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2 researcher positions in NLP in Göttingen, Germany (1 PhD, 1 PostDoc)
by Beinborn, Lisa 05 Feb '24

05 Feb '24

I am looking for two researchers to join my new group at the faculty of computer science at the University of Göttingen. The group is part of the Campus Institute Data Science (CIDAS). Our research is interdisciplinary at its core and we cooperate closely with colleagues from other faculties (e.g., psychology, humanities). We take a human-centered perspective on natural language processing research and focus on the following topics: * the cognitive plausibility, interpretability, and generalization capabilities of language processing models * cross-lingual transfer and typological diversity in multilingual models * exploring how language processing differences between humans and computers can guide the development of more efficient models * language technology for education (e.g., readability and simplification, exercise generation, learner modeling) The full descriptions can be found here: PostDoc: https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/644546.html?&details=74388 Phd: https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/644546.html?&details=74387 Please forward this info to potential candidates. Don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions about the positions. Best regards, Lisa Beinborn

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[CFP] ACL 2024 Workshop on Knowledge Graphs and LLMs (KaLLM)
by russa biswas 05 Feb '24

05 Feb '24

Dear colleagues, We would like to invite you to submit the unpublished results of your research on Knowledge Graphs and Large Language Models to: The 1st Workshop on Knowledge Graphs and Large Language Models (KaLLM), to be held on August 15, 2024, co-located with ACL 2024, Bangkok, Thailand. First Call for Participation Submission Deadline: May 10, 2024 at 23:59, UTC -12h, AoE Website: https://kallmworkshop.github.io/kallm2024/ Contact email: kallmworkshop2024(a)googlegroups.com The workshop intends to provide a platform for researchers, practitioners, and industry professionals to explore the synergies between LLMs and KGs. We aim to provide a space for the LLM community and the community of KG researchers to interact and explore how these two communities could collaborate and support one another. Important Dates Submission Starts: Feb 05, 2024 Submission Deadline: May 10, 2024 Author Notifications: June 17, 2024 Camera-Ready Deadline: July 1, 2024 Workshop Date: August 15, 2024 Submission Guidelines: Papers must be submitted in PDF format using the official ACL template. More details are available on the website. Scope of the workshop: KaLLM invites quality research contributions as short or long papers and resource papers. All submissions will undergo a double-blind review process, and accepted submissions will be presented at the workshop. The submissions should focus on the interaction between LLMs and KGs in the context of NLP. The workshop will cover a diverse range of topics related to the integration of LLMs and KGs, including but not limited to: - Knowledge-enhanced language generation - KG-based question answering using LLMs - Fact validation and bias mitigation - KG creation and completion using LLMs - Privacy considerations in LLM-KG integration - Interpretability and explainability - Cross-domain applications - KG-based text summarisation with LLMs - Ethical implications of LLM-KG technologies - Multimodality of KGs and LLMs - Multilingual LLMs for KGs and vice-versa We look forward to receiving your submissions and having your valuable contribution to the success of the workshop. If you have any questions or require further information, please do not hesitate to contact us at kallmworkshop2024(a)googlegroups.com or visit https://kallmworkshop.github.io/kallm2024/. Thank you and best regards, Russa Biswas on behalf of Workshop Organisers Postdoctoral Researcher Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany

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KONVENS 2024: First Call for Papers
by Benjamin Roth 05 Feb '24

05 Feb '24

KONVENS 2024: First Call for Papers We warmly welcome the submission of papers for KONVENS 2024, scheduled from September 9 to 13, 2024, at the University of Vienna, Austria. In addition to its technical program, KONVENS will facilitate dynamic interactions among academic researchers and industry peers, offering workshops, tutorials, shared tasks, and networking events. PAPER SUBMISSION INFORMATION We invite submissions of original and unpublished works in the fields of research, development, applications, and evaluation, encompassing all aspects of natural language processing, from fundamental inquiries to the practical implementation of natural language resources, components, and systems. We particularly encourage submissions of NLP approaches dedicated to the German language, including survey papers that provide insights into the current state of the art in German language and speech processing. We welcome contributions from both academic and industry professionals. We welcome the following types of paper submissions: * Long papers (8 pages plus references and appendix), describing original research with substantial new results. * Short papers (4 pages plus references and appendix), including small focused contributions, work in progress, as well as descriptions of projects, systems and resources. Accepted papers will be presented orally or as posters as determined by the program chairs. The decisions will be based on the nature rather than the quality of the work. The conference language is English. Only contributions written in English will be accepted. Each submission must include a mandatory discussion of Ethical Considerations as well as a section on Limitations (both sections do not count towards the page limit). Papers without these sections will be desk-rejected. The review process will be double-blind. Submissions must be anonymized accordingly. The conference proceedings are planned to be published via the ACL Anthology. Papers must be formatted in accordance with the ACL style sheets<https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files>. We strongly encourage authors to use LaTeX in preparing their document. Papers must be submitted electronically. The submission link will be provided soon. IMPORTANT DATES * April 30th, 2024: Paper submission due (all submission types) * June 30th, 2024: Notification of acceptance * July 15th, 2024: Camera-ready papers due * September, 9th-13th, 2023: KONVENS Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards the KONVENS-2024 organization team konvens-2024(a)googlegroups.com https://konvens-2024.univie.ac.at/

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36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering: Last Call for Workshop Papers
by Announce 05 Feb '24

05 Feb '24

*** Last Call for Workshop 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: 26th February, 2024 AoE ***) CAiSE is a well-established, highly visible conference series on Advanced Information Systems (IS) Engineering. It covers all relevant topics in the area, including methodologies and approaches for IS engineering, innovative platforms, architectures and technologies, and engineering of specific kinds of IS. CAiSE conferences also have the tradition of hosting workshops in related fields. Workshops are intended to focus on particular topics and provide ample room for discussions of new ideas and developments. CAiSE'24, the 36th edition of the CAiSE series, will host the following workshops. For more information for each workshop please visit the workshops' web sites. CAiSE'24 WORKSHOPS • 3rd International Workshop on Agile Methods for Information Systems Engineering (Agil-ISE) https://agilise.github.io/2024/index.html • International Workshop on Blockchain for Information Systems (BC4IS24) and Blockchain for Trusted Data Sharing (B4TDS) https://pros.unicam.it/bc4isb4tds/ • 2nd International Workshop on Hybrid Artificial Intelligence and Enterprise Modelling for Intelligent Information Systems (HybridAIMS) https://hybridaims.com/ • 2nd Workshop on Knowledge Graphs for Semantics-driven Systems Engineering https://www.omilab.org/activities/events/caise2024_kg4sdse/ • 16th International Workshop on Enterprise & Organizational Modeling and Simulation (EOMAS 2024) https://eomas2024.fel.cvut.cz/ • Digital Transformation with Business Process Mining (DigPro2024) https://digpro.iiita.ac.in/ IMPORTANT DATES • Paper Submission Deadline: 26th February, 2024 (AoE) • Notification of Acceptance: 27th March, 2024 • Camera-ready Deadline: 5th April, 2024 • Author Registration Deadline: 5th April, 2024 WORKSHOP CHAIRS • João Paulo A. Almeida, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil • Claudio di Ciccio, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy • Christos Kalloniatis, University of the Aegean, Greece

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CFP: DETESTS-Dis at IberLEF 2024
by Simona Frenda 05 Feb '24

05 Feb '24

Please consider contributing and/or forwarding to appropriate colleagues and groups. *******We apologize for the multiple copies of this e-mail****** -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Participation -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DETESTS-Dis IberLEF 2024 Task: DETESTS-Dis (DETEction and classification of racial Stereotypes in Spanish – Learning with Disagreement) This task will take part of IberLEF 2024 <https://sites.google.com/view/iberlef-2024/home?authuser=0>, the 6th Workshop on Iberian Languages Evaluation Forum at the SEPLN 2024 Conference, which will be held in Valladolid, Spain, on September 24th. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here, we introduce the second edition of the DETESTS task (Ariza-Casabona, 2022 <http://journal.sepln.org/sepln/ojs/ojs/index.php/pln/article/view/6442>), which was first presented at IberLEF 2022. The aim of the new edition, DETESTS-Dis, is to detect and classify explicit and implicit stereotypes in texts from social media and comments on news articles, incorporating learning with disagreement techniques. Next, a description of both subtasks is provided: - Subtask 1, Stereotype Identification: This is a binary classification task the aim of which is to determine whether a comment or sentence contains at least one stereotype or none, considering the full distribution of labels provided by the annotators. This subtask follows the SemEval 2021 Task 12 (Uma et al., 2021 <https://aclanthology.org/2021.semeval-1.41/>) proposal about learning with disagreement, in which the authors state that there does not necessarily exist a single gold label for every sample in the dataset. This fact is particularly evident when multiple contradictory annotations arise at the data labeling stage due to “debatable, subjective, or linguistic ambiguity”. The actual gold label of this subtask is left as a proxy to determine the subset of comments that will be evaluated in the posterior subtask. - Subtask 2 (Optional), Implicitness Identification: This subtask introduces a novel binary classification problem to determine whether the stereotype is manifested or latent within the text, that is, whether the stereotype is implicit or explicit. The added difficulty in this case is that implicit stereotypes are not directly expressed in the text, and a process of inference must be applied by the annotators. Moreover, there are different strategies in which an implicit stereotype can be coded, such as metaphors, irony and other figures of speech, evaluations of the in-group, and the overgeneralization of a social group from features of some of its members. This subtask will be presented as a hierarchical binary classification problem. Although we recommend participating in both subtasks, participants are allowed to participate just in one of them (e.g., subtask 1). Teams will be allowed (and encouraged) to submit multiple runs (max. 5). To avoid any conflict with the sources of the comments regarding their intellectual property rights (IPR), the data will be sent privately to each participant who is interested in the task. The corpus will only be made available for research purposes. Important dates (All deadlines are 11:59 PM UTC-12:00): Training dataset release: March 04, 2024 Test dataset release: April 15, 2024 Systems results: April 29, 2024 Results notification: May 13, 2024 Working papers submission: June 3, 2024 Working papers (peer-)reviewed: June 17, 2024 Camera-ready versions: July 4, 2024 Workshop: September 24, 2024 Task organizers: - Mariona Taulé (Universitat de Barcelona, UB) - Wolfgang Schmeisser (Universitat de Barcelona, UB) - Alejandro Ariza (Universitat de Barcelona, UB) - Pol Pastells (Universitat de Barcelona, UB) - Mireia Farrús (Universitat de Barcelona, UB) - Simona Frenda (Università degli Studi di Torino, UniTo) - Paolo Rosso (Universitat Politècnica de València, UPV) Contact: Contact the organizers by writing to: detests.iberlef(a)gmail.com Web page: https://detests-dis.github.io/ We invite participants to join our Google Groups <https://groups.google.com/u/1/g/detests-dis> to be kept up to date with the latest news related to the task.

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Multiple Open Rank Faculty Positions in Speech/NLP
by Thamar Solorio 05 Feb '24

05 Feb '24

Our NLP department is expected to grow to 20 full-time faculty, and we are now seeking applications for new faculty appointments. We invite candidates at all levels to apply. Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) is the world’s first AI university. It is a graduate-level research-oriented university with 200 Master’s students and 85 PhD students (from over 40 nationalities; 31% female), and over 60 world-leading faculty members. It is ranked 17th in the world for AI, and is one of only 8 universities in the world to be ranked in the top-30 for all of CV, ML, and NLP ( csrankings.org). The university started with three departments (machine learning, computer vision, and natural language processing), and has recently launched two new departments (robotics and computer science). The NLP department undertakes rigorous, high-impact, and original research. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, speech processing, spoken language understanding and dialog, large language models and their responsible applications, cognitive computational linguistics, multilingual and multimodal models, countering misinformation and fake news, and the synergies between NLP and AI in general, for example, embodied cognition. Applicants must have a PhD in Speech/Natural Language Processing or in a closely related area prior to the start of the appointment, and should have demonstrated excellence in conducting innovative and impactful research, and an interest in mentoring graduate students. MBZUAI offers an attractive remuneration package and generous start-up funds to stimulate cutting edge research and support faculty with building strong research programs. Interested applicants must submit their materials (cover letter, Curriculum Vitae, research statement, teaching statement, and contact information for three references) via this link: http://apply.interfolio.com/137880 We strongly encourage early application for appointment during 2024. Applications will be accepted and reviewed on a rolling basis. For more information about MBZUAI, see https://mbzuai.ac.ae/

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Regarding Reviewing the paper for upcoming Confernece AICTC 2024
by Dr. Rituraj Soni 05 Feb '24

05 Feb '24

Dear Sir/Mam Greetings of the day. We invite you to review the https://www.aictc.in/ Springer 5th International Conference on Advances in Information Communication Technology & Computing from 29th to 30th April - 2024. If you are interested please fill the form. We will provide you with a certificate for the same. The review will be on the CMT platform https://forms.gle/2QtdZCWCQ3uzEU346 Anticipating your positive response for contributing in academia. ------------------- Best Regards Dr.Rituraj Soni Assistant Professor, Senior Member IEEE Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Room No. F-50, C Wing, Engineering College Bikaner Karni Industrial Area, Pugal Road, Bikaner, Rajasthan 9414059125, https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=TZfsmQ0AAAAJ&hl=en https://sites.google.com/view/riturajson <https://sites.google.com/view/riturajsoni/home?authuser=0>i

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Shared task on explainable semantic change detection (AXOLOTL) at the LChange'24 workshop
by Andrey Kutuzov 05 Feb '24

05 Feb '24

Dear all, The 5th International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change (https://www.changeiskey.org/event/2024-acl-lchange/, collocated with ACL'24) is hosting a shared task on _explainable semantic change modeling_: AXOLOTL-24. AXOLOTL-24 stands for "Ascertain and eXplain Overhauls of the Lexicon Over Time at LChange'24" and you are welcome to participate! https://github.com/ltgoslo/axolotl24_shared_task will serve as the main information hub for the shared task. Example of the datasets, processing and evaluation scripts, etc will appear in this Github repository in due time according to the timeline below. If you are interested in AXOLOTL-24, please also join our Google Group: https://groups.google.com/g/axolotl-24/ ======== Timeline ======== - February 1 2024 - training data published - March 25 2024 - test data published - April 9 2024 - deadline for submission of the systems’ predictions - April 10 2024 - AXOLOTL'24 test results published - May 10 2024 - paper submission deadline (same procedure as with other LChange'24 papers) ============ Introduction ============ This shared task builds on the existing tradition of competitions in diachronic semantic change detection, like (Schlechtweg et al 2020) and many others. However, this time we focus on explaining diachronic semantic changes, even if on a very basic level (for now). In particular, we challenge the participants to implement a semantic change modeling system which, given two historical corpora and a sense inventory corresponding to one of the periods, is able to: 1. Find the target word usages associated with new, gained senses 2. Describe these senses in a way that facilitates understanding and lexicographical research. Thus, the task is to identify which exact senses were gained between two time periods and generate reasonable descriptions (definitions) of these senses. To be able to use high-quality gold data, we use a simplified setup where instead of asking the participants to retrieve and analyze all target word usages in raw corpora, we provide two manually checked sets of usage examples (still of considerable size). Below, we still call them "corpora", for clarity. The shared task will feature data from Finnish and Russian languages, but you do not have to speak these languages to participate. There will also be a surprise language of lesser size at the test stage. For all these languages, we will use gold, manually annotated data to evaluate the predictions of the participant systems. The shared task will consist of two subtasks. The participants are welcome to choose one of them or both, at their will. =============================== Subtask 1. Bridging diachronic word uses and a synchronic dictionary =============================== The participants are offered two corpora, belonging to different time periods. In addition to this, they are provided with a set of dictionary entries (sense inventories) for the target words describing their senses in the first time period (accompanied by definitions). The task is to find all usages of the target words belonging to newly gained senses, i.e., senses not covered by the provided sense inventory. The assumption is that sense definitions from the dictionary, even though not always covering all word senses even from the same time period, may still be a useful additional source of information. The goal is to map word usages to the dictionary senses. This is very similar to Word Sense Disambiguation, with the difference being that the usages corresponding to word senses absent from the dictionary should be grouped into novel sense clusters (this is more similar to Word Sense Induction). In a way, this subtask is a mixture of WSD and WSI. - Inputs: a set of target words, two sets of usages for each target word (a usage is a text fragment containing a target word); target word dictionary entries with sense ids for the first of two time periods. - Predictions: sense id for every word usage of the second time period (either re-using an id from the provided dictionary or adding a novel one). - Metrics: Adjusted Rand Index (ARI) for all usages and macro-F1 for usages with existing senses - Ground truth: manually annotated sense inventories ============================== Subtask 2. Definition generation for novel word senses ============================== This subtask challenges the participants to submit good descriptions/definitions for the novel senses they found in subtask 1. The definitions can be generated from scratch or retrieved from existing ontologies: this is completely up to the participants. The organizers will map the predicted definitions to the gold standard ones and evaluate their quality with the standard NLG metrics. - Inputs: Same as subtask 1 - Predictions: Same as subtask 1 plus a dictionary-like definition for every novel sense of the target word (a sense not present in the dictionary entry from the first time period) - Metrics: BLEU/ROUGE and BERTScore. The final score is averaged across target words - Ground truth: definitions from our gold standard sense inventories ========== Organizers ========== - Mariia Fedorova (University of Oslo) - Andrey Kutuzov (University of Oslo) - Timothee Mickus (University of Helsinki) - Niko Partanen (University of Helsinki) - Janine Siewert (University of Helsinki) ========== References ========== 1. Diachronic word embeddings and semantic shifts: a survey (Kutuzov et al., COLING 2018) 2. SemEval-2020 Task 1: Unsupervised Lexical Semantic Change Detection (Schlechtweg et al., SemEval 2020) 3. Computational approaches to semantic change (Tahmasebi et al., LangSci Press 2021) 4. Semeval-2022 Task 1: CODWOE – Comparing Dictionaries and Word Embeddings (Mickus et al., SemEval 2022) 5. Interpretable Word Sense Representations via Definition Generation: The Case of Semantic Change Analysis (Giulianelli et al., ACL 2023) -- Andrey Language Technology Group (LTG) University of Oslo

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[ECAI-2024] Deadline for Tutorial Proposals approaching
by luis.magdalena＠gmail.com 03 Feb '24

03 Feb '24

The 27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence will be held in the beautiful city of Santiago de Compostela during 19-24 October 2024. We invite proposals for tutorials to be held during the first two days of the conference, alongside workshops and the doctoral consortium. We recently received 48 workshop proposals, so expect a very lively pre-conference programme. The deadline is fast approaching: Thursday, 15 February 2024. Full details here: https://www.ecai2024.eu/calls/tutorials Check the website for further opportunities to participate: submitting a paper to either the main conference or PAIS, submitting a demo paper, or taking part in the doctoral consortium. -- Luis Magdalena Publicity Chair of the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-2024)

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Final Call for NTCIR-18 Task Proposals - Deadline Approaching!
by CHUNG-CHI CHEN 03 Feb '24

03 Feb '24

Dear colleagues, As we edge closer to the deadline, this is the last call for proposals for the NTCIR-18 conference. If you have not yet submitted your task proposal, now is the time to take action. NTCIR (NII Testbeds and Community for Information Access Research) continues its tradition of fostering cutting-edge research in information access, focusing on East Asian languages and English. Following the success of the previous seventeen conferences, we are excited to see what novel and impactful tasks you propose for NTCIR-18. We invite proposals that address significant research questions, utilize authentic data, and aim at practical applications with real-world impact. Your task should also consider the intricacies of evaluating information access technology, including the need for extensive assessments, privacy concerns with proprietary data, and the feasibility of live testing. Please note that the submission deadline is fast approaching: Task Proposal Submission Deadline: Feb 9, 2024 (Anywhere on Earth) Do not miss this final chance to be part of NTCIR-18. Should you have any questions or require further information, please do not hesitate to contact us. Best regards, NTCIR-18 Program Committee Co-Chairs Qingyao Ai, Chung-Chi Chen, and Shoko Wakamiya NTCIR-18: NTCIR-18 Task Proposal Tokyo, Japan, June 10-13, 2025 Conference website https://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/index-en.html Submission link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ntcir18proposal NTCIR (NII Testbeds and Community for Information Access Research) is a series of evaluation conferences that mainly focus on information access with East Asian languages and English. The first NTCIR conference (NTCIR-1) took place in August/September 1999, and the latest NTCIR-17 conference was held in December 2023. Research teams from all over the world participate in one or more NTCIR tasks to advance the state of the art and to learn from one another's experiences. Now it is time to call for task proposals for the next NTCIR (NTCIR-18) which will start in March 2024 and conclude in June 2025. Task proposals will be reviewed by the NTCIR Program Committee, following the schedule below. Submission Guidelines We invite new task proposals within the expansive field of information access. Organizing an evaluation task entails pinpointing significant research challenges, strategically addressing them through collaboration with fellow researchers (including co-organizers and participants), developing the requisite evaluation framework to propel advancements in the state of the art, and generating a meaningful impact on both the research community and future developments. Prospective applicants are urged to underscore the real-world applicability of their proposed tasks by utilizing authentic data, focusing on practical tasks, and solving tangible problems. Additionally, they should confront challenges in evaluating information access technology, such as the extensive number of assessments needed for evaluation, ensuring privacy while using proprietary data, and conducting live tests with actual users. In the era of large language models (LLMs), these models are anticipated to significantly influence daily human activities. Nonetheless, the content produced by LLMs often exhibits issues, such as hallucinations. NTCIR-18 specifically encourages tasks that focus on evaluating the quality of content generated by LLMs. *Submission System: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ntcir18proposal <https://jpn01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Feasychair…>* Important Dates *Feb 9, 2024 Task Proposal Submission Due (Anywhere on Earth)* Mar 8, 2024 Acceptance Notification of Task Proposals NTCIR-18 TENTATIVE SCHEDULE - March 2024: Kickoff Event - May 2024: Dataset release* - Jun-Dec 2024: Dry run* - Sep 2024-Feb 2025: Formal run* - Feb 1, 2025: Evaluation results return - Feb 1, 2025: Task overview release (draft) - Mar 1, 2025: Submission due of participant papers (draft) - May 1, 2025: Camera-ready participant paper due - Jun 10-13 2025: NTCIR-18 Conference (* indicates that the schedule can be different for different tasks) Proposal Type We will accept two types of task proposals: - Proposal of a Core task: This is for fostering research on a particular information access problem by providing researchers with a common ground for evaluation. New test collections and evaluation methods may be developed through the collaboration between task organizers (proposers) and task participants. At NTCIR-17, the core tasks are Lifelog-5, QA Lab-PoliInfo-4, MedNLP-SC, SS-2, and FinArg-1 (Details can be found at *http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/NTCIR-17/tasks.html* <http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-17/tasks.html>). - Proposal of a Pilot task: This is recommended for organizers who propose to focus on a novel information access problem and there are uncertainties either in task designing or organization. It may focus on a sub-problem of an information access problem and may attract a smaller group of participating teams than core tasks. However, it may grow into a core challenging task in the next round of NTCIR. At NTCIR-17, the pilot tasks are FairWeb-1, Transfer, UFO, and ULTRE-2 (Details can be found at *http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/NTCIR-17/tasks.html* <http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/ntcir-17/tasks.html>). Organizers are expected to run their tasks mainly with their own funding and to make the task as self-sustaining as possible. A part of the fund can be supported by NTCIR, which is called "seed funding". It is usually used for some limited purposes such as hiring relevance assessors. The amount of seed funding allocated to each task varies depending on requirements and the total number of accepted tasks. Typical cases would be around 1M JPY for a core task and around 0.5M JPY for a pilot task (note that the amount is subject to change). Proposal Format The proposal should not exceed six pages in A4 single-column format. The first five pages should contain the main part and appendix, and the last page should contain only a description of the data to be used in the task. Please describe the data in as much detail as possible so that we can help your data release process after the proposal is accepted. In the past NTCIRs, it took much time to create memorandums for data release, which sometimes slowed down the task organization. Main part - Task name and short name - Task type (core or pilot) - Abstract - Motivation - Methodology - Expected results Appendix - Names and contact information of the organizers - Prospective participants - Data to be used and/or constructed - Budget planning - Schedule - Other notes Data (to be used in your task) - Details (Please describe the details of the data, which should include the source of the data, methods to collect the data, range of the data, etc.) - License (Please make sure that you have a license to distribute the data, and details of the license should be provided. If you do not have permission to release the data yet, please describe your plan to get the permission.) - Distribution (Please describe how you plan to distribute the data to participants. There are mainly three choices: distributed by the data provider, distributed by organizers, and distributed by NII.) - Legal / Ethical issues (If the data can cause legal or ethical problems, please describe how you propose to address them. e.g. some medical data may need approval from an ethical committee. e.g. some Web data may need filtering for excluding discriminative messages.) If you want NII to distribute your data to task participants on behalf of you, please send an email to *ntc-admin(a)nii.ac.jp* <ntc-admin(a)nii.ac.jp> prior to your task proposal submission attaching the task proposal. Committees*NTCIR-18 Program Co-Chairs* - Qingyao Ai (Tsinghua University, China) - Chung-Chi Chen (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan) - Shoko Wakamiya (Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Japan) *NTCIR-18 General Chairs* - Charles Clarke (University of Waterloo, Canada) - Noriko Kando (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) - Makoto P. Kato (University of Tsukuba, Japan) - Yiqun Liu (Tsinghua University, China) Contact All questions about submissions should be emailed to ntc18-pcc(a)nii.ac.jp

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