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[FPI on NLP] PhD position on knowledge discovery from text and semantic-based computational models, at the University of Alicante (SPAIN)
by Yoan 27 Dec '22

27 Dec '22

Dear researcher, in case you: - are interested in a *fully-funded PhD position* to research on *knowledge discovery* from text and *semantic-based computational models*; - have a *Master degree* in Computer Science, Mathematics or related disciplines; - are an *enthusiastic person* who loves to face the frontiers of knowledge; - are willing to *join *a strong and multidisciplinary *NLP research group*; - like the* fantastic **ecosystem* of Alicante (i.e. sun, sea, mountain, delicious food, sport variety), networking, and social events; *this PhD. position is your you!!!* We are inviting applications for one fully funded PhD position in the Department of Software and Computing systems <https://www.dlsi.ua.es/index.cgi?id=eng>, University of Alicante (Spain). The request can be made from * January 12, 2023*, with a starting date of as early as possible in 2023. More details below and on this link: https://www.aei.gob.es/en/announcements/announcements-finder/ayudas-contrat… *About the Project:* [TRIVIAL] Technological resources for intelligent viral analysis through NLP <https://trivial.gplsi.es/en> *Objectives*: - Automated resource generation leveraging collective intelligence. - Studying and modelling the variety of digital contents based on semantic characteristics represented by digital entities. - Analysis of the influence and impact of digital content in different scenarios. - Generation of knowledge from the different digital models obtained. - Application and evaluation of the acquired knowledge to real use cases in society. *Candidate requirements: *Applicants will need to meet general entry requirements, and will have a Master degree in Computer Science, Mathematics or related disciplines. Experience on semantic analysis of language, statistical machine learning, deep learning, or computational statistics, as well as programming experience would be desirable. *How to apply: *Applications for the PhD studentship must be made directly to the Researching State Agency <https://www.aei.gob.es/en/announcements/announcements-finder/ayudas-contrat…> using the *Online Application Form <https://aplicaciones.ciencia.gob.es/ayudaspredoctorales/>*. *Make sure you name project code **PID2021-122263OB-C22* (the list of receiver projects are here <https://www.aei.gob.es/sites/default/files/convocatory_info/2022-12/Listado…>) as receiver. Information on what documents are required and a link to the application form can be found here - https://www.aei.gob.es/en/announcements/announcements-finder/ayudas-contrat… *Funding Notes:* This position is funded by the State Plan for Scientific and Technical Research and Innovation 2021-2023. *Spanish and International students are eligible to apply!* We look forward to meeting you ;). *For any doubt or help do not hesitate to contact us!* Best regards, -- Yoan Gutiérrez Vázquez PhD. Full-time Lecturer Department of Software and Computing systems, University of Alicante Bio: http://ygutierrez.gplsi.es/ ................. > >

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Researcher in computer science -- job post
by Rui Manuel Sousa Silva 26 Dec '22

26 Dec '22

Dear all, This is just a reminder that the application deadline for Assistant Researcher at the Centre of Linguistics of the Uniersity of Porto ends tomorrow. For fiurther details, visit https://sigarra.up.pt/flup/en/NOTICIAS_GERAL.VER_NOTICIA?p_nr=151005 All best Rui Sousa Silva Professor Auxiliar | Assistant Professor PhD Coordenador Científico do CLUP-Centro de Linguística da Universidade do Porto | Scientific Coordinator of the Centre for Linguistics of the University of Porto Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto | Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto Via Panorâmica, s/n P-4150-564 Porto Portugal w: www.linguisticaforense.pt | Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto - http://www.letras.up.pt Twitter: https://twitter.com/rsousasilva | Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rui-sousa-silva-83a38731/ | ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rui_Sousa-Silva | ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5249-0617 | Language and Law/Linguagem e Direito: http://ojs.letras.up.pt/index.php/LLLD/index Publicações mais recentes / Latest publications: Fighting the Fake: A Forensic Linguistic Analysis for Fake News Detection The Dawn of the Human-Machine Era | The Routledge Handbook of Forensic Linguistics

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First CFP: 19th Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2023)
by Archna Bhatia 23 Dec '22

23 Dec '22

[Apologies for cross-postings] ******************************************************************************** First Call for Papers 19th Workshop on Multiword Expressions (MWE 2023) Organized and sponsored by SIGLEX, the Special Interest Group on the Lexicon of the ACL Full-day workshop collocated with EACL 2023, Dubrovnik, Croatia, May 2 or 6, 2023 Hybrid (on-site & on-line) Submission deadline: February 13, 2023 MWE 2023 website: <https://multiword.org/mwe2022/> https://multiword.org/mwe2023/ ******************************************************************************** Multiword expressions (MWEs) are word combinations that exhibit lexical, syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, and/or statistical idiosyncrasies (Baldwin & Kim 2010), such as by and large, hot dog, pay a visit and pull one's leg. The notion encompasses closely related phenomena: idioms, compounds, light-verb constructions, phrasal verbs, rhetorical figures, collocations, institutionalized phrases, etc. Their behavior is often unpredictable; for example, their meaning often does not result from the direct combination of the meanings of their parts. Given their irregular nature, MWEs often pose complex problems in linguistic modeling (e.g. annotation), NLP tasks (e.g. parsing), and end-user applications (e.g. natural language understanding and MT), hence still representing an open issue for computational linguistics (Constant et al. 2017). For almost two decades, modeling and processing MWEs for NLP has been the topic of the MWE workshop organized by the MWE section<https://multiword.org/> of SIGLEX<http://www.siglex.org/> in conjunction with major NLP conferences since 2003. Impressive progress has been made in the field, but our understanding of MWEs still requires much research considering their need and usefulness in NLP applications. This is also relevant to domain-specific NLP pipelines that need to tackle terminologies most often realized as MWEs. Following previous years, for this 19th edition of the workshop, we identified the following topics on which contributions are particularly encouraged: * MWE processing and identification in specialized languages and domains: Multiword terminology extraction from domain-specific corpora (Bonin et al. 2010) is of particular importance to various applications, such as MT (Semmar & Laib, 2017), or for the identification and monitoring of neologisms and technical jargon (Chatzitheodorou et al, 2021). We expect approaches that deal with the processing of MWEs as well as the processing of terminology in specialised domains can benefit from each other. * MWE processing to enhance end-user applications: MWEs have gained particular attention in end-user applications, including MT (Zaninello & Birch 2020; Han et al. 2021), simplification (Kochmar et al. 2020), language learning and assessment (Paquot et al. 2019; Christiansen & Arnon 2017), social media mining (Maisto et al. 2017), and abusive language detection (Zampieri et al. 2020; Caselli et al. 2020). We believe that it is crucial to extend and deepen these first attempts to integrate and evaluate MWE technology in these and further end-user applications. * MWE identification and interpretation in pre-trained language models: Most current MWE processing is limited to their identification and detection using pre-trained language models, but we still lack understanding about how MWEs are represented and dealt with therein (Nedumpozhimana & Kelleher 2021; Garcia et al. 2021, Fakharian & Cook 2021), how to better model the compositionality of MWEs from semantics (Moreau et al. 2018). Now that NLP has shifted towards end-to-end neural models like BERT, capable of solving complex tasks with little or no intermediary linguistic symbols, questions arise about the extent to which MWEs should be implicitly or explicitly modelled (Shwartz & Dagan, 2019). * MWE processing in low-resource languages: The PARSEME shared tasks (Ramisch et al. 2020; 2018; Savary et al. 2017), among others, have fostered significant progress in MWE identification, providing datasets that include low-resource languages, evaluation measures, and tools that now allow fully integrating MWE identification into end-user applications. A few efforts have recently explored methods for the automatic interpretation of MWEs (Bhatia, et al. 2018; 2017), and their processing in low-resource languages (Liu & Wang 2020; Kumar et al. 2017). Resource creation and sharing should be pursued in parallel with the development of methods able to capitalize on small datasets (Han et al. 2020). Through this workshop, we would like to bring together and encourage researchers in various NLP subfields to submit MWE-related research, so that approaches that deal with processing of MWEs including processing for low-resource languages and for various applications can benefit from each other. We also intend to consolidate the converging effects of previous joint workshops LAW-MWE-CxG 2018<http://multiword.sourceforge.net/lawmwecxg2018/>, MWE-WN 2019<http://multiword.sourceforge.net/mwewn2019/> and MWE-LEX 2020<http://multiword.sourceforge.net/mwelex2020/>, the joint MWE-WOAH panel in 2021<https://multiword.org/mwe2021/#program>, and the MWE-SIGUL 2022 joint session<https://multiword.org/mwe2022/>, extending our scope to MWEs in e-lexicons and WordNets, MWE annotation, as well as grammatical constructions. Correspondingly, we call for papers on research related (but not limited) to MWEs and constructions in: * Computationally-applicable theoretical work in psycholinguistics and corpus linguistics; * Annotation (expert, crowdsourcing, automatic) and representation in resources such as corpora, treebanks, e-lexicons, and WordNets (also for low-resource languages); * Processing in syntactic and semantic frameworks (e.g. CCG, CxG, HPSG, LFG, TAG, UD, etc.); * Discovery and identification methods, including for specialized languages and domains such as clinical or biomedical NLP; * Interpretation of MWEs and understanding of text containing them; * Language acquisition, language learning, and non-standard language (e.g. tweets, speech); * Evaluation of annotation and processing techniques; * Retrospective comparative analyses from the PARSEME shared tasks; * Processing for end-user applications (e.g. MT, NLU, summarization, language learning, etc.); * Implicit and explicit representation in pre-trained language models and end-user applications; * Evaluation and probing of pre-trained language models; * Resources and tools (e.g. lexicons, identifiers) and their integration into end-user applications; * Multiword terminology extraction; * Adaptation and transfer of annotations and related resources to new languages and domains including low-resource ones. Shared Task We do not have a shared task this year, but a new release of the PARSEME corpus of verbal MWEs is currently underway. We encourage submission of research papers that include analyses of the new edition of the PARSEME data and improvements over the results for PARSEME 2020 shared task as well as SemEval 2022 task 2 on idiomaticity prediction. Submission formats: The workshop invites two types of submissions: * archival submissions that present substantially original research in both long paper format (8 pages + references) and short paper format (4 pages + references). * non-archival submissions of abstracts describing relevant research presented/published elsewhere which will not be included in the MWE proceedings. Paper submission and templates Papers should be submitted via the workshop's START submission page (TBD). Please choose the appropriate submission format (archival/non-archival). Archival papers with existing reviews will also be accepted through the ACL Rolling Review. Submissions must follow the ACL 2023 stylesheet<https://2023.aclweb.org/calls/style_and_formatting/>. Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: February 13, 2023 Notification of acceptance: March 13, 2023 Camera-ready papers due: March 27, 2023 Workshop: May 2 or 6, 2023 All deadlines are at 23:59 UTC-12 (Anywhere on Earth). Organizing Committee Program chairs: Marcos Garcia, Voula Giouli, Lifeng Han, Shiva Taslimipoor Publication chair: Archna Bhatia Publicity chair: Kilian Evang Anti-harassment policy The workshop follows the ACL anti-harassment policy<https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Anti-Harassment_Policy>. Contact For any inquiries regarding the workshop, please send an email to the Organizing Committee at mweworkshop2023(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:mweworkshop2023@googlegroups.com>. -- Archna Bhatia, Ph.D. Research Scientist, Institute for Human & Machine Cognition 15 SE Osceola Ave, Ocala, FL 34471 (352) 387-3061

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Call for Course Proposals: ESSAI - European Summer School in Artificial Intelligence
by Roberto Navigli 23 Dec '22

23 Dec '22

*ESSAI - European Summer School in Artificial Intelligence*24-28 July 2023 Ljubljana, Slovenia **CALL FOR COURSE PROPOSALS** The 1st European Summer School in Artificial Intelligence - ESSAI 2023, 24-28 July, 2023, at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information Science, Ljubljana, Slovenia https://essai.ijs.si/ *IMPORTANT DATES:* 24 Jan 2023: Course Title submission deadline (mandatory) 31 Jan 2023: Final submission 28 Feb 2023: Notification The European Summer School in Artificial Intelligence (ESSAI) is a new annual summer school held under the auspices of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI). The ambition of ESSAI is to become the central meeting place for students and young researchers in Artificial Intelligence to discuss current research and share knowledge. ESSAI will provide an interdisciplinary setting in which courses are offered in all areas of Artificial Intelligence and also from wider scientific, historical, and philosophical perspectives. The format of ESSAI is analogous to the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) which has been running since 1989. Courses will consist of five 90 minute sessions, offered daily (Monday-Friday) in a single week, to allow students to develop in-depth knowledge of a topic. The first ESSAI will be held in Ljubljana, Slovenia in between the 24th and 28th of July 2023. ESSAI 2023 aims to attract around 400 participants from all parts of Europe, as well as from North and Latin America, and Asia. *TOPICS AND FORMAT* ESSAI aims to cover all subdisciplines of AI and the interactions between them. Proposals for courses at ESSAI 2023 are invited in all areas of Artificial Intelligence, including but not limited to the following: * Agent-based and Multi-agent Systems (MAS) * Ethics, Legal Issues, Explainable and Trustworthy AI (XAI) * Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR) * Natural Language Processing (NLP) * Neuro-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning (NeSy) * Planning & Strategic Reasoning (PLAN) * Reinforcement Learning (RL) * Robotics (ROB) * Search & Optimization (SO) * Supervised and Unsupervised Learning (ML) * Vision (VIS) Each course will consist of five 90 minute lectures, offered daily (Monday-Friday) in a single week. While foundational courses will typically focus on one subarea of AI, introductory and advanced courses are encouraged to present a broader perspective on AI, and should be of interest beyond one specific area. *CATEGORIES* Each proposal should fall under one of the following categories. * FOUNDATIONAL COURSES * Foundational courses present the basics of a research area to students with no prior knowledge in that area. They should be at an elementary level, without prerequisites in the course's topic, though possibly assuming a level of general scientific maturity in the relevant discipline. They should enable researchers from related disciplines to become comfortable with the fundamental concepts and techniques of the course topic, thereby contributing to the interdisciplinary nature of our research community. * INTRODUCTORY COURSES * Introductory courses are central to ESSAI's mission. They are intended to introduce a research field to students, young researchers, and other non-specialists, and to foster a sound understanding of its basic methods and techniques. Introductory courses should enable researchers from related disciplines to become competent in the course topic. Introductory courses that are cross-disciplinary may presuppose general knowledge of the relevant disciplines. * ADVANCED COURSES * Advanced courses are targeted primarily at graduate students who wish to acquire an understanding of current research in a field of Artificial Intelligence. *PROPOSAL GUIDELINES* To be considered, course proposals should closely adhere to the following guidelines: Course proposals can be submitted by no more than two lecturers, and courses must be presented by lecturers who submitted the proposal. All lecturers must possess a PhD or equivalent degree by the submission deadline for course proposals. Course proposals should explicitly state the intended course category. Proposals for introductory courses should indicate the intended level, for example, as it relates to standard textbooks and monographs in the area. Proposals for advanced courses should specify the prerequisites in detail. Proposals must be submitted in PDF format via: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=essai2023 and include all of the following: a. Personal information for each proposer: Name, affiliation, contact address, email, homepage (optional) b. General proposal information: Title, category c. Information about the course content: Abstract of up to 150 words Motivation and description (up to two pages) Tentative outline Expected level and prerequisites Appropriate references (e.g. textbooks, monographs, proceedings, surveys) d. Information about the proposer(s) and course: Whether the course will appeal to students outside of the main discipline of the course Proposer(s)’s experience of delivering courses in an intensive one-week interdisciplinary setting Evidence that the proposer(s) is an excellent lecturer To keep participation fees to a minimum, all the instructional and organizational work of ESSAI is performed on a completely voluntary basis. However, the registration fees of organizers and instructors will be waived, and travel and accommodation expenses will be reimbursed up to a level which will be communicated along with the proposal notification. ESSAI can only guarantee reimbursement for at most one course lecturer, and can not guarantee full reimbursement of travel costs for lecturers from outside of Europe. The organizers of ESSAI would appreciate any help in reducing the School's expenses by seeking partial or complete coverage of travel and accommodation expenses from other sources. *SUBMISSION INFORMATION* By Jan 24, 2023: Proposers must submit on EasyChair at least the name(s) of the lecturers(s), the ESSAI area+course level and a short abstract. By Jan 31, 2023: Submission must be completed by uploading a PDF with the actual proposal as detailed above. *SUBMISSION PORTAL* Please submit your proposals to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=essai2023 *ORGANIZING COMMITTEE* Aleksander Sadikov (University of Ljubljana) Vida Groznik (University of Primorska, University of Ljubljana) Sašo Džeroski (Jožef Stefan Institute) Jure Žabkar (University of Ljubljana) *PROGRAM COMMITTEE* Magdalena Ortiz (Umeå University), chair Brian Logan (Utrecht University), associate co-chair Sašo Džeroski (Jozef Stefan Institute Ljubljana), associate co-chair, ACAI chair Natasha Alechina, Utrecht University Kristian Kersting, TU Darmstadt Ioannis Kompatsiaris, CERTH-ITI Roberto Navigli, Sapienza University of Rome Ann Nowé, Vrije Universiteit Brussel Alessandro Saffiotti, University of Örebro Sungho Suh, DFKI *STANDING COMMITTEE * Giuseppe De Giacomo (Sapienza University of Rome), Head and EurAI Board Representative -- ============================================== Roberto Navigli* - Professor* Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering Sapienza University of Rome Via Ariosto, 25 00185 Roma Italy Phone: +39 06 77274109 Home Page: https://www.diag.uniroma1.it/navigli/ Sapienza NLP Group: http://nlp.uniroma1.it Co-founder of Babelscape <https://babelscape.com> ==============================================

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FOIS 2023: 2nd Call for Papers
by Selja Seppälä 22 Dec '22

22 Dec '22

*** Apologies for cross-posting *** FOIS 2023: 2nd Call for Papers ============================== 13th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS 2023), July 17-20, 2023 (Sherbrooke, QC, Canada) and Sept 18-20, 2023 (Online) http://fois2023.griis.ca We are happy to announce three exciting keynote speakers for FOIS 2023: - Deborah McGuinness, Tetherless World Senior Constellation Chair and Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA - John Heil, Professor of Philosophy, Washington University, USA and Durham University, UK - Michael Gruninger, Professor of Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada More information about our keynotes speakers: https://fois2023.griis.ca/keynote-speakers/ Definition and scope ==================== The FOIS conference is a meeting point for all researchers with an interest in formal ontology. Formal ontology is the systematic study of the types of entities and relations making up the domains of interest represented in modern information systems. The conference encourages submission of high quality, not previously published results on both theoretical issues and practical advancements. FOIS 2023 will have distinct tracks for foundational issues, ontology applications and methods, and domain ontologies. FOIS aims to be a nexus of interdisciplinary research and communication for researchers from many domains engaging with formal ontology. Common application areas include conceptual modeling, database design, knowledge engineering and management, software engineering, organizational modeling, artificial intelligence, robotics, computational linguistics, the life sciences, bioinformatics and scientific research in general, geographic information science, information retrieval, library and information science, as well as the Semantic Web. FOIS is the flagship conference of the International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA: http://iaoa.org/), which is a non-profit organization promoting interdisciplinary research and international collaboration in formal ontology. Important dates =============== - Paper submission deadline: 31 January 2023 - Author rebuttal period: March 24-31, 2023 (tentative) - Notifications: April 10, 2023 (tentative) - Camera-ready papers: May 1, 2023 - Onsite conference: July 17-20, 2023 - Virtual conference: September 18-20, 2023 The submission deadline for workshops will be after the notifications to allow authors to submit a revised version of rejected papers to any of the conference workshops if the paper topics are appropriate for this workshop. Location ======== FOIS 2023 will consist of a physical meeting and a virtual meeting: An in-person only meeting in Sherbrooke, Quebec from July 17 to 20, 2023 that will be very much like a traditional conference with keynotes, regular talks, workshops and tutorials and plenty of social and networking opportunities. This part will not have a remote participation option, but we plan on recording selected talks (e.g. keynotes). The main conference will be from July 17 to 19 and workshops and tutorials will be held mostly on July 20. This will be followed by an online part to be held from September 18 to 20, 2023 that offers an opportunity for presentation and discussion of additional papers that were not presented at the physical meeting in Sherbrooke. To plan for this two-part event, authors must at the time of submission indicate their preference and constraints for presenting either on site in Sherbrooke or virtually. Acceptance will be either for in-person presentation or for online presentation, at which time authors can no longer change the modality. Since the numbers of in-person and online presentations are limited, we encourage authors to be as flexible as possible to maximize your chance of paper acceptance. More details are provided in the Submission Instructions. Submissions =========== FOIS 2023 seeks three types of full-length (14 pages) high-quality papers on a wide range of topics: Foundational papers address content-related ontological issues, their formal representation, and their relevance to some aspect of information systems. Application and Methods papers address novel systems, methods, and tools related to building, evaluating, or using ontologies, emphasizing the impact of ontology contents. Domain ontology papers describe a novel ontology for a specific realm of interest, clarifying ontological choices against requirements and foundational theory, and showing ontology use. Please refer to the submission instructions for more details. As usual, the FOIS proceedings will be published by IOS Press. The conference will also offer workshops and tutorials related to formal ontologies. See the separate call for workshops and tutorials for more information. Topics of interest ================== Areas of particular interest to FOIS include the following: - Foundational Issues - Kinds of entities: particulars/universals, continuants/occurrents, abstracta/concreta, dependent entities/independent entities, natural objects/artifacts, events/processes - Formal relations: parthood, identity, connection, dependence, constitution, causality, subsumption, instantiation - Vagueness and granularity - Space, time, and change - Methodological issues - Top-level vs. domain-specific ontologies - Role of reference ontologies - Ontology similarity, integration, alignment, matching and entity reconciliation - Ontology modularity, patterns, and contextuality - Ontology evaluation, quality, reuse, adaptation, and evolution - Ontology compliance with FAIR principles - Formal comparison among ontologies - Relationship between conceptual modeling and ontologies - Relationship with cognition, language, semantics, and context - Connections between knowledge graphs and ontologies - Methodological issues in the applications of ontologies - Social issues, such as trust or bias, with respect to ontologies - Applications - Technical applications of ontologies, such as - Semantic Web - Other areas of AI (Machine Learning, Explainable AI, Rules) - Qualitative modeling - Systems applications of ontologies, such as - Ontology-driven information systems design - Ontology-based data access - Knowledge management - Information retrieval - Computational linguistics - Metadata management - Domain applications of ontologies, such as - Ontologies for business modeling - Ontologies for particular scientific disciplines (biology, chemistry, geography, physics, geoscience, cognitive sciences, linguistics, etc.) - Ontologies for engineering: shape, form and function, artifacts, manufacturing, design, architecture, etc. - Ontologies for the humanities: arts, cultural studies, history, literature, philosophy, etc. - Ontologies for the social sciences: economics, law, political science, anthropology, archeology, etc. - Ontologies for Open Science and dataset sharing - Domain-specific ontologies - Ontology of physical reality (matter, space, time, motion, etc.) - Ontology of biological reality (organisms, genes, proteins, cells, etc.) - Ontology of mental reality and agency (beliefs, intentions, emotions, perceptions, cognition, etc.) - Ontology of artifacts, functions, capacities and roles - Ontology of social reality (institutions, organizations, norms, social relationships, artistic expressions, etc.) Conference Organization ======================= General Chair: Antony Galton, University of Exeter, UK PC Chairs: Nathalie Aussenac-Gilles, IRIT-CNRS Toulouse, France Torsten Hahmann, University of Maine, USA Local Organization Chair: Jean-François Ethier, University of Sherbrooke, Canada Online Chair: Cassia Trojahn, IRIT Université Toulouse 2, France Workshop and Tutorial Chairs: Megan Katsumi, University of Toronto, Canada Emilio Sanfilippo, ISTC-CNR, Trento, Italy Early Career Chairs: Antoine Zimmermann, École des Mines de Saint-Étienne (EMSE), France Guendalina Righetti, Free University Bozen/Bolzano, Italy Demo & Showcase Chairs: Sergio de Cesare, University of Westminster, UK Tiago Prince Sales, University of Twente, Netherlands Publicity Chairs: Lucia Gomez Alvarez, TU Dresden, Germany Selja Seppälä, University College Cork, Ireland Proceedings Chair: Maria Hedblom, Jönköping University, Sweden Program committee: https://fois2023.griis.ca/conference-organization/

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PhD position on neural and cognitive basis of computational models of language at the University of Sheffield (UK)
by Aline Villavicencio 22 Dec '22

22 Dec '22

We are inviting applications for one fully funded PhD position (covering UK home tuition fees and stipend) in the Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield (UK). Please forward this announcement to potentially interested candidates. The deadline is January 25, 2023, with a starting date of as early as possible in 2023 (from February on). More details below and on this link <https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/neural-and-cognitive-basis-of-computa…>. About the Project: neural and cognitive basis of computational models of language Advances in the design of computational models that learn directly from data has led to much progress in areas like natural language processing (NLP). We invite applications for a fully-funded PhD studentship on human- inspired computational models of language. This multidisciplinary project, at the intersection of machine learning, NLP and computational neuroscience, aims to develop computational models of language processing inspired by the neural and biological basis of human language. Candidate requirements: Applicants will need to meet general entry requirements, and ideally will have a Bachelor’s degree (or above) in Computer Science, Neuroscience, Physics, Cognitive Science, Psychology or related discipline (preferably a First Class or the equivalent from an overseas university). Experience on statistical machine learning, deep learning, or computational statistics, as well as programming experience would be desirable. Additional English language requirements can be found here: <https://www.findaphd.com/common/clickCount.aspx?theid=153809&type=184&DID=1…>https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/postgraduate/english-language <https://www.findaphd.com/common/clickCount.aspx?theid=153809&type=184&DID=1…>. How to apply Applications for the PhD studentship must be made directly to the University of Sheffield using the Postgraduate Online Application Form. Make sure you name Aline Villavicencio as proposed supervisor. Information on what documents are required and a link to the application form can be found here - <https://www.findaphd.com/common/clickCount.aspx?theid=153809&type=184&DID=1…>https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/postgraduate/phd/apply/applying <https://www.findaphd.com/common/clickCount.aspx?theid=153809&type=184&DID=1…> Funding Notes This position is funded by a studentship from the Department of Computer Science, covering the UK home tuition fee and providing a stipend at the standard UKRI rate. International students are eligible to apply if they can self-fund the difference between the home and overseas fee. More details on this link <https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/neural-and-cognitive-basis-of-computa…> ---------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------- Prof. Aline Villavicencio Chair in Natural Language Processing Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield https://sites.google.com/view/alinev https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/dcs/people/academic/aline-villavicencio

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NLP Scientific Officer Job opportunity at EC JRC - Ispra, Italy
by DE LONGUEVILLE Bertrand 22 Dec '22

22 Dec '22

Dear List, Please take good note of the Job Opportunity at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (see details blow). Please feel free to forward it to any potentially interested member of your networks. I enjoy the opportunity to whish happy Holidays season to all. Best Regards, Bertrand DE LONGUEVILLE, PhD Head of the Text Mining and Analysis Competence Centre (TMACC) [1601448337241] European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC) Directorate T:Digital Transformation and Data<https://intracomm.ec.testa.eu/SYSPER2/org/vieworganisationjobs_jd.do?viewOb…> Unit T5 Text and Data Mining [cid:image002.jpg@01D91626.1637BC20] The European Commission Text Mining and Analysis Competence Centre (TMACC - https://knowledge4policy.ec.europa.eu/text-mining/ ), hosted by the Joint Research Centre (JRC), is looking for a Machine Learning expert to reinforce our Natural Language Processing team. The Unit's day-to-day work involves processing vast amounts of textual data, including legal acts, political speeches, discussion fora, news and social media postings, to the benefit Science-for-Policy projects within the EU Institutions. The job is based in Ispra, Italy. An ideal candidate will have a PhD or a minimum of 3 years of professional experience after university, an academic background in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence or similar, and hands-on experience in developing Text Mining applications. Contract duration: 36 months initial contract with possible renewals up to maximum 6 years. The basic monthly salary for Function Group IV (depending on years of experience): 3 555,98 - 6 593,66€. In addition to the basic salary, the candidate may be eligible for various allowances (including expatriation and household allowances). For further information, see: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:52020XC1211(0… The JRC has short-term accommodation facilities for newcomers, nearby the its green campus situated close to Lago Maggiore. The JRC has childcare facilities for children under 4 years old. Children above 4 years can attend the European School of Varese (https://www.eurscva.eu/en/home/ ), for which transport is organised from the surrounding areas. To apply: 1. Create a profile on one of these two application portals: a. EPSO Permanent CAST https://epso.europa.eu/en/documents/2240 OR b. JRC specialised call for researchers https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/working-us/jobs-jrc/temporary-po… 2. Once you have created your profile via one of the above portals, create your application via: https://recruitment.jrc.ec.europa.eu/?type=AX The available position appears among the open positions with the following identifiers: 2022-IPR-I3-FGIV-022149 Title: FG IV – IT Project Officer – NLP Scientific Research https://recruitment.jrc.ec.europa.eu/showprj.php?type=A&id=2439&target= !! Deadline: 09/01/2023 !!

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CfP: Semantic Methods for Events and Stories (SEMMES 2023)
by Pasquale Lisena 22 Dec '22

22 Dec '22

*************** Semantic Methods for Events and Stories (SEMMES 2023) – Call for Papers *************** Website: https://anr-kflow.github.io/semmes/ Workshop co-located with the Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC) Submission deadline: March 9th, 2023 Scope *************** An important part of human history and knowledge is made of events, which can be aggregated and connected to create stories, be they real or fictional. These events as well as the stories created from them can typically be inherently complex, reflect societal or political stances and be perceived differently across the world population. The Semantic Web offers technologies and methods to represent these events and stories, as well as to interpret the knowledge encoded into graphs and use it for different applications, spanning from narrative understanding and generation to fact-checking. The aim of our workshop on Semantic Methods for Events and Stories (SEMMES) is to offer an opportunity to discuss the challenges related to dealing with events and stories, and how we can use semantic methods to tackle them. We welcome approaches which combine data, methods and technologies coming from the Semantic Web with methods from other fields, including machine learning, narratology or information extraction. This workshop wants to bring together researchers working on complementary topics, in order to foster collaboration and sharing of expertise in the context of events and stories. Topics *************** Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Ontologies and data models for representing events, event relations, and narratives; - Event extraction, co-reference and linking; - Event Relation extraction and linking (e.g. temporal, causal, modal relationships); - Fake events detection and event verification; - Event-centric question answering; - Event information visualisation; - Event-centric knowledge graphs and vocabularies; - Completion of event-centric knowledge graphs and reasoning; - Event summarisation; - Automatic narrative understanding and generation; - Storytelling Applications/Demos. Submission Guidelines *************** We welcome the following types of contributions. - Long papers (10-15 pages including references) - Short papers (5-9 pages including references) We welcome any types of research, resource and application papers, as well as (short only) demonstration submissions. Submissions must be written in English and formatted using the template for submissions to CEUR Workshop Proceedings (https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-submissions-to-ceur-w…) All papers and abstracts have to be submitted electronically via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=semmes2023. Each accepted paper needs to be presented by one of the authors, who agrees to register and participate in SEMMES. Important Dates *************** - Submission deadline: March 9th, 2023 - Notifications: April 13th, 2023 - Camera-ready version: April 20th, 2023 - Workshop day: May 28th or 29th, 2023 (half-day, TBA) All deadlines are 23:59 anywhere on earth (UTC-12). Proceedings *************** The complete set of papers will be published with the CEUR Workshop Proceedings (http://CEUR-WS.org), listed by the DBLP. -- Pasquale Lisena EURECOM, Campus SophiaTech 450 route des Chappes, 06410 Biot, France e-mail: pasquale.lisena(a)eurecom.fr site: http://pasqlisena.github.io/

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Jobs: Assistant Professors in AI/CL/NLP at the University of Groningen
by Bisazza, A. 22 Dec '22

22 Dec '22

[Reminder: Application deadline 10 January 2023] The GroNLP group is further expanding and we are looking for enthusiastic assistant professors in any (or related to) the areas of speech and language technology, artificial intelligence, data science, or computational social science. Follow the link for more information! https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-0… Please contact prof. Johan Bos <johan.bos(a)rug.nl> to get more information about these positions! Best regards, -- Arianna Bisazza Assistant Professor University of Groningen http://www.cs.rug.nl/~bisazza

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3rd CfP: 10th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-10)
by Marc Kupietz 22 Dec '22

22 Dec '22

3rd call for papers: ICLC-10 The Leibniz Institute for the German Language in Mannheim is pleased to announce the 10th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-10). The conference will take place in Mannheim, Germany, from 18 to 21 July 2023. The aim of the ICLC conference series, running since 1998, is to encourage fine-grained cross-linguistic research comprising two or more languages from a broad range of theoretical and methodological perspectives. ICLC brings together researchers from different linguistic subfields (and neighboring disciplines) to continue the (interdisciplinary) dialog on comparing languages, to foster the development of an international community, to discuss the state of the art, and to advance possible new areas of cross-linguistic research. Contrastive Linguistics as a linguistic subfield has had a checkered history, but comparative and contrastive work has always been and continues to be an important part of linguistic research. New impulses for comparative and contrastive work include the increasing availability of multilingual corpora or comparative work drawing on naturalistic interaction data. At this anniversary edition of ICLC, we want to provide a stage for the presentation of such new work, and reflect the past, current and future developments of contrastive research in linguistics. We invite contributions addressing (meta)theoretical, methodological or empirical issues, such as (but not limited to) the following: * Comparison of phenomena in two or more languages addressing topics from any area and level of linguistic analysis, including lexicon, phonetics and phonology, morphology, syntax and morphosyntax, semantics, pragmatics as well as matters such as register and socio-cultural context * The state of the art and recent advances in contrastive linguistic research * The aims, objectives and scope of contrastive linguistic research * The status of contrastive research within linguistic studies and its relationship with neighbouring or complementary approaches such as historical, typological, micro-variationist, intercultural and contact linguistics * The link between contrastive studies and fields of applied linguistics such as foreign language teaching and learning, translation studies and corpus linguistics * Potentials and limits of theoretical frameworks in relation to contrastive analysis (e.g., functional, cognitive, interactional, generative, constructional approaches) * Theoretical and theoretical-methodological issues (comparability, incommensurability, the socio-cultural context, tertia comparationis, language universals) * Empirical and data-related methodological issues (parallel / translation corpora, comparable corpora, learner corpora, multimodal corpora, naturalistic data of face-to-face interaction, psycho- and neurolinguistic experiments, surveys) * The significance of the contrastive perspective for language-specific description on the one hand and for cross-linguistic generalizations and the development of linguistic theory on the other hand Some of these issues will be addressed by five invited keynote speakers. Keynote speakers are: * Artemis Alexiadou (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Leibniz-Centre for General Linguistics, Germany) * Jenny Audring (Leiden University, The Netherlands) * Elwys De Stefani (University of Heidelberg, Germany, and KU Leuven, Belgium) * Martin Haspelmath (Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Germany) * Hilde Hasselgård (University of Oslo, Norway) The conference will include a poster session. The conference language will be English. Following the conference, all participants will be offered the possibility to submit their contribution for publication in a volume of selected conference papers. Submission of AbstractsWe invite submissions for 20-minute oral presentations (plus 10 minutes for discussion) or poster presentations. Abstracts should formulate a clear research question and include a description of the methods, results and conclusions. All submissions will be reviewed anonymously by at least two reviewers. One person may submit only one (oral or poster) paper as the first author. The number of co-authored submissions is not limited. However, presenting more than one paper (oral or poster) at the conference by a single person should be avoided. All submissions must be in English, fully anonymous, and no longer than one page (12 point Times New Roman), with up to one additional page for data, figures and references. Abstracts must be submitted via the EasyChair system through the following submission web page https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iclc10 Important Dates * 16.01.2023: Deadline for abstract submission * 31.03.2023: Notification of acceptance * 14.04.2023: Confirmation of participation * 18.07.2023: Arrival, Registration, Get-together * 19.-21.07.2023: Conference Conference Web Site https://iclc10.ids-mannheim.de Organizing CommitteeBeata Trawinski (Chair) Marc Kupietz Kristel Proost Jörg Zinken

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