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Last & final call and deadline extended: [Deadline extension & Final CFP] The Fourth Workshop on Insights from Negative Results (co-located with NAACL 2024)
by Shabnam Tafreshi 09 Mar '24

09 Mar '24

Dear colleagues, The Fifth Workshop on Insights from Negative Results in NLP Co-located with NAACL, June 16-21 2024 First Call for Participation Insights Website: <https://insights-workshop.github.io/ <https://insights-workshop.github.io/index>> Contact email: insights-workshop-organizers(a)googlegroups.com *Overview Publication of negative results is difficult in most fields, but in NLP the problem is exacerbated by the near-universal focus on improvements in benchmarks. This situation implicitly discourages hypothesis-driven research, and it turns the creation and fine-tuning of NLP models into art rather than science. Furthermore, it increases the time, effort, and carbon emissions spent on developing and tuning models, as the researchers have no opportunity to learn what has already been tried and failed. This workshop invites both practical and theoretical unexpected or negative results that have important implications for future research, highlight methodological issues with existing approaches, and/or point out pervasive misunderstandings or bad practices. In particular, the most successful NLP models currently rely on Transformer-based large language models (LLMs). To complement all the success stories, it would be insightful to see where and possibly why they fail. Any NLP tasks are welcome: sequence labeling, question answering, inference, dialogue, machine translation - you name it. A successful negative results paper would contribute one of the following: ** broadly applicable recommendations for training/fine-tuning/prompting, especially if X that didn’t work is something that many practitioners would think reasonable to try, and if the demonstration of X’s failure is accompanied by some explanation/hypothesis; ** ablation studies of components in previously proposed models, showing that their contributions are different from what was initially reported; ** datasets or probing tasks showing that previous approaches do not generalize to other domains or language phenomena; ** trivial baselines that work suspiciously well for a given task/dataset; ** Cross-lingual studies showing that technique X is only successful for a certain language or language family; ** experiments on (in)stability of the previously published results due to hardware, random initializations, preprocessing pipeline components, etc; ** theoretical arguments and/or proofs for why X should not be expected to work; ** demonstration of issues with data processing/collection/annotation pipelines, especially if they are widely used; ** demonstration of issues with evaluation metrics (e.g. accuracy, F1, or BLEU), which prevent their usage for fair comparison of methods; ** Demonstration of issues with under-reporting of training details of pre-trained models, including test data contamination and invalid comparisons In 2024, we will invite the authors of accepted negative results papers to nominate the specific work reporting the original positive results. The goal is to organize joint discussion sessions so that the community can learn the most from the specific insightful failure. * Important Dates ** Submission due March 17, 2024 ** Submission due for papers reviewed through ACL Rolling Review: April 7, 2024 ** Notification of acceptance: April 20, 2024 ** Camera-ready papers due: April 30, 2024 ** Workshop: TBA, between June 21-22, 2024 * Submission Submission is electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system. Submission link: <https://softconf.com/naacl2024/insights2024/> The workshop will accept short papers (up to 4 pages, excluding references), as well as 1-2 page non-archival abstract submissions for papers published elsewhere (e.g. in one of the main conferences or in non-NLP venues). The goal of this event is to stimulate a meaningful community-wide discussion of the deep issues in NLP methodology, and the authors of both types of submissions will be welcome to take part in our get-togethers. The workshop will run its review process, and papers can be submitted directly to the workshop by March 17, 2024. It is also possible to submit a paper accompanied with reviews from the ACL Rolling Review system by April 7, 2024. The submission deadline for ARR papers follows the ACL RR calendar. Both research papers and abstracts must follow the ACL two-column format. Official style sheets: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files Please do not modify these style files, nor should you use templates designed for other conferences. Submissions that do not conform to the required styles, including paper size, margin width, and font size restrictions, will be rejected without review. Please follow the formatting guidelines outlined here: https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html * Multiple Submission Policy The workshop cannot accept work for publication or presentation that will be (or has been) published elsewhere and that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications whose review periods overlap with that of Insights. Any questions regarding submissions can be sent to insights-workshop-organizers(a)googlegroups.com. If the paper has been rejected from another venue, the authors will have the option to provide the original reviews and the author's response. The new reviewers will not have access to this information, but the organizers will be able to take into account the fact that the paper has already been revised and improved. * Anonymity Period The workshop will follow the new ACL policy: https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/ACL_Anonymity_Policy * Presentation All accepted papers must be presented at the workshop to appear in the proceedings. Authors of accepted papers must notify the program chairs by the camera-ready deadline if they wish to withdraw the paper. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the workshop. Previous presentations of the work (e.g. preprints on arXiv.org) should be noted in a footnote in the camera-ready version (but not in the anonymized version of the paper). The workshop will take place during NAACL 2024 (June 16-21 2024). It will be hybrid, allowing for both in-person and virtual presentations. * Organization Committee ** Shabnam Tafreshi, inQbator AI at eviCore Healthcare ** Arjun Reddy Akula, Google Research ** João Sedoc, New York University ** Anna Rogers, IT University of Copenhagen ** Aleksandr Drozd, RIKEN ** Anna Rumshisky, University of Massachusetts Lowell / Amazon Alexa * Contact info Any questions regarding the workshop can be sent to insights-workshop-organizers(a)googlegroups.com. Please continue reading about: Authorship, Citation and Comparison, Ethics Policy, Reproducibility, and Presentation in the call for paper page on our website: https://insights-workshop.github.io/2024/cfp/ Regards, Insights 2024 Organizers -- *Shabnam Tafreshi, PhD* *Machine Learning Senior Advisor - NLP Researcher* *Computational Linguistics, NLP* *inQbator AI at eviCore Healthcare* *"All the problems of the world could be settled easily, if people only willing to think."* *-Thomas J. Watson*

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First Call for Participation - EXIST 2024: sEXism Identification in Social neTworks @ CLEF
by JORGE AMANDO CARRILLO DE ALBORNOZ CUADRADO 08 Mar '24

08 Mar '24

Please consider contributing and/or forwarding to appropriate colleagues and groups. ****We apologize for the multiple copies of this e-mail**** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Participation ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- First Call for Participation: EXIST 2024 at CLEF 2024: Task: EXIST 2024: sEXism Identification in Social neTworks Website: http://nlp.uned.es/exist2024/ EXIST is a series of scientific events and shared tasks on sEXism Identification in Social neTworks (EXIST 2021, EXIST 2022, EXIST 2023). EXIST aims to capture sexism in a broad sense, from explicit misogyny to other subtle expressions that involve implicit sexist behaviors. The fourth edition of the EXIST shared task will be held as a Lab in CLEF 2024, on September 9-12, 2024, at the University of Grenoble Alpes, France. Since 2021, the primary objective of EXIST campaigns has been the identification of sexism in tweets. Three corpora of annotated tweets have been collected for different EXIST tasks. Likewise, the focus of EXIST 2024 is to detect sexism in text, using the EXIST 2023 dataset, but we also extend the focus to memes. Memes are images, usually with text captions, that typically carry humor and spread through social media, forums, or other digital platforms. They can be used to spread false information, perpetuate stereotypes or humiliate people. As in the 2023 edition, this edition will also embrace the Learning With Disagreement (LeWiDi) paradigm for both the development of the dataset and the evaluation of the systems. The LeWiDi paradigm does not rely on a single “correct” label for each example. Instead, the model is trained to handle and learn from conflicting or diverse annotations. This enables the system to consider various annotators’ perspectives, biases, or interpretations, resulting in a fairer learning process. Participants will be asked to classify tweets and memes (in English and Spanish) according to the following six tasks: TASK 1 - Sexism Identification in Tweets: The first subtask is a binary classification. The systems have to decide whether or not a given text (tweet) contains sexist expressions or behaviors (i.e., it is sexist itself, describes a sexist situation or criticizes a sexist behavior). TASK 2 - Source Intention in Tweets: For the tweets that have been classified as sexist, the second task aims to classify each tweet according to the intention of the person who wrote it. We propose a ternary classification task: (i) DIRECT sexist message, (ii) REPORTED sexist message and (iii) JUDGEMENTAL message. TASK 3 - Sexism Categorization in Tweets: Once a message has been classified as sexist, the third task aims to categorize the message in different types of sexism (according to a categorization proposed by experts and that takes into account the different facets of women that are undermined). In particular, each sexist tweet must be categorized in one or more of the following categories: (i) IDEOLOGICAL AND INEQUALITY, (ii) STEREOTYPING AND DOMINANCE, (iii) OBJECTIFICATION, (iv) SEXUAL VIOLENCE and (v) MISOGYNY AND NON-SEXUAL VIOLENCE. TASK 4 - Sexism Identification in Memes: This is a binary classification task consisting of deciding whether or not a given meme is sexist. Task 5: Source Intention in Memes: As in Task 2, this task aims to categorize the sexists memes according to the intention of the author. Due to the characteristics of the memes, the REPORTED label is virtually null, so in this task systems should only classify sexist memes in DIRECT or JUDGEMENTAL. Task 6: Sexism Categorization in Memes: This task aims to classify sexist memes according to the categorization provided for Task 3: (i) IDEOLOGICAL AND INEQUALITY, (ii) STEREOTYPING AND DOMINANCE, (iii) OBJECTIFICATION, (iv) SEXUAL VIOLENCE and (v) MISOGYNY AND NON-SEXUAL VIOLENCE. Although we recommend to participate in all subtasks, participants are allowed to participate just in one of them (e.g., subtask 1). During the training phase, the task organizers will provide to the participants the manually-annotated EXIST 2024 dataset. For the evaluation of the teams, the unlabelled test data will be released. We encourage participation from both academic institutions and industrial organizations. We invite the participants to register for the lab at CLEF 2024 Labs Registration site (https://clef2024-labs-registration.dei.unipd.it/). You will receive information about how to join the Google Group for the EXIST 2024 shared task. Important Dates: * 13 November 2023 - Registration open. * 4 March 2024 - Training and development sets available. * 15 April 2024 - Test set available. * 22 April 2024 - Registration closes. * 6 May 2024 - Runs submission due to organizers. * 20 May 2024 - Results notification to participants. * 3 June 2024 - Submission of Working Notes by participants. * 19 June 2024 - Notification of acceptance (peer-reviews). * 3 July 2024 - Camera-ready participant papers due to organizers. * 9-12 September 2024 - EXIST 2024 at CLEF Conference. ** Note: All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth") ** Organizers: Laura Plaza, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) Jorge Carrillo-de-Albornoz, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) Enrique Amigó, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) Julio Gonzalo, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) Roser Morante, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) Víctor Ruiz García, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) Damiano Spina, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) Paolo Rosso, Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) Berta Chulvi, Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) Alba Maeso Olmos, Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) Contact: Contact the organizers by writing to: jcalbornoz(a)lsi.uned.es Website: http://nlp.uned.es/exist2024/ AVISO LEGAL. 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9th Annual Law & Corpus Linguistics Conference
by Brett Hashimoto 08 Mar '24

08 Mar '24

Hi All, We are excited to announce that our 9th Annual Law & Corpus Linguistics Conference will be held on October 24-25, 2024, at the law school at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. Keynote addresses will be delivered by Edward Finegan, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Law at the University of Southern California, and Lawrence Solum, the William L. Matheson and Robert M. Morgenthau Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia. Proposals are invited for individual papers and panels. We are open to submissions on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: - applications of corpus linguistics to constitutional, statutory, contract, patent, trademark, probate, administrative, and criminal law in any state or nation; - philosophical, normative, and pragmatic commentary on the use of corpus linguistics in the law; triangulation between corpus linguistics and other empirical methods in legal interpretation; - corpus-based analysis of legal discourse or topics; - best practices in corpus design and corpus linguistic methods in legal settings. The proposal deadline is May 15, 2024. Proposals should include an abstract of no more than 750 words and complete contact information for presenters. Please send proposals to byulawcorpus(a)law.byu.edu<mailto:byulawcorpus@law.byu.edu>. Best, The Law & Corpus Linguistics Conference Organizing Committee

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PhD position in NLP for Law
by Spanakis, Jerry (DACS) 08 Mar '24

08 Mar '24

At Maastricht Law & Tech lab we are looking for a PhD candidate to work on NLP in Law. We are explicitly looking for candidates that have proven experience working on NLP and Machine Learning. Deadline is March 21st. The full text of the position is here<https://vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastricht-PhD-candidate-posi…> and attached below. If you have questions, you can (also) reach out (informally) to me. —— Job Description The law affects us all, but technology is not equally available for everyone. In practice, technology often benefits the wealthy the most. In this project, you will seek to contribute to a better understanding of how NLP and/or LLMs can assist in making the law more accessible to those with no or limited legal expertise. You will use NLP to analyze legal data and possibly create synthetic data to create annotated datasets or fine-tune LLMs. The work builds on previous work, which includes (but is not limited to) https://aclanthology.org/2023.eacl-main.203/, https://aclanthology.org/2023.nllp-1.15/<https://aclanthology.org/2023.eacl-main.203/,%20https://aclanthology.org/20…>, and https://ebooks.iospress.nl/volumearticle/53654. Your work is expected to have a tangible real-world impact. The ability to find innovative technical solutions to legal challenges could become a key skill of your future career, be it as a researcher, entrepreneur, or engineer. You will undertake PhD research at the intersection of law and computer science under the supervision of professors of the Maastricht Law & Tech Lab. Your primary task is conducting the research for your PhD project. Your exact project will be determined in consultation with you and according to your interests and skills. As such, you will be expected to develop your own independent research agenda with the support of our experienced researchers in the Law & Tech Lab. A small proportion of the appointment may be devoted to teaching activities, which commonly amount to teaching activities in eight weeks per year. You will be allowed to collaborate with researchers from different disciplines, including machine learning, data science, and law. You will be part of an exciting, vibrant, and quickly growing community where researchers from different disciplines meet and form interdisciplinary teams that conduct academically and societally relevant research. You will be offered the opportunity to gain insights not only on applying computational techniques but also on law, regulation, and ethics. For this, you will be encouraged, coached, and allowed to attend courses, conferences, and workshops that will add social and legal knowledge to your skill set. PhD researchers participate in the Maastricht University Graduate School of Law. Requirements * MSc degree in Computer Science, AI, Machine Learning, or Data Science (or equivalent); * Proven experience with applying natural language processing. Affinity with law is a plus; * Interest in learning about other disciplines, law in particular; * Community-friendly team player; * Excellent oral and written English communication; * Knowledge of Dutch language is a plus; * Optional: geek-friendly. What we offer As PhD candidate at the Faculty of Law, you will be employed by the most international university in the Netherlands, located in the beautiful city of Maastricht. In addition, we offer you: * Good employment conditions. The position is graded in scale P according to UFO profile PhD, with corresponding salary based on experience ranging from €2770,00 in year 1 and €3539,00 gross per month in year 4 (based on a full-time employment of 38 hours per week). In addition to the monthly salary, an 8.0% holiday allowance and an 8.3% year-end bonus apply. * An employment contract for a period of 12 months with a scope of 1,0 FTE. Upon a positive evaluation, an extension of 3 years will follow. * At Maastricht University, the well-being of our employees is of utmost importance, we offer flexible working hours and the possibility to work partly from home if the nature of your position allows it. You will receive a monthly commuting and internet allowance for this. If you work full-time, you will be entitled to 29 vacation days and 4 additional public holidays per year, namely carnival Monday, carnival Tuesday, Good Friday, and Liberation Day. If you choose to accumulate compensation hours, an additional 12 days will be added. Furthermore, you can personalize your employment conditions through a collective labor agreement (CAO) choice model. * As Maastricht University, we offer various other excellent secondary employment conditions. These include a good pension scheme with the ABP and the opportunity for UM employees to participate in company fitness and make use of the extensive sports facilities that we also offer to our students. * Last but certainly not least, we provide the space and facilities for your personal and professional development. We facilitate this by offering a wide range of training programs and supporting various well-established initiatives such as 'acknowledge and appreciate'. The terms of employment at Maastricht University are largely set out in the collective labor agreement of Dutch Universities. In addition, local provisions specific to UM apply. For more information, click here<https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/working-um>. Maastricht University Why work at Maastricht University? At Maastricht University (UM), everything revolves around the future. The future of our students, as we work to equip them with a solid, broad-based foundation for the rest of their lives. And the future of society, as we seek solutions through our research to issues from all around the world. Our six faculties combined provide a comprehensive package of study programmes and research. In our teaching, we use the Problem-Based Learning (PBL) method. Students work in small groups, looking for solutions to problems themselves. By discussing issues and working together to draw conclusions, formulate answers and present them to their peers, students develop essential skills for their future careers. With over 22,300 students and more than 5,000 employees from all over the world, UM is home to a vibrant and inspiring international community. Are you drawn to an international setting focused on education, science and scholarship? Are you keen to contribute however your skills and qualities allow? Our door is open to you! As a young European university, we value your talent and look forward to creating the future together. Click here<http://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/> for more information about UM. Faculty of Law The Faculty of Law at Maastricht University is a top-quality provider of challenging and rewarding Dutch and European legal education at bachelor’s, masters and PhD-level. A true pioneer in small-scale education and the teaching of legal skills for a broad range of future legal professionals.  The clear research focus on European and international aspects of law and technology. On the empirical dimension of law provides both students and staff with a stimulating work environment. The faculty values its open and inclusive community, which contributes to creating a productive and pleasant place for work and study.  The Faculty of Law offers a wide range of bachelor and master's programs. Would you like to learn more about our programs? Visit our website for more information on the courses, career perspectives, and admission requirements of our programs.  Curious? Are you interested in this exciting position but still have questions? Feel free to contact professor Gijs van Dijck via gijs.vandijck(a)maastrichtuniversity.nl<mailto:gijs.vandijck@maastrichtuniversity.nl> or via +31 43 388 1396 for more information. Applying? Or are you already convinced and ready to become our new PhD candidate? Apply now, no later than 21 March 2024, for this position. The interviews will be held in April. 2024. Applications should include: * a letter of motivation; * a curriculum vitae; * representative work (e.g. a master thesis). The vacancy is open for internal and external candidates. In case of equal qualifications, internal candidates will be prioritized. Maastricht University is committed to promoting and nurturing a diverse and inclusive community. We believe that diversity in our staff and student population contributes to the quality of research and education at UM, and strive to enable this through inclusive policies and innovative projects led by teams of staff and students. We encourage you to apply for this position.

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3-year postdoctoral position in NLP - University of Oslo, Norway
by Andrey Kutuzov 08 Mar '24

08 Mar '24

(Apologies for cross-posting) A postdoctoral position in NLP (large language models in particular) is available at the University of Oslo, Norway. This position is funded jointly by the Integreat research center (https://www.integreat.no/) and the DSTrain program (https://www.uio.no/dscience/english/dstrain/). We offer 3 year contracts. The deadline for the applications is April 14, 2024; the applicants should come up with a short project description and get in touch with the contact person beforehand to discuss this description. Please apply here: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/255679/dstrain-msca-postdoct… The contact person is myself, and the project should roughly fall within the topic of "Separation of Linguistic and Factual Knowledge in Large Language Models". See the description below: During the training, modern large language models learn both the language structure and the knowledge about the world as one indivisible whole. Decoupling these two components is a challenging, but extremely promising field of research. Having more control over what is stored in the model weights should allow to optimize the model better. In particular, it might be possible not to learn world knowledge every time from scratch, when training a model for a particular language. The question is whether it is possible to develop an architecture where a neural network is limited to learning the linguistic structure, while the knowledge about the world is stored in and retrieved from an external knowledge graph. Will such a model focus on learning language-specific linguistic skills without spending its parameters on time-dependent and language-agnostic factual knowledge? Is it also true that such language models will be less prone to hallucinations and bias? The selected applicants will start their postdoctoral projects no later than October 1, 2024. The Postdoctoral Research Fellows will be employed at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. The appointments will be full-time positions lasting for three years, with 10% of the time dedicated to mandatory duties, typically teaching. It is not possible to be appointed for more than one Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Oslo. References: [1] Lewis, P., Perez, E., Piktus, A., Petroni, F., Karpukhin, V., Goyal, N., Küttler, H., Lewis, M., Yih, W.-t., Rocktäschel, T., et al. (2020). Retrieval-augmented generation for knowledge-intensive NLP tasks. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, volume 33, pages 9459–9474. [2] Borgeaud, S., Mensch, A., Hoffmann, J., Cai, T., Rutherford, E., Millican, K., Van Den Driessche, G. B., Lespiau, J.-B., Damoc, B., Clark, A., et al. (2022). Improving language models by retrieving from trillions of tokens. In International conference on machine learning, pages 2206–2240. PMLR. [3] Pan, S., Luo, L., Wang, Y., Chen, C., Wang, J., and Wu, X. (2023). Unifying large language models and knowledge graphs: A roadmap. -- Andrey Language Technology Group (LTG) University of Oslo

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Asia Pacific Corpus Linguistics Conference -- CALL
by Michael Barlow 08 Mar '24

08 Mar '24

Dear list members, The Fifth Asia Pacific Corpus Linguistics Conference (APCLC2024) will be held at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China from October 25 to 27, 2024. Plenary speakers Michael Barlow (University of Auckland, New Zealand) Vaclav Brezina (Lancaster University, UK) Dagmar Divjak (University of Birmingham, UK) Martin Hilpert (University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland) Wenzhong Li (Zhejiang Gongshang University, China) Naixing Wei (Beihang University, China) Co-hosts Asia Pacific Corpus Linguistics Association Corpus Linguistics Society of China The School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Important dates March 31, 2024: Deadline for abstract submission. Submit here: https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/31556/submitter<https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/31556/submitter> April 30, 2024: Notification of acceptance of abstracts May 31, 2024: End of early bird registration (Details provided later) July 31, 2024: End of main registration October 25, 2024: Preconference workshops October 26-27, 2024: Main conference Please save the dates and visit our APCLC2024 official site (https://apclc2024.org<https://apclc2024.org>) for future updates. Best wishes, Jiajin On behalf of APCLA Jiajin XU, Ph.D., Professor National Research Centre for Foreign Language Education, Beijing Foreign Studies University, China --- Michael Barlow. www.michaelbarlow.com<http://www.michaelbarlow.com/> Assoc. Prof. Applied Linguistics, University of Auckland Recent publications M. Barlow. 2023. Writing with an AI Assistant.<https://writingwithanaiassistant.com/> Athelstan. M. Barlow 2023. Ten Lectures on Corpora and Cognitive Linguistics<https://brill.com/display/title/61682>. Brill Le, Pham & Barlow 2023. The Academic Discourse of Mechanical Engineering<https://benjamins.com/catalog/scl.107>. Benjamins

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3-year researcher position in NLP and event extraction at the University of Oslo
by Erik Velldal 07 Mar '24

07 Mar '24

[Apologies for cross-posting] A postdoc-level position as Research Fellow in Natural Language Processing is available in the Language Technology Group (LTG) at the University of Oslo (UiO), Norway. The 3-year position is affiliated with a new research project focusing on event extraction from news articles in the domain of armed conflicts. While the project is coordinated by the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), the researcher position is located within LTG which is the main project partner. For more information about the position and the research group, please see the full announcement here: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/259513/researcher-in-natural… The closing date is April 10th, 2024. Please do not hesitate to contact me for any further information. Best regards, -erik -- Erik Velldal Language Technology Group Section for Machine Learning Department of Informatics, University of Oslo

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Postdoctoral Researcher - Language Technology- University of Galway-reg
by Bharathi Raja Asoka Chakravarthi 07 Mar '24

07 Mar '24

Postdoctoral Researcher - Language Technology, *Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics**, Data Science Institute,* *Ref. No. University of Galway 060-24 * Applications are invited from suitable candidates for a full-time, fixed-term position as Postdoctoral Researcher with the Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics at the Data Science Institute <https://www.universityofgalway.ie/dsi/work_with_us/> (DSI), College of Science and Engineering at the University of Galway. This position is funded by the Insight SFI Research Centre <https://www.universityofgalway.ie/dsi/sfi_research/> for Data Analytics and is available from 1st June 2024 to 30th December 2025 (18-months). Explore Life in Galway - University of Galway <https://www.universityofgalway.ie/student-life/galwaylife/> SFI Research - University of Galway <https://www.universityofgalway.ie/dsi/sfi_research/> Data Science Institute <https://www.universityofgalway.ie/dsi/work_with_us/> *Job Description:* This postdoctoral position is in the area of Insight Research Challenge 4 on “Multimodal Data Analysis” and will focus on the combination of natural language processing and multimodal machine learning. In addition, the project will focus on the use of these technologies to improve NLP for equality, diversity, inclusion, and under-resourced languages. There has been an elevation in hate speech or abuse, and this position will focus on the LGBTQIA+ community. Due to the shortage of resources in the said study area, more research is needed. The Postdoctoral position will focus on improving the research by creating more data and creating novel NLP models to identify homophobic or transphobic comments in social media. In the context of this funded position, we will also look at the area of cultural analytics, which will involve the development of methods for the analysis of multimodal data (e.g. textual data and image data) from different cultural perspectives. The tasks of the successful candidate include the organization of an annotation effort, in which various types of hate and culturally specific attributes are annotated in a crowdsourcing setting. Based on this novel resource, the candidate will develop new methods for the detection of hate speech against minorities and create language and multimodal technologies for equality, diversity, and inclusion. This will also continue to improve the development of novel methods that advance the state of the art in relation to equality, diversity, inclusion and other bias mitigation areas. The postdoctoral position will focus on research work, however, the candidate will also be expected to contribute to the activities of the institute, in particular, through writing grant applications, assist in supervising PhD and MSc students and in public engagement activities as appropriate. The successful candidate will be based at the Data Science Institute and will be part of the Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics at the University of Galway. The candidate will be supported in their professional development, be able to avail of a range of career level focussed training opportunities and have the potential to publish research findings in leading journals and international events. *Duties:* · Research, design, and develop foundation models in the field of NLP and Multimodal Learning, based on the latest advancements. · Conduct a specified programme of research and scholarship under the supervision and direction of the Principal Investigator. · Establish principles and tools to support best practices for data and NLP models in collaboration with the European data and AI communities. · Plan, coordinate, and implement the described research project (this may include managing a small research team/coordinating other researcher activities). · Assist in the attraction of funding. · Keep up to date with research related methods and techniques, in particular, developments in the specific research area. · Collaborate with colleagues on areas of shared research interest. · Present on research progress and outcomes e.g. to bodies supervising research; conferences, steering groups; other team members, as agreed with the PI/project leader. · Produce top-quality journal and conference publications in collaboration with students and PI. · Mentor and assist, as appropriate and as directed, the research graduate students in the institute. · Engage in Education and Public Engagement (EPE) activities of the institute. · Any other duties assigned commensurate to this level of post *Qualifications/Skills required: * *Essential Requirements: * · PhD in Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, Computer Science or Linguistics · Published at top conferences in the field or in high impact factor journals. · Excellent understanding of experimental design and scientific methodologies · Strong command of oral and written English · Good programming skills *Desirable Requirements: * · Strong knowledge of NLP / language technology for equality, diversity, and inclusion · Knowledge of debiasing techniques in NLP tasks · Knowledge of multimodal learning approaches · Programming experience with deep learning in Python · Experience in writing grant proposals *Salary*: Postdoctoral Researcher Point 1 €42,783 to Point 10 €54,965 per annum, pro rata for shorter and/or part-time contracts (public sector pay policy rules pertaining to new entrants will apply), depending on qualifications. The default position for all new public sector appointments is the 1st point of the salary scale. This may be reviewed, and consideration afforded to appointment at a higher point on the payscale (subject to the project’s funding limitations), where evidence of prior years’ equivalent experience is accepted in determining placement on the scale above point 1, subject to the maximum of the scale. Research Salary Scales - University of Galway). <https://www.universityofgalway.ie/human-resources/recruitment-and-selection…> *Start date*: Position is available from 1st June 2024. *Continuing Professional Development/Training*: Researchers at University of Galway are encouraged to avail of a range of training and development opportunities designed to support their personal career development plans. University of Galway provides continuing professional development supports for all researchers seeking to build their own career pathways either within or beyond academia. Researchers are encouraged to engage with our Researcher Development Centre (RDC) upon commencing employment - see HERE <http://www.nuigalway.ie/rdc> for further information. Further information on research and working at University of Galway is available on Research at University of Galway <http://www.nuigalway.ie/our-research/> For information on moving to Ireland please see www.euraxess.ie *Informal enquiries* concerning the post may be made to: Dr. Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi bharathi.raja(a)universityofgalway.ie *To Apply:* Applications to include a covering letter, CV, and the contact details of three referees should be sent, via e-mail (in word or PDF only) to Dr. Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi bharathi.raja(a)universityofgalway.ie Please put reference number *University of Galway 060-24 *in subject line of e-mail application. *Closing date for receipt of applications is 5.00 pm (Irish Time) 31st March, 2024* We reserve the right to re-advertise or extend the closing date for this post. University of Galway is an equal opportunities employer. All positions are recruited in line with Open, Transparent, Merit (OTM) and Competency based recruitment Dr. Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Assistant Professor / Lecturer-above-the-bar School of Computer Science, University of Galway, Ireland Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, Data Science Institute, University of Galway, Ireland E-mail: bharathiraja.akr(a)gmail.com , bharathi.raja(a)universityofgalway.ie <bharathiraja.asokachakravarthi(a)universityofgalway.ie> Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=irCl028AAAAJ&hl=en Website: https://www.universityofgalway.ie/our-research/people/computer-science/bhar… <https://www.universityofgalway.ie/our-research/people/computer-science/bhar…>

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What is the License type for WMT dev/test sets?
by liling tan 07 Mar '24

07 Mar '24

Dear MT community, We have been using the WMT test sets for a decade but it'll be nice to get clarity on the license type and usability in the age of LLMs. Is there an institution or person that we can approach to get an answer for the license for WMT dev/test datasets? Thank you in advance for the tips! Regards, Liling

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UMR Parsing Workshop 2024 - Final Call
by kristine.stenzel＠colorado.edu 07 Mar '24

07 Mar '24

Final CALL for Papers UMR Parsing Workshop University of Colorado, Boulder June 14, 2024 https://umr4nlp.github.io/web/UMRParsingWorkshop.html Organizers: Nianwen Xue, James Martin, Jon Cai, Marie Claire, Jayeol Chun, Haibo Sun This workshop will focus on developing parsers for Uniform Meaning Representations. The goal is to start from raw text from real-world settings that could be in any one of many typologically different languages, even low-resource languages for which there is little or no training data. This can be achieved by exploiting a common semantic annotation standard. This workshop has been made possible by funding for NSF Collaborative Research: Building a Broad Infrastructure for Uniform Meaning Representations (Award # 2213805), which is aimed at developing guidelines and annotation for cross-lingual Uniform Meaning Representations, based on the original Abstract Meaning Representation guidelines for English, but ensuring cross-linguistically consistent annotation and recoverability of the original raw texts. This workshop will overlap with the last day of the Colorado UMR Annotation Summer School. https://umr4nlp.github.io/web/SummerSchool.html The workshop is open to everyone and will cover the fundamentals of UMR annotation and the differences between AMR and UMR. In addition to an invited speaker, there will be presentations on recent successful approaches to AMR parsing and how they can be applied to UMR parsing. We welcome submissions from anyone on related topics, such as: ● AMR or UMR parsing for any language ● AMR or UMR generation for any language ● Evaluation metrics for AMR or UMR parsing ● Bootstrapping of AMRs or UMRs from related semantic representations such as Propbanks ● Projections of English AMR onto other languages; ● Challenges of applying AMR annotation to languages other than English; ● Challenges of accurate multi-sentence coreference as a subtask of AMR parsing; ● Any other topic related to the parsing and generation of AMRs or UMRs. Important dates ● Workshop paper submissions due: March 30, 2024 ● Notification of acceptance: April 25, 2024 ● Camera-ready versions due: May 30, 2024 Submissions 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. They should emphasize obtained results rather than intended work and should clearly indicate the state of completion of the reported results. Submission is electronic, using the Workshop submission site in Easy Chair. https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=umrpw2024 Submissions must adhere to the two-column format of ACL venues, using the Overleaf template taken from ACL 2023. https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/acl-2023-proceedings-template/qjdg… Initial submissions should be fully anonymous to ensure double-blind reviewing. Long papers must not exceed eight (8) pages of content; short papers must not exceed four (4) pages of content. References and appendices do not count against these limits. To ensure double-blind reviews, papers must not include the authors’ names and affiliations or self-references that reveal any author’s identity. Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review.

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