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SIGTYP@EACL 2024: Inviting submission of EACL Findings papers looking for presentations slots, and of papers rejected from EACL
by Michael Hahn 23 Jan '24

23 Jan '24

The 6th Workshop on Research in Computational Linguistic Typology and Multilingual NLP (SIGTYP 2024) To be held at EACL 2024 (March 22, 2024 Malta) We are inviting submissions of EACL Findings papers looking for a presentation slot. We are also inviting submissions of papers that were rejected or withdrawn from EACL. _EACL Findings papers looking for a presentation slot:_ Submit by February 1st here: https://forms.gle/bm4HDxgyyr13HZN29 _Papers rejected or withdrawn from EACL:_ Submit by January 26th here: https://forms.gle/hke7StTEvVW3bzdF7 Acceptance decisions will be made based on the existing ARR reviews. Authors will be notified by February 1st, 2024. ----------------------------------------- The 6th Workshop on Research in Computational Linguistic Typology and Multilingual NLP (SIGTYP 2024) To be held at EACL 2024 (March 22, 2024 Malta) Website: https://sigtyp.github.io/ Submission website: https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2024/Workshop/SIGTYP <https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2024/Workshop/SIGTYP> We invite submissions to the 6th edition of the SIGTYP workshop on Research in Computational Linguistic Typology and Multilingual NLP, to be held at EACL 2024 on March 22, 2024. Workshop description The aim of the 6th edition of SIGTYP workshop is to act as a platform and a forum for the exchange of information between typology-related research, multilingual NLP, and other research areas that can lead to the development of truly multilingual NLP methods. The workshop is specifically aimed at raising awareness of linguistic typology and its potential in supporting and widening the global reach of multilingual NLP, as well as at introducing computational approaches to linguistic typology. It will foster research and discussion on open problems, not only within the active community working on cross- and multilingual NLP but also inviting input from leading researchers in linguistic typology. Our workshop will serve as a platform to enable fruitful discussions. In 2024, we additionally focus on bridging the gap between cross-linguistic and universal annotation, models, and technology. SIGTYP is the first dedicated venue for typology-related research and its integration in multilingual NLP. Appropriate topics include (but are not limited to) the following as they relate to the areas of the workshop: * Integration of typological features in language transfer and joint multilingual learning. In addition to established techniques such as “selective sharing”, are there alternative ways to encoding heterogeneous external knowledge in machine learning algorithms? * Development of unified taxonomy and resources. Building universal databases and models to facilitate understanding and processing of diverse languages. * Automatic inference of typological features. The pros and cons of existing techniques (e.g. heuristics derived from morphosyntactic annotation, propagation from features of other languages, supervised Bayesian and neural models) and discussion on emerging ones. * Typology and interpretability. The use of typological knowledge for interpretation of hidden representations of multilingual neural models, multilingual data generation and selection, and typological annotation of texts. * Improvement and completion of typological databases. Combining linguistic knowledge and automatic data-driven methods towards the joint goal of improving the knowledge on cross-linguistic variation and universals. * Linguistic diversity and universals. Challenges of cross-lingual annotation. Which linguistic phenomena or categories should be considered universal? How should they be annotated? * Language-specific studies to support or contradict universals. Framing a study on 1-3 languages that would shed more light on common linguistic structures and properties. * Extra topics also include: generation of constructed languages, universals in diachronic languages changes, information-theoretic approaches to typology, automated approaches to etymology. Important Dates (all deadlines are 23:59 AoE) — December 25, 2023: Paper submission deadline (submissions via OpenReview) — January 17, 2023: Deadline for submitting ARR submissions that were rejected or withdrawn from EACL — January 20, 2024: Notification of acceptance — January 30, 2024: Camera-ready deadline — March 21 or 22, 2024: Workshop *Shared Task* In 2024, SIGTYP is hosting a Word Embedding Evaluation for Ancient and Historical Languages. More details can be found here: https://sigtyp.github.io/st2024.html. Organizing Committee Michael Hahn, Rena Gao, Saliha Muradoglu, Yulia Otmakhova, Andreas Shcherbakov, Oleg Serikov, Jinrui Yang, Alexey Sorokin, Priya Rani, Ritesh Kumar, Ryan Cotterell, Edoardo M. Ponti, Kat Vylomova Anti-harassment policy The workshop follows the ACL anti-harassment policy: https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Anti-Harassment_Policy <https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Anti-Harassment_Policy>. Contact For any inquiries regarding the workshop, please send an email to the Organizing Committee at sigtyp(a)gmail.com

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2nd CALL for Papers - UMR Parsing Workshop at the University of Colorado, Boulder
by kristine.stenzel＠colorado.edu 22 Jan '24

22 Jan '24

Date: June 14, 2024 URL https://umr4nlp.github.io/web/UMRParsingWorkshop.html This workshop will focus on developing parsers for Uniform Meaning Representations. The goal is to start from raw text from real-world settings that could be in any one of many typologically different languages, even low-resource languages for which there is little or no training data. This can be achieved by exploiting a common semantic annotation standard. This workshop has been made possible by funding for NSF Collaborative Research: Building a Broad Infrastructure for Uniform Meaning Representations (Award # 2213805), which is aimed at developing guidelines and annotation for cross-lingual Uniform Meaning Representations, based on the original Abstract Meaning Representation guidelines for English, but ensuring cross-linguistically consistent annotation and recoverability of the original raw texts. This workshop will overlap with the last day of the Colorado UMR Annotation Summer School. https://umr4nlp.github.io/web/SummerSchool.html The workshop is open to everyone and will cover the fundamentals of UMR annotation and the differences between AMR and UMR. In addition to an invited speaker, there will be presentations on recent successful approaches to AMR parsing and how they can be applied to UMR parsing. We welcome submissions from anyone on related topics, such as: ● AMR or UMR parsing for any language ● AMR or UMR generation for any language ● Evaluation metrics for AMR or UMR parsing ● Bootstrapping of AMRs or UMRs from related semantic representations such as Propbanks ● Projections of English AMR onto other languages; ● Challenges of applying AMR annotation to languages other than English; ● Challenges of accurate multi-sentence coreference as a subtask of AMR parsing; ● Any other topic related to the parsing and generation of AMRs or UMRs. Important dates ● Workshop paper submissions due: March 30, 2024 ● Notification of acceptance: April 25, 2024 ● Camera-ready versions due: May 30, 2024 Submissions Submissions should report original and unpublished research on topics of interest to the workshop. Accepted papers are expected to be presented at the workshop and will be published in the workshop proceedings. They should emphasize obtained results rather than intended work and should clearly indicate the state of completion of the reported results. Submission is electronic, using the Workshop submission site in Easy Chair. https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=umrpw2024 Submissions must adhere to the two-column format of ACL venues, using the Overleaf template taken from ACL 2023. https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/acl-2023-proceedings-template/qjdg… Initial submissions should be fully anonymous to ensure double-blind reviewing. Long papers must not exceed eight (8) pages of content; short papers must not exceed four (4) pages of content. References and appendices do not count against these limits. To ensure double-blind reviews, papers must not include the authors’ names and affiliations or self-references that reveal any author’s identity. Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review.

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1st CFP: 8th International Conference Discourse Markers in Romance Languages - DISROM 8
by Amália Mendes 22 Jan '24

22 Jan '24

*The 8th International Conference 'Discourse Markers in Romance Languages' - DISROM 8* https://sites.google.com/view/disrom2024 Lisbon, Portugal, 19-21 June 2024 *Important Dates* 15 March 2024 Deadline for abstract submission 30 April 2024 Notification of acceptance 19-21 June 2024 Conference dates *Meeting Description* The Conference is one of a series of conferences on discourse markers in Romance languages (Madrid, 2010; Buenos Aires, 2011; Campinas, 2012; Heidelberg, 2015; Louvain-la- Neuve, 2017; Bergamo, 2019; Craiova 2022) and aims to build on the previous events, serving as a platform for internationally renowned linguists and young researchers alike to exchange views and ideas and to broaden their research perspectives. This Conference’s theme will deal specifically : 1. with interactions between DMs and their explicit/implicit context, overcoming the traditional divide between their textual and interpersonal functions; 2. with the subjective adjustment function of DMs. Researchers on discourse markers in Romance languages are invited to submit contributions on these topics, as well as on related subjects including (but not restricted to): - definition of the discourse marker category; - lexicons of discourse markers; - discourse markers and their relation to other pragmatic categories; - syntax-prosody-discourse interface; - sociolinguistic approaches to discourse markers; - variation of discourse markers across registers, languages and language varieties; - translation studies; - L1 and L2 acquisition of discourse markers; - diachronic studies; - experimental studies; - corpus-based and computational studies; - applied studies (business language, legal discourse, educational settings, etc.). *Submissions* The Conference will be on-site. Two presentation modalities will be possible: oral presentation and poster presentation. Abstracts should not exceed one page (single spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, not including figures and references, and must be uploaded as pdf). Abstracts can be written in any Romance language or in English. They should be anonymous. They will be submitted via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=disrom2024<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=disrom202419>). Authors must select the option oral presentation or poster presentation during the submission process on EasyChair. *Keynote Speakers (provisional list)* Denis Paillard (CNRS and Université Paris Diderot) Isabel Margarida Duarte (Universidade de Porto) *Workshop organizers (University of Lisbon)* - Pierre Lejeune - Marco Favaro - Fabrizio Macagno - Amália Mendes *Scientific Committee* Joanna Blochowiak (Université de Genève) Margarita Borreguero Zuloaga (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) Chloé Braud (University of Copenhague) Sorina Ciobanu (University of Iasi) Maria Antónia Diniz Caetano Coutinho (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) Maria Josep Cuenca (Universitat de València) Antonio Briz Gómez (Universitat de València) Conceição Carapinha (Universidade de Coimbra) Anna-Maria De Cesare (Universität Dresden) Iria da Cunha (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia) Gaétane Dostie (Université de Sherbrooke) Oana Adriana Duta (University of Craiova) Chiara Fedriani (Università di Genova) Mar Garachana Camarero (Universitat de Barcelona) Chiara Ghezzi (Universitá di Bergamo) Sonia Gómez-Jordana (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) Pedro Gras (Université d’Anvers) Martin Hummel (Universität Graz) Julia Lavid Lopez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) Diana Lewis (Université Aix-Marseille) Araceli López Serena (Universidad de Sevilla) José Pinto de Lima (Centro de Linguística da Universidade Nova de Lisboa) Maria Aldina Marques (Universidade do Minho) Piera Molinelli (Università di Bergamo) Silvia Murillo Ornat (Universidad de Zaragoza) Cornelia Plag (Universidade de Coimbra) Salvador Pons Bordería (Universitat de València) Cecilia Popescu (University of Craiova) Laurent Prévot (Université Aix-Marseille) Augusto Soares da Silva (Universidade Catolica Portuguesa) Laure Vieu (IRIT – Université de Toulouse III – Paul Sabatier) Jacqueline Visconti (Università di Genova) Sandrine Zufferey (Universität zu Bern)

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First Call for Participation: BioLaySumm 2024 Shared Task on the Lay Summarization of Biomedical Research Articles @ BioNLP Workshop, ACL 2024
by Tomas Goldsack 22 Jan '24

22 Jan '24

BioLaySumm 2024 The 2nd Shared Task on the Lay Summarization of Biomedical Research Articles @BioNLP Workshop, ACL 2024 Biomedical publications contain the latest research on prominent health-related topics, ranging from common illnesses to global pandemics. This can often result in their content being of interest to a wide variety of audiences including researchers, medical professionals, journalists, and even members of the public. However, the highly technical and specialist language used within such articles typically makes it difficult for non-expert audiences to understand their contents. The BioLaySumm shared task surrounds the abstractive summarization of biomedical articles, with an emphasis on catering to non-expert audiences through the generation of summaries that are more readable, containing more background information and less technical terminology (i.e., a “lay summary”). This is the 2nd iteration of BioLaySumm, following the success of the 1st edition of the task at BioNLP 2023 which attracted 56 submissions across 20 different teams. In this edition, which is again to be hosted by the BioNLP workshop <https://aclweb.org/aclwiki/BioNLP_Workshop> at ACL 2024, we aim to build on last year’s task by introducing a new test set, updating our evaluation protocol, and encouraging participants to explore novel approaches that will help to further advance the state-of-the-art for Lay Summarization. Accordingly, we will not only be offering a prize of £100 to the team with the top-ranking submission, but we will also offer a second prize of £50 to the team that proposes the most innovative approach (as decided upon by the task organizers). For more information, see: - Main site: https://biolaysumm.org/ - CodaBench site: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/1920/ Important dates: - First call for participation: 22nd January, 2024 - Releasing of task data: 22nd January, 2024 - System submission deadline: May 6th, 2024 - System papers due date: May 20th, 2024 - Notification of acceptance: June 17th, 2024 - Camera-ready system papers due: July 1st, 2024 - BioNLP Workshop Date: August 16th, 2024 Organizers: - Tomas Goldsack, University of Sheffield, UK - Matthew Shardlow, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK - Carolina Scarton, University of Sheffield, UK - Chenghua Lin, University of Manchester, UK

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free Taster session on Corpus linguistics etc.
by Brezina, Vaclav 22 Jan '24

22 Jan '24

Hi all, We are offering a free taster session for anyone who would like to know more about Lancaster University's courses in corpus linguistics (MA, PG Certificate, individual 3-month courses). You can join us online on 21 March, 10am-11am UK time Free registration: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/events/study-online-corpus-linguist… Best, Vaclav Professor Vaclav Brezina Professor in Corpus Linguistics Department of Linguistics and English Language ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Lancaster University Lancaster, LA1 4YD Office: County South, room C05 T: +44 (0)1524 510828 [cid:image001.png@01DA4D41.FF6D5820]@vaclavbrezina [cid:image002.png@01DA4D41.FF6D5820]<http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/arts-and-social-sciences/about-us/people/vaclav-…>

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Final CfP: Translation in Transition
by Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski 22 Jan '24

22 Jan '24

Dear colleagues, we are happy to announce the 7th edition of the Translation in Transition conference (https://sites.google.com/view/tt2024). This series of conferences has established itself as a central meeting point for researchers in the field of empirical translation studies through previous editions in Copenhagen, Germersheim, Ghent, Barcelona, Kent and Prague. In its 7th edition held at the Shota Rustaveli State University in Batumi it once again wants to be a forum of discussion for empirical research that is based on any kind of empirical methodology and that advances our knowledge in the fields of translation and interpreting. While the Batumi edition will be open to various topics within empirical translation studies, we also want to put special emphasis on two directions: low-resourced and less-researched language pairs, as well as an interplay between different methods and data types, e.g. combining product and process research. *Final Call for Papers* We invite original submissions that deal with any of the conference topics. To encourage a fruitful exchange of ideas and experience among the researchers of various fields of specialization, preference will be given to interdisciplinary contributions that cover two or more of the conference topics. The submissions are to be made in the form of anonymized extended abstracts that should be between 800 and 1000 words long (excluding references) by February 16, 2024. Apart from a clear outline of the aims and methods of the study, the abstracts should also provide (preliminary) results. The abstracts will be submitted through the open review system (https://openreview.net/group?id=TT/2024/Conference) and reviewed by at least two members of the scientific committee. The accepted contributions will be presented either as oral talks or as posters. All submissions must follow the abstract submission instructions (https://sites.google.com/view/tt2024/submission-instructions). We welcome contributions (in English) grounded in empirical approaches to studying both interlingual and intralingual translation, as well as theoretical and position papers on the following topics: * Empirical methods and models (corpus-based, corpus-driven, experimental) or methods derived from computational linguistics and data mining (e.g. computational semantics, pragmatics) applied to translation studies * Presentation of new resources for translation studies (spoken corpora, multimodal corpora, interpreting transcript datasets, corpora of low-resourced languages, lexicons, databases, etc.) * Method and data triangulation: combined use of corpus data and methods and other sources of data * Detection and analysis of specific features of translation (translationese, interpretese, editese, machine translationese, post-editese, etc.) using parallel and comparable corpora * Analysis and interpretation of variation in translation, e.g. variation driven through register/genre, expertise, mode, etc. * Empirical analysis of specialised translation, e.g. legal translation, technical translation and others * Analysis of non-canonical forms of translation/interpreting and multilingual communication * Cognitive and computational insights of variation in translation and translationese * Cognitive modeling of translation processes, including cognitive load measurements * Translation quality assessment and evaluation using corpora or experimental research * Translation in specific settings: between close languages, from a third language, non-native translation, indirect/relay translation, etc. * The use of corpora in translator and/or interpreter training * Improving understanding of translation in the context of NLP * Computer-assisted translation and/or interpreting (CAT/CAI) * Machine translation (MT): analysis, evaluation, selection and preparation of data for MT, ‘machine translationese’Important dates · Conference abstract submission due: Feb 16, 2024 · Notification of acceptance: April 8, 2024 · Final abstract version due: April 29, 2024 · Registration open: May 6, 2024 · Early-bird registration: June 6, 2024 · Conference date: September 23-25, 2024 The conference is organized by the Department of European Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University in Batumi (Georgia) in cooperation with the Institute of Translation Studies and Specialised Communication, University of Hildesheim (Germany). Local organizing committee at the Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University Khatuna Beridze, Theona Beridze, Khatuna Diasamidze, Tamta Nagervadze Program Chairs at the University of Hildesheim Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski and Silvana Deilen -- Prof. Dr. Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski Geschäftsführende Direktorin Institut für Übersetzungswissenschaft und Fachkommunikation Fachbereich 3: Sprach und Informationswissenschaften Stiftung Universität Hildesheim Lübecker Straße 3 31141 Hildesheim +49 5121 883-30934

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Call for Workshop Proposals -- LLcD 2024
by Pascal Denis 22 Jan '24

22 Jan '24

Hi there, Could you please distribute the following call for workshop proposals? thanks. Best, Pascal Denis =================================================================================================================================================== Langues et langage à la croisée des disciplines (LLcD) is a new research network, supported by the French CNRS. It organizes an international conference in France aiming to advance the scientific understanding of human language and linguistic systems, as well as to foster new collaborations and cross-fertilization among different research areas and approaches. The LLcD Meeting, slated to occur annually, will change its location and its thematic focus every year. It will be organized around a conference, as well as a panel discussion and a summer school, both within the theme promoted that year. The LLcD conference will feature plenary lectures delivered by invited keynote speakers, a general session and thematic workshops. The first edition of the conference is scheduled to take place at Sorbonne University, Paris, from September 9th to September 11th, 2024 . Its main theme will be: Languages, variations, changes: synchronic, diachronic, typological and comparative approaches.The languages of the conference will be English and French. CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS At this stage, we invite workshop proposals on all sub-fields of linguistics, languages, approaches (descriptive, theoretical, empirical, interdisciplinary, etc.), in order to promote diversity across disciplines and methodologies. The proposals are not required to address the main theme of the conference. Each workshop will be organized in 30-minute slots for talks (20 min. presentation, 5 min. discussion, 5 min. room change). The languages of the conference will be English and French. Please note that this call is only for workshop proposals, and separate calls will be issued for the general session and for the summer school. WORKSHOP PROPOSAL REQUIREMENTS Workshop proposals will be formatted both as a docx and pdf document, containing the following information: - Workshop title and five keywords. - Convenors’ names, affiliations and emails. - Workshop description summarizing the main topic, research questions and objectives, including references (between 500 and 1000 words excluding references). The workshop description may additionally include a provisional collection of short abstracts (around 300 words) from foreseen speakers. The names of tentative keynote speakers may also be submitted (note however that LLcD will not be able to cover the associated expenses). Submission Deadlines and Details Workshop proposals should be submitted no later than January 30th, 2024 . They will be reviewed by the scientific committee of LLcD and their inclusion in the conference program will be decided with the conference co-chairs. Notification of acceptance/rejection of the proposal will be communicated by March 1st, 2024. The list of accepted workshop proposals will be published on the conference webpage ( [ http://llcd2024.sciencesconf.org/ | http://llcd2024.sciencesconf.org ] ), and a call for papers will then be issued by the organizers. Individual submissions should be made through EasyChair, and will undergo evaluation by three referees from the LLcD scientific committee, possibly with additional support from external experts suggested by the workshop convenor(s). EasyChair submission page: [ https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=llcd2024 | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=llcd2024 ] Contact: [ mailto:llcd@sciencesconf.org | llcd(a)sciencesconf.org ] ====================================== Langues et langage à la croisée des disciplines (LLcD) est un nouveau groupement de recherche, soutenu par le CNRS. Il organise une conférence internationale en France dans le but de faire progresser la compréhension scientifique du langage humain et des systèmes linguistiques, et de servir de forum favorisant la création de nouvelles collaborations et la fertilisation croisée entre différentes disciplines de recherche et approches. La Rencontre LLcD, annuelle, changera de lieu et de thème chaque anné. Elle incluera un colloque, ainsi qu'une table ronde et une école d’été, toutes deux liées au thème choisi pour la conférence de cette année. La conférence LLcD comprendra des conférences plénières, une session générale et des workshops thématiques. La première édition du colloque se tiendra à Sorbonne Université à Paris, du 9 au 11 septembre 2024, et son thème principal sera : Langues, variations, changements : approches synchroniques, diachroniques, typologiques et comparées. Les langues de communication seront l’anglais et le français. La table ronde aura lieu le 11 septembre et portera sur le thème Évolution linguistique et évolution biologique. L’école d’été aura lieu du 12 au 14 septembre et sera consacrée au Statut cognitif des universaux du langage et leurs mécanismes de diffusion. APPEL A PROPOSITIONS DE WORKSHOPS Nous sollicitons des propositions de workshops portant sur toutes les sous- disciplines de la linguistique, portant sur des langues variées et adoptant différentes approches (descriptives, théoriques, empiriques, interdisciplinaires, etc.), afin de promouvoir la diversité entre les disciplines et les méthodologies. Il n’est pas requis que les propositions se rattachent à la thématique de la conférence. Chaque workshop se composera de créneaux horaires de 30 minutes (20’ de présentation, 5’ de discussion, 5’ pour le changement de salle). Les langues de communication seront l’anglais et le français. Veuillez noter que cet appel concerne les propositions de workshops uniquement. Des appels séparés seront diffusés pour les propositions de communications pour la session générale du colloque et pour l'école d'été. CONSIGNES POUR LA SOUMISSION DES PROPOSITIONS DE WORKSHOPS Les propositions de workshops seront envoyées sous forme de documents docx et PDF, et contiendront les informations suivantes : - Titre du workshop et cinq mots-clés. - Noms, affiliations et adresses électroniques des organisateurs du workshop. - Description du workshop résumant son objet, les questions de recherche et les objectifs, accompagnée d’une bibliographie (entre 500 et 1000 mots, hors références). La description du workshop peut inclure les résumés (environ 300 mots) des communications prévues. Les noms des éventuels conférenciers invités peuvent également être soumis (notez cependant que LLcD ne pourra pas couvrir les frais de mission). DATES ET DÉTAILS POUR LA SOUMISSION DE PROPOSITIONS Les propositions de workshops doivent être soumises au plus tard le 30 janvier 2024. Elles seront examinées par le comité scientifique de LLcD, et leur inclusion dans le programme de la conférence sera décidée avec les coprésidents de la conférence. La notification d’acceptation ou de rejet de la proposition sera communiquée avant le 1er mars 2024. La liste des propositions de workshops acceptées sera publiée sur la page web de la conférence ( [ http://llcd2024.sciencesconf.org/ | http://llcd2024.sciencesconf.org ] ), et un appel à communications sera ensuite lancé par les organisateurs. Les soumissions individuelles se feront via EasyChair ( [ https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=llcd2024 | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=llcd2024 ] ) et seront évaluées par trois évaluateurs du comité scientifique de LLcD. Ce comité peut éventuellement être élargi à des experts suggérés par le(s) organisateur(s) du workshop. Lien pour la soumission de propositions de workshops : [ https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=llcd2024 | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=llcd2024 ] Contact: llcd(a)sciencesconf.org

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ACL2024: First Call for Main Conference Papers
by Yuki Arase 22 Jan '24

22 Jan '24

============================ ACL 2024 Website: https://2024.aclweb.org/ Submission Deadline: 15 February 2024 (February ARR cycle) Conference Dates: August 11-16 2024 Location: Bangkok, Thailand Special Theme: “Open science, open data, and open models for reproducible NLP research” Contact: - Claire Gardent (General Chair) - Lun-Wei Ku, André Martins, Vivek Srikumar (Program Chairs): For questions related to paper submission, email: editors(a)aclrollingreview.org. For all other questions, email: acl2024-programchairs(a)googlegroups.com. ============================ Call for Main Conference Papers ACL 2024 invites the submission of long and short papers featuring substantial, original, and unpublished research in all aspects of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing. As in recent years, some of the presentations at the conference will be of papers accepted by the Transactions of the ACL (TACL) and by the Computational Linguistics (CL) journals. Papers submitted to ACL 2024, but not selected for the main conference, will also automatically be considered for publication in the Findings of the Association of Computational Linguistics. === Important Dates === Anonymity period: ACL changed its policy for review and citation on January 12, 2022 (https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/ACL_Policies_for_Review_and_Cita…). As a result, no anonymity period will be required for papers submitted for the Feb. 1, 2024 TACL deadline or the Feb. 15, 2024 ARR deadline (https://aclrollingreview.org/dates). The submissions themselves must still be fully anonymized. Please see https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php/ACL_Anonymity_Policy for details. Submission deadline (all papers are submitted to ARR): February 15, 2024 Papers submitted to ARR no later than February 15, 2024 will have reviews and meta-reviews by April 15, 2024, in time for the ACL 2024 commitment deadline (see below). At submission time to ARR, authors will be asked to select one preferred venue to calculate the acceptance rate. However, selecting ACL 2024 as a preferred venue does not require authors to commit to ACL 2024. ARR reviews & meta-reviews available to authors of February cycle: April 15, 2024 Commitment deadline for ACL 2024: April 20, 2024 Deadline for authors to commit their reviewed papers, reviews, and meta-review to ACL 2024. It is not necessary to have selected ACL as a preferred venue during submission. Notification of acceptance: May 15, 2024 Withdrawal deadline: June 5, 2024 Camera-ready papers due: June 5, 2024 Tutorials: August 11, 2024 Conference: August 12-14, 2024 Workshops: August 15-16, 2024 All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”). === Submission Topics === ACL 2024 aims to have a broad technical program. Relevant topics for the conference include, but are not limited to, the following areas (in alphabetical order): * Computational Social Science and Cultural Analytics * Dialogue and Interactive Systems * Discourse and Pragmatics * Efficient/Low-Resource Methods for NLP * Ethics, Bias, and Fairness * Generation * Information Extraction * Information Retrieval and Text Mining * Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP * Linguistic theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics * Machine Learning for NLP * Machine Translation * Multilinguality and Language Diversity * Multimodality and Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond * NLP Applications * Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation * Question Answering * Resources and Evaluation * Semantics: Lexical * Semantics: Sentence-level Semantics, Textual Inference and Other areas * Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining * Speech recognition, text-to-speech and spoken language understanding * Summarization * Syntax: Tagging, Chunking and Parsing === Paper Submission Details === Papers must be submitted by the ARR’s February 2024 cycle. Papers submitted to one of the earlier ARR deadlines are also eligible, and it is not necessary to (re) submit on the current cycle. Both long and short paper submissions should follow all of the ARR submission requirements, including: * Anonymity Period and Instructions for Two-Way Anonymized Review * Authorship policies * Citation and Comparison to the literature * Multiple Submission Policy, Resubmission Policy, and Withdrawal Policy * Ethics Policy * Limitations section * Paper Submission and Templates * Optional Supplementary Materials Papers should be submitted to one of the ARR 2023 submission sites. Final versions of accepted papers will be given one additional page of content (up to 9 pages for long papers, up to 5 pages for short papers) to address reviewers’ comments. === Theme Track: Open science, open data, and open models for reproducible NLP research === Following the success of the ACL 2020-2023 Theme tracks, we are happy to announce that ACL 2024 will have a new theme with the goal of reflecting and stimulating discussion about open science and reproducible NLP research, as well as supporting the open source software movement. We encourage contributions related to the release of high quality datasets, novel ideas for evaluation, non-trivial algorithm and toolbox implementations, and models which are properly documented (e.g. via model cards). We believe this topic is very timely and addresses a growing concern from NLP researchers. The advent of large language models as a general purpose tool for NLP, often served as closed APIs, without public information about training data and model size, perhaps even containing test data, makes it very hard to reproduce prior work and compare fairly and rigorously with newly developed models and techniques. This brings the serious risk of hindering progress in the field. With this theme track we seek a discussion on increased transparency in the field by promoting the use of open models and open-source initiatives in NLP as an alternative to closed approaches. The theme track invites empirical and theoretical research, descriptions and release of high quality open datasets, open models, and open source software implementations, as well position and survey papers reflecting on the ways in which open data, open models, and open-source initiative can contribute to advances in the field. The possible topics of discussion include (but are not limited to) the following: * What are the advantages (and risks, if any) of making available open-source software, open datasets and models to the research community? What are the risks (scientific and societal) of not making them available? * What kind of incentive mechanisms should be in place to encourage the creation by the research community of open, high-quality datasets and models and their adoption in experimental workflows? * What elements of open releases (e.g. documentation, cards, licensing, testing) are essential or should be highly recommended in order to be scientifically useful and adopted by the community? The theme track submissions can be either long or short. Visit https://2024.aclweb.org/calls/main_conference_papers/ for more details!

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CFP The First Workshop on Visualization for Natural Language Processing (Vis4NLP)
by Tariq Yousef 21 Jan '24

21 Jan '24

[Apologies for cross-postings] Dear Colleagues, Please find below the CFP for our “*Visualization for Natural Language Processing (Vis4NLP-2024)* ” workshop, co-located with Eurovis 2024 <https://www.linkedin.com/company/eurovis-2024/>, Odense, Denmark. 2024. Online version: http://vis4nlp.com/ Workshop paper due: March 3, 2024 Workshop date: May 27, 2024 Venue: University of Southern Denmark <http://sdu.dk> ===WORKSHOP=== *The First Workshop on Visualization for Natural Language Processing (Vis4NLP) May 27th 2024, Odense, Denmark* The workshop will be co-located with EuroVis 2024 <https://www.eurovis.org/eurovis> in Odense, Denmark, will take place in person on May 27. The workshop aims to create a dedicated space for interdisciplinary collaboration at the intersections of NLP and visualization. Vis4NLP serves as a pivotal platform where researchers, practitioners, and academics come together to collectively tackle the ever-evolving challenges and opportunities in NLP visualization. *Call for Papers* Call for Papers In the rapidly evolving landscape of Natural Language Processing, visualization plays a pivotal role in aiding researchers and practitioners alike. The surge in the sophistication and complexity of NLP models, driven by advancements in machine learning and deep learning, has created a pressing need for effective visualization tools and techniques. These tools are essential for gaining insights into the behavior of NLP models, comparing their performance, and addressing issues related to debugging, diagnostics, and evaluation. In this context, the importance of visualization for developing NLP tasks cannot be overstated. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - Visual exploration of corpora, datasets, and model outputs - Visual analytics tools for debugging diagnosing NLP models - Performance Troubleshooting and comparison - Visual analytics tools for quantitative or qualitative evaluation of NLP models - Text annotation tools - Text reuse visualization - Generative and explainable AI *Important Dates* Important Dates - Workshop paper due: March 3, 2024 - Notification of acceptance: April 10, 2024 - Camera-ready papers due: April 20, 2024 - Workshop date: May 27, 2024 All submission deadlines are at 23:59 GMT on the date indicated. For general questions, comments, etc. please send email to eurovis(a)vis4nlp.com Best regards, *Tariq Yousef *Assistant Professor of Data Science Faculty of Science - Department of Mathematics and Computer Science *University of Southern Denmark*

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PhD Scholorship in e-Health and/or Sign Language Translation] @ Queen's University Belfast, UK
by Mohammed Hasanuzzaman 21 Jan '24

21 Jan '24

*Apologies for the multiple postings* I am looking for a PhD student in e-Health and/or Sign Language Translation at the School of School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Queen's University in Belfast, UK. The details of the project can be found below: https://www.qub.ac.uk/courses/postgraduate-research/phd-opportunities/causa… https://www.qub.ac.uk/courses/postgraduate-research/phd-opportunities/endto… Requirements: The successful candidate is expected to have a solid background in Machine Learning, Statistics, computer science or related discipline. The minimum academic requirement for admission to a research degree programme is normally an Upper Second Class Honours degree from a UK or ROI HE provider, or an equivalent qualification acceptable to the University. Refer to the official application process for details. Application Process: For enquiries, please send an email to Dr. Mohammed Hasanuzzaman at m.hasanuzzaman(a)qub.ac.uk with your CV and transcript as well as a brief description of your research interests. Unfortunately, due to a high volume of inquiries, I may not be able to respond to all emails. Submit your formal application through the following link. https://dap.qub.ac.uk/portal/user/u_login.php Your application should be clearly marked as EEECS/2024/MH1 and/or EEECS/2024/MH2 to ensure consideration for funding Application Deadline: 29 February, 2024 About Queen's: The Queen's University Belfast, founded almost two centuries ago, is one of the oldest universities in the United Kingdom. As a member of the prestigious Russell Group, Queen’s is one of the UK’s 24 leading research-intensive universities (ranked 13th in the UK for research intensity). Queen's has 15 subjects in the top 200 in the world (QS World University Rankings 2023). Five of those subjects are in the World Top 100 (QS World Rankings by subject 2023). For more details: https://www.qub.ac.uk/Study/Why-Study-at-Queens/rankings-and-reputation/ *International students are welcome to apply, but additional funding ( https://www.qub.ac.uk/Study/international-students/international-scholarshi…) or personal finances will be required to cover the difference between home (UK) and overseas fees. Best regards, Mohammed ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Dr. Mohammed HasanuzzamanLecturer/Assistant Professor**Queen's University Belfast <https://www.qub.ac.uk/>, UK * *&Munster Technological University <https://www.mtu.ie/>, Ireland* *Funded Investigator, ADAPT Centre- <https://www.adaptcentre.ie/> A <https://www.adaptcentre.ie/>* World-Leading SFI Research Centre <https://www.adaptcentre.ie/> *C**hercheur Associé*, GREYC UMR CNRS 6072 Research Centre, France <https://www.greyc.fr/en/home/> *Associate Editor:* * IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, Nature Scientific Reports, IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, ACM TALLIP, PLOS One, Computer Speech and Language**Website: **https://mohammedhasanuzzaman.github.io/ <https://mohammedhasanuzzaman.github.io/>* [image: Mailtrack] <https://mailtrack.io?utm_source=gmail&utm_medium=signature&utm_campaign=sig…> Sender notified by Mailtrack <https://mailtrack.io?utm_source=gmail&utm_medium=signature&utm_campaign=sig…> 21/01/24, 13:19:43

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