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Second call for abstracts: UniDive 3rd general meeting
by Atul K. Ojha 12 Sep '24

12 Sep '24

Second call for abstracts, UniDive 3rd general meeting, HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, Hungary, Budapest, 29-30. January 2025 *UniDive <https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/>*is a COST action, i.e. a scientific network, dedicated to universality, diversity and idiosyncrasy in language technology. It is structured around 4 Working Groups: - WG1: Corpus annotation - WG2: Lexicon-corpus interface - WG3: Multilingual and cross-lingual language technology - WG4: Quantifying and promoting diversity The *third general meeting <https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/doku.php?id=meetings:general_meetings:2rd_…>* of the action will take place on January 29-30 and will be preceded by a WG2 meeting on 28 January 2025 at the HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics in Budapest. We invite UniDive WG members to submit abstract proposals related to the scientific program of the WGs. The main venues will be in *Benczúr Hotel <https://www.hotelbenczur.hu/>*, Budapest, but some sessions will take place at the *Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics <https://nytud.hu/en%7CHUN-REN>*, Budapest, Hungary. To know more about the posters, see the *call <https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/doku.php?id=meetings:general_meetings:3rd_…>* . Proposals may describe diverse types of contributions, according to 3 different tracks: - Planned work - Work in progress - Complete work, also previously published A proposal should be anonymous, written in English and submitted in pdf only. It should include (on the title page) the list of the relevant WGs. It should not exceed 2 pages, including figures and tables (bibliographic references may go beyond the 2-page limit). If linguistic examples from languages other than English are included, those should be glossed and translated into English, and an extra half page is allowed for this purpose. For the sake of uniformity and easing the reviewers’ effort, we encourage authors to use the *Overleaf Latex template <https://www.overleaf.com/read/yqbpxcbjmjjw>*. Other formats (not necessarily Latex-based) can also be used, provided that they conform to the following specifications: A4 paper, 11pt font, 1in margins. The submission link will be announced soon. *The submission link is https://openreview.net/group?id=UniDive/2025/General_Meeting <https://openreview.net/group?id=UniDive/2025/General_Meeting> * The reviewing process is double-blind. The selection of proposals will be done by UniDive Program Committee according to the following criteria: - relevance to UniDive and the work program of its Working Groups (see pp. 18-20 of the Memorandum of Understanding), - clarity - diversity of the languages covered by the workshop program The selected proposals will be presented at the 3rd UniDive general meeting as posters and/or oral presentations. At least one author per selected proposal will be reimbursed for their travel and stay. Important dates - 26 July 2024: Call for abstracts - *30 September 2024: Submission deadline* - 21 October 2024: Notification of acceptance - 26 October 2024: Communication of the names of the presenters - 09 November 2024: Final versions of abstracts - 28 January 2025: WG2 meeting - 29-30 January 2025: UniDive 3rd general meeting The time zone for all deadlines is anywhere on Earth (UTC-12). Due to the tight schedule, there's no further submission deadline extension. Best regards Program Chairs - Olha Kanishcheva, SET University (Ukraine) and Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Germany) - Veronika Lipp, HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics (Hungary) - Ranka Stanković, University of Belgrade (Serbia)

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Reminder: Call for Papers for the 22nd Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association
by Kathy Reid 12 Sep '24

12 Sep '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 and also online. 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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Adam Kilgarriff Prize 2024 – in the fields of corpus linguistics, computational linguistics, and lexicography
by Michal Cukr 12 Sep '24

12 Sep '24

Dear corpus and computational linguists, We invite applications for the Adam Kilgarriff Prize [image: 🏆] for outstanding works in corpus linguistics, computational linguistics, and lexicography. Apply by 30th September 2024. The Prize will be awarded at the eLex Conference 2025. For more information, visit https://kilgarriff.co.uk/prize/ <https://kilgarriff.co.uk/prize/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR0cqURwXdon0Ksd1L…> On behalf of the Board of Trustees, Michal Cukr

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2 PhD positions in Computational Linguistics at Indiana University
by Francis Tyers 11 Sep '24

11 Sep '24

[Apologies for cross posting] I am currently recruiting two four-year PhD researchers in Computational Linguistics for the NSF funded project "ReDDDoT Phase 2: Inclusive American language technologies" under my supervision. The two areas of research are: 1) Data governance issues in voice collection collaborations between non-Indigenous researchers and Indigenous communities. 2) Technical and social issues in collecting data for English--Spanish translanguaging, codeswitching and code mixing. The positions are available in joint collaboration between Indiana University and the Mozilla Foundation. Researchers will be based in the Department of Linguistics at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana and work in collaboration with Mozilla Common Voice. Appointments are 50% FTE (20 hours/week) and include: - a stipend of $23k/year - health insurance Application deadline: - International: 1st December, 2024 - Domestic: 2nd January, 2025 General requirements: - https://linguistics.indiana.edu/graduate/how-to-apply.html For further details please feel free to contact me on ftyers(a)iu.edu. Francis M. Tyers Associate Professor Linguistics Indiana University, Bloomington

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Financial Causality Detection (FINCausal 2025) shared task -COLING 2025
by PALOMA MARTINEZ FERNANDEZ 11 Sep '24

11 Sep '24

--------Apologies for cross posting----- Dear Colleagues, We are excited to announce *Financial Causality Detection (FinCausal 2025) shared task* to be organized in the upcoming the *6th Financial Narrative Processing (FNP)* <https://www.lllf.uam.es/wordpress/fincausal-25/>held in conjunction with COLING-2025 in Abu Dhabi, UAE, on January 19-20, 2025. For the 6th FNP shared task, we will continue working in two languages ( *English*, *Spanish*) and we will introduce a new FinCausal Shared Task: Financial Causality Detection (FinCausal 2025) on hybrid question answering. The objective is to detect causal effects in financial disclosures in English and Spanish. The dataset is a combination of extractive and generative QA. Questions will be formulated abstractedly, while answers will be extractive. In certain segments, questions will either focus on causes or effects, and the answers will be directly extracted from the text. The evaluation metric for responses will encompass both exact matching and semantic similarity. The shared tasks attracted more than 150 participants within the last 3 FNP editions, for this year we are expanding the dataset by making the tasks more challenging. → *2 new datasets* will be developed, one in English and one in Spanish Access the CodaLab by clicking here <https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/19936> *Key Dates* First CFP: 15 July 2024 Second CFP: 15 August 2024 (FinCausal) Practice set release: *2 September 2024* (FinCausal) Training set release: *15 September 2024* (FinCausal) Blind test set release: *30 October 2024* (FinCausal) Systems submission: *7 November 2024* (FinCausal) Release of results: *12 November 2024* (FinCausal and general) Paper Submission Deadline: *25 November 2024* Notifications of Acceptance: *5 December 2024* Camera-ready Paper Deadline: *13 December 2024* As in previous editions, FNP 2025 will be on-site and in-person (there will be NO option for it to be virtual or hybrid). More info: https://www.lllf.uam.es/wordpress/fincausal-25/fnp-2025/ Best Regards, Paloma Martínez Full professor Human Language and Accessibility Technologies Group (hulat.inf.uc3m.es <http://labda.inf.uc3m.es>) Computer Science Department Universidad Carlos III de Madrid @Grupo_HULAT

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MessIRve: a large-scale Spanish Information Retrieval dataset
by Francisco Valentini 11 Sep '24

11 Sep '24

We're happy to announce the release of *MessIRve*, a new *large-scale IR dataset in Spanish!* MessIRve* contains around *730k queries from 20 Spanish-speaking countries* *and the United States*, with relevant documents sourced from Wikipedia. MessIRve's queries reflect diverse Spanish-speaking regions, unlike other datasets that are translated from English or do not consider dialectal variations. The large size of the dataset allows it to cover a wide variety of topics, unlike smaller datasets. The dataset is available in *HuggingFace*! 🤗 - Queries and relevance judgments: spanish-ir/messirve <https://huggingface.co/datasets/spanish-ir/messirve> - The collection of documents: spanish-ir/eswiki_20240401_corpus <https://huggingface.co/datasets/spanish-ir/eswiki_20240401_corpus> - Queries and qrels in TREC format: spanish-ir/messirve-trec <https://huggingface.co/datasets/spanish-ir/messirve-trec> For more details, check out our *arXiv paper*: MessIRve: A Large-Scale Spanish Information Retrieval Dataset <http://arxiv.org/abs/2409.05994> We hope MessIRve serves to spur more work in IR for the Spanish language and facilitate the development of efficient information access tools for Spanish speakers. * MessIRve means *works** for **me* in Spanish ("me sirve"). The reference to Lionel Messi, player of the most popular sport in Spanish-speaking countries, football, stresses the importance of using topics that are relevant to Spanish speakers.

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Invitation for Research article submission to Explainable AI for Understanding Online Behaviors and Mitigating Radicalization (XAI-OBRAD) 2024 Special Session
by Rajesh Sharma 10 Sep '24

10 Sep '24

Sorry for cross posting, We are delighted to invite you to submit your research to the Special Session on *Explainable AI for Understanding Online Behaviors and Mitigating Radicalization (XAI-OBRAD 2024)*, which will be held from *November 20-22, 2024*, in Porto, Portugal. This special session is part of the *1st International Conference on Explainable AI for Neural and Symbolic Methods (EXPLAINS 2024)*. As we are approaching the *paper submission deadline on September 20, 2024*, we encourage you to submit your work as soon as possible. This is a great opportunity to present your research in the growing field of Explainable Artificial Intelligence (xAI), particularly in its application to understanding and mitigating the impact of social media on user polarization and radicalization. This special session aims to explore the intersection of xAI and online behavior analysis, focusing on innovative research challenges and solutions to mitigate these adverse effects. We welcome contributions that align with our topics of interest, including but not limited to: - Exploring the Role of eXplainable AI in Understanding Online Behavior Dynamics - Detecting and Mitigating Echo Chambers through Interpretable AI Techniques - Leveraging xAI for Quantifying the Impact of Recommendation Systems on Radicalization Pathways - Combating Disinformation and Fake News with Transparent AI Solutions - Advancements in Explainable AI for Promoting Content Diversity and Reducing Polarization on Social Media Platforms *Important Dates:* - *Paper Submission Deadline: September 20, 2024* - Authors Notification: October 4, 2024 - Camera Ready and Registration: October 14, 2024 *Submission Details:* Prospective authors are invited to submit papers electronically via the web-based submission system. Detailed instructions for preparing the manuscript (in Word and Latex formats) are available on the conference website. *Publication:* All accepted papers will be published in a special section of the conference proceedings book, with an ISBN reference, and submitted for indexation by SCOPUS, Google Scholar, DBLP, Semantic Scholar, EI, and Web of Science/Conference Proceedings Citation Index. Each paper will receive a DOI from CrossRef, and all presented papers will be available in the SCITEPRESS Digital Library. For more details about the special session, please visit our webpage: https://explains.scitevents.org/XAI-OBRAD.aspx We believe your research could make a significant contribution to this session, and we look forward to receiving your submission. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the conference secretariat at explains.secretariat(a)insticc.org. Warm regards, Danilo Cavaliere, University of Salerno, Italy Giuseppe Fenza, University of Salerno, Italy Rajesh Sharma, University of Tartu, Estonia Co-Chairs, XAI-OBRAD 2024

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2 Fellow positions at PSL ML for the Sciences (5 years)
by A. Allauzen 10 Sep '24

10 Sep '24

If you are a young researcher (PhD holder) in core AI fields (mathematics or computer science) or in applied domains (natural language or speech processing, physics, astrophysics, chemistry, life sciences, cognitive sciences, etc.), join us ! PSL opens two Fellow positions. A fellow is an attractive postdoc position along with teaching activities in AI and datascience. PSL provides an exceptional environment for research in data science and artificial intelligence. Depending on your skills, you will will be attached to one of the institutions of PSL. In your application you can give wishes that correspond to your research project, or we can also guide you. - Application deadline: October 31st, 2024 - Candidates selected for an audition will be invited for an in-person or video interview. - Expected starting date: January 2025 If you need more information, feel free to contact me. Best regards, Alexandre Allauzen

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Call for Shared Task - RIRAG: Regulatory Information Retrieval and Answer Generation at RegNLP 2025
by Tuba Gokhan 10 Sep '24

10 Sep '24

The Regulatory Information Retrieval and Answer Generation (RIRAG) Shared Task will take place as part of the RegNLP 2025 Workshop on January 20th, 2025, in conjunction with the COLING 2025 conference in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Regulatory documents contain critical information that governs compliance and legal obligations across industries. However, retrieving relevant information and generating precise answers from these documents remains a challenging task due to their complex and diverse nature. The RIRAG Shared Task aims to address this challenge by encouraging the development of state-of-the-art systems for the retrieval and generation of answers from regulatory documents. ===Shared Task Objectives=== -Task 1: Regulatory Information Retrieval Participants will build models that retrieve relevant passages from a collection of regulatory documents, given a set of questions. -Task 2: Regulatory Answer Generation Participants will generate concise and accurate answers to regulatory questions based on the retrieved passages. ===Participation Details=== Participants will be provided with a comprehensive dataset, including regulatory documents and a set of questions related to compliance and obligations. The shared task will be divided into three phases: the Development Phase, the Testing and Submission Phase, and the Evaluation Phase. Participants will also be invited to describe their system in a paper for the RegNLP workshop proceedings. ===Important Dates=== -Development Phase: --Start: September 10, 2024 --End: November 10, 2024 Description: Participants can use all provided data for both Task 1 and Task 2. During this phase, test data will be made available for participants to evaluate their own models, but results will not determine final awards. -Testing and Submission Phase: --Start: November 10, 2024 --End: November 20, 2024 Description: Unseen questions will be released for participants to apply their models. Final submissions must be made during this period. -Evaluation Phase: --Start: November 20, 2024 --End: November 25, 2024 Description: Organizers will evaluate the submitted results, and winners will be determined based on their performance. -System Paper Submission Phase: Start: November 25, 2024 End: December 10, 2024 Description: Winning teams are expected to submit a detailed system paper, outlining their methodologies and findings. ===Join the Shared Task=== Interested participants can join the shared task and access more information by visiting our competition page on Codabench: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/3527/ ===Baseline System=== For reference, participants can access the baseline system : https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.05677 ===More Information=== For more information about RegNLP and RIRAG, please visit our website: https://regnlp.github.io/ ===Contact Information=== For inquiries related to the shared task, please contact us via email at: regnlp2025(a)gmail.com

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SEARCH SOLUTIONS 2024 - registration open
by Udo Kruschwitz 09 Sep '24

09 Sep '24

Search Solutions 2024 Wednesday 27 November 2024, London Innovations in Search and Information Retrieval Search Solutions is the BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group’s (BCS IRSG) annual event focused on practitioner issues in the arena of search and information retrieval (IR). We bring together practitioners, researchers, analysts and end users to discuss the latest developments in the IR community and to share insights between research and practice. The event consists of a Tutorial day (26 November) and a Conference day (27 November), each of which has a separate registration.The conference day includes presentations, panels and keynote talks by influential industry leaders on novel and emerging applications in search and information retrieval. 09:30 - 09:50 Registration and coffee SESSION 1: THE SEARCH EXPERIENCE: FOCUS ON THE USER 09:50 - 10:00 Introduction 10:00 - 10:20 Tanja Svarre (University of Aalborg) “People search in the enterprise” 10:20 - 10:40 Eugene Morozov (ISKO) “Search and Browse Use Cases in Data Governance” 10:40 - 10:55 Panel Q&A 10:55 - 11:10 BREAK SESSION 2: BEYOND KEYWORD SEARCH: RETRIEVAL-AUGMENTED GENERATION 11:10 - 11:30 Dyaa Albakour (SIGNAL AI) “Mapping the landscape of narratives in Global Media” 11:30 - 11:50 Alessandro Benedetti (Sease) “What I don’t like about RAG: can we do better?” 11:50 - 12:10 Taketomo Isazawa (Microsoft Research) “Beyond RAG: Integrating Knowledge with LLMs” 12:10 - 12:25 Panel Q&A 12:25 - 13:30 LUNCH SESSION 3: SEARCH WITH AN IMPACT: SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS 13:30 - 13:50 Maria-Inti Metzendorf (Cochrane Evidence Synthesis Unit Düsseldorf) “Searching for Living Systematic Reviews – overview and case report” 13:50 - 14:10 James Thomas (UCL) “The responsible use of AI in evidence synthesis: collaborative development of guidance and recommendations” 14:10 - 14:25 Panel Q&A 14:25 - 14:40 BREAK SESSION 4: SEARCH IN INDUSTRIAL SETTINGS: GETTING IT RIGHT 14:40 - 15:00 Gabriella Kazai (Amazon) “What Matters in a Measure? A Perspective from Large-Scale Search Evaluation” 15:00 - 15:20 Charlie Hull (OpenSource Connections) “Measure and Tune your Search with User Behaviour Insights” 15:20 - 15:40 Daniel Tunkelang (Consultant) & Aritra Mandal (eBay) “Modeling Queries as Bags of Documents” 15:40 - 15:55 Panel Q&A 15:55 - 16:30 BREAK 16:30 - 17:15 PANEL SESSION Panel topic: “Has generative AI removed the need for standalone search? A discussion” Panel chair: Michael Upshall (The Search Network) 17:15 - 17:25 BCS SEARCH INDUSTRY AWARDS 17:25 - 17:30 Closing words 17:30 EVENING RECEPTION LOCATION Search Solutions is organised by the Information Retrieval Specialist Group of the BCS (The Chartered Institute for IT) and ISKO (International Society for Knowledge Organization), and is held at the BCS Central London Office: BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT Ground Floor 25 Copthall Avenue London EC2R 7BP https://www.bcs.org/about-us/our-london-office-and-event-venue/ REGISTRATION Registration fees (including VAT at 20%) for Search Solutions are as follows: * BCS / ISKO member rate: £92 * Non-member rate: £110 * Students: £80 Registration fees include lunch. Tea and coffee will also be available throughout the day followed by a drinks reception in the evening. Register here: https://www.bcs.org/events-calendar/2024/november/search-solutions-2024-inf… TUTORIAL DAY Search Solutions also includes a Tutorial Programme on Tuesday, 26 November. A detailed programme will be announced in due course. A Call for Tutorials can be found here: https://www.bcs.org/membership-and-registrations/member-communities/informa… Tutorials are payable separately. PAST EVENTS Search Solutions has been held annually since 2007. For details of past events please see: https://www.bcs.org/membership-and-registrations/member-communities/informa…

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