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Call for Papers DHd2024 - Conference of the Association for Digital Humanities in the German Speaking Area
by Haider, Thomas 19 Jun '23

19 Jun '23

Dear colleagues, *Apologies for cross-posting Please consider submitting to DHd2024 (Digital Humanities Conference of the German Speaking Area) in Passau. The Call for Papers also can be found here: https://dhd2024.dig-hum.de/call-for-papers/ We also warmly welcome reviewers. Please sign up at Conftool (https://www.conftool.net/dhd2024/) and select your preferred topics to review. If you already had a conftool account for DHd2023, you can use your previous credentials. Important Dates: 19.07.2023 Submission Deadline 02.11.2023 Notification of acceptance 04.12.2023 Submission of camera ready version 04.12.2023 Start of registration 15.02.2024 End of registration 26.02.2024 - 01.03.2024 Conference in Passau Call For Papers (English) (German and English CfP here: https://dhd2024.dig-hum.de/call-for-papers/ ) DHd Annual Conference PASSAU 2024 Conference theme ��DH Quo Vadis�� It has been a decade since the representatives of the DHd �C Association for Digital Humanities in the German Speaking Area first gathered in Passau for the annual conference. The conference has since been held in various locations in Germany and other German-speaking countries. As we approach the DHd2024, it is an opportunity to reflect on the progress made within the discipline and develop future perspectives. Over the past ten years, not only has the DHd community steadily grown, but the fields of research and the applications of digital humanities have also evolved and transformed. Digital methods and tools have become integral to everyday research and various aspects of life, with digitization being a prominent topic in public discourse, such as artificial intelligence and big data. Therefore, the Digital Humanities have consistently faced the task of accompanying and providing crucial support in this process, especially in offering interpretation and assistance. This raises questions such as: How can the Digital Humanities meet the increasing demands in areas such as sustainability, ethics, data protection, interdisciplinary collaboration, and data-intensive research? How will the field of DH develop in the next ten years? What are the current and future challenges facing DH? Which methods should be further pursued, and which ones should be reconsidered? For DH researchers, who benefit from the interdisciplinary approach and have access to a wide range of methods, it is a challenge to maintain an overview and adequately assess all approaches. For instance, digital methods and tools need to be critically examined and their application to diverse subject areas critically questioned. This process also involves learning from failures and leveraging both positive and negative experiences from the last decade. The DHd2024 conference will provide a platform to exchange these experiences and discuss potential avenues for development. The representatives of the field have the responsibility of addressing these challenges and shaping the future of DH through collaborative discussions, to meet the demands of a changing digital society. Possible topics for submissions: - Methodological and technical perspectives for the future - Artificial intelligence and its role in the humanities - The impact of Digital Humanities in public discourse - Citizen Science and Digital Humanities - Reflections on ten years of DH in the German-speaking areas: trends, successes, and failures - Current status of standardization efforts: standardized vocabularies, ontologies, markup languages, etc. Besides these focus areas, submissions on any topic related to Digital Humanities are welcome. Additionally, both positive and negative project results can be presented and discussed. Submission Requirements The following may be submitted: Presentations (submission of at least 1500, maximum 2000 words) Presentations in the Doctoral Consortium (submission of at least 500, maximum 750 words) Panels (minimum three, maximum six participants, submission of at least 1200, maximum 1500 words) Posters (minimum 500, maximum 750 words) Pre-conference half-day or full-day workshops (minimum submission 1200 words, maximum 1500 words) To submit, register on ConfTool (https://www.conftool.net/dhd2024/) and upload a dhc file created using the DHConvalidator web service for peer review. Additionally, provide a short summary of approximately 100-150 words in ConfTool. The accepted submissions, which are considered as citable small publications, will be published individually and in the conference publication on the Zenodo Community of the DHd Association. They will also be featured on the conference website and program with short abstracts. The DHConvalidator provides a template for submitting in Word or OpenOffice formats, which includes guidelines for citations, references, and bibliography. The deadline for submissions is 19th July 2023, at 23:59 CEST. Please note that, like in previous years, this deadline will not be extended. The review process will follow an open peer review system, where the names of submitters and reviewers will be disclosed to each other (known as open identities). However, the actual reviews will not be published. Notification of acceptance will be sent by 2nd November 2023. For any submission-related queries, please contact dhd2024(a)uni-passau.de via email. The main languages of exchange in the DHd community are German and English. Proposals can be submitted in German as well as in English. We encourage all participants to present their contributions to the conference in German, but contributions in English are also welcome. It is understood that accepted submissions will be presented by the submitters in person and on site. Each individual may submit only one talk or poster (as the presenting person in ConfTool) and can give only one talk. Co-authorship is limited to a maximum of two additional oral or poster submissions. Furthermore, each individual can be involved in a maximum of one panel or workshop submission. DHd working groups are allowed one additional submission (workshop, panel, or poster), clearly identified as such. For submissions with multiple contributors, it is recommended to use the CRediT taxonomy (https://credit.niso.org/) to indicate the roles of each contributor in a footnote at the beginning of the submission (e.g., ��Contributor Roles: Firstname1 Name1 (Conceptualization), Firstname2 Name2 (Software), Firstname3 Name3 (Writing �C review & editing)��).An academic paper typically includes a bibliography at the end. The word count does not include the words in the bibliography or captions. All other words are counted. A good submission adheres to the principles of sound research work, providing a substantial and formally structured description of the research question, materials, methods, and results. Please note that submissions should be concise yet complete academic publications suitable for publication. If you are uncertain about the format of the submission, we recommend referring to successful examples from the previous conference. The Book of Abstracts for DHd2023 offers an overview of accepted presentations, panels, posters, and workshops. Additionally, the review process handout (in German) for the DHd annual conferences is a helpful resource. Possible formats: Individual presentations (20�� presentation + 10�� discussion; submission of at least 1500, maximum 2000 words): Unpublished results or developments of significant new methods or digital resources and/or a methodological or theoretical concept should be presented. Presentation submissions should contextualise the research contribution in an appropriate way against the background of the current state of research and clearly demonstrate its significance for the (digital) humanities or a respective sub-field thereof. For projects without interim results, the poster format is recommended.For accepted presentation submissions, a camera-ready version of max. 2,500 words must be submitted by 01.12.2023, taking into account the expert opinions. Presentations in the Doctoral Consortium (submission of at least 500, maximum 750 words): The promotion of young researchers is a particular concern of the annual conferences of the Dhd. For this reason, presentations can be submitted separately to a Doctoral Consortium to present dissertation projects of selected participants. In addition to the opportunity to present one��s own research topic, feedback from the specialist audience can also be obtained in this way to further develop one��s own doctoral project thematically and methodologically. The focus is on the initial phase of the doctorate. Doctoral candidates with advanced projects are therefore encouraged to submit individual presentations (see above).Expos��s (500-750 words, plus bibliography) for the Doctoral Consortium can be submitted in the usual way via the ConfTool as a contribution of the type (conference track) ��Doctoral Consortium�� until 19 July 2023. The best submissions will be invited to the Doctoral Consortium. For them, the participation fee for the conference will be waived; in addition, the costs for an overnight stay will be covered by the organisers, if possible. Additional accommodation and travel costs will be borne by the participants themselves.In addition, it is planned to award travel grants to lecturers and participants who have little or no financial resources within the framework of their own positions and projects. Participants in the Doctoral Consortium will also be able to apply for these travel grants. A separate call will be published for the travel grants. Panels (minimum three, maximum six participants including moderator; 60�� panel discussion, 30�� Q&A from audience; minimum submission 1200, maximum 1500 words): Panels provide an opportunity for three to six participants to discuss a topic that goes beyond the scope of a single project, project network or research centre. Panels should not be composed exclusively of participants from the same project. It is encouraged to submit panels related to the conference theme and to give the audience the chance to discuss controversial topics. Care should be taken to ensure that a panel is staffed according to diversity criteria. It is expected that no more than one third of the 90-minute session will be devoted to prepared statements and that the debate within the panel will allow sufficient time for discussion with the audience. Panel organisers will submit a brief description of the topic of at least 1200 words, maximum 1500 words, and confirm the willingness of the listed individuals to participate in the panel. For the acceptance of a panel submission, the stringent presentation of the thematic or methodological coherence of the individual contributions is of decisive importance. Posters (minimum submission 500 words, maximum 750 words): Posters can be submitted on any topic of the Call for Papers. They may also describe the status of individual projects in a descriptive manner. The posters will each be published together with the submissions in the Zenodo Community of the DHd Association under a CC-BY licence. Posters that are accepted for presentation must therefore be submitted by the presenters as a file via ConfTool by 28.02.2024 at the latest. Further information on the procedure will be communicated to the poster presenters after acceptance. Pre-conference workshops (half day/4 h to two half days/8 h incl. breaks; submission of at least 1200, maximum 1500 words): In addition to teaching, training or tutorial formats (e.g. on specific topics, technologies, tools, key skills), collaborative forms of work on topics and/or data (e.g. hackathons, bar camps, tool testing) and longer meetings of DHd working groups geared towards a predefined output can also be submitted. Workshops will last half a day (4 hours, including break) or two half days (7-8 hours, including breaks) and will take place on Monday and Tuesday of the conference week. Submissions must include the following information: Title and a brief description of the topic (minimum 1200, maximum 1500 words), full contact details of all contributors and a paragraph on their research interests. Details of the format Information on the target audience, in particular on necessary prior knowledge The number of possible participants Information on any technical equipment required The call for papers specific to the workshop, if one is published. Workshop leaders are expected to register for the conference. Only presenters who are not otherwise participating in other events of the conference can be exempted from registration. Best Thomas Haider ---- Dr. phil. Thomas Nikolaus Haider Digital Humanities and Multilingual Computational Linguistics University of Passau

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5th Natural Legal Language Processing (NLLP) Workshop (at EMNLP 2023)
by Spanakis, Jerry (DACS) 19 Jun '23

19 Jun '23

The NLLP Workshop 2023<https://nllpw.org/workshop/> will take place on 7 December 2023 and will be co-located with the EMNLP 2023<https://2023.emnlp.org/> conference in Singapore. We will be accepting direct submissions, papers submitted to ARR and EMNLP rejected papers. Submission link is here<https://softconf.com/emnlp2023/nllp2023/> Important dates * Submission deadline ― 18 September 2023 * Notification ― 6 October 2023 * Submission of EMNLP papers with reviews ― 10 October 2023 * ARR Committment deadline ― 10 October 2023 * ARR and EMNLP notification ― 17 October 2023 * Camera ready due ― 20 October 2023 * Presentation due ― 1 December 2023 * Workshop ― 7 December 2023 All deadlines are 11.59pm UTC -12h Call for papers Goal Following the success of the first four editions of the NLLP workshop (NAACL 2019, KDD 2020, EMNLP 2021, EMNLP 2022), we aim to bring researchers and practitioners from NLP, machine learning and other artificial intelligence disciplines together with legal practitioners and researchers. We welcome submissions describing original work on legal data, as well as data with legal relevance, such as: * Applications of NLP to legal tasks including, but not limited to: * Legal Citation Resolution * Case Outcome Analysis and Prediction * Models of Legal Reasoning * E-Discovery * Lexical and other Data Resources for the Legal Domain * Bias and Privacy * Experimental results using and adapting NLP methods for legal data including: * Classification * Information Retrieval * Anomaly Detection * Clustering * Knowledge Base Population * Multimedia Search * Link Analysis * Entity Recognition and Disambiguation * Training and Using Embeddings * Parsing * Dialogue and Discourse Analysis * Text Summarization and Generation * Relation and Event Extraction * Anaphora Resolution * Question Answering * Query Understanding * Combining Text with Structured Data * Tasks: * Description of new legal tasks for NLP * Structured overviews of a specific task with the goal of identifying new areas for research * Position papers presenting new visions, challenges and changes to existing research practices * Resources: * Creation of curated and/or annotated data sets that can be publicly released and used by the community to advance the field * Demos: * Descriptions of systems which use NLP technologies for legal text; * Industrial Research: * Industrial applications * Papers describing research on proprietary data * Interdisciplinary position papers: * Legal or socio-legal analyses relating to the role NLP can play in the legal field * Critical reflections on the legality and ethics of data collection and processing practices * Critical reflections about the benefits and challenges of Large Language Models (LLMs) from a legal and regulatory perspective * Critical reflections on the legality and ethics of data collection and processing practices Submission We accept papers reporting original (unpublished) research of two types: * Long papers (max 8 pages + references) * Short papers (max 4 pages + references) Appendices and acknowledgements do not count against the maximum page limit and should be formatted according to the guidelines below. To submit a paper, please access the submission link<https://softconf.com/emnlp2023/nllp2023>. Conference proceedings will be published on the ACL Anthology<https://aclanthology.org/>. Ethics section The NLLP workshop adheres to the same standards regarding ethics as the EMNLP 2023 conference<https://2023.emnlp.org/calls/main_conference_papers/#ethics-policy>. Authors will be allowed extra space after the 8th page (4th for short papers) for an optional broader impact statement or other discussion of ethics. Note that an ethical considerations section is not required, but papers working with sensitive data or on sensitive tasks that do not discuss these issues will not be accepted. Non-archival option The authors have the option of submitting previously unpublished research as non-archival, meaning that only the abstract will be published in the conference proceedings. We expect these submissions to describe the same quality of work as archival submissions. These will be reviewed following the same procedure as archival submissions. This option accommodates publication of the work or a superset at a later date in a conference or journal which does not allow previously archived work and to encourage presentation and feedback on mature, yet unpublished work. Non-archival submissions should adhere to the same formatting and length constraints as archival submissions. Dual Submission and Pre-print Policy Papers that have been or will be submitted to workshops, conferences or journals during the review period must indicate so at submission time. Authors of papers accepted for presentation at the NLLP 2023 workshop must notify the organizers by the camera-ready deadline as to whether the paper will be presented or withdrawn. If the preliminary version of a paper was posted in arXiv, the authors should NOT mention it as their own paper in the submission. Papers that violate the double-blind review requirements will be desk rejected. Exception: Submissions with the non-archival option are excepted from these requirements. ACL Rolling Review Submissions Our workshop also welcomes submissions from ACL Rolling Review (ARR)<https://aclrollingreview.org/>. Authors of any papers that are submitted to ARR and have their meta review ready may submit their papers and reviews for consideration for the workshop until 10 October 2023. This should include submissions to ARR for the 15 August deadline. The decision of publication will be announced by 17 October 2023. The committment should be done via the workshop submission website: https://softconf.com/emnlp2023/nllp2023/ ("ACL Rolling Review Committment" submission type) EMNLP 2023 Submissions Authors of any papers that have been reviewed for EMNLP 2023 and were rejected have the opportunity to send their paper and reviews to be considered for publication in the NLLP workshop proceedings. The deadline for submitting papers and reviews is 10 October 2023. The decision of publication will be announced by 17 October 2023. The submission should be done via the workshop submission website: https://softconf.com/emnlp2023/nllp2023 ("EMNLP 2023 Submission with reviews" submission type) Double-Blind reviewing The review process is double-blind. Submitted papers must not include author names and affiliations and they must be written in a way so that they do not break the double-blind reviewing process. If the preliminary version of a paper was posted in arXiv, the authors should NOT mention it as their own paper in the submission. Papers that violate the double-blind review requirements will be desk rejected. Submission Style & Format Guidelines Paper submissions must use the official ACL style templates, which are available here<https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files> (Latex<https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files/tree/master/latex> and Word<https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files/tree/master/word>). Please follow the paper formatting guidelines general to "*ACL" conferences available here<https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html>. Authors may not modify these style files or use templates designed for other conferences. Submissions that do not conform to the required styles, including paper size, margin width, and font size restrictions, will be rejected without review. All long, short and theme papers must follow the ACL Author Guidelines<https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=ACL_Author_Guidelines>. Presentation * Presentation format for each paper and schedule will be announced between acceptance notification and the camera-ready deadline. * At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the NLLP 2023 workshop by the registration deadline in order for the submission to be published in the proceedings.

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* Extended deadline * Doctoral Consortium, ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI2023)
by Gualtiero Volpe 19 Jun '23

19 Jun '23

======================================================== * Deadline extended to 25 June 2023 * ======================================================== ACM ICMI 2023 CALL FOR DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM CONTRIBUTIONS 9-13 October 2023, Paris - France https://icmi.acm.org/2023/doctoral-consortium/ ======================================================== The goal of the ICMI Doctoral Consortium (DC) is to provide PhD students with an opportunity to present their work to a group of mentors and peers from a diverse set of academic and industrial institutions, to receive feedback on their doctoral research plan and progress, and to build a cohort of young researchers interested in designing and developing multimodal interfaces and interaction. We invite students from all PhD granting institutions who are in the process of forming or carrying out a plan for their PhD research in the area of designing and developing multimodal interfaces. Who should apply? ----------------- While we encourage applications from students at any stage of doctoral training, the doctoral consortium will benefit most the students who are in the process of forming or developing their doctoral research. These students will have passed their qualifiers or have completed the majority of their coursework, will be planning or developing their dissertation research, and will not be very close to completing their dissertation research. Students from any PhD granting institution whose research falls within designing and developing multimodal interfaces and interaction are encouraged to apply. Why should you attend? ---------------------- The DC provides an opportunity to build a social network that includes the cohort of DC students, senior students, recent graduates, and senior mentors. Not only is this an opportunity to get feedback on research directions, it is also an opportunity to learn more about the process and to understand what comes next. We aim to connect you with a mentor who will give specific feedback on your research. We specifically aim to create an informal setting where students feel supported in their professional development. Important Dates --------------- Submission deadline June 25, 2023 *** EXTENDED *** Notifications July 24, 2023 Camera-ready August 6, 2023 Submission Guidelines --------------------- Graduate students pursuing a PhD degree in a field related to ICMI are eligible to apply for the Doctoral Consortium (DC) and should submit the following materials: 1. Extended Abstract: A description of the PhD research plan and progress. Extended abstracts can be a maximum of four pages, although references can extend to a fifth page if needed. They should follow the same outline, details, and format of the ICMI Short Papers (https://icmi.acm.org/2023/guidelines-for-authors/). However, unlike short papers, DC submissions will not be anonymous. Be sure to include: * The key research questions and motivation of the student’s research * Background and related work that informs the student’s research * A statement of hypotheses or a description of the scope of the technical problem * The research plan, outlining stages of system development or series of studies * The research approach and methodology * Research results to date (if any) and a description of remaining work * A statement of research contributions to date (if any) and expected contributions of the PhD work 2. Advisor Letter: A one-page letter of nomination from the student’s PhD advisor, which should focus on the student’s PhD plan and how the Doctoral Consortium event might contribute to the student’s PhD training and research. 3. Curriculum Vitae: A two-page CV describing the student’s background and work. All materials should be prepared in PDF format and submitted through the ICMI submission system. Process ------- * Submission format: Four-page extended abstract using the ACM format (https://icmi.acm.org/2023/guidelines-for-authors/) * Submission system: Precision Conference System (https://new.precisionconference.com/submissions/icmi23a) * Selection process: Peer-Reviewed * Presentation format: Talk on consortium day and participation in the conference poster session * Proceedings: Extended abstracts published in conference proceedings and ACM Digital Library

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Second CFP (WANLP2023): The 1st Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference
by Salam Khalifa 19 Jun '23

19 Jun '23

*** Apologies for Cross-Posting *** The First Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (WANLP 2023) co-located with EMNLP 2023 in Singapore. Conference URL: <https://wanlp2023.sigarab.org/> https://wanlp2023.sigarab.org/ Submission URL: TBD WANLP 2023 invites the submission of original long, short, or demo papers in the area of Arabic Natural Language Processing.WANLP 2023 builds on seven previous workshop editions, which have been extremely successful drawing in a large active participation in various capacities. This conference is timely given the continued rise in research projects focusing on Arabic NLP. WANLP 2023 will also feature shared tasks, allowing participants to work on specific NLP challenges related to Arabic language processing. The conference is organized by the Special Interest Group on Arabic NLP (SIGARAB), an Association for Computational Linguistics Special Interest Group on Arabic Natural Language Processing. Important Dates - May 7, 2023: submission of shared tasks proposals - May 14, 2023: notification of acceptance of shared tasks - September 5, 2023: conference & shared task papers due date - October 12, 2023: notification of acceptance - October 20, 2023: camera-ready papers due - December 7, 2023: conference day All deadlines are 11:59 pm UTC -12h <https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zone/timezone/utc-12> (“Anywhere on Earth”). We accept long (up to 8 pages), short (up to 4 pages), and demo paper (up to 4 pages) submissions. Long and short papers will be presented orally or as posters as determined by the program committee. Submissions are invited on topics that include, but are not limited to, the following: - Enabling core technologies: language models and large language models, morphological analysis, disambiguation, tokenization, POS tagging, named entity detection, chunking, parsing, semantic role labeling, sentiment analysis, Arabic dialect modeling, etc. - Applications: dialog modeling, machine translation, speech recognition, speech synthesis, optical character recognition, pedagogy, assistive technologies, social media, etc. - Resources: dictionaries, annotated data, corpora, etc. Submissions may include work in progress as well as finished work. Submissions must have a clear focus on specific issues pertaining to the Arabic language, whether it is standard Arabic, dialectal, classical, or mixed. Papers on other languages sharing problems faced by Arabic NLP researchers, such as Semitic languages or languages using Arabic script, are welcome provided they propose techniques or approaches that would interest Arabic NLP, and they explain why this is the case. Additionally, papers on efforts using Arabic resources but targeting other languages are welcome. Descriptions of commercial systems are welcome, but authors should be willing to discuss the details of their work. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to get in touch with us at: <https://groups.google.com/u/1/>wanlp-pc-chairs(a)sigarab.org The WANLP 2023 Publicity Chairs, Salam Khalifa and Amr Keleg -- Salam Khalifa PhD Student at Stony Brook Linguistics <https://www.linguistics.stonybrook.edu/>.

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19th IEEE eScience Conference (eScience 2023): Combo Call for Workshop Papers
by georgeangelos60＠gmail.com 19 Jun '23

19 Jun '23

*** Combo Call for Workshop Papers *** 19th IEEE eScience Conference (eScience 2023) October 9-13, 2023, St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus https://www.escience-conference.org/2023/ The 19th IEEE eScience Conference will be held in Limassol, Cyprus on October 9-13, 2023. eScience 2023 will host a number of workshops which will be co-located with the main conference on Monday, October 9 and Tuesday, October 10, 2023. The eScience conference has a long history of hosting well-attended workshops. These workshops share the goal of bringing together international and interdisciplinary research communities, developers, and users of eScience applications and enabling IT technologies. Workshops play a crucial role in the conference by providing an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to present their work in a more focused way than the conference itself and to have in-depth discussions of particular topics of interest to the community. eScience 2023 will host the following workshops: ● 1st Workshop on cItizeN Science engagemenT based on Ict soLutions (INSTIL 2023) http://www.instil-science.eu ● 3rd Workshop on E-science ReseaRch leading tO negative Results (ERROR 2023) https://error-workshop.org ● 3rd Workshop on Reproducible Workflows, Data Management, and Security (ReWorDS 2023) https://sites.google.com/vols.utk.edu/rewords23/home ● 4th Global Research Platform (4GRP) Workshop https://www.theglobalresearchplatform.net ● IEEE International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Health (AI4Health 2023) https://www.ai4health.icar.cnr.it ● Research Software Engineers in eScience: Sustainable RSE Ecosystems within eScience (RSE-eScience-2023) https://us-rse.org/rse-escience-2023/ KEY DATES ● Workshop papers submission deadline: Defined per workshop, not before end June 2023 ● Notification of acceptance: Defined per workshop ● IEEE proceedings camera ready: July 21, 2023 ● Workshop days: October 9-10, 2023 Deadlines refer to 23:59 in the AoE (Anywhere on Earth) time zone. ORGANISATION General Chair • George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Technical Program Co-Chairs • Rafael Ferreira da Silva, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA • Rosa Filgueira, University of St Andrews, UK Organisation Committee https://www.escience-conference.org/2023/organizers Steering Committee https://www.escience-conference.org/about/#steering-committee

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PhD Position in Natural Language Processing
by Marco Kuhlmann 19 Jun '23

19 Jun '23

The Natural Language Processing Group at Linköping University has an opening for a PhD Student in Natural Language Processing The research for this position will be within the project ‘Efficient Modularisation and Adaptation of Large Language Models’, which aims to develop methods for dissecting large language models into functional modules that can be trained and updated independently and applied in settings where training data is relatively scarce. The position is fully funded for 4 years. It may be extended up to a maximum of 5 years, based on the extent of teaching and other departmental duties the candidate has participated in. The closing date is 2023-08-15. For more information about the project and the position, please visit https://www.ida.liu.se/divisions/aiics/nlp/phd-student.html Please do not hesitate to contact me for any further questions. Best regards Marco Kuhlmann Professor Department of Computer and Information Science Linköping University

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2nd Workshop on Perspectivist Approaches to Disagreement in NLP: DEADLINE EXTENSION! June 30th
by Simona Frenda 18 Jun '23

18 Jun '23

2nd Workshop on Perspectivist Approaches to Disagreement in NLP (and Beyond) (NLPerspectives) https://nlperspectives.di.unito.it/w/2nd-workshop-on-perspectivist-approach… Until recently, the dominant paradigm in natural language processing (and other areas of artificial intelligence) has been to resolve observed label disagreement into a single “ground truth” or “gold standard” via aggregation, adjudication, or statistical means. However, in recent years, the field has increasingly focused on subjective tasks, such as abuse detection or quality estimation, in which multiple points of view may be equally valid, and a unique ‘ground truth’ label may not exist (Plank, 2022). At the same time, as concerns have been raised about bias and fairness in AI, it has become increasingly apparent that an approach which assumes a single “ground truth” can erase minority voices. Strong perspectivism in NLP (Cabitza et al., 2023) pursues the spirit of recent initiatives such as Data Statements (Bender and Friedman, 2018), extending their scope to the full NLP pipeline, including the aspects related to modelling, evaluation and explanation. In line with the first edition <https://nlperspectives.di.unito.it/w/w2022/>, the NLPerspectives (Perspectivist Approaches to Disagreement in NLP) workshop will explore current and ongoing work on: the collection and labelling of non-aggregated datasets; and approaches to modelling and including these perspectives, as well as evaluation and applications of multi-perspective Machine Learning models. We also welcome opinion pieces and literature reviews, e.g., in the context of fairness and inclusion. A key outcome of this second edition will be to build on the work begun at https://pdai.info/ to create a repository of perspectivist datasets with non-aggregated labels for use by researchers in perspectivist NLP modelling. Authors are, therefore, invited to share their LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) and provide essential information about resources (i.e., also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work or are a result of their research. In addition, authors will be required to adhere to ethical research policies on AI and may include an ethics statement in their papers. The NLPerspectives workshop will be hosted in person during the 26th edition of ECAI 2023 <https://ecai2023.eu/> in Kraków, Poland, on 30 September or 1 October 2023. Submissions The papers should be submitted as a PDF document, conforming to the formatting guidelines provided in the call for papers of ECAI 2023 conference: https://ecai2023.eu/ECAI2023 We accept three types of submissions: - Regular research papers; - Non-archival submissions: like research papers, but will not be included in the proceedings; - Research communications: 4-page abstracts summarizing relevant research published elsewhere. Research papers (archival or non-archival) may consist of up to 7 pages of content, plus 1 page for references. Research communications may consist of up to 4 pages of content. Submissions should be sent in electronic forms, using the Softconf START conference management system at this URL: https://softconf.com/n/NLPerspectives/user/scmd.cgi?scmd=submitNew Topics We invite original research papers from a wide range of topics, including but not limited to: - Non-aggregated data collection and annotation frameworks - Descriptions of corpora collected under the perspectivist paradigm - Multi-perspective Modelling and Machine Learning - Evaluation of multi-perspective models/ models of disagreement - Multi-perspective disagreement as applied to NLP evaluation - Fairness and inclusive modelling - Perspectivist approaches for social good - Applications of multi-perspective modelling - Computing with (dis)agreement - Perspectivist Natural Language Generation - Foundational aspects of perspectivism - Opinion pieces and reviews on perspectivist approaches to NLP Submissions are open to all, and are to be submitted anonymously (and must conform to the instructions for double-blind review). All papers will be refereed through a double-blind peer review process by at least three reviewers, with final acceptance decisions made by the workshop organizers. Scientific papers will be evaluated based on relevance, significance of contribution, impact, technical quality, scholarship, and quality of presentation. Attendance At least one author of each accepted paper is required to participate in the conference and present the work. Important Dates * *Friday June **23 30, 2023: Paper submission* * Friday August 4, 2023: Notification of acceptance * Friday September 1, 2023: Camera-ready papers due * Saturday September 30 or Sunday October 1, 2023: Workshop Workshop organisers: Gavin Abercrombie, Heriot-Watt University Valerio Basile, University of Turin Davide Bernardi, Amazon Alexa Shiran Dudy, University of Colorado, Boulder Simona Frenda, University of Turin Lucy Havens, University of Edinburgh Elisa Leonardelli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Sara Tonelli, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Contact us at g.abercrombie(a)hw.ac.uk if you have any questions. Website: https://nlperspectives.di.unito.it/

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CLEF: apologies + Thessaloniki
by Paolo Rosso 16 Jun '23

16 Jun '23

Hola Anastasia Apologies for submitting one of my reviews a bit late: very busy time now at the end of the academic year... At the beginning of July I would like to book flight and accomodation: if you have any suggestion about hotels in Thessaloniki they'd be more than welcome ;-) Have a nice weekend Paolo

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PhD position @UPF - Forgetting How to See Language
by Gemma Boleda 16 Jun '23

16 Jun '23

Position at UPF (not related to me) ---------- Forwarded message --------- https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/112976#offer-description PhD scholarship in Forgetting How to See Language In this doctoral research, the candidate will investigate the underlying patterns of this forgetting in visual language discrimination. This interdisciplinary research is part of the ForHowSeeL project <https://www.upf.edu/web/mdm-dtic/projects/-/asset_publisher/eCFIkRR4PbC1/co…>. By leveraging videos of British Sign Language (BSL) and Japanese Sign Language (JSL) and using computer vision and artificial intelligence methods, the goal is to identify the key visual features and discover low-level patterns in the visual data that infants in the early months of life are able to capture and use to discriminate between different sign languages. Both model-based and data-driven methods for visual data analysis and understanding will be exploited. This position is co-funded by the PhD fellowship program of the Department of Information and Communication Technologies at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (DTIC-UPF), and the María de Maeztu Strategic Research Programme at DTIC-UPF on Artificial and Natural Intelligence for ICT and beyond. This position includes a teaching commitment load of 45 hours per academic year. Starting date (planned)*:* September - October 2023 Application deadline: June 30th, 2023 Gross monthly salary: 1.680€. Additional information and application <https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/112976>

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June 2023 Newsletter - LDC
by Penn LDC 15 Jun '23

15 Jun '23

In this newsletter: LDC at ACL 2023 LDC data and commercial technology development New publications: Moroccan Arabic - English Lexical Database<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2023L01> LORELEI Indonesian Representative Language Pack<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2023T07> ________________________________ LDC at ACL 202 LDC will be exhibiting at ACL 2023, held this year July 9-14 in Toronto, Canada. Stop by our booth to learn more about recent developments at the Consortium and the latest publications. LDC will post conference updates via Twitter and Facebook. We look forward to seeing you there! LDC data and commercial technology development For-profit organizations are reminded that an LDC membership is a pre-requisite for obtaining a commercial license to almost all LDC databases. Non-member organizations, including non-member for-profit organizations, cannot use LDC data to develop or test products for commercialization, nor can they use LDC data in any commercial product or for any commercial purpose. LDC data users should consult corpus-specific license agreements for limitations on the use of certain corpora. Visit the Licensing<https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/data-management/using/licensing> page for further information. ________________________________ New publications: Moroccan Arabic - English Lexical Database<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2023L01> was developed by LDC. It contains a set of five interrelated tables presenting each Moroccan Arabic word as an orthographic form in Arabic script and a pronunciation form in International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) format. This release contains over 21,000 Moroccan Arabic words in Arabic script and IPA notation, and more than 33,000 English tokens. This lexical database is the result of a collaboration with Georgetown University Press (GUP) <https://press.georgetown.edu/> to enhance and update three dialectal Arabic dictionaries -- Iraqi, Moroccan, and Syrian -- originally published in paper form in the 1960s by GUP. LDC also undertook to develop a lexical database for each dialect. The Georgetown Dictionary of Moroccan Arabic <https://press.georgetown.edu/Book/The-Georgetown-Dictionary-of-Moroccan-Ara…> was published in 2019; this work was based on, and expanded, A Dictionary of Moroccan Arabic<https://press.georgetown.edu/Book/A-Dictionary-of-Moroccan-Arabic>. The several enhancements developed by LDC included facilitating comparisons across Arabic dialects and Modern Standard Arabic by providing Arabic script spellings and IPA pronunciations to Moroccan words and phrases; promoting ease of use by language learners and researchers by developing reasonable orthographic conventions for applying the Arabic alphabet to the dialect; and facilitating a user's understanding of morphological and lexical relations by adding information on the linguistic structures of Moroccan Arabic. 2023 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts provided they have submitted a signed copy of the special license agreement. Non-members may license this data for a fee. * LORELEI Indonesian Representative Language Pack<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2023T07> is comprised of over 17 million words of Indonesian monolingual text, 950,000 million words of found Indonesian-English parallel text, and 92,000 Indonesian words translated from English data. Over 113,000 words were annotated for named entities and more than 24,000 words were annotated for entity discovery and linking and situation frames (identifying entities, needs, and issues). Data was collected from discussion forum, news, reference, social network, and weblogs. The LORELEI (Low Resource Languages for Emergent Incidents) program was concerned with building human language technology for low resource languages in the context of emergent situations. Representative languages were selected to provide broad typological coverage. The knowledge base for entity linking annotation is available separately as LORELEI Entity Detection and Linking Knowledge Base (LDC2020T10)<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2020T10>. 2023 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee. To unsubscribe from this newsletter, log in to your LDC account<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/login> and uncheck the box next to "Receive Newsletter" under Account Options or contact LDC for assistance. Membership Coordinator Linguistic Data Consortium<ldc.upenn.edu> University of Pennsylvania T: +1-215-573-1275 E: ldc(a)ldc.upenn.edu<mailto:ldc@ldc.upenn.edu> M: 3600 Market St. Suite 810 Philadelphia, PA 19104

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