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AT4SSL2023 - First Call For Papers
by Fred Blain 13 Mar '23

13 Mar '23

Second International Workshop on Automatic Translation for Signed and Spoken Languages (AT4SSL2023 @EAMT2023) First Call For Papers https://sites.google.com/tilburguniversity.edu/at4ssl2023/ ****** Apologies for cross -posting ****** SCOPE According to the World Federation of the Deaf (WFD) over 70 million people are deaf and communicate primarily via Sign Language (SL). Currently, human interpreters are the main medium for sign-to-spoken, spoken-to-sign and sign-to-sign language translation. The availability and cost of these professionals is often a limiting factor in communication between signers and non-signers. Machine Translation (MT) is a core technique for reducing language barriers for spoken languages. Although MT has come a long way since its inception in the 1950s, it still has a long way to go to successfully cater to all communication needs and users. When it comes to the deaf and hard of hearing communities, MT is in its infancy. The complexity of the task to automatically translate between SLs or sign and spoken languages, requires a multidisciplinary approach (Bragg et al., 2019)<https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3308561.3353774>. The rapid technological and methodological advances in deep learning, and in AI in general, that we see in the last decade, have not only improved MT, recognition of image, video and audio signals, the understanding of language, the synthesis of life-like 3D avatars, etc., but have also led to the fusion of interdisciplinary research innovations that lays the foundation of automated translation services between sign and spoken languages. This one-day workshop aims to be a venue for presenting and discussing (complete, ongoing or future) research on automatic translation between sign and spoken languages and bring together researchers, practitioners, interpreters and innovators working in related fields. Theme of the workshop: Data is one of the key factors for the success of today’s AI, including language and translation models for sign and spoken languages. However, when it comes to SL, MT and Natural Language Processing, we face problems related to small volumes of (parallel) data, large veracity in terms of origin of annotations (deaf or hearing interpreters), non-standardized annotations (e.g. glosses differ across corpora), video quality or recording setting, and others. The theme of this edition of the workshop is Sign language parallel data – challenges, solutions and resolutions. The AT4SSL workshop aims to open a (guided) discussion between participants about current challenges, innovations and future developments related to the automatic translation between sign and spoken languages. To this extent, AT4SSL will host a moderated round table around the following three topics: (i) quality of recognition and synthesis models and user-expectations; (ii) co-creation -- deaf, hearing and hard-of-hearing people joining forces towards a common goal and (iii) sign-to-spoken and spoken-to-sign translation technology in media. TOPICS This workshop aims to focus on the following topics. However, submissions related to the general topic of automatic translation between signed and spoken languages that deviate from these topics are also welcome: * Data: resources, collection and curation, challenges, processing, data life cycle * Use-cases, applications * Ethics, privacy and policies * Sign language linguistics * Machine translation (with a focus on signed-to-signed, signed-to-spoken or spoken-to-signed language translation) * Natural language processing * Interpreting of sign and spoken languages * Image and video recognition (for the purpose of sign language recognition) * 3D avatar and virtual signers synthesis * Usability and challenges of current methods and methodologies * Sign language in the media SUBMISSION FORMAT Two types of submissions are going to be accepted for the AT4SSL workshop: * Research, review, position and application papers Unpublished papers that present original, completed work. The length of each paper should be at least four (4) and maximum eight (8) pages, with unlimited pages for references. * Extended abstracts Extended abstracts should present original, ongoing work or innovative ideas. The length of each extended abstract is four (4) pages, with unlimited pages for references. Both papers should be formatted according to the official EAMT 2023 style templates (LaTex<https://events.tuni.fi/uploads/2022/12/ee35fd56-latex_template.zip>. Overleaf<https://www.overleaf.com/read/mkjbkppndvxw>, MS Word<https://events.tuni.fi/uploads/2022/12/edd598d2-eamt23.docx>, Libre/Open Office<https://events.tuni.fi/uploads/2022/12/ece98f81-eamt23.odt>, PDF<https://events.tuni.fi/uploads/2022/12/6e89772e-eamt23.pdf>). Accepted papers and extended abstracts will be published in the EAMT 2023 proceedings and will be presented at the conference. SUBMISSION POLICY * Submissions must be anonymized. * Papers and extended abstracts should be submitted using EASY Chair<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eamt2023>. * Work that has been or is planned to be submitted to other venues must be declared as such. Upon acceptance at AT4SSL, it must be withdrawn from the other venues. * The review will be double-blind. IMPORTANT DATES: * First call for papers: 13-March-2023 * Second call for papers: 31-March-2023 * Submission deadline: 14-April-2023 * Review process: between 17-April-2023 and 05-May-2023 * Acceptance notification: 12-May-2023 * Camera ready submission: 01-June-2023 * Submission of material for interpreters: 06-June-2023 * Programme will be finalised by: 01-June-2023 * Workshop date: 15-June-2023 ORGANISATION COMMITTEE: Dimitar Shterionov (TiU) Mirella De Sisto (TiU) Mathias Muller (UZH) Davy Van Landuyt (EUD) Rehana Omardeen (EUD) Shaun O’Boyle (DCU) Annelies Braffort (Paris-Saclay University) Floris Roelofsen (UvA) Frédéric Blain (TiU) Bram Vanroy (KU Leuven; UGent) Eleftherios Avramidis (DFKI) FOR CONTACTS: Dimitar Shterionov, workshop chair: d.shterionov(a)tilburguniversity.edu Registration will be handled by the EAMT2023 conference. (To be announced)

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CfP: CLIRAI / CompLingInfoReasAI / Computational Linguistics, Information, Reasoning, and AI
by Roussanka Loukanova 13 Mar '23

13 Mar '23

CALL FOR PAPERS ================================================ Special Session: Computational Linguistics, Information, Reasoning, and AI (CLIRAI) (previous alias: CompLingInfoReasAI) Guimarães (Portugal) within PAAMS'23, from 12th to 14th July, 2023, HYBRID https://www.dcai-conference.net/special-sessions/clirai ================================================ SCOPE: Computational and technological developments that incorporate natural language and reasoning methods are proliferating. Adequate coverage encounters difficult problems related to partiality, underspecification, agents, and context dependency, which are signature features of information in nature, natural languages, and reasoning. The session covers theoretical work, applications, approaches, and techniques for computational models of information, language (artificial, human, or natural in other ways), reasoning. The goal is to promote computational systems and related models of thought, mental states, reasoning, and other cognitive processes. TOPICS: We invite contributions relevant to the following topics, without being limited to them, across approaches, methods, theories, implementations, and applications: - Theorem provers and assistants - Model checkers - Theory of computation - Theory of information - Computational methods of inferences in natural language - Computational theories and systems of reasoning in natural language - Transfer of reasoning in natural language to theorem provers, or vice versa - Transfer of reasoning between natural language, theorem provers, model checkers, and various computational assistants - Computational approaches of computational linguistics for domain specific areas - Theories for applications to language, information processing, reasoning - Type theories for applications to language, information processing, reasoning - Computational grammar - Computational syntax - Computational semantics of natural languages - Computational syntax-semantics interface - Interfaces between morphology, lexicon, syntax, semantics, speech, text, pragmatics - Parsing - Multilingual processing - Large-scale grammars of natural languages - Models of computation and algorithms for linguistics, natural language processing, argumentation - Computational models of partiality, underspecification, and context-dependency - Models of situations, contexts, and agents, for applications to computational linguistics - Information about space and time in language models and processing == - Data science in language processing - Machine learning of language and reasoning - Interdisciplinary methods - Integration of formal, computational, model theoretic, graphical, diagrammatic, statistical, and other related methods - Logic for information extraction or expression in written and / or spoken language - Logic for information integrations of diagrams with written and / or spoken language == - Formal models of argumentations - Interactive computation, reasoning, argumentation - Computation with heterogeneous information - Reasoning with heterogeneous and/or inconsistent information - Dialog and other interactions - Interdisciplinary approaches to language, computation, reasoning, memory - Applications, e.g., to business, economy, justice, health, medical sciences, etc. == - Computational language processing based on fundamentals of information and languages - Computational neuroscience of language - etc. IMPORTANT DATES Deadline (Maintrack and Special Sessions) 24th March, 2023 Notification of acceptance 3rd May, 2023 Camera-Ready papers 19th May, 2023 Conference Celebration 12th-14th July, 2023 PAPER SUBMISSION https://www.dcai-conference.net/special-sessions The papers must consist of original, relevant, and previously unpublished, sound research results related to any of the topics of the Special Session CompLingInfoReasAI / CLIRAI. SUBMITTING PAPERS and PAPER FORMAT DCAI Special Session papers must be formatted according to the Template of Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems (LNNS), Springer, with a maximum length of 10 pages in length, including figures and references. All papers must be formatted according to the LNNS template, with a maximum length of 10 pages, including figures and references: https://www.dcai-conference.net/special-sessions PUBLICATION All accepted, registered, and presented papers will be published by the series Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems (LNNS), Springer. At least one of the authors of an accepted paper will be required to register and attend the symposium to present the paper in order to include it in the conference proceedings. CHAIRS Roussanka Loukanova Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria Sara Rodríguez University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain ======

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[HOPE@IberLEF2023] IberLEF 2023 Task - HOPE: Multilingual Hope Speech detection - Test set released!
by Salud María Jiménez Zafra 13 Mar '23

13 Mar '23

Test set released! SECOND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION IberLEF 2023 Task - HOPE: Multilingual Hope Speech detection Held as part of the evaluation forum IberLEF 2023 <https://sites.google.com/view/iberlef-2023> in the XXXIX edition of the International Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN 2023 <http://sepln2023.sepln.org/en/home/>) September 26, 2023. Jaén, Andalusia, Spain Codalab link: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/10215 Dear All, We are inviting researchers and students to participate in the shared-task HOPE: Multilingual Hope Speech detection, held as part of IberLEF 2023, the shared evaluation campaign for Natural Language Processing systems in Spanish and other Iberian languages, collocated with SEPLN 2023 Conference. The HOPE shared task is related to the inclusion of vulnerable groups and focuses on the study of the detection of hope speech, in pursuit of equality, diversity and inclusion. This task was previously organized at the second workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (LT-EDI-2022), as a part of ACL 2022, but for five languages: Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada, English and Spanish. The novelties of this shared task are: i) it is organized in two languages, Spanish and English; and ii) it provides an expanded and improved dataset. It consists of two subtasks: - Subtask 1: Hope Speech detection in Spanish. Given a Spanish tweet, identifying whether it contains hope speech or not. The possible categories for each text are: - HS: Hope Speech. - NHS: Non Hope Speech. - Subtask 2: Hope Speech detection in English. Given an English Youtube comment, identifying whether it contains hope speech or not. The possible categories for each text are: - HS: Hope Speech. - NHS: Non Hope Speech. In both subtasks there will be a real time leaderboard and the participants will be allowed to make a maximum of 10 submissions through CodaLab, from which each team will have to select the best one for ranking. The dataset for this task comprises two corpus, one in Spanish and another in English. The Spanish corpus was collected between 2021 and 2022. It is an extension of the SpanishHopeEDI dataset (García-Baena et al., 2023) to be published in the journal Language Resources and Evaluation, which was used in the ACL LT-EDI-2022 Spanish task (Chakravarthi et al., 2022). It consists of a set of LGBT-related tweets annotated as HS (Hope Speech) or NHS (Non Hope Speech). A tweet is considered as HS if the text: i) explicitly supports the social integration of minorities; ii) is a positive inspiration for the LGTBI community; iii) explicitly encourages LGTBI people who might find themselves in a situation; or iv) unconditionally promotes tolerance. On the contrary, a tweet is marked as NHS if the text: i) expresses negative sentiment towards the LGTBI community; ii) explicitly seeks violence; or iii) uses gender-based insults. The English corpus is an extension of the English part of the HopeEDI dataset (Chakravarthi, 2020). It consists of comments posted on YouTube videos on a wide range of socially relevant topics such as Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, including LGBTIQ issues, COVID-19, women in STEM, Black Lives Matter, etc. Today, we have released the test dataset that can be found in the "Files" subsection of the "Participate" tab. Finally, remember that the CodaLab competition is open to submit your results with the test set until Mar 28th, 2023. To download the data and participate, go to: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/10215. Best regards, The HOPE 2023 organizing committee References - García-Baena, D., García-Cumbreras, M.A., Jiménez-Zafra, S.M., García-Díaz, J.A., Valencia-García, R. (2023). Hope Speech Detection in Spanish. The LGBT case. Language Resources and Evaluation. To be published. - Chakravarthi BR (2020) HopeEDI: A multilingual hope speech detection dataset for equality, diversity, and inclusion. In: Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Computational Modeling of People’s Opinions, Personality, and Emotion’s in Social Media, Association for Computational Linguistics, Barcelona, Spain (Online), pp 41–53, URL https://aclanthology.org/2020.peoples-1.5 - Chakravarthi, B. R., Muralidaran, V., Priyadharshini, R., Cn, S., McCrae, J. P., García-Cumbreras, M. Á., Jiménez-Zafra, S. M., Valencia-García, R., Kumar Kumaresan, P., Ponnusamy, R., García-Baena, D. & García-Díaz, J. (2022, May). Overview of the Shared Task on Hope Speech Detection for Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion. In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (pp. 378-388). https://aclanthology.org/2022.ltedi-1.58 Important dates - Release of training + development corpora: Feb 13, 2023. - Release of test corpora and start of evaluation campaign: Mar 13, 2023. - End of evaluation campaign (deadline for runs submission): Mar 28, 2023. - Publication of official results: Mar 30, 2023. - Paper submission: Abr 25, 2023. - Review notification: May 23, 2023. - Camera ready submission: Jun 9, 2023. - IberLEF Workshop (SEPLN 2023): Sep 26, 2023 (Jaén, Andalusia, Spain) - Publication of proceedings: Sep ??, 2023 Organizing committee - Miguel Ángel García Cumbreras (SINAI, Universidad de Jaén) - Daniel García-Baena (SINAI, Universidad de Jaén) - Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi (University of Galway) - Salud María Jiménez-Zafra (SINAI, Universidad de Jaén) - José Antonio García-Díaz (UMUTeam, Universidad de Murcia) - Rafael Valencia-García (UMUteam, Universidad de Murcia) - L. Alfonso Ureña-López (SINAI, Universidad de Jaén) [image: Universidad de Jaén] <http://www.uja.es/> *Salud María Jiménez Zafra* sjzafra(a)ujaen.es Universidad de Jaén Grupo de Investigación SINAI <http://sinai.ujaen.es/> | Departamento de Informática EPS Jaén, Edificio A3, Despacho 219 Campus Las Lagunillas s/n 23071 - Jaén | +34 953212992 [image: Universidad de Jaén] <http://www.uja.es/>

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NLDB 2023 - Submission deadline extended
by Farid Meziane 13 Mar '23

13 Mar '23

Dear colleagues, Following many requests from authors, the deadline for paper submission to NLDB 2023 has been extended to the 31 March 2023. NLDB 2023 The 28th International Conference on Natural Language & Information Systems 21-23 June 2023, University of Derby, United Kingdom. https://www.derby.ac.uk/events/latest-events/nldb-2023/ About NLDB The 28th International Conference on Natural Language & Information Systems will be held at the University of Derby, United Kingdom and will be a face to face event. Since 1995, the NLDB conference brings together researchers, industry practitioners, and potential users interested in various application of Natural Language in the Database and Information Systems field. The term "Information Systems" has to be considered in the broader sense of Information and Communication Systems, including Big Data, Linked Data and Social Networks. The field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) has itself recently experienced several exciting developments. In research, these developments have been reflected in the emergence of neural language models (Deep Learning, Word Embeddings, Transformers) and the importance of aspects such as transparency, bias and fairness, a (renewed) interest in various linguistic phenomena, such as in discourse and argumentation mining, and in new problems such as the detection of disinformation and hate speech in social media, as well of mental health disorders that increased during the recent pandemic. Regarding applications, NLP systems have evolved to the point that they now offer real-life, tangible benefits to enterprises. Many of these NLP systems are now considered a de-facto offering in business intelligence suites, such as algorithms for recommender systems and opinion mining/sentiment analysis. It is against this backdrop of recent innovations in NLP and its applications in information systems that the 28th edition of the NLDB conference takes place. We welcome research and industrial contributions, describing novel, previously unpublished works on NLP and its applications across a plethora of topics as described in the Call for Papers. Call for Papers NLDB 2023 invites authors to submit papers for oral or poster presentations on unpublished research that addresses theoretical aspects, algorithms, applications, architectures for applied and integrated NLP, resources for applied NLP, and other aspects of NLP, as well as survey and discussion papers. This year's edition of NLDB also introduces an Industry Track, to foster fruitful interaction between the industry and the research community. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Social Media and Web Analytics: Opinion mining/sentiment analysis, irony/sarcasm detection; detection of fake reviews and deceptive language; detection of harmful information: fake news and hate speech; sexism and misogyny; detection of mental health disorders; identification of stereotypes and social biases; robust NLP methods for sparse, ill-formed texts; recommendation systems. * Deep Learning and eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI): Deep learning architectures, word embeddings, transparency, interpretability, fairness, debiasing, ethics. * Argumentation Mining and Applications: Automatic detection of argumentation components and relationships; creation of resource (e.g. annotated corpora, treebanks and parsers); Integration of NLP techniques with formal, abstract argumentation structures; Argumentation Mining from legal texts and scientific articles. * Question Answering (QA): Natural language interfaces to databases, QA using web data, multi-lingual QA, non-factoid QA(how/why/opinion questions, lists), geographical QA, QA corpora and training sets, QA over linked data (QALD). * Corpus Analysis: multi-lingual, multi-cultural and multi-modal corpora; machine translation, text analysis, text classification and clustering; language identification; plagiarism detection; information extraction: named entity, extraction of events, terms and semantic relationships. * Semantic Web, Open Linked Data, and Ontologies: Ontology learning and alignment, ontology population, ontology evaluation, querying ontologies and linked data, semantic tagging and classification, ontology-driven NLP, ontology-driven systems integration. * Natural Language in Conceptual Modelling: Analysis of natural language descriptions, NLP in requirement engineering, terminological ontologies, consistency checking, metadata creation and harvesting. * Natural Language and Ubiquitous Computing: Pervasive computing, embedded, robotic and mobile applications; conversational agents; NLP techniques for Internet of Things (IoT); NLP techniques for ambient intelligence * Big Data and Business Intelligence: Identity detection, semantic data cleaning, summarisation, reporting, and data to text. Important Dates: Full paper submission: 31 March, 2023 Paper notification: 25 April, 2023 Camera-ready deadline: 5 May , 2023 Conference: 21-23 June 2023 Submission Guidelines Authors should follow the LNCS format (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… ) and submit their manuscripts in pdf via Easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nldb2023 ) Submissions can be full papers (12 pages maximum including references), short papers (8 pages including references) or papers for a poster presentation or system demonstration (6 pages including references). The programme committee may decide to accept some full papers as short papers or poster papers. The reviewing process of NLDB 2023 is double-blind, i.e., submissions must not contain author names or other identifying information, such as funding sources, acknowledgments and must use the third person to refer to work the authors have previously undertaken. System demonstration papers may not be anonymous. [University of Derby] Professor Farid Meziane, PhD, FHEA Professor of Data Science Data Science Research theme lead Head Data Science Research Centre<https://www.derby.ac.uk/research/about-our-research/centres-groups/data-sci…> Chair, College Research Committee College of Science and Engineering University of Derby, Markeaton Street, Derby DE22 3AW NLDB2023 Conference at Derby <https://www.derby.ac.uk/events/latest-events/ndlb-2023/> Te: 01332 594031 f.meziane(a)derby.ac.uk<mailto:f.meziane@derby.ac.uk> The University of Derby has a published policy regarding email and reserves the right to monitor email traffic. If you believe this was sent to you in error, please reply to the sender and let them know. Key University contacts: http://www.derby.ac.uk/its/contacts/

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Call for Marie Curie candidates (MCIF) at the IAL of Eurac Research
by Lionel Nicolas 10 Mar '23

10 Mar '23

****** Apologies for cross -posting ****** Dear all, the Institute for Applied Linguistics (IAL) of Eurac Research of Bolzano in the north of Italy is interested in hosting Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellows (IF) and invites potential applicants to a dedicated 4-days Training taking place online from the 15th until the 19th of May 2023. Over the course of the training, selected applicants develop their fellowship proposal together with senior researchers from Eurac Research, learn from current MSCA Fellows in Eurac Research, and are trained by MSCA experts and an MSCA evaluator on the dos-and-don'ts of the MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship proposal. After the MSC Week, the trainers accompany the researchers through the writing and fine-tuning of their fellowship proposals until the submission deadline. For this year, we are especially interested in the following two subjects. (1) Speech-To-Text (STT) technologies. (2) The combination of Crowdsourcing and Language Learning. With regards to (1), Speech-To-Text technologies, we have identified significant demand in our local network of contacts, especially with respect to the processing of the local variant of German (South Tyrolean), and are interested in developing new STT models better adapted to the specific linguistic reality of South Tyrol. Regarding (2), we’re working on the combination of Crowdsourcing and Language Learning as a means of producing language-related datasets and language learning material. Project ideas addressing the aforementioned subjects are very welcome, as well as any other subjects relevant to the IAL. More information about the Institute, its members and its projects is available at: https://www.eurac.edu/en/institutes-centers/institute-for-applied-linguisti… To participate in the training, please apply with a project proposal of up to 1000 words and a CV. The deadline for applications is 27.03.2023. Please visit the MSCA event website for more details on how to apply: https://www.eurac.edu/en/research-support/marie-sklodowska-curie-week Feel free to distribute this information. If you have any questions, you can contact me directly. Best regards, Lionel Nicolas -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Senior Researcher in Computer Science, Natural Language Processing Institute for Applied Linguistics Eurac Research ----------------------------------------------------------------- Viale Druso/Drususallee 1, 39100 Bolzano/Bozen - Italy +39 0471 055 123 ----------------------------------------------------------------- According to regulation (EU) 2016/679 this transmission is intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you receive this transmission in error, please notify the sender immediately by email and delete all copies of this message and any attachments. -----------------------------------------------------------------

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NLP4Disability Workshop - Deadline Extended 25 March
by Hend Al-Khalifa 10 Mar '23

10 Mar '23

NLP4Disability: Call for Papers The First Workshop on Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Disability @ PETRA 2023 <http://www.petrae.org/>. July 5-7, 2023. CORFU ISLAND, GREECE The deadline for workshop, poster and demo papers is extended to March 25, 2023. Website: https://nlp4disability.github.io/ Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=petra2023 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=petra2023> Topics of interest This workshop will explore how natural language processing can be used to improve the lives of people with disabilities. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Automatic identification of disabilities from text - Development of accessible natural language interfaces - Generating alternative text descriptions of images for people with visual impairments - Improving automatic speech recognition for people with hearing impairments - Accessible natural language interfaces - Assistive technologies for people with disabilities - Computational linguistics for people with disabilities - Language processing for people with disabilities - Text processing for people with disabilities - NLP Bias Against Disabled People Important Dates Workshop paper submission deadline: March 10, 25, 2023 Review Period: March 11 - April 07, 2023 Notification date: April 10, 2023 Camera-Ready: April 30, 2023 Publications All accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings and will be published with the ACM Digital Library as part of the ACM ICPS program. Also, Authors of selected papers will also be invited to submit an extended and improved version to a Special Issue published in Nafath newsletter (ISSN: 2789-9144) indexed in DOAJ and Google Scholar ( https://nafath.mada.org.qa). Workshop Organizers - Hend Al-Khalifa. Faculty at the Information Technology Department, College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia - Zainab AlMeraj. Faculty at the Information Science Department, College of Life Sciences, Kuwait University, Kuwait - Achraf Othman. Mada Center, Qatar - Dena Al-Thani. College of Science and Engineering, Hamad bin Khalifa University, Qatar

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Second CfP: KONVENS 2023, Ingolstadt, Bavaria, Germany
by Annemarie Friedrich 10 Mar '23

10 Mar '23

KONVENS 2023: Second Call for Papers We cordially invite submissions of papers and abstracts to KONVENS 2023, which takes place from September 18-22, 2023 at the Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt (Bavaria, Germany). Next to its technical program, KONVENS will feature a lively exchange between academic researchers and colleagues from industry, as well as workshops, tutorials, shared tasks, and networking events. NEWS * We are very happy to announce that the following speakers have accepted our invitations to give keynotes at KONVENS 2023: Hinrich Schütze (Professor, LMU München), Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová (Head of Research, Development and Transfer at the German Rescue Robotics Center), and Marc Schulder (PostDoc, University of Hamburg). * In addition to full-length papers, we invite the submission of abstracts for our poster sessions: Bachelor, Master, PhD Students: consider submitting your project or thesis work as a short abstract and present it at our poster sessions in order to get feedback and network! We also accept abstracts describing ongoing projects, software toolkits, the use of NLP technology in industrial products,… * We are looking for sponsors supporting our event, if you are interested, please contact us! KONVENS is a great event to network with NLP talent. * Submission is open! * GSCL is accepting submissions to the GSCL BA and MA Theses Awards<https://gscl.org/en/2023/02/22/Call-for-nominatons-2023-ba-ma-student-thesi…>. * We have announced an exciting program of satellite events: * Sept 18, 2023: KONVENS Teach4NLP<https://gscl.org/events/teach4nlp2023> is a workshop that aims to bring together anyone interested in teaching NLP/CL at university, industry, or college level. * Sept 18, 2023: PhD Networking Event * Sept 21, 2023: GermEval Shared Task on Speaker Attribution<https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/10431> (Evaluation Deadline end of July) * Sept 21, 2023: Tutorial Learning from Task Instructions by Wenpeng Yin<https://www.wenpengyin.org/> and Hinrich Schütze<https://www.cis.uni-muenchen.de/personen/professoren/schuetze> * Sept 22, 2023: Workshop on Linguistic Insights from and for Multimodal Language Processing * Sept 22, 2023: Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Political and Social Sciences (CPSS 2023) by the GSCL SIG Computerlinguistik für die Politik- und Sozialwissenschaften<https://gscl.org/2023/01/27/activities/politicssocialsciences>. SPECIAL THEME Natural language processing (NLP) technology is already part of our everyday life. We hence particularly invite contributions discussing the interaction of language technology and its users, including the application of speech and text technology in various settings (e.g., dialogue processing, mobility, medicine, e-commerce, or digital humanities). We encourage authors to discuss ethical aspects. We invite two types of submissions: 1. long and short papers that will be archived in the ACL Anthology, and 2. abstracts on ongoing work, student/PhD theses, etc., which will not be archived. PAPER SUBMISSION INFORMATION We welcome original, unpublished contributions on research, development, applications and evaluation, covering all areas of natural language processing, ranging from basic questions to practical implementations of natural language resources, components and systems. We encourage the submission of NLP approaches to the German language, and survey papers describing the state of the art in German language and speech processing. We invite contributions from both academia and industry. We welcome the following types of paper submissions: * Long papers (8 pages plus references and appendix), describing original research with substantial new results. * Short papers (4 pages plus references and appendix), including small focused contributions, work in progress, as well as descriptions of projects, systems and resources. Accepted papers will be presented orally or as posters as determined by the program chairs. The decisions will be based on the nature rather than the quality of the work. The conference languages are English and German. We encourage the submission of contributions in English. Each submission must include a mandatory discussion of Ethical Considerations as well as a section on Limitations (both sections do not count towards the page limit). Papers without these sections will be desk-rejected. The review process will be double-blind. Submissions must be anonymized accordingly. The conference proceedings will be published in the ACL Anthology. ABSTRACT SUBMISSION INFORMATION To foster interaction and discussion in our community, we also invite abstracts (max. 2 pages plus references) on the following topics: * Ongoing projects, open source toolkits and software, repositories, etc. * Bachelor or Master theses, student projects * PhD theses (ongoing or finished) * Use of NLP technology within industrial products * Opinion pieces Abstracts should not be anonymized. They will be made available to conference participants, but they will not be archived. Accepted abstracts will be presented as posters at the conference. We explicitly invite students and doctoral researchers to join the event and present their work and obtain feedback in our student poster session by submitting an abstract. IMPORTANT DATES * May 19th, 2023: Paper submission due (all submission types) * June 30th, 2023: Notification of acceptance * July 15th, 2023: Camera-ready papers due * September 18-22 2023: KONVENS INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS Papers and abstracts must be formatted in accordance with the ACL style sheets<https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files>. We strongly encourage authors to use LaTeX in preparing their document. Papers must be submitted electronically via https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/KONVENS2023<https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/KONVENS2023/>. On Behalf of the Organization Committee Munir Georges, TH Ingolstadt (General Chair) Aaricia Herygers, TH Ingolstadt (Local Chair) Annemarie Friedrich, Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence (Program Chair) Benjamin Roth, Universität Wien (Program Chair)

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PhD position on misinformation on online social media.
by Rajesh Sharma 09 Mar '23

09 Mar '23

Hello All, Computational Social Science group (https://css.cs.ut.ee/) is looking for motivated researcher, interested in working on the topic of misinformation (fake news, rumours, multimodality, etc.). We expect the candidate to know one or more aspects of the following techniques and programming languages (if not all): (i) Preferred programming languages: Python or R. (ii) Exploratory data analysis: feature extraction, visualization, etc. (ii) Machine learning and deep learning with some hands-on experience. (iv) Social media analysis: This includes collecting data from Twitter/Reddit and analyze it for more insight. An ideal candidate should be mindful of what's going on social media as well. (v) Social network analysis and Natural Language Processing. Program Benefits ================ The funding covers the student fees and a monthly stipend of 2000 Euros (gross salary) for 4 years and Tuition fee is waived. Health insurance is provided Academic and industrial professional development including travel support. Interaction with world-renowned external board members and speakers. Travel grant for attending conferences and workshops. Location of PhD study: Institute of Computer Science, University of Tartu, Estonia. Institute of Computer Science is located in the University of Tartu Delta Centre (https://delta.ut.ee/en/) and it is a unique multidisciplinary centre for digital technology, analytics and economic thought, bringing together more than 2500 students, university teachers, scientists and R&D staff from companies. In short you will get an opportunity to work in a diverse environment and collaborate with colleagues. Delta Centre opened in January 2020 and is one of the most modern centres of digital technology, analytical and economic thought in the Nordic region. University of Tartu is the leading higher education and research center in Estonia, with more than 16000 students and 1800 academic staff. It is also the highest ranked university in the Baltic States according to both the Times Higher Education and the QS World University rankings. University of Tartu's Institute of Computer Science, ranks 176-200 (according to Times Higher Education), and hosts 750 Bachelors and Masters students and 60 doctoral students. The institute has a strong international orientation: over 40% of graduate students and a quarter of academic and research staff members are international. Graduate teaching in the institute is in English. Estonia is famous for its e-approach and home to many startups like Skype, Transferwise and Bolt to name a few. Tartu, university town, is the second largest city of Estonia and is relatively less expensive (compared to its neighbors) and is surrounded by nature within the walkable distance from the city. The applicant should have: - Applicant should have a master's degree in computer science, mathematics or other relevant discipline, - Excellent programming skills. - A good command of spoken and written English, - Background in statistics/Data Mining/Machine Learning, social media analysis would be ideal. Knowledge of social network analysis would be an additional advantage. Applications with a CV (max. 2 page), with experience in research (publications) and knowledge of programming languages/tools, can be sent to rajesh.sharma(a)ut.ee with the subject "PhD application on misinformation". If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact me. Kind Regards Rajesh Sharma, Associate Professor Head, Computational Social Science Group Institute of Computer Science University of Tartu, Estonia. Group webpage https://css.cs.ut.ee/

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[SEBD 2023] Doctoral Consortium - 2nd Call for Papers
by Stefano Marchesin 09 Mar '23

09 Mar '23

[APOLOGIES FOR MULTIPLE POSTINGS] SEBD 2023 Doctoral Consortium - 2nd Call for Papers ==================================================================== Important dates Doctoral Consortium Submission Deadline: Friday, March 31, 2023 (AoE) Papers Notification: Wednesday, April 26, 2023 (AoE) Camera-Ready Submission Deadline: Thursday, June 01, 2023 (AoE) Doctoral Consortium Day: Sunday, July 02, 2023 Submission Link: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/SEBD2023/ ================================================= 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 PhD candidates to present their ongoing research and receive feedback from renowned and experienced members of the research community. 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 PhD students in their future careers – as well as of the community. Submissions from students who are in the early stages of their research should provide a clear description of the problem to be addressed and the planned methodology. Submissions from students who are in the middle or final stages of their PhD research should clearly indicate the contributions made to date and future work directions. Each doctoral symposium paper must be single-authored by a current PhD student or a PhD student who submitted the thesis between September and December 2022. The paper should be written in English and must be 6-7 pages long, including selected references. Submissions must be formatted in PDF, prepared in CEUR-ART Column 1 Style (http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip), and submitted electronically via the submission system: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/SEBD2023/ Submissions will be reviewed by the Doctoral Consortium Program Committee (appointed by the Doctoral Consortium Chairs). All papers will be reviewed with respect to the overall presentation quality, the potential for the future impact of the research on the field, and the expected benefit to the other doctoral students attending the conference. The accepted papers will be published as part of the SEBD 2023 proceedings on WS-CEUR.org and indexed in Scopus, DBLP and Google Scholar. ================================================= Topics The SEBD Symposium and its Doctoral Consortium cover a broad range of topics, including traditional database management, as well as new challenges for data management in any possible domain. Suggested topics include (but are not limited to) the following ones: - Big Data and Smart Computing; - Data integration, Heterogeneous and Federated DBMS; - Data mining, knowledge discovery, information extraction, and machine learning; - Data visualization; - Data warehousing; - Distributed and parallel databases; - Grid, peer-to-peer databases, and Cloud Computing; - Incompleteness, inconsistency, and other aspects of data quality; - Uncertainty in databases; - Ethical problems posed by Big Data Analysis; - Keyword-based and natural language access to structured, semistructured, and unstructured 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. ================================================= Contact For any questions regarding Doctoral Consortium submissions, please email the Doctoral Consortium Chairs: - Letizia Tanca (letizia.tanca(a)polimi.it) - Stefano Marchesin (stefano.marchesin(a)unipd.it) -- 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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Quechua to Spanish Dialectal and Low-resource track at IWSLT 2023
by John Ortega 09 Mar '23

09 Mar '23

=== Apologies in advance for cross-posting == We need your help to preserve indigenous languages! Due to the overwhelming success in previous workshops like LoResMT and AmericasNLP we have decided to continue to push the needle for Quechua to Spanish translations. Please participate in the first edition of the QUE-SPA speech translation shared task being held at IWSLT 2023. This low-resource task will help increase language preservation for low-resource languages. We invite advanced research and approaches of all types so bring your rule-based, statistical, neural, and more! IMPORTANT LINKS Dialectal and Low-resource webpage: https://iwslt.org/2022/low-resource Data webpage: https://github.com/Llamacha/IWSLT2023_Quechua_data Google Group: https://groups.google.com/g/iwslt-evaluation-campaign IWSLT conference webpage: https://iwslt.org/2023/ HOW TO PARTICIPATE Please join the IWSLT Evaluation Campaign Google Group and access the registration using the following link: https://groups.google.com/g/iwslt-evaluation-campaign The QUE-SPA data set can be downloaded here: https://github.com/Llamacha/IWSLT2023_Quechua_data Task submissions can be uploaded to GitHub, please email the organizers below for more details. Evaluation scripts based on BLEU are made available via the IWSLT 2023 website. IMPORTANT DATES Jan 14, 2023 Release of shared task training and dev data Apr 1-15, 2023 Evaluation period Apr 24, 2023 Paper submission deadline (all papers) Apr 30, 2023 System papers update deadline May 22, 2023 Notification of acceptance May 31, 2023 Camera ready paper due July 12, 2023 Pre-recorded video due July 13-14, 2023 IWSLT conference ORGANIZING COMMITTEE John E. Ortega (Northeastern University) William Chen (Carnegie Mellon University) Rodolfo Zevallos (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)

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