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2nd CfP: LEGAL 2024 - Legal and Ethical Issues in Human Language Technologies Workshop >> NEW DATE: May 20, 2024
by Helene Mazo 23 Feb '24

23 Feb '24

[Apologies for cross-postings] 2nd CfP LEGAL 2024 Legal and Ethical Issues in Human Language Technologies Workshop at LREC-COLING 2024, Turin, Italy https://legal2024.mobileds.de/ May 20, 2024 About the Workshop 2023 is likely to be remembered as a year dominated by discussions about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Large Language Models (LLM). These technologies require data to be collected and utilized in unprecedented amounts. Large sets of Language data are owned by stakeholders that are not necessarily involved in the development of such technologies. To use these sets for AI and LLM, it is essential to repackage and repurpose them for such endeavor. Language data, despite their intangible nature, are often subject to legal constraints which need to be addressed in order to guarantee lawful access to and re-use of these data. In recent years, considerable efforts have been made to adapt legal frameworks to the advancements in technology while taking into account the interests of various stakeholders. From the technological perspective, the strict consideration of legal aspects imposes further questions besides pure recording technology and participant consent. This arises in several key elements: - What is the Intellectual Proprietary status of Large Language sets, the corresponding Large Language Models, and their potential outputs? - How can identifying information used in deep learning be removed or anonymized (and is this mandatory), how reliable are predictions/ models based on anonymized data? - Which impact does this have on the usability, computational costs? The purpose of this full-day workshop is to build bridges between technology and legal framework, and discuss current legal and ethical issues in the human language technology sector. Important Dates Submission Deadline: March 4, 2024 Notification of Acceptance: March 30, 2024 Camera ready: April 5, 2024 Workshop Day: May 20, 2024 Topics - Impact of statutory exceptions on text and speech data mining practices in the field of Human Language Technologies. - Impact of the regulatory environment at the international level (e.g. EU Data Act, Digital Governance Act, Digital Services Act, AI Act; the Chinese “2023 draft rules on generative AI”, the USA Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights and other international or national regulations) on the circulation and use of language data. - Legal issues related to the production and use of Large Language Models (Intellectual Property, Data Governance and Data Protection aspects). - Concrete applications as to how language technologies can help resolve legal issues related to data collection, data sharing and data reuse. - Ethical considerations related to personal data collection and re-use - Trust and transparency in language and speech technologies - Efficient anonymization techniques, and the related responsibility, and their impact on usability and performance - Re-identification issues/De-anonymization approaches and techniques - Harmonizing differing perspectives of data scientists and legal experts, worldwide Submission 1500-2000 words extended abstracts are needed at first for submission. The full papers will be published as workshop proceedings along with the LREC-COLING main conference. For these, the instructions of the main conference need to be followed @ https://lrec-coling-2024.org/authors-kit/ START Submission Page: https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/legal2024/ Identify, Describe and Share your LRs! When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC-COLING authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones). Organizers Ingo Siegert, OvG University Magdeburg (Germany) Khalid Choukri, ELRA/ELDA (France) Pawel Kamocki, IDS Mannheim (Germany) Kossay Talmoudi, ELDA (France)

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[CfP] Call for Workshops & Tutorials || SEMANTiCS 2024 || Sep 17 - 19, 2024 || Amsterdam, Netherlands
by SEMANTiCS 23 Feb '24

23 Feb '24

==== SEMANTiCS - 20th International Conference on Semantic Systems Amsterdam, Netherlands Call for Workshops and Tutorials September 17 - 19, 2024 https://2024-eu.semantics.cc/page/cfp_ws ==== SEMANTiCS 2024 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 2024 and proposals bridging or introducing new perspectives and/or challenges 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. =Important Dates= Important Dates for Workshops * Proposals WS Deadline: March 22, 2024 (11:59 pm, AoE) * Notification of Acceptance: March 29, 2024 (11:59 pm, AoE) * Workshop website is online: April 15th, 2024 Suggested Dates for Workshop Organizers (with Call for Papers) * Submission WS papers Deadline: June 14, 2024 (11:59 pm, AoE) * Notification of Acceptance: July 05, 2024 (11:59 pm, AoE) Important Dates for Tutorials (and other meetings, e.g. seminars, show-cases, etc., without call for papers) * Proposals Tutorial Deadline: June 11, 2024 (11:59 pm, AoE) * Notification of Acceptance: June 18, 2024 (11:59 pm, AoE) Submission via Easychair on https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=sem24 =Scope & Goals= Workshops and tutorials at SEMANTiCS 2024 allow your organisation or project to advance and promote your topics and gain increased visibility. The workshops and tutorials will be announced on the SEMANTiCS website and they will be seen by all participants. SEMANTiCS 2024 workshops and tutorials can be incubators for industrial and scientific communities that form and share a particular research and development agenda and they will provide a forum for presenting contributions and findings to a diverse and knowledgeable community. Furthermore, the event can be used as a dissemination activity in the scope of large research projects or as a closed format for research/commercial project consortia meetings. =Proceedings= For the proceedings, we offer two options: Option A: In case you want to maintain an already existing series or want to have one of your own, please organize the proceedings yourself. Option B: In case you do not have enough contributions/page volume to create proceedings of your own, we offer to publish your papers as part of the SEMANTiCS side event proceedings. Side events proceedings will include posters & demos and (optional) contributions from workshops. In case you want to make use of Option B, please get in touch with the workshop & tutorial chairs or drop us a note via Easychair. =Setup and Requirements= SEMANTiCS 2024 workshops and tutorials may be either half or full day long. Workshops and tutorials take place on the days before and/or after the main SEMANTiCS 2024 EU conference (17th of September 2024). Further details will be communicated in due time. Organizers of workshops and tutorials will be granted three free tickets (only for the workshop & tutorial day) for organization purposes or keynotes. Participants of workshops and tutorials will only be charged a reduced fee to cover the basic costs. Workshop and tutorial proposals must include the following information: * outline of the themes and goals of the event, including a title and a brief abstract (less than 200 words) intended for the SEMANTiCS 2024 website. * a statement addressing why the event is important, why the event is timely, and how it is relevant to SEMANTiCS 2024 and the field of Semantic Web. For the tutorials, why the presenters are qualified for a high-quality introduction of the topic. * related workshops and conferences, i.e., specifying if this is a continuation of a workshop series or a new workshop. Please provide information about past versions (in any) and other related workshops (including URLs and submission/acceptance counts, if available). * a statement addressing the quality assurance criteria that will be used by the event organizers to select the papers for the workshops and the presenters for the tutorials (e.g., peer review or review/evaluation by event organizers). If a peer review process is chosen as a quality assurance criterion for the workshops, the organizers will be responsible for their own reviewing process. Workshop organizers will be responsible also for their own publicity (e.g., website, timelines and call for papers) and proceedings production. * structure of the event and plans for generating and stimulating discussion; how will the interaction be organized in case of a hybrid event. * expected number of event participants and (in case of previously held events) number of registered attendees and website for previous editions of the event. * a description of the intended audience and the expected learning outcomes. * desired prerequisite knowledge of the audience. * proposed duration of the event (i.e., half or full day), different sessions if applicable (final time slot will be assigned in accordance with the SEMANTiCS program). * any equipment, room capacity, or other logistic constraints. * full contact information of all organizers of the event and main contact person; a brief description of each organizer's background, including relevant past experience in organizing events. Proposals for workshops and tutorials must be submitted via Easychair: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=sem24 (as a short paper type) =Review and Evaluation Criteria= Workshop and tutorial proposals will be reviewed by the SEMANTiCS 2024 Workshop & Tutorial Chairs, as well as by the SEMANTiCS 2024 organizing committee, according to the following criteria: * The potential to advance the state of Semantic Web research and practice * The quality assurance criteria proposed by the organizers to select high-quality presenters for tutorials * The organizers' experience and ability to lead a successful event * Timeliness and expected interest in the event topics * The balance and synergy between all SEMANTiCS 2024 events =Topics of interest include (but are not limited to)= * Web Semantics & Linked (Open) Data * Enterprise Knowledge Graphs, Graph Data Management * Machine Learning Techniques for/using Knowledge Graphs (e.g. reinforcement learning, deep learning, data mining and knowledge discovery) * Interplay between Large Language Models, generative AI and Knowledge Graphs (e.g., Retrieval Augmented Generation) * Knowledge Management (e.g. acquisition, capture, extraction, authoring, integration, publication) * Terminology, Thesaurus & Ontology Management, Ontology engineering * Reasoning, Rules and Policies * Natural Language Processing for/using Knowledge Graphs (e.g. entity linking and resolution using target knowledge such as Wikidata and DBpedia, foundation models) * Crowdsourcing for/using Knowledge Graphs * Data Quality Management and Assurance * Mathematical Foundation of Knowledge-aware AI * Multimodal Knowledge Graphs * Semantics in Data Science * Semantics in Blockchain environments * Trust, Data Privacy, and Security with Semantic Technologies * IoT, Stream Processing, dealing with temporal data * Conversational AI and Dialogue Systems * Provenance and Data Change Tracking * Semantic Interoperability (via mapping, crosswalks, standards, etc.) * Linked Data storage, triple stores, graph databases * Robust and scalable management, querying and analysis of semantics and data * User interfaces for the Semantic Web & its management * Explainable and Interoperable AI * Decentralised and Federated Knowledge Graphs (e.g., Federated querying, link traversal) * Application of Semantically-Enriched and AI-based Approaches, such as, but not limited to: Knowledge Graphs in Bioinformatics, Medical AI and Preventive Healthcare; Clinical Use Case of semantic-enabled AI-based Approaches; AI for Environmental Challenges; Semantics in Scholarly Communication and Scientific Knowledge Graphs; AI and LOD within GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) institutions; Knowledge Graphs & hybrid AI for predictive maintenance and Industry 4.0/5.0; Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage; LegalTech, AI Safety, EU AI Act; Economics of Data, Data Services, and Data Ecosystems 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 and open challenges for the topics listed above are encouraged. In case you have additional questions concerning the submission process, please do not hesitate to contact us via Easychair. We are looking forward to your contribution! Workshop and Tutorial Chairs Daniel Garijo & Andrea Mannocci

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CLARIN 2024 Conference Call for Extended Abstracts
by Vincent Vandeghinste 23 Feb '24

23 Feb '24

CALL FOR EXTENDED ABSTRACTS CLARIN ERIC is pleased to announce the CLARIN Annual Conference 2024 and calls for the submission of extended abstracts. CLARIN is the European research infrastructure that makes digital language resources available to scholars, researchers, students and citizen scientists from a wide range of disciplines, coordinates the collection of language resources and tools, and offers advanced tools to explore, exploit, annotate, analyse or combine such datasets, regardless of their location. New in this year's call is the topic of Education and Training with CLARIN tools. Submission deadline: 12 April 2024 LOCATION After the successful hybrid editions of 2022 and 2023, we plan to repeat the same format in 2024. The CLARIN Conference 2024 will be a face-to-face event that will be fully accessible virtually. The conference will take place in Barcelona, Spain. The event will be hosted and organised by CLARIN ERIC in collaboration with CLARIAH-ES and the Basque Center for Language Technology (HiTZ). IMPORTANT DATES * 24 January 2024: First call published on CLARIN website, disseminated, and submission system open * 12 February 2024: Second call for abstracts disseminated * 29 March 2024: Third call for abstracts disseminated * 12 April 2024: Submission deadline * 17 June 2024: Notification of acceptance * 2 September 2024: Camera-ready version deadline (that will be extended) * 15-17 October 2024: CLARIN Annual Conference CONFERENCE AIMS The CLARIN Annual Conference is organised for the wider Humanities and Social Sciences (SSH) community in order to exchange experiences and best practices in working with the CLARIN infrastructure and to share plans for future developments. The programme will cover a range of topics, including the design, construction and operation of the CLARIN infrastructure, the data, tools and services that it contains or should contain, its actual use by researchers, teachers or interested parties, its relation to other infrastructures and projects, and the CLARIN Knowledge Infrastructure. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS To be confirmed. CONFERENCE TOPICS We invite submissions describing CLARIN-related work addressing the following aspects: Use of the CLARIN Infrastructure: * Use of the CLARIN infrastructure in SSH research and beyond * Usability studies and evaluations of CLARIN services * Analysis of the CLARIN infrastructure usage and impact studies/use cases * Identification and analysis of user audiences and developer communities, including digital humanities, libraries, computer science, information science, cognitive science and human-centred AI * Showcases, demonstrations and research projects that are relevant to CLARIN Design and Construction of the CLARIN Infrastructure: * Recent tools and resources added to the CLARIN infrastructure * Metadata and concept registries, cataloguing and browsing * Persistent identifiers and citation mechanisms * Access, including single sign-on authentication and authorisation * Search functions, including Federated Content Search * Web applications, web services and workflows * Standards and solutions for interoperability of language resources, tools and services * Models for the sustainability of the infrastructure, including curation, migration financing and cooperation * Legal and ethical issues in operating the infrastructure. CLARIN Knowledge Infrastructure and Dissemination; * User assistance (help desks, user manuals, FAQs) * CLARIN portals and outreach to users * Videos, screencasts, recorded lectures * Knowledge centres. CLARIN vis-à-vis other Infrastructures and Initiatives: * SSH research infrastructures, such as DARIAH [1] and CESSDA [2] and the collaboration under the umbrella of the SSH Open Cluster [3], etc. * Generic infrastructural initiatives, such as [4]EOSC [5], Europeana [6], Language Data Space [7], etc. * Projects such as ATRIUM [8], EOSC Focus [9], ERIC Forum [10], EOSC Future [11], FAIRCORE4EOSC [12], OSCARS [13], OSTrails [14] * National and regional initiatives. Education and Training * Using CLARIN language resources and services in teaching and training activities targeting audiences from different sectors (academia, GLAM, industry) and lessons learnt * The impact of the DH Course Registry (e.g. development of the DH curricula, student exchange programmes) * Guidelines and best practices for using CLARIN in the university curricula * Developing new courses reusing existing materials from the CLARIN Learning Hub (e.g. UPSKILLS) FORMAT OF THE PROGRAMME SESSIONS The programme of the conference will include oral presentations and posters, and may also include demos. Due to limits in the time schedule, the number of oral presentations is limited. Authors can select if they prefer a poster presentation. If not, papers are allocated a presentation format based on the suitability of the paper for a session as decided by the programme committee. Authors of accepted submissions will be offered the opportunity to demo their work in addition to their presentation. SUBMISSIONS The language of the conference is English and presentations will be made in English. Proposals for oral, poster or demo presentations must be submitted as _extended abstracts_ (length: 3 to 4 pages A4, including references) in PDF format, in accordance with the template (ZIP-archive [15], Overleaf [16] template). Authors can choose whether to submit on an anonymous or non-anonymous basis. Extended abstracts should address one or more topics that are relevant to CLARIN's activities, resources, tools or services. This relevance should be explicitly articulated in the submission, as well as in the presentation at the conference. Contributions addressing desiderata for the CLARIN infrastructure that are currently not in place are also eligible. Authors are not required to be or have been directly involved in national or cross-national CLARIN projects. Extended abstracts must be submitted through the EasyChair submission system [17] and will be reviewed by the Programme Committee. All proposals will be reviewed on the basis of the following criteria: * Appropriateness: The contribution must pertain to the CLARIN infrastructure or be relevant for it (e.g. its use, design, construction, operation, exploitation, illustration of possible applications, etc.), and this relevance should be explicitly articulated in the submission. * Soundness and correctness: The content must be technically and factually correct and methods must be scientifically sound, according to best practice, and preferably evaluated. * Meaningful comparison: The abstract must indicate that the author is aware of alternative approaches, if any, and highlight relevant differences. * Substance: Concrete work and experiences will be given preference over ideas and plans. * Impact: Contributions with a higher impact on the research community and society more broadly will be given preference over papers with lower impact. * Clarity: The abstract should be clearly written and well structured. * Timeliness and novelty: The work must convey relevant new knowledge to the audience at this event. ATTENDANCE For each accepted abstract, CLARIN ERIC offers one author free access, free accommodation and meals . Travelling costs are not covered by CLARIN ERIC. Authors are encouraged to reach out to their national consortium, to their home institution or to third party funds to cover travel costs. PROCEEDINGS Accepted submissions will be published in the online conference Book of Extended Abstracts, ISSN: 2773-2177. After the conference, the author(s) of accepted submissions will be invited to submit full papers (10-12 pages) to be reviewed according to the same criteria as the abstracts. Accepted full papers will be published in a digital conference proceedings volume after the conference: Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings (peer reviewed) ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online) https://ep.liu.se/en/conferences.aspx [18] CONFERENCE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE The Programme Committee for the conference consists of the following members: * Vincent Vandeghinste, Instituut voor de Nederlandse Taal (Dutch Language Institute), the Netherlands & KU Leuven, Belgium -- chair * Starkaður Barkarson, Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, Iceland * Lars Borin, University of Gothenburg, Sweden * António Branco, University of Lisbon, Portugal * Tomaž Erjavec, Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia * Cristina Grisot, University of Zurich and at the Swiss National Center for Data & Services for the Humanities DaSCH * Eva Hajičová, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic * Marianne Hundt, University of Zurich, Switzerland * Krister Lindén, University of Helsinki, Finland * Monica Monachini, Institute of Computational Linguistics 'A. Zampolli', Italy * Karlheinz Mörth, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria * Costanza Navarretta, University of Copenhagen, Denmark * Gijsbert Rutten, Leiden University, the Netherlands * Maciej Piasecki, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland * Stelios Piperidis, ILSP, Athena Research Center, Greece * German Rigau, HiTZ, the Basque Center for Language Technology, Spain * Kiril Simov, IICT, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria * Inguna Skadiņa, Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Latvia, Latvia * National Coordinator Norway * Marko Tadić, University of Zagreb, Croatia * Jurgita Vaičenonienė, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania * Tamás Váradi, Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary * Joshua Wilbur, Center of Estonian Language Resources, Estonia * Andreas Witt, University of Mannheim, Germany * Friedel Wolff, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources, North-West University, South Africa * Martin Wynne, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Links: ------ [1] https://www.dariah.eu/ [2] https://www.cessda.eu/ [3] https://www.sshopencloud.eu/news/sshoc-ssh-open-cluster [4] https://www.clarin.eu/glossary#EUDAT [5] https://eosc.eu/about-eosc [6] https://www.europeana.eu [7] https://language-data-space.ec.europa.eu/ [8] https://www.clarin.eu/content/fact-sheet-clarin-atrium [9] https://www.clarin.eu/content/factsheet-clarin-eosc-focus [10] https://www.clarin.eu/content/fact-sheet-clarin-eric-forum-2 [11] https://eoscfuture.eu/ [12] https://faircore4eosc.eu/ [13] https://www.clarin.eu/content/fact-sheet-clarin-oscars [14] https://www.clarin.eu/content/fact-sheet-clarin-ostrails [15] https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/biicfb3pulc4xtgcvm34j/CLARIN2024_Templates.z… [16] https://www.overleaf.com/read/xsvjrhvjyfmj#f3362f [17] https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=clarin2024 [18] https://ep.liu.se/en/conferences.aspx

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CAiSE'24 Forum: Final Call for Papers and Tool Demonstrations
by Announce 23 Feb '24

23 Feb '24

*** CAiSE'24 Forum: Final Call for Papers and Tool Demonstrations *** 36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'24) June 3-7, 2024, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/caise2024/ (*** Submission Deadline: 4th March, 2024 AoE ***) The CAiSE Forum is a space within the CAiSE conference to present and discuss the new exciting ideas and tools related to Information Systems Engineering. The Forum intends to serve as an interactive platform, encourage potential authors to present emerging topics and controversial positions, and demonstrate innovative systems, tools, and applications. The Forum sessions at the CAiSE conference will facilitate the interaction, discussion, and exchange of ideas among presenters and participants. Contributions to the CAiSE'24 Forum are welcome to address any of the CAiSE'24 conference topics and, particularly, this year's theme—Information Systems in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. We invite two types of submissions: • Visionary papers present innovative research projects, which are still at a relatively early stage and do not necessarily include a full-scale validation. Visionary papers will be presented as posters in the Forum. • Demo papers describe innovative tools and prototypes that implement the results of research efforts. The tools and prototypes will be presented as demos in the Forum, accompanied by a poster. Both visionary papers and demo papers must not exceed 8 pages in LNCS format. See authors' guidelines at the Springer site: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… . Papers should be submitted in PDF format through the conference management system available at Easy Chair (https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=caise2024) and select the Forum option. The submitted papers must be unpublished and must not be under review elsewhere. PUBLICATION AND PRESENTATIONS Accepted papers will be published by Springer in a CAISE Forum proceedings volume within the Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series (https://www.springer.com/series/7911). Authors should consult Springer's authors guidelines and use their LaTeX or Word proceedings templates for the preparation of their papers. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers. In addition, the corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form. The corresponding author signing the copyright form should match the corresponding author marked on the paper. Once the files have been sent to Springer, changes relating to the authorship of the papers cannot be made. It is expected that at least one of the authors attends CAiSE'24, presents the poster/delivers the demo, and interacts with the Forum participants. We also envision a short oral presentation for all papers to attract participants to the posters. IMPORTANT DATES • Paper Submission Deadline: 4th March, 2024 (AoE) • Notification of Acceptance: 1st April, 2024 • Camera-ready Deadline: 8th April, 2024 • Author Registration Deadline: 8th April, 2024 FORUM CHAIRS • Shareeful Islam, Anglia Ruskin University, United Kingdom • Arnon Sturm, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel FORUM COMMITTEE • Steven Alter, University of San Francisco • Abel Armas Cervantes, The University of Melbourne • Giuseppe Berio, Université de Bretagne Sud and IRISA UMR 6074 • Drazen Brdjanin, University of Banja Luka • Corentin Burnay, University of Namur • Cinzia Cappiello, Politecnico di Milano • Suphamit Chittayasothorn, King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang • Maya Daneva, University of Twente • Sergio de Cesare, University of Westminster • Johannes De Smedt, KU Leuven • Marne de Vries, University of Pretoria • Michael Fellmann, University of Rostock • Christophe Feltus, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology • Hans-Georg Fill, University of Fribourg • Janis Grabis, Riga Technical University • Sergio Guerreiro, INESC-ID / Instituto Superior Técnico • Martin Henkel, Stockholm University • Jennifer Horkoff, Chalmers University of Technology • Shareeful Islam, Anglia Ruskin University • Janis Kampars, RTU • Evangelia Kavakli, University of the Aegean • Marite Kirikova, Riga Technical University • Janne J. Korhonen, Aalto University • Elena Kornyshova, CNAM • Agnes Koschmider, University of Bayreuth • Chung Lawrence, University of Texas at Dallas • Henrik Leopold, Kühne Logistics University • Tong Li, Beijing University of Technology • Beatriz Marín, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia • Andrea Marrella, Sapienza University of Rome • Raimundas Matulevicius, University of Tartu • Jose Ignacio Panach Navarrete, Universitat de València • Oscar Pastor, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia • Francisca Pérez, Universidad San Jorge • Pierluigi Plebani, Politecnico di Milano • Manuel Resinas, University of Seville • Genaina Rodrigues, University of Brasilia • Ben Roelens , Open Universiteit, Ghent University • Mattia Salnitri, Politecnico di Milano • Stefan Strecker, University of Hagen • Arnon Sturm, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev • Irene Vanderfeesten, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven • Yves Wautelet, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven • Hans Weigand, Tilburg University • Manuel Wimmer, Johannes Kepler University Linz • Anna Zamansky, University of Haifa

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GEM 2024 multilingual data-to-text and summarization shared task
by Simon Mille 23 Feb '24

23 Feb '24

Dear colleagues, We are finally launching the 2024 GEM multilingual shared task! It comprises 2 main tasks, Data-to-text generation and Summarization, each of which has 3 subtasks. You can submit automatically generated outputs for one or more subtask(s), in Arabic, Chinese, English, German, Hindi, Korean, Russian, Spanish, and/or Swahili. More information at https://gem-benchmark.com/shared_task. Important dates: - February 20: GEM shared task launched, pre-registration open. - March 8: Deadline for pre-registering systems. - April 5: Deadline for output submission (all subtasks). - April 6 Human evaluation starts. Looking forward to receiving your submissions! best, simon, on behalf of the GEM Human Evaluation Team *ADAPT Research Centre / Ionaid Taighde ADAPT* *School of Computing, Dublin City University, Glasnevin Campus / Scoil na Ríomhaireachta, Campas Ghlas Naíon, Ollscoil Chathair Bhaile Átha Cliath*

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Extended submission deadline for the 2nd International Workshop Towards Digital Language Equality: Focusing on Sustainability at LREC-COLING 2024.
by fgaspari＠sslmit.unibo.it 23 Feb '24

23 Feb '24

[Apologies for duplication] Dear Corpora List Members, due to a number of requests, we have extended to 29th February the submission deadline for the _2nd International Workshop Towards Digital Language Equality (TDLE): Focusing on Sustainability_, which will be held as part of LREC-COLING 2024 in Turin (Italy) in late May. The dedicated workshop website with all relevant information, including the full downloadable call for papers and the link to the START platform to submit papers is here: https://european-language-equality.eu/tdle-2024/ Please note in particular that the workshop welcomes submissions rejected from the main LREC-COLING 2024 conference programme only if these are relevant and suitable, i.e. they should be clearly related to the focus of the workshop and address explicitly its topics of interest. Here follows the updated timeline with the key dates for the workshop: Paper submission deadline: _extended to Thursday, 29th February 2024_ Notification of acceptance: _Thursday, 14th March 2024_ Camera-ready papers due: _Friday, 29th March 2024_ Half-day workshop date: _Saturday, 25th May 2024_ Many thanks and kind regards, Federico Gaspari (Workshop co-chair)

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Extended Deadline [March 04, 2024]: 2nd Workshop on Resources and Technologies for Indigenous, Endangered and Lesser-resourced Languages in Eurasia (EURALI)
by Atul K. Ojha 23 Feb '24

23 Feb '24

Apologies for cross-posting *2nd Workshop on Resources and Technologies for Indigenous, Endangered and Lesser-resourced Languages in Eurasia (EURALI) @ LREC-COLING 2024* Date: 20-25 May, 2024 Paper submissions due March 04th, 2024 Venue: Lingotto Conference Centre - Torino (Italia) Main website: https://sites.google.com/view/eurali/ LREC-COLING 2024 website: https://lrec-coling-2024.org/ Submission website: https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/eurali2024/ —————————————————————————————————— *Workshop overview and objectives* This workshop will focus on the development of language technology resources and tools for indigenous, endangered and lesser-resourced languages on the Eurasian continent. In a media-centric world where language technology allows people to break cultural and language barriers, it is important that speakers of endangered and indigenous languages can be empowered to use this technology to continue to share their knowledge and culture with the world. With the hope of bridging this gap, the goal of this workshop is to increase visibility and promote research for lesser-resourced and under-represented languages in Europe and Asia. Through collaboration between NLP researchers, language experts and linguists working for the benefit of endangered languages in these communities, we aim to create language technology resources that will help to preserve and revive these languages for future generations. Furthermore, the workshop aims to promote the emergence of new methods that benefit linguists (e.g. automating analysis and validation processes), field linguists (facilitating data collection and analysis processes), and computational linguists (developing new techniques necessary for linguistic analysis, development of supervised or weakly supervised methods for the analysis of poorly written or undocumented languages). The main objective of the workshop is to create basic resources and develop tools for Eurasiatic languages, including but not limited to the following topics: - identifying languages and variants spoken in these regions - creation of language resources and applications, e.g. sentiment analysis, named entity recognition, and syntactic parsing - standardization for endangered languages - automatic identification and classification of lexical variation and language varieties - adaptation of fundamental NLP tools for these languages, e.g., morphological analysis, taggers and parsers - reusability of language resources in NLP applications, e.g. machine translation, and POS tagging - machine translation between closely related languages - evaluation of language resources and tools when applied to lesser-resourced languages in the same language families - corpora, resources, and tools for closely related languages - linguistic and textual similarities among languages in Eurasia - digitalization of endangered languages - challenges in the creation of language resources and tools from linguistic perspectives (which includes any perspective formal theory) *Submissions* We are seeking submissions in the following categories: - Full papers: 8 pages+unlimited references - Short papers (work in progress): 4 pages+unlimited references - Posters (innovative ideas/proposals, a research idea of students): 4 pages+unlimited references - Demo (of working online/standalone systems): 2 pages Papers must describe original, completed or in progress, and unpublished work. The accepted papers will be given up for full/short paper and poster in the workshop proceedings and will be presented as an oral presentation or poster. Papers should be formatted according to the LREC-COLING style sheet ( https://lrec-coling-2024.org/authors-kit/), which is provided on the LREC-COLING 2024 website (https://lrec-coling-2024.org/). Please submit papers in PDF format to the START account ( https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/eurali2024/). For further information on this initiative, please refer to https://sites.google.com/view/eurali/. *Important Dates* March 04, 2024: Paper submissions due [extended deadline] March 22, 2024: Paper notification of acceptance May 25, 2024: Workshop *Workshop Chairs* Atul Kr. Ojha, University of Galway, Galway (Ireland) Sina Ahmadi, George Mason University, Fairfax VA (USA) Chao-Hong Liu, Potamu Research Ltd, Dublin (Ireland) John P. McCrae, University of Galway, Galway (Ireland) Theodorus Fransen, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan (Italy) Silvie Cinková, Charles University, Prague (Czech Republic) *Programme Committee (to be updated)* Abigail Walsh, Dublin City University, Dublin (Ireland) Aiala Rosá, Universidad de la República - Uruguay, Montevideo (Uruguay) Aryaman Arora, Stanford University, Stanford, California (USA) A. Seza Doğruöz, Ghent University, Ghent (Belgium) Alina Karakanta, University of Leiden, Leiden (Netherlands) Alina Wróblewska, Institute of Computer Science, Jana Kazimierza, Warszawa (Poland) Akanksha Bansal, Panlingua, Delhi (India) Atul Kr. Ojha, University of Galway, Galway (Ireland) & Panlingua, (India) Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, University of Galway, Galway (Ireland) Bogdan Babych, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg (Germany) Çağrı Çöltekin, University of Tübingen, Tübingen (Germany) Chao-Hong Liu, Potamu Research Ltd, Dublin (Ireland) Chihiro Taguchi, the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame (USA) Daan van Esch, Google, Amsterdam (Netherlands) Daniel Zeman, Charles University, Prague (Czech Republic) Deepak Alok, IIT-Delhi, Delhi (India) Dorothee Beermann, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trøndelag (Norway) Esha Banerjee, J.P. Morgan, Bengaluru (India) Ekaterina Vylomova, University of Melbourne, Melbourne (Australia) George Rehm, GmbH, Berlin (Germany) Hiwa Asadpour, Goethe University, Frankfurt (Germany) Jamal Abdul Nasir, University of Galway, Galway (Ireland) Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University, (Sweden) John P. McCrae, University of Galway, (Ireland) John E. Ortega, New York University (USA) Jonathan Washington, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore (USA) Joseph Mariani, LIMSI-CNRS, Pairs (France) Kaja Dobrovoljc, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana (Slovenia) Khalid Choukri, ELDA/ELRA, Paris (France) Luke D. Gessler, University of Colorado at Boulder (USA) Maitrey Mehta, University of Utah, Utah (USA) Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, UCLouvainCollège Léon Durpiez, (Belgium) Mayank Jobanputra, University of Tübingen, Tübingen (Germany) Olesea Caftanatov, Vladimir Andrunachievici Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, Chişinău (Moldova) Ranka Stanković, University of Belgrade, Belgrade (Serbia) Rico Sennrich, University of Zurich, Zurich (Switzerland) Ritesh Kumar, Agra University, Agra (India) Rute Costa, the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Lisbon (Portugal) Saliha Muradoglu, Australian National University, Canberra (Australia) Sarah Moeller, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (USA) Silvie Cinkovà, Charles University, Prague (Czech Republic) Sina Ahmadi, George Mason University, (USA) Stella Markantonatou, Athena RC, Athens (Greece) Sourabrata Mukherjee, Charles University, Prague (Czech Republic) Theodorus Fransen, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan (Italy) Valentin Malykh, MTS AI / ITMO University Verginica Barbu Mititelu, Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Bucharest (Romania) Victoria Bobicev, University of Moldova, Chișinău (Moldova) Voula Giouli, Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Athens (Greece)

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[IberLEF 2024] Accepted tasks have been published!
by Francisco Manuel Rangel Pardo 23 Feb '24

23 Feb '24

Dear all, We are pleased to inform you that the IberLEF 2024 accepted tasks have been published on the website: https://sites.google.com/view/iberlef-2024/tasks. 12 shared tasks have been accepted, out of a total of 15 proposals. They are NLP tasks on automatically generated texts identification, clinical content, counter speech, early risk prediction on the Internet, harmful and inclusive content, language reliability, political ideology and propaganda, and sentiment and emotion. We encourage you to take part in these interesting challenges. Below you can find the title of each task, the link to access the website and the organizers of the challenge. AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED TEXTS IDENTIFICATION Iber AuTexTification - Automated Text Identification on Languages of the Iberian Peninsula Shared Task <https://sites.google.com/view/iberautextification/home> Organised by José Ángel González, Areg Sarvazyan, Marc Franco Salvador, Francisco Rangel, Paolo Rosso BIOMEDICAL NLP GenoVarDis - NER in Genomic Variants and related Diseases <https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/17733> Organised by Marvin M. Agüero-Torales, Carlos Rodríguez Abellán, Jorge Mira Prats, Juan Ignacio Díaz Hernández, Marta Carcajona Mata, Mario Solís López, Carlos Castaño Moraga, David Vilares, Luis Chiruzzo COUNTER SPEECH RefutES - Automatic Generation of Counter Speech in Spanish <https://sites.google.com/view/refutes2024/home> Organised by María Teresa Martín Valdivia, Arturo Montejo Ráez, L. Alfonso Ureña López, María Estrella Vallecillo Rodríguez, Isabel Cabrera De Castro, María Victoria Cantero Romero EARLY RISK PREDICTION ON THE INTERNET MentalRiskES - Early detection of mental disorders risk in Spanish <https://sites.google.com/view/mentalriskes2024> Organised by Arturo Montejo-Ráez, Flor Miriam Plaza-del-Arco, L. Alfonso Ureña-López, M. Teresa Martín-Valdivia, M. Dolores Molina-González, Alba M. Mármol-Romero, Adrián Moreno-Muñoz HARMFUL AND INCLUSIVE CONTENT DETEST-Dis - DETEction and classification of racial STereotypes in Spanish <https://detests-dis.github.io/> Organised by Mariona Taulé, Simona Frenda, Wolfgan S. Schmeisser-Nieto, Pol Pastells, Alejandro Ariza-Casabona, Mireia Farrús, Paolo Rosso DIMEMEX - Detection of Inappropriate Memes from Mexico <https://sites.google.com/inaoe.mx/dimemex-2024> Organised by Horacio Jesús Jarquı́n Vásquez, Delia Irazú Hernández Farias, Hugo Jair Escalante, Luis Villaseñor-Pineda, Manuel Montes, Itzel Tlelo-Coyotecatl, Marco Casavantes HOMO-MEX - Hate speech detection in Online Messages directed tOwards the MEXican spanish speaking LGBTQ+ population <https://sites.google.com/view/homomex/home> Organised by Gemma Bel Enguix, Helena Gómez Adorno, Juan Vásquez, Scott Thomas Andersen, Sergio Luís Ojeda-Trueba, Hiram Calvo, Tania Alcántara, Miguel Soto, Cesar Macias HOPE - Approaching Hope Speech Detection in Social Media from Two Perspectives, for Equality, Diversity and Inclussion and as Expectations <https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/17714> Organised by Daniel García-Baena, Fazlourrahman Balouchzahi, Salud María Jiménez-Zafra, Sabur Butt, Miguel Ángel García-Cumbreras, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, José Antonio García-Díaz, Samira Hosseini, Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Hector G. Ceballos, Rafael Valencia-García, Grigori Sidorov, L. Alfonso Ureña-López, Alexander Gelbukh LANGUAGE RELIABILITY FLARES - Fine-Grained Language-based Reliability Detection in Spanish News <https://sites.google.com/gcloud.ua.es/flares/> Organised by Estela Saquete Boro, Alba Bonet Jover, Robiert Sepúlveda Torres, Patricio Martínez Barco, Carlos Badenes Olmedo, Ibai Guillén Pacho, Isam Diab Lozano POLITICAL IDEOLOGY AND PROPAGANDA DIPROMATS - Automatic Detection and Characterization of Propaganda Techniques and Narratives from Diplomats of World Powers <https://sites.google.com/view/dipromats2024> Organised by Pablo Moral, Guillermo Marco, Julio Gonzalo, Anselmo Peñas, Jesús Fraile SENTIMENT AND EMOTION ABSAPT24 - Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis in Portuguese 2024 <https://l.ufpel.edu.br/absapt-2024> Organised by Ulisses B. Corrêa, Larissa A. de Freitas, Ricardo Matsumura Araújo, Alexandre Thurow Bender, Emerson Philippe Lopes, Gabriel Gomes EmoSPeech - Multimodal Speech-text Emotion Recognition in Spanish <https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/17647> Organised by José Antonio García-Díaz, Ronghao Pan, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez-García, Francisco García-Sánchez, Rafael Valencia-García Best regards, IberLEF general chairs Salud María Jiménez Zafra, SINAI, Universidad de Jaén (Spain) Luis Chiruzzo, Universidad de la República (Uruguay) Francisco Rangel, Symanto Research (Spain) Website https://sites.google.com/view/iberlef-2024 Contact E-mail: iberlef(a)googlegroups.com

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2nd CFP: 19th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA2024)
by Ekaterina Kochmar 23 Feb '24

23 Feb '24

The 19th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2024) Location: Mexico City (co-located with NAACL 2024) Date: Thursday, June 20 or Friday, June 21, 2024 (TBD) Website: https://sig-edu.org/bea/current *Submission Deadline: Sunday, March 10, 2024, 11:59pm UTC-12* WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION The BEA Workshop is a leading venue for NLP innovation in the context of educational applications. It is one of the largest one-day workshops in the ACL community with over 100 registered attendees in the past several years. The growing interest in educational applications and a diverse community of researchers involved resulted in the creation of the Special Interest Group in Educational Applications (SIGEDU) <https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=2019Q3_Reports:_SIGEDU> in 2017, which currently has over 390 members. The 19th BEA workshop will have a keynote by Alla Rozovskaya <https://sites.google.com/site/allamrozovskaya/> (Queens College, CUNY), an invited paper presentation by a member of one of the educational societies from the International Alliance to Advance Learning in the Digital Era ( IAALDE <https://alliancelss.com/>), oral presentation sessions, and a large poster session to maximize the amount of original work presented. This year, the workshop is also hosting two shared tasks: on Automated Prediction of Item Difficulty and Item Response Time <https://sig-edu.org/sharedtask/2024> and on Multilingual Lexical Simplification <https://sites.google.com/view/mlsp-sharedtask-2024>. We expect that the workshop will continue to highlight novel technologies and opportunities for educational NLP in English as well as other languages. The workshop will solicit long, short and demo papers for either oral or poster presentation. We will solicit papers that incorporate NLP methods, including, but not limited to: - use of LLMs and generative AI in educational contexts - automated scoring of open-ended textual and spoken responses; - automated scoring/evaluation for written student responses (across multiple genres); - game-based instruction and assessment; - educational data mining; - intelligent tutoring; - collaborative learning environments; - peer review; - grammatical error detection and correction; - learner cognition; - spoken dialog; - multimodal applications; - annotation standards and schemas; - tools and applications for classroom teachers, learners and/or test developers; and - use of corpora in educational tools. INVITED TALKS The workshop will feature a keynote by Alla Rozovskaya <https://sites.google.com/site/allamrozovskaya/> (Queens College, CUNY) and an invited talk by a speaker from one of the IAALDE <https://alliancelss.com/> societies. IMPORTANT DATES All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC-12 (anywhere on earth). - Submission Deadline: Sunday, March 10, 2024 - Notification of Acceptance: Sunday, April 14, 2024 - Camera-ready Papers Due: Wednesday, April 24, 2024 - Workshop: Thursday, June 20 or Friday, June 21, 2024 (TBD) SUBMISSION INFORMATION We will be using the ACL Submission Guidelines for the BEA Workshop this year. Authors are invited to submit a long paper of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus unlimited references; final versions of long papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages) so that reviewers’ comments can be taken into account. We also invite short papers of up to four (4) pages of content, plus unlimited references. Upon acceptance, short papers will be given five (5) content pages in the proceedings. Authors are encouraged to use this additional page to address reviewers’ comments in their final versions. We generally follow ACL submission guidelines <https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp> and will require that all submitted papers should include a dedicated "Limitations" section, which does not count toward the page limit. Papers which describe systems are also invited to give a demo of their system. If you would like to present a demo in addition to presenting the paper, please make sure to select either “long paper + demo” or “short paper + demo” under “Submission Category” in the START submission page. Previously published papers cannot be accepted. The submissions will be reviewed by the program committee. As reviewing will be blind, please ensure that papers are anonymous. Self-references that reveal the author’s identity, e.g., “We previously showed (Smith, 1991) …”, should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as “Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) …”. We have also included conflict of interest in the submission form. You should mark all potential reviewers who have been authors on the paper, are from the same research group or institution, or who have seen versions of this paper or discussed it with you. We will be using the START conference system to manage submissions: *https://softconf.com/naacl2024/BEA2024* <https://softconf.com/naacl2024/BEA2024/> DOUBLE SUBMISSION POLICY We will follow the official ACL double-submission policy <https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp>. Specifically: Papers being submitted both to BEA and another conference or workshop must: - Note on the title page the other conference or workshop to which they are being submitted. - State on the title page that if the authors choose to present their paper at BEA (assuming it was accepted), then the paper will be withdrawn from other conferences and workshops. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE - Ekaterina Kochmar <https://ekochmar.github.io/about/>, MBZUAI - Marie Bexte < https://www.fernuni-hagen.de/english/research/clusters/catalpa/about-catalp…>, FernUniversität in Hagen - Jill Burstein <https://sites.google.com/site/jbursteinets/>, Duolingo - Andrea Horbach < https://www.fernuni-hagen.de/english/research/clusters/catalpa/about-catalp…>, FernUniversität in Hagen - Ronja Laarmann-Quante <https://www.ltl.uni-due.de/team/ronja-laarmann-quante>, Ruhr University Bochum - Anaïs Tack <https://anaistack.github.io/>, KU Leuven - Yaneva <http://www.victoriayaneva.info/>, National Board of Medical Examiners - Zheng Yuan <https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~zy249/>, King’s College London Workshop contact email address: bea.nlp.workshop(a)gmail.com PROGRAM COMMITTEE Tazin Afrin (Educational Testing Service); Erfan Al-Hossami (UNC Charlotte); Desislava Aleksandrova (CBC/Radio-Canada); Giora Alexandron (Weizmann Institute of Science); David Alfter (University of Gothenburg); Jatin Ambasana (Unitedworld School of Computational Intelligence); Alejandro Andrade (Pearson); Nischal Ashok Kumar (University of Massachusetts Amherst); Berk Atil (Penn State University); Shiva Baghel (Data Scientist); Rabin Banjade (University of Memphis); Michael Gringo Angelo Bayona (Trinity College Dublin); Lee Becker (Pearson); Lisa Beinborn (VU Amsterdam); Luca Benedetto (University of Cambridge); Jeanette Bewersdorff (FernUniversität in Hagen); Abhidip Bhattacharyya (CICS UMass); Serge Bibauw (UCLouvain); Ted Briscoe (MBZUAI); Jie Cao (University of Colorado Boulder); Dumitru-Clementin Cercel (University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest); Jeevan Chapagain (University of Memphis); Mei-Hua Chen (Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, Tunghai University); Mark Core (University of Southern California); Steven Coyne (Tohoku University); Sam Davidson (UC Davis); Orphee De Clercq (LT3, Ghent University); Kordula De Kuthy (University of Tübingen); Jasper Degraeuwe (Ghent University); Yo Ehara (Tokyo Gakugei University); Yang Deng (Singapore); Chris Develder (Ghent University - imec, Belgium); Yuning Ding (FernUniversität in Hagen); Rahul Divekar (Bentley University); George Dueñas (Universidad Pedagogica Nacional); Mariano Felice (British Council); Nigel Fernandez (University of Massachusetts Amherst); Michael Flor (Educational Testing Service); Jennifer Frey (Institute for Applied Linguistics, Eurac Research); Kotaro Funakoshi (Tokyo Institute of Technology); Thomas Gaillat (Université Rennes 2); Diana Galvan-Sosa (Tohoku University); Ashwinkumar Ganesan (UMBC, Amazon); Rujun Gao (Texas A&M University); Ritik Garg (IIITD); Christian Gold (FernUniversität in Hagen); Sebastian Gombert (DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education); Cyril Goutte (National Research Council Canada); Abigail Gurin Schleifer (The Weizmann Institute of Science); Handoko Handoko (Universitas Andalas); Ching Nam Hang (Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong); Jiangang Hao (Educational Testing Service); Nicolas Hernandez (Nantes University - LS2N); Heiko Holz (Ludwigsburg University of Education); Chieh-Yang Huang (Penn State University); Chung-Chi Huang (Frostburg State University); Anna Huelsing (Universität Hildesheim); Joseph Marvin Imperial (University of Bath, National University); Radu Tudor Ionescu (University of Bucharest); Qinjin Jia (North Carolina State University); Helen Jin (University of Pennsylvania); Ioana Jivet (Goethe University Frankfurt); Léane Jourdan (University of Nantes); Anisia Katinskaia (University of Helsinki); Elma Kerz (RWTH Aachen Univeristy); Fazel Keshtkar (St. John's University, NY); Mamoru Komachi (Hitotsubashi University); Roland Kuhn (National Research Council of Canada (NRC)); Alexander Kwako (University of California, Los Angeles); Kristopher Kyle (University of Oregon); Antonio Laverghetta Jr. (University of South Florida); Seolhwa Lee (Technical University of Darmstadt); Arun Balajiee Lekshmi Narayanan (University of Pittsburgh); Yudong Liu (Western Washington University); Zhexiong Liu (University of Pittsburgh); Julian Lohmann (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel); Anastassia Loukina (Grammarly Inc.); Jiaying Lu (Emory University); Crisron Rudolf Lucas (UCD); Jakub Macina (ETH Zurich); Nitin Madnani (ETS); Arianna Masciolini (Språkbanken Text, Department of Swedish, Multilingualism, Language Technology, University of Gothenburg); Sandeep Mathias (Presidency University, Bangalore); Hunter McNichols (University of Massachusetts Amherst); Amit Kumar Mishra (Amity University Madhya Pradesh); Masato Mita (CyberAgent); Phoebe Mulcaire (Duolingo); Laura Musto (Facultad de Información y Comunicación, Universidad de la República); Farah Nadeem (The World Bank); Sungjin Nam (ACT, Inc); Diane Napolitano (Associated Press); Arun Balajiee Lekshmi Narayanan (University of Pittsburgh); Tanya Nazaretsky (EPFL); Kamel Nebhi (Education First); Hwee Tou Ng (National University of Singapore); Huy Nguyen (Amazon); Gebregziabihier Nigusie (Mizan-Tepi University); Christina Niklaus (University of St.Gallen); S Jaya Nirmala (NIT Trichy India); Eda Okur (Intel Labs); Kostiantyn Omelianchuk (Grammarly); Amin Omidvar (York University); Ulrike Pado (Hochschule für Technik Stuttgart); Chanjun Park (Upstage); Udita Patel (Amazon); Long Qin (Alibaba Cloud); Mengyang Qiu (University at Buffalo); Martí Quixal (University of Tübingen); Manav Rathod (Glean); Hanumant Redkar (Goa University); Robert Reynolds (Brigham Young University); Frankie Robertson (University of Jyväskylä); Aiala Rosá (Universidad de la República); Alla Rozovskaya (City University of New York); Josef Ruppenhofer (Fernuniversität in Hagen); Omer Salem; Nicy Scaria (Indian Institute of Science); Nils-Jonathan Schaller (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel); Gyu-Ho Shin (University of Illinois Chicago); Mayank Soni (ADAPT Center, Trinity College Dublin); Katherine Stasaski (Salesforce AI Research); Helmer Strik (Radboud University Nijmegen); Hakyung Sung (University of Oregon); Abhijit Suresh (Reddit Inc.); Chee Wei Tan (Nanyang Technological University); Zhongwei Teng (Duolingo); Xiaoyi Tian (University of Florida); Sowmya Vajjala (National Research Council, Canada); Giulia Venturi (Institute for Computational Linguistics "A. Zampolli"); Anthony Verardi (Duolingo English Test); Elena Volodina (University of Gothenburg, Sweden); Taro Watanabe (Nara Institute of Science and Technology); Michael White (The Ohio State University); Alistair Willis (The Open University, UK); Man Fai Wong (City University of Hong Kong); Simon Woodhead (Eedi); Changrong Xiao (Tsinghua University); Roman Yangarber (University of Helsinki); Su-Youn Yoon (EduLab); Marcos Zampieri (George Mason University); Fabian Zehner (DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education); Torsten Zesch (FernUniversität in Hagen); Jing Zhang (Emory University); Yiyun Zhou (NBME); Jessica Zipf (University of Konstanz); Michael Zock (CNRS, (LIF) University of Aix-Marseille); Bowei Zou (Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR, Singapore).

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TSD 2024 - 1st Call for Papers
by TSD 2024 23 Feb '24

23 Feb '24

[Apologies for cross-postings] ********************************************************* TSD 2024 - FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS ********************************************************* Twenty-seventh International Conference on TEXT, SPEECH and DIALOGUE (TSD 2024) Brno, Czech Republic, 9-13 September 2024 http://www.tsdconference.org/ The conference is organized by the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, and the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen. The conference is supported by International Speech Communication Association. Venue: Brno, Czech Republic THE SUBMISSION DEADLINES: April 10 2024 ............ Submission of abstracts April 17 2024 ............ Submission of full papers Submission of abstracts serves for better organization of the review process only - for the actual review a full paper submission is necessary. TSD SERIES TSD series evolved as a prime forum for interaction between researchers in both spoken and written language processing from all over the world. Proceedings of TSD form a book published by Springer-Verlag in their Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. TSD Proceedings are regularly indexed by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index. Moreover, LNAI series are listed in all major citation databases such as DBLP, SCOPUS, EI, INSPEC or COMPENDEX. CALL for SATELLITE WORKSHOP PROPOSALS https://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2024/conf_workshop_proposals.html The TSD 2024 conference will be accompanied by one-day satellite workshops or project meetings with organizational support by the TSD organizing committee. The organizing committee can arrange for a meeting room at the conference venue and prepare a workshop proceedings as a book with ISBN by a local publisher. The workshop papers that will pass also the standard TSD review process will appear in the Springer proceedings. Each workshop is a subject to proposal that should be sent via the proposal submission form or discussed via the contact e-mail tsd2024(a)tsdconference.org ahead of the respective deadline. TOPICS Topics of the conference will include (but are not limited to): Corpora and Language Resources (monolingual, multilingual, text and spoken corpora, large web corpora, large language models, disambiguation, specialized lexicons, dictionaries) Speech Recognition (multilingual, continuous, emotional speech, handicapped speaker, out-of-vocabulary words, alternative way of feature extraction, new models for acoustic and language modelling) Tagging, Classification and Parsing of Text and Speech (morphological and syntactic analysis, synthesis and disambiguation, multilingual processing, sentiment analysis, credibility analysis, automatic text labeling, summarization, authorship attribution) Speech and Spoken Language Generation (multilingual, high fidelity speech synthesis, computer singing) Semantic Processing of Text and Speech (information extraction, information retrieval, data mining, semantic web, knowledge representation, inference, ontologies, sense disambiguation, plagiarism detection, fake news detection) Integrating Applications of Text and Speech Processing (machine translation, natural language understanding, question-answering strategies, assistive technologies) Automatic Dialogue Systems (self-learning, multilingual, question-answering systems, dialogue strategies, prosody in dialogues) Multimodal Techniques and Modelling (video processing, facial animation, visual speech synthesis, user modelling, emotions and personality modelling) Papers on processing of languages other than English are strongly encouraged. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Elmar Noeth, Germany (general chair) Rodrigo Agerri, Spain Eneko Agirre, Spain Vladimir Benko, Slovakia Archna Bhatia, USA Jan Cernocky, Czech Republic Simon Dobrisek, Slovenia Kamil Ekstein, Czech Republic Karina Evgrafova, Russia Yevhen Fedorov, Ukraine Volker Fischer, Germany Darja Fiser, Slovenia Lucie Flek, Germany Bjorn Gamback, Norway Radovan Garabik, Slovakia Alexander Gelbukh, Mexico Louise Guthrie, USA Jan Hajic, Czech Republic Eva Hajicova, Czech Republic Yannis Haralambous, France Hynek Hermansky, USA Jaroslava Hlavacova, Czech Republic Ales Horak, Czech Republic Eduard Hovy, USA Milos Jakubicek, Czech Republic Maria Khokhlova, Russia Aidar Khusainov, Russia Daniil Kocharov, Russia Miloslav Konopik, Czech Republic Valia Kordoni, Germany Evgeny Kotelnikov, Russia Pavel Kral, Czech Republic Siegfried Kunzmann, USA Nikola Ljubesic, Croatia Natalija Loukachevitch, Russia Bernardo Magnini, Italy Vaclav Matousek, Czech Republic Roman Moucek, Czech Republic Agnieszka Mykowiecka, Poland Hermann Ney, Germany Joakim Nivre, Sweden Juan Rafael Orozco-Arroyave, Colombia Maciej Piasecki, Poland Josef Psutka, Czech Republic James Pustejovsky, USA German Rigau, Spain Paolo Rosso, Spain Leon Rothkrantz, The Netherlands Anna Rumshisky, USA Milan Rusko, Slovakia Pavel Rychly, Czechia Mykola Sazhok, Ukraine Pavel Skrelin, Russia Pavel Smrz, Czech Republic Petr Sojka, Czech Republic Georg Stemmer, Germany Marko Robnik Sikonja, Slovenia Marko Tadic, Croatia Jan Trmal, Czechia Tamas Varadi, Hungary Zygmunt Vetulani, Poland Aleksander Wawer, Poland Pascal Wiggers, The Netherlands Alina Wroblewska, Poland Jerneja Zganec Gros, Slovenia FORMAT OF THE CONFERENCE The conference program will include presentation of invited papers, oral presentations, and poster/demonstration sessions. Papers will be presented in plenary or topic oriented sessions. Social events including a trip in the vicinity of Brno will allow for additional informal interactions. SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Authors are invited to submit a full paper not exceeding 12 pages formatted in the LNCS style (including references). Those accepted will be presented either orally or as posters. The decision about the presentation format will be based on the recommendation of the reviewers. The authors are asked to submit their papers using the on-line form accessible from the conference website. Papers submitted to TSD 2024 must not be under review by any other conference or publication during the TSD review cycle, and must not be previously published or accepted for publication elsewhere. Authors are also invited to present actual projects, developed software or interesting material relevant to the topics of the conference. The presenters of demonstrations should provide an abstract not exceeding one page. The demonstration abstracts will not appear in the conference proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES April 10 2024 ............ Submission of abstracts April 17 2024 ............ Submission of full papers June 5 2024 .............. Notification of acceptance June 15 2024 ............. Final papers (camera ready) and registration August 8 2024 ............ Submission of demonstration abstracts August 15 2024 ........... Notification of acceptance for demonstrations sent to the authors September 9-13 2024 ...... Conference date Submission of abstracts serves for better organization of the review process only - for the actual review a full paper submission is necessary. The accepted conference contributions will be published in Springer proceedings that will be made available to participants at the time of the conference. OFFICIAL LANGUAGE The official language of the conference is English. ACCOMMODATION The organizing committee will arrange discounts on accommodation in the 4-star hotel at the conference venue. The current prices of the accommodation will be available at the conference website. ADDRESS All correspondence regarding the conference should be addressed to Ales Horak, TSD 2024 Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University Botanicka 68a, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic phone: +420-5-49 49 18 63 fax: +420-5-49 49 18 20 email: tsd2024(a)tsdconference.org The official TSD 2024 homepage is: http://www.tsdconference.org/tsd2024 LOCATION Brno is the second largest city in the Czech Republic with a population of almost 400.000 and is the country's judiciary and trade-fair center. Brno is the capital of South Moravia, which is located in the south-east part of the Czech Republic and is known for a wide range of cultural, natural, and technical sights. South Moravia is a traditional wine region. Brno had been a Royal City since 1347 and with its six universities it forms a cultural center of the region. Brno can be reached easily by direct flights from London and Milano, and by trains or buses from Vienna (150 km) or Prague (230 km).

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