*** Second Call for Papers ***
12th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Systems (IS'24)
Invited Session on Intelligent Tools for e/m/d Learning
August 29-31, 2024, Golden Sands Resort, Varna, Bulgaria
https://www.ieee-is.org
(*** Submission Deadline: April 1, 2024 AoE ***)
This invited session aims to explore state-of-the-art advancements in intelligent tools
designed to revolutionize the landscape of e-learning (electronic learning), m-learning
(mobile learning) and d-learning (digital learning). With the rapid integration of technology
into education, there is a growing need to investigate and showcase innovative intelligent
solutions that can enhance the effectiveness of online, mobile and digital learning
environments. Intelligent solutions for the educational context can have a groundbreaking and
revolutionary impact on learners and faculty alike, with integrated educational tools offering
enhanced engagement, support for different learning levels, styles and abilities, and
personalized learning experiences with immediate feedback at its core.
Papers submitted to this session are expected to present results on various aspects of
intelligent tools for e-learning, m-learning and d-learning. Topics may include but are not
limited to adaptive learning systems, personalized learning experiences, artificial
intelligence-driven content creation, data analytics for educational insights, and the integration
of emerging technologies such as augmented reality and virtual reality in educational settings.
Authors are encouraged to share empirical research, case studies, and practical
implementations that demonstrate the impact of intelligent tools on learner/faculty
engagement, knowledge retention, and overall educational outcomes. The session aims to
provide a comprehensive overview of the current state-of-the-art in intelligent tools in
e-learning, m-learning and d-learning, fostering discussions on their implications for the
future of education and their potential to address challenges in diverse learning
environments and educational levels, as well as diverse learner ability.
PAPER SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
Submitted papers should be in IEEE 2-column format and should adhere to the template
available here: https://www.ieee-is.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/IS_A4_format-AAu.docx
The expected paper length in camera-ready format should not exceed 6 pages.
Submissions should be done in PDF using Easy Chair and the submission link is:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=itl24 .
PUBLICATION
All accepted papers will be included in the IS'24 proceedings to be published by IEEE. The
proceedings of the previous editions of IS can be found here:
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/1000395/all-proceedings .
Traditionally, extended versions of conference-selected papers appear within 1-2 years after
the conference dates in well-known international iournals and/or post-conference books.
More information can be found on the conference web site
(https://www.ieee-is.org/publication-information/ ).
CONTACT POINT
For any additional information or clarification please contact the Invited Session Chair,
George A. Papadopoulos at george(a)ucy.ac.cy .
IMPORTANT DATES
• Paper submission: April 1, 2024, AoE
• Notification: May 15, 2024
• Camera Ready: June 6, 2024
• Author Registration: June 6, 2024
ORGANISATION
Committees
https://www.ieee-is.org/program-committee/
Invited Session Chair
• George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (george(a)ucy.ac.cy)
Deadline EXTENDED: Saturday, March 16, 2024, 11:59pm UTC-12
The 19th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational
Applications (BEA 2024)
Location: Mexico City (co-located with NAACL 2024)
Date: Thursday, June 20 or Friday, June 21, 2024 (TBD)
Website: https://sig-edu.org/bea/current
*Submission Deadline: *Saturday, March 16*, 2024, 11:59pm UTC-12*
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
The BEA Workshop is a leading venue for NLP innovation in the context of
educational applications. It is one of the largest one-day workshops in the
ACL community with over 100 registered attendees in the past several years.
The growing interest in educational applications and a diverse community of
researchers involved resulted in the creation of the Special Interest Group
in Educational Applications (SIGEDU)
<https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2019Q3_Reports:_SIGEDU> in
2017, which currently has over 390 members.
The 19th BEA workshop will have a keynote by Alla Rozovskaya
<https://sites.google.com/site/allamrozovskaya/> (Queens College, CUNY), an
invited paper presentation by a member of one of the educational societies
from the International Alliance to Advance Learning in the Digital Era (
IAALDE <https://alliancelss.com/>), oral presentation sessions, and a large
poster session to maximize the amount of original work presented. This
year, the workshop is also hosting two shared tasks: on Automated
Prediction of Item Difficulty and Item Response Time
<https://sig-edu.org/sharedtask/2024> and on Multilingual Lexical
Simplification <https://sites.google.com/view/mlsp-sharedtask-2024>. We
expect that the workshop will continue to highlight novel technologies and
opportunities for educational NLP in English as well as other languages.
The workshop will solicit long, short and demo papers for either oral or
poster presentation.
We will solicit papers that incorporate NLP methods, including, but not
limited to:
- use of LLMs and generative AI in educational contexts
- automated scoring of open-ended textual and spoken responses;
- automated scoring/evaluation for written student responses (across
multiple genres);
- game-based instruction and assessment;
- educational data mining;
- intelligent tutoring;
- collaborative learning environments;
- peer review;
- grammatical error detection and correction;
- learner cognition;
- spoken dialog;
- multimodal applications;
- annotation standards and schemas;
- tools and applications for classroom teachers, learners and/or test
developers; and
- use of corpora in educational tools.
INVITED TALKS
The workshop will feature a keynote by Alla Rozovskaya
<https://sites.google.com/site/allamrozovskaya/> (Queens College, CUNY) and
an invited talk by a speaker from one of the IAALDE
<https://alliancelss.com/> societies.
IMPORTANT DATES
All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC-12 (anywhere on earth).
- Submission Deadline: *Saturday, March 16*, 2024
- Notification of Acceptance: Sunday, April 14, 2024
- Camera-ready Papers Due: Wednesday, April 24, 2024
- Workshop: Thursday, June 20 or Friday, June 21, 2024 (TBD)
SUBMISSION INFORMATION
We will be using the ACL Submission Guidelines for the BEA Workshop this
year. Authors are invited to submit a long paper of up to eight (8) pages
of content, plus unlimited references; final versions of long papers will
be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers’
comments can be taken into account. We also invite short papers of up to
four (4) pages of content, plus unlimited references. Upon acceptance,
short papers will be given five (5) content pages in the proceedings.
Authors are encouraged to use this additional page to address reviewers’
comments in their final versions. We generally follow ACL submission
guidelines <https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp> and will require that all
submitted papers should include a dedicated "Limitations" section, which
does not count toward the page limit.
Papers which describe systems are also invited to give a demo of their
system. If you would like to present a demo in addition to presenting the
paper, please make sure to select either “long paper + demo” or “short
paper + demo” under “Submission Category” in the START submission page.
Previously published papers cannot be accepted. The submissions will be
reviewed by the program committee. As reviewing will be blind, please
ensure that papers are anonymous. Self-references that reveal the author’s
identity, e.g., “We previously showed (Smith, 1991) …”, should be avoided.
Instead, use citations such as “Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) …”.
We have also included conflict of interest in the submission form. You
should mark all potential reviewers who have been authors on the paper, are
from the same research group or institution, or who have seen versions of
this paper or discussed it with you.
We will be using the START conference system to manage submissions:
*https://softconf.com/naacl2024/BEA2024*
<https://softconf.com/naacl2024/BEA2024/>
DOUBLE SUBMISSION POLICY
We will follow the official ACL double-submission policy
<https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp>. Specifically:
Papers being submitted both to BEA and another conference or workshop must:
- Note on the title page the other conference or workshop to which
they are being submitted.
- State on the title page that if the authors choose to present their
paper at BEA (assuming it was accepted), then the paper will be withdrawn
from other conferences and workshops.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
- Ekaterina Kochmar <https://ekochmar.github.io/about/>, MBZUAI
- Marie Bexte
<
https://www.fernuni-hagen.de/english/research/clusters/catalpa/about-catalp…>,
FernUniversität in Hagen
- Jill Burstein <https://sites.google.com/site/jbursteinets/>, Duolingo
- Andrea Horbach
<
https://www.fernuni-hagen.de/english/research/clusters/catalpa/about-catalp…>,
FernUniversität in Hagen
- Ronja Laarmann-Quante
<https://www.ltl.uni-due.de/team/ronja-laarmann-quante>, Ruhr University
Bochum
- Anaïs Tack <https://anaistack.github.io/>, KU Leuven
- Yaneva <http://www.victoriayaneva.info/>, National Board of
Medical Examiners
- Zheng Yuan <https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~zy249/>, King’s College London
Workshop contact email address: bea.nlp.workshop(a)gmail.com
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Tazin Afrin (Educational Testing Service); Erfan Al-Hossami (UNC
Charlotte); Desislava Aleksandrova (CBC/Radio-Canada); Giora Alexandron
(Weizmann Institute of Science); David Alfter (University of Gothenburg);
Jatin Ambasana (Unitedworld School of Computational Intelligence);
Alejandro Andrade (Pearson); Nischal Ashok Kumar (University of
Massachusetts Amherst); Berk Atil (Penn State University); Shiva Baghel
(Data Scientist); Rabin Banjade (University of Memphis); Michael Gringo
Angelo Bayona (Trinity College Dublin); Lee Becker (Pearson); Lisa Beinborn
(VU Amsterdam); Luca Benedetto (University of Cambridge); Jeanette
Bewersdorff (FernUniversität in Hagen); Abhidip Bhattacharyya (CICS UMass);
Serge Bibauw (UCLouvain); Ted Briscoe (MBZUAI); Jie Cao (University of
Colorado Boulder); Dumitru-Clementin Cercel (University POLITEHNICA of
Bucharest); Jeevan Chapagain (University of Memphis); Mei-Hua Chen
(Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, Tunghai University); Mark
Core (University of Southern California); Steven Coyne (Tohoku University);
Sam Davidson (UC Davis); Orphee De Clercq (LT3, Ghent University); Kordula
De Kuthy (University of Tübingen); Jasper Degraeuwe (Ghent University); Yo
Ehara (Tokyo Gakugei University); Yang Deng (Singapore); Chris Develder
(Ghent University - imec, Belgium); Yuning Ding (FernUniversität in Hagen);
Rahul Divekar (Bentley University); George Dueñas (Universidad Pedagogica
Nacional); Mariano Felice (British Council); Nigel Fernandez (University of
Massachusetts Amherst); Michael Flor (Educational Testing Service);
Jennifer Frey (Institute for Applied Linguistics, Eurac Research); Kotaro
Funakoshi (Tokyo Institute of Technology); Thomas Gaillat (Université
Rennes 2); Diana Galvan-Sosa (Tohoku University); Ashwinkumar Ganesan
(UMBC, Amazon); Rujun Gao (Texas A&M University); Ritik Garg (IIITD);
Christian Gold (FernUniversität in Hagen); Sebastian Gombert (DIPF |
Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education); Cyril Goutte
(National Research Council Canada); Abigail Gurin Schleifer (The Weizmann
Institute of Science); Handoko Handoko (Universitas Andalas); Ching Nam
Hang (Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong);
Jiangang Hao (Educational Testing Service); Nicolas Hernandez (Nantes
University - LS2N); Heiko Holz (Ludwigsburg University of Education);
Chieh-Yang Huang (Penn State University); Chung-Chi Huang (Frostburg State
University); Anna Huelsing (Universität Hildesheim); Joseph Marvin Imperial
(University of Bath, National University); Radu Tudor Ionescu (University
of Bucharest); Qinjin Jia (North Carolina State University); Helen Jin
(University of Pennsylvania); Ioana Jivet (Goethe University Frankfurt);
Léane Jourdan (University of Nantes); Anisia Katinskaia (University of
Helsinki); Elma Kerz (RWTH Aachen Univeristy); Fazel Keshtkar (St. John's
University, NY); Mamoru Komachi (Hitotsubashi University); Roland Kuhn
(National Research Council of Canada (NRC)); Alexander Kwako (University of
California, Los Angeles); Kristopher Kyle (University of Oregon); Antonio
Laverghetta Jr. (University of South Florida); Seolhwa Lee (Technical
University of Darmstadt); Arun Balajiee Lekshmi Narayanan (University of
Pittsburgh); Yudong Liu (Western Washington University); Zhexiong Liu
(University of Pittsburgh); Julian Lohmann (Christian-Albrechts-Universität
zu Kiel); Anastassia Loukina (Grammarly Inc.); Jiaying Lu (Emory
University); Crisron Rudolf Lucas (UCD); Jakub Macina (ETH Zurich); Nitin
Madnani (ETS); Arianna Masciolini (Språkbanken Text, Department of Swedish,
Multilingualism, Language Technology, University of Gothenburg); Sandeep
Mathias (Presidency University, Bangalore); Hunter McNichols (University of
Massachusetts Amherst); Amit Kumar Mishra (Amity University Madhya
Pradesh); Masato Mita (CyberAgent); Phoebe Mulcaire (Duolingo); Laura Musto
(Facultad de Información y Comunicación, Universidad de la República);
Farah Nadeem (The World Bank); Sungjin Nam (ACT, Inc); Diane Napolitano
(Associated Press); Arun Balajiee Lekshmi Narayanan (University of
Pittsburgh); Tanya Nazaretsky (EPFL); Kamel Nebhi (Education First); Hwee
Tou Ng (National University of Singapore); Huy Nguyen (Amazon);
Gebregziabihier Nigusie (Mizan-Tepi University); Christina Niklaus
(University of St.Gallen); S Jaya Nirmala (NIT Trichy India); Eda Okur
(Intel Labs); Kostiantyn Omelianchuk (Grammarly); Amin Omidvar (York
University); Ulrike Pado (Hochschule für Technik Stuttgart); Chanjun Park
(Upstage); Udita Patel (Amazon); Long Qin (Alibaba Cloud); Mengyang Qiu
(University at Buffalo); Martí Quixal (University of Tübingen); Manav
Rathod (Glean); Hanumant Redkar (Goa University); Robert Reynolds (Brigham
Young University); Frankie Robertson (University of Jyväskylä); Aiala Rosá
(Universidad de la República); Alla Rozovskaya (City University of New
York); Josef Ruppenhofer (Fernuniversität in Hagen); Omer Salem; Nicy
Scaria (Indian Institute of Science); Nils-Jonathan Schaller
(Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel); Gyu-Ho Shin (University of
Illinois Chicago); Mayank Soni (ADAPT Center, Trinity College Dublin);
Katherine Stasaski (Salesforce AI Research); Helmer Strik (Radboud
University Nijmegen); Hakyung Sung (University of Oregon); Abhijit Suresh
(Reddit Inc.); Chee Wei Tan (Nanyang Technological University); Zhongwei
Teng (Duolingo); Xiaoyi Tian (University of Florida); Sowmya Vajjala
(National Research Council, Canada); Giulia Venturi (Institute for
Computational Linguistics "A. Zampolli"); Anthony Verardi (Duolingo English
Test); Elena Volodina (University of Gothenburg, Sweden); Taro Watanabe
(Nara Institute of Science and Technology); Michael White (The Ohio State
University); Alistair Willis (The Open University, UK); Man Fai Wong (City
University of Hong Kong); Simon Woodhead (Eedi); Changrong Xiao (Tsinghua
University); Roman Yangarber (University of Helsinki); Su-Youn Yoon
(EduLab); Marcos Zampieri (George Mason University); Fabian Zehner (DIPF |
Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education); Torsten Zesch
(FernUniversität in Hagen); Jing Zhang (Emory University); Yiyun Zhou
(NBME); Jessica Zipf (University of Konstanz); Michael Zock (CNRS, (LIF)
University of Aix-Marseille); Bowei Zou (Institute for Infocomm Research
(I2R), A*STAR, Singapore).
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Third Call for Papers:
The 5th workshop on: "Resources and ProcessIng of linguistic, para-linguistic and extra-linguistic Data from
people with various forms of cognitive/psychiatric/developmental impairments"
Workshop: co-located with LREC-COLING 2024 | Turin, Italy | May 21st, 2024
RaPID-5 serves as an interdisciplinary platform for researchers to exchange insights, methods, and experiences related to collecting and processing data from individuals with mental, cognitive, neuropsychiatric, or neurodegenerative impairments. The workshop focuses on creating, processing, and applying such data resources from individuals at different stages and severity levels of these impairments. The ultimate goal of RaPID-5 is to facilitate the study of relationships among linguistic, paralinguistic, and extra-linguistic observations, with applications ranging from aiding diagnosis to enhancing monitoring and predicting individuals at higher risk, ultimately promoting multidisciplinary collaboration across clinical, language technology, computational linguistics, and computer science communities.
Submission deadline: Sun., 17th of March, 2024 (anywhere on earth)
Paper submission: https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/rapid2024/
Website with submission details: https://spraakbanken.gu.se/en/rapid-2024
Contact: Dimitrios Kokkinakis
Contact email: dimitrios.kokkinakis(a)gu.se<mailto:dimitrios.kokkinakis@gu.se>
Invited Speakers:
* Dr. Alexandra König, BSc MSc PhD, Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique (INRIA); Cobtek (Cognition; Behaviour; Technology) Lab; University Côte d'Azur, France
* Prof. Maria Liakata, EPSRC/UKRI Turing Institute AI fellow, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Organizing committee:
* Kathleen C. Fraser, National Research Council, Canada;
* Dimitrios Kokkinakis, University of Gothenburg, Sweden;
* Kristina Lundholm Fors, Lund University, Sweden;
* Charalambos K. Themistocleous, University of Oslo, Norway;
* Athanasios Tsanas, The University of Edinburgh, UK;
* Fredrik Öhman, University of Gothenburg and Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Sweden
************************************************************************************
**The 6th Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools (Hybrid) with shared tasks on Arabic LLMs Hallucination and Dialect to MSA Machine Translation**
The workshop will be conducted in a *hybrid* format to ensure maximum participation, accommodating attendees both online and in-person.
Submission deadline extended to * March 4 *, 2024 (final extension)
*Workshop site* : https://osact-lrec.github.io/
*shared tasks:*
Task 1: Arabic LLMs Hallucination (contact Hamdy Mubarak), Link: https://sites.google.com/view/arabic-llms-hallucination
Task 2: Dialect to MSA Machine Translation (contact Kareem Darwish), Link: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/17118
*Co-located with LREC-COLING 2024*
https://lrec-coling-2024.org/
Turin, Italy, 20-25 May 2024
* Important Dates*
Submission deadline extended to * March 4 *, 2024 (final extension)
Notification of acceptance: March 25, 2024
Camera-ready papers due: March 30, 2024
Workshop date: May 25, 2024
*Workshop Description*
In the computational linguistics (CL), natural language processing (NLP), and information retrieval (IR) communities, Arabic is considered to be relatively resource-poor compared to English. This situation was thought to be the reason for the limited number of language resources -based studies in Arabic. However, the past few years witnessed the emergence of new considerably large and free classical and Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) as well as dialectical corpora and to a lesser extent Arabic processing tools.
This workshop follows the footsteps of previous editions of OSACT to provide a forum for researchers to share and discuss their ongoing work. This workshop is timely given the continued rise in research projects focusing on Arabic Language Resources. The sixth workshop comes to encourage researchers and practitioners of Arabic language technologies, including CL, NLP and IR to share and discuss their latest research efforts, corpora, and tools. The workshop will also give special attention to Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI, which is a hot topic nowadays. In addition to the general topics of CL, NLP and IR, the workshop will give a special emphasis on two shared tasks, namely: Arabic LLMs Hallucination and Dialect to MSA Machine Translation.
*Submissions Topics*
Language Resources:
- Pre-trained Arabic language models and their applications.
- Surveying and evaluating the design of available Arabic corpora, their associated and processing tools.
- Availing new annotated corpora for NLP and IR applications such as named entity recognition, machine translation, sentiment analysis, text classification, and language learning.
- Evaluating the use of crowdsourcing platforms for Arabic data annotation.
- Open source Arabic processing toolkits.
Tools and Technologies:
Language education, e.g., L1 and L2.
- Language modeling and pre-trained models.
- Tokenization, normalization, word segmentation, morphological analysis, part-of-speech tagging, etc.
- Sentiment analysis, dialect identification, and text classification.
- Dialect translation.
- Fake news detection.
- Web and social media search and analytics.
- Issues in the design, construction, and use of Arabic LRs: text, speech, sign, gesture, image, in single or multimodal/multimedia data.
- Guidelines, standards, best practices, and models for LRs interoperability.
- Methodologies and tools for LRs construction and annotation.
- Methodologies and tools for extraction and acquisition of knowledge.
- Ontologies, terminology, and knowledge representation.
- LRs and Semantic Web (including Linked Data, Knowledge Graphs, etc.).
Issues in the design, construction and use of Arabic LRs:
- Guidelines, standards, best practices and models for LRs interoperability.
- Methodologies and tools for LRs construction and annotation.
- Methodologies and tools for extraction and acquisition of knowledge.
- Ontologies, terminology and knowledge representation.
- LRs and Semantic Web (including Linked Data, Knowledge Graphs, etc.).
*Submissions*
- Submission Instructions: https://lrec-coling-2024.org/authors-kit/
- Submission Link: https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/osact2024/
*Workshop organizers*
- Hend Al-Khalifa ( King Saud University, KSA)
- Hamdy Mubarak (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar)
- Kareem Darwish (aiXplain Inc., US)
- Tamer Elsayed (Qatar University, Qatar)
- Mona Ali (Northeastern University, Canada)
*** CAiSE'24 Forum: Last Mile for Papers and Tool Demonstrations Submisions ***
36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
(CAiSE'24)
June 3-7, 2024, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus
https://cyprusconferences.org/caise2024/
(*** Submission Deadline: 11th March, 2024 AoE (extended) ***)
(*** Proceedings will be published by Springer in LNBIP ***)
The CAiSE Forum is a space within the CAiSE conference to present and discuss the new
exciting ideas and tools related to Information Systems Engineering. The Forum intends to
serve as an interactive platform, encourage potential authors to present emerging topics and
controversial positions, and demonstrate innovative systems, tools, and applications. The
Forum sessions at the CAiSE conference will facilitate the interaction, discussion, and
exchange of ideas among presenters and participants. Contributions to the CAiSE'24 Forum
are welcome to address any of the CAiSE'24 conference topics and, particularly, this year's
theme—Information Systems in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.
We invite two types of submissions:
• Visionary papers present innovative research projects, which are still at a relatively early
stage and do not necessarily include a full-scale validation. Visionary papers will be
presented as posters in the Forum.
• Demo papers describe innovative tools and prototypes that implement the results of
research efforts. The tools and prototypes will be presented as demos in the Forum,
accompanied by a poster.
Both visionary papers and demo papers must not exceed 8 pages in LNCS format.
See authors' guidelines at the Springer site:
https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… .
Papers should be submitted in PDF format through the conference management system
available at Easy Chair (https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=caise2024) and select the
Forum option.
The submitted papers must be unpublished and must not be under review elsewhere.
PUBLICATION AND PRESENTATIONS
Accepted papers will be published by Springer in a CAiSE Forum proceedings volume within
the Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series
(https://www.springer.com/series/7911). Authors should consult Springer's authors
guidelines and use their LaTeX or Word proceedings templates for the preparation of their
papers. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers. In addition, the
corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper,
must complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form. The corresponding author signing the
copyright form should match the corresponding author marked on the paper. Once the files
have been sent to Springer, changes relating to the authorship of the papers cannot be made.
It is expected that at least one of the authors attends CAiSE'24, presents the poster/delivers
the demo, and interacts with the Forum participants. We also envision a short oral
presentation for all papers to attract participants to the posters.
IMPORTANT DATES
• Paper Submission Deadline: 11th March, 2024 (extended) (AoE)
• Notification of Acceptance: 1st April, 2024
• Camera-ready Deadline: 8th April, 2024
• Author Registration Deadline: 8th April, 2024
FORUM CHAIRS
• Shareeful Islam, Anglia Ruskin University, United Kingdom
• Arnon Sturm, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
FORUM COMMITTEE
• Steven Alter, University of San Francisco
• Abel Armas Cervantes, The University of Melbourne
• Giuseppe Berio, Université de Bretagne Sud and IRISA UMR 6074
• Drazen Brdjanin, University of Banja Luka
• Corentin Burnay, University of Namur
• Cinzia Cappiello, Politecnico di Milano
• Suphamit Chittayasothorn, King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang
• Maya Daneva, University of Twente
• Sergio de Cesare, University of Westminster
• Johannes De Smedt, KU Leuven
• Marne de Vries, University of Pretoria
• Michael Fellmann, University of Rostock
• Christophe Feltus, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology
• Hans-Georg Fill, University of Fribourg
• Janis Grabis, Riga Technical University
• Sergio Guerreiro, INESC-ID / Instituto Superior Técnico
• Martin Henkel, Stockholm University
• Jennifer Horkoff, Chalmers University of Technology
• Shareeful Islam, Anglia Ruskin University
• Janis Kampars, RTU
• Evangelia Kavakli, University of the Aegean
• Marite Kirikova, Riga Technical University
• Janne J. Korhonen, Aalto University
• Elena Kornyshova, CNAM
• Agnes Koschmider, University of Bayreuth
• Chung Lawrence, University of Texas at Dallas
• Henrik Leopold, Kühne Logistics University
• Tong Li, Beijing University of Technology
• Beatriz Marín, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
• Andrea Marrella, Sapienza University of Rome
• Raimundas Matulevicius, University of Tartu
• Jose Ignacio Panach Navarrete, Universitat de València
• Oscar Pastor, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
• Francisca Pérez, Universidad San Jorge
• Pierluigi Plebani, Politecnico di Milano
• Manuel Resinas, University of Seville
• Genaina Rodrigues, University of Brasilia
• Ben Roelens , Open Universiteit, Ghent University
• Mattia Salnitri, Politecnico di Milano
• Stefan Strecker, University of Hagen
• Arnon Sturm, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
• Irene Vanderfeesten, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
• Yves Wautelet, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
• Hans Weigand, Tilburg University
• Manuel Wimmer, Johannes Kepler University Linz
• Anna Zamansky, University of Haifa
Dear Corpora list community,
We are happy to announce that the HOMO-MEX 2024 shared task has officially
started. In one week we will release the training datasets and the
codabench site.
You can see the details for the shared task on our website:
https://sites.google.com/view/homomex/home
We’ll be happy to see you all participating!
Regards,
Helena Gómez-Adorno
on Behalf of the Task Organizing Committee
*** Last Call for Doctoral Consortium Papers ***
36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
(CAiSE'24)
June 3-7, 2024, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus
https://cyprusconferences.org/caise2024/
(*** Submission Deadline: 8th March, 2024 AoE ***)
The CAiSE conference series has a proud track record of running an international Doctoral
Consortium affiliated with the event. The CAiSE'24 Doctoral Consortium aims to attract PhD
students working on foundations, techniques, tools and applications in the Information
Systems Engineering field. At the Doctoral Consortium, the participating PhD students will
have the opportunity to present their research and to get feedback from an audience of peers
and senior faculty in a supportive environment. There will also be discussions tailored to the
needs and interests of PhD students.
The goals of the Doctoral Consortium are to ensure that participating PhD students:
• receive constructive and personalized feedback and advice on their research program by
dedicated Doctoral Consortium mentors,
• provide an opportunity to meet, interact with and learn from established researchers and
practitioners in the Information Systems Engineering community,
• develop a supportive community of peer scholars and a spirit of collaborative research,
• discuss broader opportunities and concerns related to a PhD study and post-PhD pathways.
To be eligible for the Doctoral Consortium, the candidate must be a current PhD student
within a recognized research institution. We welcome submissions of both late-stage PhD
students (having at least 6 months of work after the conference and before their expected
completion), and early-stage PhD students (with at least 6 months of work already performed
prior to the submission date).
WHY SUBMITTING TO THE CAiSE'24 DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM?
The CAiSE'24 Doctoral Consortium will be attended by renowned academics from the
Information Systems Engineering field who will actively participate as mentors for the PhD
students accepted to the Doctoral Consortium. The participating PhD students will receive
constructive reviews on their submission, as well as personalized guidance by Doctoral
Consortium mentors regarding their research program and presentation at the Consortium
event. Accepted papers will be published in the CEUR proceedings (https://ceur-ws.org/),
which are indexed in DBLP. Participants of the CAiSE Doctoral Consortium will be subsequently
eligible to submit their PhD thesis (after the degree is granted) for a CAiSE PhD Award.
SUBMISSION PROCESS
Submissions must be made electronically by the stated deadline via the EasyChair conference
system at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=caise2024 .
Each submission should contain (i) a recommendation letter from the student’s PhD advisor,
and (ii) a paper describing the research plans and the current status of progress (see more
details in the Paper Submission Guidelines section). Submissions must have a single author,
but the name of the PhD advisors should be mentioned in the paper (usually in the
Acknowledgments section).
Submissions should concern original research. All submitted materials must be in English.
Attendees must have sufficient proficiency in English for being allowed to participate in the
academic discussions of the Consortium.
Submissions of both early and late-stage PhD students are welcome. Submissions of
early-stage PhD students should concentrate on the selection of the research methods to
apply, the realization and contextualization of the relevant literature, the expected pitfalls and
ways to mitigate them. Submissions of late-stage PhD students should also include preliminary
research results and discuss to some extent conclusions and threats.
The recommendation letter from the PhD advisor should include an assessment of the current
status of the research, an expected date for the completion of the dissertation, a delineation
of the anticipated benefits for the student's participation at the Consortium and details of any
submissions associated with the research.
PAPER CONTENT AND FORMAT
The paper must:
• clearly formulate the research questions investigated in the thesis,
• identify a significant problem in the field of Information System Engineering,
• outline the current status of the problem domain and related solutions,
• describe the research methods that are applied or proposed and the expected artifacts,
• outline the contributions of the applicant’s work to the problem domain and highlight their
uniqueness,
• present any preliminary results achieved so far (mainly relevant for late-stage PhD students),
• conform to the CEURART template using the 1-column layout format (thus, NOT the Springer
LNCS format and NOT in multiple column layouts); the most recent template (including
Word and LaTeX) can be downloaded from http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/index.html,
• contain up to 4,000 words (including everything, e.g., references, tables, figures).
REVIEW PROCESS
Each submission will be reviewed by two members of the Doctoral Consortium Mentoring
Board. The main evaluation criteria are: relevance, originality, significance, technical
soundness, accuracy, clarity and the expected benefits to the student from participating in
the Doctoral Consortium. Acceptance is based on the review outcomes.
ATTENDANCE AND REGISTRATION FEE
The Doctoral Consortium is held in parallel with the main CAiSE conference on 5-7 June 2024.
The presentations and decisions are expected to take place in person, so attendance in the
entire Doctoral Consortium is required. To facilitate detailed feedback to the participants,
attendance to the Doctoral Consortium is by invitation only, limited to the participants and the
Mentoring Board.
There is no separate registration fee for participants in the Doctoral Consortium. Participants
should register to the main conference by selecting either the “Main conference” option or
another option that includes the main conference.
IMPORTANT DATES
• Paper Submission: 8th March 2024 (AoE)
• Notification of Acceptance: 19th April 2024
• Camera-ready Copy: 26th April 2024
• Doctoral Consortium: 5th-7th June 2024
QUESTIONS AND INQUIRIES
Questions about eligibility and other inquiries can be sent to the CAiSE’24 Doctoral
Consortium chairs at caise2024_dc(a)easychair.org .
MENTORING BOARD
• Raimundas Matulevičius, University of Tartu, Estonia
• Massimo Mecella, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
• Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Jolita Ralyte, University of Geneva, Switzerland
• Hajo Reijers, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
• Monique Snoeck, KU Leuven, Belgium
• Barbara Weber, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
• Jelena Zdravkovic, Stockholm University, Sweden
DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM CHAIRS
• Iris Reinhartz-Berger, University of Haifa, Israel
• Chiara Di Francescomarino, University of Trento, Italy
• Aggeliki Tsohou, Ionian University, Greece
TextDetox CLEF-2024
We are glad to invite you to participate in the first of its kind multilingual
Text Detoxification shared task!
https://pan.webis.de/clef24/pan24-web/text-detoxification.html
TL;DR
Task formulation: transfer a text style from toxic to neutral (i.e. what a
f**k is this about? -> what is this about?)
9 Languages: English, Spanish, Chinese, Hindi, Arabic, German, Russian,
Ukrainian, and Amharic
More details:
Identification of toxicity in user texts is an active area of research.
Today, social networks such as Facebook, Instagram are trying to address
the problem of toxicity. However, they usually simply block such kinds of
texts. We suggest a proactive reaction to toxicity from the user. Namely,
we aim at presenting a neutral version of a user message which preserves
meaningful content. We denote this task as text detoxification.
In this competition, we suggest you create detoxification systems for 9
languages from several linguistic families. However, the availability of
training corpora will differ between the languages. For English and
Russian, the parallel corpora of several thousand toxic-detoxified pairs
(as presented above) are available. So, you can fine-tune text generation
models on them. For other languages, for the dev phase, no such corpora
will be provided. The main challenge of this competition will be to perform
an unsupervised and cross-lingual detoxification.
You are very welcome to test all modern LLMs on text detoxification and
safety with our data as well as experiment with different unsupervised
approaches based on MLMs or other paraphrasing methods!
The final leaderboard will be built on a manual evaluation of a test set
subset performed via crowdsourcing at Toloka.ai platform.
In the end, you will have an opportunity to write and then present a paper
at CLEF 2024 (https://clef2024.imag.fr/) which will take place in Grenoble,
France!
Important Dates
February 1, 2024: First data available and run submission opens.
April 22, 2024: Registration closes.
May 6, 2024: Run submission deadline and results out.
May 31, 2024: Participants paper submission.
July 8, 2024: Camera-ready participant papers submission.
September 9-12, 2024: CLEF Conference in Grenoble and Touché Workshop.
Best regards,
The CLEF-2024 TextDetox Shared Task Organizers
*** Final Call for Papers (Deadline extended to March 17th) ***
We invite paper submissions to the 8th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH), which will take place on June 20/21 at NAACL 2024.
Website: https://www.workshopononlineabuse.com/cfp.html
Join our WOAH community Slack channel<https://hatespeechdet-47d7560.slack.com/join/shared_invite/zt-2a8d96j4z-gkN…>!
Important Dates
Submission due: March 17, 2024
ARR reviewed submission due: April 7, 2024
Notification of acceptance: April 14, 2024
Camera-ready papers due: April 24, 2024
Workshop: June 20/21, 2024
Overview
Digital technologies have brought many benefits for society, transforming how people connect, communicate and interact with each other. However, they have also enabled abusive and harmful content such as hate speech and harassment to reach large audiences, and for their negative effects to be amplified. The sheer amount of content shared online means that abuse and harm can only be tackled at scale with the help of computational tools. However, detecting and moderating online abuse and harms is a difficult task, with many technical, social, legal and ethical challenges. The Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms invites paper submissions from a wide range of fields, including natural language processing, machine learning, computational social sciences, law, politics, psychology, sociology and cultural studies. We explicitly encourage interdisciplinary submissions, technical as well as non-technical submissions, and submissions that focus on under-resourced languages. We also invite non-archival submissions and civil society reports.
The topics covered by WOAH include, but are not limited to:
* New models or methods for detecting abusive and harmful online content, including misinformation;
* Biases and limitations of existing detection models or datasets for abusive and harmful online content, particularly those in commercial use;
* New datasets and taxonomies for online abuse and harms;
* New evaluation metrics and procedures for the detection of harmful content;
* Dynamics of online abuse and harms, as well as their impact on different communities
* Social, legal, and ethical implications of detecting, monitoring and moderating online abuse
In addition, we invite submissions related to the theme for this eighth edition of WOAH, which will be online harms in the age of large language models. Highly capable Large Language Models (LLMs) are now widely deployed and easily accessible by millions across the globe. Without proper safeguards, these LLMs will readily follow malicious instructions and generate toxic content. Even the safest LLMs can be exploited by bad actors for harmful purposes. With this theme, we invite submissions that explore the implications of LLMs for the creation, dissemination and detection of harmful online content. We are interested in how to stop LLMs from following malicious instructions and generating toxic content, but also how they could be used to improve content moderation and enable countermeasures like personalised counterspeech. To support our theme, we have invited an interdisciplinary line-up of high-profile speakers across academia, industry and public policy.
Submission
Submission is electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system.
Submission link: https://softconf.com/naacl2024/WOAH2024/manager/scmd.cgi?scmd=submitPaperCu…
The workshop will accept three types of papers.
* Academic Papers (long and short): Long papers of up to 8 pages, excluding references, and short papers of up to 4 pages, excluding references. Unlimited pages for references and appendices. Accepted papers will be given an additional page of content to address reviewer comments. Previously published papers cannot be accepted.
* Non-Archival Submissions: Up to 2 pages, excluding references, to summarise and showcase in-progress work and work published elsewhere.
* Civil Society Reports: Non-archival submissions, with a minimum of 2 pages and no upper limit. Can include work published elsewhere.
Format and styling
All submissions must use the official ACL two-column format, using the supplied official style files. The templates can be downloaded in Style Files and Formatting<https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files>.
Please send any questions about the workshop to organizers(a)workshopononlineabuse.com<mailto:organizers@workshopononlineabuse.com>
Organisers
Paul Röttger, Bocconi University
Yi-Ling Chung, The Alan Turing Institute
Debora Nozza, Bocconi University
Aida Mostafazadeh Davani, Google Research
Agostina Calabrese, University of Edinburgh
Flor Miriam Plaza-del-Arco, Bocconi University
Zeerak Talat, MBZUAI
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[Apologies for cross-posting]The 9th Workshop on Linked Data in
Linguistics: Resources, Applications, Best PracticesFinal Call for Papers
Workshop colocated with *LREC-COLING 2024*,
Date: *May 25, 2024*
Venue: Torino, Italy and online
Submissions due: *March 8, 2024*
For up to date info, check: https://ldl2024.linguistic-lod.org/
The Linked Data in Linguistics (LDL) workshop series has established itself
as the premier venue for discussing the application of Semantic Web
technologies to the fields of linguistics, digital lexicography, and
digital humanities (DH).
While recent years have witnessed a steady growth in adoption of the
technology in these areas, its uptake in other relevant domains, most
notably in the case of natural language processing (NLP), continues to lag
behind.
This year, aside from embracing the full bandwidth of applications of LLOD
technologies and the closely related area of knowledge graphs in
linguistics, we welcome contributions addressing the application of LLOD
technologies to NLP applications, as well as those dealing with emerging
hot topics of future bridges between structured (linguistic) knowledge and
neural methods.
In addition, this year’s edition of the workshop will be a venue for
in-depth discussions on community standards and best practices, and, above
all, those related to the work of the W3C community groups OntoLex [1],
LD4LT [2] and BPMLOD [3]. To this end, it will include featured talks on
the latest achievements, developments, and perspectives of these W3C
Community Groups.
[1] Ontology-Lexica Community Group
[2] Linked Data in Language Technology Community Group
[3] Best Practices in Multilingual Linked Open Data
*Topics of interest*
We invite presentations of algorithms, methodologies, experiments, tools,
use cases, descriptions of ongoing or planned research projects as well as
position papers that describe the creation, publication or application of
linked linguistic data collections and their linking with other resources.
Descriptions of such data, and in particular, its uses in research
(linguistics, lexicology, digital humanities) and technology (NLP,
e-lexicography, localization) are also welcome. The following is a
non-exhaustive list of relevant topics:
1) Building, managing and linking language resources
- Lexicons and Lexical Data, including Dictionaries and Lexicographic
Resources
- Annotations and Annotated Corpora
- Entity Linking
2) Technologies, challenges and best practices for language technology and
language resources on the web:
- Interoperability
- Sustainability
- FAIRness
3) Structured data in language technology:
- Knowledge Graphs
- Machine Learning
- Multilingual Technologies
- Language Knowledge Injection in LLMs
4) Show cases, case studies and applications by different communities of
practice:
- Multimodality
- Corpus Linguistics
- Lexicography
- Digital Humanities
5) Current directions and critical reflection. Position papers on:
- Ethical, legal, technological aspects of structured data in the age of
LLMs
- The role of LLOD in promoting low-resource languages
- Extensions of RDF and graph formalisms
We invite both long (8 pages and 2 pages of references) and short papers (4
pages and 2 pages of references) representing original research, innovative
approaches and resource descriptions. Short papers may also represent
project descriptions. These do not have to be implemented but discuss to
what extent and for which purposes Linguistic Linked Open Data is reused or
created. Projects that are still in their early stages and seek advice from
the broader Linguistic Linked Data community are welcome, especially if
they include underrepresented fields of study.
Papers should be formatted according to the LREC-COLING guidelines, please
see https://lrec-coling-2024.org/authors-kit/. Please note that the review
process will be *single-blind*.
*Identify, Describe and Share your LRs!*
When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to
provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also
technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the
work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover,
ELRA encourages all LREC-COLING authors to share the described LRs (data,
tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of
experiments (including evaluation ones).
*Important Dates*
- Submission Date: March 1, 2024 *March 8, 2024*
- Notification of Acceptance: March 22, 2024
- Camera-Ready: April 2, 2024
- Workshop: May 25, 2024
*Workshop Organizers*
- Christian Chiarcos (University of Augsburg, Germany)
- Katerina Gkirtzou (Athena Research Center, Greece)
- Maxim Ionov (University of Cologne, Germany)
- Fahad Khan (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy)
- John P. McCrae, (University of Galway, Ireland)
- Elena Montiel Ponsoda (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
- Patricia Martín Chozas (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
Please get in contact via ldl2024(a)linguistic-lod.org.
*Program Committee*
- Sina Ahmadi (George Mason University, USA)
- Verginica Barbu Mititelu (Research Institute for Artificial
Intelligence of the Romanian Academy, Romania)
- Paul Buitelaar (Insight, Ireland)
- Sara Carvalho (University of Aveiro, Portugal)
- Rute Costa (NOVA FCSH/NOVA CLUNL, Portugal)
- Milan Dojchinovski (Czech Technical University, Czech Republic)
- Agata Filipowska (Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Poznaniu, Poland)
- Francesca Frontini (CNR-ILC, Italy)
- Frances Gillis Webber (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
- Voula Giouli (Athena Research Center, Greece)
- Dagmar Gromann (University of Vienna, Austria)
- Yoshihiko Hayashi (Waseda University, Japan)
- Alik Kirillovich (Higher School of Economics, Russia)
- Penny Labropoulou (Athena Research Center, Greece)
- Chaya Liebeskind (Jerusalem College of Technology, Israel)
- David Lindemann (University of the Basque Country, Spain)
- Francesco Mambrini (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy)
- Monica Monachini (CNR-ILC, Italy)
- Steven Moran (Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland)
- Diego Moussallem (Paderborn University, Germany)
- Roberto Navigli (“La Sapienza” Università di Roma, Italy)
- Petya Osenova (IICT-BAS, Bulgaria)
- Ana Ostroški Anić (Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics,
Croatia)
- Giulia Pedonese (CNR-ILC, Italy)
- Sigita Rackevičienė (Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania)
- Felix Sasaki (SAP, Germany)
- Andrea Schalley (Karlstad University, Sweden)
- Gilles Sérasset (University Grenoble Alpes, France)
- Milena Slavcheva (IICT-BAS, Bulgaria)
- Blerina Spahiu (Bicocca University, Italy)
- Ranka Stanković (University of Belgrade, Serbia)
- Armando Stellato (University of Rome, Italy)
- Federica Vezzani (University of Padua, Italy)
*Patricia Martín Chozas - Postdoctoral Researcher*
* Ontology Engineering Group*
Artificial Intelligence Department
ETSI Informáticos - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Phone: (+34) 910673091