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CfP MISDOOM 2023 - 5th Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Disinformation in Open Online Media
by Tommaso Caselli 26 Jun '23

26 Jun '23

*************************************************************************************** Call for Contributions and Keynote Speaker Announcement *************************************************************************************** 5th Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Disinformation in Open Online Media November 21-22, 2023 Hosted by the National Research Center for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI), Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://event.cwi.nl/misdoom-2023 The Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Disinformation in Open Online Media (MISDOOM) is returning for its 5th edition on 21 and 22 November 2023. This time, the conference will be hosted by the National Research Center for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI) at Amsterdam Science Park (Netherlands). MISDOOM values multidisciplinary research and is designed to be inclusive of different academic disciplines and practices. The symposium provides a platform for researchers, industry professionals, and practitioners from various disciplines such as communication science, computer science, computational social science, political science, psychology, journalism, and media studies to come together and share their knowledge and insights on online disinformation. *Keynote Speakers* We are thrilled to announce two outstanding keynote speakers: - Prof Dr. Judith Möller, University of Hamburg & Leibniz-Institute for Media Research | Hans-Bredow-Institut - Dr. Pepa Atanasova, University of Copenhagen More details will follow soon. Stay tuned! *Symposium Topics* Participants can discuss and contribute to the following list of topics: - Cross-platform campaigns and their impact (e.g., diffusion of disinformation and manipulation, observations of campaigns and strategies, communication strategies, hate speech) - Approaches to studying misinformation (e.g., qualitative approaches, case studies, quantitative approaches, experiments) - User involvement with misinformation on various platforms (e.g., engagement, viewership) - Counter-measures for mis- and disinformation and manipulation (e.g., censorship policies, behavioral changes, education, training, professional codices, legal actions) - Factors contributing to misinformation beliefs or hampering corrections of false beliefs (e.g., political polarization, motivated reasoning, confirmation bias) - Trending topics in mis- and disinformation research - Automated fact-checking and misinformation detection - Models for misinformation diffusion - Human computation approaches for misinformation detection (crowdsourcing, human-machine interaction) - Information quality (information quality dimensions, metrics, ethics of information quality) - Generative AI tools and disinformation (e.g., ChatGPT, Midjourney, DALL-E) *Industry* Industries are also invited to participate in the conference by submitting a contribution describing their approach to countering or detecting misinformation. *Submission Instructions* Given that we welcome both social scientists and computer scientists, and that the publication strategies of these fields differ, we solicit two types of contributions that, upon acceptance, result in the same opportunity to present at MISDOOM: - Papers Papers to be published with Springer LNCS proceedings. Up to 15 pages (including references) in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) format describing original unpublished and new research. The work should be structured like a research paper, and cover the context of the problem studied, the research question, approach/methodology, and results in 6 to 15 pages. It should be formatted according to the LNCS Word or LaTeX template. Such submissions will be judged based on scientific quality and relevance for the MISDOOM symposium. - Extended Abstracts Authors can also choose to submit an Extended Abstract. The extended abstract should not exceed 500 words, excluding references, and can pertain to previously published work, ongoing projects, or new research ideas. There is no particular format for the extended abstract, but it must include the title, authors, their affiliation, the text of the abstract, and references, particularly if it involves previously published work. Submissions are not archival and are not formally published. Additionally, authors must submit a conference program abstract of no more than 150 words. Authors should add the suffix "(Extended Abstract)" to the title of their extended abstract submission. *Important Note about Submissions* Both contribution types (full papers and extended abstracts) must specify the discipline they are contributing to as keyword(s) in OpenReview at the time of submission (they should enter at least one of the two keywords "computer science" or "social science" in the keyword box). Submission Link: https://openreview.net/group?id=MISDOOM/2023/Symposium *Important Dates* Submission Deadline: 30 June 2023 Notification: 28 August 2023 Camera-ready: 11 September 2023 Symposium: 21-22 November 2023 -- Tommaso Caselli, Ph.D. Senior Assistant Professor in Computational Semantics Faculty of Arts, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen The Netherlands ---------------------------- https://xs4all.academia.edu/TommasoCaselli https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tommaso_Caselli Twitter: @tommaso_caselli

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Call for Papers: The 27th Annual Conference of the Foundation for Endangered Languages, FEL XXVII, Rabat Morocco 23-25 November 2023
by Steven Krauwer 26 Jun '23

26 Jun '23

The 27th Annual Conference of the Foundation for Endangered Languages, FEL XXVII (2023) Organised by The Foundation for Endangered Languages (FEL) and The Moroccan Institute for Advanced Studies (IMEA) in collaboration with The Faculty of Science of Education (FSE) Rabat, Morocco, 23-25 November 2023 Theme of the conference: Endangered Languages and Cultural Diversity The focus of the conference will be on the relationship between language endangerment/extinction and the threat to cultural diversity. While it has a universal scope, it aims to also encourage scholarship and accounts of community initiatives from the African continent as well as those relating to African situations. Call for papers Extended abstracts of about 1000 words in English should be submitted at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=felxxvii2023 by 12 July 2023. The extended abstract should provide a brief account of the context, the issue(s) studied, the methodology used, and relevant references, together with a mention of any major results, conclusions and implications. Those whose abstracts are accepted will be notified by 22 August 2023. Venue Faculté des Sciences de l’Education, Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco. More information Email: felconf2023_morocco(a)ogmios.org Website: https://www.ogmios.org/conferences/2023 Working language: The working language of the conference is English Call for Papers in English, French and Arabic (PDF): https://www.ogmios.org/conferences/2023/CfP-En-Fr-Ar.pdf Important dates 12 July 2023: Deadline for submission of abstract 22 August 2023: Selected applicants informed 20 September 2023: Deadline for Reception of Final Version of Accepted Abstracts 23-24 November 2023: Conference dates 25 November: Excursion to a local community Organisation and sponsorship Foundation for Endangered Languages (FEL) The Moroccan Institute for Advanced Studies (IMEA) The Faculty of Science of Education (FSE) FEL Organising Committee Salem Mezhoud Nicholas Ostler Steven Krauwer Hakim Elnazarov Christopher Moseley Eda Derhermi Joseph Babasola Osoba Mujahid Torwali Local Organising Committee Yamina El Kirat El Allame Majdouline Enahibi Abdekarim Chebbaki Yassine Akheyyat Adil Azhar Hasbiya Taifi Bernoussi Othmane Zakaria Mouna Al Andaloussi Rania Lougmiri -- _______________________________________________________________________ Steven Krauwer, CLARIN/FEL/ELSNET/UiLOTS, Drift 10, 3512 BS Utrecht, NL

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[CALL FOR PAPERS] The 10th Workshop on Argument Mining @ EMNLP 2023 December 7, 2023
by milad.alshomary＠uni-paderborn.de 26 Jun '23

26 Jun '23

CALL FOR PAPERS The 10th Workshop on Argument Mining @ EMNLP 2023 December 7, 2023 https://argmining-org.github.io/2023/ The 10th Workshop on Argument Mining will be held on December 7, 2023 in Singapore together with EMNLP 2023. This will be a hybrid event. The Workshop on Argument Mining provides a regular forum for the presentation and discussion of cutting-edge research in argument mining (a.k.a argumentation mining) to both academic and industry researchers. By continuing a series of nine successful previous workshops, this edition will welcome the submission of long, short, and demo papers. It will feature two shared tasks, a panel on the last ten years of Argument Mining, and a keynote talk. IMPORTANT DATES - Direct paper submission deadline (Softconf): September 1, 2023 - Paper commitment from ARR: September 15, 2023 - Notification of acceptance: October 7, 2023 - Camera-ready submission: October 18, 2023 - Workshop: December 7, 2023 TOPICS OF INTEREST The topics for submissions include but are not limited to: - Automatic identification of argument components (e.g., premises and conclusions), the structure in which they form an argument, and relations between arguments and counterarguments (e.g., support and attack) in as well as across documents - Automatic assessment of arguments and argumentation with respect to various properties, such as stance, clarity, and persuasiveness - Automatic generation of arguments and their components, including the consideration of discourse goals (e.g., stages of a critical discussion or rhetorical strategies) - Creation and evaluation of argument annotation schemes, relationships to linguistic and discourse annotations, (semi-) automatic argument annotation methods and tools, and creation of argumentation corpora - Argument mining in specific genres and domains (e.g., social media, education, law, and scientific writing), each with a unique style (e.g., short informal text, highly structured writing, and long-form documents) - Argument mining and generation from multi-modal and/or multilingual data - Integration of commonsense and domain knowledge into argumentation models for mining and generation - Combination of information retrieval methods with argument mining, e.g., in order to build the next generation of argumentative (web) search engines - Real-world applications, including argument web search, opinion analysis in customer reviews, argument analysis in meetings, misinformation detection - Perspectivist approaches to subjective argument mining tasks for which multiple ”ground truths” may exist, including multi-perspective machine learning and the creation of non-aggregated datasets - Reflection on the ethical aspects and societal impact of argument mining methods - Reflection on the future of argument mining in light of the fast advancement of large language models (LLMs). SUBMISSIONS The organizing committee welcomes the submission of long papers, short papers, and demo descriptions. Accepted papers will be presented either via oral or poster presentations. They will be included in the EMNLP proceedings as workshop papers. - Long paper submissions must describe substantial, original, completed, and unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis should be included. Long papers must be no longer than eight pages, including title, text, figures and tables. An unlimited number of pages is allowed for references. Two additional pages are allowed for appendices, and an extra page is allowed in the final version to address reviewers’ comments. - Short paper submissions must describe original and unpublished work. Please note that a short paper is not a shortened long paper. Instead, short papers should have a point that can be made in a few pages, such as a small, focused contribution; a negative result; or an interesting application nugget. Short papers must be no longer than four pages, including title, text, figures and tables. An unlimited number of pages is allowed for references. One additional page is allowed for the appendix, and an extra page is allowed in the final version to address reviewers’ comments. - Demo descriptions must be no longer than four pages, including title, text, examples, figures, tables, and references. A separate one-page document should be provided to the workshop organizers for demo descriptions, specifying furniture and equipment needed for the demo. Multiple Submissions ArgMining 2023 will not consider any paper that is under review in a journal or another conference or workshop at the time of submission, and submitted papers must not be submitted elsewhere during the review period. ArgMining 2023 will also accept submissions of ARR-reviewed papers, provided that the ARR reviews and meta-reviews are available by the ARR commitment deadline (September 15). However, ArgMining 2023 will not accept direct submissions that are actively under review in ARR, or that overlap significantly (>25%) with such submissions. Submission Format All long, short, and demonstration submissions must follow the two-column EMNLP 2023 format. Authors are expected to use the LaTeX or Microsoft Word style template (https://2023.emnlp.org/calls/style-and-formatting/). Submissions must conform to the official EMNLP style guidelines, which are contained in these templates. Submissions must be electronic, in PDF format. Submission Link and Deadline For Direct Submissions Authors have to fill in the submission form in the START system and upload a PDF of their paper before September 1, 2023, 11:59 pm UTC-12h (anywhere on earth). https://softconf.com/emnlp2023/ArgMining2023/ For the ARR commitment process, we will provide details in our second call for paper later in the summer. Double Blind Review ArgMining 2023 will follow the ACL policies for preserving the integrity of double-blind review for long and short paper submissions. Papers must not include authors’ names and affiliations. Furthermore, self-references or links (such as github) that reveal the author’s identity, e.g., “We previously showed (Smith, 1991) …” must be avoided. Instead, use citations such as “Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) …” Papers that do not conform to these requirements will be rejected without review. Papers should not refer, for further detail, to documents that are not available to the reviewers. For example, do not omit or redact important citation information to preserve anonymity. Instead, use third person or named reference to this work, as described above (“Smith showed” rather than “we showed”). If important citations are not available to reviewers (e.g., awaiting publication), these paper/s should be anonymised and included in the appendix. They can then be referenced from the submission without compromising anonymity. Papers may be accompanied by a resource (software and/or data) described in the paper, but these resources should also be anonymized. Unlike long and short papers, demo descriptions will not be anonymous. Demo descriptions should include the authors’ names and affiliations, and self-references are allowed. ANONYMITY PERIOD (taken from the EMNLP call for papers in verbatim for the most part) The following rules and guidelines are meant to protect the integrity of double-blind review and ensure that submissions are reviewed fairly. The rules make reference to the anonymity period, which runs from 1 month before the direct submission deadline (starting August 1, 2023) up to the date when your paper is accepted or rejected (October 7, 2023). For papers committed from ARR, the anonymity period starts August 15, 2023. Papers that are withdrawn during this period will no longer be subject to these rules. You may not make a non-anonymized version of your paper available online to the general community (for example, via a preprint server) during the anonymity period. Versions of the paper include papers having essentially the same scientific content but possibly differing in minor details (including title and structure) and/or in length. If you have posted a non-anonymized version of your paper online before the start of the anonymity period, you may submit an anonymized version to the conference. The submitted version must not refer to the non-anonymized version, and you must inform the programme chairs that a non-anonymized version exists. You may not update the non-anonymized version during the anonymity period, and we ask you not to advertise it on social media or take other actions that would further compromise double-blind reviewing during the anonymity period. You may make an anonymized version of your paper available (for example, on OpenReview), even during the anonymity period. For arXiv submissions, August 1, 2023 11:59pm UTC-12h (anywhere on earth) is the latest time the paper can be uploaded if you plan a direct submission to the workshop (or August 15, 2023 for papers from ARR committed to the workshops on September 15, 2023). BEST PAPER AWARDS In order to recognize significant advancements in argument mining science and technology, ArgMining 2023 will include best paper awards. All papers at the workshop are eligible for the best paper awards and a selection committee consisting of prominent researchers in the fields of interest will select the recipients of the awards. SHARED TASKS We will be hosting two shared tasks this year: - ImageArg-Shared-Task-2023: The First Shared Task in Multimodal Argument Mining - PragTag-2023: The First Shared Task on Pragmatic Tagging of Peer Reviews ArgMining 2023 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Milad Alshomary, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany Chung-Chi Chen, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan Smaranda Muresan, Columbia University, USA Joonsuk Park, University of Richmond, USA Julia Romberg, Heinrich Heine University of Duesseldorf, Germany

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Position available at NLP & IR Research Group UNED
by JORGE AMANDO CARRILLO DE ALBORNOZ CUADRADO 26 Jun '23

26 Jun '23

Full time position The UNED IR & NLP group has an open position. The successful candidate is expected to work as part of the joint research project FAIRTRANSNLP-DIAGNOSIS: Measuring and quantifying bias and fairness in NLP pipelines, together with colleagues from the Universidad de Barcelona and Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. The project focuses on developing methodologies and metrics for measuring bias, fairness and transparency in NLP systems. The detection of bias, their types and sources, is essential for developing unbiased datasets for training fair systems in NLP. Within the FAIRTRANSNLP project, the candidate will work in the formalization of the detection of bias, fairness, and transparency of NLP pipelines from three different angles: (i) bias embedded in the dataset; (ii) degree of fairness in ML algorithms; and (iii) transparency techniques used in ML to achieve explainability in NLP. The candidate will also participate in the compilation and annotation of datasets. * Candidate profile * * Academic background (university degree, preferably master) in computer science or related discipline. * Knowledge of natural language processing and machine learning. * Excellent programming skills. * Ability to research and work as part of a team. * Fluent in English. * Terms and conditions * One year position with a possible extension to two years (1+1) after a positive evaluation. * Application * The position is open until filled. Follow instructions in the official call: https://www2.uned.es/bici/Curso2022-2023/32306266/36-1.htm#9.-_____Convocat… Please send an email to lplaza(a)lsi.uned.es and jcalbornoz(a)lsi.uned.es for more info. * More about us * The UNED NLP & IR group is a leading group in Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing. Our team consists of more than 30 people. https://sites.google.com/view/nlp-uned/home AVISO LEGAL. Este mensaje puede contener información reservada y confidencial. Si usted no es el destinatario no está autorizado a copiar, reproducir o distribuir este mensaje ni su contenido. Si ha recibido este mensaje por error, le rogamos que lo notifique al remitente. Le informamos de que sus datos personales, que puedan constar en este mensaje, serán tratados en calidad de responsable de tratamiento por la UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA (UNED) c/ Bravo Murillo, 38, 28015-MADRID-, con la finalidad de mantener el contacto con usted. La base jurídica que legitima este tratamiento, será su consentimiento, el interés legítimo o la necesidad para gestionar una relación contractual o similar. En cualquier momento podrá ejercer sus derechos de acceso, rectificación, supresión, oposición, limitación al tratamiento o portabilidad de los datos, ante la UNED, Departamento de Política Jurídica de Seguridad de la Información<https://www.uned.es/dpj>, o a través de la Sede electrónica<https://sede.uned.es/> de la Universidad. Para más información visite nuestra Política de Privacidad<https://descargas.uned.es/publico/pdf/Politica_privacidad_UNED.pdf>.

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10th International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC 2023): Fifth Call for Papers
by georgeangelos60＠gmail.com 26 Jun '23

26 Jun '23

*** Fifth Call for Papers *** 10th International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC 2023) October 30 - November 1, 2023, 5* Golden Bay Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus http://besc-conf.org/2023/ The International Conference on Behavioural and Social Computing (BESC) is a major international forum that brings together academic researchers and industry practitioners from artificial intelligence, computational social sciences, natural language processing, business and marketing, and behavioural and psychological sciences to present updated research efforts and progresses on foundational and emerging interdisciplinary topics of BESC, exchange new ideas and identify future research directions. The BESC series of conferences are technically sponsored by IEEE SMC (Systems, Man and Cybernetics) Society as well as IEEE CIS (Computational Intelligence Society) and the proceedings are published by IEEE BESC 2023 invites submissions of original, high-quality research papers addressing cutting-edge developments from all areas of behavioural and social computing. The conference aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to share their knowledge, experience, and perspectives on the latest trends, challenges, and opportunities in this rapidly evolving field. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Social Computing, Computational Social Science and Applications • Computational models of social phenomena • Social behaviour • Social network analysis • Semantic web • Collective intelligence • Security, privacy, trust in social contexts • Social recommendation • Social influence and social contagions • Quantifying offline phenomena through online data • Forecasting of social phenomena • Science and technology studies approaches to computational social science • Social media and health behaviours • Social psychology and personality • New theories, methods, and objectives in computational social science Digital Humanities • Digital media • Digital humanities • Digital games and learning • Digital footprints and privacy • Crowd dynamics • Digital arts • Digital healthcare • Activity streams and experience design • Virtual communities (e.g., open-source, multiplayer gaming, etc.) Information Management and Information Systems (IS) • Decision analytics • E-Business • Decision analytics • Computational finance • Societal impacts of IS • Human behaviour and IS • IS in healthcare • IS security and privacy • IS strategy, structure and organizational impacts • Service science and IS Natural Language Processing • Web mining and its social interpretations • Sentiment Analysis, Stylistic Analysis, and Argument Mining • Opinion mining and social media analytics • Credibility of online content • Computational Linguistics • Mining big social data • Cognitive Modelling and Psycholinguistics Behaviour and User Modelling, Privacy, and Ethics • Behaviour change • Positive technology • Personalization for individuals, groups and populations • Large scale personalization, adaptation and recommendation • Web dynamics and personalization • Privacy, perceived security and trust • Technology and Wellbeing • Ethics of computational research on human behaviour Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) • E-Learning and M-Learning • Open and Distance Learning • User modeling and personalization in TEL • TEL in secondary and in higher education • New tools for TEL BESC 2023 will also host the following Special Sessions. Papers accepted in any of the Special Sessions will be included in the same IEEE conference proceedings with the papers accepted for the general technical program. ● Computational Social Psychology in Post Covid-19 Period ● Artificial Intelligence for Mental Health, Mental Illness, Psychiatic Diagnosis, and Prediction ● Intelligent E-Learning at Post Covid-19 Era ● Big Data and AI-Powered Decision Support Systems in Business ● Understanding the Citizen's Behavior in Cognitive Cities ● Nudges and Behavioural Computing Models for a Sustainable and Equitable Development SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS The paper submission system is using Easy Chair and the submission link is: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=besc2023 . All papers will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis of technical quality, relevance to BESC 2023, originality, significance and clarity. Please note: • All submissions should use IEEE two-column style. Templates are available here: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html • All papers must be submitted electronically through the paper submission system in PDF format only. BESC 2023 accepts research papers (6 pages), special session papers (6 pages) and Doctoral Symposium papers (4 pages). • The page count above excludes the references (but includes any appendices). • Paper review will be double-blind, and submissions not properly anonymized will be desk-rejected without review. • Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. • Papers must be clearly submitted in English and will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. • Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. • The use of artificial intelligence (AI)–generated text in an article shall be disclosed in the acknowledgements section of any paper submitted to an IEEE Conference or Periodical. The sections of the paper that use AI-generated text shall have a citation to the AI system used to generate the text. • All accepted papers will be included in IEEE Xplore and indexed by EI. Top quality papers after presented in the conference will be selected for extension and publication in several special issues of international journals, e.g., World Wide Web Journal (Springer), Web Intelligence (IOS Press), and Social Network Analysis and Mining (Springer), Human-Centric Intelligent Systems (Springer), Information Discovery and Delivery (Emerald Publishing). IMPORTANT DATES • Submission of all papers: 15 July 2023 • Notification of acceptance for submitted papers: 15 September 2023 • Camera-Ready Submission: 1 October 2023 • Author Registration: 1 October 2023 ORGANISATION Steering Committee Chair • Guandong Xu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia General Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs • Georgia Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus • Ji Zhang, University of Southern Queensland, Australia Special Session Chairs • Taotao Cai, University of Southern Queensland, Australia • Ting Yu, Zhejiang Lab, China Doctoral Symposium Chair • Barbara Caci, University of Palermo, Italy Panel and Tutorial Chair • Philippe Fournier-Viger, Shenzhen University, China Proceedings Chair • Md Rafiqul Islam, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Publicity Chairs • Chandan Gautam, Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR, Singapore • Thanveer Shaik, University of Southern Queensland, Australia • Sanjay Sonbhadra, ITER, Siksha 'O' Anusandhan, India Webmaster • Shiqing Wu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

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Counting multiple long (9+) n-grams in corpora: request for approaches
by beauchampd＠uni.coventry.ac.uk 23 Jun '23

23 Jun '23

Hi all, I'm doing analysis on a corpus on tweets from institutions. Regarding analysis of n-grams, it is quite unusual in that there are many repeated exact tweets, or very similar tweets, leading to long super strings of often 9 or 10 or more words together. Naturally this makes accurate counting and classifying difficult due to the overlapping substrings. Does anyone know of any approaches or software which can count and classify n-grams in such circumstances? I am aware of approaches outlined by Buerki (2017) and O'Donnell (2011), but these do not seem practical due to the excessive length of the n-grams in the corpus. Does anyone know of any accessible methods or packages? Any input much appreciated.

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CL2023 - FREE online attendance
by Brezina, Vaclav 23 Jun '23

23 Jun '23

Dear all, There is a last chance to register for FREE to watch live streaming of sessions from the International Corpus Linguistics Conference 2023 (CL2023) from Lancaster University, UK 3rd - 6th July. If you can't be in Lancaster in person, you can still sign up to watch our live online broadcasts - for free! https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/cl2023/registration/ 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 [8ED5AC37]@vaclavbrezina [B213DA5D]<http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/arts-and-social-sciences/about-us/people/vaclav-…>

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CLASSLA web corpora of Croatian, Serbian and Slovenian
by Taja Kuzman 23 Jun '23

23 Jun '23

** *Dear all,* ** ** * The CLASSLA Knowledge centre for South Slavic languages (https://www.clarin.si/info/k-centre/ <https://www.clarin.si/info/k-centre/>) is delighted to announce the release of the pilot versions (v0.1) of the CLASSLA web corpora for Croatian (2.3 billion words), Serbian (2.4 billion words) and Slovenian (1.9 billion words). They are available for querying via the CLARIN.SI concordancers (https://www.clarin.si/ske/#open <https://www.clarin.si/ske/#open>). The main features of the newly released corpora, aside from their large size and recency (crawled in 2022) is their automatic enrichment with genre information (https://huggingface.co/classla/xlm-roberta-base-multilingual-text-genre-cla… <https://huggingface.co/classla/xlm-roberta-base-multilingual-text-genre-cla…>) and their linguistic processing with the improved CLASSLA-Stanza annotation pipeline (https://pypi.org/project/classla/ <https://pypi.org/project/classla/>). The pilot versions of these corpora are intended to gather valuable user feedback, while the official release (v1.0) of the three existing corpora, along with web corpora for Bosnian, Montenegrin, Macedonian, and Bulgarian, is scheduled for later this year. We warmly welcome you to explore our corpora and feel free to reach out to us at helpdesk.classla(a)clarin.si <mailto:helpdesk.classla@clarin.si>with any ideas for improvements. You are also invited to read our blog post on the use of CLASSLA web corpora via the open CLARIN.SI concordancers: https://www.clarin.si/info/k-centre/classla-web-bigger-and-better-web-corpo… <https://www.clarin.si/info/k-centre/classla-web-bigger-and-better-web-corpo…>. If you are interested in South Slavic resources and technologies, we also invite you to join the CLASSLA mailing list (https://mailman.ijs.si/mailman/listinfo/classla <https://mailman.ijs.si/mailman/listinfo/classla>) and to follow the CLARIN.SI infrastructure on Twitter (https://twitter.com/ClarinSlovenia <https://twitter.com/ClarinSlovenia>).* Best regards, Taja Kuzman, Nikola Ljubešić and many other CLASSLAers

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Call for Abstracts: Computational Linguistics poster session at DGfS
by Tatjana Scheffler 22 Jun '23

22 Jun '23

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS We would like to invite the submission of abstracts for the Computational Linguistics poster session at the 46th Annual Meeting of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS), hosted by the Ruhr University Bochum. This conference brings together linguists from all subfields in Germany and beyond, and the poster session offers an opportunity to share computational approaches to language within the broader community. We invite submissions from all areas of computational linguistics and natural language processing. We especially encourage students and junior researchers to participate. The poster session is organized by the Special Interest Group on Computational Linguistics of the DGfS (dgfs.de/cl). Conference homepage: https://www.dgfs2024.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/ DATES - Abstract submission due: September 30, 2023 - Notification of acceptance: October 13, 2023 - Conference dates: February 28-March 1, 2024 SUBMISSION One page abstract (A4) in PDF format (12pt). Submissions can be in German or English and do not need to be anonymous. Please submit your abstract via email to: tatjana.scheffler(a)rub.de CONTACT Tatjana Scheffler, Ruhr University Bochum, tatjana.scheffler(a)rub.de Annette Hautli-Janisz, University of Passau --- Jun.-Prof. Dr. Tatjana Scheffler (she/her) GB 5/157 Ruhr-Universität Bochum Fakultät für Philologie, Germanistik Universitätsstraße 150 44801 Bochum Germany Mail: tatjana.scheffler(a)rub.de Web: http://staff.germanistik.rub.de/digitale-forensische-linguistik/ Tel.: +49 234 32-21471

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CFP: ALTA 2023
by Diego Molla-Aliod 22 Jun '23

22 Jun '23

ALTA 2023 Call for Papers https://alta2023.alta.asn.au/ IMPORTANT DATES * Submission Deadline for short/long papers, presentation abstracts and industry demonstrations: 5 September 2023 (11:59pm Anywhere on Earth UTC-12) * Author Notification: 14 October 2023 * Camera-Ready Deadline: 28 October 2023 (11:59pm Anywhere on Earth UTC-12) * Tutorials: 29 November 2023 * Main Conference: 30 November and 1 December 2023 OVERVIEW The 21st Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association will be held in a hybrid format at Melbourne Connect, Melbourne, from the 29th November to 1st December 2023 The hybrid format gives participants a valuable opportunity to attend either in-person or online. The ALTA 2023 workshop is the key local forum for socialising research results in natural language processing and computational linguistics, with presentations, posters and demonstrations from students, industry, and academic researchers. Like previous years, we would also like to encourage submissions and participation from industry and government researchers and developers. Note that ALTA is listed in the CORE 2021 Conference Rankings as Australasian B. See details from CORE Rankings Portal. TOPICS ALTA invites the submission of papers and presentations on all aspects of natural language processing, 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 ● Summarization ● Syntax, Parsing and their Applications We particularly encourage submissions that broaden the scope of our community through the consideration of practical applications of language technology and through multi-disciplinary research. We also specifically encourage submissions from industry. FORMAT We invite submissions of three different formats: (1) Original Research Papers; (2) Abstract-based Presentations; and (3) Industry Demonstrations. (1) Original Research Papers We invite the submission of papers on original and unpublished research on all aspects of natural language processing. Long papers should be 7-8 pages and short papers should be 3-4 pages. Accepted papers will either be delivered as an oral presentation or as a poster presentation. We only accept poster presentations for participants who are presenting on site. Both short and long papers may include unlimited pages of references in addition to the page count requirements. Note that the review process is double-blind, and accordingly submitted papers should not include the identity of author(s) and the text should be suitably anonymised, e.g. using third person wording for self-citations, not providing URLs to your personal website, etc. Original research papers will be included in the workshop proceedings, which will be published online in the ACL anthology and the ALTA website. Long papers will be distinguished from short papers in the proceedings. (2) Abstract-based Presentations To encourage broader participation and facilitate local socialisation of international results, we invite 1-2 page presentation abstracts. The organisers may offer the opportunity to give an oral presentation or a poster presentation. We only accept poster presentations for participants who are presenting on site. Submissions should include presentation title and abstract, name of the presenter, any publications relating to the work, and any information on collaboration with the local ALTA community. Abstracts will not be published in the proceedings, but simply reviewed by the ALTA executive committee to ensure that they are on topic, coherent and likely to be of interest to the ALTA community. Abstracts on work in progress and work published or submitted elsewhere are encouraged. ALTA invites submissions of all manner interesting research, not limited to, but including: ● established academics giving an overview of an exciting paper or paper/s published in international venues; ● completing research students giving an overview of their thesis work; ● early candidature research students presenting their work-in-progress and ideas, which may not have been published. Presentation abstracts should not be anonymised, any publications relating to the work should be cited in the submission, and the person who will give the presentation should be clearly stated. (3) Industry Demonstrations To encourage industry participation and networking opportunities, we are thrilled to announce a track for industry demonstrations, which provides an exciting opportunity for industry researchers to showcase their NLP applications. You should submit a proposal that is 1-2 pages long, containing: (1) a description of the software, tools or applications that will be presented and how NLP techniques are used to address a specific problem; and (2) a brief introduction of your organisation. The proposals will be reviewed by the ALTA executive committee to select demonstrations that best align with the interest of the ALTA community. MULTIPLE SUBMISSION POLICY Original research papers that are under review for other publication venues or that you intend to submit elsewhere may be submitted in parallel to ALTA. We require that you declare at submission that your paper is submitted to another venue, and identify the venue. Should your paper be accepted to both ALTA and another venue, we allow you to decide whether the paper should be published in the ALTA proceedings, or if it should be treated as a Presentation (without archival publication). In this case you would still be able to present a research talk at the ALTA workshop. This is to encourage more internationally leading research to be presented at the workshop. INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS PAPER SUBMISSION Authors should submit their papers via OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=ALTA.asn.au/2023/Workshop (using the “ALTA 2023 Workshop Submission” button) Formatting Guidelines Submissions must follow the two-column ACL format. We therefore strongly recommend you use LaTeX style files or Microsoft Word template from: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files Paper Length Long papers should be 7-8 pages (excluding references) Short papers should be 3-4 pages (excluding references) Abstracts ideally should be a few paragraphs and no more than 2 pages Industry demonstration proposals should be 1-2 pages Anonymisation Short and long papers must be anonymised. Abstracts are NOT to be anonymised and must include the author's/authors' affiliation

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