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Open research position, NLP, Question Answering over Social Media for Healthcare
by Philipp Cimiano 16 Feb '23

16 Feb '23

There is an open research position on Question Answering over Social Media data for Healthcare Semantic Computing Group [1] at Bielefeld University. The project funding the position is concerned with automatically extract statements from health fora on the Web about how people managed their disease, what burdens they have, what symptoms affect them and how they cope with them. The goal of the project is to automatically fill questionnaires on the basis of the posts in such fora and compare the results to existing surveys in which the same questions have been directly asked to patients. Methodologically, we intend to push the state-of-the-art in QA while at the same time making a contribution to improving healthcare by discovering unmet needs and priorities of patients. Position requirements: - MSc in computational linguistics, NLP - demonstrated ability to work scientifically (e.g. through Master thesis or publications) - strong analytical, conceptual and communicative skills - ability to work in a larger team - strong programming skills The following aspects are a plus but not necessary: - PhD in NLP/computational linguistics - experience in question answering - experience in analysing social media data - experience with applications n the field of healthcare. The position is available for at least three years starting from May 2023 and is suited both for postdoctoral and PhD researchers. The group offers an intellectually stimulating and international environment with sufficient freedom to pursue own research interests. There is no teaching involved. Knowledge of German is not required. The application deadline is March 13th. Please send your applications directly to Prof. Dr. Philipp Cimiano at cimiano(a)cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de <mailto:cimiano@cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de> [1] http://www.sc.cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de/home/ <http://www.sc.cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de/home/> Prof. Dr. Philipp Cimiano AG Semantic Computing Exzellenzcluster für Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC) Universität Bielefeld Tel: +49 521 106 12249 Fax: +49 521 106 6560 Mail: cimiano(a)cit-ec.uni-bielefeld.de Office CITEC-2.307 Universitätsstr. 21-25 33615 Bielefeld, NRW Germany

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Third CFP: Language Technologies and Digital Humanities: Resources and Applications (LTаDH-RA)
by Kiril Simov 16 Feb '23

16 Feb '23

Language Technologies and Digital Humanities: Resources and Applications (LTаDH-RA) CLaDA-BG 2023 Conference https://clada-bg.eu/en/dissemination/events/international-clada-bg-conferen… Sofia, Bulgaria 10-12 May 2023 CLaDA-BG is the Bulgarian national research infrastructure for resources and technologies for linguistic, cultural and historical heritage, integrated within CLARIN EU and DARIAH EU. Its mission is to provide access to the necessary resources and technologies that would support the research in Social Sciences and Humanities (SS&H). Modeling and linking of various types of knowledge and its contexts is crucial for the successful research in the interdisciplinary field of resources and technologies related to language, culture and history. This is the second edition of the CLaDA-BG conference. It aims at bringing together NLP developers, linguists, digital humanitarians, scholars and all parties interested in knowledge modeling and linking data for research. Topics of Interest The topics include, but are not limited to, the following ones: Problems in SS&H – research methods, technological support Language technologies for sentiment analysis, semantic technologies, trust-worthiness of knowledge graphs, ethical challenges in digital SS&H Knowledge Modeling and Elicitation for digital SS&H Specific Language Resources and Technologies for historical texts, parliamentary records, speech and multimodal corpora, social media data The role of digital libraries, archives and museums in digital SS&H research Language Interface to Knowledge Graphs in SS&H Knowledge-modeled and linked applications in SS&H Best practices and new trends in Knowledge Modeling and Linking for language, culture and history Invited Speakers Alessandro Lenci, Università di Pisa, Italy Erhard Hinrichs, Leibniz Institut für Deutsche Sprache Mannheim and Tübingen University, Germany Milena Dobreva, Sofia University St Kliment Ohridski, Bulgaria Important Dates Submission deadline: 24.02.2023 Notification of acceptance: 3.04.2023 Final Submission: 3.05.2023 Conference: 10-12.05.2023 Submissions We welcome oral presentations or posters (optionally with demo). There are two modes of submissions: Full papers (6 to 12 pages) or extended abstracts (3-5 pages, references excluded) in PDF format, in accordance with the Springer Computer Science Proceedings (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…). Please submit your full paper or extended abstract in PDF to this EasyChair link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=ltdhra2023 For contacting organizers please use the following email: ltadh-ra(a)bultreebank.org The CLaDA-BG Organizer

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Call for Papers: IPAN - Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Anorexia Nervosa
by gloria.gagliardi＠unibo.it 16 Feb '23

16 Feb '23

*Apologies for cross-posting* __________________________________________________________________________________ Full Title: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Anorexia Nervosa Short Title: IPAN Date: May 26th 2023 Location: University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy Contact Persons: Gloria Gagliardi; Paola Vernillo Meeting Email: gloria.gloria(a)unibo.it; paola.vernillo(a)unibo.it Web Site: https://site.unibo.it/metaphan/it Research Field(s): Clinical Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Discourse Analysis, Natural Language Processing, Neurolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, Psychology, and Neuropsychiatry. Call Deadline: 19th March 2023 We are pleased to announce the upcoming International Conference IPAN (“Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Anorexia Nervosa”), to be held at the University of Bologna (Italy) on May 26th, 2023, in hybrid (both in-person and online) format. The conference is centered on the study of AN in its various aspects, but it particularly focuses on its linguistic profile. Call for Papers: Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a psychopathological gendered disorder characterized by disturbance in eating behavior, which manifests in the form of dysfunctional routines, such as food deprivation, obsessive weight control, and compulsive physical exercise. Beyond the disordered eating behaviors, AN appears to be also characterized by inflexible thinking, rigid habits, disconnection from the bodily experience, strong sensitivity to praise, anxiety, and perfectionism. Interestingly, from a very linguistic point of view, evidence of the linguistic changes characterizing patients with eating disorders seems to be less clear and the overall picture more blurred. Despite the fact that in the last decade a growing body of linguistic studies have been devoted to the investigation of linguistic changes in various clinical conditions, only a limited number of works have been specifically conducted on the linguistic profile of patients with eating disorders (ED), and an even smaller number has specifically focused on AN. This has meant that not only many issues are still unsolved, but also that several linguistic aspects of AN happen to be unexplored territory. “Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Anorexia Nervosa” (IPAN) is a conference aimed at fostering multidisciplinary exchange about research on AN and, more in general, on eating disorders. It invites contributions from all fields related to the study of this subject, including (but not limited to) Linguistics, Psychology, and Neuropsychiatry. The conference is open for research on various aspect of eating disorders. Topics of interest include the following: - Linguistic profile of AN: morphosyntactic and lexical markers - Conceptual representation of AN: abstraction deficits and concretism - Relationship between altered body image and disordered eating - NLP detection of online pro-ana and pro-mia communities - NLP and altered linguistic patterns in AN - Representation of eating disorders in social media - Analysis of voice disturbance in patients with eating disorders This conference aims to provide an excellent opportunity to present and discuss ongoing research on eating disorders, both from theoretical and experimental viewpoints. Since our main aim is to bring together experts on ED/AN from different backgrounds and provide an environment for dialogue, we invite researchers from all related fields to submit abstracts to the conference. Time and Venue:       Date: May 26th 2023 Venue: Bologna (more information soon) Invited Speakers: Laura A. Cariola, The University of Edinburgh More to be announced… Abstract Submission Abstracts should be submitted, in word/rtf format, with your name, affiliation, and e-mail address directly to gloria.g...(a)unibo.it and paola.v...(a)unibo.it. Abstracts should not be longer than 400 words of text (excluding references) and should include up to 5 keywords.  Paper presentations will be allowed 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for discussion and will be in English. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at gloria.gloria(a)unibo.it; paola.vernillo(a)unibo.it __________________________________________________________________________________ Important Dates and Key Information Abstract submission opens: February 6th 2023 Abstract submission deadline: March 19th 2023 Registration: Participation at the conference is free of charge, but registration is compulsory. Scientific Committee: Marianna Bolognesi Vittoria Cuteri Gloria Gagliardi Caterina Mauri Antonia Parmeggiani Jacopo Pruccoli Paola Vernillo Local Organizers:   Gloria Gagliardi Paola Vernillo

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[PhD-Position] Research Position in Speech- and Text Anonymization in Medical Domain in Berlin
by Polzehl, Tim, PD Dr.-Ing. 16 Feb '23

16 Feb '23

Dear colleagues, we have a new PhD vacancy in the field of speech- and text anonymization in the medical domain in Berlin, Germany. The position is in the “Medinym” project of the department of Quality and Usability Labs of Berlin Institute of Technology. We’re looking for a Researcher or Junior Researcher level, offer a 2 years contract with optional prolongation and PhD perspective. Application deadline: Feb 28 More details and how to apply: TU Berlin: https://www.jobs.tu-berlin.de/en/job-postings/161912 Please circulate upon potentially interested. Many thanks! In case of questions pls contact me, I'm happy to help. Best regards from Berlin, Tim -- Dr.-Ing. Tim Polzehl Associate Senior Researcher Technische Universität Berlin Quality and Usability Lab Ernst-Reuter-Platz 7 D-10587 Berlin, Germany Email: tim.polzehl(a)qu.tu-berlin.de Web: www.qu.tu-berlin.de

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The 28th International Conference on Natural Language & Information Systems - Second call for papers
by Farid Meziane 16 Feb '23

16 Feb '23

NLDB 2023 The 28th International Conference on Natural Language & Information Systems 21-23 June 2023, University of Derby, United Kingdom. https://www.derby.ac.uk/events/latest-events/nldb-2023/ About NLDB The 28th International Conference on Natural Language & Information Systems will be held at the University of Derby, United Kingdom and will be a face to face event. Since 1995, the NLDB conference brings together researchers, industry practitioners, and potential users interested in various application of Natural Language in the Database and Information Systems field. The term "Information Systems" has to be considered in the broader sense of Information and Communication Systems, including Big Data, Linked Data and Social Networks. The field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) has itself recently experienced several exciting developments. In research, these developments have been reflected in the emergence of neural language models (Deep Learning, Word Embeddings, Transformers) and the importance of aspects such as transparency, bias and fairness, a (renewed) interest in various linguistic phenomena, such as in discourse and argumentation mining, and in new problems such as the detection of disinformation and hate speech in social media, as well of mental health disorders that increased during the recent pandemic. Regarding applications, NLP systems have evolved to the point that they now offer real-life, tangible benefits to enterprises. Many of these NLP systems are now considered a de-facto offering in business intelligence suites, such as algorithms for recommender systems and opinion mining/sentiment analysis. It is against this backdrop of recent innovations in NLP and its applications in information systems that the 28th edition of the NLDB conference takes place. We welcome research and industrial contributions, describing novel, previously unpublished works on NLP and its applications across a plethora of topics as described in the Call for Papers. Call for Papers NLDB 2023 invites authors to submit papers for oral or poster presentations on unpublished research that addresses theoretical aspects, algorithms, applications, architectures for applied and integrated NLP, resources for applied NLP, and other aspects of NLP, as well as survey and discussion papers. This year's edition of NLDB also introduces an Industry Track, to foster fruitful interaction between the industry and the research community. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Social Media and Web Analytics: Opinion mining/sentiment analysis, irony/sarcasm detection; detection of fake reviews and deceptive language; detection of harmful information: fake news and hate speech; sexism and misogyny; detection of mental health disorders; identification of stereotypes and social biases; robust NLP methods for sparse, ill-formed texts; recommendation systems. * Deep Learning and eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI): Deep learning architectures, word embeddings, transparency, interpretability, fairness, debiasing, ethics. * Argumentation Mining and Applications: Automatic detection of argumentation components and relationships; creation of resource (e.g. annotated corpora, treebanks and parsers); Integration of NLP techniques with formal, abstract argumentation structures; Argumentation Mining from legal texts and scientific articles. * Question Answering (QA): Natural language interfaces to databases, QA using web data, multi-lingual QA, non-factoid QA(how/why/opinion questions, lists), geographical QA, QA corpora and training sets, QA over linked data (QALD). * Corpus Analysis: multi-lingual, multi-cultural and multi-modal corpora; machine translation, text analysis, text classification and clustering; language identification; plagiarism detection; information extraction: named entity, extraction of events, terms and semantic relationships. * Semantic Web, Open Linked Data, and Ontologies: Ontology learning and alignment, ontology population, ontology evaluation, querying ontologies and linked data, semantic tagging and classification, ontology-driven NLP, ontology-driven systems integration. * Natural Language in Conceptual Modelling: Analysis of natural language descriptions, NLP in requirement engineering, terminological ontologies, consistency checking, metadata creation and harvesting. * Natural Language and Ubiquitous Computing: Pervasive computing, embedded, robotic and mobile applications; conversational agents; NLP techniques for Internet of Things (IoT); NLP techniques for ambient intelligence * Big Data and Business Intelligence: Identity detection, semantic data cleaning, summarisation, reporting, and data to text. Important Dates: Full paper submission: 14 March, 2023 Paper notification: 10 April, 2023 Camera-ready deadline: 24 April, 2023 Conference: 21-23 June 2023 Submission Guidelines Authors should follow the LNCS format (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… ) and submit their manuscripts in pdf via Easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nldb2023 ) Submissions can be full papers (12 pages maximum including references), short papers (8 pages including references) or papers for a poster presentation or system demonstration (6 pages including references). The programme committee may decide to accept some full papers as short papers or poster papers. The reviewing process of NLDB 2023 is double-blind, i.e., submissions must not contain author names or other identifying information, such as funding sources, acknowledgments and must use the third person to refer to work the authors have previously undertaken. System demonstration papers may not be anonymous. [University of Derby] Professor Farid Meziane, PhD, FHEA Professor of Data Science Data Science Research theme lead Head Data Science Research Centre<https://www.derby.ac.uk/research/about-our-research/centres-groups/data-sci…> Chair, College Research Committee College of Science and Engineering University of Derby, Markeaton Street, Derby DE22 3AW NLDB2023 Conference at Derby <https://www.derby.ac.uk/events/latest-events/ndlb-2023/> Te: 01332 594031 f.meziane(a)derby.ac.uk<mailto:f.meziane@derby.ac.uk> The University of Derby has a published policy regarding email and reserves the right to monitor email traffic. If you believe this was sent to you in error, please reply to the sender and let them know. Key University contacts: http://www.derby.ac.uk/its/contacts/

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[Job opening] Computational linguist - European Parliament
by Elisa Di Nuovo 16 Feb '23

16 Feb '23

Dear list members, I would like to draw your attention on the following job opening at the European Parliament, Directorate-General for Translation, Directorate for Citizens' language, Speech-to-Text Unit. Currently the team is managing a project aimed at acquiring an Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Machine Translation (MT) cascade tool covering all the 24 official languages of the European Union. The main goal of this tool is to make plenary debates accessible to D/deaf and hard of hearing persons. The successful candidate will be responsible for the evaluation of the tool, evaluated using both automatic metrics and human assessment. A job description is attached to this email. The main responsibilities are: - linguistic evaluation of the performance of the tool (automatic metrics + human evaluation); - monitoring the performance of the tool in real events; - writing reports; - data collection, curation and annotation for the purposes of the project; - terminology coordination; - project-related research and technology watch; - other project related activities. The contract length is 1 year (renewable maximum for 6 years) and is identified as Contractual Agent FG IV. The job will be performed in Luxembourg. Possible *commencement of duties* on the 1st of September 2023. If interested, please send your CV to Dr Marcin Feder ( marcin.feder(a)europarl.europa.eu) *by the 16th March 2023*. Best regards, Elisa Di Nuovo

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CfP: Data for the Wellbeing of Most Vulnerable Workshop @ICWSM'23
by yelena.mejova＠gmail.com 16 Feb '23

16 Feb '23

Call for Papers & Participation Fourth Workshop on DATA FOR THE WELLBEING OF MOST VULNERABLE https://sites.google.com/view/dataforvulnerable23 June 5, 2023 at Limassol, Cyprus * Submissions due: March 27, 2022 * At the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM) https://www.icwsm.org/2023/index.html The scale, reach, and real-time nature of the Internet is opening new frontiers for understanding the vulnerabilities in our societies, including inequalities and fragility in the face of a changing world. From tracking seasonal illnesses like the flu across countries and populations, to understanding the context of mental conditions such as anorexia and bulimia, web data has the potential to capture the struggles and wellbeing of diverse groups of people. Vulnerable populations including children, elderly, racial or ethnic minorities, socioeconomically disadvantaged, underinsured or those with certain medical conditions, are often absent in commonly used data sources. The recent developments around COVID-19 epidemic makes these issues even more urgent, with an unequal share of both disease and economic burden among various populations. Thus, the aim of this workshop is to encourage the community to use new sources of data as well as methodologies to study the wellbeing of vulnerable populations. The selection of appropriate data sources, identification of vulnerable groups, and ethical considerations in the subsequent analysis are of great importance in the extension of the benefits of big data revolution to these populations. As such, the topic is highly multidisciplinary, bringing together researchers and practitioners in computer science, epidemiology, demography, linguistics, and many others. - We anticipate topics such as the below will be relevant: - Establishing cohorts, data de-biasing - Validation via individual-level or aggregate-level data - Linking data to disease and other well-being - Population data sources for validation - Correlation analysis and other statistical methods - Longitudinal analysis on social media - Spatial, linguistic, and temporal analyses - Privacy, ethics, and informed consent - Data quality issues Important Dates Papers Submissions: March 27, 2023 Paper Acceptance Notification: April 10, 2023 Final Camera-Ready Paper Due: May 6, 2023 ICWSM-2023 Workshops Day: June 5, 2023 Submission Instructions We welcome both 2-page abstracts, as well as Long (8 pages) and Short (4 pages) papers - excluding references (11 pages max with references and ethics statement). The Long and Short papers will be published in ICWSM Workshop proceedings (http://workshop-proceedings.icwsm.org/). The papers have to follow the AAAI format, as outlined here: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/aaai-2023-author-kit/wxnmhzcrjbpc Submit here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dwmv23 Contact Feel free to contact organizers with any questions: Yelena Mejova <yelena.mejova(a)isi.it> ISI Foundation, Italy https://yelenamejova.com Kyriaki Kalimeri <kalimeri(a)ieee.org> ISI Foundation, Italy https://www.linkedin.com/in/kalimeri/ Daniela Paolotti <daniela.paolotti(a)isi.it> ISI Foundation, Italy https://www.isi.it/en/people/daniela-paolotti

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Call for Papers: MATCHING WORKSHOP @ ACL 2023
by Estevam Rafael Hruschka Junior 16 Feb '23

16 Feb '23

MATCHING WORKSHOP @ ACL 2023 https://megagon.ai/matching-2023/ *I**mportant Dates* direct submission via OpenReview: April 24, 2023 submission via ARR - commitment deadline: May 8th, 2023 Notification of Acceptance: May 22, 2023 Camera-ready papers due: June 6, 2023 Pre-recorded video due: June 12, 2023 MATCHING Workshop @ACL2023 (Toronto and remote): July 13 Matching Entities from structured and unstructured sources is an important task in many domains and applications such as HR and E-commerce. For example, in HR platforms/services, it is important to match resumes to job descriptions and job seekers to companies. Similarly in web platforms/services, it is important to match customers to businesses such as hotels and restaurant, among others. In such domains, it is also relevant to match “textual customer reviews” to customers queries, and sentences (or phrases) as answers to customer questions. Recent advances in Natural Language Processing, Natural Language Understanding, Conversational AI, Language Generation, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Data Management, Information Extraction, Knowledge Bases/Graphs, (MultiSingle Hop/Commonsense) Inference/Reasoning, Recommendation Systems, and others, have demonstrated promising results in different Matching tasks related (but not limited) to the previously mentioned domains. We believe that there is tremendous opportunity to further exploit and explore the use of advanced NLP (and language related) techniques applied to Matching tasks. Therefore, the goal of this workshop is to bring together the research communities (from academia and industry) of these related areas, that are interested in the development and the application of novel natural-language-based approaches/models/systems to address challenges around different Matching tasks. *Confirmed Invited Speakers* Alan Ritter - Georgia Tech Ndapa Nakashole - UC San Diego William Cohen - Google We invite submissions of long and short papers on original and unpublished work that address challenges around the specific task of matching information from heterogeneous sources spanning structured (e.g., databases, resume) and unstructured (e.g., online reviews, job advertisements, social media posts) data. The topics include but are not limited to: * Entity Alignment; * Entity Matching; * Entity Linking; * Language-Model-based Matching; * Data-driven Matching; * Knowledge-graph-based matching; * Rule-based Matching; * Temporal Information Matching; * Human-Centric AI for Matching; * Trust, Explainability, and Fairness in Matching; * Information extraction from user-generated text; * Robustness to noise * Matching applications: recommendations, question answering, fact checking, news and social media content identification/suggestion, etc. All machine learning, text mining, and natural language processing techniques are welcome. All regular papers and short papers should follow the ACL 2023 style guidelines: “Both long and short papers must follow the ACL 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.” The maximum length of a regular paper is 8 pages plus an unlimited number of pages for references. The maximum length of a short paper is 4 pages plus an unlimited number of pages for references. At least one author of every accepted paper is expected to attend the workshop. MATCHING is using a hybrid submission process, Authors can submit their papers using the OpenReview platform ( https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/ACL/2023/Workshop/MATCHING&refer…). Alternatively, authors can also commit papers and reviews from ARR. We allow parallel commitment to the EACL 2023 conference and our workshop, with the requirement that if the paper is accepted at EACL 2023, it will be withdrawn from archival publication at the workshop. We ask the authors to notify MATCHING if they have also committed to EACL or other workshops. All accepted short and long papers must be presented as a talk/poster/demo at the workshop, depending on the workshop schedule. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for ACL 2023 and attend the workshop. Mentorship Program We will be hosting a mentorship program to facilitate exchange between authors and experts working in areas relevant to the workshop. The goal of this program is to foster collaborations and increase the quality and impact of the submissions. Mentors are expected to guide mentees during the mentorship period as they prepare submissions for this workshop. Their interactions may include an in-depth discussion of related work to ensure submissions are well contextualized, discussions on writing and presentation of the submission, and discussions about possible extensions of the submissions. Mentees are expected to prepare the submissions by February 28, 2023 and contact their assigned mentor. Mentors and mentees are encouraged to dedicate at least 4hrs over the course of the program to maximize the benefits of the program. They can meet virtually within the first week after the mentor-mentee matching is made and set expectations for subsequent meetings. Their efforts should culminate in a final version of the paper that should be submitted by the deadline. Applications to the mentorship program are due February 28, 2023 Application to be a mentor/mentee: Apply Here: *Organizers:* Estevam Hruschka - Megagon Labs Tom Mitchell - Carnegie Mellon University Dunia Mladenić - Jozef Stefan Institute (JSI) Marko Grobelnik - Jozef Stefan Institute (JSI) Sajjadur Rahman - Megagon Labs *Contact* If you have any questions or inquiries regarding the workshop or need further information, please do not hesitate to send an email to matching-workshop(a)megagon.ai -- Estevam Hruschka Lab Director and Staff Research Scientist Megagon Labs - www.megagon.ai -- Sent from my iPhone

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First CFP: AmericasNLP 2023 @ ACL
by Katharina Kann 15 Feb '23

15 Feb '23

The Third Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP 2023) First Call for Papers The Third Workshop on NLP for Indigenous Languages of the Americas (AmericasNLP) will be co-located with the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2023 <https://2023.aclweb.org/>), which is scheduled to be held in Toronto, Canada, between July 9-14, 2023. The goal of the workshop is to encourage and increase the visibility of work on the Indigenous languages of the Americas. It aims to encourage research on NLP, computational linguistics, corpus linguistics and speech for Indigenous languages, to connect researchers and professionals from underrepresented communities and native speakers of endangered languages with the ACL community, and, more generally, to promote machine learning approaches suitable for low-resource languages. We invite the submission of - Long papers (8 pages) and short papers (4 pages) on substantial, original, and unpublished research - Non-archival extended abstracts (2 pages), technical reports (8 pages), and work which has been presented at other venues (in the format of the original publication) Submissions do not need to describe work on native languages directly, as long as it is clear why those can benefit from the described approaches. Areas of interest include but are not limited to: - Creation of datasets for NLP applications - Incorporation of external knowledge into neural systems - Linguistic typology and the use of typological features for NLP - Transfer learning, meta-learning, and active learning - Weakly supervised, semi-supervised, and unsupervised learning - Machine translation of low-resource languages - Morphology and phonology of low-resource languages - NLP applications for Indigenous languages of the Americas Important dates: - Start of the anonymity period: March 15, 2023 - Submission deadline: April 15, 2023 - Notification of acceptance: May 15, 2023 - Camera ready papers due: May 26, 2023 - Workshop: July 14, 2023 All deadlines are 11.59 pm UTC -12h (anywhere on earth). Link to submission portal: https://softconf.com/acl2023/AmericasNLP2023/ The workshop also includes: - An open-ended machine translation shared task on truly low-resource languages - A mentoring program to support students and newcomers from underrepresented communities (application form: https://forms.gle/afBWauDfDQijXHTy9) We also have a diverse set of invited speakers, focused on bridging the gap between linguists, NLP, and machine learning research! - Steven Bird (linguistics; ethics) - Emiliana Cruz Cruz (linguistics; anthropology; education) - Angela Fan (NLP; machine translation) - Kristine Stenzel (field linguistics; American Indigenous languages) Organizing Committee - Manuel Mager, AWS AI Labs - Arturo Oncevay, University of Edinburgh - Enora Rice, University of Colorado Boulder - Abteen Ebrahimi, University of Colorado Boulder - Shruti Rijhwani, Google Research - Alexis Palmer, University of Colorado Boulder - Katharina Kann, University of Colorado Boulder More information and contact information can be found at http://turing.iimas.unam.mx/americasnlp/. -- Dr. Katharina Kann Assistant Professor of Computer Science University of Colorado Boulder Personal page: https://kelina.github.io Group page: https://nala-cub.github.io

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CfP 4th Workshop on Patent Text Mining and Semantic Technologies (PatentSemTech2023) @ SIGIR 2023
by Krestel, Ralf 15 Feb '23

15 Feb '23

4th Workshop on Patent Text Mining and Semantic Technologies (PatentSemTech2023) ================================================================================ The PatentSemTech2023 workshop aims to establish a long-term collaboration and a two-way communication channel between the IP industry and academia from relevant fields such as natural language processing (NLP), text and data mining (TDM), and semantic technologies (ST) in order to explore and transfer new knowledge, methods, and technologies for the benefit of industrial applications as well as support research in applied sciences for the IP and neighbouring domains. Call for Contributions ====================== PatentSemTech2023 will be held as a full-day event in conjunction with SIGIR 2023. Workshop website: http://ifs.tuwien.ac.at/patentsemtech/ Important Dates =============== Submission deadline: April 25, 2023 Notification: May 23, 2023 SIGIR PatentSemTech2023 workshop: July 27, 2023 Topics of Interest ================== We encourage submissions of high quality research papers on all topics related to the IP domain. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Text mining and retrieval from patents, legal documents, or other scientific-technical information sources * Machine learning methods, in particular deep learning methods for - Representation learning (word and document embeddings) - Query expansion - Clustering and classification - Recommendation - IPC/CPC prediction - Trend detection - Entity extraction * Semantic approaches for - Linking semantic information - Integrating external knowledge sources - Semantic enrichment * Methods and applications for retrieving, mining, and analysing, including - Patent landscaping - Hot spot / White spot analysis - Multi-modal analysis - Technology trend analysis - Innovative user interfaces - Visual user interface concepts Contributions ============= We solicit two types of submissions: full papers and short papers for three tracks: research, demo, and summarization task. Full papers will be limited to 8 pages (including references); short papers will be 4 pages (including references). The submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least two program committee members and evaluated based on innovativeness, novelty, interestingness, and impact. We plan for three tracks: *Research Track* For this track, we solicit contributions from academia that present * Novel applications of existing state of the art methods for the IP domain * Novel methods or tasks in the IP domain * Novel user interfaces for the IP domain * Novel evaluation or analysis insights in the IP domain * Novel benchmark datasets or other resources of interest * A survey or overview related to a particular task in the IP domain *Demo/System Track* We solicit demos, case study, insights, or novel ideas from industry that present * Focused case studies making use of semantic technologies or machine learning * Interesting IP-related task descriptions or best practices for patent analysis * In-use systems or prototype implementations of semantic technologies * Demos on processing or analysing data from the IP domain, or user interfaces * In-use resources related to patents or external resources, e.g., linked open data. *Summarization Task Track* Within the patent text mining community, especially from the industry, there is an interest in developing text mining tools targeting text summarization. * Participants are free to use publicly available data sets to train their models. We recommend exploring US Patents, which many contain the text section SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION. * We will also publish a small training and test data set on the 23rd of February. The provided data set is composed of patents within the field of Green Plastics Technology. * Participants are asked to submit a short (4 pages) scientific paper, which will be peer-reviewed by the workshop organizers. The most interesting submissions will be invited to present their solution at the workshop. * Furthermore, we will have an additional interactive evaluation to reflect a more real-life scenario at the workshop, making it possible to evaluate not only the performance in terms of F1, ROUGE, recall, precision etc., but also efficiency. Therefore the invited participants will be asked to set-up their solutions as a service and provide a REST API. Input will be a patent document (PDF,DOCX), and output should be a summary of not more than 700 words. Submission Guidelines ===================== Submissions must be in English, in PDF, and in the current ACM two-column conference format. Suitable LaTeX, Word, and Overleaf templates are available from the ACM Website: https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template ("sigconf" template for LaTeX; Interim Template for Word). Submissions should be at most 8 (full) or 4 (short) pages (including figures and references) in length. Submissions should be submitted electronically via EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=patentsemtech2023. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register for, and present the work in person at the workshop. Publication =========== Accepted papers will be published as CEUR proceedings. Selected contributions will be invited to submit extended, full papers to Elsevier's World Patent Information (WPI) journal: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/world-patent-information/ Organizers ========== Ralf Krestel (ZBW & CAU Kiel, Germany), Hidir Aras (FIZ Karlsruhe, Germany), Linda Andersson (Artificial Researcher, Austria), Florina Piroi (Data Science Studio, RSA FG, Austria), Allan Hanbury (TU Wien, Austria), Dean Alderucci (CMU, USA) All questions about submissions should be emailed to: r.krestel(a)zbw.eu and hidir.aras(a)fiz-karlsruhe.de

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