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[CfP]: Computational Approaches to Language Data Pseudonymization @ EACL 2024
by Elena Volodina 23 Oct '23

23 Oct '23

First Call for papers: CALD-pseudo workshop on Computational Approaches to Language Data Pseudonymization @ EACL 2024, March 21 or 22, 2024 Website: https://mormor-karl.github.io/events/CALD-pseudo/ Submission website: https://softconf.com/eacl2024/CALD-pseudo-2024/ Submission Deadline: Monday, 18 December 2023 We invite submissions to the first edition of the CALD-pseudo workshop on Computational Approaches to Language Data Pseudonymization, to be held at EACL 2024 on March 21 or 22, 2024. [Important Dates] * December 18, 2023: paper submission deadline * January 17, 2024: resubmission of already pre-reviewed ARR papers * January 20, 2024: notification of acceptance * January, 30 2024: camera-ready papers due * March 21 or 22, 2024: workshop date (the date to be confirmed by the EACL) [Introduction] Accessibility of research data is critical for advances in many research fields, but textual data often cannot be shared due to the personal and sensitive information which it contains, e.g names, political opinions, sensitive personal information and medical data. General Data Protection Regulation, GDPR (EU Commission, 2016), suggests pseudonymization as a solution to secure open access to research data but we need to learn more about pseudonymization as an approach before adopting it for manipulation of research data (Volodina et al., 2023). The main challenge is how to effectively pseudonymize data so that individuals cannot be identified, while at the same time keeping the data usable for research in, among others, computational linguistics, linguistics and natural language processing, for which it was collected. [Topics of Interest] CALD-pseudo workshop invites a broad community of researchers in all concerned cross-disciplinary fields to jointly discuss challenges within pseudonymization, such as * automatic approaches to detection and labelling of personal information in unstructured language data, including events and other context-dependent cues revealing a person; * developing context-sensitive algorithms for replacement of personal information in unstructured data; * studies into the effects of pseudonymization on unstructured data, e.g. applicability of pseudonymised data for the intended research questions, readability of pseudonymised data or addition of unwelcome biases through pseudonymization; * effectiveness of pseudonymization as a way of protecting writer identity; * reidentification studies; e.g. adversarial learning techniques that attempt to breach the privacy protections of pseudonymized data; * constructing datasets for automatic pseudonymization, including methodological and ethical aspects of those; * approaches to the evaluation of automatic pseudonymization both in concealing the private information and preserving the semantics of the non-personal data; * pseudonymization tools and software: evaluating the available tools and software for pseudonymization in different languages, and their ease of use, scalability, and performance; * and numerous other open questions. [Submission Guidelines] Authors are invited to submit by December 18, 2023 original and unpublished research papers in the following categories: * Full papers (up to 8 pages) for substantial contributions * Short papers (up to 4 pages) for ongoing or preliminary work All submissions must be in PDF format must follow the EACL 2024 guidelines described in the ARR CfP (https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp), be in pdf, and use the official ACL style templates available here: https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files Direct submission deadline: December 18, 2023 at https://softconf.com/eacl2024/CALD-pseudo-2024/ Deadline for registration of ARR reviewed papers: January 17, 2023. (Further instructions will follow.) We also invite authors of papers on the topics of the workshop accepted to Findings to reach out to the organizing committee of CALD-pseudo to present them at the workshop. [Invited speakers] We are happy to announce that the workshop will host two invited speakers: * Anders Søgaard, University of Copenhagen, Denmark * Ildikó Pilán, the Norwegian Computing Center, Norway [Workshop Organizers] * Elena Volodina, University of Gothenburg, Sweden * Therese Lindström Tiedemann, University of Helsinki, Finland * Simon Dobnik, University of Gothenburg, Sweden * Xuan-Son Vu, Umeå university, Sweden [Program Committee] A list of program committee members is available on the workshop website. [Contact] For inquiries, please contact mormor.karl(a)svenska.gu.se ACL link to the call: https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/computational-approaches-language-dat… ___________________ Elena Volodina, PhD, Docent https://spraakbanken.gu.se/en/about/staff/elena Life is like a mirror. Smile at it and it smiles back at you. Peace Pilgrim

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36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2024): Second Call for Papers
by Announce 22 Oct '23

22 Oct '23

*** Second Call for Papers *** 36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'24) June 3-7, 2024, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina, Limassol, Cyprus https://cyprusconferences.org/caise2024/ (*** Submission Deadline: November 24, 2023 AoE ***) The CAiSE’24 organization calls for full papers with a special emphasis on the theme of Information Systems in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as a transformative technology, revolutionizing various industries, and its significance in Information Systems cannot be overstated. AI-powered systems have the potential to streamline operations, enhance decision-making processes, and drive innovation across organizations. From data analysis to automated processes, AI is reshaping the way we leverage information in the digital age. The relevance of AI in IS extends beyond internal operations. AI-powered predictive analytics enables organizations to forecast trends, anticipate customer needs, and optimize resource allocation. This empowers businesses to adapt swiftly to changing market dynamics, gain a competitive edge, and make proactive decisions. AI algorithms can also detect anomalies and patterns that indicate potential security breaches, contributing to robust cybersecurity measures in information systems. However, while acknowledging the benefits, it is essential to consider the ethical implications of AI in information systems. Ensuring data privacy, addressing bias in algorithms, and maintaining transparency are vital aspects that need to be carefully managed and regulated to foster trust and accountability. In addition to offering an exciting scientific program, CAiSE’24 will feature a best paper award, a journal special issue, and a PhD-thesis award: • Best Paper Award‚ prize EUR 1000 (sponsored by Springer) • A small selection of best papers will be invited to submit enhanced versions for consideration in a special issue of Elsevier Information Systems journal dedicated to this conference. • PhD-Thesis Award • Best PhD thesis of a past CAiSE Doctoral Consortium author (co-sponsored by the CAiSE Steering Committee and Springer) Papers should be submitted in PDF format. Submissions must conform to Springer‚ LNCS format and should not exceed 15 pages, including all text, figures, references, and appendices. Submissions not conforming to the LNCS format, exceeding 15 pages, or being obviously out of the scope of the conference, will be rejected without review. See the guidelines here: https://www.springer.com/comp/lncs/authors.html . The results described must be unpublished and must not be under review elsewhere. Three to five keywords characterizing the paper should be listed at the end of the abstract. Each paper will be reviewed by at least two program committee members and, if positively evaluated, by one additional program board member. The selected papers will be discussed among the paper reviewers online and during the program board meeting. As the review process is not blind, please indicate your name and affiliation on your submission. Accepted papers will be presented at CAiSE’24 and published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) conference proceedings. We invite three types of original and scientific papers. The type of submission must be indicated in the submission system. Each contribution should explicitly address the engineering or the operation of information systems, clearly identify the information systems problem addressed, the expected impact of the contribution to information system engineering or operation, and the research method used. We strongly advise authors to clearly emphasize these aspects in their paper, including the abstract. Technical papers describe original solutions (theoretical, methodological or conceptual) in the field of IS Engineering. A technical paper should clearly describe the situation or problem tackled, the relevant state of the art, the position or solution suggested and its potential‚ as well as demonstrate the benefits of the contribution through a rigorous evaluation. Empirical papers evaluate existing problem situations including problems encountered in practice, or validate proposed solutions with scientific means, i.e., by empirical studies, experiments, case studies, experience reports, simulations, etc. Scientific reflection on problems and practices in industry also falls into this category. The topic of the evaluation presented in the paper as well as its causal or logical properties must be clearly stated. The research method must be sound and appropriate. Exploratory papers describe completely new research positions or approaches, in order to face a generic situation arising because of new ICT tools, new kinds of activities, or new IS challenges. They must precisely describe the situation and demonstrate why current methods, tools, ways of reasoning, or meta-models are inadequate. They must also rigorously present their approach and demonstrate its pertinence and correctness in addressing the identified situation. The topics of contribution include but are not limited to: • Novel Approaches to IS Engineering ◦ Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning ◦ Robotic Process Automation (RPA) ◦ Big Data, Data Science and Analytics ◦ Blockchain applications in IS ◦ Simulation and Digital Twins  ◦ IS for collaboration and social computing  ◦ Virtual reality / Augmented Reality ◦ Context-aware, autonomous and adaptive IS • Models, Methods and Techniques in IS Engineering ◦ Ontologies and Ontology Engineering ◦ Conceptual modeling, languages and design ◦ Requirements engineering ◦ Process modeling, analysis and improvement ◦ Process automation, mining and monitoring ◦ Models and methods for evolution and reuse ◦ Domain and method engineering ◦ Product lines, variability and configuration management ◦ Compliance and alignment handling ◦ Active and interactive models ◦ Quality of IS models for analysis and design ◦ Visualization techniques in IS ◦ Decision models and business intelligence ◦ Knowledge graphs ◦ Human-centered techniques • Architectures and Platforms for IS Engineering ◦ Distributed, mobile and open architecture ◦ Big Data architectures ◦ Cloud- and edge-based IS engineering ◦ Service oriented and multi-agent IS engineering ◦ Multi-platform IS engineering ◦ Cyber-physical systems and Internet of Things (IoT) ◦ Workflow and Process Aware Information Systems (PAIS) ◦ Handling of real time data streams ◦ Content management and semantic Web ◦ Crowdsourcing platforms ◦ Conversational agents (chatbots) ◦ Microservices design and deployment • Domain-specific and Multi-aspect IS Engineering ◦ IT governance ◦ eGovernment ◦ Autonomous and smart systems (smart city management, smart vehicles, etc.) ◦ IS for healthcare ◦ Educational Systems and Learning Analytics ◦ Value and supply chain management ◦ Industry 4.0 ◦ Sustainability and social responsibility management ◦ Privacy, security, trust, and safety management ◦ IS in the post-COVID world Submit your paper using the Easy Chair link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=caise2024 . IMPORTANT DATES • Abstract Submission: 24th November 2023 (AoE) • Paper Submission: 1st December 2023 (AoE) • Notification of Acceptance: 23rd February 2024 • Camera-ready Papers: 5th April 2024 • Author registration: 5th April 2024 ORGANISATION General Chairs • Haris Mouratidis, University of Essex, UK • Pnina Soffer, University of Haifa, Israel Local Organizing and Finance Chair • George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Program Chairs • Giancarlo Guizzardi, University of Twente, The Netherlands • Flavia Maria Santoro, University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Other Committee Members https://cyprusconferences.org/caise2024/committees/

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First Call for Papers (CFP); CASE @ EACL 2024, March 21-22: The 7th Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text
by ali hürriyetoglu 21 Oct '23

21 Oct '23

Call for workshop papers and Shared Task participation: the 6th workshop on Challenges and Applications of Automated Extraction of Socio-political Events from Text - CASE @ EACL 2024 ************************************************************************************ URL: https://emw.ku.edu.tr/case-2024/ Paper submission deadline: 18 December 2023 Paper acceptance notification: 20 January 2024 Paper camera-ready: 30 January 2024 Workshop dates: 21-22 March 2024 Softconf page of the workshop: https://softconf.com/eacl2024/CASE-2024/ ************************************************************************************ We invite contributions from researchers in computer science, NLP, ML, DL, AI, socio-political sciences, conflict analysis and forecasting, peace studies, as well as computational social science scholars involved in the collection and utilization of socio-political event data. This includes (but is not limited to) the following topics 1) Extracting events and their arguments such as time and location in and beyond a sentence or document, event coreference resolution. 2) Research in NLP technologies in relation to event detection: geocoding, temporal reasoning, argument structure detection, syntactic and semantic analysis of event structures, text classification, for event type detection, learning event-related lexica, event co-reference resolution, fake news analysis, and others with a focus on real or potential event detection applications. 3) New datasets, training data collection, and annotation for event information. 4) Event-event relations, e.g., subevents, main events, spatio-temporal relations, causal relations. 5) Event dataset evaluation in light of reliability and validity metrics. 6) Defining, populating, and facilitating event schemas and ontologies. 7) Automated tools and pipelines for event collection related tasks. 8) Lexical, syntactic, semantic, discursive, and pragmatic aspects of event manifestation. 9) Methodologies for development, evaluation, and analysis of event datasets. 10) Applications of event databases, e.g. early warning, conflict prediction, policymaking. 11) Estimating what is missing in event datasets using internal and external information. 12) Detection of new and emerging SPE types, e.g. creative protests. 13) Release of new event datasets. 14) Bias and fairness of the sources and event datasets. 15) Ethics, misinformation, privacy, and fairness concerns pertaining to event datasets. 16) Copyright issues on event dataset creation, dissemination, and sharing. 17) Cross-lingual, multilingual and multimodal aspects in event analysis. 18) Resources and approaches related to contentious politics around climate change. **** Shared tasks **** Please check the workshop page for the shared tasks or contact the organizers. The up-to-date list of shared tasks will be announced soon. *** Keynotes *** We will continue our tradition of inviting keynote speakers from both social and computational sciences. The up-to-date list of keynote speakers will be announced soon. *** Submission guidelines *** This call solicits short and long papers reporting original and unpublished research on the topics listed above. The papers should emphasize obtained results rather than intended work and should indicate clearly the state of completion of the reported results. The page limits and content structure announced at ACL ARR page (https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp) should be followed for both short and long papers. Papers should be submitted on the START page of the workshop ( https://softconf.com/eacl2024/CASE-2024/) in PDF format, in compliance with the ACL publication author guidelines for ACL publications https://acl-org.github.io/ACLPUB/formatting.html. The templates can be found on https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files. The reviewing process will be double-blind and papers should not include the author’s names and affiliations. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. The workshop proceedings will be published on ACL Anthology. *** More ... *** Please see the workshop webpage (https://emw.ku.edu.tr/case-2024/) for additional details and updates. Please see previous events for more context on this event series: https://emw.ku.edu.tr/workshops/ Contact: ali.hurriyetoglu(a)gmail.com *** Workshop organizers *** Ali Hürriyetoğlu, KNAW Humanities Cluster, the Netherlands Hristo Tanev, European Commission, Joint Research Centre (EU JRC), Italy Erdem Yörük, Koc University, Turkey Jatin Bedi, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala, India. Surendrabikram Thapa, Virginia Tech, the USA S. Angel Deborah, SSN College of Engineering, India S. Rajalakshmi, SSN College of Engineering, India Onur Uca, Mersin University, Turkey Mark Lee, School of Computer Science University of Birmingham, United Kingdom Francielle Vargas, University of São Paulo, Brazil Farhana Ferdousi Liza, University of East Anglia, the United Kingdom Shruti Kulkarni, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, United States Vivek Kumar, University of the Bundeswehr Munich, Germany Milena Slavcheva, IICT, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria

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PhD and postdocs at CSS , University of Tartu, Estonia
by Rajesh Sharma 20 Oct '23

20 Oct '23

Dear All, Computational Social Science group (https://css.cs.ut.ee/), at the University of Tartu, Estonia is looking for PhD and Postdoctoral applicants. So, if you are interested, please write to us and if you know someone who might be interested, please spread the word!! What is the topic about? ==================== We are interested in topics related to misinformation, hate and hope speech, media biasness, AI Ethics, fairness and explainability on online social media. We are also open to other topics if they overlap with the interests of our group. Why join us? ==================== You'll be part of Estonia's esteemed University of Tartu Institute of Computer Science (https://cs.ut.ee/en) which is in the modern Delta Centre ( https://delta.ut.ee/en/), a beacon of technological innovation and research excellence. Scholarship/Salary ==================== For PhD applicants, the gross salary is 2000 Euros per month for four years, and for Postdocs, it will be 2500 Euros gross per month. We will support research related travels and there is no tuition fees for PhD students. Education Qualification: ==================== For PhD applicants, master's degree is required and for postdoc, PhD degree is required. We are open to discuss positions with non-computer science students (who have good programming knowledge). Please drop a mail for any query or to show your interests at contact(a)css.cs.ut.ee or rajesh.sharma(a)ut.ee or roshni.chakraborty(a)ut.ee. Kind Regards Rajesh Sharma Associate Prof, Institute of Computer Science, Head, Computational Social Science group University of Tartu, Estonia Group webpage: https://css.cs.ut.ee/ Personal webpage: https://rajeshsharma.cs.ut.ee/

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Permanent faculty positions at the ILLC, University of Amsterdam
by Ekaterina Shutova 20 Oct '23

20 Oct '23

We have an opening for a permanent faculty position at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. The position is in the area of neuro-symbolic artificial intelligence, with a particular emphasis on natural language processing or related fields. The position is part of the prestigious MacGillavry Fellowship programme <https://www.uva.nl/en/about-the-uva/organisation/faculties/faculty-of-scien…> for female scientists, and we invite excellent female candidates working in the above area to apply. Closing date: 30 November 2023 For further information and to apply: https://vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/MacGillavry-Fellowship%2C-Assistant-Profes… For any questions, please send an email to e.shutova(a)uva.nl

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1st CFP: Towards Ethical and Inclusive Conversational AI: Language Attitudes, Linguistic Diversity, and Language Rights (TEICAI) at EACL 2024 in Malta
by Nina Hosseini-Kivanani 20 Oct '23

20 Oct '23

Towards Ethical and Inclusive Conversational AI: Language Attitudes, Linguistic Diversity, and Language Rights (TEICAI) at EACL 2024 in Malta-March 17-22 2024. Workshop website: https://sites.google.com/view/teicai2024 Submission link: https://softconf.com/eacl2024/TEICAI-2024/ Conversational language technologies (chatbots, voice assistants, and multimodal conversational interfaces) are becoming increasingly complex and common in everyday life. Various language theories (such as speech act theory, politeness theory, conversation analysis, and interaction theory) have started influencing their development. At the same time, the development of these technologies is often driven by technology-related concerns and tends to overlook users’ needs and socio-cultural contexts. This combined with the scarcity of human rights regulation of AI, raises concerns about linguistic discrimination, exclusion, surveillance, and security risks. In addition, training data for conversational AI mostly comes from written rather than interaction-based language data sets and often does not include gestural, social, and emotional aspects that are fundamental to human interaction. In the same vein, Sign Language is rarely facilitated. To promote a positive impact of conversational technology on linguistic diversity and inclusion, it is imperative to strike a balance between technological concerns and socially relevant matters. Our workshop aims to address these issues by using a holistic approach that involves dialogue and collaboration among technologists, linguists, policymakers, and communities involved in the development and commissioning of conversational AI systems. To foster dialogue towards a multidisciplinary approach to the development of conversational AI that can better serve diverse global audiences, we welcome submissions on a range of topics related to language ideologies and language rights, in relation to conversational language technology and AI (e.g. chatbots, voice assistants, multimodal conversational interfaces). Possible topics may include: - Language ideologies in conversational AI - Language rights in conversational AI - Socio-cultural context in conversational AI - Language inclusion in training data for enhancing inclusivity - Incorporating non-verbal communication elements (gestures, emotions) in AI - Sign language and multimodal conversational AI - Audience design in conversational AI (tailoring systems to meet specific audiences’ needs and preferences) - The sense of human agency and identity while interacting with conversational AI - Addressing challenges and opportunities of conversational AI development (case studies, models of effective collaborations) - Linguistic discrimination in conversational AI - Perspectives of communities affected by conversational AI systems: needs, concerns, and expectations We invite authors to submit original, unpublished work (long, short, and position papers). Each submission will be reviewed by 2-3 members of the Programme Committee. Participants should format their submissions using the EACL template, available for LaTeX/Overleaf and all submissions must be in PDF format. All accepted papers (long, short, and position papers) will be included in the workshop proceedings. The submission is through the SoftConf platform, and the platform link will be shared once it's available. The proceedings will be published in the ACL anthology. Important dates: First call for workshop papers: October 20, 2023 Second call for workshop papers: November 15, 2023 Third call for workshop papers: December 11, 2023 Workshop paper due: December 18, 2023 Direct Submission deadline (pre-reviewed ARR & main conference): January 17, 2024 Notification of acceptance: January 20, 2024 Camera-ready papers due: January 30, 2024 Proceedings due: February 7, 2024 Workshop dates: March 21-22, 2024 Organizers: Sviatlana Höhn, LuxAI, Luxembourg Nina Hosseini-Kivanani, Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine (FSTM), University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Dimitra Anastasiou, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg Angela Soltan, State University of Moldova, Moldova Bettina Migge, University College Dublin, Ireland Doris Dippold, University of Surrey, UK Ekaterina Kamlovskaya, Translatables For any preliminary questions, you're welcome to reach out to teicai2024(a)gmail.com .

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2nd Call for Abstracts: Sustainable archiving, exploitation, distribution of social media data - After Twitter
by Tatjana Scheffler 20 Oct '23

20 Oct '23

SECOND CALL FOR ABSTRACTS "SUSTAINABLE ARCHIVING, EXPLOITATION, AND DISTRIBUTION OF DYNAMIC DATA FROM SOCIAL MEDIA - TWITTER AND BEYOND" Conference from 19 - 20 March 2024 at the German National Library (Frankfurt am Main) Website: https://www.dnb.de/EN/twittertagung Social media is both a source of data for and the focus of a range of research approaches in the humanities, social sciences, IT, sciences and life sciences. The development of social media over time makes it a part of our digital cultural heritage, but the process for institutions to archive and document these in ways which fully reflect its detail and complexity is still only rudimentary. One key reason for this is the unique characteristics of the data in terms of media technology, economics, social factors and aesthetics. This confronts researchers, research institutions and cultural heritage institutions with many different challenges in terms of how to archive, catalogue and provide the data for later use. One example of this is Twitter (now known as “X”). The monetisation of the platform’s internal archive (part of ongoing restructuring of the platform) has had a radical impact on research and archiving. While flexible APIs and access opportunities before early 2023 led to a boom in research activity and the creation of comprehensive collections, access for research and archive has been made increasingly difficult since then. Archiving, cataloguing and providing dynamic data from social media present challenges which affect researchers, research institutions, libraries and archives in equal measure, and the best way to solve these problems is through collaboration and partnership. This requires wide-ranging efforts which would be impossible for a single data community or discipline. The aim of the conference is to facilitate networking between libraries, archives, research institutes and researchers in German-speaking countries who are involved in archiving and long-term use of data and digital objects from social media. Conference presentations should focus on the following topics: • The interaction between research and archiving • Research data problems in Tweet-based research caused by the loss of Twitter as a data provider • The status and maintenance of social media from an archival and cultural-historical perspective, e.g. posts, interactions and platform elements • The consolidation of collections, corpora, and holdings such as metadata • Initiatives to encourage archiving and cataloguing of social media data • Concepts for providing derivative datasets from social media and how these can be used • Ethical questions • Legal issues • The possibility of creating a social media data registry Please submit your abstract (max. 1 page / 500 words) and no more than 1 page of biobibliographic data as a PDF in German or English. Up to 20 minutes are available for each presentation, plus 10 minutes for discussion. Submission to: twarchiv(a)dnb.de <mailto:twarchiv@dnb.de> Deadline for submission of abstracts: 31 October 2023 feedback on acceptance of paper: 30 November 2023 Conference The conference will take place from about noon, 19 March 2024 and end in the early evening of 20 March. It will be followed by a data sprint working with a long-term corpus of German Twitter data on 21 & 22 March 2024. More information coming soon. Conference: 19. - 20. March 2024 Data Sprint: 21. - 22. March 2023 Venue: German National Library, Frankfurt am Main Speakers who do not have their own resources for travel may apply for up to €300 to cover travel and accommodation costs. Organisation: Dr. Britta Woldering, Letitia Mölck, German National Library, twarchiv(a)dnb.de <mailto:twarchiv@dnb.de> Programme Committee (in alphabetical order) Stefan Dietze (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf) Dimitar Dimitrov (GESIS) Christoph Eggersglüß (Philipps University Marburg, NFDI4Culture) Philippe Genêt (German National Library, Text+) Tatjana Scheffler (Ruhr University Bochum) Claus-Michael Schlesinger (University Library, Humboldt University Berlin) Britta Woldering (German National Library) Cooperation partners: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek BERD@NFDI KonsortSWD NFDI4Culture NFDI4Data Science Text+ --- Jun.-Prof. Dr. Tatjana Scheffler (she/her) GB 5/157 Ruhr-Universität Bochum Fakultät für Philologie, Germanistik Universitätsstraße 150 44801 Bochum Germany Mail: tatjana.scheffler(a)rub.de Web: http://staff.germanistik.rub.de/digitale-forensische-linguistik/ Tel.: +49 234 32-21471

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First CfP: UncertaiNLP @ EACL 2024 - The First Workshop on Uncertainty-Aware NLP
by Tiedemann, Jörg 20 Oct '23

20 Oct '23

First Call for papers: UncertaiNLP - First Workshop on Uncertainty-Aware NLP @ EACL 2024, March 21 or 22, 2024 Website: https://uncertainlp.github.io/ Submission website: https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2024/Workshop/UncertaiNLP We invite submissions to the first edition of the UncertaiNLP workshop on Uncertainty-Aware NLP, to be held at EACL 2024 on March 21 or 22, 2024. [Important Dates] * Paper submission deadline: December 18, 2023 * Resubmission of already pre-reviewed ARR papers: January 17, 2024 * Notification of acceptance: January 20, 2024 * Camera-ready papers due: January 30 2024 * Workshop dates: March 21-22, 2024 [Introduction] Human languages are inherently ambiguous and understanding language input is subject to interpretation and complex contextual dependencies. Nevertheless, the main body of research in NLP is still based on the assumption that ambiguities and other types of underspecification can and have to be resolved. This workshop will provide a platform for research that embraces variability in human language and aims to represent and evaluate the uncertainty that arises from it, and from modeling tools themselves. [Topics of Interest] UncertaiNLP welcomes submissions to topics related (but not limited) to: * Frameworks for uncertainty representation * Theoretical work on probability and its generalizations * Symbolic representations of uncertainty * Documenting sources of uncertainty * Theoretical underpinnings of linguistic sources of variation * Data collection (e.g., to document linguistic variability, multiple perspectives, etc.) * Modeling * Explicit representation of model uncertainty (e.g., parameter and/or hypothesis uncertainty, Bayesian NNs in NLU/NLG, verbalised uncertainty, feature density, external calibration modules) * Disentangled representation of different sources of uncertainty (e.g., hierarchical models, prompting) * Reducing uncertainty due to additional context (e.g., additional context, clarification questions, retrieval/API augmented models) * Learning (or parameter estimation) * Learning from single and/or multiple references * Gradient estimation in latent variable models * Probabilistic inference * Theoretical and applied work on approximate inference (e.g., variational inference, Langevin dynamics) * Unbiased and asymptotically unbiased sampling algorithms * Decision making * Utility-aware decoders and controllable generation * Selective prediction * Active learning * Evaluation * Statistical evaluation of language models * Calibration to interpretable notions of uncertainty (e.g., calibration error, conformal prediction) * Evaluation of epistemic uncertainty [Submission Guidelines] Authors are invited to submit by December 18, 2023 original and unpublished research papers in the following categories: * Full papers (up to 8 pages) for substantial contributions. * Short papers (up to 4 pages) for ongoing or preliminary work. All submissions must be in PDF format, submitted electronically via OpenReview (https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2024/Workshop/UncertaiNLP) and should follow the EACL 2024 formatting guidelines (following the ARR CfP<https://aclrollingreview.org/cfp>: use the official ACL style templates, which are available here<https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files>). We also invite authors of papers accepted to Findings to reach out to the organizing committee of UncertaiNLP to present their papers at the workshop, if in line with the topics described above. Resubmission of already pre-reviewed ARR papers will be possible and more information will be sent in the later calls. [Workshop Organizers] * Wilker Aziz, University of Amsterdam * Joris Baan, University of Amsterdam * Hande Celikkanat, University of Helsinki * Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, UCLouvain/FNRS * Barbara Plank, LMU Munich * Swabha Swayamdipta, USC * Jörg Tiedemann, University of Helsinki * Dennis Ulmer, ITU Copenhagen [Program Committee] A list of program committee members will be available on the workshop website. [Contact] For inquiries, please contact uncertainlp(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:uncertainlp@googlegroups.com>

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Call for Bids to Host ESSIR 2026 - Due by 8 March 2024
by Nicola Ferro 20 Oct '23

20 Oct '23

------------------------------------------- Call for Bids to Host ESSIR 2026 Deadline: 8 March 2024 Further details: https://www.essir.eu/ Contact: chair(a)essir.eu ------------------------------------------- The Steering Committee of the European Summer School on Information Retrieval (ESSIR) invites interested parties to submit bids to host ESSIR in 2026. ## INTRODUCTION ## The ESSIR initiative is a self-organized body, whose main mission is to promote research, innovation, and development of information access systems by educating junior and senior researchers, students, professionals, developers, and practitioners on the latest developments in the field, both methodological and technological. The ESSIR event is a week-long event, organized over the summer, where renowned lecturers and students interact together in a number of ways, e.g. lectures, hands-on sessions, flipped classrooms, aimed at the most effective teaching and learning of both basic and advanced topics on information access at large. By targeting information access at large, ESSIR places itself at the crossroad of several neighbors disciplines, namely + Information Retrieval (IR) + Recommender Systems (RecSys) + Natural Language Processing (NLP) + Machine Learning (ML) + Artificial Intelligence (AI) + Data Science (DS) ESSIR gives participants a grounding in the core subjects such as architectures; algorithms; formal theoretical models; evaluation theory and practice, as well as a coverage of recent topics and trends in the field, such as fairness, conversational search, and more. ESSIR is aimed at: advanced undergraduate students; PhD students; post-doctoral researchers; academic and industrial researchers; developers. Traditionally, ESSIR is co-located with accompanying events (such as the Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access, FDIA) that give the participants an excellent opportunity for focused discussions on recent emerging topics in Information Retrieval. Further details on ESSIR can be found at: https://www.essir.eu/ ## PROPOSAL SUBMISSION AND SELECTION ## Parties interested in hosting ESSIR 2026 are invited to submit proposals, in PDF format, by email to the ESSIR Steering Committee chair Nicola Ferro at chair(a)essir.eu by ** 8 MARCH 2024 ** Proposals will be evaluated by the ESSIR Steering Committee. Evaluation will take into account: + venue and timing: attractiveness of the location, hosting facilities, transportation options, accommodation, social program options, targeted event week, key dates, avoidance of timing conflicts with other relevant IR events and large-scale local public events. + scientific program: foundational topics, special lectures, accompanying events (podium discussions, poster sessions, etc.), strategy for acquiring and organizational support of high-quality IR lecturers. Proposals should also take into consideration the scheduling of relevant co-located events (symposiums, workshops) like FDIA. + support for student participants: grants, special conditions for participation and/or accommodation, opportunity to collect ECTS credit points, networking events, opportunities for personal dialogue with ESSIR lecturers. + financial viability: initial draft of the financial plan including major fixed and variable costs, budget cut-off points, strategy of sponsoring acquisition. + plans for organisation: local organizer consortium and its expertise in event/hosting management, key roles and initial responsibility assignments. Analysis of major risks (such as appropriate number of participants, commitment of key lecturers, sufficient amount of sponsoring) and reasonable fallback options. + dissemination and publicity: plans for reaching the target audience through mailing lists, direct contacts to research groups, scientific social networks, Web 2.0 channels, Web presence. Opportunities to share ESSIR materials within research community: slides, video lectures, scripts, post-proceedings, etc. The ESSIR charter and a bid template is available at: https://www.essir.eu/assets/charter/essir-sc-charter.pdf ## INQUIRIES AND FURTHER INFORMATION ## For any inquiries or if any additional information is needed, please write to chair(a)essir.eu ## ESSIR STEERING COMMITTEE ## - Nicola Ferro, University of Padua, Italy [chair] - Maristella Agosti, University of Padua, Italy - Catherine Berrut, Université Grenoble Alpes, France - Pablo Castells, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain and Amazon, USA - João Magalhães, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal - Iadh Ounis, University of Glasgow, UK - Gabriella Pasi, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy - Florina Piroi, TU Wien, Austria

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"Aristotelian: 'justice in exchange'": some sort of subjective utility?, "exchange value" coefficient? or "labour comparison" as an adjusting societal korpus factor based on techne? ...
by Albretch Mueller 19 Oct '23

19 Oct '23

On page 31 of Henry William Spiegel's book: "The growth of economic thought" (the 3rd edition is the one I got): https://archive.org/details/growthofeconomic0000spie_r1d4 https://www.csus.edu/indiv/d/dowellm/econ101/spiegel 1(1).pdf there are two statements (very questionably) written as mathematical equations, one of which, Spiegel said, has been claimed and re-interpreted throughout the ages in their own ways by different economic schools of thought mostly in utilitarian or "labour theory of value" kinds of ways. Aristotle analytically (and semi-poetically) wrote his "justice in exchange" (in previous times people tended to mind morality in a more involved way) as: ((A: builder)/(B: shoemaker) = X ((D: house)/(D: shoe)) and on page 33 there is an even more questionable "clarifying" deduction based on that statement. AFAIK, no one knows exactly what happened around 600 BC which made Ancient Greece intellectually awaken into a new age. Whatever happened, we know that they were obsessed with two themes: 1) like ratios: from Archimedes' law of the lever, to the kinds of metaphors their commanders used as battle cries, to how Aristotle himself "explained" poetry (which Eco thinks is the only substantial statement ever since made about the topic) Ancient Greeks understood everything through like ratios; 2) they also wondered incessantly about the subjectively moral, "objectively" social and divine aspects relating to techne from pre-Socratic times to its best implementation in Euclid's Elements (three centuries later). I am not claiming to be a mind reader, but based on how he used like ratios for his own sharp and powerful analysis of various subjects, I think, on the left side of that equation, he can't possibly be dividing "builders" by "shoemakers" (trying to establish a meaningful proportion), but the time it takes for them to finish an unit of work and on the right, determining proportion he is considering the qualitatively different kind of techne they each use to go about their business and since the Greek would only compare like ratios, he introduced that adjusting factor "X" which has made scholars wonder about it ever since. ~ Frederick Gustav Weiss in his thoroughgoing "Hegel's critique of Aristotle's philosophy of mind": https://www.amazon.com/Hegels-critique-Aristotles-philosophy-mind/dp/B0006C… https://philpapers.org/rec/WEIHCO shows how Hegel's concepts and notions resemble Aristotle's and how Hegel's trains of thought could be interpreted as a continuation of "the Philosopher's" if not exactly as a chronicler or commentator, definitely how Hegel critically re-engages Aristotle's work as no one had done after the Renaissance. About Aristotle Weiss says: page 33: ... The sense, for Aristotle, is not the organ as such, nor it is its relation or contact with objective qualities a "physical" or mechanical interaction as Ross seemed to suggest.(94) The potential sense is more like a ratio which is not yet the ratio of anything. The actual sense is an "enmattered" ratio; that is, one which is determined by its factors, and which simultaneously holds these factors, e.g., white and black, page 34: etc., in such a way as to allow their discrimination, and this without changing them. The sense is a mean which unfailingly establishes itself with respect to any two contrary qualities within the same genus. Which, since our semiosis is the only "enmattered" medium (à la de Saussure) simultaneously holding and allowing the discrimination of all meaningful factors of "any two contrary qualities within the same genus", I take as meaning that that factoring "X" is essentially semiotic in nature, linking in a societally-wide corpus kind of way qualitatively different kinds of techne, thereby establishing a fair exchange value between two different things and manifestingly showing the necessity for and hows of money, which (in the combined rates way I explained in a previous post about how NLP folks use "tensors") we used as equitable aspect, not different to how we use words to go about our respective businesses. As I interpret their philosophy, Anaxagoras "nous", techne, that "Aristotelian: 'justice in exchange'" equation, Leibniz' "best of all possible worlds" ideas, Smith's "invisible hand" (previously discussed to exhaustion by medieval philosophers) and Marx' "socially necessary labour time" are all aspects relating to the same thing. At the risk of being told that I am myself, "self-servingly" trying to rationalize such readings into Aristotle's analysis, I think that this is the first explicitly clear hint to our mind-body link being our semiosis. I privately (via email) asked Chalmers about such matters and he told me he didn't know of such approaches and I publicly asked Eco during a conference at the UN about it and he even became impatient, seemed to have gotten upset with me/about such ideas (I even tried to speak to him privately after his talk to no avail). There is simply no way on earth that no one hasn't noticed such interrelationships and how they relate to corpora research. I am sure that some of you have stumbled onto such themes and wondered about them. As a TI, here in "'the' land of 'the' 'free', ..." I can't even visit a library. There isn't anything illegal about it, it would be "fair use". Could you do me the favor to send my way or point to me to any prior art relating to such topics (essentially how corpora research and the mind-body link intrinsically relate). I am writing a paper on such matters, but I don't have access to papers that (most of?) you do. They tell me "I am not a researcher" so they can't grant me access to such repositories of previous art. Access to such papers is prohibitively expensive to me right now and at times you pay good money for a book without any substance whatsoever. There is this protagonistic tendency to write whatever nonsense crosses one's mind (apparently to claim priority) as if there were something wrong with Aristotle's approach. In a "footnotes to Plato" kind of way, I think timely (from "'more' to 'post-'modern") progress is a functional illusion. Aristotle's analysis is fine, we just can't match his intellectual prowess. Thank you, lbrtchx

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