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Three Doctoral and Three Post-Doc Positions with the Chair of Multilingual Computational Linguistics in Passau
by Mattis List 21 Apr '23

21 Apr '23

Dear all, Our Chair of Multilingual Computational Linguistics is offering a total of three doctoral and three post-doctoral positions. All doctoral positions are for three years, with a possibility of extension by one more year. Research topics include historical linguistics, linguistic typology and cognitive linguistics / psycholinguistics. Deadline for application is May 20. Two of the three post-doc positions are for three years and do not involve teaching. Topics include linguistic typology and historical linguistics. Deadline for application is May 20. The last post-doc position is for an assistant of the chair, which comes with a higher pay grade in the German system (Akademische Rat) and involves teaching duties of five hours per week during semester times. This position is for three years, with a possible extension by three more years. Major background for the candidates is machine learning / computational linguistics whereas dealing with multilingual data is a plus. Starting date for all positions is October 2023, the assistant position can also be filled earlier. Official calls are not yet available in English, but you can check the official calls in German, which are summarized with links here: http://digling.org/calc/?news If you have any questions on the details, please write an email to mcl-admin(a)uni-passau.de. We'll gladly provide more information. Feel also free to forward this email to friends and colleagues or to share the link to the calls via social media. Sincerely, Mattis List -- Prof. Dr. Johann-Mattis List Chair of Multilingual Computational Linguistics University of Passau Dr.-Hans-Kapfinger-Str. 16 04032 Passau Germany Chair Website: https://phil.uni-passau.de/multilinguale-computerlinguistik/ Personal Website: https://lingulist.de Telephone: +49(0)851/509-3480

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1st CfP: 1st Workshop on Counter Speech for Online Abuse
by Abercrombie, Gavin 21 Apr '23

21 Apr '23

The 1st Workshop on Counter Speech for Online Abuse: A workshop for creating, investigating and improving tools for producing and evaluating counter speech. Hate speech and abusive and toxic language are prevalent in online spaces. For example, a 2019 survey shows that in the UK 30-40% of people have experienced online abuse, and platforms like Facebook bring down millions of harmful posts every year, with the help of AI tools. While removal of such content can immediately reduce the quantity of harmful messages, it can bring about accusations of censorship and may not be effective at curbing hate in the long term. An alternative approach is to reply with counter speech, i.e. targeted responses aimed at refuting the hateful language using thoughtful and cogent reasons, and fact-bound arguments. This has been shown to be effective in influencing the behaviour of both the perpetrators of abuse and bystanders that witness the interactions, as well as providing support to victims. The sheer amount of social media data shared online on a daily basis means that hate mitigation, using counter speech, requires reliable, efficient and scalable tools. Recently, efforts have been made to curate hate countering datasets and automate the production of counter speech. However, this research field is still in its infancy, and many questions remain open regarding the most effective approaches and methods to take, as well as how to evaluate them. This first multidisciplinary workshop aims to bring together researchers from diverse backgrounds such as computer science and the social sciences, as well as policy makers and other stakeholders to attempt to understand how counter speech is currently used to tackle abuse by individuals, activists and organisations, how Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Generation (NLG) can be applied to produce counter narratives, and the implications of using large language models for this task. It will also address, but not be limited to, the questions of how to evaluate and measure the impacts of counter speech, the importance of expert knowledge from civil society in the development of counter speech datasets and taxonomies, and how to ensure fairness and mitigate the biases present in language models when generating counter speech. Topics We invite papers (long and short) on a wide range of topics, including but not limited to: • Models and methods for generating counter speech; • Dialogue agents employing counter speech to address hateful inputs, directed towards other people or the AI itself; • Human and automatic evaluation methods of counter speech tools; • Multidisciplinary studies including different perspectives on the topic such as from computer science, social science, NGOs and stakeholders; • Development of datasets and taxonomy for counter speech; • Potentials and limitations (e.g., fairness, biases) of using large language models for generating counter speech; • Social impact and empirical studies of counter speech on social media, including investigating the effectiveness and consequences on users of employing counter speech to fight online hate • Proposals for future research on counter speech, and/or preliminary results of studies in this field We accept three types of submissions: * Regular research papers – long (8 pages) or short (4 pages); * Non-archival submissions: like research papers, but will not be included in the proceedings; * Research communications: 2-4 page abstracts summarising relevant research published elsewhere. Submission link: Coming soon! Location: co-located with SIGdialxINLG, Prague, Czechia Important dates All deadlines are Anywhere on Earth (UTC-12) * Submission deadline: Jun 26, 2023 * Notification of acceptance Jul 17, 2023 * Camera-ready deadline Aug 11, 2023 * Workshop date: September 11/12 2023 Format and Styling Submissions should follow ACL Author Guidelines<https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Author_Guidelines> and policies for submission, review and citation, and be anonymised for double blind reviewing. Please use ACL 2023 style files; LaTeX style files and Microsoft Word templates are available at https://2023.aclweb.org/calls/style_and_formatting/<https://2021.aclweb.org/downloads/acl-ijcnlp2021-templates.zip>. Organising Committee: * Yi-Ling Chung, The Alan Turing Institute * Gavin Abercrombie, Heriot-Watt University * Helena Bonaldi, Fondazione Bruno Kessler * Marco Guerini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Contact If you have any questions, please let us know at cs4oa(a)googlegroups.com Website: https://sites.google.com/view/cs4oa Twitter: @cs4oa_workshop<https://twitter.com/cs4oa_workshop> ________________________________ Founded in 1821, Heriot-Watt is a leader in ideas and solutions. With campuses and students across the entire globe we span the world, delivering innovation and educational excellence in business, engineering, design and the physical, social and life sciences. This email is generated from the Heriot-Watt University Group, which includes: 1. Heriot-Watt University, a Scottish charity registered under number SC000278 2. Heriot- Watt Services Limited (Oriam), Scotland's national performance centre for sport. 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[WOAH@ACL-2023]: Deadline extended and best paper awards
by Yi-Ling Chung 21 Apr '23

21 Apr '23

Dear all, The deadline for Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH) has been extended to **May 9, 2023**. This year we will have two best paper awards: one for best general paper, and one for best theme paper. The winners will be invited to present on the workshop day and be awarded a small prize. You can find more information on our website: https://www.workshopononlineabuse.com/ ========================================================== Important Dates ========================================================== - Submission due: May 9, 2023 - ARR reviewed submission due: May 22, 2023 - Notification of acceptance: May 26, 2023 - Camera-ready papers due: June 2, 2023 - Workshop: July 13, 2023 All deadlines are 11:59 PM AoE time. Overview ========================================================== The Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH) invites paper submissions from a wide range of fields, including natural language processing, machine learning, computational social sciences, law, politics, psychology, sociology and cultural studies. We explicitly encourage interdisciplinary submissions, technical as well as non-technical submissions, and submissions that focus on under-resourced languages. We also invite non-archival submissions and civil society reports. The topics covered by WOAH include, but are not limited to: - New models or methods for detecting abusive and harmful online content; - Biases and limitations of existing detection models or datasets for abusive and harmful online content, particularly those in commercial use; - New datasets and taxonomies for online abuse and harms; - Dynamics of online abuse and harms, as well as their impact on different communities - Social, legal, and ethical implications of detecting, monitoring and moderating online abuse In addition, we invite submissions related to the theme for this seventh edition of WOAH, which will be *subjectivity and disagreement in abusive language data*. Hate speech and other forms of abuse are highly subjective. By choosing this theme, we want to encourage submissions that analyse, address or make use of this subjectivity. To match the theme and complement thematic submissions, we have invited a strong lineup of relevant speakers. Please send any questions about the workshop to organizers(a)workshopononlineabuse.com

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RANLP 2023 Student Workshop - First Call for Papers
by Ivelina Nikolova 20 Apr '23

20 Apr '23

Call for Papers RANLP 2023 Student Research Workshop 4-6 September 2023 Varna, Bulgaria http://ranlp.org/ranlp2023/ The International Conference RANLP 2023 would like to invite students at all levels (undergraduate, Master-, and PhD-students) to present their ongoing or completed work at the Student Research Workshop. We invite two types of student submissions: Full Papers – unpublished original research of the student. Short Papers – either a work in progress or a research proposal. The aim of this workshop is to facilitate the exchange of knowledge between young researchers by providing an excellent opportunity to present and discuss their work and to receive mentorship and valuable feedback from an international research community. The research to be presented can come from any topic within Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computational Linguistics, including but not limited to the following: Computational Social Science and Social Media; Computer-aided Language Learning; Dialogue and Interactive Systems; Discourse and Pragmatics; Ethics and NLP; Information Extraction; Information Retrieval and Text Mining; Intent Recognition and Detection; Interpretability and Analysis of Models for NLP; Language and Vision; Language Generation; Language Resources and Corpora; Linguistic Theories; Machine Translation and Computer-aided Translation Tools; Multilingual NLP; Multimodal Systems; NLP Applications – Biomedical, Educational, Healthcare, Financial, Legal, Semantic Web, etc.; Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis; Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology; Question Answering; Semantics; Stylistic Analysis; Sublanguages and Controlled languages; Syntax: Tagging, Chunking, and Parsing; Temporal Processing; Text Categorization; Text Simplification and Readability Estimation; Text Summarisation; Text-to-Speech Synthesis and Speech Recognition; Textual Entailment. All accepted papers will be presented at the Student Workshop sessions (oral or poster) during the main conference days: 4-6 September 2023. The articles will be issued in a special Student Session proceedings and uploaded to the ACL Anthology. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: 3 July 2023 Acceptance notification: 4 August 2023 Camera-ready deadline: 20 August 2023 Workshop: 4 - 6 September 2023 All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth") ORGANISERS Momchil Hardalov (AWS AI Labs, Spain) Zara Kancheva (Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria) Boris Velichkov (Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Bulgaria) Ivelina Nikolova-Koleva (Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, and Sirma AI, Bulgaria) Milena Slavcheva (Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria)

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EMNLP 2023 - Call for Papers
by ACL Announcements 20 Apr '23

20 Apr '23

============================ EMNLP 2023 Website: https://2023.emnlp.org/ Submission Deadline: - Direct: 16 June 2023 (Abstract), 23 June 2023 (Paper) - ARR: 21 July 2023 Conference Dates: December 6 –10, 2023 Location: Singapore Contact: - Yuji Matsumoto (General Chair) - Houda Bouamor, Juan Pino, Kalika Bali (Program Chairs): emnlp-2023-pc(a)googlegroups.com ============================ Call for Main Conference Papers EMNLP 2023 invites the submission of long and short papers on substantial, original, and unpublished research on empirical methods for Natural Language Processing. As in recent years, some of the presentations at the conference will be for papers accepted by the Transactions of the ACL (TACL) and Computational Linguistics (CL) journals. EMNLP 2023 will follow EMNLP 2022 and ACL 2023 and go with a hybrid format with respect to ARR. This means that while EMNLP will accept ARR-reviewed papers, it will also accept submissions directly to EMNLP. However, in order to keep the review load on the community as a whole manageable, we need to ask authors to decide up-front if they want to be reviewed through ARR or EMNLP. Mandatory abstract submission The paper title, author names, contact details, and a brief abstract must be submitted electronically through the EMNLP 2023 paper submission site by the abstract submission deadline (June 16). It will be possible to make minor edits to the title and abstract until the full paper submission deadline, but you cannot change authors and subject areas. Submissions with “placeholder” abstracts will be removed without consideration. Important: if you miss the abstract submission deadline, then you cannot submit the full paper. Mandatory Discussion of Limitations We believe that it is also important to discuss the limitations of your work, in addition to its strengths. EMNLP 2023 requires all papers to have a clear discussion of limitations, in a dedicated section titled “Limitations”. This section will appear at the end of the paper, after the discussion/conclusions section and before the references, and will not count towards the page limit. Papers without a limitation section will be automatically rejected without review. ARR-reviewed paper that did not include “Limitations” section in their prior submission, should submit a PDF with such a section together with their EMNLP 2023 submission. For detailed submission information, please refer to our webpage: https://2023.emnlp.org/calls/main_conference_papers/ === Important Dates === Submission template available: March 18, 2023 Anonymity period begins: May 23, 2023 Abstract deadline for direct submissions: June 16, 2023 Direct paper submission deadline (long & short papers): June 23, 2023 Submission deadline for ARR papers (with meta review): July 21, 2023 Author response period: Aug 22 – Aug 28, 2023 Notification of acceptance (long & short papers): Oct 6, 2023 Camera-ready papers due (long & short papers): Oct 20, 2023 Workshops & Tutorials & Conference: December 6-10, 2023 All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 (“anywhere on Earth”). === Submission Topics === EMNLP 2023 has the goal of a broad technical program. Relevant topics for the conference include, but are not limited to, the following areas (in alphabetical order): - Commonsense Reasoning - Computational Social Science and Cultural Analytics - Dialogue and Interactive Systems - Discourse and Pragmatics - Efficient Methods for NLP - Ethics in NLP - Human-Centered 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 - Theme Track (to be announced) Visit https://2023.emnlp.org/calls/main_conference_papers/ for more details!

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Second CFP: 6th ASAIL Workshop (deadline extended)
by d.odekerken＠uu.nl 19 Apr '23

19 Apr '23

Dear all, The 6th ASAIL workshop, focused on Natural Language Processing for legal texts and co-located with ICAIL 2023 in Braga, Portugal, is coming up soon. We would like to invite you to submit papers on, and demonstrations of, original work on automated detection, extraction and analysis of semantic information in legal texts. Extended submission deadline: 3rd May 2023 (AoE) Workshop date: 23rd June 2023 We are accepting three tiers of (two column format) papers: long (10 pages); short (6 pages); and position (2 pages). Since we are very interested in sparking discussion around ideas and work in their early stages, we welcome short and position papers as particularly suitable for this ambition. You can find more information, including the full call for papers, on our website: https://sites.google.com/view/asail/asail-2023-call-for-papers Best wishes, Daphne Odekerken On behalf of the ASAIL Organising Committee

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RANLP 2023: Second Call for Papers
by Petya Osenova 19 Apr '23

19 Apr '23

RANLP 2023 RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING Hotel “Cherno More” Varna, Bulgaria https://ranlp.org/ranlp2023/ Summer school ‘Deep Learning in NLP’: 30 August – 1 September 2023 (Wednesday-Friday) Tutorials: 2-3 September 2023 (Saturday-Sunday) Main Conference and Student Research Workshop: 4-6 September 2023 (Monday-Wednesday) Workshops: 7-8 September 2023 (Thursday-Friday) We are pleased to announce that the 14th biennial RANLP conference will take place in September 2023 at the Black Sea city of Varna. In addition to the conference programme of competitively peer-reviewed papers reporting on the recent advances of a wide range of NLP topics, the RANLP conference features 5 keynote speeches. Poster and demo sessions will be held at the conference exhibition area. The conference will be preceded by three days of summer school on Deep Learning in NLP (30 August - 1 September 2023) and two days of tutorials (2-3 September 2023). Post-conference workshops will be held on 7-8 September 2023. A Student Research Workshop will run in parallel to the main conference. The Student Research Workshop (now in its 8th edition) is a vibrant discussion forum for young researchers. As from RANLP 2009, the papers accepted at RANLP and the associated workshops are included in the ACL Anthology. The RANLP proceedings are indexed by SCOPUS and DBLP. The SCOPUS SJR of RANLP proceedings is 0,316 (2021). After 2017, all accepted papers have DOI numbers. CHAIR OF THE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton) CHAIR OF THE ORGANISING COMMITTEE Galia Angelova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) The Programme Committee members are distinguished NLP experts from all over the world. The list of PC members will be announced at the conference website in due time. INVITED SPEAKERS: The list of keynote speakers at RANLP 2023, tutorial presenters as well as summer school lecturers and tutors includes: KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: * Isabelle Augenstein (Copenhagen University, Denmark) * Sandra Kübler (Indiana University Bloomington, USA) * Eduard Hovy (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) * Efstathios Stamatatos (University of the Aegean, Greece) TUTORIAL PRESENTERS: * Tharindu Ranasinghe (University of Aston, UK) * Sanja Stajner (Karlsruhe, Germany) * Oana-Maria Camburu (UCL, UK) * Iacer Coimbra Alves Cavalcanti Calixto (Amsterdam UMC, the Netherlands) SUMMER SCHOOL LECTURERS and TUTORS: * Tharindu Ranasinghe (University of Aston, UK) * Oana-Maria Camburu (UCL, UK) * Iacer Coimbra Alves Cavalcanti Calixto (Amsterdam UMC, the Netherlands) * Isuri Anuradha (practical sessions) (University of Wolverhampton, UK) * Damith Premasiri (practical sessions) (University of Wolverhampton, UK) * Anthony Huges (practical sessions) (University of Wolverhampton, UK) * Laurence Dyer (practical sessions) (University of Wolverhampton, UK) WORKSHOPS: Nine workshops will be organised on 7-8 September 2023: * LT-EDI 2023 – Third Workshop on Language Technology for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion * DravidianLangTech 2023 – Third Workshop on Speech and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages * TSAR 2023 – Workshop on Text Simplification, Accessibility and Readability * ALP 2023 – Workshop on Ancient Language Processing * HumEval 2023 – Third Workshop on Human Evaluation of NLP Systems * BUCC 2023 – 16th Workshop on Building and Using Comparable Corpora * ASE 2023 – 6th Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text * ConTeNTS 2023 – Computational Terminology in NLP and Translation Studies * NLP4TIA 2023 – NLP tools and resources for translation and interpreting applications Further details are available at http://ranlp.org/ranlp2023/index.php/post-conference-events/ . SUBMISSION OF PAPERS, POSTERS, DEMOS RANLP invites submission of papers containing original research results that has not been published elsewhere. The submissions will be maintained by the conference management software START. For further instructions, please follow the submission information at the conference website at http://ranlp.org/ranlp2023/index.php/submissions/. The reviewing process will be anonymous, except for the demo submissions. Double submission is acceptable but authors will be asked to declare it at the time of submission. Submissions will be reviewed by at least three members of the Programme Committee. Authors of accepted papers will receive guidelines regarding how to produce camera-ready versions of their papers for inclusion in the proceedings. The full conference proceedings will be uploaded on the ACL Anthology. Every accepted paper will have a DOI number. RANLP-2023 aims to provide early notification of acceptance to authors and presenters who need visa to enter Bulgaria. We invite early submissions of authors’ names and paper abstracts, in order to plan quick reviewing. Access to the conference management software will be available on 1 April 2023. IMPORTANT DATES Conference abstracts submission: after 1 April 2023 Conference papers submission: 6 May 2023 Conference papers acceptance notification: 26 June 2023 Camera-ready versions of the conference papers: 31 July 2023 Workshop paper submission deadline (suggested): 10 July 2023 Workshop paper acceptance notification (suggested): 5 August 2023 Workshop paper camera-ready versions (suggested): 25 August 2023 Workshop camera-ready proceedings ready (suggested): 31 August 2023 RANLP Summer School on Deep Learning in NLP: 30 August - 1 September 2023 RANLP tutorials: 2-3 September 2023 (Saturday-Sunday) RANLP conference: 4-6 September 2023 (Monday-Wednesday) RANLP workshops: 7-8 September 2023 (Thursday-Friday) LOCATION and TRAVEL RANLP 2023 will be held in Varna, the largest city on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast, in Hotel “Cherno More” (http://www.chernomorebg.com/home). The event venue is centrally located at the entrance of the Sea Garden and offers excellent conference facilities. The city is a major tourist destination with flights to/from the Varna International Airport. It is also known for its Archaeological Museum, which features the oldest gold treasure in the world (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varna_Necropolis). THE TEAM BEHIND RANLP-2023 Galia Angelova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (OC Chair) Ruslan Mitkov, University of Wolverhampton, UK (PC Chair) Preslav Nakov, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, UAE Nikolai Nikolov, INCOMA Ltd., Shoumen, Bulgaria Ivelina Nikolova-Koleva, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria Petya Osenova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria Kiril Simov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria (Workshop coordinator)

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First Call for papers - DeriMo 2023
by dfarkas＠ffzg.hr 19 Apr '23

19 Apr '23

First Call for papers - DeriMo 2023 The Fourth International Workshop on Resources and Tools for Derivational Morphology - DeriMo 2023 Dubrovnik, Croatia 5-6 October 2023 Website: https://derimo.ffzg.unizg.hr/ The Fourth International Workshop on Resources and Tools for Derivational Morphology will be held in Dubrovnik, Croatia, on October 05 and 06, 2023, at the Centre for Advanced Academic Studies (CAAS), Dubrovnik, Croatia. The 2023 edition of the workshop will continue the discussion on language resources and tools for derivational morphology (and, more generally, on word formation) started in DeriMo 2017 (Milan, Italy) and continued in DeriMo 2019 (Prague, Czech Republic) and DeriMo 2021 (Nancy, France). DeriMo 2023 will provide an international platform for the presentation of new developments in existing word-formation resources and for the introduction of recently created ones. A debate is expected on all aspects of the creation of these resources, from technical solutions to linguistic decisions on which word-formation processes and how they are modeled in the resource. DeriMo 2023 wants to cover modern as well as ancient languages and welcomes approaches with a potentially multi-lingual focus. The availability of appropriate tools is considered essential not only for resource development but also for the potential use of word-formation data in both Natural Language Processing and linguistic descriptions. Another goal of DeriMo 2023 is to bring the state-of-the-art approaches to modelling word-formation closer to current linguistic accounts of word formation. Presentations of any type of linguistic research into word formation are expected to contribute to a discussion on usage and usability of available resources and tools. Linguistic insights into the phenomena that are modelled in the word-formation resources may indicate directions of future research, whether with language-specific, cross-lingual, multi-lingual, or typological perspectives. Conference topics DeriMo 2023 aims to cover a wide range of topics. Submissions are invited for presentations featuring high-quality, previously unpublished research, both completed and ongoing, with an emphasis on novel approaches, methods, ideas, and perspectives, whether descriptive, theoretical, formal or computational. In particular, the topics to be addressed in the workshop include (but are not limited to) the following: - language resources for word-formation either of individual languages, or with a multi-lingual focus, - representation of word-formation processes in the resources (models based on base-derivative pairs, paradigmatic models, or other representations), - enhancement of word-formation resources with other features (e.g. semantic categories in affixation, classification of compounds), - linking word-formation resources with other types of annotation (e.g. syntactic, semantic), - application of (semi-)automatic methods in modelling word formation, - tools for creating, searching etc. of word-formation resources, - data-based linguistic research in any aspect of word-formation (of individual languages, with contrastive or comparative focus, diachronic perspectives etc.), - theoretical accounts of word-formation issues. Invited Speaker Stela Manova (University of Vienna, Austria) Submissions We invite you to submit long abstracts describing original, unpublished research related to the topics of the workshop. Abstracts should not exceed 5 pages (references included). The language of the workshop is English. All abstracts must be submitted in well-checked English. Abstracts should be submitted in PDF format only. Submissions have to be made via the EasyChair page of the workshop at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=derimo2023. Deadline for long abstract submission: 12 June 2023 Contact dfarkas(a)ffzg.hr ksojat(a)ffzg.hr jpolance(a)m.ffzg.hr matea.filko(a)ffzg.hr

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[FinNLP@IJCAI-2023] Second Call for Paper and ESG Shared Task Participants
by CHUNG-CHI CHEN 19 Apr '23

19 Apr '23

Dear colleagues, This year, FinNLP-2023 will be in conjunction with IJCAI-2023 from 19th-25th August 2023, Macao. This year, we organize a Joint Workshop of The 5th Financial Technology And Natural Language Processing (*FinNLP*) and 2nd *Multimodal AI For Financial Forecasting* (Muffin). Thus, papers related to NLP or multimodal AI in finance are welcome. This year, we have a shared task related to *multilingual ESG issue identification*. Registration is open now, and the dataset will be released soon. Please refer to our website for more details - FinNLP-2023: https://sites.google.com/nlg.csie.ntu.edu.tw/finnlp-2023/home *Submission Deadline: April 26, 2023* Accepted papers proceedings will be published at ACL Anthology. Best Regards, FinNLP and Muffin Organizers FinNLP-MUFFIN-2023: The Joint Workshop of the 5th Financial Technology and Natural Language Processing (FinNLP) and 2nd Multimodal AI For Financial Forecasting (MUFFIN) IJCAI-2023 Macao, August 19-25, 2023 Conference website https://finnlp-muffin-ijcai23.github.io/ Submission link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=finnlpmuffin2023 Submission deadline April 26, 2023 *About The FinNLP Workshop* The aim of this workshop is to provide a forum where international participants share knowledge on applying NLP to the FinTech domain. Recently, analyzing documents related to finance and economics has attracted much attention in the AI community. In the financial field, FinTech is a new industry that focuses on improving financial activity with technology. Thus, in order to bridge the gap between the NLP research and the financial applications, we organize FinNLP workshop series. One of the expected accomplishments of FinNLP is to introduce insights from the financial domain to the NLP community. With the sharing of the researchers in FinNLP, the challenging problems of blending FinTech and NLP will be identified, and the future research direction will be shaped. That can broaden the scope of this interdisciplinary research area. *About The Muffin Workshop* The Workshop aims to explore recent advances and challenges of multimodal AI for finance. Financial forecasting is an essential task that helps investors make sound investment decisions and wealth creation. With increasing public interest in trading stocks, cryptocurrencies, bonds, commodities, currencies, crypto coins and non-fungible tokens (NFTs), there have been several attempts to utilize unstructured data for financial forecasting. Unparalleled advances in multimodal deep learning have made it possible to utilize multimedia such as textual reports, news articles, streaming video content, audio conference calls, user social media posts, customer web searches, etc for identifying profit creation opportunities in the market. E.g., how can we leverage new and better information to predict movements in stocks and cryptocurrencies well before others? However, there are several hurdles towards realizing this goal - (1) large volumes of chaotic data, (2) combining text, audio, video, social media posts, and other modalities is non-trivial, (3) long context of media spanning multiple hours, days or even months, (4) user sentiment and media hype-driven stock/crypto price movement and volatility, (5) difficulties with traditional statistical methods (6) misinformation and non-interpretability of financial systems leading to massive losses and bankruptcies. At the IJCAI-2023 Joint Workshop of the 5th Financial Technology and Natural Language Processing (FinNLP) and 2nd Multimodal AI For Financial Forecasting (MUFFIN), we aim to bring bring together researchers from natural language processing, computer vision, speech recognition, machine learning, statistics and quantitative trading communities to expand research on the intersection of AI and finance.Please select a suitable track (“NLP” or “Multimodal”) for best considerations and reviewer matching.We will also organize 2 shared tasks in this workshop – (1) ESG Issue Identification (2) Price and Volatility Prediction From Conference Call Videos. Submission Guidelines Papers submitted to the main track must be formatted according to ACL Guidelines <https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html> - *Long Paper*: May consist of up to 8 pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references and appendix. - *Short Paper and Demo Paper*: May consist of up to 4 pages of content, plus unlimited references and appendix. 1. The reviewing process will be double-blind for Long and Short Paper, and single-blind for Demo Paper. Submissions must be in electronic form using the FinNLP-2023 paper submission link above. 2. *No Show Policy*: At least one author of each accepted paper *must* travel to the IJCAI venue in person. Papers with “No Show” will be redacted. Authors will be required to agree to this requirement at the time of submission. Committees *General Chairs - FinNLP* - Chung-Chi Chen <http://nlg.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~cjchen/>, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan - Hiroya Takamura <http://www.lr.pi.titech.ac.jp/~takamura/>, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan *General Chairs - Muffin* - Puneet Mathur <http://www.cs.umd.edu/~puneetm/>, University of Maryland College Park, USA - Ramit Sawhney <https://sites.google.com/iiitd.ac.in/ramitsawhney/home?authuser=0>, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, Abu Dhabi *Organizing Committee* - Dinesh Manocha <https://www.cs.umd.edu/people/dmanocha>, University of Maryland College Park, USA - Preslav Nakov <https://mbzuai.ac.ae/study/faculty/preslav-nakov/>, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, Abu Dhabi - Hen-Hsen Huang <http://nlg.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~hhhuang/>, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan - Hsin-Hsi Chen <http://nlg.csie.ntu.edu.tw/advisor.php>, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan - Hiroki Sakaji <https://tetsuwaka.net/>, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Japan - Kiyoshi Izumi <http://kinba.sakura.ne.jp/mainj/>, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Japan *Advisory Committee* - Franck Dernoncourt <https://research.adobe.com/person/franck-dernoncourt/>, Adobe Research, USA - Fu-Ming Guo <https://www.linkedin.com/in/fumingguo>, Fidelity Investments, USA - Lucie Flek <https://lucieflek.github.io/>, University of Marburg, Germany - Sanghamitra Dutta <https://ece.umd.edu/clark/faculty/1711/Sanghamitra-Dutta>, University of Maryland College Park, USA - Sudheer Chava <https://research.gatech.edu/sudheer-chava>, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Publication FinNLP-MUFFIN-2023 proceedings will be published in ACL Anthology <https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/>. Venue In conjunction with IJCAI-2023 <https://ijcai-23.org/>, 19th-25th August 2023, Macao Contact All questions about submissions should be emailed to *finnlp.muffin.ijcai2023(a)gmail.com* <finnlp.muffin.ijcai2023(a)gmail.com>

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Normalization of Genetic Phenotypes from Dysmorphology Physical Examinations @ BioCreative VIII - track 3 - Call for Participation
by Davy Weissenbacher 19 Apr '23

19 Apr '23

*Motivation:* Dysmorphology physical examinations catalog minor morphological differences of patients’ bodies and may also identify general medical signs such as neurologic dysfunction. These findings enable correlations of patients with known rare genetic diseases and allow researchers to delineate undescribed genetic conditions. These medical findings are nearly always captured as unstructured free text within the electronic health record, making them unavailable for downstream computational analysis. Advanced natural language processing methods are therefore required to retrieve the information from the records. *Task:* We call for automated systems to extract and normalize the findings of dysmorphology physical examinations. The dataset consists of 3136 de-identified observations with dysmorphic findings manually annotated and normalized with their corresponding Human Phenotype Ontology <https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefens…> (HPO) terms. *Challenge:* Both extraction and normalization are challenging. The extraction is challenging due to the descriptive style of the examinations which, for conciseness, report findings with disjoint and overlapping mentions. The normalization is challenging due to the large scale of the HPO ontology which requires a normalizer to learn the task without supervision since our training set does not provide examples of all terms in the HPO. See https://biocreative.bioinformatics.udel.edu/tasks/biocreative-viii/track-3/ <https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbiocreati…> for details., in short: - 3136 de-identified observations with dysmorphic and normal findings manually annotated and normalized with their corresponding Human Phenotype Ontology <https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefens…> terms - Baseline systems available (e.g. doc2HPO <https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefens…> , NeuralCR <https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefens…> , PhenoTagger <https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefens…> , PhenoBERT <https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefens…>, and txt2HPO <https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefens…> ) - Codalab opened at https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/11351 <https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcodalab.l…> - Evaluation period: Sept. 15, 9:00 UTC - Sept. 18, 23:59 UTC [Apologies for cross-posting] Best regards, Davy

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