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Postdoc position in social understanding and multimodal modeling of interaction
by Rob Voigt 19 Feb '24

19 Feb '24

Applications are invited for a postdoctoral fellowship with the Linguistic Mechanisms Lab in the Department of Linguistics at Northwestern University to work with Rob Voigt on projects in computational linguistics related to social understanding and multimodal processing of interactional data. Primary funding for the fellowship is provided by a National Institutes of Health grant on cross-linguistic analyses of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in collaboration with Molly Losh in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Northwestern. This project will use contemporary large language model (LLM) technologies to develop models for the analysis of clinical interviews in English and Cantonese aimed at both predictive accuracy and greater linguistic understanding of ASD. The fellow will also have the opportunity to develop their own research agenda and contribute to related projects in the lab on computational analysis of clinical interviews for psychosis, behavioral interventions for procedural justice from police body camera footage, and racial disparities in 911 emergency response calls. The fellow will also participate in instrumentation and experimental design in the Department’s Multimodal Interaction Lab, a recording space outfitted for multi-person audio recording, depth imaging, and physiological measurement of participants. Applications are welcomed broadly from applicants with backgrounds in linguistics, computer science, communication sciences, psychology, and related fields. Required qualifications include strong computational research skills including demonstrated experience with and publications related to contemporary LLMs. Preferred qualifications include experience working with multimodal data (text, audio, and/or video), cross-lingual or multilingual models, and social or interactional research questions. The position is for one year, with the potential for renewal for a second year. The pay rate will meet or exceed NIH postdoctoral fellows stipend levels. The position can start as early as September 1, 2024, and ideally would begin on or before January 1, 2025. Candidates must have completed their Ph.D. by the time of the appointment. Applications should be submitted to robvoigt(a)northwestern.edu<mailto:robvoigt@northwestern.edu>, and should include (i) a cover letter in the body of the email that states the applicant’s experience and research interests related to the computational modeling of interaction; (ii) a current CV including links to written work; (iii) the names and contact information of at least two references. Email inquiries about the position should be directed to Rob Voigt (robvoigt(a)northwestern.edu). Northwestern University is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer of all protected classes including veterans and individuals with disabilities. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. Hiring is contingent upon eligibility to work in the United States.

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Final CFP and deadline extension: 8th Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon @LREC-COLING 2024 in Turin (Italy)
by Emmanuele Chersoni 17 Feb '24

17 Feb '24

*The 8th International Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon* Home: https://sites.google.com/view/cogalex-viii-2024 CFP: https://sites.google.com/view/cogalex-viii-2024/home/call-for-papers *Co-located with LREC-COLING 2024* https://lrec-coling-2024.org/ Turin, Italy, 20-25 May 2024 * Important Dates* Submission deadline: extended to * March 1 * Date of notification: March 20, 2024 Camera ready deadline: March 29, 2024 CogALex workshop: May 20, 2024 *Meeting Description* The way we look at the lexicon has changed dramatically over the last few decades. While in the past being considered as an appendix to grammar, the lexicon has now moved to the center stage. Indeed, there is hardly any task in NLP that can be conducted without it. Also, many new proposals have emerged during the last few years. Living in a fast-moving world, it is hard for anyone to stay on top of the wave. Hence the reason for organizing events like this. The goal of this workshop is to provide builders and users of lexical resources (researchers in NLP, psychologists, computational lexicographers) a forum to share their knowledge and needs concerning the construction, organization, and use of a lexicon by people (lexical access) and machines (NLP, IR, data mining). Like in the past, we invite researchers to address unsolved problems concerning the lexicon, by considering this time however also Large Language Models (LLMs). More precisely, we would like to explore their potential for building and using lexical resources as well as their ability to shed new light on the cognitive aspects of the lexicon. We solicit contributions including, but not limited to, the topics listed below, topics, which can be considered from any of the following points of view: - traditional-, computational- or corpus linguistics, - neuro- or psycholinguistics (tip of the tongue problem, word associations), - mathematics (embedding-based approaches, graph theory, small-world problems), etc. *Submissions* Possible submission topics are: - The potential of Large Language Models for the creation and use of lexical resources; - Organization, i.e., structure of the lexicon; - The meaning of words and how to reveal it; - Analysis of the conceptual input given by a dictionary user; - Methods for crafting dictionaries or indexes; - Creation of new types of dictionaries; - Dictionary access (navigation and search strategies), interface issues Short papers can be up to 4 pages in length and long papers up to 8 pages. Both submission formats can have an unlimited number of pages for references. To create your document, please follow the guidelines defined by COLING using their style sheets ( https://lrec-coling-2024.org/authors-kit/). The submissions must be anonymous and they will be peer-reviewed by our program committee. The peer review is double blinded. Accepted papers will also be given an additional page to address the reviewers’ comments. Notice that at least one of the authors of an accepted paper must register for the main conference and present the paper. *Submission Page* https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/cogalex2024/ *Dual Submission Policy* Papers may not be submitted to the workshop if they are or will be concurrently submitted to another meeting or publication. *Invited Speaker* Prof. Gilles-Maurice de Schryver (Ghent University, Belgium) https://tshwanedje.com/members/gmds/cv.html *Workshop organizers* - Michael Zock (CNRS, LIS, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France) - Emmanuele Chersoni (Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China) - Yu-Yin Hsu (Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China) - Simon de Deyne (University of Melbourne / School of Psychological Sciences, University of Adelaide)

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EXTENDED DEADLINE: The Fifth International Workshop on Designing Meaning Representations (DMR 2024) - "Marthaverse of Meaning"
by claire.n.bonial.civ＠army.mil 17 Feb '24

17 Feb '24

DMR 2024 - 2nd Call for Papers Timeline When Tues, May 21 Where Torino, Italy Mode hybrid Direct Submission Deadline February 23 --> EXTENDED ARR Commitment Deadline March 25 Notification of Acceptance March 27 Final Version Due April 8 Workshop site: https://dmr2024.github.io/index.html DMR 2024 will be co-located with LREC-COLING 2024 (the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation), 20-25 May, 2024 at the Lingotto Conference Centre, Torino, Italy. DMR 2024 will be a hybrid event (real-time virtual participation allowed), but in-person participation is encouraged. DMR 2024 submission website: https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/dmr2024/ LREC-COLING 2024 website: https://lrec-coling-2024.org/ Contact us with questions at dmr.workshop.0(a)gmail.com Overview DMR 2024 invites the submissions of long and short papers about original works on meaning representations. As the special theme of DMR 2024, we also invite the submissions of original research that have in any way leveraged, expanded, or been inspired by the “Marthaverse of Meaning”-- the 50 years of gold-standard contributions to the field of NLP by 2023 ACL lifetime Achievement Award recipient, Dr. Martha Palmer. Broader Goals DMR intends to bring together researchers who are producers and consumers of meaning representations and, through their interaction, gain a deeper understanding of the key elements of meaning representations that are the most valuable to the NLP community. The workshop will provide an opportunity for meaning representation researchers to present new frameworks and to critically examine existing frameworks with the goal of using their findings to inform the design of next-generation meaning representations. One particular goal is to explore opportunities and identify challenges in the design and use of meaning representations in multilingual settings. Another is to understand the relationship between distributed meaning representations trained on large data sets using network models and the symbolic meaning representations that are carefully designed and annotated by NLP researchers, with an aim of gaining a deeper understanding of areas where each type of meaning representation is the most effective. Special Theme: A Marthaverse of Meaning In her 2023 ACL Lifetime Achievement Award acceptance speech, Dr. Martha Palmer (University of Colorado, Boulder) sums up her 50 years of research in AI and NLP in six words: “Finding meaning, quite literally, in words.” This year's workshop honors Dr. Palmer's contributions with a special theme on resources, approaches, and applications that draw upon her manifold contributions to the field. These resources include Treebanks (Chinese and Arabic TreeBanks, Hindi and Urdu Treebanks), PropBanks (English, Chinese and Arabic), VerbNet, OntoNotes, Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR), and Uniform Meaning Representation (UMR). These resources share attention to semantic detail combined with scalability and, therefore, an ability to generalize to and support a variety of different NLP applications and tasks. Indeed, the applicability of her research extends beyond the textual to the multimodal, where she has broadly contributed to the cross-modal event understanding. DMR 2024 seeks to highlight the depth and the breadth of Dr. Palmer's contributions and their influence over the field of natural language processing by inviting the submission of original works that have in any way leveraged, expanded, or been inspired by the ``Marthaverse of Meaning.'' We also seek to recognize Dr. Palmer's long tenure of dedication to outstanding mentorship that has been so powerful for the many students who have gone on to shape the NLP research community and the field at large. Topics The workshop solicits papers that address one or more of the following topics: Treebanks and the syntax-semantics interface; PropBanks, VerbNets, and semantic role labeling resources; OntoNotes and word sense disambiguation resources; Expansion or pairing of semantic resources with LLMs; Design and annotation of meaning representations; Cross-framework comparison of meaning representations; Automatic parsing of meaning representations; Automatic generation of text from meaning representations; Strengths and weaknesses of existing meaning representations exposed as a result of using them in natural language applications or natural language understanding systems; Use of meaning representations in real-world applications; Issues in applying meaning representations to multilingual settings; Issues in bringing multimodality into meaning representations; The relationship between symbolic meaning representations and distributed semantic representations; The use of LLMs to create meaning representations Formal properties of meaning representations; Any other topics that address the design, processing, and use of meaning representations or Dr. Martha Palmer's contributions to NLP. Submission Details Submissions should report original and unpublished research on topics of interest to the workshop. Accepted papers are expected to be presented at the workshop and will be published in the workshop proceedings on the ACL Anthology. They should emphasize obtained results rather than intended work and should clearly indicate the state of completion of the reported results. A paper accepted for presentation at the workshop must not be or have been presented at any other meeting with publicly available proceedings. Submissions and Templates: Submission is electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system at https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/dmr2024/. Submissions must adhere to the two-column LREC-COLING format. Long papers must not exceed eight (8) pages of content and short papers must not exceed four (4) pages of content. If a paper is accepted, the authors will be given an additional page to address reviewers’ comments in the final version. References and appendices do not count against these limits. When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC-COLING authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones). We also accept commitments from the ACL Rolling Review (ARR). All ARR commitments to DMR must have received all reviews and meta-reviews by March 25, 2024. For more info on ARR in general, see https://aclrollingreview.org. Author Responsibilities: Reviewing of papers will be double-blind. Therefore, the paper must not include the authors’ names and affiliations or self-references that reveal any author’s identity–e.g., “We previously showed (Smith, 1991) …” should be replaced with citations such as “Smith (1991) previously showed …”. The submissions should also avoid links to non-anonymized repositories: the code should be either submitted as supplementary material in the final version of the paper, or as a link to an anonymized repository (e.g., Anonymous GitHub or Anonym Share). Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. If the paper is available as a preprint, this must be indicated on the submission form but not in the paper itself. In addition, DMR 2024, in accordance with LREC-COLING 2024, will follow the same policy as ACL conferences establishing an anonymity period during which non-anonymous posting of preprints is not allowed. Papers that have been or will be under consideration for other venues at the same time must be declared at submission time. If a paper is accepted for publication at DMR 2024, it must be immediately withdrawn from other venues. If a paper under review at DMR 2024 is accepted elsewhere and authors intend to proceed there, the workshop committee must be notified immediately. Authors of papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications must provide this information to the workshop organizers dmr.workshop.0(a)gmail.com. Authors of accepted papers must notify the program chairs within 10 days of acceptance if the paper is withdrawn for any reason.

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[Deadline Extension!] Call for Papers for Linguists- 18th International NooJ Conference
by THE 18TH NOOJ INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2024 16 Feb '24

16 Feb '24

[Apologies fro cross-posting] We have received a great amount of the paper abstract and we would like to thank everyone that had submitted. The deadline for the abstract submission is now extended to the 26th of February. We look forward to receiving even more interesting and insightful papers from you! Here are some reminders of the topics and the important dates: 📚NLP Societal applications and citizen science: Typography, Spelling, Syllabification, Phonemic and Prosodic Transcription, Morphology, Lexical Analysis, Local Syntax, Structural Syntax, Transformational Analysis, Paraphrase Generation, Semantic Annotations, Semantic Analysis. 🗣️Linguistic Resources: Corpus Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Sentiment analysis, Literature Studies, Second-Language Teaching, Narrative content analysis, Corpus processing for the Social Sciences. 🧠Digital Humanities: Business Intelligence, Text Mining, Text Generation. Language Teaching Software, Automatic Paraphrasing, Machine Translation, etc. 💻Natural Language Processing Applications: Computational Socio-Linguistic (migration, geography, tourism, political discourse, cinema, social media, gender studies…) Important dates: Deadline for the abstract submission: February 26 Notification of acceptance: March 10 Camera ready: March 24 Early bird registrations: March 11 to March 31 Other registrations deadline: April 15 Selected papers submission: Sept 15 Important links! NooJ Conference website: https://nooj2024.x-23.org/ Submitting the paper via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=18nj We will reach out for more information about the upcoming steps. In the meantime, in case you have any question, please feel free to reach out to us. Best, 18th NooJ International Conference Organ __________________ THE 18TH NOOJ INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2024 JUN 4th to 7th, 2024 — Bergamo, Italy Managed by The Nooj Association Powered and hosted by X23 Srl

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International conference CMC Corpora - September 5-6, 2024 - Nice, France
by Mathilde Guernut 16 Feb '24

16 Feb '24

Call for papers *International Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities* September 5-6, 2024, Université Côte d'Azur, Nice, France The 11th International Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities (CMC-Corpora) will be held at the Université Côte d'Azur, Nice, France in collaboration with the Consortium CORpus, Langues et Interactions (CORLI) and the laboratory Bases, Corpus, Langage (BCL) of the Université Côte d'Azur. The conference brings together language-centered research on CMC and social media in linguistics, philologies, communication sciences, media, and social sciences with research questions from the fields of corpus and computational linguistics, language technology, text technology, and machine learning. It features research in which computational methods and tools are used for language-centered empirical analysis of CMC and social media phenomena as well as research on building, processing, annotating, representing, and exploiting CMC and social media corpora, including their integration in digital research infrastructures. We adhere to a wide definition of CMC and Social Media, covering various media of digital communication, including email, newsgroups, forums, chat and messenger applications (e.g. WhatsApp), social networks (Facebook, Instagram), gaming platforms, as well as interactions in the communication areas of video portals (YouTube), learning platforms, gaming apps, online games and virtual worlds. We invite submissions on CMC-related topics, including but not limited to: * Development of CMC corpora / social media corpora * Building CMC corpora: from data collection to publication * Open access data for CMC research: ethical and GDPR issues * Annotating CMC data: genres, linguistic aspects, metadata * Multimodal corpora * Big data corpora * Legal issues concerning the sampling, distribution and (long-term) archiving of social media data * Analysis of CMC corpora / social media corpora * Sociolinguistic studies of CMC * Discourse analysis of CMC * Linguistic characteristics of CMC * Multimodal (incl. visual) aspects of CMC * Multilingualism and code-switching in CMC * CMC in language education * Natural language processing (NLP) of CMC data / social media data * Normalization * PoS tagging * Anonymisation and Pseudonymisation * Lemmatization * Syntactic parsing * Semantic Annotation * LLMs and CMC analysis ================= *Important Dates* ================= * Platform opening for short paper and abstract submission: Friday, 1st March 2024 * Short paper and abstract submission: Monday, 15th April, 2024, 23:59 CEST * Notification of acceptance: Monday, 3rd June 2024, 23:59 CEST * Deadline revised submission: Monday, 17th June 2024, 23:59 CEST * Arrival, Get-together: Wednesday, 4th September 2024 * Conference: Thursday 5th – Friday 6th September 2024 ============ *Submission* ============ We invite submissions for talks and for posters or software/corpus demonstrations on any topic relevant to the list of themes mentioned above. We invite two types of submissions: * Short papers (2–4 pages, following the existing template, i.e., between 800 and 1600 words) for oral presentations * Abstracts (max. 300 words) for poster presentations Each paper and abstract will be double blind peer reviewed by two or three members of the scientific committee. Authors of accepted papers can present their work at the conference (30-minute time slots: 20-minute talks, followed by 10 minutes of discussion). Authors of accepted abstracts can present their work in progress, early-stage research, software/corpus demonstrations during the poster session. At the start of the conference, all accepted papers will be made available in online proceedings. After the conference, speakers with the best short papers will be invited to submit extended papers for a special issue journal or a volume publication. *Instructions for authors* All submissions have to be written in English and have to be anonymised. The short papers for oral presentations should not exceed 4 pages and the paper format should adhere to the template which you can download from the links below. The abstracts for poster presentations should not exceed 300 words, bibliographical references not included. All contributions will be collected through the START system. (If you do not have any SoftConf account, you need to create one first.) Template for MSWord (40 kB): https://cmc-corpora-nice.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/template_word.docx Template for LaTeX (260 kB): https://cmc-corpora-nice.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/template_latex.zip For all enquiries, please contact the organizers at colloque.cmc-2024(a)univ-cotedazur.fr We look forward to seeing you there! The organizing committee: Céline POUDAT (CORLI, BCL), Marie CHANDELIER (BCL), Mathilde GUERNUT (CORLI), Christophe PARISSE (CORLI), Minerva ROJAS (BCL), Simona RUGGIA (BCL) Conference website: https://cmc-corpora-nice.sciencesconf.org/ ====================== *Scientific Committee* ====================== (confirmed so far): Adrien Barbaresi (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften) Mario Cal Varela (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela)) Marie Chandelier (Université Côte d'Azur) Steven Coats (University of Oulu) Louis Cotgrove (Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache) Orphée De Clercq (Ghent University) Susana Doval Suárez (University of Santiago de Compostela) Annamária Fábián (University of Bayreuth) Jennifer-Carmen Frey (European Academy of Bozen) Aivars Glaznieks (Eurac Research Bolzano) Jan Gorisch (Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache) Iris Hendrickx (Radboud University Nijmegen) Laura Herzberg (University of Mannheim) Mai Hodac (Université de Toulouse) Pawel Kamocki (IDS Mannheim) Alexander König (CLARIN ERIC) Florian Kunneman (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Marc Kupietz (Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache) Gudrun Ledegen (Université Rennes 2) Els Lefever (Ghent University) Julien Longhi (Cergy Paris université) Paula López Rúa (University of Santiago de Compostela) Harald Lüngen (Institut für Deutsche Sprache) Maja Miličević Petrović (University of Bologna) Nelleke Oostdijk (Radboud University) Ignacio Palacios Martínez (University of Santiago de Compostela) Céline Poudat (Université Côte d'azur) Minerva Rojas (Université Côte d'Azur) Simona Ruggia (Université Côte d'Azur) Tatjana Scheffler (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) Angelika Storrer (Universität Mannheim) Caroline Tagg (The Open University) Ludovic Tanguy (Université de Toulouse) Reinhild Vandekerckhove (Universiteit Antwerpen) Lieke Verheijen (Radboud University) Ciara Wigham (Université Clermont Auvergne)

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First CFP: 7thWorkshop on Indian Language Data: Resources and Evaluation (WILDRE) @LREC-COLING 2024
by Atul K. Ojha 16 Feb '24

16 Feb '24

Apologies for cross-posting. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7thWorkshop on Indian Language Data: Resources and Evaluation (WILDRE) Venue: Lingotto Conference Centre - Torino, Italy (Organized under LREC-COLING 2024 (20-25 May 2024)) Website: http://sanskrit.jnu.ac.in/conf/wildre7 WILDRE-7, the 7th Workshop on Indian Language Data: Resources and Evaluation is proposed to be organised in Lingotto Conference Centre - Torino, Italy under the LREC-COLING platform. India has a huge linguistic diversity and has seen concerted efforts from the Indian government and industry to develop language resources. European Language Resource Association (ELRA) and its associate organizations have been very active and successful in addressing the challenges and opportunities related to language resource creation and evaluation. It is therefore a big opportunity for resource creators of Indian languages to showcase their work on this platform and also to interact and learn from those involved in similar initiatives all over the world. The broader objectives of the WILDRE will be To map the status of Indian Language Resources To investigate challenges related to creating and sharing various levels of language resources To promote a dialogue between language resource developers and users To provide an opportunity for researchers from India to collaborate with researchers from other parts of the world Dates for Short/Long papers and Posters and Demos (tentative) February 28, 2023: Paper submissions due March 28, 2024: Paper notification acceptance April 10, 2024: Camera-ready papers due SUBMISSIONS Papers must describe original, completed/ in progress and unpublished work. Each submission will be reviewed by three program committee members. Accepted papers will be given up to 10 pages (for full papers) 5 pages (for short papers and posters) in the workshop proceedings, and will be presented as oral paper or poster. Papers should be formatted according to the LREC-COLING style sheet, which is provided on the LREC-COLING 2024 website ( https://lrec-coling-2024.org/authors-kit/). Papers should be submitted in PDF format to the LREC-COLING website ( https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/wildre-7/) We are seeking submissions under the following category Full papers (10 pages) Short papers (work in progress: 5 pages) Posters (innovative ideas/proposals, research proposal of students) Demo (of working online/standalone systems) WILDRE-7 will have a special focus on Demos of Indian Language Technology. In the past few years, as more resources have been developed and made available, there has been an increased activity in developing usable technology using these. WILDRE-7 would like to encourage and widen the Demo track to allow the community to showcase their demos and have mutually beneficial interactions with each other as well as resource developers. WILDRE-7 is seeking full, short papers, posters and demos on the following topics related to Indian Language Resources: Digital Humanities, heritage computing Corpora - text, speech, multimodal, methodologies, annotation and tools Lexicons and Machine-readable dictionaries Ontologies, Grammars Language resources for NLP/ IR/Speech tasks, tools and Infrastructure for language resources Standards or specifications for language resources application Licensing and copyright issues Data mining Text summarization Both submission and review processes will be handled electronically. The review process will be double-blind. The workshop website will provide the submission guidelines and the link for the electronic submission. When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC-COLING authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.), to enable their reuse, and replicability of experiments, including evaluation ones, etc. For further information on this initiative, please refer to https://lrec-coling-2024.org/ Shared Task Following the success of the five WILDRE workshops, WILDRE-7 will include Code-mixed Less-Resourced Sentiment Analysis (Code-mixed) and Discourse Machine Translation (DiscoMT) Shared Tasks. The organizers of shared tasks will provide datasets and evaluation platforms to evaluate systems developed by the participants. For further information on this initiative, please refer to http://sanskrit.jnu.ac.in/conf/wildre7 Workshop Organisers Girish Nath Jha, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India Kalika Bali, Microsoft Research India Lab, Bangalore, India Sobha L, AU-KBC, Anna University, Chennai, India Atul Kr. Ojha, University of Galway, Ireland & Panlingua Language Processing LLP, India Workshop contact: Atul Kr. Ojha, University of Galway, Ireland & Panlingua Language Processing LLP, India, shashwatup9k(a)gmail.com Identify, Describe and Share your LRs Describing your LRs in the LRE Map is now a normal practice in the submission procedure of LREC (introduced in 2010 and adopted by other conferences). To continue the efforts initiated at LREC 2014 about “Sharing LRs” (data, tools, web services, etc.), authors will have the possibility, when submitting a paper, to upload LRs in a special LREC repository. This effort of sharing LRs, linked to the LRE Map for their description, may become a new “regular” feature for conferences in our field, thus contributing to creating a common repository where everyone can deposit and share data. As scientific work requires accurate citations of referenced work to allow the community to understand the whole context and also replicate the experiments conducted by other researchers, LREC-COLING 2024 endorses the need to uniquely identify LRs through the use of the International Standard Language Resource Number (ISLRN, www.islrn.org), a Persistent Unique Identifier to be assigned to each Language Resource. The assignment of ISLRNs to LRs cited in LREC-COLING papers will be offered at submission time. -- Thanks, Atul

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POSTDOC on coherence and multimodal models (2-3 year position)
by Sharid Loáiciga 16 Feb '24

16 Feb '24

We have an open 2-3 year postdoc position at CLASP, University of Gothenburg, focusing on coherence and multimodal models. The application deadline is June 3, 2024. https://web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/1035/job?site=7&lang=UK&validator=9b89… Please don't hesitate to contact me with any questions you may have about the position, whether about salary, living in Gothenburg, working conditions, etc. Feel free to distribute as you wish! All the best, Sharid

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Call for Shared Task Participation: HarmPot-ID @TRAC2024
by Ritesh Kumar 16 Feb '24

16 Feb '24

Shared Task on Offline Harm Potential Identification (HarmPot-ID) Fourth Workshop on Threat, Aggression and Cyberbullying May 20, 2024 Lingotto Conference Centre - Torino (Italia) @ LREC-COLING 2024 *Task Website:* https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/17646 *Workshop Website:* https://sites.google.com/view/trac2024 ==================================== Call for Participation =================================== We are happy to announce that the Fourth Workshop on Threat, Aggression and Cyberbullying will be co-located with LREC-COLING 2024 on May 20, 2024. TRAC-2024 is introducing the novel task of predicting the offline harm potential of social media posts - broadly the task is to predict whether a specific post is likely to initiate, incite or further exaggerate an offline harm event (viz. riots, mob lynching, murder, rape, etc). It will consist of two sub-tasks. - Sub-task 1a: What is the offline harm potential of a document? This will be a four-class classification task where the participants will be required to predict the level of offline harm potential - 0 (it will never lead to offline harm, in any context), 1 (it could lead to incite an offline harm event given specific conditions or context), 2 (it is most likely to incite in most contexts or probably initiate an offline harm event in specific contexts) 3 (it is certainly going to incite or initiate an offline harm event in any context). Sub-task 1b: Who is/are the most likely target(s) of the offline harm? If an offline harm event is triggered, who are going to be the most affected groups of people? In this task, only the broad category of identities of the target(s) are to be predicted. It will be a five-class classification task - Gender Religion Descent Caste Political Ideology Important Dates ============== Training Set Release: February 7, 2024 Test Set Release: March 10, 2024 Submission due: March 13, 2024 System Description Papers due: March 21, 2024 Reviews for papers: March 27, 2024 Camera-ready due: March 31, 2024

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Adam Kilgarriff Prize - Call for Applcations
by info＠elda.org 16 Feb '24

16 Feb '24

[apologies for cross-posting] We invite applications for the Adam Kilgarriff Prize. Full information for potential applicants can be found here : https://kilgarriff.co.uk/prize/category/news/. The deadline for applications is *30th September 2024*. A winner will be announced on or before *31st December 2024*, and the Prize will be awarded at the eLex Conference of 2025 <http://elex.link/>. This is the fifth iteration of the Adam Kilgarriff Prize, which has so far had four excellent winners <https://kilgarriff.co.uk/prize/winners/>. We look forward to receiving your applications! Michael Rundell, Chair of Trustees, Adam Kilgarriff Prize

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Translation in Transition - Deadline extension
by Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski 16 Feb '24

16 Feb '24

The deadline for the 7th edition of the Translation in Transition conference (https://sites.google.com/view/tt2024) has been extended to Feb 23, 2024. This series of conferences has established itself as a central meeting point for researchers in the field of empirical translation studies through previous editions in Copenhagen, Germersheim, Ghent, Barcelona, Kent and Prague. In its 7th edition held at the Shota Rustaveli State University in Batumi it once again wants to be a forum of discussion for empirical research that is based on any kind of empirical methodology and that advances our knowledge in the fields of translation and interpreting. While the Batumi edition will be open to various topics within empirical translation studies, we also want to put special emphasis on two directions: low-resourced and less-researched language pairs, as well as an interplay between different methods and data types, e.g. combining product and process research. *Final Call for Papers* We invite original submissions that deal with any of the conference topics. To encourage a fruitful exchange of ideas and experience among the researchers of various fields of specialization, preference will be given to interdisciplinary contributions that cover two or more of the conference topics. The submissions are to be made in the form of anonymized extended abstracts that should be between 800 and 1000 words long (excluding references) by February 16, 2024. Apart from a clear outline of the aims and methods of the study, the abstracts should also provide (preliminary) results. The abstracts will be submitted through the open review system (https://openreview.net/group?id=TT/2024/Conference) and reviewed by at least two members of the scientific committee. The accepted contributions will be presented either as oral talks or as posters. All submissions must follow the abstract submission instructions (https://sites.google.com/view/tt2024/submission-instructions). We welcome contributions (in English) grounded in empirical approaches to studying both interlingual and intralingual translation, as well as theoretical and position papers on the following topics: * Empirical methods and models (corpus-based, corpus-driven, experimental) or methods derived from computational linguistics and data mining (e.g. computational semantics, pragmatics) applied to translation studies * Presentation of new resources for translation studies (spoken corpora, multimodal corpora, interpreting transcript datasets, corpora of low-resourced languages, lexicons, databases, etc.) * Method and data triangulation: combined use of corpus data and methods and other sources of data * Detection and analysis of specific features of translation (translationese, interpretese, editese, machine translationese, post-editese, etc.) using parallel and comparable corpora * Analysis and interpretation of variation in translation, e.g. variation driven through register/genre, expertise, mode, etc. * Empirical analysis of specialised translation, e.g. legal translation, technical translation and others * Analysis of non-canonical forms of translation/interpreting and multilingual communication * Cognitive and computational insights of variation in translation and translationese * Cognitive modeling of translation processes, including cognitive load measurements * Translation quality assessment and evaluation using corpora or experimental research * Translation in specific settings: between close languages, from a third language, non-native translation, indirect/relay translation, etc. * The use of corpora in translator and/or interpreter training * Improving understanding of translation in the context of NLP * Computer-assisted translation and/or interpreting (CAT/CAI) * Machine translation (MT): analysis, evaluation, selection and preparation of data for MT, ‘machine translationese’Important dates · Conference abstract submission due: Feb 23, 2024 · Notification of acceptance: April 8, 2024 · Final abstract version due: April 29, 2024 · Registration open: May 6, 2024 · Early-bird registration: June 6, 2024 · Conference date: September 23-25, 2024 The conference is organized by the Department of European Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University in Batumi (Georgia) in cooperation with the Institute of Translation Studies and Specialised Communication, University of Hildesheim (Germany). Local organizing committee at the Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University Khatuna Beridze, Theona Beridze, Khatuna Diasamidze, Tamta Nagervadze Program Chairs at the University of Hildesheim Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski and Silvana Deilen

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