VarDial 2024, the eleventh workshop on NLP for similar languages, varieties and dialects, will be held in conjunction with NAACL in Mexico City, on June 20/21, 2024.
The paper submission deadline is extended to March 17, 2024 (AoE).
We welcome papers dealing with one or more of the following topics:
- Corpora, resources, and tools for similar languages, varieties and dialects;
- Adaptation of tools (taggers, parsers) for similar languages, varieties and dialects;
- Evaluation of language resources and tools when applied to language varieties;
- Reusability of language resources in NLP applications (e.g., for machine translation, POS tagging, syntactic parsing, etc.);
- Corpus-driven studies in dialectology and language variation;
- Computational approaches to mutual intelligibility between dialects and similar languages;
- Automatic identification of lexical variation;
- Automatic classification of language varieties;
- Text similarity and adaptation between language varieties;
- Linguistic issues in the adaptation of language resources and tools (e.g., semantic discrepancies, lexical gaps, false friends);
- Machine translation between closely related languages, language varieties and dialects.
In addition to the topics listed above, we also welcome papers dealing with diachronic language variation (e.g. phylogenetic methods, historical dialects).
Important dates:
- Extended paper submission deadline: March 17 (AoE)
- Commitment deadline for pre-reviewed papers: April 7
- Notification of acceptance: April 14
- Camera-ready papers due: April 24
- Workshop date: June 20/21
Details: https://sites.google.com/view/vardial-2024/call-for-papers
A PhD and two postdoc positions on natural language understanding are now available at the Pioneer Centre for AI<https://www.aicentre.dk/>. You can read more about the positions here<https://www.aicentre.dk/jobs>.
PhD Fellowship on Factual Text Generation
While recent large language models demonstrate surprising fluency and predictive capabilities in their generated text, they have been demonstrated to generate factual inaccuracies even when they have encoded truthful information. This limits their utility and safety in real world scenarios where guarantees of factuality are needed. To address this, the project will explore methods for improving the factuality of text generation with respect to both objective real-world facts and provided source documents.
We are looking for candidates with a background in computer science, machine learning, natural language processing, computational social science, or similar. The candidate should have an interest in automatic text generation and fact checking. They should also have an interest in interdisciplinary research endeavors, including at the Pioneer Center for AI. Early research experience, especially with empirical research methods, or relevant industry experience, will be a bonus.
The principal supervisor is Professor Isabelle Augenstein<mailto:augenstein@di.ku.dk> and the co-supervisor is Dustin Wright<mailto:dw@di.ku.dk>.
Application deadline: 1 April 2024. Apply here<https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx/?cid=1307&departmentI…>.
Postdoctoral Fellowship on NLP for Computational Social Science
The Pioneer Centre for AI and Department of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen invite applications for a 2-year postdoctoral full-time research position in the domain of Natural Language Processing.
NLP is becoming an increasingly powerful tool for social scientists. Yet, the intersection between the two disciplines is still poorly explored, with research in the two disciplines often being conducted as separate streams. The goal of this project is to research methods which can more directly be useful for downstream social science applications. One such application is to analyse common narratives in news, which requires methods including (interpretable) topic modelling, framing detection, social media analysis, etc. The successful candidate will be affiliated with a larger initiative on narrative analysis, spanning different content modalities, with the autonomy to define their project in this larger context.
The research will be conducted in collaboration with researchers at the Pioneer Centre for Artificial Intelligence’s Speech and Language Collaboratory, CopeNLU<https://www.copenlu.com/> and the Belongie Lab<https://www.belongielab.org/>. Inquiries about the position can be made to Professor Isabelle Augenstein<mailto:augenstein@di.ku.dk>.
Application deadline: 7 April 2024. Apply here<https://jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabelige-stillinger/?show=161353>.
Postdoctoral Fellowship on Multi-Modal Fact Checking
The Pioneer Centre for AI and Department of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen invite applications for a 2-year postdoctoral full-time research position in the domain of Natural Language Processing.
Online content can include multiple different modalities, ranging from text to images or tables. Increasingly, detecting false information requires the understanding of a combination of these modalities and the relationship between them. This project will focus on developing general-purpose multi-modal methods for automatic fact checking in various domains, such as scientific publications, news or social media. Inquiries about the position can be made to Professor Isabelle Augenstein<mailto:augenstein@di.ku.dk> or Assistant Professor Desmond Elliot<mailto:de@di.ku.dk>.
Application deadline: 7 April 2024. Apply here<https://jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabelige-stillinger/?show=161352>.
Isabelle Augenstein, Dr. Scient., Ph.D.
Professor and Head of the NLP Section, Department of Computer Science (DIKU)
Co-Lead, Pioneer Centre for Artificial Intelligence
University of Copenhagen
Østervold Observatory
Øster Voldgade 3
1350 Copenhagen
augenstein(a)di.ku.dk<mailto:augenstein@di.ku.dk>
http://isabelleaugenstein.github.io/
SemDial 2024 -- TrentoLogue
The 28th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue
11 and 12 September 2024
University of Trento, Italy
https://tinyurl.com/3c7rracn
TrentoLogue will be the 28th edition of the SemDial workshop series
which aim to bring together researchers working on the semantics and
pragmatics of dialogue in fields such as formal semantics and
pragmatics, computational linguistics, artificial intelligence,
philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience.
Keynote speakers
Uri Hasson, Princeton University
Azzurra Ruggeri, Max Planck Institute
Bernardo Magnini, Fondazone Bruno Kessler (FBK)
# IMPORTANT DATES:
* Long paper submissions: May 26, 2024
* Reviews due to: June 24, 2024
* Notification for long papers: July 1, 2024
* Short paper submissions: July 11, 2024
* Notification for short papers: July 17, 2024
* Camera Ready: August 26, 2024
* Registration Deadline: August 27, 2024
Note: All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 ("Anywhere on Earth").
#TOPICS
We welcome submissions with formal, computational, and empirical
approaches to the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue, including, but
not limited to:
* the dynamics of agents' information states in dialogue
* common ground/mutual belief
* goals, intentions, and commitments in communication
* turn-taking and interaction control
* semantic/pragmatic interpretation in dialogue
* dialogue and discourse structure
* categorization of dialogue phenomena in corpora
* child-adult interaction
* language learning through dialogue
* gesture, gaze, and intonational meaning in communication
* multimodal dialogue
* interpretation and reasoning in spoken dialogue systems
* dialogue management
* designing and evaluating dialogue systems
* modelling miscommunication, disfluency, and repair
* dialogue/interaction studies from a psychological perspective
* neuroscience of dialogue
* Interactivist approaches to dialogue
* animal communication
# SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:
Long papers: Authors should submit an anonymous paper of at most 8
pages of content (up to 2 additional pages are allowed for references).
Short papers: Authors should submit a non-anonymized paper of at most
2 pages of content (up to 1 additional page allowed for references).
Submissions to this track can be non-archival on request.
Submissions should be pdf files and use the LaTeX or Word (
https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files) templates provided for ACL.
Concurrent submission policy: Papers that have been or will be
submitted to other meetings or publications must provide this
information, using a footnote on the title page of the submissions.
SemDial 2024 cannot accept work for publication or presentation that
will be (or has been) published elsewhere.
Submission is electronic, using the EasyChair conference management
system at our Easychair submission site
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semdial2024trentolog
Organizing Committee
Raffaella Bernardi
Vanessa Maria Caleca
Jakub Szymanik
Roberto Zamparelli
Programme Committee Chairs
Raffaella Bernardi, University of Trento
Ellen Breitholtz, University of Gothenburg
Giuseppe Riccardi, University of Trento
TrentoLogue is endorsed by SIGdial and SIGsem.
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University of Trento
CIMeC: C225, second floor, Corso Bettini 31, 38068 Rovereto (TN),
DISI: Povo 2, Room: 110, Via Sommarive 9, I 38123, Povo (TN)
Tel. +39 0464 80 8704 (CIMeC)
http://disi.unitn.it/~bernardi/
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First Workshop on Patient-Oriented Language Processing (CL4HEALTH) @ LREC-COLING 2024
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 15, 2024
Main conference resubmissions: We welcome submissions of topically-relevant papers that have been rejected from the main LREC-COLING conference. The scores and reviews from the main conference will be taken into consideration, and the highest ranking papers may be considered without additional review. Please ensure that you paste the original review and scores within the indicated text box on the submission page.
https://bionlp.nlm.nih.gov/cl4health2024/
Torino, Italy (co-located with LREC-COLING 2024)
May 20, 2024
SCOPE
This first workshop on patient-oriented language processing aims to establish a general venue for presenting research and applications focused on patients’ needs, including summarizing health records for the patients, answering consumer-health questions using reliable resources, detecting misinformation or potentially harmful information, and providing multi-modal information, such as video, if it better satisfies patients’ needs. Such a venue is needed both to invigorate patient-oriented language processing research and to build a community of researchers interested in this area. The growing interest in this topic is fueled by several current trends:
- a proliferation of online services that target patients but do not always act in their best interests
- policy changes that allow patients to access their health records written in the professional vernacular, which may confuse the patients or lead to misinterpretation;
- replacement of customer services with chat bots; and
- the increasing tendency of patients to consult online resources as a second or even first opinion on their health problems.
We invite papers concerning all areas of language processing focused on patients’ health. The workshop will be centered on language technologies for health-related issues concerning the public that include, but are not limited to:
- accessibility and trustworthiness of health information provided to the public
- explainable and evidence-supported answers to consumer-health questions
- accurate summarization of patients’ health records at their health-literacy level
- understanding patients' non-informational needs through their language, and accurate and accessible interpretations of biomedical research
Broadly, CL4Health is concerned with the resources, computational approaches, and behavioral and socio-economic aspects of the public interactions with digital resources in search of health-related information that satisfies their information needs and guides their actions.
The topics of interest for the workshop include but are not limited to the following:
- Health-related information needs and online behaviors of the public
- Quality assurance and ethics considerations in language technologies and approaches applied to text and other modalities for public consumption
- Summarization of EHR data for patients
- Detection of misinformation in health-related resources and mitigation of potential harms
- Consumer-health question answering
- Biomedical text simplification/adaptation
- Dialogue systems to support patients’ interactions with clinicians, healthcare systems, and online resources
- Linguistic resources, data and tools for language technologies focusing on consumer health
- Resources, strategies and metrics for system testing and evaluation
- Infrastructures and pre-trained language models for consumer health
- Processing and annotation platforms
- Synthetic data generation and data augmentation.
IMPORTANT DATES
March 15, 2024 - Paper submissions due
March 25, 2024 - Notification of acceptance
March 31, 2024 - Camera-ready papers due
May 20, 2024 - Workshop @ LREC-COLING
SUBMISSIONS
Two types of submissions are invited:
- Full papers: should not exceed eight (8) pages of text, plus unlimited references. These are intended to be reports of original research.
- Short papers: may consist of up to four (4) pages of content, plus unlimited references. Appropriate short paper topics include preliminary results, application notes, descriptions of work in progress, etc.
Electronic Submission: Submissions must be electronic and in PDF format, using the Softconf START conference management system. Submissions need to be anonymous.
Submission site: https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/cl4health2024/
Dual submission policy: papers may NOT be submitted to the workshop if they are or will be concurrently submitted to another meeting or publication.
MEETING
The workshop will be hybrid. Virtual attendees must be registered for the workshop to access the online environment.
Accepted papers will be presented as posters or oral presentations based on the reviewers’ recommendations. All accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings and ACL Anthology
INVITED TALKS
- Barbara Di Eugenio, University of Illinois Chicago
- Abeed Sarker, Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Research in Biomedical Informatics @ Emory School of Medicine
- Natalia Grabar, CNRS Researcher, Université de Lille
ORGANIZERS
- Dina Demner-Fushman, US National Library of Medicine
- Sophia Ananiadou, National Centre for Text Mining and University of Manchester, UK
- Paul Thompson, National Centre for Text Mining and University of Manchester, UK
- Brian Ondov, US National Library of Medicine
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
- Sophia Ananiadou, National Centre for Text Mining and University of Manchester, UK
- Luiz Henrique Bonifacio, University of Waterloo, Canada
- Leonardo Campillos-Llanos, Spanish National Research Council, Spain
- Dina Demner-Fushman, National Library of Medicine, USA
- Manas Gaur, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA
- Natalia Grabar, Université de Lille, France
- Cyril Grouin, Université de Paris-Saclay, CNRS, LISN, Orsay, France
- Tudor Groza, Curtin University, Australia
- Deepak Gupta, National Library of Medicine, USA
- Anna Koroleva, Springbok AI, UK
- Alberto Lavelli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
- Aurélie Névéol, Université de Paris-Saclay, CNRS, LISN, Orsay, France
- Brian Ondov, National Library of Medicine, USA
- Anthony Rios, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
- Miguel Rocha, University of Minho, Portugal
- Roland Roller, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) Germany
- Abeed Sarker, Emory School of Medicine, USA
- Paul Thompson, National Centre for Text Mining and University of Manchester, UK
- Amelie Wührl, University of Stuttgart, Germany
- Pierre Zweigenbaum, Université de Paris-Saclay, CNRS, LISN, Orsay, France
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*SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS: EACL 2024 STUDENT RESEARCH WORKSHOP *
*
Student Research Workshop co-located with EACL 2024 in St. Julians, Malta.
Workshop Dates: March 21/22 2024
***Paper Submission Deadline: December 18, 2023 (Direct) and January 17,
2024 (through ARR)***
**
About the Student Research Workshop
**
The EACL 2024 Student Research Workshop (SRW) is a forum to bring
together students investigating various areas of Computational
Linguistics and Natural Language Processing. The workshop provides an
excellent opportunity for participants to present their work and to
receive mentorship and valuable feedback from the international research
community.
The workshop's goal is to aid students at multiple stages of their
education, including undergraduate, MSc/MA, junior and senior PhD
students, in getting familiar with conducting and presenting their
research.
General Invitation for Submission*
We invite papers in two different categories:
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**
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Thesis Proposals: This category is appropriate for PhD students who
have decided on a thesis topic and wish to get feedback on their
proposal and broader ideas for their continuing work.
*
Research Papers: Papers in this category can describe completed
work, or work in progress with preliminary results. For these
papers, the first author **MUST BE** a current student (graduate or
undergraduate). Topics of interest for the SRW are the same as for
the main EACL 2024
conference:<https://www.2022.aclweb.org/calls>https://2024.eacl.org/calls/papers/
<https://2024.eacl.org/calls/papers/>
We are opening a unique opportunity for the submission of research
papers that, while not accepted to the EACL main conference, align well
with the themes of this workshop. To be eligible for submission, the
first author must be a current student. Additionally, submissions should
be complemented with the reviews from ARR to provide context and
insights for evaluation. The submission deadline for this will be
January 17, 2024.
Why Submit to EACL SRW?
*
Mentorship program: EACL SRW provides a unique opportunity for
students to receive constructive feedback and advise from more
senior researchers through our on-site mentorship program.
*
Improving your publication record: Publishing a paper as an
undergraduate or as a MSc/MA student is beneficial when applying for
a PhD program. Publishing a paper in an EACL SRW workshop can be
really helpful for improving students’ publication records.
*
Negative results: we encourage the submission of studies with
negative results providing insights on why and in which scenarios a
particular method fails.
All accepted papers and thesis proposals will be presented in the main
conference poster sessions, which will give students an opportunity to
interact with and to present their work to a large and diverse audience,
including top researchers in the field and assigned mentors.**
*Important Dates*
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*
Direct Workshop paper submission: December 18, 2023
*
Pre-reviewed ARR paper submission: January 17, 2024
*
Notification of acceptance: January 20, 2024
*
Camera-ready deadline: January 30 2024
*
Workshop dates: March 21-22, 2024
All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth").
**
Submission Requirements
**
We accept both archival submissions (which will be included in the
conference proceedings) and non-archival submissions (which will be
presented at the workshop but will not be included in the proceedings).
**
The archival submissions must follow the anonymity period and the
restrictions of the main conference.
Short papersconsist of up to four (4) pages of content, plus unlimited
references. Upon acceptance, they will be given five (5) content pages
in the proceedings.
Long papersconsist of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus unlimited
references. Upon acceptance, they will be given nine (9) content pages
in the proceedings.
Thesis proposalsconsist of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus
unlimited references. The title must begin with “Thesis Proposal:”. Upon
acceptance, they will be given nine (9) content pages in the proceedings.
We strongly recommend the use of the official ARR style templates. The
paper templates are available as an Overleaf template and can also be
downloaded directly (LaTeX and Word) via
https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp <https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp>under
'Paper Submission and Templates'.
All submissions must be in PDF format. Submissions that do not adhere to
the above author guidelines or ACL policies will be rejected without
review.
Submission is electronic, using the OpenReview conference management.
The submission link is available here:
https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2024/Workshop/SRW
<https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2024/Workshop/SRW>
Grants
We expect to have grants to offset some portion of students' travel,
conference registration, and accommodation expenses. Further details
will be posted on the SRW website.
To contact the organizers of the workshop, please email us at:
eaclsrw(a)gmail.com
Website and Contact Information
For more information, please visit
https://sites.google.com/view/eacl2024srw
<https://sites.google.com/view/eacl2024srw>and follow us on Twitter
@eacl_srw. To contact the organizers of the workshop, please email us at
eaclsrw(a)gmail.com*
First International Conference on Natural Language Processing
and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security
(NLPAICS’2024)
Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom
29-30 July 2024
https://www.nlpaics.com
Third Call for Papers
Recent advances in Natural Language Processing (NLP), Deep Learning and Large Language Models (LLMs) have resulted in improved performance of applications. . In particular, there has been a growing interest in employing AI methods in different Cyber Security applications.
In today's digital world, Cyber Security has emerged as a heightened priority for both individual users and organisations. As the volume of online information grows exponentially, traditional security approaches often struggle to identify and prevent evolving security threats. The inadequacy of conventional security frameworks highlights the need for innovative solutions that can effectively navigate the complex digital landscape for ensuring robust security. NLP and AI in Cyber Security have vast potential to significantly enhance threat detection and mitigation by fostering the development of advanced security systems for autonomous identification, assessment, and response to security threats in real-time. Recognising this challenge and the capabilities of NLP and AI approaches to fortify Cyber Security systems, the First International Conference on Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Cyber Security (NLPAICS’2024) serves as a gathering place for researchers in NLP and AI methods for Cyber Security. We invite contributions that present the latest NLP and AI solutions for mitigating risks in processing digital information.
Conference topics
The conference invites submissions on a broad range of topics related to the employment of NLP and AI (and in general, language studies and models) for Cyber Security including but not limited to:
Societal and Human Security and Safety
• Content Legitimacy and Quality
o Detection and mitigation of hate speech and offensive language
o Fake news, deepfakes, misinformation and disinformation
o Detection of machine generated language in multimodal context (text, speech
and gesture)
o Trust and credibility of online information
• User Security and Safety
o Cyberbullying and identification of internet offenders
o Monitoring extremist fora
o Suicide prevention
o Clickbait and scam detection
o Fake profile detection in online social networks
• Technical Measures and Solutions
o Social engineering identification, phishing detection
o NLP for risk assessment
o Controlled languages for safe messages
o Prevention of malicious use of ai models
o Forensic linguistics
• Human Factors in Cyber Security
Speech Technology and Multimodal Investigations for Cyber Security
• Voice-based security: Analysis of voice recordings or transcripts for security threats
• Detection of machine generated language in multimodal context (text, speech and gesture)
• NLP and biometrics in multimodal context
Data and Software Security
• Cryptography
• Digital forensics
• Malware detection, obfuscation
• Models for documentation
• NLP for data privacy and leakage prevention (DLP)
• Addressing dataset “poisoning” attacks
Human-Centric Security and Support
• Natural language understanding for chatbots: NLP-powered chatbots for user support and security incident reporting
• User behaviour analysis: analysing user-generated text data (e.g., chat logs and emails) to detect insider threats or unusual behaviour
• Human supervision of technology for Cyber Security
Anomaly Detection and Threat Intelligence
• Text-Based Anomaly Detection
o Identification of unusual or suspicious patterns in logs, incident reports or other textual data
o Detecting deviations from normal behaviour in system logs or network traffic
• Threat Intelligence Analysis
o Processing and analysing threat intelligence reports, news, articles and blogs on latest Cyber Security threats
o Extracting key information and indicators of compromise (IoCs) from unstructured text
Systems and Infrastructure Security
• Systems Security
o Anti-reverse engineering for protecting privacy and anonymity
o Identification and mitigation of side-channel attacks
o Authentication and access control
o Enterprise-level mitigation
o NLP for software vulnerability detection
• Malware Detection through Code Analysis
o Analysing code and scripts for malware
o Detection using NLP to identify patterns indicative of malicious code
Financial Cyber Security
• Financial fraud detection
• Financial risk detection
• Algorithmic trading security
• Secure online banking
• Risk management in finance
• Financial text analytics
Ethics, Bias, and Legislation in Cyber Security
• Ethical and Legal Issues
o Digital privacy and identity management
o The ethics of NLP and speech technology
o Explainability of NLP and speech technology tools
o Legislation against malicious use of AI
o Regulatory issues
• Bias and Security
o Bias in Large Language Models (LLMs)
o Bias in security related datasets and annotations
Datasets and resources for Cyber Security Applications
Specialised Security Applications and Open Topics
• Intelligence applications
• Emerging and innovative applications in Cyber Security
Special Theme Track - Future of Cyber Security in the Era of LLMs and Generative AI
We are excited to share that NLPAICS 2024 will have a special theme track with the goal of stimulating discussion around Large Language Models (LLMs), Generative AI and ensuring their safety. The latest generation of LLMs, such as CHATGPT, Gemini, LLAMA and open-source alternatives, has showcased remarkable advancements in text and image understanding and generation. However, as we navigate through uncharted territory, it becomes imperative to address the challenges associated with employing these models in everyday tasks, focusing on aspects such as fairness, ethics, and responsibility. The theme track invites studies on how to ensure the safety of LLMs in various tasks and applications and what this means for the future of the field. The possible topics of discussion include (but are not limited to) the following:
• Detection of LLM-generated language in multimodal context (text, speech and gesture)
• LLMs for forensic linguistics
• Bias in LLMs
• Safety benchmarks for LLMs
• Legislation against malicious use of LLMs
• Tools to evaluate safety in LLMs
• Methods to enhance the robustness of language models
Submissions and Publication
NLPAICS welcomes high-quality submissions in English, which can take two forms:
• Regular long papers: These can be up to eight (8) pages long, presenting substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work.
• Short papers: These can be up to four (4) pages long and are suitable for describing small, focused contributions, negative results, system demonstrations, etc.
Note that the page limits mentioned above exclude additional pages for references, ethical considerations, conflict-of-interest statements, as well as data and code availability statements.
Papers must be anonymised to support double-blind reviewing.
Please submit your work as pdf using the following link: https://softconf.com/n/nlpaics2024/
Submission templates can be accessed here: LaTeX Overleaf, LaTeX , MS Office
Accepted papers, including both long and short papers, will be published as part of the same e-proceedings to be uploaded on ACL Anthology.
Important dates
• Submissions due: 5 April 2024
• Reviewing process: 25 April-31 May 2024
• Notification of acceptance: 5 June 2024
• Camera-ready due: 20 June 2024
• Conference: 29-30 July 2024
Keynote speakers
We are delighted to announce our first keynote speaker
Nigel Hardacre (Lancashire Constabulary)
More keynote speakers will be listed in the next calls and also on the conference website.
Programme Committee
Members of the Programme Committee of NLPAICS’2024 are listed here.
Venue
The First International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (NLPAICS’2024) will take place at Lancaster University and is organised by the Lancaster University UCREL NLP research group.
Organisation
• Conference Chair
o Ruslan Mitkov (Lancaster University)
• Conference Programme Chairs
o Cengiz Acartürk (Jagiellonian University)
o Matthew Bradbury (Lancaster University)
o Mo El-Haj (Lancaster University)
o Paul Rayson (Lancaster University)
• Sponsorship Chair
o Saad Ezzini (Lancaster University)
• Publicity Chair
o Tharindu Ranasinghe (Aston University)
• Publication Chair
o Ignatius Ezeani (Lancaster University)
Registration
Conference registration is open on https://nlpaics.com/registration/
Early bird registration closes on 15 April 2024.
Further information and contact details
The conference website is https://nlpaics.com and will be updated on a regular basis. For further information, please email info(a)nlpaics.com
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Call for Participation
3nd Cardiff NLP Workshop, 1-2 July 2024
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We are organising the 3nd Cardiff NLP Summer Workshop, an in-person workshop on Natural Language Processing. It will take place from July 1st to July 2nd 2024 in the Abacws building in Cardiff (Wales, UK).
The workshop is especially designed for PhD students and early career researchers, and the registration is free for everyone. Please fill the following expression of interest form by April 8th if interested in joining the workshop: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc73QR6I6bqdiFlC-0DIC4TOTjCHdcsXmb…
Workshop Activities:
* Invited speakers from academia and industry
* Tutorials
* Poster session and networking
* Panel NLP research and large language models in academia and industry
Important Dates:
* Application Period: 19 February - 8 April 2024
* Notification of Acceptance: Late April 2024
* Workshop: 1-2 July 2024 in Cardiff
For more details, please check the workshop website: https://www.cardiffnlpworkshop.org/
Cardiff NLP Organisation team
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Jose Camacho Collados
http://www.josecamachocollados.com<http://www.josecamachocollados.com/>
The deadline is extended to March 14th!
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Semantic Methods for Events and Stories, 2nd Edition (SEMMES 2024) – Call for Papers
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Website: https://anr-kflow.github.io/semmes/
Workshop co-located with the Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) in Hersonissos, Greece
Submission deadline: March 7th, 2024 => March 14th, 2024
Scope
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An important part of human history and knowledge is made of events, which can be aggregated and connected to create stories, be they real or fictional. These events as well as the stories created from them can typically be inherently complex, reflect societal or political stances and be perceived differently across the world population. The Semantic Web offers technologies and methods to represent these events and stories, as well as to interpret the knowledge encoded into graphs and use it for different applications, spanning from narrative understanding and generation to fact-checking.
The aim of the 2nd edition of our workshop on Semantic Methods for Events and Stories (SEMMES) is to offer an opportunity to discuss the challenges related to dealing with events and stories, and how we can use semantic methods to tackle them. We welcome approaches which combine data, methods and technologies coming from the Semantic Web with methods from other fields, including machine learning, narratology or information extraction. This workshop wants to bring together researchers working on complementary topics, in order to foster collaboration and sharing of expertise in the context of events and stories.
Topics
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Ontologies and data models for representing events, event relations, and narratives;
- Event extraction, co-reference and linking;
- Event Relation extraction and linking (e.g. temporal, causal, modal relationships);
- Methods combining KGs and LLMs targeting event- or narrative-related research;
- Fake events detection and event verification;
- Event-centric question answering;
- Event information visualisation;
- Event-centric knowledge graphs and vocabularies;
- Completion of event-centric knowledge graphs and reasoning;
- Event summarisation;
- Automatic narrative understanding and generation;
- Storytelling Applications/Demos.
Submission Guidelines
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We welcome the following types of contributions.
- Long papers (10-15 pages including references)
- Short papers (5-9 pages including references)
We welcome any types of research, resource and application papers, as well as (short only) demonstration submissions.
Submissions must be written in English and formatted using the template for submissions to CEUR Workshop Proceedings (https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-submissions-to-ceur-w…)
All papers and abstracts have to be submitted electronically via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semmes2024.
Each accepted paper needs to be presented by one of the authors, who agrees to register and participate in SEMMES.
Authors may be requested to serve as reviewers for max 2 papers.
Important Dates
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- Submission deadline: March 7th, 2024 => March 14th, 2024
- Notifications: April 4th, 2024
- Camera-ready version: April 18th, 2024
- Workshop day: May 26th or 27th, 2024 (half-day, TBA)
All deadlines are 23:59 anywhere on earth (UTC-12).
Proceedings
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The complete set of papers will be published with the joint CEUR ESWC Workshop Proceedings (http://CEUR-WS.org), listed by the DBLP.
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Pasquale Lisena
EURECOM, Campus SophiaTech
450 route des Chappes, 06410 Biot, France
e-mail: pasquale.lisena(a)eurecom.fr
site: http://pasqlisena.github.io/
Dear colleagues,
We have a couple of updates regarding the ongoing GEM shared task
<https://gem-benchmark.com/shared_task>:
*Event*: We are delighted to announce that the GEM shared task is endorsed
by SIGGEN <https://siggen-acl.github.io/index.html>, and will be part of
the Generation Challenges (GenChal) at INLG’24. Participants will have the
possibility to (i) publish a system description in the GenChal proceedings
(available on the ACL anthology, see GenChal’23 Proceedings
<https://aclanthology.org/volumes/2023.inlg-genchal/>), and (ii) present
their results during the GenChal session at the INLG conference in Tokyo in
September 2024.
*Pre-registration*: The deadline for pre-registering your system
submissions is approaching (March 8th 23.59 AoE)! Note that it will be
possible for participants to pre-register after March 8th, but that doing
so does not guarantee a participation in the human evaluation. Pre-registration
link <https://nyustern.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8qRqfdN3qBy3Bqe>.
*Important dates*
March 8: Deadline for pre-registering systems (ensuring human evaluation in
languages selected by the organisers).
April 5: Deadline for output submission (all subtasks).
April 6: Human evaluation starts.
TBD: System descriptions due.
Late September: GenChal@INLG’24.
best,
simon, on behalf of the GEM Human Evaluation Team
*ADAPT Research Centre / Ionaid Taighde ADAPT*
*School of Computing, Dublin City University, Glasnevin Campus
/ Scoil na Ríomhaireachta,
Campas Ghlas Naíon, Ollscoil Chathair Bhaile Átha Cliath*
* We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP *
For the online version of this Call, visit:
https://nldb2024.di.unito.it/submissions/
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*SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN AT* https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nldb2024
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NLDB 2024
The 29th International Conference on Natural Language & Information Systems
25-27 June 2024, University of Turin, Italy.
Website: https://nldb2024.di.unito.it/
*Submission deadline: 22 March, 2024*
About NLDB
The 29th International Conference on Natural Language & Information
Systems will be held at the University of Turin, Italy, and will be a
face to face event. Since 1995, the NLDB conference brings together
researchers, industry practitioners, and potential users interested in
various applications 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 Large Language
Modelsand the importance of aspects such as transparency, bias and
fairness, Large Multimodal Models and the connection of the NLP field
with Computer Vision, chatbots and dialogue-based pipelines.
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. Language models developed by the open-source
community have become widespread and commonly used. Businesses are now
readily adopting these technologies, thanks to the efforts of the
open-source community. For example, fine-tuning a language model on a
company’s own dataset is now easy and convenient, using modules created
by thousands of academic researchers and industry experts.
It is against this backdrop of recent innovations in NLP and its
applications in information systems that the 29th 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 2024 invites authors to submit papers 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 continues with the Industry Track to foster fruitful
interaction between the industry and the research community.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
* Large Language Models: training, applications, transfer learning,
interpretability of large language models.
* Multimodal Models: Integration of text with other modalities like
images, video, and audio; multimodal representation learning;
applications of multimodal models.
* AI Safety and ethics: Safe and ethical use of Generative AI and NLP;
avoiding and mitigating biases in NLP models and systems; explainability
and transparency in AI.
* Natural Language Interfaces and Interaction: design and implementation
of Natural Language Interfaces, user studies with human participants on
Conversational User Interfaces, chatbots and LLM-based chatbots and
their interaction with users.
* 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: 22 March, 2024 *
Paper notification: 19 April, 2024
Camera-ready deadline: 26 April, 2024
Conference: 25-27 June 2024
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=nldb2024)
Papers can be submitted to either the main conference or the industry track.
Submissions can be full papers (up to 15 pages including references and
appendices), short papers (up to 11 pages including references and
appendices) or papers for a poster presentation or system demonstration
(6 pages including references). The program committee may decide to
accept some full papers as short papers or poster papers.
All questions about submissions should be emailed to
federico.torrielli(a)unito.it (Web & Publicity Chair)
General Chairs:
Luigi Di Caro, University of Turin
Farid Meziane, University of Derby
Amon Rapp, University of Turin
Vijayan Sugumaran, Oakland University