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CfP SemEval 2024 Task 6: SHROOM, a Shared-task on Hallucinations and Related Observable Overgeneration Mistakes
by Mickus, Timothee 29 Sep '23

29 Sep '23

Welcome to SHROOM, a Shared-task on Hallucinations and Related Observable Overgeneration Mistakes! Task description: SHROOM participants will need to detect grammatically sound output that contains incorrect semantic information (i.e. unsupported or inconsistent with the source input), with or without having access to the model that produced the output. Overview of the task: The modern NLG landscape is plagued by two interlinked problems: On the one hand, our current neural models have a propensity to produce inaccurate but fluent outputs; on the other hand, our metrics are most apt at describing fluency, rather than correctness. This leads neural networks to “hallucinate”, i.e., produce fluent but incorrect outputs that we currently struggle to detect automatically. For many NLG applications, the correctness of an output is, however, mission critical. For instance, producing a plausible-sounding translation that is inconsistent with the source text puts in jeopardy the usefulness of a machine translation pipeline. With our shared task, we hope to foster the growing interest in this topic in the community. With SHROOM we adopt a post hoc setting, where models have already been trained and outputs already produced: participants will be asked to perform binary classification to identify cases of fluent overgeneration hallucinations in two different tracks: a model-aware and a model-agnostic track. In the former, participants have access to the model that produced the output; in the latter, they do not. To ensure a low barrier to entry, we format the task as a binary classification problem. All systems will be rated on accuracy (i.e., the proportion of test examples correctly labeled) and calibration (i.e., the correlation between the probability assigned by a system and the proportion of annotators marking a production as hallucinatory). We provide participants with a collection of checkpoints, inputs, references and outputs of systems covering three NLG tasks: definition modeling (DM), machine translation (MT), and paraphrase generation (PG), trained with varying degrees of accuracy. The development set provides binary annotations from five different annotators and a majority vote gold label. Anyone wishing to participate in the task is welcome! Participants will have to * Submit at least once during the evaluation phase next January; * Write a system description paper; * Review other system description papers (max. 2). Trial, dev and train data are now available on the task website: https://helsinki-nlp.github.io/shroom/ Codalab competition: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/15726 Join the mailing group: https://groups.google.com/u/1/g/semeval-2024-task-6-shroom Updates on Twitter: @shroom2024<https://twitter.com/shroom2024> Important dates: * Sample data ready: July 15th, 2023 * Validation data ready: September 11th, 2023 * Unlabeled train data ready: September 22nd, 2023 * Evaluation period starts (test set released): January 10th, 2024 * Evaluation period ends: January 31st, 2024 * Workshop paper submission deadline: February 29th, 2024 * Notification to authors: April 1st, 2024 * SemEval workshop: TBA (Summer 2024, collocated with a major NLP conference) Task organizers * Elaine Zosa, University of Helsinki, Finland * Raúl Vázquez, University of Helsinki, Finland * Jörg Tiedemann, University of Helsinki, Finland * Vincent Segonne, Universite Grenoble Alpes, France * Teemu Vahtola, University of Helsinki, Finland * Alessandro Raganato, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy * Timothee Mickus, University of Helsinki, Finland * Marianna Apidianaki, University of Pennsylvania, USA

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Jobs: PhD positions for LLM research
by Marcel Bollmann 29 Sep '23

29 Sep '23

The NLP group at Linköping University, Sweden<https://www.ida.liu.se/divisions/aiics/nlp/>, is currently looking for up to 3 PhD students for research on large language models. Specific research topics include: * modularisation techniques for multilingual pre-training * efficient fine-tuning and targeted adaptation to specific tasks * tokenisation and embedding alignment techniques * addressing grammatical correctness and bias in pre-training * benchmarking and evaluation PhD students will be supervised by Marco Kuhlmann<https://liu.se/en/employee/marku61> and Marcel Bollmann<https://marcel.bollmann.me/>. All PhD positions are full-term, salaried positions with attractive employee benefits and pension contributions. Linköping University (LiU) is an AI research excellence centre with strong and broad research and education in AI from a technical and interdisciplinary perspective. LiU is the coordinator of one of the four EU-funded networks of AI research excellence centres (TAILOR<https://tailor-network.eu/>) and the host of the largest basic research programme in Sweden (WASP<https://wasp-sweden.org/>). LiU also hosts the Swedish National Academic Infrastructure for Supercomputing in Sweden (NAISS<https://www.naiss.se/>), which includes an NVIDIA SuperPOD (Berzelius<https://www.nsc.liu.se/systems/berzelius/>). For detailed information about the positions and instructions on how to apply, please see https://www.ida.liu.se/divisions/aiics/nlp/phd-student/ Potential candidates are welcome to contact Marco or me for additional information. The application deadline is 2023-10-19. Kind regards, Marcel -- Marcel Bollmann, Dr. phil. Associate Professor in Natural Language Processing Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköping University, Sweden www: https://marcel.bollmann.me/

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CfP: HCII 2024 session on Behavioromics
by Andy Lücking 29 Sep '23

29 Sep '23

--- *Apologies for cross-posting* Call for papers: *Behavioromics* (see below how to contribute) HCI International 2024 Session: "Semantic, artificial and computational interaction studies: Towards a behavioromics of multimodal communication" A common theme that has emerged across different disciplines, especially in recent years, is the transition from monomodal to multimodal domains. This includes, for example, multimodal learning -- learning representations from multiple data modalities --, multimodal communication -- the study of gestures, facial expressions, head movements, and the like in addition to speech --, or multimodal logic -- that is, modal logic with more than one primitive operator. While the predominant use of "multimodal communication" (and its relatives) refers to human-human interaction, other domains can also be conceived in terms of interacting modes. The field of HCI and HRI, with its focus on natural (for humans) interfaces, has paid attention to multimodality from an early stage. It is also an important topic in conversation analysis and cognitive science, and is beginning to percolate into information science and theoretical linguistics. At the same time, due to the digital turn, work on multimodality is being expanded by data analytics using machine learning tools for modelling, detecting, analysing and simulating any form of communication. Relatedly, but independently, symbol grounding approaches have been multimodally extended, and advances in computer vision and multimodal AI are prolific. However, while these fields share a common empirical domain, there is little interaction between them. This session aims to bring these branches together - a collaborative endeavour that we call "behaviouromics". The session is open, but not restricted, to topics such as the following: - multimodal generative AI - predictive multimodal computing - dialogue generation, dialogue systems and dialog semantics - social robot interaction and adaptive behaviour - monitoring and processing in interaction - (big) multimodal data - multimodal data analytics - automatic multimodal annotation beyond written text - virtual reality and augmented reality applications - simulation-based learning in virtual environments - representation schemes for multimodal communication - verbal and non-verbal social signalling in humans and non-humans - the role of multimodality in 4E cognition - notions and theories of multimodality - multimodality in logics We want to emphasize that conceptual contributions are highly welcome! The conference session aims to provide a platform to bring together computer scientists, linguists, psychologists and researchers in related fields who are working on multimodal interaction. We are all working on almost the same topic from different angles, but there are far too few opportunities to interact. But sharing and seeing what others are doing is crucial for the methodological, empirical and theoretical challenges outlined above. The planned session will support this collaboration. The conference session will take place *virtually* in conjunction with HCI International 2024 (https://2024.hci.international/). Full papers will be published as part of the conference proceedings by Springer. *If you want to contribute, please send a message to any one of the organizers until 26 October 2023:* Alexander Mehler (mehler(a)em.uni-frankfurt.de) Andy Lücking (luecking(a)em.uni-frankfurt.de) Alexander Henlein (henlein(a)em.uni-frankfurt.de) Important dates: - until 26 October 2023: send email message to one of the session organizers - 30 October 2023: upload abstract (up to 500 words) - 02 February 2024: full paper is due - 29 June--04 July 2024: HCI International conference (virtual) Session organizers: Alexander Mehler (https://www.texttechnologylab.org/team/alexander-mehler/) Andy Lücking (https://www.texttechnologylab.org/team/andy-luecking/) Alexander Henlein (https://www.texttechnologylab.org/team/alexander-henlein/)

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Job announcement: Postdoc opportunity in Digital humanities, Uppsala University
by Maria Skeppstedt 28 Sep '23

28 Sep '23

Dear colleagues, Could you please forward the job announcement below to all who might be interested? ####################################### Postdoc opportunity in Digital humanities, Uppsala University ActDisease [1] (https://www.actdisease.org) is a five-year research project funded by the European Research Council (ERC) with a Starting Grant (ERC-2021-STG 101040999) and placed at the Department of History of Science and Ideas at Uppsala University, Sweden. The project studies the history of 20th-century medicine and the role of lay involvement in science through analysis of so far largely neglected, but central actors in medical history: patient organizations. These groups first emerged in the late 19th century, and worked towards increased attention to particular illnesses, shared information on disease management, promoted treatments, and developed healthcare resources. The ActDisease project gathers an interdisciplinary research team to analyse the publications and archives of selected patient organizations from four European nations - Sweden, Germany, United Kingdom and France - using a combination of traditional and computer based historiographic methods. The project entails a large-scale digitization of patient organization periodicals and using various text mining technologies to analyze these sources. The particular features of this material and the research questions pose a number of challenges to text mining methods, ranging from its fragmented and multilingual nature to the analysis of relationships between different corpora and professional and lay spheres. We are now accepting applications for a postdoc position (two years full-time employment with the possibility of one further year extension provided sufficient funds) in Digital Humanities. Full details can be found in the announcement: Postdoc in Digital Humanities with focus on historical text mining [2] (https://mp.uu.se/en/web/info/vart-uu/lediga-jobb/-/jobb/658761) Last application date: 2023-10-18 ############## Maria Skeppstedt Research Engineer Centre for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences, Uppsala Uppsala University Links: ------ [1] https://www.actdisease.org [2] https://mp.uu.se/en/web/info/vart-uu/lediga-jobb/-/jobb/658761

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Job: Associate Professor in Linguistics
by Carl Börstell 28 Sep '23

28 Sep '23

The University of Bergen (UiB), Norway invites applications for a permanent position as Associate Professor in Linguistics at The Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies (LLE). We are seeking a linguist with a strong computational profile (e.g., corpus linguistics, use and creation of digital language resources, quantitative analysis of linguistic data) who is able to teach programming for linguistic purposes as well as topics in general linguistics. Application deadline: November 1st, 2023 Start date: August 1st, 2024 More information about the position and application process: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/250269/associate-professor-i… Carl "Calle" Börstell Associate Professor Department of Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies (LLE) University of Bergen (UiB) uib.no/en/lle<https://www.uib.no/en/lle>

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Call for Course and Workshop Proposals - ESSLLI 2024
by Tatjana Scheffler 27 Sep '23

27 Sep '23

CALL FOR COURSE AND WORKSHOP PROPOSALS 35th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information 29 July – 9 August 2024, Leuven, Belgium https://2024.esslli.eu/ (Please note that the Website is not currently online, but will soon be.) Important Dates =============== 1 December 2023: * Deadline for submitting Workshop Titles 15 December 2023: * Deadline for submitting Workshop proposals * Deadline for submitting Course Titles 12 January 2024: * Deadline for submitting Course proposals 9 February 2024: Notification sent to Workshop proposers 4 March 2024: Notification sent to Course proposers The deadline for Workshop submissions and notification differs from those for Course submissions and notification, to allow participants who need a visa to attend a workshop, sufficient time to apply for one. Introduction ============ Under the auspices of the Association for Logic, Language, and Information (FoLLI), the European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (ESSLLI) runs every year. Except for 2021, when the school was virtual, it runs in a different European country each year. It takes place over two weeks in the summer, hosts approximately 50 different courses at levels that run from foundational to introductory to advanced, and attracts around 400 participants from all over the world. Since 1989, ESSLLI has been providing outstanding interdisciplinary educational opportunities in the fields of Computer Science, Cognitive Science, Linguistics, Logic, Philosophy, and beyond. It comes from a community which recognizes that advances in our common areas require the contributions of multiple interrelated disciplines. The main focus of ESSLLI is the interface between linguistics, logic and computation, with special emphasis on human linguistic and cognitive ability. Courses, both introductory and advanced, cover a wide variety of topics within the combined areas of interest: Logic and Computation, Computation and Language, and Language and Logic. Workshops are also organized, providing opportunities for in-depth discussion of issues at the forefront of research, as well as a series of invited evening lectures. Topics and Format ================= Proposals for courses and workshops at ESSLLI 2024 are invited in all areas of Logic, Linguistics and Computer Science. Cross-disciplinary and innovative topics are particularly encouraged. Each course and workshop will consist of five 90 minute sessions, offered daily (Monday-Friday) in a single week. Proposals for two-week courses should be structured and submitted as two independent one-week courses, e.g. as an introductory course followed by an advanced one. In such cases, the ESSLLI Program Committee reserves the right to accept just one of the two proposals. All instructional and organizational work at ESSLLI is performed completely on a voluntary basis, so as to keep participation fees to a minimum. However, organizers and instructors have their registration fees waived, and are reimbursed for travel and accommodation expenses up to a level to be determined and communicated with the proposal notification. ESSLLI can only guarantee reimbursement for at most one course/workshop organizer, and cannot guarantee full reimbursement of travel costs for lecturers or organizers from outside of Europe. The ESSLLIorganizers would appreciate any help in controlling the School's expenses by seeking partial or complete coverage of travel and accommodation expenses from other sources. Categories ========== Each proposal should fall under one of the following categories. Foundational Courses -------------------- Such courses are designed to present the basics of a research area, to people with no prior knowledge in that area. They should be of elementary level, without prerequisites in the course's topic, though possibly assuming a level of general scientific maturity in the relevant discipline. They should enable researchers from related disciplines to develop a level of comfort with the fundamental concepts and techniques of the course's topic, thereby contributing to the interdisciplinary nature of our research community. Introductory Courses -------------------- Introductory courses are central to ESSLLI's mission. They are intended to introduce a research field to students, young researchers, and other non-specialists, and to foster a sound understanding of its basic methods and techniques. Such courses should enable researchers from,related disciplines to develop some comfort and competence in the topic considered. Introductory courses in a cross-disciplinary area may presuppose general knowledge of the related disciplines. Advanced Courses ---------------- Advanced courses are targeted primarily to graduate students who wish to acquire a level of comfort and understanding in the current research of a field. Workshops --------- Workshops focus on specialized topics, usually of current interest. Workshop organizers are responsible for soliciting papers and selecting the workshop program. They are also responsible for publishing proceedings if they decide to have proceedings. Proposal Guidelines =================== Course and workshop proposals should closely follow these guidelines to ensure full consideration. Course and Workshop proposals can be submitted by no more than two lecturers/organizers and can be presented by no more than these two lecturers/organizers. All instructors and organizers must possess a PhD or equivalent degree by the submission deadline. Course proposals should mention explicitly the intended course category. Proposals for introductory courses should indicate the intended level, for example as it relates to standard textbooks and monographs in the area. Proposals for advanced courses should specify the prerequisites in detail. Proposals of Courses given at ESSLLI in the previous year will have a lower priority of being accepted in the current year. Proposals must be in PDF format and include all the following information: 1. Personal information for each proposer: Name, affiliation, contact address, email, homepage (optional) 2. General proposal information: Title, category 3. Contents information: a. Abstract of up to 150 words b. Motivation and description (up to two pages) c. Tentative outline d. Expected level and prerequisites e. Appropriate references (e.g. textbooks, monographs, proceedings, surveys) 4. Information required of course proposers: a. Will the course appeal to students outside of the main discipline of the course? b. What experience does the proposer have in presenting an intensive one-week interdisciplinary setting? c. What evidence is there that the course proposer is an excellent lecturer? 5. Information required of workshop organizers: a. Information on relevant preceding meetings and events, if applicable b. Information about potential external funding for participants. Submission Information ====================== Workshops --------------- By 1 December 2023, proposers are asked to submit (via EasyChair) at least the name(s) of the instructor(s), the ESSLLI area+course level and a title and short abstract for the proposed workshop. By 15 December 2023, proposers must complete their submission by uploading a PDF with the actual proposal as detailed above. Courses ----------- By 15 December 2023, proposers are asked to submit (via EasyChair) at least the name(s) of the instructor(s), the ESSLLI area+course level and a title and short abstract for the proposed course. By 12 January 2024, course proposers must complete their submission by uploading a PDF with the actual proposal as detailed above. Submission Portal ================= Please submit your proposals to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esslli2024 EACSL Sponsorship ================= The EACSL will support one Logic and Computation course or workshop addressing topics of interest to Computer Science Logic (CSL) conferences. The selected course or workshop will be designated an EACSL course/workshop in the programme. If you wish to be considered for this, please indicate it in your proposal. Organizing Committee ==================== Tim Van de Cruys (KU Leuven, Department of Linguistics) (chair) Lorenz Demey (KU Leuven Institute of Philosophy) Marie-Francine (Sien) Moens (KU Leuven, Department of Computer Science) Walter Schaeken (KU Leuven Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences) Hans Smessaert (KU Leuven, Department of Linguistics) Dirk Speelman (KU Leuven, Department of Linguistics) Program Committee ================= Bonnie Webber (Edinburgh University) (chair) Marie-Francine (Sien) Moens (KU Leuven) (local co-chair) Area Chairs Language and Computation (LaCo) ------------------------------------------- Tatjana Scheffler (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) Carina Silberer (IMS Stuttgart) Ivan Vulic (Cambridge University) Area Chairs Language and Logic (LaLo) ------------------------------------- Heather Burnett (CNRS) Dan Lassiter (Edinburgh University) Bob van Tiel (Radboud University, Nijmegen) Area Chairs Logic and Computation (LoCo) ---------------------------------------- Beniamino Accattoli (INRIA) Louwe Kuijer (University of Liverpool) Fan Yang (Utrecht University) ESSLLI Steering Committee ========================= Jakub Szymanik (University of Trento) (chair) Phokion Kolaitis (University of California, Santa Cruz) (vice-chair) Roman Kuznets (TU Wien) (secretary) Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (University College London) Lonneke van der Plas (Idiap) --- Jun.-Prof. Dr. Tatjana Scheffler (she/her) GB 5/157 Ruhr-Universität Bochum Fakultät für Philologie, Germanistik Universitätsstraße 150 44801 Bochum Germany Mail: tatjana.scheffler(a)rub.de Web: http://staff.germanistik.rub.de/digitale-forensische-linguistik/ Tel.: +49 234 32-21471

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ACM CIKM 2023 - REGISTER NOW (Virtual and In-person) - Birmingham, UK, October 21-25,2023
by Ingo Frommholz 26 Sep '23

26 Sep '23

CIKM 2023 In-person and online registration https://cikm2023.org Registration is NOW OPEN for the ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) in Birmingham, UK on October 21-25, 2023. Attendance for the main event can be in-person or online. ** For in-person attendance, space is limited, so please register early to secure your spot! ** The conference will contain numerous presented papers of high quality, applied and theoretical research findings as well as world-renown keynote speakers, workshops, tutorials, and networking opportunities. CIKM has a strong tradition of talks and workshops devoted to emerging areas of database management, IR, AI, NLP, and related fields. We are very happy to present the following keynote speakers: Chiraq Shah (University of Washington): Generative AI and the Future of Information Access Yulan He (KIng’s College, London): Interpretable Natural Language Understanding Steffen Staab (University of Stuttgart & University of Southampton): Knowledge Graphs for Knowing More and Knowing for Sure List of accepted papers: https://cikm2023.org/accepted-papers. List of tutorials: https://cikm2023.org/tutorials List of workshops: https://cikm2023.org/workshops In-person and online Registration: https://cikm2023.org/registration-rates Please visit https://cikm2023.org for more information. Looking forward to seeing you in Birmingham! -- Ingo Frommholz (he/him), PhD, FBCS, FHEA Reader (~Associate Professor) in Data Science ACM CIKM 2023 General Chair Head of Data, AI, Interaction, Retrieval and Language Group http://dairel.org Deputy Head Digital Innovations and Solutions Centre (DISC) University of Wolverhampton, UK Adjunct Professor, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland Web: http://www.frommholz.org/ | Email: ifrommholz(a)acm.org Twitter: @iFromm | Mastodon: @ingo@idf.social PGP/GPG fingerprint: B74E A422 C7B2 A5BB 2BC2 523B 2790 216E F8F8 D166 http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x2790216EF8F8D166

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28th International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS 2024): First Call for Papers
by Announce 25 Sep '23

25 Sep '23

*** First Call for Papers *** 28th International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS 2024) June 19-21, 2024, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/iceccs2024/ (*** Submission Deadline: December 8, 2023 AoE ***) Recent years have witnessed a rapidly rising emphasis on the design, implementation and management of complex computer systems which are present in every aspect of human activities, such as manufacturing, communications, defence, transportation, aerospace, hazardous environments, energy, and healthcare. These complex systems are frequently distributed over heterogeneous networks and process a large amount of data, leveraging emerging artificial intelligence (AI), large language models, and machine learning techniques. Complexity arises from many factors, including the dynamic environment and the scenarios these systems operate in, demanding and sometimes conflicting requirements in functionality, efficiency, scalability, security, dependability and adaptability, data heterogeneity, as well as the wide range of development methodologies, programming languages and implementation details. Performance, real-time behaviour, fault tolerance, robustness, security, adaptability, development time and cost, and long life concerns are some of the key issues arising in the development of such systems. The International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS) is a well-established event that has been held around the world for over 25 years. The goal of this conference is to bring together industrial, academic, and government experts from a variety of application domains and software disciplines, to discuss how the disciplines’ problems and solution techniques interact within the whole system. Researchers, practitioners, tool developers and users, and technology transfer experts are all welcome. The scope of the conference includes long-term research issues, near-term requirements and challenges, established complex systems, emerging promising tools, and retrospective and prospective reflections of research and development into complex systems. LIST OF TOPICS Authors are invited to submit papers describing original, unpublished research results, case studies and tools. Papers are solicited in all areas related to complex computer-based systems, including the causes of complexity and means of avoiding, controlling, or coping with complexity. Topic areas include, but are not limited to: Requirements, modeling and formal methods • Requirements analysis and specification • Model-driven development • Model checking • SAT/SMT solvers for software analysis and testing AI, Complex intelligent models and complex systems • Big data management • Data-drive and AI-backed systems • Machine learning for Software Engineering • AI4SE and SE4AI • Adaptive, self-managing and multi-agent systems Security, reliability and dependability • Safety-critical and fault-tolerant architectures • Formal methods • Security and privacy of complex systems • Privacy-preserving AI • Fairness Software engineering • Verification and validation • Reverse engineering and refactoring • Software architecture • Human Machine Interaction • Agile methods Realistic complex systems • Ubiquitous computing, context awareness, sensor networks • Cyber-physical systems and Internet of Things (IoT) • Autonomous systems and self-healing systems • Industrial case studies Different kinds of contributions are sought, including novel research, lessons learned, experience reports, and discussions of practical problems faced by industry and user domains. The ultimate goal is to build a rich and comprehensive conference program that can fit the interests and needs of different classes of attendees: professionals, researchers, managers, and students. A program goal is to organize several sessions that include both academic and industrial papers on a given topic and culminate panels to discuss relationships between industrial and academic research. SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION Full papers are divided into two categories: Technical Papers and Experience Reports. The papers submitted to both categories will be reviewed by the program committee members, and papers accepted in either category will be published in the conference proceedings. Technical papers should describe original research, and experience reports should present practical projects carried out in the industry, and reflect on the lessons learnt from them. Short paper submissions describe early-stage, ongoing or PhD research. All short papers will be reviewed by the program committee members, and accepted short papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Submissions to the conference must not have been published or be concurrently considered for publication elsewhere. All submissions will be judged on the basis of originality, contribution to the field, technical and presentation quality, and relevance to the conference. The proceedings have been published by the Conference Publishing Services (CPS) of the IEEE Computer Society. Submitted manuscripts should be in English and formatted in the style of the double-column IEEE CPS format. Full papers should not exceed 9 pages + 1 page for bibliography, and short papers should not exceed 5 pages + 1 page for bibliography, including figures, references, and appendices. All submissions should be in PDF format. Submissions not adhering to the specified format and length may be rejected immediately without review. Please prepare your manuscripts in accordance with the IEEE CPS guidelines. https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html . We invite all prospective authors to submit their manuscripts via the ICECCS 2024 portal, hosted by the EasyChair conference management system. https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iceccs2024 IMPORTANT DATES • Abstract Submissions Due: 08 December, 2023 AoE • Full Paper Submissions Due: 15 December, 2023 AoE • Acceptance/Rejection Notification: 15 March, 2024 • Camera-ready Due: 15 April, 2024 • Author Registration Due: 15 April, 2024 • Conference Dates: 19-21 June 2024 ORGANISATION Steering Committee Jin Song Dong, National University of Singapore, Singapore Mike Hinchey, University of Limerick, Ireland Xiaohong Li, Tianjin University, China Shaoying Liu, Hiroshima University, Japan Mauro Pezze, University in Lugano, Switzerland Roy Sterritt, Ulster University, United Kingdom Jing Sun (Chair), University of Auckland, New Zealand General Co-Chairs • Yamine Ait-Ameur, IRIT, France • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs • Guangdong Bai, University of Queensland, Australia • Fuyuki Ishikawa, National Institute of Informatics, Japan

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Job announcement: Associate Professor of Linguistics with a Specialization in Computational Linguistics
by Patrick G. Grosz 24 Sep '23

24 Sep '23

Dear colleagues, Please could you forward the job announcement below to all who might be interested? ####################################### *Job Title: *Associate Professor of Linguistics with a Specialization in Computational Linguistics *Location: *Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies, University of Oslo, Norway *Application Deadline: *31st October 2023 *URL: *<https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/243214/associate-professor-o…> *Description:* A permanent position of Associate Professor of Linguistics with a specialization in Computational Linguistics is available at the Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies, University of Oslo. (Associate Professor is the entry level in Norway, postdocs and newly minted PhDs are eligible to apply; moreover, it is possible to apply for promotion to Full Professor after starting the job.) General linguistics at the department covers all of the discipline's core areas (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics), and a range of methodological approaches, including corpus linguistics and experimental linguistics with a designated focus on the promotion of open science. Resources at the department include the Socio-Cognitive Lab (advanced audio-visual system, eye-trackers and EEG), and we maintain close ties with the TextLab (corpora, databases and other digital resources) at the faculty level. The successful candidate is expected to initiate and lead research, supervise PhD and MA candidates, participate in teaching and in exam setting and assessment at all levels, and to carry out administrative duties in accordance with the needs of the Department. Qualification requirements – PhD or equivalent academic qualifications within linguistics or another discipline related to the profile of the position. – Documented experience with research in computational linguistics that engages with questions from general linguistics (e.g., phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics). – An ability to contribute to teaching at all levels, including general courses at the BA level and more advanced BA and MA courses in computational linguistics. – Documented pedagogical skills (either a teaching course certificate or based on teaching experience) and a willingness to take active part in academic leadership and administration. – Documented potential for project acquisition – Excellent English language skills, both spoken and written – Personal suitability and motivation for the position The following qualifications will count in the assessment of the applicants: – Academic qualifications and academic production (publications, tools, programs, libraries, etc) relevant to the advertised position, with emphasis on works published within the last 5 years. Originality and innovative thinking will be weighted more heavily than quantity – International peer-reviewed publications – Experience with research projects – Effort to promote open science, e.g. through open data, open materials, shared code, or preregistrations. – Potential to contribute to the long-term development of the academic and research environment at the Department – Pedagogical qualifications, documented results from teaching and supervision, and disposition to inspire students – Interest and ability in leadership and administration – Ability to create and contribute to a positive environment for collaboration – Experience with and ability to build international networks – Skills within popular dissemination, public outreach and innovation We offer: – Salary NOK 615 000 - 714 000 per annum depending on qualifications – A professionally stimulating working environment – Membership in the Norwegian Public Service Pension Fund – Attractive welfare benefits – The opportunity to apply for promotion to full professorship at a later stage We would like to highlight the following three aspects of the job announcement: – in spite of the title (Associate Professor), this is an entry-level position in the Norwegian system; postdocs and newly minted PhDs are eligible to apply, but their thesis must have been submitted by the application deadline, which should be documented; – the position is permanent/tenured; moreover, it is possible to apply for promotion to Full Professor after starting the job; – applicants are not required to know Norwegian or another Scandinavian language by the start date, and the faculty provides support for learning Norwegian after arriving in Oslo. For more information on the position and how to apply, see the full job announcement at the application link provided below. *Web Address for Applications: *<https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/243214/associate-professor-o…>

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2 CFP: PROPOR 2024
by Livy Real 24 Sep '23

24 Sep '23

************************************************************************************ PROPOR 2024: 16th International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (Santiago de Compostela - Galicia) March 14th to 15th 2024 2nd Call for Papers https://propor2024.citius.gal/ ************************************************************************************ The International Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese (PROPOR), whose next edition will take place for the first time in Galicia, birthplace of the Portuguese language, is the main event in the area of natural language processing that is focused on theoretical and technological issues of written and spoken Portuguese and Galician (considered as a local variety of the former). The meeting has been a very rich forum for the exchange of ideas and partnerships for the research and industry communities dedicated to the automated processing of this language, promoting the development of methodologies, resources and projects that can be shared among researchers and practitioners in the field. We call for papers describing work on any topic related to computational language and speech processing of Portuguese/Galician by researchers in the industry or academia. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: -Natural language processing tasks (e.g. parsing, word sense disambiguation, coreference resolution) -Natural language processing applications (e.g. question answering, subtitling, summarization, sentiment analysis) -Natural language generation -Information extraction and information retrieval -Speech technologies (e.g. spoken language generation, speech and speaker recognition, spoken language understanding) -Speech applications (e.g. spoken language interfaces, dialogue systems, speech-to-speech translation) -Resources, standardization and evaluation (e.g. corpora, ontologies, lexicons, grammars) -NLP-oriented linguistic description or theoretical analysis -Distributional semantics and language modeling -Portuguese language varieties and dialect processing (including the language varieties of Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Galicia, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, and Sao Tome and Principe) -Multilingual studies, methods, applications and resources including Portuguese/Galician PROPOR 2024 will be held at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Santiago de Compostela - Galicia, Spain) from March 14th to March 15th. PROPOR 2024 will be the 16th edition of the biennial PROPOR conference, hosted alternately in Brazil and in Europe (Portugal/Galicia). Past meetings were held in Lisbon, PT (1993); Curitiba, BR (1996); Porto Alegre, BR (1998); Évora, PT (1999); Atibaia, BR (2000); Faro, PT (2003); Itatiaia, BR (2006); Aveiro, PT (2008); Porto Alegre, BR (2010); Coimbra, PT (2012); São Carlos, BR (2014), Tomar, PT (2016), Canela, BR (2018), Évora, PT (2020), and Fortaleza, BR (2022). * Submissions: Submissions should describe original, unpublished work. Authors are invited to submit two kinds of papers: -Full papers – Reporting substantial and completed work, especially those that may contribute in a significant way to the advancement of the area. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation results should be included. Full papers may consist of up to 8 pages of content, plus unlimited pages of references. -Short papers – Reporting small, focused contributions such as ongoing work, position papers, potential ideas to be discussed, or negative results. Short papers may consist of up to 4 pages of content, plus unlimited pages of references. Both Full and Short papers will be published in the proceedings of the main conference. Each submission will be evaluated by at least three reviewers. As reviewing will be double-blind, submitted papers must be anonymized, that is, they should not contain the authors’ names and affiliations. Authors must avoid self-references that reveal identity, like, “We previously showed (Smith, 1991) …”. Instead, they should prefer citations such as “Smith (1991) previously showed …”. Separate author identification information will be required as part of the submission process. Submissions to PROPOR 2024 may not be made available online (e.g. via a preprint server), and may not be submitted for review elsewhere while being under review for this conference. Submissions should be written in English. At submission time, only PDF format is accepted. For the final versions, authors of accepted papers will be given 1 extra content page to take the reviews into account. Authors of accepted papers will be requested to send the source files for the production of the proceedings. All submitted papers must conform to the official ACL style guidelines. ACL provides style files for LaTeX and Microsoft Word that meet these requirements. They can be found at: -LaTeX styelesheet: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files/tree/master/latex -MS Word stylesheet: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files/tree/master/word Paper should be submitted here in the following URL: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=propor2024 * Important dates: -Full and short paper submission deadline: 15/10/2023 (23:59 GMT-3) -Notification of paper acceptance or rejection: 15/11/2023 -Camera-ready papers due: 29/11/2023 -Conference: March 14th - 15th, 2024 * Publication: The proceedings of PROPOR 2024 will be published by ACL as a volume in ACL Anthology (https://aclanthology.org/). They will be available online. To ensure publication, at least one author of each accepted paper must complete an adequate registration for PROPOR 2024 by the early registration deadline. Kindest regards, António Teixeira, Livy Real & Marcos Garcia PROPOR 2024 Program Chairs -- Livy Real Quinto Andar CE-PLN - SBC

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