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[Fully-Funded PhD Position] in Multimodal Meeting Summarization: Deadline 27 Feb
by muskaan singh 18 Feb '23

18 Feb '23

We are inviting applications for a fully funded Ph.D. position in Multimodal Meeting Summarization at the Cognitive Analytics Research Lab (CARL) of the Intelligent Systems Research Centre from the School of Computing, Engineering, and Intelligent Systems, Ulster University. The project aims to generate automatic minutes of the meeting for multi-party dialogues using textual, audio, visual, and cognitive modalities. The position is in collaboration with Dr. Muskaan Singh, Ulster University, and Prof.Damien Coyle, Director of The Bath Institute for the Augmented Human (University of Bath) and a UKRI Turing AI Acceleration Fellow 2021-25. *The deadline is due by Monday, 27 February 2023, 4.00 PM UK time. The interviews are scheduled for 18 April with an expected starting date of 18 September.* he applicants should hold a masters (or be close to completion) or have equivalent work experience and a publication record. Solid knowledge of Machine Learning models applied to Natural Language Processing and Deep Learning is required, as is excellent programming skills in Python and deep learning frameworks (esp. Keras, TensorFlow or PyTorch). The scholarship will cover tuition fees at the Home rate and a maintenance allowance of £18,000 (TBC) per annum for three years (subject to satisfactory academic performance). This scholarship also comes with £900 per annum for three years as a research training support grant (RTSG) allocation to help support the Ph.D. researcher. For more information and application, please visit, https://www.ulster.ac.uk/doctoralcollege/find-a-phd/1455768 Please feel free to get in touch with any queries. *Dr. Muskaan Singh* Lecturer (~Assistant Professor) in Data Analytics Cognitive Analytics Research Lab (CARL), Intelligent Systems Research Centre School of Computing, Engineering and Intelligent Systems *Room MS138 | Magee Campus | Londonderry | BT48 7JL * *E:* m.singh(a)ulster.ac.uk *W:* https://pure.ulster.ac.uk/en/persons/muskaan-singh

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CFP-LT-EDI-2023 at RANLP 2023
by Bharathi Raja Asoka Chakravarthi 18 Feb '23

18 Feb '23

Apologies for cross posting Third Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (LT-EDI-2023) at RANLP 2023 Link: https://sites.google.com/view/lt-edi-2023/ Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) is an important agenda across every field [1] throughout the world. Language as a major part of communication should be inclusive and treat everyone with equality. Today’s large internet community uses language technology (LT) and has a direct impact on people across the globe. EDI is crucial to ensure everyone is valued and included, so it is necessary to build LT that serves this purpose. Recent results have shown that big data and deep learning are entrenching existing biases and that some algorithms are even naturally biased due to problems such as ‘regression to the mode’. Our focus is on creating LT that will be more inclusive of gender [2], racial [3], sexual orientation [4], persons with disability [5,6]. The workshop will focus on creating speech and language technology to address EDI not only in English, but also in less resourced languages. The broader objective of LT-EDI-2023 will be - To investigate challenges related to speech and language resource creation for EDI. - To promote research in inclusive LT. - To adopt and adapt appropriate LT models to suit EDI. - To provide opportunities for researchers from the LT community around the world to collaborate with other researchers to identify and propose possible solutions for the challenges of EDI. Our workshop theme focuses on being more inclusive and providing a platform for researchers to create LT of a more inclusive nature. We hope that through these engagements we can develop LT tools to be more inclusive of everyone, including marginalized people. Call for Papers: Our main theme in this workshop is equality, diversity, and inclusivity in LT. We invite researchers and practitioners to submit papers reporting on these issues and datasets to avoid these issues. We also encourage qualitative studies related to these issues and how to avoid them. LT-EDI-2023 welcomes theoretical and practical paper submissions on any languages that contribute to research in Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. We will particularly encourage studies that address either practical application or improving resources. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Data set development to include EDI - Gender inclusivity in LT - LGBTQ+ inclusivity in LT - Racial inclusivity in LT - Persons with disability inclusivity in LT - Speech and language recognition for minority groups - Unconscious bias and how to avoid them in natural language processing, machine learning and other LT technologies. - Tackling rumors and fake news about gender, racial, and LGBTQ+ minorities. - Tackling discrimination against gender, racial, and LGBTQ+ minorities. Important dates (will be changed according to guidelines from RANLP) - First call for workshop papers: 15 February 2023 - Second call for workshop papers: 15 March 2023 - Workshop paper due: 10 July 2023 - Notification of acceptance: 5 August 2023 - Camera-ready papers due: 20 August 2023 - Workshop dates: 7 September 2023 Submission: Papers must describe original, completed/ in progress and unpublished work. Each submission will be reviewed by three program committee members. Accepted papers will be given up to 9 pages (for full papers), 5 pages (for short papers and posters) in the workshop proceedings, and will be presented as oral paper or poster. Papers should be formatted according to the RANLP 2023 style-sheet, which is provided on the website. Please submit papers in PDF format. We are seeking submissions under the following category - Full papers (8 pages) - Short papers (work in progress, innovative ideas/proposals, research proposal of students: : 4 page) - Demo (of working online/standalone systems: : 4 page) Both long and short papers must follow the RANLP 2023 two-column format, using the supplied official style files. The templates can be downloaded in Style Files and Formatting. Please do not modify these style files, nor should you use templates designed for other conferences. Submissions that do not conform to the required styles, including paper size, margin width, and font size restrictions, will be rejected without review. Verification To guarantee conformance to publication standards, we will be using the ACL Pubcheck tool (https://github.com/acl-org/aclpubcheck). The PDFs of camera-ready papers must be run through this tool prior to their final submission, and we recommend its use also at submission time. Organisers - Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Assistant Professor, School of Computer Science, University of Galway, Ireland. - B. Bharathi, Associate Professor, Department of CSE, SSN College of Engineering, Chennai, India - Josephine Griffith, Assistant Professor, School of Computer Science, University of Galway, Ireland. - Kalika Bali, Researcher, Microsoft Research India - Paul Buitelaar, Professor in Computer Science and Deputy Director of the Data Science Institute at the University of Galway, Ireland, co-PI of the Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, and Co-Director of the SFI Centre for Research Training in AI. References [1] https://aim.gov.ie/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Diversity-Equality-and-Inclus… [2]Kiritchenko, S. and Mohammad, S., 2018, June. Examining Gender and Race Bias in Two Hundred Sentiment Analysis Systems. In Proceedings of the Seventh Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (pp. 43-53). [3]Sap, M., Card, D., Gabriel, S., Choi, Y. and Smith, N.A., 2019, July. The risk of racial bias in hate speech detection. In Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (pp. 1668-1678). [4]Wu, H.H. and Hsieh, S.K., 2017, November. Exploring Lavender Tongue from Social Media Texts [In Chinese]. In Proceedings of the 29th Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2017) (pp. 68-80). [5]Hutchinson, Ben, Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Emily Denton, Kellie Webster, Yu Zhong, and Stephen Denuyl. "Unintended machine learning biases as social barriers for persons with disabilities." ACM SIGACCESS Accessibility and Computing 125 (2020): 1-1. [6]Hutchinson, Ben, Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Emily Denton, Kellie Webster, Yu Zhong, and Stephen Denuyl. Social Biases in NLP Models as Barriers for Persons with Disabilities, Proceedings of ACL 2020, ACL with regards, Dr. Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Assistant Professor / Lecturer-above-the-bar School of Computer Science, University of Galway, Ireland Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, Data Science Institute, University of Galway, Ireland E-mail: bharathiraja.akr(a)gmail.com , bharathiraja.asokachakravarthi(a)universityofgalway.ie

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SIGTYP 2023: Deadline extension till February 22
by Kat Vylomova 18 Feb '23

18 Feb '23

We are inviting your submissions to the 5th Workshop on Research in Computational Linguistic Typology and Multilingual NLP (SIGTYP 2023) which will be held at EACL 2023 (May 5 or 6, 2023 Dubrovnik, Croatia). The extended submission deadline is **February 22**. Submission link: https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2023/Workshop/SIGTYP WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION The aim of the 5th edition of SIGTYP workshop is to act as a platform and a forum for the exchange of information between typology-related research, multilingual NLP, and other research areas that can lead to the development of truly multilingual NLP methods. The workshop is specifically aimed at raising awareness of linguistic typology and its potential in supporting and widening the global reach of multilingual NLP, as well as at introducing computational approaches to linguistic typology. It will foster research and discussion on open problems, not only within the active community working on cross- and multilingual NLP but also inviting input from leading researchers in linguistic typology. In 2023, we would like to continue following this direction of research with a special focus on bringing technology to foster documentation of under-described languages. SIGTYP is the first dedicated venue for typology-related research and its integration in multilingual NLP. Appropriate topics include (but are not limited to) the following as they relate to the areas of the workshop: -- Integration of typological features in language transfer and joint multilingual learning. In addition to established techniques such as “selective sharing”, are there alternative ways to encoding heterogeneous external knowledge in machine learning algorithms? -- Development of unified taxonomy and resources. Building universal databases and models to facilitate understanding and processing of diverse languages. -- Automatic inference of typological features. The pros and cons of existing techniques (e.g. heuristics derived from morphosyntactic annotation, propagation from features of other languages, supervised Bayesian and neural models) and discussion on emerging ones. -- Typology and interpretability. The use of typological knowledge for interpretation of hidden representations of multilingual neural models, multilingual data generation and selection, and typological annotation of texts. -- Improvement and completion of typological databases. Combining linguistic knowledge and automatic data-driven methods towards the joint goal of improving the knowledge on cross-linguistic variation and universals. -- Linguistic diversity and universals. Challenges of cross-lingual annotation. Which linguistic phenomena or categories should be considered universal? How should they be annotated? -- Bringing technology to document under-described languages. Improving model performance and documentation of under-resourced languages using typological databases, multilingual models and data from high-resource languages. -- Cognate and Derivative Detection for Low-Resourced Languages. This year’s edition will include a shared task: “Cognate and Derivative Detection for Low-Resourced Languages”; more details can be found here: https://github.com/sigtyp/ST2023. IMPORTANT DATES (all deadlines are 23:59 AoE) — February 22, 2023: Paper submission deadline — March 13, 2023: Notification of acceptance — March 27, 2023: Camera-ready deadline — May 5 or 6, 2023: Workshop SUBMISSIONS We invite both extended abstract submissions (non-archival) and general paper submissions (archival). The accepted submissions will be presented at the workshop, providing new insights and ideas. Extended abstracts should describe already published work or work in progress and should not exceed two (2) pages. This way, we will not discourage researchers from preferring main conference proceedings, at the same time ensuring that interesting and thought-provoking research is presented at the workshop. For general (archival) submissions we accept both long and short papers. Short papers should not exceed four (4) pages, long papers should not exceed eight (8) pages papers. Unlimited additional pages are allowed for the references section in all submission types. Submissions should be anonymous, without authors or an acknowledgement section; self-citations should appear in third person. Submissions must follow the EACL 2023 stylesheet https://2023.eacl.org/calls/styles/; both long and short paper submissions must follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings. All submissions must be in PDF format. These should be submitted via OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2023/Workshop/SIGTYP. PAPERS FROM EACL FINDINGS We are accepting all papers from EACL Findings that are **relevant** to SIGTYP. Contact us via sigtyp(a)gmail.com if you would like to present your EACL Findings paper at SIGTYP 2023! ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Koustava Goswami, Alexey Sorokin, Ritesh Kumar, Andrey Shcherbakov, Edoardo M. Ponti, Saliha Muradoğlu, Lisa Beinborn, Ryan Cotterell, Kat Vylomova ANTI-HARASSMENT POLICY The workshop follows the ACL anti-harassment policy: https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Anti-Harassment_Policy. CONTACT For any inquiries regarding the workshop, please send an email to the Organizing Committee at sigtyp(a)gmail.com

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2nd CFP: The International Conference on Human-Informed Translation and Interpreting Technology (HiT-IT 2023)
by Constantin Orasan 17 Feb '23

17 Feb '23

International Conference on Human-Informed Translation and Interpreting Technology (HiT-IT 2023) Naples, Italy, 7, 8 and 9 July 2023 http://hit-it-conference.org/ Second Call for Papers The International Conference on Human-Informed Translation and Interpreting Technology (HiT-IT 2023) will take place in Naples, Italy between 7 and 9 July 2023. The conference will be preceded by tutorials on 6 July 2023. HiT-IT seeks to act as a meeting point for (and invites) researchers working in translation and interpreting technologies, practicing technology-minded translators and interpreters, companies and freelancers providing services in translation and interpreting as well as companies developing tools for translators and interpreters. In addition to the accepted papers for presentation, HiT-IT will feature invited talks by prominent experts as well as presentations and panels hosted by practitioners. Most of the existing conferences are either focused too much on the automatic side of translation or concentrate largely on translators’ and interpreters’ professions. HiT-IT seeks to fill in this gap by allowing the discussion, the scientific comparison, and the mutual enrichment of professionals from both fields. HiT-IT 2023 addresses the development of translation tools and the experience translators and interpreters have with these tools as well as the development of machine translation engines, incorporating human (translators and interpreters’) expertise. The conference also offers a discussion forum and publishing opportunity for professionals from the human translation and interpreting fields (e.g. translators including subtitlers, interpreters, respeakers, researchers in translation and interpreting studies) and for researchers and developers working on translation and interpreting technology and machine translation. The idea behind this conference attendees to hear the other side’s position and to voice their opinions on how to make translation technologies closer to what would be accepted by large audiences, by incorporating human expertise into them. Conference topics While we invite papers on the following four main themes, submissions on any topic related to translation and interpreting technology and natural language processing for translation and interpreting technology will be considered. Both theoretical ideas and practical applications are welcome. Position papers promoting new ideas, challenging the current status of the fields and proposing how to take them forward are also encouraged. User needs: - analysis of translators’ and interpreters’ needs in terms of translation and interpreting technology - user requirements for interpreting and translation tools - incorporating human knowledge into translation and interpreting technology - what existing translators’ (including subtitlers’) and interpreters’ tools do not offer - user requirements for electronic resources for translators and interpreters - translation and interpreting workflows in larger organisations and the tools for translation and interpreting employed Existing methods and resources: - latest developments in translation and interpreting technology - latest advances in (Neural) Machine Translation - latest advances in Translation Memory systems- latest advances in automatic post-editing - electronic resources for translators and interpreters - annotation of corpora for translation and interpreting technology - crowdsourcing techniques for creating resources for translation and interpreting - latest advances in pre-editing and post-editing of machine translation - human-informed (semi-)automatic generation of interlingual subtitles - technology for subtitling - Machine Translation for literary texts Evaluation: - (human) evaluation of translation and interpreting technology - crowdsourcing techniques for evaluating translation and interpreting - evaluation of discourse and other linguistic phenomena in (machine) translation and interpreting - evaluation of existing resources for translators and interpreters - human evaluation of neural machine translation - automatic evaluation of neural machine translation More: - position papers discussing how machine translation should be improved to incorporate translators’/interpreters’ expertise - translation and interpreting technologies’ impact on the market - comparison between human and machine translation - changes in the translators and interpreters’ professions in the new technology era especially as a result of the latest developments in Neural Machine Translation Besides the above topics, submissions from industry and practitioners could discuss: distinctive work experience, ongoing practical work, in- house procedures or software, in-house processing pipelines, technology needs, managing a translation (technology) company, interpreters in the technology era, IP issues or any topic related to their professional activities in the field of (technology for) translation and interpreting, etc. Submissions and publication The conference invites the following types of submissions reporting original unpublished work. - User papers for industry and practitioners ranging between 2 and 4 pages (without references). References to related work are optional. Academic submissions, in three different categories (have to follow formatting requirements, references to related work are required): - (academic) full papers: describing original completed research. Allowed paper length: maximum 12 pages (without references). - (academic) work-in-progress papers – describing work in progress, late breaking research, papers at a more conceptual stage, and other types of papers that do not fit in the ‘full’ papers category. Allowed paper length: maximum 7 pages (without references). - (academic) demo papers - describing working systems. Allowed paper length: maximum 5 pages (without references). In addition to the papers, the authors will be expected to demonstrate the systems at the conference. The conference will not consider the submission and evaluation of abstracts only. Each submission will be reviewed by 3 members of the Programme Committee. Submission is electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system. For further instructions please follow the submission guidelines at the conference website: http://hit-it-conference.org/ The accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and made available online on the conference website. Authors of accepted papers will receive guidelines regarding how to produce camera-ready versions of their papers. We plan to invite the authors of the best papers to submit extended versions to a special issue of a prestigious journal. IMPORTANT DATES - Submission deadline: 10 April 2023 - Notification of acceptance: 31 May 2023 - Final version due: 10 June 2023 - Early fee deadline: 20 June 2023 - Conference dates: 7, 8 and 9 July 2023 - Tutorials: 6 July 2023 Keynote speakers - Jochen Hummel (Coreon) - Tharindu Ranasinghe (Aston University) Invited tutorials - Felix do Carmo (University of Surrey): Neural Machine Translation Conference Chairs - Gloria Corpas Pastor (University of Malaga) - Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton) - Johanna Monti (University of Naples L’Orientale) - Constantin Orasan (University of Surrey) Organising Committee - Dayana Abuin Rios (University of Malaga) - Khadija Ait Elqih (University of Naples l’Orientale) - Anastasia Bezobrazova (University of Malaga) - Meriem Boulekhoukh (University of Oran) - Rocío Caro Quintana (University of Wolverhampton) - Amal El Farhmat (University of Malaga) - Lilit Kharatian (University of Malaga) - Alfiya Khabibullina (University of Malaga) - Nikolai Nikolov (INCOMA Ltd.) - Daria Sokova (New Bulgarian University) - Giulia Speranza (University of Naples l’Orientale) Programme Committee - Amal Haddad Haddad, University of Granada, Spain - Anna Dimas Furtado, University of Galway, Ireland - Eleanor Taylor-Stilgoe, University of Surrey, United Kingdom - Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski, Saarland University, Germany - Eva Vanmassenhove, University of Tilburg, Netherlands - Eleni Zisi, El-translations, Greece - Eirini Zafeiridou, Welocalize, Greece - Eithar Alangari, Shaqra University, Saudi Arabia - Fred Blain, Tilburg University, Netherlands - Federico Gaspari, University of Naples Federico II, Italy - Irina Temnikova, Big Data for Smart Society Institute, Bulgaria - Isabelle Tamba, Romanian Academy, Romania - Jaleh Delfani, University of Surrey, UK - Joanna Druggan, Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom - Marie Escribe, LanguageWire, Spain - Judyta Mężyk, University of Silesia, Poland - John Ortega, Northeastern University, United States of America - Joss Moorkens, Dublin City University, Ireland - Khetam Al Sharou, Imperial College, United Kingdom - Lynne Bowker, University of Ottawa, Canada - Manuel Herranz, Pangeanic, Spain - Mihaela Vela, Saarland University, Germany - Maarit Koponen, University of Eastern Finland, Finland - Maria Pia Di Buono, University of Naples 'L'Orientale', Italy - Najeh Hajlaoui, European Commission, Belgium - Núria Molines Galarza, Jaume I University, Spain - Paola Ruffo, Ghent University, Belgium - Raquel Lázaro Gutiérrez, University of Alcala, Spain - Sara Ramos Pinto, University of Leeds, United Kingdom - Sheila Castilho, Dublin City University, Ireland - Silvia Bernardini, University of Bologna, Italy - Tímea Palotai-Torzsás, Juremy, Hungary - Vilelmini Sosoni, Ionian University, Greece - William D. Lewis, University of Washington, United States of Americ - Yves Champollion, Wordfast, France More Programme Committee members and further invited speakers and tutorials will be announced in further calls and listed on the conference’s webpage. Organisation and sponsors The forthcoming international conference HiT-It 2023 is jointly organised by the University of Wolverhampton, the University of Surrey (United Kingdom), the University of Malaga (Spain), and the University of Naples L’Orientale, (Italy), and the Association of Computational Linguistics (Bulgaria). Pangeanic, El-Translations and Juremy are the official sponsors of the conference. Venue The conference will take place at the Palazzo del Mediterraneo, University of Naples Further information and contact details Registration for HiT-IT 2023 is now open. To register, please complete the registration form. The conference website (http://hit-it-conference.org/home) will be updated on a regular basis. For further information, please email 2023(a)hit-it-conference.org. --- Constantin Orăsan Professor of Language and Translation Technologies Centre for Translation Studies | School of Literature and Languages Personal page: https://dinel.org.uk Office: 06LC03, Phone: +44 (0) 1483 68 4115 Library and Learning Centre, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH, UK

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Final Call for Participation - Workshop on Language-Based AI Agent Interaction with Children (Registration now open)
by Maike Paetzel-Prüsmann 17 Feb '23

17 Feb '23

# Final Call for Participation Workshop on Language-Based AI Agent Interaction with Children https://aichildinteraction.github.io/ February 21st, 2023, in Los Angeles, USA & Virtual (Hybrid Format) Registration: https://sites.google.com/view/iwsds2023/registration Virtual participation is free! Program: https://aichildinteraction.github.io/#schedule Papers: https://aichildinteraction.github.io/#submission Keynotes: https://aichildinteraction.github.io/keynotes.html Contact: https://groups.google.com/g/ai-child-interactions or aichildinteraction(a)gmail.com =================================================== In this workshop, we aim to bring together researchers looking into multimodal interactions between children and artificial agents to discuss research problems that center around interactivity and go beyond just processing child speech. The first part of the workshop will be concerned with conversational agents for child learning with four short presentations followed by a roundtable discussion. After a coffee break, the workshop will then focus on collecting data and practical and ethical considerations when building datasets involving children. We invite all researchers interested in AI-Child Interaction independent of their background and their previous experience with speech-based interaction to participate in the workshop. ## Accepted Papers A list of accepted papers including their PDFs can be found here: https://aichildinteraction.github.io/#submission The papers will remain on the website available to everyone even after the workshop has concluded ## Schedule An overview of the schedule is available on our website (all times are PST - UTC-8): https://aichildinteraction.github.io/#schedule In addition to two keynote presentations, the first by Prof. Khiet Truong, University of Twente, Netherlands, and the second by Prof. Shrikanth Narayanan, University of Southern California, USA, and seven short paper presentations, we will host two roundtable discussion sessions. These are interactive sessions in which we can dive deeper into the topics covered by our speakers and we welcome all participants to contribute with questions and statements. More information about the keynote speakers and their talks can be found here: https://aichildinteraction.github.io/keynotes.html ## Registration If you would like to attend our workshop, please register using the IWSDS registration website: https://sites.google.com/view/iwsds2023/registration There are three types of registration: (i) If you are already registered for the IWSDS main conference (in-person or virtual), then your workshop participation is already covered. There is no need for any extra registration. (ii) If you would like to attend the workshop in person without registering for the main conference, please choose "In-Person Workshop Only" non-student (100 USD) or student (50 USD) options towards the end of the registration form. (iii) Virtual registration is completely free of charge! Please use the same link and select the "Virtual Workshop Only - Non-students and students" option. We will send registered participants information about in-person and virtual participation as well as the Link to the Zoom Webinar the day before the workshop. ## Contact If you have questions, please get in touch via our public Google Group https://groups.google.com/g/ai-child-interactions or by sending an e-mail to aichildinteraction(a)gmail.com

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Call for participation - GURT/SyntaxFest 2023 - CxGs+NLP, Depling, TLT, UDW
by Amir Zeldes 17 Feb '23

17 Feb '23

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION � GURT/SyntaxFest 2023 - CxGs+NLP, Depling, TLT, UDW � Georgetown University Round Table on Linguistics & SyntaxFest � <https://gurt.georgetown.edu> https://gurt.georgetown.edu � Theme: Computational and Corpus Linguistics Workshops: CxGs+NLP, Depling, TLT, UDW Location: Washington, DC Date: March 9-12, 2023 � The Georgetown University Round Table on Linguistics (GURT) is a peer-reviewed annual linguistics conference held continuously since 1949 at Georgetown University in Washington DC, with topics and co-located events varying from year to year. � Under an overarching theme of ‘Computational and Corpus Linguistics’, GURT 2023 will consist of four workshops focused on computational and corpus approaches to syntax: a new workshop on CxGs+NLP, and three returning SyntaxFest workshops, Depling, TLT, and UDW. Talks will take place in plenary sessions to promote cross-fertilization of ideas across subcommunities. � � Proceedings will be published in the ACL Anthology. � New Workshop: * Construction Grammars and NLP (CxGs+NLP) � Returning SyntaxFest events: * Depling - International Conference on Dependency Linguistics * TLT - Treebanks and Linguistic Theories * UDW - Universal Dependencies Workshop � Keynote speakers: * Guy Perrier * Joan Bresnan * Joakim Nivre * Jonathan Dunn � The detailed conference program is now online here: � <https://gurt.georgetown.edu/gurt-2023/program/> https://gurt.georgetown.edu/gurt-2023/program/ � � GURT/SyntaxFest is an in-person event with a modest registration fee. For a discounted rate, register by Feb. 28 at <https://gurt.georgetown.edu/gurt-2023/registration-gurt-2023> https://gurt.georgetown.edu/gurt-2023/registration-gurt-2023. � We look forward to seeing you in Washington DC! � The GURT organizers � �

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[2nd Call] Call for Workshop & Tutorial Proposals SEMANTiCS 2023
by Jennifer D'Souza 17 Feb '23

17 Feb '23

SEMANTiCS 2023 is a major venue for research and industrial innovation and features a workshop and tutorial program addressing the diverse practical interests of its audience. This program is intended to offer a rich diversity of topics to conference attendees and local participants seeking to pick up new skills and stay up-to-date regarding the latest developments in the community. We encourage submissions of proposals on all topics in the general areas of SEMANTiCS 2023 and proposals bridging or introducing new perspectives in these areas. Workshops and tutorials may incorporate panel discussions, lightning talks, meetings, networking or hands-on sessions, hackathons and other practical formats where applicable. Rooms for business or project meetings are available upon request as well. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Web Semantics & Linked (Open) Data - Enterprise Knowledge Graphs, Graph Data Management and Deep Semantics - Machine Learning & Deep Learning Techniques - Semantic Information Management & Knowledge Integration - Terminology, Thesaurus & Ontology Management - Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery - Reasoning, Rules and Policies - Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics - Social and Human aspects of Semantic Web - Data Quality Management and Assurance - Explainable Artificial Intelligence - Semantics in Data Science - Semantics of Blockchain & Distributed Ledger Technologies - Trust, Data Privacy, and Security with Semantic Technologies - Economics of Data, Data Services and Data Ecosystems - Applications of Semantic Web technologies in domains such as law, medicine, life sciences, digital humanities, mobility and smart cities, etc. We especially invite contributions that illustrate the applicability of the topics mentioned above for industrial purposes and/or illustrate the business relevance of their contribution for specific industries. Workshop proposals on *emerging themes* for the topics listed above are encouraged. Detailed Call for Workshops and Tutorials: https://2023-eu.semantics.cc/page/cfp_ws Workshops Deadline: March 07, 2023 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) Notification of acceptance: March 14, 2023 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) Tutorials Deadline: June 06, 2023 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) Notification of acceptance: June 20, 2023 (11:59 pm, Hawaii time) *Submission via Easychair on https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sem23 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sem23>* *We are looking forward to your contribution!* Jennifer D’Souza, TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, Germany Anisa Rula, University of Brescia, Italy *Workshop & Tutorial Chairs*

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1st Call for Participation: DISCOTEX @ EVALITA 2023
by Dominique Brunato 17 Feb '23

17 Feb '23

[Apologies for cross-posting] *************************** First Call for Participation **************************** *TASK*: Assessing DIScourse COherence in Italian TEXts (DisCoTEX) @ EVALITA 2023 *Info*: https://sites.google.com/view/discotex/home *Final Workshop*: September 7th-8th, 2023, Parma, Italy We invite interested parties from academia and industry to participate in the *DisCoTEX Task*, which will be held in the context of Evalita 2023 <https://www.evalita.it/campaigns/evalita-2023/>. DisCoTEX is the first shared task focused on modeling discourse coherence for Italian real-word texts. Coherence is a key property of any well-organized text and it plays a fundamental role in human discourse processing as well as in a number of NLP applications. Inspired by previous literature on coherence modeling, the DisCoTEX task will be articulated into two subtasks: 1. Last sentence classification: this is conceived as a binary classification task. Specifically, given a short textual passage and an individual sentence, participants will be asked to predict whether the sentence follows or not, thus joining it to the passage gives out a coherent or incoherent passage. 2. Human score prediction: this is conceived as a regression task in which participants will be asked to predict the average coherence score assigned by human raters to short passages (either in their original or modified version). Participants are free to participate in either one of them or both. More details about the definition, source data and evaluation are available at the task website <https://sites.google.com/view/discotex/home>. Given the novelty of the task and the crucial role that coherence modeling plays in a variety of application scenarios, we expect to attract groups from communities working on distinct fields, such as automatic essay scoring, readability assessment and document summarization. Moreover, we hope that beyond the competition, the task would rise the interest of scholars working on theoretical models of coherence from a linguistic and a cognitive perspective, as well as those involved in the interpretability of current language models based on deep learning networks. ----------------------- Important Dates ----------------------- 7th February 2023: training data available to participants 30th April 2023: registration closes 2nd – 9 May 2023: evaluation windows 30th May 2023: results notification to participants 14th June 2023: technical report from participants due to task organizers 28th June 2023: final reports from task organizers due to EVALITA chairs 10th July 2023: review deadline 25th July 2023: camera ready version deadline 7th-8th September 2023: EVALITA workshop in Parma Updates will be made available at the Evalita 2023 website, check it often. ---------------- Organizers ---------------- Dominique Brunato* Davide Colla** Felice Dell'Orletta* Irene Dini* Daniele Paolo Radicioni** Andrea Amelio Ravelli* * ItaliaNLP Lab, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "Antonio Zampolli" (ILC-CNR), Pisa ** Dipartimento di Informatica, Università degli Studi di Torino ---------------------------------------------------------------- Contacts:*discotex.evalita2023@gmail.com* ----------------------------------------------------------------* * __ Feel free to contact us for further information! The DisCoTEX organizing committee

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Formality Control for Spoken Language Translation at IWSLT 2023
by Sweta Agrawal 17 Feb '23

17 Feb '23

We would like to invite participation in the second edition of Formality Control for Spoken Language Translation <https://iwslt.org/2023/formality> organized at IWSLT 2023 <https://iwslt.org/2023/>. This special task invites participants to advance research on controlling formality in machine translation for a diverse set of languages, focusing on zero-shot transfer across languages. Important links: - Formality task webpage: https://iwslt.org/2023/formality - Data and metric: https://github.com/amazon-science/contrastive-controlled-mt/tree/main/IWSLT… - Google Group: https://groups.google.com/g/iwslt-evaluation-campaign - IWSLT conference webpage: https://iwslt.org/2023/ HOW TO PARTICIPATE Please join the IWSLT Evaluation Campaign Google Group <https://groups.google.com/g/iwslt-evaluation-campaign> and access the registration using the following link <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSewDMutBgat38bIvgNwiHBWrJ6NJ7T33XI…> . We have released a formality-annotated training dataset here: https://github.com/amazon-research/contrastive-controlled-mt. Allowable generic training data is listed on the task website <https://iwslt.org/2023/formality#conditions>. Task submissions will be made on a dedicated GitHub repository. More information will be added here <https://iwslt.org/2023/formality#submission> at a later date. More resources: We will be releasing a trained multilingual classifier for both evaluation and analysis purposes. IMPORTANT DATES - Jan 14, 2023 Release of shared task training and dev data <https://github.com/amazon-science/contrastive-controlled-mt/tree/main/IWSLT…> - Apr 1-15, 2023 Evaluation period - Apr 24, 2023 Paper submission deadline (all papers) - Apr 30, 2023 System papers update deadline - May 22, 2023 Notification of acceptance - May 31, 2023 Camera-ready paper due - July 12, 2023 Pre-recorded video due - July 13-14, 2023 IWSLT conference LANGUAGE PAIRS - English → Korean - English → Vietnamese - Zero-shot languages (no training data released): - English → Portuguese - English → Russian You may participate in any subset of the language pairs. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Sweta Agrawal (UMD) Marine Carpuat (UMD) Elijah Rippeth (UMD) Anna Currey (AWS AI Labs) Benjamin Hsu (AWS AI Labs) Phu Mon Htut (AWS AI Labs) Maria Nadejde (AWS AI Labs) Xing Niu (AWS AI Labs)

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CfP: Measuring Meanings | Computing Concepts. Practices of Operationalization and their Implications for Text Studies
by Nils Reiter 17 Feb '23

17 Feb '23

Measuring Meanings | Computing Concepts: Practices of Operationalization and their Implications for Text Studies All details can also be found here: https://cretaverein.de/mmcc/ Since the work of physicist Percy Bridgman (1927, 5), ›operationalization‹ is used to refer to the practice of determining or measuring concepts by means of a »set of operations«. In Bridgman’s strong variant of operationalization, he regarded the meaning of concepts as synonymous with the operations used to measure it. In Bridgman’s view, such operational definitions are fundamental to all research in physics. The concept of length, for instance, would thus be defined by the operations which are necessary for measuring the length of a physical object. Early on, this position was intensively discussed (cf. Frank 1956), and also criticized for that, in extreme cases, each new measurement method of a concept is equivalent to a new operational definition: »it becomes a tautology that any measurement operation is the correct one for the concept associated with it« (Chang, Cartwright 2008, 367). Text-oriented DH projects seem to align with a weaker variant of operationalization in that their activities are structured by clearly delineable sub-steps (cf. Pichler, Reiter 2022; Krautter 2022). Thereby, operationalization can both contribute to the definitional refining of (humanities’) concepts, and facilitate opportunities for their empirical examination. The workshop aims to address these questions from scientific, computational, and praxeological perspectives, and thus attempts to provide an overview of the different theoretical positions and practical approaches; in particular with regard to operationalization in the field of digital humanities and digital text analysis. We especially solicit contributions that develop their theoretical reflections by means of concrete data. Please refrain from submitting textual analyses that do not include a theoretical reflection on their operationalization practice. Guiding questions include, but are not limited to: • What is referred to as a concept in the text studying fields of the humanities? What is the role of such concepts in theory building? • What is the function of quantitative, formal or computational analysis in terms of conceptualization in text studying fields? • How does the practice of operationalization relate to traditional and current approaches to conceptualization in philosophy, e.g., Carnapian explication and conceptual engineering? • What is the practice of operationalization in text studying fields of the humanities? • How does operationalization interact with established machine learning workflows? Which understanding of operationalization is inherent in these workflows? • How does operationalizing engage with interpreting? • How do we compare and evaluate operationalizations? • How can we conceptualize the ›agent‹ that conducts the measurement (e.g., computer vs. human)? What impact do different agents and their capacities have on our understanding of operationalization? • What are the differences between expressing measurement rules in natural (such as annotation guidelines) and formal language in relation to the operationalized concepts? How do these as well as their guiding background assumptions affect our understanding of operationalization? • Does the advent of large language models (such as BERT and GPT) change our notion of operationalization -- and if so, how? Submission We invite the submission of abstracts (1 page) in English on any of the above mentioned or closely related topics. Abstracts should be submitted in PDF format to axel.pichler(a)ts.uni-stuttgart.de; they do not need to be anonymised (non-blind). Prior to the workshop, the accepted abstracts must be extended into full papers (5000–6000 words), which will be circulated before the workshop. At the workshop, each paper is presented briefly, followed by an in-depth-discussion. The revised full papers will be published. Further details on publication will follow after acceptance. For the specific deadlines, please see the timeline below. Timeline Abstract submission deadline: May 1st, 2023 Notification: May 15 2023 Paper submission: August 31 2023 Workshop: September 25/26 2023 Venue Cologne Please contact Axel Pichler (axel.pichler(a)ts.uni-stuttgart.de) for further questions. Organizers Axel Pichler, University of Stuttgart Benjamin Krautter, University of Cologne Nils Reiter, University of Cologne References Bridgman, Percy W.: The Logic of Modern Physics. New York 1927. Chang, Hasok / Cartwright, Nancy: Measurement. In: The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Science, ed. by Stathis Psillos / Martin Curd. Abingdon, New York 2008, 367–375. Krautter, Benjamin: Die Operationalisierung als interdisziplinäre Schnittstelle der Digital Humanities. In: Scientia Poetica 26 (2022), S. 215–244. Pichler, Axel / Reiter, Nils: From Concepts to Texts and Back: Operationalization as a Core Activity of Digital Humanities. In: Journal of Cultural Analytics 7.4 (2022), https://doi.org/10.22148/001c.57195. Frank, Philipp G. (eds.): The Validation of Scientific Theories. Boston 1956.

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