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Call for papers: NLP4Disability: The first Workshop on Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Disability @ PETRA 2023
by Hend Al-Khalifa 12 Jan '23

12 Jan '23

*NLP4Disability: Call for Papers * *The First Workshop on Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Disability @ PETRA 2023 <http://www.petrae.org/>*. July 5-7, 2023. CORFU ISLAND, GREECE Website: https://nlp4disability.github.io/ *Topics of interest* This workshop will explore how natural language processing can be used to improve the lives of people with disabilities. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Automatic identification of disabilities from text - Development of accessible natural language interfaces - Generating alternative text descriptions of images for people with visual impairments - Improving automatic speech recognition for people with hearing impairments - Accessible natural language interfaces - Assistive technologies for people with disabilities - Computational linguistics for people with disabilities - Language processing for people with disabilities - Text processing for people with disabilities - NLP Bias Against Disabled People *Important Dates* Workshop paper submission deadline: *March 10, 2023* Review Period: March 11 - April 07, 2023 Notification date: April 10, 2023 Camera-Ready: April 30, 2023 *Publications* All accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings and will be published with the *ACM Digital Library as part of the ACM ICPS program*. Also, Authors of selected papers will also be invited to submit an extended and improved version to a Special Issue published in Nafath newsletter (ISSN: 2789-9144) indexed in DOAJ and Google Scholar ( https://nafath.mada.org.qa). *Workshop Organizers* - *Hend Al-Khalifa*. Faculty at the Information Technology Department, College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia - *Zainab AlMeraj*. Faculty at the Information Science Department, College of Life Sciences, Kuwait University, Kuwait - *Achraf Othman*. Mada Center, Qatar - *Dena Al-Thani*. College of Science and Engineering, Hamad bin Khalifa University, Qatar -- Hend S. Al-Khalifa, PhD Professor Information Technology Department CCIS, King Saud University Saudi Arabia, Riyadh Website: http://fac.ksu.edu.sa/hendk Research: http://iwan.ksu.edu.sa/ <http://iwan.ksu.edu.sa/>

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CFP: FICTA-2023, Cardiff Metropolitan University, United Kingdom || Springer SIST Series (Scopus Indexed) || Paper Submission Deadline: 20 January 2023
by Sandeep Sengar 12 Jan '23

12 Jan '23

Dear Researchers, We are happy to inform you that the Eleventh International Conference on Frontiers of Intelligent Computing: Theory and Applications (FICTA-2023) will be organized by Cardiff Metropolitan University, United Kingdom. We invite you to participate in FICTA-2023: https://ficta.co.uk/ on 11-12 April 2023, being organized in a hybrid mode. Publication: All FICTA 2023 registered and presented papers will be published in conference proceedings by Springer-Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies (SIST) Series (https://www.springer.com/series/8767). Topics of interest: Submissions of quality papers are expected in all areas of research and application in intelligent computing, refer call for papers at https://ficta.co.uk/call-for-papers. For any queries related to the conference you may feel free to e-mail: FICTA2023(a)cardiffmet.ac.uk Thank you -- Warm Regards, *Sandeep Singh Sengar*, Lecturer in Computer Science Cluster Leader Computer Vision / Image Processing Cardiff Metropolitan University, Cardiff, UK CF5 2YB *-------------------------------------------------------------------------------* *Email: SSSengar(a)cardiffmet.ac.uk <SSSengar(a)cardiffmet.ac.uk>* *Web: **https://sites.google.com/view/sandeepsengar <https://sites.google.com/view/sandeepsengar>*

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Call for Papers: Association for Computers & Humanities virtual conference, June 2023
by heather froehlich 12 Jan '23

12 Jan '23

Dear all, (with apologies for cross-posting) The Association for Computers in the Humanities (ACH) invites proposals for their virtual conference to take place this summer; I've copied the basic details below. They are very interested in proposals that have a multilingual angle (see below) and are wide-ranging in their interests (again, see below) A note that membership to the Association is rather affordable ($40) and brings the overall registration for the conference down to $50 (a total of $90). The student membership price is $25. https://ach.org/membership/ *ACH 2023 CFP (https://ach2023.ach.org/en/cfp/ <https://ach2023.ach.org/en/cfp/)>) *Deadline: February 1st, 2023, 11:59:59 PM in GMT -12 Submit a proposal: ACH 2023 Conftool <https://www.conftool.pro/ach2023/> The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) will hold ACH 2023, a virtual conference, from June 29-July 1, 2023. *Conference Focus* ACH 2023 is guided by our commitments to equity and justice. The conference recognizes that digital humanities scholarship is inextricably sociopolitical. Therefore, we have chosen to forgo a theme to emphasize the inherent sociopolitical nature of the work and encourage all proposal writers to explicitly address the sociopolitical stakes of their work. ACH 2023 prioritizes proposals that focus on social justice in multiple contexts: anti-racist work, Indigenous studies, cultural and critical ethnic studies, intersectional feminism, postcolonial and decolonial studies, disability studies, and queer studies. We also prioritize proposals that explicitly address multilingualism in digital humanities, which is itself a matter of social justice. Examples of topics include: multilingual metadata, linked open data, preservation and dissemination of endangered languages, OCR for non-Latin scripts, methods for right-to-left languages, tools and interfaces for multilingual digital humanities, multilingual pedagogies, and multilingual corpora. *Conference Scope* Areas of digital humanities scholarship that are relevant to the conference include but are not limited to: - Digital and computational approaches to humanistic research and pedagogy - Digital cultural heritage - Digital surveillance - Environmental humanities & climate justice - Digital humanities tools and infrastructures - Digital librarianship - Digital media, art, literature, history, music, film, and games - Digital public humanities - Humanistic and ethical approaches to data science and data visualization - Humanistic research on digital objects and cultures - Humanities knowledge infrastructures - Labor and organization in digital humanities - Physical computing - Resource creation, curation, and engagement - Use of digital technologies to write, publish, and review scholarship As a conference committed to cross-disciplinary engagement, ACH 2023 welcomes interdisciplinary proposals. We are also especially interested in receiving proposals from participants with a range of expertise and a variety of roles, including alt-ac positions, employment outside of higher education, and graduate and undergraduate students. We further invite proposals from participants who are newcomers to digital humanities. best wishes, Heather -- Dr Heather Froehlich w // http://hfroehli.ch t // @heatherfro

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Temporary position in English Linguistics for one year at W2 level
by Robert Fuchs 12 Jan '23

12 Jan '23

Dear all The University of Hamburg is looking for a candidate to fill a position in English linguistics (incl. corpus linguistics) for one year, starting in April 2023. The teaching load is 9 hours per week (i.e. nine 'hours' of 45 minutes). The position is remunerated at W2 level, which is very competitive. The ad for the position is in German, but applications in English are welcome. The deadline is very soon - if you need more time, please contact my colleague Peter Siemund (see contacts under the link below): https://www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangebote/ausschreibung.html?jobID=e2e0e1d… Best wishes Robert -- Prof. Dr. Robert Fuchs (JP) | Department of English Language and Literature/Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik | University of Hamburg | Überseering 35, 22297 Hamburg, Germany | Room 07076 | https://uni-hamburg.academia.edu/RobertFuchs <https://uni-hamburg.academia.edu/RobertFuchs> | https://sites.google.com/view/rflinguistics/ <https://sites.google.com/view/rflinguistics/> Mailing list on varieties of English/World Englishes/ENL-ESL-EFL. Subscribe here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/var-eng/join <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/var-eng/join> Are you a non-native speaker of English? Please help us by taking this short survey on when and how you use the English language: https://lamapoll.de/englishusageofnonnativespeakers-1/ <https://lamapoll.de/englishusageofnonnativespeakers-1/>

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Free Lancaster Summer Schools - applications open
by Brezina, Vaclav 12 Jan '23

12 Jan '23

Dear all, We are organising Free summer schools in Corpus linguistics at Lancaster University, UK from 26 to 30 June 2023. This is just before the CL2023 conference, also in Lancaster (https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/cl2023 ). This year, the summer schools will be held as an in-person event on the Lancaster University campus. We offer the following two summer schools to choose from: * Corpus linguistics for the analysis of language, discourse and society * Corpus linguistics for language learning, teaching and testing More info & applications: http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/corpussummerschools/ 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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New positions at Language Technologies Unit at BSC-CNS
by Montserrat Marimon 12 Jan '23

12 Jan '23

The Language Technologies Unit at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) invites applications for the following 6 positions: - Deep Learning Engineer for Language Technologies (RE1): https://www.bsc.es/join-us/job-opportunities/1123lstmre1 - Deep Learning Engineer for Language Technologies (RE2): https://www.bsc.es/join-us/job-opportunities/1423lstmre <https://www.bsc.es/join-us/job-opportunities/1423lstmre2> - <https://www.bsc.es/join-us/job-opportunities/1423lstmre2>Machine Translation Engineer (RE1): https://www.bsc.es/join-us/job-opportunities/1023lstmre1 - Machine Translation Engineer (RE2): https://www.bsc.es/join-us/job-opportunities/1323lstmre <https://www.bsc.es/join-us/job-opportunities/1323lstmre2> - <https://www.bsc.es/join-us/job-opportunities/1323lstmre2>Data Engineer for Language and Translation Technologies (RE1): https://www.bsc.es/join-us/job-opportunities/923lstmre1 - Data Engineer for Language and Translation Technologies (RE2): https://www.bsc.es/join-us/job-opportunities/1223lstmre2 We offer: - Full-time contracts, a highly stimulating environment with state-of-the-art infrastructure, flexible working hours, extensive training plan, tickets restaurant, private health insurance, and full support for relocation procedures. - A competitive salary commensurate with the qualifications and experience of the candidate and according to the cost of living in Barcelona. - Open-ended contract due to technical and scientific activities linked to the project and budget duration About BSC and the Language Technologies Unit The Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) is the leading supercomputing center in Spain. It houses MareNostrum, one of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe, and is a hosting member of the PRACE European distributed supercomputing infrastructure. The mission of BSC is to research, develop and manage information technologies in order to facilitate scientific progress. BSC combines HPC service provision and R&D into both computer and computational science (life, earth and engineering sciences) under one roof, and currently has over 770 staff from 55 countries. The Language Technologies Unit at BSC has extensive experience in several NLP areas, such as massive language model building, biomedical text mining, machine translation and unsupervised learning for under-resourced languages and domains. It has been entrusted by the Spanish and the Catalan governments with the mission to develop essential open-source resources and technologies for Spanish and Catalan languages. In connection with this, the LT Unit is currently in charge of two flagship projects at the national and regional level: the Spanish National Language Technology Plan, funded by the Spanish Secretariat of Digitalisation and Artificial Intelligence, and the AINA project, aimed at developing AI resources for Catalan, funded by the Catalan Digitalisation Department. In addition, the Unit participates in various EU-funded international projects. -- *Montserrat Marimon* Language Technologies Unit -⁠ Life Sciences BSC-CNS

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First Call for Participation - EXIST 2023: sEXism Identification in Social neTworks @ CLEF
by JORGE AMANDO CARRILLO DE ALBORNOZ CUADRADO 12 Jan '23

12 Jan '23

Please, consider participating and/or forwarding to colleagues and groups. ****We apologize for multiple postings of this e-mail**** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Participation ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- First Call for Participation EXIST 2023 at CLEF 2023 Task: EXIST 2023: sEXism Identification in Social neTworks Website: http://nlp.uned.es/exist2023/ EXIST is a series of scientific events and shared tasks on sexism identification in social networks that aims to capture sexism in a broad sense, from explicit misogyny to other subtle expressions that involve implicit sexist behaviours (EXIST 2021, EXIST 2022). The third edition of the EXIST shared task will be held as a Lab at CLEF 2023, which will take place on September 18-21, 2023, in the Centre for Research & Technology Hellas (CERTH), Thessaloniki, Greece. Social Networks are the main platforms for social complaint, activism and expression of opinions and personal views in general. Movements like #MeTwoo, #8M or #Time’sUp have spread rapidly. Under the umbrella of social networks, many women all around the world have reported abuses, discriminations and other sexist experiences suffered in real life. Social networks are also contributing to the transmission of sexism and other disrespectful and hateful behaviours. In this context, automatic tools not only may help to detect and alert against sexist behaviours and discourses, but also to estimate how often sexist and abusive situations are found in social media platforms, what forms of sexism are more frequent and how sexism is expressed in these media. Given the success of the tasks, EXIST 2023 is a follow up of the tasks addressed in previous years, while facing yet a new challenge: the identification of the intention of the author of the sexist message. Additionally, the main novelty will be the adoption of the “learning with disagreements” paradigm for the development of the dataset and for the evaluation of the systems. The adoption of this paradigm along with our effort to control bias in the annotations will allow us to evaluate whether including the different views and sensibilities of the annotators contributes to the development of more accurate and fairer NLP systems. Participants will be asked to classify tweets (in English and Spanish) according to the following three tasks: TASK 1 - Sexism Identification: a binary classification where systems have to decide whether or not a given text (tweets) contains sexist expressions or behaviours (i.e., it is sexist itself, describes a sexist situation or criticizes a sexist behaviour). TASK 2 - Source Intention: for the tweets that have been classified as sexist, the second task aims to classify each tweet according to the intention of the person who wrote it. We propose a ternary classification task: (i) direct sexist message, (ii) reported sexist message and (iii) judgemental message. TASK 3 - Sexism Categorization: once a message has been classified as sexist, the third task aims to categorize the message in different types of sexism (according to the categorization proposed by experts and that takes into account the different facets of women that are undermined). In particular, each sexist tweet must be categorized in one or more of the following categories: (i) Ideological and inequality, (ii) Stereotyping and dominance, (iii) Objectification, (iv) Sexual violence and (v) Misogyny and non-sexual violence. Although we recommend to participate in all subtasks, participants are allowed to participate just in one of them. During the training phase, the task organizers will provide to the participants the manually-annotated EXIST 2023 dataset. For the evaluation of the teams, the unlabelled test data will be released. We encourage participation from both academic institutions and industrial organizations. We invite the participants to register for the lab at CLEF 2023 Labs Registration site (http://clef2023-labs-registration.dei.unipd.it/registrationForm.php). Upon registration participants will receive information about how to join the Google Group about the EXIST 2023 shared task. Important Dates: * 14 November 2022: Registration open. * 13 February 2023: Training set available. * 27 March 2023: Development set available. * 10 April 2023: Test set available. * 28 April 2023: Registration closes. * 10 May 2023: Runs submission due. * 26 May 2023: Results notification. * 5 June 2023: Submission of Working Notes by participants. * 23 June 2023: Notification of acceptance (peer-reviews). * 7 July 2023: Camera-ready participant papers due. * 18-21 September 2023: EXIST 2023 at CLEF Conference. **Note: All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth").** Organizers: Laura Plaza, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) Jorge Carrillo-de-Albornoz, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) Roser Morante, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) Enrique Amigó, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) Julio Gonzalo, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) Damiano Spina, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) Paolo Rosso, Universitat Politècnica de Valencia (UPV) Contact: Contact the organizers by writing to: jcalbornoz(a)lsi.uned.es Website: http://nlp.uned.es/exist2023/ [http://nlp.uned.es/exist2023/images/icon_hu9683616acaba39c3cdd30865f1cf9d69…]<http://nlp.uned.es/exist2023/> EXIST 2023 - nlp.uned.es<http://nlp.uned.es/exist2023/> We will carry out a “hard evaluation” and a “soft evaluation”. Hard evaluation: the hard evaluation will assume that a single label is provided by the systems for every example in the dataset.; Soft evaluation: the soft evaluation is intended to measure the ability of the model to capture disagreements, by considering the distribution of labels in the output as a soft label and ... nlp.uned.es 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. 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CFP: Constraint Grammar Workshop at NoDaLiDa 2023 - Thórshavn
by Eckhard Bick 11 Jan '23

11 Jan '23

============================================================================= CONSTRAINT GRAMMAR WORKSHOP - CALL FOR PAPERS Constraint Grammar - Methods, Tools and Applications in conjunction with NoDaLiDa 2023, Thórshavn, Faroe Islands, May 22, 2023 https://visl.sdu.dk/nodalida2023.html ============================================================================= This workshop on practical and theoretical aspects of CG will be co-located with NoDaLiDa 2023 in Thórshavn. The new edition of the workshop continues the tradition of CG workshops at NoDaLiDa, which started in 2005. Apart from the traditional field of corpus-oriented tagging and parsing, Constraint Grammar continues to inspire applicational work, providing a robust NLP backbone in end user-oriented systems in various areas of language technology, such as spell and grammar checking, comma correction, ICALL, machine translation, lexicography and others. We therefore envision workshop contributions both regarding basic grammatical research and corpus linguistics on the one hand, and CG-based applications on the other hand. Constraint Grammar has always elicited a strong interest from researchers working on less-resourced languages, such as the Sami languages, Greenlandic, Faroese, Tibetan and the Celtic languages, for which we explicitly invite both finished and ongoing work. Finally, there will be room for methodological contributions on the CG formalism itself regarding either its expressive power or improvements in compiler implementation. CALL FOR ABSTRACTS We invite contributions concerning CG grammars for various languages or CG systems used in tools and applications. Research reports from fields relevant to the CG framework on the input side - such as finite-state analyzers, ontologies etc. - are also welcome. Finally, we are hoping for methodological contributions and experiments exploiting advances in expressive power in the most widely used CG compiler, CG-3. As usual, we encourage short papers on ongoing work. The workshop will be organized as a half-day workshop with both full and short papers. Contributions will be reviewed anonymously, and the papers will be published in the NoDaLiDa 2023 workshop proceedings. We invite extended abstracts, approximately 1500 words (for an 8 page full paper) or 750 words (for a 4 page short paper) - additional pages with bibliographic references not included. Final full versions of accepted papers can be submitted after the workshop, and will be published in the NEALT Proceedings Series by Linköping University Electronic Press. IMPORTANT DATES Monday, April 10, 2023: Submission of abstracts Monday, April 17, 2023: Notification of acceptance Monday, May 22, 2023: Workshop (NoDaLiDa main conference May 23-24) Monday, June 26, 2023: Submission of camera-ready full manuscripts SUBMISSION FORMATS All submissions must follow the NoDaLiDa 2023 style files, which are available for LaTeX (preferred) and MS Word and can be retrieved from the following address: https://www.nodalida2023.fo/authorkit-nodalida23 Submissions must be anonymous, i.e. not reveal author(s) on the title page or through self-references. Abstracts (1500 words for full papers and 750 words for short papers, excluding bibliography) must be submitted digitally, in PDF, and uploaded through the on-line conference system. Abstract submissions that violate either of these requirements will be returned without review. SUBMISSION MANAGEMENT Submissions to the conference must be uploaded electronically, obeying the above requirements and no later than (end of day, world-wide): Monday, April 10, 2023 NoDaLiDa 2023 utilizes the OpenReview conference management system for submission, reviewing, and preparation of proceedings. Submission for the conference can be made at: https://openreview.net/group?id=NoDaLiDa/2023/Workshop/CG-MTA ORGANIZERS * Eckhard Bick, bick(a)sdu.dk, University of Southern Denmark * Tino Didriksen, tinod(a)sdu.dk, GrammarSoft ApS & University of Southern Denmark * Kristin Hagen, kristin.hagen(a)iln.uio.no, University of Oslo * Kaili Müürisep, kaili.muurisep(a)ut.ee, University of Tartu * Trond Trosterud, trond.trosterud(a)uit.no, University of Tromsø. * Linda Wiechetek, linda.wiechetek(a)uit.no, University of Tromsø -- Eckhard Bick, cand.med., dr.phil. University of Southern Denmark e-mail: eckhard.bick(a)gmail.com web: http://beta.visl.sdu.dk

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1st Call for the The Anthony C. Clarke Award for the 2022 EAMT Best Thesis
by Carol Scarton 10 Jan '23

10 Jan '23

********************************************************************* The Anthony C. Clarke Award for the 2022 EAMT Best Thesis Submission deadline: March 3, 2023, 23:59 CEST ********************************************************************* The European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT, http://www.eamt.org) is an organization that serves the growing community of people interested in MT and translation tools, including translators, users, developers, and researchers of this increasingly viable technology. The EAMT invites entries for its eleventh EAMT Best Thesis Award for a PhD or equivalent thesis on a topic related to machine translation. Previous year winners can be found at https://eamt.org/best-thesis-award/. * Eligibility * Researchers who - have completed a PhD (or equivalent) thesis on a relevant topic in a European, African or Middle Eastern institution within calendar year 2022, - have not previously won another international award for that thesis, and, - are members of the EAMT at the time of submission, are invited to submit their theses to the EAMT for consideration. * Panel * The submissions will be judged by a panel of experts who will be specifically appointed, based on the EAMT 2023 program committee, and which will be ratified by the Executive Board of the EAMT. * Selection criteria * Each thesis will be judged according to how challenging the problem was, to how relevant the results are for machine translation as a field, and to the strength of their impact in terms of scientific publications. * Scope * The scope of the thesis does not need to be confined to a technical area, and applications are also invited from students who carried out their research into commercial and management aspects of machine translation. Possible areas of research include: - development of machine translation or advanced computer-assisted translation: methods, software or resources - machine translation for less-resourced languages - the use of these systems in professional environments (freelance translators, translation agencies, localisation, etc.) - the increasing impact of machine translation on non-professional Internet users and its impact in communications, social networking, etc. - spoken language translation - the integration of machine translation and translation memory systems - the integration of machine translation software in larger IT applications - the evaluation of machine translation systems in real tasks such as those above - the cross-fertilisation between machine translation and other language technologies * Prize * The winner will be announced on the 31st of March 2023 and will receive a prize of €500, together with an inscribed certificate. The recipient of the award will be required to briefly present their research at EAMT 2023 to be held from 12th June to 15th June 2022 in Tampere, Finland. In order to facilitate this, the EAMT will waive the winner's registration costs, and will make available a travel bursary of €200 to enable the recipient of the award to attend the said conference. The prize includes complimentary membership in the EAMT for 2024. * Submission * Candidates will submit using EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eamt2023 (Submission type: Thesis Award), a single PDF file containing: - a 2-page summary of your thesis in English, containing: ---> your full contact details, ---> the name and contact details of your supervisor(s), - a copy of your CV in English (at most one page, plus a complete list of publications directly related to the thesis) - an electronic copy of your thesis - optionally, an appendix with any other relevant information on the thesis By submitting their work, authors - agree that, in case they are granted the award, any subsequently published version of the thesis should carry the citation "The Anthony C. Clarke Award for the 2022 EAMT Best Thesis" and - acknowledge the right of the EAMT to publicize the granting of the award. For this year's Best Thesis Award we are requiring candidates to be an individual EAMT member at the time of submission. For EAMT memberships, please visit: http://www.eamt.org/membership.php. * Closing date * Submission deadline: March 3, 2023, 23:59 CEST. Award notification: March 31, 2023. -- *Carolina Scarton* Lecturer in Natural Language Processing Department of Computer Science University of Sheffield http://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/C.Scarton/

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Postdoctoral position at Cardiff University
by Steven Schockaert 10 Jan '23

10 Jan '23

Location: Cardiff, UK Deadline for applications: 31st January 2023 Start date: as soon as possible Duration: 30 months Keywords: natural language processing, neurosymbolic AI, graph neural networks, commonsense reasoning Details about the post Applications are invited for a Research Associate post in the Cardiff University School of Computer Science & Informatics, to work on the EPSRC Open Fellowship project ReStoRe (Reasoning about Structured Story Representations), which is focused on story-level language understanding. The overall aim of this project is to develop methods for learning graph-structured representations of stories. For this post, the specific focus will be on developing common sense reasoning strategies, based on graph neural networks, to fill the gap between what is explicitly stated in a story and what a human reader would infer by “reading between the lines”. More details about the post and instructions on how to apply are available here: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CWM298/research-associate Background about the ReStoRe project When we read a story as a human, we build up a mental model of what is described. Such mental models are crucial for reading comprehension. They allow us to relate the story to our earlier experiences, to make inferences that require combining information from different sentences, and to interpret ambiguous sentences correctly. Crucially, mental models capture more information than what is literally mentioned in the story. They are representations of the situations that are described, rather than the text itself, and they are constructed by combining the story text with our commonsense understanding of how the world works. The field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) has made rapid progress in the last few years, but the focus has largely been on sentence-level representations. Stories, such as news articles, social media posts or medical case reports, are essentially modelled as collections of sentences. As a result, current systems struggle with the ambiguity of language, since the correct interpretation of a word or sentence can often only be inferred by taking its broader story context into account. They are also severely limited in their ability to solve problems where information from different sentences needs to be combined. As a final example, current systems struggle to identify correspondences between related stories (e.g. different news articles about the same event), especially if they are written from a different perspective. To address these fundamental challenges, we need a method to learn story-level representations that can act as an analogue to mental models. Intuitively, there are two steps involved in learning such story representations: first we need to model what is literally mentioned in the story, and then we need some form of commonsense reasoning to fill in the gaps. In practice, however, these two steps are closely interrelated: interpreting what is mentioned in the story requires a model of the story context, but constructing this model requires an interpretation of what is mentioned. The solution that is proposed in this fellowship is based on representations called story graphs. These story graphs encode the events that occur, the entities involved, and the relationships that hold between these entities and events. A story can then be viewed as an incomplete specification of a story graph, similar to how a symbolic knowledge base corresponds to an incomplete specification of a possible world. The proposed framework will allow us to reason about textual information in a principled way. It will lead to significant improvements in NLP tasks where a commonsense understanding is required of the situations that are described, or where information from multiple sentences or documents needs to be combined. It will furthermore enable a step change in applications that directly rely on structured text representations, such as situational understanding, information retrieval systems for the legal, medical and news domains, and tools for inferring business insights from news stories and social media feeds.

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