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Converting .doc to docx.
by Laura Narisano 17 Apr '23

17 Apr '23

Hello all, does anybody know of a programme or other tool to convert .doc format into .docx format? I'm using AntFileConverter to transform my files into .txt format to be able to create a corpora, but AntFileConverter only seems to be working with .docx format. Thanks! Laura

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Second Call for papers-DiSLiDaS 2023
by Purificação Silvano 17 Apr '23

17 Apr '23

Second call for papers Workshop Discourse studies and linguistic data science: Addressing challenges in interoperability, multilinguality and linguistic data processing - DiSLiDaS 2023 University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria 12-13 September 2023 (TBA) Website: http://dislidas.mozajka.co<http://dislidas.mozajka.co/> The fourth biennial conference on Language, Data and Knowledge (LDK 2023) (http://2023.ldk-conf.org<http://2023.ldk-conf.org/>) and Cost Action CA18209 NexusLinguarum (https://nexuslinguarum.eu<https://nexuslinguarum.eu/>) are glad to announce the second workshop Discourse studies and linguistic data science: Addressing challenges in interoperability, multilinguality and linguistic data processing – DiSLiDaS 2023. Conference aims and topics The workshop aims to follow through the topics discussed during DiSLiDaS 2022 (https://dislidas.mozajka.co/?page_id=211) and to gather current research advances in discourse analysis and representation, in the context of multilinguality, from a linguistic and computational perspective. We invite submissions addressing challenges such as interoperability, linguistic linked open data (LLOD), and language processing and analysis. The workshop topics are the following (but not limited to): ● Discourse and dialogue annotation: Parsing and representation across languages and frameworks ● Discourse markers and discourse relations (RST, PDTB, SDRT): Identification, prediction and extraction ● Attitudes discovery and interpretation in Discourse: Appraisal and sentiment ● Effects of multimodality on discourse interpretation: Intonation, gesture and text ● Interoperability for Multilingual language data: Challenges of rich and distributed data ● Discourse data and machine learning: Methods and tools Discourse comprises a wide variety of linguistic phenomena, such as discourse markers, discourse relations, and speaker attitude, which have been largely studied by different communities of practice from Linguistics and Computation, rendering several theoretical frameworks (for instance, RST, SDRT, PDTB, for discourse relations; appraisal theory for sentiment analysis,...), and technological approaches, such as transformer models, embeddings and alike. Nonetheless, there are open issues concerning interoperability, multilinguality, and language processing, in particular, the existence of different annotation schemas, disambiguation, lack of training data for machine learning, scarcity of effective language phenomena detection and interpretation methods, diverse vocabularies, insufficient multilingual parallel corpora of non-dialogue and dialogue, initial stages of exploration of multimodality. Discourse research is one of the central research areas of natural language processing (NLP) too. NLP research focuses on the formalisation, identification and discovery of semantic phenomena, dialogue exchange structure, and text coherence. Some of the technological approaches of NLP include the use of transformer models, word embeddings, linguistic linked open data, the constitution of aligned multilingual corpora, vocabularies of language phenomena and alike. Computational discourse explores the evidence that language consists not only of placing words in the right order but also of detecting and interpreting the meaning and deeper textual relations and organising ideas into a logical flow. The linguistic approaches study language phenomena referring to coherence and cohesiveness of discourse, lexical, phrasal, syntactic, semantic and pragmatic means to express discourse relations, represent their roles and build language resources for them. Despite all the advances, there are still plenty of unresolved problems related to interoperability, multilinguality, and language processing. With the growth of the Semantic Web and Linguistic Linked Data, interoperability is key to reading, interpreting and adopting language resources. The existence of different annotation schemas to encode discourse relations constitutes a problem for data exchange and reuse and for theoretical consistency. The treatment of multilinguality is also complicated because of the insufficiency of multilingual parallel corpora of collections of non-dialogue and dialogue texts, which would allow systematic contrastive studies. As to language processing, the lack of training data for machine learning, coupled with the scarcity of effective language phenomena detection and interpretation methods, the coexistence of diverse vocabularies, and the minimal attention to the contribution of the tone of voice, intonation, gestures to the meaning and the informative value of discourse elements make the task of discourse processing still very challenging. The workshop intends to be a discussion forum for researchers interested in addressing the aforementioned challenges and advancing the state-of-art in discourse studies and linguistic data science. Programme The Scientific Programme will include one invited talk and oral presentations. Invited Speaker Johan Bos, University of Groningen Submissions Submissions can be in the form of: • long papers: 9–12 pages; • short papers: 4–6 pages. All submission lengths are given including references. Accepted submissions will be published by ACL in an open-access conference proceedings volume, free of charge for authors. The ACL templates should therefore be used for all conference submissions. As the reviewing process is single-blind, submissions should not be anonymised. The workshop will be hybrid (face-to-face and remote). Note that at least one author of each accepted paper must register to present the paper at the workshop (either remotely or on-site). There will be no registration fee administered for participating in DiSLiDaS 2023. Submissions must be submitted electronically via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dislidas2023 Important dates Time Zone: Anywhere on Earth Papers due: May, 19, 2023 Papers acceptance notifications: June, 16, 2023 Camera-ready papers due: June, 30, 2023 Programme Committee Elena-Simona Apostol, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania Harry Bunt, Tilburg University, Netherlands Maria Josep Cuenca, Universitat de València Debopam Das, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany Jorge Garcia, University of Zaragoza, Spain Mikel Iruskieta, University of the Basque Country, Spain António Leal, University of Porto, Portugal Chaya Liebeskind, Jerusalem College of Technology, Israel Amália Mendes, University of Lisbon, Portugal Maciej Ogrodniczuk, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Giedre Valunaite Oleskevicienė, Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuanian Georg Rehm, DFKI GmbH, Germany Ted Sanders, Utrecht University, Netherlands Merel Scholman, University of Saarland, Germany Dimitar Trajanov, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, North Macedonia Radoslava Trnavac, University of Belgrade, Serbia Ciprian-Octavian Truica, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania Amir Zeldes, The Georgetown University, USA Organising Committee Purificação Silvano, University of Porto, Portugal Mariana Damova, Mozaika, Ltd., Bulgaria Christian Chiarcos, Goethe-Universität, Germany Anna Bączkowska, University of Gdansk, Poland Contact organizers(a)dislidas.mozajka.co<mailto:organizers@dislidas.mozajka.co>

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Final Call for Participation: 5th Summer Datathon on Linguistic Linked Open Data (SD-LLOD’23), June 11-16, Croatia
by Thierry Declerck 17 Apr '23

17 Apr '23

[sorry about cross-posting] The 5th Summer Datathon on Linguistic Linked Open Data (SD-LLOD-23)will be held physically from June 11thto June 16rd2023 at Castle Luznica, Zaprešić, Croatia. See https://datathon2023.jezik.hr/ <https://datathon2023.jezik.hr/>. The event has no registration feeand offers over twenty travelling grants for participants. The SD-LLOD datathon has the main goal of providing practical knowledge to people from industry and academia in the application of Linked Open Data technology to Linguistics and Language Technology. The ultimate goal is to enable participants to migrate their own (or other’s) linguistic data and publish them as Linked Data on the Web and/or develop applications on top of Linguistic Linked Data (LLD). One of the main focus points this year will be the use ofdeep learning and neural approaches to/from LLD. This datathon series is unique in its topic worldwide and continues from the success of the previous editions in 2015 and 2017 in Cercedilla (Spain), 2019 in Dagstuhl (Germany), and 2022 in Cercedilla again. This edition is supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) https://cost.eu/ <https://cost.eu/>through NexusLinguarum, the “European network for Web-centred linguistic data science” COST Action (CA18209, https://nexuslinguarum.eu/ <https://nexuslinguarum.eu/>). During the datathon, participants will be able to: * Generate their own Linguistic Linked Data from existing data sources, using visual toolslike VocBench and community standards like OntoLex lemon * Applysemantic technologies(linked data, knowledge graphs, RDF, SPARQL) to the field of language resources and learn about their benefits and applications for specific use cases, particularly those involving multilingual and/or multimodal aspects. * Explore the potential use of embeddings, machine learning, and deep learningtechniques in combination with Linguistic Linked Data. For instance: * Neural machine translation from Natural Language to SPARQL * Generating natural language from knowledge graphs * Acquiring relations with neural language models The program of the summer datathon will contain three types of sessions: 1. Seminars to explain theoretical aspects and discuss selected topics. 2. Hands-on sessionsto introduce the basic foundations of each topic, method, and technique, which participants will apply directly through different practical assignments. 3. Datathon sessions,where participants will work, in groups of 3-5, on miniprojects and where they will apply what they have learned, involving the generation and/or use of Linguistic Linked Data. Participants are invited to propose a “miniproject” related to the topics of the datathon, which might include some datasets for their conversion into linked data. In this edition, we particularly encourage miniprojects that involve interaction with machine learning, deep learning, or embeddings techniques. A selection of proposals will form the basis for the miniprojects which the participants will work on during the datathon sessions. Participants who do not propose a miniproject, or whose miniproject is not selected, will be able to join another miniproject. There will be an award for the best miniproject. Registration ============ The datathon is a sponsored event, and it hasno registration fee, but participants are expected to cover the cost of their meals and accommodation at the castle residence. Details about the registration can be found at the datathon website: https://datathon2023.jezik.hr/ <https://datathon2023.jezik.hr/> Registration will close on 1/05/2023. More than twenty travelling grantswill be provided by NexusLinguarum (covering accommodation, meals and travel expenses). See the datathon website for more details. COVID statement ============== The datathon is planned as a physical event. The local organisation is committed to guaranteeing a safe event. Note that there might be some COVID rules to comply with at the time of celebration of the event. These will be announced in due course. Important dates ====================== Registration opens: 13/02/2023 Registration closes: 1/05/2023 (extended) Notification: 5/05/2023 Datathon: 11/06/2023 to 16/06/2023 Organisers ========= Jorge Gracia (University of Zaragoza, Spain) Christian Chiarcos (University of Augsburg, Germany)Dagmar Gromann (University of Vienna, Austria) Thierry Declerck (DFKI, Germany) Milan Dojchinovski (CTU in Prague, Czech Republic / DBpedia Association, Germany) Local organisers ============= Ana Ostroški (Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics, Croatia) Kristina Despot (Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics, Croatia) Tutors and lecturers ========================================= Mehwish Alam (Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France) Christian Chiarcos (University of Augsburg, Germany)Michael Cochez (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira (University of Coimbra, Portugal) Dagmar Gromann (University of Vienna, Austria) Thierry Declerck (DFKI, Germany) Milan Dojchinovski (CTU in Prague, Czech Republic / DBpedia Association, Germany) Katerina Gkirtzou (Athena Research Center, Greece) Jorge Gracia (University of Zaragoza, Spain) Max Ionov (University of Cologne, Germany) Diego Moussallem (Paderborn University) Armando Stellato (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy) Andon Tchechmedjiev (IMT École des Mines d’Alès, France)

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April 2023 Newsletter - LDC
by Penn LDC 17 Apr '23

17 Apr '23

In this newsletter: In memoriam: Christopher Cieri 1963-2023 New publications: Penn Korean Universal Dependency Treebank<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2023T05> DEFT English Light and Rich ERE Annotation<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2023T04> ________________________________ In memoriam: Christopher Cieri 1963-2023 With deep sadness, LDC announces the passing of Christopher Cieri, our Executive Director. Chris led the Consortium for over 25 years, guiding its evolution from a small data repository and research hub to a prominent global data center. An accomplished linguist, computer scientist, and a well-read humanist, Chris embodied the best qualities for executing the wide range of duties demanded by his leadership role. He was a valued colleague and friend and will be sorely missed. All are welcome to visit our remembrance page<https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/christopher-cieri-1963-2023> for Chris. ________________________________ New publications: Penn Korean Universal Dependency Treebank<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2023T05> contains 5010 sentences and 132,041 tokens annotated in dependency format under the Universal Dependencies framework<https://universaldependencies.org/>. It is a conversion of Korean Treebank Annotations Version 2.0 (LDC2006T09)<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2006T09>, which was produced in constituency format. The source text is newswire stories from LDC's Korean Press Agency collection contained in Korean Newswire (LDC2000T45)<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2000T45>. Sentences were automatically converted for dependency annotation; the output was manually checked. The corpus contains 112 files in CoNLL-U format<https://universaldependencies.org/format.html>, the Universal Dependencies standard, with a mapping to their counterpart in LDC2006T09. 2023 members can access this corpus through their LDC accounts. Non-members may license this data for a fee. * DEFT English Light and Rich ERE Annotation<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2023T04> was developed by LDC and consists of 1190 English discussion forum, newswire, and proxy documents annotated for entities, relations, and events (ERE). Light ERE annotation labels entity mentions for the target set of entity, relation, and event types between and among those entities, including coreference. Rich ERE annotation expands types and tagging in the entities, relations, and events annotation tasks and replaces strict event coreference with a more loosely defined event hopper annotation. 902 documents were annotated following Light ERE annotation guidelines. 288 documents were labeled with Rich ERE annotation in a second pass after being annotated for Light ERE. The source data consists of English discussion forum web text collected by LDC for the DARPA BOLT program and contained in BOLT English Discussion Forums (LDC2017T11)<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2017T11>; newswire documents published in various data sets released in the TAC KBP project (Text Analysis Conference Knowledge Base Population)<https://www.ldc.upenn.edu/collaborations/past-projects/tac-kbp>; and proxy documents intended to mimic government analysis reports of newswire content published in DEFT Narrative Text (LDC2016T07)<https://catalog.ldc.upenn.edu/LDC2016T07>. 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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2nd CfP: Workshop on Operationalization / Deadline May 1st
by Nils Reiter 17 Apr '23

17 Apr '23

Measuring Meanings | Computing Concepts: Practices of Operationalization and their Implications for Text Studies All details can also be found here: https://cretaverein.de/mmcc/ Since the work of physicist Percy Bridgman (1927, 5), ›operationalization‹ is used to refer to the practice of determining or measuring concepts by means of a »set of operations«. In Bridgman’s strong variant of operationalization, he regarded the meaning of concepts as synonymous with the operations used to measure it. In Bridgman’s view, such operational definitions are fundamental to all research in physics. The concept of length, for instance, would thus be defined by the operations which are necessary for measuring the length of a physical object. Early on, this position was intensively discussed (cf. Frank 1956), and also criticized for that, in extreme cases, each new measurement method of a concept is equivalent to a new operational definition: »it becomes a tautology that any measurement operation is the correct one for the concept associated with it« (Chang, Cartwright 2008, 367). Text-oriented DH projects seem to align with a weaker variant of operationalization in that their activities are structured by clearly delineable sub-steps (cf. Pichler, Reiter 2022; Krautter 2022). Thereby, operationalization can both contribute to the definitional refining of (humanities’) concepts, and facilitate opportunities for their empirical examination. The workshop aims to address these questions from scientific, computational, and praxeological perspectives, and thus attempts to provide an overview of the different theoretical positions and practical approaches; in particular with regard to operationalization in the field of digital humanities and digital text analysis. We especially solicit contributions that develop their theoretical reflections by means of concrete data. Please refrain from submitting textual analyses that do not include a theoretical reflection on their operationalization practice. Guiding questions include, but are not limited to: • What is referred to as a concept in the text studying fields of the humanities? What is the role of such concepts in theory building? • What is the function of quantitative, formal or computational analysis in terms of conceptualization in text studying fields? • How does the practice of operationalization relate to traditional and current approaches to conceptualization in philosophy, e.g., Carnapian explication and conceptual engineering? • What is the practice of operationalization in text studying fields of the humanities? • How does operationalization interact with established machine learning workflows? Which understanding of operationalization is inherent in these workflows? • How does operationalizing engage with interpreting? • How do we compare and evaluate operationalizations? • How can we conceptualize the ›agent‹ that conducts the measurement (e.g., computer vs. human)? What impact do different agents and their capacities have on our understanding of operationalization? • What are the differences between expressing measurement rules in natural (such as annotation guidelines) and formal language in relation to the operationalized concepts? How do these as well as their guiding background assumptions affect our understanding of operationalization? • Does the advent of large language models (such as BERT and GPT) change our notion of operationalization -- and if so, how? Submission We invite the submission of abstracts (1 page) in English on any of the above mentioned or closely related topics. Abstracts should be submitted in PDF format to axel.pichler(a)ts.uni-stuttgart.de; they do not need to be anonymised (non-blind). Prior to the workshop, the accepted abstracts must be extended into full papers (5000–6000 words), which will be circulated before the workshop. At the workshop, each paper is presented briefly, followed by an in-depth-discussion. The revised full papers will be published. Further details on publication will follow after acceptance. For the specific deadlines, please see the timeline below. Timeline Abstract submission deadline: May 1st, 2023 Notification: May 15 2023 Paper submission: August 31 2023 Workshop: September 25/26 2023 Venue Cologne Please contact Axel Pichler (axel.pichler(a)ts.uni-stuttgart.de) for further questions. Organizers Axel Pichler, University of Stuttgart Benjamin Krautter, University of Cologne Nils Reiter, University of Cologne References Bridgman, Percy W.: The Logic of Modern Physics. New York 1927. Chang, Hasok / Cartwright, Nancy: Measurement. In: The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Science, ed. by Stathis Psillos / Martin Curd. Abingdon, New York 2008, 367–375. Krautter, Benjamin: Die Operationalisierung als interdisziplinäre Schnittstelle der Digital Humanities. In: Scientia Poetica 26 (2022), S. 215–244. Pichler, Axel / Reiter, Nils: From Concepts to Texts and Back: Operationalization as a Core Activity of Digital Humanities. In: Journal of Cultural Analytics 7.4 (2022), https://doi.org/10.22148/001c.57195. Frank, Philipp G. (eds.): The Validation of Scientific Theories. Boston 1956.

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2nd CfP: The 7th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH)
by Yi-Ling Chung 17 Apr '23

17 Apr '23

***Second Call for Papers*** The 7th Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH) Location: Toronto, Canada Date: Thursday, July 13, 2023 (co-located with ACL 2023) Website: https://www.workshopononlineabuse.com/ ========================================================== Important Dates ========================================================== - Submission due: May 2, 2023 - ARR reviewed submission due: May 22, 2023 - Notification of acceptance: May 26, 2023 - Camera-ready papers due: June 2, 2023 - Workshop: July 13, 2023 All deadlines are 11:59 PM AoE time. Overview ========================================================== The Workshop on Online Abuse and Harms (WOAH) invites paper submissions from a wide range of fields, including natural language processing, machine learning, computational social sciences, law, politics, psychology, sociology and cultural studies. We explicitly encourage interdisciplinary submissions, technical as well as non-technical submissions, and submissions that focus on under-resourced languages. We also invite non-archival submissions and civil society reports. The topics covered by WOAH include, but are not limited to: - New models or methods for detecting abusive and harmful online content; - Biases and limitations of existing detection models or datasets for abusive and harmful online content, particularly those in commercial use; - New datasets and taxonomies for online abuse and harms; - Dynamics of online abuse and harms, as well as their impact on different communities - Social, legal, and ethical implications of detecting, monitoring and moderating online abuse In addition, we invite submissions related to the theme for this seventh edition of WOAH, which will be *subjectivity and disagreement in abusive language data*. Hate speech and other forms of abuse are highly subjective. By choosing this theme, we want to encourage submissions that analyse, address or make use of this subjectivity. To match the theme and complement thematic submissions, we have invited a strong lineup of relevant speakers. Submission Guidelines ========================================================== Submission is electronic, using the Softconf START conference management system. *Submission link*: https://softconf.com/acl2023/WOAH/ The workshop will accept three types of papers. 1) 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. 2) Non-Archival Submissions: Up to 2 pages, excluding references, to summarise and showcase in-progress work and work published elsewhere. 3) Civil Society Reports: Non-archival submissions, with a minimum of 2 pages and no upper limit. Can include work published elsewhere. All submissions must use the official ACL 2023 style files. Submissions that do not conform to the required styles, including paper size, margin width, and font size restrictions, will be rejected without review. All submissions should adhere to the workshop policies https://www.workshopononlineabuse.com/policies.html. All submissions, except for civil society reports, must be fully anonymised. Self-references that reveal the author's identity, e.g., "We previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...", should be avoided. Instead, use citations such as "Smith previously showed (Smith, 1991) ...". Following the ACL 2023 guidelines, we believe that it is also important to discuss the limitations of your work, in addition to its strengths. The “Limitations” section will appear at the end of the paper, after the discussion/conclusions section and before the references, and will not count towards the page limit. Multiple Submissions Policy ========================================================== The workshop allows for multiple submissions. Papers that have been or will be presented at other venues may only be presented as non-archival. Papers that are presented at the main conference (ACL 2023) can be presented at the workshop as non-archival. Organizers ========================================================== Yi-Ling Chung, The Alan Turing Institute Aida Mostafazadeh Davani, Google Debora Nozza, Bocconi University Paul Röttger, University of Oxford Zeerak Talat, Digital Democracies Institute, Simon Fraser University Please send any questions about the workshop to organizers(a)workshopononlineabuse.com

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CFP - SIMBig 2023 - Artificial Intelligence, Data Science - Mexico
by Juan Antonio Lossio-Ventura 17 Apr '23

17 Apr '23

> [Apologies for cross-posting] > > ====================================================================== > CALL FOR PAPERS - SIMBig 2023 > ====================================================================== > > SIMBig 2023 - 10th International Conference on Information Management and Big Data > Where: Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico City, Mexico > When: August 30 - September 01, 2023 > Website: https://simbig.org/SIMBig2023/ <https://simbig.org/SIMBig2023/> > > ====================================================================== > > OVERVIEW > ---------------------------------- > > SIMBig 2023 seeks to present new methods of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data Science, and related fields, for analyzing, managing, and extracting insights and patterns from large volumes of data. > > > KEYNOTE SPEAKERS > ---------------------------------- > > Mona Diab, Meta AI, USA > Carlos Coello, TEC Monterrey, Mexico > Finale Doshi-Velez, Harvard University, USA > Huan Liu, Arizona State University, USA > > IMPORTANT DATES > ---------------------------------- > > June 24, 2023 --> Full papers and short papers due > July 28, 2023 --> Notification of acceptance > August 11, 2023 --> Camera-ready versions > August 30 - September 01, 2023 --> Conference held in Mexico DF, Mexico > > PUBLICATION > ---------------------------------- > > All accepted papers of SIMBig 2023 (tracks including) will be published with Springer CCIS Series <https://www.springer.com/series/7899> > Best papers of SIMBig 2023 (tracks including) will be selected to submit an extension to be published in the Springer SN Computer Science Journal. <https://www.springer.com/journal/42979> > > TOPICS OF INTEREST > ---------------------------------- > > SIMBig 2023 has a broad scope. We invite contributions on theory and practice, including but not limited to the following technical areas: > > Artificial Intelligence > Data Science > Machine Learning > Natural Language Processing > Semantic Web > Healthcare Informatics > Biomedical Informatics > Data Privacy and Security > Information Retrieval > Ontologies and Knowledge Representation > Social Networks and Social Web > Information Visualization > OLAP and Business intelligence > Data-driven Software Engineering > > SPECIAL TRACKS > ---------------------------------- > > SIMBig 2023 proposes 5 special tracks in addition to the main conference: > > SNMAM <https://simbig.org/SIMBig2023/en/snmam.html> - Social Network and Media Analysis and Mining > ANLP - Applied Natural Language Processing > CIIN - Cybersecurity and IoT for Intelligent Networks > DISE - Data-drIven Software Engineering > EE-AI-HPC - Efficiency Enhancement for AI and High-Performance Computing > > CONTACT > ---------------------------------- > > SIMBig 2023 General Chairs > > Juan Antonio Lossio-Ventura, National Institutes of Health, USA (juan.lossio(a)nih.gov <mailto:juan.lossio@nih.gov>) > Hugo Alatrista-Salas, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Peru (halatrista(a)pucp.pe <mailto:halatrista@pucp.pe>) >

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International Conference on Human-Informed Translation and Interpreting Technology (HiT-IT 2023): Submission deadline extended to 30 April 2023
by Nanomi Arachchige, Isuri 16 Apr '23

16 Apr '23

International Conference on Human-Informed Translation and Interpreting Technology (HiT-IT 2023) Naples, Italy, 7, 8 and 9 July 2023 *** SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 30 APRIL 2023*** The International Conference on Human-Informed Translation and Interpreting Technology (HiT-IT 2023) will take place in Naples, Italy between 7 and 9 July 2023. The conference will be preceded by tutorials on 6 July 2023. HiT-IT seeks to act as a meeting point for (and invites) researchers working in translation and interpreting technologies, practicing technology-minded translators and interpreters, companies and freelancers providing services in translation and interpreting as well as companies developing tools for translators and interpreters. In addition to the accepted papers for presentation, HiT-IT will feature invited talks by prominent experts as well as presentations and panels hosted by practitioners. For more details and for the main conference topics please visit the conference website http://hit-it-conference.org/ Submissions and publication The conference invites the following types of submissions reporting original unpublished work. User papers for industry and practitioners ranging between 2 and 4 pages (without references). References to related work are optional. Academic submissions, in three different categories (have to follow formatting requirements, references to related work are required): • (academic) full papers: describing original completed research. Allowed paper length: maximum 12 pages (without references). • (academic) work-in-progress papers – describing work in progress, late breaking research, papers at a more conceptual stage, and other types of papers that do not fit in the ‘full’ papers category. Allowed paper length: maximum 7 pages (without references). • (academic) demo papers – describing working systems. Allowed paper length: maximum 5 pages (without references). In addition to the papers, the authors will be expected to demonstrate the systems at the conference. The conference will not consider the submission and evaluation of abstracts only. The accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and made available online on the conference website. We plan to invite the authors of the best papers to submit extended versions to a special issue of a prestigious journal. Important dates Submission deadline: 30 April 2023 Notification of acceptance: 31 May 2023 Final version due: 10 June 2023 Early fee deadline: 20 June 2023 Conference dates: 7, 8 and 9 July 2023 Tutorials: 6 July 2023 Keynote speakers Jochen Hummel (Coreon) Tharindu Ranasinghe (Aston University) Invited tutorials Felix do Carmo (University of Surrey): Neural Machine Translation Alina Karakanta (Leiden University Centre for Linguistics): Automatic subtitling Conference Chairs Gloria Corpas Pastor (University of Malaga) Ruslan Mitkov (University of Wolverhampton) Johanna Monti (University of Naples L’Orientale) Constantin Orasan (University of Surrey) Organising Committee Dayana Abuin Rios (University of Malaga) Khadija Ait Elqih (University of Naples l’Orientale) Anastasia Bezobrazova (University of Malaga) Meriem Boulekhoukh (University of Oran) Rocío Caro Quintana (University of Wolverhampton) Amal El Farhmat (University of Malaga) Lilit Kharatian (University of Malaga) Alfiya Khabibullina (University of Malaga) Nikolai Nikolov (INCOMA Ltd.) Daria Sokova (New Bulgarian University) Giulia Speranza (University of Naples l’Orientale) Sponsors Pangeanic, El-Translations and Juremy are the official sponsors of the conference. Venue The conference will take place at the Palazzo del Mediterraneo, University of Naples Further information and contact details Registration for HiT-IT 2023 is now open. To register, please complete the registration form. See the conference website (http://hit-it-conference.org/home ) for more details; you can also email 2023(a)hit-it-conference.org<mailto:2023@hit-it-conference.org>.

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IACT’23: Human or AI? Calling for research papers on implicit authorship disambiguation in IR
by Marina Litvak 16 Apr '23

16 Apr '23

The deadline is approaching, April 25, 2023 *IACT’23: Human or AI? Calling for research papers on implicit authorship disambiguation in IR * *Call for Papers: The 1st International Workshop on Implicit Author Characterization from Texts for Search and Retrieval (IACT’23) * The workshop will be held in conjunction with the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval Workshop website: https://en.sce.ac.il/news/iact23 July 27, 2023. Taipei, Taiwan. *Paper submission deadline: April 25, 2023, AoE* Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iact23 To bring the research community's attention to the limitations of current models in recognizing and characterizing AI vs. human authors, we organize the first edition of IACT workshops under the umbrella of the SIGIR conference. Research works submitted to the workshop should foster scientific advances in all aspects of author characterization. All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome: - *Full research papers*: up to 8 pages. Original and high-quality unpublished contributions to the theory and practical aspects of the workshop topics. - *Short research* *papers*: up to 5 pages. It can describe ongoing research, resources, and demos. - *Negative results* *papers*: up to 5 pages. Highlighting tested hypotheses that did not get the expected outcome is also welcomed. - *Position papers*: up to 5 pages. Discussing current and future research directions. The length constraints do not include references. The submissions must be anonymous and will be peer-reviewed by at least two program committee members. The authors of accepted papers will be given 15 minutes for a short oral presentation. The workshop will run as a hybrid event to allow virtual attendance and meet the SIGIR format. Research works submitted to the workshop should foster the scientific advance on all aspects of implicit author information extraction from text, including but not limited to the following: - Differentiation between AI-generated content and human-generated content and bot profiling - Characterization of conversational agents - Feature detection of authors for human vs. AI determination - Prompt understanding and recognition in language models - Personalized question answering and conversation generation - Troll identification on social media - Review authenticity estimation - Multi-modal, multi-genre, and multilingual author analysis - Character analysis, description, and representation in narrative texts - Detecting implicit expressions of sentiment, emotion, opinion, and bias - Transfer learning for implicit author characterization - Implicit author characterization annotation schema - Evaluation of implicit author characterization - Author characterization in low-resource languages and under-studied domains - Accountability and regulation of AI-based information extraction, retrieval, and content generation - Copyright issues of AI-generated content - Ethical and privacy implications of author characterization and implicit information extraction - Fairness and bias of AI-generated content Organizing Committee: - Marina Litvak - marinal(a)ac.sce.ac.il; Shamoon College of Engineering Beer Sheva; Israel - Irina Rabaev - irinar(a)ac.sce.ac.il; Shamoon College of Engineering Beer Sheva; Israel - Alípio Mário Jorge - amjorge(a)fc.up.pt; University of Porto; Porto, Portugal - Ricardo Campos - ricardo.campos(a)ipt.pt; Polytechnic Institute of Tomar INESC TEC, Portugal; Porto, Portugal - Adam Jatowt - adam.jatowt(a)uibk.ac.at; University of Innsbruck; Innsbruck, Austria Invited Speakers: - Prof. Mark Last - Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel - Prof. Dr. Valia Kordoni - Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Germany Contact: - Dr. Marina Litvak: litvak.marina(a)gmail.com - Dr. Irina Rabaev: irinar(a)ac.sce.ac.il -- Best regards, Marina Litvak

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towards a "pan document format" (pun intended) . . .
by Albretch Mueller 15 Apr '23

15 Apr '23

when it comes to corpora research the response time to queries such as: * what is the character on the nth offset of a file * which ones are all other characters preceding and proceeding that one by m offsets or up to a certain char or pattern ... * what is the intra- and inter-textuality of a given segment of characters . . . and many other related ones, should be "zero comma nada" (they should run instantly), but I think this is virtually impossible because texts these says (say, PDF files) are, basically, visually appealing containers of streams of data displayed by rendering engines; HTML files contain all that javascript cr@p, google goo, ads, insufferably idiotic "we care about your privacy" road blocks, ... I haven't found a convincing explanation as to why that is the case, but I can't quite understand why is it that the MVC pattern is well understood when it comes to software design, but people can't apparently fully separate the text from its presentation when it comes to documents. "Web as corpus" folks: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/276511711_Maristella_Gatto_Web_as_… don't even attempt to address those issues. At the end of the day as Borges said: " ... el nombre es arquetipo de la cosa en las letras de 'rosa' está la rosa y todo el Nilo en la palabra 'Nilo'" so, let's get down to first manage to get one character in a text after the other ... lbrtchx

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