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[SEPLN] Call for participation - MentalRiskES@IberLEF2024: Early detection of mental disorders risk in Spanish
by María Dolores Molina González 20 Feb '24

20 Feb '24

------------------------------------------------------------------------------ MentalRiskES at IberLEF 2024: Call for Participation Website: https://sites.google.com/view/mentalriskes2024 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MentalRiskES describes the second edition of a novel task on early risk identification of mental disorders in Spanish comments from social media sources. The first edition took place last year in the IberLEF evaluation forum as part of the SEPLN 2023. The task was resolved as an online problem, that is, the participants had to detect a potential risk as early as possible in a continuous stream of data. Therefore, the performance not only depended on the accuracy of the systems but also on how fast the problem was detected. These dynamics are reflected in the design of the tasks and the metrics used to evaluate participants. For this second edition, we propose three novel tasks, the first subtask is about detection disorder, the second subtask consists of detecting the context that may be associated with the disorder, and the third subtask is about suicidal ideation detection. We would like to invite you to participate in the following tasks: 1. Disorders detection (multi-class classification) 2. Disorder contextualization (fine-grained classification) 3. Suicidal ideation detection (binary classification) Find out more at https://sites.google.com/view/mentalriskes2024. MentalRiskES 2024 is part of the IberLEF Workshop and will be held in conjunction with the SEPLN 2024 conference in Valladolid (Spain). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Feb 16th Registration open Feb 21st Release of trial corpora (trial server available) Mar 20th Release of training corpora Mar 29th Registration closed Apr 8th Release of test corpora and start of the evaluation campaign (test server available and trial submissions closed) Apr 12th End of evaluation campaign (deadline for submission of runs) Apr 18th Publication of official results and release of test gold labels May 10th Deadline for paper submission May 31st Acceptance notification Jun 17th Camera-ready submission deadline July 11th Final camera-ready submission deadline (to IberLEF organisers) Please reach out to the organizers at MentalRiskEs@IberLEF2024. The MentalRiskES 2024 organizing committee. -- M. Dolores Molina González ----------------------------------------------------------- Mas informacion sobre listas de correo en la Univ. de Jaen http://www.ujaen.es/sci/redes/listas/ -----------------------------------------------------------

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8th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH) @NAACL: 2nd CFP
by Yi-Ling Chung 20 Feb '24

20 Feb '24

*** Second Call for Papers *** We invite paper submissions to the 8th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH), which will take place on June 20/21 at NAACL 2024. Website: https://www.workshopononlineabuse.com/cfp.html Join our WOAH community Slack channel<https://hatespeechdet-47d7560.slack.com/join/shared_invite/zt-2a8d96j4z-gkN…>! Important Dates Submission due: March 10, 2024 ARR reviewed submission due: April 7, 2024 Notification of acceptance: April 14, 2024 Camera-ready papers due: April 24, 2024 Workshop: June 20/21, 2024 Overview Digital technologies have brought many benefits for society, transforming how people connect, communicate and interact with each other. However, they have also enabled abusive and harmful content such as hate speech and harassment to reach large audiences, and for their negative effects to be amplified. The sheer amount of content shared online means that abuse and harm can only be tackled at scale with the help of computational tools. However, detecting and moderating online abuse and harms is a difficult task, with many technical, social, legal and ethical challenges. The Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms 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, including misinformation; * 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; * New evaluation metrics and procedures for the detection of harmful content; * 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 eighth edition of WOAH, which will be online harms in the age of large language models. Highly capable Large Language Models (LLMs) are now widely deployed and easily accessible by millions across the globe. Without proper safeguards, these LLMs will readily follow malicious instructions and generate toxic content. Even the safest LLMs can be exploited by bad actors for harmful purposes. With this theme, we invite submissions that explore the implications of LLMs for the creation, dissemination and detection of harmful online content. We are interested in how to stop LLMs from following malicious instructions and generating toxic content, but also how they could be used to improve content moderation and enable countermeasures like personalised counterspeech. To support our theme, we have invited an interdisciplinary line-up of high-profile speakers across academia, industry and public policy. Submission Submission is electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system. Submission link: https://softconf.com/naacl2024/WOAH2024/manager/scmd.cgi?scmd=submitPaperCu… The workshop will accept three types of papers. * Academic Papers (long and short): Long papers of up to 8 pages, excluding references, and short papers of up to 4 pages, excluding references. Unlimited pages for references and appendices. Accepted papers will be given an additional page of content to address reviewer comments. Previously published papers cannot be accepted. * Non-Archival Submissions: Up to 2 pages, excluding references, to summarise and showcase in-progress work and work published elsewhere. * Civil Society Reports: Non-archival submissions, with a minimum of 2 pages and no upper limit. Can include work published elsewhere. Format and styling All submissions must use the official ACL two-column format, using the supplied official style files. The templates can be downloaded in Style Files and Formatting<https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files>. 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[LREC-COLING-2024 FinNLP-KDF Workshop] Call for Paper
by CHUNG-CHI CHEN 20 Feb '24

20 Feb '24

Dear colleagues, We are glad to share the second Call for Paper of the Joint Workshop of the 7th Financial Technology and Natural Language Processing (FinNLP) and the 5th Knowledge Discovery from Unstructured Data in Financial Services (KDF) at LREC-COLING-2024. This workshop aims at discussing NLP for financial applications and knowledge discovery from financial data. *The submission deadline is March 1st, 2024, and here is the Submission System: https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/finnlp-kdf2024/ <https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/finnlp-kdf2024/>* In addition to the main track, we will have two keynote talks provided by Dr. James Zhang (Ant Group) and Prof. Diyi Yang (Stanford). Besides, we also have a shared task related to ESG (environmental, social, and corporate governance). Please visit our website for more details: https://sites.google.com/nlg.csie.ntu.edu.tw/finnlp-kdf-2024/home We look forward to receiving your submissions and welcoming you to join FinNLP-KDF. Best Regards, FinNLP-KDF organizers *Call for Paper - FinNLP-KDF* *Topics of Interest*We invite submissions of original contributions on methods, theories, applications, and systems on artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing & understanding, big data, statistical learning, data analytics, and deep learning, with a focus on knowledge discovery in the financial services domain. The scope of the workshop includes, but is not limited to, the following areas: - Representation learning, and distributed representation learning and encoding in natural language processing for financial document - Language modeling on financial corpora including tabular and numerical data, and multi-modal modeling; large language models (LLMs) and applications for finance - Graph representation learning, mining learning on graph structures from financial data - Multi-source knowledge integration and fusion, and knowledge alignment and integration from heterogeneous data - Synthetic or genuine financial datasets and benchmarks for baseline models - Transfer learning applications for financial data, knowledge distillation as a method for compression of pre-trained models or adaptation to financial datasets - Search and question answering systems designed for financial corpora - Event discovery from alternative data and impact on organization equity price - Environmental, social, governance (ESG) event discovery, evaluation, and impact assessment *Submission Details* - Submission Deadline: March 1st, 2024 - Paper Notification: March 20th - Camera-Ready Deadline: March 25th - FinNLP-KDF-2024: May 20, 2024 Accepted papers proceedings will be published at ACL Anthology. *Format* - The LREC-COLING template MUST be used for your submission(s). - 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. *Policies* - 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-KDF-2024 paper submission link above. - At least one author of each accepted paper should register and present their work (either online or in-person) in FinNLP-KDF-2024. Papers with “No Show” may be redacted. Authors will be required to agree to this requirement at the time of submission. - When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC-COLING authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones).

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GUM Corpus V10 - new genres and annotations
by Amir Zeldes 19 Feb '24

19 Feb '24

(Apologies for cross-postings) � *** The GUM Corpus - Release 10.0.0 *** *** Georgetown University Multilayer corpus *** � Corpling@GU <https://gucorpling.org/corpling/> is happy to announce the first release of series 10 of the Georgetown University Multilayer corpus (GUM V10.0.0): � https://gucorpling.org/gum/ � New in this version: � - 4 new genres with 22 new documents: (total tokens: 228,399) - Courtroom transcripts - Essays - Letters (on paper, not e-mails) - Podcasts - Expansions to the discourse annotation layer - Enhanced RST parses with additional, non-projective tree-breaking relations (multiple relations per node) - Complete signaling annotation including discourse markers and other discourse signals following the Signaling Corpus - PDTB-style connective annotation and DISRPT style relation classification data - Morphological segmentation following UniMorph - Annotation of select constructions based on Construction Grammar (e.g. resultatives, NPN, causal-excess) - Many corrections to all annotation layers � GUM is an open source corpus of richly annotated English texts from 16 genres: academic, bio, courtroom, conversation, essay, fiction, interview, letters, news, podcasts, speeches, textbooks, travel, vlogs, how-to and Reddit forum discussions. The corpus is created by students as part of the Computational Linguistics curriculum at Georgetown University and is available under Creative Commons licenses. � This is the first version of GUM series 10, containing roughly 228K tokens annotated for: � - Multiple POS tags (100% manual gold PTB, extended PTB, converted CLAWS5 and UPOS) and UD morphological features - Manually corrected lemmatization and morphological segmentation - Sentence segmentation and rough speech act (manual) - Document structure using TEI tags (paragraphs, headings, figures, captions etc., all manual) - Constituent and dependency syntax (manually corrected Universal Dependencies, and PTB parses from gold tags with function labels and enhanced dependencies) - Information status (given-active/inactive, accessible-inferable/common ground/aggregate, and new) - Entity type, salience and coreference annotation (including non-named entities, singletons, appositions, cataphora and several types of bridging), as well as Centering Theory annotations - Entity linking (Wikification) of all named entities with Wikipedia articles, including their non-named and pronominal mentions - Discourse parses in enhanced Rhetorical Structure Theory (eRST) and discourse dependencies - Discourse signal annotations classified into 9 major and 45 minor types indicating how the presence of a relation is marked (based on the Signaling Corpus scheme) - Abstractive summaries for each document (two summaries per document in the test set) � Note on Reddit data: token text is not contained in the release but can be downloaded with an included script. � For more information and to search or download the corpus online, see the corpus website <https://gucorpling.org/gum/> . � Best wishes, The GUM team � PS – if you like GUM, check out our ‘extreme genre test set’ GENTLE <https://github.com/gucorpling/gentle/> , and the larger, automatically annotated AMALGUM <https://github.com/gucorpling/amalgum/> corpus! �

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Deadline extension: Workshop on Reference, Framing, and Perspective
by Pia Sommerauer 19 Feb '24

19 Feb '24

* Extended deadline for submissions: February 29th, 2024 (original deadline: February 20th, 2024) ------- Call for Papers We are very pleased to share our second call for papers for our workshop on Reference, Framing, and Perspective co-located with LREC-COLING 2024. * Workshop website: https://cltl.github.io/reference-framing-perspective/ * When: Saturday, May 25th, 20204 * Where: Torino, Italy (co-located with LREC-COLING 2024) * Deadline for submissions: February 29th, 2024 * Paper types: regular papers (short and long) and extended abstracts * Paper submission link: https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/reference-framing-perspective2024/user… * Deadline for camera-ready papers: March 29th, 2024 * Shared dataset: https://github.com/cltl/rfp_corpus_collection When something happens in the world, we have access to an unlimited range of ways (from lexical choices to specific syntactic structures) to refer to the same real-world event. We can chose to express information explicitly or imply it. Variations in reference may convey radically different perspectives. This process of making reference to something by adopting a specific perspective is also known as framing. Although previous work in this area is present (see Ali and Hassan (2022)’s survey for an overview), there is a lack of a unitary framework and only few targeted datasets (Chen et al., 2019) and tools based on Large Language Models exist (Minnema et al., 2022). In this workshop, we propose to adopt Frame Semantics (Fillmore, 1968, 1985, 2006) as a unifying theoretical framework and analysis method to understand the choices made in linguistic references to events. The semantic frames (expressed by predicates and roles) we choose give rise to our understanding, or framing, of an event. We aim to bring together different research communities interested in lexical and syntactic variation, referential grounding, frame semantics, and perspectives. We believe that there is significant overlap within the goals and interests of these communities, but not necessarily the common ground to enable collaborative work. Referentially Grounded Shared Dataset One way to study variation in framing is to conduct contrastive analyses of texts reporting on the same real-world event. Such an analysis can help to reveal the extent of variation in framing and possibly give rise to the underlying factors that lead to different choices in framing the same event. We collected such a corpus about the Eurovision Song Festival and make it available as a Shared Dataset for the Workshop. The purpose of this corpus is to enable exploratory analyses, facilitate discussion among participants, and, last but not least, make our workshop a real working workshop. The corpus is composed of news articles reporting on the Eurovision Song Contest that took place in Rotterdam, the Netherlands (canceled in 2020 and held in 2021). The news articles have been collected using the structured data-to-text approach (Vossen et al., 2018). The corpus contains news articles in multiple languages. We invite participants to submit short and targeted analyses using the data (extended abstracts to be discussed in a hands-on data session). Participants are also free to use the data in regular contributions. Regular contributions: We aim to lay the groundwork for such efforts. We invite contributions (regular long papers of 8 pages or short papers of 4 pages) targeting any of the following - non-exhaustive - list of topics: * Theoretical models of framing and perspective * Annotation frameworks for framing and perspectives * Computational models of framing and perspective * Approaches for creating and analyzing referentially grounded datasets (containing different perspectives, written at different points in time, written in different languages) * Approaches for and analyses of texts about contested and divisive events triggering different opinions and perspectives * Analyses of and methods for analyzing (diachronic) lexical variation and framing * Language resources for reference, frames, and perspectives * Approaches and tools to compare claims of sources * Frames as expressions of bias in the representation of social groups * User interface for the visualization of multiple perspectives Extended abstracts: We invite extended abstracts (1,500 words maximum) about small analyses or experiments conducted on our Shared Data. The abstracts will be non-archival and discussed in a dedicated data session. Invited speakers: Maria Antoniak Vered Shwartz Organizers: Pia Sommerauer, Tommaso Caselli, Malvina Nissim, Levi Remijnse, Piek Vossen

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Deadline extension! Final CfP: Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and Universal Dependencies (MWE-UD 2024)
by Kilian Evang 19 Feb '24

19 Feb '24

*Final CfP: Joint Workshop on Multiword Expressions and Universal Dependencies (MWE-UD 2024)* Co-located with LREC-COLING 2024 Organized and funded by SIGLEX (the Special Interest Group on the Lexicon of the Association for Computational Linguistics <http://www.siglex.org/>), SIGLEX-MWE (SIGLEX Multiword Expressions Section <https://multiword.org/organization/constitution.html>), Universal Dependencies <https://universaldependencies.org>, and UniDive <https://unidive.lisn.upsaclay.fr/doku.php?id=wg1:wg1> COST Action CA21167. Venue: Torino, Italy and online Workshop Date: May 25, 2024 Workshop Webpage: https://multiword.org/mweud2024/ Paper submission (extended): Mar 3, 2024 Submission link: https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/mwe-ud2024/user/scmd.cgi?scmd=submitPa… ARR commitment: Mar 25, 2024 ARR commitment link: https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/mwe-ud2024/user/scmd.cgi?scmd=submitPa… Invited speakers: Natalia Levshina, Radboud University Harish Tayyar Madabushi, University of Bath We are pleased to announce that the multiword expressions (MWE) and Universal Dependencies (UD) research communities are joining forces in 2024 to organize a joint workshop. This is a timely collaboration because the two communities clearly have overlapping interests. For instance, while UD has several dependency relations that can be used to annotate MWEs, both annotation guidelines (i.e. is syntactic irregularity and inflexibility or semantic non-compositionality the leading criterion?) and annotation practice (both across treebanks for a single language and across languages) for these relations can be improved (Schneider and Zeldes, 2021). The PARSEME MWE-annotated corpora for 26 languages build on UD annotated corpora (Savary et al., 2023). Both communities share an interest in developing guidelines, data-sets, and tools that can be applied to a wide range of typologically diverse languages, raising fundamental questions about tokenization, lemmatization, and morphological decomposition of tokens. Proposals for harmonizing annotation practices between what has been achieved in PARSEME and UD and expanding PARSEME MWE annotation to non-verbal MWEs are also central to the recently started UniDive COST action (CA21167). The workshop invites submissions of original research on MWE, UD, and the interplay of both. In particular, the following topics are especially relevant: - Sensitivity of LLMs to MWE and syntactic dependencies. Studies along the lines of Manning et al. (2020) (UD), Nedumpozhimana and Kelleher (2021), Garcia et al. (2021), Fakharian and Cook (2021), Moreau et al. (2018) (MWE), and others on the question to what extent LLMs make use of syntactic dependencies or are capable of detecting MWEs and capturing their semantics. - Applicability of UD and MWE annotation and discovery for low-resource and typologically diverse languages and language varieties. Both UD and PARSEME aim at universal applicability across a wide range of languages. Much theoretical, computational, and empirical work concentrates on high-resource languages however. Applying these frameworks to typologically diverse languages may lead one to reconsider the notion of token, word, and morphological segmentation, and to reassess the notion of MWE for languages that feature compounding or incorporation (Baldwin et al., 2021; Haspelmath, 2023). - Case studies. Studies on the consistency, coverage or universal applicability of MWE annotation in the UD or PARSEME frameworks, as well as studies on automatic detection and interpretation of MWEs in corpora. - MWE and UD processing to enhance end-user applications. MWEs have gained particular attention in end-user applications, including MT (Zaninello and Birch, 2020; Han et al., 2021), simplification (Kochmar et al., 2020), language learning and assessment (Paquot et al., 2019; Christiansen and Arnon, 2017), social media mining (Maisto et al., 2017), and abusive language detection (Zampieri et al., 2020; Caselli et al., 2020). We believe that it is crucial to extend and deepen these first attempts to integrate and evaluate MWE technology in these and further end-user applications. - Testing developed systems on the latest dataset versions. Authors are also encouraged to submit papers that test the developed systems using the recent UD 2.13 and/or PARSEME 1.3 releases. Organizational Details: Grant, Format, Publications - UniDive members with accepted papers may be eligible for travel reimbursement. - If you are based in an underrepresented country or work on low-resource languages and have an accepted paper, you may be eligible for an ACL-SIGLEX travel grant. - The workshop follows LREC-COLING’s hybrid online/onsite format. - Workshop proceedings will be published in the ACL Anthology. - The workshop follows LREC/COLING’s anti-harassment policy <https://coling2022.org/policy>. Submission Instructions The workshop invites two types of submissions: - archival submissions that present substantially original research in both long paper format (8 pages + references) and short paper format (4 pages + references) - non-archival submissions of abstracts describing relevant research presented/published elsewhere which will not be included in the MWE-UD proceedings. Papers should be submitted via the workshop’s START submission page <https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/mwe-ud2024/user/scmd.cgi?scmd=submitPa…>. Please choose the appropriate submission format (archival/non-archival). Submissions must follow the LREC-COLING 2024 stylesheet <https://lrec-coling-2024.org/authors-kit/>. When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC-COLING authors to share the described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones). Archival papers with existing reviews from ACL Rolling Review will also be considered. Submission is via the START commitment form <https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/mwe-ud2024/user/scmd.cgi?scmd=submitPa…>. A paper may not be simultaneously under review through ARR and MWE-UD. A paper that has or will receive reviews through ARR may not be submitted for review to MWE-UD. Important Dates Paper submission (extended): Mar 3, 2024 ARR paper commitment: Mar 25, 2024 Notification of acceptance: Apr 1, 2024 Camera ready papers due: Apr 8, 2024 Workshop: May 25, 2024 All deadlines are at 23:59 UTC-12 (Anywhere on Earth). Organizing Committee Archna Bhatia, Gosse Bouma, Kilian Evang, Marcos Garcia, Voula Giouli, Lifeng Han, Joakim Nivre, Alexandre Rademaker, A. Seza Doğruöz For any inquiries contact the Organizing Committee at mweud2024-organizers(a)uni-duesseldorf.de.

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[Deadline Extension!] Call for Papers for the 13th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2024)
by Yi Zhou 19 Feb '24

19 Feb '24

*13th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM 2024)* Home: https://sites.google.com/view/starsem2024 *Co-located with NAACL 2024* https://2024.naacl.org/ Mexico City, Mexico June 16–21, 2024 * Important Dates* Direct submission deadline: extended to * Feb 29, 2024 * Date of notification: Apr 22, 2024 Camera ready deadline: May 5, 2024 *SEM workshop: Jun 20-21, 2024 Submission link: https://openreview.net/group?id=aclweb.org/StarSEM/2024/Conference *Invited Speakers* Dr. Greg Durrett (The University of Texas at Austin) https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~gdurrett/# Prof. Heng Ji (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) https://cs.illinois.edu/about/people/faculty/hengji *SEM brings together researchers interested in the semantics of (many and diverse!) natural languages and its computational modeling. The conference embraces data-driven, neural, and probabilistic approaches, as well as symbolic approaches and everything in between; practical applications as well as theoretical contributions are welcome. The long-term goal of *SEM is to provide a stable forum for the growing number of NLP researchers working on all aspects of semantics of (many and diverse!) natural languages. *Topics of Interest* * Lexical semantics and word representations * Compositional semantics and sentence representations * Statistical, machine learning, and deep learning methods in semantic tasks * Multilingual and cross-lingual semantics * Word sense disambiguation and induction * Semantic parsing, and syntax-semantics interface * Frame semantics and semantic role labeling * Textual inference, textual entailment, and question answering * Formal approaches to semantics * Extraction of events and of causal and temporal relations * Entity linking, pronouns and coreference * Discourse, pragmatics, and dialogue * Machine reading * Extra-propositional aspects of meaning * Multiword and idiomatic expressions * Metaphor, irony, and humor * Knowledge mining and acquisition * Common sense reasoning * Language generation * Semantics in NLP applications: sentiment analysis, abusive language detection, summarization, fact-checking, etc. * Multidisciplinary research on semantics * Grounding and multimodal semantics * Psycholinguistcs * Interpretability and Explainability * Human semantic processing * Semantic annotation, evaluation, and resources * Ethical aspects and bias in semantic representations

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2nd CfP (NEW DEADLINE): 11th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages (sign-lang@LREC 2024)
by Schulder, Dr. Marc 19 Feb '24

19 Feb '24

Event: 11th Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages (sign-lang@LREC 2024) NEW Deadline: 29 February 2024 Website: https://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/lrec2024/ Submission page: https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/signlang2024/ CALL FOR PAPERS In response to several requests, we are happy to announce that the deadline for the sign-lang@lREC workshop has been extended to 29 February (11:59PM UTC-12:00 “anywhere on Earth”). Submissions are invited for a full day workshop on sign language resources, to take place on 20 May 2024 as a satellite event of LREC-COLING 2024 in Turin, Italy. During the past years, a number of large-scale sign language corpus projects have started. Some have already been completed, but many more projects are about to start. At the same time, sign language technologies are maturing and are promising to support the time-consuming basic annotation. The workshop aims at bringing together those researchers who already work with multimodal sign language corpora (and those who see the need for empirical underpinnings of their current research) with those who develop sign language technologies. It provides the platform to compare competing approaches. As sign language resource technologies build to a large extent on methodologies and tools used in the language resource community in general, but add very specific perspectives (e.g. no writing system established, use of video as data source) and works with a different modality of human language, sign language research is able to feed back to the language resource community at large. At the same time, as the raw data are in the visual domain, the field naturally bridges into Computer Vision. Thus, researchers use Machine Learning methods on both visual and linguistic data. We invite submissions of papers to be presented either on stage (20 minutes plus 10 minutes discussion) or as posters (with or without demonstrations) on the following topics: 2024 SPECIAL TOPIC: EVALUATION OF SIGN LANGUAGE RESOURCES With the field maturing, it becomes an urgent issue to assess the quality of sign language resources for a large variety of tasks. We invite contributions on both automatic and human-based evaluation procedures for all kinds of sign language resources and tools. GENERAL ISSUES ON SIGN LANGUAGE CORPORA AND TOOLS • Avatar technology as a tool in sign language corpora and corpus data feeding into advances in avatar technology • Experiences in building sign language corpora • Elicitation methodology appropriate for corpus collection • Proposals for standards for linguistic annotation or for metadata descriptions • Experiences from linguistic research using corpora • Use of (parallel) corpora and lexicons in translation studies • Language documentation and long-term accessibility for sign language data • Annotation and visualization Tools • Linking corpora and lexicons and integrated presentation of corpus and dictionary contents • “Internet as a corpus” for sign languages • Sign language corpus mining • Crowd and community sourcing for corpus work • Multi-lingual sign language resources and connecting sign language resources to language resources for spoken languages • FAIR, CARE and OpenScience for sign language data In the tradition of LREC, oral/signed presentations and poster presentations (with or without demonstrations) have equal status, and authors are encouraged to suggest the presentation format best suited to communicate their ideas. Papers (4-8 pages) of all accepted submissions to this workshop will be published as workshop proceedings published on the conference website – independent of whether you have a poster or an oral/signed presentation. The workshop does not differentiate between long, short, or position papers. Please submit your paper through the LREC START system (https://softconf.com/lrec-coling2024/signlang2024/) not later than 29 February 2024, indicating whether you prefer an oral/signed presentation, a poster presentation or a poster presentation with demo. Unlike the main conference, the workshop will be reviewed single-blind, so submissions SHOULD NOT BE ANONYMOUS. ATTENTION Please note that you are expected to submit the full paper, not an extended abstract as in previous years! IMPORTANT DATES • Deadline for submissions (NEW): 29 February 2024 (11:59PM UTC-12:00 “anywhere on Earth”) • Notification of acceptance: 22 March, 2024 • Early bird registration ends: tbd • Camera ready version of the paper (for both oral/signed presentations and posters): 8 April 2024 • Submission of slides for interpreters' preparation (oral/signed presentations only): 10 May 2024 • This workshop: 20 May 2024 • LREC main conference: 22–24 May 2024 • LREC workshops 20, 21 & 25 May 2024

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PhD positions at King's College London: NLP for health research and care
by angus.roberts＠kcl.ac.uk 19 Feb '24

19 Feb '24

The King's DRIVE-Health Centre for Doctoral Training in Data-Driven Health has 15 fully funded four year studentships starting in October 2024. Many of the available projects are NLP related, working on real-world electronic health record text in collaboration with UK NHS hospitals and clinicians. You will be joining a leading health NLP research centre, working on established datasets, and using state-of-the-art compute infrastructure. For full details see the following projects at https://www.drive-health.org.uk/ projects 17, 27, 50, 53, 55, 78, 79, 85, 86, 87 Application deadline: Sunday 10th March at 23:59 UTC+0 -- Dr. Angus Roberts Training lead, DRIVE-Health Centre for Doctoral Training King’s College London Box PO 80, De Crespigny Park, LONDON SE5 8AF

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Postdoc position in social understanding and multimodal modeling of interaction
by Rob Voigt 19 Feb '24

19 Feb '24

Applications are invited for a postdoctoral fellowship with the Linguistic Mechanisms Lab in the Department of Linguistics at Northwestern University to work with Rob Voigt on projects in computational linguistics related to social understanding and multimodal processing of interactional data. Primary funding for the fellowship is provided by a National Institutes of Health grant on cross-linguistic analyses of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in collaboration with Molly Losh in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Northwestern. This project will use contemporary large language model (LLM) technologies to develop models for the analysis of clinical interviews in English and Cantonese aimed at both predictive accuracy and greater linguistic understanding of ASD. The fellow will also have the opportunity to develop their own research agenda and contribute to related projects in the lab on computational analysis of clinical interviews for psychosis, behavioral interventions for procedural justice from police body camera footage, and racial disparities in 911 emergency response calls. The fellow will also participate in instrumentation and experimental design in the Department’s Multimodal Interaction Lab, a recording space outfitted for multi-person audio recording, depth imaging, and physiological measurement of participants. Applications are welcomed broadly from applicants with backgrounds in linguistics, computer science, communication sciences, psychology, and related fields. Required qualifications include strong computational research skills including demonstrated experience with and publications related to contemporary LLMs. Preferred qualifications include experience working with multimodal data (text, audio, and/or video), cross-lingual or multilingual models, and social or interactional research questions. The position is for one year, with the potential for renewal for a second year. The pay rate will meet or exceed NIH postdoctoral fellows stipend levels. The position can start as early as September 1, 2024, and ideally would begin on or before January 1, 2025. Candidates must have completed their Ph.D. by the time of the appointment. Applications should be submitted to robvoigt(a)northwestern.edu<mailto:robvoigt@northwestern.edu>, and should include (i) a cover letter in the body of the email that states the applicant’s experience and research interests related to the computational modeling of interaction; (ii) a current CV including links to written work; (iii) the names and contact information of at least two references. Email inquiries about the position should be directed to Rob Voigt (robvoigt(a)northwestern.edu). Northwestern University is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer of all protected classes including veterans and individuals with disabilities. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. Hiring is contingent upon eligibility to work in the United States.

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