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corpora of technologies? ...
by Albretch Mueller 29 Aug '24

29 Aug '24

In the main, the Greek word "philology" has been taken as meaning "bibliosophy". I argue, it shouldn't mainly or just be about books. I have tried unsuccessful searches on: "corpora research" "technologies"; "corpora research" "patents"; ... to have search engines make sense of it in their own ways, not as meaning a corpus of technologies as such. Lewis Mumford in his worthwhile "Technics and Civilization" considers the first "eotechnic" phase of technologically civilized life approximately from AD 1000 AD 1800, a time frame during which the mechanical clock took relevance as a coordinating device. Yet, since around 600 BC Ancient Ionian/Greek philosophers had been pondering about techne and its relationship to concrete engineering and social technologies, including its intersubjective and moral aspects. Solon wondered about the relationship between techne and virtue and Plato dedicated in explicit and inferred way most of his dialogues to that theme. Mumford also pointed out that there have always been the kind of scientists and engineers such as Archimedes, Galileo, Agricola, Euler and Franz Reuleaux; who saw their business in "techne-like" ways. Basically, they take simple physical devices such as the lever, the wheel and the pulley (already more of a mechanism), to which the pressure gradient force in air naturally making windmills move and electromagnetic forces both as they happen in fields and on a quantum mechanical level on diodes, transistors and LEDs should be also included. Those most simple processes are seen as kinds of characters of an alphabet out of which mechanisms: "words" and "lexical bundles" of sort are contrived to create machines in a through and through "textual" way by chaining "kinematic pairs" in a way that at each juncture physical conservation laws apply. Cross correlating the pieces of such technological texts in a DAG kind of way you naturally build a corpus. So, as ancient philosophers intuited long ago the whole of society is a corpus. Do you know of any prior art relating to such corpora research? Please, if you do could you point me to such resources in a way that I can access them? I am what they call an independent researcher and it is virtually impossible for me to work. lbrtchx: corpora of technologies? ...

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23 fully funded PhD positions in The Finnish Doctoral Program Network in Artificial Intelligence
by Tiedemann, Jörg 28 Aug '24

28 Aug '24

The Finnish Doctoral Program Network in Artificial Intelligence (AI-DOC) is looking for new PhD students to work in fundamental AI and machine learning research and in five application areas. Come do a PhD tackling challenging research questions in a network that fosters industry and multidisciplinary collaboration! More information: https://fcai.fi/doctoral-program Application deadline: September 9 ***************************************************************** Jörg Tiedemann Language Technology https://blogs.helsinki.fi/language-technology/ University of Helsinki

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ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems CFP: RecSys 4 Good
by antonela.tommasel＠isistan.unicen.edu.ar 28 Aug '24

28 Aug '24

CALL FOR PAPERS: ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems Special Issue on Recommender Systems for Good Submission deadline: 24. December 2024 Guest Editors: - Marko Tkalčič, University of Primorska, Slovenia - Noemi Mauro, University of Turin, Italy - Alan Said, University of Gothenburg, Sweden - Nava Tintarev, University of Maastricht, Netherlands - Antonela Tommasel, ISISTAN, CONICET-UNCPBA, Argentina Recommender systems are among the most widely used applications of machine learning. Since they are so widely used, it is important that we, as practitioners and researchers, think about the impact these systems may have on users, society, and other stakeholders. In practice, the focus is often on systems and values of improving key performance indicators (KPIs), such as increased sales or customer retention. Recommendation technology is currently underutilized to serve societal goals that go beyond the business objectives of individual corporations. However, other values, bound more to societal good, could be considered in the development and goals of a recommender system. In fact, recommender systems have already been explored to stimulate healthier eating behavior and for improved health and well-being in general, to help low-income families make school choices, to suggest successful learning paths for students, to entice climate-protecting energy-saving behavior, to support fair micro-lending, or improve the information diets of news readers. Research in these areas is however limited in numbers, compared to the many papers that are published every year that propose new models for improved movie recommendations. Moreover, concerning the methodology and evaluation perspective in this area, it is essential to find a clear methodology and criteria for evaluating the effectiveness and "goodness" of the proposed algorithms. This includes acknowledging that different values may be conflicting, as well as resolving how and when (and by whom) certain values should be prioritized over others such as in the NORMalize workshop (https://sites.google.com/view/normalizeworkshop). Research on "Recommender Systems for Good" may benefit from an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on insights from fields such as computer science, ethics, sociology, psychology, law, and economics. Collaborations with stakeholders from diverse backgrounds can enrich the research and ensure that recommendations are grounded in real-world needs and values. This special issue aims to present state-of-the-art research works where recommender systems have a positive societal impact and help us address urgent societal challenges. It will thereby serve as a call to action for more research in these areas. Ultimately, through this special issue, we hope to establish a vision of "Recommender Systems for Good', following the spirit of the "AI for Good" initiative (https://aiforgood.itu.int) to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (2015) and the more recent UNESCO recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (2024) (https://www.unesco.org/en/artificial-intelligence/recommendation-ethics). Topics: We aim to collect the latest research on recommender systems for societal good. The topics of the special issues include (but are not limited to): - Recommender systems for safety, security, and privacy (e.g., reducing poverty and inequality) - Recommender systems that protect the environment and ecosystems (e.g., lower energy consumption, water and energy management) - Recommender systems that give control of data back to the users (e.g., transparency of data, models, and outputs) - Recommender systems for the interconnected society (e.g., increase of solidarity, online conversational health, multi-stakeholder recommenders) - Accountability in recommender systems, including addressing emerging regulations, such as the DSA (Digital Service Act) - Recommender systems for the public good (e.g., mental and physical health, welfare, digital literacy, stakeholder engagement, e-learning) - Introspective studies on the current state of RSs concerning societal good - Fairness-preserving and fairness-enhancing recommender systems, unbiased recommendations (e.g. to preserve gender equality) - Responsible recommendation (e.g., in social media and traditional news, avoiding filter bubbles and echo chambers) - Sustainability and Cultural recommendations (e.g., art, cultural heritage) - Recommendations to support disadvantaged groups (e.g., elderly, minorities) - Recommender systems for personal development and well-being (e.g., behavioral change, fitness, self-actualization, personal growth) Important Dates: - Submission deadline: December 24, 2024 - First-round review decisions: March 24, 2025 - Deadline for revision submissions: May 24, 2025 - Notification of final decisions: June 24, 2025 Submissions that are received before the first deadline will be directly sent out for review; papers will be immediately published online after acceptance. Submission Information: The special issue welcomes technical research papers, survey papers, and opinion/reflective papers. Each paper should address one or more of the abovementioned topics or be in other scopes of Recommender Systems for Good. The special issue will also consider peer-reviewed journal versions (at least 30% new content) of top papers from related recommender system conferences such as RecSys, SIGIR, KDD, CIKM, IUI, UMAP, CHI, WSDM, ACL, etc. Prospective authors may take advantage of submitting an early version of their work to the ACM RecSys RecSoGood Workshop https://recsogood.github.io/recsogood24/. The new content must be in terms of intellectual contributions, technical experiments, and findings. Submissions must be prepared according to the TORS submission guidelines (https://dl.acm.org/journal/tors/author-guidelines) and must be submitted via Manuscript Central (https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tors). For questions and further information, please contact the guest editors at rs4good [at] acm [dot] org.

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SemDial 2024: Online Participation
by Raffaella Bernardi 28 Aug '24

28 Aug '24

SemDial 2024 -- TrentoLogue The 28th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue 11 and 12 September 2024, University of Trento, Italy https://event.unitn.it/semdial2024/ Upon request, we have opened the registration form for online participation. Important information: Fee 30 EURO Deadline for registration: September 5th at 12:00 PM CEST Deadline for payment: September 9th at 11:59 CEST The Zoom link will be shared with the online participants on September 10th; it will let participants attend the three invited talks and the presentations of the full papers. *Keynote speakers* Uri Hasson, Princeton University Azzurra Ruggeri, Technical University Munich e Central European University Bernardo Magnini, Fondazone Bruno Kessler Full program available at: https://event.unitn.it/semdial2024/#programme Raffaella On behalf of the OC ============================================================== University of Trento CIMeC: C225, second floor, Corso Bettini 31, 38068 Rovereto (TN), DISI: Povo 2, Room: 110, Via Sommarive 9, I 38123, Povo (TN) Tel. +39 0464 80 8704 (CIMeC) http://disi.unitn.it/~bernardi/ ==============================================================

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Applied Sciences: Special Issue on Tokenization and related phenomena
by Yuval Pinter 28 Aug '24

28 Aug '24

Dear Colleagues, As language models take center stage not only in NLP but in a vast array of scientific applications, the question of how it is best to map natural language in textual form into vector space gains more and more interest. While most popular models still use subword tokens as their atomic units, “token-free” methods including character-level, byte-level, and encoding of visual text rendering have been making promising progress. Still, development and analysis of tokenization and untokenization methods is advancing at a slower rate than research in model architecture and optimization technologies, mostly due to the early stage at which representation is applied, which makes evaluation of new algorithms and techniques particularly challenging. Fundamental insights into the effect of representation atomicity on morphological modeling, on multilingual and crosslingual applications, on computation efficiency, on representations of groups in society, and on other aspects, are still being gained, making this research topic ripe for aggregation and integration of findings and methodologies. Our special issue, entitled *Atoms of Representation in Natural Language Processing*, aims to collect such findings and insights, to encourage diving deep into the relationships between language and computation, and to foster holistic approaches and collaboration in development and assessment of different aspects of representation in language models and other NLP systems and applications. Suggested themes and article types for submissions include: - Novel schemas for subword tokenization and for tokenizer application methodologies - Benchmarks and analyses of tokenizer effectiveness and quality, including crosslingual and multilingual setups, morphological aspects, information-theoretic constructions, correlation with quality of learned embeddings and downstream model performance, ability to handle linguistic phenomena, security implications, societal implications, etc. - Development, modification, evaluation, and analysis of token-free representation schemata based on textual input - Development, modification, evaluation, and analysis of token-free representation schemata utilizing multimodal input such as visual, spatial, or acoustic signals; combination of different linguistic signals (auditory, textual, sign language) into a single input framework - Theoretic contributions addressing expressive power or limitations of various textual representation methodologies - Analysis of the textual modality and its representation on the computational level, e.g. of Unicode standards The full call is available here: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/special_issues/2SHP0751R0. Several waiver discounts are available (contact me personally). -- - Yuval Pinter Guest Editor www.yuvalpinter.com

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CFP: 1st Shared Task on Spoken-Query Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval for the Indic Languages (SqCLIR 2024)
by Bhargav Dave 27 Aug '24

27 Aug '24

Apologies for the multiple postings. ----------------------------- Spoken-Query Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval for the Indic Languages (SqCLIR 2024) Website: https://sites.google.com/view/sqclir2024 To be organized in conjunction with FIRE 2024 (fire.irsi.org.in) 12th-15th December 2024, Gandhinagar, India ------------------------------ India is known for its linguistic diversity, featuring a multitude of languages. The Constitution of India recognizes 22 languages under the Eighth Schedule. These include Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Odia, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Bodo, Santhali, Maithili, and Dogri. Building a retrieval system that handles spoken queries in one of India's 22 officially recognized languages and locates relevant passages in a large knowledge base is multifaceted and complex. To our knowledge, spoken-query retrieval is a relatively underexplored area in information retrieval and natural language processing, and it is a multi-lingual version that includes under-resourced languages. In addressing this challenge and exploring a new area, we offer a novel shared task for FIRE 2024 that will allow the development and evaluation of retrieval systems that receive a spoken query as input and search for answers in a document corpus. Overview of Task Task 1: Spoken Query Ad-Hoc Retrieval Data - Monolingual Task Participants are required to develop a Spoken Query Retrieval System that handles monolingual queries. This task involves both the spoken queries and the corpus being in the same language, making the retrieval process more straightforward. The system should accurately interpret spoken queries and retrieve relevant passages from a corpus in the same language. This year, the languages involved in this task are English, Gujarati, Hindi, and Bengali. Task 2: Spoken Query Cross-Lingual Retrieval Participants are required to develop a Spoken Query Retrieval System capable of handling cross-lingual queries. In this task, the spoken queries and the corpus are in different languages, adding complexity to the retrieval process. The system should accurately interpret spoken queries in one language and retrieve the most relevant passages from a corpus in another language. This year, the task will involve English, Hindi, and Bengali. The language pairs for queries and corpus could be any combination of these languages, allowing participants to address various cross-lingual retrieval challenges. Tentative Timeline 20th August - Training Data Released and Registrations open 5th September - Test Data Release 30th September - Run Submission Deadline 10th October - Results Declared 20th October - Working notes due 20th November - Camera Ready Submissions due 12th-15th December - FIRE 2024 at Gandhinagar, India Organizers ---------------- Bhargav Dave, DA-IICT, Gandhinagar, India Debasis Ganguly, University of Glasgow, Scotland Evangelos Kanoulas, University of Amsterdam Prasenjit Majumder, DA-IICT, Gandhinagar, India For regular updates, subscribe to our mailing list: sqclir(a)googlegroups.com

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Job opportunity - Professor in Digital Humanities with focus on images & objects at FAU, Germany
by Michaela Mahlberg 27 Aug '24

27 Aug '24

Dear all, The Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) invites applications for a Full Professor of Digital Humanities with a focus on Images and Objects (salary group W3) at the Department of Digital Humanities and Social Studies (DHSS). This is a full-time and permanent position to be filled by the earliest possible starting date. We seek to appoint a leading expert with an internationally visible profile in research and teaching. The successful candidate must have expertise in several of the following areas: * methods for image and object-based digital humanities * distant viewing * computer-assisted techniques and analytical approaches for researching visual culture * hermeneutics of digital humanities * digitalization of cultural heritage * software development * infrastructures for visual computing. The successful candidate will have a track record in the acquisition of third-party funding and an excellent research profile, demonstrated with internationally visible publications and an established research network. Experience in interdisciplinary collaborative research is desirable, and your research must tie in with the key research priorities at FAU and the faculty. We also expect willingness to participate in innovative courses and to develop innovative teaching concepts. The newly launched Department of Digital Humanities and Social Studies pursues the goal of facilitating world-leading research into the opportunities and challenges of the datafication and algorithmization of society, culture, and human knowledge. The professor will assume a pivotal role in establishing the department and shaping its profile. The organizational structure of the department is based on team resources and encourages collaborative work. Deadline for applications September 29, 2024 More information at https://www.fau.eu/people/working-at-fau/professorships/ All good wishes Michaela -- Professor Michaela Mahlberg https://michaelamahlberg.com/ Alexander-von-Humboldt Professor & Professor of Digital Humanities<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgkKhcwvWgI> Head of Department of Digital Humanities and Social Studies (DHSS)<https://www.dhss.phil.fau.de/> FAU - Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg<https://www.fau.de/> Werner-von-Siemens-Str. 61 91052 Erlangen, Germany Editor of the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics <https://benjamins.com/catalog/ijcl> Host of the Life and Language Podcast <https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/michaela-mahlberg/> @MichaMahlberg<https://twitter.com/MichaMahlberg> https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaela-mahlberg/

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JT-DH 2024 (Ljubljana, Slovenia) - Registration
by Špela Arhar Holdt 27 Aug '24

27 Aug '24

Dear Colleagues, If you are interested in attending the Language Technologies and Digital Humanities Conference (JT-DH 2024), please ensure you register by September 8, 2024: https://www.sdjt.si/wp/jtdh-2024/. The conference is organized by ZRC SAZU in collaboration with the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the University of Ljubljana, which will host the event on September 19-20, 2024. We warmly invite you to participate in both the conference and the pre-conference events. Best regards, Špela Arhar Holdt

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3rd Call for Papers for the 22nd Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop - ALTA2024
by Kathy Reid 27 Aug '24

27 Aug '24

Dear Colleagues, We're delighted to announce that the CfP for the 22nd Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association - ALTA 2024 - is now open and closes on 20th September (23:59hrs Anywhere on Earth UTC -12) Details are available on our website at https://alta2024.alta.asn.au/calls/papers and a summary follows. --- Important Dates * Submission deadline for short/long papers, presentation abstracts and industry demonstrations: 20 September 2024 (23:59 Anywhere On Earth UTC-12). * Main conference: 3 December and 4 December 2024, ANU, Canberra, ACT, hybrid (in person and online) Overview The 22nd Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA) will be held in a hybrid format at the Australian National University, Canberra, from 2 December to 4 December 2024 and also online. The ALTA 2024 workshop is the key local forum for socialising research results in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computational Linguistics (CL). It will feature presentations, posters, and demonstrations from students, industry, and academic researchers. Like previous years, we also encourage submissions and participation from industry and government researchers and developers. Note that ALTA is listed in the CORE 2023 Conference Rankings as Australasian C<https://www.core.edu.au/conference-portal>. Topics ALTA invites the submission of papers and presentations on all aspects of NLP and CL, including, but not limited to: * Commonsense Reasoning. * Computational Social Science and Cultural Analytics. * Dialogue and Interactive Systems. * Discourse and Pragmatics. * Efficient Methods for NLP. * Ethics in NLP. * Information Extraction. * Information Retrieval and Text Mining. * Interpretability, Interactivity and Analysis of Models for NLP. * Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond. * Language Modeling and Analysis of Language Models. * Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics. * Machine Learning for NLP. * Machine Translation. * Multilinguality and Linguistic Diversity. * Natural Language Generation. * NLP Applications. * Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation. * Question Answering. * Resources and Evaluation. * Semantics: Lexical, Sentence level, Document Level, Textual Inference, etc. * Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining. * Speech and Multimodality. * Summarisation. * Syntax, Parsing and their Applications. We particularly encourage submissions that broaden the scope of our community by considering practical applications of language technology and multidisciplinary research. We also specifically encourage submissions from the industry. Format and instructions for authors Please refer to our CfP webpage for specifics.<https://alta2024.alta.asn.au/calls/papers> We are using OpenReview for submissions, and invite submissions of three different formats: (1) Original Research Papers, (2) Abstract-based Presentations, and (3) Industry Demonstrations. --- You can follow ALTA on social media at the following links: * LinkedIn (page): https://www.linkedin.com/company/australasian-language-technology-associati… * LinkedIn (group):https://www.linkedin.com/groups/1849979/ * Twitter: https://twitter.com/altanlp * Mastodon: https://sigmoid.social/@ALTAnlp * Hashtag is #ALTA2024 With kind regards, on behalf of the ALTA 2024 Team: Dr Gabriela Ferraro, General Chair Professor Tim Baldwin, Program Chair Dr Sergio José Rodríguez Méndez, Program Chair Dr Nicholas Kuo, Program Chair Dr Anton Malko, Publication Chair Dr Dawei Chen, Technology Chair A/Prof Shunichi Ishihara, Finance Chair Charbel El-Khaissi, PhD candidate, Sponsorship Chair Ned Cooper, PhD candidate, Local Chair Kathy Reid, PhD candidate, Publicity Chair

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Job: Postdoctoral researcher (UClouvain): iRead4skills - Reminder
by Thomas François 26 Aug '24

26 Aug '24

Job : Postdoctoral researcher (UClouvain) : iRead4skills : Intelligent Reading Improvement System for Fundamental and Transversal Skills Development UCLouvain is looking for a post-doctoral researcher in natural language processing or computer science - Full-time (100%) post-doctoral funding for a period of approximately 18 months - for the Centre de traitement automatique du langage (CENTAL), of the Institut langage et communication (ILC) at UCLouvain (Louvain-la-Neuve) - start date: 1 October 2024 (negotiable) Full description of the offer : EN : https://uclouvain.be/en/research-institutes/ilc/cental/news/job-postdoctora… FR : https://uclouvain.be/fr/instituts-recherche/ilc/cental/actualites/job-post-… Application file Application deadline: 1 September 2024 If you are interested in this position, please send your application to Thomas François by email (thomas.francois(a)uclouvain.be<mailto:thomas.francois@uclouvain.be>). This should include : 1. a detailed curriculum vitae in French or English, including the various qualifications and skills required, details of your academic career (years of study, degrees obtained, honours), as well as scientific publications and other academic and scientific achievements; 2. a covering letter in French, describing your interest in the position ; how your profile meets the description of the position and the objectives of the project, etc. (maximum 2 pages); 3. one or two letters of reference in French or English, in particular from your thesis supervisor. Successful candidates will be invited to take part in a video-conference interview, the details of which will be sent to them by email. Pr. Thomas François Chargé de cours en linguistique appliquée Faculté de Philosophie, Arts et Lettres Université catholique de Louvain Institut Langage et Communication, PLIN, CENTAL et TeaMM Place Montesquieu, 3 - box L2.06.04 • B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve • Belgium Tél. : +32 (0)10 / 47 37 36

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