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Postdoc / Research Engineer position in Computational Social Sciences (18 months, Paris region)
by Thierry Poibeau 05 Mar '24

05 Mar '24

Dear Colleagues, The Lattice Lab in Montrouge (Ecole normale supérieure-PSL & CNRS) is recruiting a Postdoc / Research Engineer in Computational Social Sciences, for 18 months beginning in April 2024 or soon thereafter. See here for details: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/200537 We are looking for a strong candidate with relevant first publications in the domain, and with a good knowledge of natural language techniques / LLMs (and/or willing to develop new NLP techniques, of course). The post is related to the ANR Medialex project (https://anr.fr/Projet-ANR-21-CE38-0016), on the mutual influence between the medias (including social medias) and the political sphere (esp. debates at the Parliament). Some command of French is necessary, but it does not need to be your main language. To apply, please send me an email with a few words about your interest for the job, a detailed CV, one relevant publication and the name of two referees. All the best, Thierry

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PhD position in Low-Resource NLP & Modeling of Language Learning, University of Groningen
by Bisazza, A. 05 Mar '24

05 Mar '24

Applications are invited for a 4-year salaried PhD position within the research project “Polyglot Machines: Human-like Learning of Morphologically Rich Languages”, financed by a NWO-VIDI Talent Grant and coordinated by Principal Investigator (PI) dr. Arianna Bisazza. This is an interdisciplinary project at the intersection of Computational Linguistics/Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computational Psycholinguistics and Language Acquisition. Despite the impressive advances made possible by neural networks, current NLP systems are still far from displaying the learning abilities of humans in many languages. This project aims to improve language modeling for low-resource morphologically rich languages, taking inspiration from child language acquisition insights. Among other methodologies, an artificial language learning paradigm will be used to simulate the learning of typologically diverse languages and evaluate the effect of known properties of child-directed language on the acquisition of morphology and other language aspects. Other possible research directions include: the design of better input segmentation methods; language acquisition inspired curriculum learning; and leveraging existing language resources (like dictionaries or morphological analyzers) to boost the learning process in very low-resource settings. This PhD position offers a unique opportunity to acquire valuable research experience in an international environment: You will be part of the Computational Linguistics group <https://www.rug.nl/research/clcg/research/cl/?lang=en> (@ GroNLP <https://twitter.com/GroNlp>), which is part of the Centre for Language and Cognition of the University of Groningen (CLCG). Main requirement: A Master’s degree in computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, computer science, information science, or related area. Find more details and apply here by 11 March 2024: https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-0… Starting date: September 2024 For questions about the position: A. Bisazza a.bisazza(a)rug.nl (do not use email for applications) -- Arianna Bisazza Associate Professor University of Groningen http://www.cs.rug.nl/~bisazza

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2nd Workshop on Eye Movements and the Assessment of Reading Comprehension
by Yevgeni Berzak 05 Mar '24

05 Mar '24

We are pleased to invite abstract submissions to the *2nd Workshop on Eye Movements and the Assessment of Reading Comprehension* scheduled to take place on June 20–22 in Zürich, Switzerland. 1. Workshop theme: Effective and widely available reading assessments are fundamental for education, and instrumental for early diagnosis of reading difficulties, enabling timely and targeted intervention. In this workshop, we explore how eye-tracking and machine learning technologies can enhance reading assessments. Our goal is to bring together researchers from various relevant fields, including educational science, cognitive psychology and psycholinguistics, eye-tracking-based reading research, and machine learning. The workshop will provide a platform for exchanging ideas for the next generation of reading assessments aided by eye-tracking and machine learning technologies, as well as inspiring cross-disciplinary research collaborations. 2. Workshop format: The formal part of the workshop will span two days, featuring a structured program with talks, posters, and discussions. An optional third day is dedicated to more casual exchanges, with the opportunity to engage in open conversations during a leisurely hike or a picnic. 3. Relevant topics for submission: - Methodology and design of reading assessments, including large scale reading assessments (LSAs) - Reading assessments for different populations (e.g. children, adults, elderly, populations with cognitive impairments) - Reading development - Cognitive processes underlying reading comprehension - Eye movements as indicators of reading comprehension - Machine learning approaches to reading assessment 4. Submissions: - We invite submissions of short abstracts of up to 350 words. - To submit your abstract, please fill in this abstract submission form: https://forms.gle/RKRLhJsYKgc3pNQy8 - Submission format is plain text (optionally markdown). - Submissions will be reviewed by the workshop organizers, primarily with an eye to relevance for the workshop's theme. - We expect to accept 25–35 submissions. 5. Important Dates: - Paper submission deadline: April 1st, 2024 - Acceptance notification: April 19th, 2024 - Workshop date: June 20–22, 2024 6. Keynote speakers 1. Jean-François Rouet (Université de Poitiers) 2. t.b.d. 7. Funding: The workshop is sponsored by the MultiplEYE COST Action ( https://multipleye.eu), which will provide financial support for covering travel expenses to a limited number of participants. Authors will be invited to apply for travel funding upon abstract acceptance. Funding may be partial and priority will be given to junior researchers. We look forward to your submissions and active participation. Best regards, The workshop organizers: Lena Jäger (University of Zurich) Yevgeni Berzak (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology) Titus von der Malsburg (University of Stuttgart) Workshop homepage: https://multipleye.eu/workshop-on-eye-movements-and-assessment-of-reading-c…

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Albertina 1.5B + Gervásio 7B: collection of LLMs for Portuguese expanded
by Antonio Branco 05 Mar '24

05 Mar '24

Good day, This is to announce the expansion of the collection of open Large Language Models (LLMs) for the Portuguese language with the following models: - the family of *encoders* is enlarged with the new *_Albertina 1.5B_ *https://huggingface.co/PORTULAN/albertina-1b5-portuguese-ptpt-encoder - the family of *decoders* has now _*Gervásio 7B*_ https://huggingface.co/PORTULAN/gervasio-7b-portuguese-ptpt-decoder This ecosystem encompasses now over ten LLMs that were specifically developed for the Portuguese language, covering both its European variant, spoken in Portugal (PTPT), and its American variant, spoken in Brazil (PTBR), and that can be run on consumer-grade hardware. The Albertina family includes encoders with *100M*, *900M* and *1.5B* parameters. The Gervásio family, in turn, integrates a decoder with *7B* parameters. All these models are *fully open*, being open source and openly distributed, for free and with no registration required, under an open license, including for research and commercial purposes. They are also *fully documented*, thus including reports also on their evaluation scores, which indicate they are top performing solutions for fully open models of their class for Portuguese. These models, their companion datasets and their documentation, for both PTPT and PTBR, can all be found at https://huggingface.co/PORTULAN Regards, António Branco University of Lisbon NLX Natural Language and Speech Group Faculdade de Ciências, Departamento de Informática

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CFP: DHOW: Diffusion of Harmful Content on Online Web Workshop
by Gautam Kishore Shahi 05 Mar '24

05 Mar '24

The 1st Workshop on DHOW: Diffusion of Harmful Content on Online Web Workshop The workshop will be conducted in a *hybrid* format to ensure maximum participation, accommodating attendees both *online* and in person. Submission deadline: extended to *March 22 2024 AOE* *Workshop site*: https://dhow-workshop.github.io/ *Co-located with WebSci 2024* https://websci24.org/ <https://lrec-coling-2024.org/> Stuttgart, Germany, 21-24 May 2024 *Important Dates* Submission deadline: extended to *March 22, 2024* Notification of acceptance: April 12, 2024 Camera-ready papers due: April 22, 2024 Workshop date: May 21, 2024 *Workshop Description* With the advancement of digital technologies and gadgets, online content is easily accessible. At the same time, harmful content also gets spread. There are different harmful content available on different platforms in multiple languages. The topic of harmful content is broad and covers multiple research directions. But from the user’s aspect, they are affected by them all. Often, it is studied individually, like misinformation and hate speech. Research has been done on one platform, monolingual, on a particular issue. It leads to harmful content spreaders switching platforms and languages to reach the user base. Harmful is not limited to social media but also news media. Spreader shares harmful content in posts, news articles, comments, and hyperlinks. So, there is a need to study the harmful content by combining cross-platform, language, multimodal data and topics. We will bring the research on harmful content under one umbrella so that research on different topics (hate speech, misinformation, disinformation, self-harm, offensive content, etc.) can bring some novel methods and recommendations for users, leveraging text analysis with image, audio, and video recognition to detect harmful content in diverse formats. The workshop will cover the ongoing issue of war or elections in 2024. We believe this workshop will provide a unique opportunity for researchers and practitioners to exchange ideas, share latest developments, and collaborate on addressing the challenges associated with harmful contents spread across the Web. We expect that the workshop will generate insights and discussions that will help advance the field of societal artificial intelligence (AI) for the development of safer internet. In addition to attracting high quality research contributions to the workshop, one of the aims of the workshop is to mobilise the researchers working on the related areas to form a community. *Submissions Topics* - Analysis of different types of harmful content(fake news, misinformation, hate speech) - Computational fact-checking - Role of Generative AI in Mitigating Harmful Content - Identifying harassment/bullying/hate speech, and misinformation/disinformation - Role of Explainable AI in Studying Harmful Content - Multi-modal harmful content (fake news, misinformation, hate speech) - Deepfake and its influence - Multi-lingual harmful content like Hate speech, Fake News, Bot, spam, troll detection *Submissions* - Submission Instructions: https://dhow-workshop.github.io/#call - Submission Link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dhow2024 * Workshop organizers* - Thomas Mandl (University of Hildesheim, Germany) - Haiming Liu (University of Southampton, United Kingdom) - Gautam Kishore Shahi (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany) - Amit Kumar Jaiswal (University of Surrey, United Kingdom ) - Luis-Daniel Ibáñez (University of Southampton, United Kingdom) - Durgesh Nandini (University of Bayreuth, Germany) Organisers, DHOW 2024 Web: DHOW <https://websci24.org/workshops-and-tutorials/>

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Invitation to Shared Task 4 #SMM4H: Extraction of the clinical and social impacts of nonmedical substance use from Reddit
by Sudeshna Das 04 Mar '24

04 Mar '24

============================= *Invitation to Shared Task 4 #SMM4H: Extraction of the clinical and social impacts of nonmedical substance use from Reddit* ============================= Substance use, both prescription and illicit, has become a significant public health concern, leading to addiction, overdose, and associated health issues. Understanding the clinical impacts and social impacts of nonmedical substance use is essential for improving the treatment of substance use disorder. In this Named Entity Recognition (NER) task, we focus on two entity types: clinical impacts and social impacts. Instances in the clinical impacts category describe the clinical effects, consequences, or impacts of substance use on individuals' health. Instances the social impacts describe the societal, interpersonal, or community-level effects, consequences, or impacts of nonmedical substance use. Systems designed for this task need to detect these impacts and automatically distinguish between clinical impacts and social impacts in text data derived from Reddit. We anticipate that the strategies will involve leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs). Participating teams have the opportunity to submit a short system description paper for the SMM4H proceedings. The 9th Social Media Mining for Health Research and Applications Workshop (SMM4H) is co-located with ACL 2024, to be held in Bangkok, Thailand. Website: https://healthlanguageprocessing.org/smm4h-2024/ You can find more details on SMM4H Shared Task 4 on Codalab: https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/16648 Registration Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSet9w5zqlaZMZVuPqvW2GnBYTs5_NUjU4r… ------ *Important Dates* ------ Training data available: Jan 10, 2024 CodaLab Available: Jan 17, 2024 Test data available: Apr 17, 2024 Evaluation end: Apr 24, 2024 System description paper due: May 17, 2024 Paper acceptance notification: June 17, 2024 Camera-ready papers due: July 1, 2024 Workshop in Bangkok, Thailand (co-located with ACL 2024): August 15, 2024 (hybrid event, online presentation will be available) *All deadlines are 11:59 PM UTC (3:59 PM PST). No extension will be provided.* ------ *Organizers of Shared Task 4* ------ Abeed Sarker, Emory University, USA Yao Ge, Emory University, USA Swati Rajwal, Emory University, USA Sudeshna Das, Emory University, USA *Questions on Shared Task 4 may be addressed to Yao Ge, Emory University, USA (yao.ge(a)emory.edu <yao.ge(a)emory.edu>)*

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Deadline extended: ALL 4 Health workshop on LLMs in LMICs for Healthcare
by David Tresner-Kirsch 04 Mar '24

04 Mar '24

Dear Colleagues, (please forward) We invite you to submit your research and perspectives to ALL 4 Health 2024 – The First Workshop on Applying LLMs in LMICs for Healthcare Solutions. Submission Deadline: March 21st, 2024 (extended from March 1st) Website: https://www.nivi.io/all4health Contact: all-4-health(a)googlegroups.com ALL 4 Health will be held at the University of Florida on June 3rd in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics <https://ieeeichi2024.github.io/> (ICHI 2024 <https://ieeeichi2024.github.io/>). There has been substantial and growing interest and funding from the development sector in applying Large Language Model (LLM) technologies in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) to address healthcare and other social good challenges.[1] Simultaneously, there have been acknowledgements from the software industry and from NLP researchers that state of the art LLMs are heavily influenced by Western / developed world data and have significant capability gaps between high- and low-resource languages.[2,3,4] Additional research and collaboration is required to bridge this gap. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners from diverse disciplinary backgrounds to discuss challenges and opportunities for applying LLMs for health applications in low-resource settings, and to share findings on gaps, pitfalls, best practices, and opportunities for impact. We invite novel approaches, works in progress, comparative analyses of tools, and advancing state-of-the-art work relevant to applying LLMs for health applications in low-resource languages and settings. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Evaluations of LLMs in contexts with substantial code-switching * Comparisons of LLM accuracy/suitability between high- and low-resource languages * Approaches to localizing the health information processing of LLMs in the context of the laws, culture, service availability, and public health realities in specific LMICs * Data sources for training or tuning LLMs for use on low-resource languages or in LMIC contexts * Studies demonstrating the health or health knowledge impact of LLM applications in low-resource language and/or LMIC contexts * Equity- and Diversity-based evaluations of LLM performance on health domain tasks * Evidence-based position papers on best practices We will accept full papers (4-6 pages, including references) and abstracts (2 pages, including references). Full papers will be eligible for a Best Paper Award with a $300 (USD) prize sponsored by MSD for Mothers <https://www.msdformothers.com/>. Please see https://www.nivi.io/all4health for further information including submission instructions. Best wishes, The ALL 4 Health organizing committee all-4-health(a)googlegroups.com https://www.nivi.io/all4health References: 1. R. Shrivastava. “Gates Foundation Funds Nearly 50 Generative AI Projects In Low And Middle Income Countries.” Forbes, 10 August 2023, https://www.forbes.com/sites/rashishrivastava/2023/08/10/gates-foundation-f… 2. Viet Dac Lai, et al. "Chatgpt beyond english: Towards a comprehensive evaluation of large language models in multilingual learning. <https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.05613>" arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.05613 (2023). 3. J. Dodge, et al. "Documenting large webtext corpora: A case study on the colossal clean crawled corpus. <https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.08758>" arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.08758 (2021). 4. N.R. Robertson, et al. "ChatGPT MT: Competitive for High- (but not Low-) Resource Languages. <https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.07423>" arXiv preprint arxiv:2309.07423 (2023).

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36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering: Last Mile for Workshop Papers Submission
by Announce 04 Mar '24

04 Mar '24

*** Last Mile for Workshop Papers Submission *** 36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'24) June 3-7, 2024, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/caise2024/ (*** Submission Deadline: 18th March, 2024 AoE (extended) ***) ( *** Workshops Proceedings will appear in the LNBIP series by Springer ***) CAiSE is a well-established, highly visible conference series on Advanced Information Systems (IS) Engineering. It covers all relevant topics in the area, including methodologies and approaches for IS engineering, innovative platforms, architectures and technologies, and engineering of specific kinds of IS. CAiSE conferences also have the tradition of hosting workshops in related fields. Workshops are intended to focus on particular topics and provide ample room for discussions of new ideas and developments. Accepted workshop papers of some workshops will be published by Springer in the LNBIP series. CAiSE'24, the 36th edition of the CAiSE series, will host the following workshops. For more information for each workshop please visit the workshops' web sites. CAiSE'24 WORKSHOPS • 3rd International Workshop on Agile Methods for Information Systems Engineering (Agil-ISE) https://agilise.github.io/2024/index.html • International Workshop on Blockchain for Information Systems (BC4IS24) and Blockchain for Trusted Data Sharing (B4TDS) https://pros.unicam.it/bc4isb4tds/ • 2nd International Workshop on Hybrid Artificial Intelligence and Enterprise Modelling for Intelligent Information Systems (HybridAIMS) https://hybridaims.com/ • 2nd Workshop on Knowledge Graphs for Semantics-driven Systems Engineering https://www.omilab.org/activities/events/caise2024_kg4sdse/ • 16th International Workshop on Enterprise & Organizational Modeling and Simulation (EOMAS 2024) https://eomas2024.fel.cvut.cz/ • Digital Transformation with Business Process Mining (DigPro2024) https://digpro.iiita.ac.in/ IMPORTANT DATES • Abstract Submission Deadline (optional): 11th March, 2024 (AoE) • Paper Submission Deadline: 18th March, 2024 (AoE) (*** extended ***) • Notification of Acceptance: 1st April, 2024 • Camera-ready Deadline: 5th April, 2024 • Author Registration Deadline: 10th April, 2024 WORKSHOP CHAIRS • João Paulo A. Almeida, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil • Claudio di Ciccio, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy • Christos Kalloniatis, University of the Aegean, Greece

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CfP: SIGHAN 2024 Shared Task for Chinese Dimensional Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis
by Lung-Hao Lee 04 Mar '24

04 Mar '24

*SIGHAN 2024 Shared Task for Chinese Dimensional Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (dimABSA)* The 10th SIGHAN Workshop on Chinese Language Processing (SIGHAN-10) Location: Bangkok, Thailand (co-located with ACL 2024) Date: Friday, August 16, 2024 Shared Task: Dimensional Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (dimABSA) Task Website: https://dimabsa2024.github.io/ Registration and Submission: https://www.codabench.org/competitions/2137/ *Task Summary * *Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA)* is a critical NLP research topic that aims to identify the aspects of a given sentence and analyze the sentiments associated with each aspect. Compared to representing affective states as several discrete classes (i.e., polarity), the dimensional approach that represents affective states as continuous numerical values (called intensity) in multiple dimensions, such as valence-arousal (VA) space, provides more fine-grained emotional information. Therefore, we organize a *Chinese dimensional ABSA shared task (dimABSA) in the SIGHAN 2024 workshop*, providing fine-grained sentiment intensity prediction for each extracted aspect of a restaurant review. We have three subtasks: 1) *Intensity Prediction*, 2) *Triplet Extraction*, and 3) *Quadruple Extraction*. Participants will be free to choose the subtasks they wish to participate in. More information is available online at https://dimabsa2024.github.io/ *Important Dates* Note that all deadlines are 23:59:59 AoE (UTC-12). - Release of training data: 1st March, 2024 - Release of test data: 20th May, 2024 - Testing results submission due: 24th May, 2024 - System description paper due: 7th June, 2024 - Notification of Acceptance: 17th June, 2024 - Camera-ready deadline: 1st July, 2024 - SIGHAN 2024 Workshop: August 16, 2024 *Organizers * - Lung-Hao Lee, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University - Liang-Chih Yu, Yuan Ze University - Suge Wang, Shanxi University - Jian Liao, Shanxi University

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Extended deadline [March 21st]: 7th Laughter and Other Non-Verbal Vocalisations Workshop - July 16-17 2024
by Bogdan Ludusan 04 Mar '24

04 Mar '24

***Update: call for papers extended to March 21st*** We are excited to announce the *7th Laughter and Other Non-Verbal Vocalisations Workshop* (bit.ly/LaughterWorkshop2024) on July 16-17 at Queen’s University Belfast. The workshop will be a pre-conference event, part of the 2024 Conference of the International Society for Research on Emotion (www.isre2024.org). Non-verbal vocalisations in human-human and human-machine interactions play important roles in displaying social and affective behaviours and in managing the flow of interaction. Laughter, sighs, clicks, filled pauses, and short utterances such as feedback responses are among some of the non-verbal vocalisations that are being increasingly studied from various research fields. However, much is still unknown about the phonetic or visual characteristics of non-verbal vocalisations (production/encoding), their relations to the social actions they are part of, their perceived meanings (perception/decoding), and their ordering in interaction. Furthermore, with the increased interest for more naturalness in human-machine interaction, current times also invite exploring how these phenomena can be integrated in speech applications. *Research themes* include, but are not restricted to, these aspects of laughter and other non-verbal vocalisations: • Articulation, acoustics, and perception • Interaction and pragmatics • Affective and evaluative meanings • Social perception and organisation • Disfluency • Technology applications Researchers are invited to submit *extended abstracts* (2 pages of content and maximum one additional page for references and figures) describing original work, including work in progress. The deadline for submission is March 21st, 2024. More information about the submission process can be found on our website (bit.ly/LaughterWorkshop2024). There will be two *keynote presentations* on the topics treated by the workshop, delivered by Prof. Carolyn McGettigan (University College London, UK) and Prof. Margaret Zellers (Kiel University, Germany). The workshop will be supported by the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), offering one travel grant for early career scientists. Looking forward to receiving your contributions and welcoming you at the workshop in July! Best wishes, The LW2024 Organising Committee Bogdan Ludusan, Bielefeld University, Germany Marina Cantarutti, University of York, United Kingdom For further information or questions regarding the workshop you can contact the organisers at the following email address: LaughterWorkshop2024(a)gmail.com

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