explosion, advancing hardware and more powerful learning algorithms, it has been becoming obvious that we need to study mechanisms underlying what we call a natural dialog, how we track a conversation or what we remember. It is not enough to pay attention what information is conveyed but also how it is conveyed. For this reason we extend topics to knowledge-related topics to seek answers to questions like how an utterance can become harmful, amusing, beautiful or interesting. We aim to gather AI researchers who realize that in spite of current popularity of GenAI "chatbots", they are not really dialog systems and it is necessary to extend existing and propose new algorithms to perform natural conversation. We will call for papers regarding research not only on the latest trends but also on revisiting classic studies related to dialog and understanding, as the AI developments allow to utilize theories that had focused on human interaction and understanding in the past. The workshop intends to spark an interdisciplinary discussion on affect in dialog understanding and generation tasks. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Important Dates: Paper Submission deadline: August 18th, 2024 (11:59PM UTC-12:00, "anywhere on Earth") Acceptance notification: September 18th, 2024 Camera ready deadline: October 1st, 2024 LaCATODA 2024 Workshop: 19 November 2024 Submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lacatoda2024 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Relevant Topics: - Affective computing - Affect-related knowledge acquisition - Artificial assistants and tutors - Artificial General Intelligence - Attention and focus in dialog processing - Common sense knowledge and reasoning - Computational cognition - Daily life assistants - Emotional intelligence simulations - Ethical reasoning - Humor processing - Language acquisition - Machine learning for dialog - Text mining for dialog - Persona and user modeling - Philosophy of emotions in communication - Preference models - Retrieval-based dialog systems - Systems and approaches combining above topics Organizers: Rafal Rzepka, Hokkaido University, Japan Michal Ptaszynski, Kitami institute of Technology, Japan Pawel Dybala, Jagiellonian University, Poland Siaw-Fong Chung, National Chengchi University, Taiwan Jordi Vallverdú, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain

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