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*Extended deadline: 04/03* SIGUL2024 - The 3rd Annual Meeting of the ELRA-ISCA Special Interest Group on Under-resourced Languages
by Claudia Soria 26 Feb '24

26 Feb '24

Apologies for multiple postings. Due to several requests, we have extended the deadline for paper submission. *New submission deadline: March, 4th 2024* CFP: The 3rd Annual Meeting of the ELRA-ISCA Special Interest Group on Under-resourced Languages (SIGUL2024) * Workshop website: https://sigul-2024.ilc.cnr.it * When: Monday and Tuesday, May 20th-21st, 2024 * Where: Torino, Italy (co-located with LREC-COLING 2024) * Deadline for submissions: March 4th, 2024 (extended deadline) * Paper submission link: https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/sigul2024/ * Deadline for camera-ready papers: April 5th, 2024

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CFP : READI @ LREC-COLING 2024 - deadline extension
by Rémi Cardon 25 Feb '24

25 Feb '24

Call for Papers 3rd Workshop on Tools and Resources for People with Reading Difficulties READI @ LREC-COLING 2024, May 20th 2024 https://cental.uclouvain.be/readi2024/ *New submission deadline: March, 3rd 2024* Workshop description This interdisciplinary workshop invites participation from individuals with experience and/or interest in applications, technologies, and resources for reading. The general idea is to present state-of-the-art methods, and ongoing research questions, i.e., how can Natural Language Processing (NLP) methods leverage document accessibility? Are serious games appropriate/efficient to enhance reading? What kind of solutions AI proposes to help struggling readers? etc. By bringing together researchers from various research communities, we aim to address the issue from different angles: - Design, evaluation, use, and education related to technologies for reading - Assistive AI applications for learning to read - Existing solutions based on enhancing cognitive strategies to improve reading comprehension skills - Multimedia tools to develop literary education - Natural language applications for automatic text adaptation - AI-powered computer vision tools and applications - Opportunities, challenges, risks of technology-enhanced reading - ... Motivation and Topics of Interest With the growth of educational technologies, several innovative technology applications and resources are devoted to how to foster improvement in student learning to read. In addition, a number of assistive technologies for reading have appeared in the last decades, i.e. “devices and services that enhance the performance of individuals with a disability by enabling them to complete tasks more effectively, efficiently, and independently than otherwise possible” (Blackhurst, 1997). The field of special education has had a longstanding interest in technology and the potential it holds for individuals with language/speech disabilities, cognitive disorders, etc. (Edyburn, 2000). In this context, this workshop aims to present current state-of-the-art applications and approaches addressed to a variety of populations and contexts to enhance reading. While proposing current research on technology-enhanced reading, we would like to widen the perspective of the workshop for ‘field’ professionals (teachers and educators, speech-language pathologists, etc.). The workshop will thus address topics concerning specialized technology, tools, and resources, how they serve specific individuals or processes (i.e., learning to read, reading, comprehending), the impact of the devices on their lives and activities, etc. In the light of recent advances in AI, we would like to bring to the fore innovative works from research to applications in fieldwork. The workshop aims to address the issue from a variety of domains and languages, including education, natural language processing, linguistics, psycholinguistics, cognitive sciences, psychophysics of vision, etc. The focus will be on target populations struggling with learning to read, or with decoding, or with comprehending, etc. such as illiterates, aphasic or dyslexic readers, deaf or hard of hearing, low vision or visually impaired readers, people with autism or speech/language disorders, etc. to name a few. Topics include but are not limited to the following: - Measuring and evaluating readability and text complexity - Models, corpora, lexicons for text adaptation - Text adaptation approaches for target audiences - Meaning representation and multimodal text adaptation - Text generation of adapted contents - Educational devices and/or smart technologies for reading: - serious games for improving reading comprehension skills - text-to-speech applications - decoding training applications to strengthen early reading skills - booklets with lexical resources to look up unknown words - graded materials for adaptive learning - ... - ... Important Dates submission deadline: *March, 3rd, 2024* (23:59 AoE) notification of acceptance: March 20th, 2024 deadline for camera-ready versions: April 5th, 2024 (23:59 AoE) workshop: May 20th, 2024 Paper Submission Instructions Paper Length: submissions are expected to be between a minimum of 4 and a maximum of 8 pages in length, plus unlimited pages for references. Submission Format : all submissions must be formatted following the LREC style guidelines https://lrec-coling-2024.org/authors-kit/ (Word, OpenOffice, and LaTeX templates are available). Submissions should be made via the START conference system: https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/readi2024/. Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. The submissions will be anonymous (blind reviews). Organizing Committee Rémi Cardon Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium Núria Gala Aix Marseille Université, France Amalia Todirascu Université de Strasbourg, France Rodrigo Wilkens Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium Contact Núria Gala (nuria.gala(a)univ-amu.fr) Program Committee David Alfter, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Fernando Alva-Manchego, Cardiff University, UK Delphine Bernhard, Université de Strasbourg, France Dominique Brunato, ILC, Pisa, Italy Rémi Cardon, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium Éric Castet, Aix Marseille Université, France Stéphanie Ducrot, Aix Marseille Université, France Thomas François, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium Núria Gala, Aix Marseille Université, France Ludivine Javourey-Drevet, Université de Lille, France Arne Jönsson, Linköping University, Sweden Éole Lapeyre, Aix Marseille Université, France Horacio Saggion, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Catalonia, Spain Matthew Shardlow, Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom Didier Schwab, Université Grenoble Alpes, France Anaïs Tack, K.U. Leuven, Belgium Amalia Todirascu, Université de Strasbourg, France Vincent Vandeghinste, Instituut voor de Nederlandse Taal (Dutch Lge. Institute), Belgium Giulia Venturi, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale A. Zampolli (ILC-CNR), Pisa, Italy Elena Volodina, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Rodrigo Wilkens, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium 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).

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SIGDIAL 2024: Call for Papers
by Vera Demberg 25 Feb '24

25 Feb '24

** *The 25th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL) will be held in Kyoto, Japan on September 18-20, 2024. SIGDIAL will be co-located with INLG which will take place after SIGDIAL in Tokyo, Japan.* * The SIGDIAL venue provides a regular forum for the presentation of cutting edge research in dialogue and discourse to both academic and industry researchers, continuing a series of 24 successful previous meetings. The conference is sponsored by the SIGDIAL organization - the Special Interest Group in discourse and dialogue for ACL and ISCA. Topics of Interest We welcome formal, corpus-based, implementation, experimental, or analytical work on discourse and dialogue including, but not restricted to, the following themes: * Discourse Processing: Rhetorical and coherence relations, discourse parsing and discourse connectives. Reference resolution. Event representation and causality in narrative. Argument mining. Quality and style in text. Cross-lingual discourse analysis. Discourse issues in applications such as machine translation, text summarization, essay grading, question answering and information retrieval. Discourse issues in text generated by large language models. * Dialogue Systems: Task oriented and open domain spoken, multi-modal, embedded, situated, and text-based dialogue systems, their components, evaluation and applications, Knowledge representation and extraction for dialogue, State representation, tracking and policy learning. Social and emotional intelligence, Dialogue issues in virtual reality and human-robot interaction. Entrainment, alignment and priming. Generation for dialogue, Style, voice, and personality. Safety and ethics issues in Dialogue. * Corpora, Tools and Methodology: Corpus-based and experimental work on discourse and dialogue, including supporting topics such as annotation tools and schemes, crowdsourcing, evaluation methodology and corpora. * Pragmatic and Semantic Modeling: Pragmatics and semantics of conversations (i.e., beyond a single sentence), e.g., rational speech act, conversation acts, intentions, conversational implicature, presuppositions. * Applications of Dialogue and Discourse Processing Technology. Submissions The program committee welcomes the submission of long papers, short papers, and demo descriptions. Submitted long papers may be accepted for oral or for poster presentation. Accepted short papers will be presented as posters. * Long papersubmissions must describe substantial, original, completed and unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis should be included. Long papers must be no longer than 8 pages, including title, text, figures and tables. An unlimited number of pages is allowed for references. Two additional pages are allowed for appendices containing sample discourses/dialogues and algorithms, and an extra page is allowed in the final version to address reviewers’ comments. * Short papersubmissions must describe original and unpublished work. Please note that a short paper is not a shortened long paper. Instead short papers should have a point that can be made in a few pages, such as a small, focused contribution; a negative result; or an interesting application nugget. Short papers should be no longer than 4 pagesincluding title, text, figures and tables. An unlimited number of pages is allowed for references. One additional page is allowed for sample discourses/dialogues and algorithms, and an extra page is allowed in the final version to address reviewers’ comments. * Demo descriptionsshould be no longer than 4 pagesincluding title, text, examples, figures, tables and references. A separate one-page document should be provided to the program co-chairs for demo descriptions, specifying furniture and equipment needed for the demo. Authors are encouraged to also submit additional accompanying materials, such as corpora (or corpus examples), demo code, videos and sound files. Multiple Submissions SIGDIAL 2024 cannot accept work for publication or presentation that will be (or has been) published elsewhere and that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications whose review periods overlap with that of SIGDIAL. Any questions regarding submissions can be sent to program-chairs [at] sigdial.org <http://sigdial.org/>. Blind Review Building on previous years’ move to anonymous long and short paper submissions, SIGDIAL 2024 will follow the ACL policies for preserving the integrity of double blind review (see author guidelines <https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Author_Guidelines>). Unlike long and short papers, demo descriptions will not be anonymous. Demo descriptions should include the authors’ names and affiliations, and self-references are allowed. Submission Format All long, short, and demonstration submissions must follow the two-column ACL format, which are available as an Overleaf template <https://www.overleaf.com/read/crtcwgxzjskr>and also downloadable directly <https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files>(Latex and Word) Submissions must conform to the official ACL style guidelines, which are contained in these templates. Submissions must be electronic, in PDF format. Submission Deadline SIGDIAL will accept regular submissions through the Softconf/START system, as well as commitment of already reviewed papers through the ACL Rolling Review (ARR) system. Regular submission Authors have to fill in the submission form in the Softconf/START system and upload an initial pdf of their papers before May 17, 2024(23:59 GMT-11). Details and the submission link will be posted on the conference website <https://2024.sigdial.org/>. Submissionvia ACL Rolling Review (ARR) <https://aclrollingreview.org/> Please refer to the ARR Call for Papers <https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp>for detailed information about submission guidelines to ARR. The commitment deadline for authors to submit their reviewed papers, reviews, and meta-review to SIGDIAL 2024 is June 19, 2024. Note that the paper needs to be fully reviewed by ARR in order to make a commitment, thus the latest date for ARR submission will be April 15, 2024. Mentoring Acceptable submissions that require language (English) or organizational assistance will be flagged for mentoring, and accepted with a recommendation to revise with the help of a mentor. An experienced mentor who has previously published in the SIGDIAL venue will then help the authors of these flagged papers prepare their submissions for publication. Best Paper Awards In order to recognize significant advancements in dialogue/discourse science and technology, SIGDIAL 2024 will include best paper awards. All papers at the conference are eligible for the best paper awards. A selection committee consisting of prominent researchers in the fields of interest will select the recipients of the awards. SIGDIAL 2024 Program Committee Vera Demberg and Stefan Ultes Conference Website: https://2024.sigdial.org/ <https://2024.sigdial.org/> *

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CFP - AraFinNLP Shared Task 2024
by El-Haj, Mo 24 Feb '24

24 Feb '24

Call for Participants: The 1st AraFinNLP Shared Task 2024 Shared-task URL: https://sina.birzeit.edu/arbanking77/arafinnlp/ Registration: https://forms.gle/rAZkRuiiEdjzTDedA We are excited to announce the first Arabic Financial NLP (AraFinNLP) shared task, which aims to advance Arabic Financial Natural Language Processing (NLP). In today's dynamic financial landscape, the Arab world is witnessing significant growth in its stock markets and financial sectors, highlighting the pivotal role of Financial NLP in this context. AraFinNLP shared task is part of the 2nd ArabicNLP conference, which is co-located with ACL 2024 in Bangkok, Thailand, scheduled for August 16, 2024. Shared Task Description The AraFinNLP shared task comprises two subtasks: Subtask 1: Multi-dialect Intent Detection Subtask-1 involves Cross-dialect Intent Detection in the banking domain. This subtask is centred around developing models that can accurately classify customer intents from queries in various Arabic dialects. Participants will be provided with a dataset containing queries in English and their corresponding MSA and Palestinian translations. The challenge lies in training models that not only understand MSA and Palestinian but are also adept at interpreting an array of Arabic dialects, such as Gulf, Levantine, and North African. This subtask aims to foster the creation of NLP tools that can seamlessly interact across the diverse linguistic landscape of the Arab world, enhancing customer experience and operational efficiency in the banking sector. The evaluation process for this subtask, combined with the second subtask of Dialectical Translation for Intent Detection, will be designed to comprehensively assess the effectiveness of these models in a real-world, multi-dialectal context. Subtask 2: Cross-dialect Translation and Intent Preservation Subtask-2 focuses on the translation from MSA to various Arabic dialects: Palestinian, Saudi, Tunisian, and Moroccan, with the Palestinian dialect provided as a training set. The objective is to retain the original intent in the translated dialects, ensuring that the intent detection is as effective as the MSA examples. This subtask will test the ability of models to adapt MSA banking queries into dialectal Arabic while preserving the semantic integrity, crucial for accurate intent classification, despite the potential complexities introduced by dialectal variations. In Subtask-2, participants will receive a parallel dataset containing banking queries in both MSA and Palestinian Arabic, and their associated intents. The subtask at hand is to accurately translate these queries into the following Arabic dialects: Palestinian, Saudi, Tunisian, and Moroccan. Participants will use the intent labels to examine if the resulting translations' intents are preserved and aligned with the original MSA queries. For more details please visit: https://sina.birzeit.edu/arbanking77/arafinnlp/ Important Dates - February 24, 2024: Shared task announcement. - March 1, 2024: Release of training and development datasets - April 5, 2024: Registration deadline. - April 10, 2024: Test set made available. - April 22, 2024: Codalab Test system submission deadline. - May 17, 2024: Shared task papers due date - June 17, 2024: Notification of acceptance - July 1, 2024: Camera-ready papers due - August 16, 2024: ArabicNLP conference Organising Committee - Mo El-Haj, Lancaster University, United Kingdom - Houda Bouamor, Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar - Saad Ezzini, Lancaster University, United Kingdom - Ismail Berrada, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco - Sanad Malaysha, Birzeit University, Palestine - Mohammed Khalilia, Birzeit University, Palestine - Mustafa Jarrar, Birzeit University, Palestine - Sultan Almujaiwel, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia Registration Registration is now open up until 5 April 2024: https://forms.gle/MuQb9H1Gq2nQoFUg8 We look forward to your participation in the AraFinNLP shared task. Best wishes, AraFinNLP Organising Committee -------------------------------- Dr Mo El-Haj Senior Lecturer in NLP Director of Admissions (SCC) Co-Director of UCREL NLP Group Natural Language Engineering (NLE) Journal Editorial Board https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/natural-language-engineering Advisory Board of the Natural Language Processing Book Series https://benjamins.com/catalog/nlp School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/staff/elhaj @DocElhaj You may receive emails from me outside what are your typical office hours. I do not expect you to respond to my email outside your working hours.

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The 12th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Cloud Computing, Services and Engineering (IEEE Mobile Cloud 2024): First Call for Papers
by Announce 24 Feb '24

24 Feb '24

*** First Call for Papers *** IEEE Mobile Cloud 2024 The 12th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Cloud Computing, Services and Engineering July 15-18, 2024 | Shanghai, China https://ieeemobilecloud.com IEEE Mobile Cloud is a pioneering IEEE sponsored international conference devoted to the research in mobile, edge, and cloud computing. It covers all aspects of mobile, edge, and cloud computing from architectures, techniques, tools and methodologies to applications. This year's conference is scheduled to take place in Shanghai, China, from 15-18 July 2024. IEEE Mobile Cloud 2024 is part of the IEEE International Congress On Intelligent And Service- Oriented Systems Engineering offering a broad spectrum of international events, sharing renowned keynotes and fostering exchange among researchers and practitioners (see common homepage for all colocated events, https://ieee-cisose-congress.org). The fusion of mobile communications, computing, and intelligence is catalysing the emergence of innovative systems and applications that facilitate intelligent resource provisioning, process extensive data from mobile sensors and interconnected hardware platforms, and bolster the Internet of Things (IoT) through robust edge and cloud-based backend infrastructure. The pivotal role of current and forthcoming communication technologies, machine learning implementation, and mobile cloud infrastructures as facilitators for this convergence cannot be understated. These mobile intelligent applications are poised to revolutionise various facets of daily life, encompassing domains such as transportation, e-commerce, healthcare, smart homes, smart cities, social interaction, and more. Mobile intelligence serves as an inclusive platform for both academic and industrial researchers to share their latest research insights, experimental findings, and the latest advancements in industry technologies related to mobile systems, machine learning, edge and cloud computing, services, and engineering. Leveraging the synergy of mobile communications, machine intelligence, edge computing, and edge/cloud infrastructures, the future of Mobile Intelligence Systems is envisioned to provide a multitude of critical and personalised services across diverse application domains, ranging from education, transportation, to public health, safety, and security. Submissions will be evaluated on the criteria of originality, significance, clarity, relevance, and accuracy. TOPICS OF INTEREST They include but not limited to: Theory, Modelling, and Methodologies • Mobile cloud computing models, architectures, infrastructures, and platforms • Mobile intelligence theories, concepts, algorithms, and methodologies • Mobile cloud data management • Mobile cloud tools, middleware, and data centres • Mobile intelligence as a service • Mobile networking, protocols, and technologies • Quality of service (QoS) • Mobile intelligence security and privacy Applications and Industry Practice • Mobile intelligence for autonomous driving systems, V2X, intelligent transportation systems (ITS), telematics • Mobile intelligence for robotics, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) • Mobile intelligence for sensor networks, Industrial IoT, industrial 4.0, and industry 5.0 • Mobile intelligence for future wireless technologies, 5G/6G, WiFi, Satellite, etc. • Mobile intelligence for aviation, airports, and railway • Mobile intelligence for Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality (AR/VR) • Mobile intelligence for computer vision and video analytics • Mobile intelligence for surveillance and disaster management • Mobile intelligence for healthcare • Mobile intelligence for the metaverse • Mobile intelligence for smart city • Mobile intelligence for satellite • Mobile intelligence for mission-critical systems • Mobile intelligence for community services and social networking • Mobile intelligence computing for sustainable development PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Papers must be written in English. All papers must be prepared in the IEEE double column proceedings format. Please see the following link for details: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html . All accepted conference papers will be published by IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Explore digital library with EI-index. Selected papers will be recommended to SCI-index journals as special issue papers. The paper length should be up to 8 pages for regular conference papers and 6 pages for work-in-progress papers. Submitted papers should contain original work and not being submitted elsewhere. Each paper must be presented by an author at the conference. Presentations via teleconference are not permitted. Permissions to have the paper presented by a qualified substitute presented may be granted by the TCP Chairs under extraordinary circumstances, upon written request. Submissions should be made via Easy Chair using the following link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=imc24 . IMPORTANT DATES • Abstract submission: March 31st, 2024 (AoE) • Paper submission: April 7th, 2024 (AoE) • Notification of acceptance: May 15th, 2024 • Final manuscript submission: May 22nd, 2024 • Author registration: May 22nd, 2024 • Conference: July 15th-18th, 2024 COMMITTEES General Chairs • Hiroyuki Sato, University of Tokyo, Japan • Yan Bai, University of Washington Tacoma, USA Program Chairs • Lan Zhang, Clemson University, USA • Sun Yao, The University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK • Tomoki Watanabe, Kanagawa Institute Technology, Japan • Fan Wu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Publicity Chair George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Committee • Ouri Wolfson, University of illinois • Felix Beierle, University of Würzburg • Thomas Richter, Rhein-Waal University of Applied Sciences • Dan Grigoras, University College Cork • Sergio Ilarri, University of Zaragoza • Iulian Sandu Popa, University of Versailles Saint-Quentin & INRIA Saclay-Ile-de-France • Haiping Xu, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth • Prasad Calyam, University of Missouri • Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara • Fabio Costa, Federal University of Goias • Cristian Borcea, New Jersey Institute of Technology • Lei Huang, Prairie View A&M University • Chunsheng Zhu, Southern University of Science and Technology • Xuyun Zhang, Macquarie University • Jia Zhao, Changchun Institute of Technology • Richard Han, University of Colorado Boulder CISOSE General Chairs • Jerry Gao, San Jose State University, USA • Iraklis Varlamis, Harokopio University of Athens, Greece CISOSE Steering Committee • Jerry Gao, San Jose State University, USA • Guido Wirtz, University of Bamberg, Germany • Huaimin Wang, NUDT, China • Jie Xu, University of Leeds, UK • Wei-Tek Tsai, Arizona State University, USA • Axel Kupper, TU Berlin, Germany • Hong Zhu, Oxford Brookes University, UK • Longbin Cao, University of Technology Sydney, Australia • Cristian Borcea, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA • Sato Hiroyuki, University of Tokyo, Japan

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Call for Papers: 9th Symposium on Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar (LxGr2024)
by Costas Gabrielatos 23 Feb '24

23 Feb '24

9th Symposium on Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar (LxGr2024) CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline for abstract submission: Friday 15 March 2024 The symposium will take place online on Friday 5 and Saturday 6 July 2024. Invited Speakers Lise Fontaine<http://www.uqtr.ca/PagePerso/Lise.Fontaine> (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières): Reconciling (or not) lexis and grammar Ute Römer-Barron<http://alsl.gsu.edu/profile/ute-romer> (Georgia State University): Phraseology research in second language acquisition LxGr primarily welcomes papers reporting on corpus-based research on any aspect of the interaction of lexis and grammar - particularly studies that interrogate the system lexicogrammatically to get lexicogrammatical answers. However, position papers discussing theoretical or methodological issues are also welcome, as long as they are relevant to both lexicogrammar and corpus linguistics. If you would like to present, send an abstract of 500 words (excluding references) to lxgr(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:lxgr@edgehill.ac.uk>. Abstracts for research papers should specify the research focus (research questions or hypotheses), the corpus, the methodology (techniques, metrics), the theoretical orientation, and the main findings. Abstracts for position papers should specify the theoretical orientation and the potential contribution to both lexicogrammar and corpus linguistics. Abstracts will be double-blind reviewed by members of the Programme Committee<https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/lxgr/committee>. Full papers will be allocated 35 minutes (including 10 minutes for discussion). Work-in-progress reports will be allocated 20 minutes (including 5 minutes for discussion). There will be no parallel sessions. Participation is free. For details, visit the LxGr website: https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/lxgr/lxgr2024 If you have any questions, contact lxgr(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:lxgr@edgehill.ac.uk>. ________________________________ Edge Hill University<http://ehu.ac.uk/home/emailfooter> Modern University of the Year, The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2022<http://ehu.ac.uk/tef/emailfooter> University of the Year, Educate North 2021/21 ________________________________ This message is private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it from your system. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Edge Hill or associated companies. Edge Hill University may monitor email traffic data and also the content of email for the purposes of security and business communications during staff absence.<http://ehu.ac.uk/itspolicies/emailfooter>

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CL4Health Workshop@LREC-COLING - Submission Deadline: March 15 - Good quality main conference papers considered "as is"
by Paul Thompson 23 Feb '24

23 Feb '24

First Workshop on Patient-Oriented Language Processing (CL4HEALTH) @ LREC-COLING 2024 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. 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. 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 -- Paul Thompson Research Fellow Department of Computer Science National Centre for Text Mining Manchester Institute of Biotechnology University of Manchester 131 Princess Street Manchester M1 7DN UK Tel: 0161 306 3091 http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/Paul.Thompson/

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PhD position on lexical innovation at Idiap, Switzerland
by Lonneke van der Plas 23 Feb '24

23 Feb '24

The Computation, Cognition and Language group at Idiap in Martigny (Switzerland) invites applications for a 4-year funded PhD position that aims to investigate how new terms emerge and how they spread in different contexts, thereby comparing Western societies with hunter-gatherer societies. RESEARCH ENVIRONMENT: The position will be part of the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Evolving Language www.evolvinglanguage.ch, a Swiss consortium with the ambitious goal of creating a new discipline, Evolutionary Language Science, that targets the past and future of language. The consortium consists of leading scientists from traditionally separated academic domains, which allows us to harvest the diverse expertise from the humanities, social sciences, computational sciences, natural sciences and medicine towards a broadscale interdisciplinary collaboration. Within this framework we offer a position in an interdisciplinary team of computational linguists and evolutionary anthropologists from the Idiap research institute and the University of Zurich (UZH). The candidate can be registered at the UZH or the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) pending admission to a doctoral school. The expected start date is between 1 June and 1 Sep 2024. For more information, please contact lonneke.vanderplas(a)idiap.ch. Applications are to be made at https://www.idiap.ch/en/join-us/job-opportunities. Please submit your application by March 10 to ensure full consideration. SOUGHT PROFILE: You should hold, or expect to obtain before the start of your appointment, a Master’s degree (or equivalent) with a background in computational linguistics, evolutionary anthropology, computer science, communication systems, mathematics, and/or related fields. The ideal candidate combines an interest and expertise both in computational linguistics and evolutionary biology, but because this is a very rare profile, we are also strongly encouraging applications from candidates with expertise in one and interest in the other field. Either way, you should have a strong interest in pursuing fundamental research on language evolution. You should be proficient in spoken and written English. Proficiency in or willingness to learn additional languages is a plus. The candidate will be located at Idiap, in the Computation, Cognition, and Language Group under the supervision of Prof. Lonneke van der Plas (natural language processing) at Idiap, pending budgetary approval. They will be co-supervised by Prof. Andrea Migliano (evolutionary anthropology) at UZH, and Prof. Lena Jäger (computational linguistics) at UZH. (Virtual) participation in lab meetings both at Idiap and UZH is expected. Furthermore, some fieldwork in Congo or Australia is to be expected. We take gender balance and diversity seriously in our hiring decisions. Best, Lonneke -- Prof. Lonneke van der Plas Head of Computation, Cognition & Language Group, and Assoc. Prof. (UM, affil.) Idiap, Martigny, Switzerland Tel: +41 277217739

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EAMT 2024: 3rd Call for Tutorial Proposals (deadline extension!)
by Carol Scarton 23 Feb '24

23 Feb '24

******************************************************* EAMT 2024: The 25th Annual Conference of The European Association for Machine Translation 24 - 27 June 2024 Sheffield, UK https://eamt2024.sheffield.ac.uk/ @eamt_2024 (X account) Keynote speaker: Alexandra Birch (University of Edinburgh, UK) EXTENDED Tutorial proposal deadline: 15 March 2024 Tutorial date: 27 June 2024 More information: https://eamt2024.sheffield.ac.uk/conference-calls/call-for-tutorials ******************************************************* *** Overview *** The European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT) invites proposals for tutorials to be held in conjunction with the EAMT 2024 conference taking place in Sheffield, UK, from 24 to 27 June, with tutorials held on 27 June. We seek proposals in all areas of machine translation (see the call for papers of the main conference for the focus areas of EAMT 2024). The aim of a tutorial is primarily to help the audience develop an understanding of particular technical, applied, and business matters related to research, development, and use of MT and translation technology. Presentations of particular technological solutions or systems are welcome, provided that they serve as illustrations of broader scientific considerations. We recommend that the tutorial covers work by the presenters as well as by other researchers. The submission should explain that this breadth is ensured. Tutorials should not be “self-invited talks”. *** Submission Details *** Proposals should not exceed 4 pages of content (plus unlimited pages for references), should be in PDF format, and should contain the following: - A title and authors, affiliations, and contact information. - A brief description of the tutorial content and its relevance to the machine translation community. - Short description of the target audience and any expected prerequisite background the audience should be aware of. - An outline of the tutorial structure content and how it will be covered in a three-hour slot (half-day). In exceptional cases, six-hour tutorial slots (full day) are available. These time limits do not include coffee breaks, e.g., a three-hour tutorial, in fact, occupies a 3.5-hour slot, and a six-hour tutorial occupies a 7-hour slot. - Diversity considerations, e.g. use of multilingual data, indications of how the described methods scale up to various languages or domains, participation of both senior and junior instructors, demographic and geographical diversity of the instructors, plans for how to diversify audience participation, etc. - Reading list. Work that you expect the audience to read before the tutorial can be indicated by an asterisk. Recommended papers should provide the breadth of authorship and include work by other authors, and work from other disciplines is welcome if relevant. - For each tutorial presenter, a one-paragraph statement of their research interests and areas of expertise for the tutorial topic, as well as experience in instructing an international audience. An estimate of the audience size for the tutorial. If the same or a similar tutorial has been given before, include information on where any previous version of the tutorial was given and how many attendees the tutorial attracted. - A description of special requirements for technical equipment. Tutorial proposals should be submitted as PDF files to OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=EAMT.org/2024/Tutorials_Track. Submissions should be formatted according to the templates specified below. Anonymisation is not required. Submissions should be no longer than 4 pages (excluding references). *** Templates for writing your proposal *** There templates available in the following formats (check our website -- https://eamt2024.sheffield.ac.uk/conference-calls/call-for-papers): - LaTeX - Cloneable Overleaf template - Word - Libre Office/Open Office - PDF *** Evaluation Criteria *** Each tutorial proposal will be evaluated according to its clarity and preparedness, novelty or timely character of the topic, and instructors’ experience. ** Tutorial Instructor Responsibilities *** Accepted tutorial presenters will be notified by 15 April 2024. They must then provide abstracts of their tutorials for inclusion in the conference registration material by the specific conference deadlines. The description should be in two formats: (a) an ASCII version that can be included in email announcements and published on the conference website, and (b) a PDF version for inclusion in the electronic proceedings (detailed instructions will be provided). Tutorial speakers must provide tutorial materials by 15 May 2024. The final submitted tutorial materials must minimally include copies of the course slides and a bibliography for the material covered in the tutorial. For each tutorial being held at EAMT 2024, we offer free registration to the conference for one tutor only. *** Important Dates *** - Submission deadline for tutorial proposals (extended): 15 March 2024 - Notification of acceptance (extended): 15 April 2024 - Tutorial slides + abstract + bibliography + any other materials: 15 May 2024 All deadlines are at 23:59 CEST. *** Workshop Co-Chairs *** Mary Nurminen (Tampere University) Diptesh Kanojia (University of Surrey) *** Local organising committee *** Carolina Scarton (University of Sheffield) Charlotte Prescott (ZOO Digital) Chris Bayliss (ZOO Digital) Chris Oakley (ZOO Digital) Xingyi Song (University of Sheffield) *** Sponsors *** Silver: Translated <https://translated.com/welcome>, Unbabel <https://unbabel.com/> Bronze: Pangeanic <https://pangeanic.com/>, STAR <https://www.star-group.net/en/home.html>, Transperfect <https://globallink.transperfect.com/> Collaborator: Apertium <https://apertium.org/> Supporter: Spring Nature <https://www.springernature.com/gp> -- *Carolina Scarton* Lecturer in Natural Language Processing Department of Computer Science University of Sheffield http://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/C.Scarton/

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EAMT 2024: 3rd Call for Papers (deadline extension!)
by Carol Scarton 23 Feb '24

23 Feb '24

******************************************************* EAMT 2024: The 25th Annual Conference of The European Association for Machine Translation 24 - 27 June 2024 Sheffield, UK https://eamt2024.sheffield.ac.uk/ https://twitter.com/eamt_2024 (X account) Keynote speaker: Alexandra Birch (University of Edinburgh, UK) EXTENDED Paper submission deadline: 15 March 2024 More information: https://eamt2024.sheffield.ac.uk/conference-calls/call-for-papers ******************************************************* The European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT) invites everyone interested in machine translation (MT) and translation-related tools and resources ― developers, researchers, users, translation and localization professionals and managers ― to participate in this conference. Driven by the state of the art, the research community will demonstrate their cutting-edge research and results. Professional MTusers will provide insights into successful MT implementation of MT in business scenarios as well as implementation scenarios involving large corporations, governments, or NGOs. Translation scholars and translation practitioners are also invited to share their first-hand MT experience, which will be addressed during a special track. Note that papers that have been archived in arXiv can be accepted for submission provided that they have not already been published elsewhere. EAMT 2024 has four tracks, namely Research: Technical, Research: Translators & Users, Implementations & Case Studies, and Products & Projects. *** Research: technical *** Submissions (up to 10 pages, plus unlimited pages for references and appendices) are invited for reports of significant research results in any aspect of MT and related areas. Such reports should include a substantial evaluation component, or have a strong theoretical and/or methodological contribution where results and in-depth evaluations may not be appropriate. Papers are welcome on all topics in the areas of MT and translation-related technologies, including, but not limited to: - Deep-learning approaches for MT and MT evaluation - Advances in classical MT paradigms: statistical, rule-based, and hybrid approaches - Comparison of various MT approaches - Technologies for MT deployment: quality estimation, domain adaptation, etc. - Resources and evaluation - MT in special settings: low resources, massive resources, high volume, low computing resources - MT applications: translation/localization aids, speech translation, multimodal MT, MT for user generated content (blogs, social networks), MT in computer-aided language learning, etc. - Linguistic resources for MT: corpora, terminologies, dictionaries, etc. - MT evaluation techniques, metrics, and evaluation results - Human factors in MT and user interfaces - Related multilingual technologies: natural language generation, information retrieval, text categorization, text summarization, information extraction, optical character recognition, etc. Papers should describe original work. They should emphasise completed work rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. Where appropriate, concrete evaluation results should be included. Papers should be anonymized, prepared according to the templates specified below, and be no longer than 10 pages (plus unlimited pages for references and appendices). Submit the paper as a PDF to OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=EAMT.org/2024/Technical_Track. Submissions that do not conform to the required styles may be rejected without review. **Track co-chairs Rachel Bawden (Inria, Paris) Víctor M Sánchez-Cartagena (University of Alicant) *** Research: translators & users *** Submissions (up to 10 pages, plus unlimited pages for references and appendices) are invited for academic research on all topics related to how professional translators and other types of MT users interact with, are affected by, or conceptualise MT. Papers should report significant research results with a strong theoretical and/or methodological contribution. Topics for the track include, but are not limited to: - The impact of MT and post-editing: including studies on processes, effort, strategies, usability, productivity, pricing, workflows, and post-editese - Human factors and psycho-social aspects of MT adoption (ergonomics, motivation, and social impact on the profession, relationship between user profiles and MT adoption) - Emerging areas for MT & post-editing: e.g. audiovisual, game localisation, literary texts, creative texts, social media, health care communication, crisis translation - MT and ethics - The impact of using translators’ metadata and user activity data for monitoring their work - The evaluation and reception of different modalities of translation: human translation, post-edited, raw MT - MT and interpreting - Human evaluations of MT output - MT for gisting and the impact of MT on users: use cases, expectations, perceptions, trust, views on acceptability - MT and usability - MT and education/language learning - MT in the translation/interpreting classroom Papers should describe original work. They should emphasise completed work rather than intended work, and should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. Papers should be anonymized, prepared according to the templates specified below, and be no longer than 10 pages (plus unlimited pages for references and appendices). Submit the paper as a PDF to OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=EAMT.org/2024/Research_Translators_Users_Tr…. Submissions that do not conform to the required styles may be rejected without review. ** Track co-chairs Patrick Cadwell (DCU) Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski (University of Hildesheim) *** Implementations & case studies *** Submissions (approximately 4–6 pages) are invited for reports on case studies and implementation experience with MT in organisations of all types, including small businesses, large corporations, governments, NGOs, or language service providers. We also invite translation practitioners to share their views and observations based on their day-to-day experience working with MT in a variety of environments. Topics for the track include, but are not limited to: - Integrating or optimising MT and computer-assisted translation in translation production workflows (translation memory/MT thresholds, mixing online and offline tools, using interactive MT, dealing with MT confidence scores) - Managing change when implementing and using MT (e.g. switching between multiple MT systems, limiting degradations when updating or upgrading an MT system) - Implementing open-source MT (e.g. strategies to get support, reports on taking pilot results into full deployment, examples of advanced customization sought and obtained thanks to the open-source paradigm, collaboration within open-source MT projects) - Evaluating MT in a real-world setting (e.g. error detection strategies employed, metrics used, productivity or translation quality gains achieved) - Ethical and confidentiality issues when using MT, especially MT in the cloud - Using MT in social networking or real-time communication (e.g. enterprise support chat, multilingual content for social media) - MT and usability - Implementing MT to process multilingual content for assimilation purposes (e.g. cross-lingual information retrieval, MT for e-discovery or spam detection, MT for highly dynamic content) - MT in literary, audiovisual, game localization and creative texts - Impact of MT and post-editing on translation practices and the profession: processes, effort, compensation, - Psycho-social aspects of MT adoption (ergonomics, motivation, and social impact on the profession) - Error analysis and post-editing strategies (including automatic post-editing and automation strategies) - The use of translators’ metadata and user activity data in MT development - Freelance translators’ independent use of MT - MT and interpreting Papers should highlight real-world use scenarios, solutions, and problems in addition to describing MT integration processes and project settings. Where solutions do not seem to exist, suggestions for MT researchers and developers should be clearly emphasized. For papers on implementations and case studies produced by academics, we require co-authorship with the actual organizations working with MT implementations. Papers (approximately 4–6 pages, with a maximum of 10 pages -- plus unlimited pages for references) should be formatted according to the templates specified below and submitted as PDF files to Open Review: https://openreview.net/group?id=EAMT.org/2024/Implementations_Case_Studies_…. Anonymization is not required in the Implementations & Case Studies track submissions. Submissions that do not conform to the required styles may be rejected without review. ** Track co-chairs Vera Cabarrão (Unbabel) Konstantinos Chatzitheodorou (Strategic Agenda) *** Products & Projects *** Submissions (2 pages, including references) are invited on either of the subtracks (Products or Projects). - Products: Tools for MT, computer-aided translation, and other translation technologies (including commercial products and free/open-source software). Descriptions should include information about product availability and licensing, an indication of cost if applicable, basic functionality, (optionally) a comparison with other products, and a description of the technologies used. The authors should be ready to present the tools in the form of demos or posters during the conference. - Projects: Research projects, funded through grants obtained in competitive public or private calls related to MT. Descriptions should contain: project title and acronym, funding agency, project reference, duration, list of partner institutions or companies in the consortium if there is one, project objectives, and a summary of partial results available or final results if the project has ended. The authors should be ready to present the projects in the form of posters during the conference. This follows on from the successful ‘project villages’ held at the last EAMT conferences. There will be a poster boaster session for this track, in which authors will have 120 seconds to attract attendees to their posters or demos with a two-slide presentation. Submissions should be formatted according to the templates specified below. Anonymization is not required. Submissions should be no longer than 2 pages (including references), and submitted as PDF files to OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=EAMT.org/2024/Products_Projects_Track. Track chairs Helena Moniz (University of Lisbon (FLUL), INESC-ID) Mikel Forcada (University of Alicant) *** Templates for writing your proposal *** There templates available in the following formats (check our website -- https://eamt2024.sheffield.ac.uk/conference-calls/call-for-papers): - LaTeX - Cloneable Overleaf template - Word - Libre Office/Open Office - PDF *** Important deadlines *** - Deadline for paper submission (extended): 15 March 2024 - Notification to authors (extended): 15 April 2024 - Camera ready deadline (extended): 29 April 2024 - Author Registration: 8 May 2024 All deadlines are at 23:59 CEST. *** Local organising committee *** Carolina Scarton (University of Sheffield) Charlotte Prescott (ZOO Digital) Chris Bayliss (ZOO Digital) Chris Oakley (ZOO Digital) Xingyi Song (University of Sheffield) *** Sponsors *** Silver: Translated <https://translated.com/welcome>, Unbabel <https://unbabel.com/> Bronze: Pangeanic <https://pangeanic.com/>, STAR <https://www.star-group.net/en/home.html>, Transperfect <https://globallink.transperfect.com/> Collaborator: Apertium <https://apertium.org/> Supporter: Spring Nature <https://www.springernature.com/gp> -- *Carolina Scarton* Lecturer in Natural Language Processing Department of Computer Science University of Sheffield http://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/C.Scarton/

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