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SemDial 2023 - MariLogue: Deadline Extension: June 23th
by Andy Lücking 14 Jun '23

14 Jun '23

* Apologies for cross-posting * This is to announce that the deadline SemDial 2023 -- MariLogue, the 27th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, is extended by a week. * New submission date: June 23th, 2023 * Submissions website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semdial2023marilogue Please note that there are slight follow-up adjustments of short paper/poster submission and registration deadlines: * New short paper submissions due July 10th, 2023 * Registration deadline: July 19th, 2023 For convenience, below the CfP with updated dates. # CALL FOR PAPERS SemDial 2023 -- MariLogue The 27th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue 16--17 August, University of Maribor, Slovenia https://mezzanine.um.si/en/conference/semdial-2023-marilogue/ MariLogue will be the 27th edition of the SemDial workshop series, which aims to bring together researchers working on the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue in fields such as formal semantics and pragmatics, computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience. We welcome submissions with formal, computational and empirical approaches to the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue, including, but not limited to: * the dynamics of agents' information states in dialogue * common ground/mutual belief * goals, intentions and commitments in communication * turn-taking and interaction control * semantic/pragmatic interpretation in dialogue * dialogue and discourse structure * categorisation of dialogue phenomena in corpora * child-adult interaction * language learning through dialogue * gesture, gaze, and intonational meaning in communication * multimodal dialogue * interpretation and reasoning in spoken dialogue systems * dialogue management * designing and evaluating dialogue systems * modelling miscommunication, disfluency and repair * dialogue/interaction studies from a psychological perspective * neuroscience of dialogue * Interactivist approaches to dialogue * animal communication # SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: Long papers: Authors should submit an anonymous paper of at most 8 pages of content (up to 2 additional pages are allowed for references). Short papers: Authors should submit a non-anonymized paper of at most 2 pages of content (up to 1 additional page allowed for references). Submission to this track can be non-archival on request. Submissions should be pdf files and use the LaTeX (https://2023.aclweb.org/downloads/acl2023.zip) or Word (https://2023.aclweb.org/downloads/acl2023.docx) templates provided for ACL 2023 submissions. The LaTeX template is readily available on Overleaf (https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/acl-2023-proceedings-template/qjdg…). Concurrent submission policy: Papers that have been or will be submitted to other meetings or publications must provide this information, using a footnote on the title page of the submissions. SemDial 2023 cannot accept work for publication or presentation that will be (or has been) published elsewhere. Submission is electronic, using the EasyChair conference management system at our Easychair submission site (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semdial2023marilogue). # IMPORTANT DATES: Note: All deadlines are 11:59PM UTC-12:00 ("anywhere on Earth"). * Long paper submissions due: June 16th, 2023 * Notification: July 10th, 2023 * Short paper submissions due: July 10th, 2023 * Short paper notification: July 16th, 2023 * Final versions due: August 4th, 2023 * Registration Deadline for presenters/refund deadline: July 19th, 2023 * MariLogue Conference: August 16th--17th, 2023

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Call for Applications for 1 research grant
by Purificação Silvano 14 Jun '23

14 Jun '23

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FOR 1 RESEARCH GRANT FOR THE PROJECT “STORYSENSE: REACHING THE SEMANTIC LAYERS OF STORIES IN TEXT” AT THE FACULTY OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PORTO AND INESC TEC Applications 29th May to 23rd June The Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto hereby opens this Call for Applications for 1 research grant for the project “StorySense: Reaching the Semantic Layers of Stories in Text” at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto and INESC TEC financed by FCT - Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P., project (reference 2022.09312.PTDC). <https://sigarra.up.pt/flup/en/NOTICIAS_GERAL.VER_NOTICIA?p_nr=158946> FLUP - FLUP| Bolsa de Investigação| Projeto STORYSENSE- Refª 2023/18<https://sigarra.up.pt/flup/en/NOTICIAS_GERAL.VER_NOTICIA?p_nr=158946> sigarra.up.pt<https://sigarra.up.pt/flup/en/NOTICIAS_GERAL.VER_NOTICIA?p_nr=158946> [apple-touch-icon-152x152.png] <https://sigarra.up.pt/flup/en/NOTICIAS_GERAL.VER_NOTICIA?p_nr=158946>

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Job Position (Full Time) for Computational Linguist in Hannover
by christian.wartena＠hs-hannover.de 14 Jun '23

14 Jun '23

Dear All, I'm very pleased to announce that we (Hochschule Hannover, Germany) are looking to hire a computational linguist for the VidQA project. VidQA is a joint research project of the Institute for Applied Data Science Hannover (DATA|H) of the HsH, the research center L3S of the Leibniz University and the Technical Information Library (TIB). The aim of the project is the development and evaluation of new methods for the semi-automatic generation of comprehension questions and answers for learning videos. We pursue several research questions, such as the aspect of multimodality of video-based learning media, the generation of distractors ("wrong answers") for multiple-choice questions, and the automatic evaluation of answers in open-ended question formats. We are especially looking for candidates that already have some experience with (neural) language models and have goor programming skills. Basic knowledge of German is an advantage. The position is especially suited for candidates that want to write a PhD thesis related to the project topics. Application deadline is June 26, 2023. Further details can be found at https://karriere.hs-hannover.de/bewerbung/beschreibung-900000104-10057.html Best regards Christian Wartena

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TREC 2023 NeuCLIR
by Sean MacAvaney 14 Jun '23

14 Jun '23

--------------------------------------------------- TREC 2023 NeuCLIR --------------------------------------------------- Cross-language Information Retrieval (CLIR) has been studied at TREC and subsequent evaluations for more than twenty years. Prior to the application of deep learning, strong statistical approaches were developed that work well across many languages. As with most other language technologies though, neural computing has led to significant performance improvements in information retrieval. CLIR has just begun to incorporate neural advances. The TREC 2023 NeuCLIR track presents a cross-language information retrieval challenge. NeuCLIR topics are written in English. NeuCLIR has three target language collections in Chinese, Persian, and Russian. Topics are written in the traditional TREC format: a short title and a sentence-length description. Systems are to return a ranked list of documents for each topic. Results will be pooled, and systems will be evaluated on a range of metrics. This year, we include two new challenges: retrieval from a corpus that includes multiple languages, and retrieval from a corpus of technical documents. --- Task Description --- * Single-Language News Retrieval * Multi-Language News Retrieval * Single-Language Technical Abstract Retrieval * Website: https://neuclir.github.io/ * Mailing List: https://groups.google.com/g/neuclir-participants --- Important Dates --- Already: Evaluation document collection released Already: Track guidelines released Already: CLIR/MLIR: Topics released June 30, 2023: CLIR/MLIR: Submissions due to NIST June 30, 2023: Technical Document Topic Release August 1, 2023: Technical Document Submission September 30, 2023: Results distributed to participants November 2023: TREC 2023 --- Organizing Committee --- Dawn Lawrie, Johns Hopkins University, HLTCOE Sean MacAvaney, University of Glasgow James Mayfield, Johns Hopkins University, HLTCOE Paul McNamee, Johns Hopkins University, HLTCOE Douglas W. Oard, University of Maryland Luca Soldaini, Allen Institute for AI Eugene Yang, Johns Hopkins University, HLTCOE

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LxGr2023: Programme and Call for Participation
by Costas Gabrielatos 14 Jun '23

14 Jun '23

8th Symposium on Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar (LxGr2023) The symposium will take place online on 6-8 July 2023. The programme, links to abstracts, and registration details are here: https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/lxgr/lxgr2023 Participation is free. Last day of registration is 4 July 2023. If you have any questions, please contact lxgr(a)edgehill.ac.uk<mailto:lxgr@edgehill.ac.uk>. ________________________________ Edge Hill University<http://ehu.ac.uk/home/emailfooter> Modern University of the Year, The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2022<http://ehu.ac.uk/tef/emailfooter> University of the Year, Educate North 2021/21 ________________________________ This message is private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it from your system. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Edge Hill or associated companies. Edge Hill University may monitor email traffic data and also the content of email for the purposes of security and business communications during staff absence.<http://ehu.ac.uk/itspolicies/emailfooter>

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CFP-WAT2023-Multi-Modal Task
by Shantipriya Parida 14 Jun '23

14 Jun '23

[Apologies for cross-posting] *Call for Participation: WAT2023 English-to-Hindi/Malayalam/Bengali Multi-Modal Translation Task* Description: We invite you to participate in three shared tasks. The aim of the “WAT 2023 Multi-Modal translation task” is to enable research on multilingual multimodal NLP. Workshop on Asian Translation (WAT) is organizing the multimodal English-to-Hindi, English-to-Malayalam, and English-to-Bengali translation tasks using the multimodal datasets (Hindi/Malayalam/Bengali Visual Genome), consisting of text and images suitable for English-to-Hindi, English-to-Malayalam, and English-to-Bengali multimodal machine translation, Image Captioning task and multimodal research. Timeline: Please refer to the task website. Websites: https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/hindi-visual-genome/wat2023-english-hindi-multi-mod https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/malayalam-visual-genome/wat2023-english-malayalam-… https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/bengali-visual-genome/wat-2023-english-bengali-mul… Contact: email: wat-multimodal-task(a)ufal.mff.cuni.cz (same contact for all tasks) Organizers: Shantipriya Parida <https://www.linkedin.com/in/shantipriya-parida-9781a9127/>, Silo AI, Helsinki, Finland Ondřej Bojar, <https://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/ondrej-bojar> Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic -- Shantipriya Parida Senior AI Scientist @ Silo AI <http://www.silo.ai/> Mobile:# +358 (0465787840) LinkedIn <http://linkedin.com/>*Shantipriya Parida <https://www.linkedin.com/in/shantipriya-parida-9781a9127/>* *http://www.shantipriya.me/ <http://www.shantipriya.me/>*

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AIRiAL 2023 Conference - CFP DEADLINE EXTENDED
by Voss, Erik 13 Jun '23

13 Jun '23

Apologies for cross-posting Submission deadline: June 2, 2023 extended until June 16, 2023 Artificial Intelligence Research in Applied Linguistics (AIRiAL) Conference at Teachers College, Columbia University Theme The Future of Artificial Intelligence in Applied Linguistics Location Teachers College, Columbia University Dates September 29-30, 2023 Plenary Speakers Kadriye Ercikan, Vice President of Research at ETS Alina von Davier, Chief of Assessment at Duolingo CALL FOR PROPOSALS The AL & TESOL Language and Technology Research Group <https://sites.google.com/tc.columbia.edu/al-tesol-language-technology/home> in the Applied Linguistics & TESOL program at Teachers College will host the Conference on Artificial Intelligence Research in Applied Linguistics (AIRiAL) <https://sites.google.com/tc.columbia.edu/al-tesol-language-technology/event…>. This conference is a forum for scholarly discussions on Artificial Intelligence research in Applied Linguistics (e.g., Natural Language Processing, Speech Technologies, Computer Vision, and Biometrics). Applied Linguistics is a broad field including scholarship about language analysis and how language is learned in order to achieve some purpose or solve some problem in the real world. It includes areas such as language acquisition, language assessment, language use, language & technology and other related sub-fields. We welcome abstracts exploring the relationship between Applied Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence that align with our conference theme. Research areas include, but are not limited to: - Affective computing - Automated scoring - Conversational AI - Intelligent tutoring - Immersive technologies - Language models - Multilingual ASR - AI literacy education - AI policy decisions - and other related topics Presentation Types Papers Formal presentations of completed research making original scholarly contributions. Presenters will have 15-minutes to discuss their papers, followed by 5 minutes for questions and comments from the audience. Posters Poster sessions provide an opportunity for the presentation of work visually. Poster topics can be works-in-progress and research that is being planned as well as completed projects. Presenters will discuss their posters with participants informally during a one-hour poster session. Proposal Evaluation Criteria Proposals will be evaluated on (1) Contribution to the field of AI in AL, (2) Quality of the proposal, and (3) Clarity of the abstract. Preparation and Submission of Proposals Please submit your abstract through this submission form <https://tccolumbia.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_50jI0FuFAvt5xem>. Abstracts should be max. 250 words. Submission deadline: June 2, 2023 extended until June 16, 2023 Notification date: June 30, 2023 Student Paper Award An award will be presented to the best student paper presentation at the conference. All authors on student papers must be actively-enrolled graduate students at the time of the conference. -- Erik Voss, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Applied Linguistics & TESOL program Language & Technology Specialization Department of Arts & Humanities Teachers College, Columbia University TC Faculty Profile <https://www.tc.columbia.edu/faculty/ev2449/>, Linkedin Profile <https://www.linkedin.com/in/erik-voss-ph-d-941a3ab9>, Google Scholar <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=FMnVdjcAAAAJ&hl=en> ALTESOL Language & Technology Research Group <https://sites.google.com/tc.columbia.edu/al-tesol-language-technology/home> AIRiAL 2023 Conference CFP <https://sites.google.com/tc.columbia.edu/al-tesol-language-technology/event…> Open Now *Latest Publications* Voss, E. (2022). Argument-based validation in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic <https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003221463-6/argumen…>. (Ch. 5) Routledge. Voss, E. (2023). Proctoring remote language assessments <https://www.routledge.com/Fundamental-Considerations-in-Technology-Mediated…>. (Ch. 12) Routledge.

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CfP Special Issue "Artificial Intelligence and Smart Technologies for Achieving Sustainable Goals"
by Hend Al-Khalifa 13 Jun '23

13 Jun '23

Dear Colleagues, We invite you to submit a paper to a special issue about "Artificial Intelligence and Smart Technologies for Achieving Sustainable Goals <https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/Z1I87XD9C3>". Deadline for manuscript submissions: *30 August 2023* *Introduction* The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide a blueprint for a fairer and more sustainable world for everyone. One of the key ways to achieve these goals is through the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and smart technologies. Artificial intelligence (AI) has been hailed as a game-changer for sustainable development. It has the potential to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in a number of ways, including by providing decision support for sustainable development planning, helping to optimize resource use, and increasing transparency and accountability. Smart technologies offer great potential for sustainable development applications. Smart technologies can help to improve the efficiency of resource use, e.g., by reducing wastage, and can also help to improve transparency and accountability. In this Special Issue, we invite papers that explore the potential of AI and smart technologies for sustainable development. We are particularly interested in papers that describe applications of these technologies that have the potential to make a real difference to the achievement of SDGs. We welcome papers from all sectors, including academia, industry, government, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - Applications of AI and smart technologies in sustainable development; - The potential of AI and smart technologies to help achieve the SDGs; - Barriers and challenges to the use of AI and smart technologies for sustainable development; - Future directions for the use of AI and smart technologies in sustainable development; - Ethical considerations in the use of AI and smart technologies for sustainable development; - The role of AI and smart technologies in sustainable development policy. Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. All papers will be thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Special issue page: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/Z1I87XD9C3 -- Hend S. Al-Khalifa, PhD Professor Information Technology Department CCIS, King Saud University Saudi Arabia, Riyadh Website: http://fac.ksu.edu.sa/hendk Research: http://iwan.ksu.edu.sa/ Tel: +966-11-8051437 =============== I strive to make a science of my teaching, and when appropriate, I disseminate the results.

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Call for participation - Arabic NER Shared Task 2023
by nagham ghanim 13 Jun '23

13 Jun '23

Dear colleagues, We are happy to invite you to join the *Arabic NER SharedTask 2023* <https://dlnlp.ai/st/wojood/> which will be organized as part of the WANLP 2023. We will provide you with a large corpus and Google Colab notebooks to help you reproduce the baseline results. دعوة للمشاركة في مسابقة استخراج الكيونات المسماه من النصوص العربية. سنزود المشاركين بمدونة وبرمجيات للحصول على نتائج مرجعية يمكنهم البناء عليها. *INTRODUCTION* Named Entity Recognition (NER) is integral to many NLP applications. It is the task of identifying named entity mentions in unstructured text and classifying them to predefined classes such as person, organization, location, or date. Due to the scarcity of Arabic resources, most of the research on Arabic NER focuses on flat entities and addresses a limited number of entity types (person, organization, and location). The goal of this shared task is to alleviate this bottleneck by providing Wojood, a large and rich Arabic NER corpus. Wojood consists of about 550K tokens (MSA and dialect, in multiple domains) that are manually annotated with 21 entity types. *REGISTRATION* Participants need to register via this form ( *https://forms.gle/UCCrVNZ2LaPviCZS6* <https://forms.gle/UCCrVNZ2LaPviCZS6>). Participating teams will be provided with common training development datasets. No external manually labelled datasets are allowed. Blind test data set will be used to evaluate the output of the participating teams. Each team is allowed a maximum of 3 submissions. All teams are required to report on the development and test sets (after results are announced) in their write-ups. *FAQ* For any questions related to this task, please check our *Frequently Asked Questions* <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XE2n89mFLic2P9DO_sAD51vy734BOt0kgtZ6bFf…> *IMPORTANT DATES* - March 03, 2023: Registration available - May 25, 2023: Data-sharing and evaluation on development set Avaliable - June 10, 2023 June 30, 2023: Registration deadline (Extended) - July 20, 2023: Test set made available - July 30, 2023: Evaluation on test set (TEST) deadline - Augest 29, 2023: Shared task system paper submissions due - October 12, 2023: Notification of acceptance - October 30, 2023: Camera-ready version - TBA: WANLP 2023 Conference. * All deadlines are 11:59 PM UTC-12:00 (Anywhere On Earth). ** All deadlines are 11:59 PM UTC-12:00 (Anywhere On Earth).* *CONTACT* For any questions related to this task, please contact the organizers directly using the following email address: *NERShare...(a)gmail.com <https://groups.google.com/>* or join the google group: *https://groups.google.com/g/ner_sharedtask2023* <https://groups.google.com/g/ner_sharedtask2023>. *SHARED TASK* As described, this shared task targets both flat and nested Arabic NER. The subtasks are: *Subtask 1:* *Flat NER* In this subtask, we provide the Wojood-Flat train (70%) and development (10%) datasets. The final evaluation will be on the test set (20%). The flat NER dataset is the same as the nested NER dataset in terms of train/test/dev split and each split contains the same content. The only difference in the flat NER is each token is assigned one tag, which is the first high-level tag assigned to each token in the nested NER dataset. *Subtask 2:* *Nestd NER* In this subtask, we provide the Wojood-Nested train (70%) and development (10%) datasets. The final evaluation will be on the test set (20%). *METRICS* The evaluation metrics will include precision, recall, F1-score. However, our official metric will be the micro F1-score. The evaluation of shared tasks will be hosted through CODALAB. Teams will be provided with a CODALAB link for each shared task. -*CODALAB link for NER Shared Task Subtask 1 (Flat NER)* <https://codalab.lisn.upsaclay.fr/competitions/11594> -*CODALAB link for NER Shared Task Subtask 2 (Nestd NER)* <https://dlnlp.ai/st/wojood/> *BASELINES* Two baseline models trained on Wojood (flat and nested) are provided: *Nested NER baseline:* is presented in this *article* <https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.387/>, and code is available in *GitHub* <https://github.com/SinaLab/ArabicNER>. The model achieves a micro F1-score of 0.9059 (note that this baseline does not handle nested entities of the same type). *Flat NER baseline:* same code repository for nested NER (*GitHub* <https://github.com/SinaLab/ArabicNER>) can also be used to train flat NER task. Our flat NER baseline achieved a micro F1-score of 0.8785. *GOOGLE COLAB NOTEBOOKS* To allow you to experiment with the baseline, we authored four Google Colab notebooks that demonstrate how to train and evaluate our baseline models. [1] *Train Flat NER* <https://gist.github.com/mohammedkhalilia/72c3261734d7715094089bdf4de74b4a>: This notebook can be used to train our ArabicNER model on the flat NER task using the sample Wojood data found in our repository. [2] *Evaluate Flat NER* <https://gist.github.com/mohammedkhalilia/c807eb1ccb15416b187c32a362001665>: this notebook will use the trained model saved from the notebook above to perform evaluation on unseen dataset. [3] *Train Nested NER* <https://gist.github.com/mohammedkhalilia/a4d83d4e43682d1efcdf299d41beb3da>: This notebook can be used to train our ArabicNER model on the nested NER task using the sample Wojood data found in our repository. [4] *Evaluate Nested NER* <https://gist.github.com/mohammedkhalilia/9134510aa2684464f57de7934c97138b>: this notebook will use the trained model saved from the notebook above to perform evaluation on unseen dataset. *ORGANIZERS* - Mustafa Jarrar, Birzeit University - Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, University of British Columbia & MBZUAI - Mohammed Khalilia, Birzeit University - Bashar Talafha, University of British Columbia - AbdelRahim Elmadany, University of British Columbia - Nagham Hamad, Birzeit University - Alaa Omer, Birzeit University

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ELRA Catalogue of Language Resources - Update
by info＠elda.org 13 Jun '23

13 Jun '23

[Apologies for multiple postings] We are happy to announce that 1 new written corpus is now available in our catalogue. *Archives of "El Mundo" Newspaper – Years 2020-2022 <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-W0332/>* ISLRN: 124-545-396-179-3 <http://www.islrn.org/resources/124-545-396-179-3> This corpus consists of 45,658 articles in Spanish from electronic archives of "El Mundo" Newspaper between 2020 and 2022. A few articles also come from publications from other related media: El Mundo Alicante, El Mundo Andalucía, El Mundo Baleares, El Mundo Catalunya, El Mundo Valéncia et Expansión. The number of articles available per year is as follows: - 2020: 15,073 articles - 2021: 14,461 articles - 2022: 16,124 articles TOTAL: 45,658 articles All articles are provided in text format, including HTML tags. This data is released thanks to Unidad Editorial Información General, S.L.U., Spain. This corpus may be also obtained as separate years as follows: Archives of "El Mundo" Newspaper – Year 2020 <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-W0333/> Archives of "El Mundo" Newspaper – Year 2021 <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-W0334/> Archives of "El Mundo" Newspaper – Year 2022 <http://catalog.elra.info/en-us/repository/browse/ELRA-W0335/> For more information on the catalogue or if you would like to enquire about having your resources distributed by ELRA, please *contact us* <mailto:contact@elda.org>. _________________________________________ Visit the *ELRA Catalogue of Language Resources* <http://catalog.elra.info> Visit the *Universal Catalogue* <http://universal.elra.info>** *Archives * <http://www.elra.info/en/catalogues/language-resources-announcements>of ELRA Language Resources Catalogue Updates /Our apologies if you have received multiple copies of this announcement./

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